Class Notes

Heather McPherson, BA '73 (French), was awarded the 2018 Ireland Prize for Scholarly Distinction for her work in art history. She is a professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Bob Lambert, MA '69 (secondary education), was inducted into the St. Peter Public Schools Hall of Fame in Minnesota.

The Architecture Foundation of Oregon named Mark Edlen, BS '75 (finance), MBA '76 (marketing), and his wife, Ann, this year's Honored Citizens in recognition of their commitment to sustainability.

Christine Rofer Heinrichs, BS '76 (journalism), won second place and a $2,000 award in the ‘Reported Narrative’ category at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference for her story about efforts to save condors despite obstacles such as lead ammunition poisoning acquired from carcasses the vultures scavenge.

After working for the Portland Development commission for 18 years, Mary Vranizan Hinsdale, BS '50 (business administration), took up travel and, at age 85, visited all seven continents in one year.

Health Center Partners of Southern California has appointed Victoria Abrams, BS '80 (health education), executive vice president for Integrated Health Partners.

The Association for Computing Machinery appointed Vicki Hanson, MA '76 (psychology), PhD '78 (psychology), executive director and CEO, making her the first female CEO of the educational society.

Karl Carrier, MBA '79 (finance), has been appointed chair of the board of directors for the PeaceHealth, based in Vancouver, Washington.

Brian Tamanaha, BS '80 (psychology), was named the John S. Lehman University Professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.

Bradford Ward, BS '80 (political science), has joined King & Spalding as a partner in the law firm's Government Matters practice group in the Washington, DC, office.

Katherine Bunting-Howarth, JD '95, has been appointed the interim director of the New York Sea Grant Institute.

Bill Bogley, MS '83 (mathematics), PhD '87 (mathematics), has been appointed head of the Department of Mathematics at Oregon State University.

Pennsylvania-based GWC Warranty named Scott Lugger, BA '93 (marketing), a regional sales manager for the company's western region.

Steven Johnson, BS '86 (marketing), has been appointed senior director of communications at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.

After 24 year career as a technology and business reporter, Arik Hesseldahl (JComm 1993) joined the Germany-based software company SAP as Vice President and Global Head of Content and is based at the company's offices in New York. He'll be directing SAP's global efforts to produce stories about its efforts to help the world run better.

Hesseldahl was a founding senior editor at the influential Silicon Valley news site Recode, and was a regular contributor to NBC News, CNBC and National Public Radio. In 2015 he was executive producer of Recode's inaugural Code/Enterprise Series of conferences in San Francisco and New York. From 2010 he worked for The Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital and was a regular WSJ contributor. Before that he spent 11 years combined on the staffs of BusinessWeek Magazine (now Bloomberg Businessweek) and Forbes, and also contributed to Bloomberg News, Wired and CJR.

He received a Master's Degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1997.

Robert Davies, MBA '91 (finance), has been appointed president of Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant.

Karen Church, BS '90 (elementary education), has been inducted into the Snohomish County Sports Hall of Fame in Washington.

Charisa Moore, BS '86 (health education), has been named “Educator of the Year” by the Bainbridge Island Kiwanis Club of Washington.

The New-Press Gazette company has promoted Jerry Upham, BS '83 (journalism), to general manager for its Palm Springs broadcast stations.

Todd Petersen, BA '92 (telecommunication and film), published his third novel, It Needs to Look Like We Tried, which explores the ways in which our failures work on the lives of others, resulting in an intricate web of interconnected stories.