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Santa’s Workshop (Dec. 6)

November 10, 2025

Santa’s Workshop Returns to The Bluff!
Mark your calendar for a joyful afternoon of crafts, cocoa, photos with Santa, and community spirit – all in celebration of Advent.

Filed Under: 2025-11-10, 2025-11-24, Alumni, Alumni & Parent Relations, Events, Issues Tagged With: Santa's Workshop

Alumni & Family Engagement Has a New Home!

October 24, 2025

The Alumni & Family Team has moved to Waldschmidt Hall.

Filed Under: 2025-10-27, 2025-11-10, Alumni, Alumni & Parent Relations, Issues Tagged With: Alumni, Alumni & Family Engagement, Alumni & Parent Relations

New Director for Office of Alumni and Parent Relations: Gina Amato Yazzolino

March 25, 2021

Gina Amato Yazzolino ’96 has been named director of alumni and parent relations effective April 12.  Yazzolino succeeds Craig Swinyard, Ph.D. ’98, who stepped away from the position last December to resume teaching as an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics. “Our University of Portland community will benefit from Gina’s strong non-profit experience and […]

Filed Under: 03-29-2021, Alumni, Alumni & Parent Relations, University Relations Tagged With: Alumni and Parent Relations, Bryce Strang, Gina Amato Yazzolino

Anna Horlacher: Good Luck and Thank You!

January 8, 2021

Anna Horlacher, associate director of alumni and parent relations, has accepted a position with a consulting firm in Portland, and will be wrapping up her service at the University during the first week of February. Anna is a proud UP alumna from the Class of 2012.  She joined the alumni and parent relations team in […]

Filed Under: 01-11-2021, Alumni & Parent Relations Tagged With: Alumni & Parent Relations, Anna Horlacher

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Fr. Pat Hannon, CSC, published From Glory to Glory: A Pilgrim’s Notes From the Badlands of Grace. Occasioned by the author’s walking, with siblings, the famous Camino de Santiago in the fall of 2024, the book traces all manner of other pilgrimages—to and from home, family, love, self, and God. One Subject Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. November, 2025.

Jessica Murphy Moo, editor of Portland Magazine and director of storytelling, wrote the lyrics to two songs in “We Go On, Oswego,” a song cycle honoring female refugees who lived at Camp Ontario in upstate New York. From 1944-1946, Camp Ontario provided emergency shelter to refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. “We Go On, Oswego” was performed at Nazareth College, in collaboration with Finger Lakes Opera, on December 4, 2025. It was commissioned by Katie Hannigan, PhD. The song “There Is No Underground,” was written in collaboration with composer Maria Thompson Corley, and the song “My Table,” was written in collaboration with composer Kurt Erickson.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published “A Spirituality of Desert Discipleship for Our Times. Reflections on the Readings of the Third Sunday of Advent.” VoiceAfrique.org. December 13, 2025.

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