PSU Magazine Fall 1996

Compiled by Myrna Duray '59 Donald Barnett is president ofD-CAV Investments Inc., a land development and construc– tion company in St. Helens. Wenda Nikkoline Hall MST '66 retired four years ago after teaching music for 30 years in Oregon schools. Hall writes that she still substitutes locally, is enj oying her grandchildren, and is active in music, church, and community. She lives in Clatskanie. A. Gordon Hunter is president of Metro Community Development Corporation in Portland. His company's motto is "Neighbors Working Together to Rebuild Our Community." Hunter was an editor of the Portland State Vanguard. William Prescott is a physician of psychiatry and medical direc– tor at Brook Lane Psychiatric Center in Hagerstown, Md. '63 Lyman Rigby is a marriage and family therapist with his own practice in Panama City, Fla. Rigby writes: "PSU Magazine is great! Your articles and alumni news help me feel like a 'Portlander,' even though I've lived in Florida for 24 years. PSU is important to me and all O regonians! Keep up the good work!" '65 Jean Kuczmarski Carol is a special operations inspector with the U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service in Oroville, Wash . Carol has been with the Immigration Service for 17 years. Fred Flowers is a retired Multnomah County Juvenile Court group worker. Flowers works as an educational aide at Boise-Eliot Elementary School in Portland and also i the minister at A insworth N 0 TES Community Christian Church . Flowers and his wife have five children and four grandchildren and have been married 42 years. Jarrell "Jerry" Landau is the marketing manager of specialty papers for Longview Fibre Company. Landau formerly was a paper sales representative for 18 years. He and his wife, Joan, have lived in Longview, Wash., for 30 years. David K. Spencer is the corpo– rate manager for material handling at Jefferson Smurfit, a paper manufacturer and recycler in Alton, Ill. '66 Patrick D. Kennedy is manager of the Pendleton Convention Center. Daniel McDonald is a tax consultant with EIO Management Consultants in Vallejo, Calif. McDonald writes that he is married to a kinder– garten teacher and they became first-time grandparents last year. The McDonalds are building their retirement home near Placerville, Calif., in historic gold rush country. Jo Anne Nordling MS '71 filed for election to a seat in the Oregon Legislature as a repre– sentative from District 9. Nordling is a former teacher and school counselor, is co– founder of the Parent Support Center of Washington County and is co-owner of a small hous– ing rental business. Nordling and her husband, George, have lived in Tigard for 30 years. '67 Dianne Carlton Hebert MSW '77 is a social worker specializ– ing in nephrology (kidney disease) at Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque, N .M. Melba Lewitz is a retired fifth– grade reading specialist. Lewitz writes that she enjoys the news items she receives from PSU. She mentioned her fondness for the spring (1 996) issue of PSU Magazine, because it contained articles of Vanport, where several of her family members attended. Lewitz lives on Sauvie's Island. F. Bruce Oliver is a principal software engineer with Westinghouse Hanford Corporation, a resource We Mean Business At PSUBA, our members are all "business." We are Portland State University Business Association. If you are a PSU graduate (or current student) of the Master of Business Administration or Taxation program, you will want to meet us and our organization. We mean business, but we like to have fun too. At quarterly meetings, we network and discuss current business topics with PSU professors and other business leaders. Also, we sponsor educational workshops, community events, and opportunities to meet impor– tant business professionals. Contact us today for membership details. Find us on the Web at www.psuba.org/-psuba/ or write PO Box 8827, Portland, Oregon 97207-8827. management corporation in Richland, Wash. Dr. Gregory Richterich BS '76 is a dermatologist living in Eugene. '68 Ruth Sinai Laughlin is the vocational rehabilitative services coordinator for Blind Focus, a training program for blind and visually impaired individuals. Laughlin received her MFA in sculpture at ASU– Tempe and taught special education for 14 years in Arizona. She has a studio in her Raytown, Mo., home and still does sculpture. David Woodford MS is the special education work experi– ence coordinator for the Hillsboro Union High School District. Woodford was a presenter at the As ociation of Oregon Recyclers State Conference representing the top recycling high chool in Oregon. He will retire in 1997. '69 Ralph W. Shoemaker MS '74 of Portland, is principal and consulting engineer at RWS Engineering, a firm he started following his retirement from Bonneville Power Administration in 1994. He writes: "Doing well, working when I want to, travelling with my wife, and enj oying life." '70 Barbara Moe Hamlin is a medical technologist working in the blood bank at Legacy Emanuel Hospital and Health Care Center in Portland. Hamlin received an American Society of C linical Pathologists (ASCP) Regional Associate Member Award for the north– west region in April. The award recognizes outstanding associate members who have helped promote and enhance the field of laboratory medicine at the local level. FALL 1996 PSU MAGAZINE 21 I