The Experience Magazine - Spring 2007

THE EXPERIENCE The magazine of Warner Pacific College

Spring 2007

Who is my neighbor?

Profiles of real life good Samaritans

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FROM THE PRESIDENT

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Who is my neighbor?

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t is a question we often ask at Warner Pacific College, particularly given our location in the heart of urban Portland. Jesus answered the question with the parable of the Good Samaritan, and our students earnestly look for ways to live out this parable in this city, and beyond.

Two years ago, our students joined with others from fellow Christian colleges across the nation to form a chapter of “Acting on AIDS,” a movement that started when college students asked themselves how they should be sharing the love of Jesus Christ with the men, women and children who have been infected with this disease.

Another outreach students have initiated emerged from their concern for the many homeless who live on the streets of Portland. During the school year – even during the coldest winter months – our students head downtown each week to serve hot chocolate to those waiting in line to gain entrance to a shelter for the night. The hot drink is an opportunity to share conversation and relationship with those who need a loving and caring touch.

Each spring break, van loads of our students drive to Vicente Guererro, Mexico, where they Jay A. Barber, Jr. ‘64 share the love of Jesus Christ by building homes for villagers, working in an My neighbor is the orphanage, handing out food to migrant labor- need, the opportunity ers, living in the humble homes of villagers, and for service, the ministering to children.

Last year, a different group of students trav- challenge that the eled to San Francisco, Calif. during spring break to link up with a Church of God con- Lord has placed gregation there that is carrying out a daily before me. ministry to those on the streets. This year, our entire men’s basketball team will take part in this ministry .

Week in and week out, our students, faculty and staff serve in anonymous settings, calling on the sick, ministering in prisons, reaching out to the elderly, providing respite to single parents, gathering to pray for those who are in need.

They are answering the question, “Who is my neighbor” without hesitation. My neighbor is the need, the opportunity for service, the challenge that the Lord has placed before me.

Editor / Photographer / Designer Scott A. Thompson sthompson@warnerpacific.edu Contributors Jay A. Barber ‘64 Andy Magel ‘05 Troy Hutchinson Amanda Morrissey President Jay A. Barber, Jr. ‘64 jbarber@warnerpacific.edu Vice President for Institutional Advancement Dr. Andrea Cook acook@warnerpacific.edu Director of Marketing and Public Relations Katy Steding ksteding@warnerpacific.edu The Experience is produced three times a year by Warner Pacific College for its alumni and constituents.

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Please send comments or story suggestions to TheExperience@warnerpacific. edu or write to Editor, The Experience, Warner Pacific College, 2219 SE 68th Ave., Portland, OR, 97215.

Blessings,

Warner Pacific is an urban, Christcentered liberal arts college dedicated to providing students from diverse backgrounds an education that prepares them for the spiritual, moral, social, vocational, and technological challenges of the 21st Century. WPC is affiliated with the Church of God, Anderson, Ind.

Jay A. Barber, Jr. ‘64 President

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INSIDE 4 Two Hot to Handle

Junior guards Scott O’Gallagher ‘08 and Josh Jackson ‘08 pace the men’s basketball team toward another national tournament appearance.

5 More roads less traveled

Teacher Education professor Steve Arndt publishes his third Oregon travel book.

6 Are you my daddy?

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Biology research project investigates the mating habits of American kestrels.

7 A work of art and friendship

WPC music professor Dr. Dennis Plies and composer / saxophonist Dr. Howie Whitaker collaborate on a self-produced jazz CD.

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In this issue, we profile real life good Samaritans who are living out this question in their communities – and beyond.

Medical missionary Joe Miller ‘07 Education visionary Peter Carlos Okantey ‘06 Community connectors Terry Medina ‘86 & Jennifer (LaTourette) Richards ‘06 Prison minister Nike Greene ‘07 Iraq redeveloper 1st Lt. Tony Fazio ‘99 Elementary school teacher Betty Rickard ‘89 Hotel Ministries founder Debi Wakeling ‘01

A DAY FOR REMINISCING Good friends Phyllis (Gary) Allen ‘59 (left) and Zetta (Patterson) Burton ‘67 met up at the Pacific Bible College luncheon during Homecoming on January 26. Allen is a retired classroom assistant who traveled from Marysville, Wash. for the event, and Burton is a semiretired kindergarten and elementary school teacher who resides in Portland.

Read more Homecoming news and class notes beginning on page 14.

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From the President

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Class Notes

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En Memoriam

CAMPUS NEWS

Michael takes leave to write curriculum for Chinese counselors.

Phyllis Michael, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, is continuing to present a course of study in Marriage and Family Therapy to students in Shinyang, China. She and her husband – George Fox University counseling professor Rand Michael – are finishing up two years of Michael the program, which they are funding through grants. Michael is taking a leave of absence during the spring 2007 semester to complete the curriculum.

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Carver to present paper on Book of Isaiah at Austrian conference.

A paper written by Dr. Steve Carver, Chapman Chair of Biblical Studies, entitled “Messianic Trajectories and the Purified Remnant in the Book of Isaiah,” has been accepted for presentation at the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, in Vienna, Austria, in July.

MID-YEAR GRADUATION - FAMILY STYLE

(L to R) Justin Ellingson ‘06 and his parents Cindy ‘06 and Scott Ellingson ‘06 were three of the 61 graduates who received diplomas at Mid-Year Commencement on December 16, 2006, at New Hope Church, in Portland. Justin and Scott were among the first graduates of the Associate of Arts in Organizational Dynamics Program offered through WPC’s Adult Degree Program. (Scott is continuing on to earn his bachelor’s in Business). Cindy earned her bachelor’s in Human Development.

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Junior guards Scott O’Gallagher ‘08 and Josh Jackson ‘08 each amass over 1000 career points while pacing the Knights to a conference co-championship and a likely national tournament bid.

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O’Gallagher is the top scorer in the Cascade Conference and ranks eighth in the nation, at 23.3 points per game. He shoots nearly 90% from the free throw line (best in the nation) and set a new school record this season by making 39 consecutive free throws.

Jackson, a three-year starter, is second on the team in scoring and fourth in conference at 18.5 points per game.

