Class Notes, Fall 2021

1949

John Reitz BS, BM writes: “I think that I can claim the award (if there is one) for Lewis & Clark’s longest-performing musician. Until the COVID-19 virus struck, I played in the Green Valley Stage Band and led the Dixiecats traditional jazz band in the Tucson, Arizona, area. I lead the Harbor Patrol Jazz Band in the Portland/Vancouver area in the summers.” Reitz says he hopes his classmates will reach out to him at jvreitz@aol.com.

1960

Peter Butler BM was named Veteran of the Year by the Linn County (Oregon) Veterans Commemoration Association.

1962

Undergrad Class Correspondent:

Nancy Knudsen BA knudsenk@plu.edu “Thanks to all who responded with their updates. Please mark your calendars for Alumni Weekend 2022, June 23–26. Our 60th reunion!”

Terry Barker BS writes: “Well, wasn’t the virus slowdown a change in our way of life? I am a total supporter of the shots and wish those who are reluctant would get with it. Last year, my wife and I pretty much hunkered down and called the year a lost one. We now have an RV and are planning to start seeing the country again. I’m still living in Oregon, but does anyone have a suggestion on where we should visit? On the other hand, I urge trips here to Oregon in the spring and summer.”

Byron Beach BS writes: “Oh, my gosh! Next year will mark 60 years since we zoomed off into the great unknown. I hope all remaining members of the ’62 class feel fulfilled and pretty much satisfied with their run. I sure do! I had 58 wonderful years of marriage with Lee (Altig-Beach), who passed away in January; a son who graduated from L&C in the ’90s; a great extended family for support; and, most importantly, the love of Jesus Christ. Love to you all! Amen.”

Bob Cantin BS writes: “Hi, from McKinney, Texas. I am spending my time during these retirement days writing a monthly fishing newsletter for 322 email subscribers (international pass-along readership 500+). I also write periodically for Dolores Chenoweth BA, who edits the L&C Gatehouse newsletter for the Albany Society. We were coeditors of the Pioneer Log in 1962. I’m still playing the accordion (please visit my website: bobcantin.com), and my quartet will play you a song or two. I’m also chasing five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.”

Nancy Chinn BA writes: “The field of art and spirituality was my muse, both as artist and teacher, for most of my career. Now I create ceramic sculptures. Three children and three grandchildren bring much joy. Harriet and I live in a senior community that is in the forest near the ocean in Northern California. Life is good.”

Richard Ditewig BA writes: “Starting in March 1978, I began full-time work with the U.S. Department of Education’s post-secondary student loan program in San Francisco. I retired in September 2007. While working for the feds, I took occasional work as a substitute organist in various Bay Area churches. Some of this work continued after retirement.”

Iwarsson BA says that his “first year at Lewis & Clark turned out to be a life-changing experience, more so than [he had] ever anticipated.” The rest of the story, in his own words: “1) U.S. citizen in 1967. 2) Married in 1970 (and still married to the same gal). 3) Two children and three grandchildren (all naturally the brightest of their respective classes). 4) Retired in 1997. 5) Life has been fantastic! Thank you, Lewis & Clark College!”

Pat McLachlan Paterson BA writes: “I spent most of August booked with subbing jobs. I work at the elementary level and learn new things often—which I forget quickly! During the last school year, I worked most days wearing a mask and keeping kids apart. I did a little online teaching, which I did not like. I’m so glad it’s a more ‘normal’ school year. My two grandchildren live in Oregon. My granddaughter has studied the last two years at Linfield. My son and his wife come each Christmas from Japan to visit me—and my two cats.”

1966

Undergrad Class Correspondent: Carla Shafer BS ’66 chuckanutsandstone@gmail.com “Welcome, Class of 1966! I’m looking for stories on what you’ve been up to since we left campus all those years ago or what your priorities are these pandemic-challenged days. Mark your calendars for Alumni Weekend, June 23-26!”

Dennis Chenoweth BS retired a few years ago after spending almost 50 years working as an academic pathologist and executive in the medical diagnostics industry. It was a great experience, and now he’s enjoying the chance to improve his woodworking skills. He crafts jewelry boxes with marquetry inlays, which he sells online. When he’s not making sawdust, he and his wife spend most of their time doting on their first granddaughter.

Roger Clark BA says he has been “aging in place and doing lots of gardening.” His cat died at age 17, easing housekeeping. He assisted choir members in refurbishing the organ of St. Paul’s Church in Bellingham, Washington. On May 24, 2021, he sang with an interfaith choir to help send off the Lummi House of Tears totem pole, carved from a 400-foot red cedar. It was delivered to Washington, D.C., and gifted to the Biden administration. The pole, which honors the rights of Indigenous people and their sacred lands and waters, will be featured at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. His granddaughter, Kelsey Willson, led the Wake Forest University team to its first-place win in the $500,000 NASA Vascular Tissue Challenge. Their team’s artificial liver cells may be part of an experiment on the International Space Station. Karen Hawkins BS, a teacher and library media specialist for 35 years, has now been retired for 20 years. Two years ago, she moved into the Holladay Park Plaza retirement community, near Lloyd Center, where a few L&C friends live but none from the Class of ’66. She says, “I’m so glad to be here during these interesting times—we can still get out, but until recently, we could not have visitors.”

Judy Cervetto Hedberg BA has been teaching since she received her MA in music theory/history from the University of Portland in 1969. Her online music courses use her e-texts: Rock Music History and Appreciation (second edition) and Music Appreciation: Experiencing the Magic. Besides teaching, Judy and her husband, Dennis, have done extensive travel to all 7 continents and 71 countries all over the world, with more trips planned after the COVID-19 pandemic is over. Their two children are both graduating from the University of Portland: their son in engineering and their daughter in nursing. Each have a boy and a girl, adding four grandchildren to the Hedberg family.

Jack Lewis BA retired from the University of Southern California in 2011. He enjoys watching his nine grandkids grow up. Since retirement, he has advised ITO EN (North America), a tea company that is led by a former Japanese student. Lewis is in contact with several members of his first-year fall semester Kyoto overseas study group. He wrote his PhD dissertation on Japanese local politics and spent most of his career in Japan and Asia focused on international executive education. He encourages you to consider donating to the new Alumni & Friends Study Abroad Scholarship to support students in financial need and to the H. Adunni Warren Scholarship fund for African American women from Portland-area high schools.

Nancy McClintock BA taught elementary school in California for five years. From 1972 to 1976, she served in the Peace Corps in Colombia and Ghana. She was program manager in international development— finance and health for 40 years. She is a “retired” hasher living on Chesapeake Bay with her husband, Jack. Together, they enjoy boating, cooking, traveling, Jack’s grandkids, and their Chartreux cats. She is a docent at the local marine museum and is living life to the fullest.

Carla Shafer BS has a rich life in connection with efforts toward a just, sustainable world for her amazing young grandchildren, Akira, Hiroki, and Zoya. During the pandemic, she coordinated the fourth international World Peace Poets poetry postcard exchange (open to all). She coedited Our Deepest Calling, poems and prose by writing lab members associated with Everett Community College staff. She was the sole editor/publisher of Solstice: Light and Dark of the Salish Sea, a collection of poems by 28 regional poets that celebrate the light and dark of the longest and shortest days of the year. Her email is chuckanutsandstone@ gmail.com.

