Scott McArthur has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. The Society sponsors research into the early history and culture of Scotland. McArthur lives in Monmouth and works as an arbitrator and mediator. He is also a director and officer of the Clan MacArthur Society of the United States.

Patricia Treece is an author and newspaper columnist and recently published her newest book, Meet Padre Pio. She recently moved to Portland from Calabasas, Calif. where she lived for 30 years.

Thomas Wm. McGarry, a free-lance writer and consultant based in Lake Oswego, specializes in aviation, aerospace and defense topics. He was recently asked by The Oregonian to write an op-ed piece following the seizure of the U.S. Navy reconnaissance aircraft by the Chinese government. McGarry also published two articles in Oregon Business and was one of the local aviation history authors invited to the opening of the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville.

Paul Barnum is the communications director, Northwest region, for Weyerhaeuser. 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 lives with his wife, Sibyl, in Seattle.

Nick Gallo's destination piece on Cabo San Lucas featured in Travel & Life magazine recently won the Pluma de Plata award for Best Mexico Travel Article of the Year. He also received the Premio Vallarta runner-up award for a restaurant-scene piece on Puerto Vallarta, which appeared in Alaska Airlines magazine. Gallo lives in Seattle with his wife and two children.

James Holman is science editor and assistant team leader of the environment and science team at The Oregonian.

Kevin Rasmusen recently published his first book, Once, A Novel, set in Chiapas, Mexico. Working as a journalist in Mexico City, he published a three-part series to distinguish the Zapatista uprising from the issue of religious persecution directed against the indigenous Tzotzil people in Chiapas. In addition, Rasmusen has been published in periodicals such as Northwest, Eternity, World Pulse, Indian Life, Interlit, Prisma, El Faro and Apuntes Pastorales.

George L. Winship is completing a second year with Pacific Bell Telephone in Redding, Calif. Prior to joining the telephone company, he spent two years as a northern California field representative for State Senator K. Maurice Johannessen (R-Redding).

Ken Sands is interactive editor for The Spokesman-Review in Spokane. Ken served as the School's Ruhl Fellow in Spring 2001.

Paul Telles is a free-lance technical writer and instructional designer specializing in Linux server configuration, network infrastructure, and eBusiness data center design. His primary client is the Intel Learning Network, a Web-based training initi-ative. In the past, Telles has worked for other Intel divisions and for several clients at Hewlett-Packard.

Susan White co-founded Positive Energy Chiropractic in February 2001 and is admissions director for a top massage school in Georgia. She will also head the school's new advertising and marketing programs this year.

Sue Barr, '81, retired in June after 22 years at South Eugene High School, where she taught journalism and advised the yearbook and the school newspaper, The Axe. Barr's teaching acumen earned her the Journalism Education Association's Lifetime Achievement Award and the National Journalism Achievement and Distinguished Adviser Awards from the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund. For four years, she also served as an adjunct professor at the SOJC, where she taught a course for prospective journalism instructors.

1984

After more than a decade as a staff and free-lance journalist in the general business and electronics industry trade press, Daniel J. Holden moved to the corporate public relations side in 1997. For the past two years, he has been public relations manager at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). On Holden's first day of work, Taiwan suffered a major earthquake. TSMC's execution of a crisis PR strategy triggered by this event gained two awards--The National PRSA Silver Anvil Award and the International Business Communicators' Association Golden Quill. Most recently, they scored a "Grand Slam" with major feature stories in Fortune, Forbes, Business Week and The Economist, all in a six-week period in the first quarter of 2001.

After working 10 years as a business and economics writer, most recently at the San Diego Union-Tribune, Peter Sacks left newspapers to teach college journalism and writing. He now lives in Boise with his wife, Kathleen, working as an independent researcher, author and essayist. His essays about education and American culture have appeared in such publications as The Nation, The Chronicle Review, The Boston Review, The Los Angeles Times, and USA Today. His latest book is Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do To Change It (Perseus 2000).

Sam Marsh just completed his third year as news director for the Grants Pass Broadcasting Corporation and has assumed the duties of talk show host for KAJO Radio's "Talk of the Town" program. He also serves as president of Crime Stoppers of Josephine County and is a licensed real estate agent.