He also leads the Knights in steals with fifty so far.

“I believe Josh is the premiere defensive player in our conference,” said Valentine.” We use him on the best perimeter players for the opposing team.”

When asked about their 1000-point milestone, Jackson said, “It’s a great accomplishment but it all comes back to teamwork. Without others, it’s not easy to score.”

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At press time, the #4-ranked Knights had concluded conference play tied with #6-ranked Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) at 15-3, but OIT earned the conference’s first automatic national tournament bid due to a tie-breaker. WPC can still earn a trip to the NAIA tournament outright by winning the conference tournament. Failing that, the team will likely earn an atlarge bid because of its national ranking.

“There are 10 or 12 teams who are capable of winning it all and we feel we are one of those,” said Valentine.

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arner Pacific’s men’s basketball team (24-5 is in position to clinch a second consecutive birth to the NAIA Div. II Tournament, March 7-13, in Point Lookout, Mo. And leading the charge has been the sensational duo of junior guards Josh Jackson ‘08 and Scott O’Gallagher ‘08, both of whom surpassed 1,000 career points this season.

“The combination of Scott and Josh at the guard spots has given us one of the best guard tandems in the nation at our level,” said the Knights’ head coach Bart Valentine ’75. “With Scott’s ability to penetrate and Josh’s deadly outside shooting, it’s been difficult for any team to stop them.”

Continued from pg. 4 ADP master’s program offers initial discounts to alumni, students.

To promote its new Master of Science in Management and Organizational Leadership degree, the Adult Degree Program is waiving the program application fee and the first course tuition for all WPC Alumni and current WPC students who start the program by June 2007. Contact ADP at 503-517-1550 or at www.warnerpacific.edu for info.

WPC receives second foundation grant for student mentoring.

Warner Pacific has received a $5000 grant from the Foundation for Independent Higher Education in support of student mentoring The grant is a partial match to a $12,000 student mentoring grant from the Educational Credit Management Corporation the College received last fall.

Warner Pacific faculty invite alumni and friends on Scandinavian trip.

Alumni and friends of Warner Pacific can enjoy a 10-day trip to Sweden, Norway, and Denmark hosted by WPC faculty Dr. Lou Foltz and Dr. Cole Dawson, May 18 – 27, 2007. The trip costs $3,900, but might drop depending upon group size. Contact Dawson or Foltz at 503517-1000 or at cdawson@warnerpacific. edu and lfoltz@warnerpacific.edu.

Cellar Theatre troupe presents “The Runner Stumbles,” March 9-18.

Warner Pacific’s Cellar Theatre presents Milan Stitt’s drama “The Runner Stumbles” March 9, 10, 11, 16, and 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the Cellar Theatre, with a 3 p.m. matinee on March 18. Based on true events, the play concerns a young priest on trial for the murder of a nun sent to help him run a parochial school in a small, Michigan lumber town. Purchase advanced tickets at 503-517-1207.

Professor Steve Arndt publishes third Oregon travel book, this time covering state’s north-central region.

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ducation professor Steve Arndt Highlights of the latest book include has published the third install- a stop to the tiny towns of Fossil, home ment of his “Oregon: Roads to the only public fossil field in the Less Traveled” series (Wallowa, Ore., United States, and Condon, once home Bearcreek Press, 2006), this time to two eventual Nobel Peace Prize wincovering driving routes in north-cen- ners, Dr. William Parry Murphy (1934, tral Oregon, from Medicine) and Dr. The Dalles south Linus Pauling to Bend, and from (1954, Chemistry, Mt. Hood east to and 1962, Peace).

Condon. Arndt’s Arndt’s efforts series began in 2004 earned him an inand offers detailed vitation from Oredriving maps and gon Governor Ted local history for Kulongowski’s oflesser-known secfice to attend a setions of Oregon. lect book signing at “We get to meet the state capitol last a lot of folks,” December. Other Arndt said. “PeoOregon authors in ple in this state are attendance includjust wonderful.” ed former Oregon Arndt’s previous Governor Barbara two installments Education Professor Steve Arndt Roberts, KATU covered routes in visited Fossel, Ore., among other television reporter small towns, while researching Northwestern and the third book in his Oregon travel Grant McComie, and KEX 1190 raSouthwestern Or- series. (Photo by Diane Arndt). dio host Paul Linegon. The series nman. will eventually in“I’m really promoting tourism in the clude six books in all.

“It takes me about a year, through state [and] they recognized that,” said travels and writing, to complete a Arndt, whose next book will explore book,” said Arndt, who estimates the Northeast corner of Oregon. he and his wife, Diane, have driven For more information on Arndt’s travel as many as 8,000 miles gathering series, visit www.bearcreekpress.com. research for the book series.

Fall athletes earn top honors for stellar seasons Michelle Allen ‘07 received double honors for a 2006 women’s volleyball season that saw her lead the Cascade Conference in kills with 4.76 per game. She was named to the NAIA Region 1 All-Region team and was First Team AllCascade Conference.

Ten goals and three assists earned forward Chris Price ‘09 First Team AllCascade Conference and NAIA honorable mention honors for men’s soccer.

Price Finally, runner Tameka Smith ‘09 became an All-American when she finished 17th at the USA Track and Field National Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships, last December.

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WPC logo wins gold.

The Indiana-based firm Richard Harrison Bailey/ The Agency has won a golden Addy Award from the American Advertising Federation for its design of WPC’s new logo. The award came in local competition.

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CAMPUS NEWS

Biology research project investigates the mating habits of American kestrels.

Are you my Daddy?

Better genes or help at home?

For three years, Whitehead and fellow Biology professor Dr. Brad Tripp have been investigating evidence of monogamy among mating pairs of American Kestrels, the smallest falcons in North America.

have “thisPeople preconceived

notion that birds are monogamous…The more we study birds, the more we see that’s not the case.

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Whitehead and Tripp are looking to see if kestrels’ monogamy is genetic or social.

If it’s genetic, the two adults will have no other partners during a mating season. If it’s social, the female will pair up with one male to help her with the nest, but then sneak off to have trysts with other males in order to find superior genetic material for her offspring.

