Special Edition October 1984 On the inside Caroline Sloell 2 Friends of Portland State find many ways to contribute. Donors to Portland Stlte Uniy. 1 3·7 Playbills given to library 1 6 Local man donates collection of theater magazines. 1984-85 Annual Fund I 8 This year's campaign gets underway. Chuck Clemans ('56) 1984-84 chair of Annual Fund feels he's repaying psu. Alumni Fund FiYe 1 10 It turned out to be a winner, thanks to chair Larry Thompson ('68). Ah·h·h 114 Students donate their general deposit refunds to the Foundation. PSU Foundation Board of Directors 1 15 tivc PSU's friends continue their support In the last few years, Portland State University has made a lot of good friends. It showed in 1982-83 when private giving to the University doubled to a record $1.7 million. And it showed last year when that generosity was repeated with $1,618,634 in private gifts. Advanced Technology if the University.could come up with the balance before Dec. 31, 1985. This $825,000 challenge grant, not included in the $1.6 million annual fund total, was the biggest single gift to Portland State in 1983-84. "This solid foundation of support makes a tremendous difference," said PSU President Joseph C. Blumel. "Virtually every superior public institution of higher education is very generously supported by private funds." Spent creatively, private gifts to the University can be an invaluable supplement to the limited public monies generated by state taxes and tuition. Some gifts are earmarked by the donors for specific purposes, but there are also many unrestricted gifts that help fund student scholarships, faculty development activities and departmental equipment needs around the campus. The School of Engineering received two sizable grants from high tech interests in the community to help support research and staffing. A four-year pledge of $687,000 from the Tektronix Foundation will provide two additional faculty members and continuing support of the VlSI Center. Further support for the Center came from the Oregon High Technology Consortium with $225,500 to establish a laser/optical communications laboratory, a computer vision lab and a system programmer. Major support in 1 983-84 was given in the areas of engineering and business by longtime friends of the University. The Murdock Charitable Trust, which provided funds to establish the Very large Scale Integrated System Design Center in the School of Engineering and Applied Science two years ago, came back this past year with a "challenge" to the University: Murdock would pay for one-quarter of the building that houses the new Portland Center for Equipment gifts from local industry are also supporting instruction and research in the School of Engineering. Tektronix, Inc. donated $228,000 in equipment to enhance the VlSI Center and labs, and Intel gave equipment valued at $120,000 to the microcomputer labs in both electrical and mechanical engineering. In the School of Business, the Earle A. Chiles Microcomputing Center (established by the Chiles Foundation in May, 1982) received a grant of $50,000 to finance the lab's move from East Hall to Cramer Hall and to add six 1MB personal computers. The Continued on p. 2 A Message from the Foundation President Friends of Portland State University: In my role as president of the PSU Foundation, I have been sending a message of great importance to the community: PSU's time has come. Having an active and highly visible foundation at Portland State benefits both the University and the community and brings prestige to our alumni. Our board, with its redefined mission, goals and objectives for 1984-85, has set a course of hard work and greater visibi Iity for the coming year. Given the fiscal difficulties facing Oregon's Higher Education System and Portland State University, the need for the Foundation's fund-raising potential has grown geometrically. Private funding and creative revenue generation become more and more essential as traditional funding and resources continue to tighten. This brings up a point that troubles me greatly. Many of our potential contributors, both corporations and individuals, say "no" to our requests simply because we are a public tax-supported institution and not a private school. My question to them is: How can we be brought up on free enterprise and capitalism and not see the value of added capital to our base investment? There are those of us who believe that we don't get full value for dollars passed through the government and that our direct support is essential for excellence in higher education. We are responsible for the degree to which Portland State University can exceed the minimum and attain superiority. Many people clearly feel that responsibility. The report from our Alumni Fund 5 campaign indicates that 1,229 alumni and friends offered their support in the last year. We can thank our fine Foundation staff and their efforts. Rena Cusma, Executive Director, and Floyd Harmon, Development Officer, are both PSU grads who are helping the Foundation cultivate a growing support base. Portland State University is at a crossroad, and it's safe to say - we've never needed you more. I hope you will take advantage of any opportunity to promote the University and to encourage the financial support that benefits both the (iI~h;:~ Howard Hubbard
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