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Portland State University Alumni News Fall 1985 Inside Racist memorabilia I 3 The many faces of racism are reflected in black studies professor's collection China Journal I 5 PSU engineering prof returns to his natIve China as the leader of an Alumni Tour On assignment I 6 A day in the life and thoughts of ph%journalist Michael Lloyd ('15) An All-Star Event I 9 PSU inVItes alumni and friends 10 celebrate its 40th year AlumNotes I 4 Foundation News I 9 Campus News I 10 Calendar I 11 Also Special Supplement: 1984-85 Annual Gifts Report On the cover: Artist Tom Morandi puts flnlshmg louches on "Yankee Champion," PSU's newest sculpture. Sculpture heralds new campus building phase The Oct. 24 unveiling of "Yankee Champion," Portland State's newest sculptural acquisition, was a happy occasion in its own right. The piece, created by La Grande, Ore. artist Tom Morandi, was long in coming. Commissioned in 1984, the stainless steel tripod was installed at the corner of S.W. Broadway and Montgomery five years after completion of the Professional Schools Building, the construction of which included the cost of acquiring art. But the arrival of the sculpture and the attendant celebration also served as a kind of herald for the first new construction activity on campus since 1980. Thanks to action by the state legislature and the State Board of Higher Education, the PSU campus will soon witness the once familiar sights and sounds of rnajor building construction and remodeling. More than $15 million in projects are on the drawing boards or already approved. Included are the second phase of the Professional Schools Building, new student housing and remodeling of the University's computing center. The University is also adding to its inventory of academic buildings an existing structure that for two years has housed the Portland Center for Advanced Technology. Funding sources are as varied as the projects themselves, including the new state lottery, private foundations, parking and building fees, and general fund tax money. More building, of course, means more art. At the Morandi sculpture dedication, PSU President Joseph Blumel remarked, "While we are excited about this new construction from an academic point of view ... we look with equal anticipation toward the possibility of adding to the public's art collection through the "Percent for Art" program ." The changes that the PSU campus will experience in the next two years are reviewed here. Portland Center for Advanced Technology In 1983, the University moved its electrical and computer engineering Continued on page 2 A look at "Yankee Champion" Artist: Tom Morandi, resident of La Grande, Ore, and member of the art faculty at Eastern Oregon State College. Location: Triangular lawn in front of Professional Schools Building, S.W. Broadway and Montgomery. Size: 15 feet high ; 1.5 tons Material: Stainless steel Method: Pieces cut by CO, arc from V'6" and '/6" sheets of stainless steel, welded together, ground down and sanded. Lifted into place in three parts by crane. Cost: $29,000 Funding: "Percent for Art," a state program that sets aside 1 % of the construction cost of public buildings for the acquisition of art. Artist's interpretation: "The lyrically abstract nature of its components is discreetly balanced by the delicately interlocking joints in the upper sections, thus offering a visual acknowledgment of the complex amalgam of humankind and technology required of a contemporary university."
Construction sights and sounds to return to PSU campus Continued from page 1 programs into this building at 1800 S. W. Sixth under a lease arrangement with the city of Portland. Following lengthy negotiations, PSU agreed this fall to purchase the peAT building for $2.1 million plus rental payments. Original asking price for the building was $3.3 million. Purchase of PeAT was made possible through a combinatIon of funds, including an $825,000 grant from the Murdock Charitable Trust as well as buddIng and parking fees. The State Board of Higher EducatIon has extended the PSU campus boundary to include peAT, the first JX'rmanent PSU buildmg east of Sixth Avenue. Professional Schools Building Ground will be broken in February on the second phase of this complex on the block bounded by s.w. Sixth and Broadway, Montgomery and Harrison. Some $7 million in slale lottery funds will pay for the six·story structure, which will house [he School of Business Administration, the International Tr<tde and Commerce Institute and (acuity from the School of Education. Completion is sct for Fall t987. The hallmark of this building will be il5 technological sophistication, with inc;tructional labs, case study rooms and an auditorium wired {or advanced audio-visual. communications and computer applications. The bUilding also will mclude meeting and conference rooms. Phase II will be joined to the existing Phase 1(School of Education) utilizing common elevators and utilities. The skybridges which now connect Cramer Hall and Smith Cenler with the University Services Buildmg and parking "trl/clure will be extended 10 the norlh side of the Iffi[J R!rspective PSU ~ i v t IS pubhshed cpl<Irterfy dunng M ye. by ~ . r o Informauon SM-1Ce$ fof ,Iurnnl. f«ulty.nd)Uff .OO frJenlk d Portl.ro S W e U n ~ t ' f lditorCynlhi,O. 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A brick plaza will be built around the Morandi sculpture and a new triangular lawn with diagonal walkways will foreshadow Phase III of the Professional Schools Building, one day to house Urban and Public Affairs and the Graduate School of Social Work. Computing Center Nearly $400,000 has been earmarked for remodeling of the University's computing services center in Shattuck Hall to make way for increased academic computing capability. The remodeling work began this month and will include construction of a mezzanine in the student terminal area and better access for the computer operators. The University is in the process of replacing the mainframe Honeywell computer which is overloaded and unable to run some of the more sophisticated programs now in usc at PSU. Installation of a second computer for the U IX system for use in computer science and engineering also is planned. Over the next four years, dose to $2 million will be allocated from within existing resources for new computer system!.. Student Housing A first-Qf·its·kind project On PSU'3 draWing boards is the planned construction of student housing on the University campus (between Mill and Montgomery on Eleventh). Plans call for approximately 96 one·bedroom apartments to be managed by Portland Student Services, along with 170 parking spaces. Units \....ould rent for under $300 per month. The University hopes to have a proposal for approximately $5.5 WANTED Future engineers, artists, accountants, computer experts, scientists, social workers, musicians, historians, educators, and other top-flight prospective students for PSU. Alumni and f r i c n ~ I " are encouraged to recommend high school and transfer students you know (including your own sons and daughters) who would benefit from continuing their education <31 Portland 51.11(' Please complete and mail the attached form to Alumni Of(it:e, Portland State University, P.O. Box 752, Portland, Oregon 97207. Or telephone: (503) 229-4948. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ Your name'___________________ Addres,.s._________City___ S t a t ( ' ~ Z l p - - - Student's name_________________ Addres"'-_________,Ctty-State-Ztp___ PORTlAND STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI Phase II, P r o f e s ~ i o n a l S c h o o l ~ Building million in project monies before the State Board in January. Approval of the plan, which would be funded with building and parking fees, would mark the first construction of student housing within the PSU campus boundary. Deferred Maintenance Approximately $1.1 million in general fund money has been alloc<lted to PSU for deferred bUilding maintenJnce over the next two years. Among the projects are the fe·roofing of PCAT, repairs to the HPE swimming jX)Ol, a new air conditioning unit for Cramer Hall, and some exterior repairs and other work postponed during past years duc to lack of funding. Share your culture with an International student A rewarding experience awaits you and your family when you participate in PSU' ~ homestay program. By acting now. you and your family can provide an international student with a home during winter term. While you introduce an international student to American life. your guest will share his or her cultural background with you.. language, art food, dance. music. history. holidays. For a mutually rewarding experience, investigate Portland State University's homestay program. Call International Student Services. 229-4094. today for complete details. 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Proflill(B Symbols of racism help define prof's mission Black Studies professor Darrell Millner uses his unusual collection to drive home the abstractions of race relations. by Cynthia D. Stowell He treasures every piece and he hates every piece. When he has emptied the cardboard boxes and the table is filled with cookbooks. banks, dish towels, art prints and swizzle sticks, he sits back and proudly surveys his ten years of collecting. Bul the items leer at him. Those faces repeated on every object, with their surprised eyes and big, toothy grim, seem to be saying, "O.K., professof, what are you going to do about us?" Darrell Millner has let no dust settle on his "symbols of American racism." The collection is used regularly by the PSU Black Studies professor to make the abstract notion of racism more graphic to his students. "In the early '70s, my students had a background in the '60s civil rights movement." said Millner, "but later in the '705, things that were personal and concrete to me were just abstractions to them. They were too young when Martin luther King was shot and weren't alive when Malcolm X was assassinated. So I started bringing these things to class and they opened up avenues of discussion in a dynamic way." But there is a moment of speechlessness when the collection is first revealed. It isn't easy to fathom the historical and cultural meaning of an Official Runnin' Nigger Target, Darkie Toothpaste (a British prcx:luct sold in Southeast Asia), or a broom in the shape of a "mammy." What motivates people to produce such objects and what kind of people buy them? "I can't answer thaI," says Millner. "Racism is nol a logical thought process. It's an aberration." Millner recognizes that many of his items were born of "an element of unconsciousness, a lack of malice." What they reveal, however, is the extent to which black and white cultures have been isolated from each other throughout American history. "In the legally segregated society that we had in America for years, there was no real interaction between the races," explained Millner. "Individuals couldn't know each other as human beings. So a pattern of stereotyping developed, replacing real intercultural knowledge and communication. These stereotypes were reinforced by items like these." He points to the "Fine Old Dixie Recipe Book" and a sel of dish towels bearing illustrations of blacks in menial jobs. "These educate the majority culture about the limitations they can expect of Ihe black population," he says. Millner likes to look at his collection as a continuum that shows both improvement in public attitudes and some particularly stubborn images that time won't lay to rest He picks up an Aunt Jemima figurine. "This dates back to June of 1985," he says, straight-faced. By itself, the Aunt Jemima piece is relatively inoffensive, Millner admits. "But what emerges after you see piece after piece is the accumulation of a very narrow range of images." Millner's racist memorabilia don't come exclUSively from the fringes of Darrell Millner and his racist memorabilia Some of Millner's "favorites" among his collection - if there can be such a thing as a favorite racist item - are the menu, plate and match holder from Portland's own Coon-Chicken Inn. The popular Sandy Boulevard restaurant, which closed in 1947, featured a huge, smiling black face through which patrons stepped to enter the building. "The food was excellent," said Millner, "and there was always a line of people waiting to get in." And in talking to the white patrons and employees of the Coon-Chicken Inn, Millner has invariably heard the remark, 'We never thought at the time how this might make blacks feel.' It is important to be forgiving of the past, even such a recent past, Millner feels. "We can't judge earlier lime ~ i o d s by the reality of modern { "What emerges is the accumulation of a very narrow range of images. " American culture or from far away. The Runnin' Nigger Target is a contemporary artifact found in gun stores and living rooms throughout the Northwest, he said. And nothing could be more a part of the American mainstream than National G e o ~ r a p h k magazine, which in 1934 carried an ad (or GeneraJ Electric dishwashers