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* E7 .*ffi7 ~,~fJ1J ~J, I~ rrn ~~ ~ tJ "ffl- , .Jj(111,e )twJ/e)W"thoutth.nht1Q, h~ 11IIll be p'er.p,e-~ Spring 1986 ~ ~ " a~ .s l Students gather in the Park Blocks------~~~~-- in front of Lincoln Hall in 195~8 From extension center to college PSU granted a future ion the 1950s by Clarence Hein that Portland would have a four-year six-block long car parade of In June 1956, the first students to state supported college in the not too celebration through downtown graduate with bachelor's degrees from distant future, you wou ldn't lose any Portland. Portland State walked across the stage dough." And events did move rapidly " ••• you ain't seen nothin' yet!" of Lincoln Hall, shook hands with in the development of Portland's state Joh n F. Cramer, who had served as Inside college president John F. Cramer, and college, but never fast enough for Dean of the Extension Center, was quietly took their places in the students or staff. named first Portland State College 40 years of great teaching / 3 University' s history. It was almost 10 Lobbying effort kept PSU alive President. His inauguration was in Mike Tichy teaches hi s students fitness skills years to the day since the college first The move downtown in 1952 gave October, along with the formal that change their bodies and their lives opened its doors for summer session the college its permanent campus dedication of Portland State College. Memories of the 1950. / 4 as Vanport Extension Center. and, thanks to intensive lobbying by In his convocation address, Cramer Five alums and faculty remember the 19505 at The 1940s ended with the Portland Staters and their supporters, said , " The history of Portland State is Portland State legislative approval of the matters continued to move in the before us. All that is past is Stalking new energy sources 1 6 still Carl Wamser and co·researchers look to Wilhelm-Logan Bill (originally drafted legislative arena . prologue." To which the Vanguard photosynthesis for a new source of energy by Vanport student John Hakanson), The 1953 legislature, while it added, " And you ain't seen nothin' A possion for learning / 7 establishing a permanent defeated a four-year college bill, did yet!" PSU's oldest and youngest students share a lower-division college in Portland and approve a plan allowing Portland They were right. Before the decade passionate quest for knowledge authorizing purchase of the old State to provide three·and-two-thirds was over, construction would begin PSU's sensational summer / 10 downtown Lincoln High School years toward bachelor's degrees in Summer Session, Summer Festival Theater and on three buildings (the first sections of Haystack '86 provide innovative summer building. teaching. Students would take the Cramer Hall and Smith Center, and schedule The college remained at the final term at one of the other state the DCE building), degree programs The two lives of Anthony Armstrong / 12 Oregon Shipyard site, purchased from campuses. would expand and enrollment would Anthony Armstrong ('781 combines a sa les the General Services Administration But the writing on the legislative grow to 8,500 day and evening ca reer with a dynamic stage presence for $12,000 (or two more years wall was so clear that the State Board, students. Preserving the past 1 14 pending completion of the new in late 1954, agreed to take the In late 1958 President Cramer Janice Rutherford (' 81 MAl advocates for the preservation of historic buildings lincoln High building. But the initiative in the next legislative session res igned his post for health reasons . A Campus News / 8 Van port students retained their on a four-year bill for Portland State. national search brought Branford P. Alum Notes / 13 excitement and enthusiasm for their It was one of the first pieces of Millar to the campus as second foundation News 1 16 school. They voted to change the legislation adopted in 1955 and, on president. An English scholar, Millar Sports 1 17 name to " Portland State Extension February 11 , Governor Paul Patterson spoke to the students about the Calendar / 19 Center," taking the initiative to insure signed the bill into law, creating intellectual challenges facing them a student voice in selection of a Portland State College. Student body and the need for the college to name. The State Board approved their President Ron Denfield climbed a broaden its educational horizons as it On the cover: English calligraphy by Lawrence choice two years later. ladder to remove the words entered the 1960's. Wheeler of the PSU Honors College; Chinese calligraphy by Chang Min Shen . The In the spring of 1950, new State " Extension Center" from the side of It was to be another decade of calligraphy of Lawrence Wheeler is featured in Board chairman Edgar Smith told a Lincoln Hall, leaving the name, promi se and progress for Portland the 1986 Summer Session catalog. Vanport assembly, " If you were to bet " Portland State." There was' a State. State Board accepts PSU mission statement ABC ALUMNI BENEFITS The State Board of Higher PSU , the state board continue to use tontmue to be founued on traditional CONTINUE TO GROW Education this spring accepled a new UO and OSU as PSU 's comparator disciplmes of the lIberal arts and mission statement for Portland Slate institutions in allocating salary suences. The highest priority, Count the many services now University along with a list of improvement funds; shall be excellent teaching at all recommended actions to help Ihe That new gr.lduate programs be levels. available 10 you as a PSU University meet the cha llenges of added at PSU when a demonstrated PSU must give ~cia l attention to alum! Offered only to future development. The new mi!lsion need exists and resources become the needs of its multi·cultural, Porlland siale alumni al statement will be incorporated in a available. minority and nontraditional st udents . special Alumni Benefit Card six-yea r strategic plan for higher The task force urged the board to It should augment rigorous classroom savings. education in the state. request funds from the legislature to and laboratory instruction with The mission statement was complete the expansion of electrical clinical instruction widely available in • Sports and recreation developed by a special task force and computer engi nccr' ng, the Portland area . • Library privileges appointed by the board and chaired international studies, and international Research will continue to grow in • Insurance benefits by loren Wyss of Portland. The task business programs at PSU. When quality and quantity .... Resc.uch • Low cost rental of force mel with members of the those programs are adequately sta ffed and scholar.>h ip must be an important recreational equipment community and with PSU faculty, and competing successfully for criteria for faculty selection, (including skiing gear) studenls and research grants, the task students and administration in promotion, tenure and sa lary • Membership in PSU Co-op development of the mission force said, new !lraduate and research advancement. . New research Bookstore statement" programs should be considered in the programs should be selected Four Recommendations fields of business administration, carefully ... , Research programs • Travel progr.ms The task force presented four urban and ethnic education, social tied to the community's focus on high • Parking privileges recommendations to the board, urging welfare and human services, public technology industry, business • Discounts on social and " additional involvement, support, and administration, and possibly administration, international trade, cultural events encouragement." by the board in PSU specialized fields of science and the urban and ethnic education, hC.1hh • Monthly calendar of development. The recommendations performing arts. systems and administration, public University events from the task force were: Statement Highlights administration, and social service That the state board adopt the new Highlights from the new PSU should be given priority • Discounts on athletic proposed mission statement; Mission Statement include the consideration. " events That excellent teaching and basic following. As the major public university in Call your Alumni Office liberal arts and sciences, the heart of "(PSU 's) mission is to provide the Ponland metropolitan area, PSU today and sign up for your any university, be preserved so that excellent programs of teaching, will continue to be a leader in the ABC Ca rd . PSU can respond to evolving research and public serv ice in economic, social, and cultural life of economic and social need s; Oregon's major metropolitan the comMunity, area . , .. Development of PSU will That, to enhance development of PSU ALUMNI letters Editor wins awards The Oregon Columbia Chapter of r------" Superb stories the International Association of Business Communicators recently I After reading the previous issued two " Pacesetter Citations" to I years PelSpective (Fall 1985) with the two PSU editor Cynthia Stowell for articles superb stories by Cynthia Stowell, and published in Perspective. The of great \./ now the currenl issue with the citations were awarded for "Symbols Dmytryshyn story. I feel compelled to of racism help define prof's mission" teaching /\ write and say how good thoseS (Fall 1985) for a "sensitive exploration were. What a pleasure to rea find of a difficult topic" and for "From writing informed by an intellig yeo Poland to Portland" (Winter 1986), This University benefits by Cynthia'S Stowell's profile of Basil Dmytryshyn, When you think back to your days at Portland Slate or Vanport, presence. I look forward to reading PSU professor of history. does one professor's face le.1p to mind? Out of all the ideas and more. information that came your way, do the words of one professor stay Cathy Smith with your Psychology Dept. Spend a few moments thinking about the Portland State prof who influenced you the most. What made him or her stand out? Inspiring Imrr lectures? An intriguing outlook on life? Exceptional expertise? A Vanpl>rt memories personal interest in your work? Some sage advice at J critical time? R!rspective Now share your memories of this favorite professor with Perspecti\'e I was rea lly surprised by the photo and with your classmates for inclusion in a special look at " 40 Years in Winter 1986 alumni news. There I PSU l"fnptctivt is publ ished q~nerlydu'iIl8the ~ilf b,o News and IlIformalion SeNH:e!i fo, of Great Teaching" scheduled for the fall issue. You can use the form was, serving coffee and doughnuts alumni, faculty and Sliff and friends of Pordand below or a separate piece of paper, but please, no more than 250 and sandwiches, same as I did old at SUteUniworsily. words. Send your memories to: PSU Perspective, P.O. Box 75 l. Portland Hall and at the Oregon Portland •• OR 97207. Shipyard location, We even Inl~imEdil orKill hnSmllh Conlribulon CI~It'nC~ tiCln '6S endeavored to serve hal meals then. Clili!ohlWlfl Professor's name and dept.: ______I took part in helping the Vimguard C~·lIlhl. D SIO\'IeJl get off its somewhat wet feet. I w rote CMrnUr EditOf P~I Scon Memories: ______headlines, ads, features , finally put It a-.p"'addrea; ~both~andold .bed... ~IOPSUP\mpediw,P . o . Box 751. The "U" by the Slough will always PortIitnd 5t~1e Univmit)', Portbnd. Orqon, be dear to me. I would not have been 97207. able to go on to U of 0 for a SA '.-..b : lflb iii_is~loyour!iOOOI" without the background from that daushrer who no longer mailltullS a pemlinenl extension center. ___ at your~, pIe_ nocify!he PSU Alumni Qffl(t (5OJ·l~9-4e) 01 the new !IIo1ihll8 Thomas A. " Tommy" Heckard, ...... PSU IUppQ!ts I/qWI tduo~ opportunrry Your name: ______Year of Graduation ___ Vanport witboll:~tdlOseJC .r.Ke, lYondlCip,"". Portland, Oregon lIoiIIIioNl oriW" , ITI¥it ,..,. 