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Friends University Issue 32 Spring 2011
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From Your Class Agent Lu Duerksen luandu@sbcglobal.net
For this addition of the class newsletter, here are updates shared by Dr. Rathbun. • Sherri L. Goss, G’99, died Sept. 6, 2010, at her home in Huron, S.D. Her friends and family will remember Sherri as a person who was passionate about her friends, family, partner Deborah Powers, and pets. • Dr. Dan Lord has returned from a restful and productive fall sabbatical. He began his two-year term as president of the Kansas Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Jan. 1, 2011. • Fall 2010, Dr. Chris Habben began his role as an advisory board member to the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. • This spring, Dr. Michelle Robertson begins her prestigious role as Chair of the Faculty Senate. She is also deeply involved with the Presidential Search Committee looking for a replacement to our current university president, Dr. Biff Green. Further, she has helped organize the faculty response to the new Friends University Policy Manual. And in her spare time, she has found time to write and has been recently published. • The MFT program is preparing for a self-study supporting our fall re-accreditation site visit by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE). The narrative document will be finalized and sent to the COAMFTE this spring and we expect a site visit sometime this fall.
• Dr. Rathbun has been asked to serve a multi-year term as a MFT advisory member to the Kansas State Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board beginning this spring. • Dr. Timothy Nelson received special recognition of outstanding service from the Missouri Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. In other news, plans are underway for the 28th annual Friends University Easter Egg Hunt. Maybe we should all attend the event on April 23, 2011. I’ve been busy keeping track of politics and thinking about the ramifications for MFT’s as related to some of the new legislation. We are beginning to see broken homes due to the father going back to Mexico in order to get the appropriate documentation to live and work in the US. There certainly are “interesting ideas and people” out in the world. As always, I wish you the best.
Lu Duerksen, M’01