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ponation Depot.com is PLU grads' answer to online charity
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somethi ng we believe in. Ir's also a good morivacor for
chariries in
working 1 2-hour days."
Washingron srare
Donarion Depor recenrly added a r h i rd PLU graduate co its
r h e U ni red Srates. If you
s raff�David Goodsell '99, a member of the rece nr D ivision I I I
plan ro donare
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any one of
rhem or have gues rions abo ur rheir operarions, yo u
"The Do nation Depor," Ashworth says, "is a handy road
Tacoma-based Donarion
charirable con rri butions."
The brainchild of PLU
C urrenr ly, nonprofir organizations raise $ 1 70 billion annually. " We're o p r i m isric rhar there's ro o m fo r u s co help raise more. I r's an easier process co use and we can help local
graduare Brandon Fix '95,
chariries." Ashworrh adds rhar rhey expecr ro charge only 3
rhe company developed as a
percenr fo r o peraring expenses.
new way co raise funds fo r chariries, according co Donarion De pot co-parmer Marr Ashworrh '95, anorher PLU graduare. According co Ashwor rh, Fix po ndered fund-raising iss ues as
ing deparrmenr. map guiding prospecrive do nors rhro ugh rhe intricacies of
i n formarion.
while working
Championship foo rball ream. H e w i l l be heading rhe marker
may wanr co refer ro rhe Depor websire for more
Donation Depot staff, from left, Brandon Fix, Matt Ashworth and David Goodsell
Headg uarrered on Pacific Avenue i n downrown Tacoma,
and more rhan 700,000 i n
The websire, which wen r publi c on March 1 7, also has a volu n reer sire for rhose i n reresred in connecring wirh o rhers seeking vo l u n reer work fo r a parricular charity.
markering direcror of rhe Pierce County
Boys & Gi rls Club. His solurion was co esrablish rhe company, design a websire, and recrui r Ashworrh from his public relations job ar rhe Washingco n stare Healrh Deparrmenr. Srarring a new business is risky, Ashworrh says, bur "ir's
to be rewarding both physically and spiritu a l ly.
delphia. F r o m the a g e of 1 4, Stephen composed, both for the
Peg Zander received the C . S . Moll
liturgy and for concert perform once.
Award at the Oregon C o m m u n i ty Educati o n Association conference i n March. T h e oward, named i n memory of C h a rles Stewad MOll, founder o f lhe Moll Foun dation, is presenled 10 a c o m m u n ity educotion profeSS ional a r vol u n teer from a school di striel, community college o r agency, f o r outstanding service or profess ional och ievemenl.
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Steve Adelson and his wife, l i n do , created Backtrack West, o n educational organ ization that offers living history courses foc u s i n g on the
Dennis Jaraczeski recently joi ned Olym pic B o n k a n d Mortgage in Federal Way, Wash . , as vice president and commercial lending officer. He was previously at Key Bonk and Washington State Bonk for 1 8 years. Olympic Bonk a n d Mortgage is a d i v i s i o n o f Kitsap Bonk.
Stephen Fullenweider died on Jon. 3 1 . He partici pated i n the concert bond and the jazz b o n d , playi n g electric p i a no, trumpet and cor-
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her second moster's degree, o n
and services at RIT. Her hu sband, Logan Hazen '74, is lhe d ireclor of residenliol l i fe a t the U n iversily of Rochester, N . Y. They l ive i n Rochester.
o n l h e Un iversity o f Saskatchewan campus. On the eve of his death, his chamber work, "Cree Wi nter," inspired by the 6,000 year-o ld medicine wheel near Saskato o n , was premiered by h i s colleogues in the Saskatoon Composers' Perfo rmance Sociely Inc. to critical accla i m . Stephen is survived by h i s wife and three children.
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Thomas and Janette (Soderstrom) Mahoney and t h e i r s o n , Ryan, recently moved to Danville, Calif. Randy is sen i o r applications chemi st a t Varian Analytical Instruments in Walnut Creek. Jon is at home full-time after 1 8 years a t Syntex/Roche Bioscience
program a t Rochester I n stitute of Technology IRIT) . lost Moy. She is the d i rector of financial aid programs
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David Voss has worked at Stryker Howmedica Osteonics for 1 7 years. He was recently promoted to N orthwest area di rector, which
Tree Top Inc. in Cashmere, Wash.
