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It has been a whirlwind of activity since July, when my wife, Judy history and the choice of this location by Ellen White. Others Photographers and I began serving here at Pacific Union College. To give mentioned the value of our unique natural setting along Cameron Mitchell, ’16, you a glimpse of our activities, we visited alumni in northern, with our forest and agricultural lands and the opportunities Carrie White, ’11, central, and southern California before school started in for using these resources for education and for generating Bob Wilson September. In early October the PUC board reversed an earlier alternate revenue streams. Often mentioned was the Contributors vote and chose not to sell just over 100 acres of college-owned opportunity for PUC to provide an Adventist education Herbert Ford, ’54, Nancy land to a Napa Valley vintner. The PUC campus and Angwin in the midst of our exceptional natural setting and to Lecourt, Peter Lecourt, ’16, Kellie Lind, ’82, Nikki Neumann, community overwhelmingly supported this change of direction. transform student’s lives through the mentoring and teaching ’17, Carissa Paw, ’18, Maria A week later, fires struck Napa and Sonoma counties and we relationships of faithful role models. Rankin-Brown ’95, JJ Reynolds, watched and grieved as our neighboring communities suffered ’19, J.R. Rogers, ’07, Jennifer FEATURES tragedy in the loss of loved ones and property. In the midst of “What is most important right now?” was a question designed to Tyner, Megan Weems, ’18 these challenges and opportunities, we see clear evidence of help us establish our priorities moving forward. Responses to PUC ADMINISTRATION God’s grace and care for PUC. this question included comments such as the need to take new, 8 Honoring Our Newest Emeriti bold approaches to the challenges here; to develop alternative President 12 Our Forest, Our Heritage, Our Future As a senior leadership team, one of our most pressing respon- revenue streams; to think differently about the future than we Robert A. Cushman Jr.

sibilities this fall was to resume the strategic planning process have about the past; to rethink our student life programs; to be Vice President for Academic 18 Unearthing PUC’s Untapped Potential begun last year in the midst of the leadership transitions here. more intentional about aligning our academic programs with Administration As of today, our vice president for academic administration, career development; to increase enrollment; and to develop Nancy Lecourt 24 Hearts of Service Nancy Lecourt, and I have facilitated over a dozen listening a campus physical master plan that aligns with our evolving Vice President for sessions where we solicited ideas and concerns from our PUC strategic plan. Financial Administration board, faculty, staff, and students. Attendees at these sessions Brandon C. Parker were asked a series of six questions to initiate our conversations. As our PUC campus lives in the moment and plans for the PROFILES In these listening sessions with the campus, several key con- future, it is important we recognize our place in Adventist Vice President for Student Life, Enrollment, cepts surfaced that I would like to share with you. higher education. God has blessed us with tremendous and Marketing resources waiting to be utilized in furthering Adventist Jennifer Tyner 30 Student Profile: Adriana Rieke The first question, “What one word or phrase would you use to education here at PUC. It is critical we care for those here Chief Advancement Officer describe PUC in this moment and why?” elicited a broad range now—our students, staff, and faculty—while we are planning 34 Faculty Profile: Kent Davis Kellie J. Lind of responses. Words and phrases such as community, family, in for a future with Christ-centered education as our focus. We are 36 Department Profile: Alumni & Advancement transition, optimistic, destination, historic, resilient, diverse, grateful for your continuing engagement and support of PUC. Vision Statement: ViewPoint, the journal of Pacific Union College, accepting, and potential, were expressed. connects PUC’s alumni and friends in a community that celebrates the college’s activities and stories, and supports Many of the attendees experienced first hand the challenges the continuation of its mission into the future. ViewPoint aims to provide ALUMNI NEWS that accompanied the recent leadership transitions and they quality features about topics relevant to our community; news about the are anxious for PUC to move forward and fulfill its God-gifted college and alumni; and means to unite, potential. Dr. Robert A. Cushman Jr. motivate, and inspire. 42 Class Notes President Produced by the Pacific Union College “Why does PUC exist?” was a question intended to help us public relations office for the alumni and 45 Weddings friends of the college. reflect on our mission. Several attendees mentioned PUC’s ©2018, Pacific Union College 46 In Memory Printed in the U.S.A. 48 Births

2 Pacific Union College VOL 39.2 ViewPoint VOL 39.2 3 “Take a good look at God’s wonders—they’ll take your breath away.” (Psalm 66:5)

4 Pacific Union College VOL 39.2 ViewPoint VOL 39.2 5 What’s Your PUC Reason?

Bruno de Oliveira, ’22 Carissa Paw, ’18 Shekinah Francis, ’19 Lindsey Orellana, ’15 Chris Romero, ’17 Steven Felty, ’15 “One of the biggest things that caught my “Originally I planned to come to PUC because “Attending College Days was what affirmed “I wanted to continue my education in a “I chose to come to PUC because the people “I really loved everything about the attention about PUC was the quality of the a long line of family members attended and PUC for me. Friday night, after spending Christian environment, and strengthen my are welcoming and the environment is beauti- atmosphere; spiritually, socially, and photography program. Now that I’m here I loved it. My brother was also attending at the time with students, they made me feel like I faith with God. PUC was the perfect fit. I ful. I chose to stay and work here because I academically.” love the diversity on campus and how ac- time. When I came for College Days I fell in already went to PUC. We laughed and chat- knew right away this was the place God believe in the product. I believe in the quality cepting and caring everyone is. People from love with the campus. The people have made ted until late, I felt welcomed left and right. wanted me to be.” Adventist education PUC produces and I the administration like Jenn Tyner to enroll- me feel like it’s home.” When I left they all said, ‘So girl I’mma see love being able to help students figure out ment counselors like Janae Bowman, I have you next year, right?’ It was just a floodgate of what they want to do in life.” felt supported and accepted from day one.” welcome and that was wonderful.”

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WANT TO SHARE YOURS? EMAIL: Nephtali Marin, ’19 Quinn Lindell, ’18 Brett Dickinson, ’18 Gabe Riojas, ’17 Shelina Sifuentes, ’17 [email protected] “PUC has a really great department of visual “I chose PUC because when I visited, the “I love PUC because of all the people who “The people at PUC make you feel like you “I transferred to PUC because of the people arts. The faculty are very involved and make staff were extremely supportive and willing represent God’s character every day.” were meant to be here. It’s a really warm and here. My favorite professors are not just sure we get a lot of hands-on experience and to answer my questions. The campus and inviting environment.” my favorite because of classroom time; it is out-of-class opportunities.” surroundings are also very beautiful.” because they are like family.”

6 Pacific Union College VOL 39.2 ViewPoint VOL 39.2 7 Jennifer Wareham Best, Professor student body. In retirement, he plans to hike and Emerita of Speech Pathology bike new trails and help his wife to spoil their many grandchildren—possibly with some math lessons! Honoring Our Jennifer Wareham Best has given 40 years of Ileana Douglas, Professor Emerita of service to PUC with a strong passion and purpose. Beginning in 1977, she taught in the department History of communication, eventually becoming chair for many years. Alumni attest she always found time to Professor Ileana Douglas has served PUC with Newest Emeriti address student concerns directly and efficiently. She distinction as academic dean and as a member of the was engaging and dynamic in the classroom and a history faculty for 19 years. She is retiring in June, strong leader in the department. In 2003, inspired after 40 years of devoted service to higher education. In Recognition of 247 Years of Combined Service / Nancy Lecourt by the dreams and generosity of John and Rosemary Her selection as the 2010-2011 Educator of the Year Collins, she started the Teaching and Learning confirmed what her colleagues already knew; she Center, serving as director from the very beginning. is devoted to students through her fervent passion Last spring, we honored several distinguished faculty members upon The TLC has become the heart of the campus, of history, as well as her commitment to Christian where students may go to feel at peace. They are education. their retirement for their dedicated service to the college. We are accommodated in several ways, which include forever in their debt for the countless hours they have spent both tutoring, mentoring, test-taking skills, and a boost in As a historian, Douglas works tirelessly to remain in and out of the classroom, helping make Pacific Union College the morale and determination. current with the most recent scholarship in the field, as her courses indicate through frequent place it is today. We are truly grateful to have called them faculty Professor Best also directed the PacificQuest revisions. As a colleague, she has willingly taken on members. Their legacy will live on within the lives they touched as program with her husband, Lloyd, for many years, new classes, facilitated departmental assessments, teachers, mentors, and friends. attracting some of the highest-performing young and taken students on summer tours to many places people from the Pacific Union Conference for a such as Japan, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and week of academic challenge and learning as well Czechoslovakia. Her focus over the entirety of her as an opportunity to meet and connect with others career has been in her devotion to students. Her during the summer. Her leadership as PUC’s passion and enthusiasm for student learning—about graduation coordinator has also been nothing both the past and the present—can be attested by short of stellar. Most recently, she has provided many to transform lives, which manifests in her effective academic mentoring to our varsity athletes, students the love of learning. Her office hours attending their games and cheering them on—both overflow with students who stop by for help with on the field or court and in the classroom. Jennifer classes and for help with life. Ileana is the heart of and Lloyd plan to spend their retirement traveling the department, an educator who has devoted her and enjoying the company of their growing troupe career to her students and her colleagues and, in of grandchildren. doing so, has inspired us all.

