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2 FROM THE PRESIDENT 6 FANFARE Revitalizing our urban campus Art intersects with angst 'The Knowledge' mural 3 LETTERS What do you know? Color does maccer New Works

4 PARK BLOCKS 18 GIVING Good design for all Transplanting a dream Green wineries uncorked The scoop on the new 19 ATHLETICS Ben & Jerry's Football returns to Banner fund-raising year downtown Portland

20 ALUMNI Longtime director retires Board of Directors transitions You're all members! Serving P U and our community together Guarding against toxic produces A pioneer for women engineers Helping women Dress for Success Creating new technology

"Canine Surprise" by award-winning Portland artist Ralph Pugay '07, MFA '10. ON THE COVER Bad bosses can make their employees not just miserable, but actually sick. See story on page 8. Illustration by Dan Selleck.

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FALL 2011 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 1 PORTLAND ~ STATE i FROM THE PRESIDENT

FALL 2011 / VOL . 26 NO. 1

EDITOR Kathryn Kirkland

CONTRIBUTORS Tyler Brain, Chris Broderick, Scott Gallagher, Sean Martinez, David Santen

COPY EDITOR President Wim Wiewel charges Martha Wagner up an all-electric Tesla at the opening of the University's DESIGN new Electric Avenue. Brett Forman

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 730 Market Center Building PO Box 751 Portland OR 97207-0751 503-725-4451, fax 503-725-4465 [email protected] ADDRESS CHANGES Revitalizing our urban campus PSU Alumni Association www.alumni.pdx.edu click on "update your info" TH IS FA LL marksanotheryearofvibrant Broadway. The hisroric building houses our or call 503-725-4948 growth and development at Portland Scace cheater, music, film, and dance classrooms ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT OFFICE University. and performance spaces. Solar panels being Mary Coniglio, Associate Director Over the summer, we opened Electric installed on the roof of Lincoln Hall will Simon Benson House Avenue, a block of parking on campus dedi­ make it PSU's first LEED Platinum build­ 1803 SW Park Ave. cated co charging stations for electric and ing-status that was earned, in part, as a PO Box 751 Portland OR 97207-0751 hybrid cars as well as electric bicycles. This is resulr of philanthropic support. 503-725-4948 a collaborative research project with Portland Also this fall, we extend our campus [email protected] General Electric and the city of Portland and easrward by breaking ground on the Col­ PSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION the first of its kind in Oregon. Car and bike laborative Life Sciences Building, a joint BOARD OF DIRECTORS owners pay to park, but the battery charg­ $110 million projecr with Oregon Health David Keys '81, MBA '92, President ing-from a variety of test stations-is free, & Science University and Oregon Scace Ron Adams '60 thanks co renewable energy from PGE. University along the South Wacerfronr. An Leila Aman '99 Casa Lacina, a new academic and cultural Sarah Bracelin '01 architectural rendering of the building is Chris Cooper MBA '06 support center for Latino students, is up and included in this issue along with om College Aubre Dickson '98 running in Smith Memorial Student Union. Station residence hall, which is quickly going Al Fitzpatrick MA '83 Nicole Gallagher '01 In addition co computers and study areas, up on the south end of campus. The featme Jerry Gordon '68 the center features striking murals created by "Prepared for Growth" visually lays out Richard Helzer '62 students from PSU and local high schools. recent projects and proposed plans for the Kelly Hossa1n1 '90, MURP '93 Shelby Kardas '96 A new Ben & Jerry's ice cream shop opened next two decades as Pordand Scace expands Bill Lemman, Vanport, HD '04 in the Urban Center Plaza, which is giving co serve the growing number of students Dan McDonald MBA '91 job training co ac-ri k youth through an who make us Oregon's largest and most Kendal McDonald MA '02 Knshnakumar Regupathy MS '99 inspired partnership berween Porcland Scace diverse university. John Whearty '91 and New Avenues for Youth. I invite you co come to campus and see

Portland State Magazine 1s published In October, we unveil the Science these many changes for yourself. The most three times a year, during fall, winter, Research and Teaching Center, a huge frequent comment I hear from visitors is: and spring terms. Contents may be modernization project for Science Building ''I've never seen the campus look chis good!" reprinted only by perm1ss1on of the editor. The magazine is printed on 2 and a vital link in the chain of science recycled paper. Portland State University education, advanced research, and workforce is an affirmative action / equal development for health care, manufaccming, opportunity institution biocech, and high-tech businesses. We al o are opening a new entrance and Wim Wiewel lobby for Lincoln Hall that faces Southwest PRESIDENT, PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY

2 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 Porcland rare Magazine wants to hear .from you. E-mail your comments to [email protected] or send them to Portland rare Magazine, Office of University Communications, PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207-0751. We reserve the right to edit for space and clarity.

EDITOR 'S NOTE The debate continues on experiencing education in the same way to say char I do not see differences. Bur it "Color Matters," the cover article from as whites. Ir's like raking a helicopter to is up co us to transcend those prejudices the Fall 2010 magazine, and letters from the top of a mountain and criticizing and biases. We can do chis through hard the Winter 2011 issue . All are available people who have been climbing from work, education and personal sacrifice, on line at pdx.edu/magazine. the bottom for not racing with you to no matter our color, our gender or our the summit! social or economic status. We should nor Racism in our community be so dismissive of ocher people's struggle Brendon Bassett 'OJ (and sometimes failure) to fir in nor I was very impressed with the article should we say it cannot be done. "Color Matters" that was published in the Fall 2010 issue of your magazine. Firsthand experience Priscilla Rushanaedy I strongly agreed with the author's sug­ I wanted to let you know that I agree gestion that a "progressive" community whole-heartedly with rhe article, "Color like Portland can overlook subtle expres­ Matters," (Fall 201 0) and we should Continental divide sions of bias and, more importantly, the never forger char it continues to matter. The problem with Joyce Brusrand reality of institutionalized racism. As I attended Monroe and Franklin high Gordon's letter (Winter 2011) is when impressed as I was with the article, schools, PSU (1976-79), and University she suggests that we refer to races by I was equally shocked by the subsequent of Porcland, and my educational experi­ continental origin. Using the label Euro­ response from some of your readers in ences left a lot to be desired, although pean Americans to identify all white the Winter 2011 issue. I had both good and bad teachers, black people is bogus, because all European One reader stared in his letter char and white and other. In addition, the Americans are not white. Time and Porcland is "not a racist city" and chat job opporruniries and pay available to immigration have changed the racial the "real reason" for economic disparity me in Porcland were starkly different complexion of the continents tremen­ in Porcland is than my white counterparts, who were dously over cl1e last century. Babies of education. He no smarter, better educated, or equipped all colors have been birthed in Europe went on to cite to do the job. Ir was so bad that I for a long rime. When her children are the original eventually left the city. her age, will using continental origins to author, scaring Let's face it, racism is striking and identify races be appropriate at all? Noc char "one-third disturbing. Further, any coalition set likely. of the country's up to deal with it had better be truly The real irony of her letter comes people of diverse with meaningful citizens who in the section following her signature: color have not will accomplish the goals set out versus "First-generation Swedish Norwegian graduated from paying lip-service for another 25 years. I and mother of three Asian Americans." high school vs. am always willing to help. If one were using continental origin as 7 percent of che criteria, wouldn't her children really whites" and asserted char "This is the Cornelia Hicks be European/Asian Americans? root cause of poverty, not racism." I have Stone Mountain, Georgia I understand her argument about to say, I was truly astonished to read this consistency in labeling, bur in making it sentence! I would be interested to know she offended the very rule she is rallying what exactly this reader believes has Color does matter against. And cl1at's the problem with created such an education gap between In regards to Tom H. Stanley's letter labels. Ir will continue to be until the people of color and whites. His assertion (Winter 2011), we can always find day we stop identifying each other by carries the attribution char people of exceptions, bur color does matter; so does criteria unimportant to the context of colo r simply choose not to be educated. gender, so does attractiveness, so does the conversation. In the meantime, we Ir ignores the more complex truth chat money, so do political and social connec­ should strive co stop using racial labels a deep and prolonged history of racism tions, so does culture, so does religion, in everyday speech unless it is purely in every community has created barriers, etc. Ir would be wonderful if we were nor necessary. both internal and external, that prevent so naturally biased, bur as humans, we people of color from accessing and are. Ir is overly simplistic and dishonest Dee Wilke '90

FA LL 2011 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 3 Good design for all

MOST NEW ARCHITECTURE designs-from mansions on his public interest projects. They've built an outdoor solar to museums-are for society's wealthiest five percent. Bue as kitchen for squatter communities in Mexico using focused architecture professor Sergio Palleroni explains, char approach sunlight rather than wood burning ro cook the day's meals, defaults on civic obligation and ignores some of society's accompli shed with inexpensive and readily available materials. most interesting challenges. He looks for ways to include In Tunisia, they built solar bakeries for a community with PSU architecture students in public interest projects, building a 7,000-year history of bread baking. And in Ladakh, India, "million-dollar ideas with $100 in parts from Home Depot." they constructed an off-the-grid school with internationally The irony is char chis selfless, public approach has brought renowned architectural engineering firm ARUP Associates, Palleroni accolades from such people as Jane Goodall, Richard at the request of the Dalai Lama. Gere, Prince Charles, and Richard Branson. Recencly, che Closer ro home, Palleroni's students worked with Habitat American Institute of Archiceccs awarded Palleroni and three for Humanity to design a community center for families collaborarors its 2011 Latrobe Prize. Their winning proposal, permanently displaced from New Orleans by Hurricane selected from nearly 500, Katrina. In Austin, Texas, they built affordable and energy will look ac how architects efficient ''Alley Flats" for low-income families. And for schools do and could play a role in Oregon and elsewhere, they have come up with a new in public interest projects. design for modular, portable classrooms. Ir is the first Latrobe Prize When Palleroni joined che PSU Department of Architecture winner to address an issue in 2008, it had long offered a bachelor's degree program. This ocher than a technical past June, he saw the first group of students graduate from architecture challenge. Architecture's new master's program. Some of their projects, Palleroni includes including orphanages and classrooms in Haiti, will keep students from Portland current students busy for years ro come. Scace and ocher schools

Architecture professor Sergio Palleroni takes students around the world to design and build public projects. In Ladakh, India, (above) students worked with local pupils and Buddhist nuns stitching together military parachutes for a pavilion that symbolizes peace and unity amidst the chaos of war.

