Feb 26, 1996

Leisure Care

Three new operations directors have been hired by Leisure Care, a Bellevue-based company specialized in the retirement housing industry and manager of 27 retirement communities in nine western states. Bob Westermann joined Leisure Care in 1989 as the general manager of Cambridge Court in Great Falls, Mont. In 1994 and 1995, he became general manager of a Leisure Care retirement community and oversaw the operations of two retirement communities in the same town. Elaine Sandbeck comes to Leisure Care with extensive management experience. Prior to joining Leisure Care, she was an assisted living operations director for Barcelon Associates Management Corporation in Lafayette, Calif. Ellery Bennett joins Leisure Care after a 21-year career with Pizza Hut Inc.

Big Head Coffee Cola

San Diego-based Big Head Coffee Cola, which produces beverages combining coffee and carbonated cola, has contracted with A & W in Everett to produce and bottle the products for Washington consumers. Big Head Coffee Cola beverages have been in Washington state supermarkets, coffee shops and convenience stores for a month.

Emerald Height's Corwin Center

Dr. Paul Beck has joined Redmond-based Emerald Height's Corwin Center, providing nursing care, as medical director. Beck brings more than 15 years of experience in the area of geriatrics and chronic health care delivery.

Camp Fire Boys and Girls

The board of the Camp Fire Boys and Girls, a Seattle-based not for profit youth agency, has been joined by the following people as members-at-large. Karen Aoyama, manager of library/information services at Battelle Seattle Research Center; Jada Berteaux-Pettigrew, executive director of Solo Parenting Alliance; Judith Bigelow, partner at Preston Gates & Ellis; Sandy Kohout Bourbonnais, controller at Horizon House; Sue Byers, regional coordinator of Seattle Public Schools; Julie Cosser, vice president of catalog sales at Eddie Bauer Inc., Gary Grimstad, partner at Coopers and Lybrand LLP; Ann Hooper, vice president of private banking at US Bank; Benita Horn, of Achievement Architects; Rich Lauckhart, vice president of Power Planning at Puget Sound Power & Light; Laurie Miller, director at Deloitte and Touche LLP; Lesa Sroufe senior vice president and director of research at Ragen MacKenzie Inc.; and Jessica Axelsen, Rachel Tackenberg, and Anna Tramountanas, students.

Graphic Associates

Bellevue-based Graphic Associates, a graphic design firm, has won a silver medal in Neenah Paper's Paperworks Text and Cover Design Contest, a national contest recognizing quality imagery in the print communications process. Company senior designer and art director Diana Loback and designer Hovie Hawk won the medal for Microsoft's Digital Pencil Seminar.

Center for Wooden Boats

Seattle-based Center for Wooden Boats will hold its annual fund raising auction March 2 at 6:30 p.m. on Yale Street, in Seattle. The financial support will go for maintaining boats, maintaining the hands-on museum, providing special programs for disadvantaged youth and others in the community, building the library collection and information resources. This year, the fund raising auction includes a set of roundtrip airplane tickets, nautical art, and dinners. For more information, call the Center for Wooden Boats at (206) 382-2628.

Feb 22, 1996

TRIsource

TRIsource, a Seattle-based provider of Windows development services to independent software vendors, has promoted Heidi McAllister to executive vice president and Gerald Weltner to vice president/marketing. McAllister has worked as a senior software engineer and a human-factors expert since joining the company in 1993. Prior to that, she worked for two years as a software engineer at Bellevue-based Adonis Corporation. She also was a software engineer at Bright Star Technology in Bellevue and a programmer intern at the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center in San Jose, Calif. Weltner, who joined TRIsource soon after its founding, in 1993, heads the company's efforts to attract new clients and new employees. Prior to that, he was product manager and program manager at Microsoft Corporation and director of marketing for contract services at Connectsoft in Bellevue.

Northwestern Trust

Seattle-based Northwestern Trust And Investors Advisory Company, providing trust, custody, and investment management services, has elected David C. Williams to president & chief executive officer. Williams brings 18 years of trust and investment experience in the Northwest to his new role. Prior to his election as president and chief executive officer, Williams served as the managing director for Northwestern Trust.

Morrison & Foerster LLP

San-Francisco-based Morrison & Foerster LLP has announced that the firm will be closing its eight-lawyer office within the next few weeks. Nevertheless, the firm will continue to represent clients in the Seattle area, especially in the areas of intellectual property and major litigation. The decision to close the office was based on the mutual conclusions of the environmental partners in the Seattle officer and firm management than the goals of each would be best achieved if the formal relationship ended. Partners Rodney L. Brown Jr. and Bradley M. Marten will set up their own Seattle-based environmental and litigation firm, Marten & Brown. Litigation partner Michael L. Zigler will relocate to one of Morrison's San Francisco Bay Area offices.

Seattle Pacific University

SEATTLE (AP) -- Seattle Pacific University provost Philip Eaton has been named the school's new president by the university's board of trustees. Eaton replaces Arthur Self who resigned in May, after less than a year on the job. Eaton came to the private liberal arts school in 1993 as vice president of academic affairs and was promoted to provost last March. During his tenure, he has overseen major changes at the school, including reducing the number of academic schools from nine to four, creating a College of Arts and Sciences and setting up a five-year academic plan. Before coming to Seattle Pacific, Eaton was interim president at Whitworth College in Spokane for the 1992-93 academic year. He taught at the school for 17 years.

Annual Conference on Peritoneal Dialysis

The Washington State Convention and Trade Center will host a conference on peritoneal dialysis, bringing nearly 3,000 health professionals from more than 40 countries to Seattle from February 21 through February 23. The 16th Annual Conference on Peritoneal Dialysis, sponsored by the University of Missouri Health Sciences Center, brings together researchers and practitioners to share new developments in the technique. Using the patient's abdominal cavity to do the work of healthy kidneys, peritoneal dialysis had made dialysis more convenient for kidney patients and brought a lifesaving technology to less developed countries that cannot provide hemodialysis on a widespread basis.

Bellevue Boys & Girls Club

Bellevue Boys & Girls Club, focusing especially on the at-risk youth in the community, had named Rich Smith, from the firm of Lee, Hecht, and Harrison, chairman of the board for 1996. Smith joins John Sothern, chairman elect; Tere' Foster, secretary; and Dave Rehfeldt, treasurer.