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Jan. 22             John Smith
Jan. 23             Ted Allen, Bill Buhrow, Mike Foster, John Johnson, Kris Molitor
Jan. 26             Matt Sargent
Jan. 29             Tabitha Becker, Mindy Holland, Leslie Wuest
Jan. 31             Paul Shelton, Missy Terry
Feb. 1               Andrea Byerley, Bruce Owen, Tayna Rooney
Feb. 2               Dave Adrian, Emily Call, Maco Hamilton
Feb. 3               Mark McLeod-Harrison

The university welcomes Deb Mumm-Hill this month as director of the IDEA Center, the newly created on-campus resource center dedicated to empowering students to take the next step toward exceptional life outcomes. For the past six years, she has served as Pacific Northwest director of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a national organization committed to encouraging students of all ages to engage in science and technology. Also, for the past two years, Deb has been a a co-convener launching the South Metro Salem STEM Hub and a member of Governor Kitzhaber’s STEM Student Access and Success task force, which was instrumental in passing a house bill to establish a STEM Industry Advisory Board to the governor and added $8 million to the STEM education K-12 budget. She also gained higher education experience as an undergraduate admissions program manager at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wis., in 2004-05. Debra earned a bachelor of business administration degree in marketing from the University of Iowa in 1986. She lives in West Linn with husband Mike Hill, who works at OHSU. They have four children: Luke is pursuing his PhD in robotics, Mackenzie is a sophomore at Oregon State, and twin boys Eli and Tucker are juniors at Wilsonville High School. Deb’s family attends Grace Chapel in Wilsonville.

The admissions office welcomes Sarah Reid this month to serve in the newly created role of director of sports marketing. After graduating from George Fox with a degree in organizational communication in 2008, Sarah worked as a marketing and administrative assistant for a marketing firm in London before returning to the states. Since February of 2010, she has worked at Waggener Edstrom of Lake Oswego, Ore., a leading public relations firm, in a number of capacities. Most recently, she served as a senior account executive for the firm, working with clients that included Microsoft. Sarah has a self-confessed love of sports and George Fox University, for which she served as an Orientation coordinator and peer advisor during her undergraduate experience. She lives in Beaverton and attends Mosaic Church in northeast Portland.

Jamie Johnson (Spiritual Life) graduated with his PhD in Christian education from Biola University on Dec. 20. His dissertation studied faculty perceptions of collegiality and organizational culture at denominationally affiliated Christian colleges in the Pacific Northwest. Results of his research can be requested by emailing him at jejohnson@georgefox.edu.

Ed Higgins’ (English) poem “Santa’s Stuck” was reprinted in DM ~ Weihnachtsmarkt (Dec. 6, 2013), a Christmas Kindle book of send-up short fiction and poems from past issues of Danse Macabre. In addition, Ed’s poem “Marie Antoinette‘s Angel Food Cake Recipe” appeared in the November 2013 issue of Red River Review, and his poem “summer fields” appeared in the December 2013 issue of the New Hampshire Institute of Art’s Ayris: Art & Literary Magazine.

Paul Anderson’s (Religious Studies) essay on “The Jesus of History, the Christ of Faith, and the Gospel of John,” was published in The Gospels: Historical and Christological Research, a two-volume collection of the papers presented at the Ratzinger Symposium at the Pontifical Lateran University in October, where Paul gave a copy of his new book, Following Jesus: The Heart of Faith and Practice, to Pope Francis. Paul also presented a paper on “The Purpose(s) of the Fourth Gospel” in the Johannine Literature Section of the Society of Biblical Literature meetings held in Baltimore in November. At those meetings, Paul also contributed a review of The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies in the Quaker Research Group and responded to reviews of his book, Following Jesus, in the Quaker Theological Discussion Group.

