Portland State Magazine Winter 1991

• • • Welcome to the board The PSU Foundation has added 11 new board members to its roster since September 1990. They are: Cordell Berge, Pres ident, Acquisitions Northwest Chuck Carlbom , President and Chief Executive Officer, Western Family Foods, Inc. Robert D. Dayton , Attorney, Schwabe Willi amson & Wyatt Connie Elmore ('8 1 MBA), Senior Vice President and Ch ief Operating Officer, M Financial Corporation Richard L. Hawkins ('69 BS), Director of Tax, Ernst & Young C.D. Hobbs, Chief Financial Officer, Portland General Corporation Dennis Lindsay, Attorney, Lindsay, Hart , eil & We igler Donald J. Miller ('66 BS), Vice Pres ident , Corporate Development and Financial Pl anning, Northwest Natural Gas Company Stephen Polzin, President, West One Bank William G. Seal, Executive Vice Pres i– dent, Corporate Development , Barbara Sue Seal Properties Diana Snowden , Vice pres ident, Oregon-California Reg ion , Pac ifi c Power & Light Robert Dayton '1·~ ~ ' ' ~ Chuck Car/born Connie Elmore I FOUNDATION I VAA thanks The University wou ld like to recognize major contribut ions made to the Viking Athletic Associat ion by the following charter members of the 48 Bob Cl ub (named after the football play- power sweep to the right side): Chuck Carlbom Dan Hem James Crawford John Judy Bubby Cronin Harry Merlo Norm Daniels Terry Newsom Andy Drozd Ron Schiff Bruce Engel Peter Stott Larry Hatfield Bruce Willison New development director Don Ri ggs, former vice president of university relations at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn ., is the new director of, development at Portland State. He begi n the new post Dec. I. · Since 1985, Riggs directed fundraising , public relations, alumni and parent relations, and church relations at Ham line. During his tenure, giving at the university increased from $2.5 million in 1985 to an anticipated $6.6 million in 1989-90, a Richard Hawkins Dennis Lindsay Donald J. Miller capital campaign raised $24.5 million , four profess ional chairs of$ I million each were added, and endowments increased 50 percent. Prior to hi s post at Ham line, Ri ggs served as director of capital programs at Gonzaga University in Spokane fo r seven years. Helping women get back in school A new scholarship program for women is offered al PSU in memory of Nancy Ryles, a long-time advocate for eq ual ed ucati onal and employment opportunities. The Nancy Ryles Scholarship provides assistance to women who wish to work toward an undergraduate degree and who. due to fin ancial need, family responsibil – ities and/or personal di sabilities, had their schooling interrupted. The scholarship is a renewable annual grant of approximate ly $5 ,000. Ryles was a former Republican state senator and ex-Beaverton School Board member who became the first woman to serve on the three-member Oregon Public Utility Commission after it was created by voters in 1986. She died of brain cancer on Sept. 12, two days after the scholarship was announced. She was 52. Stephen Polzin Diana Snowden William G. Seal PSU 23