PSU Magazine Fall 1990

'85 Neal Linegar (BS) has been promoted to aud it supervisor for Nygaard, Mims & Hoffman, P.C. certified public accountants. J ames S. Watson (BA) is li ving in Pasadena, Calif., and working for the SumiTrans corpora ti on in downtown Los Angeles. Watson would like to make contact wi th other PSU alums in the Los Angeles area. If you are interested in gett ing in touch with him , please call the PSU Alumni Office, (503) 725- 4948. '86 Kerry S. C raig (BA) is working for Fred Meyer Corporation's Manage– ment ln fom1ation Systems Depart– ment. Craig. who was promoted to methods and procedures analyst II. will be starting in the M.A. program in communications at the University of Portland this fall . Thomas Graves (BS ) has been promoted to aud it supervisor at the Portland accounting firm of Van Beek & Co. G r a nt Murrell ( BS ) is a new de put y di strict attorney for the Multnomah Coun\}' District Attor– ney Office. Murrell received his law degree from Northwestern School of Law, Lewis and Clark College. Mark Selid (MT) has been named vice president of United Grain Corp. Selid is treasurer and chief financial officer of the grain export firm , which operates a terminal in Van– couver, Wash. '87 Michael Delaney (BS ) is a senior accoun tan t at Price Waterhou se CPAs in Portland. J a net Emetaz (BA) is the owner of Limited Time, a Vancouver, Wash., business that provides personal and corporate shopping for busy profes– sionals . Emetaz, who started the business in 1987, does wardrobe consultations, gift purchasing and PSU 28 personal tours at local boutiques for out-of-town visitors. Tauna L. Mag ness ( BS ) ha s rece ived her Oregon in surance license and is a management trainee with American National Insurance in Portland. Kevin McGillivray (BS ) has joined the Portland geotechnical and en– vironmental consu lting firn1 of Rit– tenhouse-Zeman & Associates Inc. as a mechanical engineerin g as– sociate. Mark Moreland ( BS ) has been promoted to senior accountant at the Portland office of Price Waterhouse CPAs. J effrey Shula r (BS) is a new assis– tant vice president of Benj. Frank lin Savings and Loan Association in Portland. '88 C hristian C reelman (BS) is a re– search associate at the Portland ad– vertising and public relations firm of Karakas, Yan Sickle, Ouellette Inc. P. Barton Delacy P. Barton DeLacy (MUP) has been named to the regional advisory board of the Resolution Trust Cor– poration (RTC). The RTC is respon– s ible for the disposition of real property assets of the nation 's failed saving and loan institutions. DeLacy is pres ident of Appraisal Group Inc., a regional real estate valuation and consulting firm based in Portland. Mark Swalko (BS) writes that he is pres ident and C .E.O . of Pastry Pantry Inc., and that he also owns and manages real estate in Portl and. '89 Alene Brown (MSW) is the Aging Services Program manager for the Northwest Pilot Project in Portland. Brown is currently working on a graduate certificate in gerontology at PSU. Kathleen W. J a nsen (MBA) has been promoted to vice president of Security Pacific Bank 's Business Banking Group in Portland. Her responsibilities include developing new commercial loan relationships. managin g a $20- million loan portfolio and supervising three finan cial analysts. A Career in Focus (continued from Page 16 ) Michael Mbanaso (Ph.D. ) is a re– search associate with the Center for Urban Studies at Howard Univer– sity, Washington, D.C. John Shinn (MBA) accepted a posi– tion wi th Carro ll Hatch & As– sociates in Portland, a consulting firn1 for the forest products industry. Tara Sims (BA) and Evelyn Par– lette (BS) have joined the Portl and accounting firn1 of ygaard, Mims & Hoffman , P.C. '90 Leo MacLeod (BA) is the new an– nua l fund coordinator at OMS I (Oregon Museum ofScience and In– dustry) in Portland. speakers at its special Women in Science program. And three years ago she rece ived Reed Coll ege's prestigious Howard Yollum Award for Distinguished Accomp li shment in Science and Technology, the first woman to do so. Rempfer acknow ledges that she was in " low gear" during her teaching years at PSU and while raising her children. " But I' m in a better position to compete now . Oh, people say, ' Well, she's 78 years old , wonder if she can last th rough thi s one [another funded research grant] .' But my father lived to be 102, so actuall y I' m in my prime," she laughs. "I'm in good health and able to 'go for it ' now; so I've been doing that for a number of years." Rempfer is pleased at her burgeoning reputation and with the progress of her research, but says she does miss classroom teaching. Even at the very basic levels she found it fun to get an idea across, to expla in something just ri ght to students and thus remove a hang-up in their thinking. "There's something pretty nice about teaching. And there's something nice abou t PSU," she says of her many years here. " It isn' t all crystallized and smug. And the students who come here aren't used to being babied. They don 't expect you to spoon-feed them or anything; they're just more grown up." Rempfe r is a loya l friend and mentor. She has been strategic in getting students of hers placed in their fields . It was through her recommendation, for instance, that many of them began work at Tektronix. Her adv ice to them has a lways been: " You have to work hard, but the rewards are great." Dr. Gertrude Rempfer exemplifies her own words. "It 's been exciting," she says of her li fe. And from thi s woman, still very much in her prime at 78, no doubt the research world can expect a lot more. D