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Portland State Univ~rsity Alumni News Winter 1983 Communi'•• It would be impossible to enumerate the many ways in which Portland State interacts with the community. The whole identity of the University depends on that natural symbiosis that develops between people and institutions in an urban environment. Thus, ha~dly an event takes place, or a word is uttered in class, or a discovery is made in the laboratory that doesn't in some way affect the community. Likewise, the university is sensitive to any change in the community's economic, demographic or philosophical climate. It is a relationship that exists In part spontaneously, but which is increasingly deliberate. In this issue of Perspective, under the Latin byword "Communitas," we offer a few glimpses into the nature of this give and take relationship. One obvious way in which PSU impacts the city of Portland is through the thousands of alumni who settle in the metropolitan area. We look at three alums who have chosen to serve their community in very different settings: spiritual, cultural and organizational. On campus, we highlight several fruitful partnerships with the community, in the diverse fields of music, medicine, planning and business. Even much of the news, we found, follows the community theme, with reports of gifts from the city and private industry, a favorable budget proposal from the governor, and the hiring of a new university liaison with the community. Clearly, "Communitas" is a theme that cannot, and should not, be covered exhaustively in one issue. As Perspective explores other themes, readers will feel this undercurrent of community exchange But there are many angles from which to view the University, and Perspective, in its new format, will • offer some fresh ways of looking at our growing and changing fnstitution. -The Editor • - The Center for Urban Studies: As Portland grows, the research arm of PSU's School of Urban and Public Affairs gives a helping hand, looking into anything from nuts and bolts to taxation. page three Nancy Edwards, '80 MSW: Bringing business and social service together, a PSU alum shapes a satisfying career at a private utility: page four Courtesy appointments: Oregon Symphony conductor James DePreist and the Veteran Administration's Dr. Philip King offer special skills to PSU students as adjunct faculty members. page six Alcena Boozer, '74 MA: As a deacon in the Episcopal Church, she takes communion to shut-ins and as a school counselor she steers kids away from self-destruction. page eight Sue Busby ('66) and the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center: An initiator since her days at PSU, Sue Busby is realizing some personal dreams as director of a new culture center. page nine Plus: Small businesses get PSU's help; University has new advocate; Building leased to PSU for computer school; Foundation president goes to bat; New alumni clubs; Two reunions; Alumni Notes; and more. Cover i/lustraffon by Nancy Olson
Letters 2 PSU: In the city and of the city It is no accident that major cities also are centers of higher education. Cities, with their concentrated and diversified populations, possess a breadth and depth of human resources and needs which both foster and demand higher education. PSU, as Portland's largest post·secondary educational institution and Oregon's only urban university, has defined for itself a unique mission: it is a university existing not only In a city but of the city, giving it the twin identities of urban organization and educational institution. In these uncertain economic times, when major shifts are taking place in society and industry, the interdependence of communities and their educational resources becomes even more acute. If there is community disinterest in the .health of educational institutions, both the institutions and the community ultimately will suffer. not just economally, as today, but also in many other ways which together determine the quality of life in civilized societies. Portland Staters have been sensitive to the importance of this interaction since the institution's beginnings. It was a vocal community demand which brought Vanport Extension Center Into being, it was the public which kept it alive as Vanport College and fought for the programs to bring it College and finally University status, and it is the public which today is pointing to the need for strengthening educational and research capabilities to keep the Portland metropolitan area economically competitive. Since its founding as a four·year institution in 1955, PSU has awarded more than 40,000 graduate and undergraduate degrees, with bener than three-fourths of those graduates remaining as creative and contributing mem~rs of the ~ortlanp community. In additkm to this growing pool of educated and talented alumni, the university itself is a continuing resource for advanced learning, specialized educational opportunities, and expertise. This is in keeping with the three main purposes of the university - teaching, research and public service. In its capacity as urban institution, Portland State has responded directly to the needs of the surrounding population. Helping place·bound people meet their needs for upgrading job skills is nothing new to PSU; that has been one of its basic missions since its beginnings, and today more than 40 percent of our students are part·time. The metropolitan area has always been both a place of regular employment for most full-time and part·1ime students, and a giant laboratory in which to hone their classroom knowledge. Community and campus offerings in music, theater, and dance have been complementary. A significant number of the faculty always has been part·time, drawn from the community. and adding richness and diversity to the University's educational programming in the arts, sciences, and various professional fields. PSU's partnership with the community has been most evident recently in the area of "high tech" development. Enhancement of PSU's engineering programs, with the help of government and private gifts, will have a direct impact on the local economic picture as the state follows the rest of the nation in shifting from traditional, resource-based Industry to high technology. The university·community connections are both obvious and subtle. When you visit our campus on the South Park Blocks, it sometimes is difficult to tell exactly where the city stops and the university begins. The same Is true of the University and its place in the community. We are pleased and proud that this relationship always has existed here, and we are gratif~ that more and more people are coming to recognize its importance. _c......... _ - ..... ........" Best alum paper I am a graduate of three fine institutions - Washington State University, Purdue