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During his introductions of the ,dignitaries at last Ocrober's Boppell Hall dedication, Whitworth Presi- dent Bill Robinson said of architect Ben Nielsen, "This guy's got his fingerprints all over the campus." As a matter of fact, Nielsen's fingerprints are all over quite a few institutions. An architect for the past 42 years, he worked for North- west Architectural Company and its predecessors for 37 of those years, retiring recently as president of NAC (with offices in Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, and Seattle), and also as managing principal of the Spokane office. NAC has designed six major buildings or projects on the Whitworth campus since the early 1970s, and Nielsen had a primary role in all of them, though he is quick ro ac- knowledge that all were a team effort with the rest of the NAC staff. His first project was the Music Building and his last was Boppell Hall. Between those were the Harriet Cheney Cowles Memorial Library addition and remodel, the Cowles Memorial Auditorium restoration, the Westside Athletics Fields Complex, and the Dixon Hall remodel. In addition to these and a number of smaller projects, Nielsen was also very involved in initial master-plan development for the Whitworth campus in the late 1970s. "This project shaped the campus as you see it today - its road system, circulation patterns, open spaces, building locations, and the Loop - based on visions for a campus of about 2,000 students," says Nielsen. He considers this his ( favorite project at Whitworth because of the complexity and success of the work. "The master-pian project challenged us all to be visionary and future-thinking, and to take some bold steps like changing the entire road and parking system," he says. "During my career I've considered working for Whitworth a unique pr iv i- ... lege and a higher calling," says Nielsen. "In every case, NAC has had the opportunity to work with highly h. h articulate and dedicated faculty/ staff/student building committees, aWl twart and, in more than one instance, t .t ( we also worked with donors who were par ral active and helpful participants in the design process." Ben Nielsen

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16 BREAKINGNEWGROUND Boppell Hall, Whitworth's new $4-million, 29,OOO-square-foot residence hall, contains suire-srvle apartments with kitchenettes, private bathrooms, bay windows, and 84 very happy residents. Chuck, '65, and Karlyn (Allbee), '67, Boppell made the residence hall's construction possible and their namesake's inaugural residents are eagerly shaping its distinct identity for generations to come.

18 A GOODSTEWARDOFITS LANDS Over the past 10 years, the Whitworth campus has undergone striking changes. A facilities master plan, implemented in 1995, has driven improvements that have transformed the ways in which Whitworthians study, live and work. How was the plan conceived? What are the results of its implementation? And what does it mean for the future of Whitworth'

22 A LEGACYOFLEADERSHIP Whitworth's new academic building, named for longtime trustee Dave Weyerhaeuser and his wife, Annette, will feature even more than state-of-the-art teaching and learning spaces. The new facility, located at the center of campus, will also offer resources for the Spokane community and the region to join Whitworth in address- ing important social and spiritual issues.

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On the cover: From left, Whitworth freshmen Alex Hornor, Abby Tucker, April Brast and Dave Thorpe enjoy a cool October afternoon near the front entrance of Boppell Hall. Whitworth's newest residence hall houses 84 students on the northeast corner of campus. Photo by Don Hamilton. editor's note WHITflt H editor Terry Rayburn'Mitchell, '93

hile working on this issue of One of my former works paces is ass ~~N1~le~SJitor W Whitworth Today, I couldn't help kaput. Two are pretty much the way 1 writer/Photographer reflecting on the many places I've left them. One has morphed from ad- artsdirector worked during my IS years at the col- ministrative space into a residence u Chism lege. During that time I've had a taste hall. dne is on the bubble in terms of of all kinds of workspaces, some of which its future. C<2RFl~!?pv.t£rs remain as they were, and some of which So, what are the constants that char- Steve Flegel, ' 89 have been remodeled, renovated, re- acterize my Whitworth experience - and Grace Grabner, ,02 tooled or - in one case - razed. what do they have to do with this issue's Karen Habbestad, '62 In 1983 I began my Whitworth ca- theme? Concern for students is number Dianna Jackson, '92 Victoria Klump, '02 reer in a little office in the basement of one. The workspaces I've mentioned Greg Orwig, '91 Westminster Hall. It had its own rather were tailored to, and, in one case, trans- Garrett Riddle bohemian ambience, not to mention a formed for students. Administrative Mike Rojan capricious ditto machine that occasion- space is important, but student access Naomi Stukey, '03 ally caused the faculty to fly into rages. and convenience are more important. Nathan Timpano, '02 Tad Wisener, '89 And that space is still there, pretty much The former will always exist in service unchanged since my long-ago departure. to the latter. The master plan recognizes In 1986 I moved to an office in this, and so does Whitworth President edk~$?I!g,Ll?I661rd Grieve Hall where, despite the best ef- Bill Robinson. See what Bill says about Kristi Burns forts of the heating and cooling guys, it in his President's Message and in our Marty Erb winters were subtropical and summers feature articles. Gordon Jackson were like something out of Escape from Another constant has been the Terry Rayburn Mitchell, '93 Devil's Island. Man, it was hot in there. amazing work of our information tech- Greg Orwig, '91 Fred Pfursich Grieve bit the dust in 1999, and my nology folks, who've made Whitworth Tammy Reid, '60 heart was not broken. an exciting and rather sophisticated Julie Riddle, '92 In 1990 I moved to the Lindaman Cen- place to work. Without the attention Tad Wisenor, '89 ter, where computer technology caught up paid to technology in the master plan, with me. Folks from that era will remem- we'd have been left in the dusr by admin isdtration ber our clunky DEC Rainbows with their other institutions. Instead, we're keep- -PreSl ent William P. Robinson green/amber screens and anti-intuitive ing pace with the big dogs and lead- operating systems. Now I have a lightning- ing the way for many colleges and uni- Vice President for Institutional Advancement fast Mac 04 and a computerized phone versi ties our size. Kristi Burns that's smarter than I am. And Lindaman Finally, the Physical Plant staff has Director of Communications remains, largely unchanged. been rock-steady in its excellent work Greg Orwig, '91 1994 saw me hitting the trail to over the years. From landscaping to con- Managing Editor of Publications Schumacher Health Center, now struction to maintaining some very Terry Rayburn Mitchell, '93 Schumacher Residence Hall. In 2000, high-maintenance facilities, these folks the college's continuing enrollment have done more with less than many of Winter2002, Vol.70, No.2 surge dictated that the health center us would have imagined possible. would become student housing. So the They're not just workers, they're wizards. Whitworth Today magazine is Publications Office packed up and And Whitworth's students, faculty and published twice annually by Whitworth College, headed off to Hawthorne Hall, which staff benefit every day from the magic Spokane, Washington. was acquired, in part, to provide class- they create. Send address changes to: room and office space during the Dixon I hope you'll enjoy this issue of Whitworth College, MS 1903 renovation. And that's where I sit com- Whitworth Today. 300 West Hawthorne Road posing this message. Spokane, WA 9925/

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FINISHING STRONG: CAMPAIGN IN SPRINT TO FUND WEYERHAEUSER HALL PROJECT When an October gift pushed Whitworth over its $50-million Faith in the Future Campaign goal, nobody broke out balloons and streamers to celebrate. After expressing thanks to the college's faithful donors, staff and volunteers quickly returned their focus to The Whitworth Fund raising the remaining funds needed for the Weyerhaeuser $2,500,000 Hall academic building and other campaign initiatives. $2,000,000 "It is exciting and a real trib- ute to our donors to have reached $1,500,000 our overall financial goal eight months before the end of the $1,000,000 campaign," says Stacey Kamm $500,000 Smith, '86, Whitworth's associ-

ate vice president for inst itu- $0 rtonal advancement and earn- '95-96 '96-97 '97-98 '98-99 '99-00 '00-01 '01-02 paign director. "But we can't re- lax or stop to celebrate, because we still have a lot of ground to cover to complete funding for key individual initiatives, the most important of which is the new academic building." As of Dec. 1, the college had raised $52.7 million during the campaign, ,------...:...-..., which officially ends June 30, Recent gifts of $2 million Faith in the Future Campaign from the Lilly Foundation (see Page 6), $150,000 from (>.rerall Giving a~ of November 30, 2001 CAMPAIGN ON Whitworth Trustee Dave Robblee, '62, and his wife, THE WEB Ann, and $100,000 from the Paccar Foundation helped Check the progress of push the campaign past its overall financial goal. In ad- the Faith in the Future dition, a couple who wish to remain anonymous recently Campaign at made a $260,000 planned gift, bringing their total giv- www.whitworthfuture.com. ing to the college to more than $1.5 million. However, as is the case with many successful cam- paigns, restricted gifts in certain areas enabled the col- lege to meet its overall goal without completely funding individual campaign initiatives, says Vice President for Weyerhaeuser Hall Project Institutional Advancement Kristi Burns. The college still Goat $6,500,000 needs to raise $600,000 for this year's Whitworth Fund, $800,000 for the technology initiative, $500,000 for the endowment and $3.3 million for the academic building. "Our staff and volunteers are working hard to com- plete these individual initiatives," Burns says. "And one of the keys to success will be to increase alumni partici- pat ion in the campaign by achieving our goal of having 30 percent of alumni make a gift each year." In addition to providing critical support for the stretch run ofthe campaign, alumni giving is an important indi- Annual Alumni Giving Rates cator of satisfaction that outside foundations and rank- ing organizations use to evaluate colleges, according to Whitworth President Bill Robinson. "Broad support from those who have experienced a ------<1 Whitworth education first-hand is a wonderful endorse- ~ ment," Robinson says. "Making a gift to the new aca- demic building, which will transform not only the land- scape of the campus but the learning experience of our students, is a great way for alumni to express their satis- faction in the quality of a Whitworth education."

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WHITWORTH RECEIVES $2-MILLION GRANT FROM LILLY ENDOWMENT faculty/staff notes Research shows that landing a good job and advancing in a career don't ultimately satisfy the deep longing most people have to find purpose in their •Jim McPherson (Communication work. Whitworth College has been awarded a $2-million grant from the Lilly Studies) recently wrote Endowment, Inc., to enhance programs that help students develop a stronger chapters for two books and more satisfying sense of vocation by connecting their gifts and abilities and has contracted with with the larger needs of society. Greenwood Press to Whitworth is one of 28 colleges and universities in the country to receive write Journalism at the Lilly Endowment grants totaling $55.3 million to develop programs that en- faculty/staff notes End of the American able young people to draw upon the resources of religious wisdom as they con- Century: 1965-2000. - continued from left • Associate Dean of sider their vocational choices, including careers in ministry. • Richard Stevens Academic Affairs Whitworth President Bill Robinson believes the grant recipients have an (Physics)presented two Gordon Jackson opportunity to train a generation of young people for "life as ministry" that papers at the Interna- recentlypublished his will transform places of work and worship in powerful ways. tional Electric Propul- fourth book, A "This initiative has the potential to infuse culture with thousands of people sion Conference aspart Compact Guide to of his researchgrant trained to bring spiritual and social redemption to a world crying for meaning Discovering God's with NASA. and justice," he says. "I honestly believe that the people of the Lilly Endow- Will (NavPress)' This • Midlands' Mysteries, spring, Jackson will ment can lock up their offices at the end of the day knowing that the programs a modern version of a teach in the University they are supporting with this funding will have a huge impact on making a medieval English of Pittsburgh's Semester better world." religious cycledrama, by at Sea program. The Lilly Endowment grant will enable Whitworth to strengthen its DougSugano (English), will bestaged Jackson's wife, Sue longstanding commitment to preparing students for church leadership; the at Gonzaga University (Off Campus college already is a top feeder school to Princeton, Fuller and other leading Programs), will take in April • Laurie seminaries. But the five-year project - Discerning Vocation: Community, part as a guest lecturer, Lamon, '78 (English), and the Jacksons' two Context and Commitments - is aimed at encouraging all students to ex- had threepoems children, Sarah and plore the theological implications of their life commitments and voca- published in Arts & Matthew, will join tional choices, regardless of whether they pursue careers in ministry. Letters Journal of them on the voyage. Contemporary • The Gospel FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO RWANDA SPEAKS AT WHITWORTH Culture .• Linda Lawrence Hunt, '78 According to Mark, a As Americans struggled to come to terms with the Sept. 11 terrorist at- commentary M.A. T. (English), won by tacks, a U.S. diplomat who witnessed another brutal chapter in the history of Religion Professor a Bronze Award from James Edwards, '67, human conflict brought Whitworth a message of Justice, Forgiveness, Peace: the Council for will be published in The Moral Challenge of Genocide. Advancement and 2002 by Eerdmam as David Rawson, former U.S. ambassador Support of Education for part of its Pillar New to Mali and Rwanda, was America's point her essa)\A Terrible Testament Commentary person in Rwanda during the civil war that Beauty: Love and Loss in Bolivia,about the Series.• Trombonist re-ignited between the country's two largest Richard Strauch and death of her daughter, ethnic groups in the early 1990s. More than cellistRoberta Botelli Krista Hunt Ausland. (Music) auditioned for 800,000 people died in just 100 days in the • A lithograph and and were selected to join conflict, designated an "official genocide" by intaglio print, Lucy in the Spokane Symphony the United Nations. Rawson stands at the the Corset, by Scott Orchestra.• A drawing, nexus of a smoldering controversy about Kolbo (.Art), was selected White: Night #1 L by what Americans knew of the mass killings, for the Springfield Art Museum's Prints U.S.A. Gordon Wtlson (Art) when they knew it, and what, if anything, received a Best in 2001 exhibit .• Wendy America could have done to minimize the Drawing Award at Art Olson, director of loss of life. &zgeous 2001, a Rawson financial aid, was festival of Christian WhItworth Psychology Professor James electedpresident of the artists held during the Waller, a nationally recognized scholar and author on race relations and gene- Washington Association annual Cornerstone cide, says Rawson's perspective and message were especially relevant to those of Financial Aid Festival in Bushnell, IlL seeking to understand the Sept. 11 attacks. Waller addresses the same issues in Administrators. • Graphic designer Another cfhis drawings his upcoming book, Children of Cain: How Ordinary People Commit Extraordi- was selectedfor an Arvita Mott is serving nary Evil, to be released in early 2002 by Oxford University Press. exhibit in the Paris on the communications Gibson Square Rawson's lecture was sponsored by Whitworth's Weyerhaeuser Center for committee for Spokane Museum of Art in Christian Faith and Learning and by Partners International, a Spokane-based Mayor John Powers' Great Falls, Mont. Christian organization that supports indigenous ministries in the least- Opportunity Council on - continued at right Christian regions of the world. Prosperity.

