INDICATES UOAA MEMBER Northern California nonprofit blood bank BloodSource recognized June (Goetze) Quincy ’49 for thirty years serving as a volunteer coordinator for her community’s blood drive.
Senior member of the Wisconsin state legislature and longest-serving state legislator in the United States Fred Risser ’50, ’52 denounced his state’s governor for limiting access to the state capitol earlier this year. The issue arose during the governor’s attempts to strip public employee unions of bargaining rights and restructure the state government, which received national media attention.
David J. Mackin ’57 is senior vice president of investments at Wells Fargo Advisors in San Francisco, California. When not at work, Mackin plays handball for the city’s Olympic Club and heads to Duck games with the Oregon Travelers, a group of fellow UO alumni.
James E. Nuzum ’59 serves as vice chair of the Tuolumne County Historic Preservation Review Commission, where he helps plan the group’s annual conference. In 2010, the commission received the California Governor’s Historic Preservation Award.
Joe M. Fisher ’60, MFA ’63, and his wife Alona recently made their annual UO fine art scholarship contribution.
Colleen (Meacham) Reimer, MEd ’66, is the new tribal administrative director of the Yakama Indian Nation. Located in central Washington, the Yakama reservation has an enrolled membership of more than 10,000.
Vietnam veteran Sheldon L. Gersh ’67 has worked for Morgan Stanley, where he is senior vice president, for forty years. Gersh played soccer at the UO and in 1975 ran the Boston Marathon. In December 1977, he graced the cover of Runner’s World magazine. Gersh lives in California with his wife.
Evan Mandigo ’67 and his wife, Tove, spent the first part of 2011 fighting floodwaters in Bismarck along the Missouri River. Earlier in the year, Mandigo and his son went to the BCS National Championship game and, though disappointed by the outcome, thoroughly enjoyed the event. A couple months later on March 12, Mandigo celebrated another grand occasion: the birth of his first grandchild.
Terry Shea ’68, MS ’69, is offensive coordinator and quarterback coach of the United Football League’s Virginia Destroyers. He wrote Eyes Up, a 420-page guide for all interested in football.
Judith Armatta ’69 wrote a new book, Twilight of Impunity: The War Crimes Trial of Slobodan Milosevic (Duke University Press, 2010), “an eyewitness account of the first major international war-crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg trials.”
LESLIE STEEVES
DUCKS AFIELD
This summer, fourteen UO journalism students traveled to Ghana in western equatorial Africa to study the country’s media. While they spent much of their time doing internships in the capitol city of Accra, there were also opportunities for field trips. This photo, by journalism professor and Media in Ghana program director Leslie Steeves, was shot after the group had traveled fourteen hours over washboard roads to Mole National Park. Two
Ghanians accompanied the group on safari there, guiding the students into proximity with large numbers of wild animals, including elephants.
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After twenty-six years as a district court judge, Mark Schiveley ’70 retired from the Jackson County Circuit Court in January 2011. He served as the court’s presiding judge from 1990 to 1993 and again from 2002 to 2009.
Diane Simmons ’70 is author of the short-story collection Little America (Ohio State University Press, 2011) that won the Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction.
Carol A. Carver ’71 received the 2011 Labby Award from the Oregon Psychological Association for outstanding contributions to the advancement of psychology. Carver runs a psychotherapy practice in Corvallis, where she remains a dedicated Duck, often to her Beaver clients’ dismay.
Nicolette “Nikki” Bromberg, MA ’74, MFA ’76, published her third book, Shadows of a Fleeting World: Pictorial Photography and the Seattle Camera Club (University of Washington Press, 2011). Bromberg works for the University of Washington as the visual materials curator in special collections.
Sandy (Klein) Eastoak, MA ’74, paints and writes from her studio in Sebastopol, California. Eastoak cofounded Sebastopol Gallery, where her work dealing with ecological harmony is on display.
Lawrence J. McCrank, MLS ’76, retired as dean of library and information services and professor of archival and information studies at Chicago State University. He is an award-winning author and editor with more than seventy published articles.