John Venator BS and his wife, Dorianne, will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary in February 2022. They are retired and living in Valladolid, Mexico, in a restored hacienda-style house, Casa de los Venados, or “Home of the Deer,” which is more than 400 years old. They are active in raising money for several local charities. They’ve had no visitors or trips during the COVID pandemic, but they hope this might change early next year.

Rick Wolcott BA retired in 2000. Since 1980, he has taught West Coast Indigenous art (which includes traditional stories, tool making, and carving) all across Canada and at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina. He has run weekly classes in Calgary since 2000, and has offered annual weeklong summer classes in Comox on Vancouver Island.

1970

William Winner BA, MAT ’73 writes: “After getting my degrees from L&C, I did another master’s degree and PhD in biology. I was a postdoc at Stanford for four years, then an assistant professor at Virginia Tech. After working at Oregon State University, I was assigned to the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C., for four years. I then worked at North Carolina State University and Duke Kunshan University (DKU) at Murray. At all my stops, I worked on building new research centers and new academic programs in environmental sciences. The work I did at DKU in China is important to me as a small effort to help the two superpowers align with interests from all nations.”

1971

Deborah Bail BA ’71, JD ’74 writes: “I have been an Idaho state district judge since 1983, when I was appointed to the general jurisdiction trial bench as the first woman district judge in Idaho. At that time, I was an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Idaho. As a pro tem, I was the first woman to sit with the Idaho Supreme Court and the Idaho Court of Appeals. I have also served as a treatment court judge. In July 2021, I received the Idaho State Bar’s Distinguished Jurist award. I have moved from active to senior judge status as of June 1, 2021. I have a daughter who works with Micron Technology.”

1973

Dan Chun BS is senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Honolulu. He and his wife, Pam, are founders of Hawai‘ian Islands Ministries, which has been offering practical training to leaders in the church and nonprofit worlds for nearly 40 years.

1975

Undergrad Class Correspondent: Susan Bennett Olson BA solson75@alumni.lclark.edu “Hello, Class of 1975! Here’s hoping you have managed to navigate the challenges and thrive during this pandemic year. Were there any positive experiences that might not have happened without the shutdown? Please share your thoughts with us all!”

Margie Willis BA was featured in the Oregonian on July 18, 2021, in an article reporting on Oregon’s law that prohibits health care organizations from mandating vaccinations for employees. Oregon is the only state with this restriction. As a patient with multiple health issues and the need for frequent medical visits, Willis expressed her dismay in not feeling adequately protected in health care settings. She urged health care providers to seriously consider patient vulnerabilities and get vaccinated.

1976

Undergrad Class Correspondent: Ken Goe BA goe76@alumni.lclark.edu “I’m curious about what you have been up to in the last 45 years. I guess that is why I’ve become the ’76 class correspondent. Feel free to drop me a line, and I’ll put an update about you in the magazine.”

Philip Benz BS settled in the Portland area in 1989 after obtaining two master’s degrees from UCLA. He worked in health care IT before spending the last two decades developing medical products for a company based in Milwaukie, Oregon. The products are used by hospital critical care units and interventional labs worldwide. He and his wife are planning their partial retirement and a move to Austin, Texas.

John Evans BS is an anesthesiologist who practices in Portland. He is a past president of the Oregon Anesthesiology Group, the Medical Society of Metropolitan Portland, and the Oregon Medical Association of Metropolitan Portland. He and Maryam Shadbeh-Evans BS have two sons, one a doctor and the other an engineer with Boeing.

Ken Goe BA retired in November 2020 after 43 years as a sports writer for the Oregonian.

John Horton BA is a freelance consultant, primarily for the World Bank, and is based in Berkeley, California. He has focused on agricultural and food supply chain resiliency in Latin America and the Caribbean during the pandemic. He retired in 2016 after 25 years as an agricultural economist for the Inter-American Development Bank. During his 40-year career, he lived abroad in France, Cameroon, Haiti, Uruguay, and Brazil. He has three children and a grandson, who live in Barcelona, San Francisco, and Irvine. He enjoys outdoor recreation; cultural events; and sampling the region’s cuisine and wine.

Michael Kasperzak BA is the former two-term mayor of Mountain View, California, elected in 2008 and 2012. Now semiretired, he is a regular platelet donor for the Red Cross and a trained Disaster Service volunteer. He serves as a mediator for the California Department of Insurance for insurance disputes arising from damage by California wildfires. He has become an accomplished sourdough baker; makes his own butter; and keeps three hives of bees, from which he harvests about 150 pounds of honey in each of several regular harvests. Kay Kole Leary BS, MEd ’77 married Douglas Leary BA in 1989, after they connected at a class reunion. They spent the first six months of their marriage on a 35-state tour of the United States in a VW camper van. They have two daughters. Kay is an avid gardener.

Douglas Leary BA retired in Seattle several years ago from a long career as a contract computer programmer. During his career, he worked for Tektronix, Microsoft, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, among others. He married Kay Kole Leary BS, MEd ’77 in 1989, after connecting at a class reunion. They spent the first six months of their marriage on a 35-state tour of the United States in a VW camper van. They have two daughters. Leary enjoys tinkering with electronics and is an accomplished Dungeons and Dragons player.

Paul Miles BS, a self-employed real estate project manager in Colorado, has worked with clients to design and construct projects around the country for more than 30 years. He has no immediate plans to retire. He and his wife have raised two daughters, one an oncology/ bone marrow transplant nurse and the other in her final year of dental school. Miles has resumed riding his bike after two knee transplants and plans to return soon to the ski slopes and other recreational activities in the Rockies.

Maryam Shadbeh-Evans BS is a national resource specialist with the Oregon Department of Agriculture. She and John Evans BS have two sons, one a doctor and the other an engineer with Boeing.

Bill Thorndike BS is owner/president of Medford Fabrication, where he has worked for more than 40 years. He serves on the Board of Trustees for Southern Oregon University and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Oregon Business Council. He is a co-convener of the Butte Falls Community Forest Project and a member of the Board of Trustees for the Crater Lake National Park Trust. Thorndike and his wife have a family that includes three dogs and four horses. His wife judges dressage competitions nationally.

Bob Yanofsky BS and his wife of 41 years, Debi, returned to Oregon recently after 16 years in the Bay Area (Palo Alto and San Carlos). He spent 20 years in scientific sales before transitioning to a business encouraging healthy fitness in children. He had two successful My Gym franchises in California. He sold one in Palo Alto, and, with a business partner, opened another in Sherwood. His three daughters were all born in the Portland area. He is happy to be an Oregonian again and is interested in renewing college friendships.

1977

Jane Nishida BA served as acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from January through March 2021. She now serves as principal deputy assistant administrator in the EPA’s Office of International and Tribal Affairs.

1978

Steven Katzman JD reports, “I was appointed a county court judge for the El Paso County Court in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on May 7, 2021.”

David Lowe BA was named chief financial officer and treasurer at Graco, where he has worked since 1995.

