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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Also returning were Marie E. (Zuberbuehler) DeParis ’83, vice pres- ident of marketing and business CLOSE Ties development for SNY, the official tel- evision home of the New York Mets, F THE FALL CONVOCATION is Bethany’s figurative “New Year’s Day,” Jets and Big East Conference, who Commencement is its “New Year’s Eve.” It is always gratifying, albeit delivered the Keynote Address at the nostalgic, to send off gifted and accomplished stu- 27th annual Kalon Scholarship dents — the Class of 2011 was no exception — and Luncheon March 5 as part of the also to say “good-bye” to long-serving faculty. This Kalon Leadership Scholarship yearI on May 14, we recognized two exceptional professors, Jay Buckelew, a 2010 finalist for the Merit Foundation of Competition for incoming freshmen West Virginia Professor of the Year and 2011 recipient of with exceptional academic, leader- the President’s Award for Excellence in Performance who ship and service records. In addition, has devoted 42 years of his life to Bethany College, and Kaye Hearn, a 1972 Bethany graduate Randy Cooey, also retiring after 45 years of committed and the second woman to serve on service and teaching excellence. They have both dedicated the South Carolina Supreme Court, almost all of their academic lives to student learning in the liberal arts tradition addressed Bethany College senior so integral to Bethany College. Heartfelt thanks go to both for the legacy they women at this year’s Darline have left in educating thousands of students during their time here. Nicholson Breakfast. Justice Hearn Excellence in teaching is one of several threads recurring throughout serves as a remarkable example of a Bethany’s rich tapestry, linking students and alumni from several generations. Bethany alumna who has diligently In this issue, alumnus Greg Heilmeyer ’89, now national president of Phi Kappa and skillfully pursued her passion to Tau fraternity, recalls his first experience at Bethany during his campus visit as make a positive difference. a high school student, remembering that Professor Albert Ossman spent more On the sports front, Bethany’s than an hour chatting with him. That personal attention made his college strong tradition of scholar-athletes choice easy. Then, after enrolling, he recounts an American history class meet- continues. The men’s basketball team ing in Professor William Young’s home. concluded a stellar 21-8 season under Several decades later, Bethany continues to foster exceptionally close ties second year Head Coach Andrew among students and professors and among alumni. Further, Bethany’s gifted Sachs, advancing to the NCAA faculty continues to demonstrate its ongoing excellence, earning outside recog- National Tournament while display- nition. For example, Dr. Mary Ellen Komorowski, Matthew Quay Ammon ing the strong sense of pride associat- Professor of Mathematics and chair of the Department of Mathematics and ed with this accomplishment. With a Computer Science at Bethany College, recently earned the West Virginia strong cast of returnees, the outlook Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ 2011 College Teacher of the Year award. is bright for next season. The softball Komorowski was installed in March 2011 as inaugural appointee to the team finished 29-16 and, once again endowed professorship, under veteran mentor Jan Forsty, Now, moreover, Bethany’s younger faculty members are poised to continue advanced to the NCAA National the College’s longstanding tradition of excellence in teaching. Tournament. Both track and field Among “rising stars” profiled in this issue are Assistant Professor of squads advanced to the ECAC Chemistry Lisa Reilly, who balances her teaching duties with chairmanship of championships with a host of indi- the Curriculum Committee and New Faculty Orientation; Dr. Katrina Cooper, vidual records falling along the way. assistant professor of psychology, who is making her mark not only in the The new men’s varsity lacrosse team, classroom, but also as director of the First Year Experience and academic advi- which has completed its inaugural sor to Phi Mu sorority; and Dr. Wiley Cash, assistant professor of English, who season, is poised for success in 2012, teaches English and creative writing at Bethany. Professor Cash is the author of with 19 players eligible to return one novel, Rain Barrel, set for publication in spring 2012, with a second under- next spring. way. The books have been sold to William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins. As we end another successful year In his May 14 Commencement address, Pittsburgh Pirates Board Chairman in which the College itself and many Robert Nutting noted to graduates that their Bethany College experience might Bethanians fulfilled their own fulfill their need for “a sense of permanence in the midst of change.” Evidencing dreams, it seems appropriate to con- the intimate ties that link Bethanians with their alma mater is their frequent clude with a memorable quote from return to campus to share professional and personal insights with students and Justice Hearn to women graduates to reunite with one another. Heilmeyer was among hundreds who returned to that is applicable to all, “Don’t allow campus for Alumni Weekend this spring. Among alumni representing several anyone to steal your dreams. Listen classes and generations speaking on campus this spring were Thomas to the music of your own soul. For if Buergenthal ’57 H’81, former judge on the International Court of Justice and you don’t, it may stop playing.” Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence at The George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC, who served as featured guest speaker at Founders Day ceremonies March 3. SUMMER 2011 8/11/11 3:43 PM Page 1

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Bethany College. For additional copies of this A SMALL COLLEGE OF NATIONAL DISTINCTION publication, or more information on the college, CONTENTS please call (304) 829-7221. Editor SUMMER 2011 TODAY 10 Southern Exposure Elizabeth Van Iersel North Carolina native Wiley Cash is the Managing Editor Rebecca (Guinan) Rose ’01 author of one novel, A Land More Kind Contributing Editor Than Home, with a second underway Dawn Lippman Brian Rose ’98 12 The Right Chemistry Contributing Photographers Professor Lisa Reilly prepares graduates Todd Jones for careers in industry and business Martin Santek Photography Academics The Heart of the College Design + Production MSK Partners, Inc. 14 Close Encounters Katrina Cooper helps students make Issue Date SUMMER 2 0 1 1 Summer 2011 the leap into Bethany College ON THE COVER Printed in the U.S.A. Technology can do many things for us. But 16 Fostering Leaders Address all correspondence concerning this in the end, it’s our ability to read, speak and magazine, including class notes, submissions Larry Grimes leads the Buffalo Seminary and address changes to: write well that helps determine our futures. as it fosters new church leaders OFFICE OF ALUMNI AND Bethany’s younger faculty members such as PARENT RELATIONS Lisa Reilly, Katrina Cooper, and Wiley Cash 4 Noteworthy BETHANY COLLEGE are poised to continue the College’s longstanding Bethany, West Virginia 26032 (304) 829-7411 tradition of excellence in teaching. We present in 20 Sports or via e-mail to: [email protected] this issue of “Bethany Today” what the future 30 Class Notes www.bethanywv.edu/alumni/news holds for the College, beginning on page 10. Would you like to receive alumni news and event notices via e-mail? Please be sure to update your contact information with the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations at (304) 829-7411 or via e-mail at [email protected]. LATEST EVENTS No part of this publication may be reproduced ON THE WEB SPORTS UPDATES without the prior permission of the editor. BETHANYWV.EDU AND MUCH MORE Bethany admits students of any race, color, sex, handicap and national or ethnic origin. A SMALL COLLEGE OF NATIONAL DISTINCTION ©Bethany College 2011 SUMMER 2011 8/11/11 3:43 PM Page 2

Bethany’s gifted faculty continues to demonstrate its ongoing excellence, earning outside recognition. Moreover, Bethany’s younger faculty members are poised to continue the College’s longstanding tradition of excellence in teaching.“ 2 SUMMER 2011 BETHANY COLLEGE” SUMMER 2011 8/11/11 3:43 PM Page 3

BETHANY COLLEGE, A SMALL COLLEGE OF NATIONAL DISTINCTION, WAS FOUNDED MARCH 2, 1840.

or more than 170 years, Bethany College Senior Administration Officers of the Gary M. Novak has been a highly contemporary institu- Dr. Scott D. Miller Board of Trustees Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania tion based in the tradition of the liberal President of the College Gregory B. Jordan G. Ogden Nutting Chair arts. The College offers a wide array of William R. Kiefer Wheeling, West Virginia studies, awarding Bachelor of Science Executive Vice President Robert J. McCann Robert Nutting and General Counsel Vice Chair Fand Bachelor of Arts degrees in more than 25 Wheeling, West Virginia Dr. Darin Fields Scott D. Miller fields of study, many with options for emphasis Edward J. See Vice President for Academic President of the College and a Masters of Art in Teaching. Students also New Fairfield, Connecticut Affairs and Dean of Faculty Janet A. Long have the option of including one or more optional Lewis P. Wheeler Sven de Jong Secretary Oakland, Pennsylvania minors as part of their programs. Vice President for The College’s program of liberal arts education Institutional Advancement Board of Trustees Trustees Emeriti prepares students for a lifetime of work and a life William B. Allen O. John Alpizar of significance. Bethany places particular emphasis Center for Institutional Parkersburg, West Virginia Palm Bay, Florida Advancement on leadership and incorporates pre-professional Elizabeth S. Athol F. D. Bloemeke Dr. Scott D. Miller Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania education in dentistry, engineering, law, medicine, President of the College Alpharetta, Georgia physical therapy, public administration, theology George M. “Ken” Bado Walter M. Bortz Sven de Jong ’95 San Francisco, California and veterinary medicine. Vice President for Charleston, SC Bethany’s 1,300-acre campus is located in the Institutional Advancement Marc B. Chernenko Neil Christman Wellsburg, West Virginia northern panhandle of West Virginia in the foothills Deidra Hall-Nuzum ’06 Alpharetta, Georgia of the Allegheny Mountains. Pittsburgh, America’s Executive Assistant Richard G. Clancy James L. Collins San Diego, California Most Livable City, is a 50-minute drive from campus. to the President Wheeling, West Virginia Wheeling, W.Va.; Washington, Pa.; and Steubenville, Dr. Mort Gamble W. Darwin Collins Gordon B. Dalrymple Uniontown, Pennsylvania Ohio are less than a half-hour away. Assistant to the President Atlanta, Georgia Founded by Alexander Campbell, who provided Shirley Kemp James F. Companion Douglas D. Danforth Wheeling, West Virginia the land and funds for the first building and served Director of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Advancement Services Scarlett L. Foster as the first president, Bethany has been a four-year George M. Davis St. Louis, Missouri private liberal arts college affiliated with the Christian Judy Pyle Owings Mills, Maryland Executive Assistant for Fred M. Harris Church (Disciples of Christ), since its inception. Robert W. Ewing, Jr. Advancement Hagerstown, Maryland This religious body, of which Campbell was one of Jackson, Wyoming Michele Rejonis ’94 Sy Holzer the principal founders, continues to support and William R. Hoag Director of Alumni and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania encourage the College, but exercises no sectarian Parent Relations Asa J. Johnson control. Students from virtually every religious Rodney B. Hurl Merlinda Lees New York, New York Marysville, Ohio community attend Bethany. Administrative Assistant for Gregory B. Jordan The approximately 1,000 Bethany students repre- Institutional Advancement Thomas P. Johnson, Jr. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Poultney, Vermont sent 28 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico Dr. Larry Grimes, ’64 Arthur B. Keys, Jr. and nine countries. Director of Church Relations Harry Martens Arlington, Virginia Weston, Massachusetts Rebecca Rose ’01 VALUES Linda D. Lewis Director of Communications John McLaughlin Bethany College is an academic community founded New York, New York Allison Park, Pennsylvania Brian Rose ’98 on the close interaction between students and Janet A. Long Sports Information Director Robert Ponton faculty in the educational process. Bethany College Elyria, Ohio Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Dawn Lippman Robert J. McCann values intellectual rigor and freedom, diversity of Media Relations Specialist Ann C. Preston thought and lifestyle, personal growth within a New York, New York San Francisco, California Sharon Monigold community context, and responsible engagement Eugene Miller John W. Renner Director of Bethany Heritage Boca Raton, Florida with public issues. Its programs are designed to Program and Archivist Cleveland, Ohio engage the mind through emphasis on discipline in Scott D. Miller, ex-officio William S. Ryan Betty Van Iersel Bethany, West Virginia thinking, motivation in the search for knowledge Editor of Bethany Today Baltimore, Maryland and acquisition of the intellectual resources for a John W. Mullen Robert A. Sandercox Nashville, Tennessee lifetime of learning embolden the spirit through the Lititz, Pennsylvania opportunity for intellectual challenge, collaborative G. William Newton Harold R. Watkins Nashville, Tennessee enterprise, athletic competition, artistic expression, Indianapolis, Indiana personal growth and meaningful work enlarge the world through exposure to the abundant diversity of thought and lifestyle of the human community, support for personal engagement with societies and cultures different from one’s own and commitment to service.