In addition, he chaired a session and responded to papers in the John, Jesus, and History joint session with the Synoptic Gospels Section on the subject, “Jesus Remembered in the Gospels of John and Luke.” Paul had helped to organize a conference before those meetings at St. Mary’s Theological Seminary, celebrating the contributions of C.H. Dodd and Raymond Brown; Paul chaired a Thursday-evening plenary session regarding the ongoing legacy of Raymond Brown and also shared his own contribution. Following the SBL sessions, Paul was invited to speak in a class on early Christianity at Princeton University hosted by Elaine Pagels; she asked him to speak on how the Quaker movement sought to restore the Christian movement to its pre-Constantinian vitality.

Mary Monahan (Alumni Relations) was named Employee of the Month for December.

Jan. 8               Jonathan Morrell
Jan. 9               Mary Cameron
Jan. 10             George Byrtek, Keith Schneider
Jan. 11             Ginny Birky, Debbie Penkin
Jan. 12             Jeffrey Cameron, Tim Rahschulte
Jan. 14             Jim Steele
Jan. 15             Janeen Dillow, Debbie Hawblitzel
Jan. 17             Christine Austin
Jan. 18             Dwayne Astleford, Robin Baker, Matt Dyment, Dot Tobey
Jan. 19             Paul Fodge, David Liu

Lynn Andrews, CFRE, a development officer with more than 20 years of experience in the field, joins the university’s advancement office this month to serve as vice president for advancement strategy and donor relations. She’s served as vice president for university advancement at Marylhurst University for the past three years and, prior to that, was the director of development for Oregon Episcopal School in Portland (2009-10), the director of development for the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation (2008-09), and the vice president of development at Bellarmine Preparatory School in Tacoma, Wash., (2004-08). She also served as the director of annual giving at the University of Puget Sound for four years in the early 2000s, and from 1990 to 2000 she was development director for St. Charles Borromeo School in Tacoma, Wash. In addition, Lynn is currently the vice president of membership for the Oregon and Southwest Washington chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. She holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Iowa (1978). Lynn lives in Tigard and has two grown daughters and a son-in-law, Molly Palmersheim of Minneapolis and Lucy and Ian Greenfield of Portland. Lynn attends Resurrection Catholic Parish in Tualatin.

Clyde Thomas, along with Fred Smith and Jesse Dillow (Plant Services), recently attended the annual meeting of the Yamhill Soil and Water Conservation District, where they accepted on behalf of the university the YSWCD’s 2013 Urban Conversationist Award. The honor was for work to combat soil erosion in the university’s Hess Creek Canyon – work that entailed removal of 13 acres of non-native invasive vegetation; constructing walking trails; conducting stream clean-up; constructing three bio-falls to dissipate energy and reduce erosion from storm water inlets located on the canyon walls; planting native plants; excavating fish alcoves; topping live trees; and placing large logs and root wads for wildlife habitat.

Nancy Fawver (Registrar’s Office) was named November Employee of the Month.

Dec. 10             Carlisle Chambers
Dec. 11             Tatiana Cevallos
Dec. 12             John Bates, Isabelle Corneaux
Dec. 13             Steve Grant, Marcey Keefer Hutchison
Dec. 14             Janelle Olivarez
Dec. 15             Paul Corbett-Furgal, Rick Muthiah, Clifford Rosenbohm
Dec. 16             Kera Hallman
Dec. 17             Gary Buhler, Viki Defferding
Dec. 18             Carol Hutchinson, Katy Turpen
Dec. 19             Andy Campbell, Kimberly Newton, Phil Smith
Dec. 22             Robin Ashford, Jenny Getsinger
Dec. 23             Rodger Bufford
Dec. 24             Jeong Ahn, Greg Allen
Dec. 25             Abby Burgess, Debby O’Kelley
Dec. 28             Robert Simpson
Dec. 30             Cris Banton, Lori DeKruyf
Dec. 31             Sherrie Frost
Jan. 1               Bob Harder
Jan. 3               Julie Green, Sarah Marvin
Jan. 4               Brenda Graf, Chris Koch, Dan van der Water
Jan. 6               Merrill Johnson

Aleida Polanco (Registrar’s Office) left the university on Friday, Nov. 15.

