PSU Magazine Winter 1989

John Runyan Foundation names new board members The PSU Foundation has appointed John A. Runyan and R . Jay Lewis to the board of directors . Runyan has been a vice president at the investment banking firm Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood , Inc. for the last year. Since 1985, he had been a vice president of Kidder, Peabody & Co., a fim1 he joined in 1978. Prior to that he worked in personnel and commerci al lending at First Interstate Bank. Runyan holds a degree in Finance and Accounting from the University of Oregon. Jay Lewi s is manag ing director of the Portland office s of Marsh & McLennon, Inc . , an international in surance brokerage firm. Lewi s joined Marsh & McLennon in 1966 as an account representative in the New York office. He was promoted to head of the Portland office in 1979, e lected senior vice president in 1981, and managing director in 1982. Lewis graduated from Sam Houston State University with an economics degree. The addition of Runyan and Lewis brings to ten the number of new members e lected to the Board thi s year. Increased interest in serving on the Board led to a by- law change expanding the membership of the nonprofit group from 27 to 33. PSU 24 Jay Lewis I ALUM NOTES I Compiled by Cliff.Johnson Vanport William Hammerbeck has been elected a membe r of the board of trustees for the Ho ll aday Park Medical ' 6 Center Foundation in Portland . He is vice pres ide nt of A.G. Edwards Investme nt Grou p in Portland. Albert Huntley reports he now counse ls people in sma ll busi nes– ses as a volunteer for SCORE (Se rvice Corps of Ret ired Execu– tives) at the U.S. Small Busi ness Administration district offices 111 Portl and. '61 Judith K. Hofer (BS ) has been e lected to the board of the Oregon Hi storical Soc iety in Po rtland. She is president and chief execu– ti ve officer of Me ier & Frank Co. in Po rtl and . '63 Sheilah Church (BS ) has been named vice president-member– ship o n the 1989-90 board of the local chapter of the Inte rnat ional Associati on of Business Com– municators . Church is coor– dinator of commu nity relations for Forest Grove , Ore. , Public Schools . Robert N. McDougald (BS) has been elected president of the Heritage Developme nt Co. in Portl and . He is the forme r execu– ti ve vice preside nt of the Far West Federal Bank subsidi ary. '65 Janet A. Nelson (BS . '85 MBA) has been appo inted bank vice president with First Inte rstate Bank of Oregon. Stephen A. Wendell (BS ) has been appointed vice president/fi– nance, treasure r and chief finan– cial officer for Bohemia Inc . , the Eugene, Ore .-based wood pro– ducts company. He formerly held related pos itions with interna– tio nal King 's Table , Inc. in that ci ty. '66 Robert H. Colfelt , (BS ) former chairman of the board of Valley National Bank in Forest Grove , Ore. , has been promoted by U.S. Bank of Oregon as vice president in charge of a new Hill sboro– Forest Grove Distri ct for the bank. Valley me rged with U.S. Bank in March . 1989. Chuck Lund (BS ) is now manag– ing a new offi ce of No rthwest Of– fice Technolog ies in Eugene , Ore. Lund has 20 years' ex perie nce as a branch manager for Ban k of America. Nita Trullinger (BA ) reports she has been promoted to employ– ment specia li st in the Portl and Employment Program (PEP) at Portl and Community Co llege's Rock Creek campus. PEP places and tra ins me ntall y retarded stu– dents in communitybased empl oy– ment. (QLP)(QLP)'68(QLP)Gary Maffe i (BS ) is the new chairman of the board of Oregon Ballet Theatre. the organi zation fo rmed by the recent merging of Port– land 's two ballet companies, Pac ific Ballet Theatre and Ballet Oregon. There are now 24 fulltime dancers , eight fulltime staff members and a $4.5-milli on annual budget. Maffe i is pe rson– nel director at Loui sianaPac ific Corp . in Portland . Tom Pry (BS ) and hi s wife Mar– cia re port they have moved the commerci al printing and editorial operati ons of Pry Publishing Co. and its 50 empl oyees from east Portland 's Sellwood district to a larger pl ant in Northwest Port– land . The firm. which now pub– li shes seven local neighborhood newspape rs. had outgrown its o ld faci lity.