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Servant
to All
At lunch
at the SBE fall retreat, when
the annual school awards
were announced, a special award
preceded Teacher of the Year,
Scholar of the Year,
and the other awards. I'd
seen the list of awards for this
year and knew I wasn't going to
receive the Dean's Service
Award again, so I was taken
by surprise by the first award.
In recognition of my management
of the summer McKenna Hall
remodel, and for all the ways I
serve the School of Business and
Economics, I was awarded the
pictured construction hat (with
brass plaque attached.)
Beyond this, the faculty and
staff gave me a standing
ovation. It at least made
my week. Being the
"servant of all" is perhaps my
life goal.
I will never be a dean or a
tenure track faculty member.
At age 55, "higher office" is
not in my future. But for
many years I've relied on my
willingness to cheerfully serve
everyone. That's where my
status has been established and
recognized. "The greatest
among you will be your servant."
Matt 23:11
  As
another example of my
willingness to serve, I've also
accepted the job of cook at the
annual school picnic.
When we gather at a park, I cook
over charcoal, but when it
rains, they set me up with a gas
grill outside the Student Union
Building.
And in August I got yet another
cowboy hat
―
this one a unique style 5X model
worth well over $100 new, but I
paid $9 at Antique Liquidators
on Westlake.
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  It
was Bound to Happen Sometime
Our 1990 Ford
Club Wagon is at the body shop at the end of this month.
On Thursday, September 9th, Annie was driving Nancy, JB
and her friend Jenny, and myself home from the Turtle
Soup Relay race at Kelsey Creek Park. Annie was
turning left (with the green arrow!) from northbound
116th Ave. NE onto NE 10th Street at Overlake Hospital.
A VW driven by Maria, an uninsured Hispanic mother, with
her 16 year old daughter, also Maria, in the passenger
seat, ran their red light and hit our van as it was
turning. Annie saw the car and accelerated, thus
preventing a head on collision which would have been
much worse. As it was, the damage to our beloved
Ford will likely come to over $5000. Because it is
so old, although it has a newer engine, PEMCO would have
totaled it, leaving us without transportation and not
enough cash to buy a decent replacement. Later in
the month, Annie received forms from the State of
Washington indicating that the attending officer had
determined that the fault lay with the other motorist.
It is not our intent to seek damages from Maria.
Her life must have been terribly impacted by the
multiple tickets she received and the damage to her car.
 But
we certainly needed another car. And having two
cars between five drivers was not always working out
anyway. We
went shopping in Kent at Bowen Scarff Ford the following
Monday night to check on a 2000 white
Club Wagon but it did not appeal to us.
But what caught Nathanael's eye was a 2003 Ford Taurus
SES sedan. "Bullet" as "he" is now called, had lots
of miles on him (118,400), but we put a deposit on him
on Tuesday morning and Nathanael and I took the #150 bus
to Kent on Thursday afternoon to complete the
transaction and drive him home. Nathanael and I
are co-owners of Bullet, but Grandma Ginger is the
benefactor that made the purchase possible.
Bullet has spent most of his life as a rental car.
So although he has lots of miles on him, he has been
impeccably maintained. Nathanael loves this car.
And I'm glad he's back at SPU in his junior year so I
can drive Bullet. Bullet is a "he" because Annie's
car "Millie" (named after the Millennium Falcon) claims
him as her little brother, since Millie is a 1999
Taurus.
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  Sleight
Sets Pace for SPU Men
at Saint Martin's
Falcon Junior Earns Spot in Top 25; Team Runs to 6th-Place
Finish
LACEY, Wash. – Nate Sleight
ran to a 24th-place finish, leading the Seattle Pacific men
to sixth in the team standings at the Saint Martin’s
Invitational cross country meet on Saturday morning.
(From the SPU web site.)
These pictures are of the Apple Ridge
Run on 9/11 in Yakima (complements of AJ Baker's dad Brent,
a professional photographer) and at the University of
Washington's Sundodger race at Lincoln Park. Nathanael
finished 2nd for SPU in the 6K at Yakima, two seconds
behind SPU senior Jacob "Wally" Wahlenmaier, and 28th of 75
overall. On 9/18, at Sundodger this
year, he was 6th for SPU and 70th of 198 runners in this big
race. But as the title
of this story says, "Sleight Sets Pace for SPU Men at Saint
Martin's." On orientation weekend, 9/25, he
led the SPU team in their race in Lacey.
The SPU men's
team has improved over last year while the women's team lost
most of its stars and is rebuilding.
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The
Comics I Read
Do the comics we read tell something about
us? I follow only a few as time permits. I read
Dilbert daily. And about weekly I manage to catch up
on Wizard of Id, B.C., and
In the Bleachers.
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JB Competes in Her Final XC
Season
Jeannie Beth has been placing 6th or 7th on
her team in the September races. Every race has been held
under great weather conditions despite this being the 4th
wettest September on record around here. Her team has improved over last year's team that went to State.
Freshman Isabella Chaffey has finished up with junior Bree
Oldham and "Bella" accounts for most of the team improvement.
If everyone remains healthy, a return trip to Pasco seems very
likely.
On the boys side, senior Michael Milbank and
sophomore Daniel Nortz have their sights set on qualifying for
State as individuals. But the team is weak this year after
the front runners. How like my senior year, with myself
and Kevin Adams leading West Seattle with only modest support.
But saying that, my 3A Indians would have easily qualified for
State if we could have done so against 1A competition.
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Adam and Katherine Kidwell Move to Seattle
Katherine began her
M.A. in Museology studies at the University
of Washington this month. She and Adam moved from Maryland
to Seattle, finding an apartment just a few blocks east of the
Northgate Mall. Entering from the parking lot on the north
side, one goes down stairs, but when you enter the apartment,
you look out on a wooded tract from a second story balcony.