shOWing a black female servant at a sink, smiling and'saying, "I'se sure got a good job now!" consciousness," he cautions. "Instead, it's our responsibility to examine our own period, to look at the things we do today that function in the same way as these earlier things." The depiction of blacks in the media - including television, films and advertising - is "healthier today than at any other time in U.S. history," Millner believes, both because of the participation of blacks at the production level and because of rising expectations of a more "sensitized" American public. But this is no reason to be complacent, adds Millner. Years of s t ~ r e o t y p i n g have, not s u r p r i s i n ~ l y , affected the way black people VICW themselves. "The internalization o( these negative images is more destructive to the minority population than anything the majority population feels," he says. "If I'm able to hit a few licks at this, I feel good." The hobby that started a decade ago for Millner, who says he has a predisposition for collecting, has gained momentum and continues to bring many "heart-warming" donations from the public. last summer, the director of public health in the city of New Orleans, Brabson lutz, read an Associated Press story about Millner and decided to donate his own similar collection, valued at $8-9.000, to PSU's Black Studies department. "I guess he selected us because of the way we try to use our material," said Millner. Viewing Millner's collection is a lot like watching a 25( movie in an "adult reading room." You're fascinated and can't wail to describe it to your friends, but at the same time you're sickened. The collector agrees, "It's very important that when you use this type of material, it's in an educational context. You have to be careful not to reinforce concepts instead of destroying them." Gazing at the familiar, much-handled pieces in his collection, Millner remarks with a sigh, "My feelings about this are naturally mixed. Some of the objects - and the material I cover in my black history classes, too - are personally painful to me. I have to study and immerse myself in some very bloody and violent elements of history," He sighs. "It can wear you down. But I feel it's necessary to pass this information down through the generations." And as the eerily similar faces are packed away in the boxes, Millner reflects on the challenge they pose to him. "In America we've had some victories and it's possible for a semi-middle-class professor - or student - to be insulated from racial realities. "What this collection does is act as a reality check for me. It's a constant reminder of what my mission has to be, what my responsibility is." (D.urell Millner, the head of PSU's BliKk Studies lJepal1ment since 1983, hils a Ph.D. in educdtion from the UnJV{!(slty of Oregon. fie h d ~ been.a member of the PSU faculty since /974 and hiJ5taught Afro-American Literature, Afro-Amedc,Jn HIstory, Oregon AfrQ-AIDef"ic,1n History, and Black Culture in American Cinenlil .) PSU Per5pective, FiJlI 1985/ page 3
Compiled by Cliff Johnson Vanport El.line Cogan. a Portland writer and OOSII'IeS5Woman who also IS a pdrtner In the Cogan Sharpe Cogan Partnership consuhmg firm, has been hired as interim editor of the "Portland Jewish Review," which is diWtbured 10 more than 5,000 households across O r ~ o n . M.Hgaret I. Dobson has been n a n ~ execullve vice president of PSU, effl"(.1ive with the appointment of iI permanent vice preslden! for academic .fialrs ill the University. Dobson, who IOlned the PSU stolfi tn 1955 as a women's P.E. instructor, has Ix>en interim vice president sInce 1983. 51.11e ~ . Glenn DUo, the faS! County 1111'1 Diwkl Democrat from Wood Village, Ore., h a ~ been elected chairman of the MI. Hood Commumty College D15111CI Board. Peter G. Subtac now works as the executive director of th£- Salem Econamlc Development Corp., Sollem, Ore. '56 R.lYT. Gritzmacher (5SI thls r ~ l r e d (rom the Ponland Public Schools arter 29 years of Ie-achmg, 22 of them at Pt'fun"uld [/emmtilry School. He looks forn;ard to rt>lil1llng and fishing. '57 Kirby Hall (BS) has been !lamed West Coast rt'gional manager for Ihe. Western ~ r a f t corrul'-lted contatner diVision of Wtllamette Industries. Ellery M. Pierson, Ph.D. ISS) I ~ The m i l n d ~ ( > f in the Office at Planning. Resedrch and Evalualton 'Of the School District of PhII.:Jdelphla, Pa. '58 Herber! 1(. Beals (BA), formt:'rly a planner with tht' Metropolitan Service DistriCT ill Po-'tland and now d self·employed WflIPflhir;lOflan, h a ~ 'lUthored an EnglIsh Irilnslahon of th€! 100.year-old diarlt"S of ttx- Spanish ('J(plort'r, Bruno de I--k>zelil. l ~ book, FOf Honor ,mel Coontry, the Diary of Bruno de Hezeta, i ~ Volume 7 in a series by Westem Imprints, the ~ ~ ~ ! ~ ~ ~ : ~ l i ~ ~ l e ~ o : ; o ~ ~ ~ progrt'i", entitled IUiln Pf:vez on the Northwest C O d ~ t : four Documents ofhl!t /774 VO\,lgf!, which I ~ due to be pub lished 10 the same series with," the n e ~ t two years. Richard J. Kl"nnedy {BS) is a Newport, Ore author of 17 dl1ldrt'll's books. Ilis most retent worl.., A m ~ 's Eyes IHarper and Rowl i ~ one which tht' p u h l i ~ h e r and wtleS e):pcct to reach a much WIder audience. Despite tilt> acclaim, Kennedy continues to work at the Hatfield Marlnt' ScIt'flCf' Center al Nev. port '61 R u s s t l l l a m ~ r t , Jr. IBS) is director of communl(iltlons and development fOf F-ar East Broadcasting Co., an international religiOUS radio broadcasting firm headquartered in La Muada, Calif. '62 W.yne E. Atteberry (85) is vice president fOf real estale finance at Stand.ud Insurance Co.