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14 Jonas Friddle 16 The Long Way Home 19 Tutu’s Stirring Commencement Address 24 Year of the Ecovillage “Graduation Presence” by David Stephenson Students line up for commencement in the stairwell of Draper Hall, May 2005. Inside this issue SUMMER 2005 : Volume 76 Number 1 : www.berea.edu BEREA COLLEGE MAGAZINE
COVER STORY 19 Tutu’s Stirring Commencement Address Features “Class of 2005, you are
masterpieces in the making.” 14 Jonas Friddle 2005 Watson Fellowship Departments 16 The Long Way Home
4 Editor’s Note 19 Archbishop Desmond Tutu Inspires Graduates to Be 5 Around Campus Fellow Workers with God 11 Sports Update 22 Student Awards 12 Faculty and Staff Notes Hilda Welch Wood Winner (Jana Vandegrift) 27 Alumni Connections T.J. Wood Winner (Jeffrey Hurt)
31 Homecoming 2005 24 Berea Kicks Off “Year of the Ecovillage”
32 About Berea People with Dedication Ceremony
36 Passages 25 Campaign News
38 Berea College Sesquicentennial Note to our readers: The mission of Berea College is carried out through activities guided by Berea’s Great Commitments. Berea’s strategic plan, Being and Becoming: Berea College in the Twenty-First Century, identifies Front Cover: Photo of Archbishop Desmond Tutu by David Stephenson specific initiatives which the College is implementing to continue its Back Cover: Photo by David Stephenson tradition of learning, labor, and service. While all Berea College Magazine articles relate to Berea’s mission, specific articles about the strategic plan initiatives are indicated with the symbol. BEREA COLLEGE MAGAZINE : SUMMER 2005 Editor’s Note Editor’s CPO 2203, Berea, KY40404. Berea, 2203, CPO Relations, Alumni of Office College Berea the to corrections address Send POSTMASTER: Department. Relations Public College Berea the by friends and alumni College Berea for quarterly published is 1539-7394) (ISSN Magazine College Berea [email protected] email or KY40404 Berea, 2142 CPO Editor, Ellis Normandi contact: please magazine, the in appearing article any reprinting about Magazine, the for suggestions or questions, comments, have you If Reprints and Correspondence MaeSuramek, ’95, Timothy W. Jordan, ’76, Relations College and Alumni Dr.WilliamLaramee, A. Kuhlmann,Linda Ellis, Normandi
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Sustainability On the Road with Berea Bikes Ten blue community bikes seen Berea Named whizzing across campus under blue “College with a Conscience” skies in April marked the initiation of a long-running student campaign Many colleges and universities known as Berea Bikes. Sponsored by today make it a priority to the College’s ecology group Helping foster social responsibility Earth and Learning (HEAL), Berea Aysen Nergiz, ’07 and public service on their Bikes makes available free and campuses. The Princeton accessible transportation around town Review and Campus for Berea College students. Students Compact named Berea pick up bikes at a designated station, Before the Berea Bike event Amber Field, ’06, College as one of those ride to class, and leave the bike Denise Won, ’06, and Leah Devine, ’06, work colleges in a new book on a bike in the La Vida Nueva shop located for other students to travel around in Frost Cottage. on the subject, Colleges campus to their desired location. with a Conscience: 81 Great The project includes a self- hope to find more bikes and accessories, Schools with Outstanding Community sufficient Learning Bike Shop as well as operating funds and Involvement published by Random House incorporated into the college’s labor volunteers to repair bikes. Support in June. program. for Berea Bikes has been provided by “This book highlights the exceptional “This project builds community, the Student Government Association, work of our member campuses and the encourages learning of practical life Wellness and Campus Activities, La wonderful opportunities that exist for skills, and promotes sustainability Vida Nueva, Seabury Center, students to improve community life and through bike maintenance and Coalition for Community Building, demonstrate social responsibility,” said riding,” said student organizer Leah CELTS, and Berea College Public Campus Compact executive director Devine, ’06, of Elkins, WV. Organizers Safety. Elizabeth Hollander. “These schools epitomize higher education in service to the public good.” Black Hawk Helicopter Surprises The Princeton Review and Campus Compact selected four-year colleges and Students for Appalachia Day Campers universities based on admissions practices and scholarships that reward community service; offer support for service-learning programs, student activism, and a student voice in school governance; and show a Children from a day camp sponsored nominal fee. In addition to checking high level of social engagement from the by Students for Appalachia (SFA) were out the helicopter, the six- to nine-year- student body. Reviewing more than 950 surprised by a Black Hawk helicopter old campers who attended the mid-June member schools, the editors considered landing on the field where they were camp performed service projects, and extensive data about service programs and studying weather. The National Guard participated in many educational policies, as well as survey data from helicopter spent two hours on the activities and field trips. students, faculty, and staff. ground for an educational afternoon Colleges with a Conscience contains visit. two-page profiles on each college, providing Berea student Melissa Ingram, ’07, detailed information about civic engagement organized the event through SFA, one and service-learning programs on campus, of several student service organizations Celeste Francis, ’07 in the classroom, and in the community. which are a part of the CELTS (Center The book includes advice for college for Excellence in Learning through applicants, as well as information on how Service). This marks the 17th year for to obtain financial support for service SFA’s day camp, which offers six two- Students for Appalachia arranged for their day projects. Student profiles share perspectives, week sessions throughout the summer camp students to see and tour a Black Hawk describe civic engagement activities, and for preschoolers through teens for a helicopter that landed near Alumni Field. offer advice and experience.
