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’m sure you’ve heard the expression, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” I I love cracking open an old scrapbook or looking at today’s virtual scrapbooks online. Facebook’s “Throwback Thursdays” feature posts with pictures of friends from years ago—with all of the crazy fashions and unique hairstyles from yesteryear. When you saw this magazine’s cover displaying pictures of FW Vine is published two former Fort Wayne campus faculty and staff, what did you times per year for Fort Wayne think? Did special memories from your time on campus come campus alumni and friends to mind? by the Fort Wayne Alumni & Friends Resource Center and Recently, I asked some alumni, “WHY is having the the Taylor University Alumni Resource Center important?” One respondent said, Relations Office. Copyright © “It provides a present-day connection to those times of 2014 Taylor University®. transformation as an encouragement and an inspiration to keep going. Life is tough sometimes, and having a tangible Send address corrections and connection to the past when God shaped and prepared us mailing updates to: for life can be very significant.” Fort Wayne Alumni & Friends This spoke to my heart. It reminded me of Joshua 4:21-22, Resource Center, 915 W. when the Israelites built an altar after crossing the Jordan Rudisill Blvd., Fort Wayne, IN River into the Promised Land. Joshua said, “In the future when 46807, or call (260) 744-8790. your descendants ask their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’ E-mail: [email protected] tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground (NIV).’” or online at fw.taylor.edu. We hope the pictures and people featured in this issue of the FW Vine will help you remember and reminisce about Opinions expressed by what God did while you were at the Fort Wayne campus, and individuals in this publication the stories will encourage you by what He continues to do do not necessarily reflect the ® in the lives of alumni like you. Soak in these memories and views of Taylor University . reconnect with those who walked with you at Indiana and Rudisill, where The Ministry Continues! The Fort Wayne campus was founded in 1904 as the Fort Let’s Celebrate! Wayne Bible Training School. It was renamed Fort Wayne Bible Institute, Fort Wayne Bible College, Summit Christian College, and later became Michael D. Mortensen g91 Taylor University Fort Wayne. Director of Fort Wayne Alumni & Friend Relations Founded in 1846, Taylor [email protected] University is one of America’s oldest Christian liberal arts P.S. You may notice we personalized this magazine for you. I want to give special thanks to Kathryn Fenstermacher g14, Tim Embry g02, Kayla Ann Villanueva, colleges. Over 2,000 graduate Bill g 69 and Sharon (Walters) g67 Hull, Jay g69 and Shirley (Mertz) g69 and undergraduate students Platte, Catherine (Beers) Cwanek g97, Bill Gerig g62, Marlene (Sholl) from 41 states and 37 foreign Embry g96 , Arlene (Dissinger) Motter g67, and Angela Hudson. countries attend Taylor, where majors in 50 fields of study are available. Celebration of Five Years!

