COUEGE BUllETIN· OCTOBER 1989
HE EARTH is 'he Lord's and the full T ness thereof, the world and those who dweJ! therein. And yet. 0 Lord, although the whole earth is yours, often you have ordained particular locations where you have promised to manifest your presence to those who seek your face. This very site where we are now gathered nearly one hundred years ago was dedicated 10 God for the holy purpose of Christian education. And in the offices, halls and classrooms erected here you did indeed make yourself known to your seek ing people-in Crystal Ra rk's botany lab , in Gordon Stockin's spiritual application of a Latin proverb, in Ray Hazlett's analysis of a novel, Claude Ries's exposition of Scrip ture. And to small circles of students pray ing for renewal on campus; in counseling situations; and when two young people, holding hands and praying earnestly and often in chapel services in what we now cal! Fancher Aud. So we gather again on this same site now before this modern, efficient educa tional facility which is at once the fruit of the skillful labors of your devoted servants but also your gracious gift to us. We offer it back to you. We dedicate it-and our selves-to the continued purpose of education which is truly Christian .. Warren Woolsey College BuDeti. (USPS 252·220) October 1989 Vol. IJ(), No. 4 Editor Dean Liddick Editorial Assistant Cynthia Machamer Sports William Greenway Editorial Consuhant Richard Wing
Houghton M;/Ieuls the magazine of Hough· ton College, Houghton, NY 14744-9989. It is published for alumnI lind friends of the college lour limes ~ r ly. in January. March, June, and October. Letters, alumni news, unsolicited mllnu' scripts. and black and white photos Mil! welcomed for possible inclusiorl in the maga zine, AddTeu these and c~nges of address 10 the magIIline In care of the editor at the ~. dress above. Wnnen permission i$ r~uired 10 reproduce Houghton Milieu in whole Of in ~. Houghton College admits students of a ny race, color lind n.alional 01' ethnic origin. The college does not discriminate on thete bases, or on the basis of sex in any coJleg~Hld ministered program.
INSIDE: Fanfare, Ceremony. Founders' Day/President's Report The Dog Died/An Afflnnation/ ln God We Trust/Houghton in the '80s / Alumni in Action/ Sports/ Campus News/ Homecoming
COVER: New academic building, professor Woolsey offe~ dedkatory prayer, ond representative Facolty who tought in predeces sor Fancher and Woolsey Halls-Claude RU?s, Cryslal Rork, F. Gordon Stockin "Never mind the president, where's the tuba player?" Fanfare, Ceremony, Praise Open New Academic Building AST MINUTE mixups were overcome immediate thoughts of commitments to Herbert Stevenson and David Alexander, L and the brass ensemble began to play. be met, and half formed visions of times chairman of the President's Advisory Called from their early morning routines to be mingled in the minds of participants Council on Excellence. Alumnus Olson by the music, several hundred students, in both events. At the dedication , vice Clark mortared the stone in place. faculty and staff gathered in the chill mor president for finance Kenneth Nielsen Speaking antiptionally, component ning mists of September 4th for ribbon read a list of 18 items-publications, a members of the audience intoned "Ex culling ceremonies before the first ever video, audio tape, a T-shirt among pressions of Purpose," a thoughtful litany classes to be held in the new academic them-being placed in a lime capsule composed by poet-in-residence Jack building. Professor Warren Woolsey's behind the cornerstone. The cornerstone Leax. Wesleyan general superintendent eloquent prayer (excerpted on the cover) itself, inscribed with words drawn from H.C. Wilson offered a dedicatory prayer set the tone for that occasion, and for the Psalm 78, read : "That the generation to and alumna Velma Harbeck Moses Hew follow-up dedication ceremonies October come might know.. that they should son gave the. benediction. 7 during Homecoming. put their confidence in God." Setting the On September 4th eager students had Distant memories of voices now stilled , stone in place were board chairman surged into the building to find class-
Ribbon cutters are vice prf!31dent NlelK n, education and reocreotion division choir Dr. Edno Howord ond senate president Thomos Fen ner. Below: New AV facilities Include camP41 ter genfl"oted dup/lcol/ng services.
UJt: Aboue, otrium during dedlcatfon reception, below; ot tendeu enjoy String trio', playing. Above, brass ell$emble and pro/elnor Greenwoy and student senate president Fenner with the "time copsule~
Milieu - October 198913 rooms which still exuded the aromas of laboratory and its video rooms where At Founders' Da v newness. The October crowd was dif foreign language telecasts were playing. ferent : alumni and other friends came to There were explanations of the word pro see what their gifts had wrought. to see if cessing center and psychology lab. Some Musician, Motivator, any evidences of their earlier passages made the climb - or took the elevator endured. ride- to the fourth floor home of the Contractor Honored Carpeted halls and classrooms were a religion and philosophy division and its More than a tradition , Founders' Day surprise. Few could resist the dramatic CE resources library. Everyone sampled offers valuable bearing checks for present openness of the four-story atrium, Others the hors d' oeuvres. and projected action. But in recent years were captivated by the electronic wizard Only God knows how many echoed student participation slipped badly, Hap ry of the telelink room and the media professor Woolsey's prayer- "We dedi plly, an infusion of new ideas ranging center, Many explored spacious class cate [this buildingJ- and ourselves- to from pre-Founders' Day orientation rooms, assorted study and seminar the continued purpose of education chapels, to divisional receptions before rooms, or peered into the language which is truly Christian." the event, faculty seated with their stu dent majors, and across-the-board com· munity representation on the platform, yielded a full house on October 6 when Don Osgood '52 stepped to the lectern to present his address "Reading, Writing and Revitalizing." Osgood. for 30 years an IBM ex ecutive, now heads The Career Perfor mance Group in Pound Ridge , NY. He told his audience that at corporations, in education, in medicine and other fields "people are losing their way. , . revealing a certain desolation in life ," He con tinued, "From elementary school to age 80 we need revitalizing which includes head learning and heart learning. " Drawing from the revitalizing program he administers to executives nationwide, Osgood enumerated "seven altitudes that will make or break the rest of your life (from family to careerJ." He listed these succeSSively as "idealistic, frustrated, de fiant , resigned, aware, decisive, commit ted," In his five-day seminars, Osgood asks attendees to honestly examine their attitudes. Changed attitudes produce personal vulnerability which encourages honesty in others. "An organization, a church, a county, a marriage, a nation changes- one person at a time," he observed, then concluded, "Christ's at titude affects a ll of us ... We are to be the Th e dark blue atrium carpeting wo, couered with people and a buffet table at the dedication, but the messengers in helping others, and in do 'poce I, bare now, awoiting the omool oJfumlture looking much like the somple below: seatingJor 22 on rose colored upholstery, decoratIve masonry planters and end tables In the atrium, more seuting In ing this with His cup in our hands, we are 'wo a/coues off 'he a trium', second jloor. revitalized." Thesefumishings will be the gift oj the D oss oj 1938. Howord Andrus, a retired Co~" Uniuenity In presenting Osgood with an honorary Joculty mem ber, (lnd president oj the Closs oj '38, explained the ",oject', genesIs. In October oj 1987 doctor of letters degree, president he wrote closs members about 'heIr upcoming 5O-yeor reunion, asking them what sort oj program they wanted (lnd ' hould the clou consider an onniver'$(lfy gift to the co/lege, In b/- monrh/y letters Chamberlain noted that after leaving /etJdlng up to the reuni(ln Haword offered cI(lss news and to/ked up the gift Ideo. "They got excited Houghton Don attended Centenary Col oJter the second or third letter, " he recalled. Meonwhlle, he and classmates Herb and Morg(lret lege, Maryland University and C. W. Post Stevenson- Herb is Houghton's board choirmon-asked the college Jar gift options. College. Then at IBM he founded and OJ 81 orlgln(ll members, 14 had died, but 3S aI/ended the reunIon, Th e class set a September '88 managed the firm 's Southeast Manage deadline Jar contributions. Eventually 43 d oss members gaue. Lost M(ly they chose the atrium fur nlturefrom jive options. Howord I. conulnced that hi. frequent letters and the project motivoted the ment School, then became district per reunion ', . uccess. sonnel manager for three m id - ~n Left 10 right: EJI.rworth Decker, Dono/d Osgood, Dr. Chomberioin, Dr. Annqt Speaker Osgood. The plot}onn porty _ .e/ectfti 10 represent 0/1 community constituenciet:. states. He began his own fir m in 1986. Chamberlain noted that while Dr . Fin A Houghton trustee, Osgood also ney's skill as an organist made him a attendance, as were three of his sons and serves on the boards of the Christian Fellow of the American Guild of their families . Herald Association, the Christian Em · Organists, "We were especially moved Retired Elmira contractor Ellsworth bassy to the United Nations and CBN and thrilled when your facile feel and Decker, who built nine Houghton bulld· University. As a motivational speaker he fingers led us to worship God in joyous ings between 1951 and 1973, received has appeared on national tv and radio awe while we sang the final verse lof the college's first Distinguished Service talk shows. His seven books range from hymns] in unison to your magnificent Award during the convocation. President The Familv and the Corporation Man to 'hymnprovisalions.' " Chamberlain told the assembly that a his latest, Fatherbond, which recounts The present college organist, Dr . long friendship with the college grew oul experiences with his children, including Susan Klotzbach, brought a celebratory of Mr. Decker's conversion experience in relationships with his father and one son, recital o n the Holtkamp organ on Satur May of 1948. This occurred during a both of whom recently died of cancer. day afternoon. Now SQ, Dr . Finney gave Rochester dinner meeting at which Leading off a series of awards which her performance his standing ovation. At Houghton emeritus President Stephen followed Mr. Osgood's address, Dr. that occasion, fine arts division chairman W. Paine was speaker. Chamberlain announced that effective Dr . Ben King said that Dr . Finney is What began as a personal fri endship immediately the college was naming the primarily responsible for the quality of grew into regard for the institution. 