PSU Magazine Fall 2003

Joe Smith is a counselor at Worksource Town Plaza, an employment security firm in Vancouver, Washington. Joven usi writes, "Got into mortgage banking after gradua– tion from PSU. Currently a managing partner at Centurion Mortgage in Lake Oswego." Jessie Aranda is marketing media manager at Mercedes– Benz Credit Corporation in Portland. Sonya Fischer MPA received the Joyce Anne l--larpole Memor– ial Scholarship and is a sLUdent al Lewis & Clark College's Northwestern School of law, where she won first place in the school's mock trial competition. Richard Lochner works for the U.S. Postal Service and serves as an American Postal Workers Union (APWU) steward and offi– cer. Lochner lives in Portland . Ana Ramirez is a physician with orthwest Permanente in Vancouver, Washington. Janice Wilson has been appointed by Portland Mayor Vera Katz and the Portland City Council as a commissioner on the Portland Development Com– mission. Wilson retired from Wells Fargo Bank in August 2001, where she most recemly served as vice president and division manager. Teresa Elliott is a senior engi– neer and project manager with the city of Portland Water Bureau. Columbus Candies MPA is director at t. Luke's Idaho Elks Rehabilitation Services in Boise. James Mitchell is an assistam professor of family and commu– nity medicine at Southern Illinois University school of medicine in Decatur. Mit hell earned his medical degree at Oregon Health Sciences Univer– sity and completed his family practice residency at the South- FOURTH A UA L Simon Benson Awards Dinner I October 14, 2002, Oregon Convention Center PRESEt'.TED BY Wells Fargo Bank Fred Meyer SPONSORED BY Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund Julie and Peter Stoll ODS Health Plans Ater Wynne LLP ESCO Corp. & The Swigert Family Gerding/Edlen Development Robert and Sharon Miller KEYNOTE SPEAKER The Honorable Rudolph Giuliani Former Mayor or cw York City em 1llinois Un iversity center for family medicine in Springfield. Donna O'Dell-Heinzman MPA is the assistant to the president at Eastern regon University in LaGrande. Michael Ofenloch is a judicial regional account manager with the U.. General erviccs Administration in Portland. Amy Dielschneider is finance director for the Oregon Humane Society. Becky George MA 1s an English as a second language program specialist at Leeward ommu– nity College and the University of Hawaii. George lives in Kailua, Hawaii . Orion Gray MUS '00 is recorder for Crossroads Community Orga– nizing Project at Sisters of the Road, Inc., in Portland. Gray writes, "l conduct imerviews wi th homeless people for city– funded research and organize projects. I volunteer at KBOO community radio, engineering and deejaying, and have volun– teered a lot with Dignity Village." Susan Lee MPA wmes, "I was awarded the FHWA Eisenhower Fellowship for my public admin– istration and policy PhD disserta– tion proposal, Rc&~onal Cooperation in T,·ansportation Deci– sion Making and System Develop– ment in the Portland Metropolitan Area. My project was ranked fifth in the nation in a very competi– ti\'e process of review. The fellow– ship will provide tuition and a monthly stipend for up to three years of study" Lee was also recently hired as a community plan ner with the Federal High– way Administration Office of Planning & Environment in Washington, D.C. Cynthia Pemberton EdD is an associate professor in the college of edu ation and chair of the department of education leader– ship at Idaho State University in Pocatello. Pemberton is a nationally recognized aULhority on Title IX and is the author of More Than A Game, an autobio– graphical account of her six-year struggle for gender equity in spans at Linfield College. PoRTIANDSTATE l)NIVERSITY THIS YEAR ' S RECIPIENTS Jeannine B. Cowles Avid supporter of the arts Ernest C. Swigert Swigert Foundauon Prcstdcnt !_he 51111011 Benson All'ard honors Ore~on's pwnccr, of philantlnopy ·200 per person Tables start at $2.000. Advance resen·auons required. Call 503-725-8212 ?r;> s I M o_ N__ s_E_ N_s_o_ N_ 1 A w A R o FALL 2002 PSU MAGAZI E 25