Joan Berkia ('68 MS) is a top ranked amateur golfer In Oregon, and very actlve in the PSU sports program. She works as a travel consultant for Vista Travel Service. Portland. and is married to Andy Berkia ('66), manager of research for the Port of Portland. Winalow "Wink" Brwka ('68) has worked In community development for the Ctty of Tualatln for the past four years. Linda Campbell ('68) Director d Rental and Personnel for the Hous- ing Authority of Portland, was appointed by Gov. Atiyeh to the Oregon Military Council in July. She is a major in the Oregon Air Natlonal Guard, serving as an air weapons controller. The 11-member councll is an advisory board to the governor on state military matters. In 1979 she served as a military alde to Gov. Atiyeh. Richard Feeney ('61) is Tri-Met's public affairs director and ch~ef lobbyist. He has previously worked as a newspaperman, Multnomah County adm~nistrallveasststant. and a Capltol alde to former 'Congresswoman Edith Green. Let us how when and where you move. Send address changes to: Alumni Office P.O. Box 751 Portland State Uxtivemity Portland, OR 97207 (Please include pour current address label). Bill Hilliard: Behind the byline I by Cliff Johnson 0 n the eve of last fall's general election, William A. "Bill" Hllllard, assistant managing editor of The Oregonian, was chosen one of four panelists to ask questions during the presidentlal debate between Jlmmy Carter and his Republican challenger, Ronald Reagan. The appearance of the 58-year- old Vanporter on nationwide television and radio that night easily was the most nsible journa- listic accomplishment he has had to date, but marks only one of many achlevemenfs and "firsts" during almost 28 years spent with The Oregonian. Hrlllard's roots in Oregon and in journalism go deep. Recently, Hllltard related what it has been like for him to grow up black In post- war Portland and take up a career in journalism in the years following hisgraduatlon from Vanport in 1949. Vanport was new, and it was at home, so if was easy to work and go to college at the same tlme AN the hme that l was at Vanport, 1was a redcap down at Union Station. So I was able to make money, go to school, stay at home. . . Vanporf really prepared me tor college life. Hilliard left Vanport in 1949, with a certiftcate which allowed him to enroll in any of the schools In the Oregon state hlgher education System. He first chose the Univer- s~tyof Oregon. I was at Oregon for two terms, and Ican remember the problems I had getting rnto a dorm, and how much of an efforf lt was tor them to try and make sure that my roommate would be black. They just didn't want to put you i n a dorm wrth some- one else who was not a member of your race. Hilliard soon became disenchant- ed with the university, after the journalism school dean told hlm that a black person had no future In whlte people." he recalled. "but they were newspapers for all people." Feeling that his choices were limited if he remained in Eugene. he transferred to Pacific Univer- slty in Forest Grove. They were happy to have him there, Hilltard remembers, "because they thought it was a coup to get someone transferring from a school of journalism with a reputation that the Universiiy of Oregon had. to a little school in Forest Grove.'' Looking back to his earlier youth, Hilliard recalls that "Portland was about the only city in the state I'm really noi too sure where it started. Ihad a little news- paper m my neighborhood that we typed, and used carbon paper untila neighbor gave me a drno duplicahng machme. We put the paper out once a week, and rt was sort of the un- official paper of Hostord Elementary School. Along wlth his early interest which pointed him toward his chosen f~eld,he acknowledges the ptvotal role played by the late L. H. Gregory, long-tlme member of The Oregonian staff, whom Hllllard began approaching for guidance, even as a boy. When I came to The Oregoni- an to work, he was probably one 01 my biggest boosters. He didn't recall me as a young- ster, but he sort of took me under hrs wing. He was a grammanan and a hisforlan of the state. He was a real good person to me (and) very proud when Ileft the sports depart- ment and went rnfo the news- room. He called me one of his 'graduates!' Hilllard's notable achievements in ?artland journalism seem more remarkable when one considers Hilliard's family background. My generabon is probably the first generabon in my family to have the krnd of opportunity thaf I've had. My mother was a maid. . .My father was a laborer all of his life. My grandparents had no opportu- nifies. So here are several generairons where there were no role models or anyihrng You had no reason to belreve thaf you could be a reporter on Bill Hllllard a so-called 'whfte paper, or wrnrth,no Itke thaf .. . that gave you an environment that made you feel falrly comfortable Asked to assess PSU's education- ,f were not ~h,t~... H~ terms al role and ~ t s tatus in Oregon's himself tucky, because he grew up higher education system, Hllllard's in an lnteqrated southeast Portland Comments are equally candid. iournalism, because blacks couldn't neighborhbod, and never felt that I'm a little prejudiced fhere! get jobs on "white" papers. race prevented hlm from doing any- I've always tell that Portland Hllllard argued that he dldn't thlng In grammar school. Asked to State Unrvers,fy's goffen the constder the papers as belng trace the genesls of his journalisttc / "whlte" "They may be owned by talent. H ~ l l ~ asradld.
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