News from Union College summer 2014

Honoring Union’s military veterans Harry Haas: Giving Something Back

lder Harry Haas ’48 felt so blessed by What should they do? EUnion College’s Medical Cadet Corp With the help of the Union College (MCC) that he chose to pass his training on to Advancement staff, Harry and Lois set up a liv- others by instructing Army doctors on how to ing trust so they could retain control of all their administer first aid. assets while they were both still alive, and when Harry trained in the MCC before being Lois died in 2010, their estate plan became drafted during World War II. He was assigned irrevocable. “A trust is a very nice vehicle to to an Army medical aid station where he lock in the estate plan for a husband and wife,” passed along his first-aid training to the doc- Harry said. “When Lois died the trust locked in tors he worked with. “It was such a blessing to everything so I couldn’t change it.” have the MCC training,” Harry explained. “I Before Harry remarried years later, he showed (the doctors) how to quickly splint told his fiancée that he had set up a trust and a broken arm and bandage a wound.” They nothing would be going to her. “She and her were so impressed with Harry’s skills they were (previous) husband had done the same thing,” willing to trade two or three other soldiers so Harry explained, “so we both knew where we they could keep him in their aid station. stood before we got married.” In 1944 Harry was honorably discharged Harry believes a trust is the best agreement and returned to Union College where he stud- for married people. “Your money and invest- ied business. A professor in the business depart- ments go where you both want them to go.” In ment had a profound impact on Harry. “R.W. this case part of Harry and Lois’ estate will go Fowler inspired me through his kindness so I to support the mission of Union College as an dedicated my life to working for the church,” unrestricted gift, to help with whatever is most Harry explained. After a long career working needed after Harry’s death. for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Harry “I owe a lot to Union College, so I’m giving eventually retired as treasurer of the Central something back,” Harry added. Union Conference (now Mid-America Union). “Union College means so much to me and I Learn more feel others did a lot so I could attend. I would If you want more information on how you like to pass that help on in my old age,” Harry can set up a living trust and give a gift to Union said about his desire to support Union College. College through your estate plan, please contact So when Harry and his wife, Lois Cummings Scot T. Coppock, director of Leadership Giving Haas ’48, (now deceased) formulated their es- at [email protected] or 402.486.2503. tate plan they planned to include Union College. Scot is eager to help with arranging the best Harry and Lois wanted to retain control estate plan for you. of their assets while they were both still alive, but ensure Union College would receive a gift from their estate.

It takes ForeSight. . . CORDmagazine staff: LuAnn Wolfe Davis ’82 Vice President for Advancement/Publisher magazine CORD Vol. 78, No.1 Summer 2014 Ryan Teller ’98 Director of Public Relations/Editor

Liza Ngenye ’11 Editorial/4 Campus News/5 Managing Editor

Steve Nazario Director of Visual Communications/Designer Union welcomes a

Brittney Lippincott ’14 new president/12 Designer Dr. Vinita Sauder, formerly vice president for Strategic Scott Cushman ’03 Director of Digital Communication Initiatives at Southern Adventist University, has been named Kenna Lee Austin Carlson ’73 Union College’s next president. Class-ifieds Editor

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Union College Alumni Association courtesy UniversityAdventist of Southernphoto: Officers and Board Members: Larry Christensen ’72 ...... President Farewell to Kevin Lang ’78 ...... President-elect Dr. Wagner/14 Ardis Dick Stenbakken ’62 . . Past President President John Wagner retired Larinda Hoskinson in June, ending his third term Fandrich ’86 . . . . .Board member at large of service at Union College. Darrel Huenergardt ’65 . . . .Golden Club President Matthew Roque ’05 . . .GOLD Rep ’02-’12 Ralph Schnell ’87 . . . . . Class Rep ’82-’03 Kathy Berthelsen ’77 . . . Class Rep ’64-’83

Anita Keith Kidwiler ’61 . Class Rep up to ’63 Scott Cushman photo: Kenna Lee Austin Carlson ’73 . . . Alumni Activities Director LuAnn Wolfe Davis ’82 . . Vice President for Advancement

About the cover: Drawing from his own experiences in the military during Training for military the Vietnam War, Dr. Bill Fitts, professor of English at Union College, has provided mentorship for generations of veterans who attend Union College, including Christina Schmersal ’12. service/16 Photo by Steve Nazario. In the 1930s, Union College © 2014 Union College all rights reserved. No material may be pioneered a program that prepared reproduced without permission. CORDmagazine is published as a service to Union College alumni and friends. We encour- young Adventists for life as conscien- age readers to submit letters and article ideas. Please send tious objector’s in the armed forces. inquiries, submissions and address changes to: CORDmagazine Union College

3800 South 48th Street courtesy of Union College Libraryphoto: collection Lincoln, NE 68506 ForeSight. . . or [email protected]. Cookie Call/11 Student vets/18 The Mystery of the Gettysburg flag/20 Serving with Pride/22 Class-ifieds/25 In memory/28 www.ucollege.edu

CORD magazine 3 Editorial Keeping up the Conversation Recognizing military veterans by Dr. Bill Fitts, professor of English

ost veterans appreciate being recognized, not only by the military, I began experiencing Jesus Christ on a personal level, especially Mbut also by the civilians they serve. For many of us who served through the prayer bands at Afterglow. I began seeking Jesus for Jesus— in Vietnam, that recognition was a long time coming. I returned from and my sake—not just to pass a Bible class. We veterans began to talk the war through San Francisco late at night because we had been among ourselves (no one knew about PTSD back then). We shared in warned that the war protesters might go after those of us having to speech class. I wrote an essay about Tet and my English teacher, Mr. fly in uniform. Feelings over the war were so strong that years later a Roth, read it aloud and I listened, a mixture of embarrassment and “It’s colleague told me, “I was smart enough to stay in college, so I didn’t about time you kids woke up and knew what’s going on over there!” A have to go.” He was telling the truth in my case, but the sarcastic tone girl across the aisle was crying. he used was hardly Christian. Civilians need to listen to veterans to I had the vague idea that perhaps this too might be education. establish a context before they engage us in conversation. One afternoon during freshman comp, a squadron of Hueys flew Perhaps my story will help make my point. I spent my teenage years over the building. I bolted from my seat and was halfway to the wom- smoking, drinking and playing in a rock band, hardly cracking a book, en’s dorm when I realized that the chopper pad was nowhere in sight. I not paying attention in history class until I had to register for the draft. I stood there on the sidewalk wondering just how crazy everyone would was baptized in 1966 and drafted a year later. Because Seventh-day Ad- think I was if I returned to class. I needed the information, so I walked ventism is not really a religion but a lifestyle—encompassing every aspect back into class. of a person’s life—I chose to wander away from the Lord in Vietnam. Dr. Roth never even looked at me. He went right on with the class I went through the Tet Offensive six weeks after arriving in the discussion. Afterward, I waited until the other students had cleared out country and continued unloading medevac choppers and working to and walked by his desk, embarrassed. “Thanks.” save lives in a surgical intensive care unit at the 91st Evac Hospital. “Korea,” he responded. I had made a friend. Changing dressings on napalmed and white-phosphorous-grenaded This is how veterans bond. I knew that he had been through what patients, suctioning tracheostomies on people whose jaws were wired I had, and he respected me. “Don’t worry. If it happens again, we’ll shut, administering IPPB (intermittent positive pressure breathing) repeat the process. If anyone asks and you feel comfortable, we’ll talk treatments to help chest wounds heal, carrying body bags off Hueys to with the class.” Graves Registration, and, probably most of all, seeing friends’ names in “I have your back,” today’s vet might say. It usually takes a vet to the KIA column (Killed in Action) took their toll. I began to smoke, help a vet. and when I was asked to form a band for the officers’ club, I took it. That spring Dr. Roth brought “Dulce et decorum est,” a poem about I quickly learned that alcohol can ease the pain of working with the a gas attack in World War I to class. Suddenly, the quiet, shy student who severest wounds and death in a war zone on a daily basis. had come to campus almost a total stranger started dialogging with the I blame no one but myself for the choices I made—I had a support teacher about the experience of the poem. The other students disap- group of other Adventists who met whenever they didn’t have ward peared. I didn’t care what anyone thought about our conversation be- duty on Sabbath. They listened to tapes from the Voice of Prophecy, cause we were talking about life . . . and death . . . and how to really live. held Sabbath school class and listened to the Kings Heralds tapes I walked out of that class knowing what I really wanted to do with provided by the church. Midweek prayer meeting dealt with tracing my life. And I’ve never looked back. the journeys of Paul. What I really needed was Paul’s God ministering I was loved at that college. We love through listening to veterans to my pain. However, because I had not really been grounded in a per- and learning to understand understanding them. If you are a parent, sonal relationship with Jesus, I doubt that I would have listened. I tried encourage your son or daughter to check out a veteran’s counseling reading my Bible through and quit at Numbers. center or the VA. I returned to the States at the end of 1968, I went to church with Or just be a friend. Peers can go out to eat or watch a ballgame. Do my mother to keep her happy. Transitioning is important—and often not ask questions like “Did you kill anybody?” In fact, do not initiate challenging for those who have served in a war zone. I suffered from conversations, especially about combat. The vet will do that when mild Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, but many suffer traumatic brain comfortable doing so. injuries (TBIs), and for women in particular, military sexual trauma Five years after my mother died, my father called me from his little (MST). Fortunately after my discharge, my cousin encouraged me to go apartment in New Mexico and finally opened up about his experiences back to school at an Adventist college. I laughed because I had dropped on several islands in the Pacific during World War II. He had taken out of college the first time. I also laughed when I was accepted: “Well, seventeen lives that he knew, and suddenly everything was coming up. I won’t be there long.” He had stuffed his experience down all those years his children were At first I struggled, but Someone had something in store for me. growing up, and it had led to alcoholism. This time I was empowered One night some men in my dorm wing came to my room and gave to help my dad. me some practical tips on how to raise my grades—including the Basic Encourage the vets in your life to visit a nearby veterans center or 8 from Ministry of Healing. I spent an hour in my Bible every day. I the Lone Survivor Foundation. Let’s keep the conversation going. Dr. became a vegetarian, against my will. I exercised. The cigarettes and Roth did. College students did. The counselors did. It helped me. And alcohol had gone when I arrived (I remembered that much about the it helped Dad. church.). I went to bed at ten o’clock. I began to study with a group of serious students from Ozark Academy. My grades began to rise.

4 SUMMER 2014 Campus News Ribbon cutting at graduation officially opens Krueger Center by Ryan Teller ’98

ven when angry skies drove the too high, the air in the entire room is Eceremony indoors, more than flushed out either through the hood 200 employees, students, alumni or through the ceiling ducts. It’s as and friends of Union College though the whole lab is in a hood.” found reason to celebrate as the new Krueger Center for Science A comfortable and Mathematics was officially place to learn opened with a ribbon cutting on Claude Iradukunda, a freshman May 8. pre-engineering major, can often be The event, which brought photo: Steve Nazario Steve photo: found poring over an assignment in together many of the people who one of the three study areas in the supported the Krueger Center new building. He likes a lot of things project with time, energy and about the Krueger Center—the large financial resources over the past classrooms, the labs—but he especial- 10 years, featured remarks from ly likes the study space. “It’s quiet and former Union College president comfortable,” he said. “Most of the David Smith, Lieutenant Gover- The Krueger Center grand opening ceremony featured a ceremonial time I prefer to study here instead of nor of Nebraska Lavon Heideman, ribbon cutting by Thomas L. Lemon, chair of the Union College Board the dorm.” and lead donors Calvin and of Trustees, LaVon Heidemann, lieutenant governor of Nebraska with “It’s a place students like to Sue Krueger. lead donors Jerome and Ramona Lang, Sue and Calvin Krueger and study,” Clark said of the study spaces, Teachers and students began Jay Dunlap from Union Bank and Trust. including the one right outside his using the Krueger Center in early office. “They like to use the white- March when the doors opened to year he worked on a team to develop a less board to work out problems together the 57,000 square-foot facility that features expensive, quicker DNA test for certain genes and it’s nice that I can just pop out there and ample, flexible space and state-of-the-indus- to be used as a collegiate training tool. answer questions.” try technology for lectures, lab exercises and The new building includes plenty of space Funding the future research. Attendees to the event were able to for a variety of learning styles and growth. wander the building and see lab and classroom The grand opening event also honored Two configurable classrooms allow for group the donors who gave the $14.9 million to demonstrations by faculty and students. learning and many other activities. A total The building has become the new home build the Krueger Center. A number of lead of five labs and two lab and lecture spaces donors were on hand including Cal and Sue of the Division of Science and Mathematics, are dedicated to biology, five laboratory and replacing 66-year-old Jorgensen Hall, a build- Krueger; Jerome and Ramona Lang; repre- lecture spaces to chemistry, and three labs to sentatives from Union Bank and Trust; and ing that had outlived its usefulness. “The new physics and pre-engineering. building is a lot better,” said Keith Wade, a representatives from Union’s parent organiza- junior physics major. “We now have a dedicat- Technology tion, the Mid-America Union Conference of ed physics lab and an engineering lab, which is Seventh-day Adventists. improves learning and safety “God has blessed Union College with great. The building has the potential to greatly Chemistry professor Richard Clark sees expand the physics department.” this new facility,” said John Wagner, recently lots of advantages in all the technology built retired president of Union College. “The The sentiment is echoed throughout the into the new building. From software that ranks of science, math and health science generosity of the many donors who made allows each teacher’s tablet computer to the Krueger Center possible is a testament majors—nearly 60 percent of the student automatically transmit images and video to population. to the impact that Union College has on the a classroom’s projection system to a central lives of students, alumni and our community. A home for research vacuum system that provides a vacuum port at This building will allow us to provide an even “Our research projects were spread out all each lab station in all the chemistry laborato- stronger academic experience for our students over Jorgensen Hall, wherever we could cram ries, technology will improve the learning and for years to come.” them in,” said Bradley Carlson, a junior biol- safety of science classes. As a scientist, Clark agrees that the build- ogy and pre-med major who has been heavily “Our hood capacity is much better now,” ing demonstrates a strong commitment to the involved in two original research projects over Clark explained. “Sometimes hoods be- future of science education. “It’s not just talk,” the past couple of years. “The Krueger Center come bottlenecks because everyone needs to he said. “We are here experiencing it now and has seven labs dedicated just to research.” conduct a lab experiment under a ventilation enjoying it very much.” Carlson has spent this school year working hood. That won’t happen any more.” with a team of faculty and students creat- And improved ventilation also improves ing early detection tests for certain types of safety. “Each hood has flushing alarms,” he cancers using carbon nanotubes. Last school continued. “If levels of certain chemicals get CORD magazine 5 Campus News Nursing students’ new classroom: the Nicaraguan jungle by Ruby Ruano ’15

indsay, get up, there is a woman in With aspirations to be a world traveler, Stress rose after the mother didn’t come “Llabor who needs our help.” The voice Johnson decided it was time to travel outside of back for a checkup. “In America it is abnormal from the darkness jarred Union College the country for the first time in her life. “I was for a mother to lose a baby,” said Souza. “But nursing major Lindsay Harrison from her ready for an adventure of a lifetime,” said the there it is common for a mother to lose several midnight slumber. As her mind cleared senior nursing major. “I knew I wanted to go children throughout her life.” of its sleepy grogginess, suddenly the hot on a mission trip but I never had the opportu- The mother eventually returned and was Nicaraguan jungle, the villagers and her nity until I had the chance to take this class.” told to go to the hospital so the doctor could Frontier Nursing class came flooding back remove the deceased fetus. “There were no into her consciousness. We’re not in Nebraska anymore tears or sadness from her like you would see She quickly jumped from her resting The Frontier Nursing students were here in the U.S.,” said Souza. “You have to place and discovered the disembodied voice accompanied by instructors Amy Golter know that not every person you meet will you belonged to Adam Neep, a Union interna- and Kristine Follett. Their goal is to prepare be able to change to a new point of view. You tional rescue and relief student who had students for procedures not normally used by have to accept them and their beliefs and know come to take her to the laboring mother in nurses in America such as wilderness medicine what your role is at that moment in time.” the nearby village. and suturing. “Doing health care outside of Wings Over Nicaragua was able to provide “We took care of the woman in labor the U.S. is kind of a shock at first, it’s a very doctors and nurses to assist the nursing team all night,” Harrison said. “At one point she eye opening experience and it changes your during clinical days and house visits. “All the became very dehydrated and the doctor pre- views on health care,” said Golter. “We get to doctors had their own clinic groups during scribed coconut water from one of the trees do a lot of learning of policies and procedures our clinic days, but none of them were too outside and that’s how we got her hydrated.” in nursing school that just really are not criti- busy to take time to teach us,” said Harrison. “That would never happen in a clinical Venturing out setting in the United States, because of the hospital doctors don’t really get involved with Harrison, along with eight other us like that. If I ask doctors here for students in Union’s Frontier Nursing anything, they will give me a weird class spent spring break serving people in look and redirect me elsewhere.” remote Nicaraguan villages—delivering Many of the students found babies, treating parasite infected chil- instruction from doctors a valuable dren, educating and much more—on a learning experience. “Those doctors Eric Bing photo: ten-day mission trip along with a group were so appreciative that we want to of IRR students already in the Central learn,” said Harrison. “All the doctors American nation for the semester. really made you feel comfortable when They collaborated with doctors asking questions and they would take and nurses from a local mission called their time explaining the disease and Wings Over Nicaragua. A clinic Nursing major Lindsay Harrison treats a patient at a remote clinic treatment.” offering everything from women’s health in the Nicaraguan jungle during spring break. services to a pharmacy was set up in six villages—a new village each day—serving cal in developing countries where resources Forever changed anyone in need of medical attention. are limited, such as wearing gloves for almost For many of the nursing students, nothing “We had pregnant women walking four everything.” And students often get the hands- has been the same since setting foot back hours through the jungle just to reach our clinic on learning experience that would usually be on American soil. The memories that were to get checkups and help,” said Amy Golter, limited to doctors or advanced practitioners. formed in a little over a week have forever one of the Frontier Nursing instructors. She “You learn to improvise a lot and be flex- changed the outlook on health care and gen- estimates they cared for nearly 800 patients. ible,” said nursing student Renee Souza. One eral life in America. “I will never again take of Souza’s most critical patients was a young clean gloves, running water, sanitization and Finding the funding pregnant girl who had not felt her 36-week- an unlimited supply of medication and sup- The students raised more than $30,000 to old fetus kick in weeks. “It was difficult to plies for granted,” said Johnson. “It was even make the trip possible. “I didn’t think I would communicate with her and get straight an- a bit difficult to get used to being in America be able to go because of the cost,” said Marie swers because we could only talk through the again. I felt spoiled just taking a shower.” Johnson. “But God is amazing and through translator,” said Souza. After a fetal monitor “I learned that we have to find ways to a pancake feed, selling cookie dough and failed to pick up a heartbeat, the mother was treat anyone looking for care,” said Marissa donation letters sent to family, friends, Union told to walk for a few minutes and come back Peacock. “I need to be the best nurse that I faculty and nursing alumni, I was able to raise for another assessment. can be and give my patients awesome, all the money I needed.” compassionate care.”

