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CHERYL BECKETT 1978-2010 FEATURE ARTICLES

4 Music and Milestones Dr. Henry Smith The Gaither Vocal Band performed for a full house at President Blessings . . . Dr. Henry Smith Homecoming 2010 as IWU also celebrated anniversaries President for women’s athletics and nursing programs. It is January, and the snow is falling gently but persistently on the residential campus in Marion. As the second semester of the 2010-11 academic year gets under way, students are Memories of Cheryl Beckett excited to return to campus and reunite with their friends. Today I am reminded of significant 8 The IWU community along with the Beckett family accomplishments we have observed at Indiana Wesleyan University over the past several months. gathered to celebrate the life of a courageous young As these accomplishments are reported in this issue of the Triangle, we are keenly aware it is 4 woman who died while trying to change the world. not by might or power but because of His unspeakable blessings. Truly our Verse of the Year in the Gospel of Mark, which states, “all things are possible with God,” is exemplified in the lives 16 On the Outside Looking In and times of Indiana Wesleyan University. Keith Blackburn spent one-fourth of his life behind bars My IWU colleagues and I have reflected in recent days on the great privilege it is to serve at before accepting Christ and then enrolling in Wesley this University, at this time, with such a compelling purpose. Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University. Let’s count some of our blessings. • Balanced budgets with no debt. • Continued enrollment growth in all areas of the University (see page 32). 22 Short Trip to the Big Leagues • Five successful accreditations! The work of all involved has been exceptional. Two summers after he left IWU, Brandon Beachy found • Reaffirmation and approval to continue providing education in the neighboring states 8 16 himself as a starting pitcher for the Atlanta Braves in the of Ohio and Kentucky. midst of a late-season pennant race. • Ten more years of accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association – the maximum allowed. • Eight more years of program accreditation for our nursing programs from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education – the maximum allowed. • Ten more years of accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Music – FEATURE SECTIONS the maximum allowed. • A positive review from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education 20 Accolades (the final official decision is pending). Faculty honored for academic achievements • A major $2.5M gift for the construction of a building for Wesley Seminary at IWU from 22 the Green Family, adding to the impetus of seminary growth and development. 24 Athletics • A successful second event in the National Conversations series held at the National Press IWU considering football, switch to NCAA Club in Washington, D.C. Teams win MCC championships During times of great financial challenges in our nation, where educational institutions at 26 Campus News all levels struggle for survival, Indiana Wesleyan University is experiencing days of growth and IWU named ‘Military Friendly School’ financial stability. Sojourn receives national honors I am grateful for a campus community where people give their best efforts as an offering of Columbus, Ohio, Education Center opens thankfulness to God for the blessings we are experiencing. Ihrke named School of Nursing Dean MISSIONMISSION STATEMENT STATEMENT IndianaIndiana Wesleyan Wesleyan University University is is a a 34 Alumni News IWU alum completing ninth year of college Christ-centeredChrist-centered academic academic community community committed committed News from alumni around the world toto changing changing the the world world by by developingdeveloping students students in in character, character, ON THE COVER: Rev. Charles Beckett spoke at a memorial service for his daughter, Cheryl. scholarshipscholarship and and leadership. leadership. Indiana wesleyan university | TRIANGLE | Winter 2011, Vol. 92, No. 1 | PRESIDENT Dr. Henry Smith | VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Dr. Keith Newman | Associate Vice President of Marketing Janelle Vernon | Editor in cHIEF Alan Miller | ART DIRECTOR Gary Phillips ’92 | PRODUCTION Jennifer DeBoy | PHOTOGRAPHER Casper Hamlet ’05 | CLASS NOTES Mary Beth Dolmanet. The triangle (issn 10666893) is published quarterly, free to alumni, by Indiana Wesleyan University. Second-class postage paid at Marion, Indiana, and additional offices.postmaster : Send address changes to Indiana Wesleyan University, 4201 South Washington Street, Marion, Indiana 46953-4974. www.indwes.edu.

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Dr. Diane Foley and Dr. Steve Foley received Outstanding Service Awards. Gaither Vocal Band Performs at IWU Homecoming

he Gaither Vocal Band – featuring Bill Gaither, Michael Jim Barnes was president of IWU from 1987 to 2006 TEnglish, Mark Lowry, David Phelps and Wes Hampton and then served as University Chancellor before retiring – performed for a capacity Homecoming Weekend audience on December 31, 2009. Tommie Barnes has taught in the at Indiana Wesleyan University’s new 3,800-seat Chapel- Education Department since 1988 and is a former Director of Auditorium. Student Teaching. The Grammy Award-winning band, along with special The Barnes Student Center, which covers 200,000 square guests Gordon Mote and Buddy Greene, were joined by the feet, was built and expanded three times during Jim Barnes’ 90-voice IWU Chorale – plus 100 former chorale members – 19-year tenure as President. Lisa Massey and Erik Longenecker were Homecoming royalty. IWU Chorale entertained after alumni banquet. for the three-hour concert. Dr. Diane Foley and Dr. Steve Foley, husband-and-wife The concert also featured a University string quartet, brass physicians in Colorado Springs, received Alumni Outstanding IWU celebrated 40th anniversary of women’s athletics. ensemble and male quartet. Service Awards for their work in organizing medical teams in “It was clear that this evening was not merely the result of the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake. good planning by the University, or the Gaither organization Diane Foley, a 1980 IWU graduate, was reared in Haiti or anyone else,” a story on the Gaither website reported. where her parents were missionaries. Steve Foley graduated “This was a divine appointment. Seasoned artists were from IWU in 1979. refreshed by young, vibrant talent … student musicians IWU seniors Lisa Massey and Erik Longenecker were named were encouraged by artists at the top of their field … and the Homecoming queen and king. Massey is an international audience received the double blessing of witnessing the entire relations major, and Longenecker is majoring in elementary thing,” the story said. and special needs education. A day earlier, the IWU Student Center – the largest building In addition to the traditional class reunions, two other on the residential campus in Marion – was renamed in honor IWU milestones were observed during Homecoming: the of Dr. Jim Barnes and his wife, Professor Tommie Barnes. 40th anniversary of women’s athletics at IWU and the 35th anniversary of IWU nursing programs.

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Students dressed up in ‘30s style for pep rally and torch run.

The Hodson Scotsmen livened up Homecoming. IWU Student Center Named for Jim & Tommie Barnes

he Indiana Wesleyan University Student Center, the • Enrollment in adult and traditional programs grew Tlargest building on the Marion campus, was named in from 1,750 students in 1987 to almost 14,000 honor of former IWU President Jim Barnes and his wife, students in 2006. Tommie, during Homecoming weekend activities. • IWU constructed a new main campus in Marion at Dr. Jim Barnes retired as IWU president on June 30, 2006, a cost of more than $200 million – and all of it after holding the office for 19 years. He then served as IWU without incurring debt. Chancellor until he retired from the University on December Urban Cowboy. David Phelps sang at Homecoming. 31, 2009. • IWU recorded 19 consecutive years of record The men’s soccer team celebrated a 1-0 Homecoming victory. Professor Tommie Barnes joined the Education Department enrollments, balanced budgets and increased giving faculty in 1988 and was IWU’s Director of Student Teaching to the annual fund. for several years. She continues to work as a part-time education professor. • IWU completed capital campaigns of $12 million What is now the Barnes Student Center was built – and and $54 million. expanded three times – during Barnes’ tenure as president. “We truly are blessed that the longest stop on the “The list of campus changes during Dr. Barnes’ 19-year remarkable journey of Jim and Tommie Barnes was here at tenure as president is very long indeed,” Carl Shepherd, Indiana Wesleyan University,” Shepherd said. “The life of this Chairman of the IWU Board of Trustees, told guests at the institution has been forever enriched by their faithful and annual Alumni Banquet. He cited some of those changes: untiring service.” • IWU went from the precipice of bankruptcy to Jim Barnes called the naming of the student center an become a prosperous, financially stable incredible honor but said the honor belongs to the Lord. “Our institution. deepest hope and most fervent prayer for each of us and for Indiana Wesleyan University is this: ‘May those who come behind us find us faithful,’” he said.

6 WINTER 2011 TRIANGLE INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 7 A Life Well Lived

On a Sunday morning in August 2010, the Indiana Wesleyan University family learned – along with the entire world – that one of its graduates was among 10 medical volunteers who had been shot to death in Afghanistan by the Taliban. Rev. Charles Beckett spoke at the IWU memorial service for his daughter.

Cheryl Marie Beckett, a biology major who graduated with honors from IWU in 2000, was 32 years old. She had spent the Cheryl Beckett In the Words of Rev. Charles Beckett last six years serving the people of Afghanistan through hat drove our daughter, just a few weeks into her 33rd humbly suggest that it is not the land of light, but the land community development, focusing on nutritional gardening and Wyear of life, to count it a high honor to be asked to of darkness. mother-child health. accompany this medical team? She had been, we were told, What drove Cheryl and her teammates? I would suggest it on 18 trips outside of Kabul, but this was her first into this was the same thing that drove Paul: to know Christ. Isn’t it particular area. interesting that Paul said knowing Christ is greater than the On September 29, the IWU family – along with Cheryl’s – gathered She had one prayer request she asked for herself before most amazing human attainment? in the Chapel-Auditorium to celebrate the life of this remarkable she left on this trip. She had had some pretty serious ACL Notice that Paul is not comparing knowing Christ with surgery when she was 16 years old, and just recently she had the worst of life; he is comparing Christ with the best that and courageous young woman. Her father and others used commented that she thought something was coming undone. life has to offer. With the best of God-given law, with the words to paint a picture of a life well lived. Here is what they said. Periodically she had shooting pain, and she just asked us to best of human attainment. And he is saying that is dog food pray that God would sustain her until she could get back compared to knowing Jesus Christ. home for Christmas and have it looked at here. The best of human attainment is nothing compared to the Now, she didn’t tell us everything. She didn’t tell us surpassing value of knowing Christ and yet, he goes on to say, that she and her knee were going to be hiking through I want to know Christ better. extraordinarily difficult terrain in Nuristan. By the way, that We just discovered some notes that Cheryl had made. She area did not use to be Muslim. Decades and centuries ago described the most significant and important event of her it became Muslim after a warlord conquered the area and life was when she chose to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior declared it so. It received the name Nuristan, which means, of her life and being immersed into relationship with Him, light of life. His death, His burial and His resurrection. She called this life How sad, how ironic, but how revealing that this group, changing and life determining. primarily, among other medical help, was going to address She wanted to know her Savior better and better and better. an epidemic in Afghanistan: that 80 percent of people in She was devoted to that as passionately as she was devoted to Afghanistan suffer from some form of eye disease. We would anything. To know Christ stood at the apex of her life. She

