Alumni Notes -- Fall 2000

Amy Goldhammer has taken a position with Shape magazine and Fit Pregnancy as an editorial assistant. She works very close with the editors and will be able to do some writing.

After finishing an internship with Italy Daily (an insert of the International Herald Tribune in Italy), Matthew Landan started an internship with Dow Jones newswires in Milan. In December, he will begin his first contractual job with Center for the Study and Research of Telecommunications, the research division of Telecom Italia, Italy’s former telephone monopoly. He will be working in Torino, Italy doing public relations and acting as a press liaison for the international press.

Kari Skoog is working at Intel Corporation in Portland as a press relations specialist.

Michael Vieira is a community relations associate with Partnerships With Industry, a non-profit organization bringing together businesses and adults with developmental disabilities.

Edward Yuen moved to Portland in July, where he started an internship at Maxwell Public Relations.

Jennifer Casey is a new communications coordinator in Corporate Communications at Nike. She will be working with Scott Reames, ’89, who manages baseball, football, tennis and advertising.

Erica Pereira, '00, of STRATEGY Associates in Silicon Valley and Jason Khoury, '98, of Benjamin Group/BSMG Worldwide in San Francisco attended an alumni reception hosted by Camille Johnson, '68, Director of Media for GMO/Hill Holliday in San Francisco. Professor Charlie Frazer and 13 advertising students also attended the reception while touring ad agencies in the city.

David LaMarche is currently the director of Internet Services for Z100 radio as well as three other radio stations in Portland. He travels to Eugene weekly to perform for his mobile dee-jay service, Jock in A Box.

Tien-Tsung Lee left University of Hawaii and, in January, started teaching at the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University.

Virginia Ng is a corporate communication coordinator at Services Group of America. She moved to Seattle where she coordinates the annual Republican picnic in Washington, which is expected to have the largest attendance to date.

After a three-month internship, Michele Stephan was hired as an account coordinator for the health and technology department of Stoorza, Ziegaus & Metzger in San Diego.

John Patrick Wallace is living it up in San Diego and working as an account coordinator for a health care public relations agency that specializes in pharmaceutical and bio-tech companies. He loves the weather but misses the seasons Eugene offers. “Hey...it rained here the other day!”

Sarah Aichinger is in the design department at the New Yorker. She was at Mirabella for a year and a half before that and left just before it closed. Things are going well for her in New York, but she really misses the Pacific Northwest.

Jolie A. Allen works in New York as a junior designer for Vogue Magazine. She would like to thank Professor Ryan for her early success.

Katie Megan Bidstrup works as an account manager for what Ad Age dubbed as “one of the fastest growing high-tech ad agencies in the country.”

Marta S. Corley is very happily employed in account services for Publicis Technology San Francisco, the technology branch of the well-established, France-based agency, Publicis. She she adores her job and is learning more and more each day. P.S. Turns out, that damn grammar book (When Words Collide) is really helpful!

Lauren Danner was appointed to the Lewis & Clark Trail Committee, a committee that advises and stimulates activities with government agencies and individuals to promote public awareness of the route traversed by Lewis and Clark on their 1804-1806 expedition. She is an instructor at South Puget Sound Community College.

Jay-E Shih Emmingham was hired as a designer at Fred Meyer’s corporate office. It’s been great and she hopes to become an art director in the future. She and her husband have a new home in SE Portland.

After graduating, Nicole Jordan (now Scott) went to work for Alexander Ogilvy Public Relations. She then decided she’d had enough with the dot-com madness and moved to Edelman Public Relations Worldwide to work with Apple. She married Brian Scott in September ’99.

Lindsay Knaak is a marketing associate for the online advertising agency, Exile on 7th in San Francisco. She is working on accounts such as eBay, Asimba.com and Iuma.com

Raul Reis has recently (fall 2000) started teaching at California State University Long Beach, as a tenure-track faculty member in the department of journalism. He previously held a teaching position at California State University Monterey Bay.

Allison R. Stormo is currently a copy editor at Tri-City Herald in Kennewick, WA.

