Businesspeople on the Move

Jay Park, M.D., has joined Samaritan Dermatology in Corvallis. Park, who has been practicing in Eugene for the past 10 years, will begin seeing patients who need skin cancer surgery at Samaritan Dermatology two days a week. Park is fellowship trained in Mohs micrographic surgery, a procedure to treat skin cancer. He completed a medical degree at Stanford University School of Medicine, an internship at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and residency training at Stanford University Medical Center. Park underwent a Mohs micrographic surgery fellowship at Louisiana State University Medical Center.

Officers & Directors

Benton Hospice Service has elected new officers and board members for 2008. Boyd Lyon has been elected chair of the board of directors. Lyon is a partner in SynNovation Works, an executive training partnership, affiliated with Oregon State University’s College of Business and a partner in SynnOps, a dedicated operations arm of SubMachine Corporation. Other officers include Cyrel Gable, vice-chair; Tamina Toray, secretary; and Scott Meeker, treasurer. New board members include: John Bacon, M.S.W.; John Evans, senior minister, First Christian Church; Gabi Ford, R.N.; Sheila Goodwin, retired R.N.; Jason Phillips, M.D., Samaritan Internal Medicine; Kay Schaffer, Ph.D., dean and professor emeritus, OSU College of Liberal Arts; and Bruce Thomson, M.D., Corvallis Family Medicine. They join continuing board members Shawn Foley, M.D.; Karen Griffis, F.N.P.; Pam Hediger, J.D.; Ilene Kleinsorge, Ph.D.; John Martinsen; Lia McCabe; Rhonda Simpson, M.D.; Jeanne Smith, J.D.; and Ann Zweber, R.Ph.

Comings & Goings

Jeanne Smith & Associates, P.C., has moved to 104 S.W. Second St., Corvallis. Attorneys Jeanne Smith, Nadine Davison, Jay Faulconer, Justin Wirth and John Dezzani continue to advise clients on business law, estate planning and administration, real estate, construction law, and adoptions at their new location. The phone number and post office box number remain the same, 752-6416, P.O. Box 830.

Reinvestment

The Linn-Benton Community College Foundation has received a $30,000 donation from the Frances A. Staten Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation for the LBCC Science and Health project. The Oregon Community Foundation manages charitable funds donated by individuals, families and businesses to enhance and support the quality of life in their local communities. The Foundation makes grants through an application process that involves local citizens in the review and evaluation of requests for funds. To date, $2.6 million in private donations have been received for LBCC’s Science and Health project that will include construction of a new building and improvements to existing classroom and lab space for physics, general science, computer, chemistry and biology. Construction in slated to begin in June.

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Portland General Electric employees raised $21,140, including PGE’s 50 percent match, for the Oregon State Unversity Foundation during the company’s annual Employee Giving Campaign in 2007.

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