1940-49
Don Rea ’49 of Albany was honored for 47 years of community volunteer service and leadership. Rea served in leadership roles with Fish of Albany, Waverly Elementary School, Habitat for Humanity, Boys & Girls Club of Albany, Friendship Force, Albany Peace Seekers, Albany Kiwanis Club, Jackson Street Youth Services and the church.
1950-59
Jesse Thurman ’56 of Coquille was inducted into the Coquille High School Athletics Hall of Fame.
1960-69
Ken Scales ’66 of Lake Oswego was inducted into the Portland Interscholastic League Hall of Fame.
Rich Schroeder ‘67 of Portland was inducted to the Seaside High School Hall of Fame.
Jeff Senders ’68, MEd ’70 of Albany has created, repaired or restored 89 church windows in his career, plus dozens of residential and commercial windows. He retired last year but still works part time from his home. He was recently contacted about his availability to help restore the windows at Notre Dame in Paris.
Dave Finster ’69 of Castle Rock, Colorado, recently exhibited art work at Inner Connection Yoga and Wellness.
1970-79
Judy (Bowerly) Luse ’72 of Redmond, a retired dental hygienist, facilitates a periodontal study club for local hygienists. She also led a medical mission team to South Africa training 52 AIDS/TB caregivers in the post-aparatheid settlement of Finetown. She and her husband enjoy traveling, their 14 grandkids and hiking all over Central Oregon.
Bruce Lundquist ’78 of McMinnville is co-owner and managing member of Rack & Riddle Custom Wine Services.
1980-89
Michelle (Houle) Zistel ’85 of Culver is assistant principal at Barnes Butte Elementary School in Prineville.
Sean Germon ’89 of Puerto Rico develops sustainable boutique hotels.
Beth (Davison) Mickelson ’89 of Florence, Kentucky, is a fifth-grade teacher at Burlington Elementary School.
1990-99
Don Don (Shaw) Williams ’92 of Cedar City, Utah, is head softball coach at Southern Utah State College.
Jason Hoff ’93 of Birmingham, Alabama, has been appointed head of quality management at Mercedes-Benz Cars worldwide in Stuttgart, Germany. He previously served as Mercedes-Benz U.S. International CEO.
B.J. Van Look ‘94 of Grants Pass was inducted into the Order of the Laurel in the Society for Creative Anachronism, for research into Bronze Age Aegean women’s dress.
Chase Gillson ‘95 of Wheeler was inducted into the Neah-Kah-Nie High Athletics School Hall of Fame.
Michelle Johnston-Holthaus ‘95 has been promoted to executive vice president at Intel. Johnston-Holthaus is the general manager of Intel’s Sales, Marketing and Communications Group and works from company headquarters in Silicon Valley.
Kirsten (Jensen) Aird ‘96 of Lake Oswego was elected to serve on the Lake Oswego School Board.
Jake Capdeville ‘97 of Reno, Nevada, was inducted into the Wooster School Hall of Fame.
Ron Peck ‘97 of Waterville, Maine, received tenure and has been promoted to associate professor of biology at Colby College.
Robert Vaughn ’97 of Salem won the Portland Area Musical Theatre Awards 2019 Outstanding Set Design for Broadway Rose Theatre Company’s production of A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol. Vaughn is technical director and sound designer at Linfield Theatre.
Brian Bailey ‘99 of Tigard is principal of Tigard High School in the Tigard-Tualatin School District.
Marissa Rathbone ’99 of Tacoma, Washington, is director of operations at Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.
2000-09
Jeff Crapper ‘00 of Dayton has been named the National Teacher of the Year for the Health Sciences Division by the Association of Career & Technical Education. He teaches at the Health and Science School in the Beaverton School District and was recently featured as a Leader in Learning on KATU.
Brian Larsen ‘00 of Los Alamos, New Mexico, is the space and atmospheric burst reporting system (SABRS) chief scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Scott McGrath ‘00 of Missoula, Montana, earned a Ph.D. in biomedical informatics from the University of Nebraska Omaha.
Lynsey Farrell ‘01 of Alexandria, Virginia, joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania as a senior lecturer at the Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies. She will be leading their Africa program of concentration, designing immersion experiences and teaching interdisciplinary courses, among other things.
Amy (Anderson) Fast ‘01 of McMinnville is the first female principal at McMinnville High School.
Laura Gibson ’01 of New York, New York, was inducted into the Coquille High School Hall of Fame.
Emily (Laing) Merrell ‘01 of Corvallis has written a children’s book, Whirl of a Girl.
Rob Schlegel ‘01 of Walla Walla, Washington, has published a new book, In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps, winner of the 2018 Iowa Poetry Prize.
Wendy Polzin ’02 of Clackamas married Bill Ruthruff Oct. 20.