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WHITWORTH RESPONDS TO SEPT. 11 When the shock of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks hit Whitworth, President Bill Robinson encouraged the campus community to "take care of their hearts" by spending time with close friends, talking, praying and COMING SOON... meditating about the day's sor- Whitworth President row. Robinson stayed in close Bill Robinson will speak at the following contact with students, sending events over the next e-mails throughout the day several months: and following up the next o Feb. 1, Spokane, morning with an invitation to Habitat for Humanity meet at the Robinson home Builders Breakftst for small-group discussions o Feb. 12, Whitworth, Spring Convocation. about the tragedy. (The text will be "We wan t to walk through available on the these days as a community, of- president's home page at fering whatever care, support www.whitworth.edul and prayer we can," Robinson president.} said in one of his e-mails. o Feb. 13, Spokane While classes were not can~ Association of celed on Sept. 11, most pro- Insurance and Financial Advisors fessors replaced lesson plans with discussion and prayer, and the chapel main- The community Banquet tained extended hours for staff and students to gather. The campus community gathers in the Loop o Feb. 26, Portland, carne together again three days later in the Loop for the National Day of Prayer for a noon-hour service to Council for the declared by President George W. Bush. commemorate the Advancement and In the weeks and months that followed, the Whitworth community reached events o[Sept. 11. Support of Education out in various ways to the victims of the attack. The Associated Students of Participants include district conference. Whitworth College (ASWC) raised more than $2,500 for the American Red Whitworth employees (Robinson received the Barbara Grigsby district's 2001 Cross through a variety of fund-raisers. More than 109 donors participated in and Peggy Brown Distinguished an October blood drive on campus, with many others turned away for medical (left). Below, Proftssor Leadership Award.) reasons. The English Department also hosted a daffodil dig on Veteran's Day, o[ English Doug • March 15, Spokane, planting more than 1,800 bulbs in the Westminster Courtyard in honor of the Sugano and Luke Providence Services Sept. 11 victims. Parker, 3, son of Annual Governance The college instituted heightened security precautions for international stu- Assistant Professor of Conference dents and for handling campus English Pamela o March 17, Palm Corpron Parker '81, Desert, Calif., Palm mail. After careful consider- prepare to plant Desert Community ation, however, the administra- daffodils during the Presbyterian Church tion decided not to cancel study English Department's o May 14, Spokane, tours in Jan Term and spring. Daffodil Dig on Junior League of Students were allowed to with- veteran's Day. Spokane annual draw from the tours without fi- meeting nancial penalties, and some tours o May 28-29, Whitworth, Spokane did not meet their enrollment re- Mayor John Powers' quirements. Opportunity Council As the fall semester came to on Prosperity One a close, the campus seemed to be Spokane Summit. adapting to the post-Sept. 11 re- (Robinson is co-chair alities.1n his November Of Mind of the council.) & Heart newsletter, Robinson Note: Robinson was wrote, "I think the human ca- recentlyprofiled in a pacity to adapt moderates the Spokesman-Review trauma of life-changing events. cover story, which can be viewed on the At a remarkable speed, the en- president's home page at vironment changes, our behav- www.whitworth.edul ior adapts, and our psyches knit president. things back together."

Whitw°'t8-4ag7 - grant notes «Dele Soden (History/Weyerhaeuser Center) received a $5,000 grant from Principal Financial to fUnd Project Get Ready, grant notes a program for at-risk - continued from left and minority high- ·Jim Walkr school students. (Psychology) is rhe • Richard Stevens 2002 recipient of a (Physics) received a $56,000 Lilly Fellows $115,339 National Program Summer Science Foundation Seminar for College grant to purchase an Teachers Award to host argonfluoride narrow- a seminar, Deliver us band laser; he also from Evil:Genocide received a $28,085 J and the Christian ~ NASA grant, Testing ~ World, fOr fOculty and Validation of a ~ from 12 Lilly network Spectroscopic Method institutions .• Dennis Associate Professor of Math and Computer Science Kent Jones works with students Tim to Analyze Carbon Sterner (Education) Etters and Tausha Gunn on a computer simulation using new high-performance Dell Grid Erosion in Ion workstations acquired under a National Science Foundation researchgrant awarded to received a $71,594 Thrusters .• Bryan Assistant Professor of Math and Computer Science Susan Mabry. granr from the U.S, Priddy (Music) Department of received a $15,000 Education toprovide grant from the wasmer GRANT SUPPORTS WHITWORTH RESEARCH ON 'SMART' COMPUTING teacherswith English- Foundation for his Doctors may one day be assisted - or replaced - by "intelligent" computers as-a-second-language spring choral concert, that monitor and analyze patients' vital signs and other data to support diag- training in partnership Reflections. The nosis and treatment decisions. with Spokane District foundation also Whitworth Assistant Professor of Math and Computer 81 and Education contributed a $25,000 Science Susan Mabry has been awarded a $188,000 Na- Service District 101. grant to the Music • The Fluke Corpora- tional Science Foundation grant supporting research and Department to tion, through the purchase hardware and development of intelligent software agents, or "softbots," Independent Collegesof software for the music that form the brains of so-called "smart" computers. The Washington, provided theory and composition grant funds equipment for faculty and students as well as a $50,877 in-kind lab and to restorea supporting research involving intelligent agents, adaptive equipment donation to Steinway grand piano. neural networks and genetic programming. Whitworth's biology, • Kent Jones (Math! "It can be daunting to monitor and make sense of the physics, chemistry Computer Science) and computer science Mabry large number of continuously changing data streams in received 0$4,439 departments .• Ken Xilinx Corporation complex systems such as medical environments and large industrial plants," Pecka, '80 (Instruc- grant to purchase Mabry says. "There has been a lot of interest in recent years to have automated tional Resources), hardware and software. programs manage information flow in these complex systems." received a $5,000 • Randy Michaelis Mabry, who helped develop integrated medical systems for the Northrop- Teaching with and Barb Sanders Grumman Corporation's Advanced Technologies Division before coming to Technologygrant from (Education) received a Whitworth, says that a growing synergy between molecular biology and com- \ferizon through the $5,200 grant from the Independent Collegesof puter science has opened new possibilities for intelligent computing. Whitworth Washington State Washington .• Rick Office of the Superin- Associate Professor of Math and Computer Science Kent Jones specializes in Hornor, '70 tendent of Public the research and development of neural networks, patterned after neurobio- (Theatre), received a Instruction tofurther logical systems, that adapt to stimuli and changes in the environment. Mabry's $7,000 grant from collaboration with research has focused on intelligent agent structures and on genetic program- Foundation Northwest secondary-methods ming, which uses natural selection processes to generate "smart" code to oper- fora summer teachers and with ate in continuously changing environments such as operating rooms and other performing-arts camp. Spokane-area teachers • The Religion medical arenas. and principals in the Department received School of Education's "There is an interest in some circles to fully automate certain levels of deci- a $2,000 academic- new extended- sion-making with respect to patient care," Mabry says. "My attitude is that resourcesgrant from the placement program. intelligent computing has great potential to inform and support decision-mak- Presbyterian Church - continued at right ing, but not to replace the doctor." (U.SA.). whitworth

WHITWORTH, NATION CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK As Whitworth students representing 26 countries took part in a week of cultural activities culminating in the college's 16th annual International Ban- WHITWORTH quet, they were joined by the rest of the country. The federal government offi- WELCOMES cially declared Nov. 12-16 lnrernarional Educarion Week In recognirion of SEVEN GATES whar U.S. Secrerary of Srare Colin Powell de- FOUNDATION scribed as the strategic role of international edu- SCHOLARS cation and exchange "in strengthening our nation An innovative and our relations with other countries." scholarship program Continuing a long tradition of international }itnded by Microsoft fiunder Bill Gates and student programs, Whitworth celebrated Inrerna- his wift, Melinda, tiona I Education Week with a series of entertain- threw open the ment and learning opportunities including two windows of opportu- guest speakers, an international fashion show and nity for seven the college's renowned International Banquet. Whitworth freshmen Whitworth requires all students to take a cross- this fill. The $100- cultural studies course and offers dozens of inter- million scholarship program is part of a national study tours and exchange programs that decade-long initiative take students to the far reaches of the globe. And, to help lower-income for one week each year, the college celebrates the students in Washington many ways in which the world - including state gain access to Whitworth's 82 international students representing countries from South Ko- Erisa Ishida, a senior higher education. rea and India to France and the Ukraine - comes to campus. from Kinjo Gakuin Whitworth's Gates "The presence of international students on our campus expands the hen- University in Nagoya, Foundation Scholars zons of every student, faculty and staff member in the Whitworth community," japan, who is studying are among 1,076 at Whitworth this year, says Judy Lang, director of Whitworth's English Language Program. "In es- Washington state serves an entree at the students who were sence, the SO-plus international students on our campus have come a long way annual International selected in 2001 as the to bring the world to us. Because they live in our residence halls and sit beside Banquet. first recipients of the us in our classes, we are enriched as a community." four-year scholarships, which range from $1,000 to $6,400 per year, says Scholarship IN TRAGEDY'S WAKE Program Officer Whitworth's fall theatre production of Pamila Gant. Steven Dietz's God's Country, a Scholarship [unds, documentary-style drama about a which can be applied Pacific Northwest militant group to any public or affiliated with the Aryan Nations, private college or addressed issues of hate and violence in university in Washing- the name of religion - subjects that held ton, are awarded special meaning after the Sept. 11 following a rigorous attacks. Klansmen (played by senior screening process that Zach Brown, background, and includes a written freshman Matt Hecht) light a cross application, school and flanked by two guards (seniorjosh community references, Nellesen, background, and freshman and a leadership camp. Seth Ambrose) at an Aryan Nations Whitworth's inaugural rally. In addition to staging the play, Gates Foundation Whitworth hosted public events to Scholars areJennifer facilitate discussion about racism, white Miner and Seth supremacy and hate crimes. 'As we read Sather of Spokane; about assaults on Arab-Americans and Angela Akre and other non-whites since the terrorist Shawnna Midland attacks, perhaps it is useful to be of Stevenson; Gregory reminded that hatred and religious Annis and Sheila fanaticism do not always comefrom Sutherland ofYelm; beyond our borders,"saysAssociate and Ernestcarl Professorof Theatre Diana Trotter, Policarpio of who directed the play. Lakewood. student notes • Eight Whitworth student musicians won top honors in the National Association of Teachers a/Singing student notes collegiate competition - continued from left held at Washington • Tyson Jensen, '03, State University. First- sang the role of Zuniga, place winners were a prominent character Angela Hunt, '02, in Bizet's Carmen, at ]onelyn Lzngenstein, the Washington Opera- '03, and Daisy Nau, East in Kennewick. '05. Others who placed • Steven in the top three include Kollmansberger, '02, Sandra Agans and and faculty member Meghann Reynolds, The Whitworth Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Richard Strauch, front left, is Susan Mabry wrote a both '02, Christopher preparingfor its spring tour, which will include a selectperformance at the College Band paper, DNA-MAS: A Teague. '04, and Directors National Association Conference. Genetically Pro- Heather Botts and grammed Multi- Lindsay Delmarter, NATIONAL GROUPS HONOR WHITWORTH WIND ENSEMBLE, CHOIR Agent System, that both '05. More than College music directors will get a double dose of Whitworth's music excel- was accepted by the 150 participants from lence this spring. The regional divisions of both the American Choral Direc- International Associa- nine regional colleges tors Association and the National College Band Directors Association have tion fir Science and took part in the selected Whitworth groups to perform at their annual conferences. Technology competition. It's unusual for an ensemble from a school the size of Whitworth to be Development's • Whitworth's Conference on invited to perform for these events and even more unusual for two groups Leadership Studies Intelligent Systems and class (LS 350) camped from the same school to be selected in the same year, according to Richard Control. • Fourteen in the Loop and fasted Strauch, associate professor of music and director of the Whitworth Wind international students, to raise more than Ensemble. But accolades are nothing new for Whitworth's music program. under the guidance of $4,000, including a In addition to previous invitations to perform at the regional conferences of ftculty member Greg matching grant from college music directors, Whitworth groups have been selected numerous times Brekke (ELF), tutor the Shupper Family to perform for the All-Northwest and All-State Music Educators conven- Holmes Elementary Foundation, for the School children each tions, and the Whitworth Jazz Ensemble regularly cleans up at the Lionel Bunna people of week aspart of the Ethiopia. Participants Hampton Jazz Festival. Homework Helpers included seniors "The Whitworth Music Department has a long-standing tradition of excel- program at Westminster Robyn Bowman, lence," says Bryan Priddy, assistant professor of music and director of the Church .• Juniors Kelli Katie Rice and Whitworth Choir. "Opportunities to perform at such conventions validate this Kaufman, Kelsey Andrew Garretson, excellence." Strauch adds: UWe've been fortunate to attract some wonderful Rice and Kevin Lind, and juniors Chris student musicians who are looking for the advantages of a small-college atmo- sophomore Mark Irvine, Michael Baker, alum Scott sphere but who don't want to sacrifice a good musical experience. They get Morlock, Ryan Pugh, Enbom, '01, and Karen Robnett, Matt both at Whitworth." staffers Mary Ann Shupper, Brad The Whitworth Choir is one of six college choirs selected by anonymous Barong and Jane Simcox, EmmyLou audition tape to perform at the 2002 American Choral Directors Association Nielsen mentored Taylor and Zach Northwest Division Convention in Tacoma, Wash., March 6~9.The Whitworth elementary school Wasser .• Rose Sliger, Wind Ensemble, one of eight college bands from the Western U.S. to be in- students from Mead '02, delivered a paper vited to perform at the 2002 College Band Directors National Association during the 2000-01 on Edith Wharton at schoolyear aspart of Northwestern/Western Division Conference, will perform March 22 at the the Rocky Mountain the school-based Modern Language University of Nevada-Reno as part of the group's spring tour. mentoring program Association meeting in For information about the spring tour and performance schedules for the sponsored by Big vancouver, B. C. choir and wind ensemble, please consult the Whitworth Music Department Brothers/Big Sisters of - continued at right website at www.whitworth.edu/music. Spokane.

