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'40s
Larry Marshall, '41, was honored as the Lumberman of the Year at the Ingomar Club on Nov. 19, 1999.

Rodney Bertramson, '41, a retired Washington State University professor of agronomy, has been serving up coffee at the annual Pullman Kiwanis club pancake breakfast for 40 years. He and his wife, Eleanor, keep busy with volunteer work, their garden and family.

Annis Oetinger, '43, has published her second book, Elk for Sale, a mystery novel set in Central Oregon.

Carl Brophy, '45, a Medford lawyer, was one of three lawyers statewide to receive the Award of Merit, the highest honor of the Oregon State Bar, given for outstanding contributions to the bar, bench and community.

Donald L. Benz, '47, has received a Distinguished 50-year Award from the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers. He is vice president and chief engineer of Benz Air Engineering Company in Portland.

Maryanna Bollinger Vollstedt, '48, has a new cookbook out, The Big Book of Casseroles. She lives in Eugene with her husband, Reed, and writes a weekly food column for the Eugene Register-Guard.  She also is the coordinator of a middle school mentor program at four Eugene public schools.

James, '49, and Joyce Ward, '48, George Zegas, '49, and his wife, Bonnie, and Ted Sherwood, '50, and his wife, Phyllis, were wed on three consecutive days in August of 1949 and celebrated their 50th wedding anniversaries together this past year in Portland. The men were brothers from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and the couples have regularly celebrated together ever since their marriages.They have scrapbooks documenting their years of potluck dinners, family vacations, raising children and, of course, anniversary celebrations.

Theodore Pimm, '51, and his wife, Maxine Wright Pimm, '49, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary this fall in Portland.

Dick Thurin, '49, and his wife, Norma Cass Thurin, '50, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this past August with a trip to Hawaii.

George Carlon, '49, and Patsy Knopf Carlon, '51, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in October. They are semi-retired and have lived on the family ranch in Summer Lake since 1949. George attended his 50-year OSU alumni reunion and met three classmates that he hadn't seen since 1949. He says the reunion was "first class all the way!"

'50s
James, '51, and Leora Bowman Burr, '50, celebrated 50 years of marriage this fall at a family gathering in their daughter's home in Bend. James retired from OSU in 1983.

Ben Eckley, '50, writes that he and his wife, Gloria, raise cherries in the summer and spend the winters volunteering in Phoenix, Ariz. Gloria works in the office of "Roving Volunteers in Christ's Service" while Ben does carpentry, general maintenance and repair work for the organization.

Wesley Peavy, '50, is living in Redmond with his wife, Dorothea, where they keep busy by teaching at Central Oregon Community College and volunteering in the community. They have two children who are OSU graduates: Andrew Peavy, '78, '82, '83, and Dorothea Peavy, '85.

James Davis, '50, retired in 1987 from his 33-year medical practice in Milwaukie. He currently lives in Bend.

Cliff Cannon, '52, retired from the aerospace industry and moved from LaHabra, Calif., to Sherwood to be near family. He and his wife love being in Oregon, with old friends from OSU and Woodburn close by.

Jack L. Ryan, '53, '56, recently received the Glenn T. Seaborg Actinide Separations Award for outstanding accomplishments and meritorious achievement in actinide element separations science. He is semi-retired from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

George Kimmell, '53, has retired after more than 40 years as a pharmacist in St. Helens. He and his wife, Shirley, plan to move to Hawaii.

Dick Coyner, '55, and his wife, Joyce, '56, invite music lovers to join them at the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society's jazz festival over Memorial Day weekend. The jazz festival is the largest in the world with more than 40 venues and 120 bands from around the globe. For more information about this "musical shindig" contact Dick at -dusty@succeed.net.

Melvin T. Nygaard, '57, of Roseburg, has received the Oregon Society of Certified Public Accountants Gold Medal Award for 1999. The award is given annually to a CPA for service to the accounting profession and the community. He also is treasurer and ticket controller for the Douglas County Duck Race for Children, which raises money for child abuse prevention agencies.

Richard D. Zechentmayer, '58, is a 10-year board member of the Monterey County Film Commission. This organization's goal is to promote the film industry in central California.

Claire K. Hughes, '58, is the chief of the Health Promotion and Education Board at the Hawaii State Department of Health.

Nicholas Rickard, '59, has been named ICF Kaiser International Inc.'s manager of the iron and steel line of business. He has been with Kaiser since 1959.

Murlan Kaufman, '59, Beaverton, writes that he is enjoying retirement with his wife, Ginny, after a very satisfying engineering career of more than 38 years doing electronic product design at Tektronix.

Chris Bonte-Friedheim, '59, retired as director general of the International Service for National Agriculture Research. He is currently secretary general of the steering committee for the Third International CROP SCIENCE CONGRESS 2000, to be held in August in Hamburg, Germany, where he now lives with his wife, Judy Coleman Bonte-Friedheim, '61. Their three children all received their university degrees on the West Coast: Robert from Reed College in Portland, Michael from the University of San Diego, and Christine DeMont, '59, from OSU.

