Portland State University Alumni News VANGUARD Asstml:ly GOffS Dr. Epler Elec:1td Presideat "oa, Gills s t ~ ! , AI Aduil EduCatiOD ConYI'D tive
Portland State University Alumni News Winter 1986 Inside An All-Star Event I 3 PSU invites alumni and friends to a 40th blfthday party filled with piZLaLZ Memories of Vanport I 4 S'x \Ianport Extension Center students and staff remember PSU's first campus 40 yea .. 01 great teaching I 6 Basil Dmytryshyn shmes as an outstandmll teacher dUflnS PSU's 40-year history Grooming the high school student I 7 Future college students prepare for the rigors of academic life In search of homeles. women I 8 PSU students examine 'he ',ves of Portland', homeless ~ " , " O m e n Serving the visually impaired I 12 Grace E. Hobbs Center provides innovative equipment and training for visually impaIred students and community members AlumNotes I 10 Foundation New. I 11 Campus New. I 12 Calendar I 15 tivc Vanport students relax between classes at PSU's first campus. Van port Extension CenterPSU's tenacious first campus led the way by Clarence Hein It was "The College That Would Not Die," and it was born in Portland in the spring of 1946. Two years later, Vanport Extension Center was washed downstream by the disastrous 1948 flood, but the momentum generated by Portland State University's first faculty and student body could not be contained. World War II had been over less than a year and across the country men and women were trying to step back into their lives interrupted by the war. For many, education was high on the agenda and 36,000 certificates of eligibility for GI education benefits were issued that year in Oregon alone. By 1947, 1.1 million veterans would be in colleges across the United States. There simply was no way ~ x i s t i n g educational institutions could absorb the post-war crush. In Oregon, there was no public higher education institution in the state's population center where the majority of returning veterans congregated. They wanted classes located near jobs and housing for their families. The existing extension service was tapped to take up the slack and provide temporary lower-division courses in Portland. Students would have to transfer elsewhere to complete their degrees. Campus on the Cutting Edge Attention then turned to the question of a physical structure - a place for classes and a supply of low-cost housing. The answer to that question put Portland in the forefront of higher education in 1946. The end of the war meant not only abrupt change for the Gl's, but also the end of thousands of defense-related jobs, including those at shipbuilding facilities in Portland. The government had built an enormous public housing project in 1942-43 for shipyard workers in North Portland near the Columbia River. At one point, 50,000 people lived in Vanport, making it Oregon's second most populous city. With the end of the war, the shipyards closed and many workers vacated their Vanport housing. Steven Epler, veterans' counselor at the State System of Higher Education, viewed the waning Vanport as an opportunity and suggested its use for the extension center. Some of the buildings already were dismantled and en route to other West Coast campuses. Why not, he reasoned, retain some of the buildings and use them? The plan was presented to the State Board in March, 1946, and by June, the first classes were called to order with 221 students in summer session. Of those first students, 208 were veterans, 31 of them disabled. 8y September, enrollment had swelled to more than 1,400. High-Spirited Campus There was a dominant pirit among the students, faculty and families of Vanport. While studies came first (engineering and business were the most popular fields), there also was time for social life, jobs, families and campus activities. A student newspaper, The Vanguard, edited by a blind veteran, Don Carlo, began publishing almost with the first week of classes. There were also clubs, dances, and athletics. Continued on page 3
Abbott and Casperson win OSSHE excellence awards Two PSU facull) m e m b e ~ ""ere .1nlOOg ~ e n t e e n In"rueror. In the SlalE" Sy\lem of Higher Education 10 be seleclcd (Of Faculiy hccllcnce Award.. this )ear ear' Abbott Urban Studies and Planning. and lee C a s p e r ~ o n . Electrtcal Engineering. were selected for the .1W.1rd5 by a 5e\en'll1ember commlUee representing the Slale Board of Higher Education and the c h a f l ( . e l l o r ' ~ office. AbIx>t1 and Casperson \\rho were chosen on the l.wiis 01 their r e ~ a r c h aCII\;lIles, each ",II reocel\e a SS.OOO salol,) Increase relroactl\E" 10 Ja.sl Sept Abbon, head of the Deporlmen. of Urban S I U ( h ~ and PJ.1oOlng. has laught 011 PSU since 1978. His r ~ a K h on the C l t ~ of Portldod has resulted In three recent b o o k ~ . PonliJnd· Gareuay 10 the ,'forth\\<esI. Por,'.lnd· PI.mnms .mci Grou·rh In ;I Twentieth Century City. and The Gre.H f\trdvdgiJnza: P o r t l i l n d ' ~ LewIs ,mel Clark EXpoSition. Abbo" al<;() \'\fltes a column about Portland fOf The BIII";/n(><-; Journal. CunE-nth· Abbott is working on a b o o ~ entitled The Modem Amcnc.n 01}' 1920-1980. as \\ell a ~ artldes on !tUburbamzation 1(1 the sunbeh and a hlstonographic tooJ,. at ClUes and regions. Active in the community, Abbon is serving on a City Club committee on the future of library services in the metropolitan area Casperson came 10 PSU from UCLA in 1983 a§ professor of electrical engrneeflrlg. With a grant from the g : : : s o ~ i ~ T : l h : ~ , ~ ; ~ i u m , labora.QIY In .he School of Engineering and Applied SCIence. The lab. which h o u ~ dye. carbon dIOXide, %eoon. helium neon. dod argon I ~ . IS u ~ for insuuction and research. A maJOr three-.,ear grant IS247,866) (rom the aftonal Science Foundation iOi enabling Casperson to study Ihe nalural Instabilily of xenon lac;erli. His research could .:ud In the manufacture oj lasers and could lead to new and Improved U5e'i for v . u H ) U ~ lao;.el"S. Interim editor produces Perspective ThiS I"Sue and the ne,,1 of PSU f\or5OtXl/\ e are being pl'odu( ed under the directIOn of inteflm Mllor Kutlm Smith. A. Portland lreelaoce 'o\nler and editor, Smith h.b " ( ) ( ~ e d on alumn. publKdtlOO" at the Uni\lerslt\ 01 Oregon. h o l ~ written and photogr.lphed fcature<t in NorthwC'St magazinco;, and proc.iuuxl publiciltlons {or organizatIons In EugefK> and Portland. ~ ' / ~ e e<hlOr C)nthhl Stowell letters Relevant article I w i 1 ~ reading my Alumm ' l e w ~ this morning and was impressed wuh " Profile'· on page ) I"Symbols 01 racism help define pl'ors mlsstOn". I v.'OUld like 10 share thiS artIcle With other p.lrentslteacher!l on the Benson-Grant Cluster Citizens Advlwry Commrnce. Portland PubliC Schools are currentlv introdUCing multicultural educahoo IOto the CUrriculum thiS arllde )eetm qUIte rclC'tant. Mrs. DorOlhv GodI"'l' '84 Ponland Oregon Symbol of racism The stor, • ·S)mbol, 01 rae."" help defule pt'of's mission", was \-cry ~ ~ ~ h n ~ 8 : ~ J ~ h u e c : ~ ~ ~ ~ h : h : ~ I "aOin', even aware of on a conscious level. Thanlo. you. Darrell \1.11"", Block Sludoes Depc _ 2 PSU i'P,spea"., Win leI 1986 will return to the! publlcaflon Ihls ~ m m c r lollowlng a p.lrtlalleave to complete \\ OI"k on a book about the people OJ the Warm S P f i n ~ Indian R"",r.a••oo, The b o o ~ ".11 be pubh4hed by lhe Oregon HIe;.loncal Society prpss. This issue oi Perspective features PSU's first campus, the V.mporl EXlemion Center From It.. fir"l days, 10 the flood, Vanport w a ~ a unique leamlng center olnd ell.penmenl in h.gher educaUon Future Issues or ~ P E ' t t l \ t ' v ; i I I examine the fifties. ""lips .md 5e\--enrlf!S at PSU. btmgmg readers up 10 the eighties. 