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Featured Class Notables

 

Kanealii Ngosorio

Leadership through service—A business and project management leader's tips for success after graduation

April 11, 2023

Kāneali‘i Ng-Osorio earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from the UO in 1998. He is now an enterprise business analyst for Kamehameha Schools, serves on the board of directors for the UO Alumni Association, and is the Hawaii Ducks regional UOAA chapter president. Kāne shares what motivates him to stay so involved supporting current and future Ducks, along with advice for current students and recent graduates.
 


 

A career committed to advocacy

A Career Committed to Advocacy

April 14, 2023

Darrell Rico Doss, JD ’95, recently made the move from Capitol Hill to General Motors. He looks back on the last nearly three decades of advocacy work, including navigating the financial crisis of 2007–08, serving as Congressional Black Caucus policy director, and working in the Japanese government.

Notebook that says New Mindset New Results with coffee cup and succulent on a table

The Mindful Duck

March 13, 2023
People management leader Humberto Chacon, BA ’87 (psychology), shares how mindfulness can positively impact your productivity and relationships, both personally and professionally.

Carey Killen

Class of 1990
Carey Killen, BA ’90 (Spanish), BA ’90 (music), PhD '’13 (education), is the new principal for South Eugene High School.
Posted on July 25, 2018 in 1990s

Romy Mortensen

Class of 1989
Romy Mortensen, BA ’89 (public relations), has been elected to a four-year term on the board of directors for the Oregon Community Foundation.
Posted on July 25, 2018 in 1980s

Curtis Wilson

Class of 1991
Curtis Wilson Jr., BA ’91 (health education), was named 2018 Oregon Principal of the Year after unanimous nomination by all Portland public high school principals. Wilson, principal of Benson Polytechnic High School, heads to Washington, DC, as an Oregon candidate for national Principal of the Year.
Posted on July 25, 2018 in 1990s

Carly Dolan

Class of 1995
Carly Dolan, BA ’95 (English), was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to the California Superior Court Bench for Mendocino County.
Posted on July 25, 2018 in 1990s

Thomas Byrne

Class of 1996
Tom Byrne, BArch ’96 (architecture), has been promoted to senior associate at Scott Edwards Architecture in Portland.
Posted on July 25, 2018 in 1990s

Eric Winn

Class of 1997
Eric Winn, BS ’97 (business administration), has joined Baird, an international financial services firm, as managing editor for its global technology and services team.
Posted on July 25, 2018 in 1990s

Andrew Adams

Class of 2002
Andrew Adams, BA ’02 (journalism: news editorial), has been promoted to editor for Wines & Vines magazine.
Posted on July 25, 2018 in 2000s

Robin Moodie

Class of 1999
Robin Moodie, BA '’99 (art history), has been hired as a manager for Carleton Hart Architecture in Portland.
Posted on July 25, 2018 in 1990s

Reegan Rae

Class of 2003
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.
Posted on July 25, 2018 in 2000s

Jane Teater

Class of 1980
Jane Teater, BS ’80 (elementary education), received the Distinguished Service Award at the Oregon State University Cascades commencement ceremony June 17.
Posted on July 25, 2018 in 1980s

Joanne Turner

Class of 1987
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.
Posted on July 25, 2018 in 1980s

Paul Cooper

Class of 1993
Paul Cooper, BArch ’93 (architecture), has been promoted to principal for TEF, a San Francisco-based architecture and interior design practice.
Posted on July 25, 2018 in 1990s

Valerie Govig

Class of 1956
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.
Posted on July 25, 2018 in 1950s

Kayla Zander

Class of 2017
Kayla Zander, MArch ’17 (architecture), has been hired as a designer for Carleton Hart Architecture in Portland.
Posted on July 25, 2018 in 2010s

Maureen Faul

Class of 2017
Mo Faul, MArch ’17 (architecture), has been hired as a designer for Carleton Hart Architecture in Portland.
Posted on July 25, 2018 in 2010s

Colleen Kelley

Class of 1977
Colleen Kelley
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.
Posted on June 24, 2018 in 1970s

Carol Wolleson

Class of 1959
Carol Wolleson
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.
Posted on June 19, 2018 in 1960s

David Rosen

Class of 2002
David Rosen
David Rosen, MBA ’02, was named Vice President of Marketing for Kingsisle Entertainment, a video game developer and publisher based in Austin, Texas.
Posted on June 19, 2018 in 2000s

Nicholas Palmesano

Class of 2007
Nicholas Palmesano
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!
Posted on June 5, 2018 in 2000s

Susan Anderson

Class of 1984
Susan Anderson
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/


Posted on May 11, 2018 in 1980s