Lloyd Best, Professor Emeritus of Linda Maberly, Librarian Emerita Mathematics Jennifer Wareham Best Lloyd Best Ileana Douglas Linda Maberly Linda Maberly has served in the Nelson Memorial Library at PUC for 30 years. During that time, she Professor Lloyd Best recently completed his 32nd has worn many hats. As the public services librarian, year in department of mathematics here at PUC, she has assisted thousands of students and faculty. and 47 total years of denominational service. He As a cataloger, she has mentored many students chaired the department of mathematics for many while developing a progressive collection of books years; served as vice-chair of Academic Senate three and databases. Forensic analysis would reveal her times; chaired the Academic Standards Committee fingerprints are on over 150,000 volumes in the twice; and served as a member of two special study library. The library’s website—accessed by students committees. He was also co-director of PacificQuest over 100,000 times per year—is the direct result with his wife, Jennifer, for 10 years, graduation co- of her efforts. She has also served as the program coordinator for 12 years, and GNST 401 coordinator. manager for the library’s remodeling project. Although many of her accomplishments have been Professor Best has taught thousands of students over behind the scenes, her contributions have enhanced the years, patiently guiding them to better under- Edwin Moore A. Gregory Schneider Myron Widmer Lynn Wheeler the learning of tens of thousands of students. We standing and appreciation in the field of mathemat- wish Linda a peaceful and well-deserved retirement. ics. In 2016, he was voted Educator of Year by the

8 Pacific Union College VOL 39.2 ViewPoint VOL 39.2 9 Edwin Moore, Associate Academic Dean Myron Widmer, Professor Emeritus of Emeritus Applied Theology and Religion

Dr. Edwin Moore has served at PUC for 20 years, Dr. Myron Widmer, professor of applied theology first in the department of English, teaching English and religion, taught at PUC for more than 20 years. as a second language, then moving to the academic After receiving a Master of Divinity degree from dean’s office in 2004. Dr. Moore has provided a Andrews University in 1978, he went on to earn a steady, reassuring presence during calm weather Doctor of Ministry degree from Fuller Theological and in storms. He has been especially helpful Seminary in 2004, with an emphasis on pastoral when the college needed him to be interim chair praxis and worship. Early in his career, he pastored of departments in transition. He has also taken on three churches in the Pennsylvania Conference and the job of chairing the Assessment Committee, the was associate pastor of the Walla Walla University Institutional Review Board, and the Pre-Professional Church. He then became an associate editor of the Committee. He has inspired trust and confidence Adventist Review for 12 years, writing hundreds of in his colleagues and leaves a significant hole articles for various publications. During that time, in administration. Dr. Moore looks forward to he also traveled abundantly and preached around spending time with his wife, Carol, and their 10 the world. He was privileged to be on the first grandchildren. government-approved trip to China by Seventh-day Adventists after the Communist Revolution of 1949. A. Gregory Schneider, Professor Emeritus of Religion and Social Science Dr. Widmer joined our faculty in 1986, teaching such classes as Encountering Jesus, Heroes and Villains, Biblical Culture and Archaeology, Seventh- Dr. Gregory Schneider has been a professor of day Adventist Beliefs, Ministry of Healing, Creative religion and social science at PUC for 40 years. He Church Participation, Christian Spirituality, Sharing has challenged and inspired students in honors, Your Faith, and Church Missions in the Modern religion, psychology, and social work, and supported World. He was also director of the Ministerial the gospel calling to social justice by working with Studies program. Dr. Widmer enjoyed providing students to establish a campus chapter of Amnesty real-life experiences for the students in his class. On International. Dr. Schneider has been central to such occasions, students had the opportunity to his department by integrating faith and learning. stomp out grape juice with their bare feet, and other He has chaired many campus entities, including times, were able to baptize each other and make the Longo Lecture Committee, Academic Senate, communion bread. Myron enjoys bird-watching and a general education review committee, and the hiking. Married to the love of his life, Karen, he is department of psychology and social work. the father of three children, Joel, Christina, and Numerous awards should also be noted: Dr. Brita, and is enjoying being a new grandfather. Schneider was a 1983 fellow at an NEH Summer Seminar at Yale University, a 1985 recipient of an NEH Fellowship for College Teachers, a 1988 Lynn Wheeler, Professor Emeritus of National Zapara award winner, and the 2005-06 Music Walter C. Utt Professor of History at PUC. An active scholar, Dr. Schneider is a member of the American Dr. Lynn Wheeler has taught at PUC for 46 years, 2018 Academy of Religion and the author of “The Way chairing the department of music for 24 of those Introducing PUC’s Emeriti of the Cross Leads Home: The Domestication of years (1986-2010). He has guided the department American Methodism.” through rough times and smooth, and seen significant changes over the years. Dr. Wheeler was Despite his success as teacher, writer, and scholar, a participant in an NEH institute on Beethoven in Dr. Schneider has also taken time to be active in 1991. He has presided over four National Association many dramatic productions on campus, including a of Schools of Music accreditation visits, after each of prominent role in “Red Books: Our Search for Ellen which the department accreditation was renewed for White,” and the roles of Grandpa in “You Can’t Take the maximum allowable time. Most significantly, he It With You” and, most memorably, Tevye in “Fiddler has inspired piano performance majors to love the on the Roof.” He is also an enthusiastic kayaker instrument, and to become dedicated musicians in and cyclist. Fortunately for PUC, Dr. Schneider will their own right. Over the years, he has led several continue to teach part-time in retirement. music tours, performed in countless concerts, and in many ways become “Mr. Paulin Hall.” Roy Benton, Ph.D., Cherie L. Goulard, Rodney Hardcastle, Professor Emeritus Ph.D., Professor M.B.A., Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Emerita of Nursing of Business Administration

10 Pacific Union College VOL 39.2 ViewPoint VOL 39.2 11 Our story begins in November 2013. A group of officials Our forest is currently being used for the purposes of from CAL FIRE’s (California Department of Forestry and education, research, and recreation. These activities are Fire Protection) Forest Legacy Program were on their ensured to continue once the conservation easement is annual field trip to conserved forests throughout Northern established. Many among our PUC family and the wider California. While on a stop at the Las Posadas State Forest, community regularly enjoy reconnecting with nature the group came across a fence marking the state forest’s while exploring our forest on foot, cruising the trails on a boundary. Wondering about the woods on the other side, bike, or clomping around on horseback. The department one member of the group asked, “What’s the deal with of biology regularly takes students out on field trips in that land?” “It’s owned by a small college named PUC, and the forest, providing hands-on learning experience as it’s for sale,” replied retired U.S. Forest Service forester well as the opportunity to see concepts learned in the John Henshaw. Immediately, the group began to talk classroom realized in nature. Students are even starting about what they could do to help conserve the forest, and to get opportunities to work with outside organizations the seed that is the PUC forest conservation easement was conducting research in the forest. planted. Pumas, or mountain lions, sit at the top of the food chain Those who have hiked through the PUC forest know it as within the forest. Understanding the health of this species a special place, where one can wander through the shady helps scientists better understand the health of a broader oaks and majestic pines, forgetting the troubles of everyday ecosystem. The Felidae Conservation Fund is conducting OUR FOREST, life. If you ask a PUC alum, “What makes PUC a special research on puma populations throughout the Bay Area. place?” Chances are the forest is near the top of the list. Dr. Floyd Hayes of PUC’s department of biology is working Owning a forest with such character helps PUC stand out with Felidae to monitor the puma population within the as a unique school where students, faculty, and staff have PUC forest. He and a group of students have set up and OUR HERITAGE, opportunities to learn about complex natural ecosystems collected data from a number of wildlife cameras spread in a 1,000-acre forest and connect with a pristine and throughout the forest. natural environment. Our forest is a big part of who we are at PUC. On the other end of the food chain, a number of plant OUR FUTURE species growing in the forest are either federally listed as As you may have heard, the college is now working with threatened or endangered. Aimee Wyrick, chair of the the Napa County Land Trust to help protect our forest department of biology, is working with the California Peter Lecourt, PUC Forest Manager through a conservation easement, which is a legally Native Plants Society to help monitor and understand binding document limiting what landowners can do the health and distribution of these plant species on our on their property. Under the terms of a conservation land. She is even working with a scientist from Germany easement, a landowner sells the right to conduct certain on research about the coast redwood, as PUC has a unique activities such as development or commercial activity; grove of redwoods on its land. however, the landowner retains ownership of the land. It’s the land equivalent of “having your cake and eating it, Sequoia sempervirens, or the coast redwood, has a range too.” PUC will be selling a number of development-related spanning from Monterey Bay to the Oregon border. The rights on the forest land to CAL FIRE’s forest legacy trees’ needles are poor regulators of water loss, forcing program through the Napa County Land Trust, ensuring the trees to grow near the coast where the air contains these rights will never be exercised. In return, PUC will ample water. At 38 miles from the coast, Angwin receives receive $8.1 of the $12 million the land would be worth just enough cool coastal air and fog to allow for redwood through state grants and private donations. Receiving the growth. Our redwoods grow on the eastern side of our $8 million to protect the forest for the future is a special forest’s main ridgeline, where the north-facing slopes opportunity for the school. create cooler temperatures favored by the redwoods. This

12 Pacific Union College VOL 39.2 ViewPoint VOL 39.2 13 combination of geographic location and topography Land Trust found our forest to be the second highest in college and surrounding communities have an ample asset making us distinctive among Adventist colleges and create a special ecological niche allowing for the growth biodiversity within the county. They also note the PUC supply of water moving forward into the future, an all-too- universities. of a special grove of coast redwoods. forest connects the Las Posadas State Forest in the south real concern in modern California. to private forest lands in the north, and serves as an As urban areas continue to grow, having less access to a Another unique species calling our forest home is important corridor for wildlife to move freely among our Our forest has always provided for the college, and pristine forest for study, recreation, and inspiration, this the northern spotted owl. Habitat loss from intense local forestlands. Preserving our forest will help preserve has played a major role in life at PUC since the college forest here in Angwin can only become more valuable. commercial logging activity created a decline in the homes and ranges of a wide range of animal and plant moved to Angwin in 1909. Many of the original campus Our forest has served us well in the past and will do so in spotted owl numbers, causing this species to be listed life, protecting the well-being of these species into the buildings were constructed from timber harvested in the the future, so long as we practice good stewardship. The as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in the future. PUC forest, and some of that timber is still in buildings conservation easement is an effort to do just that, and with 1980s. Helping to preserve their remaining habitat is one on campus today. Countless students, faculty, staff, and the help of CAL FIRE, the Napa County Land Trust, and of the best ways to protect this species. The presence of All life depends on water, and the PUC forest plays an alumni have strolled through the forest on a Sabbath walk, our community, PUC will be able to preserve our forest for spotted owls has been recorded in our forest on several important role in the hydrological cycle of Angwin and reconnecting with God through nature. Some students the benefit of generations of plants, animals, and people occasions in the past. In fall 2016, Erin Erickson, a the nearby area. Forest lands are better able to absorb even choose to come to PUC because of its pristine to come. With God’s continued blessing, we will remain a member of the Napa County Land Trust staff and an water and store it in underground aquifers than cleared forested setting. Being able to take a quick hike on a whim place “where Nature and Revelation unite in Education.” experienced owl biologist, managed to use bait to call in a or agricultural lands. Once absorbed in the ground, the to refresh the brain and spirit is a true asset to being a pair of spotted owls. water slowly seeps out of springs, or can be drawn out by member of the PUC family here in Angwin. wells. Water flowing out of our forest pours into major As we plan strategically for the future, we need to The PUC forest is home to a diverse array of plant and watersheds on both sides of Howell Mountain, and some of remember our heritage as a “college on a mountain, animal life. The term “biodiversity” refers to having it even ends up in Lake Hennessey, the major water supply among the fir-clad hills.” The importance of the natural a variety of species of plants and animals living in an for the city of Napa. Keeping our land in forest cover is environment to who we are and what we have to offer ecosystem. In a survey of all land in the county, the Napa a major step PUC can take to help ensure that both the students and families is intimately tied to our forest, an

