Favorite profs ConliiNJ«l from page 9 Robert Colescott Art He was always in class, constantly working with the students and maintaining a positive classroom attitude. Mr. ColesCOIt was imaginative and creative nol only in his artwork but in the projects he assigned to the students. I was always anxious to gel to class and begin painting. Today, my manner of leaching art and my desire to become a professional watercolorist are a direct result of studying under Robert Colescott. /udy A. Holness ('65) Bend, Oregon Dale Courtney Geography This professor not only held high standards in the classroom, bul also showed personal interest in me as an individual. When he found I would be student teaching latin American Geography I he invited my wife and me to his home for dinner and to see his slides of that area of the world. He then offered me the use of his slides to assist me in my teaching. I never forgot his role model when I became a teacher. Russel Lambert, Jr. ('61) Far East Broadcasting Co. La Mirada, California Selmo Tauber Mathematics Professor Tauber's math classes were a joy! He drew upon his work in engineering and applied mathematics performed on three continents and in several languages to easily establish his exceptional expertise with math and with its teaching. But I remember most the humor, wit, and charm with which he encouragPd the joy of intellectual inquiry, and his lack of reverence for intellectual snobbery. Ruby Sanborn ('71) San Pedro, California John Schulz Education I remember Dr. Schulz most for his faith and confidence he placed in me as a person and student. Of all the people and events that shaped my life, John had the most influence.. His classes were interesting and fun to attend, He kept his students involved and challenged. Walt Cundiff t'66) Tigard, Oregon Other pt'olessors mentioned by above correspondents: James Hart Dorris Lee Hoyt Franchere Vera Peterson W, Arthur Boggs Ruth Hopson Keen George Guy John Cramer Mkhael fiasca John Heflin Four faculty win Burlington-Northern awards Four PSU professors have received awards for outstanding teaching from the Burlington Northern Foundation. The $1,500 cash grants were presented to James Nattinger, Bruce Browne, Janice Jackson and Wendelin Mueller by PSU President Natale Sicuro during the University's fall convocation, Sept. 24. Burtington Northern plans to fund similar awards to PSU faculty over the next four years to reward faculty excellence. to motivate good teachers to become better, and to keep outstanding faculty in the system. James Nattinger, who has taught linguistics and grammar in the English Briefly . .. Management for engineers P$U will begin offering a graduate degree program in engineering management in the fall of 1987. The only one of its kind in Oregon, the master's degree will be offered through the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Business Administration. It is designed for practicing engineers who are moving toward management responsibilities while maintaining their work in technical areas. Portloandiil soes to China During a recenl trip to China with a PSU delegation, PSU President Emeritus Joseph C. Blumel presented a bronze replica of the "Portlandla" sculpture by Raymond Kaskey to Zhenzhou University as part of Portland State's participation in Zhenzhou's 30th anniversary celebration. PSU has had a sister campus relationShip with Zhenzhou for two years, since Blumel's first trip to China in May, 1984. Accompanying Blumel on the trip to Henan Province were Chartes White, Summer Session, and Katherine Shen, formerly with Foreign Languages. Search is on for V-P's Search committees have been appointed by President Natale Sicuro for the new University positions of Provost and Vice President for P o ~ ~ ~ ~ o ~ ~ ~ n ~ r ~ d ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ' r ~ : a d : ~ i ~ t l e Affairs, who is the principal academic officer of the University. The Vice President for Development will have primary responsibility for direction of the PSU Foundation and for planning.. organizing, implementing and evaluating fund-raising programs, including relations with donors. prospects, volunteers and alumnI. Fine art joins performing arts The PSU School of Performing Arts was recently expanded to include the University's Department of Art. formerly in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The renamed "School of Fine and Performing Arts" now includes theater, dance, music and art. Music department head Wilma department since 1970, was noted for his "fascination with his subject, his ability to 'infect' others with a similar fascination, his professionalism in presenting course information and materials, his rigor, fairness and flexibility." Bruce Browne, choral conductor and teacher of choral methods since 1978, was commended for "superior teaching" based on the performance of his choirs and the "energy and excitement" he puts into each rehearsal. Janice