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P r e s i d e n t ’s P r o l o g u e
“I like George Fox students.”
I've given some thought to that observation by
Dale Seipp because I agree with him and have
wondered if our students really are different or
better than students elsewhere.
When he made his comment, Dale and I were
sitting together before the official welcome to
new undergraduate students. We were
observing the orientation (“O”) team - very
much on top of things and doing a great job of
bringing a new group of students into the
community.
Maybe it's just because they are our students
that they seem more capable than other
students - a little like when we're sure our
children are more capable than the rest in the
neighborhood. I have worked at several other
institutions, so I've seen the “children” at other
places as well, and I believe George Fox
students are special.
On the first day of classes, my wife, Melva, and I
joined undergraduate students for dinner on
the quad. We sat down next to a student we
didn't know. Within a short time, we learned he
was an international studies major hoping for a
career that will take him to other parts of the
world. We discovered he already has spent a
year in Ghana, on his own initiative, and would
love to get involved in economic development
in a developing country. We enjoyed the
conversation about crossing cultures and
learning how people live and function in other
parts of the world.
We were soon joined by two brand new
freshmen, who also were intrigued by the
senior's stories. The freshmen were articulate
in their questions and excited about their
academic programs. They already knew they
would like their classes.
Each year the student government's Central
Committee hosts the President's Cabinet for
lunch during the week before school starts.
Before we got to the official agenda, I had a very
meaningful conversation with the student sitting
next to me.We agreed to have coffee together
so she could tell me her personal story another example of an articulate George Fox
student who will make a positive difference in
the world.
So, I like George Fox students. They are bright,
articulate, personable, and very easy to like.
Will some of them bring us problems? Of
course. Are they worth our time and energy?
Most definitely!
We are fortunate to have our students. I pray
we will serve them well as they also minister to
us this year.
Send news items to spatterson@georgefox.edu
Serve Day Arrives
The Newberg campus and Portland
Center will close on Wednesday, Sept. 8,
for George Fox's sixth annual Serve Day.
About 1,300 students and employees will
visit more than 65 sites throughout the
Portland area to do community service
projects.Teams will return to many of last
year's spots - including the Oregon Zoo,
local museums, and homeless shelters and minister to such first-time recipients
as the Oregon School for the Deaf, Love,
Inc., and the Portland Shriners Hospital. A
breakfast will be served from 7:45 to 8:15
a.m., and the event kicks off at the
campus quad at 8:25 a.m. A university
community dinner and celebration will
begin at 4:30 p.m.
Christian Life Week
George Fox will host its annual Christian
Life Week when Randy Remington, a
teacher/pastor from Beaverton
Foursquare Church, visits Sept. 13-15.
Remington will speak five times in three
days, beginning with the Monday chapel
service in Bauman Auditorium. He will
also speak at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Hoover
104 and follow that up with noon (in
Bauman) and 7:30 p.m. (in Hoover 104)
sessions Tuesday. He concludes his visit by
speaking in the Wednesday chapel at 10:40
a.m. Remington will speak on “The Heart
and Life of Joseph.”
A Chance to Give Back
George Fox employees again have the
opportunity to give back to the university
through payroll deduction or other
contributions. A letter is being sent out
this month inviting faculty and staff to
participate in the annual campaign Sept.
13 through Oct. 8. Last year, 75 percent
of the school's employees agreed to take
part - a level of participation the school
hopes to maintain this year.
Art and Prayer
Students and employees alike are welcome
to pay a visit to Brougher Hall to view the
latest installation created by Tim
Timmerman (Visual Arts).The work,
entitled “Knocking,” is an expression of
prayer. “When I was in undergraduate,
someone told me they thought creating
art was a version of prayer. In this
installation, I decided to take that quite
literally,”Timmerman said. It will be on
display a limited time and is located in
Studio 3.
Travel Partnership
George Fox University has selected
Expedia Corporate Travel as the
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university's preferred online corporate
travel provider.The partnership allows
employees to consolidate online travel
purchases, resulting in benefits that
include travel savings over other Web sites
and access to discounted hotel rates.The
travel program operates in conjunction
with a consortium of private colleges and
universities in the Northwest.
COMINGS AND GOINGS
Joining the education
department as an
assistant professor is
Mark Carlton, who
earned a doctorate in
education administration
from the University of
Oregon and Portland State University.
Mark has logged extensive time as a
school principal, most recently at Cedar
Mill Elementary School in Portland. He
also has taught extensively on the West
Coast, working in various school districts
in the Portland and Los Angeles areas.