Jiawen Shi ’02 of Seattle, Washington, is director of client engagement at Rational Creative, where she spearheads the Microsoft account relationship.
Kathleen (Fraser) Burbank ‘02 of Nyssa and her husband, Jake, celebrated the birth of their third child, Finley Michele, July 9.
Matt Loehrke ‘02 of Missoula, Montana, is education director at the Missoula Children’s Theater. In April, he received the Arts Educator of the Year Award from Arts Missoula.
Kitri (Culbertson) McGuire ‘03 of McMinnville is director of marketing for Visit McMinnville, which earned the Overall Oregon Tourism Marketing Program Award presented at the 2019 Oregon Governor’s Conference.
Erin Tannock ‘03 of Hillsboro earned a J.D. from Lewis and Clark College in May.
Jan Olson ‘04 of Colton is a district nurse at Molalla and Colton schools, and was named the Oregon School Nurse of the Year.
Birch ’04 and Julia (Putintsev) ‘06 Barron live in Eagle, Colorado, with their two children. Birch is the emergency manager for Eagle County.
Ben Mahon ‘04 of Portland was named one of Portland Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 for 2019. He is a senior investment officer for the Oregon State Treasury.
Ben Pappas ‘04 of Tualatin was named one of Portland Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 for 2019. He is president of Bates Group LLC.
Kiffanie Urness ‘04 of The Dalles recently launched Campbell Phillips PC, a law firm delivering personalized legal services to people and organizations in the Columbia River Gorge.
Amy Bernards ‘05 of Lake Oswego and her husband, Kyle, had a daughter, Madison Louise, Jan. 19.
Chris Boock ‘05 of Salem and wife Corrie welcomed their first child, Eliana Grace, May 3.
Gene Cossey ‘05 of Kingsport, Tennessee, is the executive director of Tri-Cities Airport in Blountville.
Andy Galpin ’05 of Long Beach, California, is associate professor and director of the Center for Sport Performance at California State University, Fullerton.
Jordan Hollern ‘05 of Great Falls, Montana, earned the Dufresne Award and was named Teacher of the Year for 2018-19 at Simms High School. This is the second time he has won the award.
Matthew ‘06 and Megan (Appledoorn) Hodges ’08 of Keizer welcomed a son, Oliver Michael, April 15, their second.
Stefanie Israel ‘06 of New Orleans, Louisiana, received the Kellogg Institute Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student Contributions at the University of Notre Dame in May. She is a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research at Tulane University.
Dani (Bielenberg) Miles ‘06 of McMinnville was inducted into the West Albany Sports Hall of Fame.
Erin (Fleming) Novak ‘06 of Olympia, Washington, and her husband, Casey, welcomed their second child, Eleanor ‘Ellie’ Jolie, July 16.
Tayler Brisbin ‘07 of McMinnville is the communication and events manager at the McMinnville Downtown Association.
Monica (Nelson) Devlin ‘07 of Palo Alto, California, has been promoted to administrative lead with the Stanford Medicine WellMD Center, a national consortium collaborating on the wellness and professional fulfillment of physicians and other medical staff.
Adam Howard ‘07 and Julia Vaughan ‘13 of McMinnville were married July 6.
Kelsey Lyle ’07 and her husband Joshua Johnson ’04 welcomed a baby boy, Arthur, on Oct. 27. Joshua works for the U.S. State Department in Mexico City, Mexico.
KC Marold ‘07 of McMinnville has been promoted to national sales manager at Winderlea Vineyard and Winery.
Shayna (Clark) ‘07 and Jake Eastman ’08 of Lynnwood, Washington, welcomed a daughter, Harper Nichole, July 20.
Laura (Penland) Fisher ‘07 of Portland and her husband, Donald ‘06, welcomed their first child, Charles David, Feb. 21.
Heather (Harding) Miller ‘07 of McMinnville has been selected as the Distinguished Service Award Outstanding Junior Citizen. She owns Local Flow restaurant, serves on the McMinnville Downtown Association Board and recently completed a stint as president of the McMinnville Kiwanis Club.
Daniel Clausen ‘08 of Lexington, Kentucky, married Natalie O’Neal Jan. 26 in Lexington. In May, Daniel received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska and is a visiting assistant professor of English at Transylvania University.
Katie (Kaufman) Exum ‘08 of Oregon City and her husband, Kyle, welcomed their first child, Kole William, Aug. 27, 2018.
Alia Moore ‘08 of Tucson, Arizona, married Daniel Bruner May 15 in Lahaina, Maui.
Tricia Castaneda-Gonzales ‘09 of Seattle, Washington, married Phillip Guevara July 27. She also earned an MFA from the University of Washington School of Drama.
