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AWARDS
Connie Shelton Weaver, ’72, ’74,
West Lafayette, Ind., was elected
to the Institute of Medicine
of the National Academy of
Sciences. She is distinguished
professor and head of Purdue
University’s Department of Foods
and Nutrition and an expert in
mineral bioavailability, calcium
metabolism and bone health, and
deputy director of the National
Institutes of Health-funded
Clinical and Translational Science
Institute. She is a former president of the American Society for
Nutritional Sciences and is an
elected fellow of the American
College of Nutrition and Institute
of Food Sciences.
Bill Castle,
’75, was inducted into
the Oregon
Bankers
Association Hall of
Fame. He
is president
BILL CASTLE
and CEO
of South Valley Bank & Trust in
Klamath Falls, has served as past
chairman of the Klamath County
Chamber of Commerce, and
serves on the Oregon Institute of
Technology President’s Advisory
Council.
Twila Lehman, ’88, ’01, business
instructor at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, was
named Post-Secondary Teacher
of the Year by the Oregon Business Education Association.
The late Paul Backman, ’92, who
died in April, won the Northwest Golf Media Association’s
Distinguished Service Award for
2010. For the 12 years before his
death, Backman was the executive
director of the Western Washing-
Three Beavers — the entire engineering division in the Yreka (Calif.) Public Works Department — won a Stormwater Attenuation and Floodplain Restoration award. Receiving a 2010 Project of the Year award from the Sacramento Chapter of the
American Public Works Association were Darrell J. Hook, ’85 (business management), Steven D. Neill, ’77 (civil engineering) and Jeannette Zanzig Hook, ’86 (resource recreation management).
ton Golf Course Superintendents
Association and the Northwest
Turfgrass Association.
A P P O I N T ME N TS
Leon Johnson, ’71, a retired Air
Force brigadier general living
in Irving, Texas, recently won
election to a two-year term as national president of the Tuskegee
Airmen Inc., an organization for
African-American pilots, bomber
flight crew members, maintenance and support personnel who
fought in World War II. Johnson,
Airbus Fleet manager for the
United Parcel Service Airline, is
the board chair of the International Black Aerospace Council
and serves as a trustee for the Air
Force Academy Foundation. Roberta Rowe Kinney, ’75, is an
attorney with Lozano Smith, a
California-wide education and
public agency law firm. She is
managing shareholder of the
Fresno office.
Brenda M. Holdener, ’85, a U.S.
Navy Capt., commands the USS
Wasp, a multipurpose amphibious assault ship with 1,100 sailors.
She is the 17th commanding
officer of the
Wasp and its
first female
commander.
The Wasp
is lead ship
among the
Navy’s eight
Wasp–class
BRENDA HOLDENER
ships. They
are the largest amphibious ships
in the world, with a length of 844
feet.
Jim S. Clayton, ’92, Corbett, has
been named Multnomah County
Surveyor.
Lindsay Rundquist, ’10, is serv-
ing a year as a Jesuit volunteer in
Gresham at JOIN, an organization that supports the efforts of
homeless individuals and families
to transition into permanent
housing.
M I L ESTONES
Estora Ricks Moe, ’33, ’65,
Corvallis, celebrated her 100th
birthday this October with a ride
on a fire truck. She shared her
secret of longevity in the Corvallis
Gazette-Times: “It really was a
matter of luck,” Moe said. “But I
realized as I got closer to this, I’d
better start behaving.” She taught
home economics at schools in
Alsea, Jefferson, Philomath and
Corvallis. Her husband, Hal
Moe, ’35, ’52, who died in 2001,
coached football and track and
field at OSU and was associate
The gift that took the campaign over its initial $625 million goal was a $30,000 scholarship gift by a 1948 home economics alumna who
started giving to her alma mater in the early ’80s with about $5 per year.
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SHE MANAG ES M A R I N E R ES O U R C ES W I T H A D I ST I N C T LY LO CA L F O C U S
Working as a Peace Corps volunteer in
the Philippines taught Laura Anderson,
’00, of Newport a lot about communitybased management.
“We had to rely on local knowledge in
the Philippines because no one had been
doing scientific research and marine
surveys that would provide the data we
needed,” she said.
“The islands are not in communication
with each other, so the government can’t
manage nationally, just locally,” she
said. Learning to negotiate with different
groups — in order to preserve marine
resources and their livelihood — serves
Anderson well as today she advocates
for the fisheries industry off the Oregon
Coast.
After her Peace Corps service, she returned to Newport and began volunteering at the OSU Hatfield Marine Science
Center (HMSC).
“It had been my dream since I was in
high school. I always thought it would be
the coolest thing to work over there,” she
said. After a couple of days at the visitor’s
center, she was introduced to Gil Sylvia,
superintendent of the Coastal Oregon
Marine Experiment Station, who also
happened to have been a Peace Corps
volunteer in the Philippines.
With financial aid and a research
assistantship to keep her afloat and an
undergrad degree in pre-medicine, she
began a master’s program in marine
resource management, taking classes in
Newport and Corvallis.
The funding helped but was not quite
enough to pay the bills. “I was still driving
my 1970 Nova — and it was not a nice
one!” she said. So she did consulting
for different conservation groups about
salmon restoration, watershed management and salmon marketing.
People kept asking her — as the
daughter of a fisherman, a crab fisher
herself, and a person with scientific
background and good communication
skills — to represent the fishing industry
in policy discussions.
“My dad was a commercial fisherman
and my business partner (Al Pazar) is a
highly respected commercial fisherman;
that made it easy for me to have credibility,” she said. “‘That’s Roger’s daughter,
she’s got to be a good girl.’ My dad had
great credibility.
“Because of the rigorous training you
get at OSU,” she said, she was able to understand the technical issues, if not the
depth of the data, and help communicate
with all the stakeholders.