1972 Holtkamp organ in Wesley Chapel Houghton's faculty and music curric ulum Chamberlain continued. "For the earlier for the man behind its construction , Dr. buildings Mr . Decker established Hough· Charles H. Finney, emeritus fine arts divi ton Construction Company which en sion chai rman and organist·in-residence. abled him to provide jobs for students The president told the assembly that while saving the college money." For Dr . Finney joined the faculty 43 years each project Decker charged only for his ago, and that in 1956 he'd begun plan expenses, never for time. The college ning for the organ and Wesley Chapel. once named him "donor of the year" for Chamberlain explained, "Wesley Chapel the equity gi ft of two supermarkets. was originally envisioned as a plain rec The president said that Decker sent tangular facility. [Dr. Finney) worked o ne son to Houghton Academy, another with organ designer Walter Holtkamp, to the college, and fostered another and the eminent acoustical fi rm of Bolt, friend's interest in the college which Berenak and Newman to create instead a resulted in a succession of gifts. properly engineered concert hall featur· Dr. Annqr ploys the Holtkomp (now the Annqr Concluding he told Decker: "Deprecat· ing an organ of 61 ranks and 3,153 01gon) J01 on early '60s conce" . ing your skills and generosity you've said, pipes." The resulting halt and organ today. For his championing of serious 'whatever I've done. I was glad to do.' "epitomize the pursuit of excellence music King told the audience, "Yo u are Thank you for your example of how God which was your hallmark during 33 years in the presence of one of God's great uses a willing heart to further His of service at Houghton, 27 of them as men , a true founder." More than a dozen program .. fin e arts division chairman ." of Dr . Finney's former students were in Milieu - Oclober 198915 Academic preparedness was evi 1989 Presidenfs Report Highlights denced by SAT average scores of 528 TCHED into the cornerstone of Houghton's new academic bUilding are the verbal, 561 math. Forty new students E Psalmist's words: "That the generation to come might know . .. that they should were either valedictorians, salutatorians, put their confidence in God." These words reflect Houghton College's mission and its or National Merit Finalists. mission statement, which provides the framework for this report. That statement (note Because Houghton dramatically in bold italic excerpts) reiterates historic commitments, refines current purposes and creased institutional assistance, more charts the future course. financial aid went to students last year than ever despite reduced or inflation ACADEMICS-"An educational pro centers and continuing education oppor eroded public aid for education and in gram oj academic excellence, ground tunities for Buffalo clergy . creasingly complex eligibility and ap ed in evangelical Christianity." New York State has approved and plicable processes. Last fall a New York State Department registered our accounting program and In church relations, three Houghton of Education appointed team evaluating two other majors are pending ap teams logged 20,000 miles last year wit Houghton's professional teacher educa proval-a social work program in nessing, providing music and a range of tion program praised "the pervasive cooperation with Buffalo State College, camp ministries. Because of the director's study ethic which creates a learning en and an inter-disciplinary major in interna visits with many New York pastors, more vironment at Houghton which is superior tional studies. Special commendation is of them visited campus. to that found on most college campuses." due Dr. Bence who, in addition to spear ALUMNI RELATIONS-"To apply They also commended the faculty for heading these activities, provided out Christian principles to life experiences." concretely integrating academic ex· standing leadership as acting president experiences. " cellence with faith and life. during my spring 1989 sabbatical leave. Alumni relations director Richard Alder Last year Houghton moved its pro man writes: "I have one of the most re gram to assist students not fully prepared COLLEGE RELATIONS-"Sustain a warding positions on campus as I regular for the academic rigor of college from scholarly community oj believers." ly get to see the result of the ministry thai Buffalo to Houghton. This change makes As executive director for college rela goes on at Houghton College." available more students to serve as tutors tions, Wayne MacBeth's responsibilities More than 1,100 alumni and other as well as a larger support community for encompass admissions, financial aid, friends attended regional chapter students who need help. conferences, church relations, public in meetings last year. Summer Alumni During the past year computer assisted formation and public relations. Weekend brought 350 guests to campus. instruction was used to enrich and Admissions experienced a banner year More than 250 persons , including thE enliven sight singing, psychology, in 1988 with 387 new students enrolled, 10-year reunion class-participated in mathematics, writing and business. Im Houghton's largest incoming group in Young Alumni Weekend. Those persom proved video learning was implemented seven years. The present student body recognized as Distinguished Alumni 0 ) in foreign language study and the new includes 100 third culture kids , more designated Alumnus of the Yea) academic building's media center pro minority students than ever, and 25 demonstrate what it means to serVE mises to further accelerate effective use of students with Salvation Army back Christ and mankind as scholar-servants ir educational technology. grounds. A growing number of students vocations where studying at Houghtor Under vice president Bence's leader come looking for , or having participated in, short-term mission experiences. helped to make them more effective. ship the faculty took major steps to "I remember when I was at Houghtor develop new programs. An adult degree and ... " Such stories convey an impor· completion program will increase tant message about the college to th~ dramatically , Houghton's capacity to children of Houghton alumni in 70 coun serve non-traditional students. This new tries. Consequently, 15 percent of cur program gains significance in light of ac· rent enrollees are second, third, even fim tion taken by the General Board of Ad generation students. " ministration of The Wesleyan Church re questing Houghton to develop Christian FINANCE-"Share its resources ministry programs at the Buffalo Subur· jacilities, and programs." ban Campus. Both programs will operate Under vice president for finance Ken from there and should strengt~en and New administrotiue SUN micro-computer combines neth Nielsen Houghton College has com complement each other. uersatility, speed and an on-going consultatiue pleted a decade of operating with ba Houghton's award of a prestigious and relationship with the manufacturer. lanced budgets-though this year' competitive grant by the Council for the surplus was a razor thin $3,000. Advancement of Private Higher Educa A providential phone call-after thl tion will enable the college to provide computer search committee had reviewe· tutorial programs for inner-city youth, many proposals in its efforts to select tho consulting services for early childhood best software for our future managemen 6/ Mi/ieu -October 1989 information system-led to Houghton's $251,580 for student scholarships and an selection by Information Associates and encouraging 357 first-time donors par Sun Micro Systems to be a beta sight for ticipated in it. Foundation giving totaled development and application of Informa $1 ,560,655, a 144 percent increase over tion Associate's education software for the previous year. small liberal arts colleges. Over the sum BUFFALO SUBURBAN CAMPUS mer the college gained some of the best "Endeavor to be responsive to th e college and university computer software needs of The Wesleyan Church, th e available at a very reasonable price. church at large, and the global com Leadi ng campus improvements was munity." completion of the new academic build Two developments in Buffalo sym ing. Other noteworthy items were: fiber bolize Houghton's responsiveness. First optic installation , improved street was awarding of the aforementioned lights, fire and smoke alarm replacement, CAPHE grant for educational and service work on an improved telephone system. programs to be operated out of the A major challenge in the face of the col former Saint Mary of Sorrows Church on lege's commitment to fund student finan Buffalo's east side. Second is campus ap cial aid to 8.8 percent of its $1l.5 million proval of the aforementioned adult budget, is to improve the college's remun degree completion program. Bachelor of eration of faculty and staff which, though Science degrees in organizational studies markedly increased, continues to fall be will be conferred upon those who acrue hind that offered at similar institutions. the requiSite 124 hours of credit. Pending STUDENT DEVELOPMENT - "Apply state approval, course work could begin as early as next summer. such truth to daily living." Addressing Buffalo community leaders at cere Under the lei'ldership of community monies launching restoration of Saint Mary of Sorrows CONCLUSION volunteers, Houghton's Koinonia disci Church where Houghton College will operate classes, Thanks to board chairman Dr . Herbert President Chamberlain said, "In his 'I Have a Dream' pleship program set new att~ndance speech, Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of a faith with Stevenson and the trustees for my records as the year progressed. which 'we will be able to hew out of this mountain of second-semester sabbatical. What they Societal pressures tend to produce despair a stone of hope.' The King Urban Life Center encouraged and permitted, Houghton's conflicting values among college-age will be such a stone of hope for the people and city excellent administrative team made of Buffalo." adults. Consequently, many students ar Anticipating the start of a $3 million restoration, possible. Special thanks to Dr. Bence for rive at Houghton with emotional pro workmen re-hang a furbished main door of the serving as acting president. blems or problem-filled backgrounds. century-old landmark. It was a wonderful experience to read , Last year about 23 percent of the write, reflect and generally renew my students benefitted from one or more of DEVELOPMENT - "A cost within the skills as a scholar and my vision as an ad the college counseling center services. In reach of students from all economic ministrator. I had opportunities for doing fact, the center carried a waiting list strata. " and dreaming, to interact with alumni throughout the year, despite the availa To keep a Houghton education within around the world and appreciate the bility of small group sessions. the reach of needy and deserving quality, variety and selflessness of their Nearly 800 Houghton students were students, the Houghton family invested service. Conversations with them made it housed in college facilities . Although re generously to make fiscal year 1988-89 clear that they had absorbed something cent graduates have commented favora our greatest giving year ever. Vice presi very special and precious during their bly on the quality of residence life , a six dent for development G. Blair Dowden Houghton years. Such committed people year plan has begun to enhance living en reported gifts totaling $3,371,275. This is are the college's greatest strength. By fan vironments . Creative housing options will a 20 percent increase over 1987-88, the ning the flam e of confidence in one include language and humanities houses. previous record year for giving. another, thereby retaining the spirit of joy In the current year, more comprehen With help from alumni, other friends, in our work, we can thrive institutionall y sive, spiritual development programs are corporations and foundations, The Cam and indiVidually. being promoted in the residence halls. paign for Houghton exceeded While our kn owlege is about the past, While intra murals are the core of $15,000,000. That total includes our decisions are about the future. That Houghton's athletic programs, the col $155,493 above the $4.5 million needed dilemma demands respect for tradition, lege is well represented to other colleges to qualify the academic building project for even as we implement responsible and universities via the varsity programs a Kresge Challenge Grant by their change. I reiterate my commitment to in 10 sports. Houghton women dominat December 1, 1989, deadline. Houghton's mission. We move forward ed the academic NCCAA All-American The capital by phone program generat with full confidence that truly educated team while representing the district in the ed three-year campaign gifts totaling Christians seek to serve rather than to national championship tournament. $511 ,634. Phonathon '89 raised dominate those about them. Milieu-October 198917 The Dog Died (Why Don't American Men Sing Anyn "A society gives its support and its money to those causes and things il
