Tony Kullen (BA History, '00) recently joined Wright, Finlay & Zak, a California-based, certified women-owned law firm, as Managing Attorney for its new Portland, Oregon office, after serving as Counsel with the Business Transactions Group of Miller Nash Graham & Dunn from 2015 through 2017. Tony focuses his practice on creditors’ rights issues, real estate litigation, and general business transactions. Tony is an active member of the Oregon State Bar Debtor-Creditor Section’s Public Education and Legislative Committees; is a volunteer coach for the We the People Constitutional Law debate program for a De La Salle North Catholic High School; and serves as Chair of the Supervisory Committee and as a Board Member (elect) of Rivermark Community Credit Union.

A. Lynn Ash, BS ’71 (psychology), published her book Eugeneana: Memoir of an Oregon Hometown, a collection of stories about her post—World War II years growing up in Eugene. Two of her stories describe her experiences as a loyal Duck at the UO in the 1960s.

Jane (Bodenweiser) McEldowney, BS ’63 (nursing; medical technology), was named Camp Nurse of the Year by the Association of Camp Nursing at their national symposium. Jane is in her 14th year as a nurse with the Multnomah Education Service District Outdoor School Program.

Walt Hull, BS ’59 (education), has been promoted to executive officer for the Disabled Parking Enforcement unit of the Portland Bureau of Police. He has worked with the bureau for 13 years.

Architects Alaska has promoted Steve Henri, MArch ’00 (architecture), to principal architect. He has more than 18 years of architectural design experience and joined Architects Alaska in 2011.

DIANE TEEMAN, BS ’01, MS ’03 (anthropology), was elected chair of the Burns Paiute Tribe, Burns.

Jason Guinasso, JD ’03, will serve as the managing partner for Hutchison & Steffen law firm’s northern Nevada offices in Reno and Incline Village.

Amanda Gow, BA ’03 (international studies), is the new executive director for the Boys and Girls Club of Bend.

Joel Weber, BA ’03 (journalism: magazine), was named the new editor for Bloomberg Businessweek.

Scott F. Parker (2004) recently published THE JOY OF RUNNING QUA RUNNING. His next book, BEING ON THE OREGON COAST, will be out in September.

Dana Lyons, JD ’06, has founded Lyons Law in Honolulu, Hawaii, focusing on business, real estate, collections, and estate planning, and cofounded Lyons Estate in Hilo, a zero-emissions vacation rental and forest preservation project located within a native forest of ohi’a lehua, a species of flowering evergreen tree.

Camille Walsh, MA ’06 (history), PhD ’10 (history), published her book Racial Taxation: Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869—1973.

Sharleen Nelson, retired UO Communications editor/writer, has published, The End of Time, the third and final book in the Time Tourists Trilogy featuring The Time Tourists and The Yesterday Girl.

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Emily Taylor, PhD ’09 (comparative literature), has been granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of English and world literatures at the College of Arts and Sciences at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina.

Matt Hanlon, BA ’13 (journalism), debuted his documentary Saving Green: The Story of a City’s Parks on February 24 at the three-day Huntington Beach Film Festival.

Frank Aden, BS ’77 (speech: telecommunication and film) wrote Boise: A Postcard History, published by Arcadia. Retired from Century Link, Aden is a member of the Idaho Historical Society and is the vice president of the History of Idaho Broadcasting Foundation. He has been collecting postcards, photographs, booklets, and maps of the Boise area since his high school days in the 1970s.

Myrna Hall, BS ’80 (sociology), was named vice president of advancement at Regis University in Denver, Colorado.

For his impact in the reagent sector, Michael Comb, PhD ’84 (chemistry), will receive the CiteAb Lifetime Achievement Award during the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting, April 14—18, in Chicago.

Roy Catalani, BA ’82 (political science), JD ’86, has been appointed to serve as deputy director of the administration division with the Hawaii Department of Transportation.

Brian Gu, BA ’93 (chemistry), has been appointed vice chairman and president of Xpeng Motors, a Chinese electric-vehicle company.