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EASTERN NAZARENE COLLEGE • Volume 70 • Number 3 • Fall 2011 The new ENC Learning Commons is a collaboration between Nease Library, ITS and the Center for Academic Success (CAS), encompassing many different aspects of the academic experience. See story on page 8 Check out the Facebook photo gallery from the Grand Opening! ood (09) G arah S ood (09) ood (09) G G arah arah S Courtesy photo S Dr. Chris Cove (81) Welcome Class of 2015 Soccer team cleans up An interventional cardiologist, Cove collaborated Chris James (11) and Marie Roodlyn Altidor (14) greet The Men's Soccer team successfully faced their on a groundbreaking procedure which saved several of the over 200 new students who are beginning first challenge by helping with the campus the life of a young mother with a rare heart tumor. their ENC journey. See page 2 and visit the clean-up following Hurricane Irene. See story on page 5. photo gallery on the ENC Facebook. See more photos on page 2. The Christian Scholar EASTERN NAZARENE COLLEGE 23East Elm Avenue Quincy, MA 02170 2 Eastern Nazarene College VoL 70 #3 • FALL 2011 The 2011-2012 academic year roars in like a lion EDIToRIAL Staff The first week of school began with a hurricane-turned-tropical-storm and ended Jennifer Logue Editor with a chapel service celebrating the start of another school year. In between, Susan Ramey hundreds of students moved onto campus, the Nease Library celebrated the grand Production opening of the new Learning Commons, and faculty and students met for the first ADMINISTRATION classes of the Fall 2011 semester. Corlis McGee President Timothy T. Wooster Provost and Dean of the College Vernon Wesley Vice President Student Development Jan Weisen Vice President Inside this issue Finance Scott Turcott Vice President • Scenes from Yesteryear - 1979 2 Institutional Advancement • President’s Message 3 Corey MacPherson Vice President Spiritual Development and • News Briefs 4 Church Relations William Driscoll • Staff/Faculty News 4 Director • Children’s Theatre Festival 4 Adult and Graduate Studies Above: Student volunteers Stephen W. Dillman • Dr. Chris Cove (81) 5 are ready, willing and able Director to help new students move Church Relations • Thanks for Giving 6-7 into their dorm rooms. Meghan Jean-Noel Director Left: Enrollment counselor • Stories on the Sojourn 8 Alumni Relations Michael Kennedy (11) Scott MacFarland • Learning Commons 8 answers questions about all Director that paperwork during New Marketing and Strategic Communications • Newest campus renovations 9 Student Orientation. Sarah Good • Andrew Trice joins Mass United 9 Bottom left: Ralph Toye, Specialist grounds manager, works at Marketing and Communications • Women’s Basketball coaches 9 clearing a large maple tree Alexandra Foran (12) by Lahue Center that was Student Staff • Alum News 10 brought down by Hurricane The Christian Scholar Irene. New Student USPS 109-140 • In Memory 10 is published quarterly Orientation, planned for by Eastern Nazarene College August 27 and 28, was for Alumni Association members • Pillar of ExcellENCe: Patricia Ryan 11 and friends of the college. postponed until Monday, Direct address corrections to • Homecoming Schedule/Registration 12 August 30, with the first day the Alumni Office at 617-745-3842, ood (09) photos of classes and convocation email [email protected], or G online at www.enc.edu/alumni. chapel each delayed by one arah Send other correspondence to S day. The Christian Scholar Eastern Nazarene College 23 East Elm Avenue Quincy, MA 02170-2999 or Scenes From Yesteryear: Then and Now email to [email protected]. Second Class Postage Left: Paula O’Brien portrays Laura, a young PAID woman who lives in a fantasy world of little Boston, MA Periodical glass animals and worn out phonograph records. Randy Fish (79) portrays Jim, a special gentleman caller in the 1979 Follow us on production of Tennessee Williams’ classic play, The Glass Menagerie. Below: Liz Curry (12) and Dan LaBossiere (13) appear in the February 2011 production, directed by Michael W. Ballard. rchive photo A C N E In March of 1979 the Theatre Depart- ment first presented Tennessee Williams’ classic play, The Glass Menagerie. The year 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Tennessee Williams, which inspired director Michael Ballard to bring the award winning play back to the ENC stage, using multimedia images as originally intended by the playwright. Michael Massey 5198 • 9/2011 Fall 2011 The Christian Scholar 3 The benefits of a Christian liberal arts education n the popular novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the personal computers, software programs, laptops and now iPads. Galaxy, the universe’s most sophisticated computer is And one day, no doubt, these advances will seem as outdated as charged with the task of discovering the meaning of life. manual typewriters