4 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 PARK BLOCKS

Green wineries uncorked

FOR GENERATIONS, che only thing published in che journal char maccered when it came co wine of Wine Research. was caste. "There's definitely an Oregon Noc anymore, according co North­ ethos in terms of believing in west wineries, leaders in sustainable the natural world and trying practices. Today, connoisseurs wane co enhance the production of to know how the grapes are grown, grapes," Pullman says. whether wineries treat the land respect­ She found chat raking care fully, and how much waste the industry of the land is intricately linked produces. co producing excellent wine. All aspects of the Northwest wine business-from To char end, business professor Oregon winery Sokol Blosser, for grape growing to distribution-was the focus of Mellie Pullman and her students example, uses cover crops rather chan a study conducted by business students under professor Mellie Pullman. conducted interviews of 25 Oregon herbicides co control weeds, and those and Washington wineries about their cover crops provides nutrients when eco-friendly practices and why they're worked back into the soil. okol Blosser switching co screw caps and skipping imporranc. 1hey found wineries char was also the first winery in the country the lead foil chat wraps around bottle limit pesticide and herbicide use, make to earn prestigious LEED (Leadership in necks. While Pacific Northwest wineries use of bio-fuel in their equipment, Energy and Environmental Design) cer­ produce 90 percent ofU. . wine not and distribute wine in 2.5-gallon tification for a building on its property. made in California, cheir relatively small reusable mini kegs rather than indi­ Other Oregon wineries are pushing size allows chem co make sustainable vidual boccies. Their study results were co reduce waste in packaging, such as changes, says Pullman.

Banner fund-raising year The scoop on the new Ben & Jerry's Portland State experienced a COME TO CAMPUS fora Ben& work experience and entrepreneurial 22 percent increase in philanthropic Jerry's Triple Caramel Chunk ice cream skills. The new shop's assistant manager, support, making the 2010-11 fiscal cone and know you are helping young Charlyn Neal, was homeless when she year the best ever in gifts received people in Porcland. first came co New Avenues. Today she by the University. Private donors This summer New Avenues for Youth is a 21-year-old mother with her own and organizations contributed opened its second Ben & Jerry's Parmer­ apartment. Shop in the PSU Urban Center Plaza at New Avenues also expects the close more than $15. 7 million to PSU Southwest Sixth and Mill. New Avenues proximity co Portland State co spark new people, programs, and research. use the shops co give young people educational ambitions for its ice cream "We are extremely grateful scoopers. PSU's School of Social Work is for this unprecedented level of helping by developing graduate intern­ giving, particularly during these ships and a work-study mentor program tough economic times," says PSU with New Avenues as well as scholar­ President Wim Wiewel. "These ships for the young people it serves. donations directly support students and help PSU keep the cost of a quality education within reach of This summer, New Avenues for Youth Oregonians." ■ opened a Ben & Jerry's scoop shop on campus in partnership with PSU and the School of Social Work .

FALL 2011 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 5 . .

Art intersects with angst

AS A STUDENT, Ralph Pugay won a prestigious art award "For the audience, I hope it becomes more of an experience that continues to raise his profile nationwide. His work, which of looking at something and appreciating it for what it is versus spans sculpture, painting, and performance art, often focuses something you have to try to figure out," he says. "That's an on the tense intersection of anxiety and catastrophe and important exercise, too. It's important to simply acknowledge combines ideas in paradoxical ways. alienation in a world so filled with uncertainty." Pugay '07, MFA '10 says he doesn't worry about how His 2010 award from the Internacional Sculpture Center was concretely an audience can parse out his themes as much as he for a piece that juxtaposes seemingly opposite ideas of physical hopes to push viewers' comfort level. therapy, reality TV game shows, and an obstacle course. Since graduation, Pugay has been working to connect with galleries and artists outside of Portland. His work has shown in Portland and New York galleries, and his winning sculpture is part of an International Sculpture Center traveling exhibit of student winners' work around the country. While he isn't yet making a living solely on his art, Pugay, a native of the Philippines, is enjoying exploring the world through his work. "I would not recommend art as a means to make a living," he says with a laugh. "It's fun to do. It keeps me off the streets."

WE WANT TO HEAR about your books and recordings This performance art piece by Ralph Pugay received the and your future exhibits, performances, and directing International Sculpture Center's 2010 Outstanding Student ventures. Contact the magazine by emailing psumag@ Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. pdx.edu, or mailing Portland State Magazine, Office of University Communications, PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207-0751 . . . ············ ······························ ·· ···· ····· ·

6 POR TLAND STATE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 FANFARE

THE KNOWLEDGE, an award-winning mural created by art professor Harrell Fletcher with assistance from Avalon Kalin, looms large at Southwest Fifth Avenue between Hall and College streets. A poll of faculty, staff, and students determined which PSU Library books were used.

What do you know?

Which London-born Oregon coach led his teams to 13 conference titles, 20 NCAA tournament berths, and 7 NCAA Final Four appear­ ances? (Hint: it's not a PSU coach.) Which popular Oregon destination was once a social welfare project designed to help the poor become self-sufficient through farming?

Stumped? (See answers below.) The online Oregon Encyclopedia of Culture and History can help. Factoids like chis are part of what make living in Oregon so interesting, but like all history, they can be easy to lose amidst the shuffie of papers and daily life. The encyclopedia was launched three years ago as part of the ramp­ up for the state's 150th birthday. Founded as a partnership linking Portland State, the Oregon Council of Teachers of English, and the Oregon Historical Society, the encyclopedia is a rich and growing trove of state history and culture. So far, more than 400 authors have written more than 850 online entries, and the site builders are willing to accommodate up to 5,000 entries, says Executive Director Bill Lang, a history professor at PSU. Topics range from art and architecture co literature, performing arcs, and music. "Our an1bition is to cover everyrhing about Oregon's history and culture, so in a sense we have no upper limit for the encyclopedia," Lang says. Editors pick enuy topics and select authors based on suggestions from a 26-member editorial advisory board and from the general public. With their help, the site continues to grow each week. As a reliable and easy-co-use source, the encyclopedia is particularly popular with teachers and students, says Lang.

Answers. Clive Charles, beloved head coach at University of Portland; McMenamins Edgefield in Troutdale. For more Oregon trivia, check out www.oregonencyclopedia.org. ■

FALL 2011 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 7 • • • • • • • • • • • 's • • • 9 • • ■ It depends. If your boss made you feel welcome, • • proved to be supportive and fair, and gave you • responsibility, your answer is probably a thumbs up . • • • • WRITTEN BY SHELBY OPPEL WOOD . •...... ILLUSTRATIONS BY DAN SELLECK • • • WELCOME TO the fictional Supermarket ness, professors are examining the impact from Hell: of workplace relationships and developing Ac che deli counter, an employee measures co strengthen chem-drawing • • struggles co keep up with a rush of custom­ connections between bad bosses and sick ers. Her co-worker called in sick because employees, and between satisfied workers • she couldn't find a babysitter. The deli and a healthier bottom line. supervisor changes the schedule with little • • notice, so working parents are constantly A BASIC first step is for employers co scrambling co find childcare-and often understand chat their employees have life don't. challenges outside the workplace, and chat • In produce, it's a stock boy's first day. unless they can cake care of chem, they're After a brief orientation, he's left on his probably nor going ro do well at work. own and can only shrug when a customer Flexibility is key. needs help finding the corn. None of his Leslie Hammer, a professor of psychol­ new co-workers bother co say hello. ogy, recalls a 23-year-old man typical of the In the head office, a stressed-out manager low-wage employees whom she finds most scans the web for job openings. With his compelling-chose with the least control skills and experience, he should be running over their schedules and fewest resources a much bigger score. He could run chis one for "picking up the slack" when work and better, coo-if his bosses would lee him family collide. make more decisions. When Hammer interviewed him as The Supermarket from Hell, or any real­ part of her current research, che man was world workplace with similar woes, doesn't supporting his 13-year-old sister and their have to be chis way. Researchers at Portland drug-addicted parents. He needed co ralk Scace can prove it. In Psychology and Busi- with his sister each afternoon co make sure