Ronald Marks BS has been appointed a visiting professor of intelligence and cyber at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He has developed, and will be teaching, two master’s-level courses: 1) National Security Policy and the Effect of Technology, and 2) Congress and American Intelligence—Conflict and Cooperation. In addition, Marks is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., where he provides thought leadership and expertise on national security issues for the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.

Kermit McCarthy BA writes: “I retired in 2013 after 33 years working for and then managing the Oregon OSHA Occupational Health Lab. I took the substantial expertise I had in assessing workplace exposure to health hazards and built a house on some family property on the north side of Mount Hood, something I had no expertise in at all! I got a lot of help from my oldest daughter, who is a carpenter. When I am not building the house, I hike, ski, backpack, bike, explore the back roads of Oregon and Washington, and digitize my old 8-mm movies and 35-mm slides and those of my parents.

Maria Hein BA ’74 has accompanied me on most of these adventures for the last five decades.”

Toby Padgett BA can be seen in a YouTube music video released in late February 2021 by Wayne Krawchuk along with Cootes Paradise, one of North America’s most celebrated indie bands. As “DJ Toby Chicago,” Padgett is the Pacific Northwest studio manager for Kingfisher Radio Group UK, a post she’s held since 2014. She is represented by 910 Public Relations located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. “To be asked to appear in an internet music video with these wonderful musicians from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, totally blisses me out!” says Padgett. “I’m very grateful to them for including me in this project!”

1979

Katie Weil Byrnes BA, Mike Byrnes BA, Jon Horn BA, and Sonja Horn traveled from Juneau to Sitka, Alaska, on a small cruise ship this summer. They enjoyed reconnecting and seeing the beautiful southern part of Alaska. The Byrnes family also celebrated the law school graduation of their son, Anders Byrnes JD ’20, and are looking forward to his in-person graduation in fall 2021. During the pandemic, Katie says that her connection to her children and close friends brought her the most joy.

1980

Michael Hedrick BS is a biology professor at California State University at East Bay. He is a fellow of the American Physiological Society and the California Academy of Sciences. He is also editor in chief of the journal Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A. He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, Julie, and their three children, Alexander, Violet, and Summer.

1981

Undergrad Class Correspondent: Lisa Grill Dodson BA lisagrilldodson@gmail.com “Please send me your news and updates!”

Roberto Alvarez BA and Suz Larrance BA continue to enjoy living in beautiful Seattle. Rob started work as a financial specialist at Northwest Farm Credit Services just as the pandemic started. In July 2021, after more than a year at home, he began working in the office for the first time. He enjoys the daily 25-minute ride to work on his e-bike. With limited options for socializing during the pandemic, the couple became very close with a group of neighbors who kept them sane with frequent outings to a local brewery with open-air seating. Their sons are doing well, one living in Seattle and one near Reno, Nevada. With retirement on the horizon, Rob and Suz look forward to doing lots of traveling. Karl Anuta BS, JD ’86 never left Portland despite some good offers. Anuta practices environmental law for conservationminded groups and individuals, as well as personal injury law for injured folks as he has done for more than 30 years. Anuta continues to spend, in his view, too little time fishing, paddling, and camping along lakes and streams throughout the Pacific Northwest. He and his wife, Karen Russell JD ’90, have managed to get their two kids through outof-state colleges and launched into the world. They are now empty nesters, trying to figure out how many decades it will take before they can rebuild their savings, retire, and more fully enjoy the outdoor activities they love. Anuta can be reached at kga@integra.net.

Chuck Blanchard BS is a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm Arnold and Porter, which he joined in 2014 after serving as Air Force general counsel. He advises clients on national security law and government contracts issues. During the COVID-19 pandemic, his practice took an interesting turn with a focus on negotiating agreements between the U.S. government and pharmaceutical companies to fund COVID-19 responses, including negotiation of the two largest federal vaccine deals. On a more personal level, he has been trying to teach his 16-year-old son to drive, which is the most terrifying thing he has ever done.

Paula Brekke BA writes: “Hello, friends! Andy and I have finally made the move to the Methow Valley [in Washington]! I’ve changed my email address to plbrekke@gmail.com. I look forward to staying in touch!”

Lisa Colby Anderson BA emerged from months of teaching and tutoring elementary students on Zoom to “reZOOM” her busy summers transporting athletes around cities and stadiums. This year, 2021, marks her fourth Confederation of North, Central America, and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) Gold Cup tournament, where she ensures transport services to soccer teams from Panama to Canada as they pursue World Cup qualification.

Peter Dodson BS, MAT ’99 retired from the University of Washington (after flunking retirement twice) to help care for his parents, Arleigh (who was an L&C chemistry professor) and Marion (who worked at the Institute for the Study of American Language and Culture, or ISALC). They moved in with him and his wife, Lisa Grill Dodson BA, during the pandemic. Arleigh passed away on September 1, 2021; see also page 42.

Jed Emerson BA writes: “These last 10 years, I turned my attention to helping families manage their wealth to optimize net positive impact. Just before COVID-19 came, I had released my latest book, The Purpose of Capital: Elements of Impact, Financial Flows, and Natural Being. (free in a digital format at www. purposeofcapital.org). In some ways, I was ready to simply continue on the same track, but the lockdown left me feeling like it was time to rise toward one more challenge. So Mia, my wife and partner in crime, and I, having first left San Francisco and then Colorado, have now consolidated our life in New York City. My new role is managing director and global lead for impact investing with Tiedemann Advisors, a multifamily office with an international presence looking to take its own and the field’s practice of impact investing to a new level. We are especially grateful and appreciative of what we imagine will continue to be an ongoing process of being and becoming.”

Karen Graves Pyrch BS writes: “I am alive and well. I retired in 2019 and got to enjoy some travels before the pandemic hit. I started working for Bonneville Power Administration as a student intern while attending L&C and retired with 40 years of service. Golfing was something I always enjoyed but didn’t find time to do after getting married and with two kids, plus work. Now, I’ve found it to be one of the great things to do during COVID times. Life is good!”

Lisa Grill Dodson BA writes: “I’m sure that it can’t really have been 40 years since we shot off champagne corks as Dr. John Howard spoke about the ‘fountains of life’ at our graduation, which was his last as L&C’s president. I am keeping busy as the dean of the Medical College of Wisconsin’s rural regional campus in central Wisconsin (Wausau), trying to figure out how to train medical students in the middle of a pandemic. We survived COVID-19; just celebrated our 40th anniversary; and are looking forward to resuming travel and relationships with friends and family, far and wide.” Sheila Kilbride Shusterich BM wishes everyone from the Class of 1981 a “happy 40th” and wonders how this anniversary rolled around so quickly! She enjoyed a Class of ’81 video meeting held in the spring and would like to see these continue every now and then as a way to keep connected. Shusterich retired from full-time teaching in 2019; however, during the pandemic, she taught distanced music classes for fifth graders at nine elementary schools in the Duluth Public Schools. Most of her time during the pandemic was spent caring for her mother, Ann Kilbride, who passed away on July 12, 2021, at age 92. Shusterich and her husband, Fred, celebrated their 38th wedding anniversary in August 2021.

