PSU Magazine Summer 1988

Compiled by CliffJohnson Vanport Dick Bogle has been re-elected as a Portland City Commissioner. Kirby Brumfield, a communica– tions specialist for the Energy Resource Center of Portland General Electric Co., has been elected president of the Agri– Business Council of Oregon. William L. Gibbs, vice presi– dent/operations for Northwest Natural Gas Co., Portland, was one of 15 Portland-area business executives named to the Business Committee on Regional Transpor– tation Priorities. The group ha been formed to identify regional transporta ti on improvement s which can be made by the year 2000, and which can be supported by the business community. Donald G. DeForest has joined the staff of Clark & Gross In– surance Center, Portland, special– izing in commercial and personal insurance lines. Hon. Glenn Otto has been re– elected as State Senator in District 11. Hon. George Van Hoomissen, formerly Associate Judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals, has been elected Associate Justice on the Oregon Supreme Court. Donald J. McCormick, person– nel manager at Northwest Natural Gas Co., Portland, has been elected 1988 seminar director for the Pacific Northwest Personnel Management Association. Wesley Strohecker is the new president of Strohecker's Inc., a longtime family-owned grocery store in Southwest Portland. Keith Strohecker (Vanport) continues as vice president. Alton Wiebe, M.D. of Portland has been elected president of the alumni association at the Oregon Health Sciences University School of Medicine for 1988-89. Dolores Leon, M.D. ('70 BS) has been elected treasurer of the organization. I ALUM NOTES I '56 Chuck Clemans (BS), superinten– dent of the Oregon City School District, Oregon City, Ore., re– ceived one of this year's "Good Guy Awards" from the Oregon Women's Political Caucus. The awards are given to men who have contributed to the women's move– ment for equal rights. '59 Wes Perrin (BS) and Bill Borders of Borders Perrin & Norrander, a Portland advertising firm, were both honored in May as Advertis– ing Professionals of the Year during the Rosey Award Show sponsored ann ually by th e Portland Advertising Federation. '60 William R. Scharwatt, DMD ('60 BS) was recently elected to the board of directors of the American Association of Endodontists. The AAE is a national association of 3,000 members who specialize in root canal therapy. In addition to his Portland practice, Dr. Schar– watt serves as endodontic consul– tant on the faculty of the Oregon H ealth Sciences Universit y, Portland. '61 Joyce Evans (BS, '71 MA), assis– tant head at San Francisco Day School, San Francisco, Calif., has been named to a three-year term on the elementary middle schools committee of the National Assoc– iation of Independent Schools (NAIS). NAIS is a national ad– vocate for independent pre-college education. Hon. R. William Riggs (BS) has begun serving as a temporary judge on the Oregon Court of Ap– peals in Salem to help with its overburdened caseload. Judge Riggs is a Multnomah County Circuit Court judge who has drawn no opposition in a race for the state appellate court seat be– ing vacated by retiring judge john Warden next January. '64 Gary D. Larsen ('64 BS) was one of five Oregon science teachers receiving the 1988 Award for Ex– cellence in Teaching Science and Mathematics, presented annually in May by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry and Tektronix, Inc. Larsen, who has taught at Centennial High School in Gresham, Ore., for the past 20 years, said he expects to spend most of his $5,000 award on classroom equipment and profes– sional meetings. Mike Schrunk (BS) has been re– elected as Multnomah County District Attorney. He was running unopposed. '66 Gery L. Weber (BS, '70 MST) has been hired as head football coach and social studies teacher at Lake Oswego High School, Lake Oswego, Ore. He is the former head coach at nearby Gladstone High School and a former assis– tant coach at Oregon City High School. '67 Walt Bowen (BS) and partner Dave Hunt of Bowe n-Hunt Development Co., Portland, cur– rently one of the most active apart– ment builders in Clackamas County, Ore., will begin construc– tion on its third apartment com– plex in the county this summer. The $11-million, 264-unit complex near Clackamas Town Center is scheduled for completion in the fall of 1989. Kitt Hawkins ('BS) has joined the Stan Wiley Inc., Realtors commer– cial division in Portland as a sales associate specializing in the sale and lease of industrial properties. Timothy McGinnis (BS), senior vice president at the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, received the 1987 Distinguished Alumnus Award in banking and finance from the American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, Ariz. McGinnis has served in a variety of international banking positions m 22 for Chase Manhattan, including Country Manager for J apan and Area Institute Manager for Asia. '68 Glen Beckley (BS) of Manage– ment Design Associates in Portland has been elected as a new member of the board of trustees of the Pacific Crest Outward Bound School in Portland. Thomas Dejardin (MSW, '77 MPA) has been re-elected to the Metropolitan Service District, Position 5. He ran unopposed. Hobbs Craig S. Hobbs (BS) has been named president of Composite Research and Management Co., a registered investment advisory firm in Seattle, Wash. The firm manages more than $1 billion on behalf of pension and profit– sharing plans, foundations, trusts, corporations and mutual funds. Mary Hoyt (MSW) has been ap– pointed Region I manager for the Oregon Children's Services Divi– sion, serving Clackamas, Colum– bia, Multnomah and Washington counties. She has been in state government for 21 years and comes to CSD from the Mental Health Division, where she was director of the child and adolescent treat– ment program at Oregon State Hospital. Steve Mikulic (BS) has been ap– pointed district manager of pro– perty management services for Grubb & Ellis Commercial Bro– rge's Portland-based operations. Mikulic joined the firm last July as a commercial property manager. Tom Pry (BS) and his wife Mar– cia have purchased Fbrtland Family Calendar, a monthly tabloid