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2 FROM THE PRESIDENT 6 FANFARE A gift of numeric proportions Art and business Working in song 4 PARK BLOCKS Teeing up for Hollywood Challenging mindsets New Works TGI Thursday Surviving light rail 18 GIVING Alumnus runs, swims, and pedals 5 LETTERS for student parents Vermicomposting: bad idea More on photographer 19 ATHLETICS Dorothea Lange New 'can do' coach

20 ALUMNI A working vacation in Guatemala Connect with your Alumni Association! The 'e' list Home show makeover pro Alumni in Japan The fruits of his labor

29 LOOKING BACK The neighborhood school Call for 1970 memories

Professor Corne l Pewewardy's hands-on teaching has earned him a ON THE COVER Tito Capobianco gees opera students' attention with national teaching award. tough, humorous, and ultimately encouraging direction. See story on page 8. Photo by Michael Lloyd/The Oregonian.

WINTER 2010 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 1 FROM THE PRESIDENT

A gift of numeric proportions

PEOPLE I NV EST in retirement accounts, The Standard, spoke at the announcement. property, and stocks all the time. Bue Already impressed with the talent of our how does one invest in a region? Portland graduates, Ms. Hoot-an actuary-said State alumnus Fariborz Maseeh knows the she wishes she could have benefited from answer-invest in the largest urban research Maseeh's gift, but knows that The Stan­ institution in Oregon, invest in PSU. dards' future employees now can. Dr. Maseeh, who five years ago gave $8 Alumnus Gordon Brinser MBA '77, million to our Engineering and Computer vice president of operations at SolarWorld Science program, presented PSU with USA, discussed how his company's scien­ $3.9 million for computational science tists save money and time using computa­ in December. It's important to note that tional science in the design and testing of Dr. Maseeh did not perceive this money solar cells. as a gift. Instead, he viewed it in the same The success of these businesses is integral manner as Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski, to building economic stability in our Portland Mayor Sam Adams, and others­ region. They are our partners and the future as an investment in the region. employers of our students. They need us Computational science is a discipline and our research as much as we need them that allows researchers to model complex to be successful. Dr. Maseeh's investment systems such as brain function, regional will help that happen and will ensure that freeways, even climate change in order to the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Math­ test theories and predict behavior. Research ematics and Statistics becomes a nation­ in computational science is not an end in ally recognized center for computational itself, but the beginning of research yet to research and instruction. be done in health, finance, engineering, Dr. Maseeh understands that investing sustainability, and more. in education results in the highest returns. And as the governor and mayor noted After all, life is a numbers game, and thanks at the event announcing the investment, to Fariborz Maseeh, PSU will be a leader in expertise in computational science not studying it. only creates graduates who will contribute to the well-being of the region, it allows for industry partnerships that will advance economic development for Portland and WimWiewel the rest of the state. PRE SIDENT, PORTL AND STATE UNIVER SITY Industry representatives agree. Anne Hoot, vice president of business support at

FACULTY, STAFF, AND PORTLAND community members turned out for the December 7 announcement of an investment in computational science from alumnus Fariborz Maseeh, pictured (top right photo, middle) with event speakers Gov. Ted Kulongoski and President Wim Wiewel. Industry leaders (top middle photo, left to right) Anne Hoot, The Standard, and Gordon Brinser MBA '77, SolarWorld USA, wait to speak with Eugene Enneking, professor emeritus of mathematics and statistics and a mentor to Maseeh. Photos by Kelly James.

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Challenging mindsets

SOME TI M ES the students in Corne! Pewewardy's classes respond to a question with silence. "That's when I'm going to point somebody our," he says with a smile. "They know it's coming. They're thinking, 'oh, no-don't pick me. Bur I do." For Pewewardy, director of PSU's Native American Studies program, encouragement is che key to a productive learning environment that leads to student success. The National Indian Education Association recognized his dedication when it honored Pewewardy with its Teacher of the Year award at the association's 40th annual convention in October. Pewewardy, who is Comanche and Kiowa, says he had very few outstand­ ing teachers when he was growing up. "I learned from bad teachers how not to be," he says. After graduate studies in elementary education at Universiry of Kansas, Pewewardy honed his teaching skills at che Comanche Nation College in Lawton, Oklahoma, and at Universiry of Kansas. Pewewardy tries to challenge his students to de-colonize their mindsets and introduces chem to indigenous ways of knowing as he reaches courses that cover che history oflndian education, Federal Indian law, and issues of sovereignry, identiry, and stereorypes. "Columbus didn't discover me," he may tell them, or he may recast Thanksgiving as "Thanks-taking." It's all done with che aim of encouraging critical thinking and student engagement.

TGI Thursday

CLOSING ON FRIDAYS : Will it work for employees? Will ees, and interviewed Clackamas Counry job applicants and it work for che communiry? Clackamas Counry government ordinary citizens. The team found chat most employees liked officials turned to professor Masami Nishishiba for answers. the change, as did job applicants. Only 19 percent of counry In November 2008 the counry launched a one-year experi­ citizens surveyed found the change inconvenient. ment that required some of its employees to work 10-hour The county initially tried che shortened workweek to save days, raking Fridays off. Similar four-day workweek programs money on energy and fuel costs bur found the program also are in place around the country, most notably in the entire resulted in significant savings in overtime and comp time state government of Utah. Nishishiba, who specializes in the costs, with a total net savings of $456,000 during the year. The study of local governments, was asked to evaluate che pilot pro­ Clackamas Counry Board of Commissioners has decided to gram, which involved about 828 of che counry's 1,800 workers. continue the program indefinitely, and Nishishiba has submit­ Nishishiba and four master's students in che Hatfield School ted a grant proposal to study similar programs elsewhere. of Government conducted focus groups, surveyed employ-

4 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE W INTER 20 10 PARK BLOCKS

Surviving light rail

TED HUCKINS, owner of the William Joseph Gallery on Southwest Yamhill, got worried when he first heard light rail construction was to begin on either side of his storefront in 2007. And for good reason: He remembers when businesses failed as a result of the original light rail construction in 1986. That's why he was particularly grateful for guidance from students in PSU's Business Outreach Program (BOP). BOP teamed with TriMet, the Portland Development Commission, and the city of Portland to sustain and improve small businesses affected by the construction. Overall, they assisted 32 businesses, each receiving up ro 250 hours of specialized services. The BOP also packaged $235,000 in loans to 10 of the businesses. PSU business students helped Huckins, whose gallery sells Oregon landscape phorography, create a new business strategy that focuses on business clients instead of walk-in cusromers. The strategy included a new product: high-definition video footage of scenic Oregon that can be displayed in office and hospital settings. A low-interest loan of$17,500 for computers and software is making this new venture possible. Although the gallery saw a significant decline in walk-in traffic during the Portland Transit Mall and MAX Green Line construction, and was also hit by the recent economic downturn, Huckins credits the PSU students for helping ro keep his business afloat. "I have the highest apprecia­ tion for everybody that was involved at Portland Stace and TriMet," says Huckins. "They helped me believe I would survive." ■

Ted Huckins, owner of William Joseph Gallery, made it through the recent light rail construction downtown with help from PSU Business Outreach Program students. Above photo by Tyler Brain.

W IN TER 20 10 PO RTL A ND STATE M AGAZIN E 5 Fanfare

The music of Issa Diop '08 is influenced by hip hop, R&B, pop, and the music of his original home in East Africa.

