PSU Magazine Fall 1994

Mary Jo Morris MPA '92 was appoi nted director of the Professional Development Center at Portland State. The center offers continuing education courses and seminars for busines profes– sionals. A lan Scally, a Portland free– lance wri ter, recently returned from Chicago where he covered crime and police beat stories. '91 Susan Adams-Wright is a realty specialist with Bonnev ille Power Administration, a branch of U.S. Department of Energy in Portland . Joe Gonzales is a new member of the PSU Alumni Board of Directors. He is director of public relations for the Western Culinary Institute in Portland. '92 Tracy Allen MURP is an assis– tant planner for U nion County in LaGrande. Margaret Bauer MBA ha been hired as city manager in Waldport. Bauer formerly was an administrator of tax supervising and conservation commission of Multnomah County. Leah Cyrus is working at Ger– ber Advertising in Portland as a med ia coordinator. Gregory Frick has been named an associate in the investments and apartments department in the Portland headquarters of CB Commercial Real Estate Group. Shelly Jackson is a graduate tu– dent and research assistant in the department of psychology at U ni– ver ity of Vermont in Burlington. Kristina Klipp MBA is a senior account associate with Nielsen Marketing Research in Saddle Brook, N.J. She says "hello" to her old clas mates. Katrina Tran is a tax associate with Co pers & Lybrand, a pub– lic accounting firm in Portland. '93 Martha Boesen i a cred it con– sultant at U.. West Communi– cations in Portland. Boesen says she misses the energy the cam– pus life gave her during her years at Portland State. Brian Little MPA has been promoted to city administrator in St. Helens following his six years as city planner. Journal wrote that The Red Chip Review is "the Consumer Reports magazine of small-caps equity investments." The publication has a decidedly PSU look; six of the seven full-time securities analysts are grads. They are (beginning second left): Kenneth Peterson '92, Steven Shum '92, Scott Butler '94, Kenneth Thomas '93, Randall Svedbeck '93, and Steven Lidberg '92. The company's founder and editor-in-chief, Marcus Robin Sx recent graduates of the School of Busi– ness Administration are making significant contributions to a young Portland company. They work for The Red Chip Review, producing independent stock research on small-capitalized companies. Produced 26 times a year by Crown Point Publishing Co. in Portland, the publication tracks more than 280 "small-cap" companies, including 33 Oregon-based businesses. (pictured far left), has been an adjunct instructor in the securities and investments fields in the PSU School of Business Administration for the past 10 years. The Red Chip boast about 400 subscribers so far in its quest to attain profitability, and has attracted the attention of the San Francisco Chronicle, Money magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and other prominent financial publications. The LA Business 28 PSU Magazine The business grads are putting in long hours for low pay, but they say the opportu– nity to be publi hed stock analysts is worth it. 'The track is usually three or four years on the sell side before you get to do research and put out report ,"says the 23-year-old Shum, who doubled-majored in finance and management. "Even coming out of a big-name school, you'd more than likely be a number– cruncher or an assistant to an analyst, but not an analyst." D Nicole Midford MS is a speech and language pathologist with Shock T rauma Speech Pathol– ogy in Baltimore. Dorothy Schmiel is president of Meade International, a Ukrainian-American corpora– tion specializing in imports and exports. Schmiel lives in Lake Oswego and plans to enter the special education program at Portland State. Kevin T helin worked for a humanitarian agency in Rwanda installing a water system. Thelin first went to Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer, where he met and married his Zairean wife. Be– cause of tribal warfare, Thelin and his family were evacuated, but he plans to return a soon as it is safe. Thelin ays he enjoys "working in an emerging nation! to help them obtain a better standard of living." Tona Williams is a graduate stu– dent in the department of sociol– ogy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While at PSU, Williams was an intern with Battelle Pacific Labs in Washington, D.C. In Memoriam Joanne Owens '58 died of can– cer on May 16. Owens was a retired special education teacher for Portland Public Schools. Owens had been homecoming queen and Betty Co-Ed while attending Portland State. Gene Leo Jr. '75 died Aug. 14 in an automob ile accident. He was 44. Leo was named director of tourism for the Portland/ O regon Visitors Association six months previously. He was bet– ter known as a former director of the Wa hington Park Zoo and the P rtland Rose Fe tival. Leo was a graduate of Lincoln High School. Survivors include his wife, Gaila, and sons, Jay and Benj amin. O