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God First Since 1899 PRESIDENT’S LETTER Volume 30 I Number 3 APULIFE EXECUTIVE TEAM Chair, Board of Trustees Peggy S. Campbell Throughout my life, there have been key moments where I have stopped and asked: President I Jon R. Wallace ’76, MBA ’78, DBA Volume 30 Number 3 Who am I? That purpose-defining question compels me to dive deep into my faith Executive Vice President and remember my identity. Only then can I understand my purpose. David E. Bixby ’78, M.A. ’82, Ed.D. The same is true for Azusa Pacific University. We honor God and our 118-year- Provost old heritage when we stop and remember how and why this school came to be. Our Mark Stanton, Ph.D., ABPP Vice Provosts founders made the purpose clear in the original Articles of Incorporation: “Do all Vicky R. Bowden, DNSc, RN and everything necessary to the promotion of the Kingdom of Christ on the face Diane Guido, Ph.D.
APU ARCHIVES of the world.” That identity and purpose live on in our current mission statement, Senior Vice Presidents Mark S. Dickerson, JD, Ph.D. which calls us to serve as “disciples and scholars who seek to advance the work of Terry A. Franson, Ph.D. 18 28 14 God in the world.” Robert L. Johansen, CPA, M.A. ’11 One of my favorite ways we do this is through our study-away programs. In this MAGAZINE STAFF issue of APU Life, you will read about our intentional plan of encouraging students Vice President for University Relations to live and study cross-culturally. We understand that followers of Christ are called David Peck ’91, MBA ’02, Ph.D. to His work in neighborhoods next door and throughout the world. Healthy and Associate Vice President for External Affairs transformational growth often occurs in the rich and fertile soil of international Maureen (Riegert ’90, M.A. ’00) Taylor 12 20 22 30 16 communities. Our students who live and study in diverse cultures domestically or Executive Director of Marketing Rafi Maljian ’98, MBA ’01 internationally accelerate and deepen their understanding of God’s work beyond THE INNOVATOR’S Senior Director of Operations what is familiar in their families and church communities. Carmen Gustin We honor God and our I have had the privilege of visiting a number of our study away locations. A Executive Creative and Internet Director TOOLBOXFEATURES DEPARTMENTS few that stand out to me are Lithuania, Oxford, South Africa, China, and Ecuador. Christian Brazo ’95, M.A. ’01 th 118-year-old heritage Gifted faculty and curious students create teachable moments studying local culture, Art Director 12 500 Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation 2 President’s Letter Jason Flicker by Don Thorsen when we stop and language, sociological and societal trends, and most important, the expression of the 6 Campus Close Up Church in that culture. I have heard from students who worshipped with Lithuanian APU Life (ISSN 0895-5433) is published quarterly by Azusa Pacific University, 901 E. Alosta Ave., PO Box 7000, Azusa, CA 91702-7000, 14 The Bright Line: Understanding the Scope remember how and why Christians recently freed from communist rule, still adjusting to the gift of religious apu.edu, (626) 969-3434. 24 Cougars Sports Roundup Periodicals class postage paid at Azusa, CA 91702, and additional and Limits of Bioscience freedom. Students in the United Kingdom lean into the rich tapestry and long this school came to be. mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: by David Dyer 25 Alumni News and Notes traditions of the Church in western culture, and students learn from their Chinese APU Life, Azusa Pacific University, ATTN: Office of University Advancement, PO Box 7000, Azusa, CA 91702-7000. brothers and sisters of the unique opportunities and challenges of the Church in 26 Class Notes Azusa Pacific University, in compliance with federal laws and 16 The Lifelong Impact of Study Away Asia. Students in Ecuador tell me that worshipping and listening to sermons in regulations, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, age, disability, national origin, or status as a veteran in any of its by Bethany Wagner 26 Cougar Interview Spanish provides a deep connection for them and informs their cultural and spiritual policies, practices, or procedures. Crystal (Fountain ’91, ’93) Barron understanding. Some of my favorite stories have been told by students in South 20 The Innovator’s Toolbox Africa who attended churches still holding the memory of apartheid and the deeply [email protected] by Keith Hall 34 Where in the World . . . ? divided congregations of that era, which now look quite different. In all of these experiences, students find that the work of God in these faithful communities is 22 Relating for Results 35 Archived powerful and effective in advancing His Kingdom. by Micah McDaniel Now imagine how these cross-cultural learnings help to inform the important ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT call of God for these students when they return. Reservoirs of patience, understanding, 28 Matters of the Heart 31 Ivy—In a League of Her Own and tolerance, and a commitment to neighbors, allow these students to engage in the by Caitlin Gipson messiness of the life of a disciple of Christ. We believe that meeting the mission of 31 Cracking the Code on “disciples and scholars who seek to advance the work of God in the world” compels 30 Inspiring Leadership Leading Well us to graduate Christians with a heart committed to God’s redemptive plan. The by Evelyn Allen challenges facing us are great, but so are the opportunities. The work laid out
before us, built on the promise of God’s plan for redemption, requires this kind Cover photo by Rachel Lewis ’15 and illustration by Ilyaliren of preparation, training, and scholarship. To this end, we work daily to create opportunities that mold and shape members of the APU community, so that among our very best, it can be said that we are difference makers and world changers.
Jon R. Wallace, DBA World Christian
2 3 PHOTOS BY DANA ATTEBERY Welcome Weekend, held this year August 25-27, helps new students feel at home, settle in, and kick off their APU journey. More than 1,200 students and 2,300 relatives joined the APU family. Highlights included receptions for first-generation students and commuters/transfers, among others; a picnic with the president; candela; corporate worship; and so much more.
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Speaker Discusses How navigate these issues. The process students to do the same with the to helping entrepreneurs who aspire businesses, and a Stanford University khachkar now stands on East Campus in to Thrive in Pluralism toward harmonious living begins with confidence that comes from a firm to advance the common good with a study revealed that 90 percent of MBA front of Multimedia Buildings 1 and 2. APU Celebrates a Decade Can people with disparate views truly recognizing that irreconcilable differences foundation in the Truth. At times, this strong purpose, and each brought students would forgo financial benefits The bottom of the cross signifies those live in peace with one another? will always exist and becoming confident will call for American Christians to invaluable insight and guidance to this to work for organizations that prioritize who perished in the genocide, and the in South Africa According to John Inazu, Ph.D., the in one’s own beliefs to the point where defend the rights of others with dissenting year’s contestants. corporate social responsibility and top depicts an Armenian eternity other viewpoints cannot threaten them. —often opposite—views to speak and ethics. Azusa Pacific undergraduate Sally D. Danforth Distinguished The 2017 Zuventurez INCUBATE symbol, representing an unending When differences are expected and assemble. In this way, APU faculty, students with these aspirations can Professor of Law and Religion and participants included: era of new growth and life. professor of political science at understood, conflict dissipates. Then, students, staff, and administrators can enroll in APU’s new Bachelor of Science The dedication event drew students, Washington University in St. Louis— Inazu encourages the establishment of live out the Gospel freely, without Love Multiplies: A nonprofit that in Entrepreneurship to gain the framework families, and community members to yes. In fact, the author of Confident common ground. Despite disagreements, coercion or conflict, modeling a peaceful offers support for couples experiencing necessary for success. Meanwhile, the observe the 102nd anniversary of the Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving humanity shares many similarities that approach to diversity that will make a infertility and wanting to adopt. Zuventurez team continues to innovate genocide, pray together, and hear through Deep Difference (University of can help unite and heal. difference in a hurting world. Founders: Phil ’10 and Alex its offerings. Next up—Zuventurez important historical accounts and Chicago Press, 2016) claims that people For Christian universities such as (Wangbickler ’11) Congelliere. ACCELERATE, a program to come cultural stories from APU President can actually thrive in a pluralistic society, Azusa Pacific, Inazu said that challenge The couple has more than 44,000 alongside entrepreneurs seeking to grow Jon R. Wallace, DBA; Bruce Baloian, and done right, it defines a successful lies in striking a balance between tolerance YouTube subscribers. their existing businesses. Ph.D., professor emeritus in the society. He shared these views with the for dissenting views and a fearless M57: A business that creates and Department of Biblical and Religious PHOTOS BY RACHEL LEWIS ’15 Azusa Pacific community at this year’s open forum for them. By nature, these sells jewelry and accessories for men. Studies; and Joseph D. Matossian ’63, What began with 15 students and a vision the way for the inaugural cohort. The Faculty/Staff Kickoff on August 23. institutions espouse the freedom to Founder: Jason Russ ’17. minister of the Armenian Evangelical to expand APU’s global relations flourished members of that first group journeyed As the faculty and staff prepared for pursue all knowledge and engage in Union of North America, who spoke into a thriving international program to Cape Town and lived in the dormitory Open ED: Education software that a new academic year amid the strife and robust inquiry and debate. Within the from the heart about his ancestors. “Our and countless lifelong relationships. In of a small school as they took classes and creates an online social learning conflict that permeate today’s culture, framework of the Christian academy, people endured incredible hardship,” celebration of the South Africa Semester’s introduced themselves to the community. environment where students and they welcomed this opportunity to Inazu stressed that these scholars must he said. “We remember their pain and 10th anniversary, the university hosted Today’s students live with host families professors organize coursework. engage in a dialogue about how to constantly push boundaries and invite Millennial Entrepreneurs suffering, while admiring their courage, a gathering of all past participants, and study at two APU-owned locations Founder: Drew Rehfeld ’12. Pitch Startup Ideas strength, and determination to be faithful friends, and supporters of the program —one in Cape Town and one in After months of brainstorming and Stoic Marketing: A business that to God. This cross-stone is a trumpet on August 27, 2017, where they shared Pietermaritzburg—becoming deeply strategizing, five teams of Azusa Pacific provides marketing packages to real call for justice in all of God’s nations. As memories, compared experiences, involved in the local neighborhoods, students and alumni presented their estate agents. Founders: Seth Fontaine ’17 Christians, we are in constant pursuit of worshipped together, and learned the helping farmers with crops and chores, final pitches at Zuventurez INCUBATE and Christian Sanchez ’17. These truth and justice, and are committed to latest news from current leaders. studying alongside young students, and on August 7. They appealed to a group entrepreneurs also founded Urban fight against all evils. Therefore, we seek The South Africa Semester developed strengthening relationships with six of investors, donors, and business Vinyl, which won the 2016 Zuventurez to make this world a place for people of in response to the provost’s Academic local organizations. Also, students in Reading Recommendations leaders in hopes of securing support competition. all colors, all cultures, and all creeds to Vision 2022, which called for intentional the program’s nursing track, established from Renee Pozza for their innovative startups. Sweet Pea: A predictive analytics app live in peace. We pray that we may one internationalization—an integration in 2008, run clinics to help care for For five years, Zuventurez has for food that provides restaurant day live in a world of harmony.” The of an intercultural dimension into the the communities’ medical needs. To Renee Pozza ’89, MSN ’93, Ph.D., RN, CNS, FNP-BC, is senior supported emerging entrepreneurs and Armenians’ incredible strength and university’s teaching, research, and date, more than 1,100 students have associate dean for academic initiatives and innovation and professor recommendations for travelers in startup founders by offering a platform love for Jesus Christ serve as a model service functions through innovative participated in the South Africa Semester, in the School of Nursing. unfamiliar cities. Founder: Monte to create, test, and pitch business plans. Thigpen ’18. for all believers to follow, and this global learning opportunities. John and each has returned with a broader, Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life by Henri Nouwen, Zuventurez PITCH (now in its fifth cross-stone on campus stands as a Reynolds, Ph.D., chancellor/chief more inclusive worldview and a passion
