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MedicalMedical ServiceService UNION’S PA PROGRAM GRADUATES TENTH CLASS Also . . . G Alumnus treats wounded soldiers G Students recount trips to Haiti G Student turns blog into a book Growcanth take time...

...but a little ForeSight ForeSightgoes a long way.

What a difference they made—the loyal alumnus, the sacrificial staff member, the faithful board member. They took the important step of in- cluding Union College in their estate plans. Because of their foresight, today students receive scholarships, classrooms are built and learning takes place. You can make a difference by including Union College in your estate plan. Explore your options at www.ucollege.edu.

Todd Mekelburg Director of Leadership Giving 402.486.2503 [email protected] Union College It takes 3800 South 48th Street {Lincoln, NE 68506 ForeSight CORDmagazine staff: LuAnn Wolfe Davis ’82 Vice President for Advancement/Publisher magazine CORDVol. 75, No. 1 Fall 2010 Ryan Teller ’98 Director of Public Relations/Editor

Steve Nazario Editorial/4 Campus News/5 Director of Visual Communications/Designer

Scott Cushman ’03 Assistant Director of Public Relations/ Assistant Editor PA program graduates Tiffany Doss ’11 Michelle Current ’11 tenth class/10 Michael Rohm ’14 Kelly Phipps ’12 Union’s physician assistant News Writers program celebrates a commitment Articles and photos as credited. to training students for service. pIndicates more information is available on Union’s Web site or read CORDmagazine online: www.ucollege.edu/cordmagazine.

Union College Alumni Association Officers and Board Members: David Nowack ’76 ...... President Ardis Dick Stenbakken ’62 ...... President-elect

Darrel Huenergardt ’65 ...... Past President Nazario Steve photo: Gale ’72 and Sheryl Rivinius ’73 Page ...... Board members at large Bill Hanson ’61 ...... Golden Club Co-President Union students respond Scott and Breanna to Haiti earthquake/14 Johnson Gal ’05...... GOLD Rep ’99-’09 Dan Klein ’90 ...... Class Rep ’78-’98 When an earthquake struck Haiti Karen Affolter Johnson ’72...... Class Rep ’57-’77 in January, four teams of Union students and employees traveled to Darold ’57 and Shirley (’59) Goetz...... Class Rep up to ’57 the devastated country to help. Janya Nordgren Mekelburg ’86...... Alumni Activities Director LuAnn Wolfe Davis ’82 ...... Vice President for Advancement

About the cover: Brooke Henderson graduated with a master’s in Bollinger Kathy photo: physician assistant studies in May 2010.

Photo: Erik Stenbakken/stenbakken.com © 2010 Union College all rights reserved. Trauma surgeon treats No material may be reproduced without permission. CORDmagazine is published as a wounded U.S. soldiers/20 service to Union College alumni and friends. We encourage readers to submit letters and article ideas. Please send inquiries, Lincoln trauma surgeon, Dr. Reg submissions and address changes to: Burton, made two trips to treat CORDmagazine Union College 3800 South 48th Street wounded U.S. soldiers in Germany. Lincoln, NE 68506 or [email protected]. photo: courtesy Bryanof photo: www.bryanlgh.com - System Health LGH

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CORDmagazine 3 ______EDITORIAL FINDING JOY IN SERVICE

by David Smith, Union College President

eenagers get all the bad jobs—the ice, which launched a lifelong process of TonesT nobody else wants. For my first discovering fulfillment in ministering to job as a teenager, I worked for a hos- people facing physical, psychological and pital in dining and janitor services. I spiritual challenges. served food to the patients, washed In this issue of CORDmagazine, you dirty dishes, cleaned the hospital, will read about medical providers, trained helped hospital employees move and at Union College, who have also discov- did whatever my very creative bosses ered the joy of service. In the name of God thought up for me. It was often diffi- and under His guidance, these health care cult, and at first, unrewarding work. professionals are making a very important I dusted phones in administra- difference in the lives of people whose tor’s offices; dusted light fixtures overwhelming circumstances have forced poised precariously above the heads them to be dependent on others. of helpless patients lying in their I am proud of the students and alumni of beds; donned mask, gloves and Union College who provide medical care to gown to scrub isolation units; those in need. They are wonderful ambassa- cleaned the morgue; burned waste dors for Jesus, the Master Physician, who not NortonBetsy photo: sent down from medical surgical only healed so many people during His time floors; swept stairways; and on earth, but whose healing power still re- washed hallway walls. stores and gives hope to the sick. I often questioned the purpose At Union, we hope to introduce every stu- and the value of my work assign- dent to the joy of service and enable them to ments. Over time, however, I develop a habit of helping others, whether it is David Smith, Union’s president, learned learned that no matter the job, I taking care of the feet of Lincoln’s poor, check- the value of service in his first job as a helped the hospital accomplish its teenager. Now he helps instill that same ing IVs in an overcrowded Haitian hospital or mission—to help people in need. mindset in students at Union. just taking time to pray with someone. Through a thank you from a pa- I trust that your appreciation for Union Col- tient or visitor, a commendation lege students and alumni will grow as you read from a boss, and the joy I saw in the people I served, I about their experiences. If you know someone learned that even the most menial job can make a difference in considering a career in the medical field who hopes to make their someone’s life. In essence, I gained a glimpse into the joy of serv- career a ministry, encourage them to give Union a call.C

Union receives accreditation for another 10 years by Tiffany Doss n October 2009, Union College received with Union preparing a self-assessment re- mended updating campus computers and IIanother 10-year accreditation from both port outlining how the college upholds its integrating more technology in the class- the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) mission and values, student outcomes and room, having more faculty with terminal and the Adventist Academic Association progress made since the last accreditation degrees and developing a stronger enroll- (AAA). visit. An HLC team then visited campus to ment plan. “Many of the suggestions HLC A decade is the maximum accreditation interview students and employees and presented were things we were already term granted by HLC, one of two commis- evaluate the self study. The AAA team, working on before their visit,” said Russell. sion members of the North Central Associ- made up of Seventh-day Adventist admin- “We recognize those are areas we need to ation of Colleges and Schools, which istrators and educators, arrived shortly after work on and are already taking action to accredits degree-granting post-secondary the HLC team. “Adventist Academic Associ- strengthen them.” educational institutions in the north central ation approval means that we’ve met edu- Russell believes this accreditation af- region of the United States. “Accreditation cational standards and expectations in firms Union’s academic strength and is a shows the quality of a school,” said Mal- regards to the Adventist church’s objec- seal of quality. “However, this school will colm Russell, Union College’s vice presi- tives,” Russell explained. not sit idly for the next nine years waiting dent for academic administration, “Without Both teams commended Union for its for the next accreditation,” he said. “We it, our students couldn’t receive federal strong sense of community, dedicated em- will continue our trend of making active loans or grants and our nursing, physician ployees and compliance with federal regu- improvements on campus.” This mindset assistant and education graduates wouldn’t lations. Like in any evaluation, Union also has proven effective for Union, allowing be certified or able to teach.” received several suggestions to make the the school to receive the maximum accred- The HLC accreditation process began college stronger. The HLC team recom- itation time since 1961. 4 FALL 2010 ______CAMPUS NEWS

Homecoming 2011 to feature Warriors Reunion by Michael Rohm he 2010-11 school year marks the riors athletic program has been designed TTtwenty-fifth anniversary of varsity athletics to complement the quality education of- at Union College. Homecoming 2011, fered at Union. “Our coaches have always April 8 – 11, will feature a special reunion sought to help student athletes develop event for Union College Warriors. sportsmanship and academic excellence,” All alumni of Union College’s varsity said Spaulding. “Through many opportu- athletic program are invited to this Warrior nities both on and off the court, players Reunion, celebrating Union’s varsity learn to be leaders while cultivating a sports: women’s volleyball, men’s golf, spirit of teamwork and service.” and men’s and women’s basketball. “The The weekend will feature a Warrior Warriors Reunion is an opportunity for for- golf tournament and volleyball games on photo: Steve Nazario Steve photo: mer players to reconnect with friends, re- Friday afternoon, followed by men’s and member the ‘good old days’ and create women’s basketball games on Saturday new memories,” said Ric Spaulding, Union night. For more information or to register College’s athletic director. for the Warrior Reunion, visit www.ucol- Since its formation in 1986, the War- lege.edu/advancement/homecoming

Union experiences enrollment increase by Ryan Teller picture may be worth a thousand Services. “College leadership and the More than overall head counts and Awords, but Union College has found a visit board felt it was prudent to build a budget numbers, the fall enrollment showed a sig- may be worth ten thousand more. Al- based on an enrollment of 750 FTE, down nificant increase in students taking full- though all indicators pointed to a third more than 50 from last year.” time loads and living in residence halls, straight year of declining enrollment, While Nelson believes the enrollment both of which translate into a stronger fi- Union saw an expanded campus visit pro- staff’s renewed focus on customer service nancial position for the college. “These gram play a significant role in increasing and relationship building influenced the numbers point to a strong enrollment for the fall 2010 enrollment head count to 901 trend-bucking numbers, she also credits the near future,” said Smith of the 168 first- with a full-time equivalency of 818—up the increase to a campus-wide effort. time freshmen, 20 more than the five-year two percent over the previous year. “When we expanded the visit program, average. “I believe these signs all indicate “This increase points to a bright future everyone on campus got involved in creat- we will continue to grow and offer the for Union College,” said David Smith, col- ing a visit experience that is authentic to strong academic programs and vibrant lege president. “God has blessed and we Union College,” she explained. campus life that Union is known for.” praise Him for what He has done. We look Union’s campus visit program provides forward to a great school year and many an opportunity for prospective college stu- good school years to follow.” dents to get a taste of college life through a Graduation 2010 After peaking at 1,015 (909 FTE) in fall free, three-day stay. “Students can come to 2007, Union’s enrollment had been on a one of our special preview weekends or The large freshman class helped offset steady decline, dropping to 883 (802 FTE) they can schedule an individual visit,” said the sizable number of graduates who last fall. “Five year predictions indicated a Becky Dewey, guest experience coordina- received degrees during Union’s com- continued decrease in enrollment based on tor. “If they apply and send in their tran- mencement ceremony on May 9, 2010. economic factors, population shifts and scripts, they are also eligible for up to $250 Union College conferred 211 de- shifts in high school population,” ex- reimbursement for gas or a plane ticket.” grees to 197 students, including 23 stu- plained Nadine Nelson, Union’s vice presi- Dewey transitioned to her newly cre- dents graduating with a Master of dent for Enrollment and Student Financial ated position in January 2010 and wel- Physician Assistant Studies. Union’s comed more than 450 prospective students class of 2010 represented eight coun- last school year. “Our main goal is to intro- tries, 28 states, and one U.S. territory. Enrollment at a glance duce them to the culture of Union College Of the degrees conferred in 34 areas of Total Students ...... 901 so they can find a place to belong,” said study, the most popular major was Dewey. “Visitors are immersed in the life of nursing with 39 graduates and business Full time equivalent ...... 818 a college student, experiencing residence administration with 31. Rachel Welsh Countries ...... 23 halls, classes, worship services and social of Columbia, Md., became the first stu- States ...... 45 activities. Many students who didn’t know dent to graduate with Union’s newest Male/Female Ratio ...... 41/59 about Union find they fit in and belong major, fitness and wellness. right here.” CORDmagazine 5 ______CAMPUS NEWS Student author turns mission blog into book by Scott Cushman eturned missionaries and international into the society around her. Rvolunteers quickly learn to tell the stories Despite the difficult subject matter, their audiences want to hear—stories filled Honestly, I’m Struggling is a book filled with triumph and divine leading—and fil- with hope. Amid Bohlender’s loneliness ter out the rest. But when they get together, and depression are many small victories— the experiences they share are filled with finding a counselor, building friendships, both more laughter and more sorrow. finally reaching students. Throughout, she These stories of cultural gaffes and in- maintains a frank dialogue with God and escapable self-doubt are the cathartic re- discovers a new perspective on life. lease of intense loneliness and longing. In “I am so proud of Heather for her brave her book, Honestly, I’m Struggling, honesty,” said Rich Carlson, campus chap- Heather Bohlender breaks down the wall lain. “Each volunteer sent oversees has a between the sound bites shared with the unique experience, but the themes of uninitiated and the complex realities re- Heather’s story are universal—from culture served for confidants. shock and feelings of inadequacy to the Now a senior English education major disconnect from their familiar support and at Union College, Bohlender based the constant reminders of being an outsider. I book on blog entries she wrote as a volun- believe her testimony will help us better teer teacher in Cambodia during the 2007- prepare future volunteers and their families 2008 academic year. With a gift for for the enormity of what lies ahead.” introspection, she leads the reader through Honestly, I’m Struggling is available at Heather Bohlender, a senior elementary her journey of becoming a teacher and Adventist Book Centers and Amazon.com. education major at Union College, wrote mentor in a devastated country while fight- To read an interview with Bohlender and a book based on blog entries from her ex- ing her own battles against an eating disor- learn more about her book, visit Union periences as a student missionary in Cambodia. der, a sexual assault, and the inability to fit College’s website: pwww.ucollege.edu.

