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Featured Class Notables
Joe Fischer
Class of 1960
JOE FISCHER, BS ’60, MFA ’63 (fine and applied arts), continued his support of the Joe and Alona Fischer Scholarship Fund with a gift of $25,000. Joe has been supporting the scholarship fund since 2010, making a huge difference in the lives of aspiring artists along the way.
Margaret Lehrman
Class of 1966
Margie (McBride) Lehrman '66 has been honored by Columbia University as a 2018 Alumni Medalist in recognition of her work on behalf of the university for 10 years or more. She has organized all her class reunions, served six years on the Alumni Board (vice chair) of the Graduate School of Journalism, and now represents the Journalism School on the Alumni Trustee Nominating Committee, which helps select Trustees for Columbia University.
Byron Shenk
Class of 1970
Byron Shenk, MS '70 (physical education), received the 2018 Dr. Roman Gingerich Champion of Character Award from his undergraduate alma mater, Goshen College in Indiana.
Kathleen Langmo
Class of 1958
KATHLEEN LANGMO, BS '58 (education), has written two novels, Henrietta and Virginia.
Daniel Ness
Class of 2000
For the third time, Dan Ness, BA '00 (fine and applied arts), attended an international painters camp organized by the Toyama Prefectural Artistic and Cultural Association in Toyama, Japan, Oregon's sister state, as a representative artist.
Bradley Cascagnette
Class of 2002
Bradley Cascagnette, JD '02, has been appointed a judge for the Lane County Circuit Court.
Susan Klein
Class of 2004
Susan Klein, MFA '04 (painting), presented her art exhibition at the Sumter County Gallery of Art in South Carolina.
Diana Bolander
Class of 2005
Diana Bolander, MA '05 (arts management), has been hired as assistant director and curator of the Rahr-West Art Museum in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
Matthew Guy
Class of 2004
Matt Guy, BA '04 (English), has been named managing principal broker at Living Room Realty, which specializes in Portland, Vancouver, and north Oregon coast properties.
Hee-Jung Serenity Joo
Class of 2007
Hee-Jung Joo, PhD '07 (comparative literature), has been named director of the University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities.
Laura Harmon
Class of 2005
Laura Harmon, BS '05 (psychology), has been hired as women's cross-country and track-and-field head coach at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.
Thomas Romano
Class of 2005
Thomas Romano, JD '05, launched Kolitch Romano, an intellectual property law firm in Portland.
Mitchell Power
Class of 2006
Mitchell Power, PhD '06 (geography), and an international team of geographers and scientists, released a publicly searchable database of worldwide fire history information called the Global Modern Charcoal Dataset. He is an associate professor of geography at the University of Utah and curator of the Garrett Herbarium at the Natural History Museum of Utah.
Marcus Chan
Class of 2007
Marcus Chan, BA '07 (Chinese, business administration), is the Pacific Northwest director of sales for Cincinnati-based Cintas Corporation, a Fortune 500 company that serves businesses.
Sara Mostafavi
Class of 2007
Sara Mostafavi, BA '07 (multimedia design), is a data innovation product director at Nike and helps lead data strategy for the NXT Digital Innovation Team.
Griffin Goins
Class of 2008
Griffin Goins, BS '08 (journalism: magazine), has been hired as the associate director of development and college relations at Northern Maine Community College in Presque Isle.
Sean Abplanalp
Class of 2009
Sean Abplanalp, BA '09 (Chinese), released Husk, an serialized fiction podcast about the disappearance and subsequent search for a recent college graduate from Portland.
Jacob Coleman
Class of 2009
Jacob Coleman, MMus '09 (music performance), released a Brazilian-themed album, Splotch Ecology, with Bradley Kerns, a fellow professor at the University of Kentucky.
Nicole Freitag
Class of 2010
NICOLE FREITAG, BS '10 (news editorial), was hired as assistant coach for cross country/track and field at the University of Virginia.
Ian Hoffman
Class of 2010
Ian Hoffman, BArch '10 (architecture), has joined Cole Architects in Boise, Idaho, as a project architect and project manager.