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SCHOLARSHIP PRINCETON THEOLOGIAN, FORMER WHITWORTH DEAN SPEAKS RIND HONORS Darrell Guder, currently the Henry Luce Professor of Missional and Ecu- SLAIN TROOPER menical Theology at Princeton Seminary and formerly dean of the faculty at Whitworth fiends and Whitworth) returned to campus recently for classmates of late a pastors' forum and lecture on the state of Wt1Shington State the church in North America. TrooperJames Guder, a leading theologian on church Saunders, '90, have missions and evangelism, spoke to a large au- established a scholarship in his name. Saunders dience in the campus chapel on Mission in a was killed in the line o[ Strange Land: Christian Calling in Post- duty two years ago while Christian America. making a traffic stop in Guder, who served a' Whitworth from 1985 Pasco, Wash. A total of to 1992, was joined by Craig Van $25,000 has been raised Gelder) professor of congregational orpledged to establish a mission at Luther Seminary in permanent scholarship endowment. Once the St. Paul, Minn., for a subsequent lee- outstanding pledges have ture and pastors' forum on the na- been fUlfilled, the Guder ture of church missions and evan- endowment will provide gelism in North America. The forum was sponsored by Whitworth)s annual fUndingfor the Weyerhaeuser Center for Christian Faith and Learning, which organizes James Saunders a variety of programs and research to promote the integration of faith Endowed Memoria! and learning among faculty, students, clergy and latty. Scholarship. Additional gifts to the fUnd will "The forum is one of many initiatives undertaken by the increase the value of the Weyerhaeuser Center and Whitworth to address important issues scholarship. 'Jim; ftmily facing the church and society," says Dale Soden) director of the and friends are truly Weyerhaeuser Center. Van Gelder humbled by the For more information about the Weyerhaeuser Center) visit the center's overwhelming SUppOTt of website at www.whitworth.edu/faithcenter. the Whitworth community in helping to make this scholarship a reality" says Mark Honeycutt, '90, a fiend o[Saunders who helped coordinate the fUnd-raising effirt. 'm hope the scholarship can lessen the financidl burden ftr Whitworth students who reflect Jim's values and can also preserve Jim's spirit within the institution. " Saunders decided shortly after arriving at Whitworth topursue a career in law enftrce- ment. Bifore being commissioned by the statepatrolin 1991, he served in a unit that LIVE FROM WHITWORTH, IT'S STEVE TURREI provides securityfor the Steve Turre, a master jazz trombonist who has performed with the Saturday Night governor. Gov. Gary Live Band since 1984, joined the award-winning Whitworth College Jazz Ensemble Locke spoke at Saunders' Nov. 10fir an evening of Saturday-night jazz. Named Trombonist of the Jear in fUneraL,expressingthe 2000 by Down Beat magazine, Turre has recorded 10 CDs and performed with personal lassheflit at the such jazz greats as Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, U700dyShaw and Max Roach. In death o[ the dedicated addition to the Saturday-evening performance, which featured an energetic Turre on patrolman. Saunders is the conch shells as well as the trombone, Turre conducted a clinic fir Whitworth survived by his wife, students and the general public. That's ensemble director Dan Keberle at right. Billie, and their two young children. WHITWORTH SCIENTIST JOINS MAJOR RESEARCH PLAYERS Whitworth is keeping prestigious scientific company these days, thanks to Assistant Professor of Physics Richard Stevens' recent research grants from the National Science Foundation and NASA to study a promising new thruster technology for spacecraft. Whitworth joins Stanford, MIT, the Univer- sity of North Carolina and other major research universities as the only non-Ph.Et-granting in, stitution contracted under NASA's electric pro' pulsion research program. Despite the consider, able promise that electric pfopulsion systems have shown in NASA's Deep Space 1 mission and in several commercial satellite launches, Stevens says that much more information is needed to un- SCHOLAR OF derstand fully their performance characteristics BARD AND THE and operating lifetimes. BIBLE IS 2001·02 Stevens' latest NASA grant of$28,000, his 10th REDMOND external research grant in three years, will enable READER the scientist and his students to continue their work testing laser spectroscopy Assistant Professor of Prolific Shakespeare as a method to analyze erosion in electric thrusters. The $115,000 National Physics Richard scholar and author Science Foundation grant - which was awarded to Stevens and his wife, Asso- Stevens describes a Steven Marx was ciate Professor of Chemistry Karen Stevens - funds a scientific laser that will researchproject using a vacuum chamber in Whitworth,2001-02 be the only one of its kind in Spokane and will enable researchers from Ada Redmond Reader: his laboratory to Whitworth and other academic and industrial laboratories in the region to Hosted by the English simulate conditions Department, Marx conduct enhanced experiments on campus. in space. presented an evening "There's an expectation by the National Science Foundation for something lecture on Shakespeare's scientifically useful and significant - new knowledge - to come out of this The Tempest and its grant," Richard Stevens says. "That says a lot about the confidence they have connection to the books in Whitworth's research program." of Genesis and Revelation in the Bible. Sixteenth Century Journal hailed Marx,' Shakespeare and the Bible (OxfOrd University Press,2000) asfirst-rate scholarship, saying that the book contains "usefUlinsights into how Shakespeare mined scripturefor characterization, theme, allusion, and even dramatic structure, in six major plays. " ProfessorEmeritus Howard Redmond established the Ada FUTURE TEACHERS LEARN FROM THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS Redmond Readings in More than 200 high-school students, many.from under-represented ethnic minorities, 1988 to commemorate visited campus this fall for the third annual conference of the Future Teachers of his mother's love of Color and Teacher Academy. Above, students wear laugh-provoking labels on their literature and poetry. foreheads in an exercise exploring the hazards of labeling others. Many of the Since its inception, the participants are part of the Spokane School District's Teacher Academy, which enables serieshas attracted some high-school students interested in teaching careers to take a specialized teacher- of the region'sfinest preparation course and spend time assisting in an elementary classroom. Under the writers, including theme Youth Leaders Look to the Future, the 2001 Teacher Academy included William Staffird, Ruth opening remarks .from Whitworth President Bill Robinson and Spokane Kirk, Sherman Alexie, Superintendent of Scbools Brian Benzel, as well as leadership activities and small- and TessGallagher. group discussions led by K-12 teachers and Whitworth faculty.

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and investments? Examples abound. Not Whitworth's resources stands close to Here at long ago I asked Ken Pecka, '80, head the top of trustee duties, and they have of instructional resources, where he fulfilled these duties superbly. We are Whitworth, thought we were on the continuum of more than grateful for their leadership. technology resources in colleges and It is also important to recognize that with- universities. Ken replied that we are out Vice President for Business Affairs we build definitely above the middle and defi- Tom Johnson and his team, we would not nitely not at the top. I then asked where be where we are, nor would we get where students we are strongest, compared to other we're going. Tom and his crew have had schools. "Our classrooms," he replied. countless opportunities to make bad de, recently received a very generous Right now, 27 of 3 7 classrooms sched- cisions, and I'm grateful to be able to say e-mail from a Whitworth student, uled for upgrades include fully net- that they missed them all. Iwho wrote, "I just wanted to worked computers, VCRs and fixed If you are like me, I know you have thank you for your commitment to the high-resolution LCD projectors. found yourself on the third day of a va- lives and education of us students here Within a couple of years, all 37 will be cation wondering if whoever vacuumed at Whitworth. Looking across the fully equipped, as will the classrooms your hotel room might have gotten too Loop right now at the new blanket of coming online in Weyerhaeuser Hall. close to your wallet. Well, the famed snow, reflecting on the wealth of SO~ Ken finds such pervasive technology "Where did that money go?" question cial, intellectual and spiritual oppor- support rare. Many colleges and univer- that I've asked about my billfold is one [unities available here, I am grateful sities that boast greater video I have never asked about the $30+ mil- to be a part of this dynamic organism conferencing and specialized technol- lion we have invested over the past called Whirworth.ll ogy capacity fall short of the classroom eight years in Whitworth's physical The theme of this Whitworth Today resources that Whitworth enjoys. Why? plant. I'm astonished by all we have is More than Bricks and Mortar: Building Because we believe that technology, been able to do through good planning for the 2 I sr Century. When I hear "build- like fitness centers and dining halls, and the great architects and builders ing" used as a verb in reference to exists to support student growth. Criti- we've employed. We are not close to Whitworth, I automatically think of rhe cal learning connections between fac- being done, but we thank God for the same things this student highlightso so- ulty and students take place in class- progress we've made. cial, intellectual and spiritual opportu- rooms, and we want our faculty to have In assembling this issue of Whitworth nities for our students. the best roo Is available. Today, the contributors brought to the At Whitworth, "building," the noun, In the weeks between being chosen task many opinions and perspectives. is simply the space we supply in order to Whitworth's presidenr-elecr and actu- But there is one belief that all of us share. do "building," the verb. But what an as- ally showing up for work, I felt rather It is found in the warning of the Psalm- signment we give our buildings! By ask- meek about making requests. I did, how- ist: Unless the LORD builds the house, ing them to support the construction of ever, make two. I asked for money to be those who build it labor in vain. Unless the social, intellectual and spiritual growth, set aside in the 1993-94 budget for my LORD watches over the city, the watch- we make buildings our partners in the newsletter and I requested funds for a man stays awake in vain (PS. 127:1). In sacred task of educating students. Thus, facilities master plan. In this issue of all of our projects, we have been faith- our planning, design, construction and Whitworth Today, you will read about the ful in seeking God's guidance. And as maintenance of Whitworth's physical exciting work that emerged from the one of Whitworth's "watchmen," I can plant is driven by the goal of building plan we commissioned in 1994. It is stay awake with confidence that God is students more than of building build- important to point out that both the watching over all the good building go- ings. And for that reason, above all oth- approval and the financial support of ing on in the lives and confines of ers, we are committed to excellence in Whitworth's careful planning have been every nail we pound, every brick we lay, driven by our board. Whitworth's trust, and every beautiful flower we plant. ees have stepped up to their fiduciary Wh"~"7i'f2J:.-- What difference does it make to be responsibility in driving the capital student, driven in our capital planning growth of the college. Overseeing

