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Issue 2 Fall 2005
2005
Class Notes
Linfield Magazine Staff
Beth Rogers Thompson
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Class Notes
Pryor aids tsunami-ravaged region
The children touched Thomas Pryor ’96 the most.
After all, he had left his own baby daughter in Arizona
when he boarded the U.S. Navy’s Mercy hospital ship off
the shores of tsunami-ravaged Indonesia.
Pryor, a registered nurse, is a lieutenant commander in
the U.S. Public Health Service. He works for one of its
agencies, the Indian Health Service, most recently in the
intensive-care unit at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center.
He spent the month of February with a medical team
working to relieve the suffering inflicted by the monster
wave that slammed into southern Asia in December,
killing an estimated 221,100 people.
It was an unprecedented international relief effort,
Pryor said: one month, compared with the normal twoweek deployment for such emergency aid, and the first joint
operation of the U.S. Navy and Project HOPE volunteers.
Amid the chaos and destruction there were political sensitivities: Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim nation, and
the Americans did not want to force themselves on the government. Civil strife compounded their safety concerns.
Banda Aceh’s ruined University Hospital served as a
kind of staging area. The first crisis for the Mercy staff
arrived as a small boy with a burst appendix was flown out
to the ship because the hospital could not treat him.
The next morning, a 12-year-old boy went into
respiratory failure. He had a severe lung infection, aspirate
pneumonia, caused by swallowing contaminated water.
The boy had nearly drowned, then floated on a log in the
ocean for two days before he was found. The rest of his
immediate family was killed. Pryor nicknamed him
“Harapan,” Indonesian for “hope.”
Since he had some pediatric experience, Pryor
became Harapan’s primary attendant, working 12- to 14hour days. Finally, after a week, the boy was able to breathe
without assistance.
Soon after, Pryor went ashore and visited the hospital’s rebuilt pediatric unit.
Thomas Pryor ‘96 with “Harapan,”
who nearly drowned in the tsunami
and lost his entire family.
1940-49
Charles Rowell ’43 recently
moved to Napa, Calif., where he is
an avid golfer.
Meridith Gaskill ’45 of
Kirkland,Wash., volunteers at Sibling
House Foundation, Evergreen Hospice
and Emergency Feeding Program.
1950-59
A view of the beach front in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, during Thomas Pryor’s work
there in February.
There, he found a 7-year-old girl in similar respiratory
distress. While arranging for her transfer to the ship, he
noticed several very ill babies about the age of his daughter,
Audrey. “That’s when I really felt the heart tugs, because I
recognized that in my efforts in helping one, there were two
or three others who didn’t get my help that day,” he said.
Despite the devastation and limited medical resources,
there were signs of hope. “Those that got antibiotics, of
whatever kind – it was amazing to see how rapidly they got
better,” Pryor said, adding that their response was partly
because the Indonesians, unlike most Americans, rarely get
such drugs.“Some of our basic antibiotics that we hardly ever
use anymore were very effective and powerful over there.”
On Feb. 23, Pryor flew by helicopter with Harapan
from the Mercy back to shore to join the boy’s uncle, aunt
and their 2-year-old son – his only surviving relatives.
Pryor wrote of the reunion in his online journal that day:
“I guess what I was most struck with as I left Harapan and
his family is the impermanence of life, and how the mystery of life provided me an opportunity like this: To serve
as an officer in the USPHS and be a part of the Mercy
mission, where I would find myself halfway around the
world in a different culture and different language, and
despite all of the differences I have rekindled a heartfelt
reminder in Harapan and his uncle that we share so much
in common – the strength of family.”
Pryor returned March 2 to his own family, wife Erin
and daughter Audrey, who is now a year old. In
September he entered the two-year Kaiser program in nursing anesthesia in Pasadena, Calif.,
and after completion will continue to work for
Indian Health Services.
To read more about his experiences, visit
www.surgeongeneral.gov/journal.
Charles Chicks ’53 of
Sunnyvale, Calif., and his wife,
Barbara, received the American
Baptist Churches Sparrowk
President’s Award during the biennial meeting of the American Baptist
Churches USA in July.
Achilla (Imlong) Erdican ’57
and ’58 of Avondale Estate, Ga.,
published the Chang-English,
English-Chang Dictionary.
Clare and Sandra (Cashner)
Murray ’59 and ’62 of Vancouver,
Wash., are both retired.
1960-69
Roger and Florence (Wood)
Truax ’60 and ’59 of Astoria are
retired and serve on the North
Coast Land Conservancy in Clatsop
County.
Dorothy (Chance) Worrall
’63 of King City was recently honored at the 25th anniversary of the
Mary Woodward School in Tigard.
She was the school’s first music
teacher.
Janet (Pedersen) Hoffman
’64 of Keizer retired from the
Judicial Department.
Barbara (Peterson) Keir ’64
of Hood River retired from teaching in the Hood River School
District.
Gerald Moyer ’65 of Mill
Valley, Calif., accompanied high
school students during a spring
break trip to Mexico with Amor
Ministries. They built three houses
in four days without power tools.
Gail Adams ’66 of Altadena,
Calif., retired in 2001 and attended
her sixth Mardi Gras in New
Orleans this year.
1970-79
Roy Cummings ’70 of Salem
represents 4Life Research, Inc., specializing in immune system health.
Dave Lemire ’72 of Coos Bay
is a behavioral specialist and psychologist for the Education Service
Center in Coos Bay. He also teaches
at Southwest Oregon Community
College and Eastern Oregon
University and serves on a number
of editorial boards.
