Portland State Magazine Fall 2010

PSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ••• Send your news to: Donna Harris, Alumni notes editor ONLINE www.alumni.pdx.edu E-MAIL psualum@pdx.edu MAIL Portland State University Office of Alumni Relations PO Box 751 Portland OR 97207-0751 Arizona in Phoenix, where she reaches in the psychology, policy and law program. Candace Petersen MBA '83, PhD '96 is president and chief operating officer of Learn– ing.com, a Portland-based software company that serves the K-12 education marker. Luana Berens '84, MSW '88 is development director for the Oregon Council on Problem Gambling in Wilsonville. In June, Berens hosted the 24th An nual Conference on Problem Gambling in Port– land, which had 450 attendees from around the world. John E. Hall '86 is man– ager of computer technol- ogy at Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland. H all manages computer infrastructure and is a certified Information Systems Security Professional. Meredith Links '86 is a psy– chotherapist for Outcomes Inc., a nonprofit social service agency in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Links earned a socia l work degree from Washington Uni– versity in St. Louis, Missouri. Francine Read '86 is founder and president ofVOICES, Inc., an organization chat promotes both the VOICES Contempo– rary Lectures and Greatwomen– speakers.com in Portland. Read was selected by the Portland Business journal as one of its Women in Business Orchid Award recipients for 2010. Donald Snedecor '86 is publisher and editor of the Southwest Portland Post. He is married to Anne Snedecor '86. Michael Hubbard '87 is accounting manager for the PSU chool of Extended Studies. Hubbard and his wife, Barbara, have three daughters, one of whom is a chemistry student at PSU. James Prutsman '87 is the senior vice president for Rust Consu lting, Inc., which specializes in class action settlement administration. He lives in Edmond, Oklahoma. Dan Swift '87 has been promoted to senior vice president of the Porcland office of CB Richard Ellis, a com– mercial real estate firm. Colleen Schierholtz '88 is the director of admissions and recruitment for the physi– cians as istant program at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. Cheri Stuller '88, MBA '96 is host of Sustainable Today, a monthly TV show broadcast through the faci Ii– ties at Porcland Community Media. Stuller was excited to be on campus for an Earth Day screening that featured interviews with some of the scaff and profes– sors leading sustainability efforts at Porcland Scare. Laura Todd '88, MS '99 is the Newport field supervisor for the U.S. Fish and Wild life Service. Kent Wiles '88 and his wife, Lynn Wiles, own Wiles & Associates, Inc., a job placement firm for individuals with special needs. The company is based in Clatskanie, Oregon. Jeff Allen '89 works for SAP BusinessObjecrs Division, a global business software company. Allen is also a volun– teer consultant on the Haitian Creole database project ch rough Carnegie Mellon Un iversi ty and is helping with the Haiti disaster relief efforrs by provid– ing language commun ication and translation technologies. Allen lives in Killeen, Texas. Jane S. Peters PhD '89 Jane S. Peters PhD '89 is owner and president of Research Into Action, a Porcland-based social marketing and evaluation research firm char specializes in energy. Peters frequently mentors PSU students and graduates, including employ– ees Dulane Moran MPA '03; Collin Fellows '05, MS '08; Michelle Levy MEM '05; and April Armstrong '06, MS '08. 1990-1999 Clark Holmes '90 is vice president of finance and administration at Learning. com, a Portland-based soft– ware company that serves the K-12 education market. Sheila Sletmoe '90, MED '06 is a sixth-grade reacher at Horizon Christian School in Hood River. She is married to Eric Sletmoe '92. Slermoe writes, 'Tm thankful that I had the opporruniry to get my master's in Hood River through PSU's cohort program. I loved learning in chat environment." Portland State University Independent Study Accredited by NCCU and NAAS Quality. Flexibility. Convenience. We offer quality accredited online- and text-based high school, dual credit, and college courses. Our instructors are licensed professionals who are motivated to help our students achieve their goals. • Start anytime. • Take up to 12 months to finish a course. • Transfer credits to the institution of your choice. Celebrating 100 years of academic service. Learn more, go to www.istudy.pdx.edu or call 1-800-547-8887 ext 4865. FALL 2010 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 27