The 2013 fall break is just around the corner, taking place from Monday, October 14 through Friday, October 18. Classes will not be in session, and hours for Bon Appétit and the library will be limited. Classes and regular hours will resume on Monday, October 21. For library hours go to http://tinyurl.com/3cxvc88; for Bon Appetit hours to go http://up.cafebonappetit.com.
Campus Services
University Goes For The Green
The University of Portland was featured prominently in an article titled “Go Big Green” in the September 2013 issue of U.S. Catholic magazine, according to Steve Kolmes, environmental science. The article focuses on sustainability at Catholic colleges and universities. An online photo gallery and slide show (which includes this photo from the infamous SLUG garden) can be found at http://tinyurl.com/lax3oo6. See the article at http://tinyurl.com/mbampdh.
Time For Flu Shots
The health center has a limited amount of Influenza vaccine which it will make available to the UP community during flu shot clinics offered at the Pilot House on Monday, October 7, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.; and Tuesday, October 8, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
The flu vaccine is recommended for all members of the UP community. People with underlying medical conditions that put them more at risk are encouraged to come early or to make an appointment at the health center prior to the clinics (aged 50 years or above; chronic pulmonary or cardiovascular, renal, hepatic, neurological, hematologic, or metabolic disorders; immunosuppression; women who are or will be pregnant during the influenza season; American Indians and Alaska natives; persons who are morbidly obese).
Cost of the vaccine is $15. For more information or accommodation for disabilities contact the health center at 7134.
New Program Manager
Parents Night Out, Oct. 11
University parents are invited to take the opportunity to enjoy four hours of free time with their significant others while the UP onsite daycare watches their children on Parents Night Out, Friday, October 11, from 6-10 p.m. This service is provided by Vermont Hills Family Life Center daycare/preschool. The cost is $30 per child and $40 for two children and includes dinner for the kids. Proceeds benefit the UP daycare/preschool house. For more information or to sign your kids up contact Cala Richman, director, at (503) 283-9688 or calar@vhflc.com.
Financial Aid News
The Office of Financial Aid has hired a new student employment coordinator, Emily Baumbach. Please help welcome Emily to the UP family.
On January 1, 2014, the Oregon minimum wage will increase to $9.10 per hour. All students currently earning less than $9.10 will automatically be increased to the new minimum wage in the new year. Please account for this while managing student employment department budgets.
For more information contact Janet Turner, financial aid, at 7311 or turnerj@up.edu.
Display For Don Dinsmore
The University museum has created a display to honor the memory of Donald “Don” Dinsmore, who passed away at the age of 88 on September 17, 2013. Don arrived on the Bluff in June 1972 first as a custodian, and then served as the UP museum curator from 1984 until his second retirement in 2007. As caretaker of the many historical artifacts and photographs in the museum, Don created many historical displays across campus; it only seems fitting that the one who created so many of these historical memories should be honored and remembered in a display just for him. Please stop by the display case on the first floor of Buckley Center across from the Shepard Freshman Resource Center to view photographs and articles of Don through the years. For a narrated video of the display go to: wordpress.up.edu/museum or use a smart phone to scan the QR code in the Buckley Center display case. For more information contact Carolyn Connolly, museum coordinator, at 8038 or piatz@up.edu.
Clark Library Open House
The University will host an open house for the newly opened and renovated Clark Library on Friday, September 27, from 2 to 5 p.m. All faculty, staff, students, and the public are welcome to attend. The open house will feature guided tours on the hour and readings by Brian Doyle, award winning author and editor of Portland Magazine, on the half hour. Light hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be provided.
The Clark Library’s renovation and rebuilding project, which cost an estimated $12.5 million, began in May 2012 and concluded when the library was opened to students and faculty in August. The new, modern library was built on the root structure of the old and now offers current technologies, collaborative and flexible learning spaces, and multi-format information resources. For more information contact the Clark Library at 7111 or go to http://library.up.edu.
New Name, Expanded Mission
Robert W. Franz Chair in Entrepreneurship and Executive Director Robin Anderson has announced the creation of the Franz Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation. The center, named for long-time benefactors Elsie Franz Finley and regent Robert W. Franz, is an expansion of the award-winning Center for Entrepreneurship. The center’s directors are Pete Rooks, director for leadership; Peter Rachor, director for entrepreneurship; and Eric Anctil, director for innovation.
The Leadership program will focus on the concepts of ethical leadership and inviting others to join together in addressing vital needs and goals within the program’s relationships and communities. The Entrepreneurship program combines experiential-learning opportunities with a values-based education that emphasizes integrity, opportunity recognition, risk-taking and hard work. The Innovation program will provide co-and extra-curricular experiences that equip students with the skills to make their ideas reality. For more information e-mail franzcenter@up.edu or go to http://www.up.edu/cfe/.
Rest In Peace, Don Dinsmore
Donald “Don” Dinsmore, who served as curator of the University Museum from its inception in 1984 to 2007, passed away in the morning on Tuesday, September 17, after a long illness. He was 88 years old.
Don started his career on The Bluff as a custodian in 1972, working mostly in the old Science Hall (now Romanaggi Hall), where he cheerfully went about his duties while befriending all and sundry faculty and staff and students who labored there. He was an elementary school teacher and vice principal for many years, a profession he entered after coming home from combat service in World War II, where he saw action in the South Pacific as a landing boat pilot.
The University museum came about as a mutual dream of Don and history professor Jim Covert, and started as a ragtag collection of artifacts piled on folding tables in a storeroom in Shipstad basement. Don spent countless hours collecting, cataloguing, storing, and displaying every item of historic significance to the University he could lay his hands on, and many of those items can be seen in the University museum to this day, still located in the basement of Shipstad across from the archives.
Services will take place on Thursday, Sept. 26, at 10 a.m. at Hustad Funeral Home with interment at 12:30 p.m. at Willamette National Cemetery. Our prayers and condolences to Marian, Don’s widow, and his children, grandchildren, and many friends and admirers. Gifts in Don’s memory can be made to the University museum through Diane Dickey at dickey@up.edu.