LP434� . f\'L1 '\1"1%S IF§�rspective Portland State University Alumni News Winter 1985
Portland State University Alumni News Winter 1985 On the inside letter from Denmark I 2 American family encounters differences in a dark land Up in the sky I 5 Roosevelt Carter (,74) has top job at Portland Airport and isn't coming down soon A college in the making I 6 It rook only nine years for an extension center /0 become a full-fledged college Korean friends I 9 Portland man starts endowment and PSU adopts a sister in Korea AlumNot.. I 4 Foundation News I 8 Campus News I 10 Calendar I 11 On the cover: Portland State College students strolled through the Park Blocks in 1958, when the first quadrant of Cramer Hall was still the only new building on campus. Portland State Univer<ity celebrates its 39th, 30th and 16th birthdays this month. See pp.6-7. tivc shelley reece a11d the rai: PSU professor believes the four little-known nQvels of an even less-known British author are "classics" of modern literature. by Cynthia D. Stowell "Free Concert: The Raj Quartet of Paul Scott performs in NH 462." So said the campus calendar item. We'll never know how many music lovers squeezed into the crowded lecture hall, only to find PSU English professor Shelley Reece holding forth on one of his favorite works of modern literature. One thing is certain: the calendar entry would have created a lot more confusion just a year ago, before Paul Scott's four·volume opus on the British rule in India became a media event. The Masterpiece Theatre series, "The Jewel in the Crown," based on The Raj Quartet and airing on public television through mid·March, is not only bringing to light a work of fiction much-neglected in America. It is introducing PSU's Shelley Reece, at least in the Portland area, as a leading authority on the even less known British author whose passion for India inspired the 1,926 pages of The Raj Quartet. It was just a few months before Paul Scott died of cancer in 1978 that Reece read Staying On, a kind of coda to the Quartet, and became instantly fascinated with Scott's work and the world view it reflected_ ''I'm really hooked on it," said Reece. " It catches me in an important place." Reece never met nor spoke with Scott, but he has spent the last five years getting to know the writer intimately - through his letters, his unpublished essays, and his thirteen novels. Talking to Shelley Reece is eerily like talking to Paul Scott himself. Scott's three Indias Reece has inevitably been caught up in the recent flurry of artistic interest in India and the anachronism "The Jewel in the Crown" is a fictional painting that figures into the 14-part Masterpiece Theatre production by the same name, tn the painting, Que~n Victoria is gelling a royal reception in India, the jewel in the British Empire, Actually the Queen never visited tndia_ of British culture transplanted to the subcontinent. First it was Richard Attenborough's film "Gandhi," then HBG's "The Far Pavilions," and now Granada Television's "The ~aj Quartet" and David lean's film adaptation of E.M. Forster's "A Passage to India." Even before that, when Reece was on sabbatical in England in 1975-76, the British were watching BBC productions about India and the Raj (British rule). "There was an interest in denying any value to colonialism," said Reece. While he doesn't claim to be an expert on Indian culture and history, Reece has come to see India through the eyes and heart of Scott. For Scott, who served in the military in India during World War II and returned twice in the '60s and 705, there were three popular views of India - all of which he rejected. There was the Continued on p. 3 1
Letter from Denmark Waiting out the dark time . Art Bervm ('62). dn English Instructor iJl Unn·Benton Community College In SdJem. Oregon. IS on iI Fulbright Exchange on the island of Sjaelland in Denm,Jrk. where he is currently te.l(:hiIlR at the He/singor Autsgymnasium. He has sh<lf(x/ miJny of his observations of life in Denmark wilh Perspect;,,~, some of u hieh we piJSS on here. fo~r~~~~~~~I~~fef~O':nf~~~IY of mid-Willamcllc V~lIev in Oregon 10 a small coastal community JO miles nonh ~f Copenhagen? At fir;t glance. the dll(erences do not leap oul. .. Our Selling is \'cry Oregon-like: ..mall (arms devoted 10 r<1i5ing grain Jnd grass, ..mall dairy herds. and (orests with familiar trees like maplC'S. oak. cedar, and pine. We even SJW field burning when we arrived in l.lle August. lu<;;tlike home except for Ih£o mountains. There Jrc 00flC' In Denmark.. A fnend once SolId. "I really like Dan£>S, I've never met a Dane who wasn't happy." Perhapo; shc's right. If she is, they are happy in private or on another Island. for the moment. my generalizations mu,1 be limited to our small c~*,nIIV. composed of two-income, upper·mlddle class families. and 10 the \Chools where I teach. But from where we Sit. \\e find Danes have two dommant values: work and family. When they aren't working, Ihey are wilh their families. FriendshIps outSIde the (amdy are not qUIte as important as In the States. Even the Danes themselves .wmit they are not very outgoing. A friend once said, "I've never met a Dane who wasn't happy." The long winter nlghfs, whlC"h dme people Inside, and economl{ slrCS5tel (taxes at 60% level and high unemployment) inslill thiS apJrtness. During the past ten years, marnages have suffered, and divorce rates exceed those in the USA Some ha\("! ask.ed why we came now rather than in the summer. "Now we go inSide, they say, "m the summer you would see more of us." So now we hibernate and walt for Apnl, May and June . . I faced an entirely new situatIon when I met my students .11 the two teacher training inslltutions. Throughout last summer, I had, in vain, requesled a course oUllme or reading list. one ,appeared, and With good reason. For when I arrived, I negotiated the reading assignments and discussion topiclO with my students. Further, they expected 10 share responsibility for conducting lhe class. 