“I really believe in honoring the value of
these guys who spend 200 water-days a
year at sea — that’s a lot of experience,”
she said. “You can’t discount that knowledge that they have — but they have felt
so disenfranchised from science.”
Today Anderson operates a popular
waterfront restaurant and fish market:
Local Ocean Seafoods. But she still finds
herself traveling as far as Washington,
D.C., to testify before Congress as a volunteer advocate for the fishing industry.
Healthy local fisheries are the lifeblood of
her business.
“My brand does not allow me to substitute food that is not local,” she said. “I
have to be involved in the politics — to do
the political advocacy — to try to make
sure that we will have fish in the future.”
When asked for hints for consumers regarding their seafood purchases,
Anderson is definitive.
“Number one,” she says, “tell people
to buy wild, not farmed fish. I don’t know
of any aquaculture with the exception of
oysters, mussels and clams, that could
be deemed healthy for the environment
or humans. I tell them to buy domestically, Laura Anderson catches a moment at her restaurant, Local Ocean Seapreferably locally if it’s labeled as such.
foods on the Newport bayfront. PHOTO BY DENNIS WOLVERTON
People should feel good about eating local seafood; the West Coast has the best
managed fisheries in the world.”
— By Ann Kinkley
A gift of $22,275 in gold coins helped create an endowed faculty fund in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Another donor gave several hundred pounds of silver coins: mostly dimes from the ’60s but some silver dollars from the 1880s. They had
a face value of $3,500 but an appraised value of more than $35,000. The gift supports the College of Education and other programs.
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ALUMNUS CA L L E D F R O M H I S A I R L I N E C O C K P I T TO S E R V E I N A F G H A N I STA N
Lt. Col. Richard Gulley was a freshman business major at Oregon State in 1983, wearing
a military uniform for the first time as a
member of the Army ROTC, when U.S. troops
invaded the island nation of Grenada and
Gulley got a taste of how separate and different a military life could be in times of war.
“I remember giant rallies in the MU Quad
against the invasion,” he said, interviewed
by telephone from Bagram Air Base,
Afghanistan. “I had to wear my uniform on
campus, and at the time there were some
jeers. As I wore it more and more, and talked
with people, I found out that many people
didn’t really know the military is people like
me, like you, like the other people at Oregon
State.”
A native of Beaverton, he graduated from
OSU in 1987 with a BS in marketing and a
commission in the Army. He flew helicopters
and fixed-wing aircraft on active duty until
1994, when he became a commercial airline
pilot and entered the Army Reserves.
Gulley worked as first officer on a U.S. Air
Airbus until the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks
caused massive reductions in the airline
industry and he was furloughed.
“Shortly thereafter, I was very lucky,” he
said. “I got employed by JetBlue, which at
the time was a new entrant in the industry.”
He remained in the Army Reserves, “doing whatever jobs that came up. ... Then in
2006, when the war in Iraq was very difficult
and they were involuntarily calling people
back to active duty, they called me up, so I
took a break of service from JetBlue.”
He served in Kosovo, Germany and the
Middle East, and helped with air support for
a visit by President George Bush to Africa.
“Then I ended up in Afghanistan” in a
job that was important and daunting. As
aviation officer for Combined Joint Special
Operations Task Force — Afghanistan
(CJSOTF-A), he advised the task force
commander on the use of any aviation
personnel or aircraft. He also oversaw the
use of unmanned drones. It was Gulley’s
first assignment directly in support of elite
Special Forces units.
“It’s what we call a leadership challenge,”
he said. “These are highly trained, highly
skilled, highly motivated individuals, and
most of these people will retain their affiliation with the Special Forces throughout
their careers. So coming in from the outside
— although I felt very welcome — it is an ops
(operations) tempo that’s very difficult to
maintain. It is a very, very demanding job.”
He stayed briefed on the entire combat
theater and had to be ready to deploy and
support soldiers by air on the battlefield.
Gulley flew throughout Afghanistan, which is
a hazardous proposition. Even the big base
at Bagram gets attacked by rockets and by
direct assault from hostile forces.
Working in such an environment takes
its toll.
“On a day to day basis, we file it away
(and you don’t see it) on the outside,” he
said. “Where it’s hard to deal with is on the
inside. Recently we lost nine people when
we lost a Blackhawk. You know those people,
you know what they’re doing, you know the
details of what happened.”
He remains humbled and inspired by his
fellow soldiers.
“The heroes to me are the 17- to 30-yearolds we have stationed out there ... We now
have guys who have seen more combat than
anybody ever saw in World War II; they’re on
Lt. Col. Richard
their fifth deployment! We’ve been nine years Gulley has flown
at war.”
many aircraft,
Gulley kept perspective by staying in touch including the
with his pregnant wife and his young son.
Apache attack
He cherishes his memories of Oregon State, helicopter.
including his parents’ visits for Mom’s and
PHOTO
Dad’s weekends.
COURTESY U.S.
“My parents to this day still talk about those ARMY
four weekends,” he said.
“I often tell people that Oregon State is
almost a mythological place to me. I love the
location, I really enjoy the people.
“Really, to this day, my best friends and
memories are the people I met there.”
In school he worked on the Memorial Union Program Council,
which allowed him to meet Tom Wolfe when the famous author of
The Right Stuff made an appearance on campus.
As he contemplated the end of his deployment and yet another
return to civilian life, he said there was at least one thing on his
agenda — after being a good father and repaying his wife for being
gone for almost her entire pregnancy with their baby daughter.
“I plan to get back to Oregon State University as soon as possible,”
he said.
— By Kevin Miller
All 50 states are represented in campaign giving — most from Oregon (surprise!) and least from Rhode Island. Donors in 51 nations also
have given to the campaign, including Austria and Australia, Ecuador and Egypt, Kenya and Qatar, Finland, Iceland, Ireland and Thailand.
