PSU Magazine Fall 1996

ALUM NOTES Barbara McGee is president of Home Loans, a mortgage brokerage in Milwaukie. McGee was named 1995 Broker of the Year by the Oregon Association of Mortgage Brokers. Melinda Nelsen-Loney is a human resources consultant at Legacy Health System in Portland. Russell Weitz is owner of Skyline Printing, a commercial printing business in Portland. '90 Gregory Kiser is a district manager with Hollywood Entertainment, a video sales and rental corporation. Kiser lives in El Segundo, Calif. Narinder "Bobby" Sachdeva is a basic logic coordinator at J.C. Penney in Vancouver, Wash. Humam Talhami is a design engineer for Nichols Brothers Boat Builders, a boat manufac– turer in Freeland, Wash. Marie Wehage is completing an internal medicine residency at Good Samaritan-Emanuel Legacy hospitals in Portland. Wehage attended the U.S. and China joint conference on women's issues held in Beijing, China, in summer 1995. '91 Christine Beatty MPA '95 is team leader in medical infor– matics at Blue Cross of Texas in Richardson, Texas. Stacey Schultz Ewton MBA is in charge of Planar's fastest growing business, Display Solutions. Planar Display Solutions, located in Beaverton, integrates computers with a wide variety of flat panel displays to target markets where space is constrained. David Fleer MS is an associate professor of communication and religion at Michigan Christian College in Rochester Hills, Mich. Jeanne Morrison Galarneau is a graphic designer with Direct Marketing Solutions Inc., in 26 PSU MAGAZINE FALL 1996 Portland. Galarneau previously worked in retail advertising for Fred Meyer and Thrifty-Payless Drug stores. Melanie Mathieson is a workers compensation specialist at Cascade General Inc., a marine repair business in Portland. Claire McDonald MPA is owner of CM Research Services, a health care research company in Everett, Wash. McDonald formerly worked for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Carmen Morgan MBA is an associate professor in the department of management at the Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls. Robyn Phillips MS is a patent attorney with Workman, Nydegger & Seeley in Salt Lake City. Debra Reeves is an operating room nurse at the Oregon Health Sciences University hospital. Reeves graduated from the OHSU school of nursing in 1995. Carrie Smith is manager of government programs at Providence Health Plans in Portland. Smith manages the Oregon Health Plan and Medicare programs, as well as regulatory compliance for other lines of business. '92 Ryan T. Brown is a residential real estate property tax assessor for Marion County. Brown lives in Salem. David Curtis is the credit manager at Whirlpool Financial, a financial services firm in Benton Harbor, Mich. Douglas Huff BS '94 is a student and adjunct instructor at Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu. Huff is working on a joint master's degree: an MBA with a concentration in inter– national business and manage– ment and an MA in human resource management and orga– nizational change. Barbara Telfer is a library para– professional at The Dalles /Wasco County Library in The Dalles. Telfer also is secretary of the Wasco County Historical Society, serves on the staff of the Wasco County Historical Society Quarterly, and is the editor of the Library Friends News. Sean Vanderdasson is a market– ing business analyst at Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefit Children of alumni sought for scholarship The Alumni Board of Directors is happy to announce the funding of a second Jane Wiener Memorial Alumni Scholarship. The full-tuition scholarship is for the son or daughter of a PSU alum and is renewable for up to 15 terms of study. The award is based on financial need, undergraduate status, and requires a minimum 2.5 GPA. For. an application packet, please contact Jennifer Wheeler, assistant director of Alumni Relations, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207, or call (503) 725-5073. Deadline for applications is November 30, 1996. management company in Maryland Heights, Mo. Cameron Vaughan-Tyler has been elected to the PSU Alumni Board of Directors and serves on the PSU Weekend '96 committee as publicity chair. Vaughan-Tyler is chief of staff for Multnomah County Commissioner Dan Saltzman. Vaughan-Tyler and her husband, Lee Tyler '81, live in Portland. Nita Ornelas Werner is the controller and partial owner of Ornelas Enterprises Inc., in Hillsboro. OE! is a contract electronic and mechanical assembly company that was recently named one of the top 100 fastest growing privately owned businesses in the Portland metro area. Her husband, Chris Werner, is a residential real estate assessor for Washington County. The Werners live in Aloha. Emma Jean Williams MUS, PhD '95 has accepted the posi– tion of assistant professor of criminal justice at Fayetteville, N.C. '93 Bruce Burk MS was awarded the Montana Muscular Dystrophy Association Personal Achievement Award and is one of 50 nominees for the national award. Burk is studying for a doctorate in education at the University of Montana and is editor and publisher of a small town newspaper, the Lalo Peak News . He lives with his family in Lolo, Mont. Judy Corona is a bilingual sixth-grade teacher at Whiteaker Middle School in Keizer. Corona received a master's degree from Willamette University in 1995. Monica Garland is the account– ing manager at Peter Jacobsen Productions Inc., a sports promotions company in Beaverton. Garland's responsi– bilities include financial report– ing, accounting staff supervision, and payroll and human resources administra– tion.