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Featured Class Notables
Troy Jelinek
Class of 1992
TROY JELINEK, BS ’92 (planning, public policy and management), was named chief commercial officer for Minnesota-based Icario, a health care company.
Douglas Ramsthel
Class of 1986
DOUGLAS RAMSTHEL, BS ’86 (economics), coauthored the book, Access: Addressing the Obesity Crisis.
Aaron Walker
Class of 1991
AARON WALKER, BS ’91 (marketing), was hired as chief credit officer by Summit Bank of Eugene, central Oregon, and Portland.
Jon Wollmuth
Class of 1993
JON WOLLMUTH, BA ’93 (English), became principal at Island Park Elementary School in Washington state.
Brian Wright
Class of 1992
BRIAN WRIGHT, BS ’92 (speech: telecommunication and film, journalism: advertising), formerly the longtime chief merchandising officer for the Duck Store, became director of the VolShop at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, one of the top collegiate retailers in North America.
Laura Clarke
Class of 1996
LAURA CLARKE, MS ’96, PhD ’98 (physics), a physics professor in the College of Sciences at North Carolina State University, received the 2022 UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Yolanda Gibson
Class of 1996
YOLANDA SUAREZ, BA ’96 (speech: theater arts), played the title role in Alma, a play about a single mother and undocumented immigrant living in the US with her seventeen-year-old daughter, at ArtsWest in Seattle.
Joshua Gobel
Class of 1999
JOSH GOBEL, BS ’99 (environmental studies), a senior project manager with Olympia, Washington-based Thomas Architecture Studios, was promoted to associate principal.
Brian Imus
Class of 1996
BRIAN IMUS, BS ’96 (planning, public policy and management), executive director of the Illinois Green Alliance, a nonprofit that works to promote green buildings and sustainable communities, was recognized as a Notable Leader in Sustainability by Crain’s Chicago Business.
Scott White
Class of 1997
SCOTT WHITE, BA ’97 (history), a senior director with Alvarez and Marsal Taxand consulting firm, was named among the "People on the Move" by the San Francisco Business Times.
John Nuttbrock
Class of 1997
ANDY NUTTBROCK, BLArch ’97, was hired by Olson Engineering of Vancouver, Washington, and will provide land-use planning, project management, and landscape architecture design services.
Elizabeth Matteo
Class of 1998
ELIZABETH MATTEO, BS ’98 (psychology), was named the inaugural dean of the College of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences at Alvernia University in Pennsylvania.
Daniel McGee
Class of 1998
DANIEL McGEE, JD ’98, joined Keller and Heckman, an international law firm with practice in food and food additives and industrial and specialty chemicals.
Jinoo Hwang
Class of 1998
JINOO HWANG, BS ’98 (sociology), JD ’07, managing partner of Northwest Legal in Eugene, was appointed to the State Professional Responsibility Board, which reviews and prosecutes cases involving licensed attorneys in Oregon.
Dan Moshavi
Class of 1998
DAN MOSHAVI, PhD ’98 (management), was selected as Thomas and Evelyn Page Dean of the Fowler College of Business at San Diego State University.
Tiana Tozer
Class of 1990
PEARL WOLFE, MS ’90 (sociology), a former Lane County supervisor and recipient of a City of Eugene Human Rights Recognition award for her work with the Hope and Safety Alliance (formerly Womenspace), coauthored Walk Out the Door, a novel about domestic violence, with Evelyn Anderton.
Sarah Mensah
Class of 1987
SARAH MENSAH, BA ’87 (speech: telecommunication and film, journalism), vice president and general manager for Nike North America and the first Black woman in this role with the company, was featured in Footwear News as a trailblazer in business.
Amie Braik
Class of 1999
AMIE BRAIK, BS ’99 (anthropology), a fifth-grade teacher at Nick Poulakidas Elementary School in Nevada, won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Science Teaching for 2020.
Tiffany Madson
Class of 2002
TIFFANY REEVES, BA ’02 (Spanish), JD ’06, an adviser to institutional investor clients in domestic and international private investments, joined Faegre Drinker as a partner in the firm’s investment management practice in Minneapolis.
Ronald Pupke
Class of 1947
RON PUPKE, BS ’47 (education), MEd ’53 (physical education), was featured in the Chronicle, a newspaper covering the southern Willamette Valley, for his legacy of service to the Cottage Grove community as a teacher and coach.