Southwestern Magazine | Fall 2020

2000 Chrystal Hall Doyle , Glen Allen, VA, joined Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents as a full-time family nurse practitioner. 2001 Robyn Crummer-Olson , Portland, OR, is publisher of Ooligan Press, an award-winning not-for- profit general trade press that publishes books honoring the cultural and natural diversity of the Pacific Northwest. Ooligan Press is a teaching press staffed by students pursuing master’s degrees in the Portland State University (PSU) English Department. Crummer-Olson received her master of arts from PSU and has worked in the Portland publishing industry for more than 10 years at ITRevolution, the Portland Book Festival, and Pomegranate Communications and as a freelancer. She has presented at the Write to Publish and PubWest conferences, participated in career skills workshops, and been teaching book marketing and publishing classes at PSU for three years. 1999 1993 Alyssa Perz , Durham, NC, was promoted to chief of staff for the dean of academic affairs at Duke University. She provides leadership for a team of 14 academic deans who work with undergraduate students in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. 1998 Michael Gagliardo , Thousand Oaks, CA, was promoted to professor of mathematics at California Lutheran University in September 2019. Cary Laudadio , see Sandy Allen ’96 . 1996 Sandy Allen , Cedar Park, TX, recently joined Cary Laudadio ’98 at GoalFusion Wealth Management, a private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC. Allen serves as the practice manager in support of Laudadio, who is a private wealth advisor, and his team. Jimmy Stanton , Eugene, OR, was chosen as one of 60 2020 Presidential Leadership Scholars. This is the sixth class of scholars, which includes veterans, educators, physicians, public servants, and corporate professionals who are brought together to collaborate and make a difference in the world as they learn about leadership through the lens of the presidential experiences of George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson. Amy Gerwer Duke , Nashville, TN, is now the director of the house system at Father Ryan High School. Duke taught at Bishop Lynch High School for 21 years. Summer Collins Gonter , Baltimore, MD, is currently pursuing a master of professional studies in entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership at the University of Maryland Baltimore County while working full-time. In the spring of 2020, she left Johns Hopkins HealthCare for a position at the Medifast corporate headquarters. 2002 Ebony Rose , Fort Worth, TX, was appointed by the National Panhellenic Conference to its new Access and Equity Advisory Committee. The committee was created to help identify reforms to eliminate structural and systemic barriers to sorority membership. 2 6 | SOUTHWE S T E RN