Such behavior is not without risk. If the nest mate discovers the infidelity, he will likely abandon the nest, guaranteeing the demise of the chicks.

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Little veins In 2003, Tripp and Whitehead - with the help of student and faculty volunteers - built fourteen nest boxes that they later hung inside the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, near Ridgefield, Wash.

They found no live birds in 2004, but gathered data from four nests, three adults, and 19 chicks in 2005. Last spring, they found another three active nests. Assisted by Biology major Eric Alston ‘08, the professors took tiny blood samples from six adults and six chicks in all.

“They have little veins, which always makes blood draws interesting,” Whitehead said. “And they have sharp talons and beaks that they like to use to reach out and grab you.”

DNA doesn’t lie Back on campus, Alston and classmate Tameka Smith ’09 purified the blood samples, extracted and copied regions of DNA using PCR (polymerase chain reaction) techniques, and then ran samples through electrophoresis gels in order to analyze the genetic coding.

“I’d done some gel work in high school and in Biology class but nothing of this technical level,” said Smith, who is from The Dalles, Ore. The verdict? Three faithful couples.

“All three families were genetically related,” said Alston, a native of Medford, Ore. “Since they appear to be genetically The Experience

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Biology professor Dr. Ted Whitehead ‘88, who is working on a study investigating monogamy among mating pairs of American kestrels.

home? What’s a mother to do when the propagation of the species is at stake?

“It has to do with the genetic continuity of the species and mate selection,” said Tripp. “The big question is have [kestrels] been forced down this monogamy road for this reason.”

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ccording to Biology professor Dr. Ted Whitehead ‘88, there’s a dirty little secret about birds.

“People have this preconceived notion that birds are monogamous and that mommy and daddy raise their chicks together like one happy family,” said Whitehead. “The more we study birds, the more we see that’s not the case.”

WPC Biology professor Dr. Ted Whitehead ‘88 (top) and Biology students Eric Alston ‘08 and Tameka Smith ‘09 (above) studied blood samples taken from adult American kestrels and their chicks in order to see if the males were in fact the genetic fathers of the offspring, or merely surrogates.

monogamous, there [seems to be] no advantage to cheating…But we need to get more samples to have any real definitive results.”

A work of art­ and friendship WPC music professor Dr. Dennis Plies and composer / saxophonist Dr. Howie Whitaker collaborate on their self-produced jazz CD “A Minor Inconvenience.”

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t took them 40 years to get around to it, but WPC Music professor Dr. Dennis Plies and longtime pal Dr. Howie Whitaker, a music professor at Wheaton College, finally recorded a jazz album together. The result of their collaboration was last year’s independent release “Minor Inconvenience,” which features Plies on vibes, Whitaker on saxophone, and a rhythm section of local musicians performing 15 original compositions, all but one by Whitaker.

“It’s essentially a live recording,” said Plies. “We just set up in a circle. It was a ‘go with the flow’ experience.”

Plies and Whitaker first met in the early 1960s at Biola University, in Los Angeles, where Plies was a music student and Whitaker was a young faculty member.

The two enjoyed going out to hear live jazz in clubs throughout L.A., where they heard such legends as Oscar Petersen, Cannonball Adderly, and Bill Evans.

After Biola, they moved on to build their respective families and careers, but kept in contact. Finally, three years ago, Plies proposed the idea of recording a jazz album of original compositions together.

“It just came out of my mouth,” Plies said. “‘Howie, you and I need to do an album together before we get too old.”

Last spring, Whitaker, who is better known for composing classical music, used a sabbatical to finish the tunes and to brush up on his horn playing. Meanwhile, Plies contacted local musicians Dave Captein on bass, Clay Giberson on piano, and Charlie Doggett on drums.

Plies said he picked musicians he knew could handle the challenging arrangements with sensitivity.

The friendship between WPC Music professor Dr. Dennis Plies (playing the marimba above) and composer Dr. Howie Whitaker (lower left) goes back 40 years. The pair recorded a jazz CD of original tunes last summer with a rhythm section of local players.

“I wanted players who appreciated composition,” Plies said. “All of the musicians were composers, as it turned out.”

The quintet recorded over two days last June in an empty auditorium at Lewis and Clark College, in Portland.

Whitaker was impressed by the way the group brought the compositions to life.

[Jazz] musicians do this all the time, but to a neophyte like me, it was astonishing how they caught the spirit of what I was trying to get at in my tunes,” said Whitaker, who mixed the recordings in his home studio in Illinois.

Ironically, the CD’s title tune was a composition Whitaker wasn’t sure belonged on the recording. He wrote the tune in A-minor and 5/4 time, a difficult time signature for even the best of soloists.

“It’s in a minor key and it’s inconvenient [for soloists].”

Plies said. “It’s a minor inconvenience. I went nuts over it. I said, ‘Howie, that’s your lead tune.’”

“Minor Inconvenience” is for sale in the WPC bookstore; directly from Dr. Dennis Plies at dplies@warnerpacific.edu or 503517-1060; and online at www.cdbaby.com/ cd/plieswhitaker.

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COVER STORY

Who is My Neighbor?

A lawyer once asked Jesus how he might inherit eternal life.

“What is written in the Law?” Jesus asked.

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and you shall love your neighbor as yourself,” the lawyer said, reciting the law by rote.

“Good answer,” Jesus said. But the lawyer wasn’t finished. In an attempt to justify himself, the lawyer added, “And who is my neighbor?”

Jesus then told one of his most famous and challenging parables - the story of a lowly Samaritan who helps an injured stranger in the road whom even religious leaders have callously walked past. “Who is the good neighbor?” Jesus asked at the end of the story. “The one who showed mercy,” the lawyer said. “Now go and do likewise,” Jesus said (Luke 10: 25-37).

Who is my neighbor? Perhaps it’s a question best answered with stories.

In this issue we profile some real life good Samaritans who are living out this question in meaningful ways – in their communities, and beyond.

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Recent ADP grad Peter Carlos Okantey ‘06 wants students in his native Ghana to get better access to higher education.

