Autumn 2008 | Volume 88, Number 1

Class Notes

1950s

Paul Edlund ’50, a member of Beta Theta Pi, was given the title of "distinguished member" by the Construction Specifications Institute. The award is the institute’s highest honor and celebrates a lifetime of superb service to the construction industry.

James A. McGrath ’50 was named a Santa Fe Living Treasure in June. McGrath’s work as an artist, environmentalist, and volunteer earned him the honor, which is given to elders who share their time and talents with the community.

Richard Allen, M.D. ’58, a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, has been elected president of the Society for Humanism in Medicine.

1960s

Larry L. Lynch ’61 published Farewell Bend this year, a novel about growing up in Ontario, Oregon, where Lynch’s family published the semi weekly Argus-Observer newspaper during the 1950s.

Stephen L. Wasby, M.A. ’61, Ph.D. ’62, traveled to Eugene in May from his home on Cape Cod to lead a workshop on grant proposal writing for sociology graduate students. He recently completed a three-year term as editor in chief of Justice System Journal.

Albert Drake ’62, M.F.A. ’66, has collected the automotive columns he wrote for Rod Action and Goodguys Gazette during the past twenty-five years in his newest book, The Age of Hot Rods.

Fresh from attending the summer Olympics, a beaming Alaby Blivet ’63 declares he is “going for globalization gold” by opening a Beijing branch of the Blivet Biscuit Works. "We have two goals," says Blivet: "Selling every man, woman, and child in China one Blivet snickerdoodle, and, nearly as challenging, finding a Mandarin word for snickerdoodle."

In January,• Lee Fellinge ’66, M.B.A. ’67, was elected mayor of Sammamish, Washington (rated by CNN Money magazine as the eleventh best small-to-medium sized American city in which to live). Fellinge’s wife, Audrey (Rantala) Fellinge ’67, recently retired as chair at the English department of Redmond High School.

Gaylord E. Davis ’68, a member of Phi Gamma Delta, is celebrating his fortieth anniversary as a financial representative at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network in Portland. He is a cofounder of Pumpkin Ridge Golf Course where he has chaired or cochaired six United States Golf Association events. Davis lives in Portland with his daughters, Marie and Annie, and his wife, Judi.

William G. Marsh ’68, M.D. ’72, a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon, was named 2008 Washington Family Practice Doctor of the Year by the Washington Academy of Family Physicians. Marsh lives in Puyallup, Washington, with his wife, ErrolLynne Ackerson Marsh ’88, a member of Delta Zeta.

Charles "Jack" Dudley, Ph.D. ’69, retired from his position as director of the Virginia Tech Honors Program in July after thirty-four years of service. Dudley next plans to teach a university honors colloquium, pick up where he left off on a few writing projects, and devote time to his painting hobby.

William "Pat" Sanderlin ’69 attended his first Duck football game, the 2007 Civil War, at the tender age of sixty. Of his belated fandom, Pat says, "Better late than never!"

1970s

John A. Nelson ’70, a member of Delta Tau Delta, sold his business, Mitchell Nelson Group, in 2007. The thirty-year-old firm, which started in Eugene, was acquired by Maul Foster Alongi, an environmental sciences, engineering, and planning firm. Nelson sits on the board of directors and directs the company’s planning and landscape architecture group.

Mohammed R. Forouzesh ’73 received the 2008 Outstanding Professor Award at California State University, Long Beach, for his work in the health science department. The award recognizes excellence in three specific areas: instruction, scholarly and creative activities, and professional service.

Clay Eals ’74 was awarded a silver medal in the biography category of the 2008 Independent Book Publisher Awards for Steve Goodman: Facing the Music. An excerpt from the book appeared in the Summer 2007 issue of Oregon Quarterly.

Nancy Golden, M.S. ’74, Ph.D. ’87, received Springfield’s First Citizen Award in January for her work as superintendent of the Springfield school district.

Gustena (Miller) Thompson ’74 recently moved to Hilton Head, South Carolina, where she works as a wine consultant with Wine Shop At Home.

Patrick McLaughlin, M.L.S. ’75, retired as professor and collection development librarian in December 2006 after twenty-two years at Central Washington University. Patrick and his wife, Nancy, live in Ellensburg, Washington, where they enjoy traveling and spending time with their three grandsons.

Joel Davis, M.L.S. ’76, had his most recent science article published in the April 2008 issue of Astronomy magazine. He also taught the spring 2008 course in nonfiction writing for the University of Washington’s extension program and will teach the same course in fall 2008. Davis and his wife, Judy, live in Bellevue, Washington, where he is a technical writer for Microsoft.

Rick Satre ’77, M.S. ’91, is president of Satre Associates, a Eugene-based planning, landscape architecture, and environmental consulting company with fifteen employees.

