PSU Magazine Spring 1987

• • • -----·ALUMNOTES•----- Compiled by CliffJ ohnson Vanport William A. Hilliard, former executive editor for The Orego– nian, has been promoted to editor, responsible for the com– bined news and editorial opera– tions of Oregon's largest news– paper. Charles Indermuehle is chief executive officer and partner in Raffles Suites and lnns in Van– couver, Wash . Martin Levinson recently re– ceived a gold watch honoring his 25 years of service as a film editor with ABC Television, New York. Don Lohmeyer of Don's Land– scaping Service, Milwau kie, O re., has received the honorary li fe– time membership award from the Oregon Association of Nursery– men. William Oland, vice principal at Rex Pu tnam High School, Mil– waukie, Ore. , has received the Oregon Association of School Executives Curriculum Leader– shi p Award for a college prepara– tory program of study he devel– oped for the North Clackamas School District. Don Stellges, public affairs d irec– tor for KGON/KSGO radio sta– tions, Portland/Clackamas, Ore., has been named 1987 vice presi– dem of the Oregon Tri-City Chamber of Commerce, head– quartered at Oregon City, Ore. Harry G. Thompson, president of T hompson Construction, Inc., Portland , has received an award recognizing skill, integrity and responsibility from the Oregon– Columbia chapter of the Associ– ated General Com ractors of America, Inc. '58 Betty Roberts (BS), a former stale legislator and former Ore– gon Supreme Court Justice, has been named a director of Rai nier Bank of Oregon, Gresham, Ore. '59 Wallace E. Harding (BS), presi– delll of Harding Fletcher Co., Portland, is the new presidelll– elect of the Oregon Mortgage Bankers Association. '60 Charles D. Cota (BS), senior vice president of the business real estate fi rm of Cushman & Wake– field, Portland, has been named one of his company's fi ve top pro– ducers for 1986. '61 Bruce Literal (BA) is the creator of "Vernal Rill ," a new I I-foot-tall brass artistic work recemly placed at the Longview, Wash. City Hall. Literal instructs vocational graphic arts at Madison High School in Portla nd . '62 Terry W. Clifford (BS) has been named treasu rer of Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, Ore. Robert Murray (BS), executive vice president of First In terstate Bank, has been elected treasurer and will also serve on the boa rd of trustees for Waverly Children's Home, Portland, during 1986-87. William R. Ulrich (BS) has been promoted to executive vice presi– dent of U.S. Bancorp, Portland. He has been with the firm for 27 years. '63 Mark Hattenhauer, MD (BS), a Portland cardiologist, is president of the Oregon Federation of Physicians, a year-old effort at unionization. '64 Larry Large (BS) is the new vice president for university relations at the University of Oregon, Eugene. Fred D. Miller (BS), who has been director of the state Depart– ment of Transportation, Salem, has been named head of the state Executive Department by Gov. Neil Goldschmidt. In his new job, Miller will oversee the writing of the governor's budget and opera– tion of his principal state pro– grams. Miller recently served as budget director on Goldschmidt's transition team. Elinor Pierce (BS) has been nominated an outstanding America n Baptist woman for her activity in raising funds for mis– sion projects, collecting food fo r low-income people, and partici– pating in church work camps around the world . Martin Rupert (BS) has been pro– moted to assistant creative direc– tor for Young & Roehr, Inc., a Portland-based ad vertising agen– cy. Formerly art d irector for J antzen, Inc., Portland, he now provides art direction on the ad firm 's Tektronix, Mercedes-Benz Trucks and Freightliner accounts. David M. Witter, Jr. (BS) has been appointed director of Uni– versity Hospital at the Oregon Health Sciences University, Port– land. '65 Richard Bolen (BS), formerly a planner with the city of T igard , Ore., is now a senior data analyst with the Portland Metropolitan Service District (Metro). George Funkhouser (BS), office leasing specialist with the busi– ness real estate firm of Cushman & Wakefield, Portland, has been named one of his company's five top producers for 1986. Avon Murphy (BA) has j oined the communications department at Oregon Institute of Technol– ogy, Klamath Falls, as an associ– ate professor. He most recently was coordinator of the technical communication program at Louisiana University. '66 Robert H. Colfelt (BS), president of Valley ational Bank of Ore– gon, Forest Grove, Ore., has been named chairman of the board of PSU MAGAZINE PAGE 23 directors of the Tualatin Valley Economic Developmelll Corp. Janice L. Yaden (BA) has been appointed to a new position in the Oregon governor's office, act– ing as Governor Neil Gold– schmidt's adviser on human resources. '67 Dennis Crow (MST) is the new principal at Sandy High School, Sandy, Ore., where he has taught and served in the administration since 1964. Jim Gallucci (BS), partner in the Portland certified public accoum– ing firm of Bottaini & Gallucci, has been elected president of the Italian Businessmen's Club of Portland . Alan Jones (BS), president and chief executive officer of United Grocers, Inc., Milwaukie, Ore., has been elected fi rst chairman of the board of d irectors of Provi– dence Medical Foundation. Gladys McCoy (MSW) is the new chair of the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners follow– ing her election Nov. 4. She also served as a commissioner on the same board from 1979 to 1984. Grant D. Nelson (BS, '82 MST) has been named a staff assistant to incoming Multnomah Coumy Chairwoman Gladys McCoy ('67 MSW). He formerly served as a staff assistant to Multnomah County Executive Dennis Buchanan. '68 Sam Diack (BS) manages the Sandy River Gorge Nature Con– servancy lands, some 600 acres of protected land spread along the Oregon river. Douglas Eyer (BS), an 18-year veteran of the National Labor Relations Board, has been named director of the agency's Portland office. Curtis J. Schneider (BS), plan– ning director for the Clatsop County Department of Planning and Development in Astoria, Ore., has been appointed to the Oregon Lewis and Clark Trail Committee.