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"I've enjoyed the concerts on campus so often that it was a real I was born in Portland 95 years ago and have lived here most of my life. Of course things have changed since then' I remember when pleasure to help the horses used Lo pull the fire engines and streetcars. It's fun Lo see the streetcars Music Department come back-even without the horses. acquire additional A mutual friend introduced me to my husband, Taylor, a traveling salesman at the time. Ke was a Portland native, too, but he never wanted Lo live in the pianos. city. He had Lo have acreage around him. We had 17 acres off Cornell Road, and Taylor had a small orchard, a vegetable garden, a few sheep, and even a tractor. He liked to hunt and fish; he was a real outdoors person. We also used Lo have a caule ranch in Eastern Oregon, 50 miles from Joseph, which we visited as often as we could. The Wallowas are gorgeous. (Be sure to visit Hat Point the next time you're out that way.) We loved the Steens, too. In fact, it always seemed like there wasn't enough Lime to travel around Oregon as much as we wanted. When Taylor died in 1985, I moved downtown. Everyone said I wouldn't like it, but l took to it like water. Thats when I really got interested in Portland State. lL was just across the street, and I saw students all of the time. After a while it struck me that maybe they could use some help. lts not easy Lo support yourself, pay for college, and keep good grades all al the same Lime. Taylor and I had been Viking fans ever since the days when June Jones and Neil Lomax played football at PSU , but I'm more interested in womens athletics (even though I never played in anything but the corner ball game growing up). Its all women in my family. l had five older sisters. That's why when I decided to contribute to the Vikings, I designated my scholarship gift for women athletes. I also love music. l know nothing about it, but I love it. A friend got me started going to the Piano Recital Series at Portland State several years ago. l've enjoyed the concerts on campus so often that it was a real pleasure to help the Music Department acquire additional pianos. Giving our money­ Taylor's and mine-has made everyone so happy, including me. I thought about putting our money into a trust or a foundation, but l decided that l could give iL away myself, now, and through my estate plans. l have enough to get along on, so l might as well have the pleasure of giving it away. Its brought a new life to me. cAlice cAlexander Co N TEN Ts FEATURES

A Democratic Middle East? 6 EDITOR Distinct history, politics, and social customs-not Western-sLyle Kathryn Kirkland page 16 democracy-dominate this region. CO TRIBUTORS Nicole Ramsey, Douglas Swanson, The Accidental Writer 10 Jean Tuomi, Manha Wagner DESIGN CONSULTANT The comic twists and turns of one man Terry Daline discovering his niche. EDITORlAL OFFICE 325 Cramer Hall P.O . Box 751 Frontier Slave 16 Portland, OR 97207-0751 Little is known of the black servanL William 503-725-445 l , FAX: 503-725-4465 Clark brought on his historic exploration of E-MAIL: [email protected] America. ADDRESS CHANGES PSU Foundation Demographics P.O. Box 243 Naming of the Shrew Portland, OR 97207-0243 18 503-725-4911 A biology pro fessor shares the thrill of a new E-MAIL: [email protected] species discovery. ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE Pal Squire MPA '95, Director Simon Benson House P.O. Box 751 DEPARTMENTS Portland, OR 97207-0751 503-725-4948 E-MAIL: [email protected]

Around the Park Blocks 2 ALUM l BOARD OF DIRECTORS Relating to the Arab/Islamic World, Building Site Reveals Archaeology Fine, Peace Tamara Lewis '69, President Poles Given in Me mory of 9/11 , Commercializing PSU Inventions, Experiencing Jeff Austin '77 Jacqueline Bell '71 Zero-Grav ity, New Press and Program in Book Publishing, Engin ee ring and Science Roger Capps '60 Receive $6. 7 mill ion, Mento rs Help Busi ness Students, Changes lo Smith Memo 1ial Gerry Craig '66 page 15 Brian EagleHeart '99 Letters 4 David Fitzpatrick '75, MS '77 I Wonder No More! Craig Gilbert '89 Michelle Gins '83 Sports 14 Chris Groencr '99 Way to Winning Opens Up for Soccer Tea m Bob Hormel '62 Komi Kalcvor '88 Philanthropy in Action 15 Bill Lemman, Vanport Roberta McEniry '76 Giuliani Speaks al Dinner Honoling Terry Pinnell '01 Philant h rapists Gary Purpura '71 Brian Ray '85 Alumni Association News 20 Don Riggs '83 Scholarships for Children of Alumni, We Need Gary Salyers '57 Your Help, Recepti on in Salem, Nominate Rosanna Schewerda '91, MT '93 Ann Takamura MPA '97 Outstanding Alumni and Facu lty, News from Trish Trolll MA '88 the Simon Benson House, PSU Weekend Cathy Williams '56 Photographs ALUMNI AMBASSADORS Jon]alali '67, MBA 'Tl, Medford Alum Notes 22 Mary Mertens James '78, Salem Jeny MacG regor '79 is Ma king It as a Li tera1y Agent, Anma,ie Tri mble M.A. '98 Jack Ohman '99, Portland Promotes Poelly Through the Internet, To m Long Ph.D. '99 has spent a Lifetime Dennis Olson '68, MS '80, Pendleton Ma naging Tec hnology Cathy Williams '56, Bend PSU Magazine is published three times a year during fall , winter, and spring terms for alumni and friends of Portland State Cover University. Contents may be reprinted only Cairo, the capital city of Egypt, seen here at sunset, is the seal of the co untry 's by permission of the editor. The magazine is primed on recycled paper. PSU is an strong-arm governmen t. See sto ,y, "A De moc ratic Middle East?" pages 6-9. affirmative action/equal employment (Photograph © Glen Allison!PictureQues t) opportunity institution.

WINTER 2003 PSU MAGAZ INE 1 AROUND T H E PA R K BLOCKS

Relating to the Arab and Islamic world Campus building site reveals archaeology find Relations between the United States The Ground Zero Pairing Project and the Arab/lslamic world are the coordinated a similar nationwide citi­ Archaeologists have unearthed the concern of a new collaborative pro­ zen diplomacy effort between the remains of a 19th century Portland gram at Portland State. PSU's Free United States and the Union of Soviet neighborhood on the site of PSU 's Market Business Development Institute Socialist Republics (USSR) in the early­ new Native American Student and will encourage citizen involvement and l 980s under the directorship of Earl Community Center, SW Jackson and public diplomacy with Arab and Molander, the original founder of the Broadway. The nearly 5,000 artifacts lslamic institutions and people in organization and now director of the recovered-including doll parts, collaboration with the Portland-based Free Market lnstitute. This resulted in medicine bottles, baby bottles, and Ground Zero Pairing Project. the formation of hundreds of U.S.­ fragments of French porcelain-will The Free Market lnstitute will focus U.S.S.R. city-to-city and other institu­ shed light on the domestic lives of on institutions such as universities and tional pairings. Citizen diplomacy Victorian-era Portlanders. university business schools, while efforts such as these were instrumental During excavation in October, Ground Zero will center its efforts on in ultimately resolving U.S.-U.S.S.R. archaeologists from Applied Archaeo­ private citizens, civic organizations, Cold War tensions. logical Research, a Portland-based hospitals, schools, and cultural and "Over the past 20 years, thousands company, monitored construction. science centers. The goal is to establish of Oregonians have found opportuni­ Almost immediately, a round brick­ links that will lead to direct communi­ ties to be citizen diplomats in meetings lined feature and a dirt-walled pit cation and citizen exchanges, fostering with their Russian counterparts as appeared in the center of the block. a mutual understanding of respective farmers, students, scientists, business A few days later, a large brick­ business, economic, cultural, social, managers, professionals of all kinds, lined cesspool was found under the and political systems. Both efforts will and ordinary citizens," says Molander. former home of Justus Strowbridge, draw on professionals in the "For the Arab/lslamic work we again one of Portland's early pioneers who Arab/lslamic world who are graduates will serve as a key link where individu­ lived with his family along Broadway of American universities such as als in Oregon and the United States between 1891 and the early 1900s. Portland State. PSU has graduated can contact us to learn where and how Before construction began, PSU thousands of Middle Eastern students they can undertake citizen diplomacy consulted with urban archaeologist over the past 30 years. roles in their communities." and recent graduate Julie Schablitsky on how to proceed with the project. Old documents and maps were stud­ ied to determine who lived on the block and where old structures­ Peace poles given in memory of 9/11 such as outhouse holes, wells, and building foundations-would be The campus community remembered uncovered during construction of the September 11, 2001, one year later with the new center. dedication of three Peace Poles on campus. "As a state agency, the law requires The poles bear the phrase "May There Be Peace us to preserve and catalogue artifacts on Earth" engraved in 24 different languages. as they turn up on our construction Located in the grassy area north of the projects," says Burt Ewart, PSU archi­ Graduate School of Education, the poles tect. "Howeve r, this activity has pre­ were a gift from PSU's Student Ambassadors, sented an additional benefit for our a group of outgoing and academically own faculty and students to get successful students who represent the involved in real archaeological work University at special events. and to contribute to the history of The peace phrase is engraved in English, our own neighborhood." Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Persian, Hmong, Artifacts from the site will be Maori, Mohawk, Japanese, Korean, Thai, studied in conjunction with analysis Vietnamese, French, German, Hindi, Indone­ of Victorian-era literature and later sian, Tibetan, Russian, Turkish, Sign histories of that time in an attempt to Language, Hebrew, Swahili, Klamath, and better understand Portland's early Pakistani (Urdu). society.

2 PSU MAGAZINE WINTER 2003 Commercializing of PSU inventions gets new help The innovative inventions of Portland State researchers are getting a boost toward commercialization from a new collaboration with Oregon Health & Science University. OHSU is provid­ ing the expertise and staffing to help PSU evaluate, patent, market, and license its inventions. The process essentially will help convert PSU research into salable technology. Through the agreement, PSU will pay a fee for these "tech transfer" services to OHSU's Technology and Research Collaborations office. While OHSU will share in profits from any technologies that are developed, PSU will receive the resulting patents. OHSU has similar agreements with Aaron Frechette, a senior in mechanical engineering, conducted zero-gravity the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical experiments with professor Mark Weislogel on NASA's "Vomit Comet." Center and Portland Shriners Hospital. OHSU already has begun evaluat­ Experiencing zero-gravity through NASA ing potential commercial applications for three PSU discoveries: Alternate periods of weightless­ worked for NASA for 10 years. His ness-30 to 40 of them a trip­ connection with the organization ♦ Polymeric coating for semiconduc­ allow scientists aboard NASAs made it possible to get funding and tors developed by Mingdi Yan, Boeing KC-135A to perform fasci­ conduct experiments through the assistant professor of organic nating experiments. Student Aaron KC-135A gravity research program chemistry. Frechette and professor Mark out of the John H. Glenn Research ♦ An ultra-sensitive, automated Weislogel recently did their own Center in Cleveland, Ohio. instrument for separating and zero gravity experiments on the Over several days, Weislogel and analyzing complex gases, created plane-accurately nicknamed the Frechette conducted approximately by Robert O'Brien, professor of Vomit Comet (for Frechette any­ 160 experiment on the plane. They physical chemistry. way). tested their predictions against the ♦ A method for localizing the manu­ The PSU mechanical engineering actual behavior of fluid in a V­ facture of carbon nanotubes used student and professor tested the shaped channel. A video camera as wires and conductors in semi­ behavior of fluid in a zero-gravity recorded the data while the pair conductor manufacturing, by Jun environment as the plane flew in a continually modified the experi­ Jiao, assistant professor of physics. parabolic arc. The zero-gravity envi­ ment, holding up flashcards con­ ronment lasts only 25 seconds, but taining the details. Time and again, OHSU will help evaluate the the plane repeats the trajectory over their predictions matched the obser­ commercial potential of an invention, and over and over again during a vations. "It's so accurate it's determining if the product is truly two- to four-hour period. unbelievable," says Weislogel. original, if there is a market for it, Weislogel and Frechette had been ln the past, the behaviors of liq­ and if there is a partner to which the conducting a NASA-funded study of uids in zero gravity were predicted technology can be transferred. The capillary-driven flows in low-gravity by a supercomputer that took days office also applies fo r U.S. and since spring term. Their research or even weeks, says Weislogel. His foreign patents on behalf of inventors aboard the NASA plane could and Frechette's experiments are and works out the myriad details of advance technology that involves much cheaper and less Lim e licensing agreements, as well as help­ liquids in space, including life consuming. ing with potential spin-off compa­ support systems in space stations The project isn't over. Weislogel nies. OHSU has a strong record in and shuttles, as well as fuel tanks plans to return to the NASA plane this area with 209 patents, 136 for liquid propellants. and may even one day see his PSU licenses and 17 spin-off companies, Weislogel has a background in experiments carried out on a space as of last year. aerospace dynamics and had shuttle or space station.

