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Transcending the routine of annual commencement coverage posed little challenge for this issue of Milieu. Some two years of college planning and equal or longer individual academic journeysculminated in graduation for Houghton's first adult degree completion program graduates in Buffalo on May 2. Under the attentive oversight of PACE director, Dr. John Robson, 16 men and women received bachelor of science degrees in organizational management. A second cohort of adult learners received their diplomas at Houghton's regular commencement a week later. This issue combines coverage of this historic passage with a presidential assessment of PACE's genesis and promise, then extends to profiles of some non-traditional students in Houghton's traditional programs, together with a look at a representative sampling of the under-25 majority of '93 graduates. These are notable not only for their character and accomplishments, but for how their coming to campus was linked to previous Houghton students. Career development center director Sharon Givler examines two pilot programs that have the goal of giving Houghton students an edge in finding jobs in today's competetive markets. Helping students prepare for lives more likely to be spent in cross­ cultural situations, or those coming to Houghton from abroad is the subject of a companion piece. How Miriam Snow Priebe solved her child care needs in 1947 and both the satisfaction and "mission field" opportunities for graduates as nannies in the '90s are the subjects of two more features. Voice professor/ college choir director Jean Riegles shares how the Lord has moved Houghton in her thinking from being "the middle of nowhere," to being a center of her universe. We profile five retiring faculty and staff luminaries whose combined service to Christian higher education at Houghton surpasses 150 years. And we conclude April Milieu's look at some endur­ ing Houghton marriages, plus the usual alumni and campus news. Looking ahead: One Houghton graduate learned of the college in a chance conversation with an alumnus while both were picking berries in the same row at a commercial garden. What unusual or odd events factored in your coming to Houghton? Jot down the facts now and send them to us and you may be represented in "How I Came to Houghton," a ,l, , 't . , feature being planned for an upcoming issue. -Dean Liddick J ••· 1'

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June 1993 3 First PACE graduates Grt;idijgtes'93: melding ,Eoeaonand tradition . "t4 st d("'· saw the P ACE cl 1p, :).:m\.I! J!:r.d. meon East,-,d )\ur;ora u � , r d G tion programs like PACE have become a service of B work ...My fellow st�. rltshad wid i:Hx�• S!�.sum,a; um .any American colleges, bringing hope and fresh b ac k groun d S, b utt h e prog m was c f' r __ ,.·, r r --- ,� 1;�ww oppo tunities to _!llanywhose educations were inte - t�ilored �or ea�h of us ... The le1;l,fllID.,.S_proc�ss �?l:f rupted, and providing colleges with signficant num­ [mteractin with] the other s ude� as as rmp � � _ � Jff� _ � '}{\\i, -��.rs of new students and money at a time of fewer as _the cre�1ts ... It takes spmtuaf g�--R!1�n, tQ �Ji:1.Ba:-.'. �-�raditional-aged students. omg . .. So ran the comments of V1rgm1 Bater � , � s,...c:6,::c• _ At some Christian colleges enrollment in their first of :8oughton s Program for Accelerating Coll�&�,,, ,i:l.dµlt degree programs equals or surpasses their Education (PAc;E) gradu�tes. , � traditional student populations.No one predicts that As compleho1: of their baccalaureate d gr es r r . � � ..f?, tfoughton, but with more than 100 al eady enrolled s1gnaled both acl:ievement and ne"." ditec 1on:1I - ,- . r _ 1 � \ !� , �··µ,.today's fledgling prog am, growth seems assured. lives of PACE s first 16 graduates, 1t also s1gnafea i1 Mrs. Bates spoke of student diversity.The first Buffalo new era for Houghton College. Adult 1 r degree comp���J1eluded an assistant bank manage , the devel- ..�.,,. QualityEducation After 25---f to change wHh PACE

Higher education is pro­ To date, student response has foundly influenced by such been overwhelmingly positive. One developments in the larger society graduate has already been admitted as economic cycles, population to graduate study and others have trends, changes in families and the reported substantial promotions or religious life of the nation. challenging new positions. PACE One of the most dramatic anticipates continued growth and changes now shaping American courses are now being offered in society and its higher education is Olean, with plans afoot for offer­ the increasing average age of ings in Wellsville and Houghton. Americans-a statement vividly Articulation agreements with substantiated in the 40 percent several public and private two-year decline in New York high school commmunities we serve.· colleges are helping Houghton to graduates from 1979 to 1993. This Nearly 20 Houghton facu.J.ty assist and encourage their gradu­ precipitous decline has been and administrators spen,t,,t';'79 years ates to complete baccalaureate paralleled by adult learners developing aQf��,4�gr��-­ degrees. To date, all courses have returning to college to earn a completion progriµX\,that would use been taught by fully-credentialed, degree, to change careers or to our personnel ftill'y,1express.our full-time Houghton faculty and we enhance their ability to function in philosophy and·embody our intend to continue that practice for an information society. quality a11d recei_ve state i}pproval. a majority of courses. When Houghton College The r�sl!ilt�'P�CR ' I :, • • • llf.J',(./, •1,, ': '. ,, ...

4 opment director for Buffalo and Erie County Meals using Tuesdays and vacation days to take the 15 on Wheels, the chief of personnel programs for the months of courses. US All Force Reserves in Niagara Falls, and a com­ Despite a difficult schedule, she was encouraged puter consultant. A second· cohort of 11 included to finish the degree by the program's flexibility, the educators, a land surveyor, a steam plant mainte­ example of other students, and her own son's concur­ nance evaluator, veterans' affairs examiner and a rent involvement in a Ph.D. program. Virginia was homemaker. impressed by PACE's spiritual dimension. She plans Addressing the first PACE graduates, their to keep in touch while hoping "for an eventual friends and family members at Buffalo May 2, was [PACE-style] master's program." inventor/enh·epreneur and West Seneca native While PACE is new, participation in the tradi­ Wilson Greatbatch, the heart pacer pioneer who has tional programs at Houghton's main campus also subsequentJy executed research from fossil fuel have new dimensions-adults transferrjng from alternatives to curing AIDS. In telling the graduates community colleges. An l.musual example are Ralph that he'd not completed his own bachelor's degree and Brenda Meerdink, parents of graduating senior until he was 31, Dr. Greatbatch's chaUenge-"Spread­ Christopher Meerdink. His success at Houghton was ing Your Wings," reminded them that "the Good an inducement, but the college's articulation agree­ Lord doesn't care if you succeed or fail. . . He cares ment with Jamestown Community College was that you try." Citing different standards of success, pivital to their moving here last fall. Greatbatch used the Bible and Tennyson's Locksley Mr. and Mrs. Meerdink, from Clymer, NY, each Hall to urge the graduates to carve out careers in have more than 100 college credits gained at several areas that matter to them and trust God for results. universities and including associate degrees from "Rewards are in doing," he said. Jamestown. He has worked for Ball Labs in New Jersey, as a programer, a contractor, and now as an independent computer consultant. She, too, has broad career experience. Having known one another since childhood in church, changes in their personal and professional lives brought them together in marriage in 1976. Last fall they moved into Gillette House on campus with their daughter Connie, a freshman. (Another married son is completing college at RIT.) Clearly, finances are challenging. "We're walking by faith with a few moments of panic," they acknowl­ edge. Aid packaging includes assistance from their home Chautauqua County because of their top 10 percent high school graduation record, a Houghton family discount, and work study. Both expect to graduate next May, he with a computer science major, she with an eye to attending Asbury Seminary to pursue a master's degree in Oiristian cow1seling. I Unlike PACE students at Buffalo and Olean, the ) I rs. Virginia Bates (pictured above Meerdinks find themselves standing out from their receiying her/diploma), a native Buffalonian and student peers because of age and experiences. "At graduate of the venerable Buffalo Seminary, in the times it's a little lonely for someone of a generation '50s studiedEnglish and American Literature at for whom the Kennedy assassination isn't a para­ SUNY Buffalo and, subsequently took courses from graph in a history book," Brenda says. A few students the American Institute of Banking. can't get beyond th.inking of her as "a mom able to fix Seeking new computer skills, and with an things," but most accept them as student peers and interest in completing a baccalaureate degree, Vir­ happily participate in their calculus and Bible study ginia responded to a PACE newspaper ad almost two groups. "Being a peer to professors can be difficult years ago. She characterized director of academic when you're trying to model proper respect and assessment Willis Beardsley's reply as "immediately distance lfor the younger students]," says Mrs. responsive, impressive, very genuine." Working Meerdink. around a grand jury service schedule, work at a bank The Meerdinks provide a natural transition from i11 Alma, participation in PT A, Erie County banking non-traditional programs and students to a com­ organizations, 4H, the league of women voters and mencement sampling of the traditional kinds of work with the speech impaired, Virginia enrolled, students Houghton is graduatiJ1g in the '90s, begin-

June 1993 5 ning with ofile of their son, Christopher. ,& ****** 11v-·· hris's first visit to Ho�ighton was impropi ·o�a 4 a.m. wakeup, weather that made the two-hour trip from Clymer, NY, take three hours, his sudden illness. "It was slushy, Houghton looked awful and I vowed never to return." But he did return, enrolling as an "undeclared business major" with no special interest in music. Chris liked volleyball, "individual sports," and singing in his church choir. A friend already attend­ ing Houghton who turned out to be Chris's first residence director thought Chris should audition for the college choir. After that audition, then fine arts chairman Dr. Ben King signed him up for voice lessons and Chris "backed into the choir." Voice teacher Betty Giles encouraged him to declare a music major. In time he did. Response to his Hong Kong cg, 11ectio11-0liver L1111 singing at competitions built his confidence in solo f liver Lau has been adapting to new work. (Chris won first place at the National Associa­ cultures blJJ;{i_s life. Born in Beijing, he lived through tion of Teachers of Singers area competition and was the culhtra1revolution during which his grandfather a semi-finalist in the eastern region.) At Houghton was persecuted. He saw family members undergo an he's also won several music scholarships and per­ eight-year process of emigrating to Hong Kong, formed two roles in a production of The Mikado-sung experienced government-imposed moving of students at alternate performances. Last summer he partici­ into specialties beginning with middle school. Then pated in EuroChor which he called "a great experi­ he and the rest of his family moved to Hong Kong ence." Each summer he's also worked at a candy where he began high school. factory in New Jersey. Living with an aunt in a small crowded apart­ As a senior Chris has been student director of the ment was hard, but attending public school classes Women's Choir. "If a young man of 22 can select taught in Cantonese-which he didn't understand­ music and get up in front of 45 women three days a while using textbooks written in English was a week and make it work, it builds confidence," Chris greater challenge, especially when coupled with the allowed. He's even managed to keep a hand in locals' disdain for "mainlanders." Add a growing ''business," working second semester at the Hough­ spiritual turmoil and you have a confused, unhappy ton Mobil Mini Mart. At commencement weekend he teenager. Oliver "had no religious interest," but after represented his class and the School of Music as three months his loneliness made him accept an baccalaureate convocation soloist. invitation to attend a Luis Palu crusade where he was Now he wants to work for a year, perhaps in a amazed to see "30,000 clapping, smiling, singing church people, joyful and friendly." As a result he became music job, connected to a church where a youth pastor and a while missionary kid were pivotal in his coming to Christ. considering Oliver observed, "But I experienced no emotional graduate feeling until I began to share my new faith." schools for Through that youth fellowship he met Houghton work in alumnus Paul Pang's daughter and eventually voice tranferred to Pang's United Christian College (high perfor­ school) where caring teachers and students helped mance. He's him overcome language, social and cultural problems. also inter­ He learned of Houghton from Dr. Pang. He also met ested in President Chamberlain, visiting Hong Kong at the conducting time, who encouraged him and helped him gain opera, but scholarship aid. would Coming from teeming Hong Kong to rural eventually Houghton in late summer offered new culture shocks. like to But the gracious way the college and his classmates teach. handled delay of a Highlander trip into Canada

6 Christopher Meerdink HOUGHTON MILIEU occasioned by Oliver's visa problems encouraged ruim when she retired under an incentive. program. and he won new friends. He planned a physics major Throughout this time she nurtured a hope of complet­ since hls father is an engineer, but he preferred ing college, surviving a divorce and juggling job and biology. Oliver found the memorization commitmeJ11.tS family responsibilities to take evening courses­ daunting and switched to chemistry his junior year. including some at Houghton's Buffalo campus in the As a senior Oliver applied to the Rochester Acad­ mid '80s-until she lacked just 12-15 hours which she emy of Science and received a $400award for research determined to complete. materials. He did a senior honors project under Dr. Irma Registering at Houghton last year, Dian began her Howard, based on aspects of her Ph.D. work. Now he's commuting marathon. She selected courses "to prepare me for meeting the needs of Christians." A been accepted-with tuition waiver and stipend-at i Johns Hopkins University to study biophysical chemis­ psychology class with Connie Fnney "made me try, and earn a Ph.D. withinfive years, then return to stand in awe of God," she noted. Talking with Milieu Hong Kon d China to teach. after her last two finals-Old Testament Prophets with Dr. Kingdon and Job with Dr. Schultz-Dian "D ian Davis really wanted to finish reflected on "the solid Christian background related college oru hristian campus! Last year she drove to subject matter," she'd obtained, adding wistfully: some 11,'JO0 miles between her home in Buffalo andl "I wish Houghton had this same availability for Houghton's main campus-Monday, Wednesday and Christians in the city." Friday she was on the road at 7 a.m. to make 9 o'clock In recent years Dian has recommended Houghton classes. By mid-afternoon she'd head home to other to several young people and three years ago she responsibilities as wife and church worker-visita­ married the grandfather of one who took her advice. tion, teaching, occasional sermons. Though she A man with five earned degrees, he currently pastors traversed the infamous snow belt six times a week, the Seneca St. United Methodist Church. Although Dian missed classes because of weather only three she's a licensed minister, her denomination doesn't days all year. accept women in the teaching roles she envisions. Currently she's an associate pastor of Cedar Grove This determined womanf began life in West Palm Beach, FL, moving to Bufalo's east side in childhoQd. Missionary Baptist Church. Before her parents came north, Dian lived for a time Dian wishes Houghton offered a master's deg1·ee. with her grandmother and brothers, attending a While she'll stop out of school to work and pay off Seventh Day Adventist School although the family bills, she's planning a graduate program, presently attended the Church of God in Christ. She graduated consideringJi?chester Colgate Divinity School-and more comdru'tmg. eorge Wiedmaier's Christian parents ( taught him tp'do his best at whatever he did. When he left h� in Chesapeake, VA, for Norfolk Acad­ emy one of the things he did best was play basketball. Under then coach Gary King '67 (now at Houghton Academy), George learned how to excel and develop a can-do attitude. He chose Houghton over another school at King's urging and with recommendation to Houghton's basketball coach Steve Brooks. "T came in with a lot of interest and it's been four years of finding out who I am and discovering hidden attributes," George said. Although he was an impor­ tant member of the Houghton round-ball team, George soon realized that "basketball was just fow­ years. I wanted to travel a broad path and be involved in many thlngs." He says that's what hls psychology major did, adding: "I'm leaving Houghton knowing how to write and speak better and something of what I want Dedicated driver, Dian Davis to do for the Lord." He considered running for student body president; then ran for and won the from East High in 1959. Dian's first marriage pro­ senior class presidency. He found it a demanding job. duced four sons. During many of those years she Many of hls confreres and other potential helpers worked for the phone company as an operator, in were focused on academic agenda, but still had customer relations, and in engineering until 1991 strong ideas of what should be done-he cited the

