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Portland State University PDXScholar University Archives: Campus Publications & Portland State Magazine Productions Fall 9-1-1996 Portland State Magazine Portland State University. Office of University Communications Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/psu_magazine Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Portland State University. Office of University Communications, "Portland State Magazine" (1996). Portland State Magazine. 77. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/psu_magazine/77 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]. FEATURING FREE talks by: DAVID GUTERSON Steve Amen - OPB Professor Barney Burke Author of best seller Ketzel Levine - NPR Snow Falling on Cedars Terence O'Donnell-historian President Judith Ramaley Keynote Speaker, noon, October 26 Professor Charlie White and 19 other outstanding speakers at Other Special Events: • Patron Reception - October 25 • Department Open Houses - October 25 • Sunday Tours - October 27 COMM UNITY HOSTS: The Greenbrier Companies, Inc., Gunderson Inc. Alexander and Alexander, Inc. Coopers & Lybrand Tonkin , Torp, Galen, Marmaduke & Booth, Attorneys at Law Botsford & Goodfellow Charles W. Walker MBA '76, Therese Walker '73, '81, . Sue Brickey Purpura '77 & Gar) Purpura '71 & Kathleen Walker Cooney '82 Pat '95 & Fred Squire Pamela Gesmc Miller '84, Shareholder Services & [m•estor Relations Wholesome & Hearty Foods, Inc. Home ofthe Garde11burger Oregon Multimedia Alliance Cosgrave, Vergeer & Kester Amburgey & Rubin, P.C. I Fred Meyer FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONSULT THE PSU WEEKEND BROCHURE, OR CALL THE ALUMNI OFFICE AT 725-4948. EDITOR Kathryn Kirkland CONTRIBUTORS FEATURES Myrna Ouray, C larence Hein '65, Janis Nichols, Pat Scott, Pat Squire '95, Douglas Swanson, Jean Tuomi , Martha Wagner, Jennifer Wheeler, Brian White Bouncing Back 8 DESIGN After a decade and a half without men's basketball, the team Terry Daline is back playing Division I in the Big Sky Conference. EDITORIAL OFFI CE 325 Cramer Hall P.O. Box 751 Wanted: Engineers 10 Portland, O R 97207-0751 (503 ) 725-4451, FAX: (503) 725-4465, As the high-tech industry in Oregon prospers, higher E-MAIL: [email protected] education is looking to catch up. ADVERTISING SALES (503) 725-4451 A Rare Move 13 ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE An entire graduate program, including faculty and students, Pat Squire '95, Director Jennifer Wheeler, Assistant Director has moved from Lewis & Clark to PSU. 239 Mill Street Building P.O. Box 751 Portland, OR 97207-075 1 (503) 725-4948 You'll Find Him at Freddy's 14 Jim Aalberg '72 left the mergers, downsizings, and buyouts ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS Susan Purpura '77, President of the banking industry to join Fred Meyer Inc. Jim Aalberg '72 Steve Amen '86 Glen Beckley '6 It's Elementary 29 Vicki Chase '78 Dan Gemma '64 Portland Public Schools may open its first new grade school Michae l Glanville '65 in more than 20 years on PSU's campus. Joe Gonzales '91 Mary Mertens James '78 Joan Johnson '78 Bill Lemman, Vanport Leo Macleod '90 DEPARTMENTS Linda Macpherson MPA '80 Pamela Gesme Miller '84 Stan Payne '73 Don Rickel '65 Letters 2 Bob Schulz '80 Around the Park Blocks 4 Charles Stoudamire '72 Cameron Vaughan-Tyler '92 From the President 4 Bill Walker '73, MPA '80 Terry Walker '73, MBA '8 1 Philanthropy in Action 16 Ellen Wax '82, MURP '92 Alumni Association News 18 ALUMNI AMBASSADORS Sports 20 Jon Jalali '67, MBA '7 1, Medford Chuck Littlehales '65, Newport Alum Notes 21 Dennis O lson '68, MS '80, Pendleton Cover: The Rose Garden arena is home court for the new Viking team PSU Magazine is published for alumn i and friends of Portland State University. Contents may be rep rinted only by permission of the editor. Please send address changes to the Office of Alumni (see story on page 8). Illustration by Relations, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751. The magazine is Portland artist Blaise Jette. printed on recycled paper. PSU is an affi rmative action/equal opportunity institution. FALL 1996 PSU MAGAZINE I E T T E R S Engineering grad asks why OSU gets PSU's engineering funding? The 'Lightbulb Parable' If OSU is making the decisions for As a native of Portland, it seems that both engineering schools, then where Yesterday morning The Oregonian ran I have been hearing about school will the money be spent? Why should an article on how OSU may be taking funding and budgeting issues for Corvallis run programs in Portland, over PSU's School of Engineering, and Oregon schools, as far back as I can when Portland has the