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Professor Sully Taylor teaches in Portland State University's Master of International Management program-the only one in the world focused solely on Asia. Oregon companies recognize the need to build strong relationships with their Asian trading partners, and know that it requires more than just learning the languages. That's why they turn to Portland State, where their future employees are developing a deep understanding and respect for the business realities and cultural nuances of the Asian environment. With her colleagues, Sully is inspiring a global mindset in students that can make the difference between missed opportunities and highly successful business relationships across the Pacific.

Contact the Master of International Management program today to learn about our upcoming lecture seminar series and information sessions at: www.mim.pdx.edu 503 -725-2275 or 1-800 -879 -5088 Fax: 503-725-2290 E-mail : mim @sba .pdx.edu CONTENTS

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4 AROUND THE PARK BLOCKS 19 GIVING Getting physical in a new space Magic Johnson scores support Features What's new?: Degree programs for PSU Elementary connections Viewpoint: Fiest in the family 20 ALUMNI CONNECTIONS 2 A JOB WELL DONE Confucius says Meet our first association members President Dan Bernstine is leaving Unexpected art Arabian Nights in Riyadh a legacy of growth and pride. Barbara Roberts to lead commencement Save the date for PSU Weekend 14 UP IN THE AIR 8 FANFARE 22 ATHLETICS Controversy again surrounds From a new direction Torre Chisholm leads the Horde Aslam Khalil's research On Campus: A measure of complexity on methane. Teacup to uccess 23 ALUMNI NOTES Bookbriefs A rose by her name 16 TURNING LIVES AROUND A Vanguard education A PSU-based program is making Capital relations huge strides in helping teen offenders. 29 LOOKING BACK Remembering Joseph Blume!

BRING IT ON! The new football coach is ready ON THE COVER Jerry Glanville promises great football at Portland's PGE Park to rumble. this fall with assistant coach, Mouse Davis (below right). See story on page 10. Photos by Steve Dipaola. PORTLAND STATE MA G AZ INE

SPRING 2007 I VOL. 21 NO . 3

EDITOR Kathryn Kirkland

CONTRIBUTORS James Bash and Martha Wagner DESIGN A job well done Cate Whitcomb and Leslie Watkins

EDITORIAL OFFICE 325 Cramer Hall Under President Dan Bernst ine, Portland P.O. Box 751 Portland, OR 97207-0751 503-725-4451, fax 503-725-4465 State has experienced extraordinary growt h [email protected] in enrollment, programs, and stature. ADDRESS CHANGES PSU Alumni Association www.alumni.pdx.edu click on "update your info" or call 503-725-4948 SOON AFTER DAN Bemstine Portland State. On July 1 he becomes ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE Pat Squire MPA '95, became Portland State president, a the president and CEO of the Law Assistant Vice President small but determined group of students School Admissions Council, a Pennsyl­ Simon Benson House sat on the grassy field behind the Millar vania-based organization that admin­ POBox751 Portland, OR 97207-0751 Library protesting its conversion roan isters the entrance exam for U.S. law 503-725-4948 artificial turf recreation field. Bulldozers schools. Bernstine scarred his career as [email protected] were due lacer chat week in June 1998. a lawyer in the early 1970s and was ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS Bemscine went out to the students dean of the University of Wisconsin Angela Wykoff '72, MS '75, '80, bearing a large pizza. He sat, he law school before becoming president President Kori Allen '84 listened, he ate. Students all owed ofPSU. Jeff Austin '77 construction to go ahead and the area Gary Barth '86 is now known as the Peter Stott Com­ BERNSTINE ' S LEGACY INCLUDES Jacqueline Bell '71 Donna Derington '79 munity Recreation Field. The protest record growth in enrollment, building, Robert Edmiston '84 leader was among the first to reserve research, fundraising, and programs Linda Hamilton '90 Behzad Hosseini '96, MBA '97 the field once it was complete. in Portland and abroad. But he is Marshal Jevning '96 most proud of the Univer­ Kom1 Kalevor '88 sity's enhanced reputation Bill Lemman, Vanport, DHL '04 and influence. Gina Leon '95 "We have an institutional swagger Roberta McEniry '76 "We have an institu­ Terry Pinnell '01 that we did not have before," says tional swagger that we Gary Purpura '71 Gerry Scov,I '65, MS '68 Bernstine. "I think the community's did not have before, "says Ann Takamura MPA '97 Bernscine. "I think the Charisse Tooze '94 perception of Portland State has community's perception Trish Trout MA '88 Cathy Williams ·s6 caught up with the reality of what of Portland Scace has caught up with the reality ALUMNI AMBASSADORS we do here." of what we do here." Jon Jalali '67, MBA '71, Medford Nohad Toulan, dean Dennis Olson ·68, MS '80, Pendleton Cathy Williams '56, Sisters emeritus of the PSU Col­ "Dan Bernstine is definitely an lege of Urban and Public Affairs, agrees. Portland State Magazine is published awesome listener," says Dan Garcia '00, "Dan came to PSU at a time when three times a year, during fall, winter, and spring terms. Contents may be Vanguard editor at the time. "He has the University had accepted its urban reprinted only by permission of the done what he felt was right for the mission and identity but had yet to editor. The magazine is printed on University, and we would not be where figure what this meant and what an recycled paper. Portland State University is an affirmative action/ equal we are today without his guidance in urban mission entails," says Toulan. opportunity inst,tut,on the past 10 years." "He brought the University and the After a decade oflistening and community together to define the working behind the scenes to build nature and scope of the partnership. relationships, Bernstine, 59, is leaving He leaves behind a University at ease

II with its mission and sure of its furure George Pernsteiner, Oregon University and destiny." System chancellor. This future includes well-regarded But Bernstine's most enduring programs in fields as diverse as urban contribution may be access and oppor­ planning, social work, publishing, and tunity for students, which has resulted nanoscience. The University has earned in enrollment of more than 25,000 numerous awards for the role commu­ students, making PSU the largest nity service plays in its curriculum. Its university in the state. international education has resulted in "Dan Bernstine shares my commit­ pioneering relationships in the Middle ment to providing access to higher East, China, and Vietnam, as well as a education for all Oregonians-giving nearly 50 percent increase in interna­ many of our citizens the opportunity tional enrollment since 1999. to educate themselves and to make a lasting impact on our state," says RESEARCH FUNDING DURING Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski. Bernstine's tenure grew from $17 With characteristic modesty, Bern­ million to $40 million a year, and stine is quick to point out he did not PSU's first comprehensive fundraising succeed at PSU without the help of campaign brought in $114 million, many. "I cook advantage of a great exceeding the original goal by $24 administrative team and momentum million. that was already under way," he says . "Working with partners in the city, But he is obviously confident in his the state and the private sector, Dan path and by forging new connections presided over a construction boom that has elevated Portland State's stature included the Native American Center, and promise, ensuring its prominent the Urban Center and Plaza, innova­ role in the future of Oregon. ■ tive 'green' student housing, and a new engineering building housi ng the BY KATHRYN KIRKLAND Maseeh College of Engineering," says

SPRING 2007 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 3 Getting physical in a new space

SOPHOMORE BAILEY JOHNSTON can't wait to get out of the basement of Smith Memorial Student Union, where he now works for PSU's Outdoor Program. Johnston is one of many students looking forward ro the new light-filled Academic and Student Recreation Center expected to break ground chis summer Light-filled space, as shown in these and open its doors in 2009 for swimming, dancing, basketball, badminton, the architectural renderings, will give the Outdoor Program, and other recreation. new Academic and Student Recreation The center will be built on the site of the Portland Center for Advanced Tech­ Center a welcoming ambiance. nology at 1800 SW Sixth Ave. The University purchased the soon-ro-be demol­ ished building in 1983, which until recently housed engineering programs. Johnston wants the new center to be a place for social interaction as well as physical activity. "I hope to see students create a new sense of community and come to campu not just for classes, but to hang out in this building too," he says. Alex Accetta, PSU coordinator of campus recreation, has the same hopes. When he talks about fitness , intramural, and club sports on campus, he is chinking of statistics that point to higher retention races and increased academic success for students who gee involved. And a new facility will make this possible, especially because the Peter Stott Center-PSU's physical education building-is so over­ crowded and overbooked. "We do a good job of scheduling for the resources we now have," says Accetta, "but the Stott Center was built when our student population was only 8,000. Today we are 25 ,000." For example, badminton is played on squash courts, soccer players practice on racquetball courts, rable tennis players meet in hallways, and the one dance instruc­ tion area on can1pus is booked all day, every day.

