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Cornelia “Corky” Hoppe ’51, a member of Delta Delta Delta, lives in San Francisco, California, where she has a private practice as a marriage and family therapist. Hoppe recently published a book titled Growth on the Path.
Norm Hill ’53 is a retired pharmacist. Hill writes, “The good news is that . . . I have been born again, and I am a believer. My name is in the Book of Life.”
Joe Rigert ’56 has published his third book, An Irish Tragedy: How Sex Abuse by Irish Priests Helped Cripple the Catholic Church. Rigert is retired from the Star Tribune newspaper in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
John Hendrickson ’57, a member of Sigma Nu, and Marlene Grasseschi Hendrickson ’57 celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary with more than two hundred friends and relatives at the Turlock Golf and Country Club in Turlock, California.
Tom Doggett ’60, a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon, recently retired as vice president of television programming at Oregon Public Broadcasting. The Pubic Television Programmers Association recognized Doggett with a Lifetime Achievement Award at its annual meeting in Boston last August.
Stan Wisniewski, M.F.A. ’62, lives in Pennsylvania, where his paintings were displayed at a one-man show at the Clinton County Arts Council for the month of September 2008.
In honor of Oregon’s sesquicentennial, Alaby Blivet ’63 and wife Sara Lee Cake ’45 plan to drive their solar- and biofuel-powered tour bus to every location in Oregon “from Ada to the Zigzag Mountains” and at each stop celebrate by cooking and eating an “etymologically appropriate sesquipedalian hot dog.”
Twelve drawings by Terry Melton, M.F.A. ’64, are featured in the Fall-Winter issue of Northwest Review. The drawings are taken from a limited edition serigraph portfolio titled “Leda and the Swan.”
Stephen Scott ’67 was chosen as a United States Artists fellow for 2008. Scott and his compositions for “bowed piano ensemble” were the subjects of an article in the Summer 2008 issue of Oregon Quarterly.
Victor Marshand Webb, M.S. ’68, has retired from his position as journalism professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication.
Vivian Wilson Edersheim ’69 retired in October 2008 from U.S. Air Force public affairs after more than twenty-one years of service. She and her husband, Les, have moved to Raymond, Washington, where they plan to pursue a variety of hobbies and enjoy time with their friends and family.
Jerry Wright ’69 is five years into his second career as a professor of advertising. Wright was honored in 2008 for exceptional teaching in the College of Communications at California State University, Fullerton.
Kathleen Alban Tahja, M.L.S. ’71, retired after twenty-seven years with the Mendocino Unified School District, and is now concentrating on her work as an author. She published two books in 2008: Early Mendocino Coast, a photo history of the Mendocino Coast 100 years ago, and Rails Across the Noyo: A Rider’s Guide to the Skunk Train, which features information on the local tourist train line. She lives in rural Mendocino County with her husband, David.
Larry Erickson ’72, M.Mus. ’76, is a retired Portland public school music teacher. Last year he played clarinet in the Western International Band Clinic Directors Band in Seattle. He also is principal alto saxophone in the Beaverton Community Band. Last July in Vancouver, B.C., he was concertmaster of the ClarinetFest Conference Choir.
Marel Kalyn (formerly Marcia Pander-Lynch) ’72, M.F.A. ’79, is proud to announce that her son’s feature film, Selfless, won four major awards at the Bend Film Festival and has screened at film festivals in Portland and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Kerry Harms Taylor ’73, M.A.’76, was appointed executive director of the Pay It Forward Foundation in November 2008. The foundation is dedicated to helping individuals change the world, one favor at a time.
Robert Huffman ’74 is principal pianist at Pacific Artists Dance Center in Southwest Portland and serves as master class dance accompanist for Whitebird Inc. One of the top ballet accompanists in the nation, he recently completed his twenty-fifth summer at Whitman College as principal pianist for the Summer Dance Lab.
