PSU Magazine Winter 1987

-----·ALUM NOTES•----- Compiled by CliffJ ohnson Vanport Chuck McClellan, general manager of community relations for Port– la nd General Electric Co., Portla nd, announced his retireme nt Oct I after 32 years with the firm. State Sen. Glenn O tto, D-Wood Vil– lage, has bee n selected as chairma n of a new J oint Legislative Task Force in Metropolitan Regional Government. State Rep. Ron Cease, D-Portla nd, a PSU faculty member, also has been appointed to the panel, which is charged with exam– ining the status of the Metropolitan Service District a nd considering recommendations about its future role for the 1989 Legislature. GeogeJ. Skorney has been named vice president of Laurelhurst Man– or, a reside ntial treatme nt center in Portland for alcoh olic a nd chemi– cally depe ndent people. He joins his wife, Barbara, ('70 BS, '74 MSW) as co-owner of the facility. Mr. Skorney recently retired as regional directo r of public relatio ns for Union Pacific Railroad. '60 Donald Rocks (BS) has been named executive assistant to Rena Cusma ('69 BS), executive officer of Metro– politan Service District, Portla nd. Rocks served as director of the Department of Administrative Ser– vices for Multnomah County from 1975 to 1982. '61 Donald R. Berry (BS) has been named vice president of tax man– agement for Pope & Talbot at the lumber firm's Po rtland headquar– ters. Lucille Noel (BS) hasjoined Leavitt Shay Real Estate Services, Seattle, Wash., as vice-president and man– aging director. She previously was vice-president ofasset management for Cornerstone-Columbia Devel– opment Co., Portland. '63 Dennis West (BA), deputy executive director of the Port of Portland, has been named president of the Colum– bia/ Snake River Marketing Group, an economic developme nt organi– zation of34 port districts in O regon, Washington and Idaho. '64 Terry Yamauchi, MD. (BS) has been named vice-chairma n of the Department of Pediatrics of Arkan– sas Children's Hospital in Little Rock. He is also a professor of pediatrics and Chief of Infectious Diseases at the University ofArkan– sas for Medical Scie nces. '66 Lt. Col. Jack Fisher (BS) recently marked 20 years as ajet fighter pilot with the O regon Air NationalGuard, including some 300 missio ns in Vietnam. He expects to stay two more years in the Guard before going into commercial aviation. '68 Elizabeth Rehm (BS) is working as a master teacher for U.S. Army fami– lies stationed in Fulda, West Ger– many. She is employed by the European Programs sectio n of Big Bend Community College in Wash– ington state. Hon. Michael McElligott (BS) be– gins the new year as a Wash ington County, O re. circuit court j udge. T he new j udgeship was authorized by the 1987 Legislature to deal with the backlog of cases in the state's fastest-growi ng county. McElligott has served as district courtj udge in Washington County since 1983. '69 Dustine "Dusty" Davidson (BS), sta– tion manager at KO IN-TV, Port– land, has been named manager of Oregon operations for California– Oregon Broadcasting, headquar– tered in Medford, Ore. Sho Dozono (MST), executive vice president of Azuma no T ravel Ser– vice, Portland, has been appointed to the newly created O regon Tour– ism Alliance by Gov. Neil Gold– schmidt. Lilja Finzel (BA), has been ap– pointed vice president ofWillamette Savi ngs a nd Loan Association, Port– la nd. Jim Lundervold (BS), president of the Portla nd engineering firm bear– ing his name, has been elected president of the Structural Engi– neers Association of O regon. '70 Charles Adkins (BS), president of the Milwaukie, O re. appraisal fi rm bearing his name, has been ap– pointed to the Real Estate Educa– tion Advisory Board of Portland Community College. Stephen C. Regner (BS, '72 MSW), a registered clinical social worker, hasjoined the practice of Dr.Jeffrey B. Hayes in Scappoose, Ore. as a mental health counselor. Regner is a member of the Oregon Counsel– ing Association . Stan Swan (BS), senior purchasing department buyer with Freightliner Corp., Portland, has been elected president of the Purchasing Man– agement Association of Oregon. Tom Trebelhorn (BS), manager of the Milwaukee Brewers profession– al baseball team, was the recent runner-up to ma nager Sparky And– erson of the Detroit Tigers in "American League Ma nager of the Year" balloting by the Baseball Writers' Associatio n of America. '71 Lenore Carter (BS) hasjoined Bar– bara Sue Seal Properties Inc. as a sales associate. She will be based at the fi rm's Lake Oswego, Ore. head– quarters. Michael Hudson, MD. (BS, '76 MST) recently completed his resi– dency at Oregon Health Scie nces University in Portla nd a nd has joined Portland Family Practice in Northeast Portland as an associate. PSU MAGAZINE PAGE 10 '72 Wayne Lowrie (BS), president of Lowrie's IGA Grocers in Wilson– ville, O re., is curre ntly sharing honors with his brother Terry as "Citizen of the Year," awarded recently by the Wilsonville Rotary Club. Richard Pintarich (BS, '80 MA), a Portland writer and business histo– rian, has been elected to the 1987- 88 board of directors of Northwest Writers, Inc. Will D. Swearingen (BS), a research assistant professor at the University of NewMexico, Albuquerque, is the author of a new book Moroccan Mirages: Agrarian Dreams and Decep– tions, 1923-1986, published in Sep– tember by Princeton University Press. '73 Alan J. Facchini (BS) has been appointed manager of systems and procedures at Portland General Electric Co.'s Pla nning a nd Control Department, a new departme nt of the utility's Generating Division. He will oversee development ofaccoun– ting and controls systems. '74 Grieg Anderson (MBA) has been named controller of Po rtland Gen– eral Corp. and Portland General Electric Co. Janice Beadle (BS) has been named controller of Vinings Industries, Inc. Her firm is an Atlanta, Ga.– based chemical manufacturing and distributing compa ny which pro– vides a range of products for the paper processing and water treat– ment industries natio nwide. Ralph Bellande (BS) has been elected regio nal vice preside nt fo r the Northwest Region ofthe Nation– al Associatio n of Senior Livi ng Industries. He currently serves as vice president and national hous– ingdirector fo r Brim &Associates, a Po rtland-based health care man– ageme nt a nd senio r living services fi rm.