8 WINTER 2011 TRIANGLE INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 9 Dr. Jim Lo

wasn’t satisfied with knowing that her sins were released, that God change you. You have got to make the decision to let Him her guilt was gone. She wanted to know the One who made be your change agent in your life. You will never accomplish In the Words of Dr. Jim Lo that possible. this by yourself. Cheryl Beckett And she understood what Paul understood but what we In fact, you will make a messy world messier. If you try to uring college, Cheryl developed a global passion walk in faith in this place,” she wrote. “We are not promised have trouble understanding: that knowing Christ is not just change the world in your own strength, your own wisdom, I Dfor justice. She had a scholarship to Johns Hopkins safety. I know that there will be beauty and fruit due to about knowledge. It is about living in a relationship with Him. don’t care how compassionate you are, and I don’t care how University, but she turned it down after she felt called to do walking in obedience to God.” And here is the part we really don’t like to hear: suffering determined you are, without you changing your life, you are humanitarian work. Cheryl Beckett’s brother, Michael, told of a running joke with Christ. Makes sense, doesn’t it? To know resurrection just going to make a mess. With Christ, you can make a mess As a single woman doing humanitarian work in that he shared growing up with Cheryl and a cousin of theirs. power in your life, you have to die. Right? That took place far better. Afghanistan, Cheryl knew that she was potentially in danger. The three teased one another about which one of them would when she died with Christ. And once that was done, she was Cheryl paid the ultimate price, we say, but in truth she paid She had struggled after having two close friends die in a year’s be the first to make his or her mark in the world and show up free to live her life in the most that price every day. I have said time. in the pages of The New York Times. In death, it was Cheryl. risky, dangerous way possible as “I want you to understand something. on numerous occasions recently Her supervisor told her it was OK if she wanted to leave At a memorial service, Michael shared, “Cheryl, you made the Lord led her. that she wore out three Bibles If you are serious about changing this Afghanistan, but her response was very clear, she wanted to The New York Times. You made the front page and you did it She wrote in her journal, while she was in Afghanistan, stay. “I am very at peace and confident in being right here by loving people just the way that you wanted to be loved.” which has been a spiritual oasis world, first things first. You have got and that is true. But there is right now,” she wrote to a friend. for me. Over and over again I something more important: She wrote that her ultimate faith was in God. “I want to Dr. Jim Lo is the Dean of the Chapel at Indiana Wesleyan University. read this theme: no longer my to let God change you. ” she wore her Bible ‘out’ daily. own, I’ve been bought by Christ, She lived out God’s Word, she with His own blood. I want to adorned herself with His truth Cheryl Beckett In the Words of Dr. Keith Newman know Him better. by the power of His spirit. She showed Christ to those who omeone once said, “When you make loving others the • Cheryl studied lots, but she was always willing to And then she wrote, “I want to die to myself.” And then she were hurting and suffering. story of your life, there’s never a final chapter, because the help others; she couldn’t say no. asked the question to herself, “What does that look like? How Make no mistake about it, in the land where she was S legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or do I make that tangible?” That is what she devoted her life to, serving, she could not openly preach Christ. They did not • She wore sweatshirts and hoodies because she she shines it on another and another and another.” knowing Him but knowing Him by sacrificially suffering in go to Nuristan to hold a two-week vacation Bible school. But was always cold. Her roommates remember her Cheryl Beckett, a graduate of IWU in 2000, made loving order to show Him. also make no mistake about it, she went to show Jesus’ love to studying with the hoodie tied tight so that all you others the story of her life, and her legacy lives on. Fourteen In 2008 she, for a variety of reasons, was exhausted. And those people. could see was her face. years ago, her story became a part of the IWU story when she she became aware of a retreat house in Austria. She wrote And there are a host of Afghan people today who know walked on this campus as a freshman. Her roommates who us that she was going to get to take this trip and she said, about Jesus because, like Nicodemus, in the cover of darkness • Though she was a serious student, she was also are here today helped provide me with a window into her life “Please pray. I don’t want to be a part of any organized retreat. they came and, they asked, “What are you doing here?” And very spontaneous, at times a bit goofy and loved a during her IWU years. I don’t want to listen to any speeches. I don’t want to give any she told them about Jesus. dare. She once ate a pepper in a jar at Steak ’n Shake, and her face turned assorted shades of red. Another speeches. I just want to go and be alone with God.” Some have said her ministry was not a seed-sowing ministry, • Cheryl was a PK, preacher’s kid. After her death I received a letter from a pastor in , it was a soil-tilling ministry. And there is truth to that. Soil time she and a friend tested Alka Seltzer and Sprite Texas. He said, “Cheryl changed my life in just a few days, tilling and soil warming. The real seed is going to be planted • She was a biology major, a bit of a science geek, a in their mouths to see who could keep it in longer. and the lives of all those with me. I was in Austria at the time, maybe generations from now but because she dared to follow straight A student and a valedictorian. • One of her favorite classes was entymology (she led leading a retreat at a castle, and I met your daughter. And as Jesus – anywhere, everywhere – that is her legacy for you. • Our Christian commitment, strong biology a petition drive to get the class started). She spent exhausted as she was, she spent her days there ministering to department, scholarships and proximity to her three months bug hunting, including a camping us. She wanted to show Christ.” home in northern Indiana were all a part of her trip to Tennessee where she accidentally pitched I want you to understand something. If you are serious Rev. Charles Beckett is the father of Cheryl Beckett. He is the pastor of Woodlawn Christian Church in Knoxville, Tennessee. decision to come to IWU. her tent on an ant hill. She woke up to find the ants about changing this world, first things first. You have got to let

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trying to carry her pinned bugs away. • She also liked to rescue things, like a goldfish that We believe you must leave this place and make a difference So, we have established a new World Changer Award kept jumping out of its bowl. Once it jumped wherever God might choose to place you. It may not be a far inspired by Cheryl Beckett. This morning, posthumously, • She did an IWU summer trip to Kenya where she into the sink and down the drain. Cheryl took the off place like Afghanistan, it could be right here in Marion, we are conferring on Cheryl Beckett the Indiana Wesleyan collected more bugs, but mostly fell in love with plumbing apart and managed to save the goldfish. but wherever it might be, our passion is that you will make a University Alumni World Changer Award. the people, especially the children. difference in this world. Each time we recognize an alumni we will establish an • And last, but certainly not least: Cheryl didn’t • Her roommates were reluctant to tell me this, but The leadership of IWU continues to discuss what it means endowed scholarship in the name of the honoree. We have know what she wanted to do with her life when to be a world changer. We never want the concept, the idea of established The Cheryl Beckett Scholarship as a way to honor they admitted that she once kept a cat in her room she was here at IWU, but she loved God and was for a week and tried to keep it from meowing. world changing to be trite or irrelevant. We decided we want her life, which will also benefit future IWU students. content to let Him lead her. to find new ways to represent and honor the lives of former • She loved the outdoors; hiking, exploring, May Cheryl’s story inspire you, and may we choose to do students – IWU alumni who achieve a standard of Christian Dr. Henry Smith is the President of Indiana Wesleyan University. discovering new places; always up for an adventure, what we can. excellence for which we can all strive. she loved experiencing God’s creation. Dr. Keith Newman is the Vice President for University Relations at • Cheryl loved her family and made quick weekend Indiana Wesleyan University. trips home to see them.

Cheryl Beckett In the Words of Dr. Henry Smith You have heard the story of a remarkable young woman who commitment than I ever did, but she made me a better student followed God’s call on her life and lost her life in August of because of it. She was so incredibly smart; I wanted her to this year in Afghanistan. She is not the first to leave IWU with succeed and live up to her amazing potential. I was content a deep sense that God wanted to use her for His purposes; and being a shadow behind her. You knew she was just on a higher I know she will not be the last. Teresa and I continue to be plane than the rest of us. And it was OK, . . . she was special.” challenged by the promise and potential of our students. Cheryl Beckett was special and we want to honor her today These are years of preparation, in ways that point us all to but they are also years of action Christ. as we watch you serve our “Changing the world is a lofty Changing the world is a lofty community and make plans for and ambitious goal, but at IWU and ambitious goal, but at IWU the future. During your time at we believe it is possible. Now in IWU we pray that there will be we believe it is possible. ” our 90th year, IWU has always people who raise the bar of your believed our students and hopes and dreams. I pray that alumni offer the world its only Cheryl’s story will inspire you to serve God wholeheartedly hope. We serve a Savior who reminds us, that with people it is and unreservedly. impossible, but with God, all things are possible. One of Cheryl’s Indiana Wesleyan University roommates From the moment you were first recruited – when you first wrote this about her: “She studied with more diligence and visited IWU – we have talked about being a world changer. Cheryl Beckett’s sister, Sarah, with their parents, Mary and Charles Beckett, attended the IWU memorial service.

12 WINTER 2011 TRIANGLE INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 13 Health, Now! IWU Professor Leads Free Clinic in Central Kentucky

The Health, Now! Clinic was established by two Richmond donations – most of them from area churches. churches: one of them predominantly white, where Virgin “We used to charge $15 for office visits, and about 67 percent attended, and the other predominantly African-American. of our patients were able to pay the fee the first two years,” “These two pastors had formed a great relationship,” Virgin Virgin said. “Since the economy has taken a downturn that has said. “They formed a not-for-profit corporation to make changed, so the board agreed we need to be a free clinic. Richmond a better place to live.” “This is 100 percent patient-based money. No one gets paid, The organization’s first project was Grace, Now!, a food bank we all are volunteers. The primary criterion for patients is that that also tutored children and provided GED classes. From the they have no insurance, no Medicare and no Medicaid,” she outset, Virgin’s long-term goal was to start a health clinic. said. “I was volunteering at a clinic in Berea, which is 15 miles Initially, most of the patients were the working poor. Now, from Richmond, but I discovered that half of the people who Virgin said, many patients are people who previously had went to that clinic had Richmond ZIP codes,” she said. insurance but have lost their jobs. About half of the patients In 2002, while she was recovering from a major car accident, are African-Americans. Virgin sensed God was calling her to lay the foundation for the “Although we treat all kinds of conditions, many of our clinic. It took three years. patients are dealing with diabetes or hypertension,” Virgin “The administrator of Pattie A. Clay Regional Medical Center said. “It is really sad to see some of our diabetics who have lost in Richmond, who attended church with me, offered to donate their insurance and are not taking medicine. By the time they

or as long as she can remember, Dr. Sheila Virgin wanted to be a “It has been interesting that my life has been Fnurse. “My Mom said that even as a toddler, I wanted to be a nurse,” she said. “I would talk about being a nurse and it never wavered.” blended between teaching and nursing.” Virgin began her nursing career 38 years ago but has spent most of those years in a college classroom. With each teaching job, however, she space to start the clinic,” Virgin said. The clinic opened in get here, their blood pressures are extremely high and out of always worked part-time as a nurse. August 2005 with two examining rooms and a small waiting control.” In 2007, Virgin became the Kentucky coordinator for Indiana Wesleyan room at the hospital. The clinic stocks several medicines and has access to various University’s family nurse practitioner program. Two years later, the clinic had outgrown the space at prescription programs. The clinic also has contacts with several “It has been interesting that my life has been blended between the hospital and moved to a larger building in downtown specialists and has funds to pay for a first visit with a specialist. teaching and nursing,” said Virgin, who lives in Richmond, Kentucky. Richmond. Patient visits tripled at the new location. In June “We also have two psychiatric nurse practitioners, which is Her feet remain firmly planted in both worlds. 2009, the clinic moved to the basement of Richmond City Hall. pretty phenomenal for a clinic our size,” Virgin said. “That is a Besides teaching full-time for IWU, Virgin also is the founder and “The space at city hall has given us much needed secure Godsend because these people need that kind of help so much.” director of the Health, Now! Clinic. The faith-based clinic, which is areas to store sample medications and medical equipment and Information about the clinic has spread rapidly by word of housed in the Richmond City Hall, provides primary health care to to provide more exam rooms to increase the flow of patients,” mouth and media coverage. “Every time there is something uninsured people in central Kentucky. Virgin said. in the newspaper, we have a surge of patients calling for In April, the Kentucky State Daughters of the American Revolution The Health, Now! Clinic, which officially serves 13 central appointments,” Virgin said. “We operate on faith, and God has honored Virgin as the volunteer of the year. The mayor proclaimed Kentucky counties, had 1,821 patient visits in 2009. By October been faithful.” April 27 as Dr. Sheila Virgin Day in the City of Richmond. of 2010, the clinic had exceeded that number. The clinic is “We begin each evening with a prayer that our patients would “There is no question that the clinic provides a very good service,” open two nights a week. see Jesus in us and that each volunteer would serve as the hands said Jimmy Howard, interim City Manager for Richmond. “A lot of Clinic expenses for 2009 were $33,000. The city provides the and feet of Jesus. Our work is based on the scripture that tells people in our community are having difficult times, and I can tell just office space rent free, and Madison County provides $2,000 in us if we have cared for the sick, and done it unto the least of by seeing the people who come to the clinic that they need help.” government revenue. Additional expenses are met by private these, we have done it unto Christ,” she said.

