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God First Since 1899 PRESIDENT’S LETTER Spring 2016 I Volume 29 I Number 1 APULIFE EXECUTIVE TEAM Chair, Board of Trustees Peggy S. Campbell This January, the New Year and new semester took on deeper meaning as they President I I Jon R. Wallace ’76, MBA ’78, DBA Spring 2016 Volume 29 Number 1 marked my return after a seven-month medical leave. I want to thank all of you who Executive Vice President supported my family and me during that time. David E. Bixby ’78, M.A. ’82, Ed.D. My life verse, Galatians 2:20, includes these words: “The life I now live . . . I live Provost by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me” (NIV). I also Mark Stanton, Ph.D., ABPP Vice Provosts now live with a shadow of cancer and the reality of CAT scans every three months Vicky R. Bowden, DNSc, RN to assess any ongoing developments. I certainly live my life with a renewed sense Diane Guido, Ph.D.

APU ARCHIVES of urgency for my Kingdom call and the commitments that come from that. Senior Vice Presidents Mark S. Dickerson, JD, Ph.D. Several days ago, I was sitting in my office with a local pastor who is also a good Terry A. Franson, Ph.D. 18 20 30 friend. After sharing our wants and needs, we prayed for each other. His prayer for Robert L. Johansen, CPA, M.A. ’11 me began with these words: “Lord, please give Jon a long life.” I deeply love and MAGAZINE STAFF respect him and know that these words went from him to my Abba because he Vice President for University Relations loves me as well. But it got me to thinking: Is my goal a long life? David Peck ’91, MBA ’02, Ph.D. In the last seven months, I have been privileged to celebrate family birthdays, Executive Director of Strategic Communication experience Christmas, and walk my only daughter down the aisle (with Gail) at her Maureen (Riegert ’90, M.A. ’00) Taylor 18 28 12 14 22 wedding. I have gone through chemotherapy and radiation, kept countless doctor Executive Director of Marketing Rafi Maljian ’98, MBA ’01 appointments, and experienced the welcome of returning to the APU community. Senior Director of Operations Certainly one of the highlights was the 2015 Christmas chapel. In and through all Carmen Gustin “The life I now live . . . of that, I have returned time and time again to the reality of my faith in a God who Senior Creative and Internet Director FEATURES DEPARTMENTS loves me and gave Himself for me. So, what’s the goal? What has been the best Christian Brazo ’95, M.A. ’01 I live by faith in the learning from the last seven months? Art Director 12 The Foster Care Crisis: An Opportunity to Respond 2 President’s Letter Jason Flicker by Robert R. Duke Son of God, who Perhaps Isaiah 43:1 best captures my learning: “But now, this is what the Lord 6 Campus Close Up says—he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: ‘Do not fear, for I have APU Life (ISSN 0895-5433) is published quarterly by Azusa Pacific University, 901 E. Alosta Ave., PO Box 7000, Azusa, CA 91702-7000, 14 World-Changing Startups loved me and gave redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine’” (NIV). This passage apu.edu, (626) 969-3434. 24 Cougars Sports Roundup by Caitlin Gipson speaks to God’s chosen people, that eternal family that has adopted me because of Periodicals class postage paid at Azusa, CA 91702, and additional himself for me.” mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: 25 Alumni News and Notes my faith. That declaration contains four assurances from God: APU Life, Azusa Pacific University, ATTN: Office of University Advancement, PO Box 7000, Azusa, CA 91702-7000. 18 Special Collections: The Anchor of University Libraries 1. Do not fear. 3. I have summoned (or called) you by name. 26 Class Notes Galatians 2:20 (NIV) Azusa Pacific University, in compliance with federal laws and by Luba Zakharov 2. I have redeemed you. 4. You are mine. regulations, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, age, disability, national origin, or status as a veteran in any of its 26 Cougar Interview Those assurances not only form the pillars of our faith, but they are also central policies, practices, or procedures. 20 Athletic Training: The New Generation Steven Singley ’95 to the Christ-centered mission of Azusa Pacific University. The question I’ve most by Bethany Wagner often been asked upon my return to the university is, “What did you learn?” It’s [email protected] 34 Where in the World . . . ? interesting that my new learning, anchored in that passage from Isaiah, is exactly 22 No Excuses 35 what I hope our students in every academic program and university experience by Cynndie Hoff Archived learn for themselves. The mission statement of Azusa Pacific ends with this phrase defining our 28 Care in the Final Moments ALUMNI SPOTLIGHTS purpose: That we “encourage students to develop a Christian perspective of truth by Bethany Wagner and life.” I hope all of our alumni are given many fruitful years of living that 29 Packing a Powerful Punch accomplish God’s call on their lives. Many will; some won’t. I hope and pray that 30 A Story of Community 29 Wounds into Wisdom all will come to a clear understanding, as I have, that the goal is not a long life. The by Bethany Wagner goal is to live without fear, redeemed by a God who called us by name and declares for time and eternity that we are His. That’s how we accomplish the APU mission. 31 Spotting Potential Thank you to all who regularly support the university in so many ways. I encourage by Ryan T. Hartwig you to also view the APU mission with a renewed sense of urgency. As you can, please consider increasing every area of support for the work of God in preparing Cover photo by Dustin Reynolds ’07, MBA ’10 disciples and scholars. Thank you.

Jon R. Wallace, DBA Fearless in Christ

2 AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY SPRING 2016 3 PHOTO BY DUSTIN REYNOLDS, ’07, MBA ’.10 This breathtaking view outside Segerstrom Science Center on Azusa Pacific’s West Campus captures winter in Southern California, following crisp days and life-giving rain.

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APU Emerges as One of The Economist named APU graduates freshmen, or 94 percent of the freshman panel of elected and appointed fellows Social Work Faculty and Homelessness—cosponsored “Faith-based round-table discussion, which allowed founder of the Outreach Health Services Nation’s Most Cost-Effective among the most employable in the class, with grant aid. In fact, APU offered selects applicants based in part on the Students Partner with Solutions: Christians Partnering to for valuable networking and dialogue. for the Homeless; Imagine L.A.’s Universities nation, ranking the university in the more grant aid to incoming freshmen nominee’s influence on health policy Local Churches on Behalf Address Poverty and Homelessness,” Participants engaged in breakout groups Jill Bauman, president and CEO; and According to the National Association of 92nd percentile of U.S. college graduates. than the average private not-for-profit and the health and well being of all. Of of the Homeless which drew local leaders seeking to aid featuring representatives from model Tara Ignont, outreach manager. These Independent Colleges and Universities, The study, based on national wage college and public college in California. the approximately 3 million nurses in As the national homelessness rate this population in need. faith-based programs, including Matt workshops inspired attendees with private colleges award billions in reports and citing actual earnings, As a result, fewer APU freshmen took the United States, the academy’s fellows increases, particularly in Los Angeles, The event focused on educating the Rayburn, MPA, executive director of insights and innovative ways congregations institutional aid annually, substantially revealed that APU alumni with bachelor’s, out federal loans than students at other represent nursing’s most accomplished APU’s Department of Social Work community about major shifts in L.A. Family Promise of San Gabriel Valley; can assist their homeless neighbors and more than public counterparts. In master’s, or doctoral degrees earn more schools. By easing the financial burden leaders in education, management, continually seeks ways to help alleviate County’s funding of homeless services, Jill Shook, editor of Making Housing help create housing solutions. addition, the Association of Independent than the rest of the nation’s population on students and their families, many practice, and research. suffering and provide innovative increasing collaboration among local Happen: Faith-based Affordable Housing The planning committee involved California Colleges and Universities who hold the same degrees. Also, U.S. APU undergraduates get a jump start solutions. On February 20, 2016, nonprofit organizations, and sharing Models (Wipf & Stock Publishers, the collaborative efforts of Rayburn; (AICCU) found that private California News & World Report included APU on on career earnings by graduating in four School of Business and the department—along with the best practices among faith-based 2010); Connie Brehm, Ph.D., FNP, RN, Pastor Rick McDonald of the Azusa universities graduate more students in its college-ranking list titled Least Debt years and entering the job market earlier Management Earns Maximum San Gabriel Valley Consortium on groups. The day began with a time of professor in the School of Nursing and continued on page 8 four years than comparable schools in Class of 2014, Christian Universities than the majority of their public college Accreditation Extension the University of California (UC) and Online recognized APU among 50 counterparts. The International Assembly for California State University (CSU) systems Christian Colleges and Universities with Collegiate Business Education Artists-in-Residence Offer Added Dimension for —resulting in a savings of as much as the Lowest Student Debt Burden, and Nursing Faculty Recognized (IACBE) granted reaffirmation of $100,000. APU exemplifies these findings StartClass named APU 1 of the 25 least as National Fellow accreditation to APU’s School of Art and Design Students and affirms its reputation as one of expensive private colleges in the U.S. The American Business and Management programs the most cost-effective investments for These statistics reflect a concerted effort Academy of in December 2015. This esteemed higher education among the more than to make a high-quality APU education Nursing inducted designation stands until 2020, the 1,700 private, nonprofit colleges and affordable and accessible. To that end, Diana Lynn maximum possible duration under universities nationwide. last year APU helped 1,111 incoming Woods, Ph.D., IACBE standards. The announcement APRN-BC, FGSA, came after a rigorous self-evaluation, FAAN, associate a comprehensive independent peer professor in the School of Nursing, as review, and demonstrated compliance a fellow during the academy’s annual with specific accreditation principles, policy conference, Transforming including outcomes assessment, Health, Driving Policy, on October 17, strategic planning, curriculum, and 2015, in Washington, DC. international business education, to Reading Recommendations The honor recognizes Woods’ work name a few. In addition, the organization from John E. Hartley in gerontological nursing, and specifically also commended Azusa Pacific for its John E. Hartley, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of with behavioral symptoms that many excellence in the areas of faculty Old Testament at Azusa Pacific Seminary. experience with dementia. She specializes scholarship and facilities. in nonpharmacological humanistic IACBE, a leader in mission-driven Narrative Reading, Narrative Preaching: Reuniting New interventions for behavioral symptoms and outcomes-based programmatic Testament Interpretation and Proclamation by Joel B. Green of dementia and their biobehavioral accreditation in business and with Michael Pasquarello III (Baker Academic, 2003) correlates, innovative analysis techniques management, includes hundreds of Thumbsucker, Plaster and Urethane, 40” x 40” x 40” and 10” x 6” x 4”, 2015 Struggle Garden, Oil on Canvas, 90” x 121” x 1.5”, 1995-96 The Gospel of John and Christian Origins by John Ashton to examine individual variation, pattern member institutions worldwide and (Fortress Press, 2014) recognition to measure behavior, and has accredited more than 1,200 A new semester-long artist residency Though they have exhibited together engage with working artists and gain an drawing and painting at the University designing curricula and theory on programs throughout the U.S., Europe, The Conversion of the Imagination: Paul as Interpreter of program, sponsored by the Department in larger group shows, this marked the invaluable perspective on the national of California, Los Angeles, has also ethnogerontological nursing. Asia, the Middle East, Central America, Israel’s Scripture by Richard B. Hays (William B. Eerdmans, 2005) of Art and Design, launched in spring first time the duo presented a two-person art community. Hawkinson imparted exhibited nationally, including the San The more than 2,300 academy and South America. 2016 with an exhibition by internationally show. Wickman’s highly refined narrative his experience gleaned from exhibitions Jose Museum of Art, Denver Museum A New Heaven and a New Earth: Reclaiming Biblical Eschatology fellows represent all 50 states, the Membership with IACBE links renowned husband and wife artists paintings contrast with Hawkinson’s in the Venice Biennale and the Whitney of Art, and the Hunter Museum of Art by J. Richard Middleton (Baker Academic, 2014) District of Columbia, and 24 countries, Azusa Pacific with a strategic partner Tim Hawkinson and Patty Wickman. playful sculptures, while both explore Biennale; solo exhibitions at the Los in Tennessee. Each contributed a wealth and include hospital and government as it strives to advance the academic Salvation Means Creation Healed: The Ecology of Sin and Visitors viewed their work in the Duke the human condition. In their unique Angeles County Museum of Art, of insight and practical experience to administrators, college deans, and quality and rigor of its business programs. Grace, Overcoming the Divorce between Earth and Heaven Gallery from January 15-March 11 and ways, they invite viewers to reflect on Whitney Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty APU’s emerging artists. renowned scientific researchers. The achievement will be publicly by Howard A. Snyder with Joel Scandrett (Cascade Books, 2011) enjoyed a reception on January 15. In and embrace the embodied nature Museum, and the Museum of Art, Selection criteria include evidence of announced at the 2016 IACBE Annual addition to displaying their art, the within themselves, replete with inherent Sydney, Australia; and his current Section sponsored by the University Libraries and compiled by Liz Leahy, MLS, M.A.T., significant contributions to nursing and Conference and Assembly on April 7 couple conducted lectures, workshops, peculiarities, frailties, and limitations. representation at the PACE Gallery professor of theological bibliography and research and special assistant to the dean of health care, and sponsorship by two in Memphis. and studio visits for undergraduate and This residency program afforded APU in New York and the Blum and Poe University Libraries. [email protected] current academy fellows. An academy MFA students throughout the semester. faculty and students the opportunity to Gallery in L.A. Wickman, professor of

