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Have you been recently promoted or started a new job? Perhaps you are starting on a new educational journey. Maybe, you are newly married or recently added to your family. Let your fellow Ducks know what is happening in your life.
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Featured Class Notables
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.
Dawn Thompson
Class of 1998
DAWN THOMPSON, PhD '98 (biology), was appointed to the drug discovery team of Massachusetts-based LifeMine Therapeutics, developing medicines based on genomic research.
Adrienne Dowd
Class of 2001
ADRIENNE DOWD, BA '01 (English), was named an instructor of English at Manchester Community College in Connecticut.
Austin Hayes
Class of 2002
Board-certified plastic surgeon AUSTIN HAYES, BS '02 (general science), established a cosmetic surgery practice in Portland.
Joshua Lieberman
Class of 2002
JOSH LIEBERMAN, BS '02 (economics), was hired as a renewable project developer for NW Natural, a natural gas company based in Portland.
Brad Wilkins
Class of 2003
BRAD WILKINS, PhD '03 (exercise and movement science), was hired as vice president of science and innovation at Amp Human, a producer of athletic recovery and training products based in Park City, Utah.
Aubrey McCauley
Class of 2002
AUBREY McCAULEY, BS '02 (education studies), was promoted to talent solutions manager with ProFocus Technology, a tech staffing and consulting firm in Portland.
Matthew McCarrick
Class of 2005
After serving as caregivers for their mothers during cancer treatment, MATT McCARRICK, BA '05 (business administration), and his wife Sarah launched MCCARD clothing, providing comfortable and practical clothing for cancer patients.
Nicholas Shanmac
Class of 2005
NICK SHANMAC, BA '05 (political science), was hired as communications manager for Educational Service District 112 in Vancouver, Washington, where he'll provide support services to school districts throughout southwestern Washington.