Art and business

WHILE GR OWING UP in Senegal, says Issa Diop '08, his his own label, he says, because, "I didn't wane to wait for a big parents wanted him to be an engineer like his brothers. Diop label to approve me. I don't have to wait." had ocher plans. "In Senegal," he says, "music is huge." He He's right. His song "Warm Me Up" was featured in the started writing songs, and eventually won a green card lottery Internee series Who ... and in July 2009 he opened for chat allowed him to come to the United States in 2003 and Billboard chart-copping artist Jay Sean. Issa's songs are available study marketing at PSU. on iTunes, and his new album, Rules ofAttraction, is due out in "That was a turning point in my life," says Diop, who prefers mid-2010. "It's a mix of pop, R&B, and dance," he says. "Very to go by Issa (pronounced E-suh). Now he's making it as a upbeat. lc's gonna be really fun." singer and a partner in his own label, Just 4 the Records. "It opened the door for musical emancipation and discovering the talents chat I have."

"I value education a lot," he says, "because then you know ABOUT FANFARE how to manage your career. I like to find the balance between We want to hear about your books and recordings arc and business." Issa, whose music draws from R&B, pop, and your future exhibits, performances, and direct­ and African influences, points to hip-hop moguls like P. Diddy, ing ventures. Contact the magazine by e-mailing [email protected], sending a fax to 503-725-4465, Jay-Z, and Akon (a Senegalese-American) as models. He started or mailing Portland State Magazine, Office of University Communications, PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207-0751.

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New Works Working in song

THE HOPES and aspirations of working Americans-waitresses, millworkers, corporate executives, and many others-are reflected in the songs and monologues of the musical, Working, playing at Artists Reper­ tory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison Street, March 5 through 13. The Theater Arts Department is taking on the stage adaptation of Working, a Studs Terkel best-selling oral history. The lace Terkel, a longtime writer and Chicago radio personality, wrote the book in 1974 from his interviews with regular working men and women. The musical sets their everyday lives to song, including some original scores by singer songwriter James Taylor. By Dan Clore '95, Hippoeampus Press, Performances are Tuesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, 2009 March 7, at 2 p.m. Tickers may be purchased at the PSU Box office, 503-725-3307, or through TicketMaster. ■

By Regina G. Lawrena: Teeing up for Hollywood at Melody Rose (polid­ tal ~ faculty). Lynne AT 4 A. M ., most of us are sound asleep. But for the past four years, 1lienntr Publimers. 2009 Steve Lundin '87 has been wide awake and writing until it's time to go to work at the engineering business he owns with his in-laws. His early morning efforrs have paid off. His first novel, Shooting an Albatross, is a psychological thriller set in 1943, a year in which the PGA cancelled professional golf, leaving a perfect opportunity for the Army, which was occupying El Rancho Golf Course, to play the Navy. By Lommasson '75, The book follows Private Evan Wilkins through a tale of love, rivalry, Jim Oqon Stat.e Unmrsity murder, and golf. Lundin's wake-up call, so co speak, came in the form of a diagnosis of ~2009 multiple sclerosis in 1995. "This illness made me see that I didn't wane to be some 90-year-old guy saying that I wane co write, but never having done it." So he rook up his longtime goal of becoming a writer. Shooting an Albatross reeled in producer Jon Fitzgerald, a veteran of studio and inde­ pendent films as well as a golfer. Fitzgerald ~ by Paul~ and Vupila bought the option to make a film based on ~ '86, Hand Crafted Publiat,. Lundin's novel and commissioned the writer tioll$,2009 to adapt it into a screenplay. Lundin says it's too soon to tell when, or i£ his words will make it to the screen, but adds, "Listen co these cool words: he's send­ ing it out to talent and financiers!" ■

WINTER 2010 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 7 Maestro of the stage

Tito Capobianco, internationally renowned stage director, returns for the fifth time to direct opera students.

WRITTEN BY JEFF KUECHLE

IN ALL OF THE PERFORMING ARTS , rhereisnomoredifficulrprofession than opera singer. Those who aspire co their hour upon the stage at the Mer, La Scala, Covent Garden, or even at cop regional opera companies from Porrland co Philadelphia, must combine the acting chops of Olivier with crystal-shivering vocal fireworks unmatched in any ocher corner of the musical world. They must be able co summon these talents night after night, in front of a live audience, usually performing in a language nor their own. And everybody's a critic. Tiro Capobianco understands. "People are simply unaware of the sophistication, of the vocal technique involved," says Capobianco, who chis spring returns for the fifth rime as a visiting professor at Porrland Scare, thanks co rhe generosity oflocaJ arcs philanthropist Jeannine B. Cowles. "Opera singers have co be able co sing, move, and acc. The pressure is incense, because it's a live performance," he says. "And because an opera singer's entire body is their instrument, anything can affect it-the weather, what they ear, lack of rest, their sex life." Capobianco pauses reverenrly. "The human voice is the most beautiful sound created by God," he says. "To use it properly requires intense study and coral concentration." Capobianco should know. From 1953 until his retirement from the professional stage in 2000, Capobianco, now 78, was one of the world's most esteemed opera stage directors. From Europe co the United Scares, Australia co South America, he has staged more than 300 productions scarring the most incandescent scars in the operatic firmament: Placido Domingo, Montserrat Caballe, Joan Sutherland, and the lace Beverly Sills and Luciano Pavarotti.

8 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE WINTER 2010 WINTER 2010 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 9 CAPOBIANCO'S WORK acPSU, won the second place award in Category "Tito has seen it all, experienced where he is directing chis spring's produc­ I at the National Opera Association's everything," Zeller says. "What makes tion of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow, annual opera production competition. him wonderful for the kids at PSU is he's is an outgrowth of his lifelong love of Rehearsals are incense-five co eight a very loving man who loves co reach. He's reaching. The cofounder and original hours a day for six weeks-resting the worked at the highest professional level general director ofJuilliard Opera, and student singers' commitment and vocal with all of the biggest stars of this and the founder of opera programs in Philadel­ fortitude. previous generation. Bue Tiro lives for phia, San Diego, and Piasburgh, "We are so fortunate co have Tiro," says chat light bulb moment, when a student Capobianco has always thought of himself Christine Meadows, music faculty and the suddenly gees what he's celling chem and as a teacher at heart. director of PSU's Opera Program. "He puts it into practice." "I consider myself a gardener," got his start in Buenos Aires when it was Opera has been described as "poetry, Capobianco says from Philadelphia, the Paris of South America, when all the in the mortal embrace of love, dying in where he was in the final stages of prepar­ biggest names in opera were performing the arms of music." For Capobianco, ing a student production of Falstajf ac the there. He has such an amazing wealth of chis description rings true. "I worked in Academy of Vocal Arcs. "There is such experience. He's cough, but at chis point professional opera for almost 50 years­ satisfaction when you see something you in his life and career, there's also a sofrness now I do what I wane," he says. "Opera have nurtured so carefully suddenly grow and a desire co share chat wealth with is unique-the music and the libretto and send forth a glorious perfume, young artists." combine co produce an art form like blossoming, making people laugh, mak­ nothing else on earth. Bue the creation ing people cry-chat is a privilege. If you PORTLAND-BASED BARITONE process is easy when you're working with believe in the future, you must participate Richard Zeller '91, who has spent 12 sea­ young artists. Everything they're doing, in making it." sons with the Metropolitan Opera in New everything they're experiencing, is some­ Beginning in March at PSU, the York, was hired co anchor Capobianco's thing new. It's wonderful and challenging Florida-based Capobianco will be 2009 production of Falstajf ac PSU. In for a director." ■ directing an all-student case in The Merry addition co providing the chance to sing Widow, following up on his acclaimed one of his dream roles, the assignment Jeff Kuechle, a freelance writer, wrote PSU productions of Falstajf(2009) , gave Zeller the opportunity co work with "Creating Writers" in the fall 2009 La, Boheme (2008), Cosi fan tutte (2007), one of the opera world's most legendary Portland State Magazine. and Die Fledermaus (2004). Cosi fan tutte behind-the-scenes figures.

