PSU Magazine Spring 1990

Peter Landis (BS) has been prom– oted to senior vice president of the Western Region of the U.S. Bank Corporate Banking Division. Landis , a resident of Gresham, Ore. , began his career with U.S. Bank in 1965. He has served as vice president and manager of both the Menlo Park branch and the Gresham branch and is an ac– tive member of the Gresham Chamber of Commerce. '66 Phillip Miller (BA) has been named vice president in the In– come Property Division of U.S . bank in Portland. Miller joined U.S. Bank in 1966 as a collector in the Consumer Loan department. He has held a variety of positions since then , most recently as senior income property loan producer. Janet Sonniksen (BS), of Lake Oswego , has been selected to re– ceive the Nationa l Art Ed ucation Association (NA EA) Award , as the Pacific Region Secondary Art Educator. The award is given to art educators who achieve outstand– ing accomplishments and exemp– lary service, and will be presented at the NAEA convention in Kansas City, Mo ., in April. The NAEA membership includes 50 states and 66 foreign countries . '67 A. Gary Ames (BS) became pres– ident of US West Communications Inc. in January. Headquartered in Denver, Colo., US West has about lO million customers and covers 14 states. Since starting with Pacific Northwest Bell in 1967, Ames has held a variety of execu– tive positions with Pacific North– west Bell , and most recently was president of US West Communica– tions Operations. Richard Mimnaugh (BS) has joined Willamette Financial Ser– vices in Tigard, as a lease broker. PSU 24 '68 Elizabeth Rehm (BS) has been promoted to Southern European Task Force (SETF), regional coor– dinator, with Big Bend Commun– ity College in Europe. Rehm is re– spon sible for programs on military installations in Italy, Greece, Tur– key and the Sinai. '69 Sho Dozono (MST) was recently awarded the Distinguished Ser– vice Award by the Metropolitan Human Relations Commission. The award was given in recogni– tion of Dozono's human rights work. Dozono is the president of Azumano Travel Services Inc. in Portland. Captain Donald Suloff (BS) has been named commanding officer of the National Oceanic and Atmos– pheric Administration (NOAA) ship Discoverer. The Discoverer is a 303-foot research vessel home– ported in Seattle. Among the pro– jects conducted on ship are geoth – ermal venting studies of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, oceani c-atmos– pheric interface stud ies in the equatorial Pacific, and sea-floor mapping research on the continen– tal shelf. Captain Suloff has been with NOAA for 20 years. Harold C. Williams Harold C. Williams ·(BS, '79 MS) is back at the University as a development officer. While a stu– dent on campus in the early '70s , Williams organized and directed the Educational Center, a branch campus in northeast Portland . He was later appoi nted to serve as Oregon's first Affirmative Action Director for the state and served as a labor relations manager for the Executive Department. He is cur– rently fou nder and president of CH2A and Associates , a Portland consulting firm for affirmative ac– tion, labor relations, cross-cul– tural and conflict management. Williams is also spokesman and vice president of the Coalition for Black Men of Portland. In his new position for the PSU Development Office, Williams will solicit cor– porate gifts for Portland State Uni– versity. '70 Linda Kaeser (MSW) is the hol– der of the Ilsa Caroll Turner Chair in Gerontology and the director of the Center on Aging at the Univer– sity of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. John M. Lundquist (BA) reports that he received a Master of Lib– rary Science from Brigham Young University in 1972 , a Ph.D . in Near Eastern Studies from The University of Michigan in 1983, and is currently The Susan And Douglas Dillon Chief Librarian of the Oriental Division at the New York Public Library. Lundquist is also an adjunct associate professor of art hi story and archaeology at Columbia University, New York , N.Y. James Sehon (BS) is now eastern regional manager of Oregon's Adult and Family Services Divi– sion . Sehon will be relocating to Bend , where the eastern region is based. He had been the manager of the Beaverton branch since last year. Stuart Shleifer (MBA) has been elected president of the Central Eastside Industrial Counc il. The council represents l,400 firms in the central eastside di strict of Port– land. Shleifer is the president of Shleifer Furniture Company. '71 Kathleen McCullough (BS) has been selected as assistant director of publications at Lewis & Clark College. McCullough has been the publications manager at the Oregon Health Sciences Univer– sity for the past two years . John Needham (BS), of Westing– house Electric Supply Corpora– tion, has been elected president of The Electric Club of Oregon. Gary Preston Taylor (BS) was named Broker of the Year for 1989 by the Washington County Associ– ati on of Realtors Million Dollar Club. This is the latest award for Taylor, a broker at the Profession– als 100 Sunset Corridor office. In 1987 Taylor was chosen Realtor of the Year by the Washington County Board of Realtors , and in 1988 he received the Professionals 100 Jacques Guirant Memorial Award for spirit, effort and dedica– tion to the company. '72 Charles D. Mosher Charles D. Mosher (MBA) re– ports that at the September 25th Annual American Water Re– sources Conference (AWRA) in Tampa, Fla. , he received a Fellow Award. This is presented to indi– viduals who have made significant contributions to the association and have an eminent record in a branch of water resource science and technology. Mosher has also been elected Pacific Northwest Di– rector of AWRA and began his three-year term Jan. 1. Teresa Spada (BS) has been elected to the United Cerebral Palsy Associations's board of di– rectors. Spada has her own cer– tified public accounting office in Portland.