'60s
Michael Fosberg, '61, '63, Onanock, Va., has recently retired from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Potsdam, Germany. He also is working on a project in Africa and doing some consulting for UNESCO.

Joanne Huffman Grabinski, '63, Mt. Pleasant, Mich., is the president of AgeEd, an educational consulting firm specializing in social, family and educational gerontology. The Association for Gerontology in Higher Education recently selected her as AGHE Fellow in Gerontology and Geriatric Education.

Nellie Van Calcar Oehler, '64, a "half-time" OSU extension agent in Lane County, was honored at a reception this fall for her expert training of more than 335 Master Food Preservers the last 20 years and her many hours of volunteer labor. The Master Food Preservers program, which she adapted for the state of Oregon, instructs people in safe food preservation, and in return they "pay back" by volunteering hours in their local communities, teaching food preservation safety. She was presented a quilt picturing many of her trainees, which was kept a secret for 22 months while it was created by the food preservers.

Timothy Lauer, '64, '67, Houston, Texas, has retired from UNOCAL Corp.

Wayne Neuburger, '66, former director of client services for the Northwest Evaluation Association in Portland, has returned to the Oregon Department of Education as associate superintendent for assessment. He will direct the state assessment program of school testing.

Curtis A. Loop, '66, is the deputy commanding general for mobilization and reserve affairs in the Army Reserve, headquartered at Fort Shafter, Hawaii. Maj.Gen. Loop also is a representative for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the Regional Ecosystem Office for the Northwest Forest Plan. He and his wife, Carol, live in Tigard.

John C. Johnson, '66, retired from the Air Force in 1970 and has been a psychology instructor in Weatherford, Texas, for 29 years. He and his wife, Helen, have two children and five grandchildren, including triplet granddaughters.

James Mutch, '66, retired in 1996 after 30 years in the pharmaceutical industry. He now is consulting with patients in herbal medicine and nutrition and has an integrated healing practice dealing in body/mind/spirit modalities. He lives in Palo Alto, Calif., with Judy, his wife of 34 years, and plays tennis every morning.

Jim Hamilton, '67, has become the senior vice president, western region, for the Rite Aid Corporation.

Paul Kennedy, '67, retired from his career as a banker and now is the full-time volunteer director of the Libby Teen Center in Spokane, Wash., which he started 1997 with a longtime friend.

David Buchanan, '67, a fourth-generation farmer, converted his family's Century Farm into the Tyee Winery in 1985. He retired last year from his career as a biologist for the Department of Oregon Fish and Wildlife and recently won the Western Division Award of Excellence from the American Fisheries Society for a report on the disappearance of the salmon from Oregon's Willamette and Santiam Rivers.

Boyd C. Yaden, '67, Clackamas, has recently retired as a Chapter 7 Panel Trustee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court District of Oregon.

Everett Hansen, '68, is a professor of botany at OSU and organized the gathering of 42 scientists, who specialize in the study of Phytophthora root diseases, from the International Union of Forest Research Organization. They came to discuss strategies for stopping the global spread of tree-killing fungi, one of which is already beginning to kill the roots of southern Oregon cedars.

Walt Mendenhall, '68, is a full-time metal artist who creates outdoor sculptures and water fountain designs.

William Jabs, '69, was named Civil Engineer of the Year by the Oregon chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineering. He is founder and president of W & H Pacific and recently was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Engineers by the OSU College of Engineering.

Terrance Fitzgerald, '69, is recognized internationally for his innovative studies on the behavioral and chemical ecology of insects, primarily caterpillars. He was recently named Distinguished Professor of Biology at the State University of New York College at Cortland. His book, Tent Caterpillars, has become the "bible" on the subject matter and is used by educators and researchers around the world.

Alan Stonewall, '69, Portland, has been appointed chairman of the Actuarial Standards Board. He is a partner with the Human Capital Advisory Services practice at Deloitte & Touche LLP.

Jim Lichatowich, '69, '70, has written a new book, Salmon Without Rivers; A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis, which gives suggestions for ways to halt the fish's slide toward extinction.

Were you in the Women's Land Army?

Between 1943 and 1947, more than 135,000 Oregon women helped save the state's harvests by serving in the Women's Land Army (WLA), a farm labor program sponsored by the Oregon State College Extension Service. Were you one of them? If so, your help is needed again.

Danette Rowe, a graduate history student at Portland State University, is writing a history of the Women's Land Army and would like to conduct oral history interviews with WLA participants. Copies of the interviews will be placed in the OSU Archives.

For more information, contact Danette Rowe, 10720 SW Kiowa Ct., Tualatin, OR 97062. Telephone (503)692-1014; e-mail d.rowe@prodigy.net.