PSU Magazine Fall 1998

ALUM NOTES William "Bill" Long is the vice president and relationship manager of commercial banking at Bank of America in Portland. Long is a 29-year veteran of U.S. Bank and specializes in providing commercial lend ing to middle market companies. Larry Yturri is the senior account agent with A llstate Insurance Company in Springfield. Dennis Fuller is a computing security specialist at The Boeing Company, an aerospace and defense manufacturer in Seattle. Mary Gourley MS writes that she retired from her previous position of associate professor at the University of Sarasota in Florida in order to return to Oregon. Gourley lives in Beaverton. N ina Lindstrom MS is founder and principal of the Belmont Academy, a private pre-school through fourth grade school located in Portland . Robert N ewton is the division credit manager at Unisource, Inc., a paper and packaging products distributor in Milwaukie. Judy Phillips MS '72 is the lead speech language pathologist at Synergy, Inc. , in Portland. Allen Radke MST '74 teaches grades 1-4 at the Shelton Valley Seventh-day Adventist School in Shelton, Washington. Radke writes, "I h ave been with the Seventh-day Adventist educa– tion system six years. We're on 17 school acres; th ree teachers and 27 students total." Patricia A. Smith is the marketing conselor for Mary's Woods at Marylhurst, a contin– uing care retirement community under development in Lake Oswego. Laura Altman is a paralegal at Kessler & Kessler, a law corpo– ration in Los Angeles. Robert Amos MST '72 is a physics teacher at Illinois Valley High School in Cave Junction. Jerry Ann Fenter is a profes– sional painter showing her work at the Attic Gallery in Portland . Fenter also is an instructor at Columbia Gorge Community College. She lives in Appleton, Wash ington. Glenn Maynard is director of the community counseling clinic in PSU's Graduate School of Education . Maynard is also employed in private prac– tice as a licensed profess ional counselor. Patricia Parmenter is the manager of grants and contracts at Mt. Hood Commun ity College in Gresham. Suzanne Roberti MST is the vice president of Healthtek Pharmacy and Medical, a private, family-owned corpora– tion distributing home health care supplies to the retail public. Roberti lives in Vancouver. Carol Rudy MST is a teacher and activities director at G rant High School in Portland. Russell Ryan is a materials handler with the National lnteragency Fi re Center in Boise, Idaho. T ohn Wendeborn '66 has defined a new find of madness. A former jazz trombonist Wendebom 's first madness concert took place last November. "I have a lot of contact with people from PSU, and I real– ized that I had this energy from sponsoring jazz stemwheel cruises-45 musicians on three levels-so putting these shows on is my way of staying busy." and retired music critic for The Oregonian, Wendeborn organizes "madness" jazz concerts to benefit PSU's Jazz Studies Program. "I wanted to do something crazy," Wendeborn says, "and this was it: music you won't find in a nightclub." Vocal Madness, scheduled for 7 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Benson Hotel will feature Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Dave Frishberg and a host of local talent, includ– ing Nancy King and Rebecca Kilgore. 22 PSU MAGAZINE FALL 1998 The first "madn ess" concert featured nine tenor saxophonists. The show title came from Sonny Rawlins' album "Tenor Madness." Wendebom con tinued the madness theme with a Latin Madness concert last May. The last two concerts have earned $1,760, and Wendebom says this coming one will bring in at least another $750. "It's not a lot of money, sure," he says, "but it shows that other people out there other than the million dollar givers can do things for PSU . "I don't know what I'm going to do next May," he says. "Maybe a Latin Madness II because people really enj oyed the first one. They were dancing all nigh t." Cathleen "Cathie" Scott is the branch manager at the Tanasbourne Branch of Pacific One Bank in Beaverton. I J Marilyn Couture MA '78 is a cultural anthropologist living in Pukalani, Hawaii. Couture has taught field anthropology in the summers for Linfield College since 1979. Diane C rane MST '75 is a teacher and department chair in health and physical education at Centenn ial High School in Gresham. , I Stephen Cerri is the regional sales manager for Norpac Food Sales, a frozen food sales and marketing firm in Lake Oswego. David Sharon MBA is the pres– ident and principal consultant at CASE Assoc iates, Inc., a consulting firm in C lackamas. Scott Street is the senior consultant at Compass Consulting, a technology consulting firm in Medfield , Massachusetts. I Lloyd Beckner is the owner of Lloyd's Appliance, a used appli– ances sales and service fac ility in A lbany. Linda "Lin" Dahl is the fac ility use coordinator of a mu lti-use activity center in Milwaukie. Dahl coordinates the use of the Milwaukie Center/North C lackamas Park and Recreation District and the new Rosarian garden, the Memorial Rose Garden. D iane Rynerson is the execu– tive director of the National Conference of Women's Bar Associations. Rynerson lives in Portland . Beth Shelby is a teacher at Irvington Elementary School in Portland . She rece ived an M.A.T. from Lewis & C lark in 1993.