6 SUMMER 2014 Campus News Math professor explores the benefits of online classes by Ruby Ruano ’15

For those who need a little extra help with an assignment or the whole course, Ray designed outside class time to provide them with one-on-one assistance. “Five days a week, students can come in during those lab times and get help,” said Ray. “No appointment is needed, assistants are available during those times to help students, even if it’s just on one problem they can come in to get help and keep on going at their own pace.” photo: Scott Cushman photo: The success of calculus and precalculus online may soon open the door for students to take other courses online including Math 017, a beginning course for students who need to work on various math skills before taking This past school year Dr. Larry Ray taught calculus and precalculus using online courseware that regular college courses. “Students don’t partic- allows each student to use a computer to learn at his or her own pace. ularly like remedial courses because they don’t count toward their graduation credits,” said his is a different kind of math classroom. sonal computers. This enables them to learn Ray. “But online courses could give students TTo start with, it’s very quiet. Most of the calculus and do their homework on the go. the opportunity to work ahead and move on students wear headphones, and the teacher The online system caters to a wide variety more quickly to college-level courses.” isn’t standing at the front. Instead of lecturing, of learning styles by allowing students to listen Dr. Larry Ray, professor of mathematics, has to the lecture, watch videos or read the course Enabling Success pulled up a chair beside a student to help content. The online-based class also removes Ray hopes the new online approach to work through a tricky problem. As soon as the need for textbooks, cutting back on costs mathematics will benefit both students and that student understands, he hurries off to for students. instructors. “Students have instant results for the next raised hand. This is a new online/ “The lecture, quizzes, homework and ex- assignments and exams,” he said. “Grading offline hybrid mathematics class at Union for ams are all online,” said Ray. “Students move is done by the Hawkes system and scores are students taking precalculus and calculus. on to the next lesson once they have mastered recorded immediately in the teacher’s online Lectures? Grading? That’s the software’s job. a section. They master it after going though grade book. The program generates help if This new model gives the teacher time to focus the lecture, doing the review and getting a there are any misunderstandings with some of on what really matters: individual attention. passing score in the homework assignment. the questions.” “Students are preferring more and more If a student does not have a passing score, online material, and most do well online,” said Hawkes is able to essentially ‘see’ where the Ray. “But there are people who need more student is struggling, present a review of the than just a computer to help them under- specific concept, and then give the student stand, which is why we also have laboratories another chance to redo a parallel assignment set up where students can come in and get until mastery is achieved.” helped by a teacher or teaching assistant.” “I was very skeptical when he first said the course would mostly be online,” said freshman Structuring the Classes

photo: Scott Cushman photo: Katie Dieter. “I tried doing precalculus online Forty new HP Probook 4440 laptop com- in the past and I ended up having to join a Without lectures, math professor Larry Ray has puters in the new mathematics lab make it traditional class because the system was really more time to give individual help. possible for students to come into a classroom frustrating. Hawkes is a very different system. to work on assignments, quizzes and tests, or The assignments are a lot more focused and it Being able to see mistakes or incorrect an- seek help from Ray or a teaching assistant. is really easy to handle all the material.” swers instantly gives students the opportunity to These new computers were made possible in The courseware allows for individualiza- fix mistakes immediately or ask for help from part by a $20,000 gift to the Krueger Center tion, too. “I really like it because it allows me their instructor on the spot instead of waiting made in honor of Clifton and Leonora Ray by to go at my own pace,” said freshman Larissa a few days for assignments to be graded. their children and grandchildren. Bovee. “Dr. Ray is always there if we need Online math courses that can be individual- The newly structured classes were built help. We can go slower in some lessons, but I ized for learning style and pace is one more way using courseware from Hawkes Learning Sys- can get my work done ahead of time if I want, Union College is seeking to give the best edu- tems, which is installed on the HP Probooks, too. For math, I really like it more than the cational experience possible for every student. but can also be used by students on their per- traditional classes.”

CORD magazine 7 Campus News More than practice: pastoring practicum builds real-world connections by Joellyn Sheehy ’14

ven in the first week, I’ve seen God conference presidents always ask for practi- sermons, conducting prayer groups, and giv- “Ework in so many ways this semester, cal, real-life experience from new graduates,” ing Bible studies under the mentorship of the and it has been such a blessing,” said Hector said Fetrick. “In the past, we’ve had practical presiding pastor. [Ricky] Melendez, who spent first semester sessions through the Biblical Preaching and “I preached four times a week for a whole of his senior year as a student pastor for Church Leadership classes, where students month during an evangelistic series in Octo- Maplewood Academy and the Hutchinson would be paired with a church. They’d preach ber,” shared Chavez Morris, who served as the church in Minnesota. “We had a spiritual a few times and attend board meetings etc., student pastor for Allon Chapel Seventh-day retreat with the academy, and God poured but they didn’t get actual experience.” Adventist Church in Lincoln. “My theme was Himself out. For five hours these students Reacting to high expectations placed ‘Jesus is calling,’ and we started planning for just studied the Bible. We gave them the on new pastors, recent alumni consistently it a year in advance. Some of the topics were opportunity to leave, but they wanted to stay, encouraged greater hands-on preparation for on core Adventist doctrines so I used other and we were all just bombarded with Jesus. undergraduates. sources, but for the most part I wrote all the That’s the kind of event that sermons myself.” has had a year-long effect on While practical sessions these kids.” are common among Ad- The first of its kind ventist institutions in other among Adventist colleges in countries, Union’s student North America, Union’s new pastoring semester is the first student pastoring practicum of its kind in North America. has seen eight senior theology “In Australia, they assign majors acting as associate students to a church for six pastors throughout the fall months, where they do essen- semester in seven churches tially the same thing as our across the country. students,” said Fetrick. “That Responding to the needs kind of inspired our program. articulated by new pastors I talked to a few people from and conference administra- Australia and adapted it to tors, the Division of Religion suit our needs.” sought to better prepare grad- An indispensable learning uates for their future roles— experience, students have and found there is no better done everything from visiting preparation than real-world sick church members to re- practice. “You graduate, a viving vespers programs and conference hires you, and empowering new leadership. suddenly you have 50 ser- “I don’t think sitting in mons to do, prayer meetings classes can paint ministry as a to host, and Pathfinders to whole,” said Melendez. “I can lead: it’s overwhelming,” ex- learn all the theology, He- plained Robert Fetrick, chair May 2014 graduate Hector Melendez spent the first semester of his senior year in brew and Greek in the world, of the Division of Religion Hutchinson, Minn., where he experienced the real world of a pastor. but it doesn’t matter until and associate professor of religion. “There was The creation of the new practical semester I see how it applies in someone’s life. That’s an obvious need to prepare students to be was catalyzed by an alumnus’ donation. “The what this semester has done. It’s taught me more comfortable and know what to expect.” division received some money for theology about what ministry really is: asking yourself “We haven’t had a good mentorship students to give Bible studies, but we really ‘how am I going to build a relationship with a process,” said Wayne Morrison, senior pastor didn’t have an effective way to facilitate that,” hurting church member, and help bring them for the Hutchinson Seventh-day Adventist said Fetrick. “In a class with eight students, I to Jesus?’” Church and mentoring pastor. “Graduates are can’t just follow them to people’s houses and Though still in its early stages, the pro- often dropped in a two-to-four church district keep an eye on them.” gram’s core concept has been lauded by all of on their own without any experience or really The religion professors discussed strategies its participants. “It’s been awesome for us,” knowing how to cope.” to enable students to conduct Bible studies said Morrison. “I think it’s a great opportunity The program for the new semester while gaining real-world experience, deciding for the students to have some exposure to developed gradually, the confluence of three on the new semester-long practicum. Confer- what a real church looks like, but we’ve also forces: the church’s needs, the graduates’ needs ence presidents place students in compatible benefited extensively from the energy Ricky and a generous donor’s contribution. “The churches, where they take on roles preaching has brought to the church. We are at a point

8 SUMMER 2014 Campus News where we need a youth or associate pastor, semester of regular classes. “Five came back “And four of those five have all said they so having him around has helped us catch a for more classes second semester,” said Fetrick. would rather just stay in their church.” vision of what we might need.” Impassioning students for their forthcom- “Obviously there were some kinks in the ing career, the program has lots of potential. first semester,” said Melendez. “But I think “It’s gone super, super well; much better than they’ve hit the nail on the head.” we expected,” said Fetrick. “All the students Functioning as the Personal Witnessing I, have been involved in Bible studies, had Biblical Preaching II and Church Leadership preaching experience, interacted with church II classes, students and mentoring pastors boards and done home and hospital visita- write reports of their progress and activities tions. It’s the real, full experience.” to be reviewed by Fetrick. “It’s very rewarding “I can’t imagine graduating without going to see how students develop and grow,” he through this program,” said Melendez, who said. “After they’ve preached in church several graduated in May and was hired as a pastor times, there’s a difference about them, and by by the Dakota Conference. “This semester has sermon six they’re usually pretty good. I think taught me more about being a pastor than they’ve also all learned a bit more about time I could ever learn as a student. I had four management.” baptisms in my practicum semester, which was Dispersed between Lincoln, Minnesota Hector Melendez baptized Apollo Valleramos incredible. To have salvation in your hands and California, the majority of the students while serving as a pastor at Maplewood for the and see someone be reborn; that epitomized returned to Union’s campus for another first semester of his senior year. my semester.”

Union students named “heroes” by the American Red Cross by Pablo Colindres ’14 or students in Union College’s new Red Nursing major Shelby Hayes also under- ment and emergency management. FCross Club, being a hero doesn’t always stands the value of serving her community. As part of their training, IRR students mean committing acts of selfless bravery such “The importance of a cup of water is huge,” already had to take the American Red Cross as rescuing someone from a burning building she said. “Most of the calls I’ve responded to courses in Shelter Operations and Disaster or raging river. have been canteening calls.” Services Overview. Young thought it would Sometimes it’s the little things that count. Canteening refers to providing first be a great idea to not only allow students to At their annual Tribute to Heroes banquet responders, such as firefighters, with water and put those skills to work, but provide another on May 1, the Cornhusker Chapter of the food during an emergency response. During way for Union to connect with and serve the American Red Cross honored the Union the winter months, this usually means making Lincoln community. College students with the Tribute to Heroes coffee and hot chocolate at a time most people Thus, the Union College Red Cross Club Disaster Relief Award for “unconditional ser- are sleeping soundly. was born in fall 2013. The club usually han- vice and support to the Cornhusker Disaster “One canteening call came around 2 dles all Red Cross emergency calls one week Action Team.” each month. Active members include IRR The campus club, formed this school year staff members Young and Tyler Anderson and by International Rescue and Relief program “I’m very proud of these students students Arelli Dicken, Emilian Grigore, director Rick Young, assists with Red Cross who give of themselves to serve the Jeremy Howard, Connor Kraegel, Amy disaster response throughout the state of Ne- Lincoln community,” Matsuda, Megan Prescott, Tobias Watson and braska—supporting first responders fighting Lauren Young in addition to Rojas and Hayes. fires, helping to provide for the immediate For Hayes, being a hero isn’t always doing needs of disaster victims and assisting with a.m., and the temperature had dropped to a the big things that get noticed. “These experi- tornado damage assessment. horrible minus 22 with the windchill!” Hayes ences have shown me time and time again the “I don’t have the coolest of stories,” said remembered the firefighters covered in ice. “A importance of the little things,” said Hayes. Jonatan Rojas, a senior IRR premed major. house had caught fire and we went out in the “In service, no matter whether you go on a But Rojas was deployed in the aftermath of Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicle. We mission trip far away or next door, you can several tornados last fall. “Mostly, we reviewed had snacks, hot chocolate and coffee, and one share those little things.” damages done to communities and were avail- of the firefighters later told us they couldn’t do “I’m very proud of these students who give able to help out however we could.” it without us.” of themselves to serve the Lincoln commu- He finds the experiences as preparation for Union College’s International Rescue and nity,” said Young. “They embody the spirit of his life calling. “Being in the club allows me to Relief Program is a baccalaureate degree that Union College and truly are heroes.” be more focused on serving others while at the combines survival, rescue, emergency medical same time giving me valuable experience for and disaster response training to prepare stu- my future as a medical doctor.” dents for careers in health care, law enforce-

CORD magazine 9 Campus News Anonymous donor gifts $1 million to Union College by Pablo Colindres ’14

his school year brought a lot of good news. Foundation, Nebraska Wesleyan University, LuAnn Davis, vice president for Advance- TLast summer, the physician assistant University of Nebraska Foundation, Friend- ment. “At the moment—and nothing is set in and international rescue and relief programs ship Home, Bryan Health, and Salvation stone—trustees are considering how this gift moved into their new facility in a renovated Army, among others. According to an email could help the campus boldly move forward section of the Don Love Building. from a bank trust officer, the donor wanted to in such a way that Union College is better In early March, the first classes were held “show sincere appreciation to the community positioned to both enrich students’ education- in the new Krueger Center for Science and of Lincoln.” al experience while also being able to better Mathematics, and the building was officially This is the first time Union has received serve the Lincoln community. Up to half of opened during graduation weekend on May 8. an unsolicited gift of this scale. However, the gift could be used as seed money to start And President John Wagner dropped an Union College has a rich tradition of phil- such a project.” unexpected surprise on the campus shortly anthropic support from alumni, friends, and If potential projects are not deemed after classes resumed in January. In a letter church organizations as well as the Lincoln feasible, the entire gift will be placed in an sent to college students and employees, he ex- community. The vast majority of the funding endowment fund for campus upkeep. plained that an anonymous donor had given a for the Krueger Center came from nearly $15 “God has blessed Union with this gift,” gift of stock holdings to the college. According million raised by the Our Promising Fu- said Wagner. “However we ultimately use the to an official valuation of the stock, the gift ture campaign. money, it will help Union continue to provide amounted to $1 million. The Union College Board of Trustees has an outstanding educational experience for our Union soon learned they were one of voted to place at least half of the money into students. We thank not only this generous a number of organizations in southeast an endowment for maintenance and upkeep benefactor, but everyone who helps support Nebraska to receive a portion of $33 million of the campus. the mission of Union College.” given away by the same benefactor—including “The college board is considering several Southeast Community College Educational possibilities for the other half of the gift,” said

Davis honored by board for fund raising efforts by Ricky Amino ’16 uAnn Davis, vice president for of the best,” she said. “Basically I learn from and persuade potential donors to support the LAdvancement at Union College, was everyone who has taken time to share with me slightly altered project. Subsequently, she and presented a leadership award at the Union and encourage my work for Union College, her staff, with help from more than 3,000 College Board of Trustees meeting on and I am blessed to say that list is lengthy.” donors, exceeded the $14.5 million campaign February 10, 2014. The award acknowledged “As vice president for Advancement, it was goal in November 2013. Davis’ efforts in guiding the Our Promising LuAnn who gave leadership to all the neces- “People are very appreciative of the culture Future campaign for the new Krueger Center sary planning of the campaign from feasibility of Union,” said Davis. “When they hear our for Science and Mathematics. Board chair study to energizing and recruiting volunteers,” vision for what we strive to accomplish for Tom Lemon and campaign chair Kent said John Wagner, Union College president. Union’s future, they are quite responsive to Thompson presented the award to a surprised “Every aspect of the campaign was imagined our requests for philanthropic investment. It’s Davis at the February meeting. and led by her.” been so rewarding to see how each and every A firm believer in the adage “there is no Davis began the fund raising project in donor’s gift plays a role in achieving a goal. ‘I’ in team,” Davis took the opportunity to 2006 during what was termed the “silent What really gets me excited is when donors acknowledge the various groups and individ- phase” of the project where the practicality of share how their faith in God and His blessings uals involved in the campaign including her raising the necessary funds was tested. make it possible for them to become philan- staff, without which she exclaimed her efforts “Once the possible location was identi- thropic partners with Union College. Nothing would be “futile,” the Union College trustees fied,” said Kent Thompson, “[the board] need- can be more rewarding than that.” for their leadership in philanthropy, and the ed to see what was needed for the future uses Davis received a commemorative plaque Mid-America Conference of Seventh-day in math and science and how this proposed and a bouquet of roses in appreciation for her Adventists for their exemplary support. building could meet those needs. We created efforts and contribution to this campaign. Davis, who graduated from Union and has a mountain for LuAnn by the time all of this Union College celebrates LuAnn Davis for her worked at the school for 22 years, attributes processing was completed.” incalculable role toward Union’s cause as well her progress to the various individuals with After working with consultants and as her constant dedication to better the insti- whom she has come in contact while working donors, the board decided to scale back the tution, herself and the people around her. in philanthropy. “I am fortunate to have original plan to make the goal more realistic, grown in this profession working with some meaning Davis and her staff had to go back

