Feb 14, 1996

Continental Mortgage Company

Ken Harding and Todd Peterson have joined the Seattle branch of Continental Mortgage Company. Harding and Peterson will both handle a variety of permanent home loan programs. Harding formerly worked at Pediatric Software, a Colorado-based software company. He joined Continental Mortgage as a marketing manager in 1993 and later transferred to Seattle to set up operations in the Pacific Northwest. Harding also previously owned his own contractor business and specialized in home remodeling. Peterson brings a background in the building industry, and most recently specialized in marketing and land acquisitions at First Edition Homes, a Mercer Island builder of luxury custom homes. Peterson joined Harbour Homes in 1989 as a customer service manager. He later moved to Portland and opened the Harbour Homes Portland branch, where he served as regional manager until he joined First Edition Homes.

Davis Wright Tremaine

Labor Lawyer Henry E. Farber, practicing employment and labor law in Washington and California, has been named partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, a national law firm with offices in Seattle, Bellevue,Richland, Portland, and Anchorage. Farber has extensive experience in defending discrimination and wrongful discharge actions, representing employers in National Labor Relations Board cases and arbitrations, negotiating labor agreements, and counseling employers on labor and employment matters. Farber joined Davis Wright Tremaine in 1993 after serving as general counsel for Frederick & Nelson. Prior to joining Frederick & Nelson in 1989, Farber practiced employment and labor law with the law firm of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp in Los Angeles. From 1977 through 1980, he served as a field examiner for the National Labor Relations Board in Los Angeles and New York. Farber is the editor-in-chief of The Washington Labor Letter, a monthly publication for human resource professionals.

Federal Home Loan Bank

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle whose mission is to expand housing and economic opportunities in the region, has promoted five employees. Chuck Van Court moves to his new position as vice president/director of information services from that of assistant vice president/applications of development manager. He came to the Seattle Bank in 1986 after working for Chevron Corp. as a computer systems liaison. Todd Aiken, Breton Grassley, and James Mochizuki, three of the Home Loan Bank's regional marketing officers, were promoted to assistant vice president. Before joining the bank's marketing department in 1995, Aiken worked as a financial analyst for Coopers & Lybrand and in sales for World Savings and California Federal Bank. Grassley came to the bank in 1988 and worked with the audit and credit departments before joining the marketing departments. Mochizuki joined the company's marketing staff in 1995 with ten years of experience as a correspondent banker with Security Pacific Bank and Seafirst Bank. Correspondent network services (CNS) manager Rebecca Paul has been promoted to assistant vice president. She joined Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle in 1989 as supervisor of CNS, and was promoted to manager in 1995. Prior to that, Paul was employed at U.S. Bank of Washington for nine years.

Safeco

Safeco directors has announced two promotions. Paul Lowber, assistant vice president of Safeco Corp. responsible for the tax department, payroll, administration of employee benefit plans and external financial reporting, has been appointed vice president of the corporation. Stephen Collier, currently Safeco's tax manager, has been appointed assistant vice president.

Thompson Recruitment Advertising

Seattle-based Thompson Recruitment Advertising, an advertising agency specialized in recruitment, has been renamed JWT Specialized Communications. JWT Specialized Communications is also diversifying its business in health care, business-to-business, financial services, senior marketing and high technology. JWT Specialized Communications is a subsidiary of J. Walter Thompson and has 21 offices throughout the nation.

Halvorson Beach & Bower

Vernon R. Enns has joined Donald Beach and Harry Bower as principal of Halvorson, Beach & Bower, Inc., Mechanical Engineers. Enns graduated from Seattle University in 1983 and joined HBB in 1985. He has been a stockholder and associate in the firm since 1989. Enns is currently managing projects for Anacortes, Burlington-Edison, Conway, Lake Stevens, Mount Vernon and Mukilteo school districts.

Golder

Kent Angelos is the new office manager and Western regional manager for Golder Associates Inc. of Redmond. Angelos is an environmental s ientist with over 17 years of experience in environmental consulting in seven western states, and his clients have included the Air Force, Department of Energy, Coast Guard and Army Corps of Engineers, Bechtel Hanford, Westinghouse Hanford, Ford, Monsanto and Texaco.

AVL/E

Michael Iovin and Sid Scott have each been promoted to principal of Architects Van Lom/Edwards AVL/E of Portland. Iovin, who was educated in Romania and began his career in Chicago, leads the fir in hospitality and elderly housing design. He recently completed a five story expansion for Hallmark Inns and Resorts in Newport, Oregon, and is currently designing the Rogue Regency Convention Center in Medford, Oregon. Scott, who joined the firm in 1990, was responsible for the recently completed Washington County offices for the Community Action Organization and the Maginnis Foundation's Housing for the Developmentally Disabled. He is currently project architect for Harkins House, a juvenile shelter in Washington County.

Yanick

Devin Johnson, project manager at Miles Yanick and Company/Architects and Planners, has been awarded a Construction Documents Technologist certificate from the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI). Johnson was the project manager for the recently completed Central Market in Poulsbo.

Merit

Austin Huang, owner of Merit Engineering, Inc. of Bellingham, was invited to give a presentation at the American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco last December and has presented his research on Rock Mechanics.