BETHANY COLLEGE SUMMER 2011 3 SUMMER 2011 8/11/11 3:44 PM Page 4 NoteworthyB E T H A N Y T O D A Y Buckelew Professor Day Convocation in historic won another New York “Emmy” of Year Finalist Commencement Hall. Award for SNY brand commercials The Faculty Merit Judge Buergenthal arrived in the that she produced and three Foundation of United States when he was 17 years ProMaxBDA North America West Virginia’s old after spending more than 10 Promotion & Marketing Awards for announcement years of his child- television commercial campaigns that Bethany hood in German and promotional spots. College Professor camps, including The Kalon Scholarship Weekend of Biology Albert Auschwitz. He represents a unique opportunity for Albert “Jay” earned his J.D. highly talented future Bethany R. Buckelew “Jay” R. Buckelew was selected one from New York students to hear from alumni who of five finalists for its 2010 Professor University Law continue to build upon the founda- of the Year marks the second time in School and an Thomas Buergenthal tion of resources, growth and three years that a Bethany professor LL.M. and S.J.D. opportunity they established here has been chosen for that honor. John in international law from Harvard as undergraduates. Burns, also a professor of biology, University. He has authored or co- was a contender for the 2008 award. authored numerous articles and Bethany Hosts Well-known nationally and inter- more than a dozen books, including Oreon E. Scott Lectures nationally for his work in microbiolo- the first international human rights In May, Bethany College hosted the gy and ornithology, Dr. Buckelew law textbook in the United States. 56th annual Oreon E. Scott Lectures joined the Bethany faculty in 1969 Judge Buergenthal recently pub- at Bethany’s Mountainside and has authored two books, more lished A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Conference Center. This year’s fea- than 50 articles and abstracts and Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy, tured speaker was Dr. Bruce numerous book reviews. He serves as which has been translated into more Epperly, director of continuing edu- a section editor for Proceedings of the than 10 languages. cation and professor of practical the- West Virginia Academy of Sciences ology at Lancaster Theological and is also editor of The Redstart Alumna Addresses Seminary. The event’s focus was” Journal of the Brooks Bird Club, Kalon Scholars Loosely Christian: Theology, headquartered in Wheeling, WVA. Another promi- Spirituality, and Mission for a He has accumulated numerous hon- nent alumna, Postmodern Church.” Dr. James ors, including the West Virginia Marie E. Johnson, president of Lexington Wildlife Federation’s Conservationist (Zuberbuehler) Theological Seminary, spoke during of the Year award in 1996. DeParis ’83, vice the Timothy Luncheon May 2. president of mar- Monday’s events concluded with a Justice Thomas Marie E. keting and busi- worship service at Bethany Memorial (Zuberbuehler) ness development Church with a sermon by Dr. Buergenthal Leads DeParis for SNY, the offi- Epperly, “Beyond Scarcity Thinking: Founder’s Day Celebration cial television home of the New York Living by Adventure and Abundance Alumnus and honorary degree Mets, Jets and Big East Conference, (I Kings 17:8-16 and Luke 5:1-11)” and recipient Thomas Buergenthal ’57 delivered the Keynote Address at the a reception at Pendleton Heights. H’81, former judge on the 27th annual Kalon Scholarship International Court of Justice and Luncheon March 5, as part of the Lobingier Professor of Comparative Humanities Faculty Kalon Leadership Scholarship Law and Jurisprudence at The Awarded Two Month-Long Competition for incoming freshmen George Washington University Law with exceptional academic, leader- Fellowships School in Washington, DC, was fea- Wiley Cash, assistant professor of ship and service records. tured guest speaker at Founders English, has been awarded two DeParis oversees SNY consumer Day ceremonies March 3 celebrating month-long fellowships to the marketing, including on-air promo- the 171st anniversary of the founding MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, where tion, advertising, affiliate marketing of Bethany College. Festivities he will work on his second novel in and sales promotion. She recently included the traditional Founder’s summer 2011. Notable alumni of

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MacDowell and Yaddo include idence area coordinator/assistant was chemistry authors Willa Cather, James Baldwin, director of student activities at major Lindsay A. Flannery O’Connor, Alice Walker and Washington & Jefferson. Sobotka. The Jonathon Franzen. Cash’s first novel, “Jerry Stebbins brings a wealth of Prize is presented A Land More Kind Than Home, is experience in to the senior who, scheduled to be released by William Student Affairs to in the judgment of Morrow/Harper Collins in early 2012. this important the Honors (see profile, page 10) leadership role at Committee, has Lindsay A. Sobotka Bethany,” said Dr. made the most Grimes Names to West Darin E. Fields, outstanding contribution to the vice president for College, by exhibiting sound academ- Virginia Humanities Council Gerald E. Larry Grimes, professor of English “Jerry” Stebbins academic affairs ic accomplishments, along with loy- emeritus and director of church rela- and dean of the alty, service and devotion to Bethany. tions, has been elected to a three- faculty. “With his deep understand- April M. O’Brien, a year term on the Board of Directors ing of the integral relationship senior communi- of the West Virginia Humanities between the student living and the cations major, Council. Previously he served two academic learning experience on a received the terms as a Citizen Member of the residential liberal arts campus, Jerry Bethany 2000 Program Review Board of the will be an essential member of the Prize recognizing Council. The Council provides grant Division of Academic and Student the senior who has support for a number of humanities- Affairs at Bethany College.” April M. O’Brien best demonstrated based projects in the state through In a second key appointment, loyalty and com- distribution of National Endowment Sheila Nelson-Hensley, who has mitment to Bethany College in a wide for the Humanities funds and pri- worked for more range of activities over the course of vate funding. than two decades her studies. The recipient must main- as a financial aid tain a GPA of 3.0 or higher while dis- professional and as playing the characteristics of enthusi- Buckelew and Rose a director for 12, asm, dependability and dedication. Named President’s Award has been named Among other top student Recipients at Honors director of finan- awardees, Alyssa M. Schrecengost, a Sheila cial aid. Nelson- business adminis- Convocation Nelson-Hensley Professor of Biology Albert “Jay” Hensley possesses tration major, Buckelew and Director of a wealth of experience in financial aid received the Communications Rebecca Rose ‘2001, and finance management and for- Pittsburgh earned the 2011 President’s Award for merly served as director of financial Bethany College Excellence in Performance by faculty aid for Bluefield College in Bluefield, Club Award as and staff, respectively, at the April 14 VA. She has also worked at Ferrum “outstanding jun- Honors Convocation. Buckelew was a College in Virginia, where she was ior woman.” The Alyssa M. finalist for West Virginia Faculty of director of financial aid, and at award is based on Schrecengost the Year in 2010; Rose, a communica- Washington & Jefferson College and the qualities of leadership, character, tions major with a public relations Ursinus College, where she was conduct and scholarship. concentration, returned to campus as assistant director. Alexander C. Stubbs, a business a member of the Office of Media Staff “Sheila’s remarkable expertise administration major, was awarded in 2005 and was named director of and leadership experience in finan- the W. F. Kennedy Prize as communications in 2008. cial aid management are invaluable Outstanding Junior Man. The prize, assets to Bethany as we continually established by Mr. Kennedy of Bethany College Welcomes strive to strengthen our service to Wheeling, is awarded on the basis of New Administrators our students and their families,” the student’s con- Gerald E. “Jerry” Stebbins, associate stated Bethany College President tribution to the dean of student affairs at Washington Scott D. Miller. College community & Jefferson College since 2001, been life through leader- named dean of students at Bethany Students Honored ship in activities, in College and will assume the position at Convocation personal character, July 1. Previously, he served as assis- Among exemplary students recog- and scholarship. tant dean of student affairs, interim nized at the April 14 Honors Alexander C. Stubbs Many other talent- director of career services, director of Convocation with the Francis O. ed students earned residence life and Greek life, and res- Carfer Prize as “outstanding senior” departmental and other honors.

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2 0 1 1 COMMENCEMENT Pittsburgh Pirates Board Chairman Robert Nutting Addresses Bethany College 2011 Graduates.

President of Ogden Newspapers, Inc. and Chairman of the Board of the Pittsburgh Pirates Robert Nutting spoke to Bethany College’s 2011 graduating class as part of the institution’s 171st Anniversary Commencement Weekend. Nutting delivered his remarks, “Your Most Valuable Gift: Time,” to Bethany’s 135 graduating seniors on May 14 in the Nutting Gymnasium of the Hummel Field House.

Recognizing the graduates’ wisdom in attending a col- lege that seeks to develop the whole person, Nutting noted the lasting value of a liberal arts education in a quickly changing world. “You’ll be using technology that hasn’t been invented and probably will retire from a company that doesn’t even exist today,” he said, remarking that the skills they have developed at Bethany will become increas- ingly critical as they move forward in their careers. Referring to the mind as a flame that must be fed and strengthened throughout their lives, even after leaving Bethany, he challenged the graduates to continue to “learn to think broadly, to challenge, to be curious and to use those tools that the faculty have nourished.” Nutting closed with an affirmation that, for each grad- uate, there will be times when they have a sense that life is moving by quickly — and that they will need and seek (Wheeling, W.Va.) as a board member of The Thacher a sense of permanence in the midst of change. “Let me School (Ojai, Calif.) and as past Chairman of the West suggest that for each of you that might be your experience Virginia Independent Colleges & Universities. at Bethany,” he concluded. “Remember your time Nutting has also taken an active leadership role in here…the good and the bad. And when you need to many professional and charitable organizations. He was believe that something of real importance can last forever, instrumental in the launch of the Pirates’ charitable arm, I hope you will think of this place . . . As you move for- Pirates Charities, an organization dedicated to strengthen- ward to the many successes that you all will find, remem- ing the Pittsburgh region, with special emphasis on sup- ber this place.” porting youth health, fitness and education. He was Bethany Board of Trustees member Robert Nutting is recently honored as “Light of the Valley” by the Wheeling the President and CEO of Ogden Newspapers, Inc., YMCA for his contributions toward improving the lives of Chairman of the Board of the Pittsburgh Pirates and children and families in the Ohio Valley. Chairman of Seven Springs Mountain Resort. The Nutting Nutting serves as a board member and Treasurer of the family has a majority interest in the Pirates and owns both Newspaper Association of America and is a former Ogden Newspapers and Seven Springs Resorts. President of the West Virginia Press Association. Nutting Nutting has a longstanding commitment to education, supports various environmental programs and is Vice- serving as Chairman of the Board of the Linsly School Chairman of the Nature Conservancy/West Virginia

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Chapter and the former Chapter President and current continue to challenge your mind as a way of nourishing member of Trout Unlimited. In addition, Nutting serves your spirit.” on the Board of Directors at the Carnegie Natural History Miller concluded, “Tomorrow, you will enter the so- Museum in Pittsburgh. called ‘real world,’ pursuing employment or graduate Nutting lives in Wheeling, W. Va., with his wife Leslie studies. But today marks a time for you to indulge your and three daughters. He earned his B.A. in American dreams. The great African-American abolitionist and History from Williams College in Massachusetts. He is a humanitarian Harriet Tubman, who escaped from slav- licensed commercial pilot and flight instructor, as well as an avid fisherman and skier. Bethany College President Dr. Scott D. Miller also addressed the graduates. “After today, you will no longer be Bethany students. For the rest of your lives, you will be Bethany alumni, joining the more than 22,000 distin- guished men and women whose many achievements and contributions speak well of their experiences at this small college of national distinction.” He continued, “Your four years here . . . have been remarkable both here and around the world . . . Most important, you have achieved your education at a time when the idea of being ‘educated’ continues to be influ- enced by technology and the astonishing amount of information at our fingertips. Your commitment to life- long learning has therefore never been more important. Our faculty members and administrators urge you to