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Homecoming Middle East Studies graduate brings his expertise back to Portland State.

WRITTEN BY MELIS SA STEINEGE R

IF Y O U'RE GO ING TO make a difference in world diplo­ Bechtold estimates that he has taught interdisciplinary macy, it helps if a four-star general is your biggest fan. courses and seminars to more than 11,500 men and women Diplomats, support personnel, and military officers attend from the government's Defense Department, Foreign Service, the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute to study and executive branch. These professionals attended a mini­ culture, customs, religion, policies, and other issues before mum of70 hours. In addition, he has conducted field research being dispatched abroad. For almost 30 years, Peter Bechtold in 25 Middle East countries and is fluent in four Arabic '61 taught at the Washington, D.C., institute. In November dialects, classical Arabic, German, and French. He has he returned to Portland State as director of the Middle East appeared as a Middle East expert on PBS, CNN, NPR and Studies Center. Ir is a unique homecoming-Bechtold earned overseas radio. the center's first certificate in 1961. And yet, it all began not with a great love of the Middle The four-star general-Norman Schwarzkopf-took East, but with what Bechtold calls a coincidence. Bechtold's class on the Near East at the Foreign Service Insti­ A native of Heidelberg, Germany, Bechtold came to Oregon tute just before raking the reins of the U.S. Central Command as a teenager to visit two uncles. He liked the area, so when fall in late 1988, a position he held through the Gulf War. 1956 rolled around, he entered Portland State College. "The Foreign Service Institute program was taught by Peter Ir was good timing. Three years later, Frederick J. Cox, profes­ Bechtold, a German-born expert on the Sudan," Schwarzkopf sor of history, helped open Portland State's Middle East Studies recounts in his autobiography, ft Doesn't Take a Hero. During Center. Cox, a former naval intelligence officer, recognized the the intensive 72-hour, rwo-week course, Schwarzkopf sat in value of understanding other cultures around the world. the front row raking copious notes and "came home to Fort Ivy League schools like Princeton and Harvard had graduate Myer every night exhilarated," he wrote in his book. programs in Middle East studies, but PSU's was one of the Schwarzkopf became such a fan ofBechtold's course that nation's first undergraduate programs to receive federal fund­ he "suggested" to others under his command that they would ing. In the first year of operations, the center offered anthro­ benefit, too. pology, geography, economics, history, and Arabic language. "When a four-star general says, 'You know I really think Some 52 students took classes, including Bechtold. you should go,' that's an order," says Bechrold, a genial "One of my professors said to me, 'You're interested in raconteur who ends many of his stories with a bit of humor. international stuff, aren't you?"' recalls Bechtold. He signed up, but admits, "Since it was the Middle East Studies Center, WHILE SC HWARZKOPF was perhaps the most recogniz­ I took Arabic and French. If it had been Brazil and Portuguese, able name among his former students, Bechtold also is proud I would have studied those." to claim 36 other generals and admirals and 28 students Many of the center's graduates have gone on to careers in who went on to become U.S. ambassadors, including Joseph government, academia, and business. LeBaron '69, ambassador to Qatar, and Ryan Crocker, former Bechtold earned a bachelor's in math and a minor in Middle ambassador to Iraq and four other countries. East studies, before going to Princeton on a full fellowship.

◄ After an illustrious career at the Foreign Service Institute, Peter Bechtold '61 is back directing the PSU Middle East Studies Center and enjoying Portland, including Marrakesh Moroccan Restaurant in the city's Northwest neighborhood. Photo by Kelly James.

WINTER 2010 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 13 KAZAKHSTAN

FLUENCY IN FOUR ARABIC dialects as well as classical Arabic, French, and German helped Peter Bechtold during his field research in these countries.

There he received two Ph.D.s, one in Near East studies and Bechtold had taught undergraduates early in his career­ one in political science. inclucling a year spent at University of Oregon, where he filled ''All the trouble we're in-including Iraq and Afghanistan­ in for a professor on leave-and been a guest lecturer ac more is a result of that as a nation we're not sufficiently informed than 40 universities. But at the Foreign Service Institute, his about what's going on in the rest of the world," says Bechtold. classes were graduate level and his students were older profes­ "You have to understand history, culture, society, politics, sionals taking courses as a work requirement. religion, economics-that's what I try to teach." "You don't have to persuade them, they're motivated," says One classic example he cites involves the simple activity of Bechtold. ''After 30 years of talking to people who were 30 to counting on your fingers. To signify the number one, Ameri­ 60, could I still talk to 20-year-olds?" cans use the index finger, says Bechtold, Europeans use the Fortunately, he had some recent experience with younger thumb, and people from the Middle Ease begin counting on students. Shortly after retiring from the Foreign Service their Ii ttle finger. Institute in 2005 he had filled in at the College of William "Context matters," says Bechtold. A "given" to one group of and Mary for a year. That experience gave him the confidence people may not be to another. "If you understand that, you're that he could make the needed connection. "The students were half the way there." motivated," says Bechtold. "It was fun." As the center looks to the next 50 years, Bechtold hopes THROUGHOUT his career, Bechtold has retained a soft spot to infuse some of his experiences into its programs. One for Portland State. For the last 10 years, he's followed PSU approach might be to initiate a seminar similar to one offered athletic teams via the Internet. And he says that every year as at Princeton that introduces students to each of the Middle he sweated through an East Coast summer he wondered "Why East studies specialties by having a different professor speak am I not in Portland!" each week about the topics he or she covers. In summer 2009, his chance came. The Middle East Studies Another idea he's considering is to bring luminaries from his Center hosted a yearlong celebration of its 50th anniversary. East Coast Rolodex to PSU to speak. And he hopes to create There was a lot to celebrate. More than 21,000 undergraduates more connections between current students and Middle East­ and 2,000 graduate students have taken courses through the born students and local Middle East communities. center and hundreds have earned degrees with a Middle East "I want to build bridges with students of the Middle East, concen Cration. the academic world, and government," says Bechtold. "I try As the center's first certificate recipient, Bechtold was invited to help them understand a different culture and its history, to speak at the celebratory banquet. society, and politics. That's what I've been doing." ■ From that reconnection, Bechtold was offered the director­ ship of the center. He quickly said yes. "I love Portland State, and I love Portland. I want to contribute." Melissa Steineger, a Port/,and freelance writer, wrote the article "Hard He had just one fear. Times in Sharp Focus" in the fall 2009 Portland State Magazine.

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Giving

Alumnus runs, swims, and pedals for student parents

Erik Lawrence '02, volunteer extraordinaire, is raising money for working student parents at PSU by competing in triathlons with the support of his wife, RoseAnne, and children, Adam, Athena, and Ben.