4 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE SPRING 2007 AROUND THE PARK BLOCKS

Elementary connections

THE FIFTH-GRADER in the second row-the boy with the big smile-had Marie Henderson hooked from day one. Henderson helped our in his classroom ar King Elementary School as pare of her Senior Capstone project. For the past four years, Portland Scare seniors have assisted at King through the University's Enhancing Youth Lit­ eracy Capstone class. The PSU students help with reading, writing, math, and science; provide role models for rhe young students; and gee a caste of what it is like co give back co rhe commu­ nity-a calling they may continue co The new center will allow students co swim, lift weights, gee on a treadmill, answer once our of school. or play spores when they choose, says Accetta, and students have shown char Henderson, an English major, they want chis. They've been involved for years in planning the center, and it worked one-on-one with the 11-year­ is their student fees-approximately $35 million coral-char will pay for it. old, and found a child with a mischie­ Funding for rhe five-story building is also coming from an innovative vous, likable nature, whose diffi- mix of retail and community tenants. Retail businesses on rhe first floor culty staying focused had dropped him and offices for the Oregon Chancellor of Higher Education and the city of behind grade level. The boy was nor Portland's archives are planned. New classroom space is another important her only project. She and ocher seniors part of the facility. tutored many children and helped the The Outdoor Program will carry on its 40 years of group adventures­ school with a health and fitness fair. All hikes, backpacking trips, and water and snow excursions-from its new first­ rhe while they kept a journal on their floor space. project and provided tutoring rips for Johnston came co PSU because of tl1e program, and as its team-building PSU students who will follow in their outreach coordinator he is excited char it will have more of a presence. "Ir footsteps. will now be in a building char stands our and welcome students," he says. For more information on the Academic and Student Recreation Center, visi r www.campusrec.pdx.edu. King Elementary student Dashawn Pervish receives help from PSU senior Aniela Hutanu. What's new?

IN THE PAST three years, Portland Seate has added a number of new degree programs, including: Doctorate in biology Doctorate in mathematics Doctorate in applied psychology Doctorate in sociology and social inequality Master's in interdisciplinary studies Master's in materials science and engineering Master's in statistics Bachelor's in black studies Bachelor's in environmental science and resources

SPR ING 2007 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 5 Viewpoint Can college be intimidating when there is no one to show you the ropes? PETER COLLIER, sociology faculty, thinks so, and findings from his mentoring program for students who are the first in their family to go to college, bear this Unexpected art out. Collier discusses the Students First program, now in its second year at PSU. THE RIVER RO CKS used in an award-winning storm water management system at Stephen E. Epler Hall Q: What was the most significant result from the pilot year have become the subject of some "unintended conse­ of Students First? quences that are pretty cool," says Josh Lighthipe, an A: While we expected our students' grade point averages engineer for the system. and retention levels to be higher than average, we were sur­ The rocks now sport words, writings, and tiny pic­ prised that they also completed more credit hours each term. tures. Apparently, students sit on the raised boxes and decorate the rocks. A depiction of the painting known Q: Doesn't it just take smarts and hard work to succeed at as "The Scream" is one of Lighthipe's favorites. a university? He first noticed the "public art" while visiting the A: No, a critical part of success involves what we like to system that he and other civil engineering colleagues call navigation skills. We help students find needed resourc­ from KPFF Consulting Engineers designed three years es, connect to the campus and other students, and basically ago. Rainwater from the roofs of Epler Hall and neigh­ develop strategies to help them get the work done. boring King Albert Hall is collected in the river rock boxes. The water Aows to underground retention tanks Q: Do you think it makes a difference having students where it is treated using ultraviolet light before resurfac­ with similar backgrounds mentoring your students? ing for use as flush water in first-floor restrooms and in A: Yes, our new students do not have parents telling them landscape irrigation. about their college days. In a way, our peer mentors help The student residential hall won LEED (Leadership fill this gap. The peer mentors are first-generation students in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver rating who have already earned a bachelor's degree. from tl1e U.S. Green Building Council.

Confucius says Barbara Roberts to lead commencement BY THE YE AR 2010, the Ministry of Education in China estimates that 200 million people worldwide will be learning OR EGO N'S O NLY WOM AN Chinese as a foreign language. governor, Barbara Roberts, will give To facilitate this trend, China is establishing Confucius Insti­ the spring commencement speech tutes, including one at Portland State. The institutes promote and receive an honorary degree on Chinese language and culture. Saturday, June 16, at 10 a.m. at the The PSU Confucius Institute expects to offer short courses Rose Garden Arena. More than 16,000 students and this summer in cultural awareness for business and travel. guests are expected to attend. Chinese government funding will also support community Roberts, who served as governor from 1991 to 1995, outreach, library materials, and a visiting faculty member from has a long history of public service. She was the first Suzhou University, PSU's sister school in southwestern China. woman to serve as majority leader of the Oregon House The University's Chinese language classes have a ready audi­ and the first Democratic secretary of state elected in 100 ence. Last year, Portland Public Schools received a $700,000 years. Until 2005, she was an associate director in PSU's grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to double the Executive Leadership Institute. She continues to support number of students studying Chinese in its immersion the University in various ways, including a scholarship programs-many of whom will become students in PSU's honoring her lace husband, Frank Roberts, a faculty Confucius Institute. member and state senator.

6 PORTLA ND STATE MAGAZINE SPRING 2007 1-'or M ,ry 'vlertE s JeCJn "THT I rhornE lobert Ber'1n1, PhD, PJ Do d Koc~ Dd 11el O BE ,tr ', [ JD F \ 1, BA '/t, Distinguished Faculty Outstanding Friend Outstanding Outstanding Achievement Award of Athletics Award Alumni Assoc1at1on Alumni Award Alumni Award Inspirational Leadership Associate Professor, Dept. Tireless volunteer, and Swagger Award Circuit Court Judge, Administrator, Public of Civil and Environmental supporter, and fan Marion County Employees ' Benefit Board Engineering and Nohad President 1997-2007, A. Toulan School of Urban Portland State University Studies and Planning

Portland State UNIVERSITY Ray Elliott '00 will conduct the Portland Lesbian Choir's 20th Anniversary Concert June 23.

From a new direction

RAY ELLIOTT '00 may be che nation's first and only gay, African American man to lead a lesbian choir. This fall, Elliott brought his energetic directing style to the Portland Lesbian Choir at its members' request. The 20-year-old choir had struggled without a conductor during the past year. ''Ac the first rehearsal, some singers were a little unsure about working wich a man," says Elliot, "but midway into rehearsal everybody relaxed and it went really well." Eliott, the founder and director of Confluence, a gay and lesbian chorus based in Salem, directs a Unitarian church choir in Corvallis and has conducted choirs at Chemeketa Community College. His PSU degree is in music education. "We have singers from all levels," says Elliott. "For some, it's cheir first time in a choir, and they learn everything by ear. Ochers can sight read very well. The choir members need to memorize the music and that's challenging for some." The 22-member ensemble, which is open to all women, will present a 20th Anniversary Concert on June 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the virtuosic Cello Bridgeport United Church of Christ, 621 NE 76th Ave. For more ifhe P.SU Symphony Orchestra about the Portland Lesbian Choir, visit www.plchoir. org.

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• 8 PORT LAND STATE MAGAZINE SPRING 2007 FANFARE

Teacup to success Bookbriefs MARRIED TO MY GARDEN WHEN TEDDE MCMILLEN '95 launchedOregon Chai,shewascloseco by Barbara Ashmun '74 finishing her studies ar Portland Stare. Ar 48 years old and rhe mother of rwo, William, James & Company, 2007 McMillen was a master at meeting rhe demands of family, coursework, and customers. This ability undoubtedly helped her make Oregon Chai an incred­ ibly successful business, a business that she and her partners sold in 2004 for GOD LAUGHS & PLAYS $75 million. by David James Duncan '73 "I was busy, bur I loved ir," says McMillen. "I would go co class in rhe Triad Books (paperback), 2007 morning, rhen make chai afterwards, deliver ir co customers, and study in the evening. I even made the dean's list!" In her new book, Nirvana in a Cup, McMillen tells about her advencures HOLLYWORLD and misadvencures creating Oregon Chai. Ir all starred after her daughter, by Michael Hollister Heather, discovered the delicious drink while hiking in the Himalayas and (English emeritus faculty) rhen persuaded her mother co help her make ir a commercial product. AurhorHouse, 2006 McMillen immediately drew on PSU as a resource. "I cook as many business classes as I could without beco ming a business major," explains McMillen. "I did a whole business plan and brought samples CLOTH IN WEST AFRICAN HISTORY of Oregon Chai co class for taste testing. I learned about purring together by Colleen E. Kriger '73 employee rask descriptions and proced ures. Ir was great!" AltaMira Press, 2006 Of course, McMillen and rhe company experienced several missteps, such as choosing a low-grade honey rhar ruined 200 gallons of chai. WOLF'S REMEDY "The chai had gone by Doc Macomber '84 from a beautiful mahogany Floating Word Press, 2007 brown co a greenish black," recalls McMillen. "Ir rasred awful. Bur we didn't know FIGHTING FOR PARADISE: rhar until we had borrled A MILITARY HISTORY OF THE it all up." PACIFIC NORTHWEST Recen tly McMiJlen has by Kurr R. Nelson '77 written an e-book, "How Westholme Publishing, 2007 co Take Your Food Product co Marker," rhar provides easy-co-follow instructions TOUCHES OF SWEET HARMONY: for anyone who wants to BRITT FESTIVALS, 1963-1987 explore the possibility of by John Trudeau (Fine and following in her footsteps. Performing Arts dean emeritus) See www.nirvanainacup.com Britt Festivals, 2006 for more information. Tedde McMil len '95 has written a new book about DAY SHIFT WEREWOLF her successful business, Oregon Chai , which she and her partners sold after eight years for $75 million . by Jan Underwood MA '98 Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006

ABOUT THIS PAGE . We want to hear about your books and recordings and your future exhibits, performances, and directing ventures. Contact the magazine by e-mailing [email protected], sending a fax to 503 -725 -4465, or mailing to Portland State Maga ­ zine, Office of University Communications, PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207-0751.