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continued from page 7 Primarily, she emphasized the importance Two Students Impress Ministerial Association; Sandy Futter of sifting through conjecture, feelings, By the Numbers and Michelle Durfee of Project 29:11; and emotions in order to reveal truth American Idol Judges and social work faculty members and how to approach such incidents The number of murals painted by APU art and liberal studies students APU’s rank for lowest debt burden in 2016 among 50 institutions Catherine Fisher, MSW, LCSW, as a scholar. for the Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) in Glendora, within the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities. Christian assistant professor; Margaret Lee, Cultivating a campus culture 6: which provides emergency response services to 1,750 children. The 8: Universities Online based the classification on publicly available data MSW, assistant professor; and adjunct that facilitates scholarly debate, the commissioned artwork added color and cheer to interview and visitation rooms. The from U.S. News & World Report using the average total indebtedness of the 2014 professor Anne Wrotniewski, MSW, department will continue to invite depictions include a monarch butterfly, the Grand Canyon, Logan Pass in Glacier graduating class. APU stands out among the top schools in caring for students who also works with Catholic Charities. expert speakers who model the essence National Park, and several abstracts, as well as a grid of mini murals drawn from children’s both academically and financially. The event drew more than 50 area of difference makers, including the next storybooks, such as Winnie the Pooh, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and The Alphabet Tree. leaders united in their goal to demonstrate event on April 8, A Day of Dialogue, in The anniversary of College Headed and Mighty Proud (C.H.A.M.P.), Christ’s love and hope in tangible ways. partnership with local law enforcement APU’s percentile ranking for graduates’ employability as the popular semester-long program that introduces the idea of agencies and the Los Angeles Institute determined by the Economist, an internationally respected 25: college to fourth graders from six local schools each year. Over Criminologist Discusses for Nonviolence, which will focus on 92: news publication. This places Azusa Pacific at No. 102 the last 25 years, more than 10,000 local elementary students have been a part of Community Activism and the future of policing. among its counterparts. The position points to actual earnings that significantly this heritage program. C.H.A.M.P. partners APU students majoring in liberal the Michael Brown Case exceed expectations and reflect employers’ recognition of APU graduates as studies with elementary kids through various activities that help the younger Hillary Potter, Ph.D., author and highly employable. generation experience college firsthand and imagine themselves attending and associate professor of ethnic studies at succeeding in college. the University of Colorado, Boulder, The number of school districts from six counties represented presented “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: at the first EdCamp Azusa, hosted by APU’s School of Education. The number of nursing students in APU’s inaugural exchange program Examining the Case of Michael Brown, 20: EdCamp, founded in 2010, provides a participant-driven with Norway. In fall 2015, these students studied at VID Specialized Community Activism, and Law platform for professional learning experiences created by educators for educators. 4: University (formerly Haraldsplass Deaconess University College) in PHOTOS COURTESY OF AMERICAN IDOL Enforcement in Ferguson, Missouri” on The movement quickly grew from 8 locations to 280 in four years and encompasses Bergen, while four Norwegian nursing students journeyed to Azusa Pacific. Through As American Idol, the popular reality APU, Cabral joined University Choir February 25, 2016. The event, hosted international education, professional development, technology, and innovation. coursework and cultural immersion, all eight students explored the role of nursing in show for aspiring vocalists, geared up for and Orchestra (UCO), Gospel Choir, by the Department of Criminal Justice, The premiere of EdCamp Azusa featured 20 sessions covering topics such as Google meeting global health care needs, learned how to conduct research abroad, and spent its 15th and final season, two APU students and the Gospel Chapel Band, and serves drew faculty and students from across Classroom, Apps for Coding, Technology in High School Math, and Facilitating more than 180 hours engaged in hands-on care in local communities. The School of made the first cut and earned a chance as a high school ministry director and disciplines, including psychology, social ELD Time in the Elementary Classroom. Nursing plans the next exchange with Norway in fall 2016. to perform during Hollywood Week. worship leader at Bethany Church in work, biblical studies, and political Melanie Tierce ’17 (above left), worship West Covina. science. Potter, whose research focuses introduced audiences to a wide array members who have manifested APU Named among 10 Best earnings, degree market share, related music major, and Jessica Cabral ’16, Tierce’s family played an important on analyzing the intersection of race, Gospel Sing Celebrates of gospel music interpretations. Joining excellence in the field of hepatology. Colleges for Nursing major concentration, and accreditation. Christian ministry major, auditioned role in her American Idol experience gender, and class as they relate to 25 Years them, the APU Gospel Choir, APU Inducted along with 82 other professionals USA Today named Azusa Pacific This honor coincides with the in San Francisco last summer, and each as well. Unbeknownst to her, Tierce’s crime and violence, offered insight Worship means different things to Worship Team, UMOJA step team, from 14 countries, Pozza was the only University among the 10 best U.S. School of Nursing’s 40th anniversary received unanimous votes to move sister, Kamie, submitted an audition into the case that continues to impact different people. Yet, whether personal VFO dance group, and spoken-word nurse included in the group. As the colleges to earn a nursing degree from of delivering exceptional nursing ahead in the competition, appearing video and surprised her with the news the nation. and private or festive and corporate, it artist Michael Henderson rounded out leading organization of scientists and for 2015-16. APU ranks No. 8, joining education. What began as a fledgling on the show in January 2016. that she had been selected. With the Deshonna Collier-Goubil, Ph.D., gives praise, honor, and glory to God the stellar performances and brought health care professionals committed to other prominent schools, including baccalaureate program now offers Judges Keith Urban, Harry Connick fall semester just getting under way and chair and associate professor in the in countless ways and forms as varied the audience to its feet, reminding preventing and curing liver disease, the University of Pennsylvania and New 4 undergraduate programs with Jr., and Jennifer Lopez praised Cabral’s yearlong commitments to UCO and the Department of Criminal Justice, invited as the Kingdom itself. Celebrating that th performers and attendees alike that AASLD membership boasts more than York University, and stands higher than 2 minors, 8 master’s programs, vocal ability when she performed a chapel worship team, Tierce hesitated. Potter as part of an ongoing effort to diversity, the 25 Annual Gospel Sing, God created His children to worship 9,500 physicians, surgeons, researchers, Johns Hopkins University and George 2 doctoral degrees, multiple community moving rendition of Alicia Keys’ “Brand She sought the advice of her family, expose her students to the depth and sponsored by the Student Center for Him in harmony and unity. and allied health professionals from Washington University. Demand for service programs, strategic partnerships New Me.” A fan of the show since friends, and APU mentors, all of breadth of the criminal justice field, Reconciliation and Diversity, drew more around the world. Pozza earned the those with nursing degrees will increase with hospitals and clinics, accreditation childhood, Cabral faithfully watched whom reminded her that this was a educate the APU community about the than 1,000 people from APU, the local Nursing Faculty Member honor for her clinical research in the area throughout the next decade, according by the Commission on Collegiate each season, drawn to the talented once-in-a-lifetime opportunity—and new department’s scope and function, community, and churches throughout Earns Prestigious Recognition of hepatitis C and clinical drug trials. to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Nursing Education (CCNE), and performers who shared her God-given she seized it. When Tierce sang “Rise and engage Christians in important Los Angeles on February 6, 2016, to the The American This designation constitutes which expects the profession to grow approval from the California Board gift for singing. Cabral comes from Up” by Andra Day, Connick proclaimed conversations about critical social Felix Event Center. Association for the highest honor among AASLD 16 percent by 2024, opening up of Registered Nursing. The School generations of professional, classically it was the best audition he had heard in issues. To this end, Potter offered a The theme this year, Sounds of the Study of membership categories and recognizes 439,300 new jobs. of Nursing graduated nearly 600 last trained vocalists. Her large family three years. scholarly perspective on the Brown case Unity, drew inspiration from Psalm Liver Diseases superior professional achievement in The publication recognized year, its largest class ever. moved from Brazil to America when Though Tierce’s American Idol gleaned from firsthand observations 133:1, which says, “Behold, how good (AASLD) named clinical or academic practice, and in APU’s School of Nursing for its her mother was five months pregnant journey ended in the first round of cuts and data collection in Ferguson. During and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell Renee Pozza, basic or clinical research. The award overall quality and proven track with her, and like a Brazilian version of during Hollywood Week, Cabral made that time, she was teargassed, maced, together in unity” (KJB). Pastor Albert Ph.D., CNS, FNP, goes to members (physicians, scientists, record of preparing nursing students the von Trapps, their a cappella choral it to the next round of the grueling and arrested along with residents and Tate from Fellowship Monrovia served RN, associate researchers, or health care providers) for a successful and rewarding career, group, comprising her parents, siblings, competition. Regardless of the outcome, protestors. She shared her eyewitness as the master of ceremonies. Performers dean of academic affairs and associate who have made significant contributions citing the average early career salary grandparents, great-grandparents, both singers point to their faith, their experience with the APU community, Ty Snow and Xtreme Purpose, Greater professor in the School of Nursing, a to the knowledge and/or practice of for APU nursing graduates as $67,000. aunts, uncles, and cousins, performed family, and APU for the incredible along with the pertinent facts of the L.A. Cathedral Choir, and Lorenzo fellow. She joins an elite group of liver and biliary diseases, and who are The methodology used to determine at churches across the United States. At opportunity. case, including official police reports. Johnson highlighted the evening and considered leaders in the field. APU’s ranking included graduate

