PSU Magazine Summer 1990

I ALUM NOTES I New alumni board officers ... Charles A. C lemans (' 56 BS) is the new president of the 30-member PSU Alumni Board of Directors. Clemans, now a consultant, recently retired as superintendent of the Oregon City School District , a position he held since 1980. He is a former lobbyist for the Portland School District and held a number of other supervisory posts in the Portland administration. Clemans replaces outgoing board president James N. Westwood , an attorney with Miller, Nash, Wiener, Hager & Carlsen . Also named as new alumni board officers are Mir iam Daum Selby ('68 BS, '70 MA) executive vice president of Micro One, a computer software company in Portland, as board vice president; and Louise Cox (' 73 BS) senior trust officer with U.S. Bancorp , as board treasurer. Selby served as al umni board representative on the recent PSU Presidential Search Committee . ... and members Trish Trout Two new members have also joined the board: Trish Trout ('88 MA) and Stan K. Sanders ('8 1 BS). Trout, who received her master's degree in theater arts, is a development officer for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Portland . She taught French for a number of years before deciding to pursue an MA in a different field . In addition to serving on the PSU Alumni Board, Trout is a board member of the Oregon Area Council of Camp Fire Inc ., and a member of the Administrative Council for the Church of All Saints. She Jives in Portland 's Laurelhurst area with her daughter, a graduating senior at Grant High School . Another daughter is in college at Santa Barbara, Calif. Stan Sanders is a vice president and Portland-area manager for First Interstate Bank, Hollywood/Rose City.While attending PSU, Sanders was active in the student senate . After receiving a bachelor's degree in business administration, he began his career in banking and is currently finishing a three-year program with the Pacific Coast Banking School in Seattle. Although his career keeps him busy, Sanders says that he has wanted to get "re-involved" with PSU. "After graduation you go through a time when you 're getting your career going, then you wake up and want to be involved with school again. I find it mentally invigorating to be back at PSU." PSU 24 Compiled by Teresa O'Hearn Vanport W.T. "Bill " Lemman was named interim president of the Oregon In– stitute ofTechnology (OIT) begi n– ning July I. He succeeds Larry Black who was president of OIT since 1983. Lemman is former executive vice chancellor of the Oregon State System of Hi gher Education. '59 Ruby F. Whalley (BS , '77 MST) is the new principal for Oregon City High School. Whalley has been principal of Waldport High School in Waldport, Ore ., for the last four years. '61 Michael A. Jennings (BS) is the executive director of computer services for the University System of New Hampshire. Jennings, who received a master's in Infor– mation Science from Lehigh Uni– versity, Bethlehem, Pa. , has been in hi s posi tion si nce 1988 . He was previously at Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Wash. Gary Whelan (BS ) has been cho– sen secretary/treasurer for the Ore– gon Society for Healthcare Ri sk Management. '62 John T. Hunt (BS) , a senior sc ien– ti st at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Liver– more , Calif. , was recently awarded the Dean's Alumni Achievement Award from the Uni– versity of Oregon. Hunt was cited for playing an important role in the nation's search for new sources of energy. Hunt , who invented and implemented the "Hunt Rel ay" method of coupling high power lasers, is currently foc using hi s ef– forts on the design of the next gen– eration fu sion laser. '64 James R. Stehn (BS) writes that he is a musician , teacher and piano technician in Venice , Calif. Stehn is the first trumpet in the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra , and has been appointed to teach trumpet , cornetto and sackbut (Re– naissance trombone) at U.C.L.A. and assist the Baroque Ensemble and Collegium . Stehn also leads a Renaissance ensemble . David M. Witter (BS ) is the new head of the Academic Medical Center Consortium in Rochester, N. Y. Witter, former vice president for admini stration at Oregon Health Sciences University, as– sumed hi s new position in March. The consortium is designed to share research knowledge among academic med ica l centers. The or– ganization plans to focus on clini– cal practices and health care deliv– ery, areas that cou Id lead to the development of national health care policies . '66 Molly M. Gloss (BA) writes that her novel The Jump Off Creek was one of fi ve nominees for the PEN/ Faulkner Award for Fiction, pre– sented in May in Washington, D.C. Thomas C. Maynard (BS) has been named treasurer of the 1990- 91 Board of Directors for the Oregon Society of Certified Pub– lic Accountants. Maynard has hi s own accounting firm in Beaver– ton. William McNaught (BA) is museum director of the American Museum in Britain. The museum located near Bath , England, opened in 1961 and illustrates nearly 200 years of American hi s– tory, from about 1680 to 1860. McNaught , who has a master's de– gree in art hi story from Oberlin College, is the first American director. ' 68 Melvin Byrd (BS) writes that his doctoral dissertation entitled