Apr 15, 1997

Sterling Savings

Sterling Savings Association has promoted John Gooding to vice president of the company's Intervest-Mortgage Investment Co., and Tammy Linden has been promoted to assistant vice president-business banking in Sterling's Ballard office.

Kibble & Prentice

Chris Prentice has been named vice president of the Estate and Business Planning Division of Kibble & Prentice, a Seattle financial services firm.

Oles Morrison & Rinker

W. Gregory Guedel has joined the Seattle law firm of Oles Morrison & Rinker. Guedel will practice in the firm's Construction and Public Contracts Law Group, focusing on civil and complex construction litigation.

Metro Networks

Phil Strider has joined Metro Networks, Inc. as vice president/ general manager, Seattle/Portland. Metro Networks is a national traffic reporting service and supplier of local news, sports and weather information to the television and radio broadcast industries.

Nichols Brothers Boat Builders

The M/V Guard, the second of the Voith Schneider propelled Protector-Class tugs built by Freeland, Wash.-based Nichols Brothers Boat Builders, Inc., for Crowley Marine Services, Inc., has been delivered to Crowley at Nichols' Langley outfitting dock. The tug will be transferred to Crowley's Long Beach station in early April. The Protector Class tugs are being outfitted for tanker escort services, ship handling and docking assistance. Guido Perla & Associates, Inc., (GPA) provided final design and production engineering assistance to Nichols Brothers in construction of the vessels.

ST Labs

Bellevue-based ST Labs, Inc., an outsourced software testing service provider, announced the opening of its newest computer game and entertainment title testing lab in Los Angeles. The facility will employ 20 testers to provide outsourced testing services for area companies such as Dreamworks, Activision, MGM Interactive and many others. The new Southern California computer game and entertainment title testing lab is a scaled-down version of ST Labs' 40,000 square-foot Bellevue facility where game testers work with the latest gaming input/output devices such as "force feedback" joysticks and 3-D hardware components. ST Labs, Inc. provides software testing-related services at its labs in Bellevue, Redmond, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Fred Hutchinson

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has hired Martha Dorn as director of Guilds and Special Events for the Development and Community Relations Division. Dorn previously served as vice president of the western Washington chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Sigma Pi Phi

Sigma Pi Phi, the nation's oldest African American Greek Letter Fraternity, has announced the relocation of its 1998 bicentennial meeting from San Diego to Seattle in protest of California's Proposition 209 which abolishes state affirmative action programs. The event will be held July 11-15, 1998 at the Westin Hotel in Seattle.