11 IS time to celebrate 40 ~ ' e a r s of great educallon mrr ~ r s p e c t i v e PSU ~ l S p u b i k h e d ~ d u r l n & l M ) a l " b ' t ' N f o o r o ' I " ~ 5 t M c : l ! I 5 k w .um,. I.cwIty_,IJ/IMdlnlndJoIf'Qtd..t -- . . . . , . . & I i I o r " " ' I ' " ~ c ~ a - . . - . t - t N ' i t . S C l I f ~ ( ' n f N i l O ~ ~ c..-. (;ito, P. "oil a-. .. ..w.-: s-t ... ,.....net old ......... I ' S t . I ~ P O .. -:SI. ~ S U I r ~ ~ . ~ "101 ' ~ " ~ D _ f t ~ l o l ' O W t o n O ' ~ I t r . . n o no Ionfl' nyjllCO!ll"'. penNtom ~ I I Y O U ' h o m e . l ) I N . w n o o t y l h c ! PSlJ Alumni OffIce i5O)..129....948) 01 tht __ nwiht\(! - PSU ~ ~ «kallOMl opponuMy" 'MChouI ~ ID tb 'Ke Nndiap. .. ~ G r l P ' - ~ ..... ( I t ~ Blumel to leave presidency Portland Stilte Unn,er\lf>; President lowph C. Blumel has announced that he ~ III leave the prestden<-) ot ,he Untverslt) at the end of 1CJ86. In iI letter distributed to Uni\(.'fsrl), iCKull" and "aff. PSU', fourth PI'",oden' Indl ared that the Stale Boord of Higher Education Will soon Initiate d search for a new PSU president. May 1986 will mark Blumel's 12th year as presidenl of Portland Siale. In his lener, he inditated that was "a tenure substantially longer than I had Intended \\-hen I .1Sl.Umed offke. He potnted out ho\\e\ef that he befle\-ed the ~ m l ( ' ~ OT the Insttlutlon were sened by a continuity of leadership during the pettod of strained financial circum\tances whIch the Uni\lef"Slty faced over the past c;.e-\.er-al years "That period Blume' \aid. .O()\\ appears to be behmd us. The fast legislative session pro\llded Significant budget improvement and dIrected the re·e)l.O)minallon of our msliluhonal mi,slon. an exercise which I am confident Will resuh 10 a rcc;umpliOfl of our development. partlcularl" in graduate eduColtion and re!learch. "For t ~ reason,. It o;eerm all appropri.lte tnne to .K{ede to m\ d e s i r ~ and lholle 01 m\' lam") that I assume a Klflle\"hat less tJemamilng role." Blumel e x p r e s ~ appreciation to the members of the- iacuhy and \taft for .their. sacrifices and ~ p p o r t . ''ThiS Un ....er!»lt)' has come a \ef")' long way," he concluded "It has )-et a long way to go to fulfill the dream all of us have had. I will leave office WIth admiration and affection for those I have been privileged 10 IoC'rve. with great satisfaction in all we together ha\'e so far accomplished. and 'Aith urxhm'OIshed enthusiavn and confidence In the if1e\;lrabie realization of that dream. " An economist, Blumel earned B.S. and M.A. degrees from the University of ebraska and a Ph.D. from the Universll)-· of Oregon. He came to PSU m 1957 a ~ an ,rbtructor In economiCS. a d v ~ n c l O g through theacademIC ranke;. to p r o i e 5 ~ r and aCllng department head He served as dean of underWildu.a,e !tludies, associate dean of facultlcs, and \ Ic.e p r ~ i d e n t of ollJdemic aff.ws pnor 10 hiS appointment as president in 1974. He said he Will .lnnounce his plane. lor future actlvlllC"S laler Ihie;. vear Valentines As simple as ABC This year gi\'t' PSl' Alumni Benefils Canis. Your famik and friends "iU .hank I'OlI all year long for Ihese .pecral gifts: • Sports and f'f"Creillion • P. . uiUn.1( p m i l E ' p ; ~ • Library pm;legc:. • Olscoun,!-on ~ i < I 1 . • Insurance lx'lwlil:o; c u h u r ~ l l :IIIU .. Ihlclic • Trm'e! p r o ~ a m s f . " \ " t ~ n l ! ; Order ~ ' o u r \'alenlin(.\ gins 1000y... m. ~ l I n p l e as calling 229-49-18. ABC Cm"Cb - onered onl)· lO PSl' Alumni. PSU ALUMNI PROGRAMS P,o . Box 752 • Portland, Oregon 9 7 2 0 ~ (503) 229-4948
Much more than a flood - Vanport evolved into PSU Vdnport City, .J wartime housing project dnd site of PSU's first Cdmpus Continued irom page 1 On paper, the school was a " t e m p o r a r y ' ~ extension program, but to the siudents, iaculty and, eventually. to the community, it was "Vanporl College." They began lobbying for permanent status before the first pop quiz had been graded. The average age of those f r e s h ~ n and sophomore students was over 24 years. They were experienced adults who weren't ready to lake "no" for an answer whether it was the Board of Higher Education, the Veterans' Administration, or Congress. Foxholes and Calion Ball, When threats were made to the housing allowance, a subsidy which enabled many students to live in Vanport housing, the ex-GI's broke out their trenching tools and dug foxholes on the campus, vowing to move into them if housing was eliminated. It was not. When Congress discussed a reduction in educational benefits, Van porters sent cartons of cotton snowballs to Washington, D.C., with the message, "Without our educational benefits, we won't have the chance oi a snowball in hell of finishing school." Bul fighting the bureaucracy was child's play compared with saving the school following the devastating Columbia River nood of May 30, 1948. Many Vanporters lost their homes and personal possessions along with most of the college's equipment, books and papers as a wall of water swept the campus away. But within a few weeks, the school reopened at a new location, the old Oregon Shipyards, thanks to the tenacity and resourcefulness of the faculty, administration and students, and leaders from the Portland community who were taking up the fight for Ihe fledgling institution of higher education. Immediately following the Oood, the State Board was told by the chancellor that it might be a good time to eliminate the school altogether, concentrating limited resources on the campuses in Eugene and Corvallis. But in 1949, the State legislature, using a bill drafted by Vanport student John Hakanson, the future president of Clackamas Community College, made Vanporl a permanent l o w e r ~ d i v i s i o n center. "The College That Would Not Die" The college had caught the imaginations of many people. The Christian Science Monitor published a national story about Vanport's post-flood resurrection, dubbing it "The College Thai Would Not Die." U.s. Secretary of labor Maurice Tobin said it as "the most thrilling story" he had ever heard. The national publicity helped establish support for Vanport and contributed to the rebuilding effort. With the exception of the 92 books that were in circulation at the time, the entire college library was wiped out. Within a year, more than 3,500 volumes were in the new college library, nearly half donated by other libraries and individuals, induding author Pearl S. Buck, who autographed the books she sent. Four years after the flood and the move 10 the shipyards site, the school moved again, this time 10 its permanent home in the old Uncoln High School building on the present campus in downtown Portland. More years of struggle would follow beiore a four-year Portland State College became reality in 1955. Ef(orts included contmual lobbying by the college, community and business interests: editorial support from newspapers; and the continued demonstratIon of need. Finally, on February 4, 1955, Portland Stale