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CONTENTS

Departments

2 FROM THE PRESIDENT 18 GIVING Taking an alternative route, together A love of teaching; a life of purpose 3 PARK BLOCKS Energy savings pay off 19 ATHLETICS Helping to right social wrongs First to impress Student aves Intel millions Football returns to Hillsboro Growing small businesses worldwide Stadium Startling study on smokeless tobacco 20 ALUMNI 6 FANFARE Affording higher education True to Marion Zimmer Bradley's Scholarship for children of vision alumni Inside the Oregon State Hospital Nicholas Kristof to keynote New Works PSU Weekend Did you know? Fathering hope in Ghana Diplomatic assignment Bringing justice to the people Center of hope for Oregonians

29 LOOKING BACK Loyal 'Sharkey' Nelson, 1913-2009

Students have a new building and a new view as they play and exercise in the Academic and ON THE COVER Portland State student protests against the Vietnam Student Recreation Center. War came ro a head after the killing of students at Kent State. See story on page 8. Photo from the 1970 Viking yearbook.

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EDITOR Kathryn Kirkland

CONTRIBUTORS Scott Gallagher, Eric Gold

COPY EDITOR Martha Wagner

DESIGN Brett Forman

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 730 Market Center Building PO Box 751 Portland OR 97207-0751 503-725-4451, fax 503-725-4465 Taking an alternative [email protected] ADDRESS CHANGES route, together PSU Alumni Association www.alumni.pdx.edu click on "update your info" or call 503-725-4948 GET OUT your transit pass, put on your June, PSU will receive 10 new Prius plug-in

ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE bike helmet, or prepare to plug in your hybrid vehicles from Toyota to help in Pat Squire MPA '95, car-sustainable alternative transportation evaluating the lithium-ion battery-equipped Assistant Vice President continues to roll into our region, and Port­ car. We also expect to be a research partner Simon Benson House 1803 SW Park Ave. land State is helping pave the way through when Mitsubishi Motors rolls out its electric POBox751 new partnerships and research projects. vehicle. That's three major car companies all Portland OR 97207-0751 Over 70 percent of faculty, staff, and reaching out to PSU to help them push the 503-725-4948 [email protected] students use alternative transportation to adoption curve on electric vehicles. get to campus. In fact, our Urban Center Even the federal government has rec­ PSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Plaza is the busiest transit hub in the city ognized PSU's importance for the future Kori Allen '84, President with buses, MAX trains, and the streetcar of alternative transportation. The Oregon Gary Barth '86 all coming together. So it should be no Transportation Research and Education Steve Brannan '57 Chris Cooper MBA '06 surprise that PSU is a sought-after partner. Consortium, better known as OTREC, is a Aubre Dickson '98 Portlanders are fanatic about bicycling, federally funded national cooperative based Al Fitzpatrick MA '83 and so are many of our professors. Faculty in our Center for Transportation Studies. Dave Friesen '03 Jerry Gordon '68 from our Initiative for Bicycle and Pedes­ Working with OTREC, our faculty are Eric Graham '87 trian Innovation are measuring bicycle forecasting Oregon's rural transit needs, Linda Hamilton '90 Richard Helzer '62 behavior, evaluating Portland's bike lanes, studying route and driver issues for TriMet, Behzad Hosseini '96, MBA '97 and analyzing the local Safe Routes to and exploring automated methods for truck David Keys '81, MBA '92 School Program. Last year, Portland's first identification, to mention just a few projects. Bill Lemman, Vanport, HD '04 Gina Leon '95 bike lane sited between the curb and parked More and more, PSU is looking to Milica Markovic '04 cars opened on Southwest Broadway in the partnerships to identify what is needed and Karen McCarty '06 heart of campus. PSU researchers are what we can provide. For transportation Kendal McDonald MA '02 Tamara "TJ'' Newby '90 helping the city evaluate its effectiveness. that need is finding modes and systems that Krishna Regupathy MS '99 Bur rhe news is nor all about bikes. Did are economically sound and environmen­ Barbara Verchot MPA '97 tally efficient in promoting quality of life. Rick Watson MBA '00 you know char the largest introduction of electric vehicles and charging stations Whether traveling by bicycle, electric in U.S. history is coming to Oregon this car, or mass transit, PSU is leading the way Portland State Magazine is published three times a year, during fall, winter, December? Nissan and engineering firm through partnerships to a more sustainable and spring terms. Contents may be ECOrality chose Oregon, with Portland future. Hang on-it's going to be a great reprinted only by permission of the General Electric as lead, to be one of five ride! editor. The magazine is printed on recycled paper. Portland State University test markets. Portland State is helping PGE is an affirmative action / equal study consumer response, policy develop­ opportunity institution. ment, and other issues affecting the hun­ dreds of charging stations it's building for Wim Wiewel the new Nissan Leaf electric cars. And this PRE SIDENT, PORTLAND STATE UNIVER SITY

G 2010 Shattuck Hall earns a top award for its energy-saving mechanicals, which are exposed as a teaching tool for architecture students. Two other water- and energy­ saving projects on campus are also bringing kudos to the University. Photos by Kelly James.

Energy savings pay off

MORE FRESH A I R and less water and energy use in campus 1.4 million buildings not only provide a teaching cool for students, it's kilowatt hours earned the University more than $1 million. or $126,000 in In December, the University was awarded a $1 million grant annual energy to drill geothermal wells and purchase a 1,000-ton heat pump costs. Purchased by the University in 1997, the Fourth Avenue for the heating and cooling of 13 campus buildings. It was Building houses engineering departments and classrooms as one of 18 renewable energy projects chat received funding by well as PSU Information Technologies offices. the state in December through the American Recovery and Also in January, Portland State and PAE Consulting Reinvestment Act, also known as the Stimulus Acc. Engineers won Project of the Year, the American Council of In January, President Wim Wiewel accepted a $313,114 Engineering Companies of Oregon's top award, for last year's incentive check from Energy Trust of Oregon for energy­ remodel of Shattuck Hall. Judges were most impressed with efficiency improvements to the Fourth Avenue Building the energy-saving electrical and mechanical upgrades to the on Southwest Fourth and Harrison. Improvements to the former grade school, built in 1914, and the exposure of chose building's heating and cooling system are saving an estimated systems as a "reaching tool for the architects of the future."

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Helping to right social wrongs

The University's new Social Innova­ tion Incubator is helping Portland CERVICAL CANCER coffee importer, Sustainable Harvest, start a roasting business and training kills an estimated 300,000 center for farmers in Mexico. Photo women worldwide each ©Sustainable Harvest. year. Many of these deaths could be prevented with early diagnosis. Portland-based company Preciva understands planning advice, while introducing entrepreneurs to investors, the numbers and has developed a simple, inexpensive test for accountants, and lawyers. the disease that may be used on women in areas of the world Sustainable Harvest, a Portland coffee importer, is also a where health services are limited. client of the SIL It wants to develop "intrapreneurial" proj­ PSU's new Social Innovation Incubator (SII) is helping ects-initiatives within its existing business. With the incu­ entrepreneurs such as Preciva CEO Craig Miller, launch busi­ bator's help, the company is starting a roasting business and ness solutions that address some of the world's most pressing training center in Oaxaca, Mexico, and a pilot program in environmental, social, and economic challenges. Tanzania that will let farmers use tl1e Web to crack sales and "Entrepreneurial activity creates jobs and economic growth," connect with buyers. says incubator director Cindy Cooper. "The objective of social Companies such as Sustainable Harvest will typically be entrepreneurship is to right a social wrong, something that members of the SII for a year, while startups may get longer­ isn't addressed by normal market activity." term help. Cooper hopes to expand the program to include The II taps into the intellectual assets of Portland State about 20 ventures and is now reviewing applications. "We staff, faculty, and student consulting teams to provide business believe in trying novel ideas," she says.

