Alum makes difference in Belize assignment As Barbara Fagan ('81 MS] ~achs Fagan had turned over full teaching her bags after a two-year tour as a respanslb~lityto a young Bellrean Peace Corns volunteer fin the Central woman who had interned under American kountry of Belize, she can Fagan in 1984. look back wlth rat~sfact~on. Before shc leaves Belize, Fagan "I've been able to rnsttgate same also w ~ lhl ave helped certify almost changer in the treatment of chlldren 50 volunteers to work in wtth d~iabilftiesthat the people really communtiy-based rehabilitation. As wanted for themselves." she says. part of a pilot program, she has I there n.nr.n I n<,m mrar FI. 11, I I V ~ J! LK'ISDII~ n \I ma JI on .,no thcre ,\,,o't ut, ,en\, u,t \umc lrrnn ~ L C ' b\rd $\.ln Icsrnc.n<,.lnn I~~~~~~~~I, pr~~~rc~~;~i~ mtncmvnt n x ~h~l,frr, $5 tn ,I \.tl> I t t,. \\ :!I r ~~ r <~ l \ been made " When Fagan arrived in Belize (formerly British Honduras), special educat~onfor ch~ldrenwlth d~sabtlftkcs was becng offered at only one school In the entire country, and few people were trained to recognize and deal wlth ch~ldren'sspecla1 needs. But Fagan has been at the center of some encouraging developments. One of them began more than a year ago at St. Ignatiu,, a grade school ~n Beltre City, where Fagan persuaded offtcials to let her organize a specla1 class for children with learn~ng d~sab~litleCs.h~ldrenwho had been punished for their slow learning and labeled "bad actors" soon began to learn, and d~sciplineproblem, evaporated as thev needs were met. Fagan was also able to get a Peace Corps Partners grant of $5.700 to move the class from the parlsh parsonage to a new specgal educat~on bullding By the tlme the class moved In aher Easter vacation this vear. enough doctors ~n Bellre to make initial diagnoses in such cases, let alone provide angoing treatment, the regular anention of tra~nedlaypersons can dramatically Improve the condition of these children. Often worktng 12 hours a day, the busy Peace Corps volunteer was apt to be seen leadrng a late afternoon aerobics class for working mothers, conferr~ngwith Education Min~rtry offic!als, stenclllng T-shrrts to rase funds, ars~rtingwlth eye-screening clintcs, visiting chlldren tn the hosp~tal,and conduct~ng neighborhood classes on budgeting and chlld care. Fagan's career in spectal educat~on kgan at the ldaho State School for the Handicapped, where she worked after graduat~ngfrom the Unwercrty of ldaho ~n 1977. While purrulng her master's in specla1 educat~onat Portland State, Fagan was the sheltered servirer dgrector at the Tualatin Valley Work5hop and after graduation she went to work for Multnomah County as a spec!al~st case manager ~n the mental retardation developmental d~sab~lity program Then, ~n 1983, she took a leave of absence to jojn the Peace Corps. "Most oi my frtends and associates were very well-traveled, and I was not," she expla~ned."Thelr storles and sl~desand experiences made me feel. I gona KO.But I'm too much of a workaholic to lust travel, w I had to f~nd a way I could ltve overseas and makc a contr~butlanas well." Fagan's contr~buttonto 8ellze has been to stbmulate a greater awareness of the needs of ch~ldrenwith disabilities and to start programs that the Beltreans can take over There are Fagan's rewards, too. Barbara Fagan ('81 MS) Three more alums named interns Thn master Admbn Prestd8 1985-i T recent graduates of EU's 's program in Public iirtratton have been named ~ntialManagement Interns for 37. Thrs brlngs to 18 the number of PSU students selected for the prestlgtour apprentvcc<hipssince the federal program was launchrd ~n 1978 by the Otflce of P~rsonncl Management. Samuel Collie. lr. l'851 will k a management trainee in the U S Department of Justice, whfle Douglas Lee ('84) and Christopher S~nger1'85) will serve in the Health Care F~nance Agency (HCFAI. Their terms begin in late August. Such ~nternrhipsoften serve as occupational spr~ngbardsto management-levelcareers w ~ t hthe federal government, noted Walter Ell~s,head of PSU's Department of Public Administration. Neil Lomax ('84), quarterback for the St. Louis Cardinal,, ~ i v epr ointers to Terry Summerfield, PSU quarterback, during taping of a TV commcrcirl promoting Viking Football. The commerrialr will alr in the metropolitan area this fall along with a reria of radio rpotr which feature Lomax and Summrfield, as well as ex-Viking quarterback tune lone and ex-coach "Moure" Davis, both now with the Denver Gold. The commercials were conceived and coordinatedby Cap Hedger ('64) of Cap Hedger & A~~~~iates. Grad wins prestigious medical award Margaret Bennington-Davts ('83 MS. '84 BS) has been named winner of the coveted Med~calResearch Foundation ot Oregon Fellowship for 1985. The first woman to w ~ nthe award ~n the tour years it has been offered. Bennington-Davir will he entering the Oregon Health Sciences my award may prompt more researchers there to share results of their work wcth me." Benn~ngton-Davis,who has a master's degree in prychology and a bachelor's In hiology from PSU ar well as a bachelor's in p,ychology from the Un~versitvof Montana. swnt Unlverr~tvthfs tall 1980-82at the Veterans The MRF Fellowship carries a Admin~strationMedlcal Center ~n monthly stipend of $546 and pays all Portland studyln~the use and abuse tuition and tees for the six years needed to complete her combined M.D -Ph D. program there. Benn~ngton-Dav~pslans to special~ze rn cl~n~cally-orrentemd edical research after graduatton. Retlrct~ngon her award, Bennlngton-Davissald, "I feel that it wtll allow me to have many more choices about my career. It also will open many doors for me at the medical school, where knowledgeof Tuition change will PSU alumni and others with college degrees w ~ lflind 11less expenswe to take classes at PSU beginningthis fall, .with the ~mplementatjonof a new tuition policy. Previously. students with college degrees ("past-baccalaureatrs")who of medication fo; chronic pain and ~llnessamong patients and their lamilies. Since 1982, she has conducted research for a private cl~nic.Pac~fic Northwest Psychratrcc Cl~nlc cn Portland, concerntng new ant!-depressantand anti-anxiety medications currently awaitfng FDA approval prlor to release on the open market. benefit grads took mwe than seven cred~trper term were charged the higher graduate- level tuitlon for all classes, even those at the undergraduate level. Under the new pltcy, only students admined to a formal graduate program at PSU (or the "standard'' teach~ngcert~ficateprogram) w ~ l l be termed graduate students and w ~ lpl ay graduate-level tuition for all classes. All other students. tncludtng post-bac's, will pay tuition based on the level of courses taken. This new palicy should be a boon to students returning to the classroom for turther undergraduate education e~therto update knowledgeor tram for new career respons!btlft~es.It 1s believed that many post-bac'r have restricted their course load to s fewer cred~ain order to wold hlgher graduate tuttlon arrcrrec etght cred~tsFor example, o f t 1.11 3 past-bac's enrolled last f only 364 carried eight or more credits. men or thc i aher he all. PSU Prrrp~ctlve,Summer 1985 /mxe 13
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