WlNTER 2003 PSU MAGAZlNE 3 AROUND THE PARK BLOCKS

New press and program in book publishing Engineering and science receive $6. 7 million Learning about the day-to-day man­ While several universities offer agement of a working press became a summer programs in publishing, most More than $6. 7 million in private new option for writing students this are geared toward funneling graduates donations-the latest a $1 million fall. PSU's own Ooligan Press is allow­ into New York's publishing industry anonymous gift-are enrichin g the ing students to explore the gamut of and are restricted to graduate-level engineering and science programs at issues surrounding the book publish­ students. According to Stovall , the Portland State. The money was ing industry-from manuscript PSU program, open to undergradu­ pledged this past year, much of it acquisition to editing to production. ates, is unique in its integration of a going toward the proposed North­ The publishing courses can lead to working small press into the curricu­ west Center for Engineering, Science a master's degree in writing with a lum and coursework. and Technology facility. concentration in publishing. The pro­ Ooligan Press is open to book ln October a prominent Portland gram-part of the Center for Excel­ proposals from outside the University. philanthropist, who wishes to remain lence in Writing-is run by Dennis Special editorial interests include anonymous, made a $1 million com­ Stovall , former owner and publisher writing and the teaching of writing, mitment toward construction of the of Blue Heron Publishing. Students are editing, publishing, and book arts; new center. The faci lity will serve as learning about the history of the book new or rediscovered works with a home to the College of Engineering publishing industry, as well as market­ social or literary impact and a Pacific and Computer Science, furthering ing, finance , and legal issues; book onhwest connection; cookbooks the college's longstanding commit­ design; and ethical issues facing with an unusual focus , particularly ment to make quality engineering today's publisher. Many classes are those done in a narrative style; and education accessible throughout the offered evenings and are taught by occasional volumes of poetry, special community. The $1 million gift will working professionals and academic broadsides, and works of art. Ooligan allow the college to expand and faculty. also serves as a resource for other enhance facilities for the Math, Engi­ Ooligan Press is a general trade publishing efforts both within the Uni­ neering, and Science Achievement press that will honor the cultural and versity and in the general community. (MESA) program, which promotes natural diversity of the Pacific North­ For more information on the pre-college preparation. MESA will west through the books it publishes, publishing program at Portland State get a new computer laboratory, a stu­ says Stovall. Ooligan is an ancient or Ooligan Press, visit the Web site dent lounge, offices, an auditorium, name given by area Native Americans www.publishing.pdx.edu or call and a classroom, which will enable to the smelt found in abundance. 503-725-9410. students involved in MESA to inter­ act directly with PSU engineering L E T T E R S students and faculty. During the past year, the Univer­ sity received a pledge of $3 million I wonder no more! Congratulations to all for saving from James f Miller for the North­ such a beautiful structure and plac­ west Center. Credence Systems In 1946 I began my first American ing it so very close to PSU's heart. Corporation and Electroglas, Inc. , Job at the Karafotias Grocery located I'm certain Mr. Benson is smiling contributed equipment valued at on the corner of SW 11th and down on us from above! more than $1.5 million. A grant of Columbia just a few blocks from $750,000 from the WM. Keck Foun­ PSU. At first I sorted pop bottles, William S. Kallimanis '62 dation will benefit the Center for Life and shortly thereafter I began mak­ Bend, Oregon in Extreme Environments, and a ing deliveries throughout the neigh­ $475,000 grant from the M.j. Mur­ borhood. dock Charitable Trust will support Located a block away from the PSU Magazine wants to hear from the University's acquisition of a high­ store was the Simon Benson House you. Send your comments to PSU resolution digital scanning electron where periodically I made deliveries. Magazine, Portland Stale University, microscope. The architecture of the house PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207- The gifts to engineering and intrigued me, and l wondered what 0751; or to email address psumag@ science are part of a 28.5 percent it had looked like in its glory. Now, pdx.edu. We reserve the right lo edit for increase in private contributions to 56 years later, l wonder no morel space and clarity. the University totaling $17 million for 2001-2002, a new record.

4 PSU MAGAZI E WINTER 2003 Mentors help students trying to succeed in business

Management practices at Standard Northwest, lntel, KPMG , Nike, NW years of business experience; I'm going lnsurance in Portland are strikingly Natural, Procter & Gamble, Pacificorp, to feel as if I know nothing," says Min. different. There is dialogue, a give and Tektronix, US Bank, Xerox, and The "But teve drew on my own experi­ take between managers and employees Standard. ences to see what l could bring to this that Hui Min never experienced work­ The program has doubled since its new ve nue. He made me feel smarter ing in her home country of China. inception in January 2001, making it and more confident. l was really sur­ Min is learning typical-but to her the largest business-focused mentor prised." rernarkable-U.S. management prac­ program in Oregon, says Stevens. Stu­ "Hui was a delight to get to know tices from Steve Caner '69, an assistant dents and mentors meet at least six and help," says Carter. 'Tve done a lot vi e president at The Standard times during the year. Min and Carter of nonprofit board work, but se ldom (fo rmerly Standard lnsurance). Carter meet monthly. Min has sat in on focus come in contact with the individuals and Min are part of a mentor program groups, project meetings, and manage­ l was servin g. Working one-on-one has through Portland State's School of ment classes at The Standard. The pair been si mply more fun." Business Administration. have spent much of their time exploring The mentor program draws on Begun two years ago, the program the cultural practices of U.S. business. alumni from the business school, such pairs students with area business peo­ Min hopes to work in this country for a as Carter, but more than half the men­ ple who serve as coaches, teachers, year beyond her June 2003 graduation tors are not PSU graduates. "lt is a role models, door openers, and friends but will ultimately return to her home­ chance to give back," says Stevens, to the students. "Portland has a town, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and "but out mentors also get much in welcoming and open business commu­ start her own business, probably an return-from practical coaching expe­ nity," says Director Lisa Stevens, "so it English language school. rience to new contacts in the business doesn't surprise me that the program is For Min, the mentor program has community." such a success." meant seeing classroom theory in prac­ For more information about the More than 100 students, both tice, and a benefit she never expected: mentor program in the School of Busi­ M.B.A. and undergraduate, arc work­ growth in her own confidence. ness Administration, contact Stevens at ing with representatives from such "Before starting the program, 503-725-8001 or email careernet companies as Bonneville Power, HR l thought, this mentor will have many @sba.pdx.edu. □

Smith Memorial gets name change and new entrance

Smith Memorial Student Union sports a new name and a Smith Memorial was named after Michael J. Smith, a stu­ new vaulted entrance-changes that better reflect the impor­ dent who helped the Portland State's G.E. College Bowl Learn tance of the building to students. The name change-Smith win the popular question and answer show on national tele­ Memorial Center to Smith vision in 1965. Few knew Memorial Student until after the broadcast Union-was the idea of that Smith was suffering last year's students, while from cystic fibrosis. He the remodel places most earned degrees in English student organizations in a and psychology and held a central, visible location. graduate assistantship in Student offices now the English Department occupy a new second-floor until his death in 1968 at balcony overlooking the the age of 24. Broadway entrance. Stu­ ln 1969 the University dent offices also dominate LOok the unusual the first floor suites along step of naming a with Student Parent Ser­ building after vices and the ASPSU Chil­ Smith-the only dren's Center. Prominently building in the placed in the new lobby The new Broadway entrance to Smith Union features Oregon University are an information desk a balcony surrounding the vaulted lobby. The build­ System honoring a and the PSU Bo Office. ing is named after student Michael]. Smith (right). student.

WLNTER 2003 PSU MAGAZINE 5 f the hundreds of questions That's not to say that it can't happen Syria is a tough, brutal, repressive gov­ surrounding the potential on a smaller scale. ln fact, in some ernment that is more secular than gov­ for war in lraq, one of the ways it's happening now. Ronald Tam­ ernments in some other Muslim states. most compelling is, "What or who will men, director of PSU's Hatfield School In other, less authoritarian countries, take the place of Saddam Hussein?" of Government, points out that some various levels of democracy exist within Saddam's strong-arm dictatorship is fairly open societies exist in the vast, monarchies 0ordan), strict religious considered the most repressive in the diverse region, but they often share rule (Iran), and in at least one country Middle East, if not the world. His borders with monarchies or totalitarian in which the military has been known forced departure could produce, at regimes. lt's a part of the world that Lo overthrow governments in the face worst, violent chaos. At best, if man­ defies any simple definition. PSU fac­ of democratic elections (Turkey). aged tactically and over years or ulty point to only two characteristics decades by the United States and its that bind the Middle East: the strong allies, it could result in a form of influence of the Muslim faith and espite scauered attempts at democracy in which Iraq's citizens antipathy over lsrael's relationship with granting power to the peo­ have a free voice Lo steer this large, the Palestinians. ple, the cards are generally stacked against democracy in the Mid­ dle East. Often it's the fault of the rul­ ing governments. Jon Mandaville, director of PSU's Miclclle East Studies Center, says democracies are systems in which interest groups are free to work out their differences in an environment that eventually produces balance. "This happens when the govern­ ment trusts the people. Absolute monarchies never trust the people. The Saudi royal family is about as absolute as Louis the XVI, " he says. lf the presence of absolute monar­ chies in the Middle East is a barrier to democracy, so is the '.act that the coun­ tries are so young. Even though the area is called the Cradle of Civilization, many of the countries that inhabit the Middle East have only been around a few decades-carved out by the domi­ Speculation abounds over By John Kirkland nating imperial powers after the two world wars. Mandaville again points to what the future holds for this Saudi Arabia. region. "It's a baby. The Saudis have been learning how to run a government­ any kind of a government, with a budget and a treasury and an infra­ troubled country into a prosperous "Most Americans think all of the structure-only since 1955." future. Middle East is authoritarian, but that's ln fact, countries throughout the And if it can happen in Iraq, can not so. One thing l can't overempha­ whole region have been trying since Western-style democracy sweep size is that one size does not fit all. the end of World War II to figure out through the rest of the Middle East in Each country has its own characteris­ how to rule themselves and provide for the next few years7 tics," says Tammen. their citizens. Gamal Abdel Nasser The answer, according to Middle Authoritarian regimes in the Middle inspired much of the Arab world when East experts at Portland Stale, is no­ East govern Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, he came to power in Egypt in the at least not the way Americans and and, of course, Iraq. But within that 1950s. His goal was Lo modernize Europeans are used Lo thinking about group are different forms of govern­ Egypt through socialism, and he democracy. The Middle East is simply ment. Saudi Arabia is a monarchy with espoused the possibility of a strong, too steeped in its own regional history, strict religious laws; Egypt is what united Arab world. centuries-old conflicts, and entrenched Tammen describes as a "strongman But his plan ultimately failed. In an ways of governing for Western-style democracy" that has elections, but is article titled "Why They Hate Us," democracy to take a massive foothold. essentially controlled from the top; and which appeared in Newsweeh a month

6 PSU MAGAZlNE WINTER 2003 artcr the eptember 11 attacks, author largely undeveloped. Lt remains a net Morocco to Iran, all but three have Fareed Zakaria states, "For all their importer of most commodities, populations in which people under the energy these regimes chose bad ideas including food. age or 25 make up the majority. This is and implemented them in worse ways. a group that is increasingly resemrul Sociali sm produced bureaucracy and and will put even more burden on the stagnation. Rather than adjusting to dding to this economic dis­ area's undeveloped economies and Lhe failures of central planning, the parity is the feeling among nonrepresentative governments. economies never really moved on. The much or the population that In fact, this combination of eco­ republics calcined into dictatorship .. the ruling classes in the oil-producing nomic and social factors is a reason for Arab unity cracked and crumbled as countries are pro-West-the same the rise of radical Islam. "Fundamen­ countries discovered their own West that has enabled lsrael to become talism gave Arabs who were dissatis­ national interests and opportunities." a nuclear power. At the same time, the fied with their lot a powerful language Zakaria goes on to say that Nassers region has undergone a population of opposition," writes Zakaria. "If there dream has turned into a quiet night­ explosion during the past three is one great cause of the rise or Islamic mare in today's Egypt. "The government decades. Out or 17 countries from fundamentalism, it is the total failure is efficient in only one area: squashing dissent and strangling civil society," he wrote, adding that almost every Arab country today is less free than it was 30 years ago--"an almost unthinkable reversal of a global pattern."

