PSU Magazine Winter 1999

Melanie Lightbody is library director at the Toledo Library. Lightbody previously was the assistant director with the Newport Library for six years. Colleen Richmond MA is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing and Literature at George Fox University in Newberg. Catherine Scott MSW '90 is the clinical care coordinator with Multnomah County Department of Community and Famly Services in Portland. Carol Ann Siebert-Whitten MS '95 writes, "In September 1998 I began a new position as assistant supervisor of special education in area 3 (Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln elementary school regions), with Portland Public Schools. Prior to this 1worked for Multnomah Education Service Di trict for 13 years, four years as supervisor of special education and nine years as a speech-language pathologist." '84 Debra "Debbie" Derr MS is interim vice president of student development at Mt. Hood Community College in G resham. Derr oversees the advising and counseling center, career center, disablity and health services departments, and Transitions program. Greg Greenwood is administra– tor at Westview of Indianola Care Center, a nursing home in Indianola, Iowa. Bryan Hutchison is a correc– tions deputy with Multnomah County. Hutchison also is vice president of Multnomah County Corrections Officers Association, secretary-treasurer of O regon Council of Police Associations, and treasurer of Oregonians for Public Safety. Barbara McCarthy is a mathe– matics teacher at St. Mary's Academy in Portland. '85 Michelle Franz is vice president of Solution Logic, Inc. , a Portland custom software designer for the high-technol– ogy and scientific industries. Sally Jane (Glover) Keely MS '87 writes,"... returned to the Portland area two years ago to take a math faculty position at C lark College and was married to Mark Keely on December 18, 1997. We are living happily ever after in Kalama, Wash." Dalyce Knight is a fourth grade teacher at Aiken Elementary School in Ontario. Michael Knight MPA is manag– ing director at Third Wave Research Group, a Madison, Wisc., based firm that tracks and anticipates changes in consumer behavior and applies L inda Hedge MBA '89 calmly talks about her plans with the cruise line Royal Caribbean International. She has some· she had an MBA in business finance from PSU. Now, her experience lists past presi· dent of the Oregon Gourmet Foods Association, member of the Washington Specialty Foods Association and the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade. thing it wants-– $16,000 worth of custom cookies. The Ilwaco, Washington– based owner of Hedgehaven Shortbread has the plan rolled out: chocolate shortbread moons, lemon shortbread stars and plain short· bread squares stamped with the cruise line's logo and packaged in an irresistible goody bag. Did she forget to mention she'll be baking the cookies herself? In her words, this American Dream busi· ness is "the hobby that got out of control ... I've taken shortbread and gone crazy." Although the Clatskanie-raised Hedge had little knowledge of the food industry, 22 PSU MAGAZINE WINTER 1999 Hedge's husband, Joe Nihom MBA '85, has supported the business during the past 11 years by overseeing mail orders. He is also a health care consultant and is teach– ing finance classes at Portland State. The cookies are sold to hotels, such as the Heathman in Portland, gift basket companies, specialty shops, espresso bars, and as corporate gifts. Last Christmas, the growing business shipped about 4,000 wholesale and retail orders throughout the U.S. "It's a lot," says Hedge of baking and working 10 to 14 hour days. But the bonus, she says, is "whatever I do is reflected back at me very accurately; there is no political distortion. That's the best part." (Article courtesy of The Dail:y Asrorian, Steve Forrester '71, editor.) that knowledge to strategic and tactical decision making. Knight formerly was director of the Applied Population Labora– tory at the University of Wisconsin-Mad ison. Richard MacLennan is dean of student development services at O lympic College in Bremerton, Wash. Macl ennan formerly was an associate dean for student services at Chesapeake College in Wye Mills, Md. James L. Proctor is business offi– cer at the Fleet and Industrial Supply Center with the U.S. Navy in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Proctor was commissioned as a Supply Corps officer in 1987 and promoted to Lieutenant Commander in 1997. Jolene (Lombardo) Rasmussen is a civil engineer with the Federal Aviation Administra– tion in Anchorage, A laska. '86 Carisa Bohus is president of Solution Logic, Inc., a Portland ·custom software designer for the high-technology and scientific industries. James Dernbach is manager of Food Services at Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls. Dernbach received the President's Staff Award at convocation, an honor earned for having brought external recognition for the Institute through extraordi– nary dedication to his job. Under his direction, the OIT Food Service received a Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program award for having successfully developed and implemented effective injury and illness prevention measures in the workplace. Jill Duvall MA '89 is a speech and language pathologist at Pacific Communities Hospital in Newport. Lois Oliver is director and controller at CF! Pro Services, Inc., a software firm in Portland. Roger Sheets PhD is a research and development scientist at Ethyl Research Center in Richmond, Va.