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ery to serve the Union during the Civil War, reminds us, Christian Church Foundation, and the National City ‘Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always Christian Church Foundation. remember, you have within you the strength, the Rev. Adams has served as the Senior Minister of patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change Memorial Drive Christian Church, Houston, Texas. He is the world.’” a 1994 graduate of Chapman University, where he earned The Rev. Dr. Todd Adams, Associate General Minister his degree in political science. He continued his studies at and Vice President for the Christian Church (Disciples of Phillips Theological Seminary, where he received his mas- Christ), delivered remarks to the graduating seniors dur- ters of divinity in 1997. Wesley Theological Seminary pre- ing the College’s Baccalaureate service on May 13. Rev. sented him with a doctor of ministry in stewardship and Adams was presented with an honorary Doctor of leadership in 2007. Divinity during the Commencement Ceremony. Rev. Adams’ academic research has focused on the Rev. Adams serves as the Associate General Minister steward as a biblical image of leadership. His work has and Vice President and Chief of Staff for the General address critical issues regarding leadership in the church, Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples concerns also developed during his time serving in a of Christ). His many responsibilities include working Lewis Fellowship that focused on pastoral and congrega- closely with the Disciples of Christ General Assembly, tional leadership. General Board, Disciples Mission Fund and Promotion, He also presents workshops for the Christian Church Treasury Services, Stewardship Ministries and (Disciples of Christ) on a variety of topics, including non- Communication Ministries. profit governance, congregational leadership, congrega- He is also the liaison to the Christian Church tional staff management and stewardship. Foundation, Pension Fund, Church Extension, Wilshire

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Valedictorian April O’Brien Receives Bethany College Oreon E. Scott Award

VALEDICTORIAN APRIL M. O’BRIEN of Columbus, Ohio, com- pleted her college career with top honors during Bethany College’s 2011 Commencement ceremony on May 14. Dr. Darin E. Fields, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, presented O’Brien with the College’s Oreon E. Scott Award, given annually to the senior graduating with the highest academic standing. “It is a genuine honor to be able to award the Oreon E. Scott award to valedictorian April O’Brien,” Fields stated. “Her outstanding scholarship and leadership at Bethany during her four years is a testament to her extraordinary character and drive. She is truly a remarkable young woman, and Bethany College is proud to have her as one of our new alums.” tal commitment to enriching the life Media Arts, secretary of the Student O’Brien, who earned a Bachelor of the Bethany College community. Government Association; and assis- of Arts degree in Communications During the College’s Honors tant editor of The Tower (Bethany and Media Arts, passed her Senior Day Convocation in April, she was College campus newspaper). Comprehensive Exams — written awarded the Bethany 2000 Prize She has earned a wide variety of and oral assessments required for (Senior Achievement Award) hon- awards and honors, including the graduation from Bethany College oring a senior who has demon- Margaret Woods Prize in Spanish — with distinction, an honor strated loyalty and commitment to Excellence; the James Keegan Prize reserved for those who perform the College; and the Charlotte for International Communication; unusually well. Manion Yurko Award, presented the Jessie Pulcipher Prize in Professor M.E. Yancosek to the Communication senior with Communications; the Vira I. Heinz Gamble, Chair of the Department of the highest scholastic average in Women in Global Leadership Travel Communications and Media Arts, the major. Award; and the Slaymaker-Kinsey remarked, “In all that she does, she O’Brien was a member of several Award in 2009 and 2010. She was represents all of us with responsi- honor societies and campus groups, also named Tower Staffer of the bility, class, distinction and dedica- including Alpha Psi Omega, Spanish Year and was a Bethany College tion.” Gamble continued, “She is Honor Society, Mass Media Club, Kalon Scholar. among those exemplary students Committee on Student Media O’Brien worked as president of who personify the very best that Experiences, Society for Collegiate Alpha Xi Delta sorority and was an Bethany is and can be, honoring the Journalists and the Bethany College official spokesperson for Wendy’s College’s traditions and its future Cheerleading Squad. International. possibilities.” She was a founding member of the She has served in three intern- Known for her exemplification of Gamma Sigma Alpha Bethany honor ships — with NBC; WNCI, an the meaning of leadership and com- society chapter; a volunteer with the Arbitron top-rated radio station; and mitment, O’Brien’s activities YWCA; fundraising chair for Alpha Las Rosas, a radio station and public throughout her four years at Bethany Psi Omega; a justice of Bethany’s stu- relations firm in Córdoba, Argentina. demonstrate not only superior aca- dent court; treasurer of her fresh- O’Brien will also compete in the demic achievement, but the ability to man, sophomore, junior and senior 2011 Miss West Virginia Scholarship organize and communicate effective- classes; a senior fellow with the Pageant and represents the state’s ly while maintaining her fundamen- Department of Communications and Northern Panhandle region.

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[NEXT GENERATION SCHOLARS]

SOUTHERN EXPOSURE North Carolina native WILEY CASH, teaches English and creative writing at Bethany, and is the author of one novel, A Land More Kind Than Home, set for publication in spring 2012, with a second underway.

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THE FACULTY Merit Foundation Ernest J. Gaines (University of story of an ex-minor league baseball of West Virginia’s announcement Louisiana Press, 2009). star who abandons his young family that Bethany College Professor of He holds a B.A. in literature and for a life of petty crime in Gastonia, Biology Albert “Jay” R. Buckelew language from the University of N.C., Dr. Cash’s hometown. was selected one of five finalists for North Carolina-Asheville, an M.A. in His month-long sojourns at the its 2010 Professor of the Year Award English from the University of North colonies that have produced writers marks the second time in three years Carolina-Greensboro, and a Ph.D. in including Flannery O’Connor, Willa that a Bethany professor has been English from the University of Cather, James Baldwin, Alice Walker chosen for the honor. John Burns, Louisiana-Lafayette. and Jonathan Franzen will enable also a professor of biology, was a con- In spring 2011 Cash concluded him to “concentrate on writing with- tender for the 2008 award. Now, courses in Southern literature and out outside pressures.” At the end of moreover, Bethany’s younger faculty composition and a fiction writing the summer, he is scheduled to sub- members are poised to continue the workshop. mit the first 50,000 words of his sec- College’s longstanding tradition of “If you aren’t interested in read- ond novel to the publisher. excellence in teaching. Assistant ing, I can’t teach you how to write,” TProfessor of Chemistry Lisa Reilly says Cash of his counsel to Bethany “When I write, I rely balances her teaching duties with students. chairmanship of the Curriculum “I can certainly teach structure, on what I know.” Committee and New Faculty composition and development, but “That looming deadline is a bit Orientation. Dr. Katrina Cooper, it’s much harder to teach consistency, daunting,” he acknowledges. assistant professor of psychology, is habit and drive,” he admits. Cash’s first novel, A Land More making her mark not only in the Successful writers must have a Kind Than Home, about the death of classroom, but also, as director of the willingness to fail repeatedly, he an autistic 12-year-old boy during a First Year Experience and academic notes, and “it’s difficult to teach that church healing service, is set in rural advisor to Phi Mu sorority. And Dr. degree of purpose and intensity, North Carolina. It is inspired by a Wiley Cash, assistant professor of especially to undergraduates who clipping he saw as a doctoral student English, who teaches English and have so much else happening in their at the University of Louisiana- creative writing at Bethany, is the lives.” Lafayette about a similar incident at author of one novel, A Land More His fiction students’ first writing an African-American storefront Kind Than Home, set for publication assignment is, in fact, not to write a church in Chicago. in spring 2012, with a second under- story about anything. Instead, they “I knew I couldn’t set it in Chicago, way. The books have been sold to write about a place or object that they a place I hadn’t visited at that time, William Morrow, a division of know — a beach, a front porch but I knew I could write about North HarperCollins, and, at the time of swing, a neighborhood — and subse- Carolina,” Dr. Cash explains. this article, have been sold to pub- quently produce stories based on “When I write, I rely on what I lishers in Germany, France and the these familiar themes. know.” United Kingdom. “One can’t produce emotion in a He encourages students in his fic- vacuum,” he points out. “Stories tion-writing class to do the same, “Successful writers emanating from the tangible, the pal- beginning with hand-drawn “neigh- pable, will elicit emotion.” borhood maps” of their childhood must have a willing- Though Cash says he doesn’t often neighborhoods. He asks them to por- ness to fail repeatedly.” get writer’s block, he does find it tray graphically who lived in what challenging to find the time to write houses and which were “safe” for Dr. Cash serves as advisor to both for one to two hours every day. children to enter and which were the Bethany College Writers’ Club “Some days, there seems to be an “scary.” His students also map the and The Harbinger literary magazine. invisible barrier around my desk,” he topography of their hometowns: He is also the College’s faculty athlet- chuckles. “I don’t often enjoy the rocks, trees, bodies of water and ic representative to the NCAA. His writing process much.” other features.“Beginning writers essays on Southern literature have Dr. Cash, who will spend his sum- often overuse words to evoke emo- appeared in The Thomas Wolfe Review, mer at two prestigious writing tion,” he says. “To connect with the American Literary Realism, CLA colonies, the MacDowell Colony in reader, I encourage my students to Journal and other publications. Along New Hampshire and Yaddo in cut away words and, instead, to write with Dr. Reggie Young and Dr. upstate New York, will be on leave in about palpable things.” Marcia Gaudet of the University of Fall Semester 2011 so that he can Louisiana at Lafayette, he co- deliver the first draft of his second To read an excerpt and view a trailer authored the book This Louisiana novel to the publisher by January 15, of Dr. Cash’s upcoming novel, go to Thing That Drives Me: The Legacy of 2012. The untitled novel tells the www.wileycash.com

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Assistant Professor of Chemistry LISA REILLY, along with her science departmental colleagues, is helping to prepare graduates for careers in industry or for professional programs in fields including medicine, veterinary science, pharmacy and dentistry.

NOW COMPLETING HER third academic year West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in at Bethany, Assistant Professor of Chemistry Lisa Lewisburg, W.Va. this fall; Chris Smurthwaite will Reilly has often found herself teaching analytical enter the pharmacy program at Duquesne chemistry one moment, chairing a meeting of the University in Pittsburgh; and Samantha Vitale will Curriculum Committee the next and perhaps end- be teaching chemistry at Pendleton County High ing the day with a session of her new, experimental School, Franklin, W.Va. course, “Enology: Introduction to Wine Science.” On average about half of the chemistry majors Student participants must be at least 21, she notes. enrolled at Bethany are women, Dr. Reilly points Dr. Reilly, along with her departmental col- out, which is consistent with national statistics and leagues, has just concluded reviewing Senior demonstrates the strides women have been Projects, the capstone project which ties making in entering science, technology, all academic courses together. This engineering, and mathematics fields. year’s three graduating seniors All program alumni will gradu- researched projects delving into ate with the solid knowledge base such diverse areas of inquiry as to enter innovative fields such as the effectiveness of hyaluronic bioengineering and “green” acid beauty products on facial careers requiring a mastery of wrinkles; cholesterol rising ter- chemistry. In addition, “chemo- penes in coffee and chocolate metrics,” the subject of Dr. and their effects on body weight; Reilly’s Ph.D. thesis in analytical and the relationship between IQ chemistry and one of her academic and metallic content of human hair. specialties, now provides experience Such in-depth original research as in quantitative analytical techniques undergraduates will give Bethany students using instrument and data analysis includ- y a competitive edge in future graduate study, she ing UV-VIS spectroscopy, circular dichroism, and believes. nuclear magnetic resonance. Her students also “When I was in graduate school (at Oklahoma master computer skills in data analysis programs State University, where she earned her PhD in such as MatLab and Unscrambler, all essential for chemistry in 2006), it was expected that you would careers in analytical chemistry and related areas. learn research skills as a graduate. Now, there Since being a teaching assistant and lecturer at is an increasing expectation that you will already her graduate alma mater, Oklahoma State possess these skills coming into a program,” University, she has appreciated Bethany’s low stu- she notes. dent-faculty ratio and opportunity to interact more Dr. Reilly’s own research experience includes closely with students than was possible at a large, that of a National Research Council Research comprehensive research institution. Associate and Chemical and Biological Defense “It’s a whole different world and level of student Postdoctoral Fellow at the Edgewood Chemical engagement that a professor gets to experience at a Biological Center from January 2007 to July 2008 small liberal arts institution,” she observes. and again in summer 2009. On a personal note, Dr. Reilly is happy to be Bethany’s four concentrations in forensics, closer to western Pennsylvania, the region in biochemistry, secondary education and the profes- which she was raised and where she earned her sional track in chemistry prepare graduates for Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from careers in industry (median starting salary ranges Mercyhurst College summa cum laude. from $32,000 to $60,000, depending on the field) or Reflecting on her Bethany College experience, “I for professional programs in fields including medi- am thankful for the rare opportunity to teach on cine, veterinary science, pharmacy and dentistry. such a beautiful campus situated in a caring com- One of this year’s graduates, Lindsay Sobotka, munity with enthusiastic students and supportive selected as the Francis O. Carfer Prize winner for colleagues, administration and staff,” Dr. Reilly most outstanding graduating senior, will enter the concluded.

