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Bill Buhrow (Health and Counseling) presented the poster “The relationship between student credit card debt, volunteerism, academic achievement, and health” at the American College Health Association’s annual meeting in San Francisco in May. The poster was coauthored by Jeremy Stevenson, a PsyD student. Bill also coauthored two posters for the Christian Association of Psychological Studies annual conference in Orlando in April: “Sex and Regret” (coauthored with PsyD students Marcie Courter, Rebecca Sponaugle and Chloe Lee), and “Spirituality and Generosity” (coauthored with PsyD students Misty Tuerck, Jonathan Milner, Jeremy Stevenson and Rychel Mock.)

A piece written by Brent Weaver (Performing Arts) was featured in a concert series, “Celebration Works: Music & Art at First Presbyterian,” at First Presbyterian Church in Portland May 31. Weaver’s Chehalem Sketches, a work for piano and winds, was performed by the Alder Street Sextet. The piece was inspired by the scenery and ethos of the Pacific Northwest.

Melanie Hulbert (Sociology) was one of three authors to receive the “2008 WorldatWork Publications Contributor of the Year” award. Hulbert wrote “Lessons from the Office: The Organizational Implementation of Work-Life Policies” for the WorldatWork Journal’s Second Quarter 2008 edition. The paper explored the factors that influence organizational decision makers to implement work-life policies. The awards were presented at the annual WorldatWork Total Rewards Conference & Exhibition in Seattle on June 2.

Quentin Nordyke, a 1958 George Fox graduate and a resident of Friendsview Retirement Community, was named the university’s 2009 Volunteer of the Year on May 19. Quentin spends two to three days a week year-round creating directional and identification signs for the Newberg campus.

Paul Anderson’s (Religious Studies) essay on the 50-year contribution of the Quaker Theological Discussion Group and Quaker Religious Thought, “In Person and In Print: Engaging in Theological Discussion as Friends,” appeared in Quaker Life (May/June, 2009). The essay also features the residential meeting of QTDG to be held in Barnesville Ohio, in June, which Paul is organizing. Paul also responded as a panelist to Dennis MacDonald’s paper (“What Kind of Book is a Gospel? What Kind of Question is That?”) and to Lane McGauthy’s paper (“Framing Jesus: The Mythic Structure of Ancient Lives and its Influence on the Gospels”) at the Symposium on Epic, Biography, and The Gospels held at Willamette University April 29-30. Paul also outlined his own theory of gospel origins and relations, “A Bi-Optic Hypothesis.”

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