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professor of physical education
until his retirement in 1975.
Thomas McClellan, ’44, professor of civil engineering from
1948 to 1978, recently celebrated
his 90th birthday with family
members in Portland. While in
college, Tom firmly established
a life-long love of music in the
OSU Marching Band. He continued to compose, arrange and play
in many bands after retirement
and recently donated many of his
arrangements to the OSU band.
His Beaver children are Barb
McClellan Gibbs, ’76, Steve
McClellan, ’78, and Marge McClellan Reinhart, ’74.
OTHER NOTES
The son of the late Francis X.
Lubega, ’64, of Uganda, requests
help finding his brother who
was born when his father was
a student at OSU. His parents
were required to give him up for
adoption before returning to their
country. If you can help, contact
Dennis Yiga at [email protected].
Marsh Busey Shadbolt, ’65, ’89,
and her husband, Mike Shadbolt,
own Cherry Country in Rickreall,
selling dried and chocolate covered cherries at farmers markets
throughout Oregon.
Sandra Henderson, ’83, ’89,
’02, Erie, Colo., directs Project
Budburst, a national campaign
encouraging citizen scientists
to share local observations of
phenophases — such as first leaf,
first flower and first fruit — of
trees, shrubs, flowers, and grasses.
Other OSU connections include
Paul Alaback, ’81, lead science
adviser; OSU Ph.D candidate
Karl Clarke, who interned at the
project this past summer; and
Patrick Breen, professor emeritus
of horticulture, who contributed
numerous photographs for the
Website. Identification guides and
reporting forms may be downloaded at www.projectbudburst.org.
Jill Wood, ’97, Brooklyn, N.Y.,
has created an organization
to find a cure for Sanfilippo
Syndrome Type C. She recently
appeared on Good Morning
America to share the story of her
two-year-old son, Jonah Wood
Weishaar, who was diagnosed
with this incurable disease last
spring. You can learn more about
it at www.jonahsjustbegun.org/
index.html.
In the fall of 2006, many students
began participating in the Beaver
Emotional Intelligence Project
in Frank Bernieri’s psychology
classes. He would like to make
contact with former participants. Send an e-mail to Frank.
[email protected] to find
out why “there’s no more peanut
butter!”
O B I T U A R I ES
Dorothy Riggs Larsen, ’26,
Clatskanie. Kappa Delta
Catherine Carter Monroe, ’27,
Portland.
Aili Enegren Knox, ’28, Portland.
Kappa Delta
Lucile Porter Ketchum, ’30, The
Dalles.
Daniel W. Beatty, ’32, Portland.
Clarence N. Parker, ’32, Burbank,
Calif. Alpha Sigma Phi
John M. Poorman, ’32, Portland.
Phi Gamma Delta
Marian Dunham Elkinton, ’34,
Newtown Square, Pa. Delta Delta
Delta
Howard A. Edwards, ’36,
Huntington Beach, Calif. Phi
Kappa Psi
A. Stanley Gregory, ’36, Fox
Island, Wash. Alpha Tau Omega
Maxine Jewell Stephen, ’36,
Grants Pass. Alpha Gamma Delta
Millard T. Jones, ’37, Troutdale.
Chieko Otsuki Urakami, ’37,
Kobe, Japan.
Solman Durbin, ’38, Corvallis.
Laura Huddleston Galbraith,
’38, San Diego, Calif. Alpha Chi
Omega
Leo Y. Kiyohiro , ’38, Spokane,
Wash.
Howard E. McCurdy, ’38, Seal
Beach, Calif. Kappa Sigma
Robert D. Morris, ’38, Portland.
Clyde K. Sherman, ’38, Seattle,
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Wash. Lambda Chi Alpha
Frances Jensen Simons, ’38,
Urbana, Ill. Alpha Chi Omega
continued
Dwight I. Baker, ’38, ’40, Lake
Oswego. Phi Kappa Psi
Enid Clifford Fisher, ’39, Salem.
Kappa Alpha Theta
Barbara Young Spencer, ’39,
Boise, Idaho. Alpha Chi Omega
Leslie J. Sullivan, ’39, La Grande.
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theresa Varney Dill, ’39, ’42,
Bothell, Wash.
Joan Bannister Bailey, ’40,
Millville, Calif.
John M. Graham, ’40, Bend. Phi
Sigma Kappa
Ethel Zimmerman Johnson, ’40,
Wilmette, Ill.
Evelyn Larsen Ofstad, ’40,
Portland.
Frances McBroom Smith, ’40,
Portland. Kappa Alpha Theta
Bert W. Udell, ’40, Lebanon.
Contributions may be made to
OSU Extension, 1-800-354-7281.
G. Morris Barnett, ’41, Casper,
Wyo. Delta Chi
Frank E. Biasca, ’41, Los Gatos,
Calif.
Lena Mutti Harrison, ’41, Palm
Harbor, Fla.
Elaine Kollins Jones, ’41, Los
Angeles, Calif. Kappa Kappa
Gamma
Antone J. Pavelek, ’41, Saint
Helens.
Julianne Wise Phinney, ’41,
Portland.
Elbert Ragsdale, ’41, Monmouth.
Mildred Perman Bennett, ’42,
Portland.
Isabel Withycombe Boyd, ’42,
State College, Pa. Alpha Xi Delta
Kathleen Moore Johnson, ’42,
Woodway, Wash.
Walter E. Ottmer, ’42,
Sammamish, Wash. Delta Upsilon
Saul Rich, ’42, Hamden, Conn.
Dorothy Nowotny Boehm, ’43,
Gresham. Gamma Phi Beta,
June Schessler Murphy, ’43,
Corvallis. Contributions may
be made to the OSU Alumni
Association at 1-800-354-7281.
