Old Oregon
CLASS NOTES
F L A S H B AC K
1968
Andy Warhol appears at the UO on February 21 to show his new film after students demanded he make a “repeat” performance for sending an impersonator to fulfill a previous speaking engagement. SCOTT PARKER, BS
’04 (general science), edited Conversations with Joan Didion, a book that features 17 interviews with Didion that span decades, continents, and genres.
PDX Partners Inc., a telecom company, has added RASHAD BAUMAN, BS ’09 (sociology), as vice president of corporate development. EMILY TAYLOR, PhD
DANA LYONS, JD ’06,
has founded Lyons Law in Honolulu, Hawaii, focusing on business, real estate, collections, and estate planning, and cofounded Lyons Estate in Hilo, a zeroemissions vacation rental and forest preservation project located within a native forest of Ohi’a Lehua, a species of flowering evergreen tree.
MERILEE BENGTSSON, BS ’70 (community service and public affairs), and her friends visited Tristan Da Cunha, the most remote inhabited archipelago on Earth, in the south Atlantic Ocean. She had been planning this trip since 1989, and during their three-week adventure they were the only tourists among the main island’s resident population of 254. 58
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SPRING 2018
2010s CAMILLE WALSH,
BS ’06 (journalism), an editor and writer at the UO, has published her first novel, The Time Tourists.
MA ’06 (history), PhD ’10 (history), published her book Racial Taxation: Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869–1973.
TREVOR
TINA BRAZIEL, MFA
LAMOUREUX, BS ’07
’13 (creative writing), was awarded the 2017 Philip Levin Prize for Poetry. Braziel won out of 867 submissions to the book contest, and her prize will include
SHARLEEN NELSON,
DUCKS AFIELD
’09 (comparative literature), has been granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of English and world literatures at the College of Arts and Sciences at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina.
(human physiology), has joined Columbia Bank as a commercial banking officer for the Wall Street Branch, in central Oregon.