PSU Magazine Summer 1989

Lisa J. Olson Lisa J. Olson (BS) has joined the staff of Gerber Advertising in Portland as an account executive in charge of several food and grocery accounts. She is a former account supervisor at Davis Ball and Colom– batto (DBC) in Portland . James Patterson (BS) has been named general sales manager of KBNP Radio (1410 AM), a new all– business format station in Portland . He comes to KBNP from station KKCW (103 FM) in Beaverton, Ore. William Keating Vinyard (BS), a designer with the New Haven, Conn. , architectural firm of Cesar Pelli & Associates, has won a prestigious Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome. As one of 24 winners selected from more than 1,000 ap– pli ca nt s, Vinya rd leaves in September for a year of independent arts study in Rome. Dixie Wilcox (BS) has joined Cen– tury 21 Southgate Rea lty in Pendleton, Ore., as a real estate agent. She also serves on the local Juvenile Services Commission and is vice president of the Oregon Trail Fibers Guild. '85 Debbie Chung (MBA), financial plan manager at Nike lnc. in Beaver– ton, Ore. , has been elected vice president- finance on the 1989 board of directors of the Institute for Managerial & Professional Women. Mary S. Urry, M.D. (BA) reports she has opened a medical office in Southwest Portland , specializing in pediatrics as well as immunizations needed by new American residents. PSU 28 Mark Weidkamp (BS), owner of Normark Corporation, a Portland wood products manufacturing firm , reports he has hired Scott Peterson ('74 BS) as vice president of manufacturing, to head the firm's Cedar Plus Division. Weidkamp also reports he is racing his Corvette in a series of regional sports car club road races this spring. '86 Jean Pierre Fontenot (BA) has been named media director and manager of the Portland office of Parris Advertising, a firm headquartered in Medford , Ore. Roni Webb Sasaki (BS), a top member of the current U.S. Dis– abled Ski Team, was scheduled to be in San Diego, Cali f., in June, where specialists were to fit her with a state- of- the- art artificial leg similar to that worn by Teddy Ken– nedy, Jr. Sasaki was born without a femur and nevertheless began ski– ing at age 19. Rosalie Tank (MT), a tax consul– tant with Touch 0 e Ross & Co., Portland , has been elected treasurer on the Holladay Park Medical Center board of trustees in Portland . Constance J. Taylor ('80 BS), cor– porate secretary and manager of cor– porate and regulatory affairs for Riedel Environmental Technologies Inc. in Portland, was among those elected as new members of the hospital trustees' board . ''irl Rosa Burge (BS) has been named Hispanic director at Catholic Family Services in Gresham, Ore. She will focus on upgrading Hispanic access to services in the Gresham/Sandy area. She will also work on the new Farmworkers Health Access Project, which recently received funding from the Fred Meyer Foundation. Gregory Chiodo, P.E. (BS), has joined Robert E. Meyer Consultants, Beaverton, as a senior civil engineer. Michael Matteucci (MUP) has been appointed coordinator of the Neighbors North district office, representing a coalition of seven No rth Po rtl and neighborhood association boards dedicated to im– proving the locales where residents live and work. Matteucci is a former planner for the City of Tigard , Ore. '88 Bennett Hall (BA) is the new copy editor at Willame/le l#ek newspaper in Portland. He is a former editor and copy editor for Portland State's student newspaper the Vanguard. Randall B. Smith (MBA), a finan– cial analyst at Tektronix Inc. in Beaverton, Ore. , was recently honored by the National Doctoral Fellowship Program in Business and Management. His $10,000 fellow– ship, along with a first- year tuition and fee waiver, may be used at the doctoral institution of his choosi ng. The awards are designed to help alleviate the chronic shortage of doctoral- level faculty in America's collegiate schools of business. Catherine Zerfing Catherine DeVaul Zerfmg (BS) has been named manager of the Inter– national Suite at the World Trade Center Portland , a subsidiary of Portland General Corporation. The International Suite is composed of eight executive offices with office support services suitable for use by members of Portland's international business community. '89 Patricia Bishop (MBA) has joined EastRidge Business Park, formerly Yearout Business Park, in the Van– couver, Wash., area as leasing/asset manager. In Memoriam William W. Childs (Vanport) , a ser– vi ce technici a n for Monroe Calculators for 35 years until he retired in 1984, died of cancer April 3 in a Portland hospital. He was 65. Mr. Childs served as a radio operator in the U.S. Army during World War II. James D. Lindsay ('58 BS), who ta ug ht emoti ona ll y di sa bl ed youngsters in the Los Angeles area fo r several years after graduating from PSU, died of heart problems May 20 in a Portland hospital. He was 57. At the time of his death, Mr. Lindsay was empl oyed as an automobi le salesman for Coliseum Ford in Portland . Erland P. Miller ('62 BS), who worked as an insulator for some 27 years on jobs through his asbestos workers union local, died April 20 in a Longview, Wash., hospital of a heart attack. He was 55. Susan A. Montgomery ('71 BA), a production and layout artist in the advertising sales promotion depart– ment for Fred Meyer Inc., died of head injuries in a plane crash May 5 in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where she was vacationing with her family. She was 42. Dolores Bowman ('74 MS) , a longtime Portland educator, died of cancer May 17 in Austin, Texas. She was 58. At the time of her death, she was administrative vice principal at Portland's Jefferson High School. She is preceded in death by her hus– band , Joseph Bowman ('74 MS), who died in 1988. Paul D. Olsen ('75 BA), who had worked for his father's Portland CPA firm for the past 11 years, died of cancer May 2 in a Portland hospital . He was 37, and an elder in his church. James G. "Jim" Smith ('75 BS, '76 MST), who retired in January after serving 14 years as information referral officer for PSU's Senior Adult Learning Center, died April 19 in Portland of a heart attack. He was 82, and was also responsible for founding the group known as Retired Associates of PSU. John F. Reilly ('78 BS), an or– thopedic technician for Kaiser Per– manente for the past 13 years, died April 5 in Portland. He was 39, and a U1S. Army veteran of the Vietnam conflict. D