EFLECTIONS on why R American men don't do much singing these days brought to mind one of Abe Lincoln's droll stories. He called it "The Dog Died", and it ran thus: The lord of the manor returned from a trip one day, to be greeted by an elderly servant. "How is everything, Joe?" asked the master. "Be fine ", he replied , " 'Cept duh dawg died ." "Well , that's too bad. How did it happen?" "Took sick fum eatin' duh putrified hossflesh", came the laconic response. (More excitedly) "What putrified horseflesh?" "Oat be fum when duh barn burn' down." "Good heavens, how did the barn burn?" "She go up fum sparks throw'd off by duh house." (Wildly , now) "Great Scott, you mean the house burned? How?" The house, it turned out, I am a singer. So is my report on that important item trast to the experience of my had caught fire when wife. We met in the college concealed the true scope of own growing-up years in candles had been set too choir and, as they say, have the disaster, so the lack of Allentown, a small blue-collar close to the parlor drapes. been making beautiful music music among men is-I city in eastern Pennsylvania, These were the candles ever since. Although singing think-merely symptomatic during the late 1950s. round the casket of the is not my livelihood, it has of deeper problems within The A Capella Choir of master's mother, who had been at the center of my en our society and culture. It is our 2500-student public passed on from a stroke tire adult life , and I have at this deeper level that I school was a robust group of which she suffered on devoted much time and hope to lead a modest ex some 80 singers. Aspirants hearing the news that her study to it. I love it. It pro ploration. auditioned for a place, and the son's wife had run off with vides me an artistic expres cadre of young men included the stable boy. The wife sion so profound and so The Ghost of Music Past a healthy contingent from the had done this when she valuable that I know I shall "Where have all the young athletic community of the learned that the crops had fail to communicate its signifi men gone. . ." ran a line school, and not merely from been destroyed by the tor cance to non-musicians. from a pop song of the '60s. the "long-haired" sector. Our nado, and foreclosure was And this is precisely why I Today that is the question director, Miss Ruh, was a imminent. On and on ran <;1m concerned about modern being asked everywhere by crusty and energetic the mounting crescendo of American men not singing: I school, church, and com character, not five feet tall, disaster, all initially con know the power and value of munity choir directors, by whose career reached back cealed in the servant's in music, and too many are music teachers, and by before 1920, and whose past nocuous statement about missing out on it. Singing is leaders of amateur theater students included many the only event that really at the top of my list, just as and opera groups. Men are parents (and even grand mattered to him: 'The dog "the dog" was at the top of staying away from these parents) of her present died." Joe's list. But even as his enterprises in droves, in con- students. She did not hesitate 8/ Milieu-October 1989 ore?) which it truly believes." by Elwood E. Zimmerman
The Ghost of Music Present restoration of daily devo teaching. Something impor That was then, and this is tionals to the classroom. I tant has happened to our now. My daughter spent her believe that there is cause society that has affected the high school years in Mont and effect, but that these attitudes men hold toward gomery County, Maryland, "true believers" have them vocal music, and I think it which has advertised itself reversed. The melancholy se merits a look by thoughtful widely as having the "finest quence actually began when people everywhere, including school system in the United SOciety became estranged Christians. States". Her school choir was from the Life of Faith. Then a pitiful group of about 20- . its interest in the Bible and A Crisis of Masculinity including only two or three prayer withered . Finally, In the first place, it seems young men-from a student these empty relics were deftly clear that the art of singing is body of over 1500. Their excised from the schools by deep in the throes of an director was a timid , well an officialdom alert to every identity crisis in the United meaning woman who, fear nuance of public attitude. States. Or, more preCisely , it ing to offend, had selected a The schools are the mirror of is locked within a larger male repertOire which generally ig society, reflecting what the identity crisis . Somehow, nored most of the great public wants. They are the what we now quaintly call choral works (too religious) , cart, not the horse. "traditional" singing has been and concentrated on such Just so, the collapse of the branded "wimpy" or unman modern classics as "Sleigh teaching of vocal music in the ly : an activity not suitable for Ride", "Frosty the schools is the symptom-the real men. Snowman", and "Feelings visible sign-of a more Meanwhile, "working {wo-wo-wo feelings) ." general collapse of interest in men's" pop-singers like Bruce My wife and I wept tears of this art throughout society: in Springsteen, sporting two helpless frustration as we sat particular, a collapse prin days' growth of beard and through these vapid and shal cipally among the male wearing blue jeans, hoarsely low performances, remem population. The adult choral scream out "Born in the bering those years when our and opera groups in my USA" and other timeless own artistic souls were stirred community never have classics. Or we find Mick Jag and challenged by composers enough male members, and ger and the Rolling and directors of genuine those we do have are nearly Stones-in skin-tight trousers, greatness. Neither of our sons practically naked to the navel attempted to participate in (or lower), and shiny with We rehearsed during the vocal musical activities in sweat-panting out the sen first period of every day their school, having seen the "The public schools are sual lyrics to "I Can't Get No under Miss Ruh's rod of iron , poverty of their sister's ex (uhh) Satis-Fakshun". (Has a and our Christmas and spring perience. the mirror of society, problem ever been stated concerts rang with the reflecting what the public more clearly?) These, and great choral works: "The Education: Cart or Horse? myriads like them, enjoy Heavens are Telling", Like so many other things wants. They are the cart, enormous popularity among passages from "The in our society, today, the not the horse." both men and women. The Messiah", "Glorious is Thy teaching of vocal music fact that they do a form of Name, a Lord", and many seems to be collapsing, and "singing" is clearly less signifi others. As I sit here typing some are inclined to see this cant than the grossly-exag these words my spine tingles as the root problem. The always less accomplished gerated machismo of their and my throat constricts with question is which is the cart, than the female members. deportment and delivery . emotion at the memory of and which the horse, just as Operas, in particular, are They are, in fact , "men the sound, the comraderie, in the case of the Bible very difficult to perform with a message". To a and the wonderful inspiration reading/ prayer issue, so without a robust and capable population whose masculine of Miss Ruh's conducting. I much in the news these days. cadre of men. Our amateur identity is deeply confused can still hear her shouts of Many very sincere folk company is forever beating they deliver definition and pleasure and encouragement believe that the removal of the bushes for men who can stark clarity of what it means as we rattled the windows Bible-reading and prayer really sing, but never has a to be a man: rough, rawbon with the music of the recitation from the public problem finding women ed, unkempt, overtly sexual, masters. schools has done moral harm singers of very high quality. strident, with more than a to our society, and that the So the problem is clearly not hint of meanness and cruelty. answer to society's ills is the localized to the schools or to This message finds fertile Milieu-October 1989/ ' thought they needed to buy appeals to some other deep their son a personal com need or lack within him (cf ., puter so he could "hack" his the starvation for masculine way to fortune as a com identity, noted earlier) . puter wizzard and en Gone, then, in a mad chase trepreneur. Where are a ll after dollars and "Satis those guitars and PCs now? Fakshun" is the all-but The odd case excepted, they forgotten joy of mastering an are gathering dust in closets art for its own sake: of sing and storerooms. Why? ing a song well , of painting a "Th e traditional artistic pursuits-except for th e Because the bright promise beautiful picture, of writing rare case where they can make him rich - are of the fad tarnished when lyrical poetry or lucid prose. no longer a respectable dimension of th e the fadists discovered that it was going to take a long Treasures, Culture, modern American man." time and a lot of hard work and the Heart before any kind of market A society gives its support able proficiency could be and its money to those ground in a SOCiety stripp€d be surprised to learn that a achieved. What was wanted causes and things in which it of and starved for the time writer, a scientist, and a was a quick return , not the truly believes. Christ, honored, traditional symbols si nger of operatic roles from arduous discipline of serious Himself , put it so SUCCinctly : of masculinity built up over Haendel, PUCCini , and study, practice, and applica "Where your treasure Is, millenia of western civiliza Gilbert and Sullivan was also tion. there will your heart be , tion: wife, children, home, a college li nebacker and I! should be no surprise also." Once we were a peo family, faith , sacrifice, baseball player who stands that vocal music-the mastery ple who valued truth, beau courage, and honor. For two six feet tall and weighs 200 of which , after many long ty, and the mastery of generations we have been pounds: a lifelong and still years of toil and sacrifice, demanding disciplines. We busily tearing down these active athlete who has never can hardly supply a decent paid people well to reinforce symbols, and replacing them accepted the perverse living for even the most and develop these values in with the counterfeits of pro cultural dichotomy which has talented of men- has been our you ngsters, and we misc uit y, license, self arisen between masculin ity pitched onto the scrapheap practiced them , too. So gratification, greed, con and real singing. in the modern USA . When a when our children grew up sumerism, the "single Success and the Man pursuit can show no im our values became theirs. lifestyle", and now even But I think the problem mediate material return to a The arts and other "altru "legitimized" homosexuality. between man and music you ng man, he tends to re isms" thus obtained a certain The