Zach Mitlas ‘09 of Clermont-Ferrand, France, maintains a window-front exhibition space called “Off the Rail.” Over the past year, his art has been featured in a traveling exhibition organized by the CreArt network, supported by the European Union. “The Third Space” opened in Zagreb, Croatia, in May and will finish in Lecce, Italy, in January. Together, 15 artists from 10 European cities created displays that show their interconnectedness.
Brett Smedley ‘09 of Vancouver, Washington, is head football coach at Columbia River High School in Vancouver.
2010-19
Steve ’10 and Sami (Keim) Arnst ‘12 of Corvallis welcomed a son, Jordan Todd, May 10.
Evan O’Kelly ‘13 of Portland is director of athletics communications at Concordia University.
Zachary Gulaboff Davis ‘14 of Salem won the 2018-19 American Prize in Composition, vocal chamber music professional division, for his piece Opaque Etchings.
Amber Hay ‘14 of Ellensburg, Washington, received the Excellence in Advising Award at Central Washington University in June.
Sasha Meyer ‘15 and Josef Komarek ‘14 of Happy Valley were married July 6.
Lauren Card ‘15 of Eugene married Hugo Nicolas June 9 in Salem. Lauren works at Columbia Bank.
Casey Thein ‘15 of Burns graduated from Oregon Health & Science University School of Dentistry and practices dentistry in Eugene.
Maddy Dunn ‘16 of Lake Oswego has been accepted into the Physical Therapy program at University of Southern California. She joins former softball teammate McKenna (Spieth) MacKintosh ’15, who is midway through the program.
Ilhani Kamaka ’15 and Eli Biondine ’16 of McMinnville married Oct. 12.
Morgan Gerke ’16 married Mike Nardoni ‘16 Sept. 1. They live in Sherwood.
Marq Randall ‘16 of Roseburg earned a bachelor’s of science degree in operations management from the Oregon Institute of Technology.
Ehren Cahill ‘17 of Glastonbury, Connecticut, completed an MBA from the University of Hartford, Barney School of Business.
Sara Levering ‘17 of Silverton married Weston Zander Aug. 3.
Hayden Cooksy ‘18 of Cameron Park, California, graduated from Naval Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, and began flight training as a naval aviator at Naval Air Station Pensacola.
Alleta Maier ‘18 of Madison, Wisconsin, was awarded the UW-Madison College of Letters and Sciences Teaching Fellowship.
In memoriam
Julia (Leatherman) Ranta ‘37 of Ocala, Florida, March 22.
Dorothy (McKey) Fender ‘41 of McMinnville, July 23, 2018. Survivors include daughter Laura (Fender) McMasters ’75.
Annabelle (Jernstedt) Brucken ’46 of Santa Cruz, California, Sept. 3
Roberta (Andrew) Huget ‘46 of Seattle, Washington, July 15.
Cathie (Holmes) Olcott ‘46 of Salem, June 23.
Ted Lehman ‘47 of McMinnville, Aug. 27. Survivors include daughter Shirley (Lehman) Libby ’78 and granddaughter Anna ‘09.
Dorothy (Brace) Lutes ‘47 of McMinnville, July 15, 2018.
Gladys (Dalke) Welty ’47 of Tucson, Arizona, April 7.
Flo (Cardwell) Edwards ’48 of Cottage Grove, May 27. Survivors include daughter Cindy (Edwards) Vogel ’73, sister Patricia (Cardwell) Marrs ’52 and brother-in-law Carl Marrs ’53.
Bob Gibbs ‘48 of Seattle, Washington, July 26, 2018. Survivors include son Gerald ’77.
Shirley (LaBrenze) Holtz ‘48 of Mooresville, North Carolina, Oct. 7, 2018.
Lucille (Heckathorn) Tyler ‘48 of Portland, May 9.
Patricia (Davis) Burkhart ’50 of Pocatello, Idaho, Aug. 17. Survivors include husband Phillip ’50.
Jean (Anderson) Flittie ‘50 of Portland, Feb. 23, 2018.
Julanne (Justin) Killinger ‘50 of Port Orchard, Washington, Feb. 6, 2017.
Irma Lady ‘50 of Salem, April 22.
Muriel (Morgan) Lynn ’50 of Gresham, March 19.
Harriet (Martin) Mays ‘50 of Hillsboro, Aug. 12. Survivors include grandson Martin ’08.
Charlotte (McDonald) Smith ‘50 of Eugene, April 12.
Pat (Prewett) Struxness ‘50 of McMinnville, April 23. Survivors include husband Howard ’50.
James Apperson ‘51 of McMinnville, March 27. Survivors include sister Eloise (Apperson) Zwald ’54.
Ann (Baker) Coughenour ‘52 of St. Louis, Missouri, April 6.
Mary Jean (Wilson) Gano ‘52 of Claremont, California, Aug. 2. Survivors include son Roger ’82.
