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7lsian Overtures Portland State University Summer 1984 Alumni News Jlsian Overtures Asian Studies: It started in the early 19th century when the Northwest's beaver and PSU enchances its offerings as the Northwest gears up olter pelts were loaded onto ships at for Pacific Rim trade and cultural exchange. Astoria for the long trans-Pacific page two voyage to China. In far-off Canton, silk, spices, tea and porcelain awaited the American traders. Now, after a 3D-year break in trade and diplomatic relations, the doors to mainland China are open again. Jim Manning: China wants modern technology and PSU marketing professor has been talking international Oregon wants a way out of its trade for 25 years, and now people are listening. economic slump, so friendships are being made. page three Asia already accounts for 80 percent of Oregon's international trade (half of it with Japan), but the state is buzzing with excitement about the opening of the China market. And Theonie Gilmore ('78 MA): Portland State University seems to be taking a lead in the business of Director of MUSIC (Center for the Preservation of forming ties. Jim Manning and Jay Endangered Arts) finds the arts are alive in Afghan Shimada of PSU's School of Business refugee camps. traveled with Oregon's first semi-official trade mission to Fujian page five Province last spring, helping to set the stage for an upcoming trip by the Governor to sign a sister state agreement. In the meantime, PSU PSU and Zhengzhou: President Joseph Blumel traveled to Two urban universities 10,000 miles apart agree to Henan Province to formalize a sister university agreement with Zhengzhou trade students, faculty and friendship. University. Three PSU graduate page eight students are already teaching at Zhengzhou and Chinese students and faculty are on their way here. As trade delegations criss-cross the Pacific and academic exchanges are Jews of Kaifeng: established, Oregonians find themselves wanting to know more Almost a millenium ago, Jewish traders settled in a about the culture that is suddenly so remote city in China. This fall, a descendant is coming accessible. Some want only to avoid to PSU to study her people's culture. gaffs when sharing food, conversation and business details, whi Ie others are page nine chOOSing to devote their lives to the study of East Asia. Portland State is wisely positioning itself to meet these needs with ever-widening coursework in Asian Studies and a proposed Plus: international studies degree program. Alum works with Asian refugees; David James Duncan The rose and the bamboo ('73) and his first novel; Spring Commencement entwining in a favorable new climate--- are being tended in the photos; new alumni column; calendar; AlumNotes, gardens of Portland State. and more. -The Editor
Cover illustration by Nancy Olson Chinese calligraphy by Min Shen PSU enhances Asian Studies offerings BRITISH AISLES : A THEATRE TOUR by Cynlhia D. SIDwell entirely in place, he said, and OF LONDON A scanering of courses in East Asian students could begin work on the languages and culture is quickly degree this fall. becoming a specialty within PSU 's Asian Studies at PSU should be ack Featheringill, professor College of liberal Arts and Sciences appealing to business majors and of theater arts and di rector members of the business community as the University responds to the Jof the University'S Northwest's growing fascinalion with as well as liberal arts majors, said the Orient. Walton. "Students who are interested enormously popular summer " Here we are, siUi ng on the West in international business will need a stock company at Cannon Coast on the edge of the Pacific Rim, culture and language background," Beach, takes you on his with obvious economic lies ... PSU 's she said. "After three years of Chinese second tour of london, and Japanese, you can't negotiate a in a great position to address some everyone's favorite theater specific regional needs, II said linda business contract," she admitted, Walton, part-time coordinator of "but the language gives you an cily, Odober 18·28. Asian Studies for (LAS. Walton has important enlr~. You can learn a lot taught Chinese and Japanese history four years and is completing his about the way people think through their language." during her 3% years at PSU. dissertation through the U. of In 1982, the new Chancellor of Chicago. higher education William "Bud" The presence on the PSU faculty of Davis publicly called for the Kominz and Latz, both of whom establishment of a "Pacific Area To all Ihe people who came 10 my studied in Japan on Japan Foundation classes from Vanport days to this Studies Program" at Portland State, a fellowships, may have been part of recommendation that was included in year, .. the reason Portland Slate was recently My Ihanks OSSHE's strategic plan of 1983. By awarded a grant from the Japan the fall of 1983, the state legislature Foundation, said Walton. The staff For helping me to learn my craft and had appropriated $230,000 in "seed expansion grant, one of five awarded money" to develop the Insti tute for for the opportunity to help you learn nationally (the U. of Oregon was also how meaning is made in poems and International Trade and Commerce at a recipient), has made it possible to PSU, and the eLAS dean's office had plays and stories; most of all, for the hire a Japanese linguist, Patricia chance to help you learn how 10 ask placed Walton in charge of expanding Wetzel, who will start this fall. Asian Studies curricula. questions about the life embodied in In addition, a program development fictions, and about our own lives. " In the last year, we've increased proposal submitted to the our East Asian offerings by 4-500%," Chancellor's office by CLAS is said Walton, explaining that this has I cannot imagine a more fu lfilling life requesting six positions in the social work. been accompl ished for the most part sciences and Chinese language, said through the reallocation of existing assistant dean Frederick Nunn. He I hope you will give others the same resources. One of the first steps was expects some action on the proposal chance by helping PSU become the See Starlight Express in to conduct a national search for before fall. full-time tenure-track faculty in the university the city needs. Not a l ondon ... The Royal Improvements made in Asian factory to train people to work in Chinese and Japanese languages. Shakespearean Company Studies this year have supplemented another factory, but a dynamic urban production of Loves Labour existing coursework in Chinese and university: a storehouse of the past Japanese history (Walton), political and a lighthouse to the future for all Lost al Stratford ... a " Here we are, sitting on science (Gary Scott), international people who have questions about the performance at Covent the West Coast on the economics (Helen Youngelson), and heavens and the earth and all things Garden. Go behind·the·scenes anthropology (Daniel Scheans). therein, especially the lives they can allhe SSc. edge of the Pacific Rim .. " For a number of years there have live. Again, my thanks. also been exchange opportunities Tour leader Jack Fealheringill with Hokkaido University in Judah Bierman is a veteran of almost two This search resulted in the hiring Portland's sister city Sapporo, Japan, Professor Emeritus of decades as actor, dancer, last summer of laurence Kominz, and Waseda University in Tokyo (the English and General Studies singer, director. His Broadway who teaches Japanese language and latter under the OSSHE overseas traditional literature, and Wendy program). This summer, Kominz credits include a role in the larson, who teaches language and chaperoned a group of PSU students original production of Music modern Chinese literature. Both who studied language and culture at Man. He ca51 Fiddler on the instructors completed their doctoral Hokkaido while living with Japanese Roof and How to Succeed in work this year - Kominz at families. Hokkaido students can Business Without Trying Columbia University and larson at attend PSU at in-state tuition rates, ~ among many shows. U. of California-Berkeley. added Walton. Now, with the Kominz, whose dissertation was on establishment of a sister relationship ~rspective Join Tour Leader Jack Kabuki drama, helped found the with Zhengzhou University, exchange PSt) ~ i5 ptb/ished q\RIrterly durmg me Fealheringill for an Japan-based Noho Theatre Group, opportunities exist in China, too (see ye.byNews~~Sel'v1ces1or unforgettable theater lour of which performs dramatic worlG of alumni, faculty and staff and friends d Portland stories on pp. 8-9). London ... with leisure time both the East and West using PSU students can also benefit from StateU"i~iry . traditional Japanese mime and dance. visiting professors like Kenji EdiitorCyothiaO. StowrII for sighlseeing, shopping, and Contribulon Oarence tiel" '6S more theater performances of Nalive speakers have taught Tominomori. a member of the diff)olmson Chinese and Japanese at PSU and Hokkaido faculty who taught Japanese C*nd.u fditCN' Pat Scoll: your c hoice, management in Summer Session this through the Division of Continuing dlanpof~:SendboCh~iindoid Call PSU Alumni Office, Education for a number of years, but year. ~IOPSU~,P . O . 