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AWESOME AUTUMN: Whitworth reigns in NWC In Whitworth's best fall athletics sea- Pacific Lutheran - a game in which the best players in Division Ill: she was cho- son in decades, the football, volleyball Bucs, showing the heart that had led them sen NWC Player of the Year and was and men's soccer teams brought home to five come-from-behind regular-season also named AVCA first-team All- Northwest Conference championships victories, rallied from a 20-3 halftime defi- America, becoming only the second and made their first forays into NCAA cit to force overtime. Though the game's Whitworth athlete to be so honored. Div. III regional playoffs. "It has been outcome, a 27,26 FLU victory, was a Kristen Turner and Lindsey Wagstaff wonderful for our teams [Q experience heartbr~aker, the Bues aren't daunted. Of- received first-team All-NWC honors, competitive success as they did this fall," fensive Coach Kirk Westre says that the and Wagstaff and Weatherred will be says Athletics Director Scott team is ready to build upon its success in back next year. With four starters return- McQuilkin, '84. "OUf programs are 2002. "Now that the guys understand ing, 2002 could be another banner year very, very good right now. But even more about what it takes to play at this for volleyball. more important than our victories is the level," Westre says, "their expectation is fact that our student-athletes and that this kind of success will be an annual coaches had wonderful experiences that thing for Whitworth football." created unforgettable memories." VOLLEYBALL Building upon the increasing excite, ment of its past two seasons, the volley' ball team (19-6 overall, 14-2 NWC) earned its first NWC title since 1991 to advance to the NCAA West Region playoffs. To tie UPS for the conference championship, the Bucs had to pull out all the stops on the Loggers' home court. Trailing two games to none in a hostile gym, Whitworth rallied to win three MEN'S SOCCER straight games and pick up the Pirates' The Bucs used their unyielding de- first title in a decade. Steve Rupe, voted fense, spurred by first-team NWC hon- NWC Coach of the Year by his confer- orees Doug Lupton and Matt Stueckle ence colleagues, says of his resurgent (also chosen NSCAA second-team FOOTBALL squad, "This year's title was the pinnacle All-America), to grab Whitworth's first The Bues took home some major of three years of work. As I look back NWC title since 1992. Pirate defend- hardware after the football program's on our season and the teams we played, ers allowed only I3 goals in 21 total best season since disco was king. In ad- we were probably one of the top five or matches and recorded 13 shutouts dur- dition to winning their first conference six programs in the nation." Julie ing this breakthrough season. "We de- title since 1975, compiling their best Weatherred was definitely one of the fend as a team from front to back," says record (7-2 overall, 4-1 NWC) since Head Coach Sean Bushey. "Sticks 1972, and reaching the playoffs for the (Stueckle) was definitely our leader, first time since 1960, the Bues won a and the goalkeeping from Doug truckload of post-season honors, includ- Lupton and Ben Oakley was absolutely ing the "big three"; John Tully was brilliant from beginning to end." The named NWC Coach of the Year, quar- men (14-5-2 overall, 10-3-1 NWC) ad- terback Scott Biglin won NWC Offen- vanced to the NCAA West Region fi- sive Player of the Year honors, and line- nals, where they lost, 1-0 in overtime, backer Doug Edmonson was chosen to national championship runner-up NWC Defensive Player of the Year and University of Redlands. Bushey, who was selected to play in the NCAA Div. says, "The success of this year's team is 1Il All-Star Game. Altogether, 20 Pi- the reward for the work pur in not only rates were selected for NWC honors. by these players but by the ones who The Pirates' prize for their first-place preceded them," joined his Whitworth tie in the conference was a playoff game foorball and volleyball colleagues as in the Pine Bowl with perennial power Weatherred NWC Coach of the Year.

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IN OTHER SPORTS NEWS ... Women's soccer ended the season in a fourth-place tie in the NWC stand- ings. The Bucs finished the year 7-10-1 overall, 5-8-1 in the NWC. After a tough six-match losing streak early in the season, the Pirates rebounded and finished their season with a win and a tie on the road. Team leaders included senior midfielder Grace Grabner, a starter during each of her four years at Whitworth, who will graduate in May. Helen Higgs' women's basketball team is young, exciting and ready to roiL Eight of the 12 players are either freshmen or sophomores. The Bues won two of three games in Southern California to open the season and earned Higgs I her lOOth Whitworth victory, making her the winningest women's hoops coach in Whitworth history. The women currently stand at 3-2. Senior Erica Ewart has been scoring up a storm, and some great freshmen, including Sarah Shogren, NELSON RACES Dani Bielec and Tiffany Speer, are making their presence known. TO DIVISION III As men's basketball moves into the Jim Hayford era, the Bucs stand 4~1, CHAMPIONSHIPS with their only loss coming at Linfield (89-87) in the NWC opener. The Sophomore Leslie Pirates won the first-ever Whitworth Hawaiian Invitational, defeating Drew Nelson became the first Whitworth cross- University (N.].) and North Park University (Ill.) handily to take the title. country runner to Bryan Depew, Gunner Olsen and Chase Williams were named to the all- qualify for the NCAA tournament team. Division III champi- onships. She finished The swim teams continue to excel. In full-squad meets the Pirate men are 120th out 0/215 undefeated this season and the women's only loss was to NCAA Division II finishers at the meet, Central Washington. Senior Brent Rice and sophomore Kevin Wang are which was hosted by posting times that show promise for repeat individual All-America perfor- Augustana College in mances. They and two other men have already earned NCAA qualtfying Rock Island, !II. times, with Wang picking up the only automatic mark, in the 400 LM., and Nelson led the Pirate women to afOurth- hitting provisional marks in the 500 and 1,650 freestvles. Other provisional place finish at the qualifiers were Rice, in the 200 and 400 LM. events; junior Ryan Freeman, NCAA west Regional in the 100 backstroke; and freshman Cory Bergman, in the 200 breaststroke. championships, tying On the women's side, freshman Serena Fadel was a provisional qualifier in for the Pirates' highest- the 400 l.M. ever team finish.

HERITAGE GALLERY INDUCTS THREE The Whitworth Heritage Gallery Hall 0/ Fame recently added a trio of Bucs to its list of Whitworth's finest. Tommy Stewart, '85, at left, led the basketball Pirates to two conftrence championships, was named first-team NAJA All- District and honorable-mention All-America, and set school track-and-field recordsthat still stand. Marshia Dashiell; '68, was the premier women's basketball player of her era, averaging 15. 8 points per game during her career and leading the Bucs to wins over 'Washington, WSU and Gonzaga. In 1976, she was invited to tryout [or thefirst women s Olympic basketball team. Bob Bradner, '56, right, a member of some of Whitworth's greatestfOotball teams, caught a total of 41 passes fOr 840 yards and 13 touchdowns during his junior and senior seasons to earn All-Little Northwest honors and a place on the NAJA All- America first team. During Bradner's Whitworth career under legendary coachJim Lounsberry, the Bucs went 27-5-2 .

. More than bricks and mortar: BUILDING FOR THE 21sT CENTURY

BREAKING NEW GROUND

Boppell Hall sets the standard for 21st-century residen{:e halls

elebrity, however minor, wasn't among Carl Boppell's of the years you attend." goals as a Whitworth student. He attended classes, stud- The importance of having upper-division students live on cam- Cied diligently, and fell in love with his roommate's sister, pus is reflected in studies that show how those students playa whom he later married. But fame found Carl at 2:45 a.m. on critical role in shaping the values and attitudes of freshmen, says March 8, 1927, when the soon-to-graduate senior discovered a Dick Mandeville, associate dean of students. fire on the third floor of Ballard Hall, which was then the men's 'There is so much in student-development work that indi- residence hall. cates that some of the most powerful and influential teachers on Boppell and his roommate, Donald Beal, alerted Ballard's 18 campus are the juniors and seniors," Mandeville says. "If they sleeping residents and ensured their safe evacuation from the are all living off campus, you've lost the interaction that takes building before it was destroyed. Hours later President Walter place in the residence halls, during shared meals, while walking Stevenson, who was traveling at the time, sent a telegram to to class, and in late-night bull sessions." campus in which he pledged to build "a new and greater Juniors and seniors help new students adapt to the college, Whitworth." Mandeville says. They help students connect to faculty and staff, That spring Carl Boppell graduated from Whitworth quite a they influence younger students to get involved, and they also bit more famous than when he'd first arrived, and, true to Presi- can have a maturing effect on incoming freshmen. dent Stevenson's words, the stately brick residence hall was re- The college's desire to retain juniors and seniors on campus built the following year. is reflected in the 1995 strategic plan spearheaded by Whitworth Little did Carl know that 74 years after his Ballard Hall hero- President Bill Robinson, which established the goal of providing ics his son Chuck, '65, and daughter-in-law Karlyn (Allbee), '67, campus housing for at least two-thirds of Whitworth's full-time would playa key role in building a greater Whitworth for the traditional undergraduate population, says Tom Johnson, vice 21st century. president for business affairs. Chuck and Karlyn are among 14 Boppell family members "At that time, in the mid-'90s, we only had about 58 percent spanning four generations who have attended Whitworth; their of 1,450 full-time traditional undergraduates living on campus," roots run deep. As a Whitworth trustee, Chuck knew that the Johnson says. college's recent enrollment boom had stretched campus hous- To reach its goal the college purchased houses adjacent to ing to the limit. Many juniors and seniors, after fulfilling their campus, which were turned into theme houses and which now two-year residency requirement, were encouraged to live off provide approximately 50 additional beds for upper-division stu- campus to free up bed space for incoming freshmen. dents. With the addition of Boppell Hall, 66 percent of The Boppells wanted to help. They did so by contributing $2 Whitworth's current 1,574 full-time traditional undergraduates million for the construction of Boppell Hall, a $4-million, 29,000- can now live on campus, Johnson says. square-foot residence hall located on the northeast comer of Because Boppell Hall was intended to house older students, campus. Eighty-four upper-division students moved in shortly its design was considered carefully, says Mandeville, who served before midterms in October. on the building's design committee. "For us to be able to participate in this residence hall is a real Student input through focus groups gave the committee a clear joy because Whitworth has been such a part of our lives and has picture of what students wanted in a new residence hall: private meant so much to our family," Chuck Boppell says. "It was fun bathrooms, storage space, kitchenettes, and a floor plan that pro- to give something with no strings attached so students could vides privacy as well as a sense of community. experience what our family has enjoyed at Whitworth." Architects translated the students' desires into spacious, suite- A key factor in the Boppells' Whitworth education was the style apartments containing a main living area with a sofa and time they spent living on campus. chairs, as well as a table, sink, microwave and refrigerator. Each "Karlyn and I both lived on campus, as did our daughter suite also has two bedrooms, which house two students per room; (Tauni, '90)," Boppell says. "You don't get 100 percent of the a private bath; and a storage room. While the cost to live in Whitworth education if you're not living on campus at least some Boppell Hall this year is the same as the cost for other residence halls on campus, differential pricing may be put into effect next By Julie Riddle, '92 year, Mandeville says.

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Facing page: The front entrance of Boppe!!Ha!! on a sunny autumn day. Above left: Boppell Hall Health Coordinator Adam "Boppell Hall is distinct," Mandeville says. "At other colleges Anderson, standing, chats you'll see standard double-loaded corridors and you'll see apart- with roommate Michael Howard in their suite's ments off campus, but there's nothing in between. We wanted lounge area. Above center: to build a residence hall that would appeal to a junior or senior Roommates Laura Dilgard, who wanted a little more freedom and independence and yet left, and Joni Meyers enjoy wanted the advantages of living on campus. I think we hit the their spacious sleeping area. Right: Boppe!!Ha!!President Matt Cole nail right on the head." (!eft)presents a gold shove! to Whitworth Trustee Chuck Boppell, Senior education major Julie Axell lived in an off-campus '65, at the October dedication ceremonyfor the new residencehall. apartment last year because she found residence-hall life to be too crowded and noisy. But Boppell's unique features lured her back. "I agreed to move back to campus because my roommates and I would have more than one room to live in, we would have our own bathroom, and I've always wanted a bay window," Axell at Boymook's home and a dessert party in the HUB. says. "I'm also doing my student teaching this semester, so I "In other residence halls, the first few days of the fall semes- thought it would be nice to have the college do the cooking for ter are spent building community through events like me." 'traditiation,''' Cole says. "Due to the overall uniqueness of Axell was skeptical about returning to a residence hall, but Boppell and because residents couldn't move in until mid-se- her skepticism soon turned to appreciation. mester, the RAs and I thought it was important to build commu- "Living in Boppell is wonderful. I can always knock on doors nity as early as possible." if I want some company, but it is easy to stay in my room if I Now that students are settled in their new home, Boppell's need privacy," Axell says. "I like being on campus again and student-leadership team is establishing activities and traditions being close to the HUB for food and mail." that spark enthusiasm and support from residents. Rick Davis, a junior computer-science major who lived in The team has hosted events including hall dinners, a Satur- Arend fortwo years, now lives in a single suite in Boppell. Though day-morning pancake breakfast, a self-defense training night, he still considers himself a "Carlson Man," Davis plans to apply and weekly worship services, says junior religion major and for a resident-assistantposition in Boppel! next year. Boppell resident assistant Rebeka Trefts. "In Boppell, everything is so nicely separated that noise is Across campus Boppell residents can be seen wearing their hardly ever an issue," Davis says. "Boppell is perfect for almost new sweatshirts, which provide ample evidence that the hall's any type of individual; every student has the option to move inaugural members are a community united in appreciation for into a more active or less active room without ever leaving his their new digs; emblazoned across the back of the sweatshirts is or her own living space." "The First, The Few, The Fortunate." The increased privacy and independence that Boppell resi- "We have also created a flag to represent Boppell and we dents enjoy have challenged its student leaders as they seek to have a newsletter, The Five Star, as well as community-service build community and establish a new identity for the hall. projects that we do together," Trefts says. "Boppell is a little different than other residence halls," These efforts to distinguish the hall's role on campus and to Mandeville says. "Since there isn't a resident director living in shape its identity for generations to come are a tribute to the the hall (Boppell's advisor, Nicole Boymook, lives in a college- Boppells and to their legacy at the college, saysWhitworth Presi- owned house nearby), the residents have to take more initiative dent Bill Robinson. to build community." "The students who occupy our newest residence hall live in Boppell President Matt Cole began uniting the building's resi- great quarters that bear a great name," Robinson says. "Boppell dents long before their new home was finished. Several times Hall might be the most visible way Chuck has poured himself during the summer the junior political-studies major e-mailed into Whitworth over the past 20 years, but it takes second place construction photos to each resident. Once classesbegan, Cole to the leadership he has given. In a very tender way, Chuck and and Boppell's three resident assistantsheld an ice cream social Karlyn Boppell have their arms around this college." • / ,'---,'I ":! '- )'-- -A G~9'--)