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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS KATRINA COOPER, assistant professor of psychology, helps students “make the leap” into college while exploring topics of special interest outside their intended major. Consistent, close contact with faculty members is a hallmark of the program. IN ADDITION TO being among Seminar, along with FSEM 112 First rank-ordered choice of seminars, and the nation’s oldest, Bethany’s First Year Engagement, First Year Success: the faculty works hard to accommo- Year Experience, including JTerm, is A Transition Course. Then, during date one of their top three choices, unique in being required of all first- JTerm in the first three weeks of she adds. Further, though the pro- year students. January, they enroll in FSEM 113 The gram includes all first-year students, “We think all entering students First Year JTerm Experience. All fos- those who may be at risk of not being deserve contact with their faculty ter engagement with fellow first year retained for either social or academic advisors and small class interaction students and provide not only a reasons can be identified early in right from the start,” says Director “family away from home” and a their college experience and referred Katrina Cooper, assistant professor built-in support system, but also to appropriate campus resources. of psychology, who has led the pro- enhance academic outcomes. For the many first-year students gram since 2007, previously serving “I was beaming like a proud par- undecided about their intended as assistant director. Cooper also ent,” said Cooper, who had just major, the seminars can also help teaches one of the approximately 17 attended (2011) Honors Convocation, inform their majors, she notes. first-year seminars each Fall noting that this year’s In addition to her teaching and ISemester. Topics this year have Commencement will mark the first administrative responsibilities, ranged from “All about Crime,” to in which she will see “her” first-year Cooper also serves as academic advi- “Science and Pseudoscience,” “The students earn degrees. sor to Phi Mu sorority at Bethany, Beatles and their Times” and “Sex, attending all Tuesday night chapter Drugs and rock n Roll.” Cooper, who “As I walk across campus, meetings. teaches the latter, says the seminar I often see students from my “My door is always open,” she focuses on risk-taking and calculated seminar clustering together notes of her availability to counsel vs. mindless choices. in groups.Many times, as chapter members. “Many times, I Designed to bridge the gap we hope, these first campus find that they will seek me out between high school and college, friendships evolve to create because they know me from the home and campus, the seminars weekly meetings.” She further allow students to gain confidence and lifetime bonds.” points out that because Bethany “make the leap” into college while “As I walk across campus, I often College does not permit formal soror- exploring topics of special interest see students from my seminar clus- ity or fraternity rush during the Fall outside their intended major. tering together in groups. Many Semester, the First Year Experience Consistent, close contact with at least times, as we hope, these first campus allows students to develop a wide one faculty member, a seminar leader friendships evolve to create lifetime range of friendships before pledging who also serves as the student’s advi- bonds.” a Greek letter organization. sor for the first year and often Although it is tailored to the enter- Now concluding her fifth year of beyond, is a hallmark of the program, ing student’s needs, Bethany’s stu- teaching at Bethany, Cooper contin- as are seminars capped at 18 students dent-centered First Year Experience ues to value the close college commu- maximum. Many are even smaller. also enhances both enrollment and nity. In the Fall Semester, students retention, Cooper notes. All accepted “Leaving would be like leaving enroll in FSEM 111 First Year students are immediately offered a family,” she concludes.

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cinched his selection. Later, he remembers that his favorite class, “Contemporary American History from the 1940s to the present,” was held at Professor William Young’s home. Recalling the challenge that com- pleting a course in research methods while also preparing for Senior Comps entailed, Greg credits the aca- demic rigor of Bethany for enabling him to add value as a member of sen- ior management of his family’s busi- ness, Tasty Pure Foods, a regional wholesale food distributor. The Akron-based company founded by Greg’s grandfather is now in its third Band of Brothers generation; Greg’s father Jim is still active, as are three older brothers. As national president of Phi Kappa Tau, GREG HEILMEIER “Very few of the classes that I took stays connected with his fraternity brothers at Bethany are directly related to what I do now in the sales, marketing WHEN GREGORY M. (Greg) This Alumni Weekend, he and administration of the company,” Heilmeier ’89 pledged Phi Kappa returned to Bethany where he and he notes, “but all of what I assimilated Tau’s Phi Chapter at Bethany College, brothers from the Phi chapter dedi- at Bethany—often unconsciously — he was a “cradle legacy.” His father, cated a memorial in honor of fellow about how to think has enabled me Jim, once served on the fraternity’s member Richard Meess ’50. In to adapt as family-owned business national council, and as a child, October 2008, he celebrated Phi must do to thrive.” Greg’s family vacations were sched- Chapter’s 85th anniversary on the Other Bethany memories include uled around national conventions. Bethany campus. Chartered in 1923, a semester spent studying German in “I thought everyone spent their the chapter is one of the few that did Vienna and another in Washington, summers attending Phi Tau events,” not suspend operations during DC, as a junior and lettering in golf he recalls. Today, he is continuing World War II. as a freshman and sophomore. His that legacy as national president of He has remained close to many fraternity and professional duties the 88-chapter national fraternity. Phi Taus from different decades at currently allow him little time to His two-year term which began in Bethany as well as to other class- engage in the sport. July 2010 has already taken him to mates, including Troy Costain ’89, “It is a bit frustrating when I play Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tom Skena ’85, and John Sayers ’81 today, because although I can visual- Lexington, KY, and Nashville, TN, and recalls being a member of the ize the shots I want to make, I no among other cities, including visits wedding parties of many. longer have the muscle memory to with collegians and alumni. The fra- “Your fraternity brothers are execute them,” he explains. ternity is headquartered at Miami with you at the times of your greatest Like alumni through the ages, University in Oxford, OH, where it triumphs: at your marriage and the Greg continues to appreciateBethany’s was founded. His Facebook friends birth of your children. They are also traditions and academic rigor. already include dozens of current there at times of your deepest sor- Recalling the Bethany tradition members and alumni from Phi and rows,” he notes, recalling that after of Opening Convocation (unlike other chapters. By the time his term the death of his mother, Virginia, in today, entering students did not ends in July 2012, Greg hopes to have 1993, “my Phi chapter brothers were process through Oglebay Gates; visited at least half the fraternity’s among the first people I called.” that was a custom reserved for chapters. A native of Akron, OH, Greg came Commencement), Greg concludes He credits his wife, Theresa, for to Bethany from a large, public high with the admonishment of former being supportive of his travels, which school in suburban Cuyahoga Falls, President Former Bethany President often take him away on weekends. attracted by its small size and per- Todd H. Bullard (1980-1988) that he “Holding down essentially two sonal student-faculty relations. hoped at the end of each day on jobs is a challenge I could not suc- A one-hour conversation with Dr. campus, they would be “as tired cessfully undertake without her Albert Ossman during a high school mentally as they are physically.” understanding,” he notes. visit in his junior year pretty much “I was,” he says.

BETHANY COLLEGE SUMMER 2011 15 SUMMER 2011 8/11/11 3:44 PM Page 16 Fostering Leaders Continuing Bethany’s rich heritage as a training ground for leaders in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), LARRY GRIMES is helping oversee the Buffalo Seminary whose goal is to help foster church leaders who have the intellect to deal with the complex issues posed by a pluralistic 21st century.

DIRECTOR OF CHURCH In concert with the Office of the of thoughtful, faithful church lead- Relations Larry Grimes ‘64, profes- Chaplain and the Department of ers was essential to (Alexander) sor emeritus of English, a noted Religious Studies, his office supports Campbell when he founded Hemingway Scholar and published the mission of the College by prepar- Bethany, and it remains central to poet, has “retired” twice — in June ing students for leadership positions our mission today.” 2009 from the faculty at Bethany, in the 21st century Church. Further, Campbell was committed to a where he taught English for nearly through the work of Buffalo well-educated clergy and laity which 40 years, and more recently as pastor Seminary, it provides continuing could use their minds and read the of Community Christian Church in education opportunities for clergy Bible as one reads other books, says Beech Bottom, W.Va., which he and laity. Dr. Grimes. “Today, we are continu- served for 15 years. In his third role “Bethany’s rich heritage as a ing that legacy by fostering church as director of church relations for his training ground for leaders in the leaders who have the intellect to deal alma mater, Dr. Grimes’ responsibili- Christian Church (Disciples of with the complex issues posed by a ties include overseeing the Buffalo Christ) provides the root-stock from pluralistic 21st century.” Seminary, Historic Bethany and the which our present has evolved,” Dr. Supporting and enhancing that DCampbell Archives. Grimes explains. “The preparation mission is Buffalo Seminary at

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Bethany College. Re-established in lectures. This year’s featured speaker focus; his office is working on ways July 2009, it emphasizes the continu- was Dr. Bruce Epperly. The event’s to memorialize the bicentennial of ing education of all orders of min- focus was “Loosely Christian: the founding of the Campbell’s first istry — ordained, licensed and lay — Theology, Spirituality, and Mission church in Pennsylvania some 12 especially among the Christian for a Postmodern Church.” Dr. James miles from the Bethany campus. Church (Disciples of Christ.) Its focus Johnson, president of Lexington “Bethany College has done an in on practical ministry in a time of Theological Seminary, spoke during extraordinarily good job of marrying rapid cultural and technological the Timothy Luncheon May 2. In the past vision of our founder whose change, accomplished through short- addition, lectures by Drs. Harold world was almost exclusively term workshops, lectures series and Doster and Peter Morgan were given Christian with that of a modern plu- other outreach activities. to celebrate the 200th anniversary of ralistic society, a growing portion of The modern Buffalo Seminary the Brush Run Church. which, as recent surveys demon- takes its name from Campbell’s origi- Part of Dr. Grimes’ work involves strate, does not perceive a special nal “Buffaloe Seminary,” an academy working with regions of the sponsor- need for formal religion in their originally in the founder’s home that ing denomination to provide ongoing lives,” he concludes. training and support for clergy — A member of the Commission on “The preparation of most regions are moving toward the Ministry (DOC) in West Virginia, thoughtful, faithful church requiring continuing education for Dr. Grimes has lectured and leaders was essential to ordained clergy — as well as for preached in churches across the (Alexander) Campbell “commissioned ministers.” Members country. He was recently appointed a when he founded Bethany, of other denominations also partici- board member of the West Virginia pate. In addition, though internships Humanities Council and in 1991 and it remains central to in the Office of Church Relations for earned the T.A. Abbot Award for our mission today.” current Bethany students, he hopes Teaching Excellence from The – Director of Church Relations Larry Grimes, to encourage younger church leaders Division of Higher Education of the professor of English emeritus to become involved with area congre- Christian Church (Disciples of existed for six years from 1818-1824. gations and religious groups. Active, Christ). Three times Bethany stu- Writing in Bethany: the first 150 involved church leaders sometimes dents named him “Professor of the years, author Lester G. McAllister evolve into commissioned or Year” (Richard B. Kennedy Award), notes, “The school soon attracted not ordained ministers later in life, often and he also received the Bethany only a number of young men who in a bi-vocational role. Alumni Faculty Recognition (James wished to study with Campbell but In the next months and years, he E. Allison) Award. also young people of both sexes who also expects to visit more local Now that he is “down to just one simply wanted to receive a good basic Disciples of Christ churches to ask job,” Dr. Grimes will remain in the education…Most of the students lived the question,” What can Bethany home in Bethany that he has shared and boarded in the Campbell home. College do for your congregation?” for the past 39 years with his wife, “Alexander found disappointment He believes that over time, the Carol Ducker Grimes ’66. They were in the results,” McAllister continues. answer will lead to a larger percent- married in Bethany Memorial “Nevertheless, Buffalo Seminary was age of students from the sponsoring Church. However, they plan to the forerunner of the college that was denomination. spend more time in Colorado with to come.” Celebrating and preserving their daughter, Rebecca Gostlin, a “Although we have changed the Bethany’s historic past is another clinical therapist. name to the contemporary spelling, in many ways we are going back to Campbell’s vision; the modern proj- President Miller’s involvement with Council of ect has many parallels with the origi- Colleges and Universities of the Christian Church nal,” says Dr. Grimes. Bethany President Scott D. Miller continues to serve as a national leader in cultivating the One vehicle implementing that unique partnership Bethany and other Disciples-related institutions have with the church. vision is a series of lectures, conduct- As an active participant in the Council of Colleges and Universities of the Christian Church ed at the Mountainside Conference (Disciples of Christ), he plays a key role in exploring the many opportunities for positive Center and often available to partici- change central to such a relationship — including developing servant-leaders; promot- pants live and via streaming video. In ing peace, justice and ecological sustainability; and fostering global awareness. President May 2011, Bethany College hosted the Miller was one of four college presidents to be elected to the group’s current Presidents’ 56th annual Oreon E. Scott Lectures, Council Executive Committee, for which he serves as secretary. a two-day session incorporating three