8 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 she arrived home safely from school, but State University. Hammer is the center "the supervisor is the linchpin in terms his grocery supervisor would not allow director. of work-family support," Hammer adds. personal phone calls. The stress and After supermarket managers in her "We're looking at ways to train anxiety he endured throughout hi daily study completed a training program she manager co understand that being shift rook a visible roll. developed, their employees perceived re ponsive and sensitive to work-family "He was sick, clearly depressed," says them to be more supportive of work­ issues leads co lower stress," he says. Hammer. life issues and reported improvements "Higher levels of stress translate into This man was part of the first in their overall health as measured by higher absenteeism, higher turnover and national study to explicitly link conflicts such factors as pain and psychological lower production." between work and family demands to problems. Hammer is refining the employee safety and the mental and training and measuring its impact on IF BEING SENSITIVE to an employ­ physical health of workers and their supervisors and employees in long-term ee's personal challenges is one way co families. Ir also idemified specific ways care facilities and the telecommunica­ improve life at work, so is being fearless d1ar supervisors can support workers' tions industry. about hiring someone who may seem efforts to manage those demands. As for that young grocery worker, the overqualified. The conventional wisdom Hammer's study, sponsored by the better business decision would have been about hiring overqualified workers is: National Institute of Child Health and ro let him rake a daily call from his sister Don't. They have bad attitudes and Human Development and the National so that he could resolve his concerns and are more likely to quit. PSU faculty In titute for Occupational Safety and cum his full atteption to his job, says member Berrin Erdogan was skeptical Health, has established at PSU the Hammer. Especially at smaller compa­ of this premise-especially after she Center for Work-Family Stress, Safety nies without formal programs co help found scant research to back it up. So and Health, a joint effort with Michigan employees manage competing demands, Erdogan, with Business Administration

FAL L 2011 POR TLAND STATE MAGAZINE 9 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • faculty colleague Talya Bauer, tested of whether they are supported by their or group dynamics," Bauer says. "They're the conventional wisdom in a chain of bosses "trickle down" co influence the living them everyday." Turkish retail stores. work attitudes of those who report to Bauer' research agenda is as crowded The results, which earned mention in that supervisor. as her office. Research in progress The New York Times, provide companies In the workplace, so much depends includes an examination of work as a new incentive to hire applicants they on a manager and employee "click- calling; a look at how newcomers fare consider overqualified. If they are made ing," says Erdogan, who with Bauer in apprentice trades in France; and to feel valued and given autonomy­ has co-authored rwo textbooks used in helping a large high-tech company avoid "not treated like a cog in a machine"­ more than 100 universities worldwide. squelching the creative impulses of new overqualified workers will perform well She is motivated co identify structural employees. In July, she headed to Google and stick around, says Erdogan. approaches companies can use co encour­ headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., "They only left sooner if they were age positive day-to-day relationships for a three-month stint as the first non­ not empowered," she says. The lesson: between managers and employees­ engineering professor in the company's "Overqualified individuals should not be instead of simply hoping for that "click." visiting faculty program. automatically disqualified." With her PSU colleagues, Bauer "People lead by the relationships they 0 NE WAY co ensure that employees fit shares the belief that workplace relation­ have with people," explains Erdogan, in is to give chem a good start. Anybody ships are coo important co be left co an associate professor of management, who's had a job remembers at least one chance. Employers who want co run who is interested in the day-to-day bad First Day: the cubicle with no work­ effective organizations must take action management of people and how those ing telephone, the lonely lunch break, co help create the relationships that relationships affect employee well-being, the boring safety video that served as keep employees happy, healthy, and customer service and organizational "orientation." satisfied. It can be as simple as making effectiveness. And yet, "the research definitely shows sure someone takes the newbie to lunch. Challenging "common sense" assump­ chat those first few days really matter," Especially in retail and other entry-level tions is the most fun part of her work, says Bauer, a professor of management jobs, "if someone has a bad first day, she says. in the School of Business Administra­ they don't come back," says Bauer. H er recent research, also with Bauer, tion. She has published and consulted But make a new employee feel focused on employees' perception on the topic of how ro acclimate new accepted, confident, and clear about of justice. They found that it's not employees so that they quickly add value his or her role-in chat order-and "all critical for a supervisor to have similar to an organization. sorts of good outcomes follow." relationships with all subordinates, a Bauer's PSU students, most of whom "I chink people believe that relation­ long-held management mantra. What's hold down jobs while in school, don't ships aren't happening all the time-but important is that employees who aren't need to be persuaded that how co­ they are," Bauer says. "You might as well part of a leader's inner circle believe workers treat a new hire, or whether make it a positive thing." ■ that the organization nonetheless will employees perceive their bosses as fair, treat them fairly. helps determine if a company succeeds Shelby Oppel Wood a freelance writer, In another project, with Jeanne or fails. contributed the story "Plugging into the Enders, an assistant professor of manage­ "That relationships at work matter Future" in the Winter 2011 Portland ment in the Business School, Erdogan makes total sense to them. I don't have Scace Magazine. showed that supervisors' perceptions co convince them about justice at work

10 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 Companies and their busy employees gain new skills through the University's Professional Development Center.

PAUL SLYMAN, a former Portland Development and even PDC's executive director, Patrick Quentin, Commission manager, was asked in 2007 ro create a signed on. management office to oversee PDC's many investment "I wenc through with my entire division-the projects-from small local businesses to Portland's Economic Development Division," says Quentin, "and South Waterfront. it was a fantastic learning experience and teambuilding ''Ar the PDC," says Slyman, "we loved projects, bur exercise." we didn't always manage them optimally." Although employees rook training offered by the I N A 5 EN 5 E, the PSU Professional Development srate, something was amiss. Center, which is self-supporting, is like a smorgas­ "It was 15 days of training-so they were our of the bord-offering "pick-and-choose classes" to meet the office for three weeks-and it often wasn't relevant to particular needs of an individual or organization. what they needed to learn," says Slyman. In addition, In addition ro project managemenc, the cencer also employees would skip classes to get work done. offers classes in conflict resolution, business writing, When Slyman heard about Portland State's Profes­ human resource managemenc, multimedia, organiza­ sional Development Center, he decided to investigate. tional development, cross-cultural communication, Opened in 1982, the P U cencer offers classes to and process improvement. working professionals seeking to enhance or add to their Jessica Berg chose to take classes at the cencer to career skills. le also provides instruction for compa­ enhance her skills when her career goal shifted. nies-from Nike to Netflix--on campus or on site. Marketing was Berg's love in college, so she was Slyman, eager to see whether the center could happy to land a job in her field at prestigious Portland provide the training PDC was urgently seeking, rook law firm Smith Freed & Eberhard. But the job changed the project managemenc cour e himself. when she was asked to take on some human resource "What I liked," says Slyman, "was that it was eight responsibilities for the firm's 130 plus employees. days, which was about the right length. It was much "I liked it," says Berg. cheaper, so it saved a lot of money. And since it was In fact, she liked her job change so much that she in Portland, PDC employees didn't have to travel to began to look for ways to move inco the field, includ­ Salem." ing convenienc HR classes that would allow her to stay Still, Slyman wanted to make the course he rook on the job. even more relevant to PD staff. In a quick email, he "I researched differenc programs in Portland," says asked the cencer if they could tailor the coursework to Berg, "and the Professional Developmenc Cencer include actual PDC examples, among otl1er changes, looked perfect for me." and to limit classes to PDC employees. In six months, Berg completed the certificate pro­ "They wrote back almost immediately and said, gram, which she found to be timulating, challenging, 'absolutely'," says Slyman. The cencer also said "yes" and rewarding in an unexpected way. to allowing PDC instructors to take the reins for a day She found "a higher level of instructional engage­ or so to teach studencs PDC specifics such as how to menc" among srudencs as compared to her under­ use PDC forms and how to follow the PDC chain graduate studies, says Berg. Scudencs were committed of approval. to learning and focused on getting the most out of che Unexpectedly, the training helped develop a sense program. Likewise, professors held high expectations of camaraderie within teams and between depart­ for scudencs. mencs, says Slyman, who now works at Metro as Parks "For me," says Berg, "it worked out really well." and Environmental Services director. o well, chat after she com pieced her certificate, To emphasize the importance of the training, Smith Freed & Eberhard promoted her to its top Slyman made the classes mandatory for managers- human resources post. ■ BY MELISSA STEIN EGER BUSINESS AS

Integrity of craftsmanship is defining a new way of doing business in Portland.

