PSU Magazine Spring 1998

James Westhusing is the execu– tive director at Pacific Rim amp for the Arts, an arts education fac ility in Seattle. '83 Sandy Ammerman is a self– employed vocational consultant and return-to-work specialist at Sandra Ammerman & Associates in Portland . Miles Brandon is the owner and operator of Capistrano Volkswagen in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. Previously Brandon was general manager of C ity Chevrolet Volkswagen in San Diego. Kathi Ketcheson MPA, PhD '96 is the acting director in the Office of Institutional Research and Planning at Portland tate University. Matthew Madeira is pres ident of the Madeira-Cooper Insurance agency in Oregon C ity. Dave Milbrandt is co-owner of Twin C ity Auto Sales Inc. , deal– ership in Kelso, Wash. Virginia Vanture MS is the enior service coordinator at Portland Community College. '84 Nancy Hedrick i the commer– cial manager and CPA with Currie & McLain PS, a public accounting firm in Vancouver, Wa h. Linda Pardun MS '95 is a K-12 special education teacher with the Bering Strait School District in Unalakleet, Alaska. '85 Jeanine Copperstone is a self– employed attorney practicing in Gilbert, Ariz. Nez Hallett III is president of Smart Wireless, a retail wireless communications firm in Portland . Randall Jones MS '87 is a vice president at Holt & Haugh Inc. , a land development, design, and 26 PSU MAGAZINE SPRING 1998 investment company in Portland . DeeAnn Lindsley is the chief financial officer with K-C International Ltd., an interna– tional brokerage firm in Portland. Dennis Phelan i a manager at Baugh Construction O regon, a Beaverton-based firm. Gina Triplett is a second-grade teacher. Triplett is married, has three chil lren, and lives in Kalama, Wash. '86 Jeremy Egolf is a senior space– craft thermal engineer at Space Systems/Loral, a satellites busi– ne s in Palo Alto, Calif. Lisa Couch Gambee MBA '95 is owner of Gambee Hammons Creative Inc., an advertising and graphic design firm in Portland. Gambee writes, "My husband and I are just finishing building a vacation house using straw bale construction." Their daughter, C lara, was born in March. Michael Garey is the director of human resources at Somnus Medical Technologies in Hercules, Calif. Garey completed a master's degree in human resources in 1997 at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. Jill Lee is a paralegal at Bullivant Houser Bailey Pendergrass & Hoffman in Portland. Steven Marshall MPA '97 is an in tructor at Portland Community College. Gerald Sagen is the as i rant manager at Parkway Bowl, a bowling and recreation center in El Cajon, Calif. Patrick Scott MST is the head women's basketball coach and assistant football coach at McKay High School in Salem. '87 Allen Aldrich MBA is the government affairs director at Sn homish County PUD in Everett, Wash. Deborah Gutfleisch Michaels i the director of development for the Hawaii Opera Theatre, an opera production and educa– tion fac ility in Honolulu. Beverly Phillips is the chil– dren's services supervisor for the McMinnville Public Library. Eric Price is president of Apex Industries, a Portland manufac– turer of spec ialized plastic prod– ucts for the micro-electronics and chemical manufacturing industries. Janice "Jan" Woodruff MBA i the director of marketing and communications at PSU. Woodruff formerly was a marketing consultant and a vice president of marketing and account manager at Bardsley & Neidhart Inc. She lives in Portland. '88 Jacqueline Carey-Webb MSW is a medica l social worker with Visiting Nurses Association, a home health care agency in Kalamazoo, Mich. P. Barton DeLacy MURP is principal of Columbia Consulting Group Inc., a Portland fi rm specializing in commercial real estate valua– tion, client counseling, litiga– tion support, ad valorem taxes, and eminent domain. Del acy has been named an affiliate of Valuation International Ltd., a company comprised of 40 local market experts in commercial real estate valuation. He also erves a vice president of the Portland Council of St. Vincent de Paul, a nonprofit organiza– tion providing emergency services. Ben Gardner is the regional manager for Turtle Wax Inc. , a car wash and auto appearance company. Gardner lives in Wheaton, Ill. Rhonda Garvin is the coordina– tor at the G ladstone Senior Center. Carole Hallett is the site coor– dinator for the Bonney Butte Raptor Project, a raptor migra– tion study. Hallett lives in Hillsboro. Tyece Okamura M i a midd le school counselor with Portland Public Schools. Michael Watson is manager of the architectural division at Pacific Architectural Products, a commercial exterior wa ll systems firm in Portland. '89 Linda Boise PhD is the care– giver re earch program director for Legacy Health System in Portland . Catherine Kuntz Nelson is the head women's volleyball coach at the University of Oregon. Nelson formerly was head coach at PSU. Jane Peters PhD is owner of Re earch Into Action Inc., a market research company in Portland . Elizabeth Waldham is the team leader of phlebotomy at O regon Medical Laboratories, a clinical laboratory in Eugene. Cheryl Williams is a senior eva luator with the U.S. General Accounting Office, the congres– sional auditing agency. William lives in Portland . '90 Sharron Duncan Chinchen MS is a sixth-grade teacher at G ilbert Heights Elementary School in Portland. Chinchen lives in Gresham. Pamela Ann Morris is the graphic arts department coord i– nator at the Portland Art Museum. Morris acted a exhi– bition coordinator for the International Print Exhibition 1997, which included 450 print by arti ts from 70 countries around the world. Julia Satter i materials manager at OPTEC Inc., a sy tem integrator company in Portland. Michael Weidlich is a library and med ia specialist with the Hill b ro chool District. Weidlich lives in Portland.