BETHANY COLLEGE SUMMER 2011 17 SUMMER 2011 8/11/11 3:44 PM Page 18 Beyond the Bench Hearn has been involved in numer- ous complex cases, including death penalty appeals, voter and election cases, and constitutional challenges to municipal and state statutes. Enrolling at Bethany from Warren, Pa., Justice Hearn did the “traditional things that women did at college in the 1970s,” including pledg- ing a sorority and becoming a cheer- leader, but two seminal events from her Bethany experience stand out. The first was studying Italian lan- guage and art at a convent in Rome and traveling to Greece in the sum- mer following her junior year as the “My experience as a young lawyer in the 80s is a recipient of the Vira I. Heinz Women world away from where you are right now…times in Global Leadership Travel Award. and opinions have changed since I sat where you sit today. I dared not dream of being a judge as a “It was a life-changing event that young girl because there were no women judges stretched me beyond my comfort in the world I lived in.” zone and opened my eyes to the Justice Kaye G. Hearn ’72 addressing graduating senior women at the wonder and beauty of the world,” Darline Nicholson Breakfast, Bethany College, May 2011. she remarks. The second, even more pivotal, ODAY, AS A judge for 25 years decisions on some 30 cases each year. came when representing Bethany’s and the second woman to sit She previously served on the South women students at a conference in Ton South Carolina’s Supreme Carolina Court of Appeals from 1995- Washington, DC, she learned that Court, Justice Kaye Gorenflo Hearn 2009, serving as its Chief Judge for women at that time earned 59 cents can observe three women presently the last 10 years of her tenure there. for every dollar earned by men per- serving on the United States Supreme Prior to becoming an appellate judge, forming the same work. Court. Her daughter, Kathleen, 22, Hearn was a trial judge, serving as a “That experience represented a will enter law school this fall. family court judge for nine years. real turning point for me,” she A cum laude history major, former While Chief Judge of the Court of remarks. “Initially, I was confused; cheerleader, Alpha Xi Delta president Appeals, she served as president of then shocked; and finally, angry. It and vice-president of the Association the Council of Chief Judges, a nation- was then that I first truly under- of Women Students at Bethany wide network of chief judges of inter- stood what it meant to be a woman College, Justice Hearn “never imag- mediate courts of appeal. in this world.” ined that I would one day be consid- “Law is a fertile ground for those That awareness was tested further ered a trailblazer for women.” with a liberal arts education,” she in her early days as a law school stu- Yet, she entered law school at the notes. Pointing to her history classes dent and young alumna. University of South Carolina after at Bethany, where she “took every Although her parents fully stood leaving Bethany, graduating fifth in class” taught by Professor Chandler behind her decision to enroll, “many her class and later earning an Shaw, she says the rigor of the commented that it was ‘nice because L.L.M.degree from the University of coursework and preparing for senior you can probably marry a lawyer and Virginia. She served as chief judge of comps, which she passed with dis- work as his secretary,’” she laughs. the South Carolina Court of Appeals tinction, provided solid preparation She did, however, meet her future from 1999-2009 before her election to for the intensive, content-heavy husband, attorney George Hearn, in the Palmetto State’s Supreme Court, nature of the cases she must review. law school. After graduation, humor where she is responsible for writing Since joining the Supreme Court, helped her in encounters such as an

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interview for a clerkship with Julius back,” in the words of a recent maga- B. Ness, a justice on the South zine profile. Judge Lisa Kinon, who Carolina Supreme Court known for has known Hearn for 20 years, his outspokenness. describes her friend and neighbor as On their initial meeting in his her role model: “She sets an example chambers which, ironically, are now not only for all women lawyers, but hers, Ness told her, “I have a lot of all members of the legal profession.” problems with you…first of all, you’re In addition, she remains close to a girl.” her friends, including Bethany class- “I replied, ‘Sir, I guess you’ll have mates Marsha Carlin ’72, a sorority to talk to God about that.’ He sister, and former roommate Laura laughed, and a few minutes later, he Cramblet, ’72 recently reuniting with offered me the job. I accepted on the them and other alumnae after speak- “Law is a fertile ground spot,” she recalls. Justice Hearn notes ing on campus. for those with a liberal that she not only became Ness’s first “I have not accomplished all this woman law clerk, but later, “he without the help of many others,” arts education.” became my dear and trusted friend, Hearn notes. Her mother, Kathleen years, has been active in the Theater as well as the great mentor of my life. Gorenflo, moved to the family’s of the Republic in Conway, S.C., and He taught me how to think and act Conway home in 1988 to help care for has performed in numerous produc- like a lawyer and a judge.” Ness con- their then infant daughter, Kathleen, tions, including recently with tinued to provide Hearn with support and continues to play an active and Kathleen in “South Pacific,” in which and guidance until his death in 1991. stabilizing role in their lives. She also Hearn and her daughter played nurs- Hearn is the first former South cites her law clerks, now numbering es and “washed that man right out of Carolina Supreme Court law clerk to some 25, “who have become a part of their hair” together. become a justice herself and now my family and to whom I am Known for occasionally “letting occupies the same office in the extremely loyal.” her hair down” literally, she and her Supreme Court building occupied by In addition to her parents and former Clerk of Court, Ken Richstad, Justice Ness at the time of their fate- Ness, Justice Hearn also credits her are famous locally for their karaoke ful first interview. marriage to fellow attorney George performance as “Dolly Parton and Her early career was not without M. Hearn, a Conway, S.C., attorney Kenny Rogers” as part of a charity its tribulations, however. “When I and a member of the South Carolina fundraiser sponsored by the South first began practicing in Horry House of Representatives who repre- Carolina Judicial Department. The County (S.C.) in the late 1970s, some sents District 105, for “making my duo has also appeared as “Sonny men preferred to deal with my male life golden.” and Cher.” counterparts rather than do busi- “George has been a full partner in In her time away from the bench, ness with me. One even repeatedly my professional and family life, and Justice Hearn also enjoys skiing, referred to me as ‘Princess,’” Hearn we were also fortunate to have prac- cycling, and spending time at the recalls. ticed together for six years (in Loris family’s beach house, “Adjourned,” She is widely respected through- and Myrtle Beach, S.C.),” she says. and hosting dinner parties. She often out the state for her “integrity, intel- The couple, who has lived and cooks with daughter Kathleen. In lect, likeability and desire to give worked together for more than 30 addition, she is a choir member and former senior warden at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Conway, while Career Highlights serving on the boards of both the South Carolina Supreme Court, Columbia and Conway, SC University of South Carolina School Justice, 2010-present of Law and the Charleston (S.C.) South Carolina Court of Appeals, Columbia and Conway, S.C. School of Law. Chief Judge, 1999-2000; Associate Judge, 1995-1999 Speaking to senior women at Bethany College in May, Hearn sum- South Carolina Family Court, Horry and Georgetown Counties, S.C. 15th Circuit Family Court Judge, 1986-1995 (Chief Administrative Judge, 1987-1995) marized her philosophy of continual- ly mentoring other younger profes- South Carolina Supreme Court, Columbia and Bamberg, S.C. sionals: “When you achieve success Law Clerk to the Honorable Julius B. Ness, 1977-1979 in your chosen career, don’t pull the Charleston School of Law, Charleston, S.C. ladder up behind you.” Adjunct Professor of Appellate Advocacy, 2006, 2007 and 2008 “If I have any legacy, I’d like to be Stevens, Stevens, Thomas, Hearn and Hearn remembered as a mentor to young Partner and Associate, 1979-1986 lawyers,” she concludes.

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only senior on the Bethany roster, she set a career-high with 20 points and added nine boards in her final game. BETHANY WINTER Three Bison were named Honorable Mention All-PAC following the year, the first all-conference award for each. Harris led the team in rebounding (6.4) and averaged 7.6 SPORTS 2011 RECAP points as well, while junior Katelynn Hackathorn was sec- The winter sports season may have been ond in the PAC in field goal percentage (49.2) and posted 8.9 points and 6.2 rebounds a contest. Taormina rounded highlighted by the Bison men’s basketball out the honorees after finishing second on the team in team winning the PAC title, but the scoring with 9.8 points and third in rebounding with 6.0 women’s basketball and swimming and caroms per game. diving programs provided quite a bit of In the pool, Bethany’s women’s team turned one of its better seasons in recent memory. The team collected four excitement as well with solid seasons. dual-meet victories during the year, including wins over ON THE HARDWOOD, the Bethany women sat at 7-9 Penn State-Altoona, Frostburg State, Urbana and Davis & overall and in the second tier of the PAC standings after Elkins, bettering their total from the year before by one. A the opening wave of conference games. The Bison would pair of records was also broken throughout the year, rebound by winning six of the final nine games in the reg- including the 200 Free Relay record going down in the win ular season, including a 4-1 mark in road games, to rise up over Penn State-Altoona. the PAC rankings and earn the fourth seed for the league The 200 Free Relay record would be reset again at the tournament. PAC Championship meet, as the foursome of sophomore Capping the big swing was a 65-58 triumph in the regu- Theresa Smith, junior Jennifer Briskey, senior Cynthia lar season finale at Washington & Jefferson, which secured Richardson and sophomore Melissa Davis finished in a the fourth seed and a home game in the PAC Tournament time of 1:47.52. Then in the last event of the quarterfinals. Senior Tara Harris led the way in the win Championship meet, Richardson, Smith, junior Sara with 16 points and 10 rebounds and sophomore Kayla Reass and Davis completed the 400 Free Relay with a Taormina posted 12 points, nine boards and four assists, as time of 3:55.75 to surpass that school mark and end the BC snapped a seven-game losing streak at W&J that dated season on a high note. back to 2004. The men’s season was highlighted by a 111-101 victory In the first round of the PAC Tournament, Bethany was over Penn State-Altoona during the regular season. At the matched up with Grove City after the teams split the regu- conference meet, junior Jared Patrick scored in the 100 and lar season meetings. The Bison claimed a five-point half- 200 Fly and a pair of divers registered strong efforts. time lead, but would shoot just 31 percent in the second Sophomore Vinnie Giangiulio took fifth place in both div- half. The Wolverines would make 45 percent of their shot ing events and freshman Jon Gray was right behind him in attempts after halftime and rallied for a 66-59 win over BC, sixth place. Their performances helped both receive who was led by another sterling effort from Harris. As the Second Team All-PAC distinction following the campaign.

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BETHANY MEN’S BASKETBALL After being picked to finish third in the PAC preseason poll, the Bethany men’s basket- ball team struggled with losses in three of the first five games of the 2010-11 season. But the Bison would turn things around quickly and building momentum throughout the year, the Green and White would make it a season for the record books by adding to their PAC-record with a 13th conference title.

