Portland State Magazine Spring 2015

SPRING 2015 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 9 MARRIED graphic art duo Lyn Nance-Sasser and Stephen Sasser ’70 have partnered in printmaking for 35 years, most recently creating whimsical prints featuring a vintage city map overlaid with an iconic image from that city. The Portland-based artists now want to produce a print inspired by Portland State, where they first met and fell in love. Alumni and friends of the University are invited to choose an image that best represents PSU from the icon ideas below: A. Park Blocks side of Lincoln Hall B. Simon Benson House C. Farewell to Orpheus water sculpture in the Park Blocks D. Four-sided clock in the Urban Center Plaza E. Portland Streetcar emerging from the Urban Center Plaza Enter your choice on the website bit.ly.PSUicon or call the editor at 503-725-4451, and you will be eligible to win a framed copy of the winning print. Vote by June 30.  Win an original print New Works DINNER AT MR. B’S By Karen Hagestad Cacy ’67, Amazon Digital Services, 2014 FALLING FROM HORSES: A NOVEL By Molly Gloss ’66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014 TRINKA AND THE THOUSAND TALISMANS By Christy (Graunke) Jones ’98, MS ’00, Illusio & Baqer, 2014 READ. REFLECT. RESPOND. REST. 366 DAILY REFLECTIONS ON RANDOM SELECTIONS FROM SCRIPTURE By Marilyn Catherine (Smith) McDonald BS ’75, CreateSpace, 2014 TAMING MANHATTAN: ENVIRONMENTAL BATTLES IN THE ANTEBELLUM CITY By Catherine McNeur (history faculty), Harvard University Press, 2014 FROM TOKYO TO AMERICA: SEVEN TIMES DOWN EIGHT TIMES UP By Kumiko Olson (Odom) BA ‘99, MA ‘02, Circle of Light Books, 2014 THE TRIALS OF HERCULES: BOOK ONE OF THE OSTERIA CHRONICLES By Tammie Painter ’99, CreateSpace, 2014 EMINEM AND RAP, POETRY, RACE Essays edited by Scott F. Parker MS ’09, McFarland, 2014 LETTERS OF THE WEST: AN ABC BOOK OF THE MANY PLANTS, ANIMALS, AND OTHER CURIOUS FEATURES OF THE WEST By Michelle E. Walch MPA ’07 and John Maddin, Craigmore Creations, 2014 F A N F A R E