Comings and Goings

The advancement office welcomes Pam Clem this month to serve in the newly created position of director of foundations, corporate giving and grants. Pam has worked the past two and a half years at Marylhurst University in three capacities – as interim director of advancement (November 2013 to January 2014), director of advancement communications and grants (January to November 2013), and manager of foundation, corporate and government relations (July 2011 to January 2013). Previously, she spent four and a half years at Westminster College in Salt Lake City as director of advancement communications (2008-11) and assistant director of corporate and foundation relations (2006-08). In all, Pam has more than 20 years of advancement experience, having worked at Harbor-UCLA Research and Education Institute in the early 2000s and at the University of Southern California for nine years (1985-94), where she began her career in advancement in 1989. Pam earned a master’s degree in public relations from USC in 1992, holds an MBA from Pace University’s Lubin School of Business, and earned a bachelor’s degree in Russian area studies from Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York (now Fordham University). She lives in Dundee with her husband, Ron, and their wirehaired dachshund, Bravo. They are new congregants of St. Peter Catholic Church in Newberg.


The biology and chemistry department welcomes Lori Scharton as an administrative assistant this month. For the past five years, she worked as director of operations for the Partnership to End Poverty in Redmond, Ore., where she did bookkeeping, office management and event coordination. Previously, from 1989 to 2005, Lori was a speech/language specialist for the Perris School District in Perris, Calif. She earned both a master’s degree (1989) and a bachelor’s degree (1987) in communication disorders from the University of Redlands. Lori is a recent transplant to Newberg, where she resides with her husband Ken. Her son Daniel is in his junior year at George Fox, majoring in studio arts. Her daughter Kara continues to reside in Redmond.


John Shaw joins the university this month as director of enterprise software in IT. He has spent the past two and a half years as a business analyst and business systems manager for JELD-WEN, the building products manufacturer headquartered in Klamath Falls, Ore. While there, John served in the project manager role for multiple global software toolset upgrades. He earned bachelor’s degrees in both information systems and business management from Corban University in 2011. John, his wife Whitney and daughter Avery have recently relocated from Klamath Falls to Newberg.


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