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P re s i d e n t ’s P ro l o g u e
I wonder what it would be like to be a monk.
There would be no need to be concerned about life’s basic necessities in this hectic world.
And, maybe they would let me enter an abbey for the next several weeks to avoid the election campaigns until the election is over!
Recently, I have read several books by or about monks. These include Seven Storey Mountain by
Thomas Merton and Father Joe by Tony Hendra.
A characteristic of monastic life is the centrality and importance of the community. Sister Joan
Chittister, in a book that interprets the Rule of
St. Benedict for today, writes a lot about community. She suggests that in a monastic community, other people have a claim on what we do. She writes that, “The role of authority in Benedictine spirituality is to unify the community and to direct its attention to God.”
Throughout her book, she emphasizes the need for balance in each individual life to achieve balance in the community.
It’s not uncommon for me to hear people in our university community talk about the need for balance. We encourage students to balance their lives between academics and co-curricular activities. We ask prospective employees what they do away from their work. In general, our society and our churches encourage balance in our lives.
Thinking about balanced lives causes me to remember some people I know who are singleminded and don’t even pretend to be balanced.
They like the track they’re on and they are very productive in their area of specialty. Often these individuals accomplish much more than those who are balanced. There are missionaries who have given their lives and the lives of their families because they are single-minded in their zeal to spread the Gospel to other countries.
There are outstanding scientists, maybe Nobel
Prize winners, who know nothing except their work — and we admire them.
Is it desirable to live a balanced life? Is it
Christian to live a balanced life? Or, should some of us be “unbalanced” to accomplish great things for the Kingdom? Do we form community by everyone being balanced, or do we form a community made up of people who may together have balance, but in which each individual is not necessarily balanced?
My prayer is for George Fox University to be a community made up of people who follow
God’s call on their lives. I pray that we form a balanced community with people who may be different from each other, but who are committed to our common cause of spreading the gospel through Christ-centered higher education.
Fred Gregory, director of the Peace
Corps in Bangladesh and a George Fox graduate, is the featured speaker at
George Fox University’s annual John
Woolman Peacemaking Forum Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 25-26. Gregory will speak twice Monday morning — at 8:40 a.m. to students and at the 10:40 a.m.
chapel service — and again at an open forum that night at 7:30 p.m. in Hoover
104. He concludes his visit by speaking
Tuesday at 1:15 p.m. in Hoover 104.The
forum’s theme is “Hope and Despair of the
Peacemaker” and will also feature lectures by George Fox faculty members Lon
Fendall and Ron Mock. Named for
18th-century American Quaker John
Woolman, the Woolman Peacemaking
Forum is sponsored by the George Fox
University Center for Peace and Justice.
George Fox University’s theatre department will present its fall production, Trojan Women, Oct. 27-30 and
Nov. 3-6.The play tells the story of the women of Troy, who, after 10 years of war, are left standing in the ruins of their country, enslaved by the conquering
Greeks and awaiting an uncertain fate.The
play, written by Euripides some 2,400 years ago and recently translated by Paul
D. Streufert, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. each evening in Wood-Mar
Auditorium.Tickets are $10 for general admission, $8 for senior citizens and alumni, and $6 for students and children under 12. Call the box office at 503-554-
3844 for more information.
The George Fox University and West Linn
High School symphonic bands and jazz bands will perform a dual concert
Monday, Oct. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman
Auditorium.The West Linn bands are directed by Jeff Cumpston and the George
Fox bands are directed by Patrick
Vandehey.There is no admission charge.
Brad Lau, vice president for student life, is hosting a luncheon at noon on Friday,
Oct. 22, sponsored by the George Fox
University Auxiliary. Brad has invited both the George Fox University student government and student leadership award winners to speak.The noon luncheon is open to the public for $6 and will be held in the Cap and Gown Room in Heacock
Commons. Reservations are required and can be made by calling Bertie Roberts at
503-538-3064 or Louise Clarkson at 503-
538-2850.
Colleague • Oct. 18, 2004
The Morehouse College Glee Club, a 45member African-American men’s choir from Atlanta, will perform at 8 p.m. this
Friday, Oct. 22, in Bauman Auditorium.
There is no admission charge; however, donations will be accepted. Founded in
1911, the choir has performed at Super
Bowl XXVIII, the 1996 Olympic Games, and at the funeral of Martin Luther King,
Jr.This is the group’s second visit to
George Fox in three years.