.' .. ;OFI~~:~ ~. .• ~,i I =>0,1. "- ~ _'Whitworth's ~acilitiesmas~n "'~, r' 'fosters excitingchanges!on(campus '\ ' lA, former NCAA Division I football coach, known for his ,';- / single-minded devotion to winning and his belief that college football players deserve special treatment, was ~ e-r- ... _ .. ,r ~ also famous for his occasional tongue-in-cheek bon mots. Once, when asked about an ambitious building program at his school, the coach combined his mania and his wit to respond, "We're try- ing to build a university that our football team can be proud of." j Whitworth President Bill Robinson is trying to go the coach one better. He's working to build a college that all of Whitworth's . /" students, faculty, staff, and alums can be proud of - a college \ /" that wi II meet their needs, enhance thei r work, give them a sense of community, and be able to grow with changes in pedagogy, \ ,,-, technology, and developmental theory. And Robinson believes y that the campus should reflect the quality of the people who , populate it - a goal that is much closer to reality today than it , was when he arrived nearly nine years ago. "When I bring a student, parent, prospective donor or fellow educator onto our campus," Robinson says, "our visible assets are seen prior to our invisible assets. People tend to form uni- fied impressions of institutions. If the campus facilities project . ( excellence, it is much easier for people to grasp the excellence of our students, faculty, and campus culture." When Robinson came to Whitworth in 1993, he was com- The plan was sorely needed. The very successful library reno- mitted to a campus-improvement plan that would clean up vation and expansion in 1992 had made clear the dramatic im- trouble spots, enhance the overall appeal of Whitworth's 200· pact of such improvements. And even though Whitworth's beau- acre physical plant, and make the campus a better, more useful tiful natural setti ng was one of the college's strongest assets,much environment for its inhabitants, its workforce, and its visitors. of the physical plant was in need of work. "When I arrived at Working with colleagues both inside and outside the college, Whitworth in 1990, I instructed our campus tour guides to high- Robinson has seen many of his hopes for Whitworth's physical light the natural beauty of the campus and stay out of many of plant realized. And more improvements are on the way. the buildings:' says Dean of Enrollment Services Fred pfursich. "We told our guides to stand in the middle of the Loop and just THE PLAN point to buildings, because at that time we really had only three During Robinson's early months at Whitworth he consulted first-class facilities to show: the music building, the aquatics cen- with colleagues at Wash ington State Un iversity, Spokane, about ter, and the chapel. Trying to impress visitors with our physical a collaborative campus-improvement project. "At that time," plant was a major challenge." says Vice President for Business Affairs Tom Johnson, "WSU Robinson, Johnson, and a group of gung-ho Whitworthians was just starting to do some architecture instruction in Spo- set out to meet that challenge. After some deliberations, they kane, and Bill and the WSU folks came up with the idea of chose Ira Fink & Associates, of Berkeley, Calif., to produce an having WSU students do internships here at Whitworth to help updated facilities master plan in consultation with the president's us with smaller campus-development projects. When Bill cabinet and the strategic planning committee (which included x brought the idea to me, we decided that since we had no over- several board members). The plan, dated December 1995, was all comprehensive master plan - at least not a current one; the adopted by the board at that year's fall meeting. last serious plan had been put together in the '70s - we should The Fink plan includes a complete inventory of facilities at get our formal plan together before we unleashed graduate stu- dents on the campus." By Terry Rayburn Mitchell, '93 1 JU:1 L I WHITWORTH COLLEGE Facilities Mjlster Plan

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Full-color inset: The 1335 master plan by Ira Fink and Associates, Inc. Sepia inset: The 1314 master plan by architect Archibald Rigg Background: Early 20th-century campus landscape plan

THE IMPLEMENTATION Exciting changes were already under way when Whitworth's board approved the master plan. Phase I of the Hixson Union Building (then known as the Campus Center) had just been com- pleted, along with the Eric Johnston Science Auditorium facelift and the first phase of the Cowles Auditorium renovation. While all of this bricks-and-mortar work was going on, Whitworth's technology team was working overtime to ensure that time and an analysis of residence-hall occupancy and fu- that the college would be able to take part in the high-tech revo- ture needs; it also offers "A" and "B" lists of priority facilities lution that was sweeping higher education. The "port for every projects. "Fink brought to the process the experience and in- pillow" project, which provided every Whitworth student with sight he had gathered from working on hundreds of campuses access to e-mail and the Internet, was just the beginning of an across the country to help us think clearly and logically about ongoing program that brought new ways of learning to Whitworth the Whitworth campus," says Johnson. "He addressed mission, - and that made it necessary for every new and refurbished build- program, history, architecture, traffic patterns, parking, space ing to be equipped with technological infrastructure that added utilization, housing loads, teaching facilities, campus culture, to the complexity and cost of each project. deferred maintenance, and future growth needs." With the new technology in place, Phase II of the HUB was The plan hatched by Fink and his Whitworth colleagues has completed in 1998; students had a beautiful new dining hall guided an impressive number of improvements in a relatively and the college had much-needed meeting space and additional short time. "When one looks back now, it is amazing to see how room for Student Life offices. And between 1998 and 2001, the many of the plan's facilities priorities have been addressed in Eric Johnston Science Center was completely remodeled and the past six years," says Johnson. updated; the Westside Ath letics Complex, with its first-class soc- s COl Left to right, below: Harriet Cheney Cowles Library in the fate '50s and after its 1332 renovation; Hardwick Union Building in its heyday and during its demolition (WeyerhaeuserHalf wilf be built upon the site); the all-new WestsideAthletics Complex, Background: 1977 study jor the 1978 master plan

cer and softball fields, was finished; Phase II of the Cowles Au- Vice President for Institutional Advancement Kristi Burns runs ditorium remodel was completed; Dixon Hall was renovated into people all the time who share Richman's excitement about inside and out; Schumacher Health Center was transformed into the changes to Whitworth's campus. "Over the last decade, our Schumacher Hall and became home to 24 Whitworth students; donors have invested literally millions of dollars in our campus the Scotford Fitness Center opened its doors; and Grieve Hall, facilities," she says. "These folks compliment the way our cam- Calvin Hall, Nutrition House and Leavitt Dining Hall were razed pus looks and appreciate our commitment to excellent capital to make room for future improvements. stewardship." In 2000, Whitworth also hired its first physical plant director Alums and donors are not the only ones excited about with a background in facilities planning. Steve Thompson, whose Whitworth's campus improvements. Potential students, too, B.A. is in construction management, worked for Bechtel Corpo- find the new and refurbished facilities to be a major draw. ration on projects at Stanford University, McCarran Airport (Las "The physical plant improvements, including the beauty of Vegas) and O'Hare International before coming to Whitworth. the grounds, have been tremendously significant in develop- His most recent position was as construction project manager ing a successful campus-visit program," says pfursich. "The for the Community Colleges of Spokane, where, he says, "Most transformation since 1990 has been astounding. In fact, our of our projects were additions and remodels which require close tours are probably too long now, because there's so much to coordination with building occupants and contractors." show off." Thompson's job at CCS required him to be involved in planning Associate Director of Admissions Marianne Hansen is on and scheduling projects years in advance, which prepared him the road much of the time, meeting with potential Whitworth well to take the facilities helm at Whitworth. students. She, too, sees the impact of campus improvements upon recruiting. "The recent renovation of the science build- THE RESULTS ing and Dixon Hall have been very successful in our recruiting Those who see the Whitworth campus every day sometimes efforts," she says. "And students are most excited about Boppell forget the magnitude of the work that's been done in the past de- Hall. When they hear that a new residence hall has been built cade. But alums who've been away for a number of yearsare bowled just for juniors and seniors, it sends two messages: Whitworth over by the changes they see. "I literally could not believe my is continually improving living conditions by building and up- eyes when I saw the 'new' Whitworth," says Derek Richman, grading facilities, and upper-division students are still a vital '91, who returned to campus this fall for the first time since his part of the campus community. This sends a positive message graduation. "I was astonished. I kept commenting to my friends regarding activities and campus commitment by juniors and during Homecoming Weekend about the new facilities and the seniors who still want to live on campus after their first two beauty of the campus." Richman's excitement about the changes years." Finally, Hansen says, "Students are really impressed at Whitworth also made him want to be a part of the ongoing with our new softball and soccer fields; they believe that they're enhancements. "I was filled with pride for my school and it made the best facilities in the area." me want to continue to contribute to Whitworth," he says. While most current students take many of the sparkling new .. in the '60s and Hixson Union Building today; Leavitt Dining Hall completed in 2000; the completely updated Dixon Hall.

facilities for granted - since they never saw the original build- cilitv, an athletics/recreation center (to replace Graves Gym), ings - many longtime faculty and staff still marvel at the changes additional residence-hall facilities, an addition to the science to the place where they work, play, and congregate. Their com- building, and administrative and physical-plant facilities. ments cover everything from the nearly invisible - English Pro- "Which specific projects move forward will be determined by fessor Laura Bloxham, '69, says, "I like the definition that the how the strategic planning initiatives are prioritized and by sidewalks and curbs have added; they give the college a fin- the availability of funding," says Johnson. "For example, we've ished look, like we care about presentation" - to the front-and- just received a Lilly grant that provides funding for a program center. "The huge deal is classroom improvement," says History requiring five new faculty and staff positions over the next sev- Professor Corliss Slack. "It is wonderful to be trying to train my- eral years. To house these new employees, we may have to self to use all the teaching aids, rather than having to train my- undertake a project just to provide the space to support this self to teach without them." new program." While creating space for faculty who come to The enhanced beauty and "feel" of the campus bring posi- Whitworth as a result of grant-generated programs is the type tive comments from visitors, as well. "I've had several guest of challenge that most colleges and universities would be performers on campus recently," says Theatre Professor Rick pleased to face, it does require a type of flexibility that an iron- Hornor, 70. "Each and everyone has commented on how beau- clad master plan might preclude. But the Whitworth plan leaves tiful the campus is and about the sense of peaceful community room for innovation, for the unexpected, and for the new ideas here. They talk about the beauty of the grounds, the unity of that future Whitworthians will invariably bring to the table. As architecture and even the ambience provided by the lighting." Fink says, "lit] was intended to leave a legacy of opportunity English Professor Leonard Oakland, who's been at Whitworth for future generations to plan, develop and enhance the cam- since 1966, turns to more practical concerns, expressing his pus by careful stewardship of existing land, building and infra- gratitude that "We abandoned the rustic Camp Whitworth look structure resources." enshrined in our routed-wood building signs, and we added And as an outsider, what is Fink's assessment of Whitworth's automatic sprinkling systems that deprive us of hoses to trip progress to date? "Whitworth is to be congratulated," he says. over and that now douse you only if you're out in the pre- "In the six years since the completion of the plan, the campus dawn hours." has identified its edges, improved its front-door image along Hawthorne Road, carefully placed and constructed new build- THE FUTURE ings which are in scale to and in character with existing struc- What's next for Whitworth? "Obviously, completing tures, improved and added to the roadway system, consolidated Weyerhaeuser Hall is our first priority," says Johnson. "That's parking, enhanced the lawn and planted areas, improved the the next facility that people will see rise on the campus. If all of access to and the circulation through the campus, and again the funding is in place, we hope to break ground next summer, begun the process of identifying future needs." with completion the following year." In short, Fink says, "The college has been a good steward of Other future projects include a fine arts/performing arts fa- its lands." • - More than bricks and mortar: BUILDING FOR THE 21sT CENTURY A LEGACY OF LEADERSHIP

