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Featured Class Notables
Alycia Pirmohamed
Class of 2014
Alycia Pirmohamed, MFA '14 (creative writing), was one of four winners of the 92nd Street Y's 2019 Discovery Poetry Contest for her poem, The Making of a Ghost.
Samantha Freson
Class of 2018
Samantha Freson, BArch '18, has joined Stemach Design and Architecture in Bend as a design professional.
Marlo Sweatman
Class of 2016
The Jamaican National Team selected former Ducks soccer player Marlo Sweatman, BA '16 (general social science), to play in the Women's World Cup this summer in France.
M. Jackson
Class of 2017
M JACKSON, PhD ’17 (geography), a glaciologist and geographer who has visited approximately 1,000 glaciers, was selected as speaker for VOICES, a lecture series that brings influential and powerful women to Portland in a platform dedicated to inspiring, empowering, and connecting women.
Sanne Godfrey
Class of 2013
Sanne Godfrey, BA '13 (journalism), was named education reporter for the News-Review in Roseburg.
Luis Erazo
Class of 2015
Luis Erazo, MArch '15, joined Pivot Architecture in Eugene as a product designer and multimedia fabricator.
Riley Mulvihill
Class of 2017
Riley Mulvihill, BA '17 (sociology), has been named technology instructor for TranZed Apprenticeship Services, which offers apprenticeship programs throughout the mid-Atlantic area.
Jonathan Creighton
Class of 2013
Jon Creighton, MArch '13, has joined Carleton Hart Architecture of Portland as a job captain.
Barouch Ben-Zion
Class of 1968
California's Sonoma State University recognized Barry Ben-Zion, MA '68, PhD '73 (economics), as its Distinguished Alumnus of 2019.
John Minan
Class of 1972
John Minan, JD '72, was a 2019 keynote speaker on global climate change legal issues at the annual international Kuwait International Law School conference in Kuwait. He is an emeritus law professor at the University of San Diego.
William Fisher
Class of 1971
William Fisher, MA '71, PhD '74 (mathematics), was inducted into the Hall of Honor at California State University at Chico.
Red Estes
Class of 1960
Gene Red Estes, BS '60 (education), MS '64 (interdisciplinary studies), and Myrna Robertson Estes, BS '61 (business administration), celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary September 2. The pair have been associated with Fresno State University for 55 years, Gene as a track-and-field and cross-country coach.
Michael Grove
Class of 1967
Michael Grove, BS '67 (economics), is chairman and president of Bank of the Rockies, the oldest bank in Montana.
Dawn Berry-Furtado
Class of 2001
Dawn Berry-Furtado, BS '01 (general science), was inducted into the Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada) Sports Hall of Fame for her golf achievements.
James Rulli
Class of 1970
James Rulli, BA '70 (political science), retired after two decades as a Clark County Superior Court judge.
Dylan Nelson
Class of 2001
Dylan Nelson, MFA '01 (creative writing), was approved for tenure and promoted to associate professor of film and media studies at Colorado College.
Andrew Wenrick
Class of 2002
Andrew Wenrick, MArch '02, has opened his first hometown art show, Displacement Zero, at the Claremont Museum of Art in California.
Terry Bennett
Class of 2002
Terry Bennett, MEd '02 (educational policy and management), has been named superintendent of the North Douglas School District.
Jennifer McWeeny
Class of 2003
Jennifer McWeeny, MA '03 (French), PhD '05 (philosophy), was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to research French philosophers Simone de Beauvoir and Maurice Merleau-Ponty in Paris.
Matthew Brankman
Class of 2004
Matthew Brankman, BS '04 (general science), was named principal of Bridport Central School in Vermont.