SPRING 2007 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 9 EVERY MORNING, LONG before lights glisten; the stands frame now twice as wide. "Thar's the classes begin, Jerry Glanville walks into the action. Viking horn." his modest PSU office and boors up his Quickly, like a kid at a candy It's meant to unnerve or inspire, computer. He can hardly wait to see the machine, Glanville clicks a few keys. depending on whose side you're on. screen image: a wide-angle photo of a Out of the computer speakers comes He cranks up the volume. "Here we Viking football game caken before he a penetrating howl. come ... I'm ralkin' about the Port ... came to town. The PGE Park stadium "That's us," Glanville says, his eyes land ... Seate ... Vikings," his voice

10 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE SPRING 2007 The football team's first home game in PGE Park is September 8 against UC Davis. For tickets call 1-503-725-3307 or 1-888-VIK-TIKS.

and become the Vikings' head coach changed PSU athletics overnight. More than 500 season tickets were sold in just two days after Glanville's hiring, and sales are expected to triple or quadruple over last year before the home opener game September 8 against Universiry of California, Davis. And Glanville is ready for it. He is 65, with the drive, zest, and swagger of a teenager. The man is different. "Very different," he says, sitting up straight and immediately slipping from singular to plural. "That's the way we are. We're not going co change. This is who we are and what we do."

TERI MARIANI, WHILE she was interim athletic director, was the first Portland State official to contact Glan­ ville and check him out. When PSU head coach Tim Walsh left to become offensive coordinator at West Point, Mariani called former Viking coach Darrel "Mouse" Davis and half-joking­ ly asked if he would be interested in the vacancy. Davis, who was an assistant coach at Hawaii, cold her no, but said he knew someone who might be. A couple of days later, a resume arrived by fax from Glanville. "I thought maybe Mouse was play­ ing a joke on me, so I actually waited a couple of hours until I called Jerry," Mariani says. "Jerry assured me that he was really interested, that his wife wanted to get off the island, and that he'd heard a lot about Portland and PSU. "So we arranged for him to come interview. I met him at the airport and stuck out my hand. He gave me a big bear hug like we were old friends who hadn't seen each other in years. Right away, I knew he was my kind of guy." goes low and slow as he holds the vibra­ Glanville-known as football's She also quickly discovered that tion of the final syllables for effect. Man in Black, remembered for his Glanville loves to talk and tell stories Glanville smiles and hits the return successas an NFL coach in Atlanta and from his anything-but-rypical life. key again. And again. Houston, regarded as at least a little bit For instance, he's driven on Some people start their day repeat­ crazy-has PSU fans buzzing. His deci­ NASCAR cracks against the big daddies ing affirmations. Glanville blows his sion to leave the defensive coordinator of stock-car racing. "Got a photo of me Viking horn. job at Universiry of Hawaii in February and Dale Earnhardt, Sr., coming

SPRING 2007 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 11 Glanville-known as football's Man in Black, remembered for his success as an NFL coach in Atlanta and Houston, regarded as at least a little bit crazy-has PSU fans buzzing. out ofTurn 3 in Atlanta," he says. "My legendary last race was at Michigan, and we were coaches George runnin' top four, top five all day. On Allen (Washing­ that two-mile oval, you run 191 miles ton Redskins) , per hour all day. Runnin' 191 miles per Paul Brown hour is almost as good as bein' on the (Cincinnati kickoff ream." Bengals), Paul He suffered severe burns in one race, "Bear" Bryant but so what? (Alabama) and "I was a French fry. They took skin Woody Hayes out of my legs and put it in my arms. (Ohio State). It's j use part of racin' ," he says, casually. "I never "You get back in the car and go again." thought I'd He has long been on a first-name ba­ leave Georgia sis with the kings and queens of coun­ Tech," he says. try music, from Kris Kristofferson and But in 1977, Free safety Micheal Dorsey (left) and linebacker Branden Brooks are learning coach Willie Nelson to the late Johnny Cash he was recrui red Glanville's 3-4 defense this spring. and Waylon Jennings. He also loves the by the Atlanta blues and Motown and spends a lot of Falcons as time with John Mellencamp and Jerry defensive back something bigger. And retirement Jeff Walker. "Songwriters interest me," coach. doesn't even sound like an option with he says. "They can tell a total, complete He lasted in the NFL through 1993, him. "A teacher never quits teaching, story in three minutes." spending four-plus seasons as head a preacher never quits preaching. You Glanville's life story is a bit longer coach of the Houston Oilers and four are what you are," he says. than chat. seasons as head coach of the Falcons. Atlanta fired him in '93 after his second GLANVILLE HAD BOUNDLESS HE GREW UP in Perrysburg, Ohio, consecutive 6-10 season. He knew energy then and still has it now. with his mother and older brother, nothing about TV, but Fox, which had "I used to ask my mom, 'What did Richard. His parents divorced when just gained the rights to NFL games, you do to make me like this, that I'm he was young. enticed him and another rookie analyst, different, that every day I'm going 100 He starred in both football and base­ John Madden, into the broadcasting miles per hour?' She cold me she didn't ball as a boy. At Northern Michigan booth. do one thing, that from Day One it University, he stuck to football while A year lacer, Kansas City Chiefs was wide open. And you know, it's majoring in physical education. coach Marty Schottenheimer wanted never been shut down." After briefly teaching P.E., history, to hire Glanville as an assistant, but That's the way he coaches, and that's and driver's education at a high school Glanville cold him he couldn't go back how he expects his teams to play: wide in Ohio, he got his first college on his word to stay with Fox. He never open. His teams play hard and hit coaching job in 1967 as an assistant got another shot at the NFL. "In my harder. at Western Kentucky. heart, ifl had to do it over again, I "I've never had one player in my From 1968 to 1973, he was at Geor­ probably should have gone to Kansas entire coaching career talk back to gia Tech, developing a reputation for City," he says. "Ir's funny how one yes me or say they weren't going to do coaching defense and stealing recruits or no changes the whole equation." something I asked them to do. That's from higher-profile schools. Glanville Glanville says he won't try to use because I'm a teacher, and all our play­ says he turned down job offers from Portland State as a steppingstone to ers here at PSU will know that." -

12 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZIN E SPR ING 2007 Glanville appeared to have it made in the shade in Honolulu during the past rwo years. The Rainbow Warriors, coached by former PSU star quarter­ back June Jones, are one of the nation's winningest teams. He didn't have the pressure of the top job. The fans are rabid. The climate is soothing to older muscles and bones. "Forget Hawaii. It's hard to walk away from a team chat may win every game," Glanville says. "Bue chis here is a sleeping giant, if we gee the whole city of Portland to grab our rope and pull in the same direction. "We're gonna have a lot of fun making chis program special." For a brief biography ofGlanville's career, visi c www.pdx.edu/news/141131. ■

Steve Brandon is the sports editor at the Mou with Portland Tribune newspaper. run-

SPRING 2007 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 13 FOR N EARLY 3 0 YE AR S, atmospheric physicist Aslam Khalil has been ruffiing the feathers of scientific colleagues across the globe-and time after time, seeing the establishment come around to his way of thinking. His work, which has often led to controversy, is incorporated into the Kyoto protocol on global warming and the Montreal protocol on ozone depletion. Now, Khalil, professor of physics and director of PSU's Environmental Science and Resources Program, is at it again. In a paper published in a recent issue of Environmental Science and Technology, Aslam Khalil, physics professor, conducts some of his research in Khalil reported that his research team has found that global annual emissions of Nanjing, China (top photo), with methane-one of the most potent greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere­ researchers who measure methane have not increased for the past 25 years after more than doubling in the past emissions from rice paddies. century. Methane is the second most harmful greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide. The sticking point is that Khalil believes the stability will last. Other scientists are incredulous, sure that regulation is required to guarantee any lasting change.

WHAT'S AT STAKE? If Khalil is right, climate models predicting global warming will need to be revised. Khalil and his team analyzed methane levels measured in recent years at strategic locations around the globe, then combined that data with their own measurements going back nearly 25 years to create the longest timeline of methane measurements yet. They found that atmospheric concentrations of this greenhouse gas had leveled off during this time period despite a growing human population. Basically, the amount of methane emitted into the atmosphere is being destroyed in the atmosphere at about the same rate.

14 POR TLA ND STATE MAGAZINE SPRING 2007 Aslam Khalil, atmospheric physicist, is not an expert on cultivating rice plants, but he is an expert at interpreting their meth­ ane emissions.