Dorothy Flynn Ross, ’43, Salem.
Delta Zeta
Marjorie Chase Block, ’44,
Winston Salem, N.C. Sigma
Kappa
Walter E. Jackson, ’44, Lancaster,
Calif.
Mavis Field Tuttle, ’44, Portland.
Harriet Howells Hosley, ’45,
Spirit Lake, Idaho. Sigma Kappa
Marge Andersen McClintock,
’45, Vancouver, Wash.
Alma Zwanziger Burtis, ’46,
Meridian, Calif.
Deborah Buffington Collett, ’46,
Eugene. Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha
Tau Omega
Roland E. Ott, ’46, Portland.
Dr. Richard F. Stack, ’46,
Meridian, Idaho. Pi Kappa Phi
Don E. Lewis, ’46, ’48, Ashland.
Lila Clark Beglau, ’47, Eugene.
Beverly Ashton Crawford, ’47,
Tucson, Ariz.
Vernon R. Hill, ’47, Seaside.
James M. Jackson, ’47,
Corvallis. Contributions may
be made to the OSU Music
Department, 1-800-354-7281.
Claude A. Phillips, ’47, Stayton.
Robert E. Stevens, ’47, Calistoga,
Calif. Phi Delta Theta
Chugh L. Sun, ’47, Dearborn,
Mich.
Alice Gerber Cushman, ’47, ’56,
Manhattan Beach, Calif. Delta
Delta Delta
Donald L. Benscoter, ’48,
McCall, Idaho. Alpha Gamma
Rho
Warren C. Hanchett, ’48,
Fortuna, Calif.
Lloyd D. Hayes, ’48, Redding,
Calif.
Margaret Kehrli McIntyre, ’48,
Chapel Hill, N.C. Delta Delta
Delta
Natalie Bunn Moline, ’48,
Philomath.
Harvey L. Moore, ’48, Bellevue,
Wash. Sigma Nu
Charles R. Piroutek, ’48, Albany.
Richard L. Schuetz, ’48,
Sublimity. Lambda Chi Alpha
Bernice E. Stearns, ’48, Lake
Oswego.
William W. Brawn, ’49, Medford.
William L. Ean, ’49, Redmond,
Wash. Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Aleene Neely Gibson, ’49, Idaho
Falls, Idaho.
Donald R. Grufke, ’49, Boring.
Phi Kappa Tau
Paul M. Henry, ’49, Placentia,
Calif.
James R. Libby, ’49, San Diego,
Calif. Phi Kappa Tau
Marion Jones Mason, ’49,
Coquille. Chi Omega
MAY 19-21, 2011
COME HOME TO OREGON STATE
AND CELEBRATE YOUR REUNION!
GO LD EN
JU BILEE
Invitations will be mailed in February.
If you would like to participate on a
reunion committee please contact
the OSU Alumni Association toll-free
at 1-877-OSTATER.
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REUNION FOR CLASSES
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COMBAT VE T E R A N A N D H I S M OT H E R , B OT H A LU M N I , R E AC H O U T TO I R AQ I S
His day job in the U.S. Army in Iraq in 2008
was to determine the needs of the locals. Then
a captain, Josh Mater, ’03, (now a civilian
contractor with the U.S. Department of Defense)
had noticed that the engineering department
at Thi Qar University was “badly beaten up and
most of the textbooks burned or destroyed. A
young engineering faculty member called me up
later and said, ‘Can you help us get new books?’”
He wondered if folks at the OSU College of
Engineering would donate textbooks, so he
turned to a familiar contact. His mother, Catherine Galati Mater, ’75, ’84, president of Mater
Engineering in Corvallis, had just been named
director of sustainability for the college.
“He called me and said, ‘Mom, do you think
OSU would be interested in helping here?’”
Josh Mater graduated from OSU with a
double degree in geography and international
studies. He was commissioned as an Army
officer in December 2002, with his bars pinned
on by his mother and father, M. Scott Mater, ’71,
shortly before his father died of cancer. His military work in Iraq ended when he was wounded in
a rocket attack.
“He had no protective gear on because he was
inside the Green Zone,” Catherine said. “The
bomb went into an underground bunker below
him and he was hit with shrapnel. It shattered
his eardrum but he had no head wounds even
though he was not wearing a flak jacket or
helmet.”
He recuperated at Ft. Bragg, N.C., before returning to Iraq as a civilian worker. In his spare
moments he manages the Michael Scott Mater
Foundation, named in honor of his father.
“We began the foundation to make it easier to
donate the books to the Iraqi university,” Josh
said.
Books given directly from OSU would be considered to be coming from the U.S. government,
which would not go over well in Iraq. “OSU could
not execute it on the ground,” due to politics
and red tape, Josh said. “Also, the Book Wish
Foundation contacted us and wanted to donate
some English as a second language books at the
same time — so that the students could better
understand the engineering books.”
It snowballed into a donation of more than
$30,000 worth of new books, many of them
textbooks that publishers had sent to OSU for
review as possible classroom texts. The effort
is helping to encourage an initiative by the Iraqi
government to include sustainable engineering
in reconstruction plans for the nation.
In 2009 professors from 22 universities in
Iraq traveled to Oregon for two weeks of training
in sustainable engineering.
“This is the first time these men and women
had heard about sustainability,” Catherine said.
Because of the poor infrastructure and dangerous travel conditions, most had never worked
with anyone outside their own universities.
“It was wonderful to see their joy in meeting
each other for the first time — in Oregon,” she
said. They formed an Iraqi coalition for sustainable engineering education, partnering with OSU
to bring modern labs to key institutions in Iraq.
When the Maters visited the universities this
past May as guests of the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education, “the people of Iraq were stunned
that we would do that,” she said of their travel
in civilian clothes, with Iraqi security forces as
their guards. “They kept saying, ‘You’re so brave,
you’re so brave.’”
