1942

Ray Clark Dickson is pleased and honored to be included in a recent anthology, A Fine Excess: Fifty Years of the Beloit Poetry Journal. He read from his new retrospective poetry book, Parlando, at the Santa Barbara News-Press Book & Author Festival. His publisher is Kerouac Connection Press.

Peter Taussig published "The Sorry State of the Fourth Estate" in Liberty magazine in January under the pseudonym K.R. Mudgeon. Liberty magazine is published in Port Townsend, Wash.

Richard Stanford Nystrom, Sr. reports that he will have a new book on spirituality for non-religious as well as religious people out in February. The book, titled G.O.D.: A Guide to Understanding God's Universal Software, explains the inherence of the spirit and how it relates to people for miraculous potential.

Warren W. Rucker bought Sign-A-Rama of Mesa, a full service sign center, three years ago. He was voted on to the Mesa Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors last month. He hosted Lou Turk '60 and his wife Barbara, "snowbirds" from Klamath Falls, for the Super Bowl broadcast in January and attended the UO/ASU basketball game. Go Ducks!

Thomas G. McGuire is real estate editor for the RGJ Custom Publishing Group, a division of the Reno Gazette-Journal.

Janet O'Dell Davies, a reporter for the (Salem) Statesman Journal recently received the Marion County Bar Association's 2000 Compton Award for Extraordinary Service from a Member of the Community to the Bar and the Judicial System by educating the public on daily workings of the legal system.

Debbie Debernardi Coryell left Jantzen swimwear after 20 years and is now menswear communication manager for Pendleton Woolen Mills in Portland.

Mike Moskovitz, who has been communications manager for Lane County since 1997, is leaving his post to take a position at Weyer-haeuser Company. His new position will be as regional communications manager responsible for media relations, advertising and internal communications for Weyerhaeus-er in Lane, Douglas, Coos and Jackson counties. Moskovitz lives on a small tree farm in Pleasant Hill, where he makes his home with his wife Janna and two teenage daughters.

Frank Allen ’74, president of the Institutes for Journalism & Natural Resources, visited the SOJC last April to speak to classes and faculty about IJNR programs. The faculty voted to give their full support to the IJNR and for the School to become a Principal Sponsor of the organization, which seeks to raise “the standards of coverage of the environment through innovative programs of learning and mentoring. Assistant Professor Carol Ann Bassett and Associate Professor Steve Ponder have participated in past IJNR programs. Photo: Jack Liu

1973

Linda Jean Welch Crew’s eighth novel, Brides of Eden: A True Story Imagined, has just been published by Harper Collins. The novel is based on a real historical incident. At the turn of the 20th century, a charismatic preacher by the name of Franz Edmund Creffield scandalized the town of Corvallis, by luring the women and girls into a bizarre religious cult.

Ken L. Strobeck just completed six years in the Oregon House of Representatives, the last two as Speaker Pro Term. He has joined Conkling, Fiskum and Mc-Cormick, a public affairs and strategic communications company, as vice president of public affairs.

Paul Barnum’s new title at Weyerhaeuser Company is communications director, Northwest Region, based in Federal Way, Wash. He leads a team of six communications managers and community relations coordinators who cover Weyerhaeuser’s timberlands and forest products manufacturing operations in Oregon and Washington. Barnum and his wife Sibyl ’75, festival coordinator for the Tacoma International Music Festival, moved to the Puget Sound area in December.

After more than 20 years in primarily client-side advertising and public relations, Mary Elizabeth McFarland went back to school and in March received an Advanced Certificate in Development from the Institute for Nonprofit Management at Portland State University. She started working for the Oregon Symphony in April 2000 and enjoys using her communications background in raising funds for the Symphony’s endowment and working on planned giving-related activities and events.

After seven years as science editor at The Salt Lake Tribune and a brief stint as science writer for SPACE.com, Lee Siegel joined the University of Utah in December 2000 as a science news publicist.

Bryce Zabel and his wife, Jackie, will be receiving a story credit on the new Disney film, Atlantis, based on an outline they wrote seven years ago.

Azan D. Abbey opened an office in Israel in October for Internet trade news publisher internet.com. The office covers the Israeli Internet industry. If there are any UO grads in Israel, he would love to hear from them via email, aabbey@internet.com.

Richard Alan Baltus moved from Portland to Roseburg in 1993. He started bbg Marketing in 1997, with a partner, an advertising, marketing, graphic design and web development company that now employs 13.

