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George Fox University will send a Fulbright Scholar to Denmark during the 2013-14 academic year to work with international students and collaborate with educators in the Department of Teacher Education at Blaagaard/KDAS, a teachers training college in Copenhagen.

NEWBERG RHS grad makes GFU dean's list Molly Matthews of Roseburg earned dean's list recognition at George Fox University for the spring 2013 semester.

Students and teachers will see a new face roaming the halls at Stayton High School this fall after the North Santiam School District announced May 31 that it had hired Sidney Graham Hughes to fill the principal's position.

   The Old German Baptist Brethren Church New Conference, which will host its annual four-day conference at George Fox University beginning Saturday, is not only a newcomer to the campus's roster of summer visitors, but is also relatively new on the Christian landscape in America.    In 1881, the Old German Baptist Brethren Church was formed after splitting from the greater German Baptist Brethren, which consisted of almost 100,000 members and got its start when eight believers were re-baptized in the Eder River in Schwarzen, Germany, in 1708.

   With nine Ford Family Foundation scholarship recipients enrolled for fall term, George Fox University has become one of the top choices among private schools in attracting students who earned the highly competitive scholarship.    Among other private institutions, the University of Portland will enroll six, Pacific University will welcome five, Linfield College enrolled four, and Lewis & Clark, Willamette, Concordia and Northwest Christian each will enroll two.

NEWBERG Local students make honor roll Two Douglas County students earned spots on the spring semester dean's list at George Fox University.

Although most of its current members came years after he presided over the chamber, the Oregon House paid tribute Wednesday to former Speaker Lynn Lundquist.

   Since meeting Peace Village Inc. founder and president Charles Busch for the first time last summer, George Fox University professor Scot Headley has helped build a broad coalition of community members to put on the first Newberg version of the interfaith youth day camp June 17-21 at North Valley Friends Church.

   Although from different teaching disciplines, Ken Badley and Laura Simmons have something in common:  They are two of George Fox University's top faculty members at the graduate level.    The pair was lauded recently with the school's annual Faculty Achievement Award for Graduate Research and Scholarship in their specialties: research for Badley and education for Simmons.

After years of prodding, Todd began to think that maybe it was she who was being called to fill such a role.

A graduation ceremony at Brices Creek Bible Church Friday evening capped off a successful secondary education for 14 Craven County teens who learned their academic lessons at home.

Lake Oswego area students honored their high school music programs with strong performances at state band and choir competitions earlier this month.