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Hutchins Library Funded for Berea College Trustees Project on Council of Southern Dr. Chella S. David, ’61, an immunologist and professor at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, and Mountains Drausin F. Wulsin, an environmentalist and director The Special Collections and of major gifts for the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Archives Department at Hutchins Garden, were elected to the Berea College Board of Library received a two-year Trustees at the Board’s 2005 spring meeting. Each will $89,280 grant from the National serve a six-year term beginning immediately. Historical Publications and David is the Alice Sheets Marriott professor in Records Commission to process the department of immunology at the Mayo Clinic the records of the Council of College of Medicine in Rochester, MN. Mayo Clinic the Southern Mountains (CSM), 1970-89. This material completes
Distinguished Investigator for 2004, he also directs the Celeste Francis, ’07 the already processed Council Dr. Chella David largest research laboratory, which focuses on the relationship between genetics and specific autoimmune records from 1912-70. These diseases. For his contribution to medical research, CSM records will provide a David recently received the Ranbaxy Research Award unique resource for studying the from the president of India, his native country. shifting style, content, and Laura Anne Heller, project archivist for Wulsin has been director of major gifts for the direction of social reform efforts the Council of Southern Mountains in southern Appalachia during materials, sorts through one box of the Cincinnati Zoo since 2002. For 13 years he was 250 cubic feet of materials. president of Red Stone Farm, Inc. in Ohio, one of much of the twentieth century. the first farms in the state to develop a New Zealand- Laura Anne Heller has been appointed project archivist. style, grass-based, seasonal dairy. In the Cincinnati To complement the CSM materials, the Special area, he serves on the boards of several organizations, Collections and Archives Department also received a $2,500 including the Cincinnati Nature Center, Green Acres grant from the Kentucky Oral History Commission to Drausin Wulsin Foundation, and Tri-State Environmental Resource support the CSM oral history project being coordinated by Center. Berea College sound archivist, Harry Rice.
House-Building Builds Human Spirit Service Learning
While other students traveled to the Said one volunteer, “I have been given beach for spring break, 19 volunteer more through my service with Habitat students with the College chapter than I can ever hope to give back.” of Habitat for Humanity traveled Burkholder likened the experience to Winston-Salem, NC to build of building a home for another houses. The group worked with local individual to building the World AmeriCorps volunteers, community House, by which Martin Luther members, and the Forsyth County King, Jr. meant the dwelling place of Habitat for Humanity staff to roof and all nations, peoples, and religions. build seven houses under construction “When you straighten your aching for local partner families. back at the end of the job, you don’t “This was not just about see individual shingles anymore,” said building houses. It reminded us of Burkholder. “You see a roof. Then you These 19 students constructing houses for Habitat for human worth from both serving and look around and somehow don’t see Humanity during spring break represented five different being served,” project volunteer Hans individual people in the same way you nations and all four corners of the United States. Burkholder, ’06, said. did before either. You see humanity. Each Berea student remarked that No shingle is made to stand alone. No weaker parts of the one below it, and the experience of selfless contribution man or woman is made to stand alone is itself partially shielded from the to others changed them in some way. in our world. Every shingle covers the elements by those above it.”
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On Labor Day, We Rested Student workers took the day off college-wide to celebrate with food and fun during the annual Berea College Labor Day. The holiday focuses on appreciation for students and the work they do to support Berea through their heads, hands, and hearts. So spirited were the students that their zest could not be confined until Tuesday, thus a street dance began Monday night in front of Boone Tavern, and the public quickly joined. The festival began early Tuesday with a pancake breakfast that turned into a midday picnic in the Seabury Center with music and games inside. Contests and games provided hours of fun while live musical performances, such as the Black Music Ensemble and the Bluegrass Ensemble, entertained the crowd. The evening concluded with a cookout at the Alumni Building patio and concert performances by the College’s Wind Ensemble, Jazz Aysen Nergiz, ’07 Nergiz, Aysen Orchestra, and the Contemporary Percussion Ensemble in the Woods-Penniman Building (Above) Students joined in a traditional street Commons. dance on Labor Day Eve in front of Boone Tavern. Although all students were recognized for their hard work, Tiffany Hamilton, ’04, (Below) Students create friendship bracelets in the was given the Student Employee of the Year Award. The financial award is given by the Psychology Department booth. James N. and Leila Cranford Hardy Fund to recognize a student for reliability, quality of work, initiative, professionalism, and uniqueness of contribution. Hamilton, student coordinator for the Entrepreneurship for the Public Good program, hopes to pursue an MBA at the University of Tennessee and, ultimately, establish a teen mentoring program in her hometown, Knoxville, TN. She also won a regional award from the Midwest Association of Student Employee Administrators. College bookstore buyer and merchandiser Janet Tronc received the award for Outstanding Labor Supervisor of the Year. Dina Schmal was recognized with the Julia and Norbert Stammer Appalachian Service Award for her work through the Appalachian Center and Students for Appalachia. O’Neil Arnold, ’85 O’Neil
Service Awards Recognize National and Local Activists: Wayne Meisel, Martha Pride, and Craig Williams Berea College’s annual Service Awards which served as a platform for students from the consequences of war. recognize individuals who have rendered to lead their peers to serve others and Through his humanitarian efforts with outstanding service to society while bring about positive change. the International Campaign to Ban achieving the ideals of the College’s Dr. Martha Pride, vice chair of the Landmines, an organization that won Great Commitments. Board of the Madison County Health the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, he has Wayne Meisel Wayne Meisel, President of the Department and retired nursing faculty fought to eradicate land mines in Corella and Bertram F. Bonner member, joined the Berea College Vietnam, Cambodia, and other Foundation, has traveled to more than Nursing Department in 1962 and has countries. His community efforts on 70 campuses from Maine to Washington served as community member on the behalf of the Chemical Weapons to campaign for student involvement Berea Hospital Board of Directors. She Working Group and the Kentucky in community service. The Bonner received the Hixson Award for her Environmental Foundation have Foundation supports scholarships for contribution for the Kiwanis International opposed the incineration of chemical low-income students at 25 colleges in Iodine Deficiency Program. weapons at eight national sites, the South and the Midwest. Meisel For more than 20 years Craig including the Madison County also helped to establish the Campus Williams has played an active role in Bluegrass Army Depot. Outreach Opportunity League (COOL), protecting people and the environment Craig Williams