"WORKING YOUR WAY through school is daunting In addition co establishing the Lawrence Family Working at best and absolutely exhausting at the worse," says Erik Parent Scholarship Fund through the PSU Foundation Lawrence '02. "Doing so with children at home makes it near (where he also serves as a board member), Lawrence is creat­ impossible-though people do it every day." Lawrence knows ing an endowment at the Dougy Center in memory of his this firsthand. Thar's why he's creating a new endowed scholar­ mother, who died when he was a young boy. "I want co sup­ ship co assist working student parents at Porrland Scare. port kids whose life experience has changed their hand," he Lawrence and his wife, RoseAnne, had two young children says. ''And I want to give working student parents a hand up." when he started college, and a third was born the year he Lawrence's determination and rigorous physical train- graduated. In addition, both of them worked, which meant ing are paying off. As of November, he had completed two they rarely saw each other. triathlons and was well on his way coward his goal of raising "I made sure I never did homework during family rime­ $50,000 for each of the endowments. so it meant studying while everyone else was still sleeping," "I have literally e-mailed everyone I know asking chem to he recalls. sponsor me," he admits laughingly. Lawrence sec up a Web Following a seamless transition from Porcland Commu­ sire co share his vision, track progress, accept donations, and nity College to PSU, Lawrence managed co finish his degree invite ochers co join him in racing and raising dollars for his in finance and business administration in three years. After twin passions. Most important of all, his children- ages 6, graduation he rook a job with UBS Financial Services where 8 and 12- come to his races and cheer him on, "doing their his career is now Aourishing. In 2009 he decided it was rime part to make Dad feel good." to start giving back. Despite rhe challenges he faced in getting through college, "I wane co be an active, contributing citizen. I'm now Lawrence's time at Porrland State meant a lot to him. "Col­ seven years our of school, building my career and raising a lege was fun! " he smilingly remembers. "I wane co go back." young family, so I asked myself what I could do best co make Meanwhile he's making it possible for ocher student a difference." parents to have their turn. ■ BY KATRINA RATZLAFF His answer involved an exceptional commitment to per­ sonal transformation. The boy who "wasn't into competitive spores as a kid" is READ MORE ABOUT ERIK LAWRENCE'S now a man challenging himself co compete in a series of five RACES AND FUNDRAISING PROGRESS triathlons co benefit two causes deeply rooted in his personal experience-working student parents and grieving children. visit www.erikfwlawrence.com

18 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE W INTER 2010 GET ALL OF THE LATEST sports news at www.GoViks.com. Game stories, statistics, schedules, and much more are available Athletics and updated daily. You can also hear and/or see game broadcasts. Buy season and single game tickets onlineatwww.GoViks.com or call 1-888-VIK-TIKS or 503-725-3307.

New 'can do' coach

ATHLETICS DIRECT OR Torre Jerry Glanville, who resigned in Novem­ A 1999 graduate of University of Chisholm says he asked every question pos­ ber after a disappointing three-season, Washington, Burton was a three-year sible when he researched rhe background of 9-24 record. scarring safety who led the Huskies to new head football coach Nigel Burton. Burton is not new to Portland State. three bowl games. He was also a three­ "Can he teach? Players who he He was defensive backs coach under time Academic All-Pac-10 and Academic helped put in the NFL told me he Tim Walsh during the 2001 and 2002 All-District selection, and served as team can," says Chisholm. "Can he recruit? seasons. He went on to become rhe captain his senior year. He earned an Best recruiter on staff was a common secondary coach at Oregon Scace for MBA at South Florida in 2000 while response. Can he lead young men? He five years and, for the past two seasons, working as an assistant coach. has been doing it ever since he was defensive coordinator for the University Burton, who plans to emphasize a team captain at Washington and a of Nevada Wolf Pack. student-arhlece academic progress, also student-athlete representative to rhe "The opportunity to come back to brings with him a reputation as one of NCAA Management Council." a university that I loved being a part the West Coast's top football recruiters. Chisholm eventually asked rhe obvious of before is outstanding," says Burton. He said one of his priorities will be to question, "Can he win? They said he "And I believe the potential is here to recruit Oregon athletes. has everywhere he has coached and at return to the dominance that Portland "You do not have to leave Portland to every level of competition, because Nigel State once had." play great football or get a world-class always finds a way to be successful." Burton says that dominance was education," he says, "and you do not In December, PSU chose Burton, 33, exemplified by former Viking stars such have to leave Portland to get a real college from a field of highly qualified finalises to as Chris Crawford, Chip Dunn, Terry experience." ■ become the Viking's 13th head football Charles, Shaun Bodiford, Clint Didier, coach. He replaces former head coach and June Jones.

WINTE R 2010 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 19 A working vacation in Guatemala

VACATIONING with a purpose-or voluntourism-is on the rise. Dave Osgood '63 and his wife, Judy, were introduced to the idea of a service vacation on a trip to Central America with Habitat for Humanity back in 2005. The Osgoods were part of a team chat worked side-by-side with local residents to help build a house in Guatemala. This transformational experience had the couple sharing stories and photographs with their friends and ultimately recruiting chem for a return trip with Habitat. By 2007 the Osgoods had become volunteer leaders, having made eight trips to Guatemala and Costa Rica. Their enthusiasm continues to grow. The Osgoods relish the cultural immersion coupled with the tangible sense char they are making a difference in the countries they visit. In November 2010, the Osgoods will hose a special trip to Guatemala for JUDY AND DAVE OSGOOD help build a home PSU alumni. with Habitat for Humanity in Guatemala. Pros at voluntourism, they will lead a trip for PSU alumni in November 2010. Judy (middle photo) works with If you would like to be part of this unique and fulfilling local residents setting blocks for the home. Dave '63 (bottom photo) makes spacers for rebar used to experience visit the PSU Alumni Association earthquake-proof the house. at www.pdx.edu/alumni.

20 PO RTLAND STATE MAGAZINE WINTER 2010 Gary Coats '58, is a retired Vanport Milwaukie educator and now an active volunteer for the PSU Margaret Dobson '50, a Alumni Association and in the retired PSU administrator community. Coats' daughter, and faculty member, says Lorrinda Coats-Howarth that her favorite place on '85, is also an educator in campus was the Library. Milwaukie. He lives with his wife, Sandra '92, in Portland. Barbara Case Ellison '50 is a retired director of personnel Lee Gleason '58 is a retired services at Portland Commu­ physician and former director of nity College and now an active Student Health Services at PSU. volunteer. One of Ellison's His favorite memory of Portland favorite Vanport memories is State College (PSC) is Erwin watching Margaret Dobson play Lange's organic chemistry class. on the men's baseball team. Peter Grundfossen '58, MST '66 writes that his favorite memories of PSC are perform­ 1956-1959 ing in productions of Caine Mutiny and Teahouse ofthe Helen Unger Sandau '56 August Moon. Today Grund­ is a retired Portland educa- fossen and his wife, Cathryn tor. She now volunteers with Collis, live in Salt Lake City. Animal Rescue and Care as well as the Feral Cat Coali­ Lewis Van Winkle '58, MS '69 tion. Sandau lives in Portland volunteers at OMS! and with with her husband, Fred. Friends ofLaurelhurst Park. He also enjoys family activi- Cathy Williams '56, a retired ties with his wife, Susan '63, Portland educator, coordinates and their son Robert '90, a office operations as a volunteer systems consul cant for I ntegraph for the Sisters Rodeo Board in Corporation in St. Louis, and Sisters. Williams' stepdaugh­ daughter-in-law Catherine ter, Donelle Knudsen '71, '91, a strings instructor in is a freelance writer, and her Sr. Louis public schools. son-in-law, Robert Knud- sen '72, is a customer service manager for Lamb-Weston in Pasco, Washington. 1960-1969

Gary Salyers '57 is a retired Charles Rees '61 is a law Milwaukie elementary school professor at University of principal. Salyers, a frequent Baltimore. Rees' favorite PSU Alumni Association memories of PSC include volunteer, is treasurer of the the tennis team and friends Sons and Daughters of Oregon George and Susan Durrie. Pioneers. Ocher PSU gradu­ ates in his family include son Robert "Bob" Vail '61 is a Daniel '81, daughter-in-law retired senior sales engineer for Janice Keasey '86, grandson Westinghouse Corporation. Timothy '04, and grand­ Vail's favorite memories of PSC daughter-in-law Mary Bean were rhe Winter Carnival and Salyers '03. Salyers and his Marko Haggard's night class wife, Jean, live in Milwaukie. at Jerry's Gable jazz club.

