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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. The center new courses in jazz instruction. So, yo ur school-age children are learn i also a ga thering place fo r interna Andrew Hill, the department's jazz ing about France and you need a map tional students and international artist-in-res idence, recently left the of Paris and a French beret to make it studie major . Univer ity to return to New York. real fo r them. Where to go? "It's a one-stop shop of world trea Grant, a class ical and jazz pianist, Portland State hopes you'll think of sures fo r educators, organiza tions, busi holds degrees from the Eas tman Building Bridges, a new mu lticultural ne ses, or fa milies," says Marta School of Music and the University resource center and lending li brary Colburn of PSU's Middle Eas t Studie of Miami . He has performed with such housed in its Sixth Avenue Building. Center. notable jazz artists a Tony Williams, The center offers a library of For more info rmation about Roy Hay nes, Frank Morgan, onny geographical and topical artifac ts, and Building Bridges, call Colburn at Fortune, Chico Freeman, and Craig educational material such as video 725- 566 or stop by the resource Harris. As a bandleader, he ha tapes and books fo r children and center at 1950 SW Sixth. recorded two highly acclaimed CD for the Criss Cross jazz label, Black Art L E T T E R s and The New Bop.
Court comes to campus I am always looking for "win-win" is composed of a representative from situations and have found a great one each department. The interaction A Multnomah County jury heard with Portland State University's between the teams is dynamic. The crucial testimony this winter on the School of Business Administration. MBA team offer a fresh, new PSU campus the day before it award ed Standard hired five PSU interns perspective on our products to our $22.8 million to a Portland man in and consulted with 12 students in employee . Likewise, our employees one of the largest personal injury Thomas Gillpatrick and Robert Eder's impart their bu iness experiences to verdicts in Oregon. clas , Competing in a Global the MBA team members. I do not No expert witnesses came fo rward Environment. We asked the students know yet what the final outcome and from the faculty and staff. Rather, the to research particular insurance recommendations will be, but I do University's distance learning class market segments and summarize their know that both teams will be richer room in 454 Neuberger Hall made it findings within a emester time frame. for the experience. poss ible fo r the jury to hear testimony We treated them as part of our Our division's theme this year is from around the country. marketing team. They had the oppor 'Winning Combination." I think the Dougla Axen claimed that a tunity to interact with a variety of relationship that we have had with presc ri ption heart medication, department , present their conclu PSU is a wonderful example of a Cordarone, caused him to go blind. sions to key managers, make recom winning combination. The jury ruled that American Home mendations, and influence "real" Product , which make Cordarone, business deci ions. As a result of their Donna Schultz fa iled to wa rn doctors of the possible work, tandard acted upon many of Standard Insurance Company side effects of the drug, which can their recommendations and used their Portland, Oregon include severe optic nerve damage. findings to shape our future in specific Axen's attorney, Jeffrey Wihtol, markets. called on the expert testimony of two Most recently, we have been work PSU Magazine wants to hear fro m San Fra ncisco doctors and cross ing with an MBA team under you. Send your comments to P U examined a drug compan y representa Professor Edward Grubb's direction. Magazine, Portland State University, tive in Pennsylvania using the broad Again, I am truck with the talent P.O. Box 75 1, Portland, OR cast capabilities of the PSU classroom. that the student have. The ituation 97207-075 1; or to e-mail address The two-way audio and visual services is unique in that the MBA team i [email protected]. We reserve the were prov ided through Ed-Net. working closely with our Di ability right to edit for space and clarity. "It went off much better than I Product Development Team, which expected, considering we had less than
SPRING 1997 PSU MAGAZINE 3 Invisible no more Feeney leads an unpretentious Backed by research life-no fl ashy clothe or cars-and he The Invisible College has fo und a new doesn't even own a hou e, according The Urban League of Portland is both home at Portland State. to The Times. Atlantic Trust, the a partner and a client of PSU 's new Most recently located at Brown fo undation to which he tra nsferred enter fo r ommunity Research. Unive rsity, this membership organiza most of h is wealth, has at lea t Long-term discussions between the tion encourages service learning-the $3 .5 billion in assets. Feeney's own Urban League and PSU 's Institute of application of subject materi al to real personal worth is estimated at less Portland M tr politan Studies have world situations. This link of commu than $5 mi llion. re ulted in a center that will provide nity service with academic study At Portland State the money was re earch backing fo r League projects provides students and faculty with used to train fa culty fo r the final phase and fo r other community group . It research opportunities that can aid the of the University's new undergraduate will also furnish Portland tate community. curriculum. Next year students will students with new re earch opportuni The Invisible College includes perfo rm capstone projects that involve ties in the community. nearly 70 faculty members and educa public service. "Community-based orga niza tions tors from 40 institutions of higher are plentiful, but they're con tantly learning, ranging from George town competing fo r a shrinking number of University to University of Califo rnia dollars," says center Director Karry Berkeley. Founded in 1994, the organi Gillespie. "They often don't have the zation provides a means fo r educators fac ilities or expertise to as k the ri ght to exchange ideas, experiences, and que tions or to pursue grant money critiques about service learning. that could help them meet their needs. The Invisible College gets its name They're often too busy serving their in part because service learning often constituents." embraces nontraditional approaches The Urban League, a nonprofit to learning that are sometimes over agency, helps metro area re ident with looked or made invisible within a jobs, economic growth, and social univer ity. justice iss ues. The new center is based at two Mystery giver revealed locales: the Urban League's main office at 10 N. Russell Street, and the In January it was revealed that a New Institute of Portland Metropolitan Jersey businessman has been giving Studie in Harder House, 1604 W away his fo rtune, and Portland State Geology professor dies 10th, on campus. Two project involv was one of the lucky beneficiarie . ing the Urban League already are The University received an amount John Eliot Allen, beloved teacher, under way. le s than $1 million from a fo undation prolific author, and respected professor One, modeled after a program in fo rmed and financed by Charles F. emeritus of geology, died Dec. 17 at St. Louis, is the "State of African Feeney. (The fo undation stipulates age 88. American C hildren in Multnomah and that the amount it donate not be He fo unded the department in Washington Counties." The project revealed.) 1956 after serving 20 years as a field will provide a snapshot of what it's like During the past 15 years, Feeney geologist throughout the United to be an African-American child in anonymously doled out $600 million States. He retired in 1974, but came in the Portland area. The second Urban made through his duty-free airport daily to his office on campus until thi League project covers a detailed survey shops. He only revealed his identity past November. of the Urban League's annual Career this winter after a lawsuit was fil ed Professor Allen wa an expert on Connection Job Fair held in April. over the sale of the shops. the Columbia River Gorge. His most Future projects fo r the center may The New York Times broke the story, recent book, Hiking Oregon's Geology, involve the Jefferson Caring and President Judith Ramaley wa one a guide to the state's landscape, was Community, an organiza tion that of the few recipients to be interviewed. co-authored with Ellen Morris Bishop. connect Jefferson High School Until called by the paper, he had no His autobiography, Bin Rock and Dump students and staff with the immediate idea that one man supported the fo un Rock, will be publi hed in 1997. neighborhood. Talks also are under dation that gave Portland State such a Professor A llen was honored by way with the A lbina Ministeri al generous gift. the University in June 1995 with a Alliance, which provides emerge ncy "It was a marvelous mys tery. I ju t Presidential C itation fo r his assistance to people in the north hope I can shake his hand someday," "outstanding service and dedication" northea t Portland area. D said Ramaley. to Portland State.