College was signed into official existence by Govemor Paul Patterson. More than 3,300 students were enrolled al PSC in 1955 and thousands more had attended classes during its; first nine years of operation. Since the first graduating class in 1956, more than 42,000 degrees have been granted and enrollment remains strong. The seeds planted by Steven Epler and the first students and faculty in 1946 had weathered nine years of germination, sending out roots deep into the Portland community, and had begun to grow into the Vigorous urban university of tooay. Obviously, they had chosen fertile ground. All-star event caps Portland State's 40th birthday celebration Question: How often do you celebrate your 40th year? Answer: Only once, so do it right. Portland State's alumni and friends will have the chance to do it right on Friday night, feb. 28, from 8 p.m. to midnight, in the Smith Center Ballroom at the PSU 40th Year A I I ~ S t a r Event. This occasion promises to be the biggest anniversary celebration in Portland State's history with special events and reunions, public recognition of PSU, and, of course, the All-Star Event on Feb. 28. The celebration WIll feature host Paul linnman, from KATU's Two at Four, comedian Brian Bressler, and an a/l·star band of PSU alumni. An auction/ with auctioneer Gene Reynolds, is planned along with special prizes. Tickets for the A I I ~ S t a r Event are available from the PSU Foundation (229-49111 al $15 each. Group' may reserve eight.place tables by callin& early. The Friday nighl party will cap a series of activities including recognition of PSU by government and local media, an exhibit of PSU's history and groundbreaking for the new $7 million School of Business Administration. Several groups have expressed interest in gathering prior to the A I I ~ S t a r Event for reunions. Groups may contact Robert Tayler in Alumni Affairs (229-4948) for reunion space in Smith Center. The All-Star Event will take place in the Ballroom under a canopy o( stars. Ught hors d'oeuvres will be served and a variety of beverages will be available. free covered parking will be available In PSU parking structures. The P5U All-Stars will provide music featuring tunes from the past 40 years, from nostalgia to now, (or listening and dancing. Comedian Brian Bressler will provide a capsule version of PSU's 40 years. February 26 is sure to be remembered as an AU·Star evening at PSU and tickets will be limited. So, dust off your g r e e n ~ a ( \ d ~ w h i t e , call your classmates, and reserve your place al the All-Star Event now. PSU Perspective, Wi",er 1986 I "... 3
Memories of Vanport Vanporters remember the first years of PSU from 1946 to 1948 Interviewed by Katlin Smith lucille Walker, Vanport staff LW: One reason we came to Vanporl was because my husband wanted to go to Oregon Stale bUI we couldn't find housing out there because we had two boys. The walls were paper thin. We aU had to sleep in one bedroom SO we had bunkbcds for the boys and then finally they leI us have two bedrooms. OW: When the flood came it washed all the walls oul in ber.veen so you could see how it was buill. They iust collapsed. They were made oul of that fiberboard and it just melted. I was 26 and I gal oul of high school when I was 17 so it was nine years since I'd been in school. The hardest part was the mathematics. LW: Dick Walton, who taught physics and Don Parker, who was in business administration - Bill was older than they were. BW: We didn't have any classrooms so I took chemistry over at [he dental school by lloyd Center. And then I went over to Benson High School and had some lab courses in electronics and electrical engineering. We were going all over. We had 10 gel our own way over there. Very few of the guys had cars so anybody who had a car, we'd scrounge enough money to buy him gasoline and he'd haul us around. The physics book was loose-leaf. It hadn't been printed even. It was just stapled together. The p a ~ 4 1 PSU Perspective, Winter 1986 Bill Walker, Vanport student high schools were better outfitted than we were. lW: In one section of the business office we were in a little building so that if somebody closest to the window wanted to gel up and go out the door, everybody had to scoot their chair forward. We were so packed in that we were just desk¥to-desk and chair-to--chair. BW: The original faculty were spedal people. They really were. Dr. Epler and Phil Putnam and Dr. Black and Dick Halley and Don Parkeryou just couldn't have asked for a more dedicated bunch of people. lW: BiH was working as a janitor and we knew the (flood) water was getting high and the Housing Authority assured us that they would notify us by sirens to get out. Well, it never happened. They found out that the Housing Authority was moving out their records and so the college decided that they better start moving their records. BW: We walked clear around the dikes and those dikes were just trembling they were so water soaked. Lucille and I were down at the college helping them load equipment in trucks and the dike broke so we ran home. We gathered everything we thought we could. lW: I had a brand new sewing machine and we didn't take much out but we took thai sewing machine. I'd saved my money to buy that machine! I packed my mother and my Persian cat and jumped in the car and drove out from Iowa City to Vanporr... M)' (Vanport) library al that time consisted of a big, leftover, unabridged dictionary of no standard brand that somebody had left around. Of course it was practicall), impossible to get books. The service had had Ihe monopoly of all the books althat time so they hadn't been printed. o We ran literally from 7 in the morning until 10 at night b e c a u ~ we didn't have space and because some of the men had jobs. .My first library was a little bigger than my dinette, but not much....(Just) my unabridged dictionary to begin with and then the next thing I remember gelling, the text for psychology, was a Munn. Munn was also used at the University of Oregon and we hadn't been able to gel them. Then the University of Oregon had 50 extra and they condescended to send us some for the library... This was their text. I would line them (the students) up and find out where they lived and they got the book. One would gel it Friday night, the night I was dishing them out. They had to promise to pass it on [0 another one on Saturday. The Saturday one had [0 promise 10 pass it on to the Sunday one and the Sunday one brought it back on Monday. They used to get pretty annoyed bUi I would say, "Well, better to have it for 24 hours than not at all." o (When the Vanport flood washed away the campus, Dr. Black was 0 0 the East Coast attending a library convenr;on.) Our name was Vanport Extension Center and that was what I had on my name card at the convention. Pearl Buck was one of the speakers... She wanted to know if it (Van port) was going 10 re-start and I said I didn't know, that I hadn't heard that, and she said thai if they did re-open and I would let her know, she would have sent to me a copy of everyone of her books that was in print. And she did it. She autographed them. o We had a lot of fun. I think we should have a club called "The Antediluvians" for the first generation before the flood people... "the creme de la creme." We went through some wild times.