measure of a man to goes deeper than even the ;ect it out of hand, unless it continuity in our culture. In day seems to be entirely issue of masculinity, just as our naivete we thought thelT defined by his capacity for the burned barn was only immutable, like the Bible . drink. his competitiveness, the next in Joe's catalog of This continuity of cultural his sexual prowess, his catastrophe. Despite the "ad and moral value began to physique, and his ability to vances" of modern break down early in this cen inflict pain on opponents in feminism , it is still the male tury under unbearable pres contesls of "sport" . The sector of our society which is sure brought by the con traditional artistic pur most keenly tuned to what it lIuence of Global War, the suits-except for the rare takes to "make it big" in the alli ed doctrines of Evolution case where they can make world. Men always go where and Humanism, the wide him rich - are no longer a the money is-especially, spread rejection of Biblical respectable dimension of the where the fast money is. In moral absolutes, and the modern American man. many ways we have become maturation of the media of It is, in fact, indicative of the quintessential culture of mass communication. Out 01 the extent of this identity the fast buck. as reflected this cultural torrent has crisis that I must now, for even .in the fads our young emerged modern man: a the sake of credibility wi th people- particularly, our creature cut off from the even the readers of a "Chris young men- pass th rough. taproot of his past and from tian" magazine, clarify where A few years ago every the memory of beauty and I fit, personally, on this scale teen-aged boy wanted a truth, who values only of modern "masculinity". guitar, so he could become a wealth and what it can buy Those who vis ualize a wan, famous rock star. More him today. Anthropologists bookish 130-pounder may recently, every family may someday call him "Im- mediate Man". In the full measure of what it lost his experience with God. means. We have the Truth; economy of his brave new means that "The dog died." His soul does not resonate we know its power; it gives world the appearance of a Modern man does not sing to the notes of great music us the song. We can help thing now assumes greater because he no longer has a because it is empty. He still make American men value than the thing itself. song inside, which is where breathes, but is already a indeed, men every Excellence has given way to fossil. where- sing again. flashiness; fame is preferred to honor; complying with the We regard the wreckage of this catastrophe as our cosmeticity of "ethical stan "Modern man does not Employed by SAlC, Elwood Zim dards" takes precedence bewildered lord of the manor mennan '64. is task leader for over genuine honesty; form sing because he no might have done. Replacing software development related to reigns over substance. Do the "dog" will not begin to Star Wars. He and his wife, Cerol longer has a song inside." repair the full extent of the (Wells '62) are active in the Aspen these look like the signs of a Hill (Rockville. MD) Wesleyan decadent society? Any damage, which is to say that Church which they helped to thoughtful individual can see a federally-funded program found. They sing in church and that they are. (If we haven't to help young men learn to local opera productions. They a true song must come from. sing will not bring things have three children. the youngest hit rock boltom yet, I'm not of whom is a junior at Houghton. sure that I want to be He is wounded not in his round. Men must be around when we do.) vocal chords but in his heart. repaired from the inside out, He has lost his connection not the reverse. Christians, Th e Song is Gone with the traditional, the pro~ nearly alone in modern So finally we can take the ven, the excellent. He has society, know what this
An Affirmation-In Response to Elwood Zimmerman by Ben R. King, FIne Arts Division Chainnan
ACK OF MUSIC among men is ... at about 85. Visual art has experienced Western cultivated tradition, on "high" or L symptomatic of deeper problems within dramatic growth in majors, thanks to a "serious" art. our society and culture." With that observa fine faculty and the new Stevens Art This altitude can, I think, be Iraced to a tion, and in his follOWing exegesis, Dr. Studios. However, in terms of male in couple of cultural divorces. The first of Zimmerman has hit the nail squarely on the volvement in singing, we have unfor these took place in the 19th century and head. It is heartening to have this analysis tunately kept pace with the nation at was (at least indirectly) the cause of the come from an amateur (in the original and large. Currently there are only four male second, which occurred during what best sense of that word). voice majors; this year, for the first time we've come to call "The Sixties," that It is indisputable that the men in music since I have been at Houghton, men's period from roughly 1953-1974. have for some years been going, going choir was cancelled due to lack of enroll Briefly , what happened was this. The gone. Dr. Zimmerman paints out, cor ment. Likewise, the touring choirs con end of the 18th century and the dawn of rectly I think, that underlying cultural fac stantly keep an eagle eye out for talented the 19th saw a breakdown of historic tors are al work. While these forces are men and see to it that those who choose patronage of the arts and artists by church currently manifesting themselves in a to sing in the groups are treated very well and aristocracy, particularly in the realm notable lack of males in singing groups indeed! of music. This led to a dilemma which is (and to a lesser degree in other forms of only now being solved: how is a society traditional music-making) they are affec to support its artists? The resulting loss of ting all of the arts. "It is important that we articulate societal orientation, of a sense of the By some estimates the number of high a theology of creative arts for all "place" of artist in society, caused a sense school graduates electing music majors students. " of alienation to develop in the artist, a has declined by over 50 percent in the view that the artist was in some way last 10-15 years. In the twenty years from removed from the social landscape in 1966-86 the percentage of entering col Dr . Zimmerman paints out twin "off which he was expected to work. As a lege freshmen intending a major in the putting" realities: endeavors in serious result, artists came 10 see their work itself arts and humanites general dropped music making do not pay and require as detached from society, as being from 17 percent to nine percent. delayed gratification, for specialist and valuable for its own sake apart from any At Houghton we have not experienced amateur alike. This has always been true value which society might place on it. a parallel drop in fine arts enrollments: of music-making, save in the rarest of in· As art, particularly musical art, di the number of music majors peaked at stances. What has changed is the basic vorced itself (with some justification) from about 105 in the late 70s, and is currently value American society places on the the social fabric of which it had been a Milieu - October 1989/11 In God u by Neil Christians should seek a "third policy-utilizing existing pel part, it began to take itself entirely too EANINGLESS campaign rhetoric, wholly b, seriously _ The stage became set fo r a M viciOUS personal attacks, the crude reverse process, with The Sixties pro explOitation of political symbols, and the viding a perfect backdrop. American nearly insurmountable advantage of in society in that era decided that the cumbency- these were the sad realities cultivated tradition (and all it represented) of the modern poli tical arena I was con was irrelevant. Not necessarily bad, mind fronted with over the last two years as a you . just irrelevant Previously those who staff member on two presidential cam considered themselves "educated" also paigns and a senate race. Election year aspired to be "cultivated," wi th all that 1988 seemed noteworthy mainly for its term implies. political scandals and disappointing can Since the Sixties, however, quality, didates. What I witnessed bore li ttle taste. and discrimination just don't seem resemblance to Plato's Republic, and left to matter to many who came of age then me convinced of the necessity for Chris or thereafter. The cultivated tradition, tians to be educated about and directly in with all it re presents in the heritage of volved in the political process. Western culture. became subverted by I spent the summer after graduating pop culture (and a ra ther bankrupt pop from Houghton in Washington, DC, culture at that). Media and entertainment working on the presidential campaign of values were substituted for quality and ar the junior senator fro m Delaware, J oseph tistic values. R. Biden, Jr. Though not well known Is the situation hopeless? With Zimmer outside of Washington. Biden was never man. I would answer "No," though our theless considered a strong candidate for work is cut out. I believe him to be ac the Democratic presidential nomination In this bl-porti$On photo, Neil MacBride '87. noo curate in his estimate that Christians are because of his moving rhetoric, youthfu l School. stands with NY Congressman Amory fl in a better position than most to make a good looks, moderate views, and for lege. MacBride has served 0$ a campoi9n aide I difference in this regard. The matter is midable campaign war chest. U.S . Senator. one to which I've given some thought Biden's early campaign strategy, like all over the summer. Houghton has the presidential candidates, was to win campaign mortally wounded, Biden had historically been a school where culture the Iowa caucuses on February 8 , 1988, no choice but to wi thdraw from the race. mattered and was treated seriously. That then wi n the New Hampshire primary the I was shocked, stunned and confused. is still the case to a greater degree than at following week. Presidential candidates While the press had not reported any of many schools. However, as more and since George McGovern's 1972 cam the incidents incorrectly, there were more students en ter with a post-Sixties paign strategy have hoped for this simil ar many contextual omissions that would mind -set. it behooves us to re·think and "win -win" performance to garner press have shed a very different light on the af re-double our efforts. attention and fu ndraising contributions, fair. Wi th Biden out of the race, many of In particular. I believe it important that and gain credibility and stature as serious his staff members, myself included, we -dearly articulate a theology of the contenders faT their party's nomination , switched to the campaign of Senator Paul creative arts for all students, whatever In August, I moved to New Hampshire Simon. The Ill inois senator's bow-tie , their field of study. God has created us to to serve as the fie ld coordi nator of the horn-rimmed glasses and Trumanesque be creative: it's a part of our nature. He state's southern tier. I scheduled campaign manner made the image of his candidacy has also blessed us with aesthe tic appearances for Biden , lined up en a polar opposite to that of Biden. I languages fo r our use in this endeavor: dorsements of local elected officials and relocated from Manchester, New Hamp· music. visual arts, drama. dance. The im party activists, and built volunteer lists. shire , to Des Moines, Iowa, to spend the portance and validity of these languages By early fa ll Biden was second in slate next fo ur months overseeing campaign of expression fo r all Christians must con polls to neighboring Massachusetts field