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2 LE TT ERS 6 FAN FARE Why we love Portland On Campus: Capturing che Where have all che geroncologiscs gone? Irish soul and sound Lee's remember former film program Autistic couple write book on daring 3 AROUND THE PARK BLOCKS Jazz as a calJing An encyclopedia for us all New Works Fifty invaders find a pathway Helping children a world away 18 ATHLETICS What's new: centers and programs Big Sky Champs! Prized for business innovation Viewpoint: Do company green 20 GIVING reports maccer? Honoring new pioneers of philanthropy

21 ALUMNI CONNECTIONS Save che dare for PSU Weekend Alumni cum out for basketball champs

22 ALUMNI NOTES A lawyer in che making Green on top

29 LOOKING BACK Lincoln Hall co close, but che show will go on

ON THE COVER Enthusiasm reigned as the men's basketball ream won che Big Sky Championship March 12 in Portland's Rose Garden Arena. See srory on page 18. Cover photo by Troy Wayrynen and photo below by Steven Brenner.

SPR ING 2008 POR TL AND STATE MAGAZINE 1 PORTLAND LETTERS STATE MAGAZ I NE Why we love Portland access to the information or received SPRING 2008 / VOL. 22 NO. 3 an invitation to participate (my program did The article "Age-Friendly Portland" (winter not) , but the real question may be, where EDITOR 2008 magazine) was another example of have all the gerontologists gone? Kathryn Kirkland why we love Portland-more so perhaps Thank you to Dr. Neal for raising the COPY EDITOR when you live elsewhere. gerontological bar and reminding all of Martha Wagner Dr. Margaret Neal's and student Alan us that there is lots of work to be done. DESIGN DelaTorre 's work with the World Health Leslie Watkins Organization on assessing the age-friendli­ Kelly Niles-Yokum '96, MPA '98 EDITORIAL OFFICE ness of the city demonstrates an important Director ofG erontology Studies 325 Cramer Hall piece of planning that is lacking in other cit­ PO. Box 751 Cofleges ofWorcester Consortium ies across the country. Although some folks Portland, OR 97207-0751 Worcester, Massachusetts 503-725-4451, fax 503-725-4465 talk about "elder friendly" planning and the [email protected] need to plan for che dramatic population ADDRESS CHANGES structure changes coming when 78 million PSU Alumni Association Baby Boomers lurch into lace life, few com­ Let's remember former www.alumni.pdx.edu click on "update your info" munities are doing the serious work needed. film program or call 503-725-4948 Even fewer are actually listening ro today's le is excellent news that PSU is developing ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE elders or involving them in planning efforts, a new film major (winter 2008 magazine). Pat Squire MPA '95, I wonder if Portland's reputation as a Congratulations, it's clearly time to Assistant Vice President livable city or its history of participatory Simon Benson House acknowledge the importance of media in PO Box 751 planning is the reason that Portland was the our culture. Let's remember, however, that a Portland, OR 97207-0751 only American city involved in this effort? PSU film department is not new. From the 503· 72 5-4948 [email protected] lace 1960s into the 1980s, PSU's Center for Donna L. Wagner '75, MUS '78 the Moving Image (CMI) was one of the ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS Professor and Director of Gerontology Gerry Scovil '65, MS '68, President finest film departments in the country. Kori Allen '84 Towson University CMI was created and led by two extreme­ Jeff Austin '77 Towson, Maryland ly talented individuals: Andries Deinum Gary Barth '86 Donna Derington '79 and Thomas T. Taylor Ill. Deinum worked Charles Dunn '01 in Hollywood as an assistant to Fritz Lang, Jerry Gordon '68 Where have all the Li nda Hamilton '90 Alfred Hitchcock, and others. He eventu­ Behzad Hosseini '96, MBA '97 gerontologists gone? ally turned his talents toward scholarship M arshal Jevning '96 and taught film at University of Southern Korn, Kalevor '88 As a doctoral-trained gerontologist, I was at California. Today there is a plaque in USC's Bi ll Lemman, Vanport, DHL '04 once excited by the winter magazine story, Gina Leon ·95 Cinema Department commemorating Pro­ "Age-Friendly Portland," and also quite sad­ M 11ica Markovic '04 fessor Deinum's contribution to film study Kendal McDonald MA '02 dened. The excitement comes from knowing and acknowledging the school's complicity Terry Pinnell 'O 1 chat PSU and its Institute on Aging are par­ Ann Takamura MPA ·97 with House Un-American Activities Com­ ticipating in such projects in my hometown. Chilrisse Tooze '94 mittee in terminating him. Ba rbara Ve rchot MPA '97 The sadness is basic but profound. Could Rick Watson MBA '00 Taylor, a superb documentary filmmaker, it be true that Portland was the only city in Cathy W1l l1ams '56 left an active international career to organize Angela Wykoff '72, MS '75, '80 the nation to participate in something as and run che production side of PSU's important as che World Health Organiza­ Center for the Moving Image. The program tion's Age-Friendly Cities project? launched careers for a hundred or more ALUMNI AMBASSADORS Not only should Portland serve as a Jon Jalali '67, MBA '7 1, Medford students, including my own, Dennis Olson '68, MS '80, Pendleton model to other cities as they consider the Cathy Williams '56. Sisters aging of their citizenry, but Portland State Bifl Bowling '79 University and Margaret Neal and her stu­ Portland State Magazine is published Worldwide Locations Executive dents should serve as an example for other three times a year, during fall, winter, Warner Bros. Pictures and spring terms Contents may be gerontology programs. I realize that not Burbank, California reprinted only by permission of the every gerontology program may have had editor. The magazine 1s printed on recycled paper. Portland State University 1s an affirmative action I equal opportunity 1ns!Jtut1on. Portland State Magazine wants to hear from you. E-mail your comments to [email protected] or send them to Portland State Magazine, Office of University Communications, PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207-0751. We reserve the right to edit for space and clarity.

2 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE SPR I Small white and red flags blanket the Park Blocks for an Iraq Body Count Exhibit that came to campus in March. The display is mesmerizing in its beauty and sober message: Each flag represents five Iraq War casualties-at least 655,000 Iraqi deaths and 3,972 American casualties.

◄ An encyclopedia for us all

PORTLAND STATE IS partnering with Oregon Historical Society to create an online encyclopedia of"everything or anyone in Oregon." Under the guidance of history Prof. Bill Lang, a Web site was launched-now it's up to all Oregonians to flesh out the information. At www.oregonencyclopedia.org, people can suggest entries or write actual submis­ sions. There are guidelines asking that entries be significant to Oregon, and nothing will go live until experts review content and check it for accuracy. 1he Oregon Encyclopedia already has information on Japanese internment, KBOO radio, and the Lewis and Clark Exposition, to name a few entries. The volunteer organizers of the new resource are also actively seeking information. They plan to The Lewis and Clark Exposition held in Portland visit about 30 communities in Oregon during the next year. in 1905 is one of the many events to be included Lang hopes this community outreach will make people "aware of what's important in the new online Oregon Encyclopedia. (Photo about their places and encourage them to put their own energies into some of the 25137 courtesy of the Oregon Historical Society) entnes.. " 1he Oregon Encyclopedia should be ready for the state's sesquicentennial next year, but Lang and the other editors, Rick Hardt and Linda Tamura, want the project to live on, with continuous updates and revisions.

SPRING 2008 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 3 AROUND THE PARK BLOCKS

Asian clams and 49 other plants and animals have invaded our waters, pushing out native species.

Children living in an orphanage in India are benefiting from new caregiving practices developed by PSU Fifty invaders find educators. a pathway ..... TH E TINY, lacy crustaceans look Helping children a world away innocuous, but they are invaders, say scientists surveying nonnative aquatic THE CIRCLE OF ADULTS, including PSU's Christine Chaille, rolled a ball back animals and plants in the middle and forth as a sad, suspicious-looking group of children watched. The children live Columbia and lower Snake rivers. in an orphanage in Chennai, India, and play is not a normal part of their day. They The survey, conducted by Portland eventually joined in and ended up sitting on adult laps, smiling and laughing. Scace and University of Washington "Ir was a magical moment," says Chaille, education faculty, who was in India chis scientists, documented 50 species winter with Frank Mahler, a teacher in PSU's Helen Gordon Child Development introduced in the rivers, including three Center. The pair was testing their curriculum, which includes introducing more crustaceans not reported previously. playtime, for a Pordand-based nonprofit, Hands to Hearts International. Funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Usually, early childhood programs focus on developmental milestones, but Chaille ervice, the survey found fish, such as and Mahler's model empowers parents and caregivers by reaching chem to change the common carp and eastern brook the way they nurture, care for, and interact with children on a day-co-day basis in trout, the most frequendy introduced developing countries. species. The list also include aquatic "International aid organizations are already contacting us to discuss how they can plants, mollusks, worms, and more crus­ use our curriculum co train caregivers in their own early child health programs," says taceans, all brought to Northwest waters Laura Peter on, Hands co Hearts founder and director. since the 1880s. Often nonnative animals and planes are introduced to waterways through commercial ship hulls and their ballast water. Bue chis study, which was con­ ducted farther up both rivers, discov­ ered chat these invaders were brought What's new? in through wildlife enhancement and '(he University recently added new centers and programs of statewide interest. intentional stocking of fisheries. "Oregon has come a long way in ■ Oregon Translational Research and Drug Development Institute (OTRADI) addressing the aquatic invasive species ■ Center for Design and Innovation for Business and Sustainability issue in ballast water, bur chis study shows we have a lot more work to do," ■ Health Care Management Leadership Certificate program says Mark Sytsma, PSU director of the ■ U.S. Geological Survey Oregon Water Science Center Center for Lakes and Reservoirs and main investigator on che project. For the full report, visit www.clr.pdx.edu.