Back by popular demand: Homecoming 2010 meatballs by Kelly Phipps

ometimes it’s smaller details that Homecoming Meatballs createSS the biggest memories. For alumni who attended last year’s Tofu Meatballs Apricot Sweet & Sour Sauce Homecoming Weekend, that memory is tofu meatballs. ¼ pound Saltine crackers 1/2 cup vegetable oil “Alumni weekend was wonder- 1 tablespoon onion soup mix 1/2 cup vinegar ful,” said Janya Mekelburg, director of 2 tablespoons Trio gravy mix 2 1/2 cups apricot preserves alumni activities, looking back on the 2 teaspoons garlic, fresh, minced 2 cups ketchup weekend’s events. Then with a ¼ cup onion, fresh, minced ½ cup fresh onions, grated chuckle she recalled the Friday night ½ teaspoon red pepper, crushed 2 teaspoons salt banquet. “At the banquet there were a 12 ounces tofu, firm, mashed 2 teaspoons oregano 12 ounces Morning Star Griller Crumbles number of people asking for the tofu Add all ingredients together in a sauce pan 1 ½ cups whole almonds meatball recipe.” and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. To While you probably don’t want the Crush almonds and crackers together in give the meatballs a clear glaze appear- recipe that serves 300 people, LuAnn food processor. Mix almond and cracker ance, pour hot sauce over hot meatballs Davis, vice president for Advance- mixture together with other ingredients and serve immediately. ment, has kept her promise to get a and form into balls. Fry in a skillet with practical take-home version of the vegetable oil until heated through. beloved recipe for all.

6 FALL 2010 ______CAMPUS NEWS Freshman walks to college in Nebraska … From Oregon by Ryan Teller any a parent and only a tent, a sleeping bag, a couple of Mgrandparent has regaled eye- changes of clothes, an extra pair of boots rolling children with tales of and his cell phone, Rohm stopped at gro- walking many miles to cery stores along the way to buy fixings for school every day (uphill both peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. He oc- ways of course). But few can casionally splurged on some fruit or veg- top Michael Rohm, a fresh- etables. “It’s a lot cheaper than buying fast man at Union College, who food,” he said. At night, he left the road decided to make the trip and pitched his tent in a field. If he from his home in Oregon on foot. stopped in a town, he usually connected Rohm started his two-month journey in with local law enforcement to get permis- early June after deciding to enroll in Union sion to camp in a city park. “Most were College’s international rescue and relief very surprised, but very supportive,” he program. Just back from volunteering in said. Public libraries provided a good place Africa, he set out on foot because he to cool off, check e-mail and charge his “wanted to experience the country of my cell phone. birth firsthand,” he explained. “My parents Rohm admitted he didn’t plan his route are very active and we have done a lot of very well in the beginning. “My dad was hiking and camping growing up.” eager to help me plan,” he said. “We For Rohm, the choice to study IRR at planned the first 200 miles to get me Union was easy. After returning from nine through Oregon.” Originally intent on hik- months at Riverside Farms in Zambia ing through Wyoming, Michael changed where he helped build nearly 90 churches routes when he realized how far he’d have in the Southern Africa nation, Rohm knew to walk between towns. He opted for what he wanted to do with his life. “I want mountainous Utah and Colorado instead. to spend my life overseas,” he said. “I Normally, the car trip from his home in would like to work in refugee camps and Canby, Ore., to Lincoln is 1,600 miles. At Michael Rohm’s 55 pound pack carried everything he needed for the trip Union. orphanages—somewhere with lots of peo- 17-25 miles per day, Rohm estimates that ple who need help.” he walked nearly 1,000 miles by the time After he spoke for 30 minutes about his Union’s international and relief pro- he reached Craig, a small town in north- experiences in Africa, the same woman in- gram provides the perfect preparation for western Colorado. He woke up early on a vited him home for lunch. Afterwards, her such an endeavor by combining medical, Saturday morning in order to attend wor- husband presented Michael with a gift. “He survival and rescue training in a baccalau- ship services at the local Seventh-day Ad- gave me a bicycle,” said Rohm. “He fixed it reate degree emphasizing one of four ventist church. “I always wanted to go to up for me and got it going.” areas: paramedic, project development, church on Sabbaths during my trip,” he Rohm made good time riding his bike pre-med or pre-physician assistant. The de- said. “But a lot of times I ended up in a across eastern Colorado and Nebraska—ar- gree program includes a summer session town with no church or in the middle of riving in Lincoln three days before orienta- learning rescue techniques in Colorado nowhere.” tion. “I accomplished what I set out to and a semester providing training and Rohm arrived shortly before the wor- do—to meet people and see the country,” medical care in under-served regions of ship service began and introduced himself he said. “I know this experience will help Central America. to the six people present that day. “One me in my studies because I had to learn to Packing light, Rohm embodied the lady asked me if I could do public speak- be self-sufficient, creative and live in tough survival spirit that IRR students learn dur- ing,” he remembered. “When I said yes, circumstances—all things I will have to do ing the course of their training. Carrying she asked me to give the sermon.” in my IRR training.”

Michael Rohm, now a freshman interna- tional rescue and relief major at Union, encountered all types of terrain on his trip across the Western U.S., from the desert of Eastern Oregon (right) to the mountains of Colorado.

photos: Michael Rohm Michael photos: When he visited an Adventist church in Craig, Colo., one of the members gave Rohm a bike (right), greatly speeding up the last third of the trip to Nebraska. CORDmagazine 7 ______CAMPUS NEWS

Union College installs high-tech medical simulation lab by Tiffany Doss

e blinks. He talks, moves and breathes. HHHis heart beats, his pupils dilate. He sweats, cries and even bleeds. But he’s no ordinary patient. Sim-Man 3G, the latest in patient simulator technology, has become the core element of Union College’s new medical simulation laboratory for nursing, physician assistant and international rescue and relief students. Today, many hospitals require appli- cants to pass a standard written test and demonstrate application of their knowl- edge on a high-tech mannequin similar to

the 3G. By acquiring this technology, Nazario Steve photo: Union has the tools to better prepare stu- dents in medical fields for the fast-paced and ever evolving job market. In the past, students practiced on static or low-fidelity mannequins. “Those man- nequins basically just lay there,” said Theresa Flowers Stimson ’94, associate professor of nursing. “They may make a sound, but over all, are not extremely use- SimMan 3G, the latest in patient simulator technology, gives teachers the ability to test nursing students’ responses to all types of medical emergencies. ful.” Now, students fine-tune their skills, re- action and intuition about a patient’s age area into a high-tech simulation labora- symptoms in a safe environment. Patient tory. Purchasing the Sim-Man 3G was Thank you symptoms not commonly seen during clin- made possible through support from or- ical rotations, such as cardiac or respiratory ganizations and private individuals includ- nion College thanks for the follow- distress, are easy to simulate on the 3G and ing leadership gifts from Adventist Health Uing donors for making the Division of allow students to better understand symp- System, Marlyn (’58) and Sharon ’66 Health Sciences Annex and SimMan 3G toms and appropriate responses. Schwartz, Bruce Bacon ’49 and Hanford possible. As students respond to the 3G’s symp- Community Medical Center. toms, a computer records each reaction. “If Before purchasing the Sim-Man 3G, the Abel Foundation the student administers a drug to him, it’s nursing faculty carefully considered how to Adventist Health System recorded,” explained Stimson. “If they take best use the donors’ gifts to support both Bruce Bacon ’49 his pulse, check his pupils, give him chest their curriculum and that of other fields of Randy ’96 and Wendy Barnes ’99 Becker compressions, basically whenever he is study. “We chose the Sim-Man 3G because Pat Dunn Caviness ’59 touched, it is recorded on our computer. it is full of possibilities,” said Stimson. “It is Doug ’83 and Carrie Mace ’85 Goetz This allows us to debrief when the sce- an investment that will have lasting bene- Hanford Community Medical Center nario is complete, and helps the students fits, not only for nursing majors, but for Sharon Dahl Herbel ’ 57 understand what they did well and what physician assistant and international rescue Margaret Maxwell Hyde ’53 they should do differently.” and relief students.” Dean ’52 and Trudy Degering ’52 Johnson Wireless operation frees the 3G for Union received one of the first 3G simula- M D Schwartz Enterprises more realistic training. “We wanted to sim- tors ever shipped to the U.S. in October John ’80 and Shannon Stegmaier Oien ’89 ulate a scenario where a nurse might find a 2009. In December, it officially moved into Barbara Versaw Pogue ’50 patient on the floor of their hospital room,” its home in the newly renovated nursing Rich ’69 and Lynnet DeRemer Reiner ’70 explained Stimson. “What would you do? annex on the north side of the Don Love Dennis ’76 and Patsy James ’76 Reinke What do you check? This would have been Building. James Reiswig (’53) a difficult task with other mannequins, but Teachers are currently working on in- Marlyn (’58) and Sharon Ericson ’66 Schwartz it isn’t a problem with this one.” corporating the simulator into their course Ruby Shields The Sim-Man 3G is located in the new curricula. Faculty members anticipate this Dale (’76) and Pamela Reiswig ’76 Timothy annex for the Division of Health Sciences. technology will be used in all entry-level Celina Auber Westphal ’82 A $50,000 grant from the Abel Foundation nursing classes in the future.C Debi Yancer launched the renovation of a campus stor- 8 FALL 2010 ______CAMPUS NEWS Union College Teaching Learning Center offers life coaching by Tiffany Doss I entered the Teaching Learning Center She looked at me skeptically, and with and again near the end of a student’s work (TLC)I ready to report on the department’s a shake of her head and a raised eyebrow, with a coach to gauge improvements. new life coaching service, and left with a she leaned in, “Really?” Life coaching differs from counseling newfound motivation for my own work. I sighed. “No, I have to complete the by sorting out information a person already For more than 30 years, the TLC has paper in order to prove myself competent.” knows, rarely focusing on the ‘why’ behind helped students overcome difficulties to Smiling, she relaxed in her chair. With two a problem. It concentrates on asking the succeed in college—whether physical dis- simple questions we had discovered the right questions, which leads students to a abilities, learning differences or academic real goal and the drive that would allow solution and action steps on their own. apathy. me to finish the assignment. She began jot- According to their research, Forshee- I’m usually a good student, but I con- ting down a list of what I felt was neces- Sweeney and Anderson are the only on- fess I sometimes fall into that final cate- sary in order to achieve my goal. The campus academic coaches in the nation gory. During the course of my interview, paper became filled with words and lines who are also life coaches. Many higher ed- Debbie Forshee-Sweeney ’94 and Elizabeth as she pointed me in a new direction. ucation facilities hire outside marketing Anderson helped me change that. Then, we discussed what I could realisti- companies to do life coaching on their For both Anderson and Forshee- cally accomplish in the allotted time. campuses. Sweeney, life coaching certification from She sent me out the door confident in “Our students are so important to us the International Coaching Federation is my new action plan: eat supper, go to the and we both want to be better coaches for only one of many qualifications they hold. library, eliminate distractions by turning off them,” said Forshee-Sweeney. “After work- Both are experienced academic coaches the Internet on my laptop, type for an ing here for so long it felt like we were still and tutors and are trained in disability hour, then take a ten-minute break, repeat. missing something. We think life coaching testing. The plan was simple, but having addressed will help bridge that gap and allow us to As a social work graduate from Union College, Forshee-Sweeney has a particular interest in the success of the TLC. She later attended the University of Nebraska-Lin- coln and earned her master’s degree in ed- ucation administration with emphases in higher education and special education. In 2001, she returned to Union to earn an ed- ucation degree and was offered the job as TLC director. Jennifer Forbes, the former director, had been impressed by Forshee- Sweeney throughout the years and was certain she would be an asset for the pro- photo: Steve Nazario Steve photo: gram. Anderson’s path to the TLC started when Forbes spoke at her church about Union’s learning programs. She was im- pressed with the strategies and assistance offered and later applied for a position. With a degree in speech-language pathol- Debbie Forshee-Sweeney, director of Union’s Teaching Learning Center, now offers life ogy and audiology and a master’s in spe- coaching to students and employees (with Emily Carlson ’10). cial education, Anderson has been a vital part of TLC for the past 13 years. the issue and knowing why I needed to ac- better prepare them.” The power of life coaching is most eas- complish the dreaded task made all the “Life coaching will help us to better ily understood by experiencing it, so dur- difference. focus our efforts on the needs of our stu- ing the course of my interview, The first coaching session covers goals dents,” said Anderson. “Our training has al- Foreshee-Sweeney led me through a mock and an action plan best suitable for the stu- ready helped us ask better questions and session. It turned serious when I divulged dent’s personality. Campus Tool Kit, an on- create more effective action plans that steer my apathy toward writing a 2,000-word line assessment program, is then used to the student in a clearer direction. Everyone paper that was due the next day. monitor stress, personality, learning and should have the opportunity to achieve his “What do you want to get by complet- communication styles, which help indicate or her goals and we hope to continue giv- ing this task?” Forshee-Sweeney asked. an individual’s strengths and weaknesses. ing insight and support to accomplish “A good grade,” I replied. This assessment is taken at the beginning them.”C

CORDmagazine 9 Called to Serve: Union’s Physician Assistant Program Emphasizes the Ministry of Healing by Lauren Bongard Schwarz ’04

