Portland State Magazine Winter 1991

• • ranked among the company's lead– ing agents since 1979. Gerhard Meng ( BS ) owns and operates Bicycle Odysseys, a busi – ness providing a variety of cycling trips through Europe. Meng started the business in 1974 and since then has led cycling tours to various des– tin ati ons in Europe, China, Sri Lanka and New Zeland. Lorna Stickel (BS) has been chosen by Governor Goldschmidt to chair the Water Resources Commission. Stickel is land use planning and development direc tor fo r th e Multnomah County Department of Environmental Services. '72 Priscilla Kimboko (BA. '82 Ph.D. ), an associate professor of gerontol – ogy at the University of Northern Colorado. will assume the respon– sibiliti es of assistant dean of the university's Graduate School, acting as the admissions representati ve for graduate students and working with the Faculty Research and Publica– tions Board to distribute money for research and ot her scholarl y ac– tivi ties. Doug Nelson (BS) writes that he received an MS in public hea lth sciences from the Uni versity of Il – linois at Chicago in 1990, and now works fall-time fo r the Illinois Department of Labor in Chicago managing OSHA safety and health law enforcement for the state. He also teaches statistical process con– trol at South Suburban College in South Holland, Ill. , and his book Workplac e 2000 Participation, Se/fMa11agement and Work Force Prod11cti1•ity was publi s hed by Human Resources Publicatio ns of Chicago in 1989. Ted Vaught (BA) an artist who speciali zes in watercolor, was fea– tured at C lackamas County Fair Atrium Gallery. Yaught 's abstract and representational paintings have earned several awards as well as two sweepstakes from juried competi – tions. '73 Alan Hemingway (BA. ' 76 MA) is working on a Ph.D. in Theater His– tory at City University in New York, N.Y . Janet Martin (BA , '8 1 MA) was named Oregon 's National Endow– ment for the Humanities/Readers Digest Teacher Scholar for 1990, earning a year's sabbatical to study metaphor in North American Indian mythology. Kathleen Ryan-Ward ( BA ) at– tended th e inaug urati on of John Nazarian, eighth president of Rhode Island College, on Oct. 27 as a rep– resentative of Portland State. Ryan– Ward li ves in Cranston, R.l. William S. Walker (BA, '80 MUP) is director of Administrative Ser– vices for the Housing Authority of Portland. '74 Dave Erickson (BS ) vice president and international- documentary ser– vices consultant for U.S. Bank of Oregon, has been installed as pres i– dent of the Portland Rose Society for the 1990-9 1year. Erickson has been involved with different aspects of the Rose Festival for 25 years. Dan Fiebiger (BA) has fanned the Multi-Media Production Fellowship in Portl and ,a non profit organ ization dedicated to the production, promo– tion: and distribution of ar-tistry in film, music and sound med iums. Edgar Heger (BS, ' 78 MBA) is manager of investor relations for Portland General Corp., the parent corporation of Portland General Electric. Dennis Kucera (BA) is an account– ant with the Housing Authority of Washington County. '75 Shirley Dunn (BS) has been elected to the board of directors of the Mount Hood Festival Jazz Founda– tion for 1990-92. Dunn has been appointed to the fin ance committee. Mark Gardiner (BS) was chosen to head the Intergovernmental Rela– tions team as part of Governor-elect Barbara Robert 's transition effort. Gardiner is managing director of the Portland office of Public Financial Management, and Fonner director of fi scal administration for the city of Portland. Jon Gramenz ( BA ) ha s been promoted by Clackamas County Bank and wi ll move to the Gresham office as a commercial loan officer. '76 Pete Behr (MBA), an employee of National Mortgage Co. in Portland, has been promoted to a vice presi– dent. Robert Hutsell (BS, ' 86 MT) was recently promoted to senior tax con– sultant at Yan Beek and Co., a Portland accounting Finn. James LaSasso (BS) is a staff attor– ney for St. Andrew Legal Clinic. The clinic is a public interest law firm providing s lidin g- fee sca le lega l ass istance t.o low- in come people in the tri-county area. Ed Tillinghast (MAT), who has served as vice-principal of Bend High fo r the past three years, is returning to LaPine High as prin– cipal where he taught eight years ago. '77 Michael D. Schmidt (BS) enjoyed the opportunity to represent PSU Pres ident Ramaley at the inaugura– tion of James L. Edwards at Ander– son University in Anderson , Ind. Schmidt and his wife Shirley Greco ('70 BS) have li ved in Indiana forthe past three yea rs, where he is a des ig nin g e ng in eer for Rap id Design. '78 James Dail (BS) was named assis– tant vice pres ident and finan cial manager of the Portland properties group of U.S. Bancorp. Dail joined the financia l services company in 1980. Timothy J. Flynn (BS) is a com– mercial account o ffi ce r for th e Downtown Metro Commercial Cen– ter for U.S. Bank in Portland. Robert Paar (BA, '8 1 MBA ) is general manager of Crucible Mag– ne ti cs Eng inee red Produ cts in Hodgenville, Ky. Paar writes that he 's working in " a new division of an old-line steel related company," and he call s it " hi gh tech in the cornfield. " Michael Wiatrowski (Ph.D. ) is a professor in the Criminal Justice Depa rtment at Flo rida Atlantic Uni versity. Boca Raton, Fl a. '79 Vern Lindblad (BA) is studying ling ui sti cs at the University of Washington and has been awarded a fu ll Fulbright grant to Sweden for 1990-9 1. '80 Robert Fahlman (BS) writes to let us know he is vice president of marketing for Take Care Corpora– tion, a health maintenance organiza– tion in Concord, Calif. Jane Speerstra (BA, '88 MA) is attending Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College. '81 Joel Metzger (MBA ) has moved from Willamette Savings to U.S. Bancorp where he will serve as a management information specialist. David Ritacco ( BA ) is clini ca l director of Grant County Mental Health and Family Service Center in Moses Lake, Wash. Ritacco, who rece ived an M.A . in counseling psychology from Lewis and Clark College, is also acting directorofthe Columbia Basin Critical Incident Stress Debriefing Team. '82 Dulcy Berri (MS) has been named director of environmental and lab se rvi ces to PBS Environmen tal PSU 25