PSU Magazine Spring 1999

Keith Eisele MST, MBA '78 is the technology coordinator for the Reynolds School District. Eisele held a similar position with the G resham-Barlow School District. '72 Joan E. Berry MS '73 is direc– tor of alternative education at the Placer County Office of Education in Auburn, Calif. Eric Egland is the national sales manager at Lifeline First Aid , LLC, in Portland. Anita H amm MA '75 is an instructor at C lark College in Vancouver, Wash. Kathy Marshack is a psycholo– gist specializing in psychother– apy and fami ly/business consultation. Marshack is the author of Entrepreneurial Couples: Making It Work at Work and at Home published by Davies-Black Publishing, Palo Alto, Calif., in 1998. Marian Mayfield-Hill is a jazz singer with Paradise Cru ise Line in Honolulu. Corinne Spiegel MS '95 is the inclusion specialist for Jewish Family and Child Service, a Portland agency furnishing support and information for families or individuals with disabilities. Spiegel also provides in-service training on AD/HD for school districts throughout O regon and Washington. '73 Thom Armstrong MA '8 1 represented PSU at the inaugu– ration of Steadman Upham as president of Claremont Graduate University, C laremont, Calif., in March. Armstrong is vice president of instruction at Citrus College in G lendora, Calif. Garry H ays is a designated broker with RE/MAX Executives, a real estate firm in Portland. Carolyn Tomei MSW is mayor of the city of Milwaukie. Michael Richard is the north– west regional manager for Long Reach/Brudi/Rol Life, a Houston-based firm that distrib– utes material hand ling attach– ments. Richard travels throughout Oregon, Washing– ton, Alaska, and the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. '74 Rebecca (Willer) Long is the ch ief financial officer at Exterior Home Improvement, a general contracting firm in Lincoln City. Long writes "Currently, I am working on my master's in business at George Fox University." Deborah "Debbie" Walleri is a teacher at Barnette Elementary School in Fairbanks, Alaska. She earned a master's degree from Western Oregon State University. Eric Werner is a station agent and time keeper for Tri-Met, the public transportation system in Portland. '75 Gayle Austin MSW is a social worker with the Department of Social & Health Services Division of Chi ldren and Fami ly Services. The agency hand les adoptions for Whidbey Island and the San Juan Islands in Washington. Dr. Mark Boswell is an associ– ate professor of anesthesiology and chief of pain service at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Med icine in Cleveland, Ohio. After completing his degree at PSU, he earned his PhD and MD at CWRU. Boswell writes, "Looking back.. .I can say unequivocally that PSU provided terrific preparation for my subsequent training." Catherine (Feeley) Dennison is a commercial real estate broker living in Natick, Mass. Ellen Steen MBA '82 is the marketing manager with AFDI, Anita Witt MSW '75 had an idea for a ~ germinating in her head; winning an Oregon Institute of Literary Arts award will allow it to flower. The money will pay for a better computer, but even more important, the award has increased her confidence. "Somebody up there thinks it'J a worth– while project," she says, "somebody who doesn't know me personally." Witt's book, based on hell~ child– hood, shows life in the Th~ through the eyes of a half~child. Combining personal me with mater- ial culled from taped in~ with her mother, it will interest any who wants a wholly-owned subsidiary of Allstate Life. Steen telecom– mutes to Chicago from her home in Portland . Nancy (Marquis) Waltz has started a CPA practice in Houston. Waltz was a legal administrator for 14 years. She writes,"... my dream was to start my own accounting prac– tice one day ... I raised two chil– dren as a single mom and did not have time to study, but as soon as my youngest son was gone ... I studied and passed the CPA exam within a year." '76 Terry Amato is proprietor of Amato Communications in Lake Oswego. Gary Bartholomew is the tax accounting supervisor with the Multnomah County Division of Assessment and Taxation. Bartholomew lives in Portland. to know how ordinary~ J;ehaved during this horrific time in wond history. "Vast numbers floated bdWeen being victims and being perpetrat<n--some became Nazis, others su.-vi'VM by silence," Witt says. "A lot of peopl" l)ilped us, same dropped ~ Uke hotcakes. has conducted a private practice in her Portland home since 1978. "It's very satisfy– ing to see people make something more of their lives," she says. Witt was the only meml>er of her imme– diate falailv to leave Germany. She went to live wjijl~ in Oiic;ago in 1947 and eamedaJ.A:; .t ~University of Chicago. After~ and r8ising her children, Witt to school for her MSW, and Being a therapist has changed Witt's view of family relationships and, she believes, made her a more astute writer. Her work has been published in two literary journals, Tamaqua and OtheT Voices, and in Tantania on Tuesday, an anthology of works by American women. -B. Blossom Ashmun SPRING 1999 PSU MAGAZINE 21