Linfield Magazine
Linfield Magazine
Volume 2
Number 2 Fall 2005
Article 17
Fall 2005
Class Notes
Class Notes
Linfield Magazine Staff
Beth Rogers Thompson
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1940-49
Charles Rowell ’43recently moved to Napa, Calif., where he is an avid golfer.
Meridith Gaskill ’45of Kirkland, Wash., volunteers at Sibling House Foundation, Evergreen Hospice and Emergency Feeding Program.
1950-59
Charles Chicks ’53of Sunnyvale, Calif., and his wife, Barbara, received the American Baptist Churches Sparrowk President’s Award during the bienni-al meeting of the American Baptist Churches USA in July.
Achilla (Imlong) Erdican ’57
and ’58of Avondale Estate, Ga., published the Chang-English, English-Chang Dictionary.
Clareand Sandra (Cashner) Murray ’59and ’62of Vancouver, Wash., are both retired.
1960-69
Rogerand Florence (Wood) Truax ’60and ’59of Astoria are retired and serve on the North Coast Land Conservancy in Clatsop County.
Dorothy (Chance) Worrall ’63 of King City was recently hon-ored at the 25th anniversary of the Mary Woodward School in Tigard.
She was the school’s first music teacher.
Janet (Pedersen) Hoffman ’64of Keizer retired from the Judicial Department.
Barbara (Peterson) Keir ’64
of Hood River retired from teach-ing in the Hood River School District.
Gerald Moyer ’65of Mill Valley, Calif., accompanied high school students during a spring break trip to Mexico with Amor Ministries. They built three houses in four days without power tools.
Gail Adams ’66of Altadena, Calif., retired in 2001 and attended her sixth Mardi Gras in New Orleans this year.
1970-79
Roy Cummings ’70of Salem represents 4Life Research, Inc., spe-cializing in immune system health.
Dave Lemire ’72of Coos Bay is a behavioral specialist and psy-chologist for the Education Service Center in Coos Bay. He also teaches at Southwest Oregon Community College and Eastern Oregon University and serves on a number of editorial boards.
Ann Sukalac ’73of Salem is the Linfield Division of Continuing Education Salem advisor. She recently completed the graduate certificate in academic advising pro-gram from Kansas State University.
Brenda Adcock ’74of Vero
Beach, Fla., is chaplain and con-struction supervisor at Indian River Habitat for Humanity.
Rob Stephenson ’75of McMinnville owns Rob Stephenson Landscape Design & Consultation. He previously owned Cascadia Landscaping.
Jim Beach ’78of Bellevue, Wash., is chief financial officer and executive vice president of The Cobalt Group.
1980-89
Kelly (Knapp) McMillan ’82
of McMinnville is the small group ministries director at Church on the Hill in McMinnville.
Esther (Richardson) Appleman ‘83of Lake Oswego is president of the Lake Oswego Temporary Shelter Ministry, a coali-tion of seven churches providing housing for homeless families in transition.
Rick Crownover ’83of Mohrsville, Pa., is director of the Reading Hospital Regional Cancer Center.
Randy Mueller ’83is general manager for the Miami Dolphins. He most recently served as an NFL analyst for ESPN.com.
Josephand Mona (Haldane) Kinder,both ’85, live in Walkersville, Md. Joseph attends the National Defense University, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, working toward a master’s in
national resource management and Mona is senior assistant manager at Talbots.
Lewis Black ’85of Salt Lake City, Utah, is artistic director of StageRight Theatre Company in Holiday.
Polly (Bartels) Larsen ’85of Scottsdale, Ariz., owns the Larsen Gallery, a contemporary art gallery.
Howard Bell ’86of Dundee and his wife, Kim, had a son, Gary Bryan, April 17.
Marty Pigg ’87of Anchorage, Alaska, is the owner of Solstice Solutions.
Chrisand Diedre (Miles) Girod ’88and ’89live in Carlsbad, Calif., where Chris is a principal and consulting actuary with Milliman Consultants and Actuaries.
Sally Damewood ’89of La Grande had a son, Avery John, April 24. She is a personal trainer for Mavericks Sports Club.
Steve Reimann ’89of Yamhill is co-owner of Wildcat Development, currently developing a 155-home subdivision in Carlton.
1990-99
Trent Davis ’90of Lake Oswego is chief executive and president of Paulson Investment Co.
Greg Gulliford ’90of Vancouver, Wash., joined Senior Loan Solutions, a reverse mortgage broker.
Alan Boschma ’91of
Class Notes
Pryor aids tsunami-ravaged region
The children touched Thomas Pryor ’96 the most.
After all, he had left his own baby daughter in Arizona
when he boarded the U.S. Navy’s Mercy hospital ship off
the shores of tsunami-ravaged Indonesia.
Pryor, a registered nurse, is a lieutenant commander in
the U.S. Public Health Service. He works for one of its
agencies, the Indian Health Service, most recently in the
intensive-care unit at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center.
He spent the month of February with a medical team
working to relieve the suffering inflicted by the monster
wave that slammed into southern Asia in December,
killing an estimated 221,100 people.
It was an unprecedented international relief effort,
Pryor said: one month, compared with the normal
two-week deployment for such emergency aid, and the first joint
operation of the U.S. Navy and Project HOPE volunteers.