The American Red Cross will host a blood drive on Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 26-
27, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Ronald
Gregory Atrium (EHS). Contact the
Health and Counseling Center (ext. 2340) to make an appointment.
Darren Noble has joined Career Services to serve as assistant director.
Darren comes to George
Fox after working as an area marketing manager for Borders Books &
Music in Salem since 2001.There, he was responsible for managing and developing marketing and communications strategies.
He also worked for Borders as a community relations coordinator between
1997 and 2001. Prior to that, he gained experience working with youth as an onsite director and youth employment service coordinator for the Boys & Girls
Club of Corvallis from 1992 to 1995.
Darren earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education and secondary education from Boise State University, and he has a master’s degree in English and
American literature from Oregon State
University. He lives in Keizer with his wife, Sheila, and their 3-year-old daughter
Sabrina.The couple is expecting their second child in late November.They
attend Salem Alliance Church and enjoy golfing, camping, and other outdoor activities.
Lisa Hereford’s final day as a cook at
Tilikum was Sept. 30.
Stephanie Jones (Academic Affairs) will be leaving George Fox later this month and moving to Liberia, where she has accepted a position as a bookkeeper with
Samaritan’s Purse. She plans to help with adoption and communication needs for the organization, which provides spiritual and physical aid to people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine. In addition to the big move,

Stephanie is also planning to get married.
George Fox enjoyed exposure in Oregon’s largest daily newspaper, The Oregonian, with two prominent stories within a one-week span. In the Sept. 29 edition, reporter Shelby
Oppel Wood wrote an extensive article that covered Serve Day, the university’s steady growth, and the virtues of a Christ-centered education.The following Tuesday, Oct. 5, columnist Margie Boulé wrote a piece on
Brian McLaughlin (IT), who has discovered a way to convert used fryer oil into fuel for his 2003 Volkswagon Jetta. The
Oregonian has a daily circulation of 380,000.
Minding the Light: Essays in Friendly Pedagogy , which examines Quaker pedagogy in higher education, has just been published.
Susan
McNaught (DPS) contributed a chapter,
“Live Up to the Light Thou Hast,” which focuses on the adult learner. Susan also cowrote the introduction.
Daniel Sweeney (Counseling) became a member of the Association for Play Therapy’s national board of directors at its Oct. 5 annual meeting in Broomfield, Colo. Daniel, an associate professor and clinical director in the graduate department of counseling, is also the founder and director of the Northwest
Center for Play Therapy Studies (NWCPTS) at George Fox. He has extensive experience in working with children, couples and families in a variety of settings, including therapeutic foster care, community mental health, private practice, and pastoral counseling.
Mark Pothoff (Student Life) completed his stock car racing season on Sept. 25 by being crowned the 2004 Street Stock Track
Champion at Douglas County Speedway in
Roseburg, Ore. He not only clinched the championship that evening but won the 25-lap main event by passing the leader on the final turn of the last lap of the race. Mark was also the 2003 Rookie of the Year in the Street
Stock division.
On Sept. 30, several students from Tom
Head’s (Economics) international trade and finance class listened to Gonzalo Sanchez de
Lozada, the President of Bolivia from 1992-97 and 2002-03, speak on “Prospects for Latin
America: Bolivia’s Lessons” at a World Affairs
Council luncheon in Portland. De Lozada resigned as president of Bolivia last year in the face of sustained protests about market reforms and plans to export natural gas through Chile.
Tom Head (Economics) and Lon Fendall
(Academic Affairs) were among a small group of Quaker educators from around the country who attended a peace seminar in Washington,
D.C., Oct. 8-10.The event, held at the
William Penn House, was entitled “Creating a
Culture of Peace: A Peace Studies Seminar.”
Topics discussed included multi-track diplomacy and exploration into the way of peacemaking for educators.
Mary Peterson (Psy.D.) and Sue
O’Donnell (Psychology) recently attended the 34th annual Minnesota Symposium on
Child Psychology.The topic was “Multilevel
Dynamics in Developmental
Psychopathology: Pathways to the Future.”
Speakers, which included luminaries such as
Sir Michael Rutter,Thomas Dishion, and
Dante Cicchetti, spoke about their current research in the areas of children’s mental disorders, and specifically, the need to look at explanations for these disorders from a variety of perspectives.
