PSU Magazine Winter 1993

Wendy Lee MT has been elected treasurer of the Northwest Regional China Council. Lee is a tax manager for KPMG Peat Marwick and lives in Portland. Ron Parsons is a program specialist at St. Joseph's Indian School in Chamberlain, S.D. The 65-year-old school educates 200 Indian students from first through eighth grade. Parsons, origina lly from Portland, now lives in Pukwana, in south central South Dakota. He en– courages alumni in the area to contact him at the school, (605) 934-3490. Kirk Warner has joined Squier Associates Inc., a geotechnical and geoenv ironmental consu lt– ing firm in Lake Oswego, as a project management. '89 Krystal Ashling MSW is a social worker at Bess Kaiser Hospital in Portland, where she provides consultation and supervision for social work departments at nurs– ing homes. She is also vice pre i– dent of the PSU Graduate School of Social Work Alumni Association. Lee Baker is conducting disserta– tion research at Harvard Univer– sity. His studies focus on the "role American anthropology has played in the socia l construc– tion of race." Baker presently lives in Philadelphia, Penn., but hopes to return to the Pacific Northwest when finished with his research. Lex Brown, a Navy first lieutenant, has been designated a naval aviator and was presented with the "Wings of Gold" after flight training at the Naval Air Station Chase Field in Beeville, Texas. Brown, who joined the Marine Corps in May of 1989, recently reported for duty with Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron-101, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Corps Air Station, in El Toro, Calif. Earnestine Cellestine joined the board of directors of The Gar– lington Center for N/NE Com– munity Mental Health Inc. Cellestine manages the central processing unit for the Portland branch of Safeco Insurance Co. Jean Dalrymple-Feigion, of Aloha, Ore., has been elected treasurer of Comstock Northwest Inc., a new firm offer– ing land surveying, mapping and water rights services. Michael Dehner graduated from Northwestern School of Law in 1992. After passing the bar examination, Dehner formed a partnership with Robert Fishman in Portland. Samuel du Plessis, of Portland, has been appointed to the State Mortuary and Cemetery Board by Gov. Barbara Roberts. Ou Plessis is an accountant at Portland tare University and a member of the National As ocia– tion of Black Accountants. Cathy O'Gorman MBA has joined MGM Pictures as vice president of creative advertising. Previously she worked with Fat– tal & Collins, a subsidiary of Grey Advertising Agency. She is working on advertising for the upcoming movies "Body of Evidence," and "Untamed Heart," and in the past has worked on ad campaigns for "Dances With Wolves," "Little Man Tate," "Sleeping With the Enemy," and others. She and her husband live in Los Angeles. John Porter MT has been promoted to senior manager at the Portland office of Oeloitte & Touche. Richard Spece stud ied clarinet in Oetmold, West Germany, for a year and is currently studying under Professor B. McColl at the University of Washington. Richard married Ava Brenneman Spece '90 in September I990. Janet Taylor is the president of the Oregon Women's Political Caucus, which is dedicated to helping elect women to office. She concentrates on recruiting women to run for office, raising money to elect them, and promoting a women's agenda in the Legislature. '90 Carmen Costan has been promoted to operations super– visor of language serv ices with the Multnomah Cou nty Hea lth Department. Rose Hill has been appointed ethnic student relations advisor in the PSU Office of Student Affairs. She will work to keep ethnic students in school by providing counseling and referral services. Hill is chairman of the board American Indian Associa– tion of Portland (AIAP) and was honored at a recent alumni gathering of United Indian Stu– dents in Higher Education. William J. Hoar, former PSU student body president, writes that he has joined the training staff of Disability Rights Educa– tion and Defense Fund Inc., a national law and policy center focused on civil rights law and policy for persons with dis– abilitie . He provides training and technical assistance on the Americans With Disabilities Act for federal agencies, state and local governments, and private sector interests and consumers. Hoar li ves in Salem, Ore. Mary Silver works for the State of Oregon in the executive department. Kathy Trautman has been promoted to senior accountant at the accounring firm of Geffen Mesher & Co. in Portland. '91 Jennifer Buxton is a global positioning system specia list with Trimble Navigation Ltd., in Sunnyvale, Calif. 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