University, and University of California at Davis. I receive the alumni newspaper from each of these places, and because of my continuing Interest in these institutions, I read the publications carefully. to receive such a generous spread in the bulletin, and I wanted you to know how pleased I was. Perspective about my work with the colored pencil medium. Laura Jacobson did a fine job of interpreting our interview. As a PSU faculty member I also receive PSU Perspective. I must say that the Fall 1982 issue is the finest alumni newspaper I have seen. Congratulations on a great job. Biology Clyde L. Calvin Great style Thanks for such nice publicity in the alumni letter! I loved the way you entwined all three of our stories together-great style! And from me personally, that's the nicest article I've read about myself, Pam Roylance ('76) Hol~ood. CA. Generous spread A tardy note of appreciation for the nicety written article about Pamela, Terry and me. It was most gratifying t also happened to notice that your position as editor is a new one, and I wanted to express my wish that your tenure with the paper is a successful one for you. The quality of that particular article. and the anractive, informative layout of the bulletin in general, only predict that such will be the case. Doug Seesbe (76) Universal City, CA. (Editor's Note: Credit for the design and layout of the last Perspective should be generously shared with past editor Laura Jacobson.) Owes it to coach Thanks for the interview. I always enjoy talking about myself. Seriously, though, all credit must go to Jack Featheringill - coach, teacher, friend - who gave me a break and a chance. Terry Knox Los Angeles. CA. Fine Interpreting I just want to express my appreciation for the article in Bet Borgeson ('78) Portland, OR. Iffi(lJ R!rspective PSU,,-apeettv.i8publishedquarterfyduring "'yeltbyNewsandlnlotmationserv;c.es1ot UJmnI, laculty and staff and friends of Pat1Iand State lIniv.rsity. EdItof CyntIja o. SbNeI contrtbuton Clarence Hein '65 ""'Johno>n Elizabeth Coonrod ~ of .....: Send bolh new and old addteaeellio PSU PenpKtJve. P.O. Bc»I751, Portland Stala Univeraity. Portland, Oregon, 97207. """"':IfIhIsJs.sueisatidreSsedloyQUtMWI Ot daughtet who no longer maintains a permanent adcIress at yout home. please notify the PSU Alumni 0IIIce !503-~948) of !he new mailloq -.... 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Center's research quietly impacts city's growth by Clift Johnson Looking closely at some of the policy moves made by government and industry jn the Portland metropolitan area, one can detect the fine hand of PSU's Center for Urban Studies. Since 1965, faculty and selected students in the center, part of PSU's School of Urban and Public AHairs, have cooperated in cond on a wide- ment of public policy s. Responding continualty to the needs of PSU's surrounding metropolitan environment, the center. directed by Or. Kenneth Dueker. specializes in urban policy analysis, government program evaluation, urban and regional planning. economic and community devek>pment analysis, and public financial management studies. Faculty who commonly participate in the center's research projects and planning studies are drawn from several social science disciplines. urban studies and public administration. The entire range of university resources, including its faculty I graduate research assistants, computer facilities and library services, is available to the center. Tracking transit Perhaps the best-known subject of the center's current studies is its recently concluded assessment of the Ponland Transit Mall, which analyzed such factors as effects on downtown business, bus ridership, and employees who work in the immediate area. As a result of the cooperative research venture, the center, the City of ponland, Metro and Tri-Met have leamed that the mall has wor1<ed to speed the movement of bus riders traveling on and through S.W. 5th and 6th Avenues in downtown Portland, and "... has proven to be a good pubfic investment.,. Primary beneficiaries of the mall were determined to be the bus riders and Tri-Met itself, with downtown business interests positively affected to a lesser degree. The new study indicated the mall's presence has increased traHic, but not congestion in their area, thus preventing downtown from declining while helping major retailers maintain their competitive position with metro-area shopping cent""'. The study also Indicates the mall may be nearing Its designed carrying capacity earlier than its expected lifespan, despite the relief offered by the Banfield light rail and articulated buses. The center's involvement in mass transit study wilt continue with the establishment of a new Transit Research and Management Development Center .t PSU. One of only eight schools In the nation to receive 550,000 In funding from the federal Urban Mass Transportation Administration to set up the new program, the center expects to receive a $125,OOO-per·year grant wh~h will open the center's doors for its first year of operation, Its establishment is designed to help meet the entry-level and middle managerial resource needs of the rapidty changing transit industry during the next 20 years. by becoming a major training and research resource in the Portland metropolitan area. The new center is expected to open in late February, l'i'l • • and will be co-directed by Dr. Dueker and Dr. Sheldon Edner, research associate at the Center for Urban Studies. Nuts and bolts Elsewhere, a study just completed by the center for the Port of Portland and the Portland Development Commission will help those agencies determine which goods could be produced locally that are now imported by other local manufacturers. Preliminary study findings show that fitling these gaps in local industry by expanding existing businesses, a concept known as Mimport substiMion," also could increase manufacturing employment in the Portland area if the study's suggestions were tully implemented. Identified In the study as "excellent prospects" for new local industry aUraction or expansion are: screw machine products plus manufacture of botts, nuts and screws, electric lighting and wiring equipment, electrical industrial apparatus, and metaiworl<ing machinery and equipment. By utilizing the expertise of the center's Or, James G. Strathman, a visiting assistant professor of urban studies and planning at PSU, the Port and the Development Commission were able to achieve the research results they needed at great economy to themselves, said Dueker. The $5,000 study would otherwise have cost the agencies much more if done by professionals outside the region, he noted. "We see Strathman as a good example of the type of professional needed to research the important economic development issues in the Northwest," Dueker commented. PSU', don.r Impact