Leslie Martin ’76, M.M. ’78 and ’79, presented concerts at two European organ festivals last summer. Martin is an adjunct professor of organ, harpsichord, and keyboard harmony at Seattle Pacific University and is organist and choirmaster at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Seattle.
Van Edwards, M.F.A. ’77, was one of two photographers featured in an exhibit at the University of Houston, Clear Lake titled, “Along the River Grande: A New World Becoming,” on display from November 2008 through January 2009.
Thomas J. Fullmer ’78 is enjoying his third year as vice president and business development officer for IronStone Bank in Portland and Lake Oswego. Tom has been married for twenty-eight years to Maureen Casey Fullmer ’78, a member of Alpha Phi. Their daughter Chelsea is a junior at Beaverton High School, and son Ryan Fullmer is a sophomore at the University. Tom is a member of the Rotary Club of Portland and board director for the Oregon International Air Show and the State Games of Oregon.
Gaylord Reagan, Ph.D. ’78, recently completed training in earned value management systems and received his Six Sigma Green Belt certification. He also published an article critique in the journal CrossTalk and is currently serving as a member of the team redeveloping Northrop Grumman’s enterprise search capability.
Tom Sullivan ’78 is a board member of the Lane County chapter of the UO Alumni Association. He assisted with the Tailgate Auction to raise funds for scholarships and is donating 10 percent of his commissions from his day job as a life insurance agent to the Ford Alumni Center fund.
DUCKS AFIELD
COURTESY PEGGY MELLUM
You Can Take It with You
Mike ’69, D.M.D. ’72, and Peggy (Remington) Mellum ’72 and a dozen friends traveled to South America this summer, a trip that included a four-day, twenty-six-mile trek along the Inca Trail to the ruins of Machu Picchu, shown in the background.
R. Daniel Lindahl ’80 has been elected a member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Academy membership is by invitation only and is limited to lawyers who have established a reputation for excellence while focusing substantially on appeals during at least the last fifteen years.
Joy Green, M.S. ’82, has been teaching dance and physical education for more than two decades at Kodiak High School in Alaska. She plans to retire this year.
Maria E. Rodriguez, M.A. ’84, was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of the Contemporary Museum of Baltimore, Maryland. Rodriguez is a partner at the Baltimore office of the law firm Venable, LLP, where she focuses on business and commercial litigation. She is a member of the American Bar Association, and serves as editor-in-chief of Litigation magazine.
Edgar Beals ’85 married his life partner, Michael Mazzaferro, in October 2008. Their two children, Angela and Carlo, as well as friends and extended families, were in attendance.
Jason Ruderman ’86 is starting his own DJ business in the San Francisco Bay area, where he plays at weddings and parties. He cites his years in the Oregon Marching Band and Pep Band as evidence of his long-standing devotion to music.
Kathie Fenton Stanley ’86 was named chief of staff to the UO vice president for student affairs in May 2008. Her husband (John) Brian Stanley ’85 is assistant director of admissions and residency officer for the UO. Much to their delight, their son Matthew Stanley is now a freshman at the University.
Jennifer Thompson ’86, who teaches elementary school in Juneau, Alaska, received an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship for the current school year. Thompson is one of fifteen science, math, and technology educators selected to spend the year in Washington, D.C., working with policymakers to advance educational programs.
Joe Arndt ’87 is the proud new father of Beatrice Annabella Arndt, born in October 2008. Joe and his wife, Leslie, were married in early 2008. Joe is managing editor at KGW-TV in Portland and serves on the Oregon Associated Press board. He is also a member of the Oregon State Bar’s Bar-Press-Broadcasters Council, a group committed to promoting understanding between Oregon’s legal system and news media.
Sandra Dunn Stevens ’88, a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, owns and operates Ohana Arts in Florida. The company’s mission is to instill the values of Hawaiian culture through workshops and performances.