Amid the chaos and destruction there were political
sensi-tivities: Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim nation, and
the Americans did not want to force themselves on the
gov-ernment. Civil strife compounded their safety concerns.
Banda Aceh’s ruined University Hospital served as a
kind of staging area. The first crisis for the Mercy staff
arrived as a small boy with a burst appendix was flown out
to the ship because the hospital could not treat him.
The next morning, a 12-year-old boy went into
respiratory failure. He had a severe lung infection, aspirate
pneumonia, caused by swallowing contaminated water.
The boy had nearly drowned, then floated on a log in the
ocean for two days before he was found. The rest of his
immediate family was killed. Pryor nicknamed him
“Harapan,” Indonesian for “hope.”
Since he had some pediatric experience, Pryor
became Harapan’s primary attendant, working 12- to
14-hour days. Finally, after a week, the boy was able to breathe
without assistance.
Soon after, Pryor went ashore and visited the
hospi-tal’s rebuilt pediatric unit.
There, he found a 7-year-old girl in similar respiratory
distress. While arranging for her transfer to the ship, he
noticed several very ill babies about the age of his daughter,
Audrey. “That’s when I really felt the heart tugs, because I
recognized that in my efforts in helping one, there were two
or three others who didn’t get my help that day,” he said.
Despite the devastation and limited medical resources,
there were signs of hope. “Those that got antibiotics, of
whatever kind – it was amazing to see how rapidly they got
better,” Pryor said, adding that their response was partly
because the Indonesians, unlike most Americans, rarely get
such drugs. “Some of our basic antibiotics that we hardly ever
use anymore were very effective and powerful over there.”
On Feb. 23, Pryor flew by helicopter with Harapan
from the Mercy back to shore to join the boy’s uncle, aunt
and their 2-year-old son – his only surviving relatives.
Pryor wrote of the reunion in his online journal that day:
“I guess what I was most struck with as I left Harapan and
his family is the impermanence of life, and how the
mys-tery of life provided me an opportunity like this: To serve
as an officer in the USPHS and be a part of the Mercy
mission, where I would find myself halfway around the
world in a different culture and different language, and
despite all of the differences I have rekindled a heartfelt
reminder in Harapan and his uncle that we share so much
in common – the strength of family.”
Pryor returned March 2 to his own family, wife Erin
and daughter Audrey, who is now a year old. In
September he entered the two-year Kaiser
pro-gram in nursing anesthesia in Pasadena, Calif.,
and after completion will continue to work for
Indian Health Services.
To read more about his experiences, visit
www.surgeongeneral.gov/journal.
— Beth Rogers Thompson
A view of the beach front in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, during Thomas Pryor’s work
there in February.
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Thomas Pryor ‘96 with “Harapan,”
who nearly drowned in the tsunami
and lost his entire family.
Scottand Cecilia (Hoodenpyle) Robertson ’97
and ’95of Portland had a son, Adam Taggart, June 6.
Anneli (Ahlmalm) Schalock ’97of Hanover, N.H., is pursuing a master’s in business administration at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.
Kate Stolmeier ’97of Bridgewater, Somerset, England, married Duncan MacRae April 8 in Somerset. She teaches in a primary school and participated in the Fulbright Teacher’s Exchange Program in 2002-2003.
Samara Suafo’a ’97of San Pedro, Calif., is a special education teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District, currently pursuing a master’s in special education of moderate-severely disabled children.
Alicia (Nolan) Carlson ’98of Lincoln, Neb., and her husband, Brian, adopted a daughter, Linara Grace Renee, March 16. Alicia is a CASA volunteer and an in-home daycare provider. She and her hus-band are also foster parents.
Devan Dunn ’98of Portland married Kate Murray July 30 in Portland.
Nicole (Erwert) Genduso ’98
of Hillsboro and her husband, Joseph, had a son, Joseph Timothy, March 12.
Jessica (Gómez) Graham ’98
of Salem teaches science at Regis High School in Stayton.
Amanda (Wilson) Kapelka ’98of Renton, Wash., and her hus-band, Ben, had a son, Benjamin Wilson, April 25.
Michael McGrath ’98of Portland is a partner in the law firm of Gearing, Rackner and Engel, LLP in Portland.
Ryan McWayne ’98of Lebanon and his wife, Leslie, had a daughter, Kiara Morgan, June 12.
Jeffrey Menold ’98of Issaquah, Wash., and his wife, Jaime, had a son, Jaxon Paul, Aug. 24.
Tramaine Payne ’98of McMinnville teaches at Patton Middle School and coaches football and track at Linfield.
Taryne (Edmon) Roberts ’98
of Springfield married Adam Roberts May 19 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Ryder Campbell ’99of New Haven, Conn., earned an MBA from Yale University and works for Barclays Capital in New York City with a certified financial advisor designation.
Marissa (Rathbone) Dally ’99of Arcadia, Okla., is the director of health and physical education for the Texas Education Agency.
Karen (Churchill) Garcia ’99
of Yuba City, Calif., and her hus-band, Joel, had a daughter, Sophia Luna, May 2.
Clark Marston ‘99of Erlangen, Germany, and his wife, Melanie, had twin daughters, Emma
Marie and Sophie Luisa, April 28.
