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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
Kevin Sanchez
Class of 1989
Kevin Sanchez, BA '89, MBA '91 (finance), finished his fourth of the Seven Summits last February when he climbed Carstensz Pyramid, which, at 16,024 feet above Indonesian Papua, is the highest peak on the Australian continent. He plans to finish number five in May by summiting Alaska's Denali.
Gregory Zimel
Class of 2002
Wearing his Oregon T-shirt, Greg Zimel, BS '02 (biology), skydives in Baldwin, Wisconsin, on September 1—the same day the Ducks kicked off their 2018 football season.
Martha Biery
Class of 1986
Martha Biery, BS '86 (elementary education), attended the Oregon Migration event in Denver to send off a former fourth grade student of hers, Shannon Golden, who started at the UO in September.
Mitchel Martin
Class of 1990
Mitch Martin, PhD '90 (chemistry), and his son, Derek, who started his freshman year at the UO last fall as a computer and information science major, hiked the Tiger Leaping Gorge in Yunnan province, China.
Walter Hull
Class of 1959
Walt Hull, BS '59 (education), has been appointed to the Portland Police Bureau Training Advisory Council.
Gerry Kosanovic
Class of 1991
On a recent trip to Chicago with his wife, Lynn, to celebrate their 29th wedding anniversary, Gerry Kosanovic, MS '82 (educational policy and management), PhD '91 (educational policy and management), stood on the vertigo-inducing Ledge, a glass balcony 1,353 feet high, extending four feet outside the 103rd floor of the Willis Tower Skydeck.
Douglas McNaughton
Class of 1988
Doug McNaughton, BS '88 (speech: rhetoric and communication), and his wife trekked to Northern Africa, where they found the camels near Tangier, Morocco, to be "O"-dorable.
Thomas Goodman
Class of 2013
Thomas Goodman, BS '13 (educational foundations), was named coach and director for the Siena Heights University eSports program in Michigan.
Nora Simon
Class of 2011
Nora Simon, BA '11 (history, journalism: news editorial), has joined the Washington Post as a multiplatform editor.
Adam Stephen
Class of 2012
ADAM STEPHEN, BArch ’12, was promoted to principal with Bend-based Steele Associates Architects._
Elisabeth Evans
Class of 2012
Elisabeth Lefebvre, MA '12 (international studies), has been hired as an assistant professor of education at Bethel University, Minnesota.
Nicholas Meusch
Class of 2013
Elcon Associates Inc., a Portland-based mechanical engineering company, has hired Nick Meusch, BS '13 (business administration), as marketing manager.
Hangping Xu
Class of 2013
Hangping Xu, MA '13 (comparative literature), has joined Middlebury College in Vermont as an assistant professor of Chinese.
Gini Piercy
Class of 2015
Gini Piercy, MArch '15 (landscape architecture), has joined Portland-based Mayer/Reed as a landscape designer.
Cooper Green
Class of 2017
Cooper Green, BA '17 (journalism), has joined the Camas-Washougal Post-Record as a news reporter, covering government, business, and features.
Philip Kovac
Class of 2017
Philip Kovac, PhD '17 (chemistry), has joined the faculty at Elmira College in New York as an assistant professor of chemistry.
Joe Fischer
Class of 1960
JOE FISCHER, BS ’60, MFA ’63 (fine and applied arts), continued his support of the Joe and Alona Fischer Scholarship Fund with a gift of $25,000. Joe has been supporting the scholarship fund since 2010, making a huge difference in the lives of aspiring artists along the way.
Margaret Lehrman
Class of 1966
Margie (McBride) Lehrman '66 has been honored by Columbia University as a 2018 Alumni Medalist in recognition of her work on behalf of the university for 10 years or more. She has organized all her class reunions, served six years on the Alumni Board (vice chair) of the Graduate School of Journalism, and now represents the Journalism School on the Alumni Trustee Nominating Committee, which helps select Trustees for Columbia University.
Byron Shenk
Class of 1970
Byron Shenk, MS '70 (physical education), received the 2018 Dr. Roman Gingerich Champion of Character Award from his undergraduate alma mater, Goshen College in Indiana.
Kathleen Langmo
Class of 1958
KATHLEEN LANGMO, BS '58 (education), has written two novels, Henrietta and Virginia.