PSU Magazine Fall 1999

'96 Everette Anderson is the employment and training direc– tor at Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation in Dillingham, Alaska. Heather Brooks is an English teacher at The Language Company in Portland . Stacy Crutcher-McFadden MSW '98 is case manager and clinician at Network, a social services agency in Portland . Arun Mylvahanan MS is an engineer at Olson Engineering, Inc. , in Vancouver, Washington. Mylvahanan, a native of Sri Lanka, specializes in road design and storm-drainage engineering. Carolyn Roos MS is a mechan– ical engineer with the U.S. Corps of Engineers in Portland . Mary Savage MBA is regional director of diagnostic imaging with the Providence Health System and oversees 17 depart– ments. Savage also serves as president of Portland Community College Foundation, a fund raising and scholarship entity. Ann Christine Westerback MSW is a social worker at Evergreen Care Network in Kirkland, Washington. '97 Lorraine "Lorrie" Biggs is a community media educator at Tualatin Valley Community Access Television in Beaverton. Patrick Brennan MS works in administrative support for the State of O regon Policy Research and Committee Services in Salem. David Dorman MEd is princi– pal at Dilley Elementary School in Forest Grove. Dorman previ– ously was a business teacher at Forest Grove High School. Douglas Fasching is a student at Willamette University College of Law in Salem. Fasching formerly was the community service coordinator at Philadelphia University 26 PSU MAGAZINE FALL 1999 through the Americorps VISTA program. Maria-lnmaculada Herrera– Latorre MA is the Spanish coordinator at Gilkey Middle School in Portland, where she is responsible for developing the new Spanish program for students. Damon Hickok is project coor– dinator for the I Have a Dream Foundation, a non-profit orga– nization in Portland. Theresa Hogue is the enter– tainment editor and reporter for New-Times in Forest G rove. Hogue was awarded honors by the Society of Professional Journalists in the personalities and arts and criticism cate– gories. Heather Morin is an editorial assistant with the Journal of Vascular Surgery, a monthly periodical publication . Morin lives in Tigard. Robert Savage is a conversion specialist with Stanford University Libraries Media Preservation Unit. Savage lives in Redwood C ity, California. Brent Stuntzner is owner of BOS Construction in Portland. Stuntzner writes, "Although I started my own construction business.. .! am already gearing up for my life-long career us a luthier (guitar builder) . I plan on building my first guitar soon, after which I will attend two schools (one in Phoenix and one in Canada) in order to learn to build all of the various kinds of guitars---classical, steel– string acoustic, solid-body elec– tric, and arch-top." '98 Kelli Aiken is director of T.E.A.M. (Together Experiencing Advancement and Motivation), an after school program for 5th-12th grade girls in the Forest G rove School District. Judith Boone MSW is a coun– selor and social worker at Life Works in Bend. Alexander Fridlyand is a staff accountant with Isler & Company in Portland and was the recipient of the Silver Award from the Oregon Society of Certified Public Accountants. Fridlyand immi– grated from Russia two years ago, unable to speak English. After learning the language and completing his degree, he took all four parts of the certified public accountant examinations and scored second highest in the state. Vasilios Garyfallou is a senior research assistant with the O regon Regional Primate Research Center in Beaverton. Barbara Himes works in the accounts payable department at LaCie Limited, a manufacturer of hard drives in Hillsboro. Karen Kuhn MA is a linguistic contractor at Volt Computer, a contracting and tester firm in Redmond, Washington. Heather Leffler MSW is a social worker at Our House of Portland, a residential care facility for people with advanced AIDS. Dannah MacCombe is the assistant to the director of gifts and legacies at Northwest Medical Teams International, a disaster response and medical relief agency in Tigard. William Maddox MA is a high school English teacher at St. Mary's School in St. Mary's, Alaska. Maddox would like to hear from classmates and writes, "I'll be teaching high school English this year-I hope you're all well!" Jodi Miller is serving as a secondary education teacher in Russia as a Peace Corps volun– teer. Miller teaches English to Russian students and works with Russian teachers to develop lesson plans and improve the English education program. Russell Hughes Norris is lead engineer for motor systems at GE Appliances. Norris lives in Louisv ille, Kentucy. Gregory Robinson MBA is associate director of operations at Columbia River Mental Health Services in Portland. Tonya Shimmin won first place in the sculpture division at the Southwest Washington Artists Association spring show. The sculpture was a bronze and copper sailfish and was exhib– ited at the Columbia A rts Center in Vancouver, Washington, in May. Gwenn Stover MA is th e program coordinator for contin– uing education at Lewis & C lark College G raduate School's Center for Professional Development in Portland . Scott Swanson writes, "[ am attending Palmer College of Chiropractic West in San Jose, California." '99 Verne Boerner is director of the women's health promotion program at Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board . Corliss McKeever MSW is president and chief executive officer of African American Health Coalition. Prior to the establishment of this position, the organization was previously run completely by volunteers. McKeever lives in Portland . In Memoriam Aiko Sumoge Dean '56, MA '75 died May 31. She was 78. Mrs. Dean was featured in the spring 1994 PSU Magazine. She and her family were interned during World War II. That and starting her own family delayed Mrs. Dean's education. She was 35 when she graduated with the first class at Portland State College. She went on to teach in the Portland Public Schools for 25 years, retiring in 198 1. Carol Wenker '85 passed away in February. Ms. Wenker, a retired accountant, was living in Sacramento, California, helping with her daughter Linda's chil– dren. Ms. Wenker is survived by a daughter, a son, and five grandchildren. D