Board & Committees

I started at PGE on June 27, 1983 shortly after graduating from Oregon State University. During my 37 year career I held various positions in PGE’s planning, forecasting, accounting, and financial reporting functions. I completed my career managing Ethics and Compliance before retiring on October 2, 2020. I enjoy golf, photography, and scuba diving. I am also an active member of PGE’s golf league and amateur radio club.

I was hired in 1997 as a Corporate Communications assistant and moved into Community Affairs a year later. My 21-year career ended in 2018, from what I consider the best job in the company, administering the Company’s community engagement programs. Yes, it was me who relentlessly reminded you to “Record your volunteer hours”, “Apply for a Cause Card” and “Give during the Employee Giving Campaign and apply for the Company match!”
I keep busy with my Neighborhood Emergency Team, sewing masks for Portland Mask Project, serving on the PGE Retiree board and class reunion committees, lunching and taking long “walk and talks” with friends. I enjoy cooking, gardening, babysitting my grandgirls and attempting to improve my golf game. I live in Portland with my husband, John.

My Dad worked for PGE, and I joined PGE on 2/8/1968. I read meters out of the Gresham Division for six months and then moved to the Trojan nuclear project at the Yeon Building. The small staff grew to 1300 over the next 25 years (for me, 20 in operations and 5 in engineering) until plant terminated in 1993. After leaving PGE to work at a Nuclear Plant in New York, I was rehired by PGE in 1997 to help with the decommissioning of the spent fuel rods which ended in 2003, at which time I retired.

Always helping everyone … …

I began at PGE as a Meter Reader in 1977, enthused by the ability to work outdoors and go home upon completion of the day’s route:-). Following the onset of fatherhood I had to get serious and worked my way to Service and Design as a Service and Design Project Manager. That was a great fit and I retired in 2017 as Service & Design Supervisor at Portland Service Center. These days I focus on trying to not screw up digital media for PGE Retirees Inc.

Way back in 1983, PGE hired me as a temp employee. I worked in several locations, all in the Tower Buildings (before they were renamed WTC). In 1984 I was hired full-time to work in the Corporate and Technical Libraries. I had a blast.
Then in 1988, PGE began to work on its 100th Anniversary coming in 1989 and I was tapped to do the research for a book about its history. The book, eventually titled “Electrifying Eden”, was being written by a professor at PSU, edited and published by the Oregon Historical Society and sponsored by PGE. During that magical time, I was the unofficial PGE Historian and reported directly to Bob Short, then President and CEO. My office was always downtown, but I got to visit all the hydro plants, Boardman, several old substations (including the ones built for the Lewis & Clark Expo in 1905), Station L before it was OMSI and lots of old trolley stations – and I got to ride an original trolley in the 1989 Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade with a retired Trolley Conductor!
In 1991, I became a technical writer in IT (writing help screens for those first desktop computers) and then moved to HR Communications to write the Employee and Retiree Handbooks. That was the beginning of a long and wonderful (except for Enron and Trojan layoffs) communications career with HR, Corporate Communications, employees and retirees.
I retired in 2005, but I continued to work as a consultant for editing and history-related projects – which is how in 2018, I was asked to help with the Retiree Bulletin newsletter which led to becoming a member of the Board and eventually becoming the Newsletter Editor.
Now, when I actually “do things you are supposed to do when retired”, I love to read books that I can hold in my hands and mark up and share, figure out what to do with my family’s archives and photos, work jigsaw puzzles, walk, swim, drink good wine, nap, visit places I’ve never been, try things I’ve never tried, act silly and laugh out loud as much as possible. I smile a lot and I like to make other people smile too.
I have 2 sisters, 2 children and 3 grandchildren (ages 10, 10 and 6) living in Oregon, California and Nebraska whom I am looking forward to seeing and hugging soon!