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You are invited to a celebration in honor of Gordon Lindbloom, retiring from his position as associate professor of Counseling Psychology, on Tuesday, September 25 from 3:00 to 5:00 in the Gregg Pavilion.

Gordon joined the faculty at Lewis & Clark in 1976, four years after programs in counseling started at the college.  He has been a devoted advocate for both students, counselors, and the Counseling Psychology Department for over 36 years, from the beginnings of our department, through the adoption of licensure for professional counselors in 1989, to our more recent accreditation from the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) in 2010. Gordon’s vision for counseling and mental health was often at the cutting edge of the field; it was this vision that led to the creation of a degree with a specialization in addiction counseling (the Professional Mental Health Counseling – Addictions program).  This program was one of the first degree programs that fully integrated addictions counseling and the treatment of co-occurring disorders into counselor education training.  More recently Gordon’s research has been on forgiveness and counseling practice and he has also worked on the development of curriculum focusing on spirituality, religion and counseling.

Throughout his career Gordon could be counted on to step up and serve in whatever capacity was needed in the department or graduate school.  His leadership, kindness, gentleness, grace, and dignity have been invaluable.  He served as department chair more than once, most recently from 1996 – 2000, and was the first program coordinator for the Community Counseling program beginning in 2003.  Gordon served the graduate school faculty in many roles, including as secretary of the Faculty Executive Committee and chair of the curriculum committee.

Gordon’s other passions are his family and singing.  He was a member of Oregon Repertory Singers from 1999 – 2011, and if you listened closely, you could often hear humming or singing from his office or in the hallways of the third floor of Rogers Hall.


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When Ye Are Prepared, Ye Shall Not Fear

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Traveling to the four corners of the world we encounter all too often a spirit of gloom among the people. Their concerns range from wars, rumors of wars, famine, and inflation to drug addiction, climate changes, pollution, bigness of government, etc. I can understand why those who are without faith in our Lord and Savior would become prophets of gloom. Times can be difficult. However, a look at the causes of the difficulties proves that they are man-made and that solutions are within man’s ability to accomplish.

The Lord has given us the comforting assurance that “if ye are prepared ye shall not fear.” (D&C 38:30.) The gospel of Jesus Christ teaches hope and opportunity. To find the happiness we are seeking and rid ourselves of fear, we must be prepared to follow the system and order the Lord has established for His children here on earth.

The leadership of the Church since the very beginning has taught and trained us in the way we should be organized. During what I consider to be the most difficult periods in the history of the Church, when the Prophet Joseph Smith was unjustly imprisoned in the Liberty Jail, the Lord selected this time to give him the revelation on the priesthood. To the Prophet’s cry for relief, the Lord replied:

“How long can rolling waters remain impure? What power shall stay the heavens? As well might man stretch forth his puny arm to stop the Missouri river in its decreed course, or to turn it up stream, as to hinder the Almighty from pouring down knowledge from heaven upon the heads of the Latter-day Saints.

“Behold, there are many called, but few are chosen. And why are they not chosen?

“Because their hearts are set so much upon the things of this world, and aspire to the honors of men, that they do not learn this one lesson—

“That the rights of the priesthood are inseparably connected with the powers of heaven, and that the powers of heaven cannot be controlled nor handled only upon the principles of righteousness.” (D&C 121:33–36.)

If man is limited in his growth and perfection by his ability to use his priesthood, then surely we must continually strive to use its power and to organize ourselves more perfectly.

As I have traveled to the stakes of the Church, I have found priesthood organizations functioning quite effectively at the stake and ward levels. Generally, the greatest weaknesses exist in the organization and operations in both the Aaronic and Melchizedek priesthood quorums. Let me direct a few words of instruction to you who have the responsibility for this important link in the priesthood chain.

President Stephen L Richards at one time gave us a threefold definition of a priesthood quorum. He said a priesthood quorum is three things: “first, a class; second, a fraternity; and third, a service unit.” (In Conference Report, Oct. 1938, p. 118.) Let us look at his definition as it relates to our priesthood quorums.

First, a class. In the Doctrine and Covenants we read,

“And as all have not faith, seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.” (D&C 88:118.)

The quorum meetings have been designed for the purpose of teaching us the law of the Lord. Fundamental in this teaching is instruction in our duties as bearers of the priesthood. It is not a time for speculation regarding the mysteries of the world. It is a time of basic, practical, how-to instruction, for which we can find application in our lives. The lessons should teach us how we can become better husbands, fathers, and members of quorums and should teach us our responsibilities to our fellowmen.

