PSU Magazine Fall 2013

AL u M__N_ O_ T E s Compiled by Myrna Duray Stephen Weiss '67 owns and financial planning agency in quarters in Washington, D.C., Van operates Weiss' Commercial Portland. in 1982 ... served as a supervi- ort Graphics and Publications in sory civil engineer for the past Beaverton. 71 10 years, engaged in environ- Richard Willenberg assisted Barbara Holmberg '68 is a mental restoration and remedia- Ramona (California) sheriff's retired educator who taught in Jacqueline "Jackie" Bell has tion." Eckersley and his wife deputies by jumping out of his Portland Public Schools for 22 joined the PSU Alumni Board live in Gaston. car and tackling a suspect, years. She most recently was of Directors. Bell, who is Marilyn Hanson MA is the delaying him long enough for chair of fine arts at Madison retired, was corporate controller language arts department chair the deputies to catch up and High School. She lives in Van- with PacifiCorp. She lives in and talented and gifted program arrest him. An officer on the scene said, "Law enforcement couver, Washington. Portland. liaison for the St. Helens can always use help from citi- Mary Simpson '68 is assistant Penny Blackwell is a judge for School District. zens like him. He was a hero." director of human resources the Court of Common Pleas of Sigurd Rudie is a retired farmer Willenberg, 72, is retired and with the city of Santa Cruz, York County, Pennsylvania. living in Fairview, Montana. lives in Woodburn. California. Simpson lives in Blackwell is married to John nearby Aptos. Sanstead, M.D., and her daugh- '7 / '60s Brian Black '69 is a commercial ter, Rebecca, is a junior at mortgage lender with Centennial Smith College. Joseph Busch is a content David Saunders '63 taught in Bank. Black lives in Troutdale. Ruthann Duncan MA is a intelligence evangelist with Oregon public schools until his Neil Erickson '69 is a partner mental health professional with Interwoven, a software firm retirement in 1973. He writes, and certified public accountant the Center for Family Develop- located in San Francisco. "I'm 92, organically sound but at Grant Thornton, LLP, in San ment in Eugene. David Erickson is an interna- permanently disabled because Francisco. Christopher Howell MA has tional trade consultant with of injuries ... I am at my com- been awarded a $20,000 Cre- Allports Forwarding, an ocean puter four to six hours a day, Sheila Scully Giordano '69 is a ative Writing Fellowship from transport intermediary in Port- still turning out fiction, letters, legal analyst with the New York the National Endowment for land. He previously worked for and papers . . ."Saunders wrote State Department of Labor, the Arts; it is his second such US Bank for 32 years. the children's book, Downunder division of unemployment award. Howell teaches poetry, Joey, the Red Kangaroo. He lives insurance. Giordano lives in Oscar Lucas is director of cor- in Portland. Selkirk, New York. writing, and literature in the porate actuarial at Premera Blue MFA program at Eastern Cross in Portland. He is an asso- Priscilla Robinson '64 at age 89 Eileen Hoesley '69 MBA '74 is Washington University. ciate of the Soc_iety of Actuaries is a retired educator living in the chief financial officer for Leslie "Les" Schwartz is a cus- and a member of the American Woodburn. She writes, "I now the University of LaVerne in tamer service representative Academy of Actuaries. do volunteer work at the retire- Athens, Greece, and an associ- ment center where I live, in ate professor and program chair with Portland General Electric Susan Marmaduke is an attar- gardening, music and leading a in the university's School of in Tualatin. ney with the law firm of James, friendship club for one morning Business and Global Studies. Don Sitko is the customer ser- Urrutia, Marmaduke & Carlton, a month. Have many fond Warren Schmitt '69 writes, vice manager at Blue Heron PC, in Portland. Marmaduke memories of my days at PSC." "Since retiring in 1996 have Paper Company of Oregon City. has been elected a fellow of the Lewis Wong '65 is a retired done volunteer work and trav- American Bar Foundation, a '72 research center for the empiri- businessman working as a vol- eled. Recently returned from a cal study of law, legal institu- unteer paralegal at a pro bona four-month RV trip in the south tions, and legal processes in law firm funded by the Los and southwest." Schmitt was a Raymond Grimsbo is a forensic Angeles Bar Association. Wong Social Security disability hear- scientist and director at Inter- society. writes, "In 1960, Dr. John E ings officer. He lives in Lacey, mountain Forensic Laboratories, Linda (Moss) Moro owns Moro Cramer helped me to obtain a Washington. Inc., a private crime laboratory Communications, a consulting student visa to enroll at PSU." in Portland. communications and marketing Wong lives in Los Angeles. '70 Jon Weber is director of south- firm in Woodland, Washington. Larry Anthony '66 is an western new connects at Pacifi- Moro writes, "My husband, Pat Burt, taught at the School of administrator at Providence Gary Barnes is president of corp, an electric utility Extended Studies from 1993-95. Toppenish Hospital in Toppen- Northwest Food Employers, company, in Roseburg. In addition to having PSU in ish, Washington. Inc., in Tigard. His company common, we are both Linda Lund Davis '66 was represents food industry compa- '73 Norwegian, and we're both nies, both retail and wholesale, inducted into the Fellows of the in collective bargaining and sailors. When we aren't working American Institute of Certified labor and employment matters. William Eckersley retired from together, we're sailing on the Planners this year. She has more the U.S. Army Corps of Engi- Columbia River." than 35 years' experience in Gary Miller is branch manager neers in June. He writes, "Corps Beth Shelby is a third-grade urban and rural planning. She is at Crown Capital Securities, an career began in the Portland teacher at Clark Elementary in retired and lives in Sisters. investment brokerage and district and took me to head- Portland. She lives in Glacfstm1e. 22 PSU MAGAZINE FALL 2001