• Volunteer Hours = 18,234 as of Looking Back... March 31, 2014 On June 2, 2009, I walked into a furnished • Fort Wayne Fund = $57,764 yearly avg. Brown Gables, the former President’s home, • Funds still needed = $19,000 which was to be used for the new Fort by May 31, 2014 Wayne Alumni & Friends Resource Center. • Fort Wayne Endowment for Self- My charge – care for Fort Wayne campus Sustainability = $310,000 alumni. I had the contents of the archives, (Goal is $1.6 million through but no staff and no volunteers. What would estates, annuities, etc.) the future hold? Who would volunteer? Who would give financially? Pressing On… With a strong Alumni Council and alumni and friends willing to give and volunteer, the The Resource Center is NOT a museum, but ministry continues. It is amazing what has a place where ministry takes place daily. From been accomplished over the last five years. the Ramseyer Retreat Room, which can be scheduled for and planning, to our Here are just a few of the accomplishments: Alumni Volunteer Prayer team, consisting of 26 individuals, we for our alumni in • CARE Alumnus & FW Vine published = 11 multiple ways. How has the Fort Wayne Alumni filled with stories andNews Notes & Friends Resource Center blessed you? • FW Falcon (e-newsletter) published = 52 issues We CONNECT our alumni together with • DVD projects = 14 jobs, transcripts, and resources not to mention • CD projects = 14 each other through events, publications/web, • Books published = 6 and Facebook, and this leads to encouragement. Who would you like to celebrate with at Homecoming? • Website with Virtual Archive • Facebook page = 1,010 LIKES As a result of our work today, our memories • FW Celebrates!/Homecoming will be preserved for future generations, Celebrations with Reunions = 3 “when children ask….” Our work is not • Hall of Fame Induction Dinners: 2 complete. Our mission here and abroad is not finished, so let’sCELEBRATE ! with a third one planned for Sept. 19 • Sunday Sings = 4 With a vision to Care, Connect, and Celebrate, • Volunteers = 170 we press on! The Ministry Continues! 2 CELEBRATE Where Are They Now? By Michael D. Mortensen g 91 Through the years names have changed, buildings have been built and razed, and faculty, staff, and students have come and gone. The one constant besides Jesus Christ has been change. What I hear most often is that the people are what made the Fort Wayne campus. The Resource Center loves to connect with “these people” (our alumni), and you often ask about former faculty and staff – “Where are They Now?” They want to reconnect with you, too, hopefully at Homecoming 2014! Dr. Doug Barcalow g71 Agnes Saddington ha09 r. Doug Barcalow g71 fter TUFW, Agnes is currently the Director Saddington ha09 began Dof the Graduate School Aworking at the University of as a secretary for her Saint Frances. He also husband, Dr. Jim directs the Virtual Saddington ha09 Campus at USF. (see his profile on our website), who is He will be retiring an adjunct professor in June after a at the University career of 30 years of Saint Francis. in higher education She also keeps busy and 13 years of as a Sunday school teacher, church local ministry. He volunteer, and grandmother. “A and his wife, Pam (Carey) g71, who woman’s work doesn’t stop,” she has already retired from WBCL, are commented. looking forward to volunteering and spending additional time with their Agnes said that she misses the grandchildren. students and the athletes. “I miss being there for all the home games, and Dr. Barcalow misses the family having students come into my office atmosphere and the close relationships or home and talking to me, and getting that were developed on the Fort to know them. I liked being a mom Wayne campus. away from home for some of them.” He is on Facebook, and he welcomes She wants alumni to know that her former students to “friend” him. grandson who almost drowned is continuing with therapy, but is otherwise relatively fine.

