Multnomah University - Ambassador Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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Jerry Prouty I, I .1 prayed, we listened. We loved and were loved, we gave and we received. We laughed, we cried, we ran, we felt. We lived. I am come,,' lle had said, 'Sthat ye might have life and have it until it overflows. We had a year of doing, stretching, rejoicing. We had life until it overflowed. Q M55

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8 M53 Jerry Prouty It was a year of rejoicing. The Word of God came alive to us through teachers who lived it and through our own times of study. We met Moses through Dr. Philip Armstrong and saw Asia through Mr. Nguyen Thi. We built deep, lasting friendships. We watched the clouds, we reveled in the sun, we felt the wind, we listened to the rain. We shared, we Jerry Prouty ' TP' ' 5

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DEdiCatEd ol! KD M55 As day begins to break, a heavy fog lies over the city and two men on bicycles ride from different neighborhoods to a small college campus situated in the northeast section of town. They greet each other warmly, park their bikes in front of a little white building and together climb the creaky steps to an upper room with a slanted ceiling. On one side of the room is a low green sofa. Bookshelves line the walls and divide the room into two tiny offices. Each man enters his own office, opens a Book, and for the next hour engrosses himself in diligent study - reading, questioning, turning pages, scribbling observations, comparing passages, praying. They study with an enthusiasm, as though it were something extremely important to them. As the sun begins to seep through the morning fog, the two men begin talking to each other over the top of the partition. The conversation becomes a deep discussion and they move to the green sofa to continue. They throw questions back and forth, they bat brains, they argue, they laugh, they share. They open the Book again and again, they talk as though they know the Author of that Book in a very personal way. Suddenly one glances at his watch. It is time for class. The most evident thing about these two men, Professors Mickey Day and Thomas Erickson is their passion for that Book and especially for its Author. This passion is shown by the way they both care for their families, the way they care for each other, the way they live life to the fullest, and by the way they keep themselves physically in shape. It is shown by the creative way they think about all areas of life, the way they keep up their homes and yards, and the way they care about their students. In short, this passion is shown by the way they put to use what they learn in that upper room. Mr. Day lislens lo Pat .I0l971.TO71,5 question. When people first meet them, they see no similarities between the two men. Prof. Day is enthusiastic, persuasive and out- spoken, while Prof. Erickson is serious, quieter and has a very dry sense of humor. But the longer one knows them, the more similarities he sees. The two men are both truly examples of godly husbands and fathers. Erickson places great importance upon spending time with his wife, Carol, and his daughters, Julie itwob, and Deborah fnine monthsj. One thing they greatly enjoy doing as a family is going camping in their tent. Day calls his wife, Sandy, daily from school just to talk to her, takes his eight- year-old daughter out to dinner Ccorsage and all! J, plays with son, Sean, Cpronounced Shawnb, and takes the whole family to the airport to watch the planes come and go. Both men express concern about helping their families develop in all areas of life. The two men have been friends since they first came to Multnomah in 1969. Because of a shortage of space, they were originally asked to share the same office. They soon discovered they had much in common and began to enjoy their joint office. They were the same height, they had the same concern for careful exegesis of the Word, they en- joyed the same books, they had many mutual interests and they shared the same opinions about many different subjects. Mr. Day rifles his bicycle lo and from work. Carl Thompson