Portland State Magazine Winter 2013

WINTER 2013 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 27 An evening with King Tut IN DECEMBER , Portland State alumni and friends from Oregon and Washington got together in Seattle for a lecture, reception, and viewing of Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs exhibit, which included hundreds of artifacts from King Tut’s tomb and other sites. Donald Ryan, archeologist and Egyptologist from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, provided information about mummies and tombs. Margaret Wallen ’56 contacted the Alumni Office on the occasion of her 100th birthday in October. “I have many happy memories of PSU,” she wrote. Wallen was a member of Portland State’s first graduating class. She served in England and France during World War II, and then entered college at age 40 to become a second-grade and special education teacher. She taught for 20 years. James Black ’74, MS ’77, PhD ’81 was recently named board president of the Lamoille Economic Development Corporation, a private nonprofit dedicated to the economic development of Lamoille County, Vermont. A faculty member at Johnson State College since 1987, Black is chair of the economics department. He is also the president of Software Seminars, which provides software training to corporations and government agencies. Rebecca Concepcion ’87 was recently elected secretary-treasurer of the International Association for Applied Sport Psychology. She is also the chairwoman of the association’s Health and Exercise Psychology Committee and is an associate professor of kinesiology at Saint Mary’s College, a private school just east of Oakland, California. Her research has appeared in such publications as the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology and Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport . Tanya Ostrogorsky MS ’96, MS ’97, EdD ’08 is assistant vice provost for assessment and evaluation at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. She was previously an assistant dean in the OHSU School of Nursing. Ostrogorsky has worked in the program evaluation field for more than 17 years. Dennis Mulvihill MPA ’01 is a new board member of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, a Portland nonprofit that promotes bicycling and safe bicycling conditions. He retired in 2012 after 24 years as a government relations manager for Washington County. He lives in Portland. Anna Viemeister ’09 is a soprano who recently won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Oregon District audition and will advance to regional auditions in late January. In November, Viemeister was a soloist in the Regina Opera Company’s performance of Gotta Sing! in Brooklyn, N.Y. In August, she sang in The Merry Wives of Windsor for the Delaware Valley Opera in Narrowsburg, N.Y. Viemeister lives in New York City, where she is a vocal coach. Sadie Carney MURP ’11 is director of community relations for Salem-Keizer Transit. She is also a member of the Citizen Involvement Advisory Committee for the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development, as well as a member of the Women’s Transportation Seminar, an international organization that supports women in the transportation industry.  P S U A L U M N I A S S O C I AT I O N READ MORE CLASS NOTES on our website at pdx.edu/alumni/notes . Email us your own news at psualum@pdx.edu or mail your information to Portland State University, Office of Alumni Relations, PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207-0751. A LUMN I I N T HE NEWS Thomas Wilson, Jan Moran, Paul Moran, Margot Moore-Wilson MURP ’85 and Kemea Smith attend a PSU Alumni-sponsored reception and lecture and later toured the Tutankhamun exhibit at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle.