PSU Magazine Spring 2004

ALUM NOTES Susan Tingley is the volunteer recruiter coordinator for Ride Connection. She works with 31 partner agencies in Multnomah, Clackamas, Washington, and Clark counties recruiting people to volunteer as drivers, escorts, schedulers, and peer travelers. Kevin Walding works in export licensing for the Portland office of FUR Systems, lnc., a manu– facturer of thermal imaging sys– tems for night vision. Walding must work in accordance with U.S. regulations in international arms trafficking This is a new career for Walding, who was doing commodities trading and international trade finance for Australian and Japanese compa– nies. He lives in Warren. 97 Misayo "Mimi" Matsuda is a park ranger naturalist at Yellow– stone National Park for six to nine months of the year. She spends the remainder of the year in Portland working as a wildlife artist. She is best known for her trout and salmon art. Her work was featured at the My Opening Night Artist's Reception at the Mountain Park Recreation Center in January. Holly Hendricks MURP '01 is a paralegal in the real estate and corporate practice groups at the James Law Group in Portland. Hendricks also is the Portland Episcopal Diocese's representa– tive to the Legacy Health System board of directors. Masami Nishis hiba PhD '03 is an assistant professor in public administration at Portland State University ' Paula Carder is a policy devel– opment and research associate at NCB Development Corpora– tion in Washington, D.C. Carder provides policy and technical assistance to nonprofits and government agencies that An MBA with a Differenee 26 PSU MAGAZINE SPRING 2004 develop affordable assisted living. Donald King is a certified pub– lic accountant with Aldrich Kil– bride & Tarone, LLC, in Salem. King has been with the com– pany for four years and is a member of the tax team. Angela Niederloh won first place and $11,000 in the bien– nial Lieber Awards, adminis– tered by Portland Opera. A mezzo-soprano, Niederloh was also chosen as the audience favorite during the February competition, and offered an opera contract on the spot by Darren Woods, general director of the Fort Worth Opera. Niederloh is a Houston Grand Opera studio artist and co– founder and artistic director for the new Oregon Lyric Opera Association in Gresham. Stuart Silberman is in a doc– toral program at Argosy Univer– sity's Orange County campus in Orange, California. ln the fall he will be transferring to the llli– nois School of Professional Psy– chology for clinical and forensic psychology at Argosy University's Schaumburg, lllinois, campus. Dawn Smith MS is principal of Warm Springs Elementary School on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. In October she received the National Dis– tinguished Principals award for the state of Oregon at a cere– mony in Washington, D.C. The award is presented by the National Association of Elemen– tary Principals and the U.S. Department of Education. Jennifer Hurley MSW is a social worker with The Actors' Fund of America in Toluca Lake, California. Stacey Alexander is a project designer in the interiors depart– ment at Group Mackenzie, a Portland architecture and engineering firm. Robert Brown serves as the dis– bursing officer aboard the U.S.S. tailored to the flexibility in and For more program details: www.emba.pdx.edu emba@pdx.edu 503-725-4822 1-800-547-8887 ext 4822 Extended Studies