Gloria Grenfell is living in Marina, Calif., and was included in Who's Who in America for 1997 and 1998.

Ernest Haycox, Jr. moved to Mosier, Ore., a few years ago after retiring as the vice-president of U.S. Leasing International of San Francisco, Calif. He built his house and is now working on a book about his father, Ernest J. Haycox, Sr., who also graduated from the UO in journalism in 1922 and has a reading room named after him at the Knight Library.

Martel Scroggin is retired and living in the San Francisco bay area. Scroggin owned his own advertising agency in San Francisco and has won numerous writing awards including two Addys and a Time Magazine special Writers Achievement Award. Scroggin also had three novels published: Wasco, The Sheepshooters and The Moonlighters.

Warren Rucker is the new owner of Sign-A-Rama, the world's largest full-service sign franchise in Mesa, Ariz.

Paul Roos is working as the Hawaii Advertising Manager at Sunset magazine in San Francisco, Calif. Roos has been with the magazine for 32 years.

Larry Williams mounted an expedition in 1988 to Saudi Arabia where he uncovered evidence that Mount Sinai existed. Author and journalist Howard Blum wrote a book, The Gold of Exodous, which tells the story of Williams and his partner Bob Cornuke's discovery. A story about the book appeared in the 1998 February edition of Newsweek.

Thomas McGarry is currently working on his second book, An Insider's Guide to Portland, which is due to be publishedthis year. He was co-author of his first book, Last Hope, a non-fiction aviation history dealing with escape and evasion devices used by pilots and air crews. McGarry is living in Lake Oswego, Ore., working as a freelancer. He specializes in aviation, aerospace and defense topics.

Carole Tanzer Miller is the local editor for Gannett Suburban Newspapers in New York. Miller recently did some color pieces of the Thurston High School shootings for her paper when she and her son Joseph were visiting Eugene.

Drex Heikes is the executive editor of The Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine. He was previously the foreign affairs assignment editor in Washington, D.C. for the Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau.

Dan Steinberg is manager of public affairs and communications at PeaceHealth.

Steve Twedt was one of 12 U.S. journalists named to the 1998-99 Journalism Fellows Program at the University of Michigan. Twedt is currently working as a special projects writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He and his wife, Linda, and their three children, Kristen, Carlin and Sondra, will move to Ann Arbor, Mich., for the academic year.

Bob Welch recently had his third book published, A Father for All Seasons. It focuses on the life journeys of fathers and sons. Welch is the feature editor of The Register-Guard. He was also an adjunct at the School of Journalism and Communication in the early '90s and taught Reporting I.

Bryce Zabel has been hired by Polygram TV to executive produce 22 episodes of "The Crow," based on the feature film of the same title.

Don Baker is currently the vice-president of direct response markets for Real Entertainment. He markets direct response videos including Jerry Springer Too Hot for TV. He is a former television writer and ad distribution executive for both Paramount Pictures and Technicolor Video Duplication.

Michael Merback is working as an investment officer at Dain Rauscher Inc. in Casper, Wyo. "Life is good in Wyoming, but we miss Oregon," Merback said. Merback's 16-year-old son will attend the University of Oregon's Summer Workshop for Singers and is considering attending the UO School of Music after high school. "That would be great; we could visit a lot more often," Merback said.

Reginald Grant is the new vice-president of sales and marketing at NISUS Software in Solana, Calif. The company specializes in Macintosh and Internet-based products.

Ann Trengman is a feature writer for a London based newspaper, The Independent.

Rob Rosenthal is working in advertising as a partner and creative director for Moffatt & Rosenthal in Portland. He was honored as Portland Advertising Professional of the Year by the Portland Advertising Federation.

Julie Follmer Holmes was recently promoted to marketing specialist at Jones Intercable in Oxnard, Calif. Her position involves marketing and advertising for cable television and pay-per-view services. She and her husband, Hugh, had their first child, Matthew, in May 1997. "We enjoy the California sunshine at our home in Ventura Hillside," Holmes said.

