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* * n 1 Gina's Gift VD O cn H CTl H

You know at once when

you read a ﬁction writer who has the Big Gift...

Gina Ochsner iinmistak-

ably has the Big Gift."

— Robert Glen Butler, Pulitzer Prize w i n n e r f o r ﬁ c t i o n

pers as a stay-at-home mother. While fessor of English Becky Ankeny remem her traveling companion reviewed her Ochsner. She's the most critical raising three children severely limits her bers Ochsner dazzling an audience at the acceptance letter while they sped through Nebraska. Ochsner's friend discovered Rememberly acclaimedthe fictionname: authorGina ever writing time, it also provided her inspira National Undergraduate Literature Con to come out of George Fox — and she's tion. A near-death experience during the ference with one of her short stories. she had been accepted not at the Univer sity of Iowa, but at Iowa Stale University only 32. birth of her first child transformed her Afterward, many approached to ask in Ames. They changed their trajectory. In the last four years, her short stories from a frustrated graduate student to a where Ochsner got her ideas. After earning a master's in English at have won nearly two dozen national and rising young star in the literature world. The ideas continued to come. During her senior year student teaching at St. Iowa State, she returned to the Northwest international literary awards. to pursue a master of fine arts degree in "The list is stunning," says George Undergraduate Drivel Paul High School, Ochsner decided she creative writing at the University of Ore Fox Professor of English Ed Higgins. Ochsner's George Fox classmates wasn't called to the classroom. She want ed to write. gon. "This kind of thing is nearly impossible." might remember her as Gina Withnell, a She says her father, Dick Withnell, One of her biggest awards was the quiet, freckled, academically minded wasn't so sure of her chosen career track. Flannery O'Connor Award that the 1992 language arts teaching major who partic Learning by Failing "No one can teach you how to write," Her grad-school professors didn't help graduate received for her first book of ipated in drama and choir. Ochsner recalls her George Fox expe says Ochsner. Still, she pursued further out by cautioning the George Fox board short stories, The Necessary Grace to member his daughter might not be suited Fall, published this year by The Univer rience with fondness and her undergrad academic study after George Fox uate writing with horror. She expresses because she says she needed to have for academia. sity of Georgia Press. A glowing April someone continue to critique her work. "I don't write stories that workshop review of the book in The Oregonian gratitude none of the "drivel" from that "I learn what's most helpful by failing." well," she says, describing the sessions newspaper describes her as "perched to era remains in her mentors' possession. Her professors tell a different story of She says her lifelong struggle with where writers meet to critique one anoth become Oregon lil's new It Girl." er's work. Sometimes the feedback is What makes Ochsner's accomplish a talented writer who was unique for pur dyslexia resurfaced during her road trip to graduate school. She was headed to ments even more remarkable is the fact suing independent study of the daunting see Gina's Gift, page 5 she alternates between dialogue and dia works of Irish author James Joyce. Pro- the University of Iowa in Iowa City until 2

Ankenys Named Volunteers of the Yeartheir children were in school. She was a local Peanut. s e e m brittle l i k e a may r a t h e r floral shop designer, with strange legacy for which many donations of her Change of Heart to be noted. But then you arrangements over the may not have had any of years for various fund- Harold Ankeny's annual OneHenryof the 21 Millsnew Societymembers was so of rebelliousthe raising events. as a student she says religion professor Ron homemade treat. The couple met while Stansell "would probably pass out" If he That yearly contribu attending Pacific College knew she is leaving her entire estate — tion to the holiday season {now George Fox) and currently worth $400,000 — to George Fox. at George Fox University were married in 1948. He The 1960s George Fox graduate requested helped Ankeny — and his is a 1950 graduate, and anonymity for her gift. Her contribution will wife, Betty — in being she was a member of the fund an endowed scholarship for Seminary named the University's class of 1951. Harold students majoring in pastoral ministries. Her 2002 Volunteers of the then known as "Spud.'' desire to give back to her alma mater came Year. was a three-sport athlete as she matured and realized George Fox was The Ankenys were In 2001 he was inducted the place that shaped her. c i t e d f o r t h e i r i n v o l v e The society is named after the man who ment at the 16th annual 52 George Fox Universi- established the endowment with a gift of V o l u n t e e r T h a n k Y o u g ty's Sports Hal! of Fame. $1,200. In 1902. Luncheon June 18 on the ^ Harold became a minis- Henry Mills deeded Newberg campus. I ter after graduation, and his home to what the couple's first pastorate "The delicious peanut was then Pacific Col The peanut brittle Harold Ankeny makes for sale each Christ was at Agnew Friends brittle Harold makes for mas by the George Fox Auxiliary is Just one of the reasons he lege with the stipu the (George Fox) Auxil and his wife, Betty, were named the University's Volunteers of Church near Port Angeles. lation that when he t h e Y e a r f o r 2 0 0 2 . Wash. After three years, died the college iary Holiday Bazaar" was on the list of contributions made by the tennial Campaign, and he was Prayer the family moved to Timber, Ore., where sell It and use the Newberg couple. The proceeds from its Committee chair for the University's he built and pastured the Timber Friends proceeds for an Church. They then moved to Idaho, endowment. Today there are more than 400 sale go to auxiliary projects on the cam recently completed $22 million Legacy where he taught at Greenleaf Friends Henry Mills Society members who represent pus. Betty is one of the workers for the Campaign. more than $19 million in future gifts to annual fund-raising event. In the community, Harold is a member Academy and Betty was an office secre George Fox. Both help with the planting of the Uni (and past president) of Kiwanis. He was tary. Other pastoral positions followed For more information about the Henry Mills versity's summer hanging flower baskets. charter president of the Newberg Opti over the next decade. Society or if you have already included The list of contributions also includes mist Club, and served as lieutenant gov In 1968 Harold began a 23-year career George Fox University in your estate plans, Harold's recruitment of volunteers for ernor of the club's Pacific Northwest dis as a George Fox administrator, serving please contact Todd Newell, director of estate Volunteers on Wheels (VOW), a group trict. He also was a charter board mem six years as dean of students, then and planned giving, at 503-554-2117. that travels the West helping churches ber and board president for the Herbert becoming director of financial aid in and nonprofit groups with construction Hoover Boys and Girls Club of Newberg, 1974. In 1981 he moved to George Fox's projects. At George Fox, VOW has and board president for C.S. Lewis Com development office as annual fund direc helped with concrete work, sidewalk munity School. tor, then as director of planned giving. L I F E S T A F F construction, and painting. Betty has served as a church trustee, He retired from George Fox in 1991, and Editor Harold coordinated the alumni por served on the Christian Women's Club in 1992 was named Alumnus of the Year Anita Cirulis tion of George Fox's $16 million Cen- Council, and was involved in PTA when by the Uiîversily. Contributing Writers Blair Cash Anita Ciruiis Rob Felton Janet Goetze Barry Hubbell Photographers PRÎDENT^ Anita Cirulis Kelly James Frank Miller

