PLS Alumni

Portland Lutheran is proud of its distinguished, loyal alumni. Recent graduates are studying at colleges and universities across the country. Those from years earlier are working in a variety of professions and occupations, raising families and serving their communities and churches in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere. Many current students at Portland Lutheran School are the children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren of former students and faculty.

• Dana Visser ’76 works as an instructional designer for Microsoft and lives in Seattle.
• Steve Buuck, PhD, ’80 is principal of Lutheran High School North near Detroit and is current chairman of the board of the Association of Lutheran Secondary Schools.
• Jim Haugen ’90 is pastor at St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church in Strongsville, Ohio.
• Greg Jordan ‘00 and Kristin Frank ’01 married in July 2006. Kristin graduated from the Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing in 2006 and works in the operating room at Providence Portland Medical Center. Greg is completing his bachelor of science in environmental engineering at Oregon State University. They live in Portland.
• Brian Kovach ’01 graduated with honors from Oregon State University in 2005 and was valedictorian of the management information systems program in the OSU College of Business. He works as a computer analyst for Stockamp & Associates, a health care financial consulting firm in Lake Oswego owned by Dale Stockamp ’76.
• Former PLS biology teacher (1972-78) Chuck Kunert, PhD, serves as dean of the Concordia University College of Theology, Arts & Science in Portland. Dr. Kunert was inducted into the NAIA basketball hall of fame in 2002 and currently is completing work on a textbook about evolution.

Portland Lutheran invites all alumni and families to contribute to The Branches, the alumni and friends publication, with news about personal and professional achievements, social and fund-raising events, reunions and other information of interest to the PLS community. Please send items to .