2 But their curriculum is (fgid. Danish high school stuclenb holl\'(' no electives. Any of the extras - e.g orchts.ra, drama, school p.arties - are organized by the students. As a result, students tend to take the initiolltive and responsibility for themselves in and out of da~s. I c.m't imagine American high IOchool students organizing their own foorb,;,11 team. finding a coach, securing eqUipment, and preparing the field for a game. Here that would happen. Danish studenllO are also very politicJlly conscious. If they lOre public issues they wish to "ddre~s - like withdrawal from the Common Market - they may cancel ,1 class or close the entire school. (There has beenl a unanimous inler('<;1 in diSCUSSing our presidential election. Americans are, they say, elect109 a president for ..111 of Europe as well, so they have to be rnterested . . life Without a car is sometimes pleasant, but it has Its drawbacks. With a monthly pass lapprox. S501, I can go anywhere on S,aelland by bus or train or both. It's relaXing lust to board a trarn and read ior Ihe 45·50 minutes I'm on II. And II's mce not 10 pay for car insuranl'e or for fuel (gas runs about $2.50 per gallon) or to hunt for parking places. 8uI one must be very schedule conscious.. Grocery shopping must be carefully planned. A basketful of groceries doesn't seem like much untt! It has to be carried a half-mile through the woods. Frozen goods purchased 100 c:arly may become soggy mush by the lime one returns home... Grocery shopping is quite an ad...enture. How do you know whether you want Iykmaelk, lelmdelk, skummetmaelk, or kaernenl.1elk? Ii you wanl to bake bread, where do you nnd yeas!? Once you've Iricd your local bakery, you may give up any notion o( baking. The quality i\ high, the variety considerable. and the cost low. There's lillie "plastic bag" bread here... As a veteran of four olher languages, I did not anlicip.1te some of the difficulties in learning Danish...Allhough a firmly ht!ld tongue depressor .1110\..·5 one to sound like a Dane, it is a liability al drnner parti~. _ . 'e\ertheless. \\e dre progressing. \"·c can read more siRn, .and even parts of newspapers now Best of illI, we bring home from Ihe store what we thought we were gelling. As the calendar year wind~ dowll , days of darknes.;, are upon us lit candles appear In alllhc Window... 10 overcome the darkness and to make our inner world more "cozy." ("Cozy" is a favonte word of English-speaking Danes.) In the lake outside our front window, three swans - the parents and Ihis year's of( pring - B"de past. nature's own beautiful way of 'redeemmg lfii~ dark time. Your correspondent in Denmarl<, Art Servin mrr :I\!rspective PSU ~iYe 15 published quI~ dunns the year by News ~nd Infomwtion Sl-NiC~ lor .Ilumnr. f!K\llty.lrd sufi" -t fr~ of Pcw1I.lrd SWeUnl~ry fditor Cynthlol O. .s.o-II ~ a-nte Hetn '65 a .......... ~EdiIorP • .5con aa...oIM1drftt:5erldbolhIYWMldoid JddrNoH 10 PSU P'enpect~, po &.1751, Portl...d SuIt U",~oty, Pool.lnd. OIqon, 97207. 'M'MII: If IhI5 '_IS ~., vc- jM at ~wfIonob,..-tn.IIoIWm.lpel"fNllenl -'chs6 .. joOUf hotIw. pie.- tIOIofy k P5U ~OIiul5OJ,-~~cllhe~n'I.Iilins ...... PSU supportS ~I tduaootul oppoI'Iunoly w.chout ~ to ~ riKe, handlC~, qt', A.llioNt origin. n'I.IrtQJ 5tai1A. or ~lipon. Your Turn Remember all the times your professors, facl'tl with caplive audiences, gleefully used their lecterns 10 unload not only the facts but also their Innermost convictions? Gr.anled, we were given plenty of opportunity to challenge a professor's position or to counter with our own viewpoin l~. But think of all the times the professor never saw your raiSled hand, or the bell rang just as your mouth opened, or your paper was \\'fIUen so lilte on the 1.1<;1 pJSsible nighl Ihat the \\ell-documentcd. air-light philO5Ophical argument you'd been constructing all term jumped off the t)pewritten Jld&C with as much vervc and t:ohesiveness as applesauce ow, after all the.e years, you have a chance for revenge. Make the most of it, oc"'C.)use It'S \"Our tum Jt the lectern. "Your Tum" IS a new feature of PSU Pc-rspecl/\ e, offered as a wa)' lor alumni to get involved in ideas and plans being dl'icussed al Portland State. In each I~sue, we'll pose a qU~lIon - about changes in polin, academic trends, or a theory advanced by .l PSU proil"osor - and we'd like you 10 respond with a leiter or a phone call. In the following issue, we'll print a selcction of the responses, enough to show the range of thought and opinions of PSU graduates. Our first Question is thiS: Do you feel that Portland State should convert to a 1S-week semester system or continue with the present lO-week quarters? Just a litlle hackground: The Chancellor of Higher Education in Oregon. William DaVIS, has as~ed the colleges and unl\'ersllles in the Slale system to mealOure facult) senliment toward adopting a <;ertleSter system. It is estimated that about 75% of the higher education institutions in the United Slates operate on a seme.ster basis. Davis (eels, a does P$U pfe'lldent Joseph Blume!. that an academic '>ubJccl can be explored more thoroughly in a semester. Many textbooks are wrillen for scm~ter·based coursework.. The Chancellor'S office has also suggested that conversion to a semesler ~ystem would creatt' fiscal 5a\'ings. \\ ilh one less registration and gradt.> malhng each academic year. Informal polling of PSU faculty shows them to be fairly evenly diVided on the subject with a slight malority favoring retention of the quarter system. What do you think? Gi\'e us a c.ll1 at (503) 229·3711 or write us a note .11 PSU Perspective, C\VS and Information Services, Portland State University, P.O. Box 75 1, Portl..md, OR 97207. We want to hear from you, whether ii's a simple 'yes' or 'no' or a carefully constructed argument. We reserve the right, however, to edll for length so we can print as many answers as possible.
