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Columns Summer 2000 Southern Adventist University KnowledgeExchange@Southern Alumni Newsletter University Archives & Publications Summer 2000 Columns Summer 2000 Southern Adventist University Follow this and additional works at: https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/alumni_newsletter Recommended Citation Southern Adventist University, "Columns Summer 2000" (2000). Alumni Newsletter. 146. https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/alumni_newsletter/146 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives & Publications at KnowledgeExchange@Southern. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni Newsletter by an authorized administrator of KnowledgeExchange@Southern. For more information, please contact [email protected]. find out whether Southern isthe right place for you. Try here free. Choosing the right college or university is a huge decision. SmartStart is a terrific way to If you're thinking of attending Southern (for the first time) ask for your free SmartStart gift certificate hours (worth about $ 1 ,000 to cover three semester of tuition) for the summer session July 3 I through August 25 on the Collegedale campus. Simply call 1 .800. SOUTHERN and ask for your certificate. Fall registration is August 28. SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY I.800.SOUTHFRN • *-*^v<,-iitherne<Ju • Coile|edale TN !7JI5-0370 Opening Connnnents COLUMNS FarevN^ell Volume 52 revoir! Goodbye! Adios! Farewell! Auf Wiedersehen! Pax vobiscum! Until we Doris Stickle Burdick Executive Editor A meet again! is '90 After 1 7 years at Southern, 1 5 of them as your editor, the tiine has come. This my Ingrid Skantz. Layout Editor last issue. My husband, Al, and 1 are moving to Lincoln, Nebr., where he has a new position at Advent Source, and 1 will continue my writing career as the director of direct mail at Soutl-iern Christian Record Services International. Adventist University Though Andrews University is my alma mater, 1 7 years here have permanently Gordon Bietz imprinted Southern on my heart. During those years our two "chadults" have joined President Southern's alumni ranks. (Please add chadult to your vocabulary. As far as 1 can tell, it's a George Babcock word I coined to fill a dictionary vacuum in identifying adult children.) Academic Administration I have read your letters and class notes. As you have shared your joys and sorrows, you Dale Bidweli have brought me into your lives. 1 have enjoyed talking with many ot you during alumni Financial Administration phonathons. Some of you 1 have met in person when you came for homecoming or tor one of those famously delicious Committee of 100 breakfasts. More than ninety of you William Wohlers Student Services have worked and learned with me in the Public Relations Office as student writers, photographers, and office assistants. David Burghart Advancement I have read completely and referred often to both of Southern's history books (SMC: A School o/His Pknnmg, and A Century of Challenge: The Story o/ Southern College). My Vinita Sauder '78 Marketing/Enrollment Services goal for the office and for my work has been to serve ever^' department and person on campus. Carol Loree. '85 Atumni As 1 "graduate" from Southern and move from this beautiful place, a couple of people deserve particular recognition and thanks for their contribution to the university Rob Hovi^ell. '95 Public Relations magazine. I will always be grateful to Ingrid Skantz for sharing her gift for design and layout with Columns readers. She has been my right hand for all manner of public relations projects since 1990. Another person I should mention is Debra Hicks. She served you as managing editor for two recent For admissions information: issues of Columns (magazine) and all four issues of Columns Express (newsletter). Southern Adventist University Though she resigned in March to accept a position with The Quiet Hour, she laid the ENROLuitm Services Post Office Box 370 groundwork tor this issue. collegedale tn 37315 Thank you tor the pleasure of communi- LSOO.SOUTHERN 4232382844 cating with you. I'll miss you. But I've put in a FAX 423.238.3005 Npecial request to the alumni office to put me E-MAIL [email protected] WEBsni: www.southern.edu on the permanent mailing list for Columns so 1 can keep in touch with you, my friends. God bless you all! Alumni Council Bob Benge. June Blue, Shauna CAMPBEa, Arnold Cochran, EvoNNE Crook, K.R. Davis, /A^^S^u^^ Mary Elam, Fred Fuller. Inelda Hefferun. David James, Carol Loree, Marty Miller, Doris Burdick Beverlh Self, John Sines, Jr., Carl Swafford, Verle Thomf^on Columns is the official magazine of Southern Adventist University, produced to provide information to alumni and other friends of the university. ©2000, Southern Adventist University. COVER; This ancient artifact will be on display in the coming archaeology museum. Illustration by Frank Mirande. 