Mindi Welton ’99of Needham, Maine, married John Mitchell May 28. Melinda is an ordained American Baptist Minister at the First Baptist Church in Newton.
2000-05
Sean Bettis ’00is working for the director of labor for the Icelandic Government.
Alice Diversand Joseph Bayless, both’00,of Lake Oswego were married Sept. 19.
Brittany Hartzelland Jeff Baguley,both ’00,of Cayce, S.C., were married Dec. 18. Both are completing post-doctoral research at the University of South Carolina after earning Ph.D.s, Brittany in analytical chemistry from Ohio University and Jeff in marine sci-ence from the University of Texas.
Brian Higa ’00and Lauren Arakawa ’03of Hilo, Hawaii, were married July 2.
Meredith Miller ’00of Lake Oswego earned a bachelor's in inte-rior design from the Art Institute of Portland.
Trevor Phillips ’00and
Michelle Mallory ’01of Tucson, Ariz., were married May 7. Trevor graduated from Yale University School of Medicine in May and is an emergency medicine physician at
the University of North Carolina.
Andrew Brawley ’01and
Tracy Forrester ’03 of Burbank, Calif., were married Sept. 3. Tracy is a publicist for TV shows Jimmy Kimmel Liveand America’s Next Top Modeland Andrew is a marketing coordinator for THQ, a video game publisher.
Inkeri Chisholm ’01of Lake Oswego married Chad Martin April 24.
Erin Gaskill ’01of Kirkland, Wash., teaches sixth grade and organized Project Sheltering Tree to provide education advocacy for foster children.
Laura Gibson ’01of Coquille recorded a CD of urban folk music,
Amends.
Annikke Olson ’01of Hillsboro passed the National Athletic Trainers Association Board of Certification.
Blake Pang ’01of Honolulu, Hawaii, is the assistant vice president of Aloha United Way.
Stacy Shiraga ’01of Bend married Brett Caldwell April 2.
Colene (Lord) Weber ’01of Phoenix, Ariz., earned a master’s degree in education specializing in middle level education from Walden University.
Ryan Welch ’01of Eugene and his wife, Susan, had a son, Cade Grant, May 2. Ryan started AOCREATIVE, a graphic design business.
Class Notes
McMinnville is head football coach at Yamhill-Carlton High School.
Kristal Shelton ’92of West Linn married Corben Hyatt June 30.
Catherine (Taylor) Walton ’92
of Vancouver, Wash., and her hus-band, Troy, own a home inspection business.
Gary Thorson ’91of McMinnville is head football coach at Dallas High School.
Michele (Waters) Cornwall ’92of Newport is attending the University of Portland School of Nursing.
Katie (Maben) Siechen ’92of Iowa City, Iowa, and her husband, Andy, had a son, Isaac James, Feb. 26.
Alex Woodward ’92of Tigard and his wife, Tracy, had a son, Tathan Jackson, Aug. 5.
Roland Armstrong ’93of Cathlamet, Wash., earned the 2005 Hero Award from the Washington Behavioral Healthcare Conference.
Sharon Boyle ’93of Terre Haute, Ind., and her husband, Michael Boswell, had a daughter, Kayla Elizabeth, June 16.
Jenny Brudvig ’93of Beaverton married Carlin Irish June 25. She works for U.S. Bank.
Janiece (Kern) Paulat ’93of Vancouver, Wash., and her husband, Timothy, had a daughter, April 21.
Anne (Schmidt) Shantz ’93
of Snohomish, Wash., and her hus-band, Bradley, had a son, Levi Charles, March 24.
Betty (Thompson) Tindall ’93of Longview, Wash., is retired and enjoys attending and participat-ing in Corvette car shows.
Shannon Valdivia ’93of Gresham is instructor of speech communication and director of forensics at Mt. Hood Community College. Her forensics team recently won the Northwest Forensics Conference regional championship for community colleges.
Angelique (Langenhuysen) Whitlow ’93of Tigard is a senior manager in audit services at Talbot, Korvola & Warwick, LLP, a CPA and consulting firm.
Mitzi Kirkland-Ives ’94of Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and will teach at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Tobi (Fauth) Schaap ’94of Barstow, Calif., and her husband, Brian, had a son, Spencer William, July 28.
Lincolnand Allison (Tomac) Bach ’95and ’96of Portland had a daughter, Hannah, Jan. 25, their third.
Sheryl Kelsh ’95of Keizer is
executive director of the Chehalem Valley Chamber of Commerce in Newberg.
Amy (Landis) Dannen ’95of Lebanon and her husband, Allen, had twin daughters, Sadie Josephine and Lauren Elizabeth, May 6, their second and third.
Katina Rothleutner ’95of Kirkland, Wash., married Joel Zwiefelhofer July 9 in Chippewa Falls, Wis.
Joeand Dayna (Harper) Schuler,both ’95, of Portland had a son, Joseph, June 21, their second.
Stephanie Stewart ’95of Portland and her husband, Michael St. Clair, had a daughter, Eleanor Kole, Feb. 9. Stephanie is a painter.
Bernadette Suafo’a ’95and
Julian Tyrell ’94were married Nov. 6. They live in Hauula, Hawaii.