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W.K. Kellogg $100,000 Grant from Foundation Supports Fifth Third Bank Brushy Fork Institute Helps Single Mothers When former College President John One way Berea College realizes its Stephenson founded Brushy Fork Institute, historic commitment to education he knew that local leadership was an for women is through education for Donna Morgan important part of supporting healthy, Peter Hille, director of the single parents, primarily from the Brushy Fork Institute, leads a sustainable mountain communities. Through Appalachian region. This year, Berea leadership development session support from the Appalachian Fund, the called “Understanding Your enrolled approximately 40 single Wayne and Ida Bowman Foundation, Local Economy.” parents (including men). In addition to and Claude Worthington Benedum the full-tuition scholarship that every Foundation, Brushy Fork Institute created its award-winning Leadership Berea student is guaranteed, Berea Development program. Those who have attended it often say, “I wish provides support for student families everyone in my community had the chance to go to Brushy Fork through housing in the Ecovillage Institute.” and on-site child care. Other support As part of their mandate to help people learn to help themselves, includes vehicle sharing among the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, MI offered Brushy Fork Ecovillage residents, parenting classes, $198,000 over three years to develop new leadership skills-building and counseling provided by on-site opportunities to benefit Appalachia. This fall 2005, Brushy Fork offered support staff. its first Annual Institute at Berea College, and in fall 2006, the intensive Fifth Third Bank established the Community Transformation Program debuts. These regional programs $100,000 Charlotte R. Schmidlapp promote increased connections among individuals and organizations Scholarship to help fund the annual engaged in community work. cost of education at Berea College Community leaders who registered to attend Brushy Fork’s Annual for a single mother. Previously, the Institute on September 14-17, 2005, participated in intensive Schmidlapp Fund provided a $58,000 hands-on sessions on topics such as community economic development, grant to fund a four-year education nonprofit management, fundraising, and running for public office. scholarship for a female student of Participants heard nationally renowned presenters, such as Dr. Vaughn Appalachian background from the Grisham, Director of the George McLean Institute for Community Cincinnati area. Development. Grisham helped guide extraordinarily successful The Charlotte R. Schmidlapp community development efforts in Tupelo, MS. Participants will hear Fund was created in 1908 by a gift how techniques used there may be applied in their own communities. from Jacob C. Schmidlapp in memory During fall 2006, one community will partner with Brushy Fork to of his daughter, Charlotte, who died implement the Community Transformation Program. Brushy Fork in an auto accident at age 19. Grants Institute Director Peter Hille notes, “We are looking for a community from the fund are restricted to helping that is at the tipping point—a community that, with an extra push, will women establish themselves in life. gain the momentum needed to sustain local, long-term development efforts.” Over an extended period, community leaders will begin in- depth development work, while Brushy Fork offers leadership development workshops and technical assistance. The new Annual Institute and the Community Transformation ’06 Ledford, Alice Program builds on Brushy Fork Institute’s 17 years of experience working in central Appalachian communities to promote leadership that is developmental, collaborative, accountable, ethical, and effective. Sam Barnes (Firth Third Bank), Phyllis Hughes (Berea College Development), President Larry D. Shinn, and Stephanie Browner (Dean of Faculty).
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Compton Fellows Tricia Feeney Jessica Fagan Recognized by Udall and Jessica Culver Clark Foundation for Environmental Studies
Begin a Year of Service Jessica Fagan, ’07, of Blacksburg, VA, a student director living and Jessica Culver Clark, ’04, and Patricia working in the Sustainability and Environmental Studies (SENS) house, Feeney, ’05, became part of an elite group received an honorable mention for excellence from the Morris K. Udall of five nationwide college graduates to National Environmental Policy Foundation. Recognition from the Udall receive a 2006 Compton Mentor Fellowship Foundation is given to college sophomores and juniors committed to to spend a year working for the public careers in environmental studies. Each national recipient is selected by good. Each received $35,000 to support her independent review on the basis of commitment to careers in the service project. environment, health care, or tribal public policy, leadership potential, Clark, a child development major and academic achievement. from Ashland, KY, received the fellowship Jessica Culver Clark for her project “Opening Another Door,” which examines the roles education and Two Seniors Receive Parker work play in deterring the cycle of multiple Achievement Awards at KABHE unplanned pregnancies. Next year, alongside mentor Jean Terry of the Parent Resource Seniors Ashonti Davis, ’05, of Nashville, TN and Crystal Center, she will develop a job training Hampton, ’05, of Salina, KS received Dr. William C. program for teen mothers at the Florence Parker Achievement Awards during the Kentucky Crittenden Home and Family Care Center Association of Blacks in Higher Education (KABHE) in Lexington, KY. Clark will use her work annual conference held in April. The award includes a Ashonti Davis to create a model curriculum for others. $500 scholarship and was named for Dr. William C. Drawing on her love of the loom and the Tricia Feeney Parker, first KABHE president. expertise she gained during her student labor as a weaver, Clark More than 100 members of public, private, will assist interested teen mothers with designing and producing community college, and state education organizations high-quality, marketable crafts. During a student internship attended the 22nd annual conference held at Berea last year, she taught wellness to teen mothers at the Florence College. KABHE promotes the advancement of blacks in Crittenden Home. higher education by articulating concerns, promoting Feeney, a biology major from Birmingham, AL, gained her unity, cooperation and awareness, and enhancing fellowship for a project called “Resources and Solidarity: personal and professional growth. Coalition Building for Water Security in Appalachian Mining Davis, a communications major, is a member of the Communities.” In conjunction with the Appalachian Coalition student environmental organization HEAL (Helping Crystal Hampton for Just and Sustainable Communities in Boone, NC, she will Earth and Learning), serves as a peer mentor in the local work at the grassroots level to protect mountain water supplies middle school, and volunteers weekly at Mountain and to study water pollution