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Now hanging in a conspicuous location at the new McMenamin’s Kennedy School “English Wing,” which features 22 guest rooms decorated in honor of books and authors who have impressed, inspired, confounded, and entertained cofounder Mike McMenamin: a painting by Kolieha Bush of Brian Doyle and David James Duncan ’04 Hon., (l-r) carrying on their legendarily spirited debate on the merits of Irish vs. Scotch whisky. The poor chap left outside looking in is Colin Wilson, who authored The Philosopher's Stone. Doyle’s Mink River and Duncan’s The River Why are both represented by finely appointed guest rooms directly across the hall from each other, joining such notables as Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow, Gary Snyder’s Left Out In The Rain, Beverly Cleary’s Ramona series, and Ken Kesey’s Sometimes A Great Notion. More of a mural, really, the painting is best seen in person, so there’s your excuse to drop by Kennedy School to fill a glass and take a gander. Brian Doyle, of course, is the longtime editor of the magazine you hold presently. Photo courtesy of Liz Devine/McMenamin’s
most comprehensive site in the world is in Hillsboro, and local media representatives are important partners as we provide up-to-date information on the construction of our new development fabrication facility called D1X,” says Jill Eiland, Intel’s northwest region corporate affairs manager. “We are pleased to add a young professional like Chelsea to our seasoned team, one who brings relevant experience and new energy to the work we do as the largest privateemployer in Oregon." Former ASUP president Colton Coughlin has joined the
National Alumni Board (NAB) as a representative of Colorado from the Boulder and Denver area. He will be working with our other Colorado NAB representative, Al Weber ’54, in Colorado Springs. Colton serves as operations manager for True Blue and just bought his first home in Boulder. And yes, he still has his convertible Mustang and even puts snow tires on it to drive up the mountains to ski, top down of course.
’11 PRAYERS, PLEASE Please remember Katie Scally and her family in your prayers
N O T E S on the death of Katie’s grandmother, Catherine Penelope Scally, on November 19, 2012. Our prayers and condolences to the family. Rachael Thorp writes: “I got married on June 14, 2012, and legally changed my name to Thorp from my maiden name of Williams. I had a son on August 9, 2012, and we named him Wyatt.” Jennifer Pesut writes: “Sunday March 3 was the 5th annual Fort Vancouver Run in Vancouver, Wash., and UP alumni stood out! Two Pilots won awards in the 15K race: Daniel Prahl ’10 won First Place Overall, First Place Males 25-29 with a time of 00:51:46. Jennifer Pesut (Hey, that’s me!) won First Place Females 20-24 with a time of 01:31:50. To see all the results and recognize more Pilots, here is a link: http://energyevents.com/fvrresults.” Thanks Jenn, and congratulations.
’12 TOGETHER THROUGH THICK AND THIN We got the following e-mail from Terina Retzlaff, proud mother of Laryssa Retzlaff: “My daughter Laryssa attended UP and graduated in 2012 with a degree in secondary education. She met Michael Scheepers ’09 at UP, who also attended and graduated with a degree in finance. They met
them had ever been to the United States before. Laryssa was hired for a full-time teaching position last June, teaching 6-12 grade English in Glenwood, Washington, and Michael is training for the National Guard.” We heard recently from Katy Portell, who writes: “I accepted my first full-time job back in October at Rice University in Houston, Texas. I work as the recruiting coordinator and alumni liaison in the Rice Center for Career Development and the alumni affairs department. Working with alumni affairs, I am developing a mentor program and other opportunitites for engaging Rice alumni.”
’13 USING HIS SKILLS We heard from a proud UP father recently, who writes: “Just a note to let you know that one of your school’s seniors, Sean M. Popravak, hasn’t waited to use his skills and knowledge. He is the co-author of a book published last year by Arcadia Publishing, titled The Oregon Air National Guard. See the press release for Sean at http://tinyurl. com/asxccaj, or go to the Arcadia website for samples at http://tinyurl.com /akztprq.” Thanks for letting us know, Terrence, and congratulations to you and your son.
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while both working in the development office’s TOPS program. Michael is from South Africa, and the two were engaged while Laryssa was still attending UP. They were married on June 23, 2012, in Hood River, Ore., at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. They ended up traveling back and forth from the United States and South Africa while dating and during their engagement. Since Michael graduated before Laryssa, he was limited to coming to the U.S. on visitation visas, since he no longer could come on educational visas. Laryssa’s bridesmaids all were from UP, and Michael’s groomsmen all came over from South Africa—none of
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The University of Portland Speech and Debate Union sent four qualifying representatives to the Pi Kappa Delta National Speech and Debate Tournament in St. Louis, Mo., over spring break, March 1417. Sophomore Katie Wilson, political science, who competed against debaters from 89 schools across the country, finished the tournament as a quarterfinalist, joining the top eight debaters in the nation, and was deemed to be among the top ten percent of all debate speakers in the nation. Seniors Valerie Schiller, political science, and Beau Woodward, economics and philosophy; junior John Russell, civil engineering; and Wilson made up the University of Portland team. In six preliminary rounds for international public debate, Russell and Schiller finished with three wins and three losses, Woodward finished with four wins and two losses, and Wilson finished with five wins and one loss, the best results the University of Portland Speech and Debate Union has ever attained at the Pi Kappa