4 POR TL AND STATE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 Viewpoint: Prized for business innovation Do company green reports matter? T OYOTA IS THE ONE globally suc­ School of Business Administration faculty Darrell Brown and Score Marshall cessful business char H. Thomas Johnson are studying why corporations disclose their environmental policies, even chinks all U.S. companies should emu­ though it is nor required by law. Having looked at company repor~s and. late. Thar idea, and the reasoning behind 10-K filings for the past six years, me professors are presentmg their findmgs it, has earned the PSU accounting at a Global Reporting Initiative conference in Amsterdam in May. Brown professor international awards, including shares their research. the Deming Medal from the American Society for Quality. Q: What kind of voluntary environmental According ro Johnson, instead of information are corporations providing? being driven co meet preconceived A: The disclosures range widely, from green­ financial targets, Toyota's chief concern house gas emissions co hours of employee is co nurture the relationships connect­ environmental training co whether a ing its employees, customers, suppli ers, company has a sustainability director. and rhe communities they inhabit. The Deming Medal comes on rhe Q: How do companies benefit by heels of an award for Johnson's book revealing these faces? Relevance Lost: The Rise and FaLL of A: We found char investors in companies Management Accounting, co-au chored char disclosed more environmental informa­ with Robert Kaplan. The book received tion, demanded slighrly lower returns than an American Accounting Association investors in companies char disclosed less. Seminal Conrribmion co Accounting Darrell Brown, a professor of Literature award---one of five ever given. accounting in the School of Busi­ Q : What does rhe consumer gee our of it? ness Administration, studies com­ Johnson, who has caught at Portland A: Actually, it is investors who benefit by pany environmental disclosures. Scare since 1988, is also a two-rime having a better understanding of how a recipient of cl1e prestigious Shingo business operates. I do nor like co speculate, Research Prize for Excellence in Manu­ bur it is possible char investors find chat a willingness co provide voluntary facturing. He was named one of the environmental disclosure is a signal of good management. 200 leading management thinkers living today in a survey published by Harvard Business School Press in 2003. ■ ,,.

Accounting Prof. H. Thomas Johnson recently won the pres­ tigious Deming Medal.

SPRING 2008 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 5 Autistic couple write book on dating

LOVE HAS NO BARRIERS . That's what Jody John Ramey MA '05 and Emilia Ramey '07 have found. Despite having Asperger syndrome, a lighter form of autism, the Rameys met and fell in love while studying at Portland Scace. "Emilia volunteered on campus at the Disability Advocacy Cultural Association, where I had an office," recalls Jody. "We had just started dating a couple of weeks. I had been doing a lot of presentations around the world on disability-related topics and dance. I thought it would be cool to write something about dating for autistics for an upcoming conference on autism. Emilia thought I was nuts. 'What do we have to tell anyone?'" But Jody, 35, persisted and won Emilia, 33, over to his way of thinking. Shortly after giving their dating for autistics talk at several conferences, Jody proposed chat they expand their ideas into a book. Fortunately, the romance between Jody and Emilia was blossoming. We starred daring at the beginning of2006 and got engaged during spring break," says Emilia. "During the summer we cook marriage prep classes and ABOUT THIS PAGE We want to hear about your books and recordings were married Labor Day weekend." and your future exhibits, performances, and direct­ Now the Rameys have written Autistics' Guide to Dating, a 128-page book ing ventures. Contact the magazine by e-mailing published by London-based Jessica Kingsley Publishers. The subtitle stresses [email protected], sending a fax to 503-725-4465, rhar the book's audience includes ''Autistics and Those Who Love Them or mailing to Portland State Magazine, Office of University Communications, PO Box 751, Portland or Who Are in Love with Them." OR 97207-0751. "We break down our relationship into some of its component parts and extrapolate what worked for us and what didn't work for us," says Jody. Communication is an important topic of the book. Nonautiscic people can

6 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 New Worl

THE UNDERCOVER Pl-I -OSOPHER: A GUIDE ~o DETECT NG 5t1AMS,

By Michael Philips (philosophy emeritus faculty), Oneworld Publications, 2008

Photo by Zachary Kaufman/The Columbian By R.J. Archer '75, NWIDI Press, 2008 pick up on nonverbal cues such as facial expressions more easily chan autistic people. BtlNlJ AND PLACE" AMONG "Double-checking with each ocher helps co avoid assumptions," remarks Emilia. "If someching comes up, where you are not sure what che ocher By Thomas Thornton (anthropology person means, then you should ask." faculty), University of Washington Press, The book also deals wich sensory issues, because most autistic people are 2008 hypersensitive. 'Tm very sensitive co couch," says Jody "That means chat I like co be - , . ·-· 1r couched in specific ways. In che book we talk about how co find a way coward By Michael Hollister (English emeritus friendly couch co che person who is couch-sensitive." faculty), AuthorHouse, 2007 The Rameys hope char cheir book inspires ocher autistics. "Every chapter has a call for action," explains Emilia. "We'd like ocher D autistics co start celling their stories. We know of ocher autistic couples who have been married longer chan us and we'd like them to share cheir stories CD by Darrell Grant (music faculty) and as well." BY JAM ES BA S H ocher jazz artists, Origin Records, 2008

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By Joe Spooner '68, Arnica Publishing, Jazz as a calling 2008

MERCER ELLI NG T O N , che son of Duke Ellington, made a big impression MARK TWAIN DAY BY DAY: on Ben '01 and Michelle '01 Medler when he came to Portland in che mid- ---J --- 1990s. Ellington wanted to work with an all-star jazz youch ensemble, but By David H. Fears '71, Horizon Micro Portland didn't have one. Publishing, 2008 At the rime, the Medlers were artiscs­ in-residence teaching jazz at Wilson S NGll\iG AND MAGINATION High School. The opportunity to work OF DEVOTIO!\J VOCAL AcSTHETICS with Ellington was coo good to miss. So, IN EARLY ENGLISH PROTESTANT chey put cogecher a temporary all-state C L-' R- high school jazz band. le was a success. By Susan Brown MAT '90, Paternoster, Years lacer and jobless, che Medlers 2008 used chat experience to start che Port­ land Jazz Youth Orchestra, where they are adept ac getting students before live Michelle '01 and Ben '01 Medler are By Joshua Fost (university studies faculty), audiences, including che Portland Jazz founders and directors of the Portland Clearhead Studios, Inc., 2007 Festival. They offer group and individual Jazz Youth Orchestra. classes at four levels ranging from sixth THE TOO TALL KANSAS grade co college. Michelle specializes in saxophone and plays all of che woodwinds, while By David J. Marks '78, MST '86, '93, Ben specializes in trombone and covers che brass instruments. Boch of chem MAT '94, Xlibris Press, 2007 play piano and drums, which comes in handy for cheir own gigs wich Quadraphonnes, the Medler Big Band, and che Trombone Encounter. "We are so busy chat we rarely have any time off," says Michelle. "Bur we are making a living as musicians, and it's been great." BY JAMES BA s H ■

SPR ING 2008 PORTLA ND STATE MAGAZINE 7 Tom Potiowsky keeps tabs on industries that make a difference to Oregon's economy: (top to bottom) WTD Industries stud mill in Tillamook, engineering education at Portland State, Klondike Wind Turbine near Wasco, and metal production at Wah Chang in Albany.

8 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 THERE'S A LOT riding on the forecasting abilities of Oregon state economist Tom Potiowsky. In May of odd years, Potiowsky and his staff in the Office of Economic Analysis compile a tax revenue forecast that state policymakers and department heads use to plan the state's biennial budget. If his predictions are too high, the legislature might have to meet in special session to cut programs. If they're too low, the state is obliged to give money back to Oregon residents in the form of a kicker tax rebate check. Potiowsky, who is also a Portland State economics professor, must like the work-he's in his second appointment. Potiowsky first held the post from 1999 to 2005 and was reappointed by Gov. Ted Ku ­ longoski in January of this year. Currently on leave from Portland State, he returns for the occasional lecture and teaches classes through the Oregon Executive MBA, a joint program of PSU, Un iversity of Oregon, and Oregon State University. Affable and approachable, Potiowsky has an uncanny ability to explain complex economic concepts. He recently took time away from studying the state's economic indicators to ta lk with Portland State Magazine about recessions, the controversial kicker process, and other matters economic.

