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Taylor University Pillars at Taylor University The aT ylor Magazine Ringenberg Archives & Special Collections Fall 1991 Taylor Magazine (Fall 1991) Taylor University Follow this and additional works at: https://pillars.taylor.edu/tu_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Taylor University, "Taylor Magazine (Fall 1991)" (1991). The Taylor Magazine. 107. https://pillars.taylor.edu/tu_magazines/107 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Ringenberg Archives & Special Collections at Pillars at Taylor University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aT ylor Magazine by an authorized administrator of Pillars at Taylor University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. • «M' - PRECIS SITE OF THE ORIGINAL Taylor SAMUEL MORRIS. 1872- 1893 THEcampus is now grown over with houses of Prinve Kahoo one kind and another. That's what a van Native of West Africa load of us found recently when we traipsed north in search of several sites connected with the Famous Christian Mystic early days of what was then known as Fort Wayne Apostle of the Simple Faith College. Exponent of the Spiritfilled Life We paused in the middle of a quiet street, Student at Taylor Universit}- 1892-3 figuring that the original building must have been Fort Wayne, now located at Upland. right in the vicinity. Just then, a distinguished- Indiana. The stoiy of his life looking gentleman made his way out of a low a vital contribution to the brown bungalow to our left. "We've come to development of Taylor University reclaim the territory!" hollered history professor and archivist Dr. Dwight Mikkelson. Morris' was a vital contribution, indeed. On And with that introduction, we struck up a October 20, 1891, Bishop William Taylor's son conversation and discovered that we were talking wrote to ask if university officials would admit to a nephew of the late Dr. Burt Ayres. When he Morris as a student. The answer was "yes" — an confessed that he wasn't too familiar with the answer that was to alter the course of the university. school his great uncle had served for a half-century. As then President Thaddeus Reade writes, "Samuel Mikkelson invited him to ride along and learn Morris was a divinely sent messenger of God to something about Taylor. "Climb on in, we have Taylor University. He thought he was coming over plenty of room," Mikkelson said. Our new here to prepare himself for his mission to his acquaintance considered for a minute, then, as people, but his coming was to prepare Taylor much to his surprise as anyone's, he climbed University for her mission to the whole world. aboard. Taylor got a vision of the wodd's need through Our next stop was downtown, where a represen- him. It was no longer local, it was worldwide." tative of the Allen County Historical Society had That vision for the world continues unabated at agreed to talk w ith us. Since we were running late Taylor, says President Dr. Jay Kesler '58 in this and had a good deal of ground to cover, Mikkelson issue, while Dr. Ted Engstrom '38 outlines said he'd go in and see what he could do. What he practical steps toward its fulfillment. For inspira- did was invite the ACHS representative to pile into tion, current students can look to alumni, says the van and go with us. Our numbers were Karen Harvey '91, and Bishop Ralph Dodge '31 growing. provides just such an example. We visited several buildings in Fort Wayne, What a heritage is yours, as you help Taylor including the one that housed Taylor's medical fulfill her mission. In so doing, you are a part of school and the church building where Samuel something much broader, much bigger than the Morris worshipped as a student in the 1890s. work of any one person. This year's honor roll of Our last stop was Lindenwood Cemetery. We donors records your name, together with those of stopped first at the front office so 1 could run in and the many who make so vital a contribution to the read the memorial plaques to Morris and others work of Taylor University. connected with the college. When I returned to the Thank you for support of the university's van, we had added three more passengers: a mission. Thank you for what your gifts mean to woman and her two sons who had just finished the furtherance of Christian higher education and Lindley Baldwin's biography of Morris, and the training of young men and women. happened by on their way to visit the grave site of If you are not yet a supporter of Taylor Univer- the African student. sity, why not, "Climb on in." I learned that day in Together, the lot of us read the inscription on the Fort Wayne that there is always room for one more. '81 headstone: —Douf> Marlow . editor TABLE OF CONTENTS Cover: This aerial shot of the campus dates from circa 1945. Taylor Visible are residence halls MCW. Swallow Robin, and the Volume 84, Number I original Samuel Morris: other buildings include Maytag Autumn 1991 Gymnasium, the healing plant, science building, greenhouse, '93 and Sickler Hall. Inset: Jennifer Davidson I left). Scott Kregal '93. and Jennifer Menconi '93 walk near Helena Memorial Hall, across from where President Thaddeus Reade is buried. Taylor University Dr. Jay Kesler '58, president Dr, Daryl R. Yost, provost Taylor is published quarterly for alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents of current students and fnends of Taylor University by tfie University Advancement Office, Dr. Cfiarles R. daggers '69, vice president. '81 Douglas J. R. Marlow , editor and designer Betty Freese, alumni notes editor Jim Garnnger, photographer Student assistant editors: Lon Sue Red '92, Tammy Swathwood '94 Regular contnbuting authors: Dr. Jay Kesler '58. Wesley Robinson '50. Guest authors this issue: Dr. Ted Engstrom '38. 8 A HERITAGE AND YET Karen Harvey '91, Dr. Paul Rothrock, April The univer.sit}''s rich missionary legacy guides today's Walker '91 students as they seek to satisfy a maturing concept of Address letters and comments to: Editor. Christian service. Taylor. 500 W. Reade Ave . Taylor University. Upland. IN 46989. The staff reserves the right to publish a representative sample of letters and to edit letters for space. Unsolicited EIGHT STEPS CLOSER TO WORLD EVANGELISM manuscripts are welcomed for possible 1 inclusion m the magazine. Enclose a self- Is it really possible to fulfill the Great Commission of addressed, stamped envelope for return of Christ? Yes — and here are eight steps toward matenal- Selection and publication are at the accomplishing that goal. discretion of the editor and his advisory panel. Opinions expressed in Taylor are those of the authors, not necessanly Taylor University Persons wishing to reproduce any portion of 12 MISSION PIONEERS Taylor magazine's contents are requested to call or write in advance for permission. Taylor's missionaiy heritage provides a foundation for efforts by today's students — aiui raises so/ne searching Pnnting. Colony Printing and Labeling. Eaton. questions, as well. Indiana. Kathie Votra. sales representative: mailing. Fans Mailing. Indianapolis. Indiana, final out put. University Press. Upland, Indiana. Typesetting, layout and paste-up was done at Taylor University using the Apple Macintosh II 15 REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS computer. Apple LaserWnter II NT pnnter. and When United Methodist Bishop Ralph Dodge '30 took Aldus PageMaker software. the gospel to Africa, he carried with him the seeds of Front cover inset photograph by Jim Garnnger: social change. back cover art by David Vermeesch '91 Taylor University complies with all federal and state nondiscnmination laws. Taylor University 2 EXCHANGE 20 ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT is an equal-opportunity institution. Direct inquines to the Office of the President. Taylor University. Upland. IN 46989, (317) 998-5201, 4 ON CAMPUS 23 ALUMNI NOTES or the Office of Civil Rights. Washington. DC. 17 TAYLOR GATHERING 30 VISTA Mailed in Indianapolis, non-profit permit #8 by Fans Mailing. Incorporated. 535 South Illinois Street. Indianapolis, Indiana 46225. Please 18 TRADITION mail address corrections to Alumni Office. Taylor University, Upland, IN 46989. EXCHANGE Standfor peace placed in a position in life where my dressing to go to the bam to care for I know ven.' little about your chief task will be to trust God in the 25 cows which were a part of the college except that it exists and who circumstances very personally unjust dairy herd, crying, "The heating your president is. A friend of mine to me. plant's on fire." Actually, the gave me your spring issue because I. What did I do in the Great War? accumulated paper was afire. am teaching a course on business and Among other things, I trusted and I ran to the public telephone in faith in Sunda\ School and she believed, and prayed and believed front of the ad building (the only thought the articles would be helpful. still, when all hope seemed gone. It telephone available to students) to They will be. didn't look as if I were doing call the operator to summon the What really impressed me was much. ..to observers. But God knew. Upland Fire Department, but she that you were willing to publish "The Lois (Inhodcn '52) Kempton refused to notify them. When I told Ethics of War and Peace" and let a Logan. Ohio Lorraine Miller that the heating plant pacifist have the right to speak. was afire, she said. "I know there's Thank you. Set the record straight always a fire in the heating plant." TTie author. Ms. Calkins, did an As an avid reader of Taylor Lorraine had been subject to excellent job of clearly communicat- magazine, I would like to point out an harassment by certain "devilish" ing the position of the Mennonites error made in the summer 1991 issue university students (perish the and other peace churches.