Weyerhaeuser Hall will feature high-tech learning, community outreach

hitworth's first new academic building in half a "The building sites on the interior of the Loop are limit4d century will occupy the last piece of prime real and are prime locations for academic facilities," says Vice W estate at the heart of the campus. But its influence President for Business Affairs Torn Johnson. "It is by desig ELE won't be limited just to the Whitworth community. To live up to that the academic core of the college is located at t~ the standards of those for whom it will be named and to the physical core of the campus." ambitious goals of the programs under its roof, Weyerhaeuser Weyerhaeuser Hall will harmonize with Whitwort~'s Hall will punch a big hole in whatever's left of the Pinecone existing brick buildings but will greet visitors with f:i\ Curtain and put out the welcome mat for the Spokane commu- dynamic entrance featuring a tower and skylight uniquetd nity and beyond. campus," says Physical Plant Director Steve Thompson. Hidd n In addition to providing high-tech classrooms, faculty offices from the casual observer, the building's heating and cooling and a unique lecture hall to accommodate classessuch as Core system will rely on groundwater to drive a geothermal heat-pump that have outgrown the college's current facilities, the new aca- system. "This is very energy efficient and ecologically demic building will house outreach programs to link Whitworth responsible," Thompson says. with its regional neighbors. Besides having an impressive outer appearance and inner "Dave Weyerhaeuser would be delighted with this building," workings that are kind to the environment, Weyerhaeuser Hall says Whitworth President Bill Robinson. "He had a voracious will feature leading-edge teaching stations, addressing the intellect and loved Christian enterprises that engaged a culture college's need for more and better academic space. The chair of in deep need with God's Good News. It's one of the principal the building-design team, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs reasons he was so fond of Whitworth. Weyerhaeuser Hall, with Gordon Jackson, puts Weyerhaeuser Hall's importance into its state-of-the-art classrooms, facu Ity offices, center for faith and perspective. learning and resource center, will host exactly the kind of intel- "The completion of this building will give us some urgently lectual and spiritual exploration that Dave loved and supported." needed space," Jackson says. "The approximately 570 seats that The $6.5-million project is the centerpiece of the college's we'll add are an extraordinary boost to our current classroom Faith in the Future Campaign, and rightly so. The primary goal offerings. This means that in theory, fully one-third of our of the college's strategic plan is to proclaim and enhance undergraduate student body can be in class at one time in this Whitworth's academic excellence, yet it has been nearly 50 years new building." since an academic classroom facility was built on campus; the Central to Weyerhaeuser Hall will be a state-of-the-art last was Dixon Hall, in 1956. teaching theatre that will accommodate 230 people and meet "This facility will underscore the academic quality of the the pressing need for a mid-size lecture hall on campus. As the college and will be a visible expression of our commitment to college's undergraduate enrollment has increased dramatically the education of the mind and heart," says Vice President for over the past 10 years (from 1,378 in 1991 to 1,749 in 2001), Academic Affairs Tammy Reid. large lecture classes such as Core have outgrown regular Construction on Weyerhaeuser Hall will begin as soon as classrooms and now meet anywhere that can accommodate their fund-raising is completed for the building (see sidebar). Current burgeoning enrollments. projections call for the new building to open its doors for classes The teaching theatre will feature integrated audiovisual/ in fall 2003 or spring 2004. computer facilities, making it a draw for innovative teaching The project's architect, 3E Design Group of Spokane, has styles. With the help of an acoustics consultant, the space will retained the nationally recognized design firm Sasaki & Asso- be designed as an optimal speaking (and listening) venue. It will ciates, from Boston, Mass., to ensure that the three-floor, accommodate guest lecturers and panel discussions and is 33,000-square-foot building complements the college's exist- expected to be a popular venue for conference groups that desire ing architecture. Weyerhaeuser Hall will occupy the northeast a manageable space in which to meet. According to Jackson, corner of the campus Loop, where Leavitt Dining Hall stood "We're expecting this facility to have primarily a formal teaching from 1944 to 2000. role, but also to fill a number of other needs on campus." Keeping students and faculty together in Weyerhaeuser Hall By Dianna Jackson, '92 is of the utmost importance to the building-design committee.

22 sociology are especially well-equipped to address," Jackson says. The center will also coordinate and support research linking Whitworth students and faculty with Spokane agencies that are already working in the area of poverty. While many of these agencies have research needs - for gathering baseline data and measuri ng intervention strategies - they do not always have an adequate number of trained staff. Through the center, Whitworth students will develop career skills to match those research needs. <'§'<'§'<'§'<'§'<'§'<'§'<'§' By locating the regional resource and research center at L:PCFCPCPCPt'Yl}! the academic core of the campus, Whitworth is making a G'G'G'G'G'G'G' physical, as well as a moral, commitment to involving its .;;,'"'",;;,'"Q,Q, people and programs in the Spokane community. Says G'G'G'G'<'§'<'§'(l' Politics & History Professor Julia Stronks, a leader in Whitworth's efforts to fight regional poverty, (l'G'(l'(l'G'(l'G' I LY6JC~~~t1P , "Whitworth's mission emphasizes an education of the B'G'B'i'PB'B'B' mind and heart in service to God. The resource center Q,Q,Q,Q,Q,Q,Q, and the poverty initiative as a whole will help us to put the mission in motion to address the economic G'G'G'G'G'G'G' and social needs of our region." Q,Q,Q,Q,Q,Q,Q, The new building will also be home to the Weyerhaeuser 010, OJ 01OJ 0, OJ COMP Q,Q,Q,Q,Q,Q,Q, Center for Christian Faith and Learning, which promotes 5TO faith-learning integration through scholarship and training resources that include non-degree certificate programs for Rather than relegating faculty offices and clergy and lay ministers, as well as through guest lectures and department support services to far-off corners or presentations. packing all administrative services into one remote It is fitting that a facility devoted to faith-learning integration part of the structure, offices and classrooms will be interspersed and community service will bear the names of C. Davis and to reinforce the sense of community and accessibility of Annette Weyerhaeuser. The Weyerhaeusers tirelessly supported professors to students. the college during C. Davis' 50 years of service as a Whitworth The School of Global Commerce and Management, the trustee, but they never allowed a building to be named for them. departments of Politics & History and Sociology, and the With C. Davis' passing two years ago, President Bill Robinson Weyerhaeuser Center for Christian Faith and Learning are poised sought and received permission to recognize the Weyerhaeusers' to move into the new academic building upon its completion. legacy of generosity and leadership by naming the college's The recently created School of Global Commerce and landmark academic building in their honor. Management combines the undergraduate Department of Robinson anticipates that what takes place in Weyerhaeuser Business and Economics, the Organizational Management Hall will reflect Dave Weyerhaeuser's deepest values. "It is here Program geared for working adults, and the Master of that students will ask themselves how God's magnificent International Management Program. revelation enlightens their world of learning," Robinson says. In addition to housing existing programs, Weyerhaeuser Hall "For thousands of students for years to come, Weyerhaeuser Hall will be home to a new regional resource and research center will be regarded as a place where their lifelong journeys of that will playa leading role in Whitworth's service-learning and integrating faith and learning began." • economic justice initiatives in the Spokane region. The center "will initially focus on issues of poverty in the Spokane area, a Dianna jackson, '92, former director of The Whitworth Fund, is now a topic which the disciplines of business, politics, history and development officer at Sf. Bonaventure University in New York.

YOU CAN HELP! Groundbreaking for Weyerhaeuser Hall wilf take place when all funding for the $6.5 million building is secured. To date, nearly $3.2 million has been committed by individuals, regional foundations and businesses. Toclose the funding gap, proposals have been submitted to several foundations and individual donors who have a keen interest in the project. But the ultimate success of the campaign "wilf depend on broad support from all of Whitworth's constituents," according to Vice President for Institutional Advancement Kristi Burns.• just as Weyerhaeuser Hall will welcome faculty, students and the community, funding for the building will come from a broad spectrum of supporters. Early in 2002, afl constituencies - alumni, friends, parents and organizations - will be given the opportunity to support the building effort. "Ibere wilf be naming opportunities for gifts of $1,000 or more, and participation at all levels is vital," Burns says.• "Sometimes a project as visible and significant as Weyerhaeuser Hall attracts the attention of people who may not have been connected to the college in many years," Bums says. "Our hope is that what may start as a modest financial investment in the college becomes a much broader and more enriching connection for the donor." Anyone interested in knowing more about making a gift to support Weyerhaeuser Hall can contact the Whitworth Institutional Advancement Office at 800-532-4668 or visit the Faith in the Future Campaign website, www.whitworthfuture.com. -,-- _.- - • •

in the loop -==.... CORE 650 EVENTS: PORTLAND, SEATTLE, COLORADO SPRINGS AND DENVER IN APRIL Whitworth religion professor Jim Edwards, '67, will be in Colorado the weekend of April 14-15. He will present a Core 650 lecture followed by re- freshments in Denver on Saturday night and in Colorado Springs on Sunday afternoon. Professors Jim Waller (Psychology) and Julia Stronks (Politics & History) will be in Portland on the evening of April 20 and in Seattle the afternoon of April 21. Waller will speak on his study of the nature of evil and Stronks will speak from her book, Christian Teachers in Public Schools. All events will cost $10! and regional invitations will be in the mail soon. Check the web or call for more information.

BLOOMSDAY RUNNERS: LET US PLY YOU WITH CARBS All alumni are invited to come back to campus Bloomsday weekend. For those of you who come to Spokane for the race and for locals in search of WHITWORTH pasta, do your carbo-loading with us this year! We will have a low-cost pasta THANKSGIVING buffet for families on Saturday evening featuring entertainment. An optional IN HAWAII CONTACT US tour will be offered for those of you who haven't seen the campus in a while. More than 90 For infirmation Look for more details soon in President Bill Robinson's Of Mind & Heart members of the Whitworthfimily about these and other newsletter or on the web. activities, contact (including Whitworth Director of Alumni President Bill TRACK AND FIELD ALUMNI TO THE STARTING BLOCKS and Parent Relations Robinson, above, as Tad Wisenor, '89, On April 26-27, Whitworth's defending champion track and field teams well as alumni, at (509) 777-4401 will host the Northwest Conference Track and Field Meet at Boppell Track. parents, students and or (800) 532-4668. On Saturday morning, alumni are invited to campus for breakfast and a staffJ enjoyed a pre- }Ou can also e-mail chance to hear from Head Track and Field Coach Toby Schwarz as the Pirates Thanksgiving banquet and a wonderful Tad at twisenor head into their second day of competition. This will be a time of reunion and @whitworth.edu, or evening together in fellowship as well as a great opportunity to cheer on the Bucs. Contact the Honolulu in Novem- visit us on the web at Office of Alumni and Parent Relations for more information. Invitations will www.whitworth.edul ber. Since Whitworth's be in the mail soon. alumni. men's basketball team was hosting the inaugural Whitworth Invitational TOurna- ment on the north shore of Oahu, a group of mainland fins joined Hawaiian locals fir fiod andjim. Charise Asuncion, '98, and Kevin Nabalta, '99, organized a group of young alumni who danced the hula fir the visitors, and the group was treated to a rousing benediction from Curt Kekuna, '70.

HOMECOMING 10-YEAR REUNION September's l Il-year reunion fir the Class of 1991 was the largest in recent history. More than 55 people enjoyed afuJI weekend of activities, and filks came from asfar away as Florida for the event. Homecoming Weekend 2002 is scheduled fir October 19-20.

24 Whi tW0't&dJlj - ~.f\~ class . .

IN MEMORIAM

William Richter, '42, died Sept. 5. KemsJey Marks, '60, died Oct. 2. Follow- taught physical education for 30 years in Following his marriage in 1943, he served ing her graduation from Whitworth with a Marysville, Wash. He coached football, as a medic in the Army during World War degree in physical education, she worked wrestling, cross-country and track-and-field II. He later graduated from the University as a physical-education teacher and as a teams before his retirement in 1997. He is of Washington School of Medicine and the computer specialist for Sabre. She is sur- survived by his wife, two daughters, his University of Pennsylvania School of Oph- vived by two brothers and several nieces, mother, two brothers, a grandson and thalmology. Heworked as an ophthalmolo- nephews and cousins. numerousaunts, uncles,cousinsand nieces. gist in Spokane from 1956 to 1975, and was a former member of the Whitworth David Deal, '61, died Oct. 15. Following Kimberley (Cocklereece) Glasgow, '92, College Board of Trustees. He is survived his graduation from Whitworth, he received died Aug. 14. During her career, she by his wife, two sons, one daughter and a Ph.D. in Chinese history from the Univer- worked for the Spokane County Sheriff's two grandchildren. sity of Washington. In 1969, he began Office and for various loan departments, teaching the history of China, Japan and including GMACFinance Corp., where she Helen (Garner) Axworthy, '47, died April India at Whitman College in Walla Walla, was a team leader for processing loans. 11. She is survived by her husband, Don, Wash. He served as chair of Whitman's She is survived by one daughter, one three sons and four grandchildren. history department, social sciences divi- granddaughter, her fiance, her parents, sion and faculty, and was dean of the col- two brothers and three grandparents. Rev. Howard Lehn, '48. Following his lege. He was a visiting scholar of political graduation from Whitworth, Lehn married theory at Stanford University and a re- We have also been informed of the deaths Gyneth Chapman, '38, in 1951, and search associate at Harvard. He is sur- of Rev. Richard Denham, '56, July 4; graduated from San Francisco Theologi- vived by his wife, Judith Ann Little, '61, Norman Sandberg, '63, Aug. 22; 8etty cal Seminary in 1958. He served one daughter, one son, his mother, two (Stuart) Hennessey, '69 M.A.T.; Marga- churches in Burns, Ore., Oakesdale, brothers and a grandson. ret (Schwartz) Roberts, '65, Sept. 10; Wash., and Spokane. He is survived by Dorothy (Breeden) Wilson, '65, May 16; his wife, one daughter, one sister, one Park "Monty" Parratt, '68, died July 11. Jack Betts, '68, June 7; Raymond Miller, brother and two grandsons. After graduating from Whitworth, he '76, May 25; Rochelle (Heitman) Keizer, married Laurel Lundgren, '67. Parratt '97, July 18; and Yosel Alenegus, '00, June 1.