Paul Scott's life, work become personal journey for scholar Continued from p. 1 India of Rudyard Kipling j"East h cac;t, west is west, and never the Iwai'h shall meet," explains Reece); the Indi.1 of LM. Forster ("mystery and mlJddle"); and the India of Peler Sellers, whose comic parodies of Indian men were a "reduction of the human being." "India may be quaint. exotic. even horrible," Reece paraphrases Scott. "But, damn ii, it's not mysterious, In just complex." The Rilj Quartel is the result of Scott's lifelong effort to understand \ndi:l. "He arri\led \00 late for the 'QUit India' rule in 1942 and 100 early for Independence and Partition in 1947. There's always a shadowy stranger in his novels returning 10 find oul what was really going on." When Scon himself returned to India on a lecture lour aftN his Ihird Raj novel had been published, "he wasscen there as someone who under-slood," said Reece. The Raj Quartel. on the surface of iI, reveals a lapeslry of characters and events sewn together by a century of carefully constructed social and political behaviors. Bul it was a tapestry that was steadily unraveling as the Indians resisted their British "molhers OJnd f(lthers," and the ruling class was left without any film\\i<'lr rules. The last days of the Raj were a time when individuals, victims of an unjust system of their own making. were weighed down with questions like "00 I mailer?" One of the things that so impresses Reece <Jbout the QU~lrlct, however, IS how far it ranges beyond the specifics of Indm in the 19405. "Scon considered himself to be examining the moral drift of history," says Reece. "The India of Paul Scott is il metaphor of his vision of the world." In Scott's world, "we .1fe not what we can be, but there's hope we can change." And in Scott's fiction, his characters "carry the weight of history like baggage, but they're taking su~ps forward." Il i3 thiS universal quality of The Raj Quartet that inspires Reece to say, like a born.again fiction reader, "I believe this is a classic. It makes me want to keep reading." Then Reece testifies. "I'm aware of the size and scope of it. I'm aware of SCOII's sensitivity to language, class and culture. I'm aware that many of his portraits of female charactcrs nng truer to me than those of other conlemporary British rnale writers." It was not without sacrifice that Scott crcaled his most important work. life for Scott was a struggle - 10 survive financially and to keep the "small blue flame" of crCillil/lty burning. He had given up a career as a literary agent with the Higham Agency in london to lc1unch "the Indmn novel I ought 10 be able 10 write." Though he had written eight other no\'el~. six aboul lndla, Scott felt he still hadn't made his point. So Ihe Heinemann Company, his publisher. wisely sent him to India in 1964, where Scott suffered recurrences of the jaundice and amoebiasis he had had in Ihe '40s. and came back inspired to write the nove' that, len years laler, would be a quartet of novcls and a "S<"Id coda." Three years after the final volume was published, Scott died, "Damn, it's sad," S<Jys Reece. shaking his gray, bearish head. "He was al the height of his powers when he died." In the summer of 1982, \....ith a study grant from the Oregon Committee for the Humanities, Reece visited the University of Tulsa to pore through 15,000 of Scott's personal letters. When he was finished, he fell into a depression. '" was going to be a scholar," he said of his intentions that summer. "I didn't realize I would feel the loss of the man." Paul Scott Higham and Heinemann redux This fall, Reece will have finished ediling a collection of unpublished essays by Scott. His agent: Higham. His publisher: Heinemann. During a proposed sabbatical in 1986, Reece plans to go to England to look through the Higham archives. to try to talk 10 Scott's wife and daughters, and to begin "reconstructing the process Scott used 10 put together The RaJ Quartet. " II may not be too difjicult; as Reece S.WS, "I sometimes feel like I can read his mind." like Scott, Reece has felt what it 1s to be unrecognized. When the professor first heard that "The Jewel in Ihe Crown" series was being planned, he wrote to WGSH in Basion and offered his expertise. A polite "'Thank you, but Alistair Cooke can handle it" finally arrived, and Reece had 10 be content to offer a summer session course at PSU on The Raj Quartet. Reece is nevertheles.. delighted with "The Jewel in the Crown." which takes its title from the iirs! novel of the Quartet. "The novels are more reflective and interior, and the television series more panoramic and external. But overall, I think SCOII would be happy with il. "This is a way in which Scott's work can receive some of the applause it should have rt.'Ceived during his lifetime." (Shelley Reece has taught at Portlimd State since 1969. with over 35 different course titles to his credit. Such "pop" c1dsse5 as "The Language of Pop Culture" and " The Put-On in Literature" have been tempered with more traditional courses in recent American and British fiction, eiJffy 20th century poetry, and many more. The popul<lr professor has also made composition palatable to uninterested non-majors and has regularly tilughl fn8fiSh to teachers. To earn IllS Ph.D. from the University of ebr<Jska. Reecf! studIed Irish novelIst James Joyce, and his expertise beciJlne known locally when he helped Portland celebrate Joyce's IDOth blrthday;n 1982. Reece seems /0 h.we an eye for the unusual in language and literature, which may have precJispo!>eri him to embrace Paul Scott. He is continually exploring Third World fiction written in English, fasciniJtec/ by how t/1e authors' use 0; language helps illuminate the cultural and his/oncal circumstances of their countries.) - 3
Compiled by Cliff Johnson Vanport Eu&~ M. Colton and his wife operate an upholstery bu~oess and a liqUOf SlOfe ned' Itwlr home in San Jose, Calif. The 1i{IUOr stOfe i. .. Siltd to do O\'ef S 1 million in business each year. M.rprel J. Dobson, Vice PffoSideot for Academic Affairs at PSU, has been elected recOfdlng secret,lry to the State of Oregon Sports Hall of Fdme. Ernie Wakehouse operates Wakehouse MotOri, a Sclab automobile dealership in <,()lIthEoa~t Portland. '58 Hon. Beny R. Roberts (BS). associate JU5IK.t' on the Oregon Supreme Court. has Dee" named to the newly-formed slate Governor's Commi~sjon on ChIld Support Enforcement '59 Pqsy Houston Shivers (SS), a professional soprano vocalist of Colorado Springs, Colo.. performed a benefit concerl in Portland dunng the opening in November 01 a Portland City Hall exhibit of oil \>illntlngs by ~ hu!iband, Clarence 5hlvt'1s . His wor~ dt'picted y.uious civil righls leaders. '61 Russell (BA) and lema Johnson IBAllive in Newport. Ore. She has been employed at Newport High School for 18 years, where she work!; as a media specialist. He teaches mathematics and computers al Falls City HIKh School In neighboring Polk Counly, Ore. '62 Hon. "ThornH L Moultrie (85) cont inue'S 10 serve as a district judge in Multnomah County, Ore., following a campaign In November to be elected to a seat in Department I ] of Multnomah County Circuit Court. Moultrie has been a permanent district judge since 197&. '64 Mike Schrunk (8S), district attorney of Mullnomah County, has been named to J commillee 5enung solutions to the problem of Jail oven:rowding. The 15·member group includh criminal eltpern anti elf'Ctro ofticlab statewide. '65 James Prior (BS). who formerly taught an at Portland State, was Inviled to show his oil and watercolor paintings dunng February at the headquarters bulkhng of tlw Intt'l'nahonal Monetary Furtd In Washington, D.C. '67 A. wry Amn (OS). vicepN'Sldent and treaSUrer of U 5 West {the S16,7 billion telecommunications holding comp,my created by the breakup of AT&T!. has been named to a new poc;t as vice president rt'!