PSU Magazine Fall 1999

Ken Leese MBA writes that he has been accepted into the PhD program in risk management and insurance at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Nancy Nagel EdD is an associ– ate professor of education at Lewis & C lark College in Portland. Nagel and Amy Driscoll, former professor of education at Portland State, co-authored Early Childhood Education, Birth to 8: The World of Children, Families, and Educators (published by Allyn and Bacon). Anna Pittioni is vice principal with the Sherwood School District and her husband, Martin, is an executive assistant for the Bar Association of San Francisco Volunteer Legal Services Program. '88 Christine Tanu Chou MBA is the finance and information services manager at King County Department of Judicial Administration in Seattle. Richard L. Clark is an appraiser with Cushman & Wakefield in Portland and a member of the Appraisal Institute. Clark formerly was an appraiser with Herrmann & Co. Doreen (Loofburrow) Duyck is general manager at Cruise Masters in Beaverton. '89 Brent Burket is a physician and writes, "My wife (also an M.D.) and I have joined Mission Doctors Association and will be moving to Ghana, West Africa, for three years. We will be working in the city of Kpando at the Margret Marquart Hospital." Todd Herberg EdD is superin– tendent of the Northwest Regional Educational Service District, which serves schools in Clatsop, Columbia, Tiilamook, and Washington counties. Herberg previously was superin– tendent of the Sutherlin School District. Dawn Holm works at Oregon– Canadian Forest Products in the publications and advertising department, specializing in graphics. Holm lives in Portland . Carole Lynne Johnson MS writes, "] was a special educa– tion teacher for eight years (1985-93) and a teacher con ul– tant for four (1993-97) before staying home and raising a family." A1ono Ciliberto '96 is comfortable breaking stereotypes. A former football lineman, he now has the more delicate task of teaching sixth-graders at W.L. Henry Elementary in Hillsboro. years, and he earned a minor in black stud– ies along with his degree in social science. A teaching career was waiting for Ciliberto upon graduation, but he still wanted to play football. Unfortunately he was considered too small to play profes– sional football in the United States, so he found new Vikings to play for-the Vienna Vikings in Austria. "Being an athlete, the kids really relate to me. Yet I'm living proof that education Alono Ciliberto took his sixth.grade class on a tour of PSU this past spring. matters," says the 6- foot-three– inch, 270-pound Hillsboro native. While a star offensive center with the PSU Vikings, Ciliberto completed his bache– lor's and a year of grad– uate educa– tion for his teaching license. And he did it in five years-a diffi– cult feat even for students who don't have the demands of team sports. During that time he also was team captain for two 24 PSU MAGAZINE FALL 1999 "It's tough making the cut, but once there the competition is not as good as in the U.S.," says Ciliberto. "It's American football and most Europeans didn't grow up playing it, but that is changing." In addition to a chance to play football, Vienna provided Ciliberto with a wonder– ful jumping off point for travel around Europe, including visits with his father's family in Italy. Today, Ciliberto has retired from foot– ball. He doesn't even coach a school team, but thinks he might get into coaching someday. For now he is content to be the "big guy who teaches elementary kids– making a difference in their formative years." But even there he has his limita– tions. He figures fifth grade is about as young as he wants to go. While student teaching he worked with kindergartners and says, "I had to concentrate on not step– ping on them." -K. Kirkland Rachel Lippert is an instructor at Tiilamook Option Program, an alternative high chool in Tiilamook. Katherine Sadler is a rec ipient of the 1999 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women's Studies. Sadler is a doctoral candidate at UCLA and the proposed dissertation title is Power at the Crossroads: Cross– dressing and Gender Identity in South African Women's Resistance , 1929 and 1959 . Elizabeth Unrein is an actress and screenwriter living in Burbank, Calif. '90 Gene Glenn is an information systems manager for Precision Images in Portland. Timothy Lambert is an admin– istrator at Perkins & Company, P.C., a public accounting firm in Portland. Michael Saty is the regional sales manager at ADVO, Inc., a direct mail advertising company in Tigard. Mary Silver is a special orders representative at Borders Books in Eugene. '91 Jamal Alzgal is the program– ming department manager at Environmental Control Corporation, a building auto– mobile (HVAC) control firm in Portland . Ingrid Bongers MBA is office manager at Larry T. Balentine, M.D., and Kevin M. Kral , M.D., a medical facility in Bend. Rosanna Schewerda MT '93 has been elected to the PSU Alumni Board of Directors. Schewerda is a senior accoun– tant at Nationa l Mortage Co. in Portland. She and her husband, Ron, live in Portland. William "Bill" Waag MST is principal at Toledo Middle School in Toledo, Washington.