Jamey Toombs is currently developing a broadband portal and has directed several rock concerts (Seal, Smash Mouth, Ani Defranco.) He is developing an Internet start-up site that would offer broadband content such as fullscreen video, flash/shockwave animation and real-time chat about oceans and sea life. He has worked for a Fox affiliate as a technical director/audio operator. During that time, he also did six months of independent contracting for Havard Film and Video in Mobile, Alabama where he directed several corporate videos and promotionals. In March 1999, he was offered a job in Dallas, Texas as a multimedia producer in the broadband internet arena. After a year with Broadband Now, he was recruited from a direct competitor (Reflex Communications) in Seattle to produce and develop the content for their national broadband services.

Gerard F. Vinluan graduated with an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Warwick, England and currently works as a research assistant to the Press Freedom Director at the Commonwealth Press Union. He’s barely surviving the British food and weather. His e-mail is guinness@2die4.com

Marjorie Barritt is currently working as the publicity assistant in the Corporate Publicity department of Briargate Media, the media division of Focus on the Family, a non-profit Christian organization dedicated to the preservation of the family.

Jennifer Haliski just graduated with her M.A. in German and European Studies from Georgetown University in May 2000. She is currently working as a senior analyst for the Cost and Finance Watch, an online publication of the Advisory Board Company. The Advisory Board is a healthcare thinktank and research consulting firm for hospitals nationwide.

Robbie Reeves now works for UC San Francisco as a programmer/analyst III, providing desktop computer support for 120 UCSF employees. His e-mail is rreeves@efn.org

After graduation, Jennifer M. Wright moved to London to work for Fleishman Hillard. In the spring of 1998, she moved to Washington, D.C. to work in House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt’s press office. Currently, she is working for a local PR firm, focusing on high-tech and financial services clients. In the fall, she will enter Northwestern University’s Integrated Marketing Communications program in the Medill Graduate School of Journalism.

After a nine-month stint at the Cottage Grove Sentinel and 2 1/2 years at the Beaverton Valley Times, Jean Bond-Slaughter recently accepted a position as the editorial assistant at Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company in Portland. They publish high-end coffee table books under their Graphic Arts Center Publishing imprint, and adventure, memoir, children’s and reference books under their other imprints, Alaska Northwest Books and West Winds Press. She works with a great staff and has found that she loves book publishing more than she thought possible.

Mark Bowder was recently named city editor at the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin in Ontario, California. He was promoted to the position in April 2000. He had served as business editor for the past 2 1/2 years.

Konstantin F. Neven DuMont is currently an executive officer at M.DuMont Schauberg, one of the ten largest publishing houses in Germany. He is responsible for the contents and strategies of their daily newspapers (Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Express, Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, etc.). He is helping to lead the company to become a multi-media business (TV-production, regional radio and television channels, e-commerce, call center, etc.).

Mark H. Massé was named News-Editorial Sequence Coordinator at Ball State University Department of Journalism, where he’s an assistant professor. He’s had work published in JMC Educator and is also a free-lancer for the U.S. Golf Association. He recently completed his second novel, Delamore’s Dreams.

Jennifer Dian Archer spent a year and a half as the sales service assistant for the Telesales Division in The Oregonian’sadvertising department. She currently works in Marketing Services as the advertising promotion coordinator.

Susie Bodman has been working as a Night Editor at the Gazette-Times in Corvallis, Oregon. Last November she was awarded a fellowship to attend the New Horizons in Science briefing sponsored by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. She continues to work on her master’s in physical anthropology and hopes to complete her thesis next year.

Valerie Brown has been a free-lance writer in Portland for nine years, specializing in science, environmental and health issues for publications such as Science Magazine, Environmental Health Perspective, Willamette Week and Eugene Weekly. In 1997 she sailed around the Black Sea with an environmental and religion symposium. Last May she participated in the Scripps-Howard Institute on the Environment at UC Boulder. She adds, “Love my work—hell of a way not to earn a living!”

Michael S. Springer left Portland this fall for Scotland, where he is working on his Ph.D. in history at the Institute of Reformation Studies, University of St. Andrews.

Debbie Duncan spent 10 years in marketing in San Francisco, then she returned to college to earn her master’s in Healthcare Administration at the University of Washington. She moved to Washington from Burlingame, California this year.