WRITTEN BY SU YIM

M EET CHAR LES HEYING on campus and the urban studies professor can quickly turn into an unofficial tour guide for "made in Portland." He may take you to Langlitz Leath­ ers, where employees create jackets for Bruce Springsteen; to Hopworks Urban Brewery for an organic handcrafted beer; to Renovo Hardwood Bicycles for frames made out of Oregon wood. All locally owned, all dedicated to quality products, these businesses exemplify a growing economic and lifestyle trend in Portland toward an "artisan economy," a term coined in Brew to Bikes: Portland's Artisan Economy, written by Heying, his urban studies students, and local urban planners. Rather than striving to get bigger and Hopworks Urban Brewery was established about 25 years after the first craft breweries opened in to maximize profits in order to consume Portland, and there are enough thirsty customers for all. Photo by Tim LaBarge. more products, the artisan economy is built on different instead on the integrity of craft, simplic­ maintaining quality control would be values, says Heying. ity, people, and place. more difficult. The book-published In this world, the mark of success in 2010 by Ooligan doesn't rest solely on the bottom line, TH E ARTI SAN AES T HETIC draws Press, the University's but on the quality of the product. For innovators to Portland who are passion­ own artisan press-is Ben Davis, co-founder and owner of ate about their interests, says Heying. based on interviews Grand Central Baking Company, it was "Work is a vocation for them." with 118 artisans all about the perfect loaf of bread when For David King of King Basses, build­ across Portland's four he opened a small cafe on Southeast ing electric bass guitars is more than Professor Charles Heying signature sectors: Hawthorne in 1993. Consumers, just work. "It's like being a monk-you brew, food, fashion, literally, ace it up and can now buy the commit to it and yo u don't have any way and bikes. Ir defines arcisanship as a perfect loaf at the bakery's six locations. out once yo u're in," he says. Ristretto movement that challenges "the tyranny Despite his success, Davis has no plans Roasters founder Din Johnson, who of work and consumption," focusing to expand outside the city limits where turned his hobby into a business in

12 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 ABOVE LEFT: Bullseye Glass Company is the epicenter of Portland's kiln-formed glass industry. Photo by Jerome Hart and courtesy of Bullseye Glass.

ABOVE RIGHT: At least a dozen hatmakers call Portland home, but in her downtown studio, milliner Dayna Pinkham creates high-fashion hats sought nationwide. Photo by Ruthanne Annaloro.

2005, is so dedicated to the art of coffee As Heying asks, "How sustainable is chat he offers regular castings where that economy?" customers can sip coffee samples side by Plus, a locally based economy doesn't side, much like wine tastings. have to be a closed loop shut off from Artisan businesses have found a the increasingly globalized market, Hey­ welcome home in Portland due to its ing says. 1hanks to the Internet, local relatively low start-up costs, still-cheap goods made by small businesses can find rencs, and a consumer base chat shares customers and distributors anywhere. similar values. Affordability and access Chris King Precision Components, to hops are part of what has made Port­ which makes bicycle pares, has built land, with its 38 microbreweries, home an incernational cliencele through its to the largest per capita concencration of website. microbrew establishments for any metro 1here's no way to cell how the area worldwide. 21st-century artisan world will evolve. Focusing incensely on locally sourced, Heying is quick to acknowledge that the artisan products has apparently left industrial economy isn't disappearing. Portland ripe for humor. The city's However, he sees immense potential in love for all things local hie pop culture these still-early seeps toward an alternate chis year in Portlandia, an IFC comedy economy. The book is "a manifesto series. One skit gently mocks earnest for the artisan economy as a path of "locavores" who not only wane to know resistance in a globalizing world," he if the chicken on the menu is free range, writes. "Something is happening here. but how and where it lived. The evidence cannot be ignored." ■

T O TH OSE who would scoff at the Su Yim, a graduate assistant in the PSU long-term economic viability of artisan Office of University Communications, vocations, Heying has a ready answer. wrote "Operation: Go to School" in the The so-called real economy? These days, winter 2011 Portland Scace Magazine. chat looks like 10 percenc unemploy­ ment and mega-corporations outsourc­ ing jobs overseas.

FALL 2011 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 13 PF{EPAF{ED FOR_ GR_OWTH

Over the next 25 years, students will have more classrooms, laboratories, and living space, fur­ thering the University's goal of producing a highly educated workforce with an ingrained cultural commitment to sustainability. This is the vision behind Portland State's Uni­ versity District Framework Plan, which expands PSU as a learning laboratory for urban sustain­ ability in a mix of public and private spaces. Growth is a dominant aspect of the plan­ needed to provide space for 10,000 to 20,000 additional students expected over the next several decades. Partnerships with neighboring institutions, agencies, and businesses are the way it will come to fruition.

The Un ivers ity District Framework Plan ca lls for the addition of 7.1 million square feet-equivalent to eight times the square footage of Linco ln, Cramer, Smith, Neuberger, and Shattuck halls. Rema rkably, much of this additional space is proposed through in-fill projects wh il e 40 percent of it will be set aside for new businesses.

Existing University Buildings

■ Future Development

University District Boundary

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A D STATE MAGAZIN✓ MIXED USE Buildings along th e Park Blocks will have more research, cl assroom, and office space, helping the state meet its goal of putting bachelor's degrees in the hands of 40 percent of Oregonians.

Research/Office Academic - Active Space/Retail - Green Roof

COLLEGE STATION Construction has started on the almost 1,000-bed College Station residence hall at Southwest Fifth and College, and is scheduled for completion in summer 2012. The University is planning even more housing in the hopes of someday offering the choice of on-campus living to 2 5 percent of the student body.

COLLABO[1ATIVE LIFE SCIENCE BUILDING PSU chemistry and biology programs will move to Oregon Health & Science University's Collaborative Life Science Building, which breaks ground in October on the South Waterfront. The building will be home to health-related research and educational partnerships.

16 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 PROPOSED UNIVERSITY DISTRICT BOUNDARY The plan proposes expanding the University District a block east and several blocks south to accommodate the four acres PSU acquired with the purchase of the downtown Doub leTree Hotel in 2004. PSU is already partnering with Oregon Health & Science University on a new Collaborative Life Science Building, breaking ground this year in Interest Area B.

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FALL 2011 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 17 Transplanting a dream

MORE THAN 70 years ago, Rae bank was one of the first in the country Center (formerly known as Science Selling Berry's personal passion for the specifically dedicated to preserving Building 2) quadruples its current exceptional sparked a legacy that Port­ threatened and endangered species in capacity. land State is proud to carry on today. the Pacific Northwest, says conservation Although the garden is no longer An unabashed plant lover, Berry director Ed Guerrant. open to the public, the passion that transformed the grounds of her south­ That work will continue at PSU, fueled it for decades remains in the west Portland home into an internation­ thanks to $1.8 million in donations, community. As it was transitioning the ally renowned private collection of rare which creates a seed bank and labora­ program ro PSU, the Berry board raised plants. Her garden ultimately became tory on campus, endows the director $100,000 from nearly 200 donors to the Berry Botanic Garden, featuring position, and funds the Gilbert and help fund the move. education and research programs as well Laurie Meigs Conservation Education as one of the first seed banks of its kind Endowment Scholarship. A special reception for the opening ofthe in the country. Science Research and Teaching Center, This year, the Rae Selling Berry Seed PARTNERING with the Berry Botanic including the seed bank and conservation Bank and Plant Conservation Program Garden is a natural fit for PSU, where program, wi!L take place October 21 dur­ moves to PSU, which will further sustainability is the backbone of many ing PSU Weekend. For more information, expand the collection and operations. programs. Faculty and researchers see pdx. edulc!as. ■ The garden itself closed in 2010, a work on plane genetics, plant ecology, casualty of the stubborn recession. and invasive species. In addition, PSU After considering many options for its students have worked at the garden future, the garden's board chose PSU as interns, volunteers, and temporary to continue what has become its most staff while graduate students have crucial work: conservation. worked at the conservation program. "Reestablishing the seed bank at Port­ Those opportunities to train che next land State will allow Mrs. Berry's legacy generation of botanists and conser­ to take the world stage at an institution vationists will continue. "We want with an international reputation for its to gee as many people involved as are research and practice in sustainability," interested," says Guerrant, who will fill says Dawn Kropp, Berry Botanic the director position at PSU. Alumni Garden board chair. "With the growing and ocher community members are threat of climate change to native plants also welcome to volunteer. in the Pacific Northwest and around the The seed bank, which started in world, I can't imagine a more important 1987, has a collection of more than opportunity." three million seeds representing the Seed banks ace as time capsules to pre­ diversity of 350 species. Its new space serve and protect species. The Berry seed in the Science Research and Teaching

The Western Lily (Lilium occidentale) is one of the endangered plant species in the Rae Selling Berry Seed Bank which has moved to Portland State. Painting by Catherine Watters.

18 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 thletics

Football returns to downtown Portland 2011 VIKINGS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

NEW SEATS , new turf, and a new season Date Opponent Location Time of Viking football await fans at JELD-WEN Field this fall . Formerly known as PGE Park, Sept. 3 Southern Oregon JELD-WEN Field 1:05 p.m . the downtown sports facility was closed last Sept. 17 Northern Arizona* JELD-WEN Field 5:05 p.m . season as it received a face-life in anticipation Sept. 24 Texas Christian Fort Worth, Texas 11:05 a.m. of the Portland Timbers' move to Major Oct. 1 Idaho State* Pocatello, Idaho 12:30 p.m. League Soccer. Oct. 8 Montana State* JELD-WEN Field 1:05 p.m. The Vikings are coming off a 2-9/1-7 sea­ Oct. 15 Montana* Missoula, Mont. 12:05 p.m. son in 2010, but expect to redeem themselves Oct. 22 Willamette JELD-WEN Field 5:05 p.m. in the refurbished stadium. Second-year Oct. 29 Eastern Washington* Cheney, Wash. 1:05 p.m. head coach Nigel Burton is leading a more Nov. 5 Sacramento State* JELD-WEN Field 1 :05 p.m. experienced team with 49 lecterwinners and Nov. 12 Northern Colorado* Greeley, Colo. 11:05 p.m. 21 returning starters. JELD-WEN Field will hose six Viking home Nov. 19 Weber State* JELD-WEN Field 1 :05 p.m . games, four of which are Big Sky Conference contests, on Saturday afternoons or evenings. All games listed in Pacific time It's not too lace to gee a season ticket: call *Big Sky Conference game 503-725-3307 or visit Go Viks.com. ■

GET ALL OF THE LATEST sports news at www.GoViks.com. Game stories, statistics, schedules, and much more are available and updated daily. You can also hear and/or see game broadcasts. Buy season and single game tickets online at www.GoViks.com or call 1-888-VIK-TIKS or 503-725-3307.