Q: What is the economic prognosis for Oregon? I look for things such as a drop in personal income levels, or a loss of jobs across all sectors, not just concentrated in one. A: If the country goes into a deep recession, Oregon will If rhe unemployment rate were rising, all chose things rogecher be in recession too, but not as deep. In absolute terms, Oregon would make you want to say you're in recession. Bue because is already experiencing a slowdown in economic activity, but you're looking backward, you're probably well into a recession we should weather this downturn better than we did in 2001- by the time you actually demarcate one. 2003.

Q: Where is rhe state losing and gaining jobs? Q: Why do you think Oregon will do better this time around? A: If we look over the longer term, outside the present A: In the 2001 recession, Oregon entered early because the business cycle downturn, jobs are increasing in all sectors of leading edge of the slowdown was rhe high-tech sector. That's Oregon's economy. However, manufacwring has grown slower not the case today. Although all sectors have slowed, we are than either our service or public sectors, which is the case seeing some resiliency in health services, metals and machin­ across the nation. ery, and information, which includes software publishers. The manufacturing sector in Oregon is seeing growrh in Exports also are keeping our head above water. machinery and metals-the latter being an interesting bright The fact is, no two recessions are alike. While the burst- spot. For example, Oregon companies are helping to satisfy ing of rhe high-tech bubble triggered the 2001 recession, chis an increased need for titanium for new aircraft and also for time around, the bubble is housing. Industries with a strong zirconium for chemical processing plants, especially in China. tie to housing are feeling the pain, including wood products. In addition, we have seen growth in local manufacturers such The wood produces industry is really struggling right now, as Precision Castparts and railcar maker Greenbrier. We may but because Oregon is more diversified than it was in, say see an increase in firms devoted to products associated wirh the 1970s, we're less affected by the downturn in rhat sector. sustainability, such as SolarWorld and Soliacx. Three decades ago, chis kind of housing meltdown would have Within the service sector, healrh care has been one of rhe spelled disaster for Oregon. It isn't now. fasting growing areas, adding jobs even during recessionary rimes. In the public sector, local government has been the fastest growing. Q: Is it difficult to predict, or call, a recession?

A: Ir's kind of foggy at rhe national level. The National Bureau Q: The subprime lending mess and rhe resulting rise in home of Economic Research sort of says what rheir definition is, bur foreclosures has been blamed for many of the nation's econom­ they have to meet about it and come to a consensus. There's ic woes. How is Oregon's housing marker holding up? not some trigger chat says, "Ah, now you're in recession."

SPRI NG 2008 PO RTL AN D STAT E MAGAZIN E 9 Agriculture, including hops production (left), is a major industry in Oregon, with more than 80 percent of all products grown in Oregon exported, as seen here from a grain silo on the Columbia River.

A: The hou; ing sector is correcting, and housing permits are Q: Wouldn't it make everyone's life easier co forecast high and dramatically down. avoid the kicker? Bur we're in much better shape than many other parts of the United States. Although our foreclosure rate as ofJanu­ A: Actually that would make life harder. If my office predicts ary was in the middle of the state ratings, we had one of the more tax revenue than the state actually brings in, the govern­ ment is spending more than what it has available, and you lowest foreclosure rares in the nation throughout 2007. We are have co have special sessions of the legislature co fix it, such as seeing a drop in house prices in Oregon, but it is likely char it will not be as dramatic or last as long as in other areas of the in 2001. country. A forecast chat's on the money (sorry for the bad pun) allows the governor and legislators co work out the budget details us­ ing the forecast as a planning cool. The situation is better today Q: Lenders have tightened their standards in response co the with some budgetary buffers in the form of the Educational problems created by years of doling out easy money, including Stability Fund and the Oregon Rainy Day Fund. subprime loans. Will chat affect more than housing? Statistically speaking and especially over a two-year period with a tax revenue source as volatile as ours, making a 100 per­ A: Possibly. The danger is char the subprime mess will spread cent accurate prediction is a near impossibility. If you're within co ocher financial areas, making it difficult co gee car loans, 5 percent you're actually doing very well. small business loans, and lines of credit. If chis happens, then Oregon will feel the downturn just as badly as any other state. Q: What's PSU's economic role as rhe state's urban research university? Q: As an economist, do you find yourselflooking at something like the subprime meltdown and thinking, "The weakness here A: Pordand State provides a much broader economic impact has been evident for a while, why are people surprised?" then just providing jobs and buying local resources. The scare needs co have a well-educated workforce and its citizens need A: Well, yeah. But often it only becomes obvious in hindsight. co be able co obtain that education, hopefully, at an affordable When things ace booming-like the real estate marker of the price, close co home. PSU fills that educational role, as well last decade-people get caught up in the euphoria. They hear as being a resource for the community. For example, PSU's stories about people making money by buying homes, fixing College of Urban and Public Affairs has been a guiding force them up, and flipping them back on the marker, and they want in the region's land-use planning process, and in chat way has co jump in. Everybody loves the idea of getting rich quick. It's helped anchor Pordand's reputation for sustainability. the same thing we saw with the stock market in the 1990s. There is a good working relationship that goes back and During the high times, you tend co tune out srories about the forth between the city and the university. As the profile of money people lost in the stock market, or lost in real estate. Portland goes up so goes up the profile of Portland State.

Q: What is your role in the state kicker tax rebate process, and Q: So, after you're done with the state economist job, ace you could you explain that process? coming back co PSU co teach again?

A: Every other year at the close of the legislative session, my A: My ultimate goal is ro come back co PSU. I can't say office forecasts the tax revenues for the next biennium. enough about the place. They've been so good co allow me If actual revenues over the biennium come in 2 percent or a leave of absence, and so I'll do anything I can for PSU. higher than our forecast, the excess is refunded co households Whenever they call, I jump. ■ and credited co corporations. In 2007, the state paid out more than $1 billion co individual Oregon taxpayers in the form Dan McMillan is a Portland freelance writer. of a kicker.

10 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 Prof. Melody Rose is director of NEW Leadership Oiagon in Portland ~tale's Mark, Hatfield School of Govemmerit. che nacional average wich 31 percenc wide office, Secrecary of Scace Norma jusc building up my resume." women, buc che scace is losing ics only Paulus; and che firsc woman co serve on The 2004 conference ended up being woman in che congressional delegacion, Oregon's Supreme Courc, Juscice Beccy so much more for DeVries. Darlene Hooley, which pucs Oregon in Robercs. Sue Hildick, currenc advisory She was pare of a small group assigned league wich such scaces as Alabama and board chair, was che youngesc legislacive che cask of finding a grassroocs approach Mississippi. direccor in Congress when she served in co address hunger. Ac che end of che To increase che numbers, Rose Sen. Mark 0. Hacfield's office. In Occo­ week, each group argued che case for believes chac more women muse look ber, che NW Womens journal named cheir proposed policy in a mock press ac policies as a viable career opcion. She six NEW Leadership Oregon board conference. decided co see whac she could do. members co ics lisc of 100 Mose Powerful "You build up a policy presenca­ Working wich a program ac Rucgers Women in che Norehwesc. cion," says deVries, "hear women calk Universicy chac seeks co educace women abouc cheir experiences in civic leader­ abouc public service careers, Rose RU 8 8 ING SHOULDERS for a week ship. Then co go co che capicol, where escablished an affiliace chapcer ac Pore­ wich chac kind of firepower can be life Gov. Barbara Robercs gave us a guided land Scace. changing-ac lease ic was for Sarah cour-I don't know how you can bear The resulc is PSU's Nacional Educa­ deVries '06. rhac. Ir makes you realize char chis is cion for Women's (NEW) Leadership= When deVries firsc heard abouc che where it happens, and it's porencially Oregon program. Each year, NEW annual conference, she figured she mighc where I could make a change." Leadership Oregon mixes 30 or so col­ pick up some basic leadership skills. "I Robercs, who helped escablish the pro­ lege women wich women policical and choughc ic would be a run-of-che-mill gram ac PSU, has served on the faculcy business luminaries for a week of incen­ leadership camp," she says. "lnspiracion­ and advisory board since the chapter's sive scudy, necwork building, and skills al speeches, chings of chac nacure." inception. She even was a faculcy mem­ developmenc-learning, in ocher words, DeVries had incerned in Porcland ber in residence, living in the dorm with whac ic cakes co be a leader. Mayor Vera Katz's office and wich the pareicipanrs during che first conference. The faculcy and board is a long lisc Portland Developmenc Commission, For her, che experience has been reward­ of supernovas, including Oregon's firsc buc she says, "I really hadn'c choughc ing. woman governor, Gov. Barbara Roberes; of running for policical office or whac "These young women-politically and Oregon's firsc woman elecced ro scace- a pach in public service could do. I was philosophically all over the map from conservative to liberal-were listening "Ir has definitely shaped che direction 20 women from each cohort, I chink to former legislators, governors, supreme of my life," says de Vries. "I had never you'll find they had the same exact court justices, and others talk abom ever considered a career in public ser­ experience." ■ developing public policy," says Robem. vice. Now I know that my community "How you rake an issue and become an volunteer activities are the way I wane Melissa Steineger, a Portlandfreelance advocate and develop the nuances. They my career co go-serving the commu­ writer, wrote the article "Producing, were gercing public policy instruction nity in some political capacity. And my Using, Saving"for the winter 2008 char I don't know char I ever got ac chat experience is not unique. If you talk to Porland Stace Magazine. level in quire char way. Ir really is an incredible experience. In my day it was an impossible experience." As a result, Roberts says, women who go through the program may enter policies younger and reach higher levels earlier. Ulrimacely, she says, rhe com­ munity "wins" by dine of che more equal representation in rhe body politic. After hours, participants and faculty rubbed shoulders informally. "We played all kinds of silly games-competitive games, funny games-everyone laughed and had fun," Roberts says of the rime she stayed in the dormitory with stu­ dents. "And I slept in maybe the worse bed I've slept in since I was a child."

