CLASS NOTES


Greg Simon ’85 Enjoying our time living and


exploring abroad in Europe!


the amazing education OES gave its students. I just wish we lived closer. It’s a long commute, unfortunately. Shoot me an email if you’re in town! cjecje57@ yahoo.com.


Rene J. Ferran Jr. ’88


I am now working for Yahoo! in Hillsboro, so I have moved back to Portland.


Lance Steinberg ’88


I am now in my 20th year of manag- ing client investment portfolios and recently formed Steinberg Investment Group (www.steinberginvestmentgroup. com) here in Portland. My wife, Mary, and I have three daughters, Gabriela, 10, Adriana, 10, and Marisa, 8.


1990s


Henry Abbott ’90, kind of ’91 Henry is, at the moment of writing


Helen Townes ’85


I spent three wonderful years as an editor at Timber Press, editing about a dozen books now in publication. But with three little kiddos (one not yet in school) and John getting a much more responsible directorship at OHSU, it was finally too hard to keep it up full time. Things have eased a bit with my youngest, Charlie, now in grade school. Molly, 10, and Charlie, 7, are at Ainsworth Elementary; McKellar, now 13 (and with a girlfriend!), is at Arbor.


Chelsea Emery ’87 I’m an editor for Reuters in New


York, editing financial stories and overseeing the Top News page for Wealth Management clients. Reuters, the best place to work in America, allows me to job-share. That means I work three days a week and my partner works the other two. I get to spend lots of time with my little girls, who are age 7 and 5. Now that my girls are in public school, I think constantly about


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this, on a bus from New Jersey to New York City for the umpteenth time over the last few months, as one of those schlubby journalists hanging around hotel lobbies staking out the seemingly endless NBA labor talks. It is part of his work for ESPN.com, and it is not helping his marathon training. He would prefer to be spending the time with his awesome wife, top-notch kids, or pretty good dog.


Provash Budden ’90 I’ve been in Sudan as the country


director for Mercy Corps where over the past two years I’ve been working on local governance capacity building and public service delivery to improve communities in Darfur and the central border regions that were affected by decades of civil war. The separation of South Sudan this year was a remarkable event (the world’s newest country), but has been followed by renewed conflict. Despite the heat, dust, and bureaucratic complications, Sudan has grown on me through the generous hospitality and the diversity of its people. There are those


Christian DeBenedetti ’92 I published my first book, The Great


American Ale Trail: The Craft Beer Lover’s Guide to the Best Watering Holes in the Nation, in September (Running Press/ Perseus Books; $20). It’s 367 pages about my favorite 425-plus craft beer spots in America (including many here in the Northwest) with a bit of storytelling among the destinations and profiles of interesting characters. I’m currently beer correspondent for Food & Wine Magazine and living in the Willamette Valley, working in various aspects of the craft beer industry.


Marcotte Anderson ’93


I am currently living in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in Tujunga, on the northern edge of Los Angeles, with my beautiful wife Caroline, mischievous sons Ethan, 4, and Liam, 3, and aloof chihuahua, Texas. I am busy instructing my boys in the ways of the Force but have yet to get them to sit through all of Episode IV. I face an uphill battle, as Liam is currently in his “fireman” phase, while Ethan prefers superheroes and Power Rangers. I just


days, however, when I wish it wasn’t 117 degrees Fahrenheit and that I was on the top of Hood with powder up to my knees.


Kathryn Rebagliati ’90


I am having fun with my 4-year- old twin boys and managing rental properties. Here is a picture of David, left, and Henry at Cannon Beach.


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