2 1 PSU Perspective. Spling 1986 Prof lill~ Tichy improves the lives of his students by Bob Mu llin He stands in the center of Portland State University's main gymnasium surrounded by fitness equipment of his own design, a stocky, well-built man whose youthful appearance belies his 64 years. Near the entrance to the gym a small rectangular sign attached to the wall read'.i, "12 laps equals one mile," and dozens of people of all ages, ranging from theif 305 to their 70s . are jogging or walking around the perimeter of the huge gym. From lime to time, the robust man in the center of gym lx>oms outs: "Re-verse di-rection please!" And the joggers and wal kers turn and head the other way-"tD relieve stress on one side of the body," the man explains to someone standing next to him, "How'm I doing, Doc?" a voice calls.out from the perimeter, and the r,nan in the center waves his approval. "Not too much, now,'1 he cautions as enforcement agencies, a program he an afterthought. calls one of the most unique in the years nation. "We teach them everything from handling stress problems to " He was jogging the hills of great drinking modification," he says. of Pennsylvania in the Tichy began designing fitness teaching equipment when he noticed "some mid-1930s . .. " terrible things happening with testing." A grey-haired woman breaks from An example was the inaccuracy in the group and approaches the man drinking habits and watch their diet career in 1946. He served as an measuring flexibility. "The old with an expression of concern on her because they were doing some associate PE professor at Ihe face. " Dr. Tichy," she says, " the positive things for their bodies. " UniverSity of Portland for five years other night I was only two laps from He was right. The program grew (1949-54), the last two as department "When you have a finishing my workout when I felt a over the years, enrolling as many as head, and for a time coached tennis 76-year-old running, you sharp twinge right here. " Bending, 130 adults in a class. PartiCipants teams Ihat set a national record she poi nts to a spot on her right knee. often included heart and stroke winning streak of 80 straight matches. know it's a good The man is quick to offer both advice patients referred to the program by Tichy worked part-time at Portland program. " and comfort. doctors in the area. State in 1952 and took over full-time For nearly 30 years the above scene Of course Tichy is widely known duties in 1954. " I enjoy teaching," he has been a fixture at PSU . On for many other contributions to health says, " and with the writing and method was to put a yardstick on the Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at and physical fitness. He has been research I am now doing, it makes it floor," says Tichy. " But it wasn't 5 p.m., people of all sorts-fat, thin, teaching for 40 years, most of that even more meaningful ." reproducible. One time your heel tall, short, young, old-have been time at Portland Stale. He has The writing includes a book Tichy would be at the 15-inch mark and religiously taking the time to attend promoted the organization of fitness is putting together on exercises for the another time it would be at the the Adult Fitness Program conducted programs as spec ial consultant to the elderly, one of his specialties, and the 14-inch mark. Because of the by Michael W. Tichy, professor of President's Council on Physical research involves a project aimed at variation in position, you couldn't health and physical education at PSU Fitness and Sports and other simplifying the procedure for know whether you'd improved or since 1954. organizations. He also has invented determining individual fitness levels, a not. '· It was in 1959 that Tichy launched and marketed a variety of devices project, beginning in mid~May , that As a result Tichy designed----and the community fitness program ior a designed for fitness testing and will bring to PSU a leading authority marketed-the Tichy Test-O-Flex, group of a half dozen men or so development. in exercise phYSiology, Herbert which, according to product "because they were having more Born in 1921 in Pittston, Pa. , Tichy DeVries, from the University of literature, " improves reliability and problems related to the remembers " never deviating" from an Southern California. validity of flexibility measurements." cardio-vascular system. " interest in health, fitness and physical In his role as fitness council Other Tichy inventions include a Tichy says he felt that if these men education from the sixth grade on. He consultant Tichy has worked under stretch bench "to improve the range got involved in endurance type of was jogging the hills of Pennsylvania five U.S. administrations. " I touch a of motion in certain body areas," an exercise " they would eliminate such in the mid-1930s, decades before the lot of bases," he says. "Anyone who instrument for measuring ca lories silly habits as smoking, mooify their word " jog" entered the vocabularies has any questions from this area of burned depending on weight, activity of millions of fitness-conscious the country is referred to me." and time spent; and Flex-O-Straps for (Bob Mullin is a freelance writer in Americans. Tichy helped set up fitness stretching legs. " I'm something of an Portland and a frequent contributor to· During World War II Tichy worked programs at Safeway and the YMCA. entrepreneur," he explains with il Perspective. He is also a former PSU with sports and rehabilitation He also helped launch a testing and grin. student.) programs, launching his teaching instruction program for statewide law Continued on page 18 PSU Perspective, Spring 1986 I page 3 Memories• of the 1950s Alums and faculty remember the past Interviewed by Katlin Smith La Rae Koon 8ogh, '56 I'd say, in the fifties, they (students) were pretty conservative. not nearly as liberal as, say, the sixties. They were much more liberal then . .. We had thc students who wenl to school and were very serious about if and very dedicated. o We had a lot of veterans Ihen because of the Korean War... They constituted kind of an autonomous group. A 101 of Ihem were married. But It was really fun having them because, interestingly enough, they took more parI in the socitll life than a lot of the younger students. They were ready to have some {un , bUI Ihey took their studieo; very seriously. They made good students and a lot of them had to work a lot more say than ~Ol(, who were younger but they made just as good grades because they really dedicated themselves. But they also look time to go 10 the dances and thai's probably the one thing that has changed a lilt Ie. Dancing was a big thing in the fifties ... they were well auended, all kinds sock hops, formals. Mostly it was just informal dances. o I took an active part in writing letters to congressmen. We'd wrile personal letters about making it a degree-granting institution. That was before 1956 ... During my time at Chuck Clemans, '56 Portland Stale, I also spent a year al the University of Oregon and I had my choice. I The character of the campus is so wasn't an option. I wasn't very well off. I was could have golten my degree at the University different. .. the University existed in the working part-time at the paper mill in Camas of Oregon or come back to Portland State and lincoln Building, lincoln Hall, referred to as supporting my way through school. I chose to come back to Portland State "Old Main/' and one large Victorian whit.:h because it was the first year it was granting held the administration in it. .. The old We had a fair number of what we would degrees ... and besides, I honestly felt that lincoln Building wasn't that different from ca ll returning housewives who came back. Portland State had a better faculty, a more when it had been a high school. It wa~ real I think thai the University in those early days dynamiC faculty ... The personalities who interesting 10 look oul the wmdows. and I afforded a chance for a lot of people who were there in the fjfties were people who probably did look out, al so many of those were place-bound ... I recall lots of ladies were really active in community affairs, civic rowhouse-type Victorians. ThaI had to go who were coming back after having galien affairs, they were really comers, and I just felt when Ihe campus expanded. That was kind of their kids into schooL I think that's a major like I received a better education and, for that a loss. I hated [0 see those buildings tole for a city university. reason, I came back. destroyed. o o o I do remember thi s. We were in the throes I was talking about young and dynamic In 1956 the school received its of gelling accreditalion and part of that was a people but Dr. Dahlstrom, an older man. accreditation and there was some question as certain amount of academic rigor was he was in his fj fties which seemed old at the to whether or not we were going to be expected and I Ihink that some of that rigor lime you know, in years chronologically he accredited. Some people departed, gOI rubbed off on a few of Ihe instructors and so wasn't young but he was such a dynamic nervous and transferred to other schools in the gelting a degree and getting grades for classes professor that he made literature just come 10 state system ... For an awful lot of us that was not just an idle exercise. life. page 4 1 PSU Perspective, Spring 1986 Mary Ferguson Cumpston, '57 Everybocly here felt a sense of energy and areas so I was able to do things that I would triumph over the fact that Portland State had never be able to do on a large geographically made it from Van porI. . . The faculty was a separated campus like go to parties at the very enthusiastic group committed to homes of English professors, sociology continuing the momentum that had been professors. Or. Dahlstrom cooked popovers at generated. And the students felt, at least some his home one Sunday morning ... I was able of us did, that we had unknowingly stumbled to take courses in the arts and humanities that into this rare atmosphere where everybody were taught by people who later became the had the same goals and everybody was most prestigious faculty at Portland State who interested in helping everybody else. I don't were at that time young instructors on their think I could have gone anywhere and gotten way up. a better liberal arts education than in the o fifties at Portland State. I think everyone was concerned with the o survival of the campus and having it become The fact that we were all housed in one a degree-granting institution. When I first building (lincoln Hall) ... forced us to all get came here .. . it was still considered an to know each other and to be together. There extension center. But there was no doubt in was one cafeteria. Everybody was there, the minds of many of us who were here that it faculty, students ... It was easy to get to and was inevitable that it would happen before we from various areas of the campus. And you would ever graduate. were encouraged and welcome in all of the Frank Roberts, PSU professor It was, in the speech department, a very Meeting Tournament." It attracted competitors innovative faculty. We were constantly trying from 15 or so colleges and universities. Again, to find ways to increase the effiCiency of our we tried to develop new things. We were not teaching. We were not terribly satisfied with completely enamored with the traditional textbooks and we developed elaborate collegiate debate which nobody listened to curricula. highly structured, lots of supporting except a couple of judges so the "Town teaching materials, and we were certainly Meeting Tournament" brought people in to aggressive from thai standpoint. .. The talk in three.way debates . . . They spoke speech department was heaVily involved in before college audiences. high school competitive speech, forensics, and so we audiences, and before community groups worked hard at that and that was the core Rotary clubs. service groups, and on radio group for the speech department. . We