PSU Magazine Fall 1987

Dinosaur bones arrive from Wyoming The fossilized bones of a giant tri– ceratops dinosaur were delivered to the PSU campus by a Safeway truck Aug. 10, to be stored temporarily in the geology department's Earth Sciences Museum. The remains were discovered near Lusk, Wyoming last summer by PSU research associate David Taylor, who excavated them with the help of Summer Session students. The showpiece among the dozen pallets of plaster-cast bones was the dinosaur's skull, five feet long and featuring a large bony fan. The triceratops skeleton, which Taylor figures is 75-80 percent complete, will be assembled and eventually put on public display, the only one in Oregon and one ofjust a few in the U.S. The bones of the nine-foot-high triceratops are part of the collection of the Northwest Museum of Natural History, of which Taylor is president Safeway Stores donated a 40-foot truck and a professional driver to transport the precious cargo from Wyoming to Portland. Grad wins award Robin Terjeson ('77 MS), currently a doctoral student at PSU, has won the University's first Paul Emmett Gradu– ate Fellowship. The $500 award is named for the internationally known authority in surface chemistry and catalysis who was a visiting research professor at PSU from 1971 until his death in 1985. Terjeson is on leave from her posi– tion as division chair for science, mathematics, engineering and data processing instruction at Clark College, Vancouver. As part of her doctoral research in environmental sciences/ chemistry, Terjeson is engaged in a project funded by the Gas Research Institute of Chicago on sulfonic acid systems. She is synthesiz– ing new electrolytes for possible use in fuel cells, an alternative electrical energy source used in U.S. space flights. David Taylor, PSU research associate in geology, superoises the delivery ofthe plaster– cast skull of a tricerato-ps, discovered and excavated in Lusk, Wyoming. Maurice Lucas to head PSU Annual Fund Maurice Lucas, one of the National Basketball Association's most durable and popular players and a Portland businessman, will serve as the National Chair for the PSU Annual Fund Campaign. The campaign, with a national goal of $450,000, was launched at a special kick-off event at PSU Sept. 9. Lucas, who also serves on the Uni– versity's Advisory Board, was a power forward with the 1976 World Cham– pion Portland Trailblazers and has most recently played with the Seattle SuperSonics. As national chair of the PSU Annual Fund, he will lead a team of more than 60 volunteers in per– sonal solicitation work, a phonathon and the corporate annual campaign. A Portland resident, Lucas is presi– dent of his own company, Proflow, Inc., a personal finance monitoring and data processing service in Port– land. He sees PSU as a vital part of the community. "Portland State is an untapped resource," Lucas said. "It has a very bright future including probable national prominence in PSU MAGAZINE PAGE 3 higher education." He hopes to use his personal national profi le to help PSU raise its own. Lucas attended PSU in 1979 to com– plete courses he needed to fulfill requirements for his bachelor's degree, which he earned from Mar– quette University in Wisconsin. Lee Koehn, vice president of the PSU Foundation, said about Lucas' involvement, "PSU always has been the kind of institution that can fill a variety of roles in people's lives, just like it did for Maurice, and he can help us get that story out." Visitor center opens The University has become more accessible to the public with the opening of a visitor information center in the Campus Safety and Security Office at Broadway and College. New signs guide drivers to two temporary parking spaces and into the CSSO office, where maps, brochures, and even class schedules and registration forms are available 24 hours a day. CSSO staff are always on hand to give personalized directions to people looking for the library, the bookstore, and other campus points.