14 Pacific Union College VOL 39.2 ViewPoint VOL 39.2 15 Saving Our Legacy Board of Trustees Votes Not to Sell PUC Land / Jennifer Tyner

In a historic move, the Pacific Union College Board of “It’s hard for an institution to say, ‘We were wrong.’ But Trustees voted on Monday, October 2, 2017, to withdraw the policy of trying to sell off large portions of college from negotiations for the sale of more than 100 acres of land was a failure—and did not lead to permanent agricultural land. Trustees rejected a multi million-dollar improvements for PUC,” continues Dr. Anderson. “From proposal from a Napa County winery. mission-minded Adventists to secular viticulturists, we have heard one recurring message: ‘Your land is your “I am pleased the board has given PUC the opportunity endowment. Don’t ever sell it.’” to pursue a vision that includes stewardship of the PUC lands,” said Dr. Robert Cushman Jr., PUC president. “We Nearly the entire board meeting was devoted to the intend to develop a campus physical master plan that will discussion of PUC’s land. After a field trip to some of the include the development of auxiliary revenue streams land and to the PUC Preparatory School Farm, much while preserving the legacy of our land. The land is our of the afternoon was spent discussing whether or not to endowment.” proceed with selling the parcel in question or to pursue alternative opportunities for sustainable revenue streams. This decision follows a similar vote at the May 11, 2017, meeting when the board voted to remove four other land Dr. Nancy Lecourt, vice president for academic parcels from the market. The board also voted to suspend administration and member of the agricultural committee, further discussion of land sales until the campus physical said, “Keeping this beautiful farm land at the center of master plan is approved by the board. Dr. Cushman our campus allows us to plan for innovative new academic outlined a 12-15-month timeframe to revise a plan that has programs. We look forward to getting more students not been updated since 1975. involved with growing food and appreciating the natural environment.” “The new college senior leadership team is offering an HELP PROTECT attractive vision for the future of the college, one that Dr. Cushman and the senior administration team are THE PUC FOREST myself and the board are excited to see put into action,” looking forward to further exploring new opportunities said Bradford Newton, board chair. “We are encouraged pertaining to the use of the college’s land. “Much prayer Please give as by this new view of how PUC’s land can be utilized as has been devoted to the long-term well-being of PUC,” said generously as you can part of our endowment, and for the land to stay in our Dr. Cushman, “As we develop the campus physical master to save the forest. Your possession.” plan, we will consider and vet opportunities for agriculture, gift will help us leverage light industry, and education. We will be looking to utilize additional government “This vote is a clear indication PUC is changing course and the full potential of the land that makes PUC unique grants to meet our goal. moving in a new direction,” said Dr. Eric Anderson, past among higher education institutions. We sincerely ask Donate today at president and chair of the college’s ad hoc agriculture for and encourage continued prayer for PUC’s future. puc.edu/give! planning committee. “The board agrees with Dr. Cushman God has blessed PUC with rich resources, and we are For more information, that ‘our land is our endowment.’ It must be preserved for determined to be faithful stewards of His gifts.” call (707) 965-7500 or productive use, as the college’s founders intended.” email [email protected].

16 Pacific Union College VOL 39.2 ViewPoint VOL 39.2 17 A Call to Academic Leadership

Heeding God’s call is a steady theme in Cushman’s life, and it was what drew him to a career in education. After receiving his Ph.D in geology from the Colorado School of Mines in 1994, he transitioned to teaching at Loma Linda University after a career as a geologist and paleontologist. Prior to that, he had received his bachelor’s degree in biology at then Walla Walla College in 1979, which was quickly followed by a master’s degree in geology from Loma Linda University in 1983. In addition to talking with Dr. Throughout his 12 years at LLU, he wore many hats; assistant professor, chair of the Cushman about department of earth and biological sciences, and “resident rock doc.” In addition his plans for PUC, to advising graduate student research, Cushman assumed administrative duties I also asked him for his department; overseeing the department’s budget and coordinating the about several other undergraduate geology program. He soon found that the administrative side of important matters. things was more enjoyable than he anticipated. “I got into teaching because I love working with students and helping them learn and meet their potential,” he says. If you had a pet “The longer I worked with students, the more opportunity I saw to work with faculty rock, what would in the same respect.” The joy of bettering those around him grew, leading him to you name it? take seats on more committees around campus. “I saw the opportunity to impact the campus at large,” he recounts, “and helping the campus reach its potential.” Its name would be Shelly, after Sheldon Cushman’s ability to impact an entire school eventually blossomed into his next Cooper on The Big adventure, when in 2006 he assumed the role of vice principal at El Dorado Bang Theory. Sheldon Adventist School in Placerville, Calif. In addition to his academic duties, he also hates geologists and he Unearthing PUC’s doesn’t believe geology put his leadership experience to work coaching the men’s varsity basketball team, which would coincidentally bring him to Angwin during PUC’s annual basketball is a real science. He tournament. After two years, in 2008 the Cushmans left California for Walla Walla doesn’t think biology University where Cushman had accepted the position of professor of paleobiology. is a real science, either. Untapped Potential He says so in several It didn’t take long for his administrative talent to lead him to the duties of biological episodes. I used to science department chair, which he served as for four years before joining the Dr. Cushman’s Vision for Our College on the Mountain / Larissa Church show video clips of him university’s leadership team as vice president for academic administration in 2012— saying geology isn’t a role he would hold until a certain Californian college came calling. a real science in my classes. Pacific Union College had never been on Dr. Robert Cushman Jr.’s radar. Over During his time as part of WWU’s administration, Cushman’s passion to help those 700 miles north of their future home of Angwin, Calif., Cushman and his wife around him meet their full potential was amplified. Under his supervision, nearly When you were of 38 years, Judy, were happy and content in Washington State where he was 40 new faculty members were hired and new student evaluation processes were younger, what was serving in the administration of Walla Walla University. “I’m happy at Walla developed. Honed by his time teaching biology and helping students understand your dream job? Walla,” he told PUC’s board chair when approached about the possibility varied scientific viewpoints, Cushman provided academic leadership that focused of becoming the college’s 23rd president. “I’m not looking to leave.” After on helping students grow and strengthen their faith by allowing them to grapple My dream job, when I spending over eight years at Walla Walla—more than half of which had been as with tough questions in a safe, Christ-centered environment. In everything he does, was a kid, was to either vice president of academic administration—the Cushmans had always assumed Cushman seeks to help both students and faculty alike to fulfill their potential in be a DJ or a sports if they left the northwest it would be for the east coast to be closer to family. In both mind and spiritual walk. “Probably my favorite thing about being in academics,” broadcaster. That didn’t spite of their hesitations, they allowed the PUC board to consider Cushman’s he replies when asked why he decided to become a college president, “is helping work out so well, did it? CV. “If God is trying to tell me something,” he explained, “I’m willing to listen.” people fulfill their potential.”

18 Pacific Union College VOL 39.2 ViewPoint VOL 39.2 19 make sure that we maximize the benefit of those different projects, so that they all kind of fit together, and we can get the most potential out of those things. Both for what we have to invest in them, as well as what we can get out of them. And, make sure that they correlate well with our strategic plan.” A significant staple of How do you build Cushman’s vision for this plan is building on the college’s recent decision not to your haystack? Do sell its land. He’s excited about the joint effort between PUC and the Land Trust you use Fritos or of Napa County to permanently protect, preserve, and manage the 856 acres of tortilla chips? forestland adjacent to the college’s campus by way of a conservation easement. Moving forward, he says, “We want to find ways to meaningfully engage with our This is important. There is a method, all right? land, both for education and for auxiliary revenue streams.” So, the Fritos go first.

