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Digital Commons @ George Fox University George Fox College Life Archives 7-2002 George Fox Life, July 2002 George Fox University Archives Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/gfc_life Recommended Citation George Fox University Archives, "George Fox Life, July 2002" (2002). George Fox College Life. Book 164. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/gfc_life/164 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. XXXII, NO. 3 JULY 2002 CD + W O s I f 0 * * 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 brittlel i k e a mayr 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 21Mills new Societymembers was so ofrebellious the 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 Ui^iversily. Contributing Writers Blair Cash Anita Ciruiis Rob Felton Janet Goetze Barry Hubbell Photographers PR^IDENT^ 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.