Editor’s Note: More profiles are available at this link: http://fw.taylor.edu/where-are-they-now/. Additional updates will be made available online as we have volunteers to write them. If interested in serving in this area, please contact the Resource Center at 260.744.8790 or [email protected]. Aimee Betsui ha09 Dr. Steve Smith ha09 imee Betsui ha09 was r. Steve Smith ha09 the welcoming voice who formerly taught Acallers would hear say, Din the Criminal Justice “Taylor University program at TUFW is now retired Fort Wayne, how may after finishing his teaching career in I direct your call.” January 2013 at Martin University in She did mistakenly Indianapolis, IN. say once, “Taylor He currently resides University Fort in Muncie, IN, Wayne, how may where he leads I bless you?” She a discipleship did not have to ask, group, reading because faculty, staff, all the books he and students would agree she blessed never had time them without asking through her for, playing with , joy, and fun energy. his grandchildren, Now, in retirement, Aimee is busier and enjoying time than ever. She is very active in the with Mary Ann, his wife of 45 years. choir and the children’s ministries at Recently, he “confessed his sin of Lifeway Wesleyan Church in New obesity,” and he is now the healthiest Haven, IN. Aimee also helps her he has been in 20 years, which allows daughter, Donna Reaser, who is the him to stay active especially with his director of the children’s program on four granddaughters, who are his Sunday and at the Wednesday night delight. Clubhouse program. He maintains his life membership Aimee spends time visiting residents in the Indiana Criminal Justice and volunteering at Miller’s Merry Association. He also runs a Bible study Manor, where her mother now resides, group at the Pendleton prison facility. so she spends time there visiting and Some of his fondest memories from volunteering. the Fort Wayne campus are the Recently she had a great time reconnecting “incredible student-run Christmas with some of her former colleagues parties for the children mentored by (Kathy Birkey, Caroline Simmons ha09, criminal justice students.” Dr. Smith and Deb Marquart) – the “old gang” she believes that “heaven will feel like said (I’m sure with a smile). those wonderfully diverse gatherings. Aimee is happy to have contact with I was honored to read the Christmas former students and faculty and hopes story every year.” to come to Homecoming 2014. 4 CONNECT Michele Wells ha09 Sonja Strahm g66 ichele (Mallett) Wells onja Strahm g66 often ha09 taught in the worked behind the scenes on M Social Work program S the second at TUFW from 2003 to 2009. She is floor of Witmer now teaching in the Hall in the Academic Master of Social Enrichment Center. Work program at She was appreciated, Asbury University maybe not at the in Wilmore, KY, time, for her tough where she lives with love, even calling her husband, Alvin, students at 8 a.m. and whom she married in hanging up, when November 2009. they were supposed to be in her class. Michele misses the “I miss the good colleagues and closeness of the faculty relationships administration who cared about the at TUFW. She also greatly misses needs of the classroom and faculty,” “the multicultural activities that we she explained. were able to be a part of as a campus Since leaving TUFW in 2009, “Miss community.” “The enthusiasm of Strahm” has been teaching at Ivy Tech, the student leadership and the MLK where she has been the program chair day celebrations,” were some of her for reading and ESOL. After 48 years of precious memories from TUFW. teaching, she will retire May 15, 2014. Her favorite memory was the trip she She does not plan to sit idle though, was able to enjoy with the social work as she serves on the Literacy Alliance students from both Taylor campuses. Board of Fort Wayne and will “[We took] an overseas trip to Seoul, continue to do so after retirement. She South Korea, where students got a also hopes to volunteer in a program firsthand experience of the culture that will give people an adequate and the social work services in another knowledge of English to function country.” in their lives. Miss Strahm continues to live across from the campus and attends First Missionary Church, where she is the Deacon of Worship. CELEBRATE

Dr. Ron Powell Dr. Michael Cook ha09 r. Ron Powell, who r. Michael Cook retired in 2000, moved ha09 is currently an D with his wife, Mickey, D Associate Professor of to Minneapolis, MN, to help their Counseling, teaching full-time in the daughter raise their grandson. He graduate Mental Health Counseling joined Concordia University St. Paul as program at Huntington University. an adjunct Criminal Justice Professor, and eventually Dr. Cook most helped develop an misses his colleagues online Masters of and his students. Arts in Criminal “The size of the Justice Leadership. campus allowed Now they stick for exceptional close to their home collegiality,” he said. in Plymouth, MN. “Many days I would He is involved in simply run down to mentoring men visit with John Schutt getting out of prison or jail. “This or up to chat with Steve Smith.” ministry is near to my heart and gives He also loved having Laura Gerig me a chance to help others have a g91, who is now also teaching at second chance,” Dr. Powell said. Huntington, Roger Ringenberg g69, Doug Barcalow g71, and so many “The colleagues who challenged and others within his social circle. “I miss helped me grow, the students who my colleagues dearly.” wanted to learn and yet were not afraid to laugh at and with me are He is pleased to “keep up with many favorite memories from my time in of [his former students] through Fort Wayne.” Facebook and has also been privileged to have a few of them as grad students.”

