PSU Magazine Summer 1988

Hall, SW Market and Park. Leading the tour is Architect Gerald Brock and History Professor and Summer Session Director Charles White. The series is sponsored by the PSU Sum– mer Session. For more information call 464-4081. (The Lincoln Hall clock illustration was done by architect Gerald Brock.) Summer Musical to be "Simple Heavenly" Harlem in the 1950s sets the scene for an all black cast of actors and singers in PSU's summer musical "Simply Heavenly." The premiere Portland performance of this Broad– way musical opens August 18 in Lin– coln Hall Auditorium at Portland State. " Simply Heavenly" portrays the life and music - classic blues and ballads - of Harlem blacks as seen by the playwright, famed writer and poet, Langston Hughes. Directing the Portland production is Garland Lee Thompson a native Portlander who is celebrating 31 years in the theater as a playwright, producer, director and actor on both coasts. He has ap– peared in films and on the stage in Los Angeles and works extensively in the New York theater. Thompson acted in the original West Coast production of "Simply ~eavenly" in 1958, and last year he directed the musical's 30th anniver– sary performance in Philadelphia. The cast for the Portland production includes West Coast actors Brenda Philips, Michael Holiday and Neal Thomas. "Simply Heavenly" begins Thurs– day, August 18, and runs through Sept. 4. Evening performances will be h~ld Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with a 3 p.m. Sunday matinee each week. All seats are reserved and ad– mission is $12.50 general and $5 for studen.ts and seniors. A special group rate will be offered to parties of twen– ty or more. The production is sponsored by PSU Educational Activities and Sum– mer Session. Upward Bound, a PSU «Simply Heavenly " director Garland Lee Thompson pr?gram that helps disadvantaged and Unlimited," a fictitious beer. mmonty students from Portland high Grover Rodich, a PSU professor of schools yre ~a.re a_nd enroll in colleges business administration, advised the and umvers1t1es, 1s a special sponsor team, as he has for the past 13 times of the summer musical. "Simply Portland State has competed in the Heav~nly" director, Garland Thomp- annual event. PSU has compiled the son, is cultural and recreation coor- most wins yet of any collegiate team dinator for Upward Bound. - 14 times as world winners and eight times as grand champions. Blue jeans and beer Successfully marketing blue jeans and beer brought four trophies in– cluding a grand championship to PSU teams competing in the annual International Collegiate Business Policy Games hosted by the Universi– ty of Nevada in Reno, April 6-8. The games pitted 30 U. S. and Canadian universities against each other in the competitive world of business management. Events started at the home universities earlier this year as the teams developed mock business firms on computer programs. PSU's undergraduate team marketed blue jeans and was champion in its world, which consists of six schools. The Viking graduate team was named grand champion and world champion for its marketing of "Premium Suds "We used to be called the UCLA of the business games, but that no longer seems appropriate considering how UCLA's been doing lately," Rodich said in an interview. "I guess you could just say we're the team to beat." New mini-park on campus Benched paths winding around rhododendrons , azaleas, cherry trees and an expanse of cool green grass - this inviting place is the Universi– ty's new mini park on the north side of the School of Education and School of Business Administration. Completed this spring, the park in– cludes over 400 plants.