PSU Magazine Spring 2005

Honoring alumni and friends at PSU Salutes Thursday, May 12 ♦ 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. ♦ University Place Ballroom Johanna Brenner Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award ♦ Faculty member since 1981; professor of sociology and women'.s studies ♦ Chair of the Women'.s Studies Depanment since 1999 ♦ Board co-chair of the Women'.s Community Education Project since 1993 ♦ Board member of the Oregon Human Rights Coalition since 1992 ♦ Co-founder and advocate of PSU's Walk of the Heroines project ♦ 1988 recipient of PSU's Hoffman Award for Faculty Excellence and 1999 recipienL of the John El lioL Allen Teaching Award ♦ Amhor and co-author of two books and numerous anicles Mark C. Edlen President's Award for Outstanding Philanthropy Personal gifts and contributions through his firm , Gerding!Edlen Development, have advanced the progress of: ♦ The Broadway student housing and Lhe Northwest Center for Engineering, Science and Technology building projects ♦ The Mark and Ann Edlen Family Scholarship in Portland SLate'.s new Center for Real Estate ♦ PSU's Walk of Lhe Heroines (con– struction Lo begin in late 2005) ♦ Simon Benson Awards Dinner and Friends of Simon Benson House fund-raising projects Edlen is a former member of the PSU Foundation Board of Directors Richard Fink '72 Outstanding Friend of Athletics ♦ Co-owner and CFO of General Trans– ponaLion Services, lnc. ♦ Former Viking footba ll player ♦ Member of the Viking Backer Advisory Council since 2002 ♦ Steering committee member for PSU Night of Wine & Roses and the Coaches Open ♦ Suppo rter of Lhe PSU Campus Recreation Field and Stott Cemer gymnasium renovation projects ♦ 1999 reci pienL of the PSU football program's annual Withers Memorial Award ♦ Athletics program donor and season ticket holder for nearly 30 years Molly Gloss '66 Outstanding Alumna Award ♦ Author of the novel, The Jump-Off Creeh, finalist for Lhe PEN/Faulkner Award and winner of the H.L. Davis/Oregon Book Award ♦ Author of the novel, Dazzle of Day, winner of the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction ♦ Author of the novel, Wildlife , win– ner of the James Tiptree Jr. Memor– ial Award ♦ Recipient of the national Whiling Writers Award ♦ Adjunct faculty for PSU's Center for Excellence in Writing and the English Department ♦ Longtime faculty member al PSU'.s Haystack Program in Cannon Beach ♦ Guesl speaker and visiting writer al venues from Cleveland, Ohio, to Homer, Alaska Dolores A. W. Leon '70, MD and Fernando Leon, MD President's Award for University Advancement Through the years the Leans' giving to Portland State University has provided support for: ♦ The Dolores and Fernando Leon Family Endowed Scholarship ♦ Viking athletics ♦ Jane Wiener Endowed Alumni Scholarship ♦ Forbes/Lea Endowed Studem Research Fund in Biology ♦ Chicano/Latino Studies ♦ Presidential Scholarships for high- achieving students ♦ The Fund for PSU Dolores serves on the PSU Foundation Board of Directors, and Fernando is a previous board member; Dolores was also a member of the Alumni Board Gary Robinson '61, MA '73 Outstanding Alumnus Award ♦ Founder and owner of Training and DeveloprnenL Programs in Portland ♦ Longtime insLrucLor for Portland Community College and an instmctor at Oregon InsLiLuLe of Technology ♦ PasL president and founding mem– ber of Fri.ends of Lhe PSU Millar Library and past president of the 1620 Club ♦ Avid athletics fan and co-founder of the Three PoinL Club for basketball boosters ♦ Tireless PSU ambassador and member of PSU Advocates D SPRING 2005 PSU MAGAZINE 19