PSU Magazine Spring 1999

'96 Sylvain Bonnaud MBA is the marketing manager at Duo Industries, a manufacturer of exhibit display products in New York. Adriana Ionescu is a personnel technician at Freightliner Corporation in Portland . Robert McKenna MPH is a manager with Merck & Company, Inc. He coordinates liaison activities with arthritis– and pain-focused academic, scientific, and health policy research centers. He writes, "This position is, in my opin– ion, a direct result of the knowl– edge and experience of health policy and administrat ion that I gained through the MPH program." Mary "Susi" Neblock MS '98 is a special education teacher at Frontier Junior High School in Vancouver, Wash. '97 Dori Brattain is a law student at the Willamette College of Law in Salem. Timothy Cibula MPA is an administrator at O regon Health Sciences University in Portland . Robert Donnelly MA is a doctoral student in American history at Marquette University in Milwaukee. Jason Franklin MURP is a senior project coord inator at Pacific Rim Resources, a public affairs, planning, and communi– cations firm in Portland. He recentl y became a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Daniel Kwok is a senior buyer with the Port of Portland . Timothy Ng is a programmer analyst with Freightliner Corporation in Portland. Christa Read MSW is a child deve lopment spec ialist with the G resham-Barlow School District in Gresham. Jana Rowley is a project coordi– nator for the Commission on Children, Families, and Communities in Portland . Donna Rusch MSW is a lieu– tenant commissioner with the U.S. Department of Public Health and Human Services. Rusch lives in Germantown, Md. ventilation and air conditioning firm in Portland . Eric Swanson MM is a percus– sion instructor at the Southwest Music School. Swanson also is a percussionist in the Rose C ity Chamber O rchestra and in the Vancouver Symphony O rchestra. Susan Manning MEd is a science teacher at Hazelbrook Middle School in Tualatin. Paula St. James is an account executive at Dolphin Radio, Inc., in Astoria. Christopher Winters is a soft– ware engineer at Nortel Networks in Billerica, Mass. Scott Ruplin MSW is a mental health specialist II at Mt. Hood Mental Health, a therapy clinic in Portland. '99 Randy Ealy MPA is the city recorder in Wheeler. Ealy previ– ously worked for Metro and was a legislative aide to Senator Brady Adams '69. D '98 Lioudmila Semenova MBA is a financ ial adviser at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, a broker– age firm in Portland. ABC Bronson Graff is a design assis– tant at BOORA Architects, Inc., in Portland. G raff will be working on the expansion and renovation of the Cheney Cowles Museum in Spokane. He served as vice president for the American Institute of Architecture Students Portland State chapter. ALUMNI BENEFIT CARD YOUR PASS TO PSU CALL 725-4948 FOR DETAILS Christine "Chrissy" Horne MS is a fifth-grade teacher at William Walker Elementary School in Portland. ASERVICE OF YOUR PSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION James Klee is a sales engineer with Veris Industries, a heating, Susan Lee MPA '96 has a passion for bridges-six of them to be exact. The Sauvie Island, Broadway, Burnside, Morrison, Hawthorne, and Sellwood bridges, which span the Williamette River in Portland, are maintained by Lee's employer, Multnomah County. "Most people don't know that these bridges are culturally significant land– marks," says Lee. "Each is an example of a different type of bridge construction and most are over 70 years old. We basically have a working bridge museum here in Portland," she says. It is Lee's job to represent the funding needs of these bridges and other county transportation and land use planning projects before the Oregon Legislature. Lee was promoted last year to public affairs coordinator in the county's new Public Affairs Office. Since 1995, she has served as a transportation analyst and as an intergovernmental relations and public information officer for the county. At the same time, Lee has been pursuing a doctor– ate in public administration and policy at Portland State. "All this from a teen parent, high school dropout, and former welfare mother," says the 30-year-old Lee, who has a 13-year-old son. The chal– lenges that came with mother– hood at 17 may have slowed down the school and career climb for Lee, but not by much. By the time she was 26, she had earned a bachelor's degree in human resource management from George Fox University. She went right into the master's program in public administration at Portland State while working as a senior council analyst for Metro. Today she is co– teaching classes in Public Bureaucracy and Transportation Decision Making at PSU as she earns her doctorate. -K. Kirkland. ' 4 SPRING 1999 PSU MAGAZINE 25