Portland State Magazine Spring 2007

-- Amish Shaunak Yoddha MBA '02, MS '03 is a deputy general manager for the real estate de– velopment firm Peninsu la Land Limited in Mumbai, India. Christopher Barnum Rose '03 is a lead engineer at Tish man Speyer Properties, a commercial real estate firm in cattle. Rose says, "PSU has given me an edge that I can put ro work daily." Ernie Smith EdD '03 is the vice president of student services at West Valley Col– lege in Sararoga, California. Vincent Schreck EdD '04 is an instructional designer in the PSU Center for Academic Excellence. He lives in Portland with his wife, Holly Beck- with, a naturopathic physi– cian, and their young son . Mark Shulz '04, an eight– year Winter X Game snowboarding veteran, is a consultant for Dirr Logic, a Portland consulting firm for developers and engineers. Nicholina Terzieff'04 is serving as Oregon state Rep. Larry Galizio's chief ofstaff. Terzieff assists Galizia in his role as chair of the Joint Ways and Means Educa– tion sub-committee. Anas S. Alkadi '05 is a marketing analyst for Saudi Aramco, one of the largest oil companies in the world, located in Dhran, Saudi Arabia. Robert Glenn '05 is director of finance at the Jewish Federa– tion of Greater Portland. Glenn also owns an accounting and business management firm, R.C. Glenn and Associates. Cara Kaser '05 will gradu- ate from Washington State University's public history pro– gram this spring. After gradu– ation, Kaser will join Oregon's State Historic Preservation Office in Salem as a survey and registration coordinator for the National Register of Historic Places. 'Tm very excited to be moving back to Oregon and closer to family," she says. Kathie Lasater EdD '05 is an assistant professor at Oregon Healch & Science University chool of Nursing. She says, "Starting an EdD at 50-some– thing was indeed an unusual seep, but one of the most satisfying of my adult life." ALUMNI NOTES Michael Boyer '06 is the new crime prevention coordina– tor for southwest neighbor– hoods, through Porcland 's Office of Neighborhood Involvement. Boyer starred as an intern at the agency shortly after graduation. ■ PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE Advertise your business with one of the largest, most affluent audiences in Portland. For rates and information contact: Portland State Magazine 503-725-3711 ucomm@pdx.edu Lool<ing Bacl< JOSEPH C. BLUMEL PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY PRESIDEN T 197 4 TO 1986 HIS COLL EAGU ES THREW their support behind him and on May 22, 1974, Joseph Blume! became the fourth president of Portland Scace-the first to have come up through the ranks. The quiet economics professor was perceived by his fellow faculty members-and the scare board-as che right kind of leader to cake the young university to maturity. He had already won the faculty's affection with his accessibility and fairness as vice president of academic affairs. President Blume! was put to tl1e rest. He faced a severe budget crisis in 1981- 82 and the painful necessity of laying off tenured faculty and terminating whole programs. He came through it, and people remember that period as his finest. There were, of course, happier hours. Instead of an inauguration, the new president declared a week of activities in observance of che "viral partnership" he envisioned between PSU and the city of Portland. le was co be a theme through his 12-year tenure as president, reflected in the many new programs with urban flavor that cropped up at the University. This is from a 1986PSU Perspective article. Joseph Blume!, PSU's longest-term president ever, died April 2. He was 79. SPRING 2007 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 29