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WINTER 2010 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 21 Dennis Anderson '62 has Mel Henkle '66 is a self­ retired from Boeing in Seattle employed accountant in East after 32 years and now vol­ Wenatchee, Washington. unteers for the SeaTac Com­ munity Center. His favorite Paul Parham '65 is a proj- PSC memory is swim classes ect manager for information in the Shattuck Hall pool. technology at Boeing in Seattle. Parham's favorite memories of Sharron Coulson Easley '62, PSC are meeting his wife in a MSW '69 retired from the U.S. history class, serving as Multnomah County Juvenile Yell King, and watching his ALUMNI PROFILE Services Division and now friend, Mike Smith, anchor KRISTIN WELLS '97 volunteers with Oregon's high­ the PSC College Bowl team. way cleanup program. Easley's favorite professor was Margaret Gerry Scovil '65, MA '68 is a Dobson. Easley's daughter retired director of elementary Home show makeover pro Cheryl Brooks Johnson education at North Clackamas '72, MA '76 and son-in-law School District. Scovil is a past You want to remodel an unused formal living room or Richard '69 are also graduates. president of the PSU Alumni enlarge a patio, but you're not quite sure how to go Association. His son Steven '05, about it. Doris Coulsey Pollock '63 is MEd '09 and daughter Susan a retired teacher and counselor '83 both work for the North You have questions. Kristin Wells '97 has the answers. who has worked in South Caro­ Clackamas School District. And fortunately, viewers of HGTV need only tune in to her lina, Okinawa, and Florida. show, Smart Fix, which debuted in October, to tap into Pollock now volunteers with John Polos '66 is a retired civil her vast knowledge of construction. the American Red Cross and in and electrical engineer with In each episode of the Thursday morning, half-hour her Tallahassee, Florida, com­ Bonneville Power Administra­ series, Wells, an expert contractor, steps in to help home­ munity. Her favorite memory tion in Portland. Polos works of PSC is sitting in the student part time for his son's business, owners who think their home improvement projects are union on a snowy day gazing Polos Electronics. He lives in too tough to tackle by showing them that, with the right out the window into the park. Battle Ground, Washington. approach and materials, it's easier than they think. Wells, who lives in and films her program in Charlotte, Susan Van Winkle '63 is Donald Stepp '67 is president N.C., was born and raised in Greensboro, N.C., in a a retired math teacher liv- and broker of First Real Estate "do-it-yourself family," she says. At 21, she followed a ing in Portland. Van Winkle Network in Portland. Stepp volunteers with the Northeast recalls chat tuition in 1959 was boyfriend to Portland, where she completed her degree Emergency Food Program $100 per term and chat che in marketing and advertising at PSU, with an eye toward and also enjoys tutoring and College Bowl team would study going into sports marketing. cooking church dinners. at his cavern, The Blind Onion. While waiting tables, Wells was offered a job as a sales representative for West Coast Paper Co., which she ended Phyllis Calhoun White '64, David Siegel '68 volunteers MS '70 is retired from full-time his time teaching technology up loving and did for five years. After spending a decade teaching but continues to substi­ to seniors at the Multnomah in Portland, she moved back to North Carolina to be tute teach in Portland. White's County Library, Capitol Hill closer to family after 9/11. favorite PSC memories include branch. Siegel received a 2009 She worked in sales for a design and home-remodeling working in the Library to earn Citizen Involvement Award company, shadowed contractors for no pay during her off her tuition and the lntervarsicy from the county for chis work. hours, and then started her own remodeling company. Christian Fellowship Club. Richard Willis '68 is a project Then an acquaintance heard that a TV producer was look­ Jankees Duvekot '64 is a supervisor with Willis Homes in ing to cast a show featuring women in construction, and practicing lawyer in Amster­ Longview, Washington. Willis told him about Wells. dam, The Netherlands. is also a private pilot and enjoys She landed on the cable show Homemakers, where she travel and his grandchildren. helped restore a century-old house. After that network Joseph WiJliams '65, MST '67 folded, the National Association of Home Builders "picked is a retired Portland princi- Gloria Hanson Craig '69 is a pal. Williams volunteers with retired Portland teacher, who me up, and we took the idea to HGTV," she says. the Mt. Hood Ski Patrol, the is now a volunteer receptionist Wells, who is married with a 2-year-old daughter, Mountain Hoses Program, First for KBPS radio. Craig writes hopes Smart Fix will draw viewers and that HGTV will Unitarian Church, and as an chat her favorite professor was renew it for a second season. But she's not taking assistant scoutmaster for the Alma Bingham, who "gave me a anything for granted and is shopping the show to other Boy Scouts. renewed love of children's litera­ networks. "You always have to look for something and ture and an excitement to share be proactive." BY CLIFF COL LINS

