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SPRING 2020 What’s Inside SPRING 2020 | VOLUME 28 | NUMBER 2 Features 14 BACK TO PAKISTAN Seizing the opportunity more than 50 years later to revisit the places where they spent their youth in the mission field, Beth Hogan James, Dave Hogan 14 14 and Julie Hogan Garner take a nine-day trip in early February 2020 to Lahore, Departments Pakistan, with their father, Gordon. 18 12 HARDING AT A DISTANCE No one could imagine the last half of 2 VIEWPOINT 12 SPORTS the spring semester would be without a Two words describe the interrupted All spring sports came to an bustling campus, but the Harding spirit semester — thankfulness and longing. unexpected ending March 12. is prevailing even from afar. Hannah 3 HU VIEW Owens provides an overview and Apart, but not alone timeline of the crisis, and several students, faculty, staff, alumni and 4 ONE MOMENT ON THE COVER parents share their perspectives on a The usually filled Benson sits empty. 30 CONNECTIONS The Harding family could not return to semester apart, but not alone. | 31 PROFILE campus after spring Sarah Felps Schecter, 1984 break due to the 32 | PROFILE COVID-19 crisis, but Mat Faulkner, 2002 even from a distance, we 6 AROUND CAMPUS are #BisonsTogether. ILLUSTRATION BY TIM COX NASA Day on campus and other happenings around the University 36 END NOTE Dr. Dan Williams shares the LEFT PHOTO BY DAVE HOGAN, RIGHT AND OPPOSITE PAGE PHOTOS BY NICOLE SWANN NICOLE BY PHOTOS PAGE OPPOSITE AND RIGHT HOGAN, DAVE BY PHOTO LEFT power of a nudge. 18 Viewpoint HU View Thankfulness and longing HARDING Apart, but not alone SELECTIONS FROM A SILENT SPRING SPRING 2020 | VOLUME 28 | NUMBER 2 By BRUCE D. McLARTY, president N MARCH 6, we were still shaking EDITOR/DESIGNER Tom Buterbaugh, ’78 hands. Students were finishing their last day of classes before COPY EDITOR/WRITER Jantzen Haley, ’17 heading out on their much- anticipated spring break. Many were heading WRITERS O Katie Clement, ’16 home and others were going to help with Hannah Owens, ’11 tornado relief in Tennessee. On March 6, Megan Stroud, ’19 we had no idea how much our world would SPORTS WRITER change before the end of the month. Scott Goode, ’97 The following Thursday, because of con- PHOTOGRAPHER cerns relating to COVID-19, we instructed Jeff Montgomery, ’91 students not to return to campus after break. CONTRIBUTORS Their semester would continue online. Then, Brianna Allman; Andrea Chunn, ’95; Andy Chunn, ’94; Abigail on March 19, we made the heartbreaking Cooper, ’18; Grant Countess; announcement that we would not resume Joanna Crisco, ’97; Wendy on-campus classes for the remainder of Davenport, ’00; Lisa Engel, ’88; the spring semester. Spring Sing 2020 was Terry Engel; Briley Feringa; Hannah Jones; Michael Krupka; pushed back for a full year, and May com- Melanie Meeker, ’95; Zach Neal, ’01; mencement was postponed until August. It is Emily Nicks; Jake Riggs; still difficult to absorb how much our semes- ful we can continue this semester online. Briley Saunders; Kwame Yeboah; ter — how much our entire world — changed Because of the technology we have access to, Dan Williams after March 6. we are able to continue the classes that were PRESIDENT When I spoke to the Harding family on half finished. There is, indeed, so much for Bruce D. McLarty, ’78 video via Instagram and email, I shared with which to be thankful. VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS AND ENROLLMENT everyone what, to me, was the most helpful Longing. However, the technology that Jana Rucker analogy at that confusing moment. Ann and I allows us to see our granddaughter each have a granddaughter who lives in Montana. night leaves us with a sense of longing. We Harding is published three times a year by the Office of University Maggie is now 20 months old, and since her ache to hold her in our arms, kiss her little Communications and Marketing birth we have had a special family ritual at cheeks and nuzzle her hair. That also is how for alumni, faculty, staff, parents Maggie’s bedtime each night. We facetime it is with this at-a-distance semester. We can and friends of the University. Editorial offices are located on the her, and Ann, who has a beautiful alto voice, connect in so many ways, but we are still left second floor of the David B. Burks sings a lullaby to Maggie. When I reflect on longing to speak face-to-face. American Heritage Building at those tender moments, I am always remind- On March 6, we were still shaking hands. 