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Ouachita Baptist University Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita The Ouachita Circle: The Alumni Magazine of Ouachita Alumni Ouachita Baptist University Summer 2001 The Ouachita Circle Summer 2001 Ouachita Baptist University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/alumni_mag Part of the Organizational Communication Commons, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Commons Recommended Citation Ouachita Baptist University, "The Ouachita Circle Summer 2001" (2001). The Ouachita Circle: The Alumni Magazine of Ouachita Baptist University. 45. https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/alumni_mag/45 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Ouachita Alumni at Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Ouachita Circle: The Alumni Magazine of Ouachita Baptist University by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. For more information, please contact [email protected]. \ ( ~l vFl-e ~, r . l ) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))) J 1\rkaddphla, 1\l\. Vol.?, /.00 I. A Word from the President ... October 30 will be a special day for one of the most important people at Ouachita. That person is Rosemary Chu, who has served as the Hall Director for Frances Crawford West for the past 36 years. Generations of Ouachitonians have known her as Mom Chu. Please give me a couple of minutes to tell you the story. Rosemary slipped out of China in 1950 with no documents of any kind to live in Hong Kong with her uncle and his family. When her uncle was invited to the United States for a teaching assignment, Rose mary prepared to join the family on the trip across the ocean. After traveling to Taiwan to obtain a special visa, she was ready to depart. The party sailed from Hong Kong in October, 1951. Rosemary's uncle and aunt sailed first class, but she and her cousins traveled third class in the bottom of the boat. (She still remembers that she preferred third class because they served Chinese food, whereas only American food was available in first class.) During the voyage a typhoon caused rough conditions on the ship for about 24 hours. Rosemary was seasick and afraid that the boat would tip over. She vowed never to board an ocean liner again. Fifty years later, she remains true to that promise. The boat docked in San Francisco on October 30, 1951. The family was met by officials from the U . S. Department of State, then they went to an area hotel. Rosemary was met by a lady from the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, who saw that she had accom modations at the YWCA and later took her to meet her train to travel to college in Ohio. The rest of the story, as Paul Harvey would say, is told in the book co authored by Rosemary with Lou Ann Locke, Rosemary: A journey from East to West. Among the most touching passages in the book are Rosemary's expressions of her love for her husband, Dr. Finley Chu, and their daughter, Jane. On Tuesday, October 30, during our weekly chapel program, we'll have a brief time of recognition of Mom Chu's fifty years in the United States. Perhaps you would like to send a greeting to her on that occasion. Her Ouachita box number is 3719. Aren't you glad that God led Rosemary Chu to the United States ... and to Ouachita? ~ 0~ P. S.: Thanks to Sandi Webb Parks for calling this special anniversary date to my attention. PRESIDENT 'fhe Andrew Westmoreland c BoARD oF T RUSTEES UACHITA IRCLE ••• The••••••••••••••••••• Alumni Magazine of Ouachita Baptist University Arkad•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••elphia, AR Vol. 2, 2001 Clarence Anthony Stephen Davis Bill Elliff Jeral Hampton Jack Hazlewood John L. Heflin, Jr. Frank Hickingbotham Rex M. Horne Johnny Jackson Wesley Kluck Richard Lusby Don Moore Quinton Moss Elizabeth Pruet Paul Sanders Bryan E. Smith John R. Stipe William H. Sutton Lloyd Thrash Mike Vinson John Ward Richard Wells Gene Whisenhunt John Williamson CHANCELLOR Ben M. Elrod DEVELOPMENT STAFF Joe Franz, Vice President for Development John Cloud, Associate Vice President for Estate and Gift Planning Gary Hancock, Development OHicer Lane Smith, Development OHicer World Study Program 2-3 Bill Wright, Development OHicer The RomanForum,filled with impressive ruins of temples, basili Deborah Root, Dir. ofDevelopment Publications cas and monuments, was just one stop on an around-the-world study tour for mass communicationsstudents. FORMER STUDENTS AssociATION ADVISORY BoARD Junanne Reynolds Brown, President •AN INSIDE LooK• Larry Frisby, 1st Vice President Becky Sutton Kirkpatrick, Development News 4 2nd Vice President, Wesley Kluck, Tiger Network Chair Arkansas Advisors: Academic News 6 Patricia Greene Griffen, Judy Freeman Honey, Campus News 10 Ginger St. John Morgan, Bobbie Beeson Shepherd, Frank Taylor, Bob White Sports News 15 