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Karen Longman Earns Recent Grants Advance Scholarship at Work Hidden Divinity and Religious Belief: New LoFi#1 (Newtown Gallery, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, October Global Leadership Award Research and Scholarship Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2016) 25-November 30, 2015) artwork by Stephen Childs, MFA, by Adam Green, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department assistant professor, Department of Art and Design; group Dellenback, congressman (R-OR) and Julie Pusztai, Ph.D., RNC, assistant of Philosophy, and Eleonore Stump, Ph.D. (editors) exhibition, archival pigment print, 14” x 14” from 1967-74, Peace Corps director $987,525 professor in the School of Nursing and This collection of new essays written by an international team Childs’ LoFi#1 takes the commonplace and strips it down to until 1977, and CCCU president From the U.S. Department of Health director of the Azusa Neighborhood of scholars offers a groundbreaking examination of one of the its formal elements of light, color, shape, and composition. through 1988, passionately pursued and Human Services’ Health Resources Wellness Center, for advocating a most dynamic current debates in philosophy of religion— He removes the signs, symbols, and reference points from his the development of responsible and Services Administration (HRSA) to healthier Azusa community. divine hiddenness, which considers the absence of evidence photographs, thereby altering viewers’ expectations. Rather leadership. Similarly, Longman strives support the Nurse Faculty Loan Program sufficient to make God’s existence and care for His creatures than using photography to document the world, Childs for innovative approaches to prepare (NFLP). Principal investigator Constance $46,217 apparent to all. Together, the essays constitute a wide-ranging employs it as a means to transform the world. This approach decisive, ethical leaders who are Milton, Ph.D., RN, professor, School of From the National Institutes of dialogue about the problem. They balance atheistic and theistic aligned well with the theme of the Extraordinary Ordinary equipped to guide university Nursing, and several colleagues worked Health (NIH) to Teresa Pegors, Ph.D., standpoints, focusing not only on standard philosophical exhibition to find awesomeness in the mundane. Cocurated campuses in today’s increasingly to secure this competitive grant. The assistant professor, Department of perspectives, but also on insights from Jewish, Muslim, and by Kaoru Hironaka, artist and professor at Kobe Design complex context. program awards grants to accredited Psychology, to conduct data analysis Eastern Orthodox traditions, as well as the apophatic and the University, and Moto Okawa, MFA, cofounder and writer Longman’s extensive experience nursing schools offering educator for “Sex/Gender Differences in Neural mystical. As a result, the volume throws fresh light on this for ArtILikeLA.com and BetterLuckTomorrow.gallery and gives her the platform to accomplish coursework in advanced education Predictors of Receptivity to Health familiar, but important, topic while incorporating contemporary APU adjunct art professor, the exhibition featured nine artists that goal. Her work over the past 20 nursing degree programs that prepare Communication.” work in epistemology and the philosophy of mind and language. from Los Angeles and seven from Japan. years has focused on furthering graduate students to teach. The NFLP The book benefits researchers and advanced students in leadership studies in higher education, fund gives the School of Nursing resources to provide much-needed loans philosophy of religion and theology. Nothing Is Wasted: How God Redeems What Is PHOTO COURTESY OF KAREN LONGMAN, Ph.D. including regular offerings of the $6,500 Broken (Beacon Hill Press, 2016) by Joseph Bentz, Ph.D., Honoring nearly three decades of CCCU’s Leadership Development to registered nurses as they complete their From the Pasadena Methodist The Genre of Biblical Commentary: Essays professor, Department of English scholarly research about the movement Institute, Multi-Ethnic Leadership graduate education to become qualified Foundation to Kirsten Oh, Ph.D., in Honor of John E. Hartley on the Occasion God values redemption so much He scatters hints of it of Christian higher education, with Development Institute, and Women’s nurse faculty. This recent award aims associate professor, Department of of His 75th Birthday (Pickwick Publications, 2015) throughout the universe. Yet, a quick glance at the world may a particular focus on leadership Leadership Development Institute. to enhance loans available for students Practical Theology, to participate in edited by Timothy Finlay, Ph.D., professor, Department reveal more trouble than redemption. Terrorists kill innocents. development, the Council for Christian These programs focus primarily on in the Ph.D. and DNP programs and the California-Pacific Institute for of Biblical Studies, Azusa Pacific Seminary, and Disease sweeps through poor nations and wipes out hundreds, Colleges & Universities (CCCU) named emerging leaders in the CCCU extend the opportunity to the new Missional Wisdom, a 14-month William Yarchin, Ph.D., dean’s endowed professor in their bodies tossed aside. Politicians posture, blame, and ignore Azusa Pacific’s Karen Longman, Ph.D., networks, equipping and encouraging MSN in Nursing Education program. intensive program that provides biblical studies, Department of Biblical and Religious intractable problems. Life may be seen as a series of losses— professor in the Department of Higher those who have been identified as laity and clergy with the theological Studies, School of Theology vanishing youth, decaying possessions, and lost loved ones. Education, the 2016 John R. Dellenback potential senior-level administrators. foundation and practical skills to start $6,627 The genre of biblical commentary, as old as the Bible itself, Despite this pervasive pattern, a countervailing force remains at Global Leadership Award recipient. In Since 1998, more than 500 people From the IDEA Center to Stephanie and lead communities of contemplative remains very much alive as a point of illuminating contact work in the world. In the midst of all this loss beats a relentless recognition of this award, the CCCU have participated in these important Juillerat, Ph.D., associate provost, Center prayer and missional action. between the ancient text and its modern readers. In this pulse of redeeming love and good that thrusts itself through the also created the Longman Fund for programs, producing more than 60 for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment. volume, 14 international Old Testament experts reflect upon chaos and pain. It does not obliterate the pain, but neither does Leadership Excellence in Christian cabinet-level leaders, 30 chief academic The IDEA Impact Grant will fund “Keeping $159,045 multiple challenges of contemporary biblical commentary it allow pain to be wasted—it wrenches good from it. Nothing Higher Education to further advance officers, and 10 university presidents. the Train on the Tracks: Facilitating From the National Science Foundation as a scholarly endeavor. How does a commentator strike a Is Wasted finds hints of redemption in the least expected leadership in Christian higher education. The research-based content and the a Successful Transition to a Mobile to Eric Davis, Ph.D., assistant professor, balance between engagement with the biblical text and the places—in dirt, in whale carcasses, in death, in suffering, in President Jon R. Wallace, DBA, opportunity to learn and apply effective Delivery of Students’ Rating of Teaching” Department of Biology and Chemistry, commentary tradition that the text has generated over the fairy tales, in frustrations, and in the stories of people’s lives. presented the award to Longman at strategies has drawn more than 15 and provide information and resourcing for his project “Collaborative Research: centuries? How does today’s commentator remain relevant the CCCU 40th Anniversary Gala in Azusa Pacific faculty and staff members for a new IDEA delivery model. RUI: Ion Mobility Spectrometry for pastoral and lay readers of the Bible and act responsibly Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Washington, DC, on January 27 as participants, led by resource leaders Radiative Ion-Ion Neutralization for for all the text’s stakeholders? This collection of essays Creative Collaboration of the Inklings (Kent State before her national peers. The accolade including Laurie Schreiner, Ph.D., Gas-phase Ion Transduction,” to lead $17,412 addresses these questions and more in celebration of Azusa University Press, 2016) by Diana Pavlac Glyer, Ph.D., recognizes those who make outstanding chair and professor, and Eileen Hulme, a team of undergraduate and graduate From the Canyon City Foundation to Pacific’s John E. Hartley, Ph.D., distinguished professor of professor, Department of English contributions to Christian higher Ph.D., professor, Department of Higher researchers in an innovative approach Anjelica Juarez, manager of community Old Testament and widely respected for his multiple volumes Glyer presents an inspiring look at the friendship of C.S. Lewis education through scholarship, writing, Education; Anita Henck, Ph.D., dean to chemical detection that will benefit advancement programs in the Center on these topics. and J.R.R. Tolkien, a seat at their table at the Eagle and Child and public influence. Longman joins and professor, School of Education; existing technologies for environmental for Academic Service-Learning and pub in Oxford. Bandersnatch shows how their conversations a prestigious list of past recipients, and Longman. monitoring, medical diagnostics, and Research, for community-based federal made all the difference in the books they were writing, how including Os Guinness, Miroslav Volf, Longman exemplifies not only the military and civilian threat identification. work promoting an exercise program encouragement, correction, and criticism shaped the success and Alister McGrath. spirit of the Dellenback Award, but also to a K-5 school in Azusa Unified School of The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and dozens Longman’s dedication to advancing the CCCU mission: to advance the cause District; Ginny Dadaian, director of more. Illustrated by James A. Owen, Bandersnatch offers a the movement of Christ-centered of Christ-centered higher education and community relations, for the APU wealth of insight into these authors, and more: it shows step education and seeking to diversify to help its institutions transform lives Computer Lab Tutoring program by step what readers can learn from their example. senior leadership mirrors the life by faithfully relating scholarship and assisting Azusa middle school students; and work of the award’s namesake. service to biblical truth.

10 AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY SPRING 2016 11 According to current statistics, less than

THE At first glance, the numbers workers provide additional comfort sound staggering. According to the “We realize to children whose worlds have been Congressional Coalition on Adoption forever changed and offer a tangible 4% of emancipated foster Institute, 397,122 children live in the that we are not way to love our neighbors. children graduate U.S. without permanent families in the My wife and I learned this firsthand. from college. foster care system. Of these, 101,666 alone, but part Over the past four years, our family has are eligible for adoption, but nearly 32 fostered three girls. One was a short FOSTER percent will wait more than three years placement (three months), one became of a growing In California, in foster care before being adopted. our adopted daughter, and our current Although nearly 400,000 foster care community of foster daughter will likely reunite with children may seem too great a challenge her birth family after being with us for for placement, the number of worship foster families two years. As a couple, we feel called places mirrors these statistics. The to this, even though it is not always 36% CARE Hartford Institute estimates that easy. Verses like James 1:27 (NIV)— of emancipated foster heeding God’s roughly 350,000 religious congregations “Religion that God our Father accepts youth are homeless exist in the United States. Of those, as pure and faultless is this: to look after about 338,000 are Christian churches. call.” orphans and widows in their distress within 18 months. How Non-Christian religious congregations Robert R. Duke and to keep oneself from being polluted can APU become a stand at about 12,000. If one family by the world”—caused us to reorient college of choice, a CRISIS from every congregation in the United families reunite with their children in our lives and adjust to the challenges college of hope, for States committed to foster a child, the the foster care system by providing that come along with the transitions. An Opportunity need for foster homes would nearly be items needed to meet county guidelines. However, the more friends we encounter these children? erased. Closer to home, almost 20,000 Its Foster Care Intervention program along this chosen path, the more we foster children live in Los Angeles provides food, clothing, diapers, cleaning realize that we are not alone, but part of to Respond County, home to more than 3,000 supplies, appliances, and furniture to a growing community of foster families List of organizations: evangelical Protestant churches as ensure that homes with minor children heeding God’s call. When that happens, Kidsave: kidsave.org of 2010. These numbers suggest that meet the requirements of Los Angeles our choice to foster seems less dramatic Volunteers with Kidsave’s Weekend several families per congregation and life altering. In a world that often County’s Department of Children and Miracles program commit to hosting could help solve the issue locally. finds fault with evangelicals, we take Family Services (DCFS). In some cases, a foster child on weekends. They Several evangelical groups, like the simple addition of a bed or safe crib heart in John 13:35 (NIV): “By this provide activities and experiences Focus on the Family and the Dream is all a home needs to welcome back a everyone will know that you are my that many foster children, especially ISTOCK.COM Center in Los Angeles, have already child and offer a redemptive presence disciples, if you love one another.” those in group homes, may never begun to turn the tide. According to the in a very difficult societal issue. experience. Robert R. Duke, Ph.D., is interim dean by Robert R. Duke The world watches Christians closely. not as thoroughly as we should. The severe nationwide shortage of homes for Wall Street Journal, “In Colorado alone, Creative thinking at the local level of the School of Theology and Azusa Pacific CASA: casaforchildren.org Some look for evidence that they can foster children suggests this may be an issue that can help realign our focus, Focus has moved about 500 of the helps as well. For example, my own Seminary, and professor in the Department Court-Appointed Special Advocates trust what we believe and preach, others reflect our abiding love of God and obedience to Him, and demonstrate our faith 800 kids in foster care into permanent Nazarene church and a local Vineyard of Biblical and Religious Studies. for Children volunteers may not try to catch us speaking or acting out of to onlookers. homes over the course of less than [email protected] church started a volunteer program become permanent foster parents, but accordance with Scripture—but make For the early Church in the Roman Empire, rescuing abandoned children was two years. The group has had success with the local office of the L.A. County can serve as advocates in the courts, no mistake, they are watching. Our commonplace and integral to sharing the message of the Gospel by ministering to helping infertile couples desperate for DCFS. This program could be easily school districts, and various agencies. responsibility to both the truthseekers the whole person, especially children exposed and left to die. Early Christians’ families, but also in placing children replicated around the country. Basically, and faultfinders must be to constantly commitment to these orphans eventually led Emperor Valentinian to outlaw child with couples who are older, some of we developed a volunteer list of vetted Find a foster agency: realign our lives with the Standard. As abandonment and infanticide in AD 374. For modern evangelicals, the Bible clearly whose children have already grown up (background checks, fingerprinting, adoptuskids.org/for-families/ God’s instruments, we must regularly instructs us to follow that example: “But Jesus called the children to him and said, and left home.” With a focused effort, etc.) people available to entertain, play state-adoption-and-foster-care- evaluate our lives to ensure we have ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of the success realized in Colorado could with, and monitor children who have information not strayed from His will. Do we love God belongs to such as these’” (Luke 18:16, NIV). Unlike the impossible number of spread nationwide. been recently detained and are waiting our neighbor as ourselves? Do we care children the early Church encountered, those needing homes in the United States The Dream Center in Los Angeles for a foster home to become available. for the widows and orphans? Perhaps today lie within reach. approaches the issue practically, helping These extra sets of hands help social

12 AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY SPRING 2016 13 by Caitlin Gipson Facts

Millennials (adults WAYFARE: a coworking space specifically World-Changing Startups 18 to 35) surpassed for startups and early-stage organizations Generation Xers to pursuing the common good become the largest “What if the Church became the human incubator for the world’s best future?” segment of the pastor Erwin McManus asked at Q Ideas 2013, Christianity’s answer to the TED American workforce. conference. He continued speaking, but for two audience members, everything Millennials comprise one-third stopped. Brandon Arbini ’01 and Jeff Tanner ’96, M.Ed. ’99, left the conference of American workers contemplating that question. WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE TO PARTNER WITH and will represent 75 percent of the GOD IN HIS RESTORATION OF THE WORLD? WHAT KIND OF SUPPORT DO Jeff Tanner ’96, M.Ed. ’99 workforce by 2025. BELIEVERS NEED IN ORDER TO CREATE WORLD-CHANGING MOVEMENTS? 67 percent of Millennials expect Brandon Arbini ’01 to start their own businesses.