10 SUMMER 2014 Cookie Call: How care packages kept alumni connected to Union College while serving in Vietnam

By Ricky Amimo ’16

or Allan Stone, there was nothing like a cookie and the latest issue would also write back and send in their buddies’ names because they Fof the Clocktower, especially when stuck in a war zone thousands of wanted to receive cookies, too,” chuckled Stone. miles from Union College’s peaceful campus. For more than 100 Adventist soldiers in Vietnam, the Cookie Call It was 1969 and Stone had been drafted into the U.S. Army and was a lifeline to home. See the insert for an example of the many notes shipped to Vietnam just months after grad- of thanks sent to the volunteers who dedicated so uating from Union with a degree in business Dear Dr. Stone: much time to bake and mail the goodies. administration. So far from home, he and his fellow soldiers often found it difficult to stay Thank you very much for your continued No heroes’ welcome connected with loved ones. interest in the servicemen overseas and we all When Allan Stone returned to Nebraska in “These were the days before Twitter and really appreciate it. Your last “Cookie Can” was March 1970 after serving two years overseas, it Facebook,” Stone recalled. “The only time I great, not just because of the good cookies, but was not to the heroes’ welcome he and other vet- ever called home was on a MARS (Military because the Clocktower enclosed contained erans expected, but to a country embroiled in de- Auxiliary Radio System) station where the letters from two of my very good buddies bate over whether the United States should be at operators forwarded my call and I would say whom I went to school with and then later war at all. “When we came back we were shunned, a few words then say ‘over’ like it was a walkie went through army training with–Larry Austin spit on, and called ‘women killers,’ ‘drug addicts,’ talkie.” The time difference and busy schedule and Jon Carlson. It was really great to know and just about any other name you can think of,” made calling home difficult, so mailed letters that they are doing fine, and it is letters from Stone remembered. “We were not received well.” and packages became the primary means of ’Nam that make me able to accept Korea, even Stone spent the next year sending cookies to communication even though delivery usually though it does smell. Keep up the good work Adventist soldiers still on the battlefield and even- took several weeks. and God bless. tually joined the Veterans of Foreign Wars to help ~Carl Spaulding make sure other returning soldiers didn’t share his Cookie Call experience. “We vowed to let none of the veterans Dr. George Stone, then chair of the educa- returning from Iraq and Afghanistan feel like that,” tion department, and his wife, Jo, decided to keep their son connected he said. with Union College and express their love by sending cookies and issues The VFW raises awareness of the benefits and opportunities of the Clocktower to him. “It was always good to get any type of mail,” available to all veterans as well as meets their needs and the needs of exclaimed the younger Stone. “And to get cookies was just out of this their families. “Nobody does more for veterans than veterans them- world. We didn’t have anything like that out in the combat zone.” selves,” said Stone. “We are veterans helping veterans, as goes one of our When Stone first started receiving cookies from his parents, he mottos.” Stone’s involvement with VFW has opened opportunities for gladly shared them with his friends, who proved most willing to eat the him to meet congressmen and senators in Washington D. C., as well as delicious cookies. “I remember some of my friends asking me, ‘Isn’t it plan the upcoming 2014 Veteran of Foreign Wars state convention, all about time you got some of those cookies?’” he chuckled. geared toward providing for the various needs of all war veterans. Stone’s parents wanted to reach out to other Union College graduates and Adventists in Vietnam, so they requested names from Moving on both Allan and the families of other GIs. With that, “Cookie Call” was Allan Stone now lives in Colorado with his family and has the joy born. Many of the women at College View church volunteered to bake of watching his grandchildren grow up. He visited Vietnam in 2001, cookies and then package them to survive the trip halfway around the where both the memories of weary war life and the positive joys of world. The volunteers wrapped each batch of freshly baked cookies in friendship and love attributed to the Cookie Call came flooding back. plastic wrap and packed them in a coffee can filled with popcorn to Stone keeps himself busy volunteering with the VFW, but also serves protect them from the inevitable jostling and temperature extremes. his community as chairman of the Board of Adjustments and Appeals The cans were then wrapped with the latest issue of the Clocktower and of Greenwood Village, Colo. “You have to give back,” Stone advised. “A mailed to Asia. lot of people have given for you. So now I am trying to help give back As word spread about the Cookie Call, volunteers at College View to my community, to Veterans of Foreign Wars, and to all the people received more and more names from soldiers’ families. “A lot of guys who helped me earlier in my life.”

CORD magazine 11 Union welcomes a new by Ryan Teller ’98

r. Vinita Sauder, who most recently served as vice president for trator in AdventistPresident higher education has prepared her for this new role, DStrategic Initiatives at Southern Adventist University, has accept- and I believe she will interface well with our current administrative ed the invitation of the Union College Board of Trustees to serve as team to effectively lead Union College into the future.” Union's next president. She will transition to her new role at Union We caught up with Dr. Sauder during her busy transition to Lincoln over the summer. and asked her a few questions about herself and her new role at Union. Sauder brings extensive experience in higher education—starting as public relations director at Southern Adventist University (then South- CORD: Dr. Sauder, what first drew you to Union College? ern College of Seventh-day Adventists) in the early 1980s. Since then, Sauder: As I’ve spent more time here, I’ve discovered so many she has taught in the School of Business and Management, served as things to like. But what first attracted me to Union is the size and spirit. director of Institutional Research, associate vice president for Academic I am passionate about small colleges. Schools such as Union can deliver Administration, vice president for Marketing and Enrollment Services, an excellent education because of personal connections. Small colleges and in her most recent role as vice president for Strategic Initiatives. create an environment where students can grow and live up to their full After earning a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Southern potential. Adventist University in 1978, Sauder worked in public relations and as My entire life has been dedicated to small college education, and a reporter until joining the Southern staff in 1983. She later earned an I have been interested in transitioning to a presidential role on a small MBA from the University of Tennessee Chattanooga School of Business campus like Union because I know small schools have all the right tools in 1989 and a doctorate in leadership from the Andrews University to deliver a transformative, well-rounded education. School of Education in 2008. From what I have seen so far, Union College embodies all the great “Dr. Sauder understands and resonates with the Union College qualities of a small college. The personal, family nature of the campus culture,” said Thomas L. Lemon, chair of the Union College Board of is very appealing. And the Union spirit is quite evident in the way Trustees. “Her experience as both a faculty member and an adminis- students are treated and in the way students lead.

12 SUMMER 2014 CORD: Why did you develop a passion for small colleges? As vice president for Marketing and Enrollment Services at South- Sauder: I did not grow up a Seventh-day Adventist, and attended ern, I led a very talented team whose work ultimately led to growing the public elementary and high schools. As a new Adventist, I enrolled school by 1,400 students—more than 80 percent growth in 12 years. at Southern College (now Southern Adventist University). The way More recently, I was asked to lead a team tasked with retention of in which the professors and staff interacted with me changed my life students. Instead of just focusing on academics or student services, forever. I have also seen the same results in my children and in those of areas which often lead these type of teams, we considered this a my friends. university-wide strategic initiative and assembled an action-oriented In fact, my 28-year-old son attended the Carolina camp meeting team from across the entire campus, including faculty, administrators, this summer and he started texting me when he met a couple whose son researchers, enrollment managers, and residence hall deans. This group just graduated from Union. “Mom, they talked to me for 20 minutes did a lot of remarkable things, slowly boosting retention rates. I loved about what an awesome experience it has been for him and how it helping each team member find their passion and strength and let them changed his life.” go. There’s a lot of power in that.

CORD: You have been a part of some research projects that put CORD: What experiences do you feel have best prepared you for some hard data behind these ideas. Tell us more about what you your new role as president of Union College? have learned. Sauder: I think that until you have experienced a new role, it Sauder: When I did my doctoral dissertation, I was blessed to be is difficult to know if you are prepared. But I have been blessed by involved with the Adventist Association of Colleges and Universities—a the mentorship of a really great college president in Gordon Bietz at

photo: courtesy UniversityAdventist of Southernphoto: collaborative effort among all the Adventist colleges in North America. Southern. I couldn’t ask for a better mentor. He taught me how to lead I dovetailed the research I conducted with AACU into my dissertation, collaborative teams and actively mentored me in a variety of ways. so I became closely involved with the project. The work I have done in strategic planning over the last three years We held focus groups and telephone interviews with both Adventist has also been a shaping factor for me. I have learned the importance of parents and students, comparing the perceptions of Adventist students seeing the campus as a whole and helping all the parts to work together who were public high school graduates with graduates of Adventist to accomplish a common goal. academies. We made some astounding findings, namely that Adventists who attended public high schools didn’t have any awareness of the 15 CORD: Looking in as an outsider, what do you think is Union’s Adventist colleges in North America. But when we described the ben- greatest strength? efits of a private college experience to them, including professors who Sauder: I didn’t have to be on campus very long to see that people had time to mentor, the spiritual environment, opportunities for service are Union’s greatest strength. Yes, Union has strong academic programs and ministry, and the excellent academic and career preparation possi- and a beautiful new science and mathematics building, as well as a great ble, we discovered both parents and students became very interested in new facility for the physician assistant and international rescue and Adventist colleges. relief programs. But I can see the strength of the school in the personal As a result of that study, AACU dedicated resources to reaching out to connections made on campus—between the employees, between all Adventist students across America to share the tremendous difference students, between students and teachers. As I mentioned earlier, those in values and benefits that investment in a private education can make. connections are the key to a quality education. We’d like every Adventist student to at least have the chance to consider I see strength in the commitment and dedication of the faculty and an Adventist college when they are making their college choice. staff. I see strength in the students who are equipped and then given I was also involved in a second research project that is just now con- the opportunity to lead. I see strength in an environment that seeks to cluding. We surveyed alumni databases of all Adventist colleges—in- facilitate spiritual growth through fellowship and service opportunities. cluding Union—as well as Adventists who attended public universities. This is the kind of place I’d want to send my kids to for college. Again, the results were dramatic. This research indicated overwhelming- President ly that Adventist schools provide a personal touch, personal mentoring, CORD: Speaking of kids, tell us about your family. and relationships—dramatically increasing educational satisfaction—in Sauder: I am very blessed. Greg, my husband of nearly 33 years, and a way that just doesn’t happen in public universities or high schools. I have two grown sons who have married wonderful Christian women. The results show that students are more satisfied with the educa- My older son, Dustin, served in the Marines in Iraq and Afghani- tion they receive in a small college that provides personal relationships stan. He and his wife, Kristin, have decided to move to Lincoln so he between students and faculty and a faith-based environment. We always can earn a degree in international rescue and relief at Union. suspected this, but now we have the data to back it up. My younger son, Nick, is a business analyst for Adventist Health That’s why students choose to attend Adventist colleges. And that’s corporate headquarters in Sacramento, Calif. why people come to Union College. My son listened to those parents Greg has worked at McKee Foods for 29 years in a variety of roles in North Carolina for 20 minutes. That father said his son is a walking, from quality control to floor supervisor. He has retired from McKee living testimony to Union College. and hopes to continue in a similar type job with a company in Lincoln. We love to travel and explore small towns, so we are really looking CORD: You have spent most of your career working at Southern forward to exploring what Union, Lincoln and the entire state of Ne- Adventist University as a public relations specialist, professor and braska have to offer. administrator. As you look back, what are you most proud of? Sauder: It’s hard to realize I worked at Southern for nearly 25 years CORD: Thanks for your time. We look forward to your arrival all together. But of all those great experiences, I think I’m most proud on campus. of being able to work with teams to accomplish goals. It didn’t take Sauder: Thank you. Please pray for me as I make this transition and me long to learn that a task is never about just one person. A team can pray for Union College. Union has long provided excellent educational generate ideas and excitement, and working on a successful team is my opportunities to thousands of students and I am very excited to be part biggest joy. of God’s plan for the future of this school. CORD magazine 13 Dr. John Wagner retired from his third term of service at Union College in June. He served as academic dean from 1981-83 and president from 1986-1991 and 2011-2014. Farewell to Dr. John Wagner by Elena Cornwell ’15 he sunny Sabbath afternoon found six or seven students at Dr. as we ate our lemons, rinds as well. Dr. Wagner didn’t ask us to try it, so TMalcolm and Sharon Russell’s home. The two Union College why did we do it? Dr. Wagner was being Dr. Wagner. He led by example employees, he the vice president for Academic Administration, and she and made every person he encountered feel valued and appreciated. His the director of guest services, often invited students to their home. As attitude and leadership that got us to eat our lemons made Dr. Wagner we settled in, talking and laughing, the smell of lasagna drifted from such a cherished part of Union College for more than 30 years. the kitchen. Dr. Wagner’s relationship with Union College began in 1981. Within a few minutes, Dr. John Wagner, president of the college, Called from his job as superintendent of schools for the Colorado strolled in to join us. We exchanged greetings and then gradually Conference to be academic dean, Dr. Wagner worked with then Pres- moved to the kitchen for the blessing and to dig in. Dr. Wagner made ident Dean Hubbard to create many academic innovations including everyone feel at ease and soon the initial awe of eating and chatting Union’s personalized degree program. Designed to allow students to with the college president began to wear off. create a degree with unique classes that fit with their future careers, the Presently, dessert had come and gone and most were now casually personalized degree program is still available today. In fact, I am a ben- sipping water. I glanced up from my water to see Dr. Wagner take a eficiary as I am in the process of designing my own personalized degree. huge bite of the lemon slice from his water, chew and swallow it— After three years at Union, Dr. Wagner left to serve as president of peeling and all. “Dr. Wagner, did you just eat that entire lemon slice?” I Southern College (now Southern Adventist University). But just three asked as he put the other half in his mouth. years later the Union College Board of Trustees called him back to lead “Yeah, it’s really quite good, and good for you as well!” Pretty soon, the the school through the difficult task of paying off a debt of more than entire table of college students was reduced to laughter and funny faces $9 million. A new Larson Lifestyle Center, computer terminals in every

14 SUMMER 2014 dorm room and the campus radio station had advanced and improved retired and serving as assistant administrative pastor at Sligo Adventist Union, but came with a high price tag. The new president dug in with Church in Maryland, Wagner—with his typical enthusiasm—agreed to all the college employees, and by the time he left in 1991, the college serve as interim president as Union finished the school’s largest capital had cut the debt in half. campaign to date and began construction on the first academic building Don’t expect Dr. Wagner to take much credit, though. “I see myself to be erected on campus in more than 30 years—the Krueger Center as a cheerleader,” he said. “I don’t get much done by myself, but I can for Science and Mathematics. be supportive of the people who have the expertise.” This support is Ultimately, the one-year interim presidency stretched to three what has galvanized Union time and time again to accomplish great as full-time president to see the Krueger Center—and several other things. Ask any student and they will exuberantly express their appreci- projects—to completion. During his presidency, the physician assistant ation and admiration for Wagner. “It’s hard to gain the respect of young studies and international rescue and relief programs moved into newly people, but I’ve never heard anyone say a bad word about Dr. Wagner,” renovated spaces formerly occupied by AdventSource. AdventSource also said senior religious education major Tyler Morrison. built a new production and warehouse facility on the southeast corner I, too, have found this to be true. I have passed Dr. Wagner many of campus. “God blessed in so many ways, including increased enroll- times on my way to class. He never fails to stop and ask how I am and ment this past year,” said Wagner. wish me well in class. I wrote an article once and received a handwritten I count myself blessed to have watched Dr. Wagner put his entire card of thanks for a job well done. He takes time each year to learn stu- heart into leading Union College. His fundraising efforts never ceased, dents’ names, and often surprises students by knowing their names even from jumping off the diving board—in suit and tie—to encourage stu- before they have officially met. He demonstrates how much he cares dents to give to a mission project, to rappelling down the clock tower to by attending almost every single school activity, whether put on by the raise scholarship funds, he does not let a single chance go to waste.

photo: Scott Cushman photo: administration or the student association. I think some of my fellow students best described Dr. Wagner and Dr. Wagner left Union in 1991, and for the next 20 years worked what he has meant to Union College. “You usually don’t see people of for a number of non-profit organizations around the country. He his position just go to all the basketball games or a late night joint wor- visited hundreds of colleges and universities distributing grants from a ship about health,” said Ricky Melendez, who graduated in May with private foundation to support volunteer community service. One of the a degree in theology. “He shows up to everything. Whoever you are, grants he gave was to Union College. “That was fun because I got to see no matter what sport you play, what club you’re in, what your major is, students really doing things in their communities,” says Wagner of his you can always count on Dr. Wagner to be there to support you.” first experience with non-profits. He then became founding president “His friendly attitude is reflected on campus,” observed J-Fiah of a corporate foundation and later became the CEO for Prevent Reeves, who recently finished his freshman year at Union. “When you Blindness Indiana. hear that Union is friendly and welcoming, it starts at the top with Dr. In 2011, Union College once again asked Dr. Wagner to lead the Wagner. He’s friendly, he’s welcoming, he’s approachable. He embodies school to completion of a critical project. Though he was partially the spirit of Union.” photo: Steve Nazario Steve photo:

A fixture at every campus event, Wagner was not afraid to don plaid PJs for campus pajama party to open the Krueger Center in March 2014—along with students Rostin Dieter and AJ Valcin.

CORD magazine 15 The Medical Cadet Corps taught Union students basic military and medical training.

Preparing for Military Service: Union’s Medical Cadet Corps trains potential draftees by Michael Rohm ’14 and Pablo Colindres ’14 photos; courtesy of Union College Library

16 SUMMER 2014 Bonita Cozad (attended 1941) and Glenn Davenport ’43 dressed up for a Medical Cadet Corps dinner. hen people complain about completing a task “under fire,” they Dickerson dove deep into the archives for information. Sources Wrarely mean it to be interpreted literally. For former Battalion included Adventist periodicals, boxes of unpublished photographs, and Surgeon Bill Swan, there is no other way to interpret it. letters. “The project came together slowly because of the massive amounts During his year of active duty in Vietnam, Swan operated under of materials,” says Dickerson. “There are over 450 pictures and boxes full enemy fire more than thirty times, all of which he survived unscathed. of documents that have never been organized or evaluated for content.” “One time I had to close off a femoral artery in the field under heavy Though daunting, it was also exciting. “We had no idea what might fire,” he recalled, before moving to another memory in which he had to be uncovered in those boxes,” said Dickerson, who recently discovered dodge bullets to locate and administer aid to a wounded child, all with- nine 16mm films of the Medical Cadet Corps. With funding, she has out wielding a weapon. “Good thing they were bad shots,” he chuckled. digitized the first, a film portraying Union College students performing While Swan’s experience may not be unique among veterans of war, close-order drills, stretcher exercises, and gas mask demonstrations his training certainly was. “It was amazing to see the exercises the MCC was doing back in the late 1930s,” she said. “I can’t wait to get more funding to digitize the Medical Cadet Corps rest of the films.” Following his tour of duty during World War I, Union College For Dickerson, this project turned into more than a grade. “There are legend Dr. Everett Dick sought to create a program that would train plans for interviews with historians, church history experts, and maybe young Adventists for crisis while upholding the values of their faith. military experts,” she said. “Hopefully, interviews with any surviving Recognizing the inevitability of violence in the shadow of World War cadets who either took MCC as a class or attended one of the camps.” II, Dick structured the program to provide young Adventist recruits Her ultimate goal is to compile all the information and interviews with skills that would serve their country while offering an alternative into a documentary that can be made available to the public. “Very lit- to armed combat. He appealed to Union College and in 1934 the first tle secondary work has been done concerning the MCC,” she said. “It’s class of the Medical Cadet Corps (MCC) was offered on campus. something most younger Adventists don’t even know existed.” When veteran and Union alum Frank And in the current global Forbes spoke of the Medical Cadet crises, such information could Corps, he recalled the practical value of “The young people were looking for be invaluable for young Adventist skills such as bandaging and splinter- something better than just going in the Army recruits. ing, but even more he remembered the and training to fight. It gave them an option “The way is paved for them to unifying value of training together as do something other than destroy Adventists, a lesson he would cherish to do something worthwhile while still serving lives,” said Forbes. “There is some- during his time overseas. their country” thing else besides killing. We can do “To realize there were other soldiers good and help rather than take lives.” going into service as conscientious objectors,” said Forbes. “It was a good thing.” The success of the Medical Cadet Corps on Union’s campus inspired schools around the nation and ultimately around the world, providing an example to Adventist institutions in Asia, South America, and regions of the Middle East. Because of their specialized medical training, graduates of the MCC were drafted into the army as medics, one of few positions that allowed for conscientious objection, or the refusal to bear arms in war. The Medical Cadet Corps taught Union students basic military and medical training. “The young people were looking for something better than just going in the army and training to fight,” said Forbes. “It gave them an option to do something worthwhile while still serving their country.” And even though many of these Adventist recruits were given extra duty stoking furnaces or cleaning kitchens, it was a small price to pay in serving both God and country. And they were very often admired for it. Swan remembered how the young recruits coming out of the Medical Preparing Cadet Corps were respected for their skill and their lifestyle. “We weren’t out there drinking or raising hell,” he said. “We were always where we were supposed to be and doing what we were supposed to do.” Honoring the Memories for Military It has been 44 years since the last military draft, and the end of the Korean War signaled the end of the Medical Cadet Corps. Many memories have faded and some have been lost to time. But Kelti Dickerson, senior history major and granddaughter of Service: Frank Forbes, decided to revisit this chapter of Union’s history for her Honors Research Project. “Originally, I chose this project because it was something the library needed done,” she laughed, “but I was also very Union’s Medical Cadet Corps interested partly because our generation has never had to face a draft.” trains potential draftees Dickerson’s attachment to the project soon became personal. “It wasn’t until later on I found out that my grandpa took MCC training Three cadets demonstrate their field medical skills on a fellow cadet. at one of the camps,” she said. “So now it has become part of my family history as well.” CORD magazine 17 by Nicole Meharry ’04 Nazario Steve photo: student Veterans at union college

wo young men from two different home states: two branches of the military and two different stories to tell. Their experiences, Ttheir words and their outcomes, however, are similar. One college. One faith. One God. Union College is privileged to claim two young men who not only served their country honorably, but who now also serve God through the sharing of their different and yet remarkably similar stories with others.

