Comings and Goings
Lois Mulkey joined the College of Education as associate director of clinical practices in the MAT program. She arrives from Corban University, where she spent the past three years as an applications assistant in the school’s admissions department. Also, since 2006, she has co-owned a Big Town Hero sandwich shop in Stayton. Lois also worked for three years in the early 2000s as an administrative assistant at Stayton Christian School. She earned a bachelor’s degree in fashion merchandising from Oregon State University in 1985. She lives in Sublimity with her husband Ken, a firefighter for Clackamas County Fire District. They have three children: Erica, studying abroad in Germany; Bryce, a senior at Salem Academy; and Krista, an eighth-grader at Salem Academy. The family attends Salem Alliance.
Saiko Mair, an athletic trainer on an adjunct and part-time basis the last eight and a half years, has been hired as a half-time Certified Athletic Trainer. After receiving a bachelor of law degree from Meiji University in Tokyo in 1999, Saiko came to the United States and earned a bachelor’s degree in athletic training from the University of Tulsa in 2002. Taking a graduate assistant athletic training position at Portland State University, she worked with the Vikings’ wrestling, football, cross country and track teams while completing her master’s degree in community health in 2005. She joined the George Fox staff in the summer of 2005 and was licensed as a Certified Kinesio Tape Practitioner in 2010. Saiko and her husband, Devin, have two children: daughter Karly and son Brock. The Mairs live in Newberg and attend the Japanese International Baptist Church in Tigard.
Bill Burda (Mail Services) left George Fox in January.
Eric Mortinson (Marketing Communications) left the university in late January.
Jason Schwanz (IT) left the university in January and is now a senior DevOps engineer with the company FiREapps.