Terrle Wetle ('68. '71 MS. '76 Ph.D.) is a Macy Fellow and assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Wetle's work involves ethlcal Issues in long-term care, health :ad social services for the aged. Wetie was director of the Long Term Care program at Yale Medical School before moving to Harvard. Ed Williams ('MI) runs the Alder House, a glasswork gallery which also contains his glassblowing WorkshOD. The Alder House Is located in Gleneden Beach, south of Lincoln City on the Oregon coast. Molly Ackley-Cook ('74) has been appointed to the Research Board of the Cihr Club of Portland. The board revlews studies completed by City Club committees. Greg Baker ('76 MBA) is the Port of Astoria's deputy director of Finance and Admin~stration.he was formerly with the Oregon Department of Economic Development. Susan Brickey ('77) has been hired by Providence Medical Center in Portland as coordinator of the Providence Plan, a health-care Program for employees and dependents. She was a senior underwriter for Blue Cross of Oregon before joining Providence. Janice Cissna ('70) is a management analyst for Houston Instrument, a divis~onof Bausch and Lomb. She is also a major in the Air Force Reserve, serving as the munitions staff officerfor the 10thAir Force (Reserve). Janice and her husband, Ralph Daniels, reside in Austin. Texas. Marilyn Couture ('72 BA) was the prlmary anthropological consultant for a film about the Paiute Indian culture of Oregon. The film. "The Earth is Our Home," was jointly sponsored by Marylhurst College and the Oregon Committee for the Humanities. Couture 1s a leading author~tyon the Burns Paiutes, a culture she has been studying since 1974. Jerry Cox ('79 BS) is a support trainer for Westside Community FOCUS, a non-profit organization which operates services for the mentally retarded in Muitnomah Countv. He works with a ' semr'!ndependent I vtng skllls program to leach mentally hand capped adJlffi s~lllsthat w i enable them to become more independent. Alum makes Floating Point success story by Cliff Johnson Norm Winningstad's ('73 MBA) decision at age 45 to earn an advanced dearee at PSU foliowino I his enoineeka career at ~eklron&. Inc o<~eave<on and hs mcreorfc rlse as cnafrman an0 chef rxoc,t~vo OHcer ol onc oi the worln s prlnc pal makers of array processors, are just two of the key elements in the Norm Winn~ngstadsuccess story. Success and peopie alike seem to be naturally attracted to Winningstad. Employeesat h ~ sFloating Point Systems, inc. manufacturing facility in Beavertonare likely to address thew boss with a casual, "HI, Norm? whenever he tours the sprawling plant. His firm produces hlgh-technology machines which attack extensive arrays of numbers and perform complex calculations on them much faster and at a lower cost per calculation than conventional computers can. Winningstad also credits part of his current success to his ability to adopt the thinking patterns of those who design, make, sell and use his sophlsticated products. "Thls business of recognizing customers' needs, and having a knowledge of what the present component state of the art is, and putting these together to make a cost-effective product, is what I think the buslness is all about," Winningstadsaid. Winningstad had successfully risen through the ranks at Tek, when he found that his administrative expertise did not match h ~ tsechnical k Norm Winningstad expertise. He decided to study for an advanceddegree in business administrat~onat PSU, rather than at a distant ivy-league institution. "What I needed was the information," he emphasized. Attending PSU meant that he could contlnue to live in the Pornand area with his family, and still pursue the financino needed to brino out a new prwLct, a mlnt-comp~ler des gned oy two other engtneers. Larry Craig ('70, '80 MS) has been appointed director of the Multnomah County Departmentof Justice Services. The county's largest department, Justice Services includes the circuit, district and juvenile courts, the sheriffs off~ce, the dlstrict attorney's oftice, the corrections division, and the medical examiner's office. Craig was acting director at the time of his appointment. Michael Goldsmith ('73) and his wife Bridget ('71), are co-owners of an independentinsurance adjusting company. Columbia Clam Se~ces. in Oregon City. They have two children. Irene L. Grudzlnski ('76) has had her one-act play, "Natasha," performed by the Eccentnc Circles Theatre In New York Ci, July 26-29. "Natasha" is a story about a lonelv woman who deveioos a Mary Lynne Denlngton ('76 MS) 1s relatonshlpw th a mannequin The p. nc pal and lhoranan at Rose Valley Pay was presented at PSL In 1978 School In Kelso. Wash. She was as pan of the New Plays n Progress formerly a counselor at Coweeman Awards program. In 1980 Gmdzlnski Junlor High for three years. received the reglonal American marcla (.72) is controller of College Theatre Festival Award for First Federal IndependentBank of in Playwriting lor Vancouver, Wash. "Natasha." Their eventual collaboratior prompted the formation of Floatlng Point Systems in 1970. Soon, the new concern was oroduclno hardware which e;entuallv;/ould signal producbon of the 1fm; s currenl mainstay, the array processor Wlnn~ngstads PSU buslness tralnlng pa~doff handsomely In 1976 He and hls associates realized that their flrm was likely to quadruple in size during the same year, he said. "I was able to wrlte a computer model for our company which would inform me of what i needed in square feet, peopie, materials, cash - especlaily cash - and I took the results to the bank." The subsequent loan made posslbie the explosive growth which followed. In 1977, Winnlngstad's computer model again "worked beautifully," and the flrm quadrupled a second tlme. Winningstad continues m think ahead. Seeing to it that others more Skilled at operating the firm come to work at Float~ngPoint, he now concentrateson what he says he does best, long-term planning. "My skills lie In conceptualizing the big picture, and then inspiring a group of peopie to cause that b ~ gpicture to occur in fact," he added. Asked what he would want to r on his epitaph some dlstant day, thoughts occurred to him. One revolved on the phrase, "They sa couldn't be done." Time and agai recent years, Winningstad and h!: People have proven that it car done. The other thought was sum1 In the phrase, "Have fun? Winningstadfigures that if a w be found to have fun on the jo monetary rewards one seeks WII Surely follow. "Maybe one of the reasons that I've been able to assemble and inspire a team of people to go do something." he mused, "is because i try to make things fun," he mused. see two i be ned up 'ay can b, the Yoshlm lkeda ('70) has been selected by the Jaycees as on ten "Outstanding Young Amer for 1961. lkeda is an assistant professor of art at Kansas Sta University. His ceramic scuiptr included in collections of the le Ire is Japanese M ntsfry of EoLcatlo~ Kyoto Jnners,ty n Japan, and won honors n nLmeroJs shon.. n and I has Mel Kaiser ('70 MS) is the principal at Mt. Vernon Elementary school in Springfield, Ore. Kaiser was principal of Hilda Lahtl Elementary School in Knappa. Ore. before moving to Springfield for his current positinn last summer.
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