After thirteen years as a freelancer, Tim Clarke ’89, M.A. ’93, is living in New York, having taken a senior-level audio engineering position at Fisher-Price, where he composes and arranges instrumental pieces, works with a lyricist writing songs, and designs sounds for a number of Fisher-Price products.
Jack M. Coelho, M.S. ’89, retired from a career teaching fine arts in public schools and now operates a ceramic design company in Joseph, Oregon, where he specializes in pottery, sculpture, and architectural ceramics, and leads ceramic design workshops.
Robin A. Keister ’91 coauthored (with California Academy of Sciences ornithologist Luis Baptista) a paper titled “Why Birdsong Is Sometimes Like Music,” which appeared in the journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. The paper explores the concept of birds as both vocalists and instrumentalists and examines a variety of compositions from Western music that feature birdsong.
Michael Waite, M.F.A. ’93, lives in Redmond, Washington, with his wife and two children. He is the studio head of Amaze Entertainment, a video game production company, and recently published a young-adult novel, The Witches of Dredmoore Hollow, under his pen name, Riford McKenzie.
Adam Wendt ’94 started an educational media company in 1999 called Iris Media, which has secured more than $9 million in federal grants to develop, produce, and distribute media programs. Adam lives and works in Eugene with his wife and three children.
Lyn Travis Hooper ’95 has received awards for her efforts to support historic preservation in the rehabilitation of the historic Antlers Hotel in Lemoore, California, and the Hotel Fresno Rehabilitation Feasibility Study for the city of Fresno, California. The latter received the prestigious Governor’s Historic Preservation Award, granted by California’s Office of Historic Preservation on behalf of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Kristina Britton ’96, a member of Sigma Kappa, serves as vice president of operations at Moore Information in Portland. Britton has worked for the company since 2000 and now manages data collection and processing, human resources, and information technology for the national opinion research and strategic analysis firm.
Though no longer dancing due to an injury, Chikako Narita-Batson ’96 is a successful financial analyst at KPMG in New York City and says “most of my basic work philosophy comes from my experiences in the UO dance department.”
Susan Lyle, D.M.A. ’97, wrote and directed Marian Anderson—Her Life in Song, a retrospective program featuring narration, film clips of the great singer, and live performers, in honor of the installation of a bronze sculpture of Anderson at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Lyle is on a research sabbatical from the Petrie School of Music, working on adapting techniques used in functional voice training for the rehabilitation of injured voices.
Don Addison, Ph.D. ’98, has been the music and language producer, writer, and host for the “Wisdom of the Elders” public radio programs. The series covers tribal groups along the Lewis and Clark Trail from Native American viewpoints, with materials drawn from on-site reservation interviews of tribal elder historians.
Keri Janssen ’98 is executive director of the American Heart Association’s Silicon Valley division. Janssen joined the medical nonprofit in 2005, and most recently served as senior business director.
Lysley Tenorio, M.F.A. ’98, received a 2008 Whiting Writers’ Award. The Whiting awards are given to ten young writers each year who display extraordinary talent and promise. Tenorio teaches English and creative writing at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California.
Sarah Beth (Smith) Byrum ’99 founded All That! Dance Company the year she graduated and was honored by the National Dance Educators Association for her work in dance education. Her company is growing, with studios in Eugene and Springfield.
Matthew K. Clarke ’99 has joined the aviation division of Portland’s Landye Bennett Blumstein law firm as a partner following several years with the Wolk law firm, a well-known plaintiffs’ aviation law firm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has worked on such notable commercial aircraft cases as the US Airways Flight 5481 crash in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the American Airlines Flight 1420 crash in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Mazdak Khamda, M.M. ’00, was hired to teach piano at Napa Valley College in California. In 2008 he released a new solo piano CD titled Grey, containing original compositions that mix Iranian and American cultures.
Andrew M. Wenrick, M.Arch. ’02, practices architecture in Lucerne, Switzerland, where he lives with his wife, Andrea, and their six-month-old daughter, Ashtyn.