Jackson, in the School of Business Administration since 1979, was cited for developing an effective Sheridan has been appointed acting dean of the reorganized school, pending a national search for a permanent appointment following S. John Trudeau's retirement as Dean of Performing Arts this fall. T. Stanley Stanford, Music, will become acting head of the Department of Music Enrollment up this fall Enrollment in Oregon's public colleges and universities is up 3.5 percent and has topped 60,000 for the first time since 1981, according to Chancellor William E. Davis, who said that the enrollment increase is especially gratifying in the face of a shrinking pool of potential freshmen nationally and increased entrance requirements at state institutions. PSU's 5.5 percent increase marks the second year in a row the University has exceeded its "enrollment corridor," which means additional funding will be awarded to the campus for the current academic year. "I believe Portland State UniverSity will be one of the fastest growing institutions in the country over the next five years," Davis remarked. Computing capabilities expanded PSU's newly-renovated Computing Services Center was dedicated Monday, Oct. 20, with President Natale Skura cutting the ribbon, officially signalling the activation of the center's powerful new IBM and Gould computers. The renovated center includes two new terminal rooms equipped with 100 computer terminals, a new machine room and office space. The Gould system, to be used prinCipally by computer science and electrical engineering students, will support 48 users, with 45 terminals at the Computer Center and 15 "dial-up" terminals around campus. The IBM is the main replacement for the Honeywell, offering greatly expanded academic computing capdbilities with eight times the memory and twelve limes the disk space. With the added hardware and software, PSU now has the most powerful central computing ability of any state system school. pre-law program, "providing students with a rare opportunity to experience actual legal research and client advocacy before the start of law school." Finally, Wendeli" Mueller, a member of the civil engineering faculty since 1973, was rewarded for bringing the results of his research to the classroom and for helping the department acquire state·of-the·art equipment and automatic data acquisition systems for the slatiddynamic testing of structures. faculty Notes Cer.IkI Btale. Urban StudlCS, received it certificate of special recognition from the U.S Department of HOUSing and UrDan Development ilnd tOt> State Department fOf developing Project MAtN, a neighborhood-based program which employs t e e o i l g e ~ to provide shopping, escort and delivery service to lilto elderly and diwbled The ilwoIrd was given in conjunction With U,S. Involvement In the U,N. Interniltional Vedr of Sheller for the Homeless Orcili,. forbrs, Vice President for Student A f f a l l ' ~ , is one of 19 Oregon civic and buSII'\t"iS l e a d e ~ who have formed a stolte chapter of American leadership Forum, a natK>nal network for leadership dtwlopment. The Oregon group, which had d week long "Outward Bound".style t'xp€>rience in the Rocky ,l\.kruntains In Sepcember. will use the skills they are learning logether to tilke on • CIVIC project for the b e n ~ i t of the state. Gil Llu, Geography, IS the author of Nihon "' okeru nI k.m SUtV Wdel yososhu fuzuhyo (ContemlXM"ary and Historicdllrrigalton m j.1pan - Selected Terminology ;md IIlu)tr.llions)' published by The Tokyo foondiltioo, Milfch 1986. WilliMn LiuJe, Black StudIeS, has ba>n dppointed 10 an at-large POSlllOO 00 lhe Execulive Board of the NatIOnal Council lor Black Studies, Inc. He has also been selected to serve on the educallOOdI board of the JouITldI 01 BldCk Studi5, the first profesSional journal in US field. lobrrt O'Brien and T.M. H,ud, Chemistry and Environmental Services, and Herfl'Yn MiAJiort, Mechanical Engineering, havt' received a one-year grant of S207.000 from NASA for t'xperillJel1tll and theoretIcal work toward developing a meaSlJu.'menl system for airborne atmospheric free radicals. ShelIe,. C. R e K ~ , English. edited and wrole an introduction to My ! . p p o m t ~ t with thf! Muw' ES5iYS by Pau/5cott, 1961-75, published In london by Wilham Heinemann, 198& Cfwrles A. Tr«,., Admini$lr.ltion of Justice, has been appointed Associate Editor of TIHJ Inremation,J1 /oofflill of Offende,. TherdPY and Compafativr Criminolosy, a long-time pubhcatlOfl lhal was recently tr.lnsferred from England to the Dept. of Psychialry, School of MedKme, Oregon Heah" 5c1t'llCt'S UniveI'$lty. Frri Wesley and Edith SuUiun, Psychology, p u b h ~ h e d the second edlllOO of Human Growth dnd Ckvelopment, New York: Human Scierxe$ P r ~ . 1986 Anthon,. Wolk, Engltsh, had hl5 short Jtory "The Mlnk#arm" pubhst1f!d in The Soorh ~ l c o t d Revlf"W, Summer 1986. PSU Perspective, Fall 1986/".", 13
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