Carolyn Robinson is a documentary producer and co-owner for SprocketHeads LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. She has created and produced documentaries ranging from a historical show on the Panama Canal to a contemporary, 3-D look at Alaska. Robinson also worked as an associate producer for USA Today on TV and as a producer for the Discovery Channel. She is a
certified skydiver and scuba diver.

Brian Erb graduated from Willamette University College of Law in 1989. He is currently working for the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, Calif. He joined the firm after practicing five years with the New York law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell. Erb practices in the area of corporate finance and securities law and represents Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Morgan Stanley and Robertson Stephens among other technology and investment banking clients. He enjoys traveling, motorcycle road racing, scuba diving, golf and high performance race cars.

Geraldine Ang is living in Singapore working as a marketing director for an animation and multimedia company, DGSoft. The company provides services including animation production, CD-ROM game development, Internet web page design and publishing and development of multimedia kiosks.

Elaine Supeng-Toh currently works as a freelance journalist in Singapore. She recently finished working for In Touch with Cells , a magazine dedicated to the Cell Group Church Movement. Toh is interested in teaching English in Third World countries.

Anne Borland Blanchard recently returned from Antarctica where she worked with a group of glaciologists on a large glacier in a remote area of the continent. She is currently working in outdoor education as an instructor, doing ropes, challenge courses and back country travel. Blanchard continues to freelance in graphic design and photography and is pursuing documentary work in the natural sciences and outdoor education industries.

Gordon Firemark is now an attorney at The Business Affairs Group in Los Angeles, Calif. Before law school, Firemark worked in the television industry, producing and directing live sports telecasts and public affairs programming.

Scott Reames has been working for Nike for almost six years. His position changed from Athlete Relations to Corporate Communications last December. He currently manages communications for Nike's hockey, in-line skate and equipment divisions, as well as nike.com and nike.biz on the Internet. He and his wife, Dana, have a 3-year-old son, Mitch, and are expecting his little brother in June.

Chris Blanchard works for Kendall Jackson Winery, where he manages wine sales in San Francisco restaurants. He does wine education, conducts vineyard tours and holds wine seminars. He and his wife, Debra, had their first baby boy last year.

Ken Fallon started his own company with a co-worker in November. The company, called Whitehorse Graphic Services, is located in Beaverton, Ore., and specializes in print brokering, typesetting, image setting and copywriting. Fallon also was married in November. His wife, Diane, works as a legal secretary.

Gretchen Carr recently accepted a job offer with KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, Calif., to anchor the weekend news. For the past three years, she has worked as an anchor and reporter in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Elise Child is living in Kahului, Hawaii. She works as an operations director for Akaku Maui Community TV. Child would like to hear from old classmates. Her email address is elise@akaku.org.

Stephanie Mencimer is currently working at The Washington Post as a staff writer. She previously worked at The Washington City Paper, an alternative weekly, until January of 1998. Last October, she got married. Her husband, Erik, is senior editor of The Washington City Paper.

Amy Reinwand Troy is now a reporter and weekday morning anchor for KTVX-TV in Salt Lake City, Utah, after working three years as an anchor and reporter at KABB-TV in San Antonio, Texas. "I look forward to the new professional challenge and being closer to home," Reinwand Troy said.

Lindy Holt works in public relations as an account supervisor at KVO Advertising and Public Relations. She recently moved to Boston to open a new office for KVO.

Maureen Bernadelli is the Media Director at Cole & Weber, an ad agency in Portland.

Susan Harding Searfus works as an anchor/reporter for KSPR, the ABC affiliate in Springfield, Mo. Susan and her husband, Rob, had a baby boy, Dylan, in February 1998.

Dan Steinberg is manager of public affairs and communications at PeaceHealth in Eugene. He has been elected president of the Greater Oregon Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.

Arik Hesseldahl is the Associate Editor for Science and Technology at New Century Networks in New York City. He is responsible for coordinating the SciTech section of the Newsworks web site. In 1997, he had free-lance stories published in Wired and the Columbia Journalism Review. He received his master's degree in journalism at Columbia University in 1997.

Libby Dowsett is working as a news reporter at KRNV-TV in Reno, Nev. Dowsett plans to marry Don Becklin in September 1998. "I'm hoping to get back to the Northwest soon," said Dowsett.