These companies will build on their ABIGAIL E. PECK ’18 Donald McNeill, and Douglas Morrison (Doubleday, 1983) season) helps students formulate and constant affirmation of APU’s identity executive officer of University College for building bridges between people and progress by seeking meetings with angel validate their ideas. In spring 2017, Campus Memorial Honors in Christ. (then senior vice president at APU), and cultures. The South Africa Semester, like Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, investors to raise an early seed round, the Office of Innovation launched Armenian Suffering Michael Whyte, Ph.D. (then provost), all APU study-away options, costs about Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown (Random House, 2017) secure donations to become sustainable, Zuventurez INCUBATE, an 18-week Commemorating the 1.5 million lives Disability and Theology had forged significant connections in the same as a semester on campus, and/or continue growing their revenue The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman, program that assists participants as they lost in the Armenian Genocide during Conference Raises Awareness the region and believed it was time to accepts financial aid, includes airfare, to become profitable. INCUBATE taps Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014) form a business around their idea and World War I, Azusa Pacific’s Armenian Azusa Pacific Seminary hosted the 2017 partner with South Africa in a joint and offers courses that count toward into the well-documented shift in how develop strategies for sustainability, Student Association (ASA) unveiled a Summer Institute on Theology and endeavor. President Jon R. Wallace, DBA, graduation requirements. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (Harper San Francisco, 2009; revised the emerging workforce views jobs and offering workspaces and workshops for khachkar, or cross-stone memorial, Disability, June 5-8. The weeklong, tapped Matt Browning, M.Ed. ’93, Ed.D., Given the long-term mutual benefits of and enlarged edition) careers. Millennials, who now comprise participants. It also includes a weekly during a dedication ceremony on April multifaith conference gathered scholars, as associate vice president for the South Africa Semester, the leadership one-third of American workers and will The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society dinner with seasoned startup founders 22. The traditional sculpture bearing clergy, seminarians, and laity to explore internationalization in July 2006 team hopes to expand the program represent 75 percent of the workforce by by Henri Nouwen (Doubleday Image, 1979) eager to share experiences and advice, such a cross and other motifs originated in how God sees disability and how He for this effort. over the next decade by adding more 2025, look for something different from Section sponsored by the University Libraries and compiled by Liz Leahy, MLS, MAT, as Brandon Arbini ’01, who cofounded a the fourth century when the Armenians wants His people to respond and serve. Browning and his team spent a year major-specific tracks and increasing their predecessors. A 2014 Bentley professor of theological bibliography and research and chair of the James L. Stamps software company that sold for $30 adopted Christianity. Crafted from Through presentations, panels, discussion planning, traveling, hiring faculty, and the scope and depth of the community University study indicated that 67 percent Theological Library. [email protected] million. Together, the two run FLDWRK, hand-carved Armenian lava rock, the continued on page 8 working out myriad details to prepare development programs. of Millennials expect to start their own an Orange County organization devoted
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continued from page 7 humanity is not productivity and APU Guarantees Admission and groups, morning and evening meditations, efficiency; instead, it is community, By the Numbers and workshops, participants shared relationship, and neighborliness.” The number of APU students selected to participate in the highly The number of nursing schools at the top of USA Today’s list of their experiences and insights regarding Scholarships to Local Students competitive Capital Fellows Program, which pairs politically engaged, the best in the country—including Azusa Pacific. In the company how the gifts and needs of people Faculty Member Elected to recently graduated college students with members of the California of such prestigious institutions as Johns Hopkins University, with disabilities and their families Presbyterian Leadership 5: 10: th State Senate, Assembly, Executive Branch, and Judiciary as full-time interns. Tess Duke University, and the University of California, Los Angeles, APU’s School of contribute to academic and ecclesial The 45 General Scherkenback ’17, the most recent honoree, joins her four APU predecessors: Alexis Nursing consistently ranks among the nation’s best, with graduates who earn an faith communities. Assembly of the Lecht ’16, Cameron Demetre ’13, Jonathan Hughes ’13, and Hannah Marrs ’11. average starting salary of $67,000 annually and stand out as transformational leaders Now in its eighth year, the institute Presbyterian in health care. seeks to develop future leaders, social Church in America workers, and educators who follow (PCA), the highest Christ and value His image in all people. court in the mobility and academic resilience of old manuscripts for publication and to programs, a small group from the This mindset aligns with Azusa Pacific’s denomination, Khmer orphans, the basis of his TEDx join other recently published volumes Chamber Singers also competed in goal to instill a deep appreciation for elected Alexander talk titled “Bloom Where You Are of Dead Sea Scroll fragments in the the Renaissance competition and won the diversity of God’s Kingdom in every Jun, Ph.D., professor in Azusa Pacific Planted: Lessons Learned from Orphan Schøyen and Museum of the Bible third place. student and graduate so that they are University’s Department of Higher Scholars.” Further, he coauthored collections. The singers concluded their inspired and fulfilled when they come Education, as assembly moderator. Jun, White Out: Understanding White APU’s five fragments include distinguished competitive performance alongside those with disabilities. This the first Asian American elected to this Privilege and Dominance in the portions of the book of Leviticus, the invitational at the International Chamber genuine support manifests itself in position, led the assembly for the first Modern Age (Peter Lang Publishing, book of Deuteronomy, and the book Choir Competition in Marktoberdorf, authentic discipleship, obedience, and time June 15-17, 2017, guiding pastors Inc., 2017), which addresses racial of Daniel, inscribed within a century Germany, June 2-7. Established in 1989, one of the purest forms of Christ’s love. and church elders through the processes divides on college campuses and in of Christ’s time on Earth. The Daniel Chamber Singers Perform at this event quickly became one of the Keynote speaker Joni Eareckson that regulate church policies and institutions across the country. Jun fragment may be the world’s oldest Major International Events world’s most popular choral competitions. Tada, founder and CEO of Joni and practices. The largest annual gathering draws from this comprehensive existing manuscript of Daniel 5:13-16. One of the world’s premier choral The Marktoberdorf event occurs every groups, Azusa Pacific’s Chamber Singers two years, and since its inception has SIDNEY DIONGZON Friends International Disability of the denomination, the PCA General expertise on diversity, accessibility, Further, the university’s Deuteronomy Azusa Pacific recently launched Valley, Duarte, Glendora, Monrovia, Center and renowned advocate for Assembly invites church leaders from social justice in higher education, 27 fragment features a unique reading consistently receive invitations to some drawn nearly 200 choirs from more partnerships with 15 local school Rowland Heights, Temple City, Upland, people with disabilities, spoke on across the country to discuss and vote comparative higher education, and in verse 4 that agrees with the Samaritan of the most prestigious festivals and than 40 countries to perform for districts comprising more than 25 high and West Covina. disability empowerment from her on theological issues, ecclesial business, qualitative research methods as he leads Torah, which gives scholars new insights competitions in Europe. international audiences and compete schools, creating an additional pathway For graduates of the Azusa Unified experiences. At age 17, a diving accident and outreach ministries. and serves from a Christian perspective. into the relationship between Judaism In their most recent competitive with global peers. This year, APU’s for students to attend APU. The School District (AUSD), the $10,000 left Tada a quadriplegic in a wheelchair, The PCA General Assembly enacts and Samaritanism in antiquity. invitational, they began their journey Chamber Singers brought home third agreement guarantees admission and scholarship can be combined with the unable to use her hands. Since then, groundbreaking policies and programs, The Dead Sea Scrolls have been in Paris, where they sang at a Mass at place for their performance in the provides renewable $10,000 scholarships, renewable $5,000 Nancy Moore/ Joni has become a published author and like the Pursuing Racial Reconciliation described as one of the greatest Notre Dame Cathedral on May 20, mixed choir category. an application fee waiver, and support Celebrate Azusa Citizen Scholarship an artist. According to the Collaborative and the Advance of the Gospel resolution archaeological discoveries ever. They 2017. The invitation came after During their time in Europe, the with the application process to graduates for Azusa and Gladstone high school on Faith and Disabilities, 84 percent of passed last year. As a Korean American include the oldest biblical manuscripts Michelle Jensen, M.M., conductor of Chamber Singers also performed a who meet academic requirements. graduates and the Celebrate Azusa/ people with disabilities say that their and a California Presbyterian, Jun hopes in existence. Scholars credit the scrolls the 35-member group, submitted concert at Chartres Cathedral and other Many of these students qualify for Cynthia Cervantes McGuire Scholarship faith is important to them, yet only 10 to continue that momentum, empower for increasing knowledge of the origins recordings of previous performances venues, worked with an arts ministry in additional scholarships and grants, for transfer students from AUSD who percent of faith communities promote other ethnic minority church leaders of Christianity and revolutionizing their (2007 and 2015) at St. Peter’s Basilica Paris (an outreach event that featured drastically reducing the cost of their also attended Citrus College. congregation-wide disability awareness. to engage in the process, and inspire understanding of Judaism. Some of the in the Vatican—a significant honor, the APU ensemble), and seized the education. The Azusa Scholars Program has People with disabilities face myriad increased denominational participation manuscripts contain wording found as very few outside groups, especially opportunity to learn about and from “For a great number of students graduated more than 50 APU students difficulties, including accessibility, among young pastors. APU’s Dead Sea Scroll in no other Hebrew manuscript, thus non-Catholic ensembles, secure such other cultures. across the San Gabriel Valley, Azusa from Azusa since 2000. On average, acceptance, and affirmation. In cultures Jun’s education and professional Fragments Published providing scholars with a unique invitations. In addition to the Mass, the Pacific University is their first choice, APU enrolls 28 Azusa Scholars per that value independence and self-support, scholarship equip him well for this After years of systematic examination, opportunity to more accurately interpret group secured rare access to rehearsal APU Secures $1.3 Million yet private college can seem out of year, amounting to $140,000 annually these challenges increase. new position. While earning a Ph.D. transcription, and analysis of five rare Scripture and integrate that information time in the cathedral prior to the event, Upward Bound Grant reach for many families,” said committed to the advancement of “This conference aligns with in Education Administration at the Dead Sea Scroll (DSS) manuscripts, into the existing body of biblical which enabled them to extend the TRiO, an extension of Azusa Pacific’s President Jon R. Wallace, DBA. Azusa’s most qualified students. The APU’s vision for diversity and inclusive University of Southern California, Azusa Pacific’s School of Theology scholarship. As these teams continue experience of creating music in the Undergraduate Academic Success “We are committed to making college agreement with AUSD began in fall excellence,” said Paul Shrier, Ph.D., he received a Ford Foundation faculty team will publish its findings their pursuit and analysis of these and acoustically superior, visually stunning Center, secured a five-year, $1.3 more accessible and affordable for our 2017 and includes this year’s high school professor in the Department of Practical Fellowship to conduct research on as a volume in an early 2018 series of other ancient artifacts, they significantly church. million Upward Bound grant from neighbors, and we look forward to graduates who met the program’s Theology and creator of Messengers of college preparation programs for urban the prestigious Princeton Theological advance modern biblical research and From Paris, the Chamber Singers the U.S. Department of Education to welcoming many more local high school academic requirements. Incoming Hope, a film about a Christian athlete, youth. He has also published extensively Seminary Dead Sea Scrolls Project. In deepen understanding for Christians traveled to Tours in the Loire Valley, help first-generation and low-income graduates into our APU family.” high school freshmen who successfully his church, and achieving his dreams on issues of postsecondary access for 2009, APU’s Special Collections library throughout the world. May 26-28, to participate in the Florilege Azusa High School students excel in The list of participating school follow the academic pathway all in the Special Olympics World Games, historically underrepresented students in acquired the biblical antiquities for Vocal de Tours International Choir their higher education pursuits. This districts continually grows, but currently four years will be eligible. In addition, which screened at the conference. “For underserved areas and on globalization in scholarly study and preservation for Competition, known as the European grant enables APU to deepen its includes Arcadia, Azusa, Bonita, Chaffey current sophomores and juniors who both APU and the Christian Church, Pacific Rim universities. And he recently posterity. APU’s team collaborated with Grand Prix for Choral Singing. In partnership with the Azusa Unified Joint High School District, Charter meet the requirements may pursue people with disabilities are prophetic completed a three-year narrative inquiry colleagues at Princeton Theological addition to the ensemble’s entry in School District, which includes the Oak, Chino Valley, Claremont, Covina- this option. voices—reminders that God’s goal for research project on the educational Seminary to prepare the 2,000-year- the compulsory program and free continued on page 10
