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Portland State University PDXScholar University Archives: Campus Publications & Portland State Magazine Productions Spring 5-1-1997 Portland State Magazine Portland State University. Office of University Communications Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/psu_magazine Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Portland State University. Office of University Communications, "Portland State Magazine" (1997). Portland State Magazine. 74. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/psu_magazine/74 This Book is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Portland State Magazine by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Roy and I decided We love books and read every evening. Although we to list the Branford Price wonder what will happen to books if parents don't read to Millar Library as a benefi children, we know that libraries are going more and more ciary in our wills because electronic. Going "online" is good, even book lovers will we both believe in higher education, although we came to admit, because it will make information more accessible to our beliefs quite differently. I went to college and after more people. teaching became a college librarian-in fact, I was the first We believe that a fir t-rate research library is critical to reference librarian at Central Washington University. In our region' future. Thomas Jefferson, who once sold his April 1959 I applied to Portland tare and two days later book collection to get Dr. Jean Black offered me the position as head of cata out of bankruptcy, loging. I accepted and served in the library until June 1976. immediately acquired a Meanwhile my husband, Roy, growing up during the new library as soon as he depres ion, had to quit school after eighth grade and go to cou ld. We must give the work, first on the fami ly farm, then drilling wells, and same priority to the finally, as a truck driver. Roy says I got him interested in PSU Library, and that is education, but he's taught me a lot, too. The point is, we what we've chosen to do both know how important higher education is. We've through our wills. upported students at other schools, including library students at CWU. lt eemed natural to us to help out Isabel crullis Portland State through the Millar Library, the mo t impor tant academic library in the region. ONTENTS EDITOR Karhryn Kirkland CONTR!BUT R Myrna Ouray, C larence Hei n '65, FEATURES Janis Nichols, Pat cotr, Pat quire MPA '95, Dougla wan on, Jean Tuomi, Martha Wagner, Jennifer Wheeler, Brian White Shared Invention 7 DESIGN Terry Daline President Judith Ramaley's legacy for PSU is one of innovation through teamwork and a renewed sense of pride. EDITORIAL OFFICE 325 Cramer Hall P.O. Box 751 Portland, OR 97207-075 1 The Digerati 10 (503) 725-4451, FAX: (503) 725-4465, E-MAIL: [email protected] Four alums had what it take to start high-tech companies and become members of the digital elite. ADVERTISING ALES (503) 725-4451 ALUMNI RELATION OFF! E Polished Words 14 Pat Squire MPA '95, Director Novelist Molly Gloss '66 has turned her richly crafted Jennifer Wheeler, Assi tant Director 239 Mill Street BuilJing writing to the mysteries of utopia. P.O. Box 751 Portland, OR 97207-0751 (503) 725-4948, FAX: (503) 725-5876 Curtain Call 16 E-MAIL: [email protected] Outstanding productions and virtuoso grads make the Opera ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS Program a starred attraction. Susan Purpura '77, President Jim Aalberg '72 Steve Amen '86 Glen Beckley '68 Vicki Chase '78 Dan Gemma '64 Michael Glanville '65 DEPARTMENTS Joe Gonzales '9 1 Mary Mertens James '78 Joan Johnson '78 Bill Lemman, Vanport Around the Park Blocks 2 Leo Macleod '90 Linda Macpherson MPA '80 Letter 3 Pamela Gcsme Miller '84 From the President 5 tan Payne '73 Don Rickel '65 Off th Shelf 6 Bob chulz '80 Charles toudamire '72 Philanthropy in Action 19 Cameron Vaughan-Tyler '92 Alumni Association News 20 Bill Walker '73, MPA '80 Terry Walker '73, MBA '81 Alum Notes 22 Ellen Wax ' 2, MURP '92 Dana Comell a, student representative Sports 29 ALUMNI AMBA ADOR Jon Jalali '67, MBA '7 1, Medford Chuck Li ttlehales '65, Newp rt Dennis O lson '68, MS '80, Pendleton Cover: President Judith Ramaley has helped make P U responsive to the PSU Magazine is published for alumni and friend of Portland State Univer ity. Contents may be reprinted only by permi sion of the editor. Please send address changes to the Office of Alumni needs of the city and the entire state. Relations, Portland tate University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751. The magazine i (See story on page 7.) printed on recycled paper. P U i an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution. SPRING 