Designer Colin Miller Help Wanted share a couple generalizations and observations from out George Fox University LIFE {USPS 859- Sincecandidate I am committedfor a full-time to faculty personally position interviewing at George each Fox side the process. 820) is published four times a year by University, a significant amount of time each spring semes George Fox University. 414 N. Meridian ter is given to that activity. At the end of the season, I find Recently, a team of three scientists from three institu Street. Nev^berg. OR, 97132-2697, USA. tions outside the Pacific Northwest visited George Fox it helpful to think about the recruitment process as well as Periodicals postage paid at Newberg, University. They commented generously about the high Oregon. Postmaster; Send address the profile of the new class. Who are the people joining us changes to LIFE, George Fox University, in August, and did the process work? quality of new, young faculty 414 N. Meridian St. #6069, Newberg, OR The procedure we follow in a nationwide search for fac members we have in our science 97132-2697. ulty members is long and, sometimes, cumbersome. Posi and engineering areas. Please send letters, alumni news, and tion openings usually are posted sometime between Likewise, each fall semester address changes to LIFE. George Fox November and January. Campus interviews begin as early Tom Johnson, professor of bibli University, 414 N. Meridian St. #6069, as February and continue through May, with a few occur cal theology, teaches a Christian Newberg, OR 97132-2697. ring as late as June. Phone: 503-554-2126. Use our theology course to all our new- Web site; v/ww.georgefox.edu/alumni, The process is centralized in the provost's office, with faculty members. He sees these and click "Send Us Your News." the undergraduate and graduate deans coordinating each people in an academic setting and E-mail; [email protected]. search. The academic department is the first, and primary reports high interest and ability in screen for applications that are received, but no person is these new faculty members. G E O R G E F O X U N I V E R S I T Y hired without interviews with the appropriate dean, the President The most important evidence I ADMINISTRATION provost, and me. Outstanding secretarial support in the David Brandt see of a successful search process President academic affairs office coordinates this lengthy, complicat H. David Brandt P . is that faculty members at George ed process. ox University come because they are called by God to Provost One reason I take time to reflect on this process is that serve here. A part of every interview I have with prospec- Robin E. Baker it is also expensive, both in dollars and in time and effort ive acu ty members is a discussion of their walk with the Vice President for Marketing and of many people. Much of the work needs to be done awav ® people who are here because God wants Advancement from standard business hours. results in faculty members who support Dana L. Miller So, is it worth it? The answer is complicated. In an insti Vice President for Financial Affairs tution the size of George Fox University, we hire approxi Iv »h iT Fox mission and who take serious- G. Michael Coins mately a dozen new faculty members each year When I thethf. integration• high-quality of Christian education faith withand learning, the centraliiy of Vice President for Student Life consider this question, I see mental images of the peonle he process works and is definitely worth it. Bradley A. Lau we hire and know the answer. Executive Assistant to the President If I shared with you summary statements for each person Barry A. Hubbell hired, you would have a more detailed picture of the results of the process. But what can I tell you in a few lines? I will TheSomething University's engineering program Old, will get aSomething lift from a major remodel of Wood-Mar New Hall

he new and the old are merging as George Fox University's expand T ing engineering major gets a new home in historic Wood-Mar Hall. The three-story Old Main, constructed in 1911. is being renovated on two floors to house a growing engineering program that will graduate its first seniors in 2004. The program is the only one at a Christian college in the western United States that offers both electrical and mechanical concentrations. Development of the engineering pro gram is receiving significant financial support through a S500.0G0 grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation for equip ment and a $400,000 grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust for building renovation. The building's new use undoubtedly would please Herbert Hoover, the nation's 31st president, who was an engi neer by training and a student of Friends Pacific Academy, which became George Fox University. Hoover visited the building, and for decades Wood-Mar Hall housed a large bronze plaque honoring the former stu dent and president. Engineering program director Bob Junior engineering majors Matthew Mickelson and Melissa Workman are members of the first class of students who will graduate with bachelor of science degrees in engineering in 2004. in January 2003, the first and second floors Harder likes to point out that Hoover of gutted Wood-Mar Hall will house new engineering classrooms and labs, thanks to a $1.2 million portion of a considered engineering a most noble recent capital campaign effort. The Office of the President will also be located on the second floor. calling. "To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare George Fox for three years, taking most of their gener According to Harder, about 45 students are expected bones of science with life, comfort and hope." Hoover al education, mathematics and science, and lower-divi to be enrolled in the program this fall, which began once .said. sion engineering courses. accepting student.s in the fall of 2000. The renovation will recy In doing so, they quali Students take a total of 129 credit hours to earn their cle the once-doomed build fy to then transfer to any degree, with core engineering courses offered the first ing back into leaching and "To prepare engineering engineering school, where two years, after which they concentrate on electrical or laboratory space — some s t u d e n t s f o r a l i f e l o n g they spend two years in mechanical engineering as juniors and seniors. thing it housed for decades. any one of several engi An eventual enrollment of 90 students in the engi In recent years, the first and ministry of designing, neering curricula, includ neering major is projected. While the majority of engi second floors have contained manufacturing, and ing aerospace, chemical, neering students are choosing the four-year major, the administrative and service civil, computer, electrical, 3:2 applied science program will still be an option. areas — and no classrooms. marketing products that or mechanical engineer The four-year phase-in of the major includes the hir The building's third floor serve and preserve ing, or engineering man ing of three additional engineering faculty. Dr. Harder, was renovated in 1995 and agement. the University's professor of mechanical engineering, is G o d ' s c r e a t i o n . " houses the remodeled (but Students completing the engineering program director and has been teaching historically themed) Wood- — Goal of the engineering program at the five-year program at George Fox since 1988. In 1995, John Natzke, who M a r A u d i t o r i u m . George Fox University receive two bachelor of earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, was The estimated $1.2 mil science degrees: an hired as associate professor of electrical engineering. lion construction project to applied science degree This fall, Mike Magill, who has a Ph.D. from Okla convert the more than from George Fox after homa State University, will join the department as pro 11.000 square feet of space is expected to be complet their four years, and an engineering degree from the fessor of mechanical engineering. Dr. Magill comes ed in January 2003. Already, campus crews have gutted engineering school after their fifth year. More than 100 from Purdue University, where he has been a faculty the interior of the bottom two levels, with the project students have completed degrees in this way. member for the past seven years. Also this fall, a search now awaiting contractors to rebuild the interior for the Now, George Fox is offering a four-year bachelor of will be conducted for two more engineering faculty, one