Larry Swann, V ~ n p o r t student We were allotted iust so much as veterans to go to college. The week after we received our checks, we were broke. So what we did is on payday, we would pool all our money and go down and buy groceries and thai is actually how the Bachelors (Club) got started. We started together to help each other. .We would just throw stews and canned corn, just throw it all in one pol and cook it most of the time. Some of it came Qut good; some came out bad. The price was right. o I have never seen (acuity and students get along better than Vanport. When we had a dance, they all came. Of course, when the Bachelors had a dance, everybody came. Dr. George Hoffmann Vanport and PSU professor People don't realize it but Vanport was a complete city. It had theatres, schools, recreation halls, nurseries, water towers, shopping centers, post office. The majority of the people lived around campus. Where could you register 10 go to college in 1946 and 1947 and get a place 10 live and a nursery to lake care of your children if you were married? Housing was very, very difficult In fact, my wife and I couldn't get married until we found an apartment. This was a godsend to anybody who wanted to go to college, plus the G.!. Bill of Rights gave us money for books and tuition, There was no w a ~ ' 1 could have gone without Vanport. · •• 1 think it's fair to say they (Vanport students) were one-uf-a-kind in terms of generations. And certain characteristics about them made you aware that they were unique. First, they were all in a hurry. This generation had lust anything from one to five years of their l i v e ~ in the military and they never expected to... So the .lftlfude - "we've got to gel on with our lives." · ..Then they were a ch€1l1enge to the tcachers. They would not tolerate any fogging or any winging it in class. They picked it up almost immediately if you tried it. And we all tried it. I tried it probably as much as anybody because I wflS usually one lecture behind. But if I went down a road thaI was Just pure iluflery, nothing substantial about ii, I h e ~ ' were not above standing III place and saying, "Mr. Hoffmann, let'o; get ~ ) d c k to the good stuff," and sometimes they were very polite about it and sometimes they .....ere very abrupt. But, in any case, they didn't want you to waste their time further. · ..And, if course, we could speak a little bit about the maturing process of four or five years in the Army or Navy or Marine Corps. They came as very definitely young men, not graduating teenagers. We all got along very well, I remember that. We had so much in common. Margaret Cass Gottlieb Vanport staff and instructor The money that was appropriated for Vanport Extension Center by the State Board - Ihe first check drawn on that money was my first paycheck. When I went to work for Steve (Epler) it was in May of 1946... I was his " Girl Friday," I guess. .•. 1 came down and did everythinganswered the phone, wrote his leiters. He said, after we get going, I want you to teach English. We just had an office, period. o Everything was a first. It was all pioneering in a sense. I fell that, and I think that everybody who knew Dr. Epler felt, that he was a rare man. I've often said that while people were figuring out I<>day's problems, he'd already solved them and was anticipating the next set. He made the school. If we hadn't had a man of his dynamism, it would have folded. It might have folded several times, especially after the flood. The feeling that the Board had at that time was, "Well, Portland certainly doesn't need a school. We've got Oregon. We've got Oregon Slate. Let's just drop it." But he kept it going... And, of course, we old Vanporters were delighted when it was made a permanent part of the state system. o I'm a graduate of the University of Oregon and I had some friends on the faculty who used to get me in the corner and say, "Now Margaret, w h a t ' ~ reafly going on up there?" Some people ~ u s t didn't understand that we were a legitimate Institution. o Some of my funniest memories of Vanport ar" about Bill lemman. I can remember Bill, he was a student coming into the office. There was one girl working there who he was p a r t i c u l a r l ~ ' attracted to, and he used to come in and sit on her desk and I'd have to say, "Bill, now go on to class." And to think now Ihat he's the vice chancellor! o Steve used to call me "The Midwife of Portland State." He was the father and I was the midwife. PSU Perspective, Winter '986 II»Be 5
From Poland to Portland Scholar brings international insights. to Portland State by Cynthia D. Stowell Tucked away in the mind of a university presIdent is the image of the ideal faculty member. There is always the hope thai the candidate walking into the next interview will possess all the desired trails: effective teaching, prolific publishing, loyalty to the University and an international reputation. The university student also harbors an image of the ideal professor: well-prepared, knowledgeable, respected in his field, stimulating and personally interested in each student. Every term, the slUdent hopes a person fitting that description will walk through the classroom door. Such a man walked onlo the Portland State campus in 195& and he's been exceeding the expectations of the academic community ever since. Basil Dmytryshyn, it professor of history for 30 years and now an associate director of PSU's International Trade and Commerce Institute, has earned scholarly distindion for himself and for the university he chose as his base. last May, Dmytryshyn was selected for the 1985 Branford Price Millar Award for Faculty Excellence, a prestigious prize named for PSU's second presiden!. A file of supporting letters from colleagues and former slUdents tells Dmytryshyn's story well. The professor fills in the details. "...a truly distinguished faculty member whose well-rounded efforts have advanced the quality of this institution through its formative years." - Victor C. Dahl. Director, Office of Graduate Studies and Research It took some vision on the part of Dmytryshyn and his contemporaries. When the 31-year-old historian, his Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley still fresh, came to interview at Portland State College, lincoln Hall was Ihe whole campus. "It's easy to start working in a place that someixx:ly else has built up," S.Jid Dmytryshyn. "It's a challenge to build something oul of nothing. This was the challenge of a lifetime." Dmytryshyn feels it was a successful experiment. ''I'd say we made great progress in a short time with limited resources - except the desire to show that we were capable." When Dmytryshyn retires in 1988, it will be from, in his words, "a healthy, respectable and nationally known institution with nationally and internationally known faculty." And he will have the satisfaction of knowing he was par! of the process. ~ 6 1 PSU P e r s p e c t ; v e ~ Winter 1986 Bdsil Dmytryshyn, pro fessor of history at PSU since r 956, captures the drama of the years leiJding up to World War lI;n a recent lecture. The Polish-born professor was an eyewitness to the Europeoln events he brings to life in his "History of World Wolf II" course. "He came to the United States in 1946 with great courage and optimism and no worldly goods. Nine years later he had earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D., was a citizen and already well.launched into a most distinguished career." - LA.P. Crownhart-Vaughan, former student, Coordinator of Foreign Archives at the Oregon Historical SOCiety Born in Poland in 1925, Dmytfyshyn had his education interrupted by World War 11 and then had his freedom interrupted when he was arrested by the Germans just before Christmas in years of great teaching 1943. He escaped to Czechoslovakia, where he joined the anti-German "Slovak Partisans." When the Russians arrived, he was