PSU Magazine Spring 1988

'73 Jim Hanches (BS), formerly with the development office of Reed College, Portland, is the new assis– tant vice president for public affairs/ campaign manager for Pacific University, Forest Grove, Ore. Ron King (BS) has been appointed vice president and manager of MacKenzie Sales, the sales arm of Western Family Foods, Inc., Tigard, Ore. Juanita Quiton (BS) has joined the Peace Corps, journeying to the African nation of Swaziland to coordinate a rural education center there. Since graduating from PSU, she has worked as a youth employ– ment program manager and mediation specialist for the City of Portland. John 0. Reeder (BS) has been named vice president of sales and marketing for the Washington– Oregon Shippers Cooperative Association in Seattle, Wash. Reeder brings 14 years of transportation experience to hi s new post, including work in international air freight forwarding and air freight service. '74 Rocky L. Arn (BS) has been named an account executive with Oregon Bank Financial Services, Portland, serving the bank's Beaverton-area branches. A.F. Bartsch (BS), assistant vice president and manager at U.S. Bank, Portland, h as been elected as a new member of the board of direc– tors for the Northwest Osteopathic Medical Foundation. Dennis L. Derby (BS, '78 MBA) has been e lected president of the H ome Builders Assoc ia ti on of Metropolitan Portland. He is pres– ident and owner of Blazer Homes, Tigard, Ore., which specializes in residential construction. Derby has been an active member and officer of HBAMP and also serves on the board of directors of the National Association of Home Builders. Roy Heikkala (MBA), a longtime Vancouver, Wash. businessman in the building industry, has been named director of property and development for the Pon of Van- couver. He will be in charge of port planning, industrial property manage– ment and tenant lease management. Tracy Hemmert (BS) h as been assigned to the Reno, Nevada area as a professional sales represen– tative of Smith Kline & French Laboratories, a pharmaceutical division of Smith Kline Beckman Corp. Before joining SK&F, he was a salesman with H.S. Crocker Co. Lee Rinderknecht (BS) has joined the field engin eering staff a t to the council. The organization promotes an understandin g of Chinese culture and contemporary affairs through educational services. Mark S. Gardiner (BS) has been promoted to senior vice president, and Kenneth Rust ('78 BS) and Patrick H. Oancy ('78 MS) h ave each been promoted to vice presi– dent of Government Finance Associates Inc., a t the Portland office of the national municipal finance advisory firm. JOIN US THIS SUMMER AT PSU Our flexible schedule allows you to plan your classes around your vacation Our international focus provides many options: O overseas programs in 12 countries O 20 foreign languages O visiting professors from around the world O popular lecture series, "Tour the World at Home This Summer" Other advantages : O easy registration O no admission requirement O 500+ courses to choose from For your complimentary copy of the 1988 Summer Session catalog, call or write: PSU Summer Session PO Box 751 Portland, OR 97207 (503) 464-4081 Toll-free in Oregon: 1-800-452-4909 Toll-free outside Oregon: 1-800-547-8887 Lambert Engineering in Bend, Ore. He is a former manufacturer's representative. '75 Judy Baxter (BS, '86 MT), a senior tax specialist with Peat Marwick & Main Co., Portland, has been elected 1988 treasurer of the North– west Regional China Council. Gene Leo ('75 BS), executive director of the Portland Rose Festival Assoc– iation, has been elected as a director Michael R. Streicher (BS), has qualified as a member of the 1987 Chairman's Council of New York Life Insurance Co. Members rank in the top four percent of the firm's 9,000 agents in the U.S. and Canada, based on 1986-87 sales performance. Streicher also earned this distinction last year. '76 Don Barkost (BS, '87 MPA) has been named assistant director for PSU MAGAZINE PAGE 25 facilities planning at Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland. He is the former assistant to the director of physical plant at PSU. Hon. Nancy Campbell (BS), formerly a Tigard, Ore. attorney, has become the first woman judge named to the court bench in Wash– ington Co unty, Ore. The new District Court judge replaces the Hon. Michael McE!ligott ('68 BS), who recently assumed his new post on the Washington County Circuit Court bench. Wesley Davis (MBA), who owns the Aloha, Ore. CPA firm bearing his name, has been e lected to active membership in the Oregon Assoc– iation of Public Accountants. Steven Feldman (BS, '77 MPA) has been accepted to the two-year program leading to thejuris doctor degree at Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles, Calif. Tom Hager (BS), editor of the Univers ity of Oregon 's alumni magazine , Old Oregon, has co– authored a new book with his wife, Lauren Kessler, an associate pro– fessor of journalism at the UO. The book's title is "Staying Young: The Whole Truth About Aging and What You Can Do to Slow the Process." '77 Hamid R. Afghan (BS, '85 MS) has been named vice president of Mackenzie Engineering Inc., Portland Michael A. Anderson (BA), former assistant manager of the Fresno Philharmonic in California, has been named managing director of the Eugene Opera in Eugene, Ore. Prior to his work in Fresno, Anderson was the operations manager for the Eugene Symphony Association for three years. Stephanie Hallock (BA, '79 MPA) has been named chief operating officer of The Hallock Agency Advertising and Public Relations, Portland. She was previously branch chief at the Environmental Protec– tion Agency in San Francisco. Greg M. Lutz (BS, '78 MBA) has been appointed director of opera– tions for CADENCE Management Corp., Portland.