caused by mountaintop removal Maternal Clinic in Berea. A prize-winning orator with the coal mining. speech and debate team, Davis is also a member of the For the past two years, Feeney was part of the nationwide Mortar Board and Lambda Pi Theta academic honor Student Energy Justice Movement. While living in the societies. Upon graduation, she will pursue a law degree. Ecovillage Sustainability and Environmental Studies (SENS) During her eight semesters, Hampton, a business demonstration house in Berea, she worked as a student director major, made the Dean’s List six times. On campus she with the SENS program. With HEAL (Helping Earth and served as Black Student Union secretary, as well as Learning), a student-run organization, she pushed for greater student chaplain, and sign language coordinator with the reliance on renewable energy sources as the College becomes a Black Music Ensemble. For three years she tutored more environmentally sustainable campus. students at Berea Community School in math, reading, Founded in 1973 by Randolph and Dorothy Compton, the and science; she was also a news writer for The Pinnacle Compton Foundation supports selected graduates who partner student newspaper. Upon graduation, Hampton joined with a mentor to apply their academic learning to improve poli- the Teach for America program. In the fall she will cies and programs related to peace, population, sustainable pursue an advanced degree in non-profit management development, and/or the environment. and urban development. Berea was the only college to receive two fellowships this year. 10 BEREA COLLEGE MAGAZINE : SUMMER 2005 Around Campus Around reflects the synthesis of learning, labor, and service. labor,service. learning, and of synthesis the reflects s Berea former a for Award,named Book Dingman Helen The communities. 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Sports Update
BC Women’s Track Team Spring Results
Front row: Coach Kelly Ambrose, Khallida Kidd, Keeshia Pace, Carleigh Robins, Hannah Mitchell; Middle row: Rosanna Green, Hannah Miltenberger, Joanna Forbes, Elizabeth Durkin; Back row: Jane Taylor, Eboney Johnson, Delasea Sloan, and Leesa Unger. Lindsay Bruner, ’06 Lindsay Bruner,
Several students made significant shows during the state women’s Coach Wierwille, Keith Riley, president of the track meet held at Berea College in May. In the track events, Khallida Berea National Bank, Ashlee Crump, ’06, Kidd, ’07, of Stone Mountain, GA, placed 7th in the 200-meter dash women’s basketball scholarship winner, Coach and 4th in the 400-meter dash; Jane Taylor, ’06, of Carthage, NC Bunky Harkleroad, Johnna Whittamore, ’06, placed 4th in the 800-meter run and 3rd in the 1500-meter run; and women’s softball scholarship winner, and Coach Scott Buchannan. Hannah Miltenberger, ’05, of Morgantown, WV placed 5th in the 800-meter run and 7th in the 1500-meter run. In the 5000-meter run Leesa Unger, of Frankfort, KY placed 2nd. Two Receive Wierwille In the field events Joanna Forbes, ’05, of Amelia, OH placed 1st in the high jump; Hannah Mitchell, ’07, of Seneca, SC placed 7th in Athletic Scholarships the long jump; and DeLasea Sloan, ’06, of Simpsonville, SC placed Juniors Johnna Whittamore, ’06, of 5th in the shot put. The team also placed second in the 4x400 and Berea, KY and Ashlee Crump, ’06, 4x800-meter relay. of Lexington, KY received Roland R. Wierwille Athletic Awards this spring. The award, named for the former men’s Berea basketball coach and NAIA Hall BC Ball Handlers Sponsor of Fame player, honors those students Youth Sports Camp whose character reflects a sense of discipline, dedication, and determination The Berea College both on and off the field. women’s and men’s Short stop and outfielder Johnna basketball coaches and Whittamore maintains a 3.64 GPA in their team players directed Business Administration, is a member of two summer youth camps the Mortar Board Honor Society, and in June. Over 60 middle was named to the all-conference softball and high school students team during her freshman and sophomore from several Kentucky years at Berea. She volunteers as a counties attended the soccer and softball coach in area three-day camp to receive schools. She was nominated by softball individual instruction and coach Scott Buchanan. scrimmage competition. Ashlee Crump was praised for her The week-long youth commitment to both academics and her skills camp for grades Francis,’07Celeste basketball team. Coach Bunky Harkleroad K-12 covered all game said that forward Crump showed fundamentals, as well as tremendous leadership both on and off team building. the court, never missing practice or workouts. She maintains a 3.1 GPA in psychology.
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Lindsay Bruner, ’06 The Buzz about Bees in America By Linda C. Reynolds
Dr. Tammy Horn’s recent book Bees in race were created by humans, not a divine America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation presence,” she said. Berea’s founding history is causing a buzz in the literary world. Since the remained in her thoughts as she wrote Bees In time she was a child in Estill County, she knew America. Bee culture, beekeepers, and the moral she wanted to write a book but never imagined values represented by the life of bees in the hive the subject would be bees. “I didn’t know a all had major influence on how societies viewed honeybee from a yellow jacket until I was themselves. Tammy pursued these ideas and saw twenty-nine,” Tammy admits. a parallel development in modern beekeeping. As She spent many childhood visits with her pesticides and urbanization have changed grandfather, a retired teacher and beekeeper. He beekeeping, so have war, pesticides, and told her about growing up in Letcher County, urbanization changed the hive of human society. where cutting down bee trees was the accepted While working on her dissertation in mountain method of harvesting honey. Alabama, she regularly traveled to Kentucky to Among the hives at the College In 1975, Tammy and her sister moved help her ailing grandfather with beekeeping farm, Tammy Horn, ’90, shows the to South Dakota so their parents could teach duties. During this stressful time of career book critics are buzzing about, Bees in America. on an Indian reservation. The poverty of the decisions, personal issues, and her grandfather’s reservation overwhelmed her. Of course, she’d failing health, Tammy found that, as if from a seen needy people before, but now she saw the scene from her favorite movie, Ulee’s Gold, the ubiquitous poverty of the reservation as a social orderliness of tending the bee yard helped her injustice. It was not until years later that Tammy to find order in her own life. found the connection between a sociological “Opening up a hive of bees, inhaling the dilemma and bees. cinnamon-y smell of the beeswax, and tending During America’s colonization, the the hives became a therapeutic way of finding commonly used analogy between bees and the stability I was searching for,” she said. people emphasized a point about socioeconomic When she returned to Kentucky in 2000, status. In simple terms, society (like a beehive) she began to write about her work with bees. was made up of those who work (worker bees) Subsequently, the University Press of Kentucky to support the Queen and themselves, and asked her to write a history of bees to update those who don’t or can’t contribute (drones). the last such history published in 1938. In 2002 American colonists coming to the Land of Milk she returned to Berea College, from which she and Honey were