INSIDE Faculty and Staff Highlights | Page 3 pacificu.edu University Announcements | Page 4 March | 2013 FACULTY & STAFF NEWS Alumnus directs new Hawai‘i office BY WANDA LAUKKANEN | When Gary Pacarro ’74 started school at Pacific University in 1970, he was the first in his family to leave the Hawaiian Islands to attend college. He was one of just two students from the Punahou School in Honolulu (also the alma mater of President Barack Obama) to come to Pacific University that year. When he arrived, though, he found a collection of classmates from all over his home state. “Coming from a school in Oahu, it was fun to connect with kids from all over the state,” he said. The rivalries from their K-12 schools were gone, and their camaraderie as Gary Pacarro ‘74 heads up Pacific University’s new administrative office in Honolulu. students from Hawai‘i was just beginning. “Once they got to Pacific, they were all Boxers,” he said. Being part of the Boxer Nation is “We intend to be here for the long haul,” Pacarro said. His role will include building employment opportunities in Hawai‘i for Pacific students and graduates. And, the office will serve as a resource center and still Pacarro’s life. In January, he took on relationships with schools and community connection point for Pacific University the position of founding director of the colleges in Hawai‘i, aided in part by a new students and their parents. university’s new Hawai‘i Office, located in partnership agreement signed between Honolulu. The new office is dedicated to Pacific and the community college system student at Pacific, where he attended for his maintaining a closer connection between in Hawai‘i to help create a seamless pathway freshman, junior and senior years, spending the university and the state that is home to for students. He also will work to reconnect his sophomore year at a college in Hawai‘i. hundreds of alumni and more than 300 of with alumni in the state and develop a Pacific’s 1,700 undergraduates. network that will provide internship and Pacarro remembers his own days as a See Pacarro page 2 pacificu.edu/marcom/pacnews.cfm | 1 Zipcar makes it way to campus Need to drive somewhere, but don’t have a car, of two vehicles available on campus in Lot F by or don’t want to use your own car? McCormack Hall for a rate as low as $7.50 per An alternative is now available to Pacific hour and $69 per day. Gas, insurance, reserved University employees. parking spots and up to 180 miles of driving Zipcar, considered to be world’s leading car-sharing network, is offering a car-sharing per day are included. Two vehicles are available, a Toyota Prius program on the Forest Grove Campus. The and a Ford Focus. Reservations can be made program is open to employees, students and in several ways, including downloaded apps the Forest Grove community. from smartphones, on Facebook, on the Employees may join the program with a $25 annual membership fee, then may rent one website—www.zipcar.com/pacificu—or over the phone. Pacarro: Office plays unique role in the islands Continued from Page 1 Pacarro’s freshman year in 1970-1971 served as the Hawai‘i state coordinator until When his children, Kahi and Noel, were recently and continues to lead seminars. in elementary school, Pacarro became Pacarro also has coached baseball, a student himself, earning a degree in involved a lot of “firsts.” Among them, he basketball and football from peewee to the education from Chaminade University said, was “the change of seasons, snow for high school level. He currently coaches and becoming a fourth-grade teacher at the first time.” the Division II varsity basketball team at Punahou, his alma mater. He lived that first year in a quad on the top floor of Clark Hall with three other students from Hawai‘i. The quad had bunk Punahou, where he has been a consistent winning coach. “It’s not about the wins, but the Later, as his children attended mainland colleges, he joined his wife, Gwen, as an advisor at Morgan Stanley, where they beds on one side with a big study room in maturation process and the experience of worked together for eight years. (Today, the middle. the student athletes,” he said. “This is what daughter Noel Pacarro Brown MAT ’05, is a keeps me coming back each year.” partner with Gwen. He especially appreciated that one of his classmates from Sherwood, Ore., invited all four to his family’s home for Thanksgiving. “That was special,” he said. That, and the opportunity to make a difference in a child’s life. Pacarro’s philosophy mimics that of the Pacarro said he has been “in training” for the job as founding director of the Hawai‘i Office for his entire career. The last four Positive Coaching Alliance: “What we’re years were especially important, he said, as Coach Chuck Bafaro and earned all- doing is changing lives, using sports as a he reconnected with Pacific University as a conference status in 1971. metaphor for life.” member of the Board of Trustees. He and At Pacific, Pacarro played baseball for He also stayed at Pacific after graduation, taking classes and working as a graduate Pacarro also has been involved in the travel, education and financial industries. his wife realized the impact Pacific had on their lives and decided to fund an endowed assistant coach for the baseball team. After graduation, Pacarro and lifelong scholarship for students from Hawai‘i. Coaching remains one of Pacarro’s friend Art Kalahiki ’73 spent a few years “Pacific continues to be a big part of passions, and he long has been associated playing music together for Hawaiian my life. I am thankful I was afforded the with the Positive Coaching Alliance, a Airlines, doing worldwide promotional opportunity to attend Pacific,” he said. “In nonprofit organization dedicated to making tours with two hula dancers to encourage retrospect, it shaped the direction and youth sports a more positive experience. He tourism to the islands. purpose of my life.” pacificu.edu/marcom/pacnews.cfm | 2 Faculty & staff highlights JASON BRUMITT and REBECCA REISCH, Physical Therapy, each presented a poster at the American Physical Therapy Association’s combine section meeting in San Diego in January. Brumitt’s poster displayed information on functional testing and prediction of lower extremity or low back injury among Division III collegiate athletes. Reisch’s poster was on the accuracy of subjective examination for diagnosing urinary incontinence. MICHAEL MILLARD, Pharmacy, has been appointed to the Oregon Governor’s Task Force on Prescription Drug Abuse. The task force was formed after the state was awarded a grant by the National Governor’s Association to develop a statewide plan to address what has been termed an epidemic in the abuse of prescription drugs. 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