Our Bellevue Sleight
crew helped them move boxes on a Friday and returned on Saturday
to move a huge sofa and a bookcase. It was a very tight
squeeze and we needed all of us, but it was mission
accomplished. We also had the chance to tell them that
Renton was a lot farther from Northgate than it looked on the
map. Of course, they had used their Apple phones to locate
the local Ikea.
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Dr. Erv Nalos (1924-2010)
 Erv
Nalos was, along with Dick Bloomquist, Bob Swenson, and
Bill Pickets one of my four fathers in the faith at
First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue. For 48
years he was a faithful member of the Saturday Morning
Men's Bible Study. I last spoke with him briefly
at a recent memorial service. He was clearly in a state of
ill health then. As I've been leading the men through
Revelation, it's become clear to me that our one hope
(the Blessed Hope), unless we survive until His actual return, is
to see Jesus after our
resurrection, not our rapture. Erv is among that
innumerable host of saints clothed in white.
Ervin Joseph Nalos
of Bellevue, WA., went to his heavenly
home on Sept. 25, 2010 in his sleep. Ervin was
born in Prague, CZ on Sept. 10, 1924. He came to
Vancouver, B.C. Canada in 1940 with his parents
and two sisters. There he excelled in high
school and at the University of British
Columbia, earning both Bachelor's and Master's
(1947) degrees in Electrical Engineering.
Subsequently, he was awarded a scholarship to
Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. where he
earned his Ph.D. in 1951.
He married Margaret Vaughan of Vancouver B.C.,
on Dec 22, 1947 in Palo Alto, CA. They enjoyed
over 62 years together, living in California,
Switzerland and lastly, in Bellevue, WA since
1962.
Ervin had an illustrious career with General
Electric and then Boeing. He did important
pioneering work with high powered klystrons and
microwave devices, earning a place in "Who's
Who" and membership as a Fellow of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
He was a specialist in military radar
applications.
On the personal side, Ervin was a man of deep
faith in God, worshipping and serving at First
Presbyterian Church of Bellevue since 1962.
Ervin also served as a member of the Bellevue
chapter of the Gideons for many years, often
going into prisons to minister to the inmates.
He was well known in Bellevue as a prolific
grower of trilliums on his Bellevue property.
Ervin loved to write poetry and left the family
with books of his wonderful meditations, pouring
out his love for the Lord Jesus Christ, family
and nature.
He is survived by his wife, Margaret K. Nalos of
Bellevue WA, his twin sister Erika Kurth of
Victoria, B.C. his three sons, Richard Nalos of
Yacolt, WA, Duncan Nalos of Abbotsford, B.C. and
Peter Nalos of Bakersfield, CA plus 7
grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.
Memorial service is at 2pm on Thursday Oct 7th
at First Presbyterian Church, 1717 Bellevue Way
NE, Bellevue, WA. Memorial gifts may be made to
First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue or to
World Vision International at www.wvi.org.
Remembrances may be shared at
www.sunsethillsfuneralhome.com .
Arrangements under the direction of Sunset Hills
Funeral Home, Bellevue, WA.
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Is this for me or
Jeannie Beth?
On the last day of this month, yet another
computer arrived at 1228 99th Ave. NE. I don't play
computer games (other than Hearts) so the purchase of a
huge, massively powerful, "gamer" for $1700 would seem excessively
extravagant. But this beast from Newegg.com is primarily
intended for video processing. And Jeannie Beth is the
expert in this department. It's actually a "CyberpowerPC
Gamer Xtreme 1067LQ."
This PC, running Windows 7 (64 bit), has
 a
2TB hard drive, 12GB or RAM, an 800W power supply, Intel Core
i7-930(2.80GHz) CPU (a 64 bit Quad-Core Processor), 24X
DVD±R/±RW Dual Layer Drive, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 (Fermi)
1280MB PCI-Express Video Card, and much more.
But as soon as I started to set it up, Nancy
and Annie jumped in to pop the case open and help set it up.
Actually, I was relegated to setting up the better of my two
Dell PCs (the lesser is now downstairs in my very messy basement
office). Nancy spent the evening rearranging furniture in
the family room so we'd have room for my Dell computer and the new
one. It's model moniker is "Sniper," so that'll be its name.
As usual, software dictated the hardware.
I had purchased Adobe Premier Pro CS5 for Jeannie Beth.
Even with 56% off the $799 list price, it was still the most
expensive software I've ever purchased at $348.95.
Thanks for Educational discounts.
Bits and Pieces
We have advanced to Revelation 14 on Saturdays as October
begins.
Except for Nathanael, I have hired an entirely new lab staff. [Link]
I am once again at 186 pounds -- with great hope for progress in
October.
My Quote from August
In honor of JB's portrayal of Beatrice
in Taproot Theatre's Much Ado About Nothing
BEATRICE
I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior
Benedick:
nobody marks you.
BENEDICK
What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?
BEATRICE
Is it possible disdain should die while she hath
such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?
Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come
in her presence.
BENEDICK
Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I
am loved of all ladies, only you excepted:
and I
would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard
heart;
for, truly, I love none.
BEATRICE
A dear happiness to women: they would else have
been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God
and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I
had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man
swear he loves me.
BENEDICK
God keep your ladyship still in that mind! so some
gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate
scratched face.
BEATRICE
Scratching could not make it worse,
an 'twere such
a face as yours were.
BENEDICK
Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher.
BEATRICE
A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours.
BENEDICK
I would my horse had the speed of your tongue,
and
so good a continuer. But keep your way,
i' God's
name; I have done.
BEATRICE
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