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Over 1,200 business, community, and education leaders gathered for SPU’s 2009 Downtown Business Breakfast. Pictured (l to r): Former Washington State Senator Slade Gorton, SPU First Lady Sharon Eaton, Director of SPU John Perkins Center Tali Hairston, and Seattle’s First Free Methodist Church Pastor Mark Abbott. |
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President Eaton and his wife, Sharon Eaton, are deeply committed to their family. They have three grown sons and seven grandchildren. |
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President Eaton engages in lively conversation with political economist Robert J. Shiller (right) at the 2009 Downtown Business Breakfast. |
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President Philip Eaton celebrates Easter with his granddaughter. |
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President Eaton confers with keynote speaker Carly Fiorina at the 2008 Downtown Business Breakfast. Fiorina was the chair and CEO of Hewlitt-Packard from 1999 to 2005, and is the best-selling author of Tough Choices: A Memoir. |
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President Philip Eaton exchanges greetings with internationally known civil rights leader and speaker, Dr. John M. Perkins (left), and Tali Hairston (right), director of the SPU Perkins Center for Reconciliation, Leadership Training, and Community Development, at a Perkins Center event. |
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“I’m astonished by the remarkable joy and hope of this amazing woman,” says Eaton of 2007 Alumna of the Year En Ying Zhou (Lora Jones). |
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President Eaton engages in lively dialogue with keynote speaker Dr. Vali Nasr at the 2007 Downtown Business Breakfast. “We must have an imagination of hope,” asserted Eaton. “We need to imagine that peace and reconciliation are possible.” |
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Renowned German theologian, Dr. Jürgen Moltmann, visits with President Philip Eaton after speaking on “A Theology of Hope” to a packed-out crowd at SPU’s sixth-annual Day of Common Learning (September 2007). |
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Eaton engages in conversation with George Weigel, keynote speaker for the President’s Symposium on “Knowing and Understanding Our World: A Response to the 21st Century.” Weigel is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., and an expert on the role of Christianity in culture (February 2007). |
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President Philip W. Eaton (back row, center) joined U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings (front row, second from right) and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Dina Habib Powell (front row, far right) on the first-ever delegation of American college and university presidents to Japan, South Korea, and China (November 2006). |
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President Philip Eaton pauses for a moment with Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough at the tenth annual Seattle Pacific Downtown Business Breakfast (April 2006). |
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SPU President Philip W. Eaton (second from right) met President George W.
Bush at the January 2006 University Presidents Summit in Washington, D.C.
“God bless you, Mr. President,” Eaton said to Bush. “I pray for you.” |
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New Testament Scholar and Bishop of Durham N.T. Wright visits with President Philip Eaton at the President’s Symposium on the Gospel and Cultural Engagement (May 2005). |
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President Eaton enjoys a moment of levity while listening to New Testament scholar N.T. Wright speak to a packed-out audience at SPU’s Church Leaders Forum (May 2005). |
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“To whom much has been given…” President Eaton celebrates the completion of SPU’s largest fundraising campaign, which brought in more than $55 million (March 2005). |
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President Eaton congratulates SPU’s 2005 Alumna of the Year, Marilyn Meberg. Meberg is a captivating speaker and the author of numerous books and devotionals. |
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An engaging speaker, President Eaton regularly addresses business, community, and educational organizations. Here he speaks at SPU’s 2005 Homecoming Luncheon. |
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The University’s Ivy Cutting ceremony is a time-honored tradition for SPU graduating seniors and their families. Here Eaton congratulates a member of the Class of 2004. |
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President Eaton discusses contemporary culture with New York Times Columnist David Brooks at the eighth annual SPU Downtown Business Breakfast (April 2004). |
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Paul Gigot (foreground) prepares to give his keynote address at SPU’s 2003 Downtown Business Breakfast. Gigot is the editorial page editor and vice president of The Wall Street Journal. |
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(Left to right): Vice President for Academic Affairs Les Steele, President Philip W. Eaton, and keynote speaker Dr. Stephen L. Carter prepare to kick off SPU’s first annual “Day of Common Learning” in 2002. Carter is a Professor of Law at Yale University and a prolific author. |
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Former U.S. Senator George Mitchell delivered the keynote address at SPU’s 2000 Downtown Business Breakfast. “We desperately need leaders like Mitchell,” says President Eaton. “We need leaders who bring the hope that comes with unity.” |
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SPU’s 1998 Downtown Business Breakfast featured keynote speaker George Will. Will is a widely-read author and a well-respected political commentator. |
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Eugene Peterson, author of The Message and 1995 Alumnus of the Year, receives a congratulatory handshake from President Eaton. |
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Students are attentive as President Eaton exhorts them to live out SPU’s mission of engaging the culture and changing the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ. |
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“We seek to live and do our work as a university right out there where the world loves and suffers and thrives and fears,” says President Eaton. Here he stands near the world-renowned Pike Place Market in the heart of downtown Seattle. |