10 WINTER 2010 Compassionate service and clinical relevance. This is the spirit of health care embodied by the more than 240 graduates of the Union College Physician Assistant Program now serving in the United States and beyond. his spring marked the tenth underserved fits right in with Union class to graduate from Union’s College’s physician assistant pro- physician assistant (PA) gram’s goals. “We teach our whole Tprogram, and the fourth to complete curriculum from a Christian view- the program with master’s degrees. point,” emphasized Huckabee. “We And while the program has always engage scripture and we focus on had a reputation for turning out the life of Christ. His was a ministry highly-qualified health profession- of healing, and we understand that als, recent classes have proven the the Bible teaches us how to re- program keeps getting stronger. In spond when we approach life and four of the past five years, 100 per- death. It’s a holistic approach and cent of graduates passed the Physi- we feel our students and their future cian Assistant National Certifying patients are best served because Examination on their first attempt. they’re called to make a difference. So it’s no surprise that Union Col- They’re called to serve God and

photo: courtesy Larryof photo: Sluiter lege’s PAs are in high demand. man.” “Teaching responsible servant- hood is our foremost goal, and our A Burden for Rural graduates are taking that into the Health Care field in a way that makes them stand Larry Sluiter, a 2008 Union Col- out from their peers,” explained lege PA Program graduate, currently Mike Huckabee, Union College’s PA serves in Onida, South Dakota. He program director. “Employers recog- is the only full-time health profes- nize that, and some even contact sional serving Sully County, and our program to list their jobs among Larry Sluiter ’08, a recipient of the NHSC scholarship, now with the closest hospital more than the new PA graduates. They want runs a medical clinic in the small town of Onida, S. D. 35 miles away, his small clinic pro- our graduates because they show compassionate integrity that vides vital services to the more than 700 local residents. goes beyond what they normally see in the profession.” In fact, Sluiter began his career as a medical technologist in southeast 100 percent of Union’s PA graduates have jobs within just three Kentucky and in Michigan. While in Michigan, the hospital months of graduation. Sluiter worked at was closed down because of budgetary con- In 2010, the PA program earned the maximum seven-year ac- straints. “I got to see firsthand what hardships come to communi- creditation from the Accreditation Review Commission on Edu- ties that are robbed of health care,” he says. “That really left an cation for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA), the national PA impression on me and I saw what the lack of health facilities accreditation association. This is an exceptional honor, as less does to the community and what great need there is for health than 10 percent of the schools who earned continuing accredita- care in underserved communities.” tion from 2004-2008 were awarded the maximum seven-year Colleagues encouraged Sluiter to grow his medical expertise term. “These numbers show the real accomplishments of our and become a physician assistant, and he found a home at graduates, the hard work and effort Union. “I had been working in the they put in and the training our pro- medical field since 1985, so I had a gram gives them,” Huckabee said. One hundred percent of Union’s broad clinical knowledge base. I Union’s physician assistant stu- PA graduates have jobs within talked with Mike Huckabee, the pro- dents’ emphasis on compassion and just three months of graduation. gram director, and found that Union skill has also earned recognition College has a passion to find physi- from the National Health Services cian assistant candidates who have Corps (NHSC). The NHSC scholarship is a highly sought-after unique talents and well-rounded experience in the health care government program which pays tuition and living expenses in field. I chose Union because their philosophy was in line with exchange for students’ commitment to serve in a high-need area what I wanted to incorporate with my personal beliefs and pro- that has a shortage of health professionals. Six Union College fessional background.” physician assistant students have earned this coveted scholarship, His years of experience in the medical field and his training at including graduates Larry Sluiter ’08 and Roberta Yoshimura ’04. Union give Sluiter the ability to effectively practice in an area ig- While the NHSC is a federal program available to medical, nored by other health professionals. “I’ve always had a burden dental, nurse practitioner and physician assistant students at ac- for rural health care,” he said. “My beliefs prompted me to turn credited public and private colleges and universities throughout down job offers from larger health care centers and accept this photo: Steve Nazario Steve photo: the United States, their emphasis on compassionate care for the position at a stand-alone clinic in a small town that had a great CORDmagazine 11 need for medical professionals.” Sluiter has found that serving a community so far from the bright lights of large cities is filled with opportunity. He ex- plained, “It’s rewarding and challenging, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. There’s a real importance to my being here, and I’m constantly growing as a professional. I’ve even seen rare situ- ations that rival those at large hospitals.” Along with routine checkups at his mainly family practice, Sluiter treats accident vic- tims from farms, performs basic lab tests and X-rays, completes physicals for truck drivers and deals with internal medicine is- sues. He’s even had a patient who, after several months of col- laborative study with four different neurologic clinics, was diagnosed with a debilitating syndrome on the National Institutes of Health’s list of rare diseases. He’s grateful for the NHSC loan repayment scholarship which has rewarded him for practicing in an area of great need, but fi- courtesy Yoshimura Robertaof photo: nancial rewards aren’t what drive Sluiter’s commitment to serv- ice. “Medicine is not a career but a calling,” he affirmed. “It takes an internal drive and personal devotion to practice medicine in areas that some consider not worth the financial payback or re- gard as having a lower quality of existence. For me, being a physician assistant is all about giving back and being there for NHSC scholarship recipient Roberta Yoshimura ’04 now treats the people that need you most.” patients at an immigration detention center in Washington. A Cyclical Journey Yoshimura treated migrant day laborers and field workers. “It Tacoma, Wash., may not be a place you’d expect to find a was hard, intensive labor, and they suffered from disease and ill- medically underserved population. But there in the immigration ness, but they were proud to do the work,” she remembered. detention center, thousands of detainees rely on just a handful of Now, in the immigration detention center, Yoshimura treats health care professionals to diagnose, treat and prevent illnesses. patients on the final leg of their journey, as they are sent back to Roberta Yoshimura’s journey started in 1998 during her three- their home countries. “They often say to me, ‘I don’t know how I month medical assistant externship in a small village in will feed my family now.’ I see their despair, and I truly under- Guatemala, where she helped two young doctors treat the local stand where they’re coming from because I’ve been to the place population. At the doctors’ urging, she decided to go back to many of them come from,” she said. “It’s a government facility, school to become a physician assistant; and after graduating from so I can’t give them Christian counseling, but I can reassure them Union, Yoshimura accepted a position treating migrant farm that they’re going to get through because God has a plan for workers in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Later, when she saw them, and I pray for them every day.” the call for a female physician assistant who spoke Spanish to The NHSC strives to identify and reward heath care profes- screen and treat female detainees at the immigration detention sionals who are dedicated to service and are willing to work in center in Tacoma, Yoshimura knew it was a natural fit. underserved areas, providing health care to those who need it Yoshimura’s career has afforded her the unique opportunity most. Yoshimura embodies that spirit. “I’m a Christian and my to see the cyclical journeys of many patients. “I started in that desire is to serve others. That’s why I served in Guatemala, de- poor village in Guatemala, and I saw how the people had little cided to become a PA, and why I’m still serving in underserved access to health care and jobs. Many of my female patients told areas,” she says. “From my original interview at Union College me their husbands had come to the United States to work, and I where I told them my goals until now, and for as long as I can saw why firsthand. They’re desperate, their children are dying of see into the future, I have been and will be serving the under- preventable diseases and infections, and they need a way to feed served.”C their families,” she explained. Then, as a new PA in California,

Union College PA program receives $792,000 grant by Tiffany Doss

nion College’s physician assistant pro- scholarships will cover tuition and other care medicine. Union is one of only 28 PA Ugram will receive a $792,000 grant from expenses and can be renewed for a sec- programs in the nation to receive this the U.S. Department of Health and ond year. This funding will help expand award. Human Services, which will be used to the program by five additional slots to a “Having Union College’s grant appli- award scholarships to new PA students class of 30 by the 2011-12 school year. cation chosen for this award emphasizes over the next four years. As part of the Affordable Care Act, the strength of our program,” stated Mike Each year, between 2011 and 2015, congress set aside $30 million for a five- Huckabee, PA program director. “We are the grant will fund five scholarships for year initiative to fund the training of more very excited about what this means for new Union PA students. These $22,000 than 700 PAs pursuing a career in primary the program’s future.”

12 FALL 2010 PA student plans career of service by Ryan Teller

hy would you want to But as a non-traditional student come to the reserva- from rural Nebraska, Merchant “Wtion?” the old man asked in surprise. also appreciates Union’s small The question haunted Shane class sizes, personal attention and Merchant, now in his first year of Christian atmosphere. “At Union, I physician assistant studies at Union can see the important role that College. As he helped treat the re- faith plays in healing,” he ex- tired Winnebago man at the reserva- plained. “And the professors and tion clinic, Merchant shared his students are like a family. I felt like dream of becoming a physician as- they would do anything for me— sistant and serving on the reserva- and they have.” tions in Nebraska and South Dakota. “I want to help your people,” he A passion to serve replied. “But I don’t know if I can Since putting off his dream of a make a difference.” degree in medical technology after “When you throw a rock into a high school to join the army, med- lake, it makes a ripple,” the old man icine has been in Merchant’s smiled. “And that ripple makes a dif- blood. Maybe not literally, but ference.” during his time as an airborne mil- More than 20 years after graduat- itary police officer, Merchant used ing from Norfolk High School, Mer- his emergency medical technician chant enrolled in college for the first training to volunteer at the base photo: Steve Nazario Steve photo: time, intent on becoming a physi- clinics in his free time. When a cian assistant to provide primary parachuting accident forced him medical care services in rural Ne- out of the army, he continued to braska. “I could see the lack of ade- use his skills to serve as a first re- quate health care providers in rural sponder in the steel mill and trailer areas.” he said. “That’s why I de- factory where he worked for sev- cided to become a PA.” eral years. Merchant also joined the vol- Finding a home at unteer rescue squad based near Union his home in Randolph, Neb. Now Union College’s graduate pro- that he studies in Lincoln, he gram in physician assistant studies makes the nearly four-hour drive proved to be the perfect fit. Mer- home each weekend to see his chant earned a degree in medical wife and three sons, but also con- technology from the University of tinues to volunteer on the rescue South Dakota, and he intended to squad. “I feel everyone should continue his training there. But give back to their community in Shane Merchant, in his first year of Union’s PA program, while visiting other nearby PA pro- some way,” he said. “My commu- plans to use his medical knowledge to serve on the Ameri- nity has given a lot to me and this grams, he found a home at Union. can Indian reservations of Nebraska and South Dakota. “I wanted to come to Union be- is one way I can give back.” cause of their involvement in the community,” he said. “Helping Merchant’s career goal came into focus after he began shad- those in need is part of their philosophy.” From giving seminars owing PAs and volunteering at clinics on several reservations on sexually transmitted infections at local high schools to staffing while studying at USD. “I have seen American Indians suffer so a foot clinic for Lincoln’s homeless citizens, Union’s faculty find many injustices and live in appalling conditions,” he said. “As a many ways for Merchant and his fellow PA students to sharpen PA, will I be able to change that? Probably not. But I can make a their skills by serving the people of Lincoln. difference in their health, one person at a time.”C

CORDmagazine 13 Mission: Haiti Four Union College team members reflect on what they saw and what they learned while aiding the relief effort in Haiti following January’s devastating earthquake.

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Brittany Nunez helped at the Adventist hospital.

14 FALL 2010 Jason Warren checks a patient at a mobile clinic. ance to land amid the many other planes flying about. We finally teaM 1: touched down just after dark but found less-than-ideal accommo- arrived January 18 dations. We didn’t dare stay in the earthquake-damaged terminal, and we could not leave because of a citywide curfew, so we slept on the tarmac that night. arah Sexton, now a senior international rescue and relief S Most of us got a decent night’s rest in spite of the giant military major, along with three other students and an instructor, arrived transports planes taxiing a mere 25 feet away. In the morning, we in Haiti on January 18, less than one week after the devastating rumbled through the streets of Port-au-Prince toward the Adven- earthquake rattled the already impoverished nation. tist Hospital of Haiti in the back of a dump truck, led by a United Nations security truck. The sights, sounds, and smells in Port-au- “The whole house collapsed on top of my family. My only son Prince brought back memories of the year I spent in Africa, work- was crushed by a slab of concrete while we tried to get to him. ing at a remote Adventist hospital. During my time in Chad, I My nephew has been trapped for a week under the rubble. Can lived in much of the same conditions I now observed around me. you save him?” And it was in Africa that I learned some French—a skill that be- I blinked under the hot sun and focused on the woman stand- came so valuable in a few short hours. ing in front of me. Seven days earlier, the catastrophic 7.0 earth- As we rolled into the hospital compound, the ACTS director quake hit Haiti and I was still trying to process the idea that I was ran through the chaos to our truck, yelling, “Good you’re finally standing in Port-au-Prince surrounded here! We have reports of people still alive that are stuck. by building rubble, dead bodies and You need to gather your gear chaos. and head out immediately!” When we saw the images from the Within the hour, the five of decimated country on the news, many us tromped through the city international rescue and relief majors with a K9 rescue team, a surgi- wanted to go help. We were told our cal team to help with extrica- program directors were in contact tion, and more than a hundred with ACTS World Relief, an organiza- locals, eager to be our man- tion that Union had partnered with in power. First, we were led to a past domestic disaster relief opera- collapsed school and restau- tions, but it might be up to a month rant. We found no entry into the before the arrangements were made rubble or any signs of life. After to send students into Haiti. But the interviewing the neighbors next evening the phone rang. more extensively, we discovered “Sarah, you speak French, right?” the noises they heard from the my instructor asked. “Can you be building had ceased a few days ready to leave for Haiti by Sunday?” earlier. In a whirlwind of a few days, I An employee from the Adven-

photo: courtesy storiesthese in featured those of photo: found myself on a plane headed to tist hospital pleaded with us to Florida with three fellow students come to her flattened home. As and one of our directors. We were we packed up our gear and fol- told we would fly into Haiti with lowed her, she explained her the first team from ACTS World eight-year-old nephew was still Relief to scout out the possible lo- trapped alive somewhere under- cations and work out logistics to neath. He had been communicat- set up a base of operation for fu- ing with them for most of the ture relief teams. That sounded week, describing the locations of pretty doable, and I felt some- The first team to arrive in Haiti: John Thomas, Ginger several other victims, which the what capable despite the appre- Hany, Jeff Schall, Justin Woods and Sarah Sexton. family had located. The boy had hension of arriving at such a survived so long by drinking water large-scale disaster. En route to Florida, from a leaking pipe that was drip- however, we received another surprise call—“You packed your ping on him, but the last time she’d rescue gear and equipment, right?” heard him make noises was just the night before. We sent the We were asked to investigate the many reports of people search and rescue dog, Zeus, to scope out the area. Trained to still trapped in buildings. I haven’t been trained in search distinguish between live and dead victims, he soon circled the and rescue yet! I thought, my confidence now shaken. We area where the boy was thought to be, and promptly lay down. didn’t bring any equipment! These are real lives we’ll be We sadly explained to the lady that he was signaling there was a dealing with! dead body there. Despite her grief, she thanked us profusely for After jumping through a million hoops in Florida trying giving her peace in knowing he no longer suffered. to get rescue gear and flights to Port-au-Prince, our small The rest of the day, we wandered around the city answering team, with a group of doctors and surgeons, boarded a more calls for help, but we soon realized that most were just hop- private jet bound for Haiti—the second plane charted by ing someone was still alive. ACTS. Soon we circled the city, but waited hours for clear- As we drug into the hospital that evening, down from a long