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continued from page 9 recent launch of a college pathway Scholarship at Work New Master’s Program Produces program for students in this district Recent Grants Advance and nearly a dozen others. RF and Microwave Microelectronics Packaging II Research and Scholarship (Springer, 2017), edited by Rick Sturdivant, Ph.D., assistant Entrepreneurial Musicians Building upon that foundation, Azusa Pacific identified the 60 inaugural professor, Department of Engineering and Computer Azusa High students for participation $1,511,905 $546,058 Science, and Ken Kuang in the Upward Bound program this The Health Resources and Services From the University of California, This book presents the latest developments in packaging for fall, and these students will receive the Administration (HRSA) granted Bonita Los Angeles, and the University high-frequency electronics, including thermal management, necessary resources to ensure their Huiskes, RN, FNP-BC, Ph.D., principal Consortium for Children and Families, electrical/RF/thermal-mechanical designs and simulations, grade-level competency and ability investigator and associate dean of the extending the original $666,382 packaging and processing methods, and other RF and to pass state-mandated exams. The Division of Graduate Departments, three-year subaward to Mary microwave packaging topics. Chapters provide detailed program also includes academic School of Nursing; Aja Lesh, RN, Ph.D., Rawlings, Ph.D., LCSW, chair and coverage of phased arrays, T/R modules, 3D transitions, instruction, counseling, mentoring, professor and dean of the School of professor, Department of Social high thermal conductivity materials, carbon nanotubes and work-study programs, field trips, parent Nursing; and other key partners in the Work, through September 2018 to graphene advanced materials, and chip size packaging for workshops, and financial literacy classes Schools of Nursing and Behavioral and continue training and provide stipends RF MEMS. Written primarily for practicing engineers in designed for students traditionally Applied Sciences more than $1.5 million for Master of Social Work students the electronic packaging and high-frequency electronics underrepresented in postsecondary over four years to fund the Behavioral preparing for careers in public child domain, it also appeals to academic researchers interested education. Each year, 60 Azusa High Health Workforce Education and welfare in Los Angeles County. in understanding the leading issues in the commercial sector, School students will follow their lead Training program. and to students seeking future employment in consumer in pursuit of opportunities inherent in This vital project aims to increase $400,000 electronics. quality higher education. the provider workforce of psychiatric From the Freeman Foundation to Stuart 1 & 2 Kings: A Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition LaTesha Hagler, Ed.D., senior mental health nurse practitioners, Strother, Ph.D., professor, and Barbara (Beacon Hill Press, 2017) by Karen S. Winslow, Ph.D., director of TRiO Programs and a especially those serving vulnerable Strother, assistant professor, School of chair and professor, Departments of Biblical Studies first-generation college graduate, populations in rural and/or medically Business and Management, to fund a and Theological Studies, and director, Master of Arts understands the unique struggles and underserved communities. The School two-year extension of the Freeman East (Theological Studies) program capabilities of the youth Upward Bound of Nursing will collaborate with key Asia Internship program, which seeks Focusing on the kings of Israel and Judah and their relationships serves. In her role, she encourages and community partners and APU’s JORDAN RUFFIN ’14 to increase understanding and forge to prophets and other nations, this commentary reflects Winslow’s inspires other first-generation students Department of Social Work to recruit relationships between the United States commitment to the Christian faith and her scholarship on the Breaking into the highly competitive and leave—in as little as two years— prime location to gain industry to become familiar and comfortable and prepare students who will become and East Asian countries. Hebrew text and the history of Israel. The introduction gives music industry has always required with the skills and experience needed to experience. According to the Bureau of with the academic environment and to providers in federally qualified health an overview of the relevance of archaeological discoveries, top-notch talent and a strong network thrive in the competitive music industry. Labor Statistics, the L.A. metropolitan thrive in college. Under her leadership, centers, community health centers, authorship, date, provenance, audience, occasion, textual of influential contacts, but today, the Timely and relevant, the program area represents the second-highest rate in fall 2015 APU received $1.1 million and other diverse settings located in $49,453 history, literary features, and theological themes. The various opportunities and entry points have reflects the prominence of social media of employment for musicians and singers, from the Department of Education to high-need communities with limited From the Association of Theological sections expand on the historical and literary context for each expanded immensely. While major and music streaming services that as well as music directors and composers, fund and start the university’s first TRiO access to health care throughout San Schools to Michael Mata, director of verse, explore the significance of terms in Hebrew, and show record labels hold on to traditional enable today’s independent artists to and the number one rate of employment Student Support Services program, a Bernardino and Los Angeles counties. the Master of Arts in Transformational how themes in 1-2 Kings relate to other passages across practices, independent music in all achieve worldwide engagement with and profitability for sound engineers. collection of seven federally funded Funding for the program’s first year Urban Leadership (MATUL) program, testaments. This commentary has a Wesleyan perspective and genres has embraced innovative fans through the digital distribution Graduates from APU’s M.A. in programs that provide higher education began with $278,396 on September 30, to build a stronger and more effective pastoral concerns, illuminating the relevance of these books for approaches and strategies that enable of songs and albums. According to Music Entrepreneurial Studies program access and support to those for whom 2017, and is expected to continue over MATUL program that reaches students the people of God today and pointing readers to implications independent artists to compete directly the International Federation of the enter the industry equipped to run access has not traditionally existed. the following three years at accelerated in their urban communities. beyond text. with big music producers. To prepare Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the their careers in music as small TRiO Student Support Services and funding amounts. musicians and vocalists eager to make total revenues of music streaming businesses from a distinctly Christ- the team in APU’s Undergraduate $41,687 their mark, Azusa Pacific launched the services increased by more than 60 centered perspective. That unique Academic Success Center foster From Los Angeles County and the Master of Arts in Music Entrepreneurial percent in 2016, a significant factor in combination renders ethical leaders $861,077 academic development, help students From the Health Resources and Services University of California, Los Angeles, Studies in fall 2017. the overall 5.9 percent growth in the who can uphold Christian values develop persistence, and motivate them Administration (HRSA) to Kathleen for supplemental funding of an The program readies music, global recorded-music market, the while creatively leading the way in toward the successful completion of Ruccione, RN, Ph.D., chair and original $304,553 subaward to communication, business, and marketing fastest growth rate since IFPI began the ever-evolving field of music. their degrees. associate professor, Department of Rachel Castaneda, Ph.D., associate students, as well as entertainment measuring the market in 1997. About Doctoral Programs, School of Nursing, professor, Department of Psychology, professionals, seeking success in the music 112 million paying subscribers support to support nursing students pursuing to support Substance Use Disorder industry as independent entrepreneurs. music streaming services worldwide, careers in teaching through the Nurse Evaluation Services. Aspiring and current independent and an expanding music industry Faculty Loan Program. musicians and managers find the ensures higher employability and low-residency master’s program a profitability rates for music entrepreneurs, perfect fit for a variety of career paths, with the Los Angeles area offering a
10 11 The Catholic Church also reformed in response to the upheavals of the Protestant Reformation. At the Council of Trent, many beneficial changes Five Main Tenets of the occurred within Catholicism at the Protestant Reformation end of the 16th century. Despite these 1. Bible Only (Sola Scriptura): reforms in the Catholic Church, The reformers declared the Bible however, they were not sufficient for to be the final rule of faith and reconciliation with Protestants, because practice. They believed that God Catholics still emphasized the primacy had made a revelation in written ANNIVERSARY OF THE of apostolic and papal authority. form to people in the Bible, taught Reformed and Always Reforming that the Bible was inspired by God The Protestant phrase “reformed and authoritative, and believed PROTESTANT REFORMATION and always reforming” communicates that it took precedence over the BY DON THORSEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY GABRIELLE RODRIGUEZ ’17 the idea that the Holy Spirit continues Julius Hübner (1806-82), painting of Luther nailing 95 theses, 1878 declarations of popes, Church to work in the lives of believers and tradition, and Church councils. In the 18th century, John and In this way, Azusa Pacific University churches, reflective of contemporary 2. Christ Only (Solo Christo): Charles Wesley founded the Methodist represents an ecumenical institution needs and concerns. This phrase Salvation is mediated not through “Out of the love of truth and the desire to elucidate it,” Martin Luther nailed Protestant Emphases that helped establish the Protestant movement, which also intended to of higher education, dedicated to the was certainly true of developments the Church, an organization, but 95 theses to the door of All Saints’ Church on October 31, 1517, in Wittenberg, Luther argued that Scripture Reformation, and a German translation reform the Church of England. The training of Christian disciples and among Protestants subsequent to the through the person Jesus Christ, Germany—the day historians consider the start of the Protestant Reformation. alone (Lat., sola Scriptura), rather of the Bible so that lay people would Wesleys emphasized evangelization, scholars. th Reformation—two of which can be who secured and procured the This year commemorates the 500 anniversary of that historic event and its than Church leadership, represented be able to read it for themselves. Thus, th seen in the theological traditions of holy living, and the importance of In commemorating the 500 remarkable impact. Every Protestant church and denomination owes its existence the primary religious authority by Luther empowered Christians to discover salvation of all who are saved by Azusa Pacific University. attending small accountability groups. anniversary of the Protestant to the heroics of Luther, who advocated the reform of all churches based upon the which Christians should determine biblical truths for themselves and to grace through faith in Him. In 17th century England, the The Wesleyan tradition also influenced Reformation, it is good to remember primacy of biblical authority. their beliefs, values, and practices. respond as they believed God led them, 3. Grace Only (Sola Gratia): Society of Friends (also known as the founding and continuation of the the leadership of Luther in seeking to Before that day, the Catholic Church, centered in Rome, had tried for centuries Luther criticized the Catholic view of both for salvation and for ministry. The reformers believed that God’s Quakers) tried to reform the Church university’s beliefs, values, and practices. reform churches to better reflect God’s to institute needed reforms. However, erratic leadership, along with social, economic, sacraments and the sale of indulgences. grace is the sole causation of Multiple Reformations of England, emphasizing the inner teachings in the Bible. It is also good and political challenges, had prevented many of the reforms from succeeding. When Luther believed that sacraments were That They All May Be One salvation. People are not saved by Luther’s work sparked a succession light of the Holy Spirit, the priesthood to remember Jesus’ prayer for unity Luther posted his 95 thesis statements (a common practice at the time), he proposed valuable because of the faith of those In John 17:21, Jesus prays for works but by God’s grace in Christ. of Christian reformations around (or ministry) of all believers, plain and to seek ways in which Christians reforms that would benefit the Catholic Church and invited public dialogue about who partake of them, not because of his disciples, “that they all may be Europe. In Great Britain, the Church of dress, and opposition to slavery. These may embody the hope of being 4. Faith Only (Sola Fide): the suggested changes. His ideas quickly spread throughout Europe, aided by the the priests’ mediation. In addition, one” (NKJV). Since the Protestant England (also known as the Anglican evangelically oriented Friends helped reformed and always reforming. Faith alone is consistent with God’s newly invented printing press. The influence and imprint of the Reformation not Luther emphasized salvation by grace Reformation, it has become increasingly Church) began. Anglicans became a found Azusa Pacific University. grace in calling to salvation. Thus, only shaped the trajectory of the Protestant Church, but also nearly every aspect alone (Lat., sola gratia) through faith difficult for Christians to achieve unity. Don Thorsen, Ph.D., is chair of the middle way (Lat., via media) between the reformers taught good works of society—science, literature, art, politics. Five centuries later, the significance of alone (Lat., sola fide). In a sense, Luther opened a floodgate Department of Theology and Ethics, Lutheranism, which they considered director of the Master of Divinity program, could not save, but only Christ can Luther’s claims still resonates with individuals, churches, and denominations. Regarding indulgences, Catholics of church divisions that has not waned. too radical in its focus upon Scripture and professor at Azusa Pacific Seminary. save those who believe in Him. believed in a treasury of merit stored up Although Protestants rightly emphasize alone, and the Catholic Church, [email protected] by Jesus Christ and the saints that aided the primacy of biblical authority, they 5. God’s Glory Only (Soli Deo Gloria): which held traditions that Anglicans in the moral purification of believers in need to be careful with the liberty they The underlying, foundational wanted to preserve. Thus, Anglicans purgatory after they die. Catholics sold have in deciding for themselves about doctrine of the reformers stated preserved many of the rites, rituals, indulgences, which enabled the treasury their beliefs, values, and practices. In that God’s glory was the ultimate and hymnody of Catholicism, which of merit to aid those in purgatory. addition, Christians ought not to give purpose of all things. They held Lutherans rejected. However, Luther argued that the up hope for finding ways of cooperating tenaciously to the doctrines of The Reformed tradition of commercialization of indulgences led with one another. God’s sovereignty and gift of Protestantism arose concurrently with to abuses, such as people believing that During the past century, churches salvation and saw how these Luther and Lutheranism, led initially they could buy their way into heaven. have become more interested in contributed ultimately to God’s by Ulrich Zwingli in Switzerland. Later, In response, Pope Leo X ecumenism, which intends to find ways glory rather than to people’s or John Calvin became the primary leader excommunicated Luther. When of cooperating with one another, at least to the Church’s. of the Reformed tradition, writing a Luther’s regional sovereign, Frederick in terms of shared ministries. Some have systematic theology that tremendously III, Elector of Saxony, rescued him worked together for the sake of social shaped the development of Protestant from execution, Luther began writing advocacy, and others have partnered for theology. prolifically: theological treatises the sake of evangelization and missions. William Caxton showing specimens of his printing to King Edward IV and his queen, 1877 John Wesley (1703-91), founder of Methodism