INTEL IS FAIRJCATI G nuicr.to1~es,o,,s for a Mistkawi mentally friendly 11\Cthocl that is saving millions of dollars, cbank, u, Jun IQd.uate ii Mistbwi, a neer at Intel Hillsboro facility; will recd a doctorate· clu:mumyat the Juae 13 Cltll'linenc.,e,. ment His one..of+kind c:homi formulation fot Jnttl the for his PARK BLOCKS

Growing small businesses worldwide

KRISTI YUTHAS may be a leader in "There's a lot of money going out, microfinance analysis, however her work but not a large amount of impact," says is anything but small. Yuthas. "Over time the focus has shifted Microfinance is the lending of small so much to lending institutions making sums of money to low-income clients. money that they forgot small bu iness For Third World entrepreneurs-often owners weren't being served." women who are the sole support for The professor's work is centered on their fan1ilies-this means loans to sup­ creating a solmion. She has partnered port such enterprises as a farm in Peru, with Opportunity International, a a cloth weaving business in Guatemala, microfinance institution, to develop or the selling of homemade tortillas in a training program for its loan recipi­ Nicaragua. ents-initially in Columbia and then in The microfinance industry has grown developing countries around the world. by over 1,300 percent in the past 10 Microentrepreneurs will receive the years and now provides funds to over basics of small business: how to budget, 150 million people in developing coun­ control costs, manage risk, and identify tries. The problem, according to Yuthas, opportunities. assistant professor of Busine s Admin­ Eventually the training will be made istration, is that microfinance lenders available to elementary school children have become too concerned with their in countries where students often do not own bottom line and do not provide the attend school beyond sixth grade. "That Business professor Kristi Yuthas believes the $10 billion worldwide microfinance training necessary for clients to grow makes entrepreneurship an important industry is not lifting people out of their businesses and lift themselves out life skill that needs to be integrated into poverty. Photo by Kelly James. of poverty. education at a young age," says Yuthas.

Startling study on smokeless tobacco

SOM E BR AND - NAM E smokeless Pankow, a professor of chemistry and products gaining popularity with 10th­ tobaccos are seven times more minty civil engineering, began his research and 12th-graders. In addition, the levels than candy, making them appealing to after hearing concerns from public of wintergreen flavoring in numerous adole cents while also posing a health health profe ionals that adding flavor­ brands of smokeless tobacco exceed the risk for some users. These are the find­ ings to smokeless tobacco products maximum acceptable daily intake estab­ ings of Portland State professor Jim makes them more "candy like" and thus lished by the United Nations Food and Pankow, whose study was published in more appealing to yomh. Agriculture Association and the World Food and Chemical Toxicology, a leading "I decided," says Pankow, "that someone Health Organization. scholarly journal. should make some direct comparisons Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden recalls between the levels of such flavorant attending a committee hearing in compounds in major smokeless robacco the 1990s where he asked CEOs of products and popular brand-nan1e candy the major robacco companies if they products. Moreover, the amount of believed nicotine was addictive. "Before wintergreen flavorant (methyl salicylate) Congress and the American people they could by itself pose serious heal th risks to denied the addictiveness of their prod­ some consumers." uct. Professor Pankow's report indicates Pankow's and others' suspicions may that the tobacco companies are still Professor Jim Pankow found that some be confirmed in a 2009 survey spon­ up to their old tricks of deceiving the chewing tobaccos have more candy-like sored by the National Institute on Drug public by using flavorings in smokeless flavoring than candy. Abuse. The survey found smokeless tobacco to appeal to underage users." ■ True to Marion Zimmer Bradley's vision

WHEN DEBORAH J. ROSS MS '73 wrote a fan letter to editing with the Lace and B/,ade anthology series of "elegant renowned fantasy author Marion Zimmer Bradley in 1980, romantic fantasy," releasing a new volume each Valentine's Day. she had no idea that it would lead, 30 years later, to her taking She is al o working on an original fantasy trilogy, The Seven­ the reins of Bradley's popular Darkover series. Hastur Lord, Petaled Shield. "Ir's a really big story," she says, "with echoes of the latest novel in the series that takes ics name from Bradley's Romans and Scythian horsemen and ancient Judea." fictio nal ice-covered planet, was released in January. For budding fantasy and science fiction writers, Ross advises It was Bradley who provided Ross (Wheeler in chose days) knowing the genre, attending conventions, and joining the with her first professional sale in 1984, including Ross's story, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America once published. "Imperatrix" that appeared in the first volume of Bradley's long­ The most important thing, though, she says, is "write the best running anthology, Sword & Sorceress, created to remedy the damned story you can." lack of female protagonists in fantasy literature. The two writers became friends, and before Bradley's death in 1999, Ross was tapped to continue the Darkover series. Since then, Ross has penned five Darkover novels, working closely with the Marion WE WANT TO HEAR about your Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust, and she has notes for books and recordings and your future two more. "I try to create story lines chat are true co Marion's exhibits, performances, and directing vision of Darkover and the themes chat were meaningful co ventures. Contact the magazine by her," Ross says. Besides carrying on Bradley's fictional world, Ross is busy on e-mailing [email protected], sending various projects of her own creation. She has branched our into a fax to 503-725-4465, or mailing Portland State Magazine, Office of University Communications, PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207-0751.

6 PORTL A ND STATE M AGAZIN E SPRING 20 10 FANFARE Inside the Oregon State Hospital New Works

Grave problems at the Oregon Scare Hospira! have led to negative SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS headlines and serious allegations for rhe past five years. Whar is it IN LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL really like inside rhe scare-run insrirurion, which treats people deemed AND TRANSGENDER CLIENTS ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT criminally insane as well as chose who are civilly committed? Psychology professor Jan Haaken's new documentary, Guilty Except By Sandra C. Anderson (social work for Insanity, cells a disturbing tale of political neglect and public emeritus faculty), Columbia University paranoia concerning rhe mentally ill, Press, 2009 but also one of inspiring efforts co humanize the mental health system. THE UNSPEAKABLE AND OTHERS The documentary follows five people By Dan Clore '95 and artwork by Allen who enlisted the insanity defense after Koswwski, reissued by Henrik Sandbek being charged with serious crimes; Harksen Productions, 20 l 0 however, Haaken and her students inter­ viewed more than 90 patients and staff SUDOKU-ZILLA- 100X100 SUDOKU over rhe two years of production. PUZZLE Getting access to the hospital's patients and staff was not easy. Haaken By William Ike attended public hearings of the Eisenhauer '94, MEng '03 Psychiatric Security Review Board, (system engineering where she says she had "about 40 sec­ instructor), CreateSpace, onds to approach patients" as they came Psychology professor Jan Haaken 2010 directs a new documentary, before the board with a lawyer. About Guilty Except for Insanity. THEN CAME THE half were interested. EVENING At first, Haaken was limited to visit- By Brian Hart '05, ing hours, before slowly gaining access to the locked wards. raff and Bloomsbury, 2009 CROSSING patients at the hospital saw work samples and gave feedback at various THE GATES OF junctures in the process of making the documentary. ALASKA THERMIA: DAWN OF A benefit screening of Guilty Except for Insanity is planned at the ARMAGEDDON Northwest Film Center and Portland Art Museum's Whitsell Audi­ By Lawrence P. Growney torium June 27 at 7 p.m. Cost is $8. Proceeds will support future '87, MS '95, Vantage documentary projects at PSU on community mental health issues. ■ Press, 2009

THE IMAGINED FIELD By Sean Patrick Hill MA '06, Paper Kire Press, 2010

CROSSING THE GATES OF ALASKA: ONE MAN, TWO DOGS, 600 MILES OFF THE MAP By Dave Metz '00, Citadel Press, 20 l 0

HISTORIC PHOTOS OF OREGON By William C. Stack MPA '85, Turner Publishing, 20 l 0 INSTRUCTOR AND LOCAL ARCHITECT Aaron Whelton created the winning design for a new Portland Fallen Firefighters Memorial. He entered a contest held among PSU's adjunct architecture faculty to create the memorial, which will be built at the east end of the Hawthorne Bridge. The lanterns in Whelton's design symbolize the 36 firefighters who have perished in the line of duty.

