PSU Magazine Spring 1989

Donna Klover (MS) has been ap– pointed a senior career consultant tor Kevane & Associates, a career con– sulting firm in Portland . Sandra Mathern- Smith Sandra Mathern-Smith (BA) is a new assistant professor of dance at Denison University in Granville. Ohio. Prior to coming to Denison, she was an instructor of modern dance a l the University of Wisconsin- Mad ison. Bob Ogle (MBA) has joined the Portland office of Peat Marwick Main & Co. CPAs as staff auditor. He was formerly employed with two local financial institutions during the past II years. '84 Al Gosiak (BS) is the new vice presi– dent of finance and controller for Duckwall- Pooley Fruit Co., the largest independent fruit packer and shipper in Oregon's Hood River Valley. He is Hood River County's former director of budget and finance. MaryLee Planer (BA) has been ap– pointed director of development for the Tuality Healthcare Foundation in Hillsboro, Ore. She is the former direc– tor of development for Portland Civic Theater. '85 Michael Brewin (BS) is now the news editor at "The Clackamas County · ews," a weekly newspaper published in Estacada. Ore. Ruth Handlin, CPA (MT), has join– ed Sander, Perkins & Co: Inc. as a tax manager for the Portland firm . James S. Kidd (BS) has been authorized by the International Board of Certified Financial Planners, Inc. to use the title Certified Financial Plan– ner (CFP). He works at Intervest Financial Advisors Inc. in Portland. Polly Parish (MBA) has been named to fill an international trade specialist position in the agricultural marketing and development division of the Oregon Department of Agriculture. She formerly worked in First Interstate Bank's international banking division. '86 Rene Changsut (BS, '88 MST) has bee n appo inted co ns ulta nt kinesiotherapist and director of the employee fitness program at Safeway Stores' giant bread plant in Clackamas, Ore. Steven B. Cochrane (BS) was recent– ly appointed general manager at Scenic Air Service, an aircraft sales, rental, instruction and maintenance firm located at the Troutdale, Ore. , Airport. Sebastian Degens (MUP) has been elected president of REACH Com– munity Development Inc. , a private, non- profit community development corporation in southeast Portland. He is a senior planner in the Port of Portland's land development division. Joan Joyce (MS), special education department head and teacher at Fowler Junior High School in Tigard , Ore. , has been named a new board member of The Spinal Cord Association. Michael Nyberg (BS) has been pro– moted to marketing manager for cy– cling, cleated and new product lines at AVlA Athletic Footwear, Portland. Linda J. Barnett (BS) is the new Jon V. Owens (BS) has been named full - time manager of the Music an investment executive with the Enrichment Association in Coos Bay, Portland office of Dain Bosworth Inc. Ore. She is responsible for planning, He is a former product administrator supervising and administering the with ESCO Corporation in Portland . Oregon Coast Music Festival , as well as the group's concert series. She Alice Scannell (CRT) is the newly ap- recently completed an arts administra- pointed program coordinator of the tion fellowship in the music program Senior Adult Learning Center at PSU. of the National Endowment for the She has been working in PSU 's In– stitute on Aging on various gerontology grant projects since 1984. Arts in Washington, D.C. 'ITT Michael Lawrence Delaney (BS) has been awarded his certified pub! ic ac– countant certificate by the Oregon Board of Accountancy. He is a senior accountant with Laventhol & Horwath in Portland . Raedene J. A. Keeton (BS) has been promoted to vice president of the cash management department at Security Pacific Bank in Portland . Tess McBride-Ratty (BS), vice presi– dent of Media West Inc. of Beaverton, Ore., has been elected president of the Beaverton Arts Commission executive board for 1989. Pat Reser ('80 MS) has been elected board secretary. Ronald F. Williams (BS) has opened an income tax and accounting service combined with a mail service business in Longview, Wash. '88 Alice Archer (BS) has joined the audit department of Laventhol & Horwath CPAs in the firm's Portland office. P. Barton DeLacy (MUP), a commer– cial real estate appraiser and president of Appraisal Group Inc. of Portland, has been appointed to a two- year term on the Lake Oswego, Ore., Planning Commission. Patricia Schwartz (MS) , a learning specialist in the West Linn , Ore., School District, has been named to the board of directors of Portland's Tree of Learning High School as parent representative. The facility is an alter– native high school for students with learning disabilities. Julie Simpson (MST) reports she is a new kinesiotherapist fo r the Richland , Wash., School District, where she provides therapy for children with handicaps. Carl N. Yount (BS) has been named staff consultant at DWB Associates Inc., a software and system design con– sulting firm in Beaverton, Ore. In Memoriam George A. Price (Vanport), a retired administrator with the Beaverton, Ore., School District, died of congestive heart fui lure Jan. 9 in his home. He was 59. When he retired in 1987, he was principal of Barnes Elementary School in Beaverton . Frederick J. Neimann ('64 BS) died Jan . 22 when his commercial fishing boat exploded in Morro Bay, Calif. He was 49. His wife of ten years had died in 1988. Norman D. Price III ('69 BS), a vice president for Reser's Fine Foods, Beaverton, Ore., died of pneumonia Jan . 7 in a Portland-area hospital. He was 43. Ronald L. Hess ('70 BS), chief finan– cial officer since 1979 for Gardner & Beedon, a large Portland wholesale electrical and hardware equipment firm , died of leukemia Jan. 3 in a Portland hospital. He was 41. Jean E. Buckingham ('73 BS). a retired Clackamas County school– teacher, died of cancer Jan . 6 in a Portland- area hospital. Juanita Mae "Anita" Quiton C7:l BS), a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer and rural education coordinator, was killed Dec. 16 in an automobile accident near Belfast, South Africa. She was 39. She had been working in neighboring Swaziland and was beginning a vaca– tion journey with other Peace Corps volunteers when their car crashed down a mountainside. Cynthia Callis Oberg ('77 BS), a bus and rail acces ibility planner for Tri– Met and a former Portland State employee, died Dec. 23 in a Portland hospital of complications during surgery. She was 37. She received the Sonja Hilton Award posthumously on Jan . 13 for her contributions to civil and human rights for people with disabilities. Mrs. Oberg served as han– dicapped student services coordinator at PSU from 1978- 86. Hulda A. DeVaughn ('79 BA), a Portland homemaker, died Dec. 5 at home of heart disease. She was 88. At the time of her death , she was work– ing on her master's degree and had just completed a thesis for one of her classes. Judith Ann Hein ('79 BA), a former English instructor at Portland State, died at home Jan. 10 of complications resulting from multiple sclerosis. She was 50. She received PSU's Helen Oliver Award in 1979, the year she graduated with a 4.0 grade point average. She then taught English until 1981 when she retired because of il– lness. 0 PSU 27