>por1sibk> fOf a group ofUSWest'§ ~:':1~~~ye:~~:~7e of Padfic Northwest Beilin ~attle. Wash. MkhHf S. Goodrich (BS, '73 MST), an eanh science teacher at lake Chwego High School. lake 05wego. Ore. . currMtly serves as ~ of the Oregon Scit>nce Teachers A»oci;)tion. 4 Richard s. Huson (BS) and his partner OJ:ler.lte Crabbe·Huson Co.. a leading Portlilnd~ba5E'd money management firm which currently manages about S81 milliof'l in pension and trust funds. Their success story dS institutiof'l,ll money manage1's was featured in the Ort'folOni,ln new5p.:!pef for Dec . • W, 1984. Jill C. Sorsky (85), has be(>n named the new eltecutive director <J4 the Alumni Asscx::i;)tion Board at California State University, Fr{'5l)(). Currently pursUing a master's degree in business administration at CSU. she formerly worked in university development, grocery wholesaling alld retail ad\'(,·rtising. '68 Mi.rpret O. Gender (MSn .mel her husband Bill own and ope!'i1te The Clock Works in northeast Ponlantl. Some 3.000 clocks are s.1iu to be on display in the stOft'. Lin Ludwick (85), assistant dean of WOIm'n at Muhnomah School of the Bible. Potll.and, offered a speci..l seminar Oct. 6 In D.1I1.1~. Ore., entitled "Women Milke A Diffell'flceWhat Difference Do YOU Maker" She currently is working on a study of won)("ll's ministriE'5 in the 20th century SWIM & GYM '69 Alumni Beneftt<. C.ud 229·4948 Hon. Marshall l. Amiton (8S) has been ilppointed ilS a Multnomah County Distric1 Court Jodge in position #6. He has pr,lcticed law In Oregon since being ildmilled to the boll in 1970, and has been a soil" prilctitiOf1(>l for much of that time. Amiton's appointment is for a silt.year term. Kenntth R. Rilddle (85) has been pr~ed to the newly·created position of s.lles mallilger fOf ~c:~~~~a~b~:!i~:;::, ~;84. Scott Upham {BS), Olstrict Attorney for Washington County. Ore., has been named to a four·year term on the state o\I\f>dical EJtamlilers Advisory Board. Duties of the seven-member board include ~ration of the St.ate MroKal Exammer's Office and setting qualIfications lor deputy medical examiners. '70 Dianne Byrne (MS) has been appointed as the new home economist and consume-r affairs ~=t'~t~~O;:tI~ ~:Iti~~~~ ~7~hc state's c;)ule mdu~ty. She formerly taught hornt" economiCS and nutrition in the Reynolds, HIliWo.-o ilnd Beaverton school districts lor 1 b years, lilmtS E. Sehon (BS) is the new man.:tgt'l' 01 the Hillsboro, Ore. , branch of the st.lte Adult and Family ServICes Division. He formerly wa) manager of the divisl()l1'~ Roseburg, Ore., branch anti vice president of the Umpqu.l Community Action Network, tnc:. Iilmes D. Smith (BS) has been elf"CIed prestdeflt and chit'f eltt>Cutlve offict'f of Ward Cook Insurance AgenCIe§. He joined the Portland firm In 1981 as manager .:md was t'leeted vict' president In Jan. 1982. Mick WoJUerson (as) has been a~inled to a tenure track position as assistant professor In computei' systems engineering technology at Oregon In~itute of Technology, Klamath Falls. CM. He holds a doctor of philosophy degrt'e from the UniversIty of Iowa. Killy Wheeler (MA) h.l5 begun .1 personalized IOOr service in Northwest Portland 10 advise clients of the many recreational ilnd cultural opponunilies in the Pacific Northwest. '71 William Anthony Bilrsotti (85), a union labor represenLltive and !>/(>amfittt'l'. has been appclInted to the state Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health. He ii currently secretary of the Oregon AFl·OO·s Commitcee on 5.1fety, He"lth and Worke~ Compensation. Spiro J. Pilpadimos (BS) has been promotl'd to vice president of U.S. Nationill Bank of Oregon's illlt'l'national wnking division, He is responsible fOf the bank's activities In Europe, Canada, !he Middle East and Afllca. MallinI' l. Thomas (11.15), an associate professor of eduC4ltion at PSU, has been named to a two-year term on the Consullant Commillre fOf the Oregon Gov£>mor's Council fOf Health. FitlK'Ss and Sports. She is a paSI preside1lt of the Oregon Alliance for Health. PhySical Education. Recr(>.lllon and Dance. '72 Diane Stewart Crilne (BS, '75 MST) re<:ently was named PE teacher of the year by the OJegon Association for Heillth and Physical Educillton, Recreation and D.lllCe. She is <I physical education teacher at Cet1t{'nnial High School. Gresham, Ore.. and is in her 13th yt'ar of teaching. ~Id I. Oilvey [MBA) .... -orks for Bonneville Power Administratioo in Portland. Employed a, a program manager for technll.itl ilOO financ!.ll assistance JX'ogsams. he 5pt'Ci,11i1.('S in ('Il(>rHY conservation matter... l.roes M. O'8rWri IMS) hilS been named associille dean of science and he.lhh programs at Portland Community College's Sylvani,l campos. He formerly served as .l~5OCiate dean of instruction for PCC Centers. ~thony Pilrker IBS, '76 MFA) was awarded a recent Fulbright grant to study technology and painting techniques at a university. a Conserviltory and a crystal factory in Romania, Parker's artislk works in glass hdve been exhibited in the Louvre. lhe Corning Museum of Glass. and the Victoria and Albert MuS£'Um in London, as well ,IS locaHv in Portland·are.l gall(>rle§. '73 Kilthleen Doty (BA) has joule£! H18hText, the technical publicatiuns division of G(>ne Ddvis and Associates, Seattle, as technical wmer. Her work is eltpectE'd to indud!> developing seminars and educational services for the firm's client5 and the general public. Iilron R. Garrison (MSW) is a Portland mental health therapi5t who has been in private pm.iice sInce 1982. Also J. holder of black belts in five martial arts speciailies, he began the Pacific Rim Martial Art~ Academy In Beaverton in 1980, where he continues to study and teach. STUDY & TRAVEL WITH ALUMNI Alumm Bcnehh Cdrd 229·4948 Margaret Louise Hetherington (OS) r\e<.ign~ costumes fOf Portl.:md Civic Tht'<lter, coordinates costu~ shop Dpt"fatlons, ~hedules staff members. shops for material, arranK('<i. storage for completed g.Hments. ilnd trains aspiring costume designers through a work.study program .....tth PSU. Morton I. Michelson (11.15), former president 01 Schnitzi'! I nv~lmt'nt Corp., Ponland. has bei;-ome president Md chief ellec::U\lve ofiic('r of Union Ice & Cold Storage Co.. head(IUan(>fed in San lose, Calif. The firm cUllently run~ Ilt' manufactufing and cold Slo~ OIX'1'dtion~ in sill major California cities and employs 75 workers Douglas Peeples (SA) has Joined the staff of thE> Automobilt' Club of Oregon as edItor of its member publicatIOn. ''The Orl'Ron MoCOfist," He also will work with legisLJtOft. during the 1985-86 session to provide them With information on issue! important 10 Auto Club member~. Lin Silnden (85), a free-lance graphic deslgnl'l' woo fOl'fTlerly worked fOf d numlx>t of local buSinesses and advertising agencies, including Discount Fabrics, First FM West, Com Group and Hugh Dwight AdvMising. served as a panelist In a ~ial "Work .11 Home" semin.u held Oct. 16 in Tigafd. Ore. Continued 00 p, 8 Two prominent Portland Siale alums look the oath of office OIl Washington County Courthouse in Hillsboro, Ore. Jan. 7. They are the county's newf'S1commiS5ioner, Roy R. ROSers ('70 BS) (f~, kit) and Sheriff William R. Probslfield ('77 BS) (second from kft). Also currently servin, the county-predicted to ~ thl" state's fastest growinS through the year 200G-is Scott Upmm ('69 85), who has been Washington County's District Attorney since the spring of 1982.