90 percent of MBA students would forgo financial

DUSTIN REYNOLDS, ’07, MBA ’10 benefits to work for organizations that Over the ensuing months, these seeds of MBA students would forgo financial benefits to work for organizations that prioritize prioritize corporate grew into Wayfare coworking space and corporate social responsibility and ethics. As this generation seeks to advocate social the Wayfare Labs startup incubator in change and address societal problems, Wayfare stands poised to help. social responsibility Costa Mesa, an ambitious venture that Arbini took a circuitous path to Wayfare with the full support, partnership, and and ethics. promises to change the landscape for involvement of his wife, Jill (Tanner ’02), beginning with roles in Web design at Azusa Christ-following entrepreneurs. Wayfare Pacific University’s marketing department, to a Bay Area nonprofit, to lead engineer Labs and its founders provide a powerful for a Wisconsin startup, to the thick of Silicon Valley’s tech startup scene. “Jill and I example of the entrepreneurial environment went through doors as they opened,” he said, “and God led me places I never expected.” and the connected, world-impacting Notably, He took Arbini to a startup in Wisconsin, which “failed spectacularly” but Websites graduates Azusa Pacific University laid the groundwork for remarkable success. “That startup was a shining example WAYFARE LABS: a donor-supported strives to produce. of what not to do,” Arbini said. “The company had a plan A—there was no plan B.” wayfare.io nonprofit, targeting Christ-following Wayfare’s—and APU’s—focus on Later, when Arbini, fellow alumnus Steve Heffernan ’03, MBA ’08, and another wayfarelabs.org transformative entrepreneurship could colleague decided to create Zencoder, a cloud-based video transcoding software, they founders and missional startups not come at a better time. Pew Research learned from the mistakes he had observed—they always had a plan B. Their software reports that last year Millennials (adults startup became a success, and Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s most prestigious startup 18 to 35) surpassed Generation Xers incubator, accepted Zencoder into its three-month program. The startup accelerator to become the largest segment of the paired them with a mentor and provided the opportunity to pitch the product to American workforce. Millennials, who leading venture capital firms. “Y Combinator was an incredible introduction to the now comprise one-third of American startup world,” said Heffernan. “There are innumerable details and pitfalls that aren’t workers and will represent 75 percent obvious from your living room. Y Combinator got us ready and then put us in front of the workforce by 2025, bring new of big-name investors, which was like shooting us out of a cannon on our way out the

PHOTOS COURTESY OF WAYFARE expectations to their careers. A 2014 door.” As a result, Zencoder secured $3 million in funding from giants like Andreessen Bentley University study indicated that Horowitz, Google Ventures, Founders Collective, and Lowercase Capital. The company 67 percent of Millennials expect to start brought in another APU alumnus, Justin Greer ’02, for back-end programming, and their own businesses, and a Stanford after two years of intense work and cross-country commutes, they sold Zencoder to University study revealed that 90 percent Brightcove for $30 million. continued on page 16

14 AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY SPRING 2016 15 ZUVENTUREZ: APU’s annual business “It’s really exciting working with founders, helping them in Y Combinator, Wayfare Labs provides much-needed mentoring. “Christian plan competition create systems and a plan. It’s rewarding to pass on founders face unique challenges,” said to support student Arbini. “Wayfare Labs provides startup knowledge and help others avoid the mistakes I made expertise integrated with emotional and entrepreneurial efforts spiritual support.” when starting out.” —Christine (Brooks ’97) Nolf Jill Arbini now serves as Wayfare’s director of events, and Baerg and Nolf sit on the Wayfare Labs board and serve While Arbini navigated the tech and clearly heard He wanted me to leave ECCU. I didn’t have another opportunity in its advisor network as mentors and startup world, Tanner focused on lined up, but I distinctly heard, ‘I’ll take care of you.’ So I left without knowing where coaches. “It’s really exciting working Christian startups and nonprofits. I was headed.” Weeks later, he and Arbini attended the Q Ideas conference where with founders, helping them create He and fellow alumnus Lucas Baerg ’98 McManus posed that life-altering question, one Tanner ruminated on throughout systems and a plan,” said Nolf, who founded Aionova Media, a business a six-month sabbatical. During that period, God prepared the way for bivocational draws upon 12 years of experience that produced promotional videos for ministry and Wayfare. Redemption Church in Costa Mesa hired Tanner as executive with her own leadership development missions organizations. In addition, pastor, and through conversations with Arbini, the seeds of Wayfare took root. startup. “It’s rewarding to pass on Tanner managed marketing accounts Envisioning the Church as an incubator for innovation fueled their innovation knowledge and help others avoid the for Azusa Pacific University’s marketing and sparked creativity. On a practical level, that shared vision launched Wayfare and mistakes I made when starting out.” department and spent eight years at Wayfare Labs. Wayfare, a coworking space for startups and early-stage organizations Jay Sherer ’03, MBA ’07, Wayfare the Evangelical Christian Credit Union pursuing the common good, houses 75 members representing 30 organizations. Labs’ marketing director and former (ECCU), working his way from marketing Their memberships include access to workspaces, meeting rooms, and community marketing director at ECCU, has director to vice president of strategic events, with the benefit of working alongside like-minded individuals and witnessed the impact the incubator services. During that time, he cofounded organizations with similar ambitious goals—to right the world’s wrongs and has on its participants. “Many believers Reveille, a communications agency bring about restoration. are called to achieve something, but they focusing on public relations and Wayfare does not require coworking organizations to be run by Christians, an have no idea how to make it sustainable,” marketing for social good organizations, idea that Arbini attributes to his time at APU. “APU is unapologetically Christian, he said. “They don’t know how to create and served as board chair for Mika and yet does not require all students to be believers. We strive to create a similar a budget, or they have a paralyzing fear Community Development Corporation, atmosphere. Many nonbelievers strive to do good in the world. We hope that they of asking for money to fund their vision. PHOTOS COURTESY OF ZUVENTUREZ a startup founded by APU alumna will join this community, rub shoulders with Christ followers, and the light bulb Also, spiritual attacks and insecurities Christine (Brooks ’97) Nolf. will go on. They will realize, ‘Oh, this is why I care about the world; it’s God’s plan come with following God’s leading. “They challenged become known for Kingdom-oriented startups like Silicon Valley is for tech startups. encouragement from alumni like Arbini. Tanner was satisfied in this track, to restore it.’” Wayfare Labs addresses these areas and But now that vision is expanding. According to Arbini, “We want Wayfare and “Obviously, the $15,000 was great, but until one day he heard a clear message On the other hand, Wayfare Labs, a donor-supported nonprofit, targets Christ- equips founders to succeed.” my numbers and Wayfare Labs to be catalysts for the transformation of urban centers throughout the most valuable part was getting from God. “I was at a church gathering, following founders and missional startups. Heavily influenced by Arbini’s experience Sherer understands this firsthand. the world, where participants influence culture by living out their faith in all feedback from the panelists, mentors, “Not only do I believe in what we’re my marketing aspects of life.” alumni entrepreneurs, and judges,” she doing, but it also moved me to start my Tanner elaborated: “We believe that this idea of full-life integration reframes said. “They challenged my numbers and nonprofit, Reclamation Society, which strategy, bringing church planting as community planting, where people follow Jesus with their whole my marketing strategy, bringing their reveals biblical truth through modern lives as they work alongside each other, take care of each other, worship together, experience to bear. That wisdom helped storytelling methods (comic books, their experience create beauty, love their neighbors, challenge systems of injustice, and start world- me avoid mistakes I might have made, books, films, and podcasts) and provides changing movements.” and really honed my concept.” gritty, impactful stories to believers to bear. That It’s happening. The first coworking space came online in 2015 and hosts 30 “APU has a tradition of successful while pulling those far from God into wisdom helped me organizations. Two more spaces will soon open in Austin, Texas, and Fullerton, entrepreneurial alumni answering the truth of Jesus Christ.” California, and the team expects 10 additional locations to come online in cities God’s call to make all things new,” This contagious creative enthusiasm, avoid mistakes I across the country over the coming year. And Wayfare Labs graduated its first class said Annie Y. Tsai, Ph.D., APU’s vice informed by a business perspective of founders this year. “Wayfare has meant so much to me,” said Karrie Garcia, president for vocation, innovation, and and Christ-centered conviction, might have made, founder and CEO of Freedom Movement, a nonprofit aimed at drawing women alumni. “Brandon and Jeff exemplify the differentiates Wayfare and, according to closer to God. “Wayfare Labs allowed me to dream even bigger, gave structure to type of alumni that we seek to develop Tanner, speaks to the larger issue: “We’re and really honed startup chaos, and helped implement critical foundational systems to lead well.” and encourage. Not only are they not called to live dichotomized lives, “Wayfare Labs helps people like me with big dreams and visions come to successful entrepreneurs themselves, and yet that is what the Church has my concept.” fruition,” said Karen McMurray, founder of True Blue Science, an environmentally but they also are difference makers become in Western culture. We’ve conscious laundry additive. “The book of Proverbs tells you to surround yourself with Kingdom impact. They use their largely relegated our faith to the Maritza Grissom, MBA ’16 with wise counsel to succeed. Without it, your plans are frustrated. I had investigated learning to invest in the next “Wayfare Labs provides startup expertise consumption of Christian goods and Zuventurez Winner a few accelerator programs before being introduced to Wayfare Labs. None of them generation of founders, both at APU services on a Sunday morning, and that was Christ-centered, which was imperative in order for me to stay on track with and in the world.” integrated with emotional and spiritual DUSTIN REYNOLDS, ’07, MBA ’10 phenomenon is so embedded in our God’s will and His way of fulfilling the dream and vision He has placed in my heart.” Caitlin Gipson ’01 is a freelance writer, culture that we can’t even see it.” Recently, Arbini served as a judge at Zuventurez, APU’s annual business plan support.” —Brandon Arbini ’01 marketing consultant, and SEO specialist in When Arbini and Tanner began, competition. Current student Maritza Grissom, MBA ’16, won $15,000 in seed funds Central California. [email protected] they dreamed that Costa Mesa would to develop her health care education app, PreceptMe, and spoke to the importance of

16 AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY SPRING 2016 17 special collections: 10. Presidential Signature 11. Special Collections Collection Tambourines to Glory, by LUBA ZAKHAROV The Anchor of University Libraries George Washington, Langston Hughes, first President of the author’s presentation 1. Inklings Collection United States; this inscription to Hompen eller En resa Revolutionary War Herbert Hill, Harlem, Dit och Tillbaksigen, discharge was signed April 1962, 1958 J.R.R. Tolkein, first on June 9, 1783, foreign language edition and countersigned of The Hobbit, translated by Jonathan Trumbull, into Swedish, 1947 with the badge 2. Leaf Collection of merit for Mid-13th Century John Stockbridge. Manuscript Bible leaf 10 11 3. Fullerton Collection 1 2 3 The Yosemite, tablet, and rare medieval manuscripts—handwritten copies of the Vulgate—that This transformational element has John Muir, 1912 Because special date back to the 11th century. These can be found in the Leaf Collection and include been credited, in current research, to 4. Rare Book Collection collections historic Coptic, Armenian, Latin, Italian, Hebrew, and Greek leaves (among many the 1998 Boyer Report, which, in an Maps of Los Angeles others) that hold religious significance, represent the history of fine printing, and effort to improve undergraduate from Ord’s Survey of preserve and serve as valuable resources for students in history, languages, and graphic design. education, recommended that 1849 to the End of the Initial access to our Special Collections holdings can be gained through the undergraduate education include Boom of the Eighties, transmit history APU library website. Someone studying the Gold Rush would be impressed by the students’ engagement in research- W.W. Robinson, 380 and culture, George Fullerton Collection, comprising outstanding materials on that period and and inquiry-based learning. This new copies printed by Saul the Westward Expansion and Overland Travel, and teeming with rare, first-edition education model provided 10 and Lillian Marks at the they enable printings, diaries, and maps. The Weber Collection offers one of the most unique, recommendations, with the main focus Plantin Press, 1966 untapped collections related to the Catholic Church in the U.S. and the West, on collaborative teaching and learning, 5. Citrus Crate Label 4 5 6 faculty and compiled and authored by historian Monsignor Francis J. Weber, ACA. In literature, which opened the door to mining Collection, Red Peak APU boasts a growing, ethnic American authors collection, including a recent special collections to create original students to acquisition of Langston Hughes materials. Further, the library has amassed writings research. Because of the historical, Brand, Frances Citrus by collaborative Christian communities, such as the Clapham Saints and the ephemeral, and sometimes sacred Association enter into a Chrysostom Society, as well as an extensive collection of material from C.S. Lewis format of rare resources, APU’s Special 6. Special Collections deep learning and the British literary discussion group known as the Inklings. Collections urge exploration and provide Who’s Got Game? The According to Ken Otto, MLIS, associate professor and Special Collections an avenue for students to engage, Ant or the Grasshopper?, that supports, librarian, the most used is the Photograph Collection, which represents the history observe, and problem solve, making Toni and Slade Morrison, of photography from the 1860s and includes stereo cabinet cards, lantern slides, research meaningful and personal. This Signed by Toni Morrison, informs, or and digital images. In addition, the often-accessed Azusa Foothill Citrus Collection active learning, with the teacher as the Pictures by Pascal refutes secondary and the MacNeil Family Collection provide historic documents of Azusa. guide, transforms education. At Azusa Lemaitre, 2003 These and other primary-source materials often reveal little-known facets of Pacific, this interaction facilitated by 7. Special Collections sources, making history and, therefore, have been known to change the course of scholarship within Special Collections creates communities Let’s Play, Frances 7 8 9 a field of study. Artifacts, such as letters from the Civil War, offer students the ability of faculty and students who, alongside

