All-Star Event caps 40th year recognition week Picture a green lapel button on every Portland·area resident who has attended classes at PSU. This veritable sea of green will wash over Portland during PSU recognition week next February. Many such events are planned to demonstrate Portland Stale's impact on the metropolitan area in the last forty years. It is all part of PSU's year-long celebration of its 40th birthday in 1986. Since its real beginnings as the Vanport Extension Center. established in 1946 to serve returning G.l.s, Portland State has built its reputation on accessibility and responsiveness to the community. Now PSU is asking the community to join In celebrating 40 years of steady growth and mounting excellence. Recognition week will be lOPped by an "All-Star Event" at PSU on Fridny, Feb. 28. All alumni arc Invited to return to campus for an evening of food, music, dancing and nostalgia. The 40th year celebration in the Smith Cenler Ballroom will be a greal chance 10 sec old friends and classmates, to talk over old limes and to make some new plans. A band of PSU Alumni AII·Slars will provide the music, and television ~ .... personality Paul Linnman will be Master of Ceremonies. Pre·party functions are currently being planned by alumni groups. Tickets. at $15, will be available starting in December, and will include the entire evening of fun plus free parking. Help Portland State celebrate its fortieth year by setting aside Feb. 28 for the All-Star Event. And help show th.e community what a force PSU has been through the years by "showing your colors" during recognition wcck. Walch Perspectivc and Ihemail (or details. USE PSU LIBRARY Alumni B e n e f l t ~ Cud 229·4948 Q.:i (; ~ \ o < J ' ~ HOLIDAY GIFT BOOKS '" Just in lime for holiday giving, the- PSU Foundation offers you two beautiful coffee table books - at 10% oif the publisher's price. Your choice of Portland: Gateway to the N o r t h w e ~ t and Architecturc Oregon Style. Portland: Gateway to the Northwc!.t i!. a treasured collector'S volume. Complimenting the text are hundreds of photographs. AUlhor Carl Abbott, PSU professor, writer and historian skillfully weaves the growth from 640 acres of wilderness to 20th century industrialization. Plus 32 pages of strikmg color photographs. Publisher's pnce: $24.95. Your price: $22.45. Architecture, Oregon Style traces the history o( architecture in Oregon, citing 205 buildings between 1840 and the 19505. From early log shanties to mid·century, the book includes nearly every type of building. Photographs by noted Northwest photographer, Paul Macapia. Publisher's price: $29.95 hard cover, $19.95 soh cover. Your price: $26.95 hard cover, $17.95 soft cover. Act now! limited copies available at 10% off the lisled price. Postpaid. Call PSU Foundation for your copies: (503) 229·4911. Charge by VISA or MasterCard. PSU FOUNDATION Annual Fund campaign aims at $200,000 goal With some fresh ideas and an enthusiastic crew of volunteers, the PSU Foundation's 1985-86 Annual Fund drive is off and running. This year's goal is an ambitious $200,000. Foundation directors, staff and volunteers have designed a three--pronged fund-raiSing campaign to anract larger gifts to the University. Providing inspiration and strategy for the personal. corporate and telephone solicitation efforts are the members of a newly established Development Committee, chaired by Foundation director Lee Koehn ('73). Annual Fund chair Kirk Taylor ('71) is carrying on after the $120,764 success orchestrated by 1 9 8 4 ~ 8 5 chair Chuck Clemans ('56). Linnea Swanson ('78) is directing the personal solicitation portion of the campaign and John Eccles ('79) is just wrapping up a special two-week volunteer phonathon, which at press.time- was expected 10 exceed liS goal of $55.000 in pledges. The regular student phonalhon will begin in January and continue through May. Corporate solicitation is receiving particular attention this year with the formation of a Corporate Development Cabinet chaired by William lindblad, a Foundation director and president of Portland AlumNotes Continued from page 8 '84 sharon L. Dolan (MS) IS a new speda( education grade school teacher t h i ~ f.ll1 In the Woodland, Wash. school district Dianne A. Duke (BS) rl!Cently JOIflf'(1 tilt> lotaif .1t Good s.lnldritan HO§pital & M(>(ii('al Center, Portland, a ~ an eml)loyre/labor r e l d t i o n ~ ' p e - < : i a l i ~ t Cary W. H.. rkaway IMPA) mJndge5 a cOOJX'l'dtivl? prl?