Ann Sukalac ’73 of Salem is
the Linfield Division of Continuing
Education Salem advisor. She
recently completed the graduate
certificate in academic advising program from Kansas State University.
Brenda Adcock ’74 of Vero
Beach, Fla., is chaplain and construction supervisor at Indian River
Habitat for Humanity.
Rob Stephenson ’75 of
McMinnville owns Rob Stephenson
Landscape Design & Consultation.
He previously owned Cascadia
Landscaping.
Jim Beach ’78 of Bellevue,
Wash., is chief financial officer and
executive vice president of The
Cobalt Group.
1980-89
Kelly (Knapp) McMillan ’82
of McMinnville is the small group
ministries director at Church on the
Hill in McMinnville.
Esther (Richardson)
Appleman ‘83 of Lake Oswego is
president of the Lake Oswego
Temporary Shelter Ministry, a coalition of seven churches providing
housing for homeless families in
transition.
Rick Crownover ’83 of
Mohrsville, Pa., is director of the
Reading Hospital Regional Cancer
Center.
Randy Mueller ’83 is general
manager for the Miami Dolphins.
He most recently served as an NFL
analyst for ESPN.com.
Joseph and Mona (Haldane)
Kinder, both ’85, live in
Walkersville, Md. Joseph attends the
National Defense University,
Industrial College of the Armed
Forces, working toward a master’s in
national resource management and
Mona is senior assistant manager at
Talbots.
Lewis Black ’85 of Salt Lake
City, Utah, is artistic director of
StageRight Theatre Company in
Holiday.
Polly (Bartels) Larsen ’85 of
Scottsdale, Ariz., owns the Larsen
Gallery, a contemporary art gallery.
Howard Bell ’86 of Dundee
and his wife, Kim, had a son, Gary
Bryan, April 17.
Marty Pigg ’87 of Anchorage,
Alaska, is the owner of Solstice
Solutions.
Chris and Diedre (Miles)
Girod ’88 and ’89 live in Carlsbad,
Calif., where Chris is a principal
and consulting actuary with
Milliman Consultants and Actuaries.
Sally Damewood ’89 of La
Grande had a son, Avery John, April
24. She is a personal trainer for
Mavericks Sports Club.
Steve Reimann ’89 of Yamhill
is co-owner of Wildcat Development,
currently developing a 155-home
subdivision in Carlton.
1990-99
Trent Davis ’90 of Lake
Oswego is chief executive and
president of Paulson Investment Co.
Greg Gulliford ’90 of
Vancouver, Wash., joined Senior
Loan Solutions, a reverse mortgage
broker.
Alan Boschma ’91 of
Dressed to win
Wildcat fans Ty Angevine ’93 and
Marilyn (Dresser) Cooper ’86 sport
nylon windshirts by Russell Athletic.
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‘New Directions’ for Oregon inmates
Evelyn (Andrus) Hanks ’57 is
offering inmates at Eastern Oregon
Correctional Institution a key to life
beyond bars: education.
Hanks taught French and Spanish at
Blue Mountain Community College in
Pendleton from 1983 to 1999. She also
taught English as a second language at
the medium-security prison in
Pendleton during those years, full time at
Evelyn (Andrus) Hanks ‘57
the prison from 1991 to 1999.
Today, Hanks chairs the board of
the New Directions Education Project, a nonprofit organization
she launched in 1999 after hearing about a similar prison
program in Kentucky. Since spring 2000, about 130 inmates
have participated.
Only 57 percent of the inmates have completed high
school or the GED, making them eligible for New Directions
classes. “Most of them were losers all the time in school,”
Hanks said. With New Directions, they are discovering they
can be successful in academics.
New Directions offers courses leading to an Associate of
Arts degree, including speech, U.S. history, biology, physics,
creative writing, math, art history, music literature, sociology,
psychology, cultural anthropology, Oregon geography, and fitness for life. “All except one prep math class are transferable to
any Oregon university,” Hanks noted. “Many of them didn’t
realize they were college material, and they are so thrilled.
They are so motivated, and they do their homework.”
New Directions is the only program of its type in
Oregon. Since 1994, when funding began to dry up, no
college classes had been available at any prison in the state.
“This is the reason our program came into being,” Hanks said.
New Directions operates with an annual budget of about
$24,000. The men each pay $25 per 10-week term to offset
tuition for the classes taught by Blue Mountain faculty. Some
textbooks have been donated by publishers. The balance of the
program costs comes from donations, grants and annual benefit
concerts. The fall 2004 concert, with a “Jailhouse Rock”
theme of 1950s and 1960s music performed by volunteers,
raised about $4,000, Hanks said.
Prison is a stark contrast to her previous work environments. The Salem native, who also studied in France under a
Fulbright fellowship in 1957, received a master’s of religious
education at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in
Philadelphia. She has held several jobs in Christian education
at churches in California and Oregon.
She remains active in church activities. Hanks and husband
Jim, a retired insurance adjuster, have a son in Ashland, a
daughter in Missoula, Mont., and 4-year-old twin grandsons.
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McMinnville is head football coach
at Yamhill-Carlton High School.
Kristal Shelton ’92 of West
Linn married Corben Hyatt June 30.
Catherine (Taylor) Walton ’92
of Vancouver, Wash., and her husband, Troy, own a home inspection
business.
Gary Thorson ’91 of
McMinnville is head football coach
at Dallas High School.
Michele (Waters) Cornwall
’92 of Newport is attending the
University of Portland School of
Nursing.