GROUNDED IN SCIENCE The kind of fertilizer and the amount of water used in growing rice in a campus greenhouse have an effect on methane gas levels. FOR MANY YEARS, Aslam Khalil has worked where the rice is-China. Recently, he has focused on growing the grain closer to home in a controlled In the scientific community, though, members are skeptical. One group of environment. researchers reported in the September issue of Nature char they believe the slow­ In a greenhouse outside Science down is temporary, caused by a worldwide drought that has temporarily shrunk Building 2, Khalil and his assistants wetlands, which contribute a large share of the world's atmospheric methane. are studying the interaction between Furthermore, the article says, methane emissions from industrial sources are methane and nitrous oxide created actually increasing. when nitrogen and organic fertilizers That may be so, says Khalil, but he maintains chat other sources of methane, are applied to the rice crops. such as China's rice paddies, are decreasing, which is why levels will continue That on-campus research will get to hold steady. a boost when a new research-grade greenhouse is built later this year, BEFORE HIS RESEARCH on methane more than 20 years ago, even less was and when the proposed Science and understood about the naturally occurring gas and its sources. Reference books Research Teaching Complex project is listed methane as a stable component of the Earth's atmosphere. completed. PSU has identified a $41 Khalil found otherwise. million funding need to fully upgrade He worked with his mentor, Reinhold Rasmussen of the Oregon Graduate Science Building 2 infrastructure while Institute (now part of Oregon Health & Science University). Analyzing improving its laboratories and creating Rasmussen's measurements of atmospheric gases taken at Oregon's Cape Meares more teaching and research space. in the early 1980s, Khalil found an increase in the levels of atmospheric methane The goal is to complete these and and published his findings. other improvements by 2010. The scientific community immediately scoffed. Khalil looks forward to an "It was the first instance of a gas other than carbon dioxide increasing," he says. environment better suited for research, "It started a new wave of people trying to validate the findings." and for that other basic of scientific And they did. Our of char Hood of research came a greater understanding of endeavors-finding grants. Modern methane and its sources. laboratories and other facilities will Now, after raising the first alarm, Khalil has the ironic job of saying things aren't give funders the confidence that grant looking quite so grim. money will be well spent, he says . ■ Having proved to his own satisfaction chat methane is stable, Khalil is ready to move on to a study of rhe interaction of methane and nitrous oxide, an even more harmful greenhouse gas. As for the rest of the scientific community? Time will cell-and chat's just fine with Khalil. For more about his research, please visit the Web sire www.pdx.edu/news/J4JJ6/. ■

Melissa Steineger, a Portland.freelance writer, wrote the article "True Crime" in the winter 2007 Portland State Magazine.

SPR IN G 2007 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 15 Turning lives around Working with juvenile justice systems, Reclaiming Futures is giving the courts new choices for teens.

WH EN HE WAS only 15,Julian Reconnected with his mother, Donna, suggests that fewer than 10 percent of Nazario of Porcland first felt the icy and two older sisters, he's now working these teens will receive substance abuse grip of methamphecamine use. Within and has completed his GED. This fall, treatment. a couple of years he was both dealing he plans to attend Western Oregon The statistics are staggering. and using the drug. By the time he was University in Monmouth. He now has According co one study, every time a 17, his life had spiraled out of control. a dream: to be a high school teacher. youth leaves high school and cakes up He had dropped out of high school "Reclaiming Futures has given me a life of crime, violence, and substance and was facing serious criminal charges the tools, the people, and the resources abuse, the lifetime cost co society can from a juvenile justice system with I need to help me solve problems," says reach $2.3 million. Ir costs $40,000 to litcle tolerance for serious drug-related Nazario, now 18. "Sometimes I just keep a juvenile drug offender in jail for offenses. need somebody to talk to. Ir's a very, a year. Yet effective outpatient treat­ Nazario was lucky. very helpful program. As long as you're ment of a drug and alcohol problem Thanks to an innovative Porcland willing to change, it works." coses only about $3,000, and can, in State-based program called Reclaiming Nationwide, nearly 2 million teens many cases, reverse the entire course Futures, and his own hard work, Naz­ are arrested each year and two-thirds of a life headed in the wrong direction. aria's life is headed in a more positive of chem rest positive for drugs and direction these days. By April he had alcohol. Bue the vast majority will NAZARI O ' S MOTHE R, Donna, been clean and sober for more than five receive no treatment for their sub­ becomes highly emotional when months; once his treatment program stance abuse. Although drug-related discussing Reclaiming Futures. "It has is successfully completed, criminal juvenile incarcerations nearly tripled in helped us learn to communicate and charges against him will be dismissed. a recent 10-year period, one estimate build a relationship as a family," she

16 PORT LA ND STATE MAGAZINE SPR IN G 2007 says. "Sharing thoughts and emotions Futures National Director Laura with each ocher was hard to do. Ir's Nissen, a PSU associate professor of been an amazing experience for the ocial work. "We work with the courts whole family. to gee the kids our of the system and "One day we were in a counseling into rehab so they can begin to turn session, a pretty emotional session, their lives around." and suddenly a calmness came over us. This is nor ro say rhar rhe founders All of the anger just disappeared, and and administrators of Reclaiming suddenly we could hear one another's Futures believe that teens convicted voice. We just started laughing. Today of crimes should not experience the "One day we were in my family gets along without all the consequences of their actions. a counseling session, chao . The Reclaiming Futures "Kids need ro be held accountable program has been absolutely huge when they break the law," Nissen says a pretty emotional for us." Rarly. But clearly, if drug-related incar­ ceration of juvenile offenders increases session, and suddenly RECLAIMING FUTURES got its 291 percent in 10 years, punishment a calmness came over start in 2002 as a five-year, $21 million and incarceration alone aren't solving initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson the problem. us. All of the anger Foundation, the largest philanthropic Reclaiming Futures proposes-and organization focused on improving has successfully put into practice-a just disappeared, and health and hea lth care in the U.S. Its different paradigm. It combines system suddenly we could goal: to create a new approach to help­ reforms, treatment improvement, ing teens caught up in the seemingly and community engagement. Judges, hear one another's inescapable vortex of drugs, alcohol, probation officers, treatment provid­ and crime through effective screening ers, families, and community members voice. We just started and treatment, system reform, and work together to make the changes laughing. Today my community involvement. needed to help teens. Special emphasis Reclaiming Futures is housed in is placed on assisting youth with sub­ family gets along Portland State's School of Social Work. stance abuse and other mental health Initially, 10 communities around the problems. without all the chaos. country, including Multnomah Coun­ Three of the most imporrant changes The Reclaiming ty, were chosen to pilot its concept. So the communities adopt are: conduct­ pleased were the foundation trustees ing in-depth assessments called Futures program has with the results of the program chat in GAIN-short for Global Appraisal of February, they announced a multiyear, Individual Needs; developing detailed been absolutely huge $6 million expansion char will open up collaborative treatment plans with for us." the program to new commniries. input from Reclaiming Futures staff, What makes Reclaiming Futures probation officers, and families; and unique is its focus on the underlying making an immediate referral to reasons teens run afoul of the law. treatment professionals from a These factors include not only drug provider fully versed in the Reclaiming and alcohol abuse, but also extend to Futures philosophy and approach. abusive and neglectful family back­ grounds and clinical psychological TREATMENT AND SOBRIETY disorders. According to the National are important components of the Center for Meneal Health and Juvenile program's success-but only part. Pro­ Justice, up to 80 percent of juvenile found and lasting change also requires offenders have diagnosable mental a positive example. To provide that, health disorders. the program also matches its clients "Traditionally, when juveniles enter with a mentor: a community resident the justice system, it hasn't done who builds a personal rel ationship with Julian Nazario receives counseling from a good job of addressing rhe funda­ each troubled teen, then provides guid­ Canh Nguyen, a mental health consultant mental problems that got chem there ance, encouragement and, sometimes, for the Multnomah County Department in the first place," says Reclaiming just a listening ear. of Community Justice.

SPRING 2007 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 17 "A single caring adult can change direction to adults interested in was Nazario, who stood before the a child's life," says Mac Prichard, mentoring teens. Legislature and cold his story-living Reclaiming Futures' communications Abbey Scamp-O'Connor MSW '02, proof that the program works. director. "We ask people to contribute Hendon's staff mentor and a mental "That was huge for him," says his their time and their experience. It can health consultant for the Multnomah mother, Donna. "He really wanted to make all the difference to these kids." County Department of Community help them get funding. He knows the Tiffiney Hendon, a Reclaiming Justice, is equally enthusiastic about program works." Futures graduate, succinctly sums Reclaiming Futures. "Multnomah "It's so rare, in one's professional up the benefits of the program on its County had no program for juve- life, to see a problem and to participate www.whenyouwere15.org Web site. nile offenders with drug and alcohol in developing a creative solution chat "I had to change my whole life and problems before Reclaiming Futures," really works," says Nissen, Reclaiming deal with very hard personal issues she says. "They have put our treatment Futures' national director. "We've seen every day," writes Hendon. "Who and rehabilitation options on a whole the benefits right away." ■ helps you through chat? It surely wasn't different plane. Now these kids have a the friends I'd used [drugs] with. It choice chat could have a lasting effect Jeff Kuechle, a Portland freelance writer, was caring adults." on their lives." wrote the articles "We Mean Business" Recently, Multnomah County Com­ and "Cracking the Code" in the winter ON T HE W EB site, whenyouwere15. munity Justice staff went to Salem to 2007 Portland State Magazine. org, young people and their mentors seek support for the program share stories of what life was like when from the Oregon Legislature. they were teens-and what life is like They asked some of their now. The site also offers invaluable graduates to come along. One

Living with his mom (top photo) and sisters, Julian Nazario has earned his GED and is working for the Youth Employment Institute removing graffiti. He hopes to attend Western Oregon University this fall.

