PSU Magazine Winter 2005

Compi led by Myrna Duray Vanport Dick Han en retired from Pon– land Eye Group after 29 years, but remains prcsidern of Hansen Scale Aviation Video. Since 1992 he has produced the show Scale Aircraft for public access televi– sion and 159 one-hour volumes that have been shown on Willamette Falls and Portland Cable Access. Hansen is an expert designer, builder, and pilot of unmanned aircraft. He has won awards at the U. . Scale-Masters Championship and at Top Gun . His credits range from covers of model magazines LO [lying for Lucas Film's Young Indiana )011es: Attach of the liawh– men. He lives in Portland. '60 Darwin Reveal MBA '82 retired from Oregon Health & Science University in 1992 and now lives in Flagstaff, Arizona. His wi fe, Marjorie "Marge" MBA '84 teac hes at orthem Arizona University. '67 Howa rd Hughes is a licensed clinical soc ial worker at Family Service of pokane, Washing– ton . Hughes has been a psy– chotherapist for "many years and has always loved PSU." Mae Ouchida is a professo r at Washington University school of medicine 111 St. Louis, Missouri . '68 Merry Decker Bracco works for the Stale of Oregon Depanment of Human Services as manager of the Milwaukie office. Marilyn Herb MS is intetim director of the histotic Elsinore Theatre in Salem. Herb retired in 1999 from the Salem-Keizer chool Distri ct after 25 years. Her duties included work in special education , guidance and counseling, alternati1·e educa– tion, and most recently execu– tive assistant LO the superinten– dent. Donald Lange is a selr-employed climcal neuropsychologist in Portland. Oie Lood worked for 25 years at Providence Portland Medical Cerner as director of medical records. Lo d is now retired, lives in Tigard , and enjoys Lraveling. '69 Gus Ebro is a tour guide with Roberts Hawaii, Inc., in Kahu– lui, Maui . Lilj a Toban Finzel won first place in Lhe Oregon Senior Spelling Bee and third place in the National Senior Spelling Bee that is sponsored by the Cheye nne, Wyoming, AARP. Fi nze l lives in Vernonia. Richard So lomon has been appointed by Gov. Ted Kulon– goski LO a four-year term on Lhe Oregon Investment Council. The council manages approxi– mately $57 billion or state and local gove rnmern runds, includ– ing about 45 billi on for Lhe Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund. Solomon also se rves on Lhe boa rd or Lhe PSU Foundation . He is a enified publi c accountam in PorLland . '70 Richard Adame k has been selected Tau Kappa Epsilon Fra– ternity's Volunteer of the Year for 2003-200-t. Adamek was initiated irno its Zeta Kappa chapter in May 1996. ince graduation, he has served as member, treasurer, president, in district posts, and has won a leader award. He also is a Studying brain function at Columbia University T HERE'S A LOT OF OREGON still left in joy Hirsch MS '7 1, wh o meticu lously p lants her Long lsland country acreage with ferns an d othe r Northwest 0ora to make it look like a Cascades fo rest. O riginally from Salem , Hi rsch's career trajectory has kept her on the East Coast for more than three decades. After receiving her bachelor's degree in b asic science from Un i– ve rsity of O regon , Hirsch earned he r m as– ter's at PSU before heading off Lo Columbia Un ive rs ity on a full sch olarship. "My pa rents thou ght I'd be mugged in my first week. l pointed out LO them that the re a re millions of peop le in ew Yo rk City. How many of them don't get mugged eve t) ' day?" Ha rsch ea rned her PhD at Columbia, then was on the facu lty at Yale and Cornell University medical college be fo re being invited LO start a new program in the ground– breaking fie lcl of fun ctional imaging at Memorial Sloan– Kettering Cancer Center. Sh e was the re for 10 years befo re returnin g to Columbi a Uni versity in 2002 , where s he is the di recto r of Columbia's Functional MRl Research Center. Functi onal imagi ng is the use of MRI-magnetic resona nce imaging- to map actua l brain [uncti o ns. MRI has been u sed as a structural diagnostic tool since it first came on the medical sce ne 111 1981. and is commonly used to find tumors, bulging disks, and other structural abnormali– ties. Using the same equipment, Hirsch and he r coll eagues can see how the brain blood 0ow and circuitry change when th e patielll is given a verbal task , o r is suffering from anxi– ety. Fun cti onal imaging makes a connection between neu roscience and psychology. "It's gi ven us a profoundly imp roved under– standing about behavior problems and the brain's circuitry," she says, adding that it \\i ll lead to better drugs, mo re efficielll behavioral the rapy, and be tte r surgical techniques. "It's a window on the operation of the mind that we've nel'er h ad before . It's an incredible gift." -John Kirkland Wl NTER 2005 P l, lAGAZl E 21