Portland State University Magazine Fall 1991

Profs remembered Richard Muller, professor of art at PSU since 1959, died on May 29 after an extended illness. He was 62. Muller, who began teaching at Portland State shortly after the college's move to the Park Blocks, was instrumental in developing the drawing and painting programs. His own professional work included oil, acrylic and mixed med ia pa inting, and free-standing wood constructions ca lled "Doubleplanes." His art appears in collections throughout the state. In Muller's honor, a Richard Muller Scholarship for art students has been established through the PSU Foundation. Thomas B. Burnam, professor emeritus of English , died Sept. 6 in Spokane of pancreatic cancer discovered only a week earlier. He was 77 . Burnam, who taught fiction at PSU as recently as 1983, was author of the bestselling The Dictionary of Misinformation (1975) and More Misin– formation (1977). He is remembered by students for his 1976 interview on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show, his screaming-yellow Porche, his devil ish eyebrows, and his encourage– ment of would-be writers. The Thomas and Phyllis Burnam Award, established by the author in 1976, is awarded yearly to a PSU student for a work of fiction or narrative. New Finance VP Lindsay Ann Desrochers, an admini– strator from California's higher educa– tion system, is the new vice president for Finance and Administration at Portland State. On Oct. 1, she will replace Acting Vice President Steve Sivage. Desrochers was associate director of the budget for the nine-campus system of the University of California, a position she has held since 1988. Prior to that she was ass istant director of the budget for four years. She holds graduate degrees in political sc ience from University of California, Berkeley. A historical event Elizabethan England was a time of unity, power, prosperity and the begin– nings of colonization. This memorab le era in England 's 16th and 17th century past is the topic of the fourth annual Friends of History Endowed Lecture. Cambridge University professor Patrick Collinson will discuss "Religion, Patriotism and War in Elizabethan and Post– Elizabethan England," Oct. 1 at 8 p.m. in Lincoln Performance Hall. The public lecture is free. Collinson, Regius Professor of Modem History at Cambridge, is the world's leading au thority on the English Reformat ion. He has held professorships at the Un iversities of Sydney, Kent, and Sheffield before coming to Cambridge in 1988. He has published numerous books and articles dealing with the poli tical and religious life in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Friends of History, founded at PSU in 1984, brings visiting scholars to campus, awards outstanding students, and maintains a speakers bureau of history faculty. The fa ll term lecture, scheduled for Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in 327 Smith Center, features history fac ulty Larry Bowlden and Ann Fulton discussing "The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre: His Philosophy and the American Response." K-House reunion Campus Ministry will ce lebrate the 25th anniversary ofKoinonia House (affectionate ly known as K-House ) on Thursday, Jan. 30, 6:30 p.m. in the Smith Center Ballroom. PSU alumni who had any connec– tion with K-House from 1967 through 1991 are invited and asked to call 226-7807 to leave their name and add ress. PSU 5