Suz Larrance BA and Roberto Alvarez BA continue to enjoy living in beautiful Seattle. Suz has been an international scholar advisor at the University of Washington for over five years and still loves it. With limited options for socializing during the pandemic, the couple became very close with a group of neighbors who kept them sane at frequent outings to a local brewery with open-air seating. Their sons are doing well, one living in Seattle and one near Reno, Nevada. They can see retirement on the horizon, and are looking forward to doing lots of traveling once they are no longer bound to work.

Wes Lawrence BA writes: “The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity had a reunion of graduates from 1977 to 1981 in Palm Springs, California. Attending were Paul Howard BS ’77, Grant Hanson BS ’79, Virginia Hanson BA ’82, Sam Briggs BS ’79, Carol Briggs BS ’81, David Strong BA ’80, Julie Strong BA ’79, Mark Barnum BS ’79, David Lane BS ’81, Herb Chase BS ’78, Scot Sellers BS ’78, Dave Chambers BS ’78, Hadley Robbins BS ’79, Dale Hermanson BS ’77, Al Jochim BS ’78, Greg Haugen BS ’78, Wes Lawrence BA ’81, and other friends and spouses. This was a great way to have a reunion.”

Cindy Pelton Thompson BS writes: “I have such great memories of Lewis & Clark and have ended up living two blocks from campus for the last 26 years. The pandemic shut down the college to visitors for 15 months, but it’s finally reopened. I am thrilled to once again be strolling through the tall trees and playing tennis near the outdoor pool. The first event I ever produced was on lower campus. It was a concert with a few local bands called ‘May Ray Day.’ Turns out I would continue producing events for the next 40-plus years, owning my own company since 1987. I’m still in touch with many fellow Pios, and we get together every few years to share our crazy college stories and laugh at our antics.”

William Peniston BA has retired after 25 years as librarian and archivist at the Newark Museum of Art. “It has been a wonderful career at a great institution in charge of fascinating collections in support of creative staff members and very smart researchers,” he writes.

Marci Rau BA is a chaplain at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington. On June 7, 2021, the Columbian published an oral history, told from Rau’s perspective, about how she has continued chaplaincy under COVID-19 restrictions, how she has supported staff during the pandemic, and how she has cared for herself.

Alyce Sadongei BA was recently named to OZY media’s list of Native Americans Changing the World. After graduation, she worked at a national nonprofit Native American arts service organization and the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Museum Programs and National Museum of the American Indian. Sadongei then left Washington, D.C., and moved to Tucson, where she’s been working at the University of Arizona. She’s worked at both the Arizona State Museum and the American Indian Language Development Institute. Sadongei is currently codirecting a project funded by the Doris Duke Foundation to digitize and return to tribes a collection of oral history recordings that were collected during the 1970s. She wrote poetry while at L&C, and, after graduation, was included in Harper’s Anthology of 20th-Century Native American Poetry. In 1991, she received the Outstanding Young Alumna Award from L&C. Sadongei has been married to Phil Cash Cash, an Oregonian from the Umatilla Indian reservation near Pendleton, for 28 years. She says, “No children, but we have had some wonderful cats!”

Sarah Supahan BS remarried in 2006 to Mike Harding. Together, they have 19 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren, including a motley crew of biological, step, and foster kids. Her career in education spans 32 years and includes several different positions. Supahan was appointed Trinity County superintendent of schools in June 2017 and was elected to the position in June 2018 for a four-year term. She plans to retire by the end of December 2022.

Lee Weinstein BA announced that he has sold Weinstein PR, the Portland-based public relations and branding company he founded. He plans to remain active with the firm as a consultant and advisor.

Jannell Werner BA writes: “I’ve come a long way, building on the health education degree I earned from L&C in 1981. And the baby I had my last semester at Lewis & Clark is now 40 years old! I work at Yamhill County Health and Human Services as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. We’ve been busy providing critical services during the pandemic. With solid protocols, our clinic did not have a COVID outbreak. I am reminded often what a gift it was to have an education at Lewis & Clark as the foundation for the years to follow. I hope all alumni are well. I encourage all current students to continue looking forward to the future and to be the change you want to see in the world.”

1982

Jamie Hyams BA was ordained as a rabbi by the Academy for Jewish Religion, California, in May 2021. She will serve as a rabbi at Congregation P’nai Tikvah in Las Vegas.

1985

Undergrad Class Correspondent: Sarah Marin BA marin85@alumni.lclark.edu “Hey, Class of 1985! Mark your calendars now for Alumni Weekend 2022, June 23–26. We’ll be celebrating our 35th reunion (postponed from 2020), and we’d love to see you all there!”

1986

Undergrad Class Correspondent: Kimberly Crofcheck BA kmc86@alumni.lclark.edu “Class of 1986, I hope you are all doing well. For this issue, we asked some pandemic-related questions: What did you learn about yourself? What was the biggest silver lining? What habits did you change that you’ll stick with? Thank you for your responses. Until next time!”

Carrie Hamilton Heins BS writes: “I learned I am resilient. The silver lining is that, even through major life-changing events, I found out who my real friends are. The habits I changed that I will stick with are self-care and finding the value of human connections. I’m living in Port Townsend, Washington, with my dog, Hala (an 8-year-old yellow lab). I just had my 20-year anniversary with what is now ICON.”

Dianne Hosford BA writes: “I own a restaurant—The Crazy “Norwegian’s Fish and Chips on the southern coast of Oregon (Port Orford)—and was part of the disaster that COVID created for hospitality. I learned more humility, more gratitude, more resilience, and more divergent thinking! I certainly think that some of my better tools for coping and being successful were collected at L&C. I was also successful in grabbing every single Small Business Administration grant that came my way. One of the more valuable skills that I learned at L&C is the art of readiness when all I really want to do is procrastinate!”

Kim Johnson BA ’86 writes: “Although I missed seeing nearby friends in person, it was wonderful to connect more frequently with distant friends and family by video conference. One highlight was a weekly Saturday morning chat with four cool women. We supported each other through a year of ups and downs in a way that hasn’t been possible since we all stayed up late talking in Forest Hall. Thanks to all who ordered Okapi wines online when they couldn’t go out—we had the best year yet in our wine business. We have a new tasting room with a dazzling view of Napa Valley. Okapi is available in many Total Wine stores, and we are on the wine lists of several top restaurants now, including the French Laundry. Visit us at www.okapiwines.com.”

Diana Larsen BA writes: “After coauthoring two books earlier in the new century, Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great (2006) and Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams (2016), I decided to take time off from book writing to concentrate on building a new small business. In 2020–21, while spending more time in my home office, I got the energy and encouragement to begin three new book-writing efforts with three different coauthor partners/groups. The first of the three will come out in fall 2021, The Art of Agile Development, second edition (with primary author James Shore). The other two are scheduled for publication in early 2022.”

1987

Jamil Mustafa BA is professor of English; director of literature and language; and former department chair at Lewis University in Illinois. After earning his PhD in English as a Jacob Javits Fellow at the University of Chicago, he began teaching at Lewis in 2000. He has published on Victorian literature, the Gothic, and film studies in edited collections and journals, including Neo-Victorian Studies, American Imago, and Humanities. In 2019, he hosted “Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror,” the 15th conference of the International Gothic Association and the first held in the United States. Since 2016, he has led the university’s travel-study program to London. The 2007 Bethlehem Blog records his experiences as a visiting associate professor at Bethlehem University in the West Bank. Mustafa lives in Oak Park, Illinois, and visits Portland often. He may be reached at mustafja@lewisu.edu.