SPR ING 2010 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 7 Memories of 1970 confrontation

Alumni remember 30 seconds of violence at the end of a week of campus protests.

WRITTEN BY MELISSA STEINEGER

SMITH CENTER COMMANDEERED by protestors. Demonstrators barricading the Park Blocks. Outraged citizens demanding that PSU "shut those kids up." An unexpected eruption of violence. May 1970 was a tumultuous time for Porcland State. For many, emotions still run high about the week that students clashed with each other and police. The events began as part of a great national spasm of emotion following the Ohio National Guard's shooting of students at Kent Scace University. At Portland State, classes were cancelled for two days and protesters barricaded tl1e Park Blocks (sti ll open to car traffic at the time) for speeche and demonstrations. After a week of"rap" sessions with Porcland State admin­ istrators, the protestors agreed to dismantle the barricades. For several hours, dissenters helped city crews remove the barriers. But when police demanded chat a large first aid tent also be removed, the protestors-claiming the cent had a valid city permit-refused. Tensions accelerated and eventually police in wedge formation marched through the seated protestors using bacons. Some 31 protesters were taken to area hospitals; all but four were treated and released. Four police officers were also treated for minor injuries. The May 11, 1970, melee was captured by news media cameras. The next day between 3,000 and 5,000 Portland residents marched from Portland Seate to City Hall to express their outrage at the use of force, says Dory Hylton, who wrote her dissertation on the events. However, letters to the edicor in the Portland papers ran 10 co one in favor of the police actions. Thar day's violence was a defining moment for those caught up in the protest and for many who watched from the windows of Smith Center. Read on for a few memories and observations.

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The mood gets ugly gee involved (in anti-war activities). You wanted co cake your classes and gee your degree." Doug Weiskopf '71, one of about 25 students involved in pro­ "I was not in favor of the war or the administration," says tests throughout the year, recalls chat at first, as students helped Shafer, "bur I was not charged up enough to get involved." dismantle the makeshift fortifications, ''there was a spirit of The day of the incident, Shafer, who worked midnight to good will and humor. We were even joking with the cops." 8 a.m. before attending classes, was on his way home when he Bur when police decided to remove rhe tent, Weiskopf says, saw the Tactical Operations Platoon lined up near what is now everything changed. "The mood of the crowd got very sullen. Shattuck Hall. Bur eager co catch a few hours of sleep before A guy shouted out 'f_ __ you.' It was kind of like an electric his next work shift, Shafer continued on his way and only charge went off. Everyone rook hard lines." learned about the incident lacer. Weiskopf along with what he estimates as several hun­ dred students sat down in front of the tent and linked arms. The Tactical Operations Platoon-a newly formed police Putting it all together unit assigned to riot control-marched up in wedge forma­ tion. "We thought chat they would arrest us ," says Weiskopf. Dory Hylton was a student at Columbia University in New Instead, "they came right over the top of us and just started York in 1970. However, she researched the PSU protest for her playing the xylophone on our heads." dissertation completed in 1993 at University of Oregon. Still, Weiskopf believes the protests helped wind down the Hylton interviewed some 130 people more than a dozen years Vietnam War. President Richard Nixon "lose che country after the events. Yet for many, the day was still vividly fresh. when he lost Kent Scace and PSU-these vehement protests in "Wherever I went," says Hylton, "ifI brought up the Middle America," says Weiskopf "Thar's why Portland State subject, people would tell me they remembered-it was in the was important. They couldn't write us off as 'elite' schools like cultural memory." For many, the police action and its conse­ Berkeley and Columbia. We were middle America." quences-or lack of-was the most searing recollection. In 1970, the Portland State community, like the nation as a whole, was conflicted about the Vietnam war. Hylron's Part of the silent majority interviews found chat many who disagreed with the student Looking back, the lace 1960s and early 1970s seem co have been strike were sympathetic to the issues-opposition co the war uniformly cataclysmic, but Dave Shafer '72, MBA '78 offers a and anguish over the Kent Scace killings. different view. "PSU as a whole," he says, "was pretty apathetic." Bue seeing police strike unarmed prate tors shocked many "I don't think anybody was all char in favor of the war, but of the onlookers. Even students opposed co the strike, who most students were in college to avoid the draft and not to had clashed with protesrors as recently as chat morning, says

10 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE SPRING 2010 Hylton, "came rogether against the violence at the tent. It was A clash of viewpoints the single most unifying force of the protests." Tom Webb '71, a Vietnam veteran who was opposed to the Later, a Multnomah County grand jury found evidence to war, counts himself among the students and faculty who support allegations of excessive use of force against the dem­ wanted to talk rather than strike. After the Park Blocks onstrators by police, Hylton found. No police officers were violence, Webb joined a cadre of students and administrators charged, however, and in the end, the case was closed. who met with community groups to discuss the events. Emo­ tions still ran high, and Webb himself was caught up in the Choosing to resist currents at a community meeting in Gresham. "One of the parents of a girl who was beaten by the police Ruch Moreland '74 was a 17-year-old PSU freshman in May stated that she deserved the beating, and they should have hit 1970. Her mother, Margaret Moreland '70, MBA '74, was her more to try to beat some sense into her," Webb says of chat also a student on campus, as was her brother Everett '73, a meeting. "I was outraged and went after this guy. I screamed Vietnam veteran. in his face as to why he could wish that on his own daughter, Until the day of the confrontation, Moreland had stayed on and how stupid he was." the sidelines. But as the police riot control platoon advanced Ochers calmed Webb, and the meeting continued. "We with barons, she grew increasingly distraught. explained that the students have every right to strike and that "I was incredulous that our mayor and our police officers they had permission from the mayor's office to have the first thought chat it was so important to physically remove these aid tent. The information sessions did a lot of good, and I students from one small area of the Park Blocks," says think saved the reputation of Portland State, because (before Moreland, "chat they were going to assault the students." the sessions) everyone in the community thought chat While her mother left the scene to go to class, Moreland Portland State was a hotbed of radicals." ■ slipped through the crowd, linked arms with ocher protesrors and was struck when police advanced. he still bears a lump Melissa Steineger, a Portland freelance writer, wrote the article from the impact of a baton on her head. And she's still proud "Homecoming" in the winter 2010 Portland State Magazine. of her actions. "I had grown up watching TV news where the police in the South would assault peaceful protesters for civil rights; Martin Read more alumni memories at Luther King was a hero in our house," Moreland says. "I pdx.edu/magazine. couldn't just watch or run away. I thought chat would some­ how support what the mayor and police were doing."

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Ju t over the past nine months, students have taken to the "I do think we're more global in our perspective now­ streets over a variety of issues: everyone is so much more connected because of technology," Moller continues. "Bue students still do peaceful protests and ■ On March 20, PSU students organized a march against the demonstrations, and they still volunteer for causes they believe Iraq and Afghanistan wars. This anniversary date of the start in. I know from my own experience char demonstrations can of the Iraq War has become an annual day of protest. bring about positive change." ■ In the same month, PSU students protested tuition hikes in a National Day of Action. The rise of tuition and fees has AN OBVIOUS difference berween Vietnam-era student become a national rallying point, even spawning violent activists and their modern counterparts is technology-instant protest in California. access to an unfiltered flow of information via the Internet and

■ In February, PSU students took part in a march from down­ social media. Noc only has this broadened the list of issues stu­ town to the PSU campus calling for justice in the January 29 dents are aware of, it also allows a huge diversity of opinions. shooting of Aaron Campbell by the Portland police. Young, angry protesters took to the streets again on March 30 over this shooting and a police-involved shooting of a homeless The phenomenon of war still man a week earlier. This demonstration resulted in property damage and arrests. inspires some of the most

