PSU Magazine Winter 1993

Jody Paddack has been elected president, Reba Arnold '88 a vice president, Linda Olinger '88 director-at-large, and Nancy Hays '90 treasurer of the Port– land-affiliate of the American Women's Society of Certified Public Accountants. Paddack is controller at Pierce Pacific Manufacturing, and Arnold and O linger are accountants at Price Waterhouse in Portland. '83 Herbert Beals MA, of Gladstone, Ore., presented a paper, "Precursors of Malaspina, New Light on the Spanish Voyages to the Northwest Coast, 1775-1779" at an international conference celebrating the 200th anniversary of explora– tions made by Spaniard Alexandro Malaspina. Beals' translations of Spanish journals have been published by the Oregon Historical Society. Larry Bell, a real estate broker, has been named assistant manager for the Tigard branch of The Lutz Snyder Co. Gloria Luzader came from Mid– land, Ore., to attend PSU Weekend on Nov. 13 and 14. She said, it was "a wonderful day. The lunch was great!" Janice Mathern MBA and Donald Riggs have been promoted to senior managers at the Portland office of Deloitte & Touche. Nancy Molahan has been elected president-elect of the Oregon chapter of the Health– care Financial Management Association. Molahan lives in Portland and works for T uality Health Care. Carol (Ochsner) Odium has for the past two years worked as a freelancer editing, designing and typesetting books about music. Her first major editing project, Saturday Afternoons at the Old Met, by Paul Jackson, has been published by Amadeus Press. 26PSU '84 Michelle Braulick '86 MT, of Portland, has been elected presi– dent of the Institute of Manage– ment Accountants. Sonja Hopson MS has been a library-media specialist for Battle Ground, Wash., School District since completing her studies at PSU. Lisa Marsh has been performing classical piano duets (one piano, two players) with friend, Ginger Whalen '88. They have given concerts at University of Portland, Artquake, and at the PSU Brown Bag Concert series. The duo are scheduled to per– form at the Aladdin Theater on Jan. 30, 4 p.m. Andrea Miles MSW has been named regional representative to the National Health Promotion Institute of the National Coun– cil on Aging. Miles is director of a program for older adu lts at Providence Mental Health and Addictions Services, and lives in Vancouver, Wash. Jayne Scott has been the execu– tive director of the Beaverton Arts Commis– sion since 1986.She serves on a number of community organizations as a volunteer and is working towards her MPA at Portland State. '85 Debbie Bishop, of Portland, writes that she became the direc– tor of compensation and employee benefits at Southwest Washington Medical Center in April 1992. Frank DiGregorio M.D. has completed his residency in pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical Center and is now on staff at Portland Adventist' Cascade Park Pediatric clinic in Vancouver, Wash. Sallie Olson MT has been named vice president for employee benefit administration at Pacific Northwest Trust Co. in Portland. She was previously with KPMG Peat Marwick. '86 Michael Bean MT has been elected secretary of the Portland chapter of Tax Executives Institute Inc. Bean works at Precision Castparts. Jean-Pierre Fontenot is a radio talk show host and producer for KXLYNews 92 AM in Spokane, which broadcasts throughout western Montana, northeastern Oregon, Idaho, eastern Washington and parts of British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. Among the shows he hosts are a series of"how-to" programs, a top-rated lawn and garden show, and a home improvement show. He anticipates having his lawn and garden show syndicated soon. Fontenot credits his "education at PSU as well as many of the valuable contacts made there in keeping my career as well as personal pursuits inter– esting and successful." Jules Michel MBA is the general manager of Northwest Micro, in Beaverton, a company which custom builds and sells high per– formance, high reliability com– puters to business and government agencies. Northon Rodrigues is a software porting engineer at Analogy Inc., a Beaverton company which specia lizes in high-tech– nology design and simu lation tools. Li D. Xu PhD is an associate professor of information systems at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He is also an honorary research professor at Research Center of Economic, Technical and Social Develop– ment of the State Council. '87 Kari Carlson has joined Sedgwick James of Oregon Inc., an insurance brokerage house in Portland, as an account execu– tive. Mikel Cole has been promoted to captain while serving with Marine Aircraft Group-24, !st Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Marine Corps Air Station, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. Dwight Knapp, of Gresham, has been promoted to director of accounting at Forum Properties Inc. Jack Koopman , of Kent, Wash., has been appointed the senior estimator for the newly formed Foss Environmental Services Corporation, a division of the Foss Maritime Corporation. Foss Maritime is a JOO-year-old Pacific Northwest Company which provides Tug and Barge Services throughout the West Coast. Teleia Maher graduated in June from Marylhurst College with a master's in art therapy. She did her internship at Indian Health Service at Chemawa in Salem, Ore. Maher lives in Hillsboro. '88 James C. Betty Ill, a Navy lieutenant, has been designated a naval flight officer while serv– ing with Training Squadron-31, Naval Air Station, Corpus Chris– ti, Texas. He was presented with the "Wings of Gold," which mark the culmination of 18 months of flight training. Bradley Domenighini has been promoted to senior accountant at the accounting firm of Geffen Mesher & Co. in Portland. Kevin Engelbert is in product development design and manufacturing consulting for Stratos Product Development Group in Seattle. Engelbert has been elected to a four-year term on the board ofNorthcon, the Northwest's largest electronic trade show and convention, and is the vice president of the Electronic Manufacturer's As– sociation. He lives in Everett, Wash., with his wife and two children. Sylvia Gray Kaplan '91 MA is teaching history as an adjunct facu lty member at Marylhurst College and Portland Com– munity College.