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Featured Class Notables
Mitchell Power
Class of 2006
Mitchell Power, PhD '06 (geography), and an international team of geographers and scientists, released a publicly searchable database of worldwide fire history information called the Global Modern Charcoal Dataset. He is an associate professor of geography at the University of Utah and curator of the Garrett Herbarium at the Natural History Museum of Utah.
Marcus Chan
Class of 2007
Marcus Chan, BA '07 (Chinese, business administration), is the Pacific Northwest director of sales for Cincinnati-based Cintas Corporation, a Fortune 500 company that serves businesses.
Sara Mostafavi
Class of 2007
Sara Mostafavi, BA '07 (multimedia design), is a data innovation product director at Nike and helps lead data strategy for the NXT Digital Innovation Team.
Griffin Goins
Class of 2008
Griffin Goins, BS '08 (journalism: magazine), has been hired as the associate director of development and college relations at Northern Maine Community College in Presque Isle.
Sean Abplanalp
Class of 2009
Sean Abplanalp, BA '09 (Chinese), released Husk, an serialized fiction podcast about the disappearance and subsequent search for a recent college graduate from Portland.
Jacob Coleman
Class of 2009
Jacob Coleman, MMus '09 (music performance), released a Brazilian-themed album, Splotch Ecology, with Bradley Kerns, a fellow professor at the University of Kentucky.
Nicole Freitag
Class of 2010
NICOLE FREITAG, BS '10 (news editorial), was hired as assistant coach for cross country/track and field at the University of Virginia.
Ian Hoffman
Class of 2010
Ian Hoffman, BArch '10 (architecture), has joined Cole Architects in Boise, Idaho, as a project architect and project manager.
Stephanie Johnson
Class of 2010
Stephanie Johnson, BA '10 (anthropology), MA '14 (arts management), was hired as public art and program manager for the Arts Council of Lake Oswego.
Joshua Marquis
Class of 1977
Joshua Marquis, BA '77 (political science), JD '80, a Clark Honors College graduate, is retiring after 25 years as District Attorney of Clatsop County. He served as president of the Oregon District Attorneys Association and vice president of the National District Attorneys Association. Marquis has received national awards for animal welfare advocacy and has written extensively about capital punishment as an author and contributor to newspapers including the New York Times. He will continue to live in Astoria and intends to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Joseph Yogerst
Class of 1980
Joe Yogerst MS '80 (journalism) just published his first novel, a murder-mystery called Nemesis set in 1880's San Diego when it was a Wild West boomtown. Joe worked as a sports writer and editor at the Daily Emerald while earning his journalism degree in Eugene. He later spent 13 years overseas (South Africa, England, Hong Kong, Singapore) as a newspaper reporter, magazine editor and freelance writer. In addition to the novel, Joe is currently working on his 34th book project for National Geographic and writing a Nat Geo video series on American state parks.
James Melamed
Class of 1982
JIM MELAMED, JD '82, board chair of Mediate.com, announced the establishment of a blue-ribbon online mediation training task force to make recommendations on best practices and possibilities for training mediators online.
Lawrence Powers
Class of 1971
Under the pen name L. Wade Powers, Lawrence W. Powers, MA '71 (biology), released his first adult contemporary novel, The Home, about growing up in a children's institution in the 1950s.
Steven Sinovic
Class of 1975
Steve Sinovic, BS '75 (political science), was hired as special sections editor for the Idaho Business Review.
J.S. May
Class of 1989
J.S. May, BS '89 (speech: telecommunication and film), has been named managing director for the Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland.
Sandra McDonough
Class of 1976
SANDRA McDONOUGH, BA ’76 (German, journalism), who most recently served as president and CEO of Oregon Business & Industry, an organization of small and large businesses that works to improve the economy through policy development, was elected to the board of directors of Portland-based NW Natural Holding Company.
Ruby Haughton
Class of 1977
Ruby Haughton-Pitts, BS '77 (speech: rhetoric and communication), was named the state director of AARP Oregon (American Association of Retired Persons).
Donald Klotter
Class of 1986
EFG International, a private banking company based in Zurich, has appointed Donald Klotter, BA '86 (German), global head of institutional sales.
Robert Canaga
Class of 1990
Robert Canaga, BA '90 (anthropology), has paintings hanging across Lane County, including works at Valley River Inn, the Hilton Eugene, J. Scott Cellars, Abbelone Vineyard, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and the Oregon Contemporary Theatre. His work is also on display in the Nevada State Art Museum, the Lawrence Gallery, Kansas City, and Horizon House, Seattle.
Frank Abramonte
Class of 1992
Frank Abramonte, JD '92 (law), has joined the Seattle office of Cozen O'Connor as a partner.