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Portland State University Alumni News tivc Special Edition October 1984 PSU's friends continue their support In the last few years, Portland State University has Advanced Technology if the University.could come up made a lot of good friends. It showed in 1982-83 with the balance before Dec. 31 , 1985. This when private giving to the University doubled to a $825,000 challenge grant, not included in the $1.6 record $1.7 million. And it showed last year when million annual fund total, was the biggest single gift to that generosity was repeated with $1,618,634 in Portland State in 1983-84. private gifts. The School of Engineering received two sizable "This solid foundation of support makes a grants from high tech interests in the community to tremendous difference," said PSU President Joseph C. help support research and staffing. A four-year pledge Blumel. "Virtually every superior public institution of of $687,000 from the Tektronix Foundation will higher education is very generously supported by provide two additional faculty members and private funds. " continuing support of the VlSI Center. Further support Spent creatively, private gifts to the University can for the Center came from the Oregon High be an invaluable supplement to the limited public Technology Consortium with $225,500 to establish a monies generated by state taxes and tuition. Some gifts laser/optical communications laboratory, a computer are earmarked by the donors for specific purposes, but vision lab and a system programmer. there are also many unrestricted gifts that help fund Equipment gifts from local industry are also student scholarships, faculty development activities supporting instruction and research in the School of and departmental equipment needs around the Engineering. Tektronix, Inc. donated $228,000 in campus. equipment to enhance the VlSI Center and labs, and Major support in 1 983-84 was given in the areas of Intel gave equipment valued at $120,000 to the engineering and business by longtime friends of the microcomputer labs in both electrical and mechanical University. The Murdock Charitable Trust, which engineering. provided funds to establish the Very large Scale In the School of Business, the Earle A. Chiles Integrated System Design Center in the School of Microcomputing Center (established by the Chiles Engineering and Applied Science two years ago, came Foundation in May, 1982) received a grant of $50,000 back this past year with a "challenge" to the to finance the lab's move from East Hall to Cramer University: Murdock would pay for one-quarter of the Hall and to add six 1MB personal computers. The building that houses the new Portland Center for Continued on p. 2 A Message from the Foundation President Friends of Portland State University: us who believe that we don't get full In my role as president of the PSU value for dollars passed through the Foundation, I have been sending a government and that our direct message of great importance to the support is essential for excellence in community: PSU's time has come. higher education. We are responsible Having an active and highly visible for the degree to which Portland State foundation at Portland State benefits University can exceed the minimum both the University and the and attain superiority. community and brings prestige to our Many people clearly feel that alumni. Our board, with its redefined responsibility. The report from our mission, goals and objectives for Alumni Fund 5 campaign indicates 1984-85, has set a course of hard that 1,229 alumni and friends offered work and greater visibi I ity for the their support in the last year. We can coming year. thank our fine Foundation staff and Given the fiscal difficulties facing their efforts. Rena Cusma, Executive Oregon's Higher Education System Director, and Floyd Harmon, and Portland State University, the Development Officer, are both PSU On the inside need for the Foundation's fund-raising grads who are helping the Foundation Caroline Sloell 2 potential has grown geometrically. cultivate a growing support base. Friends of Portland State find Private funding and creative revenue Portland State University is at a many ways to contribute. generation become more and more crossroad, and it's safe to Donors to Portland Stlte Uniy. 1 3·7 Playbills given to library 1 6 essential as traditional funding and say - we've never needed you more. Local man donates collection of resources continue to tighten. This I hope you will take advantage of any theater magazines. brings up a point that troubles me opportunity to promote the University 1984-85 Annual Fund I 8 greatly. Many of our potential and to encourage the financial This year's campaign gets underway. contributors, both corporations and Chuck Clemans ('56) support that benefits both the 1984-84 chair of Annual Fund feels individuals, say "no" to our requests he's repaying psu. simply because we are a public Alumni Fund FiYe 1 10 tax-supported institution and not a It turned out to be a winner, thanks private school. My question to them to chair Larry Thompson ('68). Ah·h·h 114 is: How can we be brought up on (iI~h;:~ Students donate their general deposit free enterprise and capitalism and not refunds to the Foundation. see the value of added capital to our PSU Foundation Board of Directors 1 15 base investment? There are those of Howard Hubbard Annual Fund Report University h Private support Continued from p. 1 School also learned this fall that it had received its fourth gjft in just over a good frien two years from the Chiles Foundation to further enhance the Center. Of equal importance are the many in Caroline gifts made by individuals. PSU alumni continue to be a valuable source of 5Upport through their own donation5 and their contact5 in the community. by Cynthia O. Stowell Alumni Fund V netted $71,095, of which corporate matching gifts There are many ways to be a friend accounted for $6,495. And this year, of Portland State University. Caroline a few hundred PSU students Stoel ('73 MAl knows all of them. responded enthusiastically to a new Giving money is one very valuable fund raising appeal and contributed indication of friendship, and Sioel has their general deposit refunds, for a been generous in that respect. But she total of S6.BOO. also gives freely of her time and The funnel for most of these gifts is talents. It's the kind of support that's the PSU Foundation, a public hard to quantify, but goes a long way non-profit o rganization authorized to toward enriching the University receive and administer private funds environment. • for the Univer5ity. Directed by a For the lasl decade. Stoel has been board o( 39 volunteer community an adjund professor in PSU 's history members, the Foundation helps to department as well as a member of make Portland State more visible in the PSU Foundation Board. These the community. involvements have given her two Ultimately, of course, the different perspectives on the University speaks for itself. "It's the University as well as two spheres in people that you're turning out for the which to contribute. professions," said President Blume!. Sloel also has a graduate degree "It's the experience that individuals from Portland Siale. A lavvyer by have when they come for continuing training, she had little opportunity to education work here. It's the kind of practice ner profession while raising a professional expertise that's evidenced family, and came to PSU in the '60s in the work that faculty members do to broaden her liberal arts outside their regular teaching. These background. Shortly after earning her are the things that create the image of master's in history in 1973, she began the institution. teaching law-related courses through "1 think people give to things they PSU's history department on a believe in." continued Blume!. partly-compensated adjunct basis. "There have been a lot of people in "When we had the great budget this community who have been very crunch and they couldn't pay me generous because they recognize the anymore, I could have Quit," said the quality of this institution. They' re very adjunct professor. ''But I enjoy the much committed to access to higher relationships I've developed with the education and they know that students and the faculty, My teaching Portland State University provides that has led to friendsh ips and lots of Caroline Stoel ('73 MA) access. Here they can see interesting conversations." Stoel has opportunities that don't exist stayed on, volunteering her time in elsewhere. They can see careers the classroom, Portland State to the community. We active in several historical societies. develop that would not otherwise Around the time Stoel began were on the right track with the The list of her recent board have developed. And they take great teaching, she was asked by PSU 'partners' concept, and faculty memberships includes such groups as satisfaction in helping that happen." certainly have encouraged that point the Nature Conservancy, the City ~r:s:~~~ ~f~~~~S~o~~u~d~i~~.