Michael C. Merback said that although it seems as if he only recently was at the UO, his oldest son is now there majoring in Voice Performance in the School of Music. "We finally agreed on something—the UO," he writes.

Mark Lansing, a Grants Pass attorney and avid bicyclist, writes a monthly column for Oregon Cycling magazine.

Dwight W. Morrow writes a monthly column on walking in southwest Portland called "By Foot," which appears in the Southwest Community Connection newspaper.

Robert Rubinstein’s fourth book, Curtains Up!, was published in October. He reports it is receiving outstanding national reviews. He adds that his fourth recording, Strange Tales from Biblical Times, has also been reviewed very well nationally.

John Steinbreder’s sixth book is coming out this spring. He is currently working as a senior writer for Golfweek magazine and is keeping very busy doing books and writing for publications such as Forbes FYI, The New York Times Magazine, Sky and Chief Executive. He taught a summer course in magazine writing this past year at Franklin College in Lusano, Switzerland.

Roseanne Olson showed her pinhole camera photographs at PhotoZone in Eugene. Her work was featured on the front page of the Arts & Books section of The Register-Guard.

Michael Schafbuch is sales director for CyberFirst, a new media sales representation firm in Redmond, Wash.

Doug R. Levy is living in the Seattle area and is in his second year of owning and operating his own government affairs, consulting and contract lobbying business. He and his wife, Teri (a product manager at Microsoft), have two boys, ages eight and six. He said, "We love being chauffeurs/parents and hope that by the time this is published we will have seen a bunch of fellow Oregon Ducks at the Holiday Bowl in sunny San Diego! Go Ducks!"

Doug Dollemore is a public affairs specialist at the National Institute on Aging, a component of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.

Hollywood publicist Sandy Rice ’86 talked to Jim Van Leuven’s Public Relations Problems class in February about starting an agency and the highs and lows of doing publicity for the stars. Rice, who is on the University of Oregon Alumni Association Board of Directors, has handled clients such as Michelle Pfeiffer, The Rolling Stones and the movie Men in Black. Photo: Jack Liu

1989

Scott Maben covers city government for The Register-Guard. He is active with The Newspaper Guild and Communications Workers of America, which represent employees at the paper, and is president of the Greater Ore-gon chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Scott married Carolyn Lamberson '91, a features copy editor at The Register-Guard, Sept. 16 in Eugene.

Mike Louis Ostrom enjoyed working as sports director for KLEW-TV (CBS) for six years. He moved to Dallas, Texas, where he has been working at a tax firm in the marketing department. He is responsible for account acquisition and training new associates. He enjoys traveling to Duck football and basketball games in the Southwest and is interested in hearing from any Oregon Alumni in the Dallas area.

Scott Reames had a roller-coaster year in 2000, starting with a promotion in January to senior communications manager for Nike US, responsible for media inquiries regarding baseball, football, tennis, advertising and general business. He visited several footwear and apparel factories in Vietnam and China, a trip that he said was both illuminating and reassuring to him as a PR professional. On the personal front, he helped ride herd on the media who covered the third presidential debate in St. Louis in October. He said, "Biggest lesson learned: Secret Service agents have NO sense of humor… trust me on that."

After working for a year at The Fresno Bee in Fresno, Calif., as a news copy editor and designer, Melissa M. Schukar is now the features copy desk chief.

Melissa Cutter Roberts and her husband, Stephen, recently celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary as well as welcoming a sixth child to the family, Alicia Nicole. Their other children are Stephen IV, Keyanna Lauren, Timothy, Joshua and Daniel. She is a supervisor for AT&T Consumer Sales Division.

In an effort to increase exposure to sunshine, Jason McAllister and his wife, Sharon, moved from Portland to the Sacramento area in October. He parlayed his background in utilities and government into a job with a software and consulting firm for the energy industry. McAllister said: "With all the trouble California is having keeping the lights on, this new job looks like the right place at the right time! Still a bleeding-green Duck fan!"

Lisa Millegan of Modesto, Calif. got married in November to Joe Sealero, who owns an advertising agency. She has worked at The Modesto Bee the past three years as a cultures/beliefs reporter. She also serves as chair of her union, The Newspaper Guild. Her email address is lmillegan@modbee.com.