8oJI751 . 229·4948, now for a brochure Kominz and larson reflect a "new The developing Asian Studies Portland ~te UniYersitv, PoIttimd, Qrewon, stage" in the development of Asian curricula are designed to offer a 97207 and reservations Studies, said Walton. concentration for students seeking an '_tl:lfthi,issueis;odd~loyoursooOf loining the Geography Department undergraduate degree in international daustll~ who no k:Jn8ft m~lI1tau'lS ~ pe!'lNneot studies, said Walton. A proposal for addf5 al yout' ~ , please noofy rhto PSU VIKING TOURS this year was Asian economic Numnl 0Hlct' (.503·229-49481 d thfo.- ffiilIiIi"8 development specialist Gil latz, who the international studies degree is in Trd,,{'1 \\llh Portl.md ~1.1 I (' lintH'r"lh the Chancellor's office awaiting ...... POBO\~jl teaches classes in the Pacific Rim, rsu supports equal eduaolioNl opportunity Portldnd On·gon 2 The man has message (and the world is listening) by Cliff Johnson For over 25 years, O. James Manning has been a man with a message. To his great satisfaction, that message is finally being heard - by the students he counsels in his austere East Hall office and even by the governor of Oregon, who honored Manning in May for "his continuous and outstanding achievements in international marketing." Jim Manning's professional mission is to further the cause of international trade - and particularly Oregon's growing role in such trade - as it relates to the major Pacific Rim nations of the world, particularly China and Japan. "In the past three years;' he reflected during a recent interview, "there has been what I would call an 'international awakening' in the Oregon economy at all levels: in the governmental sectOI, in the educational sector, and clearly in the private sector." "And we're on what I'd call a ' roll' now," continued the PSU professor of marketing. " Oregon has (now) discovered the other .94 percent of the world." To Manning, furthering the cause of world peace means placing economic considerations ahead o( matters political. "It is not treaties that These intriguing examples show why Manning packing, air transportation and documentation bond nations together, it's commerce and joint believes that " the future of the state of Oregon, seminars to further international trade efforts. benefit," he noted. "As we become more in terms of economic growth and development, These accomplishments allow Manning to dependent and interdependent 3 Jon Keith MilcMlI ('691 is the newly appoinled Grepy J. frri ('73), a Portland .. ttomey, h .. s president of Deaconess !\\edical Center in been reappointed to the Portland Metropolitan ~=~~nd~~e.:!:!k~i:. ilre Compiled by Cliff Johnson Area local Government Boundary Commission. Donnie HamiHon 1'72, '79 MS) has ~~:'!i~h~~r~~~~~~li~. The ll-member commissKlo guides the co-authored a compuler course c .. lled 'Where He formerly served as adminislr.lltor at Bay Alea creation and growth of cities, special service Is hr' to help students use American libraries Hospital in Coos Bay, Ore. for nine years districts .. nd privately owned community waler ITIOI"e effectively. Her new "rcWmap" is being before coming to Spokane. and sewer systems. sold nallonally by Compu-Talions of Troy, Gary D. Robinson ('61, Paul Allen frMlll: ('77 MAl woo the 1984 Ruth Mich. Hamilton is a certified librarian at Vase '50s '7) MAl is the new vice Worden Gold Medal Award for "academic Elementary School in Beaverton, Ore. Bud (lilrK (VanporO is the new- ffiayor-elect of presidenl of Saudi achievement, participation In class acti\lilies, Heather Ann Hannilm ('76), a staff phySical Management SystemJi in broad professional interests and leadership the City of Portlilnd, following it hard·fought therapist at the Oregon City Physical Therapy JubaillnduslTial City, potential," upon receiving his master of Clinic, also is an instructor of prepared ~::r,~:~~~,~;~~1e:~~~d~:~~~tst Saudi Arabia. He librarianship degree in June from the University childbirth methods for the Prepared Childbirth violinist in the Oregon Symphony OrdleSlra, continues 10 operate 0( Washinscon. As5OCiation 01 Portland. Trainins & also attended PSU. Philip K. ~is ('75 MS), a privale consultant DeveLopment Programs, nm Hibbits (75), president of TH R~arch, John W. tbbmon (Vanport) plans to retire on a\ltan .. nd wildlife ecology, returned to Inc., Portland, served as a campaign ad'oIiser a productivity Portland recently to conduct a study on what Dec. J' as ~denl of Clackamas Community and pollster dlIring Bud o..rir's IVanport} recent improvement company ftfects Oregon's gypsy moth Spl'ay program College, a post he has held since 1969. His successful primary election campaign to unseat based in Portland. would have on nesting birds and mice in announcement July 9 <:ame just two weeks aher incumbent mayor Frank Ivancie. M..rilyn Betty Seward ('65) recently received Portland's West Hills area, which depend 00 her master's degree in education from the moth for part allheir food supply. JaM Holftn ('72) recently had her Cilreef' as a i:~~~~~~~~:'c:'r~::r~ilthe California State Uni\lersity OIl Chico. mother of three and 4IS an umpire for lhe college. Mark S, Gardiner ('75), director of the City of Portland Softball Umpires AS5QCiatioo profiled Wn Perrin ('59), newly-elected chairman of Monte Shelton (,60), president of Monte Portland's Office of Fiscal Administration, is a 00 Ihe front page of the "living" section of The the board of the Portland advertising firm of Shelton Motor Co., Portland, won the C 4 MUSIC director's aim is cultural preservation by Joan Johnson ('78) Afghanistan, at the crossroads of Asia, is no soon as possible. "We were told lhat in another she noted, adding, "The bridles on horses were stranger to invasion and conquest. Time and year it might not be possible to go at aiL" always beaded. Even gun straps were beaded." again her people have rebuilt their homes from RaiSing money to undertake the ambitious Gilmore was touched by the traditional the ashes of war. But now, they are being driven project was not easy. "The foundations wouldn't hospitality and strong sense of family that the from their land. They fight a guerrilla war against even talk to us," Gilmore says. "They refugees kept intact despite the uprooting. " Even a modern military force. They struggle to survive considered us upstarts - they weren't even with so little themselves, when a new group in refugee camps in Iran and Pakistan. interested." So she refinanced Ihe family cars; arrived at a camp, others would shelter them Fearing that the rich and ancient culture of the then, against the advice of family and friends, until they were registered and could get their Afghans will not survive the Soviet onslaught she refinanced her house. "It's worth it to me to own tea and flour allotment. . , They would begun in 1979, Theonie Gilmore ('78 MAl and risk it," Gilmore says. "The Center is something share their bread with us, even when it was all the board of MUSIC, Center for the Preservation I really believe in." they had." of Enda ngered Arts, decided to focus on Gilmore travelled to Pakistan with 725 pounds It was to preserve such ancient va lues that the Afghanistan's threatened culture as the new of camera and sound equipment and a team of people fled their homes, where Russian soldiers organization's first project. Their purpose was four, including a ci nematographer, a technical were known to "dishonor the Afghans by acts twofold: to fi lm a documentary of Afghan arts, di rector and two cultural specialists. A free-lance such as stepping on the Ko ran or destroying it," culture and traditions, and to use the project as a journalist who had lived in Afghanistan joined said Gilmore. source of income to fund Center activities. the team in Pakistan to help with interviews in The team returned from Pakistan after two MUSIC, an acronym for "movement, universal the camps. weeks, bringing ten hours of videolape footage beauty, sounds, instruments and cultures," was The group visited fo ur "model camps" out of with them. Although others have visited the founded by Gilmore in 1983. She is also director the several hundred refugee camps on the camps and recorded the impact of the war on of the organization whose purpose is to build the Afghans, Gilmore was told they were the fi rst public awareness of indigenous cultures group to come fo r the specific purpose of endangered by political, economic and social documenting Afghan arts and culture. upheavals. Gilmore expects the one-hour film to be ready for showing at Portland's Artq uake Festival in September, National Public Broadcasting has Theonie Gilmore ('78 MA), also expressed interest in the documentary and who founded MUSIC, Center for the Preservation of Endangered