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Featured Class Notables
Max Beeken
Class of 2009
Max Beeken, BS '09 (marine biology), has been named the new conservation director for Wild Rivers Land Trust in Port Orford.
Spencer Paysinger
Class of 2010
Professional football player Spencer Paysinger, BS '10 (economics), was a consulting producer on, and the inspiration for, the new CW drama, All American. Inspired by the life of Paysinger, the show tells the story of a talented high school football player from South Central Los Angeles who is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High School.
Matti Sjoblom-Chambers
Class of 2015
Matti Sjoblom-Chambers, BArch '15, has joined Bend-based Steele Associates Architects as a designer on technology, senior, industrial, and hospitality projects.
Courtney Foley
Class of 2010
COURTNEY FOLEY, JD ’10, executive vice president of Foley Family Wines of Oregon, announced the purchase of the Black Walnut Inn and Vineyard, a property in Dundee, by parent company, Foley Entertainment Group.
Heather McPherson
Class of 1973
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.
Robert Lambert
Class of 1969
Bob Lambert, MA '69 (secondary education), was inducted into the St. Peter Public Schools Hall of Fame in Minnesota.
Mark Edlen
Class of 1975
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 Heinrichs
Class of 1976
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.
Mary Hinsdale
Class of 1950
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.
Victoria Abrams
Class of 1980
Health Center Partners of Southern California has appointed Victoria Abrams, BS '80 (health education), executive vice president for Integrated Health Partners.
Vicki Hanson
Class of 1978
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
Class of 1979
Karl Carrier, MBA '79 (finance), has been appointed chair of the board of directors for the PeaceHealth, based in Vancouver, Washington.
Brian Tamanaha
Class of 1980
Brian Tamanaha, BS '80 (psychology), was named the John S. Lehman University Professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.
Bradford Ward
Class of 1980
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
Class of 1995
Katherine Bunting-Howarth, JD '95, has been appointed the interim director of the New York Sea Grant Institute.
William Bogley
Class of 1983
Bill Bogley, MS '83 (mathematics), PhD '87 (mathematics), has been appointed head of the Department of Mathematics at Oregon State University.
Scott Lugger
Class of 1993
Pennsylvania-based GWC Warranty named Scott Lugger, BA '93 (marketing), a regional sales manager for the company's western region.
Steven Johnson
Class of 1986
Steven Johnson, BS '86 (marketing), has been appointed senior director of communications at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.
Arik Hesseldahl
Class of 1993
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.
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
Class of 1991
Robert Davies, MBA '91 (finance), has been appointed president of Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant.