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F R I E N D S U N I V E R S I T Y | FALL 2016 FOCUS FALCON PRIDE REIGNS AT HOMECOMING 2016 Fall was in the air and campus was filled with Falcon spirit during Homecoming weekend — Oct. 7 through Oct. 9. This year celebrated the 50th class reunion for the class of 1966 and the 25th class reunion for the class of 1991. Friends University football alumni of all classes were invited to a breakfast to recognize KCAC Championship teams throughout the years. Future Falcons, current students, alumni, friends and family enjoyed Friends University traditions including the parade, tailgate, carnival, football game, fall ballet and the Singing Quakers. Thanks to everyone who helped make this year’s Homecoming a great success! PHOTOS BY ROMAN RODRIGUEZ AND SARAH SCHNAKE, SENIOR FOCUS CONTENTS VOL. 39 | NO. 1 President Dr. Amy Bragg Carey Focus on ... Pathways Associate Vice President 4 Alumna living in of Marketing and Communications Deb Stockman South Africa assesses Director of Alumni Relations need for Bible Director of Development (Interim) translations Brie Boulanger Director of Marketing 5 Denver’s first and Communications licensed African- Gisele McMinimy American architect Friends University Board of Trustees Michael Bankston 6 Grad student’s project Craig Bay Dr. Amy Bragg Carey leads to national model Marilyn Brown, LCMFT for Via Christi hospitals Dave Depew 6 and others Kim Dugger Attwater Ardith Dunn 8 Computer science Lynn Ghormley ON THE COVER Duane Hansen projects give students Friends University graduate Leatha Hein hands-on experience Lindsey (Alexander) Trusler enjoys Kevin Henderson a prayer hike with other staff Dr. Kevin Hoppock 10 Q&A: Recent graduates Dr. Jace Hyder members during her mission work Dr. Denis Knight talk about experiences in Papua New Guinea. Read more Dr. John Lewis, chair that helped them on page 4. Kelly Linnens land a job Paul Moore COURTESY PHOTO Jana Mullen Ed Roberts Focus magazine is published two times FOCUS ON … PATHWAYS per year by University Advancement; Today’s students have many opportunities to explore 2100 W. University Ave, Wichita, KS 67213. It is published for the alumni various pathways as they pursue their education. Some and friends of Friends University. students know exactly what they want to do and set Friends University does not discriminate on out on their path toward their desired outcome. Others the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs discover unexpected inspiration and are called to a and activities. The following person has been different path than they anticipated. designated to handle inquiries regarding this policy: EEOC/Title IX Coordinator, Friends This issue of Focus explores the various pathways University, 2100 W. University Ave., Wichita, some of our graduates have taken to get to where they KS 67213, (316) 295-5000. Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and a member of are today. We hope you find these pathway stories the North Central Association, 230 S. La Salle inspirational. At Friends University, education is not Street, Suite 7-500, Chicago, IL 60604; www. ncahlc.org; 1-800-621-7440. just about giving our students the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in their profession. It is also about friends.edu helping them find their true calling so they can make [email protected] God’s world a better place for themselves and others. Dr. Amy Bragg Carey President, Friends University FOCUS FALL 2016 | 3 FOCUS ON ... THE WYCLIFFE MINISTRY OF LINDSEY (ALEXANDER) TRUSLER BY DEB STOCKMAN COURTESY PHOTO Lindsey with Papua New Guinean host family more than just getting a degree. “It’s learning who you are and what makes your heart beat faster.” Learning Spanish was just the foundation for what Trusler does now, as she is learning about the Teaching a Bible course in Papua New Guinea many languages of the African regions where she works. “Diversity: I enjoy doing a variety of “Sometimes I get asked why I do things — my job allows me to have time what I do and honestly, there are many COURTESY PHOTO in villages, time behind a computer, reasons. The biggest one is God’s word travel, share with others, be involved is living and active — it’s the most with many different projects — I love Friends University graduate Lindsey important book I could help produce! the diversity of what I get to do and the (Alexander) Trusler joined Wycliffe Bible I am so privileged to get to be a part diversity of the many people I work with! Translators in 2011. After being trained, of giving it to Africa! Below are more “When I travel different places, I realize she started her mission work in Papua reasons I love my job. how blessed I am and a big part of my New Guinea in literacy and scripture “Prayer: I love that I work in a place story began at Friends University. It’s use from 2013 to 2015. During this where you can just walk in and say, important to learn about yourself first time, she lived and worked in remote ‘Hey, can you pray with me?’ It’s been a and how you fit into the broader world. villages where she recorded audio Bibles, huge encouragement to work alongside Personally, I needed to do something that produced literacy materials — and even people who have hearts for God and love was in line with my academic interests but learned to cook over an open fire. connecting with Him in prayer. something that also gave me a chance to Trusler has now switched to a new role make a difference. I can’t think of a better in the process of Bible translation. She COURTESY PHOTO way to do that than to share God’s word.” currently lives and works in South Africa Trusler’s visa is good through August and will travel to Angola and other 2018 so right now her plan is to not southern African countries as a language return to the United States until then. If surveyor to assess which languages still you would like to participate in Trusler’s need Bible translation. ministry through prayer or a financial Trusler graduated from Friends in donation, please visit: www.wycliffe.org/ 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, partner/lindseyrose. studying with Dr. Jerry Smartt. When asked how her education at Friends has helped her in her current position, Lindsey with Papua New Trusler said her education was so much Guinean pastor’s family 4 | FRIENDS UNIVERSITY and its architecture program started him down a path that took him to Ohio and then to Denver in 1958. There he became Colorado’s first licensed African- American architect. “Architecture is a field, a career, a discipline that opens one’s mind to so many things. History, travel, buildings — of course — and COURTESY PHOTO art,” said Henderson. He and Gloria, who died in 2014, raised a son, Lynn, and Henderson worked at several firms before joining the DISCOVERING Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1963, working on projects across the country. He also designed his home in Denver, an HIS LIFE’S WORK: open, glass-filled house that reflects one John Henderson, ’48, Denver’s first of his inspirations, modernist architect licensed African-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe who espoused “less is more.” BY BRIAN WHEPLEY Architecture is just one facet of Henderson. A longtime music fan, Growing up in Wichita, small in stature against segregation and played a key role he’s seen jazz greats everywhere from but sharp as could be, John Henderson in the national fight for civil rights. To west Wichita roadhouses to New York wasn’t always sure he could cut it, but he support his wife, Gloria, and himself, he nightclubs. He delightfully recalls was always sure that he would try. was a servant for an Eastborough family. partying with Count Basie when the jazz Blinded in his right eye at a young age, In a sign of the equality that needed to legend, unable to stay in Wichita’s white- “Old Skinny Jr. Henderson” memorized be won, his rich boss offered the freshly only hotels, spent the night at the home an eye chart and “faked” his way into the minted 1948 college graduate a servant’s of a friend. Army during World War II because he job “for life.” He and Gloria traveled the world, wanted to do his duty. “There was no way I was going to be a seeing Hong Kong, Japan, much of After the war, he enrolled at Friends houseboy, washing windows and serving Europe and Africa soon after apartheid’s University, fulfilling the vow his mother, people for the rest of my life, after fall. The trips fed a venture beginning Olympia, made after he’d left another spending five years at a university,” said after his retirement in 1981, a business college to enlist: “Boy, I don’t give a darn Henderson, echoing a spirit derived from called African-American Trading Co., what you do, but the first of September his mother, a maid, who told clients, “I that sold art and objects from around you’re going back to somebody’s school.” will wash, iron, clean your house and the world but was a “community center” “I didn’t realize I would be able to prepare your meals, but I don’t wash until its 35-year run ended last year. graduate from Friends,” said Henderson, windows and scrub floors. My name is There, regulars and newcomers alike now 95 and a resident of Denver for Olympia; don’t call me ‘Girl.’” gravitated to Henderson.