PSU Magazine Winter 1998

'68 Louanne Harrington is an associate vice president at Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., a fu ll– service securities business. Harrington lives in Eagle, Idaho. '69 Toni Martinazzi MAT '75 has written and published her second book, The Eurico Martinazzi Story: from Pavia to Portland. Martinazzi formerly was a librarian at Grant High School in Portland for six years. In 1980 she joined the American Hiking Society and participated in its Hikanation, a 13-month backpack trip from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. She lives in G lenview, Ill. '70 Kimberly Hjelt is president and consultant at Hjelt Enterprises Inc., in Vancouver, Wash. Hj elt provides services in publishing, writing, and editing. She formerly was the editor at Kenneth Hagin Ministries and taught part time at Tulsa Junior College in Tulsa, Okla. Larry Huget MBA '7 1 is presi– dent of the metals group of Walt Curtis '72, longtime Portland writer known as Oregon's unofficial poet laureate, is enjoying something of an artistic renaissance since the summer launch of his new book, Mala Noche & Other "Illegal" Adventures. Newspapers in New York, San Francisco, Seattle and elsewhere have published highly favorable reviews of the book. On Nov. 7, Curtis appeared as one of four guests on National Public Radio's Michael Feldman show, "Whad' Ya Know?", taped at a sold-out Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland and broadcast nationally the next day. Last summer, the Mark Woolley Gallery in downtown Portland showed Curtis' brightly colored, erotic paint– ings. An hour-long "performance" film about him, "The Peckemeck Poet," by New York filmmaker Bill Plympton '69, premiered at the Portland Art Museum in August. Mala Noche (Bad Night), the title story of this candid collection of true- life stories, essays and poems, is the tale of a skid row grocery clerk whose unrequited love for a Mexican youth drives him to desperate extremes. The story was the inspiration for director Gus Van Sant's award-winning first feature film. Curtis is a founder of the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission and the winner of the 1991 Stewart Holbrook Award for significant contribution to Oregon literature. He has read with such beat generation giants as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Ken Kesey. Mala Noche is published by BridgeCity Books, a Portland publishing company. 22 PSU MAGAZINE WINTER 1998 ESCO Corporation in Portland . Huger has been with the company since 1972 and formerly was president of Bucyrus Blades, a subsid iary of ESCO. He lives in Portland. '71 James Bisio is a CPA at Ford Black & Company in Portland. Bisio and his wife, Susan '85, live in Portland. Kathleen Chambers is a profes– sor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. David Chapin is an engineer with Westec America, an engineering firm in Tigard. Jim Corso is the general manager of sales for the steel distribution division of ESCO. Corso is a 25-year employee and formerly was general manager of ESCO Northwest. He lives in Portland. Krista Fischer is the regional speakers' bureau coordinator of the Western Insurance Informat ion Service, serving Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. Fischer is a licensed property and casualty agent and is the 1997-98 vice president of the National Association of Insurance Women (Region IX). She lives in Portland. '72 Janis Johnson-Tonneson is owner of Rocky Point Marina, a boat moorage and marina in Portland. Rubie (Johnson) Sanborn is a broker with West Coast Yachts in Seattle, Wash. '73 Richard Farance is vice presi– dent of operations for Reio Action, an employee relocation service in Portland. Paul Romney MS '78 is princi– pal of Ranier High School in Ranier. Romney has also worked in the Glide, Reynolds, Cottrell, Redland, and Port Orford-Langlois school districts. His hobbies include fishing, hunting, tennis, golf, and water skiing. '74 Dennis Kucera is the business manager of Guardian Sprinkler Inc., an automatic fire sprinkler installation firm in Portland. Kucera wrote a history of the 31st Fighter Group in World War II entitled "In A Now Forgotten Sky," which was published by Flying Machines in December. Thomas LaHaise MBA is vice president of investments at Smith Barney Inc., in Boston. Connie Plowman is vice presi– dent at Cadence Management Corporation, a Portland train– ing and consulting firm special– izing in project management. Plowman oversees seminar operations and international training programs. She lives in Tualatin. '75 Christine Lewis is CEO and teacher at Rainbow's End Music Studio in Tigard. Lewis provides piano and music lessons. '76 Patrick Harris MA '81 is exec– utive director of the Clackamas County Historical Society. Harris formerly served as execu– tive director of the Old Aurora Colony Museum for 13 years. Larry Johnson is principal at Marysville Alternative High School in Marysville, Wash. Johnson forme rly served as assistant principal at Marysville Junior High School and princi– pal at Kotzebue Middle/High School in Kotzebue, Alaska. Kathleen Starr MS '78 is a speech and language specialist with the North Clackamas School District.