PSU Magazine Winter 1989

J ames Romney (BS , '78 MS) re– ports he is the new superintendent for the Glide School District east of Roseburg, Ore. Romney also reports he served in similar posts for Oregon's Port Orford-Langlois and Redland School Districts dur– ing the past eight years. David Scofield (BS , ' 82 BS ) ha been hired by the Lake Oswego, Ore., engineering firm of L.R . Squier Associates to serve as a project engineer for the firm's foundation and landslide investi– gations as well as seismic hazards evaluati ons. David Sharon (MBA) reports he is now president of CASE As– soc iates Inc., a research and con– sulting firm specializing in meet– ing computera ided software en– gineering needs for nati onal clients. He former ly worked fo r Tektroni x, Inc. Vincent Zanobelli (MS ) is the new superintendent and principal at the Mt. Angel School District in Mt. Angel, Ore. He comes to the Marion County community from Bandon High School where he worked for the past four years. '74 Dua ne A. Bosworth (MS ). a lawyer wi th the firm of Ragen, Tremaine. Krieger. Schmeer & e ill in Portland. has been awarded the distinguished service honor from the you ng lawyer sec– tion of the Multnomah Bar As– sociati on as its outgoi ng presi– dent , and fo r hi s five yea rs of ser– vice . Ruth M iller (BS , '83 MS) is a new part-time art educati on fa– culty member at George Fox Co l– lege in Newberg. Ore. '75 Ed ward Borst (BS J is the new vice president of acq ui sitions and deve lopment at Harsc h Invest– ment Corp ., the real estate de– velopment firm owned by Port– land industrialist Harold Schnitzer. Borst is the for mer president of Heritage Deve lop– ment Co . in Portl and. PSU 26 Anna J . Brown (BS), a partner with Bullivant, Houser, Bailey, Pendergrass & Hoffman law firm in Portland , has been appointed chairwomanelect of the govern– ment liability committee of the American Bar Association's tort and insurance practices section. J erry Fitzpatrick (MS) is the new assistant principal at Forest Grove High School in Forest Grove , Ore. He is the former vice principal at Mazama High School in Klamath Fall s. Linda Folkestad (BS , '79 MBA) is the new vice president and man– ager of the Northwest region for Al– quest Property Services Corp. in the firm 's Portland office. She was Alquest's Idaho regional director in Boise prior to her new appoint– ment. Dan Fowler (BS) and partner Mark Foley of F & F Structures, Inc. in Oregon City, Ore. , recently purch– ased the city's first freight train depot. Before restoring the build– ing and transforming it into period office space, they had to have the 85-ton structure moved back to town from Portland , where it had been transported some 14 years ago. Gregor y F. J enner (BS ) reports he was recently named special assis– tant to the assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, he reports that he served as tax coun– sel for the U.S. Senate Finance Comm ittee. Gene Leo (BS), executi ve director of the Portland Rose Festi val As– sociation, has been elected sec– retarytreasurer of the Oregon Tourism Al liance . Leo represents Washington County on the al– liance, which promotes tourism for 11 orthwest Oregon govern– ments. '76 Roberta McEniry (BS), seni or vice pres ident of in vestor/corpo– rate communications for The Benj . Franklin Savings & Loan Assn. , Port land , has assumed ad– ditional duties as director of cor– porate planning for the thrift. Carol McKinnon (MSW), part– ner in Westside Famil y As– sociates, Portl and , has been elected to the board of directors of Tree of Learning, a Portland al– ternative school for young people with learning disabi lities. '77 J oan L . Goforth (MS , ' 77 MBA), director of corporate mar– keting for Legacy Health System in Portland , has been named mar– keting group chairwoman for American Healthcare System, a nationwide partnership of reg– ional health care systems. Jocelyn Tuthill (MS ), director of the alternati ve Tree of Learning High School in Portland . has joined the board of directors of the local Orton Dys lexia Soc iety, a national organi zation devoted to informing the public about the disorder, which impairs one's abil – ity to read. '78 J ade J ourda n (BA ) and her sis– ter, Jonte Jourdan ('88 BA), joined their mother Jola this sum– mer for a di splay of the ir ori gin al paintin gs during a spec ial show– ing held at the Lakewood Gallery in Lake Oswego. Ore . '79 Steve Bjorklund , CPA (BS). has been promoted to senior manager at the Portl and offices of Grant Thornton Company. a nati onal CPA firm. J esse Easley (MA), ass istan t pro– fessor of English at Lehi gh Uni – versity in Bethl ehem, Pa. , has re– ceived a twoyear fac ulty fe ll ow– ship award at hi s university. He is currentl y working toward the doc– toral degree in Engli sh and art hi s– tory from the University of South– ern Ca li fo rni a . T homas Howell (BS ) has joined the reta il divi sion of Grubb & El lis Commercial Rea l Estate Ser– vices in Port land . He is the fo rmer pres ident of Lake In vest– ment in Dall as, Texas. '80 Ruth Ann C rossen (BS ) reports she is the supervisor of fie ld ser– vices for Mu ltnomah County's Probation Services office . She also reports she is a cofounder of the Council for Prostitution Alter– natives Inc. in Portland , and the current president of its board of directors. Ka ren L. King (BA) has been named director of information systems at Lewis & Clark College in Portland . She has held severa l related posts at the college since 1984 . '81 Judith DeVillicrs (MBA ) has been hired as an auditor for Multnomah County. Most re– centl y, she served as contro ller for the Oregon Housing Agency. David T. Keys (BS) reports he has been promoted to vice pres ident of the mu lt ifamily housing di vi– sion at Norris & Stevens, Real tors in Portl and. Steve Vuylsteke (BS ), chief executive offi cer of Oak Knoll Winery in Hillsboro, Ore., was re– cently named Volunteer of the Year for hi s leadership during 1989 as president of the board of directors of the Washington County Visitors Association. '82 Tom Gauntt (BA ) has been named editor of " Focus.'· a series of weekly secti ons on subjects ranging from health care to tele– communicati ons which appear in Port land 's '·The Business Jour– nal.'. He formerly worked as a re– porter and columni st fo r the busi– ness tabloid . Neil Lomax (BS), two-time Pro Bow l quarterback for the Phoeni x Cardinals profess ional football team , was placed on the injured reserve list Aug. 29 , making him ine ligible to pl ay or practice wi th the NFL team fo r the 1989 sea– son. Hobbled with degenerative arthriti s in his left hip , Lomax says he plans to continue hi s re– habilitation and make a comeback nex t season .