Faculty Notes Nalhan Cogan, English, is one of ten Oregon authors contributing to this year's edition of "Sweet Reason," a series publ ished by Ihe Oregon Committee for the Humanities and the Oregon Art Foundation. The book, 2084: Looking Beyond Orwell, offers views of how the world might change over the next century. Cogan's essay is entitled "Malamud's The Fixer: The Ethnic Novel in the Orwellian Nightmare. " Don C. Gibbons, Sociology and Urban Studies, has been appointed editor of Crime and Delinquency, a major journal on criminal justice and criminological issues published by the National Council of Crime and Delinquency. Raymond N. Johnson, Accounting, has received a $38,000 grant from the Peal, Marwick, Mitchell Foundation to refine certain of his techniques for conducting more efficient and accurate large-scale corporate oludits. Johnson plans to focus on the recent audits of over 100 U.S. companies. in his new research. Susan Karant·Nunn, has been selected by the International Research and Exchanges Board (lREX) to be an exchange scholar to the German Democratic Republic during her sabbatical next year. Karant-Nunn ABC ALUMNI BENEFIT CARD ONE TIME ONLY OFFER To introduce you TO the Alumni Benefib program. present this coupon TO enjoy one full day of HPE recreational facilities: • Gym · Swimming pool • Weight room • CircuiT training room • Tennis f racquetball coum Coupon good for ONE per10fl for ONE visit only. Sunday through Saturday. COMPLIMENTARl' REfRBmON PAS 8 N.""'_______ Social Security 11'_____ Bearer is entitled to use PSU's recreational facilities (circle each area To be used): gym, swimming POOl. weight room, circuit Training room. t('flnis f racquetball courb -PSU ALUMNI PROGRA\lS will spend four months in East Germany doing research on the late medieval history of a group of silver-mining cities in the frzgebirge (Ore Mountains). Harold A. linstone, Systems Science and Management, is author of the book Multiple Perspectives for Decision Making, published recently (1984) by the North-HolI.nd Publishing Co., New York. Frederick Nunn, History, has been awarded a /985 Guggenheim Fellowship to continue his work on military officers in latin America, Europe and developing countries. Nunn will be comparing the thought and perception of military officers from these regions in the post-World War II era, expanding on his /983 book Yesterday's Soldiers. Alice Van Leunen, Ar1, has had fivc textile works purchased by the City of Atlantic City. The works will be permanently installed in the new Atlantic County Office Building. Van leunen has also produced a commissioned tcxtile work for Community Hospital in Gresham, Oregon. In Memoriam Shari R:. Kazdoy, Speech Communication, died in a three-car accident in Portland April 20. She was 35. Kazdoy, a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo and the University of Denver, came to Portland State's Sp<."eCh and Hearing Sciences Program in 1979. She supervised the clinics for the hearing impaired and trained graduate student clinicians in aural rehabilitation. Widely known for directing and prodUCing a television series on fluctuating hearing loss in children, Kazdoy had also taught sign language to chimpanzees at Washington Park Zoo. Prior to PSU, Kazdoy was a clinical audiologist at Oregon Health Sciences University. Remembrances can be made to the Shari Kazdoy Memorial Scholarship Fund, in care of the Department of Speech Communication. Walter C. Klopfer, Psychology, died March 4 during heart surgery. He was 61. A clinical psychologist who was a national expert on the Rorschach test, Klopfer came to the University in 1965 to help implement the new graduate program in psychology. Klopfer also taught at the Oregon Graduate School of Professional Psychology, which he helped found, and was in private practice. In 1984, Klopfer became chair of the State of Oregon's Psychiatric Security Review Board, of which he had been a member since 1980. Remembered by his colleagues as a happy, outspoken person, Klopfer was also noted for his sensitivity to the individual needs of students. History department finds friends in the community by M. Cail Avecill,a As an urban university counting on the community for support, Portland State has many valuable connections. One of them is a new group called Friends of History. Star1ed last spring, the Friends of History provides a way for the History department to take its expertise inlo the community and for members of the community to extend their support in return. Friends of History was started by a group of citizens interested in what PSU's History department has to offer. "We felt that so much of the public's image of Portland State was (focused) on need. So we wanted to show the public how great the University and the History department are," said Ann Clarke ('79 MA), the group's past president. With its 12 board members consisting of alumni, faculty, students and other members of the community, the new group had its first meeting in April 1984. One of their first projects was to start a speaker's bureau made up of history faculty members. The bureau is sel up to accommodate requests from organizations and schools for lectures and presentations on specia! topics in history. For example, last winter, Gordon Dodds, d PSU History professor and member of the Board, talked to the Daughters of American Revolution about Oregon pioneers and Ann Clarke gave a lecture on Edwardian garden design to the Portland Garden Club. "This is the kind of service that a liberal arts department could provide that is not usually expected," noted Dodds. The group has raised around $2,000 since last fall without any major campaign, according to Dodds. Collected to benefit the History department, the funds were used to add more graduate assistants and start essay-writing contests. The department has also been able to provide Phi Alpha Theta, the history honorary, with its own office. Anne Meyers, the new president of Friends of History, says future projects of the group include providing prizes for history undergraduate and graduate students who have earned the highest grade point averages and made noteworthy contributions to the University. The group is also plannjng to provide scholarships and travel grants. "Basically, we hope to continue to promote the History department and the University and point out how great it is," said Meyers. Renowned chemist spent last years at PSU Internationally known chemist Paul H. Emmett, Visiting Research Professor of Chemistry at PSU since 1971, died in Portland April 22 after a lengthy illness. Emmett, who maintained a regular schedule of research and teaching at Portland State until recently, \Vas 84. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Professor Emmett was regarded internationally as the m jor figure in the area of surface 'rhemistry and catalysis, the study of catalytic reactions. A native of POr1land, he earned his doctorate in chemical engineering from Cal Tech in 1925. He spent nearly all of the next six decades in research and leaching, including work for the Fixed Nitrogen Research lab in Washington, D.C., Johns Hopkins University, the Manhattan Project, the Mellon Institute, and Portland State. His accomplishments have had wide ranging impacts on industry but he is perhaps best remembered by scientists for formulation of an equation (the "BET" equation) with Stephen Brunauer and Edward Teller that has been a chemical standard for nearly 50 years. Of Paul Emmett's numerous honorary degrees and awards, seven were presented during his tenure at PSU. These included the establishment by the Catalyst Society of America of the International Paul Emmett Award in CatalysiS, the Pioneer in Chemistry Award from the American Institute of Chemistry, the Cal Tech Distinguished Alumni Award, the Howard Vollum Award for Science from Reed College, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Hokkaido. Karl Dittmer, Dean Emeritus of the Division of Science at PSU, said the University community would remember Emmett as an illustrious scientist who "served as an inspiration for many younger faculty members and advanced graduate students." Emmett is survived by his wife. Pauline, of lake Oswego. In his memory, the Paul H. Emmett Memorial Fund has been established through the PSU Foundation. 13
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