PSU Magazine Fall 2000

AL UM N 0 TES Keith Livie MS is an associate at LSW Architects in Portland. John Kaernpf is shareholder at Livie's experience includes multi-family and senior hou ing, the Portland law firm of Bulli- hotels, schools, and warehouse vant Houser Bailey. development proj ects. He lives Matthew Kayser MS is an asso- in Vancouver, Wash. ciate at Trammell Crow Corn- John Mikenis MBA is a vice pany in Portland. Kayser has president at Wells Fargo Bank been active in Portland metro- in Portland. Mikenis has been politan-area commercial real with the bank (formerly Fir t estate since 1993. Inter tate Bank of O regon) Daniel Putnam teaches the ince 1984. visually impaired for the Union- Ann Pierce M W is a social Baker Education School District worker, primarily in the area of in Island C ity. geriatric care, with Providence '90 Health Systems in Portland. Her husband, Chris, is enrolled in the graduate education pro- Tamara DeRidder MURP is the gram at PSU and plans to be an long-range planning manager elementary school teacher. for the city of Vancouver, Wash. David Simmons M W is the Michael Gregg is an architect director of policy and research and vi ualization specialist wi th fo r the National Indian Child BOO RA Architects in Port- Welfa re Association in Port- land . In 1999, G regg received a land . immons started at Virtual C raft Award from the NI WA as a graduate assistant American Institute of Archi- while completing his degree at tects for his digital architectural PSU. Simmons and his wife, designs. Mary, live in Portland. RIAN WEBB '86 WAS DAZZLED by the theater at an early age. But it wasn't the applause he sought. It wa the lights and scenery that caught his attention-taking a bare, dark stage and transforming it into a colorful and magi– cal place. Webb worked toward thi dream until he made his way from Oregon to the lights of Broadway. It wasn't the path that most of hi friends took, but Webb says there was no other way he cou ld live. "It's simply my nature to search out thing that interest me," Webb says. Earning a bachelor' in theater arts at PSU, Webb went on to receive a master's at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University in scenery and costume design. He practically wa lked onto the Broadway tage immediately after graduation, quickly learning the ropes by apprenticing under some of New York's most suc– ce ful theatrical designers on ome of Broadway's bigge t hits. Webb served as assistant or associate et designer in such shows as Into the Woods , Gypsy (the 1990 revival), 24 PSU MAGAZINE FALL 2000 Dr. Marie Wehage is an inter- to fac ilitate con ulting in Mex- nal medicine physician practic- ico and Latin America." ing at the Providence Medical Donald Gallogly and his wife, Group in Medford. Rebekah Fowler '90, live in John Wolfe MSW is program Portuga l, where they own and director fo r Friends of the Chil- operate O ld World Discoveries, dren in Portland. Wolfe is also Ltd., which provides luxury chair of the committee to cycling adventures in Europe. advance cultural di ver ity and Gallogly and Fowler both promote soc ial justice in P U' earned Doctor of Philosophy Graduate School of Social degrees from Miami Univer ity Work. He has two children, of O hio in 1997. Aaron, 15, and Marisa, 12, and Allison Savage-Cairns owns is the brother of PSU women's and operates the Alli on Savage basketball coach, George Wolfe. G raphic Design studio in '91 Laguna Niguel, Calif. Lars Steen BA '93 is vice presi- dent of marketing at Cyber- Radford Bean is a technica l watcher, an Internet portal support specialist at C larity company in Oslo, Norway. Visual Systems, Inc., a rear- projection video display firm in '92 Wilsonville. Jennifer Chandos is president Mark BeckteI MURP is trans- at Chandos Pacific Appraisal, a porta tion planning manager fo r commercial valuation and man- the city of Salem. Becktel also agement information systems is a certified track and fi eld offi - con ulting firm in San Diego. cial and serves as president of Chandos writes, "I relocated my the Salem Track C lub. business to San Diego in 1998 Tru, Meet Me in Sc. Louis , Ain't Broadway Grand, Beauty and the Beast, and Minnelli on Minnelli. He went to,Las Vegas to work on MGM' EFX how and spent time as a sistant art director on the The Cosby Show. He even worked for the New York C ity Ballet. Eventually Webb's profes– sional life crossed paths with his O regon roots. In the mid– '90s Nike hired him to be the creative coord inator of Man– hattan's new N iketown. Nike executives wanted their flag- hip store to have a sense of .... Ii: ~=.: j ~ H H' - f""' 1( r I li~ln ii I _, I '. K' t : i . t :~ . ...... . ... . ······ ......... ' I --·,,,_.,___ :-:-_!iii_ • -! ! drama and theater. So they enli ted a team of theatrical designers and appo inted Webb to be the li aison between the "theater people" and the more busine like architectu ral con- ultants. Today, Webb works as a freelance designer for commerc ial and theatrical clients. The Full Monty, a new Broadway musi– ca l which opened Sept. 28, received hi expert assistance. Webb shares a studio above New York's theater district with others who, like him, have followed thei r creative dreams. For Webb, working in this kind of environment– one of inspiration and energy- is crucial. Life has held a very direct path, he says, "and it' better than what I had in mind." -Jonathan Kipp • •