Chaz Spellman—United States Marine Corps that saying even more,” Spellman said. “It’s definitely difficult to try to explain my experience.” Spellman tried his best to relate some of his Chaz Spellman grew up in an Adventist home in Aberdeen, S.D., frustrations with various aspects of his assignment including being at and attended Dakota Adventist Academy for one year—a blessing he the mercy of the whims of higher officers and the influence of helicop- says he was regretfully ungrateful for as a teenager. Spellman joined the ter moms interfering with the training of junior Marines. Despite the Marine Corps at 17, shipped out to boot camp in 2007 and will be frustrations though, Spellman clarified, “I love my men, and I loved finished with Inactive Ready Reserve this coming June. He can’t wait to what I did. I was good at it—very good. Everything else was pretty be a “free man.” miserable. Miserable kind of sums up the Marine Corps. But we were Although he tested very well and could have had his pick of assign- miserable together.” ments, Spellman chose to be a grunt in the Marine Corps, stationed at Was it miserable to try to uphold his beliefs as a Seventh-day Camp Pendleton, Calif. “We have a lot of sayings in the Marines, and Adventist in the military? Not at first, Spellman explained, because he one is, “If you think up the absolute dumbest, worst possible way to do didn’t have a deep understanding of what it meant to stand firm in his something that will make no sense and put unnecessary pain and strife convictions. While he’d grown up in an Adventist home, Spellman was on the grunts, that’s the way we’re going to end up doing it.’ ” Spellman still a baby when it came to his own Christianity. When he was about has myriad health issues to deal with now from the physical stress of his halfway through his active duty, Spellman began to turn to God for assignment. comfort and a relationship he realized wasn’t available anywhere else. “Another saying in the Marine Corps is ‘those who understand don’t “I began to grow more in my personal beliefs and make my religion need an explanation and those who need an explanation will never my own, between Jesus and myself, and it became a little harder to understand.’ Now that I’m on the other side of my service I understand stand by my beliefs once I actually had some beliefs to be grounded in.” 18 SUMMER 2014 Although Spellman didn’t begin to keep the Sabbath or really work on struggle with trying to uphold a religious belief system until he began his other convictions until he left the Corps, he believes, “God used war to struggle with God. During his tours to the Middle East, Huggins to shape me and my injuries to mold me into who I am as an adopted began to see a need for God in his life and turned back to Adventism to son of God today.” help bring him into a closer walk with Jesus. He attempted to keep the Spellman has grown up and into a deeper walk with God now—he Sabbath without finding any support to do so. “It is incredibly hard to expects to graduate from Union in 2015 with a degree in theology and uphold principles as a Bible-believing Christian in the military; in fact, it a view to serve God in both word and life work. He may have begun his is nearly impossible,” Huggins explained. “The only way it is possible is studies at Union as a pre-dental/international rescue and relief major, if God makes it so. The military doesn’t care what you believe. For them, but Spellman didn’t feel as though either of those really the mission comes first, everything else is second- “fit” him and sought God’s leading in prayer—both his ary. Therefore it becomes extremely difficult to own and his mother’s. He felt called to the ministry, uphold and practice your beliefs in that setting.” inspired by the bonds of brotherhood he had witnessed Thankfully, Huggins isn’t finding it difficult in the Marine Corps. “The bonds you form with your to keep the Sabbath anymore. After attaining brothers in the Corps are like nothing I’ve seen in the the rank of Staff Sergeant E-5 and separating civilian world, and though it hurts me to say, it’s also like honorably from the Air Force in 2010, Huggins nothing I’ve ever seen in the church. I think if Marines found his way the short distance from Omaha accepted Jesus they would make the most dedicated, to Lincoln, Neb., and began attending Union loyal and selfless Christians. We could learn a lot from College. He expects to graduate in December the Corps’ demonstration of strong loyalty and simple 2014 with a degree in international rescue and photo: courtesy of Chaz Spellman photo: connectedness.” relief. Finding a niche in civilian life has allowed Huggins to look back at his time in the Air Force with gratitude. “The experience is something I Nathan Huggins—United States hold very dear; it isn’t who I am now, but it is Air Force what brought me to this point in my life and Theology major Chaz Spellman with helped mold and shape certain aspects of who I Nathan Huggins found Union College through a his girlfriend, 2014 Union graduate am. I attempted to discard the worst things out very different path, having grown up a mile from the Mandy McCrary Idaho border in the Inland Northwest. Less than a year of my military service and tried to use the best it after graduating from East Valley High School in the small town of had to offer me.” Huggins shared, “God took what I now see was a bad Newman Lake, Wash., Huggins joined the United States Air Force. decision [joining the military], and He used that bad decision to bring Following six months of basic training, technical school and advanced me back to Him.” training, Huggins found himself bound for Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Neb., where he would remain stationed for the duration of his Parting Advice active duty—five and a half years. When asked to give advice to other young people who might be Although he remains frustrated with some aspects of his time in the considering a career in the military, both Spellman and Huggins were military, Huggins spoke with respect and an almost-reverence of what extremely cautionary. “I recognize those individually who serve and/or the experience taught him. “It was a life changing experience, a test have served, but the military itself is simply no place for sincere of character, a test of faith, a builder of courage, fortitude, dedication, Bible-believing Christians. I can personally attest to the fight I had resiliency, and integrity, yet it when I came back into the was also humbling, sobering church and I can promise you and painful. I am happy to have “The bonds you form with your brothers in the it is not easy. You will fail if you served despite my grievances and Corps are like nothing I’ve seen in the civilian world, decide to join; you will lose your disagreements with the military and though it hurts me to say, it’s also like faith.” Huggins intimates, “I feel and my personal opinions aside, blessed that even though this it taught me a lot about myself.” nothing I’ve ever seen in the church. I think if happened to me, I did regain my Huggins explained that in his Marines accepted Jesus they would make the most faith in the end.” home he had experienced the dedicated, loyal and selfless Christians.” Spellman agreed, “My advice kind of discipline that made would honestly be, don’t join. Ev- adapting to military life a little eryone has different experiences bit easier, but that joining the Air Force compelled him to grow up and it may sound hypocritical, but I wouldn’t change mine. Yet, when quickly, to mold his worldview, to change his perceptions. my little cousins and friends ask if they should join, especially those It was, of course, not without trials and hardships. “The sheer will who are Christian, I say, no, you shouldn’t.” He is not convinced that to persevere through some of the training that was psychologically the war people are sent to fight today has meaning worthy of the cost. and physiologically brutal to oneself makes me smile often knowing I Spellman explained, “We were taught to believe it was patriotic to fight had the drive and heart to push past those things,” he said. Huggins these wars and to defend our ‘freedom’. Yet, if my friends hadn’t died spent a harrowing total of 383 days in the Middle East and credits his and I hadn’t gotten hurt, American freedom would be no different. No missions there with turning him back to the God of his childhood. one would be less free or more safe had we not gone to war.” “The suffering, pain, death and injustice I witnessed over there cannot Two young men. Two avenues of military service. Two sets of mental be described,” Huggins remembered. “I knew there had to be a God; and physical war wounds from which to endure. Two conviction stories the scope and magnitude of all that happened made me think about and two hearts for Jesus. Their two lives followed different paths to one the Bible stories, principles and prophecy I had been taught as a child. I school, one faith and one response to military service. Union College is knew then there had to be a God and that the Holy Spirit was working grateful and honored to share, and share in, the unfolding life stories of on my heart.” Chaz Spellman and Nathan Huggins. As a self-proclaimed atheist when he joined, Huggins did not CORD magazine 19 The Mystery of the Gettysburg Flag n honor of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, Union College library director Sabrina Riley Irecounts her attempts to discover the authenticity of a flag reputedly flown at the Gettysburg Address. Sabrina Riley, Library Director

In 1985, alumna Muriel Fleming O’Connor gave the Union Col- show the large group of people present and do not provide enough lege Library Heritage Room a 34-star United States flag that—accord- detail to be of any help. So next, I turned to the family. If they were not ing to her family history—was one of several decorating the platform living in Gettysburg in 1863, then the story becomes highly improba- where Lincoln stood to deliver the famed Gettysburg Address on No- ble. Genealogical sources turned up surprising facts. vember 19, 1863. However, various family accounts present significant differences in the Flemmings’1 wartime experiences and the subsequent Finding the Family history of this flag. The family patriarch, Andrew W. Flemming, Sr. moved with his I started researching this mystery in 2008, starting with photo- family from Baltimore, Md., to Gettysburg, Pa., in 1850. Prior to this graphs. Unfortunately, the three known photographs of the event only move, it is not clear how he made a living, but we do know he incurred

20 SUMMER 2014 a lifelong disability from an injury suffered while serving as a seaman in As already noted, our flag has 34 stars. The 34-star United States 1839 during the Second Seminole War in Florida. flag was official from July 4, 1861 until July 3, 1863 and was the flag The Flemmings were never wealthy. According to John K. Mahon, used during the battle. West Virginia’s admission to the union on June enlisted servicemen in the 1830s were not well paid.2 The 1860 census 20, 1863 required that a 35th star be added to the flag on July 4, 1863. does not list an occupation for Flemming, but newspapers reveal that While it is entirely possible less wealthy citizens might retain and con- he cobbled together a living from several sources including his own tinue to use an obsolete flag, we do know that at least three new 35-star auctioneering business and work for the Adams County Court. He was flags were created specifically for the dedication of the cemetery. One also actively involved in the Gettysburg community. was flown in the Gettysburg town center, one on Little Round Top, and At the time of the Battle of Gettysburg Flemming, his wife Julia, one on the flag pole on stage visible in the photographs of the occasion. daughter Dora, and four sons, James, Solomon, Andrew, Jr., and Joseph Our flag is large, approximately 3 feet x 5 feet, but would not have were living on Breckinridge Street. On June 30, Dora, a teenager, been flown outside for very long. The stripes, field of blue, and stars are joined other young ladies in singing to stamped or screen printed on one side of a cheer on the Union soldiers as they marched single lightweight piece of cloth. The cloth is through town. The group of young ladies either cotton or linen. When viewed horizon- included Dora’s cousin, Alice Powers, who tally, the left edge is attached to a moderately would later publish an account of her expe- thin rope. These characteristics indicate that riences during the battle. this flag is a parade flag; one intended for A portion of the Flemming family temporary display during an event and then tradition claims that Dora helped nurse the disposed. Similar to the flags we fly today, in wounded following the battle. Although no the 1860s a flag intended to be flown from a documentation has been found to verify that pole was sewn and embroidered from durable Dora helped care for the wounded, this re- materials and used metal grommets. cord of her return to town the day after the Even more intriguing are the stars on the battle puts her in the right place at the right flag’s field of blue. Prior to the early 1900s, time. There were certainly other teenage there were few standards for the United States girls who did help, including Alice Powers flag. Size, arrangement of the stars, even the and her sisters,3 but no more has been number of stripes were subject to the artistic discovered of the Flemming family’s actual taste of the flag maker. Standards for the dis- involvement with the battle, its aftermath, play and use of the flag were also lacking. The or the dedication of the National Cemetery. stars on our flag look odd when viewed hori- Dora Flemming became a schoolteach- zontally. Turned vertically, the visual effect is er, ultimately became the executor of her much more pleasing, although to the modern father’s will and guardian of her nephew eye this feels backwards because it moves the William Frederick Flemming. In her old age field of blue to the upper right-hand rather she relocated to Nebraska where she lived Muriel Fleming O’Connor ’40 gifted a flag to Union than left-hand corner. Our flag was meant to near her nephews Ray and William. It is pre- College that reportedly was flown during President be hung vertically. sumed she inherited the flag and then gave Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. So what’s the truth? We may never know. it to Ray, who had been born in the family While the historical evidence conflicts with home in Gettysburg. the Flemming family tradition, their involvement with Gettysburg The earliest record of the flag is found in the March 7, 1938, issue community life and internal evidence provided by the flag itself suggest of the Sargent, Neb., Leader. In this article, the flag is said to have been that it could have special significance. We can be fairly certain it is borrowed by one of Ray’s sisters for temporary display in Des Moines, authentic to the time period and that it belonged to the family. Iowa, and to have been recently returned to him. In February 1963, the story of the flag and the Flemming family are again told for the Denver Post. Both articles make the claim that the flag was used as decoration Bibliography on November 19, 1863. However, the Denver Post article includes many Georg, Kathleen R. Summary of Damage Claims from the Battle additional details, none of which are supported by the historical record. of Gettysburg for Adams County, PA. Taken From Record Group For example, O’Connor claimed her great-grandfather had served as 2, Records of the Department of the Auditor General, Records master of ceremonies. It is well documented that Ward Hill Lamon, Relating to Civil War Border Claims, Damage Claims Lincoln’s chief marshal and a personal friend, was master of ceremonies Applications Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, PA. 9 for the cemetery dedication. Microform Rolls Comprising All State Claims for Adams County David Wills, a Gettysburg leader and lawyer who directed the cre- are on Deposti at the Adams County Historical Society, ation of the National Cemetery and the dedication ceremonies, wrote Gettysburg, PA. Pennsylvania State Archives. a detailed report of all activities associated with the cemetery for the Mahon, John K. History of the Second Seminole, 1835-1842. Revised Pennsylvania State Legislature. Nowhere in this comprehensive docu- edition. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 1985. ment does the name of Andrew W. Flemming or any other member of his family appear. 1 While Muriel Fleming O’Connor spelled her maiden name with a single m, Clues on the Flag earlier generations spelled their name with the double m. So with the historical record providing no credible evidence as to 2 John K. Mahon, History of the Second Seminole, 1835-1842, Revised edition the authenticity of the flag or credibility of the Flemming family tradi- (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1985), 119. tion, we turn to the flag itself. Studying the object for internal evidence 3 Kathleen R. Georg, Summary of Damage Claims from the Battle of Gettysburg can be another valuable source of information. for Adams County, PA, 1985, Pennsylvania State Archives, 31. CORD magazine 21 Serving with Pride Graduates from Every Era Serve God and Country at Home and Abroad by Lauren Bongard Schwarz ’04