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ALTHOUGH THE BISON dropped to an 18-8 lead to start the game. But 74-67 win. The stars were plentiful Allegheny in the season opener, there the Bison seized control by outscor- for BC and were led by British were speed bumps ahead. Losses on ing the Titans 39-5 over the final 11 Alexander, who totaled 19 points, 12 the road at Baldwin-Wallace and minutes of the half and they would rebounds, five blocked shots and five nationally-ranked Wooster and John advance with a 90-58 thrashing. steals. Joining him with 19 points was Carroll left BC with a 2-3 record just In the semifinals, the Bison trav- Reece Mabery, who sank 11 free before opening PAC action. Bethany elled to #2 Saint Vincent. The teams throws, and James Barton chipped in got back on track by routing Case split a pair of hotly-contested regular with 14, including 12 in the second Western and rolled through the early season meetings and the rubber half. portion of the league slate by beating match proved to be another barn- By winning their PAC-record 13th Westminster and Waynesburg and burner. After seven lead changes and league crown, Bethany also secured then built a six-game winning streak three ties in the first half, Bethany led an automatic bid to the NCAA going into the holiday break with 28-26 at the break. In the second half, Tournament for the seventh time. wins over Geneva, Franciscan and BC led by as many as 12, but that The Bison were matched up with Frostburg State. margin was trimmed to one and Manchester (Ind.) College in the The New Year did not bring quite Saint Vincent had possession. The opening round and the Spartans the same success early on for Bearcats missed two free throws and grabbed control with a 15-0 run to Bethany, as losses in the closing sec- a jumper in the final 30 seconds, start the game. Bethany was able to onds at Thiel and at home against allowing Bethany to hang on for a 66- get within as close as five points early Saint Vincent by a combined three 65 win to move on to the PAC in the second half, but Manchester points left BC at 9-5 overall at 3-2 in Tournament title game. held off every BC surge after that and the conference. The Bison recovered Bethany’s quest for the conference ended Bethany’s season with a 70-58 nicely, going out on the road to defeat crown meant a trip to top-seeded decision. It would be the final game Thomas More 71-66, which started a Thiel, who was 13-1 against PAC in Green and White for seniors Ryan string on nine wins in 10 outings. teams during the year and a perfect McFadden, who scored 18 in the The lone blemish was a costly one, as 12-0 at home going into the final NCAA loss, Dustin Opalka and Ray a 66-59 defeat to Thiel helped the game. After trailing by as many as Gardner. Tomcats clinch the top seed and nine in the first half, BC trimmed the Two Bethany players were hon- home court advantage in the PAC deficit to five by halftime and made ored with All-PAC laurels following Tournament. their move early in the second half. the season. Alexander grabbed First Bethany didn’t close the regular There would six ties and nine lead Team recognition after setting a new season on a strong note, as a hot- changes in the final 20 minutes, but school record with 67 blocked shots, shooting W&J squad claimed a 74-67 the final change came when Nick while also averaging 13.3 points, 8.8 win in the regular season finale, Wilcox hit a jumper with 3:54 to go rebounds and 1.6 steals per game. which dropped BC down to the third that gave Bethany the lead for good. Sophomore Nick Wilcox was the seed for the PAC Tournament. The That bucket started a 14-6 game- team’s leading scorer with 13.5 points Bison opened the league playoffs ending spurt for the Bison, who and also posted 6.8 rebounds and 2.1 against #6 Westminster, who was made a season-high 27-of-33 from the steals per game to earn Second Team upset-minded early by streaking out foul line (82 percent) to rally for the All-PAC.

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tled for a 6-7 overall record and 3-4 mark in the PAC. It still proved to be the most wins by the team since ’99 and the BETHANY SPRING three conference wins was the highest total by a Bison team since 2007. At PAC Championships, BC finished tied for fourth SPORTS 2011 RECAP place overall after having two singles players and two dou- It was a record-setting spring sports bles teams claim third place. In singles, senior Dustin Opalka and freshman Dustin Maiolo won the consolation season for the Bison programs, with matches at #1 and #4 singles, respectively. The doubles numerous records falling and multiple tandems of Opalka and junior Jared Patrick finished third conference championships earned in at #1, as did the duo of freshman James Peterson and junior track and field, the men’s tennis team Ryan Rokisky at #2. In baseball action, Bethany’s season got off to a strong posting its best record in recent memory, start with wins in four of their six games down in Florida. a longtime baseball record going down Although the Bison had difficulties in PAC play, their sea- and the men’s lacrosse team making its son was highlighted by taking two of three from the even- varsity debut on the Bethany campus. tual top seed Grove City, as well as a 4-1 victory over Washington & Jefferson, a game that saw sophomore Brad THE SOGGY SPRING weather did little to dampen the Kubis break the school record for career saves (16). efforts of the track and field program, which found success After the season, which saw Bethany finish with a 12-23 from start to finish during the season. Bethany hosted the mark, three players were named All-PAC. Senior CF Tyler PAC Championship meet for the first time since 2001 and Dillinger, who broke the 10-year old Bethany record for BC student-athletes put on a show for the home crowd, career hits after compiling 199 in his tenure, was selected winning four conference titles, earning 14 All-PAC honors for First Team, as was Kubis (.346, 1 HR, 25 RBIs), while and one provisionally qualifying for NCAA Championships. junior catcher T.J. Zarewicz (.383, 3 HR, 28 RBIs) was The initial PAC championship was won on the opening picked for Second Team. day of the meet when freshman Ben Gregg took first place On March 3, the Bethany athletic department welcomed in the javelin and provisionally qualified for NCAA its newest sport to varsity status when the men’s lacrosse Championships with a throw of 195-4. The next day saw team began its initial season with a game against Division Bethany dominate in the running events, as sophomore II St. Andrews from North Carolina. The first season of Marcus Johnson won the 100 (11.21), freshman Aarick competition can have its rough patches and this one did for Jones took first in the 200 (22.69) and freshman Arkangelo the Bison, who finished the season 1-11. The highlight to James earned the conference title in the 800 (1:56.54). the year came on March 26 when sophomore Kyle Those performances helped Bethany finish third overall as Arrington scored five goals and had seven points, as BC a team, its best finish since 1996. scored nine goals in the second half to pull away for a 13-6 Highlighting the weekend for the women was senior victory over Ohio Valley. Desiree Finley, who was Second Team All-PAC in the pole Arrington completed the year as the team’s top scorer, vault and earned Honorable Mention All-PAC in the 400 amassing 16 goals and five assists for 21 points. Freshman hurdles, 4x100 and 4x400 relays. Robbie Foster was second with eight goals and 10 points The season didn’t end there, as the Bison sent 10 quali- and freshman Corey Doneski was the top defender, forc- fiers to ECAC Championships. The top finish came from ing 10 turnovers and scooping up 56 ground balls, both James, who was fifth in the 800 with a school record and team-highs. NCAA provisional qualifying time of 1:52.54. Finley also The rainy spring weather may have affected the golf team broke her own school record in the 400 hurdles (1:05.62), more than anyone, as many of their matches were pushed which gave BC three new school marks for the season to go back or canceled altogether. The Bison did manage to get in along with freshman Cory Yarrington’s effort in the 3,000 three tournaments before playing at PAC Championships, Steeplechase (9:51.73). where Bethany finished in seventh place overall. The team’s Although James and Gregg provisionally qualified for overall score was actually 72 shots better than the score post- NCAA Championships, their efforts came up just short of ed the year before at the conference match. earning an invitation to the national meet. Although since Bethany did nearly have a golfer bring back All-PAC both are only freshmen and only one of the All-PAC per- honors for the second consecutive year. Rokisky, who also formers was a senior, the future is bright for the Bison played for the tennis team, shot a two-day total of 158 (77- track and field programs. 81) to finish in a four-way tie for 11th place, one shot away On the tennis court, Bethany, who had gone winless as from earning Second Team All-PAC distinction. Freshmen recently as 2009, had a chance at its first winning season Nolan Wilson (164) and Peter Franklin (168) were the next since 1999, but came up short in the season finale and set- top scorers for the Bison.

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BETHANY SOFTBALL After coming agonizingly close to winning the conference title each of the last two years, the Bethany softball team broke through in 2011 and dominated the PAC to capture the program’s 13th league crown, which is the most in the history of the PAC.

THE SEASON GOT off to a strong Hosting the PAC Tournament for have the same ending as the PAC start down south, as BC posted a 7-3 the second year in a row, Bethany Tournament. The Bison nearly rallied mark in Florida. The signature wins went through the playoffs unscathed from a five-run deficit in their first of the trip came on the Monday, when to add to its impressive collection of game with Baldwin-Wallace, but BC Bethany pulled out a pulsating 10-9 conference titles. Pitching carried the fell short by a 6-3 count. The next day triumph in 11 innings over Bison through the weekend, as on in the elimination bracket, the Green Transylvania, an NCAA Regional day one the outstanding work of soph- and White had their season end with a team from the season before, and omore Emily Jump lifted BC to a 1-0 tough loss to Alma, which concluded then knocking off #9 Cortland State win over Waynesburg and a 2-1 victory the careers of seniors Butler, Newland, 4-2 in eight innings. The Bison did hit over Thomas More that put Bethany Lax, Andrea Thomas and Allie a bump in the road upon returning into the title game. Jump hurled a four- Fluharty. Together, the group posted a north, as the Green and White hit shutout over Waynesburg in the record of 112-75 overall, including 44-14 dropped six of their first nine games opener and limited TMC to one run on in the PAC, two conference titles, two and was at 10-9 overall after losing six hits in the second win, while all the NCAA Regional appearances and two their first league game of the season offense was supplied by a Maria ECAC Tournament bids. to Westminster. Vallone RBI double and a Cortney Lax The awards came piling in at the Bethany would get back on track run-producing single. conclusion of the season. Thomas, quickly, as a 6-0 win over In the championship game, the who hit .436 for the year with team- Westminster to split that April 6th Bison matched up with Thomas More highs in homers (four), RBIs (36) and twinbill started a 14-game PAC win- for the third straight year. The Saints doubles (17) was named the PAC ning streak. The Bison were pro- had come away with wins the previ- Player of the Year and Jan Forsty was pelled to the top of the conference ous two seasons, but this time the selected as the conference’s Coach of standings with the winning streak, Bison would not be denied. Senior the Year. Other Bison earning First which featured a sweep over defend- Cortney Newland threw a four-hit Team All-PAC were Butler, Jump and ing league champion Thomas More shutout and senior Chelsea Butler’s Vallone, while Lax nabbed Second by scores of 1-0 and 4-1. Decisive 4-1 two-out RBI single in the bottom of Team laurels. The Bison were also and 9-1 triumphs at Washington & the 7th gave the Bison a 1-0 win over recognized on a higher level when Jefferson put the Bison in position to Thomas More to clinch the team’s Thomas and Vallone, who set a new clinch the top seed for the conference first league crown and NCAA single-season record for hits with 65, tournament and they clinched the #1 Regional appearance since 2008. were tabbed First Team All-Central spot with an 8-0 shutout over Thiel in Bethany was shipped to the Region and Butler, who set the the final regular season doubleheader Adrian (Mich.) Regional for NCAA Bethany all-time record for hits with of the year. Tournament play, but it would not 191, garnered Second Team honors.

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Bethany Student-Athletes Continue to Impress in the Classroom

NOT ONLY WAS 2010-11 A STRONG SEASON for spring, as he was one of 29 Bethany student-athletes who Bethany College athletics on the fields and courts, it was earned a spot on the PAC Academic Honor Roll. To make another outstanding year for Bison student-athletes to the list, a student-athletes must have competed in either a continue to impress academically as well. winter or spring sport and posted a GPA of 3.6 or higher For the first time since 2007, a pair of Bethany baseball during the spring semester. The 29 Bison to make the list players were voted to the Capital One Academic All- is the highest total since 2007 when 32 Bethany student- District II team. Senior second baseman Eric Fudala and athletes earned a spot on the Spring Honor Roll. sophomore infielder/pitcher Brad Kubis both earned Fudala was also one of six Bison who earned a perfect Second Team accolades, the first BC players to receive the 4.0 for the semester and was one of five BC baseball play- honor since Brent Owens in 2007. ers to make the list, the most by a Bethany men’s team. Fudala hit .272 this past spring with 14 RBIs and gradu- Taking top honors among all the programs was the PAC ated with a GPA better than 3.8 as a business major. champion softball team, as well as women’s basketball, Kubis, who set the Bethany career saves record this sea- who both put six on the Honor Roll. Down below is a son, batted .346 and drove in 25 runs on the diamond and complete list of Bethany’s 2011 PAC Spring Academic also has a GPA above 3.5 as a biology major. Honor Roll members. It was one of two academic honors Fudala earned this

