Laura Chen is an assistant media planner on Saturn at Publicis and Hal Riney in San Francisco, Calif.

Chris Hutchinson is an art director at Bulldog Drummond, a “damn fine ad agency” in San Diego, Calif.

Sarah Arwen Kickler has just started a two-year internship on the features copy desk at The Baltimore Sun. She and Judah Kelber (UO Russian and Political Science, ‘99) are planning their April 8, 2000, wedding.

Kijung Kim is currently living in Tong Young City, Kyongnam, Korea and is planning to go to Tokyo, Japan.

Jenna Mokalla is working as an account coordinator for a PR firm called The Weber Group in Palo Alto, CA.

Chrissy Theis is working at McCann-Erickson/A&L in San Francisco, Calif. Everything is “so far so good in the new city and at the new job!”

Eli Awtrey works on staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (a student group on campuses nationwide) at Eastern Washington University.

Sally Abu Bakar is now Sally Gamer; she married Scott Gamer in April. Sally and Scott live in Eugene.

Karen Hoagland has been hired as Assistant Art Director at Sullivan Pattison Clevenger.

Julie Keyantash is an editor and photographer for KMTR in Eugene.

Bill Kunz is now the Senior Producer of Turner Sports, responsible for the day-to-day operations of his production group. Their coverage includes the NBA, their most significant property, to their three Atlanta teams, Braves (MLB), Hawks (NBA) and Thrashers (NHL), and an assortment of other properties, including figure skating, Nascar, golf, college football bowl games and a couple of other things, including the Goodwill Games.

Coleen M. Nelson is a reporter/anchor at KEZI in Eugene. She co-anchors the top-rated morning newscast in the area.

Nicole Purviance is the assignment editor at KRNV-TV4 (NBC) in Reno, Nev. After graduating, she moved up to Seattle, Wash., looking for a job at one of the local stations. Last March she was offered a job at News 4 and moved to Reno. She lives with her boyfriend Sam and her two cats, Gizmo and Coco-Puff.

Raul Reis’s doctoral dissertation was awarded the National Communication Association’s (NCA) Best International/Intercultural Dissertation Award for 1997-1998.

Mollie Schneider works in event public relations at R&R Partners in Las Vegas, Nev. The account she primarily works on is the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. She works on the public relations, advertising, sponsorship and operations of the LVCVA sponsored events.

Ciara Erin Coyle is a news reporter for the CBS affiliate, KTVN, in Reno, Nev. Coyle took two months this summer to travel around Europe. Prior to the trip, she produced an evening newscast at KTVN, which won an Emmy for best small market broadcast.

Barbara Grimes is a public relations manager for Intel Corporation’s Communications Products Group, in Hillsboro.

Macy Guppy is starting this coming fall at Whitworth College in Spokane as a full-time visiting assistant professor in the Media Studies Department. She’s excited

Marcia Leonard Aaron ‘86 has recently been named a UO Foundation Trustee. Aaron, who is the managing director of Deutsche Banc Alex Brown, Inc. in San Francisco, is also a member of the SOJC Journalism Advancement Council.

to teach full-time in her field and stay in the Northwest.

Fumiaki Nakamura graduated with a master’s degree from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs this year. Nakamura is working as a reporter at Hokubei Mainichi Shinbun, a small Japanese-American newspaper in San Francisco.

Kathy Campbell is working as an Assistant Professor of Journalism at Southern Oregon University. She has recently completed Ph.D. coursework at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with only a pesky dissertation yet to finish. Campbell is also active in AEJMC’s Civic Journalism Interest Group.

Dawn Paugh Eden is a reporter for the Argus Observer in Ontario, Ore.

Jeanne K. Ivy is a senior writer at CMD Portland.

Cindy Long is a police reporter for The Monitor in McAllen, Texas, the Rio Grande Valley’s largest daily newspaper. She covers spot news, police corruption and general crime trends in this border town. Long moved to McAllen in late July after spending more than three years at the Grants Pass Daily Courier in Southern Oregon.

After working at KOIN-TV in Portland for two years in the promotion department as a producer/writer for news promos, public service announcements and event promotion, Barbara Miller recently accepted a position as the news topical producer for KSWB. The station is the number one WB affiliate in the country and has recently started the only half-hour newscast in the market.

Jennifer Upshaw married James Ruiz on September 18, 1999 and is currently working as a reporter for Pioneer Press Newspaper, a suburban Chicago weekly owned by daily newspaper the Chicago Sun-Times.

Thor Wasbotten is the News Director at Fox 12 in Boise, Idaho. He is also a member of Fox News Advisory Committee representing nine states. Wasbotten and his wife have three wonderful children.

