JF~Ll1llThdl@\ltli~lTh ~~~ Pledges, gifts mount as '84-85 campaign continues The telephone and the mail - the fund-raiser's best friends - were pressed into service during January as PSU Foundation staff launched phase two of the Annual Fund campaign. If they haven" already. PSU alumni will soon be hearing from the University via an evening phone call or a friendly letter. According to Development Officer Floyd Harmon ('78), the second part of the campaign is an ail-oul effort to make contact with each and every graduate known to the Foundation computer - or nearly 30,000 people. The annual phonathon and mailings follow a successful personal solicitation effort that ended in December. Volunteer fund·raisers were dispatched into the community last fall to talk with friends, alums and cor~rale representatives about Portland State's need for private support. They came back with over $27,000 in pledges and gifts to the University. Volunteers' efforts were rewarded not only with ~If~salisfaction but also with valuable prizes. Top individual fund~raiser Linnea Swanson ('78) won a nighl at Salishan Lodge on the Oregon Coast, and her team members - larry Branl ('81), Joan Johnson 8 Here is a _""I"-;....-v ,I""hlp supplement your current life insurance plan - easy, economical. Now, during a limited enrollment period, all P5U Alumni under 60 are eligible to apply and purchase $10,000 to $200,000 of term life insurance that may be continued to 7S . . . plus an equal benefit amount from $10,000 for your spouse and $5,000 for each of your dependent children. We endorse this program as one of the best group life insurance plans on the market today. Apply now! Call or write for your application. PSU ALUMNI , , , ('78), Tom Elliott ('81), and lerry Hering (,78) - divided up such spoils as dinners for two, ski lessons and a PSU blanket. The fund-raiser with the second highest individual lolal was Gcrry Craig ('66); Sheila Stephens ('77) was third, Jerry Hering fourth, and Les Morton ('80) iiflh_ They all received overnight accommodations - at hotels ranging from Portland and the Columbia River Gorge to Reno. Don Davis (,SO), Ihe lOP division chairman out of five divisions, won a trip to Kah-Nec-Ta Resort. Special thanks and a ski trip to Sunriver Resort went to campaign chair Chuck Clemans ('56). who steered the campaign to its successful conclusion. Beginning in mid-January, seven PSU ~tudents picked up where the volunteers left off and began making phone calls to alumni - to say hello, to check addresses and to ask for some help in reaching their $30,000 goal by mid-May. So far, the telephoners have raised $15,000. By now, alumni should know the story of Bethany Davis, a senior marketing student who will graduate from PSU this spring partly because of the help offered by four alumni scholarships. Bethany's story, which headlined letters that went out to alumni in late January, eloquently expressed the value of private gifts to the University. As the letter explained, public monies fund only about 1/3 of PSU's annual operating budset, with tuition providing another 113. PSU depends on private funding - donations, grants, and equipment gifts - for the other 1/3. "PSU's alumni and friends are very important to the institution," said Harmon. "They're certainly worth all the effort we're making to contact them." Nominate a talented student 00 you know a high school senior who might qualify for a Presidential Scholarship to Portland State? The Office of Student Affairs is seeking nominations for the $1,000 merit scholarships. Funded by PSU alumni and friends, the scholarships are awarded to incoming PSU freshmen and are renewable for a total of four years. To qualify, students must be graduating high school seniors attending school in Oregon or Clark County, Washington; have a grade point average of 3.5 or above; have scored 1,100 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Tesl; and be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Applications are available in high school counselors' offices or from the office of Student Affairs at PSU. AlumNotes Continued from p. 4 '74 Alam 8. Sabar 'MA) is lJfep.1ring the new west side ptanning document for V<lnlOUVel, Wa~h A5 Ihe city's associate uroon and tand-use ptanner, he recently complt1ed wOI"k on Vancoover's downtown compretwnslve plan. CarmeUa Ettinger (BA), it fonnef Portland illlorney. has joined the Nf'Wbt-fg, Ore. law firm 01 Slate Represenlahve Stiln Bunn. She was most rKenlty In practICe in the Commulllly law ()jfrce In Ponl.md Jay c. ThornOlis (65), who r(>(:eived a Ph.D. fronl the University of Akron III Ohio, opcr,1tes an tndUSlri.11 and