Christopher W. Boyd ’90 has left his position as chief of police in Menlo Park, Calif., to become the first chief of police in Citrus Heights, Calif. Peggy Fiske ’90 was named one of 50 educators nationwide to receive the American Starr of Teaching Award from the U.S. Department of Education. Chris Gotsch ’90 has been advanced to principal at Travis-Jeffries, PA, in Boise. In her role as principal, she will continue to provide broad-based auditing and tax-consulting services with a strong emphasis on auditing nonprofit organizations and business-tax preparation. Jeffrey D. Neumeyer ’90 has been appointed vice president of OfficeMax Inc., formerly Boise Cascade Corporation. Jeff joined the company as an attorney in 1990 and is the head of the company’s litigation team. Karl S. Beus ’92, employed by Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP in Cleveland, Ohio, has been selected for inclusion in “The Best Lawyers in America 2006.” Inclusion is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which 18,000 leading attorneys throughout the country cast votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their areas of practice. Shelly H. Cozakos ’92 was elected into the partnership of Perkins Coie.
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James Yates ’92 has accepted the position of applications engineer at Blue Water Technologies.
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Michele Bartlett ’93 has been selected by the Idaho Business Review as one of the 2006 “Women of the Year.” Honorees were determined based on their achievement and leadership within their chosen professions, service as a mentor to other women, contribution of time and effort to volunteer activities and leadership within volunteer organizations. Luisa M. Havens ’93, ’99 became the registrar and director of admissions at Texas A & M Kingsville in January.
Darin Hayes ’93 has joined D.A. Davidson & Co. in Coeur d’Alene as a financial consultant, where he assists investors in reaching their financial goals. Matthew Jacoby ’93 has been promoted to associate at Bernardo-Wills Architects where he has been employed since April 2004.
Sylvia Medina ’93 has been chosen by the Idaho Business Review as one of the 2006 “Women of the Year.” Honorees were determined based on their achievement and leadership within their chosen professions, service as a mentor to other women, contribution of time and effort to volunteer activities and leadership within volunteer organizations. Trent Koci ’94 was promoted to partner of BRS Architects. Stephanie Wright Pickett ’94 has been selected as a partner of Preston Gates & Ellis LLP, one of the nation’s premier full-service law firms, in their Seattle office. She will focus on all aspects of employment law in the public and private sectors. David Swisher ’94 has been hired by Tamerlane Ventures, Inc., as a project manager to advance the company’s Pine Point leadzinc project in the Northwest Territories. Mike Renzelman ’95 was chosen Lewiston School District Teacher of the Year for 2005-2006. Amtul-Mannan Sheikh Siddiqui ’95 of Vancouver, Wash., has been chosen as the Tri-Cities Suroptimist Club Woman of the Year for her volunteer work over this past year. Dave Stamey ’95 was promoted in November 2005 to vice president of finance and administration for Centennial Software, a developer of IT asset discovery and security management solutions. He will oversee Centennial’s finance, human resources and administration operations in the U.S. Dan Eckles ’96 is the sports editor of the Daily Sparks Tribune in Sparks, Nev., and sits on the newspaper’s editorial
board. He also coaches girl’s varsity basketball at Spanish Springs High School and eighth graders at Yvonne Shaw Middle School. John L. Gardner ’96 has been promoted to product sales manager for Valmont Industries, the world leader in mechanized irrigation equipment, headquartered in Omaha, Neb. John has worked for the company for five years as a territory manager. In his new position, John leads the product management team. John resides in Omaha with his wife, Rebecca Lukas ’96, daughter, Lexie, and son, Cameron. Mike Nelson ’96, ’03 was honored with the prestigious Milken Family Foundation educator award, which carries with it $25,000 and an all-expenses paid trip to a professional development conference in Washington, D.C., in spring 2006. The foundation chooses about two educators from each state from a pool of applicants compiled by departments of education. Yuehe Lin ’97 and his coauthors received the 2005 award for the best cited paper published in Electrochemistry Communications. Yuehe’s article, “Low-potential stable NADH detection at carbonnanotube-modified glassy carbon electrodes,” published in 2002, has been cited extensively. The paper elucidates the researchers’ discovery that electrodes based on carbonnanotubes have significantly enhanced sensitivity and stability for detecting nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, a molecule that participates in many important biological reactions. This discovery forms the basis for the development of biosensors based on carbon nanotubes. Electrochemistry Communications is ranked second in citation impact in the field of electrochemistry. Yuehe and his family reside in Richland, Wash. Cari Slafsky Matthews ’97 serves as a flight surgeon in Iraq. She is the first female doctor to do point-of-injury casualty pick ups in a combat zone. Eric Swenson ’97, ’03 was named Secondary Business Education Teacher of the Year by the Montana Business