18 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE SPRING 2007 LEARN MORE ABOUT THE IMPACT OF GIFTS TO PSU. Visit www.pdx.edu/giving. Giving ......

Jane and Robert Morrow (top photo) and Sharon and Robert Miller were honored for their generosity at the University's Simon Benson Awards Dinner.

"What we're doing here is shaping lives," said guest speaker Magic Johnson at the annual Simon Benson Awards Dinner, held at the Oregon Convention Center. Magic Johnson scores support for PSU MARCH 19 WAS an all-star night and the Jane Morrow Scholarship for in I 998. In addition, they support for Portland State. women athletes. Their commitment a host of community organizations, Nearly 850 alumni, faculty, stu­ extends far beyond the gym with including United Way; Metropolitan dents, and friends of the University signuicant support for the Graduate Family Services; Self-Enhancement, joined PSU President Dan Bernscine School of Education, Helen Gordon Inc.; Providence Child Center; and and guest speaker Magic Johnson Child Development Center, and the American Diabetes Association. for the eighth annual Simon Benson Northwest Center for Engineering, Magic Johnson entertained the Awards Dinner. The event honors Science and Technology. The Morrows dinner audience while highlighting outstanding citizens whose generosity also support the Oregon Humane how education creates opportunity and leadership have profoundly Society, and the Fellowship of Chris­ for urban youili. He concluded witl, affected the Jives of Oregonians­ tian Athletes and Young Life. a spontaneous fundraising appeal chat often for generations to come. Bern­ As ilieir three sons testified in the inspired additional gifts to Portland seine presented the 2007 awards co event's video presentation, the Mill­ State programs. Jane '65, MS '77 and Robert Morrow ers' successful careers as business and The evening raised more than '63, and Sharon and Robert Miller. community leaders rest on four deeply $265,000 for the Fund for PSU The Morrows met as University rooted values: "work hard, always and for programs and scholarships studenrs, and their close engagement tell the truth, treat people right, and throughout campus. Lead support for wirh PSU only deepened after gradua­ give back." The Millers are founding the event was provided by presenting tion. They are legendary on can1pus as donors and volunteers of the Food sponsors Wells Fargo, Maybelle Clark quintessential Viking fans, supporting Industry Leadership Center in the Macdonald Fund and Jim Pattison, student athletes in every sport as well School of Business Administration. and associate sponsor Rice-Aid as founding the Morrow Academic They created the Robert G. Miller Corporation. Center, the Morrow Team Room, Endowed Scholarship for chat program

SPRING 2007 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 19 Dolores Leon '70 (left) and Sara Pennington '06 are the first to sign up for the new PSU Alumni Associa­ tion membership

Meet our first association members

DOLORES LEON WAS 32 years old, graduation, signed up to be a Life was looking for, thanks to the school's a wife and mother of four young chil­ Member before the membership form downtown location. Pennington dren when she earned a biology degree was posted on the Web. attended football games, theater from Portland State in 1970. Remark­ "I was graceful for my education and productions, and spent time enjoying ably, just one year lacer, she started promised myself that I would give back the Park Blocks. medical school to become a physician. when the appropriate time came," says "I still live by PSU, so I see the The same drive to succeed, bur Leon. "I am and will forever be grate­ can1pus everyday," says Pennington, entirely different circumstances, ful to PSU and my professors for an who recendy became an associate led Sara Pennington '06 to earn excellent education that enabled me to agent for Ransrad, a staffing agency. a degree in communication studies pursue my dream of being a physician." "Ir's a great neighborhood, and you this past December. Leon, who is now retired, studied never have to go far to get anything These women have much in com­ medicine at Oregon Health & Science you wane." mon, including the certainty that University and became an anesthe­ In addition to their PSU Alumni PSU has positively impacted their siologist. Today, more students from Association membership, both women lives. That is why they were the first Portland State are admitted to OHSU have family connections to the Uni­ to become members of the new PSU than any other institution, bur that was versity. Leon's husband, Fernando, is Alumni Association membership not always the case. a strong supporter of PSU, and their program, which gives them exclusive "I felt a lot of pressure," remembers son, Regan Leon, and his wife, Gina, benefits and better connects them to Leon. "If you were older than 25, they are graduates. Pennington is engaged to ocher alumni and the University. thought you were too old to start medi­ PSU student Forrest Menanno, who is "There's sort of a pride factor in cal school." She was one of only nine finishing his degree in political science. wanting to stay connected," says Pen­ women enrolled in her class of 100 and They plan to marry in August. nington, who became the first New Grad the only one with chi ldren. Bur she was Learn more about the new PSU member of the association. "I gradu­ prepared. "There was no difference in Alumni Association Membership ated from PSU and am proud of it. my ability to compete having graduated Program, and join today at I think it would be great to meet ocher from PSU," says Leon. www.alumni.pdx.edu. BY ADAM SM ITH alumni, see where they've gone, and Pennington, who grew up in learn what they have done since PSU." Ashland, was seeking a more urban Leon, who has served on a variety lifestyle when she chose PSU. She STAY CONNECTED of PSU committees and boards since found the amenities and activities she BECOME A PSUAA MEMBER TODAY www.alumni.pdx.edu

20 PORT LA N D STATE MAGAZINE SPRI NG 2007 Arabian Nights in Riyadh

SAUDI ARABIA-BASED alumni Abdulaziz and Abdullah Al-Ache! and others hosted the fourth annual PSU Gulf Cooperation Council Alumni Reunion in their country's capital city of Riyadh on March 27 and 28. President Dan Bernscine, Portland State faculty and graduate students, and alumni from other Gulf coun­ tries spent fours days getting to know each other and the area. The host committee organized a banquet attended by the PSU delegation Above from left Committee members Abdulaziz and some 80 alumni at the Four Seasons Hotel in Riyadh. The following night, AI-Athel, Muneer AI-Muhanna, and Samir Kabbani celebrate success. Co-host Abdullah AI-Athel Abdullah Al-Ache! welcomed alumni to his farm. The Portland Scace delegation (middle) and Abdulaziz Al-Rashed (right) enjoy rode camels and horses and then the alumni joined the group and were created the traditional dance with swords. President Dan to a reception with traditional music, dancing, and a buffet under the scars. More Bernstine receives a congratulatory hand from than 125 people savored the evening. co-host Abdulaziz AI-Athel. The delegation's visit in and around R.i yadJ1 included a tour of the Arabic Horse Center, the King Abdulaziz Historical Center, and a meeting with executives at SABIC, a manufacturer of chemicals, fertilizers, and ocher materials. SABI C's CEO Mohamed H. Al-Mady attended Portland Scace. "We enjoyed the gracious hospitality of our hosts, and it was great to see former hosts Hassan AI-Ghanim (Qatar 2005) and Abdullah Al-Saleh (Kuwait 2006) there too," says Pac Squire, assistant vice president for alumni and constituent relations. "The alums have so many good memories of their time at Portland State. And now we have good memories of our visit to Saudi Arabia." Organizer Samir Kabbani '78, says he uses his degree from PSU's School of Business and remembers Portland well. "But it's tl1e people who make it great," he says. Other committee members included Mansour Al-Ache!, Abdullah Al­ Ghanem, Muneer AI-Muhanna, Abdulla Al-Mugairen, and Jamal Zamrawi.

Save the date for PSU Weekend 2007 Below: Friends and alumni of PSU gather in Palm NOW IN I TS 17th year, PSU Weekend will continue its tradition of celebrating Desert, California, on March 24 in the home of lifelong learning starting on Thursday, October 27. PSU Weekend brings alumni, longtime supporters Jack and Deane Garrison. friends, and members of tl1e Portland commw1ity together for lectures, events, and President Dan Bernstine poses with Kris Luvaas Meade '81, MS '97 (left) and Paulette York '71. socializing. It's organized annually by Alumni Association volunteers as a gesture of d1anks to Portland and to alumni and friends of the University.

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SPRING 2007 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 21 i Athletics ( ' ......

