PSU Magazine Fall 1995

ALUM NOTES '80 Hospital Medical Center in cellor of the University of Youngstown, Ohio. Nebraska-Kearney September '78 Carol E. Wheeler BA '87, MA 16, 1994. Allen is an assistant Robert Fahlman has been '89 is an office assistant at the professor in the agricultural named vice president and Catholic University of America economics department at the Vicki Chase has been elected general manager over daily University of Nebraska-Lincoln. to the PSU Alumni Board of operations at PacifiCare of in Washington, D.C. Wheeler, Directors. She is vice president- Oregon. a composer, debuted two new Ruth Dobberpuhl completed securities at Standard Insurance compositions on May 13: a four- her volunteer service with the Company. Chase and her James D. Francis is owner of part setting of "Sigh No More U.S. Peace Corps in July. husband, Brian '64, a retired Home Improvement Services, a Ladies" for women's voices, and Dobberpuhl lived in the village Centennial High School art remodeling company in a humorous love song for the of El Akhouat in central Tunisia teacher, live in Gresham. Beaverton. 17th anniversary concert of and worked with the youth Velma Johnson MST has been Bread & Roses, Feminist development program. Her most Kathryn Derwey is a postal Singers. recent project was a photo- inspector in areas of crime selected as the principal at graphic essay of Tunisian youth. prevention, employee theft, and Lincoln High School in '82 financial audits with the U.S. Portland. Johnson previously Carolyn Johnson-Bell is a Postal Inspection Service in was vice principal at Marshall commercial artist and decora- San Francisco. High School for nine years. Richard Carson, a descendent tive painter in Portland. Dianne Olson and her husband of Kit Carson, has been named Johnson-Bell's works include Christine Jacobs Goodwin is are raising four children, hazel- to the board of directors of the acrylic, water colors, sponge owner and president of Advanced nuts, Christmas trees, and Kit Carson Historical Founda- painting, and murals. Fitness and Conditioning timber on their 79-acre 01 on tion in Taos, N.M. Carson is Timothy Keniley represented Services in Myrtle Creek. Oregon City's director of Farms outside of Forest Grove. community development and PSU President Judith Ramaley '79 The Olsons also own a logging was instrumental in the <level- at the April 29, 1995, inaugural operation. opment of the End of the ceremony of James M. Dennis Janet Ratzman is a systems and Oregon Trail Interpretative as president of McKendree William Eng represented PSU materials manager at James Center. College in Lebanon, Ill. President Judith Ramaley at the inauguration of Eddie N. Moore River Corporation in Portland. William (Bill) Derville MBA '85 as president of Virginia State Robert Weber is a retired State has been elected president of the University in Petersburg Farm insurance agent. Since national Industrial Distribution Elyce Benham MS '94 is the October 2, 1994. Eng is a podia- 1982, he has operated Weber Association. Derville is president assistant coordinator at trist. Happy Valley Apiaries in of General Tool and Supply Bridgeview Community Mental Charles Gray is the sales plan- Portland as a second business Company in Portland. Health Services West in ning and dist~ibution manager and maintains a regular clien- Douglas Donkel authored a Portland. Bridgeview provides with Chrysler Corporation in tele for Oregon-grown honey book entitled The Understanding housing for the chronically Beaverton. Gray notes that and beeswax. of Difference in Heidegger and mentally ill, who would other- "PSU was a great school. I was '81 Derrida, published by Peter Lang wise be homeless. well prepared for the business Publishing Inc. Donkel is an Capt. Ann Marie Childers, a world." adjunct professor of philosophy Susan Garrett-Joye is a social at the University of Portland. psychiatrist with the U.S. Air Rick Reese is a corporal with work intern for the Temporary Force at Tripler Army Medical the Santa Ana, Calif, Police Assistance for Domestic Crisis Douglas Goodrum is the district Center in Honolulu, has been Department. Center in Las Vegas, Nev. sales manager for Contacts awarded a fellowship to study E. Elaine Von Wald is a tax Influential, a Portland publishing child and adolescent psychiatry. manager with Beemer, Johnson, Patricia Rumer PhD attended company offering prospect build- Gena (Pelletier) Cruciani is the inauguration of Arthur E. ing. Goodrum was named the Smith and Company, a CPA Levine as president of the top district sales manager for the senior technical writer at firm in Portland. Von Wald has Teachers College at Columbia three consecutive years. GTECH Corporation, an elec- 14-years volunteer service with tronic processing firm in Bristol, United Workers Federal Credit University in New York Mary (Grandberry) Omereife R.I. Cruciani has lived in New Union and l.B.E.U. and is a November 17, 1994. is owner of Cascade Busine s England for nine years and member of Oregon Toastmasters Diane Saunders is vice presi- Office Management Services in enjoys working on her seaside #424. She has a IO-year-old son, dent of communications and Portland. cottage and garden, and sailing Scott. public affairs at Nellie Mae, a Ellen Wax MURP '92 has been the waters of Narragansett Bay VaLera Washburn is one of 10 non-profit student loan corpora- elected to the PSU Alumni and Martha's Vineyard Sound. Oregon artists whose work will tion located in Braintree, Mass. Board of Directors. Wax is a Susan Lambert Gates is a Her husband, Charles '83, is an be shown at the 1995 employment consultant with city planner with the city of deputy sheriff with the International Colored Pencil Portland. Multnomah County Sheriff's Exhibition in Cleveland. Center for Careers in Boston. Office in Portland. Washburn has had work Warren Tessler MBA was '83 Brenda Hanson is owner-opera- published in The Best of Colored appointed executive director of tor of Arctic Circle, a fast-food Pencil II . She works as a secre- the Valley Health Network, a John C. Allen Ill MS repre- restaurant in Prineville. Hanson tary for the infertility division physician-hospital organization sented PSU President Judith previously owned the Arctic at Oregon Health Sciences affiliated with St. Elizabeth Ramaley at the inauguration of C ircle in Hillsboro for nine University. Gladys Styles Johnston as chan- years. 26 PSU MAGAZINE FALL 1995