Jan Schurman is a n u rse Health Center i n Seallie. She is
practitioner at Garfield/Novo Teen working toward a moster's degree i n health ad m i n istration at the University of Was h i ngton. Her husband, John Hushagen '73, is arborist and owner of Sealile Tree Preservation Inc. Their daughter, E l l a , 1 8 , graduated from Garfield H i g h School in June. Their son, Sam, w i l l begin n inth grade in the fall.
d i strict. They will continue to live i n R a n c h o Murieta, C a l i f . Their s o n , Erik, will be a fresh m a n at PlU i n the fall. life S k i l l s program i n Washington, D.C.
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Ben McCracken '78, '90, become the assistant principal at Pioneer Vo lley Elementary School i n the BetheI IWa s h . ] School D i strict, i n September.
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Tara Otonicar and Kenneth Nardstrom were m a rried o n A u g . 4 i n lakewood, Wa s h . They l ive in
they hod a s o n , Jon and two daughters, Anno and lora. An accom-
he left his position as on editorial d i rector a t Augsburg Fortress
M i lken Family Foundation Notional Educator Award, on honor that
Publ ishers . His new career focuses on electro n i c i n formation exchange using Oracle databases and Web
carries with it not only public recognition and o n opportunity to j o i n a network of 1 , 502 outstanding
awarded a composition fellowsh i p at the Tanglewood Music Festival and
servers.
educators around the notion, b u t
began working as corporate archivist
the Delta Kappo Gamma Golden Apple Award for outstanding excellence i n education . She i s a
performance gro<>p in New York and o f the Tabor Camerata, on early m u sic performance society in Phi la-
fi rst-g rade teacher i n the Anchorage [Alaska] School Districl. Trudy and her husband, Curt, have three sons, Chris, 1 9 , a sophomare at Washington State University; John, 1 7, a h i g h school senior; and
Beth (Coughlin) Zier ron in the Boston Marathon for the t h i rd t i m e ,
also o n u n restricled financial award of $ 2 5 , 000. C r i teria for selection include excepti onal educational talent a n d promise and distinguished ach ievement in developing i n novative educational c u rriculo, programs and/or teaching methods. Timothy is the p r i n c i pal a t Hopson Senior Memorial Middle School in Bo rrow, Alaska.
her h usband, Mark, moved to SI. working for C h ristians linked i n Mission, a nonprofit orgonizotion that supports projects of j u stice ond hope around lhe world by l i n k i ng people in faith-cenlered partners h i ps . They have two children, Joson, 1 7 , o n d Sarah, 1 0.
Patrick Swenson is a teacher at Evergreen H i g h School i n B u r ien, Was h . , and the pu blisher of Ta leBones, a fontasy magazine t h a t has won m a n y prizes.
2 6 . 2 m i les, she was the guest
LeeAnne Campos and her
speaker just prior to the race a t a service that was held at a c h u rch near the starting line. It was on spectators. Beth shored about God's
occident in 1 9 80 and her return to runn i n g . Beth's r u n n ing and speaking m i n i stry is called, " R u n n i n g with the Good News . . . the Viclory has been Wo n ! "
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began her new position as science l i brarian a n d associate professor, at PlU in Augusl.
Karen Bates-Olson a n d her h u sband, Kevin, en joy l i v i n g in Spokane, Wash . , and r a i s i ng their two daug hters, Amy Carol, 7, and Katie Ann, 2 . Koren is the associate pastor at St. Luke lutheran C h urch and Kevin is a moth prafessor at North Idaho Col lege.
Muriel (Balch) Gordon died on April 3. She graduated from Clover Pork High School i n 1 97 6 . After receiving a bachelor of science
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lou i s, Mo., lost summer. E l i zabeth is
i n April. In a d d i t i o n to r u n n i n g the
Patrida (Kirkwood) O'Neill
Timothy Cline received the 1 999
at Holt, R h i nehart, and Winston Publishers. He also was a founding member of Amaro, a composer's
a n d investment producls to luthera n s . He is affi l i oted with the M a u ritsen Agency in Spokane, Wash.
