PSU Magazine Fall 2000

• • • Robert Byers i in accounts receivable at RFP Publications, a prin ting firm in Wilsonvi lle. Daniel Findley MBA '92 is an Internet strategist and infonna– tion technology pecialist for RHAS DOT COM. Finley for– merly was a teacher at Harriet Tubman and West Sylvan mid– dle schools in Portland. Samuel Giese i a water resources engineer wi th SF Engineering in Tualatin . James Opoka is a human re ources specialist 2 for Mult– nomah County. Opoka lives in O regon C ity. Tom Sayre is the recreational arts coordinator with the Parks and Recreation Department of Federal Way, Wa h. Dr. Cara Steinkeler is a physi– cian practicing medicine at Kaiser NW Permanente in lackamas. Perry Sunderland is a project engineer at Slayden Construc– tion, Inc., in Stayton. '93 Darci Boyle MT is tax manager in the tax services group at the Moss Adams, LLP, Vancouver, Wash., office. Mark Conachan is art director at HMH Advertising and Public Relations in Portland . Nancy Hunsaker has joined Woodworth International, a Portland executive search firm, as a senior recru iter. Stewart Laney MBA is the regional sales and marketing manager at Evanite Fiber Cor– poration, a hardboard and pre– finished panel products manufacturing mill in Corva lli . Maridy McGinnis is an account executive at KVO Public Rela– tions in Portland. Barbara Moody is an adverti - ing network coordinator with O regon Newspapers, Inc., in Portland. Kenneth Parshall MST is prin– cipal at C rook County High School. Tim Vranizan MBA is general manager at Unified Communi– cations, LL , in Beaverton. '94 Rebecca Widden is assistant controller at Holiday Retire– ment orporation, a retirement residence fac ility in Salem. '95 Jason Bledsoe writes, "I have been employed by the O regon State Police (OSP) as a trooper since graduating. After 4 1/2 years in Newport, I transferred to the Portland office of OSP and am currently assigned to the OSP's Motorcycle Uni t. I was married to Tia in December of 1997 and we have a dog, Mick, an Australian Shepherd ." Kristin Christophersen MS '98 is a sociology instructor at C lackamas Community College's Social Science Department. Christophersen is working toward a PhD in med ical sociol– ogy at PSU. Paul Glenn MS '99 is a raff civil engineer with Dav id J. Newton Associates, Inc. , in Portland. Thach guyen MPA is a pro– gram administrator at the Mult– nomah County Department of Juvenile and Adult Community Justice. Nguyen also i chairman of the Asian Pacific American Network of O regon. Klaus Paesler BA '97 is pursu– ing a master of science in finance at Golden Gate Univer– sity in an Francisco. Paesler is a portfolio manager with Mellon Capital Management, a division of Mellon Bank. He i married to Melina Fulbright '97, who is enrolled at Golden Gate Uni– versity chool of Law, hav ing completed her second year. Satish Upadhyay MT is a bud– get analy t with the tare of O reg n Department of Admin– i trative Services. Upadhyay's responsibilities include the higher education budget. He lives in Ttgard. '96 Paula Cartwright MS is a counselor at Lincoln Middle School in Pullman, Wash. Cartwright formerly was coun– selor and home economics teacher for 10 years at Naselle High School and Middle School in Naselle, Wash. Shelly Martin Elieson is administrative coordinator for the vice president of university advancement at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. Elieson a sists with coordinating events throughout the state that pro– mote the med ical chool and its network of hospitals. She write , "My husband is a doctor, pecia lizing in surgery. We are here for five years as he com– pletes his residency training." Raphael Larson is an associate at Patton Boggs, LLP, a law firm in Washington, D.C. Elizabeth Goldblatt MPA is president of the O regon College of O riental Medicine. Goldblatt is a member of the Pacific Uni– versity Board of Trustee , serves on the advisory board for the Integrative Medical Arts Group, Inc., and is president of the Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and O riental Med– icine. Marla McLeod is associate director at AHA International in Portland . McLeod ays, "I love my job working with study abroad programs at AHA." Lila Pindell is a sculptor and potter living in Rhododendron. Pindell ells her pottery at the Wy'East Book Shoppe and Art Gallery in Welche . She has been a member of the Wy'East Artisans G uild for eight years and displayed a self-portrait in clay at their annual exhibit in April. FALL 2000 PSU MAGAZINE 25