PSU Magazine Summer 1988

Diane Cox (BS) has been named as a new sales associate with the Beaverton, Ore., office of Barbara Sue Seal Properties Inc. Na'im Hasan (BS), a purchasing agent for the Portland office of the CH2M-Hill Northwest, Inc. engi– neering firm, is currently a top middleweight contender for a berth on the eight-person U.S. Tae Kwon Do team competing at the Summer Olympics in Seoul , Korea this September. A form of karate, Tae Kwon Do is Korea's own sport. Sue Liss (MS) was named Co– lumbia County, Oregon's first recycling coordinator. She expects to employ her background as a child development specialist and teacher when she teaches children in the county's schools about the value of recycling. Penny S. McDonald (Ed.D.), principal of Wood Middle School in West Linn, Ore., has accepted a one-year position with Lewis and C la rk College, Portl and , as administrator-in-residence in the college's Graduate School of Pro– fessional Studies. Following her work there, McDonald hopes to become an elementary school principal. Mary Volin (BS), who served as the Oregon Economic Develop- ment Department's communica– tions director since the early days of Gov. Neil Goldschmidt's ad– ministration, has been named public relations director for Whit– man Advertising and Public Rela– tions in Portland. Michael Zagyva (MS) has been named principal of Ackerman Junior High School in the Canby, Ore., Elementary School District. He is the former principal at Howard Eccles Elementary School in the same district. Nadine Zimmerlund (MS), the former principal of Witch Hazel Elementary School in the Reed– ville School District near Beaver– ton, Ore., has been named prin– cipal at nearby Butternut Creek School. '82 Steve Borte (MBA), vice president of manufacturing at Tri Quest, a Vancouver, Wash., -based plastics injection molder, has been ap– pointed as a new board member of the firm, which is wholly own– ed by its employees. Sara G. Cogan (MPA) has been selected as associate director of the new Oregon Trade and Marketing Center, scheduled to open in downtown Portland this Septem- ber. The center will house the in– ternational trade activities of the Oregon Depaitments of Economic Development , Fores try a nd Agriculture, the International Trade Institute, the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service and U S WEST International. Lydia Copeland (MBA), senior research associate with the Port of Portland, has been named vice president fo r programs on the 1988-89 board of directors of the American Marketing Association's Oregon chapter. Melanie Seivers ('81 BS) has been named vice president for membership in the organization. She is a marketing research analyst with the Pihas Schmidt Westerdahl Co. in Portland. Sylvia Dobbs (BA) has doubled her office space and changed the name of her Beaverton, Ore., firm from Sylvia Dobbs Graphi c Design to Sylvia Dobbs Advertis– ing, to reflect the increased range of services now offered. Kylene Quinn (MBA), market services manager for The Columbian newspaper in Vancouver, Wash. , has been elected president of the Oregon chapter of the American Marketin g Associ a tion. The 278-member group represents advertising media, corporate and research marketing professionals. Cynthia Swan (BA) has j oined American Property Management in Portland as a commercial leas– ing agent for the firm's invest– ment properties. Pam Vredevelt (MS, '85 MS) is co-author of a new book Surviving the Secret (Fleming H. Revell Co., Old Tappan, NJ.). The book deals with child sex abuse and offers practical ways to support its vic– tims. Vredevelt works as a counselor with Christian Counsel– ing Services in Gresham, Ore. '83 John Callahan (BA), the Portland cartoonist whose work appears regularly in publications ranging from Willamette l#ek to Penthouse, has completed his autobiography, scheduled to be released next May by a division of the Hearst Corp. People magazine reportedly has also commissioned an article on the paraplegic artist. Nancy Gann (MPA) has been ap– pointed to the Oregon Sanitarians Registration Board. She is the ex– ecutive director of the Children's Club Inc., a Portland child development center. Kathleen Kilian (BS) is the state geologist for the USDA Soil Con– servation Service in Washington Create a gift of significance .. . An endowed or named scholarship is a very special way of helping a deserving student while providing lasting recognition for the individual for whom the scholarship is named. Planned giving allows the use of techniques to combine current and deferred gifts, often providing increased income and immediate income tax savings. These techniques can create a gift that may, at first, seem beyond reach. May we send you a copy of our new booklet, "The Personal Rewards of Giving to PSU"? ~ 26 Office of Development (503) 464-4478 Portland State University P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207