Nancy Arthur Hoskins, M.S. ’78, received a grant from Australian National University to lecture at Tapestry 2008, an international fiber arts symposium. While in Canberra, she was a visiting fellow in the university’s textile department for the month of May.

Warren Nelson, M.S. ’78, was included on the Labor Relations Institute’s list of the top 100 labor attorneys in the United States for 2008. Nelson, a partner at Fisher and Phillips’ Irvine, California, office, has been named to the list every year since its inception three years ago.

Dan Friedmann ’79 joined a new Internet gaming start-up as chief technical officer last year and is looking forward to his company’s launch of royalfelt.com, an online community of games and game-lovers.

Darius Whitten ’79 has launched Retire Northwest, a free online resource for boomers and seniors ready to retire in Oregon, Idaho, or Washington. RetireNW.com includes searchable listings of resorts, retirement communities, home and health services, and summer and winter recreation.

1980s

Gregory Brown ’82 lives in Washougal, Washington, with his wife, Jennie, and their two children, Kirk and Suzanne. He is a vice president and special assets officer for Riverview Community Bank in Vancouver, Washington.

Pete Kent, M.S. ’82, was appointed to the position of executive director of the Oregon Dairy Products Commission in June. In his new role, Kent will guide a ten-person staff in the commission’s work on behalf of Oregon’s more than 300 dairy farm families.

Kellee Bradley ’85 is the marketing and public relations coordinator for the Shoreline–Lake Forest Park Arts Council, a nonprofit group advocating art in the Seattle area. Bradley also continues to pursue her career as a singer and songwriter and has released three albums. She is the proud mother of Mackenzie and Connor Worley, who enters the UO as a freshman this fall.

Mark Roth ’86 has published many of his fine-art photographs with international poster company Bruce McGaw Graphics. His published work includes posters of covered bridges in Lane County entitled Back Home and On the Way Home, as well as Newport’s Yaquina Light and images from Colorado and the West. Mark graduated from culinary school in Seattle in 1995 and currently lives in Colorado Springs, where he works as a personal chef and photographer.

Johnny Coppedge ’87 celebrates twenty years as a financial representative at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network in Lake Oswego. Coppedge has been awarded the Achievement, Pacemaker, and Life Impact awards. He lives in West Linn with his wife, Laurie, and their two sons.

Jan Oliver, M.S. ’87, retired from her post as the UO’s associate vice president for institutional affairs at the end of June. She had been a member of the University’s staff since 1981.

Peggy Lee ’88 just returned from a vacation in Scandinavia, where she stayed at the Ice Hotel. She is engaged to be married to Peter Ward in 2008, and was recently promoted to manager of international mobility at Bunge Limited.

Jill Brenton-Strandquist ’89, a member of Alpha Phi, ranks number one in the nation in group marketing for her employer, California Casualty Management Company. She recently started a business custom-painting furniture and garden accessories and is celebrating ten years of marriage to her husband, Jason.

John (Schwartzman) Shipe ’89 released his eighth album, Yellow House, in May. The acoustic album features performances by Shipe’s wife and friends and was recorded in his home studio in Eugene.

1990s

Kimberly (Collins) Lindsay ’94 recently completed her fourth year as executive director of Community Counseling Solutions, a community mental health program serving the residents of Morrow, Wheeler, and Gilliam counties.

Fiona Simon, M.A. ’95, owns Fiona’s Natural Foods, a granola company based in Boulder, Colorado. She produces organic, wheat- and dairy-free granola for distribution to retail markets in seven states.

Gregory Woldt ’95 will graduate in October from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, with an M.A. in human resource management.

Josh Ewing ’96, a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, has traveled frequently to Asia during the last three-and-a-half years for his job at Synopsys. He recently began a part-time M.B.A. program at the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Anne Marie Levis, M.B.A. ’96, and the team at Funk, Levis, and Associates were recently informed that their work was chosen as a winner in the twenty-fourth American Corporate Identity Competition. As part of the recognition, their winning designs, including logos for Sipping Dreams and the Green Store, will be published in American Corporate Identity 2009.

Sky (Barnhart) Schual ’96, a member of Alpha Chi Omega, was named 2008 U.S. Small Business Administration Small Business Journalist of the Year for Maui County. Schual is the owner of SkyWrite Journalism, Copywriting & Editing. She and her husband, Steve, live in Haiku, Maui, and are expecting their first child in August.

Jean Bond-Slaughter ’96 was recently promoted to editor and rights coordinator at Portland’s Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, where her duties include photo selection for the company’s calendar line and managing rights and permission requests for three book imprints. She and her husband Jeff make their home in the City of Roses.