Katie (Maben) Siechen ’92 of
Iowa City, Iowa, and her husband,
Andy, had a son, Isaac James, Feb. 26.
Alex Woodward ’92 of Tigard
and his wife, Tracy, had a son, Tathan
Jackson, Aug. 5.
Roland Armstrong ’93 of
Cathlamet, Wash., earned the 2005
Hero Award from the Washington
Behavioral Healthcare Conference.
Sharon Boyle ’93 of Terre
Haute, Ind., and her husband,
Michael Boswell, had a daughter,
Kayla Elizabeth, June 16.
Jenny Brudvig ’93 of
Beaverton married Carlin Irish June
25. She works for U.S. Bank.
Janiece (Kern) Paulat ’93 of
Vancouver, Wash., and her husband,
Timothy, had a daughter, April 21.
Anne (Schmidt) Shantz ’93
of Snohomish, Wash., and her husband, Bradley, had a son, Levi
Charles, March 24.
Betty (Thompson) Tindall
’93 of Longview, Wash., is retired
and enjoys attending and participating in Corvette car shows.
Shannon Valdivia ’93 of
Gresham is instructor of speech
communication and director of
forensics at Mt. Hood Community
College. Her forensics team recently
won the Northwest Forensics
Conference regional championship
for community colleges.
Angelique (Langenhuysen)
Whitlow ’93 of Tigard is a senior
manager in audit services at Talbot,
Korvola & Warwick, LLP, a CPA
and consulting firm.
Mitzi Kirkland-Ives ’94 of
Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, earned a
Ph.D. from the University of
California, Santa Barbara and will
teach at the University of British
Columbia, Vancouver.
Tobi (Fauth) Schaap ’94 of
Barstow, Calif., and her husband,
Brian, had a son, Spencer William,
July 28.
Lincoln and Allison (Tomac)
Bach ’95 and ’96 of Portland had a
daughter, Hannah, Jan. 25, their
third.
Sheryl Kelsh ’95 of Keizer is
executive director of the Chehalem
Valley Chamber of Commerce in
Newberg.
Amy (Landis) Dannen ’95 of
Lebanon and her husband, Allen,
had twin daughters, Sadie Josephine
and Lauren Elizabeth, May 6, their
second and third.
Katina Rothleutner ’95 of
Kirkland, Wash., married Joel
Zwiefelhofer July 9 in Chippewa
Falls, Wis.
Joe and Dayna (Harper)
Schuler, both ’95, of Portland had
a son, Joseph, June 21, their second.
Stephanie Stewart ’95 of
Portland and her husband, Michael
St. Clair, had a daughter, Eleanor
Kole, Feb. 9. Stephanie is a painter.
Bernadette Suafo’a ’95 and
Julian Tyrell ’94 were married
Nov. 6. They live in Hauula, Hawaii.
Amy (Strong) Wilson ’95 of
Beaverton and her husband, Carter,
had a daughter, Paige Hannah, Aug.
14. Amy works in surgery at
Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.
Jody (Bogle) VanDePol ’95 of
Clarksburg, Calif., and her husband,
Jason, had a daughter, Abigail, July 4.
Steffani Bailey ’96 of
Providence, R.I., is interning at
Brown University Medical Center
to complete requirements for a
Ph.D. in clinical psychology.
Shelby (Smith) Nemecek ’96
of Beaverton is a disability benefits
analyst for Standard Insurance
Company.
Melissa (Long) Owen ’96 of
Vancouver, B.C., Canada, and her
husband, Nick, had a son, Nile
Alexander, March 26.
Mike Westphal ’96 of
Bloomington, Ind., is an assistant
swim coach at Indiana University.
Korenza Burris ’97 of Dexter
is news anchor for KEZI-TV in
Eugene.
Matt and Eris (Miller)
Craven, both ’97, live in Bend
where Matt is a math teacher, head
track coach and assistant football
coach at Bend High School.
Alyssa (Gleed) Johnston ’97
of Durham, N.C., earned an MBA
from the University of North
Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler School of
Business.
Paul O’Hollaren ’97 of
Tualatin and his wife, Karen, had a
daughter, Keelie Kay, Nov. 13. Paul
is a territory manager for VNUS
Medical Technologies.
Richard Neel ’97 of Portland
married Elise Brahmer April 9.
Rich is an account executive for
Cytyc Corporation.
Jeff and Nissa (Cockrell)
Roberts ’97 and ’96 of Tualatin had
a daughter, McKenna Kaye, June 9.
Scott and Cecilia
(Hoodenpyle) Robertson ’97
and ’95 of Portland had a son,
Adam Taggart, June 6.
Anneli (Ahlmalm) Schalock
’97 of Hanover, N.H., is pursuing a
master’s in business administration at
Dartmouth’s Tuck School of
Business.
Kate Stolmeier ’97 of
Bridgewater, Somerset, England,
married Duncan MacRae April 8 in
Somerset. She teaches in a primary
school and participated in the
Fulbright Teacher’s Exchange
Program in 2002-2003.
Samara Suafo’a ’97 of San
Pedro, Calif., is a special education
teacher in the Los Angeles Unified
School District, currently pursuing a
master’s in special education of
moderate-severely disabled children.
Alicia (Nolan) Carlson ’98 of
Lincoln, Neb., and her husband,
Brian, adopted a daughter, Linara
Grace Renee, March 16. Alicia is a
CASA volunteer and an in-home
daycare provider. She and her husband are also foster parents.
Devan Dunn ’98 of Portland
married Kate Murray July 30 in
Portland.
