PSU Magazine Fall 1995

Bonnie McCay Merritt '69 is a professor of anth ropology at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Merritt served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on protection and management of Pacific Northwest anadromous fi sh from 1992-94. Sandra Nigro '69 writes, "l recently returned to the PSU campus as a visitor with my Japanese exchange student. lt was exciting to see all the wonderful improvements and additions to the University, but also to still enjoy the nostalgia of many familiar sights." Nigro is credit manager at KATU-TV in Portland. Chris Stanley '69 is the new head coach of women's volley– ba ll at P U. Stanley started the women's volleyball program at the University of Ca liforni a– Berkeley and accrued a record of 155- 119 over nine seasons. Linda Tross '69 writes that she is pursuing free-lance writing and sculpting fo llowing nine years of reaching English at Willamette University and fi ve years at O regon State. She lives in Salem. '70 Michael Heston is vice presi– dent of deve lopment with C.E. John Company, a shopping center development firm in Vancouver. Jane Storey Jones MA is an educator with the Multnomah Educati on Service District in Portland. Jones reaches at Helensv iew High School, a school for teen mothers. Janet M. Manson MA '77 attended the inauguration of John C. Stockwell as president of the University of South Carolina-Spartanburg April 28, 1995, on behalf of President Ramaley and PSU. Manson and her husband , Wayne Chapman 72, MA 77, are both professors at C lemson University in South Carolina. Michael Reilly is vice president of Beaver State Machinery, a machine tool sales company in 24 PSU MAGAZINE FALL 1995 Portland. Reilly officiates for high school and NAIA level footba ll in O regon and Washington, as well as at Portland State games. Dr. Rebecca Tolby is the sole proprietor and physician at Yamhill Valley Med ica l Center in McMinnville. Tolby is also the Yamhill County Medical Examiner. Wilhelmina VanGrunsven is owner of ELP (European Language Program), a transla– tion service firm in Portland. ELP al o provides consultation to companies producing soft– ware manuals. Tineka Bierma '82, MA '86 is a translator and bookkeeper at ELP. Dr. Stanley Vermilyea is ass is– tant professor of restorative prosrhodontics and endodontics at O hio State College of Den– tistry in Columbus. Vermilyea retired in l992 after 2 1 year with the Army Dental Corps. Bruce Wassom is president and owner of Jetcraft Boats, an aluminum boar manufacturer in Medford. '71 Joseph Bernt served as a dele– gate for President Judith Ramaley at the inauguration of Robert G lidden as president of Ohi o University October l , 1994, in Athens, Ohio. Bernt is a journalism professor at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, O hio University. Dennis Birenbaum is sa les manager with J & P Wholesale, a lumber wholesale firm in Klamath Falls. Birenbaum is also an airplane pilot. Larry Cabler was sworn in as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lodz, Poland, in April. Cabler will be working at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw Business School, teaching undergraduate and MBA level busines and management courses. Michael Crouse is owner and publisher of Logger World Publications in Chehalis, Wash. C rouse publishes two magazines relating to the logging industry. John Dillingham is the zone engineer for the Siuslaw National Forest and is sta tioned at Waldport. Dillingham received the Pac ific Northwest Region 1994 Engineering Technician of the year award. Joan Kilcup i secretary-trea– surer and partner of V.K. Enterprises, a rental complex in Sitka, Alaska. Kilcup lives in Sitka during the summer months, but winters in Waldport, where she and her husband operate a fishing trawler business, Ironwood Inc. James King is the owner and operator of Shogun's Gallery, an Asian arts and antiques store in Portland. King formerly owned the U.S. King's American English School in Japan. Herb Kuhn retired in April after 24 years with Bonnev ille Power Administration, most recently as director of account– ing and finance. He resides in Dundee. Glenda Landgraver is an employer relations consultant with the State of Oregon Employment Department in Portland. Landgraver returned in 1994 after two years with the Peace Corps in the Republic of Armenia, where she served as a small business adv isor at the American University of Armenia. Elisabeth McCrea served as a delegate for President Judith Ramaley at the inaugural cere– mony of David Marker as presi– dent of the University of Osteopathic Med icine and Health Sciences in Des Moines, Iowa, October 7, 1994. McCrea i a children's librari an at Kirkendall Public Library in Ankeny, Iowa. Annette Olson is a marine ecologist working in a marine policy group at the University of Washington. O lson is married to a terrestrial ecol9gist and they have a four-year-old daughter. Joanne Robinson of Portland, is a triarhlete in training for a I00-mile race, that will start in Squaw Valley and end in Auburn, Calif. Robinson formerly was a teacher with the Tigard and Honolulu school systems. Linda Snyer is director of mini – computer operations for Bank of America in San Francisco. '72 Renee (Spada) Antrim is secre– tary-treasurer and dispatcher for Jim Antrim Truck ing. The Antrims also own and operate a nursery in Lebanon. Janet Deardorff MS is the district librari an for the Corvallis School District. Toni Morrow Ferguson is a social worker at Edison Elementary School in Walla Walla, Wash., and was a recipi– ent of the Washington award for excellence in education. Ferguson also works part time as an adoption worker. Her husband , Edward '73, is the district conservation and energy services manager for Bonnev ille Power Admin istration. David Fowler was recently elected president of the Association of Feed Ingredient and Cottonseed Products Dea lers Inc. Fowler is vice presi– dent of the Chicago-based Cereal Byproducts Company. He works out of the company's Portland office. L. Colleen (Ury) Karimi MA '75 is the executive director of Alamo Area Mutual Housing Association, a non-profit multi– family housing corporation in San Antonio, Texas. Donna (Drayen) Larimore is the program manager for the educator excellence program at Business-Education Compact in Beaverton. Her husband, Mike '77, is general manager of ADC Wireless Systems, a division of Kentrox, in Beaverton. Bryce McColl um is a clinical psychologist in Vancouver, Wash. In his spare time, McCollum is active in boating, Toastmasters, and theater arts. Thomas Simonson is president of entinel C remation Societies Inc., in San Francisco. Renee (Alexander) Tissue PhD '8 1 is a psychologist and the research director at Episcopal Center fo r hildren in Wash– ington, D.C. The facility treats emotiona ll y troubled children.