Portland State Magazine Fall 2010

PSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Caitlin Burke '08 is a medical student at Oregon Health & Science Univer- sity in Portland. Burke is on rotation at Dunes Family Health Care in Reedsport. Gary Evans '08 has established a new food cart business in Portland. Evans is co-owner of Namu Food carts, inspired by food he ace whi le growing up in Hawaii. He says design of the food cart was inspired by the ar– chitecture class he took at PSU. Ben Gahlsdorf'08 is staffing manager at Action Employ– menr Services in Portland. Cat Goughnour '08 has com– pleted the master's program in race, ethnicity, and posccolonial studies at che London School of Econom ics. He continues to live in London and to work at University of London . Lee Ann Phillips '08, MSW '10 is a research associate project manager in the School of Social Work at Portland State. Phillips wi ll be leadi ng two research projects char empower teenagers in foster care. Aaron Taylor '08 is a senior ac– counr manager for Internation– al Paper Company in Portland. Taylor is a member of the Food Industry Leadership Center Ad– visory Board at Portland State. Kelly Thoen '08 is executive director and founder of Two Dollars a Day, a nonprofit that she created to raise awareness about the importance of wom– en's literacy and the develop– ment of impoverished nations. Nicole Babnick '09 is in the top IO percent of her class as she enters her sec– ond year as a law student at Barry University School of Law in Orlando, Florida. Rachel Foxhoven MS '09 is the new international busi– ness programs coordin ator fo r the PSU School of Busi– ness Administration. You may be a PSU Advocate and not even realize it. DO YOU... Share your PSU experience with others? Voice the importance of higher education? Join the conversation by volunteering to send an email, write a letter, visit your legislator or participate 1n the PSU Advocates committee. To get involved, email Jim Turner at Jhturner@ pdx.edu or visit www.pdx.edu/advocates. ADVOCATES LEADERSHIP TRAINING DAY JANUARY 8, 2011 32 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE FALL 2010 Taylor Johnson '09 Taylor Johnson '09 is a freelance artist working in Berlin. Johnson participated in the Oregon/Germany study abroad program whi le attend– ing Portland State and was a research assistanr for Max Planck Institute of Economics. Blythe Pavlik '09 is commu– nications program manager for the Southeast Uplift Neighbor– hood Coalition, which supporrs neighborhood associations and communiry partners in southeast Portland by provid– ing ed ucation and training for neighborhood leadership, urban planning, fiscal manage– ment, and communications. Christian Aniciete '10 is working for Apple and is a part-time social media spe– cia list in the PSU Office of University Communications. Claire Faucher '10 has been accepted inro the MBA program at George Fox University in Newberg. Tobin Krell MS '10 is a youth mediation special ist with Reso– lutions orrhwest, a Portland mediation service. Krell is also developing and reaching an on line class on Found a- tion of Confl ict Resolution for Southeastern Community College in Iowa. He and his wife, Mollie, and their son, Aidan, live in Portland. Kimberley Mansfield '10 has been accepted into the college of law at Willamette University in alem. Mansfield is interested in fighting for the disadvantaged. Nabil Mistkawi PhD '10, a researcher at Intel, developed a chemical solution for micro– processors that is saving the company millions of dollar. Mistkawi says, "Everything I've done at Portland State has certainly been ofsignifi– cant importance to what I'm trying to do now at I nee!." Zach Springer MFA '10 plans to conrinue his col– laborative handyman service, "Build omething Together," that he started as a project of P U's Art and Social Practice program. Springer helps people build things with mostly free and recycled materials. Erin Yankus '10 has been accepted inro the speech and language pathology master's program at Portland State. Faculty in Memoriam Carol Franks, senior instruc– tor emerita in English, died of cancer on June 9 in Park River, North Dakota. She was 61. Ms. Franks was a beloved instructor on campus for 21 years. In 2004, she moved back home to North Dakota to open a bookstore, and continued to teach on line for PSU until her death. Ms. Franks, who received the PSU Alumni As– sociation Distinguished Faculty Award in 1995, was described by former srudenrs as "funny, stimu lating, and encouraging." Ladis K.D. Kristof, professor emeritus of political science, died June 15 at his Yamhill farm. He was 91. Dr. Kristof taught Eastern European poli– tics at PSU as recently as 2007. Born in Romania to a privi– leged family, Dr. Kristoff lost everything during World War II and spenr time in concentra– tion camps-a perspective that influenced his life and work. He is survived by his wife, Jane Kristof, PSU professor emerita of art history; and son, Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times column ist, and his fami ly. ■