Ed Higgins’ (English) poem, “Explaining to A Dog” was published in the Fall 2013 edition of Glassfire Magazine, an online literary journal. Also, his parody poem “This Is Just To Say (with apologies to William Carlos Williams)” is in the current print journal Parody (Vol. 2 Issue 2, Oct. 31, 2013).

Nov. 26             Larry Weber
Nov. 28             Peg Hutton, Clella Jaffe
Nov. 29             Michelle Conrad
Nov. 30             Melanie Hulbert
Dec. 3               Davida Brown, Brad Lau
Dec. 4               Alan Kluge
Dec. 6               Rodney Birch, Jeremy Brown, Carlos Taloyo
Dec. 7               Marie-Christine Goodwirth, Amy Lutz
Dec. 8               Chris Brown, Kerry Irish, Peggy Kilburg
Dec. 9               Patrick Kelley, Mike Wirta

Kipp Wilfong joins the admissions team as a graduate admissions counselor this week. Kipp will primarily serve as a counselor for the MAT and EDFL programs. He arrives from the North Dakota State College of Science, where he served as recruitment coordinator, and before that as an outreach coordinator and regional admissions representative for the University of North Dakota. Kipp earned his master’s degree in communication/educational leadership from the University of North Dakota in 2008, and taught several undergraduate courses as a graduate teaching assistant. Kipp also holds a bachelor’s degree in interpersonal communication from the University of North Dakota. He currently lives in Oregon City and attends Prince of Life.

Nancy Gard (School of Education) left the university on Oct. 31, as she is moving to South Beach, Ore., to help her husband run his automotive repair business.

Mandria Montplaisir (Development) left the university earlier this month to pursue other endeavors.

Gary Buhler’s (Art) watercolor “Morrison Steel” was accepted into the Kansas Watercolor Association’s National Competition. It is a depiction of the Morrison Bridge on-ramp just off Nato Parkway in downtown Portland.

Melanie Springer Mock (English) published an article, “The Real Complexities of the Simple Life,” in the Nov. 4 online edition of Christianity Today. It is primarily a review of Shirley Showalter’s memoir, Blush, but also an explanation of the ways an evangelical commodification of Anabaptism (mostly through Amish kitsch, Amish and Mennonite romance novels, and the like) has misrepresented the most important theological tenets of Anabaptism, including nonresistance and nonconformity. Showalter’s Blush provides a more authentic portrayal of Anabaptism because those doctrines are foundational to her faith journey.

Lori DeKruyf (Graduate Counseling) attended and co-presented with masters in school counseling students Andrea Parra and Dixie Lee at the Oregon School Counseling Association Conference in Bend Oct. 11-12. Their presentation was titled “Ethical and Legal Issues Booster Session for Professional School Counselors.”

Keith Dempsey and Lori DeKruyf (Graduate Counseling) attended and presented at the national conference of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision in Denver Oct. 17-20. Lori’s presentations were titled “Educational Leader and Mental Health Professional: Training for a Balanced School Counselor Identity” and “The Equity Imperative: School Counselor Educators, Common Core State Standards, and College and Career Readiness.” Keith’s presentation was titled “What is Your Membership Grade? Assessing Your Effectiveness as a Counselor Education Faculty Mentor from Underrepresented Populations.”

Howard Macy (Professor Emeritus, Religion) has a chapter, “Quakers and Scripture,” in the newly released The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies. Arthur O. Roberts (Professor at Large) also has a chapter in the same volume, “Evangelical Quakers, 1887-2010.”

Mark McLeod-Harrison (Religious Studies) published the book Incarnations of the Heart through Wipf and Stock Publishers. The book is a collection of poems and creative nonfiction essays that portray the beauty, truth and mystery of the communion of the saints. Drawn largely from the author’s life, the scenes presented and reflected point us not just toward the particularities of one person’s history but toward the incarnation of God and the “second incarnations” that we are as we live amongst those who love us.

MaryKate Morse (Seminary) published A Guidebook to Prayer: 24 Ways to Walk with God. She wrote it out of two desires. The first was to share the prayer stories of her students and others she’s met in ministry settings. The second desire was to approach prayer as a love relationship with God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Beginning in Genesis and ending in the Epistles, MaryKate presents various attributes of God and suggests a prayer experience which would help us relate to God through that attribute. The prayer experiences are tailored for individuals, prayer partners or groups.