14 WINTER 2011 TRIANGLE INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 15 WESLEY SEMINARY AT IWU WESLEY SEMINARY AT IWU On the Outside Seminary Student Preparing to be Chaplain in Prison Where Looking In He Served Time Keith Blackburn had his first run-in with the law when he prison ministry. There was only one catch: As an ex-felon, he was 13 years old. A criminal lifestyle that began with petty wasn’t even allowed to visit a prison. thefts quickly escalated to gang involvement, robberies and Through a series of events that are just short of drive-by shootings. miraculous, Blackburn got approval to volunteer at the John Drury “At 17, I was completely out of control, a full-blown Indiana Reformatory with the Purposeful Living Units Serve alcoholic,” said Blackburn, who now is a student at Wesley (PLUS) program, a faith- and character-based community Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University. “My friends told me that encourages offenders to choose alternatives to criminal Drawn to New Role that I would either be dead or in prison by the time I was 18. thinking and behavior. That became a self-fulfilling prophecy.” Doors quickly opened, and Blackburn received training But in Familiar Setting At 18, Blackburn was arrested and convicted for attempted to become a volunteer chaplain in the same prison where murder and carrying a handgun without a permit, and he served time. This caught the attention of David Liebel, was sentenced to 21 years in the Indiana Department of the Deputy Director of Religious Services and Community Corrections. Involvement for the Indiana Department of Correction. Blackburn, who is now 36 years old, spent eight years and Liebel, who earned a degree in management from IWU eight months – about one-fourth of his life – at the Indiana in 2002, works with the Indiana Department of Correction’s Reformatory and the Correctional Industrial Facility in PLUS program. “David Liebel became my mentor,” Blackburn Pendleton. It was a life-changing experience, which helps to said. “He opened the prison doors, so I could go in and talk to explain, in part, why he now is pursuing a Master of Divinity PLUS participants at other facilities.” degree at IWU. And so, for nearly three years, Blackburn has served as a “I was released from prison volunteer chaplain for the Indiana Department of Correction. in 2001, and now God has He is blessed in this role with the opportunity to travel all over When John Drury joined the faculty at Wesley Seminary the end of the 2010-2011 academic year. released me to serve in prisons,” the state facilitating healthy marriage/fatherhood classes for at Indiana Wesleyan University this fall, he viewed the “Princeton is a mainline Presbyterian seminary, but it Blackburn said. “I feel called to those who are incarcerated. opportunity through two lenses. is a welcome place for evangelicals to do serious study of a full-time job as a chaplain in Another door opened recently for Blackburn to help “The job gave me the opportunity to return to something theology,” Drury said. “I learned – or, at least, grabbed hold correctional institutions, but facilitate a nine-week healthy relationship class at the Indiana that was familiar but also something that was new,” he said. of for myself – a deeper meaning of what it is like to be a first I need a master’s degree.” Women’s Prison. “And I also am involved with a juvenile “As familiar as IWU is, it has changed a lot. The seminary, Wesleyan.” He became a Christian in ministry and a jail ministry in Marion County,” he said. specifically, didn’t exist when I was here before.” Drury is a fourth-generation Wesleyan and a third- 1996 through the witness of a Blackburn recently established his own ministry, Unbound Drury was born in Marion and lived here until he was generation Wesleyan pastor. He said, however, that he did not fellow offender who, Blackburn Mentoring Inc., and has applied to become a 501c3 tax- 12 when his family moved to Indianapolis. He graduated have his heart set on teaching at IWU – or even at a Wesleyan said, “showed me a God that I exempt, non-profit corporation. from IWU in 2001 and his wife, the former Amanda Hontz, college. Keith Blackburn didn’t even know existed.” “I was looking at the classified ads inThe Indianapolis graduated from IWU in 2002. “My calling never was to a specific place,” he said. “I kept “One thing I didn’t want Star, looking for a new job, when I saw an Indiana Wesleyan Drury’s parents, Dr. Keith Drury and Dr. Sharon Drury, are my open mind.” to be was a jailhouse Christian,” Blackburn said. “I didn’t University ad announcing the opening of the seminary,” he IWU professors. When the call came from IWU, however, he could not want to use religion to get out of prison. I began studying said. “I was familiar with IWU because of the classes I took “I was a history major at IWU and knew by my sophomore resist the opportunity to be part of something new but in a the scriptures, going to chapel and Bible studies and started when I got out of prison, and the seminary was just what I year that I wanted to teach history,” Drury said. “Then I took familiar setting. evangelizing and witnessing.” was searching for.” Dr. Bud Bence’s church history class, and that was a real life- “What I like so much about the IWU seminary is that Blackburn, who already had earned his GED in prison, Blackburn enrolled in the first seminary class and changing experience for me. I connected with the gospel in a our students are not training to be ministers; they already enrolled in Ball State University classes and was one year short completed the first two semesters online. A few months ago, new way and said, ‘This is what I want to do.’” are actively involved in ministry,” Drury said. “So the kind of of a degree when he was released. It took him four years – he was able to adjust his schedule so he could attend classes After he graduated from IWU with a bachelor’s degree in work I do in my classes is not done in a vacuum, it is not ideas at IWU and Ball State – to complete his degree in religious on IWU’s Marion campus. religion, Drury headed for Princeton Theological Seminary disconnected from concrete ministry. studies. “I am in Marion all day on Tuesdays, and then my family where he and his wife earned master of divinity degrees. Both “The seminary gives me the opportunity to teach while Blackburn was working for an Indianapolis company that and I attend Bible study at our home church on Tuesday are now completing work on doctorates at Princeton. staying connected to ministers in the trenches. I get to teach washed trucks when he sensed that God was leading him to a nights,” he said. “It has just been phenomenal.” John Drury is scheduled to defend his dissertation before and learn at the same time,” he said.

16 WINTER 2011 TRIANGLE INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 17 WESLEY SEMINARY AT IWU A Sense of Calling Successful IWU Program Adapted for High School Students

Lenny Luchetti program that began a decade ago to help Indiana Students are led to understand how their lives, including work AWesleyan University students discover their life calling and individual leadership, are best understood from this life- Follows Interesting has filtered down to high school students in 15 states. calling perspective. The High School Life Calling Institute was conceived in “In recent years, ‘typical career counseling’ has been the 2007 when leaders from several Christian high schools met most popular method for helping students find a career plan, Path to Seminary with IWU leaders to explore how they could collaborate to but in many cases this approach has proven ineffective,” offer Christian college courses to high school students for Millard said. “According to the U.S. Department of Education, dual credit. 40 percent of college graduates end up working in careers They agreed that the cornerstone of this Institute would unrelated to their college major four years after graduation.” be LDR 150: Introduction to Life Calling. This course, which The course offered by IWU is based on three core is required for IWU students who enter college without a components: foundational values, unique design and major, was based on the research of Dr. Bill Millard, Executive personal mission. Studies conducted by Indiana University Director of the IWU Center for Life Calling and Leadership. have demonstrated the course’s effectiveness in helping IWU The course was piloted during the 2007-08 school year at students to graduate, according to Millard. Wheaton (Illinois) Academy. As a result, in August 2008 IWU “We want students to start thinking about life in a different hired a director and coordinator to work full-time to build the way,” Millard said. “We want them to have a sense of calling – program. This year, about 1,000 students are enrolled in the not just what is in it for me.” program. Gelatt said it is exciting to see students begin to get a sense “We now offer the class in 40 schools in 15 states,” said of where God is leading them. “High school students are just Phil Gelatt, who directs the program. “Permission from the really struggling with this issue, and this can be a wonderful Leonard “Lenny” Luchetti. doctor of ministry degree in May 2010. Department of Education in each state is necessary before help to them even before they get to college,” he said. The name itself offers the first clue that the newest faculty “I did not get my doctoral ministry degree to be a teacher,” dual credits can be awarded to students in that state. We have Gelatt and Millard also acknowledge that the High School member at Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University Luchetti said. “I did it to become a better pastor.” a little celebration each time we get approval from another Life Calling Institute may have some value as a recruiting tool may not have been reared as a Wesleyan. He had served as pastor of the Stroudsburg (Pennsylvania) state.” for IWU – although the program is too new to have a track Luchetti, who joined the seminary faculty this fall, fills in Wesleyan Church for seven years when he learned of the All of the participating schools are members of the record. the blanks. “I grew up in Philadelphia in an Italian Catholic opening for a faculty member at IWU. Under his pastoral Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI), a “When teachers come for training in the summer, they live family,” he said. “I attended an all-boys Catholic high school.” leadership, the church had grown from 160 to nearly 500 Colorado-based organization that represents 5,000 schools in in our residence halls, eat in our Student Center and train in In the midst of a struggle with alcohol, Luchetti dropped attendees. more than 100 countries. Dr. Brian Simmons, a former IWU our Center for Life Calling and Leadership – all of which are out of high school his junior year but later earned his GED. He “When I learned the position was open at the seminary, administrator, is now the president of ACSI. pretty impressive facilities,” Millard said. kicked his alcohol addiction with the help of Teen Challenge, I decided to submit my name, thinking I would get some Students pay $350 to take the three-credit class, and “They leave campus thinking that IWU is a very a rehab program sponsored by the Assemblies of God. adjunct opportunities,” Luchetti said. “I was surprised when teachers come to IWU’s Marion campus during the summer to significant university, so they probably are going to share that “Most important,” Luchetti said, “I also came to Christ at Dr. Ken Schenck, Dean of the Seminary, asked if I would be complete the Life Calling Instructor Certification. information with their students. We don’t want to exploit age 18 through this ministry.” interested in teaching full time.” “The credit is transferable and is accepted at most the teachers, but we want them to have a good knowledge of When his family moved from Philadelphia to Syracuse, Luchetti said it was a tough decision. Christian universities and many state universities, typically IWU,” he said. New York, Luchetti went in search of a church. “I found a “We agreed to come for an interview and were very as an elective. As is always the case, this is at the discretion of Gelatt said IWU’s vision is to see high school students Wesleyan Church, even though I had never heard of The impressed with the atmosphere of the campus and with the the institution,” Gelatt said. “Increasingly, more schools are passionately pursuing their life calling. “We are also excited to Wesleyan Church,” he said. “Two years into my relationship people we met,” Luchetti said. “I got a real sense that people using it as a required Bible course, which we think is a great introduce IWU to these students,” he said. with Christ, I felt called to ministry.” took the mission of the institution pretty seriously.” fit.” One testimonial comes from Kelsey Bussell, a graduate of His pastor recommended Houghton College. Luchetti Two months after he visited campus, Luchetti accepted Gelatt said a major benefit is that students take the course Heritage Christian School in Indianapolis. enrolled at Houghton when he was 21 years old and began the job at the seminary and began to make plans to move to in their own high schools taught by their own teachers. And “The Life Calling class was definitely an eye-opening preaching on weekends at a small church, 15 miles from Marion. He and his wife, Amy, have three children. the cost for the three-credit course is less than the cost of a experience,” she said. “Not only did it help guide me to find campus, in his senior year. He also served as the youth pastor “I felt released from the church at Stroudsburg but was still one-credit course at most colleges. possible careers, but it also showed me how to relate to others, at Houghton College Church. grieving because I loved that church,” he said. “Most of all, I Introduction to Life Calling is designed to assist students build healthy relationships and live an authentic life. The From Houghton, he went to Asbury Theological Seminary love pastoring. I believe that is one reason that God drew me in discovering the concept of life calling in a holistic and faith- interactive and informative material allowed me to become where he earned a master of divinity degree in 2003 and a to IWU to train pastors.” based setting by focusing on a student’s God-given design. more in tune with the person God is calling me to be.”