And yes, Fritos, not As for the management of those revenue streams, Cushman’s planning also tortilla chips. And then extends to the colleges finances—including managing the school’s debt. cheese, because you Currently in the first year of a three year turnaround plan to ease the debt’s want the beans on top burden on PUC and work on paying it off, Cushman has worked to reign in of the cheese to melt unnecessary spending and focused the college’s financial resources into the the cheese on top of most efficient uses possible. the Fritos. Then, the lettuce, tomato or red As these plans develop and begin to take shape, Cushman has felt encouraged bell pepper, olives, and their opinions and concerns about the current state of Setting a New Course by the progress he has already begun to see. “People are saying that they’re salsa. the college. “They see PUC being in a time of transition,” cautiously optimistic,” he reports. He is also excited for the planning to reach It was the potential Cushman saw at PUC that wound up he explains. “They recognize the challenges we have. I a stage where he can share that progress with PUC alumni and gather their What was the last rendering him unable to turn down the board’s offer to think that’s a good thing. Everything is right out in the feedback. “It’s been fun getting to know people who care deeply about PUC and book you read? become president. “To be a college president, frankly, open. The challenges are right out there.” Cushman not its history,” he explains. “We want their opinions and we want their support.” only asked session attendees about their concerns, but is a lot of fun,” he elaborates. “You have a whole lot of Patrick Lencioni’s opportunity to work with students, faculty, and staff as about what they believe PUC’s mission and purpose truly While evaluating what PUC could be doing better is important part of Cushman’s The Advantage: Why well as a variety of stakeholders and constituents and are. “I’ve been pushing us to think about what makes planning, he’s careful not to let the culture on campus get too caught up on Organizational Health make a difference in meaningful ways in their lives.” At PUC unique,” he explains. “One of the questions for the focusing what isn’t while ignoring what could be. “We had to kind of hit the reset Trumps Everything the same time, Cushman inherits a school that presents listening session is, ‘Why does PUC exist?’” At the same Else In Business, which button when I came,” he admits, “because much of the previous strategic planning challenges and frustrations he acknowledges must be time, Cushman has been working closely with Credo, a has to do with healthy listening sessions were focused on frustrations with where we were at the time, overcome to secure its future. In addition to managing higher education consulting company, to create data- workplace culture. rather than where we needed to be going. There’s still some of that, but we’re also the college’s debt issues, Cushman also faces the daunting driven ideas for PUC’s future that will feed into a new starting to think about where we could be.” Indeed, it’s in talking about where he tasks of improving a campus that has endured years of strategic plan for the school. That includes improving intends to guide PUC that Cushman gets most excited. deferred maintenance and mending a frayed relationship the customer experience and streamlining processes with with the school’s more recent alumni. All of this comes crucial departments like Enrollment Services and Student during an era in which colleges across the country are Financial Services. seeing declines in student enrollment and retention. “I think there are opportunities for improvement in every Additionally, Cushman has started work on a new master department on campus, both academic and non-academic,” physical plan for the college’s campus—which will be Cushman admits. “It’s going to be a process of identifying PUC’s first Napa County-approved update since 1975 what those opportunities are, and working through them.” and detail the college’s vision for how all of its assets— including land and other natural resources, educational, In order to fully wrap his head around the issues most residential, and commercial buildings—will help the pressing to PUC and its community, Cushman spent time school achieve that vision. “Everybody has a great idea,” throughout this past fall conducting “listening sessions” in says Cushman in regards to the PUC community’s which faculty, staff, and students had the chance to voice suggestions on how to improve the campus. “We need to

20 Pacific Union College VOL 39.2 ViewPoint VOL 39.2 21 The Promise of PUC’s Future Napa, and Calistoga. We’d like to be a full partner in PUC alum? If you want somebody who has a social conscience, why not choose our communities, both our faith-based and our secular a PUC alum?” “There’s huge potential.” Cushman is animated when communities.” asked about the places he sees the college being able to Cushman also looks forward to forging a stronger relationship with the school’s go. “Frankly, that’s one of the things that attracted us to On the academic side of things, Cushman takes the alumni, especially more recent graduates who haven’t felt as strongly connected coming here, was that there’s a lot of untapped potential,” responsibility to continue PUC’s mission to offer “an to the college since their departure. “I look forward to hearing PUC alumni What’s your he says. “Not only with PUC in this place, with our land, excellent Christ-centered education that prepares its stories,” he says, “and hearing about how much they love this place and its favorite place to with our local community, but also in a broader sense.” students for productive lives of useful human service and people, and their memories of interactions with faculty and staff.” eat in the Valley? He sees the various plans being formed coalescing into a uncompromising personal integrity seriously.” He stresses vision in which PUC begins to unlock untapped potential, the importance of the college to facilitate, mentor, and * * * My exposure has been including developing a closer, strategic relationship with nurture both the spiritual and academic development of somewhat limited, but I do like Rutherford Grill the Napa Valley community to harness the opportunities it its students, and provide a safe place for them to ask hard Just a couple months after the Cushmans arrived at PUC in the summer of in Rutherford. has to offer the school and its students. “I’ve met with the questions without feeling threatened. “We want to nurture 2017, the Napa Valley was engulfed in a series of some of the most devastating

general manager of the Culinary Institute in St. Helena,” them along on their journey,” he says. “If we want to create wildfires in California’s history. As the flames drew closer to Angwin, Cushman If you had to play Cushman details, “and we’ve talked about ways we can a different tomorrow, today is our opportunity to really found himself walking the campus with his wife, Judy, and thinking about one sport for partner. I’ve talked by phone with Ron Kraft, who’s the mentor and shape our students, to shape the conversation whether PUC could survive a natural disaster striking its campus. “It occurred intramurals, what president of Napa Valley College, with some of the same for them to learn and grow, and help them create a to me,” he says, “what would happen if, like Redwood Adventist Academy, this intent. We’re hoping to get together soon with some of different tomorrow and a society that watches out for those place burned? Is our mission enough to rebuild?” While Angwin and PUC would it be? our senior leadership teams, and talk about ways we can who are marginalized and less fortunate in our society.” were spared the heartache and destruction found elsewhere in the valley, work together.” Perhaps most significantly, Cushman, Cushman quickly arrived at the conclusion that PUC is more than just a cluster Basketball. I like the exercise, and the along with the senior administration team, has mended While many people question whether or not an Adventist of buildings on a hill—it’s a key part of the Adventist education mission and teamwork. In some the college’s often-fraught relationship with Save Rural education is worth the cost, Cushman believes a large legacy. “What if the place was burned so much,” Cushman asked himself, “that ways, being a college Angwin (SRA). Together, PUC and SRA are committed part of its value—in addition to academic excellence—is we couldn’t rebuild here. Should we rebuild? And, I would say, ‘Yes. Absolutely.’ president is somewhat the sense of high ethics, community, and service PUC’s I think the mission of PUC is big enough, that it’s not just dependent on this to working together to protect and preserve the rural like being a point guard faith-based education instills, setting its graduates apart place, but it’s enhanced by this place.” It’s with this mission at heart Cushman setting of Angwin. Moving forward, leaders from both on a basketball team, from others entering the workforce. It’s that reputation will lead Pacific Union College into the future, doing what he’s always found organizations have pledged to focus on collaborative where you get to pass efforts to address issues affecting both Angwin and the Cushman plans to nurture and trumpet to potential God calling him to do—shepherding a college and its community towards its the ball to the right greater Napa Valley. “I think PUC is very tied to this place,” employers of alumni. “Our alumni are different in the best self. person, in the right Cushman summarizes. “It’s the place that gives us some workplace, in a number of ways,” Cushman posits. “If you place, at the right time. of that advantage, but we haven’t taken it. We haven’t used want somebody who has high ethics and moral values, our advantage, the land, the setting, the placement in the why not choose a PUC alum? If you want somebody who North Bay area, and all of the industry. We’ve got to do has experienced collaborative learning experiences and better at that. We impact Angwin, we impact St. Helena, knows how to work as part of a team, why not choose a

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PUC Student Association President, Megan Weems, spent her summer a little differently than the average college student. She embarked on a nearly 30-hour trek to Maasai Mara, Kenya, with others from the PUC family for several days to serve the community there. We asked her to talk about her inspiring experience learning about a new culture and giving back to those less fortunate in our world. Here is Megan’s story.

24 Pacific Union College VOL 39.2 ViewPoint VOL 39.2 25 Our team was comprised of 15 people. We lunches, put on their scrubs, piled into a up with a Maasai native, our very own had two doctors, one nurse, one professor, safari truck, and drove to a surrounding Fabio Maia, the service and missions and 11 other people, all who had village in need of medical attention. They coordinator at the college, along with five hearts for service. We left on a Monday offered basic medical checkups, eye other PUC students. Our crew scraped, afternoon to embark on a long journey checkups, a pharmacy, triage station, and primed, and painted the walls. Once from small town Angwin, Calif., to the lots of prayer for each Maasai native seen. school let out, the students would come middle of the Maasai Mara in Kenya. It On a typical day, the bush clinic team and dance, sing, and play along as we took one 15-and-a-half hour flight to would see as many as 70 people. worked. A great memory for me will Dubai, a six-hour flight to Nairobi, and always be the Maasai children teaching us HELP FURTHER then an eight-hour safari car ride from Upon arrival, our VBS team first met with Swahili songs, as we taught them English. GOD’S MESSAGE Nairobi to the Maasai Mara, our final the headmaster of the primary school. ACROSS THE destination. We discovered the school had over 700 Our group was extremely fortunate to GLOBE students enrolled and only eight teachers have amazing American native hosts. The We arrived on a Friday, and the next day overseeing them. Each morning began Aho family are the owners of Mara West we went to a Maasai Adventist church. On with song service led by recent PUC grad (accommodation) and African Missions Sabbath afternoon and Sunday, we went Kelly Siegel and myself. Following song Services. They run their own community Make a donation today to on a safari around the Maasai Mara, with service, Dr. Peterson, adjunct professor clinic and led our bush clinics. We were the Student Missions Fund beautiful views and a plethora of animals. of music at PUC, would give a Bible blessed to be able to serve the community at puc.edu/give to assist After resting up for the few days on the story complete with puppets and various in the capacity we did and then come back students like Megan and Mara and shaking off the jetlag, the team instruments. Each day closed with an arts to safe and comfortable accommodations. others serving around the was in preparation mode for the week to and crafts section which allowed each The Maasai Mara area is blessed to have world in places like Kenya. come. We were separated into bush clinic child the opportunity to create something them and we are blessed to know them. teams, a Vacation Bible School team, and they could take home. Toward the end a painting/construction crew. Our group of the week, the children were excitingly This trip is something each of us will was small but all very driven and excited awaiting our arrival at the beginning never forget, and it will stay with us to be doing our part to help the Maasai of each day. At the end of our weeklong throughout our lives. The PUC missions community. program, the children showed their office strives to create lasting relationships thanks by treating us to a traditional around the world and hopes to return We set up five bush clinics during our Maasai tribal dance, grabbing our hands to Maasai Mara soon. The PUC family is time in Maasai Mara. The bush clinics and making us join in. expanding from Angwin to all over the consisted of a team of doctors; PUC’s Dr. world, from Brazil to Fiji and beyond. Jonathan Wheeler and his wife, Dr. Julie After spending the mornings with the Now we have just added more beautiful Perry Wheeler; nurse Francis Aho; and children, we began painting the staff souls: the people of the Maasai Mara. recent PUC nursing graduate Elizabeth quarters of the first all-girls high school Shown. Each day they packed their in Maasai. Each afternoon we teamed