arrested again. ("I don't know for sure why.") Not wanting to go to Siberia, Dmytryshyn escaped again, this time to the U.S. Embassy in Prague, where he failed to win passage to America, and then to the American zone in Germany, where he received the necessary papers from his father, who was already in Ihe U.S. His mother and sister had perished as a result of the war, 50 Dmytryshyn looked .III his trip to America as "going home." The stuff of adventure films, Dmytryshyn's months of flight had been taxing mentally and physically. There was no bellying under barbed wire fences or creeping from farmyard to farmyard, but there were some hair-raising rides on the tops of trains. "Tunnels were difficult," he smiled. The young Dmytryshyn had to be wily. "Traveling without a suitcase and giving the impression you know where you are, it's always easy to get 1051 in a crowd," he confided. Unable to find food regularly, Dmylryshyn was a mere 95 pounds when he arrived in New York. But his father had a good job, and Basil could afford to put off working and finish his education. First, he went 10 night school to learn English, and then he sel off for Arkansas, where he felt sure he wouldn't run into people with whom he could speak any of the several European languages he knew. It was at the University of ArkanS.Js that Dmytryshyn, who started oul in pre·med, was convinced by a mentor Ihal "history should be my beat." He had already lived a bit of history; now he wanled to make a career of studying it. And he had learned something important during his war years. "If gave me a different perspective on life," he said. "Only when you lose freedom do you appreciate what freedom is." Dmytryshyn has spent the last 35 years examining a country where freedom is not defined in the way we Americans take for granted. That country is the Soviet Union. "Any serious student of Russian history knows at least some of his many publications in this field, and he is universally respected for the high quality of his work." - Jim Heath, history professor Four of Dmytryshyn's dozen books on Russia, including A History of Russia, are used as college texts throughout the English-speaking world. USSR: A Concise History is currently being translated into Korean. The man who declined to go to Siberia and has never visited Ine Soviet Union since has become, nevertheless, a recognized authority on the huge, enigmatiC nation. "My views of the Soviet Union have been shaped by the great teachers at the scnools I've attended, but also by the broad spectrum of reading I've done in various languages," he explained. Dmytryshyn has a working knowledge of Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Continued on p a g ~ 14
Grooming the high school student for college by Bob Mullin They all choose Portland State University: - Minority students in Portland middle schools and high schools who want to enrich themselves in the f r e q u e n t l y ~ n e g l e c t e d fields of engineering and science in preparation for college. - Children of low-income families or of parents who never earned a college degree, seeking educational assistance as they attend high school to prepare them for further education. - Academically gifted high school seniors who can', wait for college and elect to earn credit for coursework taken in their high school classrooms. Such diverse groups of students are the benefactors of a series of special programs offered by Portland Stale to help groom high school students and others (or a college experience. Behind these programs rests a philosophy, as expressed by Forbes Will iams, Dean of Undergraduate Studies: "Because we are the kind of university we are, located where we are, we have the need, most of us think, to offer all sorts of programs to assist certain groups of students." Williams says such programs exist despite a move by the State Board of Higher Education several years ago, during the severest period of budget cu tbacks, 10 eliminate remedial course work at the state's universities. "/ want to be sure certain students are not arbitrarily excluded. " Of course, at the same time, the state board instituted new requirements that upgraded courses Oregon high school students have to take to be admitted to state colleges and universities. Beginning in the fall of 1985, in order to qualify to enler Portland State, students had to achieve at least a 2.5 grade point average and complete 14 required units in the specific college preparatory Course areas - English (4 units), mathematics (4 units), science (2 units), social studies (3 units), other college prep courses \2 units). Williams says he is a "strong supporter" of the new requirements. "This last group o( incoming students" - the first required to meet the new admission standards - "is the best we've ever had," he acknowledgt."S. However, Williams also has a concern. "I want to be sure certain students are not arbitrarily excluded when they could be successful, too," he says. He fears the removal of remedial classes cou(d do just that. Voicing il similar sentimenl is Oreilia Forbes, Vice President for Student Affairs. "I have great concern Rid St.olnf>k, a graduatf> sfudent in psycholog)', ' u ' o ~ Damon P a ~ o n s , a sophomore al Milwaukie High SchooL in the subject of geograph y as pari of r!Je, Upward Bound program atPSU. about any threats to programs," she says. "There's a great need - greater than we are able to meet at this time, especially in urban areas ... with a high number of minorities and low incomes." she says. Science for minorities One program Forbes says she feels "very excited" about is a new one which began only last summer. Called MESA (mathematics, engineering and science achievement), the program is designed to increase the numbers of blacks, hispanics and American Indians in fields traditionally underrepresented by such groups. Chik Erzurumlu, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science which oversees MESA, says it is based on a program that began in Caliiornia in 1970 and achieved '·an excellent track record" by providing such services as tutoring, study groups, field trips, advising and awards to minorities. "The goal is to help these minorities to gain additional background at the middle school and high school levels so they won" need remedial help and in fact will have more than average skills when they enter college," says Erzurumlu. Supported by grants from private industry as well as PSU and the Portland School District to the tune of $200,000, MESA involves 200 students at present and the plan is to gradually expand the program. A boost into college Two federally funded programsBOOST Educational Talent Search and Upward Bound - "have been quite effective," according to f o ~ s , in encouraging low-income students and/or those whose parents did not attend collegt' to continue their education. Each year BOOST reaches perhaps 700 IXltenlial college students in the Portland area who are not presently in high school, offering information and counseling designed to encourage their interest in college. Perhaps half this number eventually attends college, and about 70 choose Portland State. Unlike BOOST, Upward Bound serves needy high school students and offers tutoring, counseling and group meetings to help them succeed academically and prepare them fOT a college education. About 40 participate in the PSU program. Challenging the gifted student Not all programs are designed for students needing special assistance. The Challenge Program is one offered to the most talented and gifted students in high school. A self-supporting program, Challenge provides high school seniors carrying at least 3.0 grade point averages and the recommendations of their high school teachers with an opportunity to eam college credit for taking university-level courses in high school. An average of 500 students in Portland metropolitan area high schools annually take advantage of the program which offers coursework in computer science, economics, English, f o r e i ~ n languages, history, mathematics ~ / 1 d education from PSU-approveC! hIgh school instructors. "Students enrolled in the program found it really helped prepare them for the pace of a college class," says Challenge Coordinator Karen Tosi. "These students t}'pically elected to stay in c o l l e ~ e the entire four years rather than finish early and, as a result, they were able to take more elective courses. AI!