Amy (Strong) Wilson ’95of Beaverton and her husband, Carter, had a daughter, Paige Hannah, Aug. 14. Amy works in surgery at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.
Jody (Bogle) VanDePol ’95of Clarksburg, Calif., and her husband, Jason, had a daughter, Abigail, July 4.
Steffani Bailey ’96of Providence, R.I., is interning at Brown University Medical Center to complete requirements for a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.
Shelby (Smith) Nemecek ’96
of Beaverton is a disability benefits analyst for Standard Insurance Company.
Melissa (Long) Owen ’96of Vancouver, B.C., Canada, and her husband, Nick, had a son, Nile Alexander, March 26.
Mike Westphal ’96of Bloomington, Ind., is an assistant swim coach at Indiana University.
Korenza Burris ’97of Dexter is news anchor for KEZI-TV in Eugene.
Matt and Eris (Miller) Craven, both’97,live in Bend where Matt is a math teacher, head track coach and assistant football coach at Bend High School.
Alyssa (Gleed) Johnston ’97
of Durham, N.C., earned an MBA from the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business.
Paul O’Hollaren ’97of Tualatin and his wife, Karen, had a daughter, Keelie Kay, Nov. 13. Paul is a territory manager for VNUS Medical Technologies.
Richard Neel ’97of Portland married Elise Brahmer April 9. Rich is an account executive for Cytyc Corporation.
Jeffand Nissa (Cockrell) Roberts ’97and ’96of Tualatin had a daughter, McKenna Kaye, June 9.
‘New Directions’ for Oregon inmates
Evelyn (Andrus) Hanks ’57 is
offering inmates at Eastern Oregon
Correctional Institution a key to life
beyond bars: education.
Hanks taught French and Spanish at
Blue Mountain Community College in
Pendleton from 1983 to 1999. She also
taught English as a second language at
the medium-security prison in
Pendleton during those years, full time at
the prison from 1991 to 1999.
Today, Hanks chairs the board of
the New Directions Education Project, a nonprofit organization
she launched in 1999 after hearing about a similar prison
program in Kentucky. Since spring 2000, about 130 inmates
have participated.
Only 57 percent of the inmates have completed high
school or the GED, making them eligible for New Directions
classes. “Most of them were losers all the time in school,”
Hanks said. With New Directions, they are discovering they
can be successful in academics.
New Directions offers courses leading to an Associate of
Arts degree, including speech, U.S. history, biology, physics,
creative writing, math, art history, music literature, sociology,
psychology, cultural anthropology, Oregon geography, and
fit-ness for life. “All except one prep math class are transferable to
any Oregon university,” Hanks noted. “Many of them didn’t
realize they were college material, and they are so thrilled.
They are so motivated, and they do their homework.”
New Directions is the only program of its type in
Oregon. Since 1994, when funding began to dry up, no
college classes had been available at any prison in the state.
“This is the reason our program came into being,” Hanks said.
New Directions operates with an annual budget of about
$24,000. The men each pay $25 per 10-week term to offset
tuition for the classes taught by Blue Mountain faculty. Some
textbooks have been donated by publishers. The balance of the
program costs comes from donations, grants and annual benefit
concerts. The fall 2004 concert, with a “Jailhouse Rock”
theme of 1950s and 1960s music performed by volunteers,
raised about $4,000, Hanks said.
Prison is a stark contrast to her previous work
environ-ments. The Salem native, who also studied in France under a
Fulbright fellowship in 1957, received a master’s of religious
education at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in
Philadelphia. She has held several jobs in Christian education
at churches in California and Oregon.
She remains active in church activities. Hanks and husband
Jim, a retired insurance adjuster, have a son in Ashland, a
daughter in Missoula, Mont., and 4-year-old twin grandsons.
– Beth Rogers Thompson
Evelyn (Andrus) Hanks ‘57
Class Notes
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to Linfield if 25 percent or more alumni
make a gift by June 30, 2006. Step up to
the challenge and be one of 3,352 alumni
needed to reach 25 percent.
Look for details in the mail or ask
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Scottand Cecilia (Hoodenpyle) Robertson ’97
and ’95of Portland had a son, Adam Taggart, June 6.
Anneli (Ahlmalm) Schalock ’97of Hanover, N.H., is pursuing a master’s in business administration at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.
Kate Stolmeier ’97of Bridgewater, Somerset, England, married Duncan MacRae April 8 in Somerset. She teaches in a primary school and participated in the Fulbright Teacher’s Exchange Program in 2002-2003.
Samara Suafo’a ’97of San Pedro, Calif., is a special education teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District, currently pursuing a master’s in special education of moderate-severely disabled children.
Alicia (Nolan) Carlson ’98of Lincoln, Neb., and her husband, Brian, adopted a daughter, Linara Grace Renee, March 16. Alicia is a CASA volunteer and an in-home daycare provider. She and her hus-band are also foster parents.
Devan Dunn ’98of Portland married Kate Murray July 30 in Portland.
Nicole (Erwert) Genduso ’98
of Hillsboro and her husband, Joseph, had a son, Joseph Timothy, March 12.
Jessica (Gómez) Graham ’98
of Salem teaches science at Regis High School in Stayton.
Amanda (Wilson) Kapelka ’98of Renton, Wash., and her hus-band, Ben, had a son, Benjamin Wilson, April 25.