June 1993 7 What inspires such lavish praise? First, there's Kevin's record of achievement-four times he's addressed professional teaching associations, which seldom consider hearing undergraduates-on how different approaches to literary criticism fit in the classroom. And he is one of several Houghton students with essays in Bressler's new text on literary criticism. His senior honors project sought to explain the use and structure of myth in the writings of C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams. Son of Bartlesville (OK) Wesleyan College faculty, Kevin earlier gained practical experience working at St.Harriet's Home for neglected and abused children in Los Angeles. While working with these 45 children he saw first-hand differences in expectations between suburban and inner city children, and even then began pondering how the worlds of theory and practical need relate. There he also tutored students on an educational TV show four days a week- the homework hotline program, 1-800-LA Study. After three semesters at other colleges he visited Houghton, S11rro1111ding himselfwith friends-George Wiedmaier al right liked the environment and enrolled in 1990. Drawing together his earlier experiences and his work surrmmding the class'es desire to memorialize studies Kevin has explored different ways of thinking two members killed in an auto accident in 1991. and trying to share knowledge, "enjoying the free­ Admitting that he tended to take on too much, dom to put ideas together ... The more I studied, the George still considered his weekly 10 hours working more I could see in the Career Development Center critiquing resumes my professors and career counseling his most practical experience, relating to and credited director Sharon Givler for "making me various elements feel cared about as a person." Summers George has of the classroom. counseled young people at a YMCA day camp. "I It was a skill I'd love the energy they give off ... and I could share my not thought of. If ��;f:;�:--- faith. " He'll be camp director this summer. you care,you "My roommate knows exactly what he wants to learn tolead, not do. I'd like to be in his shoes,but if I can slow down just expect the and listen, the Lord will show me how to pursue brilliant to what [He] opens up." He said 60 percent of his follow." classmates were similarly without specific plans. Kevin will While George doesn't know what fall will bring, he use his English has goals. With Pat Robertson's Regent University literature major near his home, George has been fascinated by and philosophy Robertson's use of resources to build a communica­ minor in the tions network, schools and businesses as vehicles for Master of Arts in making sure a Christian voice is heard. He's applied Teaching pro­ to Regent Law School and is interested in an MBA. gram at the What was most important about his Houghton University of education? "My friends and times with them," Rochester.In free George relationships we see God." moments he replieJY hopes to con­ 1\ee v1in� Eaton is the kind of student a tinue camping, teacher reca ls \o the end of his career with delight biking and and regret, says his mentor, Dr. Charles Bressler­ walking. delight because of Kevin's ability, dedication and Putting ideas together-Kevin Eaton promise; regret because with years of career ahead Bressler suspects he might not again encounter Kevin's like.

8 HOUGHTON MILIEU / raphic and in her love of arts is a popular concen­ reading. Since trationwithin kindergarten in Houghton's art major. Greene, NY, when Seniorinterns are a vital her grandfather adjunct to the college's taught her to draw, publications program. Beth's wanted to be Thisyear graphics an artist. Although professor andcollege her late mother, designer Michael Jones Susan Webb, had four interns helping attended Houghton, produce scores of jobs Beth's motivation £romlogos, posters and for coming here program covers to was the Christian recruitmentbroch ures, liberal arts empha­ booklets and advertising. 1 sis and the graphic At any one tune In background, Christine Bmi11,foregro1111d, Beth Clineand Dnn Lingenfelter design program. there are some 15 Most of her output studentsconce nb:ating in graphics, although they're as an internhas been based on design done on one of exposedto each of the art deparbnent's four professors. the department's Macintosh IICi computers. Beth did Internshipsoffer the majors "the real world environment of the first color printed poster-separations generated deadlines, clients and printers ... expeiiences like thosein on the computer, has created a dozen concert promo­ the first six months on your first job,'' Jones says, adding tion pieces, a map, some yearbook ads, brochures and that the three-credit-hour internships,make a Houghton a graphic, plus the 1993-94 master schedule design. graphic student's experience compare favorably to what Whjle she's adept with the computer, as a potential he'd get from many designschools. ilJustrator she prefers free manual drawing. Principles of writing and her love of reading triggered a writing In high school Christine Brain studied photography and literature minor. As an illustrator she hopes to and design and interned in graphic design for a play­ combine her enthusiasms. Initially she hopes to work house. She sent a resulting portfolio to a Canadian for a small advertising or publishing firm. college, only to learnthat it arrived too late for consider­ ation that year. Its quality , she was told, assured her Dan Li.ngenfelter's Houghton ties are many: first place acceptance for the next fall. On the strength of nephew to alumni Jack '59 and Jerry '62 Raymond; in that, the Shawville, Quebec, resident bagged groceries his native Corry, PA, a patient of Gerald Lloyd '59, for a year. But the next spring that college denied her and a product of '87 grad Don Maxon's church youth admission. Devastated, Christine explained her pre­ group. "1 wanted a computer science major but had dicament to a friend, Paula Barber, who'd graduated trouble with math," he recalls. As a junior minoring in from Houghton. Paula recommended Houghton's psychology he told himself, "You've been drawing classes in photography and graphic design. Four years forever. Why not apply it?" after being accepted here in 1989, Christine has her In high school Dan participated in a Houghton­ degree and a business minor. sponsored art show, winning a blue ribbon for a Star 'Td still rather do photography than design," she Wars still life. Art department head Scot Bennett says, but in her double major she's done both, creating invited him to apply for college and he did. High an evocative senior photo exhibit and, as an intern, school art and graphics for his church had been fun, producing a soccer camp brochure, artist series and but in college Dan found that each one of Ted philharmonia posters, a logo, the design for an alumni Murphy's drawing class assignments equaled what mug to be distributed this summer, and the design for he was used to taking days to produce. As a sopho­ features in the first nine pages of this Milieu. more he began doing design with a computer. After two summers as an assistant cook, this Last summer he interned in Lancaster, PA, doing summer Christine will be head cook at Silver Lake in-house design for an insmance company, newspa­ Wesleyan camp in Ontario. Come fall she expects to per ads and signs, plus work for outside clients. His travel through Europe. She aspires to be a National Houghton output has included music department Geographic photographer. posters and student development projects, and the senior skip T-shirt. Dan hopes the 40-50 resumes he's Beth Cline's desire to be an illustrator is sent out will result in a job, although he will eventu­ rooted in a lifetime of watching her grandfather-an ally attend graduate school. IBM graphic designer-at work in his home studio, ■

June 1993 9 Was it worth the sponsor's time and energy? Responses included: Careerplanning "Yes!" "There's much satisfaction U1at comes from helping a student." "Houghton is isolated, and any and placement opportunity to get out m the real world is a plus." Ms. Givler hopes to establish the extern experience as meetthe real wor1d a Maytem1 course. Three hundred alumni in key by Sh11ro11 M. Givler positions with.in their business, school or organization we.re oughton students typi­ observed that while prmciples for selected (with help from Bruce cally declare their major lending money arc taught in Campbell, assistant director of during the sophomore textbooks, the critical art of judg­ alumni relations) to receive resume year,H but even after this decision, ing character is a learnedexperi­ books of this year's graduating they often struggle with career seniors through the Resume ence. Miss Prunier said, "My Referral Network. choices. Many want to make experiential traiI1iJ1.gwas valuable Resumes were connections between study and because I went through the rigors bound in attractive booklets and wm'k, but do not for a variety of of a work week and saw the way mailed to alumni in accountmg, reasons. Extern '93 is about professionals handle setbacks, business, computer, public rela­ making those connections. delegate responsibilities, and work tions, communications, education, Launched in 1992-93 along as a team. 11 social service and ministry. A Network with Resume Referral as Other extemship highlights letter from the CDC director cooperative pilot programs of the included: attendmg a Sexual Ethics introduced the graduates by Career Development Center (CDC) for Oe.rgyworkshop (Midiael specialty and highlighted key and the Alumni Office, Extern '93 Stuber and sponsor, Rev. Larry aspects of their collegeprogram­ placed six sophomore student LtU1dgren '73); witnessing the know ledge base, skill level and externs with Houghton alumni differences in needs and stvles of experience-that made them sponsors in the Rochester and the profit versus the not-for-profit attractive ca.ndjdates. Sixty-five southern tier areas during spring business (David Peters and graduating seniors participated. break. Participants received sponsor, Tedd N. Smith '82); using Commented one altunnus,a comprehensive orientation to the computers at the University of company president, "This is a super daily work tasks of the sponsor, Rochester to write press releases idea. Keep me on the list. Do it and gained exposure iI1 the (Stephen Rothenburgh and spon­ again!" To date, we know of one job sponsor's larger work eiwiron­ sor, Sally Parker '85). offermade as a result of this ment and collegial associations. Extems received no pay or network, plus at least a dozen For Aimee Prunier, who academic credit, but program additional inquiriesfrom employers. worked with recreation therapist requirements were worthy of Career assistance programs are John Garlock '87, this meant becom­ credit. Beyond their 40-hour work ideal ways for alumni volunteers ing acquainted with the work of a week, students participated in pre­ to serve Houghton College. treatment team: a psychologist, externship workshops, one of Typically, alumni enjoy being social wm:ker, nurse, doctor and which included a goal-setting asked to share their experiences other U1.erapists. Aimee Long, who session wiU1. their alumni sponsor. and expertise and appreciate worked with Bob Starks '80 at fue The oilier workshops offered recognition for their achievements. Allegany County Court House, guidance in how to design a career Because they are established in observed fue work of the district path based on the students' careers, alunmi can keep the attorney,judges, social service interests, skills, personality and college community informed about agents and police officers, and experience during the externship. changes in the marketplace with learned its importance to under­ respect to job availability, educa­ standing the responsibilities of a tion and training necessary for probation officer. these jobs, new tecluuques, and Students commented on the current research. And, since learning they received unavailable alumni know the college, they can from a textbook. Eric Lundberg, evaluate how their education has teamed with sponsor Mark Merrill served them and how it might '82 at the Wyoming County Bank, have served them better. ■ Some extems nnd spons/lrs nt npprecintio11 di1111er. Seated I lo r: Snlly Parker, Ai111�e HOUGHTON MILIEU l'mnier nnd Steve lfothmb11rgh. Standing: Bob Dr. Beuerlict (background, center) liste11s in on Pollock's lecture. lntercuHuralTransition n American in Singapore ranging from bath.room etiquette and other traLIIDain leaving their watched dozens of taxis to whether or not to leave food on overseas setting." passing.Tired of walking, one's plate, the students studied the That Camp Pinnacle's 1992 heA stepped to the curb, threw out felt, if not consciously recognized, summer staff included 22 TCK his hand and whistled at the next stages of leavingone setting for students or former students hints empty cab. Tt sped by. Repeating another, and the importance of at its value to Houghton. This his signal to two more cabs drew dealing with unexpectedemotions summer Dave e:-..-pects half of his the same result. 11 1 guess they don't and reactions in oneself and others, staff to be Houghton students. like Americans," he muttered as he if transitions and cross-cuJtmaJ What about the college's on­ walked on. experiences are to be successful. campus program with Pollock no A modem city and taxis-our Neither the need for such longer resident? last year OMS American drew a false conclusion study, nor the student flashes of House directm Cindy Fox coordi­ because superficial .familiarities sudden recognition: "That's why 1 nated campus support, but she bas offered false cues. Familiar cues felt that way!" were new to Dave now moved on to other duties.And govern and facilitate operating in Pollock, who's been criss-crossing .international program director and one's own culture. Lack or misinter­ the globe as missionary and sociology professor Mary Conklin pretation of cues leads many a consultantfor 18 years. From 1986 will not return. In their stead, neophyte traveler to conclude that a until last fall Pollock made Hough­ political science program chair foreign culture is peculiar, "back­ ton home for Tnteraction, his David Benedict and his wife, Linda, ward" or hostile. Had this American service agency/ ministry, and are gearingup to coordinate the spent the first week of Mayterm in expedited Houghton's programs to international and interculturaJ Dave Pollock's In.tercu!htral Trnnsi­ attract and serve internationals programs and care of internationals. tion nnd Adjustment class at Hough­ and missionary children. This will be in addition to his ton, he might have learned how to AJthough Dave now lives at duties as director of international see innew ways, understand and Camp Pinnacle outside of Albany, studies and advising the interna­ deal with his reactions to the NY, his special linkages to Hough­ tional studies majors.Because of inevitable stresses of immersion in ton continue in the form of this heavy load, Benedict and the an tmfamiliar culture. monthly one- and two-day visits to college adrninistation are search­ Had the American in campus or work for college-related ing for a replacement director of Singapore looked up the street­ projects abroad. The 858-acre, 95- international programs from Dave Pollock told his class-he year-old camp now managed by within the existing faculty. These could have observed empty cabs Interaction, is headquarters to duties will include assisting stopping at a designated stand. ministries ranging from church students wishing to study, travel, Watching more closely, he would camps and continuing education to work or volunteer abroad, work­ have seen people standing nearby, cross-cultural ministries which ing with the Benedicts and others seemingly at random. But, chat­ Dave characterizes as ''care of in c<1ring for the needs of ting, reading, or lost in thought, missionary and third culture kids .Houghton1s internationals. each was aware of his position in through re-entry seminars, hiring Benedict's experience as an an invisible queue. Moral? When MKs and TCKs (third culture kids) American diplomat attunes him to in another culture observe, find a as staff and providing a place for the challenges of international life mentor, ask questions, beware of them to stay during vacations and the special needs/ contribu­ drawingfalse conclusions. tlu·oughout the scl1ool year ... tions of the college'sl00-plus MKs Five Houghton students and acting out our. interest in interna­ and intemationaJs. From welcom­ several persons auditing-some tional students ... developing ing and caring for TCKs to equip­ planning short-term summer prefield and re-entry seminars ... ping them and others to maximize missions trips, others just return­ developing a center where mis­ international experiences past and ing from abroad-participated in sionaries and their families can future, Houghton's commitment the class. Beyond examples of come for R&R, particularly those endures.■ cultural differences and hints who have experienced evacuation