>O, because they had earned college credit in high school, they were able to take lighter course loads their freshman year." Saturday Academy Similarly challenges junior and senior high students with minicourses in high technology and related fields. PSU is one of several colleges and universities supplying instructors and classrooms for Saturday Academy, says board member William Paudler, Dean of PSU's College of liberal Arts and Sciences. Other programs that assist students in making the transition to college academics include: - A summer coUege preparatory class taught by Bob Vieira, Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs, which is offered to entering freshmen to orient them to PSU and college life and \0 improve their reading, writing and study skills. Vieira says about 70 students participated last year and he is hoping for more in 1986. - A series of eight monthly chemistry symposiums for high school students and teachers on subjects designed to enrich the high school chemistry curriculum and interest students in pursuing a college program. Assistant chemistry professor William Becker, who helps run the program, says about 60 students and 20 teachers are participating this year. " . . . it really helped them prepare for the pace of a college class." - A "women and math" lecture program involving 15 to 20 visits by PSU faculty to public schools and a career day event at PSU involving 200 junior and senior high school students. "The program is designed to encourage students, especially young women, to take math and science Courses and keep their career options open," says PSU math professor Marge Enneking, who serves as coordinator of the program. Even with all these programs to meet a wide assortment of needs and interests, Williams says, as could be expected, that not everyone is satisfied with the abilities of entering PSU students. "People complain about the writing that students do when they come from high school," he says. "The truth of the matter is, we have a large number of students who do very well in writing. It's just that we're attempting to offer the opportunity of an education to as many people as can take advantage of it. Once you do thatr you must take into account the fact that some students are less motivated than others, that the whole range of intellectual abilities is involved. "We have a large group of people who didn't go to coJlese who now do. That's because we're not freezing them out. We believe everybody should have a shot. " (Bob Mullin is a freelance writer in Portland and a frequent contributor to Perspective. He is also a former PSU student.) PSU Perspective, Winter 19861 page 7
They walked the streets. They frequented emergency rooms. They lingered in rundown, residential hotels. Eighteen PSU graduate students in the School of Social Work left their safe, dry classroom for the streets and social service agencies of Portland in February, 1985. One month laler, they had gathered valuable data on 190 homeless women. But beyond statistics, the study provided insights into the lives of the women, dispelling public myths and raising the consciousness of the students in the process. "There have been very few studies of homeless women," Sandra Anderson, professor of social work, points out. Most research focuses on homeless men and is often collected at a single site such as a lemjXlrary shelter. Previous research on Portland's homeless population, also conducted by PSU students, studied primarily males. Advance work for the new study began in thc fall of 1984 when Anderson and lynn Hingson ('63), program manager with the Multnomah County Department of Human Services, modified a Questionnaire previously used by Anderson while studying women on the Bowery in New York City. Groundwork also included contact with 75 Portland social service agencies. By the time registration opened for "Homeless Women," Anderson's seminar was filled with graduate students anxious to move into the community for research. Students were assigned to a variety of agencies. Some were on 24 hour alert, wearing pagers to announce the arrival of potential interviewees. Other students formed "street teams" and wandered the avenues of the Burnside Community in search of interviews... "Can I buy you a cup of coffee?" was a standard introduction for ina Geller, who was ~ 81 PSU Perspective. Winter' 986 In Search of Homeles PSU graduate students in social work con on the streets of Portlan Photos by R. M. Collins III, © 1985 pari of a street team. After initial ice·breaking protocol in the warmth of a coffee shop, she sometimes spent more than an hour pursuing data ranging from age and marital status to sexual abuse history and mental health concerns. But beyond Questionnaires and hard data, the students were drawn into the stories of the womens' lives. "I was louched by everyone I interviewed," Geller says. "My perspective changed every week." She was oot alone. "My consciousness was certainly raised," ~ y s Tome Bce ('76, '85 MSW), now a social worker at 51. Vincent Hospital in Portland. "I think the tragedy of the situation became more real for me. " Doe was student coordinator of the project with Sharon Smith ('85 MSWj. "There was less alcoholism than I thought," says Smith, a family counselor with Youth Adventures in Portland. "There is a major conception that everyone on Burnside is a drunk and that's not what we found at all." "II was a major event that had put them on the street," she elaborates. loss of spouse, families, children or parents by divorce or death was often mentioned. Smith found that there was a fine line between having a permanent shelter and living on the streets_ "In the same situation, without support, I could have been them," she says. The students were as likely to have stereotypes about homeless people as the general public, according to Anderson, who saw the attitudes of her students change during the research proJcct. "Their notion radically changed during the course of the study," she says, "I think they were put much more in touch with the reality of Ihe current-day homeless." The study revealed a number of findings which contradict the stereotype of the h o m c l e s ~ person as a white, chemically dependent, single male, characteristics of the pre- 1970 homeless population, Anderson says. "I think that is still what people's stereotypes are, that you go down there and really dig around to find the women. That's not so. They are there and they are there with children." Anderson and her class nOI only found women without homes, but also subjects who were very willing to discuss their situations. "Many of thes interviews lasted much longer than we