(;' class of '46 acre youth camp owned and op- erated by First Presbyterian future whitworthians ~. Lauretta (Holder) Milne and her Church of Tacoma. We are pleased to welcome the newest members of the husband, Dwight, celebrated Whitworth family and to congratulate their parents. their golden wedding anniversary fa'. class of '61 in April with a cruise to Alaska's Kevin, '86, and Lisa Kopp, a boy, Mary(Ressa,'91) andTomMyers, Inland Passage with their three 40th Reunion - June 28-30, 2002 Trent Yenhung,May 28. a boy,JoelThomas, June11. sons and their families. Lauretta Gerald Breymeyer and his wife, Mari (Anderson, '87) and John Julia (Nickel, '92) and Enrique and her husband live in Kalispell, Patti, live in Pearland, Texas, Densmore, a girl, HannahCanby, Roig, a girl, Ana Elena, June 27. Mont. where Gerald is teaching chem- April 4. istry at South Houston High Donald Goettel, '92, and class of '52 School. Boo, '88, and Andrea (Warner, Cathryn (Dapples, '92), a girl, '89) Boatman, twin girls, Afton Lily, April 18. Early Fifties Reunion for Classes of 195(J.54 - June 28-30, 2002 Elaineand BriaElizabeth,April21. class of '62 Keri (Scott, '93) and Tony David Allen lives in Cambridge, 40th Reunion - June 28-30, 2002 Anne Wilson, '88, and Mike Gnecco, a boy, Austin Scott, Mass., where he recently cel- Mondress, a boy, Maxwell Ben- March 29. ebrated the 43rd anniversary of jamin Mondress, Feb. 9. class of '66 James, '93, and Julane (Lussier, his arrival at the Society of Saint John the Evangelist, one of the Karen (Ricketts) Gray retired af- Kathy(Kopp,'90) andScottJones, '93) Dover, a boy,JaydenJames, ter 20 years in the continuing a boy,JacksonRees,July25. May 6. monastic orders of the Episco- pal Church, and the 40th anni- education arm of The Smith- Matthew, '90, and Kristi Melissa (McCabe, '93) and Jeff versary of professing his monas- sonian Associates. She is cur- Hilgaertner, a boy, C.J., July 11. Gombosky, a boy, Daniel Patrick, tic vows. rently an historian of the Chesa- March 29. peake and Ohio Canal and other Chris, '91, and Jilleen efforts to develop the Potomac (Woodworth, '91) Broyles, a Nicol (Kleppin, '94) and Nate class of '58 route to the Ohio country. boy, Bo McKinley, April 26. Mink, a boy, Nathaniel Lyle, Chuck Hayden retired in June Dec. 29, 2000. 2000 from the Federal Way Jonn, '91, and Jennifer class of '68 School District after 40 years of Moomaw, a girl, Jayden Leigh, Courtney (Thimsen, '95) and teaching. Heand his wife, Marie, Jim Sledge recently received the Dec. 25, 2000. Jerry Cimijotti, a girl, Clara direct Camp McCullough, a 40- Sister Peter ClaverAward for his Kathryn, May 10. 4

class of '81 wife, Linda, and four sons. Roric Fink coaches swimming for a club 20th Reunion for Classes of 1981-82- team at the University of Arizona June 28-30, 2002 in Tucson. Robert Graham is a music and English teacher. He lives with his class of '87 wife, Monika, and their two sons, Noah and Elvis, in Bergheim, Ger- Angela (Nelson) Beck is a clini- many. Toml Jacobs is the pastor cal analyst at Harborvlew Medical of the First Congregational United Center in Seattle, Wash. Her hus- Church of Christ in Johnstown, band, Brad, '88, is an operations N.Y., where she lives with her hus- manager for Siemens at Vopak in band, Gary Dorman. Kirkland, Wash. They have two children, Andrew and Evan. Mari class of '82 (Anderson) Densmore is a librar- ian at Skagit County Historical 20th Reunion for Cfasses of 1981-82 - Museum in La Conner, Wash. Her June 28-30, 2002 husband, John, is a simulator de- sign consultant at Boeing. Karen class of '83 Renner is an associate pastor at After completing a second degree First Presbyterian Church in in nursing, Laurel (Appleton) McMinnville, Ore. ANOTHER WHITWORTH IAN, I PRESUME Luebkeman moved to Eugene, Ore., where she met her husband, class of '88 Last spring Rev. Cinda (1.\7tlrner) Gorman, '71, visited Kenya, Chris, in 1995. Following their Jeff Schmidt lives in Los Angeles where she met Timothy Muindi, '95, who was staying with his marriage, they lived in Hong Kong and plays drums for Dave grandmother in the Meru district. for a year and then returned to Wakeling (of English Beat and Gen- Boston, Mass. They and their son eral Public). He is currently tour- and daughter now live in work in providing dental care for Enquirernewspaper. Cinda and her ing the U.S. and Canada. Harpenden, England. low-income, uninsured people. A husband, Steve, '70, are co-pas- Spokane dentist, Jim co-founded tors of Westwood First Presbyte- class of '89 the Spokane Community Low-In- rian Church in Cincinnati. Cinda class of '84 Jason Durall works at Wolfpack come Dental Clinic, which he man- was honored for a wide variety of Kevin Brown is the host of a Studios, Inc., in Texas. He is cur- aged from 1985 to 1998. He also programs she has established to weekly radio show on Spokane rently designing an online role- developed the Community Health improve the Cincinnati community. public radio station KPBX·FM playing game called Shadowbane. Association of Spokane Dental called Front Porch Bluegrass. He James Jones received his Clinic. In the last two years, he has class of '72 currently serves as one of the vice traveled to the Dominican Republic 30th Reunion for Classes of 1971-72- presidents of the Inland Northwest and Bangladesh to set up clinics. June 28-30, 2002 Bluegrass Association; he also plays mandolin and guitar in a class of '71 class of '77 bluegrass band. 30th Reunion for Classes of 1971-72- Katherine (Hamlyn) Wyss re- June 28-30, 2002 ceived her master's degree in edu- class of '85 cation from San Jose State Uni- Duane Willmschen has retired af- Susan (Lindsay) Brumett works versity in California. ter 27 years of service to the Spo- part time at Canyon Ridge Chris- kane Police Department. In 1997, tian Church. S. Scott MacGregor he helped found and was the class of '79 has completed his master's de- neighborhood resource officer for April Grayson earned her master gree in counseling psychology and the Neva-Wood COPS substation. of arts degree in urban planning plans to begin work soon on his Cinda (Warner) Gorman is one of from the School of Public Policy doctorate. 11 women recently named "Women and Social Research at UCLA, and of the Year" by the Cincinnati works for Project New Hope. class of '86 HARRIS WINS Chuck Crabtree manages the PROMOTION AT USC Edith Angel Environmental Re- Martha Harris, '71, has If you graduated he fore 1985 ... search Center, operated through been elected senior vice Texas Tech University. His wife, (or even if you didn't), we want to hear from you! Our class notes president fir external relations Janae (Fox, '88), works with section is only as good as the news you share with us. We would at the University o/Southern handicapped and disadvantaged love to hear from more of you. We know that not everyone has e- California. She will provide children in the Chariton School mail or uses it as often as our younger alumni, but they seem to strategic and administrative District. They live in Lacona, Iowa, be filling up our class notes with their exciting news. Please call, leadershipfir alumni with their two children, Jordan write, fax, or e-mail the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations with relations, civic and community and Beth. Richard Doehle is the any news you'd like your classmates (and other interested relations, and cultural and new superintendent of Naches Whitworthians) to hear. Call (509) 777-3799 or 1-800-532-4668; Valley Public Schools in Naches, media relations. She has served fax (509) 777-3274; e-mail [email protected]. Thanks! Wash., where he lives with his at USC since 1373. - A f\- «'. master's degree in theology from work. They reside in Camas, class of '91 steve Watts and his wife, Kathy, Fuller Theological Seminary and Wash., where Jim teaches ESL at live in Dinuba, Calif., where he is Staci Baird married Daniel Stoller is the director of development for Marylhurst University and Clark an associate pastor of spiritual on May 19 and currently resides Shoreline Christian School. Steve College. Joy (Van Eaton) Nelson formation and is working on his in West Des Moines, Iowa. Tim Mercer and his wife, Linda, and her husband, Kirby, a U.S. dip- doctor of ministry degree at Fuller Cassels is senior vice president moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where lomat, recently moved from Theological Seminary. Brian Gage and treasurer of Pacific Northwest Steve is the director of children's Dhaka, Bangladesh, to Calgary, and Diana Bell, '95, were married Bancorp in Seattle, Wash. Jonn ministries at Crossroads Commu- Alberta. While in Bangladesh, Joy July 28. They are making their Moomaw is the head football nity Church. was deputy director of the U.S. home in Vancouver, Wash., where coach at Life Christian Academy Information Service and manager Brian is a free-lance graphic de- in Tacoma, Wash., where he lives of the U.S. Mission Club. She also signer and Diana is a school psy- class of '90 with his wife, Jennifer, and two produced the press book for chologist for the Battle Ground Jim Wilkins-Luton has returned daughters. Kristi (Hicks) Ottmar former President Clinton's visit to School District. Andy Barram is a from Japan with his wife, Debi and her husband, Michael, are liv- the country. psychologist with a private prac- (Wilkins, '92), after seven years ing in Lewiston, Idaho, with their tice in Bend, Ore. of teaching and doing missionary two children and their new puppy. Where Mozart meets the Kalispel Tribe Opera is not the first thing you would teaches music in New York, secured the expect to hear at open-air powwow grounds support of Kalispel tribal elders, and the mUsk, Wash., next to a buffalo herd and Shared Flute Project was born. in the shadow of the Selkirk mountains. "My experience at Whitworth pro- But you might be surprised. Mozart's 1791 vided more than the musical and intel- I..~.,11 masterpiece, The Magic Flute, a tale oflove, lectual basis from which to grow as an , trials and honor, plays well in any venue - artist," says Moore. "The values that were and Whitworth alum Libby Kopczynski imparted through my relationships with Moore, '75, thought that Usk might pro- teachers and mentors such as Margie Mae "!i .., vide just the right atmosphere. Ott, Leonard Oakland, Tom Tavener As founder and artistic director of "the and many others nourished in me a be, other company," a small organization in lief in the power of the arts to transform Libby Kopczynski Moore asThird Lady in New York City founded on the principles and connect people, whoever they are make-up designed by Francis Cullooyah, a of excellence and inclusion, Moore has and wherever they live." Kalispel tribal elder. Below, standing in the produced a number of performances na- That was certainly the case with this middle of the Kalispel Tribe Pow U70w grounds in Usk, Wash., Millie Brumbaugh, a tionwide. But even though she's used to opera. The Shared Flute Project produc- voice instructor from Newport, Wash., sings working with artists from all around the tion featured more than 30 musicians, "So Must we Forever Part"from The Magic United States, the Usk performance was including the Frog Island Singers, a group Flute, accompanied by Scott Rednour. different. In planning the al fresco op- that performs traditional music of the era, Moore and her company, along with Kalispel Tribe all over the Northwest. Whitworth alumni spanning 25 years. Music Director Scott Rednour, '82, who Among the performers were a host of Moore and Rednour were joined by Doug Longly, '76, Doug Wunsch, '79, Millie (Henry) Brumbaugh, '81, Kresha Frankbauser, '97, and Elisabeth Beal, '99. Nearly 1,500 people enjoyed the Au- gust performance, and articles about the opera appeared in more than 40 nation, wide publications, including The New York Times. "While there was very little in my ~ training that prepared me for the chal- , lenge of starting a new (and new type of)