Nicole (Erwert) Genduso ’98
of Hillsboro and her husband,
Joseph, had a son, Joseph Timothy,
March 12.
Jessica (Gómez) Graham ’98
of Salem teaches science at Regis
High School in Stayton.
Amanda (Wilson) Kapelka
’98 of Renton, Wash., and her husband, Ben, had a son, Benjamin
Wilson, April 25.
Michael McGrath ’98 of
Portland is a partner in the law firm
of Gearing, Rackner and Engel,
LLP in Portland.
Ryan McWayne ’98 of
Lebanon and his wife, Leslie, had a
daughter, Kiara Morgan, June 12.
Jeffrey Menold ’98 of
Issaquah, Wash., and his wife, Jaime,
had a son, Jaxon Paul, Aug. 24.
Tramaine Payne ’98 of
McMinnville teaches at Patton
Middle School and coaches football
and track at Linfield.
Taryne (Edmon) Roberts ’98
of Springfield married Adam
Roberts May 19 in Puerto Vallarta,
Mexico.
Ryder Campbell ’99 of New
Haven, Conn., earned an MBA
from Yale University and works for
Barclays Capital in New York City
with a certified financial advisor
designation.
Marissa (Rathbone) Dally
’99 of Arcadia, Okla., is the director
of health and physical education for
the Texas Education Agency.
Karen (Churchill) Garcia ’99
of Yuba City, Calif., and her husband, Joel, had a daughter, Sophia
Luna, May 2.
Clark Marston ‘99 of
Erlangen, Germany, and his wife,
Melanie, had twin daughters, Emma
Marie and Sophie Luisa, April 28.
Mindi Welton ’99 of
Needham, Maine, married John
Mitchell May 28. Melinda is an
ordained American Baptist Minister
at the First Baptist Church in
Newton.
2000-05
Sean Bettis ’00 is working for
the director of labor for the
Icelandic Government.
Alice Divers and Joseph
Bayless, both ’00, of Lake Oswego
were married Sept. 19.
Brittany Hartzell and Jeff
Baguley, both ’00, of Cayce, S.C.,
were married Dec. 18. Both are
completing post-doctoral research at
the University of South Carolina
after earning Ph.D.s, Brittany in
analytical chemistry from Ohio
University and Jeff in marine science from the University of Texas.
Brian Higa ’00 and Lauren
Arakawa ’03 of Hilo, Hawaii, were
married July 2.
Meredith Miller ’00 of Lake
Oswego earned a bachelor's in interior design from the Art Institute of
Portland.
Trevor Phillips ’00 and
Michelle Mallory ’01 of Tucson,
Ariz., were married May 7. Trevor
graduated from Yale University
School of Medicine in May and is
an emergency medicine physician at
the University of North Carolina.
Andrew Brawley ’01 and
Tracy Forrester ’03 of Burbank,
Calif., were married Sept. 3. Tracy is
a publicist for TV shows Jimmy
Kimmel Live and America’s Next Top
Model and Andrew is a marketing
coordinator for THQ, a video game
publisher.
Inkeri Chisholm ’01 of Lake
Oswego married Chad Martin
April 24.
Erin Gaskill ’01 of Kirkland,
Wash., teaches sixth grade and
organized Project Sheltering Tree to
provide education advocacy for
foster children.
Laura Gibson ’01 of Coquille
recorded a CD of urban folk music,
Amends.
Annikke Olson ’01 of
Hillsboro passed the National
Athletic Trainers Association Board
of Certification.
Blake Pang ’01 of Honolulu,
Hawaii, is the assistant vice president
of Aloha United Way.
Stacy Shiraga ’01 of Bend
married Brett Caldwell April 2.
Colene (Lord) Weber ’01 of
Phoenix, Ariz., earned a master’s
degree in education specializing in
middle level education from Walden
University.
Ryan Welch ’01 of Eugene and
his wife, Susan, had a son, Cade
Grant, May 2. Ryan started
AOCREATIVE, a graphic design
business.
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‘New Directions’ for Oregon inmates
Evelyn (Andrus) Hanks ’57 is
offering inmates at Eastern Oregon
Correctional Institution a key to life
beyond bars: education.
Hanks taught French and Spanish at
Blue Mountain Community College in
Pendleton from 1983 to 1999. She also
taught English as a second language at
the medium-security prison in
Pendleton during those years, full time at
Evelyn (Andrus) Hanks ‘57
the prison from 1991 to 1999.
Today, Hanks chairs the board of
the New Directions Education Project, a nonprofit organization
she launched in 1999 after hearing about a similar prison
program in Kentucky. Since spring 2000, about 130 inmates
have participated.
Only 57 percent of the inmates have completed high
school or the GED, making them eligible for New Directions
classes. “Most of them were losers all the time in school,”
Hanks said. With New Directions, they are discovering they
can be successful in academics.
New Directions offers courses leading to an Associate of
Arts degree, including speech, U.S. history, biology, physics,
creative writing, math, art history, music literature, sociology,
psychology, cultural anthropology, Oregon geography, and fitness for life. “All except one prep math class are transferable to
any Oregon university,” Hanks noted. “Many of them didn’t
realize they were college material, and they are so thrilled.
They are so motivated, and they do their homework.”
New Directions is the only program of its type in
Oregon. Since 1994, when funding began to dry up, no
college classes had been available at any prison in the state.
“This is the reason our program came into being,” Hanks said.
