PSU Magazine Winter 1988

Compiled by Cliff Johnson Vanport Miles P. Englehart was one of several leading citizens and Portland city officials who outlined improved trade opportunities in discussions held between the City of Roses and several Far Eastern sister cities dur– ing recent overseas trips to the Orient. Englehart is president of the Portland - Sapporo Sister City Association and vice president of the Japanese Garden Society in Portland. Alan J. Zell has been appointed chairman of the Oregon 1998 Games Commission , which will work with the Oregon Legislature to oversee "Winter Organization Oregon," the group working to bring the 1998 Winter Olympics to Oregon. '56 Cathy Williams (BS) recently retired after spending 32 years as a teacher and career guidance counselor with Portland Public Schools. She has now established her own student career learning firm in Sisters, Ore., called C.L.A .S.S. Consulting. '57 Gary Salyers (BS), principal of Lin– wood Elementary Schoo l in Milwaukie, Ore., began his term in July as president- elect of the 24,000- member National Associa– tion of Elementary School Principals. Next July, he will become president of the organization, followed by an additional year- long term serving as past president. '60 Michael Massee (BA) recently designed the sets and costumes for the Broadway production of Phillip Hayes Dean's play, "Paul Robeson," which opened Sept. 28th in New York City. The production reported– ly played to sold- out houses off– Broadway earlier this summer. Massee also teaches design at Ford– ham University at Lincoln Center. PSU 24 I ALUM NOTES I '61 Edward R. Cameron (BS) has been named manager of the large Sears Roebuck and Co. store in Cerritos, Calif. , located between Los Angeles and Anaheim. Since 1984, he had served as national merchandise manager of Sears' paint depart– ment. '65 Tom Gemelli (BS) has been named general manager at Sky Chefs' Portland flight kitchen near Portland International Airport . John F. Scott (BS) has been named a vice president of Cronin & Caplan Inc. Realtors in Portland . Scott is manager of the firm's Lake Oswego offi ce. '66 John Gagan (BS, '72 MST) is the new vice principal at Lake Oswego High School in Oregon. He former– ly taught English, since 1967, in the Parkrose School District near Port– land, serving also as the district's writing instructor. Roger McGarrigle (BS), partner with the Portland structural engineer– ing firm of Van Domelen/Looijenga/ McGarrigle/Knauf, has been elected president of the Structural Engineers Association of Oregon for the 1988- 89 term . '68 Jan Marie Fortier, Ph.D. (BA), is the new assistant director of the Bran– ford Price Millar Library at Portland State. She will assist the director in preparing the library's annual budget, and will then monitor and administer it. Fortier is the fo rmer head of the Public Services Division at the Uni– versity of Lowell Libraries in Lowell , Mass., where she supervised a staff of more than 40. Gary R. Lucas (MS), superinten– dent of Forest Grove, Ore. , Schools, has been elected an officer of the Bus iness Education Compact of Washington County. The compact supports cooperation between bus– iness and education through employ– ment exchanges of company and school personnel, internships and special programs for students. Robert E. McCall (BS), vice presi– dent of the Commercial Bank Divi– sion of U. S. National Bank of Oregon, Portland , is a new member of the board of directors of Metropolitan Famil y Se rvice, Portland. '69 Ron Hillbury (BS) has joined Gerber Advertising, Portland , as ac– count executive. He was formerly a senior account executi ve with Turtledove Clemens Inc. , Portland . Diana Lee Holuka (BS) is the new property manager for the City of Portland. She is responsible for managing all of the city's rental prop– erties located in downtown parking structures as well as other municipal locales. Holuka brings 15 years' ex– perience in the real estate and prop– erty management field to her new ci– ty position. Terry Livermore (BS) has joined Optical Data, Inc. of Beaverton, Ore., as director of marketing. He is the fonner optical character/recogni– tion product marketing manager for Caere Corp. in Los Gatos, Cali f. Richard B. Solomon (BS) , a cer– tified public accountant with offices in Portland , has been elected to serve a three- year term as a citizen mem– ber on the board of governors of the Oregon State Bar. STEVE DIPAOLA Marian R. Gerst, '65 BS '78 MST, received one of two Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching presented to Oregon teachers this year in a White House ceremony. The science teacher from J.B. Thomas Junior High School in Hillsboro, is noted for teaching methods that emphasize the positive. Gerst keeps her seventh grade students busy and enthusiastic with hands- on experiments and a classroom full of birds' and wasps' nests, skulls and pine cones. " It's important," she says, "to show kids that science is fun." Gerst received a $5,000 grant for the junior high along with her award . The grant is from the National Science Foundation which sponsors the teachers-of- the-year competition.