rafted and volunteers, land and air and sea, male and female, American nurse killed in Europe, when she was hit by German artillery. Dmedical staff and combatant, wartime and peace, Union College He worked in a field hospital on the rim of the Battle of the Bulge. The alumni have participated in military service since the school’s founding. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused his unit to be sent home But for most veterans, their military career didn’t end when they instead of a planned move to the Pacific theater of operations. were discharged. The military changes people. The weight of duty, the Back stateside, Regester enrolled at Union College where his girl- experiences of being a soldier, and the life-changing responsibilities and friend was waiting for him. They married that summer. After graduat- new brand of patriotism stick with soldiers long after they’ve put away ing, he moved on to medical school in Loma Linda. The couple raised their uniforms. five children and Regester practiced medicine in Sunnyvale, Calif., Below, seven Union College alumni from different eras tell their until 2000, when he retired and moved to Oregon. He remained active stories of service, survival and sacrifice for God and country. speaking around the world, and was a regular on the Better Life Broad- casting Network until his death in 2014. Dr. Willard Regester ’49 In 2013, Regester preached for the fifth time in Romania, where At age 19 and newly drafted, Regester faced mild hazing for his re- he spoke in churches he had helped build on earlier mission trips. He ligious beliefs. “I asked for and got Sabbaths off, but every Monday, the also visited the Henri-Chappelle American Cemetery in Belgium where sergeant would make fun of ‘that Advent guy that doesn’t do any work nearly 8,000 American soldiers are buried. While there, he happened on Saturday,’” he remembers. “I was just a kid, and his comments hurt upon a tour group of American students, who were thrilled to meet a because he picked on me in front of everyone.” Regester also gave up an surviving G.I. Regester admits he shed a few tears while there. “It was invitation to attend West Point because it would have required him to emotional,” he says. “I could easily have been one of the men buried in resign his non-combatant status. that cemetery.” But he also recalls kindness that came out of his struggle to maintain his beliefs as part of the 45th field hospital stationed at Fort Bragg. “Before Margaret Mishima ’50 we shipped out, they gave us a week-long furlough,” Regester says. “The Margaret Mishima was born in Hawaii to Buddhist parents. But sergeant in charge was the same one who regularly picked on me. Instead when Mishima was 12, her father sent her to Hawaiian Mission Acad- of giving me a pass, he told me, ‘I’m in charge here, not your God. There’s emy because he had heard it was a school with good moral standards no furlough for you.’ I went back to my bunk and cried like a baby.” where his girls would flourish. “This was my introduction to God,” Knowing he wouldn’t have a chance to spend it, Regester wired shared Mishima. “It changed the course of my life.” his savings back to his family and prepared to wait alone at the base After graduating, Mishima applied to study nursing at Union for deployment. But a summons to the lieutenant soon had Regester College. “I didn’t tell my parents I’d applied,” she remembered. “I was face-to-face with his tormenter. “The lieutenant told that same sergeant always very independent. So I worked at the Dole pineapple company to get me a ticket and put me on the train. When I told him I’d wired to raise tuition, and I announced that I was leaving for Nebraska.” all my money home, the sergeant had me taken to the Red Cross to get Mishima excelled in her classes and decided to join the Air Force after some money for the trip. The devil had been working on his heart, but graduation. She had been warned that women who went into the military so was the Lord.” were a rougher sort, but she found the opposite. “Some of the nicest Regester and fellow soldiers in his platoon made the rough overseas people I’ve met were the girls I worked with in the military,” she says. voyage to England and were billeted at Upton-on-Severn from March She was also surprised to find it freeing to be a woman serving in until June. They were scheduled to land at Utah Beach on D-Day the armed forces. “I never felt restricted, and it gave me the chance to minus four hours. But a twist of fate delayed them four days, until June go everywhere. I visited Hong Kong, Korea, Thailand, India, and the 10, 1944, almost certainly saving Regester’s life. Taj Mahal,” she said. “Being in the armed forces gave me a freedom to Regester’s experiences ring of places and events in well-known see and do things I would have never been able to do otherwise.” She history. His contingency landed on the Cherbourg Peninsula and also felt a certain freedom in the operating room. “Working in the Air moved east across France. He was in Paris the day it was liberated from Force was a very good experience,” she said. “We worked alongside the Hitler’s army. He was standing just feet from Frances Slanger, the first men and other medical personnel as equals.” 22 SUMMER 2014 Mishima was on call in the operating room during her service, life,” he said. He graduated in 1957 and taught in Adventist and public where she treated soldiers wounded in Vietnam. This, she admits, some- schools before transitioning to a career in nursing home management times caused her to feel conflicted between duty and faith. “It can be and consulting. He is the author of two books and earned his Ph.D. He hard to practice the Adventist religion while in the armed forces,” she is also a father of five. In fact, one of Thompson’s daughters followed in shared. “When you’re on call, you have to work on Sabbath, especially her father’s military footsteps, serving three tours in Iraq. when you’re working in the operating room; it’s a busy area and the “If I could share anything with the young people of today, I’d tell patients can’t wait.” them to relax and trust in the Lord,” he said. “Don't try to do every- In all, Mishima spent three years on active duty and 18 years on thing on your own; ask Him what to do and He’ll help you. He’ll give active reserve. During her reserve years, she worked at a civilian post you the wisdom and the words.” during the week and served weekend duty with the Air Force. Some of her duties included teaching in-flight patient care to other medical Owen Berthelsen ’61 personnel on flights to locations including Hawaii and Japan. As a 20-year-old newlywed, Owen Berthelsen said being drafted “I’m proud to be a veteran who served my country well,” said Mishi- was like a punch to the gut. “I wondered, what did I do wrong to de- ma. “My nursing training at Union gave me the skills and confidence to serve being drafted?’” he remembered. “But that was the way it was for join the Air Force, which allowed me to serve my God and my country.” a lot of my generation—there was a war in Korea, and when they called you up, you had no choice but to report.” Vern Thompson ’57 Berthelsen reported as a noncombatant and As a freshman at Union College, Vern was assigned to a dental lab where he was trained Thompson didn’t do so well. “I was a total in making dentures and partial sets of false teeth. failure,” he said. So it was no surprise when He found himself in Panama the day before the Army wouldn’t grant him deferment. Christmas, providing dental care and false teeth to “They took one look at my grades and told soldiers, their families, and some civilians. me, ‘You don’t qualify for a college deferment Despite his religious beliefs, Berthelsen says he because you’re not in college.’” didn’t experience religious discrimination during Trouble piled up for Thompson when he his time in the Army. “Even in boot training, arrived on base—a paperwork error meant he they let us off for Friday night and the Sabbath,” wasn’t registered as a noncombatant, and was he said. “They had a quiet place we could go on instead placed in a tank battalion. When hand- Friday nights to get out of the barracks, and we ed a uniform and rifle, Thompson told his over- could trade Saturday duty for Sunday duty so we seeing officer that he didn’t carry a rifle. “He had time off on our day of worship.” said to me, ‘You have two arms. Why don’t He gives much of the credit for his easy tran- you carry a rifle?’ I told him I was Adventist sition to Dr. Everett Dick and his noncombatant and didn’t believe in carrying a weapon.” training program at Union College. “He’d taught Instead, Thompson was instructed to Owen Berthelsen ’61 served in the U.S. us how to march, so I had a leg up on some of the other guys who didn’t know their left from their stand at attention in the direct sun in 113 Army during the Korean Conflict. degree heat. “In the Medical Cadet Corps at right,” he laughed. “They got picked on, but I Union, they’d taught us not to lock our knees when we stood at atten- didn’t have any trouble with that part of training.” tion, and that was the only thing that kept me from fainting,” he said. Berthelsen’s young wife, Jeraldine Swim Berthelsen (’63), who was Thompson credits his participation in the Medical Cadet Corps pregnant with their first child, joined him in Panama. under the direction of Dr. Everett Dick with helping him survive the When Berthelsen’s two-year commitment was over, his family moved armed forces. “They taught us skills that put us ahead of the other back to Nebraska and they worked their parents’ ranch for three years. recruits, and information that helped us maintain our faith,” he said. Eventually, Berthelsen used his Army education funds to finish school Thompson also acknowledges a higher power. “God gave me the things at Union and the couple raised five children. Now, married for 62 years, to say and the strength to do what I knew was right.” Berthelsen and his wife are retired and still living in Lincoln. Berthelsen After being discharged, Thompson returned to Union with a new and his siblings all attended Union, as did all of his children and eight focus. “Serving my country helped me discover what I wanted out of grandchildren. His granddaughter, Annie Buck, is a current student. CORD magazine 23 Dr. Gary Bogle ’64 making up for lost time.” He attended Union’s 2014 Homecoming When Dr. Gary Bogle received draft orders, he knew he didn’t want Weekend—his first time back on campus in 49 years. to serve in the Army. Instead, his love for ships and Navy blues drew Kimbra Cardwell ’94 him to sign up for the Navy, and he was sent to Okinawa and Vietnam There was an abundance of nurses in the profession when Kimbra with the Marine Corps. Cardwell ’94 earned her nursing degree from Union. So instead of “Being a dentist for Marines was a different experience,” he said. jockeying for a bottom-level job in the civilian force, she signed on as “I’d ask them if they were feeling any pain. It could be a root canal, and a commissioned officer in the Air Force. She earned the rank of second they would almost come to attention and say, ‘No, sir!’ I’d remind them lieutenant and is a veteran of Desert Storm, although she never had the that I was a doctor and they should tell me if they were in pain, but opportunity to deploy. The war was ending, so Cardwell served in the they were Marines and they didn’t want to show weakness to anybody.” military hospital at Scott Air Force Base. Bogle remembers the servicemen’s center in Okinawa where he and Military service was a positive experience for Cardwell, who special- other Adventists would spend Friday evenings and Saturdays. The cen- ized in oncology and worked with veterans who were battling cancer. ter was run by a missionary couple whom he remembers fondly. “The “The military was very accommodating of my beliefs,” she said. “I never church services were nice, and it was a good place to keep in touch with felt any discrimination for being an Adventist, and I was surprised to find other Adventists,” he said. “Being there with other Christians from all other people of like-minded faith there.” She added that being in the branches of the military was a big change from the other six days a week medical field was a unique experience because working on Sabbath in a when we were surrounded by Marines. service capacity wasn’t a disputed issue. It gave us a place to be and worship where Likewise, Cardwell never felt her we felt safe and part of a community.” gender got in the way of her goals. “There After he was discharged, Bogle and his were never barriers for me as a woman wife lived in the Loma Linda area for 45 in the military, especially in the medical years, where they raised a daughter and field,” she said. “The military has gotten two sons. He taught at Loma Linda more progressive, and there are more University and owned a dental practice in women on active duty all the time. There Redlands. He and his wife relocated to St. are a lot of opportunities for women, and Helena, Calif., three years ago to be closer I was in a very supportive environment.” to their three grandchildren. She acknowledges that nursing, a field Like most veterans, Bogle is proud of his dominated by women in the civilian military background. “It’s powerful to visit world, is split about 50/50 in the Armed the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C,” Forces. “The setting I was in was support- he said. “To see those names—and to know ive and equitable. I learned to stand up for some of those names—is very touching.” myself and be assertive as a woman and a Elder Jose “Jac” Colon ’64 professional. That made me a better person After graduation, Elder Jose “Jac” and taught me to be a leader. It was very Colon earned an advanced degree in character-building.” chemistry. He accepted a job as a chemical After her four-year commission ended, engineer with Boeing and was then drafted. Cardwell returned to civilian life. She and Not wanting to serve in the Army, he vol- her husband, John Cardwell ’93, have a unteered for the Air Force. He earned the young daughter and continue to live in the rank of captain, and was assigned to a B-52 St. Louis area, where Cardwell serves as an adult nurse practitioner in oncology at bomber. During two six-month tours of Jose "Jac" Colon ’64 served in the U.S. Air Force during duty, Colon flew 105 combat missions high Barnes-Jewish Hospital. the Vietnam War. above the Vietnamese jungles. “Being a veteran gives you a feeling of Colon quit attending the Adventist brotherhood with others who have served; those who were willing and prepared to give church after leaving Union. When he “Serving my country was my duty. returned home from Vietnam, he moved their lives for the protection and freedom into a new career as a stockbroker. But I knew I’d be going to of others,” she said. “You never again take the fast lifestyle soon began to feel empty, Vietnam, but I believed in freedom for granted—that old cliché is and Colon wanted more. On a vacation to true: freedom is not free, and I understand serving my country.” that in a different way now that I’ve been Tahiti, he rededicated his life to God. After - Jac Colon returning home, he felt called to share his in the military. I know people who fought faith. A local evangelist offered to mentor and bled for this country, who served at him, and Colon quit his job and embarked great personal cost.” on a new path. Cardwell recommends military service, especially for medical pro- Colon says his time in the military made him very patriotic. “Serv- fessionals. “My daughter is six, and if she has any interest in the Army, ing my country was my duty. I knew I’d be going to Vietnam, but I I will encourage her to pursue it,” she said. “My service is a great source believed in serving my country,” he shared. “I’ve been all over the globe, of pride for me. I have a whole new perspective on our country that I and I know there is no place like America.” couldn’t have gotten any other way. My service shaped my career, and it Colon lives in Washington with his wife, with whom he’s raised two built me as a professional and as a person.” sons. He officially retired three years ago, but he still preaches around the country. “The imprint Union College made on me brought me back to the church,” he said. “I’ve been back for 40 years now, and I’m 24 SUMMER 2014 Class-ifieds

During the evening each class times together are treasures that The North Carolina Department Keep in touch member shared their life story no amount of money can buy.” of Public Instruction has selected and God’s leading since leaving Sharon Lewis ’75 as recipient of CORDmagazine wants to hear Union College. There was so the State Instructional Manage- from you. You have told us much laughter and tears that time ment Coordinator (IMC) of the this is your favorite section. ran out and some stories were Year Award. Lewis was nominated Tell us where you are, what continued on Sabbath afternoon. and selected to represent the you’re doing or just send western regional IMCs at the greetings. After church and Sabbath School at the University church, lunch state level, where she received this Direct your letters to: was served at a clubhouse near award and a standing ovation at Class-ifieds Laurene Cleveland’s home. the presentation luncheon in Alumni Office Guests joining the group Greensboro, N.C. Lewis is well Union College included Ralph and Pat Watts, known statewide for her 3800 S. 48th Street Dan and Betsy Matthews, and workshops on classroom Lincoln, NE 68506 Ken and Beverly Hutchins. management and creative teaching ideas. For many years, email: [email protected] Classmates continued telling their Lewis was state trainer for all make changes online at stories and photos were shared www.ucollege.edu/ and displayed. Saturday evening newly hired IMCs. Her philoso- cordmagazine Gladys and Leon Hulse opened phy of education is to “train their home to all for more food Sharon Lewis students (and teachers) to be and fun. Sunday morning thinkers and not mere reflectors ’67 denotes graduation year A biography of the life of Dick everyone met at Laurene of others.” She currently works (’67) denotes last year attend- Stenbakken ’62 has just been re- Cleveland’s home to say goodbye with 60 middle school and high ed or preferred class year leased by the Review and Herald and enjoy a breakfast of waffles, school teachers. Publishing Association. The book pancakes, lots of toppings and Nursing alumni from the class of titled The Man with the Reversible fruit. That evening there was ’55 gathered for a reunion Foot is written by Susan Phelps more food at a Chinese restaurant weekend, Nov. 4-6, 2013, in Harvey. To review the book and nearby, and a commitment to Loma Linda, Calif. Several class order it online, go to http:// someday gather around God’s members living in the area www.adventistbookcenter.com/ wonderful table in Heaven. sparked the idea: Laurene the-man-with-the-reversible-foot. Althea Roderick says, “The most Cleveland, Mary Olson and html. It is available in Adventist fun of all was sharing and retelling Gladys Hulse. Friday evening Book Centers. everyone met at Mary and Ellis the fun times we had while Olson’s home for dinner provided attending Union College. Our David ’65 and Gaylene Kaasa by those living in the area. faith in God and unforgettable Wolkwitz ’65 celebrated their Kerrie Schnell receives award 50th wedding anniversary on Kerrie Seltman Schnell ’87, a Aug. 4, 2013, with family and high school English teacher at friends at the Village Church in College View Academy, is the lat- College Place, Wash. The couple est Teacher of the Month honoree met during their freshman year recognized by the East Lincoln at Union College. Two years later Rotary Club and U.S. Bank in they were married in Lincoln on Lincoln, Neb. In his nomination Aug. 4, 1963. After their gradua- letter, school principal Brian tion in 1965, they moved to Iowa, Carlson wrote: “Kerrie is a talent- where David started his denomi- ed master teacher who is creative national career in the Iowa Con- in the classroom and always ference as a pastor and singing trying new things.” This year she evangelist. The couple and their rearranged her English curric- two small children spent a short ulum to create a new honors time as missionaries in Brazil. class. She also started a student Back row: Gladys Seibold Hulse, Elsie Schlup Ward, Carolyn Daily Mace, They spent more than 40 years in mentorship program to help 9th denominational work in pastor- Dorie Dygert Bietz, Patricia Lounsberry McCormick, Ellis Olson, Front graders transition to high school. ing, public evangelism, conference She is the sponsor for the Student row: Althea Rea Roderick, Sylvia Spaulding McCormick, Laurene Stacey administration, and planned Cleveland, Mary Henkelmann Olson Association. She also started a giving and trust services before ‘senior survival’ weekend for 12th retiring in 2010. They reside graders. They spend the weekend Personal submissions for publication from college alumni and near Walla Walla, Wash. Their bonding and spending time on daughter, Jacinda Garner, lives in friends will be printed at Union College’s sole discretion. The college self-growth. Lincoln, Neb. Jonathan ’96, their may choose not to publish any information that will conflict with the son, lives in Roswell, N.M. They values and beliefs of Union College and the Seventh-day Adventist have three grandchildren and four (Continued on p. 26) Church. great-grandchildren.

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A native of Nekoma, Kan., Since then, he has overseen the Northern California Network Kerrie came to Lincoln to attend organization’s Maryland entities president. Jahn assumed this role Union College. She earned a mas- and operations, recruited several effective February 3, 2014. “I am ter’s degree in English curriculum top executives and helped AHC delighted to see Andrew and instruction from the Univer- successfully adapt to the many promoted to president of Sonora sity of Colorado. Her husband of changes that have occurred at Regional Medical Center,” said 31 years, Ralph ’87, teaches at both the state and national levels. Jeff Eller, current CEO of SRMC. Lincoln Northeast High School. Forde previously served as an “It has been a privilege to work They have two children – Kylie executive for eight years with with him in his CFO role and to ’11, a teacher in Nepal, and Centura Health, the largest health personally see his dedication to Laryssa, who will enroll at Union system in Colorado. this organization. His leadership Connor Rouse College next year. experience and outcomes-based Kerrie enjoys working in her approach will help continue the Curtis ’04 and Ellen Carlson flower garden, does church growth of our services in the Cascagnette ’07 welcomed Claire visitations through College View Sierra foothills.” Juliette on Dec. 22, 2013. She Seventh-day Adventist Church, Since 2011 Jahn has been a weighed 7 lbs 11 oz and was 20 and enjoys reading and cooking. part of the SRMC executive team ½ inches long. Curtis is a custom She has taught for more than 20 as its vice president and CFO. order specialist at years, including a stint in New In this position, he managed the Home Depot in Maumee, Ohio. York, 11 years in Ohio, 2 years at hospital’s $200 million operating Ellen is a nurse for Hospice of Lincoln North Star High School, budget and oversaw business Northwest Ohio. and 4 years at College View development, growth and acqui- Griffin Maggard Academy, where she is in charge Eli and Arthur Calkins sitions with direct oversight of of a student hunger drive in key hospital service lines. Prior which 70 students collected over Michael ’95 and Ginger to this, he served in key roles in 2,000 pounds of food. She Holman Calkins ’95 welcomed other health care facilities includ- organized the annual community Eli Duncan on May 30, 2013. ing director of finance at Shawnee service day at school, and has He weighed 11 lbs 12 oz, and Mission Medical Center in Merri- helped with campaigns against joins older brother Arthur am, Kan., and assistant to the cancer and muscular dystrophy. Benjamin, who was born April CFO of Adventist Health System Wayne Casper, chairman of the 26, 2011. Michael is a computer in Altamonte Springs, Fla. East Lincoln Rotary Teacher of technician for information “I am honored to be part of the Month committee, gave her a systems at Union. After Eli’s the continued growth of Sonora certificate and a $100 check for birth, Ginger resigned from Regional Medical Center,” said her personal use. Patrick AdventSource, where she worked Jahn. “It will be a privilege to col- Spethman, representing U.S. as a graphic designer since 1995, laborate with this excellent team Bank, gave her a $100 check to to take on the new challenge of of physicians, staff and commu- raising two active little boys. buy classroom materials. nity partners in serving the needs Claire Cascagnette of our community.” Jahn holds a bachelor’s degree in business Alia Michelle Detwieler was born management from Union College to Kevin and Jody Dye Detwiel- and a master’s degree in business er ’04 Dec. 25, 2013. She administration with an emphasis weighed 6 lbs 9 oz and was 20 ½ in health care administration inches long. Jody is the field from University of Central director in the social work Florida in Orlando, Fla. Andrew program at Union College. Kevin and his wife, Marlena Koch Jahn works at Academic Advantage in ’02, have three boys: nine-year- Lincoln, Neb. Emily and Tenley Roque old Ethan, five-year-old Camron Terry Forde and three-year-old Payton. Terry Forde ’93, the executive Tony ’03 and Taryn Moore vice president and chief operating Rouse (Current staff) are pleased officer for Adventist HealthCare Andrew Jahn to announce the birth of their (AHC), has been named the son, Connor Michael. He was organization’s interim president Andrew Jahn ’02 has been born Apr. 29, 2013, weighing 8 and CEO. Forde began his new named president and CEO of lbs 11 oz and 21 ½ inches long. role April 2014 when current Sonora Regional Medical Center He joins big brother, Carson, at president and CEO William G. (SRMC), according to Bill Wing, home. Tony is the primary “Bill” Robertson will took on a senior vice president of Adventist engineer at Five Nines Technolo- new position in Washington Health. Jahn, currently chief gy in Lincoln, Neb. Taryn is State. He joined AHC, based in financial officer (CFO), will director of student financial Gaithersburg, Md., in July 2011. replace Jeff Eller who became the services at Union College. Alia Detwieler 26 SUMMER 2014 Class-ifieds

