PSU Magazine Winter 1997

'84 William H . Gray PhD served as a delegate for President Judith Ramaley at the inauguration of Rev. Edward Glynn as president of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., on September 19, 1996. Gray is campus dean at Washington State University in Spokane. Cheryl "Murphy" McGrew MS '87 is an engagement manager with Perkins Consulting in Portland. McGrew works with clients to help their organizations develop efficient administrative and project management systems using the clients' own desktop tools and staff She formerly owned a marine services company and her own business management firm. Linda Samek MS is an assistant professor of education at George Fox University in Newberg. Samek formerly was the director of teacher education at Western Baptist College in Salem. She is currently working on her disser– tation for a doctorate in educa– tional leadership from PSU. Jeri Edwards Schmidt is princi– pal of Blake, Hausen & Schmidt Ltd., a business sh e established eight years ago. The firm provides retained executi ve searches to companies in manu– facturing. Schmidt lives in New York C ity. '85 Allen C . H owell MS is an assistant professor of music education at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Marlene Kipers and her husband started a private, nonreligious and back-to-basics school in Boring. Kipers' students range from kinder– garten through third grade and the curriculum includes reading, writing, math, language arts, art, music, history, geography, and science. '86 Dawn Edwards is a public affairs spec ialist with the Army Corps of Engineers. Edwards handles media and community relations issues, internal communications, speech writing and other agency work. She and her husband live at the Sandy Fish Hatchery. Heidi Franklin MBA is director of spec ial projects at Ater, Wynne, Hewitt, Dodson, Skerritt, L.L.P. Franklin is responsible for strategic and space planning, marketing, and other business initiatives at the Portland law firm. She formerly was with Norris, Beggs & Simpson. Michael W. Garey is manager of human resources for Magnitude Compression Systems, a division of General Instruments, in San Jose, Calif. Garey rece ived the des ignation "Senior Professional in Human Resources" after passing the national certification exam. He lives in Hercules, Calif. Mark Goldberg is the director of safety and workers' compen– sation with Cascade Employers Association, a human resource consulting firm in Salem. Mary L. Hanson MS is the bull trout coordinator with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife in Portland. '87 William Howe is a resident engineer with the Ca lifornia Department of Transportation in San Francisco. Daniel B. Nichols is a product engineer at AIMCO, an indus– trial fastening systems company in Portland. Nichols is married and ha two children, Laura and David. Gayland Smith is the power marketing manager at the Portland office of CNG Energy Services Corporation, the Pittsburgh- based energy marketing schools. Chilcote works at Lents Elementary in southeast Portland, where he helps with tutoring and fundraising activities. sub idiary of Consolidated Natural Gas. Smith formerly was a technical team leader of short-term contracts group at Bonnev ille Power Administration. Charles Garver MBA '91 is a management information systems analyst for Portland's Environmental Services. Garver serves as a liaison between the sewer and water bureaus, working with users and management to make modifications in the customer billing info rmation system. He has been with the city of Portland for five years, when Thomas Tekulve MBA is vice president and chief financial officer at Safeguard Hea lth Enterprises Inc ., a dental managed care and indemnity insurance company in Anaheim, Calif. '88 Laurie Chilcote is a volunteer at Experience Corps, a new service program for adults age he started with maintenance of the computer network. Garver states, "My MBA has helped immense ly in the world of business." 55 and up. Experience Corps sponsors teams of older adults to serve in Portland elementary Designing Our Future Jean-Michel Cousteau Oceanographer, Filmmaker January 24th in Portland Cosmology ofMind Dr. Keith Devlin, Stanford February 12th in Eugene February 14th in Portland Mind Made Flesh Dr. George Lakoff UC Berkeley March 11th in Eugene March 14th in Portland Technology Future Craig Mundie Senior VP, Microsoft April 11th in Portland Emergence ofOrder Dr. Stuart Kauffman Santa Fe Institute • For Tickets in Portland Call FASTIXX at 224-8499 For Season Tickets in Eugene Call the Hult Center Box Office at 541 687-5000 WINTER 1997 PSU MAGAZINE 25