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THE MAGAZINE OF TLU | FALL 2013 EDITION | VOL. 38, NO. 1

ACADEMIC GROWTH AND INNOVATION Meeting the demands of today’s market with new majors and programs

TORCH | 1 Momentum? Momentum is the next day’s starting pitcher.

—Earl Weaver, legendary manager of the Baltimore Orioles.

But one is wise to heed the warning of Mr. Weaver. Our omentum is important momentum depends upon following up with more good news and outcomes. Looking ahead to next year, however, on a college campus, gives me confidence. TLU is again a “Best College to Work M For,” but this time was included on an honor roll of just just as in baseball. 30 universities that have exceptional work environments. We have hired Dr. Kathy Aduddell to head the new nursing It enhances faculty and staff morale, program that is set to launch next fall. Bulldog athletics builds alumni pride, and delivers moves this year to the prestigious Southern Collegiate a compelling case for donor support. Athletic Conference, competing against traditional rivals Positive expectations also impact enrollment: prospective like Trinity, Southwestern and Austin College, and new foes students are looking for a school they believe will grow Colorado College and Centenary University. Our faculty in recognition and a diploma that will gain value. I believe and staff are following up the curriculum revision with an there is a groundswell of momentum building in integrated program to make TLU a leader in advising and TLU’s favor. career development. We also will continue to seek out new academic programs and majors to stimulate growth. Consider last year: Most visibly, TLU will take the next step in the campus ■ Centennial Hall, a $10 million freshmen residence transformation by a multi-million dollar investment hall, encompassing the Greehey Academic Center, in new and upgraded athletic facilities. This project does was dedicated—the first step in the master plan much more than bring football back to campus for the to transform the campus; first time since the mid-1930s. The new facilities will be used by all students, will build campus spirit and pride, ■ The university awarded its first master’s degrees and make TLU more attractive to prospective students. at May commencement; This project accelerates the momentum of the campus transformation, and points to more to follow. ■ The Board of Regents approved a new Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Each of these investments in the campus and academic program makes sense on its own. Collectively, they make ■ TLU was cited as a “A Great College to Work For” by a statement that Texas Lutheran University has real The Chronicle of Higher Education, and a “Top Workplace” momentum and a bright future. by the San Antonio Express-News; Dr. Stuart Dorsey ■ The university was one of only four Texas universities named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with distinction;

■ Our faculty and staff launched an innovative new President, core curriculum; Texas Lutheran University

■ TLU was cited as the No. 1 “Best Value” among Western regional colleges by U.S. News and World Report.

MANAGING EDITOR Sarah Story SENIOR WRITER Ashlie McEachern CONTRIBUTING WRITER Jenni Morin The Magazine Of Texas Lutheran University Vol. 38, No. 1 CREATIVE DIRECTOR Mike Bulsiewicz PHOTOGRAPHY Terry Price Torch is a semiannual publication by the Texas Lutheran University Marketing office. David Edmondson Inquiries and submissions should be directed to the editorial staff at [email protected]. AlumNotes submissions and change of address may be sent to the Alumni Relations GRAPHIC DESIGN Mike Bulsiewicz office at [email protected] Judy Samford THE MAGAZINE OF TEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY | FALL 2013 EDITION | VOL. 38, NO. 1 contents

Features IN THIS ISSUE Learn Boldly 2 Mischer’s Vision 5 Students of Note Professor Sits Down with Emmy Award-Winning Live to Inspire 3 Director and Producer Don Mischer Alumni of Note 6 TLU Today 5 Academic Excellence and Innovation Feature Articles TLU Launches New Academic Majors in Nursing and Social Entrepreneurship Growing + Giving 18 From the Office of Development Cultivating Innovation 8 2013 Krost Symposium Discusses How We Generate Newsworthy 22 TLU Headlines New Ideas and Put Them Into Action Scoreboard 24 6 Harlaxton Offers Immersive Experience Abroad 10 Sports Highlights New Harlaxton College Hosts TLU Contingent Alumni Relations 27 Academic Staying Connected Majors An Unforgettable Adventure 12 Alumnotes 30 Launching Trip to Ethiopia a Life-Changing Experience Catching Up with Alumni at TLU Calendar 33 Alyssa Tieman “I was able to shoot and edit the Luminaria event in San Antonio with two other students and work on several projects with Child Advocates San Antonio through Shannon’s group Theatre SCRIPTING THE FUTURE For Change,” Tieman said. “This summer, I’ll be teaching a two-week production camp The change in disciplines, Tieman ’13 for The Playhouse in San Antonio on script said, allowed her to not only continue writing, writing, filming and acting for a group of 12 but made her feel at home with other students to 18-year-olds. I feel very fortunate who shared her same interests, quirks to be selected for these roles.” and eccentricities. Ivey said she has industry friends approaching “When I became part of my first ensemble her all the time asking for recommendations production, I felt at home,” Tieman said. for both paid and unpaid positions, and “It was refreshing to be around people who students like Alyssa make her job of choosing were weird like me, enjoyed genres like sci-fi which student to recommend very easy. and fantasy, and appreciated how much goes into making a production happen.” “Alyssa’s dedicated, ridiculously talented and an extremely hard worker. She’s a natural Working with Shannon Ivey, assistant storyteller with an excellent work ethic and Alyssa Tieman came to Texas professor of Dramatic Media, allows Tieman a hunger to learn. She always says yes to to study under someone with professional Lutheran University with her every opportunity that comes her way, which experience in writing, directing, filming is why she was a natural fit for my sights set on an English degree and acting. Tieman said Ivey’s career has organization, Theatre For Change.” and two published books to her helped her in numerous areas, including the writing of her 106-page sci-fi fantasy credit. However, her love for the While she might have changed paths at TLU, script, Asen Coss, which was submitted Tieman said she’s thankful for the creative written word guided her into to the Austin Film Festival. aspect of course work in English that has dramatic media. With a focus transferred into her script writing. With “When you’re learning from a person who has in script writing, she immersed plans for graduate school or perhaps a filming actually worked in the industry, you’re taught internship at a local news station now herself into the tight-knit art what other professionals are looking for in on her mind, she said she never could have terms of content and structure,” Tieman community of the TLU theatre imagined the opportunities TLU has said. “Although being involved with dramatic department where she is honing brought to her. media productions and balancing a full course her filming, editing, writing load is tough, it’s worth it when you get to “The combination of working with industry come together with other people who share and producing skills. professionals like Shannon and her constant the same love of the arts as you. I’m learning push to get TLU and the work the program so much about myself and how I work with does out to the public is very beneficial,” different people and environments.” Tieman said. “Something great is going on here at the TLU campus with dramatic Tieman has also had several professional media and we have students and faculty who opportunities open up as a TLU dramatic do a great job of sharing that with others.” media student and through her social drama course.

Read more about TLU students and faculty Inwe when strange things start happening to the who Learn Boldly at When she’s not busy writing scripts, editing film, or studying for class, Alyssa operates the tower’s occupants. Her second book, Erin Mitchell, is a www.tlu.edu/torch. TriCaster—a three-camera setup that merges live video departure from her fantasy and sci-fi works. Released To learn more about switching, broadcast graphics and web streaming. In in 2009, Erin Mitchell follows the story of a teenage Shannon Ivey’s organization, addition to her involvement with Theatre For Change girl who falls in love with a boy while she’s recovering Theatre for Change, go to and The Playhouse, Alyssa is the author of two books. from an accident. As their relationships develops, Erin www.theatreforchange.org. Civent, published in 2006 when she was only 15, is a starts realizing there is something very odd about fantasy novel set on the mysterious island of Civent her new love interest. Alyssa cites the Harry Potter in the watchtower Tirith Aear. The protagonist, James and Lord of The Rings series as major influences B. Lyonsbanner, revisits the island and as the mystery in her writing. unfolds, he must protect the Elven sisters Nessa and

2 | TORCH Laurie Corbelli PLAYING TO WIN During her junior year at Texas Lutheran University, Laurie Corbelli packed up her entire life and left Seguin.

She traveled to California and began training for the Summer Olympics with the women’s junior national volleyball team. It wasn’t until an afternoon in late April Although it was difficult to leave behind her of 1980 when Corbelli knew her dream coach, teammates, family and university, of Olympic gold would not come true Corbelli knew if she declined the once-in-a- that summer. lifetime opportunity, she’d forever regret it. Now the most successful head volleyball “My teammates and I were actually traveling coach at Texas A&M University, the Olympic to San Antonio for a match when we got silver medalist continues to use her off the plane and I saw the faces of my experience as an athlete to not only family,” Corbelli said. “I knew it had been coach her players, but to challenge them officially announced while we were on the as individuals. flight that the U.S. would not be playing in Moscow. It was devastating to think It was 1977 when the 20-year-old middle we had worked so hard and were not going blocker first arrived in Huntington Beach, to compete. We had a match that evening Calif. After missing a season the year and it was very hard to hear ‘The Star- before because of a broken foot, Corbelli Spangled Banner’ play.” was determined to start playing again. From 6 to 11 p.m. every day, the team trained After the disappointment of the 1980 at any open gym they could find. After Olympics, Corbelli took the summer off a short time on the West Coast, Corbelli and debated whether or not to begin training and her teammates were the first team ever for the 1984 games. The 23-year-old decided invited to train in Colorado Springs at after all the traveling and hard work she a former U.S. Army base—now the U.S. put into the past three years, she wanted Olympic Training Center. After three years to go for it one more time and committed of training eight hours a day, Corbelli and to the ’84 Olympics in Los Angeles. her team knew they were ready. However, “I knew we weren’t going to boycott our own on Jan. 4, 1980, the team was told the U.S. games,” she joked. “We would also be able might boycott the Olympic Games in to have family there since it was in our own Moscow because of the Soviet Union’s refusal country. So I went back at it again. I trained to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. eight hours a day and by the time the games “We didn’t let the news phase us,” were upon us, I knew we were ready.” Corbelli said. “All the other U.S. teams stopped training and we kept going. We picketed with other Pictured at Left: athletes asking people In 2012, Corbelli received to please not boycott a commemorative jersey the games and we even from Texas A&M University went on ‘Good Morning athletics director Eric Hyman America.’ celebrating her 500th win as head volleyball coach. We wanted to show people how hard we had worked Pictured at Upper Left: and how much we wanted Laurie Corbelli, then Laurie to compete.” Flachmeier, was a middle blocker for the U.S. women’s volleyball team during the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles where they won the silver medal.

TORCH | 3 Read more about TLU LIVE TO INSPIRE alumni who Live to Inspire at www.tlu.edu/torch.

John, have coached there since 1993. Now, as the winningest coach in A&M volleyball history and coach of three-time Olympian and silver medalist Stacy Sykora, Corbelli still uses her two decades of experience to lead, encourage and challenge athletes.