New Directions operates with an annual budget of about
$24,000. The men each pay $25 per 10-week term to offset
tuition for the classes taught by Blue Mountain faculty. Some
textbooks have been donated by publishers. The balance of the
program costs comes from donations, grants and annual benefit
concerts. The fall 2004 concert, with a “Jailhouse Rock”
theme of 1950s and 1960s music performed by volunteers,
raised about $4,000, Hanks said.
Prison is a stark contrast to her previous work environments. The Salem native, who also studied in France under a
Fulbright fellowship in 1957, received a master’s of religious
education at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in
Philadelphia. She has held several jobs in Christian education
at churches in California and Oregon.
She remains active in church activities. Hanks and husband
Jim, a retired insurance adjuster, have a son in Ashland, a
daughter in Missoula, Mont., and 4-year-old twin grandsons.
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McMinnville is head football coach
at Yamhill-Carlton High School.
Kristal Shelton ’92 of West
Linn married Corben Hyatt June 30.
Catherine (Taylor) Walton ’92
of Vancouver, Wash., and her husband, Troy, own a home inspection
business.
Gary Thorson ’91 of
McMinnville is head football coach
at Dallas High School.
Michele (Waters) Cornwall
’92 of Newport is attending the
University of Portland School of
Nursing.
Katie (Maben) Siechen ’92 of
Iowa City, Iowa, and her husband,
Andy, had a son, Isaac James, Feb. 26.
Alex Woodward ’92 of Tigard
and his wife, Tracy, had a son, Tathan
Jackson, Aug. 5.
Roland Armstrong ’93 of
Cathlamet, Wash., earned the 2005
Hero Award from the Washington
Behavioral Healthcare Conference.
Sharon Boyle ’93 of Terre
Haute, Ind., and her husband,
Michael Boswell, had a daughter,
Kayla Elizabeth, June 16.
Jenny Brudvig ’93 of
Beaverton married Carlin Irish June
25. She works for U.S. Bank.
Janiece (Kern) Paulat ’93 of
Vancouver, Wash., and her husband,
Timothy, had a daughter, April 21.
Anne (Schmidt) Shantz ’93
of Snohomish, Wash., and her husband, Bradley, had a son, Levi
Charles, March 24.
Betty (Thompson) Tindall
’93 of Longview, Wash., is retired
and enjoys attending and participating in Corvette car shows.
Shannon Valdivia ’93 of
Gresham is instructor of speech
communication and director of
forensics at Mt. Hood Community
College. Her forensics team recently
won the Northwest Forensics
Conference regional championship
for community colleges.
Angelique (Langenhuysen)
Whitlow ’93 of Tigard is a senior
manager in audit services at Talbot,
Korvola & Warwick, LLP, a CPA
and consulting firm.
Mitzi Kirkland-Ives ’94 of
Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, earned a
Ph.D. from the University of
California, Santa Barbara and will
teach at the University of British
Columbia, Vancouver.
Tobi (Fauth) Schaap ’94 of
Barstow, Calif., and her husband,
Brian, had a son, Spencer William,
July 28.
Lincoln and Allison (Tomac)
Bach ’95 and ’96 of Portland had a
daughter, Hannah, Jan. 25, their
third.
Sheryl Kelsh ’95 of Keizer is
executive director of the Chehalem
Valley Chamber of Commerce in
Newberg.
Amy (Landis) Dannen ’95 of
Lebanon and her husband, Allen,
had twin daughters, Sadie Josephine
and Lauren Elizabeth, May 6, their
second and third.
Katina Rothleutner ’95 of
Kirkland, Wash., married Joel
Zwiefelhofer July 9 in Chippewa
Falls, Wis.
Joe and Dayna (Harper)
Schuler, both ’95, of Portland had
a son, Joseph, June 21, their second.
Stephanie Stewart ’95 of
Portland and her husband, Michael
St. Clair, had a daughter, Eleanor
Kole, Feb. 9. Stephanie is a painter.
Bernadette Suafo’a ’95 and
Julian Tyrell ’94 were married
Nov. 6. They live in Hauula, Hawaii.
Amy (Strong) Wilson ’95 of
Beaverton and her husband, Carter,
had a daughter, Paige Hannah, Aug.
14. Amy works in surgery at
Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.
Jody (Bogle) VanDePol ’95 of
Clarksburg, Calif., and her husband,
Jason, had a daughter, Abigail, July 4.
Steffani Bailey ’96 of
Providence, R.I., is interning at
Brown University Medical Center
to complete requirements for a
Ph.D. in clinical psychology.
Shelby (Smith) Nemecek ’96
of Beaverton is a disability benefits
analyst for Standard Insurance
Company.
Melissa (Long) Owen ’96 of
Vancouver, B.C., Canada, and her
husband, Nick, had a son, Nile
Alexander, March 26.
Mike Westphal ’96 of
Bloomington, Ind., is an assistant
swim coach at Indiana University.
Korenza Burris ’97 of Dexter
is news anchor for KEZI-TV in
Eugene.
Matt and Eris (Miller)
Craven, both ’97, live in Bend
where Matt is a math teacher, head
track coach and assistant football
coach at Bend High School.
Alyssa (Gleed) Johnston ’97
of Durham, N.C., earned an MBA
from the University of North
Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler School of
Business.
Paul O’Hollaren ’97 of
Tualatin and his wife, Karen, had a
daughter, Keelie Kay, Nov. 13. Paul
is a territory manager for VNUS
Medical Technologies.
Richard Neel ’97 of Portland
married Elise Brahmer April 9.
Rich is an account executive for
Cytyc Corporation.
Jeff and Nissa (Cockrell)
Roberts ’97 and ’96 of Tualatin had
a daughter, McKenna Kaye, June 9.