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ecent Business Administration graduate Peter Carlos Okantey ‘07 hopes to spare young people in his native Ghana from the same trials he had to overcome to achieve his dream of a college. As a student studying public administration at the University of Ghana, in Accra, Okantey endured overcrowded classrooms and poor facilities. After marrying his American wife, Beth, and relocating to the Portland area in 2004, Okantey entered Warner Pacific’s Adult Degree Program and found an entirely different experience.

“Unlike Ghana, where I never had any personal interactions with my professors and received no assistance from them, professors at Warner Pacific College were available and provided guidance and leadership when I needed it,” said Okantey, who currently works as the Meals Coordinator for Loaves and Fishes, in Beaverton, Ore. Inspired, in part, by his time at WPC, Okantey has created the Naa Ameley Palm Education (NAPE) Foundation as the first step of eventually purchasing land and facilities in Ghana to build Naa Ameley Palm University.

He has started the Master’s of Management and Organizational Leadership at Warner Pacific, and Okantey plans to continue on to complete a doctorate. Eventually, he sees himself as serving as president of the new university “Most importantly, I have a strong passion to return to Ghana to assist my country and feel strongly that education is the key to helping eradicate disease, poverty and corruption,” he said.

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him to be alert and sensitive to the culture of the villagers.

“They wanted me to go in to look at the mindset of the villagers,” said Miller.

Miller worked in two remote villages overall, neither with running water nor Joe Miller ‘07 teaches villagers electricity. In the first, he and a teammate in remote India ways to stay a dug an eight-foot-deep latrine, as well as a drainage pit where villagers could divert little healthier. standing water that would otherwise attract malaria-infected mosquitoes.

At the second location, Miller met with enior Joe Miller ’07 experienced the mystery, the beauty and the village leadership in order to create a stark contrasts of India during committee representing the entire village. a six-week medical mission trip With the help of a translator, Miller taught last summer. The Human Development curriculum to the committee members reand Family Studies major traveled to the garding basic sanitation, personal hygiene, northern city of Varinasi (also known as and insect control so they could teach their Banaras) as part of a 60-member team of fellow villagers.

“If one family gleaned college students sponsored by one thing we taught them the California-based Medical - such as wash your hands Ambassadors International before you eat or desig(MAI). nate one spot for your laMAI’s mission is to imtrine - [and] if that family prove the living standards of started to get less and less people in developing counillness, everyone would tries through so-called “comsee that,” said Miller. “The munity health evangelism.” village would be radically Each week, the team divided changed.” into smaller groups and spent Although Miller may four days providing basic Miller never have the opportunity medical care and health eduto visit the villages again to cation in villages in the countryside before returning to the bustling see the long-term benefits of his work, he is confident he made a difference. pace of Varinasi for debriefing.

“We taught these people something As one of only two team members not in medical school, Miller, 21, was assigned they can take with them,” Miller said. to health education. He says his studies “We helped people live a little bit better. in the social sciences at Warner Pacific, Maybe our work for God was humanitarparticularly cultural anthropology, taught ian. That’s ok.”

Education Visionary

Exec. Director Terry Medina ‘86 (center) hosts students in RCI’s after-school program.

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Restoring Community Terry Medina ‘86 and Jennifer (LaTourette) Richards ‘06 reach kids, families, and churches through Restoration Community, Inc. goal. Rather, Medina wants to recruit volunteers from local churches who see value in community outreach not necessarily of their own design.

“I think that in every church, there always is a percentage [of people] that have a heart for evangelism and outreach in the community,” Medina said, “[But] so much of the finances and energies and things are going into their [church] community that they are not making that connection.

If five or six churches could find a way

“What we’re hoping to do is to remain a channel so that the church itself can stay connected to the community.”

Terry Medina ‘86

Exec. Dir. of Restoration Community, Inc.

to partner with [RCI], then those people could be connecting with their church and their community and provide that avenue.”

Joining Medina on staff is Jennifer (LaTourette) Richards ’06, who operates RCI’s after-school program. A former Human Development and Family StudSpring 2007

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erry Medina ‘86 has never quite done ministry in a traditional way – and he prefers it that way.

Medina is the executive director of Restoration Community, Inc (RCI), a Christian-based family resource center located in the Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood in SE Portland.

The former WPC history major likens RCI to a hallway with many doors representing partnerships with churches, social agencies, nonprofits, and schools, all intended to address real needs in the community.

“What we’re hoping to do is to remain a channel so that the church itself can stay connected to the community,” said Medina, who worked as a part-time minister, counselor, and church consultant in Montana and South Dakota prior to joining RCI in 2003. “Partnerships open up avenues and resources that you would never see or never know [otherwise].”

With a staff of four, RCI operates an after-school program for first through third graders from nearby Whitman Elementary, and offers individual and family counseling, music lessons, vocational guidance, emergency food assistance, and weekly family nights for local children and their parents. In all, they reach over 130 children and their families.

It’s an eclectic mix of services. but getting bigger as an organization isn’t RCI’s

Jennifer (LaTourette) Richards ‘06 offers cooking classes to children in RCI’s kitchen.

ies major, she began working at RCI as an intern in 2005. Four days a week, she offers homework tutoring and cooking classes for up to 60 Whitman students at RCI’s facility. She also oversees music lessons and team sports programs for upper elementary and junior high students.

Richard sees herself as part organizer, pastor, and teacher as she works to teach resilience in kids who face some significant family stresses.

“Resilience is the capacity to survive adversity and to still thrive, and there are a lot of different ways we try to promote that in kids,” Richards said. “I’m helping kids with their spiritual development.”

Medina considers RCI’s ministrial approach as model for the future, as long as more denominations see value in establishing community partnerships. He certainly has found his ministerial niche. “[A former professor] once told me that there would be a day when everything would come together,” Medina said.

And so it has.

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Prison Minister

Nike Greene ‘07 brings compassion and savvy as a community chaplain and prison volunteer.

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and worship, preaching, and prayer. Greene says the inmates are generally respectful, and in the six or so years she has been ministering, Greene has only had a few tense moments.

“We don’t really talk a lot about do’s and don’ts, but the scripture speaks for itself,” Greene said.

“We deal with a lot of issues [involved with] separating the “church” from a relationship with God.”

