Comings and Goings
Valerie McIntyre Sherwood began work as a part-time library assistant at the Portland Center this month. She has more than 30 years of leadership, administrative, and teaching experience, including online teaching, and in 2003 she was named “One of the Most Outstanding Women Presidents in Texas†by the Dallas Morning News. As a Fellow at Oxford University, she served as the Quality Assurance Officer for the Evaluation of National Occupational Standards and was educational director at Ford Motor Company of Europe. She has a PhD from the University of Oregon (1977) and a National Vocational Qualification in Training and Development from the Business & Technology Education Council of London. She serves as a licensed Eucharistic minister, sub-deacon, and choir member at St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church in Portland. Valerie volunteers full time for Alzheimer’s patients and lives in Tigard.
Bethany Pearson’s (Plant Services) final day at George Fox is May 1. She will be increasing her workload with her family’s business, Mountain View Forestry.
Darren Funk’s (Plant Services) final day at the university was April 24.