915 E. Market Ave., Searcy, Arkansas; 501-279-4316. ed of two words that seem to pull my heart in Now we are scattered all over the world. We opposite directions. Those two words are the are so thankful for the connections we still POSTMASTER Send address changes to same ones I find battling in my heart these have, but we long for the time when we can Harding University days when I think of this semester at Har- hug and laugh and sing and cry together, 915 E. Market Ave. ding — thankfulness and longing. remembering the thankfulness and longing Box 12234 Searcy, AR 72149-5615. MONTGOMERY JEFF BY PHOTO Thankfulness. Ann and I are so thankful that marked the spring semester of 2020. EMAIL that we live in a time when we can see our [email protected] granddaughter’s face and hear her voice WEBSITE before she goes to sleep each night. Not too harding.edu/mag many years ago, such a connection was un- © 2020 Harding University imaginable. In a similar way, I am so thank- TOP ROW: @meetashel, @SAHardingU, @billymorganhu MIDDLE ROW: @sydneymbryant, @HUCPE, @matheusfb_ribeiro BOTTOM ROW: @beccaakared, @megs_72310, @_andrewsbaker 2 HARDING | SPRING 2020 SPRING 2020 | HARDING 3 ONE MOMENT An empty Benson Auditorium March 25, 2020, sits ominously quiet awaiting the return of students and the bustle of campus activities this fall. PHOTO BY JEFF MONTGOMERY 4 HARDING | SPRING 2020 SPRING 2020 | HARDING 5 Around Campus For the very latest campus news, visit harding.edu/news. Dr. Douglas Terrier tells the audience gathered Kendall, Cone in Benson Auditorium Delta Gamma Rho social club Jan. 27 about Artemis Halls in transition phase 1: To the lunar surface by 2024. THE UNIVERSITY IS IMPLEMENTING some housing dedicates seat, honors Uebelein changes on campus to provide room for growth while improving facilities, student experience and WOMEN’S SOCIAL CLUB Delta Gamma Keith and Sherry; her three siblings, Luke, educational offerings. Rho dedicated a seat in the Rhodes-Reaves Caleb and Rachel; Luke’s wife Julianne; The first change, announced in February, is Field House to former member Mary Joy and Rachel’s fiance Blake Herring were in a new vision for Kendall Hall. Located just off Uebelein Feb. 20. attendance along with many friends and the front lawn, Kendall has been a women’s resi- Uebelein, a big fan of Harding basketball, DGR club members. The seat was marked dence hall since 1961. However, while evaluating died March 16, 2019, from injuries sustained with yellow balloons, a yellow rose and a women’s spaces in need of renovation, it was in a car accident March 8. DGR member and DGR jersey. determined there was enough room for students fellow St. Louis resident Emma Vaughn was “I really wanted people to just show up previously housed in Kendall to be placed in other the driving force behind the seat dedication, to the game even if you didn’t know her,” residence halls. Due to its central location on cam- wanting to find a way to honor Uebelein’s Vaughn said. “One, that’s supporting the pus, Kendall is being evaluated for ways it might memory before graduating. basketball team, and two, that’s supporting better meet current academic and student needs. “We wanted to cement her legacy here her family in a way that isn’t super intimate A remodeled configuration of Kendall currently on campus,” Vaughn said. “I wanted it to but something they will really appreciate.” being considered could include common areas for be a good seat that you could see very well. President Bruce McLarty reflected on meeting and studying on the first floor, while the I made sure it was behind the boys’ bench the evening in a tweet the following day: second and third floors could become home for because that was a good spot where she “Beautiful, tender and heartfelt ceremony departments such as history and political science could see the boys and the whole game. The in the Rhodes-Reaves Field House last night and foreign language. number 14 was her jersey number for DGR, as Delta Gamma Rho dedicated a seat in In addition to the remodeling of the wom- so we picked number 14 for it.” memory of Mary Joy Uebelein. So thankful en’s dorm, Cone Hall, a men’s apartment-style The dedication was held at halftime dur- Mary Joy’s family was able to be here for residence hall on campus, is being reclassified as ing the Bison basketball game. Her parents the event!” privileged housing for fall. Privileged housing is designed for qualifying second-semester junior or senior status students and has no residential curfew or required meal plan. Currently, privileged NASA collaboration continues men’s housing is exclusively in Village Apartments located at the southeast edge of campus. On a NASA CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST Douglas Terrier, day. A special exhibit titled “Harding and NASA: Dennis Province and Dr. Cindy White, was one consistent basis, men who are eligible for privi- the highest ranking NASA technology official Through the Years” also displayed various of only 25 teams chosen from across the coun- leged housing in Village do not utilize the apart- and first NASA chief technologist ever to visit grant-funded research projects beginning with try to represent the consortium.