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This Book is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Portland State Magazine by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LD 4349 ----~~ .A2'1 ·••111111• p68512 \S~\ " We met in college-both ofus the first • in our families to attend a university. Everything we've accomplished since can be traced to our opportunity to earn college degrees. We know through personal experience that education is synonymou with oppor­ tunity, and the quality of education determine the quality of life in our state. After graduation, career paths opened up to us. Marilyn worked for First Interstate Bank (now Wells Fargo) for 22 years. The bank encouraged continuing education and assisted her in earning a master' degree, which opened the doors to teaching part time at Portland Community College. Marilyn's experience speaks to the changing oppor­ tunities for women in education and business. She was the only woman in most of her business courses in the early '70s. Today, the gender ba lance in busi­ ne s courses at PSU is at lea t 50-50, and Portland tate students are increasingly diverse in other ways as well. A university degree opened the door to Ray' career a a CPA. An accounting professor at PSU for the past 20 years, he has also served as a consultant to the Auditing Standards Board and as pre ident of the Oregon ociety of CPAs. Ray is proud to be part of the nationally recognized • accounting program at PSU. "I've seen incred ible growth in the accounting profe ion change over the past 20 years. The number of CPAs in Oregon has doubled, and the quality of those CPAs is higher than ever. An accounting degree i an incredibly rich way to learn how organizations work, especially in a multi-disciplinary program like PSU's. It' truly a high­ way to a wide range of career opportunities." A university education offered us many opportunities that were not open to our parents. Many PSU students are first-generation, which re onates with us. Portland State students are extremely motivated-taking on a lot of challenges while working to build life-long learning habits. As we enter the knowledge economy, the opportunity for Oregonians to enjoy high-paying job and a high quality of life depend more than ever on the quality of higher education in Oregon. We want to hare our legacy of opportunity with others. Our giving, both now and through our estate plans, includes upport for accounting scholarships, the School of Business Administration, and other University-wide programs. To u , philanthropy isn't about money. It's about a better University, a better Oregon. That's why we give to and help P U's fund-raising efforts. We believe that because Portland State give tudent a crucial blend of liberal and professional education, it is the University of the future. 1\qy and cMarilyn Johnson •

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Our Bodies, Our Cells? 8 EDITOR Faculty engage in the ethical debate surrounding genetic privacy. Kathryn Kirkland CONTRIBUTORS Mary Coniglio, Myrna Duray, Clarence Vikings Go West 11 Hein '65, Pat Squire MPA '95, Douglas The ~ otball team makes Hillsboro its home away from home. Swanson, Jean Tuomi, Martha Wagner DESIGN CONSULTANT Terry Daline A Century of Women 12 EDITORIAL OFFICE Photos and stories shed light on the history of Portland's YWCA. 325 Cramer Hall P.O. Box 751 Portland, OR 97207-07 51 Mural Master 16 503-725-4451, FAX: 503-725-4465 After 35 years, the artist who painted the mural E-MAIL: [email protected] ADDRESS CHANGES in Smith Center ha returned to campus. PSU Foundation Demographics P.O. Box 243 Portland, OR 97207-0243 Burn, Buddy, Burn 18 503-725-4911 An economic profe or's fiery invention could E-MAIL: [email protected] help people of the Third World. ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE Pat Squire MPA '95, Director Mary Coniglio, Events Coordinator Myrna Ouray, Administrative Assistant l Cramer Hall DEPARTMENTS P.O. Box 751 Portland, OR 97207-0751 Around the Park Blocks 2 page 16 503-725-4948 E-MAIL: • Drug Use Surprise, Airport on Holding Pattern, Prof Honored by King, [email protected] Bemstine Helps Urban League , Engineering Receives $5 Million ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS Pamela Gesme Miller '84, President Letters 5 Roger Capps '60 Gerry Craig '66 Inclusiveness Praised , Terminology Confusion Patsie Dant '77 Off the Shelf David Fitzpatrick '75, MS '77 6 Ann Gardner '77 Garden Retreats: Creating an Outdoor Sanctuary, The First Fifty: Portland Craig Gilbert '89 State's History from 1946 to 1996 Michelle Girts '83 Ken Hart '90 Philanthropy in Action 19 Laila H irr MS '94 Small Donations Make Scholarship, Helping Women Tamara Ke lley '69 Eva Kripalani '83 Students Bill Lemman, Vanport Carolyn Leonard '77, MS '79 Alumni Association News 20 Jack Ohman '99 Tell Your Story, New to the Board, Dream of Teaching Brian Ray '85 Motivates Alumni Scholar, Benson House: Look at Us Don Riggs '83 Now Gary Salyers '57 Rosanna Schewerda '91, MT '93 Alum Notes 22 Eric Stromquist '81 Cathy Williams '56 Setting the Scene on Broadway, A Talent Agency that Specializes in Minorities ALUMNI AMBASSADORS page 21 Jon Jalali '67, MBA '71, Medford Mary Mertens James '78, Salem Sports 29 Dennis Olson '68, MS '80, Pendleton Athletics Cam/)aign a Winner, Looking Ahead at Fall S/)Orts, New Athletic Cathy Williams '56, Bend Director, Spring Sports Wrap-up PSU Magazine is published three times a year during fa ll, winter, and spring terms for alumni and friends of Portland State Cover University. Contents may be reprinted only by permission of the editor. The magazine is Faculty look at the question, Who owns our DNA? See story on pages 8-10. printed on recycled paper. PSU is an Illustration of double helix and nucleotide sequences by Chad Baker. affirmative action/equal opportunity • institution.

FALL 2000 P U MAGAZINE 1 -& 0 U N D T H E P A R K B L 0 C K S

Vanport remembered Drug use survey surprises Oregon officials

Vanport, the birthplace of PSU, is get­ Illegal drug use more than tripled in the huge percentage jump we got." ting some well-deserved recognition Oregon from 1995 to 1999, according Health officials are unable to 52 years after it disappeared under the to a survey conducted by Bill Feyer­ explain the increase, but estimate that floodwaters of the Columbia River. herm, vice provost for research and one in nine Oregonians need drug or Interpretive signage commemorat­ dean of graduate studies. alcohol abuse treatment, compared to ing Vanport was recently unveiled at Feyerherm directed the survey-based one in 16 in 1995. Heron Lakes Golf Course in north on telephone interviews with 12,017 "It may be people are more com­ Portland, the original site of the city people aero the tate-for the Oregon fortable admitting to (drug) use, but until the Memorial Day flood of 1948. Department of Human Resources. It there's no piece of research that really Students in two senior capstone showed that illicit drug abuse increased tells us why we're seeing what we're classes worked with Portland Parks & from 3.1 percent of the adult popula­ seeing," says Gwen Grams, manager of Recreation and Kaiser-Permanente to tion in 1995 to 10.3 percent in 1999, a planning, evaluation and research at gather the short-lived city's history 232 percent increase. The use of illegal the state Office of Alcohol and Drug and create the signage. drugs now surpasses figures on alcohol Abuse Programs. Her office has already Vanport, built to house shipyard abuse in the state for the first time. begun to expand its treatment and workers during World War 11, opened "We expected some increases prevention programs with a $10 mil­ its doors to returning veterans through because there have been some lion increase in appropriations the Vanport Extension Center, precur­ increases in heroin overdose deaths," approved by the state Legislature last sor to PSU, following the war. says Feyerherm. "But we didn't expect session. Task force recommends a holding pattern • Ground the idea of a new Portland airport, a third run­ acres for any new facility. Since no urban growth bound­ way, or' expanding Hillsboro Airport-at least for the ary in Oregon contains a 10,000-acre parcel sµitab le for next decade. This was the recommendation of a 15- development, a new airport would have to be developed member task force assembled by PSU's Institute of on land currently protected for farm use-requiring a sig- Portland Metropolitan Studies. nificant reappraisal of land use policy in Examining future air transportation the state. needs in Portland was the task put to Similarly, expanding the Hillsboro this group of government and environ­ Airport would require substantial mental representatives. The task force investments, while diverting only a took up where a previous master plan­ small percentage of traffic from the looking at facilities needed by the year main airport. 2020 for the Port of Portland-left off. The task force did recommend that Officially, the group was asked whether the Port embrace three categories of air traffic growth predictions for the activity in the next five years. First, it Portland International Airport are rea­ should plan for greater utilization of the sonable and what alternative plans for present airport and its air space, includ­ growth should be part of the Port's ing gate and ticket pricing strategies and master plan. continued land acquisition. Second, qual­ The task force agreed with studies ity of life issues associated with airport showing that passenger growth in the PAUL MANZ/ARTVILLE operations, such as air and water quality, next 20 years will steadily increase, and came to the con­ noise, and growth management issues, should be clusion that cargo activity, which is forecast to increase addressed. Third, the port should begin work to view the significantly, could be even greater than anticipated. But airport as part of a regional system, which could call on seeking a site for a new airport is not advisable at this other airports to carry some of the future burden. time, the group concluded. The constraints of the 3,200- The task force's full report is on the Web at acre current airport points to the need for a site of 10,000 www.upa.pdx.edu/IMS/. •

2 PSU MAGAZINE FALL 2000 PHOTO BY STEVE BLOCH Cuomo to speak at Simon Political science prof Benson Awards dinner honored by Morocco • Former New York Governor Mario Professor John Damis was in illustrious Cuomo will keynote an evening hon­ company as King Mohammed VI of oring three Oregonians who are giving Morocco decorated him with a medal back to the community. of honor and made him a commander Mary Clark '81 MSW and her hus­ of the Alawite Order this past June. band, Maurie Clark, and Don Frisbee Damis, chair of the Division of will received this year's Simon Benson Political Science in the Mark 0. Hat­ Award at a dinner on November 14. fie ld School of Government, was one The award, which was named after of 11 people decorated by the King for early philanthropist Simon Benson, exemplary service to Morocco in a cer­ honors individuals who have demon­ emony held in Washington, D.C. strated the same commitment to Honors were also bestowed on Jeanne Oregon as Benson did in the early Kirkpatrick, former U.S. ambassador to 20th century. the U.N.; Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Mary and Maurie Clark are long­ president of Georgetown University; time supporters of education around and Sidikki Belyamani, vice president the state. They have provided support Scott Dawson, longtime faculty of Boeing. King Mohammed is the cur­ to University of Portland, Oregon member, is new dean of the rent head of the Alawite dynasty, State University, Marylhust Univer­ School of Business Administra· which has been the ruling dynasty in sity, Oregon Graduate Institute, Port­ tion. For the past year he served Morocco since 1666. land State, and St. Mary's Academy. as interim dean, replacing the Damis was recognized for his More than 30 years ago, they estab­ late Roger Ahlbrandt. Dawson research and extensive writings on lished the Clark Foundation, which has consulted for companies such Morocco, as well as his expert testi­ has helped the Oregon Historical as Costco, May Company, Tek· mony before Congress as it contem­ Society, the Albertina Kerr Center for tronix, and Steinfeld's Products. plated whether to support the United Children, and the Providence Child Nations' mission in Western Sahara . Center. • Don Frisbee's commitment is reflected by his contributions to Campus thermostats on the Internet dozens of organizations, including the Nature Conservancy, Oregon Business The saying "If only the walls could The software has been installed in Council, Oregon Graduate Institute, talk" has new meaning on campus. Smith Memorial Center, Science Portland Opera, Reed College, Port­ Every 15 minutes, software Building 1, and Science Building 2. land State, and United Way. In the installed in three Portland State PSU serves as the exclusive test site mid-1980s, Frisbee chaired a task force buildings gathers data and transmits it for the new technology application in on the future of PSU that laid the over the Internet to a central Web Oregon. In addition to the PSU Facili­ groundwork for Portland State as an site, where it can be retrieved by ties staff, the PGE/PSU project is sup­ urban university. He is the former managers at both Portland General ported by Bill Savery, professor of chairman of PacifiCorp and a past Electric (PGE) and PSU. The data is mechanical engineering, and graduate recipient of the PSU Alumni Award. a detailed energy profile of each build­ student Ann Warren. Engineering Cuomo, three-term governor of ing, showing energy consumption per students are expected to benefit from New York from 1983 to 1995, is widely zone in kilowatt hours with even classroom demonstrations of the state­ regarded as one of America's greatest slight variations in room temperature of-the-art system. orators. Cuomo consistently receives and air pressure. An exciting outcome of this work, standing ovations from audiences This continual energy-use profile is says Savery, could be instantaneous across the county as he shares his per­ enabling PSU to pinpoint exactly how communication between PSU and spective on the role and responsibili­ much energy is being used, leading to PGE when the region's demand for ties of government in American life. energy conservation and cost cutting in power suddenly exceeds supply. Last year's inaugural event featured each building. At the same time it "To avoid having to buy expensive retired Gen. Colin Powell. allows PGE to test a future means of power from another source to meet For more information about the communication between a utility and demand," says Savery, "PGE could Simon Benson Awards dinner, contact its commercial customers. The energy contact PSU and potentially other • the PSU Development Office at project, a first-of-its-kind for PGE, is in large customers and offer incentives to 503-725-8212. anticipation of full deregulation of them if they would temporarily limit commercial electric customers by 2001. their power use."

