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VOL. 12, NO. 1 SPRING 2014 The Magazine for Alumni & Friends of Campbellsville University CU Servant LeadersWWW.CAMPBELLSVILLE.EDU 1 Campbellsvillian SPRING 2014 VOL. 12 I NO. 1 A MESSAGE The Campbellsvillian is published four times yearly by the Office of University FROM THE Communications for alumni and friends of Campbellsville University. PRESIDENT Dr. Michael V. Carter PRESIDENT SPRING 2014 EDITORIAL BOARD Joan C. McKinney Dr. Michael V. Carter EDITOR NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS COORDINATOR DEAR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS: [email protected] The spring 2014 semester has been a very busy time on the Campbellsville University John E. Chowning VICE PRESIDENT FOR CHURCH campus. From the very cold winter weather to the beauty of the spring season, there has AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT been an air of excitement and continuing momentum among the students, faculty, staff, [email protected] and coaches of CU. We are very grateful for the opportunity to continue the implementation Benji Kelly of Vision 2025, our blueprint for the future that has been put in place by the Campbellsville VICE PRESIDENT FOR DEVELOPMENT [email protected] University Board of Trustees under the outstanding leadership of Board Chairman Dr. Joseph Owens. Paula Smith DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS A vital part of Vision 2025 is the first capital fundraising campaign – Our imeT -This [email protected] Place: The Next Century Campaign for Campbellsville University. We met our “30 by 13” goal of raising $30 million of the $61.1 million goal by December 31, 2013 – two months in Drew Tucker ASSISTANT EDITOR advance! Now we move to the next important phase of this capital campaign. COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT [email protected] This issue of the Campbellsvillian features details on what we are calling the “Campaign for the Commonwealth” phase of the capital campaign. During the “Campaign for the Chris Megginson SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR Commonwealth,” we are targeting 10 cities and regions in the Commonwealth of Kentucky [email protected] where we will assemble alumni, friends, and community leaders in support of Campbellsville Linda Waggener University. These communities are being targeted for sharing the CU story and mission, MARKETING AND MEDIA RELATIONS COORDINATOR [email protected] rallying our alumni and friends, and raising funds to help realize the vision for the future that has been set forth. It is a bold vision, and a vision that requires the raising of funds to help sustain and expand the mission of Christ-centered higher education, in the Baptist tradition, OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS that is the very essence of Campbellsville University. Please review the details on the “Campaign for the Commonwealth” on page 12 in this Campbellsville University 1 University Drive issue. The dates and locations of the spring events are listed, as are the communities that UPO 787 will be impacted in fall 2014. We need your help and participation in maximizing this phase Campbellsville, KY 42718-2190 Phone: (270) 789-5214 of the capital campaign and in raising the banner of Campbellsville University across the Fax: (270) 789-5095 Commonwealth of Kentucky. [email protected] OR [email protected] Thank you for your prayers and support. for information with pictures There has never been a greater need for Campbellsville University is accredited by the Campbellsville University and Christ-centered Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1866 Southern Lane, higher education than in 2014 and beyond. Decatur, Georgia, telephone number (404) 679-4501) to award the associate, bachelor’s and master’s We praise God for your support and all that degrees. The university is affiliated with the Kentucky Baptist Convention. you do in advancing this great university. In compliance with federal law, including provision of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of Most cordially, 1973, Campbellsville University does not illegally discriminate on the basis of color, national or ethnic origins, age, disability or military service in its administration of education policies, programs, or activities; admissions policies; or employment. Design & Production: FMB Advertising Dr. Michael V. Carter spoke at the dedication of Michael V. Carter, President the new Tigerville Grille on campus. (CU Photo by Drew Tucker) 2 Campbellsvillian: THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI & FRIENDS OF CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY IN THIS ISSUE Chandler Smith (’69) lost his class ring. It was found 4 4 42 years later by a treasure hunter. James Bane (’02) appears in a T-Mobile Super Bowl 10 commercial on the moon. CU’s online chapel is the first of its kind in the 11 educational world. Campaign for the Commonwealth begins and will 10 12 connect people in 10 cities. It was cold, but brave souls took the “Tiger Plunge” 14 for worthwhile causes. 