Class Notes

MICHELLE LIGHT, BA ’95 (Clark Honors College, history), was appointed associate university librarian for special collections and director of the Beinecke Library of the Yale University Library.

Matthew Krause, MS '96 (independent study: industrial relations), was appointed senior vice president of human resources with Maze Therapeutics of San Francisco.

The Alaska-based Rasmuson Foundation awarded John Ingman, BS '00 (music), an Individual Artist project award to advance his work with Irish bagpipes.

This April I was promoted to Full Professor at State College of Florida, where I am also serve as the Biotechnology program manager for the Schools 2 year AS degree in Biotech. April was busy as I was also elected President of the United Faculty of Florida union chapter at SCF.

Nicole Granquist has joined Stoel Rives LLP. She joins Stoel's Environmental practice and is based in the firm's Sacramento, Calif. office. Former chair of Downey Brand’s Natural Resources Department, Nicole Granquist has been a fixture in California’s legal and environmental regulatory communities for more than a quarter-century. Her work centers on water quality regulatory compliance, enforcement defense, and litigation. Granquist provides counsel and defense on complex regulatory matters requiring a thorough understanding of the federal Clean Water Act and the California Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. She is frequently called upon by small and national private and public entities to serve as defense counsel in third-party citizen suits brought in federal court involving various municipal wastewater, industrial and manufacturing process water, and construction, municipal, and industrial stormwater discharge matters. Granquist also negotiates National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits, Waste Discharge Requirements (WDRs), and water reclamation requirements with the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and Regional Water Boards for water-related and reclamation projects. She has played a key role in influencing statewide policies regarding the development of Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), Basin Planning, and the SWRCB’s compliance schedule policy. Granquist received her J.D. from the University of Oregon School of Law, where she earned a specialized certificate in environmental law.

Derek Stoops, BA '98 (Spanish), was chosen to run Clovis Entertainment, a production company that focuses on one-hour drama series under Asylum Entertainment Group.

Gregg Walker, BS '99 (political science), was hired as senior managing director and head of business development for Divco West, a San Francisco-based real estate company.

Melanie Marconi, BS '02 (journalism: public relations), founded Vida, a coworking space in Portland designed by women to offer access to onsite, drop-in child care.

The painting, A Thousand Indecisions, by Leslie Ann Butler, BA '69 (speech), was chosen for a three-year exhibition at the US Embassy in Brunei.

Matt Kauffman, BS '92 (biology), received the 2018 Conservationist of the Year Award from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation for his research on elk migration.

After a long stint with Nike, John Schweitzer, BS '90 (economics), was named chief executive officer and chief financial officer of Hurley, a surfing apparel company in Costa Mesa, California.

Paula Lee Hobson, BA '86 (English), was named vice president for college advancement at Hartwick College in New Hampshire.

Eunice Lovi, BS '88 (speech: rhetoric and communication), MS '92 (public affairs), was appointed transit planning manager for Asheville, North Carolina.

Ramon Guimary, BS '60 (business administration), received a 2019 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement award from publisher Marquis Who's Who.

Prior to the 50th Class Anniversary date Grant Buell ('69) and Sam Anderson ('69) played golf at the Mission Hills Golf Resort with 12 courses in Shenzhen, China September, 2019

Jeff Holter '78 and his wife Shawn and their friends came down to San Francisco from Seattle to join my wife Kathy and me '78 for the Oregon/Stanford game. (Oregon won 21 to 6!) on Sept. 21st. Good times had by all!

Diana Hollingshead, BS Biology '97, co-owner of Eugene Skin Divers Supply, was inducted into the class of 2018 Women Divers Hall of Fame. The members of WDHOF are an elite group that includes the most notable women leaders and innovators in the diving community. There are currently 238 Members in the Women Divers Hall of Fame, hailing from 30 U.S. states and Territories and 20 countries worldwide.

John A. Heldt (BS, 1985) published "The Patriots," his 24th novel and the first in the Stone Shed trilogy, in August 2024.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DF6WRPDJ/

Christian, June 2019, was hired as a Philanthropic Assistant at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

A new novel from Molly Ringle (1996, Anthropology) is being released on Sep. 3 from Central Avenue Publishing. ALL THE BETTER PART OF ME tells the story of a 25-year-old actor who must come to terms with his bisexuality when he realizes he's falling for his best friend.