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“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” (Gary Snyder)

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Student Profile: Adriana Rieke PUC Student and Volunteer Firefighter Adriana Rieke Continues Her Family’s Tradition of Service / Carissa Paw

Late Sunday evening, October 8, 2017, multiple fires What made you decide to attend PUC? What made you want to be involved with the fire broke out throughout the Napa Valley and the adjacent department? Sonoma Valley. While most of us here in Angwin were I decided to come to PUC because I liked the location. PUC also had the major I wanted which obviously was very glued to TVs, radios, and the internet keeping close I’ve had many family members go through the AVFD throughout important. the years and I thought it would be fun to continue what my tabs on the developing situation, a group of brave family has done. Plus I have been interested in firefighting since men and women from the Angwin Volunteer Fire How long have you been volunteering with the I was a little kid. Department sprang to action. The AVFD is comprised AVFD? of members from the Angwin community, as well as What was your involvement in the Napa Valley PUC faculty, staff, and even students. These volunteers I started the fire academy in January 2017 and we graduated in fires? Tell me about your experience. June 2017. I have been volunteering since my graduation. have dedicated countless hours of their lives to keep their community safe. One of these courageous I was on the initial attack on Truck 18. The first night we Do you have another job? ended up going to the Tubbs fire over in Calistoga and when young people is PUC student, Adriana Rieke, who we approached the fire I was shaking from excitement but also is a sophomore studying exercise science and also I do. I also work at public safety as a student dispatcher. nerves. This was one of the first big fires I had been dispatched volunteers with the AVFD. I talked with her about her to. Later in the evening our engine was diverted to another How difficult is it balancing volunteering and smaller fire in Calistoga. The following morning we were sent experience helping fight the recent fires and what she going to school full-time? back to Tubbs, before making our way home to Angwin for an finds rewarding about volunteering. unrelated call. Once PUC’s classes were canceled, I was assigned It honestly is really difficult. The main thing I always have to to Water Tender 18 which went back to Tubbs for the whole week. deal with is time. Making time to go to class, study, and go to We had many different assignments. I ended up getting released drills for training because in this field, training never stops. from the fire on the Tuesday before classes started back up, even Finding the balance to fit everything I need in a day can be through the fire was still not fully contained. difficult. What was the most challenging part during the fire? What was the most rewarding?

The most challenging part was the number of hours spent. We started off doing 24 hours on, then 24 hours off. It was difficult to be on the go and active for most of a 24 hour shift. During the 24 hours off, I would go and sleep for most of it, only waking up to eat and call my family to talk to them to let them know I was okay and doing well. This fire pushed me mentally and physically to be better. The most rewarding thing for me was coming SUPPORT ANGWIN off our assignment for our day off completely exhausted and seeing people be so thankful to us for everything we were doing. FIRE TODAY! Seeing the containment slowly going up each day and knowing everything we were doing was helping. With how difficult donate at angwinfire.com everything was, I would drop everything in a heartbeat to be able to respond again.

30 Pacific Union College VOL 39.2 ViewPoint VOL 39.2 31 During the Napa Valley fires, PUC’s very own Virgil O. Parrett Field became a staging area for CAL FIRE’s helicopters and other aircraft assisting with fire-relief efforts. The aircrafts helped with water dropping, supply runs, mapping fire hot spots, and coordinating with air tankers dropping fire retardant. PUC also provided housing for many of the pilots to help with these efforts.

The college continues to remain committed to helping rebuild our community during the months and years to come. Information regarding how you can get involved will be forthcoming.

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distractions, capable and available was teaching as an adjunct professor at I’ve visited all 50 states and, in the last few teachers, and a culture among your a Catholic women’s college in DC. The years, I’ve been in Sweden, Costa Rica, Faculty Profile: classmates that supports excellence. I position in chemistry at PUC opened with the Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, think PUC has that. Of course, students the likelihood of a soon to open position Cambodia, and Taiwan. who find these less important than the in music and we decided to come to PUC. ease of getting to Taco Bell or luxury When you were younger, what Kent Davis living accommodations may not be PUC We hear you love to bake. What was your dream job? Is teaching material but those values suggest they is the most delicious thing A Conversation with PUC’s Department of Chemistry Chair and might not be getting into medical school similar? anyway. you’ve ever made? 2017 Educator of the Year I don’t know if I had a “dream” job, at Describe your typical work day. I’m fairly critical of anything I bake so least after the firefighter, astronaut, I don’t think I’d apply terms like ‘most zookeeper, etc., stage of early childhood. On April 27, 2017, the PUC Church sanctuary was What’s your favorite thing about delicious’ to things I made but I make a I started college as an engineering major I generally arrive at my office around 8 pretty good loaf of bread. We got a bread and switched to chemistry after my packed full of students, faculty, and staff, all excitedly teaching? a.m. I finalize preparations for my classes maker as a wedding present and I started first year. My 20-year-old self would be awaiting the announcement of PUC’s next student- and then go teach. Afterwards I talk with there but soon got into sourdough. I’ve horrified at the idea of standing in front Seeing my students grow and learn and students, prepare class assignments, do selected Educator of the Year. As PUC tradition states, had my sourdough starter for about 20 of people and speaking out loud for a become successful is very satisfying. other administrative tasks, or just relax for the winner is a tightly kept secret known only to a few years now. I feed and water it daily kind living. So no, teaching is, in that way at Talking about hard problems and seeing a bit. I often spend the noon hour in wind of like a pet (that I plan to eat). The least, about as far from what I would have people on campus and is announced at the annual students struggle (along with me) and ensemble or chorale rehearsal before sourdough experience has led me to expected as possible. Educator of the Year Colloquy. gradually catch on is also a lot of fun. going back the chemistry offices to get explore other uses of bacteria/yeast ready to supervise labs for the afternoon. cultures in food like cheesemaking. I Why should someone choose to When Dr. Kent Davis’ name was announced, there Tell us about your family. wouldn’t say I’m an expert and many What’s your favorite thing about study chemistry at PUC? was loud and extended applause for the ever popular cheeses need to age for several months My wife, Rachelle, is a violinist who PUC? which makes experimenting difficult. We have a long history of students having chemistry professor and department chair. As he sat teaches in (and chairs) the department of But a nice dollop of fresh homemade success in achieving their goals. If you in the seat of honor on the platform, the audience was music at PUC. Our elder son, Ethan, is a The location. I run in the forest and along goat cheese on a slice of freshly baked do well in chemistry (or the sciences in freshman at PUC Prep, and our younger mountain ridges almost daily. I walk to sourdough is quite enjoyable. treated to funny stories from his wife, Rachelle Davis, a general) at PUC, you will be well situated son, Benjamin, is a fifth grader at PUC work every day. Most people at PUC live fellow PUC faculty member in the department of music, to do well in medical school, dental Elementary. We have two dogs, Sammy close by so it’s a real community in a way What are your other hobbies? school, pharmacy, or doing study in as well as touching stories from a few close students. and Gigi. most other places I’ve worked have not science at a higher level. been. In another twist my 20-year-old self would Not everyone has the privilege of taking classes from You knew it was coming—is PUC be surprised to learn, since coming to Dr. Davis, so we asked him a few questions to get the best school to study at to How did you end up teaching PUC I have become a runner. The trails better acquainted with the man behind the 2017 PUC get into Loma Linda medical chemistry at PUC? in PUC’s forest, the adjoining state forest, and the ridge between Angwin Educator of the Year award. school? My wife, Rachelle, was teaching music and Calistoga are great. I try to be out at Washington Adventist University there around dawn, when I think it’s at To get into any medical school requires its most beautiful. I also enjoy traveling. dedication to study, ability to avoid (then Columbia Union College) and I

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Department Profile: Alumni & Advancement (Re)Meet Kellie Lind, a PUC Pioneer

I’ve thought numerous times, “I am the and recent overspending. His steady, Christina (Shin) Im, att. ’91-92 lucky one,” since returning to Pacific thoughtful evaluations of campus life Title: Alumni & Special Events Coordinator Union College as the chief advancement and PUC’s mission are refreshing and officer last spring. Each day I’m reassuring. His first order of business as What professor had the biggest impact on you? interacting with students and faculty and the new president was to overturn the get to work on the PUC campus and again decision to sell 868 acres of forestland. I I really enjoyed several of my English professors. Although enjoy working at place where I spent many can tell you we have strong leadership in they each had very different perspectives and teaching styles, happy days making great friends as an the Cushmans and are in good hands! it was so stimulating to be taught by a group that inspired you 18 to 22-year-old! to think as an individual. When I walk by the front of Graf Hall, I I get to walk in the back doors of Irwin still rather expect Susie Small, ’82, Jolene Nic Miller, ’17 Hall and breathe in the familiar musty Westphal, ’82, and LaVonne Wesner, ’82, smell and think I am 19-years-old again those lively girls from Sacramento, to call Title: Database Manager & Gift Records Specialist and heading up to room 323 to see my out their windows and ask me when I am MEET THE TEAM friends, Carolyn Carpenter Hamilton, going to the cafeteria for dinner. What professor had the biggest impact on you? ’80, Ken Plumlee, ’82, Brenda Pfeiffer, While several members ’82, and my classmates in Herb Ford’s, You left your mark on PUC. And believe Tammy McGuire in the department of communication, be- of the alumni team ’54, news writing class. Sometimes when me, you are thought of often and cause of her creative and collaborative approach to learning are new to their What’s your favorite I walk by the Hansen pool and hear fondly. One of PUC’s greatest assets is that forces one to push beyond average performance and positions, you likely will achieve academic excellence. recognize their names place at PUC? someone jumping off the diving board, I the strength of its alumni community. remember Steve Case, ’79, and Drew von We would love to welcome you back to or faces. Here’s a quick Leticia (Rosado) Russell, ’93 introduction to the PUC The swimming pool! I life- Pohle, ’79, diving on school picnic days. campus! We’ll walk up the stairs to Clark The sounds remind me of afternoons Hall, take a spin around Irwin Hall, and Title: Director of the Annual Fund alumni who you will be guarded, taught swimming, seeing out on the road taught Swim and Stay Fit, lifeguarding with Charles Larson, ’81, then after we catch our breath, we’ll have and Liz Studt, ’80, under the watchful eye lunch. Hope to see you soon! What’s your favorite place at PUC? or talking to on the played water polo, and took phone sometime soon! lifesaving classes from Dr. of Dr. Reynolds, aquatic director. Reynolds! The honors seminar room in Irwin Hall. If the walls could I am the lucky one, as Dr. Bob Cushman, tell stories … All the great discussions held in the room and the 23rd president of PUC, and his wife, the great history faculty meetings held in the same room Judy, start their tenure as PUC’s new Kellie Lind, ’82 when I returned as a history professor after graduation. leaders. I am relieved and grateful the Chief Advancement Officer Cushmans embrace the “PUC experience” Laurie Trujillo, att. ’92-93, ’95-96 and already care for the PUC we all know Title: Director of Philanthropy and love. They agree there are so many things going well that do not need to What’s your favorite place at PUC? be changed. Yet Dr. Cushman does not shy away from the challenges brought I enjoy the prayer garden. It is quiet and serene. When on by long-term deferred maintenance there, it feels like I am transported into a different world. My daughter also loves to just sit there. Quite a feat for an 18-month-old!

