PSU Magazine Spring 1996

~ ~,.- y::..., .._.. ~-~ -~ ·, ~S~i:j Sheila Stephens BA '77 is part– ner of Ri vcrworks Communi– cations in Tigard. Stephens wri tes,"] always wondered how I would use my English and art degrees. One day I turned around and realized I was using my 1) writing, 2) photography, 3) strategic thinking for market– ing plans, 4) interview, inter– communication, and counseling skills, and 5) design and graphic skills. I say 'go for it."' Stephens is also writing a book entitled Light Up Your Dreams with Love. Nancy Summers writes that "it has been 24 years since my son, Michael Summers, and I gradu– ated from PSU at the same time. We are in business together now, co-owners of Scrubby's, a self-service car wash in Mi lwaukie." Nancy retired in 1985 from the Multnomah County Correc– tions Department. Michael is a representative with Summers & Associates, a commercial prop– erty leasing firm in Portland. '73 Jeanie Coates has been elected as a trustee of the Mu ltnomah Athletic Club. Coates is owner What Portland State memories are hiding in the back of your closet? As part of the celebration of our SOth Anniversary, the Un iversity is putting together a permanent exhibit of Portland State's h istory. We're looking for donations of keepsakes from your days at Vanport, PSC, or PSU . Do you have old sports uniforms? Textbooks? Diplomas? Other mementos? We're interested. Help us create an exhibit that reflects the PSU you knew. If you would like to contribute, contact the History Department at 725 -3917. of The Coates Agency, an advertising agency in Portland. Dwayne McNannay MSW is manager of facilities develop– ment and construction at Oregon Youth Authority, a juvenile corrections facility in Salem. Kathleen Stein is the advertis– ing representative for the west side of Lake Oswego with Community Newspapers Inc. Following graduation, Stein embarked on a 25-year career in the airline industry, with her home base in New York. She Lauri Slenning '79 recently completed a large commis– sioned art piece for the new Hoover Dam visitors center. She sculpted seven 7-by-3 Yi foot curved bronze relief panels in a combination Art Deco and W.P.A. style. The panels depict the agricultural, industrial, and recreation al ben efits the dam provides for the three states it serves. The project was funded by the Arizona Power Authority, the Colorado River Commission of N evada, and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The panels were expected to be unveiling in May in the Overlook room of the visitors center. The 600-pound bronze panels sit in the center of the room from which there is a dramatic v iew of the dam and surrounding area. There is a five-minute audio presentation visitors can listen to in four languages and custom lighting to enhance the panels at night. Slenning, a native of Portland, h as been a resident artist in Tucson, Ariz., for the past 11 years. Her work h as been exhibited in numerous galleries in Tucson and at the Arizona Biennial at the Tucson Museum of Art. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arizon a in 1987. Slenning's work often includes h umorous metaphors with emotion al, psychological, and sexual themes. Her sculpture, "Desert Scene," a public art piece at the Tucson Convention C enter, depicts three bronze vultures atop a h alf sunken steel satellite dish. 22 PSU MAGAZINE SPRING 1996 returned to the Portland area two years ago. '74 Sandra Burford MS '76 writes, "[ am busy working full-time, keeping up with teen and pre– teen daughters, and enrolled in a doctoral program in early childhood special education at George Mason University– whew! " Burford and her family live in Fairfax, Va. '75 Emil Nelson is leadman for construction and maintenance with the Stayton Co-op Telephone Company and their subsidiaries, North Santiam Communications and SCS Communications. The latter businesses are cable television and security systems, respec– tively. Nelson lives in Aumsville. Fred Rosenbaum has been elected as a trustee of the Multnomah Athletic Club. Rosenbaum is a senior agent with Standard Insurance and senior partner at Rosenbaum & Rosenbaum, an insurance brokerage firm in Portland. '76 Brenda Barrows has been named a Thompson Fellow for the 1995-96 academic year. Barrows is a second-level student at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, a theolog– ical institution of the Presbyterian Church. John S. Bell MST is owner of Bell Tax Accountants Inc., in Beaverton, and president of the Portland chapter of the Oregon Association of Tax Consultants. Bell is a member of the Portland Organizing Project, whose goal is to build affordable housing and permanent shelters for the homeless. He also serves as dance chairman of the fourth Sunday Tea Dance at the Beaverton Elks Lodge and promotes the "Let's Dance Band" for ballroom and big band sound .