PSU Magazine Winter 1988

'83 Daniel Dallabrida (BS) has been named account director and manager of the new Po11land office of Gelman & Gray Communications Inc.. a Los Angeles- based public relations firm . He was formerly in corporate public relations with Tektronix . Inc. Anna MacHan (BS) has joined INS Adve11ising, Po11land , as account ex– ecutive. Her past experience includes eight years in newspaper sales with 771e Oregonian in Po11land. Michelle McKenna (MPA) has join– ed the Consulting Engineers Coun– cil of Oregon as executive director. She is the former divisional director of communication services fo r the Oregon State Bar. '84 Scott Halvorsen (BS), president of Bae11's Metal Products Inc. in San– dy, Ore., reports that his steel fabrication firm is enjoying prosperi– ty after having to sharply expand its product Iine and reduce its workforce when the traditional market for the firn1's underground steel storage tanks dwindled in the early 1980s. Greg Kimsey (MBA) has been pro– moted to vice president of the cor– porate finance department at U.S. Bank of Oregon. His new duties in– clude prov iding adv isory services to buyers and sellers of companies, and arranging for the private placement of corporate debt and equity securities. Sandra L. Ward (BS) has been named vice president of marketing for P.drk Place Living Center and Regency P.Jrk Living Center in Port– land. These are licensed care faci – lities providing long- tern1 care for the frai l elderly. '85 Linda Barnett (BS). assistant direc– tor of Chamber Music Northwest in Ponland, has been selected from a national field of candidates for an ans administration fellowship in the music program of the National En– dowment for the Ans. Michael Brewin (BS) has been nam– ed a reporter at Clackamas C01111n· News, a weekly newspaper published in Estacada, Ore. He is a Fornier con– tributing columnist to the PSU lilnguard. Tammy Furst (BS) has been named head volleyball coach at Lakeridge High School in Lake Oswego, Ore. As part of her first head coaching position. she also will teach health classes. To those in office PSU Magazine also congratulates Portland State graduates who won or retained office following the Nov. 8. 1988 general election: Glenn Otto (Vanport) reelected to the Oregon Senate, District 11 ; Oregon Representatives Bruce Hugo ('71 BS) reelected in District 1. PSU professor Tom Mason ('67 BS, '75 MS) reelected in District 11, Margaret Carter ('73 BS) reelected in District 18. PSU professor Ron Cease (Vanport) relected in District 19, Bob Shiprack ('72 BS) reelected in District 23, and John Schoon ('75 MBA) relected in District 34; Mayor J.E. " Bud" Clark (Vanport) reelected in the City of Portland ; Com– missioner Dick Bogle (Vanport) reelected to Position 4 for the city ; Michael D. Schrunk ('64 BS) reelected Multnomah Coun– ty District Attorney ; Dan Ivancic ('82 BS) elected Multnomah County Auditor; Jane Hartline ('80 MPA) elected director of Zone 4, West Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District; and Roger Buchanan ('58 BS) elected councilor for the Metro Service District, Position 10. '86 James 0. I. Ekeji (BS) has been ap– pointed to the Housing and Com– munity Development Budget Advi– sory Committee in the City of Portland 's Bureau of Community Development. Ekeji came to Portland seven years ago from his home coun– try of Nigeria . Leanna J effords (MS) was one of three Lake Oswego. Ore.. School District educators journeying to Washington. D.C. . in mid- September to help celebrate Westridge Elemen– tary School's awdrd in the 1987- 88 National Elementary School Recog– nition Program. Jeffords. a first– grade teacher at the school. wds selected by her fellow teachers to represen t them at the national ceremonics. Ted Spooner (BS) has joined Fi rst Technology Federal Credit Union of Beaverton. Ore.. as controller. ''if/ David Gradin (BS). an engineer in the Sensi ng Systems Division at Eldec Corp. in Bellevue, Wash.. has developed a new way to harness com– puters which now saves his firm 25 percent of the time it formerly took to create, develop and test switch cir– cuits designed to be installed in the doors and landing gears of commer– cial and military aircraft. His success was profiled in the July 1988 issue of Personal Co111p111i11g magazine. Tess Ratty (BS), vice president of Media West Home Video in Beaver– ton, Ore., accepted Video Choice magazine's Double Five Star Award recently during this year's Video Software Dealers Association show in Las Vegas. Nev. The honor WdS for t'Ml Media West- produced video– tapes: "Kittens to Cats" and " Pup– py's First Year." Carol R. Sturdivant (MBA) has joined the Portland office of the Ar– thur Young & Company accounting firm as a management consultant for manufacturing operations and infor– mation systems. She was formerly with Boise Cascade P'aper Group. Carol Sturdivant '88 Christophe Seagle (BS) has been named director of marketing and client services fo r Executive Presen– tations. Portland. The firm has pro– vided speaker support presentation graphics to local firms for the past five years. In Memoriam Annette Wiestllng Platt ('70 BS), who studied for her degree in an– thropology from Portland State whi le in her 70's, died Oct. I in Idaho of causes related to age. She was 90. She was a long-time member of two mountaineering groups in the North– west. Lake Annette on the west side of Washington's Snoqualmie Pass was named for her in 1918. She is sur– vived by her son, ten grandchildren and two great- grandchildren. The family suggests remembrances be contributions to William Temple House in Portland . Harry K. Stevens III ('77 BS). a former stockbroker and scout for Northwest executive search firms. died Aug. 22 in Portland of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage. He was 33. Survivors include his father. mother and two sisters. The tinnily suggest5 remembrances be contribu– tions to the William Temple House. Portland, or a favorite charity. Gailann Margaret Watts ('81 BA) died of cancer Sept. 5 in a Portland hospital. She was 39. She worked for a number of years as an insurance clerk in a local medical clinic. Sur– vivors include her husband. two daughters, her parents, three brothers and two sisters. The family suggests remembrances be contributions to the Association for Retarded Citizens. PSU 27