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Taylor University Pillars at Taylor University The aT ylor Magazine Ringenberg Archives & Special Collections Winter 1988 Taylor University Magazine (Winter 1988) 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 University Magazine (Winter 1988)" (1988). The Taylor Magazine. 167. https://pillars.taylor.edu/tu_magazines/167 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]. Celebration! Who enjoys celebration? All those who have been involved. One is a lonely number; there is joy in unity. Through teamwork, we feel strength, encouragement and support — and success is realized by one and all. Taylor University's well-being through the years has been dependent upon how God has used His people . While various individuals have been the team leaders, it has been the total team effort that has produced the many victories. Our magazine cover explodes with the excitement that results from teamwork. We celebrate the excitement experienced all across campus, for our success is generated by the teamwork of students, faculty and staff. Our success also extends beyond our "village border" through the efforts of our alumni, parents and friends around the world. As you read through this magazine, I trust you will sense our excitment. Please George Glass join in our celebration, too, for our continued success depends upon the teamwork Associate Vce President of you who are members of the Taylor University Family. for Alumni and Institutional Relations Cruise your local supermarket or discount store and you'll see We have stories to tell — stories such as a $500,000 grant the promises splashed throughout the aisles like seashells on a awarded by Lilly Endowment for a new telecommunications wave-swept shoreline — Bigger, Stronger, Faster, Longer-Last- facility, one of the featured articles in our new News & Informa- ing, Now-Better-Than-Ever, and, of course, the ever-famous tion section. We have history to share — history such as the fact New-and-Improved. that the 1898 Gem yearbook was sent to and received person- ally by President William McKinley, one of the interesting Those are labels we could have slapped on this issue of the notes found in our new Pages In History section. We have facts Taylor University Magazine, for we made a promise last spring to pass along — facts about our alumni that can be found in our that this issue would be all of the above. The consumer never redesigned Alumni Notes section. knows whether the labels are accurate until he tries the product - and we trust that is what you will do with this issue. And we have tales about our alumni — tales such as the article in this issue about Rev. Robert 'Tiny' Davis '58 who has had to We are obviously Bigger, having expanded from 28 pages to 48 give up the ministry while courageously battling Alzheimer's pages and a four-color cover; we believe we are Stronger by Disease. Bob and his wife Betty (Godsey '58) say they have 'no now including the views and insights of nearly a dozen authors secrets.' "When we went into the ministry, we agreed our lives each issue; we are Faster, now coming to you quarterly rather would not belived in a goldfish bowl," Betty says. "Our lives are than three times per year; and we trust we are Longer-Lasting lived for the Lord, always have been and still are now." Adds by providing you with more interesting news and features to Bob: "I have peace about the situation. I don't understand it, but read in a more cosmetically-appealing wrapper. I've accepted what God has sent my way." Read about them in our Alumni Spotlight. Above all, we feel we are Now-Better-Than-Ever. This is the largest magazine ever produced by Taylor University, and one We celebrate in this issue, our annual giving edition. Taylor of the largest regular publications published by any college or University reached all financial goals during 1 986-87, thanks to university. Most importantly, it is a fitting step in a long and the people listed in the following pages. We are also excited illustrious career of one the nation's premier college magazines. about being named the seventh-best liberal arts college in the Taylor University was one of the first institutions of higher Midwest by U.S. News & World Report in its October 26 issue education to see the need for a magazine to servce its constitu- — something we'll tell you more about in our next issue. ency. In 1963, Will Cleveland, for 29 years the editor of Taylor's publications, established the magazine as a vehicle for inform- Read, enjoy, and celebrate with us our excitement. Like the ing and entertaining the Taylor Family; in 1968, he published a magazine, Taylor University continues to grow, becoming four-color photograph on the