new use. science degree in engineering (B.S.E.), with concentra of whom will be from the electrical engineering field. — Barry Hubbell That new use will include first-floor labs for mechan tions in either electrical or mechanical engineering. ics, mechanical engineering research, energetics, elec tronics, microprocessors, robotic controls, and comput er-aided design, as well as a project engineering shop. Six faculty offices and an electrical engineering Administration News research lab are on the second floor, along with new C o o k T a k e s I n d i a n a P o s t Student Financial Services to his responsibilities. space for the Office of the President and the Office of Robin Baker, formerly vice president for academic Academic Affairs. Andrea Cook, vice president for enrollment services, The Wood-Mar Hail location for expansion of the has accepted the position of vice president for institu affairs, is now provost and will oversee all internal tional advancement at Goshen College in Indiana. Her functions of the University. His responsibilities include engineering program made sense: the 91-year-old build student life as well as academic personnel and pro ing is literally buttressed by the adjacent Edwards-Hol- last day was July 3. man Science Center, which currently houses the initial Cook served at George Fox for 15 years in several grams. Brad Lau continues as vice president for student positions in continuing education and enrollment ser life and will report to Baker. engineering program. Dana Miller, formerly vice president for university In the current renovation, the original westside vices. During her tenure, enrollment almost quadrupled. access to the landmark building will be reopened. Orig About 100 employees gathered to say goodbye at her advancement, will oversee all external affairs as vice farewell reception in June. president for marketing and advancement. In addition inally designed as the main and front entrance, the to his previous advancement responsibilities, he is doors have been closed since the late 1950s, replaced by the north and south entrances as the only access points. V i c e P r e s i d e n t s A l t e r T i t l e s a n d D u t i e s responsible for admission and marketing functions. The original entrance space was converted into George Fox's top administration this summer has As part of the change. President Brandt this fall will administrative and service offices on both the first and been reorganized to allow President Dave Brandt to begin meeting monthly with representatives of approx spend more time on external affairs. imately 10 university-wide committees such as technol .second floors. That space is being recaptured for the Mike Goins, vice president for financial affairs, will ogy, marketing, facilities, registration, and enrollment. entrance, and the side doors will be closed to allow for Other committees will be formed later this year. construction of additional laboratory and office space. continue to oversee all financial matters and is adding George Fox University's 3:2 engineering program was started in 1987. Under that plan, students attend 4

amnTop Cording Teachers a„d S.eve Delamar.er earn ,ke 2002 Faculty Achleremen, Award. Faculty Achievement Award for Undergraduate Teaching "Queen of History" Leads Crusade Against Historical Misperceptions

Alumni Invited to Onbirthdayspecial occasions or when — she teachessuch as abouther the last Russian czars — history profes 9-11 Serve Day sor Caitlin Corning wears her tiara to class. It's costume jewelry given to her Georgewill haveFox's specialfourth annual significanceServe thisDay year. by students who have christened her the Always scheduled on the second Wednesday "Queen of History." after classes begin, the university-wide out At age 34, she's youthful royalty and reach this year falls on September 11. one of the youngest-ever winners of the The Serve Day theme this year Is Faculty Achievement Award. Cheerful "Remember, Reflect, Respond," which will and lively, she enjoys showing modern focus on service as one of many constructive feature films in class and ripping them responses to the tragic events of 9-11. apart. You can rile her by mentioning Alumni wishing to participate can contact Braveheart. the Office of Student Life at 503-554-2310, "I hate that movie," says Corning. "I can't watch it. There are few historical Bill Jolliff Wins films worse than that one." She can list dozens of inaccuracies, including the Research Award costuming and sequence of events. "If you want history," she says, "don't go to What matter, I or they? Hollywood. There's a big difference Mine or another's day, between the popular notion of history So the right word be said and reality." And life the sweeter made? — From My Triumph by John Corning became infatuated with histo