Randall Dodge g81 ormer Dean of Students Randall He is now the Chief Operations Officer Dodge g81 left for Project Mercy, a Christian relief and F TUFW in 2009 development organization serving the rural after serving in multiple roles residents of Ethiopia. He travels there several for the previous 12 years, times a year, but oversees the ministry here in which included developing the U.S. and leading the Samuel Morris He and his wife, Colleen g81, live in Fort Scholarship Program. Wayne and hope to attend Homecoming 2014. 6 CARE Rowlands Press On Despite Adoption Heartaches By Michael D. Mortensen g 91 doption is a challenging journey, When the Rowlands decided to adopt again, with piles of paperwork, long however, the birth mom who had chosen Awaits, and numerous expenses. them unexpectedly disappeared. “We never Many Fort Wayne alumni have undergone heard from her again,” Gary said. this process, but not many have experienced the rocky journey Gary g97 and Kelly They decided to adopt overseas, and set Rowland encountered in adopting their two their sights on Ethiopia once more, only boys, Grayson, now to discover some new rules. 6, and Landon, 3. Adoptive families were required to travel to the country for a After learning they court date, and then again six could not have weeks later to pick up their child biological children, if all paperwork was complete. they desired to adopt. They initially Given these added concerns, wanted to adopt they began the process of from Ethiopia, but adopting from Rwanda instead. God had other plans. But a week before the Rowlands were to submit the paperwork “My niece, Emily, that had taken 11 months had gone to Trinidad to prepare, Rwanda put all on a short-term adoptions on hold. mission trip, and she said we should adopt from there,” Gary recounted. “I told her Soon after, Gary’s niece went on another that if God wants us to, we would love to.” mission trip, this time to Uganda. She Trinidad did not have an adoption program. returned telling the Rowlands they should A month later, however, they received a call adopt from Uganda. So, they contacted about a mother from Trinidad in Florida their adoption agency and learned of a who was eight months pregnant. Within pilot program in Uganda. In August 2012, a month, the Rowlands were in Florida they got a referral for a brother and sister adopting Grayson. to adopt.

Editor’s Note: Watch and listen to a greeting from the Rowland family, where you can see these two brothers interact with their new forever family: http://fw.taylor.edu/news/rowlands-press-on-despite-adoption-heartaches. Within 48 hours of leaving to pick up these The news came less than 24 hours before children, the Rowlands learned that the Gary and Kelly were scheduled to depart for children’s grandmother, who raised them, the adoption. had not told her family about the adoption. When the extended family was informed, Despite their gladness for this child, they they objected, prohibiting the adoption. were again heartbroken. “A lot of doubts started to creep in,” Gary said. “We had to “That was really hard,” Gary said. “We were take some time to pray and think about it.” praying for these children daily. We did not realize how volatile international adoption Once they made the choice to proceed a can be.” third time, the referrals suddenly dried up. “It was discouraging,” Kelly lamented. “We Others encouraged them to look elsewhere, had to wait almost 11 months.” Grayson but they still felt a strong calling to Uganda. continued faithfully praying for his brother. The next referral came three weeks later, for a 14-month-old boy who had been But the Rowlands had a sense of peace as abandoned. they proceeded. Gary, a church planter at The Ridge in Fort Wayne, said the whole Gary and Kelly were informed that the church was with them before they left Ugandan court had ordered a door-to- to adopt Landon, while Gary preached a door search for the birth mother, whom sermon on the persistent widow in Luke 18. they found, and for the father, whose “[The] story helped us not to lose hope for whereabouts was uncertain. God to answer our prayers,” he said. “We had a prayer service that he would be found, so we could get our baby,” Kelly said. Finally, in December, Landon completed What they didn’t know was that authorities their family. In four years, Gary and Kelly learned the baby’s grandfather is the former had four “failed” adoptions. But in the end, Vice President of Uganda. “The child went Gary said, “We thank God...these kids are from rags to riches,” Kelly said. awesome!” 8 CONNECT Homecoming 2014 A Time of Celebration!