June 1993 11 It's Only Grace children in my apartment on the had made a fence by laying kitchen by Miriam Snow Priebe '47 days that I iron and in your chairs across the opening and had Although the problem of .apartment the days that I sew." dumped all her clothespins in the finding day-care for children is no I had breathed a sigh of relief middle of the living room rug. longer mine, there were years when when she had stated her price, but Here, Charlie was playing serenely, it was. Way back in the days when when classes began, I left the building little clothespin houses. If ever a place radiated happiness and few women worked outside the children with her and started off home, as a married Houghton with a heavy heart. contentment, it was Grace's little apartment. College student with two children Another neighbor had visited ages three and one, I needed me the night before. "You are I never worried about the someone to care for them. But, trusting that baby and the little boy children after that. Sometimes I came could I affordto get a reliable sitter, to a woman who has never been home to find her reading the if I could find one? married. What does she know about children Bible stories. One day she After hunting for a long time, I children?" she had demanded. "Is made a little blouse for the baby out thought of my neighbor, Grace of some scraps of material. It was a Rickard, who lived just across the wonderful summer, thanks to Grace. hall in our small apartment Grace had a frail little body building. She laundered and ironed and a strong soul. Many times on shirts for college men and kept Sundays l was unable to get to house for her sister, Josephine church because one or other of the Rickard ("Doc Jo", who taught children would have colds. I would English at Houghton from 1926 to look out my big front window to see Grace hurrying up the walk 1932 and from 1945 to 1969). Grace had been born prematurely, with a smile on her face. She would weighing less than three pounds at come straight to our door. "Brother birth and, shortly afterward had Armstrong had a wonderful contracted polio, which had left her sermon," she would say, her face with a severe limp. glowing. Then she would take out a This older, single woman, who little notebook and give me a point­ was always busy cleaning, canning, by-point account of everything that sewing and ironing, did not at first had been said. glance seem a likely prospect for In the few years that followed, my day-care needs. I wasn't sure we became very close. In fact, we have ma11y sayings in our family she could take on the care of two small children and there was the Grace Rickard and the Priebe children that we got from Grace. "In the light money question. But I was desperate! of eternity, what difference does it she physically able to do what you make?" she would say to me when I "How much would it cost?", I are asking? You are taking a terrible was upset over something. How inquired anxiously when she said risk. What kind of a mother are she would be glad to sit with the many times I have remembered that! you?" This morning we squeezed children. Grace kept a notebook in My neighbor's words kept which she carefully recorded those extra two tablespoons of juice coming to me as I sat through my from our grapefruit halves because income and expenditure. "I'll let classes. I could hardly wait for the you know tomorrow," she said. Grace told us, "Never throw out the sessions to be over and I literally grapefruit shells till you've The next morning, I heard her ran down the hill to our home. familiar knock on our door, and her squeezed them." When I opened Grace's door, I I am looking forward to equally familiar call, "It's only saw a peaceful domestic scene. Grace." We never locked our doors Resurrection Day to see Grace Grace was ironing in the kitchen, again-this time with a wonderful in those days and Grace never keeping a watchful eye on both waited for us to say, "Come in," but new body to match that beautiful children. She had pulled Lois's soul! She lived a life that glorified always announced herself as she highchair over to the sink and had her Saviour and it was my great opened the door. given her a wooden spoon. Lois good fortune that she was my "I've figured it aJI out," she was happily drumming away on neighbor and friend in those early said, smiling. "I will have to ask the sink. years. She answered my need for you 13 and a half cents aJ1 hour. If There was an archway between help and enriched our lives in the it's all right with you, I'll keep the the kitchen and living room. Grace process. t's only Grace? If only we all had a Grace with whom we could trust our little ones. TheseI days when even most grammas work outside the home, it's hard to find a relative or even a trusted neighbor to look after our Nanniesin children. Consequently, day-care cent,ers are a necessary "evil" for many working couples, but are a far-from-ideal form of child-care. For that reason, the U.S. is now theNineties expE�riencing the growth of an ltemativein child-care institution that used to be mainly the province of the British upper classes-the nanny. For the most part, we Ameri­ cans don't see nannies as charac­ teristic of the U.S. of the twentieth century. When we hear the word, Nanny, we think of a prim and proper woman sitting up in the nursery with "the children". Or we might think of that maverick na1my, Mary Poppins. But as more and more women enter the work form and face the frustrations and concerns associated with child­ care .. nannies are being seen as a very attractive alternative for American families.

LJVE-IN NANNIES desperately njeeded for lower NY/CT families. tvjusthave child-care experience aj�d driver's license. College �l�ucation helpful. Excellent -5 portunities/benefits.

With a nanny in residence, the morning rush to get the kids to the day-care or sitter is eliminated. So is the problem of constant expo­ sure to sick children, and worry about safety and adequate indi­ vidual attention. We at Houghton College have received calls from alumni request­ ing leads on Houghton graduates who might consider becoming nannies. And several of our gradluates have in fact chosen that

June1993 13 which can be invaluable in prepar­ ences. One reported that the nanny Nanny Wanted: ing for a job in education or for position has led to a teaching job. raising one's own children.And Another said she would recom­ This is a family of five, with · since room and board are covered, a children ages six years, three mend the job to anyone. And years, and two months. The six­ nanny can save most of her wages. another called it "a great experi­ and three-year-olds are typically In addition, contacts made while ence but lots of work." active for their ages. Both parents namiying may lead to opporturuties For the families there is, of work regular hours at demanding in a nanny's chosen field. course, a financial consideration. jobs. [OR The mother is a nurse Nannies are expensive. The who is currently staying at home placement agencies that we with the children but who is researched ask from $170 to $300 involved in volunteer work and NANNIES: SPEND A YEAR or per week, depending on qualifica­ other interests outside the home and would like a nanny to help more as a nanny with a fine family tions and working circumstances. with child-care.] The successful in NJ. Salary $175-400 weekly And many agencies charge a nanny will have initiative, be depending on experience. placement fee of up to $1000. In energetic, responsible and contrast, currently in Buffalo, NY, outgoing with a sense of humor, LIVE-IN NANNIES. $175-$300 day-care centers charge approxi­ and be a non-smoker. Morning weekly. Room/Board, Vacation, mately $120/week for an infant activities would include getting Insurance. Driver's License. and $100/week for three- to five­ the children dressed and fed, year-olds. dropping the six-year-old off at College experience preferred. Still, working couples who can school, and running errands such Must relocate for 1 year. afford the nanny option find it as grocery shopping and picking up dry cleaning.Other duties attractive. So keep an eye on this include helping with the burgeoning profession to see if it children s meals, doing their will it continue to grow or be just a ' Milieu contacted several laundry, tidying their bedrooms, flash in the pan. And what about taking them on walks, etc. The Houghton alumni who graduated male nannies? (Remember Sebastian family travels on occasion and from the years 1985 to 1992. They Cabot as Mr. French on Family would take the nanny with them. are or have been nannies in New Affair?)Would families accept Family interests include tennis, York, New Jersey and Massachu­ them? If not, why not? Could the swimming, music, and visiting setts. In answering our questions nanny profession be seen as a museums.The home is located in about the job, they sited advan­ mission field (the hand that rocks a beautiful residential area within tages such as travel with the family walking distance of the bus. The the cradle ... )? fn any case, this and membership at the YWCA. alternative form of child-care bears nanny would have her own One said it was rewarding to know bedroom and bath . Sunday and watching-by both parents and Monday would be the scheduled she had a part in the children's potential nannies. Whichever you days off, although some flexibility growth.Another said she learned a are, keep it in mind. It could be the is necessary. Weekly salary is lot about raising children that she answer for you. ■ $170, plus room and board, two has used in raising her own. Still weeks' paid vacation, and YWCA another admitted that after gradu­ membership. Nanny must make a ation she didn't feel ready to begin one-year commitment. teaching. Being a nanny gave her a chance to be out on her own This family profile is II composite of those found without being completely alone. in our research. It incorporates elements that we Disadvantages listed included snw repeated freque11tly Ofparticular interest: loneliness, difficultly in meeting every profile we saw req11ired a non-smoker. people, and dealing with spoiled kids.One alumna left her nanny avenue as a stepping stone to their position because she had difficulty chosen career. After all, nannying reconciling the family's lifestyle offers a way to do something with her beliefs. She was the valuable in a safe, secure environ­ virtual mother of six children. The ment with a limited time commit­ real mother, although she didn't ment, while waiting for a job to work outside the home, had very turn up or while working out little interaction with the children. ultimate career goals. The job The other women we con­ offers experience in child-care tacted, however, had good experi-

14 HOUGHTON MILIEU Why I Teach at Houghton Don'tColl it Nowhere by B. knn Reigles pon learning where I live each year. The school of music has aspect of living and working here. and work, many people say, provided for its faculty and In 1987, I went to Texas Tech "Houghton? Why, that's students many opportunities to University in Lubbock to begun_ theU middle of nowhere! Why hear good music and interact with doctoral study, but also to aUow would a single, attractive, talented some outstanding performers. myself time to determine if I r,eally yotmg woman such as yourself What a challenge and sense of wanted or needed to relocate. J want to bury herself there?!" really had little intention of I used to ask myself the same rehmung, but God seemed to have question, and often felt like r was in other ideas. During my last the middle of nowhere, in more semester of study, I required ways than just geographically. But surgery to remove a low-grad,e "the middle of nowhere" has malignant hunor. Si.nee l had no proven to be the perfect place for time, energy, or money to seek out me to grow as a person, find a a new position, I was forced to sense of home and purposeful return to Houghton. My time belonging, and a deepened knowl­ away and my experience with edge of what it means for me to illness had helped me to learn that follow Christ. life ru1d health are very precious My years here have been full and not to be taken for granted, so of discoveries and many adjust­ 1 began to take steps to seek ments. The very first thing that balance in my life in a place where impressed and surprised me was evidently Cod wanted me to be. the superb quality of my faculty He graciously began to provide for colleagues. lnitially I felt quite Associntr professor of voice a11d director of my deepest needs. overwhelmed and insecure, but chornlart it>ities, B. Jen11 Rrigles /111st,rnghl nt During my absence several Ho11g/1to11 for'/ 8 yen rs. Presently s/1c is a PhD other single women had joined the my new colleagues proved helpful cniufidnte nl Tc:rnsTec/r U11iversily. and supportive and I soon settled faculty and T began to form and into my new position. affirmation and renewal l receive enjoy new friendships. Though l The quality of students l found through time spent with such had known about Houghton at Houghton also surprised and people as Gwendolyn Killebrew College Equesh:ian Center, I began pleased me; young people who and Alice Parker! to visit there more frequently. are musically talented, interested The joy of working in a Fulfilling a childhood dream l['ve in learningand, for the most part, Christian commtmity where bought a horse (named Son-dee diligent, disciplined and incredibly people do strive (whether or not Singalong) and have spent many eager to learn to model Christian they always achieve their goal) to happy hours in the saddle learning principles as musicians and follow the injunction of Scriptu1·e the fine art of dressage, meeting teachers .in the world. I discov­ to live simply, love one another, people and students not associated ered, to my great joy, that T dearly and worship God is a blessing. with my own discipline and loved being involved in the lives of And the beauty of the rural setting enjoying the beauty of the scenery such fine yotmg people. They keep is a special treat. at the farm. me at Houghton. We have taught The adjustments, ah-well. "The middle of nowhere"'? each other many things, my Though I tend to be a person who Geographically it may sometimes students and l, and I thank God enjoys some solitude1 being a feel so, and not everything is as I for the opportw1ity to know them. single woman who h;isnf'ver lived would absolutely wish it, but As for my teaching duties at long in one place, in a family­ living and working in "Houghton Houghton, conducting the college oriented, academically intense, has brought this woman much choir is a special treat and I have isolated community as well as opporh.mity to grow as a musician, been privileged to have several being in a very busy discipline, has teacher, person and Christian■ and fine voice students in my studio been a difficult and challenging is the place to be-for now. I

June 1993 15 Woodwindsto WorkOrders 156years of serviceto Houghton College hristian educator Roy Lowrie once told a While the five faculty and staff members retiring Houghton audience: "People who desire this year clearly exemplify lowrie's second option, personal advancement in education will their collective places in the memories and experi­ moveC with the opportunities. But if your goal is ences of more than half of Houghton's graduates, success for the institution you serve, stay put and suggests a large measure of personal success by any invest your life." Christian assessment.

EDGAR R. NORTON ton, but a student aquaintance's witnessing convinced "A generalist in society's trend him of the college's "curious off-the-deep-end reli­ toward specialists" gious views," and he enrolled at the Quaker's Guildford College in North Carolina, with vague Ted Norton, completing 37 years at Houghton as ideas of combining music and religion. But he com­ associate professor of music education, music educa­ pleted his degree at Fredonia. Out of college he tion coordinator and Mabel Barnum Davidson directed band and chorus, first in Allentown, NY, professor of fine arts has made a career of exemplify­ then in Scio. While there he became a Christian ing the diversity so sought after in modern academe. through Wellsville piano teacher-Episcopal priest At least one alumnus recalls him as the Sunday Terry Fullam, and met his wife, Nan, in Fullam's Sun­ School teacher who informed a freshman about the be­ day School classes. Ted and Nan double dated to a liefs and practices of Christian Science. Others see him Houghton choir concert which Dr. Finney conducted. as the man who early advocated and has modeled com­ (Initial problems with glaucoma began during those puter-assisted instruction possibilities at the college. For years). Ted spent two years giving alternate service as lovers of traditional harmony in the SouthernTier he is an attendent, then as teacher and choral program� Barber Shopper of the Year 1992. To a family cow1.selor, head at Wassaic State School near Poughkeepsie. But a computer specialist, a tennis pro, a special-ed teacher he was teaching in High I.and, NY, when, as the result and an ICU child-care nurse, he is Dad. To us, Ted is se­ of an agency placement, he received academic dean nior faculty member, a steady and cheerful exemplar of Lynip's letter inviting him to Houghton. the Lord's grace over decades under the threat of blind­ As an educator, music practitioner-Ted plays alJ ness, and a man whose passivist convictions led to the the woodwind instruments-he explored, but never got test case, U.S. versus Norton and a place in that into a doctoral program because "they were too re­ movement's literature. search-oriented." He notes, "We had five kids instead." Raised in Glens FalJs, NY, Ted Norton had a mu­ Physicist Fred Trexler fostered Ted's interest in sical background- parents singers in church choir, computers and for 20 years he's explored CAI as a half-brother a school musician, himself the product of way to help students of varying skill levels and lean,­ early piano and clarinet lessons. He knew of Hough- ing speeds achieve proficiency on basics, while allowing instructors to h·ade drudgery for creativity in personalized student interaction. That exploration has produced programs he's marketed, and under­ standing of ted:mology's strengths and weaknesses, which he's sought to share with colleagues i.n the de­ partrnent and beyond campus. ln retirement Ted and Nan are moving to Olean. There he expects to devote more time to rus barber­ shop music work, spend more time with his grandchildren, and continue collaborating in CAI re­ search with another innovator in Washington State. As he has said, "CAI isn't primarily for technicians. Program design and content are critical-and only as good as the tead1ers who write them.''

