PSU Magazine Spring 2000

Compiled by M yma Duray '62 '60 Art Bervin writes, "After 35 years of post-secondary teach- Dr. Bill Scharwatt is an ing, 29 of them at Linn-Benton endodontist with Endodontic Community College, I retired in Associates in Portland. June 1999. My agenda for the Scharwatt lives in Lake Oswego. future includes some part-time teaching and mentoring, '61 gardening, reading, writing, playing in a community orches- tra, and traveling. My first Dr. David Durfee is an assistant major trip will be to Senegal to clinical professor of ophthalmol- visit my daughter Kathryn, a ogy at Oregon Health Sciences missionary there." University and a practicing ophthalmologist in Portland. '65 Durfee will present "The Rise and Fall of PPMCs: An Insiders Brother Elia, formerly Frank Perspective" at an Eye Care in Beaver, lives in a community in the New Millennium Latrun, Israel, and is a member Symposium at the University of of the Brotherhood of Jesus. Missouri-Kansas City in May. The path from PSU's Engineering School to Intel's corporate headquarters is nothing but solid state for the Hotchkiss family. Loren Hotchkiss '69 and his wife, Martha Hotchkiss '72, have seen three children graduate from the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Their last, Paul Hotchkiss '00, will finish in June. All are employed by the local high-tech giant. All alumni and almost all computer science engineers, the Hotchkiss family is a PSU family. Pictured here back row (left to right) Chris, Loren, and Paul; front row Deanna, Martha, and Michelle. 20 PSU MAGAZINE SPRING 2000 Brother Elia also practices the health care consultant and as ancient art of iconography, assistant for social services for creating religious icons for former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt. veneration and worship. She lives in Lake Oswego and continues to volunteer for '66 American Field Service and the Portland Sister City program. Ron MacKay retired after work- ing 32 years for General Electric, '68 most recently serving as area sales manager. MacKay is also a Marv Slifman i a PCB designer retired Army Reserve lieutenant with Celestica Oregon, an elec- colonel. He lives in Hillsboro. tronics manufacturing firm in Janice Yaden traveled to Milwaukie. Istanbul, Turkey, to assist the '69 relief agency, Mercy Corps International, following the aftermath of the two 1999 earth- Rex Amos is an artist whose quakes. Yaden speaks Turkish collage and chine colle works and served as liaison between were exhibited in a show titled government officials and other "lnaccroachable" at the nonprofit organizations. Now Cannon Beach Gallery in retired, she formerly worked as a January. Deanna Hotchkiss Agostinelli '88 and Michelle Hotchkiss Sunderland '91 work in the same microproces– sor circuit design group at Intel, while brother Loren "Chris" Hotchkiss '94 checks their work in quality and reliability. Paul, interning in microprocessor circuit design, hopes to join Intel full-time after graduation. Loren, owner of a software development and consulting company, and Martha, a former math and history teacher at St. Mary's Academy, encouraged their children early on to pursue opportunities in the expanding field of engineer– ing. Consequently, all four children took calculus classes at PSU while still in high school. "Math was never my favorite class-Paul and I have always been into art. But, we realized that you have to get through the math to reach its creative applications, like circuit design," says Deanna. "And having so many older and nontraditional classmates at PSU, many of whom already knew how to use the lab equipment, challenged us to excel." Deanna and Michelle also tout the benefits of engineer– ing for women-equitable pay and working with cutting edge technology. Botlo\ actively network with other women engineers at Intel, who constitute less than 20 percent of the vocation's workforce. Hotchkiss family members, residing in northwest Portland, still make time for one another outside of work. Yearly vacations now include Michelle's children, who are five and three, Deanna's toddler, and Chris's baby boy– none of whom are ever likely to confuse an engineer with someone who drives a train. -] . David Santen '99