54 OregonStater.org ALEX GAUTHIER OUR COMMUNITY ALUMNI NEWS EDITED BY > SCHOLLE MCFARLAND to fungal genetics and biotechnology. Dr. Benjamin DuBois, ’94, was recently ranked the No. 8 shoulder surgeon in the U.S. by Newsweek, making him the highest- ranked shoulder surgeon in the entire Western United States. Learn more at sandiegoshoulderdoc. com. Maggie Gauger, ’97, was named CEO of Athleta, the athleisure clothing brand owned by Gap Inc. A 20-year veteran of Nike, Gauger most recently served as general manager and vice president of the company’s North Oregon State University Alumni Association, retired this September after 10 years of service. Christi Kasten, ’86, senior associate executive director for the Oregon State University Alumni Association, retired this October after more than 20 years of service. 1990s Scott Baker, ’92, microbial molecular phenotyping group leader at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, was elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences for his research contributions 1970s Gayle Fitzpatrick, ’78, was honored as Philanthropist of the Year by the Foundation for Fraternal Excellence. Louis Slangen, MBA ’71, published The Book of Life Lessons: 50 Lessons for Work, Life, and Everything in Between, available from Amazon. Organized as a collection of insights, it follows his experience leaving The Netherlands with only $200 and two suitcases to start a new life in the U.S., and then building a career as partner of the global healthcare company Invacare. 1980s Micheal Allen, ’85, represented Team USA this October as one of three American athletes in the 1-Dog Bikejoring Masters Class — a race where a dog runs in front of a bike, pulling the rider — at the 2025 IFSS World Dryland Championships in Minocqua, Wisconsin. He competed against 35 nations and 350 athletes. Learn more at bit.ly/ micheal-allen. Kelly Howard, ’81, senior accountant for the POOYA TADAYON, PH.D. ’98 Pooya Tadayon, whose contributions at Intel significantly shaped the semiconductor industry’s roadmap for high-performance, cost-effective manufacturing, joined OSU’s College of Engineering this fall as a professor and the executive director of semiconductor research programs. Before retiring from Intel in 2024, he spent 27 years there in a variety of leadership roles, culminating in his position as an Intel Fellow and director of assembly and test pathfinding. Most recently, he worked as vice president of packaging, test and platform engineering at startup Ayar Labs. Tadayon’s role at OSU is to help develop innovative research agendas and contribute to semiconductor-focused academic programs. 1950s Lew Polizzi, ’56, published Benny Beaver: A Child’s Ecology Primer, an illustrated children’s book, available from Author House at bit.ly/benny-primer. 1960s Dick Evans, ’69, published In the Shadow of the Bridge: Birds of the Bay Area with Heyday Books, featuring his photographs of the San Francisco Bay Area’s exuberant variety of birds. Evans also authored or coauthored the photography books The Mission, San Francisco and the Bay Area: The Haight-Ashbury Edition, and San Francisco’s Chinatown. Check the site intheshadowofthebridge. com for more details. Kenneth Giles, ’69, MBA ’72, wrote Geology of the Lower Owyhee River, Oregon’s Grand Canyon, a free downloadable ebook, available at the website owyheegeology.com. John Oades, ’68, M.S. ’73, retired director of the U.S. Wheat Association West Coast office, was honored by the College of Agricultural Sciences with the John Oades Legacy Award.
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