Strathman also has completed a special study for PSU which showed that the University had a 5185-mililon total spending impact on the Portland metropolitan area economy during a 1981-82 fiscal year period. This figure did not include PSU's prime economic contribution, of course, which is the long-range economic value of educaUon itself. Thus. the absence of PSU ". ,.woukt have a major impact on the metro area," conctuded Or. James Todd, vice president of finance and administration at PSU, who reviewed the study's findings. The nearty $72,000,000 spent by PSU and its students during the 1981-82 fiscal year generated a beneficial "ripple effect" on the local economy, resulting in rounds of further spending in the community totaling the $18S-million. An even more accurate picture of the greater Portland area's economy is expected in a few months when the Urban Studies Center finishes formulating its own input-output statistical measurement model, according to Strathman. rKJ l!fb i "'-t·,.. . , - Tulng and mapping The center is expected 10 begin work soon on another study which should determine whether the residents of Washington County's lnoorporated areas are suffering from "'double taxation." Rrst, PSU researchers will determine variations among jurisdictions in the costs of providing urban services in the populous Oregon county. They will take a look at possible duplication of tax payments by residents of the incorporated areas who must not only pay for their own services, like police and road maintenance, but pay for part of the cost of providing such services in the county's unincorporated areas as well. The study will be directed by Dr. Edner. Now nearing comP'etion is another study involving the center and PSU's Department of Geography under Dr. Richard Lycan, which puts their combined knowledge of the latest in computer-assisted mapping technology to good use at Tri·Met, Metro and the Portland Public Schools. As a result of the center's recommendations, the state's largest school system will be able to react more quicldy to ongoing changes In the home locations of its students. thus simplifying the re-drawing of district boundaries and changes in bus routes. Meanwhile, Dr. Dueker has recently served as a member of a prestigious nationwide research panel charged by the National Academy of Sciences with making recommendations for a better land information system which could be employed throughout the United States. •••• • • II The Future For all its varied invooements with local agencies stretching back to 1965, the Center for Urban Studies continually faces the problem of maintaining its research capacity to address Issues as they emerge. For now, the center funcOOns on a project-by.project basis, aided by a modest level of University support. Dueker hopes that in succeeding years, the center's capabilities witl become even more recognized and supported by agencies and industries in the region. They need to be more willing to invest in the process of building the university's research capacity, he added, noting n is In their long-range Interest to see a strong research--oriented university, 3
ii .. -· f'C '.- , . Social work alum takes skills to PGE by Cynthia o. Stowell "What are you doing. working at PGE?" It's a question Nancy Edwards (MSW '80) has been fielding ever since her graduate placement at Portland General Electric Company. Now as a human resources specialist at the big private utility, Edwards has some ready answers for skeptics. "It's still unorthodox for a utility company to have a program like this," remarked Edwards about the five~person team that provides health and counseling services for 3,000 employees statewide. "The old position was that employees should leave their problems at home." Edwards' job is also non-traditional in the field of social work. where the stereotype of the underpaid, idealistic caseworker in the crowded office of a public agency still persists. Edwards, dressed in a business suit and speaking from a comfortable, modern office building, says she needed a lot of assurance from her PSU mentors that "Yes, this is within the purview of social work - you haven't abandoned the field." While Edwards, 32, has had to re-examine values shaped In college during the late sixties, she no longer feels guilty about making a good salary in a "work environment with a profit motive." In fact, her enthusiasm for the program she helped to design Is unmistakable. She is one of two mental health workers and two nurses who provide a "broad-brush employee assistance program" 10r PGE workers and their families. Edwards offers counseling and classes in problem areas ranging from alcoholism and family problems 10 stress management and consumer budgeting. Employees use the confidential anq_largely " free services on a voluntary basis. "I'm not a treatment provider," explains Edwards. who went through the planning and management track in PSU's School of Social Work. ''I'm a linker. I link people to services." Although she does some short-term "problem-solving" with clients who feel "stuck," she is more apt to refer them to specialists in the community. Edwards could also be seen as a link between two traditionally divergent tields: business and social service. The time is ripe for this marriage. feels Edwards, who notes that the concept of in-house employee assistance is common on the east coast but just finding root in the Portland area. "The work force today is very different," says Edwards. "Employees from PGE - and they're not untypical - are more Interested in ... options. Wage and salary alone are not Ihe incentive anymore. Employers are being asked by employees to provide more in the way of personal growth opportunities. It Is also unrealistic for an employer to expect a worker to leave his problems at home. feels Edwards. "The SOCiety we live in is changing so dramatically and creating a tot more stress and pressure. With 'Nomen in the work force now, with the bombardment of information and the growth of technology, old family structures are breaking down and people are experiencing personal crisis." The Reagan administration's cutbacks in social services are putting pressure on the private sector to take responsibility for programs that have been publicly administered for years, reminds Edwards. And companies like PGE are finding it cost-effective to assist their workers with health problems that could be interfering with their job performance. Industry opened up to Edwards while she was finishing her first year of graduate work at PSU. Faced with the inevitable questloo "What am I doing here?", the former high school English teacher, Peace Corps volunteer and Red Cross worker started talking to 4 AlUm Nancy Edwards ('80 MSW) teaches a class In sharpening communlcaUon skills to PGE employees. people who had become successful in