PSU Magazine Fall 2004

ALUM Gail McCormick was inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, an honor society that recogn izes all acade– mic disciplines, during a May ceremony at PSU. '87 teve Brown , a former reporter and columnist for the PSU Van– guard, has purchased The Sun Runner Desert Arts & Entertain– ment Magazine and works as its publisher The 10-year-old mag– azine is a bi-monthly cultural publication for the California high desert region. Brown is also drummer for Shawn Mafia and the Ten Cent Thrills, wh ich he says is the desert's answer to Tom Waits. LaRoy Labonte is a senior juve– nile counselor for Washington County, where he has worked for the past 12 years. He earned an MA in interdisciplinary stud– ies with an emphasis in organi– zational communication from Marylhurst University in 2000. He is married to Eva Labonte '97. They have two daughters. '88 Richard Clark is a commercial appraiser at Cushman & Wake– fi eld of Oregon , Inc. Phillip Lucas is an associate professor of religious studies at Stetson University in Deland, Florida. He has been at the uni– versity for 13 years and in 2002 was awarded the Hugh McEniry Award for Excellence in Teach– ing. He is founding editor (1997) of Nova Religion: The Journal of Alternative and Emer– gent Religions, a scholarly journal in the field of new, minority, and alternative religions. Ben Williams is principal at WRG Design, lnc., a civil engi– neering, land use planning, landscape architecture, and surveying firm in Portland. 24 PSU MAGAZI E FALL 2004 '89 Jennifer Cameron is executive 1ice president and chief finan– cial officer at the YMCA of the Columbia-Willamette in Portland. Nancy Macy is a self-employed women's health care nurse prac– titioner and certified nurse mid– wife in ewberg. Macy reports her practice keeps her busy. She delivered 33 babies in October 2003. R. "Mike" Miller MS is elemen– tary education director for the Salem-Keizer School District. Miller has worked for the school district since 1979 as a teacher and elementary and middle school principal. Tim Schweitzer is an engineer at Group Mackenzie in Portland, where he has worked on projects in the commercial office space, warehouse and distribution cen– ter, and high-tech markets. '90 Mary Jo Ahlbrandt MPA '92 is director of development at Port– land Center Stage. Diane Sabatini is senior vice president of physical production at MGM Studios in Los Angeles. In the past decade she has worked as a production supervi– sor on 12 mo,ies, including Armageddon, Batman & Robin, The Rock, Gone in 60 Seconds, 21 Grams, and Anchorman: Tl,e Legend of Ron Burgundy. Amy Sewell is a teacher at Roseland Park Elementary in Picayune, Mississippi. Sewell completed a MEd degree from William Carey College in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Jane "E.J." Westlake MA is an assistant professor of theater at the University of Michigan, where she was a lecturer for three years. SIU Press \viii pub– lish Westlake's book on Central American theater next year. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. '92 Marge Burak MST was Oregon's recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching for 2003. Burak teaches eighth-grade math at Crook County Middle School in Bend. Lisa (Reed) Jensen is a fee schedule and coding analyst with Providence Health Plans in Beaverton. Jensen and her hus– band, Jens '93, have a son, age two, and a daughter, age six. David Keck is city ed itor for The Daily Press in Victorvil le, California. Keck has been a journalist for 12 years. Barbara Keeton is a first- and second-grade teacher with the North Marion School District in Aurora. Keeton has two sons, ages 10 and 12. Matt Tracy MPA '95 is the solid waste administrator with Columbia County Tracy previ– ously served as a state DEQ pro– ject coordinator, was employed by a tire disposal company, and worked for a waste company in Monroe and Oregon City Zoe van der Merwe MEd '92 is a Pilates instructor at Wood– stock Community Center in Portland. '93 Theodore "Ted" Beauchaine is an assistant professor of psy– chology at University of Wash– ington. Beauchaine received his PhD in clinical psychology from SUNY at Stony Brook in 2000. His wife, Angie '94, teaches sixth grade in west Seattle. Regan Ertle works for Willamette Financial Group in Bend, where he specializes in retirement and estate planning issues. Ana Hagerty is an occupational therapist at a clinic in Littleton , New Hampshi re. After gradua– tion she joined the U.S. Army Reserves and became an occu– pational therapy specialist. She earned a second bachelor's degree in occupati onal therapy at Utica College of Syracuse University and recently received a post-graduate certificate in hand and upper quarter rehabil– itation at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Her hobbies are hiking, surfing, and traveling. '()4 Jilene "Jill" Anderson is an instructional aide and teacher's aide with a Kelso School District Headstart after-school program in Kelso, Washington. Shih Chieh Cheng owns Rose– way Park Oral Surgeons in Hillsboro. Cheng says, "I had memorable times at P U as an undergrad. PSU is the best col– lege education I ever had!" Wendy Douglas MS '02 teaches fifth and sixth grades at Anthony A. Andrews in St. Michael, a Native Central Yupik Eskimo vi llage of 400 inhabi– tants on the orton Sound coast in northwest Alaska. Thomas Musgrave is president of Corteco, the automotive after– market business of Freudenber– NOK. Musgrave is based in Milan , Ohio. Tim Simons MS '95 is a city engineer with the city of Pendle– ton. Simons formerly was with the engineering firm Otak in Lake Oswego. Michelle Swanson is a teacher at Kelly Creek Elementary in Gresham. Gina Thompson is corporate controller at Oregon Aero, Inc., a Scappoose manufacturer of aviation-related products. '95 Jeremy Martin writes, "After a successful career at both UPS and Bally Total Fitness, I felt the pull of patriotism after the unfortunate events of 9/11. So in March of 2003 , I left both jobs and my comfortable life behind to join the U.S. avy. I am currently serving as a mili– tary police officer in Sicily. It has been a big change but I am learning a lot and enjoying myself while serving my country" Pat Squire MPA was inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, an honor society that recognizes all acade– mic disciplines, during a May ceremony at PSU.