PSU Magazine Winter 1993

Pamela Page Thayer MST is a computer consultant with the Washington State Department of Information Services. She lives in O lympia, Wash., with her husband, C liff Snyder, and their two sons. '72 Sharon Hobson-Cook MST has been a full-time guidance coun– selor at La Grande High School for the past 11 years. Sh e serves as a member of the leadership team designed to help guide the school through the changes necessary to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Stephen Gimbol, of Paulsen In– vestment Co., has accepted an appointment to the PSU Ad– visory Board as the committee's outside business community member. G imbol will help ad– vise President Judith Ramaley on University affairs involving PSU athletics. Bruce Korter has joined Capital Consultants, an investment firm, as vice president of real estate services. He is also a member of the PSU Foundation Board of Directors. Donald Mabry has joined Moss Adams, a regional accounting and consulting firm, as a com– pliance and operations auditor. Mabry will be a member of the company's financial institution service group in Portland. Robert Sande has opened his own certified public accounting firm in Milwaukie, O re. Former– ly with the law firm services division of Moss Adams, CPA's, Sande's new firm will continue to emphasize consulting with law firms and attorneys. '73 Gary Dominick MSW '77 has been appointed to the O regon Disabilities Commission by Gov. Barbara Roberts. Dominick is director of program services for the Easter Seal Society of O regon, and is a member of the PSU Alumni Board of Directors. 24 PSU Shabtay Levy is the pres ident of Levy Design, Inc. , a Portland company specializing in the design and production of science exhibits. Michael Richard has been appointed western regional manager for Auramo Inc., the U.S.-arm of Auramo ---~......,-· Cargo Systems Oy. Richard will be Portland– based and will coordinate sales and service of Auramo equip– ment through the firm's U.S. headquarters in Charleston, S.C. Ina Jane Wundram MA teaches anthropology at Oxford College of Emory University, a two-year liberal arts college east of A tlan– ta. She is currently on sabbatical studying Southeastern United States' archaeology. '74 Kenton Gillaspie is president– elect of the O regon Chapter of the International Association for Financial Planning. He is a partner at G illaspie & Wilkin– son, financial consultants in Beaverton. Raylene Goodwin has joined the marketing department of Matrix Communications Corp., as an account executive for Toshiba and Panasonic Products. She lives in C lack– amas, O re. Frank Holman MST retired six years ago after teaching music with Portland Public Schools for 30 years. Holman still directs four choirs at Rose C ity Park Methodist, plays violin with the Mt. Hood Pops, teaches in– strumental music at Trinity Lutheran, gives private violin les– sons, and sings in a mixed quar– tet with his wife. Jeff Luby, of G resham, has joined the voice and data branch of Electrical Construction Co., where he has worked since 1977, primarily on tenant electrical construction. He will now work to include telecommunication services in construction packages. '75 Kathryn Clarke MA has been named parliamentarian for the O regon Trial Lawyers Associa– tion. C larke has her own prac– tice in Portland. Diane (Stewart) Crane MST is the department chairperson of health and physical education, and also an instructor and coach at Centennial High School in G resham. Donald Crone MA, assoc iate professor of political science in international relations, has been appoint– ed dean of the faculty at Scripps College in C laremont, Calif. Scripps College is an inde– pendent, liberal arts institution for women and a member of the C laremont Colleges. Crone joined the faculty in 1989. He and his wife, Nuket Kardam, li ve in C laremont with their son, Timur. Elaine Lowe MSW is a soc ial worker in the Home Health & Hospice program at Swedish Hospital & Med ical Center in Seattle. G. Kenneth Phillips MBA has joined the firm of Baldwin & Associates, Inc., a Bellevue– based private investment bank– ing firm. He is also the founder and director of Enterprise Bank in Bellevue. Ellen Steen '82 MBA is a vice president with the O regon chap– ter of the International Assoc ia– tion for Financial Planning. She lives in Beaverton. Julius Wilkerson has been elected treasurer of the Kidney Association of O regon Inc. Wilkerson, who li ves in New– berg, is a broker for Investment Management and Research. '76 Linda Gettmann, of Colton, O re., has been elected president of the Portland chapter of Finan– cial Women International. Douglas Soesbe MA has publish– ed his second novel, Scream Play, for Charter/Diamond Press and has been hired to write a suspense/thriller feature movie for producer Pierre David. Last year he wrote a C BS television movie, "My Stepdaughter, My Killer," that has not been produced yet. Soesbe lives in Los Angeles. '77 Jon Feigion has been elected secretary of Comstock Northwest Inc., a new firm offer– ing land surveying, mapping and water rights services. Feigion lives in A loha. '78 John Colasurdo has been elected president of the Multnomah Dental Society. Colasurdo's practice is in downtown Portland . W. Howard Janin MBA is in the process of opening a motor– cycle and all-terrain vehicle dealership in Canon C ity, Colo. Janin says he is excited to put into practice the skills he learned in the MBA program at PSU. Dennis Peterson MBA has been elected president of the Portland chapter of Tax Executives Institute Inc. Barbara Portwood has joined the Portland geotechnica l and environmental firm of Applied Geotechnology Inc., as a project manager. Portwood is a geologist. Linda Ronayne writes that she is the owner and operator of Kumon Math Center in Van– couver, Wash. She has been mar– ried to Mark Ronayne for 23 years, and they have six children, two of whom attend PSU. Chosho Shikina is an assistant professor of Japanese at George Fox College in Newberg.