pacificu.edu/magazine THE MAGAZINE OF PACIFIC UNIVERSITY OREGON Healthcare Hub Pacific Ups the Ante on Healthcare Education VOICES COMMUNITY spring 2011 11 The Power of Encouragement 28 Class Notes and Profiles II contents & calendar MAY JUNE JULY AUG 5 –21 Senior 4 Dental Health Science 10 Alumni & Friends 1 Legends Golf Classic 3 Football Art Show Alumni Day* @ Portland Timbers* Golf Tournament vs. Simon Fraser Cawein Gallery Health Professions Campus The Reserve Vineyards & Lincoln Stadium Forest Grove campus 15 Oahu Boxer Golf Club, Aloha 15–19 Optometry ‘Ohana Reception* 5 Labor Day calendar 21 Commencement Class of ’89 Celebration 25 New Student No classes Forest Grove campus Salt Lake City 17 Concours d’Elegance Orientation begins Car Show (undergraduate) 10 Football 26–28 Music in May 16–26 MFA in Writing Forest Grove campus vs. Menlo Forest Grove campus Residence Convocation Lincoln Stadium events 26 Forest Grove campus 31 Legends Golf Classic Forest Grove Campus 30 Memorial Day Auction & Dinner No classes Nike World Headquarters 29 Fall semester begins Tiger Woods Center Forest Grove Campus pacificu.edu/magazine 1 HEIDI HOFFMAN contents 16 feature HEALTHCARE HUB WITH A SECOND ‘GREEN’ BUILDING JUST COMPLETED and a third planned, the Pacific University Health Professions Campus is showing the way to the future of healthcare education and delivery. 26 feature GOLDFISH & PSYCHOLOGY ANNA ANTONIA GIEDWOYN ‘13, A DOCTORAL STUDENT IN PSYCHOLOGY, was in class one day listening to a talk about how young children sometimes use past tense words incorrectly. It inspired a song, then an entire CD of original songs and music. FUTURE TEACHERS | Alyssa Gerg has her photo online features pacificu.edu/magazine taken by fiancé Greg Nestler after the College of Education commencement ceremony SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY Twelve veteran Pacific employees exercised in Eugene. More than 50 newly minted graduates retirement options this spring. We collected took part in the ceremony in late 2010. a few of their many stories. pacificu.edu/magazine | Eugene commencement CAMPUS LENS HEALTH PROFESSIONS Take a spin through the Health Professions Campus in Hillsboro with a video slideshow. SEPT OCT departments PRINT ONLINE 3 Football 28–30 Homecoming 2 letters vs. Simon Fraser and Family Weekend* Lincoln Stadium (including Reunion) 5 news & notes Forest Grove campus 11 voices 5 Labor Day No classes 14 gallery *special alumni events 10 Football pacificu.edu/alumni 16 features vs. Menlo [email protected] 28 community | class notes Lincoln Stadium 503-352-2057 37 encore complete calendar multimedia pacificu.edu/calendar | 877-722-8648 pacificu.edu/magazine | Pacific magazine online 2 letters letter president’s LESLEY M. HALLICK, PH.D. My Healthcare Crystal Ball Whatever the for energy efficiency. It also includes extensive PRESIDENT outcome of the ongoing debate over healthcare common areas for study and gathering, a new reform, one thing is certain. Oregon and the anatomy lab and additional administrative space. nation will need the best healthcare practitioners I’m not putting my hard hat away just yet, though. our colleges and universities can provide. We are moving ahead on plans for a third Last August we opened our second building building at HPC that will house our nationally (HPC2) at the Health Professions Campus in known College of Optometry and bring all of our Hillsboro and formally dedicated the Health & healthcare programs together on one campus. Education District. This new district is a partnership This project will also support the creation of new with Tuality Healthcare, Virginia Garcia Memorial programs, such as audiology, which was just Health Center, Portland Community College (PCC) approved by the Board of Trustees. and the City of Hillsboro. The Health & Education In addition, plans are developing rapidly for the District builds on the strengths of all of these science and technology complex on the Forest community organizations, both in terms of new Grove campus that over time will allow us to space for classrooms and research, and as an expand capacity, to modernize our equipment and economic magnet for jobs and services. classrooms to keep pace with the cutting edge In addition, we joined with state and federal curriculum the faculty developed. It will also make governments and our district partners to build a it easier for faculty and students to integrate the new Intermodal Transportation Facility (ITF). This undergraduate science disciplines. Both of these is not just a fancy name for a parking structure, capital projects will require significant philanthropy. though that’s part of its function. The ITF includes When we dedicate those new facilities, the classrooms for PCC, charging stations for electric healthcare debate will likely still be raging. And cars, showers and lockers