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 Jean
is the Lead Story Again this Month
After being cast as Juror Number Nine in SPU's Autumn
production of 12 Angry Women
(can you spot her?),
 she
set her sights on her next dramatic adventure.
And it came less than two days after her audition
earlier this month.
Jean was chosen as a member of the chorus in the 2012
Seattle Gilbert &
Sullivan Society summer production of
Iolanthe or "The Peer and the Peri." Jean
will play a Peri (fairy).
She has begun rehearsals, taking the bus to the
rehearsal hall just north of Ballard.
(Fortunately, the Metro 17 bus runs to Ballard from SPU,
at least until late September.) And JB seems to
have finally discovered the difference between north and
south! On her first attempt to find this facility,
she called me on her cell phone from downtown Seattle as
she passed the Seattle Library on the bus and was headed
further south every moment. Ballard is northwest
of SPU.
We look forward to enjoying the next step in her
acting/dancing/singing career this coming July.
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  Pearl
Comes Home to Bellevue
Pearl was given to Ginger Rutherford as a Christmas
present in December 2009. She's filled out and is
quite the cat instead of the large kitten she was.
But she has also grown into an undisciplined,
claw-wielding terror at times.
She seems to alternate between shy, scared,
affectionate, and angry!
While she's especially upset by the other cats,
when she spots them, she came out and posed for these
photos without much bother, and I was able to pet her.
But when she decided she'd had enough, out came the
claws in a fast and furious attack. Now I've
experienced what Grandma Ginger had, and understand why
Pearl has come home to us. Now if we could just
interest her in some rats . . . but she is not an
outdoor feline.
  Bonnie
and Hayk are Married in a Civil Ceremony
Heidi and Dave James have been friends of our
family perhaps longer than any other couple. They were on
a day hike with Nancy back on September 13th, 1980, and
came with her to SPU to see the play The Cotton
Patch Gospel of Matthew. That's where I
reappeared in Nancy's life. Nancy and I were
married March 14, 1981. Heidi and Dave were
married in November 1981.
Well, their younger daughter Bonnie met Hayk Grigoryan (from
Armenia) at Bellevue College just this January . . . and
the rest is history.
Heidi was hospitalized with a brain aneurism for weeks
in March, so Nancy stepped in and served as surrogate
mom. (Heidi and Nancy first met on the plane to
Kansas City, Missouri, and discovered that they were
both bound as freshmen for Cottey College in Nevada,
Missouri.) Nancy helped with the sewing and
numerous other details, and even bought the flowers at
the last minute. And of course she volunteered me
as a pro bono wedding photographer. Dave James had
only recently been hired as a senior accountant after
many months of unemployment. It's been a hectic
time in their lives and ours.
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 Lesson
1 Begins with "Context"
When he came down
from the mountainside, large crowds followed
him.
— Matthew 8:1 NIV
I feel like that's
all the farther I've gotten in my preparations
for my eight hour Bible class this summer.
But I've continued to study and organize
resources and have much confidence in my
direction.
I continue to prepare
materials like this Israel/Washington State
graphic.
I can't just jump into Matthew
chapter eight without providing a complete
overview of the context. It's a good way
to ease into the material.
I'll have to take
some vacation days to get caught up.
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. . how does your garden grow?
Nancy and I spread a few years
of accumulated compost over our vegetable garden, mostly
kitchen scraps, grass, and leaves. I am determined
to grow something this year. I planted 39 tomato
seeds — thirteen each of Early Girl, Sweet 100s,
and Abe Lincoln heirlooms.
I also planted green onions (and catnip since Shadow
"the dog" was "helping" me.) This wet April
thankfully had many nice weekends, and Nancy finally got
me out of the house to work in the yard.
 BCS
Track and Field Photography
Daylong track meets are taking
up every free moment — (which is a silly statement
because the "moments" were always dedicated to this work
and were never "free.")
For
Bellevue
Christian, there is one more league meet on May 2nd,
then the league, district, and State championships
follow.
When the sun finally came
out in April, I made sure I was using my best gear —
and the shots were amazingly sharp.
Drs. Scott and Ellen Lampe,
parents of senior sprinter
Meredith, again this year gifted me with $200.
And Agnes Antosz, mother of senior hurdler
Michael, has paid me $200 for photos from the four
years Michael has competed. I have only 2012 still
to prepare for her.
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Easter 2012
Easter this year was a smaller
affair. Susan Rutherford was in Korea visiting Annie and
Thomas, and our only dinner guest was again Nathan,
Nathanael's apartment mate.
The 6:00 a.m. worship service
was memorable for the worst, most poorly delivered
sermon I'd ever heard. Rather than task one of
their many pastors to preach, First Presbyterian Church
of Bellevue had send a youth worker. But it
doesn't change the fact that He is risen!
Saturday Morning Men
In April, we finished our study
of 1st Peter and continued directly into 2nd Peter.
We will return to the Psalms for the last studies this
year.
I have not been able to attend
the FPCB Men's Retreat in recent years since it's been
held on the first weekend in June and I'm completely
busy with preparing for a sports award dinner.
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Bits and Pieces
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Dr. Phil Eaton will
retire at the end of June. His
replacement has been found. |
Dr. Donald B. Summers
1943 -
2012 |
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Dr. Don Summers passed away in March
while teaching in Viet Nam. He ran
our Social Venture program and the new
MASSM graduate program. His
passing was sudden but not unexpected.
He and I would occasionally talk about
Nikon cameras, and of course, I was his
portrait photographer. He was
known for his positive spirit and his
kindness. He is missed by our whole
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I have the opportunity to
lecture on three occasions in BUS 3620 and BUS
6170 this quarter. It will be fun speaking
to graduate students on May 9th. |
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I'm considering teaching a section of BUS 3950,
perhaps in the Winter. The course, titled
Spirituality in Business, is a Friday
night through Saturday, single weekend class.
Should I choose to teach one of the eight
sections next year, it will be on the topic of
Servanthood as a counterpoint to
leadership. |
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Dr. Kaz Poznanski has renewed his interest in my
services to continue to develop
his
website. |
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April 2012 marks both the 100th
anniversary of the birth of Nancy's
father Robert V. E. Rutherford, and the
first anniversary of the death of my
father. Their lives were quite a
contrast. Both lived through the
Great Depression. Bob became a
major in the U.S. Marine Corps during WW
II, serving in the South Pacific and
Washington D.C. (where he met and
married Ginger). Dick was
discharged as a PFC, serving in the Army
occupation of Japan. (He was at Fort
Ord, California, when the atomic bombs
were dropped.) Bob graduated from
the University of Washington with
degrees in Geology (before he entered
the Marines) and Mechanical Engineering
later. Dick attended the U.W. in
Engineering but did not graduate.
Bob became a Boeing Engineer and later a
small business owner in the auto rebuild
industry. Dick went to work at
Boeing in the shops soon after
graduating from Benson Polytechnic High
School in his hometown of Portland, OR.
He worked his way up to become a
well-respected Tool Design Engineer.
Bob was a man of faith. Many
hundreds attended his memorial service.
Bob's was a life for his family and
others. Dick softened as he aged,
but to eternal things he was largely
oblivious. Yet, I'm glad both were
in my life. Bob was a mentor to
me. Dad was dad. |
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 Annie and Thomas
will come home for a summer visit, but Annie has
signed her contract for a second year at Big
Heart Christian School. Thomas will seek
work elsewhere in the area. |
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