Portland State Magazine Winter 2009

ALUMNI NOTES A guaranteed lifetime income with a charitable gift annuity will provide you with: > A guaranteed income for life > Generous interest rates that are higher than most CDs > A partially tax-free income > A charitable income tax deduction > The personal satisfaction of making a gift to PSU Please see our award winn ing Web site at: www.pdx.edu/givi ng/plan ned For more information on including PSU in your estate plans, please contact: Mary Anne Rees, Director of Gift Planning, 503-725-5086 or mrees@pdx.edu . 28 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE W INTER 2009 Pacific Northwest engineer– ing firm. She manages the company's financial and accounting departments. Celeste Renee Alvarez '07 Phil Berry '07 is founder and president of Sustainable Product Works, a consulting firm helping businesses create more susta inable products and supply chains. Berry's clients include Target, Cascade Designs, Ei leen Fisher, and Boeing. He lives in Brooks with his wife, Joanna, and their three children. Charles de Grasse MS '07 is a consu ltant in the Seattle office of Sapere Consu lting, Inc. , a business manage– ment consu lting firm. Caroline Hurley '07 mar- ried Casey Walker in May in Juneau, A laska. Hurley is an administrative assistant for the state ofAlaska and is the owner ofWalker Development. Tomoko Kanai MRP '07 is a transportation planner in the Portland office of Nelson Ny– gaard Consulting Associates, a transportation engineering firm. Andrew Oliver '07 is a pianist and compo er, who cofounded the Portland Jazz Composer's Ensemble and leads the Andrew Oliver Sextet. Oliver ca n be heard at The Cave as well as ocher venues around Portland. Sam Sachs '07 is a bridge builder between the police and minorities in Portland. Sachs, a former Multnomah County sheriff's deputy, is the only citizen member on the county's deadly physical force planning authority. Sarah Sharp '07 is a software engineer working for Intel in Oregon. Sharp is working as the Linux representative on a new USB 3.0 file transfer system. Sharp also networks with two professional women's groups: PDXGeekChix and Code 'n' Splode. Jean-Paul Zagarola '07 is an experimental biology aide at the Ti llamook Research Station of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wi ldlife. Zagarola conducts salmon spawning surveys. Amadou Issa Diop '08 is a lo– ca l R&B artist that goes by the name Issa (pronounced E-su h). Amy Valdez MPA '08 is the new program director for Catholic Charities in Nampa, Idaho. Valdez was a gradu- ate assistant for the Retired Associates of Portland State. In Memoriam Art Honeyman '65, MA '74 died Dec. 8. He was 68. Honey– man was featured in the spring 2008 Portland State Magazine in an article about Richard Pimentel, who was inspired to devote his life to disability issues because of Honeyman, who had cerebral palsy. Both men were depicted in the 2008 movie, Music Within. Honeyman, who was often on campus, was an author and poet. He lived in Gresham. S. John Trudeau, first dean of Portland State's School of Fine and Performing Ans and a founder of the outdoor Britt Music Festival in Jacksonville, died Nov. 3 of complications from congestive heart failure. He was 81. Trudeau, a trom– bonist and conductor, was on facu lty from 1956 to 1986. ■