emocracies are built on Ir I foundations that include :...J a healthy civil society, a strong middle class, and a certain amount of trust among competing interests, most of which is lacking in the Middle East, according to John Damis, a PSU political science prores­ sor. A strong foundation also includes money. Damis says democracies are most likely Lo flourish in countries where the per capita income is $6,000 or higher. Most Middle Eastern coun­ tries fall below that mark: Lebanon, about $5,000 per capita; Syria, lraq, and lran are all about $2,500; Egypt, about $1,200. Oil revenue has done little to improve the lives of the average citizen in the Middle East; it has primarily made the rich richer. This class or oil­ rich Arabs "travel the globe in luxury and are despised by the rest of the Arab world," Zakaria writes. In those countries where oil is not produced, the main export is labor. In other words, people move out or their home countries to find work. Apart from the oil industry, the region is

The people of Iraq cast their votes October 15, 2002, and elected sole candidate Saddam Hussein (portrait) to another seven years as president. © AFP/Corbis of political institutions in the Arab stands in the way of democratic of other nations. They have burgeon­ world." change. Although Middle Eastern ing populations they can't satisfy. Tammen says the level of economic countries have a professional class of Rather than having the strong cernral­ success of any country in the region is educated people, professionals are part ized governmems common Lo democ­ mostly a function of its system of gov­ of a select minority. racies, their institutions are based on ernment. Thriving countries, he points "A lack of universal education is the family or the village. It's a region, out, allow free enterprise, encourage holding the Middle East back," says according to Tammen, of local fief­ economic growth and creativity, and Tammen. "An educated person in the doms, warlords, power vacuums, and generate enough Lax revenue Lo Middle East is pan of the elite. Here, too many factions for everyone to pull provide services to its people. that person would be considered together Lo become truly democratic. "Most of the countries in the Middle average Moreover, it's an environment that East suppress individual initiative and perpetuates itself. Without democracy, penalize people for taking risks," he countries are less likely to have free says. "ln lraq, you have a totalitarian nother foundation for economies and are more likely Lo be system with a high degree of internal democracy that is absent in sLUck in the same status quo they're the Middle East is what unhappy about. They can be danger­ Tammen calls "shared preferences." It's ous places for foreign countries Lo the idea that different interest groups invest in. can work together toward common "All of these countries are tribal," goals within the context of a strong Tammen says. "Americans find this centralized government. Look at the hard to understand, but tribal alle­ United States: although it has 50 indi­ giances and loyalties run deep in the vidual states, nearly 290 million peo­ region , and they're often more impor­ ple and countless interest groups, it tant than nationhood. By 'tribe' I mean tends to function well as a cohesive extended family, often from the same whole. geographic region. " The same can be said for Europe. The continent is strong not just because of the governments within its ometimes they are dysfunc­ individual countries, but because those tional families . Consider the countries-even ones as culturally Kurds. divergent as Sweden and Italy-have They are an Islamic ethnic group of shared preferences. some 20 million to 30 million people "When democracies are created, living throughout Turkey, Iran, Iraq, they enter economic agreements and somhern Russia, and Syria. They are alliances They lock themselves into a themselves divided into tribes that web of relationships," Tammen says. don't get along with one another. European countries and the U.S. "They're still fighting Saddam and each also have free , secular judicial systems other," Tammen says. The Kurds, and bodies of law that protect individ­ which have never had a country of uals and institutions. Taken together, their own, will be a major ally with the all these elements create the best possi­ United States if it goes to war in Iraq, ble breeding ground for prosperity, he adds, even though they have a long People took to the streets in advancement, and a general sense of and biller history with the U.S. Their Baghdad, including this armed Iraqi satisfaction among people. hatred of Saddam is palpable, con­ man, after the results of the referen­ "When you look at Europe, it's hard tributed Lo, in no small part, by his dum that reelected President Saddam to imagine the thousands of layers of poison gas attack on them in the late Hussein with a perfect 100 percent of exchanges that happen on a daily 1980s. the votes. © Reuters NewMedia Inc./Corbin basis-the free movemem of money, But once Saddam is out of power, people, resources, and ideas. And you then what? The Kurds, among others, have nothing but barriers to those things will scramble for al least some of the corruption and a high risk of losing in the Middle East," Tammen says. power in Iraq, but few are holding out your life if you are too adventurous, He sees the Middle East as a region hope that it will result in anything like too outspoken, or too identified with of dissatisfaction where a number of a Western-style democracy. the West. You could say the same thing nations dislike the status quo, whether "Democracy in the Middle East is about Syria , lran, and Pakistan." it's religion, economics, politics, or cul­ not this auractive model that is so Lack of educational opportunity is ture. They don't like the presence of important Lo the people that they're another disempowering factor that Israel and its power. They are jealous willing to sacrifice to attain it. It's way

8 PSU MAGAZINE WINTER 2003 down the list," says Tammen. "There commentaries since its establishment reverberations, but not major." are probably yearnings among the peo­ in 1996. Kuwaiti officials regularly Mandaville is hoping that the rever­ ple for more participation, but they complain that al-Jazeera's news cover­ berations from the current U.S. conflict have no ability to organize and go to age is too sympathetic to Iraq. Saudi with Iraq are small. He is expecting to the streets. The notion of 'people officials insist that its programs are host a delegation of Saudi faculty at power,' like in formerly communist anti-Islamic, while Palestinian leader PSU in March for a symposium about European nations where people want to Yasser Arafat, according to the Middle Saudi Arabia today. If the U.S. goes to rise up and become democratic, is not East Intelligence Bulletin , was furious war, that evem would likely be can­ prevalent in the Middle East," he says. two years ago over al-Jazeera's frequem celled. For Mandaville, the less med­ One notable exception is in Iran, interviews with leaders of more mili­ dling by the United States in that part where thousands of studems rallied in talll lslamist Palestinian groups. of the world, the better. the streets recently to protest the death "Every Arab regime has found "The level of democracy in the Mid­ sentence of Hashem Aghajari, a college something in al-Jazeera's programs to dle East is about the same as in other professor who was condemned to hang complain about, which is precisely areas of the world: South America, for insulting lslam and questioning why it is by far the most popular satel­ Africa, Asia. A small number of people lran's clerical rule. New York Times lite news channel in the Middle East," columnist Thomas Friedman called the the Bulletin states. protests "... the most promising trend Following the September 11 , 2001, in the Muslim world. lt is a combina­ terrorist attacks in the United States, al­ tion of Manin Luther and Tiananmen Jazeera stirred controversy among mem­ Square-a drive for an Islamic refor­ bers of the Bush administration for mation combined with a spontaneous running a tape of Osama bin Laden call­ student-led democracy movement." ing for a holy war. The Washington Post But as promising as the movement quoted Ibrahim Hilal, al-Jazeeras chief may be, it's not likely to be drawing editor, as saying, "Arabs accuse us of much inspiration from the democracies being pro-American, even pro-Israeli. that are already in the region. Democ­ The Americans say we're pro-Taliban. racy has not provided relief from We must be doing something right." poverty in countries such as Egypt, and it's not likely to do so in other countries either, Tammen says. amis and Mandavi.lle agree that the free 0ow of informa­ tion through the region has he area simply has no tradi­ the power to change societies, but tion of democracy, and whether that change is toward democ­ Damis says that reason alone racy as we know it in the United States may create the biggest barrier Lo it remains to be seen. One thing sweeping through the region in the al-Jazeera is doing is giving its 35 mil­ foreseeable future. He describes the lion viewers a regular dose of the con­ region as having a long tradition of Oict between lsrael and the Palestinians. vested interests and authoritarian In this way it is helping to fuel an regimes that are wary and unwilling to already fuming resentmelll of both share power. That includes lraq, which lsrael and the United States. That may be no great candidate for democ­ resentment could explode in the com­ The government of Egypt, headquartered racy, no mauer what the United States ing years if a war in Iraq is seen by Mid­ in Cairo (pictured), exerts a heavy hand might want after Saddam is gone. dle East countries as a unilateral attack on civic freedoms in the country. Yet one tool of democracy, a free on the Arab world-a real possibility, © Gle11 Alliso11 /Pi ct11reQ11 est press, is already prevalent throughout the according to Damis and Mandaville. region in the form of al-Jazeera, the state­ What is likely to be in the best run satellite television station that broad­ interests of the United States is not in the U.S. government are looking at casts from the tiny emirate of Qatar. democracy in the Middle East, but sta­ the conflict with Iraq as an opportu­ Like journalism everywhere, bility. "Democracy in the short term is nity to democratize the whole Middle al-Jazeera has the power to shake up destabilizing," Damis says. Even if Iraq East. I hope they don't, " he says. D the status quo. Qatari diplomats have becomes democratic in the years received hundreds of official com­ ahead, he sees little possibility of (John Kirkland, a Portland freelance plaints from other Arab states about spillover to surrounding coumries. w1ite1; wrote the article "Th ere's Some­ al-Jazeera's relatively uncensored news "The nature of the surrounding states thing in the Air" in the fall 2002 PSU broadcasts and controversial political is pretty well set. There may be minor Magazine.)

WINTER 2003 PSU MAGAZINE 9 From beach bum to baseball player, Larry Colton never dreamed he was a writer underneath it all.

By Melissa Steineger

A fter an apprenticeship in the school A fter graduating in 1965, Colton l cared about." of really hard knocks and a brush with spent a few years in the minors for Colton had always been an enthusias­ fame as a nominee for the Pulitzer Philadelphia and was called up to the tic letter writer. Now he leveraged that Prize, Portland author Larry Colton major league Phillies in 1968. But after experience in an unusual attempt to overflows with stories about the pain a single game, Colton's career ended in capture the interest of a classroom of (now mostly funny) and pleasure of a "barroom fight that should never slouched-in-their-chairs, bored­ writing. have happened," he says. "l didn't beyond-belief, at-risk-of-quitting-the­ O f course, it's the painful experiences instigate it; l was an innocent world high school students. bystander. But 1 was somewhere 1 that make for the best stories. T o keep his students engrossed in, sa y, shouldn't have been." Colton separated For instance, after his novel, Goat th e correct use of the apostrophe, his shoulder in the incident and Brothers, was published in 1993, Colton stayed up nights writing stories despite 18 months in rehab, he wasn't slipped amid the positive acclaim was featuring those same students. "I able to regain major league pitching the Los Angeles reviewer who said it wanted something," he says, "that form . was "a black mark on the University of would keep them from walking out of California that he ever graduated from Colton moved to Ponland, where one the classroom." day a friend who knew that he was in there and a slap in the face to serious T oward the encl of his second year of need of a job and liked working with students everywhere." teaching, Colton eyed the approaching kids, suggested they check out a new 'Like I'm the first guy who didn't bust three-month break and decided to try experimental school for disadvantaged his butt in college," says a mostly out for a summer with the Portland high schoolers. "l ran into the princi­ amused Colton. Mavericks baseball team. "The summer pal in the hallway," says Colton, "and before l'd painted houses," he says, Still , the Los Angeles native admits he we got to talking. He said, 'Why don't "and l figured anything would be grew up "a beach bum kind of guy" you come and be a teacher's aide."' and continued his laid-back lifestyle at better than that." Colton did, unaware that teaching in University of California-Berkeley Colton also figured that he just might the far-out '?Os was a whole new bag. where, he says, he "majored in girls, be ab le to convince The Oregonian to The teachers were on the cutting edge beer, and baseball." publish a story about his experiences. of liberal education and of liberal A story he would write. He never took a writing class. Why American culture. For Colton-former would he7 He'd known since he was beach bum, frat rat, and jock-"it He did. They did. And a funny thing seven that he'd be a pro baseball was, " he says, "a pretty amazing happened. player. Schoolwork wasn't high on his cultural shock for me." Larry Colton was officially a writer. priority list. "I was a jock and a frat The shock took root. "I was so into The editor of Willamette Week called boy," he says. "The intellectual's worst teaching," says Colton, "thats all him up and asked him to write a nightmare."

