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Digital Commons @ George Fox University George Fox College Life Archives 5-1993 George Fox College Life, May 1993 George Fox University Archives Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/gfc_life Recommended Citation George Fox University Archives, "George Fox College Life, May 1993" (1993). George Fox College Life. Book 128. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/gfc_life/128 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in George Fox College Life by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ! VOL. XXIII, NO. 2 PL BLISHED FIVE TIMES A YEAR SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT NEWBERG, OREGON BY GEORGE FOX COLLEGE USPS 859-820 • POSTMASTER SEND ADDRESS BARRY HUBBELL, EDITOR CHANGES TO GEORGE FOX COLLEGE, NEWBERG. OREGON 97132 Templeton Again C i t e s G F C f o r 'Campus Grandpa' Building Character Roy Hiebert Spends His Retirement Years George Fox College is on the list of 111 col leges and universities in the nation named to the 1993 John Templeton Foundation Just Being There for George Fox College Students Honor Roll for Character Building Colleges. Campus Grandpa. you get to Hiebert. You just go to the Col to an empty table and make myself available The College is one of three Northwest Ir's an unusual title and a position not lege's dining commons. and within minutes someone will join me. colleges named. Seattle Pacific and Whit- found on many of the nation's college There, sometimes up to seven hours a day, Sometimes I go up to a table that already worth in Washington also were selected. campuses. you'll find him sitting and listening to stu has two or three students and join them for None were named in Idaho, Montana, It's also probably not found in many dents. They want somebody to talk with, a m e a l a n d t o t a l k . " Alaska or Hawaii. All four-year, accredited career opportunity listings. someone who will listen, someone who will Answers are secondary to listening for colleges and universities in the United States But George Fox College's Roy Hiebert is give seasoned advice, someone Hiebert. One student recently had lunch are eligible in the poll. defining the position as he goes along, who will be an older friend. with Hiebert, and as he The honor roll recognizes colleges and making use of his varied background as "A lot of faculty and left, Hiebert stayed be universities that promote high integrity as he gives insight and advice to hundreds c a u s e a n o t h e r s t u well as education. of students on the Newberg campus. dent had come to Presidents and development directors of Teacher, shipyard worker, appliance visit with him. more than 1,450 colleges and universities repairman, powerhouse operator, mission When the first participated in the nomination and ballot ary, electrician. They are all positions student returned ing, conducted by Marketing Research held by Hiebert in his 68 years of to the Commons Institute. They picked colleges in 32 states—73 of them church-affiliated, 37 pri living. four hours later, Now he's called "Grandpa / H i e b e r t w a s s t i l l vate institutions, and one public university. Roy" and students have given him there, listening to Another 47 colleges were named to the the title "Campus Grandpa, yet another stu Honorable Mention list, none from the although his official contract dent. Northwest. with the College calls him Although not George Fox has been selected each of the "consultant." a trained pro five years the honor roll has been released. H i e b e r t ' s n a m e a n d fessional coun John M. Templeton, an investment advi sor and philanthropist, created the founda telephone exten selor (the Col s i o n n u m b e r a r e lege already tion that promotes the honor roll to "renew the commitment of developing moral values listed in the cam h a s s u c h a in education." According to the founda pus telephone position), directory. But Hiebert of tion, the goal is "to supply students, parents Students f e r s t h e w i s and philanthropists with a valid means of know that's d o m o f h i s discerning which educational institutions not how years to those promote high principles, values and tra who ask. And ditions." college-age stu Templeton said it is the hope of the foun dents have ques dation "that all universities and colleges will t i o n s a n d c o n aspire to join the ranks of Honor Roll cerns: relation schools by consciously instilling integrity sh i p s w i th ro o m and value judgment into the educational mates or even poten experience of students on their campuses." tial spouses, coping Templeton, a Rhodes Scholar, founded with sorrow at the Templeton College at Oxford, England, in death of family 1972, and also established the Templeton members, career Prize for Progress in Religion, now at c h o i c e s a n d l i f e $1 million the largest award made annually goals, and spiritual for achievement In any field. needs. For George Fox College, the listing is the H i e b e r t i s t h e r e t o second high ranking in the current school h e a r t h e f r u s t r a year. In October, George Fox was ranked t i o n s a n d t o h e a r third in academic reputation among West t h e i r h o p e s a n d ern regional liberal arts colleges in the dreams. He is there annual US News & World Report survey. a s t h e s u b s t i t u t e George Fox President Edward F. Stevens grandfather for stu said "this affirmation of our mission is d e n t s w h o n e e d appreciated. We have been a Christ- o n e : t h e i r r e a l centered college for more than a century grandfathers are no and are delighted for this continuing longer living, are recognition." too far away to visit easily, or are not as approachable. "My relationship to them [students] is just that," Hiebert says. "My position is a grandfather." If asked how many grand- kids he has, Hiebert sur prises those who don't know of his involvement on campus. (See GRANDPA, page 6) Roy Hicbcrl slops lo ciiat with a .sfiidcnt during one of Ills visits lo campus. Tililcum Addition Adds 4,400 Makes Retreat Center More SuitedTilikum, "friendly fo place" dults in Chinook Thanks to a $260,000 remodeling project, will now be more attractive for midweek visitors to the Tilikum Retreat Center can usage. enjoy its green pastures and quiet waters Mitchell. "We've recognized this as our weakness more comfortably. "We're an adult retreat for a long time," says Littlefield. "There's The addition of 12 bedrooms and 14 bedrooms have been youth-style, sa^ nothing wrong with the other facilities." bathrooms to the overnight facilities. Dennis Liulefield, Tilikum's program A year-round ministry of the College president;^ Baker's Illahee, makes George Fox College's director. Tilikum is an interdenominational retreat' ^ FEN education, and camping center, a day camp more suitable for adults. In Before the project, the Chinook—the trade language of the North could house up to nine people per room, camp runs during the summer. Just above west Indians —Illahee means "country and four bathrooms -"Jght s^rvtc a full the camp's small lake sits a restored 1909 home." white schoolhouse, and in the tall fus, ^ It was the summer of 1961. I was working capacity retreat of 43. Now 55 for Carton & Barton on 1-90 across the "We've had a tremendous need for more per room. Expansion has mcluded a new recreational center. Tilikum's 92 acres'of northeast corner of Wyoming. 1 also was in appropriate accommodations for couples entrance, stairwell and meeting ^m- tree-covered hills and green pastures Is love with a Nebraska farm girl named and Elderhostel," says Arnie Mitchell, the side, the lakefront bathhouse is complete, located in the Chehalem Valley, seven miles Linda. So 1 found a second job —$1 an center's executive director. along with a $25,000 septic revision. northwest of Newberg. hour to build fence around the high school The added 4,400 square feet will allow Of course, new facilities add work and an a t h l e t i c fi e l d s . more privacy and longer stays for guests. Volunteers and paid professionals have unforeseen problem. Having located a set Visitors to Elderhostel, an academic pro participated in the $260,000 project. Mitch "Our housekeeper quit," says Mitchell. of rings in Lincoln, gram for adults age 60 and up, especially ell says $112,000 of the cost has been raised. Neb., earlier in the spring, 1 returned to college there with the "extra" $228 in my pocket. 1 purchased. I proposed. She accept ed. We married June 3, GFC President 1962.