majority of how UO may be dominating graduate remember. Also, it seems that every the need and the students to fill its business education in Oregon. The few years, another proposal to disman programs? Shouldn't the Oregon journalist noted that PSU was left out tle PSU or one of its programs, is put State System of Higher Education try of the loop. Not a new development to forth by the State Board of Higher to meet its customers needs in the be sure. When I was at Portland State Education. best way possible? Will the customer in the early '60s a student writer When, if ever, will a fair and be best served by a satellite engineer composed the "Parable of the Three effective higher ed structure be ing program, run from a distance? If Lightbulb Factories." (The big and identified for the state of Oregon? the majority of the customers growing bulb plants were down south When will the most populous part (students and companies) are in the while the demand was up north, etc.) of the state, get proportionate fund Portland metro area, then shouldn't That is a perennial theme at PSU it ing for its programs, which are in the local and nationally recognized would seem. such high demand? These are just urban university, be allowed to Last fall the idea was to simply some of the questions I ask in continue fulfilling its role? "deep-six" PSU. Now it looks like response to the latest proposal under PSU has built a strong, quality incremental dismemberment instead: consideration by the board, to have Engineering School in a relatively take a leg now, then a hand, etc. Does Oregon State run Portland State's short period of time, to help meet this latest master scheme give PSU Engineering School. the high demand for engineers in the anything? For example, UO has given Why? Can anyone really answer state and metro area. PSU's program up teacher training for the most part, this question? Is it more cost is a success story, a very good thing. and OSU merged its school of educa effective? Or is it yet another way to I know, because as an engineering tion with the school of home econom divide up the pie, only this time graduate, I thank PSU's program for ics. Do the new proposals perhaps preparing me for the workplace and suggest giving PSU a major role in excellent career opportunities that teacher training? Or do the proposals followed upon graduation. And there suggest funding urban studies and are hundreds of other alumni that social work outside Portland? So far have positively benefited from PSU's the chancellor is focusing on business Engineering School as well. It is no and technology and UO and OSU are wonder that OSU would like to be on the receiving end. a part of this successful program. I'm not at all clear on this but even But why does the Board of Higher in a time of tight budgets the other two Education want to consider changing universities never seem to be as short a program that is working and as PSU. And somehow they can move continues to work so well? If the into PSU's "turf' quite easily. For years board truly believes that consolida UO has run an ad for computer classes tion of the university system in in Portland. Then UO rented a bigger Oregon will reduce costs of higher location and became "UO in ed, then why are they not proposing Portland." Today, June 23, they took to consolidate the entire system out a full-page ad. ls there a reason for statewide? Could it be that schools UO, not PSU, offering those courses? in Eugene and Corvallis would not PSU has always been a study in like to be run from a boardroom in limitations. Yet somehow the school Salem anymore than PSU's and the students learned and grew and Engineering School would like to developed no matter the severity of Advanced laser research is be run from an office in Corvallis? shortcomings. The early '60s were conducted by Professor Lee even more limited: few buildings, a Deanna Hotchkiss '88 Casperson in PSU's Electrical small library, almost no campus; every Portland, Oregon Engineering Department. student was literally a street person. We managed in and through 2 PSU MAGAZINE FALL 1996 limitations. Perhaps more than a few state's institutions of higher learning; The tragedy of all this expensive of us take a perverse pride in the place and and distracting maneuvering from and how little we had to work with. 2. Develop Portland State University downstate is that Portland State's Fortunately the teachers were gener as a university serving the needs of success is inevitable. History will ally committed, people wanted to Greater Portland. repeat itself, those guys will lose again, learn, ways around shortages of all and PSU win continue on its path to kinds were located.