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David Craig ’90 was hired in February as an assistant professor in the biology department of Willamette University. He teaches courses in behavioral ecology, vertebrate zoology, general ecology and evolution. As a researcher with the Columbia River Avian Predation Project, Craig investigates the role avian predators play in the decline of salmon numbers in the Pacific Northwest.

Patrick M. Emerson ’90 is assistant professor in the economics department at the University of Colorado at Denver. He is married to Kristina D. Engstrom ’91 .

Kendra Mingo ’90 has been promoted to assistant director of the community outreach and education program at the Environmental Health Sciences Center at Oregon State University.

Cindra Rehman ’90 gave birth to her second child, Michael James Lawrence Karber, March 25, 2000. Two years before, she gave birth to her first child on the same day.

Gary Detman ’91 and wife Alejandra are the proud parents of a baby boy, Andre Thomas, who was born Dec. 3, 2000.

Debra (Deb) Linn Guthery ’91 and Dr. Stephen (Steve) Guthery ’91 celebrated the birth of their second child, Rachael Linn, who was born Oct. 11, 2000.

Paul R. Jolstead ’91, MAT ’96 and Amy Jo Woodruff ’93 were married in January 1998. Jolstead is director of bands at T. C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va. Woodruff received her master of arts degree in geography from Portland State University in August 2000 and is employed as director of publications at the Association of American Geographers. She also is the managing editor of the annals of the Association of American Geographers and the Professional Geographer. The couple recently relocated to Washington, D.C.

Deborah Ng-Furuhashi ’91 received a law degree in 1994 from Creighton University Law School and recently received a master’s degree in international development from American University in Washington, D.C. She worked as an attorney in Hawaii until 1998. Deborah married James Furuhashi ’92 Sept. 16, 2000. James received his architecture degree in 1998 from the University of Hawaii and currently works as an architect in Honolulu.

Allan Niemi ’91 married Danielle Scofield Aug. 19, 2000, in Ponderosa State Park in McCall, Idaho. They spent their honeymoon in Whistler, British Columbia. Niemi works for Peter Jacobsen Productions and Scofield works for the Tigard-Tualatin School District.

Patrick (Pat) Wilkinson ’91 recently accepted the position of senior technical writer—marketing communications at Broadcom Corp. in Irvine, Calif. Broadcom is the leading provider of highly integrated silicon solutions that enable the high-speed transmission of voice, video and data over existing communications infrastructures, most of which were not originally intended for digital transmission.

Tim Bailey ’92 works at Adidas America in New York.

Geoffrey Davies ’92 and wife Junko have moved to the Hawaiian island of Maui to start a new company.

Shannon Couvillon George ’92 is product manager for Personic Inc., an e-solutions company for the staffing industry. She lives in San Francisco.

Mira (Mimi) Morton Luna ’92 and husband Eric welcomed new baby Marina, who was born Oct. 14, 2000.

Edward Ames ’93 is practicing law in Austin, Texas.

Bradley Kennedy ’93 graduated from the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law in May 2000 and has joined the firm Boornazian, Jensen & Garthe as an associate. His focus is on insurance coverage defense.

Andrew Lieberman ’93 is a set designer, based in New York. He recently designed Roberto Devereux for the New York City Opera.

Brian C. Smith ’93 entered Bates Technical College in Tacoma, Wash., to study broadcast engineering after 10 years of travel. He currently works in sales and represents various broadband wireless access equipment manufacturers.

Ursula Eshleman ’94 is a part-time massage therapist and a part-time teacher at a local massage therapy school. Her husband, Tim Frank, is a Seattle fire fighter.

Steven McClure ’94 married Kymberley Tilbrook May 27, 2000. He is employed with Deloitte, Touche and Tohmatsu accounting firm. Tilbrook is a flight attendant with Qantas Airways. The couple live in Woolooware, New South Wales, in Australia.

Jennifer Lewis ’95 married Hans-Eric Gosch Aug. 26, 2000, at Garden of the Gods Club in Colorado Springs, Colo. Lewis is a student at the Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Gosch is an advertising account manager with Avenue A.

Elizabeth Henderson ’98 is in Lewis & Clark College’s graduate program in counseling psychology.

Nathan (Nate) Rockswold ’98 works at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Nicholas (Nick) von Esmarch ’98 stars as Dwight in the Warner Brothers Network situation comedy “Nikki.” He appears as a professional wrestler and the husband of the title character.

Matthias Fripp ’99 has been admitted to the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School in the Energy and Resources Group.

Benjamin (Ben) Kalm ’99 is a second-year medical student at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

Catherine (Cat) Mulhall ’99 is the political/legal reporter for “The News Hour with Jim Lehrer.” She covers the Supreme Court, White House and Capitol Hill.

Heather Dittmore Snow ’99 married Greg Snow on Dec. 21, 2000. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in German studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and is a teacher assistant.

Dianna Turner ’90 was selected by the prestigious Los Angeles Film Festival for her short film, The Writers’ Model. The festival jury viewed 1,200 short-film entries from the United States and abroad and chose 60 films to screen at this year’s festival, April 20 to 28. Turner’s 12-minute film, which was adapted from a short story of the same title by Pulitzer Prize-nominee Molly Giles, depicts an encounter between a group of male writers and the writers’ female muse. 

Aaron Meyer ’95 , renowned violinist, was recently commissioned to compose and perform a new musical work at Portland’s Memorial Coliseum in honor of the Dalai Lama. In 1999, he performed at the United Nations in New York and at the World Peace Conference in The Hague, Netherlands. On Sept. 21, Meyer performed two concerts at Lewis & Clark College’s Agnes Flanagan Chapel with concert pianist Michael Allen Harrison. He also will perform in Portland in a world-class Cirque du Soleil Theatrical Production set to his original music, which will be produced and presented by Goble and David Productions.