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few years ago, someone invited senior Nike Greene ’07 to perform a dance during a worship service at the Columbia River Correctional Facility, a minimum security prison in NE Portland. The experience changed her life, as Greene discovered her calling for prison ministry.

“I couldn’t believe how receptive [the inmates] were,” said Greene, 32. “I kept coming back. The chaplain approached me and said ‘We don’t have enough African-Americans coming in and ministering on a consistent basis. If you’re interested, let me know.’ I talked to my husband and I said I really want to do this.”

First Things First Today, Greene, along with her husband, Herman, her two sisters and her mother operate the prison outreach First Things First Ministries. They hold two monthly church services at the Columbia River facility for men and the minimum / medium security Coffee Creek Correctional Facility for women in Wilsonville, Ore. Greene serves as the lead volunteer for First Things First, and corrections staff look to her to make sure worship services run smoothly. The services, which are optional for inmates, feature praise 10

“She doesn’t take any kind of guff from anybody,” said Bean. “I think it helps to see such a strong woman who is compassionate but also firm. And she is open and honest and she doesn’t hide her faults. It’s who she is.”

Greene made such a good impression at Coffee Creek that in 2005, Chaplain Bean successfully lobbied her superiors to hire Greene as her temporary replacement when she went on three-month’s medical leave. Greene coordinated volunteers, mentored inmates one-on-one, and also delivered difficult news, such as when a loved one on the outside had died.

“Those were the incidents that were very strong and intense, but it also gave an awesome opportunity for witness,” said Greene, who says she was free to speak of Christ if asked. “I loved it. I didn’t even call it work. To me it was like full-time ministry.”

Broader understanding Greene transferred to Warner Pacific in 2005 after completing an associate’s degree in Religion at North Portland Bible College (NPBC), Home for Good in Portland, Ore. She is a Religion and Greene also serves as a community Christian Ministries major and a full-time chaplain in Multnomah County for a mother to four children, aged 4 to 13. state-run program called “Home for She makes it work by keeping to a tight Good,” which seeks to connect soonschedule.

“I use a lot of time in between classes to “The chaplain approached me and study,” said Greene.

Greene grew up in said, ‘We don’t have enough Africanthe Church of God Americans coming in and ministering in Christ and says on a consistent basis.’ I said I really her studies at Warner Pacific have given her want to do this.” a much better understanding of other Christian denominaNike Green ‘07, tions, as well as world Co-founder of First Things First Prison Ministries religions.

“If you do not know the different backgrounds that are walking into your to-be-released inmates with faith-based classroom or church service, then…you communities in Oregon. Greene funcfind yourself in a knot really quick,” tions much like a caseworker, helping parolees transition back into civilian life, Greene said. and educating churches regarding certain legal restrictions that might be part of On-the-job training According to Coffee Creek chaplain an individual’s parole. Greene graduates Arnadene Welton Bean, the First Things this spring and is thinking about pursuFirst worship meetings are some of the ing graduate work in religion at Warner best attended religious services at Coffee Pacific or counseling elsewhere.

Creek. Bean describes Greene as an excel“I would love to be a chaplain,” Greene lent role model for the female inmates. said.

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Officer and a gentleman Fazio arrived in Iraq last October after graduating in 2005 from Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Ga. and artillery training at Fort Sill Okla. last May. Prior to enlisting in the Army, the former Business Administration major worked in marketing for Pamplin Media and later as a project manager for a Portland, Ore. construction company.

“I had joined wanting to be a helicopter pilot,” said Fazio, “but once you get accepted to OCS you don’t really have the choice to pick your branch. So I discovered halfway through basic training I would be an artillery officer. As an artillery officer, you can be moved around to various branches. I was made the Project Purchasing Officer for 3-8.”

The man with the money Because he is in charge of paying contractors, Fazio says he is “everyone’s favorite person” in Al Zahrah. With the mayor’s cooperation, Fazio has established several mandates to ensure the project will move forward with minimal disruptions.

He intends to hire a local contractor who

Helping Rebuild Iraq

1st Lt. Tony Fazio ‘99 plans redevelopment projects in Iraq for the U.S Army.

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t is a small neighborhood about 12 blocks long and five blocks wide, just a few miles away from Balad, Iraq.

The main street is roughly paved, but mud and trash are everywhere, and the street is teeming with kids. All in all, there is nothing remarkable about Al Zahrah.

It has, however, managed to capture the attention of the U.S. forces at Forward Operating Base Paliwoda.

“The people in this neighborhood have been good to us here. We’d like to do something in return for them,” said 1st Lt. Tony Fazio ‘99, the project’s purchasing officer for Headquarters/Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment of the U.S. Army.

Fazio plans and executes redevelopment projects that are intended to help the people of Iraq and better their way of life.

Fazio patrols with the 404th Civil Affairs team to gain a better understanding of what improvements have been completed and to determine what developments are still needed. Fazio’s current project includes building a sewage pump station, running sewage lines through the streets, installing rainwater culverts, and then paving sidewalks.

“This town has about 750 homes and is as ‘Third World’ as it gets,” Fazio said. “[There are] very few vehicles, mostly donkeys and carts, children running around in the sewage-filled streets and so on.”

“The people in this neighborhood have been good to us. We’d like to do something in return for them.”

1st Lt. Tony Fazio ‘99

Projects purchasing officer for Headquarters/Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment of the U.S. Army referring to redevelopment projects in Al Zahrah, Iraq.

actually lives in Al Zahrah because the contractor will have a vested interest in making sure the project gets done the right way.

Included in the proposal is a stipulation that locals must clean up garbage in the area before the project can get started, and that they must keep it clean once it is completed.

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“I’m trying to change the mindset of the people. If they have to earn something, then maybe they will take pride in it and maintain it,” Fazio said.

Fazio is slated to return to the United States in October 2007, barring an extension of his deployment. He’ll finish three years of active duty early next year. He says he may stay on active duty, or move to a National Guard unit and pursue aviation from there.

“I enjoy very much doing what I am doing here,” Fazio said. “I have been given the chance to work in a field I know something about besides my Army branch. It has also given me some ideas about what I would like to pursue once I do finally get out all together.”