FALL 2000 PSU MAGAZINE 3 AROUND THE PARK BLOCKS communities develop, train staff fo r, Engineering receives and offer better services for juvenile offenders and their fam ilies. $5 million from city $21 million program for "We are in a unique pos ition ," says Portland Mayor Vera Katz made good youth comes to PSU James Ward, dean of the Graduate on her 2000 State of the C ity promise School of Social Work, "to provide to push fo r a top-tier engineering pro­ The Graduate School of Social Work national leadership by developing and gram at Portland State. At her has received a $2 1 million gra nt to testing curriculum fo r educational spe­ prompting, the Portland Development change how the nation serves sub­ ciali za tion, se rving as a center fo r prac­ Commiss ion amended its 2000-01 stance-abusing juvenile offenders. tice development and training, and budget to allocate $5 million to help The five-year award, made by the developing research opportunities fo r build a new engineering fac ility on Robert Woods Johnson Fo undation, fac ulty and doctoral students." campus. establishes PSU as the national site for The Youth Intervention N etwork The University is seeking $70 mi l­ the Youth Intervention Network Pro­ Program is co-directed by Laura N issen lion fo r the project, which would gram. The network will look at how and Judge Don Owen Costello. Nissen involve the remodeling of the College substance abuse services are conceptu­ was director of the Center fo r High of Engineering and Computer Sci­ alized and made availab le to you th in Risk Youth Stud ies at the Metropoli­ ence's Fourth Avenue Building and the juvenile justice system. For the tan State College of Denver. Costello construction of a new building adja­ project 10 communities will be is chief judge of the Coquille Indian cent to the site. Funding is expected to selected fro m around the country to Tribal Court and acting judge of the come from a combination of private, receive up to $250,000 for each of the Tribal Court of the Confederated corporate, and government dollars dur­ fi ve years. The grant will help these Tribes of the Grande Ronde. ing the next fi ve years. New faci lities would allow the University to double the size of its engineering program and meet the growing need from the Bemstine helps Urban League recover region's high-tech industry for more well-trained graduates. What a difference a year has made for the Urban League of Portland. PSU offers degrees in computer sci­ Severe financial woes last year prompted large supporters such as United ence, electrical and computer engi­ Way of the Columbia-Willamette to withdraw its funding from the League. neering, engineering and technology Today the support is back and the organization is unMargaret Carter. software engineering, sys tems engi­ Much of the League's present success can be attributed to PSU President neering, and civil and environmental Dan Bernstine, says Carter. Since becoming chairman of the Urban League engineering. The University recently board in January, Bernstine reestablished ties with important supporters and received approval to offer a Ph.D. in helped boost the effectiveness of the group's leadership. computer sc ience. Among his accomplishments, according to Carter, president and CEO of In exchange fo r the $5 million the League, were his negotiations with Bank of allocation, the Portland Development America to consolidate the Urban League's debts Commiss ion will acquire property or and work with Key Bank to extend loan payment the rights to develop property that schedules. Portland State owns. The final agree­ Carter credits Bernstine for starting Monday ment is still being negotiated. Morning Quarterback meetings with board mem­ bers to help improve relationships with the busi­ Students appointed to ness community. He also brought in PSU's Institute fo r N onprofit Management to help the important state boards League form a recovery action plan. O nce the Two Portland State students are serv­ League's finances stabilized, he organized addi­ ing on key education boards fo r the tional meetings on fund raising to get the League state fo llowing appointment by Gov. back on its feet. John Kitzhaber. Tim Young was Bernstine, who has been on the board since appointed to the Oregon State Board 1998, was not scheduled to become chair until of Higher Education, and Anne the spring of 2000. He assumed the role in January to reconstitute the board Cohen now sits on the State Student and ass ign tasks, says Carter. Ass istance Commission. Both wi ll "His leadership restored the confidence in the community necessary for serve two-year terms. the League to fulfill its role as the premier agency for civil rights and help­ Young is the seventh PSU student ing low- income people," she says. to serve on the governing board of the •

4 PSU MAGAZINE FALL 2000 PHOTO BY STEVE DIPAOLA seven-campus system. The board has included two student representatives since 1974. Young was PSU student body president this past year and served as student fee committee chair and vice chair the two previous years. He also was on a committee of facul ty and Unive rsity leaders that identified University direction and priorities. Young is pursuing a degree in business administration wi th a minor in politi­ cal science. In her new post on the State Stu­ dent A ss istance Commission , Cohen will help guide the state's financial aid program. The commission is also the guarantee agency fo r student loans. Cohen, who graduated this past June, was active in the disability com­ munity at PSU as we ll as student gov­ ernment, and achieved an impress ive The University's new front door, the Urban Center Building and Plaza, academic record. She is now pursuing was formally dedicated September 22. a Master of Public Administration degree. Cohen is the third student from PSU to serve on the board since 1975. L E T T E R S Couple's gift largest ever Inclusiveness praised Gary Ames '67, fo rmer chief of US • West, and his wife, Barbara Ames '68, I just wanted to commend the editorial staff for highlighting the contribu­ have given the largest, single personal tion of Phillip Gibbons and Orville Garrison (inside front cover, spring donation ever made to Portland State. 2000 PSU Magazine) to the Graduate School of Social Work. Your inclu­ Their gift of $ 1.5 million will endow a siveness of all members of the PSU community is appreciated. business professorship and scholar­ Christine Cress ships. PSU Education faculty The couple's donation establishes the Ames Professorship in the Man­ agement of Innovation and Technol­ Terminology causes confusion ogy. The School of Business The article "Going to Extremes" (page 6, spring 2000 PSU Magazine) was A dministration will hire a nationally interesting reading. I have a question about the use of the two words "bac­ renowned e-business expert to fill the teria" and "microbes. " They seemed to be used interchangeably as syn­ professorship by fa ll 2001. The annual onyms. I would have appreciated it if the author had defined these two salary of $ 120,000 to $140,000 is terms. Are they indeed synonyms? expected to attract a top expert in electronic business, the fastest-growing John Sutherland, Jr. specialty in the business school. Sent by e-mail The Ames Scholarship Program The terms microbe and bacteria are not quite synonymous . The term microbe will finance the education of future refers to living organisms too small to be seen by the naked eye , including bacte­ leaders in the fi elds of business and ria, protozoa and some fungi . A bacterium (plural : bacteria) is a microbe that has education. The U niversity expects to no nucleus. - David Boone, professor of environmental microbiology grant approx imately 10 Ames scholar­ ships a year. PSU Magazine wants to hear from you. Send your comments to PSU Gary Ames was president and chief Magazine, Portland State University, PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207- executive officer of US West Commu­ 0751; or to e-mail address [email protected]. We reserve the right to nications, Medi aOne Internatio nal, edit for space and clarity. • and Mountain Bell. Barbara Ames was an elementary school teacher. D

FALL 2000 PSU MAGAZINE 5 T H E S H E L F • A Trick of Nature Skin Deep Youth at Risk: A Prevention by Suzanne Matson '81, Norton, 2000. by Kathleen Cross (1990-92), Avon Resource for Counselors, Books, 1999. Teachers, and Parents Matson has set this, her second novel, In her debut novel, Cross writes from edited by David CaJJUZzi (education fac- with a suburban family that feels safe her personal experience as a "white- ulty) and Douglas Gross, third edition, and secure in its place in the world. looking" black woman. Skin Deep tells Counseling Association, 2000. That is until lightening strikes-both the story of Nina Moor, a blue-eyed, Children who drop out of high school literally and figuratively-and its white-skinned daughter of a renowned or those who graduate without a true members are forced to test the assump­ African American jazz musician and education, future direction, or sense tions they hold about themselves and activist. Nina embarks on a quest for of self are the youth Capuzzi and Gross each other. Matson teaches at Boston information about her absent, white are writing about. Their best-selling College and lives in Newton, Massa­ mother and disturbs the peace of her text provides the necessary founda- chusetts. Her first novel was The otherwise supportive black family. Skin tions to reduce the vulnerability of Hunger Moon, and she has also written Deep was nominated this past summer these children and see them as being two volumes of poetry, Sea Level and for two "Gold Pen" awards by the "at promise" rather than "at risk." Durable Goods. African American Online Writers Guild. Garden Retreats: Creating an Tomas Svoboda Piano Outdoor Sanctuary Works Vol. 1 The Gate in the Wall by Barbara Blossom Ashmun '74, photos by Tomas Svoboda (music faculty), North by Ellen Howard '79 , Atheneum Books for by Allan Mandell, Chronicle Books, 2000. Pacific Music, 1999. Young Readers, 1999. What better way to Professor Svoboda's music is performed Emma, a child laborer create a relaxing worldwide and often. A renowned of mid-1800s Victorian and intimate space American composer of Czech heritage, England, provides the within a garden his best-known orchestral work (com­ main character for than to collect the missioned by the Oregon Symphony), Howard's 15th book for stories and sights Overture of the Season, Opus 89 has young people. Finding of others who have alone received more than 200 perfor­ herself late and locked found success? Ash- mances. In this initial volume of works out of the silk mill mun and Mandell for solo piano, we hear the composer where she toils 10 have created a cof- at the piano-his first and most inti­ hours a day, Emma dis- fee table-like book mate instrument-rendering a frag­ covers a gate that leads (in an affordable ment of his immense body of chamber to the canals of Eng- paperback package) works. land and a whole new that leads by exam- life. The plight of industrial England's pie. With the help of others' gorgeous Great River of the West: Essays poor makes for fascinating reading. gardens, Ashmun focuses readers so on the Columbia River Howard, who lives in Greeley, Col- they can define their own style of edited by William Lang (history faculty) orado, is also the author of Sister, Edith sanctuary-be it as simple as two and Robert Carriker, 1999. Herself, A Different Kind of Courage, chairs beneath a shady tree. and other historical novels. The people of the Pacific Northwest Other books & recordings have always had a complex relation­ Reviews are of faculty and alumni ship with their river, the Columbia. Handbook of Cross-Cultural and Multi- books, recordings, and Web publica- Lang and Carriker have gathered essays cultural Personality Assessment, edited tions. To have a work considered for that highlight important episodes in by Richard Dana (Regional Research this page, please submit pertinent this history, providing what is really a Institute faculty), Lawrence Erlbaum, information to Mary Ellen Kenreich, history of the region. Great River PSU Library faculty, via e-mail to 2000. includes stories of mariners who chal­ [email protected], or fax to 503- lenge the Columbia River bar, a family 725-5799, or mail to Portland State Atmospheric Methane: Its Role in the torn by insanity, native people who University, PO Box 1151, Portland, Global Environment, edited by Moham- preserve fishing traditions, and dam­ OR 97207-0751. mad Aslam Khan Khalil (physics fac- builders who radically change the river. ulty), Springer-Verlag, 2000. D •

