NURSING Nursing Graduates Excel in National Professional Exam Message from Iowa Wesleyan College’S President

VOLUME 54, NUMBER 1 APRIL 2012 NURSING Nursing graduates excel in national professional exam Message from Iowa Wesleyan College’s President Dear alumni and friends of Iowa Wesleyan College: The University of Iowa recently reported that their graduation rate for student-athletes is 74 percent and 70 percent for non-athletes. The U.S. Department of Education measures graduation rates over six years. Thus, these figures mean that for a group of 100 freshmen student- athletes enrolling at the University in the Fall 2005, 74 of them graduated in the Spring 2011. By national standards for public universities, these are commendable figures and our colleagues at the University are to be congratulated for their record. To meet the standards of our mission and the values reflected in our traditions, we are pursuing strategies that will help us attain similar graduation rates for all students at Iowa Wesleyan College; however, our intent is to meet and exceed these graduation rates over four years rather than the six-year standard employed by the Department of Education. Attaining this goal motivates the work we are pursuing on campus. The first Saturday in February marked an important date in our pursuit of this goal. On that day, the College hosted its first Scholarship Day as part of the College’s new approach in awarding institutional financial aid. A group of academically and artistically talented students were invited to campus as part of the competition for merit scholarships. These students were followed by peers invited to participate in two more Scholarship Days this spring. Through scholarships applications, interviews with faculty members, the submission of essays and participation in group activities, students competed for a share of the five million dollars of institutional scholarship aid we will award to qualified students. We are committed to identifying, recruiting, educating and retaining students who will succeed at Iowa Wesleyan College. Once enrolled, our students will connect with the people and opportunities that will prepare them for life. The institution of the new academic Honor Code next fall, for example, will provide more opportunities for students to become engaged in the life of the College and to express their values for honesty and integrity. The transition to the NCAA’s Division III non- scholarship athletic programs will permit more students to participate in Iowa Wesleyan’s team sports. Curricular changes will deepen student learning, a process that our internal assessment measures suggest is well underway. These and other efforts we are pursuing will enable the College to serve our students better. After all, preparing “students to succeed in a changing global environment” is the reason Iowa Wesleyan College exists. Every program and activity at Iowa Wesleyan must be weighed against its role in promoting that mission. Measuring our success in meeting that mission begins with our graduation rates. Thank you for your continuing interest in and support for Iowa Wesleyan College. I look forward to seeing you on my upcoming travels to visit alumni and friends around the country. Of course, if you plan to be near Mount Pleasant, please allow yourself time to visit the campus. All of us here welcome the opportunity to show you examples of how we are pursuing our mission. Sincerely, Jay K. Simmons, Ph.D. President APRIL 2012 - VOL. 54, NO. 1 DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION PURPLE & WHITE EDITOR Martha Potts-Bell [email protected] PUBLICATIONS MANAGER PURPLE & WHITE GRAPHIC DESIGNER Sheri Michaels [email protected] CLASS NOTES EDITOR Donna Gardner [email protected] PRESIDENT A mild February day on campus caused students to leave their winter coats behind. Dr. Jay Simmons [email protected] VICE PRESIDENT FOR INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS Jerry Thomas [email protected] Contents DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS Anita Brent Hampton ’71 [email protected] 2 Manning Lecture focuses on faith in action SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR Adam Glatczak Celebrating the College-Church connection [email protected] 3 4 Service projects move into classroom ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Campus News 5 PRESIDENT Jason E. Kiesey ’94 Rev. Joy Carroll served Athletics as the Manning Lecture 8 VICE PRESIDENT speaker. Colin D. Woods ’95 11 Class Notes SECRETARY / TREASURER The Hon. Annette Jennings Scieszinski ’77 MEMBERS The Purple & White is published Christopher V. Beavers ’01 three times a year by Iowa Wesleyan Linda Eggenberger Brockway ’70 College for alumni, friends, faculty Adam C. Creager ’05 and staff. Rick Fischer ’81 Audra Gaddis ’09 Send Class Notes and address David R. Hansen ’72 changes to the Alumni