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my life working with children." Wilna Anderson MS '71 writes a very successful career and Enneking, with all the many Other PSU grads in her family that her favorite memories of survived New York City." successes I have enjoyed during are husband Gerry '66 and son­ PSU were the Park Block music my life." in-law Steve McNear MBA '99. programs and the noon talks by Teresa Spada '72 is a self-em­ visiting professors each summer. ployed accountant in Portland. Thomas Linhares '75 is execu­ Michael Johnston '69, MS '77 Spada's favorite memory of PSU tive director of the Multnomah is a retired air traffic controller Marie Barton '71 retired was the team concept of all the County Tax Supervising and with che Albuquerque Inter­ after 30 years in civil drafting. accounting students. She writes, Conservation Commission, an national Airport. Johnston has Barton is now a fiber artist in "We all studied and worked agency that represents the pub­ been a hospice volunteer since Portland and recently held a through the program together." lic interest on budget matters. the loss of his wife, Dorothy. show, "Living Embroidery­ Handwork in Wool, Cotton, Thom Armstrong '73, MA '81 Jan von Bergen '75 is a Jon MitchelJ '69 is president Linen and Silk." is president and superintendent print and ceramics artist and chief executive officer of of Barstow Community Col­ who was recently featured in Acumentra Health in Portland. Julie Borden '71 is an avid lege in Barstow, California. the 10th Anniversary Port- cribbage player and is inter­ land Open Studios Tour. Denis Norstrom '69 writes ested in Pythagorean number Richard "Dick" Archer '75 that he is busy being a "pre­ mysticism, holistic health, has retired from the field of Raj Anand MBA '77 is boomer." Norstrom has many and dance. Borden's daughter, computers after 35 years. president and chief executive interests, including estate Audrey '79, is a PSU gradu­ Archer has moved with his wife, officer of Southern States, a management, politics, garden­ ate and her granddaughter, Martha, to Baja California Sur, switch manufacturing com­ ing, and visiting local galleries. Mari, is a PSU student. Mexico. He writes, "my days pany in Hampton, Georgia. at PSU remain some of the Mary Lou Webb Davis '69, Linda Smeltzer '71 has enjoyed best memories of my life, and Susan Brickey '77 is a gen­ MS '73 is dean of academic traveling to Russia through the I credit the institution and its eral health care consulrant programs and management PSU Alumni Travel program. staff, especially Mark Gurevitch, in Portland. Brickey enjoys supervisory development pro­ She has also been to Brazil, New Rudi Nussbaum, Don Howard, volunteering with Mazamas grams at Portland Community Zealand, and Thailand with Charles Baloghand Gene and Elders in Action. College's Southeast Center. A Friendship Force International former cheerleader, she recently travel group. Smeltzer has married Mouse Davis, former been involved with PSU for PSU head football coach. more than 45 years, first as a student and chen as wife Larry Yturri '69 retired and of the lace David Smeltzer, sold his insurance agency in professor of political science. Springfield and now volun­ Portland State University teers in the community. His Vern "Kim" Cimmery '72 favorite memory of PSU is is a retired geographer and Independent being a member of the golf part-time university and team, which finished fourth in community college instruc­ Study the national championships. tor. Cimmery authored the Accredited by NCCU and NAAS User Guide far the System far Automated Geo-Scientific Quality. Flexibility. Convenience. Analysis (SAGA) Version 2, We offer quality accredited online- 1970-1979 which is a software source and text-based high school. dual used by physical geographers, credit, and college courses. Our Lorraine Drougas MS '70 faculty, and students. instructors are licensed professionals has four daughters, three of who are motivated to help our students achieve their goals. whom earned degrees from PSU Janice Koreywo Kramer '72 and are now educators: Linda is an art instructor at Fresno • Start anytime. Meadows '82, MSW '85; Sonja Pacific University and for the • Take up to 12 months to finish a Meadows '85; and Christine Fresno Unified School Dis­ course. Meadows '83, music faculry trict in Fresno, California. • Transfer credits to the institution and opera director at P U. of your choice. Judith McKay Smith MSW Celebrating 100 years Susan Schilke MAT '70 is a '72 is a real estate agent in of academic service. self-employed French and piano New York City. Smith was a Learn more. go to www.istudy.pdx.edu teacher. Schilke volunteers at social worker at Sloan-Ket­ or call 1-800-547-8887 ext 4865. her church as an interim choir tering Memorial Hospital for director, gardener, and deacon. 10 years. She writes, "thanks Schilke lives with her hus­ to Portland Scace School band, John, in Lake Oswego. of Social Work, I have had

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WINTER 2010 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 23 Alumni in Japan

HIROSHI SAKAI '71 is a retired representative of Nord­ Colleen Calvin '78 is a call igra­ in Tualatin. A former Portland strom in Japan. He enjoys playing golf and occasionally pher and book artist who was State quarterback, Lomax visits with friends in Seattle. He was one of the first recently featured in the 10th went on co play for the NFI.:s Anniversary Portland Open Phoenix Cardinals and ap­ Japanese students to graduate from the PSU School of Studios Tour. She is married peared in two Pro Bowls. He Business Administration. co Mark Bello PhD '93. is now a vol unteer offensive coordinator for the Roosevelt SATOSHI MARUYAMA '75 owns Swallow Trading, a ski Debra Harris MST '78, PhD High School Roughriders and snowboard company in Tokyo. His son Tetsuhlto '82 is an instructor in the PSU football team in Portland. '08 works for his company in China. School of Community Health. Harris writes that her favor- Donna Frutiger '83 is a dis­ NOBUKO MUROMATSU '80 and her husband, Conan ite memories of PSU are "rhe tribution marketing manager O'Harrow '79, own East West Consulting, an execu- wonderful friends I met there for Imel in Beaverton. Frutiger that I still stay in couch with." and her husband, Keith '81, tive search firm in Japan. With offices in Tokyo, Osaka, '07, volunteer for their church and Singapore, East West specializes in the needs of Joan Johnson '78 is a good as counselors in the Pre­ international companies. Muromatsu came co PSU from friend co Portland Stare. Marital Counseling program. Columbia University. During her first year, she met her Johnson helped PSU acquire future husband. Upon graduation they moved to Japan, the Simon Benson House, Brad Seely '83 is an ophthal­ where Muromatsu worked for IBM and O'Harrow, who and she cofounded the PSU mologist in private practice in Nancy Ryles Scholarship for Roseburg. He fond ly recalls loves Japan, worked as a consultant for a headhunting firm Women. Johnson's favo rite playing the guitar in the Park before combining ro start their own firm. memory of PSU was "the Blocks; his favorite profes- realization that as a freshman sor was Shripad Tuljapurkap, KOHICHIROH UE '96 works for IBM in Tokyo. He is in my mid-forties, I fit right who taught physics. interested in connecting with other alumni in Japan. in with PSU's student body." Johnson and her husband, David Aires MBA '84 is a TADASHI AOYAGI MIM '04, a director of Japan opera­ Robert '48, live in Portland. factory automation manager tions for the U.S. firm E-Z Data, attended the PSU for Imel in Chandler, Arizona. reception November 4 and was thrilled to win a prize. Arthur Buck '79 has been the owner of Tax Services, Inc., Scott Johnson '83 is vice in Tualatin for years. president of finance for Legacy MAKI SHIINA '04 works at the Canadian Embassy in 26 Health Systems in Portland. Tokyo. Johnson's favorite memories of PSU are liverwurst sandwiches SAORI YONEMOCHI MIM '06 works in credit and 1980-1989 at the Smith Hall cafeteria, coll ections with Tenaris NKK Tubes in Tokyo. She also punch cards in Fortran class, attended the November 4 reception. Shelley Hershberger '80, '07 Beta A lpha Psi, and fencing. is a painter and printmaker, TOSHIMARU MORI '08 is a project assistant with In­ who was recently featured in Spec Group, an engineering and construction company the 10th A nniversary Port- land Open Studios Tour. in Tokyo chat also has offices in Portland. Bradford Rabe '80 is a demist in Hillsboro, where he lives with his wife, Trisha '90.

Richard Carson '82 is a senior associate at the Brush Prairie, Washington, office of C itygate Associates, a gen- Diane Carlascio Nudelman ' 85 eral management consulting firm. Carson wrote an essay Diane Carlascio Nudelman titled "Sustainability-The '85 is owner of Ecoswag.com Great Divide" published on and the Swag Connection, ArchNewsNow.com. He also Portland promotional products LEFT PHOTO : Satoshi Maruyama '75 and Kohichiroh Ue '96 enjoy recently interviewed for a Public companies. Nudelman holds a meeting Portland Mayor Sam Adams at the Oregon Bar and Grill in Broadcasting Service documen­ Certified Advertising Specialist Tokyo at a PSU Alumni Association reception November 4. tary, Making Sense ofPlace. designation, which is earned RIGHT PHOTO . Tosh imaru Mori '08; Tadashi Aoyagi MIM '04; by only 10 percent of promo­ Neil Lomax '82 is founder Makiko Dobashi '02 , MIM '04; and Dave Conklin MA '09 also have tional products professionals. and president of ProMax, an fun at the Tokyo alumni reception. event management company