• Portland He IS regarded as the man most r ~ s l b l e for orchestratmg the numerous factors thai have made the Sun*, Corridor in Wastllngton County. Ore. such a hot property In the current Industrial real estate mJrket CI.renel' A. Porter (85) was n a m ~ dean of the Institute of Natural Sciences at Montgomery College. Takoma Park, Md. In I.lnuo'lry of thiS """ I"'S" 4 I PSU Pe"'P"Ctll'c, Fall 1985 '63 Sheililh Church (SS) is the new communications specialist and \'Olunteer coordmator for School DI5trict 15 in Forest Grove, Ore. Her pflmaty responsibility involves dev€loping and mOOiloring the district's communications program. Richard O. Engstrom (BS). a development officer at Clackamas Community CoUege, Oregon Ctty, Ore., is also teJchlng social work part-time this f<lll at PaCific Umvf'fsity. Forest Grove. Ore. frank H. laSesen, (BS), J Portland attorney. recently served as one of three m e m b e r s o ~ a trial panel of the Oregon StOlte B ~ r ' s diSCiplinary bo<trd which recommended in mid-September that former campos radical Da\'id Sylvan Fine not be pemillted to practice law in Oregon. '64 Jame<Ji R. Stelln (BS), priocipal trumpet with several orchestras in the los Angeles area .lnd leader of the West los Angeles Brass Ensemble, gave a reclt,,1 of baroque brass music Sept. 20 at the UniverSity 0' Oregon's School of MusIC. SWIM & GYM '65 Alumnt Benefits Card 229-4948 James Cronin IDA. '80 as) hilS been n.m"lCd gent'fal manager of Portl.lnd Mailing $(orvicf'S, Inc., Portland He is a fortnef b u s i ! l e ' i ~ Journalist and editor. Marlin l. Friedman (BS), presidenl of the Family Head InjUry Support Group since lune, 1984. has been appomted <IS one of jive rnt>mbers on the <;late OccupatIonal Therapy licenSing Board l e ~ s Winchester (MS\¥), who de\toted thr('(' def:ack>$ to addressins Portland·s social problems, has retired as manager of the Albina Human Resourle!i Centf'f. He beg<ln hiS career in human ~ r v i c e s in 1955 when he went to work for Multnomah County as a social workel In Portland's Sellwood lW".ghborhood '67 Mae E. Gordon (BA), a btostatistidan at Washington Umvcf<>11y Medical School, SI. lOUIS, Mo .• has been .1ppclIntcd to the VISion R ~ i U c h R ~ l e w Committee of the National Eye Institute. She also ran in two m a r a l h o n ~ last year. Richard Morris, Ph.D. (85, '69 MS), assistant professor of electrical engll1eCring at PSU. h a ~ accepted d hair-time <lppointment as asslstdnt dean in P5U'S School of Engmeering and Applied Scieoct'. He will continue to teach and do resea(lh to addlllOfl 10 his new duties. '68 Bill Dl'iz (BA) has formed Corporate ViOoo, Inc., a two-man operation to Portlilnd of whICh he is prt'5ident. The firm produces video presentJtions used In bUSiness sales promoltons, employee communications and media relatlOfls '69 John E. Andersen lSA) has been chosen as the new commumty development dlrectOf for the city of Gff'Sham, Ore. He formerly was community development director for Deschutes County, Ore. Sgt. Jeffrey H. Barker (85) is the current sergeilnt Tn charge of auto theft and fraud detectIVes working for The Portland PolIce Bureau A n ~ l. E I ~ I I IBAI was recently named the 1985 Oregon Coach of tnc Year for Special Sporn. Robert P. Johnson (OS), a Portland Jtt()(ney, has been appointed to fill a vacant seat on the North Clackamas School Board. Johnson was selected from a fit>1d of nine candidates by it bo<trd vole of 4-1. Maj. Dennis ,. If'lldh.ln (BS) has been n a m ~ commander of a satellite operations group detachment stationed at Fairchild Air Force 8.lse, near Spokane, Wash. He has served in lhe AIr Force fOf 1 b years and has h€!1d assignments as a jet instruct()( pilot. space systems officer and future p l a n ~ officer for NORAD in Colorado. Ralph W. Shoemaker (135) WJS recently appotnted senior measurement s y s t e m ~ engineer at B o n n ~ i ! l e Power Administration's Vancouver, Wash. fJcility, and IS iI senior member of the Instrument Society of America as well. Judy lee VOSl.Jnd (BS, '80 MFA), an art teacher at Hillsboro High School, Hillsboro, Ore., fOf the past 15 years. has designed larse decor-ati\'e banners which will appear each wintl'f during the next four years at Pioneer Courthouse Square in downtown Portland. Oenni!i Watson (135) is a profesSQ( at Clark College, Vancouver, Wash. He illso operates his own computer consuitlnl! business wllh clients located in Portland and Beaverton, Ore. '70 Scot! Holnnigan IBS, '78 MS) has been p r o r n o t ~ to dlfe<tor of Pacific Power & ltght Co.'s Economic and Community Development Department lohn O. kirby IBS) has been appomted 10 the OreijOn Expo '86 Committee, ,which IS coordmatlng the state', partiCIjl<1tlon in the 1986 World Exposition in VJncouver, Blttish Columbia. Kirby owns Kinney Brothers Jnd Kf'ele Hardware Co. in OntariO. Ore., where he IS the current prestdent of the city's Chamber of Commerce Barbard McAIIi§ler lBS) is a Portland-area language ~ l l I s Thei-aptsl ,,00 tutor of adults suffC!rlng 'rom dyslexia Roger M. Nejad (85) has been promoted to head cnemlst at Centennial Mills, Portland. He has been employed there as a ch€!mist since 1974. Victor M, Russell IBA) IS a personnel management specialist with the U.S. Army and works ,II the Pentagon in Washington. D.C. Barbar. S k o ~ (85, '74 MSW) and her husband Georse (Vanport) operate laurelhurst MilnOl', a Nonhedst Portland residential treatment center for persons with alcohol and other chemIcal dependency problems. including adolescents. '71 Keith l_ Cubic (BS) was recently a p p o i n t ~ director of the Planning Department m Douglas County. Roseburg, Ore. He also has been e l e c t ~ to a POSition on the Roseburg District 4 School Board He and his wife. Barbara, have three children. Ben G. Neumayer (135), a certified public aCCOUlllanl and p.1r'lner in a CPA firm in The Dillies, Ore., is the 1985·86 president of the Mid-Columbia Chapter of the Oregon Society of Certified Public Accountants. John R. Oreskovic h (85, '84 MA) has blocn awarded .1 new Fulbright grant to conduct research in Yugoslavia. He IS Ollt.' of some 1,500 A m e r i c . m ~ being ~ t abroad during the 1985-86 academic year under the Fulbright exchJnge program. '72 P;ltrick Durden IBS) i ~ a S('lf--('mployed cortsuitmK economist In Anc.hQragt', Alaska. During the summer, he uses his o.....n v e s ~ e l t o fish commf;'rcially for salmon in Aloiskan waters. Paul 'ellum (85), f o r m e r l ~ principal oj the Willamma Middle School. Willamina Ore has been named prinCipal of Renne Middle School, Newberg, Ore. He is former mayor of Dilyton, Ore. Continued on page 8 As simple as ABC This rear give PSU Alumni Benefits Cards. 