Bill Haskins, PhD ’77, published a new article in The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations. He recently retired after teaching for forty-three years, twenty-seven of which he spent as a professor at McKendree University. He also served as vice president for academic affairs and dean at McKendree.
Michael A. Osborne, MLS ’77, is a senior fellow at the Aix-Marseille Institute for Advanced Study (2011–13). This fall he will become a director of research at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Currently Osborne is a professor of the history of science at Oregon State University.
Richard Satre ’77, MS ’91, cofounded Schirmer Satre Group, a planning, landscape architecture, and environmental services firm in western Oregon. Satre has been a certified planner and a licensed landscape architect for thirty-three years.
Bill Edelman, MS ’78, is the new president of the Directors of Athletics Association of New Jersey. The organization represents over 350 of the state’s athletic directors.
Robert Shrosbree ’78 of Site Workshop in Seattle was elevated to the American Society of Landscape Architects College of Fellows in 2011.
Robert Rubinstein, MA ’79, wrote the children’s book Zishe the Strongman (Kar-Ben Publishing, 2010), based on the true story of world-famous circus star Zishe of Lodz. Rubinstein is a middle school teacher in Eugene.
COURTESY JOHN BRUNING
CLASS NOTABLE
Aviation and military writer John Bruning ’90 recently returned from Afghanistan, where he was embedded with coalition military units in Logar and Helmand provinces. He was aboard an Oregon National Guard CH-47 Chinook helicopter in Taliban territory when it suffered engine failure and was forced into an emergency landing on a dry lakebed. The Washington and Oregon flight crew, Bruning, and about forty Polish soldiers in the helicopter were unhurt; the aircraft was later repaired and flown safely back to its base. He recounts the harrowing episode in an article, “We’re Not Leaving You, Brother,” which received a Thomas Jefferson Award from the Department of Defense. Bruning is currently working on a book about his experiences in Afghanistan, which will be the seventeenth he has authored or coauthored.
After serving six years on the planning commission of Manhattan Beach, California, David Lesser ’83 was elected to the city council. When not working at his day job as an attorney with a health-care company, Lesser spends time with his wife and two children.
Founder and president of Portland-based restaurant group Pizzicato, Tracy (Danish) Frankel ’84 launched a new company, Flex Equestrian, which produces horse wear and design tack.
David Locicero ’85 authored Pour Me Another: An Opinionated Guide to Gold Country Wines (OpinionatedWineGuide.com, June 2011). The book is the first in a series of guides Locicero hopes to write about “undiscovered” wine regions.
Trial attorney and former Oregon State Bar president Kevin Strever, JD ’85, has retired. He and his wife, Lauri, spend their time traveling between Newport, Portland, and Honolulu.
Rick Montoya ’86 has been selected by Vistage International, a chief executive organization, to begin a practice in Eugene. Montoya will work with chief executives to increase their effectiveness and leadership.
Natalie (Nelson) Inouye ’87 and Dean Inouye ’89, MS ’98, are part of the team of alums organizing the UO residence assistant reunion for residence life staff up to and including the year 2000. The reunion will be held November 11–13 in Eugene.
This fall, Sandor “Sean” Palagyi ’88 begins his thirteenth year teaching computer courses at Central Oregon Community College. Palagyi has lived in central Oregon since 1994, enjoying the area’s various outdoor pursuits.
Ranachith “Ronnie” Yimsut ’88 finished his fifth book, Facing the Khmer Rouge: A Cambodian Journey (Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights), to be published in fall 2011 by Rutgers University Press. Yimsut works as a senior landscape architect for the U.S. Forest Service.
Michael Jordan ’90 coauthored a business book titled Six Sigma for Sustainability (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2011), which explains how to get a sustainability program off the ground in a corporate world.
Ryan Coonerty ’96 is in his second term as mayor of Santa Cruz, California. He is also cofounder and chief strategist for NextSpace, named one of the businesses of the year by the California state legislature.
Jeremy Hall ’00 is the new associate director of special events for the National Psoriasis Foundation. A Eugene native and Duck football season ticket holder since the 1980s, Hall lives in Portland with his wife, Erin. The couple is expecting their first child in August.