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Diane Lund-Muzikant MS '86 has been a journal­ 1990-1999 ist for over four decades and is rhe creator of The Lund Sandra Drengacz MSW Report, a Web magazine '90 is a clinical supervisor focused on Oregon's health for Looking Glass Youth and care system. Lund-Muzikant Family ervices in Eugene. is also founder and board Drengacz writes, "Joan chair of rhe Rachel's Friends Shireman was an inspiration Breast Cancer Coali tion, to me. She was my adviser which advocates for stronger in rhe MSW program." public health laws to protect consumers from environ­ T.J. Newby '90 is a commer­ mental toxins char can cause cial real estate broker in Lake cancer. She lives in Porrland. Oswego. She is chair of the PSU Alumni Advocates and J.D. Perkin '86 is a ceramic director of the International scu lp tor inspired by rhe hu­ CCIM (Certified Commer­ man form. Perkin recenrly ex­ cial Investment Member) hibited his work at rhe Laura Institute Board of Directors. Russo Gallery in Porrland. David Steinbrugge MBA '91 Cheryl Wilson Fredrick­ is president of Stonebridge son '88 is a small business Mortgage Group in Gresham. coach in rhe Portland area. He reports char his company has received an outstanding Lakshmi Pratury MBA '88 ranking from the state of co-hosted rhe first ever TED Oregon for its compliance (Technology, Entertainment, with state and federal laws. Design) conference in India during November. Pratury John Branscomb '94 is a heads her own business, Ixo­ software quality assurance raa Media, which connects engineer with Barco Medi­ thinkers and policymakers cal Imaging in Beaverton. from India and rhe U.S., Branscomb writes chat his our of M ilpitas, California. favorite memory of PSU is "graduation day, of course." Yolanda Valdes Rementeria '88 is a Portland artist and Hisashi Fujinaka '95, MS instructor specializing in '03 is a technical marketing fine and folk arc. Remen­ engineer in the LAN Access reria was a featured artist Division at Intel in Hillsboro. and speaker for MANA, a national Larina organ iza­ Jessica Rinaldi '95 is an ac­ rion, ar rhe 2009 Annual count resolution specialist for Larina Health and Wealth Microsoft Digital Advertis­ Educational and Training ing Solutions in Seattle. Conference in Virginia. Valerie Pratt '96 is an ac­ Eric Brown '89 is a financial countant for Pratt Weller and adviser for Waddell and Reed Associates, Inc., in Portland. in San Diego. Brown is also secretary for the Greater San James "Jim" Snyder MBA Diego Business Association '96 is an account manager and leads business network­ for the Northwest Evalua­ ing groups in San Diego. He tion Association in Portland. is an advocate for lesbian, Snyder's favorite profes- gay, bisexual, and tran - sor was Scott Dawson. sexual business interests. Jill Stoffers '96 is the director of admissions for the Monterey Institute in Monterey, California.

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WINTER 2010 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 25 Scott Thompson MBA husband, Dan McDonald '98 is a partner at Com- MBA '91, before and while mon Sense Investment attending PSU. Akhriev Management in Portland. recently became a U.S. citizen.

Brian Eagleheart '99 is a private mortgage banking branch manager for Wells Fargo in Portland. Eagleheart's favorite memories of PSU are gathering in the Park Blocks ALUMNI PROFILE during che spring term for CHAD HONL MED '07 debates and participating in the Native American Cultural Awareness Week. His father, Hulett McDowell '92, and The fruits of his labor brother, Tyson McDowell '05, attended Portland Scace. Corie Hammers '01 For Chad Honl MEd '07 there may never be enough trees in Portland. Ellen Franklin MA '99, Corie Hammers MS '01 was A longtime Portland native, Honl received the Bill MA '05 is an adjunct faculty named an assistant profes- member in the English depart­ sor at Macalester College, Sc. Naito Community Trees Award this past October ment at Washington Scace Paul, Minnesota, in December. after he and his class of seventh-graders from Vestal University, Vancouver campus. She teaches in the college's Elementary transformed 15,000 square feet of Women's, Gender, and Sexual­ asphalt at the school into a grass playing field Vivian Weber MA '99 ity Studies Department. bordered by 20 trees and more than 500 shrubs. has owned a vineyard in is the A certified arborist, Honl has always had a passion Dundee since 1975. Terri Silvis PhD '01 director of housing for Catholic for bringing trees to urban areas. While spending Charities' Caritas Housing in time in Bolivia, he was inspired by the abundance of Portland. public fruit trees in poorer neighborhoods. The idea 2000-2009 stuck in his head and upon return he founded the Alex Coffee '02 is director of Heike Mayer MUS '00, PhD Portland Fruit Tree Giveaway-an annual event held business and legal affairs at '03 is a professor in economic Bold Films in Hollywood. in Portland that partners with tree nurseries around geography at University of Bern the city to distribute free fruit trees to needy com­ in Switzerland. Mayer hopes co Antonio Dauria '02 is a flight munities. "My goal was to create a fruitful city," says return to PSU for research and attendant with Delta Airlines, Honl. Now in its 12th year, the Fruit Tree Giveaway collaboration with faculty in based in New York City. Dauria has planted over 25,000 fruit and native trees in the Nohad A. Toulan School of brings food, clothing, and other Urban Studies and Planning. Portland neighborhoods. essentials on a weekly basis co 150 orphaned children in a gov­ For Honl, mixing his arborist skills with the class­ ernment-run home in Ghana. room was a clear path. "I've always known I wanted to be a teacher," he says, adding in reference to the Robert Lee '03, MPA '08 middle schoolers, "I just love the energy. They want is health policy and govern­ to learn, want to be hands on." Hon I sees middle ment affairs analyst with Care school as a time when students can start to see Medical and Rehabilitation Equipment, Inc., in Portland. community needs and take on projects that make a Lee's favorite professor at PSU difference. was Theresa Kaimanu, who, Looking back, Honl points out that the real suc­ he writes, "has proven co be cess at Vestal Elementary was not just a field of dedicated to the lifetime suc­ new grass and growing trees, but the fact that the Zaur Akhriev '01 cess of her students. She is the students "were involved in the entire process, from very definition of a mentor." Zaur Akhriev '01 is an invest­ grant writing to then going out and planting the ment analyst with The Standard Casey Quinlan Hein '03, trees. It was a dream for them as much as a dream in Portland. Akhriev grew up in PhD '08 is a postdoctoral for me. That's the biggest thing I want to leave with Nalchik, Russia, and first came research fellow at Buck institute them-that they can dream it and then create it." co Portland as an exchange for Age Research in Novato, BY TYLER BRAIN student living with Kendal California. Her husband, Mat­ McDonald MA '02 and her thew Hein '01, MA '04,

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is writing, teaching online won the prestigious In- Kristin Benson MS '06 is an of PSU are the PSU Urban PSU classes, and wo rking in ternational Federation for associate registrar at Marylhurst Center, of which she writes, a coffee house. The couple Housing and Planning's University in Marylhurst. "The best people are there!" live in the Richmond district Young Planners Award. of San Francisco. Matthew's Garrett Helser '06 is a cechni- Nicholas "Nick" Carey '07 is a fat her, Clarence Hein '65, is Matthew Hampton MS '05 cal support manager for Helser civi l engineer with Philip Habib a retired PSU administrator. is che senior cartographer and Bros. Transfer Co. in Porcland. & Associates in New York City. GIS specialist for Metro's plan- He enjoys nighclife, running, Steven Schafer '03, MBA '06 ning department in Portland. scuba diving, and spending Shoshanna Cohen '07 is a senior financial systems rime with friends and family. is a public relations and analyse for Nike in Beaverton, Suzanne Nathan '05 is a marketing manager at che and is a principal ac S Squared master's student in social work Katrina Pariera '06 has earned Ace Hotel in Portland. Consulting in Kenmore, at University of Chicago. a master's degree in communi- Washington. Schafer writes cation, culture, and technology Tyanne Conner '07, MS '09 chat he enjoyed the consrant Peter Reader '05 is a retired from Georgetown University. has been accepted into che PhD buzz of being in the heart database designer who has program in sociology at PSU. of the city while at PSU. implemented new software Patch Adam Perryman '06 upgrades for che Multnomah is supervisor of the sterile core Larry Flaig '07 is a cool- Kristopher Dyer '04 is a real County Volunteer Services da- in the south operating room ing project manager fo r the estate broker for Keller Wil- cabase. Reader received a 2009 at Oregon Health & Science new 747-8 Freighter program Ii ams Realty in Portland. Citizen Involvement Award University. Perryman's favorite at Boeing in Troutdale. from the county for his work. memories of PSU were living Maralea Lutino MPA '04 is in Adeline Hall and k nowing Kristin Lewis '07 has been pro- an asset manager at Cacho- Ryan Schowen '05 is a professor Marjorie Burns. mored co senior vice president lie Charities of Oregon. consul cant with che Staser at Wells Fargo in Portland. Consulcing Group in Anchor- Michelle Bowden MPA '07 Jacob BrostoffMURP '05 is a age, Alaska, and a doctoral is a human resources special- Heather Lindsay-Carpenter ci ty planner for che city of Port- student in the on li ne Union isc with the U.S. Fish and '07, MS '09 is an academic land. Brostoff and designer Institute & University. Wildli fe Service in Portland. adviser fo r undergraduates Jaclyn Thomfords recently Bowden's favorite memories at Marylhurst Univers ity in

