PSU Magazine Spring 2005
ALUM NOTES Dan Manassau is a senior financial analyst for Lockheed Manin in Sunnyvale, California. He was appointed by the League of Women Voters to the Measure B Citizens Watchdog Commiuee for Santa Clara County. Manas– sau and his wife, Michelle, took a trip LO six countries last sum– mer for their 30th anniversary. Scott Parker remains the unof– ficial chess champion at Back– space Gallery in Portland. His photo can be seen at www.back– space.bz/images! TournamenLslscott _chess.jpg. Parker can be reached by email at scolt_asp2003@ yahoo.com . He is also a recog– nized analyst of T. S. Eliot's cata– lyst theory of literary criticism. William "Bill" Plympton, Port– land cartoonist, was nominated for an Oscar in March for his animated film, Guard Dog. This is the second Academy Award nomination for Plympton. His film , Your Face, was nominated in the same category in 1987. William "Trey" Taylor was chosen by Esquire magazine in December as one of "America's Best and Brightest: 39 Visionar– ies, Rebels, & Leaders." He is president and co-founder of Verdant Power, a company that harvests electricity from under– water turbines. The company has been awarded $1.5 million by the state of New York to begin tapping the tidal energy of the East River between Queens and Roosevelt Island. Percy Woods is a systems ana– lyst for University of Eastern New Mexico. He writes, "My wife, Georgia, and I lived on a houseboat in north Portland until last summer, but decided New Mexico offered a better climate i.n many ways. We had been in Roswell in the early 1990s and decided then LO retire here, although we do miss our friends in 'Puddle City."' Paul Hildenbrand is with the Wyoming Department of 22 PSU MAGAZINE SPRING 2005 Environmental Quality Water Quality Division in Cheyenne. Hildenbrand is responsible for all petroleum contamination remediation projects and new facility storage tank inspections in the southeast portion of the state. Margaret Carter was elected president pro tempore of the Oregon Senate in January. Can er has served in the Oregon Senate since 2001 and previ– ously served seven sessions in the state House of Representa– tives. She is a past president and chief executive officer of the Urban League of Portland . Tom Clodfelter retired from the Portland branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco after 31 years of service. He lives in Beaverton. Eileen Fligg MS '77 is a third– grade teacher with Reynolds School District. Fligg has been teaching for 30 years. Her hus– band, Robert Fligg '71 , is con– troller al Al Angelo Company in Vancouver, Washiagton. They live in Troutdale. Jack Monteith is managing partner at Chinook Capital Management in Portland. Gregory Blake (formerly Gre– gory Blake Krimer) is a wine consultant for Renaissance Vine– yard and Winery in Oregon House, California. Blake says that after graduation, he worked a short time with the federal government, then spent many years working in the electronics field. In 1993, he went to Russia on a religious mission , married a Russian woman, and now serves as a freelance Russian translator. Marlene Gaskins retired in ovember following 30 years in law enforcement. Gaskins was the first female patrol deputy when she was hired in Washing– ton County in 1978 and went on to become the first woman field training officer; the first woman assigned Lo the drug, property crimes and ch ild abuse units; and the first and on ly woman elected president of the Washington County Police Offi– cers Association. She plans LO work pan time in a bridal shop and spend time traveling and learning to scuba dive. Mary "M.J. " Anderson is a sculptor living in Nehalem. She typically sculpts in granite and marble and travels LO Italy once a year to pursue her craft. One of her pieces, The Vital Nature of Man , was sculpted for a show in Germany six years ago, then was shipped back for display at a show in Lake Oswego, and now can be viewed in Man– zanita at Howell's 3rd Street Square. Rosanna Bowles is a dinner– ware designer and owns a store, Rosanna, in Seattle. Bowles created a dish collection that includes a plate for almost every special occasion. Her dishes are also distributed through national retailers such as Tully's, rate & Barrel, and Pottery Barn. Harold Rogers is coordinator of the Safe Drinking Water Act Program with the U.S. Environ– mental Protection Agency in Portland. Rogers has worked in the drinking water program for Oregon since 1978. Randy Houston was one of 10 people recently selected for the 2004 International Towing and Recovery Hall of Fame and Museum located in Chat– tanooga, Tennessee. He is owner of Randy's Towing in Okanogan and Wenatchee, Washington. The Washington Tow Truck Association named him Tow Operator of the Year in 1993 and he received the president's award in 2000. Judy Beebe MBA is a member of the Marion and Polk Schools Credit Union board of directors. Beebe is an adjunct professor at Chemeketa Community College and al Western Oregon Univer– sity. She was vice president of finance at Kaiser Permanente Federal Credit Union in Pasadena, California, and chief financial officer al ORCO State Employees Federal Credit Union in Orange, California. She lives in Sublimity. Karen King is director of col– lege relations information systems at Reed College in Portland. Richard Marty MS '83 is pluto– nium soils manager and his wife, usan Evans '83, MS '86, is off-sites manager with the Stoller-Navarro Joint Venture in Las Vegas, Nevada. The ven ture, a team of five companies, is pro– viding environmental engineer– ing services in the restoration of historic nuclear weapon test sites in Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Mississippi , and Alaska. Jim Cady is president and chief executive officer at LightPoime Communications, Inc. , in San Diego. Marshall Gannett MS is a hydrologist with the U.S. Geo– logical Survey, water resources division, in Portland. Christine Hess is chief of staff to Alaska State Rep. Reggie Joule. Mark Byrnes is senior environ– mental scientist at Fluor Han– ford in Richland, Washington. Milana Robben MS '04 is a school counselor at St. Mary of the Valley in Beaverton and an adjunct professor at Warner Pacific College, where she teaches human development. Robben has raised six children and her counseling interests lie
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