In Memoriam: Orcilia Zuniga Forbes, 1937 - 2015 rcilia Forbes, former Vice President for Student Affairs at Portland State, died August 28, 2015. She was born in Carlsbad, New Mexico. She earned her nursing degree at the University of New Mexico in 1960. She moved to Minnesota with her husband, Richard “Dick” Forbes, who was working there on his Doctorate in Biology. Orcilia and Dick came to Portland State in the mid 1960s, where Dick became a Professor of Biology and she became Assistant Director of Health Services, a position she held from1965 to 1975. In her seventh year at Portland State University, she took a sabbatical to earn a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley, having previously earned a similar degree from the Oregon Health Sciences University. Orcilia was named Vice President for Student Affairs in 1976, a position she held until 1988, latterly as Vice-Provost. She left Portland State University in 1988 to return to the University of New Mexico as Vice President for Student Affairs and later Vice President of University Advancement. In 1992, she earned a Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Management at the University of Oregon. In 1998, Dr. Forbes returned to Oregon to serve as Vice President of University Advancement at Oregon State University, retiring in 2004. She was appointed to the State Board of Higher Education in 2012 for a two-year term. After retirement she returned to Portland and served as a trustee of the Meyer Memorial Trust, on the Board of Trusteesof Oregon State University, and on the Board of Providence Health and Services. Orcilia Forbes Photo from PSU Archives In 2007, the University of New Mexico presented her the Bernard S. Rodey Award for service to higher education. Her name is recorded on the Walk of Heroines at Portland State University. Orcilia Forbes was preceded in death by her husband, Dick Forbes, and is survived by their daughter, Eryn, and her husband Hal Fay; their son Bryan and his wife Colleen; and one granddaughter. RAPS extends sincere sympathy to Orcilia Forbes’s family. --John R. Cooper, Professor Emeritus of English 4 O
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