programs. We conducted that for about 10 made room available as a gathering place for years. people who were interested in forenSiCS, and o a library and a place that they met and I think, if anything, (after the move to the congregated and called "home." present campus) our students had an Even when we were al Oregon Shipyard opportunity to become much more we, in the speech department, developed a specialized . . . and I think that was the thing unique tournament that was called the ''Town that the new location gave-a sense of permanence in the future Dean DeChaine, '59 From a student OOdy point of view it was a including Ben Pad row and Frank Roberts . By fairly straightforward political setting where and large, with few exceptions. I was students had a purpose, a goal. an objective, extremely pleased with the teaching and enthusiasm and an idealism ... There were education. really not any significant demonstrations or o that kind of thing. There was a good Joe Blumel taught me economics when I relationship, in most cases, with the students was there. He was a very fine teacher. They and faculty. (PSU professors) were mostly younger o individuals just getting started in the One of the biggest programs we had in profession and they were hardworking and those days was the Winter Carnival. We they were anxious to show they could teach. literally took over Mt. Hood for a weekend. o Those were the days when college students The thing that I recall best is that, if you became involved, you didn'l have the feeling ~~u~~~:r~mJt~1 ~h~a~~~d~~~~~~~~ was as if this were an urban setting necessarily. It's quite a thing. Finally its success became so true that you did live at home. It's true that great that it destroyed itself. But in those days most peepl rt·time job. But there it was still in its successful stage. was good comrade ' ... The other thing that o I think has really important had been the My advisor was Brock Dixon and I had a education and the training and the close great deal of respect for him. I was relationship that existed between the faculty particularly fond of history teachers, in members and the students. It was a very particular Charlie White and George giving situation. Hoffmann. I was fond of the speech teachers, PSU Perspective, Spring 1986 / "... S Chemist aims to reveal new energy source Carl Wamser and his co-researchers look to photosynthesis for an alternative to depletable, fossil-based fuels Carl WamSf'r, associate professor of chemistry, and dssistant SUz;Jnf}{' CIi"k ('78 MS) check the vacuum system used to prepare samples for photochemical studies. by Cliff Johnson surely must possess to solve this tricky harness that energy to generate the associates-Raymond Bard and The problem-Io discover how to laboratory mystery. chemical reactions needed to split Valerie Anderson; two graduate imitate the process of photosynthesis To review, the natural process of water and create hydrogen cheaply. students in PSU's Environmental in the laboratory on a grand, yet photosynthesis is used by Wamser has long been convinced Sc iences and Resources/Chemistry cost-efficient scale, thus revealing a chlorophyll-containing cells in green that hydrogen represents enormous Ph.D. Program-Suzanne Clark ('78 way to generate a clean, abundant plants to convert light to chemical potential for serving as a true world MS) and Robert Ransdell; and fou r sou rce of fuel. energy that the plants can use. energy source. " Ri ght now, solar undergraduate research assistants. "So what?" you say. Oxygen that the plants release during energy is mainly used to generate In Bend, the SR I researchers have It's a fair question. But all of us this energy-prooltcing process is, of heat and, to a lesser extent, been bUSily preparing the thin-film have a considerable slake in the course, what animals and humans electricity. But we want to use this composite membranes and making outcome of this new research venture. breathe to sustain life, solar energy to generate the the preliminary measurements and As an energy-hungry world depletes Wamser and hi s co-researchers are the earth's remaining fossil-based determining how best to imitate energy supplies such as ad, natural natural photosynthesis in a lab setting. gas and coal, the prospect of final,y This, they hope, will show them how "If we could only generate such a fue l from the simple harnessing a new source of clean, to employ plentiful solar energy to ingredients of water and sunlight . .. this would ha ve useful energy becomes both exciting generate the desired fuel-in this and essential. case, hydrogen. O nce that is a tremendous impact on the world's dwindling energy " If we could only generate such a accomplished, the researchers must resources. " fuel from the simple ingredients of discover a way to make this process water and sunlight, usi ng the artificial happen cheaply, and on a true mass membranes we are developing as scale, catalysts. this would have a But why are the researchers hydrogen," he says. " Hydrogen is characterizations concerning the tremendous impact on the world's pursuing their energy goa l by particularly clean-burning and could membranes. dwindling energy resources," muses exploiting photosynthesis? "We chose be used in most of the ways that Back at PSU, the first membranes Carl C. Wamser, associate professor to mimic ntltural photosynthesis nalural gas is currently being used." and model compounds are currently of chemistry at PSU. Wamser is because thi s is a process which has But before the scientists can hope being analyzed, with University 'headmg the University's new research been perfected by nature over to perfect this new mass energy researchers noting, in particular, their effort which is funded with one of the millions of years, and we're quite source, they must pass through the ability to initiate photochemical largest research grants yet received by willing 10 learn from it" Wamser says critical research and development (light-induced) reduction and PSU, a three-year, $840,857 grant with a smile. stages. Fortunately for Wamser's oxidation reactions, which might from the U.S. Department of Energy's The heart of the researchers' current research team, highly-qualified ultimately be coupled to the reduction DIvision of Advanced Energy ProJects. problem is found in si mple H20, or collaborators are located in Bend, and oxidation of water. Since these In fact, the critical work required to water. To break water down into its Ore. Scientists at Bend Research, initial test membranes from SRI have start realizmg Wamser's dream of a components requires energy, and Inc., including company president, only recently arrived at PSU, Wamser new fuel source is well underway in scientists have long known that Harold K. lonsdale, are now is hesitant to announce results, except two Oregon cities, thanks to the new, electrical energy can be used to cooperating with Wamser and his to note that preliminary mformation cooperative venture involving separate the hydrogen from the PSU team to perfect experimental, looks "very encouraging." research conducted both in the public oxygen. Bllt In electrolYSiS, the "ght-absorbing membranes which will Clearly, it is sti ll early going in the realm, at PSU, and m the private electrical energy needed to obtain the help coliect solar power and convert research. But the stakes in the truly sedor, through Bend Research, Inc. desired reaction is greater than the it to the desired chemical energy. worldwide competition to successfu ll y Deep in thought in hi s campus energy value of the hydrogen During the initial lab work harness this potential energy source laboratory, Wamser's quiet, precise obtained by the process. performed at PSU, the precursors are growing higher every day. manner masks an inner ambition and But what if the needed energy input needed to make these special Will the PSU and 8RI researchers problem-solving drive. He is regarded could come from sunlight instead, membranes have been synthesized, be the first to unlock this energy as an international expert on the Wamser wonders, After all, sunlight and some model compounds secret which could dramatIcally subject of artificial photosynthesIS arrives daily on the earth in quantities designed to verify predictions about improve the quality of our lives? look which, combined with his sufficient to meet all of humanity'S the membranes' behavior have been for Oregon's talent to continue considerable analytICal skills, form the current energy needs. Wamser's synthesized as well. Invol\fed in this meeting thi s remarkable challenge qualifications a research detective challenge, then, is to find a way to exacting work are two postdoctoral head·on. _ 6 I PSU Perspective, Spring 1986 Oldest and youngest students share passion for learning who then ran the Campbell Hotel in Portland. They sold lhe hotel after Sally DeVaughn died but continued to operate her boarding house, DeVaughn Hall, a 37-room mansion al N.W . 25th and Lovejoy, as a residence for single men until they retired in the early 1960s. When Stanley DeVaughn died in 1968, Hulda decided there were two things she wanted to do: go back to by Joan c. Johnson work and go to school. After taking a There's no doubt that Hulda job orientation class for teenagers and DeVaughn ('85) and Jonathan Male fit senior citizens, she succeeded in right in at Portland State - but Ihey landing a job as food service manager also stand out. They are the oldest for the Salvation Army's White Shield and youngest {ull-time students on Home where she continued to work campus. DeVaughn, who is working for 14 years. toward her master's degree in Spanish, just turned 89, while Male. now in his third term at PSU, is all of . .. her hopes of going on 12. Starting with the fact that they were to college were dashed at born in different centuries, the two Hulda DeVdughn CBS) and Jonathan Male discuss their PSU classes her high school are a study in contrasts. They even came to Portland State for different His mother recalls that it was Hulda moved to McMinnville to live graduation. reasons. For DeVaughn, PSU November before he started at with her brother and his wife. She provided the opportunity to finally go Hill sboro High and that he had to was determined to go to high school to college, a dream deferred long take an exam a few days after but her sister-in-law opposed the She also began raking classes at ago. For Male, the University is an beginning his first physics class. idea, wanting her to stay at home and Portland State and in August 1985 the interim step until he's "old enough to Jonathan passed the test with flying take care of their house. DeVaughn dream set aside 70 years ago came go away to school." Eventually he colors and went on to take all the says she finally left her brother's true. PSU awarded Hulda Abigail hopes to study physics at MIT or Cal science and math the school had to home, eventually moving to the DeVaughn her bachelor of arts degree Tech. offer. Commercial Hotel, where Sally in foreign languages. It was a day to Jonathan Male is a friendly After only two years, he DeVaughn, "a woman who believed remember - "Dr. Blumel. the youngster, slender, with bright, brown "graduated" from Hillsboro High in in education," took her under her president of the University, came over eyes and a warm smile. He looks like June 1985, although he did not wing. to talk to me, and there was a actually receive a diploma because he wonderful party afterwards." There ~~n~~t~iI~i::: f~~~ s~~~~~~g h~:e~ike . had not taken all the required ho~l,rd:a:~~~ ~~~ dolr~~aa~~ek, was also a very special gift - her He says he enjoys doing all these subjects. However, the school while she attended high school. "I daughter and son-in-law established a things, but for him, math and science provided letters stating that he was would rush home to work at noon scholarship at Portland State in her are fun, too. He doesn't watch