Camille Domaloan Michel is working in the development office of Maryknoll School in Honolulu, Hawaii as the editor of The Knoller, the quarterly alumni magazine. In addition, she writes press releases and a monthly newsletter she launched called the eKnoller. Michel lives in Honolulu with her husband, Whit, and three children.

In 1999, Heather McCullam Sweet married Mitchell Scott Sweet, moved to Madison, Wisc., joined GE Capital IT Solutions as a software sales specialist and had her first child, Maxwell Yaakov Sweet. In 2000, Sweet moved to Phoenix, Ariz., and returned to work for Microsoft Corporation as an account manager. In 2001, she hoped to relax and enjoy her sunny weekends with her now five-person family: Mitchell, Maxwell and her twin five-year-old step-daughters, Alexandra (Alex) and Rebecca (Becca).

Scott Gummer, '86, and 10-year-old daughter, Ella, on a recent trip to South Africa. This photo was taken at Ngala Private Game Reserve in Kruger National Park while on writing assignment for Child magazine. Gummer is a regular contributor to Vanity Fair and a number of other national magazines. “I am living in the SF Bay Area, happily married to a woman I met in the dorms my first week at UO, and raising four future Ducks,” says Gummer.

1990

Lindy Bartell is the new executive director of communications for AT&T Broadband.

Debbie Duncan is a health administration graduate student at the University of Washington.

Dirk D. Barnett is art director for Worth magazine.

Scott Cocking moved last year from New York City--where he worked at a global ad agency--to Los Angeles, where he now works at a youth culture marketing agency, A.D.D. Marketing, specializing in reaching youth through guerrilla and street marketing. Along the way, he has learned a whole new vocabulary but has not dyed his hair blond.

Jeff Paslay is a designer for The Seattle Times.

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.

Prior to that, he served as a public relations assistant with the Pacific-10 Conference for two years. Lang thanks the School of Journalism and Communication for "refining his writing and strengthening his communication with both internal and external audiences."

Jennifer Upshaw Ruiz has accepted a job as a city reporter for the Marin Independent Journal, a daily newspaper in San Francisco's North Bay. Most recently, Ruiz received her master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism while working as a freelance reporter for The Chicago Tribune and Illinois' third largest newspaper, The Daily Herald.

For the past two years, Kevin Coari has been an anchor/reporter at KIVI-TV, the ABC affiliate in Boise, Idaho.

After graduating from the J-School, Jennifer A. Taylor spent four years working as communications director for the Beaverton Area Chamber of Commerce. In August 2001, Taylor returned to school full-time to work on a master's degree in technical communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.

Sarah Mensah-Wohlford, '87, is a vice president of sponsor sales and service for the Portland Trail Blazers.

1998

Abdulrahim Abdulwahid is preparing a new book.

Katie Bidstrup is currently working as an advertising account manager for a high-tech advertising agency in San Francisco. In July of 2000, she married Ryan Svoboda, UO '99, a fellow Duck and a wonderful husband.

Virginia Ng is working for the public relations firm Imagio|JWT in Seattle.

Susan F. Walsh was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of communication at Southern Oregon University at the end of 2000.

After a successful start as a food-challenged journalist in California, David Ryan decided to pursue his dream of working as a mid-level functionary at an impossibly huge global accounting firm. Now he works as a researcher/writer for the Silicon Valley office of KPMG.

Nicole Taylor currently works for The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

A week after graduation, Nicole Slenning’s longtime boyfriend, Mike, proposed on a beach in Cabo San Lucas. They are to marry in September. Slenning went to work as a news writer for KATU in Portland. Currently, she is working as a sports anchor/news reporter for KOTI/KOBI in the Klamath Falls/Medford market.

Nancy Blake was hired in July 2001 to be the manager of the Florence convention and Performing Arts Center.

Bobbie Willis is a free-lance writer and editor of Midwifery Today magazine. She is also working on the wallfly, a new publication put together by a group of SOJC literary nonfiction students. In July, Willis spent a week in Amherst, Mass. at the DoubleTake magazine Summer Documentary Institute.

Correction: Eric Malin, ’81, is not working as communications specialist for the Mountain Park Home Owners’ Association, as we reported in the summer 2000 issue of Flash. Jeannette Winkler currently holds the position. At the time of publication Malin planned to move into the position, but instead went to work as circulation sales manager for Community Newspapers, Inc. in Tigard. Malin has since left Community Newspapers, Inc. and is living in Portland.