RE 5 UL TS FROM che first four years of conferences indicate che program is working. Before and after surveys show chat more women consider becoming involved in public service or political office after the conference, says Rose. Alumnae are running legislative can1- paigns, lobbying, running for office themselves, or working in che upper echelons of political campaigns. "I can't go to che capitol," says Rose, "without running into one of our alum­ nae." She hopes co expand the program to include high school girls and working women. Among alumnae with capitol connec­ tions are Andrea Cooper, consticuency director of the Oregon Democratic Parry; Amy Goodall, associate director of governmental affairs for the Oregon Medical Association; and Blair Larkins, congressional aide for Oregon U.S. Rep. Greg Walden. The conference was more than a one-week interlude for deVries, who now serves as an alumnae representative on rhe advisory board. She and ocher participants stay in couch through Web sites and liscservs, and meet socially every q uarcer.

SPRING 2008 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 13 Pushing for Fairness

WRITTEN BY LISA LOVING

"EXPERIENCE A MOVIE that will make you believe anybody can change the world." So reads an advertisement for Music Within, an award­ winning film about somebody who made a difference: former Portland State student Richard Pimentel. Newly released on DVD, the independent movie tells Pimentel's story, from abused child to deaf war veteran to talented PSU student to champion of the Americans with Disabilities Act. It stars Ron Livingston as Pimentel, and Hector Elizondo as the late Ben Padrow, beloved PSU speech professor. Pimentel, now a successful trainer and motivational speaker on diversity issues, returns to Porcland Stare June 14 to give the spring commencement address. He wants to be clear on one thing. "Please don't just consider my life to be an example of someone who went our and overcame adversity," he says. "I consider myself someone who was lucky enough to run into people who taught me, helped me, and allowed me to do the things I wanted to do-pretty much right here on the Park Blocks." Yer Pimentel did indeed overcome adversity on his way to Portland Scare. He persevered through a childhood of abuse at the hands of his mentally ill mother, including stints in a local orphanage. After graduating from Jefferson High School, it was his dream to study public speaking under Ben Padrow. Padrow was a legend. As coach of PSU's 1965 College Bowl team, he and his students set scoring records on the nationally televised quiz show and returned to campus as champions. Bur after meeting Padrow and auditioning for entrance to the Speech and Hearing Department, Pimentel was in for a shock. "He told me I was the smoothest, most accomplished speaker he'd ever heard, bur I was pretty much full of crap," Pimentel says. "I was all show and no substance. I should go our and earn a point of view, and come back when I was ready." So Pimentel walked away from Portland Scare and enlisted in the U.S. Army. He went to Vietnam and, within months, a mortar arrack left him almost completely deaf. ------In moving his own life forward, Richard Pimentel improved the lives of disabled people everywhere.

PIMENTEL RETURNED co Portland in 1970andenrolled in a vocational rehabilitation program for returning soldiers. His goal still was co become a professional speaker, bur Veterans Administration officials declined his application on the grounds that no deaf veteran had ever succeeded in such a career. Embittered, Pimentel decided co vent his frustrations co Padcow. The young vet marched into the professo r's office and shouted that he would never be able to achieve his dream; he'd gone our into the world and come back disabled. Padrow laughed. It rums our cl1ar pan of rhe Speech Department's mission was speech therapy for deaf people. "Padrow cold me, 'You bet you can learn co be a public speaker."' With Padrow's backing, Pimentel secured the rehab grant from the VA co pay his full tuition, room, and board. He starred dreaming big again, and then someone-Arc Honey­ man. '65, MA '74-came into his life and set his dream in a whole new direction. Music Within is almost as much about Honeyman, who has cerebral palsy, as Pimentel. Critics have hailed British actor Michael Sheen's portrayal of Honeyman. His flailing and funny one-liners are a huge departure from his roll as Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1he Queen. Pimentel and Honeyman first met in the PSU cafeteria. Honeyman was alone, struggling co drink a Coca-Cola. "I went up co him and said, 'You appear co have a Coke problem.' I opened his Coke. Then I said, 'Don't try co talk with me; I'm deaf. I can't understand you. I read lips, and l ifl read chose lips, I'll get seasick.' "Then I turned co walk away, and the most marvelous thing happened. He grabbed me and started talking co me. No one can understand Arr, because he makes all these strange noises. But guess what? They were within my hearing range." And Honeyman threw a zinger right back at Pimentel. He said, in reference co his cerebral palsy, "You better wash your hands. Ir's contagious." A friendship was born. The young vet marched into the professor's office and shouted that he would never be able to achieve his dream; he'd gone out into the world and come back disabled.

ONE NIGHT, Pimentel and Honeyman went our for a mid­ ers as well as workers. Government agencies and Fortune 500 night snack at the Pancake House, one of their favorite spots. companies acknowledged Pimentel's program as The regular waitress had been replaced by one they'd never a breakthrough for disabled people in the workplace. mer. "This waitress had never seen Arr or anyone like him; she BY THE MID-l 980s, Pimentel found himself in the middle just stared," Pimentel recalls. "Finally, she said, 'I can't believe of a new kind of civil rights movement, and he had the ear that something like you would come someplace where people of national figures, including Clarence Thomas, then chairman are trying to ear. I won't serve you because I don't even know of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. if you're a human being.' Pimentel became an important spokesman for disabled work­ "And she ended by saying, 'I thought people like you were ers, and years later, for people living with AIDS. He was able supposed to die at birth.' to motivate people on every side of the debate, building "I was stunned; I didn't know what to say. And Arr turned a network rhar included the abled and the disabled, as well to me and said, 'Why is the waitress talking about you this as liberal and conservative political figures. way? I don't think you look any worse than you usually do."' When the Americans with Disabilities Act-the Emancipa­ By sunrise, the two were in jail under rhe "Ugly Law," which tion Proclamation for the disabled community-was signed until the mid- l 970s allowed the arrest of anyone in public into law in 1990, Pimentel was publically thanked by the chair who was considered so "maimed, mutilated or diseased" that of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for their appearance was upset­ educating employers on disability ting. issues. "Ac one rime I wanted ro Passage of rhe Act was a huge be che youngest corporate vicrory, Pimentel says, bur now vice president in America," he's seeing his life's work come full Pimentel says. "Bur with that circle: disabled veterans are again his incident I became intolerant number one priority. Thousands are of discrimination." returning from Iraq and Afghanistan Pimentel approached with even more severe disabilities Leonard Cain, professor of than Vietnam veterans experienced. sociology. "I asked him, how He is designing a fresh training do I fix this? Dr. Cain said, program for rhe employers of this 'You can mobilize the dis­ new generation of disabled veterans. ability community, bur only "The movie is really important in if they know they are drawing attention back to the issues a community.' right now for the young men and "Ar that point I switched women returning from war," from debate ro sociology." Pimentel says. As a sociology class proj­ "Bur if one thing has become ect, Pimentel asked US Bank perfectly clear ro me, it's that my life and Tektronix ifhe could story was nor abour me at all. Ir was train supervisors on disabil­ about the people who tried ro help ity issues to see if it would me along the way-and to some affect employment rares degree, rhe ones who tried ro harm for disabled people. Ir did, me as well." ■ significantly. Pimentel rook his training program on the Lisa Loving is a Portland freelance At the Portland premier of Music Within, actor Michael Sheen (top, road, spending a decade crav­ writer and community radio host. left) talks with Art Honeyman, whom he depicts. Richard Pimentel eli ng coasr-ro-coasr educating (bottom, center) gets a chance to discuss the movie with its star, tens of thousands of manag- Ron Livingston (right), and producer Brett Donowho.