Sophia Tegart (Music) gave a flute master class in the School of Music at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colo., where she worked with several undergraduate and graduate flute students on Oct. 16. Later that night, she gave a guest artist recital featuring rarely performed flute works. The concert and master class were well received and highly attended.

Jason Schwanz (IT) was named Employee of the Month for October.

Nov. 12             Kelly Borror, Aleida Polanco, Ian Sanders
Nov. 13             Kristie Knows His Gun
Nov. 14             Colleen Huffman, Kelly Lafferty, Jan Lefebvre
Nov. 16             Carol Jaquith
Nov. 17             Sue O’Donnell, Abigail Rine
Nov. 18             Kathie Hummel-Berry, Kathleen Jones, Shary Wortman
Nov. 19             Bob Hamilton, Heather Rainey
Nov. 21             Ryan Tafflinger
Nov. 22             Vern Choin, Corban Harwood
Nov. 23             Laura Simmons
Nov. 24             Tamara Reams

The undergraduate admissions office welcomes Kathy Rosenbohm, an alumna of George Fox, to work as operations coordinator. Kathy has worked several jobs since graduating from the university with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish in 2003, not limited to but including as a wrangler of horses and cattle (2007-10), as a personal assistant (2007-10) and as a kitchen manager (2008-10) at McGinnis Meadows Cattle & Guest Ranch in Montana; as a traffic manager at a Montana broadcasting company representing five radio stations (2011-12); and, for the past year and half, as a barista at Chapters Books & Coffee in Newberg. She lives in Dundee with her son and attends Grace Baptist Church. She is the daughter of social work professor Cliff Rosenbohm.

Vangie Pattison (Alumni and Parent Relations) is leaving George Fox on Nov. 6. She has accepted a position with Wild Canyon Games, a nonprofit in Portland.

Anna Philipsen (Advancement) is leaving George Fox on Nov. 6. In addition to spending more time managing a screen-printing and design business, she will also be starting an events business doing weddings, corporate events, etc. She is also looking forward to devoting more time to raising 8-month-old son Landon.

Paul Anderson’s (Religious Studies) college group, the Boanerges (Sons of Thunder), sang at the homecoming of Malone University Oct. 11-13, and Paul was honored as distinguished alumnus. His essay, “The Community That Raymond Brown Left Behind: Reflections on the Johannine Dialectical Situation,” was published on the Bible and Interpretation website, where his essay on “The John, Jesus, and History Project-New Glimpses of Jesus and a Bi-Optic Hypothesis” (Feb. 2010) continues to be among the most viewed essays – the most viewed last June. Also, Paul’s essay, “‘Come and See!’—Philip as a Connective Figure in the Fourth Gospel in Polyvalent Perspective,” appeared in Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel. Later this month, Paul will present a paper at the Vatican conference on The Gospels: Historical and Christological Studies on the topic, “The Jesus of History, the Christ of Faith, and the Gospel of John.”

Kenn Willson (Music) performed a solo concert at Lower Columbia College in Longview, Wash., on Sunday, Oct. 20, and worked with pianists in a master class on Oct. 19. Kenn is also the Oregon State Music Teachers National Association competition chair. The MTNA will host a competition this Saturday, Nov. 2, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Ross 208, Ross 210 and Bauman Auditorium. It is open to the public at no cost. The winners from this competition advance to the divisional round, and from there, to nationals. A recital at approximately 5 p.m. on Saturday will feature the winners from the competition.

Rodney Birch (Library – Newberg) was re-elected by the membership to serve as vice president on the board of directors of the Association of Christian Librarians during the ACL’s 57th annual conference this summer. Rodney was also recognized for his seven years of voluntary service on the Financial Advisory Committee, which involves budget preparation and finance-related policies. Also, Rodney and Jane Scott (Library-Newberg) co-presented a workshop, “Employing Pedagogical Imagination with Open Educational Resources,” at the same annual conference, hosted at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego.