much prepared to go on to college. "You and after school, and then study late name. te levision but admits to being a see," he quips, " I'm reaily a high in the evenings," she says. Her Although she finally had her "Trekkie" (dedicated follower of Star school dropout." persistence paid off. In June 1916, she degree, DeVaughn decided there was Trek) and a Mary Tyler Moore fan. Male was accepted by Portland ~raduated with straight A's. Ironicall y, no good reason not to conti nue her like most kids his age, he also likes State as a Special Admissions student her hopes of goi ng on to college were education. So she spends much of to play computer games. in the fall and has been carrying a full dashed at her high school graduation. her time these days in the student load of 12 to 14 hours a quarter, DeVaughn still vividly recalls the lounge at Smith Center, studying the studying such meaty subjects as ItIdmonition given by the graduation classics of the Golden Age of Spanish He was doing college-level chemistry, calculus and geology. He speaker: "If you have lots of money, literature. She sits at her favorite table algebra by the time he was also finds time to read and take go on to college. But if not, don't near the student store, surrounded by classes at the Saturday Academy, an bother to go." her books and papers. Her face is seven . .. educational program based at the Heeding that advice, she gave up etched with the lines of age but her Oregon Graduate Center. her dream of getting a degree in eyes are bright and sharp behind her Male says he doesn't find his age a journalism at the University of gold-rimmed glasses. And she always Jonathan has benefited from the oorrier to mixing socially - he has Oregon. There didn't seem to be has a smile for anyone who stops to assistance of supportive parents. His friends his own age in his much chOice, she recalls . " I was on chat. dad says they have always neighborhood and older friends he's my own and I didn't have any DeVaughn says she reall y enjoys encouraged him to " stretch his made through school. But it's money. I had to make my own talking to the other students, although mind." An only child, Jonathan was definitely a handicap when it comes li ving." she is surprised at the number of enrolled in Montessori school in to earning extra spending money. He But she never gave up her desire to middle-aged students who consider Corvallis at the age of three. He was would like to get a summer job at learn. " I kept on goi ng to night themselves "too old" to go on for a doing college-level algebra by the Tektronix or some other high tech school no matter where I lived," she graduate degree. After visiting with time he was seven but was one of the firm , but he can't get a working says. "Mostly I took creative writing." her, she thinks they may begin to last in his class to learn to read. " I permit until he's 14. Later in life she also learned to speak look at things differently. As she says, was six," he says. "t think that's Child labor laws did not apply Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, and "You' re never too old to learn .. ' when I finally figured out there were when Hulda Dixon DeVaughn was a has written short stories in those Although time and circumstance set other things to read besides Dick and youngster. She was born in Forest languages, as well as in English. them on very different roads in lifc, Jane." Grove in 1897, the ninth child in a In 1918 she married Stanley E. it's the persistent pursuit of an When he was about nine, his family of 13. She remembers starting DeVaughn, whom she had first met education that Hulda DeVaughn and parents began an effort to transfer to work when she was about eight or when she worked for his mother, Jonathan Male share. And their Jonathan, who was then "quite bored nine, helping her widowed mother Sally DeVaughn. They moved to presence at PSU is a reminder that the with school," to CorvalliS High take in washing. " By the time we California where they raised J search for knowledge truly is a School. They had little success until were 12, we had to go out on our daughter. DeVaughn takes great pride lifelong quest. the family moved to Hillsboro when own," DeVaughn says. "The girle; in the fact that her daughter Jeanne is Jonathan was 10. Hi s parents again usually went to live with an older a graduate of the University of sister or brother, and the boys had to Southern California and a teacher. Joan C Johnson ('78) ;s if Portland Rf~~i~2~jOa~d~~v~: ah~~:~: t~ut fend for themselves." The DeVaughns returned to O regon freelance writer. at ninth grade level, he was accepted. When she was 10 the eighth grade, about 1945 to help her mother-in-law PSU Per>pective, Spring 1986 / paB" 7 liThe Company We Keep" wins NEA grant for 1986-87 season The Company We Keep. resident second dance company in Oregon to professional dance company at receive such an NEA grant in the Portland Stale University, has history of the endowment. The award received national recognition with a was made following a two-year prestigious grant award from the review period and three site visits by National Endowment for the Arts representatives of the N EA. (NEA). The grant is to help the "The company's greatest need, as company pay dancers' sa laries during recognized by the National the 1986·87 season. Endowment, is to keep its artists According 10 Nancy Malschek, working and living in the Portland executive director for the company, community, rather than 10sinR them to The Company We Keep is only the other cities," Matschek said. The NEA PSU's new School of Business building ;s now untkr construction. The grant will provide a minimum of four structure, which will M financed with $7 million in lottery funds, is wee-ks {of the 32 wee-k season} of schrouled for completion in the f.1I of 1987. guaranteed compensation at prevailing American Guild of Musical Artists scale. The Company We Keep has Portland State Fulbright winners developed rapidly since its inception in 1979, touting throughout Oregon conduct research at home and abroad and the Northwest The company is a Two PSU faculty members are Kuan-Pin Lin, an associate professor finalist this year for inclusion in the currently conducting research abroad in the PSU Department of Economics, Alaska Arts Touring Roster and has as American Fulbright Scholars in is conducting research in economics louring dates in the Northwest Norway and Singapore. Meanwhile, a at the Institute of Southeast Asian planned into 1988. senior history researcher from a Studies in Singapore fo r four months university in Romania is lecturing at ending in May. . PSU in his capacity as a Visiting Meanwhile, Dumitru Sandru, a Justice Council Fu lbright Scholar. senior researcher in history at Alexander R. Gassaway, a professor Alexandru loan Cuza University in opens PSU office in the PSU Department of Geography, lasi, Romania is lecturing at PSU in is due to conduct research in Central European History and The new Oregon Criminal Justice geography at the University of Oslo in Civilization during the 1985-86 Council, charged in 1985 with Norway for a total of four months academic year. advising state officials on ways to ending in June of this year. reduce overcrowding in Oregon's prisons and jails, has opened its Charfotte Pistor as Yum~ Yum in "The Mikado" offices at PSU. Executive director of the Free Introductory Seminar 20-member research and coordinating Music dept. offers body is Kathleen M. Bogan, an EVALUATE YOUR APTITUDES attorney and former counsel to the "The Mikado" Judiciary Committee of the Oregon MATCH YOUR BEST CAREER OPTIONS Legislature. She was most recently The PSU School of Performing Arts, manager of the City of Portland's Thursday, May 29 Department of Music, will present Human Resources Bureau. five performances of Gilbert & "We expect to use PSU faculty and 7 to 9 p.m. Sullivan's timeless satire on Victorian students to help us collect, evaluate 75 Lincoln Hall society, "The Mikado," opening and coordinate data from the criminal Thursday, May 29 in lincoln Hall justice system that bears on our Explore the full potential pf your natural aptitudes, your Auditorium legislative charge," Bogan said in values, and interests. This three-part seminar helps you to On the podium will be Stefan explaining the council's relationship make career changes, to re-evaluate your career options. Minde, former music director and with PSU. First Session: No charge. John Bradley, president of IDAK conductor of the Portland Opera. The council also has been charged Group, Inc., introduces the lDAK Career Match Program Well-known throughout Europe and with making recommendations on designed to match individual aptitudes with over 60,000' the United Sta tes, the German-born how to make the best use of possible career choices. Purchase of Career Match manual conductor is in wide demand in the community corrections programs, necessary to continue second and third sessions. Available at U.S. and abroad. He recently directed together with recommending special discount, $74.95 (reg. $89.95). a critically acclaimed production of improvements in collecting and "Salome" with the Seattle Opera. coordinating criminal justice statistics Second Session : $5 charge. Thursday, June 5. Participants Actress and director Patsy Maxson used by the police, the courts and the return complete Career Match exercises for computer is stage director for the production. corrections system. processing. Further insights into evaluating interest, values Ruth Dobson, assistant professor of Expected to offer assistance to the and natural aptitudes. music and head of PSU 's Opera council in particular are PSU's Thir d Session: $5 charge. Participants provided in-depth Workshop, is musical director. The Administration of Justice Department, evaluation of personal Career Match print-out. Includes nine principals appearing in the together with graduate programs production are all Portland State offered by PSU's School of Urban and assessment of individual interests, talents, ten best career students or recent a lumni. Public Affairs . matches, and directions to find employers who fit career Performances are Thursday and Council offices are located in Room matches. Saturday at 8 p.m., May 29, 31, June 342 of lincoln Hall. For further details: Call PSU Alumni, (503) 229·4948. 5 and 7, with a special performance at 7 p.m. on Sunday, June 1. Tickets are $6 general admission, $4 students, senior citizens and PSU USE PSU LIBRARY PSU ALUMNI CAREER PROGRAMS faculty and staff, and $2 for PSU Alumni Benefit., Cdrd P () f)j)\ -::;1 · Pf)rll,lfld ()n~l)!l q-2 1- students with current 10. For ticket 229·4948 l( I) 221) ~q-.