18 WINTER 2011 TRIANGLE INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 19 Writers Conference, hosted by The Dr. David Riggs, at the University of South Florida. Phi Wesleyan Church in Indianapolis. Executive Director Alpha Theta, which was founded in Drury is the all-time bestselling author of the John Wesley 1921 at the University of Arkansas, is ACADEMIC HONORS for Wesleyan Publishing House. Jerry Honors College one of the oldest and largest collegiate Jenkins, a New York Times bestselling and Associate honor societies in the United States with author who has sold more than 50 Professor of nearly 900 chapters. million books, was the keynote speaker History, was at the conference. inducted into the 21st Century Charter School in Gary, Southport Elementary School, near History by the Indiana Society of the Academic Hall of Honor at Azusa Pacific Indiana, was one of nine Indiana schools Indianapolis, is one of 75 schools Daughters of the American Revolution. Jon Acton, Assistant Principal at University. Riggs received his B.A. degree and school corporations honored by nationwide honored by the National Speedway (Indiana) High School, was in history from APU in 1990, where he the Indiana Department of Education Association of State Title I Directors as Artwork by Ron Mazellan, IWU named Assistant Principal of the Year also received the Outstanding Student because a large percentage of students a Title I Distinguished School for its Professor of Art, by the Indiana Association of School of the Year Award from the history achieved high academic growth both success in closing the achievement gap. is featured on Principals. Acton, who earned his department. He received a master of in mathematics and English/language Daniel Mendez, the principal of the Behance Network, Dr. Marjorie Elder and Dr. Doris Scott master of education degree in 2004 divinity degree in 1994 from Princeton arts during the 2009-2010 academic school, received his master of education a high-profile have been awarded the honor of faculty from IWU, has been assistant principal Theological Seminary and a doctor of year. Angela West, the principal of the degree from IWU in August 2005 and national forum emeritus by the IWU Board of Trustees. at Speedway since 2006. He has worked philosophy degree from the University school, earned her master of education completed IWU’s Principal Licensure (www.behance.net/ Dr. Elder, a Professor of English, with businesses and agencies such as of Oxford in 2005. Riggs is the co- degree from IWU in 1998. Program in June 2006. The school will ronmazellan). The taught at IWU for 65 years before her the Indianapolis Colts and the Indiana chair of the Honors Advisory Board receive a $50,000 high-performing website was created retirement at the end of the 2009-2010 National Guard to implement programs for the Council of Christian Colleges Dr. Marlon Mitchell, Regional Dean school grant award. Title I is the largest by Scott Belsky, the author of Making academic year. Dr. Scott, a Professor of designed to help students succeed and Universities. The Academic Hall of for Northern Indiana for the College federal aid program in K-12 education. Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Nursing, taught at IWU for 31 years. and to recognize both teachers and Honor was established in 2000 to honor of Adult and Professional Studies, Serving more than 150 million students Between Vision & Reality, which was The IWU Board also awarded the honor students for jobs well done. Acton also outstanding graduates of APU. Riggs has has been selected as the 2010 TRiO nationwide, the program helps provide on The Wall Street Journal Bestseller of president emeritus to Dr. Jim Barnes, has implemented random drug testing taught at IWU since 2000. Achiever for the Mid-America additional support in reading, writing List. The Longest Season, a book written who served as University president for and in-school suspension changes to Association of Educational Opportunity and mathematics. Since 1996, the Title by baseball star Cal Ripken Jr. and 19 years. Barnes also served three years increase school safety. Eleven students and seven alumni Program Personnel. As a former TRiO I Distinguished Schools program has illustrated by Mazellan, previously was as IWU Chancellor before retiring on were inducted November 10 as charter participant, Mitchell was honored for honored schools that demonstrate on The New York Times Bestseller List. December 31, 2009. Tom Taylor and Emily Linch, both members of the Indiana Wesleyan accomplishing high stature within his exceptional progress in either sustained Mazellan recently finished illustrations IWU juniors, were among 48 students University Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta profession, receiving recognition for student achievement or closing the for You Can Be a Friend, which was Greg Lewis, an American Studies nationwide who were selected to history honor society. Student inductees outstanding achievements in his field, achievement gap. written by former Indianapolis Colts teacher at Columbus (Indiana) East attend the Students in Free Enterprise were Nathan Barnes, Matthew Bastian, making significant civic, community Head Coach Tony Dungy. High School, has been named Indiana’s (SIFE) Partner Summit in November in Jennifer Dunmyer, David Emerson, or professional contributions and Menominee Elementary School in 2010 Preserve America History Bentonville, Arkansas. Taylor and Linch Wesley Jones, Doug Lewis, Jason demonstrating that his participation as a the Plymouth (Indiana) Community Several books written by Dr. Keith Teacher by Dr. Tony Bennett, Indiana are co-CEOs of IWU’s SIFE Chapter. Martin Maitland, Stephen Aaron TRiO project alumnus had a significant School Corporation is one of three Drury, Associate Professor of Religion, Superintendent of Public Instruction. SIFE is a business network whose Morrison, Nathanael Sommers, impact in obtaining his educational Indiana schools recognized as Title I and by Dr. Bob Whitesel, Professor Lewis earned his master of education goal is to improve the world through Andrew Kenneth Spear and Paul S. and professional objectives. TRiO High-Performing Schools for closing of Missional Leadership at Wesley degree in curriculum and instruction business. The organization has chapters Van Dop. Alumni inductees were Iurie encompasses a variety of federally the achievement gap. Michael Dunn, Seminary at IWU, were highlighted at from IWU in 1996. He received $1,000 on 1,300 campuses in 40 countries. The Curiuc, Andrew Dial, Kearsten Karrick, funded outreach and student services the principal of the school, is currently the ninth annual Indianapolis Christian from Preserve America and will be National Summit is a two-day event Cheryl Knowles, Julie McCracken, programs designed to identify and enrolled in IWU’s Educational nominated for the national Preserve geared toward business networking and Ondra Shafer and Ryan Toupin. Dr. provide services for individuals from Specialist (Ed.S.) Degree program America History Award. In 2009, Lewis idea-sharing between SIFE students and David Burden, Associate Professor of disadvantaged backgrounds. with an anticipated completion date of received the Realizing the Dream Award SIFE corporate partners. As part of the History, will serve as the faculty advisor November 2011. The school will receive from the Independent Colleges of summit, the students toured the world for the chapter. Dr. Graydon Tunstall, a $25,000 high-performing school grant. Indiana for inspiring a first-generation headquarters of Wal-Mart, a corporate who serves as Executive Director of college student. He also was named the partner of SIFE. the honorary, spoke at the initiation 2009 Outstanding Teacher of American ceremony. He is a Professor of History

20 WINTER 2011 TRIANGLE INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 21 A Short Trip from IWU to the Big Leagues Indiana Wesleyan University alum person to be IWU’s first-ever major Brandon Beachy made his Major League league baseball player because he Baseball debut September 20 as the epitomizes our dedication to our four starting pitcher for the Atlanta Braves core values of spiritual growth, academic in a road game against Philadelphia. achievement, leadership development Less than three weeks later, Beachy had and athletic excellence.” earned a spot on the Braves’ postseason DeMichael was IWU’s baseball coach roster. before being named athletic director. It was a dramatic change of pace Beachy had been a minor league – and of scenery – for the Kokomo, sensation this year with his rapid ascent Indiana, native who two summers earlier through the Atlanta Braves farm system. was a full-time third baseman and relief In the summer of 2008, Beachy had pitcher for the IWU Wildcats. just completed his junior year at IWU “It was definitely different,” Beachy and then pitched in the wood bat Virginia told a reporter for MLB.com. “It’s louder, Valley Summer League. While in Virginia, but I’m pretty good at focusing in, and I Beachy was noticed by a Braves scout and don’t recognize a lot of outside factors. was signed as an undrafted free agent. There were a couple of times. I’d look up Beachy made two appearances that and see the towels waving. But for the season for Danville in the Rookie League. most part, it was the same thing, just me In 2009, he pitched at the Single-A and and the catcher.” Double-A level. Even though the Braves lost the game, This season, Beachy had 21 relief 3-1, Beachy pitched well enough to make appearances for Mississippi before an impression on manager Bobby Cox. “I transitioning to the starting rotation. He thought Brandon really did a super job made six starts at Double-A before his and gave us a chance to win the game,” promotion to Triple-A, where he made he said. another seven starts. Beachy finished Most important, Beachy pitched well with the lowest ERA (1.73) in Minor enough to earn two more starts for the League Baseball in 2010. Braves during the regular season. In At about 8 p.m. on Saturday, his three starts, Beachy allowed only September 18, Beachy received a call to five earned runs over 15 innings while report to Philadelphia on Sunday – but striking out 15 batters. he still had no idea that his Major League Although Beachy earned a spot on the debut was just 48 hours away. postseason roster, he did not pitch in the Beachy found out four hours before four-game series that the San Francisco the Philadelphia game on September 20 Giants won, 3-1. that he would be the Atlanta starter. “I “I couldn’t be more excited for wouldn’t want it any other way,” Beachy Brandon,” said IWU Athletic Director told MLB.com. “I was excited, but at the Mark DeMichael. “He is the perfect same time trying not to be excited.”