10 PSU MAGAZINE WINTER 2003 regular column for the paper. He sold based on his Willamette Week column, miles through morning traffic-in an article to Sports Illustratccl. And The "Pillars of Portland," which featured reverse. "It was a beat-to-crap '70 Oregonian began publishing his articles fictionalized characters like Wes Hills Chevy Nova," he recalls, "its transmis­ in its Sunday periodical, the now­ and Grant Parks who participated in sion shot, its only gear reverse." defunct orthwest Magazine, including actual Portland events. The movie plot He went to work at Nike for a year as one that in hindsight might have been followed the fictional Wes, who had a "designated writer," but found that a good assignment to pass up. snorted his dad's money away and was after a long day of writing at work he In the 1980s, thousands of followers of trying to se ll fencing to the had nothing left to say when he got the Bagwan Shree Rajneesh set up an Rajneeshees. home. "I was not a happy camper," ashram on a ranch in eastern Oregon. local television station agreed to air says Colton. "Although, l did have the At The Oregonian's request, Colton set the movie during primetime, and a best shoes of any writer in town." out to investigate. During his three local production crew was lined up to A nd certainly working at Nike wasn't days at the ranch, Colton was amazed film the script. But "script" is a bit all bad. He liked the people-he met at how happy everyone seemed and formal for what actually was in place. his wife there-and he wrote a 25- struck by the astonishing agricultural For the most part, the movie was page proposal for a book based on his accomplishments of the ashram. improvised. If a local business gave college experiences that was accepted Even an encounter on his way back to them money, they'd figure out a way to by Doubleday. When Goat Brothers was Portland with a disgruntled farmer write in a scene at that location. They published, some reviewers found the who scoffed, "You give me 500 idiots went to the ashram and improvised depictions of crude fraternity life a who'll work from dawn to dusk every entire scenes. Editing on the movie "celebration of raw male behavior," but day for nothing, and I'll have carrots was finished two nights before it aired. Colton says he intended it as a repudi­ growing out of the hood of your car," Colton watched the film at the house ation of that mindset. wasn't enough to dissuade him. of one of th e actors. The book was a success. lt was Colton wrote a piece that, while bal­ "Halfway through," says ColLOn, "the optioned (although the movie was anced, ended up being possibly the actor's neighbor came out and stood in never made), excerpted in Esquire mag­ most 11attering profile w1itten on the his driveway and shouted, 'Bor-ringl ' azine, and chosen as a main Book of group. A few years later, the Bagwan lt wasn't boring, it was unwatchable. the Month Club selection. Colton was­ and his followers fell into disgrace That was a low point in my career." n't rich, but, "l could get off the amid accusaLions of arson, attempted A bout this time, his two daughters happy-hour trail," and he says, murder, drug smuggling, and vote from a previous marriage came to live "l bought a car." fraud. But before the ashram went with him. Colton realized he needed to Things seemed to be looking up. bust, Colton would return. find a regular paycheck the day he had He got a six-figure advance for his Colton began writing a movie script to drive one daughter to school-seven next book, Counting Coup: A True Story

WINTER 2003 PSU MAGAZI E 11 What's the easiest way to become a good writer? The answer is uncomplicated and obvious. Work hard. "I labor over every sentence, every paragraph, and I rewrite and rewrite," says Larry Colton, Portland author and former professional baseball player. "If I had worked as hard at baseball as I do at writing, I'd have probably been in the Hall of Fame." Colton knows something about fame. He's a Pulitzer Prize nominee, nominee for the 1993 and 2001 literary nonfiction Oregon Book Award, .,--, and winner of the 2001 eBook Foundation award for Best Non- fiction work originally pub- J;_; lished in eBook form. ,, Now, as the founder of the J Community of Writers (COW) / program, Colton and 50 other Portland writers of Baslictball and Honor on the Little Big A fter 18 years of writing, Colton was me, 'You ought LO see a shrink. You prisoners of war. He still sticks Lo his are attempting to share Horn, the sLOry of a gifted high school back to square one. "l was in huge have talent and you're wasting it. ' Peo­ 6 a.m. to noon writing schedule and their intimate knowledge about writing-and rewrit­ basketball player and Crow Indian liv­ denial," he says. "People would ask ple were turning around to stare." works on pro_Jects in the afternoon, ing-with kids and their teachers in grades three ing on a Montana reservation. After including a new one Lo create a week­ how the book was going, and I'd say, The friend demanded to know how through eight. three years working on the book, li.e 'OK."' much ColLOn needed Lo finish the end of literary events in Portland next October. Their goal is to improve student writing achievement sent in his draft. While wailing for To earn a living, Colton built on his book. "I hemmed and hawed," says Doubleday's response, he volunteered observation that teachers needed help Colton. "Finally I told him I thought ith his daughters grown, a solid by improving the quality of writing instruction. to teach a couple of writing classes al teaching kids LO write. He snagged I could do it for $35,000. He reached relationship with his third wife, and Each summer, using grants from local philanthropists Grant High School. grants from local movers and shakers in his pocket and pulled out his check­ two critically acclaimed books Lo his and foundations, COW puts teachers through a week­ name, Colton should be enjoying his A t the school, another light bulb went like Arlene SchniLZer and the Meyer book and wrote me a check. long workshop in writing-taught by local writers and off. Memorial Trust and started a program successes. But for Colton, that's not "M y first thought," he jokes, "was focused on teachers becoming writing students them­ M ost teachers, Colton says, have little of residencies in the schools to teach I should have asked for $100,000." always easy or no training in how to teach writing. writing-featuring himself as the first Instead, Colton decided against Laking " In high school, college, my formative selves for the week. "Young teachers come out, and they writer-in-residence. And he re0ected a friend's money in the event the sec­ years," he says, "my identity was The following school year, teachers who have com­ don't understand the process of writ­ on Doubleday's message. ond draft also bombed. "I gave him the spons. I was a California boy. I didn't pleted the workshop can select four writers to visit think of myself in terms of \Vriting. In ing," says Colton. "They don't know "A fter I got over my shock, I realized check back, but his confidence and his their classrooms for one-week residencies. The teachers how Lo get kids to rewrite, which is Counting Coup didn't deserved to be support bolstered my own confidence." college I had to take remedial Eng­ lish-we called it 'Bonehead English.' get $400 to buy books for their school. And they have such an important pan of writing." published. It was a great story, but the Colton began writing every day from And I 0unked. l had Lo take it twice. A t the same time, his own professional book had no point of view, no pas ion . 6 a.m. to noon and working in the help with a "Family Write Night," an evening for fami­ experi ence wasn't going that well . It was trying to be politically correct." afternoons on the writers-in-r~sidence "N ow, when I give a speech al the lies to spend writing with one of the writers-in­ Doubleday was taking their own sweet That summer, he started over. He program, now called Community of Oregon Book Awards or put 'writer' as residence. wrote 50 pages and showed it to a my occupation on my Lax forms, I feel time about getting back to him, but in Writers. He took seven months to Affiliated with PSU's Center for Writing Excellence, the end maybe that was for the best. couple of friends, one of whom praised rewrite the manuscript, which was like I'm an imposter. I think, this is a Ultimately, the publisher of Goat Broth­ the wo rk highly. But school started and accepted, nominated for a 2001 Ore­ joke. Someone's going to tap me on the COW offers professional development credits to teach­ ers decided to take a pass on Counting Colton went back to his writer residen­ gon Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, shoulder and say, 'Oh, by the way. You ers who take the workshop. Coup. In fact , they hinted, iL would cies. and given the first-ever Best Non­ still haven't passed Bonehead "The teachers write, and we work with them and probably be impossible for anyone to month later, he and the friend, one fiction award for work originally English. "' □ give them strategies to teach writing," says Colton. ever publish the book. of Portland's power players, went to published in eBook form from the "I'm hard on them, but I try to be supportive. We've had T alk about deflating," says Colton. lunch at an upscale eatery. The friend Internati onal eBook Award Founda­ asked how the new work was going, tion. 400 teachers go through the program, and 399 said it "Not only did they reject it, they (Me lissa Steincge ,; a Portland freelance and Colton confessed that he'd not had was the best professional development they've taken." wanted their money back. At that N ow, he's al work on his next book, a write,; wrote the article "On the Road for point, I did think, 'Maybe T'm in the Lime to write since school started. "He nonfiction account of four World War He pauses, then adds tongue-in-cheek, "We summarily went ballistic," says Colton. "He told Humanity" for the fa ll 2002 PSU wrong business."' 11 submariners who were Japanese - Magazine.) executed the one." □

12 PSU MAGAZINE WINTER 2003 \\ IN TER 2003 PSU MAGAZINE 13 Way to winning opens up for soccer team

When Ginny Seibel headed home a and named her Big Sky Coach of the of any school in the Big Sky. corner kick less than three and a half Year, making her only the second PSU Although the team eventually came minutes into the 2002 season, it was as head coach in any sport to earn this up short, falling to defending cham­ if a lightning bolt 0ashed through the honor. She joins former golf coach Eric pion Idaho State 1-0 in overtime, it Big Sky Conference, bringing with it a Stinson. was only fitting that Ginny Seibel, on steady rumble of thunder that would The team shows true signs of the receiving end of a corner serve, come to represent Portland State's becoming a contender. This past sea­ hammered home the game winner arrival as a Division I soccer program. son, location of matches did not deter­ against Montana for the Vikings' last To the amazement of PSU's faithful mine results. Despite being a team goal of a remarkable year. -Andy soccer supporters , who had a co llective loaded with freshmen and sopho- McNamara look of "I can't believe what l just saw" on their faces, the Vikings went on to After a two-year record a 2-0 shutout that day against a losing streak, the Colorado College team that had soccer team turned crushed them, 6-0, just one year ear­ it around and made lier. Perhaps even more incredible than it to the playoffs the victory itself was the fact that Port­ under coach Tara land State controlled the play and gen­ Bilanski-Erickson erated more shots and corner kicks (below), a Big Sky than its opponent for only the second Coach of the Year. time in more than two years. It also marked the first of eight shutouts in the season for the Viks, more than they had recorded in the past four years combined. The Vikings, winners of a grand total of one match since the beginning of 2000, went on to win 12 more times, setting the school mark for wins and becoming the nation's most improved Division I team in the process. Of their eight wins against non-conference opponents, five came against teams they had never previously mores, the Vikings became the first beaten. And in Big Sky play, P U dou­ PSU soccer squad to post a winning Get all of the latest sports news at bled its best prior win total, going record on the road at the Division I www.GoViks.com. Game stories, sta­ 4-1-1 to share second place with con­ level , going 6-4-2. At home, they were tistics, schedules, team information, ference power Montana and advance to practically unbeatable, putting together press releases, and much more are the Big Sky Championship for the first a 7-1-2 record between their two local time since 1997. venues, PGE Park and Tigard Soccer available and updated daily. You can Much of the credit for the 2002 Complex. also listen to live broadcasts of foot­ season goes to coach Tara Bilanski­ The Viking squad led the confer­ ball and men's and women's basket­ Erickson. In only her second year as a ence in nearly every statistical category, ball games, or archived broadcasts. Division I head coach, she led the including goals (44), assists (420), Buy season and single game tickets women's soccer team out of it 23- fewest goals against (19), and shots online at www.GoViks.com or call match losing streak and into the finals. (330). Five of the squad earned first 1-888-VIK-TIKS or 503-725-3307 . The conference noticed her hard work team all-conference honors-the most

14 PSU MAGAZINE WINTER 2003 PH I L A N T HR O P Y I N ACTION Giuliani speaks at dinner honoring philanthropists

Former New York CiLy mayor Lhe PorLland Opera, and Trinity Epis­ reacLion to Lhe September 11 auacks, Rudolph Giuliani capLivaLed guesLs copal CaL hed ra l. Swigen is presidenL including a narrow escape from Lhe auending Ponland Slate's Simon of Lhe Swigen FounclaLion, which original crisis command headquar­ Benson Awards dinner OcLober 14. suppons a broad specLrum of Oregon Lers , buL he Lold his Ponland audi­ He discussed leadership, Lhe subject nonprofiLs in culLUral, religious, edu­ ence thaL he did not suddenly of his new book, and joined Lhe Pon­ cation, medical, and civic endeavors. become a greaL leader on thaL day. land communiLy in congrawlaLing Lhe From 1998 Lo 2000, Lhe FoundaLion "I had been doing my besL Lo Lake on Simon Benson Award winners, issued over $2.5 million in granLs. challenges my whole career." Gi uli ani Jeannine Cowles and ErnesL Swigen. Giuliani's book, Leadership, was reca ll ed his experiences as a co rpo­ One of Portland's premier philan­ released in OcLober. It opens with a rate lawyer and U.S auorney, Lhen thropy evenLs, the dinner and awards gripping accounL of his immediaLe mayor. D are named afLer one of Oregon's fi rsL philanLhropisLs, Simon Benson. Hon­ oring his Lradition of giving, Lhe awards go to individuals who have generously given their Lime and/or money LO suppon Lhe lives of genera­ tions of Oregonians. Cowles is a longtime supponer of Lhe ans in the Ponland community. She has made significanL gifts LO several organiza­ Lions, including the DepanmenL of Music at Portland Stale UniversiLy,

This year's Simon Benson Award winners, Ernest Swigert and Jeannine Cowles (right photo), find a few moments to talk following former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani's (below) talk on leadership.

