PSU Magazine Spring 1989

Compiled by Cliff Johnson Vanport David C. Buffam has been appointed director of international trade for the National Service Corps of Retired Ex– ecutives in Washington, D.C. Buffam is co- founder and a current board member of the Ted L. Rausch Co. of Oregon, an import/export brokerage firm based in Portland . William A. Hilliard, editor of The Oregonian newspaper in Portland. has been appointed to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Portland branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Hon. Hollie Pihl, a Washington Coun– ty, Ore., Circuit Court judge, has been elected to his second term on the board of directors of the Washington County Historical Society. Roger Zener has been elected vice president of industry relations and business development at Standard In– surance Co. , Portland . '60 Jack Hune (BS) has been named vice president and banking office manager at Key Bank of Oregon's Gresham of– fice. He has 28 years of lending and supervisory experience and has been with Key Bank since 1975. '62 Robert G. Murray (BS), executive vice president of First Interstate Bank in the firm's Portland region head– quarters, has been elected treasurer of the Medical Research Foundation of Oregon's 1989 board of trustees. '63 Neil S. Lewis, Ph.D. (BA), a faculty member at University of Wisconsin– Stevens Point for the past 17 years, has been named the state's outstanding college- level history teacher for 1988. William W. Pollard, M.D. (BS), has opened a new medical and surgical practice in Hillsboro, Ore. Prior to his retirement from military medicine last September, he was chief of the surgery PSU 24 I ALUM NOTES I department at Evans Army Hospital in Fort Carson, Colo. Pollard entered the U.S. Army Medical Corps in 1972 and served in Vietnam. He later served at Army hospitals in Korea, West Point, N.Y. and in Kansas. '65 John Trullinger (BA, '71 MST) is the new band teacher at Taft High School in Lincoln C ity, Ore. He has 22 years of teaching experience, including seven as an instructor. '66 Floyd Smith (BA) has been named the new environmental impact statement coordinator for Mt. Hood Meadows, Ore. , dealing with the ski resort's pro– posed expansion. '67 Anton C. Kirchhof, Jr. (BA. "69 MBA), an attorney with Louisiana– Pacific Corp. in Portland , has been elected secretary of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Oregon, Inc. A. Gary Ames (BS) has taken over the reins as president of US West lnc.'s telephone subsidiary, US West Com– munications. '68 David Booth (BS) has been named personal · lines sales manager in the Portland office of the Campbell , Galt & Newlands Inc. insurance firm . Barbara J. Stayton (BA) reports that she was recently promoted to staff development specialist for Boulder Valley Public Schools in Boulder, Colo. She is a former language arts teacher and department chair in the same district. '69 John W. Bosin (BA) was recently named national field sales manager for computer offerings in the refinish divi– sion of E.l. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Inc. in Wilmington, Del. Marvin Hempel (BS) is scheduled to become director of instruction for the Centennial School District near Gresham, Ore., on July I. He is the district's current director of personnel. Michael S. Love (BS) has been ap– poi nted to an 18- member citizens ad– visory committee to study the proposed Mt. Hood Parkway. a four- lane ex– pressway designed to link Interstate 84 and U.S. Highway 26 in the Gresham, Ore., area. Love is the office manager of Columbia Corrugated Box Co. in Portland . Neal Schoenborn (BS) of American States Insurance Co., Lake Oswego, Ore., has been named president of the O regon Insura nce Underwriters Association for 1989. '70 Sharon L. Ford (BS) has joined the investment banking and brokerage firm of Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. Inc. as second vice president for the sales division in the fi rm's Beverly Hills, Calif., office. She formerly worked at Dean Witter Reynolds as associate vice president of investments in the firm's Century City, Cali f., office. Robin Huffman Pennock (BA , '74 MA) reports that she is now principal at Mt. Bethel Elementary School in Atlanta, Ga ., where the enrollment tops 1,300 students. She is a former school administrator in three other states. David L. Randall (BS) has been named manager of corporate human resources at Sulzer Bingham Pumps Inc. in the international firm's Portland office. He was previously manager of quality assurance and labor relations at the Portland location. Jim Sehon (BS), manager of the Beaverton, Ore., office of Oregon Adult and Family Services, has been elected chairman of the board of direc– tors of the Washington County Com– munity Action organization. water quality. He was a former research assistant professor at the University of Minnesota before taking his present position. Christopher Howell (MA) has ac– cepted a position as assistant professor of English at Emporia State Universi– ty in Emporia, Kan. He is the former poet- in- residence at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. Patrick G. Lockhart (BS), co- owner of Execulodge Corp., has announced completion of a $4 million, 108- room expansion at The Execulodge-Portland Airport. Dennis Monaghan Dennis M. Monaghan (BS, '73 MS) , an actuary for William M. Mercer Meidinger Hansen Inc., has been named a principal in the Portland of– fice of the employee benefit and com– pensation consulting firm. Bob Setterberg (BS) has been pro– moted to general sales manager at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Oregon in the firm's Portland headquarters. '72 Gerald N. Calvin, Ph.D. (BS), reports he is now in private practice in Denver, Colo., as a certi fied rehabilitation consultant. Eric Egland (BS) reports that as Northwest region sales director for Gold Bond Ice Cream, he is now responsible for sales of Popsicle, Disney, Oreo, Minute Maid and Dan– non frozen novelties in nine states. '71 Tom Marantette (BS) has been named vice president of the Downtown Thomas R. Holm, Ph.D. (BS), Kiwanis Club of Portland . He is vice reports he is now working as an president of the Atiyeh Bros. , Inc. rug associate chemist with the Illinois State specialty fi rm in Portland. Water Survey in Champaign, Ill ., where he is conducting research on