FA LL 20 11 PORTLA ND STATE M AGAZIN E 19 Through the efforts of now retired alumni director Pat Squire MPA '95, the Simon Benson House was moved to campus in 2000 and lovingly restored.

Longtime director retires

THE SIMON BENSON HOUSE, the stately Queen Anne ing and Plaza and successfully campaigned to keep engineering on the corner of Southwest Park and Montgomery, looks programs at the University. like it has always been there while Portland State spread out Now that she is retired, Squire has "long-awaited" plans around it. But in 2000, the century-old house was picked up to travel with her husband, Fred, but she will likely return co and moved to campus from a few blocks away, then painstak­ campus this winter. ingly restored into a home for the Alumni Association. "I truly am a believer in life-long learning," says Squire, None of chat would have happened without the efforcs of "and my first activities with PSU will be to cake advantage of recently retired alumni director Pat Squire, who took care of the Senior Adult Learning Center and enroll for free in some the details once community activist Gretchen Miller Kafoury interesting classes." MPA '00 got the house rolling, so to speak. Those details included recovery of the house's 12 stained-glass windows that were stolen close to the move date. Squire received a tip on the whereabouts of some of the windows, which she passed on to the police. The tip led to a stash of windows found behind Board of Directors transitions newly installed wallboard in an antique shop basement. All were eventually recovered. Dave Keys '81, MBA '92, executive vice president at Norris Since Squire first came to can1pus as alumni director in & Stevens in Portland, is the newly elected president of the 1989, she has seen the number of PSU alumni increase from PSU Alumni Board of Directors, taking office on July 1, 2011. 45,000 to 130,000. She joined the ranks herself when profes­ Joining him are vice president Christopher Cooper MBA '06, sor Craig Shinn "made me excited about the Public Adminis­ project manager with The Standard; treasurer Aubre Dickson tration program," says Squire, who earned an MPA in 1995. '98, acquisitions manager with National Equity Fund, Inc; and Keeping Portland State and Vanport alumni connected to board secretary Kendal McDonald MA '02, archeologist with the University has been her goal for the past two decades. Applied Archaeological Research, Inc. Squire started PSU Weekend, which returns Oct. 21-23 with Newly elected board members are Leila Aman '99, develop­ free lectures and reunions. She also started a successful travel ment project manager with Metro, and Kelly Hossaini '90, program for alumni and a spring awards program that recog­ MURP '93, an attorney with Miller Nash. nizes graduates who have made a difference in the community The Association extends thanks to retiring board officers and at PSU. Many of the award winners have been active in Behzad Hosseini '96, MBA '97, president; Gina Leon '95, PSU Advocates, a program that Squire helped launch to con­ treasurer; and Rick Watson MBA '00, investment chair. Other nect alumni to their legislators. In the mid-1990s, advocates board members retiring are Gary Barth '86, Steve Brannan '57, exerted pressure for funding of the PSU Urban Center Build- Eric Graham '87, Linda Hamilton '90, and Karen McCarty '06.

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You're all members! Serving PSU and our

THE PSU ALUMNI Association 3. More engagement opportunities. community together Board of Directors has voted to create When all alumni are members, we a new, all-inclusive membership pro­ can focus on creating more valuable "Let Knowledge Serve the City." You gram. We are proud to announce that opportunities for you to engage with may have noticed this motto of the we now recognize all Portland State Portland Scare and with one another. University proudly gracing rhe pedestrian alumni as Association members-no Soon we'll be launching a new and bridge over Southwest Broadway. What dues required. robust online community, which does it mean to you? le means a number Alumni participation is vital to will let you choose how you'd like to of things to me, and in face that mes­ the continued success of Portland sray connected with PSU, help you sage has taken on new significance now Seate and its students. You are our participate in career networking, find chat I am president of the PSU Alumni best ambassadors in the arts, civic, "lost" alumni friends, make event Association (PSUM). To me, che motto business, and government com­ registration easy, and much more! offers hope that you will use the knowl­ munities, and vibrant communities edge and education you have struggled are the cornerstones of a world-class MAKE YOUR to acquire to serve not only tl1e city, but institution. COMPLIMENTARY also your family, friends, neighborhood, There are many important reasons PSU Alumni Asso­ country, and the world ar large. we have moved to an all-inclusive ciation membership The University continues to serve alumni association, but here are the official and request you as alumni, and I also invite you top three: your alumni card today! Simply visit to consider supporting and serving alumni.pdx.edulmembership to request Portland State as well. How? Attend a 1. Strength in numbers. When your new alumni card. Or, use your concert, play, or opera by the School of more alumni actively participate in smartphone QR Code reader to be Fine and Performing Arts. Mentor an the Alumni Association, you help us directed to our website: undergraduate srndenc. Come to the set the standard for a leading urban To download the QR code reader, can1pus and listen to a visiting lecturer. university. There are now more than visit get. beetagg. com with your phone's Attend PSU Weekend. Cheer on your 130,000 Portland State alumni web browser. Your phone model will favorite athletic ream at one of its games. worldwide! be detected automatically. Support the Fund for PSU. Whatever To the thousands of alumni who you do, let your PSU degree keep serving 2. Elevated support for PSU. Alumni have been dues-paying members you by being involved with your campus. membership dues were not tax­ of the PSU Alumni Association, The more you maintain your ties to the deductible contributions to Portland especially our Life Members, we want University, the more value will be added Stace. Now, when you make an to show our sincere gratitude. Life to your diploma. And, did you know annual gift to PSU, your investment Members will always be recognized that as a Portland Stare graduate, you is a tax-deductible contribution to as PSUM Sustaining Life Members automatically become a member of the the Fund for PSU. Your gifts provide in recognition of their outstanding PSU Alumni Association? scholarships for students, improve support. ■ A great place to get information on classrooms and labs, and strengthen rhe many activities occurring at Portland academic progran1s. As an alumnus, State, is our website ar pdx.edu/alumni. you know how important it is to .On behalf of the PSUM, we hope that show your support. we'll gee to meet you soon. Until then, "Go Viks!"

Dave Keys '81, MBA '92 Alumni Association President

FALL 2011 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 21 Jeanette Soby '69, MS '75 is an 1960-1969 adjunct professor for Academic Exchange, an instructional Roger Capps '60 spent three strategy workshop organization weeks in southern Bavaria, Ger­ in Portland. many, chis past spring bicycling with hi s wife, Jan. They have been taking bicycle trips co Europe every summer since he 1970-1979 retired as an elementary school principal in 1997. Capps writes, Tom Gilles '70 is retired from "Germany is a country filled United Airlines and now owns with beautiful bicycle trails and operates Gilles Travel with with each region having its own his wife, Karon. The Gilles are 2011 OUTSTANDING INTERNATIONAL distinctive beauty." also independent consu ltants ALUMNUS for Montrose Travel and have ANDRE CRAAN '69, MS '71 Roy Ludlow '61 has been booked cruises and trips all awarded the Doctorate of Bibli­ over che world. They live in Los cal Studies in Biblical Counsel­ Angeles, near che Hollywood ing from Master's International Guarding against sign, and enjoy coming co Divinity School in Evansville, Portland for family and "great Indiana. He also received the toxic products microbrews." Outstanding Graduate Award An immigrant from Haiti, Andre Craan has become a in recognition of academic Don Maltase '70 was selected excellence. Ludlow is currently protector of the Canadian people. The internationally 2011 Investment Broker of the enrolled in a PhD program in Year by rhe Commercial Asso­ known scientist lives in Ottawa and works as a scien­ biblical counseling with the ciation of Realtors of Oregon/ tific evaluator for Health Canada, where he focuses on Master's Theological Research SW Washington and the Port­ toxicology in consumer products and their impact on Institute. land Business journal. Ma lease human health and healing. Craan is also a sought-after is owner of Don Mal case Real is speaker with academic credentials in his original and Rosalie Grafe '64, MA '07 Estate in Portland. publishing the third book from adopted homelands as well as the United States. her Quaker Abbey Press pub- Tjerk "Jack" Dusseldorp '71 is One of Craan's proudest professional achievements ish i ng house in Portland. Her 1 president of the board ofWorld­ came when he helped push for the successful 1998 first book was a memoir by the Skills International, a member­ recall of soft vinyl teethers and rattles containing an late PSU professor Carl Dahl­ ship association for vocational unacceptable amount of a toxic plasticizer. Experts strom, titled Sent to HelL from education and training agencies feared that small children who sucked or chewed on Ann Arbor: A College Student's worldwide. A longtime leader in World War One, 2009. This the products for more than three hours a day would education and youth affairs in year, she is publishing selections his native Australia, Dusseldorp later develop liver enlargement or scarring of the from Dahlstrom's 50-year col­ is chair of che Dusseldorp Skills kidneys. lection of9,000 quotes from his Forum, a nonprofit focused Craan first came to Portland State on a scholar- University classes. on developing the skills and ship from the International Institute of Education of personal effectiveness of young has self­ the United Nations. He credits a number of faculty Jim Wygant '64 people in Australia. He lives in published Confessions ofa Lie members for guiding him through his career. History New South Wales and visited Detector: Years of7heft, Sex, and Portland Seate lase spring. professor Charles White, now emeritus, invited Craan Murder, based upon his three to live in his home. The late Dick Forbes taught Biology decades of work as a polygraph Donelle Knudsen '71 is an Principles, about which Craan remembers a particular examiner for defense attorneys. administrative assistant for lesson that was "critical to my career path in biomedi­ Wygant has also written two Petersen Hastings Investment novels, 7he Spy's Demise and cal research and regulatory science," he says. Management in Kennewick, Jessica's Tune published by Today Craan's expertise is in ensuring the safety of Washington. Knudsen is also his Lycetta Press. He lives in a four-rime finalise in Pacific consumer products, from pharmaceuticals to toys, Portland. Northwest Writers Association's while navigating the complex world of product regula­ literary contest in the memoir tions and government processes. Sho Dozono '69 received the category. Her newest memoir, Corporate and Community Through the Tunnel ofLove, a Diversity Champion Award at Mother's and Daughter's journey the Portland General Electric with Anorexia, was released in Diversity Summit in April April 2011. 2011. Dozono is rhe owner of Azumano Travel.