Michael McGrath ’98of Portland is a partner in the law firm of Gearing, Rackner and Engel, LLP in Portland.
Ryan McWayne ’98of Lebanon and his wife, Leslie, had a daughter, Kiara Morgan, June 12.
Jeffrey Menold ’98of Issaquah, Wash., and his wife, Jaime, had a son, Jaxon Paul, Aug. 24.
Tramaine Payne ’98of McMinnville teaches at Patton Middle School and coaches football and track at Linfield.
Taryne (Edmon) Roberts ’98
of Springfield married Adam Roberts May 19 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Ryder Campbell ’99of New Haven, Conn., earned an MBA from Yale University and works for Barclays Capital in New York City with a certified financial advisor designation.
Marissa (Rathbone) Dally ’99of Arcadia, Okla., is the director of health and physical education for the Texas Education Agency.
Karen (Churchill) Garcia ’99
of Yuba City, Calif., and her hus-band, Joel, had a daughter, Sophia Luna, May 2.
Clark Marston ‘99of Erlangen, Germany, and his wife, Melanie, had twin daughters, Emma
Marie and Sophie Luisa, April 28.
Mindi Welton ’99of Needham, Maine, married John Mitchell May 28. Melinda is an ordained American Baptist Minister at the First Baptist Church in Newton.
2000-05
Sean Bettis ’00is working for the director of labor for the Icelandic Government.
Alice Diversand Joseph Bayless, both’00,of Lake Oswego were married Sept. 19.
Brittany Hartzelland Jeff Baguley,both ’00,of Cayce, S.C., were married Dec. 18. Both are completing post-doctoral research at the University of South Carolina after earning Ph.D.s, Brittany in analytical chemistry from Ohio University and Jeff in marine sci-ence from the University of Texas.
Brian Higa ’00and Lauren Arakawa ’03of Hilo, Hawaii, were married July 2.
Meredith Miller ’00of Lake Oswego earned a bachelor's in inte-rior design from the Art Institute of Portland.
Trevor Phillips ’00and
Michelle Mallory ’01of Tucson, Ariz., were married May 7. Trevor graduated from Yale University School of Medicine in May and is an emergency medicine physician at
the University of North Carolina.
Andrew Brawley ’01and
Tracy Forrester ’03 of Burbank, Calif., were married Sept. 3. Tracy is a publicist for TV shows Jimmy Kimmel Liveand America’s Next Top Modeland Andrew is a marketing coordinator for THQ, a video game publisher.
Inkeri Chisholm ’01of Lake Oswego married Chad Martin April 24.
Erin Gaskill ’01of Kirkland, Wash., teaches sixth grade and organized Project Sheltering Tree to provide education advocacy for foster children.
Laura Gibson ’01of Coquille recorded a CD of urban folk music,
Amends.
Annikke Olson ’01of Hillsboro passed the National Athletic Trainers Association Board of Certification.
Blake Pang ’01of Honolulu, Hawaii, is the assistant vice president of Aloha United Way.
Stacy Shiraga ’01of Bend married Brett Caldwell April 2.
Colene (Lord) Weber ’01of Phoenix, Ariz., earned a master’s degree in education specializing in middle level education from Walden University.
Ryan Welch ’01of Eugene and his wife, Susan, had a son, Cade Grant, May 2. Ryan started AOCREATIVE, a graphic design business.
Class Notes
McMinnville is head football coach at Yamhill-Carlton High School.
Kristal Shelton ’92of West Linn married Corben Hyatt June 30.
Catherine (Taylor) Walton ’92
of Vancouver, Wash., and her hus-band, Troy, own a home inspection business.
Gary Thorson ’91of McMinnville is head football coach at Dallas High School.
Michele (Waters) Cornwall ’92of Newport is attending the University of Portland School of Nursing.
Katie (Maben) Siechen ’92of Iowa City, Iowa, and her husband, Andy, had a son, Isaac James, Feb. 26.
Alex Woodward ’92of Tigard and his wife, Tracy, had a son, Tathan Jackson, Aug. 5.
Roland Armstrong ’93of Cathlamet, Wash., earned the 2005 Hero Award from the Washington Behavioral Healthcare Conference.
Sharon Boyle ’93of Terre Haute, Ind., and her husband, Michael Boswell, had a daughter, Kayla Elizabeth, June 16.
Jenny Brudvig ’93of Beaverton married Carlin Irish June 25. She works for U.S. Bank.
Janiece (Kern) Paulat ’93of Vancouver, Wash., and her husband, Timothy, had a daughter, April 21.
Anne (Schmidt) Shantz ’93
of Snohomish, Wash., and her hus-band, Bradley, had a son, Levi Charles, March 24.
Betty (Thompson) Tindall ’93of Longview, Wash., is retired and enjoys attending and participat-ing in Corvette car shows.
Shannon Valdivia ’93of Gresham is instructor of speech communication and director of forensics at Mt. Hood Community College. Her forensics team recently won the Northwest Forensics Conference regional championship for community colleges.
Angelique (Langenhuysen) Whitlow ’93of Tigard is a senior manager in audit services at Talbot, Korvola & Warwick, LLP, a CPA and consulting firm.