This summer I had the opportunity of attending a high priest group meeting in a small community in southern Wyoming. The lesson that week was on justification and sanctification. It was evident as the lesson was beginning that the teacher was well prepared to instruct his brethren. Then a question prompted a response which changed the whole course of the lesson. In response to the question, the comment of one of the brethren was, “I have listened with great interest to the lesson material. The thought has crossed my mind that the information presented will soon be lost if we do not find application to put the material presented into practice in our daily lives.”

Then he went on to propose a course of action for the quorum. The night before, a citizen of the community had passed away. His wife was a member of the Church, but he had not been. This high priest had visited the widow and offered his sympathy. Leaving the home after the visit, his eyes wandered over the beautiful farm of the deceased brother. He had put so much of his life and labor into building it up. The alfalfa was ready to cut; the grain would soon be ready to harvest. How would this poor sister cope with the sudden problems now falling on her? She would need time to get herself organized for her new responsibilities.

Then he proposed to the group that they make an application of the principle that was being taught—by working with the widow to keep her farm operational until such time as a more permanent solution could be found by the widow and her family. The balance of the meeting was spent in organizing the project to assist her. The principles of the lesson found immediate application.

As we left the classroom, there was a good feeling among the brethren. I heard one of them remark as he passed through the doorway, “This project is just what we needed to get this quorum working together again.” A lesson had been taught, a brotherhood had been strengthened, a service project had been organized to assist someone in need.

Brethren, let us make of our quorums a class where we will receive the best instruction possible to guide us in our responsibilities and obligations as bearers of His holy priesthood.

Second, the quorum as a fraternity. Many years ago I was called to be the adviser to a priests quorum. It was during a time when the Church had instituted a standard quorum award program. The program was designed to encourage the full quorum to have an interest in each member. An award was given for the achievement of the total quorum, not for individual accomplishment.

This was a quorum of high-spirited, devoted young men. They fulfilled their quorum responsibilities almost 100 percent, with the exception of one member. Bill had lost his father the previous year, and he was having a hard time adjusting to this great loss in his life. His mother was doing all she could to help Bill find himself again, but he started missing his meetings and developing some other bad habits.

After Bill had missed one meeting, a quorum member was assigned to contact him and encourage him to attend his quorum meeting. The quorum member was only able to reach his mother, who explained that Bill stayed out so late on Saturday night she could not get him up on Sunday morning. The second week came and still no Bill in quorum meeting. Again a contact was tried, with the same result.

As we assembled for quorum meeting the third week without Bill, I could see there was great concern on the part of the quorum for their absent member. They expressed the fact they were not a whole quorum without him, and they could not hold another meeting without Bill. I asked for suggestions. Quick was the response that we go over to his home and hold the meeting.

We drove to Bill’s house. His mother was most cooperative and invited us to go back into Bill’s bedroom. There was Bill, comfortably sleeping in his bed. We started the meeting with a spirited opening hymn. On the first note Bill came up out of those sheets like he had been shot out of a gun. He wondered what was happening to him.

What followed was one of the sweet experiences of my life. Each quorum member expressed his love for Bill. This was followed by a kneeling prayer around Bill’s bed. Bill got to his feet after the prayer with tears rolling down his face. We shook hands and left, a whole quorum once again. Bill knew of the love his quorum members had for him, and he wanted to be a part of it.

Elder Rudger Clawson of the Council of the Twelve once said: “The Priesthood of God on earth has been organized into quorums for the mutual good of the members, and for the advancement of the Church. A quorum which meets merely to study lessons, only partially accomplishes its purposes. … The spirit of brotherhood should be the directing force in all the plans and operations of the quorum. If this spirit be cultivated, wisely and persistently, no other organization will become more attractive to the man who holds the Priesthood.” Let us build a bond of brotherhood for each member of our quorum.

Third, the quorum is a service unit. “When thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren” was the counsel of the Savior to Peter. (Luke 22:32.) The obligation of membership in our Father in Heaven’s kingdom is to be of service to His children.

President Joseph F. Smith once told of an instance he remembered from his boyhood. He said that when he was very young he was attending a party in the Mansion House given by his uncle, the Prophet Joseph Smith. A large company was present, engaging in the festivities of the occasion. Suddenly the door opened and a man entered, dressed in ragged, shabby clothes. He was dirty, and his hair and beard were long and unkempt. He looked like a tramp. The Prophet at the time was on the other side of the room, opposite the door through which the man had come. President Smith said that Joseph, athletic man that he was, fairly sprang across the room, grabbed the shabby man in his arms, and hugged him as if he were a near and dear relative. This man was a brother in the priesthood. He had undergone a harrowing experience and made a tremendous sacrifice for his brother, the Prophet of God. (See Stephen L Richards, “The Priesthood Quorum: A Three-fold Definition,” Improvement Era, May 1939, p. 294.) The history of the Church is filled with accounts of quorum brother serving quorum brother with great love and understanding.

