PSU Magazine Fall 2000

• • • Alumni Board of Directors. Dant is a retired sales and mar– keting executive with AT&T. Dant and her hu band, Bob, live in Portland. Meridel Prideaux, pre ident of Prideaux Group, has been appointed to the National Young Aud iences execu– tive commi ttee a national chapter as embly pres i– dent. In this capacity, Prideaux will oversee 32 chapters throughout the United States. David Sinclair is senior vice president of reta il lending with West Coa t Bank in Vancouver. '78 Thomas Daudistel is vice presi– dent at Norris Beggs & Simp– son, a commercial and industrial real estate and mort– gage banking firm in Portland. Greg Ellis '78 is city manager for the city of Independence. '79 Leslie Gifford is senior staff accountant at Geffen Mesher & Company in Portland. '80 George Beard MPA is director of corporate communications with Reteklnc./Retial.com in Minneapolis. William Moisant MSW was ordained as deacon in a Mass of O rdination ceremony in Port– land May 13. Ma i ant formerly worked in the State of Oregon Children's Services Di vision and had a private counseling practice in S ilverton. Maya Myoga MST, PhD '87 is a tax partner at Deloitte & Touche in Port– land. He is also a member of the Japan Am rica Society in Port– land and enjoys playing golf in his leisure time. '82 Kamal "Kami" Balighi is a loan officer at the Lake Oswego branch of Mortgage Market, Inc. Balighi has 21 years, expe– rience in finance, sales, and management. Ron Putz is the O regon hard– scape manager at Mutual Mate– rials Company in Tualatin . Lewis "Lew" Scholl MS '87 is a project engineer at Stormwa– ter Management, a firm that markets stormwater treatment solutions. Mae Wu is founder and chief executive officer of FEl Amer– ica, Inc., a Portland company providing small busine ses with the technology needed to get on the Internet. Wu is also a board member of the O regon Association of Minority Entre– preneurs. '83 Art Barkouli MS '87 is a senior vice president at Dav id Evan & A sociate in Portland . Bark– ouli ha been with the agency for more than 11 years. He is a registered professional engineer in O regon, Washington, and Ca lifornia. Connie Beck writes, "[ gradu– ated from the University of Ari– zona with a PhD in clinical psychology in 1999. Beginning in July 2000, I will be a postdoc– toral fellow focusing on foren ic psychology at the In titute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Pol– icy, Univer ity of Virginia. I will then return to the University of Arizona in the fa ll of 2001 as an assistant professor in the depart– ment of psychology." Darci Boyle MT is tax manager in the tax services group at the Mo s Adams, LLP, Vancouver, Wash., office. David Cole MS is a water qual– ity moni toring specialist with the O regon Department of Envi– ronmental Quality in Portland. C. Susan Evans MS '86 and her husband, Richard Marty '80, MS '83, are co-owners and managers at Q Environmental, LLC , an environmental consult– ing firm in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Michelle Girts has been elected to the PSU Alumni Board of Director . G irts is vice president and area manager at H2M Hill in Portland. She and her hus– band live in Vancouver, Wash. '84 Sondra Dudley is an a sociate and director of fin ance and human resources at LSW Archi– tects in Vancouver, Wash. Russell Shaver is branch man– ager of terling Saving Bank (Ca cade Park branch) in Vancouver, Wash. '85 Rick Stanek MS '93 is a case manager and therapist at The Center for Community Mental Health in Portland . Stanek lives in St. Helens. '86 Mindy Hackett is a planning specialist on the ecosystem plan– ning taff with the U.S.0 .A. Forest ervice's Pacific South– west Regional Office. Hackett lives in Vallejo, Calif. Lisa Hamilton is a licensed massage therapist at Lisa Hamil– ton, LMT, in Portland. Hamil– ton i also an adjunct professor teaching basic massage to nurs– ing students at the northwe t Portland satellite campu of Linfield College. J.D. Perkin is an artist whose sculptures were exhibited at the Laura Russo Gallery in June and July. Perkin uses ceramics, wood, and steel to create human and sometimes animal figures. He lives in Portland. '87 Chris Bixler owns the southern O regon franchise righ ts to O il Can Henry's, an automobile quick lube business. The facili – ties are located in G rants Pa s and Klamath Falls. Rosa Lola Burge is director at the Molalla Adult Community Center, a ocial services agency for the elderly. Burge lives in Colton. Carol (Bozack) Feuss writes, "After nearly 10 years serving as the alumni/public relations liai– son for the Michigan State Uni– versity College of Nursing, I joined the Michigan Nurses Association in February. I am the director of communication and integrated marketing." Feuss lives in Holt, Mich. Robert Willoughby MPA is admini trator for the city of Cascade Locks. '88 Shirley Brock MS i vice prin– cipal for the St. Helens School District's middle school. Richard Denis MS i principal at Ory Hollow Elementary School in The Dalles. Denis has been a teacher and admini tra– tor for 27 years. Catherine Hoofard MSW is a consultant with The Suran G roup, a consulting firm spe– cializing in change management strategies. David La Liberte MS '90 is principal engineer at Liberte Environmental A sociate , Inc., in Wilsonville. LEA specializes in water, wastewater, analysis, and design. Jacqueline Lydston has been named assistant department chair of the bachelor of cience in human services program for the University of Phoenix, Ore– gon campus. Scott Patterson is the controller for lnterDent, Inc., a dental practice management facility in El Segundo, Calif. Walter Wesley is a contractor and painter with W. Wesley Painting Company in Portland. '89 Aurora Benenati MAT '91 is a Spanish language instructor at Mt. Hood Community College. Benenati received a distin– guished teaching award from the Mt. Hood Community College District Foundation in June rec– ogn izing her for her innovative teaching style. She has been a teacher at MHCC since 1991. FALL 2000 PSU MAGAZINE 23