Arts, learns to play most of the indigenous instrumenls she encounters, like this Iranian drum. She also enjoys the " In every country native costumery, and bought this Kuchi there are endangered fam il y heirloom from a man in a bazaar who needed the money folk traditions .. . to return to Afghanistan MUSIC ca n help . . . " to fight. eventually she hopes to distribute it internationally to raise funds for MUSIC. Gilmore first became interested in preserving ancient cultures in 1978 when she attended a PSU class on music of the Middle East taught by visiting professor Robert Ataie. listening to Ataie's tapes of the folk music of Iran , she thought how wonderful it would be to find some way to keep the old ethnic traditions alive. She continued to turn the thought over in her mind and finally. in January 1983, she decided to form an organization dedicated to that purpose. She rented a Post Office box and designed a logo based on the MUSIC acronym. Her plans were interrupted, however, when her husband, William Gilmore, who laught in the PSU Mathematics Department, was found to have a rare form of cancer. She took a leave of absence from her 20-year career as a music "The Afghan culture is one of the most northwest frontier. They filmed people at work specialist in the public schools to spend time endangered in the world," Gilmore says. "Of and children at play. They interviewed with him. Gilmore said they often talked about the world's twelve million refugees, five million individuals from all walks of life - potters, her idea and her husband encouraged her to go are from Afghan ista n." She points out that this weavers, musicians, tribal leaders and school ahead with her plans. So, after Bi ll Gilmore died represents more than a quarter of the country's children. They also obtained ra re interviews with in Apri l 1983, she threw herself into forming the population. several Afghan women, describing the changes Cenler. Still on leave from her job, she found "The Afghan people are like a metaphor fo r all in their lives. that the hours of research, organizing and fund men. They are fighting for their country, their Although existence in Ihe camps is on ly at raising helped her to deal with her grief. way of life. They are standing up against a survival level, the arts continue to be an Dressed in a wine-colored shalwar and powerful country .. . getting very little help." important part of the Afghans' daily lives, chemise, the comfortable national costume of Planning for the documentary began in late Gil more found. "The time is taken to surround Pakistan, Theonie Gilmore talks about MUSIC's June 1983 and four months later, the filming themselves in their homes, in their tents, with future. parry left for the refugee camps of Pakistan wilh hand-crafted goods thai they treasure and that " In every country there are wonderful folk the blesSings of both the United States and will be passed on to future generations." traditions that are endangered . .. In Norway, it's Pakistan governments. It was important to go in "The potter who we have on fi lm was the Laplander; in the United States, it's the the fall to avoid the extremes of summer complaining that the clay soil was not up to the American Indian ... MUSIC can help bring temperatures as high as 1200 and the bitter cold quality in Afghanistan - but he was still making of winter. Gilmore says they were also spurred pottery that was both beautiful and utilitarian," on by warnings that it was urgent to leave as ConIinuecI on P. 7 5 ~ 0, Smith ('70) is a vice presidenl with Oregon Pioneer Savings and loan Association, AlumNotes in charge of insurance. Continued from p. 4 Di~ Stew~rt ('72, '7S MSn is head of the physical education department at Centennial High School, Gresham, Ore. She leaches physical educalion and is head coach fot <:voir" M. leonilrd (,77, '79 MS) has been basketball and track and field. appointed to tM state Commission on Black W..... H Richvd Slnnd ('79) married Janel Ruth Affairs, which monitors programs and laws, Hegreness A.pri1 14 at West Hills Unitarian re5eilrches problem areas, and recommends Fellowship, Portland. Following a reception, action and iegislatioo 10 the governor 10 meet the couple honeymooned in Southern the needs of the state's blilck population. California. Here is a valuable supplement to your Moirtys Levin ('73) i§ assistant director 01 kn T.afley ('71, '72 MS) is manager dlhe current life insurance plan - easy, publications in the University Relations office of recently expanded Multnomah.clackamas Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland. economical. Now, during a limited enrollment period, all May. MM:~ie ('78). who earned her ~~o~~ ~ ~a~a~1~tl:~I~~~r':7-;~es PSU Alumni under 60 are eligible to apply and purchase bachelor's degree at PSU while in her I"arly MS) . $10,000 to $200,000 of term life insurance that may be 70'5, has returned to Ii\lt' in her nalive Canada RebKu L. Till ('79) shared wedding vows June continued to 75 .. ,plus an equal benefit amount from at Penlicton, S.c. 2 with Brent A. Macey at Montavilla Baptisl Church, Ponland. The couple honeymooned OIl $10,000 for your spouse and $5,000 for each of your Sunriver, Ore. dependent children. We endorse this program as one of the Susan Toevs ('79.MAl hosted theater workshops best group life insurance plans on the market today. in Toledo and Lincoln City, Ore. schools GET CAMPUS during April, as part of the 1984 Artists in Apply nowl Call or write for your application. CALENDAR Educ.alion program held for the sixth year in Alumm Benefits Card lincoln County schools. The program helps children learn about artists and the art they 229-4948 create. Lucretb Jo Tursi ('71, '74 MA1), who teaches English as a second language at Grant High School, Portland, spent six weeks this summer Cindi L. o\U.rqueHe ('78, 'SO, '80 MS) has studying Italian culture and history on a received her Doctor of Medicine degree from Fulbright Scholarship. the Medical College of Wiscoosin, the largest Lenore Anne Vest ('71, 'B3 MST) is now a mediCilI school in the state and the third largest full-time mathematics instructor at lower private medical school in the nation. Dr. Columbia College in longview, Wash. Marquette will next serve a transitional residency at 51. Joseph's Hospital in LiNb Willis ('71), an assistant professor of Milwaukee. Wis. physical education at Eastern Oregon State Coilege, La Grande, spent a recent sabbalical Bob Mux ('79) and his brother, Michael. who leave pursuing doctoral work involving ealing attended PSU, both qualified for the 1984 disorders, especiallv anorexia and bulimi.:t. Summer Olympics fencing teams. Bob, a Richland, Wash. chemist, is America's top C. NOf'fNn Winningffitd ('73 MBA), founder PSU ALUMNI entry in the men's ~ event in Los Ange~. and chairm.:tn of Floating Point Syst,ems, Inc., p () 13U\ -;~ • PortLlI1d ()re~()n q-~n- Michael will compete in !he foil evenL Bob's Beaverton, are., was the commencement wife, Suzanne Marx, also attended PSU and speaker during June 2 graduatiOfl exercises at ')03 22'1 -t.'--)..\.I:.) hopes to compete as a fencer in the 19BB the Oregon Institute of Technology, Klamath OlympiCS. Falls. He was also a delegate 10 the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco July Kelly McConnell (,70) and his wife celebrated 16-19. Marc S. Gonzales ('83) has joined the Tigard, Cheryl L1wrena ('80 MSn is teaching health the arrival of their first son Feb. 27. Ore. firm of Faunt, Lewis and Behrenz as staff Rowl.llnd Wong ('78) is an exercise physiologist sciences in the professional physical education B~ Snoey Niblock {'79 MSn is the director and director of the YMCNdiac Therapy program at Willamette University, Salem, Ore. She also heads athletic therapy work al of education at Monticello Medical Center, Program at the Midland, Texas YMCA. Martin Grahn (,84), an assistant wrestling the the longview, Wash. She is responsible for cOach at PSU for the past ten years, has been university, while pursuing her Ph. D. in health arranging staff in-services, community named interim head coach of the Vikings' science education at the University of Oregon. education, and community health screenings. '80s "'Irestling team. Grahn replaces Len Kauffman, Robert L Ogle. Jr. ('83 MBA) has been Jill B, Nichols ('73) has ~ promoted to who resigned in late March. promoted to loan officer OIl the Hillsboro, Ore. branch of Pacific Western Bank. He has been assistant manager of the Oregon Trail chapter Wendy Swanson A~ ('81) works as a O.lvid H.n ('81) has received a $1,000 of the Americ.an Red Cross. She formerly was social worker in a home for unwed pregnant scholarship for the second year from the Clark ~~;~~i~=:, ~::?sna H,::r~~~t~;t!.he director of the chapters volunteer personnel women In Pensacola, Fla. County, Wash. Medical Auxiliary. Married and office. the father of two, he is completing his third Hillsboro lions Club. lonnie Breninger ('80) is studying for a master's year of medical school at the University of Rhea Ruder ('82), a