PSU Magazine Winter 1999

Thong Tran is a low voltage and control systems specialist at Interface Engineering in Portland. Tran's focus is nurse call, fire and life safety, and security systems. '90 Jill (Chandler) Brantley is a case manager for the Big Island AIDS Project in Hilo, Hawaii. Brantley scuba dives, teaches middle eastern dance, and participated in a 350-mile ride to benefit AIDS service organi– zations throughout the Hawaiian Islands in July. Martha Capovilla MS is vice principal at Hood River Middle School. Beth Heinrich is the public affairs director at the American Red Cross chapter in Portland. In her spare time, Heinrich enjoys bicycling, walking, golf, and reading. Rick Hohnbaum MPA is city manager of Irrigon. Hohnbaum previously worked at United Parcel Service and volunteered as a city council member, mayor, and firefighter. Kristin Hummel-Sauerwein is an airbom traffic reporter with Metro Networks, providing live on-air traffic reports for radio and television under the broad– casting name of Kristin Scott. Hummel writes that she has been accepted into Pacific University's counseling psychol– ogy program, which focuses on behavioral analysis and organi– zational and industrial psycho– logical counseling, beginning in January 1999. '91 James Babb writes that he received his MBA from the University of Connecticut, passed the CPA exam (both in 1993), and has been employed with Deloitte & Touche for the past five years. Babb currently is on a three-year international assignment in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and was married in Marrakech, Morroco, in 1997. 24 PSU MAGAZINE WINTER 1999 Lynda Clarke is vice president of Spieker Properties' Oregon region. Clarke oversees their leasing and management, financing, and development of the Kruse Way Class A submar– ket. C larke formerly was project director and has been in the commercial real estate business since the 1980s. Therese Lamb MS '92 is the manager of reserve services at Bonneville Power Administra– tion, a federal power marketer in Portland. Stephen March MUS is a management analyst and perfor– mance auditor with the city of Vancouver, Wash. Jennifer "Jeni" (Gorg) Patton is a computer science instructor at Cochise College in Sierra Vista, Ariz. Patton served in the Peace Corps in the Solomon Islands for two years from 1991- 93, and writes that she was married in August in a Renaissance-theme celebration. '92 Robert Banks is an Oregon State Police officer in Coos Bay. Banks also is a U.S. Army veteran and a member of the National Guard. Maxine Gail Hudgins repre– sented PSU at the inauguration of Irvin Reid as president of Wayne State University on September 18, 1998. Hudgins is a social worker and recipient rights advisor at Franklin Wright Settlements, Inc., a human service agency in Detroit, Mich. James "Jim" Ingle is a project manager at Ehrlich-Rominger Architects, an architectural engineering, planning, and interior design company in Los A ltos, Calif. lngle's current design focuses are high-tech, micro-electronics, and bio– medical. His hobbies include blue water sailing and fishing. Michele Kwok is a senior veter– ans service representative with the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs in Portland. Lynne Nesbit MS '95 is in private practice as a psychother– apist and marriage counselor. Nesbit also works with the Sisters of Providence Health Systems as a mental health therapist. She lives in Portland. Anthony Spring MT '94 is the tax manager at Grant Thornton in Portland. '93 Kristina Sharpe is a Peace Corps volunteer stationed in St. Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the Caribbean. Anthony Veliz is a youth sports organizer and president of Latino Sports Association in Woodburn. '94 Michelle Dean is the senior administrative assistant at Nike in Beaverton. Susan "Suzy" Hall is the head volleyball coach at Aloha High School. Hall was a four-year member of the PSU Volleyball team, which won the 1993 national championship. David Holcomb is a doctoral student in the counseling psychology program at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, N.M. Dan Johnson MS is a financial consultant with Salomon Smith Bamby, a financia l brokerage firm. Johnson lives in Spokane, Wash. David Mircovich is an intern with the Wasserberger Benson Partnership Architects in Portland. Mircovich assists on hospitality projects at several Western airports. '95 Jason Bledsoe is an O regon State Police trooper in Newport. Mary Corp MBA is the Oregon State University Extension agronomist for Umatilla County. Corp is responsible for cereal grain production systems; her duties include conducting applied research and education programs for local growers. She previously was the pesticide specialist with the Oregon Department of Agriculture. Dawn Friedman is co owner of The Spoon Company, a wholesale distribution fi rm in Columbus, Ohio. Robin Pelton MPA is executive director of the Salem Outreach Shelter, which provides housing and support services to home– less fami lies from Marion and Polk counties. Pelton previously was director of the Family Resource Council in Salem and the Tillamook County Juvenile Department. Georgina Yokoyama is the multi-disciplinary team coordi – nator with the C latsop County District Attorney's office. Yokoyama manages the grants and assists in child abuse investigations. '96 Jessie Hathorne MSW '98 writes that she plans to begin a career in child welfare through PSU's cooperative Child Welfare Partnership. Hathorne' future goal is to start a private practice specializing in coun el– ing bi-racial couples, chi ldren, and families. Michael Heffner is a fi re fighter and emergency medical techni– cian with the city of Cornelius Fire Department. James Klum is a fire fighter with the Portland Fire Bureau. Wei Liu MURP is an assistant planner with the Lane Counci l of Governments in Eugene. John Potter is a legal proof– reader at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt in Portland. Amy Pullen is a therapist in private practice at St. Johns Counseling. Pullen specializes in marriage and fami ly therapy. She also works as a therapist at Columbia River Corrections Institution, assisting women in a fami ly focus program. Jason Su MBA is a research and development project manager at Hewlett Packard, a computer and electronics company in Corvallis.