"Generalist" climbed to top job at Portland International Airport, and shows no sign of losing altitude by Bob Mullin Question: How docs a college sludcnI who graduated in geography and urban !>tudies end up the No. 1 man al a major airport in just eight years? Answer: In Ihe words of Roosevelt Carter ('74), who performed Ihe feat when he became manager of the Portland International Airport in 1982, "I just happened to be in the right place (1\ the TIght time." Perhaps Ihe answer is a modest one. Carter. who served the Pori of Portland as a student intern while he attended PSU. worked hard and creatively in his climb to the lOp airport positron. "I'd been successful at a /lumberof other jobs," he concedes under questioning as he sits in his fifth floor office, where a huge picture window overlooks a vast expanse of runway pavement at the airport "I think I had a broad enough background - I never really specialized. I'm a generalist, you know. I want a taste of a lot of things, and I take a more generalist attitude toward my whole career. As a result, I've had a pretly broad view of the whole operation." Carter .1150 thinks aUitude has played a role in his success. He says he has never been bothered by the fact that he is a black man living in a world dominated by a white majority. "There are people who can WOllk out of their house and across tne ~lree\ and get involved in a fistfight." he says. "Then there are other people who can walk out of that same house and across that same street. and people shake their hands and become the greatest of friends." Adds Carter, who .11 age 36 is married and the father of two young children; "Everyixx:.ly doesn't have Ihe same background that I did or go through the same set of circumstances. Most of my life experiences have been positive, so I tend to look at life in a positive fashion. I guess I've been very fortunate in that respect." Carler served four years in the Air Force before he entered PSU in 1970, and found good fortune in both places. At POr1land State. Carter found "an idealized setting" that included "a diversity of sludents and ideas and attitudes" in the classroom. "School was pretty exciting," he remembers. "I was al about the right level of maturity, and I really enjoyed just talking to people. We had all the answers in those days, you know. Just going through that eXJX>rience was really important." After graduation, Carter began his stair·stepping career with the Port of Portland, a career that has had him moving to a new position "every two, two and a hair years." Step 1. In his first full-time position, as Research Assistant for the port, Carter gOI a taste of Ihe airport business from his Lloyd Center office. One of his projects was an origin/destination study to see "who really mes inlo and oul of Portland" - important information if the airport is to make itself attractive to the most passengers possible. "Airlines come and go," says Carter, "but if we have a big enough market area, then we can serve more communities." Step 2. later, as Operations Assistant at Portland International Airport, Carter was exposed to the inner workings of the airporl - and one hazard in particular. "One of Ihe first jobs I worked on wa:, bird control," he Soaring. Roosevelt Carter ('74) "Personally, I don't know anything about piloting an airplane. My real ambition is just being a professional manager and managing a diverse operation such as this." remembers. "You get birds through million·dollar jet engines," says Carter, "and they destroy Ihe things. "There are actual incidents where a 747 look off, struck a redtail hawk and if you have a heavy airplane struggling into the air and you have one of the major components taken oul, then il becomes a major drag on Ihe airplane. "I researched that for awhile. We found the hawks were out there scouting for field mice. So we undertook a program to eradicate the field mice." Step 3. From field mice, Carter went on 10 automobiles, taking on the parking lot and renlal car operations. "You start getting bigger thing5 to do and you start managing more dollars," says Carter of his advancement to Administrator of Programs and Projects. In that capacity, Carter launched a study to determine whether the airport should manage the parking 101 operation itself or farm it out. And if it was to be farmed out, should the airport have a concession agreement with a profit-seeking company or a managemem agreement with a ma"agement company? Carters study recommended the laner, which is what the airport decided to do. "People take the parking lot for granted," says Carter. " In fact. a large part of the revenues that go toward the operation of this place come from the parking lot. You have to be very careful how that revenue is managed. Typically we get money in small amounts. It's very easy to skim off revenue." Step 4. Then it was on to Operations Manager. "That was my first management poSition," says Car1er. " 1 took on the responsibility for the management of the police department, the fire depar1ment and the operations department. "We were kind of the eyes and ears in the on-the-scene, day·to-day functions. II Where to park an airplane, which automobile parking lot to use, and ho..... to funnel passengers in the terminal all might be concerns of the operations department on a given day. " It was probably my most frustrating position because it was a change from dealing with things to dealing with a set number of people," recalls Carter. "Pretty soon you start getting into personnel issues." Step 5. And now he is Manager. "My job now is budgets and people," says Carter. "In the old days, airport managers were typically ex·Worid War II flying Iypes. people who were interested in Oying. Today you're geuing more professional managers as opposed to tcchnically-orienled pilots. "Personally, I don't know anything about piloting an airplane. My real ambition is just being a professional manager and managing a diverse operation such as this." Car1cr notes that as manager he has to remember that the airport's needs are constantly in flux. "People don't realiJe we have a lot of pavement out there," he says. "They take it for granted, but the stuff wears out. How critical is this piece of pavement versus something else, a road we need or landscaping? We have to put these things together, remembering our basic objective as a Iransportation center. "Part of our goal is to marry up airplanes and the airline companies with the flying public. How can you keep that as simple as possible 10 make it aUraclive, to make people feel good about the experience as opposed to feeling harried?" Such a question is not easily answered, but i1's one Carter constantly has on his mind as airport manager. Some of the rewards of airpor1 management are more immediate, however. "One of the most satisfying things about working here." he says, "is going out during the holidays and getting a heart-warming feeling from knowing that you played a small part in helping people get together. It kind of makes it all worthwhile." Next step? About the future. Car1er says, "You see things and you hear things. I gave myself three to (ive yeats in this job. It'll be three years in October and then I will begin a period of assessment to start seeing where I am going from here." 5
