PSU Magazine Winter 1998

Jo Rymer Culver has been elected to the PSU Alumni Board of Directors. Cu lver is president and CEO of PROTEM Professional Staffing Services in Portland. She, her husband, Ellsworth, and family live in West Linn. '82 Laura Caldwell MS '94 is a counselor and body-centered therapist in Vancouver, Wash. Caldwell works with adults and couples, using an approach that integrates the connection between body and mind. She also teaches personal and professional improvement classes for Marylhurst College and Kaiser Permanente. Marcia (Kimes) Lorenzen is president of Stage Gulch Custom Framing in Pendleton. Fredric Marshall is president of Quantum Learning Inc., a train– ing and education company in Newtown, Pa. 24 PSU MAGAZINE WINTER 1998 Barbara Smith is a sa les repre– sentative with GE Supply– Hawaii, an electrical distributor in Honolulu. '83 David Cole MS is a water qual– ity monitoring specialist with the Department of Environ– mental Quality in Portland. Catherine Dixon-Irelan is a claims division manager for Nationwide Insurance in Portland. Steven Harmon is the summer session coord inator at Portland State University. Mariko Locke is CEO and pres– ident of a State Farm Insurance agency in Portland. Kristine Peterson MST is the music specialist at Echo Shaw Elementary School in Cornel ius. Kathy Prosser is vice president of Sedgwick Noble Lowndes, an employee benefits consulting firm in Portland. Prosser is married and has two children. Delores "DeeDee" VanZyl is owner and manager of a bed and breakfast, The River Inn on the Yellowstone. '84 Aaron Bell is an attorney with Tarlow, Jordan & Schrader in Portland, specializing in general business with particular exper– tise in the agricultural industry. June Carney MBA is manager, owner, and artisan at A Passion for Sewing, a custom clothier in Boise, Idaho. William Cookson is a propul– sion engineer at Boeing Company, an aircraft manufac– turer in Seattle. Joseph "Curt" Gray is chief technologist and radiation safety officer at Adventist Medical Center in Portland. '85 Margaret "Peg" Cross is the communications coordinator for news and publications at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. James "Jim" Diehl is an insur– ance agent with Hagan Hamilton Insurance and Finance Services in McMinnville . Diehl specializes in business insurance. He was forme rly with Nationwide Insurance for 12 years. Eric Lazear MBA is senior vice president and COO of Amtech Elevator Services Co. in Whittier, Calif. Capt. Douglas Sampson is an aviator with the U.S. Marine Corps in Yuma, Ariz. Dwight Tesdal MS is a district art instructor for the Vernonia School District. '86 Dan Birkey MST is an assistant professor of physical education at Concordia University in Portland. Birkey is also the head men's soccer coach and serves as the athletic director. He writes, "The level of mentorship and professionalism that I d eveloping andmaintaining a ca,reer today is tough. With the rapidpace ofchange, you need to team more just to keep up. PSU's School ofExtendedStudies has theprofessional development courses you need UNIVERSI1Y PROGRAMS • Chemically Dependent Client in Your Practice • Child and Adolescent Treatment • Domestic Relations Mediation • Early Intervention/EarlyChildhood Special Education • Leadership 2000 • Standards Based Education • Workforce Education Callfor yourfree informationpacket ( 503) 725-4670 Toll-free 1-800-547-8887 ext 4670 Visit our homepage http://extended.portals.org School ofExtended Studies PORTLAND STATE lJNIVERSITY