operations for Simon in six central tinue to be championed and integrated Governor Michael S. Dukakis. Then, in a Iowa counties. wi th the faith walk of believers. stunning week of damaging press reports, By December, Simon had risen to the Even as we champion what is best in Biden's campaign collapsed. At the top of the polls in Iowa and the press our cultivated tradition, however, we height of Judge Robert Bork's nomina labeled him the candidate to beat. must be careful to acknowledge, what is tion hearings before the Senate J udiciary However. a last minute barrage of slick valid and of merit from all traditions, Committee, which Biden chaired , the campaign commercials b!lo' Rep. Dick whether popular. African. Asian. or Dukakis campaign released an "attack Gephardt helped him defeat Simon in an other. The key to all of this is integrity of video" in whic h Biden appeared to pass extre mely close race. Gephardt's wi n in presentation and creation - a continued off another politician's speeches as his Iowa prOVided him with the necessary search for what is excellent, wherever it own. Other stories emerged questioning momentum to knock Simon out of his se may be fou nd. and for a worthy offering Biden's judgment and character dating cond place status in New Hampshire to God by his servants. back to his days in Jaw school. With his where he finished third behind Dukakis ~ trust. • • DeBride PERSPECTIVE ray" approach to issues of public ical infrastructures, without :ng into it. state and national GOP, Dawkins seemed ing fathers did not intend life-t~nure for sure to defeat the colorless Lautenberg, Congressmen, I support proposals to and unassuming former businessman. limit senators to two Six-year terms and Dawkins, who had just moved to New representatives to three four-year terms. Jersey, had to battle carpetbagger charges Public financing of campaigns would throughout the campaign. His repeated allow challengers to compete on a more political gaffes (statements like, "If I had to equal ground with well-heeled in live in a small town, I'd blow my brains cumbents. out!") prevented his campaign from gener Notwithstanding the corruption, ating significant enthusiasm. In a hard cynicism, and frustration involved in the fought campaign that had the dubious political process, I still believe it can be a distinction of being one of the most means of effecting positive change. While negative and expensive (the candidates we are properly outraged at the tremen spent a combined $16 million) congres dous abuses we see in government, as sional campaigns of the year, Lautenberg Christians we must not forgel the tremen defeated Dawkins 54-46 percent. dous potential in public service. Despite My experiences on these three cam the inherent flaws of the system, I would paigns left me with mixed feelings about like to stay involved in politics after life in the contemporary political arena. It finishing law school. Whether I work for a seems ironic that presidential candidates member of Congress, draft legislation for can spend 100 days campaigning in Iowa a congressional committee, or try and and only 10-15 days in states like New pursue elected office myself, I hope to York and California. I am distressed that have an impact on the legislative process irsl-year student at the Universify of Virginia Low candidates promote themselves through in some capacity. ,hton (R). whoae distriel inr;/udes Houghton Col· negative TV commercials and personal I do not believe Christians are called to too Democratic presidential hopefuls and Jar Qne attacks directed against their opponent a particular political party or specific instead of debating substantive policy agenda, other than to pursue the biblical proposals. Voters bemoan the use of injunctions to promote justice and mercy and Gephardt. Simon fell victim to the negative ads but the sad fact is that they (Jeremiah 22:3-17). However, we must deadly "expectations game," where the work. Conventional campaign wisdom resist the recent tendency in this country press reported thai he did nol do as well holds that if your opponent goes negative for Christians to wrap the Bible in the as they thought he should have done. arid you do not respond in kind , you lose American flag in an effort to justify con The campaign limped through subse (e .g. Michael Dukakisl. It strikes me as servative political policies presented as quent primaries until the Illinois primary hypocritical that voters complain about "God's moral agenda." History tells us of which Simon managed to win as the the cowardice of politicians, and then the folly that results from attempting to home-slate favorite. However, with cam reinforce it by responding to negative ads legislate a theocracy. paign contributions faltering, he dropped that distort the few politically courageous I have seen close-up the need for both out of the race shortly thereafter. votes elected official do cast. While pro salt and light in the political arena. I left the Simon campaign after the posals to give free air time to respond to Regardless of party or ideology, Chris Iowa caucuses to take a position as depu attacks by their opponents will help. tians should not shy away from oppor ty press secretary to Sen. Frank R. voters need to exercise greater discern tunities in public service. While I per Lautenberg (D-NJ) who was up for re ment when viewing negative political ads. sonally am committed to working election to the U.S. Senate. I avoided the Equally disturbing are the vast sums of through the existing political parties, it is Dukakis campaign both due to apprehen money required to wage a modern cam important to remember that there is no sions about Dukakis' strength as a general paign. The average House race costs divine sanction to either democrats or election candidate, and the realization $500,000, a Senate race $3-4 million , republicans. Christians should seek a that coming from the campaigns of two and a Presidential campaign up to $50 '"third way" approach to issues of public formal rivals, I would be considered an million. Thus, politicians must work year policy that can utilize the existing political outsider and could never count on much round raising money, much of it from infrastructure without wholly buying into responsibility within the campaign. special interest lobbies who hope to in it. We must remember that government Lautenberg was considered the most fluence law-makers desperate for cash for itself is neither good nor evil , it is simply a vulnerable incumbent up for re-election their next campaign. With the bulk of tool that can be used Wisely or unwisely. in 1988 due to a stiff challenge from campaign contributions directed toward Most important, while Christians should former Brigadier General Pete Dawkins, incumbents, the fe-election rate in recent agree to respectfully disagree on can a West Point Heisman Trophy winner elections has been as high as 98 percent, didates and politics, we must never forget and Rhodes Scholar. Blessed with his star making a seat in the U.S. Congress safer that whal draws us together in church is resume, made-far-TV good looks. and than a seat in the Supreme Soviet of the far more important than what separates substantial financial backing from the U.S.S.R. Given my belief that the found- us in the voting booth.
Milieu October 1989113 Presidei'll C hamberlain emerges from cen,ennlal DrIlling for college gas well numbn' one. Cf:lebrotlan CQke. Cons/rue/Ion maooger Robert Regl, alumnus John &seplan and athletic director Geor9f! Wells at gym comenJtone c<.>rrmony.
1980 Pastor J , Michael Walters assumes pas "Houghton in the '80s Houghton black students, abetted by ad torale of Houghton church visor, Dr. Mary Conklin, first celebrate Lebanon is in flames, Palestinians are enduring, maturing, their heritage with a series of seminars massacred in camps, draft registration affording leadership" and exhibits resumes, Faulkland Islands' war be The Claude Ries Scholarship created tween Argentina and England, John o READ A FACU LTY forecast for With NYSERDA financing, the college Belushi and Grace Kelly die, Barney s this dea:Je, penned 10 years ago in drills a gas well on Stebbins Field to cut Clark becomes first artificial heart reci a Milieu review of the '70s and effort to energy costs pient, China's population passes one see ahead. The '80s' record substantiates The college dedicates the new PE Center billion mark that prognostication . It was marked by Mt. SI. Helens erupts, the U.S. boycotts 1983 relatively steady enrollment in the face of the Moscow Olympics, a state of Computer science major instituted declining traditional student population , emergency is declared at the Love Early childhood center opens at Buffalo growth of programs, new construction , Canal and voters elect Ronald Reagan campus and adherence to founding principles. president Radio station WJSL moves to new Cam Houghton budgets were in the black pus Center studios throughout the decade, and major capital 1981 Computer science minor established Wesley Chapel art gallery is completed debt was eliminated. Bul al decades end, Art , recreation, church ministries, and College names John Leax poet-in it's still true that "Financially we're overly social science majors instituted residence dependent on tuition and fees . . living Bedford gym razed Steve Lindahl becomes Houghton's first too close to the brink." Health Center moved to East Hall ROTC dTad uate During the '80s fourteen long faculty Robert Danner made dean of students DiSCipleship (KOinon ia) groups begun careers ended, and a look al the 1989 Hazlett· Leonard Houghton House Reagan proposes ABM system, U.S. in college catalog reveals thai more than vades Grenada, Marines die in Leba half of the current faculty has been hired fellowship instituted Houghton improves handicapped access non barracks, AT&T breakup begins, since the decade began. with ramps and lifts playwright Tennessee Williams dies Today more than 100 international Belfast railroad bridge landmark razed and third culture youth are part of the stu 1984 Auto accident kills six seniors enroute to Microwave TV link between Houghton dent population. International schools Buffalo on eve of Homecoming are recruited and Houghton's David and Buffalo campuses becomes opera Iran releases U.s. hostages on Reagan's Pollock is a respected authority on the tional inaugural day. Sandra Day O'Conner special needs and contributions of such Middle States' evaluation and re-accredi becomes first woman Supreme Court students, tation process begins justice, Solidarity wins a labor agree Willard J. Houghton library gets com This su mmary outlines some Hough ment in Poland, Anwar Sedat assassi puter system for cataloging on Library ton gains, losses and changes in a context nated, Prince Charles weds Diana Spen of world events, [t amplifies the faith and of Congress system cer, first American-born test tube baby commitment implicit in the scripture in U.S. Supreme Court says home video scribed on the new academic building's 1982 use doesn't violate federal copyright cornerstone- "That the generation to Houghton College begins year-long laws, England agrees to turn Hong come might know , , , That they should centennial celebration at Homecoming Kong over to China in 1997, Archbish put their confidence in God ." Archives dedicated and opened op Tutu receives Nobel Prize , India's College publishes GiI!ette-lindley pictorai Indira Gandhi assassinated, Baby Fae history- And You Shall Reme mber receives a baboon heart 14/ Mllieu-October 1989 f H ~Soarlng Eagln memoriolizn .Ioin .tudent.s.
Dr. Frieda Gillette outogroph, the book which In chronicling the college'. hi,tory epitomized her lifetime of observotion, research ond recollection.
