PSU Magazine Spring 2002

fi ve hours each week at Chico High, leading groups for special education students on anger management and constructive action kills and al o dealing with issues of los . . . and I found my birth mother this year! Bill Banaka and I recently celebrated our 24th anniversary. Life is good!" Muldoon live in Chico, California. lloba Odum MURP '83 is field office director with the State of Washington Department of Ecology in Vancouver, Wash– ington. Clint Vallie MBA is a mathe– matics teacher at cappoose H igh School. Vallie and his wife, Susan, have two children and live in Portland. Wendy Rader-Hopkins is a rat– ings analyst with Standard and Poor's public finance depart– ment in San Francisco. he pre– viously managed a public port district in Washington State for 10 years. Kathy Davis is director at the Think Link Discovery Mu eum in LaGrande, where her goal is to offer exhibits and proj ects that complement Union County's schools. Scott McKeown MBA is an attorney at McKeown & Brindle, P.C., in Portland. Robert Edmiston writes, "Recently married and returned to Portland after accepting a position as treasurer at Lennar Affordable Communities, Inc. Lennar is a leading developer of affordable housing throughout the U .S." William Weber is an oral and maxillo-facial urgeon practic– ing in midtown Manhattan. Weber was appointed assistant professor of oral and maxillo– facial surgery at th e Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York in 1991. He is active in all phases of his speciality, espe– cially facial trauma and recon– structi ve surgery. Weber lectures exten ively on these topic in chi country and abroad. He had numerous articles published and was editor of a volume on treatment of mandibular fracture in 1997. He is the medical director of his own outpatient surgical facility, the only one of its kind in New York C ity. John Weisensee MBA '96 is project manager in the re t development engineering group at Intel Corporati on's system manufacturing technology and development department in Hillsboro. Wei en.see write , "It's working our nicely and I'm using both my PSU BSME and MBA degrees." Laurie Cooper is a teacher, director of forensics, and fine arts department team leader at Woodburn High School in Woodburn . James Potter writes, "After 16 years working in industty, I have moved to the government sector as an engineering man– ager." Potter is geo/hydro unit manager for the Oregon Depart– ment of Transportation in Salem. Dwight Slade is a stand-up comedian. Slade has appeared in feature film and on national television and has opened con– certs for Jay Leno and Jerry Seinfeld. He lives in Portland . Finding a job in the Haystack J.D. Perkin exhibited his sculp– ture at The Laura Russo Gallery in Portland in April. He uses ceramics, sometimes incorporat– ing steel and wood, to create human and abstract fo rms. Perkin has exhibited his work since 1982. Recently his sculp– tures were featured at the Port– land International Airport, and in "Go Figure! The Human Form in Contemporary Art" at the Bush Barn in Salem. Arden Lorraine Ray MS '90 is owner, director, and educator of 4-way health at Upward Life– style, a holistic health organiza– tion in Tacoma, Washington. EN YEARS OF WORKING AT HOME as the mother of three taught Elizabeth Snyder '83 valuable kills. She learned to juggle multiple tasks at once, develop and maintain budgets, negotiate difficult situations, and handle crisis management. Now the Hay tack program' new coordinator, Snyder ha the opportunity to employ these talents in her job. Haystack is Portland State's ummer program in the arts and sciences offering week-long classes and work hop at Oregon' Cannon Beach. Snyder says Haystack offers top-notch education. "We have an excepti nally high quality program, but it's not snooty," she says. "We are so fortunate to have professionals who are not only great at their craft, but great teachers as well." Snyder believes one of her strongest abilities is forging common ground among peop le in order to attain specific goals without conflict. "You have to create a sense of mutual respect, confidence and trust," says Snyder. "Raising my kids he lped me to become resourceful in this area." After receiving her degree in anthropology as well as a certificate for teaching English as a econd language, Snyder took a position at the Portland Community College Refugee Program. She taught English a a econd language, con– ducted intake testing, and did volunteer work with refugee families. Then in 1988 Snyder's third child was born, while her ocher two were still under the age of three. She decided to stay at home. When he and her husband divorced 10 years later, Snyder set her ight on working again. Maggie Herrington, then Haystack' coordinator, needed an assistant and hired Snyder for 18 hours a week. Snyder saw the full cycle of the program, and when Her– rington left last fall, Snyder took over as coordinator. She is devoted to her new job and, with her children now in high school, nyder feels like the timing was just right. -Kelli Fields SPRING 2002 PSU MAGAZINE 23