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ELWOOD an instructor in Child Development at the College of Education and served as the organizing Chairman and Associate Professor of Psychology at the College of Arts and Sciences. She also founded and became the organizing Director of the Center for Women’s Studies and Development. A simple plea from a fellow missionary for help at a shelter for


street children resulted in a profound change of direction for Bet- tie’s life journey. She not only found herself working and teach- ing Sunday school at the shelter, but also had to redirect her en- ergy towards the development of an intern program at the univer- sity to promote work at the shelter. She eventually gave up her teaching duties at Silliman to focus her time at the shelter, serv- ing as Executive Director for the Dumaguete City Shelter for Homeless Children (Peace Shelter) and as a charter member of the Board of Directors for the shelter. Brian and Colleen are well remembered by friends and class-


mates, having been deeply involved in church and other extra- curricular activities at Silliman. Brian graduated from the Ateneo de Manila with a degree in Philosophy. Later he earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee. Brian now teaches Philosophy and World Religions, Logic and Ethics at Pellissippi State Col- lege (Knoxville, TN) and Tennessee Wesleyan College (Athens, TN). He married Gloria Ar- naiz. Their daughter, Aletheia, is presently a student at Silliman University. Colleen has an


Colleen performing with Silliman icon Prof. Albert Faurot during good old times.


M.M. in Music Peda- gogy from Northwest- ern University (Illinois) and teaches


piano and creative dance in Alabama. Her daughter, Charlotte, recently received a scholarship at Tufts University (Boston) where she will begin to attend in Fall 2012. The Elwood family grew in Dumaguete with the births of sons


Philip and Christopher at the S.U. Medical Center. Philip earned his M.A. in International Business from the University of Miami. He and wife Monica and their daughters live in Florida where Philip currently works as the Technical Operations Man- ager for Convergys. He plans to visit Silliman this summer with daughterMegan. Christopher and Tabitha Elwood and their daughters live in California. Christopher earned a B.A. degree in English and Philosophy from Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA. He has a teaching credential from Chapman University in California and teaches in a private Christian preparatory school in Santa Barbara. Christopher is also a tennis pro at the Montecito Valley Club. In addition to their service at Silliman, the Elwoods also


served one term at Tunghai University in Taiwan (1972-1975) and one term at the Union Theological Seminary and St. Andrews Seminary in Manila. They also spent the year in 1966 in New York City where Douglas was a visiting scholar at Union Theo- logical Seminary and Bettie was a graduate student at Columbia


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OSA SUCN. She is currently associate dean for clinical affairs and community engagement of the School of Nursing at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (Lubbock, Texas) where she is CH Foundation Regents professor in rural health disparities. She obtained her Ph.D in nursing in 1990 from the University of Texas at Austin. “The OSA award reflects on Tenette’s career and contri-


bution to nursing research, practice, education and admini- stration”, Laarni noted. Tenette also oversees the operation and funding of


TTUHSC’s federally-qualified nurse-managed clinic in east Lubbock serving medically-underserved population. She chaired the national organization of nurse-managed clinics from 2006 to 2008 and recently served on the national advi- sory committee implementing the 2010 recommendations of the Institute of Medicine initiative on the future of nursing in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In 2004, along with previous OSA awardee Luz Sobong


Porter, Tenette was inducted a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, becoming the first Philippine-trained nurses to gain the FAAN designation. Beginning in 2005 she served a three-year tenure as executive nurse fellow in RWJF’s national program for senior nurse management in public health, clinical administration, and nursing education. She was an adviser for a subsequent RWJF fellow cohort. Earlier, she sat for five years as member and in the execu-


tive board of the National Advisory Council for Nursing Education and Practice which advises the US Health Depart- ment secretary and the US Congress on nursing issues. A nurse practitioner, she also taught nursing at Northern Illi- nois University (DeKalb), Lamar University (Beaumont, Tx), and University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Tenette is a niece of the late SUCN deanMaria Concep-


cion Roble.


University from which she earned an M.A. degree. In 1971- 72, Douglas was a research associate in Southeast Asian Studies and Bettie was a graduate student at Cornell Univer- sity in Ithaca, New York. The Elwoods were honorably retired by the General As-


sembly of the Presbyterian Church in 1990. At their farewell program, Dr. Lourdino Yuzon, Dean of the Divinity School, said of Douglas Elwood : “As a theological profes- sor, he provided intellectual leadership for the academic community in the University and guided hundreds of stu- dents in the task of precise, logical, coherent, biblical and faith-grounded thinking in the field of Christian Theology and Ethics. Yet with the fame and laurels, he has remained a humble, soft-spoken and kindly individual in whom col- leagues and students easily find a friend. In his simple lifestyle he exemplifies the kind of Christian life dedicated to reverence for God, the pursuit of truth and service to others, thus giving great honor to Silliman University”. True to their belief that “We should be stewards for a


lifetime, not just two-thirds of our life” Drs. Bettie and Douglas Elwood, then and now, remain heavily involved with street children and founded “Little Children of the World” (LCW), an organization (See ELWOOD next page)


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