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day with no happy endings, we were immediately engulfed by stretched and needed. the chaos of the courtyard. Patients lay everywhere and doctors God’s plans definitely shouted orders left and right. We soon joined the fray, starting stretched me, but in ways I IVs, bandaging wounds, organizing supplies and whatever else certainly did not antici- the doctors needed. pate. Despite the chal- They told us the airport had been shut down right after our lenges, my team helped team arrived, so none of the nurses made it. We decided to stay at treat more than a thou- the hospital—they clearly needed all they help they could get. It sand patients in mobile felt like back home in Africa—speaking French with the patients, clinics. We also organized triaging all the inflow of injured people, learning to splint the a pharmacy depot to myriad of broken bones, assisting in surgeries, scrubbing surgical hold all the donated tools and just filling in wherever needed over the next five days. medications. Aftershocks regularly rattled the hospital, including the news- But we were asked making 6.0 rumble that woke us up early one morning, jolting the to tackle a much more hospital back and forth like a rocking horse. The ACTS director challenging task. For came to us once again, tasking us as the only ones with any tech- two days we dug nical experience, to evaluate the structural integrity of the hospi- through a flattened tal after each earthquake. As I walked around with my notebook, multi-story apartment Senior David Skau joined Union’s rating the cracks that started appearing in the walls, I faced the building looking for second team (with Brittany Nunez). thought that hounded me constantly, I’m not trained to do this! bodies—sometimes But as I lay on the hospital floor each night waiting for sleep with the aid of heavy to overtake me, I realized even if we weren’t trained to do these equipment—--but mostly with our bare hands. specific things like inspect damaged buildings for structural dam- It’s hard to feel useful when so many living people need help, but age, we have been taught qualities that became so important in a the four bodies we uncovered helped bring closure to grieving disaster situation. We have been taught to be flexible, how to deal families. with stressful situations both physically and emotionally, how to Back at Union, I wrestled with the overwhelming feeling that I survive in tough situations, how to support of each other and, had done very little—unsure if my service there was worth the most importantly, how to intently care about the lives around us. expense and effort of the trip. Thousands of patients still clam- But ultimately, there is no training like just being there and ored for a chance to see a doctor. If no one else took up the task doing it. of organizing the pharmacy, the volume of in- I would not trade this experience for anything. Heartache sur- coming unsorted donations rounded us in Haiti, but so did smiles, goodness and miracles. As would soon re- I worried about the patients I helped treat, I reminded myself that God cares for each of them individually so much more than I ever could and I must trust He will work for their best. Haiti reaffirmed my trust in a God that is good. Now I excitedly look forward to the future when I can be involved in long-term disaster relief and med- ical mission work.

teaM 2: arrived January 28

David Skau, senior pre-med/international rescue and re- lief major, traveled to Haiti with three fellow students and two recent IRR graduates. They arrived in Port-au-Prince on January 28 and stayed for five days. turn the A week and a half after the earth (mostly) stopped shaking small room to a state of David Skau took notes on the assignments for the day. Port-au-Prince, I received the news. “You have been selected for utter chaos. And what difference did un- the second IRR response team,” my instructor reported. covering four bodies make in a city where hundreds of The first team had returned with stories of an intense week thousands died? spent keeping the Adventist hospital in Port-au-Prince running. The black cloud surrounded me through my first two days Their training had been stretched by constant urgent needs: steril- back in class. The realities of catching up on more than a week of izing surgical instruments, keeping IVs running and wounds schoolwork kept me busy, but the thoughts still poked through. clean, assessing the building’s safety after the frequent after- The second night home was Wednesday, when my friends usu- shocks and many other skills learned on the spot. I knew my ally hold a Bible study in an apartment near campus. experience would be different, but I expected to be similarly “I know how busy you are,” I could hear God saying. “I know

16 FALL 2010 about the makeup work and the tests coming up over material Exhausted, we fell into bed after a flight into the Dominican you missed. But I also know you need to go to Bible study.” Republic and a six-hour bus ride into Haiti. But around 4 a.m. we The text for that night was Philippians 2:4-8 felt the rain, even inside the large, green, MASH-type army tent where we slept. Nobody got any more sleep after that. Note to fu- “Each of you should look not only to your own interests, ture travelers: when you decide to get involved in a disaster re- but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be sponse, pack a Ziploc plastic bag with at least one pair of dry the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature clothes, some earplugs and more than a pound of flexibility (for God, did not consider equality with God something to be all those around you). grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very The next morning I met the medical group at a clinic that had nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And been set up by ACTS World Relief and Operation Hope for the being found in appearance as a man, he humbled him- Children of Haiti, a local non-governmental aid organization. The self and became obedient to death—even death on clinic had been seeing around six hundred people a day, not in- a cross!” cluding mobile clinics that operated throughout the city when Then it hit me. Jesus didn’t come to this earth saying, “I’ll only they had enough staffing. By this time, the medical staff had tran- do it if one thousand will repent.” He would have come, lived, sitioned to providing more primary care instead of the acute in- suffered and died for just one. And if that was good enough for juries treated in the two weeks immediately following the Him, then I don’t have to change the world either. It is enough to earthquake. reflect a little of His love to even one of His hurting chil- I had recently be- dren. And with that, I had peace. come a registered nurse, but did not have a job waiting for me at home, so I stayed in teaM 3: Port-au-Prince and arrived february 11 worked as a medical provider after the Union College group D oug Gatz graduated with a degree in international returned to Lincoln. rescue and relief in 2009. He traveled with Union’s third When I first arrived in team to Haiti, which arrived in Port-au-Prince on February Haiti, one of the 11. While the team spent only a week in Haiti, Doug stayed workers told me that on for a total of six weeks at the medical clinic. the physical (temper- ature, sleeping Normally, I live in a world that revolves around me. I live arrangements, etc.) life oblivious to most of what happens around me—often and mental strain even God’s attempts to reach into my world. But He used my made an eight-hour experience in Haiti to get my atten- day working in the tion. I first found out about the Doug Gatz, 2009 IRR graduate medical clinic feel earthquake on January 13 after more like a 12-hour emerging from a sea of NCLEX day back home. I found this to be (registered nurse certification) true. Along with the fatigue, I began study questions I had been living to struggle with the idea that we in. After reading more than 200 were not doing enough. It is hard to Facebook status updates about work all day and know that beyond Haiti, I wanted to be one of those the 600 people you helped are thou- people who say, “My heart went sands or maybe millions more. out to those people and I knew I After working on the medical staff had to do something.” But truth- for a few weeks, I transitioned to a fully, I read some news articles logistical role (I guess people saw about the earthquake and went me as a “veteran” or “old-timer”) to back to studying for the NCLEX test support all the volunteers. God scheduled in three weeks. brought some amazing volunteers But the next day my phone through the clinic during my six rang. “So when are we going to weeks in Haiti—people from every Haiti,” asked one my fellow IRR background and belief. A few graduates. “How can we get down proved to be answers to prayer by there?” I am glad God doesn’t need providing both perspective and an or ask for perfection, just willing- outlet to share the joy and ness, because on February 11, I, heartaches of the job. But I consider along with the rest of the third each of them my friends. Union College relief team, set foot One of the grief counselors told a in Port-au-Prince. story that has stuck with me. He

CORDmagazine 17 spoke with a father who had been holding his young son in his lap when the earthquake hit. The wall of their house had fallen on top of them, pinning the man’s arms and legs and his son against his lap. Over the next several days, he felt his son slowly stop moving, stop crying and eventually die. “How could you possibly understand what I went through?” the father questioned the counselor. “How can this ever get better?” “I don’t know,” replied the counselor with tears in his eyes. “But I know Someone who does.” He told the grieving father about how God had watched His son die, and He understands. Some may think the counselor’s response trite, but to a man who had lost everything, it was hope. In the midst of over- whelming suffering, we often miss the miracles. Each morning I woke up to the singing voices of the locals as I prepared for a long day of treating hundreds of hurting people. We drove past the rubble of a church and saw a thousand people hav- ing a vibrant worship service. You can’t help but be changed by the spirit and resilience of people who have lost so much. Kathy Bollinger, an education professor, joined the fourth team. I am still processing my experience in Haiti and how it has impacted my life. The truth is, I have never come back un- amid changed from a service trip. But as time goes by, it is so easy to the chaos ruling the lives of so lose perspective and go back to thinking the universe revolves many, the children always acted with gentleness and politeness. around me. When that happens, though, God always sends The older siblings carefully tended to younger ones’ needs— something along to help me remember—such as writing helping them create little novelties with our stickers, cups, pipe this story. cleaners and paper. I loved how the children smiled and sweetly snuggled up to me, their tiny arms stretching around my waist while shy grins danced across their faces. We quickly discovered teaM 4: a game of London Bridge causes shrieks of laughter and tennis arrived MarcH 11 balls can provide just as much entertainment on hardened clay roads as they do on manicured tennis courts. The children focused with a joyful vengeance on the “school- Kathy Bollinger ’71, associate professor of education, traveled work” we brought for them—coloring, weaving, designing and to Haiti with the fourth Union College team to serve the devas- creating—and then proudly displayed their creations to anyone tated country. Originally planned as a mission trip to Belize, the who stopped to look. The pride in their eyes as they surveyed spring break trip allowed more students to go without missing their masterpieces was a gift to me as paint-covered hands gifted classes. A total of 34 students, employees and medical profession- parents with newly created items of beauty. als departed on March 11 and spent a week working in hospitals, Children are God’s gift to us—similar in every culture—want- medical clinics and playing with the children. Bollinger and two ing to love and be loved. Little Sebastian, a fixture around the elementary education students joined the team to care for chil- hospital compound after losing his leg in the earthquake, snug- dren while their families sought medical attention. gled up to me after completing one of the activities. “Thank you, teacher,” he beamed as he proudly showed me one of his works Our bags chock full of crafts and other activity supplies for of art. children, two education majors and I disembarked with the med- We gave out lots of clothing and toys to the children. After re- ical team in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, ready to play school with hun- ceiving a gift, one little boy hugged me and we danced and danced dreds of young earthquake victims. I quickly discovered laughs a little jig and laughed and laughed. That moment was one of pure, and giggles sound the same in Creole as they do in English, a hug whimsical joy. Each evening I lay on the ground under the shelter takes your breath away in any language and all little boys and of a gigantic army tent, wrapped in my sleeping bag surrounded by girls love to have fun. twenty (or more) fellow travelers, each processing his or her own We spent most days sitting under a shade tree cutting, pasting, memories of the day. I knew this was where God wanted me at weaving, coloring, gluing, playing and singing while Haitian that moment, and though I probably didn’t change lives of these moms and dads stood in line to be treated at one of the medical children forever, I did for that one day.C clinics staffed by Union College volunteers. I was amazed that

Financing the Trips Originally planned as a mission trip to helped support these disaster relief trips. Belize over spring break, the fourth trip If you would like to provide funds so he first three trips to Haiti were fi- to Haiti cost each participant $1,500. Most Union’s international rescue and relief Tnanced entirely by gifts from alumni and students raised the money from churches, students can continue to respond to dis- friends of Union College, who donated family and friends, who gave nearly asters, please contact the Advancement more than $26,000 to pay for travel, food $43,000. Office at 402.486.2503 or p www.ucol- and supplies. Thank you to each of you who lege.edu/advancement

18 FALL 2010 Her KIND of service by Michelle Current

s a dental hygienist, Julie Collett ’81 Colorado, one of her friends asked Collett A loves teeth—or at least working to fill an opening in KIND’s Chopper on them. Now, as director of Kids In Topper Program. Need of Dentistry (KIND), a Colorado “My favorite part is the kids,” Collett not-for-profit organization that provides said about the program, which works dental work for children who can’t afford with elementary schools to place sealants it, she has found her life calling. on the molars of second graders. “I got to “I was making one of my first presen- be their best friend for the week. They tations as executive director, and a promi- are all so sweet, I’m glad I could do nent businesswoman interrupted me with something that helped them and their tears in her eyes,” Collett remembered. future.” “The woman said, ‘I know all about Collett worked for KIND for two and a KIND. KIND is the reason my son can half years before taking a break to learn smile.’” more about the not-for-profit world as exec- Twelve years before, the woman and utive director of the Alumni Awards Founda- her husband were out of work and living tion, an organization dedicated to raising with her parents. A friend gave them tick- funds to support Adventist education. ets to an amusement park so they could In 2007, Collett returned to KIND, photos: courtesy Collett Julie of photos: have a family outing, but the fun ended which at the time had a $250,000 deficit. when her little boy tripped and broke his The auditor told the board it would take front tooth. the organization three to four years to “She didn’t have insurance and she Julie Collett ’81 runs Kids in Need of Dentistry, turn the deficit around. As executive di- which provides dental care for children in the couldn’t afford to pay,” said Collett. “She rector, Collett did it in nine months. Denver area (including the mobile clinic below). went online to find someplace she could Now that the organization is on solid afford. That’s when she found us.” The financial footing, Collett has ambitious next day her son had an appointment, goals for the future. She wants to expand and the tooth was fixed within a week. KIND’s current services and ultimately Collett was surprised to hear the 18-year- become the dental provider for all the old remembered the help he received school systems in the metro Denver area. and had asked his mother to thank her. “I know right now it is not possible to These experiences make Collett help everybody,” Collett said. “But I also thankful she chose this path. While at- didn’t think it was possible to turn a tending high school in Nebraska, she $250,000 deficit around in less than ten couldn’t decide whether to study dental months. We can do anything we can hygiene or nutrition, so she sought advice from a guidance coun- imagine with the right help.” selor. “She told me if I went into nutrition I would be stuck in the Collett ultimately found fulfillment in life through serving oth- basement of hospitals,” said Collett, “right then I decided dental ers. “I love my job,” she said. “These last few years have been re- hygiene was for me and I never looked back.” warding. I can go home at night knowing this organization makes Collette graduated from Union College in 1981 with an associ- a difference in the lives of children. The best part of this job is that ate’s degree in health science and then went to dental hygiene it combines both of my passions: dentistry and philanthropy.” C school in Pueblo, Colo. While working as a dental practitioner in Kids in Need of Dentistry schools to place sealant on the molars of second graders. Den- tal hygienists do oral health education, dental screenings and ids In Need of Dentistry was started in 1912 by a group of place sealants. This program targets second graders, because as Kdentists who saw a need for dental care among the low-income their first molars erupt, the sealant helps prevent cavities. miner’s and railroader’s children in Colorado. Today KIND has Miles for Smiles is a 36-foot dental clinic on wheels. The bus three dental clinics: two in the metro Denver area and one in spends a month at a time at Denver’s clinics for low-income Colorado Springs and a wide range of services for kids. families, making it easy for people to take advantage of both The Chopper Topper Program works with elementary services.

