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The following faculty members are retiring from the university: Jim Worthington (Education), Kathy Sims (Nursing), Melva Lloyd (Adult Degree Programs), Bob Buckler (PsyD), Dave Larson (MAT), Paul Griffith (MAT), Howard Macy (Religious Studies), Dwight Kimberly (Biology) and Ed Higgins (English). Also departing George Fox are Sylvette Norre (French), who is returning to her native Belgium, and Michael Everest (Chemistry), who has accepted a teaching position at Westmont.

Erin Macy, assistant director of international recruitment, left the university last week to tend to her 2-month-old baby, Sage.

Andrea Byerley is the new associate registrar, taking Melissa Thomas’ place following Melissa’s promotion to registrar. Andrea formerly served in the registrar’s office as enrollment counselor for the PsyD and EDFL programs.

Jennifer Macnab has been promoted to senior enrollment counselor in the registrar’s office and will lead the team of enrollment counselors serving all graduate programs.

Sean McKay is the new director of administrative computing, effective in mid-March. He replaces Jim Fleming, who left to be the CIO of Pacific University. Sean will still hold his title of chief information security officer.

Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) was quoted in the April 22 edition of the Los Angeles Times. In the article, entitled “Last Supper was not Jesus’ last supper, researcher says,” Anderson comments on Colin Humphreys’ book The Mystery of the Last Supper: “I think it’s really fascinating the way he brings in astronomy and ancient calendars and other contributions from outside the field of biblical studies … (however) scholars won’t agree with many of his presuppositions.” The article can be read here.

Ed Higgins (English) published four poems – “chicken*little’s dumbstate<of>doom,” “Mesmerizing Truth,” “Crayola Nostalgia” and “Meaning converted into scientific units” – in the Canadian online magazine ditch. The accomplishment is an honor in that the publication gives priority to Canadian authors and only occasionally features “international poets,” according to the site’s submissions guidelines page.

May 3       Angela Doty, Michael Everest
May 5       Robert Bonner
May 6       Greg Smith
May 7       Betty Cordill
May 8       Molly Hickok, Brent Wilson, Deb Worden
May 10     Jim Jackson, Amy Lorenz, Christopher Meade
May 11     Melanie Newell
May 12     Marla Sweningson
May 14     Kathi Becker, Don Powers
May 15     Dirk Barram
May 16     Audrey Williamson
May 17     Paul Anderson
May 18     Paul Otto, Cynthia Weston
May 20     Dan Predoehl
May 21     Brooke McGillivray
May 22     Cliff Berger
May 23     Chuck Conniry
May 24     Brenda Morton
May 27     Dave Larson, Sheri Philips
May 28     Beth LaForce
May 29     Kandie Comfort, Mike Magill
May 30     Rebecca Addleman, Stephen Bearden, Amy Dee, Roger Newell
June 1      Carrie Bohl
June 4      Nadine Kincaid
June 5      Tamara Cissna, Hannah Dorr
June 6      Joyce Staats, Alan Thurston

Plant Services welcomed Terri Beecroft as a custodian last week. She’s worked the last year as a barista at Coyote Joe’s of Newberg and before that worked as an innkeeper at Abbey Road Farm Bed and Breakfast in Carlton for two and a half years. She lives in Yamhill with her husband Troy and their two girls, Randee and Kylee, and attends Newberg Christian Church.

Richard Silver joined Print Services as coordinator last week. He arrives from Precision Images of Portland, where he was a reprographics specialist, reproducing drawings and documents for customers, for the past 12 years. He also owned Image Computer Systems of Sherwood for five years in the early 2000s and has experience as a sales manager and pricing coordinator in the tech and grocery industries, respectively. He studied business management through the University of Phoenix and attended Northwest Christian University. He lives in Sherwood with his wife Tina. They have two boys, Cameron and Caleb, and attend Countryside Community Church in Sherwood. One of the activities Richard loves to do in his free time is play disc golf.

John Desmond (Plant Services) is leaving the university to take a position in the horticulture field.

Tim Timmerman’s (Visual Arts) book, A Bigger World Yet: Faith, Brotherhood, and Same-Sex Needs, has been released through Bird Dog Press. According to Tim, the book “is about an ache and a longing in our culture for friendship and brotherhood … about emotional orphans with wounds and hungers of the heart … about boys who needed connections to loving men and friends growing up, but instead received abuse and absence. This book is one man’s spiritual odyssey.” It is available on Amazon, at Chapters or through Tim.

Kathy Heininge (English) recently presented her paper, “Eavan Boland and Her Use of the Ablative Case,” to the national meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In it, she examines the influences of Latin grammar on the poetry of Eavan Boland, an Irish poet.

Jim Steele (Business) was a featured speaker at the College & University Professionals Association’s Human Resources Spring Conference at Portland State University on April 15. His topic was “Enlightened HR: Reframing our Role from a Strategic Point of View.”

