| Engaging the Culture With President Eaton
Recent Outreach Activities
Washington Policy Center Annual Dinner
September 29, 2004, Seattle
President Eaton gave the invocation at the Washington Policy Center’s annual dinner at the Westin Hotel’s Grand Ballroom.
KIROS Business Hour Live Radio Interview
October 6, 2004, Seattle
President Eaton was interviewed on-air for the KIROS Business
Hour radio show on KGNW 820 AM. The Business Hour is a weekly
radio show that explores issues of business, leadership, ethics,
and faith.
SPU Chapel-Forum Address
October 7, 2004, SPU Campus
“Life Together: What Do You Mean Don’t
Eat the Fruit?” was President Eaton’s topic
as he kicked off a five-part Community
Lifestyle Series. His address gave students
a context, rooted in Scripture and Christian
tradition, for the community lifestyle expectations
at SPU.
Brandywine Leadership Forum Address
November 6, 2004, SPU Campus
President
Eaton delivered a plenary address at the Brandywine Leadership
Forum co-sponsored by the Institute for Global Engagement (IGE)
and SPU. His speech, titled “Gentle Verses in the Midst of Horror,” was a reflection on the Christian response to global suffering. Eaton joined other distinguished speakers, including Ambassador Robert Seiple, founder of IGE, and John Medina, founder of the
Talaris Research Institute.
The President’s Bookshelf
What books does a university president
read in his “spare” time? An avid reader, President Eaton’s
choices are eclectic. Here are some samples, with his comments:
David L. Kirp, Shakespeare, Einstein,
and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of
Higher Education. This is one of the finest books of late on the landscape
of higher education in America today. As the title
suggests, Kirp explores, penetratingly I
believe, the tension today in the academy between a deep, enduring commitment
to the life of the mind on the one hand, and
the pressures of the marketplace on the
other. He has no easy answers but calls
us all to live and work creatively within the
tension. I like that challenge.
Jeremy Driscoll, “The Witness of Czeslaw Milosz,” First
Things, November 2004. Czeslaw Milosz has been called one of the greatest poets of our time. He died this year, and in this beautiful tribute, we discover again the sometimes troubled but rich and nuanced Christian faith of this great Polish-American poet. Having lived through the brutal assault
of the Nazis on Poland and the iron-fisted and equally brutal domination of the Soviets, this wonderful poet nevertheless can say: “Gentle verses written in the midst of horror declare themselves for life.” This was a poet who looked into the face of suffering and yet declared himself for life. I have read Milosz
for many years but find myself now on a new exploration of the riches of his work.
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