PSU Magazine Fall 1992

Compiled by Teresa O'Heam Schumacher '80 Vanport Donald Dinsmore is teaching history at Bassist College in Portland. Dinsmore, who taught public school for 28 years, is also curator of the University of Portland Museum. Robert and Joann Griggs are building a home at the Oregon coast. Bob is the producer/direc– tor for Oregon Public Broad– casting's "Golden Hours," as well as a freelance actor and writer. Joann is "almost retired" from Blackwell North America in Lake Oswego. Charles Indermuehle is vice president and managing director of the Benson Hotel in Portland. Vern Pearson is a trustee of the Emanuel Medical Center Foun– dation. '58 Betty Roberts, former Oregon supreme court justice, was honor– ed last spring by the Oregon Women Lawyers Association for her contributions to the advance– ment of women in both the legal profession and the legislative arena. Erroll E. Stephens Sr. is a den– tist in Milwaukie, Ore. Stephens, who has practiced there since '62, writes that he has six children and 12 grandchildren. '62 Marilyn Schultz '68 MST retired in June after teaching English at Centennial High School in Gresham for the past 30 years. Schultz is currently a candidate for the Oregon Legisla– ture from House District 19. '63 Leo lsotalo is enjoying a semi– retired status as an independent executive consultant specializing in marketing strategy and brand development for apparel and re– lated industries. lsotalo worked for a number of year for Levi Strauss & Co., where he was president of the Sportswear Group and a corporate senior vice president. '64 Jinnie Milne writes that she's living in Grand Forks, N.D., and is developing an ed iting and desktop publishing business. Milne received a second bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of North Dakota in 1991. Valdis V. Pavlovskis '58 is the new deputy defense minister for the Republic of Latvia. Pavlovskis was appointed to the post in February 1992 after Latvia was declared independent. Born in Latvia in 1934, Pavlovskis and his family escaped in 1944 during the Soviet invasion of World War II and settled in George Steen is an electrical engineer for T riQuint Semicon– ductor Inc., in Beaverton. '65 Adriana Cortes-Hwang is an as– sistant professor at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. She has an MA in panish literature from the University of Oregon. Barry Roberts '72 MS retired last year after teaching elemen– tary school for 26 year in the Reynolds School District. Roberts writes that he's currently enj oying foreign travel. Oregon. While at PSU, Valdis was active in student politics and in 1955 testified before the Oregon Senate Education Committee in support of making Portland State College a degree-granting institution. After graduation, he served in Viet Nam as a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps, then went on to earn a master's degree in city planning from California State Polytechnic University. Until his appointment as Latvia's deputy defense minister he was head city planner for South Gate, California. Pavlovski has been a crusader for restoring indepen– dence and democracy to Latvia for many years. He has served a president of the Baltic American Freedom League and the American Latvian Association. Currently he is vice president of the World Federation of Free Latvians. Pavlovskis is living in Riga, Latvia, although his wife, Dace, is still in California. As deputy defense minister, his duties are to organize, train, and equip Latvian defense forces and border guards while former Soviet force still occupy the country. D '67 Lois Grant Beck has been promoted to full professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. Beck is the recent recipient of two national grants for research on nomads in Iran. Beck's five– year-old daughter, Julia, traveled to Iran with her and is the sub– ject of a forthcoming article in National History magazine. Dennis Ossenkop is the regional environmental officer for the Federal Aviation Administration's Northwest Mountain Region' Airports Division. Ossenkop writes that he's been married for 27 years, has two children, and he and his wife live in Renton, Wash. Richard Reiver has been promoted to vice president at David Evans and Associates in Portland. '68 Richard Matthews '88 MA is development coordinator for the World Affairs Council of Oregon, where he will be implementing a long-range development plan in support of the council's role in promoting citizen awareness of internation– al issues across the state. A. Scott Parker has had a paper accepted in the archives of the T.S. Eliot Society of St. Louis, Mo. Parker's paper is an analysis of the Eliot essay, "Tradition and the Individual Talent," in perfection of Eliot's catalyst theory. '69 Mary Carol Day '76 MST has completed her 22nd year of teaching. Day teaches language arts at G lencoe High School in Hillsboro, Ore. Her husband, Thomas Patrick Day '77, teaches fifth grade at Joseph Gale Elementary School in Forest Grove, where he's been for the past 13 years. PSU 21