4 PSU MAGAZINE SPRING l 997 R 0 M T H E P R E T
Ti1ere has been a tremendous community participant offer a rich array of amount of "reinvention" at Portland State in challenges that move people to a thoughtful the past seven years, and it makes a remark reconsideration of long- held assumptions able story. It is the story of a group of people a boon to the learning experience. learning through their experience together We have chosen to embrace community at our University and in our community based scholar hip in both our curriculum how to think about the good of the whole, and our research programs as the primary h w to exercise responsibility fo r others, how mean to achieve our mission. The con tant to deal with conflicting interest , how to constructive and transforming interactions express ur own views clea rly and ethically that go on when PSU concentrate on the while respecting the view of others, and community and its concerns and then links how to act in a principled way. those concerns to our educational g als are During that time we have developed a the keys to ur future. We are learning how new University miss ion, designed a new to hold this complex scholarly work up to curriculum, reinterpreted our concepts of rigorou standards that include both our scholarship, and changed our ways of work perspective and that, of our community ing, both within the campu and in ur collaboration with partner . While other institutions are doing this, what di tin others. Portland State University is not alone among universi guishes Portland State is the extent of our effort. ties in rethinking its mission and the way we do things, but As you know, our work here has not gone unnoticed we are in the fo refront of what is becoming a national nationally. We have been honored with awards for educa movement. tional leadership and management excellence by organiza tions such as the Pew Charitable Tru t , the W.K. Kellogg Much of the impetus fo r these change sprang from Foundation, the American Association fo r Higher Education, a growing public disenchantment with many of its institu and the National As ociation of College and University tions, public and private. David Mathew , pre ident of the Business Officers. These awards matter deeply to us becau e Kettering Foundation, aid in a recent article, "[Citizens] they show the value of our work in the national context and don't feel they have control over them; they aren't even sure they should be a source of pride for all O regonian . They will that the professionals who manage them are really in control. be glad to know that our experience benefits not only the The systems appear to have minds of their own, all with an citizens of this state, but also is helping to shape a national anti-public bias." He said people resent the "professionals" reform movement in higher education. who relegate the public to roles as patients, upplicants, But the real reward is that our succes can be seen in the clients, consumers, audiences, and students. quiet stories of people whose lives have changed becau e f The change agenda at PSU refl ects our de ire to rebuild the education they have received. those connections between the public and its institutions, while at the same time providing student with the kind of N ow,as I prepare to take on new responsibilities in ed ucational preparation they will need to be succe sfu l. It has an opposite com er of the nation, I want to thank you for b en our belief that to respond to these concerns, we need what truly has been a busy and very gratifying seven year . new ways of thinking, new paradigms, new approaches to Portland State is the product of all the people who plan, learning that will be better fo r students, that will enhan ce the develop, and participate in its activities. PSU's excellence is ability of our communities to address their concerns, and that in its people, it program , in its vision and confident spirit. will help to build trust and a sense of common purpose. My association with this wonderful place and this community Over these seven years, our institution has been engaged has been transformative fo r me, as it has been for many in what is called "transformative learning." This is learning others, and I will always be grateful fo r the time I have pent that cau es us to examine our assumptions, our habits, our here. prefonned explanati ons of reality in positive ways, and we Portland State University is your institution. Be proud of have found that nothing more powerfully opens up the possi it. Nurture it. Help it stay the course on the way to the new bility of transformative learning than community involve millennium. Portland State University and this region will ment. The realities of daily experience that come from direct remain with me in many ways. work in the community with fellow fac ulty, students, and Thank you, Judith A. Ramaley, President
SPRING 1997 PSU MAGAZINE 5 F F T H E S H E L F
The Renaissance of American Beyond Left and Right: Southern Slavery Steel: Lessons for Managers in Insurgency and the and the Law, 1619-1860 Competitive Industries Establishment by Thomas D. Morris (history faculty). by Roger S . Ahlbrandt (business dean) , by David A. Horowitz (history faculty) . University of North Carolina Press, 1996 Richard]. Fruehan , and Frank Giarratani. University of Illinois Press, 1997 Following the period from colonial Oxford University Press, 1996 Readily understandable to both the times to the Civil War, this book is a In the 1980s the U.S. steel industry was layperson and scholar, this book is an comprehensive history of the evolving used as a prime example of fa ilure in overview of political insurgency in the relationship between American slavery the face of international competition. U.S. from the 1880s to the present. and the law. There was no coherent Today that industry has returned to its Included are diverse individuals and body of law relating to slavery and any former tanding a a world-class groups that have attacked the estab legal doctrine was subject to local competitor. This book explains how lished order, from the Populists of the interpretation and practice. companie can prosper by taking 1890s to Ross Perot and the religious Ground Rules: advantage of key strategies for investing right of the 1990s. successfully in technology, in people, Baseball & Myth by Deeanne Westbrook and in the way work is organized. Folio, Music for Guitar Alone (English faculty). Encyclopedia of American by Bryan Johanson '75 University of Illinois Political Reform (music faculty). Press, 1996 by Richard A. Clucas (political science Gagliano Recordings, One might ask, 1996 Order over the faculty). ABC-CLIO, 1996 "What do baseball World Wide Web at This book provides imple explana and mythology have www.sirius.com/-arts/ tions of modem efforts to reform the gagliano.html to do with each American political system since the other?" Westbrook mid-1960s. From Abscam and absen The music on this argues that as with tee voting to Workfare and zero-base compact di c was ancient mytholo budgeting, each entry include cross compo ed over a pan of gies, baseball references to related entries and other 20 years. Presented in attempt to make works. chronological order, the Pl \OT O BY SfEVE DIPAOLA sense of the world CD begin with Johanson's fir t and to give expression to human The Nazis' Literary composition for guitar and ends with concerns such as the meaning of space Grandfather: Adolf Bartels and a 1995 piece. An award-winning and time, the connections of father Cultural Extremism, 1871-1945 composer, Johanson has written for and son, the sacred and the uncanny, by Steven Nyole Fuller (language faculty). a variety of in trumental and vocal and the ancient recurring theme of the Studies in Modem German Literature, vol. combinations, and is also a journey home. 62. Peter Lang, 1996 professional guitarist. Adolf Bartels was the most notorious Inter-Play: an On-line Index anti-Semitic literary critic of the 20th Sacred Myths: to Plays in Collections, century. Despite any personal biases, Stories of World Religions Anthologies and Periodicals Bartels wa a leading influential ultra retold by Marilyn McFarlane '74. Sibyl by Robert Westover and Janet Wright conservative literary force in Germany Publications, 1996 (library facuity) . PO RTALS, 1996 from 1900 to 1933. This biography i written for children ages 10 and up, Available over the World Wide Web at an examination of right-wing literary this is a beautifully illustrated collec www.portals.org/interplay/ life in W ilhelminian society, the tion of stories from the sacred Inter-Play provides easy access to over Weimar Republic, and the Third mythology of Buddhism, Chri tianity, 14,000 plays, many of which are not Reich. Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism, plus accessible through any printed index. Native American and acred Earth The collections range from late 19th Reviews are written by Mary Ellen traditions. Included is a brief explana century through the present, with Kenreich, PSU Library faculty. These tion of each religion, a glossary, information being updated on an on publications and recordings by PSU pronunciation key, and suggestions for going basi . All the plays are in the f acuity and alumni are available further reading. Mcfarlane give equal PSU Library collection, but the online through libraries, bookstores, and the importance to each religion, convey index include all libraries. Inter-Play is Web at www.amazon.com. ing the message that each deserves made available through PORTALS, re pect. the Portland Area Library System. D
6 PSU MAGAZINE PRING 1997 University District Plan Ramaley's Role
~~~~~~~~~ One of the hallmark of an urban university i its phys ical integration with the sur ro unding community. It may hare block , even bu ildings, with schools, apartment , retail shops, or private offices. Ramaley enthusiasticall y seized on Written by Under President Judith Ramaley this id ea and championed the concept both internally and to the wider Melissa Steineger and Portland State has come to expect community. With her support, the Clarence Hein '65 more of itself-a spirit of innovation PSU District teering Committee fo rmed and collaborated with the city, that will continue after she leaves. neighborhood groups, and businesses to develop the Unive rsity Distri ct Plan, a blueprint fo r creating an invig orating salsa of pri vate and University offerings in the 52-block area includ ing and surrounding Portland State. Judith Ramaley often chamtedm P0 SPRING 1997 P U MAGAZINE 7 - Fund Raising University Studies Partnerships ------~ Ramaley's Role Ramaley's Role Ramal ey's Role ------During Ramaley' tenure, the When Ramaley took the helm at PSU, "When l came to PSU ," says Ramaley, U niversity's endowment grew fro m higher education thinkers across the "I had a working picture in my mind $ 1. 