Andrew Allen Blazier is a reporter for the Cottage Grove Sentinel, where he covers sports and education issues.

Julie Denney is the producer for the morning show at KEZI-TV in Eugene.

Tony Lystra has been a reporter with the Los Angeles Times in Simi Valley, Calif. since September 1998. He currently covers city government and general assignment stories for the Simi Valley “Our Times” section of the Times.

Deena Ann Manning is a sports reporter for the Medford Mail Tribune and lives in Grant Pass.

Anne Nissila is working as an advertising graphic artist for Jerry’s Home Improvement Center in Eugene.

Kristin Bailey is currently a producer at KOIN-TV in Portland. While she was working at KEZI-TV in Eugene, the station’s newscasts won three Edward R. Murrow awards for their coverage of the Thurston High shootings. She is engaged to Brent MacCluer, an SOJC graduate from the class of 1994.

Edward A. Barrett recently started his own marketing firm called Y Marketing?. He currently does advertising and marketing for AT&T, Texaco and Direct TV. Y Marketing? deals with clients and services revolving around the deregulation of local telephone, electricity and cable services. He is married to Vibeke Schurch, a 1997 SOJC public relations graduate.

Jim Bottorff recently accepted a position as the public relations specialist at Resurrection Medical Center in Chicago. He starts his new post after a two-year stint as publications coordinator at Lakeland Regional Health System in St. Joseph, Michigan.

Lori Anna Hinton traveled around the world on a 150 ft. Eco-Cruise boat for two years after graduation. Her travels included trips from Baja to Alaska to Guatemala and Egypt. After traveling, she landed a job as a copywriter at Seattle’s Horton Lantz Marocco, an integrated design firm and ad agency. She currently writes ads for such accounts as Cinnabon, Vail Resorts, Seattle’s Best Coffee, Microsoft, and Boeing. In addition, she gets paid to learn fly fishing and write about it. She credits the J-School for preparing her well and says the magazine sequence was helpful in teaching her “well-rounded” writing techniques.

Joe Lang recently completed his first year as director of media relations for the California Collegiate Athletic Association, an NCAA Division II intercollegiate athletics conference located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lang had served as a public relations assistant with the Pac-10 for the previous two years.

Sarah Lynn Mitchell recently accepted a job as an account executive at TMP Worldwide Advertising in San Diego. She will marry Laustin Woods in August.

Brittney Skaer was recently appointed associate district manager for American Express Financial Advisors. She is in charge of new advisor development in the Bend area.

Caitlin S. Stokes is working as a copywriter/producer for Eichenbaum & Associates and her first spot won a London International Advertising Award. She says she is “getting to do a lot of cool work” and has “a big fat office with a view of Lake Michigan.”

Sara Allyson Kiene has been living and working in New York since she graduated. She currently works for Sputnik, Inc., a company that specializes in qualitative trend research, advertising marketing consulting and product development. Kiene is the director of strategic marketing.

Julie Anne Williamson Slaikjer recently started her own business, Desktop Creations. The home-based operation specializes in designing baby announcements, wedding/party invitations, and marketing pieces for mortgage and real estate companies.

Lindy L. Holt joined Waggener Edstrom in Portland as account supervisor in the New Media Group. She is planning to get married in September to a Washington State graduate from the School of Communication.

Monte Roy Muirhead is now a News Director at KCBY-TV 11 in Coos Bay. Muirhead was previously an anchor/reporter at KPIC-TV4 in Roseburg.

Diane Danowski Smith was named manager of program development for Eastmoreland and Woodland Park Hospitals in May 1999. She will oversee the market planning and development of services and key clinical problems as well as the marketing and communications for both. Smith is nationally accredited with the Public Relations Society of America and is vice president of member communications for the Portland Metro chapter. She has served on the PRSA board since 1992. In 1993, she chaired the volunteer team that provided statewide communications for the “No on 9” campaign.

John Henrikson is associate editor for The Bulletin in Bend. He will join journalists from around the country next fall as a Michigan Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. Also, he has accepted the Knight Fellowship in Business/Economics journalism and plans to study sustainable environment and economics.

Sam Marsh completed his third year as news director for the Grants Pass Broadcasting Corp. and hosts KAJO radio’s “Talk of the Town.” He serves as president of Crime Stoppers of Josephine County and is a licensed real estate agent.