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Send your news to: also a member of the POX Mini Outstanding Alumni Award. management consulting firm in Donna Harris, Alumni Club, a board member of the He lives in Portland with his Brush Prairie, Washington. notes editor Sun river Festiva l of Cars, and wife, Jane AJbertus MSW '86. ONLINE a steering committee member Rhonnda Parsons Edmiston www.alumni.pdx.edu of the Portland Art Museum Carol Wong '77 is a behavioral '82 is a small business outrea h A llure of the Automobile Cars intervention consultant for manager for Howard S. Wright E-MAIL in the Park exhibit. Arata Creek chool, a public Construction in Portland. he [email protected] school for students ages 6 co also serves on the boards of the MAIL Arnold Wagner '73 is a power 18 with severe emotional and Hispanic Metropolitan Cham­ Portland State University policy risk analyst for the behavioral disorders located in ber of Commerce, Oregon Office of Alumni Relations Bonneville Power Administra­ Troutdale. Association of Minority Entre­ PO Box 751 tion, Department of Energy, in preneurs, and the PSU Business Portland OR 97207-0751 Portland. Wagner was awarded Outreach Program. a 2011 Unsung Hero Award by Douglas Soesbe '71, MA '76 BPA. 1980-1989 Lew Scholl '82, MS '87, a has sold his fourth cable movie retired storm water engineer, has entitled Look Again, a thriller Marcia Mason '74 is vice Larry Brant '81 was appointed started a new career as a photog­ that is in production in Mon­ president of human relations at chair of the Oregon State Bar's rapher. He li ves in Portland. treal with "V" actress Morena E terline Technologies Corpora­ Tax Law Section for 2011- Baccarin. tion, an aerospace manufac­ 2012. Brant is chair of Garvey Keren Brown Wilson PhD turing company in Bellevue, Schubert Barer's Tax and Ben­ '83 has been honored with Michael Houck MST '72 is the Washington. efits Practice Group in Portland the fo urth annual Sy Award recipient of the 2011 ohad A. and co-chair of che firm's Busi­ by the Multnomah County Toulan Urban Pioneer Award Glen "Roger" Dorband '75 ness Practice Group. Citizen Involvement Commit­ for Public Service. Houck is a photographer and owner of tee. Wilson, who founded three is executive director of the Raven Studios Arr in Astoria. Keith Frutiger '81, '07, a assisted li ving companies, is Urban G reenspaces Institute in His photographs are included in retired U.S. postmaster, is recognized as rhe arch itect of a Portland and has been a leader numerous private and corporate attending classes at PSU and new way of providing long-term in urban park and greenspace coll ec tions and the collection of volunteering fo r University care in Oregon and around the issues for more than three the Portland Art Museum. commencement activities. He country. Today, she is president decades. writes, "PSU should be proud of the Jessie E. Richardson Rogers Smith '75, MBA '77 of their professors. Each one Foundation, a private chari­ Jerry Lee '72 has been awarded is a principal broker for Tchehr appears co be dedicated, smart, table organization dedicated ro the Presidential Volunteer Corporation, a real estate bro­ and ready co help any student improving housing and services Service Award from the Obama kerage firm in McMinnville. who asks while being involved for older adults. Wilson is a past administration. Lee was in some aspect of their area of recipient of a PSU Outstanding recognized for his work with Donna Wagner '75, MUS '78 expertise." Alumna Award. Susan G. Komen Puget Sound is as ociate dean for academic Affiliate, and Seattle C hildren's affa irs in the Coll ege of Health Steven Klein '81 was honored Brian O'Connell '83, '99 is a Hospital, as well as numerous and Social ciences at New as che 20 11 Industrial Broker professor of Engli sh as a second charities in the Puget Sound Mexico State University in of the Year Runner-Up by the language at Dongbei Shi fan region. Las Cruces, ew Mexico. Commercial Association of Daxue - Northeast Normal Realtors and Portland Business University in Changchun, Dennis Goodyear '76 is journal. Klein is an industrial Jilin, C hina. O'Connell was assistant library director at broker for Kidder Mathews in an administrative assistant Avila University in Kansas icy, Portland. with the PSU Deparcment of Missouri. Admissions. Dale Buscho '82, MS '91 is Janet Wright '76, MPA '99 is retiring as a special education Carol White '83, a retired tele­ a transit program admi ni strator life ski ll s teacher from Portland communications marketer, and with Columbia County in St. Public Schools. Buscho spent husband Phillip '66, a retired Helens. Wright lives in Portland 10 years at Lane Middle School men's clothing srore owner, with her husband, James. and IO years at Franklin High wrote and published the book, Jerry Lee '72 School. He is married co Karen Live Your Road Trip Dream, Terry Cross MSW '77 wa Buscho MA '82- Their daugh­ in 2004. Since then, they have Brian Cone '73 is che indus­ selected co receive the Legacy ter, a rah, graduated from PSU been presenting seminars on the trial project manager at Test Award of the Robert F. Kennedy in 2010. topic across rhe Un ired cares. America Laboratory in Beaver­ Children's Action Corps. Cross When not traveling, the couple ton and a n avid car enthusiast. is founder and executive direc­ Richard Carson '82 is interim enjoys community activities in In 2010, Cone fo unded an tor of the National Indian Child city administrator for Cascade Wilsonville and spending time Oregon chapter of the BMW Welfare Association in Portland. Locks. arson is a senior associ­ with their 10 grandchildren. Car lub of America. He is He is a past recipient of the PSU ate for Cirygace Associates, a

FALL 2011 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 23 Ra-ed Raslan '84 is a consul­ Homes, a home building and tant civil engineer and director inspection company based in of the research and development Bend for the past 18 years. department for the Central Directorate of Projects with the Alona "Lonnie" Feather '87 Ministry ofinterior in Saudi created the painted glass walls Arabia. on the first Aoor and third Aoor study areas of the Higher Edu­ Mark Clemons MUP '85 is the cation Center at Rogue Com­ director of project development munity Coll ege in Medford. in the Portland office of design firm Group Mackenzie. He is Teresa Hopman-Thurman '87, married to Mary Weber '83, MS '96 was selected as one of 2011 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNA MUP'88. the Oregon Outstanding Social ANGELA WYKOFF '72, MS ' 75, '80 Studies Educators of the Year Rebecca Washington '85, by the Oregon Council for the MPA '95 is the career ser- Social Studies. She is an elemen­ vices coordinator for Portland tary teacher at Blossom Gulch Community College's Cascade Elementary in Coos Bay. A pioneer for Campus. Washington received the 2010 American Association J. Greg Ness MBA '87 wa women engineers for Women in Community honored with the 2011 Dis­ Colleges Excellence Award. tinguished Graduate Alumni During her 24-year career as an energy engineer, Angela Award by the PSU School Wykoff overcame obstacles and proved her worth in a Barbara Basney MBA '86 was of Business Administration. traditionally male field. recognized with the 2011 Rising ess is the president and chief In her early days at Bonneville Power Administration, Star Graduate Alumni Award executive officer of Stan orp she applied for a field job working on electrical trans­ by the PSU School of Business Financial Group, Inc., a nd Administration. Basney is vice Standard Insurance Company missions but was turned down. The reason? Women president of global advertising at in Portland. couldn't do the Job because it required the ability to Xerox Corporation. command a four-wheel drive vehicle. Her supervisor Dan Swift '87 is a senior direc­ intervened and she got the position. Later, she remem­ Michael Garey '86 is vice presi­ tor at the commercial real estate bers being one of only five female engineers at an dent of global administration brokerage firm C ushman & international conference of 800. and human resources for ova­ Wakefield in Portland, where Solar Technologies, a company he was honored as the number Now retired, Wykoff has brought her drive and based in Fremont, California, one overall producer and top determination to Portland State as a frequent volunteer, that bu i Ids large-scale photovol­ office broker in both 2009 and including member, committee chair, and eventually taic power plants. Garey is part 2010. Swift has also served on president of the Alumni Association Board. As chair of of a team establishing factory the budget and design review the PSU Advocates, the lobbying arm of the Alumni operations in Yangzhou, China. boards for the city of Happy Association, she helped the University obtain vital Valley. Daniel Lenzen '86 is a funding for several maior campus infrastructure projects, principal member of Concept including renovation of Lincoln Hall. Entertainment, which owns After serving on the presidential search committee, and operates eight restaurants, Wykoff made such an impression on President Wim bars, and nightclubs in the Wiewel that he recruited her to join several other Portland area. This past year, university-wide committees. Lenzen and his parrners spent $14 million renovating Grand PSU connections run in Wykoff's family. Her husband, Central Bowling. Lenzen has son, and daughter are graduates. Today, Wykoff con­ volunteered on various boards tinues to be involved with the University and currently and committees, including the Dan Swift '87 serves on the busy City Club research committee. Portland Rose Festival Founda­ tion, Chapter Housing Corp., Portland entral Precinct Advi­ Marilyn Turner MT '87 is a sory ommitree, and the Old senior manager in Compensa­ Town C hina Town Neighbor­ tion and Benefits Consulting hood Asso iation. with Grant Thornton, a global accounting, cax and advisory Leroy Sloan '86 is now a organization, in Portland. licensed property and home inspector. He owns Aspen

