PSU Magazine Spring 1988

'68 Steve Mikulic (BS) has joined Grubb & Ellis' Property Manage– ment Division, Portland. He is now responsible for all commercial properties which the company manages, including office, retail and industrial operations. Mikulic most recently managed multifamily, retail and commercial office properties for Coldwell Banker in Portland. '69 Brady Adams (BS) has been named president of Evergreen Federal Savings & Loan, headquartered in Grants Pass, Ore. Adamsjoined the firm in 1972 as a loan officer. Nathan L. Jones (MS), principal of Jefferson High School, Portland, has been named one of52 outstand– ing secondary school principals in the nation. The honor came during America's only joint recognition program for teachers and principals, sponsored by the National Associa– tion ofSecondary School Principals, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and Burger King Corporation. Robert E. Schimek (BS) has been elected secretary/ treasurer at Cen– tury West Engineering Corp. in Portland. Larry Vinton (BS) is the new Beaverton, Ore. branch manager for Coldwell Banker Residential Services. Vinto n was previously manager of the Sears Financial Center in Clackamas, Ore. '70 A.J. Arriola (BA) has been named as director of operations for Good Health Plan of Oregon, head– quartered in Portland. She was formerly with Kaiser Permanente as director of health plan special projects. Ray Horton (BS) and Gina Whitehill have merged their firms to form The Madison Agency Inc. in Portland. Horton 's specialty involves advertising and marketing services for retail and business-to– business trades. Linda Kaeser, Ph.D. (MSW) has been named the first director of the new Center on Aging esta– blished at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Most recently, Kaeser served as associate dean of research at the university's Nursing School. J im Sehon (BS), manager of the Hillsboro, Ore. branch of Oregon Adult and Family Services, has been elected treasurer of the Washington County Community Action Organization. Gordon E. Smith (BS) was named chairman of the board of United Grocers, Oregon's largest food wholesaler, during the organiza– tion's recent annual meeting. Ken Teschner (BS) has been promoted to general manager at Reed/ Harris Inc., a large Portland commercial printing and mailing firm. '71 Rob Drake (BS) has been re-elected to a one-year post as president of the Beaverton, Ore. City Council. He is also the sales manager for the restaurant division of Columbia Distributing/ Maletis Inc., Portland. Guy Eichsteadt (BA) has been promoted to field director in the Columbia Pacific Council of Boy Scouts of America. Based in Port– land, Eichsteadt is now responsible for staff who supervise a youth program reaching over 6,000 scouts led by nearly 2,500 volunteers. Tom Fink (BS) , an agent with Standard Insurance Co., Portland, has received his chartered financial consultant diploma and designation from American Coll ege, Bryn Mawr, Pa. Patrick C. Jordan (MBA}, a partner in the regional real estate consulting and appraisal firm of Curtis Slocum & Jordan Inc., Portland, has been awarded the Counselor Real Estate Designation by the American Soci– ety of Real Estate Counselors. Jordan is the immediate past chair– man of the City of Portland's Design Review Commission. Patrick Lockhart (BS), president and chief executive officer of Nendels Corp., Portland, has esta– blished a discount program offering Northwest university students, faculty and alumni 25 percent off the room rate at any of his chain's 40 hotels in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Nevada and California. He said he hoped other industries would follow suit in supporting Northwest higher education institutions. Barba r a McFa rland (BA) has opened a law practice in Hillsboro, Ore. specializing in fami ly law and related business concerns. John Needham (BS}, a purchasing agent with Westinghouse Electric Supply, Portland, is the new second vice president of the Electric Club of Oregon. Tom Winter rowd ('73 BS}, of Hubbell Inc. has been elected to the club's board of directors. Jane Staehely (BS) was one of 40 teachers across the nation to be named a master teacher of migrant youth by the National Association of State Directors of Migrant Education. She coordinates a fede– rall y funded migrant education program for the Portland Public Schools involving some 600 students, primarily of Southeast Asian ancestry. Staehely also is currently enrolled in the education administration degree program at PSU. Les G. Youngbar (BS) has been named chief of police in the City of Lake Oswego, Ore., winning the position over some 70 applicants during a nationwide search to fill the position. ChiefYoungbarjoined LOPD in 1978 and served as interim chief since last Apr. 17, when his predecessor resigned to become chief of police in Key West, Fla. PSU MAGAZINE PAGE 24 '72 Robert Buxman (BS), vice president and manager of American Savers Mortgage Corp., Portland, has been named second vice-president of the 400-member Oregon Remodelers Association. Elaine Cornick (MSW) has opened Northwest Career & Organizational Counseling in Beaverton, Ore. She is a former career counselor in PSU's Career and Placement Services office. Michael Downing (BS) has joined The Realty Group Inc., Portland, as a sales associate. Downing is past president of the Portland Million Dollar Realty Club and currently is serving his second three-year term as director for the Oregon Associ– ation of Realtors. Stephen A. Gimbol (BS) has been promoted to vice president in charge of sales training for stock– brokers of Paulson Investment Co., Portland. Bruce Korter (BS}, vice president and general manager of Portland's Grubb & Ellis Commercial Real Estate Brokerage, has been appointed to a region-wide retail prope rties task force based at his company's headquarters in San Francisco, Calif. Ike Lacefield (MSW) has been appointed manager of the Beaver– ton, Ore. branch of Stan Wiley Inc. Realtors . He was previous ly corporate manager of the company and has been with the firm for the past three years. Edwin Srebnik (MBA) and Ray Malone ('62 BS) have joined with Ma r lene Stewart to form EMR Financial Advisory Services Inc., a registered investment advisory firm with offices in Southwest Portland. Steve Stanich (MST), a former Portland high school football coach, will manage a new tavern located near John's Landing in Southwest Portland. The venture marks the first expansion of his family's well– known Stanich Ten Til One Tavern located in Northeast Portland. Dic k Wright (BA) is the new corporate video producer/ director for Mincey Productions, Portland. Wright previously was a freelance producer/ director.