PSU Magazine Spring 1993

Paul Skoog MBA is a corporate vice president for Paine Webber in Riverside, Calif. Terry Tambara, of Terry Tambara Design, is one of 10 photographers to be feature in "People and Our World," the first book in a series entitled "American Photographers at the Tum of the Century. " Carla Ireland Wigle is a publish– er with Sagebrush Books in Bend . '77 George Cornwall MBA owns his own CPA firm in Portland. Cornwall lives in Lake Oswego. Harry Edmonds retired in 1990 after working for the city of Portland as a professional engineer for 34 years. Arthur Homer is an associate professor teaching creative writ– ing at the University of Nebras– ka-Omaha. Homer was also a finalist in the Associated Writing Programs Creative Non-fiction Awards for "The Drownt Boy," a childhood memoir of the Missouri Ozarks. Barbara C. Nolan is an attorney in West Linn, specializing in family and divorce mediation. Nolan serves as a member of the Board of the Oregon Mediation Association. Fred Nussbaum is the vice presi– dent and strategic planner for the Oregon Association of Rail– way Passengers, an advocacy group for passenger and freight rail and public transportation. Gloria Borg MA opened Broad– way Books, a general bookstore specializing in biography, in May 1992. '78 Charlene Blue Horse teaches minority and women's studies, English, creative writing, and literature at University of Wis– consin, La Crosse. In 1994, she will be featured in Poet's Market and will have a book of poetry published. 26 PSU Debra Harris MST, a health teacher at West Linn High School, recently received the Northwest District American As– sociation of Health, PE, Recrea– tion and Dance Meritorious Service Award. Harris was also named the Northwe t District PE Teacher of the Year and is one of six contenders for the Na– tional PETeacher of the Year award. Bill Plympton, a 1969 graduate of PSU who has been drawing cartoons since he wa a child living in Oregon City, has parlayed his skills into a successful career. And Plympton credits his time at PSU for some of that success. While earning a degree in graphic design, Plympton was involved with the PSU Film Ed Heger MBA is the managing director of Business Capital Source, an investment banking firm in Beavercreek, Ore. Elizabeth Heinson retired from the commercial art field in 1984 and has since been painting in oils, watercolors, acrylics and colored pencil. Committee. It was with the Committee that he produced his first animated film-a piece intended to be a trailer for another film. Unfortunately, the film was shot upside down and could not be used. (He recently had the film fixed and it is now on the "Plymptoons" cassette which contains all of his short works.) Immediately after graduation, Plympton moved to New York, where he has lived for the past two decades. Over the years he has produced commercials for clients such as Nutrasweet and Trivial Pursuit. MTV also uses his short animated pieces, which he calls "Plymptoons." In addition, Plympton has produced several short animated films. Your Face, a piece which he describes as "just different ways to distort the face, make fun of the face," won numerous awards and was nominated for the 1988 Academy Award for the best animated short film. Other productions include 25 Ways to Quit Smoking and How to Kiss. Plympton's first full-length film, The Tune, is about Del, a songwriter whose boss demands a smash hit song in 4 7 minutes or he's fired. On the way to meet his boss, Del gets lost and ends up in Flooby Nooby, a bizarre, musical town where objects change shape. There are 10 songs, each paying tribute to a different style of American popular music. After its release last fall, The Tune was praised by critics as "delightful, . . . inventive and witty" and "charm– ingly warped and irreverent." Plympton recently finished his second feature-length film,]. Lyle. Scheduled for release this fall , ] . Lyle combines live action with animation. Plympton's next project is a live-action film, The Guns ofClackamas, which he wrote and will produce and direct himself. It will be filmed in Oregon in July 1993. Ronald B. Parks has been a data processing professional since 1962. For 18 years he worked as a senior systems analyst for Caterpillar Tractor in Dallas, Ore., and then worked for 1 V2 years at the Oregon Department of Education. Parks is now employed by the Oregon Department of Corrections. Elizabeth Samson joined Bol– liger, Hampton & Tarlow's Portland office as a trial lawyer. Nadereh Taheri owns a flower shop and landscape design busi– ness in Mill Valley, Calif. Donna Wagner MUS is the director of educational research at the Beverly Foundation, a non-profit gerontological research and education organization in Pasadena, Calif. '79 Rodney Davis is the vice presi– dent of Congress Financial Corporation, a commercial lender specializing in asset-based financing. Kay Warner Monroe-Farrell has been promoted to com– pliance manager at Westamerica Bank, a community bank head– quartered in San Rafael, Calif. '80 Betty Fitzpatrick is the owner of Betty Fitzpatrick CPA, located in Albany, Ore. Jacquelan (Jackie) Harper was named membership services representative of the Portland/ Oregon Visitors Association. Ruth Graves Horley is a fifth grade teacher at Echo Shaw Elementary School in Cornelius, Ore. Horley also gives piano les– sons. Dipen Sinha Ph.D. is a physicist and project leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory in NewMexico. Sinha developed the Acoustic Resonance Spectroscopy (ARS) technique for chemical treaty verification and recently received the 1992 Popular Science award for his invention of the Acoustic Salmonella Detector.