\i) information, call the PSU Box Office, 229-4440. All seats are reserved. I _ 8 / PSU Perspective, Sprin8 1986 Briefly. .. Computer applications minor offered School of Business Adminislration PSU's College of Liberal Arts and schedules seminars Sciences ((LAS) now offers a A variety of courses and seminars computer applications minor in of interest to profesSionals are offered response to student need to apply by the School of Business computer technology to academic Administration in the Continuing majors outside the computer science Professional Education program, field. Subjects addressed include computer The new mi no r is avai lable to-any applications, ma nagement and students admitted to PSU. Students communication skil ls, personnel will be required to complete 12 credit issues, finance and law, and personal hours of computer science courses and professional development. For a and 15 hours of related course work. catalog of courses or more infor mation, call 229-4820. Child abuse conference held " Breaking the Cycle: Understand ing Accounting Department wins grant the Genesis of Abuse," a two-day A $20,()(X) development grant plus conference on child abuse, was held $15,000 worth of in-kind software at Smith Center on April 17-18. and trai ning contributions have been Speakers included Oregon Attorney awarded to PSU's School of Business General Dave Fro hnmayer plus Hugo Admin istration. Faculty members Maynard, Psycho logy and Urban Rosanne Mohr and Nancy O . Tang of Studies, Nanette Dav is, Sociology, the Accounti ng Department wi ll use Whale skeleton displayed in Science II and Dan Sheans, Anthropology. The the developme nt grant to design a conference was sponsored by the curriculum development program fo r A 6OO-pound, 28·foot gray whale to President Blu me!. The fu nds will be Community Psychology Group. PSU. Portland State is the first school skeleton now hangs over the circular used to finance biology displays. The in Oregon to wi n the development stairwell in Science Build ing II. It was ha nging of the gray whale is the first Engineering society starts at PSU gra nt from the Coopers & Lybrand officia ll y welcomed to campus on ina series of steps to make the Twenty-six students and eight Foundation. O nl y eight other West March 31 during a ceremony which Biology department's collection more faculty me mbers have been initiated Coast schools have been so honored. incl uded presentation of a $1,000 accessible to the public. as charter members of a new PSU check from Sea World of San Diego chapter of Eta Kappa Nu, the national electrica l engineering society. Eta Kappu Nu membership is open to Faculty Notes junior and senior students with high academic standing. Na nrK"lIe Davis, Sociology, is the author of Lind. Parshall, Foreign languages and Cb.riH R. While, Political 5cienl:e, and From Crime to Choice: The Transformation of LIteratures, Acting Associat.e Dean of eLAS, has Shekton Edner. Center for Urban Studies, Abortion in A.merica, published by Greenwood been awarded a Senior Fellowship for Studies presented fiodings from their nationwide study Press, 1985. in landscape Architecture for the 1986 fall of management issues in the transit mdustry to semester at Dunbarton Oaks in Georgetown. the 65th annual meeting of the Transportation JoIQnna 8. Fedde, Foreign languages and With the fellowship, awarded by the Trustees of Research Board In Washington, D.C., Jan. literatures, was awar3ed the St. Olav's Medal Harvard University, she Wilt be r~.... rching 13-16. At the meeling, White wa~ selected 10 for her many years of volunteer service in theories of late 18th century German seNe on a natIonal committee charged with promoting NOIWe8ian culture, heritage and landscape. "defining a future research agenda on main language in Oregon. The fll4!dal was presemed power issues in the transit industry." on behalf of King Ola\l V by Norwegian Con!oUl Rhe. P. ul, Speech Communication, is the Kjell Lund in a ceremony at the Oregon Art author of a study enlllied "Oulcomt"S of Severe Institute Dec. 4. Oisorders of language Acquisition," which waJ OrigInally published in journal of AutIsm and In Memoriam FLY Nona GI.u:ef. Sociology, has been appointed c:>eveIopmental Di50ffierJ and has been cho5en associate editOf for a three·year term of Sex and as one of last year's three ou~tanding studies in Dan~ Newberry, humanities librarian, died Gender, a new publication of Sociologists fOf ~elopmental disabilities. It has been reprinted March 10 of cancer in a Berkeley, CalifornIa YOUR Women in Society. m the 1985 volume of Annual PrOSfeSS in Child hospital. Newberry, 49, came to Portland State PsychiiJlry and Child t:Jevelopmenl. in 1967 as a library department head. A native Danieilonnson, Geography, hai received a of Oregon, he graduated from Willamette SCHOOL Natu)fl.ll Science Foundation trallel granlto Gary Pfl'istein, AdmH1istration of lustice, has Unilfersity in 1958 and completed hIS MA at Spain, where he will be ~ding his sabbatical been appointed to a two-year term on the Slate the University of Oregon III 1960. Tile winter and spring terms 1986. He will be Indigent Defense Board, created by the 1965 follOWing year, he traveled to the University of COLORS ... conducting research on "The Assessment of Legislature to manage the S34.8 mllllQll budge( liege in Belgium on a Fulbright Fellowship ClimaTIC Variability as I( Relat~ to Water .. Uocated fOf indigent defense. He and six other Nev,.oberry earned his profe!isionallibrary degree Resources in Spain." board membeP.i will atlempt to resolve the from the Simmons CoUege library School In problems of high cost of defense and Bostoo in 1964 . The Oaniel Newbe«y Harold linstone:, Systems Science and inappropriate payments for legal services. Memorial Book Fund has been established for with a handsome im of books Management, traveled to jdkarta, Indonesia, the purchase art Remembrances may be §entlo ~ PSU lib-ary. printed, double hemmed, where he wa~ the American ~esentative at Amold D. Picbr, PhysiCS, has been awarded a durable nylon windsock. the meeting of the United NatIons Asian and Welkome Research Travel Grant by the l en Padrow, proftssor of speech communication, died February 8 at his home at Ideal for patios, porches, Pacific Centre for Transfer of TechnologV, held 8urroughs-Wel1come Fund In support of in collaboration with the Indonesian Institute of collaboratille ",'Ork he will be doing In England the age of 5B. In 1956, Paclrow JOIned the game rooms, dorms, etc. Scieoces in January. at the f'flysiological Laboratory of Cambridge faculty of PSU where he coached tn@ Unillef'lity spring term. Pickar's research w!1l record·setting "GE College Bowl" learn In 1964 William A. Litlle, Black Studies, received the and served as department head from 1964 to Send $16.95 plus $2.00 focus on mechanisms of anesthesia, with 1969. In 1966 he won the Mosser Award for 1986 aw,ud dIne National Council fOf Blaclc partICular ~,"IS on the interKtion between distinguished undergraduate leaching. He had shipping and handling to: Studies for in "Outstanding Contributions the anesthelics and the lipid portIOn of cell published more than (41) pro(essiornll artlc:'es Promotion and Devefopment of Black Studies membranes. and ro-authorl!d the book You Can Tallo: to QUAIL COVE in the PaCific Northwest." The award WiH (Almost) An)'Ot'Jf' about (A/mos() lInythmg. presented during the 5th annual conference of fo,in ShimNII, Social WOf'k, is co-author WIth ENTERPRISES the NCB5·Pacific Northwest Region, held in William fv'Ieelan, Un;v. oflilinois-Chicago, of ra~~ ~dt:!C:Jt~~t~ ~~~.::t;:;~ Dept. 21 Portland, Feb. 6-8. Care and Commitment, State UniVffSity of New over 3,500 speeches during his career. From 116 Quail Run York Press, 1985. 1971 to 1974, he took a lealle of absen PSU Perspective, Spring 1986 / fM&" 9 PSU summer programs promise a sensational season Business, history and other social science majors, as well as labor movement members and those who Overseas Programs work with labor will find this new program While many PSU students will be polishing their Summer Session extremely interesting. language skills at home, other Summer Session participants will be pulling their knowledge to the Capoeria test in 12 programs in Europe and Asia. PSU overseas program locations range from Britain, One of the most visual and unusual offerings in offers intense, Spain and Yugoslavia to Japan and China, where the Summer Session catalog is Capoeira students will study Chinese education, culture and (pronounced cap 0 AIR a), a Brazilian sport and civilization. innovative martial art form with African origins. Capoeira While some students are exploring the combines self·defense skills, dance, music and Mediterranean island of Malta, olhers will be acrobatics to create a circular yet precise motion. It studying Russian in leningrad. Other students will schedule is performed to the rhythm of the berimbau, a find themselves immersed in intensive language Justice and musical bow. programs in France or Italy or attending the Yeats Summer .11 PSU is going to be one sensational International Summer School in Sligo, Ireland. It's a season this year. The endless and stimulating the Humanities great way to combine a "travel bug" with Tour the World offerings of Summer Session, the diverse Summer For the first lime, Summer Session is offering an delightful, cross-cultural learning experiences. Festival Theilter schedule, and the creative interdisciplinary program focusing on the concept at Home workshops al Haystack '86 are all happening of justice. PSU and guest faculty in 12 departments Summer Session devotees constrained by a simultaneously. There IS no g Summer at PSU means theater for summer, the theater company also Diary of a Madman," which is For the 18th year Cannon Beach is afiCionados of the stage and 1986 will found a large audience for children's adapted from a short story by Nikolai Reynolds will conduct a workshop on creator of the Caribbean steel drum, the site of Portland State's annual fused glass for the first time at who will conduct a 1 (kJay workshop, be no exception. The Summer Festival theater. last year's production sold GogoL Director and co~author Don summer-long program in the arts .. Haystack this year. Also leaching a Theater Company begins its second out So the 1986 season has been Eitner will restage the production and Obo Addy, who will teach " West Sponsored by the Outreach visual arts class will be Cherie Hiser, season o n the lincoln Hall stage after expanded to include six weeks of which originally played in los African Drum and Dance," focusing Department of the Division of PSU lecturer and founding director of movmg last year from Its 1 I)-season children's plays in Studio Theater. Angeles. The show previews June 25 on the musical traditions of Ghana. FESTIVAL Continuing Education, Haystack '86 the "Center of the Eye" workshop in For the second year, Haystack will residence at the Coaster Theater in On the main stage, "The and runs June 26~july 19. presents short courses in writing, Aspen, Colo. She will teach "The Art bring in the Colorado bluegrass banct, Cannon Beach. Torc h ~ Bearers," George Kelly's satiric Studio Theater will also be the visual arts and music on the scenic While PSU theater arts professor THEATER comedy will preview on June 18 and home of children's theater, directed of Photographing People." And, for Hot Rize, to conduct a five·day Orego~ coast. the first time, Haystack will bluegrass band performance Jack Fealherlngill says he misses the will run June 19~July 13. II will be by Karen Boettcher~Tate , July c,0IfI/UUUI "It's a learning situation and an collaborate with Portland's Northwest workshop. ensemble feeling the actors developed directed by Featheringill. 23~August 30. opportunity to spend quality time with while in residence in the coastal "Member of the Wedding." Film and Video Center to offer Twenty·four classes will be offered This year tickets are being sold by your family in a beautiful environ~ town, he is very pleased with the " Filmmaking: Experiments in Time June 23-August 22. Cost is $175 for directed by Susan leClerc, will subscription until June 2, after which ment," says Haystack coordinator theater, Featheringill says, but he is and Motion" with filmmaker Bill Will. five-day workshops and 5250 for move. Portland, he says, offers a preview july 23 and be performed single seats will be available. Season's Steve Reischman. He anticipates an "much greater choice of players." excited about the diversity of this luly 24-August 17 . A variety of nationally known lO~day workshops. Credit is optional tickets for the three main stage attendance of 500~700 participants musicians will travel to Cannon The city also allows the company to season's line-up. On August 27, "Buried Child," productions cost 521. Single seats will and available for an extra charge. this year including many Haystack Beach to conduct music workshops. tackle a wit:ler range of plays. " I think we have an extraordinary which is directed by Victoria Parker, be 59 each, 58 for senior citizens. Activities are also available for alumni. Approximately 30 percent Instrumental workshops will include "Thai'S a big departure from what mix this summer," he says. "I think will preview. It will play August " Diary of a Madman" seats will cost children from four to 13 years. return each year for the program. the fiddle, guitar, dobro, autoharp, was a necessity at the beach where a going from 'The Torch~Bearers : 28-September 21- The cast will 510 each, 59 for !