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Focus, 1998, Winter Andrews University Andrews University Digital Commons @ Andrews University Focus Office of Alumni Services Winter 1998 Focus, 1998, Winter Andrews University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/focus Recommended Citation Andrews University, "Focus, 1998, Winter" (1998). Focus. Book 30. http://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/focus/30 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Office of Alumni Services at Digital Commons @ Andrews University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Focus by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Andrews University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WINTER 1998 • THE ANDREWS UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE • VOL. 34, NO. 1 FOCUSFOCUS Past Present Future& ANDREWS: 2050 • a ‘splash’ from the past • griggs hall . .IN . .FOCUS . Connections et me introduce you to this issue’s student editor: that I would have more friends than I could keep track Kelley Wilson, a junior English major from Battle of in one address book. Creek. She and the rest of Professor Lynn Sauls’ Visions of degrees danced in my head. What would I magazine article writing class last quarter pro- learn about? What would I study? Psychology, duced the feature stories for this issue. But the Biology(ick), Technology, Religion, English, Music? Lwork didn’t end with the class. Kelley and a small crew How many different cultures would I learn about? of undergraduates put in long I have been surprised. I have hours, writing and revising the fea- . learned a little about all of those tures (and some sections like “At things, maybe even become Random”) for this winter’s issue of proficient in a few; but during FOCUS. my short stay at Andrews, I’ve I’ve enjoyed getting better learned far more about myself acquainted with this great group of and my God than anything else. students, and I appreciate their dedi- Through my research for this cation to getting the job done. I’m issue of FOCUS, I’ve found that sure you’ll enjoy their work. Andrews has done a great deal —Douglas A. Jones (MA ’80) of changing in the last 124 years. But no doubt, the great- FOCUS editor est changes have occurred in Student Staff: (from left) Kristin Smith, Chet the lives of the students who hat’s me on the right, the one Williams, Dana Langlois and Kelley Wilson have lived and breathed here. with the goofy grin, glad this photo by Chet Williams No matter what era, Andrews “project” is coming to a rapid I was having a hard time continues to effectively prepare conclusion! However, I must its students for the world out confess that I have learned connecting the Andrews of the there and (more importantly) Tmore about Andrews in the past the world up there. And in 50 couple of months than I have since past with the Andrews of years, the students who leave I’ve been here. But I was having a the present or the future. this campus will be just as hard time connecting the Andrews changed as those who left 50 of the past with the Andrews of the . years ago. present or the future. Changed for God. Changed for I remember the very first time I came to Andrews. It Good. This is the legacy of Andrews University that was during my freshman year of high school, and I spans the Past, the Present, and the Future. was here for the Lake Union Choral Festival. Everything seemed huge. I found the campus very large and disorienting, even though compared to other his issue’s cover is the handiwork of my friend universities, it’s very small. Dana Langlois, a student from New Hampshire. I remember being at the bookstore and not knowing She’s a senior majoring in photography and how to get back to the dorm or standing in front of the hopes to graduate before the Second Coming. Campus Center wondering which of the several build- Yearbooks recent and past were used to make the ings was Nethery Hall. Duh. Tcover, so look closely ––you may see yourself! Plus, growing up in Battle Creek, where there was a grand total of 64 people in my high school, the pros- —Kelley Wilson pect of actually meeting and knowing 3,000 people student editor was exciting and a bit overwhelming. I knew, soon, THE ANDREWS UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE . CONTENTS. FOCUS Winter 1998 • Volume 34, Number 1 . .F .EATURES . EDITOR Douglas A. Jones (MA ’80) Past CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Present Jack Stenger, Campus Rebecca May (BA ’77), Alumni Future EDITORIAL ASSISTANT & It’s all about change—almost Patricia Spangler . .11 PHOTOGRAPHERS Elmer Mun THE MISS SPLASH CONTEST. 12 Jack Stenger Revealing photos from the sixties THE UNIVERSITY HE AY E ERE President: Niels-Erik Andreasen (MA ’65, BD ’66) T W W W . 