22 WINTER 2011 TRIANGLE INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 23 IWU Men & Women Win IWU Considering Football and Move to NCAA Division II MCC Cross Country Titles The Indiana Wesleyan University Board of Trustees has program and what the financial needs would be for such a approved two studies related to the University’s athletic venture,” he said. The Indiana Wesleyan University men’s and women’s programs. One study will consider starting a football program, The Board also approved funding for a consulting firm to cross country teams both won Mid-Central College and the other will consider a move to the National Collegiate assist with the NCAA Division II feasibility study and strategic Conference (MCC) championships on November 6 at Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II. plan. Components of that study include the effects of image St. Patrick’s Park in South Bend. It was the 18th MCC Each study is to be completed in time to present a report to branding, ministry opportunities and the caliber of Christian title for the men, and the 11th championship for the the IWU Board at its annual spring meeting April 1. student-athletes IWU could attract with a move to NCAA women – including the third title in the last four years. The board approved the creation of a Blue Ribbon Division II. Pacing the men’s team on the 8,000-meter course Commission, headed by IWU President Henry Smith, to study Both Smith and Mark DeMichael, IWU Athletic Director, said were junior Ethan Naylor (third), sophomore Andrew the addition of football as an intercollegiate sport at IWU. the ascent to NCAA would boost the overall athletic program and Albert (fifth) and junior Ethan Laudermilch (10th.) Chet Foraker, a former college coach and athletic director, was make it more credible and recognizable to outsiders. The men earned 50 points to outdistance runner-up hired as a consultant to assist with that study. IWU currently is a member of the National Association Two IWU Athletes Win Spring Arbor University with 63 points. The commission will study how football would alter the of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and competes in the Mid- The women’s team blew away the field with 20 campus and the campus ethos and what financial and ministry Central College Conference. IWU sponsors 14 intercollegiate Colescott Scholarships points, with Spring Arbor a distant second at 71 points. impact the new sport would have. athletic teams plus a competitive cheer team. IWU placed its top five runners in the top eight and Smith said both the commission and IWU are committed “Neither one of these decisions by the Board reflects a final Two Indiana Wesleyan University athletes from Grant all seven runners in the top 13 over the 5,000-meter to in-depth research and good decision making for the decision on whether we are adding football or applying for County received $2,500 scholarships during a luncheon at the course. betterment of IWU. NCAA Division II status,” said DeMichael. “They are simply 21st annual Jack and Marge Colescott Athletic Scholarship Senior Kelsey Devereaux won the individual “We must attempt to anticipate how football will affect a commitment from the University to thoroughly study if Golf Tourney at Arbor Trace Golf Club. championship. She was followed by junior Beka Bentle our overall culture, the possible impact a high-profile sport these changes would be positive moves for the institution as a Jack Colescott presented the 2010 scholarships to: (second), senior Cassidy Wagner (third), senior like football might have on the entire intercollegiate athletic whole.” • Lizzy Skinner, an IWU sophomore who graduated Sarah Moyer (sixth), freshman Alyssa Foss (tied for from Eastbrook High School. She is on the IWU eighth), junior Amanda Johnson (tied for eighth) and track team. sophomore Emily Dean (13th). Women’s Tennis Team Two Veteran IWU Coaches • Alex Hornett, an IWU freshman who graduated from The men’s and women’s teams finished second in Advances to Nationals Selected for Hall of Fame Marion High School. He is on the IWU tennis team. the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) nationals before competing in the National About 200 golfers participated in this year’s tourney, The Indiana Wesleyan University women’s tennis team Indiana Wesleyan University softball Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) an event that has raised almost $1 million for athletic qualified for the National Association of Intercollegiate coach Sue Bowman and women’s tennis Nationals in Vancouver, Washington. scholarships over the past 20 years. David Colescott, son of Athletics (NAIA) National Championships by winning the coach Terry Porter have been elected into the The men finished 27th, and the women finished Jack and Marge Colescott, was a guest at the tourney. Mid-Central College Conference (MCC) tourney. Grant County Sports Hall of Fame. ninth at the NAIA finals. Sue Bowman David Colescott led the Marion Giants to state basketball IWU will represent the MCC with the conference’s Bowman and Porter have combined for championships in 1975 and 1976. He won the Arthur L. automatic bid to the nationals on May 17-21 in Mobile, more than 80 years of coaching at IWU. Trester Award for Mental Attitude and was named Indiana’s Women’s Volleyball Team Alabama. The team completed its fall season with a 13-0 record. Bowman began her career at IWU in 1970, Mr. Basketball in 1976. Wins NCCAA Championship the second season of intercollegiate women’s Since last year’s tourney, the Colescott scholarships were Women’s Soccer Team athletics. In her first season, Bowman coached increased from $1,000 to $2,500, and the name of the event The Indiana Wesleyan University Women’s women’s field hockey, women’s tennis and was changed to honor the life of Marge Colescott. Jack and Volleyball team won the 2010 National Christian Competes in Nationals volleyball. She would later add head coach for Marge Colescott were high school sweethearts who celebrated College Athletic Association (NCCAA) National women’s basketball and women’s track and The No. 5-ranked Indiana Wesleyan University women’s Terry Porter their 60th wedding anniversary a few months before her Championship in Kissimmee, Florida. field to her list of titles. soccer team lost the championship game in the Mid-Central sudden death in January. IWU concluded the national title with a perfect Porter has been on the IWU athletic staff since the College Conference (MCC) tourney, but still received an at- The tourney was established in honor of Jack Colescott, 6-0 run over the three days of the tourney. The team inception of intercollegiate athletics in 1958. He has been large invitation to the National Association of Intercollegiate who began his coaching career at Swayzee High School before completed the season at 33-11 and on a 10-match win head coach for five teams and assistant in another. Athletics (NAIA) national tournament. moving on to Marion High School where he was a long-time streak. Over the last 25 matches of the season, IWU In his first year at IWU, Porter coached men’s tennis and IWU had a 12-game win streak snapped by losing to Spring coach and athletic director. After retiring, Colescott served as went 22-3. baseball teams. He coached the men’s golf team for 12 years Arbor University, 2-1, in the MCC tourney. The Lady Wildcats an assistant basketball coach at Mississinewa High School. Head Coach Candace Moats was honored as the and was the assistant men’s basketball coach for seven years. lost to Houghton College, 2-0, in the opening round of the Colescott scholarships are given annually to two graduates NCCAA National Coach of the Year for the fourth time Porter later coached the women’s basketball team for nine NAIA nationals at IWU. of Grant County high schools who have gone on to excel as in her career. years – and has coached women’s tennis since 1991. His The team finished the season with a 17-3-1 record. student-athletes at IWU. record as women’s tennis coach is 349-35.

24 WINTER 2011 TRIANGLE INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 25 campus news campus news

Indiana Wesleyan Named ‘Military Friendly School’ Indiana Wesleyan University has been named to the 2011 list of Military Friendly Schools, which is compiled annually by G.I. Jobs magazine. The list honors the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools that are doing the most to recruit and embrace America’s veterans as students. Records show that IWU has about 550 enrolled students who are potentially eligible for veterans’ benefits. IWU partners with the U.S. Government to offer Yellow Ribbon Program and GI Bill benefits to veterans enrolled in What’s Happening at IWU? February – May 2011 adult and graduate studies programs. The federal benefits make the cost of an IWU education virtually the same as the March 12: IWU Chorale, New Presbyterian Church, Pompano February 2-4: Jungle Games and Harry and Mort, Black Box April 13: Piano Ensemble Concert, Baker Recital Hall, 7 p.m. cost at a public university. 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26 WINTER 2011 TRIANGLE INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 27 campus news campus news Sue Sprinkle, Nursing Director Named for Office of Global Initiatives Professor, Dies Suddenly of Heart Attack Dr. Mwenda Ntarangwi has been Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well named Executive Director of Indiana as bachelor of arts and master of arts Sue Sprinkle, 70, an Assistant Wesleyan University’s new Office of degrees in Swahili Studies from Kenyatta Professor in the Indiana Wesleyan Global Initiatives. He will begin his University in Kenya. University School of Nursing, died duties February 1. Ntarangwi has served as an unexpectedly of a heart attack on “The Office of Global Initiatives international research consultant with October 29, 2010. She had taught is intended to become the central the IRIS Center of the University of full-time in the pre-licensure nursing university resource to support the Maryland, the Carter Center Southern program since 2004. creation and implementation of our 10- Sudan, Encyclopedia Britannica, Swedish National Conversations Focuses on Education Professor year strategic vision for IWU to become International Development Agency and Sprinkle had everal of America’s leading voices • Jeremie Kubicek, GiANT Impact. a global Christian university,” said Dr. Plan International. retired after 30 in education served as panelists • Lindsay Waters, Harvard University David Wright, IWU Provost and Chief He is a member of the Commission S years of service at for the second in a series of National Press. Academic Officer. on World Anthropologies of the Marion General Conversations, sponsored by Indiana • Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen, The Ntarangwi currently serves as American Anthropological Association Hospital where Dr. Mwenda Ntarangwi Wesleyan University. The event, held in American University in the Associate Professor of Anthropology and is president-elect of the Association she was Director October at the National Press Club in Postsecular Age. and Director of the African and African of Africanist Anthropology. of Social Services and Director of the Washington, D.C., focused on the theme • Mark Galli, Christianity Today. Diaspora Studies program at Calvin Ntarangwi and his family have University and currently is a faculty Extended Care Unit. She also was a “Education in Crisis: The Unasked A third panel discussion featured College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. a long association with the Church member at Davenport College. licensed nursing home administrator. Questions.” several authors who have written Previously, he held faculty positions in of the Nazarene. His wife, Margaret, “Dr. Ntarangwi and his family are Professor Sprinkle was a Marion Scott Jaschik, founder and editor books related to education. Moderators anthropology and directed study abroad holds an M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees well acquainted with and committed to native and a 1958 graduate of Marion of Inside Higher Ed, served as the were Dr. Jerry Pattengale, an IWU programs at St. Lawrence University and in higher education policy studies the mission and distinctive commitments High School. She attended Methodist moderator for the main panel discussion administrator who also serves as Augustana College. from the University of Illinois at of Indiana Wesleyan University,” School of Nursing in Indianapolis and also for a second panel that reflected Executive Director of National He holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees Urbana-Champaign. She has been a Wright said. “He brings a wealth of before earning her bachelor’s and on the main discussion. Conversations, and John Wilson, Editor in anthropology from the University of faculty member at Africa Nazarene accomplishment and experience to IWU.” master’s degrees in nursing from Indiana Panelists for the 90-minute main of Books & Culture. University. discussion, “Education in Crisis: The Authors on the panel were Mark She was a member of Sigma Unasked Questions,” were: C. Taylor, Naomi Schaefer Riley and Theta Tau National Nursing Honor IWU Moves Up in ‘U.S. News’ College Rankings • Michael Gerson, The Washington Lindsay Waters, along with Tim Elmore, Society and the Indiana State Nursing Post. President of Growing Leaders. Indiana Wesleyan University was ranked 28th among Regional Universities in the Association. She was a member of the • Naomi Schaefer Riley, an author and The working title for National Midwest in the 2011 edition of “America’s Best Colleges,” which is published by U.S. News & First Christian Church (Disciples of national writer. Conversations is “The University and World Report. IWU was ranked 33rd a year ago. Christ) in Gas City and was President of • Phil Gardner, Employment the Public Square: A Series of Civil IWU’s overall score in the rankings plus its peer assessment score also increased. There the Church Board. Research Institute at Michigan State Dialogues About Society’s Well-being.” are 172 regional universities in the Midwest. Professor Sprinkle was a member University. Dr. David Wright, IWU’s Provost and IWU also was ranked 11th among Regional Universities in the Midwest in the “Great of the Parish Nurse Program and also • Holiday Hart McKiernan, Lumina Chief Academic Officer, is the founder Schools, Great Prices” section of the U.S. News report. The formula used to determine which was a volunteer at the Bridges to Health Foundation. of the series. colleges offer the best value relates a school’s academic quality to its overall cost. Clinic in Marion. • Deborah Santiago, EdExcelencia. The first of the National IWU’s total tuition and fees for the 2010-2011 academic year are $21,214, but 65 She is survived by her husband, • Mark C. Taylor, Crisis on Campus. Conversations, which focused on health percent of IWU students received need-based grants to lower that cost. John; two sons, Mike Batton, • Gail Mellow, LaGuardia Community care, was in February at the studios of Regional universities, according to U.S. News, offer a full range of undergraduate and Melbourne, Florida, and Doug Batton, College. WFYI-TV in Indianapolis. WFYI, the master’s programs but few, if any, doctoral programs. IWU offers master’s degrees in Angola, Indiana; two step-children, Panelists for the second discussion, Indianapolis-based Sagamore Institute business administration, management, counseling, education, ministry and nursing. Kyle Sprinkle, Muncie, and Julie Jones, “Enriching the Perspective on the and Christianity Today International are IWU also has one doctoral program in organizational leadership. Fishers; her mother, Lucile Burns, and Educational Crisis in America,” were: co-sponsors of the series. There are 574 regional universities in the United States. one brother, Jack Burns, Marion. • Alan Bjerga, National Press Club.