their fields. One person she talked to was beginning to develop the program at PGE that Edwards now staffs. The graduate student arranged to do her field work there, carrying out a needs assessment and making a proposal tor the innovative idea. It was a first for the School of Social Work. This term, Edwards is supervising a PSU social work graduate student, Loraine Volz, who is helping to evaluate the young program. Both Edwards and Volz will be bringing their experience back to the classroom in February when they guest teach a class in "Mental Health in the Work Place." Edwards thinks the School is doing a good job of "nurturing the movement of social work into industry." Volz feels her supervisor is helping in that respect. "Nancy is a great resource and link to the University. We need these linking sources between the University and the community. There are ways they can help each other." Edwards goes back "willingly" to the school and faculty that told her, "You can do it." And having done it - brought community service and business together into one satisfying career - she sees how fruitful the partnership can be. "I take pride in being in on the beginning of an idea," says Edwards. "The organization gets something different and I get this feeling of being unique." THE HAPSBURG EMPIRE Auguat 20-September 5, 1983 Tour Leader: Dr. Thomas Poulsen, Director, Central EUropean Studies Center Fly with us to the Hapsburg Empire - the charismatic lands of ancient castles and cathedrals, the music of Mozart and Beethoven. the Danube, Ihe intellectual and commerci;,.1 center of Europe under the royal house of AuslriaHungary. Our first stop Is Vieona where you'll take a city tour ... visit SChonberg CastJe and Orinzing on the edge of Ihe Vienna Woods. then take the train toPrague, home of the Bohemian rulers ... where you'll see Hradcany Castle and a performance of the famous "Czech Magic Lantern" ... board a train forBudapest, with a city tour of Buda. buill as a fortress in the 13th century, and Pest, on the left bank of the Danube ... enjoy a special musical production. maybe a Blue Danube waltz before leaving forZagreb, the old Croatian capital, with dinner in Mokrice Castle in Siovina ... inspect Zagreb Uni· versity where many PSU students have continued their Central Euro· pean studies ... jump aboard a chartered bus to - Sarajevo, where the assassina· tion of Archduke Ferdinand signaled the start of WWI ... visit Middle Eastern mosques ... journey through the spectacular Neretva Canyon to the Adriatic coast, with a laSI stop at - Dubrovnik, the medieval walled city ... with Lime for a swim in the Adriatic! Fly home via Belgrade, For details, contact PSU Alumni, 2294948. (j~ PSU ALUMNI ; P,O. Box 752 '., ., '/ PortlaDd, OR 97207
SBI gives former student a hand Former PSU student Jim Wikander, now p<esident ot Edge Technotogy in Southeast Port~nd, has utilized the Small Businass InstiMe twiCe in the last few years. The $1 million a year business designs and manufactures products that can adapt "dumb" computers for access with business message networks (like TWX and TELEX). The tirst SBt team developed a technical library for Edge Technology, a system for saving and referring to pertinent articles from trade journals. Last month, Wikander asked a second feam. MBA candidates Lou fngalsbe and Chuck FISher (shown above with Wikander), to come up with a model at the message networks and how they operate and Interface, so the company would know what to produce and where to sell it. "There have been so many changes in the marketplace, with the deregulation of networl< carriers," said Wlkander. "In this industry you have to keep on the tips of your toes." SBI may be helping Edge Technology not only 10 stay current, but also to grow. • r - ~ : ./ . Business students assist local enterprises by Cynthia D. Stowell MidWitery may be an unlikely activity in PSU's School of Bus!ness Administration, but it describes well the task of the Small Business Institute. "OUr students are tike midwives for people about to cut the umbifical cord from their emptoyers and start their own businesses," said Vern Sumner. instructor in the Small Business Institute. For college credit, students in the SBI P<OQram assist local entrepreneurs as they launch • business, expand their operations. or simply fry to keep their heads above water. It is an almost intimate involvement between the business majors and their clients, a relationship that benefits both. The Small Businass InstiMe. established at POftiand Stale In t 968 and ooe of 400 such programs across the naOOn, meets a community need that the Small Business Administration can't fulty address. Funded in part by the SBA. the SBI program also gives students the chance to use their academic and casework skills to solve actual problemlS in the business world they plan to enter_ This term, students are woridng with a forty·year old men's clothing business, a food cooperative, a wood stove outlet and a mink oil manufacturer. among other businesses. About 8-10 firms are helped each term by anywhere from ten to twenty students, said Sumnar. Clients seeking the free services of the Small Business Institute may have been referred by the SSA. but often they learn of the program through word of mouth or call the School ot Business to ask tor assistance. SBI doesnl solicit clients with advertising. said Sumner, who screens the requests and matches students to clients. Students, who are seniors or excepdonal Juniors. spend the IIrst term tact-finding, obseIVing the business, interviewing pe;sonnel. and carrying out diagnostic tests, much like a physician. "They go into the business with their eyes open, their ears tuned, and their smellers WOrking," exp'ained SUmner. Clients are a bit apprehensive at the outset. noted Sumner. "They're exposing their businesses, which are extensions of their personal selves.,. he said. "We stress confidentiailty and P<Olect a high degree of professionalism at the outset, but it can still be unnerving." The discomfort wanes as they gain rapport with the student consultants and begin to get useful informaUon from them. said Sumnar. Cutting through the symptoms and getting down to the underlying problems of a business, the students pinpoint severa! concerns and then recommend oost-effective solutions. At this point, the client is free to proceed as he wishes, and about one--third of the time the students are asked bael< for a second term to help implement the chosen plan of action. Siudents can spend up to three terms seeing one business through its crisis. Students quickly leam from their exposure to the world of the entrepreneur that most businasses lail because 01 poor managerial techniques rather than bad economic conditions. said Sumner. Surviving in business takes more than having a good idea. "Usually the