Sometimes You Win

"Present your Safeway Club Card when making a purchase of three of the participating products, beginning 12:00 AM PT on 9/9/15 through 11:59 PM PT on 1/5/16 (the “Safeway Purchase Period”), at a participating Safeway store in the states of Idaho or Washington . . ."  I didn't even know I was playing when I shopped at Safeway in the fall.  But this month I received a $500 Safeway gift card as a "Shop and Score Participating Player."  Wahoo!

Then on Monday the 25th, I lost my cell phone somewhere between home and school.  It was a providential guess that I emailed Metro Transit that I'd lost it on the #31 bus between the UW and SPU.  The next day I got an email that said they thought they had the phone.  I could pick it up at 201 S. Jackson St.  I took a long lunch and happily retrieved my phone.

Twice in the past I have lost checkbooks on Metro busses.  Both times I retrieved them at the Metro East Base in Bellevue.  God is good.  I was feeling depressed this month, but events like this have perked me up.

My Brief Bio for a New Dean

The business school staff prepared a document to introduce ourselves to the Dean candidates.  Here is my brief bio.  I left the green text out, since I was the editor/publisher.

Dr. Richard Sleight (pronounced “slate”) came to SPU in 1989 and to the business school in 1991. From 1978 to 1989 he had been a Lecturer in the University of Washington College of Engineering, and was the chair of the Undergraduate Committee in its Industrial Engineering Program before leaving for SPU. His degrees are actually in Economics, Educational Psychology (measurement and statistics), and Educational Policy Studies, although his computer skills have been a constant theme across his entire career in the academy. (He was teaching computer programming while still in high school.) Since 1996, Dick has served as the information and technology manager for the school, following his time as our MBA Coordinator (1991-1996). His current suite of duties is broad. He collects and processes data for learning assessment, course evaluations, and many other areas. He is the SBGE liaison on technology with Computer and Information Systems, on room assignments and the Time Schedule with Student Academic Services, and, as the McKenna Hall building manager, with the Office of Facility & Project Management. He is the SBGE webmaster, SharePoint security manager, photographer, faculty advisor to all SBGE minors, advisor for all undergraduate students of faculty on leave or sabbatical, editor/publisher of our weekly undergraduate email newsletter, and is significantly involved with onboarding new and adjunct faculty. He has taught both undergraduate and graduate Business Statistics courses and has been our instructor for the Excel spreadsheets course for twenty years. He is also the Organization Administrator of our Certiport Authorized Testing Center. Although Dick serves with a staff contract, in 2000 he was given the title of Instructor, and in 2013 the SPU Faculty Senate granted him faculty membership.

The Sleight family lives in west Bellevue. His wife Nancy and all three children, Ann (29), Nathanael (27), and Jean (23), were in the SPU University Scholars program. Jean graduates this spring. Dick leads a weekly men’s Bible study at Bellevue Presbyterian Church, teaches a weekly Bible class in the summer at the Emerald Heights Retirement Community in Redmond, and is a busy sports photographer for Bellevue Christian School.

Randy Moves to Lake Stevens

On January 30th, Randy rounded up a team of friends and family to help him move from the Cascadian Place retirement community to a three bedroom duplex in Lake Stevens just northeast of Everett.  His new address is: 11603 19th St. NE, Lake Stevens, WA 98258.  Getting a U-Haul truck this time was vital to a successful move.

His new place is one block off the bus line and is on a hill just north of the lake.  He has a one car garage although there is no door from it directly into the living space.  The three bedrooms are on the second floor.

A small creek runs right through his back yard. A new neighbor helping with move said that Kokanee salmon spawn in that creek and thrive in Lake Stevens. 

Brother Don, despite his recent surgery, worked as the doorman at the retirement community.  When we moved the first loads to Lake Stevens, he went out for awesome pizza for the five friends and five family members making the move.  Lance Ellis managed to load the truck so that our second trip was much quicker than the first.