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China Journal A PSU professor's thoughts on visiting his native country For 21 days l i J ~ t summer. d group of 11 people .... ho hild Sl8ned up (or a PSU Alumni Tour ofChinJ 801 to know the distant country and each other. Tlwv em'creel 3,500 miles .md crossed great cultural and physiCiJI oorr;m. Tour Ie.lder Pilh Chen. p r o ( e ~ s o , of m«hanJal engu)(!c(lng at PSU, kept a deta,led dMry chronicling the ~ i 8 h t s and moods of his nat,\,c country, vi"its to Ch,nese un;,'ersities, illnesses among members of the group, and iJ bittersweet reunion with his r.lmily. These excerpl5 Clre iJ \'l'ty small pan of Chen's \\f;l;ng5 July 24 II has been a long anticIpated trip. nol only for me but for all 17 of us in our group, Last nIght I wa!!t down to the l a ~ 1 detail - a medicine bag filled with vnamins. first aid kll, throat spray and lomahl. July 27 Beijing Half of uS had C h l l ~ breakfast. the rest W ~ t e r n · s l y l e . Tholl is Ihe way we aft" going 10 be for the fest of 'he trip. After breakfast, many of us changed money at the hotel. A dollar is \\-orth idput 2.9 Yuans of Remlnbi (people's money\. A couple , <I Itar 'Onlt onh two Yuan" . . . Man\' p c o p l ~ \\cre already In lint' at Tmnanl'T'lE'n SquarE" to \ lew the Mao Zedong Mausoleum. W ~ cut In line - a tounst' ... privilegl', Mao's body \ViiS e n c a ~ 10 a Iranc;pdrent cl))lo1l !..lrcophJguc;. Hb (ace looked pJa\IIC . Our l I ~ t UOlverslty \ i)lt W J ~ to the Second Foreign l a n g u d ~ e Institute. The Vl{e PresidE"nt hoped that I could lind someone from ~ U to teach English 10 his school . . . Tonlsht we wenllO .l Chin('t;t.' opera in a locallheater. ;'1.10Y did not enjoy It becauo;e of the language bamer. but We«' Impressed by the ( . ~ u m c s and dance. July 28 Beijing Tianlan, Temple of Hea\len, i an i m p ~ s i v e buddmg where Ihe Emperors prayed for the country on January 15 every year. It waft built In 1420 but waS destroyro by lightning and rOOoih in 1890. SIeve \(o;okofl lot lhe PSU speech communicatIOn departmenll proudh pointed oul a 38-meter high dome which had supporting plllaT!t made (rom Oregon Douglas fir. July 29 Greal Wall Wailing and taking pidures, It took me 36 minutes to get to the summU .of the \\".111, .llong the !tteep lefl Side. The vie\... was .l\\esome, and respect for the "Wonder" was deep, but Ihe wall tailed to p r ~ e n t northern invaderc; (rom conquering China-proper .. . At our Pekms Duck dinner. Be", lnought the !IOUp was a finger bowl. .. Cele50te (not her real name) is fastmg because of digestion problems. July 30 Xian Thl ancient capital of 16 dynasties i!. shll SUffOUnded by it rectangular wall We were surrounded, tOO, with many children peddling gift items. We gal a doctor 10 sec Celeste. July 31 N\()rOlng ~ a r t e d out wllh Celeste not domg well The doctor recommended that she go 10 J hospi!')I. She is a strong-wiliro pcrson but I was more persuasive and she finally agreed to go .. . Visited Hua Ching hot springs, an embroidery factory and an ancienllslamic mosque. August 1 Everyone who went to Xian Jiaq!ung University this morning appreciated the special VIS II Jacob Fried, a \ ' i s i t j n ~ professor of anthropology ffom PSU, was there to Illeet wilh our group, too. I went 10 the mechamcal engineefing labs, olhers went to the library and the kindergarten .. I mel a pretty salesgirl in an .uts and crafts place \\00 a. . ked me many interesting questions about the young people In the U.S.. such as how they find mates and when they get married She was fascinated by my answers Wf! checked C('16te out of the h<hpilal Thank God.J-H:o was fullv ff'('O\t'r('(JI t f t gOod about my in!oi!l1.eoce. August 2 luoyolng At the pldza In front of Ihe train stahon, Und('f the moonlight .11 J a.m., we encountered an unforgettable !tcenc. Many people were sleepmg there, waltmg (or Ihe mornmg train!l. It reminded me of a scene from "Gone with the \\'ioo," where wounded s o l d i e ~ "ere h mg in the reets of Atlanta. We had to he care(ul where \\e ~ t e p p e d . . . The longmen Grotto IS where many statues of BuddhJ and his (hsciples were carved on solid rocks . I was deeplv Impressed by the Credtl"'IIV and c r a f t s r n a n ~ l p . Augus' 3-4 ZhenSZhou The Yellow Ri\.o'er was truly mudd)" and yell",v. A <;Iafue o( cl mother and son m Yellow River Park symbolized the flyer as the cradle of Chinese civilization . .. Our visit 10 a commune was mteresting They no longer U!!e the word "commune" but call It "\ dlage" 00\\. There are aboul 120 families /1\ ing m two-story apartment c o m ~ e x e s , and they have milk c:ows, mules, farm machinery, a wy milk fac.tory, apple farm and fi h pond ... At Zhengzhou University, PSU's sister university. I responded 10 Presidenl Che and offered warm greetmgs from PSU. I ended by sa) Ing. "I wish that the sister university relation will be a.!J long·lasung ac; the strellms of lhe Yellow River and the Almighty Columbia ," August 5 On 'he bus oul of Zhengzhou, \\oe "'iW corn field .. .and I sang "Oh, what a beauttful moming." At Shalin Temple "\ve leamed about thirteen monks ,", ho fC'iCued Emperor Tan Talzoong from en<'fllV .:utack!.. The Emperor later granted them the TIght 10 d T l n ~ WIOC and eat me.lt. uflusual In Buddhism. August 6 Emily (not hcr feal name) wa!l III with intcstinal problems.. Dr. Wang (rom the Pro\incial Hospit.al thoughl he might have a contagIOUS d i ~ a , e because thC're had been an outbreak. I re!olsted and com inced him (a come back m the morning. In Ihe meantime, Emily asked for two of my lomolils and by morning she was doing fine. August 7 Shanghai We visited lhe Arts and Crafts Research Center. whICh create') pecial designs (or double-.ide<! embrOidery, bamboo carving, jade carving, ele. (or other arts and crafb IOdustrie!i 10 follow . .. After dinner we anended the Shanghai acrobati show. I could not figure out how In a !Iop"t second i1 magICian changed • lady iJItd a small dog Into a Germ.Jn Shepherd. It W.15 a good two-hour .show ior 35(. August 8 Students in the kindergarten al Chao Yang Vlltage, a local workers' neighborhood. performed (or us and a 4'I>-year-old boy played poano. The neIghborhood orgaOlzatlon had many.rules and regulations posted outside in a poblic Photos by Stephen Kosokoff Left: P.ah Chen ilt Longmen Grollo 8ek>w: The tour sroup At Hua Chins HoI Sprinp tentH: Strm JaM '" Xi .. n lottorn; K.JlheriM SherI,. '.lh Chen MId XiMt Rrf'Id , ~ n d o r s area.. During a heavy rain downtown I sought shelter in ol store where I bought several silk liC\ August 9 Homecoming to Fuzhou , found the big baO) an tree near the rl\crbank, tilen a villaget" led U5 Ihrough lhe attey 10 my house. My uncle (the son of my grandfather'.. brOlher's son, Chinese custom) was at thc house tlnd I surprised him greatly. I found myself speaking m the native dialect, which I hadn't spoken "'oce I left Fuzhou 36 '(eaf"!i ago. Upstair!. J searched for my ancestors' name ",blel>, 001 I couldn'l find ,hem Instead I (ound a plate filled with names on red paper and COPied down the names under the c.1ndlelighl. I walked to mv bedroom without bemg directed. Eve-rything was old and flO( Continued on page 7 PSU /'erqJecti.., Fall 1985 poge 5
