PSU Magazine Spring 2003

Patrick Nofield is president and co-owner of Escape Lodg– ing Company, which recently announced the opening of its third hotel, the Ocean Lodge and Beach Bungalows, in Cannon Beach. '86 Thomas Highland retired from the Oregon Department of Avia– tion in June 2002. Highland and his wife, Gloria, live in Portland. Lucinda Sage-Midgorden MA Leaches drama at Buena High School in Sierra Vista, Arizona. '87 Randall "Randy"Wheeler is a certified management accoun– tant and the president of Pathfinder Metrics Corporation, a CMA firm in Moorpark, California. '88 Barton Delacy MURP is man– aging director al PGP Consult– ing, LLC, a subsidiary of PGP Valuation, Inc., a real estate appraisal firm. He is an MAI member of the appraisal insti– tute. Delacy serves on the advi– sory board of the PSU College of Urban and Public Affairs. Mark Sannes is network man– ager at PacifiCare Health Systems in Mercer Island , Washington. Cheryl Miller Wilson owns Whiz to Coho, an Internet ser– vice provider firm in Hillsboro. '89 Lois Anderson is legislative director for Oregon Right to Life. She writes, "After being bitten with the bug at PSU, I have never left politics. I spent 12 years going from one politi– cal Job to another. Now I have the perfect fit." Mark Boike MS '95 is on the biology facu lty al Clark College in Vancouver, Washington. Boike is a member of the Ameri– can Physiological Society and the Human Anatomy and Physi– ology Society. Brent Burket and his wife are working al La Clinica del Valle, a migrant community health clinic in southern Oregon. The two were missionary physicians with Mission Doctors Associa– tion in Ghana, West Africa, for the past two years. Burket writes, "We decided Lo return to the U.S. to start a family and are expecting our first child in May." Jess Fahland is president and owner of AKA Data Systems Company, a computer software systems firm in Portland. Kimberly Horenstein MS is a special education teacher at Sunnyside Elementary School in Portland. '90 Jim Bocci is marketing director for U.S. Marine Corps Commu– nity Services on the Hawaii island of Oahu. Mark Fuchs MBA is the general counsel at Louisiana Pacific Cor– poration. He formerly worked for Bullivam, Houser, Bailey defending companies on claims involving product liability, com– mercial transactions, and other areas. Fuchs lives in Portland. John Howland is a geologist at Parametrix, Inc., a consulting firm in Portland. Vincent O'Grady MIM is a public health educator at TODAY, Inc. O'Grady writes, "Married Wilawan Somruam– ch it, former member of the (Thailand) national volleyball team and accountant at the National Aviation Authority, on December 30, 2002, in Bangkok, Thailand." The couple live in Phoen ixvill e, Pennsylvania. Opera grad to star in Portland production I N THE WORLD OF OPERA, sopranos have the most arduous journey-the competition for roles is crowded and fierce. Fortunately soprano Kelley Nassief '89 pos- sesses the voice, intelli– gence, and pluck to make it. Come this fall , Portland audiences can see and hear for them– selves when Nassief will star in Portland Opera's production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. Nassief's big break came in 1995 after winning the Metropoli– tan Opera National Council Auditions and catching the attention of maestro Kun Masur. Masur engaged Nassief for several performances with the New York Philharmonic and the Gewandthausorchester in Leipzig, Germany "Masur is a musical genius who can take you farther than you thought you could go ," says Nassief. "One of my 24 PSU MAGAZlNE SPRING 2003 greatest experiences was to sing at the Mendelssohn sesquicentennial in a performance of Elijah under Masur in Leipzig. It was an incredible concert, and afterwards an older gentleman came up to the stage and gave us candles, which he said were for peace and understanding. lt was spontaneous and moving. " Nassief has sung with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Charles Dutoit and with the Boston Symphony at Tangle– wood under Seiji Ozawa. She has performed many operas on many stages, including Mozart's The Magic Flute with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and she recently learned the role of Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin for Opera National du Rhin in Strasbourg, France. Nassief and her husband, Mark Kimes '91 , MST '95 live on Long Island, where Kimes teaches choir at Kings Park High School and is commander of the New York National Guard Band. Nassief recently gave birth to twin girls. Yet Nassief intends to keep her career on track, starting this September when she sings the role of the Countess in Mozart's The Maniage of Figaro. "The Countess will make a perfect debut for Kelley," says Robert Bailey, retiring general director of Portland Opera. "She is gracious, elegant, and her lyric voice will be wonderful." "And my parents still live in Portland," adds Nassief. "They'll be a real help with the babies 1" -James Bash