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.

Howard W. Robertson (B.A. Russian 1970; M.A. Comparative Literature 1978) has published a new novel, LOVE IN THE CRETACEOUS. He is a poet and fiction writer who lives in Eugene, Oregon. He has published ten books of poetry and three books of fiction. For more about him, see www.howardwrobertson.com.

BEN DEJARNETTE, BA '13 (journalism), MA '15 (media studies), launched the new local publication Bridgeliner in Portland.

Rudy Torres, BS ’97 (business management), visited the San Blas islands while in his native Panama to see family. The Guna, an indigenous people, manage the islands in order to preserve their natural beauty.

In October, Julie Stott, BS ’77 (interior architecture), summited Mount Kilimanjaro and proudly held up her banner for the College of Design. At 19,340 feet, Mount Kilimanjaro is the tallest peak in Africa and the highest non-technical climb in the world. After just a few oxygen-deprived minutes on top her team descended, running down 3,500 feet of scree with thighs burning and toes jamming into boots.

Chris Bocchicchio, BA ’12 (business), and Lauren Bruhn, BS ’13 (psychology), celebrated their two-week honeymoon in December by snowboarding, dogsledding, and cross-country skiing in Whistler, British Colombia. The pair met in high school and shared involvement in Greek life, ASUO, and Friars while at UO.

Chris Bocchicchio, BA ’12 (business), and Lauren Bruhn, BS ’13 (psychology), celebrated their two-week honeymoon in December by snowboarding, dogsledding, and cross-country skiing in Whistler, British Colombia. The pair met in high school and shared involvement in Greek life, ASUO, and Friars while at UO.

Anitra Tykeson, BA ’86 (leisure studies and services), and her husband, Eric, traveled on the National Geographic Orion to Neko Harbor, Antarctica, which is home to one of the largest Gentoo penguin colonies.

Leah La Faver, BA ’04 (Spanish and political science), attended the NCAA 2017 March Madness tournament in Kansas City, Missouri, during the UO’s Elite Eight matchup against the Kansas Jayhawks. She and her daughter, Miette, cheered on the Ducks as they won and moved on to the Final Four.

Don Chalmers, BS ’71 (political science and psychology), JD ’75, went catamaran-sailing in the Bay of Islands in New Zealand. While on the water, he and his sister, Anne, were delighted to view a large pod of 18 dolphins swimming nearby.

Merilee Bengtsson, BS ’70 (community service and public affairs), and her friends visited Tristan Da Cunha, the most remote inhabited archipelago on Earth, in the south Atlantic Ocean. She had been planning this trip since 1989, and during their three-week adventure they were the only tourists among the main island’s resident population of 254.

Bruce Conner, class of 1979, took a photo of his wife, Suzie, showing Oregon pride while on top of Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska. They took a helicopter ride and enjoyed a two-mile dog-mushing experience while in Juneau during an Alaskan cruise.

John Stayner, BS ’71 (business), and his wife, Dee, hiked along the Great Wall of China as part of their retirement celebration. They stayed in Beijing for four days before catching a cruise ship that stopped in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Bali, before ending in Sydney.