community health 0." J. Noelle (,75, '79 MPA) has been placed degree in educational counseling at PSU. in charge of the ~Iand Polke Bureau's Washington. education specialist OIl Good Sam.. ritan Hospital ('Bl InlemallnW5tigationsDivision.afive-person Abbott Chaney MUPI has been promoted Ti. Hudson ('B3), was named one of the and Medical Center, Portland. had her own from assistant planner to urban planner with unit which investigates complaints of police the "Outstanding Young Women of America" in struggle with diabetes, along with help recei'lt'd City of Lompoc, Calif. wrong-doing. It. Noelle previously served in the most recent edition of the book of the same in Good Samaritan's treatment program, the Bureau's Patrol Support Division, was Bernie Cliff ('SO) is a counselor for Native name, compiled by VIP Awards, ltd., Mission, profiled n the cover story in the hospital's commander of the Street Crimes Unit, was a American high school students in Portland Kan. She now teaches English at a junior high spring issue of Heafthview magazine. night relief commander in the Bureau's East public schools. school in Renton, Wash. near Seattle. Lurlene Shamsud·Oin ('84), a mother of eight Precinct, and also served as the Bureau's public children who returned 10 PSU to complete her information officer. Tom Dryden ('321 works as a parole and uthryn MMy lormn ('82) is compl~ing her probation officer with Clackamas County studies in the Master of library Science degree work begun years ago, had her D.vid Petrie ('77 MBAl, vice president of fiscal Community Corrections, Oregon City, are. program at the University of Washington in academic accomplishments, together with those services far Southwest Washington Hospitals, of her !>DO, Dawud, and daUghter, Christine, Connie Easter ('81 Seattle. She hopes to receive her degree this has been elected presidefll of the Heahhcare December. featured in tile Sunday Oregonian newspaper Financial Management Association's Oregon MPA) has been nilmed for June 10, 1984. Chapter. He is a former president-elect, to direct the mc'Irketing Dennis MK~ Jmeph ('81) and lisa Renee department for the Wilburn e)(changed wedding vows May 12 at Oous L Jilpr (,82) is an electrical engineer ~:aa7S:~ ~r~!~;'!J ~~:.a:~t~~tA, Housing Authority of St. Sharbel Roman Catholic Church in southeast with Northwest Natural Gas Company. Portland. She formerly Portland. Following a reception at Lakeside _ Anne A. Vetto ('80) graduated from medical ~counts. served as pre5S Gardens, me couple went to Hawaii fot their school June B at Oregon Health Sciences fmidye Pddt ('73), president of the Uf'ban .secretary 10 the state honeymoon. University, Portland. As a new physician, she league of Portland, tw been reappointed 10 [)lopartment of Land Ste-ven Klein ('81) hilS joined Grubb & Ellis plans to intern this fall at Thomas Jefferson the §tate,lob Training Coordinating Council. Use and Transportation Commercial Brokerage as a sales associate in University in Philadelphia, and then continue and WOIshlngtoo The 18-member group coordinates all training the its industrial properties division, with her studies in internal medicine at that activit~ In Oregon involving programs funded County Board of responsibilities in the areas of industrial sales institutton. Commissionefs. under the job Training Partner~hip Act of 1983. and leasing. and electronic industries. Michele W~ ('81) is teaching elementary ('84 MBA), recently joined Muy Anne Surirwn ('77) and Ralph Frederick RQIfl' Ei55 who VICki KoIbel1 ('83) has been named physic.al education (Of the Longview, Wash. Mentor Graphics Corporat}on, Tigard, Ore., as Rayburn were married April 14 at St. lames administrative coordinator for the non-profit School Distric1, while continuing weB: on an lutfweran Church, Portland. The ceremony was the firm's information systems manager, is a Metro Crisis InterVention Service in Portland. It MST degree at Portland State. member of the 1984-85 Board of Governors of performed in Finnish and in English. After a is staffed by 14 paid employees and 65 John S. WuibchkJc, Ir. ('81 MS) will take ove!' the City Club of Portland. rK~ion , the couple wenl 10 the Soulhern volunteers, and includes a 24-hour telephone duttes as principal of Hood River Middle Oregon coast fot ·their honeymoon. Antonio fft'lWldez (,82 MS) hit! been named "hoIline" servke, providing both information School, Hood River, Ore., when grades are DoniIJd Schmidt ('73), a CPA, has joined the the new principal at Columbia Elementary referral and crisis intervention. realigned in the district this fall. Since 1983 he Portland a 6 Making MUSIC On behalf of Asian refugees Continued from p. 5 with their resettlement by keeping information attention to these traditions. It can be a resource flowing among the refugee community, local for people and ideas." governments and the general public. Cogan does In every corner of Gilmore's rambling home in this by coordinating cross-cultural training, Wilsonville, south of Portland, there is evidence editing a newsletter, locating grant money, of her devotion to musical preservation. A keeping an eye on public policy, and fielding dulcimer she made herself sits on the entry hall phone calls. table. a triangle on a kitchen chair, and a " I have never been griped at in two years," marimba near the office and laundry in the said Cogan about her refugee callers. The basement. The longtime music teacher, who enthusiastic coordinator doesn't pretend that helps children create music she calls "found tensions never existed. When the first wave of sound" from everyday objects, has learned to Southeast Asian refugees washed over Oregon, play all her collected instruments. "There's swelling the population from near zero in 1981 something about stringed and percussion to 21,000 the next year, "the initial reaction was instruments," she says. "They seem to resonate shock," she said. Even now, her office gets inside me." occasional complaints from the intolerant, but But the sound more frequently heard around Cogan says Portlanders have been quite Gilmore's house is the ring of the telephone. A receptive to the newcomers. board member ca lls with a few fund raising "Prejudices have not been reinforced by ideas; the leader of a jug band agrees to play at political leaders or the press," Cogan remarked. by Cynthia D. Stowell a MUSIC benefit; a PSU professor invites her to Also working in the favor of the refugees, 95% guest lecture in his Afghan politics class. There is City Hall is probably not the place to work if of whom are Southeast Asian, is the fact that much to do to direct the vision she now shares you like to receive pleasant phone calls. Sara "they're very nice people," she says. "I don't with 50 MUSIC members. Cogan ('83 MPA) expected her share of know how else to say it. They're survivors." It will take money - more funds are still disgruntled ca llers when she took her job as Another boon to community relations is the needed to complete the Afghan film; and time - Portland's refugee coordinator two years ago. fact that the refugees in Oregon have not drained Gilmore will have less of it when she goes back But if Cogan's constituents have a fault, she tax dollars or " mainstream agencies," says to teaching this fall. But there is no shortage of says, it's that "they thank me too much." Cogan. A model refugee business program enthusiasm and compassion in the woman who The people most often in contact with Cogan developed by Cogan was recently funded by the is making music wherever she goes. are members of Oregon's refugee population, Ford Foundation and other private donors, with which currently numbers around 18,000, just a fraction of the funding supplied by the City (joan Johnson is a freelance writer who earned seventy-six percent of whom live in the Portland of Portland. a B.S. in political science and urban studies from area. Cogan and one other refugee coordinator Cogan is excited about this economic Portland State in 1978.) in Commissioner Charles Jordan's office help development effort, which features technical assistance to refugee business persons as well as a loan program. "It will create more jobs, not take jobs away," she predicted, pointing to the ATTENTION P.S.U. ALUMNI ripple effect that new businesses would have on Oregon's slumped economy. The Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Hmong, Mien and ethnic Chinese who comprise Oregon's Southeast Asian WE ARE HAPPY TO population have tended to open restaurants and ANNOUNCE THE OPENING OF groceries, but they are being encouraged to diversify. OUR NEW STORE IN As she talks about the people she serves and the progress that's been made, iI's dear that PORTLAND! Cogan is "up" about her job. " I like working in local government. I feel like I've had an impact," she says. "We've been able to budd an information base, trust and understanding so that problems don't become crises." " The complexion of our community is going to continue to change," she predicts. "The community has to be prepared to