7 million to $5 million, the number nation we re growing increasingly of an institution that could be an of contributors to the P U Fo undation concerned about the apparent aimless intellectual asset and resource fo r more than doubled, and grant and ne of "ge neral education"-that everyone in the community when they contracts reached a record level. In smorgasbord of social sc iences, hard wanted more education, needed more the la t 12 months alone, the cience , English, and the ilk that info rmation, or wanted help to solve Unive rsity received a $ 1 million made up the required curriculum at problems. The way to accomplish that Ke llogg Foundation award , $1 million most colleges and universities. effectively i through pa rtner hi ps from the Meyer Memorial Trust, a Pew At P U, Ramaley ga lvanized the they are a natural knowledge tran fer Memorial Trust awa rd fo r $250,000, issue by lobbing the ball directly into mechanism." and $500,000 from the C lark the fac ulty's court. "What," she as ked, The Future Foundati on. "are we attempting to do in the under Yet, Ramaley never set out to raise gradu ate ex peri ence? What should a During Ramaley' tenure, partnerships money. person holding a bachelor's degree fl ourished- benefiting fac ulty with "l never as k people fo r money as an know?" re earch projects, giving students real end in itse lf," she says. "Contributions Her intere t led to fo rmation of the wo rl d experi ences, and fi lling commu are a means to do something donors General Education Working Group, a nity request fo r ass istance. The care about intensely. You're inve ting fac ulty ta kfo rce, which researched the G raduate chool of Social Work, fo r in a large r purpose when yo u're invest issue and propo ed the University instance, has numerous partnership ing in Portland State- you're giving to Srudie program, now nationally including a five-year, $2.2 million the community, too." acclaimed. grant from the N ational Institute of Mental Health to establish a research The Future The Future center that will work with local agen The Unive rsity's fund-raising efforts University tudies is the centerpiece cies to develop and test ervices. are poised, in the words of Gary of a wider effort to revitalize Portland Another prominent partnership, Withers, vice president fo r University rate's curricu funded by $6 million in federal money, Relations, fo r a quantum leap. lum-and its ties the school with the School of "The gift from the C lark instructor . "We Extended Studies and the O regon Foundation helped us reach a new have revised Offi ce fo r Services to C hildren and level of fund rais pr motion and Families (SC F) to increa e profe ion ing because it tenure (which alism among child welfa re wo rkers. demonstrated had been based "We have so many new partner significant local on re earch and ships under way," says James Ward , support for a publicati on) to dean of the specific project, give faculty the opportunity to do Graduate School the Urban community- based teaching and schol of Social Work. C enter," says arship," says Provost Michael Reard on. "We are expand Withers. "There "Next fa ll we'll be pilot te ting a new ing the partner is a sy nergy, now, resulting from the way of organizing graduate studie ship with the growing national prestige of Portland around interdi ciplinary graduate SCF to include State and the e significant local and programs." research that will national gifts . That sy nergy and the Like the Unive rsity Studies involve other enthusias m it generates-in the program, the new graduate tudies social service agencies . This fa ll we are community and on campus-will help effort will bring in faculty from various beginning a distance learning program in our current wo rk with prospecti ve disciplines who have common research with the School of Extended Studies donors to launch and anchor other goals, to work together across depart to offer an M. S.W. around the state. significant projects in athletics, engi ments or schools. And as fa r as I can see, there is a neering, the Native A meri can ubstantial demand fo r assi tance, a Longhouse, and elsewhere." potential fo r helping-we certainly have not reached a plateau." In the chool of Busines Administra ti on, one of the first high pro fil e partnership was the Food 8 P U MAGAZ INE SPR ING 1997 Industry Management Program, which Management Program," Ahlbrandt Ambitious as the e program arc, u e · money from industry and grant ay-. "Beyond those, l don't have a Davidson i finalizing details of an even to meet industry requests for better specific game pl an, but accounting and more far-reachi ng partner hip with the educated workers. Equally impres ive i information ·y tem both could benefit School of Social Work-offering a the Busine s Outreach Project, also from partnerships, and I'm sure there Master of Social Work via closed funded by bu ·ine ·sand grants. The arc more to be identified-you can't circuit television in Ashland, Bend, project, in which PSU students teach business without being actively Eugene, LaGrande, and O ntario. And provide technical and managerial involved in the community." the Center fo r Academic Excellence is assistance to small businesses, has been providing grant to facu lty to help so successful that the city recently Vice Provo t hcrwin Davidson, them develop partnership projects for underwrote an ex pansion. who also erves as dean of the chool the cap tone segment of the Univer ity Roger Ahlbrandt, dean of the of Extended Studies, over ecs what i tudie program. chool of Business Admini tration, essentiall y P U's large ·t collection of "Our mis ion is to develop program also counts in his partnership portfolio community partner hips, including the based on the needs increased internships, the expanded PSU Salem Center; the O regon of the constituen Busine Advi ory Council, the Community D velopment Training cies we work with orporate Associates Program, and the Institute; and a partnership with the in the community industry Advisory Board. And, he ·ar, U.S. Department of Housing and and on campus," the future hold more. Urban Development to provide train says Davidson. " An indu try reque ted and funded ing fo r HUD executives in the western As those needs upply and United tate . change, so will Logistic Davidson also oversee the grant we. " Management funded Center for Academic Excel Program is ready lence, which could be termed the (Melissa teineger, a Portland freelance for launching. University's partnership with its faculty writer, wrote che anicle "Talking 'bow "And I'd like ro and the future because it offers profes My Generation," which appeared in the raise an endow sional development to PSU's 750 full winter 1997 P U Magazine. Clarence ment for the Food and part-time facu lty and helps them Hein '65 is manager of PSU Community Industry develop partnerships in the community. Programs.) Join the Party AND BID FAREWELL To PRE IDENT JUDITH RA MA LEY WEDNE DAY, M AY 28 4- 7 P.M. • PARK BLOCKS An international student celebration with food and entertainment; free. 7-9 P.M. • HARRlSON H ALL Mu ic by PSU faculty and students, multimedia pre entation, me sage from the president, and a champagne and chocolate reception; $20, call 725-3711 for tickets. ," PRING 1997 P U MAGAZINE 9 Starting any kind of business is not for the faint of heart. But starting a firm in the high-tech field-an industry that seems to change in a nanosecond-takes a special combination of fear- By Jack Yost J person who c me up with creative ideas within a company." Ifyo u want to become a CEO at a At Tektronix, Winningstad was company li ke IBM , go to Harvard or allowed to create a new prod uct, info r Ya le to get yo ur bu iness degree, mation display y tems, fo r a new divi Norman Winning tad advises. But if sion, but the regular marketing unit you wa nt to tart yo ur own company, was put in charge of selling it. When go to Portland tate. ales fa iled to match expectation , he Winnings tad, one of Portland's was "caught up h rt." best-known entrepreneurs and fo under At that point Winning tad realized of three high-tech compa nies, ought to that although he was "a crackerj ack know. A longtime engineeT at engi neer," he was "no high-level busi Tektronix Inc., Winningstad left the ness manage r" and took leave of company in 1970 at age 45 to get a Tektronix to ge t his MBA. Mas ters of Business Administration. He fo unded Floating Point Systems A lthough starting a new company Inc. while still doing his coursework at was very tressful at first, "Once it got Portland State. go ing, it was fu n-we we re succeeding Winningstad took courses "to stay and our products we re elling. " He was slightly ahead of the company," begin also given abundant ass istance from ning with managerial accounting and his fo rmer employe r. "~ k helped us in business, fo r setting up a corporation every way poss ible. They acted li ke a and getting the company' book in big brother and we re absolutely ord er. Later came courses like manu wo nderful. " fac turing and marketing. Over the years, Winnings tad has By the time he got his degree, he continued to enj oy the challenges of had learned enough "to talk to bankers helping to start new companies, as and venture capitalists" and ecured well as the rewards of ass isting the the funds that allowed his high-tech community that has helped him fl our company to quadruple in ales fo r two ish. He and his wife, Dolores, helped years in a row. "We were just zooming. finance the building of Portland' We couldn't get our product out the Peiforming Arts Center and have been door fast enough ," he says. generou contri butors to PSU 's School Floating Point's growth came from of Business Administra tion. devising a much-needed product that A former pre ident and CEO of no one else was yet making-array Thrustmaster-a local company that processors- machines that tackled makes computer joysticks extensive arrays of numbers and did Winningstad remains on its board . But complex calculations much fas ter and these day he i focusing on ye t another at a lower cost than conventional new career-a an author. He is writing computers of the time. a book on communication, on innova Winningstad says he never really tive ways to resolve arguments. Nonnan Win planned to become an entrepreneur. And as he has done thro ugh ut his Chairman of the Board, Thru tma ter Inc. Rather, if given enough new chal life, he is hav ing plenty of fun Founder, Floating Point System lenge , he would have been happy to doing it. stay an " 'intrepreneur,' an intuitive 10 PSU MAGAZINE PR! G 1997 • 7 lessness, knowledge, and persistence. These four Portland State alums are part of the digital elite-entrepreneurs in the wired world-and they've made it. Wi1en Mae Wu was invited to much faith in you, you know you have travel with a U.S. trade mission to to succeed." A ia la t June, he jumped at the With the demand for personal chance. computers exploding, the timing for "I was the only representative of a starting a computer busines wa small business on the delegation," she perfect. "Personally, though, it was the says, adding that the experience "was a worst scenario for me," says Wu. She real eye-opener"-an insight into both had a toddler and a baby only a few the opportunities and difficulties of months old, and though her parents trading overseas and the help available helped out, at one point she had to from the government. bring the children to work with her. On her trip, Wu discovered that "It was tough, but you do what you although people in places like Korea have to do. If you're really determined, and Thailand knew of Seattle, few had you'll make it. And when you over even heard of Oregon. If the state come obstacle , yo u value yo ur success wants to change that perception, it has all the more." to get a lot more involved, champi oning its reputation for high-tech and Wi's company, which se lls ffering help to bu inesses that don't customized PCs, computer compo have the resources of larger companies, nents, and software to businesses, he ay . "Small-business people must began in 1989 with four employees be more willing to participate, too. If and now has 40. Along the way, Wu you want to be a big company, yo u ha garnered numerous honors, includ have to behave like one. You have to ing a 1994 Governor's Award for get into the game to find out what the outstanding emerging business and a rules are." 1995 ranking by The Business Journal raying on the cutting edge of new a one of Oregon's fa test growing developments comes naturally to Wu, companies. as does the entrepreneurial spirit. She "At the srart-up stage, it was just a is a native of Hong Kong, where matter of survival. Then, we began "everybody is an entrepreneur." looking at expanding our market and Wu came to Portland as a student, asking what makes us different, what studying first at Mount Hood Com value were most important to us a a munity College and graduating in company," Wu recalls. Paramount business and p ychology from PSU. among those values was respect, both Although she worked for several years among the employees and for the in sales and marketing for different customers, along with an openness to computer companies, Wu ay , "it was new id eas and a commitment to team always my goal to start my own work, he ays. busines ." Running a growing business always The opportunity came in 1989, involve new problems, new challenges, when a friend she'd talked with about say Wu. "But then you find so lutions Pl JOTO BY STEVE OJ PAOLA starting a business offered her a and have the satisfaction of watching Mae Wu '82 $10,000 loan. "That was a day I'll your company move from one stage to President and CEO, never forget. When someone has so another. When you run out of chal FEI America Inc. lenges, I suppose it's time to retire." SPRING 1997 PSU MA AZIN E 11 DIGERATI (dig'a ra't~) pl.n. People highly skilled in the processing and manipulation of digital information; the power brokers of the S teven Dan-ow started out wanting to that went wrong before and how to fi x be a