Scott and Cecilia
(Hoodenpyle) Robertson ’97
and ’95 of Portland had a son,
Adam Taggart, June 6.
Anneli (Ahlmalm) Schalock
’97 of Hanover, N.H., is pursuing a
master’s in business administration at
Dartmouth’s Tuck School of
Business.
Kate Stolmeier ’97 of
Bridgewater, Somerset, England,
married Duncan MacRae April 8 in
Somerset. She teaches in a primary
school and participated in the
Fulbright Teacher’s Exchange
Program in 2002-2003.
Samara Suafo’a ’97 of San
Pedro, Calif., is a special education
teacher in the Los Angeles Unified
School District, currently pursuing a
master’s in special education of
moderate-severely disabled children.
Alicia (Nolan) Carlson ’98 of
Lincoln, Neb., and her husband,
Brian, adopted a daughter, Linara
Grace Renee, March 16. Alicia is a
CASA volunteer and an in-home
daycare provider. She and her husband are also foster parents.
Devan Dunn ’98 of Portland
married Kate Murray July 30 in
Portland.
Nicole (Erwert) Genduso ’98
of Hillsboro and her husband,
Joseph, had a son, Joseph Timothy,
March 12.
Jessica (Gómez) Graham ’98
of Salem teaches science at Regis
High School in Stayton.
Amanda (Wilson) Kapelka
’98 of Renton, Wash., and her husband, Ben, had a son, Benjamin
Wilson, April 25.
Michael McGrath ’98 of
Portland is a partner in the law firm
of Gearing, Rackner and Engel,
LLP in Portland.
Ryan McWayne ’98 of
Lebanon and his wife, Leslie, had a
daughter, Kiara Morgan, June 12.
Jeffrey Menold ’98 of
Issaquah, Wash., and his wife, Jaime,
had a son, Jaxon Paul, Aug. 24.
Tramaine Payne ’98 of
McMinnville teaches at Patton
Middle School and coaches football
and track at Linfield.
Taryne (Edmon) Roberts ’98
of Springfield married Adam
Roberts May 19 in Puerto Vallarta,
Mexico.
Ryder Campbell ’99 of New
Haven, Conn., earned an MBA
from Yale University and works for
Barclays Capital in New York City
with a certified financial advisor
designation.
Marissa (Rathbone) Dally
’99 of Arcadia, Okla., is the director
of health and physical education for
the Texas Education Agency.
Karen (Churchill) Garcia ’99
of Yuba City, Calif., and her husband, Joel, had a daughter, Sophia
Luna, May 2.
Clark Marston ‘99 of
Erlangen, Germany, and his wife,
Melanie, had twin daughters, Emma
Marie and Sophie Luisa, April 28.
Mindi Welton ’99 of
Needham, Maine, married John
Mitchell May 28. Melinda is an
ordained American Baptist Minister
at the First Baptist Church in
Newton.
2000-05
Sean Bettis ’00 is working for
the director of labor for the
Icelandic Government.
Alice Divers and Joseph
Bayless, both ’00, of Lake Oswego
were married Sept. 19.
Brittany Hartzell and Jeff
Baguley, both ’00, of Cayce, S.C.,
were married Dec. 18. Both are
completing post-doctoral research at
the University of South Carolina
after earning Ph.D.s, Brittany in
analytical chemistry from Ohio
University and Jeff in marine science from the University of Texas.
Brian Higa ’00 and Lauren
Arakawa ’03 of Hilo, Hawaii, were
married July 2.
Meredith Miller ’00 of Lake
Oswego earned a bachelor's in interior design from the Art Institute of
Portland.
Trevor Phillips ’00 and
Michelle Mallory ’01 of Tucson,
Ariz., were married May 7. Trevor
graduated from Yale University
School of Medicine in May and is
an emergency medicine physician at
the University of North Carolina.
Andrew Brawley ’01 and
Tracy Forrester ’03 of Burbank,
Calif., were married Sept. 3. Tracy is
a publicist for TV shows Jimmy
Kimmel Live and America’s Next Top
Model and Andrew is a marketing
coordinator for THQ, a video game
publisher.
Inkeri Chisholm ’01 of Lake
Oswego married Chad Martin
April 24.
Erin Gaskill ’01 of Kirkland,
Wash., teaches sixth grade and
organized Project Sheltering Tree to
provide education advocacy for
foster children.
Laura Gibson ’01 of Coquille
recorded a CD of urban folk music,
Amends.
Annikke Olson ’01 of
Hillsboro passed the National
Athletic Trainers Association Board
of Certification.
Blake Pang ’01 of Honolulu,
Hawaii, is the assistant vice president
of Aloha United Way.
Stacy Shiraga ’01 of Bend
married Brett Caldwell April 2.
Colene (Lord) Weber ’01 of
Phoenix, Ariz., earned a master’s
degree in education specializing in
middle level education from Walden
University.
Ryan Welch ’01 of Eugene and
his wife, Susan, had a son, Cade
Grant, May 2. Ryan started
AOCREATIVE, a graphic design
business.
Are you ready for a challenge?
These and other Linfield students will soon be calling you to join the “25 for 25 Challenge.”
Ten alumni have pledged a $25,000 gift
to Linfield if 25 percent or more alumni
make a gift by June 30, 2006. Step up to
the challenge and be one of 3,352 alumni
needed to reach 25 percent.
Look for details in the mail or ask
phonathon students how your gift can
help Linfield receive another $25,000.