market Is there, but the problem is getting the p<oouct to the market and doing it consistently." he noted. Many of tile SBI clients are "professionals in their own right, but haven't graduated from a business school:' said the instructor. who is an entrepreneur himself. The S81 p<ogram brings the academic experience of the students to the small businessman, but aiso oHers coursework in small bUsiness management. About one-third of' Sumners students in Management 409 are businesspersons seeldng some of the academic basics they might have missed while pursuing other disciplines. Sumner has joined the business world to academia in his own career. He came to PSU lasl year after twenty years with Jacuzzi Brothers, where he was a regional manager. "I was so involved with small businesses, t te~ sympathetic toward peopfe getting started in the adventure of business." Students draw on Sumner's practicaJ experience, their own fresh exposure to academics, and the expertise of buSiness school faculty while otfering their valuable seNloe to the Portland community. "We're in a Win-Win situation," remarked Sumner. "The client comes out with positive, objective viewpoints and the students come back with a bener idea of how they can realistically utilize their skills in the business World." GET CAMPUS CALENDAR Alumni Bl'nl'flh (.ud 229·4948 5
~Jl ~ Courtesy appointments bring talent to campus by Cltff JohMon James DePreist One of the many bonds linking PSU with the surrounding community is the harmoniOus partnership PSU has enjoyed with James DePreist since 1980, beginning soon aher he was named resident conductor of the Oregon Symphony Orchestra. When Or. John Trudeau, dean of PSU's new School 01 Pertorming Arts, asked DePreisl if he would continue the artistic collaboration PSU musicians formerly enjoyed with DePreist's predecessor, Lawrence Smith (BS '57), DePreist readily assented. Recalling the interchange recently, he remarked, "\ think that overture immediately told me there was a university that was accessible which felt the necessity - and the responsibility, indeed - to be connected with the professional performing arts organizations." PSU's connections in this realm are many, but few are as visible as the musical partnership which flourishes whenever the busy symphony conductor is able to come to the PSU campus several times each year. To give life to his courtesy appointment to the laculty, he presktes during rounds of rehearsals with the PSU Sinlonietta and the PSU Chamber Choir. Some rehearsals are thrown open to students and members of the publlc DePreist thinks the informality of the open rehearsal is an important James DePrellt Jed 8 rehursal with the PSU Chllmber Choir lut month. part 01 the educational process: "A university setting lends Itself to .... discovery in a variety of ways," he noted. These rehearsals permit people - regardless of their musical training - to "leisurely eavesdrop" Dr. Philip King Another cooperative venture between PSU and the community involves a small group of top students Irom PSU's School 01 Health and Physical Education (HPE) and the Veterans Administration medical cenlers in Portland and Vancouver. For three years, students have completed their "clinical affiliations" in the VA's Rehabilitation Medicine Service under the supervision of Dr. Philip King, director. PSU's VA interns, each seeking a degree of professionalism and a better understanding of the many problems of the disabled, are selected from students taking HPE classes in neurology and pathology which are taught on the PSU campus by Dr. King. Dr. King, who serves a courtesy appointment on the PSU laculty, Is no stranger to the Park Blocks campus. He attended the old lincoln High School during the late 30's and early 40's before it became lincoln Hall on the PSU campus. Also, his daughter, Nancy Elizabeth King (BS 78) was graduated with a degree in psychology. Typically about hall 01 Dr. King's classroom students are working toward career goals involving some 6 area of rehabilitation medicine, such as nursing or physicallherapy. Others may just be interested in taking a look at the field, he says. But three or four student~ per year. he estimates, "come through the whole program" and do internships with the VA, in order to obtain the proficiency necessary to pass the national certification examination for corrective therapists. The internship approach works, says Dr. King. "A number of the PSU graduates of our program are currently working in VA hospitals. As a maHer of fact. J have one of them working in our hospital here, at the Vancouver Division, and some are working in the private sector." Dr. King, on the VA staff for the past 19 years, currently fields a staff of some 30 professionals, including four certified corrective therapists who hold master's degrees. Represented in King's division aTe patients "who have spinal cord injuries, are paraplegics, quadraplegis, amputees, those who have had strokes, traumatic brain injuries. significant arthritis, and a number of other greatly disabling problems of this nature," according to Dr. King. Student internships at the VA on the music-making process. "Uncoln Hall is small enough so that my comments to them, as we begin the work and stop and start again, are perceivable by anyone there." The process allows everyone, he continued, "to recognize that music is a communicative art that involves human beings making it. We are so often distanced from the creators and from the performers," he lamented. Due to the current proliferation and broadcast of musical recordings, "music has a tendency in this society to become 'audio wallpaper...' DePreist's chief regret is that there aren't more times during the year when he can stage open rehearsals on campus. Beyond his work with the Oregon Symphony, his demanding schedule regularly takes him as guest conductor to the orchestras of Helsinki, Stockholm, Israel, and also to Toronto, where after seven years at the podium, he currently is in his next-Io-last season as music director. Nevertheless, DePreist places great value on his work with PSU musicians, considering it a logical extenskm of his guest conducting proficiency. In DePreist's mind, the goals of professional musicians and university musicians are much the same: "...to render as faithfully as possible the music, with the highest degree of individual musicianship." Happily enough, conducting open rehearsals at PSU proves to be an Medical Center usually extend over a two-month period, on a five day a week basis, and the PSU students "are actually participating very actively in the treatment programs, under the direct supervision of our registered therapists," reports Dr. King. With most of the classroom lecture material already behind them, "the primary thing they get here is the practical, hands-on experience of