IMAGES COURTESY OF APU SPECIAL COLLECTIONS way for new H. Gearhart, 900 copies to read handwritten, eyewitness accounts, allowing comparison with other primary one another, discover, create, apply, and sources and enabling them to arrive at independent conclusions about historical transmit new knowledge. Such a dynamic printed by the Book At the heart of every academic library On APU’s Christ-centered campus, our vast Special Collections enriches scholarship circumstances and events. Similarly, newly acquired letters from John Muir and his process allows the university to align Club of California, 2009 lie unique resources that anchor the learning through exhibits, such as John Muir: A Centennial Remembrance that can inspire family provide a new lens on the Hetch Hetchy fight. with the library in a symbiotic and 8. Rare Book Collection general collections. At Azusa Pacific, (1914-2014); events, such as Dennis Kruska’s lecture at the opening reception for the These resources in hardcopy bring the past into the present in powerful ways. organic way that anchors the institution’s Mountains and these rare items comprise the Special John Muir exhibit; and through classroom instruction, including California outside scholars And although the future of Special Collections includes making rare items available mission to develop disciples and Molehills, or Collections, which include historic history resources used by Bryan Lamkin, Ph.D., professor in the Department of in digital format, nothing compares to a face-to-face engagement with authentic scholars equipped to conduct research Recollections of a primary-source materials. Given the History and Political Science. Because special collections preserve and transmit to conduct artifacts—such as seeing an original illuminated manuscript—when it comes to effectively, seek truth confidently, and Burnt Journal, digital proliferation of books, journals, history and culture, they enable faculty and students to enter into a deep learning giving students a sense of experiencing history firsthand. APU’s extensive Special nurture imaginative inquiry in others. Frank Marryat, 1855 and aggregated databases now available that supports, informs, or refutes secondary sources, making way for new research at APU. Collections provide the depth, breadth, and weight that grounds scholarly research in for online research, why do special scholarship that can inspire outside scholars to conduct research at APU. a way that only these genuine treasures can. The sight of a book signed by Napoleon Luba Zakharov, M.A., MTS, MLS, MFA, 9. Fullerton Collection librarian, and curator of Special Collections Diseños of California collections matter to libraries? In 2009, According to ARL, special collections include “rare books, generally dating from Bonaparte triggers wonder and spurs questions about where it came from, how it ard rare books. [email protected] th Ranchos, 400 copies the Association of Research Libraries the dawn of European printing to some point in the 19 century,” with “manuscripts, got into his hands, and why he signed it. Special Collections stands as a testament printed at the Grabhorn (ARL) asserted that university archival collections of mixed formats including prints, drawings, and photographs, that history encompasses more than the text of a rare document—the power of these libraries’ special collections “increasingly and graphic materials such as maps, theatrical publications, pamphlets, advertising irreplaceable items lies in the fact that they are themselves pieces of history, like a Press, San Francisco, define the uniqueness and character of and posters, and sometimes newspapers, which were not published in book format.” Gutenberg Leaf or the 1611 King James Bible. They transform and inspire students’ Robert H. Becker, 1964 individual research libraries.” Counted among APU’s vast holdings are the Dead Sea Scroll fragments, a cuneiform curiosity, fueling the passion to pursue advanced studies and contribute to history.

18 AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY SPRING 2016 19 “Athletic trainers safeguard others, coming alongside and supporting them through suffering with empathy.” Christopher Schmidt, Ph.D.

These are athletic trainers. Once neurology, orthopedics, psychiatry, stereotyped as assistants who taped rheumatology, and physical therapy. ankles and refilled water coolers, While the profession required today they evaluate athletes’ preseason a bachelor’s degree in the past, the physical conditions, ensure the safety high demands of athletic trainers of training routines, monitor the now reach into the graduate realm, quality of facilities and equipment, heralding a major shift toward more and eliminate risks stemming from rigorous education, with hundreds of ATH LETIC environmental factors. “Prevention schools slated to transition to master’s is the focus of athletic trainers,” said programs in the next seven years. Christopher Schmidt, Ph.D., director APU leads the charge, beginning stocked with all the equipment and tools of a modern athletic training facility, of APU’s new Master of Science in preparations for this change in 2008 creating a flexible classroom and lab environment. In research teams headed by Athletic Training program. “While and welcoming 12 students as the first faculty members, students explore current health care questions, conduct original other health care professionals provide graduate cohort in July 2015. “With research, and write for publication. care in clinics or hospitals after injury health care evolving and sports injury Raising the demand for quality athletic trainers, injuries—particularly or illness occurs, athletic trainers enter rates rising, we see a greater need for concussions—and their possible long-term consequences stand as one of the most TRAINING the lives of their clients on a daily quality care and holistic understanding pressing issues in sports. In an effort to better understand sports-related head basis, standing on the sidelines during at the preventive level,” said Schmidt. injuries, APU joins 20 other schools in the most comprehensive concussion study THE NEW GENERATION practices and games, ready for action.” “APU already stood as a leader in to date, spearheaded by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Outside the realm of sports, sports and health care education; U.S. Department of Defense. Starting in August 2015, the school’s sports medicine athletic trainers serve and protect now other institutions making the staff recorded student-athletes’ preseason physical, mental, and emotional people in countless industries, same curriculum changes look to us health, and, in the event of head injury, will conduct postconcussion evaluations EVOKEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM including musicians, dancers, as an example for athletic training at prescribed time points. “APU athletic trainers stood ahead of the curve in by Bethany Wagner police officers, military personnel, graduate education.” concussion management, already using procedures to care for students that Around the nation, a force of health care professionals works businesspeople, and factory workers. Today, APU athletic training nearly matched the study’s protocol,” said April (Reed ’95) Hoy, associate athletics Illustration by diligently, often in the background, on the soccer field, in sports “An athletic trainer might observe alumni from the past three decades director and director of sports medicine and wellness for APU’s 19-sport program. Carol Arevalo ’17 laborers who sit in the same position serve high school and college sports “The results will help treat and prevent concussions for all, giving athletic trainers locker rooms, in corporate offices, in factories. Armed with vast eight hours a day, lifting pieces of teams, as well as in hospitals and on valuable knowledge to add to their skill set.” equipment and straining their backs,” Army bases. The new program builds This comprehensive preparation allows students to leverage APU’ssignature interdisciplinary knowledge of medicine and modern health care, said Schmidt. “The athletic trainer then on this track record of success, but blend of forward thinking and innovation to serve people in need throughout the they identify possible injuries before they happen, catching even analyzes how to adjust the environment with deeper coursework and expanded world and distinguishes them among their peers. In May 2017, APU’s first graduate so the workers remain safe and thrive.” opportunities for clinical education cohort of athletic training students will receive their degrees, ready to protect the smallest risk factors affecting high school football players, Yet, even with these preventive and research. “Students gain real-world athletes, performers, and workers in all industries, adding to an ongoing legacy of measures, a muscle may tear, an ankle experience during clinical rotations at quality health care education. “The servant-oriented mission of the athletic trainer college volleyball players, professional golfers, businesspeople, twists, a player falls to the ground. local high schools, colleges, physical aligns well with the mission of an evangelical, Christ-centered university,” said and more. In the case of injury, they provide treatment and Athletic trainers skillfully diagnose therapy clinics, and physician offices, Schmidt. “Athletic trainers safeguard others, coming alongside and supporting and treat injury to almost any part caring for patients of myriad ages them through suffering with empathy.” rehabilitation, working with patients toward healing from of the body, drawing on a thorough and backgrounds,” said Schmidt. understanding of internal medicine, They study, experiment, and conduct Bethany Wagner ’14 is a freelance writer and editor based in Portland, Oregon. beginning to end. nutrition, concussion studies, research in a 1,300-square-foot lab [email protected]

20 AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY SPRING 2016 21 No For Bello, compete on a hearing college team. like everyone else. But one thing I know personal achievement, but divine She set her sights on Azusa Pacific. for sure: The only way to succeed is to sustenance. Like Paul, she has found “Sydney is a very strong, talented give it everything you’ve got.” that no matter her lot in life, she can Excuses normal swimmer, especially in the 400 IM and Bello models the essence of the endure all circumstances and live took on new distance events, and she always contributes Apostle Paul’s words in Philippians contentedly—no excuses. She had every reason to make excuses. Instead, in meets by scoring points for our team,” 4:13 (NRSV): “I can do all things meaning as a said head coach Tim Kyle. “Sydney does through him who strengthens me.” Cynndie Hoff is a freelance writer and editor living in Walnut, California. Sydney Bello ’17, a deaf girl who forged her way the work and produces results.” She knows this verse speaks not about toddler battling [email protected] through public schools in four cities, chose to Though a cochlear implant and multiple ear an external hearing aid help her hear focus on the positive, excel at her favorite sport, on land, when she’s in the pool she and make a place for herself in a hearing world. infections that removes her “ear,” as she calls it. Immersed in silence, she relies on caused progressive written practice plans, lip reading, hearing loss. By and hand gestures to follow her coach’s directives and her teammates’ age 3, she was encouragement. When most swimmers start a race, they stand on the block completely deaf, with their heads down and listen for and the world the buzzer before exploding off their mark. When Bello starts a race, she fell silent. must keep her head up and watch for a hand signal. Though ideally simultaneous, the buzzer and hand gesture often stagger. In a sport where hundredths of a second make the Sydney Bello’s 2015-16 Bests difference between winning and losing, PHOTOS BY DUSTIN REYNOLDS, ’07, MBA ’10 this puts Bello at a distinct disadvantage. Events Record “It doesn’t matter,” she said. “When 100-Yard Freestyle 55.32 I see someone enter the water before by Cynndie Hoff She credits her success to her faith, family, and refusal to claim deafness as an Bello tried her hand at several sports: in the water, I can completely unplug,” me, it just makes me swim harder and 200-Yard Freestyle 1:57.46 excuse for anything. “I don’t think a disability, whether it’s a learning issue, basketball, soccer, even cheerleading. But she said. “I only hear myself.” faster. It fires me up and spurs me on. 500-Yard Freestyle 5:14.04 blindness, loss of a limb, or any other challenge, should define people,” said Bello. nothing felt right until she dove into a Her comfort in that environment, Those are the best victories.” “I think of myself as normal, and I want others to do the same.” pool. It made perfect sense since her dad, coupled with her tenacity and athletic In fact, for Bello, each race 1000-Yard Freestyle 11:21.05 For Bello, “normal” took on new meaning as a toddler battling multiple ear sister, and brother were swimmers, but talent, caught the attention of club represents a mental, physical, and 100-Yard Backstroke 1:03.37 infections that caused progressive hearing loss. By age 3, she was completely deaf, even they did not realize that she had team coaches, and she began training spiritual victory. She has not only and the world fell silent. Her family rallied around her and prayed about the right it in her until they saw her butterfly. year round. The extra work paid off, succeeded despite her deafness, but she 100-Yard Butterfly 1:02.02 path for her: deaf school or mainstream? In one scenario, she would have myriad Though considered the most difficult as she earned a spot at the 2011 U.S. has also come to view it as a blessing. 200-Yard Butterfly 2:19.94 resources at her disposal in an environment tailored to her every need. In the other, stroke in the swimmer’s repertoire, Bello World Deaf Swimming Championships “It has given me a broader perspective she would struggle to fit and fight to succeed every step of the way. They chose the made it look easy. She also discovered held in Portugal. At 15—one of the on life,” said Bello. “I know there are 200-Yard Individual Medley 2:16.98 latter. “I am so grateful that my parents made that decision,” Bello said. “They knew the gift of endurance and excelled at youngest competitors at the event— many people out there with struggles 400-Yard Individual Medley 4:41.81 it would be hard, but they also knew I could do it and would be stronger for it. And long-distance events that most swimmers she placed fourth in the butterfly far greater than mine. I am blessed with they were right. I had to work harder than most to make friends and learn new skills. avoid. She found her niche in the water, and sixth in the 400 individual an amazingly supportive family and a But that’s what made me adaptable; that’s what made me explore new ways of doing where silence surrounds all who enter medley (IM). She returned home God who is so much bigger than my things, use the gifts I have, and value every success even more.” and levels the playing field. “When I’m confident in her skills and ability to problems. I deal with self-doubt just

