Portland State Magazine Winter 1991

Alumni Week a Success! Word of the PSU College Bowl match spread ' round the world thanks to Alumni Week 's featured speaker, syndicated columnist Richard Reeves. Reeves, a political and economic journa– li st, was at Portland State to present an evening lecture. Following hi s visit, Reeves made PSU 's Alumni Week College Bowl the subject of an article, heralding the academic achievement of a school which had such humble beginnings. The journalist's column is carried in 160 newspapers here and abroad. The Bowl game, held as a 25-years-later version of the originally televised G.E. College Bowl, pitted PSU students and alumni. The alumni team won. Portland attorney Jim Westwood (top photo, leji) served as moderator for the event. He was captain of the PSU team which won the national championship in 1965. Most of the programs on campus hosted get-togethers for returning alumni during Alumni Week, held Oct. 25-28. At one reception, former Vanguard reporter Bonnie L. Arter Zogby ('68 BA) (middle photo) looked through scrapbooks. At an exhibition of alumni art, Fine Arts alums (bottom photo) Barbara Branham (left), whose work was represented, and Pat Reppenhagen talked with Art Department chairman Robert Kasal.O PSU 24 Compiled by Teresa O'Hearn Vanport Alan Zell has been elected to serve as chapter affairs representative for the American Marketing Associa– tion 's 1990-9 1 year. '59 Albert M. Rampershad (BS ) repre– sented Portland State at the inaugura– tion of Nancy Bekavac as president of Scripps College in Claremont, Calif. Rampershad is a history and civics teacher at Walnut High School in Claremont. '61 Edward Cameron (BS) has been elected secretary-treasurer for the Portland Center for Hearing and Speech. Maia Walker (BS ) was named Citizen of the Year by the David Douglas Education Association. Walker, a retired teacher, volunteers as a tutor at Cherry Park school in the David Douglas School District. The annual award is given to a person making a significant contribution in the field of education. '62 Roger A. Chinn (BS) and his wife Arlene are national marketing direc– tors for National Safety Associates. The Chinns, who reside in College Place, Wash., have set up offices all over the United States and are moving into the European market beginning with an office in Munich, Germany. '64 David Dechant (BS) is currently training foreign student pilots at In– ternational Airline Training Center in Lakeland, Fla. '65 William C. Buss (BS), acting chair of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of New Mexico, attended that institutions's inaugura– tion of its new president as a repre– sentative of Portland State. Buss has been at UNM for 18 years. '67 Douglas Capps ( BS ) ha s been elected secretary and James Fran– zen ('68 BS) has been elected assis– tant treasurer for The Portland Rose Festival Association. Capps is ex– ecutive director of Tri-Met's Public Services Division, and Franzen is a vice president with First Interstate Bank of Oregon. Joe Whittington (BS) has been elected treasurer for Riley Research & Associates, a marketing research firm in Portland. '69 Donald Hayashi (BA) is the as– sociate general sec retary of the United Methodist Church General Council of Mini stries. Hayashi res ides in Dayton , Ohio. Gary Leisure (BA) and Patricia Leisure ('70 BA) have contributed four chapters lo the forthcoming Penguin Guide, Turkey 1991. '70 Sharon Ford ( BS), second vice president of Investments for Smith Barney investment firm , has relo– cated from Beverly Hills to San Diego. Sharon has spent the last 11 years in the financial services in– dustry. '71 Tom Fink (BS) was named "Senior Insurance Agent of the Year" by the Oregon Life Underwriters Associa– tion. Fink, who works for Standard Insuranc e Company , ha s been • •