Mitzi Kirkland-Ives ’94of Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and will teach at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Tobi (Fauth) Schaap ’94of Barstow, Calif., and her husband, Brian, had a son, Spencer William, July 28.
Lincolnand Allison (Tomac) Bach ’95and ’96of Portland had a daughter, Hannah, Jan. 25, their third.
Sheryl Kelsh ’95of Keizer is
executive director of the Chehalem Valley Chamber of Commerce in Newberg.
Amy (Landis) Dannen ’95of Lebanon and her husband, Allen, had twin daughters, Sadie Josephine and Lauren Elizabeth, May 6, their second and third.
Katina Rothleutner ’95of Kirkland, Wash., married Joel Zwiefelhofer July 9 in Chippewa Falls, Wis.
Joeand Dayna (Harper) Schuler,both ’95, of Portland had a son, Joseph, June 21, their second.
Stephanie Stewart ’95of Portland and her husband, Michael St. Clair, had a daughter, Eleanor Kole, Feb. 9. Stephanie is a painter.
Bernadette Suafo’a ’95and
Julian Tyrell ’94were married Nov. 6. They live in Hauula, Hawaii.
Amy (Strong) Wilson ’95of Beaverton and her husband, Carter, had a daughter, Paige Hannah, Aug. 14. Amy works in surgery at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.
Jody (Bogle) VanDePol ’95of Clarksburg, Calif., and her husband, Jason, had a daughter, Abigail, July 4.
Steffani Bailey ’96of Providence, R.I., is interning at Brown University Medical Center to complete requirements for a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.
Shelby (Smith) Nemecek ’96
of Beaverton is a disability benefits analyst for Standard Insurance Company.
Melissa (Long) Owen ’96of Vancouver, B.C., Canada, and her husband, Nick, had a son, Nile Alexander, March 26.
Mike Westphal ’96of Bloomington, Ind., is an assistant swim coach at Indiana University.
Korenza Burris ’97of Dexter is news anchor for KEZI-TV in Eugene.
Matt and Eris (Miller) Craven, both’97,live in Bend where Matt is a math teacher, head track coach and assistant football coach at Bend High School.
Alyssa (Gleed) Johnston ’97
of Durham, N.C., earned an MBA from the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business.
Paul O’Hollaren ’97of Tualatin and his wife, Karen, had a daughter, Keelie Kay, Nov. 13. Paul is a territory manager for VNUS Medical Technologies.
Richard Neel ’97of Portland married Elise Brahmer April 9. Rich is an account executive for Cytyc Corporation.
Jeffand Nissa (Cockrell) Roberts ’97and ’96of Tualatin had a daughter, McKenna Kaye, June 9.
‘New Directions’ for Oregon inmates
Evelyn (Andrus) Hanks ’57 is
offering inmates at Eastern Oregon
Correctional Institution a key to life
beyond bars: education.
Hanks taught French and Spanish at
Blue Mountain Community College in
Pendleton from 1983 to 1999. She also
taught English as a second language at
the medium-security prison in
Pendleton during those years, full time at
the prison from 1991 to 1999.
Today, Hanks chairs the board of
the New Directions Education Project, a nonprofit organization
she launched in 1999 after hearing about a similar prison
program in Kentucky. Since spring 2000, about 130 inmates
have participated.
Only 57 percent of the inmates have completed high
school or the GED, making them eligible for New Directions
classes. “Most of them were losers all the time in school,”
Hanks said. With New Directions, they are discovering they
can be successful in academics.
New Directions offers courses leading to an Associate of
Arts degree, including speech, U.S. history, biology, physics,
creative writing, math, art history, music literature, sociology,
psychology, cultural anthropology, Oregon geography, and
fit-ness for life. “All except one prep math class are transferable to
any Oregon university,” Hanks noted. “Many of them didn’t
realize they were college material, and they are so thrilled.
They are so motivated, and they do their homework.”
New Directions is the only program of its type in
Oregon. Since 1994, when funding began to dry up, no
college classes had been available at any prison in the state.
“This is the reason our program came into being,” Hanks said.
New Directions operates with an annual budget of about
$24,000. The men each pay $25 per 10-week term to offset
tuition for the classes taught by Blue Mountain faculty. Some
textbooks have been donated by publishers. The balance of the
program costs comes from donations, grants and annual benefit
concerts. The fall 2004 concert, with a “Jailhouse Rock”
theme of 1950s and 1960s music performed by volunteers,
raised about $4,000, Hanks said.
Prison is a stark contrast to her previous work
environ-ments. The Salem native, who also studied in France under a
Fulbright fellowship in 1957, received a master’s of religious
education at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in
Philadelphia. She has held several jobs in Christian education
at churches in California and Oregon.
She remains active in church activities. Hanks and husband
Jim, a retired insurance adjuster, have a son in Ashland, a
daughter in Missoula, Mont., and 4-year-old twin grandsons.
– Beth Rogers Thompson
Evelyn (Andrus) Hanks ‘57
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Fast-paced finance good fit for CFO
Mike Yonker ’80 is the first to admit he’s an
over-achiever.
Sitting in his top-floor Wilsonville office, surrounded
by family photos and outdoor scenes, he drinks from a
water bottle, hydrating himself for the coming weekend’s
Hood to Coast relay.
“I’m a play-hard work-hard person,” he said.
