Portland State Magazine Fall 2017

FALL 2017 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 25 P S U A L U M N I A S S O C I A T I O N FOR MORE ALUMNI NEWS follow us @PSU_Alums on Twitter and PortlandStateAlumni on Facebook. Have news you would like to share? Email a lum@pdx.edu or mail your information to Portland State University, Office of Alumni Relations, PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207-0751. To submit your own alumni news online, go to pdx.edu/alumni/contact .  Gerry Cameron ’62, Avel Gordly ’74 and Anas Khaled Al Saleh ’97 received honorary degrees at Portland State’s spring commencement ceremonies June 18. Cameron is a philanthropist and a retired U.S. Bank executive. Gordly was the first African American woman elected to the Oregon State Senate. Al Saleh is the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Kuwait. James Nosen ’83 was named OnPoint Credit Union Educator of the Year for 2017. Nominated by his school, Nosen was the art teacher at Baker Prairie Middle School in Canby where he worked for 34 years. He has now retired. Louis Pain ’88 will be inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame in October. Pain is a renowned Northwest blues, soul and jazz keyboard sideman and also a bandleader. Read about him at www.louispain.com . Rick Miller MBA ’91 is now chairman of the PSU Board of Trustees. Miller is co-founder of the private equity firm Rogue Venture Partners and founder and chairman of the Avamere Group, a senior care and housing provider. Tim Malone MSW ’93 has opened Gero Care Solutions, a new counseling practice in Bend. He specializes in family caregiving. Caroline Wilcox Reul ’94 is a freelance lexicographer and translator. She recently translated a book of poetry, Who Lives , by Elisabeth Borchers from German to English. Eleni Kehagiaras ’95 is a hands-on franchise owner and publisher of Portland Heights Living and Moreland Living magazines. Andrew Shearer ’00 a Portland Police lieutenant, graduated from the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, in June. Shearer has served at the Portland Police Bureau for 25 years. Robert Wynia ’01 is a member of the Portland rock band Floater, which will be inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame in October. Wynia put out a new solo album, Brave the Strange , earlier this year. Juan Serratos ’04, MPA ’10 was elected by the Woodburn City Council to fill a vacant seat on the council. Serratos works in the Oregon Department of Justice child support division. Derrick Welfare ’09 is a real estate sales executive with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Florida Properties Group. He is working in the Zephyrhills, Florida, office. Morgan Griffin ’12 is a legislative assistant covering healthcare policy issues in the Washington, D.C., office of Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a senator from Alaska. Griffin earned a law degree from Gonzaga University. Avel Gordly Juan Serratos Andrew Shearer Rick Miller Anas Khaled Al Saleh