for bicycle commuters. we’ll still be doing what we do best: strengthening And, it is topped by large solar panels—all part of our educational programs in the liberal arts, a continued commitment to sustainability. teacher education and healthcare to best prepare The opening of HPC2 allowed us to bring our our graduates to succeed and to contribute to the growing School of Professional Psychology from rapidly changing world they will then encounter. Portland to Hillsboro to join with our other healthcare programs. Like Creighton Hall, the first building on campus, HPC2 is LEED Gold-certified Lesley Hallick, President—[email protected] pacificu.edu/magazine 3 letters to the editor On Football’s Return dirt floor for the building’s first 25 neck. I’m sure the only people who I was really impressed with the years and for increasing the library still remember those seasons are his fall publication [covering] Pacific’s budget. team members. return of football. When I attended As Blake described, the situation A side story: Ben was in charge in 1951–52, football was a big deal. has changed radically both for of a dance at the Gamma Sigma Keep up that Boxer spirit! Pacific and for the Northwest house that night after the game. BarBara M. SincLair ’52 Conference, and we all hope that I suggested he lie down and let Lopez Island, Wash. the hiatus from football has buried his friend Paul Warren ‘55, take the losing tradition from the 1980s, over, but he insisted on doing his I appreciated Blake Timm’s and we can now begin a new duty. His face wounds were severe winning tradition. and the shock evidently prevented comprehensive look at the history of CORRECTIONS & football at Pacific. I thought I could THomas Beck him from realizing until the next Clarifications add a few details on the decision Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, morning that he’d also suffered Now that he is in a to drop football in 1992. Following 1991–2003 | Forest Grove, Ore. chest wounds. sharing mood, (Fall the dreadful 1991 season, which Not only did Ben and I meet at 2010, “Golden drew little fan interest, the dean of Congratulations! I love the Pacific, but so did my parents, Bill Memories”), Ron students, Meg O’Hara approached new format of the Pacific magazine. and Carna Peterson Campbell, ’29. Lindberg ’60 me as the dean of the College of I actually shed tears of joy upon Mom and I were both Theta Nu wanted to set the Arts & Sciences with the idea of reading that football has begun Alphas and Dad and Ben were both record straight on ending football. Her concern was the again after 19 years. The pictures Gamma Sigmas. the sheet he pilfered from a classmate impact of football on a college with of the team reminded me of a story Thank you again for football; I was a I would like to share when my late and then returned just 400 men. cheerleader and will be cheering for husband, Ben Tennant ’55, played 50 years later. The I had met with Coach Singler at the you always. Go Boxers! sheet actually was end of the season and requested a on the 1951 championship team Patricia CampBELL Tennant ’56 stolen from the attic report on what it would take to have and through the next three seasons. Prineville, Ore. of McCormick Hall, a winning team. He reported back in He had received offers of football not the lobby, as we January 1992 that it would require and track scholarships from both Pacific and Linfield, choosing Pacific had reported. an investment of about $50,000, Cheers for WWII Vets because of its Boxer tradition. You guys are producing one of the which would have increased the football budget by 25 percent. most terrific magazines. It’s like a During the 1953 season, after a While Coach Singler’s request was mini-Life magazine. WWII stories: play, he picked himself up off reasonable, it was not possible You sure hit my soft spot. I’m a the ground with cleat wounds to given the college’s overall budget veteran. Good work. his face and chest. Coach Paul Ron LinDBerg O.D. ’60 situation, especially after the faculty Stagg would not allow him to play Ladysmith, B.C. had voted to drop football two years the next game unless he wore a earlier. President Duvall had rejected helmet with a “beaky bar.” It was that advice partly based on alumni a single horizontal bar across his As an aging veteran, I was promises of increased financial nose attached to his helmet. His absolutely enthralled by your support that never appeared. nose had been broken and severed most recent e-issue (The Last Combining the need for a new from the cheek through to the Rich Year, Fall 2010, pacificu.edu/ stadium, the concerns from the dean oral cavity. The “beaky bar” was magazine). Your portraits and of students, the faculty opinion, the the first such gear ever used in our examination of Pacific students’ low attendance, but most of all the football conference.