■ In December and January, students around the state con­ thought-provoking protests of all. ducted a major voter registration drive and campaign for the passage of Oregon Measures 66 and 67, which sought to raise tax revenue for-among other things-higher education. "Different events or causes bring out different people," ■ In October, PSU students took part in the International Day says Ben Cushing, PSU adjunct sociology instructor, "bur an of Climate Action rally held in downtown Portland. underlying disillusionment with many of our core institutions is the common denominator I am seeing. This recent student activism shows that there is no single "On the right, people are increasingly drawn coward the far­ overwhelming rallying point today as there was in 1970. right populism of the Tea Party movement and anti-immigrant Instead, students are making their voices heard on a broad organizations," says Cushing. "On the left, and this is where I array of issues-both local and global. Comparing the rwo see most srudent organizing at P U, people are drawn toward eras is difficult. Yes , we have wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but organizations that critique the basic logic of capitalism and American casualties are 20 percent of what we experienced in rhe lack of democratic participation in both our government Vietnam, and there is no military draft as there was in 1970. institutions and our economy." This latter ideology, says Cushing, brings co mind such PSU JOE UR IS '6 7, an adjunct associate professor of sociology at student groups as Smdents for Unity, International Socialist PSU and co-hose of a KBOO radio talk show, rook pare in che Organizations, and Students Uni red for Palestinian Equal Rights. May I 970 demonstration at PSU. Uris has a firsthand view One thing char both veterans of the protest movement of the differences berween student activism today and campus of the '60s and students today can agree on is the fact chat unrest of the Vietnam era. rhoughrful, well-organized demonstrations haven't lost rhe At the rime of the 1970 PSU protest, "Young people power co persuade. And just like 40 years ago, the phenom­ believed social change was possible through nonviolence, enon of war still inspires some of the most thought-provoking that the U.S. was improvable and could be restored to a just protests of all. In March 2008, Moller was walking through and good nation," Uris says. "Today, I chink people are more the Park Blocks when she suddenly stopped in her tracks. disillu ioned about the possibility of social change-it's harder "Flag representing Iraq War casualties were everywhere," for students to believe in that now." she says. "More than 100,000 small white and red flags Bue Mary Ray Moller '02, a former P U student body carpeted the gra s for blocks. Ir was incredibly moving. Ir really president, respectfully disagrees with Uris's perspective. gor people co stop and chink. Thar's what effective protests "I do chink students today look to the passion of the '60s and do-they gee people co stop and chink." ■ '70s as omething to aspire to, but I don't think chat sense of optimism has been lose," says Moller, who is now director of Jeff Kuechle, a freelance writer, wrote "Maestro ofthe Stage" in the Government Affairs at PSU. winter 2010 Portland Scare Magazine.

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MIRROR IMAGES of high-rise apartments, office buildings, and the KOIN Tower ripple on the pool surface in the new Academic and Student Recreation Center. Every few minutes a TriMet bus, streetcar, or MAX train stops outside the facility's mostly glass facade. The link between campus and the city has never been more obvious. The new center's downtown, transportation-hub location allows students easy access to its classroom, recreation, and fitness spaces . Student fees paid for much of the building, which sits on the former site of the University's Portland Center for Advanced Technology, 1800 SW Sixth Avenue. The rest is funded through an innovative mix of retail and community tenants.

WRITTEN BY MEG DESCAMP

"Where's the air-conditioned limousine?" about official Nancy Hales laughs as she recalls being asked this ques­ policy, and tion. The questioner, part of a delegation from a city that will they contrib- Steve McCarthy, owner of Clear Creek Distillery, remain unnamed, wanted to know why Hales was handing ute an authentic explai ns the value-added product development of Oregon pears used to make brandy to a delega­ out transit passes. voice," says Hales. tion from Sapporo, Japan. "We give them the most authentic Portland experience we During 2009, can," says Hales, head of PSU's First Stop Portland program. Firsc Stop Portland hosted 32 delegations-nearly 600 When a group arrives to study urban transportation, green people-from around the world. City council and staff from building practices, good urban form, or any of the ocher layers Nagoya, Japan, investigated Portland's land use programs, of sustainable practices for which Portland is known, riding green initiatives, and LEED building codes. Visitors from mass transit is a given. Cincinnati, Ohio, spoke with business strategists about the First Stop Portland, ·housed in the College of Urban and complexities of developing marketing plans for their city's Public Affairs, was launched in April 2009. Funded primarily streetcar transit project. Delegations have come from Berlin, by the private sector, the program, says Hales, is an answer from Amsterdam, from the British Parliament. A group from to a problem. It provides logistical and planning support for King Faisal University in Saudi Arabia had a preview Green­ visitors who want to learn about Portland's livability success line tour of the city's newest MAX light rail line. stories from the people creating those stories. Recently, Jordan Schwartz led a delegation from the World "Too many delegations had a fractured experience rather Bank's Sustainable Development Network. "Where do you than gaining comprehensive information on their trips here. go," asked Schwartz, "for in-field training in the applied eco­ For instance, they might just meet with developers, or with nomics of sustainable development? You look for a city with transit officials, or with green building leaders, depending on a leading position in long-term land use planning, integrated who brought them to town," says Hales. "First Stop Portland mass transit systems, the creation of markets for environmen­ is here to pool resources, facilitate information exchange, and tal credits, evolving standards for green construction. In short, give visiting groups access to appropriate, high-level people." you go to Portland. Ir's fantastic to learn from those who have led the charge and designed the incentive. AT THE HE A RT of First Stop Portland are mobile work­ "When we weren't walking," said Schwartz, "we used bus and shops and study tours. Many of the tours are led by PSU public transit exclusively in and around town." In other words, graduate and undergraduate students who volunteer their time no air-conditioned limousines for the World Bank group. ■ and effort to advance the ideas and practices for which Port­ land is so wel l-known. "The students are really well informed Meg DesCamp is a .freelance writer based in Portland.

SPRING 2010 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 17 A love of teaching; a life of purpose

LIND A HUMMER came from five generations of poverty Gender, Class and Culture and Women, Creativity and Heal­ and started college a handful of times before actually complet­ ing. Hummer inspired and mentored-she changed lives. ing a single term. In 2000, when Hummer was jusr 32 years old, she was diag­ But once the learning started, Hummer could not get nosed with breast cancer. She got the call from her docror on enough and sprinted through programs in women's and black the day she received her master's degree. studies, graduating in 1998. By 2001 she'd added a master's She didn't let this changed reality slow her down. In fact, degree in education, which led to her teaching women's stud­ cancer seemed ro clarify the meaning oflife for Hummer. It ies at Portland State. came down ro two things- love and purpose. Her life was Hummer loved teaching and it showed. She became every­ filled with one and dedicated to the other. Over the next one's favorite instrucror as she caught passionately about race, decade she inspired orhers through her passionate teaching class, gender, and social justice. Students flocked around her and public speaking, while undergoing nearly 100 chemo­ after class, following her down the hall-eager ro share one therapy treatments. more thought, ask another question, get permission ro invire Even though Hummer reluctantly retired from full-time a roommate, parent, or child to visit class. She created several teaching in 2006 in order to focus on her treatment, she contin­ new courses for the Women's Studies program, including ued to share her learning and love oflife with others by speaking at many local colleges and universities. She gave her final talk on September 24, 2009, just two weeks before she died. As always, when she finished speaking the students swarmed around her. ■

TO HONOR HER LEGACY, Linda Hummer's friends, colleagues, and former students have established a scholarship in her name through the PSU Foundation. The Linda C. Hummer Scholar­ ship will help students majoring in women's studies at Portland State cover the costs of books and other course materials. To contribute to this or other PSU scholarships, go to www.foundation.pdx.edu/publicgift, or call 503-725-4911 .

Linda Hummer '98, MS '01, a much-loved instructor of women's studies, passed away from cancer in September.