16 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 , Thomas Fink '71 Intel Corporation/ Julie Young Outstanding Friend of Intel Foundation MSW '93 Athletics President's Award President's Award for University President, for Outstanding Magnacorp Philanthropy Advancement Award accepted by Community volunteer Morgan Anderson, Education Relations Manager

Michelle Girts '83 Pierre Ouellette '69 Melody Rose, Ph D Outstanding Alumni Outstanding Alumni Distinguished Faculty Award Award Achievement Award President, EnTranRight A founding member of Founder and Director, LLC; former VP and Area KVO Advertising and NEW Leadership Oregon, Manager, CH2M HILL Public Relations; Chair, Division of Political published author Science, Mark 0. Hatfield School of Government Big Sky Champs!

THE GREATEST MOMENT in Portland State men's basketball history rook place March 12, when the Vikings defeated Northern Arizona, 67-51, in the Big Sky Conference Championship game at the Rose Garden Arena. The Vikings, who were also Big Sky regular season champions, earned a first-ever berth in the men's NCM Division I basketball championship in Omaha, Nebraska. They lost co the eventual 2008 National Champion, Kansas, 85-61, but the Viks finished with a 23-10 record-the best in school history. All this winning earned head coach Ken Bone the 2007-08 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year, and Jeremiah Dominguez Player of the Year. ■

18 PORTLA N D STATE MAGAZINE SPR ING 2008 SPRING 2008 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 19 John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and longtime Ohio senator, shares his thoughts on the importance of education and research at the 2008 Simon Benson Awards Dinner.

Honoring new pioneers of philanthropy

ASTRONAUT AND STATESMAN John Glenn was the keynote speaker at the ninth annual Simon Benson Awards Dinner April 1. The Portland State event hon­ ors outstanding citizens whose generosity and leadership affect the lives of genera­ tions of Oregonians. Michael Reardon, interim PSU president, presented the 2008 awards ro Sam Wheeler and to Gwen Burns and family. Jeff G ianola and Kelley Day ofKOIN News 6 served as emcees. The evening raised more than $200,000 for the Fund for PSU, which supporrs scholarships, faculty, and programs throughout campus. Wells Fargo provided lead support for the event, and rhe Frederick D. and Gail Y. Jubirz Foundation was an Top photo: Gwen Burns, her sons Bruce associate sponsor. To see the full list of sponsors, visit www.pdx.edu/giving. and Scott, and her daughter, Heather Burns The event is named for Simon Benson (1851-1942), an innovator in the Pacific Eagon, are honored for their multigenera­ tion commitment to community service and Northwest timber industry and a generous public benefactor of Oregon causes. ■ philanthropy. Bottom photo: Sam Wheeler, president of the Wh eeler Foundation, receives recogni­ tion for his many contributions in support of children and youth, education, social services, and arts and culture throughout Oregon.

20 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE SPRI NG 2008 SAVE THE DATE for PSU Weekend, October 17-18, with keynote speaker Paul Theroux, American novelist and travel writer best known for The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Alumni turn out for basketball champs Through Asia (1975) and the novel The Mosquito Coast(1982). On the left, Gerry Scovil '65, Alumni Association president, wears his Viking pride. To the rig ht, fans David Keys '81, MBA '92, and Kelly Keys were among the more than 300 Alumni Association members and other PSU supporters, who turned out for a pre-game reception at the Rose Garden Arena on March 11 as the Vikings faced Idaho State in the semi-final game of the Intel Big Sky Men's Basketball Tournament.

PSU fans gathered March 11 and 12 to cheer on the Viks in the Intel Big Sky Men's Basketball Tournament at the Rose Garden Arena . The Viking men went on to win in a 67-51 vic­ tory over Northern Arizona earning PSU its first ever trip to the NCAA tournament. Washington, March 4: rter is a former Outstanding Alumni Award recipient.

SPRING 2008 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 2 1 ALUMNI NOTES COMPILED BY DONNA HARRIS '07

1956-1959 of the American Society of 1970-1979 Julie Edmister '72 has been Civi l Engineers and the Water appointed dean of the Bower The Class of 1958 is planning Environment Federation. Dick Adamek '70 has been in Suhrheinrich College of Educa­ a 50th reunion co include charge of planning the 50th tion and Human Services at the classmates from 1956, 1957, and John Wendeborn '66 produced anniversary party for the PSU University of Southern Indiana. 1959! Gary Coats is chairing his 10th jazz event in November chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon. Edmister was ac Bowling ch e event, scheduled for 0cc. co ra ise funds for Jazz Studies TKE is che oldest national Green Scace University, where 18, during PSU Weekend. in the Depa rtmenc of Music. Greek letter organization on she was an administrator and Dick Matcovich and Nancy His 2007 Vocal Madness Show, campus. The fraternity has 610 professor in the department Hogerton Ebsen are working held in Portland, raised more alumni members. The 50th of educational administra- on a possible wine cour for che than $1,000 for Jazz Studies. party is scheduled for May tion and leadership studies. reunion. Also hard at work 17 at McMenamin's Ken- are Pete Grundfossen, Jim Adele Heinrich '68 was ap­ nedy School in Portland. Basko Kante '73, MPA '95 McGee, Jim O'Dea, and Kay pointed executive director of retired as an aud itor with the Mills Piacentini. you'd like If the Greater Poulsbo Chamber Norman Fosback '70 has Oregon Department of Trans­ co gee involved, e-mail Coats of Commerce in Washingron devoted his career co develop­ portation. He now volunteers at [email protected] and watch state. Heinrich has served as ing investing techniques and for the Refugee Reception & your mail for more details. lodge administrator for the strategies. Fosback's firm, Placement Program, which is Poulsbo Sons of Norway. Fosback Forecasts, Inc., pub­ helping African immigrants Elia Harmon '58 retired in She previously worked in li shes Tnsider Trading Guide and in Porcland and Southwest 1983 from Waluga Junior High advertising for 19 years. Fosback's Fund Forecaster. He Washingron. He has li ved School in Lake Oswego, where lives in Boca Raton, Florida, in the Portland area sin ce she continues co volunteer W. Dan Manassau '68 has been with his wife, Myrna. 1983 with his wife, Muna. twice a week at che front desk elected co che board of directors or researching and compil- of Scar One Credit Union. Ma­ Theodore "Ted" Lawson MST Joe Menashe '73 is the in g budget information. nassau lives in Milpitas, Cali­ '70 has retired from the state of managing principal broker for fornia, with his wife, Michelle. California Employment Devel­ the Broadway branch of the opment Department. Lawson Hasson Company Realtors. 1960-1969 Andre Craan '69, MS '71 is was a certifying officer for the Menashe previously was the the senior assessment officer and federal tax credit program and realror branch manager for manager of the disinfectants Hasson. He li ves in Port- Richard "Dick" Pugh '64, the Work Opportunity Tax unit of Health Canada's Bureau Credit program. He is now land with his wife, Elissa. MST '71 is a field scientist of Gascroenterology. Craan lives in Porcland Stace's Geology working as a consultant. His in Saint Lambert, Quebec. wife, Shirley, is also retired. Molly Larson Cook '74 has Department. As an expert in established che Skylark Writing meteorites, Pugh became Curtis Heath '69, MST '76 Studio in Langley, Washingron, particularly interested in the Thomas Trebelhorn '70 is retired as principal of Centen­ field manager for the Sa lem­ on Whidbey Island. She leads local Willamette meteorite nial High School in Gresham. writing workshops and retreats fo und in 1902, and one of its Keizer Volcanoes baseball club. Heath is now working part time Trebelhorn is a former Major and consults on and produces discoverers, Bill Dale, who as a supervisor for student teach­ literary performance events. disappeared after che d iscov­ League Baseball manager, hav­ ers at Porcland Scace and Con­ ing coached such teams as the ery. Pugh tracked down Dale's cordia University. He lives in John Gardin MS '75 was unmarked grave in Baker City Milwaukee Brewers, C hicago Gresham with his wife, Sandra. C ubs, and Baltimore Orioles. appoi need clinical ass is cane and is now crying co purchase a professor at Oregon Healch headstone co give Dale his due. Trebelhorn received the out­ Joseph LeBaron '69 was standing alumni award in 1991. & Science University. Gardin nominated in February by Presi­ is also director ofbehaviorial James Gilmer '65 is an engi­ dent George Bush co be U.S. health and research ac Alcohol neer and senior associate in the David Fears '71 has a new ambassador co Qatar. LeBaron, book out tided Mark Twain, & Drug Abuse Prevention & Porcland office of David Evans a career diplomat, served for Treatment and administra­ and Associates, Inc. This year Day by Day: 1835-1885. Fears three years as ambassador co che has written the first fully an­ tor at SouthRiver Medical Gilmer is serving as president Republic of Mauritania before C linic, both in Roseburg. of the American Public Works notated, day-by-day chronol­ being named foreig n policy ogy of Twain's li fe. The book Association Scholastic Fou nda­ adviser at che U.S. Special Jim Lommasson '75 was cion. He is a life member of is published by Horizon Micro Operations Command in 2006. Publishing. Fears lives in Banks. selected as one of 10 artists co chat association and a member receive a stipend in the New