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Class Notes
Alumni Profile
McCleary receives Grimes Award
Education and innovation have been career hallmarks
for Carol McCleary GSH ’55 of San Antonio, Texas.
McCleary, this year’s recipient of the Lloydena Grimes
Award for Excellence in Nursing, is a retired United States
Air Force colonel. Throughout her 26-year career, she
displayed a commitment to nursing that enhanced the
profession around the world.
McCleary started out at Good Samaritan Hospital as
head nurse of the diabetic medical/surgical unit two weeks
before graduation, and was later a GSH science instructor.
She entered the Air Force in 1962, ultimately creating and
implementing numerous first-time clinical, staff development and educational programs for staff and nurses.
Over the years, McCleary served in a number of overseas
posts including Turkey, Vietnam and Germany, and traveled
widely through Europe from Norway to Turkey. She was
command nurse in three major air commands, directly
responsible to the command surgeon. When she retired in
1988, McCleary was responsible for over 2,800 personnel in
three medical centers, seven hospitals, four clinics, the
School of Health Care Sciences and Air Force Recruiting
Service.
Since retirement, McCleary has served as board member
and newsletter editor for the Society of Air Force Nurses.
She also created and manages her retirement community
library and volunteers at the San Antonio Main Library.
Sonté Wong ’01 of Bismarck,
N.D., and Thomas Ford ’04 of
Federal Way, Wash., were members
of the Tri-Cities, Wash., Fever
indoor football team that captured
the National Indoor Football
League Championship.
Kaysie (Williams) Angeletta
’02 of Scurry, Texas, and her husband, John, had a daughter, Emily
Rose, Dec. 16.
Aaron Godfred ’02 of Norwalk,
Conn., is an account executive for
Octagon, developing Nextel’s
NASCAR marketing strategy.
Stacey Springer ’02 of North
Plains married Marcus Glaze Aug.
13 in Portland. Stacey teaches seventh grade health and language arts
at Brown Middle School and
coaches softball at Century High
School. She is also pursuing a master’s degree at Pacific University.
Megan (Corman) Tucker ’02
of Sacramento, Calif., teaches music
in Sacramento and Vacaville.
Danielle Watson and Nicholas
Clearwater, both ’02, of
Clackamas were married July 30 in
Milwaukie.
Ali Benson ’03 of Beaverton
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passed the National Athletic Trainers
Association Board of Certification.
Larry Fudge ’03 of Pasadena,
Calif., is pursuing graduate studies
at Fuller Theological Seminary.
Rhea Hartlieb ’03 of Lake
Oswego is on a three-person opening team for Abercrombie & Fitch
Corporation.
Kristin Hindley ’03 of
Beaverton married Owen
McCartney July 23 in Beaverton.
Amy Smith ’03 of Portland is
a faculty coordinator for an international leadership development firm.
Brandon Standridge ’03 of
Glendale teaches social studies and
coaches boys’ varsity basketball at
Glendale High School.
Fred Elchlepp ’04 of Corvallis
is research associate at DLF
International Seeds Research
Station in Philomath.
Kristen (Snook) Michael ’04
of McMinnville coordinates the
Youth Empowerment Squad and
Juvenile Crime and Substance
Abuse Prevention Council for the
Yamhill County Prevention
Program.
Rachel Ruger ’04 of
M A G A Z I N E
Vancouver, Wash., is pursuing a
graduate degree in mathematics at
Portland State University.
Ronna Sweeney ’04 of
Woodburn is a television
reporter/anchor for KCBY-TV in
Coos Bay.
Chelsea Zeal and Jake
Roberts, both ’04, of Portland
were married June 25 in Portland.
Nicole Hunter ’05 of
Syracuse, N.Y., is pursuing a master’s
in television/radio/film at Syracuse
University.
Coleen Hoadley ’05 of
Medford married Scott Gies July 2
in Ashland.
Alex Justus ’05 of Bellevue,
Wash., plays for the Gateway
Grizzlies baseball team.
Kimberly McGough ’05 of
Albany took over her father’s math
class at Calapooia Middle School in
Albany after he retired.
Rebecca Price ’05 of Flagstaff,
Ariz., married Joseph Colman Aug.
23 in Phoenix.
Seth Prickett ’05 of Ghana,
Africa, volunteers as a teacher at a
primary school.
GSH
Linda (Transue) Davis GSH
’72 of Portland works for Legacy
Health System in the employee
health division.
Catherine (Cole) York GSH
’83 of Portland writes articles about
the wine industry for The Oregonian.
In memoriam
Mary (Westall) Parrish ’35 of
Portland, Aug. 24. Survivors include
her daughter, Virginia (Parrish)
Peterson ’68, and sister Frances
(Westall) Daniels ’39.
Eva (Gaches) Collinson ’38
of Mount Vernon, Wash., April 28.
Marjorie (Perkins) Camp ’39
of Livermore, Calif., Sept. 29, 2004.
Marjory (Miller) Hillman ’39
of San Jose, Calif., Feb. 5.
James Henry ’40 of Kaysville,
Utah, March 6, 2004.
Maxine (Klinge) Hildman
’41 of Paradise Valley, Ariz., May 24,
2004.
John Sullivan ’41 of Glendale,
Ariz., Sept. 7, 2004.
Katherine (Bishop)
Sutherland ’41 of Yorktown, Va.,
Oct. 14.
Dorothy Rattey ’41 of
Warrensburg, Mo., April 21.
Survivors include her brother, John
Rattey, Jr. ’47.
Ruth (Ross) Lomer ’42 of
Longview, Wash., July 28.
