PSU Magazine Spring 2000

,...... ___________ -- - David Swanson is director of college development at Warner Pacific College in Portland. Swanson and his wife, Eunice '98, live in Beaverton. '87 David Buettner is a shareholder at Dilorenzo, Hess & Company, a Beaverton CPA firm. Buettner manages the accounting and audit practice and has been with the company eight years. Steven Coon is a hardware manager with Intel, a computer and electron ics corporation. Coon lives in Beaverton. Patricia Drake is a senior envi– ronmental engineer at Freightliner Corporation in Portland. Gail Dundas is a senior community relations specialist at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro. Dundas is immediate past president of the Public Relations Society, Portland chapter, board of directors. Tom Griffith is senior vice president and CFO at Columbia Cred it Union in Vancouver, Washington. Margaret Reynolds MS is an occupational therapist with Olsten Health Services, a home health care provider in Tacoma, Washington. '88 Colleen Atherton is a relation– ship manager at MarketFitz, Inc., a Portland marketing firm. Bennett Hall is a business reporter and editor for the Gazette-Times in Corvallis. Hall has been with the newspaper since 1996, and formerly was managing editor of The Business News in Eugene. While at PSU, he was the Vanguard editor. '89 Craig Gilbert has joined the PSU Alumni Board of Directors. Gilbert is security supervisor at LSI Logic in Gresham. 24 P U MAGAZINE SPRING 1999 Lisa Massena is vice president of marketing at mPower, a provider of online retirement investment advice. Massena formerly was co-founder and principal at Arnerich, Massena & Associates in Portland. Dr. Theresa Monteverdi is a treatment coordinator with the Native American Rehabilita– tion Association (NARA), a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program in Portland. Bergen Peterson MBA is vice president of information tech– nology services and C IO for Columbia Credit Union. Bergen previously was communications and business development manager for Assessment Training Institute. She lives in Vancouver, Washington. Michael Rath is commercial group controller at SLC Technologies, Inc., in Tualatin. Jon Savidge is a business systems analyst with Fred Meyer, Inc., in Portland. '90 Ken Hart is director of opera– tions with the American Red Cross Oregon Trail Chapter. Hart previously was assistant director of housing operations for the city of Portland. He and his wife, Sheila, and their two children live in Milwaukie. Rick Hohnbaum MPA is the Falls City city manager. Hohnbaum previously worked for United Parcel Service for 18 years and served as city manager in Irrigon, as well as interim city administrator in Scappoose. Blake Patsy is an engineer at kpff Consulting Engineers in Portland. Daniel Withers is regional account manager with Hu-Friedy Medical, a surgical instruments manufacturer. Withers lives in Phoenix, Arizona. '91 Jeffrey Duerr MS is an assis– tant professor of biology at George Fox University in Newberg. Kathleen McGregor MAT is a Spanish instructor at Columbia Gorge Community College. McGregor lives in Hood River. Kurt Van Orden is a sales representative for LeDuc Packaging. Van Orden lives in Vancouver, Washington. '92 Jim Ford is vice president of sales at Rogue Ales in Newport. Ford formerly was the national sales manager at Widmer Brothers Brewing Company. Kathy Hudson Kerns is a vendor contract manager (employee benefits) for Weyerhaeuser, a forest products firm in Tacoma, Washington. Alex Melkomukov provides technical services for Navi.net (GCN Communications), an Internet service provider. Melkomukov lives in Portland. Joseph Schneider is an officer with the Bend Police Department. Schneider previ– ously was a Multnomah County deputy sheriff. Rev. Bryan White is the minis– ter at Washougal United Methodist Church in Washougal, Washington. '93 Shareefah Abdullah is the media relations manager at the American Heart Association, Northwest Affi liate. He lives in Vancouver, Washington. Anne Anderson MS is a project manager with Structural Systems Consulting Engineers in Portland. Anderson's experi– ence includes building design, retrofit, and investigation work. She lives in Vancouver, Washington. Mark Conachan is art director with HMH Advertising & Public Relations in Portland. Mel Fuentes is a plan consu l– tant at Cascade Pension Services, L.L.P, a retirement plan administration firm in Portland. Fuentes formerly was a senior consultant for employee benefits at Deloitte & Touche. '94 Cheryl Grochau MBA is the wealth track operations supervi– sor with Copper Mountain Trust. Grochau lives in Troutdale. Mary Klick MAT teaches Spanish at West Linn High School. Klick previously taught in Estacada, Lake Oswego, and Tigard. Roberta Pfingsten is a payroll accounting supervisor with Vancouver School District 37. Pfingsten lives in Battle Ground, Washington. Christopher Virnig i president and owner of Vimig, Inc., a mobile automotive painting firm in Gresham. Ted Young is an equipment engineer at Wacker Siltronic Corporation in Portland. '95 Cynthia Thia (LaMarche) Gavioli is a registered financial associate with A.G. Edwards & Sons in Portland. Gavioli writes that she has been married to Douglas Gavioli for three years and formerly was an English as a second language teacher. Marc Kottler is a special educa– tion teacher with the Yamhill Education Service District. Kottler lives in Tualatin. Mei Lee is a financial and accounting analyst at Standard Insurance Company in Portland. Charlene Mashia MT left her position as property accountant at PacifiCorp to start her own ethnic talent agency, Brown Sugar & Spice Talent Management. The agency has established a niche in helping to cast Asian, black, and Hispanic models for local and national companies. Mashia lives in Portland. David Minato is a corrections deputy with the Multnomah County Sheriffs Office. Minato lives in Portland.