Brett Coltman is vice-president of product development for Micro Video Learning Systems in New York. Micro Video Learning Systems develops training solutions for the Fortune 500 and the U.S. government. Coltman oversees the development of multimedia training applications for the company.

Hasan Jafri joined Dow Jones Newswire as copy editor on the Global Equities Desk after four years in Pakistan working at Herald magazine and the German newswire, dpa. Jafri recently received the top journalism award for investigative reporting from the Pakistan Newspaper Society for a series of stories on pesticide dumping abuse.

Ruriko Mugishima is living in Narita, Japan, and works at the New Tokyo International Airport as a flight attendant. He flies all over the world and works on many flights traveling to the United States. Previously, Mugishima worked at a local bank in his hometown, Sendai, Japan.

Erin Nicholson is a graduate student at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston. After graduating from the University of Oregon, she taught English for two years in South Korea, where she says the Grammar for Journalists course was put to good use. She then returned to Portland and interned for the World Affairs Council of Oregon, the Humanitarian Aid Organization and Mercy Corporation International. Most recently, Nicholoson coordinated Portland's participation in a World Fasting Day for the people of North Korea. Nicholson will spend the summer in Paris and begins working on her master's in International Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Tufts University next fall.

Jose Romero is working as a reporter and photojournalist at El Hispanic News, a bilingual newspaper in Portland. Romero was recently recognized for writing the best sports article at the 1998 National Association of Hispanic Publications in Austin, Texas.

Kristin Unwin is working in Fort Collins, Colo., at MWI Training Works, a consulting firm developing instructional materials for large corporations worldwide. Unwin also is earning certification as a horseback riding instructor. Unwin says she is loving the dry, sunny weather in Colorado.

H. Charles Riedl finished his master's at Syracuse University, moved to Hollywood to work in video production and has made a small movie, "Brewer's Yeast." He sold it for foreign distribution. The movie will be seen in one of the small houses at the Cannes Film Festival. He's starting a second, bigger film--a romance set in his hometown, Hood River.

Emilie Jacquin Schreiber moved to Vancouver, Wash., with her husband, Robb, last September. She works as the area director at Young Life.

Terri Glidden works for Microsoft, where he is the managing editor for Windows 98 and Windows NT user documentation in Seattle.

Luke Erickson accepted a job offer as the first news desk editor in 1997 from NECX in Peabody, Mass. He is responsible for producing internal and external newsletters for a high technology trading company. He also manages and supplies news contents for the NECX corporate website.

Andrea Meyer works as a communications specialist for Key Communications Service, Inc., a local software company in Indiana. Meyer writes the copy for the user and technical guides for the companies products. She also writes the company newsletter and edits marketing and public relations pieces.

Jeremy Miller is a reporter with the Sapient Health Network, an on-line medical magazine. "I've only been on the new job for a month, so I still get a kick out of simply saying the words, 'I am a reporter.' "

Yoon-Eui Kim is living in Seoul, Korea, and working for SK Distribution Limited.

Jennifer Upshaw is working as a news anchor for several Chicago radio stations and as weekend anchor on WLS-AM 890, a newstalk radio station.

Monica Patel landed a job at Mirabella magazine as the assistant to the fashion director.

Aura Smithers is a reporter for The Oshkosh Northwestern, a daily newspaper in Wisconsin.

Melissa Roy is the public relations and special projects coordinator for the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine in Portland.

Donovan Pacholl began working in public relations at Insync Communications in Portland after an internship in New York. He currently works on the Microsoft account at Insync Communications. Pacholl thanks the journalism school for the education that helped him "break into the working world of high-tech public relations."

After graduating, Tessa Williamson moved to Los Angeles with Adam Fitzhugh. She is working for the start-up Internet company GeoCities, the fifth most-visted website. GeoCities offers free web space for homesteaders when they join what may be the largest on-line community on the web. As an Internet surfer, Williamson searches for specialized pages to strengthen topics and works with community members to find pages to be featured. "GeoCities is hiring like mad for the Internet savvy--and since my co-workers on average are pretty young, it's perfect for college graduates." For more info, write her at twilliamson@geocities.com or check out the site at www.geocities.com.

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