Marisa Hidayat received two gold awards and one silver award from Citra Pariwara (Indonesian version of the Clio awards) while working at J. Walter Thompson in Indonesia as a copywriter. She also has worked for Matari Advertising and Komuniko Advertising of Indonesia. In 1995 she began her own agency, VOXA, that currently employs about 30 people and has handled accounts from Kodak Film and Packard Bell. In 1997 a radio commercial she wrote received a finalist award from the New York Festival.

Scott Anderson is a writer/producer for ABC News Radio in Washington, D.C., covering politics and national news. He is also a contributor to ABC News Radio’s weekly long-form program, Perspective. It’s been too long since he’s visited the Northwest, and he hopes to get out here soon. He adds, “Great job on the Web site and congratulations on what appears to be the continued excellence of the J-School, staff and students.”

Jennie Joy is self-employed and has just finished writing a book and workbook on career development that she hopes to get published. She gives seminars on the subject as well and enjoys life on the Chesapeake.

Kristine Knock has been working in Portland for the past four years for Equity Group, Inc. Realtors as a publication and Web coordinator.

Joanne Wolf is a senior editor with Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest Publications, Meredith Corp, in Des Moines, Iowa, where she develops new gardening magazines. Her most recent magazine is Perennials, which appeared on the newsstand twice in 2000.

Marcus Prater has been named Vice President of Marketing for Bally Gaming and Systems, a Las Vegas-based developer of slot machines and casino management software for the global gaming industry.

Laura Simic is the new associate vice chancellor for Development at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She continues to volunteer as a trustee of the Mortar Board National Foundation and as Collegiate Coordinator for Delta Delta Delta sorority.

Wen-Chi Kung received his Ph.D. in Media Studies in the Social Sciences Department from Loughborough University at Leicestershire, U.K. in 1997. After receiving his doctorate, he was politically appointed Chairman of the Council of Aboriginal Affairs in the Taipei City government in December 1998.

Steve Mozena’s mayoral site is up and running at www.mozena.com. He is a Los Angeles mayoral candidate for 2001.

Patrick Casey joined the full-time faculty at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham in September, where he teaches U.S. History — each course, of course, contains a complete overview of media history and its effects on society at the time.

Dane S. Claussen has been elected to several AEJMC leadership positions since 1997. He has been appointed to Southwest Missouri State University’s Gender Studies Committee and a Search Committee for the university’s new Department of Mass Media and Journalism, which will begin operating in Summer, 2001. Claussen joined the faculty at Southwest Missouri State after finishing his Ph.D. in mass communication at the University of Georgia. He is currently working on three books: an interdisciplinary anthology, tentatively titled Sex/Religion/Mass Media; a history of the U.S. newspaper industry’s marketing, promotions and public/media relations practices during the 1920-1970 period; and a media management textbook. He is a newspaper management consultant and editor of Industrial Marketing Practitioner.

Jeffrey Delkin currently works in Bangkok as a Deputy General Manager for Leo Burnett LTD. He thanks Bill Winter and notes, “to work and live in Bangkok is a gift.”

Two years ago along with Woody Dugan, Rob Gerowe launched mytravelclub.com, a Web site offering discount travel services. For the past seven years he has also been a volunteer with The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Team in Training, which trained 30,000 walkers, runners, triathletes and bikers last year, and as a group raised more than $60 million.

Aaron K. Douglas is director of Client Services at Miller Nash LLP in Portland.

Tamra Heathershaw-Hart has finally moved back to Oregon after 15 years in California. She and her husband decided to move to Salem. She’s still hard at work doing Web design (chief e-officer of www.hcstudios.com), but the new challenge is in making sure their business continues to function while they get to know their way around and make new contacts. Overall, she’s suffering a bit getting used to the colder weather, but she loves how clean the air smells.

Kelly Jamison-Wilde and her family moved to Okinawa, Japan in August 2000. There, she is continuing her editorial work for the Foreign Broadcast Information Service based in Washington, D.C.