HOUGHTON MILIEU Although this first teachirtg experience meant a 15- hou.r load- including math courses he'd not thought about since college- Fred survived the year. And with Vernelle's persistent encouragement-"just one or two more pages today, Fred"-and her typing, he also completed a master's thesis that was approved with little revision. He discovered that he loved teachirtg and interaction with students. "TI1ey were kind and uncritical," he claims. Two years later, with doctoraJ coursework completed, but with research and dissertation yet to be done, Fred took a study leave of absence-with FREDERICK 0. SHANNON probability, but no guarantee of re-employment- to Quitting on a high firtish up his Ph.D. EarlierFred had studied with the eminent chemist, former college president and "I have never before nor since known a professor as Houghton alumnus Paul Fall. He suspects that Fall's excited about his subject ...There was no boredom in fi.rst-name-basis letter of recommendation to the a Shannon classroom." So said an alumna whose National Science Foundation head, helped secu.re the subsequent professional successes qualify her to prestigious Science Faculty Fellowship that brought speak authoritatively about excitement. the Shannons a stipend in excess of Fred's Houghton Twenty-one years in the classroom and 12 more sala1y during those two years away. in the academic dean's office! Is Fred Shannon taking Back at Houghton with Ph.D. in hand, Dr. Shan­ early retirement because he feels the excitement has non and colleague Steve Callioon introduced chemis­ gone? Hardly. He says: "I want to quit on a high­ try seminar, advanced organic and instru.rnentaJ with energy and enjoyment in what I'm doing." A analysis. "It was exciting to participate in curriculum hoped-for series of travel destinations and projects development and be on the science building planning will demand continued high energy. (One of these, a corrunittee," Fred recalls. "Building committee was combination professional conference and trip with really fun .. . and it brought us all together." benefits to Houghton College, will be financed via a Over time Fred's summer work helped prepare gift from a former Shannon student, who got the idea him for his next role-Academic Dean. Once, during after reading a Reader's Digest article about a grateful Shenawana construction, he filled in for business student's unique "thank-you" to a former teacher. manager Willard Smith, other years he coordinated Fred Shannon grew up in the Buckeye State; the summer school. After he was named dean in 1973 significantly at First Akron Wesleyan Church, a congre­ and first met with other college deans, Fred discov­ gation which has contributed such Houghton luminar­ ered being Houghton's dean "conveyed a halo, not ies as: Claude Ries, the Chester Yorks, the J. Whib1ey my own, thanks to predecessor leadership." Best of Sheas, the DonFrases-and Fred and Vemelle Shannon. all, he says, was working with faculty, getting to But Fred's path to Houghton was long. Finances caused know them better and appreciate them more. Wryly, him to complete college at the Urtiversity of Akron. He he recalled, "l survived two middle states evaluations aJso began ROTC and graduate sd1ool there, early and maybe a half million state master plans." Fred deciding "that teaching could be fun." But he stopped also left a record of witty, pun-spangled honorary out from 1954-56 to serve in the U.S. Army-chemical degree and commencement class introductions. corps, of course--inFrance. This avowed generalist, who's taught all but two Fred returned to that university to complete his of Hough ton's chemishy courses, returned to the master's and-as it turned out-to develop his classroom in 1986-after a retooling year which relationship with fellow church youth group advisor, included university classes, visits to Ireland and to Vemelle. He also renewed friendship with his son Dale in Africa.Fred realized that he still loved pastor's son-Houghton alumnus Wil Zike-by th.en teaching, though he found his discipline more doing his M.D. residency at the U. of Akron medical changed than a year's freshening could digest. As school-and met another Houghton pre-med grad, science division chairman he was "overwhelmed by Forrest Crocke.r. He feels that those contacts, plus a the gracious reception and cooperation of my former visit to the church by then Houghton PR director colleagues." George Failing, resulted in the invitation to teach Now he and Vernellewill take a year off. He sees chemistry at Houghton. the college as "trying to do and be more things to more Having completed his master's cou.rsework, but people than when I came." Fred hopes that collegiallity still without a thesis, Fred answered Hough ton's call can be preserved, and is open to occasionally helping in 1958, to the dismay of his university professors. out the ci1emish-y deparbnent.

June 1993 17 advocacy, and willingness to push beyond stereo­ types and his own comfort zones have built friends for the college on campus and beyond. Colleagues depend on him for candor and empathy. Pastors learned that he was interested in their opinions, would answer their questions and relay their con­ cerns to campus. Since settling here Larry has substi­ tute-pastored in some 65 area churches-from Presby­ terians to independents. He and Vesta, a lifelong friend and the first girl he ever dated, have given the college four alumni-a valedictorian and a salutatorian among them. Now Mullen says: "For 47 years we've not been free of obligations. Next year we're taking off-to clean out the office, see the grandkids, travel a bit ...Then we want to give additional time to the Lord-maybe in Haiti, China or Australia." He expects to continue as a "fanatic" ambassador for "Houghton Church and the life of Houghton College."

LAURENCE K. MULLEN Shaped by his choices

Freedom and Determinism in Jonathan Edwards was the topic of his master's thesis at Boston University. Asked-in that context-to explain his subsequent 27- year Houghton career, Laurence K. Mullen offered a philosopher's answer: "Choices we make shape us." He elaborated: "Coming to Houghton was a difficult cho.ice. For years I'd felt that if J was offered a chance to teach at a Christian college, J' d take it, but I never applied. Teaching here has brought opportuni­ ties I'd never otherwise have had, and I've never regretted the decision to come ... We've had the best possible lives ... This is now home." ESTHER M. BURKE Quite a statement from a native of Saint John, Excelling as wife, mother, homemaker­ New Brunswick, who had deep roots in the Reformed and in five college offices Baptist Church there, had enjoyed success as pastor to the congregation of Bethany Bible College, taught on "We interrupt this marriage to bring you the soccer its faculty and been made yearbook dedicatee by the season." So reads a plaque hanging in Esther Burke's students. kitchen.That saying well-represents a significant Perhaps ever since his first conversation with Dr. segment of her life since she came to Houghton. But Paine in the maritimes, when-without looking up Esther Burke is much more than Coach Burke's very from the Greek papers he was grading-Dr. Paine supportive wife, having carved out a 28-year career. asked, "Did you ever teach?" Houghton has been his Esther Meunch grew up in Rochester, NY, where destiny.However that may be, his service here has her German parents had settled after coming to the included Bible and philosophy teaching, chapel United States as teenagers. Throughout Esther's coordination and church relations.To succeed at each childhood her mother worked as a cleaning woman of these has required different blends of his varied and waitress while her father was a dairyman in gifts and skills.His obvious friendliness, enthusiastic Gates and Rochester, NY.

18 HOUGHTON MILIEU Esther attended Roberts Wesleyan college and Students chose him as staff member of the year in met her husband Doug there. After they were married 1970 and again in 1989. During those years, Harold she worked at General El�ctric in Syracuse while learnedoffset printing and his and Vangie's five Doug got his master's degree. After four years in children attended the college. northern ew York, they moved to Houghton in 1958 Outside the shop Harold was a Houghton Fire when he became the second member of the physical Department member for 28 years, 17 of those as chief education department. To help make ends meet on officer, two as chief. He has been a member of the Houghton's small salary, Esther washed and ironed Houghton Community Association for 14 years. Born clothes for college students at bargain rates. Years and raised in the Catskill Mountains, Harold is an later she donated similar service to a pastor's wife avid hunter and fly fisherman and bowls twice a recovering from surgery. week. He plans to do more of both in retirement, and In 1965 Esther began working part-time at the spend more time with his 14 grandchildren. He says college, successively serving in records with Mrs. the most enjoyable aspect of his job has been working Lusk, in admissions, at finance with Betty Effland and with people. ■ Mae Smith, in career development with Lora Lynip, and as secretary to academic dean, Arthur Lynip. In the business office she has worked with Ken Nielsen, Dick Lausch, and Larry Whitehead. She began working full-time as purchasing agent/administrative assistant in 1985. Esther and Doug have four children, all of whom attended Houghton. Says her husband: "Esther has been the epitome of a wife, mother, and homemaker, excelling in each of these." In retirement, she hopes to spend more time visiting elderly townspeople and, of course, her njne grandchildren.

HAROLD GRANT The most enjoyable aspect of his job ... working with people

He's a miniature printshop. Harold Grant, operator of the quick print machine, does everything from design and layout to folding and stapling. The bulk of Harold's work today involves technology that didn't exist when he first learned the linotype key­ board. Still, he brings to his tasks a thorough knowl­ edge of printing tradition, machine aptitude, and an appreciation for tl1e elements of quality production that automated systems can't invalidate or replace. Middle of 13 children, Harold worked at odd jobs for several years after high school until 1952 when he began work at Wesley Press in Syracuse, NY-then the denominational headquarters. Five years later a December fire gutted the entire block, destroying the headquarters, the Grant's fourth floor apartment with all their belongings, and ending his job. Harold continued to work in printing, first at a small newspa­ per in Saugerties, Y, then in Connecticut, where he ran linotype for another newspaper. He learned of an opening at what was Houghton College Press via his wife's sister and her husband, who managed tl1e Houghton Inn in the early '60s. Harold began operating Houghton's linotype in 1964. In those letter-press days, Harold was the man who made the "Stars" come out on Friday nights.

June 1993 19 shared service in Houghton's tians from pain, disappointment residence IHe program under the and sorrow ...no shortage of direction of the late Beaver Perkins. laughter, joy and companionship "She taught us that you don't have leither] ... Our deficiencies are to be some 'special' person to be lost in 1-lissufficiency." Match used of God in student lives-you only need to be willing to be used." A Mixed Blessing The Brittons cite emeritus professor The Houghton setting was a E.dwardWillett for the best marital mixed blessing. The Lynch's recall Factory advice they've had-"Don't look at once narrowly eluding the night marriage as a 50/50 proposition. See watchman because of "familiarity is as 100/100 because there will be with the territory and raw speed." times when you'll need your spouse Elizabeth noted, "13ut that was to carry you through rough waters always the problem al Hough­ II ton-a critical shortage of available when you are spent" The Brittons have worked at private space, due no doubt, to tltree colleges and find each has careful planning by the trustees." distinctivcs. They feel Houghton's Al Hoover and Nancy Smith Marriages strength is the sense of commu­ observed: At times it seemed our nity-" lessons in sacrificial caring" and an education that was "prepa­ Made in ration for being contributors in our world, not just spectators." Houghton Professors as Models The role of married faculty and The origi11al Motel, Factory piece staff as models or advocates was a in April's Milieu dealt primarily wit/, common though not universal how couples met. This sequel empha­ survey thread. Rohn and Lisa sizes their insights about deeper (Steenson '85) Vogan '84 expressed aspects of relationship during court­ "Thanks to dean Danner and ship and over tl,e years of marriage. president Chamberlain who personally encouraged us in our was very attracted to her and relationship growth." Perhaps half we discovered on our first date of the respondents affirmed specific that we had the same dream­ professors as positive influences in Tom and Dana BrillOIIa111f family toI someday work with orphan their mutual devotion or egalitarian children." partnerships, though one said Uves were under microscopic Recalling their budding campus examples included "the inspection and there was not much relationship, Tom Britton '81, was good, the bad a11d the ugly." room to get away from each other. speaking of Dana Lehman '80. He "We met in the publications This tended to magnify any continued: "We quickly fell in office, pursued the relationship disagreements we had, [but] it love, but over the next two years in-appropriately-the Student may have helped to strengthen our we split up three times. (I was Affairs Building-and a chemistry marriage [because] we'd become having trouble with commit­ lab," say Elizabeth Kurtz '73 and used to working out disagree­ ment-no big surprise for a college Carl Lynch 'Tl. Catalytic match­ ments!" male). After God straightened me maker was Nora Swindler Adams, As new parents Ron and Sylvia out we got back together, and the then teaching journalism. Eliza­ (Sprowl '83) Duttweiler '85--who summer after Dana graduated we beth continued: "Jts a dangerous met as Houghton athletes, enjoyed a were engaged. I still had my senior thing to mail this opportunity for steak dinner for two sponsored by year to finish. Even though Dana's self-expression to couples married Austin Swallow as a first date, and friends begged her not to marry for 20 years ... Marriage is diffi­ who became engaged atop Chim­ me, we knew that our commitment cult; dealing with the ravages of ney Mountain while hiking in the was lifelong and we married on onginal sin at close range daily is Adirondaks-lightheartedly express May 16, 1981." painful, especially when expecta­ an ancient alternative to college Tom said their "most signifi­ tions are exceedingly high . . . dating: ''We are setting up arranged cant pre-marital experience" was There is no exemption for Chris- marriages with our college friends

