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NEW LIFE MEMBERS e OSU Alumni Association welcomes the challenge and raise $37,500 for scholarships. Alumni following alumni and friends who have shown their and friends who didn’t join as part of the challenge commitment to Oregon State University by can still show their commitment to OSU and make becoming life members of the association since a difference to Beaver Nation by becoming life the list was last published in the winter Stater. members. Learn more at osualum.com/life. ey allowed us to surpass our life membership Ellina Arakelova Ann Reed Gooding, ’63 Lynn Marie Nichols, ’11 Elizabeth G. Asai, ’76 Karol Hodge Gray, ’71 & ’74 Lois A. Nobles, ’69 Rick G. Asai, ’76 Todd Greco, ’73 Kenneth D. Parker, ’94 Laurie M. Barton, ’89 Vanessa J. Greco Daniel C. Patillo, ’86 Richard Marvin Berry, ’55 Mark Grant Greenfield, ’01 Russell Scott Pattee, ’86 Deana Michele Beyer, ’81 Susan E. Greer, ’70 Sherri Miller Pattee Douglas Edward Beyer, ’82 Gary George Gustafson, ’72 & ’74 Jodi Patterson, ’80 Kathy and Jim Bickel Linda K. Gustafson Spencer A. Peterson Jeffrey Walter Brandsema, ’75 Debbie Zerba Hallander, ’73 & ’79 Shirley Peterson Steven Dee Brown, ’86 & ’89 Doug C. Hallander, ’71 Amy Doerfler Phelan, ’89 Judy Conner Bryant, ’65 Carol Lindbloom Hamlin, ’62 Jeff Potter, ’75 Brentley M. Bullock, ’83 Paula Cavanaugh Hammond, ’78 Todd Rodger Quier, ’84 Samantha Michelle Burian, ’09 Richard John Harr, ’64 Michele Suzanne Quier, ’85 Gary Buskuhl, ’82 Diane Elkins Harr, ’64 Robert Charles Reff Janet Baumhofer Buskuhl, ’83 Mark Thomas Hehnen, ’78 Brian Scott Reznick, ’02 Sara Berenice Camacho, ’11 Theodore Charles Hendrickson, ’13 Michael S. Roth, ’83 Evan Sterling Clark, ’14 Patrick Hibbard, ’90 Lori B. Rush, ’78 John M. A. Clayton, ’54 Erik Jackson Hokkanen, ’13 Richard L. Rush, ’69 Nancy D. Clayton Clinton Ray Holsey, ’80 Daberath Kouts Ryan, ’72 & ’87 Martin Lee Cody, ’82 Julius Gabor Horvath, ’00 Shannon Caye Saban, ’01 Jerome Colonna, ’66 & ’70 James Harvey Howard, ’69 & ’75 Kenneth B. Shaw, II, ’72 Henry D. Crowhurst, ’62 Sharon Howard Pamela Jean Shaw, ’72 Darin T. Curtiss, ’94 Daniel E. Jarman, ’88 Carolyn Stott Smith, ’55 Mary E. Downey, ’85 Kellie Jarman Joe D. Smith, ’63 Bryan David Duncan, ’08 Kannan Jeyakumar, ’09 Robert B. Smith, ’91 Teri Margaret Everett, ’80 Lloyd D. Johnston, ’69 John L. Snyder, ’85 John M. Evey, ’71 Matt Alger Kuchin, ’09 Megan M. Snyder Beate Johnston Evey, ’71 Amanda Lewis-Lapp, ’11 Jack David Spiegelman, ’85 Brent J. Fetsch, ’87 Nicholas M. Lapp, ’11 Maryann Spiegelman Rebecca Anne Field, ’90 Janice Kuhn Linsky, ’71 Stephen Lynn Swaney, ’93 Peter Gregory Foiles, ’76 Thomas A. Lorence, ’72 Michelle Swaney Scott Matthew Franklin, ’10 Ginger Lorence Sarah J. Swarts Robert W. Furer, ’65 Brian Lorts, ’10 Robin Renee Traver, ’05 & ’09 Barbara Furer, ’65 Tracey L. Lorts, ’10 Luke M. Traver, ’05 Carl F. Garrison, ’87 Ryan William Maier, ’97 Randall Winfield Tripp, ’66 Debora Garrison Angela N. McBride April S. Turple, ’91 & ’92 Ronald Garst, ’73 Michael J. McBride Leslie E. Urban, ’12 Karen Garst Gary E. McCown, ’86 & ’90 Jeffrey Alex Weagel, ’12 Matthew James Geniza, ’12 Marlene Lindsay Montgomery, ’70 Sarah Nicole Weaver, ’08 & ’12 Karen Hall Gigstad, ’60 Larry M. Munz, ’62 Patrick Douglas Wright, ’73 