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HARDINGWINTER 2018 ALL IN ONE DAY What’s Inside WINTER 2018 | VOLUME 26 | NUMBER 1 12 Departments 2 VIEWPOINT 12 SPORTS 35 Moments from the fall semester in tweets Following three opening losses, Bison football wins 11 straight before bowing 3 HU VIEW out in the national semifinals. See the top nine from our Instagram photo contest #fallatharding. 4 ONE MOMENT With the theme Unashamed, Global 14 Missions Experience returned to 30 CONNECTIONS Tahkodah last fall. 31 | PROFILE ON THE COVER Russell Brown, 1999 During our 24-hour Feature 32 | PROFILE photo shoot Nov. 9, 2017, Chelsea Roberson Tuttle, 2007 photographer Abby 35 | TRIBUTE Tran captured this aerial Shirley Birdsall Alexander, 1954 perspective of the Uncle 14 6 AROUND CAMPUS Bud statue and the lily 24 HOURS The University reveals its app, new and pool from a lift being used On Nov. 9, 2017, we tasked photographers Abigail Cooper, Noah Darnell, enhanced programs are announced, and by physical resources to Sterling McMichael, Jeff Montgomery and Abby Tran with the mission of other happenings around the University. put up Christmas lights documenting moments showing everyday life at the main campus. on the quadrangle. 36 END NOTE Beatles fan Dan Newsom tells the story behind the rock group’s little-known trip to Arkansas. Viewpoint HU View Moments to remember HARDING #fallatharding THE TOP IMAGES FROM OUR FALL PHOTO CONTEST WINTER 2018 | VOLUME 26 | NUMBER 1 By BRUCE D. McLARTY, president HAT A WONDERFUL FALL EDITOR/DESIGNER semester we have had at Tom Buterbaugh, ’78 Harding. One of the things COPY EDITOR/WRITER I love most about this Uni- Jennifer Hannigan, ’08 Wversity is that every day is blessed with com- monplace happenings that come together to WRITERS build our remarkable community of mission. Dillon Holsonback, ’17 In this issue, Harding magazine captures Jonathan Murphy Hannah Owens, ’11 one of those days in the life of this university in pictures. From before sunup to after sun- SPORTS WRITER down, these images showcase a typical day Scott Goode, ’97 on campus beginning on page 14. While just one day is captured in this PHOTOGRAPHER Jeff Montgomery, ’91 pictorial, every day during the fall was filled with activity, service, achievement, remem- CONTRIBUTORS brance and fun as revealed through some of Winnie Bell, ’49 my posts on Twitter. Joanna Crisco, ’97 Shelby Dias, ’15 AUG 21 What could possibly be better than an Dan Newsom, ’74 eclipse on the first day of school?!?! PRESIDENT AUG 22 Learned today that the @HardingU NOV 1 Update on @HardingU Relay for Life Bruce D. McLarty, ’78 graduate speech-language pathology pro- fundraising total: $18,005.23!!!!!!!! gram is re-accredited through June 30, 2025! NOV 7 Eva Kor engaged, charmed, moved, VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS AND ENROLLMENT AUG 27 We’ll start @HardingU chapel tomor- taught, convicted and inspired the huge and Jana Rucker row morning with a prayer for those facing grateful crowd at the ASI speaker series in the devastation of Hurricane Harvey. the Benson tonight! Harding is published three times a year by the Office of University SEP 7 Packed house at “Meet the Firms” today NOV 14 Thanks to the impressive group who or- Communications and Marketing in the Founders Room. I had no idea there ganized tonight’s @TEDx event @HardingU! for alumni, faculty, staff, parents were so many blue suits on campus and friends of the University. NOV 27 The @HardingU Christmas lights are on! Editorial offices are located on the SEP 16 @Harding_MSOC Scores Three DEC 9 The @HardingU support for second floor of the David B. Burks Second-Half Goals to Defeat Southwest American Heritage Building at @Harding_FB in TX, today was incredible! 915 E. Market Ave., Searcy, Arkansas; Baptist #HUBisons 1000+ at @HardingAlumni tailgate includ- 501-279-4316; fax: 501-279-4154. SEP 28 The house is packed for MIDNIGHT ing @HardingUBand & cheerleaders! MADNESS @HardingU tonight!!!!!!! POSTMASTER DEC 12 Best story of the day: Elisa Bruce Send address changes to OCT 20 Fantastic performance of “Annie Get McMurrey graduated today after starting at Harding University Your Gun” in the Benson Auditorium to- Harding in 1983. Amazing persistence! Con- 915 E. Market Ave. Box 12234 night! Incredible talent on (and behind) the gratulations, Elisa! Searcy, AR 72149-5615. Harding stage! The year 2017 was full of these and many EMAIL OCT 21 It was so good to have Nicholas other blessings too numerous to count. I’m [email protected] MONTGOMERY JEFF BY PHOTO Smith’s family on campus for the dedication thankful we were able to share these mo- of the Nicholas Smith recreational area at ments in 2017, and I’m delighted to go on this WEBSITE harding.edu/mag Gin Creek today! 