Elky (Elkinton) Keiffer ‘53 of McMinnville, July 6, 2018.
Ralph Beebe ‘55 of Newberg, May 27.
Gordon Buslach ‘56 of Vancouver, Washington, June 22.
Barbara (Holtum) Edquist ‘56 of Lacey, Washington, June 12.
Al Cave ‘57 of Toledo, Ohio, Sept. 8.
Sam Stewart ‘58 of Rickreall, June 9. Survivors include wife Kay Rene (Wiseman) ’62.
Florie (Wood) Truax ‘59 of Buckley, Washington, June 7. Survivors include husband Roger ’60, daughter
Melissa (Truax) Reid ‘96, son Anthony ’89, granddaughter Kayla ’14 and brother Emerson Wood ‘70.
Reba (Goss) Powell ‘60 of Madras, April 19. Survivors include husband Vincent ’61 and daughter Karen (Powell) Zurcher ’89.
Georgia (Cornwell) Rutledge ‘60 of Hillsboro, Oct. 2, 2017.
John Bell ‘61 of Cleveland, Tennessee, June 23.
Jim Fairchild ‘61 of Dallas, May 1.
Larry Jones ‘62 of Chico, California, May 6.
Judy (Sadler) McElwain ‘62 of Gresham, Jan. 7.
Gene Gilbertson ‘63 of Seaside, June 12. Survivors include wife Beverly (Bryson) ’64.
Elaine (Scott) Robinder ‘63 of Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2018. Survivors include husband Ronald ’61.
Jim Watson ‘63 of Gig Harbor, Washington, May 22.
Jeff Wright ‘63 of McMinnville, Aug. 1.
Charlotte (Taylor) Alexander ’64 of Raleigh, North Carolina, Sept. 7.
James Puetz ‘64 of Idaho Falls, Idaho, April 2. Survivors include wife Margie (Donnell) ’66.
Kathy (Jones) Miller ‘65 of Sacramento, California, Oct. 15, 2018.
Eldon Schrock ’65 of Albany, Oct. 21.
Dick Brown ’66 of Tigard, Oct. 18. Survivors include daughter Valeri ’94 and granddaughter Katie Rice ’21.
Cecil Taylor ‘66 of Tualatin, May 11. Survivors include daughter Kelly ’99.
Carol (Anderson) Lynch ’67 of Wenatchee, Washington, June 30.
Michael Donaly ’68 of McMinnville, Sept. 7.
David Neils ‘68 of North Bend, Washington, Aug. 16.
Alan Pearson ’69 of McMinnville, Aug. 10. Survivors include daughter Anami ’96.
Carolyn (Mowe) Zwaschka ‘69 of Portland, July 29. Survivors include husband Ken ’71.
Stephen McHarness ‘70 of Salem, April 11.
Kim Hawksley ‘72 of The Dalles, July 15.
David Lemire ‘72 of Klamath Falls, July 13.
Linda (Agnew) Stephenson ‘74 of McMinnville, June 29. Survivors include husband Rob ’75.
Stan Peterson ‘75 of Portland, Sept. 8.
Jim Yurovchak ‘77 of Yakima, Washington, July 07, 2018. Survivors include son Wesley ’13.
Gerald Brown ’88 of Walterville, May 1.
Beverly (Lundeen) Jernstrom ‘92 of Chinook, Washington, Aug. 21.
Diana Ewing ‘93 of Prineville, June 12.
Carrie (Sneed) Huff ’95 of Lakeside, April 26.
Keith Ayers ’98 of Dallas, Oct. 17.
Christine Kish ‘98 of Allentown, Pennsylvania, Nov. 14, 2018.
Marsha (Hayhurst) Shutz ‘00 of Salem, Aug. 15, 2017.
Dave Haverstock ‘01 of Eugene, April 24.
Leila Elliott ‘05 of Lake Oswego, July 8, 2018. Survivors include son Brett ’05.
Liberty (Lowarch) Eisenhart ‘06 of Ripon, California, April 4.
Joey Ensign-Lewis ‘08 of Newberg, March 30.
Joel Mills ‘19 of McMinnville, July 17. Survivors include father Ron, professor emeritus of art, and brother Ruben ’18.
Friends and family
Jack Alin of McMinnville, professor emeritus of math, June 8. Survivors include wife Susan ‘78 and daughter Annika ’01.
Kurt Hein of McMinnville, former adjunct faculty, July 21.
George Keillor of McMinnville, former copy center operator, April 13.
Larry Marsh of McMinnville, professor emeritus of music, April 28. Survivors include son Jack ’93 and daughters Janie ’14 and Mary (Marsh) Roller ’98.
Becky Swenson of McMinnville, former assistant director of human resources, July 4.