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American Arc Union Couture Mike Richardson '77 signed 1980-1989 Westhusing leads rhe city's '08 project. The New American a three-year production and summer youth programs is a contemporary arr gallery in distribution agreement between Michael Horowitz MUS '80, and spring break events for southeast Portland. Lommas­ his company, Dark Horse PhD '81 has been promoted to children ages 11 w 16. son, a phowgrapher, has won Entertainment, and Uni- university director at theAtenisi wide acclaim for his photos on versal Pictures. Richardson, Institute in the K ingdom of D avid Leibbrandt '83 has the culture of boxing gyms, who founded Milwaukie-based Tonga in the South Pacific. been named president of the many of which appeared in his Dark Horse Comics in 1986, Portland-based engineering firm 2005 book, Shadow Boxers. created the enterrai n ment Ji m Bernard '82 is mayor of Murray, Smith & Associates, company in 1992. Ir has pro­ Milwaukie. Bernard worked in Inc. Leibbrandt joined the firm Nancy Gold man '76, who duced such hits as 7he Mask, his family's business, Bernard's in 1985 and has overseen many has finished her last term as Heflboy, and Sin City. Heflboy Garage, for years. He also water, wastewater, stormwater president of the Hardy Plant II will be in theaters in July. volunteers for many organiza­ and transportation planning de­ Society of Oregon, is leading a tions, including rhe Milwaukie sign projects for the region's mu­ garden tour to Germany, Hol­ Bill Bowling '79 is the world­ Sunday Farmers Markee. nicipalities and public agencies. land, and Belgium: "Beyond the wide locations executive for Tulip and the Garden Gnome," Warner Brothers Pictures in Marianne Fitzgerald '82 Sepe. 7-15. Goldman has led Burbank, California. Bowl- is an air quality manager numerous garden tours. For ing has worked as a location with Oregon's Department information, call 503-224-5718. manager in over 80 countries. of Environmental Quality. During the 1970s, he taught in Fitzgerald has worked for DEQ Rosanna Bowles '77 estab­ P U's Center for the Moving for nearly 30 years and plans to lished a Seattle-based tableware Image. He says, "The decisive retire once she completes her company, Rosanna Inc., over 25 time in my life was the student current project, writing rules years ago. Today the company's radicalism of the 1970s." for a greenhouse gas reporting produces are sold worldwide and system. She lives in Portland generate annual sales in rhe sev­ Brian Henry '79 is chief with her husband, Thomas. en figures. Bowles remains pres­ financial officer and executive ident of the company and travels vice president of Cray Inc., a Jim Westhusing '82 is David Leibbra ndt '83 the world looking for new supercomputer manufactur- youth coordinator for the designs to introduce each year. ing company in Seartle. city of Auburn, Washington.

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Laura di Trapani '83 is Carol Feuss '87 has been Marc Thornsbury '89 is Elise Wagner '95 exhib- owner and an imator of Film appointed director of develop­ the new executive direc­ ited her encauscic paintings di Trapani in Portland. D i ment at Lansin g Christian tor for the Port of Klickitat at Butters Ga ll ery in Port- Trapani has been producing School in Lansing, Michigan. in Bingen, Washington. land in March. The show award-winning advertising, Feuss has worked with both the was tided "Particle Maps." independent films, and educa­ Michi gan Nurses Association Wagner li ves in Portland. tional work since 1990. She is and Michigan State University also an adjunct facu lty member College of Nursing. She is cur­ 1990-1999 David Allen '96 is a certified at Portland State reaching 2D rently pursuing a master's de­ public accountant with Cooper animation and time arts. gree in counselin g from Grand Ronald Farnsworth '92 has Norman in Boise, Idaho. Rapids Theological Seminary. been promoted to executive vice Allen audits retirement homes Linda Johnson Eki '85 has president and chief financial and hospitals, and specializes been hired as assistant state aud­ Dennis Hahn '87 is the owner officer ofUmpqua Holdings in tax planning and finan- itor for the Washington State of ID Branding, an advertising Corporation and Umpqua Bank cial statement preparation. Auditor's Office in Walla Walla. agency in Portland. Hahn is also in Portland. Farnsworth was an adj unct professor at Portland previously Umpqua's senior Bill Masei '96 is new head Mark Funasaki '86 has been State. He li ves in Sherwood. vice president of financial footba ll coach ar Dallas High named executive vice president integrity. He lives in Scap­ School in Dallas, Oregon. and chief administrative officer Bennett Hall '88 has been poose with his wife, Toni. Masei was head footba ll coach of Whitehall Jewelers, Inc. named special projects editor for at North Bend High School on Funasaki works in corporate the Corvallis Gazette-Times and Jon Yamashita '92 is vice the Oregon coast. He and his headquarters in Chicago. H e the Albany Democrat-Herald. president of surveying for wife, Tobi, have three children. was vice president of strate- Hall was the business editor for the engineering consulting gic planning and business both papers prior to his new firm MacKay & Sposito, Inc. Chris Haberman '97 shows his development at Fred Meyer appointment. He li ves in Cor­ Yamashita has worked for the art, which is painted on fo und Jewelers, Inc., in Portland. vallis with his wife, Carla Jean. firm since 1992, when he was obj ects, ar restaurants, business­ a Portland State student. He es, and art gall eries in the Port­ Donald Odermott '86 Kathi Wiley Gladson '89 lives in Vancouver, Washing­ land area. His work wi ll be in a is a transportation plan- celebrared a 10-year milestone ton, with his wife, Sonya. show ar Rake Gallery, 325 NW ning engineer for the city of with the Weight-lifting Book Sixth in Portland, in June. Hab­ Hillsboro. He lives in Banks Club, which she established RourkeWendeborn'94 erman is also a musician and an with his wife, Regina. and reaches at the C lark works for A-dee, a dentistry accompli shed writer and poet. County YMCA in Vancou­ equipment manufacturer in Richard Roper MBA '86 has ver, Washington. Gladson Newberg. Wendeborn's father Melvin Riddick '97 has been been appointed operations believes that her strength is John Wendeborn '66. selecred as a program speciali st manager for Standard Build­ training program is "doable for rhe city of Portland's Office ers upply in Salt Lake City. for any group of women in any Deirdre Lorenz '95 has of Cable Communications He lives in South Jordan, space." She and her husband, produced her first independent and Franchise Management. Utah, with his wife, Colleen. Don, have been married fo r 18 feature film, Felix and Alex­ Riddick lives in Portland. years and live in Va ncouver. andra, through her produc­ Eileen Webb '86 has joined tion company, Thira fi lms. Brian Snodgrass MUP Vista Engineering Technologies, Jin Lan '89 is president and a She lives in New York City. '97 is president and CEO LLC, in Kennewick, Wash­ board member of the Oregon­ of Sequoia C ustom Homes. ington, as a sen ior geologist. Fujian (China) Sister State Asso­ Desmond Mollendor '95 will Snodgrass is also a profes- Webb recently co mpleted her ciation in Portland. Lan is presi­ serve as general manager once sional warerskier and performs second term as a board member dent of Occaxias Corporation, a Hotel Modera opens on South­ in rhe Portland Warer Spec­ for the Oregon State Board of government relations firm that west Fifth and C lay streets. tacular Show. H e and his wife, Geologist Examiners; she also has employees in Beijing. He Mollendor and his partners Darcy, have three children. se rved as board chair for one li ves in Vancouver, Washing­ at Posh Ventures, bought the year. In addition, she is the ton with his wife, Hong Liu. old Portland Inn City Center Robert "Bob" Ekblad MBA editor and co-author of the and are transforming it into '98 is rhe new chief financial Geology Report Guidelines. Nancy Ellen Rawley '89 is an upscale boutique hotel. officer of Columbia Commer­ community outreach coordina­ cial Bancorp and its subsidiary, Renee Cleland '87 sang at the tor for the Jefferson High School Reber Stein '95 is a member Columbia Community Bank, Oregon Symphony's 90th birth­ cluster. The cluster includes of the Sitka, Alaska, Long based in Hillsboro. Ekblad was day concert in October for Jefferson's Young Men's and Range Planning and Economic executive vice president and Norman Leyden hcL '06, for­ Young Women's academies and Development Commission. chief financial officer of Town mer director of the symphony's eight neighborhood elementary Stein is particularly proud of Center Bank. In 2007, he was Pops Series. C lel and was a mem­ school . Rawley lives in North his involvement with issues named Portland Business journal ber of the Leyden singers after Portland with her husba nd, related to afford able hous- chief financial officer of rhe year graduating from PSU. She li ves Steven, and their two child ren. ing. He has li ved in the Sitka among small private companies. in West Linn with her husband, area for nearly 30 years. Thane, and their two children.

