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Taylor University Pillars at Taylor University The aT ylor Magazine Ringenberg Archives & Special Collections Fall 2006 Taylor: A Magazine for Taylor University Alumni and Friends (Fall 2006) Taylor University Follow this and additional works at: https://pillars.taylor.edu/tu_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Taylor University, "Taylor: A Magazine for Taylor University Alumni and Friends (Fall 2006)" (2006). The Taylor Magazine. 137. https://pillars.taylor.edu/tu_magazines/137 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Ringenberg Archives & Special Collections at Pillars at Taylor University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aT ylor Magazine by an authorized administrator of Pillars at Taylor University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. mmmmmm R^t M consecrated God*s Faithfulnes Enforcing Safety aspirations consecrated But take your consecrated things and whatever you have vowed to give, and go to the place the LORD will choose. Deuteronomy 1 2:26 Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God. Leviticus 20:7 .-'"* / TAYLORFall 2006 •Volume 98 • Issue 3 Features 1 2 Tragic transformation Ray Bullock's stroke ended his mnning career but refined his spirit. 14 Cuenca Ecuador The city of Cuenca is the newest stop on Taylor's road to global engagement. 16 Enforcing safety John Hill's quest to save lives has taken him fi'om Indiana to Washington. 18 Second to none Taylor graduates study at elite medical college. 20 Basketball camp In the 50 years since Coaches Don Odle and Marion Crawley began Taylor's basketball camp, thousands have learned about basketball and God. Special Feature 22 President's Annual Report President's summaiT of 2005-2006. Departments & Columns 2 Perspectives 23 Philanthropy 4 Backstage 24 Alumni notes 5 In the loop 30 Memorials 10 From the president 32 Back home again II The village border perspectives How often have we seen that it is during the most turbulent times of our lives when God pulls us closest to his heart and ministers to the deepest recesses of our souls? After the summer issue of Taylor arrived in homes around the country, you responded to our pain-and yours. Messages of affirmation, hope and appreciation from alumni, friends and even family members of those who died that night in April were received. As we reflected upon the pain and looked forward to the promise, we experienced together God's healing rain. We just received our most recent Taylor magazine ^ and seeing the cover was so impacting. Then as I read through the inside I was so touched by the beauty and peace and faith that was expressed on every page. We grieved with the campus after your loss and felt such a healing expressed through the pieces you put together. Thank you for your work which is so clearly an expression of the faith that is so much a part of everything at Taylor. God bless, B Colleen Burdsall '98 1 TAYLOR $ UNIVERSITY K^iiitffTSRKn BH •ti 1 KcfT^nnwfrn^ r President Eugene B. Habecker '68 issue of Taylor magazine. What a keepsake! What a Summer 2006 Interim Vice President for University Advancement remarkable job done capturing pain and promise, sorrow and celebration! Kenneth Smith Associate Vice President for University Relations and Laurel Erb was our alumna-and you defined her life so beautifully too! Marketing Joyce A.Wood '8 Continued rich blessings as you continue to lift up Jesus in all you do atTU! Editor James R. Garringer Art Director Steven P Christensen Jan Sturm Graphic Designer and Photographer Adam Perry Assistant to the Editor Jennifer Hillier '05 Alumni Notes Editor Marty Songer '78 Contributors: James R- Garringer A&M Photography Studio. that I started I have just finished reading the summer 2006 Taylor magazine Jennifer Hillier '05, Kurt Bullock '81, Ted Bowers '73, the deaths some weeks ago. I wept and prayed for all who were touched by Barbara Bird four students and one staff member as I read, especially of the precious Taylor: A Magazine for Taylor University® Alumni and Friends (ISSN 1073-4376) is published by the office of university is Taylor pages 16 through 19 and 48 and 49. How I praise God that there a relations. Copyright © 2006 Taylor University®. University where students lives are deeply impacted by the full reality of all Front cover photo ©Veer Gospel of love, mercy and grace involves. Thank you for producing that the 1 1 Photos on pages 1 0. 2, 8 and inside back cover ©Veer. this sad but wonderful hope filled edition of the magazine. 