In addition to donating textbooks, immediate
plans for the Maters’ efforts
include installing wireless
communication between
universities; having as many
as 500 Iraqi faculty members
over time visit OSU for training
in engineering, forestry and
agricultural practices; and
providing donated lab testing
equipment to the universities.
Efforts are managed by
the foundation co-founded by
Josh and fellow soldier Jesus
Quispe. Along with the work in
Iraq, the Michael Scott Mater
Foundation seeks to bolster
international relations and
economic growth with initiatives such as loans for small,
energy-efficient businesses and cross-cultural experiences
for students in the U.S. and Peru.
“We never thought it would take off like it did,” Josh says.
When he returns home to Charlotte, N.C., he will work on
new domestic and international outreach programs.
He is inspired in his work by the Iraqi people.
“The real heroes,” Josh says, “are the Iraqis working with
us. They are putting themselves and their families on the
line.”
— By Ann Kinkley
The alumni mother-son
team of Catherine Galati
Mater and Josh Mater
have worked to bring
practical help to wartorn Iraq. After Josh was
wounded and left the
service, he and an Army
buddy formed a foundation to do good works
in the U.S. and abroad.
PHOTO COURTESY U.S.
ARMY
The College of Engineering has the single largest campaign goal at $160 million or 18.8 percent of the overall campaign goal.
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Mark K. Miller, ’49, Friday
Edmund J. Bucknall, ’51, Fort
Harbor, Wash. Phi Delta Theta
Bragg, Calif.
Charles O. Newell, ’49, Lacey,
James D. Cotter, ’51, Sacramento,
Wash.
Calif. Delta Sigma Phi
Warren F. Schneider, ’49,
Edward R. Cox, ’51, Columbia,
Portland.
Mo.
Ralph L. Worstell, ’49, Eugene.
Millie Darling DeGroot, ’51,
James D. Addison, ’50, Virginia
Burien, Wash. Gamma Phi Beta
City, Nev. Phi Sigma Kappa
Kathryn Kerrick Dille, ’51,
Earl D. Allen, ’50, Martin, Ga.
Wappingers Falls, N.Y. Alpha
James R. Beck, ’50, Olympia,
Gamma Delta
Wash.
Richard H. Forsythe, ’51, Salem.
Douglas W. Berwick, ’50, Salem.
John A. Ielmini, ’51, Patterson,
Glen E. Brogoitti, ’50, Lyle,
Calif. Theta Chi
Wash.
Helen M. Jorgenson, ’51, Tinton
Stanley R. Christensen, ’50,
Falls, N.J. Kappa Delta
McMinnville.
Donald A. Miller, ’51, Oak
Harvey D. Christensen, ’50,
Grove. Phi Sigma Kappa
Tucson, Ariz.
David E. Munro, ’51, Phoenix,
Ferris G. Gilkey, ’50, Carmichael, Ariz.
Calif.
Albert F. Pongracz, ’51, Dewey,
Howard F. Griffin, ’50, Boulder
Ariz.
City, Nev.
Richard H. Russell, ’51, Live
Robert A. Hart, ’50, Sequim,
Oak, Fla.
Wash.
Patricia Kelly Swan, ’51, Cannon
Jack E. Hemphill, ’50, Panama
Beach. Pi Beta Phi
City, Fla.
David D. Woodbridge, ’51, ’56,
Donald D. Higinbotham, ’50,
Satellite Beach, Fla.
Grants Pass. Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Marjorie Dahlgren Adolphson,
Ralph H. Holcomb, ’50,
’52, Lincoln City.
Sutherlin.
Rudolph E. Erickson, ’52,
Audrey Jarmin Jacobs,’50,
Vancouver, Wash. Beta Theta Pi
Ontario.
David J. Genz, ’52, Windham,
George R. McCormick, ’50, Los
Maine. Sigma Pi
Osos, Calif. Kappa Delta Rho
Jack F. Johnston, ’52, Portland.
Dorothy Sharpe Meece, ’50,
Kappa Sigma
Canby. Chi Omega
Leonard L. Kleinhesselink, ’52,
Charles H. Messenger, ’50,
Roseburg.
Woodburn.
Bryan E. Nixon, ’52, Peoria, Ariz.
Mohamed M. Oloufa, ’50,
H. “Pat” Sawtelle, ’52, Lake
University Place, Wash.
Montezuma, Ariz.
Maurice W. Rea, ’50, Macon, Ga. Asa W. Armstrong, ’53,
Rolland L. Rowse, ’50, Scottsdale, Woodbridge, Va.
Ariz.
Frank W. Godsey, ’53, Walnut
D. “Mike” Sievers, ’50, Portland.
Creek, Calif.
George A. Weston, ’50, Santa
Eldon “James” Layman, ’53,
Barbara, Calif. Chi Phi
Yuba City, Calif.
Frederick A. Williams, ’50,
Robert G. Macdonald, ’53,
Tallahassee, Fla.
Venice, Fla. Phi Kappa Psi
William G. Wolford, ’50,
Ernest B. Madsen, ’53, Roseburg.
Wenatchee, Wash.
Phi Delta Theta
Benjamin M. Wright, ’50, Canby. Robert J. Robertson, ’53, The
William L. Bennett, ’51, Canby.
Dalles.
Charles M. Porfily, ’53, ’66,
Eagle, Idaho.
Jerry A. Bauer, ’54, Milwaukie.
Sigma Chi
Thomas J. Hensler, ’54, Albany.
Richard M. Justus, ’54, San
Antonio, Texas. Phi Kappa Psi
Francis C. Kettleson, ’54, Salem.
Gwendolyn Mitchell Lounsbury,
’54, ’59, Junction City. Sigma
Kappa
Roger K. Davis, ’54, ’66,
Wedderburn. Sigma Nu
James A. Leslie, ’55, Portland.