20 HOUGHTON Ml.LIEU who are also bearing offspring at friends'] marria1ge. They were Education majors. They became this time!" models for us. Shared faith is a engaged New Year's Eve after a great help to fu1dinga way service at Harriet's home church­ Signs of the Times through life tog;ether, but it is not Churchill Tabernacle in Buffalo. Houghton marriages also insurance against disaster. Chris­ Upon graduation, they married reflect the age.The Milieu didn't tian marriages fail." in1943 with classmates Dan Heinz contact couples who've divorced. Richard Wolf and Carolyn and Kay Wollenwebber (later While their numbers are fewer Banks, both '65, counter: "Our Lindley) as best man and maid of than in the general population, shared experience at Houghton honor. there are many of them.Survey contributes much to that which The HaJJs went on to 26 years at couples noted stresses in their own holds us together. We cannot Houghton, he as religion professor marriages and the impact divorces return to campllls without recalling and academic dean, Harriet as a among alumni friends have had those special places and events teacher at Fillmore School.For upon them. Elizabeth Lynch which shaped our lives and another 13 years they lived in noted: "We were deeply troubled bonded us toge:ther ...A Christian California where he taught at Azusa by the breakup of [former faculty college is a great place to find a Pacific College, They were in spouse, but that should not be Houghton for their class 25th one's focus." reunion and combined it with a 25th To end this, exploration of wedding anniversary celebration in marriages made in Houghton classmate and then professor consider the saga of Bert and Arnold Cook's back yard. Harriet (Kalla) Hall, both Class of Another quarter century has '43.It was an October evening passed and Bert and Harriet will in1939; the new frosh were having return for their 50th college reunion inJuly. There will al.sobe a golden wedding anniversary reception put on by their daughters mingling classmates and other old friends. Nearly 54 years after their hay wagon introduction the Halls say their common background has given them much to share in �cultural, athletic, academic and spiritual matters.As they consider moving to Texas to be nearer their I raced npou the hill top. children, Bert says, "All our loyalties The girls in mad pursuit, The chapel bell was peal iug, are to Houghton." ■ I wns the hunted bmte! The,i screams off iendish laughter Came floatingup tlie vale. Alas! I knew the hunters Were hard upon my tail. The lw.admost foes cnme onward. I startedfor the gate. 1 fripped 11pcm my shoestring­ I That's lunu I met my fate. Ron and Sylvia Duttweiler Then pounced the foe upon me, "He's mine," she screamed, "He's 111.i11e." a Halloween hayride. Where Sile put n rope upon me. Tucker Hill Road leaves Rt.19 for And led me down the line, the college farm, Bert stood She took me back in triumph; waving a lante:rn to warncars of She was so sweet and gay, the wagons' presence.As the last But 1-1 was the victim wagon turned onto the farm road, Of aSadie Hawkin's day! Bert jumped aboard, nearly -L

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By using secoml-color 1111111era/s1 Milieu st11ad, they stayed iJ1 Hong Kong for those Audrey Stockin Eyler now /1igltlig/1ts 11ews items we beliroe will months to teach Bi.ble amon.g the Chinese 64teaches English at Pacific Lutheran be of Interest beyo11tl specific classes. and Filipinos there. University in Tacoma, WA. Her book, Cc/lie, Cl-trislim1,Socialist: Tltc Novels of J\11- Wilfred Bajn,who served as dean Harold Blatt plans to retire l/1ony C. West, was published in March by 29 of the lndiana University School of 50 on July 1., 1993, from bis position as Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. West Music from 1947-1973, recently received an vfce president for institutional advance­ (1910-1988) has been recognized as one of award from the membership ofTubists ment at The EasternBaptist ·n,eological the century's most distinctive stylists to Universal Brotherhood Association Semi.naryi.n Philadelph.ia,PA. He will con­ write fiction i.n English. Eyler traces his (T.U.B.A.), in gratitude for his vision and tinue to work part-time as senior sources and shows how his four novels support of the First lnlernationalTuba development officer. about adolescence chart a systematic devel­ Symposium-Workshop. Mary (Brunner) de Hernandez has opment of the human soul. beeJl serving in Costa Rica for4{J years. She Allon Shea began serving as hopes to visit Roughton in the fall. 3 6 pastor of the 0rnmel (NY) United Methodist Omrch in April, 1993. Aftera lmost 34 years as pastor of 52 the [mmanueJ- Baptist O,urch in 3 7 At age 76, Lynn Einfeldt of Maple Shade, NJ, Herbe.rtMitchell has re­ Honolulu, HI, has come out of re­ tired. He has been in the Gospel ministry tirement to act as Jnterim pastor at TI1e for 40 years. Gospel Baptist Ornrch in Pearl. Ernest and Mary (Shreve '55) 40 Elizabeth (Cheney) Morse 5 5 Hickman plan to retire at the end Gordon Anderson, Marie McCnrtlty married Oliver Bashore on Decem­ of June. They have been with TEAM in Marie (Anderson) McCai:thy has es­ ber 17, 1992, in Brooksville, FL. Her son, Aruba since 1987. Terry W. Morse '68 officiated. tablished a memorial award in honor of her late mother, Marion, a one-time Houghton John "Pete" Hammond, dir-ector of student who died last Novermber. The first Allan and Evelyn (Geer '41) 59 41 lnterVarsity's Marketplace Divi­ a.n.nual award went toSbarra Durham, Mt McCartney spent ten wee.ks this ston, has been named director ofStrategic outstanding voice major from Carthage, spri.ng in Rii.schlikon,Switzerland, doi.ng Careers Project for Phase 11. TI1e Project NY, who will be a senior th.is fall Marie volunteer library work at Baptist Theologi­ seeks to help Christians in careers of all writes that she and her husband, Robert, calSeminary, which serves all of Europe kinds envision their work as ministry, help will accompany her fother, Gordon Ander­ and Russia..Their plans included atten­ career counselors direct individuals into son '431 on a ministry tour of Mission dance at an Elderhostel in Turkey for four fields which have great impact on the cul­ Covenant Church congregations a.nd educa­ weeks i.n June. ture, and promote careers to which believers tional institutions in Scandinavfa this aren't giving enough attention in terms of summer. Marie and hN husband are music M"a.rvin Eyler·recently pre- their "salt and light" potential. Task force faculty at Acadia University music con�er­ 42sented a paper titled, "Spectacles, leaders come from groups such as Campus vatory in Wolfeville, Nova Scotia. Asceticism and the ·Ear'ly Church" to the Crusade for ChJ·ist, The Navigators, and The O1ristian College Coaltion. Pete was Christian Education section of The Ameri­ Eileen (Smith) Siglin received a Houghton's Alumnus of tl1e Year in 1986. can Association for Health, Physical 66 bachelor of science degree in man­ Education and Recreation i.n Washington, agement of human resources in May, 1993; DC. Jn February he was named lo Stanley Sandler has been named through Central Wesleyan College's Houghton's Athletic I lal! of I lonor. 60 to aSecretary of the Army research L.E.A.P. program.She is a d.ietary manager and st·udy feUowshjp for the year 1993-94 to a.nd Ii ves in BishopviJ le,SC. Arnold Cook's book, Of a Bo.11 and tesearch and write a book on the history o.f Pat (Williams) Wait and her husband, 43 His Vnlley, is i.n its second printing U.S. Anny psychological operations. David, are currently in Tokyo, Japan where (For review see Oct. '91 Milieu).Those inter­ he is on assignment for Kodak. ested in purchasing a copy may write to Two Federal Governmentpublica­ Mr. Cook at 20831 Frank Waters Rd., 63 tions by Dick Wire have receJ1Hy Grace (Bull) Vaus was recently se­ Stanwood, WA 98292. TI1e price is $9.95, appeared under the auspices of the Nil­ 71 lected to Who's Wlio i11 A111erican plus $1.55 for shipping (Washi.ngto11 resi­ tional Archives and Records Teachers, 1992.She was one of 195 out of dents please add $.94 sales tax.) Administration (NARA). One is a new edi­ 1300 awarded a Fellowship fo.r Indepen­ tion of the Disposition of Federal Records dent Studies in the Humanit.ies for the Part I of Gordon Barnett's handbook. H explains how to establish, SWJ.1n1.er of 1993, funded by theNational 47 testimony was featured in the manage, a.nd operate a records dispo�ition Endowment for the Humanities. Her topic April/June, '93 issue of OMS 011trencl1. program within a Federal agency. Another is Wo111e11 of tlte A111erican Revol11tio11: Camp Watch for Part II. is the 1993 edition of A Federal Records Ma11- Followers. Her daughter, Alissa plans to at­ Last January, Winifred Jacobson and agemeut Glo,sary. This is a revision and tend Houghton in the fall. her sister Doris returned to the Philippines, expansion of the 1989 edition, which Dick where they had served as CMA missionar­ also compiled. Besides writing records Craig Criswell lives in Davenport, ies for 39 years. After the month-long visit, management publications, Dick manages 72 IA, where he is self-employed with they planned to teach at a medical college NARA's records management training pro­ netl0WA, a computer firm providing i.n Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China for four gram for federal employees. He and his internet services to institutions. mo11ths, but their visas were rejected. In- wife Marguerite live in Rockville, MD.

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Jim Newhard is employed by the Daystar University of Nairobi, in a remote area, teaching missionary chil­ 73 New York State Department of 8 3 Kenya, is beginning a capital cam­ dren for two years. Her address will be: PO Health as a regional supervisoi· for the paign in the U.S. to support a major campus Box 154, Banjul, The Gambia, West Africa. state's tuberculosis control program. He expansion. Ron Navamanie and his wife, lives in New Rochelle, NY, and currently Marsha, have been asked to take an early ,:> Bill Dockery was recently given serves as interim pastor of The First Bapist furlough to support U. S. executive director (J 5 significant press coverage for his Church of Nyack. Robert Oehrig '75 in the Minneapolis of­ work with inner-city youth in his home­ fice at this critical time. They expect to town of Trenton, NJ. After his team of Harry Thompson is curator and remain in the U.S. for 2 to 3 years. S(!Venth and eighth grade playground-bas­ 75 managing editor at the Center for k,etball players won a recent tournament, WesternStudies at Augustana College in At press time, Joanne Tompkins Bill discovered that one of the players was Sioux Falls, SD. He was recently quoted in 841ad plans to leave in June for The not only inelligible due to his age, but had Publishers Weekly Qan. 11, '93), saying that Gambia, West Africa, to work with the As­ a:lso stolen one of the basketballs. Bill re­ the historical West was even more exciting sociation of Baptists for World Evangelism. turned the basketball as well as the trophy, than what is popularly believed. He said, Her destination is a one room schoolhouse remarking, "We came here to show our bas- "It involved the participation of women and minorities to an extent seldom ac­ knowledged." Downth•� Aisle Douglas &April Allen '86 8- 1-92 Patty (Harin ) Anderson 79 g Bruce &Carol (Chaffee '91) Fielding '88 12-21-9] and her husband, Phil, Jive in Lake Thomas &Trista (Bourdeau '94) Hill '92 6- 3-92 Worth, FL, where Patty teaches adult En­ Randy &Melissa (Downing '88) Knutson 1-11-92 glish for Speakers of Other Languages and Jeff &Sarah (Roth '90) Luckey '87 6- 5-93 home-schools two of her four children. Ivan &Karen (Hillman '92) Rocha '92 6- 5-93 Kevin Seaman '90 & Diane Alderman '89 7-28-90 Chris Norton played the part of Paul &Catharine (Peck '91) Skinner '92 9-26-92 Mrs. Frank in a recent Theatre Mark &Susan (Denton '78) Thurber 7- 7-92 Workshop80 production of The Dian; ofAnne Mark &Audra (Seymour '91) Warren '93 5-29-93 Frank in Olean, NY. John &Kathy (Strawser '77) Worgul 12-20-92 Cindy (McGee) Yount has been the executive director of Head Start in Catawba County, NC, for over five years. She has ex­ panded the program from 40 children and FutureAllumni seven staff members to 120 children and 27 staff members. Cindy has been instrumen­ Paul &Arlene (Beveridge '84) Alderman '85 Zachary Michael 12-14-92 tal in providing many programs within Phil &Patty (Haring '79) Anderson Christina Michelle 10- 6-90 Sarah Katherine 4-11-93 Head Start to help strengthen the family e through counseling, educational programs Steve &Jennifer (Streter '88) Atkinson Stefani Renee 10-22-92 for parents and jobs. Cindy lives in John &Tashna (Hendriks '86) Benjamin Tavya Grace Rachel 5-13-92 Hickory, NC, with her husband, Lee, Sr., Jack &Wendy (Kipp '86) Connell '83 David Samuel 7-11-91 and their son, Lee, Jr. Rebekah .Rachel 3-27-93 Tom &Lynn (Cook '89) Craig '91 Michael Andrew 6-22-90 Hannah Mary 12- 2-92 Steve Hoover has returned to the Samuel Thomas 12- 2-92 8 U.S. after a period of teaching En­ A. Bruce &Judy (Laxton '90) Dake '89 Justin Andrew 4-20-93 glish1 in Manchuria, China. He is employed Nathan &Kim (Hendricks) Ford '85 Andrew Bryan 3-22-92 with Temple University's medical practice Katelyn Elizabeth 4-22-93 plan and continues to minister among the Dennis &Susan (Pentz '85) Frederick Aaron George 5- 4-93 mainland Chinese in the Philadelphia area. Fred &Paula (Cool '80) Gates Breton True 4- 8-93 John &Debbie (Sloat '83) Gordon Joshua Michael 3-12-93 In May, 1993, Susan Anderson re­ Joseph &Rebecca Sue Gones '88) Harvey '88 Olivia Grace 7-23-91 ceived a masters degree in social Thomas &Trista (Bourdeau '94) Hill '92 Macauley Thomas work82 from New York University. She su­ Ken &Ami Holt '85 Kathryn Ann 3-15-93 pervises a group home for mentally ill Dave &Judy (Tennant '83) Mahony Marisa Anne 9-13-92 adults in Ridgewood, NJ. Craig &Janice (Kibbe '84) Nelson '84 Peter Keith 4-15-93 Gilbert Warren recently accepted the David &Donalee (Blackstone '78) Olsen '78 Eliza Kate 12-22-92 position of comptroller with D. M. Data in Doug &Joelle (McKnight '81) Pember '80 Hannah Marie 5-23-93 Marlton, NJ. He is responsible for develop­ Kevin Seaman '90 &Diane Alderman '89 Delaney Joan Seaman 12-29-91 ing, implementing, and ensuring adherence Scott &Shari (Sheesley '86) Sobolewski Kate Eliza beth 8-23-92 to all procedures and policies associated George &Gretchen (Gerber '78) Starn Carolyn Alice 2-27-93 with the financial and administrative areas David &Kimberly (Cox '88) Staples '87 Haley Rae 8-23-89 of the organization, which develops and Sadie Lee 9-21-92 supports software for police and govern­ Stephen &Ruth (Woolsey '81) Strand '81 Mary Kathleen Woolsey 4-22-93 ment applications. Scott &Janet (Carlson '83) Tennies Christopher James 3- 9-93 Jeffrey &Deborah (Leonard '90) Vogan '91 Jennifer Kathryn 10-30-92 Joseph &Joy (Tennies '89) Walsh Amanda Kay 4-20-93

