PSU Magazine Fall 2003

Gary Mauro is a project plan– ner with Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR), an environmental and geotechnical engineering firm based in Pasadena, Califor– nia. Mauro is working on a KBR project in Kabul, Afghanistan– the rebuilding of the U.S. Embassy. Mauro worked from 1991 to 1994 for the U.S. Depanment of Energy, then Jacobs Engineering for two years. Prior to his joining KBR, he was a management consul– tant for the Korea Power Engineering Company in Seoul, South Korea. '89 Stephen Erickson is partner and vice president of sales at First Western Properties in Kirkland, Washington. Milt Hill is an environmental GIS project manager for the Oregon Department of Trans– portation. Hill coordinates activ– ities between Lransponation data and environmental sen•ices sections. He formerly was the GIS program coordinator with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife for 12 years. Hill and his wife, Marie Sada Hill '90, and their daughter live in Tigard. Mary Jubitz MEd is chief exec– utive officer of the Oregon Children's Foundation, which operates SMART (Stan Making a Reader Today). Jubitz has been with the agency since 1994, when SMART served children in 36 low-income schools, and has overseen the growth to 252 schools. She was nominated for the 2003 Business Journal' Women in Business award by former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt. Jin Lan is founder of Octaxias Co., LLC, which brings together American and Chinese busi– nesses. He was instrumental in helping negotiate the political processes involved with the Port of Portland acquiring Air China Cargo's nonstop air cargo service to Portland International Airport. Lan lives in Vancouver, Washington. 24 PSU MAGAZINE FALL 2003 Elizabeth Phillips MA '99 is a doctoral candidate al Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. '90 Trish Ciliberti MSW, PhD '97 has Joined the PSU Alumni Board of Directors. Cilibeni is president of Ci libeni &: Associ– ates, a market planning and research firm in Portland . She and her husband, Geoff Fox, live in Portland. Patricia Landers first auended college in 1947-48. Fony-two years later, after raising three chi ldren and havi ng an impres– sive career in human resources, she completed her degree al PSU. Landers served as director of technical assistance for the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries and was responsible for developing an educational program for employers that included statewide seminars and a series of interpretive publica– tions about the law. She retired in 1988 and began a consulting senrice fo r employers, wrote personnel policies, performed in-house investigations, and presented training programs on wage-hour or civil rights com– pliance. At the invitation of the Oregon State Bar, she wrote a 46-page chapter on federal and state wage-hour laws for its anthology, Employment Law, published in 1990. She has also written both fiction and poetry, won numerous writing awards, and is currently al work on a novel. Landers lives in Portland. James Orth is principal al Yamhill-Carlton High School. Orth formerly was vice principal at Lake Oswego High School. He lives in McMinnvi.lle. Janvier ''Jan" Slick MSW is manager of family-based ser– vices al the Oregon Department of Human ervices. Slick pro– vides leadership in the areas of family-centered casework prac– tice, family preservation, and family reunification. She man– ages three fami ly-based services field consultan ts who provide ongoing training, support, and technical assistance to field staff, with special emphasis on the use of family and team decision meetings. She also monitors family-based services treatment contracts. Slick lives in Salem. '91 Lara Cooper is a broker wi th Village Properties in Bend . Cooper formerly was a general contractor working in the residential building industry. Thomas Michael is an assistant professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Michael Ray MURP '94 is a senior transportation planner with the Oregon Department of Transportation in Portland. Cecelia "Cec" Regis MS retired from Lakeridge Elementary School in Mercer Island, Wash– ington, in June. Regis taught second grade there for 13 years. Daniel Robinson is an artist whose oil paintings were on exhibit al the Mercury Gallery in Boston, Massachuseus, in June. Robinson's work often focuses on architectural subjects such as papermills and grain elevators. He and his wife, Melanie, live in Fossil. '92 Danica Barker MS is a "stay-at– home-mom" li\ring in Vancou– ver, Washington. Barker previously was an elementary physical education teacher with the Longview School District. Lucie Drum is community educauon and injury prevention coordinator for American 1edical Response, an ambu– lance service in Portland. David Ellis MPA is senior archaeologist al Archaeological Investigations Nonhwest in Ponland. Laurel Elmore is director of systems and programming for Nationwide Insurance in Columbus, Ohio. Michael Manaton is vice presi– dent of credit policy al First Consumers National Bank in Beaverton. Janet Williams is an assistant forest engineer with the USDA Forest Sen'ice in Roseburg. '93 Michael Crawford is a deputy prosecuting attorney with the Elmore County Prosecuting Attorney's Office in Mountain Home, Idaho. Sonya Fischer MPA is a staff associate and lobbyist at The Tresidder Company in Salem. Fischer earned a law degree from onhwestern School of Law, Lewis &: Clark College. She has worked as a human services activist and a legislative staffer for members of the Oregon House of Representatives and Senate. Additionally, she has worked wi th the Developmental Disabilities Coalition to secure and maintain services for indi– \'iduals with disabi lities and their families, as well as for Multnomah County, in pro– grams focusing on early child– hood, domestic violence, and homeless youth . Patricia Goss BS '03 owns a wholesale manufacturing busi– ness that sells garden accessory items to local garden and nurs– ery retailers. Goss lives in Milwaukie. Joel Pearson is a teacher with the Tolleson Elementary School District, Phoenix, Arizona. His wife, Emily Chang '98, is a corporate attorney employed by Fennemore Craig LLP. Amy Scott is a librarian for the Fort Vancouver Regional Library, Vancouver, Washington. Scott is married to Michael Koch '93, a forensic scientist \vith the Oregon State Police. She writes, "We first met in Dr. Forbes' ornithology class and now have been married for three years. Our daughter, Eilish, was born in March." '94 Russell Bennett is a locomotive engineer with the Union Pacific Railroad Company in Portland. Yukio Maruyama is a licensed massage therapist specializing in Shiatsu, a type of bodywork that has been practiced in Japan for o\·er a thousand years. laruyama attended East West College of the Healing Arts and