Mark is also a familiar face at George Fox,
as he served as an adjunct professor at the
university from 1998 to 2003. He also is
active in community and church causes,
and in 1997 he earned a Rotarian of the
Year award from the Aloha-Sunset Rotary
Club. He lives in Beaverton with his wife
Sue.The couple has three grown children
- Adam (30), Kendra (27), and Justin (26).
The Carltons attend Beaverton Christian
Church.
Mary Peterson joins
George Fox's clinical
psychology department.
Mary and her family
made the move to
Oregon from Nebraska,
where Mary held the
clinical coordinator position at the
Regional West Medical Center in
Scottsbluff, Neb. Mary, who earned a
doctorate from the California School of
Professional Psychology in San Diego, has
had numerous clinical positions. Prior to
her assignment in Nebraska, she was a
clinical psychologist in Brawley, Calif.,
from 1992 to 1998. In the early 1990s,
she was a clinical coordinator in El
Centro, Calif., and served psychology
internships in El Centro and El Cajon,
Calif. Mary lives in Newberg with her
husband, Scott, a Presbyterian minister
who serves as an adjunct professor both at
George Fox Evangelical Seminary and at
the undergraduate level.The couple has
two children, 13-year-old Elizabeth and 9year-old Michael.
Pete Rusaw joins the
George Fox faculty as an
interim assistant professor of
mathematics. Pete taught
statistics at Portland
Community College (200304) and instructed
mathematics at Forest Grove High School. He
remains an adjunct faculty member at PCC.
He earned a master's degree from Portland
State University and graduated from George
Fox with a bachelor's degree in mathematics
teaching in 1994. Pete also has been active in
community affairs, coaching baseball and
softball the last 10 years, coaching volleyball
from 1997 to 2002, and serving as youth
pastor at Wapato Valley Church in Gaston the
past three years. Pete is married to Amy, and
the couple lives in Forest Grove with children
Annika (5), Linnaea (3), and Noah (1).
The School of Education
welcomes Naomi
Mandsager to take the
position of assistant professor
of counseling. Educated at
Oregon State University,
where she earned a doctorate
in counselor education and supervision,
Naomi has served as a counseling instructor at
Portland State University since 2002. Also
during that time, she was an adjunct professor
at Oregon State University, and from 2001 to
2002, she was an instructor and graduate
teaching assistant in the School of Education
Department at OSU. Naomi has also worked
in various counseling and supervision
capacities, serving as a career counselor and
career fair coordinator at OSU, as a clinical
pastoral counselor, as a corporate crisis
consultant, and as a mental health volunteer.
She lives in Corvallis and attends Grace
Lutheran Church.
Kathy Heininge joins
George Fox as an assistant
professor of writing literature
after a stint as a lecturer of
English at California State
University Maritime Academy
in Vallejo, Calif. Prior to that
assignment, Heininge was a post-doctoral
lecturer of English at the University of
California, Davis, from June of 2002 to August
of 2003. Heininge earned a doctorate in
English from the University of California,
Davis, and has a strong interest in 20th
century British literature, Irish and American
drama and novels, James Joyce, and Irish and
British poetry. Kathy and her husband Ken
have two children, Aaron (19) and Amanda
(21). She makes her home in McMinnville and
attends St. James Catholic Church.
Replacing Andrew Shriver as
area coordinator is
Jonathan Morell. Jonathan
was the assistant director of a
Yosemite Sierra summer
camp in Bass Lake, Calif.,
this summer, and from
August of 2003 to June of 2004 was an
assistant resident director at Azusa Pacific
University in Azusa, Calif. He was also a
resident director at Grand Canyon University
in Phoenix from 2001 to 2003. He graduated
from George Fox with a bachelor's degree in
psychology in 2001. He is now pursuing a
master of education degree in college student
affairs from Azusa Pacific. Jonathan is engaged
to Rachel Marrion, whom he met in Phoenix.
The couple plans to wed in March.
The university welcomes a
new assistant registrar, John
Barber, who joins George
Fox after serving as an
associate registrar at
Marylhurst University in Lake
Oswego since 1999. John,
who replaces Carrie Bohl, also gained
experience as a registrar at Warner Pacific
College in Portland from 1989 to 1998.
During his stint at Warner Pacific, he taught
degree-completion program courses as an
adjunct faculty member from 1990 to 1994.