professor of English and a writer, them, and I till knew I had a really ge tting his degree at PSU in arts and good idea of the market." letter . In tead, he ended up founding Like his first company, C laremont several high-technology companies. put together computer sy tems fo r Along the way, though, he's experi companie and provided technical enced enough di zzying heights and support. de ·perate lows to create a videogame. "We worked with large companies Darrow fir t got interested in and speciali zed in project that other computers while working to fin ance his firms had taken on and fa iled at," way through school, running early Darrow says. Typica lly, when companies computer sys tems and writing programs hire someone to upgrade outdated at different job . By the time he gradu computer system , the ra ti o of success is ated, he was already earning more than le than 50 percent, according to a profes or, so hi earli er ambition lost Darrow. "The process ge ts so complex its allure. the consul ta nts can't figure out how to After graduation, Darrow worked ge t it done." 10 year fo r onsolidated Freightways By "doing it ri ght and doing it on and Ri edel International. "By then I time," succeeding where others had was ge tting pretty antsy to tart my own fa iled, C laremont grew rapidly, at more bu iness," he says, so he fo unded Global than 70 percent annually fo r several Busin s ystem Inc. in 1983. years in a row. By 1996 Darrow decided The company, which developed soft to take the company public, hiring wa re tools for writing computer omeone else to run the firm and selling program more effi ciently, tripled its most of his shares fo r a nifty profit . rate of growth the second year and shot up from $200,000 in ales to over D arrow got out, not only because $1 million the third year. Then, fo r a he'd always wanted to retire by the age variety of reason , "The company went of 50, but because he wanted to make down the tube ." sure he'd never return to the low point Dan-ow went bankrupt and lo t he'd reached before. But he di covered, everything he had, including his house. "Golfing is not so much fun if that's all He separated from his wife and at one yo u have to do," and recently he has point was sleeping in the back of his car. started ye t another company. Discouraged but not defeated, The new firm , Emerald Solution Dan-ow understood that fa ilure i often Inc., will tackl e "the year 2,000 prob a part of the road to success. lem- the need to change the dates in "While still at Consolidated computer programs from two digits to Freightways, I went to a goal- etting fo ur," he says. It's no simple matter. eminar, and I began setting goals and Even a medium- ized computer system seeing them come true," he ays. "I also has ome 40 million lines of logic, and read a ton of books and used to write every 50 line or so there's a date. down hundreds of affirm ations and read Estimate' of the cost of rewriting the them through every day. So l was deter programs, at $ 1 to $3 a line, range from mined to be successful no matter what. " $600 billion to$ 1.5 trillion, so Darrow Darrow grabbed another computer has teamed up with a couple of other job, and after a year a fell ow employee compani e to olve the problem loaned him $5,000 to start a new through artificial intellige nce. company, C laremont Technology As big as the problem undoubtedly Steven Da o ,.., 1 G roup Inc., in 1989. He wasn't espe is, Darrow remain undaun ted. In the Founder, Claremont Technology cially worried about how well it would midst of trouble, he know , li es Group Inc. do. "l'd been rehearsing all the things opportunity. 12 PSU MAGAZINE SPRI NG 1997 wired world. [First coined by New York Times Editor Tim Race Brn Gates wasn't the only person Success as an entrepreneur also dreaming of putting a personal means building goo I re lations with computer on every desk back in the emp loyees, "respecting people's feel '80s. When prices began to fall ings , being open to new ideas, anJ dramatically, from $4,000 or $5,000 to working as a team," he says. $1,000, the "market opportunity" for Chau also believes in giving back to selling P was obvious, according to the community that has been so essen Max C hau, founder of Northwest tial to his success. In 1993 his Mi cro Inc. company started a "Give to the C hau wa one of tho e who saw the G ivers" program that donate urplu potential. Diploma in hand, he began PCs to local nonprofit organizations. se lling PCs to fri ends and fa culty in a small shop on Sixth Avenue nea r the C urrently, Northwest Micro manu PSU campu . facture and se lls cu t mi zed PC And right from the start, he hit on clone , computer components and a strategy that ha been a key to the "operations software"-tool that fast-paced growth of hi company, all ow computers to work together from a one- man how that first month specializing in companies that me to the current company of 30 employ growing and expanding. Major ees. accounts include local government People don't just want to buy a agencies, universities , and manufactur computer, they want to know what the ing and high-technology firms. latest and best options are fo r their "We develop computer systems that needs, so that they can make an help a company manage its growth info rmed decision, according to Chau. effectively and communicate more Such a philosophy bu ilds trust. effic ientl y at all levels, internally, as C ustomers know they can rely on you, well as with suppliers and customers," he say . he says. Equally important for his ucce s So far, the company has not been was seizing opportunities, "seeing what in the busine s of creating or selling needed to be done that others weren't application software, such as programs doing," says C hau, who in 1988 fo r accounting and inventory, but that became the first local distributor of may change in the future, says Chau. components fo r PC clones. "A lot of this oftware is now so Chau came to PSU as an MBA complicated that people can't use it tudent from Taiwan, arriving here without hiring expert to teach them with a knowledge of English but with how it work ," ays C hau. He'd like to no xperience speaking the language . develop programs that are far more It was frustrating at first, he says, "but intuitive and easy to use. the best way to learn is to throw your Never one to miss an opportunity, se lf into a situation." Chau is queued fo r the nex t challenge Chau credits his success not only to in the fast-paced business of determination and a willingness to h igh-technology. D take ri ks, but also to his education. "A lot of companies grow fas t but then collap e because they're miss ing some important elements," he says . While no bu ines degree can "teach you how to start a company from scratch," his (Jack Yost MA '7 1, a Portland writer PHOTO BY STEVE DIPAOLA cour ework at P U was essential for and filmmaker, wro te the article "Ahead MaA Chau MBA '86 knowing how to balance all the differ of the Curve," which appeared in the President, Northwest Micro Inc. ent face ts of an operati on, he ays. winter 1997 PSU Magazin e. ) PRING l 99 7 PSU MAGAZINE 13 oily Gloss '66 has a terrific laugh. It rings out often when he de cribe a phone call she received last fall. "I thought they were trying to se ll m something," Glos remember of her initial conversation with repre- entative of the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. "First they asked if I wa aware of the fo undation, and I sa id, 'No.' So they told me that it give awards to promising writers. Then they told me I'd won $30,000. And I sa id, 'Right. ' And then they asked me for my Social Security number." Glo bursts into laughter. "I'd just seen that '60 Minutes' show where people take your Social Security number and ruin your life and I thought, 'Boy! These people are good!' And I said, 'I'm not going to give you my Social Security number.'" Her friends in the writing community convinced Gloss of the foundation's existence and credibil ity, and in October, she received her ch ck-as the first Oregonian to win the award-at the foundation's award dinner in Manhattan. It was a great moment in a writing funds donated by the late Carl "I wondered what would have career that has already seen some great Dahlstrom, professor emeritus of happened if when the Europeans moments. Her book The Jump Off English, in memory of his wife. Gloss is arrived in America they had sa id , Creek was one of five finalists for the one of a star-studded list of past Kellogg 'This is a different world. Maybe we 1990 PEN/Faulkner award; the book lecturers including Ivan Doig, Tobias should try to fit in with those who she's currently writing is sold to a Wolff, Tess Gallagher, William tafford, already live here, instead of beating it publisher; and her new book The Ursula LeGuin, and J s ica Mitford. down and conquering it,'" ays Glos . Dazzle of Day is being released this June "I'll talk about contemporary by TOR Books, the nation's largest utopian novels-Dazzle is one-and hardcover science fiction publisher. whether or not they are valid fo rms of Science fi ction? From an author fiction. We tend to accept without lo s is in' many ways a se lf- best known for an award-w inning questioning that science and progress taught writer. She began western? Where's the The Jump Off are good. This book challenges that G writing when her son, now Creek sequel that her fa ns are wait belief," ays Glo . in his 20s, was an infant. At first, she ing for? The Dazzle of Day tells the story of simply kept a journal- trying to make "I'm telling people they may not 2,000 Quakers, drawn from around the sense of the endless rounds of diapers even like thi book if they liked Jump world, who leave a rapidly deteriorat and laundry and repetitive tasks. After Off Creek," says Gloss. "It's very ing Earth for another planet. The a while, she moved from journal writ different. But l really wanted to space trip takes nearly 200 year , and ing to fiction. The fall her son entered explore how sc ience and technology the book explores both the journey kindergarten, she saw a notice about a and progress relate to art and the and its aftermath: what happens when, western novel writing competition fo r community. This was the most after several generations of living in an unpublished writers. Gloss packed her straightforward way to do it." enclosed world, people are exposed to n off to school and tarting writing. Gloss used the themes from The uncontrolled nature and weather. It "I began in September and the Dazzle of Day fo r delivering the 33rd addresses questions of morality, as well contest deadline wa March 3 lst," she annual Nina Mae Kellogg Lecture at as: are the character continuing the says. "I wrote every day for fo ur or five PSU on April 23. The event, which hi torical frontier mentality of hours, and learned how to write a includes awards for outstanding conquest and conflict? Is there a differ novel by simply writing it. I wrote a English students, was started with ent way to approach new worlds? whole book. It wa n't very good, but it 14 PSU MAGAZINE SPRIN G I997 he view north wa an immense sweep of world, beyond imagining, many hundreds or thousands of hectares of broken ground, lava fields blackish and denticulated, dirty snow in the clefts of the teeth. There was no dust in the air; the edges of things were sharp, utterly clear. Bjoro could see to the northeast a green thread ravelling through the canyons of lava, maybe it was a river, and almost at the sky's edge a line demarking two shades of gray-he had a sudden remem brance of the topo map of this PHOTO BY STEVE DIPAOLA continent and knew that line for had a shape. The last chapters were I've never, ever been able to do that. better than the first. And 1 knew the Each day, l reread what I wrote the the edge of the sea. Staring toward characters better at the end of the day before, then I rewrite and rewrite. it, he felt a sort of vertigo, a dream book than l had at the beginning." Each sentence has to be perfect before Soon after the competition, Glo s I go on. lt' ve ry low." image: The land was immense, enrolled in a science fiction writing That writing tyle, and the huge alive as an animal, unutterably class taught by Tony Wolk, PSU amount of research required to produce professor of English, and Ursula The Dazzle of Day , are why the book powerful. The big mammals had LeGuin, internationally renowned took fiv e year to complete. Gloss' next sci-fi writer. That class