Relations Jennifer Schmitz Kruse ’94 Office, Iowa Wesleyan College, Betty Barney Mullen ’75 601 North Main Street, Dr. Perry O. Ross ’71 Mount Pleasant, IA 52641-1398. Marvin Smith ’00 Ph: 319.385.6215 Mark W. Steffen ’94 Fax: 319.385.6296 Dana M. St. Germain ’02 Email: [email protected] Happy birthday IWC! Students celebrated Founders Website: www.iwc.edu Day in February with a birthday cake during Front cover: Iowa Wesleyan Assistant lunch in the dining hall. Iowa Wesleyan College Professor of Nursing, Lisa Garlock was chartered on February 17, 1842. This year’s Kongable ’86 works with students on Founders Day program featured 170 years of campus 1 techniques for placing an IV. traditions and trivia. April 2012 PURPLE & WHITE FAITH IN ACTION The real “Vicar of Dibley” shares stories of her faith journey he Rev. Joy Carroll lives by the idea of faith in as “Crack City,” where she worked with the poor, the action. homeless, the mentally ill, families and the elderly. T Carroll, one of the first women to be In 1995, the BBC Everyman series made a ordained as priest in the Church of England, has documentary to mark the first anniversary of the discovered many ways to put her own faith into ordination of women to the priesthood. They profiled action. In doing so, she has touched individual lives Carroll’s work in inner-city London and highlighted the in a drug-infested new dimensions that women priests were bringing into housing project and the church. reached an audience of It was during a speech to the General Synod on the millions through her role of women bishops that she caught the attention of involvement with a hit British writer Richard Curtis. He was looking for a role comedy series. model to use in a television series focusing on a woman Carroll presented priest. Carroll consulted with Curtis and British actress two programs on the Dawn French on the first six episodes of the BBC hit Iowa Wesleyan campus comedy, “The Vicar of Dibley.” in February during the “My sermons were coming out in this TV series, Clifford and Maxine which millions of people were watching,” she said. Manning Annual “Together we were able to create a character that people Speaker Series. saw in a positive light. This little foray into pop culture Carroll grew helped to present God and the Church in a more up in the inner-city positive way. Here was some hope, some authenticity – of South London, in the form of a woman. I was proud to be a part of it.” England, where her Carroll married American Jim Wallace and moved Rev. Joy Carroll father was a priest. In to Washington, D.C. She is now commissioner of the 1978, she spent a year working in Haiti with a relief N.W. D.C. Little League and president of the PTA. She and rehabilitation mission, before returning home to is licensed as a priest in the Episcopal Church but is not train to be a teacher. After qualifying with a Bachelor of assigned to a congregation; her role, she explained, is Education, she taught for three years before following a more one of “village priest.” call to train in the ministry. “All of my experiences “When I was called there were no women like me in Faith by itself, if it is I brought to my new life the Church,” Carroll said. “There were no role models. not accompanied in America,” she said. “My I had no way to picture what I could be since it wasn’t by action, is dead. life and ministry took a even possible for women to be priests.” James 2:17 - New new turn and it was about It was while she was in seminary that the Anglican International Version discovering how to use my Church voted to allow women to be ordained as talents and skills in a new deacons. “That started the momentum and the public way.” interest to allow women to serve as priests,” Carroll said. “The challenge for all of us, wherever we find On November 11, 1992, Carroll took part in the ourselves, is to have compassion for those around us. vote that would allow women to become priests. “It was Having compassion means taking responsibility for finally settled,” she said. “We could get back to work someone else’s pain and using our faith to make a without distraction.” difference in the world.” Carroll was ordained in 1994 and, as the youngest elected clergy member of the General Synod, used Carroll has written a book about her life and work as her position to speak on behalf of women and others a priest in the Church of England. The American edition marginalized by church and society. She began her is entitled “The Woman Behind the Collar’’ and has a ministry in an inner-city housing project referred to foreword from the Archbishop of Canterbury. 2 PURPLE & WHITE April 2012 elebrating the college-churchC connection nited Methodist congregations around alumni, students, faculty and staff worship at many southeast Iowa celebrated the first Iowa of these churches.

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