2018 journey together. OCT 28 Rialto is filling up for the free commu- © 2018 Harding University nity showing of the Harding Read movie, The TOP ROW: First Place: Alexandra Regida, Second Place: Claire Fergeson, Third Place: Ka’Neal Brown. MIDDLE ROW: Ka’Neal Brown, Abigail Cooper, Sterling McMichael. Hiding Place! BOTTOM ROW: Macy Pate, Roosevelt Presley, Mike Wood. 2 HARDING | WINTER 2018 WINTER 2018 | HARDING 3 ONE MOMENT Participating in the Global Missions Experience market, Chris Magadu from Zimbabwe sells his wares as mission-minded attendees purchase and then prepare and eat a meal as part of the sensory hands- on cultural opportunity. GME was held at Tahkodah on Sept. 21-24, 2017. PHOTO BY JEFF MONTGOMERY 4 HARDING | WINTER 2018 WINTER 2018 | HARDING 5 Around Campus Harding’s new mobile app provides needed information at your fingertips. QUOTABLE Summer Academic Mobile app debuts on campus Institute launches Honors EXCITEMENT WAS IN THE AIR Nov. 29, 2017, as Harding launched a much the authentication and personal content areas of the app that greatly Forgive your worst enemy. It will heal Business Experience anticipated mobile app for students, faculty and staff. increase the value.” “ The University first began working toward creating the app in The app features content that can be seen on both harding.edu and you and set you free. Forgiveness is the HONORS BUSINESS EXPERIENCE, a new summer summer 2016 when Assistant Vice President for Information Systems Pipeline, which is the University’s student information and action portal. academic program for high school juniors and and Technology It was created to be both informational and functional and host all of best revenge. Forgiveness is an act of seniors, will be offered June 15-29 as part of the Mike Chalenburg the important items essential to navigating life on campus all in one Summer Academic Institute. In collaboration with brought together location. The design of the app is a reflection of both the design of the self healing, an act of self liberation, the Honors College, Dr. David Kee, assistant profes- a team of people University’s website and Pipeline. The color schemes complement each an act of self empowerment. sor in the Paul R. Carter College of Business Admin- across campus to other, and landing pages feature a dominant image at the top — a similar istration, is helping start the program facilitated by regularly meet design to harding.edu. ” University faculty members, local business people and discuss ideas. Senior public relations major Cassidy Colbert appreciates the effort and entrepreneurs to give students firsthand expo- After selecting the Harding team put into making a single digital space for many tasks sure to the world of business. a vendor, Modo with which students have to be organized. Her favorite app functions are The Summer Academic Institute gives students Labs, the team the directory and chapel sections because she accesses them often, and still attending high school the opportunity to take began developing they are easy to use. college-level courses for credit. As part of Honors outlines for “The app allows for everything that we need to be in one spot so Business Experience, students will tour factories sections of content that we are not opening multiple tabs and logging into our Pipeline and major companies’ facilities, and some will take and identifying the account every time,” she said. “Having the different sections that are part in a real-life branding project for a Little Rock, information that well organized by academics, student life, events and personal with Arkansas, sports team. should be included everything that you may need for each area makes it less stressful to keep “All of the faculty involved will share their per- from a student’s up with student business and easy to navigate life as a student.” sonal life path in business,” Kee said. “They also and faculty or A student can check chapel information, including absences, schedule will help prepare students for the rigors of a college staff member’s and announcements; look up menu options and cafeteria meal plan use; career. They will participate in interactive course- perspective. and sign out of residence halls among other actions. Faculty and staff work and modules that replicate what students face “Assembling members can access pay stubs, view vacation details and submit vacation every day.” the group was requests, and fill out timesheets in addition to other options. Some app Kee shared that both of his children participated vital,” Chalenburg options are available to both students and employees, like accessing in Honors Symposium, and not only were they given said. “We could people search and a departmental directory and browsing campus access to talented and interesting professors, topics have had an app without them, but it would be plain and would have events. Future plans for the app include adding personas for future and themes, but they also met other students with lacked the vision and content that we currently have and will have in students and alumni and creating custom channels app users can opt into aspirations to achieve something meaningful in life.