PSU Magazine Winter 2006

ALUM OTES at his swdio. He has played in bands since the 1960s and con– tinues LO perform jazz, Latin, ballads, rock, blues and Motown music. He lives in Portland. Andrew Mason MSW is execu– tive director of Open Meadow Schools in north Portland. The school oITers programs for stu– dems who are about Lo drop out or have already dropped out of school. Mason founded CRUE (Corps Restoring the Urban EnvironmenL), a high school pro– gram in which students perform "real world" work for community customers in naLUral resources, social services, or commun ica– tions while working toward their high school diploma. Sam Phomsoukha was recently hired by Umpqua Bank as a res– idemial loan officer for its Hazel Dell Mortgage lending office in Vancouver, Washington. Phom– soukha, a native of Thailand, immigrated LO the U.S. at the age of eight. He is puuing on a Chinese Lunar celebration at the 34 PSU MAGAZINE WINTER 2006 Union Station Great Hall in Seaule from noon LO 6 p.m. on February 4 and invites imer– ested PSU alumni LO stop by. Dominik Wagemann MBA is assistam to the managing direc– tor al Stuugarter Messe und Kongressgesellschaft mbH, a trade fair and exhibition com– pany in Stuugart, Germany. '01 Tami Bellenghi is an agem al Randstad, a staff service agency in Portland. Shannon Callantine is an exec– utive assistant al The Campbell Group, an investment firm in Portland. Lynn Delorme MPA is a grant writer with the Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest, Inc., a nonprofit health organization with four locations in Portland. Delorme writes, 'The gram writing course that I took from Michael Wells, while completing my degree, helped me indirectly LO secure a lot of funding for ARA NW" Hollie Lund PhD is an assistant professor of urban and regional planning at Cali fornia State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California. William Smith is a reco rds technician with Miller Nash, LLP, a law firm in Portland. Jason Stone completed the eight-week U.S. Navy basic training al Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois, in September. Jason Waters MS '05 is an engi– neering associate with the city of Sherwood. Waters will be working on a downtown streets project. '02 Ki ran Bulusu MS is an applica– tion engineer with Magma Design Automation, an elec– tronic design automation firm in Sama Clara, California. Lara Downs is an associate civil engineer with Eugene Water &: Electric Board, a public utility in Eugene. Kathleen Flynn-Culhane is a credit manager al WYNIT, lnc., a national distributor of com– puter peripherals and consumer electronics. Flynn-Culhane lives in Manlius, New York. Todd McConachie MBA is vice president and commercial loan officer al Bank of the Cascades in Portland. Patrick McKenna is owner of McKenna Designs, an architec– wral furniture design firm in Portland. In his spare Lime, McKenna enjoys motorcycle rid– ing, sketching, sculpting, writ– ing, and photography. Ciea Palmer is special events and developmem associate at Portland Cemer Stage theater. Jan Pedersen is an accountant at Pedersen Accounting Services in Aloha. Karen (Curtis) Perez is a teacher at Pioneer Plus High School, an alternative high school in San Jose, California. She married Fernando Perez, a deputy sheriff for San Francisco, on September 17.