16 Head Start program honored nationally. 11 DEPARTMENTS 17 NEWSSTRIPES 20 ATHLETICS REMEMBER WHEN? 24 GUESS WHO? 25 TIGER TRACKS 12 SCRAPBOOK 31 VOL. 12, NO. 1 ON THE COVER SPRING 2014 Campbellsville University students served to help cancer research The Magazine for Alumni & Friends of Campbellsville University and teaching children in Belize recently. Clockwise, from left, Katie Irwin (M ’12) and Anna Marie Pavy (’11) run through the colored chalk thrown by members of the Lady Tiger Softball Team in the 2nd Annual Color to Conquer 5-K ; Mary Hodgen works with children in Belize; and Bailey Foxworth, a CU swimmer, has her head shaved during St. Baldrick’s. (CU Photo by Rachel 14 DeCoursey, top; Calen McKinney, Central Kentucky News-Journal, CU Servant Leaders left; and Monica Canada, right) 16 WWW.CAMPBELLSVILLE.EDU 3 FEATURES I NEWS I ATHLETICS I UPDATES CHANDLER SMITH’S By Drew Tucker, assistant editor 1969 RING Chandler Smith, right, shows off his newly found class ring by Howard Ratcliff, left, to Paula Smith, director of alumni relations at CU. (CU Photo by Drew Tucker) Imagine you have just graduated from “I came out of the Army in May 1971,” “It’s shiny. I thought, ‘Someone college. You worked long and hard and Smith said. “I weighed 130 pounds, so will see it.’” finally have something to show for it: the ring didn’t fit.” The ring was important to Smith. a class ring. You wear it only for a few He reconnected with a group of friends “I worked long and hard to get through weeks before suddenly losing it. You and together they played softball and school and to graduate. The ring was Ilook everywhere imaginable, but it’s tennis at Miller Park in Campbellsville. important – that’s why I had the ‘S’ put nowhere to be found. This is what One day, on his way home from the park, on it – my dad always signed his name happened to Chandler Smith, until he noticed the ring was missing. with a fancy ‘S’ and I started to sign it was found 42 years later by a “I got home that day, and I looked my name like that. That’s why I had treasure hunter. around. I looked in my pockets, the car – it inscribed.” Smith graduated from Campbellsville I really thought I lost it walking the dog. Smith’s family has a lot of history College in 1969, but was drafted into the I was on North Shore Drive on my hands with CU. His great-grandfather, Henry Army before going to commencement. and knees looking for it. C. Wood, was instrumental in creating 4 Campbellsvillian: THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI & FRIENDS OF CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY Russell Creek Academy (now CU). His grandmother, Tommie Wood, was a co-sponsor, dean of women and librarian at the college, while his grandfather delivered milk there every day. His father, G. Dennis Smith, a CU alumnus, served as treasurer of the CU Alumni Association for more than 30 years; and his mother, Margaret, Howard Ratcliff digs in the location where he found Chandler Smith’s class ring. (CU Photo by Drew Tucker) was a secretary to the president. Smith thought he’d never see the ring again. That changed in September 2013 He examined what appeared to be a Paula called his home and left two when a man named Howard Ratcliff gold ring. “Oh wow, look what we have messages explaining the situation. came to Campbellsville. here,” he said, and soon took it to Paula A week or so later she was in Louisville, Ratcliff is a treasure hunter. He spent Smith, director of alumni relations at CU. Ky., and received a call from a number 20 years in the military, worked at The Smith’s reaction was normal when Ratcliff in Cincinnati, Ohio, letting it go to Boeing Company as a financial analyst asked her to find out the owner. voice mail. and is now retired and a full-time RVer. “There’s no way. I wouldn’t have a The message started with, “This is He came to Campbellsville as a seasonal clue where to start,” she said. Chandler Smith.” worker for Amazon. During his stay in Ratcliff said the name was inscribed She couldn’t wait to call him back, 2012, he found an old belt buckle at inside the ring: Chandler Smith. and soon set up a date for her, Chandler Tebb’s Bend. “We will find this gentleman,” she and Ratcliff to meet on Oct. 23, 2013, in “You can speculate on who and said. “It may take a while, but we will Montgomery Library on CU’s campus. where something has been – finding find him.” Chandler came in greeting Paula, and saving little bits of history,” he said. She took it home that night and giving her some old yearbooks and a Last year he found something else.