Gretchen Olson BS writes: “I am currently president of the Lake Oswego Lions Club. In early March 2020, I spearheaded a project to provide first-rate fabric masks free to all members of our community upon request. The LO Lions have provided more than 3,200 masks to people in the Portland area to date. This includes over 1,000 masks to essential service providers. We are still providing these masks. They can be requested by emailing me at gretchenolson@icloud.com.”

1989

Undergrad Class Correspondent: Andrea Ball BA aball1017@gmail.com “Greetings! It’s been a challenging time lately, but like the Pios we are, we persevere. Check out what some of your classmates have been up to. If you’re on Facebook, visit our class page. I would love to hear from you!”

Andrea Ball BA is the medical librarian for MultiCare Health System, based in Tacoma, Washington. Her position became permanently virtual last year, which has been good for her work-life balance. It also enabled her to get a basset hound puppy named Baxter. When not playing fetch with her pup, Ball keeps busy with various professional groups, most recently starting her term as president of the Washington Medical Librarians Association.

Stacey Caldwell Roberts BA is board chair for Portland Center Stage. She supports the theatre’s commitment to social justice and to a “radical structural reinvention.”

Cristina Lindquist Heffernan BS and husband Neil have developed ASSISTments, a free online math platform that makes it easy for teachers to assess student progress. This past year, they founded the ASSISTments Foundation, a nonprofit to scale up and promote the platform. Heffernan serves as the foundation’s executive director. More than 20,000 teachers and 500,000 students across all 50 states (and 20+ countries) have been able to use ASSISTments to support distance, hybrid, and in-person teaching. For details, visit new.assistments.org.

Jackson Shea BS, when not busy playing with his 18-monthold grandson, works as an IT architect with a focus on storage technologies for IBM. He also heads up the Portland and S.W. Washington Alumni Chapter and has just been appointed to Lewis & Clark’s Board of Alumni.

Carl Thong BA graduated with his doctor of ministry in strategic leadership from Corban University in May 2021.

1991

Undergrad Class Correspondent: Laura Mundt BA lmundt@lclark.edu “Dear Class of ’91, please mark June 23–26, 2022, for our delayed 30-year reunion. Hope to see you all there! In the meantime, feel free to send me any updates.”

Dana Furby BA works in the California Secretary of State’s Office. She has been legal counsel to management there for a little over four years. Previously, she worked as a litigation consultant, and before that as a criminal defense litigator. Furby will be spending more time in the Pacific Northwest during the next year, as family members have relocated there recently. She would love to spend time catching up with L&C folks, especially if they enjoy hiking, river rafting, skiing, and art exhibits.

Wendy Rush BA writes that she’s an eighth-grade science teacher in the Dover-Sherborn (Massachusetts) Public Schools and is “loving it!”

1992

Undergrad Class Correspondent: Edgard Garcia BA garcia92@alumni.lclark.edu “Please send me your news and updates!”

Lewis Barlow BA, who is semiretired, is enjoying the amazing cycling and hiking in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mona Buckley MPA is the new president and CEO of the Government Employees’ Benefit Association. Previously, Buckley served at the executive level with the American Bar Association and the Professional Insurance Marketing Association.

Sarah Carter BS is an ecologist for the U.S. Geological Survey in Fort Collins, Colorado. She works closely with the Bureau of Land Management. She also researches strategies to manage and monitor multiple-use western lands at landscape levels and is excited to think about the role that these lands can play in the administration’s new America the Beautiful initiative. Carter’s oldest child headed off to college this fall at a liberal arts school close to home, but she still has hopes that one of her kids will end up at Lewis & Clark.

Jen Castle Rotar BA started a new job as social caseworker for Larimer County, Colorado.

Craig Cross BS works as a fine artist, illustrator, and storyteller. He also teaches drawing and painting at the College of Marin in Kentfield, California. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his partner, Michelle, and their cat, Mystery. Charlotte Doyle (formerly Dick) BA, MA ’93 now lives with her family in Naples, Florida. Doyle is married and blessed with a 14-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son. She has performed as an opera singer since receiving her master of music in vocal performance degree and performers diploma from Indiana University. She is now the co-owner of two businesses in the legal space. She uses singing to help raise money for various charities, and her daughter does the same.

Ruthe Farmer BA lives near Boulder, Colorado. She is CEO and founder of the Last Mile Education Fund, a national nonprofit focused on degree attainment for low-income tech and engineering students. Launched in January 2020, Last Mile has raised more than $5 million to support striving students through just-in-time financial and social support and was named a finalist for the $40 million Equality Can’t Wait Challenge. Farmer was named a Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow in March 2021.

John Frost BA has joined the international financial newspaper Pensions and Investments as audience engagement editor.

Edgard Garcia BA is the Class of 1992 correspondent, a member of Lewis & Clark’s Board of Alumni, and a member of L&C’s Portland and S.W. Washington Alumni Chapter leadership. He lives in Lake Oswego with his 15-year-old son. He owns EAG Language Services and is the corporate translator at SAIF Corporation, a nonprofit workers’ compensation insurance company. SAIF’s vision is to make Oregon the healthiest and safest place to work. Garcia has taught agricultural safety all over Oregon since 2003.

John Griffin BA has released his novel, Endpoint: Confluence, the third volume of a five-part science fiction series. The space opera is full of adventure but also includes themes of alien religion (his BA was in religious studies). The book also includes stellar navigation based upon chanting (“remember that book we read in Basic Inquiry?”). The first book in the series is free on Apple, Kindle, and Smashwords.

Paula Hayes BS is first vice chair of the Lewis & Clark Board of Trustees. She is also chair of the college’s Academic Affairs Committee and cochair of the Presidential Search Committee.

Laurie Matthews BA recently completed a cross-country road trip on Route 20, which links Newport, Oregon, to Boston. The 11-day trip included a stop in Yellowstone National Park and some off-the-beaten-track places in Nebraska to dip her toes in creeks (thanks to a fellow L&C graduate). The trip ended in Kenmore Square near Fenway Park and her former home.

Eileen Niedermann BS joined the Peace Corps and was assigned to a girls’ boarding school in southern Tanzania, where she taught mathematics and physics. During that time, she also authored a mathematics textbook, which was eventually published by the University of Dar es Salaam and distributed to government schools nationwide. She returned to the States for a brief stint in San Francisco, where she and her husband taught and earned master’s degrees in multicultural education. In 1999, they launched their careers in international schools. Their posts have taken them back to Tanzania and on to Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka, and India. In 2022, they are moving to Cambodia, where Niedermann will be head of school at the International School of Phnom Penh.

Samantha Schoech BA left her position as program director of the Independent Bookstore Day, the program she founded in 2013. She’s now the books editor for the San Francisco Chronicle Datebook. She lives with her husband, twin teenagers, two cats, and lots of plants near Ocean Beach in San Francisco. She is itching to go to the Jaipur Literature Festival in India as soon as it’s safe.