This article contains portions of a story written by Spc. Amanda Morrissey of the 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment in Iraq for the website Defending America. com and is used by permission. Additional information was included based upon e-mail conversations with 1st Lt. Fazio.

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WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?

Door to Door Debi Wakeling ‘01 founds Hotel Ministries to bring food, friendship, and faith to seniors living in low-rent hotels in Portland.

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Second grade teacher Betty Rickard ‘89 uses a puppet named “Mr. Hand” during story time in her class at Park Place Elementary School, in Oregon City, Ore.

A teacher’s teacher Elementary school teacher Betty Rickard ‘89 adds national certification to an already impressive career.

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etty Rickard ’89 believes she was born an educator. Now she’s a nationally certified one at that.

Rickard teaches third graders at Park Place Elementary School in Oregon City, Ore. In 2005, she became certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, a feat fewer than 200 Oregon teachers can claim. Over a period of eight months, she prepared portfolios, teaching and writing samples, and passed computerized board exams. Rickard estimates the effort involved 350 hours of work on top of her regular 50-hour work weeks.

“It’s a very grueling and very rigorous way of self-examination,” Rickard said. “I wanted to do something that would challenge me to improve my teaching. After 16 years of teaching, you begin to wonder, ‘Am I doing what I need to be doing?’”

Rickard didn’t start teaching until 1989, when she was in her early 40s. She

first studied at Warner Pacific in the mid-1960s, but left to become a dental assistant. Twenty years later, Rickard was rethinking her career when the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred in January 1986. Among the seven-member crew that perished was New Hampshire high school teacher Christa McAuliffe. Rickard decided the world needed more teachers with McAuliffe’s passion for education.

“It just crystallized in my head [that] there needs to be more teachers out there doing what she tried to do,” said Rickard.

Rickard spent three years earning her teaching license at WPC, and simultaneously added a certification in special education through the University of Portland. She started out teaching special needs children at King Elementary in Oregon City, and since 1995, has taught either second or third graders at Park Place.

“My career has been full of surprises,” Rickard said.

Rickard is proud of her family’s connection with Warner Pacific.

Her husband, Rob Rickard ‘70, is the purchasing officer for the Secretary of State’s Office in Salem, Ore. Second son Matthew Rickard ’97 is an accountant, and her third son, Ben Rickard ‘05 teaches sixth graders at Redland Elementary in Oregon City.

“This is my bent,” Rickard said.

“This is what God created me to be.”

ebi Wakeling ’01 crouches in the doorway of Gordon Hanna’s one-room apartment shuffling through crates of food stacked on a hand truck. Hanna’s room at the Helen Swindells Building in downtown Portland is about the size of a walk-in closet – just large enough for his bed, a sink, a radio, and a television set.

“Do you want some tomato sauce, Gordon?” Wakeling asks, holding up two cans.

“I’ll take some beans, thank you,” replies Hanna, a 78-year-old Navy veteran from New York City who is receiving medical treatment at Portland’s Veterans Hospital.

Outreach to seniors Wakeling is the founder of Hotel Ministries, an outreach to seniors who live in Portland’s lower-rent downtown hotels.

She started the ministry four years ago after volunteering with the Portland Rescue Mission. She realized that while numerous programs helped the homeless and drug-addicted, none specifically focused on seniors living in downtown hotels.

Monday through Thursday, Wakeling works in the office of a Portland orthodontist. On Fridays, however, she packs her red Ford Escort with food, clothing, and bedding and drives from her home in Sellwood, Ore. to Helen Swindells – a four-story building located in Portland’s Old Town District – and makes door-todoor deliveries to seniors.

“Debi is a first-class lady,” says Hanna.

“I have the highest regard for her. She’s a little saint.”

Reclusive lives Rent at Helen Swindells ranges between $285 and $355 a month, and the majority of the 105 single occupancy rooms have less than 150 square feet of floor space. Many residents prefer to keep to themselves.

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The Experience

[The residents] are used to people “knocking on their doors and stealing from them…Here is somebody that they can develop trust with.

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Debi Wakeling ‘01

Founder of Hotel Ministries

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Hotel Ministries founder Debi Wakeling ‘01 offers food to Gordan Hanna during one of her weekly visits to Helen Swindells, a hotel in Portland’s Old Town District. (Below) WPC professor and volunteer Leslie Wuest visits with Alder House resident Larry Miller.

Spiritual food In addition to making deliveries of food and clothing, Wakeling hosts a Bible study in the hotel lobby twice a month and also coordinates a free dinner and jazz concert for all residents every other month in the hotel lobby.

“You never see [Debi] without a smile on her face and a kind word to say to people,” said resident James Gillinger.

“We really appreciate her around here.”

Additional hotel added Wakeling’s home church, Riverwest Church, in Lake Oswego, is her primary supporter, but she also receives donations from other congregations. She also receives help from as many as 100 church volunteers for special events.

“Most [of the senior residents] don’t have family at all, so you become their family,” Wakeling said. “Of course our goal is to become a bridge to Christ, but they have so many needs that we try to meet.”

Up until last spring, Helen Swindells was the only downtown hotel in which Hotel Ministries had a presence. Then management at the Alder House Apartments, located near SW 13th and Alder, contacted Wakeling about her outreach.

Wakeling knew someone from her church who would be perfect for the job. She recruited Warner Pacific adjunct professor Leslie Wuest, who teaches Social Work at the College. Wuest visits Alder House every other Friday.

“I was a counselor for a number of years in out-patient mental health and this opportunity has given me a chance to see the other side of life for these folks,” Wuest said. “They are so appreciative. They are amazed that someone wants to come.”

Thus far, Wuest has befriended 16 seniors in the building, including 73year-old Larry Anderson, who lost his job as a hotel doorman last year only to undergo heart surgery. He lived off of Social Security for five months while recuperating. He has since found work as Spring 2007

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“Most of these people have been homeless,” said Wakeling, who studied Human Development through WPC’s former Degree Completion Program. “There is a high percentage of drug and alcoholism and mental illness and poverty. A lot of them are frightened. When I first come to the door, they don’t want to let me in.

Nobody else goes into their rooms during the week. So this is a huge step just to get in.”

a security guard, but says he appreciates Wuest’s visits.

