PSU Magazine Spring 2001

James "Jim" Underhill MPA '79 is board president for the Cyberschool Foundation in Edmonds, Washington. The foundation assists teenagers in their philanthropic work and provides assistance to educa– tional programs establishing dis– tance learning parmer hips to underserved communities. Kathleen "Kathy" Edwards MS is a training officer with Clackamas County Bank. Edwards is also a partner in Paulson Edwards and Associ– ates, a design and con ulting management training firm in Portland. Sharon Mowry is the chair of graduate studies in education at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. Gail Worden writes, "I am a regu latory analyst for LifeWise, a Premera Health Plan (Ore– gon-based) health in urance company. I also am a high school basketball official." Lilian Gafni has written a book of poetry, two novels, and most recently, a nonfiction book, Living a Blissful Marriage: 24 Steps to Happiness, published by Lifeline Publishing. She and her husband live in Southern California. William "Bill" Layton MS is principal at Monmouth Elementary School. He lives in Salem. William "Bill" Knowles MBA '91 is busines manager of the West Linn-Wilsonville chool district. Donna McCoy is a enior tech– nical recruiter with Symantec Corporation in Beaverton. McCoy is also erving as 2001 president of Portlandia Club Inc., a non-profit organization of professional women dedi– cated to mentoring and assisting women entering or re-entering the workforce. Stanley Chaffin is an occupa– tional nurse for Stoughton Trail– ers Inc. Chaffin writes, "Obtained a nursing license from Mercy College of Health Science in '96 ... Also cur– rently studying to take the spe– cialist certification examination from the American Board of Occupational Health Nurses." He lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Victor Leo MSW '82 is execu– tive director of the Asian/ Pacific American Consortium on Substance Abuse, a program focusing on addiction preven– tion in the Asian community. Leo formerly was with SOAR (Sponsors Organized to Assist Refugees). He lives in Portland. Susan (Stiger) Phipps MS '82 is a tudent teacher supervisor at Portland State. Herlene Benson MPA '94 is a research associate and coordina– tor of the Oregon Brain Bank at Oregon Health Sciences Uni– versity in Portland. Don Hundeby owns a travel business, C & D Travel, in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Laurel Hodnefield Young is a science teacher at Alice Ott Middle School in Portland. Janice Joyce is a senior grants spec ialist with the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C. Diane Luther MPA is executive director of Northwest Housing Alternatives, a nonprofit devel– oper of low-income housing, headquartered in Milwaukie. John Allen MS is director for the Center for Applied Rural Innovation at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Allen is also a professor of rural sociology in the department of agricultural economics and a professor of environmental sociology in the department of sociology. During the last two years he has been working with the Australian government on developing federal rural policy focused on sustainable agricu lture, commu– nity viabi lity, and social equity. HAT DO SIX RUSTY PUSH-MOWERS, a dilapidated rowboat, a headboard from an old bed, and a broken wooden ladder have in common? The salvaged junkyard items, along with other eclectic treasures, serve as trellises and lawn sculptures in the much acclaimed northeast Portland garden of Nancy Goldman '76. After working at PSU as an administrative assistant for 30 years, Goldman, 50, retired a year ago. Although she keeps coming back to help-most recently in the Office of Academic Affairs-she also seems to be forging a new career as a professional Anglophile and garden tour leader. Goldman, who is leading a 10-day garden and library tour of England in July, is creating a stir with her horticul– tural skills and her whimsical landscaping style. She was featured in Country Living Gardener and The Garden, a magazine of the Royal Horticulture Society. Goldman toured gardens in Ireland last summer before flying to Eng– land for the magazine interview. In five trips to England, Scotland, and Ireland, Gold– man has visited more than 100 gardens, many of them on magnificent estates. She's also led several garden tours of the British Isles and has been an apprentice at Cranborne Manor Gardens in Dorset. As a board member of PSU Friends of the Library, Goldman has organized several tours of faculty and staff gardens. This led to the development of this year's English Garden and Library Tour, offered in support of the friends. "Most gardeners are very avid readers, so I decided to combine both interests in a single tour," she says. PSU Library Director Tom Pfingsten is excited about the tour. "This was a bold move," he says. "Only Nancy had the experience and expertise to make this happen." Vice president of the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon, Goldman al o erves on several PSU committees. The "perennial" volunteer hopes to slow down after returning from the tour. "It will be great to actually get back to working in my own garden for a change," she says. Goldman can be reached by e-mail at brokenpots@yahoo.com . -John Rumler '90 SPRING 2001 PSU MAGAZINE 23