working with patients," he enriching experience for DePreist as well. "Very often," he says, "it's the questions asked in the course of these sessions that are more iT)'lportant than the answers found at the session itself. It stimulates thinking about how to achieve a goal that may perhaps be unattainable within the context of that rehearsal. And," he added with. a smile, "in the course of the contact with students, you always learn from them." But the driving lorce behind DePreist's desire to work with PSU music students, and the quality he hopes is transmitted to them, is a passionale interest in music-making. It is this quality which, by his own admission, has inspired DePreist's career in music. It is a trait he first admired in his high school Englislt teacher's consuming love of Shakespeare. and in the man who headed high school music departments during the 1950's In Philadelphia, where young DePreist grew up. "It's the paSSionate commitment to your work - whether it's architecture, scenic design or microbiology - that is perceivable and palpable by those around you," DePreist emphaSized, "and you beCome a catalyst." "Ithinf\ that is \he bestth~t can be hoped of any of us, that we become catalysts in our field, and that what we do can touch others in a way that makes them want to join the procession ." Dr. King diacu.... _ of ptullc _ with former PSU Intern Stephanie Ritzert .. patient Fronk Ullie Iooko on. Rlt%ert II now 8 certified corrective theraplat and It lit Involved wtth the VA Medical Center. emphasizes. "We have a very full caseload, and there's plenty for them to be busy with here." Bearing name-tags identifying them as "Corrective Therapy Trainees," as they circulate in the building, they begin occupying a unique niche in patient care. Although Dr. King Irankly admits that his normal staff could handle the case load if no PSU interns were around to help, he leels something tangible would be missing without them. "The work would lose a lot of the fun that it has now, because we find that educating and teaching is very stimulating to us personally. Answering questions and anticlpallng questions keeps us on our toes. The amount of time that we spend In preparing and training students is compensated for by the amount of time that PSU students save us during some of their interactions with patients." "It's certainly very interesting to have them up here," he concludes. "We enjoy them,"
Vanport RonIId N, Cap"n ('68) is Tax Manager at the CPAllaw firm of F. Reid Nathan, lid., in Phoenix, Ariz. He lives in Tempe. Franels R. Burke (Vanpon) has b&en retired IOf five years and lives in Prineville, Oregon. John l. Newell (Vanport) is a filbert farmer in Newberg. He worto:ed previously in heavy equipment sales, and has been married to Jacob Clifton ('67) Is a partner in a Eugene-based regional law finn specializing In business. litigation and related corporate legal services. Ctifton received his law degree from the University of Oregon In 1974 and recelved an adVanced degree in taxation law from New York University In 1975. He was previously In E.... Keeney Newell. who was also a Vanport student, for 32 years. . private practice in Eugene. William G. Walker ('46) retired from his position as electrical engineer with BonneviUe Power Administration on Oc1Ober 1, 1982. He and his wife Lucille. who also retired last year. live in Portland. Dr. RONIIcI Dexter (,65, '71 MSn is the principal at Camas High School in Washington. He was formerly assist8llt pOndpaI at Sprague High School in Salem for one year, and prior 10 !hal Salem district·s coordinatOf for health, physical education and athletics. He has held administrative positionS in Madison and Uncaln High Schools In Portland. Dexter obtained his educational doctorate at Oregon State University. 50's Stephen Walker ('59) was elected to a second term In 1982 as Multnomah County District Court judge, a position held for lour years. He and his wife Gloria have three children. John G. Ellis ('65) and his wife, Mila, recently toc* a cruIse aboard the new Chinese ship MJV Yao Hua, which plies the Chinese coast and !he Yangtze River. Ellis is a travel agent in Portland and felt the trip was a rich learning experience. 60's TImothy Ernerict(-Cayton ('69) is mln/slltr at Rrst Presbyterian Church, San Anselmo, Calif. He fonnerly served with the Peace Corps, ...... Armas ('69 MSW) has been named Administrator for Juvenile Programs In Oregon's Children's Servic9s Division. Armas wor1<ecI in eSD for six years and then headed the Community Counseling Center in Salem for three years. For the past lOUt years, he has sef\IfId as directof 01 the Oregon Youth Care Cenler Association, an alUance 01 20 programs in !he state. took law degrees at the University of Paris and at George Washington University In Washington, D.C., before entering the ministry. Betty HIli ('62) is the new ~brarian at NaseUe High School, Naselle, Wash. She is the author of a classroom text entitled State SUrvfvll SerIa. and fonnefty taught at Columbia Elementary School in Portland. JIm ~ ('62) has been named manager of financial planning and forecasting lor Portland General Electric Co. He has been employed by PGE since 1962, and was most recenlly manager of corporate accounting. JudIth K. ttot.r (,61), president of Meier & Frank Co. for 17 months. has been appointed president of the May Co. in California, effective March 1. Hofer started as a trainee at Meier & Frank following her graduation from Ume Aaben, '63 Sergei K. Aalto, '64 ~~% J.;/::::~d.~e;' '63 Sharon C. Andrus, '65 ~r:s~en~le. '64 John E. Barham, '63 Leota K. Beach, '64 =::dCC.~:~~5 Robert lo Boring, '63 Bill R. Bork, '65 John M. Bucklin, '61 Gertrude M. Busch, '61 John E. Chaney, '63 Joann Christensen, '65 Sandra J. Coles, '62 Marion T. Cruckshank, '63 Charles H. Cusick, '63 Nadine M. Dempsey, '65 ~~dFO~~" 6' Louann M. Duchesneau, '61 Michael Falkenstein, '61 CoIinette J. Fenander. '64 Ulrike J. Fontane, '65 David w. Ford. '62 Patsy A. Foulk, '65 lillie M. Fullerton, '62 Gary L Ganske, '65 Wayne E. Garber, '62 ~G~~65 Lost: linda J. Halstead, '63 David J. Hanna, '62 Sherry H. Hanson. '63 Norma D. Helstrom, '64 James R. Hoover, '65 Glenn A. Houston, '65 Anita M. tvory, '64 Aoben W. Kerth, '63 Shirley Keith,'65 ~a~.LKj=~~62 Roger A. Kom, '65 Larry W. Kramer, '65 Erik F. ladoe, '61 Kevin B. Lake, '61 Andrew P. Lalande, '61 Kenneth R. Landgraver II, '63 ~::~. t~~,~ '63 Edward lo Lenenmaier. '62 Clara M. lInder. '62 Rudo<ph 1Jppert, '62 David A. Long, '62 Mary K. Louie, '65 Kenneth A. LoveaU. '62 Janet B. Lutz. '63 James R. Magnuson, '64 Robert E. Martin. '65 Ralph D. Martinson, '61 Virginia B. Matich, '64 Dennis C. Murphy, '64 AncII K. Nanoe, '64 Ronald B. Nelson, '61 Beverly A. Neufer, '65 Albert A. Norman, '65 Unda K. Patecky, '64 Margery M. Paterson, '63 Andrew H. Payne, '64 Sandra