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Featured Class Notables
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.
Brian Gardner
Class of 1994
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John Heldt
Class of 1985
John A. Heldt (BS, 1985) published The Fountain, his twenty-first novel, in August 2022.
Jackson Morawski
Class of 2015
Jackson Morawski, BA '15 joined Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP in Anchorage, Alaska as an associate attorney to focus on Corporate Law and Commercial Litigation. He is licensed to practice law in Alaska and Oregon.
Amy Chaumeton
Class of 1988
Amy Chaumeton, MD, (Harris), BA ’88 (physical education), MS ’90 (exercise physiology), was named Vice President, Chief Medical Officer at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland, Oregon.
Samantha Engel
Class of 2020
SAMANTHA ENGEL, BA ’20 (public relations), was hired as account coordinator at Beyond Fifteen Communications, an Orange County, California-based agency that specializes in public relations, digital marketing, social media, and influencer marketing.
S. Mitchell
Class of 2021
S. RENEE MITCHELL, DEd ’21 (educational leadership), designer of the Black Youth Leadership Fund, a leadership program for Black youth in Portland meant to close racial wealth and inequality gaps stemming from residential segregation and other issues, was quoted in the Oregonian in a story about the launch of the program.
Tawaab Gouhar
Class of 2021
TAWAAB GOUHAR, MArch ’21, an architect who specializes in urban design, joined the Council for Interior Design Accreditation as an intern.
Christine Stillman
Class of 2019
CHRISTINE STILLMAN, MLA ’19 (landscape architecture), was promoted to associate with the Eugene Satre Group, responsible for project design and management, and leadership of the firm’s environmental initiative program.