CORDmagazine 19 By Brenda Forbes Dickerson ’86

ounded warrior, you are now on U.S. soil. You are In July Burton returned to Landstuhl in response to an urgent safe!” These are the first words injured soldiers hear call for help. July was the highest month to date for casualties when they arrive at Landstuhl Medical Center in Ger- from the war in Afghanistan. Because of an increase in the use of “Wmany. And volunteer trauma surgeon Dr. Reg Burton ’83 from explosives by the Taliban, many U.S. soldiers suffered severe in- Lincoln, Neb., is helping make those words a reality. juries to the lower body, often losing one or both legs. Burton stayed another two weeks to help treat the increased Patching up the wounded number of wounded soldiers at the hospital before returning to In February Burton traveled to Landstuhl Regional Medical Lincoln. Center, the largest American hospital outside the continental United States. Located in northern Germany, Landstuhl is where Constant trauma isn’t easy wounded soldiers from Operation Enduring Freedom and Oper- The high stress world of trauma surgery often burns out the ation Iraqi Freedom come for medical care within 24-36 hours of faint of heart. But amid the constant pressure, Burton enjoys his being injured. The American College of Surgeons coordinates work and finds time to share his talents across Nebraska, not just with the military and the American Association of Surgical around the world. Trauma to provide the Visiting Distinguished Surgeons program. Since 2002, Dr. Burton has been the director at the Trauma Their role is twofold: to assist military surgeons with current sur- and Surgical Critical Care Center for BryanLGH Medical Center in geries and to present continuing education lectures. The perma- Lincoln. He serves as the Region 2 trauma director in the Ne- nent staff coordinating the operations at Landstuhl are braska Statewide Trauma System, chair of the Nebraska specialists, but the doctors actually performing the surgeries are Statewide Trauma Performance Improvement Committee (and general surgeons deployed short term. Every three months there author of their training workshop materials) and chair of the is a whole new team, requiring a continual process of education. Rural Trauma Committee for the American College of Surgeons. “It was an outstanding experience—a real honor—for me to Burton also helps train young surgeons as a clinical associate be able to go to Landstuhl,” Burton said. “Most trauma cases in professor of surgery at the University of Nebraska. the U.S. are someone driving recklessly, getting drunk and jump- As director of the Trauma Center, Burton constantly works ing off a balcony or doing high-risk sports. But these guys with patients who are dying or in critical condition. When peo- weren’t doing anything except protecting me and my country. ple ask how he maintains a positive attitude in such an environ- It’s a totally different feel.” ment, Burton replies that the key is focusing on performance During his two-week stay Burton received a “wounded war- improvements. “We always seek ways to do things better and riors” military coin from the commander of the base for saving faster. We look for new research to improve methods so we can the life of a soldier who couldn’t breathe. save the next person.” 20 FALL 2010 Getting trauma victims to It’s often kids with issues who start medical facilities more doing drugs and get into situations quickly is one of Burton’s ob- that land them in the emergency jectives. Every Thursday his room. Burton points out it’s easy for team conducts “Trauma on trauma surgeons to become judg- the Road” training events in mental and think, This is just an- outlying communities to other kid on drugs. But he believes teach medical staff how their that if you judge people at their low- pre-hospital services can be est point, you’ve missed an opportu- done more efficiently. Dr. nity because that is when they’re Burton also teaches trauma most open to change. care workshops across the “We have an active trauma pro- country. “I’m on the road gram where we help put the bad quite a bit on national lecture- stuff behind and start exploring ship tours,” Burton said. “This goals,” Burton said. “If they haven’t year was really busy.” finished high school, we help them get a GED. If they have, we get them “I always wanted into college programs where they to be a doctor” can reach some goals. We’re helping From the beginning, Bur- quite a few kids and we realized we Dr. Reginald Burton ’83 (second from left) directs BryanLGH could help many more if we used ton’s career path has been Medical Center’s Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Center. straightforward. “I always pre-tax dollars,” Burton explained. knew I wanted to be a doctor,” he said. “I was the kid cutting up “That’s why we formally started the foundation.” dead toads to see what was inside and what they had eaten. I al- ways wanted to know how things worked.” When Burton was A passion for mentoring eight years old, his grandfather suffered a heart attack on a farm Although Burton serves on a dozen committees and his of- photos: courtesy BryanLGHof photos: www.bryanlgh.com - System Health in the middle of nowhere. “I promised God then that if He fice walls are ringed with certificates and awards (including the would save my grandpa I would grow up and serve others,” said 2009 Trauma Champion Award), mentoring young people is his Burton. passion. In addition to their three biological children, the Bur- When he arrived at Union College, Burton found a dedicated tons have five “adopted” children. He speaks with satisfaction of team of professionals in the sciences who helped make his aspi- his “other kids” and their accomplishments. “I do a lot of coun- ration a reality. He particularly remembers Walter Page, Gilbert seling with kids I try to help. There’s a lot of dysfunction and McMillen and Barbara Goyne. “They were not only very smart sometimes kids just need understanding.” Burton tells them wis- people, they were personable,” he recalled. “They knew who I dom is making a mistake and learning from it, but they don’t al- was and took an interest in me.” ways have to make their own mistakes. It’s much less painful to It wasn’t only the science faculty who learn from someone else’s. connected with Burton. Jim McClelland, Dr. Burton regularly gives this advice to long-time professor of art at Union, became a students: “Find something you’re really in- close friend. “Mr. McClelland is not only a terested in, that you can be excited about fantastic artist, he’s also a great person. We every day. Then if another opportunity share a love of birds and orchids,” Burton comes that looks interesting, do that to the added. While Burton was in medical school best of your ability. If you don’t know what at Loma Linda University, McClelland staged you want to do, attend a liberal arts college an art show in California. “I loved his paint- where you’re exposed to a lot of different ings, but of course I couldn’t afford them. He things. Give everything a chance and do basically gave me one of his paintings,” Bur- everything to the best of your ability each ton said. “I knew he was proud of me for step of the way. If you’re just doing it to get being there. Now that I can, I buy his a grade you may be missing an opportunity paintings.” for your life’s calling. You never know where life is going to take you, but try to Service doesn’t end find a career that stimulates you to be your after surgery best; look for a life partner who brings out From his professors, Burton received a the best in you; and raise your family so model for mission and service that he has they’re the best they can be.” personally developed as part of his career. Throughout his life—from his grandpas’ Last year he and his wife, Dr. Jamie Snyder- heart attack to saving the lives of wounded Burton, started the Burton Trauma Founda- soldiers—Burton has been handling high tion to assist trauma survivors. Burton knows adrenaline moments. He believes having “a most young people don’t get to be trauma firm foundation of your beliefs in God and your mission in life is what gets you patients because they have their lives to- Burton twice traveled to Landstuhl, Ger- gether and are heading toward their goals. many, this year to treat wounded soldiers. through.” C CORDmagazine 21 ______CLASS-IFIEDS

He has served as guest chaplain sion and spiritual care at Ad- have three married sons and in the U.S. House of Represen- ventist Health West after serving four grandchildren. Keep in Touch tatives and most recently pub- in this capacity for 16 years. lished a book entitled, The Wayne began his health care CORDmagazine wants to career in 1984 working in mar- hear from you. You have told Abortion Controversy: Will a us this is your favorite sec- Free America Survive? Will keting at the corporate office in 1980s1 9 8 0 s tion. Tell us where you are, You? Glendale. In 1989, he began what you’re doing or just work at Glendale Adventist David Crane ’86 of Hinsdale, send greetings. Medical Center as associate di- Ill., has been elected treasurer rector of behavioral medicine in of the Metropolitan Chicago Direct your letters to: 1960s1 9 6 0 s product line development, mar- Healthcare Council’s Board of Class-ifieds keting and management. He Directors. Crane is president Alumni Office Charles Prowant ’61 and his also spent five years working as and chief executive officer of Union College wife, Mollie Sue, recently cele- a health care consultant. Joining Adventist Midwest Health and 3800 South 48th Street brated their fiftieth wedding an- the corporate office again in Adventist Hinsdale Hospital. He Lincoln, NE 68506 niversary on the Oregon coast 1995, Wayne worked as a previously served as president e-mail: [email protected] with family and friends. Follow- strategic planner for Adventist and chief executive officer of make changes online at ing his graduation from the Uni- Health before adding mission Littleton Adventist Hospital in p www.ucollege.edu/ cordmagazine versity of Nebraska College of and spiritual care to his portfo- Littleton, Colo., and has also Dentistry, Charles practiced for lio. Prior to entering the health served at other institutions such ’67 denotes graduation year five years in Grand Island, care field, Wayne, an ordained as St. Vincent Mercy Medical (’67) denotes last year attended Neb., before setting sail on a minister for the Seventh-day Center and Mercy Health Part- or preferred class year Norwegian freighter bound for Adventist Church, was a college ners in Toledo, Ohio, and Cen- Karachi, Pakistan, where they professor. He taught religion tura Health in Denver, Colo. served at the Karachi Adventist and history courses at Pacific David earned a master’s degree Hospital. Their 20 years of mis- Union College in Angwin, in business administration from sion service continued in Oki- Calif., as well as serving in ad- Crummer Graduate School of nawa, Japan, where Charles ministrative roles at Columbia Business at Rollins College in 1940s1 9 4 0 s was instrumental in building Union College and Loma Linda Winter Park, Fla. the dental clinic at Naha Adven- University. Wayne is an accom- John Stevens ’49 has spent tist Hospital and Hong Kong plished musician who has led Charles Jaster ’87, from Fair- the past 40 years working in the Adventist Hospital. Following several musical groups at Ad- field, Penn., earned a master’s field of religious freedom. He 12 years in private practice in ventist Health. Among other degree in finance and account- has represented freedom of re- Overland Park, Kan., they re- things, he has led the BrAHvo ing from Regis University in ligion alongside government turned to mission service in Concert Band and has sung the fall of 2009. Charles is cur- leaders in various countries in- Moscow, Russia, where Charles with the AHmen male octet. A rently the chief financial officer cluding Brazil, England, Kenya served as director of the Adven- resident of Roseville, Calif., he at the National Fallen Firefight- and Russia. He founded two re- tist health center. Now retired in and his wife, Audrey, have two ers Foundation, where he ligious liberty organizations, in- Whitney, Texas, they remain ac- adult children as well as three oversees the finance and ac- cluding the Council on tive in their community and grandchildren. Audrey contin- counting. He had two grand- Religious Freedom, and has enjoy time with their children ues to work at Adventist Health children born in 2009. seen his bills supporting reli- and ten grandchildren. as an executive assistant. gious freedom passed into law. His articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA 1990s1 9 9 0 s Today and Signs of the Times. 1970s1 9 7 0 s Ken ’90 and Tami Cox ’91 Lynn Johnson ’71 has re- Bieber, are proud to announce cently retired as a partner with the birth of their baby girl, Bai- Dixon Hughes, the largest CPA ley Elizabeth. She was born Oc- firm based in the southeast. At the time of his retirement, Lynn was the managing partner of the Hendersonville, N.C., of- fice. He still lives in Hender- sonville with his wife, Erika. He will continue to be in- volved part time with Dixon Charles and Mollie Sue Prowant Hughes, while also a vice pres- ident of a local manufacturing company and serving on the Wayne Judd ’64 is retiring as boards of eight community or- John Stevens assistant vice president for mis- ganizations. Lynn and Erika Bailey Elizabeth Bieber 22 FALL 2010 ______CLASS-IFIEDS tober 22, 2010, weighing 6 house. Joe is principal at James to form Five Nines. Nick Josh Huenergardt ’01 and his pounds, 14 ounces, and meas- Shenandoah Valley Adventist is on the board of directors for wife, Becca, welcomed Natalie uring 19 ½ inches long. Elementary School and Julie the Lincoln Children’s Museum, Rose on Aug. 11, 2010. She was teaches part time at the same a member of the school board 6 pounds 14 ounces and 20.5 Mark Smith ’90, former fac- school. All four of their children for SDA Schools of Lincoln, and inches long. ulty and his wife Jacque, for- currently attend SVAES. Their a Union College Business and mer Union College director of oldest will graduate next year Computer Science mentor. public relations and communi- and attend Shenandoah Valley cation teacher, moved to the Academy. Dayton, Ohio, area in May 2010. Mark is the vice president Jeanie Drake ’93 has served 2000s2 000 s for finance and operations of for three years as principal of A Greene Memorial Hospital in Plus Elementary, voted pre- Torrey ’00 and Donene the Kettering Health Network. school for 2009 by the city of Caster Braithwaite ’00 After 10 years at Union College Glendale, Calif. welcomed Ezekiel “Zeke” Cole including more than eight years on July 12, 2010, at 6:32 a.m. as director of public relations Lee Bowes ’97 has been Zeke weighed in at 7 pounds 15 and former CORDmagazine ed- named southwest regional ounces and was 19.5 inches long. itor, Jacque is now pursuing manager for Duncan Aviation. some freelance communication In this position, Lee will help work while staying at home operators in Nevada, Arizona with their 19-month-old son. and southern California be- Natalie Huenergardt Branson Conley Smith was come more familiar with the ca- born April 12, 2009. pabilities and services offered by the company. He began his Dean ’01 and Laura Rumsey career with Duncan Aviation in ’03 Poblete are the proud par- 1999 as a marketing specialist. ents of a baby boy, Isaac Allen, He is an instrument-rated pilot, born April 16, 2009. Laura is a has done more than 100 sky- registered nurse at Florida Hos- dives, and enjoys playing music pital, and Dean is the art direc- locally and regionally. tor at Try-Foods International.