Heather Skillman BA owns a coaching company called Life Motion Coaching and a photography business called Periwinkle Photography. She has a website for her photography (www.periwinklepix.com) and a Facebook page for her coaching business (@heatherscoaching).

Jason Stanford BA coauthored Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth with Bryan Burrough and Chris Tomlinson (see also page 27). In April, Stanford became chief of communications and community engagement for the Austin Independent School District. One of the perks of the job was getting to hand his youngest son a diploma at his graduation ceremony in May.

Pamela Strong BA has worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development since 2012. She currently resides in Kyiv, Ukraine, with her 16-yearold son and her spouse. They enjoy biking, skiing, and walking on the islands in the Dnieper River, which runs through the city. The family also enjoys frequent road trips across the vast and beautiful country of Ukraine and beyond.

1994

Fawn Bernhardt-Norvell BA has joined the board of directors for the National Parks of Lake Superior Foundation. She has worked in nonprofit development and management for more than 20 years and is currently serving as development director for the Center for Victims of Torture.

1995

Meredith Mendelson JD was named to the Commonwealth Heroines Class of 2021 by the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women. Mendelson is executive director of the Needham-based organization Ellie Fund, which provides critical nonmedical support services and resources for breast cancer patients. Since joining the organization, she has expanded its reach and created initiatives to ensure access for patients in underserved and minority communities. Peter Ohman JD was appointed Gallatin County (Montana) district judge on October 9, 2020.

Lenore Reese BS worked in sleep research at Oregon Health & Science University after graduating from Lewis & Clark. She married Joshua Isenberg in 1999. They have three children (ages 16, 13, and 10) and live in Tokyo most of the year. Reese currently serves on the board of directors at the American School in Japan.

1996

Cara Giacomini BA is now the chief research and data officer for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. CASE serves advancement professionals from more than 3,400 member institutions around the world. She is in charge of AMAtlas data services, which provide benchmarking surveys, original research, and global reporting standards. Scott Kerin JD, an assistant U.S. attorney with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oregon, was recently awarded the U.S. Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service for his work as cocounsel in prosecuting an international fentanyl distribution ring that operated in China, Canada, and the United States. Kerin is currently serving a temporary detail at the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, Romania, where he is teaching prosecutors and law enforcement agents in Eastern Europe how to investigate and prosecute cybercrimes and intellectual property crimes. Alanna O’Brien MAT has been chosen as the first female principal for La Salle Catholic College Preparatory in Milwaukie, Oregon. She first joined the school as an English teacher 25 years ago. In 2000, her colleagues voted her as the school’s Lasallian Educator of the Year.

1997

Eliot Barron BA writes: “Last year, Eliot provided a message in verse / keeping the sentiment terse / Since then it’s been rather dramatic / A year full of crises—political and climatic / Emotions are high, rhetoric is coarse, my nerves is bad and getting worse / Pandemic endemic polemics be damned. / Y’all come down to New Orleans to see where I stand.”

Darren Drabek BA has two fun updates. First, he was the trivia contest winner in a virtual NY/CT Black and Orange party in September. Class of ’97 represent! And second, he was trained to be a poll inspector in Saratoga County for the general election. Regarding the latter, he adds, “Feels like good civic engagement since many poll inspectors in our county are older and feel disinclined to do this job in person, given the health risks.” Thomas Gibson JD has been appointed chief counsel at the California Department of Water Resources.

Rachel Pusey BA worked actively on voter outreach to key states with Vote Forward in advance of the 2020 presidential election, as well as on supporting women candidates through Broads Save America and Women Count. She has enjoyed the silver linings of life in a pandemic, including spending time with her 7-year-old, working in her vegetable garden, roller skating, and tie-dyeing. She practices employment law, including investigating workplace complaints, as a partner at Villarreal Hutner in San Francisco.

Jorge Sega BA writes: “Many years have passed since I studied math and physics concepts; much of the theory has been forgotten, but all the soft skills remain. And that is exactly why I tell my kids about the great advantage of higher education, so they cultivate their talents in a challenging yet positive environment. That is L&C for me, that is what I learned … and, of course, the life on campus, friends, pool and milkshakes, pizza on Saturday, football (sorry, soccer), the Pioneers, and my fellow colleagues, many of whom I’m still in contact with via social media.”

Inti St. Clair BA was elected national vice president of the board for American Photographic Artists.

Nathan Steele BA accepted a job working as an IT analyst for John Deere.

Nina Storm BA spent summer 2021 in Bend, Oregon, enjoying the wonders of nature and time with her family. She is founder and creative director at By Storm agency, an experiential and multimedia creative production company.

Megan Williams BA worked and lived in New York, in Boston, and throughout subSaharan Africa in program development and providing technical assistance to NGOs. She returned to Minneapolis 10 years ago. She’s married to Bouba and has two daughters, Bintia (age 9) and Yalihan (age 8). Williams is now director of nursing and home-care services for Clare Housing, a nonprofit that provides affordable housing and health care to people living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic illnesses. In addition, she is an adjunct professor with Metropolitan State University School of Nursing, where she teaches global and public health. Williams won a Housing Hero award this year for her work providing housing and health care to underserved population in Minnesota. She led Clare Housing’s COVID-19 response and helped evacuate an affordable housing unit and nurse’s office during the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. Currently, she’s trying to find moments of zen working full time and having school-age children. She keeps sane with weekly Zoom calls to her “L&C girl crew” and other things.

1998

Undergrad Class Correspondent: Jan Martin BA jzmartin@shaw.ca “Hello, Class of 1998! As we all return to a bit of normalcy in our lives, I reached out to our classmates to get their reflections on how the pandemic impacted their lives. My sincere gratitude to all of you for sharing both privately and with your cohort.”

Bonnie Crawford BA shares that she was recently promoted to vice president and general manager at Umo Mobility. In news outside of work, Crawford was a member of a group of plus-sized women that climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in 2019. Crawford and her team’s journey can be seen in the film Kili Big, which premiered in August 2021 at the Bentonville (Arkansas) Film Festival. The festival amplifies underheard voices in entertainment, such as members of the female, nonbinary, LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and differently abled communities.

Ciel Downing BA, MA ’00 writes: “COVID was somewhat easier on our community as I live on the border of a forest. There were lots of options for getting out—as long as you count coyotes, elk, and raccoons as social options. It gave me time to write, and one of my pieces was accepted into the upcoming Timberline Review. The downside was the lack of interaction for the elderly, which took a toll on my mother. She passed away in January 2021. Here’s hoping for all to be able to ease into our new world. Brava and thank you, science!”

Natalie Nuttall BA has joined McCormick Barstow as an attorney specializing in estate planning and trust administration. Nick Richards JD is chair of the cannabis law practice group at Greenspoon Marder. Richards has been working at the firm as a partner since January 2020 and is a former Internal Revenue Service trial attorney.