Starting June 2011, Dennis Schrag, MBA ’04, is working as a major gift officer for the University of California at Berkeley’s Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Previously Schrag served as executive director of the First Tee of Greater Portland.
In January 2011, Erin Murphy ’07 joined the team of Eugene-based marketing, branding, and advertising business Funk/Levis & Associates as a new account assistant.
Dan Brotman ’10 landed his first job out of college: as the first non-African media and diplomatic liaison for the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, the main organization representing the country’s Jewish community.
Six months shy of her hundred-and-first birthday, Claire B. (Thomen) Crook ’33 died on March 25. Born in Switzerland, Crook immigrated to America at the age of two with her family. She worked as a teacher during the Depression and attended classes at the University but did not graduate; twenty-nine years after first attending the UO, she proudly completed her degree. She continued her teaching career in the Oakridge area until 1975. Crook passed her retirement traveling to Switzerland and spending time with family in Lynnwood, Washington.
Leading Russian scholar and Rhodes Scholar Nicholas V. Riasanovsky ’42 died May 14. He was eighty-seven. Born in China, Riasanovsky was fourteen when he and his family immigrated to the United States. He received a degree in history at the UO before serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. Riasanovsky then studied at Harvard and Oxford. The majority of his professorial career was spent at the University of California at Berkeley, where he taught Russian and European intellectual history for forty years. It was there he wrote his undergraduate textbook A History of Russia, which has been in print continuously since its debut in 1963 and served as the fundamental textbook on Russia during the Cold War.
Vernon Witham ’47 died August 8, 2010, at the age of eighty-four. Witham studied with James Ivory, the director of A Room with a View, Howard’s End, and Surviving Picasso (which includes a number of Witham’s paintings). During his career as an artist, Witham designed several houses in Eugene and Santa Fe. He also had showings at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco and at the Smithsonian.
Phi Sigma Kappa member James P. Bartell ’48 died June 19, 2010, just weeks after celebrating his eighty-eighth birthday. Bartell and wife Bonnie owned Bartell Design Studio in Eugene, where together they produced various artistic works including murals, paintings, and sculptures. The couple also designed twelve houses in the Eugene-Springfield area.
Air Force veteran Bob Lavey ’50 died May 20, at the age of eighty-two; he was on his way home from the game of his life. Lavey was the senior member of the Diehards, Oregon’s traveling group of loyal Red Sox fans. After a chance encounter with the owner of the team, the group was treated to dugout seats at Fenway Park. It was on the flight back that Lavey died, surrounded by seven of his closest friends. During his time at the UO, Lavey played basketball, pledged to Phi Delta Theta, and met his wife of sixty-one years, Jackie (Austin) Lavey ’51. When it came to college sports, he was a loyal Duck fan and a month before his death attended a game at PK Park with his sons and grandsons, all Ducks.
Korean War veteran Frank West Heinrich ’51 died March 19 in Dallas, Texas. He was eighty-two. Heinrich arrived at the UO after following his football coach Jim Aiken from the University of Nevada. Heinrich studied geology, joined Kappa Sigma fraternity, and served in the ROTC. After graduation, Heinrich worked for Standard Oil of New Jersey.
Former publisher and editor of the Corning Daily Observer Walter Dodd ’53 died March 30 at the age of eighty-three. Dodd served in the U.S. Air Force as a chief master sergeant for more than forty years, during which he served in both World War II and the Korean War. He purchased the Observer in July 1986 and sold the paper in October 1991. Throughout his time in California, Dodd avidly participated in a number of community activities, including donating blood: in 2009, the blood bank BloodSource honored Dodd for having donated a total of fifteen gallons.
Oregon’s first female federal judge Helen (Jackson) Frye, MA ’61, BLaw ’66, died April 21 at the age of eighty. Before entering law school, Frye worked as a teacher. After five years of private legal practice, she was appointed Lane County Circuit Court’s first female judge by Governor Tom McCall ’36. In 1980, Frye scored a first for women once again when she was appointed the first woman on Oregon’s federal court. Near the end of her career in 2000, the UO School of Law awarded Frye the Meritorious Service Award, given annually to those individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to the law.