6 PSU MAGAZINE FALL 2000 olitics, economics, even nature Stephen Epler, and with crucial sup­ While emphasizing the formative stood in the way of the establishment port from the federal government, the period up until 1969, when Portland of Portland State University. Support­ education center for returning veter­ State finally gained university status, • ers fought each step of the way to take ans flourished. Unfortunately, two Dodds also introduces many of the the institution from temporary exten­ years into its existence a swollen individuals and episodes that were part sion center to college to university sta­ Columbia River breached the dikes of the institution's first 50 years. tus. Today PSU is the second largest surrounding Vanport and destroyed From Portland State's first female university in the state, granting more the city and the center. During the administrator (librarian Jean Black), advanced degrees than any of its sister next four years the in titution moved beloved professor George Hoffmann, institutions. three times, all the while fighting for and student activist Joe Uris to the its very existence. In 1955, Portland upheaval of the 1970 Park Blocks State realized a major victory when it "riot" and the at times adversarial achieved college status. relationship between the administra-

hroughout The College That Woul.d Not Die, Dodds uncovers the obvious Meet Professor Gordon Dodds and concerted attempts against e tab­ at a book signing on campus lishing a major university in Portland. Thursday, Oct. 26, from 3 to Naysayers included the state's other major universities, often with rein­ 6 p.m. in the Vanport Room forcement from the chancellor and (338 Smith Memorial Center). state board and others who would do Books will be available for purchase. Cost is $40 and all The sbbrt but ultuous history of PSU is tol proceeds go to scholarships. Gordon Dodds' new

Portland State has a unique story to the older schools' bidding. Besieged on tion and the student newspaper, Dodds tell, and Gordon Dodds reveals it in many fronts by those who feared com­ provides a revealing look at the people The College That Woul.d Not Die: The petition for students and resources (and and events that not only made PSU a First Fifty Years of Portland State Uni­ by their charge of "duplication of monument to survival but a model for versity, 1946-1996. Dodds, emeritus effort"), Portland State overcame hur­ what a modern university can be-an professor of history, is well-suited to dle after hurdle in its quest to serve the integral part of its community, where the task. A faculty member since higher education needs of the Portland the healthy exchange of ideas feeds 1966, he served as University historian metropolitan area. the ever-expanding horizon of higher and has written seven books on Pacific education. Northwest history. Drawing from years entral to the formation-and, Published in collaboration with of research, Dodds introduces the peo­ indeed, survival--0f Portland State is Oregon Historical Society Press, The ple and events that not only played Epler, a man who until now has gone College That Woul.d Not Die is 544 roles in PSU's first 50 years but served largely unrecognized for his role in pages and contains more than 60 black to develop the character of the college establishing the institution that became and white illustrations. Cost is $40 that would not die. PSU. Epler's contributions, sacrifices, and all proceeds go to scholarships. The University can trace its root and behind-the-scenes political maneu­ To order a copy, call 503-725-8250. I to a campus in the dilapidated remains verings on its behalf are revealed, as is of Vanport, a World War 11 hou ing his later snub by the very officials who (This article was written by the book's project. Nurtured by its founder, could have rewarded his efforts. editor and designer, Lori Root.)

FALL 2000 PSU MAGAZINE 7 ust as this past summer was heating up, news media throughout the world were touting a major scientific J breakthrough: the mapping of the human genome. •» Never mind that the mapping wasn't-and still isn't- complete. And never mind that scientists are far from agree- ing on the number of genes humans have, and exactly how they work within our cells. The fact that science appeared to be close to deciphering the blueprint for what makes us human was at once wondrous and creepy. Wondrous because of the possibilities for fighting geneti­ cally triggered disease. Creepy because, some feel, scientists are peeking through the blinds of our private domain, enabling them to uncover secrets that many of us would pre­ fer to keep to ourselves. The human genome project also has added fuel to a debate that has been stirring in Oregon for the past six years. The debate centers on how our genetic information may be used by pharmaceutical researchers, by insurance companies, and by anybody else for whatever reason. Three Portland State faculty are at the forefront of that debate, and the work two of them are doing now will impact how the Oregon Legislature will tackle genetic privacy issues when it reconvenes in January. Margaret Everett, assistant professor of anthropology, is a member of the Genetic Research Advisory Committee (GRAC). The group was created by the Legislature to study ge netic privacy issues and develop a legal framework to define the rights of individuals whose DNA samples are collected, stored, analyzed, and disclosed. Her work as a cultural anthropologist makes Everett uniquely qualified to speak about the ethics of studying human beings. A specialist in urban development in Latin America, Everett says people have the right to say yes or no to being the subject of research, even if that research poses no risk. That same sentiment formed the backbone of the 1995 Oregon Genetic Privacy Act, the first law of its kind in the nation, which says a person's DNA is his or her own personal property. lt cannot be used for any purpose, including research, without that person's informed consent. Since then, lawmak­ ers have amended the Act to create exceptions, in effect soft­ ening the intent of the original law. One bill, passed by both houses of the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. John Kitzhaber, permits research if the samples are anonymous, and if it is conducted under federa l policy guidelines. That bill also created GRAC, the advisory committee Everett sits on. GRAC is currently working on a bill that will further update the Act in an effort to balance the needs of research and the privacy of the public. Everett says it may include fines against medical lab if genetic test information is leaked.

verett's feelings on the subject are as personal as they are academic-maybe more so. Her three-month-old Eson Jack died in 1998 of an extremely rare disease linked to a recessive gene that both she and her husband share. At that point, she says she and her husband felt "thrust into the world of genetics." t While Jack was still alive, doctors took tissue samples ro see how the disease might manifest itself. After he died, more samples were used for research-with the Will there come a tect of the public involvement process for permission of Everett and her hu band. the Oregon Health Plan and did similar "Like any parents, we hoped some­ time when you will work for Oregon Health Decisions. It was thing good would come out of it. At the through that project that he met Fowler, same time, we were uncomfortable with be denied a job and became part of Geneforum. the idea of him becoming a research sub­ because your When trying to find out what the ject," she says. public is thinking on controversial She asked the medical professionals prospective issues, decision makers typically use where the samples would be-if they quantitative analysis-in other words, would be transferred to a different lab-­ employer was able they survey the public and find out what because she didn't like the idea of not percentage is for or against a certain knowing where "Jack" was, even if it was to look at your issue. One problem with this approach is only his cells. She asked about the kinds of personal genetic its corruptibility, says Anderson. Some research that would be done, and learned organizations get paid for flooding that the tissue samples could be used for a profile? polling systems with phony data, which variety of purposes not yet known. distorts the numbers, he adds. Her discomfort peaked in 1999, when Anderson took a different approach the Oregon Senate voted to change the with Geneforum. He used a qualitative Genetic Privacy Act to broaden the parameters for testing. method, relying on written statements of the participants. It's She wrote to The Oregonian newspaper: " ... my own experi­ less corruptible, and it offers the public opportunities to make ence tells me that more than our genetic codes, the Senate creative suggestions on the whole genetic privacy issue. may have signed away our very identities to the biotechnol­ "One bright person could make a suggestion that could ogy industry." affect the whole issue. That person's opinion will be heard by Now a member of GRAC, Everett can lend an even the governor and the Legislature," says Anderson. stronger voice to the issue. In addition to giving people a chance to express them­ "There is a point at which I don't want my child to be selves, the Web site also allows participants to see what oth­ used for profit-at least without my thought or participation. ers have written and to respond to those comments. So, my concerns are that consent not be lost with whatever "This is a good way to make this democracy work a little bet­ changes the Legislature makes and that we retain the ability ter, and provide a more meaningful way to make decisions. The to make decisions," she says. problem is getting people to show up at the Web site," he says. On the Web since March, Geneforum is still fairly new. other voice on the Genetic Research Advisory Com­ Fowler says other bioethics organizations are asking to put nittee is Gregory Fowler, a clinical associate Geneforum banners on their sites, so he's confident traffic to A professor of public health at Oregon Health Sciences Geneforum will continue to grow. University. Struck by the lack of public involvement in the whole genetics issue, he founded Geneforum in 1998 as a way here's plenty to comment on, with issues such as to funnel public comments to lawmakers. By logging on to genetic privacy and genetically altered food. The www.geneforum .org, participants can post messages about a T ramifications of science's ability to know about and number of ethical dilemmas regarding genetic research, manipulate DNA are vast. genetic enhancement of crops, and the use of human DNA. American agricultural companies are fighting multimil­ You can "Visit The Doctor" and fill out a form asking your lion-dollar public relations battles over the genetically modi­ consent for your tissues to be used in research. Each question fied crops they produce, largely because European countries on the "clipboard" is paired with a link describing the benefits don't want to buy them. and risks of your decision. Click on "Go Shopping" and you Then there's the potential of stigmatizing people based on are given the choice of buying foods that are genetically engi­ their genes. We already know that the incidence of prostate neered, unlabeled, or organically grown. Which would you cancer is higher than average among a certain Jewish ethnic pick? It asks you to give a reason. Ultimately, all posted com­ group, and that sickle cell anemia targets African Americans. ments will be used by members of the GRAC. What other diseases will scientists be able to link to other The whole idea of Geneforum is to create an informed ethnic groups, and how will that knowledge affect their abil­ populace. People will have opinions anyway, and many of ity to get insurance? Let's say the women in your family have those opinions will find their way to high places. Fowler just a higher than average incidence of breast cancer. Will there wants them to have a sound basis. come a time when you will be denied a job because your "The public will appear at the door. The question is what prospective employer was able to look at your personal will they be brandishing?" he says. genetic profile? The designer of the public input section of geneforum.org is These are just a few of the ethical dilemmas Patricia Barry Anderson, PSU professor emeritus of psychology. A spe­ Backlar is tackling as a member of the National Bioethics • cialist in how people make decisions, Anderson had been Advisory Commission (NBAC). A member of PSU's philoso­ working in this arena for a long time. He was the chief archi- phy and sociology faculty, Backlar is one of 18 high-profile

FALL 2000 PSU MAGAZINE 9 experts from throughout the United States helping to form ' v/ .j ...... ·1' r ' r' rI ~ ' r I r ,., r r j I r J ... ,_,, ... policy on a full range of bioethical issues. 'J -~-- ...... ~ ~ The following question and c:hoic:es were condensed from the Like Everett, her connection with bioethics is personal. genejorum.c:om Web site. Completing this survey online provides Her 38-year-old son, David, has schizophrenia, and much of Gene/arum with input that c:ould affec:t public: polic:y. • her career developed from the issues she faced as his mother. She has written widely on psychiatric and biomedical You go to your doctor's office for a routine checkup. Your doctor suspects that you might be at risk of colon cancer and research practices and is the author of The Family Face of wants you to have a sigmoidoscopy. In the course of that pro­ Schizophrenia (Putnam, 1994, and paperback, 1995). In addi­ cedure, the physician is likely to take a biopsy of any suspi­ tion, she serves as assistant director for the Center for Ethics cious polyps. in Health Care at Oregon Health Sciences University. When you go for the test, you are given a form that asks She was well-suited to the task President Bill Clinton put you to decide how your tissue may be used in the future. before the NBAC when he created the commission in 1997. Which choice(s) are you most comfortable with? The group was to come up with recommendations on both 1. I grant permission for my tissue to be used for genetic the rights and the welfare of human research subjects, and the research, without any restrictions. use of genetic information in enterprises such as human gene Benefits: This may help researchers develop ways to prevent, patenting. The NBAC has written reports on this huge scope detect, and treat genetically-influenced diseases such as of sensitive issues, all of which can be viewed on the Web at colon cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood www.bioethics.gov/ pubs. html. pressure, breast cancer, and prostate cancer. In 1999 the NBAC produced "Research Involving Human Risks: There could be harmful consequences if your informa­ Biological Materials: Ethical Issues and Policy Guidance." It tion got into the wrong hands. For this reason, in federally recognized that the use of human biological material by funded research, precautions are taken to keep your identity researchers is vital to the advancement of human health, but confidential. Although there is a risk of loss of confidential­ the rights and welfare of those who provide the specimens ity, the risk is very small. should never be compromised. 2. I grant permission for my tissue to be used for genetic "The informed consent process is the linchpin that keeps in research so long as no information that identifies me or is place a cluster of protections necessary for the safety of partici­ obtained from my medical records is forwarded with the pants in human subject research," says Backlar. "Consent that is sample. freely made, while truly infonned and understood is at the heart Benefits: Your identity and medical records will be of the matter." confidential. The report suggests interpretations and clarifying language Risks: Your tissue may not be useful since your medical his­ for current federal regulations that can protect subjects' rights tory will not be available. If many people made this choice, and interests and at the same time permit well-designed it could take scientists longer to develop ways to prevent, research to go forward using biological material already in detect, and treat genetically influenced diseases. storage as well as specimens newly collected. The NBAC esti­ 3. I grant permission for my tissue to be used for genetic mates there are more than 282 million tissue samples stored research so long as I am given any information that could in labs throughout the country. affect my health or that of my children. The commission, which gathers public input for its reports Benefits: You would be informed by your physician if the through meetings every month or so, will be dissecting research generated information on factors that increase your bioethical dilemmas well into 2001. risk of getting a serious disease. And, if this is inherited, you could inform your children. he point of these commissions, public meetings, Risks: Complying with your request for information may not reports, and Web sites is that they help to form the be reasonable for a researcher who must balance time avail­ Tpolicies that eventually find their way into our laws, able, cost, ethical issues, and uncertain medical significance. our courts, and the labs where research is taking place. It is a As a result, your sample might not be used. Even if your tis­ sometimes slow, but ultimately crucial soul-searching that sue is used, information that would be useful to you may not trickles down to real life. Just this past August, President be available for many years. Or, you could be misinformed based on preliminary information that turns out later to be Clinton, at the urging of the medical establishment and the inaccurate. public, announced new, more stringent rules to protect the privacy of medical records-in part because of genetic infor­ 4. I refuse permission for my tissue to be used for genetic mation they may reveal. research under any conditions, and I request that my tissue be destroyed after the test is completed. The implications of science's unlocking of the human genome are just beginning. They will become increasingly Benefits: Your identity and medical records would be confi­ prevalent in the decades to come as we all learn to speak dential. what President Clinton called "the language in which God Risks: Because your tissue has been destroyed, you cannot created life." D benefit from any research results which might come from a re-examination of your tissue. New discoveries that may save (John Kirkland, a Portland freelance writer, wrote the article lives in the future often come from research on stored tissue samples. "Going to Extremes," in the spring 2000 PSU Magazine.)