Dave Johnstone (Student Life) published an article, “Progress to Reconciliation: A Journey with Lewis, Bono and Spider-man,” in Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development (Winter 2011). In the same issue, he published a review of M. Wright & J. Arthur’s (2010) Leadership in Christian Higher Education.

Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) was a plenary speaker at the Friends World Committee for Consultation triennial meetings of the Asia South West Pacific Section, held in Manila, Philippines, earlier this month. The biblical theme was from James 2:14 (faith and works). He developed various aspects of the gospel and its implications for Christian living.

Tim Goodfellow (Student Life) has accepted a position in IT as a programmer analyst. He will transition out of his former position as director of housing in the Office of Student Life. He begins his new job on May 2.

April 20     Tammy O’Doherty
April 22     Tony Pruitt, Jeff VandenHoek
April 25     Mark Ocker, Valerie Sherwood
April 26     Dana Ferrin, Laura Klaus
April 27     Pat Vandehey
April 29     Jeff Woods
May 1        Patrick Allen
May 2        Elaine Smith

Melanie Springer Mock’s (English) new book, Just Moms: Conveying Justice in an Unjust World, is being released April 6 by Barclay Press. The book is an anthology she edited with George Fox alumna Rebekah Schneiter, and includes her essay, “The Economics of Bouncy Balls,” as well as essays from faculty members Lisa McMinn (Sociology), Amy Lutz (Education) and Polly Peterson (ELI), among others.

Melanie also was published in this spring’s Oregon Humanities journal, which ran her short piece “A Losing Record.” The entry is an account of her secret past of playing on the high school basketball team with the longest losing streak in Oregon’s history, and how that made her, in her words, a “horrible coach” for her son’s third-grade team.

Paul Otto (History) presented a lecture, “Beads of Power: A Short History of Wampum,” at Houghton College in Houghton, N.Y., on March 22. Otto spoke as part of a Houghton lecture series.

Ed Higgins’ (English) poems “The Letter” and “divorce final” were recently republished in a theme issue for a Japanese-forms online journal, Romance Under a Waning Moon. Ed also published his poem “desert night” in the spring issue of the online journal Thoughtsmith, and his poem “Silent Prayer” appeared in the April-June issue of the online Numinous Magazine. In addition, Ed was one of five featured poets at the 11th Annual Silverton Poetry Festival “Feast of Poets” event held at Silver Falls Vineyards in Sublimity on April 3.

April 5      Jared Kamimae-Lanning, John Newberry, Vicki Tschan
April 6      Jean Oehm Miller
April 8      Joel Kelley, Jerrie Lyda, Jim Worthington
April 9      Carrie McNeal
April 10    Cheri Hampton
April 11    Janelle Freitag, Sandi Gregory
April 13    Sarah King, Susan Newell
April 14    Margaret Fuller
April 15    Terrie Boehr, Mike Campadore
April 16    Nancy Almquist
April 17    Eilene Newman
April 18    Judy Deale

At the recent board of trustees meeting, the following personnel decisions were made final:

• Faculty Emeritus: Bob Buckler, Ed Higgins, Dwight Kimberly, Howard Macy
• Tenured: Corey Beals, Anna Berardi, Kathy Heininge, Matt Meyer, John Schmitt
• Promoted To Full Professor: Ana Berardi, Ginny Birky, Jeff Duerr, Bob Hamilton, Melanie Springer Mock, Roger Newell, Laura Simmons
• Promoted To Associate Professor: Carol Brazo, Eloise Hockett, Jeff Vargason
• Promoted to Senior Librarian: Charlie Kamilos
• Promoted to Associate Librarian Robin Ashford

Ed Higgins (English) published a poem, “summer fields,” in the March 14 edition of the online poetry journal The Rainbow Rose, based on the island nation of Mauritius. He also had two “scifaiku” poems, “tonight’s twin moons” and “my life on Ortores,” published in the February edition of Scifaikuest.

Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) published The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel; An Introduction to John (Fortress Press), an introductory textbook, crafted for a semester course, which leads students through literary, historical and theological aspects of the Fourth Gospel’s most vexing puzzles.

Erin Macy (Undergraduate Admissions) and her husband John welcomed their first child, Sage Charlotte-Rose, on March 2. The baby weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces and was 21 inches long. She was born at the couple’s Newberg home.