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The real story of the black man who traveled with Lewis and Clark. By Dee Anne Finken E

wo white explorers, Meriwether On June 2, 1806, with all of their than an equal. "There was no estab­ Lewis and William Clark, have long supplies exhausted, the expedition's lished hierarchy," says Millner. "The enjoyed top billing for blazing a three dozen men, weak from 22 evidence is that York was well accepted rugged trail across the vast frontier months on the trail, were hunkered and a well-respected, valued member wilderness 200 years ago. Their feat down in a region we know now as of the expedition." opened the door Lo westward expan­ Idaho. Up ahead, the Rocky Mountains Yet his treatment upon the expedi­ sion, paving the way for the unparal­ loomed large. So did the men's memo­ tion's return was not that of an appre­ leled growth and development that ries of the previous September they ciated team member. A collection of propelled the United States to its spent on the outbound trip making letters found recently in the attic of a preeminent world position. For that their way across the jagged terrain. direct descendant of Clark paints a reason and others, their credit is With a slice of a knife, Lewis and painful reality. The letters, which Clark deserved. Clark cut the shiny buttons from their wrote to family and friends after the But the history books require coats and handed the prized trinkets to expedition's return, provide significant amending. Missing is the true story of York to trade for food with the ez supplemental detail to journals Lewis an African American slave whose Perce Indians. and Clark penned along the route. diplomacy enabled the band of weary "If York hadn't brought back food , Instead of the freedom he hoped for and ragged frontiersmen to make their they would have starved to death," after the return, York remained in way back to civilization. says Millner, a scholar of African bondage, perhaps for as many as 10 At least some credit should go to American history, including blacks on years. Clark maintained his ownership Clark's slave, York, a man who mes­ the frontier. and control of York like he would a merized the ative Americans with his York was successful, of course, as possession. It was just as Clark's father black skin, a man whose skills with a was the expedition, and within a few intended when he wrote in his wi.11: rifle made him one of the most prolific decades, thousands of American "I also give unto my son William one hunters in the band, and a man whose settlers would relocate to the lands negro man named York also old York blood and sweat on the trail were west of the Mississippi. and his wife Rose and their two chil­ rewarded with chains and shackles dren ancy and Juba ..." instead of the accolades, money, and "They don't tell us precisely when land grants the other explorers ntil now, York's contributions to York got his freedom, but the letters do received. the Lewis and Clark expedition and give us details about the master-slave "They trusted him with their very subsequent years have been passed relationship following the exploration, survival," says Darrell Millner, profes­ over or misrepresented in books and and how Clark had to whip York sor of black studies, of the only African popular legend. because he was misbehaving," says American to accompany the Lewis and Who was this man who, like others Millner, who has studied all of the Clark expedition, which President Jef­ on the journey, is believed to have notations pertaining to York in the ferson commissioned to unearth the fathered children with Native Ameri­ journals. mysteries of the uncharted lands can women? Who was this man for When the expedition returned to acquired in the Louisiana whom Clark named land forms, such St. Louis, Clark refused to let York Purchase. as York's Eight Islands and York's Dry return to his wife in Louisville, Ken­ Creek? tucky, a decision that ignited great bit­ In some ways, York was just like any terness. Matters deteriorated so badly he expedition, known as the of the other explorers. It was an that Clark rented York to another slave Corps of Discovery, encountered arduous journey and eve1y man was master "to be broken," he wrote. extremes in weather and traveling con­ expected to pull his weight. And Another leuer tells of Clark having ditions, and experienced great fatigue Millner says, despite the fact that many York jailed for his behavior. and hunger as the group inched its of the other explorers had been or way over the 8,000 miles from St. would later in life be involved in the Louis Lo present day Astoria on the slave experience, there is no evidence ark's treatment is puzzling: Pacific Ocean, and back. they treated York as anything other Why couldn't Clark extend freedom to

16 PSU MAGAZINE WI TER 2003 In 1908 Charles M. Russell painted "York" from his imagination, since there are no photographs, drawings, or even good descriptions of the slave who served William Clark.

Washington Irving, the former master wrote that York was unhappy and unseuled, and reportedly told Clark, "Damn this freedom. l have never had a happy day since l got it. " Yet others cite records of a trader's visit with a black man, who lived with the Crow Indians, enjoying a position or authority and power. This man, records say, "assumes all of the digni­ ties or a chief," including having four wives.

---illner says he believes histori­ ans have been reluctant Lo sketch a more positive portrayal or York over York, considering his contributions to Yorks dark skin did set him apart the years largely because for an African the expedition1 The irony is that Clark from others on the expedition, notes American Lo be seen as a hero "was chose to free at least one other slave, a Millner. "There was tremendous counter productive to the racial theo­ man named Ben, "in consideration of curiosity about York" from the Native ties and behaviors of our Limes. the services already rendered Lo me," Americans, and York used his rarity to African Americans weren't supposed reports noted historian Robert B. Betts. help bridge the differences between the to be that capable." Millner says the letters suggest York two worlds. "lL put him in a diplo­ ln fact, Millner says, the research was emancipated by Clark around matic contact position that was about York over the years has tended 1815 to 1816-some nine LO Len years absolutely crucial LO the success of the to reflect more about the generation after the return of the Corps of Discov­ expedition," says Millner, referring to studying the man than about the man ery. That news has only begun Lo see the buttons-for-food trading incident himself. "The story has always been the light of day. and others. disfigured and distorted to satisfy the "All of the scholarship from the There was great interest in York racial needs or whatever generation 1970s and 1980s said Clark gave York among the Arikara Indians, Lewis' was studying him," says Millner. "But his freedom right after they returned," journal notes: they were "much aston­ the story is being rewritten now. The says Millner. "The books are still on ished at my Black Servent and Call real York or the expedition and the the shelves, but the letters prove other­ him the big medison." York or slavery is beginning Lo wise." emerge." While on the trail, York's rifle skills ln addition Lo his teaching, Millner made him one of the sharpest hunters. ---uch has been written noting is preparing a manuscript about York He regularly bagged buffalo, deer, that both York and Sacajawea, the for the Oregon Historical Society. lt duck, and other game, Millner says. young Shoshone guide, cast ballots will be published in 2003 to coincide Inasmuch as law prohibited slaves when Lewis and Clark asked the expe­ with the bicentennial celebration of the from being armed, York's ability might dition to vote where to build winter Corps of Discovery. D seem surprising. But his skills quarters in late 1805. However, the undoubtedly stemmed from his significance of their inclusion in the upbringing at Clark's side. Because he democratic process is unclear when it was groomed to be Clark's slave, York is noted that the two non-whites were learned Lo do all that Clark was taught, the last to cast ballots. including the skills thought necessary Questions remain, Loo , over York's (Dee Anne Finken is a Vancouver, Wash­ for a young frontiersman. final years. ln a leuer to author ington, freelance writer.)

WINTER 2003 PSU MAGAZINE 17 f urmy how one conversation can shape the road ahead, sometimes for many miles. That's what happened with biologist Luis Ruedas. As an undergraduate at New York's Fordham University, Ruedas approached faculty member Bob Dowler with a proposal to study bears. Dowler told the student he wasn't in the market for any more bear stud­ ies, but sa id , "Why don't you sti ck around and help me do some work with mice." He did. That was in 1982, and Ruedas, now assistant professor of biology at Portland State, has been working with small mammals ever since. This past summer, while on an expedition to the remote Indonesian island of Sulawesi, Ruedas struck scientific gold. One of the small furry creatures to fall into his traps was a species of shrew that had remained unknown in the vast kingdom of the Earth's animals. To the layman , the little gray rodent looks a lot li ke a field mouse or mole you'd find in the backyard. But Ruedas, who has studied a veritable pied piper's worth of rats, bats, mice, and other mdenlia, knew right away that he was on LO something. "I know bats and shrews well enough that I know when something is new and different. When l saw it 1 said , 'What the heck is that?'" He scrambled for his reference materials and began yelling for Dowler, who was along for pan of the trip. His old Ford­ ham professor and mentor was more cautious about the find, but Ruedas was beside himself. "Shrews excite me to begin with ," he says. "It's hard Lo put into words that excitement when you know you have something new. Your hean rate goes up, excitement goes up and your mood changes Lo elation." DNA testing and skull exami nations of the find go on, but he says, "there is absolutely no doubt." f he shrew, from the genus corsidura, is as yet unnamed. Ruedas is looking for a donor Lo name the shrew and help fund further stud­ ies of the biologically rich island where it lives. Naming the shrew would also benefit the PSU Museum of Vencbrale Biology. ol a museum in the common vernacular with fancy multimedia exhibits and velvet ropes, Lhe museum is more a storehouse of skeletons, pelts, and bouled specimens critical Lo biology sLUdies. The museum does have a curator, Lhough. Along with teaching, trekking the wilds, and wriLing grant proposals, that's Ruedas's job. After this summer, the museum got a whole lot sLronger in the small mammal department. ln ll1ledas discovered dais new specks Lhree weeks in the Indonesian rain for­ of shrew, ~ ...._ed. la an est, Ruedas collected over 300 Lypes of Indonesian rain fotat. bats, rats, and other rodents. PSU now has more shrews Lhan the SmiLhsonian and Lhe largest collecLion anywhere of specimens from Walla ea, the Indone­ are important is simply that this new and different locale where discov­ sian bioregion that includes Sulawesi. remote comer of the world may not be ery is taking place. Communicating Calls for tissue samples are coming in remote for long. Logging and coffee that excitement, the incredible feeling from all over the world. planting already threaLen the biodiver­ of holding a new species in your hand sity of the area. The incredibly rich and knowing it is something that no o why would anyone study biology of the region could yield one has seen before ... communicaLe rodents in the firsL place? And untold benefits for science and that, and you have created a new gen­ what's the big deal aboUL a new species humankind. Mice, says Ruedas, are the eration of sciemisLs that are excited among Lhe millions of scurrying crea­ canaries in the coal mine of Southeast about what they do. And that's where tures few bm cats love1 Asian forest environmems. "A healthy, the future of science lies. " For one Lhing, nol much is known mature, undisLurbed forest has a very about rodents compared Lo larger panicular community of rodents." B ack in the venebrate museum, mammals like deer and bear. "Small Also, Ruedas and other biologists a nondescript place down a back mammals are pretLy exciting-just are hard at work trying lo figure out hallway of Science 2, Ruedas shows off because Lhey're small they have been a how the animals spread across the his Indonesian specimens, carefully bit neglecLed ," says Ruedas. 13,000 islands Lhal make up Indone­ sLOred in a cabinet. The skeleton of a Another reason to study rodems is sia. By collecting specimens from the small buL toothy whale swings quielly disease. Ruedas, a veLeran of the Han­ islands and Asian mainland and com­ from the ceiling as a compressor tavirus Learn of the federal Cemers for paring DNA and other characteristics, rumbles in the background. Disease Comrol and Prevention, has scientists get a window on the molecu­ Although he's proud that the dis­ studied the ecology of rodent-borne lar evolution of a particular species. covery of the new shrew shows that disease. Usually, he says, rodems native For instance, sciemisls had thought PSU can play with the big boys, to forests undisLurbed by humans have that Indonesia's rodents had been resi­ Ruedas can't wait lo gel back to low rates of disease. When forests are dem there since ancient Limes, with lit­ Indonesia for more study. "l love being cleared for logging, agriculture, and Lie oULside inOuence.Ruedas's sLUdies oul there," he says, recalling the call of housing, the small-mammal popula­ show, however, that five different the cicada in the woods and the giam tion is devaslaLed and its diversity of "invasion events" of nonnative rodents ancient trees. "They've got these really species plummets. The remaining few have occurred over Lime , changing the weird rodents everywhere, and l want species often carry much higher rates ecology of the rain forest. lo know how they got there." of disease, says Ruedas. Humans and ll is also the pure joy of discovery Then, gazing into a jar of bats sus­ diseased rodents in close proximity itself that fuels Ruedas. Only about five pended in alcohol, he says, "Our naturally lead Lo higher rodent-borne to Len new species are discovered rodent work will revolutionize how pestilence passed to people. worldwide each year as scientists race people think about the species." D "What that Lelis us is that to mini­ in the quest to catalogue all that is mize disease, we need to maximize the known, says Ruedas. In a back­ number of species of mice, which of grounder for the vertebrate museum, course humans never do." he writes, "Thal is the essence of sci­ (Steve Dodge is a Portland freelance The other reason a new shrew and ence: the excitement of discovery, the writer and a frequent cont1ibutor to PSU studies of small mammals in Indonesia exhilaration of novehy, the thrill of the Magazine.)