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FALL 2000 PSU MAGAZINE 11 Miss Essie Maguire. YWCA executive director, The YWCA of Portland Is a place for women explaiM proposed downtown center in 1953. to socialize.

earing the stories of women and Through the PSU program, which began In anticipation of its Htheir call to social action at the turn in 1996, students research archives, inter­ centennial, of two centuries is more than a class view women, and present an annual public students gather and share project; it is a lesson in life. forum. The course, which will continue this the history of For the past 99 years, women involved academic year, will culminate in a major Portland's YWCA. in the YWCA of Greater Portland have sup­ public exhibition of the history of the ported women and families, helping them YWCA and Portland women, scheduled to achieve independence, health, and a sense open in November 2001. of community. Students in senior capstone "I was worried because the class is not classes are researching their stories in limited to history students," says Patricia anticipation of the YWCA of Portland's Schechter, assistant professor of history and centennial celebration in 2001. the primary instructor for the class. "But it's "I learned a lot about ethics and the been most rewarding. The students are idea of respecting a woman's life story, remarkably consistent and have produced f) hearing about her experiences, and not high-quality research and analysis." treating her like a document," said a stu­ Faculty members Melissa Gilbert, dent in one of the classes this past spring. women's studies, and Anne Musse, histury, 12 PSU MAGAZINE FALL 2000 The YWCA has alway! provided housing for single women in downtown Portland.

have taught similarly successful classes for whom they perceived were struggling to the YWCA project in earlier years. survive amidst urban, industrial life. Among Conducting the study has required stu­ the social and educational activities they dents to become knowledgeable in 20th­ sponsored were outdoor hikes called century American history and sociology. "tramps" and "Sunday at Home" programs Questions of religion, feminism, race, class, that included a religious talk, music, games, and politics among organized women have and a free supper. influenced their research. Housing for women was a commitment of the organization from the start, and by T;,e Young Women's Christian Association 1919 the YWCA opened a residence home I 'is an organization with roots in 19th­ for working women. In the following The community enjoys an exhibit and century Anglo-American Protestantism, but decade the Portland organization presentation on the YWCA from senior during the 20th century it changed from a expanded its mission to serve not just capstone students during Women's primarily evangelical organization to one of young, single working women, but high History Month in March 2000. • social service. In the early years, the school and grade school girls as well. founders ministered to the physical and spir­ Like the national organization, the early itual needs of young, wage-earning women Portland YWCA was committed to serving FALL 2000 PSU MAGAZINE 13 AP ANE~E ~ ooo For

The Yaleda Club for Japanese women spon­ sors a food booth at the YWCJ(s 1954 fair. minorities, and also like the national YWCA against them. The Williams Avenue Branch Also during the war, the Portland YWCA it did so through segregated clubs. The of the YWCA opened in 1926 to serve a included 100 Japanese-American women Portland organization sponsored clubs for predominantly African American community among its membership. A fearful U.S. gov­ native-born whites, African Americans, and in northeast Portland. However, that facility ernment sent Japanese-Americans to Chinese and Japanese women. Segregation was turned over to the United Service internment camps for the duration of the of services was the norm throughout the Organization (USO) for use by African war. The YWCA made a mild protest for its YWCA until 1946, when the national lead­ American soldiers from 1942 to 1947. members, but otherwise "supported" those ership passed an "interracial charter" When the branch reopened after World War interned at a nearby detention center and encouraging the end of segregated pro­ 11, its membership mix had to be interracial, later at Camp Minodoka in Hunt, Idaho. gramming and organization across the as required by the national YWCA's new "When powerful forces in the dominant country. charter. PSU students discovered that a society refused to recognize that Japanese­ trust had been breached between the Americans were Americans, the YWCA tudent researchers found that Portland YWCA leadership and the African American remained supportive, but silent," wrote a Swomen in the 1940s were committed community because of the loss of this facil­ student in her capstone paper. to the cause of eliminating racism, but the ity. It took decades before African American In later years the YWCA of Portland sentiment of the country often worked membership in the Portland YWCA returned started programs that became national to its pre-war numbers.

14 PSU MAGAZINE FALL 2000 models: a mother-child camp begun in special needs of the elderly and youth in 1963 at YWCA's Camp Westwind on the downtown Portland. Oregon Coast, and a single-parent camp The history of the YWCA of Greater begun in 1973. In 1994 the YWCA estab­ Portland is a rich and unique story, and one lished an innovative camp for gay and les­ that its members are eager to share. bian families. "Women in the organization have played a central role for us in recovering and i:day the YWCA helps nearly 31,000 retelling the YWC/f.s story," says Schechter. I Lpeople a year through its 10 programs "It's been an attempt to do 'community his­ at five centers in the Portland area, plus tory'; history that is collaborative, account­ Camp Westwind. Plans are under way to able, and dynamic in its relation to the Gretchen Rowland '00, history major, redevelop the block surrounding the orga­ community." talks about her research on the YWCA nization's downtown facility at SW 10th The leadership at the YWCA's national during a public forum at the northeast and Main Street. Microsoft has provided a headquarters in New York City has its eye center in March 2000. • $1 million grant for the plan . The new com­ on the effort, hoping it will become a plex will offer housing and focus on the model for other local YWCAs. D

FALL 2000 PSU MAGAZINE 15 a P U art tudent 35 years ago, Allen). "At the same time I want my to stretch canvas over a frame. But as AIsaka Shamsud-Din could hardly work to have aesthetic qualitie that the only African American art major, have imagined the Art Department's anyone can appreciate." hamsud-Din fe lt alienated. Two years mural contest would have such a last­ Judging by the critical acclaim his later, he dropped out to become an ing influence on his career, the city of work has garnered over the years, organizer for the Student Non-Violent Portland, and Portland State. many do. Coordinating Committee, helping His winning entry in the contest­ with integration efforts in Arkansas a vibrant, 14-foot mural of luminous ( hamsud-Din's artistic ability showed before moving to San Francisco in the colors and tragic figure - till glows in ) itself earl y. At 14 he entered a mid-1960s. Smith Memorial Center's south stair­ national art competition, earning the In the Bay Area, his political well. Among the kaleidoscope of right to attend summer essions at a involvement grew. He organized a images is John Daniels, a Portland Midwestern art camp for the next conference on Black Power and Black African American activist (and one of three year . But when he graduated Art, was active in the Black Panther PSU's first African American class from Jefferson High School in 1959, Party, and lectured at San Francisco presidents) who became a teacher Shamsud-Din saw no path into the State Experimental College in a pro­ before committing suicide. Daniel i wo rld of serious art-he wasn't even gram that later became the college's shown twice-falling in the upper sure there wa a place for true African Black tudies program. right quadrant, his body in the grip of American art as he wanted to make it, Wherever he wa , though, Sham­ fo rces beyond his control, and again in not the African American "lite" art he sud-Din always painted, his work the lower left, his corpse draped with had seen, filled with appeasing stereo­ consistently recognized by critics. He African cloth and tenderly held by types. He drifted for several years, then directed an Franci co's Black Arts two figures. found a toehold at Portland State. We t and was featured in the book "My work is a message for African The school offered him much­ Black Artists on Art, Vol. 2 under the people," says Shamsud-Din (born Isaac needed training in such basics as how name Isaac Nommo, which he had .

16 PSU MAGAZINE FALL 2000 adopted from an African language. But it i for his murals that Sham­ sud-Din hopes one day to raise funding When he joined the Nation of Islam sud-Din is perhaps best known. to complete the project. in the late 1960s, he took the name Meantime, Shamsud-Oin continues Shamsud-Oin, Arabic for "sun of life." is vivid wall paintings adorn the his own work and pursues other HPortland Justice Center, dreams, especially to earn a graduate n 1967 the More Bookstore in San McMenamins Kennedy School, and degree. He returned to PSU in 1998 at IFranci co exhibited his work. And other buildings, schools and commu­ the age of 57 to earn a bachelor's when he returned to Portland to live nity centers throughout the city. But degree and is now finishing a master's near family a year or two later, the one dream has eluded Shamsud-Din degree. Part of his program require exhibits continued, including a place for more than 20 years. that Shamsud-Oin teach; fittingly he in the Portland Art Museum's Spec­ Shamsud-Oin envisions a street in chose Art 199 and 399-mural trum '70 and later a one-man show at the heart of north Portland lined with painting. the museum. He taught black tudies perhaps as many as 50 or 60 murals. For four weeks in mid ummer, and mural painting at PSU briefly, Funding from the Comprehensive under his guidance, a dozen students served as vi ual arts ombudsman for Employment and Training Act covered the stairwells of Neuberger the city of Portland, and earned a (CETA) in 1977 allowed Shamsud­ Hall with murals of their own de ign National Endowment for the Arts fel­ Oin and five other artists to create six and execution-in a sense bringing low hip. The Univer ity of Oregon of the panels. They covered the exte­ Shamsud-Oin full circle. 0 Museum of Art mounted a traveling rior of the Albina Human Resources exhibit of hi work, which it described Center in north Portland, but over as "confrontive, sensitive, and vibrant time the panels deteriorated and when (Melissa Steineger, a Portland freelance with color and expression" and with the center was moved, the panels were writer, wrote the article "The Science of • "dynamic use of paint and line." removed and returned to the arti ts. Swat, " which appeared in the spring 2000 Still committed to his vision, Sham- PSU Magazine.)