duty-bound to swarm the new had graduated in 1990, to teach general studies. continent and create a new hive. In retrospect, it seems a natural progression The virtue of staying “busy as a bee” for her travels to have taken her flying from derived from a belief that all in nature was flower to flower across the country, only to patterned after a divine plan. Poor people return so close to home. “When my Berea were equated with idle and expendable drones, College professors Gene Startzman and Carol deserving of their lower station in life. By de Rosset turned me on to early American following this train of thought, Tammy literature and history, I was hooked,” said observes, colonial people “chose to ignore Tammy. Her professors made her feel that the real causes of poverty: unemployment, through historical research and writing, she medical emergency, racism, and discrimination.” could tackle anything. “I want to challenge my Consequently, people continued to suffer students that way.” poverty even in the land of opportunity. “Coming back to teach at Berea has been In later years, Tammy lingered over the so important,” she said. “It’s given me a way to idea that poverty was a human condition, rather combine my two passions.” than a divine ordination. “(John G.) Fee understood that many social issues regarding
13 14 BEREA COLLEGE MAGAZINE : SUMMER 2005 Jonas Friddle Jonas I nternational Education nternational communities around theworld. spend allhistimeperformingandexploringtheseartsin a 2005Watson Fellow, foronegloriousyearhe’llbeableto Jonas Friddle, ’05,hastwopassions—theatre andmusic.As national inorigin. local, regional, or is that and theatre on live music,dance, where hewillfocus Australia, and Canada, Ireland, Scotland, to project willtake him Friddle’s Watson
established the fellowship program in program fellowship the established Watsonthe 1968, In children IBM. of founder the husband, her honor WatsonJ. Thomas of Sr.widow to the by 1961 in founded trust charitable graduate to receive a Watson Fellowship.Berea 23rd the is NC, Mountain, Black from major theatre and English Friddle,an time. long a for nurtured intensivelystudy aninterest they’ve followpassion,a orindependently and to recipients enables fellowship The travel. and exploration self-directed of Watsonyear a spend Fellowship,will $22,000 a awarded were who colleges arts liberal top nation’s the from graduates recent 50 of Friddle,one The WatsonThe a Foundationis Jonas Friddle 2005 Watson Fellowship ByJulieSowell continents to research community arts involvement in music and theatre. and music involvementin arts community research to continents four visit to plans Friddle Jonas Watson Scholar year coming the In
the goal is fellowship andcommunity-building communication,”experiences where performingarts enrich community life. concentrateontheways these orcultural origin. Friddle will matter subject in national or regional, local, is that theatre and dance, music, live on focus he’ll There Canada. and Australia, Scotland, Ireland, to him project. proposed the for passion and cultures, new in themselves immerse to willingness potential, character,of leadership basis the on selected are Awardrecipients affairs. world and education in interest recognitionoftheir parents’ continued “Iseethe arts attheir best assmall Friddle’sWatson take will project
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we asked, ‘What can be family oriented, draw people together in ways he hadn’t but that college students will also enjoy?’ experienced previously. “Nearly every It ended up being such a success that night they gathered and shared as a two years later, we performed it again.” whole community in traditional music The comedy, Christmas 209b, and dance. These people would simply recounts the misadventures of three rather spend their time dancing 05 ’ men on Christmas Eve. It was twice together than alone watching television produced in Berea and the troupe in their homes.”
Casey Poe, Poe, Casey members are pursuing the script’s Inspired by his observation, Friddle Christmas 209b: Revival debuted December 2002 starring John Goodfriddle Theatre publication. The trio also wrote and decided to spend the first third of his founders, Clay Goodpasture, ’04, Jonas produced a murder mystery set in Watson year in Carragaline. He said, Friddle, ’05, and actor Clinton Hines, ’02. Boone Tavern. “I want to learn what it takes to create In 2003, he began playing bass a community environment like that.” Friddle said, noting that with the with the Berea College Bluegrass The other side of that coin will be increase in readily available mass media, Ensemble, although he had never studying the kind of people who emerge people have become less interested in from those arts-rich communities as well. performance arts. While exploring traditional music From his own experience, Friddle “I’m going to take my and dance, Friddle also plans to knows it doesn’t have to be that way. fiddle with me and I’ll experience Irish and Scottish theatre, His father, Joe Friddle, continues to including the Abbey in Ireland and the perform music with his college get to play music Scottish blue-collar 7:84 Theatre roommate around the Black Mountain Company. In Australia, he’ll spend area. At age 12, Jonas took up guitar; wherever I’m going. four months in Illawarra, an area rich he debuted in his first play during high I’m excited about in traditional Australian music, including school. At Berea’s Theatre Laboratory, Aboriginal Bush music. Friddle’s final he grew into an actor, director, and what I’m going to do four months will be spent in Canada, designer, in addition to working three studying how diverse cultures use years as a sound technician in the and the people I’m music and theatre to express and college labor program. In 2002, going to meet.” preserve their unique heritages. Friddle, Greg Johns, ’03, and Clay He has no definite plans upon Goodpasture, ’04, started a Berea return, although pursuing an advanced community theatre group called the played the instrument before. “I had degree in creative writing, directing, John Goodfriddle Theatre Company. taken guitar lessons from Al White and teaching appeals to him. “The The three theater majors took on all (music instructor at Berea and the most tangible thing I am likely to come of the production roles from writing group’s leader),” said Friddle. “They out with is the ability to run an arts to acting, with the simple idea of needed a bass player, so I jumped in.” center—to have dabbled in enough doing theatre people would attend. During the group’s subsequent areas and gained enough variety in “Pure entertainment was what two-week tour in Ireland, Friddle those areas to understand how to fill we were interested in,” said Friddle. discovered in their host community of communities’ needs for art, specifically “When we wrote our Christmas show Carragaline the ability of music to theatre, music, and dance.” For now, however, Friddle is packing. Bluegrass Ensemble “I’m going to take my fiddle with musicians on their Ireland tour: me and I’ll get to play music wherever Al White, music I’m going. I’m excited about what I’m instructor, Deborah going to do and the people I’m going Payne, ’02, Ryan to meet.” In recalling his previous Blevins, ’04, Megan Vaught, ’07, experiences in Carragaline, Jonas Jonas Friddle, and smiled. “They are just incredibly Amber Field, ’06. interesting people to be with. There are people who watch movies and there are people movies are made about— and these are people who get movies made about them.”