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Tim Miller '88 is a vice presi­ Mohamed Al-Kadri PhD '91 is in Sebek, Istanbul, Turkey. For­ Bobby BaJachandran MS dent and relationship manager a senior research engineer with cuny wrote American Writers in '96 is founder, chief executive for che ommercial Banking rhe California Department of Istanbul, published by Syracuse officer, and president ofExterro Group for US Bank in Portland. Transportation. Al-Kadri was a University Press in 2009. Inc., a legal project management Miller provides lending and visiting scholar at University of software company in Portland. relationship management t0 California - Berkeley, working Celeste Trapp '93, '00 MBA private and public companies on Intelligent Transportation is che founder and president Mark KembaJI MBA '96 is with annual revenue in excess of Systems research. He is a found­ of HairM and a partner at director of alumni relations at $40 million. He lives with his ing member of rhe National ITS Y-Chrome barbershops in Oregon Health & Science Uni­ wife and four chi ldren in Van­ Arch ire ture and an adjunct Portland. he is also a boa rd versity Foundation in Portland. couver, Washington, where they professor of systems science at member at Entrepreneurs' enjoy swimming, tennis, and rhe Department of Industrial Organization. Terra Peach MEd '10 is golf. He is active in his church and Systems Engineering at an enrolled in the college oflaw and serves on the board of che Jose care University. Tia Vincent '93 is che sales ac University of Illinois in Legacy almon Creek Hospital manager for corporate hospital­ Champaign. Foundation. Dana Cofer '91 is the north­ ity and business development west director for Portland with the Portland Trailblazers. Cynthia Pemberton EdD '96 Philip "Buzz" Poleson '88 Energy Conservation, Inc. has been awarded a Fulbright teaches mathematics and phys­ She live in Portland with her Corey Averill '94 reaches Scholar Award to teach at rhe ics at Portland Waldorf chool husband, Steven. strings, orchestra, and 11 ch­ University of Malta, in Misida, in Milwaukie. grade music hisrory at Portland Malta, for the 2011-12 academic Lucy Shipley '91 is rhe direcror Waldorf School in Milwaukie. year. Pemberton is an associ- of employee service in Human In addition, he is a professional ate dean of the Idaho Scace Resources at TriMec in Port­ cellist and operates a mu ic University Graduate School land. Shipley is married to Lane performance business, Duo and is a professor of educational 1990-1999 Shipley '92, MS '03. con Brio. Averill lives with his leadership. wife, Michelle, and a son and Bradley Arnston '90 is the Wendy Crook Ryde '92, MA daughter. HanifFazaJ '97 is founder and president of Albina Fuel in '97 has been assigned to rhe Seep Up program director for Porrland, a fourth-generation, U.S. Embassy in Kuwait, where Open Meadow, an alternative family-owned company. she will serve as consul general. middle and high school in north Ryde joined the Foreign Service Portland. He is credited with Kelly Hossaini '90, MURP in 1999 and has served in Mus­ increasing che school's yearly '93 has been elected t0 the cat, Oman; Budapest, Hungary; enrollment from 37 students to board of direcrors of che P U Port Louis, Mauritius; Mumbai, 300 scudents. Alumni Association. Hossaini is India; and Washington, D. a partner with the Miller Nash Heidi Olson '97 owns a Port­ law firm. She li ves with her hus­ Kimberly Fischer '92 is land public relations firm that band, Shahab, in Porrland. rhe accounting and human focuses on corporate speak- Corey Averill '94 resources assistant at The Alli­ ing and awards program for George Hughes '90 is a son Inn & Spa in Newberg. technology companies. She is certified public accountant for Janet Goldsmith MS '95 is a married to Tim Olson '94, and Hoffman, Stewart & Schmidt Tim Mayfield '92 has been human resources manager for they live in Tigard with their in Lake Oswego. Hughes is appointed global informa- Intel Corporation. She lives in rwo sons. an expert in federal and state tion technology client services Porrland. energy tax credits. His article on manager for ESCO Corporation Kellie VavRosky MBA '97 was OSCPA Energy Credit was pub­ in Portland. Trey Maust '95 is co-president, named 2011 Chief Financial lished by the Oregon SoC;iety of chief executive officer, and a Officer of rhe Year for small Certified Public Accountants Lana Baldock '93 is a senior member of che board of direc­ private companies by the Port­ chis year. direcror and broker for che tors of Lewis & Clark Bank. land Business journal. VavRosky commercial real escace broker­ Maust al o serves as vice-chair­ is the chief financial officer of Josh Lohman '90 is a metal age firm ushman & Wakefield man of BancSource, chairman VeriWave, Inc., a performance trader and industrial account of Oregon, Inc., where she was of rhe Oregon Banking Associa­ testing company for wireless manager at Alpert & Alpert honored a the number three tion's finance and investment data connection . The company Iron & Metal, Inc., in Los overall producer for 2010. committee, and member of che is based in Beaverron. Angeles, California. He is mar­ American Bankers Association ried ro Jennifer MacGregor '95 Kim Fortuny MA '93 is an Government Relations Council. Olga Lafayette '98 was selected and rhey have two boy . assistant professor of Engli sh He volunteers as a menror for for rhe Portland Business jour­ and coordinator of the Erasmus the PSU chool of Business nal's 2011 Forry under 40 list. Jo Smith '90 is a leadership Program with che Department Administration. Lafayerre is pre ident of Lan­ coach and speaker in Portland. of Western Languages and Lit­ guage Fusion, a language service eratures at Bogazis;i University provider in Porrland.

FALL 2011 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 25 Torrey Nyborg '99 received the Oregon Legislative Admin­ the first earth science doctor­ istration. Her daughter, AJexis ate at Loma Linda University Diann Tate '04, is also a P U in Loma Linda, California. He alumna. also received the university's president's award for outstand­ Jesse Cornett '01, MPA '03 ing research and community and his wife, Molly Aleshire, service for his dissertation. are owners of The Guild Public House, a pub on Ease Burnside Leila Aman '99 has been in Portland. elected to the PSU Alumni Association Board of Direc­ Margaret "Meg" Kilmer 2011 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI tors. Aman is a development MS '01 has been awarded the project manager in the Transit Les Adkins Award for Career SERVICE WINNER Oriented Development Program Guidance Excellence for 2011. AMBER FOWLER '98, MPA '00 at Metro, the Portland area's Kilmer is the college and career regional planning government. center director at Parkrose High She lives in Portland with her chool in Portland, where she husband, Robert Glase '00. has worked for more than 18 Helping women Dress years. Greg Fredetta '99 is the prin­ for Success cipal and managing partner for Sunny Petit '01, MS '07 is the Sacumo Design, a company chat associate director for che Center From Nike to the Trail Blazers, Amber Fowler made her provides website development to for Women, Policies, and Policy the legal industry in Portland. at PSU and a recipient of the mark in corporate marketing. But it's her work helping Tokyo Foundation's Interna­ low-income women in Spokane, Wash., reinvent their Rebecca Horvat '99 is a con­ tional Trade and Development lives that established her in the world of nonprofit troller for Ferguson Wellman Fellowship for research on entrepreneurism. Capitol Management, an invest­ women's political development While at PSU, Fowler worked as the fund administra­ ment advisory firm in Portland. in Turkey. She serves as acting tor for Spirit Mountain's Community Fund. Fowler cites She is also a board member for chair of the Oregon Commis­ Marathon Education Part- sion for Women. Petit lives in one of her greatest achievements at Spirit Mountain as ners, a Portland nonprofit chat north Portland with her hus­ the creation of the Hatfield Fellowship, which places an matches children to mentors band, Peter Noordijk MS '06, individual in a Washington, D.C., congressional office who provide college funds and and their two children. representing the Pacific Northwest and its recognized encouragement. native tribes. Sean Krug '02, MIM '07 is a logistics inventory planner and Fowler was nearly 40 when she graduated from kaizen leader for Sanofi-Aventis, PSU, where she took a life-changing class in nonprofit a pharmaceutical company in management. She decided to challenge herself to recast 2000-2011 Tokyo, Japan. her own life and future, and credits professor Ron Cease Krystin Bassist '00 is a real for increasing her interest in public service. After careful Chad Ramberg '02 is general estate broker with Windermere manager of FrX Auco Sunset research-and equipped with her degree and instructor ronin and Caplan Realty in Portland. Ramberg has been Kay Sohl's The Oregon Nonprofit Corporation Hand­ Group in Portland. Bassist is a working with auto shops across book-Fowler founded Dress for Success Inland North­ volunteer with the ALS Associa­ the country on rhe develop­ tion Oregon and SW Washing­ west in Spokane. She now works with 600 economically ment of the Toyota Production ton chapter. She I ives with her disadvantaged women through this international System for auto body shops. husband and two children in nonprofit. Her company recently was named " Rookie of He writes, "I have been able to Portland. the Year" by the national Dress for Success. advance the development for our hop in Portland based on Fowler has also created the Amber Fowler Public Mark A. Holman MBA '00 is a rhe education char I received at Administration Scholarship for low-income and disadvan­ compliance speciali st for Bonn­ p U." taged women in PSU's Public Administration program. eville Power Administration in Portland. Daniel Tracy '02 is a founding pa rcner of orrhwest Imaging Lore Christopher MPA '01 Analyses, a print and copier was elected to her third term as contract consulting firm in mayor of Keizer. Christopher Portland. Tracy and his wife, became the city's first female Megan, have one son. mayor in 2001. She also works as human resources director for