18 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE SPRING 2010 First to impress

WOM EN' S BAS KET BALL experienced a lot of firsts during change the culture around the program and d1at everything we do, the past three seasons under head coach Sherri Murrell. from lifung weights to practice, is part of that journey and will lead There was the school's first-ever 20-win season at the Division I them toward a chan1pionship." level after Murrell took over in 2007-08. Then came a trip to the At d1e NCAA Tournament, Portland State gave the nation's women's National Invitation Tournament last season, marking the ninth-ranked Texas A&M all they could handle for 20 minutes fuse postseason appearance of women's basketball as a Division I and held a 28-27 lead right before halfrinle. Eventually, though, the program. And last and definitely not least, Murrell led the team to Aggies wore down the Vikings with their size and speed to move on its first NCM Division I Tournament in March after the Vikings to the second round. won its first Big Sky Conference Tournament tide. The fact that the Vikings hung with Texas A&M for a half "Each goal that we set out along the way we have accomplished," showed that they belonged on the nation's top stage and will be fuel says Murrell. "When I set foot on campus I let them know that we for next season's bid for tournament champion. were on a championship journey. I told them that we needed to

Football returns to Hillsboro Stadium

U N DER N EW H EA D CO A CH Nigel Burton, Viking football HOME GAMES AT HILLSBORO STADIUM returns to Hillsboro Stadium for its 2010 Big Sky Conference season as PGE Park undergoes renovation. Oct. 2 Idaho State, 6:05 p.m. The stadium was good to the team back in 2000, when the Oct. 16 Montana, 6:05 p.m . Vikings earned a top 10 ranking in tl1e NCAA Division I Foocball Oct. 30 Eastern Washington, 6:05 p.m. Championship and reached the NCAA playoffs. Hillsboro Nov. 13 Northern Colorado, 1: 05 p.m . Stadium is just off Highway 26 at the Cornelius Pass exit. ■

SP RIN G 20 10 PORTLA ND STATE M AGAZINE 19 Affording higher education

PSU STUDENTS graduating this spring paid 30 percent college students must be willing to pay for the outstanding more in tuition costs than they did as freshmen in 2005. education they receive. But, we as alumni, need to be cogni­ Could they have anticipated and planned for that level of zant of the difficulties many students are facing as they strive increase when they began their quest for a college degree? It to reach their goals. A college education should be a goal that was not too long ago when college costs were not only reason­ all can achieve. Write us with your thoughts, opinions, and able, but also predictable. experiences at [email protected]. - T.J. Newby '90 and So, why the drastic increase in tuition? fu the campus AJ Fitzpatrick MA '93 expands to meet the needs of a growing student body and the Universiry strives to continue offering outstanding programs, courses, instruction, and services for our students, it does not State Funding Has Fallen from 48 % appear that the state has the resources to make the necessary to 16 % of PSU's Total Revenue changes and provide for continued growth. It may be time to 80% ~ rethink the way we do business. ~ There are many models for governing and funding public ~ "'::, 60% universities. Can tuition costs be based on ability to pay or Ir ~ on earning potential? Is it fair if one college student receives ~ an education at a greater cost than another? Should a PS U 0 40% "I, student in the field of social work pay the same for a degree ~ t: 8. as a student who graduates in engineering? 0. 20% Outstanding universities must provide their students with ~ ~ opportunities to receive the best possible ed ucation. Today's ,:;; 1989-90 1994-95 1999-00 2004-05 2009-10

Scholarship for children of alumni

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION isseekingapplicationsfor minor, while serving as a student ambassador and a resident the fal l 2010 Jane Wiener Memorial Alumni Scholarship from assistant. She also finds time to work as a certified nursing children of alumni who are interested in communiry service. assistant in acute care at Oregon Heald, & Science Universiry. The scholarship Now a senior, Conroy plans to become a physician's assistant. provides full, in-state Previous scholar, Saral1 Whitney-Hayden '03, MEd '04 tuition and fees for teaches at Han1mond Elementary School in Salem. In 2008, she one, legally depen­ was honored with a Cry cal Apple Award from the Salem-Keizer dent child of a PSU School District. alumnus. Molly Conroy, the For more information, to receive an application, or to program's current and make a tax-deductible donation to the scholarship, call fifrh scholar, is major­ 503-725-4948, e-mail [email protected] or visit ing in general science www.alumm.pdx.edu/ scholarsh!p. Applications are with a chemistry due in the Alumni Office by July 30.

20 PORT LA ND STATE MAGAZINE SPRING 2010 Nicholas Kristof to keynote PSU Weekend

MORE THAN a two-rime Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof is an extraordinary thinker, human rights advocate, and astute chronicler of humanity. He will discuss his laresr book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppres­ sion into Opportunity far Women World­ wide, as keynote speaker for PSU Week­ end Friday, October 22, through Sunday, October 24. Kristof has traveled the major roads and minor byways of China, Africa, India, and South Asia, offering a compassionate glimpse into global health, poverty, and gender in rhe developing world. In addi­ tion, he is the son of retired Portland Scare professors Jane and Ladis Kristof. Visit www.pdx.edu/alumni for more informa­ tion on PSU Weekend seminars, interac­ tive tours, reunions, and receptions.

LEFT: New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof will be the keynote speaker for PSU Weekend, Oct. 22-24. MIDDLE: Pat Squire MPA '95, assistant vice presi­ dent of PSU Alumni Relation s, and Mark Kemball MBA '96, external relations at OHSU School of Medicine, jointly receive the Distinguished Service Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education at a February conference in Portland. RIGHT: PSU Salutes award recipients for 2010 include (leh to right) PSU professorToeutu Faaleava, Dennis Keenan '72, Antonio D'Auria '02, student Megan Jensen, and Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul De Muniz '72. Missing from the photo is award-winner Marisa Lino '71. Learn about all of the honorees at www.alumni.pdx.edu.

SPRING 2010 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 21 Carol J. Pierce Colfer '66 is a 1956-1959 senior associate and anthropolo­ Charles "Chuck" Clemans gist at the Center for Inter­ '56, a retired school superinten­ nacional Forestry Research in dent, volunteers with Friends Bogor, Indonesia, and a visiting of the PSU Graduate School fellow at Cornell University. of Education and ocher groups in Clackamas. His favorite Gene Phillips '69 is a sculptor memory of PSC is "graduat- and ceramicist whose work was ing from a fully accredited featured in the !Och Anniversa­ inscicucion!" His son, Glen ry Portland Open Scudios Tour. Clemans '86, is an investment Phillips lives with his wife, Dar­ adviser with CGC Financial ryll '69, MBA '78, in Portland. Services in Lake Oswego. Sue West '69, MA '70 is retired Richard "Dick" Matcovich and enjoys volunteering as a Fathering '58 is enjoying his retire- board member for Schools for ment by volunteering for che Ciry, Potluck in rhe Park, -~ the Red Cross and helping Habitat for Humanity, and 1 ' • ; hope in his children with remodel- Scare Making A Reader Today. ing projects. He writes chat a West also works on political ,,.·-~ ·-· ·. Ghana favorite memory of PSC was campaigns. She writes chat her ':,'# ' " . . the cafeteria in the basement favorite professors were Jim ,if.,'W~,__-" ____ , Antonio D'Auria, who grew of Old Main (Lincoln Hall), Hare and Carl Mackgraf. up in a loving family of little Percy Woods '69 is a certified :·•:-.·. means, felt compelled to Federal Aviation Administra­ check out an Accra orphan­ 1960-1969 tion mechanic who maintains age that he had heard was the largest in Ghana . Roger Capps '60, now retired, helicopters for the U.S. Army D'Auria's experiences as a political science major spent 28 years as an elemen­ at Fe. Rucker, Alabama. tary school principal in the at PSU gave him the confidence that one person North Clackamas School could make a difference. Upon visiting the orphan­ District. Capps' brothers also 1970-1979 age, he was so taken with the children and their attended Portland Scace: the Dave Emmett '70 is a obvious needs that on his next visit he brought lace Walter '58 and Douglas '67, now an executive director partner in Wicks Emmett, them a few gifts and supplies. That gesture started of Capitol Planning Commis­ an accounting firm in Rose­ a movement. sion in Salem. Sister-in-law burg. Emmett helped found Ta king adva ntage of a job that allows him to Elizabeth Stavney '67 is a Timber Commun icy Bank Portland middle school teacher. in 1979 and has served as travel inexpensively on his own time, D'Auria regu­ president or chair of many larly delivers supplies and support to 200 ch ildren Earnest Wayne Atteberry '62 organizations in Roseburg. who love him like a father. Wanting to do more retired as senior vice president Dolores Leon '70 is a reci red than he could by himself, he formed Sky of Love, and chief investment officer for The Standard Insurance Com­ physician. She volunteers for a nonprofit that shelters and educates orphaned, pany in Portland. Acceberry's fa­ Oucside In, the PSU Founda­ abused, and neglected children. The organization is vorite memories of PSU are the tion, and the PSU Alumni now supported by fellow Delta employees, school wrestling program, working at Association. Leon writes chat she appreciated "che ability to children, friends of friends, and his neighbors in US Bank to pay his way through school, and living at the Queen cake classes while my children Brooklyn, New York. Elizabeth apartments. He and were attending school." Her son, What started as a curiosity has become a pas­ his wife, Betty, live in Seattle. Regan '89, is a vice president sion . "This is not an obligation, " D'Auria says . " It's and community development manager at US Bank, where a natural thing to share my blessings to help others Jerry Wilkins '65, MS '71 is a rec i red elementary school teach­ her daughter-in-law, Gina '95, improve their lives. And when I show up at the er and library media specialise is a vice president of commer­ orphanage and the kids come running- there's for the North Clackamas School cial real estate development. no price for that." District. Wilkins volunteers for Easter Seals, the Ladies Profes­ Janet Baillie '71 is retired sional Golf Association, and and enjoys volunteering in her the Oregon Convention Center community of Angels Camp, Visitor Information Center. California, Baillie's niece,

