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APRIL 7, 2021
VOL. 102, NO. 14
Promoting Magnolia interests
Grad students, chamber looking at possibilities in neighborhood
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By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor
The Magnolia Chamber of Commerce and local graduate students are partnering on two new initiatives to promote or improve business opportunities in the neighborhood. The chamber was selected to work with partnering with University of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business graduate students on two studies. This week, the students and the chamber’s Marketing Committee began exploring how to encourage more residents to shop at Magnolia businesses. Chamber President David Dougherty said, of the people who shop at Magnolia businesses, approximately 90 percent reside in Magnolia. The study will look at “how to heighten the connection
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Photo by Jessica Keller Locals take advantage of an early spring day to shop in Magnolia Village last week. To improve awareness of what businesses are located in the neighborhood, the Magnolia Chamber of Commerce Marketing Committee is partnering with local graduate students to determine the best way to do that. Another group of business students will be studying opportunities for Commodore Way.
between local residents and merchants,” he said, so more residents do their shopping in Magnolia, possibly through a buyer loyalty
program. “We don’t feel we need to reinvent the wheel. We just need to see what would work in our
situation,” Dougherty said. “The whole idea is to get more exposure
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SPU president Dan Martin resigns By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor Seattle Pacific University will begin searching for a new leadership after President Dan Martin resigned after nine years on the job. Martin was hired as the private Christian university’s 10th president in 2012. His last day was Tuesday. In his announcement, Martin said he accepted a leadership role at a national health system healthcare foundation. The nature of his new job requires him to begin before the end of April. Martin stated another reason for his resignation is to move closer to family in the Midwest following the deaths of his father and sister last year. The SPU Board of Trustees has put together a transition plan for the interim leadership, Director of
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Public Information Tracy Norlen said in an email. SPU Provost Laura Hartley is overseeing operations as executive in charge until the board appoints an interim president. The search for a permanent replacement will then begin, Norlen said in the email. “Though we are saddened to learn of President Martin’s planned departure to pursue a new chapter in his life, we are also indebted to his remarkable and dedicated leadership over the past nine years of service as president of our beloved SPU,” Board of Trustees Chair Cedric Davis said in a statement to the SPU community. During his tenure, Martin oversaw the university’s transition to remote learning in response to the coronavirus pandemic last year. He announced last month the
university will resume in-person instruction this fall. According to the university’s announcement, Martin also led an effort to raise $6 million to restore and retrofit Alexander Hall, the campus’s oldest building, which was named for SPU’s first president. Martin then changed the building’s name to Alexander and Adelaide Hall to recognize the contributions of the first president’s wife, Adelaide Beers. As well, Martin expanded the leadership team to include a vice president of inclusive excellence, celebrated SPU’s 125 anniversary and oversaw construction of a new residence hall, a modern health sciences building and music and rehearsal studio, according to the announcement. “Some of the most enjoyable aspects of serving at SPU have been experiencing this dynamic campus and engaging with our students,”
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Photo courtesy SPU Dan Martin Martin said in his statement. Before coming to SPU in Queen Anne, Martin served as president of Mount Vernon Nazarene University in Ohio and vice president for university advancement at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego.
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