led to an book, Mountains of the Moon, is moving been gone, all of them, decades ongo ing workshop, which Gloss wa along more rap idly. et in Washington before the Dusty Miller wa built; part of fo r nearl y 15 years. state in 1905, it concerns a single " he wa an amaz ing writer, " woman rai ing fiv e children. "She's a Bjoro had seen them only on film recalls Wolk. "Participant had to radical femini t who want to write a submit a writing sample to get into erious feminist utopi an novel, but she cards. But he thought thi must be the class, and Molly was already a has to support her fa mily. So she writes what people had felt once, staring beautiful stylist. he has incredible cheap novels and trashy stori es," Gloss lyri cal style-all the word are in the explains. The manuscript will be in the face of the bear, the cat, ri ght places." completed in time for late 1998 or Those words don't get in the early 1999 publication. the wolf: this terrible humbling right place by happy accident. Glos And no, it's not a sequel to The before the thing so beautiful, move lowl y through her writing, Jump Off Creek. N or, says Glos , will crafting a book carefull y, sentence by there be one. "But never say never, breathing death. sentence, page by page, not moving right?" she add , and laughs. on until each word is perfect. "Most other writers write in drafts," she (Meg DesCamp, a Portland freelance From The Dazzle of Day, available say . "They just ge t it down and writer, wrote the article "Like Mother June 1997 from TOR Books. then they start reworking it. That Like Son ," which appeared in the winrer appeal to me on a certain level. But 1997 PSU Magazine.) SPRING 1997 PSU MAGAZINE 15 • he was able to plan Cimarosa's The Secret Marriage for a cast composed entirely of tudent singers, in fact, double-cast in all the lead roles. ta1n With faculty member John Trudeau (now retired and conducting the Columbia Symphony) conducting the orchestra, and with the experienced Faculty, student, and guest stage director Patsy Maxson supervising talent reigns in Lincoln the production , the program moved Hall during the spring from trength to strength, although Dobson kx)k back on some earl y shows opera production. with amu ement. "When the Theater Arts Department By Terry Ross separated from the Music Department in the early '80s," he recalls, "we had liter ally no money fo r producti on . I not t's often said that an academic only had to choo e how with student program is only as good as the grad vocal demands in mind, I al o had to I uates it produces. If so, PSU's Opera find one that co t nothing to stage." Workshop is a very good program She chose Aaron Copland' The indeed. Tender Land in 1983 because of how In the 20 years since Ruth Dobson cheap the set was: two bales of hay, a began teaching in the University's simple front porch, and a rocking chair. Mu ic Department and supervising After a imilarly thrifty producti on of opera, the small program has produced Henry Mollicone's The Face on the more than its share of first-class singers Ban·oom Floor in 1985, the opera and educator . C layton Brainerd '86 was program worked its way up to $500 fo r the first but by no means the last to go The Mikado in 1986. But that how wa on to a ucce ful professional caree r. a breakthrough. Stefan Minde, who In a ense, Portland State had an only two years earlier had been conduc opera program before Dobson came to tor of Portland Opera, took charge of the Unive r ity in 1977. Since the early the orchestra. Costumers and et design '60s, under the direction of Mari e ers made an especially strong effort, and Peake, the chool had been the catalyst voi/a, fo r the first time, The Oregonian fo r a se ries of almost annual produc gave the event serious pre s attention tions. In these, University undergradu As a professional singer her elf, (including a favorable review), and all ate took the mailer ro les, both onstage Dobson knows first-hand what the voice the shows sold out. and in the pit, while faculty members can and cannot do. A fi xture in and community musician sa ng the Portland theaters and concert halls for hereafter, slightly loosened principal parts and anchored the two decades, she has performed every University purse strings made orche tra. thing from Broadway mu ic to the T it possible to put on more With the inception of the perfor thomie t of contemporary compositions, ophi ticated shows, with comparatively mance work hop, which for the first and despite her devotion to teaching, elaborate sets. Better yet, the increased time offered credit fo r opera tudy, he maintains a bu y performance visibility of the program drew outside Dobson began shifting emphas is away schedule singing in the Northwest and funding, most notably in 1992, when from full productions, in which tudent frequently beyond. benefactor Jeannine B. Cowles donated had only minor involvem nt, to the "I guess what I've done from the $10,000 toward a production of Carlisle fo rmula she had leamed in her studie beginning at PSU," she says, "was what Floyd's Susannah, making it possible to at University of C incinnati ollege I had seen in conse1vatory. My goal has bring in the legendary teacher Phyllis Conservatory of Music. C hoo ing care always been to prepare st ude nts ~ r a C urtin from Tanglewood fo r a series of fully to suit individual tudents, Doh on professional career in music, whether as a coaching e ·sions and master classe . offered a variety of se mi-staged one-act singer or an educator. It was all I knew," An even larger gift from Cowles in opera and scenes from large r operas, she ays, "but it seems to have worked." 199 3 fin anced th participation of designed to bring students along at a Within a few year , Dob on sensed British conductor Nick Carthy, plus sets reasonable pace, preparing their voice · that she could revive the tradition of and co tume by noted d signer Carey fo r the demands of future professional full productions, although at first on Wong. The re ulting production of ism. only an every-other-year basis. By 1981 Mozart' The Magic Flute remains a high 16 PSU MAGAZINE SPRI NG 1997 point in the workshop's history, but City Opera ("the house that Beverly town, concerts and plays. It was rea ll y subsequent productions of Puccini's Sills built"), is clear on the impulse important to get that experience Gianni Schicchi and Benjamin Britten 's behind PSU's opera program: "Ruth young." Noye's Fludde (1 994), Dido and Aeneas makes the program go." Meadows parlayed her Portland on the 300th anniversary of composer "The be t thing about the PSU experi ence into a professional career Henry Purcell's death (1995), and program, when I was a student and that includes not only teaching, but Donizetti's The Elixir of Love (1996) now," continues Meadows, "is that it regul ar appearances with James have maintained the high standard. gives students an opportunity to DePreist and the O regon Symphony To the outsider, the programming of perform. I sang in only one prod uction and with John Trudeau's Columbia the annual opera productions may seem at PSU [The Secret Marriage in 1981], Symphony, as well as one or two opera unusual. PSU doesn't offer the standard but because of the progra m I had a or oratorio experi ences a year with professional opera house repertoire of chance to do other things around major A merican opera companies. nonstop Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, and PHOTO BY llA N CARTER Mozart. As Dobson explain, "Young students don't have the vocal capacity for verismo singing. Only schools with doctoral programs-and therefore older students--can tackle Verdi and most Puccini." PSU's offbeat repertoire, though, produces two useful and important results: students learn about the enor mous variety and scope of operatic repertoire, and local audiences have an opportunity to see shows that they'd never see in a decade of attending Portland Opera and eattle Opera. pera productions demand teamwork, and many people 0 have lent their expertise over the years, from occasional vocal or instrumental ringers (local professionals brought in to fill a gap) to choreogra phers, set and costume designers, conductors, stage directors and managers, not to mention the thousands of students who have sung roles or chorus parts and played in the orches tras. But at the center of the program is Dobson, who with her colleagues Bruce Browne and David Jimerson conducts the business of the Music Department's vocal sector. Christine Meadows '83 is one of seven adjunct in tructors who administer to the vocal needs of the Music Deparunent's 80 voice majors. She and Diane Hammack MST '91, Janine Kirstein, Richard Lippold, Richard Poppino, Alyce Rogers, and Vijay Singh MST '94 take eight students each, as well a offer other courses (Poppino, for example, teaches German, Itali an, and French diction; Singh handles vocal jazz ). Meadows, who went to Indiana The Magic Flute was one of the Opera Workshop's most lavish productions. University fo r a master's degree and Carey Wong of Seattle pr vided set and costume design. Pictured here is then to three years at the New York Kimberly Goodwin-Helton singing the part of the Queen of Night. SPRING 1997 PSU MAGAZINE 17 about her "dynamite young students," Competition, he carried off the top he innovative repertoire of or in hearing the pride in Dobson's prize of $25 ,000, plus guaranteed the PSU Opera Workshop voice when she talks about PSU concert appearance in Tel Aviv, takes a new twist this tudents' accomplishments, both as London, and Vi enna. Since then she spring. Professor Salvador Brotons singers and as educator . has sung Beethoven's Ninth ymphony will conduct his own composition, But the proof is also in the pudding. with the Israel Philharmonic, Reverend Everyman-with libretto A department really is a good as the Mendelssohn's Elijah with the New York by Gary Corseri---on May 24, 25, quality of grad uates it produces. A look Philharmonic and with Leipzig's 30, 31, and June 1 in Lincoln H all. at two of PSU 's most illustrious Gewandhaus Orche tra under Kurt Reverend Everyman is a modern students shows that the department Ma ur, appeared with Seiji Ozawa and version of the medieval morality play that tarted on a shoestring has made with Charl es Dutoit and the Jederman. It concerns a television its mark. Philadelphia O rchestra, and signed a evangelist who has let the power of C layton Brainerd is a man on the recording contract with ony. his television crusade corrupt him. move. As an opera singer with an inter Nass ief, only 30, has hit the big time. H e is enormously wealthy, but he national career, he goes wherever the She now lives permanently in New pays with his soul. juicy roles are. During the current York, where her management sends her A cast of outstanding PSU sea on, he has already been to Arizona out on about 100 aud itions a year. students will sing the opera, with the and Nashville, to Buenos Aires, and "Ruth really set the instrument," she role of Reverend Jederman sung by New York' Carnegie Hall. This spring says, in the di tinctive way opera singers Richard Lippold, PSU voice fa culty. it will be Corvallis, Tacoma, and New have of de cribing their larger-than-life Lincoln Clark, the stage director of Zealand, and and later in the year he voices. "I have fe lt technically solid ever the original Florida State production, wi ll be in Augsburg, Germany, fo r since. Believe me, it's a big help to will be the guest director, and Carey Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle . know, really kn w, what you can do, to In his vocal prime at 38, Brainerd, not have to look at a score and wonder Wong of Seattle returns as set and twice the recipient of Wagner Society if you can hit the high C's." costume designer. Wong designed of New York career grant , finds himself Crucial at PSU, he say , in addition PSU's 1993 production of The Magic becoming a sought-after Wagnerian. to her private study with Dob on, were Flute. Ruth Dobson will, of course, Such ro le as Wotan, Gunther, The the opportunities to perform. "A serve as artistic director. Wanderer, and The Flying Dutchman student needs a level of succe ," she Tickets are available through the are already under his b lt. And he's says. Nassief ang in three shows at PSU Box Office, 725-3307, and looking ahead hopefu lly to the year PSU-The Gondoliers , The Bartered range from $12 general admission to 2000 and a Ring Cycle in eattle, where Bride and Susannah-and