Pastor J. Michael Wolten! Is now tled/or third longest tenure at H news, Hands Across America raises 1988 $100 million to help poor and home Campus Center dining hall remodeled. less, Statue of Liberty l00th anniver carpeted, and specialty li nes are in sary celebrated stituted in cafeteria 1987 Beaver Perkins dies College publishes DeoVolente, president Woolsey Hall razed emeritus Paine's biography, penned by Ground broken for new academic building Miriam Lemcio Stevens Art Studios dedicated Houghton assumes sponsorship of Soviets agree to withdraw from Oregon Extension Campus Afghanistan, 50 percent of U.S. agri Clarence Bence named academic dean cultural counties deSignated disaster English and foreign language divisions areas because of drought. Iranian merged into language and literature airliner shot down, terrorist bomb ex division plodes PanAm 747 in mid air. earth 1985 Gaoyadeo Dorm razed quakes rock Armenia, 28 million lose Fancher Hall is moved homes in Bangladesh flooding. George New grading system using plus and Bush elected president minus implemented Emeriti professors J osephine Rickard and Dr. Shannon concludes service as George Moreland die 1989 academic dean $350,000 Kresge challenge grant an President Chamberlain enjoys a semes Indoor riding ring completed at college nounced ter's sabbatical equestrian farm $13.5 million capital campaign goes Campaign for Houghton passes $13.5 Ground broken for South Hall public million goal College designates Paine Science Library completes switch to computerized "Rec Hall" razed Building, Gillette, Rothenbuhler and catalog Professor Nolan Huizenga dies Lambein residence halls WJSL joins Mars Hill Network out of New academic bUilding dedicated Emerita profe ssor Frieda Gillette dies Syracuse and reduces programming Ronald Reagan becomes first U.S. presi- WJSL launches 24-hour programming Margaret Thatcher becomes first English dent to complete two terms since Ei Mikhail Gorbachev named secretary prime minister elected to a third con senhower. Alaskan oil spill, Polish and general of the Soviet Communist Par secutive term since 1827, Anglican en Hungarian governments move away Iy , TWA flight 847 skyjacked, Titanic voy Terry Waite taken hostage in from communism peacefully, East located, live Aid rock concerts raise Beirut, Jim Bakker reSigns from PTL in German refugees allowed to flee west , $70 million for Africa famine relief, sex scandal. Spam. Superman and the New York State said planning to place Reagan signs Gramm-Rudman man Appalachian Trail turn SO, Girl Scouts two waste dumps in Allegany County. dating balanced budgets by 1991, cor celebrate 75 years, softball turns 100, Tiananmen S~uare demonstrations/ respondent Terry Anderson kidnapped stock market plunges 508 points in a massacre in Gnina in Beirut day, a Van Gogh painting sell s for 1986 $53.9 million , U.S: Navy escorts oil Art education major in cooperation with tankers in Persian Gulf Buffalo Slate is begun Satellite dish installed on lib rary to bring foreign language telecasts to campus Houghton schedules commencement and baccalaureate on one day At Buffalo campus, five pre-fabricated town houses are erected South Hall dedicated "Soaring Eagles" sculpture dedicated at Homecoming in memory of six students killed in 1981 Coach Burke posts 200th soccer win , then his team wins NCCAA final Corazon Aquino succeeds Ferdinand Marcos, Martin Luther King Day first celebrated as a federal holiday, Cher nobyl disaster, Vladimir Horowitz returns to Soviet Union for recitals after 6 1-year absence, Iran-contra becomes Willard Houghton'. great-great grandnephew breaks gnwnd /or South Hall. Foncher Holl ap- proochn new . Ite. Milieu -Octobe, /989115 ALuMNi iN ACTioN as assistant professor of nursing at Marycrest Cof· retired. The IlIst nine years there he was chairman lege (lA) and NlS moved to North Carolina , of the history department. He has given a total of '49 MARGARET HO RNER retired from being 35 years in university teaching, research and ad, assista nt director of the Onondaga County Public ministration at CCSU and Southern Methodist Library (Ny) I J61Milieu - 0c100er 1989 Carolyn Leach '74, and Suzanne Muench '83 Studies, has been named an honorary member of for track and field at Indiana University of Penn· has begun Ph.D. work at SUNY Binghamton. the British Empire. The newspaper, Virginian sylvania. He's a retired New York state trooper 'SO NANCY (KETCHUM) MONTAGUE lives Pilot, did a lengthy article on his contributions to and is teaching criminal justice there also. In in Bitberg, West Germany, where her husband is the university. Anyone wanting ten minutes of August he received a master's degree from stationed in the Air Force. She is a full-time delightful reading about a man described by the Syracuse University. mother, caring for their two· year-old daughter reporter as "an adroit spokesman," should obtain Since 1980, DAVID MITCHELL '76 has been and infant son. She writes that it has been "a a copy of this article. developing a music degree program for Bethany wonderful experience to live on the local, German '64 E. HARVEY JEWELL, vic~ president at Bible College in Canada, where he heads the economy." American Conservatory of Music, was one of 95 music department. He and his wife, SUSAN 'SO VICTORIA (SMITH) SATRE and her hus· participants from around the world to attend Har (FISHER '7S), have appeared periodically as band are in training to be Wycliffe Bible vard University's summer 1989 Institute for soloists with Maritime Symphonies. Together they translators. After completing a year of French Educational Management. IEM is a comprehen have a private music studio. Susan also works language study at Laval University in Quebec, sive, intensive four-week program for senior ex with horses and is a member of the Canadian they will be living and working in Cameroon, West ecutives of colleges and universities, providing an Equestrian Federation's National Coaches' Pro· Africa. opportunity for growth, renewal, and the gram. In August CHERYL (SEMARGE) MOODY development of new insights into leadership and '77 UNDA BROWN has been elected senior 'SO and her husband moved to Cheshire. CT. management in higher education. vice president of Texas American Bank of Dallas. from Southbury, CT, where her husband teaches '65 ERNIE CLAPPER has accepted a position She has been with TAB since 1977 and was con· math and A.P. Pascal at Cheshire Academy. as elementary school principal in Mayfield , NY, troller. Cheryl continues to teach OASIS (Older Adult on the Sacandaga Lake, where he has served as a '77 BRENDA McCLOUD is director of Systems and Information Service) classes in art, as teacher since 1967. He continues to serve as the Bowerston Public Library (OH) . She received her we ll as teach art part·time at the Wooster Com· district's JV soccer and basketball coach. Ernie co· master of library science degree from Kent State in munity Art Center in Danbury. founded a Youth Soccer Club which involves 160 1988. 'S2 ELLEN (CHAPPELL) HISER and her hus· elementary children. He and his wife , JOAN '7S SUSAN DENTON is a psychologist with band are in their second year operating the White (LAMOS '65), a high school librarian , and their the Norristown (PA) Area School District, Fence Inn in Ohio, their country bed and breakfast two sons, live in Gloversville. specializing in learning disabilities, behavioral inn. They've met people from Japan, Spain, management, and mental health issues. She also Canada, England and Mexico. maintains a private practice, working with han· 'S2 JERRY UNDSEY works for Systems and 1970s dicapped and/ or behaviorally disordered children Communications Sciences, a computer software and their families. consulting firm in Littleton , MA. SUSAN (T AG '70 BETIY DAUGHENBAUGH is the new '79 RON BARNETI is a behavioral specialist GART 'SO) is on a six-month leave of absence director of the Sentani International School in In· at Gulf High School (FL) and is the varsity soccer from Digital Equipment where she is a software donesia, a school for some 120 missionary kids. coach. He has lived on his 42·foot boat, Joshua, engineer. She was deputy director at the Dalat School in for. six years. Over the summer he worked with 'S3 JIM and KIRSTEN (DYAL'S3) BARTON Malaysia for four years. Greenpeace on their sea turtle campaign in the live near Richmond, VA, where he is in his third '73 GARY SAYLOR and his family live in an Caribbean. year of OB/ GYN residency at the Medical Col Arabic country where he teaches English, math, '79 TERRY SLYE has been elected lege of Virginia. Kirsten is a systems analyst for and biology at an international school. shareholder of the firm Briggs and Morgan of Min Life of Virginia . They attend Stony Point Re· '72 DAVID OCKERHAUSEN has been pro· nesota where he is a lawyer. formed Presbyterian Church. moted to manager of the Gig Harbor Sprouse 'S3 BRIAN ARMEN has accepted a call to store near his home in Fox Island, WA. He keeps pastor St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in his job as senior director for the NW Sector Con· 1980s Coudersport, PA. trol Center at McChord Air Force Base. ETHEL 'S3 SUSAN (SELTZER) BELL lives with her (WOLFE '72) teaches piano at home and takes 'SO ALAN BLOWERS published his research husband and two children in Groton , CT, where care of their newly-adopted son. She also directs a on gene transfer in the green alga he is serving the U. S . Navy aboard a submarine. women's Bible study which meets in their home. (Chlamydomonas) in the premier issue of the 'S3 DENISE (ZELEK) MONTGOMERY has '73 JONATHAN WOODCOCK has been ap scientific journal, The Plant Cell. He has been in accepted a position as director of member services pOinted medical director and clinical leader of the vited to write an arricle on gene transfer using the with Foodservice Associates, an association Neurobehavioral Institute of the Rockies. He was new "gene gun," a modified .22-caliber hand management company in Louisville , KY . She and an instructor at Harvard Medical School. gun, for DuPont's Biotechnology Update. her husband, Mark, relocated there in July when '74 DEAN CURRY will spend the 1989-90 Blowers has completed his post-doctoral research he was recruited to be a design engineer with academic year as a John M. Olin Fellow at Boston at Harvard University, and has accepted a Henry Vogt Machine Company. University's Institute for the study of economic research position in the Plant Science Center at 'S3 SUZANNE MUENCH has been promoted culture. His book, A World Without Tyranny: Cornell University. BETSY (LEAKE 'S2) has to an investment officer and analyst of Norstar In · Christian Faith and International Politics, will completed her master of science degree in vestment AdviSory Services, Inc . In March she will be published by Crossway Books in February . microbiology and immunology at Northwestern graduate from William E. Simon School of '74 CAROLYN LEACH is a sales represen· University (MA). Business Administration, earning an M. B. A. in tative for the Vernon Company, a specialty adver· 'SO TOM BRITION is director of student pro finance . tising firm based in Newton, IA . In New York, she grams and lleadership development at Messiah 'S3 CAROL ALLSTON STILES is a graphic is serving parts of Wayne , Monroe, Ontario, College (PA) . designer for Wilkinson Builders in Landenberg, Seneca and Cayuga counties. 'SO KARLA (DOE) DAVISON is living in the PA , where she is responsible for producing pro· '75 JAY YOUNG is a Republican/ Conser· People's Republic of China. She and her husband motional materials for new residential develop· vative candidate for Town Council in Sidney, NY . are at Sun Wen College, located in Zhongshan. ments. Her husband, PETER STILES 'S7, sells He and his wife, Joanne, manage their family Zhongshan. real estate for Patterson Schwartz Realtors, the apartment rental business. 