“I tell them following your dreams shouldn’t be easy,” Corbelli said. “You must take risks and expect failure because that’s how you learn not just as an athlete, but as a person. Corbelli says her most important role is being a motivator to her players and challenging them to take risks. My most important role is a motivator. The X’s and O’s are the easy part. The challenge The No. 3 ranked U.S. Women’s Volleyball my degree and there was a scariness that is convincing players they can go out and Team defeated the No. 1 ranked China I was going to be leaving my teammates who be great. Susan Duke was my wonderful Women’s Volleyball Team in a first round had become my family for the past eight coach at TLU and she was our No. 1 fan. match. The two teams met again four days years. After all the celebrating was over, You have to be your player’s No. 1 fan and later in a battle for the gold medal. That we realized we didn’t know how we would vice versa. Everything I did and continue match, and the subsequent loss, is something get jobs or support ourselves without college to do is an incredible emotional investment. Corbelli still carries with her. Receiving degrees. A lot of people doubted us and It can wear on you. But in the end, it’s her silver medal was bittersweet and full we sat out to prove them wrong.” worth every minute.” of mixed emotions as she and the rest of her team stood up in front of the world. She enrolled at San Jose State in California Editor’s note: Laurie Corbelli comes from a long line to complete her kinesiology degree. While of TLU alumni and friends. Her grandfather, Raymond “I cried tears of joy but also tears of regret,” there, Corbelli was offered the head coaching Flachmeier, Sr. graduated in 1924, her father Raymond Corbelli said. “Losing that match was position at the University of San Francisco Flachmeier, Jr. graduated in 1954 and her three sisters heartbreaking. But, I had my medal and where she also finished her degree. After four Lin F. Cerles, Lee F. Davis and Leslie Love graduated I was just so proud and happy. I remember seasons at USF, Corbelli became the head in 1976, 1978 and 1981. standing up there and thinking, ‘What coach at Texas A&M University in College am I going to do now?’ I didn’t have Station and both she and her husband,

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TLU Professor chronicles visit with Don Mischer A Day In The Life of a Hollywood Producer Mischer’s Vision “The thing that made the greatest impression on me was how generous he was with his time,” Price said. “He was in the final stages of developing a major television special that was to be aired in just a few weeks, but he sat with me for almost two hours to talk about his experiences here at TLU and afterwards. His love for TLU was very evident.”

an Antonio native Don Mischer During the interview, Price also gets is an award-winning producer to know the man behind the awards, and director of television and as viewers glimpse into the life live events. With notable credits of Mischer. ranging from the Academy AwardsS and Superbowl halftime shows “It was certainly not the grand to The Obama Inaugural Celebration Hollywood producer’s office one would at The Lincoln Memorial and The 100th expect,” Price said. “In fact, there Anniversary of Carnegie Hall, Mischer’s were prized awards sitting on the floor career in television and broadcast while pictures of family, friends and the is highly regarded by his peers. The 15- shows he enjoyed directing most were time Emmy Award-winning producer and hanging on the wall. You can tell a lot director attended TLU from 1958 to 1961 about a person by what they treasure. and went on to receive a Master of Arts As soon as I walked in, I knew this was from The University of Texas at Austin. the office of a person who loved what Recently, TLU Professor of Dramatic he did and cherished his relationships.” Media Terry Price traveled to Hollywood, Calif., to sit down with Mischer in an on- camera interview discussing his lifelong To watch Price’s interview with Mischer, connection to TLU and the art of visit TINYURL.com/DON MISCHER. directing and producing.

TORCH | 5 TLU TODAY a new era of Academic Excellence and Innovation An idea can be big or small, new or slightly different, complex or very simple, but if you talk to some of the leading innovators and designers across the globe, HOW you innovate is just as important as WHAT you innovate.

his year, TLU can talk about both. BA in Social Entrepreneurship Creating and launching new Aligns with Learn Boldly. academic majors – nursing and social Live to Inspire. T entrepreneurship – implementing Continuing the college’s focus on a new General Education Curriculum – recruiting and graduating students The visual mark Compass – and hosting a Krost Symposium who have a social conscience and for the COMPASS general education centered around the idea of “Cultivating an entrepreneurial spirit, TLU curriculum Innovation” is creating an exciting buzz launched a Bachelor of Arts in Social around campus about how we’re innovating Entrepreneurship this fall. The program, as much as what we’re innovating. designed for undergraduate students Faculty Association in December 2011. who have a passion for a particular Implementation of the new curriculum TLU has entered a new era of innovation and academic area combined with a desire began with the 2012-2013 freshman class. academic excellence. With administration, to start a venture addressing a social Named Compass, the new curriculum faculty and staff collaborating and issue, is one of the few undergraduate gives direction to a student’s academic supporting the idea of innovation, great degrees in social entrepreneurship experience with a focus on four parts– things are happening at TLU: in Texas and many of the surrounding Foundations, Distributions, Activity states. The major includes concentrations Modules and Competencies. The new social entrepreneurship major, in faith, culture and diversity, nonprofit beginning fall 2013, allows students leadership and social justice. Students While the foundation and distribution to take a socially minded idea and turn within this degree plan will have classes serve as an educational base that it into a for-profit or nonprofit opportunities to participate in internships, students build on, Compass is unique business venture. study abroad programs and student- because students get to apply what they run businesses on the TLU campus. learned in class to activities outside the The nursing program, set to begin fall The major also supports the required civic classroom, or activity modules. Compass 2014, sets students on the path to becoming engagement competency of TLU’s new is also different from other programs a registered nurse—one of the nation’s general education curriculum, Compass. because students are assessed in 11 fastest-growing and highly demanded Visit tlu.edu/entrepreneur for more different competencies, or skills. TLU professions. information. students will be able to show prospective employers that they have mastered Compass equips students with a robust Compass Gives Direction skills such as creative thinking, ethical academic foundation that rewards learning To Students’ Experience reasoning, problem solving and outside the classroom and tracks the skills With ongoing changes in what scientific literacy. and competencies developed during employers and graduate schools want their four years at TLU. from recent college graduates, as well as changes in how students learn and And, this year’s Krost Symposium, retain information, general education The visual mark “Cultivating Innovation,” exposes students curriculum requires ongoing review for the Social to the ways people generate ideas and and revision. Entrepreneurship collaborate to address the world’s problems. major Our students will even get the opportunity TLU’s faculty did just that when the full to tackle a problem and develop their own faculty completed a curriculum revision idea to solve it through Idea Map programs. throughout the 2010-2011 academic year tlu.edu/ideamap. with the final proposal approved by the

6 | TORCH TLU TODAY Nursing Program Expected to Begin Fall 2014 New program will provide opportunities for students in this rapidly growing profession

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Research from the American Association New Position Created for Program Employment Projections for 2010 to 2020, of Colleges of Nursing shows that lower TLU has hired Kathie Aduddell to head the registered nursing workforce is the mortality rates, fewer medication errors the new nursing program pending approval top occupation in terms of job growth and positive outcomes are all linked by the Texas Board of Nursing. She through 2020. Texas Lutheran University’s to nurses prepared at the baccalaureate brings more than 35 years of health care new nursing program will give students and graduate degree levels. experience to the university. Aduddell the necessary training and opportunity previously served as an associate professor to earn a degree for success in this rapidly Recognizing the high national demand for the WellStar School of Nursing growing profession. for registered nurse candidates, the new and MSN-nursing administration and nursing program will not only allow more health policy leadership coordinator for “We are committed to offering programs students to graduate with a valuable Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, and degree plans that reflect current degree, but will also address the shortage Ga. Before her career at KSU, she was job market demands,” said TLU President of registered nurses projected to spread director of the associate degree nursing Dr. Stuart Dorsey. “The field of nursing across the country through 2030. The program at Victoria College, in Victoria, continues to expand at a very high rate January 2012 United States Registered Texas, assistant professor at the School and there is a great need for certified Nurse Workforce Report Card and of Nursing at Radford University in professionals. If someone chooses Shortage Forecast presented a state-by- to go through the nursing program at TLU, state analysis predicting the RN shortage Radford, Va. and director of health services they’ll obtain a Bachelor of Science to be most intense in the South and at Fullerton College in Fullerton, Calif. in Nursing and be prepared to sit for the the West. state registered nurse licensing exam She holds a Doctor of Education from and a career in this growing occupation.” Robert Haynes, chief executive officer Pepperdine University, a Master of Science of Guadalupe Regional Medical Center in Nursing from the University of Texas TLU’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing (GRMC) in Seguin, said, “Nurses are the Medical Branch Galveston and a Bachelor (BSN) will provide students with clinical cornerstone of healthcare and will continue of Science in Nursing from the University and classroom hours and topics to sit to be in short supply for the foreseeable of Virginia. for the state registered nurse licensing future. GRMC is excited to hear that examination. The degree track, like all TLU is progressing with the development The program is subject to final approval RN programs, requires a great deal of of a BSN RN program.” by the Texas Board of Nursing. TLU experience in the clinical setting and will submit its proposal to the board students will work directly with patients. in early fall 2013.

The Bachelor of Science in Nursing Frequently Asked Questions What hospitals will TLU be with the Texas Board of Nursing. working with? Students will graduate with a Bachelor TLU is in discussions with a number of Science in Nursing—a degree that How will the program work? of local hospitals and health is in demand and, more than ever, TLU’s Bachelor of Science care providers. required by hospitals. TLU’s program in Nursing will provide students is grounded in a liberal arts foundation with clinical and classroom What is clinical training? that includes a broad educational hours and topics to sit for the The student is working with patients experience in and out of the classroom. state registered nurse licensing under the direction of a TLU faculty examination. The degree track, member and registered nurse at the How many nursing programs are like all RN programs, requires institution. These can include hospitals currently offered in the state of Texas? a great deal of experience in the and other health care facilities such There are currently 44 programs in the clinical setting and students as rehabilitation centers, urgent care state of Texas that offer a BSN and will work directly with patients. centers, mental health facilities, adult 69 programs offer an associate degree care, etc. in nursing. How many students are expected to enroll in fall 2014? How does the TLU program compare Approximately 35 to 40 students to other universities? are expected the first year. TLU’s program will be fully accredited

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When the 2013 Krost Symposium planning committee began exploring the topic of Cultivating Innovation, they knew they didn’t just simply want to tell students, faculty and staff about the subject. They wanted to show everyone how to actually cultivate innovation.

r. Robin Bisha, Krost planning committee chairperson and professor of communication studies, wanted the symposium and the speakers to address the different areas of innovation and leave attendees with a sense of how to lay the ground work for innovative ideas. DThe committee drew inspiration from Steven Johnson’s book, Where Good Ideas Come From, which addresses technology that has changed the way we live, and importantly, that innovation is a collaborative process. His idea of the adjacent possible, or the understanding that innovative ideas have to be imaginable by the majority of people, is something Bisha said she wanted to make sure the Krost audience understands.

“Johnson writes about how we need to know that ideas are possible and many of the problems we’re trying to fix are grounded in things people are already doing,” Bisha said. “Dr. Dorsey always talks about relentlessly innovating TLU. In Johnson’s book, he discusses how when we collaborate, we spark each other to ideas. His other point is that these great ideas are rarely at the core of one discipline. They tend to overlap several disciplines and involve a repurposing of something. We wanted to present these ideas at Krost and give people the tools to show them how their ideas can be possible.”

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SpeakerS and Activities:

Creating Innovators of the American Academy of Poets and an alumna as confidence, time management, collaboration, Skype interview with Tony Wagner, Ed.D. of Trinity University. Her latest poem,“Homesteaders,” conflict resolution and creative and critical thinking. October 1, 12-1:30 p.m. is a featured story in the September 2013 issue A team of facilitators from Destination Imagination of Shambala Sun. and an experienced DI team will demonstrate to FREX 134 students how they can collaborate to find Facing Failure With ResiliencE innovative solutions to challenges posed by the TLU community. Freshmen will have the opportunity Mary Steinhardt, Ed.D., LPC, CHES to sign up for a challenge and spend one month October 3, 9:30 a.m. coming up with realizable solutions. Groups will be given a budget guideline and the winning group will receive a grant to realize its idea during the spring semester.

Tony Wagner is the Innovation Education Fellow STUDENT PROJECTS CAN at the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center LEAD TO Humanitarian at Harvard University. His latest book, Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Innovation Will Change The World, explores the topic of how Veronika Scott November 6, 7:30 p.m. innovation is the greatest skill our children can Mary Steinhardt is a professor of health have and what parents, teachers and employers education at the University of Texas at Austin need to do to in order for them to become the next and director of the Transforming Lives Through generation of innovators. A former teacher and Resilience Education program. Her research Harvard graduate, Wagner consults nationally and teaches people how to build resilience and strength internationally to schools and districts, providing in difficult situations. Steinhardt focuses on how his expertise on how educators can equip students resilient individuals build, grow and thrive by how with the skills they actually need to compete they respond to change and stress. in life and the professional world. Space For Innovation A Life of Innovation Representatives of Barnes Gromatzky For Veronika Scott, what began as her college Naomi Shihab Nye Kosarek, Lammers & Associates and design project to make coats that convert into October 2, 7:30 p.m. Pfluger Associates sleeping bags for homeless people has turned October 3, 2:30 p.m. into a social movement. Scott, 23, founded the Empowerment Plan—a nonprofit organization This panel of architects from various firms, based in Detroit that employs women from homeless who have designed buildings on the TLU campus, shelters as full-time seamstresses. The women will talk about how the spaces we work and live make coats that are given to homeless people free in affect how we think. They will discuss functionality, of charge. Scott’s success as a social entrepreneur as well as how corporate spaces can be constructed has been profiled on CNN, NPR and the Discovery to promote networking and creativity. The panel Channel and featured in Forbes, The New York Times will also lead a walking tour of campus after and The London Daily Mail. She is a recipient the discussion. of the 2012 John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award— Born to a Palestinian father and an American an award honoring individuals under 40 who mother, Naomi Shihab Nye uses her multicultural inspire a new generation of public servants. experiences as inspiration for her poetry and writing Into Innovation process. Her life of living within two cultures allows Destination Imagination Team her to write for both adults and children and she October 9, 7:30 p.m. is known for bringing importance to everyday life, its people, objects and ancestry. Nye will discuss Destination Imagination is an educational how innovation works for writers and their world program where student teams solve open- of imagining things that don’t yet exist. Nye, ended challenges and present their solutions who calls San Antonio home, is a chancellor at tournaments, developing skills such For more information, visit www.tlu.edu/krost.

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Main gate Harlaxton gardens Karen and Glynn Bloomquist

Bob Jonas, professor of biology, and senior business administration major Harlaxton Offers Immersive Katy Wallace will both spend the fall 2013 semester at Harlaxton. Jonas looks forward to serving as a visiting professor Experience Abroad and Wallace is excited to travel and s one of TLU’s signature study who accompanied Dr. Dorsey on explore not only in England, but the abroad programs, the Harlaxton an alumni trip to Harlaxton in summer surrounding countries. College experience, through 2012, said Harlaxton College is a perfect the University of Evansville location for TLU students who are “I decided to go to Harlaxton College in Indiana and their British interested in studying outside of the because I lived in England when I was campus, hosts students from United States. very young and wanted to revisit the area various parts of the U.S. to study in a lovely “I think it will be a life-changing so that I could have conscious memory 19th century manor house on 117 acres experience for the students who go,” of having been there,” Wallace said. of gardens, parks and woodlands. The Michelle Dorsey said. “They will be “As a bonus I get to live in an incredible campus is near Grantham, England and immersed in British culture while still place full of history and beautiful just two hours from London by train. Local being challenged academically. On architecture. I’m most looking forward and visiting professors teach a variety of the alumni trip, we stayed in the student to living in such a beautiful place and courses, including group excursions and dormitories, we ate in the student dining really getting to know Great Britain. independent travel. refectory, and even took one of the I know that a lot of people will be trips to Lincoln, England that students traveling around Europe, but I really TLU President Dr. Stuart Dorsey first take. It’s also a safe launching pad want to delve into the British culture.” experienced Harlaxton College as a faculty for students who might be traveling member at Baker University and again as Dr. Dorsey believes the Harlaxton out of the country for the first time.” vice president for academic affairs at the College study abroad program appeals University of Evansville where he oversaw to students and is a perfect fit for TLU. their Harlaxton program. After arriving at TLU, Charla Bailey, director of TLU’s “Harlaxton is a rigorous academic international education program, program that combines classroom learning approached him about adding Harlaxton with travel to nearby historic sites to TLU’s study abroad repertoire. Bailey that make British (and American) history had also experienced the Harlaxton come alive,” Dr. Dorsey said. “ In my semester and wanted students at long association with Harlaxton, virtually TLU to have the same opportunity. every student or professor who participates counts the In its second year, the Harlaxton experience as one of the study abroad program will have most impactful in their nine TLU students enrolled for lives. I am proud that TLU the fall 2013 semester. TLU is making this transformation First Lady Michelle Dorsey, opportunity possible for our students.”

10 | TORCH New York Times Columnist | Award-Winning Journalist DAVID BROOKS

Thursday, September 19, 2013 Jackson Auditorium | 7:30 p.m.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information and upcoming events, visit www.tlu.edu/guests. AN UNFORGETTABLE ADVENTURE Andrew Huang is an ’87 TLU alumnus, member of the TLU Board of Regents and President of the Houston Downtown Alliance. His church, Messiah Lutheran Church in Cypress, Texas, sponsored two water wells in Ethiopia through an organization called Water to Thrive. While in Ethiopia, Huang kept a journal about his experiences.

HERE is Andrew’s Journal–

DAY 1: Along on the trip with me was TLU grad and pastor of my church Brad Otto. As we got on the plane for our long flight Andrew Huang ’87 visits Ethiopian I felt nervous and wondered what I had children after helping to install a new well. gotten myself into. I asked Brad if he was the fence. When the well was finished nervous and he answered back almost we participated in a ceremony and the before I finished with a big “YES!” Landing first water was pumped out of the well in the capital city of Addis Ababa was clean and clear. You have to understand a culture shock. The city is very large with for these villagers, their water source people and animals and cars everywhere, had been a stagnant pond that was brown all sharing the same unmarked streets. and filled with animal feces and who knows what else. So, seeing clean water from Day 2: a well built for them was overwhelming, We drove out to our first village and and it was overwhelming for us too. The on the way I saw so much poverty. ladies in the village were camped under It became almost numbing to see shack a tree roasting coffee beans to make coffee after shack haphazardly thrown for us with the new well water. It’s a ritual up alongside the roads. These are homes for them and a communal act which was we wouldn’t use as sheds for our very special to experience. They had food lawnmowers. Arriving at the village, for us too that smelled amazing, but we we were greeted by villagers riding out couldn’t eat it. We were told we would to meet us on colorfully decorated horses. get sick almost certainly so it was tough Getting out of the Jeep, there was that to say no to their hospitality so we sat moment of awkwardness. Here we are under a tree with everyone and drank just in from the U.S. now in the village coffee that puts Starbucks to shame. of Mailma, Ethiopia, standing next to villagers who have never left that area. What do you say or do especially when DAY 3: language is a major barrier. That was We headed to another site in a more soon answered when a group of kids ran remote area where the well was in the up with huge smiles. The answer was very early stages of being built. The well pretty simple… smile. So we got to work is hand dug, which means a teenage boy alongside the villagers and we soon worked climbs deep in the well and sends dirt together as a team. Our job was to dig up in a bucket. Our job was to move and set fence posts around the well. There literally hundreds of large stones to the is no shovel so we used a metal rod that you well that would be used to support the just keep pounding into the ground. It was well structure. After that, we worked hard work. This well was almost completed alongside some of the villagers to lower so the work was really limited to building heavy cement cylinders that make

12 | TORCH TLU TODAY the wall of the well. The stones we very ready to just be done with all the that has been contaminated. A little girl gathered were then dropped down the sides ceremony and move in with his bride! in a tattered dress was lowering a can to help secure the well and prevent it from As we left the wedding, the old man from to get water. We watched her and it felt collapsing. As we were working, I noticed the field was there dressed in his elder detached and sad. I went up and took her an old man with a cane watching us. He had garments and he smiled big when he saw picture then the other kids wanted their a big smile on his face the whole time. We us and was just so warm. As we drove back, pictures taken, and soon we were needed to get more rocks and as we went I just felt thankful to have been a part all smiling. Our group leader brought to gather them, he came with us and helped of such an amazing day. We are changing aside a mother with a baby and through carry rocks back to the site. It’s hard to lives but in reality they did the same for us. a translator we got to hear her story. There describe, but there was such wisdom is so much sickness in the village because in his face and even though we couldn’t talk DAY 4: of contaminated water and yet they are to each other, I felt we did just through Today is our last day in this area of Ethiopia. forced to drink to live. The mother talked the smiles and sharing the work. At the Tomorrow we head north to an area that is about wanting her kids to be able to go end of the day, we found out there was more remote and impoverished. We to school but it is so far and books are a wedding at the village and we were invited will have an opportunity to sightsee and scarce. We talked about trying to help to come. Weddings are three-day events take a break before we start work again. build one and what it would take. It’s and this was the third day when the bride impossible to grasp the enormity of the and groom finally get to move into their We arrived at a village this morning and stakes and the problems. We presented the own hut. I had to smile as the groom looked saw a well the villagers had been using village with a soccer ball and goals were quickly set up. It was fun playing with the kids but they schooled us. After the game, we went up and walked through the village to see how people live. We also visited a larger village and a schoolhouse. They were studying English and it was good to see that in some places kids were getting an education. So many children, especially in villages with no access to clean and close water sources, spend their days walking to get water and do not attend school. It’s amazing that one water well can completely change the daily life of an entire village and help make education possible.

DAY 5: We spent our time in a very remote village called Robit. It’s a pretty large village of 11,000 people. We had to transfer into

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ABOVE: Huang and members of his church stand next to completed well.

RIGHT: A boy stands on a bridge leading into the remote village of Robit.

TORCH | 13 TLU TODAY Responsive design essentially reformats the page in order for its content to fit on the screen, whether it is a traditional computer monitor, a tablet or a smartphone.

Screenshot of new TLU website

customized to the needs of the university’s future students, current students, faculty Website Relaunch ShowcaseS and alumni.”

Along with responsive design, the website New Technology and Content also features more options for integrating social media, making it easier to share fter a successful rebranding “We are extremely excited about the website events, news and pages. By examining the initiative last year, Texas Lutheran we are making for TLU,” said Giles-Parscale analytics of the previous version of the University once again turned to President Brad Parscale. “It is especially site, the new site is meant to offer a subtle A updating its web presence. With gratifying to design an ‘academic’ site that guided path for visitors, based on their role, a new logo and a new tagline, the website focuses on strong branding and marketing.” while simultaneously making it faster needed to live up to the new bold initiative to find and click the information they seek. and aspirational character of the university Instead of creating a separate smartphone To expand awareness of the university and and its constituents. While it’s only been or tablet application, TLU is taking its brand, the site also employs various a few years since the last website redesign a newer approach to the range of devices search engine optimization features and relaunch, there have been major accessing the website with responsive coupled with digital marketing campaigns changes in how society, especially the design. Responsive design essentially aimed at attracting prospective students current generation of prospective students, reformats the page in order for its content who fit with the programs TLU offers. interacts with websites and social media. to fit on the screen, whether it is a traditional computer monitor, a tablet “We believe TLU’s website will establish “It’s important that we stay current and or a smartphone. Instead of just shrinking a new standard for university websites,” approach our website as our most effective the page, along with all of its text and said Parscale, “giving TLU a look and and visible strategic marketing tool,” images, to the width of the device, the message that distinguishes it from other said TLU Vice President of Marketing & elements of the page resize, realign and schools. We think we’ve created a site Communications Sarah Story. That is why reorder themselves. This allows the content that has a strong, holistic brand feel and Story and her team chose Giles-Parscale, to be accessible while maintaining the captures you from the first visual.” Inc., a San Antonio-based design and design aesthetic. web marketing firm, to produce the new The site is planned to launch this fall. website. Giles-Parscale has designed and “Most universities choose systems that built websites like The San Antonio River force designers to work around blocky, Walk, San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, forced structures, drastically limiting Ben E. Keith and Trump International the design options,” said Parscale. “TLU Realty, among other national and has instead chosen the system that allows international clientele. us to design a website that is 100 percent

14 | TORCH EMPTY EMPTYBOWELS BOWELS EMPTY EMPTYBOWLS BOWLS

Help fight hunger in our community. Buy a beautiful, hand-crafted ceramic bowl for $15 and receive a bowl of soup. Proceeds from Empty Bowls support monthly mobile pantry 8 mobile pantry trucks, delivering more than 80,000 pounds trucks for the Seguin community. To date, TLU has hosted of food to approximately 1,600 families. Let’s keep it going. Sunday, November 3, 2013 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. | TLU Campus‚ Jackson Park Student Activities Center

Empty Bowls is an international project to fight hunger, personalized by local artists on a community level. Empty Bowls events are held in cities across the country to support local food-related charities and food banks through monetary donations raised from the sale of hand-crafted, ceramic bowls. For more information, visit www.tlu.edu/emptybowls. TLU TODAY

FACULTY-LED RESEARCH PROVIDES FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCES FOR STUDENTS Texas Lutheran University’s summer research programs gave students hands-on experiences in specialized areas including lab work, philosophical Investigations, visual arts Left to Right: Thomas Stephens, Katlyn DeBord, Cisco Vicent, Sofia Klepper, Sarah Black, Ligia Bolivar, Samuel Tercios, Kate Cowey, projects and physics education. Kayla Hartmann gather at the University of Belize’s Environmental Research Institute at Calabash Caye Field Station.

hese independent studies on a project involving an investigation this summer. One experiment involved allowed students the opportunity of the following interrelated questions: analogizing slow light with an acoustic to work closely with professors Do we have a moral obligation to give system while the other determined the and gain valuable experience to famine relief and to reduce extreme temperature and pressure dependence in their prospective fields. poverty? If so, to what extent? What of the coefficient of restitution T is the best solution to ending or of a racquetball. Communications Studies Professor Robin seriously reducing starvation and global Bisha supported the creation of a 32-page poverty? What grounds our moral Biology Professor Bob Jonas worked with pilot issue of a local pet-culture publication. obligation or lack thereof? The students’ students April Ramos and David Lizarraga. Bisha and students Drew Brandt and Kenna main contribution was coming up with Ramos’ project involved investigating Neitch were responsible for interviewing, simple, doable strategies of alleviating control of the stress response in the soil writing articles, publication layout poverty on their own. bacterium Bacillus. Under stress, the and proofreading. bacteria turn on a set of genes and Ramos Assistant Professor of Biology Danielle tested a hypothesis that some diffusible Associate Professor of Communications Grove worked with students Ari Cowan factor inhibits this induction when the Studies Chris Bollinger conducted a research and John Medina to develop an assay for bacteria are grown in close contact with project with students Laura Torres the detection of estrogen receptor beta each other. Lizarraga investigated the and Brittney Waltman exploring how TLU RNA. They compared activity in the brain characteristics of strains of Bacillus that community members understand, tissue from two regions among different have been grown in isolation for about make sense of and grapple with issues genders and ages of rats and also learned 200 days or more than 2,000 generations. of hate. The data collected helped design how to grow mammalian cell cultures. Over this time, the strains accumulated a prevention and intervention workshop mutations and now differ from each other and performance that will be Associate Professor of Math and even though they originally started from implemented on campus. Computer Science Sam Hijazi led students the same colony back in 2000. Lizarraga David Ondik and Tyler Hudgens on a project isolated and cloned DNA from the strains, Biology professors Mark Gustafson and Alan that designed and built a more informative sent them to be sequenced and compared Lievens took students Sarah Black, Ligia Bolivar, and instructional math, computer science the DNA sequences with the “wild type” Kate Cowey, Katlyn DeBord, Thomas Stephens, and information systems website that original sequence while also characterizing Cisco Vicent, Samuel Tercios, Kayla Hartmann includes HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, them in terms of differences in and Sofia Klepper through an environmental Database and video streaming. The project growth characteristics. science and ecology course in Belize. was tested for real time access and the The educational trip included visits ability to respond to events with full TLU student Arthur Babcock assisted to the University of Belize’s Environmental interactivity achieved. The website Kinesiology Professor Jim Newberry with Research Institute, jungles, caves, animal was able to open connections and send a project that determined the optimal sanctuaries and ancient Mayan ruins. requests to a server that streamed height of the center of mass of a heavily Students also studied the numerous instructional videos. loaded backpack over the central line marine ecosystems and preservation of carry for optimal weight distribution tactics going on in the surrounding coral Assistant Professor of Physics Shawn Hilbert during backpacking. Methods included reefs and experienced the habitats and students Melissa Fernandez and Timothy of native animals and plants. Canalichio explored two experiments continued on page 29

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Jack Davidson and his students Courtney Farmer, Kelsey Yoemans and Jacob Diaz worked To find out more about TLU study abroad programs visit www.tlu.edu/studyabroad

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“Our area covers 3,000 square miles Pryor’s work could potentially get Students’ Summer and many of those in need of our help $40,000 for the CCSCF to use specifically are isolated,” said Jennifer Fernandez, for nutrition education and also support Research Results outreach and prevention specialist for their adult day care facility, My Friend’s GVFVS. “Our hope is to have someone Haus. Lynn Mahaffy, CCSCF funding here throughout the year who can let development director, said not only was in Windfall for people know we are here to help and Pryor’s research helpful for the foundation, we can provide secure locations and it also identified a new area where Local Nonprofits transportation for them. Our difficulty seniors are in need of help. with an area this large and rural is hile writing papers might not maintaining awareness. We want more “While Wes was continuing the research have always been a passion individuals to know we offer emergency of our previous intern, John Medina, he for students Emily Slaton and shelter, counseling services and a local realized there are high occurrences with Wesley Pryor, TLU’s Write support system. The WTS program elderly patients who were discharged from To Serve initiative has shown them and Emily’s efforts to establish the the hospital and are readmitted again soon how their own research can benefit others. internship will help us with our research after they go home,” Mahaffy said. “There As part of a summer research program led component, give us better ways to are several reasons that might happen. by English lecturer Beth Barry, both Slaton articulate our plans and make inroads The elderly patient might be confused and Pryor assisted local nonprofits with with the surrounding communities.” about how to care for themselves and grant research. not ask questions. They also might just Like many of Beth Barry’s students, want to get out of the hospital and go home. Junior music education major Emily Wesley Pryor said he never felt like he In many cases, their caretakers are also Slaton is no stranger to writing with was a good writer until he came to TLU. elderly and might not be able to care for purpose. Her previous work with Write After taking two composition courses them the way they need.” To Serve resulted in a publication of her with Barry, the sophomore math article “Music Education Budget Crisis,” major wanted to continue writing and The Hospital Readmission Program, in the September 2012 issue of Music researching as part of Write To Serve. His a new program that would be funded Educator’s Journal. Most recently, Slaton’s role as a grant researcher with the Comal by Pryor’s research and Mahaffy’s grant work with the Guadalupe Valley Family County Senior Citizens Foundation, he writing, would help elderly clients recently Violence Shelter assisted the organization said, is both educational and rewarding. released from the hospital and prevent in increasing awareness of services Contributing updated facts and numbers them from being readmitted. Although provided and showing need for year- round interns to do community outreach. The information Slaton compiled dealt mainly with victims of domestic violence, mainly women and children, in rural areas.

“Guadalupe Family Violence Shelter serves four counties: Guadalupe, Gonzales, Carnes and Wilson,” Slaton said. “While there are offices in each county, the only shelter is in Seguin or Guadalupe County. My goal is to provide data and facts showing a need for increased awareness of the services offered by the shelter to families in rural areas like the four counties they cover. TLU student Wes Pryor delivers Meals On Wheels to client and New Braunfels resident Julia Kemp. Our goal is to present the findings and be awarded a grant that would support to previous research grants for wellness this particular grant amount has not been a year-round internship for a TLU student administration, Meals On Wheels, fitness revealed, Mahaffy said it would definitely to do community outreach and earn class classes, educational seminars, adult be substantial since they’re starting the credit. It would be very beneficial for the daycare services and home repair help, program from scratch. shelter and make me proud to see that the Pryor said the experience inspired him. research I did directly helped them. Not “If this program is successful, we would only am I learning how to do grant writing “Delivering Meals On Wheels was a very provide clients with daily or weekly visits and research, I’m also learning how eye-opening experience for me,” he said. to check on their health and help them with to spot behavioral issues within children “It was even more motivation to do the anything they need,” Mahaffy said. “This that could be a result of deeper issues research to help those senior citizens who is a completely new area for our foundation within their home.” are in great need of assistance. I saw Write and Wes really helped us expand our To Serve as an opportunity to really help research in this area. I can’t stress enough The internship, which would begin in fall through my research and writing. It’s also how important it is that senior citizens 2014 if approved and be geared toward given me the skills I think I could use have access to nutrition programs, Meals women’s studies majors, would allow to get grants for my own research since On Wheels and caretaking and home repair student workers to continue database I plan on getting a Ph.D. in math and services. Wes’ time and all of his help will research, visit schools and churches, becoming a professor.” make a difference just as all of the TLU conduct presentations on domestic students who have helped us have done.” violence and promote shelter services.

TORCH | 17 GROWING+GIVING

Yorktown Couple GIFT OF EDUCATION Establish Endowed A PRIORITY FOR Scholarship for RETIRED TEACHERS

Deserving Students Retired educators Edward and Janet Monson have extend- Alvin and Mallie Stanchos ed giving from within their of Yorktown, Texas, recently Kenedy, Texas, community established the Alvin and Mallie to TLU. As former teachers Stanchos Endowed Scholarship who spent their entire careers with a gift of $100,000 to Texas working with young people, the Lutheran University. Monsons place the value and with his wife Mallie is an active member Alvin Stanchos ’58 importance of education very Edward Monson ’66 Stanchos at the family farm and ranch of the Good Shepherd Lutheran church Alvin, a 1958 graduate of TLU, high, understanding the impact in Yorktown, Texas. in Kenedy, Texas, and serves as president and Mallie each taught high it has on a person’s life. Their of the Kenedy Independent School District school in South Texas. Alvin $25,000 gift to the university school board. Janet Monson is also taught history for many years help deserving students in any will establish the Edward and involved at their church and plays guitar at Refugio High School and academic discipline. Janet Monson Endowed Schol- in the church band, Out to Pasture. at Coastal Bend College and arship for deserving students Alvin and Mallie maintain Victoria College. Mallie taught that demonstrate financial need. the Stanchos family farm and English at Refugio and later To be eligible for the scholar- The Monsons have always been ranch, which has been in the became a school librarian. In ship, students must meet TLU’s supporters of the youth in their Stanchos Family for more their years of teaching history admissions requirements. local community and hope their and English, Alvin and Mallie than 140 years. The farm recent endowment will provide and ranch is located in the taught across the hall from “Education is something that opportunities for students at Gruenau community, located in each other. cannot be taken away,” said TLU who have the potential to central DeWitt County. Alvin’s Edward Monson ’66. “I like excel but need financial support. Alvin majored in history and great-grandparents were the to help and especially kids. Since minored in sociology during his first European settlers in the I was raised in the Lutheran “It’s nice to know that we can time at Texas Lutheran and has Gruenau area. church and educated at a make a small difference and fond memories of classes with Lutheran college, the decision help someone attend TLU who Dr. Arthur G. Wiederaenders, to help a young person may not have been able to go Dean Adolph C. Streng and attend TLU seems ideal.” otherwise,” said Janet Monson. Bernard C. Baumbach.

In making the gift to TLU, Alvin and Mallie specified that the scholarship funds be used to

TLU NAMES DIRECTOR OF ANNUAL GIVING Derrick M. Collins was Collins brings more than as a volunteer with the state recently promoted to Director seven years of experience of Wisconsin’s Boys State of Annual Giving for TLU. working in higher education program sponsored by the He holds a bachelor’s degree with the majority focused American Legion. in business administration in development and alumni and marketing from Carthage relations. Prior to joining Collins is currently College in Kenosha, Wis., TLU, Collins was the assistant pursuing a master’s of public an ELCA and sister institution director of annual giving administration degree from to TLU. Collins joined TLU at the University of Wisconsin- the University of Texas at in 2009 and has held several Milwaukee. He also was the San Antonio. He is recently positions in the Office of assistant director of admissions engaged and is planning Derrick Collins joined the TLU staff in 2009. Development and Alumni and financial aid and the a fall 2014 wedding. Relations including phone- director of multicultural a-thon and events manager affairs and hall director at and associate director of Carthage College. For the past alumni relations. 13 years, Collins has served

18 | TORCH GROWING+GIVING Shelley Mayfield A Legacy On and Off the Golf Course

killed in every facet of his profession – playing, teaching, as one of the nation’s top 12 golf instructors by Town and designing – Texas Golf Hall of Famer Shelley Mayfield Country magazine and was featured with several other golf was widely respected as a consummate gentleman who professionals on the cover of Sports Illustrated. was modest about his many achievements. S During the winter months in the 1950s and ‘60s, Mayfield Mayfield, a four-time winner on the PGA Tour who finished worked with famed golf course architect Dick Wilson on some sixth in the 1954 U.S. Open, left a generous estate gift of $340,000 of Wilson’s most famous designs including Doral Country to TLU when he passed away in March 2010 in San Antonio. Club and Pine Tree Golf Club in Florida and La Costa Country The gift will benefit students through endowed scholarships. Club and Bay Hill Golf Club in California. As a way of giving back to the city and course that started his golf career, Mayfield Mayfield was born in Liberty Hill, Texas, on June 19, 1924, was the architect for the second nine holes at Starcke Park and grew up in Seguin as the youngest of three children. Golf Course in Seguin. He was an accomplished athlete, playing football and basketball at Seguin High School, until a back injury led him into playing He remained at Brook Hollow Golf Club until he retired golf full time. As a member of the Seguin High School golf in 1982. After retiring, he was busy ranching, hunting, fishing team and under the coaching of Lefty Stackhouse, he won and golfing with his long-time friend Ben Hogan. In 1992, several state championships. he was elected to the Texas Golf Hall of Fame. Mayfield never forgot his Seguin roots and left a legacy by remembering On the PGA Tour, Mayfield was regarded as one of the top TLU in his estate plans. His generous gift established tier players of the time with a career that included a sixth-place a scholarship that will benefit multiple students with finish at the 1954 U.S. Open, a semi-finalist in the 1955 PGA significant financial need every year. Mayfield was indeed Championship and an eighth-place finish at The Masters the consummate gentleman. in 1956. In 1963, Mayfield was named the head professional at Brook Hollow Golf Club in Dallas and was later named

New Online Site Makes Giving Simple, Seamless to raise funds for the annual has more than doubled. donors have asked for this fund and for special campus Giving through a secure website feature so monthly or quarterly projects. Although student presents a terrific opportunity gifts can be automatically calling and direct mail still for TLU to raise funds for charged to a credit card. play a vital role in securing our students. The challenge, support – approximately 40 in the wake of rapid growth, Whether you give through the percent for The Texas Lutheran is to create a giving site that student calling program, direct Fund and annual scholarships – is as simple and seamless as mail or online, we thank you for By Rick Roberts it is not where we are seeing possible. Therefore, we are your support for TLU. Please Vice President for Development the most growth. pleased to announce a user- let us know how you like the and Alumni Relations friendly site that goes live new giving page. You can check The single biggest change this month. The giving page it out at www.tlu.edu/giving. We As I begin my 23rd year for TLU and for all colleges will be easier to use, is only welcome and value feedback working in the higher education and universities is online two clicks from TLU’s home from our alumni and friends. development field, I have giving. Over the past three page, and it will allow for seen many changes in ways years, online giving at TLU recurring gifts. Many of our

TORCH | 19 Celebrate with us at HOMECOMING! September 27 & 28, 2013

“taste of seguin” all-reunion lunch 11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Saturday, September 28 Jackson Park Student Activity Center BASEBALL REUNION BBQ Lunch and Presentation 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Saturday, September 28 including the Kirby Standley Batting Cage Dedication Katt-Isbel Field Athletic Hall of Fame Ceremony 2:00 p.m. Saturday, September 28 Hein Dining Hall, Timmerman Room HOMECOMING FOOTBALL GAME TLU vs SWAGU 6:00 p.m. Saturday, September 28 Matador Stadium, Seguin High School

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Texas Lutheran University welcomes of Education in education international migration. Castro’s Carl S. Hughes is a historical administration from Washington dissertation, “Women of Color theologian with expertise in the NEW FACULTY & STAFF State University, Pullman. While Navigating the Academy: Modern and Reformation Eras. The Discursive Power of He comes to TLU from St. Olaf Adam Akerson Professionalism,” focuses on College where he taught religion Department of Education why women of color continue and served as a House Foundation to be underrepresented in the U.S. Research Fellow in the school’s professoriate, despite advances Hong Kierkegaard Library. He holds in minorities’ participation a Ph.D. from Emory University, in higher education. She is an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity extremely excited to be joining her School, a license in philosophy from new faculty and looks forward the Université de Paris—Paris IV completing her doctorate, she to becoming a part of the diverse (Sorbonne) and a bachelor’s degree studied the 1944 GI Bill and its and culturally rich community from St. Olaf College. His research effects on African-Americans at TLU. focuses on Søren Kierkegaard in higher education. Buchanan and his relationship to the history Adam Akerson holds bachelor’s also had the opportunity to work Jerry Carr, Jr. of Lutheran theology; however, degrees in elementary education with veterans in many different Department of Physics his theological interests are broad, and marketing from the University capacities namely in the TRiO touching on theology’s relation of Northern Iowa. In 2003, the program. She most recently served to art and literature, the history native Iowan began working as as the director of the Office of of Christian liturgy and practice an elementary teacher in Northside Student Standards and and contemporary constructive Independent School District Accountability at Washington State, theology. His first book, Kierkegaard in San Antonio. As a second and has held previous positions and the Staging of Desire: Rhetoric and third grade team leader and with TRiO student support services and Religious Performance in teacher working with children at Washington State University, a Theology of Eros, will be published and families from diverse residence life and career services by Fordham University Press backgrounds, he developed at University of Puget Sound, and in early 2014. He comes to Seguin a passion for and commitment Jerry Carr, Jr., joins TLU as an multicultural programs at Colby with his wife Cayenne Claassen- to education and student success. assistant professor in physics. College in Waterville, Maine. Luttner and their dog Felix. While working on his Ph.D. in Born and raised in Detroit, Mich., In addition to her commitment In his spare time, he loves hiking curriculum and instruction from his studies took him to MIT and to students in higher education, with Felix, watching baseball, the University of Houston, he Georgia Tech where he received Buchanan enjoys time with her cooking and learning about wine. learned the value of research a bachelor’s degree in physics. family and watching “The Young and informed decision making. He received his Ph.D. in plasma and the Restless.” physics from West Virginia Stephanie Perez During the past two years as an Department of Biology assistant professor at Stephen University. He worked as a teacher, Corinne Castro tutor and program coordinator Stephanie Perez joins TLU F. Austin State University, Department of Sociology, Political Science in the Boston area and in Atlanta, as an assistant professor in the he worked with teacher candidates and Geography in a variety of roles including and at Oak Ridge National Lab Department of Biology. Perez instructor, early childhood where he interned as an operator received her bachelor’s degree graduate coordinator, field and researcher for the Spallation in biology from TLU and her Ph.D. experience supervisor and advisor. Neutron Source (SNS). His work in cellular and structural biology Akerson is excited to be joining at WVU focused on helicon from the University of Texas the TLU family and the education plasmas by exploring double Health Science Center at San department. layers and ion heating using laser- Antonio. Prior to TLU, she was induced fluorescence as a primary an instructor of biology at Danny Braaten diagnostic tool. Carr explores the Southwest Texas Junior College. Department of Sociology, Political Science science behind controlling this Her teaching interests include and Geography Corinne Castro received her phenomenon so that his research human anatomy and physiology, bachelor’s degree in sociology Daniel Braaten joins TLU from can provide applications to the molecular biology and cellular from the University of California the University of Nebraska-Kearney space propulsion and materials biology, and her primary Berkeley and received both her as an assistant professor of processing industries. He looks research interests are in the master’s degree and Ph.D. in political science. He holds forward to combining his passion field of hematology. Specifically, sociology, with an emphasis a Ph.D. in political science from the for science with an interactive she is interested in effects of in women’s studies, from Temple University of Nebraska-Lincoln. teaching style that exposes students chemicals on the bone marrow University in Philadelphia, Penn. Braaten previously taught at to current research and leverages microenvironment and the Since graduating from TU in Carroll University and University a strong academic and professional role the bone marrow May 2012, she has worked as an of Nebraska-Kearney, teaching network to provide interesting microenvironment plays in the instructor in the Department courses in international relations, learning opportunities for students. development of hematopoiesis of Sociology at La Salle University comparative politics, American diseases. Her recent work, and the Department of Culture Carl S. Hughes government and research methods. published in Blood Journal and Communications at Drexel Department of Theology, Philosophy He has also accompanied students was awarded the 2012 University University. She has taught a range and Classical Languages on study abroad trips to Vietnam of Texas Health Science Center of courses such as foundations and China and his main research San Antonio Cancer Therapy in statistical methods, introduction interest is the role of human rights and Research Center Discovery to sociology, research methods, in U.S. foreign policy. of the Year. gender in America and ethnicity and the immigrant experience. Bernadette Buchanan Her primary research areas include Associate Dean of Student Life and Learning the intersections of race, gender and class, higher education, Bernadette Buchanan has her Ph.D. occupations and work, and in higher education and a Master

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Pictured Above Centennial Hall, TLU’s new freshmen residence hall which includes the Greehey Academic Center.

Pictured Left President Stuart Dorsey unveils the building plaque to Louree and Bill Greehey. TLU Alumnus Receives Delta Honors Award

Recent TLU alumnus Erblin Ribari ’13 is the recipient of the 2013 Delta Epsilon Iota Delta Honors Award and Scholarship. This is the highest award given to members of the national honors society recognizing extraordinary achievement and an overwhelming dedication to excellence in attaining distinction in academics, employment, campus life, organizational leadership and community outreach. Ribari currently works as a sales operations analyst at Rackspace in San Antonio. “Greehey Academic Center” Meyer Named New Named in Honor of Business Leader Church Relations Director Beginning Sept. 1, Rev. Stan Meyer will TLU has named the academic wing then retired as chairman in 2007. be TLU’s new director of church relations. of its new freshman residence hall, In 2003, he established The Greehey Rev. Meyer previously worked at TLU Centennial Hall, the “Greehey Academic Family Foundation to focus on as the campus pastor for 10 years and Center” in recognition of the San Antonio supporting health and human welfare ended his staff tenure as dean of students. business leader’s support for first- issues, children’s causes, education, He went on to serve the Evangelical generation college students through and the homeless. In 2011, the foundation Lutheran Church of America for 19 years need-based scholarships. Greehey, who made a $1 million gift to TLU to support in the Southwestern Texas Synod and is currently chairman of the board of first-generation college students. the Northern Texas-Northern Louisiana NuStar Energy L.P., and NuStar GP The generous donation has been Mission Area. His experience, contacts Holdings, L.L.C., previously served as allocated primarily toward scholarships and reputation will serve him and TLU chairman and CEO of Valero from the and programming to assist first- as he leads efforts to develop even company’s inception in 1980 until he generation students in their quest stronger relationships with the ELCA retired as CEO in 2005, and for a college education. and other denominations and faiths.

TLU Once Again a “Great College To Work For” in specific best practices and policies. In its second year of participation, TLU is again one of the nation’s great TLU was also one of only 42 universities colleges to work for according to earn the title of Honor Roll institution, to a survey by The Chronicle of Higher winning honors in eight categories: Education. These results, based on collaborative governance, professional a survey of more than 44,688 employees and career development programs, at 300 colleges, are featured in The teaching environment, job satisfaction, Chronicle’s sixth annual report on the confidence in senior leadership, Academic Workplace. Only 97 of the supervisor and department chair 300 universities surveyed received relationship, respect and appreciation “Great College to Work For” recognition and tenure clarity and process.

22 | TORCH Princeton Review Names TLU “Best in the West”

TLU is a “Best in the West” selection in The Princeton Review’s special web feature “2014 Best Colleges: Region by Region.” The list identifies public and private schools as regional bests across four locales: Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and West. These regional best institutions account for only 25 percent of the nation’s four-year colleges, making TLU part of a select group recognized among The Princeton Review’s staff. Student surveys regarding academics and campus experience were also taken into account. Other areas evaluated by The Princeton Review were admissions selectivity, financial aid, environmental Study Finds Student Satisfaction High at TLU efforts, enrollment, ACT and SAT scores and campus safety. According to the June 2013 Noel-Levitz Student Satisfaction Inventory,

Squires Named 2013 TLU students are significantly more satisfied than Texas Health Champion students at other national, four-year private institutions.

The SSI findings, derived from the to diverse populations. Overall satisfaction responses of 376 TLU students ranging and students’ decision to enroll was also from freshmen to seniors, were higher substantially higher than the national than the findings at other universities average for other four-year, private schools, in the summarized scale categories with TLU students rating their overall of academic advising, instructional satisfaction at 77 percent while the effectiveness, student centeredness, national average was 57 percent. While concern for the individual, recruitment 58 percent of other students at similar and financial aid, campus climate, safety universities said they would enroll at their and security, registration effectiveness, college again, 75 percent of TLU students service excellence, campus support said they would choose TLU again services, campus life and responsiveness in their selection process. TLU Professor of Biology and Kinesiology William G. “Bill” Squires, Jr. is the 2013 Texas Health Champion Padron Receives Pillar Bulldog Investment Award winner. This distinguished achievement is awarded annually of Character Award Company Travels to Omaha to an individual or organization who TLU Head Football Coach Danny Padron This May, TLU Bulldog Investment has mobilized community efforts received a Pillar of Character award from Company students, alumni, faculty to prevent and reduce obesity and San Antonio’s Northside ISD at its annual and staff attended the 2013 Berkshire promote physical activity and Northside Education Foundation Pillar Hathaway Annual Meeting in Omaha, nutritional health through research, Recognition Banquet on September 4, 2013. Neb. In addition to gaining introductions innovative partnerships, practice, policy Coach Padron, a NISD alum, was presented with many successful business people development, social marketing the Pillar Award for Fairness recognizing and investment managers, the group or behavioral interventions. the equitable, open, and reasonable traits also attended a value investment he displays as a college coach. presentation hosted by Columbia His extensive efforts are a model University. for health awareness and education for communities around Texas and Pictured left to right: the nation. Presented by the Michael Jon Zahadka (TLU alum), and Susan Dell Center For Healthy Andrew Nelson (TLU VP Living, The UT School of Public Health of Finance), Mark Sather (TLU alum), Philip Bauch, Austin Regional Campus and Live Arthur Munoz, Warren Smart Texas as part of the 6th Annual Udd and Dave Sather Texas Obesity Awareness Week, Squires (TLU alum and director will officially receive the honor Thursday, of the Bulldog Investment Sept. 12, at the University of Texas at Company). Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art.

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Texas Lutheran University to the 2013 ASC Championship Tournament, and their first appearance in the conference Enters the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference post-season tournament since 2006. Anderson races to fourth career All-America citation Sprinter Monique Anderson collected her fourth career All-America citation with an eighth-place finish in the 100 meters at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships. The All-America honor is the first for Anderson in the 100. The junior earned All-America honors in the 200 in 2011 and 2012 and in the 4x100 relay in 2012. Anderson is a two-time American Southwest Conference Women’s Track &

Sprinter and four-time All-American Monique Anderson.

Field Athlete of the Year and a three-time ASC All-Conference performer. She also Texas Lutheran University and Trinity University to round is a two-time ASC All-Academic selection. officially joined the NCAA Division out the league’s membership III Southern Collegiate Athletic roll. TLU formally announced Meadows selected as Capital One Conference on July 1. TLU and its intended move to the SCAC Academic All-American Schreiner University, united with from the American Southwest Women’s Cross Country and Women’s Track and Field student-athlete Ashley Meadows Austin College, Texas Centenary Conference on Feb. 16, 2012. became the Bulldogs’ 21st Academic All- College of Louisiana, Colorado June 30, 2013 officially ended American when she was named to the 2013 College, the University of Dallas, TLU’s 13-year membership Capital One Academic All-America Division Southwestern University in the ASC. Vega advances to NCAA III Women’s Track & Field / Cross Women’s Tennis Championship Country Team. Meadows, a junior, was named to the Academic All-America Third Team. Meadows Freshman Sofia Vega ended her 2012-13 is a molecular biology and chemistry tennis season with a 1-1 showing at the major with a 4.0 GPA. She was named the NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Singles 2013 American Southwest Conference’s Championship. Vega is the first TLU Distinguished Scholar-Athlete for Women’s Sofia Vega went tennis player (male or female) to play 26-5 overall Track & Field and was a key contributor in her first season. in an NCAA Championship. to the Bulldogs’ 2012 ASC Women’s Cross Country Co-Championship and the 2013 Vega went 26-5 overall in her first season ASC Women’s Track & Field Championship. with the Bulldogs. By winning her first- round match, Vega qualified for ITA All-American status.

Vega was named to the 2013 American Southwest Conference All-Conference Team and was selected as the ASC West Most Valuable Player and the ASC West Division Freshman of the Year. She led the Bulldogs

24 | TORCH Gold Glove winner and TLU SCOREBOARD third baseman Jennings Boothe.

Pitcher of the Year, went 14-8 with one save Football’s Snowden nominated for and an ASC West Division-best 1.49 ERA Allstate AFCA Good Works Team (in division play). She tossed six consecutive Senior linebacker BRAD SNOWDEN is one shutouts in the latter part of the season and of the record 151 nominees for the 2013 finished the year with nine total shutouts. Allstate AFCA Good Works Team. The A First Team All-ASC West Division selection, award recognizes the selfless contributions Jacobsen hit .434 with 59 runs scored and to volunteerism and community service made a school-record 42 stolen bases. Sanders by college football student- athletes across the nation. During the 2012-13 academic year, Snowden volunteered for his third straight Day of the Dogs service day, during which he participated in a Seguin city park clean-up project. He also volunteered his time with the Salvation Army donation campaign, at TLU’s annual Vespers TLU Baseball advances to NCAA service and at the annual tournament, Boothe wins Gold Glove TLU scholarship luncheon The Bulldogs advanced to their fourth as a member of TLU’s Black NCAA DIII West Regional. TLU, the & Gold President’s Council. American Southwest Conference West A three-year letterman and Division Champion, faced eventual national two-year starter at linebacker, champion and No. 1-ranked Linfield (Ore.) Snowden has accumulated 175 and No. 8-ranked California Lutheran total tackles in three seasons. going 0-2 in the regional. The Bulldogs As team captain, Snowden lost 2-0 to Linfield and 4-3 to California was named to the 2012 ASC Lutheran, finishing 2013 with an overall All-Conference First Team record of 33-14 and a conference mark of 16-2. Defense after leading TLU in tackles for a second Senior third baseman JENNINGS BOOTHE straight season. became the first Bulldog in school history Freshman pitcher Megan Carmichael had six consecutive shutouts in 2013. to win the overall NCAA Division III Gold Glove at a position. Boothe won the ABCA/Rawlings award for third base won ASC West Co-Freshman of the Year and was recognized as the top defensive honors in a season in which she tied the third baseman in all of NCAA Division III. school record for wins in a season. Sanders went 17-2, tossed a pair of perfect games, All-American closer SEAN KISTLER set the and posted an ERA of 2.73. TLU and ASC records for career saves (22) and did not allow a run (earned or unearned) Glass, Gonzales named WGCA Read more about in 2013. The four-year letterman and TLU’s All-American Scholars TLU student-athletes Co-Male Student-Athlete of the Year, did and TLU sports at not allow a run in the final 39 innings of his Women’s Golf student-athletes MACY GLASS www.tlubulldogs.com career. His scoreless inning streak dated and ALESSA GONZALES were named Women’s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All- back to April 6, 2012. To learn more about the American Scholars for NCAA Division III. SCAC conference visit The minimum cumulative GPA for selection www.scacsports.com TLU Softball wins ASC West title, as a WGCA All-American Scholar is 3.50. adds post-season awards Glass, a sophomore from Bryan, Texas, The Bulldogs (33-10) won a school-record holds a 3.5 GPA as a biology and pre- number of games, captured the program’s medicine major. Gonzales, a freshman first ASC West Division crown since 2004 from Belton, Texas, holds a 3.5 GPA and advanced to the ASC Championship as a pre-pharmacy major. Tournament for the first time since 2005.

TLU was ranked as high as No. 20. Both Glass and Gonzales played in TLU’s TLU softball players MEGAN CARMICHAEL, top five lineup this season. The Bulldogs ASHLEY JACOBSEN and KATELYN SANDERS finished fifth as a team at the 2013 ASC received National Fastpitch Coaches Golf Championships. Glass tied for 13th Association All-West Region honors. overall, and Gonzales tied for 24th. Carmichael, the ASC West Division

TORCH | 25 Texas Lutheran University 0.0 ERA of TLU Baseball’s All-American closer By the Numbers Sean Kistler during 2013 season 2 3 4 Perfect games tossed Errors committed Consecutive conference by freshman pitcher all year by third baseman championships won Katelyn Sanders NCAA DIII Gold Glove by TLU Women’s Track in 2013 winner, Jennings Boothe & Field to close its membership in the ASC 26 42 143.5 School-record singles Bases stolen by shortstop Distance in feet for the matches won in 2013 Ashley Jacobsen, setting school-record toss in the by TLU Women’s Tennis a new school record discus by Allie Beach player Sofia Vega that qualified the senior for the NCAA DIII Track & Field Championships

THE BULLDOG ATHLETIC FUND supports TLU’s 14 intercollegiate Your support supplements the current athletic budget and athletic programs that include 8 women’s and 6 men’s sports raises the quality of life for all TLU students. Show your support teams. Approximately one-third of our students are student- and visit WWW.TLU.EDU/BULLDOGFUND to make a gift today. athletics who excel on the field and in the classroom. 13

ALUMNI RELATIONS TLU Announces 2013 Athletics Hall of Fame and Wall of Honor Inductees Ceremony to be held during Homecoming festivities 13 ebekah (Hajduk) Almanza, Elizabeth Leadership Wall of Honor for their off the field TLU (Hoffman) CHESSER, David Stahl and Mark support of Bulldog athletics. Ray Coselli played Wieczorek will be recognized for their on the 1974 and 1975 national championship STUDENT outstanding accomplishments as student- football teams as well as the semi-final team ATHLETE R athletes and will be inducted into the of 1976. Monica’s brother, Buzzy, was the captain Texas Lutheran University Athletics Hall of Fame of the 1974 team. The Cosellies have been HONOREES on Saturday, September 28, at 2 p.m. in Hein ardent supporters of the TLU football program, Dining Hall. The Athletics Hall of Fame and including providing funding for the goal posts Wall of Honor ceremony is an annual tradition on the TLU practice football field. In addition at TLU Homecoming. to their financial support, they’ve also volunteered their time to serve on the committee for Front Also during 2013 Homecoming, Ray and Monica Row— the annual athletics fundraising event Coselli will be inducted into the TLU Athletics hosted by TLU alumnus Verne Lundquist.

Rebekah (Hajduk) Southwest Region NCAA Division II into against Trinity. Stahl, team in 1986 and 1987. Almanza started for TLU First Team honoree NCAA Division III, a defender, was named Wieczorek hit .463 volleyball from 1995 to and the Heart of Texas Chesser transferred the ASC West Division in 1987. His average 1998. She earned NAIA Conference Setter to the University of Defensive Player of All-America honors of the Year. Mississippi. She played the Year in 2002. He in 1998 and established for three seasons and claimed Verizon the Bulldogs’ all-time was the Lady Rebels’ Academic All-America assists record at 4,412. Most Valuable Player honors and First Team Almanza also holds in her senior year. Verizon Academic All- TLU’s single-season Chesser was a finalist District VI awards mark for assists per for the SEC Student- in 2001 and 2002. He game, and is second Athlete of the Year, was named all-time in single- an NCAA Woman season total assists. of the Year nominee from 1987 still stands Almanza was the setter and the first student- as the third-best single- for the 1998 Heart Elizabeth (Hoffman) athlete in the state season average in school CHESSER won the of Mississippi to be history. The starting 1999 NAIA individual inducted into Phi Beta second baseman for championship as Kappa. She graduated Coach Ray Katt’s a true freshman with magna cum laude from Bulldogs, Wieczorek the Bulldogs. She led Ole Miss in 2002 and played on the 1986 TLU to a second place earned her law degree squad that won the finish in the 1999 NAIA from the University to the NSCAA/Adidas NAIA District IV Women’s Golf National of Mississippi School First Team All-Central Championship and Championship. The of Law in 2006. Region in 2001 and advanced to the NAIA 1999 season was just 2002. A four-year Area II Championship. the second year for David Stahl played for starter, Stahl was He hit .392 in his women’s golf as a team the TLU men’s soccer selected to the ASC All- two seasons with the of Texas Conference sport at TLU. In addition team from 1999 to 2002 Tournament Team when Bulldogs, and his two- Championship team– to winning the NAIA and led the Bulldogs the Bulldogs won the year average ranks as a squad that finished individual title, Chesser to the 2002 American conference crown the second-best average ninth at the 1998 NAIA played in the NCAA Southwest Conference in 2002. A team captain by a Bulldog over two National Championship. Division II Women’s Championship (ASC) for two seasons, Stahl seasons. Wieczorek hit Almanza also served Golf Championships and to the university’s was an All-ASC selection 15 home runs in two as the team’s setter and finished seventh first-ever team berth in 2001 and 2002 and years and added 20 during the 1996 NAIA overall. She is the only in an NCAA Division III was twice named TLU’s doubles and nine triples. National Championship student-athlete in national tournament. Male Student-Athlete He drove in 94 runs where TLU finished school history to make The Bulldogs qualified of the Year. in 88 games played ninth. Almanza was All-America teams for the 2002 NCAA as a Bulldog. a two-time Heart in the NAIA and in Division III men’s Mark Wieczorek earned of Texas Conference the NCAA Division II. soccer championship NAIA All-America First Team selection, When TLU transitioned and hosted a first-round honors as a member a two-time NAIA from the NAIA and NCAA tournament game of the TLU baseball

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ith more than 10,000 alumni across Carleton said the association will start THE TEXAS LUTHERAN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION the globe, TLU is excited to announce with a goal of establishing alumni chapters BOARD OF DIRECTORS the formation of The Texas Lutheran in San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Seguin PRESIDENT: Alumni Association. “We have enthusiastic and New Braunfels by May 2014. “The Hal Wolff ’77 alumni who are proud of their alma mater alumni association board will work with MEMBERS: and want to feel part of a formal us [the TLU alumni office] in establishing Austin Manning ’11 organization,” said TLU Alumni Relations the chapters which will be led by a board Carol R. Wolff ’80 Director Taylor Carleton. “By organizing member who will host events specific Cathy Roark ’77 Chelsea Wauson Egmon ’01 into an alumni association, we’ll also be to that city,” said Carleton. Chris Owen ’01 able to better facilitate the creation of active Christopher “Eric” Sosa ’95 alumni chapters in different cities.” David Nordman ’81 Debbie Minzenmeyer ’76 Donna Raetzsch ’77 Dr. Patt Linden ’60 MISSION: ABOUT US: Hal G. Wolff ’77 James Sandoz ’83 Secretary Javier Rivera ’04

Jena D. Wendel ’97 The Texas Lutheran University Led by The Texas Lutheran Jennifer Bauerkemper ’00 » John A. Traeger (Andrew) ’07 Alumni Association’s purpose University Alumni Association Board of Directors (formerly Josh Lozano ’12 is to inspire and engage alumni Justin Seyfarth ’07 the Alumni Board) Kevin Boyle ’12 Treasurer in the life of Texas Lutheran Kimberly A. Chanler ’02 Kirby Dillingham Urabazo ’10 University and its community, No dues required to join » Liz Garrett ’06 and to promote lifelong Max Westerman ’12 Nathan Eggers ’13 connections among alumni » Must have 30 credit hours or more to be a part Noemi Rodriguez Graham ‘79 Vice President and friends in support of the Rebecca Clark ‘95 of the association Sue Johnston ‘77 university’s mission. Thomas E. Woods ’83 Past President Tom Sedlacek ’74 Will Garrett ’06 President Elect

the firm in 1983 and is now a senior county courts, Texas Courts ABOUT HAL WOLFF partner in the firm’s litigation of Appeals and the United States Hal Wolff is a 1977 alumnus and commercial practices. Wolff District Courts for the Southern of TLU and was the vice president represents both plaintiffs and District of Texas. He and his wife of theAlumni Board of Directors defendants in a variety of business Carol Wolff ’80 have three children prior to his appointment as and commercial matters and including a daughter Betsy, who president. Wolff is a senior partner has represented clients throughout is a junior at TLU. with the law firm Hoover Slovacek the greater Houston area and the LLP in Houston. He started with State of Texas in district courts,

For more information on the TLU Alumni Association, visit www.tlu.edu/alumni

28 | TORCH continued from page 16 filming, motion capture to measure In addition, Moellering wrote a new Spencer Stephens and Bryan Mittlestadt forward lean and line of carry and data research-inspired lab for PHYS 142 looked at how social media research analysis for stress and energy expenditure. involving computational modeling. has been hindered by use of only a few methods, all which seem insufficient Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Kyle Associate Professor of Psychology Tiffany for a true understanding. Students Olson and his students Elizabeth Austin Sia and her students Skylar Baker, Justin began addressing this by using as many and Jonathan Riedesel participated in Jolivet and Jacob Kane based their research different methodological tools as possible a photogravure-based research project on preliminary data collected during their to generate a deeper and more data-rich where both students learned to produce classes this year. The summer work analysis of Reddit than is typically the prints, vary techniques for their focused on extending the scope of each done in journal articles in this area. formation and evaluate the quality project and completing analysis and write- in order to maximize print quality. up. Each student was lead researcher English Lecturer Beth Barry and two A total of three editions of eight prints on a project and secondary researchers of her students provided research and were produced, and five of the suites on the others. One project examined writing assistance to community partners were mounted in archival presentation prevalence and success in mentally in their quest for funding. Wesley Pryor boxes suitable for presentation at the stimulating activities as a function worked on grant research for the Comal 2014 Southern Graphics International of age. The two other projects explored County Senior Citizens Foundation Print Conference. the quality of photos, taken by strangers, in New Braunfels, and Emily Slaton worked as a measure of indirect attitudes. with the Guadalupe Valley Family Violence Physics Instructor Erin Scanlon and Photos were of “couples” who are bi- Center in Seguin. Previous work by student Rica Moellering worked on a physics racial or mono-racial, or heterosexual students working with Barry and her education project aimed at improving or homosexual. Write to Serve program has assisted the PHYS 141 and PHYS 142 labs by in more than $200,000 in grant awards. completing all labs and rewording the Associate Professor of Communications For more on Write to Serve, see page 17. labs as necessary to maximize learning. Studies Steve Vrooman and his students

continued from page 13 one of the most beautiful little girls I’ve we don’t really get to experience here. ever seen. She had such an innocent and It goes something like this. “How much a four-wheel drive vehicle to make peaceful look. Her mother was chosen is this?” “That is 500 Birr. It’s an original. it on the challenging roads. My insides to answer some questions about her My grandfather fought dragons and felt scrambled each day over the roads but hardships. Many of these single-parent creatures from the netherworld to obtain it was well worth every bumpy mile. homes have nothing. One woman made this item which I am now selling in my We first visited a fairly new medical clinic string in order to make enough money trinket shop.” “I’ll give you 10 Birr.” that was opened through donations from to eat maybe every other day. After the The pure angst over this insulting offer all over the world. The clinic was very meeting, I was the first one outside and is followed by “I give you good price, 450 sparse and simple but is a major step the rest of the group got distracted Birr.” This goes on until you walk out in improving the lives of the people in conversation and stayed inside. I was in disgust and the store owner chases in that area. For the first time, villagers soon mobbed. I couldn’t move. Kids after you and you get it for 50 Birr. had access to medical care and medicine. there yell, “You, you, you,” constantly Axum is the place where legend says the to get your attention. It was in the chaos In the village is a crudely constructed Ark of the Covenant is housed within I spotted the little angel again. I wanted bridge that connects the village to medical a small church. While there is a compelling to give her food and money but with so care and supplies. Every year during the reason they believe it’s there, I have to many people, it would have caused a riot. rainy season the bridge is washed away, say I was skeptical. To have and not share I was able to give her a granola bar without cutting off the village and sentencing such a historically significant artifact too many people seeing. Money was people to death who need to get out. seems unrealistic and I think if the rest impossible. One of the guys on the trip They said 14 children died last year. of the Christian community believed it was is working to set up a way for people It’s hard to fathom that the construction in this little church, we would have seen it. to be able to help the widows and orphans of a sturdy, small bridge could be the in this village. Driving back, I couldn’t difference between life and death. The get the little girl or the plight of those idea that a bridge could not be built that Final Thoughts: villagers out of my mind. When I got back, I decided to create a well would withstand the rainy season was campaign and get my friends to help raise deeply affecting. enough to build one well. It costs $5,000 At a schoolhouse, we met villagers and DAY 6: We flew into a small city called Axum in for a complete well that serves 400 villagers listened to the widows and orphans to see north Ethiopia that is probably the most and changes their lives. Seems like such what we could do to help improve their historically significant area in Ethiopia. a small amount. I called my campaign The lives. The school room soon became packed It’s much more of a tourist area for Bridge because of the story of the bridge with people clamoring for help. It was people with all the ruins and historically in the village of Robit. My goal is to have utter chaos with so many people and I was significant places. the well funded by the end of the year feeling a little concerned as the numbers so it can be built next year. kept growing. In all the chaos, noise, and After lunch we headed to shop for some sea of faces, I happened to look to my right gifts to bring back home. I love to haggle. I To support Andrew’s “The Bridge” campaign, visit watertothrive.org/cAMPAIGNS and search and sitting so serene was simply an angel, think I love it because it’s such a dance that for Andrew Huang.

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Nick ’61 and Shirley ’63 Bohmann celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with fellow TLU alumni at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Marble Falls, Texas.

1952 which has been published General LaBrutta enlisted in the 2003 in multiple professional journals. Air Force in 1981 and later earned LAUREN (DOW) WEGNER ’03 and Charles and Helen (Steinbring) He is working collectively with a commission as a personnel officer husband Dave Wegner welcomed, Probst ’52 celebrated their 60th six international research centers through the Air Force Reserve with joy, their son, Owen David, wedding anniversary, June 16, 2013. on a project exploring and Officer Training Corps in May born on October 12, 2012. The They live in New Braunfels. identifying the molecular structure of 1989. He has served in a wide Wegners both serve as pastors of carbohydrates on cellular variety of assignments including at Good Shepherd Lutheran 1961 membranes. Church in Raleigh, N.C. NICK ’61 AND SHIRLEY ’63 (ECKHARDT) BOHMANN were surrounded 1978 2006 by many TLU alumni as they LARRY N. SWEET ’78 has been named Lori (Lorenz) Gonzales ’06 and gathered at St. Peter’s Lutheran NASA’s new chief information her husband, Jacob, are proud Church in Marble Falls, Texas, officer. Sweet joined the agency to announce the birth of their son, on June 15, 2013, to celebrate in 1987 at the Johnson Space Tyler Rey Gonzales, on November their 50th wedding anniversary. Center where he served as 8, 2012, in New Braunfels. Tyler The Bohmanns live in Sunrise supervisor and manager for more weighed 7 lbs. 2 oz. and was 20 Beach, Texas, on Lake LBJ. than 26 years. Since February inches long. He was welcomed Pictured from left to right, front 2007, he has been Johnson’s by his big brother, Dylan, as well row: Wendy (Flatt) Bohmann ’98, Amy chief information officer and Bis as dolor as eliciis inctenim quidellabo. as his grandmother, Leigh Ann (Dicke) Bohmann ’92, Sylvia (Eckhardt) information resources director. Lorenz, who works in the Office Kraemer ’66, Shirley (Eckhardt) Bohmann As NASA CIO, Sweet will take of the Registrar at TLU. His aunt ’63, Nick R. Bohmann ’61, Sandra the helm in leading the agency’s and uncle Christina (Lorenz) ’02 and (Bohmann) Debner ’64, Rachel (Mahler) information technology efforts Joel Quintanilla ’07 are TLU alumni. Kraemer ’91, Erika (Kraemer) Kaufman and capabilities effective June Brigadier General Robert D. LaBrutta ’89 ’96, Mary (Mercer) Fetter ’67, and Kim 30, 2013. (Spaeth) Thonhoff ’77. Pictured from left to right, back row: David M. 1980 base level, the Air Force Personnel Bohmann ’95, Jonathan Bohmann ’91, Center, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Timothy Bohmann GRACE (MUEHLBRAD) WATKINS ’80 a Major Air Force Command and ’91, Robert Bohmann ’71, Don Kraemer retired from teaching after 33 Combatant Command Staff. ’67, Brett Kraemer ’92, years of working in the public His command tours include Tim Kaufman ’04, M. David Fetter, school systems of Palacios, Nixon, squadron, group and wing levels. Jr. ’66, and Robert “Bob” Pflugerville, Houston, Spring and Prior to his current assignment, Thonhoff ’77. Gonzales, Texas. She retired on May 31, 2013, in Gonzales. he was the director of manpower and personnel, U.S. Central 1967 Kristi (Peters) Polanco ’06 and David Polanco 1989 Command, MacDill Air Force DAVID F. SMITH ’67 was honored Base in Florida. by the Longview Independent BRIGADIER GENERAL ROBERT D. Kristi (Peters) Polanco ’06 married School District as a distinguished LABRUTTA ’89 is Commander at the 1998 David Polanco on May 25, 2013, alumnus on May 10, 2013. Dr. Smith 502nd Air Base Wing and Joint at St. Luke Catholic Church is on the staff at Emory University Base in San Antonio, Texas, which STACEY WIATREK ’98 was promoted in San Antonio. The couple lives School of Medicine. He is widely includes Randolph, Lackland, Fort to academic dean for Judson Middle in Austin. She works as an athletic known for his biochemical research Sam Houston and Camp Bullis. School in San Antonio, Texas. trainer with Hyde Park Baptist

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and Lanford is employed Theological Seminary on May 18, by Accenture Management 2013. The Master of Divinity is Consulting. They are planning a three-year graduate degree that to wed in August 2013. is the basic professional degree for ministry. The seminary awarded 2009 a total of 164 degrees during the commencement exercises. Cain KLINTON “WES” CAIN ’09 will now serve as pastor of Kyle of Burnet, Texas, received the United Methodist Church Master of Divinity from Princeton in Kyle, Texas.

Dirk Lorenz ’09 and Marisol (Zamorano) Lorenz ’07 with daughter Amelie

High School and he works with Hanger making prosthetic limbs. 2007 MARISOL (ZAMORANO) LORENZ ’07 and DIRK LORENZ ’09 welcomed their The 38th Annual Lambda & Friends Spring Party. From left to right: James Bolten ’67, first child, Amelie, on December Greer Presley ’67, Randy Dahl ’66 and John Miller ’73. 11, 2012.

JOSHUA BRETT WERLAND ’07, is engaged to WHITNEY LAUREN LANFORD ’09. Werland is currently Joshua Werland ’07 and Whitney a CPA at Industry Bancshares, Inc. Langford ’09

TLU President Dr. Stuart Dorsey

and, left to right, Stephen Wendel

’71, Elsie Wendel, Kim (Wendel)

Chanler ’02 and Casen Chanler

attend the closing service at Peace

Evangelical Lutheran Church

in San Antonio on Jan. 13, 2013.

TLU received a $300,000 gift from

the church for scholarships.

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he Texas Lutheran Women’s retreat was held at TLU California and North Texas, respectively. Burkhardt Worley’s ministry, July 19-20, 2013, and featured the theme God’s GPS: Pearls of Promise, recently published a devotional book, the Pearls Navigating Your Way Through Life’s Detours. TLU alumnae of Promise devotional. Springer Moore is currently working toward Mary Ann Springer Moore ’79 and Lisa Burkhardt Worley ’79 were the a master’s degree at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. featured speakers as well as guest speaker and Dallas KCBI Burkhardt Worley graduated with a Master of Theological Studies morning show host Rebecca Carrell. Both Springer Moore and degree from Perkins School of Theology. The retreat also featured Burkhardt Worley are Christian motivational speakers in Northern Christian humorist Karen Hauser.

Jesse Anderson Turner, Jr. Kenneth W. Krueger Ted Wolber IN MEMORIAM Class of 1941 Class of 1962 Class of 1976 TLU Alumni Died: May 30, 2013 Died: June 9, 2013 Died: June 12, 2013 Seguin, TX San Angelo, TX Seguin, TX Wilma H. Knudson Class of 1930 Weldon Allen Bronstad Paul W. Schurig Mark Layton Brown Died: July 4, 2013 Class of 1941 Class of 1962 Class of 1977 Carlsbad, NM Died: June 15, 2013 Died: June 5, 2013 Died: January 2, 2013 Granbury, TX New Braunfels, TX Northridge, CA Lucille Wolff Class of 1938 James D. Bergman John J. Jandt Patricia “Trisha” Apolonia Medina Died: November 30, 2012 Class of 1951 Class of 1965 Class of 1993 Giddings, TX Died: July 14, 2013 Died: May 11, 2013 Died: June 5, 2013 Clifton, TX Seguin, TX Seguin, TX Harriet Thekla Hocker Class of 1939 Sister Bernice A. Pantel Paul M. Kolb Died: May 7, 2013 Class of 1951 Class of 1965 REMEMBERING Pflugerville, TX Died: May 21, 2013 Died: June 12, 2013 Friends of TLU Victoria, TX Ruidoso, NM Ilse Miller Raymond O. Jubela Class of 1939 Maj. Walter Charles Sagebiel Dr. John David “J.D.” Lewis Former employee Died: November 20, 2012 Class of 1957 Class of 1969 Died: July 31, 2013 Columbus, TX Died: June 24, 2013 Died: June 9, 2013 Canyon Lake, TX Pensacola, FL Austin, TX Theodor Timmerman Class of 1940 Arthur “Boogie” Vivroux Lt. Col. William L. Blankenship Died: July 11, 2013 Class of 1962 Class of 1972 Pflugerville, TX Died: June 30, 2013 Died: May 27, 2013 Seguin, TX Richardson, TX

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Mid-Texas TLU Band Concert TLU Chamber Winter Baccalaureate Symphony Concert Oct. 11 at 7:30 p.m. Orchestra Concert Dec. 21 at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 15 at 4 p.m. Jackson Auditorium Nov. 17 at 4 p.m. Chapel of the Jackson Auditorium Wupperman Little Theater Abiding Presence Dramatic Media Brown Distinguished Production TLU Band Concert Winter Commencement Lecture: David Brooks Exit Strategies: Nov. 22 at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 21 at 3 p.m. Sept. 19 at 7:30 p.m. A Season Revue Jackson Auditorium Jackson Auditorium Jackson Auditorium Oct. 24-26 Jackson Auditorium Fair Trade and Bulldog Pep Rally Global Gifts Fair Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. Boo Bash Dec. 6 at 10:30 a.m. Memorial Gym Oct. 28 at 6 p.m. Alumni Student Center Baldus Hall Homecoming & Christmas Vespers Family Weekend Empty Bowls Dec. 6-8 Jackson Auditorium Sept. 27-28 Nov. 3 at 11 a.m. Jackson Park Student Cellist Joshua Roman Activity Center Polar Bulldog Swim Dec. 12 at 3 p.m. Sept. 30 at 7 p.m. Mabee Pool Ayers Recital Hall Mid-Texas Symphony Concert Krost Symposium Nov. 3 at 4 p.m. Christmas Vespers Oct. 1-3 The Brauntex Theatre in Austin Jackson Auditorium New Braunfels Dec. 15 at 4 p.m. Christmas Vespers tickets St. Martin’s will be released Nov. 1 Watoto Benefit Dramatic Media Lutheran Church at www.tlu.edu/vespers Oct. 5 at 1 p.m. Production and through the TLU Mid-Texas Jackson Park Student ‘The Liar’ Bookstore. Tickets are Activity Center Nov. 15-17 Symphony Concert free but required. Jackson Auditorium Dec. 15 at 4 p.m. Jackson Auditorium

For a complete list of alumni and friends events, visit www.tlu.edu/alumni.

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