1997 PSU MAGAZINE 1 0 UN D T H E PARK B L 0 C K S Presidential search on Salmon, who is retiring. The cope but completed in fo ur months. University of Vermont-an institution Both Ramaley and Joseph Cox, chan The PSU Presidential Search of l 0,000 students, 1,000 faculty, and cellor of the State System of Higher Committee has hit the ground running nearly 2,000 staff-is a state school Education, prefer a quick search that to complete the search proce s by June. respected for it research program . avoids the appointment of an interim A 14-member committee consisting Ramaley became Portland State's pres ident. mostly of PSU faculty is responsible ~ r ixth president in August 1990. She getting the word out, interviewing was instrumental in taking the A Clackamas connection candidates, and narrowing the pool to University on a course that emphasizes three to fiv e candidates for fin al selec community service learning, curricular School beyond the two-year as ociate's tion by the State Board of Higher reform, and urban initiatives-earning degree may look daunting to many Education. If the process goes well, a it national accolades. C lackamas Community College successor to President Judith Ramaley A fo ur-month search fo r a new students-but the opportunity to earn will be announced at June PSU pre ident is not unheard of for a bachelor's has never been better. commencement ceremonies. the state system. The searches This spring CCC students are On July 1, Ramaley takes the helm conducted at Western O regon State taking Portland State's innovative of the University of Vermont as its College and Oregon State University undergraduate inquiry courses on their 24th president. She succeeds Thoma in 1994 and 1995 were national in own campu , and in fa ll they will be eligible for joint enroll ment in both schools. PSU President Judith Rama ley and . CCC Pres ident John Keyer have signed a memorandum which they hope will ease student movement between the two institutions. Come fall CCC/PSU tudents will receive services that are coordinated by both institutions, including ad mis ions, financial aid, and academic advising. The e students will also have joint library privileges. "There are many students who, for whatever reason, don't think they can finish a fo ur-year academic program,'' says Joe Uris '67, '71 MA, '81 Ph.D. , fo rmer PSU tudent body president. Uris is now an associate professor of sociology at PSU and an instructor in history and sociology at CCC. "T his agreement will be empowering to Being one of the best is something to sing about ... these students. This reaches out to a and that's just what Portland tate's 41-member Chamber Choir did at the whole population whose needs aren't American Choral Directors Association' national convention in San Diego this being addre sed,'' he says. March after being chosen one of the 50 best university choirs in the world. PSU i eeking to expand this "This opportunity has the same ignificance for choirs as the Rose Bowl has collaborative concept through similar fo r athletes," says Bruce Browne, professor of music who has directed the agreements with Mount Hood Chamber Choir for 18 of its 22 years. "We're in the company of choral ensem Community College and Portland bles from universities like Miami, Michigan, Temple, Baylor, and Texas Tech Community College. The three institutions with big money and large music programs." institutions, along with CCC, have In April the Chamber Choir will release through Albany Records its first submitted a joint $2 mi llion proposal compact disc, which Browne believes is a first for a university student group. to Gov. John Kitzhaber fo r considera It includes music created by renown faculty compo ers Vijay Singh, Brian tion in his lnve tment fo r Education Johanson, Salvador Broton , and Tomas Svoboda. Budget fo r the 1997-99 biennium. 2 PSU MAGAZINE SPRING 1997 Jazz pianist joins faculty a week to get it t gether," said Joe ad ults. These materi als, newly housed Quist, a PSU media support specialist. under one roof and available to the Darrell Grant- jazz pianist, composer, The cla sroom, one f three on community, represent the combined bandleader, and recording artist campus that provide two-way broad resources of the Multicultural joined the P U music fac ulty in cast capabi lities , had never b fo re Resource Center (recently relocated December. The new ass istant professor been used fo r a court case. fro m Lake Oswego), O regon Peace will teach courses in jazz improvisa Institute, World Affairs Council , tion, direct U niversity jazz combos, Bringing the world to Oregon International Council, and and work with Charles Gray, director PSU' Middle East Studies Center and of jazz tudies, to design and develop show and tell Institute of Asian Studies.