Harold B. Gigstad, ’59 Michelle E. Neeley, ’99 Bennet Sze-Bun Yee, ’86 Dave Gooding, ’62 Hai-Nam Nguyen, ’14 David Alexander Zahler, ’92 & ’97 56 OREGON STATER Beauford E. Averette, ’66, Salem, has AWARDS APPOINTMENTS published a novel, e Adralack Crack on Mt. Baker, telling the fictional story of Ralph “Steve” Besse, ’43, was recently Stuart Gunness, ’73, Sheridan, is owner four university professors’ adventures presented with a medal recognizing him of Gunness Landscaping. He was recently following a hiking trip on Mt. Baker in rural as a chevalier in the Legion of Honor, featured in “Time of Your Life” published Washington. France’s highest military decoration. by McMinnville’s News-Register. Kim E. Ruyle, ’87, ’91, Coral Gables, Fla., Second in command of a landing craft has written a guide for business leaders infantry vessel, he made about 10 different through a fictional account of one landings onto Omaha Beach during the executive, Lessons from a CEO’s Journal: D-Day invasion. e medal was presented Leading Talent and Innovation. by the honorary French consul for Oregon Mike Sissel, ’94, Chandler, Ariz., is owner at Besse’s home in Corvallis. He retired in of a youth leadership company that 1982 as associate director of international provides students with critical social agriculture for the OSU School of and emotional skills through a program Agriculture. Kimberly Hyde ©ompson, ’74, is called Lenses of Leadership. He recently chief development officer for Planned published a book, Seriously Dad?, which Parenthood Columbia Willamette in is written as a conversation between Portland. a father and his 13 year-old daughter, Doug Willrett, ’82, Cross Plains, Wis., designed to empower both parents and is a researcher at Agro Biosciences teens. responsible for the company’s Polyphenol George Edmonston Jr., ’07(H), retired Biotransformation Platform. editor of the Oregon Stater, has compiled Rev. Kimberly L. Still, ’86, is associate for columns written for e Newberg Graphic ministry development at e Episcopal into a book, Newberg: Stories from e Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Grubby End. His stories cover a wide Beach, Fla. variety of historical subjects from the KKK David R. Williams, ’71, was named 2014 Laura Faye Smith, ’93, is a Portland to Herbert Hoover. Surveyor of the Year by the Professional actress who portrays DeEtta Calvert in Robert Lamb, ’08, a Ph.D. candidate in Land Surveyors of Oregon. He is president NBC’s TV series, “Grimm.” ecology at Brown University, Providence, of Hickman, Williams and Associates, Inc. Michael O. Stevens, ’97, Hillsboro, has R.I., recently traveled to Easter Island on a in Bend. joined Herron Law in Lake Oswego research project led by Evie Wieters, ’90, Wes Colgan III, ’98, Colorado Springs, handling personal injury cases as well as of the Universidad Catolica de Santiago de Colo., was named 2014 Educator of the small business services. Chile, to study the diversity of the coral- Year by the Faculty for Undergraduate Elle L. Weatheroy, ’98, is the Portland dominated marine life surrounding the Neuroscience. He is the education product Police Bureau’s first equity and diversity island. news.brown.edu/articles/2015/01/ manager for ADInstruments North manager. She comes from a family of easter America, which builds data