Joyce Herigstad MacKenzie, ’55,
Happy Valley.
Ronald J. Moreland, ’55, West
Lafayette, Ind. Sigma Nu
James R. Bovingdon, ’56, Pasco,
Wash.
M. “Keith” Tannehill, ’56, La
Grande. Alpha Gamma Rho
C. “Ted” Dyrness, ’56, ’58, ’60,
Albany.
Thomas A. Aguer, ’57, Ontario.
Sigma Chi
Suzanne Frei Cleary, ’57,
Corvallis.
Kaino Ojala Leethem, ’57,
Damascus.
Marshall K. Miller, ’57, Portland.
Beta Theta Pi
Hugh A. Seppa, ’57, Warrenton.
Sigma Nu
Martin D. Walker, ’57, Green
Valley, Ariz.
Gvido E. Zakovics, ’57, Lake
Oswego.
Robert B. Ladd, ’57, ’62, Laguna
Woods, Calif.
William J. Cooney, ’58, San Jose,
Calif.
Theodore Corbett, ’58,
Ellensburg, Wash.
Charles R. Demory, ’58, Costa
Mesa, Calif.
Thomas E. Gebhardt, ’58,
Clackamas.
Joseph R. Harada, ’58, Aiea,
Hawaii.
Karyl Seedborg Robbins, ’58,
Cupertino, Calif. Alpha Phi
Thomas L. Vincent, ’58, Tucson,
Ariz.
Donald N. White, ’58, Cheney,
Wash.
Delbert J. Fickas, ’59, Denver,
Colo.
Bob D. Kingsbury, ’59, Benicia,
Calif.
JoAnne C. Klaus, ’59, Beaverton.
Glenn E. Pelt, ’59, Camarillo,
Calif.
Kenneth A. Strong, ’59,
Richland, Wash.
Roxanne Wilson Anderson, ’60,
Klamath Falls.
E. Lawrence Caldwell, ’60,
Portland.
Fred D. Fisher, ’60, Richland,
Wash.
Sally Hussey Thompson, ’60, De
Pere, Wis. Kappa Alpha Theta
Harold H. Armstrong, ’61,
Albuquerque, N.M.
Robert W. Bennett, ’61,
Lakewood, Wash. Phi Kappa Tau
Roger S. Brassfield, ’61,
McMinnville.
L. “Bud” Goodman, ’61, Lacey,
Wash. Sigma Phi Epsilon
Michael K. Inman, ’61, Portland.
Elaine Ohman Mallery, ’61,
Cloverdale.
Joyce Jeffers Osternig, ’61,
Eugene.
Siegfried A. Vogt, ’61, Potlatch,
Idaho.
Donald C. Chambers, ’62,
Milwaukie.
Rick R. Colver, ’62, Yakima,
Wash. Sigma Nu
Nancy Lundgren Ellis, ’62,
Portland.
Eldon L. Johns, ’62, Montrose,
Colo. Sigma Pi
Judith Lage Lambert, ’62, Hood
River. Delta Zeta
Douglas B. Scofield, ’62,
Portland. Alpha Gamma Rho
DeVere L. Anderson, ’63, Sweet
Home.
Othniel R. Chambers, ’63, Las
Cruces, N.M.
Donald C. Edinger, ’63,
Sykesville, Md.
More than 2,700 current and emeriti faculty and staff have given more than $10.5 million to the campaign. This includes gifts of more
than $600,000 from OSU’s senior administrators and deans.
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W. Lee Edwards, ’63, Springfield.
Richard McCanse, ’63, Salem.
S. Wayne Terry, ’63, Camino,
Calif.
Clifton M. York, ’63, Portland.
C. Robert Young, ’63, Bountiful,
Utah.
John W. Inman, ’63, Salinas,
Calif. Alpha Tau Omega
Eugene R. Royer, ’63, Merritt
Island, Fla.
Cathie Nelson Kortge, ’64, The
Dalles.
Francis X. Lubega, ’64, Mykono,
Uganda.
Nancy Dougherty Pallathena,
’64, Malibu, Calif. Kappa Alpha
Theta
Paul D. Entler, ’65, Portland.
Carl A. Forss, ’65, Walla Walla,
Wash.
Edward V. Lengacher, ’65,
Vancouver, Wash. Kappa Sigma
J. Frank McKay, ’65, Keizer.
Stuart K. Merlich, ’65, Yuma,
Ariz.
Elizabeth C. Rader, ’65, Forest
Grove. Alpha Chi Omega
Sharon L. Walsh, ’65, Portland.
Loren W. Ambers, ’66, Alturas,
Calif.
R. Hugh Vibbert, ’66, Wenatchee,
Wash.
Michael D. Campbell, ’66, ’67,
Pilot Rock. Alpha Gamma Rho
Clarence H. Lamping, ’66, ’67,
Lebanon.
Dorothy I. Judd, ’67, Salem.
James K. Neill, ’67, Portland.
Sigma Phi Epsilon
William A. Olsen, ’67,
Monmouth.
Alex Riazance, ’67, Potomac, Md.
Frances Thomas Ashley, ’68,
Portland.
L. “Van” Egan, ’68, Campbell
River, B.C., Canada.
Alan L. Miller, ’68, Portland.
Nancy Farrand Shafton, ’68,
Vancouver, Wash. Gamma Phi
Beta
N. “Bud” Smith, ’68, ’73,
Tualatin. Sigma Chi
William A. Groman, ’69,
Goodyear, Ariz.
Wallace M. Skyrman, ’69, ’73,
Central Point.
Bronson Burdick, ’70, Happy
Valley.
Joel Hirschman, ’70, Tucson,
Ariz.
John C. Kreitzer, ’70, Vancouver,
Wash. Sigma Nu
Audrey Schluender Buhl, ’71,
Saint Cloud, Minn.