with each $8 for students. Performance times he lives, with perhaps another shot at her confidence grew. are 8 p.m. May 25-3 1, and 2 p.m. on Seattle' Opera's Tristan and Isolde and Sunday, June 1. The Flying Dutchman before then. ra inerd and Nass ief are the It hasn't been an easy road. He took biggest fish to leap out of the a number of wrong turns, including a small PSU pond, but Dobson is too-quick jump into the world of se riou fo nd of mentioning other "les plashy But opportw1 ities fo r young singers opera from which his voice didn't but just as impressive" successes. Such as have multiplied since Meadows was a recover fo r year . "I ba ically crashed mezzo-soprano Lisa Actor's '88 teaching student. In 1993 Dob on and local vocal and had to completely rebuild the po ition at Pacific University and teacher Ellen Faull, whose Camas, voice." Brainerd believes that hi frequent recitals. Or baritone Kevin Washington, vocal studio is a 11ational current success is due in large part, to Walsh's '80 many local engagements mecca fo r aspiring singers, put together the fac t that he is fin ally u ing the tech and job as mu ic editor at Oregon Bel Canto Northwest, a three-week nique that he began to learn almost Catholic Press . Or performances by summer program with a national faculty, 20 years ago at Portland State from Teresa Schnell '87. a regular with the offered through PSU' School of voice teacher Dobson. O regon Symphony, or Charlotte Pistor, Extended Studies. In it, high school, "Ruth is an incredible a set as a who has sung professionally in Austria young college, and young profe i nal voice teacher and coach," he says. "She fo r a decade. singers work intensively on scenes an 18 PSU MAGAZINE SPRING 1997 HILANTHROPY I N ACTION From corporate alumni Now in its fo urth year, the PACE (Peer Alumni Corporate Employee) program is reaching out to an increas ing number of alumni who are helping to spread the word of Portland State's gr wing stature in the community and the nation. More than 40 alumni volunteers have raised $80,000 in individual and corporate matching gifts toward University academic and educational access programs since 1993. PAC E has not only raised money, but has also fostered a growing alumni network at four notable companies: U.S. Bancorp, Standard Insurance Company, Bank of America, and Tektronix Inc. The fo ur companies employ ome 450 PSU alumni. Volunteers at each company help encourage donations to Stephen Weary '93, Margaret PSU; the donations are in turn "The Scandinavian Heritage McGilvra '68, and Monica matched by each of the companies. Foundation ha been instrumental in Billing Icy '77 arc part of the PACE Current PACE chairs include John keeping the program healthy and grow fund· and fricnd-rai ing program at DiPasquale '75 , U.S. Bancorp ; Mary ing fo r many years now," says Katrina Standard Insurance Company. Raskin '77 and Larry Bliesner '72, Ratzlaff, development officer fo r Tektronix; Stephen Weary '93 and ackn wledgment and stewardship. Mary Lou Grimes '84, Standard The Portland-based Scandinavian Graduate School of Social Work; Insurance; and Gary Cumpston '90, Heritage Foundation is involved in a Allison Davis (Crow Creek Sioux), a Bank of America. number of programs that help pro mote senior premed student majoring in PSU alumni who work in other Scandinavian culture in the Portland psychology; Gretchen Berretta (Tlingit corporations that have matching gift area, including the 1997 Scandinavian and Tsimshian) , a senior maj oring in programs are encouraged to get Sampler scheduled fo r May 2 and 3 on child and family studies ; Colin Fj eld involved in PACE. For more info rma campus. (Assiniboine Sioux), a junior majoring tion, call Donna Schaeffer, PSU Office It is estimated that about 200,000 in architecture; Lonnie Smith (Sioux), of Development, 725-5034. people in the Portland metropolitan a junior maj oring in administration of area have Scandinav ian roots, ays justice; and Ray Tate (Navajo), a Tack sa mycket Priscilla Blume! '81, the fo undation's sophomore majoring in mathematics. executive director. Following the luncheon, Vollum Scandinavian languages at Portland visited the PSU chapter offi ce of the State continue to have a bright future, Helping Native American Indian Science and thanks (tack sa mycket is "thank you Engineering Society (AISES), which very much" in Swedish) to a recent American students she helped initiate at Portland State two-year, $80,000 pledge from the Jean Vollum, a longtime upporter of several years ago. There, she was Scandinavian Heritage Foundation. Native American students at Portland presented with a dream catcher and a The grant underwrites the costs of State, met with individuals she has plaque by AISES chapter members. providing Scandinavian languages helped through the years at a Jean Vollum Scholarships are open Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and luncheon hosted by President Judith to all eligible Native American Swedish-at PSU this year and next. Ramaley in February. students at Portland State and are Nearly 40 students attend the The six Jean Vollum Scholarship renewable through the PSU Office of Scandinavian language classes, and Fund recipients are: Breanna Kayate Educational Equity Programs and many of these students are learning (Pima tribe), a recent PSU graduate in Services. 0 more than one language. psychology now enrolled in PSU's SPRING 1997 PSU MAGAZINE 19 UM NI ASSOCIATION N E W S A salute for service Student Affairs Committee), the PSU "popular with C hild and Family Studies Advisory students, commit The sentiment "in honor of our Board, the Oregon Boxing and ted to community friends" deftly describes the ba i for Wrestling Commission, the Metro education, and PSU Salutes. Police Activities League Steering pas ionate about The event, started by the Alumni Committee, and the Youth at Ri k his cience." Association eight years ago, awards Project. The late Professor Milan These phrases outstanding alumni, facu lty, and Svobod 20 PSU MAGAZINE SPRING 1997 Sue Stafford R emy has placed chair of the P U Advocates fo r the College Bound Program, which intro Portland tate athletic at the top of past two year , will accept the award duces disadvantaged grade-sc hoolers to her philanthropy list. For this devotion on behalf of the group, which includes the advantages of higher educati on. she has l een named a 1997 over 600 alumni, fri ends, students, and The program was tarted by the Out tanding fa culty. McBride Foundation in 1994. Friend of the "On our first trip to this class of University. U .S. Bank is a 1997 O ut tanding sixth-graders, we took a urvcy of kids Remy's involve Friend of PSU fo r its corporate who planned to go to coll ege. O nly ment in and commitment to education, which is about fiv e ra ised their hand . Now that upport of PSU evident in the more than $660,000 we're almo t finished with our visits, athletics ha b en donated to P U over the pa t 15 yea rs. most of them want to go," ay Sasek unsurpa cJ in Beyond this ignificant fin ancial of his work with the young students. volunteer investment, U . . Bank ha al o been The renewable Alumni Association commitment. She involved a a partner with the scholarship currently covers full served as pres ident f the Viking C lub University in many way . Gerry tuition and required fee for two from l 994 to 1996-a time of transi Cameron '62, chairman and C EO, has students. It is named for the late Jane tion and expansion that included the been a key advise r to the School of Wiener '69, a fo rmer Multnomah hiring of a new athletics director and Business Administration. Robert ounty deputy district attorney and the move to Division I. he continue :newajs, vice chairman, has served alumni board member who died in to erve the club today a an acti ve on the PSU Foundation Board of 1994. board member and scholarship fun PRI NG l 997 PSU MAGAZINE 21 _ l UM NOTES -~~~~~~~~~..,....~ Compiled by Myrna Ouray bia College in Longview, Wash., says he spent eight years at PSU after 32 years as a faculty earning his degree while work '68 member, campus compuring ing full time at a stee l foundry. Richard D. Ball is a marh adminisrraror, and grants officer. He lives in Salem. reacher at Canby High School. '59 He now is associared wirh Ronald "Ron" Tiii retired from Ball and his wife, Florence, live William Stuart Lovell is an Edurech Norrhwest, a rechnol high school teaching in June in anby and will celebrare attorney wirh a private law ogy planning, training, and after 32 years and has entered a their 25rh wedding annive rsa ry pracrice in Aloha. The firm, consulting firm. His wife, new career field, real estate. Till in June. Ccrebalaw, specializes in intel Bonnie Howard MST '91, is a lives in Portland. lecrual properry and general bu ine s in trucror and chai r ar bu ine law. Lower olumbia College. 69 '65 Paul Hildenbrand is rhe '61 '64 Nancy Hays has come out of manager of envi ronmem al and retirement to be principal at regulatory affa irs for Power Robert Boulette retired as audi Daniel "Dan" Gemma is vice Bolron Middle School in West Resources Inc., a Uranium In tor-in -charge of the Naval pres ident and commercial Linn. Hays was named O regon's itu Leach (ISL) mining firm in Audit O ffi ce in Honolulu account relarionship manager at Narional Oisringuished Casper, Wyo. 1 L mining fo ll owing 33 years of military Bank of rhe Norrh esr. Gemma Principal in 1993, when she was exrract uranium using a tech and civilian se rvi ce. Boulette serves on rhe P U Alumni at Boeckman C reek Primary nique rhar i deemed environ writes, "l enj oyed world-wide Board of Oirecrors. He anti hi School in Wilsonville. menrall y safe and is being ass ignments, bur always enjoy wife, Rossie, li ve in Portland. utilized in fo ur srare ar this reruming to Portland and walk Roger Yerke is manager of John "Bob" Schreiber, retiretl time. Power Resources produces ing around rhe beauriful etl ucarion programs at the from the stare Vocarional approxi marely one million campus." He lives in Honolulu. Washingron Park Zoo. Yerke Rehabili ration Division anti is pounds of uranium per yea r live in Porrland. Alan Howard retired in now a student ar C hemekera using this technology. December from Lower Colum- Community College. Schreiber that he thinks campaign finance reform is one of the most important ways to "de-politicize democracy" and promote an atmosphere of respect and civility. Capps first ran for Congress in 1994, when he was narrowly defeated by social conservative Andrea Seastrand. Winning a rematch in 1996, Capps became the first Democrat ince World War II to represent District 22 on the California coast. Capps became interested in national politics during his many years as chair of the California Council for Humanities, a position which took him often to Washington, D.C., and through his 10-year friendship with Senator Bob Kerrey, a fellow native of Nebraska. A Vietnam veteran, Kerrey gave gue t lectures in a clas Capps taught on the Vietnam War- at Walter Capps (second from right) is the first Portland State UCSB and encouraged him to run for Congress. alum elected to U.S. Congress. Brothers (left to right) Doug Though motivated by his ideals, Capps also has practical and Roger are alumni, and Don (far right) attended PSU. legislative goals for hi district, including a community college for Paso Robles and cleaning up Morro Bay. Capps says his lifelong interest in the humanities began W alter Capps '58, elected this fall to Congress from with his studies at Portland State, where he took "all of David California, believes that his job is as much about issues of Newhall's courses in philosophy. He was one of my heroes." the human spirit and principle as about passing legislation Capps appears to be the first PSU alum to be elected to and party loyalty. Congress, according to University alumni records. His It's a perspective that comes naturally to a man who brother Doug Capps '67 was elected to the Portland School taught religious studies at the University of California, Board last month. Roger Capps '60 recently retired after Santa Barbara, for 33 years, tackling tough ethical questions 27 years as a principal for the North Clackamas School of contemporary society in his courses. District. Don Capps, who attended PSU and went on to "I see my job as helping to restore the bond of trust earn degrees at Lewis & Clark and Yale, teaches at between the people and the government," he says, adding Princeton Theological Seminary. 