Portland State Magazine Fall 2018

31 STEVE FORRESTER ’71 has received an inaugural Go Fourth Award from U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden for his impact on the freedom of the press. Forrester retired in 2016 after 28 years as editor and publisher of The Daily Astorian . He remains president and CEO of EO Media Group, his family’s company that operates 11 newspapers in Oregon andWashington. ANGELINE SOHLER MS ’72, a sister with Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon, was celebrated recently for her 75 years of commitment to the order. Sister Sohler taught in parish schools in Oregon andWashington for over 40 years. NEIL LOMAX ’81 will receive the 2018 Award for Alumni Achievement at the University’s Simon Benson Awards Dinner, Oct. 25. A former quarterback for the PSUVikings, Lomax had an eight-year NFL career. He recently became head football coach at Fort Vancouver High School in Vancouver,Washington. MARK PRATER ’81, chief tax counsel for the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and a major contributor to tax policy for nearly three decades, retired from the committee in June. Finance Chairman Orrin G. Hatch paid tribute to Prater on the Senate floor June 21. SUNITA PAILOOR ’91 became the new head of Woodinville (Washington) Montessori School in July. She is only the second head in the school’s 35-year history. MATTHEW P. DONOVAN MS ’04 is a senior software engineer at Ursa Space Systems, an Ithaca, NewYork-based company that builds data analytics products based on satellite images. KATHY WAI ’07 was the youngest person ever to be elected to the North Clackamas School Board in 2017. NowWai, 32, is the youngest person ever to serve on theTriMet Board of Directors. She was nominated by Gov. Kate Brown.Wai is field director for the Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon. RACHEL STAGNER MED ’08, MST ’13 was named an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow for 2018-19 by the U.S. Department of Energy. She will take a one-year leave of absence from Madison High School in Portland, where she teaches chemistry and forensic science, to work at NASA headquarters inWashington, D.C. ANNICA EAGLE ’12 was voted the Most Valuable Punster at the O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships held inTexas in May. She has created Punderground, a punning competition in Spokane,Washington, where she lives. DOMINIQUE MERRIWEATHER MS ’12 recently joined the Riverview Community Bank inVancouver,Washington, as a vice president and commercial loan officer. TAYLOR BALLARD ’15 was crowned Miss Oregon in July. She is competing in the Miss America Pageant in September. EMILY LIU ’15 was named manager of the Lake Oswego Farmers Market in June. She had been volunteering for the city’s Parks & Recreation Department since she was 15. BRAD D. RICHARDSON MA ’15 is executive director of the Clark County Historical Museum inVancouver,Washington. MICHAEL MORGAN ’18 is a financial analyst with Milestone Systems in Beaverton, a global company that provides software for video surveillance systems. FOR MORE ALUMNI NEWS follow us @PSU_Alums onTwitter and PortlandStateAlumni on Facebook. Have news you would like to share? Email alum@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 .  ANGELINE SOHLER KATHY WAI DOMINIQUE MERRIWEATHER EMILY LIU ALUMNI IN THE NEWS