Darcy D. Anderson works for the DC Bureau of NHK-Japanese Public TV as an associate producer. This job comes after two years on the JET Program teaching English in Japan and nine months on Capitol Hill working for Oregon Representative Peter DeFazio. Anderson will soon be heading to New York City to get her masters in International Affairs at Columbia University.

Jenny Beaumont decided to move abroad after freelancing as a photographer in the US for a couple years to move abroad. She is now Director of Global Native; a Franco-American company dedicated to Internet development and communications. Vivants les expatriots!

Jennifer Kern is working in sales at the Microsoft Pacific Northwest District Office.

Sara A. Kiene has been working in New York City for the last five years. She currently works for a creative marketing and trend consulting company as the Director of Strategic Marketing. They advise clients in the fields of fashion, footwear, toys, makeup, filmmaking, beverages etc. The company also specializes in creative concepts and ideas and does both proprietary and trend research.

Shawn Efran has spent the last four years at CBS News in New York City. Most recently, he’s worked at 60 Minutes and 60 Minutes II, where he has few pleasures greater than getting email from long-lost friends. Drop him a note at sep@cbsnews.com.

Sheila Bedbury is working for Southwest Airlines and living in sunny Florida.

Holly A. Ferguson graduated in May from Willamette University College of Law. She is now working at the Seattle law firm of Rinehart Robblee and Hannah as an attorney. Ferguson still finds her J-school training valuable because of the amount of writing she does. And to all Oregon Voice alums, she hopes all is well.

Jeffry Scott Garrett will receive his Juris Doctorate from Willamette University College of Law this coming May. He is currently the executive editor of the Willamette Law Review, and will begin work with the Law Firm of Black Helterline, LLP, following the bar examination.

Chris Sallquist recently made partner at Hornall Anderson Design Works, a 70-person integrated branding and online design firm in Seattle, Wash. In addition to being a partner, he is the director of the firm’s online media group.

Mary Ann Duyn Kearns has one 3-year-old son, Kyle Martin, and is enjoying launching the year old new business magazine, Business 2.0.

Jeff Klein was promoted to assistant sports editor for the Redding, Calif. Record Searchlight in September and continues as a college sports beat writer. He began working at the paper in 1995 as sports copy editor and took over the college assignment in 1997. Klein covers two junior colleges and one four-year college in Shasta and Siskiyou counties.

Adam C. Peck and wife, Manja Sachet, have just released the second edition of the guidebook for Turkey they co-wrote (Open Road Publishing’s Turkey Guide). They lived in Istanbul for two years and went back last fall to do research for the second edition. The first edition was published in May 1997.

Scott P. Wyland has finished his second year at The Business News. This publication has established a solid niche in covering Lane County business stories.

Elizabeth A. Corbett is living in Seattle where she recently joined Neenah Paper/Kimberly Clark as a Senior Accounts Manager, covering the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada.

Craig Harris is the Indianapolis bureau reporter for The Louisville Courier-Journal. He has been married for the last 10 years to Pamela (Burke) Harris (UO Sociology, ‘89.) They have two children; Carson, 4; and Annie, 1. Previously, he was the statehouse reporter for the Salem Statesman Journal.

Karen D. Engels Koch gave birth to a second child on August 21, 1998, which was also her 5th wedding anniversary. She’s at home full time with the kids and writes for the local Republican Women’s Club newsletter. Koch and family recently relocated to Napa, Calif.

Contrary to what you read in the Winter 1999 issue of Flash, Scott Reames and his wife are not expecting another son—they had him on June 15, 1998 and named him Sam. Last year Reames created a communications plan designed to neutralize an Internet email hoax message that alleged Nike would replace worn-out shoes with new ones for free. Within weeks of executing the plan, national news coverage of the hoax helped Nike reduce and ultimately eliminate shipments of these shoes (which had averaged more than 150 a day). The PRSA has selected this communications plan as a finalist for the Silver Anvil award in the crisis management category.

Khariati Amin Zimmer is a physical education teacher in a K-6 school in Southern California. She lives in the High Desert with my husband, Don and their two children, Khamillah, 4, and Kaliph, 2. They have been back to the Northwest several times and have made a ritual stop in Eugene to catch up with old friends.

Marilyn Fancher is vice president and creative director at APCO Associates Inc., a division of Grey Advertising, a large public affairs firm in Washington D.C. She has been there since 1994. Prior to working at APCO, Fancher received an MA in communications from the University of Washington and spent five years directing and producing paid advertising for political campaigns.

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.

Dian Schall is a business development representative at Frontline in Renton, Wash.

Jeffery Delkin is now living in China and enjoying life, both professionally and personally, on a grand scale.

John Stearns is a senior business reporter for the Reno Gazette-Journal in Reno, Nev.