March 22     Terry Peters
March 23     Dianna McIntyre
March 24     Loren Kerns
March 25     Dave Kelley
March 26     Nick Willis
March 27     Kathleen Sims
March 28     Arlene Horney, Charlie Kamilos, Steve Petzold
March 29     Vetta Berokoff, Kathi Gatlin
March 30     Debora Herb-Sepich
March 31     Melodee Powers
April 2         Nathan Forbes, Anne Sjogren
April 3         Steve Delamarter, Dale Journey

Dr. Paul Shew joined the university last week as an assistant professor of physical therapy and academic coordinator of clinical education. Paul has nearly 30 years of experience as a physical therapist, spending the last 16 years as a physical therapist for Providence Home Health Division in Portland. Before that, he spent seven years as a rehabilitation coordinator for Providence/St. Vincent Home Health in Portland. He also worked as a physical therapist for Providence Home Health and two Portland-based medical centers during the 1980s. He holds a doctor of physical therapy degree from Pacific University (2009), a certificate of physical therapy from Pacific (1981), and a bachelor’s degree in science and math from Southern Oregon State College (1979). Paul lives in Banks with wife Joanie and attends Evergreen Christian Center in Hillsboro. The couple has five children, all of whom are grown, and seven grandchildren.

Janis Tyhurst (Library) is leaving George Fox this week after working at the university for more than 12 years. She has accepted a position as a subject specialist at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia.

Paul Jenness (Plant Services) is leaving the university this week. He has accepted a position as an EMS (Energy Management Systems) technician at Willamette University in Salem.

Andy Dunn has accepted the position of director of purchasing and administrative services, replacing the retired Karon Bell. He begins his new position on Monday, March 14.

Several members of the English department presented papers at the South-Central Conference on Christianity and Literature, hosted in the French Quarter of New Orleans last month. Melanie Springer Mock presented “Sin and Redemption in Contemporary Women’s Narratives;” Kathy Heininge presented “Blasphemy Against Nature: Jane Eyre Is No Angel”; Abby Rine presented “Revisionist Readings of a Sacred Story: Luce Irigaray and ‘Sin in the Feminine’”; and Gary Tandy presented “C.S. Lewis’s Style in Mere Christianity.” In addition, Ed Higgins read original poetry. Also on the trip, Melanie and Abby ran a full marathon and half marathon, respectively.

Sarah Gibson (Cinema and Media Communication) presented a paper, “Who is That Masked Man: Should Anonymous Posters to Newspaper Websites Be Unmasked?,” at the Southern Academy of Legal Studies in Business Conference in San Antonio March 3-5. She was the lead author of the piece. Her coauthor was Brad Reid, professor of business law and the managing director of the Dean Institute for Corporate Governance and Integrity at Lipscomb University.

The Northwest Horn Orchestra, an ensemble of professional French horn players, will premiere Brent Weaver’s (Performing Arts) The Lion Sings for 16 horns and percussion this Friday, March 11, at 8 p.m. at The Old Church in Portland. Commissioned by the NWHO, the piece is based on C.S. Lewis’ The Magician’s Nephew. More information is available at nwhornorchestra.org.

Lindsey Wallgren (Adult Degree Programs) and her husband Jerod welcomed a girl, Ella Paige, on Feb. 19. The baby weighed 6 pounds, 5 ounces and was 20.75 inches long. Ella joins a big brother, Carter.

March 9         Elizabeth Holme, James Oshiro
March 10       Dale Seipp, Lindsey Wallgren
March 12       Theresa Schierman, Brent Weaver
March 13       Carol Brazo, Karen Buchanan, Sandy Cherachanko
March 14       Piper Parks
March 15       Caitlin Corning, Stephanie St. Cyr
March 16       Nancy Brannen
March 17       Bryan Boyd, Taylor Martin
March 18       Mark Carlton
March 19       Joanne Gray, Marty Hunter
March 21       Larry Mennenga

John Desmond joined the university last week as a custodian in Plant Services. In the last five years he worked as a custodian for the Oregon State Police Portland crime lab in Clackamas, Ore. (2009) and as a night custodian at Fort Vannoy Elementary School in Grants Pass, Ore. (2005-09). Prior to that, he owned and operated his own landscape spraying service for eight years. He has more than 30 years in groundskeeping and general landscape design and installation. He earned a bachelor’s degree in ornamental horticulture from California Polytechnic State University in 1983. He lives in McMinnville with wife Amy and three teenage boys: Jim (17), Matt (15) and Greg (13). The family attends St. James Catholic Church in McMinnville.

Melissa Thomas, formerly associate registrar, has been promoted to registrar, replacing Reid Kisling. She had served in the associate role for the last five and a half years. A search has begun to fill the associate position.

Kevin T. Jones (Communication Arts) and Carol Brazo (Education) presented a paper, “Cultivating a Community of Truth When Faced with Resistance: Teaching My Gender Students How To ‘Ride the Bus,’” at the Western States Communication Association annual convention in Monterrey, Calif., Feb. 19-21. The paper works from a theoretical framework of critical pedagogy to explore how the classroom is often seen as a culture of fear and disrespect. The paper explores ways that the culture of fear can be transformed into a culture of truth.

Ed Higgins (English) published this month a flash fiction piece, “Learning About Sonnets,” in the online journal Untoward.