Dan Flanagan, M.M. ’03, was appointed acting concertmaster of the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra and Sacramento Opera. He’ll be a soloist with the philharmonic this season in the Beethoven Triple Concerto and Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. He also was appointed lecturer of violin at the University of California at Davis, where he will be a soloist this season with the University Symphony.
Jonathon Banks ’05 is a video game designer currently at work on the PlayStation Network title, Pain, an action comedy with downloadable expansions.
Joanna Bristow ’05 is in her third year at Dancers’ Workshop, a nonprofit dance studio and presenting organization in Jackson, Wyoming. In addition to teaching modern dance and ballet, Joanna’s full-time position includes marketing. She says, “Thought you’d all like to know that what you taught me is being appreciated and applied every day out here in Wyoming.”
Tyler Mack ’05 was named one of the best and brightest young professionals in the newspaper business in the December 2008 edition of Presstime magazine’s annual “20 under 40” selection. The feature is designed to recognize those who have proven themselves as “change agents within their companies and the industry, providing much-needed leadership and vision.” Mack is director of online sales and marketing for The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, where he lives with his wife, Sally.
Cassandra Manuelito-Kerkvliet, Ph.D. ’05, became the first Native American woman to ascend to the presidency of an accredited university outside the tribal college system when she was inaugurated as president of Seattle’s Antioch University in October.
Dave Camwell, D.M.A. ’06, assistant professor of saxophone and jazz studies at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, has had four recent articles published by Saxophone Journal. Camwell and wife Jillian welcomed a baby boy into the world in November.
Christopher Thomas ’06 attended USC’s graduate program, Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television, after his UO graduation. He interned on ABC’s hit show Lost as orchestrator and conductor. Thomas was a music editor on Sony Pictures’ Dragon Wars, which became the highest-selling film in Korean history. He was the youngest nominee for Best Orchestrator in the 2007 Academy of Film and TV Music Awards, finishing as runner-up in the competition.
Jerry Hui, M.M. ’07, won the 2008 Robert Helps Prize in Composition from the University of South Florida for his new choral work, Of Water and Love.
Delia Johnson, M.Actg. ’07, received her CPA license in July 2008 and has been working for the Alexandria, Virginia, accounting firm Kositzka, Wicks, and Company since October.
Bill Belardo ’08 works as an environmental specialist for the Cuyahoga County Emergency Management Agency in Ohio. His job entails ensuring that HAZMAT facilities abide by EPA standards.
Betty Jean Taylor Bartholomew ’45 died in October 2008 of pancreatic cancer at age eighty-five. She had a long and distinguished career as a pianist and organist, winning many awards for her service to churches and communities in five states. She is survived by her five children and five grandchildren.
Alva Granquist Treadgold ’45, J.D. ’47, a member of Sigma Kappa, died in August 2008. After graduating at the top of her law school class, Treadgold and her husband, Don Treadgold ’43, moved to England, where he was a Rhodes scholar. After their return to the states, Don took a job teaching Russian history at the University of Washington, while Alva was active in a number of UW organizations, and later worked at a Seattle law firm. The two raised three children and a foster child.
Donald Harry Stanton ’49, a member of Phi Delta Theta, died in October 2008 at age eighty-four. His role as cocaptain of the 1949 football team helped carry the Ducks to the Cotton Bowl that year and earned Stanton a place in the Hall of Fame. After a career in the lumber industry, Stanton retired to San Carlos, Mexico, with his wife of sixty-two years, Polly Stanton ’47.
Frances Robson Brown ’50, a member of Sigma Kappa, died in August 2008 at age eighty. A lifelong Oregonian, Brown worked as a teacher’s assistant in the special education department at West Albany High School. In her later years, she enjoyed wintering in Palm Springs and always remained an avid Ducks fan.