Susan E. Thelen works as the Advertising and Marketing Director at the Oregon Quarterly magazine at UO. She loves her current job selling advertising and working on various marketing projects with the University. She would like to say hello to all of her past friends from the J-School and at the Emerald.

Randi Thompson After eight years of public relations consulting Thompson was recruited to the federal government to run the government and public relations office in Nevada.

Dawn Garcia was recently promoted to assistant managing editor at the San Jose Mercury News, where she’s worked for seven years. Garcia just celebrated her first wedding anniversary with Paul McHugh, the outdoors writer for the San Francisco Chronicle.

John E. Selix is in his sixth year as an elementary school teacher, after working 12 years in radio news reporting. He is currently teaching 3rd grade in the Mill Valley School District in the San Francisco Bay Area. Selix was married in 1998 to Dena Selix.

Lori Zeigler is an accounts/media director for the Dakota Group in San Diego, Calif.

John Steinbreder is working as a senior writer for Golfweek magazine and also writing regular columns for Chief Executive and Sporting Classics Magazine. Steinbreder’s fifth book, Fighting for Your Children, was released last year. He still resides in Easton, Conn. with his eight-year-old daughter. Last year, Steinbreder won his second Golf Writers of America Association award for special projects writing.

Sheryl Connors Johnson recently left the “security” of an ad agency job in Charlotte, N.C. to start her own consulting business. She is enjoying the challenge, as well as the free time she now has with her 3-year-old.

Carol Murkowski Sturgulewski lives in Kodiak, Alaska with her husband and three sons where she works freelance writing and editing. She has been selected as a co-author for Chicken Soup for the Gardener’s Soul, another in the New York Times best selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Publication is planned for 2001.

Ron Selin has retired as Manager, Public Affairs, for Industry Canada in Alberta. His wife Laurie retired from nursing. They now live in Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Bob Welch is a columnist at The Register-Guard in Eugene and the author of Where Roots Grow Deep, a book about the values we pass on from one generation to the next. His previous book, A Father for All Seasons, won the 1999 Gold Medallion award for family and parenting.

Bryce Zabel is currently co-executive producer of the Steven Spielberg mini-series, Taken, for the Sci-Fi channel and writing a Fox pilot, The Power, about warlocks. He has just been elected to a second term as Governor of the Writers Peer Group of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. In January 2000, he will executive produce the UPN movie, Chameleon. He is married to Jackie Zabel and lives in Agoura Hills, Calif., with three children, one of whom plays young Jay Leno on the Tonight Show.

Sam McBride recently began a new job as Director of Communications with Alberta Pensions Administration. McBride is in charge of the accreditation program for the Edmonton Chapter of the Canadian Public Relations Society.

William O’Brien and wife Tracy opened Excel Transportation in 1996 and have opened an office in Dallas, Texas. Headquartered in Denver, Colo. They plan to expand to new cities yearly.

Mike Moskovitz received a national award from the National Association of Counties for his role in managing the news media during the Thurston High School shooting last year. As Lane County’s communication manager, Moskovitz administers and monitors the county’s communication program, which includes public information, media relations, crisis communications and internal communications.

Joyce F. Jones Kirk is the Public Information Officer at Irvine Valley College. She joined the IUC staff in January of this year. Prior to this job, she worked in Public Relations for the City of Garden Grove. Kirk is also celebrating 31 years of marriage to Tim Kirk (BA ‘68). Her love of journalism is continuing from her beginnings as production editor of Old Oregon from 1968-71, working with Ken Metzler. Kirk’s work has included State of California publications along with hospital and corporate PR.

G. Michael Wilde and his wife Shaun Fennessey Wilde had twin girls in September 1998 in Eugene while Shaun earned her MBA at UO. Shaun accepted an offer from a German Consulting Firm and the Wilde family will be moving to Germany. Wilde will continue his stay-at-home-dad responsibilities as well as doing some electronic media consulting in Europe.

Lester Bruno Jr. has started a public company in the health and longevity field. Bruno feels it is timely for all of the baby boomers like him. Check out the company on the web at www.visonquestionline.com

Milton L. Levy enjoys traveling and particularly cruises. He is now retired but does do an occasional publicity job. Levy also enjoys gardening and photography.

W. Lloyd Tupling ‘39 and Gladys (Happy) Battleson Tupling ‘38 celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary. In January they had a reunion with Leroy S. Mattingaly ’38 in Florida. Mattingaly and Lloyd Tupling were Editors of the 1937-38 Emerald.

Donald Madison Olds has retired after 30 years of service with the U.S. Post Office.

Peggy Chessman Lucas is the author of Mt. Bachelor; Bill Healy’s Dream published in March 1999. It is the first history of the Bend ski resort.

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