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Alan Kluge (Business) participated in the annual fall conference of the Deming Institute at Purdue University Oct. 15-16. The institute is an organization dedicated to creating dialogue between faculty, industry and students around the work of W. Edwards Deming, the individual attributed with turning around manufacturing in Japan following World War II and significantly contributing to the improvement of quality by industry in the United States in the 1980s. Alan will be sharing the knowledge gained from the conference with his MBA classes.

Kenn Willson (Performing Arts) performed his “Encounters with Beethoven” concert for the Tualatin Valley Oregon Music Teachers Association District event on Oct. 14. The concert incorporates the piano music of Beethoven (including the Hunt and Moonlight sonatas) with movie clips, cartoon clips, slides and readings from and about Beethoven. The event drew the largest audience (240) the event has ever had, according to organizers. Students in attendance ranged in age from 3 to college age.

Ed Higgins’ (English) poem “Match Point” appears in the current issue of Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature.

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