PSU Magazine Fall 1999

Stephen "Steve" Stewart is a senior loan officer at Northwest Mortgage Group, Inc., a mort– gage banking firm in Portland. Les Youngbar is the Lake Oswego police chief and presi– dent of the O regon Association of Chiefs of Police. Youngbar also is serving a four-year appointment on the Governor's Juvenile Crime Prevention Advisory Committee. He has been police chief for 11 of his 21 years on the Lake Oswego force. '72 Michael "Mike" Fraser is self– employed and owns Mike Fraser Illustration & Design in Portland . George Ogilvie writes, "retired from O regon State Police December '97 and now have my own business, O regon Collision Analysis, Inc." Ogilvie lives in Newberg. '73 Phil Roethig MBA is president of Roethig Engineering, Inc., in Portland. Roethig writes,"... obtained a three-year contract with city of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services to manage its instrumentation and control team." '74 Robert D. Smith is a certified public accountant and the managing partner of Beemer, Smith, Munro & Co. in Portland. Smith has been with the firm 25 years. Lawrence Stoffel MS is super– intendent of Senate Office Buildings with the Architect of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. '75 Lynda Hatch MS is a Boeing Distinguished Professor of Science Education at Washington State University in Pullman. Hatch formerly was affiliated with the Center for Excellence in Education at Northern Arizona University. '76 Kevin Oderman MA is a profes– sor of English at West Virginia University where he teaches American literature and creative writing. Oderman received the 1999 Bakeless Nason Literary Publication Prize in the creative nonfiction category for his work entitled How Things Fit Together. Over the past 10 years, his essays have appeared in numer– ous literary journals and he has twice taught abroad. '77 Jay Penniman is president of Larix Construction Company, a general contracting and remod– eling firm in Monmouth. '78 Donald R. Cox Jr. MBA '82 is the accounting manager at Metro, a regional government agency in Portland. Cox writes, "completing my 18th year with Metro, am a CPA, and within last two years rece ived the CGFM (certified government financial manager) designation. My oldest son wi ll be a PSU freshman in fall 1999." Gerald "Jerry" Smith is presi– dent of Cascade Direct/Postal Data Processing, a direct mail advertising firm in Portland. William "Bill" Yee MBA retired in May after serving 25 years as the utility director for Skamania County Public Utility District in Stevenson, Washing– ton. Yee also served from 1961 - 65 as a computer and radar officer in the U.S. Air Force. '79 Lloyd Gilham is commanding officer of Aviation Training Squadron Two at Whiting Field in Milton, Florida. Cmdr. Gilham formerly was the execu– tive officer of the Helicopter Anti-Submarine Community. David "Rocky" Johnson PhD '90 is executive director of the Community Action Team in St. Helens. Johnson also teaches social policy at the University of Portland. Beth Norman is an earth science instructor at Pierce College in Lakewood, Washington. ABC ALUMNI BENEFIT CARD YOUR PASS TO PSU CALL 725-4948 FOR DETAILS ASERVICE OF YOUR PSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Your Alumni Cyber Highway: What do you want? As the PSU Alumni Office hurls itself headlong into the world of electronic services, we thought we'd ask you, the alumni, what services you'd like from your Association. Please respond to the following survey by phone, (503) 725-5073; fax, (503) 725- 5074; e-mail, psualum@pdx.edu ; or on the Web at www.alumni.pdx .edu. Rank the following by level of importance to you: Personal Services 1) an e-ma il address through PSU 2) Internet access through PSU 3) on-line shopping mall very D D D somewhat 0 D D not at all 0 D D 4)other~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ University Services 1) event updates by e-mail 2) registration for free events via Web 3) purchase of event tickets via Web 4) PSU Magazine on Web D D D D D D D D D D D D 5)other~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~­ Thanks for your responses! FALL 1999 PSU MAGAZINE 21