Shooter finds challenge in every assignment Irs a tough way to start the day - with iJ (ace full of spraying ice - but at least news photographer Michael Lloyd ('75) gels his picture. A Winterhawks hockey star has been immortalized and a day in the life of a photojournalist lJas begun. Back at The Oregonian, a little yellow slip of paper on the assignment board teJ/s Lloyd to go to Grant High School. Space shuttle astronaut Gordon Fullerton is due to address students of his alma mater at noon. lloyd is a product of PSU's now-defunct journalism department, which was partly a product of the adjunct leaching of Oregonian and Oregon Journal staff members. "AU of my photography was from David Falconer, who was chief photographer for The Oregonian at the time," said lloyd. He also look feature writing from Oregonian reporter Early Deane and advanced reporting from the Journal's managing editor Ed O'Meara. Then Lloyd paid them back. The PSU student started working at the downtown daily on a "part-time part-lime" basis in 1972, and by 1974 he was a full-lime staffer, working nights and weekends while he finished school. After graduation, he took over a couple of Falconer's classes for a year and advised the 1978 Viking yearbook staff. lloyd was part of " steady stream of talent that left PSU classrooms for the newsrooms and darkrooms. of the two daily papers. The Oregonian photo staff currently boasts four PSU grads. Fullerton is late and grabs a sandwich with the principal. Not picture mJteriJ/. Lloyd sets up his tripod in the middle of the stilmpede in the hall so he can catch the astronaut on his way to the auditorium. But Fullerton takes an unexpected route. Inside the auditorium, the liglll is hopeless. Lloyd packs up disconsolately .1nd waits on the front lawn for a set-up picture. The photographer, who was once Criticized by fellow students for his documentary style, prefers to shoot spontaneously. ''I'm nol a big previsualizer of pictures. I think you owe it to your subject 10 wait and see what he's Itke." But Lloyd does hiS share of studio work. On the sports page that morning was Lloyd's color photo illustratmg Olympic gold medalist Mary lou Retton's new career as a millionaire. "It's kind of hard to make an exciting picture of a cereal box, a book and an exercise Jersey. You know, it JU t doesn't sing!" His dream assignment - if he can't do the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated - is pretty close to the one he was sent on last wlOler. He spent three weeks with the orrh\\'est Medical Teams in Elhiopi;:), a trip that pose 6 I PSU Perspective, Fall 1985 turned out to be "gratifying personally, profeSSionally, spiritually, and any way you slice it." The visible results were a 12·page text and photo supplement to The Oregonian called "Small Victories" and Lloyd's own slide-tape presentation. Still. Lloyd was dissatisfied. "I felt like I left behind a lor more than I ever brought back," he said. " 1got only slightly below the surface." Getting below the surface to show "what makes people tick" is Lloyd's goal for himself as a photographer. "A 101 of photographers and journalists are fairly decent amateur psychologists," he maintains. "Unlike television, we can get down to what people are feeling inslead of just what they're saying. But I'm not here to make judgments either." Politics pose a parHcular challenge for lloyd because there is so much "public face" to get beyond. But a couple of longterm, in·depth assignments - the property tax baule in the 1983 state legislative session and two separate weeks with Portland Mayor Bud Clark - have made him itch for the upcoming gubernatoTl.11 race. Fullerton emerges from the school and is surrounded on the portico by curious boys. The girls stay at a distance. Ifs a natural, and Lloyd goes into action. The smile comes back to his face. The assignment has been saved. " I don't believe in the philosophy of journalistic objectivity," says lloyd. "You have to make so many subjective decisions aboul what you're shooting and when you shoot it and what you're ullimately going to present to fhe public. But I believe very much in fairness." Lloyd thinks like a full-fledged journalist, a status only recently accorded news photographers. The days of being a sidekick for the writer are over, says lloyd. at least at The Oregonian where photographers arc more involved than ever in what happens 10 their work after it's turned in. lloyd is also a part-time picture editor, working closely With the spans department to combine words and pictures to their best advantage. He groans when he picks up his next assignment at 3:30 p.m. Something for the "Style" <teetion. Hf! walks over to the newsroom to consult with the fashion editor and the two at" them drive down to the office of a stylish young Cilreer woman. "I'm iust Roing to shoot and run, " Lloyd had predicted. But the Story and photos by Cynthia O. Stowell office setting is interesting, the dress pretty, ilnd soon the photographer is humming along and the hour goes quickly. By the time he gets back to the photo deportment, IJe's on overtime and he still has to layout a sports page. Trust is a big issue for lloyd in his work as a photojournalist. "Most Conlinued on page 7
Michael Lloyd Continued from page 6 people automatically don'l trust you because you're from the newspaper," he says. "And it's true, I have a lot of power as a photographer. I can make someone look like J saviour or an a ~ s . " One day, while lloyd was shooting in the mayor's office, Clark commented that he felt he could be himself in front of Lloyd's camera. "Man, that was neat," Lloyd grinned. "I really liked that." These "small victories" - quieter and closer 10 home than the drama of Ethiopia - are what keep a photojournalist like Mike Lloyd going. Four PSU .1Iums who work in The Oregonian's photography depiutmenl took their selfportraits in the PortLmd daily's studio. They dre (left to right) Michael Lloyd ('75), Sieve Nehl, Dale Swanson, and Kraig 5cattarella ('81). China Journal Continued from page 5 well maintained. Out back, I remembered there was an orchard, but now it is a pigpen and dirt. My cousin Maeying introduced herself and I suddenly remembered that she was the one left behind when her parents took off to Taiwan. She showed me her house, which was my playhouse when I was eight. After tea, I walked away from the house and touched the tall wall in front with sadness. Many villagers gath€'red outside and the old postmaster, a dear neighbor, came out to greet me, too. Many followed us all the way to the "town square" where we parked our car and they gave me their names which should be known to my mother, but with everyone talking it was hard for me to remember any names ... My day is not over without