22 PSU MAGAZINE SPRING 1997 _ J_ Roger Jorgensen is co-owner of Services. Sivage fo rm erl y was Brothers and Jorgensen Inc., an the di rector f fac ili ties at PSU. adult foster care chain. To the facilities Jorge nsen li ves in Lake Oswego. '74 and services you Armin Baumgartel MST has '70 been named a want ... when you Robert H enselman is senior partner in the re earch and development Jones chemist at Appli ed Research, a Financial want them! silica speciali ty materials Compa nies, company in Portland. the holding The PSU Alumni company fo r the fi nancial Benefit Card, your '71 services firm of Edward Jones. Ba umgartel will continue as the Robert "Rob" Drake is mayor fi rm 's inves tment representative pass to PSU's of the city of Beaverton. Drake in Shelton, Wash. A rmin and was first elected mayor in 1992 his wife, Carol, and their three library, gym after serving six years on the city children live in Olympia, Wash. council and fiv e yea rs on the facilities, campus planning commiss ion. He spent David Brinker is ge neral most of hi career as a sa le manager of the virtual test soft manage r fo r Maletis Beverage in ware div ision at Integrated computers, and Portland. Rob and his wife, Measurement Systems Inc. Eilee n, live in West Linn. Brinker li ves in Portland. performing arts. Annabelle Jaramillo attended Sen. Ave! Gordly was presented the pres idential inaugura tion at with a Model of Excell ence Washington, D.C., in January. awa rd by the Minori ty Youth PORTIAND STATE Alumni Jaramillo took a 12-week leave Concerns Program at Macl aren l]NIVERSITY Benefit last fa ll from her position as a Correctional Facility in ALUMN I Card citize ns' representative in Gov. February. Gordl y was selected Vi vian Viking '84 Library John Kitzhaber's office to serve "becau e of her numerous HPE as political director fo r the contri butions to the state and E X P I R E S 12197 Clinton/Gore campaign in her community." She is O regon's O regon. She res ides in fir t blac k female senator. Philomath. Daniel Hickman is the organic Glenn Maynard is the director laboratory manager at the Call 725-4948 of Access Triage Services fo r Oregon DEQ Laboratory in Prov idence Health System's Portland. Hickm an has been or e-mail Mental Health and Chemical with the agency fo r 21 years. Dependency Services in Dan Olsen is the county coun [email protected] Portland. sel f r Wa hington County. O lsen first joined the coun ty for ABC details. office, which advises commis '72 sioners on many legal issues Adel Shara£ MBA is a budget local governments face, in Another service officer fo r the Portland district 198 1. He lives in Portland. of the U.S. Army Corps of of your PSU Alumni Engineers. Sharaf has two teenage daughters and an '75 11 -year-old son. Association. Laura Rooke MBA '93 is the manager of operations at the MicroClimates business unit of '73 Portland General Energy Alumni Ronald Goodpaster is the chief Services in Portland. Benefit of po lice with the Tiga rd Poli ce Kathleen "Kathy" Sievers had Department. Goodpaster has a showing of her icons and gave Card been with the department fo r a presentati on on the topic of seven yea rs. iconography in Novembe r. (503) 725-4948 Steven "Steve" Sivage MPA Sievers' training in iconography [email protected] '77 is the fac ili ties and mainte included tudies at Centre de nance manage r at the city of Etude Russe near Paris . She Portland's Bureau of General li ves in Hillsboro. PRING 1997 PSU MAGAZINE 23 treaty are carried out. His employed with the Evergreen responsibilities include negoti School District since 1984. He is '77 ating agreements, maintaining pursuing his doctorate in educa Krystal Angevine MSW is the file , and coordinating meet tional leadership at PSU. '76 director of social services at ings. He began his career with Shannon Montoya is the vice Craig Coffey is the vice pres i Floyd Memorial Hospital in BPA in 1989, "buying and se ll pres ide nt of finance fo r Beard dent of manufacturing services New Albany, Ind. ing power." Frame Shops in Portland. with Gunderson Inc., in Barbara Nolan writes that Michael Wong is a magician Portland. Gunderson is a Robert Paar MBA '81 is vice fo llowing graduation from law living in Garden Grove, Calif. builder of rail cars. pres ident of Adams Magnetics school, she was employed as a Wong entertains at Disneyland, Company, a Chicago-based James Harp is the wine steward depu ty district attorney fo r the Knott's Berry Farm, Magic company undergo ing a restruc at John's Market Place Wines in Family Support Unit of the Castle and has appeared in turing. Paar is responsible fo r Multnomah Village in Portland. Marion County District numerous movi es and television setting up a new manufac turing Harp fo rmerly se rved as a wine Attorney's O ffi ce. Today, she shows. He tailors his act to division in Elizabethtown, Ky. consultant in Beverly Hills, has a private practice in divorce meet the ages and interest of his Calif., and Newport, where he and fa mily mediation and has audience and performs humor was involved with the wine contracted with both ous, esteem-building shows at festiva l. Clackamas and Multnomah schools and conventions. '79 counties to offer mandated Daryl Maloch MS and his wife, Shripad Tuljapurkar PhD was Parent Education classes. Nolan Janice Maloch '81, are partici awarded the Mindel C. Sheps has two children and lives in pating in a teaching exchange Award for outstanding contribu '78 West Linn. program, sponsored in part by tions to mathematical demogra Michael Hanegan is vice presi the National Education phy or demographic Anthony "Tony" White MPA, dent of Selectr n Inc., a Association. The Malochs are methodology. Tulj apurkar PhD '94 is the secretary to the telecommunications security teaching fifth grade in a formerly was a professor in the U.S. Entity, Columbia River contracting firm in Tigard. community on Australia's east department of biological Treaty at Bonnev ille Power Hanegan has worked with the coast fo r 12 months. Daryl and sciences at Stanfo rd Unive rsity. Administration. White provides company fo r 18 years. Jan will resume their pos itions He is proprietor of Mountain all administrative upport for Richard "Rick" Melching MS is as fifth grade teachers at Tom View Research Inc. , in Los the two pres idential appointees superintendent of the Evergreen McCall Upper Elementary Altos, Calif. named to ensure that the provi School District in Vancouver, School in Forest Grove when sions of the U.S./Canadian Wash. Melching has been they return in December. Edward Trompke is an associ ate with the law firm of Tarlow, O scar Flores-Fiol '77 recently completed the first official poster for the Nike World Jordan & Schrader in Portland. Masters Games, which will bring 25,000 men and women to Portland in August 1998. Trompke specializes in business and corporate transactions. The The brilliantly colored original oil painting depicts an exuberant parade of animals firm focuses in the practice performing all the Olympic sports, along with a background that includes costumed areas of construction, real estate people and flags from around the world. Flores-Fiol did a similar poster for the Pan-Pacific and land use, municipal govern Swimming Championship that takes place in Maui this June. ment, employment law, debtors' A native of Peru, Flores-Fiol began and creditors' rights, and his career as an artist in 1982 and has business and corporate law. since had numerous shows in Hawaii and in Portland. His paintings have '80 been sold in cities all over the world. Beard Frame Shops, which includes 25 Mark Allred is controller at Epitope Inc., a biotechnology galleries and stores in the Northwest, is company that develops and currently featuring his work. Flores markets medical diagnostic Fiol lives and works in Eagle Creek, products. Allred previously was where he finds inspiration in the land a senior manager at Deloitte & scape of trees, rolling hills, and distant Touche. He lives in Portland. mountains. Alice Freuler is the ass istant Last year Flores-Fiol, for the second executive director at the 1 9 q s N 1 K ~•• , ~S , ~.. L? .. !1 . ~ .. ~ ,r , ~ .. ~ s GAME s time, became the honorary Consul of Oregon Dental Association in ,.. ,; ·:::~, :·;r:.:." Peru to the Northwest, a job he says Portland . Freuler oversees oper ations, administration, and allows him to promote cultural understanding between Peru and the United States, as convention planning. She has well as pursue his artistic interests. been at O DA fo r 10 years and "The emphasis now, at least among Latin American diplomatic appointees, is upon previously was the director of commitment to many fields-particularly business and art," he says. "It is really this communications. cultural interaction that serves as the basis of all else in the field of diplomacy and world Terry McGrath is owner of harmony." Futura, a firm specializing in priva te real estate development 24 PSU MAGAZINE SPRING 199 7 and international sales. Sandra Loveland MS is the T V and also appeared in Spunk : McGrath lives in Portland. library director of Desert T he Tonya Harding Story fo r Foothills Library in Cave C reek, '83 Comedy Central. He is Alan Probandt is a technician A riz. The library is totally dona Melanie Miller Hambelton has currently starring in The fo r LPK F CAD/CAM Systems tion-supported and relies on coached women's voll eyball at Peacemaker. in Beaverton. over 50 volunteers to keep it Estacada High School fo r the Paul Lycan is a lieutenant flouri hing. Volunteer recently past I 4 years, the past eight a commander with the U.S. completed a building project head coach. In 1996, she was Navy. Lycan is halfway thr ugh '81 that doubled the library size. named AAA Voll eyball Coach a six- month deployment to the George Babnick is a lieutenant Loveland writes that she and of the Year. Hambelton also Western Pacific Ocean and fo r the Portland Police Bureau. her husband, H arold, "are learn substitutes as an elementary Persian G ulf with Fleet Logistic Babnick joined the Bureau in ing to enj oy Arizona, though teacher in the Estacada School Support Squadron 30. He is 1983 and has worked in every they miss O regon." District. embarked aboard the aircraft precinct. He was involved in Susan Romano Rustvold MS carrier US Kitty Hawk and has the Bureau' early transition to '96 is the chair of the depart so fa r visited Bahra in, Hong community poli cing and was ment of behav ioral sciences at '84 Kong, and Singapore. awarded the Distingui shed the O HSU School of Dentistry Nan Hamilton Green earned a Service Medal fo r his commu Dr. Jon Paul Wakamatsu is a in Portland. Master of Science degree in nity poli cing activities. Babnick self-employed fa mily practice industrial engineering from previous Iy was a detective phys ician in Evanston, Wyo. New Mex ico State University se rgeant in the Bureau's Wakamatsu writes: "I have a in December. G reen li ves in Las Internal Affairs Div i ion. '82 very busy practi ce doing a full C ruces, N .M. L. Lynn Lafrance is the range of fa mily medical care. Clint Didier operates a 650- manager of planning and budge t William "Bill" Johnson is an I am a diplomate of the acre farm near Pasco, Wash., fo r Texaco O versea (Nige ri a) actor li ving in New York. American Board of Family producing mos tly hay. Didier Petroleum Company Unlimited, Johnson has appeared in numer Practice, as well as the fo rmerly played profe sional a subsidiary of Texaco Inc., in ous off-off-Broadway plays Ameri can Board of Bariatric foo tball with the Washington Lagos, Nigeri a. LaFra nce li ves including Th e Bro rli ers Medicine. I am the medical Redskins fo r seven years and in Bellaire, Texas. Karamazov and Box. He tarred director fo r the local hospice G reen Bay fo r two. He played as Mohammad Salamen in organiza tion." in three Super Bowl during hi Wliat Really Happened?, a docu NFL career. mentary fo r Germany's SAT-1 SPRING 1997 PSU MAGAZI NE 25 has been with the company alternati ve health care products, N.D. The business carri es clas- since l995. such a vitamins and nutritional ic, antique, custom, and upplements designed for coll ectible firearms and tradi Maria Schumacher was one f women. tional archery eq uipment. '86 ix winner of the Pharmacia Biotech & Science Prize for James Wilkinson MS '91 is a Heather Hughes is a drive r for Robert Jarrett is the corporate Young d entists. Schumacher hyd rogeolog ist with Kokusai United Parcel Service in contro ller