SPRING/SUMMER 2021 Response PAGE 30 Campus life during these COVID times PAGE 37 Release the Kraken SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY PACIFIC SEATTLE Battlefield to classroom: Tom Cooper’s return A veteran recalls post-World War II life at Seattle Pacific College PAGE 20 TABLE OF CONTENTS / SPRING/SUMMER 2021 COLUMN FROM THE EDITOR Volume 44 / Number 1 FEATURES 2 Your Turn 3 From the Reader 14 News Briefs Every time I watch Shawshank, I think of my former colleague Tim Dearborn, 18 Falcon Sports who taught at SPU and was also dean of the 49 Class Notes chapel. Tim spoke of the opera scene in the 56 The Final Word movie, reminding us that Christians have the ability to be God’s light, beauty, and grace in a gray world. We offer a story of 17 5 HOME hope that can make a caged bird feel free. “We offer a From the beginnings of SPU’s School 4 / Farewell to the President / After story of hope of Education 100 years ago, to the influx nine years leading SPU, President Martin left the University in April that can make of World War II veterans who returned a caged bird to study at what was then Seattle Pacific 5 / 100 years / The School of feel free.” College, to the present day, the students Education celebrates its centennial who enter this University seem to grasp anniversary this. They emerge from an SPU education 6 / Opening education’s school imbued with a passion to help others — doors / Nyaradzo Mvududu’s journey to teach, to heal, to loosen the chains of to dean of the School of Education injustice and spend themselves on behalf of the oppressed (Isaiah 58:6). 9 / Long-distance relationship / A National Geographic Grosvenor MICHAELA BANKS ’16 is one alumna Fellow takes her students to the Arctic Light and grace working to loosen the chains of injustice. Every other weekend, she bakes luscious 12 / Expanding the field / Martinez cakes — cardamom with mulled wine Fellow Shanae Nicholson brings a different background and experience in a gray world jam one week; a layered tiramisu with to the classroom mascarpone frosting on another. She BY SHELLY NGO posts them to Instagram where the cakes are auctioned to benefit racial BEYOND justice organizations. 20 I RECENTLY REWATCHED one of my favorite movies, The Shawshank When photographer Eugene Lee took 37 / Release the Kraken / Becka Redemption. My daughter was assigned the film for a humanities photos of Michaela for this issue, she was Battlefield to classroom: Magnenat ’14 is preparing Seattle class, so I was happy to make popcorn and participate in her wearing a wonderful waist apron from Âdi for its first NHL team homework assignment. Collective, a clothing and textile business Tom Cooper’s return World War II vet Tom Cooper ’50 recalls college life after the war 40 / The “isms” that plague In the 1994 movie, Andy Dufresne is wrongfully convicted of mur- co-founded by MEREDITH SEVERSEN ’15. public health / COVID exposed dering his wife and her lover and is serving to two life sentences at Âdi Collective employs new immigrant health care inequities that public the Shawshank State Prison. The film depicts the brutal conditions of women from Afghanistan to help them health nurse Tyler Breier ’17 wants to change the prison — the beatings and assaults, solitary confinement, corrupt earn incomes as seamstresses. 28 / When 34 / Soul guards. There is a pervasive feeling of hopelessness until one day, And Tim’s daughter Bethany Dearborn where cycle: from 42 / Collective community / Andy defies the guards by locking himself in the warden’s office and Hiser talked to us about her new book, Meredith Seversen ’15 is co-founder plays Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro from the prison’s public From Burned Out to Beloved, which offers matters FPO burned out of Âdi Collective, a business employing new immigrants address system. help to those who assist others. These have David Leong, associate to beloved professor of missiology, Andy’s fellow inmate Red narrates the scene as the music pours been trying times for us all, but I am sure A new book from Bethany 46 / Sweet, sweet justice / explores how ZIP codes from the speakers and stops the men in their tracks: pastors, counselors, social workers, and Dearborn Hiser offers help A weekly cake auction raises funds determine opportunities for racial justice others have been particularly depleted. to those who help others I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing For a second year, the pandemic has 30 / about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are best left un- altered SPU's graduation celebrations said. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful in June. It is deeply disappointing to us Campus life it can’t be expressed in words and makes your heart ache because of all, but even without the usual pomp and during these it. I tell you those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in circumstance, I’m confident these new a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped SPU grads, like those who graduated before COVID times into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away. And them, will continue to be lights that shine SPU students share PORTRAIT BY JOEL KIMMEL PORTRAIT COVER BY EUGENE LEE for the briefest of moments, every last man at Shawshank felt free. like the noonday in our world. CHASE, BLAKE DAHLIN, EUGENE LEE TKACH, EUGENE LEE, MATT VALENTIN AND PHOTOS (CLOCKWISE) BY TOMMY PARKER, ILLUSTRATIONS snapshots of campus life SPRING/SUMMER 2021 RESPONSE 1 COLUMN YOUR TURN FROM THE READER COLUMN RESPONSE STAFF The June 1977 Response Editor’s note: Thank you described it this way: for writing. You are correct How much ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS “In a ceremony paralleling that Warner Pacific lowered do you Alison Leary Estep the flipping of the tassle [sic] their tuition in the fall of EDITOR … Seattle Pacific College offi- 2018, ahead of Seattle Pacific know about Shelly Ngo cially became Seattle Pacific University. We regret the error ART DIRECTOR University through the formal in stating we were the first in Journey Group changing of the institution’s the Pacific Northwest. SPU? CONTRIBUTING EDITORS seal and colors and the singing Bethany Cummins, Colleen Steelquist BY ADRIENNE THUN MEIER of the new alma mater. About STAFF WRITERS FALL/WINTER 2020 50 percent of the senior class, Bob Elmer, Hope Evans, Hope McPherson, Tracy Norlen PAGE 5 Response Tuition reimagined PAGE 16 Hindsight Working in the however, reluctant to switch hot zone WEB DESIGNERS is 2020 PAGE 42 SPU alumni reflect on Becoming brave with Brenda how the year Salter McNeil Jeff Bass, Elijah Cabiles their allegiance from the tried behind us SPU students belong to dozens of might shape the years ahead ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT and true, chose to have their PAGE 27 campus organizations and clubs, UNIVERSITY PACIFIC SEATTLE but only one is celebrating its Mik Roque Donald Mills ’76 diplomas show that they are 85th anniversary this year. Created Eastsound, Washington SPC graduates.” in the 1935–36 school year, this UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION Page 2 of the Fall/Winter 2020 The seniors that year had one (pictured here) is the oldest Response states that “Seattle the choice of a diploma that one on campus. What is this club? PROVOST Pacific College was renamed read “Seattle Pacific College” Laura Hartley Email your answer and any Seattle Pacific University on or “Seattle Pacific University.” VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT June 5, 1977.” SPU-Fall20-PRESS.indd 1 10/19/20 12:09 PM memories you have of this club Louise Sausele Furrow I graduated from SPU in to [email protected] by Aug. 30, VICE PROVOST FOR STUDENT FORMATION 2021. Provide us with the correct AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 1976. The name was changed answer, and we’ll enter your Jeffrey Jordan from SPC to SPU just before Al Zimmerman ’69 Sue Favor ’03 VICE PRESIDENT FOR FINANCE AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS we walked across the stage to Coos Bay, Oregon Los Angeles, California name into a drawing to win an Craig Kispert graduate. Was it not official The article, “Tuition reimag- Thank you for the soul- SPU sweatshirt. VICE PROVOST FOR INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE Sandra Mayo until 1977? ined” in the Fall/Winter issue enriching experience that was VICE PRESIDENT FOR ENROLLMENT Editor’s note: We checked of Response contains an erro- the Fall/Winter issue. From MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING with our university archivist neous boast: “SPU is the first the story on Dr. Steve Mitchell Nathan Mouttet and historian, Adrienne Thun private university in the Pacific to the piece on Megan Warth, VICE PROVOST FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Meier, who shared this about Northwest to [lower tuition], in to the entire “Hindsight Cindy Price the change from Seattle Pacific an effort to make college more is 2020” collective, the College to Seattle Pacific accessible to students and to perspectives, insight, and BOARD OF TRUSTEES LAST ISSUE’S 1995 to 2001? This once-a-year broomball University: make the financial aid and knowledge from those ANSWERS game (sometimes held on ice) required CHAIR The 1976 commencement college payment process easier interviewed was enlightening the losing residence hall to display a toilet Cedric Davis program makes no mention of a for families to predict.” and uplifting. in their hall lobby until the next year’s VICE CHAIR name change occurring during This tuition change was Do continue to dig for these In the Fall/Winter issue of Response, we competition.