Amanda Sauder Maggard ’04 Nebraska Medical Center in Geoffrey Doctoroff ’14and and Michael Maggard ’05 Omaha. Ariel Webb ’11 were married on welcomed Griffin Jonathan on January 30, 2014 in Punta Cana, Oct. 14, 2013. He weighed 7 lbs Dominican Republic. Ariel works 9 oz and was 20 ½ inches long. for Enterprise Rental Car in Amanda is the administrator of Omaha in their management Florida Hospital Winter Gardens program. Geoffrey graduated in since September 2013. Michael May 2014 with a degree in is a stay-at-home dad. Previously business administration. After he worked in the admissions and their honeymoon in the Aubrey Johnson enrollment office for Adventist Dominican Republic, the couple University of Health Sciences in Stella Sandoval Jennifer Raimondo Garbrecht lives in Lincoln, Neb. Curtis ’04 Ellen Carlson and Orlando, Fla. Greyson Bo Carlile was born to ’09 and her husband Henrique Cascagnette ’07 welcomed Claire Michelle and Stephen Carlile ’06 welcomed Lucas Alberto on Jan. Juliette on Dec. 22, 2013. She on Feb. 3, 2013. He weighed 6 9, 2014. He weighed 8 lbs 6 oz weighed 7 lbs 11 oz and was 20 lbs and 1 oz and was 19 inches and was 22 inches long. Jennifer ½ inches long. Curtis is a custom long. Stephen is the lead pastor of was a kindergarten assistant at order specialist at Adventist Fellowship in Tulsa, Captain Gilmer Christian School Home Depot in Maumee, Ohio. Okla. Michelle is a physical in Fletcher, N.C., for the fall Ellen is a nurse for Hospice of therapist for ages 0-3 with semester. Now she stays at home Northwest Ohio. developmental delays at with Lucas while her husband Griffin Maggard Sooner Start. works in landscaping. Geoffrey and Ariel Doctoroff Matthew ’05 Trista and Adele Harper Nelson was born Peterson Roque (’08) are pleased on July 7, 2013, weighing 6 lbs 4 to announce the birth of their oz and was 19 ½ inches long. Her daughter, Tenley Lynn, born on parents are Vaughan and Nadine Feb. 10, 2014. She weighed 7 lb l Nelson (current employee). oz and joins big sister Emily, 2 ½, Nadine is vice president for En- at home. Matthew is the director rollment and Student Financial of institutional research at Union. Services at Union. Vaughan is a Trista is a registered nurse and the Greyson Carlile senior systems engineer at Five MDS coordinator at Sumner Nines Technology Group in Place in Lincoln, Neb. Tania Deeb Miller ’07 and her husband Philip are pleased to Lincoln, Neb. announce the birth of their Lucas Garbrecht daughter, Julianna Lila. She was born on Feb. 7, 2014 and was 8 Seth ’09 and Mary Jo Murphy lbs 4 oz and 20 ½ inches long. Groeneweg ’10 welcomed Jack Alia Michelle Detwieler was born Tania teaches grades 1-8 and is Samuel on Feb. 10, 2013. Jack to Kevin and Jody Dye Detwiel- the principal of the elementary weighed 7 lbs and was 19 ½ er ’04 Dec. 25, 2013. She school in Enterprise, Kan. Philip inches long. Seth is an insurance weighed 6 lbs 9 oz and was 20 ½ is a field technician and salesman agent with Country Financial and inches long. Jody is the field for Kansas Broadband Internet. Mary Jo is a part time social director in the social work worker at Overland Park Nursing program at Union College. Kevin and Rehab Center in Overland works at Academic Advantage in Park, Kan. Lincoln, Neb. Emily and Tenley Roque

Sarah Doering Sandoval ’05 and Adele Nelson Sandro Sandoval ’11 welcomed Stella Elise on Dec, 12, 2013. She weighed 8 lbs 4 oz and was 20 Philip, Tania, and Julianna Miller inches long. Sandro is the pastor of Grand Island and Lexington Aubrey Lynn Johnson was born Hispanic churches and the Fair- to Matthew ’08 and Hannah field church in the Hilliard Johnson ’08 on Dec. Kansas-Nebraska conference. Sar- 10, 2013. She weighed 7 lbs and ah is an occupational health nurse was 20 ½ inches long. Hannah is at Good Samaritan Hospital in a labor and delivery nurse at Kearney, Neb. Methodist Women’s Hospital. Matthew is a pathology resident Alia Detwieler physician at the University of Jack Groeneweg CORD magazine 27 People Placements

Darcy Jo Pearcy is the new office Sports Medicine. She lives with Enrollment Services since 2010 as Lois Anderson Hanson (’39), assistant for Union Manor. After her husband, Tyler, and son, Hes- guest experience coordinator. She LaFollette, Tenn., died Dec. 20, graduation from Union College ton. In her free time she enjoys is married to Derek Daniel ’08. 2013, at age 96. Survivors include with a music education degree baking, gardening, exercising daughters, Judith Tate and Janice in 1983, she earned a master’s in and traveling. Michael Steingas ’10 is the new Anderson; son Gaylord Hanson music and masters in education assistant director of admissions ’73; five grandchildren and two from UNL. She has enjoyed Krystal Todd is a new clinical systems for Enrollment Services. great-grandchildren. various careers as a public school instructor for the Division of He was previously director music teacher, homeschool teach- Nursing. A Nebraska native, she of marketing for Enrollment Anna Sorensen Erickson ’40, er and studio voice instructor. She graduated in 2006 from Bryan Services. Parker, Colo., died Oct. 19, and her husband, Marvin, have College of Health and Sciences 2013, at age 97. She was born one son, Kyle. She directs the and then Nebraska Wesleyan Kevin Erickson ’06 is now the Sept. 2, 1916, in Minneapolis, choir at Piedmont Park Church in 2010. In 2013 she earned a director of enrollment and admis- Minn. Anna was the youngest and loves to go on long bike rides master’s degree in nursing from sions for Enrollment Services. He daughter of Danish immigrants, in the country. Nebraska Wesleyan. For the past has previously worked at Union Jens and Anna Hansine Olsen seven years she has been working as an enrollment counselor and as Sorensen. She started school in a Sarah Fredregill is the new office at Bryan Medical Center-East assistant director of enrollment. rural one-room school and grad- coordinator for the Division campus and has been an adjunct He and his wife, Jeaneen Gates uated from the Boulder-Colorado of Nursing. She was born and professor at Union College for Erickson ’08, had their first Sanitarium and Hospital School raised in Lincoln and graduated the past year and a half. She child, Cooper Charles Erickson, of Nursing (an affiliated program from College View Academy enjoys being outdoors, fishing, in October 2013. of Union College) in 1940. She and Union College with a degree spending time with family and was a registered nurse and was in elementary education. She is friends and loves to spoil her Leah Schaber ’94 is the new licensed in five states. On Feb. married to Aaron, and is a Disney niece as much as possible. communications specialist in 14, 1941, Anna married Melvin fanatic who enjoys spending time Student Financial Services. She Erickson in Denver, Colo. They with her dog Tayla, being a Husk- Addison Hudgins is the new previously taught parenting were able to celebrate 54 years er fan, reading, and spending campus visit coordinator for classes at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital of marriage before Mel died in time with family and friends. Enrollment Services. The and was office manager as well as 1995. Through the years, Anna Maryland native graduated from department advisor for interna- enjoyed deer and elk hunting, Manuela Coppock is the new Union College in 2013 with tional rescue and relief. She has skiing, hat making and fabric office coordinator for the physi- degrees in communication and two children, Luc and Caleb. painting and counted cross stitch. cian assistant program. Manuela English. After graduation she She is survived by her daughter, most recently ran a child care worked for a small professional Adam Schaecher is the new plant Karen Stover; three granddaugh- center before moving to Lincoln organizing business. She enjoys services assistant boiler operator ters and six great-grandchildren. with her husband, Scot, director praising, writing and music and and mechanic. He has been work- of leadership giving at Union. likes living in the tight-knit ing as a mechanic on campus for June Layman Herr ’41, North She and Scot have three children, community of Lincoln. the past 14 years. He and his wife Port, Fla., died Dec. 19, 2013, Angela, McKayla and Christian. Crystal have two children, Miles at age 96. She is survived by her Transitions: and Blain. son, Larry and daughter, LaDon- Rhonda Derr is the new Union na Krenz; two grandchildren and Manor facility manager. She Shane Flowers ’02 is the new one great-grandchild. previously served as a licensed network administrator for In Memory practical nurse at Hays Medical Information Systems. He most re- Death dates and/or obituaries Mildred Cotte Kendall (’41), Center and Family Practice Clinic cently served as assistant network have been recieved for the Walla Walla, Wash., died Oct. 19, for 15 years in LaCrosse, Kan. administrator. He and his wife, following individuals. 2013, at age 90. Millie was born She has been married to Pete for Kate, have two children, Mara Jan. 3, 1923, in Shelby, Iowa, 27 years and raised three children and Mark. to Blanche and Florence Cotte. on a farm in Western Kansas. She Evelyn Kellstrom von Pohle She graduated from high school Salli Jenks is learning to enjoy her new home is the new director ’38, New Smyrna Beach, Fla., in Blair, Neb., before attending in Lincoln and loves to spend of campus housing, transporta- died July 16, 2013, at age 101. Union College and taking courses time with friends and walking tion and financial projects for She was born Nov. 16, 1911 to be a physical therapy assistant. their dog. Financial Administration. She in Sioux Falls, S.D. She was a On Aug. 31, 1951, she married was previously office manager and denominational employee for Paul Kendall. They moved to Megan Heidtbrink is the new housing manager for Financial 40 years and served with her Walla Walla, Wash., in 1968 with clinical director for the physician Administration. She and her hus- husband, Donald J. von Pohle their three children, David, Karen assistant program. A Nebraska band, Paul, the director of Plant ’46, in South America and in the Sue and Jimmy. She enjoyed sew- native, she graduated from Tulane Services, have two daughters who Inter America Division. Evelyn is ing, quilting and reading books. University in New Orleans, La., currently attend Union, survived by her daughter, Esther She was loved and respected with a degree in exercise and Mattison and Megan. Bailey, five grandchildren and for her strong faith in God and sports medicine and then from eight great-grandchildren. genuine love and concern for Becky Daniel ’08 is the new en- the Union College PA program in everyone. Survivors include her rollment services director of mar- 2010. She has previously worked three children, six grandchildren keting. She has been working for with Nebraska Orthopedics and and twelve great-grandchildren. 28 SUMMER 2014 In Memory

Junius Olson ’45, Castle Rock, step-great-grandchild; sister, Don; daughter, Debbie Sasser; and Bill celebrated their 50th Colo., died Jan. 5, 2014, at age Leberta Payne; and brother, six grandchildren and two wedding anniversary, but sadly 93. The youngest of five children, Gerald Howe. step-grandchildren. Bill passed away later that year. Junius was born Oct. 4, 1920, Over the next few months, Doris in St Louis, Mo., to Sven and Calvin Lorenz (’47), Loveland, Dorothea “Dora” Kaufmann renewed her friendship with Kent Ellen Skoglund Olson. He grew Colo., died Nov. 3, 2013, at age Malone (’48), Tulsa, Okla., died Dickinson, who also grew up in up in St. Louis and graduated 88. He was born March 10, 1925 March 12, 2013, at age 87. She Minnesota. They fell in love and from high school in Cuba, Mo. in rural Weld County, Colo., was born Aug. 1, 1925, in Chi- were united in marriage in 1998. In 1945, he graduated with a to Chris and Sarah Bohlender cago, Ill., to Jean and Dorothea Over their fifteen-year marriage, bachelor’s degree in theology Lorenz. He graduated from Korner Kaufmann, both from they lived in both Southern from Union College. In 1969, Gilcrest High School in Gilcrest, Germany. She lived in Chicago California and Florida and were he earned a master’s degree in Colo., and also attended Union until she went to nursing school devoted to each other. education from Black Hills State College for three years. Calvin in Denver, Colo. It was there she Doris will be remembered University in Spearfish, S.D. served in the U.S. Army during met Jim Malone. He was taking for her kindness, sweet smile, After serving several years as a WWII in the Pacific as a medic. her nursing school graduation wonderful culinary skills (in par- pastor in Nebraska, Junius earned Throughout his life he worked as photographs. The story goes that ticular, her delicious homemade a South Dakota teaching certifi- a heavy equipment operator and he told her she was the woman bread), love of family, and devo- cate and pursued his passion for welder, and did cattle feeding and he was going to marry. She went tion to the Lord. She is survived teaching children. He taught 6th farming in Colorado. Calvin was back to her room, fell on the by her husband, Kent Dickinson grade and 7th grade social studies a member of the Seventh-day Ad- bed laughing to her roommate ’49; and his sons, Gary and and English in the Rapid City ventist church, American Radio that “silly” Jim Malone thought Kevin and four grandchildren; school system from 1954 to 1983 Relay League, and Northern Col- he was going to marry her. She and her children: sons, Bob May when he retired. Junius enjoyed orado Private Pilots Association. said he was “the devil in disguise and Mike May; daughter, Nancy mechanical projects, home He was an avid amateur ham trying to lure her away from her Cotta; three grandchildren and building, old cars, do-it-yourself radio operator. Survivors include religion.” Something must have six great-grandchildren. projects, history, reading, garden- his daughters, Wanda Buderus changed along the way because ing, listening to music and travel. and Jan Nickerson ’86; sons, they were married May 25, 1947. Dalrie Berg ’50, Westminster, Survivors include his son, Barry; Terry and Ted; brother, Virgil; Dora and Jim lived in Denver Colo., died Dec. 16, 2013, at age daughter, Julie Deisch (’77); and four grandchildren. until Jim was transferred to 86. He was born July 5, 1927, three grandchildren and several Oklahoma. Dora cried and said and grew up in the farmlands of nieces and nephews. Clarita Kaufman Burden (’48), no one moves to Oklahoma, they Iowa. His early years were spent Chehalis, Wash., died Sept. 12, only move away. They ended up on the farm of his Danish immi- Harriet Howe Macomber (’46), 2013, at age 84. She was born in loving Oklahoma with all the grant grandparents. He graduated Fredericksburg, Iowa, died Jan. Beaumont, Calif., but spent her Indian culture and made many valedictorian of his class on May 24, 2014, at age 86. She was born youth in Colorado. She earned a friends. Survivors include her 17, 1945, from the Underwood Feb. 28, 1927, in Dodge Center, bachelor’s degree at the University daughters, Maureen “Mimi” and Consolidated High School. Minn., to Harry and Winnifred of Denver, majoring in music Sheila; four grandchildren and six Though his many interests and Babcock Howe. She graduated and education. But her sopho- great-grandchildren. talents took him from the farm, from Maplewood Academy in more year was spent at Union he still owns successful farms not Hutchinson, Minn., and then College, where she met her future Doris “Dee” Berlin far from his boyhood home. One attended Union College for a husband, Kenneth Burden ’48. May-Dickinson ’49, Apopka, farm has been given a regional short time. On Sept. 23, 1946, They were married in 1950 and Fla., died Oct. 3, 2013, at age 86. award for “best conservation she married Wayne Macomber lived their first two years in Los Doris was born July 3, 1927, in practice.” at Pleasant Corners Church in Angeles while Ken finished the Kandiyohi Township, Minn., to He graduated from Union Dodge Center. medical course. He interned in Herman and Johanna Berlin. She College with a bachelor’s degree Throughout her life, Harriet Maryland, where their first child, lived in Minnesota until she left in 1950 and from the Kansas worked in several types of em- Gary, was born. Ken was working to attend Union College, where City School of Osteopathy with ployment including waitress work for the U.S. public health service she met and fell in love with a doctor of osteopathy degree in and cleaning homes and churches. at Warm Springs Indian reserva- William “Bill” May ’48. They 1956. Education was important She dispatched ambulances from tion when the twins, Dan and were married in the summer of to him. He studied law, chem- her home for the Fredericksburg Don were born. The next twelve 1947. Doris complimented her istry and biology at various location of Chickasaw Ambu- years were spent in Puerto Rico, minister husband’s career with universities. Besides having a lance and was a sworn matron where their daughter, Debbie, her many musical talents as an very active medical practice, Dr. for the local law enforcement was born. accomplished pianist, organist Berg devoted much time and department. She also worked for In 1969, after moving back to and vocalist. She played lovely energy into civic, community, twenty years as a certified nursing California, Clarita earned a mas- vibraharp solos, directed choir and professional activities. He assistant at the former Sunrise ter’s degree in piano performance groups, sang in duets and quar- served as councilman for both Guest Home in Fredericksburg. and musical education. She spent tets, and was greatly appreciated Thornton and Northglenn and She is survived by two sons, Larry fifty years teaching piano, organ, for her music ministry. became a candidate for the mayor (’66) and Ron; daughter, Shirley and marimba before retiring nine Over the years, Doris worked of Northglenn in 1983. In 1986, Kammeyer; four grandchildren, years ago. as a secretary, became a licensed he ran for office in the U.S. Con- two step-grandchildren, seven Survivors include her husband, real estate agent and worked as a gress from the second district of great-grandchildren and one Kenneth; sons, Gary, Dan and trust officer. In July 1997, Doris Colorado. (continued on pg. 30) CORD magazine 29 In Memory