acquisition police officers including two brothers systems for life-science research and and her father, Portland’s first African teaching, and is an adjunct instructor at American police sergeant. OBITUARIES Pikes Peak Community College. Laura Conroy, ’99, is public information Julio Omier, ’99, ’01, assistant principal officer for the Multnomah Education Barbara Burtis Peck, ’32, Forest Grove. of Rancho Mirage High School, was Service District in Portland. Alpha Delta Pi awarded the Administrator of the Ryan Stewart, ’10, ’13, is an assistant Edward J. Finley, ’33, Portland. Year award, Valuing Diversity, by professor of crop and soil environmental George t. Mueller, ’38, San Pedro, Calif. the Association of California School sciences at Virginia Tech’s College Malcolm W. Stransky, ’38, ’39, Saratoga, Administrators Region XIX. of Agriculture and Life Sciences in Calif. Heather Leslie, ’05, Providence, R.I., an Blacksburg, Va. Richard C. Fry, ’39, Belmont, Mich. Delta assistant professor in the Department Chi of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Betty MacDaniels Hansen, ’39, Portland. Brown University, has been selected as a OTHER NOTES Delta Zeta Leopold Leadership Fellow for 2015. e Richard A. Kerron, ’40, Portland. Delta fellowships award outstanding academic Hazel Plummer Torgerson, ’38, celebrated Upsilon environmental researchers with training her 100th birthday this spring at her home Arthur F. Schoenborn, ’40, Portland. to integrate science into decision-making. in Portland. Her sophomore year, she Helen Jendrzejewski Welter, ’40, and six other women started a co-op Littlerock, Wash. house for women at OSC to share living Howard E. Graham, ’41, Portland. expenses. Several of her children and Doris Brown Schoenborn, ’41, Portland. grandchildren followed in her footsteps, Ralph E. Stoffer, ’41, ’59, Portland. graduating from OSU. SPRING 2015 57 OBITUARIES | ALUMNI Ruth VanPatten Fleming, ’42, Rodney G. Swanson, ’49, ’49, Grants Pass. Delta Upsilon Bloomington, Ind. Alfred E. Van Winkle, ’49, ’50, Spokane, James A. Lewis, ’53, Forest Grove. Delta Forbes W. McRae Jr., ’42, Seattle, Wash. Wash. Tau Delta Curtis C. Blundell, ’43, Mesa, Ariz. Alpha Richard R. Pelo, ’49, ’51, Walla Walla, Roger W. Skaar, ’53, ’57, Kirkland, Wash. Tau Omega Wash. Lambda Chi Alpha Walter V. Johnson, ’53, ’59, Lincoln City. Jessie Finley Klocke, ’43, Hoopeston, Ill. Jack R. Bailey, ’50, Vancouver, Wash. John B. Waite, ’53, ’65, Portland. Jeanne Johnson Nash, ’43, Eureka, Calif. eta Chi Ronald H. Dalton, ’54, Liverpool, N.Y. Phi Chi Omega Charles T. Berns, ’50, Portland. Gamma Delta William R. Shelton, ’44, Pacific Grove, Calif. James J. Dillman, ’50, Phoenix, Ariz. David L. Eyres, ’54, Fair Oaks, Calif. Delta Chi Wilbur L. Gage, ’50, Portland. James W. Jenks, ’54, Salem. Beta eta Pi Donald D. Strode, ’44, Cincinnati, Ohio. Herbert L. Haberlach, ’50, Canby. He Ted A. Kasparek, ’54, Lake Oswego. Marion Kierzek Leyrer, ’45, Lakewood, wrestled for the OSU Beavers, winning Virgil R. Morton, ’54, Yreka, Calif. Wash. Kappa Kappa Gamma the Pacific Coast Conference heavyweight James O. Norton, ’54, Portland. Phi Delta Jean Gordon Mitchell, ’46, Newberg. Delta title in 1950. He qualified for the 1952 eta Delta Delta Olympics wrestling squad and represented Robert B. Herrmann, ’55, New Bern, N.C.