BILL BELCHER, BS '18 (music), was appointed conductor of the Carson Chamber Singers and the Carson City Symphony Chorus by the Symphony Association Board of Nevada.

For her work as a first-year teacher at Lincoln Middle School in Cottage Grove, HALLI ROUSSELL, BS '18 (biology), MEd '19 (curriculum and teaching), was awarded the 2019 Outstanding Early Career Classroom Teacher Award for Region 3 by the Oregon Science Teachers Association.

JESKE GLENN, BS '18 (mathematics), was chosen for the 2019 Cohort of Teaching Fellows of the Knowles Teacher Initiative, and teaches at Fremont High School in Sunnyvale, California.

KAYLA FUNK, BArch '19, was hired as a junior designer by Woodblock Architecture, a design and architecture firm based in Portland.

Known by her stage name Wynne, SINA HOLWERDA, BA '19 (music), released her first full-length rap album project, If I May.

BRENT ROCHELEAU, JD '19, became an intern in the office of Cass County Prosecutor Victor Fitz of Michigan.

Tana Atchley Culbertson, '00 was hired as the Director of Network Coordination for the Willamette River Network. The newly formed network is focused on a healthy Willamette River system, where people and rivers thrive together.

Tana Atchley, '00 and Brandon Culbertson, '10 were married in December 2018, and celebrated with family and friends in August 2019. They live in Beaverton, OR with their son.

The Oregon Substitute Teacher Association named MAX WHITE, a member of the class of 1985, the Oregon Substitute Teacher of the Year.

LINDSEY LeMAY, a member of the class of 2017, was hired as head lacrosse coach at Northern Michigan University.

COBI LEWIS, a member of the class of 2001, senior vice president and director of corporate responsibility for Umpqua Bank, was recognized nationally as a top influencer in finance and was featured in a Portland Business Journal story for her work in economic empowerment.

Chris Halverson BA ’05 (Rel. Stud. & Hist.) co-edited the first major update to Doberstein's "Minister's Prayer Book" since 1959. It will be available from Augsburg Fortress starting February 4th 2020.

Favorite class was taught by Storyteller, Actor and Writer Mark Lewis.

In March 2020, Joshua married the love of his life, Tiffany Alcala, in Cedar Creek, TX. In July 2020, Joshua Hector '15 became the Director of Enrollment for the School of Physical Therapy at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, TX. He also completed his second master's degree from Concordia University-Irvine in Exercise Science in January 2021.

Through his role as Director of Enrollment, he seeks qualified applicants for the DPT program and would love to see some Ducks fly their way to UIW's School of Physical Therapy!

Neil Kagan, JD '81, authored an article showing that Congress broke a deadlock over the disposition of wild areas in national forests because of a lawsuit to preserve such areas in Oregon. Blazing a Path to Wilderness: A Case Study of Impact Litigation through the Lens of Legislative History, 11 Mich. J. Envtl. & Admin. Law 87 (2022), https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjeal/vol11/iss1/4/. To moot the Oregon lawsuit and prevent more lawsuits in its mold around the country, legislators who had resisted expansive wilderness legislation agreed to laws that preserve more than nine million acres of wild federal land in twenty-three states as wilderness. Congress nearly doubled the acreage the U.S. Forest Service had recommended for wilderness designation in those states collectively. The Oregon lawsuit became a reality only with the financial and moral support of Elizabeth Reed, deceased, JD ’81.
A 20-minute discussion of the lawsuit and its impact is part of the Good Legal Stories Series. The interview is posted here: Protecting Biodiversity Part 1, Oregon Natural Resources Council v. Block, Normandy Chair for Peace (Feb. 2, 2022), https://normandychairforpeace.org/2022/02/02/protecting-biodiversity/#do.

Donald Ehrich, MS 86 was recently elected to serve as a Lieutenant Governor in the Pacific Northwest District of Kiwanis International. A Kiwanian since 1983, Don has served many years as a local Club President and for the coming year will also be the Lt Gov of Division 74 which is composed of 8 Lane County and Roseburg Kiwanis clubs. Kiwanis International is a service organization with over 550,000 members that has focused for over 100 years on service to communities and primarily youth. Don has also been serving as a Director of the Creswell Heritage Foundation since retirement from Federal and Military Service in 2015.

I was selected as a 2019 Fund for Teachers Fellow. Through this fellowship, I attended the CPI Spanish Immersion School in Costa Rica in June 2019. I created my own professional development plan to learn Spanish, promote bilingualism, and engage students and parents in culturally-responsive learning experiences.

You can read about my blog at https://fft2019costarica.blogspot.com/.

Ken Colwell, PhD '03 (management), was chosen as dean of the School of Business Administration at the University of Houston at Victoria, Texas.

Sarah Berry, BA '03 (sociology), has joined McGee Wealth Management in Tigard as vice president and wealth manager.

Kate Salyers, BS '04 (economics, business administration), was hired as executive vice president and chief credit officer for Citizens Bank in Corvallis.