and room-sized computers are today. After spending 7 million years working on the problem, In short, learning a skill is only helpful until that particular Ithe computer announced it had at last found the answer and skill becomes obsolete. In order to remain viable in today’s that the meaning of life was….42. world, students must become lifelong learners and critical When asked how “42” could possibly be the correct answer, the thinkers. Unlike the world’s changing technology and profes- computer replies, “I think the problem, to be quite honest with sional standards, the critical thought processes needed to ask you, is that you’ve never actually known what the question is.” the right questions, make relevant assumptions and communi- As millions of college students headed back to campuses cate the relevant data are even more beneficial in today’s ever across the nation this fall, I was reminded of this passage changing world. because invariably the question arises as to whether a college This is what sets apart a liberal arts college education – a Dr. Corlis McGee, President education – and specifically, a Christian liberal arts education focus on the broad-based critical thinking and communica- – really has any value in today’s world. After all, in today’s tion skills necessary to solve difficult issues in a very complex ultracompetitive business environment, wouldn’t a student’s world. A Christian liberal arts education, in particular, is an …invariably the time be better spent preparing for a specific profession? What integrated process, giving students the opportunity to develop good will studying history or literature or philosophy be to a these critical thinking skills as they seek to discern truth in question arises as to future accountant or physician? all parts of their lives. As Dean Bertha Munro said so well, whether a college As the computer in the Hitchhiker’s Guide suggests, I think it integrates the best in education and the best in Christian we’re asking the wrong questions. In the book The Idea of a faith. Students are able to develop and live out their faith as it education – and Christian College, author Arthur Holmes suggests that instead is modeled by fellow students, faculty, staff and administra- of asking “What can I do with all this liberal arts stuff any- tors of the college. It gives them the opportunity to develop specifically, a way?” we should instead ask “What will all this knowledge do personally, professionally and spiritually – not just for their to me as a person?” After all, professional skill sets change; own career advancement, but for the betterment of mankind, Christian liberal the ability to think and reason does not. moving beyond mere preparation for a profession to discov- ering a vocation – what author Parker Palmer so eloquently Back when I was pursuing my MBA in the ’70s, computers arts education – calls “the place where your deep gladness and the world’s took up an entire room, and processing for academic programs deep hunger meet.” really has any value was run only during the evening hours or weekends. In order to complete an assignment for a Statistics class, you had to be The difficult issues of today require individuals who are able in today’s world.” familiar with a computer programming language such as For- to see beyond the obvious and develop creative solutions. A tran, then write a fairly difficult statement which you keyed into Christian liberal arts education provides the broad foundation a terminal that produced a punch card. Doing an assignment and critical thinking skills that today’s students need in order at the last minute wasn’t possible, because it might take you to ask the right questions and find the solutions that will make several days and several attempts to get the data you needed. our world a better place. But the goal of my Statistics class was not to learn to write an effective Fortran statement. The goal was to learn to effectively gather unbiased data, analyze that data to determine its signifi- cance and use that information to make good decisions. Since Corlis McGee those days, technology has made incredible advances through The ENC Fund goal for FY 2010-2011 was $225,000 A total of of $265,434 was given as of June 30, 2011 online giving is available at www.enc.edu/giving or call us at 866-480-2291. www.enc.edu 4 Eastern Nazarene College NEWS BRIEFS Fall 2011 Faculty/Staff News Scandalous Obligation, a book by Religion and Campus community members named Philosophy professor Dr. Eric Severson, was re- recipients of South Shore Stars' cently published by Beacon Hill Press. The book explores the scope and reach of Christian respon- ood (09) G 40 Under 40 Awards sibility and social justice. Severson also serves as co-director of ENC’s Center for Responsibility arah S Three members of the Eastern Nazarene College community were recently named recipients of South and Justice.