PSU Magazine Spring 1992

II:' - - . • • . • ' _.-;' ~ - - . J '79 Bruce R. Anderson is opera– tions manager for Health Management Center, a national mental health case management company located in Southern California. Larry Dodds MBA has been elected as O regon 's delegate to the American Hospital Associa– tion regional policy board. Dodds is president of Portland Adventist Medical Center. David Lattin is a major in the United States Marine Corps. Lattin is presently serving at Headquarters, Fleet Marine Force in London, England. Patrick Moran is a petroleum landsman for UNOCAL's North American O il & Gas Division. Moran lives in Ventura, Calif., and writes that on June 30, 1990, he married Marcia Lynn Wahl of Toledo, Ohio. Jeffrey Holm Smith is the new curator for the C latsop County Historical Society in Astoria. Gene Taylor '86 MST is an assis– tant professor of business and computers at Central O regon Community College in Bend, O re. Taylor writes that in 1993 he will be exchanging positions with a professor from New Zealand for a year. Rosina Esther Williamson writes that since retiring from Weyerhaeuser Co., in 1983, she's been busier than ever. Williamson manages a tree farm west of Longview, Wash., and has seven grandchildren. '80 Mark Allred, a sen ior manager at the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche in Portland, has been elected treasurer of the United Cerebral Palsy Association of O regon and Southwest Washington. 26 PSU Auntz Van Gent '84 MPA is ad– ministrator of the Taft Home, a residential care fac ility for elder– ly people with mental health or alcoholism problems. Clayton L. Holstine MPA is city manager for Reno, Nev. Holstine, who is married and has two sons, writes that he and his wife adopted a baby girl in August 199 1. Alphonsus Liebertz Jr. writes that he and a partner recently started a landscape business, A & J Landscape Maintenance Inc. Liebertz, h is wife of 14 years and two children live in Beaverton. R. Christopher Roberg is general manager and corporate secretary of LutzTire Co. Inc., in Portland. He has been with the company since 1973. Brent Valentine MBA wri tes that he owns a collision repair shop in Portland that he "started from scratch" in 1983 . He now employs eight peop,le. '81 Karen Nelson is director of h igh wealth and personal financial planning services, in the Portland office ofKPMG Peat Marwick. Janice Rutherford MA is en– rolled in a doctoral program in history at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La. She worked for the Louisiana Association of Museums before beginning her studies. Nancy L. Schroeder MBA is vice president of human resour– ces for the Grange Insurance Association in Seattle. She has been with the firm since 1983. Lee O. Tyler, an attorney, has opened h is own Portland prac– tice. T yler was formerly with G ilbertson, Brownste in and Rask. '82 Gregory Timmons MST has taught seventh-and eighth-grade social studies at Riverdale School in Portland for the past 13 years. He is also part of a non– profi t educational organization that produces programs for the Public Broadcast System to dis– tribute to schools nationwide. Paul Waldram is a partner with Preising & Probst Certified Public Accountants in Portland. Sharon A. Williams is an as– sociate attorney in the Portland office of Sorensen-Jolenk, Trubo, Koch & Mcllhenny. Williams also serves on the board of the Tualatin Valley Mental Health Center. '83 Rick Coates writes that he has been providing contract software engineering services to high tech companies for the last six years. Coates lives in Portland . Elizabeth Hanford MSW is pro– gram coordinator of the housing services unit of Lutheran Social Services of Northern California. She also serves as president of the board of directors for Sacramento Housing Alliance. Scott D. King is a senior planner in the Planning Division of the Washington County Depart– ment of Land Use and T ranspor– tation. King has been with the department for seven years. Paveena Wong is a certified public accountant who recently opened her own firm. Kentaro Yamamoto MS, and his wife Lisa '82, live in Lawren– ceville, N.J., where he is a re– search scientist for Educational Testing Services. '84 Marcia Esther MSW is working on her teaching certification and will be teaching lower-grade elementary students in the fall. Mary Lee Planer is vice presi– dent of the O regon chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives. Planer is director of development for the T uality Health Care Founda– tion. Elected secretary of the society, is Helen Vandervort '82. Martin J. Powell is postmaster in The Dalles, O re. Ramon Torrecilha '86 MS recently completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and is now an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. '85 Keith Eggener is on a fellowship at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., working toward a Ph.D. in art history. Arash Kasaaian Ph.D. works for Elkem Metals Company in Marietta, Ohio. He writes that he is working on solving en– vironmental concerns and in the process has saved his company millions of dollars in the field of electromining. Kathleen Kenigan-Cleary is the director of business affairs for the Archdiocese of Portland. She is married to Daniel Cleary '70, and they have a two-year-old son. James L. Proctor, a lieutenant in the U .S. Navy, is with Com– mander Naval Air Pacific, Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego. Robin Sabala MBA is project and product manager for Interna– tional Paper in Memphis, Tenn. '86 Jacie Daschel is a chartered financial analyst and a member of the American Society of Ap– praisers. Daschel works for Willamette Management As– sociation in Portland. Lawrence M. Dolton MUS is an applications engineer for Strategic Mapping Inc., in Palo Alto, Calif. The company makes desktop geographic information systems. Debra Staggs Kremer recently passed the Colorado Bar Exam and is a licensed attorney in Colorado Springs, Colo. She and her husband Russ recently had a daughter, Elise. Shawn Spangle Looney '88 MS is a speech language pathologist for Portland Public Schools.