Comings and Goings
The registrar’s office welcomes Heidi Duckworth as a records specialist this month. For the past six years she has worked for the Gaston Public School District, serving as the elementary attendance secretary and more recently as the high school registrar, graduation coordinator and district administrator for student information systems. Prior to that, Heidi was a bookkeeper and human resources manager for the family-owned business, Psalm 1 Nursery & Landscape, and, in the 1990s, a medical bookkeeper. Heidi earned an associate’s degree in business administration from Portland Community College in 1992. She in lives in Banks with her husband, Mike, and two sons, Dylan and Lance. She and her family attend Family Life Church in Newberg.
Alumna Lizzy Riese joins the university as a part-time program coordinator and recruiter for the elementary education adult degree program. She currently also works part time as an Innkeeper at the Hillside Inn in Newberg and, previously, worked as an academic records specialist in the registrar’s office at Linfield College from 2015 to 2016. Lizzy also gained administrative experience as an office assistant in George Fox’s registrar’s office while she was a student from 2012 to 2015. Lizzy earned a bachelor’s degree in communication arts from the university in 2015. She lives in Newberg and attends Hillside Fellowship in Newberg.
Wendy Bruton (Graduate Counseling) left the university on Aug. 31.