Rhonda Purkeypile Mazlu- mian ’97 and her husband, Pablo, were blessed with a Ezekiel Braithwaite daughter, Alexa Noelle, on Feb. 19, 2009. The family lives in Greg (’00) and Amber Shawnee, Kan., where Rhonda Doolaard ’99 Johnson is a stay-at-home mom with were blessed with a baby boy, Alexa and her big sister, Gi- Drew Gregory, on Sep. 9, 2009. Branson Smith anna. Pablo is director of tennis Drew joined big sister Claire at at Clayview Country Club and home. The family lives in Com- Suzanne Beranek ’91, re- an automotive journalist for Eu- stock Park, Mich., where Amber cently accepted the position of ropean Car Magazine. is a physical therapist and Greg is director of communications for a computer network consultant. policy and philanthropy at the Nick Bock ’98 and James Colorado Health Foundation. Bowen and their company, Five Most recently, Suzanne worked Nines Technology Group, in Isaac Poblete as an independent consultant Lincoln, Neb., have been and owner of Beranek Commu- named the Nebraska Small nications. She also led commu- Business of the Year for 2010 by Tyrel ’02 and Klarissa nications efforts for institutions the United States Small Busi- Brownlee (’03) Blanchfield of higher learning and non- ness Administration. Previously, were married in August 2006. profit organizations including Nick worked with the Nebraska They welcomed Javen Zachary the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Heart Institute in IT support be- Blanchfield on Feb. 24, 2009. the Coalition for the Homeless fore serving as IT director for Tyrel is currently the finance and Florida Hospital. the Nebraska Urban Medical manager for Dunn County Center in 2002 and as a phar- Rural Electric Cooperative. Joseph ’92 and Julie Fults ’95 maceutical sales representative Fralick just moved into a beau- for Pfizer. In 2004, he founded Stefan ’02 and Crystal tiful home in the country. They Nebraska IT, a client-focused IT Schauer ’02 Kaiser were are enjoying their three acres support and counseling firm. blessed with a daughter, Carisse and a river flowing behind the Three years later he joined Drew Johnson Denae, on Jan. 22, 2008. They CORDmagazine 23 ______CLASS-IFIEDS

live in Loma Linda, Calif., where He weighed 8 pounds, 15 jah Miguel. He was born May 6, Crystal is a registered nurse and ounces, and was 21 inches 2010, and weighed 6 pounds, 15 Stefan is in a medical residency long. They currently live in Or- ounces. Elijah is the grandson of at Loma Linda University Med- lando, Fla. Miguel and Mary Nunez Aguilar ical Center. and Mike and Deb Inman. James Goddard ’04, staff attor- ney at Nebraska Appleseed, Josh (’06) and Shelly McLean presented a case before the Ne- Kittleson ’06 are pleased to braska Supreme Court to help announce the birth of their son, restore Medicaid benefits to Martin Douglas Ora, born on more than 400 low-income par- Nov. 11, 2008. They live in Lin- ents unlawfully dropped from coln, Nebr., where Shelly is a the Employment First program senior accounting clerk at Chris- by the Nebraska Department of tian Record Services, and Josh is Health and Human Services. He a skip trace specialist at Nelnet. successfully represented the members of the Employment First program in this class action lawsuit. Heidi and Dustin Jones Jessica Jorgensen Cress ’05 Todd Hoyt ’03 graduated from and her husband, Barry, wel- Union College with a major in comed a baby boy, Owen communications. Since gradua- William, on June 15, 2009. He Carisse Kaiser tion he has pursued a successful joins big brother, Caleb, at career in sales in the fields of home. The family lives in Christine Pfeiffer ’02 married marketing and recruiting. His Zanesville, Ohio. Don Allison on September 6, latest endeavor is delving into 2009 at the Chehalis Adventist the challenging and rewarding Church in Chehalis, Wash. They field of real estate. make their home in Randle, Martin Kittleson Wash.

Stephanie Rick ’06 married Jeff Lind on February 20, 2010, in Daytona Beach, Fla. They both recently finished their MBA degrees and are ready to take on the world together. Stephanie is working as senior sales and marketing manager at Florida Hospital and Jeff is di- Owen Cress rector of communications at Todd Hoyt Waterman Communities.

Miguel (’05) and Katie Inman Bill ’04 and Tasha Reynolds (’08) Nunez are pleased to an- ’03 Heinrich welcomed nounce the birth of their son, Eli- Colton Keith on Dec. 1, 2009.

Christine and Don Allison

Heidi Hiebert ’03 married Dustin Jones on June 29, 2008, in Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho. They live in Colton, Calif., where Heidi is the associate director of public re- lations at Loma Linda University. Stephanie and Jeff Lind

Colton Heinrich Elijah Nunez 24 FALL 2010 ______CLASS-IFIEDS

Caleb ’09 and Codi Davidson versity, moved from Col- braska-Lincoln and a Ph.D. in ’05 Jahn are pleased to an- legedale, Tenn., to Union Col- health study from Texas nounce the birth of their son, lege as an assistant professor in Woman’s University in 2006. Conner Caleb. He was born the nursing department. Follett Before coming to Union, Hauff April 29, 2010. They live in received her BSN from South- worked at Southwestern Ad- Shawnee, Kan., where Codi is a western Adventist College and ventist University as a teacher sales representative for Pac-Van, her MSN from Southern Adven- in the kinesiology department. and Caleb is a pilot for Flight tist University. Her husband, She is married to Brian, assis- Express. Kalvin, works at Christian tant professor of international Record Services as an audio en- rescue and relief at Union, and gineer and technician. Their has two children: daughter, children, Nathan and Jannah, Riley, who is six-years old and attend Helen Hyatt and are in son, Brady, who is 18 months. fourth and sixth grade. Karla Navarrete is the new Tracy Cash Hagele ’93 is now enrollment coordinator. Before Angela Washington Union’s simulation lab coordi- coming to Union in 2009 as a nator. Hagele graduated from nursing student, Navarrette Union College with a BSN and worked with handicapped has enjoyed 16 years of nursing children and adults in Los An- PeopleP e o p l e in a number of states including geles, Calif. She is currently a California, Alaska and most re- part-time student in Union’s PlacementsP l a c e m e n t s cently Colorado, where she de- nursing program and is antici- Andrea Ahrens is the new an- veloped and ran the pating graduation in 2011. nual giving director for Union. Pre-Admission Testing Nursing Ahrens received her B.A. in Po- Department for Parker Adven- Jonathan Rickard recently litical Science from the Univer- tist Hospital. She met her hus- became the new student ac- Conner Jahn sity of California, Los Angeles in band, Greg ’92, at Union counts manager at Union Col- 1999. She earned an MBA from College. They have a five-year lege. Rickard attained his the University of Maryland, old daughter. double major in history and Robert H. Smith School of Busi- government and business ad- 2010s2010s ness, 2009. She is married to Brian Hauff came to Union ministration from Pacific Union Michael ’00. College in 2010 as the EMS co- College and later earned an Grace Escobar ’10 interned ordinator and an assistant pro- MBA from the University of Cal- with Street Team, a group that Tina Booton is the new fessor in the international ifornia Riverside. Before com- worked in Lincoln to pave the cashier; she previously managed rescue and relief program. He ing to Union, he lived in Loma way for the arrival of the Spe- a local restaurant. She and Gary, graduated from the University Linda while working for the US cial Olympics athletes in July her husband of 18 years, have of North Texas in 2003 with a Census Bureau. His wife, Amy, 2010. Awareness was the key to two children, Aimee and Will. Master of Science. Prior to com- is a new professor in the biol- Grace’s work; Street Team’s ing to Union College, Hauff ogy department and they have main focus was on building a Teresa (Smith) Edgerton ’01 spent seven years as a fire- a 2-year old son, Benjamin Reid better understanding about took over as Career Center Co- fighter and paramedic for the Utt-Rickard. people with disabilities and the ordinator, in Feb. 2010. Edger- City of Cleburne Fire Depart- Special Olympic movement. ton graduated from Union with ment in Texas. He is nationally Frankie Rose ’02 graduated a degree in business adminis- certified as a paramedic, fire- from Union College with a Angela Washington (’10) tration. After graduation she fighter, and emergency medical bachelor of science degree in served as a volunteer intern at and her husband, Thaddeus services and fire instructor. biology and is now assistant the People’s City Mission in (’01) moved to St. Louis, Mo. Hauff is married to Krystal, as- professor of biology. Rose 2009. During her time in that where she started her career as sociate professor of health and earned a Ph.D. from the depart- position, Angela helped with an office manager at a small human performance and has ment of molecular microbiol- the Halloween Food Drive and construction company. She two children: daughter, Riley, ogy and immunology at the co-founded the Amazing Grace later worked as a staff account- who is six years old and son, University of Missouri and just Food Drive, coordinating more ant at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Brady, who is 18 months. completed a one-year post-doc- than 100 volunteers and raising Before coming to Union she toral fellowship doing biomed- more than a ton of food to feed worked as the controller at a Krystal Lakoduk Hauff ’98 is ical research within the same the homeless. On Wednesday, construction company in Lin- a new associate professor of lab. His wife, Ellen ’02, has a August 11, 2010, Angela was coln, Neb. health and human perform- BSN. awarded the Governor’s Point ance. Hauff graduated from of Light Award by Lieutenant Kristine Follett, a clinical in- Union College with a degree in Ben Tyner, a new assistant Governor Rick Sheehy and First structor in childbearing and exercise science. In 2000, she professor of history, graduated Lady Sally Ganem. family community health nurs- earned a Master of Education from La Sierra University in ing at Southern Adventist Uni- degree in exercise physiology 2002 with a degree in history. from the University of Ne- Tyner is currently working on CORDmagazine 25 ______CLASS-IFIEDS his dissertation to complete his the nursing program. Gregory is survived by his sons, Robert and ing as pastor of the Miami Tem- doctorial studies. Prior to developing systems to track stu- Robin; daughters, Lahna Ro- ple Church, he was named Union, Tyner worked as an ad- dents who move through the gene Neely and Rhonda; sisters, president of the Florida Confer- junct teacher at several schools, nursing program and the activi- Mildred Beck and Ruth Smoot, ence, a post he held for eight including Asheville-Debunch ties of the faculty who serve and four grandchildren. years. He then served as presi- Technical Community College them. Her position will evolve Theodora, his wife of 69 years, dent of the Southern Union in North Carolina. He and his into coordination of the nursing preceded him in death in 2003. Conference for the next 15 wife, Jenny, have a four-year program, supervision of the of- years until retiring in 1980. He is old son, Gabriel. fice staff and serving the health Harold Singleton (’31), Silver survived by his son, H. Lane; sciences division chair, nursing Spring, Md., died Feb. 8, 2009, twin daughters, Barbara Fowler Amy Utt-Rickard is a new as- program director and nursing at age 101. He was born in 1908 and Beverly Garner; seven sistant biology professor for the faculty. This position became in Valdosta, Ga. After graduating grandchildren and 11 great- Division of Science and Mathe- full-time on Nov. 1, 2010 from Oakwood College, he grandchildren. He was pre- matics. She graduated from continued his education at ceded in death by Doris, his Loma Linda University in 2010 Jill Morstad has expanded her Union College in 1931 and later wife of 60 years. with a master’s in animal be- role at Union College. While still at the Adventist Theological havior and conservation. In working as an adjunct English Seminary. Harold served as Anabelle Mills Hills (’37), 2001 she graduated from Pa- professor, Morstad is now president of the South Atlantic Loma Linda, Calif., died Feb. 3, cific Union College with a Union’s assessment director in and Northeastern Conferences 2010, at age 93. She was born bachelor of science in biology. which she coordinates with the and later worked at the South- June 4, 1916, in Bravo, Mich. Before making the move to academic programs to determine ern Union Conference. In 1962, She graduated from Natrona Union College, she worked at their effectiveness. he was elected regional depart- County High School in Casper, San Bernardino Valley College ment secretary at the church’s Wyo., attended Union College and La Sierra University. Utt- Aaron Kent ’08 graduated with world headquarters. Upon en- and Columbia Union College, Rickard is married to Jonathan a degree in international rescue tering the ministry, Harold and graduated from the School Rickard, Union’s new student and relief returned to Union as a gained a reputation as a church of Nursing in Paradise Valley, accounts manager, and has a 2- staff intern while completing his planter, pastoring churches in Calif. She began her nursing ca- year old boy, Benjamin Reid master’s program through South- Tennessee, Florida, and the Car- reer in 1945 at White Memorial Utt-Rickard. ern Adventist University. Kent is olinas. He is survived by Mary, Hospital in Los Angeles. In now working as a full-time IRR his wife of 71 years, six chil- 1955, Anabelle earned a mas- Ryan Veness ’10 graduated faculty member. dren, five grandchildren and ter’s in nursing from the Univer- from Union College with a de- one great-grandchild. sity of Colorado. She then gree in international rescue and became an associate professor relief with an emphasis in proj- Esther Sonnenberg ’32, Loma of nursing at Loma Linda Uni- ect development. Veness is IN MEMORY Linda, Calif., died March 18, versity. In 1978, Anabelle mar- now a full-time staff assistant 2010, at age 98. She was born ried Floyd ’37. She is survived for the department after work- Death dates and/or obituar- Dec. 5, 1911, in Winside, Neb. by her daughters, Carol Huddle, ing overseas last year. He is ies have been received for Esther’s life was devoted to Betty Woods and Cindy Ford; newly married to Heidi Morse the following individuals. teaching and helping others. eight grandchildren; 11 great- Veness, who plans to graduate She taught at Union College, grandchildren; and sisters, from Union this year with an Walla Walla University, and was Kathryn Mills, Alyce Fund and IRR degree. dean of women at Loma Linda Madalyn Lathrop. Roger Runck ’31, Grand Junc- University. She is survived by Michelle Younkin has as- tion, Colo., died Dec. 20, 2009, her sister-in-law, Alma ’38; Delwin Blue ’39, Boulder City, sumed the role of Director of at age 97. He was born May 24, nephews, Craig and Mark, and Nev., died Jan. 28, 2010, at age Records. She joined the staff in 1912, in Dolores, Colo. After nieces, Diane and Karen. 91. He was born March 18, June after relocating from graduating from Union College 1918, in a farming community Glendale, Calif., where she with a degree in pre-med, he Audrey Anderson Johnson near Lincoln, Neb. He earned a worked at Glendale Adventist earned a Bachelor of Science in (’33), Turner, Maine, died Jan. degree in chemistry from Union Medical Center. Michelle re- Chemical Engineering from the 22, 2010, at age 95. She was College where he met his future ceived her bachelor’s degree University of Colorado and a born Aug. 8, 1914. Audrey wife, Eloise Laugen ’40. They from Southern Adventist Uni- Master of Science in Metallurgy taught nursing, piano and moved to Boulder City in 1954 versity and her MBA from La from Stevens Institute of Tech- organ. She is survived by her where Delwin served as direc- Sierra University. nology. While an undergradu- husband, Melvin and daughter, tor of the Bureau of Mines Met- ate, Roger won a national award Lynette Johnson-Fisher. allurgy Plant until his retirement from the American Institute of in 1975. He was also an expert Transitioned: Chemical Engineers. Later, he Harold Schmidt (’36), and published author on the worked for Metal and Thermit Apopka, Fla., died Jan. 2, 2010, subject of aluminum processing. Sherri Gregory transitioned Corporation, Battelle Memorial at age 99. After finishing col- He served the Boulder City from her position as office man- Institute, the Department of En- lege, he began pastoral work in community for 16 years and ager for the Division of Human ergy, and served as the found- the Missouri Conference. He was a dedicated member of Ro- Development to the admissions ing president of International also served in Illinois, Min- tary. Delwin loved boating on and progression coordinator for Precious Metals Institute. He is nesota and Florida. While serv- Lake Mead and exploring the 26 FALL 2010 ______IN MEMORY

