Short profiles of Bobbi Nickels '70; Reese Moriyama '10; and Felicity Shoulders '08, followed by full Class Notes listings.
Bobbi Nickels 1970
Bobbi Nickels ’70, former director of Pacific’s Upward Bound program, has raised $25,000 for an endowed scholarship for low-income Pacific students, in honor of her former students. Many small donations, including all of the custodial staff, helped build the fund, which is still accepting donations. Nickels hopes to see the first annual scholarship awarded this fall.
Felicity Shoulders 2008
Felicity Shoulders ’08 has been nominated to receive the 2010 Nebula Award for Short Stories. Her story, “Conditional Love” is one of seven finalists chosen by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Shoulders will be traveling to Washington, D.C. for the awards ceremony in May.
Reese Moriyama 2010
Reese Moriyama ’10 has won a national award from the University and College Designers Association (UCDA) for a series of photographs of Pacific athletes Moriyama shot in 2010. Only 196 Excellence Awards were given from nearly 1,300 entries in the 40th Annual UCDA Competition. His winning entry was on display at the annual UCDA Design Conference in October in Minneapolis.
More Reese photos: fleetingcaptures.blogspot.com
Chase Milbrandt 1993
Chase Milbrandt welcomed triplets into his family.
Jeffrey Williams 1993
Jeffrey Williams served in the Forest Grove Police Department from 1994 until February 2011,
when he accepted a position as police lieutenant with the city of Beaverton. He now is captain of Beaverton’s Administrative Services Bureau.
Patrick “P.K.” Higa 1994
Patrick “P.K.” Higa was named athletic director of King Kekaulike High School on Maui, Hawai‘i. He has been at the school for 15 years, serving as a teacher, vice principal and, most recently, as the head football coach. He currently resides in Pukalani, Hawai’i, with his wife, Terilyn Antonio-Higa ’95, and children, Josh and Jami.
Jonathan Pahukula 1994
Jonathan Pahukula is currently vice president of KIAKO Foundation, an organization working to educate people about the Hawaiian culture. They held their first Ho‘omoana in 2012, a three-day summer camp for first through sixth grade children taught by native and non-native Hawaiian experts.
Dana Ziskrout 1994
Dana Ziskrout ’94, O.D. ’97 competed with his team, Crushing Fist, at the United States International TaeKwon-Do Federation (ITF) National Qualifier, a black belt-only invitational, in March 2012. He won two gold medals and one silver medal. In August 2012, Ziskrout competed with Team USA in the ITF World Championship in Ottawa, Canada, and secured his position among the sport’s best as he won two silver medals and one gold medal.
Christy Aleckson 1995
Christy Aleckson was nominated and installed to the National Board of Directors for Women in Insurance and Financial Services. She also sits on the board of the local Portland chapter of WIFS, where she is a past-president and current chair of the programs committee. She works at Single Point Financial Advisors.