PSU Magazine Spring 1988

I Have an international summer with PSU The French hikers, ruddy cheeked from the steep warm climb, dropped their knapsacks at a spot perfect for viewing the mountain during the noon day meal. Other hikers enchanted by the melodious language of the foreign visitors could almost believe they themselves were in the French Alps and not on Mt. Hood in Oregon. But Mt. Hood is close to home and a great place to be for everyone including the hikers, who were not French but pan of an intensive for– eign language study program through PSU Summer Session. Summer Session, the largest in the state system, is again offering an out– standing schedule of more than 500 courses, special programs, and educa– tional options, including A*L*P*S in Oregon, a four-week imensive lan– guage program held on Mt. Hood every summer in French, Italian or Spanish. The international feel continues with 20 languages offered on campus, a score of visiting professors from around the globe and the "Tour the World at Home" free lecture series every Wednesday noon (see schedule page 29). Summer Session students can leave Oregon and study in Canada, China, England, France, Germany. Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Spain, and Yugoslavia. The an of a Papua New Guinea trive, body painting a nd head– dresses, will become a personal expe– rience for students taught by the local villagers July 30 through August 16. PSU Summer Session also offers a vast array of standard courses and special interest programs in college preparatory skills, Anthropology, Biol– ogy, Geology, Sociology and Women's Studies, to name a few. For a Summer Session catalog, call 1-800-452-4909 within Oregon and 1- 800-547-8887 outside Oregon. Eight– week classes begin June 20, but there are shorter courses, workshops and lectures starting every day through the summer. Play makes regional competition The PSU theater production of "Lydie Breeze" was selected for pres– entation at the American College Theater Festival Regional Competition at Washington State University in Pull– man, Feb. 3-6. The john Guare play was directed by William Tate when it made its Portland debut in Lincoln Hall Auditorium during November. "Lydie Breeze" was one of four col– lege productions from Oregon, Wash– ington and Alaska to be presented. PSU has sent many productions to the regional competition and three have been selected for performance at the Kennedy Center: The Misanthrope, 1972; Equus, 1978; and Waltz of the Toreadors, 1983. PSU MAGAZINE PAGE 15 Contributors honored at Foundation events Performances by the University's dance, theater and music departments highlighted "An Evening of Apprecia– tion" hosted by PSU Foundation and President and Mrs. Sicuro on March 8. The event was held in honor of the President's Associates, those in the community who have provided sub– stantial support to the University. Entertainment by the School of Fine and Performing Ans featured faculty arranged and directed pieces, along with student and alumni performances. The University community is also looking forward to a Foundation sponsored event on April 16, the first annual "President's Ball." The Satur– day evening gala will feature dinner and dancing to the Woody Hite Big Band in the Hilton Hotel's Grand Bal– lroom. Organizing the night's festivi– ties are Foundation board member Lawrence Black and his wife Susan. Community leaders serving on PSU's Advisory Councils and Boards and faculty members have been invited to the event. In Memoriam Robert E. Dodge, professor emeri– tus in Business Administration, died March 1 in a Portland hospital. He was 75. Dodge was chairman of the Department of Marketing from 1959 to 1967 and was professor of Interna– tional trade. He retired from PSU in 1977. Ralph D. Greiling, 67, a senior faculty member of the Department of Electrical Engineering, died Dec. 8 from cancer. Greiling, who was born and raised in Portland, began his career with the Vanport Extension Center in 1947. He served in many roles at the University including department chairman and most recently as departmental student advisor.