Portland State Magazine Spring 2017

SPRING 2017 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 27 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 . Don Dickinson ’67, MBA ’72 was recently awarded emeritus status at Portland State. He directed the Advertising Management program from 1998 to 2012 and continues to teach an elite advertising class every summer. Jerome Griffin ’76 has been appointed dean of the college of education at African Methodist Episcopal University in Liberia, West Africa. Yvonne Christensen ’86, MEd ’95 was named 2017 Substitute Teacher of the Year by the Oregon Substitute Teachers Association. At age 71, Christensen says she has “no plans for retirement and never will.” Sonya Fischer MPA ’93 , a lawyer from Lake Oswego, was appointed to the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners. Aplinairo “Joe” Ancheta ’00 was promoted in February to chief operating officer at Birdsmouth Construction in Portland. Paul Coakley ’00, MEd ’01, EdD ’13 was selected as superintendent of Portland/Gresham’s Centennial School District in February. Paul T. Pederson ’04 recently joined Polymer Logistics in Riverside, California, as vice president of protein and dairy supply chain and food safety. Polymer is an international supplier of reusable packaging for retail stores. Karlyn Gibson ’06 is an Emmy Award-winning editor at NBC Universal/Comcast SportsNet NW. She recently hired film studies alumnus Tyler Pickron ’16 as an assistant editor. Rachel (Peters) Young ’07 is owner of Miss Moffett’s Mystical Cupcakes and has three retail outlets in and near Olympia, Washington. Amanda Gomm MS ’11 was named National Jurist 2017 Law Student of the Year. She attends Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland and is co-founder of Digital Bindery, a publishing company. Daniel Ball ’12 and Christopher Joseph ’12 are owners of Wild Roots Vodka, a handcrafted vodka available in Northwest stores and restaurants and at their Portland tasting room. Kate Rogers MURP ’15 joined Otak’s Portland office as a planner in February. Otak is an international architecture and engineering company. Jerome Griffin Amanda Gomm Paul Pederson Paul Coakley Sonya Fischer