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President Philip Eaton celebrates Easter with his granddaughter. |
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President Philip Eaton exchanges greetings with internationally known civil rights leader and speaker, Dr. John M. Perkins (left), and Tali Hairston (right), director of the SPU Perkins Center for Reconciliation, Leadership Training, and Community Development, at a Perkins Center event. |
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President Eaton engages in lively dialogue with keynote speaker Dr. Vali Nasr at the 2007 Downtown Business Breakfast. "We must have an imagination of hope," asserted Eaton. “We need to imagine that peace and reconciliation are possible.” |
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Renowned German theologian, Dr. Jürgen Moltmann, visits with President Philip Eaton after speaking on “A Theology of Hope” to a packed-out crowd at SPU’s sixth-annual Day of Common Learning (September 2007). |
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Eaton engages in conversation with George Weigel, keynote speaker for the President’s Symposium on “Knowing and Understanding Our World: A Response to the 21st Century.” Weigel is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., and an expert on the role of Christianity in culture (February 2007). |
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President Philip W. Eaton (back row, center) joined U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings (front row, second from right) and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Dina Habib Powell (front row, far right) on the first-ever delegation of American college and university presidents to Japan, South Korea, and China (November 2006). |
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President Philip Eaton pauses for a moment with Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough at the tenth annual Seattle Pacific Downtown Business Breakfast (April 2006). |
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SPU President Philip W. Eaton (second from right) met President George W.
Bush at the January 2006 University Presidents Summit in Washington, D.C.
“God bless you, Mr. President,” Eaton said to Bush. “I pray for you.” |
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New Testament Scholar and Bishop of Durham N.T. Wright visits with President Philip Eaton at the President’s Symposium on the Gospel and Cultural Engagement (May 2005). |
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President Eaton enjoys a moment of levity while listening to New Testament scholar N.T. Wright speak to a packed-out audience at SPU’s Church Leaders Forum (May 2005). |
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“To whom much has been given…” President Eaton celebrates the completion of SPU’s largest fundraising campaign, which brought in more than $55 million (March 2005). |
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An engaging speaker, President Eaton regularly addresses business, community, and educational organizations. Here he speaks at SPU’s 2005 Homecoming Luncheon. |
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The University’s Ivy Cutting ceremony is a time-honored tradition for SPU graduating seniors and their families. Here Eaton congratulates a member of the Class of 2004. |
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President Eaton discusses contemporary culture with New York Times Columnist David Brooks at the eighth annual SPU Downtown Business Breakfast (April 2004). |
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Students are attentive as President Eaton exhorts them to live out SPU’s mission of engaging the culture and changing the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ. |
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President Eaton and his wife, Sharon Eaton, are deeply committed to their family. They have three grown sons and five grandchildren. |
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“We seek to live and do our work as a university right out there where the world loves and suffers and thrives and fears,” says President Eaton. Here he stands near the world-renowned Pike Place Market in the heart of downtown Seattle. |