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APU Connect Alumni Survey APU Connect is an online community that gives alumni a simple, yet Thanks to all who comprehensive, way to find friends, make business connections, advance participated in Cougars Participate in NFLPA Collegiate Bowl their careers, give back in creative ways, and strengthen ties with APU. Visit the alumni survey. For the second consecutive year, two players represented the Winter Sports Updates apuconnect.com and register using LinkedIn or Facebook to gain immediate Congratulations Azusa Pacific football program at the National Football League Women’s Basketball: Azusa Pacific finished the regular season on a 13-game access to a hub of activity, including the latest news, up-to-date personal to Melodie and professional information, and opportunities for internships, mentorships, Arbaban-Ghafouri ’15, Players Association (NFLPA) Collegiate Bowl. Josh Atkinson ’16 winning streak to claim the program’s first Pacific West Conference regular-season speaking engagements, and job searches and posts. Joe Handley ’87, Danielle Quan ’14, and Paul Flores ’15 participated in the January 23 game, championship, going 25-3 overall and 19-1 in PacWest play. The Cougars ended and Susan Santoro ’13 winners broadcast nationally on ESPN2. Atkinson recorded three th the regular season ranked 17 nationally, the program’s highest national ranking of Amazon gift cards. An update on tackles in the game for the National team, which also featured Reconnect in NCAA Division II era. Find and reminisce with fellow graduates, see what they have been up to, survey results is coming this summer. Flores as an offensive lineman and Cougar offensive line coach Jackie Slater as a Men’s Basketball: Azusa Pacific wrapped up its second consecutive PacWest and stay in touch. position coach for the National team’s 18-17 victory. regular-season title, finishing in a four-team tie atop the conference standings but Water Polo Makes Splash Overseas claiming the head-to-head tiebreaker with season sweeps of all three co-leaders. Give Back Introduce, employ, and offer to act as a mentor to graduating students. In January, the Azusa Pacific women’s water polo team went on The Cougars finished with a record of 21-7 overall, 15-5 PacWest.

a 12-day preseason tour to Hungary. The Cougars spent most of Women’s Swimming and Diving: For the second consecutive year, Azusa Pacific Expand the trip in Budapest training with numerous college-level teams sent three representatives to the NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving National Leverage APU’s professional network and connect with like-minded people. and receiving coaching from top-level national coaches. Away Championships. Kianna Mourer ’18 made her second national championship from the pool, the team toured historic locations in Budapest, diving appearance, while Rachel Johns ’19 and Abigail Wiet ’19 are first-time Advance including the Turkish Tower, Parliament, and centuries-old national championship qualifiers. Advance your career through inside connections working in top companies. castles. The team also volunteered at a local homeless shelter. ­Upcoming Athletics Events Cougar Distance Runners Compete at Olympic Marathon Trials ACROBATICS and TUMBLING Family Fun Nights Create and Celebrate April 4 I 6:30 p.m. I Cougars vs. Oregon I Felix Event Center Two Azusa Pacific track and field alumni competed for spots This could be a weekly or monthly time Rites of Passage on the 2016 U.S. Olympic team at the marathon Olympic Trials BASEBALL when the family comes together to have On the whole, our culture has not done on February 13 in Los Angeles. Aron Rono ’09 qualified for the April 20 I 3 p.m. I Cougars vs. Concordia I Angel Stadium of Anaheim Here are some ideas for passing on fun. You can stick to the old standbys a great job in marking our kids’ progress trials with the 6th-fastest half-marathon time, although he was May 9 I 12 p.m. I Cougars vs. California Baptist (DH) I Cougar Baseball Complex Pass It On: your family legacy: (movies, dinner, or picnics), or you can in passing from childhood to adulthood unable to compete due to injury. Lauren Jimison ’12 finished be more creative and make up your own through establishing and celebrating rites SOFTBALL Building a 36th out of 149 finishers with a time of 2:44:30 in her first Service Projects or Mission Trips traditions and implement new ideas. of passage. In our new book, Pass It On April 9 I 12 p.m. I Cougars vs. Concordia (DH) I Cougar Softball Complex trials experience. The top three finishers in the Olympic Trials earned a spot Legacy of Faith Many families draw closer together April 29 I 5 p.m. I Cougars vs. California Baptist (DH) I Cougar Softball Complex (David C. Cook, 2015), Jeremy Lee and One-on-One Times on the U.S. Olympic Team to compete at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in by Jim Burns while serving together, and draw I provide parents with an inspiring set Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August. TENNIS strength from these times. Serving When our daughters were growing up, of very doable experiences for their kids Most parents recognize the eternal April 13-16 I Pacific West Conference Championships I Surprise, Arizona together builds a strong legacy we called these “dates.” These were the from kindergarten through grade 12. worth of passing on a legacy of faith to Cougar Pros: Watson and Nieuwenhuis Change Teams foundation for any family. times when Rebecca and I went out for It helps parents create and celebrate TRACK AND FIELD their kids, but many struggle with how Mexican food, or Christy and I took important rites of passage in their Major League Baseball: The Milwaukee Brewers claimed Kirk Nieuwenhuis ’09 April 14-15 I Bryan Clay Invitational I Cougar Athletic Stadium to do it. For better or worse, whether Vacations and Adventures April 28-29 I Pacific West Conference Championships I Cougar Athletic Stadium in a play, or Heidi took me surfing. children’s lives as a family. We believe on waivers December 23, 2015. The 28-year-old outfielder became the first Azusa intentionally or by default, all parents You don’t have to be rich to create I found that some of my most fruitful these rites of passage will influence Pacific baseball player to play in the World Series, appearing in four Fall Classic leave legacies of life and faith to their great family vacations and adventures. WOMEN’S WATER POLO conversations with the girls happened your children’s faith for a lifetime and games for the 2015 National League champion New York Mets. April 1 I 5 p.m. I Cougars vs. Santa Clara I Citrus College Pool children. However, those who seek Our kids knew that every Easter vacation during our monthly one-on-one times. secure your family’s spiritual legacy for purposeful ways to build a legacy we would go to the beach, just like National Football League: The Cleveland Browns signed Terrell Watson ’15 generations to come. to a reserve/future contract. Watson spent the 2015 NFL season on the Cincinnati look for ways to promote special they knew that each child would get Holiday Traditions Bengals’ practice squad. moments, traditions, rites of passage, to choose a family adventure when If you build in special family events For more help, visit homeword.com. The and memories their kids will cherish she graduated from high school. that become traditions, you will develop HomeWord Center for Youth and Family at and replicate. lifelong, positive memories. Azusa Pacific University with Jim Burns ’75, Ph.D., and Doug Fields values strong marriages, confident parents, empowered kids, and healthy leaders.