serve and respond to the non-whites, the non·English speakers" who come to I ive here. Wherever Cogan is when the next waves come, she will probably be involved in public service. The native Portlander. whose first career was pursued Quietly in the archives of a PORTLAND California library, came to politics as the mother N.E. lombard al N.E. Hlh of Portland Public School pupils. "How do you (51)3) 285-7311 get changes made in the public sector?" was the question she began to ask. She looked for WAREHOUSE PRICED TIRES. SHOCKS. WHEELS. BATTERIES answers in Sheldon Edner's class in public policy at PSU, and stayed on to gel her master's in FULL SERVICE/INSTALLATION CENTERS public administration. WITH NIASE CERTIFIED TRAINED MECHANICS Cogan has looked at the political process up dose as a campaign worker and as the political USE THIS AD AS YOUR WAREHOUSE PASS. JOIN TIRE SYSTEMS GROUP DISCOUNT PURCHASE PROGRAM . FREE TIRE MOUNTING' FREE TIRE ROTATION FREE BATTERY action vice president for the Portland Women's INSTALLATION' FREE SAFETY CHECK FREE ALIGNMENT & SUSPENSION INSPECTION Political Caucus. But she values her privacy and her time with her three sons and husband, Nathan Cogan of PSU 's English Department, too much to seek elective office herself. And after an exhausting week at the Democratic Convention as a Hart delegate last month, Cogan is glad for the relative serenity of her City Hall office. 7 Agreement binds Portland and Zhengzhou campuses by Clarence HeiR The key factor for Portland Slate, terms of current Chinese culture and according to President Blumel, is that, thought." Formal ratification this spring of a "Zhengzhou University has a strong A student exchange, beginning in cooperative agreement between Portland interest in improving their English 1985, also is part of the agreement, as is State University and Zhengzhou language instruction. It is a high priority a bond of friendship, much like a for them and the agreement gives us a Sister-university relationship. Charles "Street of Teaching ~r~~~~!~i~nW~~~~a !i~ ~~~~~r:~~~IY chance 10 send our graduate students White, director of international studies OIl Scriptures" the two institutions of higher education, over there as assistant teachers of PSU. said the agreement also calls for an but will be one more element in the exchange of educational materials, growing tie between the orthwest and ~~~I!:~~~~. ~ ~ag:r~o~so~~~~: for books and supplies. In this first year, the Pacific Rim countries. PSU graduate students will be on the PSU is helping Zhengzhou obtain PSU President Joseph Blumel traveled faculty at Zhengzhou (see story this English language typewriters. Rabbi makes contact with Kaifeng Jews to Henan Province in May for a formal page). This is not Oregon's only university ceremony approving an agreement At the same time, Blumel says, the exchange in China. White points out by Cynthia D. Stowell On behalf of Portland State, Slampfer worked oul by members of the Chinese are very interested in faculty that the State System of Higher and Shen were also scouting Kaifeng University's Internatio nal Studies Office development. During the Cultural Education has a general agreement wllh Qu Yi-nan is one of a hundred people University and the University of Revolution in China there was a period schools in Beij ing, once Peking. and in Kalfeng, China who are registered as Zhengzhou for exchange possibilities. a~:eo~:!t~(~~~~.~)a~~~rtland when higher education and the training many Oregon students go to the Foreign Jews. When she comes to Portland State (See story this page about the State are similar institutions in .some of faculty was virtually halted. "So they language Institute there. or will this be this fall, she will be the first of her PSU-Zhengzhoo agrooment.) Qu respects. Both are relatively young, have faculty now teaching at the the only such agreemenl for PSU, people to study Judaism in over a Vi-nan's decision 10 study at PSU was an located in major cities on principal rivers university," Blumel says, "who are in according to Presidenl Blumel. century. unexpected by-product of the trip. (Zhengzhou is on the Yellow River). But, real need of further training. They are "There will be much more to come," Cut off from the rest of the Jewi sh Yi-nan's ancestors followed the silk where PSU has nearly 15,000 anxious to have their faculty come over he says. "Bul these things take time to world . the isolated Jews of Kaifeng were route from Persia in the 10th or 11th undergraduate and graduate students in here for study as a form of faculty develop." He emphasizes the able to maintain Iheir Iraditions for eight century to do business in the Orient, and a broad spectrum of programs, development ." importance of such agreements to PSU, che Qe..ji centuries. But the death of the last rabbi found China under the Seng Dynasty to Ioseph 81umol Zhengzhou is primarily an "From our point of view, it is of "as we work to develop our President of in 1830 and the destruction of the be a very hospitable place. They settled President of undergraduate institution of 5,000 tremendous value to have them here," international programs. The more of thiS Portland Stale University Zhens,zhou University. synagogue by the flooding Yellow River in Kaifeng. lhen the capital of Hunan students with a heavy emphasis on the Blumel says. ''They learn from us and kind of interaction we have," he says, in 1852 were the beginning of the end Province, and became respected sciences. It has extensive laboratory we certainly learn from them. NOI only "the stronger our international programs of a community that once numbered members of the community. With the facilities for undergraduate instruction will they be resource people for us but will be." 3,000. blessing of Ihe Emperor, the Jews built and there is some research undel'VY'ay on for the community in general, too, in "There's nothing like iI, " said Rabbi 1163 campus. their first synagogue in on what is Joshua Stampfer, PSU adjunct professor now called the Streel of Teaching and director of the Institute (or Judaic Scriptures. Numbering about 3,000 at Studies, housed at PSU . " It is an their peak, the Jews quietly carried on amazing example of an island their religion and their commerce for community. Their power of survival and several centuries, unknown to the •..and journey begins for PSU students tenacity outweighs the fact thaI in the western world. last 100 years the traditions have died by Clarence Hein out." coast.) Would it be better, for example, Magnuson, 24. earned a BS in Rabbi Stampfer journeyed to remote For three Portland Stale graduate to travel by train from Hong Kong to economics from PSU earlier this year. Kaifeng last year to find what was left of "There's nothing like it. students, the cooperative agreement Zhengzhou University or to take a He has been studying Chinese for two the Jewish community. With the help of It is an amazing example of between PSU and Zhengzhou Uni"""ity hydrofoil up the Yellow River? years with Shen. He also plans a career PSU Chinese instructor Katherine Shen in China has meant immediate and At the same time, Katherine Shen involving China but isn't sure what it and Portland photographer Harry an island community." significant educational and career shared her first-hand impressions of the will be, although he says he wants to Dawson, Stampfer made contact with opportunities. Cynthia Grubis, John Zhe ngzhou campus and the continue his Asian studies. descendanls in four families and Duke and Joel Ooe) Magnuson left for accommodations where the PSU "I'd like to see a bigger and better examined landmarks and artifacts that China in July for one-year sti nts as students will live for the next year. program - a degree program - at tell some of the Jewish history. In 1605, a Jesuit missionary named Stampfer became intrigued with English teachers at Zhengzhou Magnuson and Duke also used the PSU," Magnuson said. ''This looks like falher Ricci arrived in Kaifeng. creating University, just two months after PSU Kaifeng about a decade ago when he time to plan a brief stay in Hong Kong the prime time to get it going." much interest among the Jews, who was researching a biography of Julius PresidentJoseph Blumel and Che De-Ji, and to organize their baggage. Each of The students' immediate futures are thought this man who believed in one Zhengzhou University presidenl, signed Eckman, Oregon's first rabbi. In the the students carried a manual typewriter full, even if their long-range plans are God was another Jew; Ricci Similarly 18605, a crilical time for Kaifeng Jews, the formal agreement. along 10 leave at the Chinese school, as still open. During the school year they assumed the Jews were Christians. Once Eckman was Irying to do something to All three are students of Katherine well as some English language books. will have access to free medical care, the misunderstandings were out of the help them, but he gained little support, Shen who has taught Chinese language Both young men, when asked what travel within Henan Province (where way, Ri cci brough Kaifeng to the sa id Stampfer. 