“It means a lot,“ said Anderson. “Things are starting to come around a bit, but I really appreciate this.”

Ready to expand Wakeling wants to continue to add more hotels to the ministry. She has written a handbook to train new volunteers and hopes that individual churches will adopt a given hotel and provide the funding and volunteers needed.

“This is a rarity because [residents] are used to people knocking on their doors and stealing from them,” Wakeling said.

“Some are very frightened and they don’t have trust. Here is somebody that they can develop trust with.”

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CLASS NOTES

50’s Rev. Richard Einerson ’57, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, has published his first book, entitled “Prayers of the People: Pastoral Prayers for Worship and Personal Devotion” (Bloomington, Ind., Author House Publishers, 2006). Rev. Einerson was the Coordinator of Chaplaincy Services at Mertcare Medical Center in Fargo, N.D. for seventeen years. He has been married to his wife Carolyn (Smothers) ‘56 for over fifty years. They have three married daughters, and four grandchildren.

They reside in Greeley, Colo. They can be reached at www.rceinerson@msn.com. To learn more about Rev. Einerson’s book, visit www.richardeinerson.com.

Lewis ’59 and Barbara (Livingston) Hyslip ‘56 celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with family and friends on December 30, 2006 at Hoodview Church of God, in Woodburn, Ore. They were married Dec. 29, 1956 at the Woodburn Church of God. Lewis & Barbara served pastorates in California, Colorado and Oregon, and Lewis also taught at Seattle Pacific University.

They are now retired and live in Calgary, Alberta.

90’s Saxophonist Randall Hall ’91 has released his debut solo CD “Neither Proud Nor Ashamed” on the Innova label (660). The disc features experimental music for saxophone and electronics. For more information go to: www.randallhall.net.

Maria (Lanphear) Piedmont ’91 welcomed daughter Isabella Clementine on October 30, 2004. She joined brother Parker and sister Emilee.

Dennis Miller ‘99 and his wife Georgia are serving as missionary representatives with International Christian Ministries, which provides training for pastors in twelve African nations and in the Middle East. Dennis works to connect churches in the Northwest with the ministry of ICM and lead teams to Africa. Dennis most recently served as the Missions Pastor at Mt. Scott Church of God, in Portland.

Laura (Shrout) ‘99 and Jess Hutchison ‘99 welcomed the birth of fraternal twins Ezekiel and Minnie, January 28, 2007, in Portland. Ezekiel was 7 lbs., 4 oz, and Minnie was 7 lbs. 6 oz. They join big brother, Isaac (1). Proud grandparents include Rev. David ‘75 and Connie (Bruss) Shrout ‘77. Jess is an admissions counselor at Warner Pacific.

00’s Erin (Mead) Hoyt ‘00 and her husband, Zakk, had their second baby, a girl, named Charlotte Louise. She was born on August

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Fresno faithful cheer on Knights

A devoted group of alumni and friends whooped it up in Fresno, Calif. on November 16, 2006, as they cheered the WPC men’s basketball team on to victory over host Fresno Pacific University, 73-68. Pictured left to right are (first row) Eleanor Newcomb, Barb (Herting) ‘73 and Steve Williams ‘74; (second row) Steve ‘86 and Jackie (Mouser) Scott ‘70, Felicia (Gilliam) ‘71 and Rod Capps ‘69;(third row) Michelle Matheny, Sandi (Culp) Matheny ‘70, and Shirley Keith ‘70; and (fourth row) Dana (Cantrell) ‘69 and Ron Kruse ‘69, and Ed Matheny ‘71.

After the game, the entire WPC team went into the stands to personally greet and thank the group for its enthusastic support.

“We were so impressed with the quality of character the basketball players displayed,” wrote Felicia Capps, in an email. “Coach Bart Valentine ‘76 thanked all of us for coming and said we gave them the boost they needed to win. He is first class.”

4th, 2006, and weighed 7lbs. and was 21 inches long.

also caring for the couple’s two children, Hannah (4) and Dana (1).

Jonathan ‘02 and Lisa (Lewis) Brown ‘04 welcomed their first child, Emery Marie Brown, born October 30, 2006. She was 8 pounds and 1 ounce with a full head of dark brown hair. Grandparents include Jody (Carlson) Lewis ‘78 and Gary Lewis, and Delores and Emery Brown. Great-Grandparents include Ardeth Helbling and Dwite ‘54 and Bertha Brown.

Tina Parker ’04 has joined the faculty of the Contemporary Music Center (CMC) in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. as an adjunct instructor for the spring of 2007. She most recently worked for Creative Trust, a brand management company in Tennessee.

Beecher and Kelli (Patrick) Whiteaker ‘02 had their first child, a son named L.B. on June 3, 2006. Kelli has a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pacific Lutheran University, and is a child and family therapist in Tacoma, Wash.

Joel Scott ’02 has completed training as a crew chief in the Air National Guard.

He trained at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas and Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City, Fla. He currently works full-time in research and development at Jeld-Wen in Klamath Falls, Ore., and completes his ANG duties on the weekends. His wife, Rinda (Klein) Scott ‘03 has started a scrapbooking business while

The Experience

Hawaiian Wedding

Melissa Dawson ‘02 married Steve Sobieszyzck on the beach in Kaanapali, Maui, October 21, 2006, pictured here with WPC president Jay A. Barber, Jr. ‘64 and his wife Jan. Also in attendance were Maid of Honor Rachel Lautaret ‘02 and Melissa’s parents, WPC V.P. for Academic Affairs Cole Dawson and Linda Dawson ‘98.

Distinguished Alumni for 2007

En Memoriam Daniel Cole Former WPC music professor Daniel Cole lost his battle with cancer, Oct. 12, 2006 in Vancouver, Wash. He was 60 years old. He was born May 22, 1946 in Portland, Ore. Survivors include his daughter, Erika Cole, one grandson, and two sisters, Debbi (Cole) Swank ’76 and Pam Alexander.

Doe and McKelvey

Dale Wilson ‘74 Dale Wilson ’74 died in a single passenger plane crash on December 20, 2006. He was 54 years old.