June 1993 23 A L U M N IN ACTION ketball skills, but we learned it's what's in­ Douglas Allen graduated from the publica11 Congressman, Bob Walker for the side that counts-integrity, honesty and (JCJ6 University of Bu.ff alo with a master's last year, has been made a junior case­ commitment.'' A systems analyst for degree in music theater on Jw1e 1, 1993. His worker in his office. DuPont in Delaware, Bill earned a bachelor fii'nal project was a solo music theater per­ of science degree in decision sciences and formance titled, "Human Prayer." Adrianna Colon is pursuing a computers from Rider College (NJ) and a 92 master's degree in social work at master of arts and administrative manage­ CJ A fund has been established for the Florida International Unlversity. She lives ment from Bowie (MD) State. (J 7 children of Jon Walberg-who died in North Miami Beach, FL. Kim (Hendricks) ·Ford and her hus­ suddenly of apparent heart failure on Feb­ Stacia Dagwell is a youth program as­ band, Nathan live in Wasilla, AK, where ruary 2, 1993-and his wife, Barbara sistant at The Chapel in Akron, OH. Nathan is a science teacher and coach. Kim (!Felder '87). Anyone wishing to contribute Sally Dillon teaches fifth grade and is a full-time mom and volunteers at the lo­ may send checks (payable to the Roslindale works with the field hockey team at cal crisis pregnancy center. (See F11/11re Congregational Church) to The Walberg Winchendon (MA) Middle School. Alz111mi column.) Fund, The Roslindale Congregational Tammy (Girls) Holbrook is living in N. Grace (Glick) Wenger's artwork was Church, 25 Cummins Highway, Roslindale, O1arleston, SC, while working on a recently displayed in Hinkle Memorial Li­ MA 02131. Please note "Walberg Fund" on master's degree. brary at Alfred State (NY) College of Llhe bottom of the check. Sharon Jackson leaches third and Technology. Her show, consisting of Tom Fenner played Mr. Dussell ina re­ fourth grade and high school Spanish at gouache paintings, was titled, ''Pieces of cent Theatre Work shop performance of 11,e Heritage Ha.II in Hendersonville, NC. Eternity." Diary ofA1111e Frn11kin Olean, NY. Joaquin Marrero has beenawarded a 1993 fellowship from the Consortiumfor Graduate Study in Management, which Alumni Authors a wards fellowships to .high-achieving minority TIie Bible Tells Them So: The Discourse of AlumniPotpouni men and women who will pursue the master Protestant Frmdameutaism, Albany: State of business administration degree at one of the University of New York Press, 1988, For further information about t,en Consortium. universities. Kathleen (Confer '78) Boone. Reviewed by ln April, 1993, Richard and Melinda any of these items write the Richard Eckley, assistant professor of (Wood '87) Wright began a year in Nagoya, college alumni office or call us at Christian ministries. Japan. Richard works for Raytheon Com­ "TI1e Bible says it! J believe it! TI1at (716) 567-9353 or 1-800-777-2556. pany at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries as a settles it!" Sweaty-browed, all the while software engineer. They exped· their second thumping their Scofield KJVs, fundamental­ Coming to your class child in July. ist preachers have hid behind formulns like this in attempting to convince their reunion this summer? ◄ Jonathan Lightfoot has been named congregation-and perhaps themselves­ Guly 9-11 and July 16-18) ◄Os community news editor at The Com­ that they have a message from God. ing::J Leader i11 Corning, NY. Questions surrounding just what the Bible Consider bringing the says, how one enters into belief about it, following: recreational eqwpment Diane Aldecrnanand her husband, and what it settles are never allowed to be ◄109� Kevin Seaman '90, have recently and clothing, Houghton memora­ raised. Houghton alumna Kathleen C. bought a house in Walworth, NY. Diane is a bilia., photographs, sWimsuits, Boone has raised those questions and "' contract teacher at the Rochester Museum added an important sounding to and sleeping bags (for children), and a ,ind Science Center, which enables her to understanding of American Fundamental­ small. portable fan. teach part-time and stay at home with their ism in her book. James Barr, one of the daughter (See F11/·11re Alumni column). more important Biblical scholars in the area Soccer reunion planned Kevin is a network engineer at the Univer­ of literary criticism, added this praising sity of Rochester. His current project is to review to many others: ''Boone's discussion In celebration of Coach Doug design a new human resource information is so good that a review must be less a Burke's 25 years as head soccer system for the university and Strong Me­ criticism of it and more a series of reOec­ morial Medical Center. coach, the alllmni office ls tions arising from it." Reflections are still Joy (Tennies) Walsh completed a planning a fall 1993 soccer forth-coming. master's degree at Slippery Rock University Boone is not a theologian or a Biblical rellnion September 24-25. Activi­ (PA) in 1992. She currently teaches English scholar but approaches the issue of ties will include the annual <1t Butler County Community College in authotity in Scripture from her expertise in alumni vs. jllnior varsity game, Butler, PA, where she lives with her hus­ English literature. Certainly, this cross­ two men's varsity games, special band, Joseph. (See F11/11re Alumni column.) disciplinary method becomes the strength meal gatherings, and a tribute to of the work. Referring to literary theorists coach Burke. More information is 190 David Gillham graduated from Hirsch, Fish, Said, and Foucault, she is able forthcoming. Soccer alumni, Wheaton College in May, 1992, with to discuss the question of biblical authority a master's degree in missions/intercultural please mark your calendars and apart from the political arena of theological studies. In April, 1993, he began serving a plan to be on hand. and biblical studies. Never having to raise one year term as a missionary with OMS ln- the God question relating to faith and 1:ernationalin Hong Kong. His work revelation protects her from knee-jerk Plan to attend i.nvolves teaching English classes in a local reactions that would dismiss her before a church as a means of evangelism. fair hearing. That is not to say that she Homecoming '93 avoids controversial problems but that, Oct. 1-3 Donna Forry, who has served as a using a different language, she is able to 191 staff assistant for Pennsylvania Re- talk about these items without a predis-

24 HOUGHTON MILIEU A L U M N ------Paul Cra11e •&Ni•M§• posed category of bias. '38 Harold E. Dorsey died April I, This book is more 11 study about the In Memoriam 1993, in Hornell, NY, at age 76. BornJanu­ use of the Bible than of the Bible itself. The_ ary 9, 1917, in Wellsvil.lc,NY, he was chapters move us thro,1gh the textual_ity oi '31 Mary (Freeman) Bilin died Mardi married to the former Dons Bullock, who r 24, 1993, after several yeilrS in declining the plain book, the inerrant text, the ltte. al survives. He was a graduate of Angelica sense or senses, the interpretive commu­ health. A concert in her honor was pt!r­ (NY) Wilsonian School, Crarg Colony _ nity, ttre authority of interpreters. and-as a formed by the lndiana University Sd\OOI of Nursing, and served with the U. Tuba-Euphonium Ensen1ble on ,\llay 2, particularly he'lpful example-the S. Navy in the Pacific du.ring World Wa IT. 1993. At the concert, Bloomington, fN. � conception of hell. A registered nurse, he was employed w1th mayor, Tomilea Allison, presented a post, She agrees with Michel Foucault "that _ Craig Colony in Sonyea, NY, for over 20 _ humous award to Mrs. Bain in recogmtion in <:'Very society the producllon of d1 course years, retiring in 1977, and wa a mem?er � of her leg�cy of cultural inspirations and � is at once controlled, selected, orgamzed r of th� Hill Warner Post, Amencan Legion contributions to the geatE·r Bloonungton and redistributed according to a certain of Angelica. Surviving besides his wife, are number of procedures, whose role is to commu.nJtv. She is survived by her hus­ a son, a daughter, three grandchildren, a band of 6f years, Wilfred Bain'29. avert its powers and its dangers, to cope brother, and sister. '47 Floyd Banker died May 26, 1993, Ellsworth Decker, with chance evel'lts, to evade its ponderous, long-time Elmira, awesome materiality" (14). Her book is an in Brooksvllle, FL, at age 91. l le fast at­ NY, contractor and the man who between tended Lloughton from 1919 to 1921, later attempt to define the rules of the funda­ 1951 and 1973 supervised construc on of 947. � mt!ntalistdiscourse and analyze how one receiving an AB ministerial d�gree in 1 nine Houghton College buildings, died of He began his mi$�ionary s rv1ce ,n Gu1a uses them. � _rnt, complications from a lung disorder May 26 western India in 1924, servmg there until Shi: argues that, despite wl at is said, it at the age of 81. Mr. Decker not only do discourse� the terminal illness of his wife, Hazel : is not the inerrant text liul the of nated his time to the projects, but m�de in fundamentalism that provides the real (Rodgers '23) bt'ought him b;ick to the U.S. kind gifts to the college and recommended 1n 1959. On June 7, 1961, he n1arried Gracia backbone for its authority. Though Houghton to his friends as worthy of fLmdamentalism's intellectuals deposit the Fero '33. Th�y served in Jamn!ca from 1963 phi lantropic support. l 1989 t ,v college to 1968 when Floyd was reqmred to retire � ! . word ''inerrancy" in defending itself presented him with a d1stmgu1shed sel'Vlce due to his age. However, he ret111 ned to Ja­ against liberalism very few of tl,e rank and : award. In cent-ral New York he built many maica in 1969 and 1970 to supervise the file could even speak intelligently ab ut the homes and busi11ess structures, bt1l his fa­ <:> bltilding of two churches pl,mned for be­ doctt'ine of inerra.ncy. b, fact, theological or vorite construction projects were churches, biblical competency is o�en spurnedin fore he left the field, as a Gospel Corps some 39 of them. Genera l\y he donated 10 favor of the discourse about "Bible­ worker. Those hips included shorter minis­ percent of the contracted price back to the tries in Haiti and Puerto Rieo. 1111972-73 he centeredness." Dr. Boone give.'5an church. Mr. Decker was a member of the i.Liustrative nod to her 11/1ru1 111atc�· in and Gracia ministered on eight mission Gideons, served on the board of The Asso­ fields i.11 the Far East. Since 1968, their home addressing the well-known inerrantist ciation for Child Character, was a past _ base has been Brooksville, FL, where Floyd position of past-presidenl Stephen Patne. president of Kiwanis and an avid volunteer. has been active as a Sunday scl100I teacher, As one of the translators of the NIV who SvrvivoJ'$ include his wife of 60 years, sons assistant churd1 IIeasurer and building a were all required to "believe in the James (}-IA)and Randolph'65, nii:ie grnd­ fu11d treasurer, trustee and member of the inerrancy ofScriptu-re", Paine shows h w children and eight great-grandchildren. o local board of administration (Wesleyan). one's predisposition to the text deCJdes its '43 Florence (Cobb) Ewan died Febru­ He has been a member of the choir at the eventual meaning. This supports her ary 5, 1993, at her home in Cedan ille, NJ. Brooksville Wesleyan Church since its '. position that "the authority of any mod rn v Although she had been senously 111 for U,e � ived by two tran.slation is determined by the authonty founding in 1973. He is sur past hvo yea,·s and had just rttcently been daughters, Alyce Heyboe.r'48 and Helen nf the translators" ,md not by some released from the hospital, her death was Syswerda '54 and a sister. imported doctrine or the plain text (4$). une,xpected. Born in Port Norris, NJ, she Funeral services we.re held for Floyd The last d1apter describes the type of was the wife of the late Robert E. Ewan, Boardman (S) in Gas City, lN, foUowed by authoritative community created by this who died in 1.955. She graduated from Port discourse. The Roman Catholicism interment at Huntington. After college in Norris High Schoo.Lin 1939 and from the Indiana he pastored churches in Mjd1.igan, hierarchical and ,1isible system of checks University of Delaware in 19�. She re­ and balances 'is compared to [owa and Colorndo before beconung a letter ceived a master's degree 111 guidance and fundamentalism's emphasis on the press operator at Houghton CoUege Press pupil personnel services from Glassboro in the 1950s. When he retired Rev, informal, invisible character of authority. State College, now caUed Rowan Co lege of Boardma11 was working ii, the printing de­ � She warns, "One stands a far better chance New Jersey. She t,rnght at Port Norris l I1gh of challenging a revealed authority than a partment of Taylor University. Sw·vivors School, Millville Kigh Sd,ool, Oak Leaf include his widow, daughters, sons and hidden one and one stands hardly any School and Myron L. Powell School m grandchildren. _ chance at allwhen that hidden authority is (S) Paul Crane Cedarville.. Most recently, sht! taught sn,th died Apri) 12, 1993, at parading in the guise of holy scripture" grade in. Upper Deerfield Township for 22 _ (111). Almost pastorally, the author pleads home after a long illness. Born in Nunda, years, retiring i.n 1990 after 43 years ,n the NY, he was married to the former Nancy for us aU "to interrogate our d1scours s teaching profession. She was a former � Jsaman who sw·vives. Paul was Houghton with rigor and expound our truths with member of the EasternStar, and the Colleg:'s superintendent of buildings and humility'' (lU). Cumberl.andCounty Historical SociNy. She grounds from 1976 to 1985, when he re­ Bom1e wrote her book in the heyday of was an active member of the Deerfield Pres­ the Swaggart and Bakker scandals. In the signed to devote fulJ-time to �lle�any Log byterian Church where she was a former Homes the business he and 111s wife wake of two decades of evangelical power Sunday school tead1er and a mem er of the founded in 1980. Besides his wife, he is sur­ � pol.itics and the recent David Koresh Women's Guild and flower fund director. vived by two daughters, Billie Bedford 85 disaster, th.is study is a needed analysis, 1 ot .' She ls survived by a son and daugJ,ter, � and Tammy Newville '86; two grandchil­ o( what the Bible is, but of how tl1e Bible 1s three grandchildren, a brother and sister, dren; his parents; a sister; and several aunts used-and abused-by ''the people of the and a niece and nephews. Memorials may and uncles. Memorials may be made to the Book.'' be made to the Memorial Fund of the Garwoods (NY) United Methodist Church.