Torre Chisholm, seen here on the Stott Community Recreation Field, is looking forward to working with the Viking Horde student spirit group as it cheers on PSU athletics.

director. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the university. Fundraising is something Chisholm is good at, bur it is not his only skill. His creation of student spirit groups is testament to his friend-raising ability. The Completely Insane Anteaters now Torre Chisholm leads the Horde have more than 3,000 members. "Ir's tradition with a rwist," says Chisholm. A SCREAMING, RAUCOUS crowd coach Jerry Glanvi lle, Porrland State's He also has experience wim booster is Michael "Torre" Chisholm's payoff. new football coach. and varsity clubs, and at UC Irvine Ir is the prize for a job well done, which "We have a phenomenal chance for co-founded a homecoming celebration. at University of California, Santa Bar­ the University ro raise its visibili ty," says In his new role at Porrland State, bara, meant creating the Gaucho Locos Chisholm of Glanville's hiring. "He can Chisholm will have the opportunity to student spirit group and at UC Irvine, sell any recruit and he definitely found work with a growing Viking program. the Completely Insane Anteaters. a recruit in me." PSU has won six conference champion­ It has to be a relief for Chisholm, Chisholm was on campus interview­ ships in the past four years-mree by PSU's new athletics director, to take ing for the AD job the same day PSU women's golf, one each by soccer, soft­ on the Viking Horde, a nan1e with held a news conference to introduce ball, and men's basketball. In addition, some muscle behind it and not too Glanville. "I was thinking, I want to be me track and field program continues many syllables. a part of chis," recalls Chisholm . "This to climb in me Big Sky Conference As of May 1, Chisholm, 37, is set would be a great platform from which Standings, me women's volleyball team to oversee the University's 16-ream to launch something big." is coming off back-to-back 21-win sea­ Intercollegiate Athletics program: nine sons, and the women's basketball team women's and seven men's programs, AT UC I RV I N E, Chisholm had been has seen rwo consecutive years including the addition of men's and associate athletic director for develop­ of improvement in me standings. women's tennis in the coming year. ment and marketing since 2000. He Most of the programs compete in Chisholm succeeds Tom Burman, helped the Anteaters-a member of me the Big Sky Conference except wres­ who left Portland Scare in February Big West Conference along with UC rling, which is a member of the Pac-10 2006 for University of Wyoming. Santa Barbara-increase fundraising by Conference, and softball, which is a Teri Mariani '76, former longtime soft­ 200 percent, increase sponsorships by member of the Pacific Coast Softball ball coach, has occupied the position 150 percent, and secure funds for con­ Conference. on an interim basis for more struction of a sports medicine center "PSU has tremendous potential, than a year. and for the Anteater ballpark. combined with outstanding coaches The casks are already set out for Chisholm's previous nine years at and staff," says Chisholm. "Together, Chisholm: increase fundraising, UC Santa Barbara were spent work­ we will continue to build me Universi­ enhance marketing, and capitalize ing his way up from assistant women's ty's amletic tradition." ■ on the addition of former NFL head volleyball coach to assistant athletic

22 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE SPRING 2007 A rose by her name

Leslie Goodlow-Baldwin is the youngest-ever president of the Portland Rose Festival.

Ar age five, LESLIE GOODLOW- BALDWIN MSW '93 and finished her psychology degree with honors. and her family attended rheir first Portland Rose Festival She then completed her master's in social work from Grand Floral Parade. Ir was to become a signal event in her PSU while holding down two jobs and having a baby. life as, having attended all bur one since, she is now, at 41, Now a program manager wirh Multnomah County, the youngest-ever president of rhe Rose Festival. Goodlow-Baldwin has worked for the county in various As rhe festival observes its centennial this year, Goodlow­ capacities for 15 years. She joined the Rose Festival board Baldwin also holds the distinction of being rhe first African in 1999, and from the outset has "always been involved in American to lead the festival 's board of directors. programs and committees that are kid-related." Her family had lirrle money, and rhe Rose Festival "was our Goodlow-Baldwin, her husband, and their two school-age thing for recreation," says Goodlow-Baldwin. "We made a day daughters love the Rose Festival. The girls are learning the of ir," and each year watched the parade from the same spot. importance of volunteer service from their mother's example. A good srudenr, she graduated from Grant High School, For Goodlow-Baldwin, greeting a soldier just returned from attended University of California at Berkeley for two years, Iraq or having strangers come up to thank her for rhe festival rhen followed her football-player boyfriend to Grambling are what make it all worthwhile. Stare University in Louisiana. There, Goodlow-Baldwin "I really enjoy is rhe people part," says Goodlow-Baldwin. won a string of awards, was an Academic All-American, "And purring smiles on kids' faces." ■ BY c LIFF co L LIN s

ALUMNI NOTES COMPILED BY MEGHAN MILINSKI

Robert Roy MSW '66, Historical Society, where he Roy Kruger '69, MBA '81, 1960-1969 received rhe Rose Orte Award has worked since 1994. EdD '91 is director of the from the Oregon Alliance of eva lu ation contracts unit Mary Hedges '60 had a Children's Programs for his Joan Dalton MST '69 is at the Northwest Regional 35-year retrospective of her 40-year career serving children founder and executive direc­ Educational Laboratory. artwork at the Coos Bay and families. He is vice presi­ tor of Project POOCH, a Public Library this past fall. dent for strategic initiatives at nonprofit chat pairs offenders The artist lives in Bandon, Trillium Family Services, an at Maclaren Yourh Correc­ and her interests over the Oregon mental health agency. tional Facility in Woodburn 1970-1979 years have included painting, with dogs rescued from local ceramics, and sculpture. Dick Matthews '68, MA animal shelters. Dalton lives Ben Merrill '70 recencly com­ '88, a historian, is facili- in Porcland with her two cats pleted his master's in liberal ties director at rhe Oregon and a POOCH dog, Rufus. studies at Reed College. Merrill I

SPR ING 2007 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 23 ALUMNI NOTES

WEST COAST BANK has been practicing law in of Sc. Francis Healc h Systems, Portland fo r the past 14 year . Inc., and c. James H ospital located in C hicago H eights Don Hillgaertner '72 and O lympia Fields, lllinois. PORTLAND'S BUSINESS BANK completed a short co ur in Afghanistan and is now retired Linda Gerber '76, MS '88, fro m the O regon Air acio nal EdD '94 has been sel ected by G uard after 30 yea rs of service. Porcl and Commun ic y College Choose West Coast Bank as co be the next president of the Brad Mersereau '73, a Sy lva ni a ca mpus, the largest of musician and composer, che college's campuses . Gerber I the Best Banking Partner l has two songs in the movie se rved as interim president of "I 1l1ink I Love My Wife." che campus chis pas t year. Mersereau is also a Po rcl and­ Bank with the #1 Community Bank. area philanth ropi st fund ing Carolyn Cohen '77 has a chap­ The Portland Business Journal and the FDIC local nonprofits chat work ter tided "Evalu ation Learning listed West Coast Bank "The #1 community w ith alcoholics and drug C i rel es: A Sole Pro prietor's addicts. H e gives in memory Evalu ation-Capacity Build- bank in Portland and Vancouver."t of his sister La ura, who died ing Strategy" in New Direc­ at age 46 from alcoholis m. tions in Evaluation. Cohen is Highest customer satisfaction of owner of ohen Re ea rch and any Portland area bank rated by Linda Moro '74 and Pac Evalu ati on based in Searcl e. Burt, who has taught digital business customers photography at PSU, have put Daniel D. Saucy '77 received Branch Service * chei r creative heads co gee her. che C lin icia n of che Yea r Award Relationship Management* Their new business, Moro Burt from che A merican Academy Creative, speciali zes in help ing of Gold Foil Operators. aucy Operational Qu ality* nonprofits and public agen­ has had a dental practice Executive Management Access* cies gee rhei r messages ouc. in Eugene since 1992.

Proud sponsor of PSU Athletics Martha Bianco '75, PhD '94, Rebecca Harrison '78, MS once on faculty at PSU, is a '86 has spent the past several basic skills educator fo r Mult­ yea rs resea rching, writing, and We have 60 branches in Oregon and nomah County's Department publishing a book on con­ Washington to serve you. of Community Justice. She scruccion and salvage divers says, "My experience at PSU in the Northwest. H arrison To locate a branch nearest you visit web.com . teaching community stud- says the book, Deep Dark and ies and working w ith strug­ Dangerous, "rakes che reader Watch for our new branch opening on gling students inspi red me co under water with these brazen the corner of MLK & Main in July 2007! pu rs ue this career change." men who dare the ocean." Roger Dorband '75 has cap­ Robert WolJheim '79, a tured his childhood memories judge on che Oregon Court of li ving by the Rogue R iver in of Appeals, received a Life­ Check out our ATM on campus t The Rogue: Portrait ofa River, time Achievement Awa rd fo r Peter Stott Cae tthe a coffee table book of more community contributions n er! than 150 of his photographs and dedicated se rvice at che and 50 pages of essays. 22nd annual "Keep Ali ve che Dream" tribute co Martin Sonja Grove MS '75, MPA Luther King, Jr. , in January. '88, EdD '95 is an educational consu lta nt with che H O PE Foundation of Bloomington, India na. "My greatest des ire is 1980-1989 Dave Hansen co provide teachers with a vo ice Reg ional President in their own school improve­ Geoffrey L. Haskett MPA '80 ment and co make a difference was named assistant director of Portland-Vancouver WEST COAST in every student's life," she says. che ational Wildlife Refuge 503-603-8040 BANK Sys tem, whose miss ion is co Gerald M. H ubbard '75 was conserve, protect, and enhance elected chai rman of che Sc. fis h, wi ldlife, and planes and tMeasured by Deposits James Community Foundation, their habirats. H e began hisser­ *As cited in a recent financial survey conducted by an internationally which ra ises fu nds for Sisters vice ca reer in 1979 in Porcl and. Member FDIC recognized financial consulting and research institution .