cover — unheard of in that day for Bigger, Better, and Stronger while serving Christian Higher a college publication. Now, as colleges across the country are Education. for the first time producing 16-page and 24-page magazines, Taylor University has seen the need to expand in quantity and Kurt E. Bullock '81 quality. University Editor AYLOR Winter 1987 Issue TUNIVERSITY Volume 25, No. 2 Features President's Message 12 Dr. Jay L. Kesler explores the need for a Christian world view within the liberal arts curriculum Advancement's Report 15 Taylor University graciously says 'thank you' for allowing 1986-87 to be a record-breaking year Fund Raising Glossary 16 The words and phrasing of the fund-raising language are thoughtfully translated into English President's Associates 16 Taylor encourages 'ownership' in the institution and recognizes major donors Taylor Fund 17 frfifeffS "W twit Often overlooked, this form of giving is essential to *T>v4£/^< the well-being of Taylor University page 6 Departments News & Information 2 Alumni Spotlight 39 Vista 33 Alumni Notes 41 Pages from History 36 Collage 48 Taylor Club 38 Edrtor Taylor University Kurt E. Bullock '81 Jay L. Kesler '58, president Daryl R. Yost, provost Alumni Editor Betty Freese Taylor University Magazine is published quarterly for alumni, parents of current students, faculty, staff, Photography students and friends of Taylor University. Please send correspondence to Editor, Taylor University Magazine, Administration Building, West Reade Avenue, Upland, IN 46989, (317) 998-5197. Jim Garringer Contributing authors this issue: Earl Allen, Rochelle Manor Bullock, Brian Christy, Timothy Diller, Charles Design Artist Jaggers IHJay L. Kesler, Steve Manganello, Sharon Wit. Kathy Herrmann 76 On the cover: There isn't an opposing ball carrier in the midst of this purple pack - this demonstration of History Editor one-for-all and all-for-one is simply one of the ways in which the Taylor University football team doemon- strates its enthusiasm before each Saturday's game. It's this type of unity that led the Trojans to four '50 Wesley Robinson consecutive victories to open the season. Student Assistant Taylor University complies with all federal and state nondiscrimination laws. Taylor University is an equal- Pam Teo '89 opportunity institution. Direct inquiries to the Office of the President, Taylor University, Upland, IN 46989, 317-998-5203, or the Office of Civil Rights, D.H.E.W., Washington, D.C ACADEMIC NEWS Mark Cosgrove, Cosgrove's bookwins professor of psychology, award-winning author Editor's Choice award from Campus Life Too often the humanities and science are separated. Literature speaks in symbol- ism and metaphor; the scientific world speaks in statistics and hard data. Yet Dr. Mark Cosgrove, trained in physiological psychology, includes both worlds in his life. He looks at scientific research not as cold and impersonal, but as fascinating. "Biology is fascinating/' says Cosgrove, professor of psychology at Taylor Uni- versity. "God's world is interesting. I'm captured by the images in biology." It was this attraction that led him to write The Amazing Body Human: Cod's Design for Personhood. Cosgrove was looking for biological examples to make a (please tumto 'Amazing Body Human' on page8) Indiana Mathematics Teachert .1 November 1 "Cal- TaylorAuthors, 1985-87 986; President" kmerican Presbyterians: Journal of Presby- culators and Number Patterns" Mathematics in Michigan terian History, Fall 1 986. reviews: James G. Smart, Striv- XXVI. 2 Winter 1986-87; "Prime Hunt" Mathematics in ing: Keene State College, 1904-1984, The History of a Aycock, David W. — articles: "Christian Objections to M'ch/ganXXVI.3 Spring 1987. Small Public Institution in The American Historical High Technology: Analyzing the Resistances." Engi- Gortner, Robert V. — article: "Learning Lab — Taylor Review, October 1986; Donald G. Bloesch, The Future ol neers Group Newsletter, autumn, 1 986; with Kenneth B. Made" Indiana Business Vol. 31 No. 3 (March 1 987). Evangelical Christianity: A Call lor Unity Amid Diversity in Matheny, James L Pugh, Kathleen A.S. Cannella Book review: Controlling Software Development^ Nor- Fides et Historia, October 1986; "Messiah College: A "Stress Coping : Qualitative and Quantitative Synthesis Statland, Wiley Inc., 1 A man John and Sons, 986. History' Fides et Historia, January 1 986. Book chapter: with Implications for Treatment." The Counseling Paul M. — "Solution for Problem 31 0" Harms, (Septem- "The Christian College in the New Republic, 1 800-1 870" Psychologist, 1986, Vol. 14 (4); with William C. Curlette, ber 1 985) was published in the May 1 987 issue of The Making Higher Education Christian: The History and Kathleen Cannella, AS.