FALL 2000 PSU MAGAZINE 17 ow would you like to spend 50 BushBuddy uses secondary combustion. Hpercent of your income to fu el your The result: an ultra-clean fire. stove- while filling your home with With the BushBuddy, u ers don't deadly fumes and making your chil­ have to destroy trees fo r cooking; they dren sick? can use twigs, or even dried animal That's an easy question to answer waste, which-as U.S. settlers fo und fo r most U.S. residents. But fo r three with buffalo "chips"-makes for a fine billion people-half the world's popu­ flame when dry. lation-the response has been, "I have The BushBuddy, Hall hoped, would no choice." John Hall , professor of be a solution fo r the Zambian fa milies economics and international studies struggling to pay fo r charcoal. After and chair of PSU's Department of Eco­ refining the design over several years, nomics, didn't like that answer. he successfully negotiated his way While a 1995 Fulbright fellow in through a yea rs- long labyrinth to Zambia, Hall watched as families strug­ patent his invention and began the gled to keep their cooking fires burn­ even more arduous task of marketing. ing. Charcoal was and is the primary fu el fo r people of the region, he discov­ n February 1999, two months after ered. But buying charcoal claims half a I receiving a patent, Hall flew to typical fa mily's income. It also appear Alaska to peddle the BushBuddy at to be destroying the ecosystem as Zam­ the Fur Rendezvous, an annual event bian bum the trees of their frag ile bringing together an eclectic mix of canopied savannah to make charcoal. people interested in the outdoors. The Hall also observed that burning response to the BushBuddy was enthu- charcoal indoors induces and worsens iastic, but small. Hall approached two many respiratory ailments. Later he large camp stove manufacturers, but fo und that worldwide as many as fo ur wasn't able to interest them in produc­ million children may die every year ing the stove on his terms; Hall wants from respiratory ills, especially pneu­ at least an average level of royalty per monia, exacerbated by the toxic fumes unit, money he hopes would help sup­ and particulates in smoke. ply developing countries with the "Not only was buying charcoal a BushBuddy. With the help of fo rmer great depletion of the resources of the U.S. Sen. Mark 0. Hatfjeld, he fa mily," says Hall, "but manufacturing approached disaster relief agencies. charcoal was destroying the savannah, Aga in, the results fell short. and burning charcoal within the So fo r now, Hall continues to sell a closed environment of homes was stove or two each week to customers making children sick." A trip to Zambia brought who find his BushBuddy.com Web site out unknown talents in or hear about his stove from friends. If n avid camper and wood stove this PSU professor. the world should come knocking, Hall Aenthusiast, Hall envisioned an is ready. But he's also eager to get back alternative to charcoal fires: an ultra­ to his first interest, economic science. efficient field stove- one that used By Melissa Steineger "I'd like to get back to my research on abundant, read ily gathered twigs. On Central Eu rope," he says. his return to Portland, Hall took weld­ "What I really need is ing classes and eventuall y fas hioned someone with good the first BushBuddy, a fi eld stove of intentions to pick exceptional effi ciency. up the Bush­ Fire typicall y emits some of its Buddy where unburned fu el source as organic mater­ I'd like to ial in smoke. If the smoke from a camp­ leave off."D fire has ever sought you out, you've experienced firsthand the watery eyes and coughing those particulates pro­ Professor duce. The BushBuddy shoots searing air John Hall into its smoke, igniting and burning (left) built virtually all of the remaining organic the fuel. material, or, in scientific parlance, the efficient ' stove (top) after visiting 18 P U MAGAZINE FALL 2000 Zambia. PH I L A N T HR 0 p y I N ACTION • Small donations make scholarship possible A steady grassroots effort in memory of Glady McCoy has brought the Mozart's comic McCoy Graduate Scholar hip to the opera, The Mar­ brink of its $100,000 fund-rai ing goal. riage of Figaro, was The graduate scholar hip, estab­ a Lavish production lished in 1994, awards money to ethni­ sung by an all­ cally di ver e social work students who student cast to demonstra te interest in policy devel­ sold-out crowds opment and servi ces fo r children and this past spring. families. McCoy was chair of the The production Multnomah County Board of Commis­ was made possible sion and a 1967 MSW graduate. he through a gener­ also taught social work classes at ous gift from Portland State in the 1970s. James F. Miller, a The scholar hip fund stands at Longtime opera $94,000, most of which has come in patron. the form of mall donations from a wide spectrum of the population. Four stu­ dent have received scholarships so fa r. Volunteers and donors supporting the fund include Ruby Haughton, a fo r­ mer 1 bbyi t fo r US Bank of Oreg n who knew the late Bill McCoy, G ladys' A decade of helping women students • husband, when he was a state enator. "Gladys and Bill were mentors of This fall mark the 10th anniversary Washington County's Domestic mine. Their sense of community and of a scholarship program that has Violence Resource Center. fa mily are the values I care about, so helped women who otherwise might Davilia raised her three children I can put my money behind them any not have gone to college earn a alone after she divorced 17 years day of the week," she says. bachelor's degree. ago. "I always wanted to go to col­ Haughton lauds PSU's G raduate The Nancy Ryles Scholarship, lege, but my priority was my chil­ School of Social Work as one of the awarded through the Department dren," she says. "I have so much best in the country. It is a reason why of Women's Studies, provides assis­ respect for mothers going to she ha been a regular contri butor to tance to women wanting to work school," she says. the fund and has written letter and toward an undergraduate degree Jimenez-Vu, a Native American, made phone calls on its behalf. who have had their education inter­ was encouraged to go to college by Teletha Benj amin, a retired ocial rupted by financial difficulties, her sister so she could help her son, service administra tor who met the family responsibilities, or personal Dominic, with his own school stud­ McCoys when she moved to Portland di abilitie . lt's named in memory ies. She started on that road in in 1958, is another regular contributor. of Nancy Ryles, an Oregon Public 1997 at Portland Community A PSU ocial work graduate, Utilities commissioner and long- College. Benj amin was one f the original 150 time state senator. Both she and her husband people who attended a meeting to The two newest recipients, Lisa struggled through economic hard­ establish the scholarship. She continues Davilia and Rachael Jimenez-Vu, ship and the effects of three debili­ to give and so li cit donations each yea r. epitomize the type of woman the tating car accidents. But through "My commitment are very mean­ scholarship was designed to assist. persistence and the help of schol­ ingful to me, and I chose this one Davilia, a mother of three and arships such as the Nancy Ryles because I believe in it," she ay . "It grandmother of three, has a passion award, she has been able to com­ prov ides an opportunity fo r G ladys to for women' and children's i sues, and plete nine terms toward her still be connected with people, which hope to pursue a degree in ocial degree. She i studying business • she did all thr ughout her personal work. She is currently working for and ociology. 0 and poli tical li fe."

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Dear PSU Alumni: ness, and the corporate community. It is an honor and a privilege to It's easy to remain involved with serve as president of your A lumni A so­ the University-just attend an educa­ ciation Board of tional eminar, cultural event, or Directors. When I sports functions (Go Viks!); use the spoke at June com­ library or exercise in the pool; or mencement, my travel the world through a PSU­ primary message to sponsored educational trip. the graduates was Portland State is everyone' institu­ to stay connected tion. We alumni should lead the to this great Uni­ charge to place a bit of PSU in the versity. I wanted hearts of all citizenry for our mutual them to be just as enrichment. proud and aware as This fall the PSU Alumni Associa­ I am of the many activities and ervices tion hopes to move into the historic Mary Coniglio has joined the the Alumni Office provide for them. I Simon Benson House. If you have not PSU Alumni Relations Office as also shared with the graduates my on­ seen it, you owe it to your elf to visit events coordinator. She was going connection with PSU. the beautifully restored home and sit most recently alumni director at You too should tell your PSU story in its garden and ab orb the sea on' Jesuit High School in Portland. to anyone who will listen, including change and a new year of learning. your legislator. PSU is an educational Enjoy the view. It's your school-make life force within our community and it a connection. We need your support. mu t tay that way. We must continue to develop dynamic working partner­ Pamela Gesme Miller '84 PSU Weekend on hold ships with public agencies, small busi- Alumni Association Board Pre ident P U Weekend, the Alumni Associa­ tion' annual educational event, i on hiatus this fall but is scheduled to New board leadership announced return in fall 2001. Instead, the association is focusing its efforts on The PSU Alumni Association Board Roger Capps '60, a retired elementary completing restoration of the imon of Director recently elected officers school principal; Patsie Dant '77, a Benson House-its new headquarters. and welcomed four new members. retired marketing executive with "It was a tough decision," says Pat erving a pre idem of the board is AT&T; Craig Gilbert '89, security Squire, director of Alumni Relations. Pamela Gesme Miller '84, deputy chief for L l L gic; and Michelle Girts "We weighed the tradition and ucce director of Oregon Trout and a long­ '83, vice president and area manager of PSU Weekend with our desire to time PSU volunteer. Joining her on for CH2M Hill. complete the Benson House. We ju t the executive committee is vice-presi­ A special thanks to Dan Gemma didn't feel we cou ld successfully do dent and president-elect Ann Gardner '64, who retired from the board after both. But we are looking forward to '77, a project manager for Schnitzer serving as president and Outreach planning PSU Weekend 2001." Investment; treasurer Ken Hart '90, chair. Thanks also to other retiring Several events that were in the operations manager for the American board members: Jo Rymer Culver '81, works for thi year's weekend are going Red Cross, Oregon Trail chapter; and Communication chair; Susan Hauser ahead, including the Friends of the vice president for strategic planning '70, Connections chair, who also Library annual dinner on Oct. 24; a Dave Fitzpatrick '75, senior actuary worked for several year on PSU Week­ chool of Busine s Administration with The Standard. end; and Brad Lynott '72, who chaired alumni event, featuring Brian Henry Committee chairs include Gary the Student Affairs Committee. on Oct. 27; and College of Engineer­ alyers '57, PSU Advocates; Eric The Alumni Association Board is a ing and Computer cience's Academy Stromquist '81, Communications; and volunteer organization that works to of Di tingui hed Alumni on Oct. 28. Tamara Kelley '69, Connections. provide program and activities for Watch for date and derails of PSU • New to the board this year are alumni of Portland State. Weekend 2001.

20 P U MAGAZINE FALL 2000 Dream of teaching motivates new alumni scholarship winner • Like most children, when asked what a diffe rence. As a ophomore, she is confident enough to dare to think she wanted to be when she grew up, pur uing a general stud ies degree and originally; and dedicated to commu­ Sarah Whitney had answers that var­ plans to enro ll in PSU' Graduate nity service." ied from day to day. One day it was a School of Education The renewable alumni scholarship fireman, the next day a politician, but Whitney's long list of volunteer ser­ pays full tuition and fees for a student one thing remained constant, she vice includes Meals on Wheels, the who is a son or daughter of a PSU wanted to make a differ nee. Discovery Club of Beaverton, and alum. Whitney's dad, Douglas Whitney, Through experience gained as a vol­ STARS (Students Today Aren't Ready earned his degree in 1980. The scholar­ unteer, Whitney developed a pass ion fo r Sex ). STARS is a peer-mentoring ship is named fo r the late Jane Wiener fo r teaching. "This pa ion consumes program that teaches young people it i '69, a former Multnomah County me. Now it is all l can see myself doing OK to abstain from sex. deputy di trict attorney and alumni in the future-enhancing the lives of "Sarah stands out among her peer ," board member who died in 1994. others as a teacher," she says. says Barbara Guette, associate profes­ For more info rmation or to con­ With help from the Jane Wiener sor of Engli h. "She is an unusually tribute to the Jane Wiener Memorial Memorial A lumni Scholarship, Whit­ mature and self-possessed person who Alumni Scholarship Fund, contact the ney will get that opportunity to make is highly considerate of other people; Alumni Office at 503-725-5073. D

Simon Benson House: Look at us now!

An amaz ing transformation has taken place since the Simon Benson House was delivered to campus on a windy Sunday morning last January. The century-old home arrived sans chimneys and paint, its windows boarded up, walls covered with graffiti, and roof covered with a bright blue plastic tarp. The elegant Queen Anne tyle house that has emerged from this dilapidated cocoon is a beauty to behold . A new cedar roof, copper gutters, meticulous paint job, and the • original leaded glass windows are continually drawing the attention of bystanders. But $2 50,000 is still needed to complete the renovation of the interior, which will include a visitor's information center and a room devoted to Simon Benson memora­ bilia on the first floor. The second floor will house the PSU Alumni Association . You can help finish restoration of the Simon Benson House by taking advantage of a sponsoring opportunity (ranging from $2,500 to $25 ,000), buying a brick for the patio garden (there are still 175 left at $100 each), or by making a donation in any amount .