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Send your news to: Stephen Laccinole '74 is the PSU Foundation and favorite memory of PSU is Donna Harris, Alumni founder of Selpeco Resources, Alumni Association boards as caking a horseback riding class class notes editor Inc., a consulting firm for well as Rosemont School and and visiting the scabies and ONLINE bulk material handling based Portland House ofUmoja. racetrack at Portland Meadows. www.alumni.pdx.edu in Bellevue, Washington. Andy Merrifield MA '77 has Wayne Wakeland PhD '77 is E-MAIL Susan Diane Rynerson '74 is been a professor of political sci­ an associate professor in systems [email protected] executive director for the Na­ ence at Sonoma Srate University science at Portland Scace. Wake­ MAIL tional Conference ofWomen's in Sonoma, California, for more land srarred as adjunct faculty Portland State University Bar Association and is a family cha n 20 years. Merri field 's areas in 1978. He has held manage­ Office of Alumni Relations attorney in Lake Oswego. of specialty are che American rial positions in information PO Box 751 presidency, budgetary policies, systems and manufacturing Portland OR 97207-0751 Jerry Estenson MBA '75 is a stare and local government, at local high-tech firms such principal at Humanecic Con­ and political methodology. as Tektronix, Photon Kinet- Katherine "Katie" Leonard sulring, Inc., a human resources ics, Magni Systems, Epson, '02, earned a doctorate in geol­ consulting firm in Colorado Randy Miller MS '77 is an and Leupold & Stevens. ogy from Columbia Uni versity Springs, Colorado. Estenson honorary consu lace co the in 2009, and now lives with her is also a professor of organiza­ Republic of Lithuania. He Michael Wong '77 is a husband, Andrew Clifton, in tional behavior at California lives in Porcland with his wife, magician in Orange County, Klosters, Switzerland. Baillie's Scace University in Norrhridge. Janee, and their four children. California, where he performs sister, Lois Leonard MAT '71, at private parties and at schools. is a producer and historian with Gary Funk MST '75 has Sarah Rowley '77, MS '87 is Wong has had parts in movies the Oregon Cultural Heri- been choral activities director retired after 30 years of reaching such as Independence Day, tage Commission film project at University of Montana in in the Portland Public School Rush Hour, Lethal Weapon 4, Finding David Douglas. Her Missoula, Montana, for more District. Rowley volunteers Austin Powers 3, and Bat- cousin, Jacqueline Authier than 10 years. Funk conducts with Habitat for Humanity in man Forever. He has appeared '91, is a PSU grad as well. three choirs and directs the Porcland and enjoys hiking, on television in Baywatch, university's Vienna Experience. golfing, and traveling with Murder She Wrote, NYPD John Hart '71 is a partner in Funk is also a highly regarded her husband, Garry Neil. Her Blues, and Power Rangers. the Portland law firm of Hoff­ composer, conductor, and man Hart and Wagner. Law tenor who tours che world. and Politics Magazine named Hart to its 2009 Oregon Super Marilyn Smith McDon­ Lawyers Top 50 in Oregon. ald '75 has self-pub! ished two books, Little Girl Donald Skei '71, '77 is a Lost and Mother ofEight Portland State University chiropractor at the Chehalem Survives Population Explo­ Valley Chiropractic clinic sion. McDonald writes chat Independent in Newberg and a diplomat during her final year at PSU of che American Board of her youngest child, Tina, Study was at the Helen Gordon Chiropractic Orthopedists. Accredited by NCCU and NAAS Child Development Center. Scott Anderson '72 is a maxil­ 1hey rode che bus together Quality. Flexibility. Convenience. lofacial surgeon ar Oregon from Beaverton to PSU, We offer quality accredited online- Health & Science University and Tina loved che center. and text-based high school, dual and a board examiner for che credit, and college courses. Our instructors are licensed professionals Oregon Deneal Specialty Board. Carol Swanson MSW '75 has a counseling practice in who are motivated to help our students achieve their goals. Gwendolyn Pierce MA '72 Portland. Swanson vol­ • Start anytime. is a retired school administra­ unteers for the Returning tor and now volunteers with Veterans Project, which offers • Take up to 12 months to finish a course. the Kiwanis Club. Pierce's free counseling and other • Transfer credits to the institution favorite PSU professor is also health services for returning of your choice. her husband, Joe Pierce. veterans and their families. Celebrating 100 years Edward Sullivan MA '72 is Roberta McEniry '76 is a of academic service. a partner with the Portland consultant with Resource Learn more, go to www.istudy.pdx.edu law firm of Garvey Schubert Global Professionals, or call 1-800-547-8887 ext 4865. Barer. Law and Politics where she assists clients Magazine named Sullivan with business process re­ to its 2009 Oregon Super engineering. McEniry has Lawyers Top 50 in Oregon. served as a volunteer with