Greenleaf Whittier ry in grade school as she studied ancient Egypt. She considered a career in archae ology but found she was allergic to dust. Concernedbeing exposedthat college to the students work of Johnweren't "Now I get to work with it after they've Greenleaf Whittier, an American poet and cleaned it up." Quaker popular during the 19th century, Bill After finishing her undergraduate Jolliff produced a reader's edition of Whitti- degree at Seattle Pacific University, she One is a young scholar who completed her doctorate in medieval history. er's poems. earned a doctorate at the University of But it wasn't just editing a book of poetry The other is a veteran pastor and professor who's pioneering the Seminary's Leeds in England, where she examined use of technology in teaching. Both share the distinction of winning George that garnered Jolliff, professor of writing/liter the relationship between the early Celtic Fox University's $2,500 Faculty Achievement Award in 2002. Caitlin Corning, ature. the University's Facuity Research Award and Roman churches in the seventh and chair of the Department of History and Political Science, was honored for for 2002. Jolliff himself is a prolific writer. He undergraduate teaching, and Steve Deiamarter, assistant professor of Old researches and writes about contemporary eighth centuries. Testament and Hebrew, was the graduate teaching award winner. She finds there's a tendency to roman poet Walt MacDonald and Appalachian music. ticize and project modem ideals on the He also pens his own poetry. back to what really happened. Truth is That commute ended in 1997 when "He publishes poems at just an incredible early church, just as people like to ideal much more helpful than fantasies." George Fox asked him to choose one rate," Professor of English Becky Ankeny ize the values of the American founders. Corning has found her dream job as a vocation or the other. After 26 years in says. "It's hard to get published, but he pub "Everybody likes to think there was a professor. "They pay me to talk about pastoral ministry as a youth, music, asso lishes poems frequently." time that things were perfect," she says. history," she says. "I do it all the time ciate, and senior pastor, he stepped out of The annual $2,500 award is given for sig "If we went back and talked to people anyway. I really love working with the the pulpit. Teaching at George Fox Evan nificant contribution to a professor's academ then, we'd learn it wasn't perfect. We students — challenging them to ask. gelical Seminary became his ministry. As ic field during the past academic year. want to go back to something that never How do we know what we know about the 2002 Faculty Achievement Award really existed. It's more helpful to go history when we can't always trust our winner for graduate teaching, it appears sources?" his choice has been rewarded. Corning shares her enthusiasm for "I tried for a lot of years to keep one Five Retire as Faculty Emeriti seeking historical truth in both general- foot in academia and one in pastoral min education Western civilization classes istry," he says. "Then the Lord showed Bob Lauinger, associate professor of and specialized, upper-division courses me that it's OK for me just to be a pro Whenpast five year, professors they left having retired served this music, was part of the fine arts depart that cover subjects such as English histo fessor. Frankly, 1 think I'm a much better George Fox a total of 149 years. ment for 33 years. The longtime conduc ry and medieval Europe. professor than I was a pastor." tor of the University's Jazz Ensemble is Her students appreciate her narrative His students appreciate his decision. Mike Allen, professor of sociology, twice remembered for his talent on the clarinet approach to teaching. "We are not there "Dr. Delamarter goes out of his way to aid was named the University's professor of and his informal stage presence at con to absorb facts but to relive stories that and assist students at all levels," says one the year for his skill as a teacher. An certs. have shaped our present day world," says student who nominated him for the award. expert in the field of gerontology, he was one student who nominated Corning for "He devotes time to all students, not sim the faculty award. a member of the George Fox faculty for Dale Orkney, professor of biology, was ply those in his instructed classes." 26 years with a special aptitude for help the botanist of the science department for "Historians have a knack for making The spiritual formation course he ing college students gain an appreciation 38 years. Known for his crew cut, he was our subject horrifically boring," Coming designed and taught on spirituality and for other cultures. fearless when playing intramural Hag admits. "It shouldn't be, because it's creation was raved about by Seminary football against college students more about people ... thousands of years of students for months after the class ended. Rich Allen retired in December as an than 40 years his junior. stories about people. It's fascinating." One said the class "should be a required associate professor of management and course for all who seek to know God." health and human performance and as Mel Schroeder leaves a legacy of elabo Faculty Achievement Award The Old Testament professor also is the assistant director of the Department rate set designs he created for George for Graduate Teaching the high-tech visionary at the Seminary. of Professional Studies. During his 32- Fox theatre productions. Soft-spoken and Seminary Professor Steve Delamarter He's the director of the Seminary's Lilly year tenure at George Fox, he was athlet gentle, he traveled the West Coast as F i n d s H i s P l a c e Grant Endowment, a $300,000 gift being ics director and a successful coach of the director of the University Players for 15 used to bring technology into the Semi a seminary professor Monday cross country, track and field, and men's of his 20 years at GFU. Fôr four years, Steve Delamarter was nary's education programs. He's guiding basketball teams before becoming through Wednesday and a pastor Thurs the creation of an Internet component for involved in the University's degree-com All five were named faculty emeriti day through Sunday. But the multitalent- ed Delamarter didn't just swap jobs the Doctor of Ministry Program that will pletion program. this spring by the board of trustees. use Web pages, chat rooms, and e-mail. twice a week. He also crossed state lines, Whether it's in the class or online, Dela driving four hours between Portland and his church in Everett, Wash. marter has found his place of ministry. — Rob Felton Gina's Gift continued from page I useful and other limes "it's the blind dles child care two nights a week. Most leading the blind and not being very nice of her work is accomplished then. Paying the Bills about it." Writing short stories is rarely lucra Although she can't write much while tive. Most writing prizes are less than watching children, she snatches every $2,000 for stories that can take months to "Everything Came Together" opportunity to read. Ochsner picked up write and rewrite. Ochsner handwrites all In 1996, Ochsner brought her son the love of literature from her mother, her work two or three times before typ Connor into the world and nearly lost her Gayle, a substitute English teacher with a ing it and revising it another three to four own life. Complications from the birth passion for Shakespeare. Ochsner recalls times. caused extensive bleeding, and two reading even during childhood house- "God has taken such good care of weeks later her doctor told her she was cleaning chores. "I remember I had a me," she says. "Just at the point the water dying. She signed a will and was asked if book propped up on the she'd like to meet with a priest before toilet while bowl swish going into a last-chance surgery. ing," she says. "I'm still "I said. This can't really be it. I'm like that." After nearly dying six only 25."' She says the experience made her A l l T h i n g s R u s s i a n years ago during the reconsider what kind of a life she wanted W a l k i n t o O c h s n e r ' s to live. kitchen and (he book lying birth of her first child, "God is so good," she says. "I had no open near the stove is as idea what purpo.se he had for me — likely to be a Russian a u t h o r G i n a O c h s n e r h a s probably to be the best mother possible grammar book as a cook to this little boy." book. In preparation for a "Since I've had children, everything monthlong trip to Russia, become a rising literary has come together," she says. "I attack she spent this spring things with a greater sense of urgency. I brushing up on her Rus star. "Since I've had realize now the horizon could be a lot sian language skills — closer than most people realize." just one of the Slavic lan children, everything has Mortality became a theme in her sto guages she studied at Iowa ries. "Maybe I'm trying to write my way State. She's also teaching come together," she says, to an understanding of death," she says. the language to her chil Ochsner earns praise for her treatment dren, figuring it'll help here with 1-year-old of what might be a rather morbid, t h e m " t h i n k a r o u n d a depressing topic. She "is playful and problem in a couple dif fearless in her search to understand life ferent ways." Her fascina daughter Natasha. through suicide, terminal illness, vio tion with the Russian and lence and war," says the reviewer for The other icy northern cultures Oregonian. "Yet, she possesses an innate appears frequently in her lightheartedness that takes the edge off work and in her everyday the Grim Reaper's scythe ... Her lack of life. Her biological family intrusiveness is refreshing; it conveys a — she was adopted as an infant — is heater breaks — and every other major profound wisdom that's almost spooky mostly Danish, but includes some Rus appliance is broken — a story sells." coming from a writer who's barely 30." sian heritage. Her 1-year-old daughter O c h s n e r a l s o h a s w o r k e d a s a n She describes herself as a writer of bears a Russian name, Natasha, and the adjunct professor at George Fox, the faith. "I have a deep abiding and intense family attends a Russian Orthodox University of Oregon, Western Oregon faith in a benevolent and personal God church. University, and Chemeketa Community Excerpts from "Cartography of who's in charge. I do think it comes College. In one hectic semester of pin- a Heart," a short story included through." F a m i l y a n d B u s i n e s s balling between three campuses, she in The Necessary Grace to Fall After years of unsuccessfully entering remembers grading papers at a rest stop. Children and Writing about 50 writing contests annually, her "I feel strongly that artists are called "Because O'Neil's heart had been skipping She and her husband, Brian, raise writing began winning awards. to mentor along the way," she says. "It's and had threatened to give up altogether, their children in a tree-shaded cul-de-sac Ochsner's New York-based agent — who absolutely necessary. There are just too the doctors decided to give him a new one. in Keizer, Ore., a suburb of Salem. She also handles the works of influential many people discouraged." O'Nell was not a very important man. He seems an unflappable mother. Sitting on Czech writer Franz Kafka — approached She also occasionally returns to do had fought in a war, an unpopular one, and her deck on a recent June day, she calm- her after she won her first major award in detail work at her father's body shop. had in fact already nearly died several 1999, an international "It's good work for a daydreamer," times. For these reasons and a few more he she says. would have been hard-pressed to name, Selected Awards short-story contest spon sored by an Irish publish O'Nell was tempted to call off the replace Gina Ochsner has won 23 literary awards, ment procedure.... including: ing company. A book of Just Having Fun • William Faulkner Award To Ochsner, writing is about more the prize-winning short "Rnding a perfectly fitting heart proved to be • Robert Penn Warren Fiction Prize stories was published than paying the bills. It also lets her even harder than the doctors thought it would • Raymond Carver Fiction Prize / iht using the name of her explore a more spiritual world. She be. For several months O'Neil waited, trying • Fish Short-Story Prize contribution: From the writes in a genre called magic realism, not to think about the tightness in his chest or • Ruth Hardman Award for Fiction Bering Strait. Ochsner where she says "the divine brushes with the person who would have to die in order for • Flannery O'Connor Award (for her used her prize money to the very ordinary." him to have a new heart. But when the phone travel to Ireland with her "Most people don't examine their rang beside his bed one afternoon he knew first book of short stories The husband to meet the lives until absurd, baffling things happen before he even picked up the receiver that It Necessary Grace to Fall) editors. to them," she says. "A lot of people read was the hospital calling, that someone, the Despite his initial con because they don't want to examine their right someone, had at last died." lives. It's an escape. Yet they're willing to ly watches Soren, her 2-year-old , stir her cern, her father is now her No. I fan, All rights reserved e 2000 Gina Ochsner coffee with his toy kitchen utensils fresh Ochsner says. Still, he wishes she'd write examine someone else's life." She's asked if she thinks about how ly discovered in a nearby crib. She drinks a story Brad Pitt could star in. "He tells the beverage, but halts him when he me. This literature is all fine, but the reader will respond to her work as she is writing. attempts to plop Mr. Potato Head's ear Where's the action?'" into the cup. Withnell, a successful Willamette Val "No, never," she says. "I'm just hav On this day, she has had about 20 min ley auto dealer, followed her book sales ing fun. I tell my husband if it stopped utes of writing time to work on her cur ranking on Amazon.com closely and did being fun, I would stop. Life's too short to not do what you love." rent projects — a novel and a piece about his part by buying numerous copies and — Rob Felton polar explorers that will blend history funding the printing of book posters. and fiction. Tomorrow, she hopes for Ochsner says she doesn't want to about the same. Her husband — who know about the sales numbers. "To me, works in construction and occasionally it's a superstitious thing." provides feedback on her writing — han 6