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FALL 2000 PSU MAGAZINE 21 ALu M N 0 T E S

Compiled by Myrna Ouray Carl Wilson '68 is pres ident of James "Jim" Huffman has been in Portland. MKC Acquisition Company, a defense attorney with the law N. Robin Holmes MA '73 is a operating as Multnomah G rey­ firm of O lsen & Huffman in St. retired telecommunicati ons reg­ Vanport hound Park . Wilson was ge neral Helens ince he started the firm ul atory consul tant and teacher. Elaine Cogan has written a sec­ manager at MG P fo r 10 years in 1983. Huffman received the Holm e is leading an effort to ond edition of and authored the O regon G rey­ 1999 Pro Bono Award from the re tore Gross C reek in Bandon her book, Success­ hound ovenant, which serves O regon State Bar fo r lega l er­ a a wildlife habitat. he also ful Public as the national model fo r stan­ vice to indigent citizens. Huff­ participate in the mas ter ga r­ Meetings, pub­ dards of treatment fo r grey­ man also serves as a counci lor dener program and ass ists stu­ lished by APA hounds. fo r the Scappoose C ity Council. dents at Ocean C rest Planners Press. David "Dave" Olcott '69, fo r Sheryl Anne Perry is a fli ght Elementary School in Bandon Cogan is a part­ the first time in l9 years did not attendant with American Eagle with a ga rden of natura l and ner with her hu - accompany his Centennial Mid­ Airlines. Perry li ves in Seattle. native plants. She and her hu - band, Arnold Cogan, in the dl e chool class on its eighth­ band, Bob, li ve in Bandon. pl anning and communicati ons grade exchange with Heppner firm of Cogan Owens Cogan. Junior Hi gh. O lcott, who ha '72 been teaching at Centennial fo r Pamela Groupe Groves wrote '74 29 years, created the program in chapter 14 in the book, Fantas­ Carol Williams Bryant MSW '60s 1981. He li ve in Corbett. tic Antone Grows Up: Adoles­ was appointed by Gov. Gray Roger Capps '60 has joined the Joan "Josie" Shapira '69 writes, cents and Adults with Fetal Davis to the pos ition of ass is­ PSU Alumni Board of Direc­ "! am working on Norwegian Alcohol Syndrome, published by tant director, legislati on, and tors. Capp is a retired elemen­ and Jewish cultural arts and the University of Ala ka Press poli cy development fo r the Cal­ tary school principal. He and crafts and trying to rebuild my in April 2000. Groves also ifo rnia Department of Aging in his wife, Jan, live in Portland. health." Shapira, who lives in wrote a chapter in the previ ous Sacramento, California. Dewey Newton '61 is Harn ey Vancouve r, Washington, is book, Fantas tic Antone ucceeds: Catherine Stauffer is a mental County justice of the peace. being treated for cancer and is Experiences in Educating Children health therapist at Harney Newton's previous governmen­ recovering from an automobile with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. he Behavioral Health. For the past tal experi ence include city accident. li ve in Portl and. fi ve years, Stauffer and her hus­ attorn ey and justi ce of the O.B. Hill is co-owner of Refl ec­ band, John, have also presented peace in Woodburn. He and his ti ons Coffee and Bookstore, a marri age communicati on semi ­ • wife, Nancy, li ve in Burns. '70 Portland retail store offering nars under their business name Dr. Mark Hattenhauer '63 is a Wayne "Corky" Corwin has hard -to-find book by African A O ne. They li ve in Burns. cardi ologist with the O regon been teaching U.S. history at Ameri can and African author . Hea lth Sciences University Neah-Kah-Nie Junior-Senior Priscilla Kimboko PhD '82 is chool of Medicine's cardiology High School in Tillamook fo r cl ean of graduate studie and '75 department. 16 yea rs. In addition, Corwin is grant admini tration at G rand Stephen Hawke MBA is vice baseball coach, with 205 wins Richard "Dick" Pugh '64 MST Valley State University in pres ident of deli very system in his coaching career, and has '71 retired after teaching sci­ G rand Rapids, Mi ch. planning and engin eering fo r served as athletic director since ence at C leveland High School Portland General El ectric and 1998. Arthur Nelson MUS '76, PhD fo r 3 l years. Pugh is now a con­ was named Engineer of the Year '84 was chosen as a fell ow of the ul tant with the Portland Public Tom Huntsinger is vi ce pre i­ by the Professional Engin eers of American Institute of Certified chool district and continue dent of Portland operations at O regon. Hawke has been a PGE Pl anners and was recognized fo r his li fe long research of mete­ W&H Pac ifi c, an engineering employee since 1973. individual achi evement in the orite . He li ves in Portland. firm in Beaverton. fi eld of urban and rural planning Elaine Kelley MA is a develop­ Richard "Dutch" Van Blari­ Patricia Spear M T '73 is prin­ at a ceremony in New York C ity ment offi cer at Bethlehem U ni ­ com '65 writes, "I received my cipal at Kelso High School in in April. Nelson is a professor in ve rsity, a hristian Brothers PhD in geology. At 62, I was Kelso, Wash. the graduate city planning pro­ uni ve rsity located in Bethle­ the second oldest member of gram at Georgia Institute of hem, West Bank. the graduation class at the Uni­ Technology in Atlanta. Michael Simpson is pl ant man­ ver ity of Idaho. Two years ago l '71 Sheila Speck '72 is a substitute ager of J.M. Smu ckers Company started my own geophys ical Margo Bellock MST '73 is teacher and an Avon repre en­ in Woodburn. Simpson also consulting business and took principal at North Salem High tative. peck lives in Castl e serves on the board of directors earl y retirement from Cominco chool. Rock, Washington. at the Provid ence Benedictine American, Inc., where I had N ursing Center in Mt. Ange l. been the chief geophys icist fo r Marc Grignon is senior vice over 20 years." Van Blaricom pre ident and reg ional trust li ve in Colbert, Washington. manage r for Oregon and Idaho '73 at Wells Fargo's Private li ent Richard "Dick" Farance i '77 Carolyn Anderson '68 is pos t­ ervi ces G roup. nati onal programs director at Patricia "Patsie" Dant has master with the U.S. Postal Ser­ ReloActi on, a consulting firm been elected to the PSU vice in Adams.

22 PSU MAGAZ INE FALL 2000 Alumni Board of Directors. Michelle Girts has been elected Carol (Bozack) Feuss writes, Dant is a retired sales and mar­ '82 to the PSU Alumni Boa rd of "After nearl y 10 years serving as keting executive with AT&T. Director . G irts is vice president the alumni/public relations li ai­ Dant and her hu band, Bob, Kamal "Kami" Balighi is a loan and area manage r at H2M Hill son fo r the Michigan State Uni­ • li ve in Portland. officer at the Lake Oswego in Portland. She and her hus­ versity College of Nursing, I branch of Mortgage Market, band li ve in Vancouver, Wash. joined the Michigan Nurses Meridel Prideaux, pre ident of Inc. Balighi has 21 years, expe­ Association in February. I am Prideaux Group, rience in finance, sales, and the director of communication has been management. and integrated marketing." appointed to the '84 Feuss lives in Holt, Mich. National Young Ron Putz is the O regon hard ­ Sondra Dudley is an a sociate A ud ie nces execu­ scape manage r at Mutual Mate­ and director of fin ance and Robert Willoughby MPA is tive commi ttee a rials Company in Tualatin. human resources at LSW Archi­ admini trator for the city of national chapter Lewis "Lew" Scholl MS '87 is tects in Vancouver, Wash. Cascade Locks. as embly pres i­ a project engineer at Storm wa­ Russell Shaver is branch man­ dent. In thi s capacity, Prideaux ter Manage ment, a firm that ager of terling Saving Bank will oversee 32 chapters markets stormwater treatment (Ca cade Park branch) in '88 throughout the United States. so lutions. Vancouve r, Wash. Shirley Brock MS i vice prin­ David Sinclair is seni or vice Mae Wu is founder and chief cipal fo r the St. Helens School pres ident of reta il lending with executive officer of FEl Amer­ District's middle school. West Coa t Bank in Vancouver. ica, Inc., a Portland company '85 Richard Denis MS i principal providing small busine ses with Rick Stanek MS '93 is a case at Ory Hollow Elementary the technology needed to get manage r and therapist at The School in The Dalles. Denis has '78 on the Internet. Wu is also a Center fo r Community Mental been a teacher and admini tra­ Thomas Daudistel is vice pres i­ board member of the O regon Health in Portland. Stanek lives tor fo r 27 years. dent at Norris Beggs & Sim p­ Association of Minority Entre­ in St. Helens. Catherine Hoofard MSW is a son, a commercial and preneurs. consultant with The Suran industrial real estate and mort­ G roup, a consulting firm spe­ gage banking firm in Portland. '83 '86 cializing in change management Greg Ellis '78 is city manager Mindy Hackett is a planning strategies. fo r the city of Independence. Art Barkouli MS '87 is a se ni or specialist on the ecosystem pl an­ David La Liberte MS '90 is vice pres ident at Dav id Evan ning taff with the U.S. 0 .A. principal engineer at Liberte & A sociate in Portland. Bark­ Forest ervice's Pacific South­ Environmental A sociate , Inc. , ouli ha been with the agency west Regional Office. Hackett '79 in Wilsonville. LEA speciali zes • fo r more than 11 years. He is a li ves in Vallejo, Calif. Leslie Gifford is senior staff reg istered professional engineer in water, wastewater, analysis, accountant at Geffen Mesher & in O regon, Washington, and Lisa Hamilton is a licensed and des ign. Company in Portland. massage therapist at Lisa Hamil­ Cali fo rnia. Jacqueline Lydston has been ton, LMT, in Portland. Hamil­ named ass istant department Connie Beck writes, "[ gradu­ ton i also an adjunct professor chair of the bachelor of cience ated from the Unive rsity of Ari­ teaching basic massage to nurs­ '80 in human services program fo r zona with a PhD in clinical ing students at the northwe t George Beard MPA is director the University of Phoenix, Ore­ psychology in 1999. Beg inning Portland satellite campu of of corporate communications gon campus. in July 2000, I will be a postdoc­ Linfield College. with Reteklnc./Retial. com in toral fell ow focusing on fo ren ic Scott Patterson is the controller Minneapolis. J.D. Perkin is an artist whose psychology at the In titute of for lnterDent, Inc., a dental sculptures were exhibited at the William Moisant MSW was Law, Psychi atry and Public Pol­ practice management fac ili ty in Laura Russo Gallery in June and ordained as deacon in a Mass of icy, Univer ity of Virginia. I will El Segundo, Calif. July. Perkin uses ceramics, wood, O rdination ceremony in Port­ then return to the University of and steel to create human and Walter Wesley is a contractor land May 13. Ma i ant fo rmerl y Arizona in the fa ll of 2001 as an sometimes animal figures. He and painter with W. Wesley worked in the State of Oregon ass istant professor in the depart­ lives in Portland. Painting Company in Portland. Children 's Services Di vision ment of psychology." and had a priva te counseling Darci Boyle MT is tax manager practice in S ilverton. in the tax se rvices group at the '87 '89 Maya Myoga MST, PhD '87 is a Mo s Adams, LLP, Vancouver, Chris Bixler owns the southern Aurora Benenati MAT '91 is a tax partner at Wash., offi ce. O regon franchise rights to O il Spanish language instructor at Deloitte & David Cole MS is a water qual­ Can Henry's, an automobile Mt. Hood Community College. Touche in Port­ ity moni toring specialist with qui ck lu be business. The fac ili ­ Benenati received a distin­ land. He is also a the O regon Department of Envi­ ties are located in G rants Pa s guished teaching award from the member of the ronmental Q uality in Portland. and Klamath Falls. Mt. Hood Community Coll ege Japan Am rica District Foundation in June rec­ Society in Port­ C. Susan Evans MS '86 and Rosa Lola Burge is director at ognizing her for her innovati ve land and enj oys her husband, Richard Marty the Molalla Adult Community teaching style. She has been a play ing golf in hi s leisure time. '80, MS '83, are co-owners and Center, a ocial se rvices agency teacher at MHCC since 1991. managers at Q Environmental, fo r the elderl y. Burge li ves in • LLC , an environmental consult­ Colton. ing firm in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

