Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Meet Your Colleague: A Q&A with Security Officer Greg Ewing

Name: Greg Ewing

Job title: Security Officer

Department: Security

How long have you worked at Whitworth? 15 years

What do you like best about your job? The chance to meet and help many different people

In what ways do your gifts and abilities help meet the needs of the campus community you serve? I enjoy talking to people and this eases interactions most of the time.

Favorite movie: “Big Trouble in Little China”

Favorite food: Thai? To say that I like food is sort of like saying rain is wet.

Favorite quote: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” This is often paraphrased as “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

Favorite music: Celtic

Favorite animal: Cat

Guilty pleasure: 80s cult movies

Hobbies: Fishing, hunting, shooting

Best vacation ever: My family went to Australia for 2.5 weeks.

Birth place: Spokane

We’d be surprised to know that…I was a National Merit Scholarship finalist, all those years ago.

I collect…books.

If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? Ireland

What is your life motto? “Help as many as you can, harm as few as you can.”

If the whole world was listening, what would you say? “Why do we allow people to harm others?”

Favorite childhood book: The Chronicles of Prydain series, by Lloyd Alexander

Favorite childhood TV shows: “Banana Splits” and “H.R. Pufnstuf”

Least favorite word: Bro

If you could go on a road trip with anyone (from the past or present), who would you choose and where would you go? Teddy Roosevelt, hunting in Montana or Alaska

Best high school class subject: English