Peacemakersrai,e„ i. UlMle Ea.,See ,.,urn. ,o Conflict open -.arfare .n ».eSpjral Wânt Alumni Board The Oregonian, 02002 Oregonian Publishing Co. E l e c t s M e l u m All rights re.sen'ecl. Reprinted with permission. Brendainvolvement(Bagley) inMelum George Fox'sattributes alumniher board to a relative — albeit a distant one. side the compound Melum says it was the encouragement of Shellsnexploded e a r N a b l u s out i n t h e Steve Hockett, whose aunt — Beth Bagley West Bank, where Allyn — is her grandmother, that first convinced Dhynes and other Christ- her to volunteer. Hockett is the alumni asso Ian Peacemaking Team ciation's past president, and now, two years members stayed for sever after joining the board, Melum Is following in al nights in April. his footsteps. She will guide the board in its Dhynes, 28, of Tigard major objectives for the next two years: had taught at a Quaker engaging nontraditionai alumni and develop school in nearby Ramal- ing regional alumni chapters. Meium's role involves ensuring the board's lah with his wife. Holly, initiatives are accomplished as she leads from 1997 to 2000. He quarterly meetings of the 21 members and of had seen tensions escalate the board's executive committee. She'll also between Palestinians and make committee appointments and partici Israelis in the West Bank pate in alumni events such as homecoming. during those three years, Melum is a program manager for Mentor but he saw open warfare united WE STAN Graphics in Wilsonvilie, Ore. As a student at in April. George Fox, she participated in basketball The Dhyneses returned Allyn Dhynes (right) and Aaron Froelich, Christian Peacemaker Teams delegation rnem- and tennis white earning a bachelor's degree to Tigard in 2000 so that bers, carry a sign as they prepare for a march into Bethlehem's Manger Square. The in business and economics. goal of the delegation was to deliver food to those under curfew in and around the Holly Dhynes could com Church of the Nativity. plete a college degree. while they inspected the vehicle. Allyn Dhynes is working for Atiyeh " G r a n d m o t h e r E f f e c t " Family Weekend '02 Bros. The couple continued to follow He joined a team that was in the West The soldiers didn't permit the van and events in the region they had come to Bank between April 15 and 29. In theo its food supply to proceed. Dhynes said, 22nd annual Family Weekend, Nov. 1-3, Savethe date for George Fox University's know well. ry, the teams have "the grandmother citing "security reasons" without being 2002, an exciting event for parents and fami Allyn Dhynes, who was bom in Beirut effect," he said. "If your grandmother is more specific. lies of George Fox students. and baptized in his mother's Greek in the room, you don't misbehave." He saw physical destruction in Orthodox church when his Indiana-bom However, his team and other interna Hebron and Ramallab, where the infra father taught at American University, tional aid workers weren't always treated structure is virtually gone in the city of moved to Tigard with his parents in like sweet, little, old ladies. Ambulances 200,000 where he had lived two year.s 1985. in the region often were riddled with bul ago. He later became a Quaker, majoring in let holes, Dhynes said, and some aid Yet, Dhynes said, he saw simple international studies at George Fox. workers were warned by Israeli soldiers humanity in the tears we/ling in the eyes War has been abhorrent to him since that their cameras would be smashed if of an Israeli soldier standing guard near his early childhood in Beirut, where he they took photographs. buildings reduced to rubble. experienced Lebanon's civil war, he said. When members of his team joined a The destruction is feeding resent As shooting escalated on the West Bank van driver to travel from one section of ments that already were high because of • Attend some classes and meet the profes earlier this year, Dhynes said, he felt a Nablus to another one night with food for Israeli occupation of territories that sors you've heard so much about. calling of faith to return there. 30 families, they were stopped to await a Palestinians regard as their land, Dhynes • Enjoy the Wind Ensemble concert or see The calling is based on the premise signal to proceed. The signal came, but said. a musical. that Christ wasn't passive in speaking out they were stopped at a second checkpoint "It's a cycle of violence that leads to • Join your student for some great meals against the injustices he saw. To bring by Israeli soldiers who thought Dhynes, suicide bombing, which then gives Israel and laugh at the night of improvisation change, Dhynes said, "we must be whose mother is a Christian Palestinian the motivation to respond with military with Comedy Sports. actively engaged in nonviolence." displaced from Jerusalem in 1948, might action," he said. • Don't miss the fantastic Sunday morning He contacted the Chicago-based be a Palestinian bent on destruction. He has a feeling of pessimism about chapel service. Christian Peacemaking Teams, a project Dhynes and the driver were ordered the future of the West Bank, Dhynes said, For a list of local hotels offering discounts of the Mennonite Church, Church of the out of the van and told to raise their shirts but he also carries feelings of hope. to George Fox families, visit www.georgefox. Brethren and Friends United Meeting, to reveal any weapons or explosives. "Hope is keeping faith in the future edu/parents/heipfuLinfo/newberg/index.html. also known as Quakers. These churches, When they realized he was an American, and trusting that justice will prevail," he in the 500-year-old Anabaptist tradition, Dhynes said, the soldiers seemed embar said. — Janet Goetze oppose military service and violence. rassed and told him to put his shirt down

