PSU Magazine Winter 1997

Michael Elkins is a senior accounting analyst at Freightliner Corporation in Portland. Elkins has been employed with Freightliner for 19 years. Christopher Gniewosz is branch manager of Analysts International Corporation (AiC ) in Portland. AiC is an interna– tional computer software consulting company. Stephen Jenkins is president of Assist, a company he estab– lished in 1996 to help small and med ium-sized businesses with sales training and motivation of their employees. Jenkins lives in Portland. Richard Lund MST and his wife, Linda Lund '83, repre– sented PSU President Judith Ramaley at the inauguration of Rev. John Joseph Shea as presi– dent of John Carroll University in C leve land, Ohio, on September 27, 1996. James Nicolarsen is a senior commercial lines underwriter with Safeco Insurance Company. Nicolarsen lives in O regon C ity. Robert Wright is a systems engineer with Lockheed Martin Corporation, a computer corpo– ration. Wright has been with the company 18 years and lives in Eagan, Minn. '78 Michael Pace was promoted to lieutenant with the Portland Police Department in June. Pace joined the department in 1983 and has worked in several precincts and on a number of special projects. For the past year he was assigned to the personnel department and has been acting lieutenant. Gregson Parker is founder and owner of Forensic Accounting Services in Portland. The firm 's services include litigation support, insurance claims analy– sis, fra ud investigation, tax 24 PSU MAGAZINE WINTER 1997 audit defense work, and business appraisals. Patricia Tierney-Berger is manager of marketing commu– nications for The Laughlin Group of Companies, Laughlin Insurance Services, which markets insurance packages to banks nationwide. Tierney– Berger lives in Beaverton. Maureen Zehendner MA '91 is an archaeological laboratory director with Archaeological Investigations Northwest in Portland . '79 Beverly Annala and her husband operate Annala O rchards, an apple and pear orchard in Hood Ri ver. Diane Humphrey Barsa is the assistant director of the Hermitage, a national historical and state museum in HoHoKus, N .J. Barsa also is an instructor of archaeology for the G ifted Child Society. Corry Cooper is a liaison engi– neering manager at Freightliner in Portland. Cooper also works evenings and weekends in his family-owned business, Cooper's Au to Service and S.C.S. Auto Part . Susan Schmidt MPA '88 is the supervisor for emergency admit– ting at Prov idence Medical Center in Portland. '80 James "Jim" McKay is director and product engineering at C-Cube Microsystems Inc., in Milpitas, Calif. C-Cube is the leading prov ider of digital video semiconductor solutions, which implement international standards for digital video. '81 Shoshana Blauer-Miller MA is the quality improvement coor– d inator at Southwest Washing– ton Med ical Center in Vancouver, Wash. Blauer-Miller is responsible for teaching statistical process control and methods of continuous improvement to hospital personnel. She is also a fac ilita- tor for improvement teams in clinical and operational areas. Blauer-Miller and her family plan to li ve in Costa Rica in 1998-99, where her husband , Stephen Miller '88, will teach school, and she will attend the University of Costa Rica. Mark Moffenbier is the director of development for the Earle A. Chiles Research lnstitute's Cancer Research Program at Providence Portland Medical Center. Moffenbier previously had 17-years experience in the banking industry. Reynold "Dale" Richwine MS '92 is the Pacific Northwest wastewater manager at Mont– gomery Watson, an environ– mental engineering company in Portland. Richwine has over 23-years experience in the plan– ning, design, operations, and management of water and wastewater treatment fac ilities. He also is an adjunct professor in the electrical engineering department at PSU . Janice Rutherford MA received her PhD in history at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in August. Rutherford worked in historic preservation in O regon and Washington during the 1970s and '80s. After moving to Louisiana, she headed two museum associa– tions and taught historic preser– vation courses before matriculating at LSU. She lives in Atlanta. Aeylin Summers MST '87, EdD '94 is the principal at Parkrose Middle School. Summers formerly was an assis– tant principal at G resham High. She is the mother of two sons and lives in Portland. Terry Van Allen MS, MPA '88, PhD '94 testified in a U.S. congressional hearing on a bill to create jobs and businesses in low-income areas. The bill is entitled "Saving our Children: American Renewal Communities Act of 1996." Van Allen was an expert witness on "Enterprise Zones," a key component of the bill. He is director of research initiatives at the University of Houston– C lear Lake. His book, entitled The Impact of Enterpi·ise Zones on Employment, was nominated in 1996 as an "outstanding scholarly book in higher educa– tion" by the Templeton Foundation. Leonard Vuylsteke is the direc– tor of financial services for the Archdiocese of Portland. Vuylsteke will direct invest– ments, parish savings and loan programs, and the retirement plan for clergy. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts and the Treasury Management Association. '82 Mark Matthews is chief tribal prosecutor for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Matthews also supervises a victim's assistance program and a tribal juvenile coordinator's office. He lives in Madras. '83 Keren Brown-Wilson PhD is president and CEO of Ass isted Living Concepts, a small company that prov ides services for the elderly. Brown-Wilson lives in C lackamas. Mark Clink is the inspector general with the Oregon Army National Guard in Salem. Marc Gonzales is the director of finance for C lackamas County. Gonzales lives in Portland . Marianne McGee is the volun– teer connection manager in the Department of Human Services for C lackamas County. McGee lives in Portland. Daniel Peters is a sales repre– sentative with Jostens, a company which handles gradua– tion materials. Peters writes, "I survived leukemia through a bone marrow transplant in 1990." He lives in Portland . Steven Reed MS is the new vice principal at Rogue River Middle School in Rogue River. Reed has been in education for 17 years, most recently with the Seaside School District. He and his wife, Marianne, have nine children between the ages of 15-20. Seven are adopted.