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Featured Class Notables
Stephen Henri
Class of 2000
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
Class of 2001
DIANE TEEMAN, BS ’01, MS ’03 (anthropology), was elected chair of the Burns Paiute Tribe, Burns.
Jason Guinasso
Class of 2003
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
Class of 2003
Amanda Gow, BA ’03 (international studies), is the new executive director for the Boys and Girls Club of Bend.
Joel Weber
Class of 2003
Joel Weber, BA ’03 (journalism: magazine), was named the new editor for Bloomberg Businessweek.
Scott Parker
Class of 2004
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
Class of 2006
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
Class of 2006
Camille Walsh, MA ’06 (history), PhD ’10 (history), published her book Racial Taxation: Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869—1973.
Sharleen Nelson Bolkan
Class of 2006
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
Class of 2009
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.
Matthew Hanlon
Class of 2013
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
Class of 1977
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
Class of 1977
Myrna Hall, BS ’80 (sociology), was named vice president of advancement at Regis University in Denver, Colorado.
Michael Comb
Class of 1984
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.
P. Catalani
Class of 1982
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
Class of 1993
Brian Gu, BA ’93 (chemistry), has been appointed vice chairman and president of Xpeng Motors, a Chinese electric-vehicle company.
Diane Rios
Class of 1993
Diane Rios, BA ’93 (French), is a finalist for this year’s Oregon Book Awards for children’s literature for her first novel, Bridge of the Gods.
Sunil Shenoy
Class of 1996
SUNIL SHENOY, MBA '96 (general business), was appointed senior vice president and general manager of Intel Corporation's design engineering group, leading design, development, validation, and manufacturing of intellectual properties and system-on-chips for client and data center applications.
Patrick Gamman
Class of 1996
The National Park Service has selected Patrick Gamman, BS ’96 (geological sciences), to serve as superintendent of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in Oregon.
Geoffrey Wullschlager
Class of 1999
Geoff Wullschlager, BS ’99 (environmental studies), is the new assistant city administrator and finance director for Garibaldi, Oregon.