FALL 2000 PSU MAGAZ INE 23 AL UM N 0 TES Keith Livie MS is an associate Dr. Marie Wehage is an inter- to fac ilitate con ulting in Mex- at LSW Architects in Portland. nal medi cine phys ician practi c- ico and Latin Ameri ca." Li vie's experi ence includes ing at the Prov idence Medi cal Donald Gallogly and his wife, John Kaernpf is shareholder at multi-fa mily and senior hou ing, Group in Medfo rd. Rebekah Fowler '90, live in the Portland law firm of Bulli- hotels, schools, and warehouse • John Wolfe MSW is program Portuga l, where they own and vant House r Bailey. development proj ects. He li ves director fo r Friends of the C hil- operate O ld World Discoveries, in Vancouver, Wash. Matthew Kayser MS is an asso- dren in Portland. Wolfe is also Ltd., which provides luxury ciate at Trammell Crow Corn - John Mikenis MBA is a vice chair of the committee to cycling adventures in Europe. pany in Portland. Kayser has pres id ent at Wells Fargo Bank advance cultural di ver ity and Gall og ly and Fowler both been active in Portland metro- in Portland. Mikenis has been promote social justi ce in P U' earned Doctor of Philosophy politan-area commercial real with the bank (formerly Fir t Graduate School of Social degrees from Miami Univer ity estate since 1993. Inter tate Bank of O regon) Work. He has two children, of O hi o in 1997. ince 1984. Aaron, 15 , and Marisa, 12, and Daniel Putnam teaches the Allison Savage-Cairns owns is the brother of PSU women's visually impaired fo r the Union- Ann Pierce M W is a social and operates the Alli on Savage basketball coach, George Wolfe . Baker Education School District worker, primarily in the area of G raphic Des ign studio in in Island C ity. geri atric care, with Providence Laguna Niguel, Calif. Health Systems in Portland. Lars Steen BA '93 is vi ce presi- Her husband, C hris, is enrolled '91 dent of marketing at Cyber- '90 in the graduate educati on pro- Radford Bean is a technical watcher, an Internet portal gram at PSU and pl ans to be an support specialist at Clarity Tamara DeRidder MURP is the company in Oslo, Norway. long- range planning manager elementary school teacher. Visual Systems, Inc., a rear- projecti on video display firm in fo r the city of Vancouver, Wash. David Simmons M W is the Wilsonville. Michael Gregg is an architect director of policy and research '92 fo r the Nati onal Indian C hild Jennifer Chandos is pres ident and vi ualization speciali st wi th Mark BeckteI MURP is trans- Welfa re Association in Port- at C handos Pacific Appra isal, a BOO RA Architects in Port- porta tion planning manager fo r land. immons started at commercial valuation and man- land. In 1999, G regg received a the city of Salem . Becktel also NI WA as a graduate ass istant agement info rmation systems Virtual C raft Award from the is a certified track and fi eld offi - while completing his degree at con ulting firm in San Diego. American Institute of Archi- cial and serves as president of PSU. Simmons and his wife, C handos writes, "I relocated my tects for his digital architectural the Salem Track C lu b. designs. Mary, live in Portland. business to San Diego in 1998 • RIAN WEBB '86 WAS DAZZLED by the theater Tru, Meet Me in Sc. Louis , Ain't Broadway Grand , Beauty and at an earl y age. But it wasn't the applause he the Beast, and Minnelli on Minnelli. He went to,Las Vegas to sought. It wa the lights and scenery that caught wo rk on MGM' EFX how and spent time as a sistant art his attention-taking a bare, dark stage and transforming director on the The Cosby Show . He even worked for the it into a colorful and magi­ New York C ity Ballet. cal place. .... Ii : ~=.: Eventually Webb's profes­ j ~ H H' - Webb worked toward sional life crossed paths with f""' 1( r thi dream until he made his O rego n roots. In the mid­ I li~ln ii I _, I '. K' t :i .t :~ his way from Oregon to '90s Nike hired him to be the the lights of Broadway. It creative coordinator of Man­ ...... ······ ...... ' I --·,,,_.,___ wasn't the path that most hattan's new N iketown. Nike :-:-_!iii_ • of hi friends took, but executives wanted their flag- -! ! Webb says there was no hip store to have a sense of other way he cou ld live. drama and theater. So they enli ted a team of theatrical "It's simply my nature designers and appointed Webb to be the li aison between the to search out thing that "theater people" and the more busine like architectural con- interest me," Webb says. ultants. Earning a bachelor' in Today, Webb works as a freelance designer for commercial theater arts at PSU, Webb went on to receive a master's and theatrical clients. The Full Monty, a new Broadway musi­ at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University in scenery and cal which opened Sept. 28, received hi expert assistance. costume design. He practically wa lked onto the Broadway Webb shares a studio above New York's theater district tage immediately after graduation, quickly learning the with others who, like him, have followed their creative ropes by apprenticing under some of New York's most suc­ dreams. For Webb, wo rking in this kind of environment­ ce ful theatrical designers on ome of Broadway's bigge t one of inspiration and energy- is crucial. hits. Webb served as assistant or associate et designer in Life has held a very direct path, he says, "and it' better such shows as Into the Woods , Gypsy (the 1990 revival), than what I had in mind." -Jonathan Kipp

24 PSU MAGAZINE FA LL 2000 Robert Byers i in accounts of the Asian Pacific American with coordinating events receivable at RFP Publi cations, '94 Netwo rk of O regon. throughout the state that pro­ a prin ting firm in W ilsonvi ll e. mote the med ical chool and its Klaus Paesler BA '97 is pursu­ Rebecca Widden is assistant network of hospitals. She Daniel Findley MBA '92 is an ing a master of science in • controller at Holiday Retire­ write , "My husband is a doctor, Internet strategist and in fonna­ fin ance at Golden Gate Univer­ me nt orporation, a retirement pecializing in surgery. We are tion technology peciali st fo r sity in an Francisco. Paesler is res idence fac ility in Salem. here fo r five years as he com­ RHAS DOT COM. Finley fo r­ a portfolio manager with Mellon pletes hi s res idency training." merly was a teacher at Harr iet Capital Management, a division Tubman and West Sylvan mi d­ '95 of Mellon Bank. He i married Raphael Larson is an associate dle schools in Portland. to Melina Fulbright '97, who is at Patton Boggs, LLP, a law firm Jason Bledsoe writes, "I have enroll ed at Golden Gate Uni­ in Washington, D.C. Samuel Giese i a wa ter been empl oyed by the O regon versity chool of Law, hav ing resources engineer wi th SF Elizabeth Goldblatt MPA is State Police (OSP) as a trooper completed her second year. Engineering in Tualatin. since graduating. After 4 1/2 pres ident of the O regon College Satish Upadhyay MT is a bud­ of O riental Medicine. Goldblatt James Opoka is a human years in Newport, I transferred get analy t with the tare of is a member of the Pacific Uni­ re ources specialist 2 fo r Mult­ to the Portland office of OSP O reg n Department of Admin­ versity Board of Trustee , serves nomah County. Opoka li ves in and am currently ass igned to i trative Services. Upadhyay's on the advisory board fo r the O regon C ity. the OSP's Motorcycle Unit. I was married to Tia in December responsibilities include the Integrative Medical Arts Group, Tom Sayre is the recreational of 1997 and we have a dog, higher education budget. He Inc., and is president of the arts coordinator with the Parks Mick, an Australian Shepherd ." lives in Ttgard. Council of Colleges of and Recreation Department of Acupuncture and O ri ental Med­ Federal Way, Wa h. Kristin Christophersen MS '98 icine. is a sociology instructor at Dr. Cara Steinkeler is a phys i­ C lackamas Community College's '96 Marla McLeod is associate cian practicing medi cine at Social Science Department. Paula Cartwright MS is a director at AHA International Kaiser NW Pe rmanente in Christophersen is working counselor at Lincoln Middle in Portland. McLeod ays, "I lackamas. toward a PhD in med ical sociol­ School in Pullman, Wash. love my job working with study Cartwright formerly was coun­ abroad programs at AHA." Perry Sunderland is a project ogy at PSU. selor and home economics engineer at Slayden Construc­ Lila Pindell is a scul ptor and Paul Glenn MS '99 is a raff teacher fo r 10 years at Naselle tion, Inc., in Stayton. potter living in Rhododendron. civil engineer with Dav id J. High School and Middle Pindell ells her pottery at the Newton Associates, Inc. , in School in Naselle, Wash. Portland. Wy'East Book Shoppe and Art '93 Shelly Martin Elieson is Gallery in Welche . She has Thach guyen MPA is a pro­ administrative coordinator fo r been a member of the Wy'East Darci Boyle MT is tax manager • gram ad ministrator at the Mult­ the vice pres ident of university Artisa ns G uild fo r eight years in the tax servi ces group at the nomah County Department of advancement at the University and displayed a self-portrait in Moss Adams, LLP, Vancouver, Juve nile and Adult Community of Texas Medical Branch in clay at their annual exhibit in Wash., offi ce. Justice. Nguyen also i chairman Galveston, Texas. Elieson a sists April. Mark Conachan is art director at HMH Advertising and Public Relations in Portland. Nancy Hunsaker has joined Woodworth International, a Portland executive search firm , as a se nior recru iter. Stewart Laney MBA is the regional sales and marke ting manage r at Evanite Fi ber Cor­ poration, a hardboard and pre­ fi nished panel products manufacturing mill in Corva lli . Maridy McGinnis is an account executive at KVO Public Rela­ tions in Portland. Barbara Moody is an adverti - ing network coordinator with O regon Newspapers, Inc., in Portland. Kenneth Parshall MST is prin­ cipal at C rook County High School. Tim Vranizan MBA is general • manager at Unified Communi­ cations, LL , in Beaverton.

FALL 2000 PSU MAGAZINE 25 ALUM NOTES an emphasis on hydrology. Portland. Spear is again partici­ '98 pating in marathon races after being hit by a truck while train­ Bernadette Rubio is director of '97 Erin DeKlotz MA is teaching ing in Utah last July. He plans interior design at CIDA Archi­ Spanish part time at Jesuit High to compete in the Portland Brandon Coates is a mechani­ tects, Inc. Her husband, Shawn School in Portland. DeKlotz is Marathon this year. O'Donihue, is an intern archi­ cal engineering recruiter at also a member of the campus tect and project manager at Robert William James & Asso­ ministry team. She and her hus­ Kristy Lyn Stermer MBA is an FWL Architects, Inc. They live ciates in Portland. band, Steve, welcomed their first operations finance manager at Intel Corporation in Beaverton. in Beaverton. Matthew Feliciano is a personal child , a boy, in August 1999. Paul Slyman MS is administra­ shopper with Homegrocer. Brian Feeney is a project Joseph Pica MS is associate tor of the environmental com in Everett, Wash. designer at WRG Design, Inc., director at Atlantic Oceano­ graphic and Meteorological cleanup division of Oregon Brooke Fiedorowicz MS is a in Portland. Department of Environmental Laboratory in Miami. geologist at Foundation Engi­ Jenna Gambaro completed her Quality in Portland. neering, Inc., a geotechnical second year at Southwestern Sarah Wallis is the east Hawaii engineering firm in Corvallis. University School of Law in Los '99 division director of the Ameri­ Dominic Webber MS '98 is a Angeles. Gambaro's interest lies Rex Burkholder was recently can Heart Association in Hilo, structural design engineer at in entertainment and interna­ elected to Metro, the regional Hawaii. KPFF Consulting Engineers in tional law. government overseeing Port­ Portland. Webber is working on David Willardson is a multi­ John Lawes MS is a project land's tri-county metropolitan the Holy Rosary Medical Cen­ discipline designer and drafter geologist at PBS Environmental area. He beat out incumbent Ed ter phase II addition project in with David J. Newton Associ­ in Portland. Washington '74. Burkholder is Ontario, as well as eight con­ ates in Portland. Willardson is founder of the Bicycle Trans­ struction and/or renovation pro­ Nathan Spear is a network soft­ working towards his master's portation Alliance, an activist jects on the Lane Community ware administrator for Yost degree in civil engineering with group that lobbies for better College campus in Eugene. Grube Hall Architecture of bike access. Martha "Marti" Burroughs is a staff accountant at Jones & HARLENE MASHIA MT '95 IS A FIRM BELIEVER in following one's passion. Roth, CPA, in Hillsboro. When she came across something indicating that by the age of 35 people are Jennifer Snook Butcher MS doing the work they'll likely do for the rest of their lives, she took it as a wake-up has qualified to participate in • call. Mashia quit her job as a property accountant at PacifiCorp and became the president the Sydney 2000 Paralympics and CEO of Brown Sugar & Spice Talent Management in Portland. Games. The games are held in "I've always had an interest in the entertainment industry but my passion lies behind October, immediately fo llowing the camera, on the business side of things," says Mashia. the Summer O lympics in Sydney, Australia. Butcher Brown Sugar & Spice Talent Management carved out a swam in five events at the U.S. niche by representing African American, Asian, and His­ Disability Championships and panic talent for modeling and commercial spots. Slightly Paralympic Trials in June, win- more than a year old, the company already has great suc­ ning the 100 backstroke, plac- cess placing talent in local and national publications, ing second in the 200 print advertising, and commercials. individual medley and 100 breaststroke, and third in the Mashia runs the business aspects of the company and 100 freestyle. She teaches at the does her own marketing. As a certified public accountant Washington State School for with a solid business background, Mashia has the busi­ the Blind in Vancouver, Wash. ness's future in mind. Matthew Cameron is a "I get jazzed knowing I've helped my talent achieve mechanical engineer with their goals. Some startups don't make it because they get Sigma Design, Inc., in Vancou- sidetracked with the glamour of the industry, but my focus ver, Wash. is on the bottom line," she says. Marlene Camacho is associate When Mashia's not busy running the growing agency, her time is filled with family and administrator at Marianas church activities. Even then, however, the lines between her business and personal life Health Services, a home health blur. Brown Sugar & Spice Talent Management represents two of her three children and care, professional recruiting, Mashia says her husband is her biggest supporter and foremost fan. and medical billing agency in Saipan, Marianas Pacific Mashia's has grand plans for the future of the agency. She's constantly seeking more Islands. Camacho writes, "Since national opportunities for the talent she's so proud of, and she's considering a franchise in graduating from PSU, I have the next few years. been able to apply most, if not "I want to be like the Elite or Ford modeling agencies. I really hope to branch out. My all my knowledge with my cur­ ultimate goal is to be independently wealthy so I can give back to the community," says rent career. I want to send my Mashia. -Kellie Fields sincere appreciation to Professor Alan Cabelly and my coll eague Stacie Yost for supporting me ih