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1 2017 Pioneers men’s basketball team won the California Pacific Conference championship! 2 Dr. Terrence J. Roberts, one of the Little Rock Nine, shared his wealth of knowledge and experience at the annual lecture of the Percy and John Christian Civil Rights Conference Center. 1 3 The championship softball intramural team poses for a celebratory photo. 6 4 Professor Aimee Wyrick and students learn about plant life during one of the many biology classes. 5 PUC students continue to not only give back locally, but globally during one of the many mission trips taken each year. 6 A student praise team leading out in song during a worship service. 7 The department of visual arts take a group photo 2 7 during their annual trip to the Albion Field Station. 8 Students gather and sing carols during the annual Christmas tree lighting.

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to that institution. Ford is the as- Deborah (Morel) Tonella, ’77, challenging,” says Ackerman, but have a goal of doing some writing sociate director of the Center for who earned her master’s degree now that she has her hands on the of my own,” writes Canby. Adventist Research while Zdor is a in education at PUC in 1988, has reins she is planning for growth CLASS NOTES professor of biology. served as a teacher at Angwin’s and a facelift for the school Cynthia R. (Ford) Evans, ’80, Written and Compiled by Herbert Ford, ’54 Howell Mountain Elemen- grounds. Her husband, Craig after having taught grades 1-4 1970s tary School. She has taught some Ackerman, ’76, attended PUC at Sierra View Junior Academy courses at PUC in the department during his education studies. in Exeter, Calif., for some 30 of education as a contract teacher, years, has recently retired and is by colleagues, one of the highest and the obituaries of PUC alumni Adventist University, he is one of Merlin Burt, ’77, whose home and today is vice president of Steve Case, ’79, who is a veteran enjoying life on her (and husband 1930s tributes scholars may receive for for “ViewPoint” and the web. Ford America’s leading story antholo- is in Berrien Springs, Mich., Tonella Vineyards in Rutherford, spiritual leader of young people, Bruce L. Evans’, ’79) pomegran- their work. Johnson’s service to can be reached at [email protected], gizers. He is also a PUC Honored is director of the Center for Jane (O’Ffill) Pihl, att. ’35-36, Calif. Committed to supporting is now president of Involve Youth, ate ranch near Exeter. Evans also his church spans 60 years, and (559) 732-0313, or by snail mail at Alumnus and lives in Conifer, Adventist Research and the Ellen has lived long enough to see 16 many Napa Valley performing which develops books, magazines, enjoys babysitting her three (and includes Bible teacher at Fresno 303 N. West St., Visalia, CA 93291. Colo., with his wife and publishing G. White Estate branch office U.S. presidents live in the White arts organizations, Tonella served websites, games, DVDs, and CDs. soon-to-be four) grandchildren, Adventist Academy; head of the All PUC alumni are invited to partner, Connie. at the Seventh-day Adventist House. That fact, along with her for six years on the Napa Valley He is also coordinator for the and doing church and community department of religion for the send news of happenings in their Theological Seminary. Burt is recently turning 100 years of age, Symphony Board of directors, in- youth and young adult ministry service. Bruce is the owner and forerunner colleges of Sahmyook lives or obituary information to the author of a recent article, has made her the subject of a 1960s cluding a stint as board president. concentration in the Seventh-day operator of the large Mr. Evans University in Korea; acting dean Ford, or to the PUC alumni office “Remember the Mighty Acts of feature article in the Record Gazette For another six years, she was a Adventist Theological Seminary Property Management firm in of the graduate School of Religion at [email protected], or by mail God,” in Adventist World magazine newspaper, located in Banning, Andrews University has recog- member of the Music in Vineyards Doctor of Ministry program. Visalia, Calif. at Philippine Union College; and to One Angwin Ave., Angwin, CA in which various Adventist Calif. In her century-long life nized Jon Dybdahl, ’65, for his board of directors, including two Case recently teamed with Eddie New Testament professor at the 94508. historical sites are highlighted. journey, Pihl has served in medi- outstanding contributions to years as board president. Com- Heinrich, ’91, who is the direc- Yvonne Fankhanel, ’84, has Seventh-day Adventist Theological cal missionary work with her late Seventh-day Adventist education mitted and consistent supporters tor of youth ministries for the been honored by the Interna- Seminary from which he retired In June, Beth (Loop) Petersen, Cheryl Van Ornam, ’77, ’96, is husband, Dr. Kern Pihl, in Bagh- and theology. He was named a of PUC, She and her husband, Northern California Conference tional Nurses Association with the in 2002. Throughout his career, ’55, who makes her home Glen- now the traditional music director dad, Iraq, and in Peru. What is the 2016 Honored Alumnus of An- Raymond Tonella, donated an of Adventists, in writing “Sabbath publication of her name and nurs- Johnson has been accompanied dale, Calif., walked her 56th mara- at Redeemer Lutheran Church reason she has lived more than a drews at its recent Homecoming. airplane to the college’s Flight Orphans,” an article published in ing background in the Worldwide and aided in his service by his wife, thon, the Rock ’n Roll Marathon in Richmond, Va. She is also the century? “Two reasons,” she says, Dybdahl’s service to his church Center in 2015. the Adventist World magazine that Leaders in Healthcare publication. Madeline (Steele) Johnson, ’55. in San Diego, Calif. Petersen is organist at the First Church of “Love the Lord, and stay healthy.” has included being a pastor in calls for a strengthening of youth Fankhanel is currently serving 84-years-old. Her participation in Christ Scientist in Richmond, and the Northern California Confer- Monty Knittel, ’78, has recently Sabbath schools in the church. patients at Loma Linda Univer- Marilyn (Schilling) Rentfro, ’53, the San Diego event adds has an active piano studio. In ence; a professor at Southeast Asia been chosen as president and sity Medical Center as a wound, 1940s after nearly 20 years of service, miles to the many other mara- addition, she serves as adjunct College; two periods of mission chief executive officer of the Douglas A. Tilstra, ’79, has re- ostomy, and continence registered first in the PUC business office thons, totaling some 30,000 miles, faculty at Virginia Commonwealth service in Thailand; faculty mem- Feather River Hospital in Paradise, cently been elected vice president nurse. She is a member of the Retired Seventh-day Adventist and then at the Loma Linda including what she’s walked in the University. Active with the ber and president of Walla Walla Calif. Knittel most recently has of student life at Walla Walla Uni- Wound, Ostomy, and Continence pastor and “Your Bible Speaks” University School of Medicine, past 30 years. “Being 84-years-old American Guild of Organist, She College; president of Thailand served as president and CEO of versity in Walla Walla, Wash. Til- Nurses Society, and the United radio host Richard E. Tottress, she now lives in “active” retire- in as good shape as I’m in, my is dean of the Richmond Virginia Mission College; director of the Walla Walla General Hospital in stra is making the move to Walla Ostomy Association of America. ’4 3 , reached the age of 100 in ment in Mariposa, Calif. Recently, marathon participation encour- chapter of the guild. Institute of World Mission, and Walla Walla, Wash. He has worked Walla after 17 years as director of November 2017. Today he remains she had to cope with being an ages others, and because of my chair of Andrews University’s nearly 30 years for the Adventist outdoor education and leadership Russell K. Weis, ’85, is currently active in ministry, and is a colorful evacuee from one of California’s experience, they’ve taken up Elizabeth J. (Taylor) Rocke, ’77, department of world mission. He Health system. at Southern Adventist University. the general manager of Silverado figure as he drives himself around big wildfires, but her day-to-day exercising too,” she writes. is currently serving as a library currently serves as president of Earlier, he was a pastor in the Gulf Vineyards, a group of five Napa Atlanta, Ga., in his big gold Mer- involvement is with Bangla Hope, technician at the California Gospel Outreach. Dybdahl is the Steven Vistaunet, ’78, has States Conference, the Northern County vineyards. After his gradu- cedes automobile. Tottress can an organization devoted to chang- Though retired from a distin- State Prison, Los Angeles, Calif., author of eight books, and the edi- recently received the “2017 AMC California Conference, and the ation from PUC, Weis taught usually be found every Wednesday ing the lives of orphans, destitute guished teaching career, Nancy in Lancaster, Calif. Previously, tor of the Andrews Study Bible. Lifetime Achievement Award in British Columbia Conference. He English language and literature afternoon at Atlanta’s Berean women, and children in the coun- Vhymeister, ’58, and her hus- Elizabeth served at the Avanel Communication” for his long- is married to Lorraine (Bouma) for two years at a small liberal arts Outreach Community Center try of Bangladesh. band Werner have recently given State Prison in Avanel, Calif., and Prolific authorGeorge R. time contribution to Seventh-day Tilstra, ’78, who has been serving college in Japan. Returning to the food distribution center, greet- service to several institutions at the California State Prison, Knight, ’65, has had another Adventist mass communications, as a hospice nurse. U.S., he served as a tour guide at ing the participants, and sharing Herbert (Herb) Ford, ’54, overseas, including the Adventist Solano, in Vacaville, Calif. book published, titled Adventist a service that “exceeds the com- the Christian Brothers Winery the Gospel message with them. former journalism and public rela- University of Africa, where Werner Authority Wars, Ordination, and the munication standards” of the in St. Helena, Calif. In 1993, He is the author of the widely- tions professor and PUC vice presi- was influential in planning for the Karen Tilstra, Ph.D., ’77, is 1980s Roman Catholic Temptation. Known church. Vistaunet currently serves he joined the Robert Mondavi distributed book Heaven’s Entrance dent, has recently left his Angwin new university, and where in 2006 co-founder of Florida Hospital’s for their provocative approach, as assistant to the president of the Winery where he initially led the Requirement for the Races. During home in favor of semi-retirement she taught the first course offered recently created Innovation Laura (Herman) Canby, ’80, Knight’s books have had a wide North Pacific Union Conference winery’s Asian/Pacific export his years at PUC, he served as the on his daughter—Cindy Evans’, by the institution. Laboratory, which is a design- now lives on Whidbey Island, readership around the world, and of Seventh-day Adventists, and business, before becoming senior editor of the religion section for ’80—fruit ranch near Exeter, thinking, creative, and problem- Wash., and has a life full of inter- his new book will not disappoint, is also editor of the GleanerNow vice president for international the “Campus Chronicle.” Calif. From a “south campus” of- Joseph Leininger Wheeler, ’59, solving unit that serves the esting and varied communication according to his publishers, Oak & publication of the conference. business development. In 2004, fice of the Pitcairn Islands Study known to thousands as “America’s hospital’s employees, patients, activities. She edits a quarterly, Acorn Publishing. The book raises Weis moved to his present position 1950s Center in downtown Visalia, Calif., Keeper of the Story,” has recently and community. Tilstra is listed as full-color magazine, works on her issues critical to the Seventh-day Cynthia (Case) Ackerman, ’79, at Silverado Vineyards. Ford continues all internet direc- seen the 25th book of his Christ- an “inventor, creative researcher, church’s website, and has delved Adventist faith and points to pos- has recently been named the Robert M. Johnson, ’53, retired tion and caring for administrative mas in my Heart series published coach, consultant, and trainer into low-cost video for nonprofits. sible solutions. More information principal of the Galt Seventh-day Hundreds of delegates to the 69th New Testament scholar of the duties of the widely-known PUC by the Pacific Press Publishing to large companies and their She has even built a studio of her about the book can be found at Adventist School. In addition to Regular Constituency Session Seventh-day Adventist Theological research-museum facility, while Association and made available in employees. She wants to live in a own right in her her basement. adventistfaith.com/oakandacorn. serving as principal, She also of the Oklahoma Conference of Seminary at Andrews University, PUC librarian Katherine Van Adventist Book Centers. Wheeler world where work is fast, people She also works for widely known are free, and chocolate is devoid teaches kindergarten through religious author Philip Yancey, Seventh-day Adventists voted re- was recently honored at a meet- Arsdale handles all on-site matters has edited and compiled 94 books Two PUC alumni, Mames Ford, of calories.” Florida Hospital is grade two in the mornings, and administering his website, help- cently to make James Shires, ’86, ing of the Adventist Society for of the Center. Ford’s second in-re- of stories that have sold more ’69, and Robert Zdor, ’83, were comprised of 25 distinct hospital up to grade four in the afternoons ing edit some of his books, and executive secretary of the church Religious Studies in San Antonio, tirement duty continues to be that than 1.5 million copies. Professor recently honored by Andrews campuses from the east coast to at the 20-student parochial school. serving as one of several editors of conference. Before his election to Texas, by the publication of a of writing PUC alumni news notes, emeritus of English at Washington University for 25 years of service Festschrift, a collection of essays the west coast of central Florida. “Finding time to do everything is his memoir. “One of these years I

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the leadership position, Shires was for ancient biblical languages, which they are interning: Daniel Wakeham Lee, who taught at prayer ministries coordinator of has received the prestigious Dr. Betat, ’13, internal medicine, PUC in 1946, is a busy woman and the Oklahoma Conference. Jacob Bolotin Award from the Loma Linda University Medical is looking forward to her 106th National Federation of the Blind, Center; Robert Chi, ’13, family birthday! WEDDINGS Scott Reiner, ’87, chief executive an award that includes a $20,000 medicine, Loma Linda University officer of Adventist Health, with cash prize. The award recognizes Medical Center; Calvin Fesler, Born of Seventh-day Adventist Bridgette Munoz, ’12, and Larry headquarters in Roseville, Calif., individuals working in the field ’13, physical medicine and reha- missionary parents in England, 1 has been cited by the trade of blindness who have made bilitation, Loma Linda University Lee’s varied, adventuresome life Graack, ’09, in Placerville, Calif., on publication Becker’s Hospital Review outstanding contributions toward Medical Center; Jeremy Lam, found her in Honolulu on Decem- October 9, 2016 as one of 135 nonprofit healthcare achieving the full integration of ’13, medicine-prelim, Loma Linda ber 7, 1941, where she witnessed CEO “Leaders to Know” in the blind into society on a basis of University Medical Center; Bev- the attack on Pearl Harbor. She Kristen Beale, ’14, and Travis its 2016 rankings. The health equality. McAllister is an adjunct erly Lauw, ’13, pediatrics, Loma taught at Hawaiian Mission Acad- 2 system Reiner directs provides teacher for the School of Distance Linda University Medical Center; emy, and after teaching at PUC Martin, ’09-12, in Oak Glen, Calif., care through 20 hospitals, more Education & International Mark Monterroso, ’12, emer- she was off to a teaching mission on May 4, 2017 than 260 clinics, 15 home care Partnerships at Andrews gency medicine, Kaweah Delta in the Philippines for 24 years. On agencies, seven hospice agencies, University. Health Care, Visalia (Calif.); and a furlough to the U.S. she earned a health plan, and four joint- Matthew Phelps, ’13, medicine- a Ph.D. in linguistics at Stanford 3 Dustin Baumbach, ’12, and Devon venture retirement centers serving Joy Fackenthall, att. ’98, has prelim, Riverside Community University. After her service in the Heinrich, in Corona, Calif., on more than 75 communities in been teaching for a number of Hospital. Philippines, Irene taught at Oak- March 19, 2017 California, Hawaii, Oregon, and years, along with her husband, wood College, La Sierra University, Washington. Peter, who has been principal at Alexandra “Alex” Dunbar, ’14, and Weimar College, as well as Pacific Union College Preparatory recently accepted a position as Antillean College in Puerto Rico. 4 Erin Nicole, ’11-12, and Kim Tamara M. (Testman) Shankel, School. They are moving with community education specialist In between teaching assignments, Quiambao, in Ben Lomond, Calif., ’88, has recently been named the her family to Auburn Adventist for Shasta County Health and she found time in 1982 to marry 1 2 senior associate dean of Medical Academy in Auburn, Wash., where Human Services, Public Health James Lee; both were 70 at the on September 3, 2017 Student Education at Loma Linda she will teach Spanish, religion, branch, Healthy Communities time. University School of Medicine, and English as a second language, Division. She is a member of the Devin Tinny, ’12, and Eric Tua, ’13, located in Loma Linda, Calif. She while her husband serves as Social Emotional Resiliency Unit, 5 How does she do it all? According in Cloverdale, Calif., on November is an associate professor in the principal of the school. the Coordinator for Adverse to The Herald, “Lee credits her department of pediatrics with Childhood Experiences in the longevity to good genes and the 11, 2017 secondary appointments in the Greg Taylor, att. ’98, has Maternal, Child, and Adolescent ‘good fortune of being born into departments of internal medicine recently been appointed youth Health Unit, and the Coordinator a Seventh-day Adventist family.’ and medical education. Previously, director of the Kentucky- for the Strengthening Families Her daily routine includes trust Shankel was the associate dean for Tennessee Conference of Collaborative. Alex’s work in God, exercise, fresh air, water, clinical education at the medical Seventh-day Adventists. Previously before her assignment to Shasta sunshine, and rest. She eats tem- school from 2001. Taylor was youth director for the County included completing her perately. Lee has never smoked Wisconsin Conference, a teacher MPH in Health Education and or used fermented or caffeinated 1990s in two church conferences, and a Promotion in 2017, and working drinks of any kind, and stays away congregational pastor in Indiana. as a enrollment counselor for PUC from junk food, and takes care of Christopher K. L. Tsai, ’90, a from 2015-2017. her daily needs.” physician who specializes in urol- 2000s ogy in Southern California’s San Jeffrey Maxwell, ’14, was Yew Chong Wong, who worked Bernardino County, has recently Barbara Harrison, ’02, who has recently elected as risk in PUC’s development office 3 4 been named secretary of the San been a member of the nursing management director of the in 2005, was named as a 2016 Bernardino Medical Society, at staff of St. Helena Hospital, has Northern California Conference Honored Alumnus of Andrews the society’s annual 125th officers recently been named clinical of Seventh-day Adventists. University at the school’s most installation and recognition associate professor of nursing His tasks include handling recent Homecoming. Dr. Wong’s dinner. at Andrews University, and is crises, mitigating liability, and career has included serving at now teaching at that educational preventing problems. Maxwell’s Southeast Asia Union College, James Appel, ’94, who is a institution. work before his assignment to the Hong Kong Adventist College, physician at and the director risk management post included Walla Walla College, CEO of of Moundou Adventist Surgery 2010s service for two lay Adventist Adventist Health in Hong Kong, Center and Baraka Adventist ministries, a lifestyle retreat in Dean Witter Reynolds, and Hospital in the Republic of Chad, Seven PUC alumni were among Georgia, and a literature ministry Advent Links-SAUC Singapore. was awarded the University Global the 157 students graduating as in Tennessee. He earned a Ph.D. at Andrews in Service Award by Loma Linda physicians at the 2017 graduation 1976 and received an Honorary University School of Medicine. exercises at Loma Linda Univer- Former Faculty Doctorate of Philosophy from sity School of Medicine. Follow- Asia-Pacific International Raymond W. McAllister, ’97, a ing is a listing of the graduating & Staff University in Thailand in 2010. member of the Semitic Scholars, PUC alums, the area of medicine a group of three blind academics in which they are now intern- According to The Grundy 5 who have created a Braille code ing, and the medical center at County Herald newspaper, Irene

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We remember our lost brothers and sisters in Christ and pray for the day we are all reunited with our Heavenly Father. For full obituary information, please visit puc.edu/alumni.

1930s Phyllis Annette (Sidle) 1950s James Lyall Lansdown, ’55 William Larry Richards, ’62 Louanne Jade (White) Tina R. Nelson, ’85 Smith, ’45 January 20, 2017 March 18, 2017 Bursell, att. ’73-77 April 20, 2017 Lois Lenora (Dillon) June 16, 2016 Virgil “Kenneth” Juler, ’50 December 11, 2016 Anderson, ’38 November 20, 2016 Clark B. McCall, ’56 Earl “ET” Samuel Ansel Leroy Bristol, att. ’88 December 19, 2016 Stanley “Jack” D. Wheeler, ’45 October 27, 2017 Tresenriter, ’63 Donald Chase, ’73 April 13, 2017 November 25, 2016 Maynard Christian, ’51 October 14, 2016 May 22, 2017 Ronald C. Gregory, ’39 April 28, 2017 Carl Curtis Culpepper, ’57 1990s November 18, 2017 Joyce Beatrice (Gillian) September 15, 2016 Dennis W. Anderson, ’64 La Mont Del Ponder, ’74 White, ’45 Donald Belos Lake, ’51 November 19, 2016 February 14, 2017 Rudy Bermudez, ’90 1940s May 2016 January 2, 2017 Robert “Bob” Walter October 4, 2016 Pohle, ’57 Delmer G. Ross, ’65 Robert M. Sanders, ’76 Laurita E. (Wineland) Dorothy Marie Price, att. ’48 Carlos Ross von Pohle, ’51 April 11, 2017 March 12, 2017 May 5, 2017 Janice Carolyn (Hansen) Jacobson, ’40 January 27, 2017 May 27, 2017 Weisser, ’92 July 5, 2016 Ronald Lawrence Sackett, ’57 Jeanne Rae Munson, ’66 Jane Davis, att. ’76-78 November 27, 2016 Vera Lyau Smith, ’48 Walter N. Tinlin, ’51 May 1, 2017 October 22, 2016 December 22, 2016 Muriel Fischer, ’41 July 10, 2017 February 28, 2017 Wendy Elayne Wilson, ’93 March 24, 2017 Donald Perry Williams, ’57 James Sconza, ’68 James Brian Hoffer, ’77 December 7, 2017 Herbert G. Toews Jr., ’48 Phyllis Helena (Skau) March 30, 2017 June 6, 2017 June 25, 2017 Marian Mulder, ’41, ’43 March 14, 2017 Brown, att. ’52 Anita Alice (Cavagnaro) September 20, 2017 October 5, 2016 Granville Gene Wilson, ’57 Marilyn McIntosh, att. ’69 William M. Moors, ’77 Ford, ’95 Ardis M. Borg, ’49 January 16, 2017 March 15, 2017 December 24, 2016 April 30, 2017 Marjorie R. Belben, ’43 February 20, 2017 Milton A. Miller, ’52 February 6, 2017 December 25, 2016 James Jacobson, ’58 John Davis Butler Sr., Robert Franklin Chapman, Beverly Johnson, att. ’95 Beverly “Bev” Lorraine September 10, 2017 att. 1960s att. ’79 May 8, 2016 Helmuth Friedrich Fischer, Galusha, ’49 Ward B. Studt, ’52 June 13, 2017 November 25, 2016 a t t . ’4 3 -4 4 January 28, 2017 June 27, 2017 Susan Folkenberg Wilcox, ’58 Sarah Naomi Krieger, att. 1990s November 18, 2016 September 2, 2016 Mary Alice Cobb-Hill, Maurice Morgan, att. 1970s November 29, 2016 Walter D. Hofmann, ’49 William Arthur Jacobson, ’53 att. 1960s December 27, 2012 Rae Lucile Owens Hopkins, November 7, 2016 October 26, 2017 Kenneth Harvey Abbott II, ’59 December 9, 2017 Former Faculty a t t . ’4 3 June 25, 2017 Ronald A. Putman, att. 1970s December 2, 2016 Ruth Sanders Holm, ’49 Ivylyn R. Traver, ’53 Paul Lowell Connor, att. 1960s March 10, 2017 & Staff March 12, 2017 January 28, 2017 Janice Elaine Simmons, ’59 May 12, 2017 Louis Livingston Smith, att. ’43 June 16, 2017 1980s Ellis R. Rich, ’48 September 9, 2016 Frances Adelaide Gregg Donald Leroy Beglau, ’54 Sharon M. (Santos) Simpson, December 2, 2017 Quattlebaum, ’49 October 29, 2016 Arthur Ford, att. 1950s att. 1960s Cheryl Diane (Simmons) Geraldine A. (Baumbach) April 18, 2017 June 13, 2017 November 23, 2017 Horner, ’80 Cheryl Grove, att. 1960s Cochran, ’44 Melvin A. Beglau, ’54 July 21, 2017 October 26, 2017 November 30, 2017 Nadine Garcia, att. 1940s September 1, 2016 James Ronald Logan, att. 1950s 1970s January 28, 2017 November 9, 2016 Debra R. “Debbie” Jones, ’82 Alice L. Holst, att. ’63 Thomas J. Cummings, ’44 Velma Leona (Harris) Erna Irene Coon, ’71 March 13, 2017 December 4, 2016 March 18, 2017 Winona Dawn Kaiser, Gomes, ’54 William Robert Simpson, November 20, 2016 att. 1940s February 1, 2017 att. 1950s Douglas Alan Weeks, ’82 Geraldine “Gerry” Clare Paul William Kemper, ’44, ’81 November 29, 2017 February 1, 2017 Douglas A. Wing, ’71 October 16, 2017 Glantz, ’68 August 30, 2017 Gilbert L. Plubell, ’54, ’62 October 6, 2016 March 2017 Dana “Seke” Mulder, att. 1940s November 23, 2017 1960s Eunice Pauline Collins, att. ’83 Mary Jean Ceour-Barron October 13, 2016 Sylvia Ann Ruppert, att. ’72 June 3, 2017 Perry D. Campbell, ’79-81 Thompson, ’45, ’48, ’79 Frances (Klingbeil) Arnold, ’55 David Wesley Wilbur, ’61 September 21, 2016 June 13, 2017 December 12, 2017 November 4, 2017 November 24, 2017 Ralph E. Hendrix, ’85 Ramona Dunson, ’62 June 15, 2017 Gary Wayne Shearer, ’83-08 January 25, 2017 December 6, 2016

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BIRTHS 1 Wren Augustus Hans Gienger, son of 10 Ethan James Martell, son of Kate Kristen Feldbush Gienger, ’09, and (Osena) Martell, ’11, and Jonathan Bradley Gienger, ’10, of Bismarck, (JD) Martell, ’09, was born in N.D., was born on July 1, 2016 Fresno, Calif., on December 5, 2016 2 Christina Renae McMillan, daughter 11 Jonathan Steven Hopkins, son of 1 5 9 13 of Maria (Araujo) McMillan, ’09, Camille Hopkins, ’10, and Neal and Kyle McMillan was born in San Hopkins, ’09, was born in Ogden, Bernardino, Calif., on November 4, 2016 Utah, on Septemeber 17, 2016 3 River Graham Qualls, son of Candice Levi James Brooks, son of Caitlin (Seyfang) Qualls, ’06, and Tyson 12 (Boren) Brooks, att. ’06-09, and Qualls, ’07, was born in Martinez, Steven Brooks, ’10, was born in Calif., on December 11, 2017 Loma Linda, Calif., on August 13, 2017 4 Haley Nicole West, daughter of 13 Alice Olivia Marie White, daughter Kayloni (Hagelgantz) West, ’14, and of Carrie (Moore) White, ’11, and Darin West, ’11, was born in Loma Andrew White, ’12, was born in 2 6 10 14 Linda, Calif., on June 12, 2017 Santa Rosa, Calif. on January 25, 2017 5 Abigail Olivia Bunch, daughter of 14 Callie Nalani Wilson, daughter of Hannah (Burkhardt) Bunch, ’10, Joycelyn (Ampon) Wilson, ’10, and and Brian Bunch, was born in Angwin, Timothy Wilson, ’09, was born in Calif., on June 6, 2017 Minneapolis, Minn, on January 13, 2018 6 Gabriel Robert Moeller, son of Laurie 15 Iris Elise Chambers, daughter of Diana (Sanford) Moeller, ’08, and Mark Klonek, ’12, and Kerry Chambers, Moeller, was born in Citrus Heights, ’11, was born in Vancouver, BC Calif., on May 16, 2017 Canada, on June 19, 2016 3 7 11 15 7 Levi Allen Chapman, son of Jenny 16 Soren Grant Gildersleeve, son of (Wood) Chapman, ’12, and Krystal Gildersleeve, att. ’06-12, Korey Chapman, ’12, was born in and Evan Gildersleeve was born in Sandpoint, Idaho, on June 12, 2017 Boulder, Colo., on September 23, 2016 8 Bennett Reid von Pohle, son of Carli (Ashlock) von Pohle, ’08, and Carignane von Pohle, ’10, was born in Loma Linda, Calif., on January 16, 2018 9 Miguel Alexander Padilla, son of Mariegrace (Salamanca) Padilla, 4 8 12 16 ’08, and Miguel Padilla was born in 16 Walnut Creek, Calif., on July 23, 2016

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