PSU Magazine Spring 1987

• • • Photos fry Cynthia D. Stowell Happy Birthday, Portland State! I t was quite an evening in the Smith Center Ballroom. PSU's 4lst birthday party Feb. 27 was a good mix of pomp, nostalgia and fun. In accepting a Distinguished Alumni Award from committee chairman Jim Westwood ('67), Neil Lomax ('82) (top left) gave a rousing speech that cou ld wring pride out of the most cynical PSU grad. Shortly after, the "father of Portland State," former Vanport Extension Center Director Stephen Epler, was given a special recognition award from PSU alumni for his "fores ight, tenacity and tireless dedication to the establishment of a public college in Portland. " Later he was greeted by former Van porter Margaret Dobson ('50) (middle right). John C. Wilson, a vice president for Boeing, surprised everyone by bidding $800 for a 1967 Alpha Kappa Psi stein that had been passed through the crowd and filled with dollar bills (bottom right). Wilson gave the $800 and the ste in (which had been donated by J ohn Kinman '68) to the School of the Busines Administration . After the program , veteran dancers John and B.J. Kinman glided aero s the dance floor to the sound of the PSU All-Sta1-s (bottom left). PSU MAGAZINE PAGE 13