PSU Magazine Summer 1987

More than 2,000 students The the National Collegiate Honor Council I earned degrees from Portland meeting in Miami, where he also pre- State University this year. sented a scholarly paper on the Thirty-one years ago, 72 graduates Class Rhetoric of International Studies. At received Portland State's first PSU, Gillespie organized a special diplomas. That first year, there were seminar on Development in the Third graduates who had returned to the of World, including the selection of classroom after an extended absence, readings, faculty and distinguished graduates who were changing or visiting scholars. starting new careers and graduates 1987 For Gillespie, it was a reflection of who had come to college straight from his intense interest in Third World high school. Little has changed. There development, an interest discovered is still no typical PSU grad. The three and nurtured at Portland State. His students on this page represent that undergraduate thesis for the Univer- diversity, having just two things in sity Honors Program concerned the common: they were honored this development of the Republic of spring for their achievement and Ireland and involved original research service and they are members of the and development of his own computer Class ofl987. program. This fall, Gillespie will begin working on a Ph.D. in political science KARLA VOGEL ~ at the University of Arizona, with a University Commendation focus on Latin America. For the summer, he is working as an aide in a When Karla Vogel came to Portland migrant school in Hillsboro. State to study health education, she already had attended Clark College in Vancouver and was a registered nurse with a special interest in ANNIK LARSEN ~ patients with lung disease or University Commendation breast cancer. • Between her studies and Her two years in the PSU Graduate her work, Vogel found time to School of Social Work "were the best assist the American Lung Asso- two years I've spent anywhere," ciation of Oregon with develop- according to Annik Larsen (MSW), ment of a statewide program quite a testimonial coming from a promoting the use of flu shots for woman who has degrees from victims of chronic lung diseases. She Radcliffe College and Stanford also volunteered with the American University and who worked for Cancer Society and was instrumental several years as an English- in planning a breast health education language book editor for the and mammography screening project University of Tokyo Press in for the state. Japan before coming to PSU. Elsewhere, Karla Vogel has given Larsen's interest in social her time and expertise to the March of work developed when she Dimes, American Red Cross, a began work at the Corvallis classroom for learning disabled YMCA, coordinating support people, and Special Olympics. She will groups for single parents. While a attend the University of Washington in student at PSU, Larsen staffed the the fall to complete a master's degree Corvallis Crisis Service Hotline and in public health. served as a volunteer counselor and social work intern for the Portland YMCA's Women's Resource Center. ROBERT GILLESPIE ~ Her work with women has Award for Excellence prompted her to seek a career in clinical social work, conducting Last fall Robert Gillespie (BS) was individual therapy with women. one of 50 students in the nation elected to prepare a formal session for • PSU MAGAZINE PAGE4