Tichy teaches a healthy lifestyle Continued from page 3 Tichy is married 10 Anna Mae Tichy, nursing coordinator at MI. Hood Community College. who assists her husband as nursing consultant to his adult fitness program. In fact. according to Tichy. "There isn't a project that we don'l ~ v h ~ l ~ r ~ ~ , I ~ ~ r : ~ ~ ' s ~ n d t ~ ~ e five daughters. While Tichy is respected nationally as well as locally for his teaching. ingenuity and leadership in promoting fitness, his contributions are nowhere more recognized than al his community fitness sessions in the PSU gym. As Jerry Nudelman. a 62-year-old local lumberman, explains, "I've been in the program about 1 B years. When I started. I weighed about 185 pounds. I'm only 5-fool-7. and I looked like a half a keg of beer with a belt tied around it. I couldn't run around the gym more than once or twice. But Mike took a personal interest in me. When I didn't show up. he called me. He offered some suggestions and some criticism. He's a great motivator, a fantastic guy. I dropped to 140 pounds and got to where t could run five miles in aoout 35 minutes." Ron Rothert, a 65-year-old insurance agent association executive, has participated in the program for 20 years and credits it for helping him recover (rom a serious auto accident in 1981. "If you follow Mike's guidelines, you won't hurt yourself and you'I' feel better," he says. PSU data enrollment specialist Georgia Marsh remembers that she was one of the first women in the program in the early 1960s. "When I was a kid," she says, "they look your glasses and pushed you oul there and expected you to run relays. It look Mike a year to convince me to come .out. Now I'm in the Oregon Road Runners Club and running 10 Ks, and I can gladly say it's all because of this class. Everyone treats you like an Olympic champion here. Even if you run just one lap, they applaud. I can't tell you how much it's helped me. And my father, who is 76-years-old, is running now. He got going because I was here and Mike has helped him, too. When you have a 76-year-old running, you know it's a good program." Rutherford advocates for preservation Continued from page 14 she rents, was built in 1886. "The Row is interesting to me because It does represent different architectural periods:' she says. "They are all military structures and so they are simplified because of that, but there are a number of indications that they were paying attention to what was stylish." Rutherford is a vocal advocate for preservation of historic properties. She quickly points out the advantages of saving older buildings. " It is educational to know what was here before us. II is a history lesson," she says. She also lists the social ramifications of destroying historic buildings. "This was discovered in urban renewal when they started wiping out entire blocks and found that people were having social problems because they didn't have their sense of place anymore." Finance IS another drawing card for preservation, she says_ " It is more economical to rehab a building than to build a new one rn most cases," says Rutherford. This is especially true if tax incentives are involved, she says. Stewardship IS another advantage. "When you rehabilitate an old building you use resources that have already been taken from the earth or the forest. The wiring is already there. You are husbanding resources that already exist.-' And Rutherford. who is comfortably ensconced in her l00-year-old pogo '8 / PSU Perspective, Sprin8 1986 Officer's Row nome, is convinced that "an older home is more liveable for a f<lmily." It's a contention that more families may be proving as the value of historic preservation is embraced by Northwest towns and cities. Rutherford feels that each year Northwest communities are doing a better job at preservation. "There has been Quite a burgeoning of historic preservation programs in small cities like Baker, Astoria, and MCMinnville," she says. And laws in Oregon and Washington are encouraging rehabilitation by giving tax assessment breaks to homeowners who are restoring houses with historic status. But tax credits or nOl, Rutherford is committed to preservation, occasionally stopping her busy days to fantasize aoout renovating another house, a bungalow, which is the architectural style she studied for her PSU master's thesis. "I have toyed with buying a bungalow and furnishing it with all the correct furniture which is mission oak," she says. Somewhere in the vicinity there is, no doubt, a slightly rundown bungalow with an Interesting family history and a need for a facelift done by a sensitive student of architecture and carpentry. And perhaps Janice Rutherford's sure hands and lools will be the implements used to restore still anolher part of Northwest's architectural history. TRAVEL Free LECTURE by RICK STEVES Saturday, May 3 9 am to 5 pm 71 Lincoln Hall Rick shows you the 'how-to's' of traveling as a European - sightseeing, shopping, where to eat, where to stay. You'll explore art. history and cultural environments of the countries to be visited July ll-August 2. Reservations required - Call PSU Alumni today Free parking any PSU lot FRENCH IMPRESSIONISTS San Francisco June 20-22 See this extraordinary exhibition of over 150 French Impressionist paintings, 1874-1886. It will be shown at only two institutions in the United States -the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and the National Gallery of Art in Washington. D.C. SCANDINAVIA PERSON TO PERSON July 15-August 4 Tour Leader Ross Fogeiquist, president of Portland's Scandinavian Club, takes you to Copenhagen. Kalmar. Visby, Stockholm, Falun, Uppsala, TaUberg, Mora, Oslo, Laerdal, and Bergen. SPAIN AND PORTUGAL September 1-18 Tour Leader Earl Rees, Interim Director of PSU International Studies Program, is intimately acquainted with the regions to be visited - Lisbon, Coimbra, Bayona, Santiago de Compostela. Leon. Salamanca. Segovia, and Madrid. ISRAEL, VIENNA AND BUDAPEST September 4-25 A never to be forgotten tour is in store with Rabbi Joshua Stampfer 88 he leads this tour to Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Sea of Galilee, Zefat, Hammat Oader, Megiddo, Bet-alpha, Jericho, the Dead Sea. Massada, Vienna, Budapest, and Copenhagen. HIMALAYAN TREK II October 4-25 Join outdoorsman Robert Peirce, noted leader of treks to Nepal since 1979, as the group climbs major ridges to the Dudh Kosi valley and follows it to the foot of Everest. Call or write PSU Alumni for complete details on tours and Steves' lecture (503) 229-4948 PSU ALUMNI TOURS POBox 7S I Portland ()rt'gun 972(l7 ISOll ny 4Y4H
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