Class Notes

Tom Byrne, BArch ’96 (architecture), has been promoted to senior associate at Scott Edwards Architecture in Portland.

Eric Winn, BS ’97 (business administration), has joined Baird, an international financial services firm, as managing editor for its global technology and services team.

Andrew Adams, BA ’02 (journalism: news editorial), has been promoted to editor for Wines & Vines magazine.

Robin Moodie, BA '’99 (art history), has been hired as a manager for Carleton Hart Architecture in Portland.

Reegan Rae, BS '’03 (psychology), has been promoted to managing director of wealth management for Arnerich Massena Inc., an independent investment advisory firm in Portland.

Jane Teater, BS ’80 (elementary education), received the Distinguished Service Award at the Oregon State University Cascades commencement ceremony June 17.

Joanne Wolfe, BA ’87 (journalism; English), has launched a publishing imprint, Eaglefeather Press, based in Nova Scotia, Canada, with US offices in Longmont, Colorado. She also has authored a book, In the Hollow of God’s Hand: The Life and Times of Edward Z. Yoder.

Paul Cooper, BArch ’93 (architecture), has been promoted to principal for TEF, a San Francisco-based architecture and interior design practice.

Valerie Cowls Govig, BA ’56 (English), received the Steve Edeiken trophy, the top award in kiting, at the annual convention of the American Kitefliers Association in October in Ocean City, Maryland.

Kayla Zander, MArch ’17 (architecture), has been hired as a designer for Carleton Hart Architecture in Portland.

Mo Faul, MArch ’17 (architecture), has been hired as a designer for Carleton Hart Architecture in Portland.

Colleen E. Kelley, MS '77 (speech: rhetoric and communication), PhD '82 (speech: rhetoric and communication), published A Rhetoric of Divisive Partisanship: The 2016 American Presidential Campaign Discourse of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, which explores how the politicians' rhetoric created an angry orphan persona in their marginalized bases.

Just published my first book at age 81--a memoir There There Now about my adventures in the San Francisco Bay Area in the Sixties and Seventies, leading to a long career as a psychotherapist in the SF East Bay.

David Rosen, MBA ’02, was named Vice President of Marketing for Kingsisle Entertainment, a video game developer and publisher based in Austin, Texas.

From Left to Right:

Mitchell Van Dyke, BS '13 (accounting) MBA '14 (accounting); Monica (Palmesano) Van Dyke, BS '14 (educational foundations); Gina (O'Looney) Palmesano, BS '06 (sociology); Nick Palmesano, '07 BS (human physiology).

All met in Paris in March of 2018. The Van Dykes reside in Amsterdam, Netherlands and the Palmesanos reside in Talent, Oregon. Monica and Gina are currently teaching, Mitchell is an accountant and Nick is a firefighter and real estate agent. All are very proud Duck Alumni! Go Ducks!

Susan Kay Anderson's new book will be published in May. To order a copy:

https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/please-plant-this-book-coast-to-coast-by-susan-kay-anderson/

The University of Oregon Rowing Team celebrated 50 years of Oregon Crew, welcoming alumni for pub time, visiting with current team members and a meal while checking out the facilities at Dexter Lake. Team President Kelsey Hill and many team members coordinated the event and they even invited some veteran oarsman back on the lake in a shell! Seen below are these alums and some current team members (from left to right or, for them, stern to bow): Kekoa Nakasone ’20, Don Costello (Head Coach ’71-72 & current assistant coach), George Bertram ’71, Gabe Mager ’18, Hank Elder ’71, Tommy Supple ’19, Mike Marsh ’73,Joe Sweeney ’72 and Chuck Neff ’69. Many other former team members attended, including Debbie Knechtel ’77, Ray Hopfer ’77, Frank Joyce ’77 and Gene Brown ’71. It was shock and oar!

Philip Schaeffer is retiring after teaching history at Olympic College for 50 years

When We Were Shadows, a novel by JANET WEES, MEd '90 (talented and gifted program), was published in 2018 as part of the series, Holocaust Remembrance Books for Young Readers, and has been shortlisted for the Rocky Mountain Book Award 2020.

David Rosen, MBA '02, raised funds for Make-A-Wish of Central & Southern Texas by signing up to rappel thirty-two floors down the side of the 600 Congress building in Austin, Texas. The event raised over $560,000 to fund wishes for children.