PSU Magazine Fall 1994

Compiled by M yma Ouray Vanport Tom Delon is president of Delon Downtown Auto Center in Salem. Delon has been in the auto business since 1953, and his dealership now has six franchises. In his spare time, Delon enjoys sailing with his wife, Arlene, and spending time with their 10 grandchildren. W.T. (Bill) Lemman has been elected to the PSU Alumni Board of Directors. Lemman is also active with the recently formed Friends of the Library group and is executive vice chan– cellor emeritus of the Oregon State System of Higher Educa– tion. He and his wife, Genna, live in Eugene. '60s Ronald Talney '60 was among 200 lawyers who monitored poll– ing places during El Salvador's first free election in 1994. Talney is coordinator of Volun– teer Lawyer Project and a staff attorney for Marion-Polk Legal Aid Service. He and his wife, Linnette, live in Portland. Dr. Edward Barrett '63 is a physician-radiologist at Fresno Community Hospital in Califor– nia. Barrett participates in self-help programs in southern Mexico and has been personally involved in his four children's college careers. Mike Glanville '65 has joined the PSU Alumni Board of Direc– tors. Glanville is president of National Mortgage Company in Portland. He and his wife, Deanna, live in West Linn. Geoffrey Courtright '66 is a claims examiner with American International in Portland. Joye Shoemaker MS '66 retired after teaching 22 years in Lin– coln County schools. Shoemaker lives in Waldport and plans to sub titute teach for awhile and pursue her hobby of gardening. 24 PSU Magazine Judy Bahl '67, '69 M is a read– ing teacher for econd and third graders at Lacamas Heights and Dorothy Fox elementary school in Camas, Wash. This spring, Bahl received one of the Women of Distinction awards from the Soroptimist International Club of Camas-Wa hou-gal for her dedication to the education of children. Sandy Long '67, for the past nine years, has taught biology at Gresham High chool and deve– loped a herbarium for the chool that contains 500 specimens. Jerry Gordon '68, coach of The Dalles High School state cham– pion softball team, was named Oregon's Class Ill-A Softball Coach of the year in June. Gordon i also an English teacher at the school. David Krug '68 is serving as acting dean of the PSU School of Education. Marshall Amiton '69 has been appointed to a Multnomah County circuit court judgeship after serving as a district court judge for nine years. Lorna Kern '69 is completing her doctorate at Portland State in educational leadership. Pierre Ouellette '69 has written a high-tech thriller about a com– puter monster. The Deus Machine is Ouellette's first novel, and it has generated good reviews, a 50,000 first printing and a film deal with New Line Cinemas. Ouellette is co-founder, partner and director of creative services at Karakas, VanSickle and Ouellette, a Portland adverti ing and public relations agency. Robert Portwood '69 is owner of Robert's Bookshop. The Lincoln City shop specializes in used and antiquarian books. Cmdr. Ronald Sugihara '69 plans on retiring from the U. Navy this month. He has served 23 years, most recently as com– mander of the Defense Commis– sary Agency, Pacific District, at Hickam AFB in Hawaii. Peter Suriano-Williams '69 has been elected to the board of directors of the Oregon ociety of Certified Public Accountants. uriano is a partner at EPIC Financial Services in Portland. Robert Swartout '69 has been named a enior Fulbright cholar and will be serving at Hankuk University in Seoul, Korea. Swar– tout is completing his sixth year as chair of department of history at Carroll College in Helena, Mont. '70 Patricia (Ransom) Gustafson is a technical writer and indepen– dent contractor in Newberg. Gustafson write that Melanie Ransom will become the fifth family member to receive a degree from Portland State. Kay Toran MSW has been appointed admini trator of the Oregon Children's Service Division. Toran is quoted as saying her vision "is to move from a regulatory agency to be seen as a helping agency." '71 Carol Brown has been promot– ed to commercial program manager over the energy effic ien– cy and high value applications programs at Portland General Electric. Brown has worked at PGE for 24 years. Linda Clark MBA '77 is an in– ternal auditor at Pima Commun– ity College in Tucson, Ariz. Kevin Mulligan is pre ident of KM Associates in San Francisco, a consulting and negotiating service to TY/media clients. Mulligan was executive pro– ducer of the CBS movie " now– bound" (1994). Dennis Schneider has joined Whirlpool Financial Corpora– tion in Benton Harbor, Mich., as vice president and managing director of the company' inventory finance division. '72 Jim Aalberg is a new member of the PSU Alumni Board of Direc– tors. A vice president with West One Bank in Portland, Aalberg previously served on the P U Foundation Board. Jeffrey Chandler has been a project engineer with Alaska Department of Transportation for 18 years. Chandler is now building airports in rural native villages of Western Ala ka. He lives in Nome. Mary Moore Coulombe i direc– tor of International Forestry Policy and Planning for the United States Forestry Service in Washington, D.C. Eric Egland is regional sales manager for Good Humor– Breyers Ice Cream Company. Egland is responsible for retail grocery sales from the North Pole to Bakersfield, Calif. He lives in West Linn. Teresa Spada has been named Small Business Administration Accountant Advocate of the Year by the Service Corporation of Retired Executives in Portland. Spada is a local certified public accountant. Linda Williams is an office manager at Mountain Park Travel in Lake Oswego. '73 Russell Beck has been appoint– ed executive director of United Way of the mid-Willamette Val– ley. Beck and hi family live in Albany. Paul Haist is editor of The Jewish Review in Portland. Haist has been an editor for the Oregon Journal, The Oregonian, and a free-lance writer. Dennis Hill is chief of the hydro– graphic unit for the National Oceanic Atmospheric Admini– stration in Seattle. NOAA maps and charts bodies of water.