PSU Magazine Spring 2001

Co NT ENT s FEATURES Unbuilt Portland 6 Ideas for downtown Portland that never made it off the drawing board. Business Prophet 10 Profe sor calls for change in how businesses think about work. Outpost: Middle East 12 A lumni take their knowledge base to career overseas. Building on Talent 16 Young civil engineering firm molds alumni and students to its culture. DEPARTMENTS Around the Park Blocks 2 Football Game to Honor Vanport Legacy, Online with New eMBA, Bookstore Open, Community Service Award, Training Tribes, lt Came From . . Letters 4 Expert Concurs: Quality Fiction for Children on the Rise Off the Shelf 5 The Politics of Force, Hans Bellmer: The Anatomy of Anxiety, Chicken Soup for the Sport Fan's Soul, Wild in the City on page 19 Sports 29 Philanthropy in Action 18 Phoning for Funds, Fellowship Memorializes Local Writer Alumni Association News 20 ln the Simon Benson House , Save Date for PSU Weekend, University Salutes Its Own, Buy a Brick Alum Notes 22 Acclaimed Quirky Portland Gardner Nancy Goldman '76, Breakthrough Year for Artist Elise Wagner '95 Softball Coach Reaches Milestone, Spring Sports Wrap-up, On the Cover of Sports Illustrated , Upcoming Benefit Golf Tournaments Cover page 9 Edward H. Bennett proposed this development of the intersection of West Burnside Street and the Park Blocks (drawing looks north) in his 1912 "Greater Portland Plan." See story on pages 6-9. EDITOR Kathryn Kirkland CONTRIBUTORS Mary Coniglio, Myrna Duray, Nicole Ramsey, Pat Squire MPA '95, Douglas Swanson, Jean Tuomi DESIGN CONSULTANT Terry Daline EDITORIAL OFFICE 325 Cramer Hall P.O. Box 751 Portland, OR 97207-0751 503-725-4451, FAX: 503-725-4465 E-MAIL: psumag@pdx.edu ADDRESS CHA GES PSU Foundation Demographics P.O. Box 243 Portland, OR 97207-0243 503-725-4911 E-MAIL: psuupdates@yahoo.com ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE Pat Squire MPA '95, Director Mary Coniglio, Events Coordinator Myrna Ouray, Administrative Assistant Simon Benson House P.O. Box 751 Portland, OR 97207-0751 503-725-4948 E-MAIL: psualum@pdx.edu ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS Pamela Gesme Miller '84, President Roger Capps '60 Gerry Craig '66 Patsie Dant '77 David Fit:patrick '75, MS '77 Ann Gardner '77 Craig Gilbert '89 Michelle Girts '83 Ken Hart '90 Laila Hirr MS '94 Tamara Kelley '69 Eva Kripalani '83 Bill Lemman, Vanport Carolyn Leonard '77, MS '79 Jack Ohman '99 Brian Ray '85 Don Riggs '83 Gary Salyers '57 Rosanna Schewerda '91, MT '93 Eric Stromquist '81 Cathy Williams '56 ALUMNI AMBASSADORS Jon Jalali '67, MBA '71, Medford Mary Mertens James '78, Salem Dennis Olson '68, MS '80, Pendleton Cathy Williams '56, Bend PSU Magazine is published three times a year during fall, winter, and spring terms for alumni and friends of Portland State University. Contents may be reprinted only by permission of the editor. The magazine is printed on recycled paper. PSU is an affirmative action/equal employment opportunity institution. SPRI G 200 l PSU MAGAZINE I