PSU's 30th birthday Tendency to 'think big' created Portland State College by Cynthia D. Stowell It's nol surprising that PSU's unofficial slogan. "The College That Would Not Die," was coined before the school was even a full·flcdged college. II's rather typical of the institution's tendency to think big, to pul its energy into forward molion. The story oi how Vanport Extension Center became a (our·year college captures some of the spirit and drama that have characterized PSU's first four decades. II may not have happened fast enough for some, but in retrospect, it was a brisk tumble of events. Different people would start this story at different place!!. This telling will begin with the Greal Flood, but II won', linger there. The imporlance of thai catastrophe on Memorial Dav weekend in 1948 was that, in wiping Qut the Vanport Extension Center ("The U. by the Slough"J. it helped situate classes and student:; in a very visible spot in downtown Portland. The first summer was spent in Lincoln High School and the next few years at the Oregon ~~~~I~~¥dY~~~"b~ ~~u~~g~~~~~m{' home. There had been murmurings even before the flood about how nice it would be to have a publicly-supported four-year college in Portland, but talk reached a pitch in 1949 when two important higher education bills were introduced to the State Legislature. Democratic Senators Richard Neuberger (Portland) and Robert Holmes (North Coast) presented a bill proposing the "University of Oregon Junior Col1ege of Portland," a rather unwieldy name for a two-year college to be operated out of the U. of Oregon's gener')l extension division and offering instruction in 27 academic areas. The bill also req uested $2 million 10 build facilities (or the junior college. A more moderate plan Two Republican representatives from Portland, Rudie Wilhelm, Jr. and John D. Logan, came up with a more moderate plan just as the Neuberger-Holmes Bill was being put on the back burner. The Wilhelm-Logan Bill, passed by the legislature that same year, established a permanent daytime lower-division extension center in Portland under the direction of the General Extension Division of the State System of Higher Education. The bill also authorized $875,000 to purchase the lincoln High School bUilding. Delays in the comtruclion of the new Uncoln High School meant some delay in the planned September, 1951 openmg of the extension center. BUI " didn't stop the school's evolution. While it wailed for a permanent home, the Vanport Center'S day program was combined with the night program of the Portland Extension Center and renamed the Portland State Extension Center. A four-year college was still three yea,..; off, but students, (acuity and Portlanders \\ere impatient. They liked the ring of "Portland State College" and the name came into popular use. It remained only to bring the curriculum and the law into conformance with the people's image of the school. To that end, the Portland State College Advancement Committee, a pep SQuad of students, alumni and members of the Vanport Mothers Club, prepared a brochure packed with argument.!. for a public college In Portland. They also sent their leader. Homer l. Allen .• 1 6 Students registering for cI.lsses at the Portland Stale Extension Center in 1954 didn't realize the school would soon be granting degrees. Portland attorney and president of the Vanport Alumni Association, to talk to the State Board, which sympathetically told him to take it up with the legislature. Joining the chorus was James T. Marr. Executive Secretary of the Oregon State Federation of labor, who criticized the Board for its failure 10 provide higher education for Portland's young people. The Oregonian newspaper added its voice. too, wilh editorials calling for a degree-granting institution in Portland. The opposition bandwagon Not surprisingly, a couple of the pre~idents of private colleges in Portland were less than enthusiastic about the calls for a public college. Certainly taxpayers would be burdened, cautioned one president, and the integrity of Oregon State College in Corvallis and Ihe University of Oregon in Eugene would be threatened - not to mention enrollment levels at Portland's private colleges. The momentum of this drive for a public college was slowed by a perceived limitation in the Slate Constitution, which seemed 10 require the vote of the people of Oregon to eslablish any new state institution outside the Capital al Salem. 11 wasn't until the Attorney General cleart:..od up this matter in 1954 that the momentum was restored. In his official opinion. the various higher education institutions could be considered departments within the Department of Education and administered by the State Board, thereby giving the legislature the right to set up new public institutions anywhere in the state without a general vote. In Ihe meantime, the 1953 legislative Assembly considered a bill pre!.ented by eighteen senators and representatives calling for Continued on p. 7 ~~~f"~ ft.~. WHOLESALE Hr• • "~WAREHOUSES rRE SYSTEMS. TIRES, SHOCKS, WHEELS, BATTERIES & SERVICE. Radial paueoger tira u low u $24.95! Low Cost Compact .... Ply draNlow at $19.50! • Camper and Lieht Truck Tires • Steel Belted Liebt Truck Tires • RV and 4-Wheel Drive Tires .. . All in Stock and priced right! Triple Wananty Protection on all hiehway tread pauenger tiCet: • Mileagf! • Road Huard • Workmanship and Materia" THESE LIMITED WARRANTIES AT NO EXTRA COST! Low Maintenance Batteriet 42 Month Umited Warranty - .. low u $29.75! 