“Whatever it is, I go at it with 150 percent effort to be
the best at it.”
So it came as no surprise when, as a Linfield College
sophomore, Yonker discovered a passion for accounting
and buckled down to complete his college coursework early.
The only thing left to do was begin his career, which
he did with a vengeance during his senior year.
Now, Yonker is executive vice president and chief
financial officer for InFocus Systems Inc., a multimedia
projector maker with 700 employees and offices
world-wide. He’s been with InFocus since 1993, save for a
three-year stint as CFO for Wieden & Kennedy. He spent his
first 14 years out of college rocketing to partner status
with Arthur Andersen & Company.
The son of Thomas Yonker, Linfield education
professor from 1970 to 1988, Mike grew up enveloped in
Linfield’s collegiate atmosphere. He developed a love of
education and an interest in communication, recognizing
early that people take different
action as a result of how they
under-stand something.
“That’s always fascinated me,”
he said. “I love being in front of
peo-ple. I love teaching. I love
interact-ing. And I think a lot of that came
from my father and growing up
around Linfield. Enrolling there was
the natural, next thing for me to do.”
Yonker’s initial interest in marine biology and foresty
was short lived. Prompted by his sister, Kathy (Yonker)
Bernards ’76, a business major, Yonker enrolled in an
accounting class taught by Mike Jones, professor of
account-ing. For both Yonker and Jones, it was their first accounting
class at Linfield – Yonker as a student and Jones as professor.
“He really took me under his wing,” Yonker said of
Jones. “He saw in me what I didn’t realize I had. Had he
not taken that level of interest in me, I doubt I would have
taken the track I have.”
Under Jones’ guidance, Yonker interviewed and
secured an internship with Arthur Andersen & Company,
setting into motion the now successful Linfield
account-ing student recruitaccount-ing program.
“Mike had a spark that was evident even when he
was a sophomore,” Jones remembered. “I’ve always
appreciated how he paved the way for a lot of later
generations of students. He was a tip top student. I’m
not surprised at his success.”
While Yonker is fascinated
with the fast-paced work and
advanced technologies central to
InFocus products, his favorite
part of his job is drawing out the
best in the people around him.
As CFO, he works with
employ-ees in all departments.
“I do everything I can to
help them achieve way beyond
what they think they’re capable of doing,” said Yonker. “As
the people I work with achieve greatness, it raises all the
boats in the company, including mine.”
Yonker, who married Robin (Haun) ’83, is a strong
proponent of a liberal arts education. He encourages
stu-dents, including his own three children, to step outside
their comfort zones by studying abroad.
“It broadens you as an individual,” he said. “The
market today is a worldwide market and you have to be
chameleon-like in your ability to step into multiple
cultures and environments, and be effective in your
communications so that you can get business done.”
— Laura Davis
“As the people I work with
achieve greatness, it raises all
the boats in the company,
including mine.”
Mike Yonker ‘80 combines his enthusiasm for finance and high technology as CFO for
InFocus Systems Inc., a multimedia projector maker based in Wilsonville.
Alumni Profile
Sonté Wong ’01of Bismarck, N.D., and Thomas Ford ’04 of Federal Way, Wash., were members of the Tri-Cities, Wash., Fever indoor football team that captured the National Indoor Football League Championship.
Kaysie (Williams) Angeletta ’02 of Scurry, Texas, and her hus-band, John, had a daughter, Emily Rose, Dec. 16.
Aaron Godfred ’02of Norwalk, Conn., is an account executive for Octagon, developing Nextel’s NASCAR marketing strategy.
Stacey Springer ’02of North Plains married Marcus Glaze Aug. 13 in Portland. Stacey teaches sev-enth grade health and language arts at Brown Middle School and coaches softball at Century High School. She is also pursuing a mas-ter’s degree at Pacific University.
Megan (Corman) Tucker ’02
of Sacramento, Calif., teaches music in Sacramento and Vacaville.
Danielle Watsonand Nicholas Clearwater,both ’02,of Clackamas were married July 30 in Milwaukie.
Ali Benson ’03of Beaverton
passed the National Athletic Trainers Association Board of Certification.
Larry Fudge ’03of Pasadena, Calif., is pursuing graduate studies at Fuller Theological Seminary.
Rhea Hartlieb ’03of Lake Oswego is on a three-person open-ing team for Abercrombie & Fitch Corporation.
Kristin Hindley ’03 of Beaverton married Owen
McCartney July 23 in Beaverton.
Amy Smith ’03of Portland is a faculty coordinator for an interna-tional leadership development firm.
Brandon Standridge ’03of Glendale teaches social studies and coaches boys’ varsity basketball at Glendale High School.
Fred Elchlepp ’04of Corvallis is research associate at DLF International Seeds Research Station in Philomath.
Kristen (Snook) Michael ’04
of McMinnville coordinates the Youth Empowerment Squad and Juvenile Crime and Substance Abuse Prevention Council for the Yamhill County Prevention Program.
Rachel Ruger ’04of
McCleary receives Grimes Award
Education and innovation have been career hallmarks
for Carol McCleary GSH ’55 of San Antonio, Texas.
