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N O T E S neer-in-training for the firm’s Geotechnical Engineering Group. He is a graduate of the University of Portland with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering with an emphasis in geotechnical engineering. Jennifer Pesut writes: “I just got a promotion, and I can’t believe it either! I’ve only been with UTi Worldwide since March 2011, and even then it was part-time until after I graduated. But yes, I am moving from being project administrator to being a business analyst. In this new role I will be responsible for researching, defining, and documenting requirements for the software system we are building. My first official day was Monday, November 14.”
’13 COVER STORY One of our current social work majors, Janie Oliphant, made the cover the New Social Worker magazine for winter 2011. See for yourself at www.socialworker.com/digitalmag/winter2012.pdf.
FACULTY, STAFF, FRIENDS THE CHOCOLATIER Kelly Callahan ’08, owner and head chef of ‘naKed chocolat,’ as she calls her company, graduated with a psych degree and went right to the Notter School of Pastry Arts in Florida. “The most physically demanding 24 weeks of my life,” she says cheerfully, and this is a young lady who has had rheumatoid arthritis since she was a kid. “We did everything, breads, pastries, cakes, tarts, ice creams, and candies, but I absolutely fell in love with making chocolates, with the finest ingredients, no additives, no preservatives, and I want to make each and every one a tiny piece of mouth-watering art,” says Kelly. We tried them. The Pilot women’s soccer team tried them. Conclusion: O my sainted mother. Kelly is making mouth-watering art. See for yourself: nakedchocolat.com. release. “I honestly don't think too many other athletes can say they’ve had their likeness featured in a corn maze, and that is what makes it really cool to me. I hope a lot of fans can make their way to Olympia and enjoy it.” See the maze for yourself at http://tinyurl.com/3e3mp9b. Carolyn Borsch writes: “I have graduated from Boston University School of Public Health with a master of public health (MPH) degree concentrating in epidemiology. I currently work on a colorectal
cancer risk factor study and a shared decision-making study at Boston Medical Center. I look forward to returning to the beautiful Pacific Northwest to utilize my degree.” We got some wonderful news from Caitlin (Nusbaum) Fitchett recently: “On June 21, 2010, Derek Fitchett and Caitlin Nusbaum were wed.”
’11 NICK’S JOINING UP Nicholas Moran has joined Hattenburg Dilley & Linnell, LLC, an engineering firm in Anchorage, Alaska, as an engi-
Paul Richard Richter III, husband of the late Judy Richter, died on September 29, 2011. Paul was born in Tillamook. He retired from the U.S. Postal Service after a 30-year career. Judy, who retired from the University after 24 years of service as an instructional media coordinator on May 31, 2010, passed away on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Survivors include sons, Scott and Justin; granddaughter, Lillian Rose; brother, Frank; sister, Bobbie; nephews, Matt, Nathan, Danny, and David; and niece, Angie. Our prayers and condolences to the family. Robert “Bob” Allison passed away on November 19, 2011, in Portland, Ore. Bob served in the U.S. Air Force and after that worked for many years in the printing industry, including the University’s printing services shop. Survivors include his wife, Suzanne ’02, and son, Matthew, Portland; Melanie Snitker ’00 and Michael Allison, Texas; Tracey Allison and Kim Smith, Michigan; three brothers; and eight grandchildren. “All of our kids were here, right by him, when he passed,” writes Suzanne. “His dog was on the bed at his feet. He went peacefully, without pain or discomfort.” Our prayers and condolences to the family. University German professor Alexandra Merley Hill and Middlebury German professor Florence Feiereisen are the editors of a new book from Oxford
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University Press, Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century: An Introduction, November 2011. The book examines recent German history and contemporary German culture through “its sounds and musics, noises and silences, using the means and modes of the emerging field of Sound Studies.” More information at www.oup.com/us/. A team of University of Portland students and professors are researching the Occupy Portland movement. Communication studies professor Renee Heath and her team are studying how the group is organized, how it builds consensus at general assembly meetings, and how it communicates. Heath also says they are documenting the group’s demographics. She says they have talked to people of all ages and all backgrounds. Heath says she is fascinated by the Occupy movement and predicts scholars be reading about it in academic journals in years to come. We received word that Fred Fields passed away in the morning of December 13, 2011. Fred and his wife, the late Sue Schoenfeldt, were the beneficiaries who made it possible for the University to build Fields and Schoenfeldt halls. It was Fred’s wish that he be cremated and that a memorial service be held for him at Lewis and Clark College, where he was the former chair of the board of regents. Our prayers and condolences to the family. The University of Portland Museum welcomes offers of donations of Columbia Prep and University of Portland memorabilia and photographs from alumni, friends, and faculty for the museum and campus display cases. If you have items of interest about Columbia Prep and University of Portland academic, social, religious, and athletic history (examples could include sports uniforms and equipment; overseas studies mementos; social, religious, and academic clubs/organizations memorabilia; educational materials; publications such as yearbooks, sports programs, handbooks, etc.), contact Carolyn Piatz Connolly at museum@up.edu or piatz@up.edu or (503) 9438038; University of Portland Museum MSC 015, 5000 N. Willamette Blvd., Portland, OR 97203. More mystery faculty photo guesses, this time from music professor Hal Logan, who writes: “The mystery faculty member is, of course, our esteemed theater costumer, Jill