PSU Magazine Summer 1988

published for families with grow– ing children. The Prys also publish two Portland-area wee kly newspapers (the Sellwood Bee and the St. johns Review), as well as three monthlies (the Hollywood Star, the Mid-County Memo, and the Neighbor in Northwest Portland). Bruce L . Stern (BS, '69 MBA), professor of marketing in PSU 's School of Business Administration, has been elected president of the Western Marketing Educators' Association, an organization of marketing professors in the 11 western states and western Cana– dian provinces. Terrie Todd Wetle (BS, '71 MS, '76 Ph.D.) has been appointed di– rector of research for the Braceland Center for Mental Health and Ag– ing at The Institute of Living in Hartford, Conn. She is develop– ing a nationally significant care and management program for Alzheimer's Disease victims and their fam ilies. '69 David Helgren, Ph.D. (BA) i the co-author of the textbook J#Jr/d Geography Today, recently published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Dr. Helgren is re earch professor at the Mon·terey Institute of Inter– national Studies in Monterey, Calif. Paul Oakden (B ), a vice presi– dent and branch manager at First Interstate Bank of O regon, has been named to the board of the Mount Hood Community College District Foundation. Bill Plympton (BA) rubbed shoulders with the likes of actors J ack Nicholson and Meryl Streep during April's Academy Awards ceremonies in Los Angeles, Calif. Plympton attended after he was nominated for "Best An imated Short Film" for his satirical pro– duction "You r Face." Plympton financed the film with $4,000 of his own money. It required six months and 800 drawings to complete. The Oscar eventually was award– ed to another entry. Ken Raddle (BS) has been nam– ed advertising director for liJung Amcican, a biweekly newspaper published in Portland for children ages 5 to 15. The five-year-old publication now appears as a sup– plement in 37 newspapers located in Oregon, Washington and Cali– forn ia. T his fall, the supplement is expected to appear in news– papers in Los Angeles, San Diego, Dallas, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, pushing anticipated circulation to over 4 million. '70 Gordon M. Ball (BS) has joined South Coast Lumber Co. at Brookings, Ore., as controller and chief fi nancial officer. John Daggett (BS, '72 MS) has been named superintendent of the Ashland, O re., School District. He is a former middle school principal in the Centenn ial School District just outside Portland, and a superintendent and principal in the Sauvie Island School District west of Portland. Ronald Melott (BS) of Melott & Associates, Beaverton, Ore., has been named president of the Cascade branch of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers. Roy Rogers (BS) has been re– elected to the Washington Coun– ty Commission, District 3 seat. He was running unopposed. '71 J ames A. Dumolt (BS) has been promoted to manager of technical and special services for Ross Island Sand & Gravel Co., Portland. Al Federici (BS) has been ap– pointed senior vice president and manager of the consumer banking group for U.S. Bank of Wa hington. Thomas Fink (BS), of Standard Insurance Company's Columbia Agency in Southwest Portland, has qualified for his company's 1988 Achievement Club. The honor recognizes outstanding sales pro– ductivity and client services. On– ly 20 sales associates throughout Standard's territory qualified for the 1988 club. Thomas S. Fischer (BS, '72 MS), the former manager of planning and strategic services for Kaiser– Permanente's Northwest Region, has accepted the position of vice president for management infor– mation at Kaiser's corporate offices in Oakland, Calif. W. Eugene H allman (BS), a Pendleton, Ore., attorney, has been named chairman of the Oregon Liquor Control Commis– sion. He also will serve as a direc- tor of the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association. Valerie Schaffroth (BS, '75 MAT) is a former teacher with no time to teach, now that her part-time kitchen venture of six years ago has blossomed into Val'~ Homemade Bagels Inc. of C lackamas, Ore. Her firm now hand-forms and bakes up to 7,500 bagels a night for next-day delivery to 70 local stores, in– cluding some 50 Safeway in-store delis in Oregon and Southwest Washington . '72 Bruce Cook (BS), owner of Bruce Cook & Associates Insurance Agency in Sandy, Ore., has been appointed to the Private Industry Council of Clackamas County, Inc. Elizabeth Farance (BS) has join– ed the Beaverton, Ore., office of Barbara Sue Seal Properties Inc. as a sales associate. Joseph Gallegos (BS, '73 MSW) has begun a year-long position as acting director of social service and gerontology programs at the University of Portland. He is cur– rently on leave from the San Diego State University College of Health and Human Services, where he is an associate professor. Mike Houck (MST), an urban naturalist with the Audubon Socie– ty of Portland, recently shared a Matrix Award for outstanding contributions to the community, which was presented in May by Women In Communications Inc. and Pacific Northwest Bell. '73 Rick Bauman (BS), formerly an Oregon state representative, has been elected to the Multnomah County Commission. Mike Lofgren (BS) and Brian Stewart, partners in Brike Interna– tional of T igard, Ore., are current– ly marketing their unique, three– wheel human-powered vehicle. About 1,100 of the recreation/tran– sportation devices have been sold to date. The firm recently signed an agreement to put the machines on the Japanese market, and nego– tiations are contin uing with Huffy-America's largest bicycle manufacturer- to begin large– scale domestic production. Jack L. Sterett (BS) received the 1988 Howard Valium Award for Engineering Excellence from Tektronix [nc., Beaverton, Ore. He received a commemorative sculp– ture, a $1,000 cash award and a work-related research grant. C . Norman Winningstad (MBA), founder of Floating Point Systems Inc. of Beaverton, Ore., was one of five prominent Orego– nian s honored M ay 15 as Portland's Lewis and C lark Col– lege presented its annual Aubrey R . Watzek Awards. Winningstad was honored for his outstanding co ntributions in science, technology and research. His wife, Dolores Winningstad, also was honored for her support of Pacific Northwest cultural, social and educational organ izations. '75 Edward Borst (BS), president of Heritage Development Co., the Portland firm which owns Cascade Plaza-the Beaverton, Ore., shop– ping center formerly known as Loehmann's Plaza-reports that a major new tenant, Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Inc., has been signed to a 20-year lease to occupy over 40% of the center. The troubled center's owner had searched for a full year to find an "anchor" tenant to repl ace Loehmann's. Tanya Collier (BS, '79 MPA) has been re-elected to the Metropolitan Service District, Position 9. Bill Griffith (BS) is the new ad– ministrator of Presbyterian urs– ing Home in Ontario, Ore. He formerly managed a 250-person retirement complex in Portland and earlier served a two-year period as a surveyor of nursing homes for the State of Oregon. Suzanne M. Hall, M.D. (BS), a cardiologist in private practice in Portland and Tualatin, Ore., has been elected to a Fellowship in the American College of Cardiology, a 16,300-member nonprofit profes– sional medical society and teaching institution. John McDaniel (BS) has been named vice president of develop– ment at Covalt Enterprises Inc. in Albany, Ore., the parent company of Izzy's Pizza Restaurants . McDaniel's major focus will be preparing for development of new Izzy's Restaurants in the Seattle