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SPRING 2 010 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 23 and The Headache Center 1980-1981 of Southern Cali fornia in Robert Province '80 is an oil Encinitas, California. and gas negotiator and land manager for ENI Petroleum Lucinda Sage-Midgorden Company in Anchorage, Alaska. MA '86 and her husband, Barry M idgorden, have writ­ Steven Hedberg '81 is a partner ten a children's book, Scot­ in the Portland law firm of tosaurus the Little Dinosaur. Perkins Coie. Law and Politics Magazine named Hedberg Julie Cieloha '87 is the chief to its 2009 Oregon Super financial officer of the M .J. Lawyers Top 50 in Oregon. Murdock Chari table Trust in Vancouver, Washington. Donald Williams MPA '81 Cieloha is also a member of the is chief operating officer for Sheriff's Office Citizen Budget Schwabe, Williamson and Adv isory Committee foe Mult­ Wyatt in Portland. Will iams nomah County and received is married to Janet Daneer a Multnomah County 2009 Diplomatic Williams MPA '84, vice Citizen Involvement Award. president of human resources at Marylhurst University. Tim Hagge '88, MSW '92 assignment is a clinical social worker and Dee Thompson '84, MS '86 outreach specialist in the PSU Professor Frank Munk, retired in March as director Student Health and Counsel­ a former employee of of the PSU Career Center. ing Center. Hagge is married Czechoslovakia's last non­ Thompson started at the to Anne Hagge '83, MSW '89, a counselor at St. Mary's Communist government, Caree r Center as a student and continued wo rki ng there Academy in Portland. saw global potential in for 29 years with the last 10 as Marisa Lino and encouraged director. In 2008 she received Trina Bandelow '89 is her to think about the Foreign Service, a branch of an award from the U niversity president ofNorchwesc Medi­ for her outstanding service. ca l, Inc., a medical equipment the U.S. Department of State. A project in which and supply company based she interviewed people about current world issues Mark Clemons MUP '85 is an in Springfield, Oregon. for a student-run TV show piqued her interest, and associate principal for Group Brent Burket '89 and his wife, the on-camera work gave her confidence to pursue Mackenzie, a design firm in Portl and. C lemons i married to Jennifer Thoene, who are both the idea . Mary Weber '83, MUP '88. physicians, are liv ing and work­ Lino became one of the first women from ing in Guatemala for the next Portland State to serve in the U.S. diplomatic three years with their fo ur chil­ dren. Through M ission Doctors corps, and built a distinguished 30-year career with Association, Burker and Thoene postings to Italy, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Tunisia, and are working with the staff at a Peru. She was named U.S. ambassador to Albania hospital in Santiago Ari clan. in 1996, facilitating U.5.-Albanian relations until Patricia Butler MSW '89 has a 1999. After her Foreign Service career, she was counsel ing and family therapy assistant secretary of international affairs for the practice in Portland. Burl er Department of Homeland Security. volu nteers with the Returning Veterans Project, wh ich offers Even in a peripatetic career, Lino's PSU ties Li sa Gambee '86, MBA '95 free counseling and ocher health emerged, sometimes in surprising ways . On assign­ services for returning veterans ment as a refugee coordinator in the U.S. embassy Lisa Gambee '86, MBA and their fam il ies in Portland. in Pakistan, she discovered that two of her col­ '95 is a marketing manager Takahiro Watabe MS '89 leagues-an Afghan-American working for the with Fluid Market Strate­ gies, a marketing consulting is a chief structural engineer UN and an American working for Save the Chil­ firm based in Portland. for the Toda Corporation in dren-had graduated from PSU in her class. She Tokyo, Japa n. Wacabe's favorite hadn't known them in school, but they've all been Leona Mathews MBA '86 campus memories are the PSU footba ll games and the library. friends ever since . is chief executive officer of The Neurology Center

24 PO RTL A N D STATE MAGAZINE SPRING 201 O ar Willamette Cultural 1990-1999 Resources Associates, a Port­ Antoinette Edwards '90 land archaeological firm. i diversity director of rhe Oregon Trail chapter of Joan Seely Jagodnik '92, rhe American Red Cross in MA '96 is the assistant Portland. The Multnomah director of Community County Office of C itizen College Relations at Port­ Involvement honored her land State. Jagodnik wrote wirh rhe 2009 Gladys Mc­ several articles on the history Coy Award for lifetime of community colleges in vo lunteer achievement. Oregon published in rhe new Oregon Encyclopedia. ManaJ Refaat Loubani MS '90 is an ed ucational consul­ Jay CoaJson '93 is president tant in rhe Vice Minister's and CEO of Green Building Office for Gi rl s' Education Services, a bui lding consulr­ in rhe Ministry of Education ing firm in Portland. He is in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. also on the advisory council of First Stop Porrland in rhe Bringing justice Blake Patsy '90 is a prin­ lnsrirure on Metropoli tan cipal at KPFF Consulting tudies at Portland State. to the people Engineers. Patsy is also an advisory council member Lorn Hildreth '93 is As the first person to go to with First top Portland in president and pri nr broker the Institute of Metropolitan for Lucky Duck Prim- college in his family, Paul De Studies at Porrland Scare. ing in Hillsboro. Muniz credits Portland State for giving him the chance to pursue Daniel McDonald MBA Kelly Williams '93 is an a career in law. While Oregon 's '91 is a PSU Alumni As­ artist who combines her PSU sociation board member. psychology background in top judicial official is honored to McDonald is chair of the ch ild ren's trauma and her be a forerunner, what matters most to him 1s to see passion fo r arc as a thera­ 2010 PSU Weekend Planning the state judicial system more accessible, transpar­ committee. He is married peutic outlet for children. ent, accountable, and engaged with the public. to Kendal McDonald MA Her father, Carter Turnbull '02, who is secretary of '90, is also a P U grad. One of the ways De Muniz tries to foster an the PSU Alumni Board. interest in the Justice system among all demo­ Tom Clark MS '94 is rhe graphic groups is by encouraging people to be Monica Beemer MSW '92 is chief architect for storage rhe executive director of Sis­ software at IBM and owns more connected to their state courts. To that end, ters of rhe Road, a nonprofit four U.S. parents with eight he has worked to bring the courts to the people­ organization char provides ochers pending. Clark is also literally. In 2008, the Oregon Supreme Court food to rhe homeless in Port­ an active volunteer in his convened in a Klamath Fa ll s High School gym and land. Beemer was selected Tucson, Arizona, community. 2009 Extraordinary Ex­ engaged observers in a Q-and-A discussion . The ecutive Director by Portland Dean Westwood '94, MSW case involved 1,000 farm families and 13 water '00 is director of rhe Center Monthly Magazine as part of districts battling with a federal agency over w ater irs annual Lighr a Fire Award. on Self-Determination at Oregon Health & Science rights in the Klamath Basin . Thomas Boyd '92 is a University in Portland. " Courts should be engaged with the co mmuni­ sea ff photographer at 7he ties they serve, " he says. " Ninety-five percent of Elaine Brady-Mahoney '95, Orego12ian newspaper in all litigation takes place in state courts. The public Portland. Boyd writes that MSW '98 has a social work the proximity of Portland and chemical dependency should understand how the courts arrive at their Stare co 7he Oregonian was counseling practice in Port­ decisions, how they operate, and how they spend essential for his success as land. She also volunteers with their money. Because as Justice goes in state courts, was Mike Lloyd, staffer at the Returning Veterans Proj­ that's how America goes." 7he Oregonian and PSU ect, which offers free counsel­ photo journalism instructor. ing and ocher health services for returning veterans and David Ellis MPA '92 is their families in Portland. principal archaeologi t

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SPR ING 20 10 PORTLA ND STATE MAGAZI NE 25 Joe Earhart '95 is a systems Deborah Bensinger Jan­ administrator for Miller ikowski '97, MS '04 is associate Nash law firm in Portland. director in the PSU Office of Budget and Planning.

Aubre Dickson '98 was honored by the Portland Trailblazers and the Black Parent Initia- tive at a February 21 game for his commitment to family and the community. Dickson is an equity investments manager at Homestead Capital in Portland.

Ak iko Fillinger '9 5 Nathan Spear '98, a sales engineer for IBM in Port- Akiko Fillinger '95 is an as­ land, volunteers with the Big sociate professor of chemistry at Brother program. Spear had Ithaca College in Ithaca, New a Big Brother when he was in Center of York. Fillinger became interested middle and high school and in chemical solar-to-electricity says, "My experience was so rich conversion under the guidance chat I want a young person to hope for of PSU professor Carl Wamser. have that same experience."