>Cnior citizens. Emphasis is on art, music and beach Writing classes will again include Caribbean steel drum and West summer resort audience very much which is a 19205 farce to 'Member of include Equity guest artist Mark lewis Children'S theater tickets will cosi exploration. the extremely popular, five-day will be authors joyce Thompson, who African drums. restricted yOUf play choice," the Wedding,' which is a very ('80), PSU graduate who is currently a $2 .50 each. For the complete schedule and science fiction workshop with will teach "Fiction: living to Write, "We've got the best dobro player in featherlnglll says. "The big poignant, beautiful Carson McCullers member of the cast of CBS daytime Summer Festival Theater is registration materials, contact prize-winning authors Kate Wilhelm vyriting to live," and Craig lesley the world," says Reischman about moneymakers were Agatha Christie to Sam Shepard ('Buried Child')-it's show, "The Guiding light." produced by PSU Summer Session in Haystack '86 at 229~4812 or and Damon Knight. Early registration who will offer a five-day class on Jerry Douglas, who will lead a mysteries and I had to make budget like we're in three different theaters Guest equity artist Tom Troupe will association with the Theater Arts 229-4800. 11-800-452-4909. ext. 4812 is highly advised for this sought-after short story writi ng. five-day dobro workshop. Also so I had to do those plays a lot." but it's in one package." make his Portland debut in the Studio Department. For a Summer Festival inside Oregon or 1~800-547-8887 class, says Reischman. Also returning Nationally known artist Gil teaching will be Ellie Mannette, outside Oregon) Christie plays have a place in the Besides finding a new home last Theater in a one-character play, "The Theater brochure, call 229-4612. piIg< 10 I PSU Perspective, SPfinS 1986 PSU Perspective, Spring 1986 / page 11 The two lives of alum Anthony P. Armstrong by Katlin Smith A raspy musician in a rumpled suit Armstrong did finally find a role enters a New York City hotel room. model in the theater. After viewing a He eases onto the bed, deep coughs performance of itA Raisin in the Sun" rattling his body as he reaches for a with his junior high class, he sneaked bottle of gin. He's 59 and only hours backstage to meet the star, Paul from death. And he's played to Winfield. In a brief but inspiring perfection by 34.-year-old Anthony P. moment, the actor asked him how he Armstrong ('76). was doing in school and advised him Amlstrong has recently received to keep up the good work. " He was a fervent reviews for his performance as positive influence. And to this day, tenor sax player Lester Young in "The he's my favorite actor," he says. Resurrection of lady lester," Armstrong's adolescence was performed at the Interstate Firehouse marked by more than the theatrical Cultural Center in Portland. The PSU experiences. He spent more time alum "grabs the role of jazz "acting out" than ading. saxophonist lester Young and shakes "I couldn't see past my nose," it-and the theater-to irs Armstrong says of those reckless days. foundations," writes Oregonian critic A joy ride with a friend who had Bob Hicks. And shakes the audience stolen a car resulted in a four-month he does. sojourn in juvenile hall. "Once I got But Armstrong may be one of in there, I realized that wasn't where I Portland's least public actors, a wanted to be," he says. " 1 was a humble performer in a namboyant 13-year-old and I was in jail. " field . Fortunately, a counselor took an "I love it that way because I'm not interest in him resulting in a turn to your actor stereotype," he says. '" spons and studies upon his release. "I " .. . once I do get the opportunity to do theater, it's just like being in the desert and getting water . .. " was actually embarrassed a lot of never got in trouble With the police times-people coming up to me and again," he reports. saying. 'Hey man, I saw your picture After high school, Armstrong In the paper. I didn't know you do attended colleges In Helena, Mont., this.' " Many of his friends were los Angeles, and Northridge, Calif. oblivious to his theatrical talents as Out of money, he had dropped OUf to were co-workers at Union Oil where work when a friend advised him that he is a retail representative. Portland State was recruiting football An extra in LA. players. Ron Stratton of PSU asked Armstrong took his first bite of the him to send films of his playing. The acting life 30 years ago but was far result was an important athletic from smitten. Growing up in los scholarship for the linebacker. He Angeles, the PSU alum and his nine played ball in 1974, resigning the brothers and sisters were extras in next season to focus on his studies. Hollywood productions, " not an "When I let go of football, my grades uncommon thing in los Angeles," he shot up:' Armstrong states. " It felt Anthony P. Armstrong ('78) as 5dX player Lester Young says. "All these people you see in really good." movies like 'Ben Hur'-where did At the same time, he transferred his they come from?" he asks. "They are playing ability from the athletic field wondered if anything was going to had given 25 exhausting just regular people from los to the stage. While majoring in (orne out. And one performance performances while continuing his Angeles. " history, Armstrong look a nothing did come out. So I started full-time professional duties. The " Ben Hur" crowds were filmed year-and-one-half of theater courses at coughing," he laughs. "l'm secure in While he has an agent scouting for sans Armstrong. He made his film PSU, starring in "The River Niger" my acting, but something like a other parts, and has completed a debut later in " Rachel Cade," starring with Rosemary Allen. And he saxophone ... oh man. II used 10 video drama and a radio ad for a Angie Dickinson. performed in lunchbox theater scare me!" Portland bank, the part-time actor is Five-year-old Armstrong promptly productions. Armstrong more than overcame the committed to a non-theatrical life. blew his part by running in front of from sales rep to jazz great fear, passing the ultimate test when "My number one priority is my job," the star during the filming of a scene. Armstrong honed his research ski lls OyamO, the playwright of "lady he firmly states. The exp l ~tives she screamed a~ him at PSU whi le studying history, 'SO he lester," flew in from New York City But the theater does have allure, were not in the script. naturally returned to the PSU library to watch the Portland production, the and lure. "I tell you, once I do gel As a teenager, Armstrong shared while researching the life of lester West Coast premiere of his play. "I the opportunity to do theater, it's just the screen with Sidney Paitier in Young. wanted him to grade me," says like being in the desert and getting "They Call Me Mr. Tibbs." His "1 didn't know much about lester Armstrong. "He was really happy water every now and then, /I the PSU opinion of actors was reinforced Young," he relates. " He was one of about the acting. He pulled me aside alum says. "You cherish it and hold when Poitier refused to talk to him. " I the major transcenders from the swing and said, ' Hey, man, you gave il on to it as long as you can ... And was about 16~years-o ld at the time era to bebop. It's incredible how he life.' " that's theater to me." and I was a wide-eyed kid and he used to play." Switching from sales rep to jazz Armsirong, in turn, gave a wouldn't talk to me. I mean, who am It was that playing, not Young's great to sales rep again, Armstrong cherished performance back to I?" he jokes. " You nea, get out of words, that intimidated Armstrong on learned his many lines-he was in Portland audiences. In the words of here," he mimics a perfect Poilier stage. Though not a musician himself, every scene in the play-while theater critic Bob Hicks, "We don't accent. he was expected to carry the sax on driving through his Union Oil territory observe his performance; we feel it in "My impression of these people is stage like a natural~born jazz man which stretches across northwest our blood. More theater should be that they were jerks," he says, "and I and to occasionally playa note or Oregon and southwest Washington. like thaI." didn't want to be involved in it." two on the instrument. "Sometimes I When the play dosed in February, he PA~ 12 / PSU Perspective, Spring 1986 Dustine Davidson (BS) Nicholas R. Knapp (8S), director of the Glenda French (85, '85 MSW) is one of three Compiled by Cliff Johnson has ~n named station Clackamas County, Ore. Itou~ing Authority coun~ lor s stdffing lhe flt'\v Sam,uitan manager of Portland since 1980, ha~ announced his resignation to Counseling Center. Inc. 10 Milwaukie, Ore. tell"Vision station become director of a new local non-pmfit Ba~ at St. John fhe E\langeJist Episcopal '59 KOIN·TV, Ch. 6. She housing organiUltion in the priVil1e sector. Church, the center offas counSl"llng for marital, was the station's stress, alcohol and other problems. "We SI"e Donald L. Carpenter (SA) has published his business manager (rom Stephen F. ~thews IBS) has been promoted to our.;elves as an I"xlension of churches in the eighth book, a novel and two shQrt stOfiE'S Jan. 1982 until Mar. thI" rank of setgE'ant in the Washington Co., area," French noted. E!fl.tilled. The C!ilSS of '49. The novel recount5- , 985 when she Ote. Sheriff's office. Th~ former senior deputy memorable individuals and gfOUps who were Cuy Gover (BS) supervises operations of hIs resigned that position to assumed his new duties overM'eing the patrol part of his graduating class at Grant High family's business, Mile Hi Sporting Goods in join Mercy Corps day shift on Jan. I of this year. School in Portland. lakeview, Ore., while his father oversees the Intern;ational as field Thomas V. landoli (MS), principal of St. lohn local motorcycle dealership. director in Khartoum, lhe Ap05tle Parish School in Oregon City, Ore., '61 Sudan. was named principal of tile month for March lon Ingalsbe (85), Business Administration, is by the national magazine 5.-tm Rosen the aUfhor of four texl$: Business Applicalions Judith K. Hofer (85), former president and chief Software for the IBM PC: Lorus /-2-31orIhe execulive officer of the f\.1eier & Frank Co., has Jim RoaR (BS), who owns three specialty hot Educatiooal Services fOf Taday's Catholk dog restaurants in the greater Penland area. has Teacher. IBM PC; Wo!dst.1r for the IBM PC; and dBase " been named president and chief executive fOf tilt! IBM PC, all published by Charles E. entered into an ilgreement with Steve Nailo, officer of the Famous-Barr (0., the flagship Merrill Publishing Company. chain of Mall Department Stores Co. in St operator of Roberto's ice cream store in The Louis, Mo. In assuming the new post in 51. Galleria, to feature Rooke's hot dogs in Naito's '77 Cheryl L. Leitz. (B5) has been commissioned a louis, Hofer leaves her as~ignment as prE'Sidenl downtown POI'tland SI00". Robert Bailey (MSVV) was recently named second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, and chief executive officer of Mall Co. of executive director of the Oregon Chapter of the following graduation from OffK:l'r Training California. National Committee for Prevention of Child School allackland Air Forc~ BasI" in Texas. '70 Abuse. The organization is housed in the UP. Crownhart-Vatllhan IMA), together with Region PSU Perspective, Spring 1986 / page 1J DeE programs Rutherford preserves the past schedule reunion If you participated in Search and Discovery, Job Readiness, V\EW, or any of the other pioneering women's programs sponsored by the Division of Continuing Education. PSU, between' 967 and 1978, your classmates are looking for you. Plans are under way (0 hold a reunion on May 2B. 1986. at the Division of Continuing Education, with Sue Gordon Gessner, initiator and director of the programs, as guest of honor. If you were enrolled in any of these programs, or know the whereabouts of other participants, please call. Bernice Feiblemann, 246~1642, or Joan lohnson. 