PSU Magazine Winter 2004

Emily Moore MURP is project coord inator at Portland Energy Conservation, Inc., a nonprorit agency in Portland. Lynn Nolting MSW is an edu– cation coordinator for the Native American Youth Associa– tion in Portland. Brenda Phillips MS is a techni– cal writer with Household, a credit card services company in Tigard. Jeffrey Pool received a two-year Rotary World Peace Scholarship and is studying in Paris. Pool formerly worked part time in the Office of Information Technologies at PSU . Barbara Jean "B.J ." Rinearson MA is an English as a second language teacher with Oregon City School District 62. Christopher Rose is an asset protection specialist at Target in Wilsonville. Leslie Ruminski MSW is a medical social worker at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. Rachel Ruptak is an assistant lighting designer with Oregon Ballet Theatre in Portland. Alyssa Elting Stuart is the restraining order program direc– tor at the Domestic Violence Resource Center, a nonprofit agency in Hillsboro. Her hus– band, Joshua Stuart '02, is an audiovisual production techni– cian at the Oregon Convention Center. Kerri Sullivan MURP is a trans– portation planner at Wenatchee Valley Transportation Council in Wenatchee, Washingon. Angela Timmons is a staff geol– ogist at TRC-Alton Geoscience in San Diego, California. Tony Valley EdD is a school administrator in the Molalla River School District and teaches courses on a pan-time basis in the graduate education program at University of Phoenix Oregon campus. He also plans to write a book about his experiences Leaching in native villages in Alaska. Heather VanAlstyne MS is an English as a second language and social studies teacher at Neil Armstrong Middle School in Forest Grove. Erika Weisensee MA is an adjunct professor in communi– cation studies at the Uni versity of Portland . James Westfa ll is a payment analyst with Boeing. Westfall lives in Kirkland, Washington. Kate Zimmer MS is a math teacher with Portland Public Schools. Oma Blankenship, one of the PSU Athletic Department's first woman coaches, passed away on July 28. She was 74. Known as "Miss B" or "Doctor B," Blanken– ship taught health and PE., coached every sport, and was eventually made director of Women's Athletics. She worked hard at PSU making sure women students got the same advantages as male students. James Chambers '69, PhD '86 died of a heart attack on Octo– ber 14. Chambers was an asso– ciate professor of social science at Florida State Gulf University until his retirement last year. He was the first African American to play on a PSU baseball team. In 1962, he helped lead the PSU team LO second place in the NAIA college championship. He is survived by Peggy Chambers, four children, and four grandchiIdren. Jim Griffith '67, mayor of Tigard, died November 28 of gastric cancer. Griffith served on the PSU Alumni Board of Direc– tors from 1987 through 1992. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn ; four children; and eight grandch ildren. Claire Kelly-Zimmer, associate professor emerita of art history, died July 4. She was a faculty member for 25 years before retiring in 1995 because of Alzheimer's. She was 65 years old at her death. Considered an expert in medieval an, Prof. Kelly-Zimmer also taught mod– ern and contemporary arts and pioneered a course on women in the visual ans. D He1~ us doul>le our scholarships to vvon,en athletes at PSU! "Stud ents a re the heart o f Portland Sta te's a thletic program . Th ey come to here to seek th eir d reams in the classroom as well as on the playing field. Thirty years ago, I was one of those student athletes. Today, 1 suppo rt both men's and women's programs, but-as head softball coach- my day to day con cerns are for the women student-athletes who give their all to the University. Portland State currently supports its women a thletes with $750,000 in sch olar– ships. But the competition is getting tough er every day. To keep the playing field level, we have to double our scholarship support. Sch olarships help our wom en athletes build successful fu tures fo r themselves just as they build a su ccessful athletic program for Po rtland State. Please j oin me in supporting our women student-athletes– the next gen era tion of Oregon leaders." -So ftball Coach Teri Mariani '75 (the winningest coach in PSU history and member or the Oregon Sports Hall or Fame) ~ PSU To offer your support, please call Teri at 503-724-4400 or call the Portland State Department of Athletic Development at 503-725-6804. WINTER 2004 PSU MAGAZINE 27