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From Vanport to PSC: a scant nine years Continued from p. 6 the establishment of an autonomous slate college in the Portland melrOlXllitan area with both undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Jumping onto the opposition bandwagon as the bill gained credibility were O.S.c., the Chamber of Commerce in Corvallis, the U. of Oregon, and the Association of Independent Colleges. There were some who felt the notion of a Portland Slate College was absurd (the child of "clever operators and local partisanship," said the U. of O. faculty, or at best a dilution of slate educational standards, said the U. of O. president). And there were others who simply fell that the proponents were going too fast. The bill, eYen with some compromise amendmcob. was defeated. But it didn't take long for another bill to surface. this one in response to a recent study of teacher education around the state conducted by the Board. H.B. 713. also introduced in 1953, would allow the extension center "to offer a four-year undergraduate program for the training of elementary and secondary school teachers, and also undergraduate work in the broad fields of humanities, social science and science-mathematics." Not without some debate and opposition, the bill pussecL setting the ... Iage for the rapid events of the next two years. A quarler shorl With the added programs. students could complete all their college degree requirements at Portland State, except the final quarter, which had to be spent in residence at another Slate System institution. Portland State became even more attractive and viable for local degree-seeking students. and enrollments jumped from 1,663 students in 1952-53 to 3.004 in 1954-55. In 1954. the State Board took a hard look at the Portland State Center. noting its history and its strengths with a view to what a city of 100,000 might expect of a public four-year college. Portland State survived the scrutiny and the Board recommended that legislation be drafted to establish a separate institution in Portland within the state's higher education system. Both the Senate and the House were greeted in the 1955 session with bills to abolish the Portland State Extension Center and establish Portland State College, The Senate version. hacked by the Board, specified that the COllege be located in Linco[n High School and adjacent property. whereas the House version only referred to a location somewhere in the City of Portland. The House bill was tabled by the House Committee all Education, which set to work on the Senate bill. A brief amendment was drafted ~ nineteen words that shaped the character of Portland State (or years to come. The amendment read, "Portland State Co/fege_ should be a downtown city college, and shall not be if col/e&c of the campus type. .. The House then passed Senate Bill No.1, the Senate passed it, the Governor sigfled it, and on February 8, 1955, Portland State College became a reality. For those who would start this ...tory with the establishment at Vanport in 1946 of a temporary extension Center for returning veterans of World War II, il had taken a scant nine years to prove that the "college" was indeed not going to die. In fact, it lived on until 1969. when it became a university. But thaI's another story. (The source of fh,~ mMeri.J1 is .J doc/or,l! di5Q:'rt.l/lon by John A. RIchardson. enlitled "The fl"Olullon of if UniversIty: A CaS£' Study of an Or8<mi2alion .Jnd 1/5 fn"'rQnmpn/," /'I7-U Portland U N I v E R s I State T Y 1946 - 1985 After 39 years, we're baving a party. [fyou've something in common with Vanport, PSC or PSU, join us for an uncommon affair. .. , , ,an evening of music and comedy bv some of Portlahd's brightest talent -- a light buffet-- no host cocktails -- door prizes -- and an auction of selected travel packages, Rian's Atrium Restaurant 100 S.W. Market Saturday, February 23 8 p.m.-l a.m. Yes, Wild Il\{' _______ tickets al $2U m.ch fill' Unt1lnllllunly ~()()[\ liKJli ,md (-Ull'1'lnilllllt'llt. Enclosed is Ill." check for S-p. . ,y.,ble 10: I'SU I"ound:llion. Nal1le: _____________________________ AdffiT~, ______________________________ CItY:_________________State:_____Zlp:____ D3."11hom.": __________________ _________ For mort' infbnni.llivn: 229--1-91 t. PSU FOilIld/llion. (All lick!'t".11Y' I~l\ t1tductiblt' wi/lIill /c.f(.111imits.) 7
JF~Ll1llThdl@\ltli~lTh ~~~ Pledges, gifts mount as '84-85 campaign continues The telephone and the mail - the fund-raiser's best friends - were pressed into service during January as PSU Foundation staff launched phase two of the Annual Fund campaign. If they haven" already. PSU alumni will soon be hearing from the University via an evening phone call or a friendly letter. According to Development Officer Floyd Harmon ('78), the second part of the campaign is an ail-oul effort to make contact with each and every graduate known to the Foundation computer - or nearly 30,000 people. The annual phonathon and mailings follow a successful personal solicitation effort that ended in December. Volunteer fund·raisers were dispatched into the community last fall to talk with friends, alums and cor~rale representatives about Portland State's need for private support. They came back with over $27,000 in pledges and gifts to the University. Volunteers' efforts were rewarded not only with ~If~salisfaction but also with valuable prizes. Top individual fund~raiser Linnea Swanson ('78) won a nighl at Salishan Lodge on the Oregon Coast, and her team members - larry Branl ('81), Joan Johnson 8 Here is a _""I"-;....-v ,I""hlp supplement your current life insurance plan - easy, economical. Now, during a limited enrollment period, all P5U Alumni under 60 are eligible to apply and purchase $10,000 to $200,000 of term life insurance that may be continued to 7S . . . plus an equal benefit amount from $10,000 for your spouse and $5,000 for each of your dependent children. We endorse this program as one of the best group life insurance plans on the market today. Apply now! Call or write for your application. PSU ALUMNI , , , ('78), Tom Elliott ('81), and lerry Hering (,78) - divided up such spoils as dinners for two, ski lessons and a PSU blanket. The fund-raiser with the second highest individual lolal was Gcrry Craig ('66); Sheila Stephens ('77) was third, Jerry Hering fourth, and Les Morton ('80) iiflh_ They all received overnight accommodations - at hotels ranging from Portland and the Columbia River Gorge to Reno. Don Davis (,SO), Ihe lOP division chairman out of five divisions, won a trip to Kah-Nec-Ta Resort. Special thanks and a ski trip to Sunriver Resort went to campaign chair Chuck Clemans ('56). who steered the campaign to its successful conclusion. Beginning in mid-January, seven PSU ~tudents picked up where the volunteers left off and began making phone calls to alumni - to say hello, to check addresses and to ask for some help in reaching their $30,000 goal by mid-May. So far, the telephoners have raised $15,000. By now, alumni should know the story of Bethany