Bethany’s Spring 2011 PAC Academic Honor Roll Honorees

NAME YEAR MAJOR SPORT HOMETOWN/H.S. Cassondra Allen JR Social Work Track & Field Washington, Pa./Canon-McMillan Sarah Atkins JR Elem. Education Swimming Heath, Ohio/Heath Rachel Benda FR Social Work W. Basketball Bridgeport, Ohio/Bridgeport Mindy Bierhals FR Math Education Softball Saxonburg, Pa./Knoch Rebecca Braithwaite FR Psychology W. Basketball Pittsburgh, Pa./Chartiers Valley Melissa Davis SO Psychology/ Swimming/Track Lancaster, Ohio/Lancaster Social Work Tyler Dillinger SR History Educ. Baseball McKeesport, Pa./McKeesport Eric Fudala SR Business Baseball Uniontown, Pa./Laurel Highlands Emily Jump SO Phys. Education Softball Milford, Del./Polytech Josh Lawrence SR Phys. Education Baseball Mather, Pa./Jefferson-Morgan Kelli McAbier SR Math Education Track & Field Gnadenhutten, Ohio/Indian Valley Ryan McFadden SR Elem. Education M. Basketball Columbus, Ohio/Mount Vernon Acad. Kristina Moff JR Elem. Education Track & Field Berlin Center, Ohio/Western Reserve Cortney Newland SR Elem. Education Softball Carmichaels, Pa./Carmichaels Kaitlyn Pitchok SO Biology Softball Weirton, W.Va./Weir Katie Powell FR Equine Studies Track & Field Belleville, W.Va./Homeschooled Sara Reass JR Elem. Education Swimming Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North Ryan Rokisky SR Political Science Golf/Tennis Weirton, W.Va./Weirton Madonna Heidi Soriano SO Elem. Education Softball Austintown, Ohio/Austintown Fitch Stephen Stanley FR Business/Comm. Baseball Meyersdale, Pa./Meyersdale Area Ryan Summers JR Pre-Phys. Therapy M. Basketball Sistersville, W.Va./Tyler Consolidated Kayla Taormina SO Pre-Phys. Therapy W. Basketball Monaca, Pa./Quigley Maria Vallone SO Phys. Education Softball Rochester, N.Y./Webster Schroeder Josh Wentz SO Forensic Chemistry Track & Field Philippi, W.Va./Philip Barbour Skylar Williams SO Phys. Education W. Basketball Jefferson Hills, Pa./Thomas Jefferson Anne Wilson JR Communications W. Basketball Saegertown, Pa./Cambridge Springs Cory Yarrington FR Undeclared Track & Field Berkeley Springs, W.Va./Berkeley Springs David Yuna JR Biology Baseball Bridgeville, Pa./South Fayette Kelly Zogran JR Phys. Education W. Basketball Pittsburgh, Pa./Thomas Jefferson

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BETHANY ADDS Conference titles from 1977-81 and diving coach at Bethany College, as FIELD HOCKEY AS 22ND captured two more crowns in 1983 announced by Bethany Director of and 1984 before claiming the 1985 Athletics and Recreation Tim Weaver. VARSITY SPORT PAC championship with a record of Finding someone with Dow’s BETHANY COLLEGE has 13-3-1 overall and 6-0 in the PAC. background with a successful pro- announced the addition of women’s The head coach of the last field gram, as well as his energy and field hockey as its 22nd varsity sport hockey team in 1989 was Jan Forsty, knowledge, was instrumental in the beginning in the fall of 2012, accord- who is still at Bethany as the head search process, according to ing to Bethany Director of Athletics softball and women’s tennis coach Weaver. He said that over 70 appli- and Recreation Tim Weaver. and associate athletic director. She cations were received as a part of the Weaver also announced the head has worked with McGaughey for the national search. coach of the program, which will use last three years and sees her as an “Coach Dow is an outstanding fit the 2011-12 season to recruit before outstanding coach to start up the for Bethany College and our swim- beginning a full varsity schedule in field hockey program again. ming and diving program,” said 2012. Current Bison assistant softball McGaughey came to Bethany in Weaver. “He has coach Kristen McGaughey will be the 2008 after graduating from Ashland an outstanding field hockey head coach and also con- (Ohio) University with a Bachelor of record of accom- tinue her role with the softball pro- Science degree in Biology. She fin- plishment as both gram. The addition of field hockey ished her softball career at Ashland a swimmer and continues a period of growth for the ranked third in career home runs (19) coach. His win- Bethany athletic department, as and fifth in career RBIs (99) and was ning attitude, men’s lacrosse just completed its first a two-time All-GLIAC selection, as commitment to David Dow varsity season this past spring. well as a First Team All-Great Lakes excellence, and “Bethany is very proud to bring Region pick as a junior. experience at the Division III level Field Hockey back at this exciting Since arriving at Bethany, will have an immediate impact on time in our athletics program,” said McGaughey has helped lead the our program.” Weaver. “Coach McGaughey, Bison softball program to 88 victo- Dow comes to Bethany after a through her work with our outstand- ries in three seasons, including a two-year stint at his alma mater as ing softball program, has proven to be school-record 35 in 2010, as well as the assistant coach. During his a dynamic leader and very effective three consecutive postseason tenure on the coaching staff, the Red recruiter. These are qualities that will appearances. Bethany captured its Dragon men’s team went 28-5 in dual help her get a startup program on its PAC-record 13th conference champi- meets and finished in second place at feet and ultimately lead us to having a onship in 2011 and earned its sixth the SUNYAC Championships twice, successful team.” trip to NCAA Regionals. while the women posted a 21-7 Women’s field hockey is actually record in dual meets and finished returning to the Bison athletic DOW NAMED NEW HEAD second at the SUNYAC meet in 2010 department, as the sport was SWIMMING & DIVING COACH and third this past winter. dropped following the 1989-90 school Aside from the team success, Dow STATE UNIVERSITY OF New year. Bethany fielded a strong field was highly involved with the individ- York, Cortland assistant David Dow hockey program from the late 1970’s ual medley and backstroke training has been selected as the new head through the mid-1980’s. The Bison group, which included a two-time men’s and women’s swimming and won five consecutive Pennwood West NCAA All-American, two NCAA

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provisional qualifiers, 10 All- his extensive coaching background goal for the Follansbee, W.Va., native. Conference team members and nine and energy, made him a great fit for “I feel that this is a “homecom- individual school records being bro- the position. “We are very happy to ing” for me since I am originally ken over a two-year span. In addition have someone with Pete’s back- from the area,” said Parikakis. to the success in the water, Dow ground and pas- “Growing up, Bethany College was played a large role in Cortland’s sion for the sport the place you went to school if you recruiting and those efforts helped to take over our were a soccer player. And now, add over 30 swimmers to an already women’s soccer being a Bison is a long time dream established group of successful stu- program,” said which has finally come true. I plan dent-athletes. Weaver. “Pete has to re-establish traditions and expec- Before helping coach swimmers to very high person- tations here on the women’s side all-conference and school record per- al standards when and I’m very eager to get to work Peter Parikakis formances, Dow was achieving them it comes to ethics and start writing the next chapter in himself as with the Red Dragons. A and character, which was a top pri- Bethany Women’s Soccer.” four-year member and two-year cap- ority in our search. We believe Pete The program Parikakis takes tain, he broke the school record in will be able to produce a team that over is improving, but has failed to the 1,000 Freestyle in 2009. Dow qualifies for the PAC tournament qualify for the PAC tournament in claimed two titles in the 1,650 Free at and ultimately turn it into a top pro- recent years. In 2007, the Bison won the SUNYAC Championship meet gram in the PAC and the region. only three games, but in the last and was twice named to the SUNY- “Having played a role in turning three seasons, BC has won 24 AC All-Conference First Team and around Bethany’s men’s soccer pro- matches and is coming off back-to- twice to the Second Team. gram and with his experience at back .500 seasons for only the sec- Dow earned a Bachelor’s degree in other liberal arts colleges, Pete is a ond time in the 24-year history of Sports Management with a minor in very good fit and will be able to the program. Bethany completed the computer applications from recruit the type of quality student- 2010 campaign with an 8-8-2 record Cortland. He also completed his athletes who can succeed on the field and a 3-4-1 mark in the PAC. coursework towards a Master of and in the classroom at a small col- Looking ahead to next season, 10 Science degree in Recreation lege of national distinction like players return who started at least 11 Management in Leisure Services Bethany,” said Weaver. matches this past year, including from Cortland. This past fall, Parikakis was an First Team All-PAC selection Cassie assistant for the Bison men’s pro- Spalding (Claysville, Pa./McGuffey), PARIKAKIS NAMED NEW gram. He helped Bethany rebound who led the conference in scoring WOMEN’S SOCCER COACH from a two-win campaign in 2009 to for the second straight year with 19 11 victories this past fall, a berth in goals and 42 points. FORMER MARY BALDWIN the PAC Tournament Championship Parikakis earned his Bachelor of College women’s soccer coach Peter match and a bid to the ECAC Science degree in Athletic Training Parikakis has been selected as the Tournament, where the Bison from Waynesburg in 2001 and new head women’s soccer coach at stunned the #1 seed Penn State earned a Masters of Science in Bethany College, according to Behrend in the opening round and Athletic Coaching from WVU in Director of Athletics Tim Weaver. reached the semifinals. Receiving the 2006. He is currently enrolled in the According to Weaver, Parikakis’ opportunity to take the reins to the Master of Arts in Teaching program familiarity with Bethany, as well as women’s program fulfills a long-time at Bethany.

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Alumni Weekend 2011 More than 100 Bethany grads returned to campus for Alumni Weekend 2011, April 29-May 1, with the Class of 1961 celebrating their 50th reunion. Alumni Weekend featured many activities, including the Alumni Association Luncheon, where members of the Class of 1961 presented a check to President Miller in honor of their 50th Reunion.

A C H I E V E M E N T S JOHN MULLEN ’69, trustee of Bethany ZANDY DUDIAK ’77 has been named asso- CHARLES “PETE” PERRY ’59 was re-elected College, has been named chief executive ciate regional editor for Western Pa. to the board of Cyprus American officer of Unitrin Specialty, a leading per- Patch, part of AOL’s new network of Archeological Research institute in sonal and casualty personal insurance online Patch news sites. She is also the April 2011. organization following 35 years of indus- author of “Remembering Monroeville: try experience. From Frontier to Boomtown,” which was Novelos Therapeutics recently released by History Press in late 2009. announced that Bethany graduate SETH GOLBEY ’76 is the director of plan- She has received more than 80 national, DR. JOHN E. NIEDERHUBER ’60 has been ning and external relations at the state and regional journalism awards named to the group’s Board of American Red Cross, Metro New during her career as a writer and editor. Directors. Niederhuber has served as York region. Executive Vice President and Chief JILL (BAROUDI) NUTTER ’77 has written a Executive Officer of the Institute for MarkLogic® Corporation has announced series of historical romance novels for Translational Medicine of Inova that 1977 Bethany College graduate and the inspirational market under the pen Health System since September 2010. Trustee KEN BADO, a veteran technology name Jillian Kent. “Secrets of the Heart, He worked as Director of the National executive who most recently was the The Ravensmoore Chronicles, Book Cancer Institute (NCI) from 2005 to executive vice president of sales and serv- One” was released on May 3 in both 2010. ices at Autodesk, has been named chief trade paperback and e-book formats. executive officer and a member of the www.jilliankent.com. board of directors.

