PSU Magazine Winter 2005

charter member of the Life Loyal Teke Program and has been serving as president of the Columbia-Willamette alumni association since April 2004. Adamek is an office specialist at the lnslitute for Nonprofit Management at PSU. Beverly (Rummell) Maneatis is a retired pediatrician. Maneatis went Lo medical school at Uni– versity of Oregon, interned at Los Angeles County, did her res– idency at University of Califor– nia, San Francisco. She lives in San Carlos, California . '71 Tom Geil received the 2004 Willamelle Valley Development Officer's Starbright Professional Award on November 3. Geil is director of development at Tucker-Maxon Oral School, a school for deaf and hearing impaired children. He previ– ously was managing editor of the Fred Meyer corporate newsletter. Susan Hill is a trial court administrator for Columbia Coumy Circuit Court in SL. Helens. Larry Medinger is presidenL of Medinger Construction Co., Inc., in Ashland. Medinger has been building and remodeling homes and commercial struc– tures fo r over 30 years. He was appointed by Gov. John Kitzhaber and reappoimed by Gov. Ted Kulongoski to serve on the Oregon Stale Housing Council. Medinger has received numerous city, state, and national homebuilding industry service awards. He has two bio– logical children , three adopted children , one stepchild , and nine grandchildren. Jack Mongeon is director and an art appraiser at Galerie Mon– geon, an art gallery in Portland . '73 Thom Armstrong MA '81 has been selected by the Copper Mountain College board of trustees as superintendent/presi– dem of the Copper Mountain Community College District in Joshua Tree, California. Situated in the Morongo Basin, Copper Mountain College serves the communities of Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree, Twentyn ine Palms, Pioneen own, Landers, and Morongo Valley. Wallace Howey is a counseling psychologist specializing in vocational rehabilitation with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Togus, Maine. '74 Frank Cardinaux is a staff reg– istered nurse al the Veterans Administration Hospital in Vancouver, Washington. '75 Stephen Duncan MBA '83 received his cenified public accountant license from the state of Texas in September. Duncan also has been a certified managemem accountant fo r 15 years. He teaches almost all the upper division accounting courses for Tarleton State University's center in Killeen , Texas, which services Fort Hood and the central Texas region. '76 Torn Feely is the senior busi– ness operations manager for the office of management and finan ce for the city of Portland . Feely's son, Bryan, is in his first year at University of Oregon and his daughter, Sarah, is a freshman at Rex Putnam High School. Dennis Goodyear is the techni– cal services librarian at Avila University in Kansas City, Missouri. '77 Robert Baribeau is an artist represented by the Allan Stone Gallery in New York City, wh ich exhib ited some of his abstract expressionist works in June and July. Baribeau obtained his MFA degree from the Prall Institute. His grants and honors include a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, a National Endowment Delivering the mail at a profit in Qatar N EITHER HEAT NOR SANDSTORMS NOR a rapidly changing world shall stay this courier from his appointed rounds. This modified postman's mono fits both the country and the job Ali M. Al Ali '83 has taken on as chairman and general manager of Qatar's General Postal Corporation (GPC). Since the Middle Eastern country's postal service became an independent corporation in 2001 , Al Ali has worked with a government-appointed board and his colleagues to dramatically transform ser– vices. In just one year, Qatar's postal service shifted from years of revenue loss Lo an astonishing 49 percent profit. "Now we have one of the best postal services in the world," says Al Ali. "This was a very big challenge and turnaround has been very exciting. The government and peo– ple of Qatar are extremely pleased with the change." Qatar, slightly smaller than Connecticut, is a peninsula bordering the Persian Gui[ and Saudi Arabia. lts population of 840,000 people is served by 27 postal branches, 201 street 22 PSU MAGAZlNE Wl NTER 2005 posting boxes, and roughly 37 ,000 post office boxes. Al Ali auributes the phenomenal success of the GPC to intensive staff training in state-of-the-art systems and the addition of new services. The GPC has expanded Lo include services like cloor-Lo– door courier delivery, postal money trans– fer Lo other countries, and an array of business development activities. By net– working with government agencies, the GPC also provides vehicle insurance and delivery of driving licenses, health card renewals, and ability to pay water and electric bills at the main GPC office. A proud PSU alumnus, Al Ali is assist– ing Qatar's minister of justice, H.E. Hassan bin Abdullah al-Ghanim '79, Lo organize a PSU reunion on March 10 in Doha, Qatar. He says that in the course of business, he manages LOstay in touch with more than 40 PSU alumni in Qatar. "Because the GPC provides so many services, eventually they all end up contacting me for something," he laughs. -Kelli Fields