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Marylhurst. She writes, "I Aron Stephens MPH '07 is a Keyunna Baker '08 has Laotian Community Temple. would not be where I am today program development special­ been honored by the Mult­ Her favorite PSU memories without the support and guid­ ist for the Multnomah County nomah County Department are the 2008 snow days and ance of advisers and student Healch Department in Portland. of Community Justice for volunteering with the Food services faculty members." Stephens served as a community her volunteer work provid- Industry Leadership Center. representative and secretary/ ing individual case manage­ Richard McBreen '07 is a law treasurer on the Commu- ment to youth and families. James Stevens '09 is a volunteer student at Willamette Univer­ nity Health Executive Coun­ with the Multnomah County sity in Salem. McBreen has vol­ cil, which earned her a 2009 Phil Berry '08 is the princi- Department of Community unteered with Rep. Earl Blume­ Citizen Involvement Award pal consultant and owner of Justice, where he does research nauer's and Sen. Joanne Verger's from Multnomah County. Sustainable Product Works in and prepares reports to assist offices. His favorite memories Brooks. Berry's volunteer experi­ parole and probation of- of PSU include reading in the David Vargas '07 is an accoun­ ences include working on social ficers. Stevens was honored Park Blocks and studying in the tant with Vargas & Associates and environmental sustainabil­ by the county with a 2009 Urban Center building library. in Walla Walla, Washington. ity projects in China and India. Citizen Involvement Award. Vargas' favorite professor at Carla Mortensen MA '07 is PSU was Raymond Johnson. Robert "Bo" Bolliger '08 an applied linguistics instructor works in sales and marketing at PSU. Mortensen serves as a Caitlin Villavicencio '07 at Bolliger & Sons, Inc., in In Memoriam board member for the Harvard is the operations and fi- Portland. Bolliger's favorite Club of Portland, Pen Collec­ nance director at Life by memories of PSU include The Denny West '63, a career public tors of America, and as a library Design NW in Portland. Cheerful Tortoise and working servant who headed the Hous­ ambassador and gala volunteer with Trillium Charter School. ing Authority of Portland from for Multnomah County Library. Clare Washington '07 was 1991 to 2001, died Dec. 19 named a PSU John Eliot Allen Suzanne Ward MEng '08 from Parkinson's. Dr. West was Amber Steffes '07 is the new Outstanding Teacher for 2009. is the director of product on faculty in Urban Studies and coordinator of accessibility and Washington is an adjunct marketing and develop­ Political Science from 1968 to disability services at Marylhurst faculcy member in the PSU ment at Schneider Electric in 1974. He served on the alumni University in Marylhurst. Black Studies Department. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. board and various PSU commit­ tees. Dr. West is survived by his Florence Chan '09 is an wife, Sue West '69, MA '70. analyst with Iberdrola Re­ newables, a renewable en­ Eugene Hakanson, profes­ ergy firm in Portland. sor emeritus of psychology, died Nov. 20. For more than Amy Dornfeld '09 was honored 30 years, Dr. Hakanson was a with a 2009 Citizen Involve­ staff psychologist and direc­ ment Award from Multnomah tor of PSU Counseling and County. Dornfeld spent five Psychological Services. weeks in the Department of Community Justice Measure Morton Paglin, professor 11 Unit and worked with the emeritus of economics and Sex Offender Treatment Team. urban studies, died Sept. 14. He was 87. He came to Kassandra Klingler '09 Portland State in 1961. Paglin volunteers with the Mulc­ helped establish a new doctoral nomah County Department program in urban studies at of Community Justice work­ the University. After retiring ing with domestic violence in 1990, he turned his hand offenders on probation and to playwriting. Four of his five parole. She received a county plays had full productions or 2009 Citizen Involvement staged readings in Portland. Award for the work. Loyal "Sharkey" Nelson, for­ Caroline Ngere '09 is in mer Portland State College bas­ the district sales leadership ketball coach and 2001 Athlet­ training program for Frito­ Celebrate the rich history and exciting future of PSU's ics Hall of Farner, passed away Lay in Sourhern California. Lincoln Hall by naming a brand new seat in one of the Aug. 22. He was 96. Nelson newly renovated performance halls. Give this unique gift coached the men's team from Aurianna Philavanh '09 is 1953 to 1965, leading them to to yourself or in honor of a loved one! a safety manager for Franz conference titles in 1955, 1956, Bakery in Portland. Phila­ Go to www.foundation.pdx.edu/seatcampaign and 1959. He coached the fledg­ vanh volunteers with the or contact Judith Minton at 503-725-3396. ling women's team in 1975-76. ■

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28 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE WINTER 2010 THE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL BY DARWIN REVEAL ' 6 0, MBA ' 8 2

I GREW UP in the old South Portland neighborhood. There are a small and diminishing number of us left who attended elementary school at Shattuck, Failing, or Sc. Lawrence Parochial, and high school at Lincoln. Urban renewal and Portland State had a huge impact on the neighborhood. Like many ocher Portland State graduates of chat era, I was the first person in my immediate family to graduate from high school much less college. I might not have gone to college except for the opportunity to live at home and walk to CALL FOR 1970 MEMORIES school. Also, being One-A with the drafr board, In May 1970, student protests against the it seemed like a great idea. I had the $65 to pay Vietnam War and the killing of students the first quarter tuition and enough for books. at Kent State closed the campus and set Five years and three major changes lacer, I PSU students against each other and graduated. I landed a good job and was lucky Dar Reveal from the the city. Events escalated into a bloody enough to do well, raise a fine family, have a Viking '57 yearbook. confrontation between students and the great career, and retire comfortably. I am an local police. What are your memories of associate professor emeritus with Oregon Health & Science University that time? Please contact Kathryn School of Dentistry. It turns out the affordability and convenience of Kirkland, editor of Portland State Portland State paid me great dividends. Magazine, at [email protected] or I now live in Flagstaff, Arizona, where my wife, Marjorie MBA '87, 503-725-4451. is chair of the Northern Arizona University Deneal Hygiene program. All of my children are either in college or have graduated, and we intend to carry on that family tradition. When I return to Portland, I always visit my old neighborhood: the Park Blocks and the PSU campus. ■

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