'When there was an at Portland State for 17 years and who they hoped to gain from their year as Zhengzhou University is located), and attention of lhe outside world . The opportunity to help, when they were was involved in development of the English teachers at a Chinese university, will earn a generous stipend. Following Catholic Church in particular was relationship between the two said the opportunity simply " looked too their year of teaching, the students will interested in Kaifeng's Biblical scrolls, ~:~~fs ,f~~i~fl~ ~ndeffe:c!t!~n~ universities. A few days prior to good to pass up." be given extensive travel privileges hoping that " untampered" scriptures (by the jewish world)," he said sadly. boarding a Northwest Airlines flight to Duke, 27, has a BA in English from throughout China and they plan to take would reveal a Messianic prophecy. An adjunct professor at PSU since Hong Kong. two of the students visited William and Mary College and has advantage of them. Catholic missionaries were also lured by Mrs. Shen's southwest Portland home for 1960, Slamp/er has taught Hebrew and studied China and Chinese at PSU for Although it is barely two months old, the fact that the Kaifeng Jews were ancient Middle East history, although he tea, travel tips, and some last minute three and one-half years. " I'm interested the PSU-Zhengzhou University exchange "halfway there," said Stampfer. organizing. was not active this academic year. In in contemporary China as a growing program is creating a 101 of interest Inlerest from the Jewish world was not 1983 he established the Institute for Between cups of tea, Mrs. Shen, a political and economic force in the among PSU students, according 10 forthcoming, however, and the Judaic Studies for the purpose of native of Beijing. and her husband Min, world," he said, adding that he hopes to International Studies Director Charles community slowly began to lose its developing Judaic Studies programs on an engineer who also has taught at PSU , gain more facility in spoken Chinese and White. He reports an increasing number traditions. "The descendants know Oregon campuses and providing lectures shared some of their insights on travel in a greater understanding of China itself. of students asking about participation in nothing of Judaism but they have a on Jewish culture and religion for (he China with John Duke and Joe He isn't sure what he will do following both the faculty exchange, beginning strong sense of attachment to the past public. his year in China but feels sure that his this year, and in the student exchange, and it would be a betrayal 10 deny their Siampfer's trip to Kaifeng was ~h~~~~i'n~lr~:i~~r~~:~~a~~ ~~t future will involve China. to begin next year. ancestry," said Stampfer. "So they sponsored in part by the Oregon officially register as Jews. " Stampfer Comminee for the Humanities, Pan talked 10 some people who vaguely American Ail'VY'ays and United Airlines. remembered that their grandparents ~ MiaJnu.son UriO and John Duk~ (center) received helpful trilvel tips from their "would not eat pork and made strange Chinese instruclor Katherine Sheri before little cakes in the spring." :...-____.:::==:::::::=~_...J k-ilvins for a yur ill Zhengzhou UniYft'Sity. 8 9 Author's first novel shows native intelligence by Cynthia O. Stowell living on Johnson Creek (portland), which is just a mess. The steelhead would come every winter "A native is a man or creature or plant indigenous to and by midsummer the water levels were so low a limited 8eographic area - a space boundaried and that all the fingerlings and smalts would just be defined by mountains, rivers or coastline (not by dying like crazy from alJ the detergent and latitudes, longitudes or Slate and county lines), with irs chemicals in the water." own peculiar mixture of weeds, trees, bugs, birds, He saw it but he couldn't write about it. "II flowers, .;tl"e'ams, hflfs, rocks iJnd critters (including wasn't inspirational, it was infuriating. I don't people), its own nuances 01 rain, wind and seasonal like angry environmenlaltirades. They're chanse. Native inrefligence develops through an boring." unspoken Or soh·spoken relationship with these This is where Duncan, who is not member interwoven things: it evolves as lhe native involves a himself in his retJion .•. I don" think you set native of the club that published his book, may intelligence j(l5( by wanting it. But milybe through disappoint environmentalists. While Duncan loog intimacy with an intelligent native, or with your secretly wishes that the Columbia River dams nillive world, you besio to catch it kind of like you would self-destruct and he admits that a clearcu! catch cold. It's cold worth ca~~~73·J:mes Duncan, is "horrifying when you first see it ," the a a grandson of loggers is sympathetic to humans from The River Why and their pradical pursuits. In this way, Duncan is truly Oregonian. The native intelligence that author David "I'm all for preservation ... but a weakness James Duncan ('73) "caught" while growing up of Ihe environmentalists is that a lot of them are in Oregon fills lhe pages of his first novel, The just nol finanCially dependent on doing anything River Why, published in 1983 by Sierra Club that is at least ostensibly destructive to the Books. As Duncan's fictional fisherman, Gus environment ... You get down to these little Orviston, travels up the rivers of self-discovery, David James Duncan ('73) lawns, towns like Valsetz or Vernonia, logging it's clear that the native Oregonian has also towns where these guys grew up in a logging caught another kind o( intelligence from his culture and there isn't much else that they know "long intimacy" with great books and ideas, Then the "whys" start coming. Why fi5h? Why how to do . . . Guys like that are bound to be some of which he encountered while a student have friends? Why die? Why live? Why love? casualties of environmentalists, and bound to in the University Scholars' Program at PSU. Gus finds many answers - in his offbeat hate them." This combined intelligence has been profitable neighbors, in a "fishergirl " named Eddy, in a Duncan is a maverick among writers, too. for Duncan, whose writing efforts have been little brother wise beyond his years, in Indian Calling his writing style "Baroque" in rewarded with both critical acclaim and legends and dassical philosophy, and finally in comparison with the spare style of much commercial success. The River Why stands an upstream quest that reveals the contemporary fioion, Duncan recalls a negative alone, not only because it was the first novel finer-lhan-monoWament line connecting all review he particularly liked. " The guy said, 'This published by Sierra Club Books: drawing as it things. writer sounds as if he hasn't read anything does on the rich diversity of Duncan's Duncan returned to Portland Stale in May and written in the last (arty years: He wanted me to experience and imagination, The River Hlhy has capfivated a small crowd wifh readings from The be reading - I can't even think of their resisted being pigeonholed as a fishing tale, River Why and a novel in progress that he's names - those guy5 in New York." Duncan environmental {realise, spiritual odyssey, calling "Kid Buddhas." When his friend and laughs at the lapse of memory. coming-of-age c hronicle, regional work, or any As far as Duncan is concerned, many other genre. r~~:~~~t~i~~r~!~~deH~;~f~~~lear: contemfX>rary fiction writers make two fatal And yel the novel is all of these things. It is Duncan is not Gus and, much to Carlile's mistakes: they study creative writing and they about growing up in Portland and fishing the chagrin, Duncan is not the product of creative read only fiction. " People, as soon. as they have rivers of Oregon; about the changing writing classes. an inkling that they want 10 write, lust stan environment and enduring human qualilies; "Anybody who talks to me for a half an hour studying writing ... Americans are such aboul findinJ love and living with the question knows that I'm nol Gus," says Duncan later. " I how-ta-isls. Ihey think there's just going to be don't know how to tie flies - Henry was glad to some technique. 'Where do I go to take a class " ~~~?~i~;r ~~~ ~~;~rn of the realization that announce that 10 everyone. I'm a little put off by so Ihat I can write a novel like Charles Dickens?' a writer has to write about the familiar. "I was the fascination everyone has between an artist's Well, first you live in London for about 25 years, working on a Christmas story that was quite art and the personality of the artist ... I guess 150 years ago. Then, if you're amaZingly serious," explains Duncan over breakfast at his I'm more interested in how The River Why is perceptive, you can come to my class and I' ll favorite cafe near the Oregon coast. "There was autobiographical for the person reading it." show you how to do it by handing you a pencil this old man in the story who kept burring in and a piece of paper." With these fi shing scenes that were completely Duncan admits 10 reading hiS contemporaries, ruining the novel. 