28 WINTER 2011 TRIANGLE INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 29 campus news campus news Dr. Barbara Ihrke to Three Honorary Degrees IWU Forms Partnership with Hispanic Organization IWU Honors Bill Sparks for Awarded at Graduations Community Service Head School of Nursing C. William Pollard and Mark Gorveatte Indiana Wesleyan University initiatives IWU has undertaken in recent Bill Sparks, the founder and Dr. Barbara Ihrke, who has taught at received honorary degrees during Indiana has formed a partnership with the months to increase overall campus executive director of Gilead Ministries, Indiana Wesleyan University since 1994, Wesleyan University’s annual December National Hispanic Christian Leadership diversity among students, faculty and was honored for community service has been named Dean of the School of graduation in the IWU Chapel-Auditorium. Conference (NHCLC), America’s largest administration. during Indiana Wesleyan University’s Nursing. A total of 1,746 students received Hispanic Christian organization, to The University recently hired the annual All-University Convocation in Ihrke received her registered nurse degrees during two ceremonies. address collaboratively the educational Rev. Joanne Solis-Walker, an ordained September. degree from St. Cloud School of Nursing Pollard, the chairman of Fairwyn and academic needs of the Hispanic faith Wesleyan pastor, to serve as Director “In 1999, Bill Sparks stepped aside and holds a B.S. degree from Crown Investment Company, spoke at both community. of Latino Latina Education for Wesley as pastor of a Marion church to found – College. She earned an M.S. degree graduation ceremonies. From 1977 to The NHCLC is comprised of Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University. totally on faith and with no money – this from IWU and a Ph.D. from Purdue 2002, he participated in the leadership of 16 million members in the United The Seminary opened in August 2009. unique non-profit organization,” said The ServiceMaster Company, serving twice IWU Vice President Keith Newman, who University. States and Puerto Rico, and serves Charleston Sanders recently joined as Chief Executive Officer and 12 years as presented the award. Her areas of expertise include 25,434 Hispanic churches and 75 the IWU Enrollment Management team Dr. Barbara Ihrke Chairman of the Board. Gilead Ministries now has an annual transcultural nursing, tropical health, denominations. as Director of Multi-Cultural Student Pollard received an honorary doctor of budget of $130,000, and more than 200 gerontology and nursing informatics. “Over the past two years, Dr. Ihrke business administration degree. Under terms of the agreement, IWU Recruitment. volunteers and provides a multitude of She is a research consultant at Marion has served as Executive Director for the Gorveatte, who is an ordained pastor stands as a fully endorsed educational Dr. David Wright, Indiana Wesleyan services to 600 cancer patients in 31 General Hospital and a home health new School of Nursing and has helped in The Wesleyan Church, was inaugurated institution by the NHCLC, identifying University Provost, said: “The Spanish- states. nurse. to complete an enormous amount of on September 24, 2010, as the 11th IWU as an NHCLC Strategic Midwest speaking communities of our country Tony Maidenberg, a former Marion From 1980-1991, Ihrke worked in work in a short time. She has served president of Bethany Bible College in New Partner and a member of the Alliance for represent a rich national treasure. mayor and Indiana state senator, was the the Democratic Republic of Congo as a as a catalyst for change,” said Dr. Brunswick, Canada. He is a former member Hispanic Christian Education. These communities are made up of first person to receive the annual award. missionary nurse, teaching in a school of David Wright, IWU Provost and Chief of the IWU Board of Trustees. “The partnership of IWU with families dedicated to strong values Maidenberg currently is Executive nursing and doing primary health care Academic Officer. Gorveatte received an honorary doctor NHCLC reflects the values past, present and committed to the hard work and Vice President and General Counsel of projects. She spent her IWU sabbatical “In recent months, it has become of theology degree. and future of both IWU and The education required to achieve their Independent Colleges of Indiana. in Gabon, Africa. increasingly clear that Dr. Irhke is the Jay Hein, President of the Indianapolis- Wesleyan Church,” said Jo Anne Lyon, dreams. Indiana Wesleyan University is IWU President Henry Smith also based Sagamore Institute for Policy honored Sue Bowman for 40 years of Ihrke has presented her transcultural person best prepared to lead the School General Superintendent, The Wesleyan committed to welcoming and serving Research, spoke at two graduations in service to the university. Bowman is research at various national and of nursing forward,” Wright said. Church. “I look forward to scores of students whose first language is Spanish, August 2010 and received an honorary a professor of physical education and international conferences. Her research A grand opening for the School of leaders emerging for our churches, and so it is a particular pleasure to join Doctor of Laws degree. About 1,420 coaches the women’s softball team. areas include cultural competence of Nursing is planned in February 2011. students received diplomas in August. communities and the world as a result of with NHCLC in this great effort. We look Smith also presented service awards students and nurses as well as spiritual Ihrke and School of Nursing chairs will this relationship.” forward to a strong partnership in the to: care issues. be installed at that time. The partnership is one of several years ahead.” • 30 years: Marilyn Simons, professor of nursing; and Jack Ward, associate IWU Opens Columbus, Ohio, Education Center director of conference services. • 25 years: Brenda Schadler, manager Indiana Wesleyan University began The Columbus Education Center is Indiana Wesleyan also has of mail services; and Mary Brown, offering classes for adult learners in the located in the One Mill Run Building leased space for two instructional professor of English and chair of the Columbus area when a new education at 3455 Mill Run Drive, Suite 200, in sites in Easton, on the east side of Division of Modern Language and center opened in January in Hilliard. Hilliard. The building is just off I-270 at Columbus. Literature. More than 1,200 adult learners Exit 13. Indiana Wesleyan’s College of Adult Jack Ward also received a President’s currently attend classes at four Indiana Indiana Wesleyan has leased and Professional Studies began offering Award for Outstanding Service, and Audrey Hahn received a President’s Wesleyan education centers in Ohio: 21,000 square feet of floor space in classes in 1985. More than 40,000 adult Award for Outstanding Leadership. two in Cleveland and one each in the building in Hilliard. The space will learners have earned degrees through Hahn is an associate vice president Cincinnati and Dayton. Another 1,160 been converted to nine classrooms, the college, and more than 12,500 for student services in IWU’s adult Ohio students are enrolled in online administrative offices, a chapel, students currently are enrolled in education programs. classes. study rooms, a library and computer classes – about 6,300 of them in online laboratory. programs.

30 WINTER 2011 TRIANGLE INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 31 campus news campus news IWU Has Record Enrollment for Fall 2010 Semester Commits $2.5 Million to Seminary A record 15,953 students are enrolled for 2010 fall semester classes at Indiana The family that owns Hobby Lobby which is estimated to cost $7 million. between the Green family and IWU,” Wesleyan University. This year’s enrollment is 3.9 percent higher than a year ago. Stores, Inc. has made a $2.5 million Construction of the seminary building said Dr. Henry Smith, IWU President. A total of 3,274 of those students – also a record number – attend classes on IWU’s commitment to Indiana Wesleyan could begin as early as spring of 2011. “Barbara Green, because of her business residential campus in Marion. The remaining 12,679 students attend classes either University for a new building that will “We are pleased to assist Indiana expertise and her passion for ministry, online or at 15 regional centers and other sites in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. house Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan with its new seminary building has been an invaluable member of the As part of a growing national trend in higher education, 40 percent of all IWU Wesleyan University. because of our family’s passion and vision IWU Board of Trustees.” students attend classes online. In the last four years, IWU’s online enrollment has grown The gift was announced by Dr. Keith to see universities train young men and “This gift is a double blessing,” said by 10 percent. Newman, IWU’s Vice President for women in the word of God,” said Tyler Dr. Wayne Schmidt, Seminary vice Of the 3,274 students who attend classes in Marion, 2,622 of them live on campus, University Relations. Green, Ministries Coordinator for Hobby president. “Its generosity makes our and the remaining 652 are commuters. The IWU Board of Trustees, at Lobby Stores. facility a reality, and the Green family so Here is a two-year enrollment comparison for IWU’s five academic divisions: a meeting in October, approved Tyler Green is the grandson of David wonderfully represents that which we 2009 2010 construction of the 21,000-square-foot and Barbara Green, the founders and value. The Seminary already is becoming Adult and Professional Studies 10,226 10,561 seminary building that would include owners of Hobby Lobby Stores. Tyler known for its innovation and expansion Arts and Sciences 2,760 2,799 classrooms, faculty offices and a multi- Green and his wife, Kristin, are IWU in order to meet the needs of those it Janelle Vernon and Colts mascot, Blue. School of Nursing 2,176 2,213 purpose gathering place for students to graduates. serves.” Seminary 110 190 study and fellowship. “We are grateful not only for this Wesley Seminary, is the first seminary IWU, Indianapolis Colts Unassigned Students 73 190 Newman said his staff is pursuing generous gift but also for the friendship owned by The Wesleyan Church. Create Fitness Room TOTALS 15,345 15,953 additional funding for the building, that has developed in recent years A new fitness room, created by Other comparisons for the Marion campus: Indiana Wesleyan University and the 2009 2010 Indianapolis Colts, was unveiled in Green Scholars Initiative Pattengale to Lead International Study of Judeo-Christian Texts Students Enrolled on Marion Campus 3,215 3,274 October during a press conference and n Indiana Wesleyan University universities led by 10 renowned senior Steve Green is Students Living on Marion Campus 2,525 2,622 ribbon-cutting at a Boys & Girls Club scholar will direct an international scholars. Those initial selections include the son of David Freshmen/Transfer Students 885 911 A on the west side of Indianapolis. initiative that will involve teams of scholars , Ralph Hanna, Gordon Green, who founded

For 36 years, the National Football studying what may be the world’s largest Campbell and Alister McGrath. They will Hobby Lobby in

League and United Way have partnered collection of ancient texts and items related facilitate rare hands-on original research 1972. The private to strengthen communities across IWU Student Newspaper Wins National Honors to the Judeo-Christian story. opportunities,” Pattengale said. “This will company, which America. The Colts continued that Dr. Jerry Pattengale will be the Director revolutionize the undergraduate research now numbers 462 The Sojourn, the Indiana Wesleyan and IWU was the only private or Dr. Jerry Pattengale relationship by teaming up with United of the Green Scholars Initiative that will experience for generations of students.” stores in 39 states, University student newspaper, won Christian school honored. Way of Central Indiana to host this study a collection of more than 60,000 Steve Green, president of Hobby is based in Oklahoma City. Barbara Green, honors as one of the nation’s top 10 “The staff has been working hard, year’s Hometown Huddle, presented by items that has been assembled by the Lobby, led the effort to buy the artifacts, David’s wife and Steve’s mother, serves on four-year college/university weekly even over the summer, to make this IWU. Green family, which owns Hobby Lobby illuminated manuscripts, scrolls, papyri the IWU Board of Trustees. broadsheets in the “Best of Show” happen,” said Jason Eastman, editor The new fitness room at LeGore Boys Stores. and other works. The items, including Pattengale will join Dr. Scott Carroll, competition at the 89th Annual National in chief of the newspaper. “I’m excited & Girls Club, 5228 W. Minnesota St., Pattengale will remain as IWU’s some of the and the founding visionary of the initiatives College Media Convention. The about the team’s effort and achievement.” Indianapolis, is part of the NFL’s Play Assistant Provost for Public Engagement numerous priceless texts, were acquired surrounding the Green Collection. They convention in Louisville, Kentucky, is This year’s Sojourn staffers were 60 initiative, which encourages youth to but with reduced duties. He graduated from auction houses, dealers and private previously co-directed the Van Kampen the world’s largest gathering of student required to have journalism coursework be active at least 60 minutes each day. from IWU in 1979 and earned his collections, according to a story in the June Foundation, in Michigan and England. journalists and advisers. in order to be hired, a first in the The Boys & Girls Club is a United Way doctorate under Dr. Edwin Yamauchi at 11, 2010, issue of The New York Times. Pattengale and Carroll amassed a The convention attracted nearly 400 publication’s history, which dates back to agency. Miami University in Ohio. The Green family is planning a smaller collection of Judeo-Christian student-media outlets and more than the 1920s. This resulted in a well-trained The renovations were made possible Pattengale joined the IWU faculty in worldwide tour of the exhibition and also artifacts, and directed conferences with the 2,500 attendees. The other schools in team of writers, designers, photographers through contributions from the Colts, 1997. eventually plans to build a 300,000-square- British Library, a major excavation in Wadi the top 10 had several times Indiana and editors, said Dr. Kyle Huckins, IWU, NFL Charities and several “The Green Scholars Initiative will foot museum to house the collection, Natrun, Egypt, and the internationally Wesleyan’s undergraduate enrollment, faculty adviser of The Sojourn. Indianapolis-area businesses. involve dozens of scholars at numerous according to The New York Times. acclaimed Odyssey in Egypt program.