Colorado River. He is survived served as pastor in Texas, Min- Dec. 13, 1927. She is survived by by his wife, Eloise; son, Wayne; nesota, Michigan, South Dakota, her sons, Bob and Jeff ’78; and sister, Myrna Koundoriotis; six and California. He is survived by daughter, Nancy Zima-Gentry. grandchildren; and three great- his wife, Eunice Skadsheim grandchildren. He was pre- (’45) Johnston; sons, Oliver William Brumfield ’49, Den- ceded in death by his son, and Robert; daughter, Eileene ver, Colo., died Feb. 13, 2010, at Craig. Madden; six grandchildren and age 88. He was born in 1921 in six great-grandchildren. Pierce, Colo. He is survived by Fern Seamount Nelson ’39, his daughter, RaeNell Mittleider Loma Linda, Calif., died March Vera Jordan McWilliams ’45, and two granddaughters. He 4, 2010, at age 93. She was born Nashville, Tenn., died Nov. 17, was preceded in death by his Jan. 25, 1917, in Green River, 2009. She was a member of the wife, Olivet Atwood Brum- Utah. She is survived by her Madison, Tenn., campus field (’49) and son, John. son, Steven; daughter, Barbara church. She is survived by her Bing; and four grandchildren. son, Darrell, and his wife, Linda. Delphine Watson Gates ’49, Grand Junction, Colo., died Feb. Marie Sanders Rowland Arthur Heinrich (’41), Eustis, Betty Yearwood Seal ’46, 24, 2010, at age 91. She was Fla., died Feb. 17, 2009, at age Somerset, Ky., died March 30, born May 27, 1918, in Montrose, 93. He was born Oct. 7, 1915, in Helen Bliss Mathis ’44, Center 2010, at age 86. She was born Colo. She graduated from Cam- North Dakota. Arthur was a Point, Iowa, died April 21, 2010, May 2, 1923. She was a kinder- pion Academy and earned a member of the Umatilla, Fla. at age 91. Helen was born Sept. garten and head start teacher for bachelor’s degree from Union church. He is survived by his 20, 1918, near Marion, Iowa. 15 years, a radiology transcriber College. During her career, Del- wife, Eldina; sons, Milo ’80 and Helen earned a degree in home for 15 years, and a co-owner of phine was a teacher and admin- Arlo ’81; daughters, Sharon economics while at Union. On Southwest Portable X-ray and istrator for the Seventh-day Werner (’69) and Cynthia July 13, 1944, she married Dale EKG Service for 11 years. She is Adventist school system. She Darcy; seven grandchildren and Mathis. Helen taught at Linn survived by a son, Richard; enjoyed music, reading, travel- seven great-grandchildren. County country school for two daughter, Linda Thorman; three ing and the outdoors. She is sur- years. She also worked as a so- grandchildren and two great vived by her husband, Lee Marie Sanders Rowland ’42, cial worker for 17 years at the grandchildren. Gates, Jr. ’49; son, Garry; Lincoln, Neb., died February 29, Department of Human Services daughter, Sandra Drobny ’69; 2009, at age 91. She attended in Cedar Rapids. She loved to brother, John Watson (’37); Campion Academy and gradu- travel and cook, and was six grandchildren and seven ated from Shelton Academy. known for incredible pies. great-grandchildren. She was 1936 was her first year at Union Helen is survived by include her preceded in death by a son, Lee College. The years 1937 to 1940 husband, Dale; sons, Edwin Gates III. found her back home teaching ’70, Vern (’74), and Norman the same country school she ’81; six grandchildren, one Timothy Ling ’49, Loma had attended as a girl. In 1940, great-granddaughter and a Linda, Calif., died June 10, 2010, Marie continued her studies in brother, Harold. at age 95. He was born Feb. 19, teacher education/biology and 1915, on Kulangsu Island in immersed herself in offices such South China. After graduating as Sabbath school secretary and from the China Training Insti- was chosen as an honorary tute, Tim served as teacher at cadet captain of the Union Col- the Bee Hwa School. He gradu- lege Medical Cadet Corps. She Betty Yearwood Seal ated with bachelor’s degrees married Neil ’47 on February 3, from St. John’s University in 1943. During the two years Neil Lois Cummings Haas ’48, Lit- Shanghai and Union College was in the army, Marie worked tleton, Colo., died June 10, before pursuing graduate stud- as registrar, librarian and biol- 2010, at age 85. She was born ies in political science at the ogy teacher at Campion Acad- Dec. 28, 1924. Her life’s work University of Nebraska. In 1951, emy in Loveland, Colo. In 1977 was spent as an elementary Tim began his career at the Neil received a call from the school teacher, wife and United States Information General Conference to teach at mother. She is survived by her Agency in its Voice of America Mountain View College in the husband, Harry ’48, daughters, operations. He was committed southern Philippines. She is sur- Diane Rasco (’70) and hus- to sharing global news with vived by her husband, Neil; band, Jerry; Sheryl Hasenauer those behind the Iron Curtain, daughters, Janice (’66) and Helen Bliss Mathis ’74 and husband, Bruce ’74; particularly in China. In 1983, husband, Ed ’72 Seltmann; six grandchildren and two Tim and his wife moved to Bonnie (’74) and husband, great-grandchildren. Loma Linda to be closer to their Kurt Schindler; son, Dale ’70 Oliver Johnston ’45, Loma children and enjoy the warmer and wife, Colleen; six grandchil- Linda, Calif., died Feb. 19, 2010, Patricia Carter Zima (’48), climate. He is survived by his dren; three great grandchildren; at age 92. He was born Aug. 25, Cleveland, Tenn., died Oct. 5, daughter, Julia Miller; son, Ben- and her brother, Edward. 1917, in Horine, Mich. Oliver 2009, at age 81. She was born jamin; and one granddaughter. CORDmagazine 27 ______IN MEMORY

He was preceded in death by Alice Forste ’50 Pierson; sons, ing stories about his adventures. at age 82. She was born Nov. 17, his wife, Irene. Dave and Steve; daughters, Mar- He graduated from Union Col- 1927. She is survived by her sis- ilee Pierson and Sandee Bales lege and then served in the U.S. ter-in-law, Vada Korgan Leon- Larry (Bogdanovich) Stevens ’69; grandchildren; brother, Army. Merle’s business degree hardt ’67, and many nieces and ’49, Lakebay, Wash., died April Paul (’53); sisters, Lula Master led him to accounting and earn- nephews. 18, 2009, at age 82. He was born and Fern Helzer Partridge. ing a CPA. He started his finance April 16, 1927, in St. Louis, Mo. career at Haskin and Sells, and Frank Crawford (’55), Com- After earning a master’s degree Merritt Schumann ’50, Grand then continued at the University merce, Texas, died April 22, in higher education and coun- Junction, Colo., died April 13, of Colorado Medical Center and 2010, at age 76. He was born seling, he spent 40 years in 2010, at age 87. He was born in healthcare administration at Oct. 11, 1933. He is survived by academy, college and university July 26, in Montrose, Colo. He the University of Washington. his wife, Jane Woicinski Craw- campuses as dean, dean of stu- graduated with a degree in Merle also loved to build model ford ’56; son, Michael (’82); dents, financial aid officer, direc- music from Union College and boats, work in the yard, fish, daughter, Charlotte Bobek ’88; tor of personnel and patient earned a master’s from the Uni- hunt and travel. He is survived and brother, Larry (’67). relations administrator. Larry versity of Northern Colorado. by his wife, Carol; daughters, had a great love of outdoor Merritt served with the U.S. Wendy Sefcik and Brenda Wallace Croak ’55, Berrien life—mountaineering, canoeing, Army during WWII in the Eu- Heflin; eight grandchildren; Springs, Mich., died Feb. 4, 2010, flying, backpacking and travel- rope. Later, he founded LaVilla brother, Marvin; and sister, at age 87. He was born Jan. 30, ing in 21 countries. He retired to Grande Care Center and the Geraldine Furne. He was pre- 1923, in Willmar, Minn. He was a a 100-acre farm where an array Schumann Singers. He was also ceded in death by his youngest member of the Pioneer Memorial of wildlife roamed the forests a guest conductor throughout daughter, Elizabeth Danna and church in Berrien Springs. He is and hayfields. He is survived by the United States and Canada. sister, Jean Johnson (’45). survived by his wife, Ellen Wid- his wife, JoAnn Perkins ’49 He had a deep love for the Lord mer Council Croak (’47); Stevens; brother, John ’49; and and his family. He is survived by Merle Rouse ’53, Franklin, sons, Randall and Lowell; daugh- daughters, Cathleen FitzGerald his wife, Betty Dixon (’48) N.C., died Jan. 18, 2010, at age ter, Linda Royal ’70; stepdaugh- and Dana Greenlee. Schumann; son, Merritt II; 81. He served the church for 40 ters, Llona Chapman and Jo Ellen daughters, Linda Skidmore, years in the roles of education Conley; four grandchildren; two Gerald Williams ’49, Apopka, Diann Cashell and Deb Warren; and pastoring. Before retiring in step-grandchildren; and two Fla., died Sabbath, January 23, sister, Lillie Lorenz; 12 grandchil- 1993, he was the pastor of step-great-grandchildren. 2010. He interned in the Ne- dren; and three great-grandchil- Franklin Church for eight years. braska Conference and then dren. He is survived by his wife, Mar- Catherine Warrick Welch ’56, went as a missionary to garet; sons, Stan, Byron and Lincoln, Neb., died Feb. 14, 2010, Venezuela, Columbia, El Sal- Doris Venden Sharp (’50), Gary; sisters, Wilma Gromer, at age 75. She was born March vador, Panama and Mexico. Loma Linda, Calif., died Jan. 28, Dorothy Huenergardt (’42), 29, 1934. She worked as a regis- Gerald earned a doctorate in 2010, at age 82. She was born and brother, Raymond (’53); tered nurse, mostly in surgical re- hospital administration and Sept. 4, 1927, in Portland, Ore. eight grandchildren; and four covery. She is survived by her served at Washington Adventist She is survived by sons, Douglas great-grandchildren. husband, Clifford ’59; daugh- Hospital and operated two nurs- and Walter; daughters, Barbara ters, Brenda Fleming ’78 and ing homes in the D.C. area. Ger- Melton and Nelda Woodin; 11 James Bradburn ’54, Port Susan Wooledge; and four ald is survived by two sons, grandchildren; three step-grand- Charlotte, Fla., died Oct. 14, grandchildren. Dale and Dennis; and brother, children; and four great-grand- 2009, at age 81. He was born Royce ’51. He was preceeded children. June 29, 1928, in Indianapolis, John Sandquist (’57), Kansas in death by his wife, Evelyn Ind. He was a member of the City, Mo., died Nov. 21, 2009, at Coultas (’49) Williams. Gaston Wallace ’51, Jefferson, Port Charlotte church for nearly age 72. He was born Oct. 22, Texas, died March 24, 2010, at 21 years. His 20 years of denomi- 1937, in Goose Creek, Texas. Norman Baughman ’50, age 88. He was born Jan. 20, national service were spent at John was a member, elder, Sab- Loma Linda, Calif., died Nov. 30, 1922, in Burnett, Texas. He was Punta Gorda Medical Center, bath School teacher and chorister 2009, at age 86. He was born a member of Jefferson Academy Punta Gorda, Fla., in administra- at Golden Valley Church in Mis- Jan. 30, 1923, in Rock Springs, church. Gaston served as a tion; and Shawnee Mission Hos- souri. He is survived by his wife, Wyo. His is survived by his wife, book editor at Southern Publish- pital, Overland Park, Kan., as Norma Yeager Sandquist ’57; Bertha; sons, Gary and Ron; and ing and as a pastor in Austin and assistant director of materials daughters, Lisa Kraulik and Erica; four grandchildren. Jefferson, Texas, as well as management. He is survived by son, Stephen; sister, Marilyn Oklahoma. He is survived by his his wife of 37 years, Muriel; sons, Leonard; brothers, Bob and Don; George Pierson ’50, Moberly, wife, Marjorie; daughters, Karen David and Gordon; daughters, and six grandchildren. Mo., died Nov. 18, 2008, at age Altwell and Linda Greene; four Kathy, Karen, Sherry Hickman 85. He was born Aug. 24, 1923, grandchildren; and five great- and Rena Gotschalk; sister, Joan; Luis Lescay ’58, Muskegon, in Wheatland, Wyo. He proudly grandchildren. and seven grandchildren. He Mich., died Aug. 17, 2009, at age served his country in the U.S. was preceded in death by his 83. He was born Aug. 23, 1925, Army, receiving an honorable Merle Christensen ’53, Belle- son, Bill, and daughter, Linda in Santiago, Cuba. He was a discharge. Prior to retirement, vue, Wash., died April 6, 2010, Stephens. member of the Avon Park church he was owner and operator of at age 78. He was born Sept. 26, in Florida. He is survived by his Hawkeye Book and Magazine 1931, in Milford, Iowa. He was Maxine Leonhardt (’54), Lin- wife, Monica; son, Heernan; and Co. He is survived by his wife, raised on a farm and loved shar- coln, Neb., died March 20, 2010, two grandchildren. 28 FALL 2010 ______IN MEMORY

