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Featured Class Notables
Bruce Bechtol
Class of 1969
BRUCE BECHTOL, PhD '69 (geography), was named a 2019 inductee into the Oroville Union High School District Hall of Fame in California.
Leslie Ann Butler
Class of 1969
A painting by Portland artist LESLIE ANN BUTLER, BS '69 (speech), was chosen by the Ambassador to Brunei for a three-year exhibition at the US Embassy in Bandar Seri Begawan, and four of her other paintings were recently featured on the sets of the new series, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists.
Clark Kokich
Class of 1973
CLARK KOKICH, BS '73 (finance), was appointed a nonexecutive chairman of the board for LiveRamp, a San Francisco-based tech platform.
Mark Theisen
Class of 1972
MARK THEISEN, BS '72 (political science), announced retirement after 27 years as a lobbyist in California's State Capitol and senior legislative assistant to a California congressman.
Lester Friedman
Class of 1974
LESTER FRIEDMAN, BS '74 (speech: telecommunication and film), was named a recipient of the 2019 Oregon Association of Realtors' Distinguished Service Award for his work as a principal broker with Coldwell Banker in Bend.
J. Rand
Class of 1977
PATRICK RAND, MArch '77, won the UNC System Board of Governors award for excellence in teaching at North Carolina State.
Ann Notthoff
Class of 1976
For her work for the Natural Resources Defense Council, ANN NOTTHOFF, BA '76 (community service and public affairs) was named to the Top 100 of Capitol Weekly, a California-based publication covering state government and politics.
Daniel Harris
Class of 1968
DANIEL HARRIS, JD '82, and his wife Susan recently finished an 18-month stint in Russia working as legal volunteers facilitating humanitarian projects.
Brian Smith
Class of 1988
BRIAN SMITH, BA '88 (political science), was named chief ethics and compliance officer at the University of California, San Francisco.
Cody Yeager
Class of 1988
CODY YEAGER, MA '88 (comparative literature), has retired from a deanship at Southwestern Oregon Community College and lives in The Dalles.
Frederick Lovingier
Class of 1992
FRED LOVINGIER, BS '92 (political science), has been appointed district manager for the Las Vegas office of Insperity, a provider of human resources and business performance solutions.
Janet Wees
Class of 1990
Janet Wees M.Ed. 1990 (Gifted and Talented Education), had her first novel published on April 3, 2018, by Second Story Press in Canada. The middle-school novel is based on the story of a Jewish boy and his family hiding from the Nazis in Holland during WWII. Janet is a retired teacher and university lecturer, and lives in Calgary Canada.
Tiffany Mills
Class of 1992
TIFFANY MILLS, BA '92 (Clark Honors College, dance), who is celebrating 20 years as artistic director of her New York City-based dance company, Tiffany Mills Company, has been invited to the Summer Festival Residency at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Michael Horne
Class of 1993
MICHAEL HORNE, MBA '93 (business), has been appointed executive vice president of worldwide sales for San Francisco-based tech firm Swift Navigation, which provides positioning technology for autonomous vehicles.
Erika Jostad
Class of 1993
ERIKA JOSTAD, BA '93 (philosophy), chief ranger at Denali National Park, Alaska, recently completed a term as president of the National Park Rangers Association, where she received visits from then-president Barack Obama and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Joseph Solga
Class of 1993
After almost 20 years as a deputy public defender in Napa County, JOSEPH SOLGA, JD '93, was appointed to fill a vacancy on the county's Superior Court.
John Chang
Class of 1995
Clackamas Community College hired JOHN CHANG, BS '95 (economics), as executive director of the college's fundraising foundation.
Kyle McGowan
Class of 1996
KYLE McGOWAN, BS '96 (marketing), was appointed vice president for university advancement at Idaho State University.
Chad Stewart
Class of 1998
CHAD STEWART, BS '98 (biology), was announced as the new forest supervisor for the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies.
Travis Humble
Class of 2000
TRAVIS HUMBLE, MS '00, PhD '05 (chemistry), a scientist with Tennessee-based Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was named coeditor in chief of a new quantum computing journal, ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing, published by the Association for Computing machinery.