President Stephen L Richards has said:

“The Priesthood is usually simply defined as ‘the power of God delegated to man.’ This definition, I think, is accurate. But for practical purposes I like to define the Priesthood in terms of service and I frequently call it ‘the perfect plan of service.’ I do so because it seems to me that it is only through the utilization of the divine power conferred on men that they may ever hope to realize the full import and vitality of this endowment. It is an instrument of service. Its uses and purposes are all defined in terms of service and the man who fails to use it is apt to lose it, for we are plainly told by revelation that he who neglects it ‘shall not be counted worthy to stand.’ [D&C 107:100.]”

Elder Richards continues:

“The Priesthood is not static and a man’s ordination to it is not a static investiture. There may be some men, however, who so regard it, for they seem to be so smug and content with their ordinations.

“I can well imagine such a man going into the presence of the great Eternal Judge and saying in substance, ‘While I was on earth I was a High Priest. I come now to claim the reward of a High Priest.’ I think it is not difficult to suppose what may be his answer. He will likely be met with such questions as these, ‘What did you do when you were a High Priest? How did you use this great power which you held? Whom did you bless with it?’ Upon his reply to such interrogatories as these will his reward be predicated.” (In Conference Report, Apr. 1937, pp. 46–47.)

Brethren, let us teach our quorums how to serve.

I am of the persuasion that the greatest preparation we can make to relieve ourselves from fear of the future will not be the year’s supply we accumulate in our basements, the savings accounts we build, or the stocks and bonds we store in our safety deposit boxes. As important as these are for the protection of our family, our real security, I believe, will be found in our understanding of the priesthood organization and in sound application of priesthood principles. At the very foundation of the priesthood structure is the properly organized, trained, and functioning quorum of the priesthood.

Let us return to our wards and stakes and evaluate again how well we are prepared in our priesthood quorum organizations. Are they functioning as a class to train the brothers in their priesthood responsibilities? Are they functioning as a brotherhood to bless the lives of each member? Are they functioning to render service to their families, to the Church, and to the communities in which they are organized?

May we be quickened in our hearts this night with a firm resolve that high on the priority list during the months ahead will be the strengthening of our priesthood quorums, I humbly pray in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

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When the resurrected Lord appeared to His Apostles, He helped them understand that He had a body of flesh and bones. He said, “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have” (Luke 24:39). He also appeared to the Nephites after His Resurrection (see 3 Nephi 11:10-17).

At the time of the resurrection, we will “be judged according to [our] works. . . . We shall be brought to stand before God, knowing even as we know now, and have a bright recollection of all our guilt” (Alma 11:41, 43). The eternal glory we receive will depend on our faithfulness. Although all people will be resurrected, only those who have come unto Christ and partaken of the fulness of His gospel will inherit exaltation in the celestial kingdom.

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A story of faithfulness and love: Ed and Ruth Alma Mitchell

At the request of his granddaughter, Emily, Ed Mitchell '51, has begun to share stories of his journey in an autobiography. It's a story of faithfulness: of God's to Ed and his wife Ruth Alma (Mosher)'52; of the Mitchells' to God and to His calling.

It's a story of love: for Jesus Christ, for each other, for Malone University - which all seem inextricably intertwined.

Long before they met, Ed Mitchell and Ruth Alma Mosher had committed their lives to Jesus Christ. Ed recalls meeting Ruth Alma for the first time at a youth event during a Friends Church Yearly Meeting in 1946.

Ruth Alma remembers it differently. She had begun her studies at Cleveland Bible College (now Malone University) with three of her Mosher cousins: Ronnie, Chuck, and Ed.

They had previously agreed that if the men saw a woman they were interested in, Ruth Alma would learn more about her: if Ruth Alma saw a young man she was interested in, the guys would investigate.

On the first day of registration, the students were lined up in alphabetical order.

"I saw Ed," Ruth Alma remembers, "and I told my cousins to check him out."

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  • Laura Mitchell, RSN, BSN, graduated from Malone University in 2010 and is now a surgical nurse at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus.

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Ed and Ruth Alma shared an intense love for learning and graduated with high honors.

