PSU Magazine Winter 1995

'87 Lynn Beadl ing has been named business development officer for the Government Guaranteed Lending Center of Bank of America O regon in Portland . T he center spec ializes in govern– ment-a isted loans for O regon small bu ine e -. Pam Christianson MS is a speech and language pathologist for the Ketchikan , Ala ka, School District and also has a private practice. hristi anson and her husband have two ons. Dave Ferguson is an in pector for the U.S. C ustoms ervice in Portland and is a miii tary police captain in the U.. Army Reserve. Charles Johnson is a med iator for the state of Arizona Attorney General's Office in Yuma. Rae LaMarche MA wa elected as Springfie ld T eacher of the Year in September. (She wa · O regon' Foreign Language T eacher of the Year in 1989.) LaMarche is a Spanish instructor at Thurston High . John Mead is the assistant librari an at the O regon Histori – cal Society. Mead recently returned from C hicago, where he was a librarian II at the hicago Public Library. Gary R. Miller is an analytical chemist at National Chem Lab in Ephrata, Wash. Miller's article entitled "Thiourea Stabi lization of S il ver Ion Solu– tion · Against Precipitation by Light and C hloride Ion for Atomic Ab orption Analysi " was publi hed in the October ed ition of Spectroscopy magazine. R . Michael Mitchell MS '90 is the market plann ing project manager for Kaiser Permanente in Po rtland . Allen R egnier is a switchboard operator with The regonian newspaper in Portland. Barbara Stanbro, B '92, MSW '94 is a birthparent clinician at Boys and G irls Aid ociety in Portland, working with women 26 PSU Magazi ne planning adoption. tanbro also is a mental health therapist at the Garlington Center. Anne Duvauchelle Van H olde M is th e coordinator of non– credit programming and com– muni ty services at Western O regon State College. Van Holde formerl y taught in the phy ica l activity department at O regon rate University. '88 Carole Jane Engel is the recep– tion/internal marketing coor– dinator at Perkins & Company in Portland. Connie Fleck M is a counselor at Valley atholic High chool in Portland. Jeff Kozimo r MBA has been promoted to centra l O regon branch manager with Provi– dence Health Pl ans and will launch the HMO Good Hea lth Plan for the central O regon market. Kozimor has been with the o rganization seven yea rs. T ara D anette O ldham is a professional fashion model for Elite C hicago in Illinois. Markus O stendorp M ' 9, PhD '92 is a research engi neer in the research center of verdrup T echnology I ca red in Haslet, T exas. Scott P atterson has been promoted to senior manager in the aud it department of Deloitte & T ouche in Portland . Robin Rilette is a mu ic director at Northwest Public Radi o, a six- ration network in Pullman , Wa,h. Rilette hosts a morning cla ica l music show. andra Sanders received her MBA from DePaul University and is a vice president at Harris Bank in Chicago. W . Lance Siebler is senior accounta nt with Lew is & Associates in Portland. Yolanda Valdes-Rementeria is an arti t, as well as a Spanish and art teacher at Catl in Gabel hooL Her work was on exhibit in G re ·ham during October, as part of a tribute to National Hispanic Heritage Month . Thomas Zimmer is a physical education and computer teacher at Yelm Middle chool in Washington. Zimmer rece ived his MAT from Pacific University following employment with ike and the As ociation for Portland Progress. '89 Patricia Bishop MBA i- presi– dent of Merit Development Inc., and serves as general manager of EastRidge Business Park, a 90- acre mixed use busines · park in northeast C lark Counry, Wa h. T odd Burkholder earned his masters in geograph y from the University of Arizona. Burkholder is a writer and copy edi tor at Word mi th ervices. He also works for the Portland Departmenr of T ransportati on, doing GIS analysis for planning of bicycle path network · and other projects. C ris Corcoran MFA is a blown– gla s artist who creates vases, perfume bottles, and C hristmas ornaments. Corcoran' open studio is located in Troutdale, and she welcomes visitors. [ JOSE MESA AUTO WHOLESALE ] "The mobile auto dealer who is always in your neighborhood." 503·789·0438 Portland Fax 503•284·2292 New • Used • Buy • Sell • Trades • Consignments PSU Graduate 1992 Mark Dillner has joined afegards, a division of the Inter– national Atomic Energy Agen – cy, as a program manager. Dillner and his wife, Jeanne '85, will li ve in Vienna, Austria. Kristin Hundeby Felde was elected teacher of the year for Battle Ground School District in 1994. Felde is an elementary school teacher and education technica l coordinator. Kathleen Flanagan MS practice at Flanagan Counseling Servi e in Fore t Grove. Flanagan writes that he travels to Ireland every year to give workshops and fac ilita[e therapy groups on the topic of"overcoming shame." Rif H affa r MBA 90 has been named director of new city development for Electric Lightwave in Vancouver. Electric Lightwave builds and operates all -digital, fiber-optic telecommunications networks. Shalas Hughes is a new asso– ciate attorney at G iacomini & Kniep in Klamath Falls. Hughes will be pecializing in elder law, family law, and tran actional law. Duncan Macfarlane PhD is an associate professor at the Univer– sity of Texas at Dallas. MacFarlane's wife, Aimee, gave birth to a baby boy in Jul y. Elizabeth Ann (Lepry) Leach is an admini trative a sistant with the Rhode Island lean Water Finance Agency in Cranston, R. I. Kelley N assief appeared at the Debut T our annual concert at the Omak Performing Arts Cen – ter in Washington. Nassief, a sopra!\o, was the winner of an annual audition sponsored by the Ladies Musica l C lub of Seattl e. Nas ief is a voice teacher in t. Helens. William L. icolay EdD is prin ipal at Eleano r Roosevelt Elementary School in Vancouver, Wash. Stephanie Rickert is executive d irector of a non-profit agency, O ld McDonald's Farm, in Cor– bett. The agency's objective i to allow "at risk" children an oppor– tunity to experience animal and agricultu ra l husbandry in a hands-on farm setting.