PSU Magazine Spring 1990

Are you an Accounting graduate? If so , you are in vited to a picnic to renew friendships with fellow graduates and accounting professors. Bring the family, potluck dish and beverage of choice to Oaks Amusement Park in Portland on Saturday, May 19 , from noon to 4:30 p.m . Activities are planned for adu lts and children, including a raffle , "Missing Accounting Alumn i Contest," and a surpri se event prepared by the accounting profe ssors. Cost for the afternoon event is $5. Sign up for the picnic by calling the PSU Accounting Department at 725-3713 . fi rm. Ross was fo rmerly ci ty en– gineer for the city of La Mesa, Cali f. '77 Richard R . Demars (BS) is the new security director at Western Oregon State Co llege, Mon– mouth , Oregon. Demars has been with the Washington County Cor– recti ons Di vision si nce 1977 , most recentl y as corrections director. Nicholas Garrow (BS) has been appointed to head a new client ser– vice un it at Roll ins Burdick Hunter. Garrow is a vice president in the Portl and firm, and spec iali zes in ri sk management and insurance brokerage. Carolyn Leonard (BS, '79 MS) has been elected to a one-year term as chai rwoman of the Met– ropolitan Human Relati ons Com– mi ss ion's cit izens human ri ghts panel. The citizen comm ission is an advisory body to Portl and and Multnomah County governments charged with helping to protect the rights of ethn ic, reli gious and other minority groups. Leonard is the coordinator on multicultural education for the Portland Public Schoo ls. David Petrie (MBA) is the new chie f fin ancial offi cer fo r Co lum– bia Memorial Hospital in Astoria. Petrie , who has worked in the fi – nance and accounting end of the health care industry for the past 17 years, began as an accountant with Portland 's Prov idence Hospi– tal in 1972 . Hi s latest post was as reimbursement manager for Le– gacy Health System of Portl and. Petrie and his famil y now reside in Camas , Wash. They will relocate next summer after hi s son com– pletes his senior year of high school. PSU 26 Gerald Wood (BS , "83 MS) is the reg ional economist for Central and Eastern Oregon. In thi s pos i– tion, Wood who is based Pendle– ton, studies and writes about trends in the agriculture-based economy of the area . He pred icts unemployment leve ls, vocational education needs, and regional economic strategies for the state's Employment Di vis ion. Wood be– gan hi s Salem post in August 1989 and moved to Pendleton in Oc– tober 1989. '78 Fantu Cheru (MS , '83 Ph. D. ) has recently published hi s third book The Silent Revolution in Africa: Debi, Development and Democ– racy (Zed Press , London: 1989). Chem is a profe ssor at American Uni versity, Washington, D.C . Jeffrey S. Pe1erson Jeffrey S . Peterson (BS) was re– centl y promoted to controller for Oregon Dental Service (ODS) Hea lth Pl an, Portland , Ore. ODS is the states 's second largest health insurer covering more than 600 ,000 Oregonians and 1,500 employment groups. Prior to join– ing ODS Healthplan , Peterson was controller and director of fi– nance fo r View Master/Ideal. Pamela Anne Turner (BS) was re– cently awarded a Master of Arts in the Institute of Liberal Arts from Emory University, Atl anta , Ga. '79 Dave Carboneau (BS) has been appointed vice president of Infor– mation Resources by the board of directors of Portl and General Cor– poration and Portland General Electric Co. Terry N. Crawford (MBA) has ac– cepted a position as a strategic ac– counts manager with the customer marketing group of the OEM Mod– ular Systems Operation (OMSO) , at Intel Corporation in Hill sboro. Crawford , who has been with Intel in various marketing and engineer– ing management roles for the last IO years, will now be responsible fo r manag ing all the business and partnership relationships of one of Intel/OMSO 's largest European customers. Timothy Hacker (BA) writes that he received an M .A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Lan– guages (TESOL), from the Mon– terey Institute of International Studies in December 1988. Hacker began teaching Engli sh and TESOL at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Wash., last September. J ames Reitz (BS , '84 MUP) has joined the staff of the Community Development department for the City of Forest Grove. Reitz, now an assoc iate pl anner in the office, was fo rmerly in charge of plan– ning and zoning for the City of Newberg. Dawn White (BA) is the new di– rector of International Exchange Programs at PSU. White, who has worked with the PSU Summer Session offi ce and the Interna– tional Exchange Program since 1978, began her new post as full – time director of the exchange programs in August 1989. In addi – tion, she also serves as Fulbright Officer, and manages the National Faculty Exchange . '80 Robert Mercer (BA , '86 MA) is coordinating the new Portland State University Salem Center. The center, in cooperati on with other institutions of higher educa– tion, will provide a variety of con– tinuing and profess ional develop– ment opportunities to the Salem area. Mercer was formerly the di– rector of the Student Ad vising Center, and is currently on leave from doctoral studies at the Uni – versity of Wisconsin . George Scher zer (MBA) is a new vice pres ident at Smith Barney Harri s Upham & Co., a Portl and brokerage firm . Scherzer was pre– viously executi ve vice president at Black & Company Inc. , where he worked for 10 years. Nanci Werts (BS) has been pro– moted to senior aud it manager at the Portland office of Deloitte Haskins and Sells, CPAs. '81 Tara M. Bassett (BS) writes that she is a talk show and telethon host, entertainment reporter, and commercial spokesperson li ving in Louisv ille , Ky. Bassett also re– ports that she's a partner in a pro– fess ional deve lopment seminar business called Mentar, offering corporate clients the opportunity to assist employees in attitude and appearance improvements. Connie D. Easler Connie D. Easter (MPA) has joined Northwest Family Network in Portland , as corporate com– municati ons director. She was most recently manager of the Of– fi ce of Public Affairs, Adult and Family Services, in the State of Oregon.