Out-of-State Advisors: Don Duren, Kathy Hossler McDonald, Patrick Netherton, Steve Lemmond, Alumni News 16 Duke Wheeler Memorials 17 The Ouachita Circle is a publication of Ouachita Baptist University, OBU Box 3762, Arkadelphia, AR Class Notes (marriages, births, deaths) 18 71998-0001 ·Phone 870-245-5000 Alumni E-mail: [email protected] The Financial Adviser A-C Randy Garner, Assistant to the President for Enrollment Management Donor Clubs 33 and Director ofAlumni Affairs • • ••••••••••••••••••••••• Jeff Root, Assistant to the President for Public Relations On the cover: Ouachita students enter the Temple of Mac Sisson, Asst. Dir. ofPublic Relations Heaven in Beijing. Bettie Duke, Alumni Kevin Wieser, Director ofTiger Network photo by William D. Downs, Jr. Printed by Twin City Printing and Litho, Inc. What began as a pie-in-the-sky idea 10 story sources, they were doing some seri years ago - sending a group of OBU mass ous sightseeing that ranged from climbing communications students on an unprec the Great Wall and touring the Forbidden The World Study Tour altered my view edented around-the-world study tour to City in China, to riding camels in Egypt, gather information for in-depth stories from visiting Istanbul's Blue Mosque and Topkapi seasoned journalists in Time magazine bu Palace, viewing the Parthenon in Athens and ofAmerica, politics and life. I hope to use reaus and other sources - has become a re taking a one-day cruise through the lovely ality for the second time in three years. Greek Isles of Aegina, Hydra and Porus; Thanks to the J.D. Patterson Around walking in the footsteps of the apostles Paul the knowledge gained to further my career the-World Study Program, named in honor and John in Ephesus, touring the Roman of the Searcy dentist and 1947 Ouachita Forum and watching Pope John Paul pre graduate who made it all possible, six stu side over the canonization of five new saints and to essentially make a difference. dents spent 31 days this summer on a jour in St. Peter's Square; enjoying the beauty ney that took them to Beijing, Cairo, Dubai, of the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen and Istanbul, Izmir, Ephesus, Athens, Rome, touring Westminster Abbey and the National Salzburg, Copenhagen and London. Art Gallery in London. Chosen by a panel of They also enjoyed some Ouachita and mass communications faculty Arkadelphia connections: William Chiu, our members and Dr. Patterson, the guide in Beijing, is a Chinese-American students included: Melissa business executive whose son attends Arka Bragg, Sheridan: Issues concerning delphia High School; Su Ling, who taught crime and punishment; Tilly Chinese at OBU last year, joined us in Carter, Arkadelphia: Developing Beijing for a dinner of Peking Duck. In technology in the news industry; Istanbul, OBU graduate Reyhan Diker and Brent Gambill, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Diker, Paragould: The place of showed us around the city and treated us to Christianity in world a traditional Turkish dinner in their home. religions; Erica Kimbrough, In Copenhagen, Ove Yang Jensen and his u Hot Springs: Poverty and wife, Else, the parents of Dr. Pre ben Yang by William D. Downs, Jr. how the problem is being ad at OBU, guided us through their beautiful Program dressed; Katie Kirkpatrick, Little Rock: city and treated us to a dessert dinner at their How the world perceives the recent US. home. presidential transition ji-om Bill Clinton to From every standpoint, it was a great George W Bush; and Carrie Talbert, Benton: trip. But what did it mean to the students? Technology and its use in grades K-12. The Here are some highlights of their responses: overall theme of the tour concerned global Melissa Bragg: "The trip was mean views of America as we enter the 21st cen ingful to me in so many ways. Not only did tury. we get to see so many interesting things, By the time they returned to the United but we got to really investigate different States on June 20, the students had inter aspects of the cities and countries. viewed Time bureau chiefs in Beijing, Cairo, "Through our Time meetings, we came Rome and London, the editor of away with more than just pictures and sou Copenhagen's Berlingski Tidende, the larg venirs. We left with knowledge about their est and oldest (1749) newspaper in Den- views, beliefs and ways of life. It IS easy to -II....O!=...:.....a_....::~...J...._____ ..., mark, students at Koc Univer- get wrapped up in domestic affairs and not sity in Istanbul and anyone pay attention to what's going on in the world else who would stand still around us. This was made most clear when long enough to answer some we visited Koc University in Istanbul. We questions. were talking to some college students there, Final drafts of their in and they seemed to know just as much about can entrepreneur depth stories, now being writ our government as we did.