PSU Magazine Winter 1999

Compiled by Myrna Ouray Vanport Donald Holm is retired and lives in Port Townsend, on the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Holm relates of his Vanport experi– ences, "... l took the oportunity under the G. I. Bill to get a college education ... Most of the students at Vanport were veter– ans, and were a serious-minded bunch who wanted to get some education and get on with their lives ... Mother Nature inter– vened when the great flood of 1948 wiped out everything ...." After graduating from Lewis and C lark , Holm worked for Hyster Company in advertising and public rel ations for fou r years and then with Mobil Oil for six years. He then was hired by The Oregonian working as a reporter on the city hall beat, as a general assignment reporter, and as a wi ldlife ed itor and outdoors columnist unti l his retirement in 1983. '60 Larry Houchin is the Sweet Home municipal judge. Houchin retired in October after 30 years with Linn County, where he most recently served as chief deputy district attorney. In his spare time he enjoys gardening, bicycling, canoeing, and raising livestock. Darwin Reveal MBA '82 and his wife, Marjorie "Marge" Reveal MBA '84 li ve in Victoria, B.C. They write, "Marge is acting dean for health and human services at Camosun College and Dar is a hou e husband. We live just a short distance from the beach and love living in a vacation paradise." '64 Larry Large is president of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. Large was a longtime · leader in O regon higher educa– tion, serving as vice president of 20 PSU MAGAZINE WINTER l999 Willamette University from 1972-82; vice president of Reed College 1982-87; University of O regon vice president 1987-89; and vice chancellor for the O regon University System 1989- 1995. He most recently was executive vice president of Reed College in Portland. '65 John F. Scott has been elected president of the Oregon Associ– ation of Rea ltors. Scott is a designated broker and manager for Windermere Realty Groupin its Lake Oswego office. '66 James Bishop is a captain with American Eagle Airlines. Bishop lives in San Francisco and wri tes, "I've gotten to the point where I'd enjoy hearing from some of the old gang." '67 Clyde "Kip" Brown MS '69 is chairman and chief technology officer at TEC (The Engineer– ing Consortium, Inc.) , a fabless semiconductor company in Santa C lara, Calif. Brown is a fou nder of TEC, an entrepre– neur, and also has held teaching positions at U.C. Berkeley Extension, Cogswell College and !SHM Microelectronics Symposium . He is a registered professional engineer wi th numerous patents and published papers. '68 James Classen is a dentist and owner of a dentistry practice in Battle Ground, Wash. Don Dickinson MBA '72 is the director of advertising manage– ment at the Portland State School of Business Administra– tion. Dickinson previously was an independent marketing and communication consultant in Beaverton. Terrie Wed e MS '7 1, PhD '76 is the deputy director of the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, Md. '69 Jeff Barker is a supervisory sergeant of the internal affairs division with th e Portland Police Bureau. '70 Michael E. Carl MS has been elected president-elect of the Illinois Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and pre - ident of the Illinois Association of Deans of Public Colleges of Education. IACT E prov ides leadership in the advancement of school personnel preparation and in the transformation of schooling. Carl is the dean of Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. Larry McMacken MS is super– intendent of the Astoria School District 1C. McMacken has been an education administra– tor for 28 years and has served as superintendent of Forest Grove Schools since 1989. Roy Rogers has been awarded the 1998 O regon Society of Certified Public Accountants Gold Medal Award, given annua lly to a CPA for service to the accounting profession and the community. Rogers, a former mayor of Tualatin, is a partner in the Tigard office of Rogers, Ankersen & Sumner, PC. Robert Tunstall was elected secretary-treasu rer of the American Posta l Workers Union and will serve in Washington, D.C. '71 Jean Clawson Dominey MA writes that she "is completing her term under mayoral appointment as a founding member of the Astoria Arts Commission." Joan Hayse is executive assis– tant to the dean of the School of Business Administration at Portland State University. C. Jon Lesch is owner of a Papa Murphy's take and bake pizza store in Twin Falls, Idaho. Leslie "Les" White MS is the pri ncipal at St. Therese Catholic School in east Multnomah County. White formerly was the admin istrator at Valley Catholic Midd le School in Beaverton. '72 Wayne Chapman MA '77 and Janet M. Manson '70, MS '77 are ed itors of an essay collec– tion, Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: Peace, Politics, and Education published by New York: Pace University Press, 1998. Chapman is an associate profes– sor in the English department at C lemson University in South Carolina. William "Bill" Korach EdD '96 is one of four final ists for the 1999 National Superintendent of the year. The American Association of School Admin– istrators had recently named him State of O regon Superintendent of the Year. Korach is the Lake Oswego School District superintendent. Bruce Korter is a principal with Washington Capital Manage– ment, Inc., a Seattle-based company that manages assets for indiv iduals, trusts, founda– tions, and retirement plans. Korter previously was president of Columbia Consulting Group, Inc. Nancy Krause is the executive director of the Auburn Downtown Association, a nonprofit organization, which includes about 240 businesses. Krause and her husband, Randy, live in Enumclaw, Wash. Edward "Ed" Lund is an adop– tion counse lor with the Services to Children and Fami lies in La Grande. Lund was awarded the