Join alumni, friends, former faculty, and On Saturday, highlights will include a staff at Homecoming 2014! devotional time with Dr. Bob Nienhuis It’s going to be a celebration! During ha98, former executive vice president, and a Homecoming 2014 alumni and former time of sharing. Then we will have plenty of faculty and staff will be back on campus time to socialize with friends and classmates to celebrate how God brought our lives through: together at the intersection of Rudisill Blvd. • Reunions for the Classes of 1954, 1964, and Indiana Ave. 1974, 1989, 2004, and 2009 • Lunch with former faculty and staff It’s time to reconnect, reminisce, and rejoice just to socialize and catch up for the 105 years of history for our campus • A Sunday Sing (on Saturday) – hymns, and five years for the Fort Wayne Alumni & gospel songs and choruses Friends Resource Center. • A reception to honor Jay Kesler g58, Bill Pannell g51, and Paul Robbins g60 Reunions will be held for multiple classes, will be followed with “A conversation but the celebration will have something for with Kesler, Pannell, and Robbins.” everyone Friday and Saturday, September These three former YFC leaders 19 & 20, 2014. became friends here and have given The weekend will “shoot-off ” Friday night years of service to Christ-centered with the fourth Fort Wayne Campus Athletic education and Christian publishing. Hall of Fame Dinner & Induction. The • Other activities include: 1976 National Basketball Championship • Open House for the Resource Center team, Larry Lewis g76, Phyllis Miller g53, • Historical Fort Wayne campus films and Bill Pannell g51 will be recognized. • Identify archive photos Additionally, some classes will have informal • Skype stations to reconnect with reunions on or around campus. alumni not able to attend • Campus-wide scavenger hunt

Editor’s Note:

See enclosed Homecoming flyer or go online for more information and to register for Homecoming 2014 at http://fw.taylor. edu.

Do we have your email address to send you updates? Submit News Notes items to [email protected], call the Alumni & Friends Resource Center at (260) 744-8790, or mail to FW Vine, 915 W. Rudisill Blvd., Fort Wayne, IN 46807. Do you receive your monthly e-newsletter, the FW Falcon? Contact the Resource Center to add your email address to our list. Use your smartphone to submit the latest 1995-2011 News Note. Shawn Hicks g98 is now the in. long. In addition to birthing Class of 1995 Quality Manager for North American a baby, Dawn has been offered a Communications in Duncanville, PA. three-book contract with Whitaker Joe Boway g95 went to Monrovia House Publishing for her historical in March to participate in the 10th Class of 1999 romantic suspense series. If you’d Anniversary Celebration of the like to stay attuned to what’s going Liberian Children’s Ministry. When Elliot Wesley Conner was born on on concerning the book in the next Joe started this ministry in 2004, January 7, 2014 to Matt g99 and year, you can follow her Facebook they began with one school and Lindsay Conner. He weighed 9 lbs. author page at facebook.com/ 36 children. Today, through the and was 22 in. long. The Conners dawncrandallwritesfirst. blessing of the Lord, there are 12 live in Nashville, TN where Matt is a schools serving over 3,400 children. full-time writer. Mander Prater g00 is now the Seventy-five percent of the children Donation and Shipping Coordinator for are from un-churched backgrounds. Class of 2000 Nehemiah Vision Ministries in Indiana In the last three years, over 800 and Haiti. He is also a short-term mission school-age children and their team leader for the organization. parents have been baptized in the rural Lutheran churches of Liberia. Joe (when not in Liberia), his wife Class of 2001 Glendora, and their two boys live in Fort Wayne and are involved in the Susan N. Oberlander-Smith g01 New Life Lutheran Church. recently was hired by All Star Staffing, Dawn (Renkenberger) g00 and where she is in training for six months Class of 1998 Jon Crandall welcomed Rhett William and then will hire on with Xerox. Crandall, born March 25, 2014. He weighed 7 lbs. 9 oz. and was 21 10 Faith (Pinnick) g03 and David Class of 2002 Class of 2004 Hettesheimer got married December 10th Class Reunion at Homecoming! 30, 2013 at Life Church at South Danielle (Hettinger) fs02 and Mountain in Phoenix, AZ. The wedding Manuel Morales are pleased to party included Lacy (Pinnick) announce the birth of Melina Kaye Salsbury g09 and Elizabeth Riddle. Class of 2005 Morales, born January 1, 2014. She The Hettesheimers live in Chandler, AZ. weighed 8 lbs. 11 oz. and was 22 in. long. She is welcomed by Ariana, 10, Ivy, 8, and Matias, 3.