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Deerfield Presbyterian Church, Deerfield, Mrs. Phoebe Shea by Mr. & Mrs. Edwa·rd J. & Mrs. James Fleming; NJ, or the Woodruff School Library Fund, Sakowski, Dr. Lola Haller and Mr. & Mrs. A. Beverly Taylo, by Mrs. Margaret Taylor; c/ o Woodruff School, Highway 77, David Loeffler; Gerald Vander Veen by Mrs. Mildred Seabrook, NJ. P. Gordon Stockin by Mr. & Mrs. Richard Vander Veen; '33 Ruth (Lawrence )Gearhart died Farwell, Mr. & Mrs. Wesley Churchill, Mr. Evelyn Wight Waterman by David A. February 18, 1993, at her home in Howell, I� Mrs. Bldad Vanderlip, Mr. & Mrs. John Waterman, Torrey Farms, Tnc., Blba United MI, of cancer. She is survived by a son. Willcock, GudrunKartevold, Mr. & Mrs. Methodist Church, Mr. & Mrs. Warren '3J Faith (McKinney) Scott Jennings James Hurd, Mrs. Dorcas Nussey, Dr. Lola Terrill, Mr. Nom,an Phelps and Mr. & Mrs. died April 1, 1993, after a short illness. Born Haller, Mr. & M!'S. Franklin Clark and Mr. Ronald Johns. in Akron, OH, she was married to Gerald Scott, who predeceased her in 1973. In 1982, she married Earl Jennings, who survives. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Cuba, NY, was an avid walker Lookingfor LostFamily and reader and enjoyed sewing. Surviving Houghton College seeks to recover ties with some 2,000 lost alumni. besides he.rhUBband are three daughters, ·n1e following list represents some of them. We ask that you take time to two step-daughters, 1nany granddtildren 1read the list and write to Tiro Fuller or Bruce Campbell at the alumni and great-grandchildren., two sisters, and several nieces and nephews. Memoria Is 1:1fficewith the addresses of people you know. Have you been out of may be made to the Cuba First Baptist ltouch with your alma mater? When you write, include a few sentences Church or to Grace Alliance Home, 600 about yourself to the attention of Debbie Young. Florida Ave,, Deland, FL 32720. 1938 Donald Peterson Robert Cryer David Calderwood (S) Ma.non E. Spencer died May 3, 'Wendell Campbell Duane Pride Charles Davis Donald Chapin 1993, after a long illness. Born January 1, 1943 Jerry Dorsey Phi.lip Collmer 1907, in Rushford, NY, he was married to lohn Gabrielson 'Edward Dow William Commack the former Nina Moore, who in '1987. died ·Paul Suuth James Dyet Howard Eager He was a retired former nd worked on the a. Robert Brairton John Foulk Donald Ernens college farm for several years. I Ie was a Robert Casler Charles Haxton Ted Filmer member of the Fillmore (NY) Wesleyan Alan Johnson WilburnHolland Charles Green Church. Stu·viving are a sister, nephews Poul Miller Christian David Hamilton and nieces. Memorials may be made to the Richard Moore Kristensen Arnold Hammer Fillmore Wesleyan Church. Paul Stemengerg Stuart Leyden Gareth Hightower Milieu has received several incomplete 1953 John Nelson death notices which appear here, with dates John Benson Richard Olson of death, if known: Harley Gearhart '60, Allen Campbell Harold Rigas died November 14, 1992; Howard Hudson Herbert Chamberlin Fred Royce '23; Rory E. Lake '76 died October l2, 1992; William Clemmer Walter Pyster Howard White Clifford J. Lamberton '35. Roland Given Dean Ransom Albert Wil.liams Lawrence Green Richard Reed Richard Woll Thomas Tiewgill Albert Runge Robert Womer Memorial Gifts Hubert Jicha Ray Schuh 1963 Memorial Gifts were in�tituted by the a/1111111i Norman Linhart O1arles Schultz John Agrusti board early in tlte '7/Js. Today, donors to the Bobert Loveless Sillem Towne Kenneth Anderson Jail ammo/ fimd may slip11l11tc tlrnt 1/teir gift Charles Messick 1958 William Ayer /io11or nr 111e111orialiie itutlvid11als. Occ11sio11ally Douglas Monroe Howard Bauer Paul Biggers Richard Horner :,,>ifts made for other purposes are designated i11 Donald Otis Raymond Bohn James Biggs Richard Irvine writing as given in ho11or or i11 memory of a spe­ Robert Pavelka John Bush Robert Burns RonaldKeith cific person. fitlrer way, donor a11d honoree Robert Perkins Jay Cole. Joe Byerly TimothyKenyon 11ames are preservedin 11 permanent college record. This Milieu co/1111111 was derived from that record as vf Jrme 3, 1993. Thomas C. Armstrong by Mr. & Mrs. Tho­ Sendyour alumni news mas E. Armstrong; Milie11 wants your alumni news. Use the space below or send a note to Deborah Young, Faith McKinney Scott Jennings by Mrs. Houghton Milieu, Houghton College, Houghton, NY 14744. Copy deadline is the l05t I Jelen Farner; week of the month before issue. Space limitations may delay publication of items by one Bruce Merritt, Jr. by Mr. & Mrs. Kevin issue. Items which have appeared indass newsletters won't be included unless we judge Knowlton; them to have broader appeal. Please be specific-name city and sta.te where you live ◊r Jane Varley Molyneaux. by Mr. & Mrs. work, give dates, spell out acronyms. You can make these columns memorable for your David Tomkins; classmates. Stephen W. Paine by GudrunKartevold and Mr. Harold Smith; Justus A. Prentice by Dr. Willian, Olcott; Elizabeth Rennick by Mr. & Mrs. James Fleming; Claude Ries by Mrs. Blanche Damon; Crystal Rork by Capt. Franklin C. Babbitt; Margie Livingston Ross by Mr. & Mrs. Ri­ chard Ross;

26 HOUGHTON MILIEU Early Chapter Meeting Schedule Date Location Activity Representative Sept. 10 Chicago Area Soccer Game Bruce Campbell Sept. 17 Finger Lakes Dinner Pres. Chamberlain Sept. 24 Buffalo Dinner/Reception Numerous Sept. 25 Toronto Area Dinner/Reception Numerous A L U M N ------••§ti••M§.. John Lane Theodore To facilitate classmate recognition, the following list of women Daniel Lau ! lildebramlt includes maiden names. Ronald Main Jolu1 Hw:ne Sharon Meahl Gould Nancy Lewis Hughes Titus Ngaamba Michael lannettorti 1935 Lois Gearhart Hartzler Donna Slater Kline David Porkola PaLtl Kennel Helen Link Brown Patricia Hayes Hoy Patricia Nickless Stephen Saunders Robert Mariani Marion Angell He1Tick MiriamJackson Lyon Merryman David Sdwll Douglas Eleanor English Shaner Joan Walker Sather William Seaman Nightengale 1940 Beverly Rowley Stanger David Sloan Robe.rtPeterson Mildred Schaner Blom Phyllis Scott Straulka Wayne Snyder Gary Pollard Jane Hurd Cross Elai11e Parks Strong Robert Steeves William Roodhouse Lucille Scott Deville Donna Tallman Towle Gerald Tenglund Stanley Schjes Easter Clark Mc Daniels Sandra Wells Vitron Charles VWalonga SIMiey Smith Esther Olin Roser 1965 Lawrence Warnbaa Stephen Spencer Katherine Roberts Geraldine Gould Barrow Joseph Weber Paul Taber Urbanczyk Virgi11ia Faller Christopher John Zull Philip Tonnessen 1945 Anne Bartlett Dll5enbury 1968 James Webb Ruth White Bovee Dale Wood Gladys Wright Mac lJ1tyre Barbara Biggart Frazer Gloria Dittman Godding Stanley Wood Lillian Fisher Weaver Irene Stephens Yount Carolyn Verhey Johnson 1978 Faye Zimmermru1 Mickey Bailey 1950 Lois Newberry Jones Hill Montgomery James Brown Patricia Klenke Rhonda Roush Moore Stephen Fitzwilliam Sharon Miles Newvine Lynn Mcpeek Pentz David Pelton Patricia Weir Nyslicki Mary Lenz Rickettson Thomas Reiner Patricia Stone Pierce SusanJacobs Sager Alan Salvage Charlotte Molnar Roberts Denise Beers Scutt Jolm Sd1weiger Janel Perry Scovill Evel Stocker Smith Donna Alderman Shafer James Stone yn Nikj Arnarantides Smith Kenneth Strait Elaine Varley Thellman Janette Hooker Wilde Deborah Peangatelli Ronald Archer Jay Thomas Whelpley John Bonnema Steven Waligur 1970 Ruth Payne Baker Judy Fink Williams Donald Brickel Richard K. Walker Joan Voorhees Beith Deborah Camp Witt Lloyd Crawford Philip Wanek Esther Davis Connetly 1980 Roy Dodge Clifford Wilcox Nancy Ruder Craft Maril Jones Bodden Charles Gardner David Winkler Martha Hartshorne Ad.iano ynn Rose Wilcox Arblaster Ann Armstrong Dodd Deborah Lindsey Brase Weldon Greenman 1983 Ruth Bean Brown Leon Guilford David Acree Jeanne Zinn Benson Kathi Fotch Burkhart George Heckart Elijah A.rap Korich Jean Spaulding Blasdell Susan Hostetter Krieger E Song Lin Anthony Bitcheri Edythe Marshall Carol Taylor Latting Dennis Mac Kinnon Karl Bruno Breithaupt Karen Curnow James Martin Michael Fields Kiku Omine Cuthbert McCluskey Richard Merrell Richard Hawkins Betty Pierce Danielson Rebecca Brown Ocampo Paul Mihn StephenJoseph Ruth Lawrence Frase Marsha Rexford Rexford Ralph Miller Larry Manhardt Donna Boyle Holland 1985 Jolu1 Norman Scott Sheldon Ruth Lavancha Lee Susan Silsbee Ackley Gregory Palmer Scott Smith Janice Mote Mack Royce Anderson Brand Ronald Sittig Bruce Smith Mary Ross Mallery Laura Mara 112 Dean Daniel Wegner Jonathan Wells Miriam Ki11g Ondre Marjorie Smith Ruff Susanne Loftin Dicicco Eugene Wilkins f Linda Greer Hallam Susan Giford Elsner Richard Williams Thelma Mae Atkins Patricia Stevenson Paine Lorrai11e Fox Gendrue- Philip Wineland Seuffert Geraldine Breckenridge Fox Paul Zabriskie Alice Smith Weber Frances Stetson WJ,eeler Rothstein Laurie Campbell Lawton 1973 Marjorie Hall Short Katherine McGarvey Randy Bradway Barbara Reed Wright Rebecca Smith Van Wie McGarvey Cute Robert Bush 1955 Susan Neel Verity Deborah Davis Richardson Neal Carsten Claire Hambly Black E Dale Saunders Watts Kjmberly Fisher Sherwood Robert Clark Ruth Glock Cauble 1975 Amy Hautzinger Stamp Edward Conover Inge Schneider Green Patricia Warner Anderson Nancy White Zavacky Alan Couch Sara Davis Grier Linda Johnson Barany Paul Dominguez 1988 Helen Mc KaigJulian Sally Keller Clemm Richard Duthe Stephen Beun Shirley EddyLa Force Kathleen Calkins Cook Wilfred Gaerh1er William Clark June Greene Maiville Rose Marie Bmden Gagne Leon Gibson Scott Curtis Jane Ewing Miller Carrie VWavieja Grant Mark Gilmour Jonathan Enderlin Beverly Behringer Panten Lidia Reid Guzman Jeffrey 1 !albe.rt Theodore Glick Nila Eshelman Pompa Sara Swindler Haldi Bruce Havens Charles Janke 1960 Diane Egli Hirt Keith Hayes Patrick Moran Mary Kamp Allen Stephen Newton Betty Stillman Apgar Cheryl Miller Ethel Brewer Archer Hollingshead

