PSu Magazine Winter 2002

AL u M Compiled by Myrna Duray \,~ {) It was great to see so many Van– porters at the reunion on cam– pus in September. Tom Bell came by, as did Milton Hilmer. Joy Bird Velta came with her good friend Cathy Bostwick Williams (now living in Sis– ters). Mary Jones Keams came from Joseph, and Barbara (Case) and Chuck Ellison and Tom and Rosann Morris attended. Former faculty and staff members had a good time, including Howard Backlund (first music director), Stanley Johnson (English), Ginny Hoff– mann (widow of George Hoff– mann), Brock Dixon and his wife, Margie, Lucille Walker, accompanied by her son Bill '73, Margaret "Mugsy" Dobson, Ken Butler, and PSU's histo– rian, Gordon Dodds. Also attending the day's events were Alice Gustafson, Beverly Hilliard, Bill and Genna Lem– man (Bill emceed the program), Robert and JoAnn Griggs, Dick and Kathy Shaffer, Grant Mumpower, Ron and Jane Cease, Charles and Sally Kingston, John and Sue Sand– vig, Evie Crowell and her niece Deborah, Eldon and Betty Kor– pela, Dick Berry and his daugh– ter Nancy Baker '80, John Hakanson, Sallye (Swafford) and Bill Hartford, Cliff and Faye York, L.D. "Mac" McCroskey, Rosalyn Paul, Rod Davidson, Barbara Evonchuck Cyrus, Ron Graves, Don Larson, John Aha, Rodger and Janet Eddy, Elaine and Arnold Cogan, Aletha Chavis, Walt Emmons, and Bob and Jan Boden. '62 Ben Vose is an editorial assis– tant for the Clatsop County Gazette in Cannon Beach. Vose also is a Meier & Frank Santa Claus during the holiday season. He formerly was an elementary school teacher in the Lake Oswego and Portland school districts. 22 PSU MAGAZINE WINTER 2002 N O T E S Arlene Loeffler MST '71 is a retired elementary teacher Ii v– ing in Everett, Washington. Loeffler taught in the Portland Public School District. Karl Clark is director of the Heart Gallery, an art gallery in Portland. Dennis McCormick is a profes– sor of German in the Depart– ment of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Montana in Missoula. '66 Albert "Al" Zemke owns American States Title Company in Bend. Zemke and his wife, Katherine, attended the PSU Alumni Reception held in Bend on October 16. Steven Ickes is assistant direc– tor for the Oregon Department of Corrections in Salem. '68 Ronald "Ron" Spagle owns City Realty Company, a real estate firm in Portland. '69 Joan "Josie" Shapira creates handmade greeting cards for all occasions and holidays. Shapira uses rosemaling, a Norwegian art form, for some of her unique designs. She lives in Vancouver, Washington. '70 Stephen "Steve" Carlson MST '77 writes, " ... brief history ... Outstanding Earth Science Teacher, Pacific NW Region, 1984; Oregon Science Teacher president, 1985; Fred Fox Dis– tinguished Service in Science Education, 1990; National Sci– ence Teacher Association Board, 1991-93; Assistant Superintendent, Curriculum, Blaine County Schools (Sun Valley, Idaho) 1993-95; Liaison for PPS to Higher Education, PASS Project 1995-97 ... wanted to have a real life so: Assistant Principal, Sellwood Middle School in Portland, 1997-99; Assistant Principal, Sandstone Middle School in Hermiston, 1999-present." Richard "Dick" Piland was awarded the 2001 Volunteer of the Year award by the First United Methodist Church in Portland. Piland directed grass roots organizing for public ser– vice at the church and linked the church with a national pro– gram. He is a retired Mult– nomah County deputy sheriff and also served as the officer in charge of initiating the DARE program for Multnomah County. He lives in Portland. Allen Radke MST '74 writes, "1992-98 taught in Shelton, Washington, and 1998-2001 in Tacoma, Washington ... I went from rural to inner-city children and loved all of them." Radke now teaches and coaches gym– nastics at a Seventh-day Adventist boarding high school in Enterprise, Kansas. He enjoys writing and staying in touch with former students. 7 Joseph Bernt is a professor of journalism and founding direc– tor of the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio Uni– versity in Athens, Ohio. Bernt received the national Sigma Delta Chi Award for Research in Journalism for his co-edited book, The Big Chill: Investigative Reporting in the Current Media Environment; it was awarded at the Society of Professional Jour– nalists Convention in Seattle on October 5, 2001. His current research and writing projects include a book contract for the four-volume History of Magazine Publishing Companies in the 20th Century, and a three-year, $556,000 National Science Foundation grant for "Getting the Media Message: The Por– trayal of Gender, Race, and Information Technology in the Media Environment of Middle School Students," for which he is one of three co-investigators. Thomas Martin is owner and operator of Martin C leaning Service, a carpet and upholstery cleaning firm in Portland. '77 William "Bill" Cannon MA '79 is an archaeologist for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Lakeview. Cannon was a winner of the annual Earle A. Chiles award from The High Desert Museum in Bend. He was hon– ored for his lifelong work in the preservation of natural, archae– ological, and historic resources of the Great Basin. W. Lawrence "Larry" Warner graduated from the University of Oregon Medical School in 1974 and completed his intern– ship and residency in obstetrics and gynecology in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Warner practiced medicine in McMinnville from 1978 to 1997 and currently has a half-time practice in Provo, Utah. He is married, has five children and five grandchildren, and is active in Boy Scouts of American and Mormon church leadership. He enjoys backpack– ing and running. Dain Wilmarth is general ledger manager at Freightliner Corporation in Portland. '73 Donald Fields is a sales associ– ate for Windermere Real Estate in Redmond. Fields attended the PSU Alumni Reception held in Bend on October 16. Richard Paperini is director of liturgical formation at Mount Angel Seminary in St. Bene– dict.