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Kerry Finsand '03 is the "chief rhe Center for the Development Kitzhaber. He lives with his Research to receive advanced beer officer" of Taplister.com, a of Social Finance. wife, Carrie, and their two training in ocean acoustics. website on craft beers focused children in Tigard. on the consumer. Kimberly McClain '04 Graham Keavney '07 is chief received a master's of education Jill Kuehler MS '06 is the exec­ executive officer and founder of Cathy Kaufmann MSW '03 is degree from Marylhurst Univer­ utive director of1he Friends icsybid.com, an online auction administrator of the Office of sity in Lake Oswego. of Zenger Farm, the education sire. In addition, he is cli- Client and Community Services arm of the nonprofit Zenger ent manager at Turrie Island, and the Office of Healthy Kids Sheryle Quinn '04, MEN '10 Farm in southeast Porcland. In Fiji, a 500-acre resort, and an for the Oregon Health Author­ is an environmental engineer addition, Kuehler is a director independent sales consultant at ity. Kaufmann has rwo young working for che Environmental at large for rhe East Multnomah Purple Cow Vineyards in Forest children. Division of che Depamnent of Soil and Water Conservation Grove. the Navy at the Washington District in Porcland. Robert E. Lee '03, MPA '08 Navy Yard in Washington, Sharla Crawford '08, MEd is president of the Pacific Asso­ D.C. Quinn lives in Alexandria, Patricia "PJ'' Pitts '06 is '09 is a social studies instruc­ ciation of Medical Equipment Virginia, and enjoys visiting the co-executive director and chief tor wirh Access to Success, a Services. He works as director area's extensive weclands. pharmacy officer for Medical diploma completion program of government affairs and health Relief & Education, currencly with Helena School District and policy analysis for Care Medi­ Nancy St. Germaine '04 is a deployed in Haiti. Pitts works University of Montana - Helena. cal. He also serves as a member senior property manager for in post-disaster hospitals and of the steering committee for Common Properties Manage­ health clinics and delivers pub­ Roberto Flores '08 is an Oregon Small Business for ment Cooperative, a company lic health education. account executive for group Responsible Leadership. rhat she helped start in Minne­ sales at Regence BlueCross apolis, Minnesota. Sr. Ger­ Jorge Quijano MS '06, PhD BlueShield in Porcland. Flores Erin McCarty '03, MBA maine also co-founded Porcland '10 is a postdoctoral researcher is also a member of the board of '06 is the di rector of market- Collective Housing. at University of Victoria in directors for the Hispanic Met­ ing and business development British Columbia. As a doctoral ropolitan Chamber in Porcland. at USAgencies Credit Union Abeer Etefa PhD 'OS is a student at PSU, Quijano was in Porcland. McCarty enjoys regional public information awarded a Graduate Traineeship skiing, kayaking, rafting and officer for the World Food Award by the Office of Naval camping. Program currencly working on the Tunisia border, helping Josh Arnold MBA '04 has refugees as they Ree Libya. joined Navigant, a business consulting firm, as a senior Lumnia Gershfield MEd consultant in energy in Verona, 'OS is a certified educator and Wisconsin. He holds a law execurive director of Future degree from Lewis & Clark and Boston Alliance, an online advanced LEED credentials activist organization for in new building construction Greater Boston. Gershfield is and building operations and also a painter, specializing in maintenance. portraiture, and a tour guide at the lnstiture of Contempo­ Matthew Horner MPA '04 is rary Art in Boston. an assistant general services offi­ cer serving in his first overseas Daniel Ryerson 'OS, MS '06 assignment with the U.S. State is a manager at McDonald Department at the American Jacobs, an accounting and Embassy in Bridgetown, Barba­ consulting firm in Porcland. dos. Horner manages housing, travel, motor pool, warehouse Julie Staggs 'OS is an English and supply areas. instructor at Al-Yamamah University in Riyadh, Saudi Mary Martinis '04 is an Arabia. She earned her mas­ employee benefits consultant ter's in Teachers of English to with The Heestand Company, Speakers of Other Languages an investment firm in Portland. from American University in Martinis serves on the young Washington, D.C. advisor ream committee of the National Association of Insur­ Sean Kolmer MPH '06 is ance and Financial Advisors and the assistant health policy is on the board of directors of adviser to Oregon Gov. John

FALL 2011 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 27 George Ogden '08, MS youth or community organi­ '10 works in the Northwest zations. In addition, Stein super­ Eleccromagnetics and Acoustics vises the bank's community Research Laboratory at PSU. giving program with more than In a project with the Pacific $1.5 million in contributions Northwest National Laboratory, and community scholarships. he will install a passive sonar She is a member of che program array in the Willamette River to committee for Grantmak- monitor ship traffic. ers of Oregon and Southwest Washington. Matthew Steffan '08 has been hired as a civi l designer by Erin Watari MPA '09 is a KPFF Consulting Engineering program associate for the in Portland. Japan - U.S. Teacher Exchange 2011 OUTSTANDING YOUNG ALUMNUS Program for Education for NABIL MISTKAWI PHO ' 10 Maria Eldred '09 has been Sustainable Development with promoted to associate di rector the Institute of Internacional for human resources at PSU. Education in Washington, D.C. Her father, Norman Watari Creating new Erin Fairbairn-Stammer '72, '96, and her mother, Paula MPA '09 is a credit analyst ac Nixon Watari '75, also are PSU technology US Bank Vendor Finance in alumni. Portland. She lives with her In February while visiting Intel in Hillsboro, Presi­ husband, Jay, and their four Matthew Mu1ica MS '10 i children in Portland. president of che Center for dent Barack Obama singled out engineer and PSU Resolution, a private arbitration alumnus Nabil Mistkawi. The honor was appropriate. and mediation service company Mistkawi developed a process for the production in Jackson, Wyoming. He is also of computer chips that has saved Intel millions of an associate for the Keystone dollars, is better for the environment, and became Center, a mediation, facilitation, the topic for his Ph.D. dissertation. and project management firm in Denver. Mistkawi began his U.S. education at Chemeketa

Community College (where he met his wife and Amber Nyssen MBA '10 i improved his English). After finishing his undergradu­ director of a new facility in ate degree at University of Oregon with honors, Erin Fairbairn-Stammer Pune, India, for Williams Mistkawi received a letter from Intel saying that they MPA '09 Controls, a truck parts manu­ wanted to talk to him about joining their research facturer. Nyssen was honored Nataliya Pirumova '09 has as one of Portland Business department. While he had considered going to medi­ been accepted into the PhD journal's 2011 Forry Under 40. cal school, the opportunity to work in research at a program in Slavic languages She enjoys hiking, traveling, and first-class company that would pay for his advanced and literatures at University of all things food related. education was irresistible. California-Los Angeles. Mistkawi developed the new production process Leah Spink '10 is a program in three days while simultaneously working at Intel, Monica Poveda MS '09 is a coordinaror for Marathon portfolio manager for Allen Education Partners, a Portland going to school at PSU, and raising three young Capital Management, an Allen nonprofit chat marches chi ldren daughters with his wife, who also works full time. Trust Company in Portland. with mentors who provide col­ Mistkawi holds nine patents at Intel, and says lege funds and encouragement. he benefited greatly from his mentors, including Tracy Puhl '09 is the new Shankar Rananavare, his PSU adviser and now close owner of Glad Rags, a sustain­ Tamara Timmons '10 is a personal friend. able feminine hygiene product medical student at University company in Portland. of Southern California in Los "In my long career, I never had a student whose Angeles. Timmons is married to science led to creation of a major product that made Nicole Stein MPA '09 is Ted Timmons '10, a sofrware new technology possible, and it is an environmentally vice president of community engineer. friendly product that is in use today," says Rananavare. responsibility at Umpqua Bank. She oversees the bank's Connect Laila Umpleby MPA '10 is the Volunteer Network, which development and communica­ provides full-time employees tions director for che Make-A­ with annual, paid time off so Wish Foundation of Oregon. ■ they can volunteer for nonprofit

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