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Class News provides alumni a venue for sharing Susan B. Reeves Ball ’95 lost 200 pounds in 19 their personal and professional accomplishments months and was married April 24, 2010. with the IWU family. Submissions are edited for Melinda Hornback length, clarity and style standards. Kathy Fosnough Buck ’96 is an instructor of nursing at Huntington University. She earned 40s an associate’s degree from Anderson University, Nears End of Nine-Year Educational Journey Edward L. Eddy and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing ’47 celebrated education from Indiana Wesleyan University. his 90th birthday elinda Hornback, who received is indebted for her college education. the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation for July 2. Matthew Grimshaw ’96 is the new chief M her bachelor’s degree in social When Cooke died in 1997, he left financial assistance. In June, Hornback executive officer for Mercy Medical Center, 60s Williston, North Dakota. He most recently work from Indiana Wesleyan University his fortune to help people such as learned she was one of 35 recipients Robert S. Hallett served as executive vice president at Immanuel in April, had some serious doubts about Hornback. of the Foundation’s 2010 Graduate ’69 earned his St. Joseph’s beginning college at age 39. “My advisor at Ivy Tech told Scholarships – a select group of students Doctor of Ministry Mayo Health degree in August Edward & Arlene Eddy. System, Mankato, “I was afraid I wouldn’t make it or me about the Jack Kent Cooke who are now attending some of the best from the Liberty Minnesota. that people might find out I was stupid,” Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship,” universities in the United States and Baptist Theological Seminary, Lynchburg, Grimshaw holds she said. “I was so scared of college that Hornback said. “Most of the scholars Europe. Virginia. He and his wife, Carol (Walker) ’69, a master’s degree live in New Castle, Indiana. They have three in business I only took one class when I started were young, right out of high school, “These Jack Kent Cooke Scholars children and nine grandchildren. administration at Ivy Tech in Wabash. No one in my and I thought, they aren’t going to give are exceptional students who’ve been from Wake Forest 70s University and family had ever been to college.” this scholarship to some old lady.” with us for quite a few years,” said Jean E. Kreke ’70 retired from the Louisville a bachelor’s That was in 2002. Today, at age 48, She received the scholarship, which the Foundation’s Executive Director, Free Public Library as a library assistant after degree from Hornback is seven months away from provided up to $30,000 a year to attend Lawrence Kutner. “This scholarship will more than 29 years of service. Indiana Wesleyan University. Matthew Grimshaw finishing an educational journey that any college of her choosing. More than remove the financial pressure on them Thomas A. Hinton ’79, Senior State Liaison will end in August 2011 when she 750 students applied for the grants, and and allow them to focus on what they for the Office of the Under Secretary of Michael H. Schatzlein ’97 was appointed receives a master’s degree in social work 52 were selected. do best.” Defense, was the principal Department of the new president and CEO of Saint Thomas Defense representative in the development of Health Services, Nashville, Tennessee. at the University of Michigan in Ann “All at once, I had money to go The scholarships provide $50,000 the ground-breaking Interstate Compact on Schatzlein previously served as president and Arbor. to school practically anywhere, so I for graduate studies. Hornback said the Melinda Hornback Educational Opportunity for Military Children, CEO of Dupont Hospital, Fort Wayne, Indiana. It took her five years to complete an checked out lots of colleges – including University of Michigan has one of the a multi-state cooperative policy initiative Schatzlein practiced medicine in Indiana as a to solve the numerous challenges faced by cardiac and transplant surgeon from 1981 until associate’s degree in criminal justice at Columbia University in New York City,” top graduate schools for social work in Melinda would begin college when children of military members who must move he moved into hospital management in 1994. Ivy Tech and three years to complete Hornback said. “Then I got to thinking, the nation. to new schools an average of six to nine times He was CEO of two hospitals within Lutheran’s their children started high school. in their K-12 experience. Tom’s team has now network before taking charge of the system in In addition to attending classes three Raising several foster children helped 35 states, to adopt the legislation and 2007. In addition to his medical degree from days a week, Hornback has a required delayed those plans. join the Compact, making it the most rapidly the Indiana University School of Medicine, “I was so scared of college that I only took one class field placement at Detroit Parent activated interstate compact in the 200-year Schatzlein holds an M.B.A. from Indiana When Melinda began classes full- history of such compacts in America. Wesleyan University. when I started at Ivy Tech in Wabash. Network three days a week. The agency time at IWU in 2007, she and her No one in my family had ever been to college.” works with parents to help get students husband quit their jobs at White’s 80s Lisa C. Bradford ’97 received her master’s ready for college. Becky C. Nash ’82, B.S.N., R.N., has been degree in nursing May 15, 2010. She is because they no longer could work promoted to Chief Clinical Officer for Eagle presently teaching nursing at Louisiana College Hornback’s family plans are as a team. Mike Hornback now works Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center by in Pineville, Louisiana. her bachelor’s degree at IWU. She began ‘We have a great college right down the somewhat uncertain after she receives as a chaplain at a hospice in Harlan Kindred Healthcare. She was recently named work on her master’s degree in June. road, so why should I uproot my family her master’s degree. the 2009 Director of Nursing Services of the Brian Poplin ’97 is Executive Vice President of County, Kentucky. year for the district, region and nation for the Clinical Technology Services – Center of “After nine years of college, I will to move to New York City?’” The Hornback family moved to “In my mind, Indiana is still Kindred’s Health Services Division. Eagle Creek Excellence at ARAMARK Healthcare, Charlotte, have three college degrees and be only Hornback enrolled at IWU in the fall Wabash in 1998 so Melinda and operates a 120-bed Transitional Care Center North Carolina. Poplin joined the ServiceMaster our home, even though we are of Excellence providing specialty services about $8,000 in debt,” Hornback said. of 2007. She changed her major from her husband, Mike, could become organization in 1994 as a biomedical from Kentucky originally,” Melinda for transplants, cardiac/respiratory, complex equipment technician, coming to ARAMARK And she did it all while being a wife, a criminal justice to social work after a house parents at what now is White’s Hornback said. “Indiana is where we medical, infectious disease, and stroke/ as part of the Service Master acquisition in mother of two biological children and a chance encounter with Janice Adams, Residential and Family Services. They rehabilitation patients in addition to traditional 2001. He earned both a bachelor’s degree in know people, where our friends are long-term residents. Business Administration and master’s degree in foster mother to several children. who headed the IWU social work major eventually became the chaplains for the and where out work is. If thing’s don’t Management from Indiana Wesleyan University. Jack Kent Cooke, a self-made at the time. agency. work out in Kentucky, we may come 90s Poplin also recently completed his Doctorate billionaire who never had an As she prepared to graduate from Mike Hornback completed his Richard P. Stewart ’90 earned a Ph.D. in in Health Administration and Policy at the back to Indiana.” General Studies in 2009. Stewart became Medical University of South Carolina. He is an opportunity to attend college, heads IWU in April with a 3.99 grade-point college degree while he was in the founder and President of the West Kentucky ACHE Fellow and holds board certification in the list of people to whom Hornback average, Hornback again turned to military, but the family had a plan that Wild Food Farm in 2010. healthcare management.