seeing my mother-side relatives. Twenty of them had come from Nanping by train to our hotel. August 10 Fuzhou Normal University is an older university in Fujian Province, with a good reputation. The President said that PSU and FNC would soon establish sister university relations and I presented him with PSU catalogs and Portland books. The President presented a scented fan to each of us ... My two aunts and my uncle came back this evening and we enloyed an hour of conversation and exchanged gjfts. We had so much to talk about but had ro little time. August 11 Xiamen Most of us went to the "night dub," a singing and dancing hall. I was surprised to know that the young audience were mostly local Chinese dressed in western clothes and dancing disco. We were there for about 1 V2 hours until the cigarette smoke irritated us aiL August 12 We were taken to Iimei Village to see the memorial for Chen Ja-Gan, a local son originally Nationalist but later sympathetic to Mao and supporting the revolution. He made a lot of money through his rubber plantation in southeast Asia and donated a big sum of money to establish schools in Xiamen. I believe the tourist industry wants to bring all visitors to this memorial to show the patriotism of the overseas Chinese and present Chen as an example. Augusl 13 About 20 students from the foreign language department greeted us at Xiamen University. As they led us for a quick tour of their beautiful campus, they pradiced their English conversation on us ... On the boat ride to Hong Kong, just outside the port of Xiamen, we saw the Nationalist-controlled five offshore islands. I suddenly fell strange. These islands are so dose to the mainland yet so far away economically (lnd politically. At night, as we traveled across the South China Sea, we ~ w many lights on the east side of the boat. Some jokingly said that we were heading to Taiwan. These lights are from the fishing boats. It is a beautiful scene in the dark night. TRAVEL HALLEY'S COMET East Caribbean April 2, 1986 MANY OTHER CRUISES Mexico, Western Caribbean Panama Canal Big discounts by booking early Limited space **** N o v e ~ r M O S C O W / L E ~ G R A D / H E L S I N K I December CHRISTMAS IN SCANDINAVIA January INDIA ~ ' f g , March ' > j J ~ \ l SPRING BREAK: r e . ~ w > ' f g , ' i i ' .. MOSCOW!LENINGRAD. ~ ~ ' f g , ' > j J ~ , , " \ \ J l April ~ ~ w > ' f g , ' i i ' VIENNA/BUDAPEST May RUSSIA AND CENTRAL ASIA June RUSSIA BY BUS July RICK STEVES' "EUROPE THROUGH THE BACK DOOR" September SPAIN AND PORTUGAL ISRAEL October HIMALAYAN TREK II Call or write PSU Alumni for complete details - (503) 229-4948 PSU ALUMNI TOURS P () Box ~ J 2 Portldnd Oregon 9::-20::- PSU Perspective, Fall 1985/ page 7
'72 Continued from page 4 William A. Korach IMSn is currently an administrator in residence, teaching in the Education Administration program olt PSU's School of Educallon while pursuing his doctOfate at PSU In the same field. He is on a year's sabb.uicalll'ave from lake Oswego Iligh School, lake Oswego, Ore., where he is pfincipdL Three years ago, his school was !>ele<:ted as ont' of tlu> most outstanding in Amerio by the Nalional Commission on hcelfence in Education. George V. Kuykendali lMS) is the 1984-85 p r e s i ~ n t of the Oregon Career and Employment CounsE'lors Association, aod past presldenl of the KlwaOlS Club of greatf'r Vancouvet"", Wolsh Carl E_ Parker (MS), ol counselor al POrlland Community C()lIege, Portland, Ore., worked with five othf'r volunteef" teachers during the summer to help about 30 Portland school children improve their reading and writing skills. Hownd P. "Patricl(' Torelle {BS, '74 MAl, formerly a thealer arts inMructor at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., has accepted a position to teach acting .lnd stage voice clasS('S at l.lfJe Community College in Eugene, Ore. Ronald S. Wilson (85) has re<:ently been named corporatE' controller of Oorsey Bus Co. in COIVallis, Ore., a schoollransportation compdny Ihat has been in business in Oregon since 1909. '73 Thorn M. Armstrong (BS), PSU stude-n( body presid€>nt m 1972-71, now ho!ilCheS hi)lory and polihcal s<:ience at P,llo Verde College in Blythe, C.llif. He IS currently completing hiS doctoral d i ~ 3 I t o n . Gerry S. Pruyn (85) won S 10,000 With a spin of the wheel July 27 during a weekly Oregon lonery draWing. He (lnd nine olhPr finalists were shooting for a S 1.8] million jackpot at The s t u d j ~ of Salem tele\';sion ~ t a t i ( l n "ECH, Ch 21. Thomas f. Strode rSA) v.'orks itS tIlE' full-time director of musit: at 51. Andrews Episcupal Church m Ann Arbor. Mich. C. Norman Winningstad (MBA), founder and chairman of Floating POint Sy!>tems, Inc., Beavl'r1on, Ore.. h a ~ been appointed by Gov. Vic Atlyeh to the nel.vly created Commission on Technll.a( Educ.llion. The group will advise thl' stale Board of Illgher Education Oil pfOgrams 0( the new (flegon Center lOr Advanced Te<:hnolOg'T EducallOn (OCATE). '74 Dennis Derby (BS, '78 MBA) served as chairman oi Ihis year's lOIh annudl Street of Dreams event. sponsored by the HOffit' BuildM Assoeidlion of Melropolttan Portland. Defby, owner ilnd founder 01 Blazef Homes, Joc of Tig.J.rd, Ore, alw showcdsed his $200,000 home on the street along With I J other c u ~ t o m h"""". Dennis Co Kucera (8.... ) reports- he has nearly finished the seven '{e,us of research nei'ded 10 write a Ihr('('·volurr..:> work on the top-scoring fightet"" plane group operating in the Medlterrant'oln theatet"" during World War Two ' .. y Co Thomu (BS) recently moved wck to Portland OIftl'f a nine-year absence. fie now W o r ~ 5 as an industrial and organizational psychologist In southeast POft)and. Edwilrd ,. Wilmington (SS), a marl.et admmistrator for P ~ C l f i c NOrthwest Bell, has been appoInted to the ~ t a t e Advio;ory Council 00 Urn-mployme-nt C o m p t ' l l ~ t i o n . lhe nine-member counCIl represents tile publiC, marugemenl and Iilbor as an advisory group to the d d m i n i ~ r i l t o r of thE' SlaTe Employment DivislOI1 _ 8 PSU Perspective, Fall 1985 '75 K.tlwrine Babbitt (BA, '8] MPA) assumed office Oct. 14 as the new city clerk and treasurer for The Dalles, are. She had been the Wood Village, are. city recorder since Aug. 1983. Prior to that, she served as assistant to the parks superintendent in Multnomolh COtlnty, Ore. Elizabeth V. "Betsy" Crist (BS, '82 MS) has been selected as a training and developmenl specialist for Clackamas Community CoUege's Department of Continuing EduCiition. She will work in the college's South Clackamas site in Wilsonville, Ore., supervising