Karen Straube (Library) will be a presenter at the Northwest Innovator Users Group
Conference at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 19, at the University of Portland.The program will cover how to get style sheets, javascripts, wwwoptions, static, and dynamic Web pages to work together in the system to allow for
Cascading Style Sheets buttons and style-sheet switchers. In this session, Straube will share what she has learned and show the result —
George Fox University’s Online Public Access
Catalog.The conference runs Oct. 19-20 and the cost to attend the entire event is $30. For more information, contact Straube at ext.
2416.
Diane Wood’s (Education/FCS) presentation, "Ethics, Leadership and
Organizational Context," at the April 2004
American Association of Higher Education is featured in the October 2004 issue of Women
In Higher Education .The title of the featured article is "Ethical Crises on Campus Require
Feminist Corrections." The journal is a monthly publication that addresses a variety of issues concerning women in higher education.
It has 12,000 subscribers.
Carol Brazo (MAT) recently published her second book, Divine Secrets of Mentoring, through InterVarsity Press.The book, her second, focuses on spiritual growth through friendship.
Nichol Starr (Development Services) and her husband, Bryan, welcomed a boy, Jonah
Taylor, into their lives at 12:21 p.m. on
Thursday, Oct. 7. He weighed 9 pounds, 12 ounces and was 23 inches long. He had long eyelashes, dark hair, and long fingers and toes.
To say Nell Christenson’s family has ties to
George Fox would be an understatement:
Christenson, in her 17th year as office manager in Bon Appétit, is the “grandma” of three generations now working at the university. Also employed is her daughter,
Karen Henry, who works in the School of
Education’s MAT program, and Karen’s daughter Alyssa, now employed in Bon
Appétit. Alyssa plans to use some of her paycheck to finance a trip to Germany with her high school German class next summer.
Janet Herron (Student Financial Services) is a proud mother these days. Her daughter,
Esther, recently returned from a four-day trip to Allentown, Pa., where she co-presented a speech/PowerPoint presentation on the dangers of methamphetamine.The
presentation was called “Lights, Camera,
Prevention! Youth in Action.”
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Matt Cummings
Teresa Arnold
Jules Glanzer
Andy Baker
Ryan Dougherty
Beth Schafer
Lora Froescher
Linda Sartwell
Bruce Arnold
Monday, Oct. 18
• Newberg Chapel
University Players, 10:40 a.m.
•George Fox/West Linn Band Concert
Bauman Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 19
• Wellness Fair
Stevens Center, 10 a.m.
• Faculty Lunch, Noon
Wednesday, Oct. 20
• Newberg Chapel
Gregg Lamm, 10:40 a.m.
Friday, Oct. 22
• Auxiliary Lunch
Heacock Commons, Noon
• Volleyball vs. Linfield
Wheeler Sports Center, 7 p.m.
• Morehouse College Glee Club
Bauman Auditorium, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 23
• Volleyball vs. Pacific
Wheeler Sports Center, 7 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 24
• Women’s Soccer vs. Lewis & Clark
Morse Soccer Field, Noon
Monday, Oct. 25
• Newberg Chapel
John Woolman Peacemaking Forum
Fred Gregory, 10:40 a.m.
• John Woolman Peacemaking Forum
Hoover 104, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 26
• Faculty Lunch, Noon
• Blood Drive
Ronald Gregory Atrium, 11 a.m.
• John Woolman Peacemaking Forum
Hoover 104, 1:15 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 27
• Newberg Chapel
May Serve Chapel, 10:40 a.m.
• Blood Drive
Ronald Gregory Atrium, 11 a.m.
• Men’s Soccer vs. Pacific
Morse Soccer Field, 4 p.m.
• Fall Theatre Production:
Trojan Women
Wood-Mar Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 28
• Fall Theatre Production:
Trojan Women
Wood-Mar Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 29
• Fall Theatre Production:
Trojan Women
Wood-Mar Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 30
• Volleyball vs. Lewis & Clark
Wheeler Sports Center, 7 p.m.
• Fall Theatre Production:
Trojan Women
Wood-Mar Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 1
• Newberg Chapel
Richard Twiss, 10:40 a.m.
Colleague • Oct. 18, 2004