v~ opera company," Moore says, "the values !1, at the core of 'the other company,' as well ;f as many of its most important people and ~ ~ relationships, are a direct product of my I time at Whitworth." class of '92 page opus he's writing with a col- class of '93 cently promoted to associate prod- league. Mary Mutitu is working uct manager of Leukine, a prod- 10th Reunion at Homecoming, Heidi (Boomer) Van Sickle, M.Ed. toward her doctorate in curriculum uct produced by Immunex, based Oct. 19-20, 2002 '00, is a first-grade teacher at and instruction at the University in Seattle. Monica (Sheffield) lee Farwell Elementary School in Spo- Timothy Davis and his wife, Lisa, of Victoria in British Columbia, and her husband Jason, '96, live kane. Her husband, Matt, is pur- have moved to a new home in Mis- Canada. Melissa Poe is in the in Pasadena, Calif., where Jason suing a degree in psychology/ sion Viejo, Calif. Andrew Lawson environmental anthropology Ph.D. is pursuing a marital and family school counseling at Eastern received his master's degree in program at the University of Wash- therapy degree at Fuller Theologi- Washington University. Craig counseling with an emphasis in ington. She is researching the cal Seminary. Monica is staying at Stone and Dave Thornhill, '94, are marriage and family therapy from political ecology of sustainable home with their son and is volun- official game-day spotters for the the University of Phoenix. He is development and conservation teering in a tutoring program for stadium public address announcer working as a clinical care coordi- programs in Mesoamrrica. Julia Hispanic ESL students. Wendy for the Seattle Seahawks. Andrea nator in Phoenix, where he lives (Nickel) Roig is living in Bogota, Walker married Paul Bergam on (Price) Stogsdill and her husband, with his wife, Jeanne, and two Columbia, where the company she Oct. 7. They are living in Spokane, Jerry, live in Sacramento, Calif., sons. Jeff Carlson's most recent works for was recently awarded a where Wendy is a training and de- where she attends California State book, iMovie 2: Visual QuickStart USAID contract to help reform ju- velopment coordinator at University at Sacramento. She is Guide, was published by Peach pit dicial and legal institutions. She Albertson's, lnc., and Paul is the pursuing her master's degree in Press in Dec. 2001. He's currently will focus upon assisting the Co- owner of HP Construction, Inc. public policy and administration. working on the third edition of Real lombian Ministry of Justice to in- Staci Abrams married Beau Kim (Thompson) Carlson was re- World Adobe GoLive 6, a 1,000- crease the use of mediation to Abdulla in March. They live in resolve community conflicts. Ingersoll speaks for special children When Christie Ingersoll, '96, re- ally want to go again. Now I'm thankful turned from the Central America Study I listened to Him." tour the year she graduated, she felt sure During her first trip to Targoviste that she would never travel to another (v'Iar-go-vish-ta"), Romania, Ingersoll Third- World country. visited a baby orphanage, Among the The month she spent in a Honduran crowded white metal cribs, she found a orphanage proved a difficult experience two-year-old girl named Ariana. The for the alum, who now serves as a nanny child, who suffered from spina bifida and for I-year-old triplet boys in Spokane. other related medical problems, was the However, four years after her Honduran answer to Ingersoll's prayers. experience, an announcement at church "During my first trip, two adopting for a mission trip to a Romanian orphan- couples from the U.S. came to pick up age caught Ingersoll's attention. "God their healthy babies," she says. "I real- provided all my funding, and I could ized that just because Ariana and oth- hardly say no after that," she remembers. ers like her are available for adoption, "I had no idea why He would send me that doesn't necessarily make them back to an orphanage when I didn't re- adoptable. 1never pictured myself work- ing with special-needs kids, but they have no voice in Romania. They lie around waiting to die, and I couldn't let that happen to Ariana." Ingersoll traveled back to Romania Above, Christie Ingersoll holds Florin in a Romanian orphanage. At left, Ariana, one of this past August to find the orphanage the many special-needs children there. closed down and all the babies, includ- ing Ariana, placed into foster care. While "God doesn't make mistakes," she knows that foster families are an im- Ingersoll says. "If a child is born with provement over the orphanage, Ingersoll spina bifida or another birth defect, it is hasn't given up hope in finding an adop- for His glory. I'm honored that He would tive family for Ariana and the thousands choose me to be a spokesperson for these of other special, needs children in Roma- special children." nia. She often gives presentations chroni- For more information about mission cling her trips, and she encourages those trips or about adopting special-needs chit, interested in adoption to consider a spe- dren from Romania, e-mail Ingersoll at rial-needs child. [email protected]. class

Bradenton, Fla. where Staci works class of '97 as a caseworker for foster children. Angela Dudley married Joseph Feryn on Dec. 16, 2000. They live class of '95 in Spokane, where Angela works Justin Berg lives in Honolulu, Ha- for Greater Spokane Young Life, waii, where he was recently pro- and Joseph is a teacher at moted to library technician V with Gonzaga Prep. Benjamin Brody the McCully-Moiliili Public Library. married Sarah Everett on Jan. 13. Jenifer Moreland received her They live in Seattle. Holly Dorman master's degree in performing and Jonathan Morrell, who live in arts administration from New York Knoxville, Tenn., were married on University. She is living in Miami, May 19. Shallesh Ghimire is work- Fla., and is working as a company ing toward his master's degree in manager for the Florida Grand manufacturing and technology Opera. Ron Purdy has been work- management at the University of ing for the past five years in tech- Wisconsin. Chadron Hazelbaker is nology and digital production with a part-time kinesiology instructor Disney Feature Animation. His film at Whitworth. Kim Jewell gradu- credits include Hercules, Mulan, ated from the University of Wash- Tarzan, Fantasia 2000, Dinosaur, ington School of Medicine in June. The Emperor's New Groove and She is now an M.D. in the ana- Atlantis. Heidi Warner received tomical/clinical pathology resi- her master's degree in zoology in dency program at the university. PALM TREES AND MASTERS' DEGREES 1999 and is now living in Seattle. William Kaufold married Sarah 1996 alums (left to right) Lisa Johnstone, Desire DeSoto and She works at the Fred Hutchinson Jordon July 1 in San Bernardino, Celeste (Montibon) Naeole received their master of science Cancer Research Center. Lenny Calif. William is attending Lama degrees in counseling psychologyfrom Chaminade University in Wiersma in on the faculty at Cali- Linda School of Medicine. Jesse fornia State University, Fullerton, Malott is a student at Fuller Theo- Honolulu in May. Johnstone is a student services coordinator at in the division of kinesiology and logical Seminary in Pasadena, Hickam AFB Elementary School, DeSoto is an outreach counselor health promotion. Rebecca Calif. Derek Smith and Janise at Waianae High School, and Naeole is a high-risk counselor at Kinslow has received her master's Matyas, '98, were married on April Kamaile Elementary School. degree in education from San Jose 28 in Spokane. They live in State University. Sarah (Hilden) Princeton, N.J., where Janise is a Graham is pursuing a master's student at Princeton Theological San Luis Obispo in March. She is DeKorte attends Loma Linda degree in choral conducting at Seminary and Derek runs Edivise, an industrial engineer for Intel in School of Medicine in Southern Michigan State University. Sara Inc., a technology consulting firm Hillsboro, Ore. Jennifer Parrish California. Traci Popp married Bill Revell ran the Boston Marathon in he founded. Ryan and Heather married Scott Lunde on June 16. Crabb on May 19. They live in Chi- 2001. She is working at a company (Porter, '99) Hawk live in Seattle, Nicole Windhurst is working in cago, where Traci is a working to- in Houston, Texas, doing logisti- where they raise and train chim- Harare, Zimbabwe, Africa, at an ward her doctorate in clinical psy- cal arrangements for international panzees for local television com- orphanage administered by the chology. Douglas Schulz and Kelly visitors to Houston. Brooke Lippy mercial use. Jason McDougal United Methodist Church. Peter Starkweather were married June moved to Conway, Ark., where she lives in Tacoma, Wash., and was Riehle lives in Everett, Wash., and 30 in Leavenworth, Wash. Angela is a catalogue librarian at the Uni- recently promoted to information is a humanities teacher at Sultan (Hoff) Stark teaches physical edu- versity of Central Arkansas. systems department head at Middle School in Sultan. Melinda cation and special education at Sound Credit Union. Mark Jack- Brown married Dan Keberle on Lynnwood High School in class of '96 son lives in North Bend, Wash., July 14. They live in Spokane, Lynnwood, Wash. She is also the and is on the faculty of Trinity where Melinda is a teacher at head cross-country coach and Christine Bishop married William Lutheran College in Issaquah. He Mary Walker High School and Dan assistant track coach. Julian Trochman Nov. 25, 2000. They live teaches courses in youth and fam- is a professor of music at Nakanishi has received a in Boulder, Colo. Kari (Happ) ily ministry, advises students, and Whitworth. Keith Browning mar- master's degree in kinesiology Cornwell lives with her husband, serves as a resource to youth- ried Katie Walsh on June 16. Keith from San Jose State University in Steve, in Issaquah, Wash., and ministry professionals. David is a teacher in Spokane, and Katie California. Jason Morgan and Vir- works as an accounting assistant Collins was promoted to the posi- is employed as a barista. Mark ginia Smith were married in Sep- in Redmond. Richie Lane is active tion of sound designer at Blincoe earned his master's de- tember at First Presbyterian in the Sacramento business com- LucasArts in San Rafael, Calif. He gree in history from the Univ. of Church in Spokane. They live in munity and spends his spare time is composing music for an ani- Pennsylvania. He is in a Ph.D. pro- Yakima, Wash., where they sell mountain biking and snowboard- mated film. gram in history at the Univ. of Min- Jostens Scholastic Products to ing in Tahoe. Justin Visser and his nesota studying Medieval Europe. local high schools. Rachael wife, Kati, were accepted to work class of '98 (Gazdik) and Selby Hansen are with Wycliffe Bible Translators in class of '99 living in Hilliard, Ohio, where they Papua New Guinea, where they will Melissa (Dunn) Head is adminis- are both employed as pharmaceu- Jodi Carlson is an assistant edi- serve as house parents for the trative coordinator for university tical sales representatives. Leslie tor for BRIO, a magazine for teen children of bible translators. relations at the University of Cali- Moody married Chad Dashiell girls. Joshua Decker married fornia, Davis. Hilary Martin re- April 2 in Maui, Hawaii. Leslie is a Joscelyn Haynes Aug. 4. He is a ceived her master's degree in in- special-education teacher, and web developer for a Seattle-based dustrial engineering at Cal Poly, Chad is an accountant at Ameri- software company. Michele - - ~~\ . .' .

can West Bancorp. Joshua Moore Calif. He is employed by the Bank class of '01 M.Ed. '99, married Jeremy and Rachel Molony were married of Hawaii and is an assistant base- Stremme in August. Cindy Little, Nancy Belliston is a youth worker on July 7 and are living in Spo- ball coach at Punahou School. M.A.T. '99, was accepted into at Pacific Beach Presbyterian kane. Joshua is employed with Katie Hagestad and Kelson Baylor University's educational Church in San Diego, Calif. Trinity Insurance, and Rachel is Ramey, '01, were married in Au- psychology Ph.D. program and had Stephanie \lesser married Peter a student at Spokane Falls Com- gust in Kalispell, Mont., and are a second article published in the Olsen on July 2. They will live in munity College. Peter Rogers living in Spokane. Misty Frazier is January issue of Gifted Child To- Fort Drum, N.Y. Holly McLeod and and Tiffanie Hart were married stationed at Walter Reed Army day. Current M.A.T. student Liz Brian Farnsworth were married on on Sept. 8 and live in Spokane. Medical Center in Washington, Little teaches seventh, eighth, July 29 and are living in Spokane. D.C., and is working toward a de- and ninth grades at the Coeur Holly is a teacher at Shadle Park class of '00 gree as a licensed practical nurse. d'Alene Charter Academy. Current High School, and Brian is em- Followinggraduation, she plans to M.Ed. student Joy D. Clegg mar- Garad Davis is a graduate student ployed at Yoke's Foods. Nick apply for the U.S. Army's physi- ried Robert Miller in August. In in library and information science Schuerman and Cherie Lamphiear cian-assistant progr<3jTl. Stacie Spokane: James Page, M.Ed. '01, at the University of North Carolina, were married on May 19. They live [Soth} Wachholz is an English is a counselor at Seth Woodard Chapel Hill. Julie Mattox has re- in Spokane, where Nick is a coach teacher at Shadle Park High and Pasadena Park Elementary ceived a graduate assistantship and teacher. School in Spokane. Rebecca Jor- Schools. Kevin Peterson, Initial from the University of Hawaii at dan married Beau Garner, '01, on Administration Certification, '01, Manoa, where she is working to- May 27; the Garners live in Eu- grad student notes is an assistant principal at Bemiss ward her master's degree in ath- gene, Ore. Paul Clark and Jiorgia Tom Gresch, M.Ed. '97, is the new and Regal Elementary Schools. letic training. Scott Yoshihara re- Trobaugh, '02, were married on Jesse Hardt, M.Ed. '01, is an as" ceived his master's degree in busi- principal at Shadle Park High June 9 and are living in Spokane. School in Spokane. He is the sistant principal at Grant Elemen- ness administration at the Univer- Paul is an administrative assistant tary School. sity of the Pacific in Stockton, youngest principal in the Spokane at Sullivan Park Care Center. School District. Tanya Peck,

Personal relationships lead alum to activism If there is such a thing as a typical so- year a group from First Presbyterian and cial activist, Kresha Frankhauser, '97, Whitworth visited them. Frankhauser isn't it. Her pursuits include training with made her first visit to ltapagipe as a mem- her father to learn the art of opera sing- ber of that group, ing, teaching algebra and Spanish to Being involved with that church, high-school students, and encouraging Frankhauser says, has greatly influenced first graders to pray the Lord's Prayer at how she understands social action. To- the top of their lungs - not necessarily day, Itapagipe Church, perched on the activities that usually fall under the ae- edge of Salvador's slums, operates a com- gis of social activism. munity center that provides much- "Our job as the church - after wor- needed education and dental care for the ship together, of course - is to celebrate, poor of the city. More than 1,300 adults to heal, and to help each other be whole, have graduated from the center's school the way we are designed to be," she says. in the past seven years. And the dental "And to do these things, we have to be clinic is the only one available to nearly together, to be involved in each other's 150,000 people. lives. Isn't seeking the betterment and Although her ongoing relationship wholeness of others the very heart of so- with ltapagipe has taught her much about cial activism?" the importance of hands-on involve- Frankhauser and her family spent ment, the people there have also taught much of the summer of 2001 in Salva- her to see social activism with a broader dor, Brazil, with members of a tiny church perspective. "Usually, people feel like that has a huge impact on that city of they can only make a difference if they three million. Irapagtpe Presbyterian work in a project, like the Itapagipe Church has a historical connection with Church or an Inner-city ministry," she both First Presbyterian Church of Spo- says. "But the bigger opportunity is learn- kane and Whitworth College, Its pastor, ing how to recognize and support the Aureo Bispo dos Santos, and his wife, Kresha Frankhauser, back row secondfrom needs and dreams of others, especially in Cecilia, came to teach at Whitworth right, poses next to her sister, Katie, and our personal relationships. That's the during) an Term 1991, and the following children of the Itapagipe Presbyterian Church. purest form of social activism."

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