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David Missal MBA '98 has Metz has been a remote hiker been appointed acting chief since che age of 10. He plans ro information officer and senior write a book about his experi­ technology consultant for EMC ence. He li ves in Roseburg. Corporation, a manufacturer of information management Jesse Cornett '01, MPA '03 has and storage software and been hired as interim assistant systems. Missal is assigned ro the president for Government ro rhe aerospace and defense Relations at Portland Scace. division of EMC in Colorado Cornett serves as rhe li aison Springs, Colorado, where he between PSU and elecred and lives with hi s wife, Michelle. government officials. He has worked for Oregon Secretary Linda Maizels MA '99 is rhe of Scace Bill Bradbury and new community outreach coor­ U.S . Rep. Ea rl Blumenauer. dinaror for che Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Stud­ Keith Hobson MPA '01 has ies ac Portland Stare. Maizels been appointed chief finan- was instrumental in founding cial officer ofWashingron rhe Judaic Srud ies program as a County. Hobson was assistant graduate student. She recently general manager for Tualatin spent five yea rs in Israel and Hills Park and Recreation rhen returned ro PSU as an District. He lives in Beaver- adjunct faculty member before ron with his wife, Lisa. being selected as coordinator. Devon Brooke Clasen '02 is Robert "Bob" TardiffMPA a freelance writer in Las Vegas, '99 served as interim cicy man­ Nevada. C lasen writes a month­ ager of Newberg through April. ly column for So Vegas, a local Tardiff had retired as Newberg's fas hion magazine. She is also a Become a card-carrying police chief and moved ro Texas. restaurant reviewer fo r DineLV member of the PSU com and a crea tive writer for events companies in Las Vegas. Alumni Association! 2000-2007 Caleb Gostnell '02 has been se lected as the lead physical sci­ David Arnold '00 has produced entist fo r the National Oceanic and acced in The Dodo Bird, and Atmospheric Administra­ a play by Emanuel Fried. The tion in Seattle. Gosrnell wi 11 Gate Theater Group of Chiang work in the Center for Opera­ Mai, Thailand, produced rhe tional Oceanographic Produces play. Arnold is an English and Services. He pent more reacher in Chiang Mai. than five years in Washingron, D.C., engaged in nautical Julia (Nystrom) Holsti charring hydrographic work. '00, MEd '07 has been reaching business and tech­ Kathleen Mansfield '02 is nology at Sheridan High credit manager ac che New School in Yamhill County York headquarters of Wyn it, on line at www.alumni.pdx.edu since September 2007. Inc., a national disrriburor of JO IN consumer electronics. Mansfield or call 503-725-4948 Gretchen Kafoury MPA lives in Manlius, New York, '00 has been appointed ro with her husband, Michael. the Housing Authority of Portland's Board of Oirec- Mary Cunningham Moller rors. Kafoury spent 20 years '02 has been hired as federal in elected office and recently relations associate for che Office retired from a PSU faculty pose. of Government Relations ar Portland Scace. Moller lives in Dave Metz '00 hiked 600 Porcland with her husband, PSUAlumni mi les across northern Alaska Christopher Moller '01. with his Ai redale dogs, Jimmy Association PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY and Will , chis past summer.

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Cynthia Swan '02 is a health Jolina Kwong '03, MS '06 is education coordinacor in the the coordinator for the Ronald Tobacco Cessation Program E. McNair Scholars Program at for Providence Health Ser­ Portland Scace. Kwong guides vices in Portland. he and her undergraduate student scholars husband, Charles "Chip" in their research and grad school Dunn '01 , live in Milwaukie. application processes. Kwong is also pursuing a degree in Katherine Winning '02, MEd che Educational Leadership '04 teaches Spanish at Summit Doctoral Program at PSU. High School in Be nd. Winning is married co Todd Schweitzer William "Evan" MacKenzie '04, who teaches physical MUP '03 is planning and education for che Redmond zoning administrator for the School District. They both are city of Ontario. MacKenzie pursuing doctorates in educa­ says, "Planning in rural Eastern tion at George Fox University. Oregon really can lee yo u do everything you wanted to do Kelly Wright '02 is an event in school." H e mer his wife, specialise for Legacy Health Christine, while they were both System in Portland. Wright students at Portland Scace. organizes fundraising events for Good Samaritan, Merid­ Kyra Ngo '03 is the hu­ ian Park Medical, and Mount man resources adminis­ Hood Medical Center founda­ trator for First American tions. She previously worked Title's Northwest/Mid-Central in special events at Sc. Mary's Division in Portland. Academy in Portland. Benjamin Pinkowitz '03 owns Scott Burge '03, former Launch Pad gallery in southeast Viki ngs mascot at PSU from Porcland. In addition to A transformation made possible 1992 to 1996, was honored at showing arc, che ga ll ery serves "Scappoose Day" at che PSU as a community gathering by your support football game against rival place, helps che disabled, Weber Scace. Burge was named and offers low-cost arc Your gift to the Portland State Annual Fund provides honorary captain for the game. classes and workshops. scholarships for deserving students and supports the H e is mayor of Scappoose. faculty, departments, and technology that make their Lowell Wetzel '03 is a quality education possible. Give to the Annual Fund Brad Fletcher '03 is an adver­ process analyse fo r che emer­ tising account executive in gency medical preparedness today and transform Portland State students into suc­ Phoenix for National Cine­ office at The Regence Group. cessful alumni who will make a difference in our world. Media, a provider of Wetzel lives in Aloha. Give what you can-every gift counts. in-cheater advertisin g services. Sarah Whitney '03, MEd Give where you want-choose a program or scholar­ Seniye GroffMEd '03 has '04 received the Crystal Apple ship you feel needs your support. opened a new Portland business, Award from the Salem-Keizer Groff Solutions, to provide School District. W hitney was Give green! Giving on line is an exce ll ent way to sup­ companies with employee one of seven teachers in the port Portland State and promote sustainable practices. recruitment, orientation, men­ district co be honored with the toring, and job training plans. award . She is a former PSU Jane Wiener Alumni Scholar. Make your annual gift on line today! Jason Hinkle MS '03 helped I www. foundation. pdx.edu evacuate che city of Woodson, Christine Campbell Brous­ Oregon, minutes before a seau MPA '04 has been named landside covered many pares of executive direccor for Camp che town in December. Hinkle Fire USA-Central Oregon in is a geocechnica l specialise with Bend. Brousseau is also an the Oregon Department of executive committee member Forestry. Geology Prof. Scott for the Bend Chamber Young Burns, Hinkle's former adviser, Professionals network and vice sa id, "Lives could have been lose president of education for the in the disaster if Hinkle and his Bend Chamber Toastmasters. crew had not acted when they did." Hinkle lives in Portland.

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Ruth Ann Brown '04 has esrabl ished a special a rciscs' stipend project called Courure ar her Southeast Portland gal­ A lawyer in the making lery, New American An Union. Using $80,000 of her own CALL SABA AHMED '04 precocious. She completed high school equivalency at age money, Brown has awarded 10 15 and at 19 finished Portland State with a double major in electrical engineering and anises $8,000 each to produce and exhibit rheir most challeng­ physics. ing work at New American. She married at 20 and will complete her law degree at Lewis & Clark College next spring. At 23 years old, the Portland resident is a manager Natalie Gunn MM '04 sang for Imel Corp., which she joined in her third year at PSU, with che Oregon Moza rt Players and where she continues to work part time. in December. Gunn has also performed with the Pordand As if work, school, and marriage are not enough, Ahmed Baroque Orchestra, rhe Colum­ was in her native Pakistan in December with a group of bia Symphony Orchesrra, and American attorneys and law students to monitor elections che Portland Scace Opera The­ in that troubled country. She was a few blocks away on the ater. She has won several awards day opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. during her career, including the "I was so scared," admits Ahmed, who also was shocked Narional Opera Association first-place awa rd for her perfor­ at how "people are so used to bombings and suicide mance in PSU's Don Giovanni. attacks." Ahmed started life as a member of an upper-middle-class Ryan Hunter MURP '04 is family with high expectations of its children. Her father an assisrant planner for the was a mathematics professor, her mother a chemist. Ahmed Jefferson County Department says that she, her two sisters, and brother were given two of Community Development in Washin gton state. He lives in career options: medicine or engineering. Law, she explains, Pore Townsend, Washington. doesn't carry the cachet it does in America, and it is not a profession Pakistani women usually enter. Alisha Moadab '04 is a practic­ But in her final two years at PSU, Ahmed met two ing intern at the Narural Healrh Portland patent lawyers. "They motivated me to go to law Saba Ahmed was in her native Cencer in Portland. Moadab school," she says, after they talked about the 8exibility and Pakistan in December with a is in her fourth year of srud- family-friendly time commitment of that specialty. Ahmed group of attorneys and law ies at the National College of students monitoring elections. Narural Medicine in Portland. settled on that path in her senior year, but chose to con­ tinue working for Imel and take a break from school. Nannette Luomanen My- Today, she enjoys law school and is working as an ers MS '04 is a marriage and extern for Oregon Supreme Court Justice Virginia Linder, which she calls "very excit­ family counselor, chemical ing." Ahmed is glad she visited Pakistan, where she had hoped to live in the future, but dependency counselor, and lead counselor for an in-paciem drug returned sobered about its prospects. and alcohol rreacment center "Portland is a great city," she says, "and I am very fortunate to be here." operared by Lifeline Connec­ ■ BY CLIFF COLLINS tions in Vancouve r, Washington. She lives in Vancouver with her husband, Brian, whom she married in December.