S. Peters. '62 Anthony Pizzuti, '64 William H. Randolph, '64 Robert lo Ransom. '63 Charlotte J. Richards, '65 Merlyn N. Richmond, '63 David M. Ripley, '64 David T. Saunders, '63 carollo Schnoor, '65 Ronald lo Scott, '64 Ian S. Shaw, '61 Anne Sinclair, '65 Doug Smi!h, '65 Teresa E. Steinman, '65 W~liam M. Tatlam, '64 Alice A. Tobin, '64 Joseph F. Vogl, '63 Gerald G. Waud, '61 Kathleen D. Wells. '62 Ronald G, Wells, '62 Wayne Wenzel, '64 Helen D. Williams, '64 Wallace G. Williams, '62 :~~~ ~:'~' '63 Sue Ann Woodson, '65 Veu·Bun Vee, '63 Mershall J. YOlXlgbluth, '63 tf you find any of these people, please call us or ask them to call the PSU Alumni Office: (503) 2211-4948, PSU. Sales volumes and profits lor the Portland department store have increased dramatically during her tenure as president. and parent axnpany May Department Stores Co. hopes she can do the same !of its other subSidiary. Steve W, Jonas ('66) is a retired USAF Major (1981), and presently 0WfI8( of an ~auto hospital" in HermIston - a body shop and complete old car restoration center. Joan L Lanct.u ('69 MS) is the new principal at Monticello Middle School, Longview, Wash. Joel Lewton ('69) was recently awarded a Master of Sacred Theology degree by the University of Dubuque Theologk:al Semi'1ary in Iowa. Lewton cooently wor1<s with Native Americans through Yakima Valley Christian Ministry. Tom M.son (,67, '69 MS), an associate in the law firm of O'Donnell, Sullivan and Ramls in Portland, has served in the Oregon House of Representatives fOf two terms, part of that time as chainnan of the Hoose Judiciary Committee. He has also served as a member 01 the Elections and Reapportionment Committee and a cost-cutting stJb-committee for Oregon's Commission on Judicial Brancn. Mason received his law degree from Lewis & Clark. His wife, Renee Bryant Mason, will be entltring the practice of law this fall. Jean F, Newcomb ('64) Is a psychotherapist and clinical social worX9f In private practice, in association with Paciftc Northwest Psychiatric Clinic, Portland. JKlne R. Owen ('69), who resldes in Portland, has been a prindpal at Lynch MeadooNs Elementary School si'Ice Juty, 1982. L" L Shockey ('61) Is a teacher of talented and gifted students, and seventh and eighth grade science In Sandy, Ore. tn her spare time, she raJ5es pinto horses and enjoys =: skiing, hik'f9' riding ~ Floyd T. Smith ('66) is Director of News Bureau and Publications lor Northwest Natural Gas Co, In Portland. Don Suloff ('69), who now resides in Rockville, Maryland, received his Master's degree in Public Administration in June 1982. He Is now convnanding the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship Whiting and conducting hydrographic surveys of the U.S. east coast and Great Lakes areas. Roger A. Upham ('61) has been named \ice president and Ireasurltr of Parr Lumber Company, Portland. Formerty, he had been oontroll9f of the firm since 19n. Vietor Walker (,66), who resides in Beaverton, retired from the Oregon Dept. of Reveflue n December 1978. He says he's been working hard en;oy+ng himself since. 70's Dick Adamek ('10) recently purchased the Glisan Street Tavem in NE Portland. He Is also active in the alumni organization of Tau Kappa Epsilon at PSU. Jeanne l Arbow ('79) is employed by Emst & Whinney, a Portland CPA firm. She was recently promoted to Tax Manager and, to celebrate, took a vacation to Greece, Israel, Egypt and Tumey. Blruta N. Bachofuet (,72) Is department manager al T e+<tronbc in Beaverton, where she has wo~ed since 1978. Previously she taught junior high school for 6 years. Arwyn WII,. Blimn ('74) is pre5er1t1y Director of Finance for Vern Barnes Construction Co. In Gresham. She also serves on the budge! committee for Gresham City Council, and is a member of the Royal Rosarlans and the Portland Rose SocIety. John a.n.,. ('72) has joined the KVAL, Ch. 13 (Eugene) staff as a weekend newscaster. Bartels co-owned the North Coast TImes Eagle newspaper in Tillamook for a year and 8 half, and did media and political consulting for public service groups and political figures in Portland. Wllllaim A. Bowling (79) resides in LA. and was the location manager for the film Modem Problems and various TV sitcoms. Bowling Is a graduate of PSU's Center for the Moving Image. Pernelai Bridgehouae ('74) leaches music at elementary schoots in Monitor and Scotts Mills. Oregon, southeast of Woodburn. She and her husband, Fred, ara active volUnteer firefighters. Tiley have two children, Paul. 7, and Janet 2. SKI WITH ALUMNI Alumni Ben('tlh C.ud 229-4948 Cindy Clllls (77) is the chairwoman 01 me Tri-County AdvIsory Committee on the Disabled, and director of handicapped student services at PSU. She recently addressed Portland CIty Council, IrIc:luding Mayor Ivanels, to ~te access for handicapped 10 public bYildings. Christopher cayton (76) is director of a new language school In 51. GermairHlrl·Laye, a suburb of Paris, France, He ClJrrElrltly is pursuing a Ph,D. al the UrWversity of Paris, He and his wife are expecting their first child in April. Penny Crislip. R.N. ('77) has been named the new operating supervisor at Tuality Community Hospital, Hillsboro, She was previously a staff member at Providence Hospilal in Portland, where she was evening supervisor 01 the opefating room, supervisor of centra! supply, and a member of the open heart team. At Tuality, CrIslip coordinates surgical seMces, and Is responsible for post·anesthetic recovery and the centra! sterile departments. ThorMa A. Cunningham ('14) has joined OSU's Extension Service as the new area energy agent serving Coos. Curry, West Douglas, West lane and UncoIn countias. Cunningham has been an energy management spedalist with APTECH Engineers & Consultants in Salem, an instructor of solar technology at Portland and Chemeketa Con'vnunity coUeges. director of the Yamhill County Energy Office and handled design, sales and installation of solar systems for W.C. Brown & Associates in Portland. SIfien Do .. ('79) resides in Portland and Is a staff accountant at White Stag. He resumed his schooling at PSU fall term. Ir.ne Ellicott (79 MS) and her husband own and run the Easy Street Clothing Co. In Lake Oswego. Ellicott combines teaching seminars in human sexuality with merchandising, enjoying her rote as a retailer-therapist, Karl G. Engert (70 MS) is teaching electronics at East Los Angeles CoItege, Formerty a senior electronics engineer, hIs main interests are logic circuits and microprocessors. NorITlllf'l G, Fosback ('10) Is president and editor of an Investor's newsletter, "Fosback's Market logk:," in Ft. lauderdaHt, Aa. He recently appeared on ~Wall Street Week," a public: broadcasting weeldy show, providing advice for small investors. contInu.d on p, 10 7