Diane Babcock ’64 died from mesothelioma cancer on March 28. Babcock worked as an IRS auditor. Her career took her to both Boise and San Francisco. During retirement, she spent summers in McCall, Idaho, and winters in Cumming, Georgia.
David P. Simpson ’69 died February 12 of a heart attack. Raised in Eugene, Simpson lived with his wife Ans for twenty-six years in Long Beach, California. He played viola for the Long Beach City College Symphony Orchestra and was the author of Sobered by Snakebite (CreateSpace, 2009), a collection of stories of his time living in 1960s Venezuela.
Frank Webb ’72 died on June 17 after a brave battle with pancreatic cancer. He founded Team FWA, a commercial architecture firm in Los Angeles and Fullerton, California. He served on the Park Mile Design Review Board for the City of Los Angeles and recently served as president of the Los Angeles Tennis Club. An avid sports fan, Webb was devoted to the Oregon Ducks. While studying architecture at Oregon, he and a group of fellow students shared a house on Fairmount Boulevard in Eugene (lovingly called the “Fairmount Freak Farm”). The group remained close and established a student scholarship for architecture students. Frank was a member of the school’s Board of Visitors and was generous with his time and mentoring UO students.
Lt. Col. Richard M. Bonalewicz, PhD ’76, died June 3 from lung cancer. He was seventy. Bonalewicz was an Air Force navigator in Vietnam and a reserve liaison for the Air Force Academy. He taught at various universities, including the State University of New York’s College at Brockport and the Rochester Institute of Technology. Bonalewicz loved to travel and visited more than 160 countries.
Chi Psi member Joseph William Schultz ’97 was killed May 29 while leading a special forces unit in northern Afghanistan. He was thirty-six. A former aide to California governor Gray Davis, Schultz was assigned to the Third Special Forces Group in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Professor emeritus of economics Robert E. Smith died May 12 at age eighty-nine. Throughout his life, Smith traveled extensively—from Pakistan to Switzerland, Utah to Japan. Upon moving to Eugene in 1962, the Oregon Coast became his favorite place to visit. After retiring from the UO, Smith moved to Portland and eventually settled in Bend, where he spent his final years.
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1921 The Hendricks Hall team trounces Delta Zeta in a sorority baseball game by a score of 45–0. The Emerald reports that the game is characterized by frequent home runs by the Hendricks squad and many errors by the Delts.
1931 A recent survey of student’s religious affiliations finds 458 Presbyterians, 343 Methodists, 273 Episcopalians, 201 Christians, 181 Roman Catholics, 150 Christian Scientists, 113 Congregationalists, ninety-eight Baptists, forty-nine Lutherans, twenty-four Unitarians, twenty-three Jews, and one agnostic.
1941 The State Board of Higher Education restores to the University the authority to grant undergraduate and graduate degrees in the pure sciences.
1951 The University celebrates the seventy-fifth anniversary of its opening. From a faculty of five and a student body of 177, the UO has grown to a student body of more than 4,500, nearly 350 faculty members, and some 20,000 alumni.
1961 Former UO president O. Meredith Wilson discusses foreign relations in a campus address and observes, “There is no reason to expect people to love us for anything else but principle, and until now our trumpet has had an uncertain sound.”
1971 “The athletic department, in recent years, has found itself in a position resembling that of a necktie salesman in a hippie commune; there is little outright hostility, but the lack of enthusiasm is overwhelming.”—Old Oregon
1981 Following a national trend toward limiting campus health care to outpatient cases, the UO Student Health Center closes its infirmary, saving an estimated $200,000.
1991 Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Craig Hickman’s Macintosh-based drawing program Kid Pix—the third best-selling education program for Macs—is receiving rave reviews from the likes of Macworld and MacUser magazines.
2001 Generations of students frolicked and had floating parades on the millrace, but a postwar building project turned it into a slow-moving storm sewer. Now a planned new federal courthouse in downtown Eugene has renewed interest in restoring the millrace to create a scenic link between campus and downtown.
