PSU Magazine Winter 1997

Dean L. Wallace, general manager of the Courthouse Athletic C lubs of Salem, was awarded the Willard Marshall Outstanding Citizen award for 1996 by the city of Salem. He erves on the board of directors for the Boys and Girls Club, Chemeketa Community College, Character Counts and is in charge of Salem's Riverfront Park development. While at PSU, he was a pitcher for the Vikings baseball team and in 1968 pitched an entire 17-inning game against Puget Sound, winning 3-2. Wallace also pitched for the San Francisco Giants. '70 Brenda Lee Gale Chapa is an ESL instructor for the Defense Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Chapa writes that her husband, Oscar, has learned English, is attending junior college, and recently became a U.S. citizen. Gregory Wallwork and his wife, Nancy, are owners of the Wild Bird Nest, a retail store for bird lovers. Wallwork was the chief operating and financial officer for Electronic Controls Design Inc., prior to his retire– ment in 1995. The Wallworks live in O regon C ity. David Yaden is director of policy and planning at Tri -Met. Yaden li ves in Lake Oswego. '71 Kevin Mulligan is president and owner of Mulligan Media Management, a consultation firm pecializing in sports programming, marketing, and sales. Mulligan formerly was chief operating officer of Sports Byline U A in San Francisco. He li ves in Portland . Richard Pettigrew MBA '72 is president of Bodell Precision Manufacturing, a manufacturer of precision parts in Portland. Ardys A. Turska is a medical assistan t, receptionist, and nutritionist with the Mist Medical Center in Mist. Theodore "Ted" Weitman is the human resources operating manager with James River Corporation, a paper and pulp manufacturer in Halsey. '72 William "Bill" Korach MST, EdD '96 is the Lake Oswego School District superintendent. His wife, Rachel "Ricky" Korach MS '86, EdD '96, is the language arts department chair and a teacher at Lake Oswego High School. The Korachs succe sfully defended their dissertations on the same evening last May. H.W. "Skip" Kriz is senior vice president and chief financial officer at Peace Health, a health care agency in Bellevue, Wash. Kriz has been employed with the firm for 22 years. Joan C. Olson MS is an assis– tant professor at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. Olson has been with the university nine years. Paul Winquist owns Commercial Satellite, a private cable telev ision company in Las Vega , Nev. Dianne Yuckert has been selected as principal of St. Therese School in Portland. Yuckert formerly was the fifth grade teacher and vice principal. '73 Paul Berg MST '81 is the Head of School at the American Community School in London, England . Berg has been working abroad for the past 11 year in international education. Jill Boyle is vice pre ident of human resources with ONYX Software Corporation in Bellevue, Wash. ONYX was voted the "most promising new software company in Washington in 1996" by the Washington Software Association. Brian Lee Cone is inorganic lab upervisor at O regon Analytical Laboratory, an environmental laboratory in Beaverton. Basko Kante is an auditor with the O regon Department of Tran portation in Portland . Linda Kerlin is director of account planning and research at Young & Roehr, an advertis– ing and public relations company in Portland. Kerlin was formerly with Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising in Los Angeles. '74 Marilyn Newman Mcfarlane is a travel writer, but her newest book, Sacred My ths: Stories of World Religions (Sibyl Publications) delves into the world of mythologies and spiritual tradi– tions. Created for children (ages 10 and up) Sacred Myths retells the main stories of seven world religions. Each story is illus– trated by Robert Selby '70. Mcfarlane says she was inspired to write the book because she could find nothing like it for her 10 grandchildren. Susan McNaught MA is an assistant professor of management in the contin– uing educa– tion department at George Fox University in Newberg. McNaught formerly served as the director of Technology Access for Life Needs, a feder– ally funded program that helps people with disabilities obtain ass istive technology. Gretchen Yost MS is executive director of The Arc of Multnomah County. Yost received the Arc's National Professional of the Year Award in November. The award recog– nizes an individual employed in community mental retardation services whose work results in increased independence fo r clients. '75 Dorothy Lundberg Abelson M W is a social worker and has her own practice in Eugene. Jay Brandon was named presi– dent of Tektronix Canada Inc., in Weston, Ontario. Brandon formerly was the director of business development for the color printing and imaging divi– sion in Wilsonville. Clark Harmon is president and owner of U.S. Fiberglass Inc., in McMinnville. The company, which manufactures fiberglass greenhouses and products, recently opened a new manu– facturing plant in Missouri. Rebecca Ogden is an alterna– tive program instructor at C lackamas Community College. Ogden lives in Gresham and has taught in the high school setting, in community colleges, and in the business sector. '76 Elaine Blair MS is the director of health education and promo– tion with the Spokane County Health District in Spokane, Wash. Jon Ruth MBA is manager of loss control services with Wausau Insurance in San Francisco. Ruth and his wife, Susan, have been married for 27 years and have two daughters. '77 Elaine Armstrong MS is a special education teacher with the Evergreen School District in Vancouver, Wash. Mark Bird teaches business at lone High School in eastern O regon. Bird prev iously taught in Polk County and in the Salem-Keizer School District. He enjoys athletics, the outdoors, and reading. Artelia "Tia" Dorsey is the vice president of human resources for Blue Cross anJ Blue Shield of O regon/HMO O regon in Portland . Dorsey oversees salary, benefi ts and working conditions issues for more than 2,300 employees. She is also a board member of the Black Colleges Committee. WINTER 1997 PSU MAGAZINE 23