Marcus Prater has recently accepted the position of Director of Marketing for Bally Gaming and Systems, a global leader in the manufacturing and distribution of slot machines, video gaming devices and advanced casino network systems. He reports that “Vegas, baby, is one happening place to live, but a tad too warm in the summer.”

David House has been web manager for the Oregon Department of Transportation since July 1997, just after his launch of Korea, Inc., a daily business news service (in English) about Korea. He also has been copy editor via Internet for Business Korea, an English-language print magazine based in Seoul, since the end of 1998. He copy edits on call at the Statesman Journal. In addition, House was an English teacher in Korea during 1993-94, a copy editor at Economic Report in 1994-95, and a news librarian and copy editor at the Statesman Journal in 1996-97.

Michael C. Cannon is leaving his job as editorial writer for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, Utah, to serve three years as president of the Kentucky Louisville Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Julie C. Ragozzino has served as marketing director for Universal Satellite Communications for the past two years. The corporation specializes in the coordination, production and transmission of domestic and international live-event programming.

Tony Hazarian was recently promoted to senior management for The News Tribune in Tacoma, Wash. As the promotion marketing manager, he reports to the publisher on internal and external marketing efforts, including The News Tribune’s first TV campaign in a decade. He is also on the board of the Children’s Museum of Tacoma, active in other community service projects and enjoying life in “The City of Destiny” with his wife, Tara, and daughter, Shea, 7.

Dr. Susan D. White is a chiropractor for the Perfect Health Wellness Center. For the second consecutive year, she will serve as Team Chiropractor for the World Aerobics Championships. She has just completed her sports chiropractic certification and looks forward to the WAC in Las Vegas this summer, as well as serving at the Ironman Triathlon in Kona, Hawaii, this fall.

Alan Yordy was recently appointed chief operation officer for PeaceHealth’s Oregon region. He will coordinate responsibilities for the operations of Sacred Heart Medical Center and PeaceHealth Medical Group. Yordy has served as the senior vice president and chief operating officer for Samaritan Health Services for the past two years.

Kathleen Silvassy is the senior editor of the CQ Daily Monitor in Washington, D.C. She was also the editor for Front Row At The White House by Helen Thomas. The book was published by Scribner in May 1999.

Mark Viteznik recently moved from Atlanta to New York where he is vice president at Bernard Hodes Advertising. He was previously with J. Walter Thompson Specialty Communications in Los Angeles and Atlanta for 15 years.

John Henderson is in his second year as a national baseball writer for The Denver Post. He has also had stories printed in The Miami Herald and Romantic Traveler magazine as well as the Los Angeles Times.

Jane Louise Harris Nellams is a full-time homemaker, the mother of 4-year-old Elizabeth and a community volunteer. She is the president-elect of The Junior League of Seattle, a volunteer organization of 1,700 women.

Candace Dempsey lives in Mercer Island, Wash., and works as lead editor of Underwire, a women’s website on MSN. She is also a travel writer whose adventure stories appear in the anthologies Gifts of the Wild, Solo: On Her Own Adventure, and Travelers’ Tales: Women in the Wild. She is married to Mark Rosenblum and has a son, Jacob.

Alan Maltun works as a consultant, providing media training, media relations, and editorial services to corporate clients in the Los Angeles area. Previously he was an executive with Braun Ketchum Public Relations and a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He and his wife Gail have two sons, Andrew and Alex.

Steve Bagwell is the managing editor of the News-Register in McMinville and has joined the Oregon State University faculty as an adjunct professor. He is teaching upper-division reporting and editing courses.

Sally Deiser Lawson was recently appointed the statewide coordinator for the campaign to reauthorize and increase funding for the federal Older Americans Act.

Barrie Hartman was recently named 1998 Colorado Newspaper Person of the Year by the Colorado Press Association for his efforts in community journalism as the editor of The Daily Camera. Hartman began work at The Daily Camera as executive editor in 1983. Previously he had an 18-year career at The Register-Guard in Eugene starting as a weekend writer and ending as managing editor. He also had a brief stint as assistant managing editor of The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville. He and his wife, Mary, a Washington State graduate and writer for the Colorado State University Extension Service, live in Louisville, Colo. Their son, Todd, writes for The Gazette Telegraph in Colorado Springs.

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