1 realized I didn't know " I don't like angry but says, "I like ideas probably more than fiction anything about what I was trying to write about, (or coffee beans to grind." but I did know something about what this old environmental tirades. Some of his favorite ideas come from "real ly man was butting in about ... It was some kind They're boring." obvious people like Jesus and Mohammed and of fiction about fishing that wanted to be Krishna and Rama and Gautama Buddha. I guess written." And yet Gus' experiences, with the rivers, that's my favorite intellectual hobby - reading Nol much later, Gus Orviston was conceived. about the lives of those five and the culture thaI Spawned by a "raucous cowgirl" and an "effete mountains and people of Oregon as wen as with the metaphysical world, are obviously quite spread around each one." angler" who have taken predictable sides in the The "native intelligence" of the eastern age-old bait-versus-fly fishing controversy, Gus familiar to Duncan. Growing up on the east side of Portland, Duncan watched his family's two hemisphere crops up in The River Why, seems fated to a solitary streamside life. But especially when Gus returns from the source of once he has left home, settled into a coastal "country" homes get swallowed up in urban sprawl, and his fishing creeks with them. "When his river and reflects, " You have seen that the cabin, and immersed himself in his " Ideal answer to the 'why' was the word itself." Even Schedule" (14'12 hours of fishing per day), Gus is I was young we used to watch si lver salmon spawning in Gresham. I think the last salmon got while Duncan was at Portland State, when he awash. . wasn't writing "steamy crap," he was joining his "Alii recall," says Gus, "is stream after killed when I lived there." Duncan pauses, the comers of his mouth turn up, and he launches native experience with other worlds. " I stream, fish after fish, cast after cast, and nothing published a poem in The Review, a doggerel into a tale thai sounds like a River Why episode. in my head but the low cunning required to poem about a Zen cowboy," he remembers with hoodwink my mindless quarry. Each night my "I saw these little kids one day with garden rakes and pitchforks chasing this moldy old salmon amusement. " It was prophetic because this TV log entries read like tax tables or grocery program came on called 'Kung Fu ' . " receipts, describing not a dream come true, but down the creek ... " As an adult, Duncan saw the creeks a drudgery of double shifts on a creekside Continued on p. 15 assembly line." deteriorate even more. " I wrote The River Why 10 July 10 in he'!' home. She Is survived by three AlumNotes brothers, a SiSler, her mother and grandmother. Bn.n D. Connoity ("84) died 0( cancer June 6 Speaking of alumni. .• in a Portland hospital. He was 23, and was to receive his degree in mechanical engineering at PSU graduation t'xe«:ises June 8. He Is survived by his parents and two si5tef5. Welcome to our new column, nSpeaking of alumni. .. ", a space devoted to U. Chrillophtr XMilk" ,'80 MAl. chaplain al news from PSU's Alumni Relations office. Whether it's a report on alumni the U.S. Naval Hospi!"al, Oakland. Calit, has Pauline Eyerly ('S8), longtime curalor of won meWls and c.ut! priZes in an essay COllies( education at the Portland An Museum, died ~om,:"i~ee ?tJsiness, a tip' on travel, or a special opportunity for alums, you'll sponsored by the U.S. NavallnstilUtp, The May 5 in a Portlill'ld hospital. Miong her many rind It In thiS column, written by PSU alumna Teresa Ericsson ('83). Watch for Conlest is designed to promote research. accomplishments, she was responsible 'Of an " Speaking of alumni. .. " in each issue of Perspective. thinkins and writing on the topic of leadership Raben Tayler in the sea services. ~~il::::~: ~~~.:m~~r:he every Museum. Director Gresory L NMI ('72), an employee ci Merrill Alumni Relations In Memoriam ~r:~~~ ~0,~s!u='~;~~ehcimears~ Shuon A. Bmbndorf ('71), Ml English teacher ;"~~U~r:~!:t!r~a~~~;,~i~ by Teresa Ericsson ('83) Back to basics . .. OIl W$em Business College, Portland, died Portland. Alumni Correspondent The spirit of giving and the work of the Alumni Benefits Committee go Tracking the elusive alum. hand in hand. Chairman Did Alum prepares book for battered leaving PSU doesn't have to mean Adamek ('70) has announced that the Alumni Benefits Card (ABC) will be Where does a victim of incest. rape "This is an attempt to communicate losing ~II contact with the University, or battering tum for help in the to others, who have had similar life as a retired professor hopes to show a given free of charge to all 1984 self-healing process? This is a experiences, the wide spectrum of farllung alum ... graduates - for the first year. The Question that Wendy Ann Wood ('83) emotions that are normal for a Upon graduating from PSU, ABC's virtues will be extolled in a explored while she was a student in self-healing recovery process to Norbert Man! ('67, '71) returned to future mailing, but the card's basic PSU community psychology classes. occur," said Wood. The book should Cologne, West Germany, out of draw is that alumni can enjoy the use "Many times, (ormer victims search earshot of his alma mater. like many of many University resources for a be a welcome resource to people small annual charge (and can benefit local bookstores (or a hint (rom some who have not found solace in either other universities, PSU had not yet text that they are not alone in this the clinical research or the "surrealist developed a formal means of keeping from other resources by payment of struggle and that others have also versions of one victim's story" that track of its most elusive alum ni - an additional user's fee). experienced such pain and trauma," are currently avai lable, Wood hopes. those with career plans that include a Dick is also pleased to announce a said Wood. Material selected for Echoes will be return to their native countries. 10% benefit increase for Now that she has graduated, Wood printed anonymously, unless Now, more than a decade later, a policyholders of Ihe otherwise requested, and only with a retiring PSU professor and a new committee-sponsored supplemental ~t~~r~Os~I!:. 8;~ !: ~ound on signed release from the author. committee have teamed up to group term life insurance policy. The co-editor are collecting the poetry, establish a solid link with graduates increase is effective immediately al no Submissions may be sent to Wendy extra premium «>!.t. prose, journal entries or black ink Ann Wood al Echoes, P.O. Box 194, like Norbert. Marguerite Marks, drawings of victims o( sexual or SI. Helens, OR 970S 1. admissions officer for international domestic Violence (or a book entitled Echoes. . ~~U~:~i~~;;,~I~f~he9::::er services International Student Alumni Program. SWIM & GYM Together with a committee of AlumOi Benefll<. Card SPORTS SPECTACULAR international atumni, Marks will be 22'J-~'J~8 busy locating graduates. establishing a $40 FAMILY ALL-SPORTS PASS means of communication (such as an international newsletter), setting up The new $40 F.mily AII-Spoo15 alumni clubs in other countries, and Words are cheap . .. Pass admits you and your family encouraging a relationship between It is now possible to conquer the (six total) to your choice of 75 international ~Iums living in Portland greate!lt, most widespread fear among home events during the 1984-85 and students enrolled at PSU. people - the fear of public speaking. season, including: Norbert, can you hear usl Ben Pad row, PSU professor in Speech PSU Viking football Communication, and Elaine Cogan, writer/communications consultant Coach Don Read says the pass is STUDY & have written You Can Talk to (Almost) back - starting with the Sept. 1 TRAVEL WITH ALUMNI Anyone Abour (Almost) Anyrhing: A opener with SoUlh Dakota State Alumm Beneftts Ca rd Speakins Guide (or Business and - followed by five more home Professional People. The authors games. Z2 11 vol· un • teer (n.) A person who performs or gives his services of his own free will. One of the best things about being PSU can use your skills in any a volunteer is that you do it because number of ways: you want to. And PSU gives you Alumni committees - Try your hand plenty of reasons to want to! at legislative lobbying, student Did you ever notice that real recruitment, alumni chapter "movers and shakers" nave one thing development, communications, or in common? They are often the most fund raising. active volunteers in their community. Leadership - Take command as a They want to be involved in shaping special events chairman, PSU their community's future. And they Foundation board member, or team know they're sharpening their own leader in the annual fund. business and leadership skills by Fund raising - Personally contact getting involved. alumni for annual gifts, large and Volunteering at PSU is just the kind small donors, in person or by phone. of opportunity for people who want to Hostlhostess - Enjoy entertaining? make a difference. Think back to how Offer your t~lents by hosting phone PSU helped you develop the expertise appeals, receptions and special you count on today. Now you're in a events. Yr'1' Thompson ('68) wekomed volunteer Earl Rick.1rds ('75) to the Alumni Fund 5 position to help ?SU, to ensure that Do yourself and PSU a favor by wrap.