'SO DAVID HARDY received a master's largest real estate company in Delaware. The '76 MIKE MAPLES is the new assistant coach degree in math from SUNY Albany in May, and Stiles live in Newark, DE . Milieu - October 1989117 ------.. _--_._------1W JOHN BROWN has moved to Stone 1ounTain. GA. where he hopes to get a job and Chcme. ond EdIth Poc:odt JIonhd by children ZI1Ie He had been tr/lveling with Celebration ,inger$. John has lost 108lbs. '84 DALE WR IGHT Is a personnel manager for Nonagel1arian Educators Are Alumni of Year "lI? Unlversily of MarylMd's Dep/lnment 01 Want to live pas! 90? Find a partner you can sta.y married to for 64 years? Rai$(> children who are a ~ed icine. He is seeking a position in Upslilte New credit to themseIVl~s. to their parents and to thelr mutual Chrrstian faith? Alumni association presi· 'ork before h,s son enTers school. His wile. MEG dent Edwin Hostetter asked those rhetoncal questions on October 6 in presenting Charles Pocock MARTINO '82), received II PA (physician MSls and Edith (Warburton) Pocock to the Founders' Day a udIence as the 1989 Alumni of the Vear )lItl degree in June from EsseK College in \/IJllmore. She was named outsta nding student of Charles and Edith first met at Houghton College on the old clay tenniS courts which once stood ""Ie yellr for that program lind is now working in behind thl.' academic bUilding- where the library is now. It wasa lovely spring day in 1921. Charles's ,e emergency room al Union Memorial Hospital regular tennis parlner. Floyd Banker. wanted to play mix ed doubles. so he and Charles cruised In August GINNY SCHROEDER '84 received through the library-then In Fancher Hall on its origillill site -overlool Milie u - October 1989/ 19 NY , foll owing a long illness . He attended the New foll owing a long illness. Miss Updyke earned a which reached its goal a year ahead of schedule in York State Bankers Association School of master's degree in library science at SUNY, 1989. Earlier in his career Dan was assistant Agriculture at Corne ll and the New York State Geneseo and taught elementary education at the general manager of the New York State Bankers Association School of Executive Richburg (NY) Central School for 46 years, retir Publishers Association. He was an elder at Pebble Development. His banking career began in 1940 ing in 1979. She was a member of the Richburg Hill Presbyterian Church. Surviving are his with the Union National Bank in Friendship , NY , First Day Baptist Church, where she was a Sun widow, KAREN (MIKESELL '67); two where he served as assistant cashier until 1946, day School teacher, church treasurer for 12 years, daughters ; his parents, EDWARD (F) and RUTH when he was named executive vice president and and 'was a member of the choir. Two sisters, (SHEA '41) WILLETI; a brother, THOMAS director. Upon the merger of the Union National LOUISE UPDYKE '32 and MARJORIE (UP WILLETI '68; two sisters , CHRISTINE Bank with the First Trust Company of Allegany DYKE '39) BEACH, survive, as do several nieces (WILLETI '73) GREENWALD and HOLLY County in 1958, Mr. Taber moved to Well svill e, and nephews . (WILLETI '77) GILLETIE; aunts, uncles , when he was named executive vice president and '64 DANIEL WILLETI, director of develop nieces, nephews and cousins, many of whom are director of the First Trust Union Bank. In 1969 he ment for major gifts and manager of the Shaffer also Houghton alumni. was elected president. retiring eight years later. Art BUilding Campaign for Syracuse (NY) Univer '90 DANIEL WOOD, a student at Houghton Taber served his community as president on sity , died in Syracuse September 21 after a long from 1986-88, died in a motorcycle accident July several boards. Survivors inclu de a daughter; a battle with lymphoma. He was 47. Willett was 22 in Gardiner, NY . He was 21. He is survived by son; four grandchildren; a brother; and several devoted to sharing with others his deep and broad his mother, MARY (HOUMANN '52) WOOD; nieces and nephews . understanding of what a university is and what it his father, CAREY WOOD '50; a sister, MELIN '32 MARIAN UPDYKE died August 19 in needs to support its mission. He planned the fiv e DA (WOOD '87) WRIGHT and her husband, Jones Memorial Hospital in Well sville, NY , year, $100 million "Campaign for Syracuse" RICHARD WRIGHT '87. hiGhLANdER S~ORTS by William Greenway ------SOCCER Homecoming. This Messiah squad came together. The only loss in that string was The men's and women's soccer teams in 12-0, ranked No. 1 in Division III , and to powerful, top-ranked St. John Fisher are suffering from poor starts. Both teams left 13-0 still No. 1. (21-0)-and the games were close! are having trouble putting the ball in the The men's squad plays very well be Coach and team are looking to keep nets. Many of the games have been close tween the 18 yard lines but makes costly winning and enter districts in top form . A but each team has only two wins and will mistakes in close. Eric Ashley and Mike successful showing there and they would have to struggle to escape losing seasons. Gish have led the defense, while Dan attain the ultimate goal of the season Typical would be the Burke vs . Burke Meade leads the offense with four goals another trip to nationals! game where son Steve Burke avenged an and able help from Steve Mouw with a earlier loss to father Doug Burke as Jud goal and five assists. CROSS COUNTRY son out-lasted Houghton 3-2 in overtime. The women's squad has also been Coach Bob Smalley's cross country Houghton then went up against one of playing well , but losing some close ones. team is completely new. Eleven men and the toughest Wheaton teams of recent The outlook fo r the future is bright with four women are running and all are new years and then tackled Messiah on only six Seniors vs . eleven good Frosh. to college cross country. There are no One of those Frosh, Tricia Atkinson is seniors and seven frosh out of the MEN'S BASKETBALL (away games) one of the top scorers with four goals . eleven men. Jon Cole has nailed down November Senior Janell Leathersich has scored two . the prime spot among the thinclads and is 17 Fr Binghamton Tourn . Senior Laura Hayes, MVP in '88, is the 18 Sa 6: 00 & 8: 00, 6:00 & 8:00 running sub-30 minute times even 21 Tu SI. Vincent 7:30 backbone of the defense. though he joined the squad a week into December Overall, the skill level is high. The the season. Super frosh Jill Clark is 2 Sa Waynesburg 8:00 record can definitely improve, especially covering three miles in sub-20 minute 13 Wd Brockport 8:00 if the offense can pick up its level of play. 29 Fr Pitt-Brad Tournament times and has placed in the top 10 in 30 Sa 7:00 & 9:00, 7:00 & 9: 00 VOLLEYBALL most meets. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL (away games) The team has competed in several November Coach Skip Lord's volleyball squad large invitational meets. Their top ex 17 Fr Mansfi eld Tournament leads all the fall teams with a fine 7-4 perience of the season was a Homecom 18 Sa w/ Bapl. Bible, Misericordia record. Theirs' is the story of a building ing win over Pitt-Bradford with junior 1: 00 & 3: 00, 1:00 & 3:00 and a successful team. Five of the six December Jon Cole taking first and soph Mike 1 Fr Cardinal Tourn . at starters are newcomers and thus a certain Jones second. They also are looking for 2 Sa SI. John Fisher w/ CCNY, amount of experimentation was ward to districts and for several to go to Castl eton State, necessary to get the right winning com nationals. 6: 00 & 8: 00. 1:00 & 3: 00 bination. Six victories in the last seven 13 Wd Brockport 6:00 contests indicates they have put it LARGE FROSH CLASS HELPS POST 1,197 ENROLLMENT Three hundred and eighty-two new students, 320 of them freshmen , boosted Houghton's incoming student totals near a record for the '80s, and took overall enrollment to 1,197. The latter figure includes Buffalo Suburban Campus students, non-credit audits and 24 students engaged in off campus semesters from Washington State to Western Europe. Admissions director Tim Fuller noted that the new class boasts 21 valedictorians and 10 salutatorians. Sixty of these Three dozen second generation students of the entering class students won New York State Regents Scholarships, one is a National Merit Trustees authorize repairs, admissions upgrade finalist and 16 others received National Meeting on campus September 29 match the rest of the campus. They ap Merit commendation letters . SAT scores Houghton's trustees authorized bUilding proved ground-floor modifications in for the entering frosh were: verbal-5I8, repairs and modifications, ordered im Fancher Hall to accommodate coming math- 544. plementation of an aggressive plan for moves there by admissions, alumni and Other classes include 253 seniors, 233 student recruitment, accelerated study of development offices. The admissions of juniors, 291 sophomores. The balance ways to improve slipping faculty salaries fice will move to Fancher over Christmas are unclassifi ed. Registrar Willis Beards and granted tenure to three teachers. break; the other offices will move next ley said there are 454 men, 743 women. They also discussed the future of summer. Fancher Auditorium will be Wesleyan higher education, in reference renamed Woolsey Auditorium, in honor to the 1990 closing of United Wesleyan of the several members of the Woolsey Capital Campaign College (PA) and the implications of that family who have served the college. surpasses goals action for Houghton's future . The admissions office will launch a Trustees approved immediate repairs five-year enrollment plan designed to at The $13.5 million Campaign for to the physical education center's front tract 10 more students annually. Im Houghton has passed the $15 million wall where split-face blocks have ab plementation means more financial aid , mark, with 1989 setting a record for total sorbed water, frozen and burst. They ap recruitment efforts and advertising. giving ($3,371,275) and posting a new proved eventual refacing with stone to Granted tenure were: Gary Baxter, high for foundation gifts . Funding for the assistant professor of art; Carlton Fisher, new academic bUilding before a ATTENTION WWll VETS associate professor of philosophy; and December deadline exceeded the goal by It's been 40 years since thousands of Susan Klotzbach , assistant professor of $155,493, qualifying the college for a WW II veterans used their GI Bill money organ. Kresge challenge grant. to attend college. If you came to Hough In other actions, trustees approved Despite this success, some $4.5 million ton College after the big war, we in several student development office in must be raised for a new fine arts center. Vite/ urge you to write for a questionnaire itiatives: implementing off-campus An encouraging $150,000 Wendt Foun we've prepared ~_vets , part of our special purpose houses where students dation gift has been received toward the research for an I.}pcoming Milieu feature majoring in the same discipline may live December of 1990 target for achieving about how Houghton was changed by together, and instituting in each dorm a that goal. Too, plans are underway for a the war and returning veterans-and "quiet floor ." To streamline the hiring new capital campaign emphasizing en something of your lives here and since. process they also authorized a small dowments to underwrite salaries and (Materials will become part of the college group of trustees and faculty to approve scholarships. archival collection). faculty appointments that fall between Don't miss this opportunity to share with regular trustee sessions. us your recollections and impressions of The trustees also elected four Hough this watershed era. To be tabulated for the ton Academy nominations for its board. article we must have your response in These were: Linda Doezema, John Mer hand before Christmas 1989. vine, Jr., Chris Jensen and Randy Singer. Milieu - October 1989/ 21 _.... _ ...._--_ .. _------Seven new faculty appointments Dr. Gadevsky has given numerous solo Houghton's academic dean C. L. athletics at Sterling College (KS), where recitals and has won several prestigious Bence has announced seven new facu lty he coached cross country and track since awards . appointments, one of which is interim. 