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Lana Thurston (G74) is the administrative officer for the Boise National Forest in Boise. Idaho. David Baker (G77) is a real estate agent with Premiere Properties in Post Falls. Idaho, and also works as a trainer with Dakotah. a divi sion of West Corporation in Spokane. Wash. Judy (Morris) Wiltlams (n78) has reeently received her real estate license for the stare of Washington. She and her husband. Dennis, are lop-producing realtors with Prudential North west Properties in Battle Ground. Wash. Prior to .selling real estate. Judy was a substitute teacher for Hockinson School District. Judith (Karnes) Casey {GFES80) is assistant professor of psychology at Palm Beach Atlantic College in West Palm Beach. Fla. Her responsibilities include leaching graduate- level students for the mental health, marriage and family, and school guidance specialization tracks, with primary emphasis on the school guidance students. Lee Riiey (G81) is deputy probation officer for the Imperial Courts Housing Development in Compton, Calif. He works specifically in the juvenile justice crime prevention department. Previously, he served in probations in Downey. Calif. Richard Drury (G83) was promoted to corpo rate communications production for Pendleton Thie 2002 Classic Bruin Inductees attended their 50-year reunion May 4, 2002. Members of the class of 1952 partici Woolen Mills, where he designs and manages pated in a celebration dinner, a breakfast sponsored by the Office of Estate and Planned Giving, a campus tour, a the print production of sales collateral and Celebration of Memories reception, and a banquet sponsored by Friendsview Manor. The highlight of the weekend retail displays for Pendleton's four divisions. occurred when 16 alumni donned regalia to lead the procession of graduates In the 7 p.m. commencement ceremo Richard also received an M.S. in management ny, where they were honored by President David Brandt. communication from the University of Port land in May 2000. 9. Paul Puckett Dianne Ellis (G83) works in Portland as a 10. Betty (Street) Hockett Oldest Alumnus desktop publishing specialist for Lingo Sys 11. Gerald Lemmons tems, which translates technical manuals into T u r n s 1 0 0 12. Bud Mardock nearly 50 different languages. She also enjoys 13. Priscilla (Doble) Jeffrey teaching 2- and 3-year-old.s at Four Summits became the only George Fox alumnus to 14. Larry Wyman Ttfissummer, Florence Lienard (G27) Community Church in Vancouver, Wash. hit triple digits. On June 3, the riflcMlnnville, 15. Carol (Gossard) Cobleigh Ron Wolfe (092) was recently hired as Ore., resident became one of an estimated 16. Bill Field Columbia River Bank's commercial loan offi 50,000 to 75,000 American centenarians. But 1. Paul Stanfield 5. Donna Jefferson 17. Clifton Ralphs cer for the Newberg branch. even at 100, Lienard isn't the record-holder 2. Elizabeth Adams 6. Ruth (Hams) Mills 18. Harold Antrim Joe McKenna (G94) is now a full-time staff in her family. Her brother. Arthur, lived to Uie 3. Howard Harmon 7. Frank Starkey 19. Hubert Thornburg member with Young Life in the Tenderloin dis age of 102. 4. Bethlin (Judd) Harmon 8. Lesta (Lewis) Hockett 20. Bill Bales trict of San Francisco. Scott Jensen (G96) was named Region 5 degree. Starting in September 2002, she will Jeffrey (G90) and Barbara (IVIcCuen) (G90) T i m G r a h a m Photographer of the Year by the National Press begin a two-year Equal Access to Justice Fel Lincoln, a girl, Jessica Janay, Jan. 1, 2002, in Photographers Assocatlon. Scott is a photo- lowship at the Legal Aid Farmworker's Pro Hillsboro, Ore. and the Terrible, journalist for KARE-TV, the NBC affiliate in gram in Woodbum, Ore. Scott (G91, MAT94) and Leslie (Herrick) Minneapolis, Minn. Jonathan (GOl) and Jessica (White) (G02) (G93) Curtis, a boy, Mitchell Scott, Sept. 28, Horrible, No Good, Erika Lasater (G96) is working as a Web Kershner live in New Jersey, where Jonathan 2001, in Newberg. de.signer for the Umatilla-Morrow Education will be attending Princeton Theological Semi Kirk (G91) and Debbie (Sitz) (G93) Mylan- Very Bad Day Service District in Pendleton. Ore. nary and Jessica will be attending Rider Uni der. a girl, Ashlyn Kay, May 26,2002, in Port Changzheng (Thomas) Peng (MA96) is dean versity. land. Thisofspring, ChapmanTim GradeGraham School(090), In Sheridan,principal Ore., faced a day so bizarre The New York of cultural and cross-cultural studies at Central Julie R. Smith (GOl) will be leaving in early Tina (Palaske) (G92) and Matthew Lee, a girl, China Normal University in Wuhan, Hubai August to teach in a .small .school for the chil Hannah Joy, April 8, 2002, in Portland. Times Magazine sent out a reporter to ask Province, China. He has authored or co- dren of missionaries working among the him about it. Lisa (Ruvo) (G93) and Jeff Knipe, a girl. authored three books, including English for Turkana in northwest Kenya. On Feb. 21, Graham's school was hit with Noelle Nicole, April I, 2002, in Portland. Iniernaiional Business: Internaiional Market an outbreak of the "mystery rash" that was Brian (G93) and Kathleen Thomas, a boy, place. Marketing Strategies, and Practical receiving intense media attention. School Isaac MacKay, Jan. 29, 2002, in Portland. Language. MARRIAGES children — mainly girls — in two dozen ele Benjamin Spotts (G96) is in India for one and Wendy (Summers) (G95) and Robert Bcuter. mentary and middle schools across the Unit a half years doing work in the high-lech sector Theodore Baldwin (G9I) and Kathleen a boy, Keldon Julius, Jan. 4,2002, in Kirkland, ed States were breaking out simultaneously bui with companies that arc designed to make Goode, March 16. 2002. in Bremerton. Wash. Wash. with Itchy red rashes that disappeared soon an eternal dilTerence. Sally Johnson (G95) and Kent Moore. March Christina (Monckton) (G96) and Bryan after they left school and reappeared when Jennifer Sarduy {G97) graduated from Ore 16. 2002. in Hillsboro, Ore. Woodward, a boy, Peter Andrew. Nov. 24, they returned to school the next day. gon State University's College of Veterinary Jennifer Hawkins (G97, MAT98) and Ber 2001, in Portland. The first day. about 50 Chapman children Medicine May 26, 2002. nard Maurer, Dec. 16, 2001. in Portland. Heidi (Hughes) (G98) and Justin Monuteaiix, complained of the rash — which the children a boy, Elijah Truth, Jan. 22. 2002, in Burien, attributed to everything from anthrax to frogs Scott Goodwill (MBA98) is principal of EYP Amy Daulton (MAT98) and Shane Robinson, Wash. Mi.ssion Critical Facilities inc. in New York Nov. 10, 2001, in Pendleton, Ore. to "mad cow disease" from a raw cafeteria Stephanie Jones (G98), a girl, Beatrice hamburger. City. His responsibilities include project man Christy Regenfuss (G98) and Joshua Brooks. agement, business development, and client Myeisha, born Feb. 13. 1994, adopted Feb. 4, The itching was contagious. "Teachers who maintenance. July 14. 2001. in Kennewick, Wash. 2002, from Monrovia, Liberia. couldn't stop scratching themselves — it's Lisa Bertalotto (G99) and Quinn Mulvany, Marisa (Salinas) Mandujano (G98) graduat very hard when you're seeing all these kids ed from Willamette University College of Law Aug. 4, 2001, in Vale, Ore. scratching — kept telling kids to stop May 12, 2002, with a doctor of jurisprudence Anna Mclnturf (G99) and James Cherian, DEATHS scratching," says Graham. "It was crazy." Nov. 10, 2001, in Ithaca. N.Y. At first, Graham quarantined the children Margaret (Coulson) Dicus (G36), March 31, Jonathan Williams (G99) and Carol Walter indoors, but later was forced to move them Key (GOl). June 8, 2002, in Battle Creek, Mich. 2002, in Newberg. outside as the numbers grew. "News trucks Traciitional graduate Eric Beasley (GOO) and Kareena Combs Cora Sanders (G46), April 27, 2(X)2, in Dun- were here, and the kids started following n Traditional nongraduate canville, Texas. them around trying to get on TV. And I started DPS Department of Professional Studies graduate (G()2). July 21, 2001. in Newberg. Carrie Russo (GOO, MATOl) and Karl Jack Snow (n53), March 12, 2002, in Van getting conspiracy calls — people thinking it (MHR. MOL, and MBIS majors) couver, Wash. was a government cover-up. Something to do 6FES Seminary graduate Thienes, Jan. 13. 2002, in Portland. Ned Wheeler (G63), March 24, 2002, in Casa with 9-11." PsyD Doctor of psychology graduate mat Master of arts In teaching graduate Grande, Ariz. Overwhelmed with calls from concerned MBA Master of business administration graduate BIRTHS Bev Cook Rupp (GFES95), May 21, 2002, in parents, Graham closed Chapman for a week MA Master of arts graduate Dallas. Ore. of scrubbing, Two days after reopening, the MEd Master of education graduate Spencer (n87) and Jill Jones, a boy, Ryan rash was gone. Leamen. March 20. 2002, in Salem, Ore. 8

