PSU Magazine Winter 1999

'87 Raedene Keeton has joined the electronic commerce division (ECO) of Bottomline Technologies, a payment management solutions firm in Portsmouth, N .H. Keeton provides electronic payment consulting services to ECO clientele and directs the marketing of Bottomline's PayBase payment suite to credit unions and banks nationwide. Jan Kurtz is executive director of the PSU Foundation, the organization that raises and manages funds in suport of University's proj ects. Kurtz previously was the constituency development officer for the PSU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She is also a former PSU Alumni Association Board president. Arthur Lettenmaier is an attor– ney at Gordon & Rees, a law firm in Los Angeles. Melody Anne Martin MS is manager of Cyber by the Sea, an internet cafe and bookstore in Ketchikan, Alaska. Harold Mauldin is a specialist engineer with Boeing in Seattle. Terry Summerfield MST '94 is the head football coach at Barlow High School and also teaches in the health and physi– cal education department. Summerfield previously was the head footba ll coach and athletic director at Central Catholic. He played quarterback at PSU from 1981-85. Dorothy Wold MS retired in June following 37 years as an educator. Wold spent the last 17 years teaching at Lafayette Elementary School in Albany. '88 Deanna Hotchkiss Agostinelli is a design engineer at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro. Agostinelli was awarded the Society of Women Engineer's Distinguished New Engineer Award in recognition of outstanding performance in engineering and leadership at the 1998 SWE convention in Houston in June. Dalene Erickson is a supervisor and certified public accountant at Hoffman, Stewart, Schmidt & McGee in Portland. Leland "Lee" Ireland MBA is vice president of marketing at Auto-Graphics, Inc. , a company providing information publish– ing and database resource shar– ing systems to publishing and library communities. Ireland lives in Pomona, Calif. Komi Kalevor is a finance coor– dinator in the housing develop– ment finance section with the Portland Development Commission. Margaret "Maggie" Kolkena writes, "In 1995 l graduated with an M.S. in organization development from the School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University. This year l founded Third Thought Consulting, a firm focused on enhancing organization innova– tion and creativity." Kolkena lives in Portland. Phillip Lucas is an associate professor in the department of religious studies at Stetson University in Deland, Fla. Laura Todd is a fish and wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Todd lives in Rhododendron. '89 Brad Baird MS '96 is a project engineer at Anderson, Perry & Associates in LaGrande. Baird is responsible for the planning, design and construction admin– istration of various highway, bridge, and municipal utility improvement projects through– out northeastern O regon. Tracie Lee Davis is owner of Madison & Company, an event softball alumna who played for Portland State between 1979 and 1985 returned to the diamond this summer to compete in the 1998 Nike Worl4 Masters Games. Th~ players, age 35 and over, coordination, fundraising, and publicist firm in Portland. Jeffrey Lockwood is a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) practicing at the U.S. Army Brooke Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. Thomas McConnell MURP is a project planner at Alpha Engineering, Inc., in Portland. McConnell previously was with the city of Hillsboro. His experi– ence includes land use planning and analysis of local, regional, and statewide planning. Brenda Smith's first novel, Secrets of the Ancient Godiies, will be published by Penguin– Putnam in February 1999. Smith started as a science major at PSU, but enjoyed classes from Professor Ray Mariels so much she switched to English. Her book, which took eighteen months of research, is "pre– history" set in ancient Turkey. suffered through grueling 90 degree weather during their August 10-13 games, but it didn't hurt their perfor– mance. Under the coaching of Teri Mariani '76, PSU's current softball coach, they made it to the champi– onship game against a team from Chico, California. (The only other U.S. team entered out of 16 teams in all.) The PSU alumna, known as the Stark Street Pizza team, had lost to Chico in the semifinals by one run, so they had to beat this team twice to win the gold medal. In the first championship game the PSU alumna won in the bottom of the 10th. But they lost the gold medal to Chico in the second game. Pictmed Wt to rllhta Uta Gemld (7), Ronda Haun Soremon, Mary ROu Haluska, and LaDawn ,.,,....,. "We had such a great time playing together again," said Mariani, who ended up playing in four of the games due to player work schedule conflicts. "I can't even put into words how proud I was of them-many of whom hadn't played in a long time." The team consisted of Dixie (Prater) Chinn '86; LaDawn Fronapel; Lisa (Venneri) Genski; Cathy Gorton; Mary Ross Haluska '84, MST '91; Ronda Haun Sorenson, '85, MST '90; Delores Krumm; Katie Meyer '82, MST '90; and Brenda Skinner. Players Haluska, Krumm, Gorton, Sorenson, and LaDawn were selected for the All-World Team. Sorenson was chosen Best Pitcher and Fronapel was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player. According to Mariani, the team plans to go to Melbourne, Australia, in 2002 "to win the gold medal." WINTER 1999 PSU MAGAZINE 23