PSU Magazine Summer 1989

Larry McMacken (MS) has been named the new assistant superinten– dent in the Forest Grove, Ore., School District, effective July I. He is the district's current director of special education. Michael C. Smith ('77 MS), current principal of Gales Creek Elementary School , will assume McMacken's former post. Georgia Deetz ('75 MS), a middle school administrator in the district for seven years, will take over Smith's former post. In an ad– ditional change, Lloyd Mills ('76 MS) has been named principal at Dilley Elementary School , and also wi ll serve as the district 's transpor– tation coordinator. Mills is the former vice principal at Forest Grove High School. Thomas N. Sciarretta (BS) has been named Oregon's Small Business Financial Services Ad– vocate of the Year for 1989 by the U.S. Small Business Administration. He is vice president and manager of Key Bank of Oregon's Lane County Commercial Banking Center in Eugene. '71 R. W. Bane (BS), who leads a dou– ble life as a partner in a Portland in– vestment advisory firm and as a recognized Northwest figurative sculptor, has been selected to create a bronze sculpture for the Clark County Courthouse in Vancouver, Wash. David Bantz (BS) has joined ITTAK Inc. , a Lake Oswego, Ore., engineering, planning and architec– ture firm , as senior planner/project manager. He is a former planning director for a Beaverton engineering firm and an economic development coordinator for the City of Tualatin. Nancy Church, CPA (BA) has been named audit and accounting manager at the Portland accounting firm owned by Nola Wilken, CPA ('84 BS). Marilyn De Vault (MS), co-owner of 24 Carrot Bakery in Lake Oswego, Ore., won a recent American Heart Association – sponsored competition against 14 Portland- area restaurants to create the best low fat and low cholesterol dessert. The bakery 's winning walnut, praline and cream torte used margarine, no eggs, low fat cocoa and low fat evaporated milk to achieve the winning edge. Rob Drake (BS) has been appointed to the new post of general sales manager at Oregon's largest winery, Hinma n Vineya rd s, based in Eugene, Ore. Drake has served on the Beaverton City Council since 1987, and is an immediate past board member of the Oregon Restaurant and Hospitality Association. Steve Forrester (BS) served as 1989's first Ruhl Fellow at the University of Oregon, where he was part of the program bringing newspaper professionals to the university's School of Journalism for brief residencies. Forrester took over the ed itor's post at Th e Daily Asrorian newspaper more than a year ago. Capt. J. Tim Grolbert (BS) has been named commander of the Clackamas County Jail in Oregon City, Ore. He is the former opera– tions division commander for the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office, and a former emergency services coordinator for the county. Christopher Minus (BS) has been named assistant vice president/mar– keting with Stevedoring Services of America in Seattle, Wash. He will specialize in containerized cargoes throughout West Coast points. He spent the past 15 years in key regional management posts with Matson Navigation Co. '72 Joseph Gallegos (BS, '73 MSW), director of social work and geron– tology programs at the University of Portland , has received the Social Worker of the Year Award from the Oregon chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Also, Jan Nolley ('72 MSW) won this year's Helen Catlin Award from the organization for her outstanding volunteer service. Robert M. Hagner (BS) has joined the Portland office of Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood Inc., a Minneapolis– based investment firm, as assistant vice pres ident and investment executive. Richard L. Hansen (BS) has joined Shearson Lehman Hutton in Port– land as first vice president/financial consultant. Hansen most recently was with P-aineWebber Inc. as finan– cial consultant. Mike Houck (MST), an urban naturali st with th e Po rtl a nd Audubon Society, has received a $ll6,000 challenge grant from the Fred Meyer Charitable Trust to establish a plan for creating an in– tegrated Metropolitan Wildlife Refuge System covering all of the surrounding Portland area. John K. Lee (BS) has been named manager of the Lake Grove, Ore., branch of First Interstate Bank of Oregon. Prior to his new post, he was assistant manager at the bank's main branch in downtown Portland. Douglas H. Leeding (BS, '79 MBA), senior vice president at Key Bank of Oregon, has been given ad– ditional authority to direct the bank's Clackamas County Commercial Banking Center, and has also been named to Key Bank's senior loan committee. Keith Lockhoven (BS) has been named assistant vice president and field supervisor for the U.S. Ban– corp Auditing Division in Portland. He was a former loan officer for U.S. Bank of Oregon before movi ng to the parent firrn's auditing division in 1982 as a credit examiner. Robert Sande (BS) has been named director of the new law firm services division at the Moss Adams CPA firm's Portland office. '73 Chief Ron Goodpaster (BS) , direc– tor of public safety in Milwaukie, Ore., announced a new community policing program for his city in April designed to bring officers in– to closer contact with local citizens. He also has been unanimously elected as 1989- 90 president of the Oregon Association Chiefs of Police. David C Jes/er David C. Jester, D.O. (BS), an osteopath practicing in Puyallup, Wash., reports he recently received his board certification in emergen– cy medicine. He also plans to take his general practice certification ex– am this November. Kathleen Jordan (BS) , the new act– ing ranger in Sweet Home, Ore., is the first woman to assume ranger duties in the U.S. Forest Service's Willamette National Forest. Jordan also recently completed her term as state president of Business and Pro– fessional Women of Oregon. Betty A. Kay (MBA), a ten- year employee of Portland Community College, has been named director of plant services there. Shab Levy (BA), owner of Shab Levy Exhibits, has taken a new of– fice in downtown Portland and ad– ded two staff on the design team for the new Hong Kong Museum of Science and Technology. Levy is the former director of exhibits at the Oregon Museum of Science and In– dustry (OMSI) in Portland . Nelson Olf (MBA) has been named director of assembly/ distribution center operations for Diamond Cabinets in Hillsboro, Ore. Conrad Pearson (BA), a Tigard , Ore., financial planner, has been named top producer among more than 4,000 other registered represen– tatives across the nation who market the capital appreciation program of Integrated Resources Equity Corp. (IREC) as part of their professional services to clients. Stephen A. Sivage (BS, '77 MPA) is the newly- named director of Physical Plant operations at Portland State. He held a similar post at Mt. Hood Community Co llege in Gresham, Ore. PSU 25