and Information Technology Educators, the professional organization for business, marketing and information technology education teachers in Montana. Additionally, he was elected vice president of the Montana Association for Career and Technical Education. Swenson is in his ninth year as a business education teacher at Denton High School in Denton, Mont. Carrie Diede ’98 is a recent graduate of the American Music and Dramatic Academy in New York City. She performed in “Bound East for Cardiff” with Ax’e Theater Ensemble, of which she is a founding member. She made her Off-Off Broadway debut with a rave New York Times review in “Miss Nelson Is Missing” and has appeared in short films. She is thrilled to join the national tour of “Oklahoma!” and performed in Spokane, Wash., in mid-April. For tour dates, go to oklahomaontour.com. Rob Sauer ’98 was honored with the prestigious Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award, which carries with it $25,000 and an all-expenses paid trip to a professional development conference in Washington, D.C., in spring 2006. The foundation chooses about two educators from each state from a pool of applicants compiled by departments of education. Lana Einhaus ’99 was named Lewiston School District Outstanding Elementary Teacher for 2005-2006.
00s Heather Ruehle Jepsen ’00 is graduating with a master’s in Divinity from the San Francisco Theological Seminary in May. She plans to pursue a career in ordained ministry in the Presbyterian Church. Paul A. Boice ’01 has returned from serving 18 months in Iraq to resume the practice of law in the Boise offices of Mueleman Mollerup LLP. He will focus his practice in the areas of business law, wills, trusts and probate.
Joseph N. Pirtle ’01, ’04 joined the law firm of Elam & Burke, P.A., in August 2005. Kim Cole ’02 is still working as the assistant director of New Student Services. She recruits in the Seattle area and southeastern Idaho. Adam M. Guerin ’02 is in his third year of graduate studies in the Ph.D. program at the University of California, Irvine, in the area of modern French history, with an emphasis on modern French colonial history in North Africa. The grants he received allowed him to spend summer 2005 in Fez, Morocco, and fall semester 2005 at the University of Nantes in France. He will advance to Ph.D. candidacy in June. Sarah Rutan ’02 has been invited back to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for her fourth season to play Margot Frank in “The Diary of Anne Frank” and Silvia in “The Two Gentlemen of Verona.” Brad Poe ’03 has accepted a position with Learfield Sports Marketing to return to the University of Idaho and sell sponsorships for his alma mater. Jarrod Batchelder ’04 has been hired as an agent at Century 21 Beutler & Associates in Coeur d’Alene. He will specialize in residential, waterfront, golf course properties and 1031/ deferred tax exchanges. Li Feng ’04 has joined TraskBritt as a patent agent. Brian Holleran ’04 has joined Oaas Laney LLC, a commercial real estate development firm, as a project manager for projects throughout the Treasure Valley. Hailie Lewis ’04 has joined Hummel Architects PLLC, a multidisciplinary architecture firm, and will be working on educational projects. Jessica Lipschultz ’04 is a 2005 Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship recipient attending Stanford University. The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is a private independent foundation
established to help young people of exceptional promise reach their full potential through education. Tania Vander Meulen ’04 has earned 2005 Idaho NCAA Woman Athlete of the Year honors. Amie R. Pritchett ’04 has accepted a position as a child life specialist in the emergency department at Children’s Hospital in Seattle. Valerie Carlson Quay ’04 and Jason Quay ’04 are both employed at Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Ariz. Jason is a test engineer on the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle and Valerie is a cost estimator. Jesus “Jesse” Moreno ’05 is working as an auditor for the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in Washington, D.C. The GAO is the “watchdog” agency of the government that ensures that taxpayer funds are being used correctly and not wasted or misappropriated. While in this position, Jesse has had the experience of auditing the IRS and will audit the Securities and Exchange Commission. He has been invited to be a speaker at the Hispanic Youth Symposium in Sun Valley this year. Tonya M. Moreno ’05 is a tax accountant for Gannett, a fortune 200 company that owns USA Today and several other notable newspapers and broadcast companies. Her responsibilities include federal and state tax compliance and research for subsidiaries filing in all 50 states, as well as accounting for tax related transactions. She is currently working with the tax department to calculate deferred taxes, the effective tax rate and to produce a tax footnote that will all be included in Gannett’s annual report for 2005. This report will be published and used by shareholder’s and investors worldwide to make investment decisions regarding Gannett. Brady Wilhite ’05 is a credit analyst for First Bank in Lewiston.
