Portland State Magazine Spring 2007

ALUMNI NOTES To honor his memory, Rhoda has created a scholarship through a charitable gift annuity with the PSU Foundation. The principal of tne gift annuity will eventually go to PSU's School of Business Administration to create the "Robert Deane Clapperton Memorial Scholarship" for an accounting major who is also a long-distance runner. In addition to honoring her husband and supporting a future student, Rhoda enjoys a fixed interest rate of 6.2 percent, a charitable income tax deduction, and a guaranteed life income with its partially tax-free payments. She also appreciates being able to give back to Portland State University in such a meaningful way. For more information on how a gift annuity or other planned gift options might apply to your estate plans, please call Mary Anne Rees at 503-725-5086, e-mail her at mrees@pdx.edu , or visit our new estate planning Web site at www.pdx.edu/giving/planned. 26 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE SPRING 2007 Virgie Daigle '90 reaches music and dance lessons throughout Portland. Mohammed El Bouzidi MPA '90 is the human resources director at the audiovisua l agency Sociere Nariona le de Radiodiffusion er de Te– levision in Morocco. Mark Fuchs MBA '90 was promoted to vice presi– dent and general counsel of Louisiana-Pacific Cor– poration in Nashville. Atsuko Kurogi MA '90, EdD '98 is reaching Japa– nese language and culture at Pacific University and C lark College. Every summer, Kurogi reaches intercultural communication at PSU. Johnathan E. Mansfield MS '90 was elected to the KBPS Public Radio Foundation board, rhe govern ing body of KBPS, a nonprofit, 24-hour classical music station serving metro Portland and Hood River. Mansfield is a lawyer at rhe Portland-based law firm Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt. Kelly Uhacz '90, MS '91 works at MacKay & Sposito, an engineeri ng firm in Vancouver, Washington. Dan Wahlin '90 was promoted to senior vice president of com– mercial lendi ng at Columbia Community Bank in Hillsboro. Marian L. Brugger '91 is the finance and account– ing manager at SMART, a nonprofit early literacy organization in Portland. Jerry Button EdD '91, a retired biology facu lty member, was part of "a crackerjack team of biologists and teachers at Portland Community Col- lege who worked collectively together from 1968 until we began retiring in the 1990s." Trinisha Denlinger '91, once a Blazer dancer, teaches a dance repertoire ranging from hip-hop to ballroom at Chemeketa Community Col– lege and other venues in Salem. Marsha L. Heims EdD '91 is an associate professor at Oregon Health & Science University, where she teaches in the school of nursing graduate and undergraduate programs. Rose McEwen '91 is associ– ate professor of Spa nish and Latin American literature and culture at State Univer– sity of New York at Geneseo. She also serves as director of the Larin American studies program and as a fac ulty fellow for international programs. Joseph Wyatt MS '91 is the principal ofChehalem El– ementary School in Beaverton. Wyatt is also an accomplished dancer and reaches baller at the Pacific Artists' Dance Center. Robert Carroll '92 has been named executive director and project director of the Northwest AIDS Educa– tion and Traini ng Center at Un iversity ofWashington. Mike Showfield '92 is rhe Gresham-Barlow School District's new chief financial officer. He joined the district in 1990. Kim Zander '93 is work- ing in Jerusalem as country manager for Save rhe Children Sweden, a nongovernmental organization that fights for children's rights through education and awareness. Lynne C. Gwilliam '94 is living in Houston with her fiance and their 20-month– old daughter. Gwilliam plans ro study Spanish at University of Houston. Lori Hunt-Vorst '94 was the guest artist at Operation Special Focus, a C latskanie Arts Commission show honoring black American leaders during February.