26 PSU MAGAZINE FALL 2000 my studies both professionally and emotionally. Without them '00 I wouldn't be where I am today." Bruce Bikle PhD is an assistant SIMON BENSON AWARDS DINNER professor in the school of crimi- • TuESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2000 • MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN Ryan Campbell is an invest- nal justice at Grand Valley ment representative with State University in Grand Edward Jones Investments in Rapids, Mich. Bikle is looking KEYNOTE SPEAKER Scappoose. forward to "catching up with Alice Chung is a staff accoun- reading fiction and my hobby of tant with Geffen Mesher & building wooden boats" after Company, PC, in Portland. defending his dissertation. Shelley Dickinson is a cus- Raymond "Ray" Elliott is tamer service representative at director of the Satori Men's Chorus, one of the seven cho- Bank of the Northwest in Port- land. ruses that make up the local Concord Community of Choirs. Mario Cuomo Maryann Fletcher is a systems Elliott also serves as assistant Three-term governor of New York engineer at Nike, Inc. Fletcher director of the Portland Gay debugs glitches in the computer Men's Chorus and sings in the program receiving orders from David York Ensemble. Nike's retail outlets. Her hus- AWARD R ECIPIENTS band, Michael "Mike" Fletcher April Herb MS is a project sci- '97, is director of sales and the entist at PBS Environmental in annual fund for PSU Athletics. Portland. Herb will assist with They live in Beaverton. the firm's environmental site assessment projects. Morgan Hartnell MBA is a commodity specialist with Intel Corporation in Hillsboro. In Memory Gerald Herrmann is president James Ashbaugh, professor Don Frisbee of Earth Crusaders, an educa- emeritus of geography, died tion and training firm in West Aug. 6 following a stroke. Dr. Former chairman of PacifiCorp Linn. Ashbaugh taught at PSU from Jennifer Haselton is head sec- 1957 to 1993. His early research • interests included urban geogra- retary with the PSU Athletics Office. phy and the Columbia River ports. In later years, his research Olivia Johnson MS is principal extended to Mexico, Europe, of Grand Ronde Elementary and Southem Asia. As a School. Johnson previously was teacher, Dr. Ashbaugh was well- principal at Round Valley Ele- loved by his students. He could mentary and Middle School in often be seen lecturing to atten- Covelo, Calif. tive students on Portland's Mary and Maurie Clark Ken Kveton is a design engi- downtown streets. He is sur- Founders of the philanthropic Clark Foundation neer at Vitesse Semiconductor vived by his wife and two chil- in Lake Oswego. dren. John Millen MBA is chief H arold Vatter, professor emeri- THE SIMON BENSON AWARD WAS CREATED TO HONOR financial officer for Intema- tus of economics, died Sept. 8 tional Air Academy, Inc., of in his Portland home. He was OREGON'S PIONEERS OF PHILANTHROPY. Vancouver, Wash. 89. Dr. Vatter came to Portland State in 1965 as an expert in Traci Pashley is a structural the field of American economic $150 per person. Tables start at $1,500. Advance reservations design engineer at KPFF Con- history and the history of eco- required. For more information, call 503-725-8212. suiting Engineers in Portland. nomic thought. During his 35 Pashley is working on the West years at PSU Dr. Vatter turned Salem High School and the out an impressive array of arti- Brewery Blocks redevelopment des, books, and teamed stu- project. dents. He remained active in his profession until just a few Derek Watson is a legal assis- S I M 0 N tant at Marger Johnson & weeks before his death. Dr. Vat- McCollom law firm in Portland. ter taught this past summer on campus and co-authored an article coming out next montl1 in Challenge. D POJmAND STATE • l]NIVERSI1Y

FALL 2000 PSU MAGAZINE 27 • "'The Campaign for PSU Athletics Peter Stott, who has been a major The University moved all teams to 1 ~nded this summer having raised contributor to University programs Division I of the National Collegiate 50 percent more than the University for many years, is president and CEO Athletic Association in 1995. This expected-and its success was due to of Crown Pacific. He co-founded the required an increase of 56 percent two prominent Portland couples. Portland-based forest products com· over the level of scholarships offered Alumnus Peter Stott and his wife, pany in 1988. He is also the chair· when PSU was part of Division II. Julie, contributed a second $1million man of Market Transport Ltd., one In addition, gifts have funded toward the campaign on September of the region's largest transportation improvements in the Peter W. Stott 18. They were joined by Jack and companies, which he founded while Center, which had not been upgraded Deane Garrison, who contributed attending Portland State in 1969. since its opening in 1965. To meet $500,000 during the last days of the Julie Stott is principal of Julie Neu· Division I standards, the main gym campaign. These and other gifts pert Interior Design, a design firm and locker room needed to be reno· brought the total raised to $4.5 with international credentials. vated and a team room and medical million for athletics-significantly Longtime PSU supporters Jack training facilities established. A gen· higher than the University's original and Deane Garrison were co-chairs erous gift from alumni Bob and Jane goal of $3 million. of the campaign. Their involvement Morrow created an on-site academic Peter and Julie Stott, who served with PSU athletics began 12 years center with 16 computers, a study as honorary chairs of the campaign, ago and includes a gift in 1997 of the area, academic advising services, and contributed an initial $1 million Nautilus Plus Training Center, a space for tutoring. Finally, a hall of challenge grant in June 1997. Their weight room with the latest equip· fame is planned to commemorate the gift served as a jump-start for giving, ment, located in Stott Center. University's athletic history. D which has funded scholarships for Norm Daniels, chief executive of student athletes and upgrades and G.I. Joe's and a major PSU donor, additions to the athletics facility. served as chair of the campaign. He With their latest gift, the new Peter has followed PSU athletics since the W. Stott Community Field adjacent 1970s. Some of the first sales made to Peter W. Stott Center (former over G.I. Joe's ticket counters were • HPE Building) was completed and tickets to PSU events. has also been named after the Stotts. Campaign contributions will fund "A good athletic program elevates a scholarships in five men's and seven university," says Stott. "It can women's sports, including PSU's becomes a marquee for PSU, attract• first-ever endowment to continually ing students, faculty, and investment." fund women's athletic scholarships.

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FOOTBALL The Vikings earned the biggest win in its VOLLEYBALL This yo ung team was 0-8 before confer­ Division I-AA history and unquestionably one of the ence play began in mid-September. On the plus side the biggest in the 54-year history of the program, when PSU Viks' best plays have come from freshmen and sophomores, trounced the University of Hawaii September 9 in Hon­ an indication that the influx of new talent on this year's olulu, 45 -20. It was a first-ever win over a Division 1-A team could surprise some teams in the Big Sky Confe rence. program. Hawaii, coached by former Sophomore Stacy Ball has led the team in kills, total blocks, PSU All-American quarterback and attacks. Newcomer Jeannie Robison, a sophomore June Jones, was coming off a West­ transfer from Univer ity of Mem­ ern Athletic Conference co-cham­ phi , appears to have taken over the pionship and Oahu Bowl victory starting setter po ition. over Oregon State in the 1999 season. CROSS COU NTRY The women's The Vikings, who were 8-3 last cross country squad will be led once sea on, have been ranked in the top aga in by Meli sa Telfo rd , who won 20 in every preseason poll and are a her second all-conference award las t consen u pick fo r second place in yea r after finishing seventh at the the Big ky behind defending Big Sky Championships. A lso champi n Montana. Las t year quar­ returning for the women is Jamie terback Jimmy Blanchard threw fo r Breese, who consistently finished over 3,000 yard s and 29 touch­ among the top three Viking last downs with ju t three interceptions. year. On the men's side, the top Also back fo r the Viks' explosive returnee is Jeremy Park. Park was Quarterback Jimmy pass ing ga me is one of the best run­ slowed by injuries las t year but still Blanchard threw a ning backs in the nation, senior led the Vikings in five races. The school-record Charles Dunn. Dunn rushed for top newcomer on the squad i Evan Sophomore Kristina • 99-yard touchdown 1,478 yards and 16 touchdowns las t Garich who won the O regon state Leenders led the Viles pass last year. season along with ga ining another championship in the 800-meter this in digs and was sec· 256 yards and three touchdowns on pas t spring. ond in kills last year. pass receptions. SPRING SPORTS WRAP-UP NEW ATHLETIC DIRECTOR NAMED Following a The softball team ended the 2000 season with a 22-34 national search, Tom Burman was named new director of record and a so lid 8-10 record in the Western Athletic athletics at PSU. Burman has spent the past fi ve years as Confe rence, enough fo r a fo urth place finish. This was the associate athletic director at University of Wyoming, where lady Viks' second fu ll season of Division I competition. he recently completed a $9.5 million capital campaign to The men's tennis program, which only began in fa ll 1999, build a state-of-the-art student athlete center. Burman struggled due to its late start and ended the year with a 0-20 replaces fo rmer Athletics Director Jim Sterk, who took a record. The women's tennis squad had no better a sea on, similar position at Washington State University in Ju ly. ending 0-1 8. Burman earned a bachelor's degree from University of Both the women's and men's track and field teams finished Wyo ming in 1988 and an MBA from Robert Morris College ninth at the Big Sky Championships. The season wa a in 1990. memorable one fo r the women's squad as five school records were broken during the year. WOMEN'S SOCCER The team started the 2000 season with 16 newcomers and two new assistant coaches under The men's golf team placed fifth in the Big Sky Conference head coach Dana Kusjanovic. The squad has had a hard Championship, and the women's golf team placed seventh. time of it, losing its first fiv e games, two of which were con­ Two go lfers from the men's squad were named to the All­ ference play. Leading the way among the returnees are three Big Sky Conference Team. This season was the women's seni ors: Aimee Mansoor, Virginia Ammon, and Jamie best since the team began competition three years ago. Brock. Mansoor was a second-team all-conference selection las t year and Ammon and Brock started the majority of the Tickets to athletic events are available through the PSU games in the Portland State midfield . Home games this year Box Office, 503-725-3307, or by calling 1-888-VIK­ are at Tiga rd High School as the C ivic Stadium (now PGE TIKS. For a complete schedule of matches see the Web • Park) goes through renovation. site www.goviks.com.

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