Beaulieu 60th

BEAULIEU 60th

Lorene Jennings of Longview, Wash, and Dale Beaulieu of Bend, Ore., met at Columbia Adventist Academy, in Meadow Glade, Wash. They were married on June 4, 1957, in Longview and immediately moved to College Place, Wash., to continue their education.

Their son Richard was born in June 1960. Lorene continued to teach 28 piano students so she could stay home and care for the new arrival.

Dale completed his business degree from Walla Walla College in 1962 and was asked to join the North Pacific Union Conference (NPUC) as a business intern. He worked in the finance and auditing department until October when he was asked to help the Laurelwood Academy (Gaston, Ore.) finance department. They lived at Laurelwood until June 1964, when Dale took the call to be the business manager at Gem State Academy in Caldwell, Idaho.

They left Caldwell in June 1967, with six-week-old son Denis, 2-year-old Joanne (now Dixon) and 6-year-old Rick to travel to Blue Mountain Academy in Hamburg, Pa., where Dale was the business manager. In the fall of 1968 he accepted a call to the Potomac Conference.

Dale became vice president for finance for the West Virginia Conference in 1974, working with Richard Fearing, the conference president. Lorene worked for five departments and continued teaching piano at the school in Parkersburg. When the pair moved to the Chesapeake Conference in Maryland, Lorene again covered five departments while Dale was vice president for finance.

In 1975 Dale joined the Columbia Union Conference (CUC) as vice president for finance. Lorene continued working at Chesapeake Conference and again taught piano.

Dale's call in 1977 to Southeastern California Conference as vice president for finance was accepted, and Lorene went to work for Jacqua and Koenig at the Loma Linda University education administration office. After two years she joined the General Conference (GC) Adventist World purchasing office as purchaser and then became office manager for the GC West Coast branch.

In 1982 they were in Singapore serving the Lord in Southeast Asia Union Mission. Having their work completed, they returned to the U.S., and Dale became vice president for finance at Upper Columbia Conference.

From there they were called back east: Dale as vice president for finance for Atlantic Union Conference, Lorene as administration assistant for the eight department ministries and the ministerial department and later to the same position for presidential and treasury.

They returned to the NPUC so Dale could serve in trust services while Lorene worked for North American Division’s New Bible lessons and later the NPUC trust department.

Dale accepted a call for vice president for finance for Oregon Conference in 1992 and, with help from attorney Herald Follett and Carlyle and Judy Mason, brought the Gladstone Campgrounds back into use. He had planned to bring the Oregon Conference office over to the Gladstone Park, but in 1996 he was called back to the CUC as vice president for finance before he could follow through with those plans.

Lorene spent the last seven years of her service at the CUC in the revolving fund office. Dale was vice president for finance at CUC for four years and then vice president for finance for Adventist World Radio the last three years before retiring.

After retiring, they returned to their home in Gladstone and spent another 13 years in the auditing department for the Oregon Conference. Because of health and age, they felt they would retire permanently.