PSU Magazine Winter 1988

PSU Alumni Happenings Outstanding Alumni named R etired State Supreme Court Justice Betty Roberts and electronics en– trepreneur C. Norman Winningstad have been selected Portl and State Universi– ty's Outstanding Alumni for 1988. The two were awarded at the alumni Homecoming reception on October 22. The award is designed to recognize and honor PSU graduates who have excelled in service to the community or the uni versity, have achieved success in a given area of endeavor, and who have brought recogni– tion to Portland State University. Portland Attorney James Westwood ('67) presented the awards and chaired the award committee, all graduates of the university, who reviewed nominations from faculty and other alumni. The 1988 Outstanding Alumni both came to Portland State as older students. Winningstad was a successful electronics engineer and manager starting his own company when he earned his MBA in 1973 and Roberts was a mother with children in school when she completed her bachelor's degree in 1958. C. Norman Winningstad founded Floating Point Systems, Inc. (now FPS Computing) in 1970 following 12 years at Tektroni x. He now operates Lattice Semi– conductor. A native of the Bay Area in Califo rnia, Winningstad earned an engi– neering degree from the University of Califo rnia in Berkeley in 1948 coming to Tektronix in 1958. The Outstanding Alumni Award re– cognizes Winningstad fo r his entrepreneur– ship, his commitment to public service and phi lanthropy, and his continuing commit– ment to Portland State University. Betty Roberts, who was a teacher and counselor fo llowing her graduation from PSU, later attended law school and be– came the first woman ever appointed to the State Court of Appeals and , in 1982 , PSU 20 C Norman Winningstad Betty Roberts became the first woman State Supreme Court Justice in Oregon. She also has had a successfu l legislative career in the Oregon House of Representatives. The Outstandi ng Alumni Award cites Roberts' consistent commitment to equal opportunity and women's rights as well as her own success in multiple careers while raising a family. This is the second year for the Out– standing Alumni Awards at fSU. The previous winners were Louisville Orchestra Conductor and past Oregon Symphony Music Director Lawrence Leighton Smith , and profess ional athlete Neil V. Lomax. D New director M ary Lou Webb has resigned as PSU's directo r of Alumni Af– fai rs to accept a position as head of the Department of Management and Commerce at Portl and Community College. While at Portland State Webb was responsible fo r establishing an acti ve Alumni Board and starting the new VISA Card program. A PSU graduate, Webb will remain active with the University as a member of the Alumni Board . Clarence Hein ('65 BS), who has been with the University since 1978 as director of News & Info rmation, is now serving as acting director of Alumni Affa irs. Hein was editor of the student newspaper the Vanguard in the '60s. He went on to earn a Master of Communication from Uni ve r– sity of Washington. D Getting Salem's attention T he alumni associations of the State System of Higher Education col– leges and universities are inviting participation in Higher Education Day 1989, Thursday, Feb. 23, in Salem. This special day, developed and o rganized by alumni leadership from the OSSHE campuses, is designed to com– municate to the legislature the importance of higher education to the state and to demonstrate that higher education has a large and organized constituency. Representatives from the state's business and cultural communities will join with Democratic and Republican legislative leaders in a panel discussion on the im– portance of higher education to Oregon's future. In addition, Governor Neil Goldschmidt will address the group at lunch. The 1989 Oregon Legislature will con– sider a number of issues critical to Portland State and to public higher educa– tion in general, according to David Lom– niki '81 BS, alumni board member and PSU coordinator for the event. To learn more about Higher Education Day 1989 and to help spread the word in person to legislators, call the PSU Office of Alumni Affairs, 464- 4948. D