Theodore Wade, Jr. ’58, five grandchildren and one They moved to Tennessee in by his sister, Bonnie (’74). He Berrien Springs, Mich., died Dec. great-grandchild. 1973 and were active in the was preceded in death by par- 4, 2010, at age 73. He was born Ogden Road and Graysville ents, Vernon ’44 and Helen June 28, 1936. His life work was Ray Herbel ’62, Mishawaka, churches. Bev earned her LPN li- Temple (’39) Burgeson. in education and writing. He is Ind., died April 14, 2010, at age cense in 1981 and worked for survived by his wife, Karen Pe- 77. He was born Oct. 9, 1932, in years as a nurse. Marvin and Bev Clifford Morgan ’71, Loma terson Wade ’69; sons, Timothy Nekoma, Kan. He was a teacher also took care of foster children, Linda, Calif., died March 28, and Melvin; and daughter, for 33 years in the Michigan Con- including the medically needy. 2010, at age 62. He was born Dorothea Sarli. ference and served as principal She also participated in evangel- March 15, 1948, in Painesville, for many of those years. He was ism in El Salvador, Central Amer- Ohio. He is survived by his step- Nadeen Nichols Hendricks also a member of the Niles, ica, and in outreach to Tellico son, David Greenwood and ’61, Silver Spring, Md., died June Mich., Westside church. He is Plains, Tenn. She is survived by brothers, Timothy ’76 and Dou- 4, 2010, at age 70. She was born survived by his wife, Le Anna her husband, Marvin; sons, Clin- glas ’78. August 16, 1939. She is survived Rodie (’52) Herbel; son, Brent; ton, Byron, and Vance; ten by her husband, Audley ’61; daughter, Kathy; father, Harry; grandchildren; mother, Eldora Alice “Midge” Thompson daughters, Cara Olson and Sheryl mother, Eva; brother, Norman; Hatcher; brothers, Teo, Deryl, Olson ’71, Clarkson, Wash., Middleton; and two grandchil- sister, Elsie Hermann; and two Earl, and Alvin; and sisters, Eliza- died Feb. 24, 2010, at age 88. She dren. grandchildren. beth and Marie. was born Jan. 14, 1922, in Col- man, S.D. From 1947-1964, Evans Hagelgantz ’62, Lincoln, Beverly Fisher Schmidt (’64), Gary Burgeson (’69), Alexan- Midge and her husband served Neb., died Feb. 19, 2010, at age Chattanooga, Tenn., died Jan. 20, dria, Minn., died Dec. 11, 2009, as missionaries in Lebanon and 79. He was born May 14, 1930, in 2010, at age 65. She was born at age 61. He was born July 29, Iraq. Upon returning to the La Crosse, Kan. He was a mem- Oct. 17, 1944, in Benton Town- 1948, in Harvey, N.D. He gradu- United States, Midge taught at ber of Holland Church. He is sur- ship, Mich. She graduated in ated from Maplewood Academy Adventist schools in Colorado, vived by his sons, Michael and 1962 from Maplewood Academy and later attended Union Col- Missouri, Michigan and Oregon, Mark; daughter, Denise Polk and married Marvin (’58) in St. lege. Gary was a member of winning Teacher of the Year (’89); sister, Althea Nazarenus; Paul, Minn. on Aug. 14, 1966. Wadena Church. He is survived awards and endearing herself to

Adventist Communicator dies

hirley Burton ’49, Lincoln, this position in 1994, but didn’t SNeb., died August 16, 2010, at retire from the communication age 83 after suffering a stroke. arena. In retirement Shirley be- Born on May 5, 1927, in Lincoln came director of communica- to Jack Burton and Verle tion for ASI (Adventist-layman’s Cowin Burton Morris ’26, Services and Industries), served Shirley graduated from College as a consultant for Christian View Academy and Union Col- Record Services and volun- lege before launching a com- teered countless hours to her munication career that alma mater. She worked in encompassed her entire life. Union’s alumni office, taught From serving as dean of communication classes and women at Oak Park Academy served for 17 years as class rep- and Milo Academy to teaching resentative for her graduating English, speech and journalism class of 1949. Shirley’s life, serv- at Laurelwood Academy, ice for her church and her posi- Shirley became well known as tive outlook on life will be an advocate for communication remembered by many. She is skills. After earning a master’s survived by her sister-in-law, degree in communication from Mary Morris ’92; nephew and Southern Oregon College, she his spouse, Marcus ’06 and was named director of public Rachel (’05) Morris; niece relations for the Oregon Confer- and her spouse, Karen ’92 and ence and then at the Pacific Brady Schroer; half-sister, Union Conference before mov- Jacquie Rallis and half-brother, ing to the General Conference James Burton. Memorials in her of Seventh-day Adventists, first name may be directed to the as news director and then as di- Advancement Office at Union rector of communication for the College. world church. She retired from

CORDmagazine 29 ______IN MEMORY hundreds of students. She wrote He was born Aug. 29, 1917. Mollie Hudson Blanscet ’55, taught at Union College from four books about her life and two J Reynolds Hoffman ’42, Salisbury, N.C., died 1960 to 1972. He was preceded books about early pioneers in Glide, Ore., died April 16, 2009, at age 78. in death by his wife. Turkey. She also led nearly 2,000 June 29, 2007. She was born March 6, 1931. people on more than 60 world tours. She is survived by her son, Jeanette Hause-Miller (’47), Daina Ramey Colby ’55, Friends of the College: David ’72; daughters, Ronnalee Moreno Valley, Calif., died Sorrento, Calif., died Netteberg ’68 and Rebecca July 18, 2010, at age 83. Nov. 10, 2009, at age 78. Wanda Bell, wife of alumnus, Gardner; as well as eight grand- She was born Dec. 2, 1930. Robert ’49, died Feb. 8, 2010, in children, including Megan Fer- Peter Kostenko ’49, Fort Worth, Texas, at age 79. She guson Danowski (’09); and six Shreveport, La., died Mary Jensen Edmister (’55), was born Sept. 23, 1930, in great-grandchildren. She was May 6, 2009, at age 89. Lexington, Ky., died Oklahoma City, Okla. She grad- preceded in death by her hus- He was born May 6, 1920. June 6, 2008, at age 72. uated from Campion Academy band, Wayne ’44, and daughter, He is survived by his wife, She was born Feb. 5, 1936. and Texas Christian University Ronda Olson Ferguson (’82). Joyce Long (’46) Kostenko. College of Nursing. She was also Clive Mercer ’57, invited to be among the first Barry Lauritzen ’82, St. Louis Kathryn Stevenson Soper (’49), Hendersonville, N.C., died members of the TCU honor soci- Park, Minn., died Oct. 23, 2009, Ooltewah, Tenn., died May 1, 2010, at age 88. ety. In 1970, Wanda became a at age 51. He was born July 24, Feb. 16, 2008, at age 82. member of the Fort Worth 1958, in Minneapolis, Minn. He She was born May 18, 1925. Jean Schunter Metzler ’61, Woman’s Club, serving as treas- was a member of the Min- Cheyenne, Wyo., died urer, president, director of the netonka Church. He is survived Gilbert Bader ’50, Jan. 29, 2010. club board and other depart- by his mother, Evelyn and Simi Valley, Calif., died ments. She also worked as a vol- brother, Jeffrey ’74. He was pre- July 5, 2008, at age 89. Chikwendu Anyatonwu ’65, unteer relief nurse in Malawi, ceded in death by his father, He was born Oct. 6, 1918. Washington, D.C., died Africa, in 1974. She is survived Adrian (’29). March 11, 2009, at age 76. by her daughter, Deborah Sil- Donna Burritt Aamodt ’51, He was born Feb. 8, 1933. vera; one granddaughter; one Star, Idaho, died great-grandson; and four Notice of the following deaths April 13, 2008, at age 78. Spencer Lagro (’72), adopted grandchildren. She was has been received: Loveland, Colo., died preceded in death by her hus- Marion Brodie ’51, June 13, 2008. band, Robert. Ruth Wasemiller Heinrich (’39), Yucaipa, Calif., died Wilsonville, Ore., died March 9, 2007, at age 86. Ruth Melsted ’79, Geraldine Dickinson, former April 18, 2009. She is survived She was born Aug. 26, 1920. Sacramento, Calif., died Board of Trustee member, died by her husband, Emmanuel (’40). Jan. 13, 2010, at age 64. May 25, 2010, in Meridian, Alice Tyler Wick (’51), She was born June 1, 1945. Idaho, at age 89. She was born Esther Heiser Slate ’39, Canby, Ore., died June 21, 1920. She served on Arlington, Va., died Jan. 13, 2010. Union’s board from 1982 to Jan. 16, 2009. Former Faculty: 2003. She is survived by her Masachika Mori ’54, stepdaughter, Farrel Chapman. Paul Kunce (’41), Oxnard, Calif., died Ken Spaulding, assistant profes- Owasso, Okla., died Sept. 12, 2009, at age 90. sor of physics, died Jan. 1, 2010, Sept. 9, 2009, at age 92. He was born Nov. 25, 1918. in Lawrenceburg, Tenn. He Stay connected to Union all the time Ever wonder what is happening at Union between issues of CORDmagazine ? Here are six ways to stay connected with Union all the time.

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or alumni like Gilbert ’48 U.S. Veteran’s Administra- Fand Rosella Hart ’40 I love Union with all my heart tion for 26 years. Jorgensen, fond memo- When they retired, the ries make the choice to and want to see as many Jorgensens wanted to give give back to Union Col- students as possible attend. back to Union. “I honestly lege an easy one. “I love believe Union College pro- Union with all my heart vides the best education in and want to see as many students as possible at- the denomination,” Gilbert said. With the help of tend,” said Gilbert, who graduated in 1948 with a Todd Mekelburg, director of leadership giving at degree in history and religion. Union, the couple set up a gift annuity. He finished eight years after Rosella because a “The Jorgensens picked the best time to create a stint in the Navy during World War II got in the way. gift annuity,” said Mekelburg. “In these uncertain “I’ve got a whole lot of economic times, it is im- memories,” said the portant to have a steady nephew of the chem- retirement income. An an- istry professor for whom nuity provides a guaran- Jorgensen Hall is teed income for the rest of named. “One of my fa- their lives. When they vorites was traveling to both pass away, the prin- all the camp meetings cipal becomes a lasting with Dr. Woods and the legacy at Union.” quartet. Union College is grateful Dr. Woods pulled a for the alumni and friends small trailer with a ham who have established gift radio to draw people to annuities. For information the young people’s tent. about gift annuities please Then we’d tell them contact Todd Mekelburg about Union College at Union College Ad- and the quartet would vancement, 3800 South sing.” 48th Street, Lincoln, NE Gilbert earned a 68506, call 402.486.2503 master’s degree and or e-mail tomekelb@ucol- taught at Union and lege.edu. Southwestern Adventist College before changing careers and working as a It takes nurse anesthetist for the Gilbert and Rosella Hart Jorgensen ForeSight...

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