Emily Seru BA writes: “I am the associate director of the Center for Community Work and Learning at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. When COVID hit, we had to transition all communityengaged learning to virtual formats. I found myself facilitating difficult conversations about structural racism in an online platform, leading students through the Mapping Prejudice Project. Students transcribed and documented racial covenants in housing deeds and helped build a map that serves as a visual representation of the history and lasting legacies of racial segregation in Minneapolis and St. Paul. It was so hard, but also really rewarding, to provide students with a space to process everything that was happening in the Twin Cities with George Floyd’s murder and the following unrest and protest movements. I was humbled and learned a ton this past year. I am so grateful to my work, home, and neighborhood communities.”

Justin Sternberg BA is program director for the Alaska Ocean Cluster. The nonprofit was recently awarded a federal economic development grant to accelerate innovation to benefit ocean-based entrepreneurship and industries in Alaska.

1999

Kristin Flickinger BA is executive director of Pacific Pride Foundation, an organization that works with educators and activists to foster an active and available LGBTQ+ community in Santa Barbara, California. In May 2021, Flickinger was a panelist for Women Speak Up, the third annual town hall event hosted by the County of Santa Barbara Commission for Women. Joshua Husbands JD, a Holland & Knight partner, has been elected to the board of regents of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. He was also appointed Oregon state chair and chair of the western region, which includes Alaska, Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. Jake Longstreth BA, described by Inside Hook Magazine as “the Renaissance dude America needs,” is a cohost of the cult-hit podcast Time Crisis, as well as a successful painter. Since he earned an MFA at the California College of the Arts, Longstreth’s work has been frequently exhibited at galleries in San Francisco and New York. His work has also been used as cover art for prominent musicians, including Dirty Projectors. In addition, Longstreth himself has played and released music with his group, Mountain Brews. Jennifer Yruegas JD became dean of the Pacific University College of Business on July 1, 2021.

2000

Undergrad Class Correspondent: Annie Elasky BA lovejoy00@alumni.lclark.edu “Hello, Pios! Just a few days prior to the pandemic setting in, my family and I relocated from Minneapolis to Phoenix. While I would not suggest moving during a worldwide crisis, the silver lining is that I kept my Minnesota job and got my family resettled without the hassle of snow. Please send your updates.”

Jared Hager BA was named the affirmative civil rights coordinator for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Oregon District, in December 2020. He has been busy working on police reform in U.S. v. City of Portland and is honored to have this position after working on police reform– related matters for the U.S. Department of Justice since 2015. Saira Sheikh LLM reports, “I have been practicing as a barrister in the U.K. in the field of planning and environmental law since 2001. I was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2014. In both 2020 and 2021, I was recognized as a Woman of Influence by the Planner magazine, published by the Royal Town Planning Institute in the U.K.”

2001

Barry Friedman BA is CEO of Friedman’s Home Improvement in Santa Rosa, California. The business recently marked 75 years in operation.

2003

Undergrad Class Correspondent: Traci Sanders BA htraci@hotmail.com “Please send me your news and updates!”

Marjorie Bell BA is the new president of Lewis & Clark’s New England Alumni Chapter.

Laura Kaplan BA writes: “I recently jumped into my first job as a principal (interim principal, technically, but hopefully, after this year, I will get hired on without the interim in the title). It has been super exciting and feels like a wonderful fit! My boys are 7 and almost 9 now. Time flies!”

Elizabeth Larter BA moved to Tacoma, Washington, and now works for U.S. Representative Marilyn Strickland as her district director. Samantha Murray JD has been reappointed to the California Fish and Game Commission, where she has served since 2019. Murray has been faculty and executive director of the Master of Advanced Studies Program in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego since 2017 and principal at Samantha Murray Consulting since 2015. Joanna Tobin MEd was hired by the Canby (Oregon) School District to serve as principal of Ninety-One School.

2005

Sharl Azar BA moved to Boston, where he’s taken a new faculty position as attending hematologist and codirector of the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Disease Treatment Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Christine Jacobson BA writes: “I built a house with my dad! Everyone who said it was a huge project and a lot of work wasn’t wrong, and I couldn’t be more proud of my cozy home.”

Devesh Khanal BA writes: “I have two kids, ages 1 and 3. I live in San Jose, California, with my wife and kids. I met my wife in the materials science and engineering PhD program at U.C. Berkeley. But I’m not currently doing anything related to materials science. I’m running two marketing agencies: growandconvert.com and growthrock.co. That’s a key benefit of a liberal arts education: you have the confidence, exposure, and skills to expand beyond your exact education track and find other things you like and can excel at!”

2006

Undergrad Class Correspondent: Craig Beebe BA beebe06@alumni.lclark.edu “Hello, everyone! The Class of 2006 is continuing to make its mark on this wild world. I’d love to help share your latest updates with the alumni community— whether you’ve got big news or you just want to say ‘hey.’ Drop me a line anytime!”

Anne Chamberlin BA is a family medicine physician in Grand Junction, Colorado. She attended medical school at Oregon Health & Science University, moved to Grand Junction for her residency, and decided to stay. Living in western Colorado gives her plenty of time for biking, hiking, boating, and playing outdoors.

Jordan Dunn-Small BA is general manager and co-owner of Woodward Canyon Winery in Walla Walla, Washington. The winery recently celebrated its 40th anniversary.

Yu Hou BA manages California’s building energy efficiency program, helping the state meet its climate and energy goals. He lives in Davis, California, with his wife, daughter, and son. He hopes all fellow L&C alumni have been safe and well. Jessica Kampfe JD was named executive director of Multnomah Defenders, effective March 11, 2021. Kampfe is the first woman to lead a Multnomah County public defense organization that represents people in both juvenile and adult courts.

Timothy Sean Kelly BA is in his 12th year of teaching public school in the San Francisco Bay Area. He and his superhero consort, Tracy, have two children: Orion (age 3) and Astrid (age 1). The family dives into outdoor pursuits whenever possible. In his spare time, Kelly has his own legal practice, runs a nonprofit in Fort Ross State Historic Park, produces science rap videos, makes Tibetan medicine bracelets, builds spaceships, and writes comic books. His true passion is tree houses.

Burdett MacLean BA lived in Portland for 17 years before moving back to his home state of California. For the past 14 years, he has worked for various companies as an IT systems administrator, supporting a broad spectrum of industries. He now lives in Oakland, California, with Audrey Muto BA. They welcomed their first child in spring 2020.

Carla McHattie BA is the owner and founder of Almond Ave, a pottery, floral, and styling company based in Portland. McHattie brings function and beauty to the table, with an eye toward sustainability. Find her work at AlmondAve.com or on Instagram @_almond_ave_. McHattie is happily married to Logan Mercer BA ’05.

M.J. Petroni BA is founder and chief exponential officer of Causeit, a futurist consultancy focused on raising digital fluency, especially regarding digital ethics among leaders in complex industries. Applying his studies in cyborg anthropology with Professor Deborah Heath, Petroni writes frequently on futurist and innovation topics. After 10 years in San Francisco, he is moving back to Portland with his fiancée. He’s looking forward to rediscovering the Rose City by bike.

Anton Van Oosbree BA and his super-cool wife, Brooke, are raising Ramona (age 5) and Felix (age 2) in Pleasant Hill, California. At work, he supports the Martinez Unified School District’s IT infrastructure. He enjoys learning to play new instruments (recently Irish mandolin and blues harmonica) and recording moments of musical inspiration. On Sunday mornings, you may find him pitching for his slow-pitch softball team.