24 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE SPRING 2007 ALUMNI NOTES

Pat Tarbell '80 is the Sharon A. Williams '82 Shirley A. Dahlsten '84 Dixie Lund EdD '89 retired owner of the Klamath recently opened her own fami ly recently self-pub li shed an from Eastern Oregon Un iver­ rill in Klamath Falls. law and mediation practice instrucrional book, Passion sity after 31 years, most in southwest Portland. and Paint. Dahlsren owns her recently as interim president. Penny McDonald EdD '81, own studio/gall ery in Astoria. Lund continues to serve on the the first person to graduate Ellen Gordon Yager '82, board of her local hospital in from P U with an Ed.D., is MST '89 works for rhe Scott McClure '86, PhD La Grande. She is also active now a retired school principal Arthur Academy Public '89 is the new Monmouth with her church and a women's reaching an Engli sh composi­ Charter Schools in Oregon city manager. educational group chat raises tion class a couple nights a as a music pecialisr. She funds for college scholarships. week in Portland. he says, reaches kindergarten through Gary Miller '87 retired two "My dreams, as a retiree, are to fifth-grade general music with years ago, having worked as John McDonald-O'Lear become a more fluent Spanish an emphasis on singi ng. an analytical chemist for more MBA '89 recently moved to speaker, visit a number of Latin than 42 years. He describes Arizona to accept the position American countri es, and write Eva Kripalani '83 was recently himself as a "late bloomer," of associate vice president for bilingual children's books." promoted to executive vice explai ning that he was 48 planned giving at Thunderbird president and general counsel when he earned a bachelor's Global School of Management. Jan Harte '82 runs the Small for Knowledge Learning Cor­ degree in chemistry at PSU. Business Development Center poration, which operates com­ H e scarred college in 1957. in Vancouver, Washington. munity centers and before and Last year, Harre helped !03 after school care programs in Mary E. Smith EdD '87 1990-1999 clients obtain more than $1.7 38 states. Kripalani also serves retired as di rector of cer- million in loans and ven- on the PSU Foundation Board. ri ficated personnel from rhe Teresa A. Cackowski '90 has rnre capital investments. Beaverton School District in 16 years' experience work- Paul A. Laviolette PhD 2002. Smith continues to work ing in insurance-the past Scott Thomas MA '82 is '83 wrote an essay, "The in the field on a part-time basis fou r teaching in the industry. the district archaeologist in Pioneer Maser Signal and teaches classes for Pacific She remarried in 2003 and Burns with the U.S. Bureau Anomaly: Possible Confirma­ University and online classes is livi ng near Tigard. She of Land Management. tion of Spontaneous Photon for the University of Phoenix sends "bes t wishes to all of the Blueshifring," published in education doctorate program. friends I made at school! " Physics Essays, January 2007.

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Virgie Daigle '90 reaches a dance repertoire ranging music and dance lessons from hip-hop to ballroom at throughout Portland. Chemeketa Community Col­ lege and other venues in Salem. Mohammed El Bouzidi MPA '90 is the human resources Marsha L. Heims EdD '91 director at the audiovisual is an associate professor at agency Sociere Narionale de Oregon Health & Science Radiodiffusion er de Te­ University, where she teaches in levision in Morocco. the school of nursing graduate and undergraduate programs. Mark Fuchs MBA '90 was promoted to vice presi­ Rose McEwen '91 is associ­ dent and general counsel ate professor of Spani sh and of Louisiana-Pacifi c Cor­ Latin American literature poration in Nashville. and culture at State Univer­ sity of New York at Geneseo. Atsuko Kurogi MA '90, She also serves as director of EdD '98 is reaching Japa­ the Larin American studies nese language and culture at program and as a fac ulty fellow Pacific University and C lark for international programs. College. Every summer, Kurogi reaches intercultural Joseph Wyatt MS '91 is the communicati on at PSU. principal ofChehalem El­ ementary School in Beaverton. Johnathan E. Mansfield MS Wyatt is also an accomplished '90 was elected to the KBPS dancer and reaches baller at the Public Radio Foundation Pacific Artists' Dance Center. board, rhe govern ing body of KBPS, a nonprofit, 24-hour Robert Carroll '92 has been classical music station serving named executive director metro Portland and Hood and project director of the River. Mansfield is a lawyer at Northwest A IDS Educa­ rhe Portland-based law firm tion and Training Center at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt. Un iversity of Washington.

To honor his memory, Rhoda has created a scholarship Kelly Uhacz '90, MS '91 Mike Showfield '92 is rhe through a charitable gift annuity with the PSU Foundation. works at MacKay & Sposito, Gresham-Barlow School The principal of tne gift annuity will eventually go to PSU's an engineering firm in District's new chief financial School of Business Administration to create the "Robert Vancouver, Washington. officer. He joined the district Deane Clapperton Memorial Scholarship" for an accounting in 1990. Dan Wahlin '90 was promoted major who is also a long-distance runner. to senior vice president of com­ Kim Zander '93 is work- mercial lending at Columbia ing in Jerusalem as country In addition to honoring her husband and supporting Community Bank in Hillsboro. manager for Save rhe Children a future student, Rhoda enjoys a fixed interest rate of Sweden, a nongovernmental 6.2 percent, a charitable income tax deduction, and a Marian L. Brugger '91 organization that fights for guaranteed life income with its partially tax-free payments. is the finance and account­ children's rights through ing manager at SMART, education and awareness. She also appreciates being able to give back to Portland a nonprofit early literacy State University in such a meaningful way. organization in Portland. Lynne C. Gwilliam '94 is living in Houston with her For more information on how a gift annuity or other Jerry Button EdD '91, a fiance and their 20-month­ planned gift options might apply to your estate plans, retired biology facu lty member, old daughter. Gwilliam please call Mary Anne Rees at 503-725-5086, e-mail her was part of "a crackerjack team plans ro study Spanish at of biologists and teachers at University of Houston. at [email protected], or visit our new estate planning Web Portland Community Col- site at www.pdx.edu/giving/planned. lege who worked collectively Lori Hunt-Vorst '94 was together from 1968 until we the guest artist at Operation began retiring in the 1990s." Special Focus, a C latskanie Arts Commission show Trinisha Denlinger '91, honoring black American once a Blazer dancer, teaches leaders during February.

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Teresa LaHaie MPA '95 is director of financial manage­ ment in che Department of Juscice, Office of the Inspector General, Washington, D.C. A Vanguard education