Jeffry S. Garrett ’93 joined the business law firm Black Helterline LLP. After journalism school, Garrett graduated from Willamette University College of Law, where he served as executive editor of the Willamette Law Review.

1993

Libby Dowsett-Becklin is back in Oregon reporting and anchoring the 5 p.m. news at KTVL in Medford. She returned from Reno to marry Don Becklin, who has an Internet company that opened its first retail outlet in southern Oregon this past fall. Libby spent much of the fall back at the UO checking out the Ducks in action!

Arik Hesseldahl moderated a panel Feb. 10 on "The Future of the Semiconductors Industry" at Harvard University’s Business School in Cambridge, Mass. The panel was part of the annual Cyber-posium, a conference on high technology issues organized by the school’s MBA students. The panel included executives from four chip companies, PMC-Sierra, Applied Micro Circuits Corp., Onex Communications, and TranSwitch, and one executive from RazaFoundries, a Silicon Valley venture capital fund. Hesseldahl is still senior editor for Forbes.com, the Web site of Forbes magazine, covering technology including the semiconductors industry.

Hasan Jafri was recently appointed Singapore bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires. He was previously an equities copy editor on the Singapore global desk before becoming a reporter for the Singapore bureau. He has held reporting jobs with The Herald, Pakistan’s top national current affairs magazine, and The Oregonian.

Laura A. Hicks worked for three years at McCann-Erickson/Seattle in account services, leaving as manager of new business. She moved to Austin, Texas, in early 1997 and began public relations work at high-tech firm Cunningham Communication. After more than two years of PR, she left to pursue her elementary education teaching certificate. While freelancing full-time as PR manager for drkoop.com, she earned a probationary teaching certificate and is currently teaching 5th grade in Austin. She plans to continue free-lancing PR work in the summers, and welcomes old friends to contact her at laurahicks@prodigy.net.

Amy Knutson-Strack of Hainsville, Ill. was named chief editor of one of Penn-Well’s high-tech b-to-b trade magazines in 1999. She has been overseeing editorial departments of technical magazines for about five years now. She and her husband, Steve, became parents last May to a daughter, Annika Julia.

Jose Romero is a sports reporter with The Seattle Times.

David Brotherton is a senior public relations manager at RealNetworks, Inc., a Seattle-based technology company and leader in streaming Internet media.

Jim Bottorff celebrated one year as publications coordinator for Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare, a suburban Chicago health care system.

Zanne P. Miller continues to write and edit on a freelance basis and is editor of SOU’s alumni publication, The Southern Oregonian, and a part-time instructor in their journalism program. This winter she is co-editing a collected volume of essays about the culture and history of the Indians of western Oregon along with her husband, Mark Tueskov; Jason Younker and David Lewis. Most exciting, though, is that she and Mark welcomed their daughters Julia and Clio on November 1.

Abbie Summer Geigle is a producer at KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Nev.

Aaron Robnett was hired in February 2001 as a junior copywriter at Cole & Weber/Red Cell in their Portland office, where he was an intern for fall 2000. He has been writing for clients such as Nike, Tillamook, and Outlast.

Bianca F. Hollman is currently teaching fourth and fifth grade special education in Alsip, Ill. She will begin studying for her Master’s this summer.

David Richards is enjoying being the sports editor and movie critic of The Central Oregonian. He is getting to know the coaches, players and staff, and said the experience has been very rewarding and always a challenge.

Isaac Szymanczyk is director of marketing communications at Telicor, a unified telecommunications provider headquartered in Seattle. He’s keeping his plate full managing advertising, corporate communications, PR, branding and copywriting/editing for the company. Most recent writing/design projects include the company newsletter, sales collateral, press kits, the corporate website and press announcements. He still rides the bus and is almost never late to meetings.

Fahad Sami Al-Ibraheem is currently working at the Kuwait news agency, KUNA. He plans to work in one of their offices in New York or Washington, D.C.

Brandon Lee Carr works as webmaster for KBSS Advertising. He runs five websites for multiple businesses owned by the company. He also builds banners, does online ads and internet marketing, as well as hosting other sites for national clients.

Jennifer Cloer graduated in December and is working as a PR specialist at Tektronix, Inc., a global test, measurement and monitoring company in Beaverton.

After a three month internship, Teresa Marie Herbert was hired as an account coordinator at Ant Hill Marketing in Portland.

Elizabeth Scherzer is an account coordinator for The Rockey Company (a division of Hill & Knowlton) in Portland.