15 16 BEREA COLLEGE MAGAZINE : SUMMER 2005 The Long WayLong Home The the continent,” she said. she continent,” the building to directly contribute and home return to diaspora in sisters and brothers our attract will governance good that convinced am “I poor,”Kagwanja. says the benefit to used be donors from received those and resources Africa’s will accountability and governance good is and accountable manner. “Only when there developmentalaidisused transparent ina that so reviews accountability mutual conduct to governments African and partners development Africa’s encourage Africa.” in poverty alleviate help to hope “I Kagwanja, says growth,” economic sustainable stimulate that policies development sound build to Nations. United the of states member African all for development sustainable encouraging and advocacy,research, policy includes work wide-ranging her UNECA, with years four her In control. disease livestock of impacts environmental and economic the documented has Withshe (ILRI). ILRI Institute Research Livestock International Ethiopia’s at fellow post-doctoral a as Africa to returned she 1996, in Columbia at Missouri of University the from Ph.D. her earning After (UNECA). Africa on theUnited Nations Economic Commission with economist agricultural an as works there. life of quality the improve to homelands their to return then abroad, education seek to vision: common a shared each apart, years away.ten graduates College Berea miles of thousands country devastated war-a in hardship of years endured Hor,Soneath ’01, countryside. Kenyan peaceful but depressed, economically the in up grew ’90, Kagwanja, Joan By JulieSowell The LongWay Home She also contributes to efforts that efforts to contributes also She “By working with African governments native, Kenya a Kagwanja, Joan
medium-sized locally owned businesses in businesses owned locally medium-sized and small- for assistance technical and financing, equity loans, provides IFC The countries. member developing 177 IFC’s the of one Cambodia, native his in those for life of quality the improve will economist an as work his hopes Hor Worldthe of Soneath arm Bank, banking FinanceCorporation (IFC), the investment economic growth and job creation in creation job and growth economic had.” I that education quality high a receive to opportunities same the have not do who home back people those serve to responsibility moral a have “I country,”my help Hor.to says me enable and ideas innovative to me expose would region. River Mekong tri-nation a Penh,serves Phnom which in programs IFC with worked has Hor 2003, in FordhamUniversity at economy political in M.A. his earning Since governments. to advice and assistance technical offering as well as world, developing the businesses in Cambodia. in businesses sector private to assistance technical provides his in Hor Soneath Employed with the International the with Employed His ultimate goal is to contribute to contribute to is goal ultimate His that career a pursue to wanted “I I nternational Education nternational Phnom Penh Phnom office where he where office
but it is more acute for a post-conflict a for acute more is it but critical. is people million 13 country’s the of half almost for poverty Reducing day.per $1 than less on lives population Cambodian the of percent 45 that year.World Bank data in2004 indicates Cambodiansentering thelabor force each 220,000 estimated an has rate, birth high its of because which, Cambodia, childhood working with cousins and cousins with working childhood different. markedly were Berea to get to traveled they which by roads similar,the were but home return to then and College, Berea attend to Hor and Kagwanja led that desires elseto make any development sustainable.” anything than more capital human need you end the In do. to thing right the is Cambodians educate Hor.to “Helping country,”the rebuild to says commitment and minds fresh needs “Cambodia feet. its on get country their help to Hor,want like who people, finding business. export and import the as such areas, of variety a in them for mean would membership WTO what understand them help to designed was guide Hor’s countries. other with business doing of competition and benefits the both of awareness more WTOin2004, itsbusiness people needed the to membership gained Cambodia TradeOnce (WTO). Organization Worldthe with working of particulars the on businesses Cambodian for reduction.” poverty and growth economic to path clearest the is sector private competitive vibrant, a that show experiences “International Hor.says Cambodia,” like country “There is poverty in every country,every in poverty is “There Joan Kagwanja spent her early her spent Kagwanja Joan the and goals educational The is progress continued to key One guide a was created he project One
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relatives on her family’s farm, located on After high school graduation, Kagwanja recalls Hor. “I did not even know what the southeast slopes of Mt. Kenya, second worked in Nairobi for a coffee-processing the word ‘school’ was,” he says, “but highest mountain in Africa. She remembers firm. On her 21st birthday she reluctantly after he explained it, I wished very much picking coffee beans as a child and eating left that job to help her sister in Edmonton, to go to school one day.” a lot of maize, beans, cabbage, onions, Canada with childcare. Away from home, At age 10 his wish came true; while millet, and potatoes. “As is the case in she explored the possibility of further his family lived in refugee camps in many African families, I grew up around schooling, when a friend of her sister’s Thailand near Cambodia’s border, Hor extended family,” says Kagwanja. “I had told her about Berea College. attended school. Due to frequent moves, a pretty normal and happy childhood.” In 1974 in a war-torn village in he turned 15 before completing his primary Gaining an education, or having a Cambodia’s southern Svay Rieng province education. Over the next five years, a lack thereof, was a motivating factor in on the Vietnam border, Soneath Hor was determined Hor earned the equivalent of born. The civil war raging outside made it a junior high diploma, and completed a too dangerous for his mother to continue program of higher-level courses. her labor in their house, so she gave birth On his own for the first time in “inside a bunker, under a bamboo bush Thailand he found a university, the while mortar shells landed only two Cambodian School of Law and Public hundred yards from the bunker,” Hor says. Administration, run by expatriates who After the five-year war ended in 1975, also taught him English. “We had no the horrors of the Khmer Rouge era began. income and we survived only through food During the four years from 1975-79 rations from the U.N. After two days we approximately 1.7 million people (21 always ran out of fish and vegetables Andrew Andrew Allimadi In order to make sound recommendations to the percent of Cambodia’s population) died and, for the rest of week, we had to eat government, Joan leads discussions with farmers from starvation, disease, or execution. rice fried in vegetable oil. Given all this, I in rural Ethiopa. As a boy growing up during this was not discouraged,” he says. Kagwanja’s life. Her father was an educator, time, Hor worked on collective farms When peace returned to Cambodia, a missionary school teacher, and later an with other children his age, often finding Hor lived in Phnom Penh, supporting accountant; he served on the boards of himself separated from one or both of his himself through work as a translator, numerous schools and colleges in Kenya. parents. “Sometimes, when my father research assistant, and interviewer. On the other hand, her mother gave up could, he took me to his work. While Unable to afford further education, he education beyond primary school, “so carrying me on his shoulders, he pointed heard about Berea College from a former that her brothers could attend school, out some old, partly destroyed buildings. colleague. The clear purpose that spurred since there was not enough money for all He told me that they used to be schools,” him to apply to Berea College continues the children,” said Kagwanja. “Preference was given to the boys, and the girls worked the farms to earn money for their brothers’ school fees.” As an adult, her mother took responsibility for managing the family farm and caring for the family. At age three, Kagwanja began nursery school in her district, and at age nine, she enrolled in a missionary boarding primary school outside her village. “Only this way could parents ensure that their children had a quality education,” she says. She recalls learning to wash clothes, clean the dorms, braid her own hair, and Allimadi Andrew keep up with classes, too. The new responsibilities taught her self-reliance. For nine years she stayed in boarding schools, seeing her family only during In the absence of roads, donkeys are still the main mode of transporting goods to the market in rural holidays in April, August, and December. Ethiopia. “It bothers me that it takes many farmers up to three days on foot to get to a market,” says Joan.