ss Women nduct timely research and n, e es of t. of ~ e en ry ese Story by Katlin Smith anticipated because they were 50 eager to talk," she states. The interviews revealed a number of significant findings, including a fairly young average age (32 years), substantial histones of residency in the Portland area, and high incidences of physical and sexual abuse. "Most people expect that the homeless people are drifters and, in fact, it was very interesting that 65 percent of these women had been in the city for over a year and 45 percent for over five years," Anderson reports. "So I think thatlhere's also that fantasy that people are just rOlating through and drifting in all the time. It's really not so." Sexual and physical abuse has been a fact of life for many of the women, the study found. More than two·thirds of the interviewees had been physically abused during their lives and nearly half had been sexually abused. Almost one·third of the women attributed their homelessness to escape from an abusive relationship. But abuse may continue on the streets. "I'm glad I don't have any teeth in front because if I have teeth I'm raped a lot more," one woman told a student interviewer. "The worse you look, the more they leave you alone. So that is fine with me." Health was another concern. "I think we were all impressed with the fact that these women were not in good health," Anderson says. "There were a lot of health problems, which I didn't think was surprising. But in a relatively young population, it's a great concern." Sixty percent of the women described their health as poor or fair. Alcohol dependency was one major health·related problem. "Probably over a third of them are alcoholic," reports Anderson, who has studied alcoholic women for the past 12 years. More than 40 percent of the sample, however, do not drink. Mental health is also a concern. "Probably close to 20 percent are chronically mentally ill," Anderson says. "At least that many have been in a state hospital and 25 percent had made a suicide attempt, so there's mental illness and then, most importantly, there's just a lot of poverty and unemployment and lack of adequate housing." With collection of the data, the myth that all homeless people live on the streets because they choose to was dispelled_ The researchers found that 90 percent of thc women wanted to leave the ranks of the homeless and more than 75 F n : ~ ~ ~ , h ; ~ ! ~ e ~ o ~ ~ : n ~ r ~ r h f ~ n ~ ~ ~ ~ r ~ b l ~ : . i , t , e d Anderson hopes that the study will be used to develop solutions to the problems and special needs of homeless women. "In addition to gelling a picture of what the population looked like, we were really interested in looking at the unmet service needs because we were hoping that this wouldn't be just another research report that gets filed in somelxxly's drawer and forgotten," Anderson says. "I think Portland is a very responsive community." Anderson is now serving on a Muhnomah County work group which is addressing implementation of the 12-point plan on homelessness released by Mayor Bud Clark (Vanport). "What is needed, locally as well as nationally, is a real public commitment to employment opportunities and to diverse low-income housing," Anderson says. "One of the recommended solutions is always just more shelters_ "m real ambivalent about that because it seems to me that kind of temporary solution often becomes the permanent solution so you just get more and more shelters." The research of the PSU graduate students may soon be a part of the solutio(l_-Multnomah County published the data in November, 1985 in an attractive report with striking black-and·white photos of homeless women. " It will be distributed Widely throughout the community and nationally," according to Lynn Hingson of the county staff. "We hope people will take the problem seriously and do something about it." Hingson and Anderson were both pleased with the research conducted for thc study, which cost Multnomah County less than $1,500 to produce. "It's the kind of thing I like to see and I think the Graduate School of Social Work should do," Anderson says. "Working closely with the community, with their needs and our students' interests and their educational needs - they really mesh nicely." And just as the streets are very real places for the homeless women of Portland, they became very authentic for the PSU students. For Tome Boe, the research experience moved far beyond the academic. "It made learning very appropriate, very applicable, very reaL" PSU Perspective, Winter 19861 page 9
Compiled by Cliff lohnson Vanport Grorge J. SIo:orocy, public relations director (Of UnIOn P.1Clfic Systems in Portland. has become co-owner of the 65-year-old DiJily Shipping News in Portland. '62 RO!IS A. F08elquist (8S, '65 MSn 5ef'oIed ;IS co-<!,rector of this year's "Scank'SI," a Portland·area holIday festIVal promoting 5cancilnavlan cuhure and .1 proposed Scandinavian slUdies dep.lrlment .1t PSU. He is aJso president of Oregon's Nordic Council, and works as a fOfl!Isn language teacher .11 Mountain View HIgh School In Vancouver, Wash. Re". Jo.an LlIlibette (as) serves IWO parishes in Bannock County, Idaho as the new pnest at the Ept§cop.1l Church MISSIOn 01 the Good Shepherd at fort Hall, Idaho Her CongregationS are composed of three- cultures: white, Ind.an and -"\e,.;ican·Anlt'rican. For the past thre«' years, she served as re<.1or of St. lames Parish in Payette, Idaho. '65 Belty I. Pritchett 18S)' Dean of CommuniCiltion Am, Humanities and Soci.11Sciences at Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, Ore., recently married Kenneth F. light, presIdent of lake Supt'"rior State College in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. He formerly was presidenl of Oregon Institute of Technology at Klamath Falls from 1976 to 1982. Till:! lights CXpecttD mamta.n homes in Gresham and m Sault Ste. Marie. '66 Timme A. Helzer (BS) has been appomted director of human re§QUfCt"S for Aptec Computer Systems, Inc., Tigard. Ore. He p1t'\1iously held thaI posltlon at Northwest Instrument Syslt'ms. loc. Prior to tholl, he was man.lgl'l'" of corpo(,}te orsanr.zat+Ol1 development al Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, Ore. Carland S. "Cary" Hill jBS) '5 a property appral5Cl" ft)( the office 01 the CUff)' County a ~ s o r In Gold Beach, Ore '67 A. Gillry Ames jBS), group vice president of US WEST, Inc., has been named e l ( t ! ( : u t i ~ vice presIdent and chIef operating offict.'f of Moonlain Bell. The company is one of three telephone operating comp..mlt"S (including Pac.flc NOrlhw('st Bell) O'Nned by US WEST, a Denver, Colo.-based holdmg comJl'lny. Stu.trt W. Moore (851 .5 vice prc.."Sldent of the M. l. Giltewood Co., a Portland firm whIch m.mufactures ilnd distflbutes S ~ i i l l i z e d paper-CU"lOg trim n o Z l . l ~ u!oed by paper mills ilround tilt>- .....orld '68 SWIM & GYM Alumm Bpnl;'frh C ,ud 22'1·4'148 lC.lthryn C. "Cyndy" He15ltr (BA, '72 MSWJ I ~ lhe coordinator ofthto l a ~ e OswegQ, Ore Adult Community Center, d l ~ t i n g .lctlv.lles at a center thai haS ..n ' h · e l " ~ d,uly attl'tldance of 142 pt'Ople, r a n g l n ~ 10 age from 50 to 99 yt'ars. Jerrokt M. p ~ ( k . 1 r d (8A) Is a writer and hIstorian wnos.e rt'Cently published ~ o n d book, Pcter's Kmgdom. I n ~ l t k , h P PiJpdl CIty ICharles Scribner's S o n ~ ) details the w o r k l O g ~ 0{ the Roman Catholic bureaucroKY and lhe power and InAuence of the mock:'fn papacy IN&e 10 I PSU Perspecllve, Wmter 1986 '69 Harokt C. WiliiafM ~ 8 S , '72 MS f) reafltly helped celebrate the fio;l annivel$ary o. Pen-Nor, Inc., an AlbIna-based mechamcal contracting company In Portl.md. In ilS first year, the firm had more than 60 contracts and made well over half a million cIonalS, accordmg to Williams. '70 Marilyn Jean Anderson (MAT). who US('S the name M. J. Anderson, had a collectIon of her sculpted Slone figures displayed during November .3t Portland's Elizabelh leach Gallery. She hilS established a studio on the Oregon coast al Nehalem. Dr. linda A. Kaeser fMSW) has been named associate dean of research and WIll hold the Turner Professorship of Gerontological NUIStng at the Un.verslty 01 Te,.;as School of Nursmg in Houston. Most recently, she was cOOtdtnator of gerontology programs at the University 01 Illinois at Chicago's College 01 Nursing. Ted L LlIwson (MST) has JOined The Watson-Casey Companies' Realty 5cNices D,vlsion as manager of building operatioos in Austtn, Texas. He formerly managed the Austin·area offke properties of Trammell Crow Companies. lawson also is the current president