Steve Jett is a national car advertising manager for Toyota Motor Sales. He is responsible for all national advertising for Toyota cars. He lives in Torrance with his wife, Rachael, and two children. He writes, “Even though I have lived in Los Angeles for 18 years, I still love the University of Oregon, especially the football team!”

Vernyce Dannells has recently joined the Hawaii Medical Service Association’s “ecommerce” team. Dannells has worked for HMSA, Hawaii’s Blue Cross/Blue Shield affiliate since 1993. In her role as information developer, Dannells will apply her writing skills in the company’s newly launched Web enterprise.

Michael N. McGregor earned his MFA from Columbia University in 1997. He is currently teaching creative writing at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. Several of his short stories and non-fiction pieces have appeared in national magazines.

Linda Weber is a writer, editor, speaker and publicist at Weber Writing & Consulting. Her first book, a children’s picture book titled Louié Larkey and the Bad Dream Patrol, is due to be published in October 2001 by Moon Mountain Publishing.

Ronald D. Fuchs is a senior director in Internal Communication at Agilent Technologies. He joined Agilent Technologies, an HP spin-off, to build and lead a global employee communication team.

Tom Jackson is an associate editor at Wooden Boat magazine, on a 60-acre waterfront site in rural Maine, and builds his own boats.

Gary Stigall has worked at KFMB in San Diego for 10 years. He has been chairman of the San Diego Broadcast Engineers and used the “bully pulpit” to create a Web site and write many stories and editorials.

Georgia Freshwater is a Principal partner at Freshwater Exporters, LLC, an export management company that exports surgical supplies to Europe, Australia and South America. She is the mother of a six-year-old son and is married to her college sweetheart, Dennis Woods.

Anne Kern recently had a play of hers presented as part of Lord Lebrick Theatre Co.’s 99 Minutes of Midnight Madness. She also had a play presented at the 5th Annual Eugene Women in Theatre Festival. She plans to write and direct a short film titled “The Fine Line” in October.

Gary Whitehouse has been a technical writer and webmaster for Oregon’s Medicaid office for seven years. He is also senior writer for the webzine Green Man Review—www.greenmanreview.com—which reviews books as well as live and recorded Celtic, English and North American traditional music.

Scott Hickey has been working for Pepsi-Cola for 20 years. In January, he was promoted to group manager of Project Development and Sales Support in the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Group headquarters.

Jeffrey M. Wallace is Circuit Court Judge for the Sixth Judicial District of Oregon (Umatilla and Morrow Counties). He also serves as a Lieutenant Colonel and senior military judge in the U.S. Army Reserve. He and his wife, Ronda, live in Hermiston, Oregon. They have five children, ages six through 23.

Formerly the director of Human Resources at Sherman Brothers Trucking, in April Kenneth A. Woody was named principal of Lebanon High School in Lebanon, Oregon.

Dr. Erwin K. Thomas attended Brooklyn College after graduating from UO. He earned an M.S. in Television in 1972, and, later, a Ph.D. in journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia in 1978. He authored Make Better Videos With Your Camcorder in 1991 and co-edited A Handbook on Mass Media in the United States in 1994. Currently, he is a professor in Mass Communications and Journalism at Norfolk State University. He is also co-authoring Mass Media and Social Ills and co-editing Mass Media in 2025.

Holly Ross Hutchins is manager of Corporate Communications for Shell Oil Company. He published a chapter titled “A New Order for Public Relations: Goodbye Cost Center, Hello Profit Center” in Robert L. Health’s new Handbook of Public Relations. In May 2000, he was elected to the University of Oregon Alumni Association’s Board of Directors.

Brothers Walter V. McKinney and Richard B. McKinney owned and worked at The Hillsboro Argus until. ownership of paper recently passed hands from the pioneer McKinney publishing family after more than 95 years and three generations of publishers to Advance Publications of New York. McKinney remains as publisher. He says the family’s decision to sell was “the hardest thing we’ve ever had to do. The Argus has been our life.”

Ray Clark Dickson was elected First Poet Laureate of San Luis Obispo, California, city and county. The Kerouac Connection Press recently published his retrospective book of poetry, Parlando, distributed in the U.K.; Edinburgh, Scotland; and San Francisco. He is currently on a 30 city California reading tour.