PSU Magazine Winter 2004

Compiled by Myrna Duray John Poff, a retired teacher, has for the past 12 years timed the football games at Stanford Uni– versity and remained a big fan of PSU sports. He would be happy to hear from other PSU alumni and can be reached at puJftalk@goldrush.com He and his wife live in Angels Camp, Cal ifornia. Jay Vanderford is retired and says that after teaching geogra– phy in the classroom for 20 years, he continued teaching correspondence courses for another 16 years. At the same time, he worked as an archaeol– ogist for the U.S. Forest Service until 1994. Vanderford lives in Bend. David Orvedahl MSW '67 has begun a second career after becoming "bored" with retire– ment. Orvedahl is a clinical social worker for the state of California Prison Hospital in Vacaville, California. The hospi– tal services all of the prisons throughout California. He and his family live in apa Valley, California. Neil Lewis retired in 2003 after teaching history at the Univer– sity of Wisconsin-Stevens Point for 32 years. Lewis is an expert on the Middle East and was a key campus and community resource on the many geopoliti– cal issues of that region. He received many awards during his tenure, including a 1991 University Leadership Award for Advising. He and his wife, Suzanne, a retired foreign lan– guage teacher, plan to stay in Stevens Point and travel abroad. 20 PSU MAGAZI E WINTER 2004 N O T E S Joy Stricker is a retired educa– tor livi ng in Portland. Stricker taught English at Sandy High School and also served as the coordinator of Southwest eighborhoods until 1989. Dan Swift is first vice president at CB Richard Ellis in Portland. Swift has been in the commer– cial real estate business 15 years. Michael Hibbard , a retired teacher, has been a docent and guide at Portland's Pittock Man– sion for more than 20 years and is artistic director at the Hills– boro Artists' Regional Theatre. He recently published a book titled Curtain Time Is Magic Time, a humourous text for beginning youth theater direc– tors. Hibbard lives in Portland. Ronald MacKay is retired after working 32 years in the lighting division of General Electric Cor– poration, most recently as an area manager. MacKay is a retired Army Reserve lieutenant colonel. He and his wife, Janelle, live in Terrebonne, Louisiana. Charles Chapman MS '69 is a retired teacher. Chapman took up rollerblading at age 61 and estimates he has since logged 20,000 miles of skating. He also enjoys biking, kayaking in the Florida Keys, swimming and golfing. Chapman lives in Lady Lake, Florida. Tom Cropper is working on computer activism with the Institute of Electrical and Elec– tronics Engineers association. He previously was with Mult– nomah Activists Solutions, LLC, for 12 years programming video content for cable television on community activism and ans. He lives in Waldport. Janet Christ retired from the Oregonian Publishing Company after more than 30 years as a news reporter at The Oregon Journal and The Oregonian. Christ lives in Portland. M. WayneJensen retired in November after 27 years as director of the Tillamook Pio– neer Museum. Jensen's pursuit of an anthropology degree while raising a family, working full time , and driving to and from Portland took 18 years, and is one of his proudest accomplish– ments. George Polas MS '75 retired in June from the Hillsboro School District. Polas taught fourth , fifth or sixth graders at WL. Henry, Brookwood, and East– wood schools for 29 years. He started in a combined-grades, team-teaching classroom , and finished his career in a self-con– tained classroom. He and his wife, Sue, live in Portland. Dez Young is producer and host of Hunting with Hank, an out– door and hunting show featur– ing Young and Hank, his Llewellin Setter retriever, which airs on The Outdoor Life et– work. Young is president of Young Communications and provides business and media presentation skills seminars to corporate clients across the county. Richard Boberg MM '01 is pro– prietor of Woodwind Repair Service in Beaverton. Boberg has played clarinet in the North Coast Symphonic Band for many years, is a former princi– pal clarinetist with the Oregon Symphonic Band, and has per– formed with the Portland Opera Orchestra and the Spokane Symphony. Edward Sullivan MA is attor– ney and owner at Garvey Schu– bert Barer in Portland. Jan Ophus MA is principal at Creswell High School in Creswell. Ophus was principal at North Bend High School for five years and an administrator in Montana secondary schools for 25 years. Deborah (Wheeler) Ross MS is a writer specializing in fantasy and science fiction. Her most recent novels are The Fall of Neshaya (2001) and Zandru's Forge (2003). A forthcoming novel, A Flame in Hali, is due out in 2004. All her books are co– authored \vith Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by DAW Books. Ross is married to a writer, Dave Trowbridge, and lives in Boulder Creek, California. Dennis Kucera is a cost accountant and office adminis– trator with Health Wright Prod– ucts, lnc. , in Portland. Kucera's second book, Meus Ensis, A Bohemian's Tale, was published this fall by PublishAmerica. He hopes to have his third book, The Heap (das Haufe), published soon. His son, Paul Kucera '93, received his Ph.D. in English from Michigan State University in June. Lari White is outreach assistant with the energy assistance pro– gram at Central Area Motivation Program (CAMP). CAMP is a community action agency for education, jobs training, and social change in Seattle. Lilian Gafni is a writer whose second book, Hello Exile, was published in December. Gafni's first book, a nonfiction , self– help book titled Living a Blissful Maniage, was published in 2001. She also lectures on mar– riage and relationships and con– ducts small groups. She and her husband live in Southern California.