Melissa (Matusch) Beatty ’97 recently opened a KidzArt franchise serving greater Portland and Vancouver. KidzArt is a nationally recognized afterschool art program that teaches problem solving and self-confidence through art. Beatty currently teaches elementary school programs but aims to expand into assisted-living classes and preschool.

Bryan Mercier ’97 works for the Department of Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, where he manages a federal grant program that develops community banking services for American Indians, Alaska Natives, and native Hawaiians.

Shea Andersen, M.S. ’99, has moved to Ketchum, Idaho, where he became editor of the Idaho Mountain Express newspaper in July.

Sheila Miller ’99 married John Rivera-Dirks in May in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. The couple relocated to Washington, D.C., after living in New Delhi, India.

2000s

Timothy Irons ’00 recently left his job as vice president at Auerbach Grayson and accepted a position as executive director at Redburn Partners, an international financial research firm in New York City.

Jeffrey Martens ’00 recently left Nike after working for nearly six years in a variety of analyst roles. He is now a senior strategic planning analyst with Synopsys in Hillsboro.

M. Rose Barlow, M.S. ’01, Ph.D. ’05, has earned certification as an instructor at arms by the San Jose State University Fencing Masters Program. She begins a new position as assistant professor of psychology at Boise State University in August.

L. Zoe Wild (formerly Lara Oxentenko) ’01 has joined the law firm of Stahancyk, Kent, Johnson, and Hook at the firm’s Portland office.

Matt English, M.B.A. ’02, was appointed athletic director of Concordia University in June. English leaves his post as interim director of the UO Duck Athletic Fund to take his new position in Portland.

Rob Bailey ’03 worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kyrgyzstan for two years. He currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Gina Bonfiglio ’03 is a mental health therapist and owns a private counseling and therapy practice in Tigard. She and her husband, Ryan, recently celebrated their first wedding anniversary.

David Cummings ’03 worked as an accountant for three years before returning to school to earn a master’s in education from Pacific University. He now teaches math and Spanish at Columbia River High School in Vancouver, Washington.

Jason Gillies ’03 has completed his licensure certification to practice landscape architecture in Oregon and continues his job with WHPacific, where he has worked for the past five years. His duties as a ski racing coach for Portland’s Wilson and Central Catholic high schools included organizing the state championships held on Mount Hood. He and his wife Lindsey live in the Portland area.

Ting Ting Zhou ’04 graduated from the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine in June and began her residency training in Portland, where she specializes in internal medicine.

Adam Blair ’05 married Jackie Kelchlin in September 2007.

Danielle Chiacco ’05 completed her M.A. in international peace and conflict resolution from the School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C., this summer. She recently served as a political intern with the Department of State in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Organization of American States.

Suzanne Gaffke, J.D. ’05, started her own law practice in Oregon focusing on legal research and writing services. She is engaged to Solomon Sliwinski, a software engineer at Pipeworks Software.

James George ’05, a member of Delta Sigma Phi, is a market growth and development consultant with Wells Fargo Bank. He works for the company’s corporate trust and escrow services department, located in Los Angeles.

Lenore Matthew ’05 returned from traveling through South America, where she volunteered at a school for disadvantaged youth in Peru, learned Spanish in Argentina, and explored Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, and Ecuador.

Chak-Yin Tse ’05 was promoted to an associate at Citi Private Bank in Hong Kong.

Melissa Tilleman ’06 spent a year teaching English at primary schools in southwest France before returning to the U.S. in July 2007. She now lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Haloti Ngata ’06 hosted the 2008 Haloti Ngata Summer Sportsfest in July, a Salt Lake City event benefiting the football program at Highland High School, where Ngata (currently a defensive tackle for the Baltimore Ravens) was a student. Matt Toeaina ’06 was one of seven NFL celebrities in attendance at the two-day event. Toeaina plays for the Chicago Bears.

In Memoriam

Constance Baker Palmer ’32, a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, died in January at age ninety-seven. In 1934 she and her husband Omar “Slug” Palmer ’32 were the first couple ever to be married at the Oregon Caves. She and Slug raised their two daughters, Joan Palmer ’58 and Molly Spencer ’63, in Portland. Constance loved gardening, winning bridge games, tailgating at Duck football games, and singing duets with her husband. Her family was her greatest delight, and she loved spending time with her five grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren.

Norris Humphrey Perkins II ’35, a member of Kappa Sigma, died in April at age ninety-five. Perkins came from a remarkable family of notable Oregonians. His great-great grandfather, Eli Perkins, came to Oregon in 1836 with three generations of his family in a wagon train, settling in Yamhill County, where the first Norris Perkins was a banker and first mayor of Yamhill. Father Cloan Norris Perkins ’06 was responsible for bringing Bill Hayward to Eugene. After Norris’ own time at the UO, he served in the famous Second Armored Division, training under General “Blood and Guts” Patton and leading tanks into North Africa and Sicily. After the war, he earned his medical degree from Oregon Health & Science University, founded the Cedar Hills Medical Clinic, and served on the staff of St. Vincent’s Medical Center for nearly thirty years.