Rose Sinsel Gilmont, ’71, Toledo.
Lorraine Frostaad Topping, ’71,
Portland.
Marvin D. Anderson, ’72,
Corvallis.
Asa R. Daily, ’72, Saint George,
Utah.
Ralph D. Hess, ’72, Gainesville,
Fla.
Robin D. Preston, ’72, Portland.
Douglas J. Watkins, ’72,
Bainbridge Island, Wash.
Laura J. Cook, ’74, Rickreall.
Sheldon D. Cross, ’74, Tacoma,
Wash.
David B. Eastham, ’74,
Albuquerque, N.M.
Fred J. Girt, ’74, Coos Bay.
Marilee Ellis Harrington, ’74,
Portland.
Donald G. Hook, ’74,
Bentonville, Ark.
Richard P. Johnson, ’74, ’83,
Burns.
Anita Haitsch Curry, ’75,
Corvallis.
Richard A. Granger, ’75,
Clarkston, Wash. Alpha Tau
Omega
Diane L. Jennings, ’75, Bonney
Lake, Wash. Gamma Phi Beta
Troby Zbinden Kelly, ’75,
Portland.
Steve J. Upton, ’75, Manhattan,
Kan.
Helen Ballew Wagner, ’76,
Springfield.
Marjorie Anderson, ’77,
Lebanon.
Leo J. Heilman, ’77, ’79, Sweet
Home.
David G. Arbuckle, ’78,
Sacramento, Calif.
Richard A. Henry, ’78, Olympia,
Wash.
Gary L. Evans, ’78, ’81,
Vancouver, Wash. Alpha Tau
Omega
Richard W. Skeean, ’80, Ann
Arbor, Mich.
Lisa Paul Watters, ’81, Happy
Valley. Delta Gamma
Matthew D. Ellingson, ’82,
Boise, Idaho.
Sarah Dorr Hoffman, ’85,
Corvallis.
Douglas B. Dunaway, ’86, San
Diego, Calif.
James M. Knotz, ’87, Portland.
John W. Lengele, ’87, Renton,
Wash. Alpha Sigma Phi
Barry A. Long, ’87, Loveland,
Colo.
Michael D. Lent, ’88, Winston.
Jon S. Bach, ’89, Laveen, Ariz.
Amy Fortune Langler, ’91,
Portland.
Douglas W. Emery, ’92, Great
Falls, Mont. Setsuko “Susie” Kao, ’92,
Portland. Steve M. Newman, ’94, Newberg.
Kermit A. Schott, ’95,
Cumberland Center, Maine.
Dr. Kristine E. Weaver, ’95, Los
Alamos, N.M.
Lemma W. Mengistu, ’95, ’99,
Saint Paul, Minn.
Drucilla Bartlett Aitken, ’96,
Cupertino, Calif.
Bette Davis Nelson, ’97, Lake
Oswego.
Lukas P. Thomas, ’97,
Huntington, Texas.
Larissa L. Moore, ’01, Portland.
Dawn E. Bittner, ’02, Eugene.
FAC U LT Y &
FRIENDS
Gertrude M. Albro, Eugene.
David N. Andrews, Eugene.
Brian L. Arbogast, Corvallis.
He was a researcher at the OSU
Agricultural Life Sciences Mass
Spectrometry Facility for 36 years.
He won the OSU Outstanding
Faculty Research Assistant Award
in 2009.
Helen MacDuffee Berg, ’73,
Portland. She became the director
of OSU’s Survey Research Center
in 1975, retiring in 1993, and was
mayor of Corvallis for 12 years.
Wesley Behring, Flagstaff, Ariz.
Bruce K. Briggs, Roseburg.
Elaine Brodkin, Paramus, N.J.
R. “Bob” Brogoitti, La Grande.
Leo Bryan, Shady Cove.
John D. Bunnell, Astoria.
R. “Dick” Boubel, ’53, ’54, Bend.
He specialized in the field of air
pollution control, teaching in
the Department of Mechanical
Engineering. Delta Upsilon
Jerry L. Brower, Kennewick,
Wash.
Jeffrey B. Case, Seattle, Wash.
Beta Theta Pi
Beverly A. Craig, Chattanooga,
Tenn.
John A. Crawford, Bend. He was
a professor and research scientist
of wildlife ecology at OSU for
27 years. Contributions towards
student scholarships in fisheries
and wildlife may be made at
1-800-354-7281.
Roy Cook, Yachats. Sigma Nu
George H. Corey, Pendleton.
Cecilia L. Cotter, Corvallis.
Jim Craver, Lake Oswego.
Renwick Dayton, Gig Harbor,
Wash.
Leona M. Deardorff, Portland.
James A. Dinkel, Madras.
Marvin L. Durham, Philomath.
He advised international students
beginning in 1970.
John S. Ferrell, West Linn. Phi
Delta Theta
Lillian M. Fischer, Corvallis.
Darrell Friend, Ashwood.
Jay W. Glasmann, Bethesda, Md.
Almom N. Goldmann, Hillsboro.
OSU’s most significant group of leadership donors are the dedicated volunteers serving on the OSU Foundation Board of Trustees.
Current, former and Lifetime Trustees have committed almost $100 million to the campaign, more than 16 percent of the total to date.
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POP
QUIZ
ANSWERS
Questions are on page 7.
1) C.
Epinephrine (also known as adrenaline) is not appropriate for severe high
blood pressure because it increases
heart rate, contracts blood vessels and
dilates air passages.
2) E.
All of the above. All of the listed
medicines could be affected by the
consumption of grapefruit juice. It is
one of the foods most likely to cause
problems with drugs, because it is
metabolized by the same enzyme in
the liver (cytochrome P-450 3A4)
that breaks down many drugs. No
interactions have been observed with
non-prescription medications and
grapefruit juice.