WINTER 2003 PSU MAGAZINE 19 Au MN I ASSOCIATION N E W S Scholarship available for a child of a PSU graduate

The PSU Alumni Association is seeking maximum of 15 quarters (186 credit young people LO fulfill their dream of applications for the Jane Wiener hours) or until the completion of an graduating from college and finding a Memorial Alumni Scholarship for fall undergraduate degree, whichever satisfying career. 2003. Recognizing that many of our occurs first. For more information or Sarah Whitney '03, our fourth alumni struggled financially to obtain to receive an application, call 503-725- scholar, is in her third and final year an undergraduate education, the asso­ 4949 or visit the Web site www.alumni. on the scholarship. She is the daughter ciation awards this scholarship to help pdx.edu!programs. Applications are due of Douglas Whitney '80. Sarah has had provide an undergraduate education in the Alumni Office by May 8. a stellar career at PSU , maintaining a for the next generation, particularly The scholarship is named after the better than 3.5 GPA and performing those who lack the financial resources late Jane Wiener, who graduated from community service work with youth to attend Portland State. PSU in 1969 and Northwestern School and the homeless. Of the previous To be eligible, applicants must be of Law in 1973. She was a Multnomah recipients, one recently completed the child or stepchild of a PSU gradu­ County deputy district attorney for 21 medical school at Oregon Health & ate, be enrolled at PSU as a resident years and served on the PSU Alumni Science University, one is a doctoral undergraduate, have a 2.5 cumulative Board from 1991 until her death in student in physics at University of Cal­ GPA, qualify on the basis of need as 1994. ifornia-Davis, and one is a special edu­ determined by the Office of Financial cation teacher in Eugene. Aid upon receipt of application for aid, Support the program For more information or to make a and demonstrate community service donation, contact Mary Coniglio, PSU involvement. Donations to the Jane Wiener Memor­ Alumni Relations, at 503-725-5073 or The scholarship provides full resi­ ial Alumni Scholarship are tax visit the Web site at www.alumni . dent tuition and required fees for a deductible, and make it possible for pdx. edu .

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Here at the PSU Alumni Association, we have two major the PSU story; keeping connected with the University goals: promoting and supporting Portland Stale and keeping through periodical email and other updates; and staying alumni connected to the University through services, connected to administrators and other alumni This is an programs, and activities. Usually these two goals result in easy way to give back to higher education and keep the same thing-benefits for alumni that also benefit the informed about the University. To join, log on to the Web University. site www.alumni.pdx.edu and click programs, then Right now we have a critical need for your assistance. ln advocates. Read the information and sign up to be an this time of increased demand for higher education, advocate. Then participate as you choose. If you have Portland Stale needs your voice. PSU Advocates, the public questions, contact Advocates Chair Roger Capps '60 at information arm of the Alumni Association, is looking for [email protected]. people willing Lo share Portland State's achievements and We have many other volunteer opportunities that will goals with colleagues, business and community leaders, benefit you as well, including selecting our outstanding elected officials, neighbors, and friends. As we enter another alumni recipients, volunteering al the Simon Benson legislative session in Oregon, your voice can be critical in House Visitors Center, serving on an alumni committee, advancing PSU's and higher education's cause. or hosting a PSU Weekend speaker. Everything you do PSU Advocates sponsors training and information ses­ helps Portland State and you, our alumni. sions, newsletters, coffees, legislative visits, and even social Best wishes for the New Year and please join us in gatherings, such as our Salem reception in the spring. All advancing our alma mater. activities are paid for with private funds. What's in it for you7 Knowing that you are helping make Tamara Dann Lewis '69 a difference for Portland State students and faculty by telling President, PSU Alumni Association Board of Directors

20 PSU MAGAZI NE WINTER 2003 Reception in Salem Alumni and rriends or PSU are invited to a reception in Salem this spring. Watch your mailbox for more informa­ tion or contact the PSU Alumni Office. The event is sponsored by the PSU Alumni Association.

Nominate outstanding alumni and faculty What do state Senator Margaret Carter, Intel executive Ray Guenther, Mary­ land Police Chief Charles Moose, and former Oregon Supreme Court Justice Betty Roberts have in common? They are among the 35 recipients of the PSU THIS FALI;S PSU WEEKEND Alumni Association's Outstanding Alumni awards. And what do favorite reatured keynote speaker David professors Charlie White, Scott Burns, Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize winning Devorah Lieberman, and Richard author. He poses above with weekend Forbes share7 They have all been chair Trish Trout MA '88. Gordon recipients of the PSUMs Distinguished Dodds (left) and Charlie White, profes­ Faculty award given since 1992. sors emeriti, enjoy one of the many Now is the time to nominate your events held during the three days of friends , former classmates, facu lt y, and receptions, free Saturday seminars, and colleagues for our outstanding alumni and facu lty awards to be presented tours of downtown Portland. Thursday, May 1, at PSU Salutes, our annual recognition reception. For alumni, the criteria include success in their field , bringing recognition to News from the Simon Benson House PSU , and engagement in community or University service. For the faculty ❖ The Simon Benson House Visitors Center has expanded its hours of opera­ award, candidates should be outstand­ tion from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., thanks to the help of many wonderful volun­ ing teachers and have made extraordi­ teers. Ir you or someone you know would like to vo lunteer as a greeter in nary contributions to the University the visitors center, please contact the Alumni Office at 503-725-5073. and the community. ❖ The 2002 Portland Ornament by local artist Betty Gimarelli features the Please ca ll the Alumni Office at Simon Benson House. lt's not too late to purchase the 24K gold-plated, 503-725-4948 for a nomination form, limited edition ornament. Cost is $28, with proceeds going toward support or go to www.alumni.pclx.edu ror an of th e Simon Benson House. Purchase an ornament by calling 503-725- online form. Nominations are due 4949, visiting the alumni Web site at www.alumni.pclx.edu , or stopping by February 7. the Alumni office on the second floor of the Benson House. ❖ The Simon Benson House is available for rent for your next meeting or reception. The downtown location and unique atmosphere make it a per­ Stay connected to PSU! Keep up­ fect venue for your small gathering. For more information, visit th e alumni to-date with the latest alumni news, Web site at www.alumni.pclx.edu . events, travel programs, and ❖ Group tours are available at the Simon Benson House for groups of 8 to 20 resources available to you as a PSU people. Cost is $2 per person. Schedule group tours in advance with Mary alum! Visit our newly designed Web Coniglio. site at www.alumni.pdx.edu. You can Many thanks to our Simon Benson House Visitors Center volunteers: submit alum notes, update your Beuy Burke, Constance Clark, emerita Professor Colin Dunkeld, Jo Ann Evans '69 , Shirley Howard, Joe Lewis '02, Lynn Rogers-Lent '99, and to address and email, or sign up for Beta Alpha Psi Fraternity members and pledges. □ future email newsletters, all online!

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Compiled by Myma Du ray Internet newsleuer. I also provide sau also serves as chairman of educational support for Elder­ the supervisory commiuee hostels held at the Collins Retreat (audit commiuee) of Star One Susan Hayden MAT '74 writes, Center in Eagle Creek. My focus Credit Union. He plans to retire "Since 1982, I've been an adjunct Lawrence Anthony is a retired is episodic radio of the thirties in the Las Vegas area in the next professor teaching beginning and hospital administrator living in and forties. " few years. advanced foreign language meth­ Zillah, Washington. Mi chael "Mike" Fahey is presi­ Scott Parker's research paper ods, while teaching French full Robert "Bob" Jones is chief dent of Columbia Helicopters, on TS. Eliot, "Tradition and the time at Aloha High School in financial officer al Gray Purcell , Inc. , a heavy-lift helicopter Individual Talent," was recently Beaverton." In 1996, Hayden lnc., a commercial general con­ operation in Oregon which transferred to the collection of earned a Ph.D. from Pennsylva­ tractor. Jones has over 30 years specializes in selective logging. The lnstitute for Creation nia State University. Fahey lives in Lake Oswego. Research in Santee, California. of management accounting, Earl Shumaker is an associate contract administration, and "This paper illustrates God's professor, head of the govern­ systems experience. He and his response to the cenified faith in ment publications departmem, wife, Pam, have two children Christ, according to I Cor. 15:1- and coordinator of the branch 4," says Parker. The essay was and six grandchildren and Robert "Bob" Ficken MA '70 is libraries at Northern Illinois pan of the collection of the reside in Portland. a historian, author, and University in DeKalb, Illinois. former TS. Eliot Society in St. researcher. Ficken's fifth book, Louis. Washington Territo1y, was pub­ lished by Washington State Uni­ versity Press in 2002. He lives Dennis Crow MST writes, "I Richard Rolland is director of in Issaquah, Washington. retired as superintendent of the the Northwest and Alaska Tribal Sandy Union High School Dis­ Robert Haworth is quality Dan Manassau is a CPA who Technical Assistance Programs research assurance engineering trict in 1995. I currently research works as a senior financial ana­ (TTAP). The agency provides manager at Diodes, Inc., a semi­ radio history and contribute to lyst for Lockheed Martin Corp. transportation-related training conductor manufacturer in the Old Time Radio Digest, a daily in Sunnyvale, California. Manas- and services to 277 Tribal gov­ Westlake Village, California. ernmems in Alaska, Idaho, Judy Vogland MFA '80 has western Montana, Oregon, and been an artist for the past 35 Washington through Federal years in a variety of media. After Highway Administration con­ completing her master's degree, tracts with Eastern Washington ABC she taught an in high schools University. Rolland lives in and colleges, and workshops at Cheney, Washington. PSU's summer Haystack pro­ ALUMNI B ENEFIT CARD Dave Shields retired after serv­ gram and for the Oregon ing 31 years as an instructor at Museum of Science and Indus­ Your Passport to PSU Mt. Hood Community College. try. ln October, the Astoria Shields has taught education, Visual Arts Gallery exhibited her sociology and automotive • A lumni 1D card mixed media assemblage, which machining courses, and also • D;scounted rales on PSU Theater Arls explored the past and present worked as director of career through old photographs, his­ procluclions planning and placement and toric documents, and other • Reduced rates on outdoor equipment cooperative education. found material. Her work is rep­ • Low-cosl use of the Vikin~ Bowl and Bill;ards resemed in numerous private • Pay-as-you-go access to the Stott Cenler Recreation and corporate collections. She lives in Portland. Pacilities (day-use fees apply) Hedrick Hueneke MBA '85 is • Customize your ABC Card lo meel your needs by manager of the developer manu­ adding on annual mem.herships to the Slotl Cenler, facturing department at OHKA America, Inc., in Hillsboro. Library, and tl1e Microcomputer Labs (additional Bradley Andrews is senior con­ fees apply) struction consultant at Madsen, Kneppers & Associates in Wal­ nut Creek, California. Andrews Call (503) 725--1,948 for details or check oul our was ordained as a Permanent David Brinker is chief executive Web page al www.alumni.pdx.edu Deacon in the Roman Catholic officer at Webridge, Inc., a firm Church, Diocese of Santa Rosa, providing extranet software for A SERVICE OF YOUR PSU ALPMNI ASSOCIATION in October 2000. businesses. He and his wife, Jeannette Brinker '79, and fam­ Denis O'Mahoney is a self­ ily live in Portland. employed lawyer practicing in Costa Mesa, California.

22 PSU MAGAZl E WI TER 2003 Marcia Darm is a gynecologist Ac him Hupka is owner of Gold airports in Pocatello, ldaho, and that is currently funding 30 in Ponland. She was elected River Financial Management, an Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He Catholic seminarians in Tanza­ chair of the Oregon Board of insurance and investment firm previously served as a Washing­ nia, Africa. Since its inception, Medical Examiners (BME) for in Grants Pass. ton County sheriff for 10 years WSS has raised in excess of 2002-03. BME supervises Ore­ and in 1996 was named the $300,000 for seminarian tuition Jan vonBergen teaches art at gon's medical doCLors, doctors Oregon Sheriff of the Year. and the construction of semi­ Southridge High School in the of osteopathy, and other health nary facilities. " Beaverton School District. Von­ care professionals. Bergen was chosen to participate John Emerson writes, "I have M. Jean Yates MST is sports in the Fulbright Memorial Fund just taken early retirement from director at Bergfreunde Ski Teacher Program in Tokyo, Gregg Dohm is an associate an undistinguished career al Club, a nonprofit sports and Japan. The program allows pri­ principal and marketing leader Oregon Health & Sciences Uni­ activities club. Yates writes, "I mary and secondary school at Jones & Stokes, an environ­ ve rsity. I hope Lo spend my lime run, ski, bike, hike, and lead teachers in the U.S. Lo travel Lo mental consulting firm. Dohrn with freelance writing and natural history trips Lo national Japan for three weeks in an is responsible for promoting the Leaching in the Asian studies parks and monuments and to effort LO promote greater inter­ integrated delivery of environ­ area, travel and Leaching English wi lderness and recreational cultural understanding. memal, land use, and trans­ in China and Mongolia, and areas. I retired three years ago ponation planning services to Lending my two Web sites." after 31 years al Centennial communities throughout the Emerson lives in Portland. Middle School, where I was an Northwest. He lives in lssaquah, earth science and national parks Washington. Dianna Pipkin is a supervisor teacher. " She lives in Gresham. of containment management for BDP lnternalional, and for the Thomas "Tom" Hirons is an past two years has worked on instructor of business at George comract through BOP for East­ John L. Becker, Jr., is chief Fox University in ewberg. Philip Cartwright MBA is pres­ man Chemical in Kingspon, marketing officer and executive Hirons has been teaching and ident of Market Decisions Corp., Tennessee. vice presidem of CDA of Amer­ lecturing on sociological prac­ an information management and ica , a national insurance market­ tices and business manageme!ll James ''.Jim" Spinden is federal consulting company He ing firm in West Palm Beach, al the college level since 1988. security director at the ldaho founded the company in 1978 Florida. He writes, "In 1993, He also serves as executive Falls, Idaho, airport. Spinden is and li ves in Portland. founded Worldwide Semi narian director of the Yamhill County also responsible for security al Suppon, a nonprofit foundation Business and Industry lnslitute.

