It might seem hard to pinpoint a favorite moment from 36 years of veterinary practice. But for Dr. Mike Bellinghausen (D.V.M. ’84), there’s no contest. “It came after 35 years of private practice in November of 2019,” he said. Bellinghausen was standing outside a temporary clinic in an old auditorium in Cuzco, Peru having just finished a week with the World Vets organization, which provides veterinary care to underserved regions around the globe. His daughter Stephanie (B.S. Biology ’16) was by his side.
Lorie Kennerly first walked through the doors of Magruder Hall as an Oregon State University employee in Dec. 1982 – six months before the first class of the Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine received their veterinary degrees.
Kennerly, an information technology consultant, spent most of her career in IT, but “my position pre-dated the age of IT,” she said. In the early days, computers were barely used. “Early on, my job was to teach old veterinarians how to use a mouse,” she said. “What a hoot!”