traming programs (or Tektronix, Inc employees in Wilsonville. Rebeu a M. Crockford (SS) was re<:ently promoted to deputy mt{'fnal audit manager With Georgia·Pacific Corp. in Atlanta, Georgia. James R. Deibert (BS) is the principal owner of Diebert Seed & Grain Co., Independence, are., an agricultural management aod markefing company established in 1981. Elizabeth Bell Dixon (BA) has opened Iron Mountain Saddlery, located at the lake Oswego Hunt Club in lake Oswego, are. Carl A. F o f ~ (BS) is a material conlroller fO/' Evergreen A i r l i ~ , McMinnville, are. The comP'lny handles air freight, national and international charters, and recently participated in charit<lble olirlifts \0 EthIopia. '76 Nick D, Fluge (B5) is now a service instructor at the Horst Mager Culinary Institute In Portland. Catherine M. Galbraith (MUS). the p!olnning director in Oregon City, Ore., has been elecled president of the Historic Preservation league of Oregon for 1985. Christopher A. Gossett (BA) is a Ponland writer and painter who has authored and printed two limiled-edilion books: RubbmSS (rom the Rose Cily, a collection of images rubbed from Portland manhole covers, Slone carvings, plaques, cornerstones and gravestones, and Portland His/oric Sidewdf4 Signa/ure!., iI collection of 27b rubbings of bUilders' naITl('S and constructIon dates a ~ ~ t a m p e d Into Portland's sidewalks hetweefl 1900 olnd 1930. Mary lou Stoutenburg {MAl i ~ heild of the English Dep<Jrtmentat five Oak) Inlermediate SdlO()l in Beilverton, Ore. Michael D. Wagoner (BS) recently \\as promoted to ",ice pr£>SldentltOrp()T.lt(' finance officer at U.S. Bancorp headquarters in Portland . '77 Harl)' G. Edmonds IBS) IS en&<,sed in pollutiun control effOfts while working as a seflJor ffigineer In industrial waste management fOI the City of Portland's Bureau of Environmental 5efvice'S. Thomas E. Koler (BS) is a project engineer geologist with Ihc U.S. Forest Servlct', ~ ~ b ~ I ~ : \ ) f ~ ~ ~ : ; ' ; : ' ~ ~ n ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ : impact statements. Gerlr 0, Me.d, M.D_ (SS), a gyneco(oglst and obstetrician and the former chief resident in his specialty aT the 617-bed SI. Joseph's H<hpital, Phoenil(, Ariz., has returned to Oregon 10 open his private practice in SI. Helem, near SI. Helen's Hospital and HC.lhh CffitE'r. where- hl' also has ac;("clJled a medical staff posllion. '78 Dorothy "Dollie" Palmer (65) has been selected to staff the offic€> ()f the SunnysIde 205 Associahon as the grouP'5 only full-lime, p.lid staff member. The non-profit c()(pofaTion pi'omotE'S The Southeast Portland-ared Ilelghborhood of Clackamas-Sunnyside. I ~ n n e Vrlicak (B5) has stdrled "My COUSin Kate," a gourmet plcnk and catt'ring busmess in N o r t h e a ~ t Portland. Her business partner. Sandra Wittkopp, attends PSU. VrI,t'ak formerly was a community relalions assistant at Providence MedICal Cenlef, Portland. '79 Geri Ellen Howard (BA), who writes under the name '"EIIE'n Howard," was presented with the Golden KitE' Honor Book for Fiction, 1984 Award during the AugLlM national meeting of the Society of Children's Book Writers. The award was for her first children's novel, C;rcle of Giving (Atheneum, 1984). Her ~ o n d book, When Daylight Comes, has Just been released. '80 Margan,·t Carol Almi (ph.D.) has received a two-year fellowship from the National Science Foundation to study proteins which may be involved in resistance 10 disease. She is an NSF postdoctoral feHow conducting botany research at the University of Cali(ornia at Berkeley. '81 Jennifer Johnson Be<:kenstein (B5)live5 in New York with her husb..1nd, Jay Beckenstein, founder and Sdxophonist of the popular Jazz fusion !Mnd known as "Spyro Cyra." Rily M. Milojevich (MPA) has been appoinTed to the Oregon Occupational Informoltion Coordinating Committee. He has been a vocational rehabilitation counselor with the State of Oregon Commission ior the Blind since 1974. Beth Weinbforg-Gordon (MSW} is a medical and dlalvsis social worker .11 Texoma Medica( Center in Denison, Tt>.lI:as. James Edward Wilson (BA), a professional diMical guiTarist, just completE'd a 14-week concert tour as a cultural ambassador for the United Nation> Educationa(, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The tour visited 14 countries, giving 50 classical guitar concerts plus workshops in ]5 cities. Wilson and his Wife and young daughter live in Paris, France. Keith Woodley (MPA) is the new fire prevention officer for the Beaverton, Ore. Fire Department. He formerly worked for 13 years with the Woodburn Fire District in Woodburn, Ore. He lives in Hubbard, Ore. with his wife and children. Margaret Jane Hilton Young iMA) hOis been teaching English as a ~ o n d language at Kuwait University for the past three years. Young, who has come to appreciate the diversity of Arolbic culture, plans to stay in Kuwait indefinitely. '82 Dan Ivancie (BS), ~ n of former Portland major francis J. /vancie (Vanport), has lE'amed with lerry Bishop to form a new political action committee called "Young People for Oregon's Future." Jane Huh Ohlemann (SA) has bc<on ciectro as the new executive director of the Oregon Tri-City Chamber of Commerce, headquartered in Oregon City, Ore. Patricia A. Prosser (BS) has been promoted to senior accountant at the Portland office of Price Waterhouse CPAs. Sisler M. Pauline Rose (BS), currently a teacher alSI. Mary oi Ihe Valley High School in Beaverton, Ore., made her final profession of vows as a Sister of SI. M.lry of Oregon on Aug. 15. '83 Hitorni Tamura (NlA), who CiJme from Japan to the United States seven years ago, has taught Japanese at West linn High School. W€»t linn, Ore.. for the past two yeflrs. She also teaches Japanese at Bailon Middle School in the West Unn School District Continued on page 9 Tour of England and Wales for Junior High School Students July 1-22, 1986 An opportunity of a lifetime for Junior High School age students! Tour Leader Marilyn Hughes, Talented and Gifted (TAG) Coordinator for Lake Oswego School District, leads this group on an exciting, educational tour of London, Cornwall, Stratford, Exeter, Cardiff and St. David's. Students will spend 12 nights at homestays and 8 nights in hotels. Strictly supervised. Limited to II young people. Portland to Portland: $2,223. Sponsored by Portland State University Alumni and American Heritage Association. For complete details, call Portland State University Alumni, (503) 229-4948. PSU ALUMNI TOURS POBox 7,2 · Portland Oregon 97107 15(3) 22<) 4948
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