Making it as a literary agent in Colorado

ERRY "CHIP" (HUNT) MACGREGOR '79 has always "Professors like Jack Featheringill and Bill Tate were instru­ recognized his love for words. His combined work in mental in my student career," says MacGregor. For work writing, co-authoring, and ghost study, he chose a job editing Clearing Mag­ writing has led to 91 books Lo date. azine, a project of the education school. Now a literary agent, MacGregor repre­ After graduation, MacGregor did magic sents a wide range of successful writers at shows and stand-up comedy in clubs at Alive Communications in Colorado. One night and worked in a bank by day He of his authors, Lisa Beamer, has written returned Lo school to obtain a Ph.D. in the best-seller Let's Roll! , about the coun­ policy and management at University of terattack her husband, Todd, led against Oregon, and it was there that he first con­ terrorists on the plane that went down in sidered a career in writing. He taught for a a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, 2001. while at Biola University in California, but MacGregor's own work hit a best­ left to return to Portland and write full seller list in 2002 with Mind Games, an time. expose of why people call psychic hot­ For PSU students who knew Chip lines. In addition, he has written three Hunt, the name change to MacGregor may books on card tricks. After he began rep­ be a surprise. lt is his mother's maiden resenting other authors, Alive Communications recruited name, and he took it on to keep it alive. "I may be the only him four years ago. Unlike many agents, MacGregor is person in the world who has a twin brother with a different directly involved with editing and story direction for many last name," MacGregor laughs. of his clients, which gives him the satisfaction of working While the path to his present position came with many with words. twists and turns, MacGregor said he absolutely loves his job. While a theater arts student at Portland State, MacGre­ However, he says, the real magic in his life is his marriage of gor performed in community theater and University shows. 20 years, and his three teenage children. -Kelli Fields

WINTER 2003 PSU MAGAZINE 23 Michael "Mike" Sa lsgiver is Cindy McPike is vice president government affairs manager and chief finan ial officer of wiLh Lhe Ponland Business SLanCorp Financial Group, Inc. , Alliance. Salsgiver formerly was the parent company of Standard public affairs manager al Imel Insurance Company. McPike is Corp. He lives in Ponland. responsible for accounting, Lrea­ sury, tax internal audit, investor Cath erine "Catie" Thurber­ relaLions, and corporaLe actuar­ Brown is a Spanish Leacher al ial funcLions. She resides in Tigard High School. In OcLObcr Tigard. 2002, she was awarded the Ore­ gon Foreign Language Teacher of Lhe Year award from Lhe Con­ federaLion in Oregon for Language Teaching. Lesley Carrell is vice presidenL of markeLing at Safeway North­ west Credit Union. Carrell pre­ viously was employed al Lhe ElecLra Credit Union in Port­ Erin Hubert is executive vice land. She also serves on Lhe president for the Portland Trail boards of Lhe Credit Union Blazers/Oregon Arena Corpora­ Women's Associati on (Westside Lion in Portland. and ML. Hood chapters) and Lhe CUNA Marketing Council. Chris Fritsch MS is principal at Mark Morris High School in Marilyn Happold-Latham MBA Longview, WashingLOn. Fritsch is an adminisLraLOr wiLh Colum­ formerly was assisLant principal bia Cardiology in Ponland. at Monticello Middle School and M.J . Longley PhD '98 was one athletic director at R.A. Long of 10 recipi­ High School. ents of Lhe Brad Hall is principal al 2002 Lewis Meridia Consulting, LLC, in Hine Award Louisville, Colorado. for service to children and Cheryl Wardell Leaches physi­ youth, pre­ cal education at Rock Creek sented by the Elementary School. In October National Child Labor Commit­ 2002, Wardell was named the Lee. Longley received the award Oregon elementary physical for her work with Cook lnleL education teacher of the year, an Tribal Council's Youth Opportu­ award given by the Oregon niLy Program. The program Association of Health, Physical serves more Lhan 2,500 youth in Education, Recreation and 40 villages across Alaska. Long­ Dance. ley Lraveled LO New York City LO receive the award in a naLional media-covered ceremony on November 18. An lnupiat from Eric Slater is the Midwest ome, she is the first Native bureau chief for the Los Angeles American to receive the award. Times and is based in Chicago. Mary Roberts is chief execuLive Simer worked in Afghanistan for officer al Rejuvenation, Inc., a three months as the lead corre­ manufacLUrer and retailer of spondent for the Times. He has auLhentic period lighLing, house been with the Times eight years, parts and furnishings. Robens and previously was a reporter lives in Portland. for the Grants Pass Courier. Eve Slinker MFA is an artist and co-owner of Skylight Gallery in Enterprise. Slinker Michael Knapp is a sole practi­ has taught waLercolor at Blue tioner auorney specializing in Mountain Community College, consLruction law, crediLOrs' drawing and basic design at rights, and represenLation of Eastern Oregon University, small businesses. Knapp lives in watercolor and basic design at Salem. PSU, and oil painting,

24 PSU MAGAZINE WINTER 2003 watercolor, and drawing al vari­ Kissi r's primary areas of practice ous other schools. Her list of are criminal defense and divorce exhibits and awards extends law. He previously was a deputy PoJID.ANDSTATE back LO 1985. district attorney for more than l]NIVERSITY five years, first in Clatsop County, then in Multnomah County. Scotl Archer is the Medford Parks and Recreation director. Archer is responsible for 37 sites in Medford, as well as a planned Robert Robertson is a clinical 132-acre spons park. He previ­ instructor at Southern Utah ously served as parks and recre­ University in Cedar City, Utah. aLion director in Ellensburg, Trent Warren is a physician Washington. and owns a family practice Philip Barry is a realtor with clinic in Canby. Warren formerly John L. Scan Real Estate in served as medical director of the Gresham. Barry's hobbies Siletz Community Heallh Clinic. include skiing, golf, and hiking. He lives in Ponland. Dennis Ginley is a software engineer al lntel Corp. in Kevin Brady is development Hillsboro. services manager for the city of Baule Ground, Washington. Alvin Harp , Jr. is director of Brady previously was a private marketing at Strong Capital consultant for developers and Management in Menomonee jurisdictions, analyzing and professional development programs Falls, Wisconsin. ► coordinating projects in south­ ... Gary Lewis MST is principal al west Washington and Portland. education and human services Estacada High School. Lewis Ill • Added elementary endorsement/part-time graduate Carol Chadwick is a civil engi­ previously served as assistant a:: teacher preparation neer with CER Professional principal. He also coached foot­ • Conflict management in the workplace Consuilants in Gillelle, w ball and basketball for three • Continuing teacher license and continuing special educator Wyoming > years. He taught in the Lincoln • Educational administration/leadership 2000+ County School District and Jennifer Epping is senior z • ESUbilingual endorsement Scappoose for nine years prior human resource generalist with ::::, • Marriage and family therapy LO coming LO Estacada. Human Resource Specialties in • Negotiation and mediation Lake Oswego. w • Teaching and learning with instructional technology Wayne Laird is finance director I­ • Understanding adolescent use disorders for Lhe Sunrise Water AuthoriLy <( • Vocational rehabilitation offerings Karen Bandley is coordinator in Happy Valley. 1- of the Lincoln County Commu­ 111 Brent Sanborn is a senior civil nity Health lmprovement Part­ business and nonprofit engineering project manager at nership (CHlP), sponsored by 0 • Environmental professional Group Mackenzie, a Portland Samaritan Health Services and z • Human resource management architecture and engineering • Marketing communications the state Office of Rural Health. <( firm. • Multimedia/web development Bandley will retain her posiLion .J as the assistant director at Ore­ Vijay Singh MS , who lives in • Project management l­ gon Pacific Area Health Educa­ Ellensburg, Washington, Leaches • Supervision a:: tion Center once the one-year voice, directs Lhe vocal jazz pro­ • Training and development CHIP project is completed. She gram, and conducts the univer­ 0 • Workplace conflict management lives in Lincoln City. sity choir at Central Washington Cl. We can also customize any offering and bring it in-house University. He has appeared as a Linda "Sunny" Hunt MS is the fea tured bass-baritone soloist Clatsop County Health and with various groups, including distance learning Human Services' tobacco spe­ the Oregon Symphony, Male • Continuing education for teachers cialist and health educator. Ensemble Northwest, and Salem • Independent study Hunt formerly was owner of Symphony. Singh's a cappella • Undergraduate degree completion-evenings and Collage Flowers in Cannon jazz quarteL, Just 4 Kicks, weekends in Portland, Salem, Beaverton, and Clackamas Beach. She and her husband, released its debut album in • Web-based master of business administration Ben, live on Sunset Lake Farm, 1997, which was nominated for • Online professional development courses where they grow and sell Best Vocal Album of 1998 by organic salads ingredients. the Contemporary A Cappella 503-72-LEARN or to/I-free 1-800-547-8887 ext 3276 Ken Kissir is an attorney in Society. www.extended.pdx.edu private practice in Gresham.

WINTER 2003 PSU MAGAZINE 25 ALUM NOTES and moved from Washington, DMA degree in choral conduct­ D.C., to Silicon Valley." ing at the University of Wash­ ington. Gretchen Berretta MEd '01 is a first-grade teacher with the Mehmet Kalyoncuoglu is a Sacramento City Unified School finance business analyst with Sheri Clark is an area engineer District in Sacramento, Califor­ Stacy Chamberlain is a staffer Intel Corp. in Hillsboro. with Northwest Natural. She nia. for newly elected Portland City Kara Richardson is a profes­ lives in Vancouver, Washington. Commissioner Randy Leonard David Bueffel is a mechanical sional artist. Her works include '75. engineer with Intel Corp. in murals, pencil portraits of peo­ Hillsboro. Deborah Davis MA is owner of ple, acryli c and oil portraits of Occupational Medicine Physi­ pets, and illustrations for Aaron Lian is team leader at Kimberly Fauss is a rate and cians NW in Eugene. children's books. She lives in ESCO Corporation, a civi l engi­ contract negotiator with Lake Oswego. Computrex International in neering firm in Portland. Scoll Harer MBA is sales man­ ager at Seed Research of Ore­ Luis Rodriguez is the first Louisville, Kentucky. Steve Smith MA writes, "Since gon, a Corvallis company recipient of the Intel Latino earning an MA in English, I Wilson Lynn is a sculptor. He involved in the research, breed­ Leadership Scholarship, which have taught at Pacific University makes his creations out of ing, sales, marketing, and pro­ will allow him to attend the in Forest Grove. I am currently wood, stone, and steel--explor­ duction of turf grasses. Harer Greater Hillsboro Area Chamber director of th e school's writing ing ways in which these media formerly was regional sales of Commerce's Leadership pro­ center and first-year seminar can interact and complement manager for three years. gram. The scholarship was program. I will become Pacific's each other. His works were pre­ designed LO bring an upcoming assistant dean of arts and sci­ sented at the Laura Russo Latino leader into established ences in 2003." Ga llery's Young Artist Exhibition business networks and intro­ in November. He lives in Hao Xu MS writes, "I was an duce him or her to new Jason Anderson MM '02 is Portland. advisory engi nee r at Worldcom business relationships. organist, choirmaster, and direc­ for two years, reporting to Vint Kristine Terich is events man­ tor of music at St. Michael and Kimberly Silva MPA is a devel­ Cerf, father of the Internet. I ager for the Oregon Zoo Foun­ All Angels Episcopal Church in opment associate at Friends of joined VmWare as a member of dation. She lives in Portland. Issaquah, Washington. Ander­ Trees, a nonprofit agency in the technical staff in July 2002, son has begun working on his Portland.