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Company, 2016). Previously, he was world collides with an alternate universe. 1970s 2010s 3 CAMERON DEMETRE ’13 is a 5 MOLLY KNUTSON ’15 moved to 11 KYLE YOUNG ’11 to EMILY 17 KIERSTYN IMLAY ’14 to NATHAN associate dean of the School of Visual Cheryl lives in San Jose, California. fellow in the Senate Fellowship Program, an France after graduation to take care of YOUNG ’12 on July 24, 2015, at MARTELL ’15 on November 7, 2015, GARY PRESTESATER ’72 recently and Performing Arts and professor of art [email protected] 2 STEPHANIE KING ’12 works in 11-month program for college graduates to two children as an au pair while exploring Ardenwood Historic Farms in Fremont, at Christ Community Church of Laguna posted his 500th win. He earned it at at APU. Jim’s wife, RACHEL (SAVONA London at the Savoy, a five-star hotel, JULIA TOOTHACRE ’05, M.S. ’11, work as full-time staff members in the Europe. She writes about her experiences California. Emily teaches third grade in Hills, California. Members of the San Dimas High School, where he ’97), earned a Master of Arts in Modern as a part of its leadership development serves as assistant director for career capital of California, Sacramento. Fellows at aupairdonmyfrench.wordpress.com/. Dublin Unified School District, and Kyle wedding party included EVAN coached basketball for 25 years, turning Art History at APU in May 2015. Rachel program. After graduating from APU, development at the Peter F. Drucker and work in the California State Assembly, [email protected] is a customer account analyst at Palo GALLAGHER ’13, JEFF MARTELL ’13, the program into one of the best in the and Jim live in Carlsbad, California, she worked at the Resort at Pelican Masatoshi Ito School of Management Senate, Executive Branch, or Judiciary, Alto Networks. They live in Pleasanton. KATIE (SCHAEFER ’14) MOLINA, area. Gary coached at West Covina High with their three children: Samantha, 15; Hill in Newport Beach for two and a 6 MICHAEL LAWSON ’15 is a at Claremont Graduate University. She and experience policymaking, program and KAYLA (YARIAN ’14) THORNHILL. from 2004-07 and achieved his 499th win Trey, 12; and Logan, 9. half years, and later moved to Oxford, full-time global treasury analyst with 12 EMILEE COOK ’12 to Jordan works with international and domestic development, and program implementation. The couple lives in Glendora. there. This year, the current San Dimas [email protected] England, to complete her master’s World Vision and supports cash and Nakasone on October 2, 2015. MBA candidates and provides strategic Previously, Cameron served as a civil- coach convinced him to come back for degree in international hotel and financial risk management. He predicts Members of the wedding party included 18 KRISTIN LATO ’14 to Timm vision in building the career development military consultant with NATO in London, one more game, allowing Gary to secure 2000s tourism management. liquidity positions and validates the CAITLIN BISHOP ’12 and MEG Sautter on May 30, 2015, in Milwaukee, program. Previously, Julia worked as a Fulbright fellow in Korea, and an his 500th win. Gary played for Azusa [email protected] organization’s bank accounts within FREDERICK ’12. Wisconsin. SARAH HYDE ’15 was STEPHEN LARKIN ’04 completed the the outreach and marketing coordinator international development associate College under then-Coach Cliff Hamlow global markets and currencies. Michael a bridesmaid. The couple lives in Athens Marathon on November 8, 2015, and career consultant at the Center with Empowering Lives International in 13 HANNAH GREGERSON ’13 to and led the nation in scoring with an optimizes World Vision’s bank account Chicago, Illinois. in Greece. He and his wife, EVANGELIA for Career and Calling at APU. Julia Tanzania. Cameron lives in Sacramento. GARRETT MINER ’13 on September 5, average of 33 points per game in the structure while also serving as a liaison (PATSAOURA ’02), are Foursquare and her husband, Danny, live in [email protected] 2015, in Visalia, California. Members 19 KIARA QUINN ’14 to BRADY 1963-64 season. with other functions within the organization. Rancho Cucamonga, California. of the wedding party included ANDERSON ’14 on January 30, 2016, missionaries. They have two children: ANTHONY POWELL, M.A. ’13, and Previously, Michael served as a global [email protected] ELAINA GREGERSON ’15, KELSI in San Diego. Alumni in the wedding 1990s Gabriela Zoé, 7, and Ariel Agapi, 4. his wife, BONNIE, M.A. ’12, launched treasury finance intern. The family lives in Athens. DANCIART ’16, DANIELLE HOYME ’13, party included MARISSA QUINN ’11, ERIKA ZAMORA ’09, M.A. ’15, the nondenominational Redeemed Life G. JAMES “JIM” DAICHENDT ’98 [email protected] JOHN “JAY” HOBZA ’14, MALACHI SARAH (BYRNE ’14) DIENER, obtained a school counselor position at Church in Azusa, a branch of Oasis JUST MARRIED recently began his position as dean of KOBAYASHI ’15, and ARTHUR SCOTT KINNEY ’14, JAMARKO 1 CHERYL (HOTCHKISS ’04) Rosemary Kennedy Elementary shortly Church in Los Angeles, in January 2016. the arts and humanities and professor 7 LIESL PALMER ’96 to Chad METZ ’14. The couple lives in Dixon. WASHINGTON ’14, BRETT BERKEY ’14, PEEVYHOUSE published Where Futures after finishing her master’s program. The Powells approach the endeavor with of art history at Point Loma Nazarene Arceneaux on January 18, 2015, in [email protected] and JORDAN KUSCHEL ’15. After End (Kathy Dawson Books, 2016) under Erika, her husband, Ricardo, and their 15 years of church service experience University in San Diego. Jim also recently Sisters, Oregon. Her three sisters were graduation, Kiara and Brady maintained the pen name Parker Peevyhouse. The two sons, Erik, 12, and Nicolas, 1, live in and plan to develop an internship 14 ROBYN HARDY ’13 to BRAD published his fifth book, Kenny Scharf: in the wedding party, including BRYN a long-distance relationship between novel explores what happens when the Perris, California. [email protected] program similar to the one they POST ’13 on October 10, 2015, in In Absence of Myth (Cameron + (PALMER, ATTENDED 1992-96) Seattle and the Inland Empire. In August implemented at Oasis. They have Point Loma, California. Members MATHISON and MALAIKA (PALMER, 2015, Brady moved to Southern triplets, Anthony, Alannah, and Leilani, 9. of the wedding party included ATTENDED 1995-96) JOHNSTON. California to be closer to Kiara and The family lives in Glendora, California. MELODY HOFFMAN ’13, SUSANNA Liesl is a landscape designer and has realized he wanted to marry her. After COUGAR INTERVIEW—STEVEN SINGLEY ’95 [email protected] (HOFFMAN ’13) JANAS, and MORGAN owned her own business since 2006, their wedding, they moved to Brea, (LUND ’13) VOTAW. RICK GIVENS ’83, SINGLEY: Philosophically, justice at who are trying to co-parent in the midst APU LIFE: What role does your faith play 4 AMY BRAGG CAREY, ED.D. ’14, while Chad is a lawyer in Tacoma, where Kiara works as a public accountant, M.A. ’03, officiated the wedding. Brad the county level involves administering of a contentious divorce case, I empathize. in your job? became president of Friends University Washington. The couple lives in Tacoma and Brady serves as a project coordinator The more life experience judges have, the works for AstraZeneca, and Robyn for the law and justice equally, which is SINGLEY: It’s not so much how my faith in July. She previously served as vice with their dog, Abednego, and their for a construction company in Anaheim, better we can relate to the emotionally Zillow Group in Irvine. difficult for judges to manage. What if impacts me on the bench, but how it president for institutional advancement at cat, Pierre. California. [email protected] a person cannot afford the filing fee to charged situations before us. the University of Northwestern-St. Paul 15 SEAN SIDDERS ’13 to KIMBERLY prepares me to be fair. I try to start my 8 MEGAN EDMISTER ’06 to Michael sue someone who wronged him or her? since 2003, and director of development JOHNSON ’14 on October 4, 2015, at FUTURE ALUMNI APU LIFE: How do you leverage your day with a devotional reading and prayer McGhee on May 11, 2014, in Nashville, What if a person cannot afford to hire for peace, protection, guidance, and for Minnehaha Academy for four years the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, background in international studies and Tennessee. REBECCA (SLOAT ’05) 20 To JENNIFER (ULRICH ’99) an attorney and must square off against prior. Additionally, Amy spent 13 years California. Alumni in the wedding party military service on the bench? patience for all the parties involved. LOPEZ was in the wedding party. The GASTON and her husband, John, a an experienced counsel on the other with the HealthEast Foundation of included SAM KEMP ’14, NICKY The job itself helps strengthen my faith couple lives in Franklin, Tennessee. daughter, Katherine Grace, on July 29, side? What if both sides to a dispute SINGLEY: I credit the Navy and martial St. Paul, Minnesota, in roles of increasing SLAVICH ’14, DAVID BURKE ’14, because I realize it’s a privilege. We’re just [email protected] 2015. She joins big sister, Rebecca, 3. are self-represented and know nothing arts for teaching me discipline, both of responsibility, including system director GRANT BRIDGES ’12, ELIZABETH here until true justice comes. Jennifer directs the adults’ and children’s of the law or the rules of procedure? the mind and the body, which helped of development, director of major 9 KATE WALLACE ’10 to LEIF HAEGER ’13, and LINDSEY RATHER ’14. choirs at Christ Lutheran Church in Can justice be accomplished under these me buckle down and study hard during APU LIFE: What advice do you have for and planned giving, and director of NUNNELEY ’12 on January 10, The couple lives in Pasadena. Brea, California, and also stays at home circumstances? Yes, but it’s not easy, college. The rigors of the political science someone considering a law-related field? development. She also served on the 2016, in the Hugh and Hazel Darling [email protected] with the kids. The family lives in La Habra. and I am very aware of the difficulties. program at APU helped prepare me for national standards committee for the Library at APU. The couple lives in SINGLEY: Assess your motives and ask 16 EMMA GREENROYD ’14 to JOSIAH [email protected] © 2015 RICHARD BURNETT PHOTOGRAPHY I try my best to offer the necessary the demands of law school. As a judge Evangelical Council for Financial Bakersfield, California. yourself, “Is God in my plan?” If so, go all LEHMAN-SCHLETEWITZ ’15 on The Honorable Steven Singley ’95, guidance they require without favoring at the county level, the cases I handle Accountability, and as chair of the 21 To ALLISON (GRANT ’00) LUGAR in. If it is a true calling, it will be a fulfilling 10 TRENT MINOR ’11 to LESLIE- December 20, 2015. Members of the appointed to the bench in the San either side. do not relate to the subject matter of Chief Institutional Advancement Officers and her husband, MATT ’01, a daughter, and adventurous ride. Looking beyond ANNE PICONE (ATTENDED 2008-12) wedding party included JOY (LEHMAN- Bernardino Superior Court in 2014 by the courses I took at APU or the work Commission for the CCCU. Additionally, Evelyn Rae, on April 5, 2015. She joins APU LIFE: How does having kids, with law school, the most successful on June 19, 2015, in Menlo Park, SCHLETEWITZ ’14) BEARDWOOD and Governor Jerry Brown, considers serving I did while I was in the Navy Reserves. she is past president of the Minnesota big sisters, Brynn, 8; Hayden, 6; and your wife, Debbie (Adema) ’92, influence practitioners I know are those who possess California. Members of the wedding party CASSIE SOKACH ’15, and alumni in as a judge a privilege. Relying on discipline However, the discipline I learned from Planned Giving Council, and has served Savanna, 3. Matt is a partner at Pathway you on the bench? good people skills. The ability to relate to included ERIKA (NAVARRETE ’09) attendance included Josiah’s parents, from his mastery of martial arts and those experiences carries over to my on a number of nonprofit boards. Amy Capital Management, and Allison stays at people from different backgrounds and HETZER, JENNIFER WHITTEN ’10, PAUL LEHMAN-SCHLETEWITZ ’81 unwavering faith reinforced through daily SINGLEY: As a family law judge, being daily work as I read and analyze cases, and her husband, Bryan, have two home with the kids. The family lives in negotiate with difficult people—whether DARIN MCGINNIS ’12, DAVID ROSS and KATHY (BIVINS ’79) LEHMAN- devotionals, Singley fights for fairness by a parent—especially of teenagers—helps receive argument from counsel, and children, Anna and Brett. Lincoln, Rhode Island. attorneys or parties—is paramount to ’11, and JEFF ALTIZER ’11, BSN ’14. SCHLETEWITZ ’79. The couple met remaining both grounded and grateful. me understand some of the challenges then put to use those critical thinking success in this field, as it is with most They live in Dublin. [email protected] at an APU math major barbeque. continued on page 33 facing parents who appear before me in skills that I honed at APU. APU LIFE: Describe your vision for things in life. court. Raising kids is hard under the best justice in your area. of circumstances, so when I see people

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Packing a Powerful Punch Care in the Guillotine, hammerfist, and arm bar. These terms may sound like medieval torture Ware, who went from a college entrepreneur to launching a store franchise called techniques to some, but for Branden Ware ’04, founder of West Coast Fighting West Coast Nutrition in 2005 and manufacturing several of his own brands such as Championship (WFC), a mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion organization, they Exclusive Pharmaceuticals, Transformulation Labs, and 360 Nutrition. With the mean big business. A full-contact sport combining different fighting styles like support of influential friends like Final Moments National Football League quarterback karate, boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, Muaythai, and Brazilian jujitsu, MMA is among the fastest-growing sports in the world. Armed with a keen business sense and Tom Brady, as well as other well-known surrounded by a few close friends, Ware contributes significantly to its rapid ascent. athletes, his franchise has expanded by Bethany Wagner “In baseball terms, the WFC is like the Triple A for our fighters,” said Ware, who throughout the U.S. and continues has worked with former APU football teammates James Irvin, an Ultimate Fighting to thrive. Championship (UFC) veteran, and Orlando Sanchez, a current undefeated WFC During his time at APU, Ware fighter. “We strive to be the stepping-stone that catapults these fighters into our reflected on what it means to be a Sitting alone in a hospital next to her guide caretakers during those moments reveal that the nurse had not cared for In the past two years, the CARES sport’s big leagues.” Christian man in today’s society, mother’s bedside, Bonnie Freeman, of high stress and emotion toward a dying patient since her own mother tool garnered international attention In just three short years, WFC has sent more than 50 fighters to compete in the inspiring him to author his first book, RN, DNP ’13, knew she had found her confidence and compassion. passed away. “Her eyes filled with tears and strengthened end-of-life care at top MMA octagons of the UFC, Bellator, and World Series of Fighting, and recently Surrendering Soul (Holy Fire Publishing, calling. Nursing staff placed them in the With encouragement from APU as she shared her concerns, and I affirmed almost 100 hospitals and hospice centers orchestrated one of the most-coveted coups in the industry—a pay-per-view 2004), about his spiritual growth, while PHOTO COURTESY OF BRANDEN WARE ’04 farthest corner of the hall so her mother’s faculty and fellow students, she brought and encouraged her,” said Freeman. worldwide, including sites in Canada, television deal. Between garnering national attention from the industry’s top media still a student. He learned then the “We strive to be the stepping- labored breathing wouldn’t disturb the this project to fruition during her time “By attending to our own nurses’ fears Australia, New Zealand, Dubai, India, outlets and drawing personal interest from UFC president Dana White, WFC puts a importance of a faith-based business. stone that catapults these other patients. Caretakers rarely came as one of the university’s first doctoral and unresolved grief, they find healing, Taiwan, and numerous states. Freeman chokehold on the competition. “You’d be surprised when these guys fighters into our sport’s big to check on them. “As a young graduate nursing students. For her translational freeing them to embrace their roles as also presented CARES at several national From an early age, Ware sought inspiration for his business endeavors from are about to get locked in a cage with leagues.” —Branden Ware ’04 student, I found my experience all project, she developed the CARES patient advocates.” conferences and expanded the CARES his entrepreneurial father, owner of Bay and Delta Tug Boats—one of the largest another guy how open they are to too common, and I didn’t want other tool, a pocket-sized booklet providing philosophy in Compassionate Person- tug boat companies in San Francisco. He also credits his professors at APU with praying,” said Ware. “Without the outlet that WFC affords, some of these guys might families to suffer that pain,” said guidelines and suggestions for nurses to Centered Care for the Dying: An providing the right tools for him to become a successful business leader. “It’s always be in jail or worse. Instead, I’m able to talk with them about God.” Freeman, who has devoted her career treat the five most common needs of the Evidence-Based Palliative Care Guide been difficult for me to take advice from people who don’t walk the walk, but they Ware’s biggest success has not been turning punches into a profit, but something to serving people in their final hours, dying: Comfort, Airway, Restlessness, for Nurses (Springer, 2015), receiving actually owned businesses themselves, and that was extremely impactful for me,” said even more powerful—finding a ministry in the precarious world of MMA. empowering nurses, and ultimately Emotional support, and Self-care. supportive responses and awards for transforming hospital-based end-of-life Grounded in cutting-edge research and her efforts in end-of-life education. care around the nation and world. applicable to any hospice situation, Freeman also advocates change Freeman comes alongside cancer the tool offers medical procedures to outside hospital walls, addressing the Wounds into Wisdom patients and their families as a supportive manage symptoms as well as simple way society views the dying process. Her Jolyn Davidson, RN, M.A. ’84, always knew her ing the root causes of their problems. Davidson developed a holistic approach to care nurse practitioner at the City of actions to provide comfort, including novel Resilient Hearts (Tate Publishing, life’s calling involved working with people to changes, grounded in cutting-edge research and years of clinical experience, detailed Hope National Medical Center in music, aromatherapy, physical touch, 2015) follows a palliative care team’s manage their illnesses and wounds, restoring them in her recent book, Transforming Wounds into Wisdom: Change Your Attitudes and Duarte, California. She also teaches reassuring words, and sitting in quiet experiences and challenges, giving to health. But the path to fulfilling this calling took Save Your Life (New Perspectives Press, 2015). palliative courses and advocates solidarity. “Every year, medicine grows readers a glimpse into the true world an unexpected turn when, in her first year as a First, Davidson helps her clients identify how certain anxiety, depression, or widespread change in end-of-life care more technical, but our humanity and of care of the dying. “We avoid talking nurse, she discovered the impact psychological coping patterns developed. Did a certain traumatic event such as the loss of a parent, at national conferences. “The medical compassion remain our greatest tools PHOTO COURTESY OF BONNIE FREEMAN, RN, DNP ”13 about dying, associating it with fear and patterns had on people’s physical, emotional, and abuse, severe illness, bullying, or difficult family relationships foster negative patterns world tends to downplay the importance as nurses,” said Freeman. failure,” said Freeman. But as someone “We don’t always know spiritual growth. “I found my passion and of managing emotions? Did a lack of emotional availability from parents contribute to of quality care for the dying,” said Since integrating the CARES tool who has stood by countless bedsides as purpose not in healing people’s physical wounds, unhealthy relationships later in life? Davidson then works with patients to understand why suffering happens Freeman, noting that many hospitals into care-of-the-dying training in earthly lives came to a close, Freeman but in attending to their mental health,” she said. how such patterns impact their self-image, relationships with others, and daily lives. lack guidelines specific to supporting 2013, City of Hope has seen dramatic in this world, but if I can sees hope and peace shine most brightly This registered nurse went on to earn a PHOTO COURTESY OF JOLYN DAVIDSON, RN, M.A. ’84 Finally, she coaches clients through the grieving process, helping them to the dying. “As a result, many nurses increases in the efficiency and quality relieve my patients’ pain in those final moments. “We don’t degree in clinical social work and earn a Master of Arts in Student Development at replace harmful attitudes and relationship patterns with life-enhancing approaches. feel helpless, assuming they can do of care, as well as in the emotional and comfort their families, always know why suffering happens APU. Today, Davidson draws on this rich background at her private psychotherapy She compares this process to lifting weights, which creates small tears that heal over little to help dying patients and bearing well-being of staff. Following the tool’s in this world, but if I can relieve my a peaceful transition can practice in Covina, where, for the last 34 years, she has journeyed with hundreds of time to build stronger muscle tissue. “When we grieve and move on from painful the stress alone. This keeps them from Self-care section, City of Hope staff patients’ pain and comfort their families, take place as we celebrate clients from all walks of life through mental and emotional roadblocks, helping them losses, we grow stronger in those areas and develop a deeper sense of wisdom,” she meeting the unique emotional and members support one another and a peaceful transition can take place as change attitudes that negatively affect their lives. “The foundational patterns of said. “We can then better understand and help others on similar journeys.” life together.” spiritual care required in terminal cases.” receive advice and counseling from their we celebrate life together.” how we feel, think, and act are forged in early childhood,” she said. “No one has a In the confidentiality of her office, she guides young single moms navigating Seeking to fill these gaps, she dreamed supervisors. In one case, a nurse asked Bonnie Freeman, RN, DNP ’13 perfect childhood, so everyone grows up with challenges in emotional and spiritual parenting, high school students battling insecurity, clients fighting depression or of creating a comprehensive resource to Freeman to check her work, only to Bethany Wagner ’14 is a freelance writer and editor based in Portland, Oregon. development. But early trauma is not a life sentence; instead, we can use it to build frustrated by failed relationships, and sometimes each member of a single family. [email protected] wisdom and healthier attitudes.” helping all move beyond pain so they can thrive. In her book, she writes, “Wisdom Davidson noticed a gap in the resources available to people struggling with issues emerges out of the crucible of our sufferings, as we lovingly embrace the undeveloped caused by problematic early-life experiences. Many self-help books offered simple and wounded parts of ourselves with truth, acceptance, and mercy, and engage in the tips to fix emotional problems on the surface, failing to guide readers in discover- process of transforming our lives.”