Diane Mecham Williams ’50, a member of Delta Delta Delta, died in November 2008 at age seventy-nine. Williams was the society editor at the Santa Rosa, California, Press-Democrat from 1948 to 1950, and later owned a string of clothing shops in the Bay Area. Her two children learned principles of running a successful business while working in her stores, and Williams and her daughter operated shops side by side in Santa Rosa until 2005.
Lawrence Blunt ’52, a member of Phi Gamma Delta, died in September 2008.
Kendall E. M. Nash ’57 died in August 2008 at age eighty-two. After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II and completing his education, Nash practiced law in Newport and the Portland area. In later years, he and his wife, Nancy Peterson Nash ’49, operated a travel company, escorted tour groups abroad, and taught courses in low-cost travel. He is survived by his two sons, Robert and Douglas Nash ’84, and four grandchildren.
John R. McCulloch Jr. ’63, L.L.B. ’65, a member of Alpha Tau Omega, died in July 2008 at age sixty-seven. McCulloch spent three decades as a trial attorney for the Oregon Department of Justice, serving as solicitor general and chief trial counsel, until he retired in 1999 to enter private practice. He was a Salem city councilor in the late 1970s and helped to create Minto-Brown Island Park’s running paths. Equally devoted to his family and the constant pursuit of mental excellence, McCulloch required each of his children to read a book a week in order to stimulate conversation during Sunday waffle brunches.
Emeritus professor of political science Jim Klonoski died in late January due to a brain tumor. He was eighty-three. Klonoski earned his doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1958 and came to the UO in 1961. He was an expert on constitutional law and politics and on the American presidency. Klonoski chaired the Lane County Democrats from 1970 to 1974 and then the state party from 1974 to 1980. In 1978, he married Ann Aiken ’74, J.D. ’79, now a federal judge in Eugene. Klonoski retired in 1996, but returned three years later and taught until 2002.
1919 Old Oregon launches. One headline reads “Alumni Magazine at Last” over an article proclaiming “College friendships are said to be the most durable and precious of life. Strengthen and keep them ever fresh through Old Oregon.” The inaugural issue also includes “When Oregon’s Doors Opened,” a reminiscence by Ellen Condon McCornack ’78 who writes that in the University’s first year the campus was “a bare rolling hillside” and that “Deady Hall stood alone” with no trees or vines “to soften the austerity of its lonely dignity.”
1929 Melissa Hall ’94 visits campus and recalls how the women of her graduating class were given to “revolutionizing”: not joining the organized yelling at athletic events, removing their hats during lectures, and taking gym classes—a first for women on campus. One barrier remained unbreached, however, as her female classmates refrained from leaving the city limits without written permission from the dean of women.
1939 The Oregon “Tall Firs” beat Ohio State 46 to 33 to win the National Intercollegiate basketball championship.
1949 The Erb Memorial Union is rising in the heart of campus, the result of decades of dreaming, planning, and fundraising since the class of 1923 initiated a pledge drive for a student center.
1959 On the occasion of Oregon’s centennial year, assistant professor of architecture Lewis Crutcher bemoans the dismal appearance of Oregon cities, areas that “crush people together like cattle” among billboards, subdivisions with treeless expanses of roofs and utility poles, parking meters, parking lots, and cars.
1969 In late January, 41.7 inches of snow fall on Eugene, causing the first-ever closing of the UO.
1979 Animal House, filmed in and around Eugene and the UO, is a huge box office hit. “As an alum, I’m suddenly gaining a certain amount of prestige, particularly among current undergraduates,” beams Cathy Castillo ’65.
1989 UO president Paul Olum announces a recent gift pushing the Campaign for Oregon past the halfway point toward its five-year goal of $60 million.
1999 A Mac Court celebration marks completion of the Oregon Campaign, the largest fundraising effort in state history. Surpassing a “wildly optimistic” goal of $150 million, the campaign brings in $255 million.