MARRIAGES Denise Anne Askelson to Michael Ross Higgins ’98
Annie Newlan ’06 to Steve Kudrna ’04
Carly Marie Bean ’04 to Jason Ryan Huff ’05
Sherrie Ann Papuzynski ’00 to Nathan Wagner
Maggie Bofenkamp ’04 to Shaun Cervenka
Stephanie Pelton ’01 to Michael Zerba ’02
Amy Bonwell ’03 to Austin Beaumont
Heather Ruehle ’00 to Lars Jepsen
Alison R. Breckon ’04 to Dana J. Tompkins
Lindsey Marie Roberts ’04 to Aaron James (A.J.) Koenig ’04
Valerie Carlson ’04 to Jason Quay ’04
Heather Ann Robertson ’05 to Adam Wayne Smith
Amy Chamberlain ’05 to Kevin O’Connell ’02
Erin Rachelle Sweat ’99 to Travis Rust
Jaime Anne Crea ’99 to Shayne Allen Ephraim
Storie Santschi ’00 to Jon Belden ’01
Rachael Dahl ’03 to Aaron Johnson
Rhonda Rochelle Schwandt ’97 to Charley Thompson Jr.
Janice Kim Davidson ’04 to Joshua Paul Berning ’03
Jill Shannon to Nick Carter ’04
Trisha Einspahr ’00 to Matt Nelson ’00 Courtney Michelle Fullmer ’04 to Jesse Travis Jacobs Anna Lisa Hester ’02 to Luke Alan Vannoy ’01, ’02 Jessica Sarah Holloway to Robert F. Sanchez Jr. ’04 Kara Lynn Howard ’04 to Michael Robert Daley ’02 Angela Gail Hutchinson ’00 to John Edward Gordon III Jill Johnson to Scott Korn ’92 Lenaya Lynn Krous to Todd W. Hogan ’95 Kally Jo Lytle ’03 to Mark Roland McFee
Amy Simpson ’96 to Joseph Guimond Rachel Anne Smith ’99 to Stacey Paul Stemach ’99 Elizabeth Stice ’02 to Josh Burkwist ’02, ’04 Christy Suciu to Rick Hoyle ’72 Katrina K. Taylor ’98 to Gary F. Ray Rebecca Ternes ’05 to Thad Berrett ’04 Jennifer A. Tyler ’05 to Nicolas J. Gardner Jennifer Paige Ulrich ’99 to Andrew Ryan Alldredge Traci Dawn Warwick ’02 to Jeffrey Martin Good ’99, ’02
Kelly Mader to Jonathan Parker ’02 Stacy McFall ’98 to Jeff Sitton Megan McLean ’03 to Adam Willingham Halyna Mary Mereszczak to Nathan Robert Smith ’04 Veronica Bree Meyer ’04 to Kelsey James Miller Laura Mitchell ’02 to Brian Hart ’02 Tiffany Moran to Eric Wendt ’97
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