In those days at CBC, students' education focused on full-time Christian ministry. Ed preached his first sermon at age 17 for Professor John Grafton. In October 1949 during a mission conference at CBC, the student body agreed to support two missionaries in India. Ed pledged $15, though he was earning only 65 cents an hour and paying all of his college expenses without help. But within a couple of weeks, the Daisy Avenue Church of God asked the college for a Sunday morning speaker, and Professor Grafton asked Ed to preach.

"I agreed to do it," Ed says, "and was paid $15 for the first Sunday, and they invited me back the next two Sundays! So while I had agreed to give $15 by faith, the Lord provided an unexpected $45."

During the summer between Ed's second and third year at CBC, he felt a call to the mission field. Ruth Alma was working as a nurse at University Hospital, and one weekend Ed went to visit her.

"While waiting for her, a thought flashed through my mind, 'some day, you may be walking these halls as a doctor.' Never before had any idea of my being a physician been in my thinking, but God used this," Ed recalls. "I wanted to be a preacher or missionary, and I felt that the missionary ought to earn the right to be heard, so medical missions began to make a lot of sense to me. I thought of this as a direction from the Lord and essentially said, 'yes.' I did ask the Lord if he would let me finish CBC before I started pre-med studies so I could couple preaching and medicine... and felt clear that this was, indeed, to be."

After earning their degrees at Cleveland Bible College and marrying on August 15, 1952, Ruth Alma went on to earn a degree in pre-medicine from Ohio Wesleyan University and a master of science in nursing from Case Western Reserve University, practicing nursing while Ed attended medical school.

Ed accepted a pastorate at Oehlhoff Memorial Methodist Church on the west side of Cleveland, which he maintained while studying two years at Baldwin Wallace University (then-college), one year at Case Western Reserve University (then simply Western Reserve University), four years at CWRU Medical School, a yearlong rotating internship at Metropolitan General Hospital of Cleveland, and two years of surgical residency at the Cleveland Veteran's Hospital. During this time, their sons James '89 and David were born.

When Ruth Alma was eight months pregnant with their youngest son, Dan '84, the family moved to Humacao, Puerto Rico, where Ed was the only surgeon in a busy 80-bed mission hospital.

Puerto Rico presented its challenges - none more challenging than the language barrier. However, a nursing student named Carmen became a great help to them. As a child, Carmen had spent six years in the United States with a missionary family from Indiana, so she knew English and often baby-sat the Mitchell children. When the Mitchells left Puerto Rico, Carmen returned to the United States with them to work as a nurse. She became like a daughter to the Mitchells, and eventually married Ronald Jones '71. Two of their children attended Malone, including Chicago-based actor, Scott Alan Jones '93.

In the latter 1950's, the Mitchells sensed God's leading to return to the United States. A year after returning home, their youngest, Janice '89 was born. Ed joined Alliance Community Hospital as a surgeon and opened a private practice, where he served the community until his retirement in the mid-1990's. The Mitchells moved into a modest home on Lorentz Street, just a few minutes from the hospital, where they live to this day.

Son Dan eventually followed in his father's footsteps; together father and son have performed surgery side-by-side in Kenya and Rwanda. Dan is married to Rhonda (Zepernik) '87, who earned a doctorate in nursing. The younger Mitchells also live in Alliance, where Dan is a surgeon at Alliance Community Hospital.

Outside the walls of the hospital, Ed served the Alliance community through church activities at Alliance First Friends, running fund drives for a new emergency room, and as past president of the Good Samaritan Clinic.

In 1969, he began what was to become 40 years of dedicated service on the Malone University Board of Trustees, including a number of years as chair and vice-chair - and uncountable hours of committee work and leadership. He served with presidents Everett Cattell, Lon Randall, Gordon Werkema, Woody Self, Ron Johnson, and Gary Streit. Daughter-in-law Rhonda now serves on Malone's Board of Trustees.

Outside the board room, the Mitchells are familiar faces to the community of Malone students, faculty, staff, alumni, and volunteers as they attend most concerts and theatre performances, football and basketball games, and alumni events. Ed has served students by delivering commencement addresses and chapel sermons and by volunteering as campus physician.

In 1976, Dr. Mitchell eagerly began a campaign to raise nearly a million dollars for the purchase and restoration of the old Stark County Barn - transforming it into the Randall Campus Center - one of the most unique student centers found on any university campus.

Ed and Ruth Alma have directly supported Malone University with exceptional financial generosity - the academic building "Mitchell Hall" is named in their honor. Mitchell Hall is attached to Regula Hall, where the most recent Mitchell alumna - Laura '10, RN, BSN - spent most of her time, carrying on the tradition of faithfulness, love, and service to Christ's Kingdom.