2007

Katie Churchwell BA, who earned a master’s of divinity degree from Virginia Theological Seminary, is the new dean of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in Oklahoma City. She is the first woman to serve in that role.

2008

Amber Case BA, a former trustee of Lewis & Clark, has joined Mozilla Corporation as a fellow. She’s focusing on discovering different approaches to web content sustainability that are not solely reliant on the harvesting of user data for advertisement. Case has previously held fellowships at the Institute for the Future, MIT, and Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. She is the author of Calm Technology (O’Reilly Media, 2016) and A Kids Book About Technology (self-published, 2021).

Adam Gregg BA writes: “I am living in the Portland area and working with Past Lives, an organization that provides opportunities for formerly and currently incarcerated people in Oregon to market and pursue their artistic talents. We have a warehouse/makerspace/small business incubator located downtown that provides the platform for a growing and connected artistic community, providing opportunities for formerly incarcerated people to use skills they developed in prison to make a living. Our website is www.pastlivesllc.com.” Damien Hall JD, a partner at Ball Janik, has been named chair of the board of directors for CareOregon, a nonprofit that offers health services and community benefit programs to more than 450,000 members of the Oregon Health Plan.

Sam Stigler BA moved back to the Los Angeles area about a year ago. He splits his time between working on the Farmers Insurance iOS app and enjoying family time with his wife and 2-year-old son.

2009

Britta Baechler BA is senior manager of ocean plastics research at the Ocean Conservancy. In June 2021, she was the kickoff speaker for a Sponge Bob SquarePants–themed educational event at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Lisa Neher BA composed, produced, and performed in the One Voice Project Micro Opera Festival, a weeklong virtual festival of miniature opera world premieres in March 2021. On each day of the festival, a new 5- to 10-minute unaccompanied opera, written by Neher and Kendra Leonard, was released on YouTube, sung by acclaimed opera singers from across the United States. The festival culminated in a talk-back reception hosted by Gina Morgano of the Practice Parlour podcast. For more information, email lisanehermusic@gmail.com.

2010

Lance Dixon, who earned a continuing administrator license from the graduate school in 2010, was chosen to receive the Oregon Athletic Coaches Association’s Marv Heater Distinguished Service Award.

Christopher Keady BA is assistant director of music at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.

Nick Makanna BA earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2016. He has since exhibited his ceramic work in a number of California Bay Area-based galleries, including Guerrero Gallery; / (slash); the Berkeley Art Museum; the Richmond Art Center; Alter Space; and, most recently, Gallery One, as part of a show titled Brati’s Throne, with fellow ceramic artist Maryam Yousif.

2011

Kat Fiedler BA recently became a staff attorney at Save the Sound in New Haven, Connecticut. Save the Sound leads environmental action in the Northeast region, fighting climate change; saving endangered lands; protecting the Long Island Sound and its rivers; and working with nature to restore ecosystems.

Elizabeth Jaeger BA is a New York–based artist. Her sculpture work was displayed in fall 2020 at Clima Gallery in Milan, Italy, as a part of a show entitled To Dream a Man.

Sam Jewell BA graduated in June 2020 from the University of Washington with his doctor of physical therapy degree. He lives in Seattle with his wife, Kari Brugman BA ’10, who is a physician’s assistant.

2012

Zack Sessions BA earned his doctor of pharmacy degree in 2019 from the University of Illinois at Chicago. After graduation, he began work at the College of American Pathologists (CAP), where he helps manage the 100+ CAP Cancer Protocols used by physicians worldwide to diagnose, grade, stage, determine biomarkers, and effectively report the most pertinent information for malignant tumors of all types. He recently started a position as a medical science liaison with GlaxoSmithKline on the hematology/oncology field medical team.

2013

Danial Afzal BA, an awardwinning filmmaker, has released his latest film, Blue: A Kaleidoscope. The film is based on a BBC report, by Amber Shamsi, titled “How a Rape Was Filmed and Shared in Pakistan.” Afzal’s short depicts the horror and trauma of the victims and the ways their community abandons and blames them for their own abuse. Z

ein Hassanein BA earned his master’s degree in music therapy and counseling from Drexel University in 2018. He is a board-certified music therapist in the Philadelphia area, where he works with older adults, adults with severe mental illness, hospitalized children, and refugee families. In addition, Hassanein served as a founding organizer of the music and culture festival YallaPunk, organized as a queer-affirming space for Southwest Asian/North African individuals to celebrate the richness of their creativity. Hassanein can be reached at zein.hassanein @gmail.com.

2014

Sarah Schaefer BA was sworn in as a member of the Arcata (California) City Council in December 2020. She earned her teaching credential from Humboldt State University and has spent the years since teaching high school history and volunteering in the local community. During her tenure on the city council, Schaefer says she plans to focus on issues surrounding affordable housing and homelessness.

2015

Aaron Downs EdD is now superintendent for the Canby (Oregon) School District. Previously, Downs worked as assistant superintendent of secondary schools for the West Linn–Wilsonville (Oregon) School District.

Loren Naldoza BA moved back to Oregon after several years working for U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley in Washington D.C., as a legislative aide for economic policy; election reform; and telecommunications and judiciary issues. He’s returning to Palatine Hill to work toward his JD at Lewis & Clark Law School.

2016

Holly Thomson BA completed her degree in allopathic medicine in May 2021 as part of the inaugural class of the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in Arizona. She was chosen by her peers to speak at commencement. Thomson will continue on to an internal medicine residency at the same institution.

Jacob Weiss BA received the $25,000 first prize at the Tufts University Friedman School entrepreneurship competition. His project, launching in 2021, is called the Sacramento Valley Food Hub. The hub connects small, beginning farmers to anchor institutions in Sacramento, California. The food distribution platform leverages blockchain to increase transparency in the supply chain, improves market share for small farmers, and increases food access in underserved neighborhoods. Weiss can be reached at jacobaweiss4@gmail.com.

2017

Caroline Gray BA, research associate with the Eurasia Group Foundation, coauthored the foundation’s report “Democracy in Disarray: How the World Sees the U.S. and Its Example.” In June 2021, she joined Christopher Preble, codirector of the New American Engagement Initiative (NAEI), to discuss the report as a part of the NAEI’s Future Foreign Policy series.

Frances Swanson BA is the new special assistant for the Office of International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy. Previously, Swanson served as director of rapid response for the Florida Democratic Party and as Beto O’Rourke’s Iowa press secretary.

2018

Sema Hasan BA was chosen to receive the U.S. Department of State’s highly competitive Critical Language Scholarship. With this award, Hasan will engage in intensive study of the Urdu language abroad.

2019

Emily Hayes-Rich BA was awarded a Fulbright scholarship while studying archaeology at the University of New Mexico. Hayes-Rich will spend nine months in Morocco researching irrigation on the edge of the Sahara, working with a water rights organization, and studying Arabic in Marrakesh.

2020

Amelia Eichel BA is the founder of Wonderfil, a small business that provides scalable “refill stations” to reduce consumption of single-use plastics for products like soap, lotion, and the like.