PSU Magazine Fall 1994

Foundation Board changes bb , vice president and general manager of Hi-Tech Publica– tions in Beaverton, is the new pre i– dent of the PSU Foundation Board of Directors. Also elected to the executive committee for the 1994-95 year are Jerry Parsons '62, executive vice president and CFO of Willamette Industries Inc.; Gary Cole, associate at Ball, Janik and Novack; Rick Hawkins '69, Arthur Andersen & Co.; Stella Lillicrop, community leader; Donald Miller '66, director of budgeting at Northwest Natural Gas Co.; and Douglas Stirling, president and CEO at Rollins Hudig Hall of Oregon Inc. Four new directors have also been elected to the board. They are Daniel Campbell, vice president at Western Bank; Anne Myers, community leader; Robert Philip, president of Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc.; and Ed Truax, partner at Coordinated Financial Planning. SAFECO comes on campus AFECO Insurance representatives got a pleasant surprise when they came to campus last spring looking for minority students to fill company internships. "We got a fabulous response, says Mark Zeiger, personnel manager of AFECO's Portland branch. "We have tough standards that must be met, and we were struck by the fact that the majority of outstanding candidates for our summer internships came from PSU." Zeiger also recruits from Oregon State University, University of Oregon and Jeffer on High School. He convinc– ed company managers to add another four internships to the program bringing the total to eight-five are held by PSU students. At the same time SAFECO also began a diversity scholarship program 18 PSU Magazine Art student Hiawatha Johnson and curator Mary McVein '89 are preserv· ing and repairing the University's permanent print collection with the assistance of a grant from the PSU Foundation. They are remounting art works on paper, the largest part of the 400-piece collection, with acid-free materials. at PSU and awarded two $2,000 scholarships to minority tudents interested in entering a bu ines - related career after graduation. The company also offers the e scholar hips at OSU and UO. "People of color do not ee the insurance industry as a field of opportunity. We want to change that," says Zeiger. "Hopefully the students who work here will spread the word that this is a good industry to work in." "I am pleased that AFECO is taking a leadership position in helping students from under represented groups," says Regina Borum, PSU executive director of Development. "When these students graduate they will be prepared to move into meaningful bu ine career ." Zeiger e timate that in the past two years, 20 percent of SAFECO's new hires have come from Portland State. PACE set by local alums PSU Alumni are finding each other at U.S. Bancorp and at Standard Insurance Company. Conversation may tart with shared school memories, but it is ending with renewed giving and connection to the Univer ity. PACE (Peer Alumni Corporate Employee Program) i new to both companie . It i run by alumni volunteer who are seeking financial support and interest in Portland State from their peers. "It makes a lot of ense," says Fritz Bart ch '74, PACE chair for the Port– land area companies of U.S. Bancorp. "Even if we didn't know the person, we could hare a sense of what's going on in the company. It was very personal." PACE raised $15,000, including matching funds from U.S. Bancorp and tandard Insurance. Alumni at both companies had given to the University in the past, but participation through the new program increased by 30 percent. U.S. Bancorp employs approxi– mately 175 PSU graduates in the Portland area, and about 50 alumni work at Standard Insurance. Money raised through PACE and other PSU Foundation programs goes to scholarships, faculty development, the library, cultural activities and other University needs. Pace also raised awareness of the University-volunteer and educational opportunities at PSU were discussed by the alumni team members. Serving on the PACE Campaign Team at U.S. Bancorp with Fritz Bartsch was John Kinman '68, John Rickman, Linda Duvall '80, David Erickson '74, Tobie Finzel '69, Louise Glur '73, Gary Gross '76, Wayne Leonetti '73, Ann Smith '82, Sandra Tamiesie '81, Wendy Tanski '79 and Terry Walker '81 Greg Ness '87 chaired the campaign at Standard In urance Co. Other team member there were Monica Billingsley '77, David Fitzpatrick '77, Susan Frost '76, Lori Jen en '85, David Lomnicki '81, Kitty Midson and Patricia Tierney-Berger '78. D