of the Austin Buildint\ Owners Association. '71 W.llace M. Hobson (MBA) has fOfmed Hobson & Associates, a consulting finn special.zing in real estate econOITUCS, market olnalysis and development consulting. The Portland fIrm fOf"lnerly was leland & Hobson. Mkhae1 E. ~ (6S) has \Je@n promoted to account e)(('Cuu¥(> in the mobile equipmer1t Sdles groop for AerOQUlP CorJ)OratlOfl's Industrial DivisIOn marketing deparlmcnl, b.ls.ed in Chicago. Aeroquip IS a worldwide manufaclUrer of Iluld power and flUid system componenls. '72 Richard 8. Wri&ht (oA) h a ~ been promoted to general manager a! MI/'lCey Productions, Inc., Portland. I ~ joined the company In 1985. '73 Teresa E. "Tess" ~ e l (8S) IS a POOI.lnd·area social worker who lectures across the country on the therJpeutlc valuc of humor. In addition to her teaching. she w o r k ~ .at W.1Verly (h.ldrens Home, Portland, and I ~ st..lte dirt'Ctor 01 Parents A n o r I y m o u ~ , an org<lOlzoltlOn ior people who w.ant to raise their ,h.Jdren Without '00,.. Todd Clark Holm (8S) h.n begun v.or\.: as a bu511le5s tievelopfll{'flt <,peelailst for local g o v e r n m e n ~ in the Newport and Toledo, Ute vicinin-. He attemptS to ICk:>ntlfy and attraCI Industries "'hi,h C.1n !."Stab/ish thE>m!of'I\les In thl' are.1, offerl/18 family wage IX»ItlOO5, rather than entry·level jt;lb§. Ron RI.ISSeIIIMSTJ. former parh and rE'(:ll'atlon dilector," lake Oswego, Ore.. competed m about 10 w;l\er§kllng toornafl1('f1IS durlilS 1985, breaking his own record St.>pt. 14 to wIn Ihe Pacific Northwest reg.onallrlck waterskIIng COmpetition in the veteran m e n ' ~ dIVision for ages 4S and up. The event w , , ~ held at long View,Callf V. Topou Faulknt'f" 18A, '61 MUP) is the new plann.ng director for the City of lake Oswego, Ore. She and her hUsb..lnd lawrence Coolad 1'8J MUPj have three daughters '74 O . n ~ 1 1 e l. larson (8A, '81 MA) and her hushand Cleve became multImillionaires Dec. 11 when Cleo.·e hilthe jackpot for Sl.7 milliQo in the o..egon Stale lottery. They have two chIldren, ItJSllne and Niels. Among the larsons' new goals is to collaborate on a ",riling prOject concerning NOrlhwest h.story. Anne Madison (MS), since ncl retlremenl irom teaching, has continuoo 10 work wilh t.:I'lIldren on a volunteer basis, particularly in hasP!lill seltings. Her motto is, "How can anyone get bored with life when there are so many opportunities 10 'get mixed with' anti perk up yourdayF' '75 Stephen R. Hawke (MBA) has been named managef of customer freld services for Por\lolnd General Electric's division office In Gresham, Ore. Hawke supervises residentIal, comnlCf"cial and industrial energy sales activities in the area. He IS prt"Sident-e1ect of tiw ProfessiOOoll Engineers of Oregon. Gerald M. Hubbard (SS), manager of facilities planning for Portland General Electric (0., Portland, IS the immediate Polst president and Current membership director of lhe International Facility Management Associalton. He received Ihe association's Most Distinguished aW.1rd during its recent annual conference in Chicago. lie also serves on the 1986 board of dirooors of the Instltule of Business Designers Foundation . R ~ r t W. Sumner (8S) has been namt'd vice presidt:nt and manager of U.S. Bank's benefIt services department. He formerly was dltector of human resoulCt"S at Soulhwcsl WashIOgton Hospitals In Vancouver, Wash. '76 IUtherine J. Hansen·Bristow (MA) IS an .1ssistant professor of geography at NIOntana S t a t e ~ m v t ' f 5 i t y . '77 Patrie", l. COl( (8S) IS a teacher who has taught in some of North America's tiotesl and ~ t remote schools. She currently teaches .II Agness (Iementilry School, 10 lhe (Xegon Coast Range community located some JS miles up the Rogue River from Gold Beach. Cox is in her fourlh year of handling kindergarten through 51Klh grade there, leaching 5i,.; pup.ls each day Teri l. Odermann (85), a fo.mcr!>llles rCj)ft'SCntat.ve for Computerland, has been appointed a ~ a ~ I e s represent;lt.VC for A. T. Cross Co., anIOtematlonaJ manu(aclurerof wnting instruments and desk ~ S . Her new !oalesterrltory for the (.rm Includes southern Idaho, Utah and liJ.. V..." '78 LeRoy R. Patton {MST), an .-.dm.n-Slrdtl¥(> speclalbt for dlstm:t·wide programs In the Portland Public Schools sIOce 1963, njls been appointed to a four·year lerm on the nIne-member st.lte Juvenile Semcl'S Commission '79 0.10 R. lackiKKI (SA) has ~ named vIce presulent of corporate services fOI Red lion Inns, iwadquarlered in Vancouver, Wash. He IS responSible for the corporate accounting, reportinll, employee benefits and credit divisions of the compilny'S 52 IOns and hotel... b rry McClelbn (MAl is the new middle and high §chool principal at CORleU, Ore. For the lastlwo years. he has bt-eo ,In are.a administratOf at Eagle Point, Ore. IllSh School. Pnor to that, he spent 11 years at SeasJde, Ore. High School as an English teacher and department coordinator. '80 lohn l. Becker, Jr. (85) has been selected as an Outstanding Young Man (If Amenca for 1985, according to an awards program of the same name heillkjuartered in Montgomery:'..(\la. Secker's biography is scheduled to be Ineluded With olhel young men so honored in the orgamzatlOn's 1985 awards publication. Alice M. Freuler (8AI hd) been named director of communications for the Oregon Dental Associallon. She rormerly was an adverllsIOg representoltlve for the Gresh.lm Outlook newspaper. '82 Kristina Bdlmap (BS) and her husband, Tom, operate a well-drilllng busmess employing 35 people in the Afncan town or Yei In the Sudan. The BeIJ..naps have worked on health and well-driiting programs conducted by UNICEF on behalr of Ugandan pol.tical refugees living in the Sudan. They are the parents of a 5-month-old daughter, Erin Elkins·Hubert ISS) has been ndmed loeal sales manager for Portland radio station KKLI-FM, which bills itself as "K·lITE" (97 FM) She has been with the station, formerly KCNR·FM, fot the past three years as account lean l. Wilkinson (8A), a graduate student .1t looiana UniVffSity School of Music, received iI S3S0 c.1sh award in November after being declared one 01 three winners of a regional audition to find young singef5 to patticipale in the Young Artbt Development Program of the Metropolitan Opera. A soprano, Wilkinson recenlly sang in a New York company's production of "Show Boat," wh.ch toured for three months to Europe. '83 lawrence M. Conroild (MUPj has been named the City ol8eaverlon. Ore.'s new urban serviCes planner and will .1150 administer the city cuunClI's anne,.;ation poliCies. Christine Meadows (SAl recently won a $2,000 first pnze to the Eleanor Anderson Lieber Compet.tion fOf young singers, sponsored by the Portland Opera AsSOCiation at PSU. She also recently earned a master's degree in voeal perfolmance from Il"Idiana University's School of Music. '84 Colleen McEntee (8A) has been hired as a public relatIons assistant at the MOrtonlCole & Weber agency In POrlldnd. Fr.nlc P. Mondeau,.; (MSW) directs the llnfietd Collese Companion program as well <l!'i the Upward Bound program in McMmn\ille, Ore College ComP"lmon OlCIlches §creened college $tudents With young boys .100 girls in lhe f.:ornmumty who need the mfluence of older role modell>. Upward Bound i ~ .3 federal program for dIsadvantaged high school """""" Edna Mae Pittman (SS) has been named one of 12 I"nembers of .10 Oregon adVtsory committee established 10 hclp ptevent ch.ld abuse and neglect. She also was aWilrded a Marlin luther King, Jr. Scholarship dnc:l is attending 8f;!duatl! §choul in fJSU's Public Adm.nistratlon Program RAlph T. Wells (85), an honors gr.:lduate at PSU, is a !'Orlland baritone who recenlly won a leglon.11 MetropolItan Opera audition voedl contest. He has 5tJng lead roles with EUllE.'ne and Portland opera comp.lnies, and was a ret:ent Northwest RegIon finalist for the San Franci§co Opera Continued on page 11
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