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Class Notes

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Featured Class Notables

 

Kanealii Ngosorio

Kāneali‘i Ng-Osorio earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from the UO in 1998. He is now an enterprise business analyst for Kamehameha Schools, serves on the board of directors for the UO Alumni Association, and is the Hawaii Ducks regional UOAA chapter president. Kāne shares what motivates him to stay so involved supporting current and future Ducks, along with advice for current students and recent graduates.
 


 

A career committed to advocacy

Darrell Rico Doss, JD ’95, recently made the move from Capitol Hill to General Motors. He looks back on the last nearly three decades of advocacy work, including navigating the financial crisis of 2007–08, serving as Congressional Black Caucus policy director, and working in the Japanese government.

Notebook that says New Mindset New Results with coffee cup and succulent on a table

The Mindful Duck

March 13, 2023
People management leader Humberto Chacon, BA ’87 (psychology), shares how mindfulness can positively impact your productivity and relationships, both personally and professionally.

Eric White

Class of 2006
Eric White, BS '06 (economics), became a shareholder at Portland-based Meketa Investment Group.

Nopporn Kichanan

Class of 2006
Nopporn Kichanan, MArch '06 (landscape architecture), has joined Thomas & Hutton in Charleston, South Carolina, as a landscape architect.

Aaron Brooks

Class of 2007
Former Ducks basketball player Aaron Brooks, BS '07 (political science), was inducted into the Seattle Public Schools Athletic Hall of Fame.

Anne Petersen

Class of 2007
Anne Petersen, MA '07 (English), delivered a convocation address at Carleton College in Minnesota.

Andrew Mehm

Class of 2009
Andrew Mehm, BS '09 (economics), has joined the Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, office of Agent Owned Realty as an agent.

Steven Laurie

Class of 2009
Steven Laurie, MS '09, PhD '12 (human physiology), contributed to NASA's Twins Study, which helps scientists better understand the impacts of spaceflight on the human body through the study of identical twins.

Heidi Schreck

Class of 2009
HEIDI SCHRECK, BA '09 (English), is starring in an Amazon Prime series, What the Constitution Means to Me, based on her play of the same name.

Connie Atchley

Class of 2010
The Oregon Institute of Technology has appointed Connie Atchley, MS '10 (interdisciplinary studies: applied information management), to chief information officer and vice president of information technology services.

Hossein Peigahi

Class of 1964
Hossein Peigahi, BArch '64, returned to Eugene after practicing architecture for years in Washington, where he designed high schools, including Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma. He has displayed his art in the Bellevue Arts Museum and the Tacoma Art Museum.

Eric Johansen

Class of 1981
ERIC JOHANSEN, BS '81 (geography), retired after 36 years as a financial advisor to Portland and other governments in Oregon, having assisted with the bond financing of major public capital projects.

Deborah Summers

Class of 1981
Former Ducks basketball player Debbie Adams, BS '81 (community service and public affairs), was inducted into the Seattle Public Schools Athletic Hall of Fame.

Kevin Wilcock

Class of 1982
Kevin Wilcock, BArch '82 (architecture), was named associate principal for the Honolulu office of architecture firm WRNS Studio.

G. Kennedy

Class of 1968
George Kennedy, BA '68 (political science), retired from the foreign service as a senior officer and federal executive. He recently published his memoir, Cotton Fields to Summits, which is the first volume of a trilogy titled Crosshairs.

Stephen Wallace

Class of 1988
Stephen Wallace, JD '88, has been appointed Superior Court judge for Kodiak, Alaska.

Randall Huntington

Class of 1982
Randy Huntington, BS '82 (physical education), is head coach of the Chinese national track-and-field team, which is training for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Charles Flowers

Class of 1991
As part of the city's National Poetry Month in April, the West Hollywood City Council issued a commemorative proclamation to Charles Flowers, MFA '91 (creative writing), the city poet laureate.

Darin DeAngeli

Class of 1989
Darin DeAngeli, MBA '89 (finance), JD '91, was appointed to the Public Employee Retirement System Retirement Board in Boise.

Dennis Bailey-Fougnier

Class of 1983
Dennis Bailey-Fougnier, BS '84 (community service and public affairs), has been hired as president of Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton.

Robert Davies

Class of 1991
Robert Davies, MBA '91 (finance), has been appointed president at Central Michigan University.

Cesilee Coulson

Class of 1991
Former Ducks softball player Cesilee Coulson, BS '91 (physical education), MS '93 (exercise and movement science), was inducted into the Port Angeles High School Athletic Hall of Fame.