1 believe that it Send letters to: Editor University, W. Reade Ave, Upland, IN 46989. more clearly displays what Taylor University is all about than anything else Taylor 236 Phone: (800) 882-3456, ext. 49 1 2 that I've read in the last 22 years of my involvement with TU. Fax: (765) 998-4857 E-mail: magazine@tayloredu Clarke Holtsberry Taylor University online: www.taylor.edu Taylor magazine online: www.taylor.edu/magazine/ Send address corrections and mailing updates to: Office of Alumni Relations, 236 W. Reade Ave,, Upland, IN 46989, or call (800) 882-3456, ext. 51 15. \ friend of mine borrowed your summer issue for E-mail: shcampbel@tayloredu Opinions expressed by individuals in this publication do not ne to look at and 1 would really like to have a copy of necessarily reflect the views of Taylor University®. ny own for my files. Your entire issue was done with Founded in l846,Taylor University is one of America's oldest sensitivity and restraint. Job well done! Christian liberal arts colleges. More than 1 ,850 students from nearly all 50 states and more than 10 foreign countries attend Terry DiDomenico Taylor University's Upland campus, where ma|ors in 50 fields of study are available. The University is ranked the number three Midwest comprehensive college in the 2007 US. News & World Report survey 111 MEMBER A higher slandard. Council for Christian Colleges & Universities A higher purpose. backstage Forever changed Eyes brimming with tears, the Taylor University The people of Taylor University have always community resolved that this devastating loss been infused with that ought-ness. To give less would not be in vain. Students would go forward than our utmost would be a denial of God's to carry out the ministry that their friend had power in our lives. That which began in 1846 planned. Sense would be made of this tragedy. and was refined in 1893 has been consecrated Lives would be forever altered. in 2006. In the coming pages, we hope you will What was true in 1893 following the death of be encouraged and challenged as you read just Samuel Morris is true in 2006. Samuel Morris a sampling of the stories of our students, alumni, loved the Lord, he made an impact upon those faculty and staff for whom good enough is not whose lives he touched, and his plans to minister good enough. God's love to the people of Africa were taken up May God help each of us to be fully and by others who went in his place. passionately devoted to His calling, and may we Because of God's incredible outpouring and live lives characterized by a joyful dependence enabling, those men and women lived their lives upon His Spirit. with a purpose-a sense of ought-ness that filled them with a zeal to serve God with their best efforts and from the deepest recesses of their ft^ hearts, souls and minds. James R. Ganinger Editor [email protected] in the loop news from Taylor University I God's faithfulness When Whitney Cerak arrived on the Taylor University campus experience is different from everyone else's but God has taught me He for the start of the fall semester, it marked the latest step in a is FAITHFUL because He is with us every step of the way, even in the long and amazing recovery from her near-death experience. hardest times of our lives," she wrote. "And it is clear that He has been The 19-year-old sophomore's return to Taylor came four months to with me the last few months. My recovery has been hard work, but I the day after the April 26th truck-van collision that killed four thank God for healing me in every way." students and a dining The Cerak family made their final services staff member, blog entry the first week of classes, and left her with life- posting a family photograph taken in threatening injuries. front of the Rediger Chapel/ She spent five weeks in Auditorium, and thanking thousands a comatose state before of people whose prayers and hopes awakening to learn not had made an impact upon them. only of the accident, "As we write this final entry, we do but also of the so with heartfelt gratitude to all of misidentification that you who have kept up with us and caused her family to sent words of encouragement and believe she had died. comfort," the Ceraks said. "We have "I can clearly been overwhelmed by the care and remember the past 18 concern you have shown to Whitney years of my life, even and to our family. Your prayers have up to the banquet been so appreciated and we know Whitney Cerak (left) with her mother Coleen, father Newell, and sister Carly. before the accident. they have been a part of Whitney's The next thing 1 can "/ sednr(sisterircarTy,'' cloii 't kfiow wliy tlus ull kappeiwd, tilt tlw oiily good thing about Sandra and Mom and is crying a lot," Cerak all ofthis that the message ofGod was heard in a powerful way" wrote on a blog the family created to update the public on her recovery.