McCleary, this year’s recipient of the Lloydena Grimes
Award for Excellence in Nursing, is a retired United States
Air Force colonel. Throughout her 26-year career, she
displayed a commitment to nursing that enhanced the
profession around the world.
McCleary started out at Good Samaritan Hospital as
head nurse of the diabetic medical/surgical unit two weeks
before graduation, and was later a GSH science instructor.
She entered the Air Force in 1962, ultimately creating and
implementing numerous first-time clinical, staff
develop-ment and educational programs for staff and nurses.
Over the years, McCleary served in a number of overseas
posts including Turkey, Vietnam and Germany, and traveled
widely through Europe from Norway to Turkey. She was
command nurse in three major air commands, directly
responsible to the command surgeon. When she retired in
1988, McCleary was responsible for over 2,800 personnel in
three medical centers, seven hospitals, four clinics, the
School of Health Care Sciences and Air Force Recruiting
Service.
Since retirement, McCleary has served as board member
and newsletter editor for the Society of Air Force Nurses.
She also created and manages her retirement community
library and volunteers at the San Antonio Main Library.
Vancouver, Wash., is pursuing a graduate degree in mathematics at Portland State University.
Ronna Sweeney ’04 of Woodburn is a television reporter/anchor for KCBY-TV in Coos Bay.
Chelsea Zeal and Jake Roberts, both ’04,of Portland were married June 25 in Portland.
Nicole Hunter ’05of Syracuse, N.Y., is pursuing a master’s in television/radio/film at Syracuse University.
Coleen Hoadley ’05of Medford married Scott Gies July 2 in Ashland.
Alex Justus ’05 of Bellevue, Wash., plays for the Gateway Grizzlies baseball team.
Kimberly McGough ’05of Albany took over her father’s math class at Calapooia Middle School in Albany after he retired.
Rebecca Price ’05of Flagstaff, Ariz., married Joseph Colman Aug. 23 in Phoenix.
Seth Prickett ’05of Ghana, Africa, volunteers as a teacher at a primary school.
GSH
Linda (Transue) Davis GSH ’72of Portland works for Legacy Health System in the employee health division.
Catherine (Cole) York GSH ’83 of Portland writes articles about the wine industry for The Oregonian.
In memoriam
Mary (Westall) Parrish ’35of Portland, Aug. 24. Survivors include her daughter, Virginia (Parrish) Peterson ’68,and sister Frances (Westall) Daniels ’39.
Eva (Gaches) Collinson ’38
of Mount Vernon, Wash., April 28.
Marjorie (Perkins) Camp ’39
of Livermore, Calif., Sept. 29, 2004.
Marjory (Miller) Hillman ’39
of San Jose, Calif., Feb. 5.
James Henry ’40of Kaysville, Utah, March 6, 2004.
Maxine (Klinge) Hildman ’41of Paradise Valley, Ariz., May 24, 2004.
John Sullivan ’41of Glendale, Ariz., Sept. 7, 2004.
Katherine (Bishop) Sutherland ’41of Yorktown, Va., Oct. 14.
Dorothy Rattey ’41of Warrensburg, Mo., April 21. Survivors include her brother, John Rattey, Jr. ’47.
Ruth (Ross) Lomer ’42of
Longview, Wash., July 28.
Jean Larson ’43of Olympia, Wash., Oct. 26.
Dorothy (Torner) Leypoldt ’44of Capistrano, Calif., July 30, 2004.
Marshall Barnard ’49of Portland, June 2.
Franklin Voigt ’49of Sumner, Wash., July 20.
Betty (Hausen) Corn ’50of Walla Walla, Wash., March 17, 2004.
Keith Wood ’50of
McMinnville, Aug. 6. Survivors include his wife, Bettie (Spring) ’48.
Sybil Seward ’53of McMinnville, Sept. 23.
John Collins ’54of Reno, Nev., Aug. 16.
James Buckingham ’58of Calistoga, Calif., Feb. 1.
Jenora Michaelsohn ’57of Portland, Aug. 11.
Patricia (Davenport) McCarley ’61of Lake Oswego, June 4. Survivors include daughters
Katherine (McCarley) Campbell ’90and Kelly (McCarley) Andresen ’91.
Austin Cole ’75of Compton, Calif., June 29, 1999.
Dion Sanders ’78of Las Vegas, Nev., Jan. 10, 2004.
Eric Kautzky ’90 of Portland, June 18.
Scarlett (Skill) Holland ’92
of Vancouver, Wash., June 17, 2004. Survivors include her brother,
Brent Skill ’69.
Mark Shirtcliff ’93of Bend, June 25. Survivors include his sister,
Melody (Shirtcliff) Cobb ’93. Randall Dorosh ’93 of Eugene, May 25.
GSH
Delores (Irish) Fairchild GSH ’48of Medford, Nov. 10.
Elizabeth Vierling GSH ’74
of Volusia, Fla., Dec. 13.
Friends and family
Dorothy Harnof Eugene, July 2. She was the wife of the late Wayne Harn, former Linfield foot-ball coach.
Raymond Befusof McMinnville, June 25. He was a professor of education for 20 years. Survivors include his daughter,
Myrth (Befus) Ogilvie ’76. Katherine Scottof Carlton, Aug. 1.
Irvin Walshof Portland, June 26. Survivors include his son
Gregory ’73and daughter-in-law