Kori Barnum MA '05, BS Clark County Jail Work Cencer Andrew Epstein MPH '05 placoon leader in the U.S. '06 is a forensic scientist ar the in Vancouver, Washington. is the school policy coor­ Army and is starioned in Iraq. Oregon State Police Forensic She has a nine-year-old son. dinator for the American Laboratory in Clackamas. Lung Association of Oregon. Sarah Heinicke MURP '05 is Barnum, who firsr scarred ar Katie Harman Ebner '05, Epstein lives in Portland. a sustainability adviser in the che lab as an intern in 2003, crowned Miss America while Portland office ofBrighcworks, analyses evidence from crime a PSU srudent in 2002, lives Mathew Dennis Green- a company chat helps developers scenes. She lives in Portland. near Malin, Oregon, with wood '05 is an estimator and and ochers integrare principles her husband, Tim, a nd their safety coordinator foe Valley of sustainability into their work. Nikki Costa MPA '05 is a young son, Tyler. Harmon Pacific Construction in Donald, Heinicke advices cliems who Washougal, Washingcon, city srill sings professionally and Oregon. He reports chat his are developing green buildings. councilor. Cosca is also a work travels about twice a month brother, Thomas Eric Green­ center facility commander at the for rehearsals and shows. wood '06, is a first lieutenant

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Angela Nusom MSW '05 is Vicki Lynn Wilson MFA Day of Panhandling for Repara­ fellowship, she worked with Sen. a school-co-work coordinator '05 had her work tided "Ms. tions. Volunteers asked white Blanche Lincoln from Arkansas. at the Centennial Learning Natural Disaster 2007" featured passers-by co pay reparations Center, an alternative school for at the Helzer Art Gallery at for enslaving black people, Jeff Bailey '07 is in Azerbaijan, middle school and high school Portland Community College's and rhey gave money co black a former republic of the Soviet students in Oregon's Centennial Rock Creek Campus. Wilson's passers-by. Each got a receipt. Union, servi ng in the Peace School District. Nusom is work­ work encompasses sculpture, Corps as an English education ing on her doctorate in educa­ i nsrallarion, and performance Laura Devine MBA '06 has vo lunteer. Bailey, a 23-year-old tional leadership at Lewis & and has been featured at the been promoted co director of native of Coos Bay, has also C lark Coll ege. She lives in Port­ Deitch Projects Art Parade in human resources for Williams taught English in Seoul, Korea. land with her husband, Julius. New York City. She reaches Controls, a manufacturer of at PCC Sylvan ia and the electronic th rattl es for com­ Bill Beers '07 and Doug Katie Jay Scott '05 is on staff at Art Institute of Portland. mercial vehicles. Devine Heredos MBA '02 competed Stop Genocide Now, a nonprofit works in the company's in the Alcan 5000 Winter based in Los Angeles. Scott Molly Woon '05 is the Portland headquarters. Ra lly in February. They drove founded the Portland Coali­ principal media contact in the public roads from Kirkland, tion for Genocide Awareness Oregon Senate Majority Office, Karen McCarty '06 is Washington, north through while she was a student at PSU. where she has erved as outreach executive administrator for the Yukon and Northwest She lectures on global issues of coordinator for the past year. KOIN News in Portland. Territories, ending in Jasper, genocide caking place in Africa. Alberta. The event is nor a race Damali Ayo MFA '06 is a Port­ Brenda Sulick PhD '06 is but a rest of driving stamina, Mark Simpson '05 is a sea ff en­ land-based performa nee artist director of federal health policy reliability, and navigation. The gineer with Murray, Smith and who brought art and social at the Alzheimer's Association first-time Alcan Rally com­ Associates, Inc., Engineers/Plan­ issues co Portland streets-and in Washington, D.C. Sulick was petitors placed 12th overall and ners. Simpson li ves in Portland. streets in 20 other scares-in the 2006-07 national recipient second in class. Beers is a design October, when she recruited of the John Heinz Senate Fel­ volunteers to hold a National lowship on aging. During her

Green on top

ERIN AL TZ '06 is trying to save the world-one rooftop Born and at a time. raised on the She just may do it. Altz exudes creative ideas to spare, the Hawaiian - - - most prominent being a concepr she has based a business on: island of Edible Skylines. Its mission is so new, even Pordanders well Oahu, Alrz versed in greenspeak may not have heard of the term rooftop came to agriculture. Porrland Alrz looked around and saw ecoroofs sprouting everywhere Scace to study downtown, and wondered, "Why not grow edible plants on psychology. roofs?" Out of chat-and a serendipitous job she obtained She expanded by writing a grant for a charter school char wanted a rooftop her perspec­ vegetable garden-Edible Skylines was born. tive after rhe Ir is an effort, she says, to solve multiple challenges in one devastating Erin Altz started a company that designs and plants fell swoop. designing and implementing rooftop vegetable In events of9/l l edible eco-roofs. gardens, she hopes restaurants, schools, and businesses can to include a grow their own food and save on both the financial and eco­ societal con- logical costs of transportation. She has received media atten­ sideration and worldview. tion for a garden she installed above Rocket restaurant on East She became interested in globalization and issues related to Burnside. population growth, the consumption of fossil fuels, and "what "Erin is a pioneer in a field char has enormous potential," we can do to mitigate these problems," she says. says Steve Cohen, of the city of Portland's Office of Sustainable "I've always felt chat I could change rhe world and make a Development. "As we see our city become more dense, there is difference. I really saw the potential to create change, even on this amazing potential for using rooftops for growing food." an international level." ■ BY c LI FF co L LIN s

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engin eer at Daimler Trucks support speciali st in the PSU Jordan Oathes '07 has estab­ Sam Snow '07 is a partner ar North America and Heredos is Office of Alumni Relations li shed a national Web site at Eco-Floors by Darius, Inc., a program manager at Radysis. and li ves in Portland with her ehelpinghand.com to connect a new green business in Port­ Boch businesses are in Portland. rwo sons, Brandon and Jacob. se rvice providers such as plumb­ land 's Brooklyn neighborhood. ers, movers, or cleaners with Snow opened che business with Lorena Juarez '07 has been clients. He also provides a place co-owner Darius Shoemaker. hired as a training and educa­ on the Web site for clients to "Since humans spend about 90 tion spec iali st by Portland rate the performance of service percent of their ti me indoors," General Electric in Portland. providers. He li ves in Tigard. says Snow, "we want to improve indoor air quality by install- Summer Mattern '07 is an ac­ Sara Olsen MIM '07 has ing eco-friendly produces." cou nc coordinator at ID Brand­ started her own business, Sara ing, an advertising agency in Olsen Consulting, to help Siyonna White '07 is working Portland. While at PSU, Mat­ nonprofits, NGOs, and small for Self Enhancement, Inc., a tern was a member of the stu­ busi nesses wirh grant writ- youth development organiza­ dent advertising teams chat cre­ ing and scare-up procedures. tion serving Portland inner-city Bill Beers '07 and Doug Heredos Olsen lives in Gresham. children and their families. MBA '02 ated award-winning campaigns for Cadillac and oca-Cola. Christina Robinson MS '07 D a'Love Woods MS '07 is Bryce McDonnell MPH '07 is the new principal at Holy playing professional basketball Donna Harris '07 was ap­ is co-founder of Lab Coat Family Catholic School in for Leipzig, a team in Germany. pointed to the Oregon Commis­ ln novacions, a provider of Milwaukie. Robinso n began Woods is averaging 22 points, sion for Women. Harris has software chat allows doctors to working ac the school in 1990 7.5 rebounds, 7.0 ass ists and se rved on the Portland Stace collect clinica l data from their and has served as vice principal 3.5 steals per game. In the off­ Pres ident's Commiss ion on the patients. McDonnell and hi s and as a sixth grade teacher. season, she lives in Portland. ■ Status of Women for the pas t partner run the busin ess from three years. She is an executive their Portland-area homes.

Looking Back

LINCOLN HALL TO CLOSE , BUT THE SHOW WILL GO ON

BEG INN ING TH IS SU MM ER , major remodeling of Lincoln Hall will close che 1912 building and ics performance spaces for che next rwo years. The curtain will still rise for Porcland Scace music and theacer productions at friendly venues close co campus. Please check ac www.pdx.edu/fpal for all performance derails.

2008-09 Mainscage Theater Performances Fall and Wincer: ART Second Scage, 1515 SW Morrison Street Spring: Winningstad Theacer, 11 I 1 SW Broadway

2008-09 Think Lincoln Tuesday Noon Concerts and Performance Attendance Thursday Noon Recical Series The Old Church, 1422 SW llchAvenue

2009 Spring Opera Productions Sc. Mary's Academy, 1615 SW Fifth Avenue

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