Portland State Magazine Winter 1991

• • Buildin g Co ns ult a nt s In c., a Portl and-based firm specializing in e nvironmental site assessment and hazardous-waste management. Tyler Kendall ( BS ) has jo in ed Northwest Temporary Services Inc., in Portland as manager of the ac– counting di vision. Larry McLean (BA) writes that afte r four yea rs in the sec urity electronics fi eld, he has jumped into the compute r industry. McLean is a sa les re pr ese nt a ti ve fo r S age Soft ware, a soft ware development company in Beaverton. William Werner William Werner (MS) is the new director of Right-of-Way Services for !;>avid Evans and Associates Inc., a Portland profess ional serv ices con– sulting firm . '83 Mark Jahnke (BS) has been hi red by Marx/Kno ll Denight & Dodge In c ., a n ad ve rti s in g age ncy in Portland, as production manager. Jeffrey Vinson (BS) h as been promoted to senior audit manager in the accounting finn Peat Marwick Main & Company's Portland offi ce. '84 Kathryn Aschwald (BS) is a sen ior valuation analys t for Will amette Ma nage me nt Assoc iates, In c. , a business valuation firm in Portland. Sandra Ward (BS) has formed a new consulting finn that will serve the retirement ho using industry in Portland . '85 Andrea Gatrell (BS) "stars" in a National Geographic Series video to be di stributed throughout the United States and Canada. A Beaverton police offi cer, Gatrell is featured in the 18-minute video titled " Your Town the Po lice Station." Nea l Linega r ( BS ) has bee n promo ted to a ud it supe rvisor at Nygaard, Mims and Hoffman P.C., an accounting fi1111 in Portland. Laura Nigro ( BS ) is a n a ud it manager in the Portland office of Ernst & Young, an accounting firm . Dr. Jon Wakamatsu (BS) will be establishing a family medical prac– tice in Hood River, taking over the pract ice of Dr. Warren Thompson. It 's not exactly a " like father, like son" relationship, but Dr. Thompson delivered the now Dr. Wakamatsu into Hood Ri ver' s popul ation 33 years ago, as well as 11 of his si– blings! '86 Karen D'Arcy (Ph.D.) has been awarded ten ure by the board of gove rn o rs a t Gove rn o rs S ta te Uni versity in Ill inois, earning spe– c ia l recogniti o n fo r new co urse development, initiating GSU busi– ness employee retraining partner– ships, and for her involvement in a national air pollutio n monitoring program for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Elizabeth Heaton (BS) is li ving in Venice, Cali f. and work ing as a se ni or tax acco unt a nt fo r the Chi at/Day/Mojo In c., adverti si ng agency. James Maertin (BA) is a senior tax analyst with Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. in New York C ity. Maer– tin writes that he's recently become a C. P.A. and is also performing with Folk Dance Theater. Anne O ' Malley (BA), who is study– ing international law at the Uni ver– sity of Houston, has been awarded a full Fulbright grant to Germany for the 1990-9 1academic year. Paul Starr (MSW), executi ve d irec– tor of the Cascade AIDS Project (CAP) was profil ed in the Septem– ber 1990 Business Journal. Before attending graduate school at PSU, Paul work ed as a counse lo r fo r juvenile delinquent boys and then joined CAP as an intern , where he deve loped CAP' s client services program. Bradley Timmons (BS) has earned a law deg ree fr o m Will ame tte Uni versity. '87 G in a Boynton ( BS ) has bee n elected to serve as public relations director for the American Marketing Association 's 1990-9 1 year. G ina currently works fo r KOi TV , Inc. in Portland . Xavier Falconi (BS) is access con– trol coord inator for the Highway Di vis io n sectio n of the Oregon Department of Transportation. Janice Kurtz (BS) is the new execu– ti ve director of the American Adver– tising Museum in Portland. Kurtz, who has been with the museum since 1987, has served ~s program coor– dinator and program d irector. '88 Emily Sahler (BA) has been ac– cepted into the classes of noted ac– ting teacher Uta Hagen at the H-B Studio in New York City. Sahl er was chosen along with 14 other stu– dents from an audition of 450. Jonatha n S pencer ( M BA) was promo ted to senior associate a t Coopers & Lybrand and accouting firm in Portland. Spencer is in the emerging business services depart– ment. Apr il Turner ( BA) is off ice manager for One Church One Child in Portland. '89 Andrew Barron (MA) wrote to say he fini shed "cutting his teeth" teach– ing Engli sh at Sheridan College in Wyoming and is moving up to teach Eng li s h full tim e a t A bra ham Baldw in College in Ti fton, Ga. Mary Arneson Bryant (MS) is teaching sixth grade at Pilot Butte Junio r High School in Bend. Bryant is acti ve with the PSU Alumni Ad– vocates program. Kip Richardson ( BA) has been named the new marke ting coor– dinator for W.E. G roup Architects and Pl anners in Portland . Deborah Tapper-Perry (BS) will depart for Hungary to begin a fi ve– year missionary program as part of an I I-member team sponsored by the Northwest Church of Chri st in Seattle. Hugh Wade Owens (BS) is attend– ing graduate school at the Univers ity o f C h icago. Owe ns , w ho is s pec iali zi ng in m arketi ng, w ill graduate in Spring 199 1. Michael Van Loo (BS) has jo ined Alpha Engineering Inc., a Portland civil engineering firm. Van Loo is project eng ineer. '90 C raig Smith (MBA) has been hired by the Small Business Development Center at Eastern O regon State Col– lege. Smith , who is the former ownerof a Portland Saturday Market natural foods business, will head "Ope ra tion Acces ," a program designed to prov ide ma rketing strategies and support tools for retai l and serv ice-oriented small business owners in Northeastern O regon. Thayer Willis (MSW), a Lake Os– wego psychotherapist, has been of– fered a pri vate grant to study the emotional troubles of the rich. John Wolfe (MSW ) has added "author" to his credentials, hav ing recentl y co-autho red The Oregon Book of .!11ve11ile Issues. John is a c hil d protec ti ve services worker w ith th e C hil d re n 's Se r v ices Division and has over nine-years ex– perience as a caseworker for emo– tionally d isturbed delinquent youth . Todd Wyatt (BS) is a law enforce– me nt officer fo r the c ity of St. Helens. D PSU 27