orgimizallon(lt P\oycholotly business In Porttand, consulting for locat firms 10 help them select qUOlllfied empto't'~. '75 1;1IIlle5 It. Cl.uk (85) dnd hi) Wife M.lty o~\n .. nd operate Moe' , Warehouse ReslJurant, cslabllshed In 1981 In tm- Kotl 8u5ine\os Center iooustnal pilrk, localed In Beaverton, Ore. Among their steildy customers are memws of the 8eaver1on City Council, who often haVl' Moe's rCSl.1urant meals SCflt In during theif tong work and couru::il seision~. Mark s. Gafdiner (RS), dlrectof of Inc Crty of Portland's Office of Fisc.al Adminr)tration, W.1S cho<;en as one of Oregon's top nt'w~-mal..ers lor 1964 by reporters of The Oregon/Jn, {or hiS continuing efforts to lay the JV<lUndwork "for Ihe industrial and residential annhation~ thill help ensur@ !Porttand'~1 continued vltatlly:· '76 Pattie 8enson (85) recently returned from NE'W York afler serving as assht"nt dance choreographer to Broadway choreogr<lpher Donald I\<\cKayle. She ISCUfft'ntlv INching and t:~~t1e'~=?!~ ~~~t~"!~k~ti,~ Portland Civic Thedler. She continues to dance at Portland Stale wtth liS r(!Sidenl Iroupe. "The Company We Keep." Jan.J DftNtrtini !6A. ·81 MATI, ""00 teaches art courses for Portland-area schools and community centers. has had recent exhibitions of her art work .11 lhe National WJI~COIOi ExhibiltOO in Springfield, Itt.. the Unlve~ity of Porttand, PSU and the CtatiOp Community College An Center Gallery. OahU Gray (MBA), a professor of accounting for lhe CoUcge of Business <II Oregon St.lte University and ,1 cer1ificd public .1ccounlan!. recently glilduillOO from G(>O(ge W.1~hlnKlnn Univelsity in Washington, D.C. With ., doctorate of business administration Valertr Thibeau (8S) has tx>en named geoer<11 manager iOl" the Portland dnd $eatde offices oj Computf>f [dUc.ltion International. Shl' i1t"{, ~t'rves iI~ <1 mlrd mprnbel for the Portland ACIOJ's EnSl!'mble and Ihe Artist's Repertory Theater '78 ludith 8retnall (SA) worh a~ d jX)!.1,11 pmployet' In C{'f1\rdl FUfwilrdrng Systems. l'orll.1nd, helping to process UK' nldll c.o II W.lfht"> people <Ilthe!1 flCYo' .1(klre5SE'S_ She ha§ OIl(> d,UI~hlt"f. ('ntoys ~kling and OI_'1.."(lIepoint. and S,"g~ in a choir. Theresa Engelstad t6S) i~ the mdna~ oi the Jantz{'n Beach, Ore_ branch 01 \\iest~n Temporary Services, Inc. lea Llknide (65) h<'ls ~n fe.llured on IclevislOfi lalk shows and In newspdp€'l article.. OIround Orl'gon in rt'<CfIt months. Due to <I joh lavoff Iwo years ago. she ha5 colh_'C11.'d ~onJe 600,000 coupons for groceries and hotJ""'h"ld Items. Although sne has ~Ince found .1 new ioh, she s(11i shares her coupon-dippin~ (>Xpt'rtlSt" 10 help Individuals. grou,)<O and charltabte organilallOns ~,,-e mon<')'o '79 DOlivid J. FaUon (8S). a lertifil'fi public accountant, has acceptl"d a new JX>'>,tion as controll('f with Mincey f'r(l(tUCilonS, tnc. ••1 Portland film-making coo<crn. Robert A. leon, fOMO) fSSl ha~ I)('Mun iI mobile dental practice. He pra('ll('CS lOt half 0; his work-week in a traditional office setting 10 downtown Portland. During the othet" hati, he drives a van with special mobite dent.,l equipment 10 len nu~in!! homes in Ihe Poot.md tri-counly area, in order to Ireal p.:uients who can't eaSily le.1\·e Ihelr rooms. Robert G. M.m! (85), a U.S. otyml}l.ln fencln~ competitor from Porttand, caplured first place Jan. J3 In the North American Centennial Epee Chatlengi! fencing compclltion, held at CotOl"aoo Springs, Colo. Continued on p. 9 Grad is new zoo director Gene leo ('75) and walrus friends The animals at Portland's Washington Park Zoo are now in the hands of a man who studied biology at Portland State. Gene leo, Ir. ('75), former director of thc Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, was selected as the Portland zoo's new director lasl month in a nalionwide search involving 80 applicants. Leo follows popular zoo director Warren Iliff, who resigned last year to direct the zoo in Dallas, Texas. It is a homecoming for l eo, 35, who grew up in Portland and worked at Washington Park Zoo from 1967 to 1972 as a ticket taker, a student aide, and then an intern. Leo, who has been credited with award-winning improvements during his four years at the Tacoma zoo, also served as assistant director of a zoo in Madison, Wisconsin for a number of years. leo is known for making the animals his first priority and for creating natural zoo environments, but he has also been successful at marketing and increasing zoo attendance, Leo admits thai being director of Washington Park Zoo has been a "secret dream" of his and he is excited about joining "one of Ihe finest zoo staffs in the nation."
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