EUGENE–John Halgren of Springfield begins his term as president of the University of Oregon Alumni Association Board of Directors for 1999-2000 as the association prepares for its fall meeting scheduled Sept. 24—25.

Halgren, 55, who earned a master’s degree from the UO in 1968, is a retired Springfield elementary school principal. He succeeds Christine Sullivan, chief executive officer of the advertising and public relations firm Sullivan Pattison Clevenger.

Halgren has been a UO Alumni Association director since 1994. He has worked extensively with the UO Alumni Advocacy Program, a group of alumni and friends dedicated to lobbying their state legislators on behalf of the university and higher education, and served as the chair of the board’s Advocacy Committee.

The UO College of Education honored Halgren in 1998 with a Distinguished Alumnus Award for his 20 years of service to education. He is also a charter member of the Confederation of Oregon School Administrators, chair of the board of directors of McKenzie-Willamette Hospital and a member of the Springfield Rotary and Chamber of Commerce.

His wife, Joanne, is head of the interlibrary loan services department at the UO’s Knight Library. The Halgrens have two sons.

The 50-member UO Alumni Association Board of Directors makes policy that directs the association, which was founded in 1879 to advance the goals of higher education by promoting continued involvement after graduation. A nonprofit corporation, the association originally served five alumni. Today it serves more than 150,000 alumni and friends and includes 11 domestic and 15 international chapters.

Other 1999-2000 UO Alumni Association officers are:

• President-elect: James Perry ‘58 of Salem, an attorney with Saalfeld, Griggs, Gorsuch, Alexander & Emerick.
• Treasurer: John Gilbaugh ‘67 of San Marino, Calif., credit administrator with Wells Fargo.

Ten new board members named to serve three-year terms on the association board are:

• Barbara Blangiardi ‘79 of Toluca Lake, Calif., marketing consultant.
• Frank Campbell ‘82 of La Canada, Calif., chief financial officer of Century Dental.
• Charles Carlbom ‘57 of Portland, retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
• Cheryl Ramberg Ford ‘66 of Roseburg, financial broker.
• Sandra Reece Jernstedt ‘67 of Portland, realtor with Windermere Realty.
• Dorinda Parker ‘67 of Portland, marketplace president of IKON Office Solutions.
• Sandy Rice ‘86 of Los Angeles, Calif., entertainment vice president of Rogers & Cowen Motion Picture Group.
• Robert Smith ‘68 of Reston, Va., senior vice president and chief financial officer of Columbia Cascade.
• David Straus ‘67 of Medford, architect with Skelton, Strauss, Seibert, Architects and Planners.
• Elizabeth Unthank Tower ‘77 of Eugene, account supervisor for Baden & Co. Advertising.

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