Jan 24, 1996

Port of Olympia

Nick Handy, deputy director of the Washington State Office of Marine Safety during the past three years, has been selected as the next executive director of the Port of Olympia. Handy, who was a state deputy attorney general and later executive assistant for the state Commissioner of Public Lands, has been chosen from a field of 308 applicants for the port's chief executive position. During the past 20 years, Handy's career has crossed paths with Washington public ports and the maritime industry. As executive assistant to the Commissioner of Public Lands, he served as executive secretary to the Harbor Line Commission and he regularly represented the lands commissioner on trade issues, including testifying for free trade on behalf of Washington state exporters. As assistant general for the Department of Natural Resources for eight years, he served as counsel to the state aquatic land's program. Also as an assistant attorney general, he handled several significant court cases involving harbor areas and aquatic lands policy.

Jensen Maritime Consultants Inc.

Jensen Maritime Consultants, a Seattle naval architecture and marine engineering firm, has completed a new tug design for Cleveland-based Tugz International L.L.C., engaged in towing on the Great Lakes. A series of up to four tugs will be build by Gulfport, Miss.-based Trinity Marine Group. The tugs are powered by two Caterpillar diesel engines, have a design speed of 14 knots, and can be operated by a 3-man crew.

SeaFirst Gallery Exhibit

The SeaFirst Gallery, located in Seattle in the Columbia Seafirst Center, 701 Fifth Avenue, will feature, from February 2 to February 15, a photo exhibit by Jacques Lowe on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, to gather funds for the Leukemia Society. A Tribute to Jackie: Jacques Lowe's Photo Exhibit to Benefit the Leukemia Society of America will be unveiled by Jacques Lowe, John F. Kennedy's personal photographer during his Senatorial and White House years, at a public reception at Noon on Friday, February 2. Lowe created the exhibit to help raise awareness and funding for the Leukemia Society's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Lymphoma Research Fund. Kennedy Onassis died from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in May 1994. An exhibit catalogue, including 67 of the 75 from the national tour along with personal remembrances from Mrs. Kennedy's friends and family, and limited-edition poster will be available at the Gallery to benefit the Lymphoma Research Fund. Additionally, the Leukemia Society will host a private exhibition showing and dinner at the Columbia Tower Club on Friday, February 2, at 7 p.m. with all proceeds benefiting the Society's Fund.

Conductive Rubber Technology

Randy C. Noland has been added to the executive team of Bothell-based Conductive Rubber Technology. In his new position, Noland is responsible for all marketing functions, and will manage the company's national network of sales representatives. Noland's experience in sales and marketing management includes positions with Procter and Gamble, Leviton Telcom, and Augat Communications Group. Most recently, he was corporate director of marketing for Eagle Healthcare Inc.

The Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers

Devon Walter, convention services manager for the Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers, has been awarded the Convention Services Manager of the Year Award. The award, sponsored by Successful Meetings magazine and the Association for Convention Operations Management, recognizes outstanding customer service in the hotel, convention and tourism industries. A recipient of the 1995 Washington State Chapter of Meetings Professionals International's Supplier of the Year Award, Walter has worked for the Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers for more than 12 years and has been a convention services staff member since 1987.

Jan 23, 1996

Hara Consulting

Former Seattle City Treasurer Lloyd F. Hara has announced the formation of Hara Consulting, a facility specializing in investment policies, cash management practices, program evaluation, organizational development and training services for the public and non-profit sectors which will operate in partnership with a Settle-based investment firm, Kunath Karren Rinne & Atkin. Hara has been regional director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Before that, he was elected to four terms as Seattle City Treasurer. He received the Government Finance Officers Association Award of Excellence for Cash Management in 1987 and 1991, and the 1991 Municipal Treasurers'Association highest recognition, the Jackson R.E. Philips Award. Hara leads the Northwest Municipal Treasurer's Institute at the University of Washington. He has previously taught at Seattle University and the Universities of Puget Sound, Maryland, and Wisconsin.

KeyCorp's Northwest Region

Starr Mcdonald has been named senior vice president and quality service team leader for Seattle-headquartered KeyCorp's Northwest Region, comprised of bank and non-bank affiliates in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington. She will also manage First Choice 2000 branch configuration, consolidations, and new market openings. Macdonald previously held the position of vice president, retail administration for Key Bank of Washington.

Disneyland

Robert M. Witter who was special projects director at KIRO-TV from 1986 to 1992, has been promoted to director of promotions and partnership marketing for Anaheim, Calif.-based Disneyland Resort. Witter joined the Walt Disney Company in 1994 as regional manager for the Walt Disney Attractions marketing office in Seattle. Prior to that, he spent seven years in television and radio broadcast management in the Seattle and Spokane markets. He was a regional manager for EXPO'86 World's Fair in Vancouver, B.C.

University of Washington

Dr. Leroy Hood, professor and chair of molecular biotechnology at the University of Washington, has received an additional $600,000 in funding from CaP CURE, an Association for the Cure of Cancer and Prostate formed in 1992 by Michael Milken, a former Wall Street financier who has the disease. Hood and Dr. Paul Lange, University of Washington professor and chair of urology, jointly head the Cap CURE Prostate Cancer Consortium, a national effort to determine the genetic basis of the disease and differentiate its various forms. CaP CURE has donated some $3 million to the consortium, whose goal is battling the disease on a number of fronts and which includes scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Washington and the Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Duncan & Ross Advisors Inc.

Bellevue-based Duncan & Ross Advisors Inc., a company assisting family business has moved from Redmond and Gig Harbor to larger offices on the N.E. 8th Street, in downtown Bellevue. The founding partners, Jon M. Duncan and Philip C. Ross, are veterans in the financial services profession, and they both were formerly consultants with the Rainier Group. Both are certified financial planners and registered advisor representatives.