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Jaime (Roberts) g03 married Justin Jamison on June 8, 2013. They Julia (Beange) g05 and Gentry Stickel currently live in Sidney, OH along welcomed their second daughter, with their two children, Logan, 13, Rebekah Natalie Genean on May 25, and Emma, 10. Jaime works at Dorothy 2013. Rebekah weighed 8 lbs. 6 oz. Love Retirement Community as a nursing assistant, and she is working on getting her nursing degree.

Alumni Serve Together on STM Team In connection with New York Joshua Lee g02, on staff with Metro Is Calling, several alumni World Child, shared with the group his led a group of 38 adults involvement in the inner city and their and students, including Sidewalk Sunday School program. their children, from Grabill The iServe event provided the students Missionary Church to New and adults with a five-day experience York City and Newark. to support the mission of local church The group consisted of plants and missionaries; staff volunteer- Kelley Sewell g01, starved NYC ministry organizations; host Greg Carlyle g92, Cindy children, youth, and seniors programs; (Sauder) Kimm g85 and complete light construction work; and her daughter, Abi Kimm learn how to pray for the city’s specific g14, along with several other needs. children of both Fort Wayne and Upland campus alumni. Care • Connect • Celebrate Pastor Kent Green g08 continues Class of 2007 to enjoy serving as Staff Chaplain at Parkview Regional Medical Center, where Elizabeth (VandenAvond) Pomeroy he has been for the past two years. g07 graduated from Asbury Theo- logical Seminary with her Master of Asher Timothy made his way into Arts in Pastoral Counseling. the world on November 27, 2013. He is the son of Matt fs08 and Michael g07 and Jenn (Logue) Cassie (Olinghouse) g07 Verhoff. Matt g05 and Tiffany (Gentry) g06 Sprunger are proud to He weighed 8 lbs. 11 oz. He joins his g05 Carrigan are the proud parents announce the birth of Eden June, older sister Evelyn, 2. of Elliana Grace, born December 15, born in Dakar, Senegal January 20, 2013. She weighed 4 lbs. 11 oz. and 2014. Eden weighed 7 lbs. 4 oz. and Class of 2009 was 18 in. long. She joins big sister was 20 in. long. 5th Class Reunion at Homecoming! Madelyn, 4. The Carrigans live in Paul Ziegler g07 married Sarah Fort Wayne. Nina Anderson g09 is working on DeMerchant on June 21, 2008. her MDiv in Practical Theology at They now have a little girl, Chloe , where she plans Jean, born December 18, 2013. She to graduate in May 2014. She is weighed 7 lbs. 5 oz. and was 19.5 in. also pastoring part-time at a trans- long. Paul is a teacher’s aide at Bluffton ethnic church in Virginia Beach, VA. High School in Bluffton, IN. and also works with kids with special needs Shawn Harrison g09 is the new at Easter Seals Arc. Associate Pastor at Greenville Alliance Sandy (Koselke) g05 and Jeremy Coliss fs07 and Belinda Wallace Church (C&MA) in Greenville, OH. Claus welcomed Molly Evelyn Claus welcomed their fourth child, Coliss He started there in October 2013. on March 24, 2014. She weighed 8 Roberto Wallace, Jr., born March 13, Shawn and Emily and their children lbs. 11 oz. and was 21 in. long. Molly 2014. He weighed 7.4 lbs. and was recently relocated to Greenville joins Anna, 5, Tessa, 4, and Nora, 2. 19 in. long. “Jr.” had a 30-cm. head. from St. Mary’s, OH. Coliss is a Fort Wayne fireman. Kimberly Marshall g09 married Luke Schutt on October 20, 2012. The Class of 2008 Schutts currently live in Fort Wayne. Matt g09 is a freelance videographer Asira (Nazarova) g08 and Reji and Natalie (Myers) g11 Mills is Matthew welcomed Amia Susan on the Audience Development Manager January 11, 2014 in Willoughby, OH. for the Millennial team at Moody Crystal Owen g05 married James She weighed 7 lbs. 10 oz. and was Publishers in Chicago, IL where the Steurer on October 18, 2013. The 19 in. long. couple lives. Steurers are living in Elkhorn, WI. The wedding was officiated byRev. Stan Owen g92, Crystal’s dad. 12