Barbara Younger Woolsey ’45, a member of Delta Gamma, died in May. She worked in publishing in San Francisco, was a Head Start volunteer, raised three children, and was a member of the library science faculty at Chico State University. Later in life, she was devoted to her six grandchildren, traveled extensively, and continued her study of Chinese history and the arts.

Ulric V. “Uly” Dorais ’47, member of Theta Chi, died in April at age eighty-five. A veteran of World War II, Dorais held many financial and management positions in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, and New Mexico.

Marvin D. Butterfield ’49, a member of Theta Chi, died in May after a short battle with cancer. He was eighty-four.

Wayne St. John, Ph.D. ’52, died in May of complications resulting from a broken leg. St. John was the recipient of the UO’s first doctorate in organic chemistry and applied his knowledge at Proctor and Gamble, where he worked to develop Tide, Gain, and Biz. He taught at Kansas State and the University of Illinois before retiring to Tucson, Arizona, where the beauty of the Catalina Mountains inspired him to become an avid hiker and conversationalist. Shortly before his death, he and his wife, Charlene, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary.

Barbara Zumwalt Farnan ’53, a member of Phi Beta Pi, died in May at age seventy-seven. She was an active volunteer in her Yakima, Washington, hometown, serving her church, the Phi Beta Pi alumni, the Red Cross, and the Yakima Valley Museum.

William E. Neely ’58 died in September 2006.

Robert Hadley Doornink, Ph.D. ’62, died in March at age eighty-two. His distinguished career as a professor of physical education was mainly served at Washington State University, where Doornink boxed and played football as an undergraduate. In 1962, Doornink was a Fulbright Visiting Professor in South Korea, where he met his wife, Myong Jin “Jinny” Won. The two raised three children, who remember their father as a “humble person dedicated to his family and students.”

Paula Allen ’66, M.F.A. ’68, died of lung cancer in May at age sixty-eight. Allen was a scholar, professor, and author, and is credited with helping to add a feminist perspective to the study of Native American literature. She published seventeen books, including works of poetry, biography, literary criticism, and fiction. In 1990, her work as editor of a collection of Native American women’s short stories earned Allen the American Book Award.

Robert A. Lee, Ph.D. ’66, died in April of congestive heart failure. His career as an English professor took him to Turkey as a Fulbright Lecturer, the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and California State University, San Bernardino, where he taught for twenty-four years. He is survived by Gloria, his wife of forty-seven years, two children, and three grandchildren.

Kerry “Doc” Nelson, M.S. ’69, Ph.D. ’76, died in May after battling pancreatic cancer. Nelson was a professor for thirty years, teaching special education at the University of Kansas and the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse. He received many teaching awards and was named an emeritus professor by Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson in February 2000. Nelson worked to improve the quality of life for infants, developmentally disabled students, and the homeless through numerous charitable projects. He loved golfing, drove a restored 1954 MG TF to Badger football games, and auditioned twice for The Apprentice. Nelson is survived by his wife, Jeanne, and three sons.

William Brower, D.M.A. ’73, died in May at age eighty-one. Brower was a musician and music teacher, who taught in the public schools of Richland, Washington, for thirty years. He is survived by his wife of nearly fifty-four years, Margaret, and their three sons.

Faculty In Memoriam

Mel Krause, former University of Oregon baseball coach, died in June of complications from acute myeloid leukemia at age eighty. Krause was the head coach of the baseball team from 1970 to 1981. During his tenure, his teams won two conference championships. After the program was eliminated in 1981, Krause coached high school baseball and basketball and worked as a scout for the San Francisco Giants, the Philadelphia Phillies, and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Krause spent the last twenty-seven years of his life working for reinstatement of the Oregon baseball program and was instrumental in the decision to return baseball to the roster of Oregon sports. He also served as a volunteer consultant in the planning and design of the school’s new state-of-the art baseball park, and in the hiring of two-time national coach of the year George Horton. Oregon plans to honor Krause with an entrance monument at its new ballpark.

M. Megan Partch, professor of finance, died in October 2007 after battling cancer. She was fifty-eight. An Ohio native, Partch studied at Carleton College and the University of Wisconsin, and joined the Lundquist College of Business faculty in 1981. She was head of the Department of Finance from 1997 to 2006, and added significantly to the college’s reputation for excellence in the field of finance research. As a teacher, she inspired countless finance students and took great personal joy in helping them succeed. Her fellow professors remember her as a gracious and caring person who will be greatly missed as a scholar, educator, and colleague.

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