at Sarif Inc., in does post-doctoral research at Kogyo Company Ltd., a Albuquerque, N.M. Vancouver, Wash. Sarif is a the Oregon Health Sciences Japanese consulting firm . high-tech company that manu Brent MacNab received the University. Maria fo rmerly Wilkinson's position involves factures SVGA display proj ec Oscar Fish Scholarship of worked fo r two years as a qual projects and travel in less-devel tors and will manufacture active Excellence. The scholarship ity control chemist fo r A lpkem oped countries. He writes that matrix polys ilicon LCDs later provides full support in Corporation in Wilsonville. "this has helped me to expand this yea r. completing a master's degree at my thinking to a more global Paul Steger Ed D is principal of the University of Hawaii at Richard Roper MBA is an perspective and is a great oppor Lent El ementary School in Manoa and include one emes account representative at tunity to learn about and expe Portland. ter of study at Oxfo rd Morrison Knudsen Corporation, ri ence other cultures." He University. a facilities manage ment firm . fo rmerly was with the United Roper is responsible for manag States Geological Survey. He Michael Saty is the ge neral ing the day to day facilities '89 li ves in Tokyo. ales manager at Nickel Ad , a operations of the video and Rebecca (Ryan) Hart reports publishing firm in Portland. network division of Tektronix she is practicing therapeutic in Beaverton. massage at her business, '90 Transformation Massage, in Steven "Steve" Seeger is a Nathan Charlton M '92 is an '91 Ocean Park, Wash. She special franchi e owner of a Sears retail a sociate with KPFF Consulting Kelly June Cannon MA '94 is a izes in Swedish/Shiatsu, Reiki, store in cappoose. Seeger plans Engineers in Portland. Charl ton writer and content coordinator and Aromatherapy, and to open another facility in has been with KPFF fo r six with Formations Inc., a welcomes any alum to come by St. Helens in the future. yea r and has worked on numer Portland-ba ed exhibits des ign and share a cup of tea and a sea ous micro fabrication fac ilities, firm. Formations des igned and breeze when on the peninsula. long-span steel structures, and fabricated ex hibits at Warm '87 Laura Verboort is the merchan fas t track projects. Springs Museum, Pacific dising manager at Transitions Northwe t Natural History Gail Dundas is principal at Todd A. Hanson is owner of For Health Inc., in Portland. Museum in Ashland , and the Public Relations Counsel in Norsman Sporting Arms & The company manufactures Mt. St. Helens Forest Learning Seaside. Dundas is a former Ambush Archery in Bismarck member of the PSU Alumni Board of Directors. Debra L. Hall writes that she's "at home full time with her adopted daughter from China Speak (born Augu t 8, 1994, adopted May 25, 1995)." Hall lives in Portland. Up Marie Oberg MS retired in December after serving as the librarian at Ranier Elementary ... for the Ben Padrow School fo r 25 year . Oberg owns Forensics Program. Cottage Antique in Rainier and plans to open a second shop We need the help of on the Toledo ranch she shares with her husband, Robert. Ben's former student Linda Wood works in purchas to make the Padrow ing at the Washington School Forensics Program a fo r the Deaf in Vancouver, reality. Please get back Wash. in touch by calling Steve Kosokoff, '88 Department of Speech Traci Campbell is controller at IN YNC Partners Inc., a public Communication, relations firm in Portland. 725-5378. M. Nina Nguyen is the confer ence center sa les manager fo r Th e late Ben Padrow (center front) surrounded by the 1963 team. the Portland Hilton. Nguyen 26 PSU MAGAZINE SPRING 1997 Center, as well as many other the entire Willamette Valley nati onal project . The company water tabl e. has won two National Awards '94 '95 Bruce Ross is a medi cal student of Merit from the American David "Daiv" Cain is a graphic Joseph Earhart is a public rela at O regon Health Sciences Associati n of State and Local artist on the staff of the Eugene tions account executive with University. Ross fo rmerl y was a History. Weekly. Harris Massey Herinckx in paramedi c with the Portland Portland. Ea rhart writes, "[ Joan Swinney EdD is a sales Fire Bureau for 15 yea rs. Linda Godson MA is in the interned with the advertising associate with the Sunriver second yea r of the Ph.D. and PR firm for which I am Village ·branch of Coldwell program in linguistics at the currently employed. Recommend Banker First Resort Realty in Unive rsity of California, San '93 internships to all undergrads." Bend. Swinney fo rmerly was a Diego. Godson's current Teresa LaHaie MPA '95 has teacher at Cleveland High research is on Japanese long David Eder is a mortgage lender joined the Justice Manage ment School in Portland. vowels and the typology of with Morgan Financial Inc., in Division of the Department of segment length. She writes, Portland. Justi ce in Washington, D. C., as "My tenth grandchild was born a program and budg t analyst. Desmond Mollendor is ass istant April 1996-her name is '92 LaHaie works on immigration manager at the Best Western Jennifer Blue God on. Life is Charles Dimon is the owner of and naturalization issues fo r the Marysville in Marysville, Wash. good." Mountain Bike O utfitters in Justi ce Department. Colleen Odell is the develop Kirkland, Wash. Dimon writes Kathy Hardie-Williams MEd Jennifer Scarboro is a supply ment coordinator fo r the that he recently opened a '95 is a seventh grade math and officer with the lst Cavalry Oregon Historical Society, a second store in Kent, Wash. science teacher at Parkrose Division of the U.S. Army non-profit historical museum Middle School. Hardie writes, Patricia A. Kelly is a communi based at Ft. Hood, Texas . Lt. and library in Portland. "I love what I am doing and ca tions manager with the Scarboro is deploying with her hope to continue." Heidi Abrams Wells and Oregon Department of unit to Kuwait, and will be Christopher Wells '96 were Transportation, Department of there fo r everal months. Scott MacHaffie MS is the lead married in August 1996. Heidi Motor Vehicles in Salem. oftware engineer with Saltire Carla Sallee is a res idential works in the college relations Software in Beaverton. Danial Palette is a hydrologic sale associate with Coldwell department at Linfield College technician with the U.S. Banker Moun tain West Real Valerie Metcalfe MEd '96 is a in McMinnville. Chris manages Geological Survey in Portland. Estate Inc. , in Salem. Sallee substitute high school French and operates PATCO Pa lette performs a va ri ety of previously worked as a sales teacher. Metcalfe lives in (Protective Automotive Trim duties related to hydrologic associate and office manager fo r Portland. Company), his fami ly's business. studies and is currently mapping Sallee & As ciates Realtor . The Wells live in A loha. developiltg and maintaining a c.areer today is tough. With tbe mpzd pace of change, you need to learn more just to keep up. 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"Nick" Hogan was honored Family (Taiwa n) Ltd., a Di ney by the O regon Society of Nicole Lindberg is a human Katherine "Kathy" Bobula World of Engli sh firm . C hen Certified Public Accoun tants in resource ass istant with PhD is coordinator of the early li ves in Taipei, Taiwan. November fo r placing third in Pacificare of O regon. Lindberg childhood educati on depart the state on la r May 's exam. He li ve · in Vancouver, Wash. ment and in tructor of psychol Kimberli Davenport is the night completed hi degree at PSU in ogy at C lark College in ca e manage r at Bradley Angle Kimberly Maguire is in market ju t two years. Hogan works fo r Vancouve r, Wa h. Her husband, Hou e, a dome tic violence shel ing communications at Carri er Yergen an 28 PSU MAGAZINE SPRING 1997 P 0 R T S MEN'S BASKETBALL (6-10, 9-17) Every "expert" FOOTBALL Spring practice begins April 12 and who wrote magazine preview stories before the season concludes May 10 with an alumni game at a site to be picked PSU to finish last in the Big Sky Confe rence. announced. Head Coach Tim Walsh has elevated Some even said the Vikings would be lucky to win a single Linebacker Coach Mark Criner to defensive coordinator, game after reinstating a program that had been defunct with the departure of Jaime Hill to the San Francisco since 1980-81. Head Coach Ritchie McKay surprised the 49ers, where he will be ass istant econdary coach . Joseph pundits by putting together a team of six freshmen, two Welch, who has coached at San Diego Mesa College the sophomores, and three juniors that produced a seventh past three years, joins the staff as receivers coach. PSU's place finish in the nine-team Big Sky. The season included non-league schedule includes games at Fresno State (Aug. a win over league champion Northern Arizona and a one 30), at Idaho (Sept. 6), and St. Mary's (Oct. 11) . The first point loss to runner-up Montana, which played Kentucky Big Sky Conference home game is Sept. 13 at 6 p.m. in the first round of the NCAA tournament. against Eastern Washington. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL (7-9, 11-14) The PSU women finished sixth in the Big Sky on their return to the NCAA Division I. Seven of the 14 losses were by six points or less. The Vikings had played in Division Il fo r the pas t fi ve seasons, making the playoffs every year. The sixth-place finish this season would have placed the Vikings in the league's post-season tournament, except fo r the two-year wait required by the NCAA. This year's Vikings set two school records, holding opponents to 58.4 points per game and a 3 7 percent shooting average. WRESTLING (3-13) Coach Marlin Grahn was building his young team and not concerned with final scores in this Former P U aseball standouts (kft to right) Tom first Division I season. Unfortunately, the off-season Trebelhorn, Gordon Riese, Wally Harding, and Ted proved to be the real test. A University committee recom Hendrv. Photo by Gary Bishop. mended the elimination of wrestling to offset budget prob lems and to bring the University in compliance with BASEBALL GREATS HONORED Coach Dave gender equity guidelines under Title IX. Grahn worked Dangler and fo rmer Coach Roy Love '61 instituted a new hard to gain support for a program that he twice took to award this year fo r past PSU standouts. The first recipients the NCAA Division 11 national championships. It paid are former major league manager Tom Trebelhom '71 , now off. The University is keeping wrestling, which is expected director of player development fo r the Baltimore Orioles; to join the PAC-10 confe rence in 1998-99. Gordon Riese '64, mathematics department head fo r BASEBALL PSU's PAC-10 North schedule will Portland Public Schools and a PAC-10 foo tball official; continue through Sunday, May 11 , against Oregon State, Wally Harding '59, senior vice pres ident of Norris, Beggs, Washington, and Washington State. The winner of the and Simpson Realtors; and Ted Hendry, an American North will play the PAC-10 Southern Division champion League umpire. in the best two out of three series fo r the automatic playoff FUND DRIVE UNDER WAY The PSU Viking C lub's berth. O ut of Coach Dave Dangler's 25-man traveling annual fund drive is under way with a goal of $150,000 squad 16 are freshmen. and 75 new members. The move to Division I requires an SOFTBALL Coach Teri Mariani is in her 21st season increase in the number of scholarships that each sport with another winning team. This PSU team is primed fo r offers. Tax-deductible gifts fo r Viking athletics can be its first year of Division I playoff eligibility as well. Its top made by contacting Mike Rodgers at 725-5677 . two pitchers are sophomores Beth Stidham and Shevaun WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Ted Hendry, who along Seibert. with Gordon Riese, pitched PSU to the 1962 NAIA TRACK AND FIELD PSU winds up its season at Baseball Championship finals, is now in his 20th year as Lewis & Clark on April 26, at University of O regon on an American League umpire. May 3, and at the Big Sky Championship in Cheney, The Vikings great pass-catch combination of the 1987 and Washington, May 16-17 . 1988 playoff teams-Chris Crawfo rd and Barry Naone are now on the same team again, working fo r Nike. D SPRI NG 1997 PSU MAGAZINE 29 {,~\\\\ .~ ,.~\\·~ {,~\\\\ .~ "'\~\\\\ .~ CINFEIENCE For Tickets Call 125-5635 or 1-888-VIK TIKS Portland State University PSU Magazine Nonprofit P.O. 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