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be laughter and joy. There will t was a scene from the perfect Kentucky tourism postcard— be compassion and caring. balmy, clear skies, a canopied stage framed by the Jessie Preston Draper Memorial Hall, and thousands of chairs There will be sharing and all of I for graduates and guests fanning out onto the lawn. A us will know. . . we belong. All bower of trees provided shaded seating and opportunities for families to stretch out on blankets with their little ones. The of us, all held in an incredible 133rd Berea College commencement was one of those embrace.” events that, years from now, folks will look at the pictures and remember “the good old days.” It was that good. David StephensonDavid
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committee helped lead South Africa away the Department of Physics. Since 1989, from bloodshed and toward, as Tutu said, Dr. Lahamer has shown a classroom “the lively democracy” that it is today. In “fascination with gizmos and passion for
1998, Tutu and his wife, Leah, formed physics” that underlies his diverse ’85 Arnold, O’Neil the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre, which research interests, which includes will be built in Cape Town’s central Mössbauer spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, business district. endohedral metallofullerenes, chirality in Today, Archbishop Tutu continues nature, and small fullerene clusters. “All, all, all belong in God’s family,” to speak out forcefully on matters of (Those who have attended Dr. Lahamer’s Archbishop Tutu told the Berea graduates. peace and justice in the world. In his physics classes will actually know what “And God says, ‘Will you help me realize my dream?’” commencement address, Archbishop Tutu this array of phrases means.) implored the new graduates to be fellow Dr. Fred de Rosset, ’72, professor of workers with God, saying: Spanish, received the Elizabeth Perry God says, smiling, “Class of Miles Award for community service. 2005, you are masterpieces in the Since coming to Berea College as a making. I need you. Without you, I student in the late 1960s, Dr. de Rosset will fail. I need you to be my remains active in the Kentucky Institute partners, and then this world will be for International Studies. He created a
transformed. This world will be program in which Kentucky police FrankenbergerJames transfigured so there will be laughter officers gain Spanish language skills and joy. There will be compassion and while spending up to five weeks in caring. There will be sharing and all Mexico immersed in its culture and of us will know . . . we belong. All of language. Through his service learning us, all held in an incredible embrace.” project, he has improved understanding Desmond Tutu and Eula Hall, recipients of honorary awards at Berea College Tutu’s remarks created a perfect of and service for increasing Hispanic commencement, enjoyed each other’s bookend to an earlier baccalaureate populations. company at a dinner with President Shinn message from Bishop Stacy Sauls. The The Paul C. Hager Award for and the trustees. In his commencement address, Tutu said, “God looks; God sees sixth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Excellence in Advising was given to Dr. a Eula Hall and God smiles that she has Lexington urged graduates to value love Patricia Isaacs, professor and chair of the become such a wonderful fellow worker over knowledge. “Knowledge must yield Department of Economics and Business. with God.” to Love,” he said, “because it is faith that Dr. Isaacs serves as the chair-elect for the saves you . . . and faith is not about what College’s Executive Council. you know. It is about how much you Jana L. Vandegrift, a graduating love.” Sauls recently established the St. biology major received the Hilda Welch Laurence mission church in downtown Wood Achievement Award. Vandegrift Lexington to serve the poor. His other maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point church-related service projects include average. Jeffrey Hurt, a triple major in StephensonDavid founding a clinic, an alternative school, German, psychology, and Spanish, and a food bank. received the T.J. Wood Achievement Following Tutu’s address, President Award and a Fulbright Fellowship. Shinn shook the hands of 240 graduates Adding to the festivities was the first Prior to commencement, Archbishop Tutu who crossed the stage to receive degrees. carillon concert to take place at an met with members of the African Student Association. (Left to right) Muzi Ginindza, Eight seniors who will complete their outdoor Berea College commencement. Ojja Kulusika, Nitchiko Berugoda, Virginia degrees at summer’s end also were Just prior to the ceremonies, John Senkomago, Jospeh Kimeu, and Albertina recognized. Courter, college organist and carillon Niilo. Berea’s highest faculty honor, the master, played over an hour of music Seabury Award, was bestowed upon Dr. on the 56-bell carillon located in Amer Lahamer, professor and chair of Draper Tower.
