Pacific University - Heart of Oak Yearbook (Forest Grove, OR)

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PACIFIC MINISTRIES The official name for the Christian group on Pacific's campus is Pacific Nlinistries. This year the group consisted of about fifty members and met for Bible Study on Friday nights and Sunday mornings for a Sunday school program that met in the fireside lounge of the student center. About once a month the group held a fun social activity. Two retreats were also held during the year. The group's first retreat was at the beach and the second one at Mt. Hood. This group is a non-denominational group and the group leaders were R.J . Koepper and Don Rasson, both students at Western Con- servative Baptist Seminary. I I it Q

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BACK ROW: Randy Tadai, Dr. J. D. Gill, Linda Curphey, Lucy Pike, Melinda Howell. 1ST ROW: Laura Walter COUNSELING CENTER Problems, problems, problems - everybody has problems. The question is, what to do about them? l When the problems are of a personal nature, if J-, V, and there's no one to talk to - it might be time yr to get involved with Pacific's Counseling Center. All year long, under the direction of Dr. J.D. Gill of the psychology department, trained students were on hand in their lVlac Hall base- ment office to talk things over. T T The results and anything brought up during f the sessions, of course, were kept confidential. One of the programs offered by the Counseling Center was an assertiveness training group, to bring people in touch with their feelings. In a busy world with classes, clubs, and organizations, and other activities coming down on the student, a Counseling Center is very needed. A place to go and talk. . .and people willing to help and get involved.

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CONCERNED BLACK STUDENTS The main purpose of Concerned Black Students is to make each black students' college career as rich, rewarding and productive as possible, to serve as an informational and experiential resolurce to students by stimulating and increasing their awareness of Black aesthetics in its tota ity. One of the activities and accomplishments C.B.S . did in 1975-76 have been the production of the Obie-Award winning play, The River Niger written by Joseph A. Walker. It was the first all-black play production to be produced in Oregon and it received enormous coverage from television and newspapers. C.B.S . donated S200 to the rebuilding funds of Marsh Hall, which were proceeds from a special performance of River Niger . In other activities, C.B.S . hosted a Super-Soul Disco Extravaganza in Pacific's Boxer Pause lounge and an elegant Christmas affair at the fabulous Hilton Hotel in Portland called A Ball of Holiday Splendor . One of the major accomplishments of C.B.S . this year has been the formulation of an Academic Counseling Service, operated in cooperation with the Study Skills Center. Other activities included a Nlt. Hood snow trip, a weekend beach retreat, and Black Cultural Week with a soul food dinner and show. Officers were: Carmon Cunningham, President, Michael Jones, V. President, Daria Gary, Secretary, Terrance Wallace, Treasurer, Herman Collins, Financial Aid!Admissions Advisor, Velda Gooch, Historian, Donald Shaw, Correspondence Director. 'fzgfnrv F BACK ROW: Michael Thomas, Phillip Carter, Michael Jones, Donald Shaw, Regina Glasco, Albert Redeau, David Powell. 3RD ROW: Walter Reason, Errol Sango, Donald Hunter, Robert Cochran, Carmon Cunningham, Michael Barber, Gaynell Lavender. 2ND ROW: Michael Hudson, Melanie Jones, Lorena Roberts, Clifton Martin, Daria Gary, Michelle Edmonds. 1ST ROW: Charlotte Grant, Carlette Williams, Robin Henry, Terrance Wallace, Lenox Okolie. MISSING: Velda Gooch, Vanessa Blocker, Denise McKinney, Lenora Wheeler, Carrie Oree, Penny Stuve, Herman Collins, Herb Thompson, Larry Pegues, Yvonne Deckard, Jean Horner.