Dale was born in Portland, Ore. and grew up in California. He studied Church Music at Warner Pacific College, and was an early member of the musical group Shalom. He and Janet (Helbling) ’74 married in 1974 and Dale served as an associate pastor and minister of music in several churches in California.

In 1997, he and Janet moved back to Oregon and Dale became the maintenance manager at West Hills Christian School, in Portland. Survivors include his wife, sons Brent and Jeremy Wilson ‘99, and four grandchildren.

The Grays

Julia Shrout ‘68 (center in gray) and family

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hree teachers and two ministers received 2007 Distinguished Alumni Awards at Homecoming, held January 25-28 on campus. Church of God Missionary Randee Doe ’03 received the 2007 Young Alumni Award for her work as an English teacher in Kobe, Japan. Battle Ground High School (Battle Ground, Wash.) music teacher Greg McKelvey ’77 was honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award for Service for a thirty-year teaching career that includes a national band championship at Portland’s Wilson High School in 1990.

Charlie ’62 and Zona (Stevia) Gray ’59 received the 2007 Alumni Award for Ministry. In 1965, they served as associate pastors at Fourth Street Church of God in Madera, Calif. Then in 1967, Charlie became senior pastor at Broadview Park Church of God in Greeley Colo., a position he held for 25 years.

Finally, Julia Shrout ’68 received the 2007 Alumni Legacy Award. Julia spent twenty years as the Reading Coordinator at Mount Hood Community College, in Gresham, Ore. She also assisted refugee communities in Portland with English language development. Pictured above are (R to L) Raul Villalva, Linda (Shrout) Villalva ‘72, Jonathan Shrout ‘03, Julia’s husband Bill Shrout, Julia Shrout ‘68, Betty Jo (Martin) Shrout ’75, Melissa Shrout ‘07, Terry Shrout ‘75, and Sarah Shrout ’07.

For more Homecoming 2007 photos and highlights, visit the alumni page at www.warnerpacific.edu.

“One of the biggest questions in the world today is how you know what you know. One of the great things that I love about Warner Pacific is that faculty are not onedimensional in regards to their approach to education.”

- Carlos Jermaine Richard ‘07 Human Service Specialist, Oregon Dept. of Human Resources and WPC Master of Religion student.

Spring 2007

Albert Grice ‘56 Albert E. Grice ’56 died on Sept. 30, 2006 due to heart failure. He was 79 years old. Albert was born on January 27, 1927, in Midland Mich., and entered the U.S. Navy in 1946.

He married Silvia (Wood) ‘57, to whom he was married for 47 years, until her death in 1998.

After leaving the Navy, Albert attended Pacific Bible College (Warner Pacific College), after which he served as a Church of God pastor in Centralia, Wash. He then worked as a carpenter, foreman, and superintendent.

In 2000, he married Betty Damer of Talent, Ore. Survivors include two brothers, and aunt and uncle, and numerous grand and great grandchildren.

Reitta (Worbs) Maurice ‘52 Reitta (Worbs) Maurice ’52 died Jan. 28 at age 81. She was born May 4, 1925, in Raymond, Ohio. She moved to Portland in 1949 and graduated from Pacific Bible College. She later became an art instructor at Advertising Art School and the Oregon Society of Artists.

In 1947, she married C.A Maurice ‘51, who worked in maintenance and security for Warner Pacific. He died in 2002. Survivors include her son, Clinton Maurice ‘71; two sisters, a brother, and three grandchildren.

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“Well, it all began when I first started college…”

A recent alumnus reflects on his Warner Pacific journey, and a life transformed.

By Andy Magel ‘05

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hen I first arrived at Warner, 18-years-old and largely advisor, who, knowing me and what I was up to, recommended unaware of the world outside of my own mind, I I tack a second major onto my diploma. There weren’t a lot of didn’t really know how I had ended up in college or extra classes, so I opted to add a Social Science degree. what I was planning on accomplishing there. I had When the time came to complete a Social Science internship, told my mom that I would try it for a semester, but I was expecting my interests had changed dramatically. No longer was I seeking a to move on. For reasons partly Warner Pacific and mostly God, quick ticket to the top, but I was much more interested in the lives I ended up sticking around. of those near the bottom. I ended up spending As is typical of most freshmen, I cycled several months of my senior year serving and through roughly ten majors until I decided learning at Portland Habitat for Humanity, a No longer was I on Business Administration by the end of my far cry from the world of international comsecond semester. For me the appeal of the busi- seeking a quick ticket to merce, but much truer to the desires of my ness major was two-fold: it matched up with my the top, but I was much heart. natural abilities better than most other majors, Receiving my diploma in May 2005 was more interested in the and, more importantly, a lucrative career after one of the proudest moments in my life. As I lives of those near the college seemed in store for me. walked across the stage and shook hands with I first started meeting with the Director President Jay Barber, I couldn’t help but think bottom. of Campus Ministries, Jess Bielman ‘00, at of how far I had come. the beginning of my junior year. As we were Interviewing for jobs after my recent move getting to know one another, I remember telling him that my to Denver, Colo., it was inevitable that interviewers would ask me ideal job would be a business-related position at an international why I possessed two, seemingly, very different degrees. sports apparel company. I even applied for an internship at a “That’s an odd combination of majors,” they would say. “Why well-known Beaverton corporation famous for the swoosh on its don’t you explain that for me.” athletic shoes, but it didn’t work out. I decided to postpone my I love it when people ask that question. I usually preface my internship for a year. response with, “Well, it all began when I first started college…”

As I continued at Warner Pacific, I got involved with many I currently work for the Denver Housing Authority and, of the groups and ministry opportunities available on campus. strangely enough, utilize both of my degrees as the Neighborhood I joined other students downtown passing out hot chocolate to Networks Center Coordinator in the poorest neighborhood in the homeless on Monday nights. I traveled to Mexico and built houses city. As with many who came before me, college was a time of and developed relationships with some wonderful families. I was transformation. I now have dreams for the future that focus not even privileged to speak at the weekly student-led chapel held on career or money, but on service and ministry. The transformaon Sunday nights. tion in my life has not been easy or of my own power, nor is it At some point in the midst of all this, I met with my academic complete, but I am amazed just that it is occurring.

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