Promoting poetry through the Internet

NMARIE TRIMBLE MA '98 HAS A SECRET agenda. creative Web content for a couple of local design studios, As editor of Born, an online interative magazine she moved on Lo Bom in 2000. that merges liLerary and graphic arts in bold and An all-volunteer affair, Bom asks writers (primarily exciting ways, she hopes to get more people to read poetry. poets) to collaborate with designers who put their words "Poetry gets a bad to visually stunning graphics, animation, and sound, creat­ rap," she says, ing new art forms. The site at www.bornmag.com has won explaining Lhat several of the top industry awards for interactive media most people have and averages 40,000 hits a month, an exciting statistic for only learned to poets who publish in traditional literary journals that have analyze it in only a few thousand readers. "We get fan mail from Korea, school. "Some­ from Brazil. We gel fan mail we can't even read!" she says, times it's lovely to laughing. just read and enjoy Trimble still publishes poetry in traditional journals il. n (mosL recently in Black Warrior Review and Field ) and The 35-year-old mines her dreams for material because "dreams Lransform Trimble, who by themes into more accessible metaphors." But she also day is a PSU assis­ believes that the Internet exposes poetry to a new audience tam professor in and is a natural way to bring the oral tradition back to Lhe University Studies, form, making it active again by requiring people Lo engage first began dab­ with and respond Lo what they're seeing onscreen . bling in new "We're not like every other publishing medium," she media as a gradu­ says. "We're trying to do something different. We don'L ate studem in the PSU English Department, where she know whaL's going to happen. We don't know where took a seminar on using the lmernet in teaching and experimentation will Lake us. But we just want to find became "a poet who knew HTML" After working on out." -Kathleen Holt

26 PSU MAGAZINE WINTER 2003 Mary Thomasson is human resources manager at Music­ Match in San Diego. A lifetime of managing technology

OM LONG PH.D. '99 EMBRACES CHALLENGE. During his 32-year career at Brooke Boldon MA is an Eng­ Tektronix, Long was the vice president of technology and communications and li sh teacher (grades 9-12) with implemented many new products-not all of which received kudos. the Scappoose School District. Boldon formerly taught English 'Tm not afraid to take a risk," says Long. "I just and language ans al Westview go do something and see if it turns out right. If I High School in Beaverton. don't like it, I get out of it. After all, life is a risk." Shannon Burley is promotions He retired from Tektronix, but missed the chal­ manager at G.l. Joe's. She previ­ lenges of work. Before retiring he had started night ously was the assistant market­ classes at PSU toward his doctorate in engineering ing and promotions manager at and technology management (ETM). After retire­ PSU's Department of ALhletics. ment he finished the program during the day, then Burley lives in Portland went right back to work as a director at Planar Sys­ Katrina Hardt MURP is an envi­ tems. Five years later, an acquaintance approached ronmental planner al LSA Asso­ him with an innovative concept for electric motors, ciates in Berkeley, California. and Long launched a new company to develop and Janine Heath is a teacher with market the invention. the Beaverton School District. Motile Corporation is only a year old, and Long admits that it will take a fair amount of work to get the company up and running. Still, he finds time to teach management of technology and innovation Pamela Allyn is a self-employed for the ETM program, as hes done for the past four Spanish interpreter. Allyn lives years. In addition, Long serves on multiple corpo­ in Portland. rate boards. lt may sound tiring, but Long enjoys his busy schedule. Hasan Artharee has been "For me, work is fun. Otherwise, I wouldn't do it," says Long, who is 70 years old. awarded a scholarship from the "You're never too old to keep learning and I believe you've got to stay interested in some­ African American Contractors Federation. Artharee is working thing." toward a master's degree in engi­ Long approaches his personal life with the same gusto he infuses into his profession. He neering management at PSU and works out at a gym for an hour every morning and takes care of his 40 acres of property in is employed in the quality con­ the northwest hills. Long and his wife, Dolores, have been married for almost 50 years and trol department at Stacy and have four grown children and several grandchildren. Despite his penchant for the Witbeck in Portland. challenges of work, simply spending time with his grandchildren is one of Long's greatest Gwendolyn Kochan has a mas­ pleasures. -Kelli Fields sage therapy practice in West Linn. Kristina Lachenmeier MPA is senior project at PSU, expecting just welcomed a new addition West Hills Christian School in an administrator at the Waldorf a one-Lime event. Coverage by to the family in April: Kenneth Portland. Center, a cosmetic surgery facil­ news reporters from throughout James. Puttman and his family Holly Stone is treatment coor­ ity in Portland. the country created the demand live in Beaverton. dinator at Environmental Care for a second camp in summer Charles Lamoureux is a man­ Amanda Raab is a preschool Services, Inc., a group home for 2002. McElroy anticipates offer­ agement associate at Subaru of teacher and parent educator at boys age 6-12. Stone lives in ing the camp as an annual America in Ponland, the North­ the Linn Benton Community McMinnville. event. She li ves in Portland. west headquarters for the auto College Child Care Center. Raab Stephanie Tompkins is human company. Elizabeth Minor is a research lives in Keizer. resources administrator at assistant at Tucker Maxon Oral Kati Main MEd '02 is an John Roberts MS is a software Stormwater Management, Inc. School in Portland. The non­ elementary teacher with the engineer al Credence Systems She is responsible for payroll, profit school teaches deaf chil­ Estacada School District. She Corp., a semiconductor test benefits, and all other aspects of dren to Lalk. lives in Sherwood. equipment firm in Hillsboro. human resource reporting and Leon guyen is a financial ana­ control. She was a human Matthew Masters is chief engi­ Nicholas Shepherd is an lyst with the Bonneville Power resource generalist at AmeriCold neer with Providence St. Vin­ accountant with the Parrott Administration in Portland. Logistics in Portland. cent Medical Center in Portland. Partnership, LLP, a CPA firm in Kenneth Puttman is the lead Portland. Brian Weaver is cost manager Misty McElroy is founder and labor and cost accountant for at Rider Hunt Levett & Bailey, director of the Rock 'N' Roll Caroline Siegenthaler MEd is a Freightliner, LLC. Puttman has an international property and Camp for Girls. She started the junior high school teacher at been married for two years and construction consulting firm. camp as the premise of her Weaver lives in Portland.

WINTER 2003 PSU MAGAZINE 27 ALUM NOTES International, a manufacturer of Kristine Boyer is owner of Heath er Dominique MSW is a plastic tubing. Barber lives in International Martial Arts Cen­ research analyst for the Oregon Carlton. ter, a martial arts school in Lake Department of Human Services Oswego. in Salem. Melissa Barker is a piano instructor al Barker Piano Douglas Burk is a dairy assis­ Diane Drebin MS is registrar at Evan Arntzen MS is a science Studio in Portland. tant al Burk Dairy in Redmond. Clackamas Community College and engineering associate with a in Oregon City. Battelle research facility. He lives Barry Baxter is a test engineer Jaime (Golden) Cale MSW is a in Richland, Washington. with Microsystems Engineering, social worker at Luke-Dorf, a Jonathan Edens is an engineer In c., a biomedical electronics, community mental health in training at Structural Systems Patryk Babiracki was awarded development, Lest, and produc­ agency in Tigard. Cale married Consulting Engineers in Port­ a $5,000 scholarship from the tion firm in Lake Oswego. PSU student Andrew Cale in land. Kosciuszko Foundation. He is in August. his first year of graduate studies Rocky Bixby is a public safety Sandra Gardner is a social ser­ in history at John Hopkins Uni­ officer al Portland Stale. Sally Carlson is a secretary at vice specialist with the Oregon Holy Cross School in Portland. Department of Human Services versity in Baltimore. Christa Bosserman is the in Burns. Julia Bahati is an engineer in accountant and office manager Elizabeth Dhillon is a training training with KPFF Consulting al Nor0ow, Inc., a pool, spa, and employment specialist with Meredith Goin is a custom Engineers in Portland. and pump supply and service McMinnville Job and Career framer and design specialist at firm in Clackamas. Center al Chemeketa Commu­ Vi llage Frame and Gallery in Jamie Barber works in the pur­ nity Coll ege in McMinnville. Portland. chasing department at CPI Caleb Gostnell is a hydrogra­ pher with the National Ocean Service in Sil ver Spring, Maryland. Jennifer Helms is office man­ Tell us all about yourself ager al Helms Family Dental Practice in Missoula, Montana. Please let us know about you or your PSU friends for Alum Notes. Tell us about honors, promotions, appointments, and other important events in your life. Send your Tiffany Jordan is a posl­ baccalaureaLe student in admin­ news by e-mail to [email protected] or use the form below. istration of justice at PSU and D Check here if this is a new address. serves as a student mentor in the University Studies program. Name ______SSN# ______She also works al Vocational Vil­ lage, a Portland Public Schools Name while attending PSU ______high school for at-risk students. Jordan expects to enter the PSU Street ______City ______State __ Zip Code ___ sociology graduate program in fall 2003. Occupation ______Jason Kennedy MBA is a mar­ Employer ______keting manager at Intel Corp. He lives in Portland. Home/Business Telephone ______Christopher Kiser works at Novellus, a manufacturer of Home/Business E-mail ______semiconductor equipment. Kiser lives in Portland. Cristine\ Lungu MS is an industrial engineer at KASO Plastics, Inc., a plastic molding manufacturer in Vancouver, Washington. Sharon Mabin MAT is an Eng­ lish teacher with Portland Public Schools and an English instruc­ tor with Portland Community College. Mabin lives in Portland. Jennifer Marquis is operations manager for Citizen Action Fuel Group/Citizen Action of New York, a nonprofit agency in Albany, New York. Send to: Myrna Duray, Alumm Relations, Ponland State University, PO Box 752, Portland OR 97207-0751, 503-725-4948.

28 PSU MAGAZINE WINTER 2003 Rose Marugg MBA is staff fellow Vikings achieve their accountant al Crown Pacific fin ancial goals. Go Viks! " Storie Partners, a limber and wood li ves in Portland. Scien<;e~ Technology products company in Portland. Kelly Ti cornia MS is a coun­ 10% Discount/PSU Alumni Candise Nokes MSW is an selor at l lallman Elementary & Society addictions and mental health School in the Salem-Keizer therapist at her recently estab­ District. She lives in Salem. lished private practice, New Bao Tran is a pans technical Beginnings Counseling Services, analyst with Freightliner. Tran Jo!'mey in Portland. lives in Vancouver, Washington. Gary Paek MBA is a commodity Isabel YanAmburg MA is a into specialist at Intel Corp. in Hills­ school counselor with the Hills­ boro. boro School District. She lives in Samantha Prcdoehl MS is an Forest Grove. Wonder admissions counselor al Christina Witkowski is direc­ Portland State. tor of care at Alaska Baptist Ryan Rice is a computer-aided Family Services, a group home drafter and purchasing agent al in Anchorage. Dr. Oliver Fouch Electric in Portland. Lisa Zand berg MSW is a child David Rowe MBA is vice presi­ and family therapist (outpatient) Sacks dent of product marketing at at The Child Center, a mental WebMD Corporation, a health­ health agency for children and January 17th, 2003 care information services firm in families. Zandberg li ves in Portland. Rowe says, 'Tm fortu­ Eugene. nate to be working on the cut­ ting edge of health care." He enjoys surfing and cycling. His The Super wife, Danette "Danny" Rowe '98, teaches history and English Renaissance at Tigard High School and is completing work on her master's Hjalmar Rathe, associate pro­ Burt degree in history at PSU. They fessor emeritus of accounting, live in Tualatin with their son, died ovember 2 at his home in Evan, a senior at Tualatin Hi gh Portland. He was 76. Prof. Rutan School. Rathe taught accounting and auditing al Portland State from February 21st Philip Sauer is owner of PM 1964 to 1990. In addition, he Construction, LLC, a home had a lifelong interest in his remodeling and repair firm in Norwegian heritage and was a Valparaiso, Indiana. founding member of the candi­ Origi,_ns: Our Michelle Seeds is proprietor at navian Heritage Foundation in Bending Sprite Botanicals, a bio­ Portland. Cosmic Roots dynamic gardening and herbal Bertha Roth MSW '65, of Sher­ Dr.Anne products firm in Portland. wood, died September 3, fol­ Karen Short is a regional lowing a life of community Kinney trainer al Voll Information ci­ service. Roth began her social ences, a staffing and technology service career in Enterprise March 14th, 2003 firm in Beaverton. before spending 15 years as Clatsop County welfare admin­ Rachelle Smythe is a client istrator. She then moved to relations representative at Becoming Salem and served under former Mercedes-Benz of Portland. She Governors Robert Holmes, Mark lives in Milwaukie. Human Hatfield, Tom McCall, and Nathan Stevens is account Robert Straub in multiple Dr. Ian manager for Procter and Gamble administrative posts and ulti­ in Fayeneville, Arkansas. mately as director of public Tattersall assistance for the Oregon Wel­ Stacey Storie writes, 'Tm start­ fare Commission. She received April 11th, 2003 ing a great new career as a many accolades, including the financial adviser for American Distinguished Service Award Express Financial Advisors. I from the city of Salem in 1977 graduated in June 2002 after and 1978. Roth retired in 1978 playing for the PSU women's after 31 years in state govern­ soccer team all four years. I ment social service work. D hope that I can help some of my

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