13 Vice Presidents for Academic Administration: Delmer I. Davis, acting Glimpses of Andrews from past school bulletins University Advancement: David A. Faehner (MA ’72) Student Services: Newton Hoilette (MA ’75, EdD ’79) by Kelley Wilson Financial Administration: Edward E. Wines Enrollment Services: Dean W. Hunt THE WAY WE WERE . .15 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EMC up close and personal President: Connie Green (AS ’79, BS ’94) Vice President: Robert Cochran (BA ’73) By Michael Constable and Kari Gibbs immediate past president: Paul Hamel (DP ’40, BA ’48) Director of Alumni Affairs: Rebecca May (BA ’77) FOCUS ADVISORY BOARD CARPE DIEM . .16 Nancy Carter (BS ’74), R. William Cash (PhD ’90), Andrews students seize opportunities Linda Closser (BA ’80, MA ’81), Gregory Constantine (BA ’60), Sharon Dudgeon (MMus ’86), Paul Hamel (DP ’40, BA ’48), by Chet Williams and MaeJoyce Calloway Tami Martinez (AS ’92, BA ’93), Marjorie Snyder (DP ’50), Randal Wisbey (MDiv ’84) 2050. .18 FOCUS (ISSN 1077-9345) is published quarterly, free of charge, for alumni and friends of Andrews An Andrews odyssey University, an institution owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The maga- By Romil Daquila, Daniel Chung and Jo-Anne Vizcarra zine’s address is FOCUS, Public Relations, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI 49104-1000. Copyright 1998 by Andrews University. Reproduction in whole or part without permission GRIGGS HALL . .15 is prohibited. Periodicals postage paid at Berrien Springs, Mich., and at additional mailing offices. A photographic essay POSTMASTER: Send address changes to FOCUS, Alumni Affairs Office, Andrews University, By R Greg Kihlstrom Berrien Springs, MI 49104-0950. .D . EPARTMENTS. Editor’s Office: (616) 471-3316 [email protected] In Focus . 2 Alumni News . 22 Alumni Affairs Office: (616) 471-3591 [email protected] Calendar . 4 Class Notes . 24 www.andrews.edu Letters . 5 Life Stories . 28 Campus Update . 6 At Random . 30 . .CALENDAR . Spring Break. Finals are over Hull Harvey, Roy Branson and Architects in Chelsea, Mich., March 18, and Andrews stu- Jean Kilbourne. Visit the website “Experiments in Seduction” All dents have twelve days to work for more information: <www. lectures are at 4 pm in the on a tan in Florida. March 19-30. andrews.edu/ethics>. Division of Architecture Amphitheater and are free and Spring Line-Up. Register for Contemporary Christian open to the public. spring quarter, March 30. 8-7. music. Larnell Harris sings with Deliverance guest appear- Homecoming. Alumni Batter up! Softball intramurals ance, April 18, 9 pm. Johnson Weekend begins with a recep- begin April 7, from 4:30 to 7:30 Auditorium. Call 616-471-3965 tion for honored alumni at 6 pm, pm. Call 471-3253 for schedule. for ticket information. Thursday, April 23, followed by . the Gala Alumni Banquet Selections from in the Terrace Cafe, Campus Center. Mozart’s Requiem. Easter Choral Concert, April 10, 7:30 pm, We are the world! Pioneer Memorial International Student Week Church. at Andrews, April 26-May 1. Call 471-6378 for details. Week of Spiritual Food, gloriosa food! Emphasis. April 13-18, The court of King Wilfred Futcher ( The annual International Jose Rojas, NAD Medieval Merry-making: cen- ter) included (l to r) Sir Brian Strayer, Queen Rowena Futcher, Food Fair. Johnson Director of Youth Lord Wayne Perry and Lady Shelly Perry at the annual Board of Auditorium, Sunday, April Ministry, speaks every Trustees, Faculty and Staff banquet, Feb. 22, in the Campus Center. 26, 12-7 pm. day at 10:30 in PMC, . M-Th at 6:45 pm in Lamson Chapel and Friday in AEE. Adventist Engaged PMC at 8 pm. Church services Arky Talk. Division of Encounter weekend, May 1-3. April 18, 8:20 and 11:20. Architecture Lecture Series. Call 471-3211. April 16: Tom Beeby, of Ethically speaking. “The Hammond Beeby Babka Wind Symphony Spring Ethics of Marketing Tobacco” is Architects of Chicago, “Recent Concert. May 17, 3 pm, PMC. April 23: the theme of the 1998 Ethics and Work” Robert Bruegmann, from the University Society Lectureship weekend, . April 17-19. Keynote speaker is of Illinois at Chicago, “Bashing April 30: For more information about Matt Myers, vice president of the Suburbs” Lydia Soo, of the University of Michigan, these and other events at the Center for Tobacco Free Kids Andrews University, please in Washington, D. C. Other “Fashion, Architecture and the Idea May 21 call 1-800-253-2874. weekend speakers include Jane of National Style” : Scott McElrath, of Dangerous . 4 FOCUS • WINTER 1998 . .LETTERS . TIME WARP military by University faculty, staff than a decade earlier at Glacier View, . and students.” However, that “obliga- and Andrews blinked! The caption on page 14 of the Fall tion” was not enough. There were To one who grew up in the shadow 1997 FOCUS, says, “Meier Hall, con- extraordinary moral issues at stake of the original Burman Hall singing, structed in the 1970s.” I was an AU spiritually and politically.
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