He later held assistant professor status at the
school from 1995 to 1998. John earned a
master's degree in formation and discipleship
from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena,
Calif. He received a bachelor's degree in
psychology from the University of Oregon. He
and his wife, Mandy, live in Lake Oswego and
have three children - Kaitlin (16), Erin (13),
and Daniel (10).The family attends Westside
Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Portland.
Jeong Ahn joins George
Fox as a graphic designer,
replacing Becca Wages. Jeong
works part time designing
projects for the marketing
and communications
department. She's been in the
graphic design business for three years,
producing freelance material for nonprofit
organizations, local businesses, and colleges.
Jeong, a Salem resident, earned a master's
degree in educational psychology from
Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. She
received a bachelor's degree in English
literature from Ewha Women's University in
Seoul, South Korea. And this spring, she
earned an associate of applied science degree
from Chemeketa Community College in
Salem.The South Korea native is married to
Harry and has two children, 19-year-old Tom
and 13-year-old Jenna.The family attends the
Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Salem.
Additional new employees will be introduced in
future issues of Colleague.
ABOUT OUR PEOPLE
Irv Brendlinger was the speaker for Indiana
Yearly Meeting July 23-25. Sessions were held on
the Earlham College campus in Richmond, Ind.
The theme of the meeting was “Listen Carefully,
Walk Righteously,” based on Hosea 14:9.
IN THE FAMILY
The NCIC All-Stars, a Hood to Coast relay
team featuring George Fox alumni John
Mantalas, Brandon Workman, and
Michael Owen, successfully defended their
title in the 197-mile race from Mt. Hood to
Seaside on Aug. 27-28.The 12-member team,
made up of alumni from the Northwest
Conference of Independent Colleges (now
Northwest Conference), posted a time of 17
hours, 36 minutes, 8 seconds to beat the
second-place team by 45 minutes. Among
those finishing behind them were the George
Fox Ruins, which included runners Tom
Head (Economics), Robin Baker (Academic
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Affairs), Mike Magill (Engineering), Peter
Smart (Development), Beth Smart, Janis
Balda (Management), Hank Helsabeck
(Math), Ron Mock (Political Science),
Melanie Mock (Wri/Lit), Amy Landes,
Paul Otto (History), and Phil Smith
(Philosophy).The Ruins finished 289th out of
1,042 teams, posting a team-record time of
26:20:11. Still another George Fox team, Fight
of Flight Response, finished 977th and posted a
time of 31:13:18. Making up that squad were
GFU students and alumni - the majority of
whom have ties to the Psy.D. program - and
their spouses and friends.
BIRTHDAYS
Sept. 1
Sept. 5
Sept. 6
Sept. 7
Sept. 8
Sept. 9
Sept. 11
Sept. 12
Sept. 15
Sept. 16
Sept. 17
Ginger Hoover
Clark Campbell
Glenn Moran
Tony Longstroth
Mark Pothoff
Tim Timmerman
Jeff Duerr
Todd McCollum
Ron Shaw
Holley Clough
Wes Cook
Marian Holzschuh
Marykate Morse
Sept. 18 Dave Brandt
Sept. 19 Susan McNaught
CALENDAR
Mon., Sept. 6
• Newberg Chapel
Campus Ministries, 10:40 a.m.
Tues., Sept. 7
• Faculty Lunch, Noon
• Men's Soccer vs. Cal State-Hayward
Morse Soccer Field, Noon
Wed., Sept. 8
• Serve Day
Fri., Sept. 10
• Women's Soccer vs. Cascade
Morse Soccer Field, Noon
Sat., Sept. 11
• Men's Soccer vs.Warner Pacific
Morse Soccer Field, 2:30 p.m.
Mon., Sept. 13
• Newberg Chapel
Randy Remington, Pastor-Teacher Beaverton
Foursquare Church, 10:40 a.m.
• Staff Lunch
Cap and Gown Room, Noon
Tues., Sept. 14
• Faculty Lunch, Noon
Wed., Sept. 15
• Newberg Chapel
Randy Remington, Pastor-Teacher Beaverton
Foursquare Church, 10:40 a.m.
Fri., Sept. 17
• Volleyball vs. Pacific Lutheran
Wheeler Sports Center, 7 p.m.
Sat., Sept. 18
• Cross Country Bear Fete Invitational
Champoeg State Park, 11 a.m.
• Volleyball vs. Puget Sound
Wheeler Sports Center, 7 p.m.
Mon., Sept. 20
• Newberg Chapel
Gregg Lamm, 10:40 a.m.