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William Roeske, who designed and supervised installation, Christian Life explained that cor11;-ec�g the _two DirectorNamed labs via the college s fibre optic lines optimizes operation�! The Rev. Dr. David B. Lewis, economy and efficiency via more has been named Director of economically licensed shared Christian life, succeding Dr. C.L. software, greater use flexibility Bence. I--lis duties willinclude and need for just one lab proctor. oversight of the chapel s:hedule, Computing capacity was increased preparation and scheduling of in both locations and a backup outreach groups and developing a hard drive is on-line. sports ministry outreach. Gets The former computer science Dr. Lewis, who was pastor at College Two network has been moved upstairs First Baptist Chttrch of Computer Labs in the science center and tied into Franklinville, NY, has also been the campus VAX network. women's soccer coach at Houghton Helping students cop� with since 1991. He graduated from The demanding word processing loads, Departing Faculty King's College, (NY) w�th a B.A. providing necessary depth for in religion/philosophy m 19�8, math and science courses, and C. L. Bence, acaderruc dean completing M. Div and D. Min. and vice president of the college providing general technol?gi�al degrees at Gordon Conwell facility for graduates movmg mto from 1987-92 and dean of Christian Theological Seminary. He's taken Life and ministries last year, will other graduate work in a world where computers are the . common connection among leave Houghton to become profes­ Massacl1usettes and Califorrua. diverse activities places a continu­ sor of religion at Indiana Wesleyan In college Lewis was an ing demal'\d on the college. last University beginning this fall. Dr. NCCAA All American and NAIA summer a new 32-station IBM Bence will teach graduate and All-District soccer player. There he compatible computer l b w s undergraduate courses_ ther�. also received the American Bible � � . Professor of sooology stnce installed in the academic bu tldmg. Society Award for Excell�ce_ in This spring a second 25 station 1975, Dr. Mary Conklin will serve Religious Education and Biblical !BM lab has gone on line in the in a similar position at .Point Loma Studies. For a year after college he science center, to be connected by a Nazarene College in San Diego, played soccer for Athletes in new server to the one in the CA, starting in the fall. Beyond Action di.visionof Campus Cru� academic building. A third lab her classroom role, she has been sade for Christ in California, while featming Macintosh equipment director of international programs. serving as team program director. wiJ.1 be operational by fall. Dr. Conklin was instrumental in Since 1986 Rev. Lewis has led The new IBM-compatible lab the founding of the student the Franklinville church into and its connection to the existing orgartization Afro-American significant congregational and facility is financed by $66,000 in Cultural Exchange (formerly Black plant growth while serving as Student Organization) in 1980 and gifts from math and_ scien�e education director for the alumni and other friends mter­ has remained its faculty advisor. Franklinville Crisis Pregnancy ested in computers, some oi them Jose Velazquez, assistant Center, and as a member of health IBM employees, and a series of professor of Spanish since 198�, and studies committees at matching corporate gi�s. One has left Houghton to pursue hls Franklinville Central School. From Ph.D. through Valladolid 1-!niver­ alumnus enabled the college to tvvo 1988-90 he also coached girl's purchase terminals and server at sity of Spain. Mucl1 of the first soccer there. his dealership rate-$4-5,000 years can be done in �s native With previous experience in below the next best estimate-and Puerto Rico, and he will also teach New England coaching soccer, contributed what would have been at Anderson University, IN. wrestling and softball, he has been his profit. Overall cost includes a camp soccer cli.njc.ianin related furnjture,hardware and Massachusettes, California and software, carpeting, other remodel­ Ohio. Lewis holds USSF Coaching ing in the science building and the Certificationfrom UCLA, CA. labor of connecting the new Novell Earlier he was associate pastor in netwares operating system. Reading, MA, focusing on. 01.tis- Data processing director, Profs. Bence, Conklin, nnd Velazquez 28 HOUGHTON MILIEU tian education and youth minis­ extra 300 pillows and blankets on public services at the library), spent tries, including short term utis­ short notice. They make many 11 days in Japan during May sions. Earlier he was a part-time friends for the college via thought­ visiting the emperor's quarters in youth director at the West Point ful, dedicated, on-demand service. Tokyo, shrines and Buddhist Military Academy post chapel. The summer conference temples which had been restored Lewis and his wife, Eileen, have program is a solid student recruit­ after the destruction of World War two daughters. ment tool and the newest addition Ilin the ancient capital city of Dr. Lewi.s'sappointment is part to the schedule should be another Kyoto, and memorials to H.iroshima of a consolidation and realignment winner. The 150-student Signature bomb victi.rnsin that city. of duties occasioned by Dr. Bence's, Band and Choir Camp will operate Dr. Doezema said he will be departure. Psychology professor Dr. for 18 July days, and feature week­ able to incorporate what he saw Paul Young, interim academic vice end concerts-includingone in and use some of the books he president last year, will resume his Letchworth Park. Houghton purchased in Hiroshima in future classroom responsibilities, and also College has designated scholarship history classes. Besides the profes­ asswne overall coordinalior1 of aid for 10 participants from sur­ sional aspect of the trip, Doe:zemas relations between the college and its roundingcounties. Student musi­ visited former Houghton faculty church constituencies. In this cians range from 12-15 years old. members Peter and Judi Mollenkof capacity he will represent the Drawing from the largest area in Tokyo. college to all interested area geographically, apart from alumni Ms. Lawrie Merz, reference churches, more widely to the weekends, may be the national and music librarian, received the sp onsoring W1;sleyan Church. conference of the. Association of Elizabeth Holt Prize for best During �!:,��er.Young will visit Christians in Student Development graduate paper at Syracuse churches�·c61uereH.te� and camps. held in June. Apart from its University. Her paper was titled Duringthe scfi'o8IyearDr. Lewis recruibnent and liaison functions, ''Lady Venetia Digby as 'Prudence' will assist him in the general work the conference program helps by Anthony Van Dyke: a represen­ of church relations. stabilize college income through tation of 17th century English the swnmer months. court culture.'' Associate professor of voice B. Jean Reigles is taking a sabbatical Summer during the fall semester to finish her doctoral dissertation beguna year WearingConferences its summer confer­ ago at Texas Tech University. Her ence center guise, Houghton topic is d1oral music of Amy Beach, College will host 53 organizations one of the first important American or groups between May 21 and women composers of the late 19th, August 7, attracting some 5,000 early 20th century. Ms. Reigles will people to the campus for sessions Dr. Chri.,tenson n11d Ms. Reigles continue directing the college choir as large as 750-the United for the first part of the semester, Methodists for their 21st consecu­ preparing the music group for their tive year-aAcl1 down to a dozen October concert with the Rochester attend.i«g'a tllnrchboard retreat. Dr.FacuHyNews Larry Christensen, profes­ Philharmonic Orchestra. Other Nineteen conferences are expected sor of chemistry, will be on a one­ plans include attendingconcerts to draw more than 100 guests each. semester sabbatical this fall to do and travelingto libraries in New Among the events hosted will be research in his field at the Univer­ Hampshire (Ms. Beach's birthplace), college events, weddings, sports sity of Buffalo and at the Univer­ Boston and Washington, DC. camps, church conferences or sity of Rochester. Additionally, he In May and June, busines.sand camps, retreats, a high school has tentative plans to attend a economicsdeparbnent head Richard graduation and &usic camps. conference. ln June and July he Halberg, spent13 days in Hungary In his12th year as conference and his wife Bonnie served with led:uring on free enterprise and director, Bruce Brenneman and his Habitat for Humanity in Goshen, businessethics in eight cities. Last summer staff of Priscilla Ries, lN. They plan to travel in Califor­ year's trip (seeMilieu for Jan. '93) Rochelle Sutith, Bill Allen and nia, specifically San Francisco, in produced requeststo interact-with Sonya Weir will solve problems August and September. American managers, soHalberg took that in the past have ranged from Associate professor o.f history, Maine CPA Dave Olsen '78, and locating an Elderhostler lost in William Doezema and his wife, Florida attorney and community Letch".'7orth Park to getting an Linda (archivist and coordi11ator of leaderJames Welch along. " . .,_

June 1993 29 _CAMPUSi....______AccidentVICfims Memorialized, SUrviving Citedfor . FriendCarries Missiona Senseof Character Twenty-one months after an opposing lane crossed over and For the fourth consecutive year, auto accident took the lives of caused the fatal head-on collision, Houghton College has been named James Francis and Paul Maxwell, survived to gradu ate in May. How their classmates have gradu ated. has he coped with the "might of to the John Templeton Foundation But classmates, parents, other beens" of the accident? He's taken Honor Roll of the nation's highest family and friends of the budding the advice of a pastor who visited character-building colleges and uni­ teacher and artist have assured him during the days he was versities. As one of only four New that the memory of both young confined at Erie County MedicaJ York State institutionsto be named, men will endure in ways appro­ Center after the crash-"Deal with Houghton is among 111 schools priate to their interests and the things as they are." chosen nation-wide, 73 of which are purposes of Houghton College. Hansen says the ensuing church-related. Nine hundred can­ Jim's parents, James and months have been a learning didates were nominated by the Janice (Marolf) Francis, both cl ass process of God's faithfulness. "I feel presidents and development direc­ of '66, have used their son's more for people-you never know memorial fund contributions to how long you'll have them." He tors of over 1,450 four-year, date to construct three shelters added, "Relationships are where accredited colleges and universities. adjacent to the college ropes it's at." As resident coordinator for course pavilion. the Powers House dorm, he's James and striven to maintain a spiritual YouthWeekend Nancy Maxwell, emphasis. "Can you be recognized in a Paul's parents, Scott, who initially transferred crowd as a Christian and do you have established to Houghton because of encounters want to be?" That was the leading the Maxwell with Houghton alumni involved in question for Houghton's May 14- Memorial Scholar­ the Highlander program, says their ship, an endowed mutual outdoor interests was how 16 youth weekend which drew fund intended for he metJim Francis and Paul 329 overnighters for seminars annual award to a MaxwelJ. based on the missionary theme: junior student, Academically, Scott says he's "Where in the World is Walto?" based on need and tried to run from history, but that The largest group, 87 partici­ Christian commit­ it's run him down. So it would pants, came from the Rochester ment . TI1e college seem. This fall he has a full tuition Youth Association, an inner-city continues to Cohen Scholarship for graduate Black and Hispanic ministry. Scott Hansen welcome memorial gifts for both work in history at the University of Another 26 came from metropoli­ young men. Rochester. He anticipates a career Scott Hansen, dsiver of the in tead1ing, but adds, "l don't know tan Toronto with the rest from car in whichJin1 and Paul were why my life was preserved, but churches in western New York and riding when a vehicle in the there is something I have to do." Pennsylvania. Significant numbers of young people responded to the ministries of keynote speaker Dan cameraderie produced more Seaborn, minister of youth from ArborDay volunteers than who'd officially Holland, Ml; seminar speakers More than 100 staff, faculty, signed up, and resulted in many Tray Williams of Urban Christian administration and community volunteers doubling their two­ Ministries of Buffalo and Wayne volunteers participated in the sixth hour shifts or staying the whole Arum of Buffalo's Metropolitan annual modern Arbor Day at day. The resulting sprucing-up Chapel.; and the contemporary Houghton the weekend before made the campus more attractive Christian music group, The News commencement. for commencement visitors and Boys. The latter drew nearly 800. Bush, tree and flower plantings summer conferees alike. A sponsor track focussed on (33 dozen of them), litter walk, Not confined to Arbor Day, the role of youth group sponsors in trimming and weed removal were but part of campus improvement, developing outreach strategy, the main events-not counting the was a refinishing of the chapel scheduling events to emphasize end-of-the-day picnic on the quad portico and the ongoing replace­ missions-mindedness, and provid­ which drew 290, and featured ment of all shrubs arround Luckey ing information and training in games and a concluding monster Building, according to coordinator preparation for service, as wellas 100 water-balloon toss. Lisa Bennett, to be completed by designing followup projects to the Good weather and a sense of Summer AlumniWeekend. weekend.

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gram for Accelerating College Education. In presenting the ,�cademy News graduates for 'their degrees, Aca­ Houghton Academy's Double demic Dean Paul Young singled the Vision campaign chairman, Dr. out Jeff Falke of Taberg, NY, as the Bud Tysinger, has announced that college's first fifth generation thie academy has received a graduate. Senior class president $100,000 matching grant proposal which could boost the academy's George Weidmaier announced the prospects for a spring 1994 ground class gift to the college, a ceramic br,eaking on new and renovated mural to be created this summer facilities. The condition of the grant by Houghton professor Gary requires $100,000 in new cash gifts Baxter and affixed to the exterior by December 1993. At Ho11ghton College,Paul Pang 111et a11d stonework of the Willard J. Two-thirds of the way into the married the former Marjorie D1mbar of campaign, donations and pledges Massena, NY (abaue). The Pangs live in Hong Houghton Library main entrance. Valedictorian for the '93 class is ha.Ve surpassed $665,000. This first Kong, but freque11tly visit their daughters in challenge for matching funds in the LaMirada, CA, where he sometimes lectures at Karen Elaine Reese of Newark, DE. She earned her B.S. in chemistry caimpaign comes at an appropriate Bio/a University. During a post-comme11ce111e11t time, according to Paul Shea, reception, Dr. Pang spoke of his work in Hong summn cum laude, minoring in math­ Kong and two exciting opportunities in Cliina. campaign director. "We had ematics. Kaxen was a chemistry lab reached a plateau," Shea said, "and Paul's been asked by the governmentto consult assistant, lettered in field hockey on constnicting a new mulli-acre ca111pus on the this outstanding promise can help outskirts of Bejing,for a traditional Chinese and played several intramural us recapture momentum." school ranging from pre-school to high school. sports, sang in women's choir and is The academy's continued NearCanton, he's consulting 011 a similar school listed in the 1993 edition of Who's enirollment gains (124 students in based 011 westernforms. Both will be models for Who Among Students in American 1992-93) and broadening recognition training future national leadership and are being Universities and Colleges. underline the need formore space. financedby firms doing business with China. Salutatorian is Paula J. This fall area daily commuters from As constnicl ion is completed, the schools will be Marolewski of New York City. outside Houghton seem likely to phased in a year at a time, with Paul making summa Laude, exceed 60 students, a 329 percent recommendations on securing the best teachers Also cum she earned ino·ease from just five years ago. The and administrators. Clearly many of these will a B.S. in writing with minors in expansion project doubles classroom be teachers he has trained. Chinese officialswere religion and history. She received space, Library facilities and for the so pleased with the training he gave teacher/ senior honors in English for her first time provides adequate chapel/ administrators last spring, that he's been asked fantasy novel, Land and Fire. auditorium and office space. to offer similar seminars to sorne 4,000 others Written in journal form is a second later this year,and the Chinese gauernmentwill novel, Meditations of a Slave. Her be printing some of his texts for distribution. writings, which have won her awards for excellence, focus on Commencement Christian spiritual growth. Paula was a student assistant in the Highlights religion deparment, and partici­ In his Sunday address: "The pated in a radio drama. Case of the Insufficiently Converted The graduating class included Apostle," professor Woolsey argued a set of twins and three married the progressive nature of the couples. Ten graduates were Christian walk from "conversion to faculty or staff dependents. Read Christ," to "conversion to the in the listing of graduates were the church-discipleship-in-commu­ names of James Francis and Paul nity," to "conversion to the world." Maxwell, both killed in an October He said the latter entails ''being in 1991 auto accident (see story on the world, sent to the world and page 30). Receiving her degree in living/or the world." absentia was Dietlinde Fabian, Two hundred and fifty stu­ daughter of Wycliffe missionaries dents graduated from Houghton's in Papua, New Guinea. Ms. Fabian regular baccalaureate programs left campus to be with her mother For more inforntation and a recent Academy and the second cohort of 11 non­ pub.1ication, "What's Happening to the Next after learning of her father's Generation?" contact Philip Stockin, Head­ traditional students graduated murder on the Wycliffe compound master, Houghton, NY 14744. from the new adult degree Pro- in Ukarumpa April 29.

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261 Graduate,3 AlumniHonorecr ·· C (''" i. ddressing Toronto, Pang first returned After the address Houghton's '93 to Hong Kong in 1969. Houghton president Daniel graduating class May Beginning with 32 stu­ R. Chamberlain presented A dents, over the succeeding 10, Dr. Paul Pang drew on Dr. Pang with an honorary his own remarkable experi­ decades he founded schools Doctor of Pedagogy degree. ences as an educator in Hong which now serve thou­ Other awards included a Kong to challenge the class to sands. (Oliver Lau, an Doctor of Sacred Theology "vision, commitment, prepa­ alumnus of one of these to Sunday's baccalaureate ration and action." schools, was a member of speaker and retiring Noting that personal the Houghton Class of '93 Houghton professor Warren brilliance is not a condition and is profiled on page 6.) M. Woolsey; and a Doctor for success built on such a Dr. Pang's Research Insti­ of Humane Letters to model, Pang explained that tute for Christian Educa­ Carolyn Paine Miller, before he came to Houghton tion, designed to prepare Wycliffe Bible translator in in the early '60s, he had teachers for Hong Kong's Southeast Asia and a mem­ taught in Hong Kong gov­ reversion to Chinese control ber of Wycliffe's ernment schools. There he in 1997, now includes lead­ international board of direc­ recognized that a burgeon­ ing administrators and tors. Each is a Houghton ing population promised teachers from mainland alumnus. major opportunity for China interested in integrat­ sound education and infus­ ing values and education. ing Christian values. Rather than a threat, Pang Additional Completing his sees the coming changes in bachelor's degree here in Hong Kong as a major op­ commencement 1964, master's and doctoral portunity to influence the storieson p. 31 degrees at SUNY Buffalo future of Chinese education, (NY), and a second master's infusing it with spiritual from the University of values.