Portland State Magazine Winter 2009

ALUMNI NOTES COMPILED BY DONNA HARRIS '07 1960-1969 David Patience '60 spent 30 years in the insurance industry. Patience's hobbies and interests include historical art illustra– tions and genealogy. He is also a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Descendants of the Mayflower. Laureen Nussbaum '62 is a retired Portland State language professor, who recently spoke to students at Essex High School in Essex Junction, Vermont, about her childhood friend, Anne Frank. At Nussbaum's wedding in 1957, Anne's father, Otto Frank, was the best man. Nussbaum lives in Portland with her husband, Rudi, who is a retired PSU physics professor. Jim Kemp '64 is vice presi– dent of quality and regula- rory affairs at Connect-Tech, a fine-wire assembly manu– facturer in Beaverton. Charles Chapman '67 has published his second book of poetry, A Life ofPassion. Chapman caught sixth grade ac Markham and Smith schools in Porcland and taught for 15 years ac Uplands School in Lake Oswego, until his retirement in 1984. He lives in Florida, where at age 86, he rollerblades, bicycles, and power walks around his retirement com– munity. His travel adventures include an eight-day raft trip through the Grand Canyon and overnight mule trip to phantom Ranch in che Grand Canyon. 1970-1979 Cynthia Heller '70 teaches advanced math at Sc. Mary's Academy in Portland. Heller is married co George Heller '75. Charlotte Ott '70 is a sub– stitute teacher in Honolulu. David Yaden '70 has been ap– pointed by Gov. Ted Kulongos– ki co the Scace Board of Higher Education. Yaden is a li fetime member of the PSU Alumni Association. He lives in Lake Oswego with his wife, Janice. Michael Harris '71 is rhe executive director of the Sudan Evangelical Alliance Partners, a Texas-based organ izacion chat offers financial, educational, and spiritual support to the people of Sudan. Harris recencly attended an opening cer- emony for two classrooms at the new Faith Learning Center in Sudan. He lives in Porcland with his wife, Renee Harris '84, a tax analyse at Portland General Electric. Rose Bond '71, MS '76 is an installation artist, animator, and media artist, who lives and works in Porcland. Bond's animation, Intra Muros, was recently screened in the Holland Animation Film Festival in Utrecht. Her short films have been shown at international competitions around the world. Bond teaches animation and time arts at Pacific Northwest College ofArt in Porrland. Sarah Edelson Rodgers '71 is managing director of a nongovern ment organization, Sunshinetenango, in Antigua, Guatemala. Rodgers works one-on-one with children to help chem access resources such as health care and educa– tion . The first female student body president at PSU, she is married to Frank Rodgers, a former PSU library director. 20 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE WINTER 2009 Joy Hirsch MS '71 is studying brain function at Columbia University in New York. Paul De Muniz '72 was honored at che 2008 Global Business Awards luncheon in Porcland in October. De Muniz is the first Hispanic chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. He lives in Salem with his wife, Mary. Richard "Dick" Chiesa MBA '74 is a financial services professional in Myrtle Point. Ch iesa was honored with the excellence award from H.D. Vest Financial Services, a subsidiary ofWells Fargo, as one of its top 75 accounting professionals in the nation. Barbara Tillman Clapp MSW '74 has retired after 31 years as a social worker with the Washington Department of Children and Family Services. She worked in borh Seaccle and Spokane. Clapp is thankful to PSU Prof. Lee Curtis, "for helping me out in my first year of grad school." She lives in Spo– kane with her husband, R ick. Adam Davis '74 is a partner in Davis, Hibbitts & M idg– hall, Inc, an opinion research and consulcacion firm in Porcland. Tim Hibbitts '75 is also a founding partner. John Williams Jr. MBA '74 has been appointed to che board of trustees for Acumen– tra Healch, a nonprofit quality review company. Williams is a health care marketing, strategic planning, and policy con– sultant. He lives in Porcland with his wife, Katherine. Rance Spruill '75 is the at-risk youth director at Albina Youth Opportunity School in Porcland. Spruill recently celebrated his 41st year in alternative education. David Zegar '75 has been reassigned as pastor to rhe Sc. Peter Parish in Portland. Zegar, a Catholic priest, has served at Sc. Alexander Par– ish in Cornelius, Sc. Clare in Portland, Sc. Luke in Wood– burn, and on assignment in San Salvador, El Salvador. Carol Van Natta '76 recencly returned to Portland after more than 30 years working at universities around the country. Van Nacca is now vice president of the Oregon Scace Un iversity Foundation Porcland Center. MarkWeber '76 is an accredited historian serving as director of che Institute for Historical Review, a private history research and publishing company in Newport Beach, California. Weber special- izes in 20th century Ameri- can and European hiscory. James Minden '77 exhibited his new paintings in a show titled Pos– sibilities -Actualities at Portland 's Augen Gallery in November. Minden's paintings can be viewed atjamesminden.com . He writes, "My recent work reflects my fascination with the relationship between painting and quan– tum physics." Minden lives in Porcland with his wife, Carolyn Cole '77, who is also an artist. Anjala Ehelebe '78 is a finan– cial adviser and has served on the Woodlawn Neighborhood Association board for more than 20 years. His book, Portland's Woodlawn Neighborhood, was recently published by Arcadia Publishing. While researching the book, Ehelebe fou nd out that Woodlawn was once a town