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Marilee Virgil Keim ’98 was one of three University of Minnesota in family primary Tiah Romagnoli Wingate ’03 shared a touching the senior pastor at Kingswood Church in people recently elected to the Sherman College care. Gardner is a board-certified family nurse story about God’s faithfulness while her fourth Blaine, Minnesota. He is pursuing his doctor of Chiropractic Board of Trustees to serve practitioner. child, Noelle Hope, born April 28, 2010, of ministry degree at Bethel Seminary, St. Paul, a four-year term. Keim is the Social Studies experienced liver failure. For the complete earned his master of arts degree in ministry future alumni Department Chair, a teacher at Fairfield Junior- Jason Hester ’01 is the Executive Director story, go to Noelle’s Caring Bridge site at www. from Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, Kellsi M. Sinnett Luehmann ’07 and Christian Senior High School, Goshen, Indiana, and the of the Columbus Economic Development caringbridge.org/visit/noellehope. and earned his bachelor of science degree from Luehmann ’07, two sons: wife of Richard Keim. She earned a bachelor’s Board. He previously served as the Central St. Cloud State University. He is a member Roman Christian Luehmann • 09/08/08 degree in education at Goshen College and Region Director for the Indiana Economic Andrea D. Trump Guenin ’04 is the Marketing of the Blaine Planning Commission, and the Logan Virgil Luehmann • 02/05/10 a master’s degree in education at Indiana Development Corp., the development director Team Leader/Lead Graphic Designer for Blaine Charter Commission and is the faith Wesleyan University. for the City of Kokomo, the economic Moorehead Communications, Inc., Marion, community representative to the Anoka County Bobby ’02 development director for the City of Elwood Indiana. Emergency Shelter Grants Program/Federal and Paula Helwig Hale Wills M.D. ’99 completed his general and the Elwood Chamber of Commerce’s Emergency Management Agency Committee. Fannin ’02 – surgery residency at Wayne State University/ executive director. He has a bachelor’s degree Holly Brush Tischer ’04 is living in South Leah Pauline Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan, and from Oral Roberts University and an M.B.A. Korea with her husband, who is in the U.S. Ashley N. Humphries ’06 is an enforcement • 05/09/09 has accepted the position of Pediatric Surgery from Indiana Wesleyan University. Hester is Army on active duty. attorney for the Indiana Secretary of State’s Research Fellow at Cardinal Glennon Children’s also a graduate of the Economic Development Office, Dealers Division, in Indianapolis. Michelle L. Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri. He and Institute of the University of Oklahoma. He Shumeca M. Pickett ’04 recently launched a Veldman his wife, Lora, with their two boys, Liam and and his wife, Candace, have three children. corporate responsibility consulting firm. Her Linda Lowe ’06 is Greydanus Colin, moved to St. Louis in July. Hester is a certified economic developer for the firm, Alfred Dewitt Ard, helps organizations the Community ’95 and International Economic Development Council. understand, integrate, implement and brand Scholarship Aaron 00s corporate responsibility and measure impact. Liaison for Project Greydanus - Jason (Jay) Blevins’ ’00, debut novel entitled Heather Hallett Bellaire ’02 is an Electronic David McDowell Leadership at Eliot Robert The Last Fall was published by OakTara Services ACH Specialist at Inova FCU Adam Rollefson the Community Greydanus Leah, Rebekah & Sarah Fannin Publishers in October 2010. Dr. Keith Drury Corporate Headquarters, Elkhart, Indiana. David McDowell ’02 created a 12-foot tree, ‘05 recently Foundation of • 10/15/09 from the IWU Religion Department was an made with an aluminum frame and stained began serving Grant County, Nathan ’89 and Greta Peterson ’91/’97 endorser for the book. Blevins has also been Robert L. Fannin Jr. ’02, and his wife, Paula glass, for Sandy Valley School system in as the Middle Indiana. She has Clement – Emory Peterson Clement published in Celebrate Life Magazine, Calvary (Helwig) ’02 purchased their first home in Magnolia, Ohio, where he attended as a child. School Pastor been a resident • 04/05/10 Chapel Magazine, Reader’s Digest and more July 2010. He is is a logistics specialist at Pacer at Gold Creek of Grant County recently he was a contributing writer for the International, Dublin, Ohio, and also a part- Keri Brantley ’03 was recognized for her work Community for 13 years new Holy Bible: Mosaic (Tyndale, 2009). time youth pastor at the Reynoldsburg Alliance in creating an internal electronic newsletter Church in and has 30 Linda Lowe Church, Reynoldsburg, Ohio. for employees at St. Francis Hospital & Health Mill Creek, years of business Timothy F. Gardner ’01 is the CEO & co- Centers. A member of the hospital’s Human Washington. Last experience. Linda has a degree from Indiana owner of a family primary care clinic in Dawn R. Howard ’02 was recognized as being Resources Department, Brantley earned May, Rollefson Wesleyan University in business management. northwest Indiana, which has been open for one of Indianapolis’ Best and Brightest Finalists the 2010 Communication Award (Internal met with Darren She has been married to her husband, Steve, Darren Whitehead & Adam Rollefson five years. After completing his B.S.N. at IWU, by Junior Achievement of Central Indiana Electronic Communication category) from Whitehead, for 29 years, and has two children and four Gardner went on to complete his M.S.N.-Family in the Manufacturing, Retail and Services the American Society of Healthcare Human Pastor of Next Gen Ministries at Willow Creek grandchildren. Linda has a passion for the Nurse Practitioner at the University of Southern category. Howard works with Region Industry Resources Administration (ASHHRA). This Community Church, while attending Indiana youths of Grant County and is excited about Indiana. He completed his doctorate at the Development Leader, BKD, LLP. marks the second year in a row Brantley has Wesleyan University’s Frequency student working to promote education. been recognized by ASHHRA. ministries conference. David Welch ’06 was featured in the Jerusalem Aaron B. Shepherd ’06 serves as Counsel for Post. The article reported about his Peace The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Project in the Gaza Strip. Welch has become an Emory Peterson Clement down the aisle Ohio. He is a graduate of the University of Israeli citizen and is currently serving in the Rev. Chris ’07 and Joyce Van Den Berg – Theresa A. Thomas ’96 and Chad Vice • Virginia Law School. Israeli Military. Nathan John • 08/17/10 3/15/2008 David Hunt ’06 spent 23 days in March in Pam Moorman Campbell ’06 is a Purchasing Sarah N. Minger ’04 and Ben VanDonkelaar • Brooks ’99 and Lindsay Greenway – Liam 11/1/2008 Haiti with NDMS/DMORT (National Disaster Agent/Inventory Control Analyst for D&D Brooks Greenway • 08/27/10 Medical System/Disaster Mortuary Operational Ingredient Distributors, Inc., Delphos, Ohio. Kara E. Estep ’04 and Rory Marquardt • Response Team) in response to the Haiti 5/22/2010 earthquake. Hunt was put in charge of the field Matt P. Sweeney ’06 is a master planner at Hannah E. Smith ’09 and Brian R. Episcopo ’08 • recovery operations upon arrival. DMORTs General Atomics, San Diego, California. 7/3/ 2010. mission was to recover and identify American Sarah C. Dainsberg ’07 and Daniel Gurley • citizens who died in the earthquake. He also Kellsi M. Sinnett Luehmann ’07 is the Before 7/9/2010 assumed command of the operation for the & After School Program Coordinator at final week and closeout operations. Hunt Edinburgh Parks & Recreation, Edinburgh, James Ryan Haworth ’03 and Courtney Fahey • worked alongside the U.S. Army Mortuary Indiana. 8/6/2010 affairs group while living in an Army camp next to the Port Au Prince runway. Rev. Chris J. Van Den Berg ’07 is the assistant pastor of children and youth at Watertown Alan Goracke ’06 was one of 15 people Wesleyan Church, Watertown, South Dakota. appointed by Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty Liam Brooks Greenway James & Courtney Haworth Rory & Kara Marquardt to the Governor’s Council on Faith and Amanda Weaver Hanson ’08 was awarded the Community Service Initiatives. Goracke is John Dalton Excellent Teacher Award after only

36 WINTER 2011 TRIANGLE INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 37 alumni news “ I love the connection a year teaching in Mississinewa Community Schools. Hanson, who is a first-grade teacher living memorials at Westview Elementary, Jonesboro, Indiana, between the classroom Living Memorials provide an opportunity for people to make a donation to Indiana Wesleyan received a $1,000 grant, along with a plaque, to University in memory of or in honor of special people in their lives. The following Living honor her willingness and love to teach. Memorials have been received in recent months: and local church at Wesley Corrissa R. Chaffee Givens ’08 recently Donations have been given Pat Castle Kris Douglas finished writing a young adult novel with a IN HONOR OF Stanley and Evelyn Banker Marjorie Elder Seminary. I’m learning Christian theme, titled Guardian. She says, Bud and Carol Bence Wayne and Joan Caldwell Teri Fitzgibbon “At IWU, I realized the importance of sharing Hilda Clarke Don and Ann Glenn Christopher and Sasha Frazier how to apply biblical and the value of a Christ-filled life with others – to Dennis Brinkman Ezra and Frances DeVol Laura Gamble never stop living as an example. My upbringing Joseph Larakers Elsie Eyler Russell and Lois Gilliom theological knowledge to as a pastor’s daughter formed my foundation, Donald Grant Naomi Glassburn and IWU reinforced it. Thank you, IWU!” Hilda Clarke Robert Kilmer Dr. and Mrs. Norman Phil and Loretta Enlow Glassburn Givens has a publishing contract with Whiskey Dan Jones Allene and Robert Don and Julia Grubaugh my ministry right now.” Creek Press, a small independent publisher. Joseph Larakers Maracum The book is scheduled for release in 2011. Rev. and Mrs. E.R. Mitchell John Heavilin Joe and Linda Kelly Everett and Valerie Paul and Joan Herrmann Jessica Schmerse, Assistant Pastor Hilda Clarke Mitchell Priscilla Innocent Ryan A. Muir ’08 is a fifth-grade math Carolyn and Tom Wilson teacher and head of the elementary school Priscilla Peters Marilyn Johns Mountain View Wesleyan Church math department at SMIC Private School in Hilda Clarke Thelora Shoemaker Mason Tom and Jan Marquand Aumsville, Oregon Shanghai, China. He writes, “I am currently Dean and Linda Pickett Carolyn Fletcher Mary McCulley Master of Divinity student Hilda Clarke Kenneth and Marlene Mr. and Mrs. Earl Nash in my second year of teaching here. I have Kurtz Steven and Rita Noel students from over 15 different countries Pauline Schneider Jeffrey and Lisa Rich Dorothy Pruitt around the world. My wife and I have the Hilda Clarke Douglas and Kristin Harold Schafer Families opportunity to work with a youth group over Shoemaker Jennifer Schneider Sue Sprinkle John and Ruby Shoemaker Chris Shepherd here with about 100 students from sixth Doris Scott Dale and Jan Sloan through 12th grade. It has been an amazing Joy McCallum David and Patricia Troyer experience and we look forward to all that God IWU CAS Division Ron and Michelle Sloan Hilda Clarke Secretaries Bryon and Inga Stephens has in store for us.” Lloyd and Holly VanMeter Three Rivers Wesleyan Hilda Clarke Ben Medows Church Karen Turngren Miller ’08 is a Community Julia Medows Glen Traver and Family Health Nurse Specialist with the Healthy Start Marie Welch Phillip and Kathryn Troyer Program, Louisville, Kentucky, and says, “[I] Hilda Clarke June Ott Marty Walker Carroll and Luella Yarnell Westview Wesleyan feel like I am making a real difference in the Donations have been given Church lives of the mothers that I serve.” IN MEMORY OF Harold Sheridan Gene Beltz Mary Sheridan Aubrie N. Rovenstine DeLisle ’09 is the Phyllis Beltz Living Memorial donations Everett Sloan may be sent to: administrative assistant at Harvest Bible Chapel Mary Aaland Seven Reasons to Choose Lois Bogear Indiana Wesleyan University North Indianapolis, Noblesville, Indianapolis. Jeff and Kay Alter Jeff and Kay Alter John Heavilin Associated Surgeons and University Relations Office Adam R. Conder ’09 is the pastor of the Physicians 4201 South Washington Street Robinson Free Methodist Church in Robinson, Ruby Burnett Dawn Brendel Marion, Indiana 46953-4974 Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University Dick and Phyllis Halt George and Lenore Dancer Illinois. Ann Danley Jeremy Potts ’09, who earned an M.B.A. at Integrated: do practical ministry with biblical and theological integrity Indiana Wesleyan University, started Louisville Valet LLC with his brother, Joey Potts, in June Missional: stay in ministry while pursuing a degree that centers on outreach and service 2009 in Louisville, Kentucky. The business was in memoriam featured in Business First in July 2010. They Lloyd Poe ’48 • 7/16/2010 Lois Bogear ’51 • 9/25/2010 Spiritual: focus on spiritual formation throughout the program project the business will become a full-time venture in three to five years. Sarno Frank ’88 • 7/16/2010 Mary Winterholter ’45 • 9/26/2010 Economical: save time and money with a streamlined program and low tuition rate Loretta (Lori) Cowan Smith ‘92 • 7/30/2010 Everett Sloan ’53 • 9/27/2010 Melissa Gingerich ’09 began a one-year term of Mennonite Voluntary Service August 2010 Patsy Engle ’78 • 8/5/2010 Albert Chapman ’41 • 9/29/2010 Personal: pursue your degree online or in the classroom in Baltimore, Maryland, as Project Associate for Cheryl Beckett ’00 • 8/6/2010 Patricia Castle ’57 • 10/5/2010 Relational: Social Media with Lutheran Immigration and build deep bonds as you move through the program with the same group of students Melvin Welch ’50 • 8/8/2010 Ralph Janofski (Owosso) • 10/9/2010 Refugee Service. Leading Edge: Beth Hitch ’02 • 8/31/2010 Louise Guyer ’39 • 10/18/2010 study with expert faculty at one of the nation’s largest Christian universities 10s James Lundy ’93 • 9/7//2010 Mildred Brady ’50 • 10/25/2010 Bill J. DeLisle ’10 is a Secondary English teacher (grades 9 to 12) at Decatur Central Wright Payne ’44 • 9/25/2010 To learn more about the 75-hour Master of Divinity or 36-hour Master of High School in Indiana. Arts degrees at the new Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University, call our admissions office at877-673-0009 or visit wesley.indwes.edu.

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