The Garaventa Center is pleased to announce the slate for this semester’s Bringing Eyes of Faith to Film Series, in which hosts Fr. Charlie Gordon, C.S.C., theology, and Karen Eifler, education, screen recent popular movies, preceded by some brief comments illuminating themes of grace, transcendence, and redemption found in these unexpected places. This spring, look for “Brave” on Wednesday, February 6, “Hunger Games” on Tuesday, March 5, and “The Avengers” on Wednesday, April 24. All films begin at 7:15 in Shiley 301. Thematic snacks are part of the experience. The series is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public.
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Learn To Be Prepared
Campus community emergency response team training is available for faculty, staff, and students who would like to learn how to keep themselves and family members and coworkers safe in an emergency., according to Jeff Rook, public safety. Volunteers are trained by the University CCERT trainers and Portland Fire and Rescue to provide emergency disaster assistance within the campus and immediate surrounding neighborhood. CCERT classes are offered at no cost to people who live or work at the University of Portland. To join the UP CCERT program, participants attend a total of 24 hours of hands-on training. Classes are at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, starting February 5, in Buckley Center room 310. For more information and registration go to http://upccert.eventbrite.com/. Contact Jeff Rook for more details or questions at rook@up.edu.
Donald P. Shiley’s Birthday
January 19 will be the 93rd birthday of the late Donald P. Shiley, whose $12 million gift made possible the renovation of the University’s engineering building, renamed in his honor as Shiley Hall.
A later $8 million gift from the Shileys resulted in the renaming of the engineering program as the Donald P. Shiley School of Engineering. While the generosity of Mr. Shiley and his wife, University regent Darlene Shiley, has played a huge part in furthering the University’s mission, the Shileys have long been known as philanthropists and friends of higher education around the country. Donald Shiley passed away on July 31, 2010.
In honor of Donald Shiley’s birthday, engineering professor Aziz Inan has looked into how the numbers add up:
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If Donald Shiley’s birth year of 1920 is split as 19 and 20, the reverse of the sum of these two numbers equals his new age of 93.
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If numbers 1 to 26 are assigned to letters of the English alphabet as A = 1, B = 2, etc., the letters of “Donald” and “Shiley” each add up to 50 and 78 and their sum is 128. Note that double the reverse of 93 yields 78 (“Shiley”)! Also, the divisors of 93 (which are 1, 3, 31, and 93) add up to 128 (that is, “Donald Shiley”). In addition, 93 = 3 x 31 where the difference of these two primes equals the difference of “Donald” and “Shiley.”
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Donald Shiley’s full birth dates in all years in the 21st century (except year 2100) and year 2000 expressed as 011920AB (where digits A and B can each take any values between 0 and 9) possess a unique property. How? The middle four digits always equals 1920 (his birth year).
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Mr. Shiley’s 99th birthday expressed as 01192019 will be very special. Why? If the places of numbers “20” and “19” on its right side are switched, what comes out? (Answer: 01191920!)
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Donald’s 128th birthday to occur in 2048 will be unique. Why? First, 128 represents “Donald Shiley.” Second, the number 128 equals 2^7 and 2048 is 2^11! (Indeed, 2048 will mark the highestpower year to occur.) Third, 1920 equals 128 times 15 where 15 is (2^3 + 2^2 + 2^1 + 2^0)!
Inan has worked out other special notable numbers in honor of Mr. Shiley’s birthday, available at http://tinyurl.com/a89qohl.
$444,000 Phillips Gift
The University has announced a RISE campaign gift of $444,000 from the late William Isaac Phillips, a 1950 graduate in physics who passed away in January, 2012. His gift will establish a scholarship fund in the College of Arts and Sciences. The gift includes a previous one announced by the University in September from the estate of Phillips.
Born in Bell, Calif., Phillips served in the U.S. Navy World War II and attended the University of Portland on the G.I. bill, graduating with honors in 1950 with a bachelor’s degree in physics. He began his career as a sales representative with C&H Supply Company in Seattle. In 1966, he established Western Technical Sales with a home office in Bellevue, Wash., and later opened offices in Portland and Spokane. He and his wife Marilyn lived in La Conner, Wash.
The gift is part of the University’s RISE Campaign, which was announced in December 2010 and seeks to raise $175 million over the next several years, one of the largest development campaigns ever for a Pacific Northwest private college or university. For more information contact development at 7395.
Doyle In The Running
Portland Magazine editor Brian Doyle has been nominated for two Oregon Book Awards: Bin Laden’s Bald Spot was nominated for the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction, and his Cat’s Foot was nominated for the Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature. Winners will be announced at the 26th Oregon Book Awards ceremony on April 8, 2013. For a complete list of finalists, please click here: http://www.literaryarts.org/oba-home. Bin Laden’s Bald Spot is a collection of short stories published by Red Hen Press, while Cat’s Foot is a novella published by Corby Books about a man who goes in search of the foot he has lost in a war. Last year, Doyle’s debut novel Mink River was also a finalist for the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction. Doyle is the author of twelve books and has been nominated for seven Oregon Book Awards in four different categories. For more information contact Doyle at bdoyle@up.edu.