PSU’s Urban Pioneer Awards Dinner, May 17

Clackamas Commission Chair Martha Schrader to Emcee

 

Clackamas County Commission Chair Martha Schrader will be the emcee of the sixth annual Urban Pioneer Awards Dinner hosted by Portland State University’s College of Urban and Public Affairs, on Thursday, May 17, 2007, at the Portland Hilton Hotel (921 SW Sixth Avenue).

The Urban Pioneer Awards honor community leaders who exhibit many of the ideals taught to students and valued by College of Urban and Public Affairs’ faculty and community partners. This year’s honorees are Gretchen Kafoury, recipient of the Nohad A. Toulan Urban Pioneer Award for Public Service; Gerding Edlen Development, recipient of the Urban Pioneer Award for Civic Leadership; and The Portland Gay Men’s Chorus, recipient of the Community Organization Urban Pioneer Award. For more information on the recipients visit http://www.upa.pdx.edu/pioneer_winner.php.

The Urban Pioneer Awards event includes a reception, dinner and entertainment. The reception starts at 5:30 p.m. and dinner begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $125 and are available by contacting Rod Johnson at 503-725-4044 or rod@pdx.edu. Proceeds benefit scholarships in the College. For Members of the media wishing to attend the dinner must also contact Rod Johnson.

County Commissioner Martha Schrader was appointed to her position in June 2003. From 1997 to 2003, Schrader was the chief legislative analyst in the Office of Representative Kurt Schrader (her husband). Since 1982, she has been a farm manager and small businesswoman for the Three Rivers Farm. Commissioner Schrader has taken courses towards a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy with a focus in governance, civic capacity, and nonprofit management at PSU’s College of Urban & Public Affairs. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and master’s degrees from both University of Illinois and Portland State University.

Grand Sponsors of the 2007 Urban Pioneer Awards dinner are Williams & Dame Development, Gerding Edlen Development, Terry Bean and Bean Investment Real Estate, Hoffman Construction, GBD Architects, Howard S. Wright Constructors, Ticor Title Insurance, Portland Family of Funds, Geo Design Inc., Realty Trust Group and Dunn Carney Allen Higgins & Tongue LLP.


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Source:
Trish Hamilton (503-725-5209)
College of Urban and Public Affairs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (#07-057)