Oregonians Bobby Balachandran MS Kristin Kane MSW '99 is direc­ '96 was named to the Portland tor of support services at Cascade Dennis Keenan started Business journal's 2010 Forty AIDS Project in Portland. college as a philosophy Under 40 list. Balachandran is major, doing "some social founder, CEO, and president Max Schwartz '99 is a senior of Exterro, Inc., a Beaverton manager at Geffen Mesher and activism on the side ." But company chat provides litigation Company, a Portland helping people was clearly his passion, so he software for the legal industry. accounting firm. switched to social work. Through PSU's program, Keenan learned how to work within institutions, Shelby Kardas '96 is vice president of administrative and 2000-2010 not outside them, to effect positive social change. development at the World Affairs Coalition building is "the modus operandi of social Council of Oregon in Portland. Patricia Atkinson MS '00 is an instructor in economics at Clark work today," he says. Valerie Pratt '96 is an ac­ College in Vancouver, Following graduation, Keenan went to work for countant for Pratt Weller and Washington. Cascade Health Care, providing care for the medi­ Associates, Inc., in Portland. cally indigent. Later he worked for the Archdiocese Susan Balbas MST '00 is executive director and founder of Portland . For the past 21 years he's been execu­ Jill Staffers '96 is the director of admissions for the Monterey of the Tierra Madre Fund, tive director of Catholic Charities of Oregon. Institute in Monterey, a nonprofit organization for One of Catholic Charities' nationally recognized California. Native American women programs, El Program Hispano, helps low-income, and sustainable community development based in Seattle. Latino immigrant families achieve self-sufficiency. Joe Tysoe '96 is a management consultant in Portland. Since Catholic Charities recently added a program to pro­ 1996, Tysoe has competed in Shannon Burley '00 is vide resources to victims of human trafficking, and 46 runs, marathons, triathlons, marketing d irector for the is currently raising $12 million for a Center of Hope and ironman competitions. Seattle Storm, a Women's National Basketball Associa­ that will bring a Loaves and Fishes Center, a child Christi Wuthrich '96 is owner tion team based in Seatcle. care facility, and administration and other programs of che Terra Del Sol Spa in under one roof. northwest Porcland. Wuchrich Anne Cohen '00, MPH '02 is a disabil ity and health The foundation of his education is never far from earned a master's in counsel­ ing psychology at Lewis & policy consultant in Moun­ Keenan 's work. Catholic Charities arranges field Clark College and worked as a tain View, California. placements for Portland State students, and two of therapist, school counselor, and his employees are applying to attend PSU . Child Protective Service worker. Abner Morales '00 works at Robert Halflnrernacional, a

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Christopher Naze '03 is a Cecillia Orphan '06 is national on a master's in taxation from Cultural Resources Associates, fourth-grade reacher at Maple­ manager for the American Golden Gare University. a Porcland archaeological firm. wood Elementary in Porcland. Democracy Project with che American Association of Scace Carly Bodnar '08 is an artist Ersun Warncke '08 is a busi­ Chip Shields MSW '03 was Colleges and Universities in who creates paintings, screen­ ness and economy reporter for appointed co che Oregon Senate Washington, D.C. Orphan prints, photography, and the Salem-News.com. Warncke District 32 sear previously held writes char Byron L. Haines, cards. She lives in Porcland. also works as an independent by Sen. Margaret Carter '73. professor of philosophy, software designer specializing was her ulcimace mentor. Nick Boyd '08 is a juvenile in Web-based applications, Ruth White MBA '03 is counselor at The Inn Home open source software, and vice president of program Alder Phillips MPA '06 is a for Boys in Porcland. One peer-co-peer applications. development at Via Train- program and project develop­ of Boyd's favorite memories ing, an e-learning company ment officer at che United of PSU is che first rime PSU Roy Watters MA '08 is an in Elkridge, Maryland. Scares Agency for Internacional went co the NCAA playoffs ethnographer for W illamette Development. Phillips is in men's basketball. "Even Cultural Resources Associates, Greg Brown MBA '04 is vice working in Nepal. though we lose, it was a huge a Porcland archaeological firm. president of loan administra­ step foe PSU," says Boyd. Watters is also an instructor tion at Riverview Commu­ Sumie Togo MS '06 lives at Porcland Seate and recencly nity Bank in Klamath Falls, in Tokyo, where she enjoys Rico Delapaz '08 is a calibra­ conducted multi-sire ethno­ where he lives with his wife, visiting museums, attending tion and correlation officer for graphic research for Intel. Jennie Hunter-Brown '82, classical music concerts, play­ Silcronic Corporation, a sil icon and their two child ren. ing golf, and reading books. wafer manufacturer in Porcland. In Memoriam Mandana Salehi '04 is a Natalee Webb MS '06 is Glen Esler '08 is a staff se ni or director of business interim assistant dean of environmental chemise with Clarke Brooke, Jr. , professo r development at Excerro, Inc., students and senior conduce AMEC Earth & Environmen­ emeritus of geography, died a Beaverton company that officer at Porcland Scace. Webb's tal in Porcland. Esler recencly December 4. He was 89. Dr. provides litigation software favorite PSU memories include earned credentials as a certi- Brooke joined the faculty in for the legal industry. Salehi pulling all-nighters in che fied laboratory auditor. 1954 and went on co inves­ is also in che MBA program library with her study bud- tigate food supply problems, ac Marylhurst University. dies and che "amazing people" Odilia Fazioni MA '08 is a land use, and relevant generic she mer in her program with business development and cul­ characteristics of endangered Alexis Clark Tate '04 is a whom she is still in contact. tural coach for Gaclin Interna­ breeds of sheep. His work led water reliability 2020 pub- tional, an online career training co overseas field studies in lic information manager for Joshua Halpin MPA '07 is an company. Fazioni works our Turkey, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, West Basin Municipal Water account executive at the Con­ of Dallas, Texas. She is also an Tanganyika, and Europe. District in Carson, California. nections Group, a candidate instructor at Dallas Community and public policy campaign College and enjoys running Leonard Cebula, former busi­ Dave Kobzina MS '05 is an consulcing firm in Seaccle. and improving her marksman­ ness administration adjunct admissions counselor for che ship at a shooting range. facu lty, died February 22. PSU New Student Programs. Katherine "Kate" Hummel He also taught at Mc. Hood MPA '07 is a classification Amanda Newberg '08 is a Community College and Kristi Jo Lewis MS '05, MPA officer with che United Nations seventh-grade social stud- retired from Bonneville Power '05 was named co the Porcland Educational, Scientific and Cul­ ies reacher in New York City. Administration in 1987. Cebula Business Journal 's 2010 Forty tural Organization, where she Newberg is a corps member maintained his own income tax Under 40 list. Lewis is president evalu ates close co 3,000 poses with Teach for America, a non­ consulcing practice for 30 years. and CEO of G lobal Siscergoods, located in Paris and elsewhere. profit organization chat places Inc., which sells fair trade cloth­ recent college graduates in William T. Schantz, professor ing, accessories, home decor, Toni Pennington PhD '07 disadvantaged school systems. emeritus of business adminis­ and coys created by women is an aquatic biologist for tration, died April 14. He was artisans from around the world. the surface water group at Tyler Roppe '08 is a dispatcher 75. A beloved, award-winning Terra Tech in Porcland. and lead worker for the PSU professor, Schantz caught tax, Erin Hulme '06 is an Americas Campus Public Safety Office. accounting, business law, legal associate with Internacional Drew Robinson '07, MEd '08 Roppe's favorite memories of environment, che CPA Law Business Leaders Forum, a non­ is an algebra reacher for che PSU are his tenure as a student Review, and ocher business profit char promotes responsible Peninsula School, a K-8 public journalise and participating in courses for 31 years, until his business around che world. school in North Porcland. on-campus natural building retirement in 1994. He was also Hulme works in New York. projects in professor Richard a member of che Oregon Seate Johnathan Tran '07 is an asso­ Clucas's Power Game class. Bar and in March was honored River Hwang '06 is a per­ ciate with Sensiba San Filippo, for 50 years of meritorious so nal jewelry consultant at an accounting firm in San Paul Solimano MA '08 is an service. ■ Cookie Lee Fine Fashion Francisco. Tran is working archeologisc with Willamette Jewelry in Porcland.

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