-emplo.,.menl tr.Jinrng program {Of ex-()ffenders (or the Slate Corrections DiviSion. linda Waterman (85) has beert named asmlant managN of Inlt"rviewing ServKt' of A r n t ~ f i l 6 . Inc., a large marketing ( ~ a r c h data COHf"(IIOIl hou<;e located in tm- Los A n g e l ~ area '85 V,iller ie Stokes Currie (6S) was one of five adult vo/unteef teachers working , h i ~ ~ u m l T l l ; ' r 10 Improve the reading and wrr1rng skrlb of about 30 children who havE.' beert IAggtnH behind In Iheir Northea51 Portland pubhc !iChool careE.'l'5. lutie Gray (BS) has beet! named lhe new assrstant dire-<:tur dt MolaUa Community Scnool. Molalla, Ore. Ldst summer, she $ef'\'e<I as ('oordmatOf of ~ r e a t i u n a l prOKrams for the (Ity of Troutdale. Ore. Cristi Litvin (BS) has been ndmed one of two co--mAnagM oi lhe new Princeton AthletiC Club, now nearing <ompINu)n in downtown P o n l d n d ' ~ Princeton BuildlnM. She al'>O I ~ a ~ s o c i a t e producer of a Rojo!('f C a b l e - ; . \ , ~ t e m ~ ael'obics progrAm called ··Work It Out, whlC.h can be ~ n locally on (hann('1 JOj. General Electric. The cabinet. composed of key PSU administrators and Foundation representatives, will initiate contacts with Oregon's top 2S corporations to solicit active support of PSU programs. Rejoining the PSU development staff, with responsibility for corporate, foundation and planned giving, is 'former Alumni Fund director Karen Martini. Floyd Harmon ('79) continues on as the staff person directly responsible (or the Annual Fund. Private giving is an essential mgredient in the development of quality education programs at Portland State. State funds simply do not go far enough. Alumni are encouraged to be generous in their support of PSU, both as contributors and as volunteers. Special supplement details 1984-85 gifts Last year was a record year for private giving to the University. Over $2.7 million in gifts from Portland State alumni and friends were logged by the PSU Foundation. PSU's year-end report on annual giving is included as a supplement to this fall issue of Perspective. Take a look at it. Is your name listed there? Oous Pilassi (BS) coached 8) younK ~ W l m m t " r s on the Oregon AII·Stal') team 10 a r ~ t , } b ' e third·place finish amonJO: 1-1 teams from 11 Western Siaies entered in S<lli lat.e (ily·!o Western ZOOe age-group c h a m p l ( J n , h l p ~ dunnM mid-August. His woup also won the lTleet" Sportmaf\ship Award. P l t a s ~ i IS one of thl;" youngest coaches In the U.s aRe·group swlmminK program Merlin Reynolds (MUI-'j h d ~ been named the fifl.1executive director of .1 new RrouP. thl' Multflomah County Ciuten Involvement Commitlet". ReyllC)lds has worked on a COntrall oosis with the City of Portland Bureau of PlannlnK In Memoriam Alan R. "Rod" H ~ 1'71 Bs), m a n a ~ 01 a N O f ' t h e a ~ t POftl.lnd Safe-<.vay store. died Sepl B in a local hasprlal of a <erebfaillemorrhage He was 40. SUrviVors Include his Wife. two d a u R h l ~ , a son. hIS mother and srster, The family sugges5 Ihat remembrances be contributions to the Sisters of 5t. M6ry c:J Oregon Educational Fund or Sacred HeArt Catholic Church. Trudi F.lensen ('81 MBA), d ~ I i - e m p l o y e d Portland tax consultant, died of cancer AulJ. t 1 In a f'orlland ~ p i t a r . She was 33. Mrs. }cnsen IS survived by her husoond, a son and dauRhler, her parenl5. her s i ~ t e r and OrOlher. and her grandparents. The family s u g g e s r ~ rememix,lnces be contributions to the JA Oncology Nursing Unit Fund, Provlden<:e Medical Fouildatlon, 4805 N.E. GltYn 51.• Portland, Ore. 97113 PSU Perspective, Fall 1985 I page 9
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