Portland State Magazine Winter 2012

Zibai Wang MS '09 is a financial consultant with China Merchants Securities, one of the top five investment banks in China. Keith Bjella '10 is che business manager for Marina Acces– sories, Inc., in Bellingham, Washington. Eunice Brady '10 is the stu– dent success coordinator and LEARN (Leadership, Enrich– ment, Academics, Recreation and Nurture) counselor at Sc. Stephen's Youth Program Home in Boston. Laura Cesafsky MUS '10 is a graduate student in the depart– ment of geography at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Fred Charlton MPA '10 has been named fire chief of Clackamas Fire District 1 in Oregon. Charlton, a bacralion chief and 22-year veteran of the department, began his career as a volunteer. He also is an online instructor for Eastern Oregon University and has caught at the Oregon Fi re Instructors Asso– ciation symposium. Lase year, he received an award from the Happy Valley City Council for helping save rhe life of a woman who suffered a heart acrack. Kelly Doherty MPA '10 is director of marketing and recruicmem for graduate business programs in the PSU School of Business Admin– istration. Doherty received a Fulbright Scholar gram co par– ticipate in the 2011 Seminar for U.S. Administrators in Imerna– tional Education in Berlin. Sally Guyer MSW 'IO is the ch ild and family services program supervisor at Boys and Girls Aid in Portland. Previ– ously, Guyer was the supervisor of pregnancy and adoption services. Hannah Jickling MFA '10 and Helen Reed MFA '10 were invited co do a residency with che teacher education program at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. Jickling and Reed worked wirh reacher educarion students enrolled in che second– ary art education program and with arc education researchers. Nicole Lavelle '10 is director of creative projects at Pinball Publishing, an eco-friendly, offset prim and design shop in Portland. Lavelle is also editor of Bangback, an online journal dedicated co the prim culture. Tanya March PhD '10 is an historic researcher and educator in Portland. William McGlothlin '10 is a graduate scudem of music theory at Boston University in Massachusetts. Alan DeLaTorre PhD '11 is a research assistant and project coordinator for the Global Aging Initiative in the Institute on Aging at Portland Scace. He has completed his disserta– tion research on che planning and development of sustain– able, affordable housing for older adults in the Portland area. Joshua Kingsley MM '11 is a clarinetist and music educator in Porrland. He performs with the Pacific Crest Wind Ensemble, the University of Porrland Community Orchestra, and with Portland Chamber Music, which he also directs. In Memoriam Chuck Clemans '56 died December 22 in a car crash. He was 77. A longtime educator, civic activist, and supporter of the arcs, Clemans was active at Porrland Scare. 1l1rough the years he taught public school administration at PSU; served on the Alumni Association Board, including PSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION president; and received an OurscandingAlumnus award. A resident of Oregon City, Clem– ans was named the city's Citizen of the Year in 2009. Carolyn Holzman, adjunct assisra nt professor of cheater arcs, died August 5. She was 55. Professor Holzman taught directing and choreography since 1984. She had recently adapted, directed, and designed White Nights, a shore srory by Dostoevsky, and co-directed with professor William Tate The Tempest at Porrland Scace. Stanley Lewis Johnson, profes– sor emeritus of English, died July 27 in Portland. He was 90. Professsor Johnson caught at Portland Scace for 35 years beginning in 1955. He was a Thomas Wolfe scholar but was interested in literature of all kinds. Laurel Kirsch, longtime The– ater Arcs office coordinaror, died September 14 in Portland. She was 68. Kirsch worked in The– ater Arcs during the 1980s and '90s, having previously served as an office coordinator in the Honors Program office. Rudi Nussbaum, professor emeritus of Physics and Envi– ronmental Science, died July 22 while visiting Amsterdam in the Netherlands, with his wife, Laureen Nussbaum, profes- sor emerita of German. Dr. Nussbaum was a professor at PSU from 1959 to 1987, and an expert in nuclear radiation and nuclear solid-scare physics, win– ning a PSU award for Faculty Excellence in 1982. Morris Weitman, professor emeritus of Psychology and Urban Studies, died in Portland on Nov. 25. He was 87 years old. Dr. Weitman joined the Portland Scare faculty in 1963. ■ WINTER 2012 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 27