-up party hekt at his home in lune. Thompson was sener;ll chair of PSU's others like yourself will have access volunteering your time, your ta lents 1983-84 campaJ8I'!' which raised $71,095 in pr1nte funds for scholarships, fMUIt,. to the same quality education. and your ideas now. Contact Floyd deveJopment, equipment and other campus needs. Gerakt Craig ('66) (left), Dean of Harmon ('79) at 229-491 1. the ~hooI o.f Business Versil Milter, and Assistant to the President for University Relahons P.1I1 Bogue were among lhe 22 volunteers and guests al the event. Winners of a special drawing took home such prizes as resort weekends and ski lift tickets. Foundation Profile First general deposit campaign PGE President called big success wants to raise Nearly 350 PSU students have realized a different kind of return on { . \ expectations their deposits. By donating their / . return .\ general deposit refunds to the PSU · your , Foundation, they have given their f for PSU support to the programs they like , ::(;posit .~ best. . ) .. '. Portland General Electric President The Foundation's first general i ; ~ I·:. William Lindblad was recruited for deposit campaign has netted a total of the Portland Slate Foundation Board $6,800 from students who made gifts t I ,It \ three years ago by Earl Wantland, of the deposits they paid last fall. , ',. Tektronix President, and accepted the These $25 deposits cover any library position "basically," he says, "as a fines or damages students might incur mark of respect for Earl." Since then, during the year, with the balance Lindblad has developed a keen refunded the following summer. This interest in the future development of year, students were given the the University and the Foundation. opportunity to donate their refunds to "I'm not particularly a joiner," he the Foundation. ':onf!l~n (. says, "so when I take on things I like William Lindblad "Did you know that tuition and to do them for their own merits." He fees only pay about one-third of the is especially interested in the educational costs?" asked a letter that 16FLOZ(1P1i Foundation's role in fund raising and went out to students in May. Another in lifting community expectations Lindblad is a graduate of the third is paid by state taxes and the ;., .\ about what Portland State can University of California-Berkeley and final third comes from private gifts, contribute to the region. worked in utilities engineering and explained the letter. An enclosed "I'm concerned that the people of management in the Bay area for 23 pledge card gave students the chance Oregon recognize that Portland State years prior to moving to PGE in 1977. to earmark their donated deposits. is a 'full·service' university, one of He was elected President of PeE in The most popular target for the gifts Cusma said the benefits go beyond three major universities in the state," 1980. was scholarships, followed by specific the adual dollars collected. " It makes he says. But because of PSU's history This year, Lindblad is serving on academic departments and library students aware of the Foundation and and its recent development, "not the Foundation Nominating resources, noted Rena Cusma ('69), shows them how they can give while enough is expected of it by Oregon's Committee, trying to maintain the executive director of the PSU they're still in school and can see the leaders." current momentum and develop new Foundation. results," she said. "And it's a painless Citing PSU's location "at the hub of leadership as well. The challenge to Calling the campaign a big success, way to give." business" in Oregon, Lindblad said it the Foundation, he says, is to is essential "that Portland State be effectively marshal its current everything it can be." strengths within the community to Don't miss . .. Service on the F~undation Board capitalize on the University's was not the utility executive's first potential. Oregon's first football game contad with PSU. One of his eight " In all of our businesses, II Lindblad children, Margaret, graduated from says, "we look for the opportunities of the '84-85 season PSU's School of Health and Physical that circumstance gives us. To me, Education two years ago. Also Portland State's proximity to the PSU Vs. S. Dakota State lindblad, as an engineer and the center of business just means it has to 1 p.m., Sept. 1 head of a major electric utility, has succeed. If it doesn't, ii's the fault not had a continuing interest in PSU's only of Portland State but of the Civic Stadium engineering curriculum. business community here." 12 ,I C@\mrp?~~~\UAo/~ - PSU walking tour Briefly. .. Take a walk around campus The PSU campus has changed a student, then takes the walker inside Two studies on eklerly launched public administration programs in the dramatically since the University fi rst to look at two sculptu res and out the Spero Manson, acting director of U.S. that are accredited by the took up residence in the Park Blocks Park Blocks door to a sugar maple PSU's Institute on Aging, has begun National Association of Schools of in 1952. From one building - Old that was dedicated to a former PSU research on the relationships between Public Affairs and Administration Main - the campus has grown to administrator. physical illness and depreSSion in (NASPAA). Following a over 25 buildings in a 28-block area. The Walking Tour was designed older American Indians. A grant of recommendation by NASPM, the Grads coming back to visit can be and photographed by PSU alumnus $37,500 annually for the next three program will receive departmental overwhelmed and a little confused by Rob Reynolds ('74), a local graphic years from the federal Alcohol, Drug status at PSU beginning Sept. 15, Abuse and Mental Health the changes. BUI a new " Walking artist who regularly shares his talents t964. Tour" brochure ca n make campus with the University's Publications Administration will fund the research . Older American Indians " are at Computer Science moves to visits easy and informative. office, originator of the brochure. Engineering The brochure, available al the Reynolds' photographs enliven the especially high risk for health problems and, thus, especially The Department of Computer Admissions Office after Sept. 1, is a Bulletin, PSU's biennial catalog, as Science at PSU has been transferred pleasant ramble through the buildings well as numerous campus brochures, vulnerable to depressed mood," said Manson, who will utilize intervention from the College of liberal Arts and and past the artwork of the PSU posters and newsletters. Sciences under Dean William Paudler campus, with enough historical noles If you're in lawn and want to take a and prevention techniques as part of his research. to the School of Engineering and sprinkled in to pique the walkers walk, or oul of town and want 10 see Applied Science under Dean Hacik interest. how PSU has changed, write or call Earlier this year, PSU and Oregon Health Sciences University received a Erzurumlu, effective July 1, 1984, For instance, the Walking Tour for the Walking Tour at the Portland Computer Science shares quarters introduces Smith Memorial Center as State Admissions Office, P.O. Box post- 13 Faces in a coliseum crowd Face it - the words of hope and inspiration offered at a college commencement are respectfully absorbed, but the graduates are really there to be seen. So it was not surprising that the primary occupation at Memorial Coliseum June 8 was the search for familiar faces down in the mass of caps and gowns or up in the tiers of onlookers. And once the faces were located, there was much smiling and mugging for the countless cameras focused on 1984 Spring Commencement. Photos by Cynthia D. Stowell 14 Performing Arts Campus Notes FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC ..... 3 Labor Day observed. PSU closed. 8 pm. Lincoln Hall Aud. Call 22~076 'Of Info...... 7 Fall term advance registration ends Od. 10 Prague Suing Quartet ~t . 21 General registr 15 " ... great news. Viking! Portland State University alums like us can JOin the PSU Co-op Bookstore. We're share- holders . we can help shape policy and get great deals on PSU stuH, not to mention all the great books ar.d magazines and com- puters And then. Viking. we get a rebate on our pur chases at the end of the fiscal year, assuming we make a profit I We're en trepreneurs . part of all this is ours. How does that make you feel?" PSU ~~§!q9._ -,,; '''m.~~ _k~&ij~ in the PSU Student Union 7:30 am-5 pm Man -Fri. Portland State University aluma can \oln the c~p at Sixth and Hall. 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