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Drive With Pride: BRUCE CAMPBELL ’78 was named Flagler Beach interim city manager and was one Introducing the Bethany of the finalists for the permanent job to College License Plate replace former Interim City Manager Bernie Murphy. Campbell’s previous Show how green you really are with the new work includes various management Bethany College license plate. positions at The Timken Company and Available to Bethany College alumni, service as president of Camaco/Lorain employees, students, family members, and friends, County Automotive. the Bethany plate is a custom-designed, special-issue offering for all Class A motor vehicles currently licensed in West Virginia. FRANCES MCDORMAND ’79 received the The Bethany College Office of Alumni and Parent Relations is accepting applications Tony Award for best performance by an NOW for the new plate. We must secure a minimum of 250 applications within the next actress in a leading role in a play for her few months to ensure that the plate is produced. role in “Good People” during the 65th Don’t delay! Applications are available by calling (304) 829-7299, or writing: annual Tony Awards. Office of Alumni and Parent Relations UBS Wealth Management Americas Bethany College (WMA) CEO ROBERT MCCANN ’80 partici- P.O. Box 389 pated in a May 9 “Revitalizing America” Bethany, WV 26032 discussion that featured President Email: [email protected] William J. Clinton and President George W. Bush. The event explored solutions to One Class A vehicle currently registered in West Virginia qualifies for one plate at a a variety of economic challenges facing cost of $70 per plate. If you have more than one vehicle, order as many as you need! the U.S. and also included approximately 400 clients and prospects and 150 Financial Advisors. globe. He is also serving his second term N.C. Wesleyan has named former as president of the Association of Gaming Bethany coach FRANKIE TAAL ’98 the GREG JORDAN ‘81, global managing part- Equipment Manufacturers. new head men’s soccer coach. Taal pre- ner of Pittsburgh-based Reed Smith, was viously served as assistant coach for recently featured in The Lawyer’s May 16 The Health Facilities Association of the Bishops for seven seasons after edition. The article examined Jordan’s Maryland (HFAM) recently announced working almost 10 years as a player successful leadership strategies and the its 2011 new leadership team, which and coach at Bethany. He was a mem- Reed Smith-Richards Butler merger. includes Bethany graduate JOHN ber of the College’s 1994 Division III SPADARO ’91 as board chair. Spadaro National Championship team. MARIE ZUBERBUEHLER DEPARIS ’83 and works as regional vice president of SNY have won another television New Operations for SavaSeniorCare, one of GINA DEBLASIS ’00 was hired as coordina- York Emmy Award. This year’s honors the largest providers of short-term health tion producer by Pikewood Creative. She were for SNY brand commercials that care services in the United States. spent the past seven years at the event DeParis produced. DeParis was also the group in Pittsburgh and brings 10 years 2011 Kalon Scholarship Luncheon speak- The Shelter Island School Board in of experience in consulting, public rela- er at Bethany. New York recently named DR. MICHAEL tions and event planning to the role. HYNES ’94 the district’s new superin- JAMES J. HARRIS ’84 was recently pro- tendent. He previously served as assis- The Laurel Highlands School Board moted to vice president, Real Estate – tant superintendent for curriculum and (Pa.) unanimously approved the hiring Legal for Limited Brands, Inc. located in instruction for the Plainedge School of football coach ZACH JUST ’02, who Columbus, Ohio. District in North Massapequa and as now holds a five-year contract to coach an elementary principal in Center the Mustangs. Berry College has granted full professor Moriches, a school that was named one status to previously tenured DR. ERIC of New York state’s “Rapidly Improving LAUREN DEMUNDO MARTIN ’03 is the prin- MCDOWELL ‘87, a professor in the institu- School Districts” and a “High- cipal at Seton-LaSalle High School in tion’s Department of Mathematics and Performing/Gap-Closing School.” Pittsburgh. Computer Science.

DENISE RITTER ‘98 was featured in the TESSA WEGENER ’04 was recently award- TOM JINGOLI ’90 has been named one of Kappa Delta national magazine The ed a Fulbright Research Grant, which the University of Nevada’s industry exec- Angelos. She was one of nine alumnae will allow her to conduct nine months of utives of the year. A former investigative highlighted in a winter 2011 article research in Vienna, Austria, toward the agent with the New Jersey Division of about blogging. completion of her dissertation. She is a Gaming Enforcement, he now works for Ph.D. candidate in German Studies at Konami, a slot machine company with Georgetown University. more than 200 gaming licenses across the

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STEPHANIE PANAS TROUTEN ’05 has been named the new director of marketing in the Office of Institutional Advancement at West Liberty University.

AMY FURDA ’06 was recently published as second author in the March 10, 2011, edition of Nature. The publication features her research with the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology at the University of Geho, Lewis, Hurl, Sparks Earn Top 2011 Alumni Honors Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the Dr. W. Blair Geho ’60, Dr. Rodney Hurl ’52, Steffanie D. Lewis ’58 and The University of Pittsburgh Cancer Rev. Dennis Sparks ’71 were honored at the annual April 30 Alumni Institute as part of her Ph.D. program. The article documents information Awards Dinner. about an enzyme DNA ligase that is Hurl, of Marysville, Ohio, received the Alumnus of the Year award. An critical to life and used in many aspects emeritus life trustee, Hurl formerly served on the Bethany Board of Trustees of molecular research and genetic engi- from 1971-1997. He provided funding for the College to purchase the building neering. now known as the Judith R. Hurl Education Center, named in honor of his late wife, a 1953 Bethany graduate and member of the College’s first graduat- ing class of education majors. Dr. and Mrs. Hurl also established and con- tributed to the Robert D. and Esther B. Hurl Chemistry Endowment. Recently, Hurl donated his personal library collection of 2,500 volumes to the M A R R I A G E S Jane C. Dively and PETER KEMP ’56 were mar- Phillips Library. A retired physician, he earned his M.D. from the Temple ried on April 30, 2011. University School of Medicine. Erica Michelle Probert and CHRISTOPHER Sparks, the recipient of the Alumni Community Service Award, is an PAUL WILSON ’03 were married on May 26, 2011. ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), and serves as Erica Lee Nelson and BRIAN JOSEPH COOK ’06 executive director of the West Virginia Council of Churches. Through com- were married on April 2, 2011. Bethanians in the munity service related to disasters and as a public policy advocate with a wedding were MICHAEL COOK ’00 and MATT focus on children, the environment, health and corrections, he was a leader CARROLL ’06. in supporting the families who lost loved ones in the 2010 Upper Big Branch ASHLEE RENEE STEPHENS ’08 and Gabriel Mine disaster. In 2008, he was recognized by the National Association of Adam Hashman were married on October 2, 2010. Bethanian ANGELA SCHRIVER ’08 was in Social Workers (West Virginia Chapter) as its Public Citizen of the Year. the wedding party. Other honors and accolades include the Thomas A. Knight Excalibur Award from the Citizens Action Group of Charleston and the West Virginia Lawyers B I R T H S for Justice President’s Award. He is currently working as interim pastor for JENNIFER ANN WIERL ’94 and Paul Josef Wierl the First Christian Church in Ravenswood, WVA. welcomed son Noah on December 17, 2009. Geho and Lewis were honored with the College’s 2011 Alumni Dawn Avolio and BRIAN AVOLIO ’97 welcomed Achievement Awards. Geho, a graduate of Case Western Reserve son Lucas Donald on December 16, 2010. University’s School of Medicine, formerly served on the School’s faculty and JESSICA CUNNINGHAM STILLWELL ’98 and later accepted a position at the Procter and Gamble Company, where he REV. CHRIS STILLWELL ’98 welcomed daughter became the first medically trained research physician. In 1981, he embarked Charlotte Bethany. on a new entrepreneurial phase of his career, founding an early biotechnolo- Bethany Rafail and JOHN RAFAIL ’99 welcomed gy firm, Technology Unlimited, Inc., (TUI) in Wooster, OH. There, he led pio- twins Anna Maria and Luca Vincent on March 29, 2011. neering teams developing novel nanotechnology delivery systems for drugs ranging from insulin to chemotherapies and small molecules for a variety of TIFFANY BAUMGART WILLETTS ’04 and TJ Willetts welcomed daughter Verona Skye on diseases. Since then, he has participated in the formation of a number of August 9, 2010. biotechnology companies, serving as both chief science officer and CEO. He KRISTY MCGREW HOWELL ’04 and TJ HOWELL is a member of the Dean’s Visiting Committee, which provides oversight for ’02 welcomed son Logan Anderson on October Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine. 18, 2010. Lewis was a founding attorney, vice president and secretary of the JESSICA LANIGAN ’07 and DANIEL LANIGAN ’08 International Business Law Firm P.C. (IBLF) in Washington, DC. Since 1999, and welcomed child Rowan on January 31, 2011. she has been general counsel to Baltia Air Lines, Inc. and has also held the office of general counsel, director of legislative affairs and administration in the Helicopter Association International. She taught in Pennsylvania, Washington, Alaska and Connecticut from 1958-1964 and also participated in American friends Service Committee and the International Arbetslag proj- ects in Mexico and Sweden.

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CARA NICOLE (HENRY) HALLDIN ’06 Darlington (S.C.) High School teacher graduated with a Ph.D. from Case JESSICA DESTEFANO ’09 has been named Western Reserve University on May 15, Darlington County School District’s 2011, and will be taking a fellowship Outstanding First Year Teacher. She position with the CDC studying the was selected from among seven nomi- epidemiology of respiratory diseases nees. She also serves as the head vol- at CDC’s National Institute of leyball coach and an assistant girls’ Occupational Safety and Health in basketball coach for the school, as well Morgantown, W.Va. as the student council sponsor.

ELIZABETH A. DAVIS ’07 graduated from CASEY R. GRAY ’09 is the recipient of a the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine, 2011 United Arts Appeal Project Pool Cleveland, Ohio, on May 20, 2011, with grant. The awards are given to non- the degree of Doctor of Podiatric profit organizations and individual Medicine. She will complete a three- artists in Chautauqua County, New year surgical residency in foot and York State. Gray will perform an organ ankle surgery at Memorial Regional recital and provide children’s program- Hospital South, Hollywood, Fl. ming at the First United Methodist Church of Fredonia, N.Y., where he serves as organist.

OBITUARIES IRVIN BOYD ETTER ’54 There are many ways to RUTH MOOS ALEXANDER ’31 passed away on March 11, 2011. passed away on June 23, 2011. PATRICIA JEAN SUMPSTINE MALLORY ’54 Keep in touch H. MYRON KAUFFMAN ’33 passed away on June 6, 2011. passed away on March 21, 2011. DIANE MORRIS ’54 with Bethany MARGARET L. OECHSNER ’34 passed away on January 24, 2011. For the latest news on the College, events and your fellow alumni, visit bethanywv.edu or go passed away on February 5, 2011. CAROLE MCFEATERS GRIFFITHS ’55 directly with this link: PAUL F. WARD ’37 passed away in June 2011. passed away on February 19, 2011. G. HUNTER CULLEY ’38 IRA MARKS ’55 passed away on March 8, 2011. passed away on May 16, 2011. JOHN ROBERT GROVE ’57 DOROTHY MARIE RITTER FUNK ’40 passed away on April 6, 2011. passed away on April 7, 2011. SUSAN SCOTT CELESTIN ’61 TWITTER TOM B. FOULK ’42 passed away on February 2, 2011. Follow Bethany President SCOTT D. MILLER passed away on January 28, 2011. JOHN MONTAQUILA ’61 and Vice President for Institutional CHARLES B. CLUSS ’43 passed away on June 3, 2011. Advancement SVEN DE JONG on Twitter at passed away on February 21, 2011. MADANA P. FULLER ’63 TWITTER.COM. Get an inside glimpse into EDNA ALICE TURNER LEVERIDGE ’44 passed away on May 18, 2011. what takes place on a daily basis at Bethany College. Follow Dr. Miller by selecting passed away on February 25, 2011. JUDITH TORPY WEILAND ’63 BETHANYCOLLEGE1, and follow Sven de passed away on February 27, 2011. JUAN ROBERT SWAIN ’47 Jong by selecting BETHANYCOLLEGE2. passed away on January 14, 2011. JOHN T. KOEDDERICH ’64 You might be surprised by all that occurs on VIRGINIA ANN WHITE ORAM ’48 passed away on January 8, 2011. “The Banks of the Old Buffalo.” passed away on April 17, 2011. GREG LAMAR EMBICK ’67 SIGN UP FOR THE OLD MAIN JOURNAL G. GORDON GUIST ’49 passed away on March 7, 2011. The Old Main Journal, a weekly newsletter passed away on June 12, 2011. MARY FLEMING BOOK ’69 sent electronically, will keep you up-to-date SHIRLEY SMITH SIENER ’49 passed away on March 3, 2011. on campus happenings. To register to passed away on June 27, 2011. DIANE RODEFER DOERS ’69 receive the Old Main Journal, visit JACK BEHRENDT ’50 passed away on April 23, 2011. WWW.BETHANYWV.EDU/INDEX.PHP?CID=2335. passed away on June 6, 2011. 2011. JANET CAROL HERMSMEIER BOSSANGE ’73 E-SCORES passed away on April 13, 2011. RICHARD HOSSENLOPP ’50 You can sign up to receive Bethany Athletic passed away on May 28, 2011. VALERIE LYNN DUFF KENNEDY ’77 results via e-mail or text message the day of RAY FRANCIS JACKSON ’51 passed away on June 5, 2011. the event. It’s an easy process, just follow passed away on February 2, 2011. MELODY ROBINSON ’86 the link below and sign up. It’s a great way to keep yourself up to date on Bethany’s JEANNE DETTMER KALEY ’51 passed away on January 7, 2011. athletic progress. ESCORES.STRETCHINTE passed away on January 27, 2011. JOHN W SHIRLEY ’94 NET.COM/LOGIN.PHP?SCH=BETHANYWV WALTER C. MERTON ’52 passed away on February 6, 2011. passed away on January 12, 2011.

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