Jean Larson ’43 of Olympia,
Wash., Oct. 26.
Dorothy (Torner) Leypoldt
’44 of Capistrano, Calif., July 30,
2004.
Marshall Barnard ’49 of
Portland, June 2.
Franklin Voigt ’49 of Sumner,
Wash., July 20.
Betty (Hausen) Corn ’50 of
Walla Walla, Wash., March 17, 2004.
Keith Wood ’50 of
McMinnville, Aug. 6. Survivors include
his wife, Bettie (Spring) ’48.
Sybil Seward ’53 of
McMinnville, Sept. 23.
John Collins ’54 of Reno,
Nev., Aug. 16.
James Buckingham ’58 of
Calistoga, Calif., Feb. 1.
Jenora Michaelsohn ’57 of
Portland, Aug. 11.
Patricia (Davenport)
McCarley ’61 of Lake Oswego,
June 4. Survivors include daughters
Katherine (McCarley) Campbell
’90 and Kelly (McCarley)
Andresen ’91.
Austin Cole ’75 of Compton,
Calif., June 29, 1999.
Dion Sanders ’78 of Las Vegas,
Nev., Jan. 10, 2004.
Eric Kautzky ’90 of Portland,
June 18.
Scarlett (Skill) Holland ’92
of Vancouver, Wash., June 17, 2004.
Survivors include her brother,
Brent Skill ’69.
Mark Shirtcliff ’93 of Bend,
June 25. Survivors include his sister,
Melody (Shirtcliff) Cobb ’93.
Randall Dorosh ’93 of
Eugene, May 25.
GSH
Delores (Irish) Fairchild
GSH ’48 of Medford, Nov. 10.
Elizabeth Vierling GSH ’74
of Volusia, Fla., Dec. 13.
Friends and family
Dorothy Harn of Eugene, July
2. She was the wife of the late
Wayne Harn, former Linfield football coach.
Raymond Befus of
McMinnville, June 25. He was a
professor of education for 20 years.
Survivors include his daughter,
Myrth (Befus) Ogilvie ’76.
Katherine Scott of Carlton,
Aug. 1.
Irvin Walsh of Portland, June
26. Survivors include his son
Gregory ’73 and daughter-in-law
Peggy (Thomas) ’74.
Fast-paced finance good fit for CFO
Mike Yonker ’80 is the first to admit he’s an overachiever.
Sitting in his top-floor Wilsonville office, surrounded
by family photos and outdoor scenes, he drinks from a
water bottle, hydrating himself for the coming weekend’s
Hood to Coast relay.
“I’m a play-hard work-hard person,” he said.
“Whatever it is, I go at it with 150 percent effort to be
the best at it.”
So it came as no surprise when, as a Linfield College
sophomore, Yonker discovered a passion for accounting
and buckled down to complete his college coursework early.
The only thing left to do was begin his career, which
he did with a vengeance during his senior year.
Now, Yonker is executive vice president and chief
financial officer for InFocus Systems Inc., a multimedia
projector maker with 700 employees and offices worldwide. He’s been with InFocus since 1993, save for a threeyear stint as CFO for Wieden & Kennedy. He spent his
first 14 years out of college rocketing to partner status
with Arthur Andersen & Company.
The son of Thomas Yonker, Linfield education
professor from 1970 to 1988, Mike grew up enveloped in
Linfield’s collegiate atmosphere. He developed a love of
education and an interest in communication, recognizing
early that people take different
action as a result of how they understand something.
“That’s always fascinated me,”
he said.“I love being in front of people. I love teaching. I love interacting. And I think a lot of that came
from my father and growing up
around Linfield. Enrolling there was
the natural, next thing for me to do.”
Yonker’s initial interest in marine biology and foresty
was short lived. Prompted by his sister, Kathy (Yonker)
Bernards ’76, a business major, Yonker enrolled in an
accounting class taught by Mike Jones, professor of accounting. For both Yonker and Jones, it was their first accounting
class at Linfield – Yonker as a student and Jones as professor.
“He really took me under his wing,” Yonker said of
Jones. “He saw in me what I didn’t realize I had. Had he
not taken that level of interest in me, I doubt I would have
taken the track I have.”
Under Jones’ guidance, Yonker interviewed and
secured an internship with Arthur Andersen & Company,
setting into motion the now successful Linfield accounting student recruiting program.
Mike Yonker ‘80 combines his enthusiasm for finance and high technology as CFO for
InFocus Systems Inc., a multimedia projector maker based in Wilsonville.
“Mike had a spark that was evident even when he
was a sophomore,” Jones remembered. “I’ve always
appreciated how he paved the way for a lot of later
generations of students. He was a tip top student. I’m
not surprised at his success.”
While Yonker is fascinated
with the fast-paced work and
advanced technologies central to
InFocus products, his favorite
part of his job is drawing out the
best in the people around him.
As CFO, he works with employees in all departments.
“I do everything I can to
help them achieve way beyond
what they think they’re capable of doing,” said Yonker. “As
the people I work with achieve greatness, it raises all the
boats in the company, including mine.”
Yonker, who married Robin (Haun) ’83, is a strong
proponent of a liberal arts education. He encourages students, including his own three children, to step outside
their comfort zones by studying abroad.
“It broadens you as an individual,” he said. “The
market today is a worldwide market and you have to be
chameleon-like in your ability to step into multiple
cultures and environments, and be effective in your
communications so that you can get business done.”
“As the people I work with
achieve greatness, it raises all
the boats in the company,
including mine.”
— Laura Davis
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