Jennifer Kepler (Academic Affairs) and her husband Richard welcomed a son, Nathan Michael, on Oct. 15. He was born at Providence Newberg Hospital and weighed 7 pounds while measuring 20 inches. Nathan joins an older brother, Jonathan.

Oct. 29             Roger Nam, Rusty St. Cyr
Oct. 30             Katie Sol
Nov. 1              Dave Johnstone, Polly Peterson
Nov. 2              Tahlia Martin
Nov. 3              Karen Bowdoin
Nov. 4              Jennifer Farland, Tom Head, Melissa Thomas
Nov. 5              Rob Bohall, Jared Ocker
Nov. 7              Doug Campbell, Natalie Harrington
Nov. 8              Rebecca Valdovinos
Nov. 9              Jack Lyda
Nov. 11            Sean Patterson

Human resources welcomes Kera Hallman as a payroll specialist this month. She arrives with more than eight years of management experience and more than 11 years of administrative support experience. Most recently, she worked the past four years as a human resources assistant for Chehalem Youth and Family Services of Newberg. Before that, she was an administrative assistant to the lead pastor at Element3 Church in Tallahassee, Fla. (2007-09). Her community involvement has included organizations such as Faith in Action (board of directors), the Newberg Fire Department (auxiliary member) and the Newberg Chamber of Commerce (volunteer). She and her husband, Les, live in Newberg with their two children, Mitchell and Reid. The family attends Newberg Christian Fellowship.

Jennifer Kepler joined the academic affairs office as an administrative assitant this month. For the past six years she has worked as a program coordinator at Oregon Health & Science University, providing administrative support for a research training program and assisting in the preparation of grant proposals. Before that, she spent two years at the University of California, San Diego, as a laboratory coordinator. Jennifer also gained higher education experience as a faculty research assistant at Oregon State University from 2001 to 2005. She holds a master’s degree in education from Oregon State University (2013) and a bachelor’s degree in biology from OSU (2001). Jennifer lives in Newberg with her husband Richard. They have a 4-year-old son (Jonathan) and are looking forward to the arrival of their newest addition (a boy) later in the fall. The family attends Newberg Christian Church.

The graduate admissions team at the Portland Center welcomed Kelly Lafferty as an inquiry and applications coordinator last week. As a student in the George Fox’s Master of Arts in Marriage, Couple and Family Counseling program, Kelly worked as a student employee in graduate admissions this summer. Previously, from 2008 to 2012, she served as an education assistant for the Clackamas Education Service District in Clackamas, Ore. Kelly holds a bachelor’s degree in criminology and criminal justice from Portland State University (2008). She lives in Estacada with children KC (21), Kristina (19) and Kaden (14) and attends Estacada Assembly of God.

A two-part special issue that Lori DeKruyf (Graduate School of Counseling) and two colleagues from across the country have been collaborating on has been published in the American School Counseling’s flagship journal, Professional School Counseling. Part 1 of “School counselors and student mental health” was published this past June; Part 2 just came out Oct. 2. Lori coauthored two articles within Part Two of the special issue. The lead author on one of the articles is George Fox school counseling alumna Jacinta Nafziger, who is now a school counselor in her home state of Ohio. In addition, Lori was selected as an Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Fellow for 2013-14.

Ed Higgins’ (English) flash fiction story “My dark job history” was published in the Fall 2013 issue of the online journal Sanity not Guaranteed. Also, his poem “As A Vampire” is in the Autumn 2013 issue of Star*Line, the quarterly journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.

Oct. 15              Debra Espinor, Elizabeth Licon, Gina Worley
Oct. 16              Clint Baldwin, Richard Shaw
Oct. 20              Paul Becker, Tiffany Caldwell
Oct. 21              Teresa Arnold, Helen Morse
Oct. 22              Dwayne Hood
Oct. 23              Andy Baker
Oct. 24              Ryan Dougherty, Dixie Downey
Oct. 26              Linda Sartwell
Oct. 28              Michelle Eave