Baseball in May

Tuesday, May 10th, I took Nancy to a Mariners game.  Ross Stewart  passed on tickets from Thom Kroon, one of our Executive Advisory Board members.  The Seattle Mariners beat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-4.  I especially enjoyed watching out new Korean player, first baseman #10 Dae-Ho Lee, drive a three run homer over the right field wall.  Our great seats were 17 rows up behind home plate.

The other two tickets went to Dr. Jackqueline Miller and her son Michael.  Jackie is our Graduate Coordinator, my job from 1991-1996. She is from Philadelphia and was a great athlete in high school.  She and I often ride the bus together from the UW to SPU when our schedules mesh.  Jackie is perhaps my best friend at school.  She's in her second year.  She often runs ideas past me and asks me to proof her writing.  She is the other "staff" member with a doctorate, an Ed.D.

Michael will graduate from Lake Washington High School in June.  He looked at many schools but settled on SPU in the fall.  He is 6'-4" and hopes to make the SPU basketball team.  His summer job will be at a Fred Meyer in the Produce Department.  He plans to be a Political Science major.

Nancy took this picture.  She took the bus to Safeco Field and got there very early and enjoyed watching batting practice.  It was a very rare date.  We took a walk around the concourse before the game so she could pick out her dinner.  Nothing is cheap at the stadium, and she chose the $16.50 crab sandwich.  It did not appeal to me but she loved it.  I had the $3.00 sausage hotdog purchased outside the stadium.

Beta Gamma Sigma and Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society Event a Big Success

Why do I worry about events when I am the event coordinator?  This was my baby.  I had pushed the Political Science faculty to establish a chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national Political Science honor society.  Starting last year, I helped them get organized and prepared all their forms.  I created their web site.  And I ran the whole nomination and induction process. 

Again this year, I was  the "acting" Chapter Secretary for our existing business honor society Beta Gamma Sigma, with Dr. Karns on sabbatical.  I had been inducted just three years ago.  I organized a joint event which split into two rooms for the ceremony portion.  It was a success as this message from Dr. Stewart attests.  He exaggerated the amount of time to took me.  I am more efficient than that.

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you so much to all who put in a great deal of time and effort toward the induction event today!

We were thrilled to induct the charter class of Alpha Kappa Xi Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha—34 inductees representing high academic achievement in the field of political science. Honoring of these worthy students was only possible because of the initiative and hours of work by Caleb, Ruth, Brad and Dick.

In like manner, Regina and Dick gave leadership to all the aspects of the Beta Gamma Sigma part of the event. Thank you so much! I know Dick put in about 100 hours on publication, registration, program schematics (some with smiley faces) and a myriad of details.

Thanks to Elizabeth, Kathy and Madison who helped at the event (and others who might have been helping out that I did not see).

And thank you to all the faculty and staff who attended. Your presence is very meaningful to our students and their families.

I felt both proud and privileged to be part of this event.

A “program” with the names of students in both groups is posted outside the workroom.

Ross

Our Credit Score Reveals Sound Financial Practices

We may only have $1,700 in our BECU account but the credit score agencies think we are a sound investment.  (We've also got over $1,000,000 in retirement investments.  Maybe this is known to the credit companies.)

Jean's Film is Online
 
Here is the film that Jean's team made in L.A. last autumn.  Jean has bit parts in it, but was primarily responsible for picture editing and for being the script supervisor on the project.