Fred Davis i s the coordinator of the
transition that began in 1 993 when
at CBS headquarters i n New Yo r k . later h e w a s o n editor of music texts
Reardon, Wash . , recently earned m e m bershi p i n the 1 999 leaders' C l u b , based on t h e s a l e o f i n s u rance
grace in her l ife, as she told about her survival o f a near-falal cor
Bob Moluf has completed a job
Trudy (Thorsness) Lund received
Brolherhood d i strict representative in
homemaker. She is actively involved in C u b Scouts and is a School S i te Council member for the local school
Milton Babbill and Elliot Coder. In 1 977 he married Jann Boyd and
many states. In 1 9 84 he was
Bradley Folk, a lulheran
outdoor service for r u n ners and
Olym p i a .
pli shed and ecumenical l i turg ical musician, Stephen served parishes in
are i nterested i n a gathering i n the Tucson, Ariz., areo. ejerden@worldnet. all.net
encompasses 1 0 Western stotes. His wife, Debbie (Oftebro (76), is a
i n Polo Alto, Calif.
Joe Brooks is the plant manager a t
net a n d also studied compositio n .
degree, cum laude, from the U n i vers i ty of Pennsylvania. Post-g raduate work i n c l u ded private studies with
Elizabeth (Wallis) Reinking and
continued perform i n g and com posi n g i n Saskatoon, Canada, where he
After PlU, he hod moster's classes with Krysotff Penderecki and accomponied the Martha Graham troupe. Stephen earned a certificate in harpsichord and early music performance practice and matric u lated at C u rt i s School of Music, i n P h i ladelphia. I n 1 978 h e received a master of arts
Coraline,
MBA, through the Executive MBA
rich legacy of the American West. Their p r i m a ry clients are teachers.
Evelyn (Cornwall) Jerden i s hoping t o heor from P l U a l u m n i w h o
H i s n u merous commissions ranged from anthems for S a i n t James' Church to 0 jazz moss for Saint Peter's Churc h . In his lost years, he
arganized concer1s 01 the C h apel o f the lutheran Theological Sem i n a ry
� 0, and Courtney,
Steve, 1 5 , a h i g h school fresh m a n .
Verna Powers Hazen completed
husband, Michael, a n n o u nc e lhe bi rth of liliana E l i zabeth on Jon. 20. She joins Mirando, 6 . Michael conti nues to work for Weyerhaeuser Corp. in Federal Way, Wash. leeA n n e is i n her eighth year of teaching private voice lessons 01 PlU. She also is the vocal i n structor at the Cappello Gi rls' Chorus, wor k i n g with the di rector, S tephanie Cha rboneau, a thi rd-yea r m u s i c student a t PlU; the assi stant d i rector, Donald Stojack '82; and the accompanist, Debra Steichen Stojack ' 83 . In Novem ber, LeeA nne was the soprano soloist in a performance of Poulenc's "Gloria" with the Bellevue C h a m ber Chorus, d i rected by Geoffrey Boers '80.
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Susan (Pomeroy) Wittenberg leff KPS Health Plan to join the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's grant and contract a d m i n i stration i n Sealile. She is responsible for negotiating commercial research agreements with pharmaceutical companies. S u s a n also is working on Notional I n stitute of Health grants for
degree i n n u rs i n g , she worked as a
cancer research fu n d i n g .
registered n u rse at lakewood
Oneida (Battle) Blogg was the first
[Wa s h . ] Hospital for several years before moving to Salt lake City, where she continued her n u rsing career. Muriel is survived by her
prog r a m . She would l i ke to hear from former participants who have
husband, J o h n , a n d two sons, John and Trevor.
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Diane (Van Vleet) Olsen a n d her h u s b a n d , R icho rd, recently moved to R i c h land, Wash., where Richard i s a busi ness manager for lockheed Marti n and D i o n e stays at h o m e with thei r three daughters, Christy, 1 4 ,
project manager of the MESA
now become PlU a l u m n i . Odblagg@excite. com
Linda (Tingelstad-Carlson) Davis recently exhibited her artwark for the first time at a one-day event and sold three of her works. Besides owning her business, Dusty Rose lid. she also teaches wriling a n d art a t Banfill-locke Center for the Arts in Frid ley, M i n n . , a n d serves on the board o f d i rectors. lost s u m me r linda orga n i zed a n d i m plemented
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