644-8&69. In Memoriam Continued from page 13 Peter Apostoios ('71 BA), a Ponland-area insurance agent, died Mar. 8 at his residence at lhe age of 36. He had been (eceivinS trealment for Guil'ain·6arre syndrome. Survivors Includes a daughter, his IT\O\het ;md \hl~ b~. The family ~uswests !hat remembrances be contributions to the Holy Trinity Greek by katlin Smith OrthodoK Church in northeast Portland. Terr.ance l . ~roft ('68 OS) died of heart is not "It wreckers thaI we need, she says. Her research soon gave way child," she remembers. failure Ian. 29 in his Salem hOO'le. He was 41. but builders, II it has been written. to hammers and nails. While restoring her own home, Mr. Bancroft was employed by the state as d lanice W. Rutherford t'81 MA) would "It turns out I'm very good with my Rutherford joined local preservation vocational rehabilitition counselor for 14 years agree. hands," she says, "and I have a thing in Roseburg .and Portland. Survivors include his groups. She served on the Historical wife, his father and three sisters. Rutherford, 44, is the executive about working with wood. I really Preservation League of Oregon board director of Heritage Trust of Clark RkhMd T. 8kImquIst ('b4 OS), a seJf-emplO)'ed like to do it." Tht!Mattey House was for six years and, as an intern, general contr.K1Or. died of an apparent heart County. the non-profit historic in fair condition but "needed a lot of conducted McMinnville's first phase attack Ian. 30 at his nome. He was 46. preservation agency (or Vancouver, tender, loving care." of their historic resource inventory. Blomquj~ had operated his own construction Wash. and surrounding county. An Rutheriord quickly learned just Enrollment in PSU's history firm since 1981. Survillors include his wife, alumna of PSU 's grqduate history what characteristics an owner of an program was a natural step for k.athryn E, r65 flAJ, two daughters, his parent5 program where she studied historic and two sIsters. ~ family su~ts thaI older home should possess. " They Rutherford. After completing the remembfances be contributions to the preservation, she recommends have to be enamored with the past to program, she was immediately hired Mountain Park Church Youth Activities Fund, buildings to the city and county for a certain extent," she says. "They as historic preservation officer (or the la~ Oswego, Ore. historic status and renovation. She might be people who simply have a City and County of Spokane, Wash. LinU •. (.on r69 BAl, a Sednle, Wash. also oversees administration of the sense of the aesthetic qualities of an attome'y died March 22 of cancer in a Seattle Grant House Museum near Ft older home." hospital. She was 38. Survivors include her Vancouver and the Clark County Money is another critical point. " This was discovered in husband, IwO daushters, her parents, a brother Historical Museum. both of which are " You uncover something and what urban renewal . .. that and her wandfather. The family suggests under the direction of David Freece you find is that you've uncovered remembrance!. to the Bertschi School, 2227 10th Ave. East in Seattle. ('85 MA). more problems." people were having social She also found that flexibility was problems because they K.athleen A. kennedy ('71 MSl, an elementary important. "They have to have school teacher and southeasl Portland resident, "I was determined that I didn't have a sense of died Jan. 1& in a Portland·area hospital. She patience and the ability to live with was 47. she tlad taush! ment;llly handicapped was not going to do some inconveniences sometimes," place anymore. " child~ in special education classes since anything bad to that she says. Inconveniences were the 1961 . Sul'llillOf'S include four brothers and three norm for Rutherford and her family siSl(>r$. house." while they renovated their home. "I credit Portland State for P~I H. Umb ('50 MSI. one of the founding "When you rehabilitate an older preparing me very well." she says. " 1 members of the lamb-Weston firm, TIgard and Portland, Ore., died in a Portland hospital home and you're Jiving in it, had a lot of experience as a volunteer March 22 after an extended illness. He was 58 . After graduating in education in sometimes you have to live without a in the field of historic preservation Mer leaving the finn in t 972. he worked on iI 1963 from the University of Oregon, kitchen and a bath," she states. just from doing it. But I feel like I was series of nonprofit projects, earned his Rutherford moved to New England "People do that all the time but it's really well~prepared for the job I got." advanced degree in speech from PSU dnd where she taught for 18 months. The became a speech pathologist for the Portland because they love the house." She held the Spokane job for School District. Survivin8 are his wife, two Grants Pass native retumed to Oregon Army fatigues and paint brushes three·and-one-haff years before §()r\S, two daughters, his mother, a brother and in 1966. Five years later Rutherford Rutherford's children were lwO moving to Vancouver to accept her fi~ grandchildren. 1M family wB8f!SU and her husband bought the t892 and three when they moved into the present position in '985. remembrances be contributions to Lake Mattey House, a Queen Anne-style Oswego United Methodist Church, or to house. Ten years later their Though she doesn't presently own Meadowood Springs SPt'E(:h Camp. P.O. 80)( farmhouse situated on 20 acres of industrious mother finally hung up her an older home. Rutherford sti ll finds 1023, Pendlelon. OR 97801. wheat and orchard near McMinnville. hammer. "All of their young herself involved with historic There she learned, hands on, the hard childhood was spent in an old house structures 24 hours a day. She now 'wYOrk that historic preservation entails. with mother dressed in Army fatigues lives in Officer'S Row, the collection STUDY & Research, hammer! and nails doing painting and papering," of military houses built adjacenl to TRAVEL WITH ALUMNI Rutherford began with research on RUfherford laughs. fort Vancouver between the years of Alumni 8('n('lIl .. ( drd restoration and architectural slyies. "I The Rutherfords' sotd the Malley 1849 and 1906. Her home, which was determined that I was not going House in 1980 with very mixed nq-4q48 to do anything bad to that house." (eeHng!i. " tt was sort of (ike a third Continued on page 18 pose J 4 I PSU Perspective, Sprin8 t 986 PS U' s 40th bi rthday party attracts 600 celebrants Surs appropriately glimmered over the crowd celebr<"ing PSU's 40th From leh to right, Paul Linnman, Jim Griffith, Priscilla Blumel, and Jody /);rfhday al lhe " AII-5Iar Evenl" Griffi'h announce prize winners Six hundred party goers enjoyed hear the music of the PSU Alumni nearly a year'5 worth of ha rd work University Relations rounded out the hors d'oeuvres, remi nisced, and AII ·Stars Band and to participate in done by PSU alumni on the 40th learn effort which brought the 40th danced the evening away on February special events which included both Birthday Party Committee . "We year event to life. 28 at PSU ', 40th Birthday si lent and oral auction ~, run by couldn', have done it without the l ast year's 39th celebration was Celebration. The festivities began at auctioneer Gene Reynolds. Master of committee," says PSU Special Events held at Rian's. The commil\ee plans 7 p.m. in Smith Memorial Center with Ceremonies Paul linnman kepI the Coordinator Shirley Kasparek. "lt just to keep the birthday tradition alive reunions which gave special groups entertainment moving smoothly all came together beautifully ." with plans for next year's festivities to an opportunity to catch up on old throughout the evening and comedian The committee, chaired by Jim begin in June under the direction of friendships. Brian Bressler applied hi s comic Griffith ('6l), started planning the new committee chair, John Eccles At B p.m., alumni, faculty, staff and touch to the celebration. event in lune 1985. Support frorn (,69), friends of the University gathered to Tfle success of the gala was due to years of . memorzes Alumni office offers career seminars Here is a valuable supplement to your Are you thinking about cha nging versus individual employment and careers? Then the IDAK Career Match education-related skills. Participants current life insurance plan - easy, Seminar, sponsored by PSU 's Alumni will also return their completed economical. Now, during a limited enrollment period, all Office, may be of interest to you. It is Career Match exercises for computer PSU Alumni under 60 are eligible to apply and purchase designed for those who wa nt to processi ng. $10,000 to $200,000 of lerm life-;nsurance that may be re-eva luate their career options or At the third session , participants continued to 75 ... plus an equal benefit amount from change career directions. will be provided an in-depth $10,000 for your spouse and $5,000 for each of your John Bradley, president of JOAK evaluation of their personal Career dependent children. We endorse this program as one of the Group, Inc., who has 15 years Match printout. This wi ll include an best group life insu rance plans the market today. experience in career guidance, will assessment of individual interests, on lead the three-part series. va lues and talents. These are matched Apply now! Call or write for your application. The introductory session, which is to 10 recommended organizations free, will focus on the career an(1 job tilles. This is followed by decision-making process. Participants specific directions on how to find will also be introduced to IOAK's employers who fit career matches. state-of-the art, cornpuler scored Mary Cumpston, PSU's Director of career assessment prograrn, designed Placement, describes IDAK's Career 10 match individual aptitudes with Match program as "a va luable tool over 60,000 possible career choices. that goes beyond self-assessment and Purchase of the Career Match makes the bridge to potential job titles manual is necessary to complete the and employment environments." .series. It will be available at Ihe The first seminar will be held on specia l price of $74.95 (regularly Thursd ay, May 29, from 7:00 to 9:00 $89.95) at the end of the first p.m. , in 75 Uncoln Hall. Succeeding meeting. An additional $5 fee will sessions will be held June 5 and June also be charged for both the second 12, at the same time and place. and third sessions. For further information, call the PSU ALUMNI The second seminar will develop PSU Alumni office at 229A94B. Pt) Bo,-,)2 - j)w!Llfl!i ()r('!.!