1987. He holds bachelor's and master's Houghton alumna Janet Johnson They are Kenneth ,Bates, professor of degrees from the University of Nevada, previously served as a computer pro business, B. David Benedict, professor of Las Vegas, and a doctor of arts from Mid grammer/ analyst at Cummins Engine political science, Dale E. Campbell, pro- die Tenessee Siale University. Company in Lakewood, NY, designing, fessor of physical education and head of Dr. Ga devsky was senior associate programming and implementing systems the department, Dolores Gadevsky, in- professor of piano at Eastman School of for a wide variety of business applica terim associate professor of piano, Janet Music . She holds a doctor of musical arts tions. Ms. Johnson holds a master's Johnson, professor of mathematics, Jef- from the Eastman School of Music of the degree in mathematics and education frey Spear, professor of business, and University of Rochester. She has been on from State University College, Fredonia, James Wardwell, assistant professor of the faculty at the Chautauqua Institution, and has completed courses towards a English. the University of Central Arkansas, the doctorate in computer science from Mr. Ba tes, who began teaching at Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and Western Michigan University. Houghton in January, has an M.B.A. in Arts , and was an instructor at the Austro Mr. Spear comes from Thomas James management from Loyola College (MOl Amerika Institut in the summer of 1966. Associates of Rochester, NY , where he's and a B,S. from Houghton. Before retur- -,;;-----,;------ning to his alma mater, he was director of member services and administration for fAe uIT \I_...:~~~:.:W~~1______the American Machine Tool Distributors' Association. For eight years he was busi Several faculty members have returned the humanities and English education ness manager for the Metro·Maryland to Houghton after a year's sabbatical or program at two New York colleges; and study leave. Youth for Christ organization and is a to chair a panel on 20th Century Ameri member of the Administrative Manage Mrs. Darlene Bressler, assistant pro can novelist Anne Tyler at the Canadian ment Society. fessor of education, completed 30 credit Popular Culture Conference in March. hours toward her doctorate at the Univer Dr. Bressler also learned to rollerskate. Born and raised in Wellsville , NY , Dr. sity of Rochester. She was selected as the Dr. David Howard, professor of Benedict graduated from Houghton Col outstanding woman education student . In lege in 1973. He has spent much of his history , completed his book o n the September she presented a paper at the working years in the United States foreign Spanish colonization of America in the Fourth Annual Women's Studies Confer· service, and this summer returned from a 16th century and is looking for a ence at Western Kentucky University. two-year assignment as American con publisher. Also , he and his wife , Irm sulate general to Shenyang, China. He Dr. Charles Bressler, associate pro gard, associate professor of chemistry, holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in interna fessor of English and head of the depart traveled to England and Scotland. ti onal relations from the University of ment, spoke at the National Women's Dr. Thomas Kettelkamp, head of the Pennsylvania. Studies Conference and the American recreation department, spent the fall Dr. Campbell was associate professor Popular Culture Conference, on Mary E. semester working with the National Wilkins Freeman (a 19th Century novelist of physical education and director of Forest Service at San Isabel National and short story writer), and popular Forest in Colorado, researching the linguistics versus prescriptive gram wilderness and writing a first-ever marians, respectively. A paper, "Shifting 200-page format book which may be Sand: Current English Usage," was distributed nationally as a model on keep published in a journal. He completed ing the balance of a wilderness intact. research on Ms. Freeman and the fi rst This summer he would like to take a chapter of his biography of her is nearly May term group of students back to try completed and has included some 48 some of his format plans and "help re stories about her that were previously juvenate heavily-used areas." From unused. Dr. Bressler also taught at Keuka January to July the Kettelkamps lived in College (NY). Results of his sabbatical in Honduras, Central America, where he clude being asked to be a panelist for taught graduate courses at the UniverSity literary criticism at the New York State of Honduras, in research methods, com· Teachers' Council in Albany during Oct munity recreation and the SOCial/political From lop I~ft: 8 . Douid &nn1kt, JqJrq, SPftJr. Ja m ~, WardWi! lI . DQI ~ Compbell, Jan~ I ober; to be an evaluator on a State impact of sports. Also, he coached the JohnMJn, Kennelh &fea- Education De rtment team criti uin~ Honduras national baseball team. In Genevieve Lilly '26 been corporate controller since 1986. He Teachers Estate Gift Benefits Endowed Scholarships programmed and implemented comput Looking through his mail on August declared a major in biology . A roommate erized systems for accounting, inventory third, Houghton's vice president for recalls her as shy, but kindhearted. management, resale-wholesale produc finance Kenneth L. Nielsen was pleasant As a member of Houghton's second tion, among other responsibilities. After ly surprised to find a bank cashier's check graduating class in 1926, Genevieve gaining a bachelor's degree in business for $70,000-the bulk of Miss Genevieve began a teaching career that included administration from Houghton College, Lilly's estate proceeds-and a copy of her math and science positions in New York Mr . Spear earned a master's degree in will stipulating that the money be used "to public schools from Ripley to Cohocton, accountancy from the Rochester Institute establish scholarships for needy and where she taught until 1964. There is no of Technology. deserving students." record of just how Miss Lilly came to in Dr. Wardwell, who has a doctorate Genevieve Lilly was born September clude Houghton in her will , but she did so from the University of Rhode Island, was 23, 1902, in Emporium, PA. Her family 10 years ago. She spent the subsequent a teaching assistant in the writing depart later moved to Belfast, NY, where she years in North Carolina, dying in an ment there. He earned a master's degree graduated from high school in 1922. Asheville nursing home on September 11, in English from Villanova University in That fall she moved up the road eight 1988. 1984. Wardwell is a member of the miles to Houghton College where she Financial aid director Robert Brown Modern Language Association . became matriculant number 78 and said that the money, invested with en dowed scholarship funds, will provide substantial assistance to five or six students each year. December or January Kettelkamp plans pus, John Norton, has resigned in favor DA YTON PORTRAIT BEGUN to return to Honduras for the Central of other employment. Houghton College has commissioned America/ Carribean Olympic Games. Dr. Richard Perkins, professor of portrait artist Aileen Ortlip Shea to paint When asked what it was like to live there, sociology, is on a one-semester leave of an official portrait of Houghton's eighth he said, "[Honduras] is a wonderful place absence, teaching at Seattle Pacific president, Dr. Wilber T. Dayton, who to live and grow." University (W A) . served from 1972-76. Mrs . Shea is work Dr. Charles Massey, associate pro Over the summer composer-in ing from photos in the college and fessor of education and director of the residence Dr. William T. Allen was Dayton family collections and hopes for a Buffalo campus academic program, spent among several composers selected to fe w live sittings as well. The Day tons now his sabbatical working on the early stages have organ works accepted for possible live in Macon , GA. of Houghton's adult degree completion publication by the American Guild of program. If the proposal passes inspection Organists. There were 120 entries. Dr. HOUGHTONACADEMYSEEKS by the state department, it will be im Pat Townsend, part-time associate pro DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR plemented at Houghton next fall . Also, he fessor of anthropology, has had a second This Christian coed prep school, studied program possibilities for St. Mary edition of Medical Anthropology in grades 7-12, five minutes from the of Sorrows Church in Buffalo. Massey's Ecological Perspective, a book she co Houghton College campus, is looking for job is to direct the CAPHE grant project wrote with Ann McElroy, published by an aggressive, personable, creative fund and direct the program for development of Westview Press. raising professional to handle annual the adult degree program. fund, public relations, publications and stu Voice professor Jean Reigles has re HOUGHTON BACKS dent recruitment program. Salary/ bene turned from a two-year study leave at URBAN PROJECT fits: Low 20s; major tuition discounts at Texas Tech University, where she At formal naming ceremonies for the Academy and Houghton College; health worked on her doctorate with former new King Urban Life Center in the former insurance, retirement. Position is Houghton fine arts division chairman St. Mary of Sorrows Church in Buffalo available in December 1989. Send your Donald Bailey. September 25, Sacred Sites Restoration resume to Headmaster Philip G. Stockin In other faculty news, Mr. Jonathan Committee head Finley Green called or phone 716/ 567-8115. Lauer, director of the Willard J . Houghton College's support and par Houghton Library since July, 1987, has ticipation "indispensable." accepted a similar position at Messiah President Chamberlain noted that the College (PA). Dr. George Bennett, Buf college expects to being using the facility falo campus librarian, is his interim as soon as restoration and remodeling are replacement. Associate professor of completed. Work on the structure may Christian education at the Buffalo cam- begin this fall. Milieu- October 1989123 Q ~ z :t ~;E ~ • ~ •3 go~ " ; ,, ~ '" Oc:S~ ~'" ~ ~ ~ ,,~'" ~<.:> ~"'~ "'~~ "i'I:>O ~ ~ ~~ O~~ "01::~ '" •~ 0°0~~" ~>~ " - ~~ ~~~'"~ q -~I::0"'- t ti .Q!;ttI ~ttI)!! ~ :<>)!!O " ~;; O~ .~ ~ ~ ", 0 ~ =:i Homecoming "The Sixties" Revisited T'S REVEALING to see how people who for the most part weren't I yet born in The Sixties, interpret that tumultuous decade when it's float-building time for Homecoming. Standouts in the Saturday parade were the winning "Gilligan's Island" effort of the seniors, and the Beetles' "Yellow Submarine" by the sophomores. Ruling as queen over the weekend was senior psychology major, and Bible minor Pamela Schulz of Northport, NY. Miss Schulz is senior class president and has worked with Allegany County Outreach all four years. A dean's [isl student, she's also been on the equestrian team for three years. AI present she is resident COOT dinator for a Missions House. Popular with the crowds were duo Alumni of the Year Charles and Edith Pocock (see story on page 18), They rode a horse-drawn float together with three generations of their descendents. Through the weekend no award winner was more surprised than was Dr. Homer J. Fero '3l. At the Friday Founders' luncheon he received the first ever PACE Award, David Ale:Kander, chairman of the President's Advisory Council on Excellence, called the retired den tist and former trustee to the rostrum to present him a white ceramic vase. Crafted by art department ceramist Gary Baxter, the vase has relief scenes of Houghton on its sides. The award recognized Dr. From top left: Queen Pamela Schultz, Fero's "Christian commitment, significant services of time, talent and the Pococks, '"Gilligan's Is/and" floot resources to the college, and participation in college activities." and Dr. Fero 24l Milieu - QctOOer 1989