PSU Magazine Winter 1995

Dona H aws is director of ac– counting anJ admini tration for Kampe Assoc iates Inc., a civil engineering and land surveying firm in Lake Oswego. B.J. Seymo ur MA is a social worker/psychotherapist in Pon lanJ . eymour counsels cross-dressers anJ m hers with genJer idemi ty issue . Ellen Wax MURP '92 has joined the city of PortlanJ Planning Bureau as a city planner. Wax will work on a variety of projects, including d1e PSU University District amendments to the Portland Central C ity Plan. '83 Lloyd Hammel is a brewery rep– resem ari ve fo r Full Sa il Brewing Company in Po rtland . Brenda Meltebeke has jo ined the busine group with the law firm of Ater W ynne Hewitt Dodson & Skerritt in Po rtland . David Stoudt is general manager at C ustom tamping and Manufac turing in Portland. '84 Anna Black M W is case management coordinator for Project Network at Legacy Hospita l in Portland. Black works with African Ame rican women in the treatment of d rug and alcoho l abuse. C had Ellis is di rector of Zi a W ell ness Services in Co lumbia, MJ. Ell is created this agency to proviJe nursing services to group homes serving J evelopmentall y disabled adu lts. '85 Mark C hilds MBA has founded Integrated Facility Services in Lake Oswego. IFS provides com– prehemi ve industrial services to indu,,trial space user . Jane Langley MA is li ving and teaching in S itka, Alaska. C hristina (Jarvis) Miller MBA is pmgram coordinator/research at the Un iversity of G eorgia at Athens. Mi ller has a fou r-year– o ld daughter. Paul J. White '8 1 has had a co lorful caree r as an Oxford stud en t, music ian , curaror, teacher, maker of reproducti Lm im truments, and wine taster and buyer-a genuine Renais– ance man . The Corne lius native is back in Oregon with experi ences from around th e globe. White earned a bac helor's degree in music from PSU. It wa:. an interest in the bassoon and baroque music (he was a fo unding member of th e Portl and Baroque O rchestra in 198 l ) that led him to Oxford Uni ve rsity in pursuit of 17th century music and period instruments. While a doc tora l stud ent at xford, he researched and built reproduction bassoons from historica l mode ls and sold them to Norman "Butch" Pribbanow is an attorney for Tri -Met respo n– sible for emuring the agency complies with the Americans with Di·abil ities Act. Pribbanow was among severa l speaker· at the Lower Columbia Ri ver Region Focu o n Abil ity conference in September. G ina Triplett is a primary blenJ te;1cher at Kalama Elementary School in Washington . Robert Walker b mvne r of Cof– fee a n Lures in Lake Oswego. Walker manufac tures and Ji - tributes prawn spinner useJ for attrac ting spring chi nook. '86 Randy Bossert is program ser– vice conrdinator for American Field ervice in Portland. Bossert is respo nsible for sending and placemem of fo reign exchange high school students. Peter Coons is cost management information system manager m Kaiser Permanente Hea lth Plan in Portland. T odd H a rding hm, been nameJ a v ice president of HarJing Fletcher Company, a northwest mortgage hanking firm with offi ces in O regon, Washington, and Ca li fornia. Robert Jaffe MS, PhD '88 is an academic coorJinator anJ in ·tructor in the J epartment of electrica l engineering and applied physics at the O regon Graduate In titute of cience and Techno logy. George Vance M has heen a high school teacher with the G resham School District for 13 years. Daniel Weigand rece ived his PhD from the Un iversity of North Texas and will be a sen ior lectu rer in the department of ph y-ica l education, sport and leisure at De Momfort Uni ver– sity in Bedford, Engla nd . Kurt Winchell is a hea lth a nd phys ica l educarion teacher at North Medford High chool. Winchell spends his summers working as an entertainer fo r professional basehall teams. profess iona l music ians. He a lso pl ayed with baroque o rche tras th roughout Europe, inc luding the Academy of Ancient Mu ic and the orwegian Baroque O rches tra . "It was at Oxford that I became involved in competiti ve wine ta ting," say · White, whose affinit y for wine began in O regon . The only Ameri can in the 40-year-n ld O xford – Cambridge blind wine tasting competition , White captained Oxford 's team fo r several yea r in the late 1980s. "As a capta in and coach ," he says, "I am partic ularl y proud of my ahility to transform nov ice tasters into experts within th eir first season of competition. " S ince then, White has tasted wines around the wo rld, and his expertise has led to wine wri ting, buying, and judging as well. White says hi · experience at Oxford a llowed him to educate hi · palate and to learn how to taste wine ohj ec ti\'cl y "and with a globa l perspec tive." White likens O regon's wine industry to that of New Zea land , where he recently ·pent eight munths. Bo th New Zea land and O regon are growing grapes in a relative ly coo l climate, and both are trying to develop a homegrown market in a non-traditiona l wine drinking audience, while managing export growth . He cla ims that O regon and New Zea land win es arc more Eu ropean in sty le than those made in Ca li forni a and o ther ho tter reg ions. Wh;it's nex t fo r the 15-year-olJ White? For this Ren a i ~sance man, combining his two loves of teaching music and making wine in O regon would be a dream come true. 0 W INTER 1995 ZS