()nq-,:'rl further insight.s inlo evaluating Reservations are not requ ired . -li I; 22'1 t'i-1g interests, values and natural aptitudes PSU Perspective, Spring 1986 I J»,e ' 5 Scholarships and alumni grants make a real difference at PSU Ouutdnding students add an Hartman. a senior btOtog-, major. irnporunt dirneflSlOO to anv uni\'ef5ity hopes eventually to earn a Ph. D. In by IJf"OVldmg challenge 10 faculty and m«:roboolog).. He feef> ,hat his malcing contnbtrtions 10 the classroom scholarship has be1erlted him in expenence. The PSU foundation has many ways. ·'1 appreo.lll! the made a commitment to anracting opportunity that has been pcovided to such exceptional studenl.s by me and I have tried to get the mosl providIng a series of Presidential thai I can oul of my years at PSU:' Scholarships and alumni grants. Alumni grants are offered to juniors Each year the foundatIOn awards and seniors who need to intensify nearly S1(10,000 and sponsor> the" SlUdies before gradUOlhOn. They appro"rnately 20 new >eholarshil". are mtended to enab&e exceptional State Chancellor 01 H,ghet Education Sludents to finish theu degrees. Grant William £. Da",s has challeosed PSU \0 Increase that number (0 SO new ~~i~~1 ~or:,~~~:J~phy. >cholarsh,p5 each year. Pre>KIeotial ''This grant has given me more XhoIarshil" are renewable SI000 flexibility in my schedule because I ..",...1 awards offered to ,ncoming dan', ...." to work so much. I''''' freshmen who meet cetUiln merit been able ., taI.e more 01 the classes FtJutobtion bt»n/ memben uri Hal>_ MJd Nom! crilena. I need. H Envni IS in&effSled In on PSI} ...... witlt _ uecut"" diredor Phil fIosue PSU ,umor Suzanne Shotola is a economoc Y~Mme~ ______"o.e, 3,000 people and Mlnesses prel _" PSI) ~ Spn", 1986 New football players join Briefly. .. Johnson makes Oregon top 10 PSU to base~1I tournament 40 returning Viking lettermen lynda Johnson, PSU's four-time The PSU baseball team will travel by larry Sellers AU-American volleyball player. was to Spokane May 15-18 for Ihl' Pac· 1O Despite the relUrn of 40 lettermen a breakaway threat (rom amon~ junior selected as one of Oregon's lOp 10 Northern DiviSion tournament. The and 40 red-shirts. there will be lots of college recruits Kev," Minnis and amateur athletes for the second winner will advance to the NCAA new faces m key positions on the PSU Kevin Johnson , and freshmen consecutive year by the Oregon Regional tournament. Sports Writers and Sportscasters. football leam when coach Pokey Terrance Taylor, Paul Jackson, and Footballieam takes on alums Allen succeeds Don Read. who Dominique Hardeman. PSU night scheduled (or Chevy'. departed for UniversHy of Monlana Defensively, Tracey Eaton, Tracey co~t;{~r~ !:~~~ :~M~v:~86 aher five seasons Brown, and David Etherly secure the Alums and friends of PSU PSU Perspective, Spang 1986 1_ 17 Tichy teaches a healthy lifestyle TRAVEL Continued from page 3 Tichy is married 10 Anna Mae where t could run five miles in aoout Tichy, nursing coordinator at MI. 35 minutes." Free Hood Community College. who Ron Rothert, a 65-year-old assists her hu sband as nursing insurance agent association executive, LECTURE by RICK STEVES consultant to his adult fitness has participated in the program for 20 program. In fact. according to Tichy. years and credits it for helping him Saturday, May 3 " There isn 't a project that we don' l recover (rom a serious auto accident in 1981 . "If you follow Mike's 9 am to 5 pm ~vh~l~r~~, I~~r:~~'s ~nd t~~e five guidelines, you won't hurt yourself 71 Lincoln Hall daughters. and you'I' feel better," he says. While Tichy is respected nationally PSU data enrollment specialist Rick shows you the 'how-to's' of traveling as a European - as well as locally for hi s teaching. Georgia Marsh remembers that she sightseeing, shopping, where to eat, where to stay. You'll explore ingenuity and leadership in promoting was one of the first women in the art. history and cultural environments of the countries to be visited fitness, his contributions are nowhere program in the early 1960s. " When I July ll-August 2. more recognized than al his was a kid," she says, " they look your Reservations required - Call PSU Alumni today community fitness sessions in the PSU glasses and pushed you oul there and Free parking any PSU lot gym. expected you to run relays. It look As Jerry Nudelman. a 62-year-old Mike a year to convince me to come local lumberman, explains, "I've . out. Now I' m in the Oregon Road been in the program about 1B years. Runners Club and running 10 Ks, and FRENCH IMPRESSIONISTS When I started. I weighed about 185 I can gladly say it's all because of this San Francisco pounds. I'm only 5-fool-7. and I class. Everyone treats you like an June 20-22 looked like a half a keg of beer with a Olympic champion here. Even if you belt tied around it. I couldn't run run just one lap, they applaud. I can't See this extraordinary exhibition of over 150 French Impressionist around the gym more than once or tell you how much it's helped me. paintings, 1874-1886. It will be shown at only two institutions in the twice. But Mike took a personal And my father, who is 76-years-old, United States -the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and the interest in me. When I didn't show is running now. He got going because National Gallery of Art in Washington. D.C. up. he called me. He offered some I was here and Mike ha s helped him, suggestions and some criticism. He's too. When you have a 76-year-old a great motivator, a fantastic guy. I running, you know it's a good SCANDINAVIA PERSON TO PERSON program." dropped to 140 pounds and got to J uly 15-August 4 Tour Leader Ross Fogeiquist, president of Portland's Scandinavian Rutherford advocates for preservation Club, takes you to Copenhagen. Kalmar. Visby, Stockholm, Falun, Uppsala, TaUberg, Mora, Oslo, Laerdal, and Bergen. Continued from page 14 she rents, was built in 1886. Officer's Row nome, is convinced SPAIN AND PORTUGAL "The Row is interesting to me that " an older home is more liveable September 1-18 because It does represent different for a f pogo '8 / PSU Perspective, Sprin8 1986 Performing Arts Summer Theater Lectures CONCERTS SUMMER FESTIVAL THEATER VISITI G SCHOLARS LECTURE SERIES May 14 S}'mpnonic Band, Noon . l tn c.oln Hall MAIN STAGE PRODUCTIONS 7: 30 pm , 338 SmIth Center, Free . Call 129·-I Q2 8 Aud., Free Wed .·S,l1 dates, 6 pm ; Sundays, 7 pm; lincoln Hall Aud _ $9 general, $8 ~ni ()fS ; S& prevIew dales. Sea<,on May 22 "The ProfessIons of Science In AmeriCa' May 16 Cholo:' & Umv. ChOir 8 l)ln, lincoln Hall subscription (mainstage producllons ont~'I, S21 , TheIr AmbIvalent HIstory," Daniel Kevlf."!,. Aud pu.... · jeo.\ s u~nption Imainslagel. S IS. Call 129-44-10 History oi Science and 1 ec'mology, 2 Caliromia Institute of Technolog) June \.tadrigal Smgers, S2.50 gf'l"ICfa l. $1 'u~ 19· "Th IQfCb·beMers" by George Kell v sruden15. 7:30 pm , 75 lincoln Hall July 13 lPre\'lev. pl'rlOrmance June ltu GEOGRAPHY LECTURES PeriormJntf.>S: lunc 18·21, 20·28; Jujv ', 3: 30 pm. J7 1 Cramer Hall. Free. Call .!29-39 I 6. BROWN BAG CONCERTS 5·6.1()"13 Noon, 7S Uncoln Hall. Free. May 14 "land Use and the Courts," laurence July 24· "The Member or the WeddlnS, " by May 13 Mafy Hall KogeR . piano Kl'5sel. Chief Refert.oe, Land USf' Board of Aug. 17 Cafson McCullers WteVlt"\\ , July 2]) Appeals May 15 Mu Phi [p!iiJon ( mu~ ic honor sutieh'l Performances: Jul y 23·2f" July J I: Aug recital 1·2. 71' 10. 14-17 May 21 'Dlgilal landform Mappang.·' I. Ronald E\: n. Geographv, UntYel"il ty of Alber1a , Mty 20 Gordon Solie. bassoon Aug. 28· "'Buried Child, by Sam Sheparp Canddit ~I. 21 (Preview, Aug. 27) Periormanceo;: Aug. May 22 Ron Jensen, clarinet; Denbe Bernard. May 28 27·30; Se~ . 4-b, 11.14. 18-2 1 "Plwial La kE'S &: Sand Dunes: The piano Geomorph HIstory or Southeast('f'n May 2' Oregon Guitar Quartet STUDIO TfjEA TER PRODUCTION Oregon," Patr ~cia McDowelL Geogr.lphy. University of Oregon May 29 Composition students of Tomas Svoboda June 3 Patrick Fay. French hom; lay H agio, ~:\~~'l~':~~ s:a~; i:~'~!I~m~ ;:~~ a~ts C.II 22'~.o . FOREIG'" LANGUAGES" LffiLECTURES Plano; Clarisse Atcherson. violin 1 pm. 4&2 Ne-uberger Hall. Free Call 229·]522. June 26- "Diary of a Madman." smgle-character Jun~ 5 PSU Bras., sludeflb My 19 play with E9YftY.aaor 10m Troope May 14 ''Conlemporary The & Drama In the Genna" DemocratIC Republic, to PIANO RECITAL SERIES (PrevjeW, JtRle 25) ~ormances : June 25·29; July .3. 5-6, 6-13. 15-19 He:i z·Uwe Haus, Sta Director. East lincoln Hall Aud . $7.50 gelle[al; $5 PSU facuh~, Ber In staff, sr. adutts. qu 229-4440 for times. CHlWREN'S THEATER Mar2! "Indians. Blade Refugees & Frenchmen in ,unt" 8 Gyorgy Sebok. famed planis,"leamer Wei:CFn ., pm; Sat .. m am & 1 pm. lIo? Lincoln Guyana," francoiSI' PaM- , French Hall. S2 .50 admissiO{1; caU 229· 40. $eCllon GUITAR SERIES May2a 8 pm. lincoln II Aud. S& general~ S4 studenls July 23· Pe"otrNT1ces; /uly 23·26; W' 11 ; "ynmm Fairy Tales & Muc More." & sr. adults. AIlS. 9 Aug. 1·2, 6--9 Laureen Nussbaum, Getman. section May 17 Bryitn Johanson with Tom Svolpfa AUJ:.J3.30 Perfonnaoces: Aug. 1);16, 20·U .... 27.:JO "Conrribullon of Arab Scool rs 10 Ci ... iljzatio~," Dirgham Sba' , Arabic OPERA * ~i on lincoln Hall Aud S6 gen'l; 54 SludMti. CaU 229-4440 INTERNATIONAL STUDIES lECTURES Tour the World OOCI ,..5J Cramer Hall, Free. May 29, 31 G' bert & Sulh~.1n Qfire, ''The Mikado:' June'S, 7 conducted by ste("", Minde, 6 Qm "TOUR THE WORLD AT HOME" LECTURES ~y 14 "Rage & RetributIOn: The ogy as June 1 Performance at 7 pm Noon, 338 Smith Certlet', flee Antklote In japanese Soclef)': ' John O. JuRI!' 25 "Bayeux Tapestry, " Teresa Taylor, HaleY, School 01 Law, Umv. of CONTEMPORAWY DANCE SERIES Hislory1 New England College. England Wa5hington 8 pm , 2 12 Shattuck Hatl. S& gen'l; S.5">StUdenls Sf ~ 21 "Conrli in Tradilional Jap;lnese Drama," adults. Call 229-4440 ror tickets. ~~a:~~~tA~~!:iro laurence Kominz. Foreign languages & May 15·17 Branislol v Tomich UnivefSlly. Sapporo, Japan lIterature "CUrrent Frencn ~IIICS. " cques CABARETfTHEA TER AlTS COMMITTEE CHEMISTJtY DfI'T. LECTURES Chouleuf, ArfS"&"letters. Universiry 01 F"l<'. Call 229·:181 L Noon, SmIth Or., Park Blocks tunles~"olhelrwise Avignon, France noted), Free. July 1 "Korean Reunificiltions." Hy..odi Sup Lee, ~ 16 ~~~ ~~~~~;i·.~~~:!~e;, ~~~~ry . May 21 Comedians Jan Karem & Art Krug, Smllh Commons kO~~r;:~ilr:~tA~!:~~ ~~ -SCience II. May 28 Scenes from opera "The Mikado" ~y17 ' History of Chemistry," Millet" ~aks al ,uly 23 ~uddhi;Sm & tbe Olinese, WOfld VieW/, t~ Chemi WHITE GAllERY "SEX, VIOLENCE & THE LAW" CO FERENCE 8 am·S pm, Mon .-fr.. 2nd (loor south Smith Center, 8:30 amoS pm, 3rd floor, Smith Center, Free. Call Free. Campus Notes 229·3926/3517. Th.u May 20 Speakers include Dr. PaulinE' Barl, author of Moly 17 Paintings, rastergraptucs by Clarke Davis ftUy 26 Memorial Day Holiday. Umverslty closed Stopping Rape: Successful SUll'wdl Sirategies, & Sandra Butler. author of Moly 20- Vera Scon re(rospectl\'e Conspiracy of Silence' The Trauma of June t, (see also llttman Gallery) Inc(!'$(. PSU Perspective. 5ptin8 t986 / ".~ 19 r------, Cover Yourself with Portland State University Football Reserved Seats SIX EXCITING GAMES IN 1986 · 38 returning lellermen. including AII FOOTBALL '86 America candidates in wide receiver Coushay. ollensive tackte Roland Aumueller SEPTEMBER and safety Tracey Eaton. e Sat .lit Urnversity 01 Idaho 1:30 13 Sa1 at Ne¥lIda·Laa Vevu UX) · games against Big Sky opponents University 20 ~I BV. of Idaho at Moscow and home games 21 Sll WEBER STATE 1:30 OCTOBER against Weber State and the University of .. Sat HUMBOLDT STATE 7:00 Montana. 11 Sal ' SOUTHERN UTAH 100 18 Sal - .lit s.cratnenl0 Slat. 7:00 ... Western Football Conference home games 25 Sal ".III c.J Lutheran 1:30 versus Cal Poly, Santa Clara and Southern NOVEMBER I Sal 'CAL POLY-SAN lUIS Utah. OBISPO 7"30 .. an enthusiasllc new coach, Pokey Allen, a 15 5.1 "SANTA CLARA 1.00 15 Sal ".III Cal Stal~or1hndg. 7:00 former quarterback at Utah. who has spent 22 Sat 'UNIVERSITY OF the past three years at the professional MONTANA 1:30 ' Wesler" Football Conl.renee football leveL HOME GAMES: C II/IC STADIUM · each home game will have several promo tions, including entertainment and prize TICKET INFORMATION: ~ give-aways. SEASON TICKET APPLICATION NAME ______COMPANY NAME ______Make Checks Payable TO: ______COMPANY ADDRESS ______ADDRESS PSU Athletic Tickets P.O. Box 668 CtTY ______STATE ___ ZIP ____ COMPANy ______Portland, OR 97207 HOME PHONE ______BUStNESS PHONE ______Tickets Mailed By: September 7. 1986 NO. OF Premium Reserve (Below walkway) ______at $42_50 each. (Discounted) NO. OF Regutar Reserve (Above Walkway) ______at $37.50 each. (Discounled) For fnformation NO. OF Box Seats (Below Premium Reserve) at $27.50 each. 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