3) A.
Anhedoni. It is the inability to
experience pleasurable emotions from
normally pleasurable life events such
as eating, exercise, social interaction
or sexual activities. Researchers theorize that anhedonia may result from
the breakdown in the brain’s rewards
system involving dopamine pathways.
4.) True.
Adopting healthy lifestyle habits
(healthy food, physical activity, healthy
weight, quitting smoking, managing
stress) is an effective first step in
both preventing and controlling high
blood pressure. If adopting healthy
habits does not keep blood pressure
controlled it may be necessary to
add medications. Along with beta
blockers, other medications prescribed
may include diuretics, ACE inhibitors,
vasodilators and calcium channel
blockers.
Marilyn Gouwens, Miami, Fla.
Merle E. Greenstein, Tualatin.
Donald L. Greenwood, Salem.
Diane Griggs, Corvallis.
Ruth M. Guenther, New
Smyrna Beach, Fla.
Gordon A. Graber, Woodburn.
Robert G. Gourley,
Corvallis. He was a laboratory
technician for the College of
Forestry for 38 years.
Ruth A. Haas, Oregon City.
Fred Haddock, Ann Arbor,
Mich.
Ralph Hannan Jr., Boring.
Ray S. Hansen, Denton,
Texas. Hazel P. Hart, Atlantic Beach,
Fla.
Vickie Powell Heath, Piedmont,
Calif. Kappa Alpha Theta
Helen Scruggs Horvath,
Corvallis. She worked at the
OSU Valley Library from 1965
to 1987. Trudy Wittorf Jacob, Corvallis.
She was a Student Health
Services nurse for 21 years,
retiring in 1987.
John E. Jaqua, Eugene.
Lulu L. Johnson, Madras. R. Bryce Jones, Newberg. Robert M. Keil, Midland,
Mich. William King, Astoria.
Lois J. Kise, Prineville.
Larry Knight, Salem.
William Kun, Kentfield, Calif.
George P. Lamborn,
Nottingham, Pa. Mina O. Launt, Santa Barbara,
Calif.
Janet G. Leovich, McKinney,
Texas. David B. Lowry, Talent.
Sherman Lynch, Ashland. Zella E. Mack, Sacramento,
Calif.
Jacob Maddox, Georgetown,
Texas.
Fay Madison, Winchester. Betty Worden Mathews, Bothell,
Wash.
Raymond P. Matthew, The
Dalles. Ronald “Mac” McBride,
Lebanon. Glen E. Miller, Kent, Wash. Ardath Sneed Montelius,
Bandon.
Frank Nicolas, Klamath
Falls. Janice Herigstad Noller, Happy
Valley
Danny Nudo, Gresham. Robert G. Oliver, Salem. Barry B. Ostrom, Monmouth.
John T. Page, Vancouver,
Wash. Charles R. Palin, Lake
Oswego. L. W. Pennell, Saint Helens. Frank G. Phillips,
Redmond. Larose Bowman Phillips, Coos
Bay.
Raymond D. Pittman,
Beaverton. Lucio Premi, Modesto, Calif. Lorraine Pullman, Salem. Venita J. Putman, Corvallis. She
was a medical assistant at the
student health center.
Helen M. Read, Medford. Claudia Reeve, Corvallis. Luella Reynolds, Eugene. William W. Robertson,
McMinnville. F. B. Rosevear, Cincinnati,
Ohio. Wilfred “Bill” Rush,
Huntington. June Sandahl, Salem. Kenneth W. Sarf, Corvallis. William B. Schaeffer, Glenelg,
Md. Robert F. Schneider, Blacksburg,
Va. Janice J. Schuette, Vancouver,
Wash. Earl W. Schulz, Redwood City,
Calif. Solving Storkersen Sieberts,
Portland. Kappa Alpha Theta
Betty Silbernagel, Stayton. Elizabeth Strandberg, Bellevue,
Wash. Arthur E. Strauss, Columbus,
Ohio. Richard M. Surface,
Gresham. Edith Sichel Terrill,
Wilsonville. Lawrence Toliver, Klamath
Falls. Rosamond Gaines Walton,
Shelbyville, Ind. Joseph A. Weinberg, Henrico,
Va. Dick Wendt, Klamath Falls. Pat Carpio Whiting,
Portland. Charles E. Wicks, ’50,
Corvallis. He was the head of
the Department of Chemical
Engineering from 1970 to 1987.
Contributions may be sent to
the Charles E. and Miriam D.
Wicks Scholarship Fund or the
Wicks-Street Fellowship, OSU
Foundation, 1-800-354-7281.
Phi Delta Theta
Lyle T. Wilcox, Bend. Virginia P. Wilcox, Henderson,
Nev. Edith R. Willstatter,
Ashland. Max K. Wilson, Foster City,
Calif. Anton Woboril, Locust Grove,
Va. Clifford R. Yadon, Gold
Beach. Jerry A. Yamamuro, ’76,
Corvallis. He was associate
professor of geotechnical
engineering at OSU.
Helen Youngdahl, Lebanon.
This fall more than 400 OSU students participated in the Student Philanthropy Program’s “thank you booth” on the MU Quad, writing
notes of appreciation to donors.
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Dedicated footprint
Those who turned out in 1926 to dedicate the site on which the
Memorial Union would rise arranged themselves to mark the footprint of what would become a preeminent campus landmark. So
named because it is a memorial to those who gave their lives in war,
the building opened in 1928 and was formally dedicated on June 1,
1929. PHOTO COURTESY OSU ARCHIVES HC0034
The 2007-08 fiscal year — the year of the public launch of The Campaign for OSU — was the best year for fundraising in OSU history at
$126.8 million. At the start of the decade, giving totaled just under $20 million.
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