PSU Magazine Winter 2003

ALUM NOTES Sheri Clark is an area engineer with Northwest Natural. She lives in Vancouver, Washington. Kimberly Fauss is a rate and contract negotiator with Computrex International in Louisville, Kentucky. Wilson Lynn is a sculptor. He makes his creations out of wood, stone, and steel--explor– ing ways in which these media can interact and complement each other. His works were pre– sented at the Laura Russo Gallery's Young Artist Exhibition in November. He lives in Portland. Kristine Terich is events man– ager for the Oregon Zoo Foun– dation. She lives in Portland. Gretchen Berretta MEd '01 is a first-grade teacher with the Sacramento City Unified School District in Sacramento, Califor– nia. David Bueffel is a mechanical engineer with Intel Corp. in Hillsboro. Aaron Lian is team leader at ESCO Corporation, a civi l engi– neering firm in Portland. Steve Smith MA writes, "Since earning an MA in English, I have taught at Pacific University in Forest Grove. I am currently director of the school's writing center and first-year seminar program. I will become Pacific's assistant dean of arts and sci– ences in 2003." Hao Xu MS writes, "I was an advisory engi neer at Worldcom for two years, reporting to Vint Cerf, father of the Internet. I joined VmWare as a member of the technical staff in July 2002, and moved from Washington, D.C., to Silicon Valley." Stacy Chamberlain is a staffer for newly elected Portland City Commissioner Randy Leonard '75. Deborah Davis MA is owner of Occupational Medicine Physi– cians NW in Eugene. Scoll Harer MBA is sales man– ager at Seed Research of Ore– gon, a Corvallis company involved in the research, breed– ing, sales, marketing, and pro– duction of turf grasses. Harer formerly was regional sales manager for three years. Jason Anderson MM '02 is organist, choirmaster, and direc– tor of music at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Issaquah, Washington. Ander– son has begun working on his DMA degree in choral conduct– ing at the University of Wash– ington. Mehmet Kalyoncuoglu is a finance business analyst with Intel Corp. in Hillsboro. Kara Richardson is a profes– sional artist. Her works include murals, pencil portraits of peo– ple, acrylic and oil portraits of pets, and illustrations for children's books. She lives in Lake Oswego. Luis Rodriguez is the first recipient of the Intel Latino Leadership Scholarship , which will allow him to attend the Greater Hillsboro Area Chamber of Commerce's Leadership pro– gram. The scholarship was designed LO bring an upcoming Latino leader into established business networks and intro– duce him or her to new business relationships. Kimberly Silva MPA is a devel– opment associate at Friends of Trees, a nonprofit agency in Portland. Promoting poetry through the Internet NMARIE TRIMBLE MA '98 HAS A SECRET agenda. As editor of Born, an online interative magazine that merges liLerary and graphic arts in bold and exciting ways, she hopes to get more people to read poetry. "Poetry gets a bad rap," she says, explaining Lhat most people have only learned to analyze it in school. "Some– times it's lovely to just read and enjoy il. n The 35-year-old Trimble, who by day is a PSU assis– tam professor in University Studies, first began dab– bling in new media as a gradu– ate studem in the PSU English Department , where she took a seminar on using the lmernet in teaching and became "a poet who knew HTML" After working on 26 PSU MAGAZINE WINTER 2003 creative Web content for a couple of local design studios, she moved on Lo Bom in 2000. An all-volunteer affair, Bom asks writers (primarily poets) to collaborate with designers who put their words to visually stunning graphics, animation, and sound, creat– ing new art forms. The site at www.bornmag.com has won several of the top industry awards for interactive media and averages 40,000 hits a month, an exciting statistic for poets who publish in traditional literary journals that have only a few thousand readers. "We get fan mail from Korea , from Brazil. We gel fan mail we can't even read!" she says, laughing. Trimble still pub lishes poetry in traditional journals (mosL recently in Black Warrior Review and Field) and mines her dreams for material because "dreams Lransform themes into more accessible metaphors." But she also believes that the Internet exposes poetry to a new audience and is a natural way to bring the oral tradition back to Lhe form, making it active again by requiring people Lo engage with and respond Lo what they're seeing onscreen . "We're not like every other publishing medium," she says. "We're trying to do something different. We don'L know whaL's going to happen. We don't know where experimentation will Lake us. But we just want to find out." -Kathleen Holt