Along with all of his interests, Modesto Academy as valedictori- Reece Cunningham ’51, Lincoln, David Hensel (’51), Inchelium, family was number one on Dr. an of his senior class, he attended Neb., died March 9, 2014, at age Wash., died Aug. 6, 2013, at age Berg's agenda. He is survived by Union College for one year. He 87. He was born to Milton and 79. He was born to Walter and his wife, Joan (’51); sons, Barry completed his undergraduate Ida Lewis Cunningham on Dec. 3, Rose Sievert Hensel on Jan. 4, ’84 and Eric; daughter, Sonja studies at Pacific Union College, 1926 in Flat River, Mo. Reece grew 1934, in Heron Lake, Minn. Af- Hults ’87; and six grandchildren. majoring in history with minors up in Flat River and graduated ter graduating from Maplewood in biology and communications. from Broadview Academy in Academy, he attended Union Wilhelmina “Minnie” Oschner After completing his medical Lafox, Ill. After he served in College before transferring to Davis ’50, College Place, Wash., degree at Loma Linda University the army during World War II, Walla Walla College to complete died Nov. 30, 2013, at age 85. in 1957, he did specialty training he attended Emmanuel Mission- an engineering degree in 1956. Minnie was born in Torrington, in obstetrics and gynecology ary College—now Andrews While there he met and married Wyo., on Nov. 18, 1928, to Da- at the University of Southern University—and Washington Caroline Tupper on May 30, vid and Martha Beierle Ochsner. California, Los Angeles County University in St. Louis before 1954. David achieved countless Following her elementary and Medical Center. On completing graduating from Union College. things in his lifetime including high school years in Lyman, Neb., his medical training, Delmar On June 5, 1949, he married designing and building many she earned a bachelor of science proudly served his country for Esther Heras in St. Louis, Mo. churches, schools, hospitals and degree in nursing from Union two years as a Navy physician. He was a credit manager for retirement facilities, both in the College. In 1949, she married He returned to Modesto to join several businesses before he states and in many foreign coun- Lee Davis. After her graduation the Modesto Arts Medical Group began a career in healthcare. tries. To some, David was father from Union in 1950, she and founded by his father, Dr. Archie figure, and to others, a pillar to Lee settled in Caldwell, Idaho, Tonge. Together, the Tonge fam- lean on. He had a great sense of where she spent the next twenty ily provided medical care to the humor and always looked at the years working in various hospitals city of Modesto for over 70 years. positive aspects of life. Dave is as a nurse, nurse supervisor and His philosophy of medical care survived by his wife, Caroline; nurse administrator. Follow- and medical politics was reflected son, Kenneth; daughter, Linda ing her nursing career, Minnie by his mother, Eloise Tonge’s Schumacher; sister, Esther Hen- began taking in foster children. statement of the Modesto City sel Hamel ’58; brother, Richard; During the next 25 years, she Hospital, “This is our home, and seven grandchildren and two cared for more than 40 children, these people are our guests.” great-grandchildren. in particular those with special Delmar’s interests in medi- medical needs. Minnie was an cine, community development, Ronald Lang (’51), Frederick, active member of the Seventh-day education and the fine arts result- Md., died on Feb. 1, 2014, at Adventist church and dedicated ed in the creation of successful age 84. Born July 26, 1929 in tireless hours leading out in the for-profit and non-profit organi- Stutzman County, N.D., near children’s divisions, working with zations. His visionary leadership Cleveland, N.D., to Samuel Community Services, feeding and charismatic style was respect- and Emelia Wohl Lang, he grew and clothing many deserving ed by many. His enjoyment of up in rural North Dakota and individuals, and coordinating life encompassed backpacking in graduated from Sheyenne River fellowship meals and benefit sales. the Yosemite high country, snow Reece Cunningham Academy in 1947. He married In 1998, Minnie and Lee retired skiing, snow shoeing, tailgating at Louwana Johnson (’48) in 1959, to Milton-Freewater, Ore., and in ’49er games, yachting and regatta Besides positions in several and they were blessed with two 2005, they relocated to College racing in the San Francisco Bay, hospitals, he was the adminis- daughters, Sally and Melanie ’86. Place, Wash. Minnie is survived sports cars, Rotary Club, and his trator of Twin Pines and Santa Ron loved the Lord and greatly by her husband, Lee; son, Ron; daily routine of blowing leaves off Paul Healthcare skilled nursing enjoyed spending time with two grandsons; brother, Robert his Dry Creek residences. He is facilities until he turned 82. He family and people of all back- Ochsner; and two sisters, Rose survived by his wife, Cher Warner spent his life serving others in his grounds, travel and the outdoors. Coleman and Lillian Jordan. Tonge; son, Archie; daughters, workplace and in his church. He He worked through the years in Adorey Kramish, Kathleen, and was the treasurer of the St. Louis custom combining, car transport, Delmar Tonge (’50), Modesto, Kristine Johnson; seven grand- Central church for over 20 years garage door manufacturing and Calif., died Sept. 27, 2013, at age children and one great-grandson. and filled many other positions farming. In 1978 he returned to 82. Dr. Tonge was born in Los in the churches he attended. his beloved state of North Dakota Angeles, Calif., on Nov. 5, 1930 Bonnie Syfert Bodnar (’51), He was the assistant Pathfinder and full-time to his first love of to Dr. Archie and Eloise Tonge. Bellevue, Neb., died Feb. 11, director and coached the young farming. Shortly before retiring He was the third of their three 2014, at age 84. She is survived men in the church on a baseball Ron’s brothers introduced him boys. Shortly following his birth, by her husband, Louis; daughter, team. Survivors include his wife to golfing which combined his the Tonge family moved to Africa Jeanne ’87; son, Alan ’92; two of 64 ½ years, Esther; daughters, love of people and the outdoors. to work as medical missionaries. grandchildren; siblings: Louise Denise White ’74, Nancy Hein His final job after retirement was His father’s example of building Gusso ’49, Eugene Syfert (’47), ’75 and Jamie Krein ’82; three a golf marshall at River Marsh hospitals and providing compas- Marian Page, Marjorie Campbell granddaughters; sister, Katheryn Golf Course in Cambridge, Md. sionate medical attention to the (’56), Jeannette Williams ’62, Francis; and nieces and nephews. After 37 years of marriage, Ron African people laid a firm founda- James Syfert ’62, Donald Syfert tragically lost his beloved Lou in tion for the passion of his life. (’63) and Bobbi Babiuk ’67; and July 1996. Thereafter he lost his After graduating from many nieces and nephews. beloved daughter, Sally Bertsch, 30 SUMMER 2014 In Memory in February 2004. He was blessed Bland Pettey. Richard served his Don Engelkemier (’56), Warner Rice ’59, Ellenwood, with a second happy marriage country in the army during the Huttonsville, W.Va., died April Ga., died Sept. 25, 2012, at age in 2000 to Marilyn Johnson. He Korean conflict. He and Jeanette 20, 2013, at age 80. He was born 79. He was born Oct. 29, 1932, is survived by his second wife, Barnett ’55 were married Nov. March 12, 1933, in Newkirk, the seventh of eight children Marilyn; daughter, Melanie; 23, 1953, in Gentry, Ark. He was Okla., to Charley and Fannie in the family, in Minneapolis, step-children, Jack Upchurch, manager for Oak Park Broom Engelkemier. He served in the Minn., to Warner and Myra Rice. Barc Upchurch, and Jill Up- Company in Nevada, Iowa, and Army from May 1956 to April His mother, who was the only church; four grandchildren, three Columbia Broom Company in 1958. His occupation was Seventh-day Adventist Christian step-grandchildren and three Spangle, Wash., before retir- first with computers, then as a in the family, had a lasting influ- great-grandchildren. ing. He was a member of the contractor and builder of homes ence on his life. Seventh-day Adventist church in and a medical center. He retired After having a somewhat Donald Copsey ’52, Avon Park, Gentry, Ark. Survivors include from computer programming at tumultuous youth, he gave his Fla., died Nov. 25, 2013, at age 85. his wife, Jeanette; daughter, the Department of Public Debt in life to the Lord and felt the call Don and his wife, Lenora, had Juanita Edge; son, Vernon; six Parkersburg, W.V. He enjoyed to gospel ministry. On his own recently gone to North Conway, grandchildren and two step mentoring children, fruit farming to provide money for tuition for N.H., to be with family, after a great-grandchildren; and sister and gardening. He is survived by college, he became involved in period of declining health. He Alice Wellnitz. his wife of 50 years, Frances; colporteur ministry to obtain the was born June 24, 1928, in Oma- brother, Bob ’54; sister, Betty ’58; necessary funds. After attending ha, Neb., the second son of four Robert Rider ’53, Keene, Texas, sister-in-law, Gladys (’50); Oakwood College, he graduated children born to James and Wilna died Sept. 3, 2013, at age 82. He sons, David, Alex, and Tim; from Union College. He earned Copsey. He enlisted in the army was born Oct. 17, 1930, in Terrell, and grandchildren. a master’s degree from Andrews with his older brother in 1946, Texas, the long-prayed for child of University and took other gradu- served during World War II in his parents, Dewey and Eva Rider. Neil Addington (’58), Wheat ate work at Loma Linda Universi- occupied Japan and worked as a As an only child, he was given a Ridge Colo., died Dec. 30, 2013, at ty and Vanberbilt University. medical laboratory technician. strong moral code, which was tem- age 77. He is survived by his wife, Warner met his first love,Shir - Raised in the depression, pered by a well-developed sense Muriel; daughters: Karan Griffith ley Smith ’52, at Union College. and after witnessing the death of humor. He went to school in (’82), Jill Wooten ’87 and Nicolle They were blessed with two sons; of a five-year-old sister and Keene, Texas, graduating from Walters (’87); sister, grandchil- Lowell, who died of cancer at struggling himself with polio, Southwestern Adventist Uni- dren and great-grandchildren. age seven, and Shannon. Warner he had a strong desire to be a versity (then a junior college) in pastored a number of churches medical doctor. While enrolled 1951. He then earned a bachelor’s Clarance Newton ’58, Alvarado, in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, as a pre-med major at Union, he degree in religion from Union Texas, died Jan. 19, 2014, at age Iowa, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, was convicted to be a pastor in College in 1953. His summers 82. He was born Jan. 13, 1932 Oklahoma, Tennessee, Michigan the Seventh-day Adventist church. were spent as a literature evange- in Oklahoma City, Okla., to and Georgia. Pastor Rice later While at college he met the love list, serving as the student leader Clarance and Laura Ethel Baker married Georgia Bryant, his last of his life, Lenora Herr. They for one summer. Newton. He married Judy Weig- love, with whom he served in were married on April 19, 1950. When Robert was just a ley on Nov. 22, 1979, in Keene, ministry during his final years. After graduating with a theology teenager, he spotted a beautiful Texas. Clarance served in the U.S. Survivors include his wife, degree in 1952, Don ministered brunette walking across the Army. He was a teacher and a Georgia; son, Shannon; godson, in South Dakota, Washington college campus. He kept his eye principal for Seventh-day Adven- Northern James, and a host of tist schools, retiring with 35 years and Michigan as well as serving on her through the years until the other cousins, nieces, nephews as a missionary in Brazil. He of service. He was a member of and friends. right age for dating. Robert and served in multiple conferences the Joshua Seventh-day Adventist Hattie Lee King (’55) were mar- for the church and in the Lake Church. Survivors include his Jerald McMillen ’60, Walnut Union Conference office, where ried in the old Keene church on wife, Judy; sons, Clarance III and Grove, Mo., died Nov. 5, 2013, at he retired in 1990 after 40 years June 7, 1953. After graduation, Wayne; four step-children: Gary age 75. J.L. was born to George of service. Don placed a high he was a minister for 41 years, Fancher, Shelly Fancher, Dana and Mildred Janeway McMil- value on education, earning two serving in Texas, Oklahoma and Hansen and Dawn Janzen; and len on Dec. 16, 1937, in Enid, master’s degrees in theology and Oregon. He was president of the thirteen grandchildren. Okla. He grew up in the area and pastoral counseling. He was an Oklahoma Conference for more graduated from Waukomis High avid reader, had a great love for than 18 years. Lee Field (’59), Riverside, Calif., School in 1955. He graduated building, and a passion for flying. Following retirement the died Jan. 10, 2014, at age 77. from Union College in 1960 He is survived by his wife of 63 couple moved to Keene and built He was born Feb. 12, 1936, and then from the University of years, Lenora; sons, Terry and a home. After battling cancer for in Colorado, son of Frank and Nebraska College of Dentistry Tim; brother, Dave; three several months, Robert decided Ethel Field. Lee was a salesman of in 1964. He practiced dentistry grandchildren and six to help start a branch Sabbath construction supplies for over 50 in Springfield, Mo., since 1965 great-grandchildren. School in Grandview, Texas, years. He is survived by his wife, at the McMillen Dental Office. which became the Grandview Shirley; daughter, Tami ’84; son, J.L. and Fonda Swann ’60 were Richard Pettey ’52, Siloam church. Survivors include his wife Kip (’81); five grandchildren; married Dec. 26, 1960. They Springs, Ark., died July 14, 2013, of 60 years, Hattie Lee; daugh- and siblings, Larry Field, Artie were privileged to share almost 53 at age 80. Born March 7, 1933, ters, Lorrie Reagan and Marcia Miller and Judy Neuharth. years together. in Tulsa, Okla., he was the son Dyche; and six grandchildren. of Martin Pettey and Delia Ruth (Continued on pg. 32) CORD magazine 31 In Memory