2 • SUMMER 2000 Features To Touch the Past page 4 An ama:ing tapestry ot events has brought to the campus hundreds of ancient artifacts from the lands ot the Bible. 'Woman on the Hall" page 8 She's widely known in many circles as the author of seven books. Here at Southern Q Elaine Egbert delights (most of the time) in her role as "dorm mother" for the guys. Bring Home the Beans page I I Not the bacon here! Students with dependents sometimes face a financial challenge when it's time to shop for groceries. Somebody's doing something about it! Commencement 2000 page 14 Will seniors remember who spoke tor their graduation? Top names from Adventist education, the global Adventist church, and the U.S. Senate. Food for Thought page 16 What were your favorite foods at the "caf? Check out the free recipes, adjusted in quantity tor the home environment. With Hand and Heart page 19 Is a trustworthy auto mechanic appreciated more when your car stalls and you're desperate # for one? Or when, because ot dependable service, you sail along without the need of one? Departments Southern People page 12 Southern Update page 20 Those Who Walked These Halls page 23 Columns • 3 by Dons Burdick with Michael Hasel (piaured above) and Kristin Stagg In your hand is pottery made in ancient Ur, Abraham's home town. Next, you thoughtfully pick up a metal axe head and your mind goes back to the story of the axe head that floated in Elisha s day. Then your interest is captured by an ancient brick from the city of Babylon stamped with Nebuchadnezzar's seal. You spend several moments pondering that Daniel could have seen that very brick. Your gaze shifts—now to a clay model of a Syrian chariot, complete with wheels that turn. And there's much more—lamps, spearheads, a small Roman cup, ceramic bowls, a royal Judaean jar handle. 4 • SUMMER 2000 — Knit 600 ancient artifacts The Visit Dever solidified his growing desire to keep trom the lands of the Bible the entire collection together. It would Then last fall an appointment tell have traveled across time come to Southern on permanent loan from through for a speaker on campus. With a and distance to arrive on the University of Arizona and be placed measure of doubt that he could come on the campus of Southern. under Hasel's curatorship. short notice. Dr. Dever was invited to The journev they have taken has passed "I'd like you to pick it up as soon as speak for the R. H. Pierson Lectureship in them trom the hands ot Bible characters to possible," Dever told Hasel. "We will pack Religion. hands of today. things up together, and 1 will tell you A quick calendar check found that the Plans tor the Institute of Archaeology at about the pieces. There's a story for every November date was Dever's only open Southern Adventist University, the Lynn piece." weekend for five months. H. Wood Archaeological Museum, new "His visit here was significant," said class offerings, and Middle East study and Hasel. Dr. Dever was impressed with the excavation tours are taking shape in the sense of common purpose he found on the School ot Religion. The Collection campus, the sense of community, the How these plans came to be is an amaz- And so it came to pass. In January the friendly students, and the camaraderie of ing tapestry of events wo\en together by 260 artifacts (pottery, weapons, the taculty. He visited McKee Library and providence. stone, and other saw there a modest but well-done utensils) display of a tew artifacts donated by various faculty members. The Dream "The future of [Near Eastern] archaeology is Two years ago when Dr. Michael G. in schools like this, where there is still a love Hasel was invited to join the faculty of the and appreciation for the School of Religion, then-dean Dr. Jack Bible," he remarked. Blanco shared his vision for creating and maintaining an archaeological museum on According to Hasel, Southern's campus. Dever's confidence grew "He knew what an impact archaeology "that the collection would properly can have on our understanding of the be used on this campus." Bible," Hasel recalls. "But to be quite hon- To the delight of est, I wondered what we were going to start Southern's administration. it with. Museums need artifacts!" Dr. Hasel telephoned a friend—Dr. w William G. Dever, his doctoral professor at the University of Arizona and America's foremost Near Eastern archaeologist seeking advice. How might one get started on obtaining artifacts? What legal hurdles might he face? Dr. Dever immediately confirmed his suspicions of how difficult it is to get arti- facts. "What happened next took me com- pletely by surprise!" recounts Dr. Hasel with a grin. Dever reminded Hasel that the Near Eastern archaeology program at Arizona had been closed for three years.
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