February 2015
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Steve Hayner was the young and beloved pastor who married Nancy and I. He was my first Bible teacher who was not on Christian radio. He died at age 66. Even before I was a believer, I would hear him teaching in Calvin Lounge at University Presbyterian Church as I walked past on Sunday mornings. Later, Nancy and I attended "The Inn" on Tuesday nights, from September 1980 until we moved to Bellevue. We also attended his year-long Pilgrimage of Faith class, a program of his own design. We attended his classes on Sundays and also meetings in his home with other young marrieds. Our pre-marriage sessions with him were few but memorable. He conducted a wonderful wedding. For years I'd wished I had paid him a larger honorarium for the service. At a conference at Warm Beach camp where he was the featured speaker, I slipped him a thank you note and a $400 check. I was much older and could now afford it. What I most remember is his clear teaching from Paul along these lines, "It's not Jesus and baptism, or Jesus and circumcision, or Jesus and good deeds, or Jesus and anything else. It's just Jesus." He left UPC to become a vice president at SPU, then the President of InterVarsity/USA (succeeded by my dean Alec Hill), and finally as seminary professor and President of Columbia Theological Seminary. As a scholar, the Reverend Doctor Stephen Hayner was the real deal. His doctoral dissertation was done on Jeremiah's Lamentations. Nancy and I loved him dearly. Jeannie Beth Accepted to The Los Angeles Film Studies Center for Autumn 2015 We were surprised to hear that neither Nathanael
nor Jean were cast this year in the Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan
Society's summer
production of Pirates of Penzance. But
Jeannie Beth was chosen for the SPU spring main stage play, As It Is
in Heaven.
She plans to drive down to L.A. in August. Nancy and perhaps Nathanael will travel with her for company on the trip south. This month, the run of King Lear ended. And on the 27th, SPU President Dan Martin included this paragraph in his Board of Trustees report.
At a retirement seminar at SPU that Nancy and I attended, Dr. Scranton told us how Jeannie Beth saved the show by creatively prompting him because he'd forgotten his next lines. Jean thus followed in the footsteps of Annie who did the same to rescue the BCS actors in Play On years before. BUS 1700 Spreadsheets: Changes for 2015-16 One of my big jobs each year is to process the
business school Time Schedule for the coming year. Round 1 is due
in mid-January and Round 2 was due March 2nd. Graduate,
undergraduate, five majors, five minors (for which I am the sole faculty
advisor), day, evening, and weekend It was decided that I would teach only one 40-student section of BUS 1700 each quarter next year. I started with 84 students this quarter and have 56 in a typical quarter. But the biggest changes are that the course will be pass/fail and will be concentrated in the first three weeks of each quarter. Being the person who makes the schedule, I was able to fashion my teaching hours around my other responsibilities and avocations. All of these sections are for only the first three weeks of each term. AUTUMN: 6:00-8:00 PM, Monday and
Wednesday (so I can travel to BCS Cross Country races)
I don't even want to think about it. We were sooooooo close. After Jermaine Kearse's amazing catch, Seattle failed to score the touchdown we were all sure would seal the win for the Seahawks in the closing minutes. The nation saw an amazing game. But this hurts more than it should. It's just a game played by young, big, strong millionaires. Turning 60 I finally took time to visit Dr. Kelley. My annual physical was six months overdue. Because I had been off my meds for months, my numbers were awful. Only my weight (183) was moving in the right direction. Back on my four medications now, my blood sugars are better and by blood pressure is back to ideal. As for turning 60, Nancy and I went to a retirement seminar at SPU this month. What a daunting prospect.
I did not ask for this, but Nancy decided it would be a good thing for me to have web access everywhere. My new Verizon Ellipsis 7 tablet looks much like my two 7" Lenovo tablets, but is has both wifi access at home and at SPU, and also 4G wireless access when I am on the road. So far, I have only used the wireless data feature while riding to work on the bus. As I cross the floating bridge, I check my email and delete the spam and note any urgent tasks to tackle when I arrive at work. At 25% of the way through my first billing cycle, I see that I have only used 4% of the meager 500MB of monthly data for which I signed up.
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Bits and Pieces
His mastery of science and his stoicism appealed to me. One word that he used frequently became a staple in my vocabulary, "indeed." I learned years later that both he and William Shatner (Captain Kirk) were Jewish. And that, like me, his avocation was photography. ♦ Annie had her "golden birthday" this year, turning 28 on the 28th. Interesting that her being 28 seems more surprising to me than me turning 60. As Billy Graham told us in Kansas City in December 1983, "Life is short."
Like most visits to Everett, I like to shop at Cabela's in Marysville. But I didn't buy a firearm this time. Temptation can be muted if one just buys some more ammo. But there is yet another .22LR pistol on my wish list. But will it be a Browning Buck Mark or a Ruger 22 Charger? ♦ Nathanael coached the lone female BCS wrestler at Regionals in Yelm while the head coach took the boys to another tournament. Then the next week, he went with the team to the Mat Classic at the Tacoma Dome where he has wrestled three times himself. BCS sent five boys, and senior Daniel Young took 7th place. He continued coaching the junior high wrestlers after the varsity season ended. On the 28th, he and I helped set up the track at Flynn Field, and Nathanael will help coach BCS Track & Field this spring. ♦ At the end of February, the Saturday men finished Nehemiah, and we covered Psalm 135-136 on March 7th. We will continue on in Malachi. My Quote from February Isn't life strange From Isn't Life Strange, The Moody Blues, 1972 The Moody Blues were more than a "favorite group" for me during my undergraduate college years. They were a place holder in my life for what the Church is today. There seemed to be a longing for something just out of reach in their music. They were more love and magic than pop culture. |