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Christopher C. Kuehnlenz g10 married Paula Joy Wilson on July 27, 2013. Chris currently works at Lourdes Noureen McKeen nursing You know home/assisted living as a dietary aid and is pursuing his ordination with where to find the C&MA. His wife is in her second Candace (Hart) g09 and us, but have year as a TA while she works on Benjamin Moore g11 announce we found her Masters in English Literature at the birth of Elle Kay, born November Florida Atlantic University. you? 12, 2013. She weighed 7 lbs. 9 oz. and was 20 in. long. Please let us know if any of your contact Class of 2011 information has changed so that we can Amy Raymond g09 is now the stay in touch with you. Becky Blomenberg g11 is now a resident hall director of Bonzel Hall at First: copy editor for Annie’s Publishing, a the University of St. Francis, Fort Wayne. Last: craft publisher in Berne, IN. Spouse: Address: City: Memorials: State: Zip: Kevin Hagelin, a former faculty Phone: member, passed away on June 9, Email: Title: 2007 at age 53. He was the loving Company: husband of Cindy and devoted father of Matthew. Kevin received You can update your information by giving Megan g09 and Michael Woodcraft us a call at 260.744.8790 or via email. are thrilled to announce the birth his Master’s Degree in History of Lanakai Caravelle who was born from the University of Michigan. March 21, 2014. She weighed 4 lbs. He taught history at various local 15 oz. and was 17 in. long. She has schools. Kevin also owned and two big sisters – AnaLeigh, 5 and operated a model railroad business. Leilani, 2. They live in Huntertown, IN.

Editor’s Note: More current News & Notes are added weekly on our website: http://fw.taylor.edu. Alumni and friends can send for our review and posting, and then they can be read by former classmates and friends. Check out this feature today! Help Us Continue Freely Everyone likes FREE stuff. “Buy one, get oneFREE ,” or “stop by and pick up your FREE gift.” We all know there’s a catch - “there is no such thing as a FREE lunch.” The Fort Wayne Alumni & Friends Resource Center loves to give FREE stuff, and we do this often by providing the FW Vine, our semi-annual magazine you’re reading right now, along with the FW Falcon, our e-newsletter with stories featuring alumni with news and information you care about. We provide reunions, meeting and retreat space, transcripts, and alumni gatherings for you to connect and celebrate friendships, life events (births, jobs, promotions, marriages, and even home goings), and common memories. While we love giving FREE services and resources, these things are not really FREE, as we pay for staff, rent, utilities, printing, and postage. This is where we need everyone to give, so we can continue Caring, Connecting, and Celebrating FREELY. Please consider a gift of at least $10 to the Fort Wayne Alumni & Friends Resource Center’s Fund by May 31. It will be matched by our friends from Poorman’s Heating & Air. If you’re able to give more, please do to help us reach our budget need. You may make your gift online with the link below or using the enclosed envelope. Thank you!

Your gifts, no matter the amount, are appreciated and needed for us to continue our ministry of Caring, Connecting, and Celebrating! http://fw.taylor.edu/support/giving.shtml Facebook Page Passes Milestone On Saturday, March 22, the 1,000th, 1,001st, and 1002nd Mortensen, g91, director of the Fort Wayne Alumni & persons liked our FW Alumni & Friends Resource Center Friends Resource Center. page, which we The page contains archival pictures, started on August 17, event promotions, and occasional 2010. contests. It is also a place where we put the latest news, links to our According to an webpages, and notices, in order article in TechCrunch, to get the word out quickly to “only 23 percent of those alumni who have Facebook Facebook fan pages accounts. have 1,000 or more fans.” If you have ideas about how we can make it “We are thrilled more interactive to have this many with our mission to care, connect, and alumni, former staff and faculty, and friends who celebrate, please email your suggestions have hit the ‘LIKE’ button on our page,” said Michael to [email protected]. Taylor University 915 W. Rudisill Blvd. Fort Wayne, IN 46807

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