A Bruised Reputation BRUH^^SPOK^ Ryan Dearinger earned an odd national record by not having the Baseball Proving the old axiom that "good pitching beats good hitting," good sense to dodge pitches that whiz at him at up to 90 miles an hour the Bruins rode a strong pitching staff to a 27-15 season record, a Northwest Conference title at 16-7, and a first-ever win in regional competition. The team finished fourth in the Bruin second baseman Ryan NCAA Division 111 Midwest Regional Tournament. D e a r i n g e r w a s h i t b y 3 3 p i t c h e s t h i s s e a s o n , c o l l e c t i n g a Cory Dixon, a sophomore from Springfield, Ore., earned all- national record and dozens of regional tournament honors. bruises. Late In the season, The NWC Coach of the Year award went to coach Pat Bailey, h i s r e c o r d c h a s e m a d e h i m a the fourth such honor for him. His overall record stands at 191 - m i n o r m e d i a c e l e b r i t y o n l o c a l 97. making him the winningest baseball coach in Bruin history, radio and TV. Second baseman Ryan Dearinger earned RrstTeam All-Con ference honors for the second year in a row, as did junior des ignated hitter Eric Bell of Spokane, Wash. Other Bruins named to the NWC First Team included Dixon, senior center fielder V-' '■ 'w s'-. Travis Maffey of Boise, Idaho, and freshman pitcher Scott Hyde of Grants Pass, Ore. Bell was named to the All-West Region First Team and went on to be Academic All-American.

Softball A season that began with promise and an early 5-2 record soured as the Bruins struggled to score. The women finished at 9-17, with a 6-14 sixth-place Northwest Conference mark. Junior first baseman Cori Wulf of Salem, Ore., was NWC hit ter of the week for her home run and six RBIs in the Pacific twinbill, and junior pitcher Laura Steenson of Milwaukie, Ore., eamed NWC pitcher of the week honors for allowing only one earned run in three games in the SunWest Tourney. Sophomore center fielder Sarah Camp of Hubbard, Ore., received all-conference honorable mention after leading the league with 15 stolen bases, while Steenson was second in the league with 132 strikeouts. Tim Hill completed his second season as the Bruins head coach with a 25-31-2 record.