12 13 This rapidly advancing field of biotechnology THE BRIGHT LINE has yielded some of Understanding the Scope and Limits of Bioscience the world’s greatest innovations. A few highlights include: by David Dyer, Illustrations by Sara Montgomery ’17
In July 2017, U.S. researchers sustainable energy. These companies into the curriculum. Further, the produced more than $147 billion in applied-learning approach enables In his 2007 letter titled “Our Biotech Future,” successfully edited the genes of 167 CRISPR-Cas9 gene human embryos to remove a mutation revenue, received $4.4 billion in venture students to gain practical experience editing for precise physicist and futurist Freeman Dyson envisioned a coding for a hereditary heart condition capital funding, and drove $22 billion in through internships and master’s degree selection and exports. The counties of Los Angeles and projects with APU’s industrial partners, replacement of world where biotechnology infiltrates all aspects of known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. This application of the gene-editing Orange boast approximately one-third working among teams of professionals. individual genes human existence. From trees that generate power technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 of the total California-based bioscience Such partner companies include Gilead companies, making it the second-largest Sciences, Grifols Biologicals Inc., Shire for homes to designer plants, animals, and people, stunned the world’s medical communities, not only for its successful outcome, but bioscience business cluster in the United Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson States, and analysts expect this trend of Biopharma, and Covidien Medtronic. Dyson believed the trend of biotechnology would also for crossing the ethical “bright line” Gilead Sciences’ productivity and growth in local and In this mutually beneficial arrangement, lean toward commercialization and decentralization, of applying gene-editing technology hepatitis C virus (HCV) to humans. We now live in an age where national businesses to continue. students receive practical experience cure Harvoni™ much as computers have moved away from large biotechnology affects practically every centralized systems toward PCs and other personal aspect of our lives, including food “This flurry of innovation has triggered a steady supply, medical therapeutics, energy expansion of companies and jobs in biopharma, electronics. Then, the idea that biotechnology production, and environmental Personal genomics applications should follow such a trend may have remediation. Diseases such as Hepatitis medical devices, medical testing and research, C can now actually be cured (a term with affordable high- high-tech manufacturing, and agriculture—the five throughput DNA seemed like pure science fiction. Not now. not taken lightly in the medical science industry sectors of the bioscience business community.” sequencing (e.g., community), and other viral diseases, Veritas Genomics including HIV and HSV, are moving and others) down the same path. Top innovations Many factors must work in tandem and greatly expand their professional for 2016 included smart contact lenses to support this rapid expansion, with contacts, the university builds for detection of glaucoma, diabetes, academic excellence leading the way. A relationships that can lead to productive and hypertension; prosthetics that well-trained, highly educated workforce collaborations on other projects, Medtronic’s creation provide sensory feedback; autonomous is essential to virtually all operations and partner companies benefit from of the world’s first wheelchairs; and affordable, personalized in this sector. Effective leaders in this graduate student work on problems and artificial pancreas genome sequencing. area require training in the science projects that might otherwise remain This flurry of innovation has triggered underpinning the sector and in critical incomplete due to time and staffing a steady expansion of companies and business-related skills, such as project limitations—and also gain a conduit jobs in biopharma, medical devices, management, scientific communication, for future employees. medical testing and research, high-tech teamwork, and regulatory affairs. As this emerging field continues Glaucoma-detecting manufacturing, and agriculture—the The new Master of Science in its expansion into unknown areas contact lenses (SENSIMED Triggerfish) five industry sectors of the bioscience Biotechnology at Azusa Pacific does just of science, medicine, and ethics, business community. According to the that. The program trains future leaders Azusa Pacific stands at the forefront, 2017 California Life Sciences Industry in the biopharmaceutics and medical producing leaders prepared to annual report, our state is home to device business sectors and provides make scientifically sound, ethically 3,040 life sciences companies (192 more knowledge and skills in key aspects of informed decisions that will help apply than last year) that employ more than biopharmaceutical drug development a God-honoring framework to the 287,000 people. This highly trained from early discovery to clinical rapidly expanding field of clinical workforce has developed novel drugs application, focusing on informatics biotechnology. (1,269 currently in the FDA approval and biostatistics, clinical trials, project pipeline), devices and diagnostics (264 management, and regulatory affairs. David Dyer, Ph.D., is executive director of the devices approved in 2015-16), and Above all, APU’s program integrates Master of Science in Biotechnology program. [email protected] applications of biotechnology to produce faith-based, business-related bioethics
15 the lifelong impact of study away
by Bethany Wagner
ABIGAIL E. PECK ’18 Barcelona, Spain
Advancements in technology Last year, more than 650 APU American literature courses and study and modern travel have students left campus to traverse the biology during excursions to the globe, making their homes in South Galapagos Islands and the Amazon made the world increasingly African villages, the cultural center Rainforest. During the Los Angeles accessible and interconnected of Ecuador, bustling Chinese cities, Term, students live with host families to more people than ever Yosemite National Park, downtown Los in the heart of Los Angeles, taking before. As students prepare Angeles, and the historic city of Oxford, courses in community and cultural England. As they do, they follow the development not by listening in a to live and work in this lead of APU’s founders, who established classroom, but by engaging and evolving, somewhat borderless, the Training School for Christian dialoguing with professors and international community, the Workers in 1899 with a primary focus community leaders at local internship study-away concept plays an on sending missionaries to a hurting sites, churches, mosques, homeless world. While their predecessors focused shelters, and major businesses. important role in enhancing mainly on China, today’s students In the Norway Nursing Semester, their knowledge and global participate in study-away programs students take international healthcare awareness, not only as and journey to a growing number of courses and serve in clinicals addressing they complete their degrees, countries, cities, and regions, including homelessness, elderly care, and APU ARCHIVES South Africa, Ecuador, Norway, China, community health needs. Conversely, Beijing, China but also as they graduate Spain, Uganda, the High Sierras, students participating in the China and enter the world as and Los Angeles. In each place, they Nursing Semester work in one of the compassionate, culturally study and grow, learning and serving nation’s largest hospitals and take aware doctors, nurses, amid a diverse array of cultures courses at a Chinese university, studying and perspectives. health care in the world’s most populous teachers, engineers, business At APU, students can embark on nation. “Our students explore their people, artists, pastors, eight different semester-long programs, major paths in radically different missionaries, scientists, a variety of short-term trips, and still contexts and apply those lessons to the parents—individuals prepared more study-away opportunities through rest of their courses back in Azusa and, partner organizations. Each program is in fact, to their entire careers,” said Erin to engage the culture and uniquely tailored to the local culture, Thorp, assistant director of student change the world for Christ. with every component of the program development and operations in the Center closely tied to the location. Students for Global Learning and Engagement. opposite page: traveling to Quito, Ecuador, a World Every winter and summer, many San Francisco, California Heritage site, take Spanish and Latin APU students forego academic breaks, KARL NIELSEN / ILLUSTRATION BY ILYALIREN continued on page 19
16 AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY 17 instead taking part in one of APU’s “We designed this new curriculum so returning students can come back to campus faculty-led short-term programs. Past and evaluate both local and global contexts, impact their local communities, and locations include England, France, work better with people different from themselves,” said Ullmer. India, Ireland, Kenya, Lithuania, Employers rank study away as invaluable when hiring recent graduates. Cross- Mexico, Thailand, and many more. cultural study, work, and service equips employees with necessary skills as many Through these experiences, students businesses expand globally and seek to engage increasingly diverse demographics. studied art among the great masterpieces “International experience signals to employers that a candidate can recognize and in Rome, archaeology on current analyze multiple perspectives and engage a variety of people and unfamiliar situations archaeological digs in Israel, and with sensitivity and competence,” said Browning. “Cross-cultural exchanges foster business alongside some of the world’s humility and empathy, and signify a well-rounded, globally aware candidate.” leading business giants in China. Brooke Pearson ’07 was one of those candidates. As public policy manager Students who study away must for social good at Facebook, she enjoys a thriving career involving cross-cultural overcome challenges from culture relations that traces back to studying away during her undergraduate years at APU. shock to loneliness to language barriers. For Facebook, she manages social media initiatives that seek to connect people “Studying away moves individuals out across communities and cultures. On a recent project, Pearson launched a series of comfort zones,” said Matt Browning, of events to help people across the world celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary as Ed.D., associate vice president for a nation, investigating how social media allows users to break down cultural walls internationalization. “Students must set and redefine how they experience culture.
COURTESY OF BROOKE PEARSON ’07 aside their own assumptions and keep In her interview for this job, Pearson described her time studying away in Oxford Facebook Headquarters an open mind, always asking, ‘What and Macau. “Those instances immediately differentiated me from other applicants,” can I learn from this?’” But each time said Pearson. “We naturally live in comfortable contexts constructed by our college, APU ARCHIVES APU ARCHIVES “Studying away is a means for another cohort of students returns to church, nation, culture. It wasn’t until I studied in Oxford that I began to understand Cape Town, South Africa Beijing, China people to share themselves campus from abroad, they report my place in the world and how much I had to learn from others.” fundamental changes in their Returning to campus, Pearson was hungry for more international travel, so she with part of the world they perspectives, opinions, and approaches joined a summer trip through APU to Thailand. There, she taught English to wouldn’t connect with to the world. Burmese refugees on the Thai-Burmese border, eventually going on to teach English otherwise, and gain from it “I see students come back to us with in Macau as a Fulbright English teacher after graduation. “Especially in places of in invaluable ways. Especially a new appreciation for other cultures and extreme poverty, teaching English empowers people, giving them a voice and an incredible boost in self-confidence,” opportunities for successful futures. They can better communicate and demand now, the world often views said Carrie Ullmer, director of the Center their rights.” Americans as disconnected for Global Learning and Engagement. APU’s study-away programs offer another benefit beyond student engagement and disengaged. It’s more “They lived in another country—now with people perhaps very different from themselves, the academic dimensions, and important than ever that they know they can attend graduate the advantage in job interviews—they present an opportunity to obey God’s call school, go on mission trips, move to to serve. As a university seeking to transform the world for Christ, study away is an good ambassadors of our new cities, and take other opportunities invaluable opportunity to serve globally. “We follow a Savior who served and calls country and of God’s grace that once seemed intimidating.” us to serve,” said Browning. “Study away invites students to stop talking and start live, study, and work in Returning home, many students acting.” Most semester programs include a service component, enabling students other countries, because we find the transition back to campus life to directly apply what they learn in building cross-cultural relationships. challenging. They experience a measure This year, APU’s South Africa Semester program celebrated 10 years of students have a responsibility to be of reverse culture shock, feelings of guilt learning, studying, and engaging with people and cultures in meaningful ways. After light and salt to the world.” after living in a poverty-stricken area, or students finish their courses, the program ends with a six-week internship, during
KENT ANDERSON BUTLER APU ARCHIVES difficulty integrating their recent which they live the principles of community development by tutoring local children, Paris, France High Sierra, California BROOKE PEARSON ’07, experiences with their current classes running after-school programs, and helping meet other community needs. In the and on-campus community. “During program’s nursing track, nursing students live with local families while working Policy Program Director, the reentry process, students need to alongside community-based organizations and conducting projects to address Social Goods at Facebook find meaning in their study-away health disparities, health problems, and barriers to health promotion. “We experience, discovering how to responsibly partner with local organizations to see how our students can best give back to express and put into action what they the community they’re learning from,” said Browning. “By working closely with have learned,” said Browning. local healthcare clinics in Norway, with service organizations in Ecuador and South To address this need, last year the Africa, and so on, students learn and serve in ways rooted in the local cultures, Center for Global Learning and their unique values, and their needs.” Engagement implemented a reentry “Studying away is a means for people to share themselves with part of the world curriculum, requiring students to take a they wouldn’t connect with otherwise, and gain from it in invaluable ways,” said course during their first semester back Pearson. “Especially now, the world often views Americans as disconnected and on campus called “Integration and disengaged. It’s more important than ever that good ambassadors of our country Formation” that walks them through and of God’s grace live, study, and work in other countries, because we have a reflecting on their experiences, responsibility to be light and salt to the world.” expressing the stories they have to tell, and integrating the lessons learned Bethany Wagner ’14 is a freelance writer and editor based in Seattle, Washington. abroad with their lives on campus. [email protected]
APU ARCHIVES BETHANY WAGNER ’14 Golliher, Norway Oxford, England 18 19 THE INNOVATOR’S TOOL #1 POSITIVITY
Nothing inhibits motivation and progress more than negative emotion and a closed disposition. The Journal TOOL #2 TOOL #3 “The most EFFECTIVE of Applied and Behavioral Science STYLE SUBSTANCE LEADERS and TOOLBOX published a research article that by Keith Hall explored the effects of positive attitudes Innovators’ styles reflect how they are Often during a new project, initiative, DIFFERENCE MAKERS Illustrations by Gabrielle Rodriguez ’17 in the workplace. The study found wired. Great innovators such as Duke or learning experience, details, demands, maintain a collection that those who work in an encouraging Ellington, Albert Einstein, Pablo and challenges interfere with what we and supportive environment build Picasso, Martin Luther King Jr., Maya are doing and we lose sight of why we of resources and stronger relationships, display higher Angelou, and many others leaned into are doing it. Nothing keeps people levels of creativity, withstand adversity, their natural inclinations, proclivities, moving forward during a change strategies, and they increase loyalty, and attract employees. and passions to stay engaged. Rather process or in the midst of adversity like know which tools Professionals and students who tend than attempting to do life like others, purpose and meaning. Forbes explored to thrive consistently leverage positive they embraced their own strengths and this concept in a 2014 article titled will help them stay emotion when engaging new ideas, passions to create greatness. Recent “Millennials Work for Purpose, motivated and keep ON OUR WEDDING DAY, MY WIFE AND I RECEIVED THE initiatives, and experiences. Positive research conducted by the Gallup Not Paycheck,” which concluded: REQUISITE GLASSWARE, PICTURE FRAMES, THREE SLOW emotion broadens our thinking to organization reveals that individuals “Organizations who wish to prosper others engaged while consider possibilities, increases who employ their unique strengths will focus more time on meaning at COOKERS, AND COUNTLESS OTHER KNICKKNACKS AND personal resilience, and cultivates are six times more likely to be engaged work, have an organizational purpose ushering them through HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. BUT THE ONE GIFT THAT HAS OFFERED healthy interpersonal relations within in their work and endeavors. At Azusa and contribution which gives people the rigors of a change THE GREATEST VALUE OVER TIME SURPRISED US—A TOOLBOX. a team and/or learning community. Pacific, the Noel Academy for Strengths- a sense of satisfaction and a genuine This mindset keeps people moving Based Leadership and Education offers feeling that they are making the world process. I call this the I attribute some of my greatest creations (and a few disasters) to my imagination forward personally and collectively. consultation, certification, leadership a better place [sic].” Individuals tend innovator’s toolbox.” and that toolbox. I love the conception stage, when I formulate a vision of what When coaching students who are development, and a variety of strengths- to demonstrate increased motivation, I want to create and think about the tools I will need to help make it happen. apprehensive about certain courses oriented resources that yield thriving creativity, and productivity when Keith Hall However, while a new project always energizes me, maintaining that focus and or learning or service experiences, students and campuses. Aligned with meaning is clear—seizing every high-level engagement during the process can be quite challenging. And once lost, we encourage them to approach the the Undergraduate Academic Success moment possible to clarify the why, the whole project comes to a grinding halt. As I pondered this paradox between challenge with a growth mindset—a Center’s mission, the academy challenges the substance and bedrock of our the initial excitement and the inevitable obstacles, I discovered that the same holds belief that one’s most basic abilities, students to think critically about their efforts to generate positive change true in the professional arena. Waning energy and passion during personal and including our intelligence, are not static God-given design and capacity and how and make a difference. organizational change often derail people who start with good intentions but fail but can be developed through dedication those things can lead to student success. In a world that is filled with complex to properly prepare for the task. and hard work. This type of mindset All first-year students and many transfer challenges and social ills, it is encouraging Innovation, like home improvement projects, requires the right tools for the job. nurtures positive emotions such as students take the Clifton StrengthFinder to know that APU students continue to The most effective leaders and difference makers maintain a collection of resources hope, interest, and joy, even in the face assessment to discover their top areas of glean from their academic experience Keith Hall, Ph.D., is the executive director of and strategies, and they know which tools will help them stay motivated and keep of challenge. Although a new concept talent and strength, and curricular and and engage these challenges with the the Undergraduate Academic Success Center, which comprises four areas—Academic others engaged while ushering them through the rigors of a change process. I call or skill may be difficult to learn or cocurricular efforts to prompt students mindset, capacity, and purposeful this the innovator’s toolbox. Advising, Noel Academy for Strengths-Based apply initially, it can be learned and to consider how to express their talent action needed to initiate, lead, and Leadership and Education, Student Success mastered with a growth mindset that and strengths at APU and beyond. sustain positive change as difference Initiatives, and TRiO Student Support Services fuels positive emotion. makers. and Upward Bound. [email protected]
20 21 The height of these coaching “Relating for Results works because it taught me how to focus challenges came just as Santa Cruz entered the final months of his Master on the relationships by regulating myself and learning how to of Arts in Organizational Leadership –Victor Santa Cruz program, where he learned of Daniel respond instead of react.” Goleman’s work with emotional intelligence—the ability to identify, of his games the first four years, Santa athletic staff members, athletic trainers, become powerful and revolutionize assess, and control the emotions of Cruz’s program has won 70 percent and other APU personnel throughout your relationships.” oneself, others, and groups. At that of its games since 2010, going 54-24 campus, the revolutionary initiative has While Pine and Intraversato time, Santa Cruz also reconnected with with three conference championships impacted not only coaching and work collaborate on marketing this initiative a longtime friend, Pat Intraversato, and four nine-win seasons the past styles, but also personal lives and to the NCAA, Azusa Pacific remains the for Results who had just launched Iron Coaching, seven years. “Relating for Results works marriages. The first time Justin Leslie ’00, only athletic program in the country a leadership coaching program for because it taught me how to focus on MBA ’01, head men’s basketball coach, that Intraversato works with, squarely business executives. Intraversato sought the relationships by regulating myself sat in on one of the Relating for Results putting APU on the cutting edge of by Micah McDaniel Just four years into his head coaching career, Azusa Pacific to apply his ideas to athletics, so the two and learning how to respond instead sessions, he went home, shared it with transforming college coaching. “It is agreed to work together prior to and of react,” said Santa Cruz. “I learned his wife, and the two began applying just the tip of the spear—our difference head football coach Victor Santa Cruz, M.A. ’10, considered during the upcoming season. “I wasn’t the language of motivation and how the concepts to their marriage, seeing maker in making difference makers,” throwing in the towel. following his career and wasn’t aware of to value differences. I see how God immediate results. “There are so many said Santa Cruz. “Our department is how bad the program was doing. This brought me to my knees in 2010, and practical applications that help me as building champions with an initiative On the field, the program struggled—only 14 wins in four seasons. Off the field, the relationships with his was about helping a friend who wanted now I want to be about His Kingdom a coach, husband, and father,” said that leads the way in human performance athletes followed suit, and he battled the late-night anxiety, pressures, and shame that came with the lack of to pour into young men but was come and my kingdom done, because Leslie. “It’s become a part of who best practice. Our program will shape results. “I was a struggling head coach and had the record to prove it,” said Santa Cruz. “My intentions were struggling with how to do that and I had exhausted my resources. Now, I am and what I do, and I think it the next evolution of college athletics always to fulfill our mission of building champions while pursuing championships, but we were losing, and causing all types of conflict that had we have a God-honoring tool that puts us on the cutting edge of athletics and coaching.” I was dealing with that frustration. I was trying to find a lever to pull or a circumstance to blame to feel better a ripple effect through the entire transcends athletics and permeates all simply because this tool gets at the about why it wasn’t working. Something was missing.” program. Victor had a heart for these of our relationships.” heart of motivation. All the other Micah McDaniel ’99 is a digital and content marketer living in McKinney, Texas. young men long before I met him. Relating for Results has swept the tools measure behavior, but when [email protected] He just got in his own way.” campus. As Intraversato and the Iron you know what is driving someone Intraversato’s work, similar to the Coaching team work with coaches, and how they deal with conflict, it can popular StrengthsFinder tool widely used on the Azusa Pacific campus, focuses more on emotional intelligence and motivation. It also leans into the Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI), which uncovers how people react in a variety of situations (especially conflict) and provides an inventory of strengths, values, and motivations. Working closely with Santa Cruz and director of athletics Gary Pine ’84, MBA ’03, Intraversato coined the term “Relating for Results” for an approach that facilitates healthy relationships that achieve desired results. “We believe we were created for relationships,” said Pine. “Focus on the relationships and the results take care of themselves. You’re going to have conflict, because sports is littered with conflict. How do you manage the conflict? This initiative has turned our program around, and I truly believe this is our competitive edge.” What Santa Cruz learned about relationships, motivation, and conflict with his players transformed his coaching, and as he began to apply the concepts to his coaching style, the wins followed. After winning just 33 percent COURTESY OF THE APU ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
22 23 DUSTIN REYNOLDS ’07, MBA ’10 ALUMNI NEWS AND NOTES
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APU Volunteers Make All the Difference Alumna of the Year: Tiffany (Porter ’06) Moore Thank you to all the volunteer alumni who In the heart of South Los Angeles, where countless obstacles thwart welcomed new students into the APU family the efforts of even the best teachers, a pocket of hope exists. Hoyt Hired to Lead Track and Field Football Wins Fifth Consecutive GNAC during Welcome Weekend and New Student Tiffany (Porter ’06) Moore saw a need and rolled up her sleeves to The Azusa Pacific track and field program welcomes Jack Hoyt Academic Team Championship [Mug]ging. Your commitment blesses the make a difference. Believing that every student deserves a high-quality, as the new head coach. He joins the Cougars with nearly 30 With the highest football team GPA in the Great Northwest entire community, and your willingness to college preparatory education, she stepped up to lead the KIPP years of collegiate coaching experience, including the past 5 Athletic Conference (GNAC) every year since its membership serve sets a Christlike example for every Scholar Academy, a tuition-free public charter middle school, in as associate head coach at UCLA. Hoyt coached the jumps and began, Azusa Pacific claimed its fifth consecutive GNAC student on campus. Did you miss it? Save the date for next year’s Welcome summer 2012. Her daily work on that thriving campus embodies the Four Cornerstones multi-events at UCLA, and his coaching experience also includes academic team title. While posting a team GPA of 2.89, the Weekend and plan to join us August 24-27, 2018. of her alma mater—Christ, Scholarship, Community, and Service—and makes her seven years at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He also coached for more than a decade Cougars also notched a perfect 8-0 record in conference play, making Azusa Pacific the the ideal recipient of Azusa Pacific University’s 2017 Alumna of the Year Award. at his alma mater, Seattle Pacific, with the last six (2000-05) as head coach. only men’s program in the GNAC to win the conference championship while leading Alumni Christmas Open House She attributes her passion for struggling students to her prayerful mother, her Hoyt inherits a program that claimed 30 National Association of Intercollegiate the league academically. Carter Kragero ’20 became Azusa Pacific’s third football player All APU alumni and families are invited to the Office of Alumni Engagement for the faithful pursuit of God’s call, and her Christ-centered education. While at APU, Athletics (NAIA) national titles and produced 14 Olympians before Azusa Pacific’s to receive the GNAC Faculty Athletic Representatives Scholar-Athlete Award, which is annual Christmas Open House on Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 1-3 p.m. Enjoy she served as Associated Student Body president and fully engaged in campus life transition to NCAA Division II membership. In the first three years of the program’s given to athletes who have compiled a cumulative GPA of 3.85 or better. warm drinks and refreshments as we celebrate the season and fellowship with one activities. After graduation, Moore spent three years with the Teach for America NCAA era, the Cougars produced eight individual national champions and 26 another. No RSVP required. The office is located on East Campus, next to the organization as a corps member, a corps advisor, and a school director. She then Football Selected for National ESPN3 Broadcast All-Americans in track and field and cross country, along with four top-10 team baseball field. spent four years at Johnnie Cochran Middle School teaching English as a second For the second time in four years, Azusa Pacific football will finishes at NCAA national championship meets. language, serving as the ESL department chair, and coaching an award-winning step stream live on ESPN3 as part of the Division II Football Join the Conversation! Hoyt was an All-American decathlete at Seattle Pacific, and he competed in the team. Finally, she worked as an English Language Learner Intervention Specialist and Showcase as the Cougars travel to face Central Washington decathlon at the 1992 U.S. Olympic trials. In 1990, he broke the American record for facebook.com/apualumniassociation coach at KIPP Los Angeles College Preparatory School in Boyle Heights, California— on October 28. APU opened 2014, its first season of active the decathlon high jump, clearing 2.2 meters (7 feet, 2.75 inches), and he still owns a post that led to her current leadership role, where she serves 400 low-income NCAA Division II membership, before a national audience with Seattle Pacific’s record in the high jump. While coaching at Seattle Pacific, Hoyt led instagram.com/apualumni students a year. Moore and her selfless work represent the many alumni from all a thrilling 26-23, double-overtime victory over No. 2-ranked Grand Valley State, the Falcons to five Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) women’s titles APU Connect: apuconnect.com disciplines who passionately pursue innovative ways to solve societal problems, plant which was televised on CBS College Sports. (three indoor, two outdoor) and was a three-time GNAC Coach of the Year. the seeds of hope wherever they go, and become salt and light to a hurting world. Men’s Soccer Signs Local 10-Year-Old through Cornerstone Cup Trophy Announced for Annual Rivalry with Biola Team Impact 3 your family to ensure that healthy After a five-year pause in one of Southern California’s best The Azusa Pacific men’s soccer team partnered with Team Refresh your spirit. Make time for relationships are built and maintained. rivalries, Azusa Pacific and Biola will resume their storied Impact to sign 10-year-old La Verne resident Gabriel Oropeza God every day. 1 Timothy 4:8 (NIV) says, Start by evaluating whether you are competition with a new chapter in 2017. The schools partnered to a contract for the 2017 season. The goal of Team Impact is “For physical training is of some value, “enjoying” or “annoying” your family, to create an annual series called the Cornerstone Cup, and the to use the power of team to improve the quality of life for Lighten Up! How to Eliminate but godliness has value for all things, then make the changes necessary to trophy will be awarded annually to the athletic program with the most success in children facing life-threatening and chronic illnesses. In fall 2015, Oropeza was holding promise for both the present life strengthen those family ties. head-to-head matchups throughout the year. A total of 140 points will be awarded, Stress in Your Family by Jim Burns diagnosed with osteosarcoma; over a six-month period, he underwent six surgeries and the life to come.” Maintaining a 5 with 10 points per sport going to the winner of the most head-to-head contests and had his right leg amputated to stop the spread of the disease. Throughout the Families need more calm and less stress. situations arise that typically result in quiet time with God each day is a great in each sport (10 points will be split if the schools tie or win the same number of Roll with the punches. No family 2017 season, Gabriel will attend games and participate in numerous team activities. Too many families are overcommitted anger or frustration, overreactions are way to refresh your spirit in His presence. matchups in a sport). Azusa Pacific and Biola have competed in intercollegiate athletics is exempt from difficulties in life. Some and underconnected, but there are common, and family stress levels rise. Encourage your family to do the same. Annual “Burn the Shirt” Event Supports for more than 50 years. are just “moments” while others are actions you can take to reduce the stress Instead, set the example for your family Engage your family in regular faith Charitable Program “seasons.” How we respond to the you and your family experience. Here by choosing to cool down before you conversations. Take advantage of Prior to Azusa Pacific’s season-opening football game, new hard times is a key determining factor ACROBATICS AND TUMBLING are five choices you can make to help respond. Your family will thank you opportunities your church provides students received “The ZU” T-shirts at the annual Burn the of whether stress will wreak havoc February 6 | 7 p.m. I Cougars vs. Hawai’i Pacific I Felix Event Center eliminate the stress in your life. for it. to worship together as a family. Shirt tailgate, which partnered with the San Bernardino Valley during these times. Families that enjoy BASKETBALL 1 2 4 the highest level of contentment in life chapter of The Links, Incorporated to take old T-shirts donated November 17-18 I Women’s Basketball West Region Crossover Classic I by students for the organization’s international diaper program. The program, which Felix Event Center Create a calm environment at Renew your body. 1 Timothy 4:8 Strengthen family relationships. are the ones that stay flexible when home. Don’t let the busyness of is also a good reminder that “physical Within our families, we find the the tough times happen. began in 2009, operates weekly with volunteers who wash, sort, cut, and sew T-shirts December 2 I 1 p.m. (women) and 3 p.m. (men) I Cougars vs. Point Loma I everyday life turn your home into a training is of some value.” To eliminate important relational connections that into cloth diapers, which are distributed in Africa and Haiti. These T-shirt diapers Felix Event Center For more information, visit homeword.com. tense, stressful environment. Make your stress, we need to be people who reflect will sustain us through life. Strained help to combat oral-fecal diseases in areas where diapering infants is not the cultural January 6 I 5:30 p.m. (women) and 7:30 p.m. (men) I Cougars vs. Biola I The HomeWord Center for Youth and Family norm. Recipients receive education on the merits of diaper use for infants to prevent Felix Event Center home a calm haven of escape. A good balance in our physical lives. Everyone or broken family relationships are at Azusa Pacific University with Jim Burns ’75, start is to turn down the noise level in in your family needs plenty of rest and naturally accompanied by stress. Ph.D., and Doug Fields values strong marriages, disease transmission. To date, more than 20,000 diapers have been distributed in SWIMMING AND DIVING your home. Further, try not to overreact exercise, and a healthy diet. confident parents, empowered kids, and Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Haiti. January 13 I 10 a.m. I Alumni Meet I Slauson Pool To eliminate stress, take the lead in to circumstances of home life. When healthy leaders.
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Network’s Spring Baking Championship JESSICA SIRIA ’10 graduated from JAMES DI PANE ’15 interns at the 1980s 1 EVAN CAMPERELL, M.S. ’03, 2 CHRISTEN (PIECHOTA ’05) 4 MEGAN WOO ’05 recently acted 9 MISHA (GOETZ ’13) HOYT and her and competed against eight of America’s Western State College of Law in 2014 Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies became head coach of the women’s GRELLING became chief nursing officer as a sea urchin in 3Crosses’ The Little father, Marty, debuted the first-of-its-kind MARY (SWANSON ’82) MENDENHALL best bakers. Fausto earned a doctorate and works as an associate attorney Center and recently published his first soccer program at Norco College in at Chino Valley (California) Medical Mermaid musical. After graduation from father-daughter duet worship album. has published two novels, Michael and in educational leadership from California practicing immigration law. article on India’s navy. James is also a Riverside, California. The 2017 season Center. Previously, she worked as the APU, she attended Focus on the Family The project, titled L’dor V’dor: From the Ice Princess: A Mystical Romance State University, Fullerton, and now Rumsfeld Graduate Fellow at the Institute marks Evan’s 12th intercollegiate soccer medical center’s magnet program Leadership Institute, then earned her 7 NARGES HORRIAT ’11 graduated Generation to Generation, blends Marty’s (CreateSpace, 2011) and The Wrong works as the principal of Norton Science of World Politics. year as a head coach. Previously, he director, followed by the intensive care lower- and upper-elementary Montessori from the Medical College of Wisconsin in and Misha’s styles of worship, along with Side of Eternity: A Present-Day Passion and Language Academy, a TK-8 coached within the California Community unit and cardiac catheterization lab teaching credentials, and has worked Milwaukee with a Doctor of Medicine and vocal chemistry unique to this duo. This CAMILLE ENDACOTT ’15 and Ryan (CreateSpace, 2016), which won the dual-language school in San Bernardino, Colleges system, the National Association director. Christen and her husband, as an elementary teacher for the last began residency training in plastic and project is Marty’s 11th album and Misha’s Hartwig, Ph.D., chair and associate 2016 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award California. He is also the owner and head of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), and the ZACK ’03, have two sons, Hudson, 5, 10 years. reconstructive surgery at the University 2nd. It is available for purchase at professor in the Department of for historical fiction. Both were inspired baker of Fausto’s Bakes. National Collegiate Athletic Association and Hunter, 2, and they reside in of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. martygoetz.com and on iTunes. Communication Studies, published “An by the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Mary 5 JEREMY LUGBILL ’06 was recently ELIZABETH HERRITY ’99 works as a (NCAA) in divisions II and III. La Verne. Zack is one of the pastors Narges is thankful for the influence of her Exploratory Study of Communication works part time in nursing, caring for appointed associate principal of Michigan RYAN LAGERSTROM ’13 and TYLER prospect development analyst in the at Grace Church of Glendora. mentors in APU’s Department of Biology Practices Affecting Church Leadership disabled adults, and she performs AARON RIETKERK ’04 accepted a City (Indiana) High School. His wife, WELCH ’13 presented their essay Office of University Advancement at and Chemistry and across campus. Team Performance” in the Southern comedy and music for church and full-time tenure-track position in the 3 CARMEN (ESTRADA ’05) Kristin, and their children, Lila and Liam, “The Continuing Evolution of the William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Communication Journal. Camille community functions. Mary’s husband history department at Mt. San Jacinto WILLIAMS has become an independent are excited to join the Wolfpack this fall. SCOTT ANDERSON, M.M. ’12, recently Superhero Genre” in April at the Pop recently completed a Master of Arts died in 2014, and they have three grown College. fashion consultant for California-based received a doctoral degree in organ Culture Association/American Culture 2000s 6 ALBERT HUNG ’07 was elected in Communication from the University sons. After a 15-year overseas missions LuLaRoe, which designs comfortable performance from Claremont (California) Association’s 2017 National Conference JENNIFER ROTHLISBERGER ’04 superintendent of the Northern California of California, Santa Barbara. career in Cyprus and Uganda, she now clothing. Carmen gives training sessions Graduate University. He is the organist in San Diego. KELLY FRESCH, M.A. ’00, became the earned a master’s degree in reading and District of the Church of the Nazarene. lives in rural Washington state. to other consultants, shares how she and music director at First Lutheran ARIEL FIGUEROA ’15 is one of six principal at Adams Elementary School literacy from Capella University in June He is lead pastor of Trinity Church, a AUSTIN SILL ’13, M.A. ’16, published runs her boutique, and helps women feel Church in Monrovia. medical students in the Visiting Research in Santa Barbara, California. She left 2017. She works as a substitute teacher multicultural church with locations in a review of Michael Wear’s “Reclaiming 1990s the Tustin Unified School District after beautiful and confident in their clothing. Internship Program at Harvard Medical near her home in Harbor City, California. Monterey Park and Rowland Heights, KATHLEEN DYER ’12 published One Hope” in the Council for Christian seven years in administration to move [email protected] School through the Harvard Catalyst: FAUSTO BARRAGAN ’99, M.A.ED. ’01, and six services in English, Spanish, and Octave Higher (2010), a piccolo scale Colleges & Universities’ Advance to Santa Barbara Unified School District. The Harvard Clinical and Translational M.ED. ’04, was featured on Food Mandarin. From 2004-08, Hung was the and etude book that introduces the lives magazine. Austin works in the Office of Science Center. She conducts research international student chaplain at APU. and music of great composers who have the Graduate and Professional Registrar to explore the association between During those four years, he taught woven the sound of the piccolo into the at APU. diabetic retinopathy and the onset COUGAR INTERVIEW—CRYSTAL (FOUNTAIN ’91, ’93) BARRON courses in intercultural communication orchestra tapestry. It is available on MARIA (CONRAD ’13) SORIA recently and progression of chronic kidney and personal leadership development fluteworld.com. Her husband, David, learned different techniques and styles matter the field, clients see enhanced was looking to fine-tune her technique copublished “The Functional Amyloid disease, under Sylvia Rosas, MD, at to international students preparing for is executive director of the Master of and appreciated the special teacher/ performance after studying MDH and eliminate habits that may have been Orb2A Binds to Lipid Membranes” in the the world-renowned Joslin Diabetes undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Science in Biotechnology program at student connection. After graduation, Breathing Coordination. holding her back from reaching her peer-reviewed Biophysical Journal. She is Center. This opportunity allows her He and his wife, Christine, live in Rowland APU. They live in Cypress, California. I spent time performing and directing potential on the show. Brennley is an completing a Ph.D. in Medical Biophysics to take courses on biostatistics and APU LIFE: Who invented it, and why is Heights. music, and I noticed there were many amazing young woman, working diligently CLIFFORD GEE ’12 started a at the University of Southern California. epidemiology, network with the top it so rare? SARAH COLOMÉ ’08 became the postdoctoral researcher position at physicians and scientists in the world, people who had vocal-health issues similar between sessions to apply the new DANIEL STOCKDALE ’14 works as a director of the Women’s Resources St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. In and potentially return to Harvard to to what I struggled with throughout my BARRON: It’s a very rigorous, concepts, and she far exceeded the composer in Santa Monica, California. Center at the University of Illinois. addition to chemical biology research, he further her medical education as a training. My career focus seemed a multidisciplinary, invitation-only training original expectations of the producers His projects have included Glee, has spent the past five years as a worship future surgical resident. natural fit. program. Originally developed in from her initial audition. Brennley felt that MARY (HERNANDEZ ’09) ANWAR American Horror Story, Royal Pains, Switzerland and New York by Robin our sessions together made a huge leader and volunteer youth staff member APU LIFE: What is the MDH Breathing graduated with a doctorate in pharmacy Major Crimes, The Last Ship, and Star. BRIANNE “TORY” FREETH ’15 signed De Haas, and Lynn Martin, longtime difference in her performance and working with junior high and high school Coordination method? from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic In addition, he has written tracks licensed with Brady, Brannon & Rich talent agency student and assistant to breathing stamina, which are critical to her overall students at Twin City Chinese Christian Medicine’s School of Pharmacy in Erie, worldwide for advertising and television after they saw her at APU’s Hollywood pioneer Carl Stough, the program derives performance as a singer. She has Church in Minneapolis. BARRON: Using physical procedures Pennsylvania. She was the first person shows, including It’s Always Sunny in Showcase. She acted in her first feature based in functional anatomy and its name from the developers’ initials, incredible talent and the unbounded at APU to hold the title of Associated JESSE MERRICK ’12 became the Philadelphia, Life Below Zero, and film, Hisji (working title), a horror film PHOTO COURTESY OF CRYSTAL (FOUNTAIN ’91 ’93) BARRON ideokinesis, the practitioner identifies M and DH and is based on Stough’s enthusiasm and energy of a 15-year-old, Student Body academic senator (2006-07). sports director at WAAY 31 in Huntsville, many others. produced by Godmother Industries, and and releases imbalances throughout the work. American Elizabeth Prescott but her poise, work ethic, and deep Just breathe. Sounds simple, but as Mary and her husband, RUSSEL ’09, live Alabama. has also been in several commercials trained in Switzerland and became the faith in God were way beyond that of RYAN YAMAKAWA ’14, M.S. ’17, Crystal (Fountain ’91, ’93) Barron—one breathing mechanism, then recoordinates in Cleveland. including TurboTax, Grocery Outlet, and first certified practitioner in the U.S. I was the average teenager. 8 CHAD RICHARD ’12 just released recently became an athletic trainer for of only two voice teachers in America the structures to bring the body to AdoptMatch. Most recently, Tory filmed optimal performance. This method is fortunate enough to be part of the first JENNA (SCHUETTE ’09) TALBOT his first studio record, Across the Water, Select Medical in Anaheim, California. certified in MDH Breathing Coordination APU LIFE: How do you see MDH a Walmart commercial. often referred to as “the missing link” United States group of trainees, and was promoted to senior vice president, under the name Caleb Trask. He is also a support staff athletic trainer —knows, the manner of breathing is changing the landscape for vocal just as important as the act itself. From for individuals to achieve optimal I became the second voice teacher to strategy, at Whiteboard Advisors. She at the West Coast Sports Medicine PETER IBENANA, M.A. ’15, is the performers in the future? JORDAN ADELMAN ’13, TIM singers, actors, and athletes to business performance. However, one of the become certified. and her husband, David, live in Alexandria, Foundation in Manhattan Beach, as community outreach coordinator with DAVIS ’14, CALLI MCLELLAN ’15, professionals and respiratory patients, unique things about MDH Breathing BARRON: I see it redefining the way Virginia, and are active members of the well as a Sunday school teacher at Glenstone in Potomac, Maryland. Peter APU LIFE: How did you connect with and ALI JOHNSON ’16 started a new Barron’s unique and specialized technique Coordination is that it’s not just for singers. voice is taught. Future generations of Church of the Ascension in Arlington. Foothill Church in Glendora. and his wife, Lani, serve at Agapé The Voice’s popular teen contestant theater company, MAD Theatre Co., improves the quality of people’s careers At its core, it is a training program to singers and voice teachers will have more Mission Church in Elkridge. They have Brennley Brown and ultimately join her 2010s and launched their inaugural production KATHERINE CHRISTENSEN ’15 is the and lives. bring the breathing into peak efficiency, clarity and precision in their training, lead- two daughters, Salome and Gloria. vocal team? at the Minnesota Fringe Festival in education and outreach coordinator at leading to optimal performance, no ing to healthier, stronger singers with APU LIFE: What inspired your decision ALEXANDRA KERR ’10 became a August 2017. the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of continued on page 33 matter what you do. I’ve worked with elite BARRON: One of my talented students long, prosperous careers in all genres. to become a vocal coach? producer at Investopedia, where she Art at Westmont College. She recently athletes, people with breathing disorders, worked with her on an animated Disney conducts on-camera interviews with curated her first exhibition, How BARRON: At APU, I enjoyed accompanying all types of professional voice users, and show and referred her to me just as she investors, entrepreneurs, authors, and Modernism Came to Santa Barbara: teachers during students’ lessons. I instrumentalists, just to name a few. No made it through the blind auditions. She other financial professionals. 1945-1990.
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the long-term care they need, and that “Understanding their own condition is the next generation of APU nursing the first step to becoming responsible PATIENT RECORDS students graduates with the ability to for their own care. Becoming their own navigate this distinct specialty. advocate is a major rite of passage.” Caring for aging pediatric heart The clinic also helps patients begin to patients presents many challenges navigate the ever-changing insurance for patients, their families, and the landscape. “These kids are born with medical system. “Heart disease is not a preexisting condition that makes curative,” Newcombe said. “You don’t it difficult to obtain insurance once just have a surgery, take medicine, they become adults, so we specialize in and live your life normally. Rather, it’s helping them find insurance options so palliative. Congenital heart patients deal that they can receive the ongoing care with different aspects of their disease and procedures they need.” throughout their lives.” Likewise, the transfer from a This means that patients must pediatric cardiologist to an adult learn to become their own health cardiologist represents one of many advocates as they age—a prospect that relational and emotional hurdles often daunts patients and their parents. these patients face. “Our patients have “Parents are accustomed to managing usually had the same cardiologist for for other, normal medical issues, their they pass on their knowledge of this all aspects of their child’s complicated 18 years, and there is a lot of trust built heart becomes a complicating factor. subspecialty to APU nursing students. medical care from infancy, which means there,” Glasgow said. “Transitioning They may only have half a heart, or a “My graduate work at APU set me up they often struggle with letting go,” said to a new doctor can be an emotional major conduit has been rerouted to a for success with professors that focused Newcombe. She and Glasgow discovered process.” To aid this transition, she and different side of their heart to function on developing me as a whole person,” by Caitlin Gipson Illustration by Gabrielle Rodriguez ’17 that children can grow into their teenage Newcombe begin introducing the new as both left and right. Under normal said Newcombe. “It’s an honor for us to years without fully understanding their practitioner early in the process. circumstances, most doctors and nurses do the same for our students. We have own medical history. Connecting patients with an adult will not expect that.” been asked to teach at Loma Linda, but Thus, the transition begins cardiologist who understands the issues Glasgow tells the story of one we both feel committed to APU because Peyton Ward was born without the left side of her heart. The fair-haired, angelic- with Glasgow sitting down with surrounding congenital heart disease adult congenital heart patient who had of the excellent education we received “Understanding their own condition is the first step to looking five-year-old underwent a repair procedure at 14 days old at Loma Linda them and their charts and explaining closes a major gap in patient care. “The become pregnant. “Her doctor told her and the opportunity to give back.” becoming responsible for their own care. Becoming University’s International Heart Institute. “Now she’s 100 percent healthy,” said past procedures in detail. “I spend adult medical establishment isn’t always that she had to abort the baby because With Loma Linda’s Adult her mom, Heather Froglear. Thanks to advances in cardiac medicine spearheaded hours answering questions and prepared for these patients,” Glasgow pregnancy puts such a strain on the Congenital Heart Disease Clinic their own advocate is a major rite of passage.” by hospitals such as Loma Linda, Peyton and other pediatric heart patients can drawing diagrams,” Glasgow said. said. “When they go into the hospital heart,” she said. “But she desperately leading the way, and professors such as expect to reach and thrive in adulthood. But the long-term survival of these patients wanted a family. This population has Newcombe and Glasgow training the Cindy Glasgow, MSN ’04 who once routinely died in infancy brings with it a host of new challenges that never grown old enough for pregnancy next generation of nurses at APU, today’s underscore a gap in care. to be an issue, so no one knew if it adult cardiology patients can look “Transition between pediatric and adult health care for this population has would be successful. Instead, she came forward to a brighter, healthier future. become extremely fragmented,” said Jen Newcombe, MSN ’04, DNP ’16, adjunct to our clinic, and we walked with her nursing professor at APU. “Patients can become lost in the healthcare system through her pregnancy. Today, she has a Caitlin Gipson ’01 is a freelance writer, as they age out of their parents’ insurance and the hands-on pediatric medical healthy one-year-old boy.” marketing consultant, and search engine optimizer living in central California. establishment. Navigating the healthcare system to find adult practice doctors that For Newcombe and Glasgow, [email protected] understand congenital conditions can pose a challenge. As a result, adult patients success stories like this one fuel their with congenital heart disease often show up in the emergency room with issues passion and affirm their purpose as that could have been prevented with proper care.” To address this growing problem, Newcombe spearheaded a business proposal to start an adult congenital heart disease center at Loma Linda, and she teamed up with fellow APU alumna and adjunct nursing professor Cindy Glasgow, MSN ’04, to make it happen. Loma Linda’s Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic opened its doors in June 2015 and began a unique collaboration. As a pediatric nurse practitioner, Newcombe cares for children with congenital heart disease from birth to 17. Glasgow, a family nurse practitioner, runs the clinic that continues their care at Jennifer Newcombe, MSN ’04, DNP ’16 (left) age 18 and beyond. Together, they ensure that Loma Linda’s heart patients receive and Cindy Glasgow, MSN ’04 PHOTOS COURTESY OF JENNIFER NEWCOMBE, MSN ’04, DNP ’16, AND CINDY GLASGOW, ’04
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there are only two of us from my kindergarten class that have gone on to graduate from Ivy—In a League college,” said Quintero. The first in her family to graduate college, and with younger siblings following in her footsteps, Quintero has come to recognize some of the biggest of Her Own hurdles. “I believe that it is a systemic issue tied directly to income inequality and Ivy Quintero ’14 packs a powerful punch when distribution of wealth, which needs to be addressed at both state and local levels.” it comes to the way politics affects the Latino/a Although her hard work and perseverance paid off academically, she did not rely sales at DanoneWave, recalled when she has faced, Dalton addresses it community. As a Teach for America recruitment on the classroom alone to prepare her for the change she hopes to incite. As an APU Dalton was promoted in the middle head-on. “Investing in female leaders manager, she oversees outreach, event planning, student, Quintero participated in influential groups and clubs, such as Sigma Delta Pi Inspiring of the year to a new role, inheriting is a passion project for me. I see it as and hiring for five Southern California colleges; (the Spanish Honor Society), and the Latin American Student Association as president. IVY QUINTERO ’14 a department with lagging morale. inherent to my job and another way raises awareness about education in low-income She expanded her experience and knowledge by studying abroad at the Universidad “Ariel set to work listening to her I can design the future of my company,” communities; and merges her passions for Nacional de Costa Rica, where she served as an intern for the vice mayor of the city of team’s needs,” said Goldberg. “She said Dalton, who was recognized as a PHOTO COURTESY OF politics, social justice, and education equity. Heredia. In 2014, she was selected as one of 1,500 seniors for the Joe Snell Award for deeply values people and knows game-changing female leader at the As the daughter of immigrant parents from Colombia, she understands firsthand Reconciliation, an honor given only to those who show a commitment toward racial how to motivate them by discovering 2016 Makers Conference. the struggles and sacrifices that her community faces daily, and she works to create reconciliation on campus. Leadership their unique strengths. Ariel was Empowering the next generation change at all levels—from the playground to the political stage. For the past 10 years, she has volunteered for the Inland Empire Future Leaders by Evelyn Allen instrumental in shaping a positive of female leaders also requires reaching When Quintero’s parents immigrated to the United States, they warned their Program, which provides summer leadership development conferences for more environment where people became young women who are just beginning children that there would still be many challenges to overcome due to their last than 4,000 Latino eighth- and ninth-grade students. “The power of parents and Every Wednesday, Ariel (Fortune ’08) Dalton pushes pause excited to come to work.” The next to find their voices. Former APU name alone. “They told us to be happy we’re here and to take advantage of every community really drive me,” said Quintero, who plans to pursue a master’s degree on her projects as senior director of trade marketing at year, the team rose from the bottom communication studies professor Karen opportunity,” said Quintero, whose father worked on a farm and was determined to and then run for local office in Riverside County. “I truly love this country and desire to the top in their sales performance Sorensen-Lang, Ph.D., tapped Dalton to send his eldest daughter to college. “He said, ‘I don’t know how you’re getting there, to serve all people. I want to empower the voices like mine and challenge those that DanoneWave to focus on a task she sees as equally rankings. “Ariel has out-of-this-world serve on the board of SparkVoice, her but you will go,’ so I knew I had to get good grades and earn scholarships.” are different in order to grow, learn, and foster change.” integral to the role: penning handwritten messages of determination to bring her best, and nonprofit teen mentoring program that Community builders, leaders, and role models throughout Quintero’s childhood Quintero hopes to one day use that voice in Washington, DC. “It’s crucial to she helps everyone around her aspire helps girls nurture their talents. “Ariel’s encouragement or gratitude to members of her team and rarely, if ever, resembled her ethnicity or background. One of her freshman high think about the other—the other who thinks differently and comes from different life to do the same,” said Goldberg. leadership style is effortless, and she school teachers, however, recognized her abilities and helped her and her parents experiences than I do,” she said. “Jesus calls us to look after our neighbors regardless those who support her. An analog ritual in a digital age, As Dalton continues to climb the makes people believe they can do navigate coursework, scholarship opportunities, and college applications. “My of their circumstances. We need to check our privilege and empower others to rise to the weekly effort takes dedication for a businesswoman executive ladder, she notes a thinning whatever it takes to meet their goal,” middle school is still one of the lowest-performing school in the district, and sadly, their fullest potential.” of the ranks: fewer female leaders to said Sorensen-Lang, who witnessed always on the move. Since adopting the practice years look toward in the higher strata of the Dalton’s growth as an APU journalism ago, Dalton has moved through a number of important business world. Like every challenge major—skills she now applies class taught by Ryan Hartwig, Ph.D., chair and associate professor of the Department investigating consumer behavior Cracking the of Communication Studies, changed how Radak viewed his education. “As a roles of increasing responsibility, most recently managing for DanoneWave. “Ariel is undaunted self-assured computer science student, I did not expect Hartwig’s class to be one the plant-based categories at the global food company. and the perfect person to help open Code on of my most valuable college experiences,” said Radak, who credits that course with doors for others.” shaping the leadership philosophy he now lives out. “The concepts I discussed with “I’m fascinated by the art of choice largest public benefit company in the At a recent SparkVoice celebration, Leading Well Dr. Hartwig informed my belief that there are two kinds of leaders: taskmasters and the motivations behind why United States. The corporate structure Dalton stood before the gathering with For 155 million Americans, or 48 percent of focused on developing projects, and servants focused on developing people. Of consumers make decisions,” said prioritizes social responsibility and a message of encouragement. “Keep the population, playing video games ranges course, I want to produce great video games, but I hope to do so while investing in Dalton. “Once you’ve worked in the sustainability, balancing financial raising your hand—for the job, the from a pastime to a passion. For Sean Radak ’11, the personal goals and passions of those I supervise.” consumer packaged goods industry, interests with a top-line goal of internship, the promotion, or the the $23.5 billion industry constitutes a platform According to Radak, effective management boils down to perspective. “We can you never look at a grocery store in creating positive impact for people volunteer opportunity—whatever the for service. One month after Radak graduated choose a fixed mindset or a growth mindset,” he said. “Being a developer and the same way.” Dalton’s work helps and the planet. “DanoneWave’s focus opening may be. Don’t discount your from Azusa Pacific University, Riot Games, the caretaker of others is a lifelong endeavor. Much like gaming software, each individual position DanoneWave ahead of shifting on bringing health through food to as potential,” said Dalton. “I want to live developer of League of Legends—the most- is deeply complex. New challenges never fail to arise. That is where my faith intersects in a world where women never stop consumer tastes and needs, keeping many people as possible sparks an inner PHOTO COURTESY OF SEAN RADAK ’11 played video game in the world, boasting more with my work. It is my calling to invest in those I lead, to choose progress over new and established products in front conviction that makes me want to do raising their hands.” She plans to than 100 million monthly players—hired Radak as a quality assurance (QA) analyst. complacency.” Radak equates the process of learning to lead well to playtesting a of shoppers and shaping the experience more with the time I have,” said Dalton, continue doing the same, lifting others His responsibilities included contributing to character design, map creation, service video game—it takes patience, observance, and a desire to grow. “You evaluate the PHOTO COURTESY OF ARIEL (FORTUNE ’08) DALTON they have with the company’s offerings. who also graduated from the University with her in the process. maintenance, and patching software. After a promotion to QA lead, he headed a state of the build, and admit ‘we can do even better,’” he said. The multinational food giant’s portfolio of Southern California’s prestigious “My faith forms the foundation product initiative focused on the League of Legends back-end infrastructure Radak remembers the ACM competitions in which he was given a packet of for my internal drive. It is my Evelyn Allen is a senior editor in the Office of includes such recognizable brands food industry executive program. University Relations. [email protected] and data centers while coaching test engineers and QA analysts. In 2015, Radak coding problems and a time limit. A judge would determine how well the problems as Dannon yogurt, Evian water, “My faith forms the foundation responsibility to maximize the landed a position with Pocket Gems, a mobile-game developer based in San were solved. “For my employees, I don’t want to be seen as a judge, but as a servant. International Delight coffee creamer, for my internal drive,” said the Denver opportunities God has given me, Francisco, where he leads the creation of a yet-undisclosed video game project. I aim to help them unlock their potential by supporting them all along the way. I and Silk dairy alternatives. Most resident. “It is my responsibility to and, as a leader, that means Radak honed those coding skills at APU, in computer science classes and by leave them room to fail and give them all the credit when they succeed.” appealing to Dalton is the company’s maximize the opportunities God has every single interaction matters.” serving as student president of the regional Association for Computing Machinery Radak offers advice to college graduates and aspiring leaders based on his mission-driven platform, evident given me, and, as a leader, that means (ACM). “At first, my learning at APU centered around technical skills,” he said. “My experiences: “Do what you want to do before you get paid to do it. And remember: No –Ariel (Fortune ’08) Dalton in Danone’s April acquisition of every single interaction matters.” focus was solving problems efficiently, cleanly, and quickly.” Then, a communication matter what work you pursue, effective leadership prioritizes people above products.” WhiteWave Foods, which created the Allan Goldberg, vice president of
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continued from page 27 Community Roots Academy in Laguna ARIAS ’13, and MARICELA 10 TESS SCHERKENBACK ’17 has Niguel and teaches fifth- and sixth-grade FRAGOSO ’13 also attended the LILY MACKAY ’15 helped with the been selected as one of the California choir at Mission Viejo Christian School wedding. Camille and Kier met in 2010 string arrangements for songwriter Kylan Senate Fellows for 2017-18 as a while pursuing a real estate license. The in their English literature class, went to Road’s debut single, “Here Now.” In part of the esteemed and nationally couple resides in Orange. nursing school together, and got engaged addition, she works as scheduler for recognized Capital Fellows Program. in September 2016. Camille completed a Assembly Member Brian Dahle (R-CA) She will also be a full-time professional 12 JENNIFER (KEMP ’11) to Reed Master of Science in Nursing Education in Sacramento. staff member and will be paired with a Standlee on April 16, 2016, at Bethany from Western Governors University, member of the California State Senate. Presbyterian Church in Seattle, NICHOLAS PEREZ ’15 became a where Kier plans to pursue a master’s Washington, where they are members. freelance web producer at TIME, where CAITLIN SLATER ’17 signed a degree in nursing informatics. They are The wedding party included JEFFREY he redevelops websites. two-year contract to be the morning registered nurses at Providence Holy KEMP ’14, JUSTIN KEMP ’14, reporter at the CW6 in Yuma, Arizona. Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, 1 2 3 EMILIE FAIELLA ’16 won second place CHELSEA (EBERSOLE ’12) LOUIE, She was previously the multimedia California, and live in Santa Clarita. and CARINA WOLF ’14. The couple lives in the national James Toland Vocal Arts reporter for The CW channel 6 in Seattle, where Jennifer works in the 13 AMÁRIS SANTOS ’15 to Charles Competition, Tier II. She competed in Phoenix. against singers from schools such Department of University Advancement Scruggs on May 7, 2016, in Huddleston, as Boston University and Carnegie 11 FAITH VANDER VOORT ’17 at Seattle Pacific University and Reed is a Virginia. They serve as state youth Mellon University. became the press secretary and digital business bank relationship manager for directors for the Church of God of director for Congressman Paul Gosar KeyBank. Prophecy in Virginia. Amáris teaches DANIEL PAES DE BARROS ’16 has (R-AZ). secondary students at Faith Christian been appointed music director and SYDNEE ESQUIBEL ’12 to KYLE Academy in Hurt. conductor at the Universidade Federal HEIDI ZUNIGA ’17 is pursuing a SAWYER ’12 on May 6, 2017, in Mesa, de Lavras in Minas Gerais, Brazil. master’s degree in healthcare Arizona—exactly 10 years after Kyle MICHAELA SUMMERS ’15 to administration at Concordia University, asked Sydnee to be his girlfriend. The MATTHEW TYRRELL ’16 on May 11, 4 5 6 BRIAN NEWBERRY, M.A. ’17, recently where she accepted a position as a couple lives in Chandler, Arizona, with 2017, in Oak Glen, California. She was published two novels: The Battle of graduate assistant and will be working their rescue pup, Hugo. promoted to manage and oversee the Pneumatika (Signalman Publishing, 2013) with the men’s and women’s swim teams. after-school program at KIPP Academy and Pneumatika II: Sage Against the CAMILLE CHUA ’13 to KIER TUAZON of Innovation, a fifth–eighth-grade charter Machine (Halo Publishing International, ’13 on April 29, 2017, at the Albertson JUST MARRIED school in East Los Angeles where 2016). Both can be found on amazon.com Wedding Chapel in Los Angeles. students pursue their unique interests and most online bookstores. CHRISSY HODGES ’00 to Shawn The wedding party included MARK and passions. Many of the classes Obermeyer on June 4, 2017, in TUAZON ’09, JOHN TUAZON ’13, and ALLISON ROBERTI ’17 has signed with include arts programming, where Temecula, California, at South Coast ROSEANNA LOW ’13; KAREN Prodigy Talent, a licensed and franchised Winery. Chrissy teaches music at EVANGELISTA ’10, CAROLINA continued on page 34 talent agency based in Los Angeles.
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continued from page 33 2017. Kaylee joins her three older To KAREN BETH (O’DELL ’04) 16 To JOSHUA ZIESEL, M.A. ’12, siblings, Jubilee, 5; Lois, 3; and John STROVAS and her husband, Scott, a students have the opportunity to PSY.D. ’16, and his wife, LAURA Luke, 3. Noelle and John serve in the daughter, Sally Beth, on March 30, 2017. experience music, dance, and theater. ROGERS ZIESEL, M.A. ’14, a daughter, children’s ministry at church and live in Karen Beth was promoted from assistant The couple lives in Pasadena. Simone Elizabeth, on June 15, 2017. Fairfield, California. John is a systems professor to associate professor of Joshua completed his postdoctoral 14 administrator at University of California, English at Wayland Baptist University ALEX JAGGERS ’17 to William fellowship at Loyola University Maryland Davis, and Noelle is a stay-at-home mom, in Plainview, Texas. Cavanaugh on May 27, 2017, in Oakdale, and joined Wake Forest University as a California. music teacher, and Plexus distributor. To AARON RIETKERK ’04 and his staff psychologist in August 2016. Laura is the director of development at The FUTURE ALUMNI To LEAH (LAWSON ’03) SLEMMONS wife, LINNEA (MORRISON ’05), a son, and her husband, James, a daughter, Emmet Warner, on June 11, 2017. Veritas Forum. To CHARIS (GRUBBS ’00) SCOFIELD Genevieve Koemi Lee, on April 10, 2017. 15 To ADAM COZENS ’06 and his wife, and her husband, Bill, a daughter, Rivkah She joins big sister, Evangeline. In LAURA (STUNDEN ’06), a daughter, Märi, on March 22, 2017. She joins her June 2017, the Slemmonses launched Lucy Brooklyn, on January 3, 2017. NOTABLE AND NOTEWORTHY six older siblings. the AllGoodThingsBox, a monthly Adam is a professional stand-up The Alumni Engagement staff and your faith-and-food box featuring devotionals, classmates want to know what’s new To NOELLE (YARBROUGH ’01) LUNA, comedian and comedy writer, and artisan foods, and Christian-themed gifts with you. Upload Alumni Class Notes M.M. ’04, and her husband, John, a Laura is a social worker. (allgoodthingsbox.com). The family lives and photos to apualumni.com/classnote daughter, Kaylee Elise, on February 23, in Altadena, California. or email [email protected].
WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE YOU WEARING YOUR APU CLOTHING? Attention alumni: Send us your photographs of the places you have been with your Cougar wear. If we print your submission, you will receive an APU T-shirt to wear while visiting your next exotic or interesting destination. Send your photos,* along with a description of the location where the photograph was taken, and your T-shirt size, to the Office of Alumni Engagement, PO Box 7000, Azusa, CA 91702-7000, or [email protected]. Or you can add your photo to the Azusa Pacific Everywhere Flickr account at flickr.com/groups/apueverywhere/. *Please send high-resolution images or prints only.
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