Jeremy S. Martin '95 is a JOHN WYKOFF, JR., '02 didn't realize this year master at arms in the U.S. marks the 60th anniversary of the Vanguard, PSU's Navy. He is stationed in Sicily, student run newspaper. But as far as he is concerned, Italy, with his wife, Clara. the paper is "what kept me at PSU. I came to it by Sylvan Genko Rainwater '95 accident," he says. was recencly ordained as a Zen A Lincoln High School graduate, Wykoff planned Buddhist priest at Dharma co pursue politics for a career and eventually go co an Rain Zen Center in Porcland. out-of-state school. But during winter term at Portland After five years of novice State, he took a news writing class and was recruited to training, Rainwater will be join the Vanguard. consid ered a full-Aedged priest. Wykoff worked his way up to editor-in-chief, which Rachel Houghton '96 is a was "like a full-time job," he says. "I was doing four senior technical writer for stories a week. I got to cover some really great scuff." When John Wykoff, Jr., was editor of the Vanguard student newspaper, it Kentrox, a Hillsboro company One highlight for him was when then-President was in boxes downtown. that manufactures telecom­ Bill Clinton held an economic conference on campus, munications equipment for voice, video and data. allowing the Vanguard reporters to rub shoulders with the White House press corps. Another was when he broke che story of a professor-student scandal char ended up KeUy Niles-Yokum '96, MPA making the national news, a pressure-filled experience. '98 is director of che con­ "Most of my professors were excellent," Wykoff says, "but I got most of my educa­ sortium gerontology studies tion at the Vanguard." He also was appointed to the State Board of Higher Education program ac che Colleges of as one of two student representatives. Worcester Consortium, Inc., in Massachusetts. She is also Wykoff is from a newspaper family. His grandfather was an editor at 1he Oregonian managing ediror for Gerontolo­ and 1he Portland Reporter, and his father, John Wykoff, Sr., runs a public relations gy and Geriatrics Education and firm and also worked on the Vanguard in the lace I 950s to mid-'60s. teaches gerontology courses at "The Vanguard was my major interest at Portland State," says Wykoff, Sr., who che College of che Holy Cross served in several editorial positions. Of his son he adds, "I got quite a kick out of and Worcester Scace Coll ege. him being edicor." Cynthia Lee A. Pemberton Wykoff, Jr., did end up in politics. Before and after completing his degree, he EdD '96 is che associate lobbied for the Oregon Student Association, becoming executive director. He now dean of che graduate school is education adviser in the Portland office of Rep. David Wu. at Idaho Seate University. "I am not interested in being ac the cable," says Wykoff. "I want to be the guy at the back of the room who helped craft the deal." Rebeca Gallegos '97 is a ■ BY CLIFF COLLINS learning strategies instruc- tor and a student education and Engli sh co-instructor at Lakewood High School 'f)2 in Sc. Petersburg, Florida. Joanne Laurent '97 is a certi­ Callie H. Lambarth '99, Olivia McClelland '99, '04, fied orientation and mobility MSW '05 is a program evalu­ MPA '05 was promoted ro Erin Kane '97, after earn- specialist, who teaches che ation analyse with Morrison deputy direcror of emergency ing a master's degree from blind safe and independenc Child and Family Services, a and non-residential services Milano, The ew School for travel skills. She recently mental health, substance abuse, for Bradley Angle H ouse, che Managemenc and Urban Policy moved to South Carolina. juvenile justice, and prevention first domestic violence shelter in New York City this past service agency in Porcland. establi shed in Oregon. August, returned co Porcland Greg Fredette '99 is che owner Lambarch also volunteers on to join Pacific Northwest of Saturno Design, a Web and the board of Listen to Kids, Mark Reeves MS '99 is an College of Arc as associate database design and develop­ a local nonprofit commit- engineer with Waste Man­ director of alumni relations. menc company that he started ted to ending abuse. In her agement in Porcland. This in Porcland in 1998 with just spare time, she is training fall, Reeves married Tessa fo ur cliencs. Fredette now has for her second marathon. Lewis of West Linn. nine employees and 50 cliencs.

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Capital Relations

ERi N HULME ' 06 says she always visualized herself moving A history major, with to O.C. "Whether it was co do with international relations, emphasis on 20rh-cen­ policies, or inrernarional business, D.C. has it all," she says. cury American diplomacy, Hulme (pronounced "Hume") has found her niche, for Hulme's knowledge of now, working for the United Nations Foundation. She helps German and Italian gave develop partnerships for the foundation with corporations her "a really good base of and nongovernmental organizations to create solutions for knowledge I can use any­ problem areas. where," Hulme says. "It's getting people with resources to assist those who have Hulme loves living in the none," she says. One such organization is Nothing But Nets, capital. She rooms with a which raises money to prevent malaria by sending bed nets to friend she describes as her children in Africa. ''best friend since we were Erin Hulme loves living and A native of Cottonwood, Arizona, Hulme "looked all over babies," also from Cotton­ working in Washington, D.C. the country" for a college. "I wanted an urban campus where wood. On Saturday nights I could get real-world experience," she explains. Also, one she rends bar at an Irish pub, just for fun. Washington is a with solid history and language departments, and a school city of neighborhoods, she says, and in hers, storekeepers and that would allow her to study abroad (which he did, in gas srarion attendants know her by name. Italy). "I picked Portland State." On the other hand, "People are very intense here. I'm A 3.9 GPA graduate, she was a student ambassador for really a West Coast girl. I always rhoughr I was high-strung, three years, serving as coordinator in her senior year, and but found I am laid back" by comparison. received the President's Outstanding University Service Hulme eventually plans to go to grad school, but where Award in 2006. "depends on whether I want to sray on rhe East Coast."

■ BY CLIFF CO LLINS '06 William Sansone MA '99 is a Cafe, located in downtown directs the university's MBA outsourcing agency in federal attorney and works for Vancouver, Washington. program and maintains an Washington, D.C. Ly says, Judge Charles R. Wilson of the active research program with " it is so surreal that I see United Scates Court of Appeals Karen Hays MSW '00, a Lee Buddress in PSU's School the White House twice a Eleventh Circuit. Sansone's licensed social worker, recently of Business Administration. day, on my way into the office is in Tampa, Florida. opened an office for her child office and as I leave." therapy practice in The Dalles. Travis Cochell '01 opened Cochell Family Dentistry Tiffany Amber Jordan '02 Erin Peterschick '00 recently in Sa lem with his wife and is working as a legal assistant 2000-2006 married Craig Hamblin in fellow dentist, Christel. Both and social worker for the San Francisco. Peterschick received their dental degrees law office of Ron nee Kliewer Donna Beegle EdD '00 teach- lives in O lympia, Washing- from Oregon Health & Sci- in downtown Portland. e communications classes at ton, with Hamblin and works ence University in 2005. Portland State and is the CEO as the project coo rd i nacor Laura Terrill Patten MPA '02 of PovercyBridge, a nonprofit for the state's Mental Health Jessica Guernsey Camargo is a legislative aide to rate Rep. organization located in Tigard. Transformation Project. MPH '01 is a health educa- Suzanne Bonamici in Salem. tor with the Multnomah Fadel Farran '00, Aiman Michael E. Smith PhD '00 Health Department. Jeremy Wilson '02 is the new Farran '01, a nd Sliman was promoted to associate head coach of the Dayton High Farran, who attended PSU, professor of management Danny Ly '01, MPA '03 is School wrestling team. Wilson celebrated the lQ •h anniversary and international business a federal government rela- is also a social studies reacher at of their family-run Medicer- at Western Carolina Univer- tions specialise at Accenture, Yamhill-Carlton High School. ranean eatery, che Jerusalem sity in orch Carolina. He a consulting, technology, and

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Amish Shaunak Yoddha MBA Mark Shulz '04, an eight­ business management firm, Michael Boyer '06 is the new '02, MS '03 is a deputy general year Winter X Game R.C. Glenn and Associates. crime prevention coordina­ manager for the real estate de­ snowboarding veteran, is a tor for southwest neighbor­ velopment firm Peninsula Land consultant for Dirr Logic, a Cara Kaser '05 will gradu- hoods, through Porcland's Limited in Mumbai, India. Portland consulting firm for ate from Washington State Office of Neighborhood developers and engineers. University's public history pro­ Involvement. Boyer starred Christopher Barnum Rose gram this spring. After gradu­ as an intern at the agency '03 is a lead engineer at Nicholina Terzieff'04 is ation, Kaser will join Oregon's shortly after graduation. ■ Tish man Speyer Properties, serving as Oregon state Rep. State Historic Preservation a commercial real estate firm Larry Galizio's chief of staff. Office in Salem as a survey and in cattle. Rose says, "PSU Terzieff assists Galizia in registration coordinator for the has given me an edge that his role as chair of the Joint National Register of Historic PORTLAND I can put ro work daily." Ways and Means Educa­ Places. 'Tm very excited to be STATE MAGAZINE tion sub-committee. moving back to Oregon and Ernie Smith EdD '03 is closer to family," she says. the vice president of student Anas S. Alkadi '05 is a Advertise your business services at West Valley Col­ marketing analyst for Saudi Kathie Lasater EdD '05 is an with one of the largest, lege in Sararoga, California. Aramco, one of the largest assistant professor at Oregon most affluent audiences oil companies in the world, Healch & Science University in Portland. Vincent Schreck EdD '04 is located in Dhran, Saudi chool of Nursing. She says, an instructional designer in Arabia. "S tarting an EdD at 50-some­ For rates and information the PSU Center for Academic thing was indeed an unusual contact: Excellence. He lives in Portland Robert Glenn '05 is director seep, but one of the most Portland State Magazine with his wife, Holly Beck- of finance at the Jewish Federa­ satisfying of my adult life." 503-725-3711 [email protected] with, a naturopathic physi­ tion of Greater Portland. Glenn cian, and their young son. also owns an accounting and

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JOSEPH C. BLUMEL PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY PRESIDEN T 197 4 TO 1986

HIS COLLEAGU ES THREW their support behind him and on May 22, 1974, Joseph Blume! became the fourth president of Portland Scace-the first to have come up through the ranks. The quiet economics professor was perceived by his fellow faculty members-and the scare board-as che right kind of leader to cake the young university to maturity. He had already won the faculty's affection with his accessibility and fairness as vice president of academic affairs. President Blume! was put to tl1e rest. He faced a severe budget crisis in 1981- 82 and the painful necessity of laying off tenured faculty and terminating whole programs. He came through it, and people remember that period as his finest. There were, of course, happier hours. Instead of an inauguration, the new president declared a week of activities in observance of che "viral partnership" he envisioned between PSU and the city of Portland. le was co be a theme through his 12-year tenure as president, reflected in the many new programs with urban flavor that cropped up at the University.

This is from a 1986PSU Perspective article. Joseph Blume!, PSU's longest-term president ever, died April 2. He was 79.

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