Men's Tennis The men's tennis team finished with a 2-13 record and eighth place in the Northwest Conference tournament. In 2001, even as a part-time starter, Dearinger led the No. 1 singles player Joe Gonzales, a junior from Roseburg, hitler who kept getting hit by pitches. Most col- conference by getting hit 10 times. In 2002, for every Ore., earned First Team All-Conference honors. No. 2 player Dave Neagle, a freshman from Canby, Ore., posted the best sin Ryan.legeDearinger ba.seballthis spring playersbecame get hitknown fewer as than the five five times he went to bat, he got hit once. Obviously, gles record on the team with a 6-7 mark. time.s in a .season. Dearinger got smacked five times in Dearinger has the technique down. Rick Cruz completed his fourth year as the team's coach one doubieheader. He starts by positioning himself almost on top of with a 16-44 overall record. By the time the 2002 season ended, the senior second home plate. "I do crowd the plate," he says. "But that's baseman had been hit 33 times, collecting dozens of always been my hitting style. Pitchers just have to know Women's Tennis bruises and a curious national record. The previous that if they come inside on me they're taking a chance." A midseason van accident s\owe6 but did not stop members NCAA Division ill single-season record of 29 was held Pitchers who .see Dearinger so close to the plate often of the women's tennis team in their drive toward the best ten by an unfortunate fellow named Luther Headley of Fer- try to back him up by throwing to his side of the strike nis season in Bruin history. rum College (Va.). zone. "You can't back out." he says. "You've got to be The women were 6-3 when the left rear tire of their van "It's not the kind of record you go after intentional willing to hang in there if a pitch is coming at you. blew out during a road trip, injuring seven players and coaches ly." says Dearinger. "Hey, sometimes it hurts." That's not easy when some of the guys in our league can Rick and Rob Cruz. Three players missed the rest of the sea bring it up there at 90 miles an hour, but I've always had son: two others returned only in time for the Northwest Confer Black-and-Blue Baseball a little of that bulldog mentality." ence Tournament. It takes something between courage and recklessness "And finally, you've got to make some sort of effort The Bruins finished seventh in the tournament. They were 8- to stand in one place while a man hurls a very hard to get out of the way — or at least make it look that way 9 overall. projectile at you. Baseballs leave marks. to the umpire. I don't dive into the ball, as some people No. 1 player Lisa Trefts, a sophomore from Spokane, Wash., Baseball season is a tough time to be Ryan have accused me of doing. You've got to twist your was 4-11 and earned First Team All-Conference honors. Dearinger's mother. "The left side of his body took a body away from the pitch or turn your back on it, but Rick Cruz, after two seasons as the women's coach, has a beating," says Gienda Dearinger. "One time I saw his you don't jump back from the plate. You take it in the record of 11 -24. arm and it was swollen up and down. It does bother you back or on the upper arm." as a mom, but I trust he knows what he's doing. He's Cross Country Freshman Jo Boatrightoi Coos Bay. Ore., was named the always been such a competitor." The Scholar-Athlete Dearinger transferred to George Fox from Tacoma Northwest Conference women's track Athlete of the Year, and Taking One for the Team Community College. "George Fox has the whole pack junior Kelsey Baron of Nehalem, Ore., earned All-American hon ors to highlight George Fox's women's 2002 track and field Opposing pitchers didn't try to hit Dearinger. When age," he says. "Athletically, spiritually, academically. I a pitcher hits a baiter, he is penalized by having the bat came here because of good coaching and a strong base season. Boatright captured the Northwest Conference championship ter advance to first base. ball team, a Christ-centered approach to everything that in the 100 and the high jump, and was all-conference In the That's why Dearinger's unique ball magnetism was happens here, and a challenging academic program that stimulates your thinking and learning. I have grown so triple jump, long jump, and heptathlon. She was an NCAA useful to the Northwest Conference champion Bruins. national meet competitor in the 100 and the high jump. much personally that I can't imagine having gone any His on-base percentage was a highly successful .500 — Baron was the NWC winner in the long jump and the triple where else." half the time he faced a pitcher, he ended up on base. jump and placed third in the 4x100 relays, earning all-confer Dearinger was one of the best hitters in the confer A history major and political science minor, ence. She set Bruin records in the long jump (18-06) and triple ence, finishing with a batting average of .346, seven Dearinger this fall will pursue a doctorate at Purdue, jump {30-01}. home runs, and 45 runs batted in. He was selected First focusing on 19th-century political history. He hopes to In the nationals, she long jumped 18-05.75 to finish seventh Team All Conference, Third Team All Region, and First pursue a career as a journalist, author, or professor. for All-American honors and also competed In the triple jump. Team Academic All District. She was named to the Verizon Academic Alt-District VIII (West The Unsoothable Sting Region) Team. The Art of Getting Hit It's debatable what takes more mental toughness: On the men's side, freshman Matt Gassaway of Washougal, A batter cannot try to get hit. Umpires who sense a allowing younself to get hit by a sizzling fastball or hav Wash., tossed the javelin 193-07 in the nationals to finish batter leaned into a pitch — or didn't try to get out of ing the self-discipline to obey one of the sport's odd tra ninth, one spot short of All-American recognition. He was an the way — will not send the batter to first base. ditions. In baseball's macho culture, peer pressure for all-conference performer in the javelin. Sophomore Ben Salis "There's an art to getting hit," says Dearinger, "but bids a struck player from doing what every instinct in bury of Bellingham, Wash., won the NWC 200, competed in that it's not something most players actually work on." his body is crying out for him to do — soothe the sting event at the nationals, and was all-conference in the 400 and Bruin coach Pat Bailey doesn't teach his players how by massaging the point of impact. the 4x100 relay. to get hit. "We talk about how to get out of the way," he Each of Dearinger's 33 trots to first base was accom As a team, the Bruin women placed fourth and the men placed fifth in the NWC championships. Coach Was Cook com says. "When I got hit [as a player], it wasn't fun. You panied by a cheerful dugout chorus of "Don't rub it." Ryan Dearinger never did. pleted his 15th season as the Bruins' track and field mentor. have to be pretty tough to stand in there and get hit. He — Blair Cash and Rob Felton got hammered a couple times."