Jerald is survived by his loving Later at Union College he have sensed the transcendent rush and became a lifetime friend to family, including wife, Fonda; was voted senior class president of angel wings. He is survived by Richard Affolter. To pay his way son, Trent (’89); daughter, and awarded High Distinction his wife, Vivian; children, Guy to attend Oak Park Academy, he Tonya Boone ’91; five grandchil- with triple majors in English, and Gaye; step-children, Pamela worked in the broom shop and dren; aunts, Frances Miller and history, and religion. Gerald’s ini- Parker, Gary Howe, Don Howe, dairy. For two of those years at the dairy, he made the very early Mary Butler. tial teaching posts were at Ozark and Ross Howe; and eight rounds delivering milk to local Academy 1961-66, Union Col- grandchildren. Alvin Morford ’60, Collegedale, lege, 1967-70. La Sierra College customers. In 1950 he married Tenn., died Oct. 26, 2013, at 1970-72, and Southern Adventist LaVonne Thomas, leased land age 82. Al graduated from high University, commencing in 1972 near Nevada, Iowa, and began school in Valley City, N.D. He as chair of behavioral sciences. He farming. Katherine joined the served four years in the Navy, later served as dean of graduate family in 1951 followed by her spending time in Korea. He then studies and research at Walla brother Burton, Jr. in 1956. After earned a bachelor’s degree from Walla College, as well as assistant further studies at Union College, Union College and a master’s de- dean of graduate education at Burton completed his medical gree from Notre Dame Universi- Ashland University, vice-president degree at the College of Osteo- ty. He used his education to teach for academic affairs at Southwest- pathic Medicine in Kansas City. science and math at Plainview ern Adventist University, He practiced in both Kansas and Academy, Oak Park Academy, and director of counseling Missouri, retiring in 2011. He Madison Academy, and the last services at several two-year and his wife, Clara, who he mar- 19 years at Collegedale Acade- institutions. He also completed ried in 1982, enjoyed traveling in my. His students remember him doctorates in administration at their motor home, visiting family as patient and kind, a devoted the University of Arkansas and and friends. He took particular Christian with a twinkle in his in psychology at the University delight in his grandchildren. eye, a big smile, and—almost of Georgia as a Regents Scholar. Survivors include his wife, Clara; always—a bow tie. He is survived son, Burton Jr.; stepchildren, A career high was his stint as su- Myrna Wadsworth Kahler by his wife of 56 years, Mary perintendent of the Etowah K-8 DelJean Benton and Douglas Jane Morford (’56) ; daughters, Public School District. Myrna Wadsworth Kahler ’62, Brown; and six grandchildren. Lori Harr and Vonda Kittle; son, From an early age Gerald Kimberly City, Mo., died Dec. Randy Harr ’88 Patricia Troyer Reiner ’64, ; three grandchil- showed an interest in writing, 21, 2013, at age 75. She was Gordon, Texas, died Oct. 30, dren; sisters, Dorthy Morford and starting with a VFW contest for born Aug. 21, 1938, in Brainerd, 2013 at age 78. She was born to Kay Hanson; and brother, Don. fourth graders on “Why I’m glad Minn., to Darrold and Florence James and Vera Troyer on April to be an American.” The principal Roberts Wadsworth. Myrna was Marvin Carnahan (’61), Nixa 28, 1935 in Ottawa, Ill. She tempered Gerald’s thrill at winning a retired school teacher who had Mo., died Feb. 11, 2013, at age graduated from Sunnydale by reminding everyone his was the taught for 28 years in Virginia, 71. A long-time resident of Nixa, Academy in 1953 and earned a only entry. Nevertheless, he contin- North Dakota, Michigan, Min- Marvin is survived by his wife, bachelor’s degree in elementary ued as the 4-H Club reporter, later nesota, Iowa and Missouri. She Donna; son, Frank; daughter, education from Union College in devoting a semester paper on was a professional porcelain doll Brenda Conyne ’87; three 1964. It was in Lincoln while Longfellow’s Evangeline. After maker, vocalist and pianist. For stepchildren, two brothers, two teaching elementary school that considering a copyediting post at the last five years, she designed sisters, 12 grandchildren, and she met Cordell Reiner (’53). Pacific Press, he thought it more and made quilts with others in four great-grandchildren. After a whirlwind romance they exciting to stick with teaching. her church for children who were were married on June 11, 1967. displaced from their homes. She Gerald Colvin ’61, Ooltewah, However, he continued perfecting She followed him as he entered is survived by her husband, Emil Tenn., died Oct. 2, 2013, at age his craft by serving as faculty the ministry and after frequent Kahler ’60; sons, Emil III and 74. He was born June 9, 1939, sponsor of the school paper, moves, they settled in Texas in Michael; brother, Gaylan Pegel near Jefferson, Texas. Gerald contributing editor to the Journal 1998. Patricia was an elementary Sr.; sisters, Debbi Furrie ’78, completed grades 1-7 in the of Adventist Education, and as a school teacher for over 30 years, Jan Borden, Verna Mitchell, and Olla-Standard Elementary School member of the editorial board for retiring in 1995. She was Shirley Jones; two grandchildren and grade 8 at LaSalle Parish American Secondary Education. passionate about making a and two great-grandchildren. High School, where his class- His poem books include Days of difference in the lives of her mates chose him class favorite Lilacs and Now Will I Sing—as Burton Cox (’63), Poplar Bluff, students and came alive in the and president. After his baptism well as a 34-chapter unpublished Mo., died Oct. 11, 2013, at age classroom. Some would be into the Seventh-day Adventist religious manuscript hiding 82. He was born Nov. 18, 1930, surprised to learn that she was church following tent meet- somewhere inside his Toshiba. in Winterset, Iowa, to Sylvanus extremely shy in her youth. ings, he completed four years and Susan Cox and named after Throughout her life she main- of secondary studies at Ozark Finally, during select moments of the retired doctor who deliv- tained a sweet and simple Academy, where he graduated exalted bliss, whether painting or ered him. When his father was demeanor that won the trust and valedictorian and class president. writing poetry or digesting literary stricken with Guillain-Barré hearts of many, who even now are He then received a scholarship masterpieces or blending gospel Syndrome, Burton had his first being changed by her witness of to Southwestern Junior College, chords on an antiquated tube-type experience with “doctoring”. He constant love and faith. Her where he graduated student body Hammond organ with rotating attended the local church school signature gift of joy, shown president and valedictorian. Leslie speakers, Gerald claimed to through her constant smiling, 32 SUMMER 2014 In Memory will never be forgotten. She was brothers: Michael (’70), Ken- West Indies College in Jamaica went back to college at age 43 to an active member of her church neth, Emerson, Tom and Scott; with a high school diploma. He earn a master’s degree and teach- and supported her husband in his and sister, Beth Corbin ’71. worked for almost a year saving ing credentials in order to support ministry. She loved to read and money to enter Union College her family. She participated in solve puzzles, and was a secret Orville “Phillip” Blackburn in 1973. While there, he sang school plays, had the reputation artist and poet. Patricia is ’73, Huntsville, Ark., died Dec. in the college choir and gradu- of being a great banquet planner, survived by her husband, Cordell; 31, 2013, at age 74. He was born ated in 1977 with a bachelor of and mentored her many students, children, Bethany Jones and Feb. 2, 1939, in Craig, Colo., the arts degree in communication. who describe her as being loving, Kevin; eleven grandchildren and son of Ralph and Florence Smith Returning to the Bahamas, Tony kind and fun. She was a gracious siblings, Marilyn Russell and Blackburn. He was a retired was a physical education teacher hostess, routinely inviting John Troyer (’63). pastor and U.S. Army veteran. at the government high school students to her home for meals Survivors include his wife of and was widely known as “Coach or to play games, listen to music, Lloyd Brenneise ’66, Lutz, Fla., 52 years, Carol; sons, Sean and Roach.” In just a few years he or bake. Ruth enjoyed quilting, died Dec. 25, 2013, at age 70. He T.J.; daughter, Kym Alexander; met and married Carla McIntosh. weaving, reading, participating in was born to Jonathan and Olga brothers, Ira ’74 and Blacky; Besides teaching, he was successful church groups and traveling. She Rueb Brenneise in Eureka, S.D., fourteen grandchildren and two in various business endeavors. He cherished spending time with her on May 1, 1943. He grew up on great-grandchildren. once told his pastor, “I could sell children and grandchildren. To his parent’s farm near Leola, S.D., ice to the Eskimos,” and indeed he them she left the amazing gift of and in Lodi, Calif. Lloyd Janet Affolter Enders (’73), could. her memoirs in the self-published graduated from Lodi, Academy, Olympia, Wash., died March Tony's family was of utmost book, This Life of Peanut Butter Union College, and with a 6, 2014, at age 63. She was importance to him. He deter- & Honey Sandwiches. She is master’s degree in counseling born February 4, 1951 in mined to raise his children as he survived by five children: Dollie from Northern State University Estes Park, Colo. She is survived had been raised, with Christ and Moulton, Johnnie, Jana Russon, in Aberdeen, S.D. He met and by Steve (’73), her loving hus- music as the focus. Jeannie Cornish and Bonnie married Charlotte Heatherly band of almost 43 years; children, Throughout his life, he served Larson; ten grandchildren and (’62) on June 7, 1964, while at Jason, Matthew and Heather the Philadelphia church in many five great-grandchildren. Union. Lloyd taught school in Dietrich; mother, Bette Affolter, positions, including choir and the SDA school system for over brother, Gary Affolter ’69, sister, men’s choral group director. He is Notice of the following deaths has 33 years. This ministry took the Karen Johnson ’72; and five survived by his wife, Carla; sons, been received: family to various schools grandchildren. She was preceded Alcott and Anthony, Jr.; daughter, in death by her father, Richard throughout the U.S. His students Toni; two granddaughters; sisters, Willis Dick (’33), Affolter (’44). have fondly remembered him as Clara McPhee, Veronica McGee Bakersfield, Calif., “a gentle soul” and “an amazing ’71, Leona Roach, Annette Dor- died Dec. 9, 2013, at age 100. teacher”. He is survived by his John Siewert (’76), Higbee, Mo., sett ’76, and Adelma Roach. died Nov. 16, 2013, at age 56. wife, Charlotte; daughter Lori Alma Fletcher Sonnenberg ’38, He was born in Bay City, Mich., Jabakji; three granddaugthers; Ruth Lucas Rolls (Former Fac- Loma Linda, Calif., on Dec. 7, 1956. He worked sisters, Clarice Murphy ’69 and ulty) Grand Terrace, Calif., died died Nov. 12, 2013, at age 97. Lois Rogers. as an electrician from 1976 to Nov. 29, 2013, at age 91. 1988 and was a history teacher She was born March 28, George Gantz ’47, in Irving, Texas, from 1993 to 1922, in Maitland, Fla., to Lloyd Palmetto, Fla., 2002. John was a member of the and Clora Estridge Lucas, the died Jan. 9, 2012. Petoskey, Mich., church. He is baby sister to Sue and Mary. Ruth survived by his wife of 35 years, lived in the Loma Alice Forste Pierson ’50, Sherry; son, Richard; daughter, Linda area for 25 years, after her Moberly, Mo., Kellie Delmores; two grandchil- retirement from Union College died Aug. 15, 2013, at age 87. dren; parents, Don and Myrtle; where she was a college associ- brother, Richard ’79; and sisters, ate-professor from 1972 to 1982, Lyle Schmidt ’51, Susan Marke and Faith Fowler. teaching secretarial and business Fargo, N.D., communication courses. She died Dec. 2, 2013, at age 88. Anthony Livingstone Roach was a member of the College ’77, Nassau, Bahamas, died Nov. View SDA church. From 1968 Dorothy Neuharth Meier ’72, 27, 2013, at age 60. He was born to 1972 she taught typing and Scottsbluff, Neb., Oct. 4, 1953, the sixth child of shorthand at Monterey Bay Acad- died Sept. 23, 2013, at age 87. Leon and Blunetta Roach. Tony, emy in Watsonville, Calif. She as he was affectionately called, loved sponsoring class groups, Lloyd Brenneise attended Bahamas Academy. It hiking at Big Sur and leading was here that he formed a singing the jogging club. At Union and Mary Feese Davis (’69), Omaha, group, Kings Voices, which per- Monterey Bay Academy she was Neb., died Oct. 2, 2013, at age 65. formed for many events. known for giving inspirational She is survived by two children, Tony was a quintessential ath- talks at chapel services, bravely John Davis and Janelle Mont- lete, playing volleyball, softball, discussing the difficulties and gomery; eight grandchildren running track and most of all soc- challenges of being a divorced and three great-grandchildren; cer. In 1972, he graduated from mother of five children who CORD magazine 33 In Memory

Vada Leonhardt ada Korgan Leonhardt ’67, Lincoln, Neb., died Jan. 30, 2014, at age 95. On Dec. V20, 1918, she was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Albert and Louise Messman Korgan. After graduating from Oak Park Academy in 1936, she accepted the position of teacher at the Adventist church school in Council Bluffs. It was during this time that her relationship with Earl Leonhardt ’50 grew stronger and they married in 1941. The years that followed took Earl and Vada through his military service, years of his pursuing degrees in math, the beginning of his teaching career and the raising of their children. When asked to help in her daughter’s first grade classroom, which was very large that year, she agreed to be the teacher’s assistant. By the next year she was hired to teach her own classroom. Throughout her career she taught for 29 years in the Adventist school system, most of them at Helen Hyatt Elementary School in Lincoln, Neb. During this time she also completed a master’s degree in education from the University of Nebraska. After she retired from teaching, she continued to serve as the school librarian for at least twelve years. She called alumni from Union College and College View Academy for many years to invite them to support the schools she loved so much. She loved flower and vegetable gardening and spending time with her family. She is survived by her children: Darrell ’69, Dwain ’72, and Marcia Austin ’75; brother, Julius Korgan ’45; sister, Alberta Eichman ’48; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

The Union College Advancement Office pays humble tribute to AnnaLee Schander these two long-time volunteers who devoted countess hours to nnaLee Lyon Schander (’44), Lincoln, Neb., died Jan. 31, encouraging and assisting Advancement staff and students. A2014, at age 87. In the early 1920s AnnaLee’s parents and three siblings were en route from Colorado to Missouri to establish a new home when her father became extremely ill. As a result of the illness they were forced to stop in Lincoln to seek medical assistance. They were taken into the loving home of an Adventist family named Davies who lived just two blocks from Union College. During the recovery process they became good friends with the Davies who shared their Adventist faith with AnnaLee’s parents. Her family embraced the Adventist faith and decided to join the College View church and remain in Lincoln permanently. It was here that An- naLee was born May 7, 1926. She attended Union College, was very active in the music de- partment, sang in the Unionaires and was vocally involved at Union even after she met her husband, Eugene Schander (’47), also a stu- dent at Union, and established a family. AnnaLee was well known in the Lincoln area for her beautiful soprano solo voice. Because of family obligations she was unable to complete her education at Union. She worked at several clerical positions in the Lincoln area including Christian Record Services, and for many years she served as department secretary at the Union College music department. After she retired she volunteered for several years in Union’s alumni office. She loved this work because having lived her whole life in “the shadow of the clock tower,” she knew many Unionites and SDA Lincolnites. She was a great resource to the alumni office. AnnaLee also played major roles in organizing both the 75th anni- versary of Union College in 1966 and the 1997 Unionaires alumni reunion concert. She dearly loved Union College. She is survived by three daughters: Lonnie Wise, Juliann Chunestudy (’70) and Cheryl Woods; eleven grandchildren and nineteen great-grandchildren.

34 SUMMER 2014 ForeSight Recognition ForeSight honors those who have generously supported, or plan to support, the mission of Union College through their will, trust, or other planned gifts.

Thank you to the following people who have informed Union College of their future ForeSight gift. ForeSight Donors – Current Members

Joy Barker ’78 Laurice Durrant ’51 Dean & Trudy Johnson ’52 & ’52 Jane Rannow ’78 Elvin ’50 & Pat Benton Evelyn Eakes Daniel Klein ’90 Darlene Reile ’46 Ron & Vicki Biloff ’62 & ’67 John Engen ’94 Paul Kobayashi ’65 Rich & Lynnet Reiner ’69 & ’70 Doug & Wilma Bing ’86 & ’85 Tom & Shirley Evans Donald & Wanda Krein ’53 & ’59 Virginia Reynolds ’53 Mardian & Joan Blair ’54 & ’54 Wayne Fleming Richard Lane ’51 Evelyn Rice ’41 Chris Blake Brian & Tricia Geery ’87 & ’90 Jerome & Ramona Lang ’65 & ’65 John & Caol Jean Ruffcorn ’51 & ’50 Floyd Bresee Ruth Gerst ’53 Jay & Karen Lewis ’67 & ’61 Paul & June Sanchez ’59 & ’58 Bill Brodie ’52 Glen & Marybeth Gessele ’68 & ’68 G Mackson-Hemphill ’53 Jessica Saxton ’51 George Burg ’51 George & Carol Gibson ’69 & ’69 Dale Marcotte ’51 Joseph Schnell ’53 James & Jodi Burrill ’88 & ’88 Tom Goyne ’78 Jim Maxwell ’58 LaVon Shafer ’45 Clyde Kinder & Gaylah Cantrell Kinder ’55 & ’55 Betty Gutknecht ’42 Dwight Mayberry ’65 Tim Simon ’79 Marlene Carleton ’61 Harry Haas ’48 Melodie Mayberry-Stewart ’70 Jerry & Jane Thayer ’61 & ’62 Norma Reile-Carlson ’49 Norman & Alice Haas ’51 & ’48 Jeanne Mazat Kent & Sara ’80 Thompson Dennis & Ann Carlson Stan & Angela Hardt ’68 & ’67 Mary Louise McDowell ’47 Joel & Peggy Tompkins Agnes Chapman Jack Harris ’50 Evert & Carmen McDowell ’85 & ’85 Roxanne Truax Cummings ’73 Harold Clark ’49 Erna Hauck ’69 John McIntosh ’47 Audra Tucker ’48 Ellen Clark Danny & Carol Heath Todd & Janya Mekelburg ’86 & ’86 Margaret Turner Ross & Robyn Cordova Charles Henkelmann ’56 Burdette & Carolyn Millard ’66 & ’62 John & Lilya Wagner Judith Csokasy ’63 Leo & Claudine Herber ’52 & ’52 Lorraine Miller ’60 Todd & JanaLee Wagner ’88 & ’89 Dale Culbertson ’67 Raymond & Marilyn Herber ’53 & ’54 Iona Morgan-Lewis Gregory & Peggy Wahlen ’70 & ’70 Glenn Davenport ’43 Ruth Ann Hieb ’66 Ralph & Bea Neall Phyllis Weygandt ’45 Lynn & LuAnn Davis ’84 & ’82 Ward & Eloise Hill Christine Nesmith ’90 David White ’76 Kathy Davis ’66 H H Hill ’48 Jack ’53 & Lois Northcutt Virginia Widicker ’45 Frank De Haan ’50 Jim & Roxy Hoehn ’62 & ’62 Merlene Ogden ’50 Richard & Naomi Wilmot ’52 & ’49 FloraMaye Dealy ’52 Duane & Kathy Huey ’57 & ’47 Nick & Claudia Parks ’70 & ’78 Bill & Beverly Wilson ’50 & ’48 Joyce Dick ’57 Art Huff ’54 Ethel Parobek ’65 Lottie Ziprick ’40 Kent Dickinson ’49 Margaret Hyde ’53 Louesa Peters ’48 Craig Diehl ’78 Tom Ingram ’03 Gloria Pierce ’55 Jessie & Gloria Dorval ’86 & ’84 Terri Ingram ’98 Lola Pogue ’44

Union College gratefully acknowledges the following individuals who have given a ForeSight gift through their will, trust, charitable gift annuity, life insurance, or by listing Union as a beneficiary of their retirement plan or bank accounts. ForeSight Donors – Realized Gifts

C G. Anderson ’62 Wilfred Emery ’31 Lee Kretz ’46 Bernard & Eunice Owen Grace L. Baker ’22 Mary Evard ’70 Ernest J. Larson ’16 Alfred Pancake Nora J. Barclay ’32 Dena W Farnsworth Violet R. Larson ’25 Gladys Phillips Mary Barger ’42 Glenn Ferris ’68 Caris Lauda, Sr ’32 Nola B. Plumb ’21 Bethel Barger Mary J. Fickess ’38 Violet Lewis ’47 Oliver & Barbara Pogue ’49 & ’50 Helen Battle ’91 Dorothea Fitzgerald ’42 Jerry M Lien ’44 Ira Pound ’44 Beulah Bausch Ray & Alice Fowler ’29 & ’29 Albert Lind Lillian Reiner ’40 Harold & Ella Becker Justine Freeman Polly Lindsey Hulda Roper ’31 Joseph & Mavis Beckner ’40 & ’44 Viola Gelford Samuel Lippincott ’27 Neil Rowland ’47 Melvin Beltz ’43 Aletha Gerst ’47 Lola Lockwood ’65 Greta Royal Delbert L. Berbohm ’36 Oscar Gerst ’50 Frances S. Madison ’28 Ellen Saito-Hebish ’50 Eleanor Berecz ’39 LaVonne Gibb ’63 Mabel L. Madsen ’61 Genevieve A. Siebenlist ’31 Fred Bloom Irene Hagele Robert & Helen Marquardt ’39 & ’31 Cleo Smith ’38 Floyd E Bresee ’31 Elmer E. Hagen ’35 Ophelia Maurmann ’28 Bernice G. Speh ’24 Ruth Brown Pearl L. Hall Ura Oiund ’44 Pearl L. Strawn Marilyn Brown ’51 Ellen Hardt ’42 Ruth M. McAdams ’33 Warren & Thelma Swayze ’36 & ’36 Shirley Burton ’49 Carolyn Harr Ruby G. McArthur Emanuel Tebelius Dan & Opal Butherus ’30 & ’28 Edna Harris ’48 Gerald & Phyllis McHenry ’45 & ’45 LaVerne Turner ’47 Dorothy Cadwallader ’47 Ben & Lucile Hassenpflug ’32 & ’32 Dorothy McNamara Lowell Welch ’32 Olive L. Carson ’28 Ted & June Herr ’41 & ’41 Autumn Miller ’31 Ruth Wenzel ’41 Ron Carlson ’55 Eleanora M. Herr ’42 Marcelline Moon ’60 Ruth Whitfield Max Christianson ’27 Betty A. Hilliard ’46 Arthur E. Nelson ’17 Alex A. Widicker ’29 Harold & Margaret ’21 Christianson Gertrude Huygens Velda Nelson ’56 David L. Wiltse Dorothy Clark ’46 Margaret Pederson Jantze ’47 Blanchard & Carmie Nesmith ’27 & ’27 Esther Youngs Corinne Coleman ’35 Elsie W. Johnson ’29 Vernice Netteburg ’37 Lois M. Zuberbier ’27 Lessie Culpepper Hagen ’29 Clarence H. Johnson ’31 Cora Nettum Mona Dart Helen Johnson ’36 EV & Ruby Neuman Annabell L. Dart Day ’36 Clifford Johnson Naomi Niermeyer ’29 Avery & Arline Dick ’38 & ’37 Elmer J. Jordan ’51 Muriel M. O'Connor ’40 William Eckerle ’18 Margaret Joy Yvonne L. Olsen ’39 June Ekstedt George Kasman Prudence Ortner ’49 Albert Ekstrom Lora M. King Alvina M. Osiek ’21 It takes ForeSight. . . Non-profit Org. CORD magazine U.S. Postage News from Union College PAID Vol. 78, No. 1 Summer 2014 Lincoln, NE Published by the Permit No. 62 Union College Advancement Office 3800 South 48th Street, Lincoln, NE 68506 Address service requested

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