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Your Feel-Good Story For Today: Kitten Rescue!

November 16, 2018

A report from Heidi Keller, financial aid: “Today when Janet Turner and I went out for our walk, we bumped into another University of Portland employee (I wish I knew his name), and he said “Hey, look at that kitten under the car.” When we looked the kitten had climbed up into the engine compartment. […]

Filed Under: 11-19-2018, Campus Services, Public Safety Tagged With: Heidi Keller, Janet Turner, Lori Watson, Manu Jauregui, public safety

New Role in Student Accounts

June 22, 2015

Student accounts cashier Barbara Hafer has been appointed to a new role as student loans specialist, according to Heidi Keller, student accounts. Hafer has been at the University of Portland since starting in the registrar’s office in August 1999 and has worked in student accounts since May 2009. Please feel free to congratulation her on […]

Filed Under: 06-22-2015, Campus Services, Student Accounts Tagged With: Barbara Hafer, Heidi Keller, Student Accounts

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Fr. Pat Hannon, CSC, published From Glory to Glory: A Pilgrim’s Notes From the Badlands of Grace. Occasioned by the author’s walking, with siblings, the famous Camino de Santiago in the fall of 2024, the book traces all manner of other pilgrimages—to and from home, family, love, self, and God. One Subject Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. November, 2025.

Jessica Murphy Moo, editor of Portland Magazine and director of storytelling, wrote the lyrics to two songs in “We Go On, Oswego,” a song cycle honoring female refugees who lived at Camp Ontario in upstate New York. From 1944-1946, Camp Ontario provided emergency shelter to refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. “We Go On, Oswego” was performed at Nazareth College, in collaboration with Finger Lakes Opera, on December 4, 2025. It was commissioned by Katie Hannigan, PhD. The song “There Is No Underground,” was written in collaboration with composer Maria Thompson Corley, and the song “My Table,” was written in collaboration with composer Kurt Erickson.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published “A Spirituality of Desert Discipleship for Our Times. Reflections on the Readings of the Third Sunday of Advent.” VoiceAfrique.org. December 13, 2025.

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