PSU Magazine Winter 1989

Bel'er/_1· A. Davis Charles Lytle (Ph .D.) is office manager and senior chemist at PTI Environmental Services' new of– fice in Lake Oswego, Ore. PTI is a Bellevue . Wash ~based env iron– me ntal consulting firm whose mai n Oregon office fo;mer ly was located in Portland _ Michael Roley (BS) reports he has been promoted to assistant corpo– rate controller at Duncan Enter– prises in Fresno, Calif_ , a leading producer of hobby ceramics and hobby crafts products. '83 John C. Allen (MS ) re ports that he received the doctoral degree from Washin gton State Uni versi ty thi s past May. He is now an ass is– tant professor at the Uni versity of New Eng land in Biddefo rd . Maine_ Beverly A. Davis (BS ) has been named marketing manager fo r David Evans and Assoc iates. Inc. in Portl and . The fi rm provides en– g ineering and related consulting work from nine West Coast of– fi ces_ Nancy Molahan , CPA (BS ). cor– porate controller at Tuality Heal– thcare Inc . in Hill sboro, Ore., has been se lected to serve as the 1989-90 Port land c hapter presi– dent of the Ame rican Woman's Societ y of Cert ified Public Ac– cou ntants. She also recently began a twoyear te rm on the board of d irectors of the Oregon chapte r of the Hea lthca re Finan– cial Manageme nt Assoc iati o n. '84 Melinda Harris (BS ) repo rts she was recently appo inted payroll manager for Multnomah County, and is now responsible for meet– ing the payroll requirements of some 2,500 county employees . '85 Michelle Maynard (BS ), a sus– taining engineer at John F. Ken– nedy Space Center in Florida since 1988 , was one of 58 employees recentl y ho nored fo r their work at the nation's main launch and major landing site fo r NASA space shuttles. Christine McKay (MS) is new athletic director at Ontario, Hi gh School. She served as athletic di– rector of Wheeler Hig h School in Fossil , Ore_. for the past te n years. Sallie S. Olson (MT) has been promoted to tax manager at the Po rtl and office of the KPMG Peat, Marwick accounting firm. Lyn K. Schmidt (BA ). a sa les as– soc iate with Po rtland General Electri c Co., has been named a directoratl arge with Portl and Sales & Marketing Executi ves In – ternati onal. '86 David Benedict (MT) has been promoted to se ni or tax manager at the Touche Ross CPA firm- in Po rtl and. Jean-Pierre Fontenot (BA ) is the new producer of the Ron Still (Vanport) and Deb Janes evening talk shows heard over KGW (620- AM) radio in Portland . Amy Klare (BA ) has bee n ap– po inted as a new consumer member of the 'A Oregon Hea lth Services Comm iss ion- by Gov. Neil Goldschmidt. Her te rm ex– pires in 199 1. She is the research ed ucati on director for the Oregon AFLCTO in Salem. Mark Selid (MT) has been elec ted chief fin anc ial officer and treasure r of United Grain Corp . in Po rtl and. He former ly wo rked for Coopers & Lybrand in the ac– counting firm's Portl and office. Michelle Maw1ard '87 Jeff Shular (BS ) has been named manager of the Lombard-G ree ley branch of the Benj . Franklin Sav– ings & Loan Assn . in Portland . '88 David Kiersey (MBA) has jo ined the sales staff at the Sylvan office of the Farme rs In surance Group of Companies in Po rtl and _ He has held supervisory pos itio ns at Far– mers' regional office in Ti gard , Ore .. for the past five years . '89 Theresa Monteverdi (BS ). an adopted child who discovered her Siletz American Indi an he ritage onl y three years ago, has becon;e the first member of her tribe to enter med ical schoo l at Oregon Heal th Sciences University in Portland_ She hopes to become the first phys ician to work in he r tri be's yettobebuilt medical clini c. to help address tribal mem– bers· medical problems such as Sudden In fa nt Death Syndrome. S IDS c laimed the li fe of her in– fant son three years ago. Mean– while. she plans to raise he r two– year-old daughter, Lena . in the traditions of the Siletz people. Don Naggiar (BS ) directed thi s year's twohour hi stori ca l drama , "Journey to the Pac ific," as part of the summe r's Lewi s and Clark Pageant held in Seaside , Ore _The drama tell s the story of the Lewis and Clark Ex pediti on of 1805-06. Patrick D . Williams (BS) has joined the police department in the City of Saint Helens , Ore . , as a patrol officer. He is a forme r Big Sky Conference all -confer– ence center for the Montana State Uni versity football team during 1985-87. In Memoriam Edward F. Carbone ('64 BS), a Lake Oswego, Ore. , businessman and Italian honorary consul for Oregon, died Aug . 31 in a Tualatin hospital of complications from leukemia_ He was 46. Carbone worked in wholesale and retail mer– chandising and leasing for several companies. As Italian honorary consul , he represented the interests of Italian citizens in Oregon and as– sisted American tourists when they traveled to Italy. His fat her is Dr. George A. Carbone , professor emeritus of history at PSU. He is survived by hi s wife, two daughters, parents, twin sister and grandmother. The family suggests remembrances be contributions to the Meridian Park Hospital Medi – cal Foundation's cancer fund . Fred P. Yon Seggern III (' 68 BS ), a partner in the Oregon City-based CPA firm of Kent & Snow, died Aug. 17 in a Po11land hospital of heart disease . He was 46 and a U.S. Army veteran. Surviving are his wife , daughter, son and two sis– ters. The fa mily suggests that re– membrances be contributions to the Fred Yon Seggern Memorial Fund for the Oregon City Baseball Field. Dennis F. Evans ('73 BS ), a self– employed Portl and house remod– eler, died Sept. 9 in a Portland hos– pice of compli cations from ac– quired immune defic ie ncy syn– drome. He was 42. He is survived by hi s mother. fathe r and sister. James M. Taylor ('84 BS ), a reg– ional sales representati ve for Epson America, died Aug. 24 in a Tuala– tin , Ore _. hospital of complications from diabetes. He was 28 . Sur– vivors include his wife, parents, brother and sister. Memorial con– tributions may be made to the American Diabetes Assoc iation Inc. PSU 27