Alcena Boozer: One foot in the world, and one in the church by Maureen Mackey She sits in the small church office, a closet full of vestments behind her an ancient typewriter on the desk I beside. 8.he is dressed completely in black, reheved only by a white collar and the warm smile that lights her face. This is Deacon Alcena Boozer of St. Philip the Deacon Episcopal ' Church in North Portland. But there is another Alcena Boozer, a vice-princ::ipal at Portland's Grant High 5ch,ocl, in charge of counseling and sharing responsibility for the discipline of the students. To fulfill both roles she works seven days a week, and often evenings as well. . "I have no problem being bl-vocational," said Boozer (MA '74) who also is on the PSU Alumni • Scholarships committee. "It enhances my ability to administer to people. My skills and training as an educator are applicable to the church." . The road Boozer, 44, took to get where she is today was not an easy one. It started when she was an undergraduate at PSU in the late 1950's. In those pre-Civil Rights Movement days al Portland SIal.. College, black people were aU but unknown on the tiny, young campus. "You couldn't not feel a sense of discrimination at the time in the Northwest or the country," she recalls. "You realized you were alone. I could go all day in my cl~sses .without seeing another mInority member." That drew the black students who were on campus together, she said. and they used to meet and talk. "We debated a lot on what was the role of the minority person, the responsibilities," she said. "By the time I was a sophomore I began to sense that there were dues to be paid to the community by those who had an education." It was a while, though, before she was able to make those payments. She dropped out of school in 1960 to marry James Boozer, intending to return shortly to finish her degree. She became ill briefly, and then the couple had two sons, a year apart, both born with handicaps. The elder, Bentley, was diagnosed autistic the same week infant Clark went into the hospital for surgery to save his sight. Clark's eyes were afflicted with bilateral glaucoma. The operation preserved the vision of one eye. 8 lOIN PSU flYING CLUB \Iumn! Benellh C.ud 229-4948 ~nF= Boozer ('74 MA) brings communion to nursing home resident do::: ottter .h~'::':r:v:r':"."::~ words before she must be off to see 8 hIIH Boozer recalls she was "ove.rwhelmed" at that time, and ~~:s~~g ~~~1~~~~V:~; ~~erl~I' sacrament." Her concern was heightened by the small number of clergy at ber church, who had to Last Thanksgiving the parish worked on providing a holiday meal to t~e .Burnside community. The parishioners realized that many people might be reluctant to enter a church, even-tor,food, said Boozer, ~o they decided to package the meal In containers and bring it to the people directly. "It made a marked impact on the volunteers to see someone about to eat from a garbage can, and offer them a full dinner with all the ~ trimmings," she said. There are times when both of her vocations frustrate her, the poor whose numbers never diminish the students who seem bent on ' setf-destruction despite her counseling. "But I keep working," she said. "Maybe I'm hard-headed. But you never know when it does work." She was heartened recently by a visit from a former student of whom she once despaired. certain he would wind up in jailor worse. Not only was he doing well, but he thanked her for her help years earlier. There is a dilemma in her own mind, she says, which she works 10 solve: "NT! I a preacher who realized it was part of the toughening process," she said. Handling the difficult behavior of her autistic child prepared her for anything she could encounter as a counselor, she added. A quiet commitment to serve. .. It was a decade later before she finished her degree, through a teacher education program run in Portland by Oregon State University. In 1970 she earned her bachelor's degree in social studies education from OSU, and was hired as a teacher at Grant High, after having served there as an intern the previous year. She returned to PSU to complete a masters program in counseling in 1974, enabling her to become a counselor at Grant. Then in 1980 she went back again for certification in educational administration, n.eces~'Y for her appointment as vlce-pnnclpal. It was also during the seventies that her religious vocation began to surface. Her call to the church was latent during most of her life, she says, mainly because of circumstances. "As a youngster growing up it was just suppressed .. said Boozer, since at that time ' women were not accepted as clergy in the Episcopal Church. "Once you perceive a call you find out it has been in the process a long time," she said. "I started recognizing it when I became concerned about how the sick and elderly would receive the schedule visiting the homebound in with their other duties. She became a lay reader, reading the texts to the congregation on Sundays, to explore her vocation. "I had to test out in my mind if I was really ~oing it for the right reason," she said. "If I was doing it only because it was a novelty for females, that would be the wrong reason." In 1976 she began training for the deaconate, a position ranking just below a priest's in the Episcopal Church. She was ordained a deacon in 1979. Her assignment was to St. Philip's, the church in which she was baptized, married, and saw her own children baptized. For a year she served as interim rector until the Rev. Ramsey Schadewitz arrived. Also at SI. Philip's she has quietly developed a new ministry for the church, collecting food for the transient people who gather under the bridges and in the doorways of Burnside Avenue. All the parishioners contribute to the food drives, she said. "People here understand that whatever they have, they must share," says Boozer of the 200 families and individuals on the parish rolls. "In lieu of floral displays on Christmas and other high feast days, we gather food." teaches, or a teacher who preaches? That's how I see Ihe deaconate one foot in the world, and one in 1m; church." . Black clergy are slill in the minority in the Episcopal ChurCh, which concerns Boozer. She serves an a national commiHee to recruit more black priests and deacons. Currently she said, there are only 350 black ' clergy in the church, over half of whom are 45 years of age or older. In Ihe past five years since women have been ordained to the priesthood, she added, out of 500 only 84 have been black. Boo:zer is now considering entering the priesthood herself. Doing so would mean temporarily moving from her neighborhood and Portland - for the first time in her life. The thought does not perturb her. "As I get older I realize that the only thing constant about life is change," she said. Maureen Mackey ;s a Beavenon-based free- ~;~~:~::a~ho wrote this article eKclusively for
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