Jan 05, 1998

Olympic Resource Management

Olympic Resource Management has promoted Meredith Green to vice president finance and treasurer, and Dave Nunes to vice president portfolio development. Green previously served as controller for Trilliam Corporation. Nunes previously worked at Weyerhauser as strategic planning director, wood products and timberlands. Olympic Resource Management is a Pope Resources company which manages more than 600,000 acres of timberland and real estate in Washington, Oregon and California.

Big Brothers of King County

Jann Blackbourn, president and CEO of Washington Transit Advertising, has been selected to serve as board chair of Big Brothers of King County. Big Brothers curently serves almost 500 active matches, and there are over 300 boys on their waiting list. Their offices are located in Kirkland.

Sound Women's Care

Pat Giraldo, ARNP, certified nurse-midwife, has joined Sound Women's Care, an Edmonds-based medical practice for women. Giraldo has expertise in antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and gynecological care. For more information about Sound Women's Care, please call 425-640-4034.

TCI Media Services

TCI Media Services of Puget Sound has added five account executives in the Bellingham, Everett, and Tacoma offices. In Bellingham, Sara Bebich and Leon Ford will work with clients in Whatcom, Skagit, and Island counties. J.B. Krause in Everett will cover Snohomish and north King counties. Scott Hankwitz and Lance Leasure in Tacoma will be responsible for Pierce, Kitsap, and south King counties. Dick Loughney has been named local sales manager in the Olympia office. Also joining the Olympia office is account executive Pamela Richmond.

Kibble & Prentice Financial Inc.

Kibble & Prentice Financial Inc. has appointed Malcolm G. Witter as vice president. Kibble & Prentice is a Seattle-based independent investment banking firm which helps clients to build net worth through equity investments in select private companies.

Seattle Economists Club

The Seattle Economists Club has lost founding member and past president Miner Baker, who passed away on December 9 at the age of 83. Baker was a labor market analyst and spent 31 years at Seafirst bank. His public service included serving on the Port of Seattle Commission and serving as economic advisor to two governors. The Seattle Economist Club will be making a contribution to charity designated by Mr. Baker's wife. Any members wishing to make an individual contribution, please send checks to the Seattle Economists Club.

Dec 31, 1997

Reid Middleton

Reid Middleton has promoted Dave Swanson, John Klekotna, Kelli Owen and Mike Wallace to the position of senior engineer. Swanson will take the lead in the firm's structural engineering practice. Swanson was involved in the structural engineering investigation of the 1995 earthquake in Kobe. Klekotka has served in key design and leadership roles for most of Reid Middleton's structural and waterfront projects for the past 12 years. Owen has played a major role in the firm's surface transportation market. She serves on the board of directors for the Washington chapter of the American Public Works Association. Mike Wallace has been promoted to senior engineer. His clients include the cities of SeaTac and Tukwila and the Washington State Department of Transportation.

Entranco

Entranco recently added ten new employees. John Fisher and Erik Van Buskirk are the newest members of the firm's survey services group. Fisher joins the firm as a survey party chief, and Van Buskirk as a surveyor. Jonathan Olds, Stephen Hall and Nick Stackelberg have joined the water resources group at Entranco. Hall and Stackelberg are both water resource engineers. Olds is an ecologist with expertise in wetlands delineation and assessment in addition to endangered species monitoring. Blas Puzon is a new civil engineer in the firm's development services group. Tresa Cooper and Christine Yurick are new project assistants in Entranco's transportation services group. Sarah Brinkerhoff is has joined te accounting department of Entranco as a general ledger accountant, and Ashley Sawyer is a new office assistant with the firm's business services group.

Coughlin Porter Lundeen

Pete G. Lymberis has joined Coughlin Porter Lundeen as a civil project manager. His expertise is in site development, water quality and storm drainage design. He is currently working on CarrAmerica's Canyon Park Development, Lake Washington Junior High School, Quadrant's Lake Union Center, West Campus, Boeing Space Center in Kent, and condominiums in West Seattle.

Bassetti

Dale Lang has joined Bassetti Architects after three years of university post-graduate work and seventeen years as a design principal with WLC. Previously, at Bassetti, Lang was the leader of his own design studio specializing in elementary schools. Margaret Mazurkiewicz has recently become the firm's new interior designer, and is currently assisting in the design of Meadow Elementary School. She has a master's degree in architecture from the School of Architecture in Krakow, Poland. Patricia Dunlavey and Nirupama Sharma have joined the firm as intern architects.

Hedges & Roth

David N. Philips has been named regional manager of the Wenatchee office of Hedges & Roth Engineering, Inc. Philips has 17 years of professional experience in public works, with special expertise in the design and management of water and wastewater facilities. He is section president of the Water Environment Federation and an active member of the Pacific Northwest Pollution Control Association.

Yost Grube Hall

Alexander Khesin has joined Yost Grube Hall (YGH) of Portland as an architect. Formerly an architectural designer with the Wattenberger Architects in Bellevue, Khesin is involved with the design for YGH's overseas projects projects. He received his Masters of Architecture degree from the University of Kharov, Ukraine. Manfred Grabski has also been hired at YGH for overseas project work. Formerly a freelance architect, Grabski has professional experience in Germany. Harley Cowan has joined the firm as an architectural intern. Cowan, a graduate of Washington State University who has also participated in education programs in Russia, will also contribute to design work for overseas projects.

Foster Pepper & Shefelman

Robert Kaye has joined Foster Pepper & Shefelman as of counsel practicing corporate and real estate law in the firm's Bellevue office. Kaye has experience with agreements related to telecommunications and satellite video transmission, technology transfer, licensing, marketing and sales agreements. Richard Busch has also joined the firm's Bellevue office as of counsel practicing telecommunications and corporate law. Busch has over 19 years experience in the telecommunications industry, focusing on commercial, communications, and antitrust law. Andrew Ognall has joined the Portland office as an associate practicing corporate and real estate law. Karen O'Connor has joined the Portland office as an associate practicing employment and labor law litigation.

Williams, Kastner & Gibbs

The legal community mourns the loss of Mary Sidell, a law librarian with the Seattle firm of Williams, Kastner & Gibbs. Mrs. Sidell died of a cerebral hemmorhage on December 13. In 1986, Sidell became part of the reference staff at Bogle and Gates law library. In 1990, she accepted the head legal librarian position at Williams, Kastner & Gibbs. Sidell helped establish the Law Librarians of Puget Sound as a chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries. Services were held at Bikur Cholim cemetery. Remembrances may go to The Sidell Children's Fund, care of Ellie Manders at Williams, Kastner & Gibbs, 601 Union Street, Suite 4100, Seattle, WA 98101. The fund has been established for Sidell's two sons.