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responded, “I’m here because I want to help you, and God called me here.” The boy sat in shock. “For the first time, he realized someone actually cared about him,” said Johns. In 2014, he and his wife, Tamara, a fellow Advent worker, felt called to move their family halfway across the Spotting Potential nation to a city known for economic turmoil and strife. Detroit has spiraled economically in the last few years, filing for bankruptcy as unemployment, be used in a career in academia. As top scholarship awarded in the What an honor and privilege to homelessness, and crime rates rose. by Ryan T. Hartwig she discussed her interests with other University of California system. She work alongside this amazing young A Story of But as Johns said, “This city has a story faculty, she said, “No one tried to make studies organizational religiosity— scholar and mentor her during her that is not being told: the story of me in their own image; they helped the “religious” practices of ostensibly undergraduate years. Camille had all DETROIT “He’s talking about Camille.” community.” Johns plays a role in me do what I do best. My choices were “nonreligious” institutions. As one the talent and discipline; she just this story by directing the youth I tried to keep my voice down respected and honored.” who has learned that seeing things needed someone to help open a door of programs staff and operations at MACC as President Jon R. Wallace, And Camille made some very good differently enables one to do things opportunity and introduce her to the Community Development, an organization meeting DBA, extolled the virtues and choices. While studying abroad in differently, she strives to engage in field’s greatest ideas and people. That the physical, social, and spiritual needs Oxford, she agreed to work with me work that will help others pay better is what I get to do as a professor at BY BETHANY WAGNER of an underprivileged east Detroit accomplishments of the Ronald on writing an academic article related attention to the world around them. APU. I look forward to watching her neighborhood through community Outstanding Senior—recognizing to my research on church leadership education and career unfold as she development projects, housing options, teams. I needed a hand compiling and imprints the academy with her As soccer practice draws to a required perfection, and I knew I one graduate who exhibits legal services, writing and reading classes, writing about the findings from my perspective and insight. She came to couldn’t live up to that,” he said. excellent academic achievement close at Mack Avenue Community tutoring sessions, and sports programs. survey of more than 1,000 leadership Azusa Pacific with undeniable gifts, But two mentors transformed his Church (MACC) Development Staff members work, live, and raise their and exemplary character—during team members at more than 250 and she leaves here fully prepared to understanding of faith: his track coach, in Detroit, Michigan, a boy runs families in the area, meeting residents the May 2015 commencement churches, and Camille topped my list. realize her potential. Camille sums up Terry Franson, Ph.D., now senior in their homes and building a thriving Over the next few months, we wrote an her experience as only someone with a across the field, laughing with vice president for student life/dean of ceremony. When Camille walked community by forming relationships. article together (I’ll be honest, she did great command for words can: “APU friends and celebrating their students, and his then-walkabout leader, to the stage, I stood and “The people we serve are also our most of the writing), which we later helped me be who I wanted to be, not team’s victory. Just months President Jon R. Wallace, DBA. “I felt neighbors and closest friends,” said applauded with the rest of the submitted to the National Communication just do what I wanted to do.” like I had to get my life together first to ago, that same boy came to Johns. “We have become a family.” Association conference in Chicago. We accept Jesus, but these mentors showed APU community, which now his first soccer practice, quiet Last year, more than 90 children presented it in November of her senior Ryan T. Hartwig, Ph.D., is associate dean me He already loved me,” said Johns. saw what I had seen in this in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and withdrawn after losing his participated in MACC sports. As year in the midst of her applications to During a meeting with Franson, and chair and associate professor in the they scored soccer goals and dribbled young scholar three years earlier. top graduate schools. parents. But as he continued Johns prayed to accept Christ and moved Department of Communication Studies. basketballs down the court in weekly In 2012, Camille Endacott enrolled in As we sat in the front row waiting to [email protected] attending these MACC practices, forward with renewed purpose. He practices and scrimmages, they also present, I leaned over and whispered to

my Small Group Communication class PHOTO COURTESY OF RYAN HARTWIG , P h .D. games, and Bible studies, he mentored younger students as a resident experienced encouragement and as a sophomore honors communication Camille, pointing out the internationally advisor and earned a degree in psychology, slowly transformed into a joyful, character growth through Gospel- student. Throughout the class, I could known scholars entering the room. Soon finally sensing a calling for his future: “Camille had all the vibrant boy. centered Bible studies and mentorships tell she was something special, but after I enough, our turn came. Camille rocked counseling, specifically working with with staff. “I can connect with the lonely read her final exam (three comprehensive it—so much so that when I mentioned talent and discipline; Stories like this drive the work of children facing the same challenges of

PHOTO COURTESY OF CHARLES JOHN ’95 kid who lacks friends, the kid from essays), I knew she had the chops to not during the question-and-answer session Charles Johns ’95, director of youth identity and self-worth he had overcome. she just needed a minority background, and the kid only make it to graduate school, but to she was an undergraduate, it shocked and education at MACC Development. After graduating, Johns served as a who doesn’t know Christ, because also earn a Ph.D. just about anywhere the audience. Afterwards, I proudly “I want the people of Detroit to know live-in counselor at Advent Ministries, someone to help open “THIS CITY HAS I have been in their shoes,” said Johns. she wanted and then pursue a career in introduced her to a few of the scholars someone cares, and most important, a nonprofit in San Jose, California, “I benefitted from incredible mentors top-flight academia. So, I called her in, whose work she had read in that Small a door of opportunity that Jesus cares.” focusing on addiction recovery. There A STORY THAT at APU; now I can give back by building asked her what she wanted to do with Group Communication class. Johns relates to the loneliness he cared for six teenage boys with and introduce her to up these kids in ways that spark their her life, and told her what I saw in her. Today, Camille studies under two of harbored by many of the youth he drug and alcohol addictions, filling the IS NOT BEING curiosity in Jesus.” Over the next few years, she the scholars who were in the audience encounters in his ministry work. As role of a single parent. In the midst of the field’s greatest TOLD: THE STORY embraced her enjoyment of intellectual that day. As she pursues a combination a child, bullying caused him to turn fights, lying, and yelling matches, Johns To learn more about Johns/MACC conversation, relentless curiosity, and M.A./Ph.D. at the University of California, ideas and people.” inward, withdrawing from his peers. He found his purpose affirmed when one Development, visit maccdevelopment.com OF COMMUNITY.” love for the written word, and she Santa Barbara, she enjoys the fruits of eventually enrolled at APU, drawn to of his charges asked him, “Why are you Ryan T. Hartwig, Ph.D. Bethany Wagner ’14 is a freelance writer explored how those passions and her her diligence and the funding provided Christian community yet unsure of his still here? You’re not an addict. You CHARLES JOHNS ’95 and editor based in Portland, Oregon. incredible abilities in those areas could to her by the Regents’ Fellowship, the place within it. “I thought Christianity don’t have to put up with us.” Johns [email protected]

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continued from page 27 IN MEMORY Kraus Family Musicians for World Vision. John was also an avid photographer. 22 To LUKE WILLIAMS ’03, MBA ’04, JOHN KRAUS ’54, passed away on Trudi, his wife of 62 years; three children, Notable and and his wife, CARMEN (ESTRADA ’05), December 2, 2015. John was a concert Cara Lynne, Julia Fifield, and John; 11 a daughter, Avarie Milicent, on Noteworthy pianist, composer, arranger, organist, grandchildren; and 5 great-grandchildren November 28, 2014. She joins big recording artist, and music educator survive him. The Alumni Relations staff and sisters, Mirabelle and Ruby Rose. known for his precision, technique, and your classmates want to know Luke is an IT management professor 25 JUDY ABBEY (ATTENDED APC musicality. In the late ’50s, he taught what’s new with you. Upload at Central Washington University. 1969-71) passed away April 25, 2015. at the San Francisco Conservatory and Alumni Class Notes and pho- She was inurned with her mother, father, 23 To MARK THOMAS ’07, MBA ’08, established his own studio in San Bruno tos to apu.edu/alumniparents/ and brother at Clear Creek Cemetery in and his wife, JACLYN (BLACK ’09), a and San Jose, where he taught until alumni/connect/classnotes or Pacen, Arizona. During her time at daughter, Renley Jean, on September 1998. He graduated from Modesto Junior email [email protected]. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Azusa Pacific College, she sang and 14, 2015. She joins big brother, Caleb. College in 1951, and received a B.A. travelled with her friend, PATTY from Azusa Pacific College in 1954. John The family lives in Lodi, California. MATHIS (ATTENDED APC 1969-71) served in the Air Force as an educator 24 To LAUREN BORDEAUX ’11 and ARNQUIST, with the Sound Foundation. and music director at Lackland Air Force her husband, ANDRÉ ’12, a daughter, Their connection with APC kept them in Base (San Antonio, Texas) and as an Elaura Renée, on June 2, 2015. André contact for the past 46 years. organist at the Kelly Air Force Base (San is a foreign service officer with the State [email protected] Antonio) chapel for four years. He toured Department, and Lauren is a freelance with his wife, Trudi, and later with the writer and blogger.

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