Davis, a senior marketing student who will graduate from PSU this spring partly because of the help offered by four alumni scholarships. Bethany's story, which headlined letters that went out to alumni in late January, eloquently expressed the value of private gifts to the University. As the letter explained, public monies fund only about 1/3 of PSU's annual operating budset, with tuition providing another 113. PSU depends on private funding - donations, grants, and equipment gifts - for the other 1/3. "PSU's alumni and friends are very important to the institution," said Harmon. "They're certainly worth all the effort we're making to contact them." Nominate a talented student 00 you know a high school senior who might qualify for a Presidential Scholarship to Portland State? The Office of Student Affairs is seeking nominations for the $1,000 merit scholarships. Funded by PSU alumni and friends, the scholarships are awarded to incoming PSU freshmen and are renewable for a total of four years. To qualify, students must be graduating high school seniors attending school in Oregon or Clark County, Washington; have a grade point average of 3.5 or above; have scored 1,100 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Tesl; and be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Applications are available in high school counselors' offices or from the office of Student Affairs at PSU. AlumNotes Continued from p. 4 '74 Alam 8. Sabar 'MA) is lJfep.1ring the new west side ptanning document for V<lnlOUVel, Wa~h A5 Ihe city's associate uroon and tand-use ptanner, he recently complt1ed wOI"k on Vancoover's downtown compretwnslve plan. CarmeUa Ettinger (BA), it fonnef Portland illlorney. has joined the Nf'Wbt-fg, Ore. law firm 01 Slate Represenlahve Stiln Bunn. She was most rKenlty In practICe in the Commulllly law ()jfrce In Ponl.md Jay c. ThornOlis (65), who r(>(:eived a Ph.D. fronl the University of Akron III Ohio, opcr,1tes an tndUSlri.11 and orgimizallon(lt P\oycholotly business In Porttand, consulting for locat firms 10 help them select qUOlllfied empto't'~. '75 1;1IIlle5 It. Cl.uk (85) dnd hi) Wife M.lty o~\n .. nd operate Moe' , Warehouse ReslJurant, cslabllshed In 1981 In tm- Kotl 8u5ine\os Center iooustnal pilrk, localed In Beaverton, Ore. Among their steildy customers are memws of the 8eaver1on City Council, who often haVl' Moe's rCSl.1urant meals SCflt In during theif tong work and couru::il seision~. Mark s. Gafdiner (RS), dlrectof of Inc Crty of Portland's Office of Fisc.al Adminr)tration, W.1S cho<;en as one of Oregon's top nt'w~-mal..ers lor 1964 by reporters of The Oregon/Jn, {or hiS continuing efforts to lay the JV<lUndwork "for Ihe industrial and residential annhation~ thill help ensur@ !Porttand'~1 continued vltatlly:· '76 Pattie 8enson (85) recently returned from NE'W York afler serving as assht"nt dance choreographer to Broadway choreogr<lpher Donald I\<\cKayle. She ISCUfft'ntlv INching and t:~~t1e'~=?!~ ~~~t~"!~k~ti,~ Portland Civic Thedler. She continues to dance at Portland Stale wtth liS r(!Sidenl Iroupe. "The Company We Keep." Jan.J DftNtrtini !6A. ·81 MATI, ""00 teaches art courses for Portland-area schools and community centers. has had recent exhibitions of her art work .11 lhe National WJI~COIOi ExhibiltOO in Springfield, Itt.. the Unlve~ity of Porttand, PSU and the CtatiOp Community College An Center Gallery. OahU Gray (MBA), a professor of accounting for lhe CoUcge of Business <II Oregon St.lte University and ,1 cer1ificd public .1ccounlan!. recently glilduillOO from G(>O(ge W.1~hlnKlnn Univelsity in Washington, D.C. With ., doctorate of business administration Valertr Thibeau (8S) has tx>en named geoer<11 manager iOl" the Portland dnd $eatde offices oj Computf>f [dUc.ltion International. Shl' i1t"{, ~t'rves iI~ <1 mlrd mprnbel for the Portland ACIOJ's EnSl!'mble and Ihe Artist's Repertory Theater '78 ludith 8retnall (SA) worh a~ d jX)!.1,11 pmployet' In C{'f1\rdl FUfwilrdrng Systems. l'orll.1nd, helping to process UK' nldll c.o II W.lfht"> people <Ilthe!1 flCYo' .1(klre5SE'S_ She ha§ OIl(> d,UI~hlt"f. ('ntoys ~kling and OI_'1.."(lIepoint. and S,"g~ in a choir. Theresa Engelstad t6S) i~ the mdna~ oi the Jantz{'n Beach, Ore_ branch 01 \\iest~n Temporary Services, Inc. lea Llknide (65) h<'ls ~n fe.llured on IclevislOfi lalk shows and In newspdp€'l article.. OIround Orl'gon in rt'<CfIt months. Due to <I joh lavoff Iwo years ago. she ha5 colh_'C11.'d ~onJe 600,000 coupons for groceries and hotJ""'h"ld Items. Although sne has ~Ince found .1 new ioh, she s(11i shares her coupon-dippin~ (>Xpt'rtlSt" 10 help Individuals. grou,)<O and charltabte organilallOns ~,,-e mon<')'o '79 DOlivid J. FaUon (8S). a lertifil'fi public accountant, has acceptl"d a new JX>'>,tion as controll('f with Mincey f'r(l(tUCilonS, tnc. ••1 Portland film-making coo<crn. Robert A. leon, fOMO) fSSl ha~ I)('Mun iI mobile dental practice. He pra('ll('CS lOt half 0; his work-week in a traditional office setting 10 downtown Portland. During the othet" hati, he drives a van with special mobite dent.,l equipment 10 len nu~in!! homes in Ihe Poot.md tri-counly area, in order to Ireal p.:uients who can't eaSily le.1\·e Ihelr rooms. Robert G. M.m! (85), a U.S. otyml}l.ln fencln~ competitor from Porttand, caplured first place Jan. J3 In the North American Centennial Epee Chatlengi! fencing compclltion, held at CotOl"aoo Springs, Colo. Continued on p. 9 Grad is new zoo director Gene leo ('75) and walrus friends The animals at Portland's Washington Park Zoo are now in the hands of a man who studied biology at Portland State. Gene leo, Ir. ('75), former director of thc Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, was selected as the Portland zoo's new director lasl month in a nalionwide search involving 80 applicants. Leo follows popular zoo director Warren Iliff, who resigned last year to direct the zoo in Dallas, Texas. It is a homecoming for l eo, 35, who grew up in Portland and worked at Washington Park Zoo from 1967 to 1972 as a ticket taker, a student aide, and then an intern. Leo, who has been credited with award-winning improvements during his four years at the Tacoma zoo, also served as assistant director of a zoo in Madison, Wisconsin for a number of years. leo is known for making the animals his first priority and for creating natural zoo environments, but he has also been successful at marketing and increasing zoo attendance, Leo admits thai being director of Washington Park Zoo has been a "secret dream" of his and he is excited about joining "one of Ihe finest zoo staffs in the nation."
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