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Hilda Welch Wood Achievement Award: Jana L. Vandegrift
During the summer that Jana The aspiring pediatrician is happy Vandegrift worked in a children’s about the awards and opportunities for hospital, she experienced dozens of the future, even as she maintains her teaching moments that touched and commitment to her Appalachian roots. “I strengthened her. As she sat with would like to serve where I’m needed,” children who had lived most of their she said. “It’s not about the money, but lives in hospitals, or with families who about helping patients.” had spent many sleepless nights facing Eventually, Jana hopes to establish the unknown, she wondered whether a West Virginia practice similar to the David StephensonDavid under those circumstances she would busy rural public health clinic where she have had that kind of courage. interned with a physician during a short On May 22, 2005, the biology term semester. Jana’s mentor at the major from Fairmont, WV graduated clinic quickly initiated her into the many Jana L. Vandegrift from Berea with a perfect 4.0 GPA. Jana facets of her chosen field by assigning received the Hilda Welch Wood her a patient to meet and follow. She Achievement Award for outstanding interviewed other patients prior to female student and was accepted into examination, visited hospice patients in projects, and recreational activities. “By medical school at Johns Hopkins their homes, and researched Crohn’s interacting with others who cared about University, where she will study pediatric Disease before presenting a paper on them, these students received attention medicine. “Service is important. That’s the subject to a group of physicians. many lacked from their families. We why I chose medicine,” says Jana. “I “I enjoyed my leadership role at the helped them to feel they could succeed in want to help people.” clinic, although there was a time when I their own lives.” She received numerous awards and would not have had the confidence to do Betty Hibler, labor supervisor and scholarships to further her education, so,” Jana says. associate director of CELTS, praised Jana’s including the Seabury Award, the John During her labor positions with commitment to and caring attitude Bangson Biological Award for outstanding CELTS (Center for Excellence in Learning toward young people in the community. scholarship and leadership, the Doris and through Service), Jana tutored at-risk “Throughout her years at Berea College, Harold Rosenbaum Scholarship, and the middle school students and discovered Jana has been a steady, constant Norman C. and Rose B. Wheeler she was good at working with children. presence in their lives.” Scholarship for the advanced study of Jana continued her CELTS labor through Jana recalls one particular mentor- medicine. In addition, Jana is one of a her senior year, assuming more ing relationship with a teen who was handful of Berea graduates ever to receive responsibility each year. “CELTS taught expelled from the two area high schools a national Phi Kappa Phi fellowship to pay me how to step up and accept leadership and sent to alternative school. After her first year’s expenses in medical school. roles. I never thought of myself as a leader, working many weeks with Jana, he Jana credits Dr. Sarah Blank, her but through my student labor position I brought his final report card to show her, biology professor, with igniting her inter- learned to develop leadership skills I knowing how proud she would be of him. est in medicine. “Dr. Blank was so never knew I had.” As a high school graduate, he now passionate about biology that she got Last year she ran a program for 20 attends a technical school. me excited about it.” Blank was Jana’s teens mentored by six Berea College Remembering her student, Jana advisor for four years and helped her students. The college students worked smiles. “Knowing I touched that teen’s research the right fit in a medical school. with the teens on core subjects, service life is so fulfilling and rewarding to me.”
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By Linda C. Reynolds
T. J. Wood Achievement Award: Jeffrey W. Hurt
learning about and understanding as When Jeffrey W. Hurt walked toward many cultures as possible, I’ll have the the stage to receive the T.J. Wood capacity to share what I’ve learned with Achievement Award from President students or others in some multicultural Shinn during commencement, his grin context.” was almost as wide as the college lawn. On his first trip abroad for a He nodded and waved exuberantly to freshman short term class, Jeff was bitten the family, friends, and faculty who had by the travel bug in Mexico. He and supported him emotionally and spiritually other students lived with local families, David StephensonDavid through his college journey. During an attended an exchange school, and earlier interview he paraphrased Isaac traveled by public transportation. At the Newton’s humble insight. “Those who exchange school, English speakers stand out do so because they stand on learned Spanish, and Spanish speakers Jeffrey W. Hurt the shoulders of others.” learned English. This experience became A first-generation college graduate a turning point for Jeff, shining a light from Louisville, KY, Jeff also received a on his inherent talent for learning number of the College’s most prestigious languages and sparking his interest in Charleston, SC, he installed a new awards. A member of the Mortar Board, other cultures. Because of Berea’s study ceiling and repaired a thrift store for Phi Kappa Phi, and Delta Phi Alpha honor abroad initiative, he was able to follow Habitat for Humanity. To assure that his societies, he also won the Seabury Award these interests by traveling to Spain, service projects happen, he raises funds for academic scholarship and community Germany, and Austria. for projects with spaghetti dinners. After leadership, the Mary Macauley Smith With CELTS he combined his labor all of this, Jeff amazingly focuses not on Memorial Award in humanities, and the position with his passion for languages what he has given, but on all that he has Louise Veltin Memorial Award for to help younger local students. As a received. distinguished citizenship. Berea Buddy, he supervised 50 student “I made friendships and memories I In addition to holding a 3.99 GPA volunteers, pairing younger students will always value,” he said. and attaining the T.J. Wood Award for with role models to help reduce the After graduation and before travel, outstanding achievement by a male achievement gap. Betty Hibler, associate Jeff plans to return to work at Jackson student, Jeff accepted a Fulbright director of CELTS and Jeff’s labor County’s Camp Andrew Jackson, a job scholarship that allows him to study and supervisor, said, “Jeff’s wide-ranging his roommate talked him into accepting travel internationally to further his interest talents and interest in people make him last summer. Sponsored by CAP in serving the international community a leader who does not seek out traditional (Christian Appalachian Project), the through the gift of education. With a triple leadership roles, but who contributes as camp offers canoeing, hiking, work- German, Spanish, and psychology major, a powerful role model in a positive way shops, and other fun activities for Jeff’s dream is to “work in an to whatever setting he is in.” economically disadvantaged children. international, multicultural setting.” This In addition to studying, traveling, He couldn’t wait to return to the camp. fall he begins making this dream a and working, Jeff volunteers for such “The camp experience stretched my reality, teaching English to elementary service projects as food drives, the food heart further than I ever imagined,” and teen students in Leibnitz, Austria. bank, mentoring, and helping out as a said Jeff. After a year of teaching, Jeff plans translator in the Hispanic community. to continue studying abroad. “By During spring break in New Orleans and
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Berea Kicks Off “Year of the Ecovillage” with Dedication Ceremony
Years of planning and months of O’Neil Arnold, ’85 of sustainable living. Its “green” design construction culminated in May when the elements and technologies help reduce Ecovillage officially opened. The dedication energy and water use. These include passive ceremonies kicked off the “Year of the solar gain, photovoltaic panels, super
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Ecovillage,” a series of events that will composting and dual flush toilets, and
showcase the College’s new environmentally and socially sustainable residential and rooftop capture of rainwater. Performance learning complex. goals for the Ecovillage include reducing As the Berea College Bluegrass energy and water use by 75 percent, Ensemble played lively traditional tunes, generating electricity on-site from renewable college trustees, donors, community sources, treating its wastewater and storm leaders, students, residents, and neighbors water to swimmable quality, and recycling gathered on the courtyard lawn. After an at least 50 percent of its solid waste. President Larry Shinn unveils the plaque honoring Twenty-eight student families reside invocation by Jeff Pool, campus minister, Boyd and Gaynell Fowler (pictured) for their and a welcome by Elizabeth Culbreth, contribution to the construction of the new Child in the eco-friendly townhouses, as well as Chair of the Board of Trustees, the children Development Laboratory. in four refurbished units. A colorfully tiled information kiosk displays the straw bale and teachers of the Child Development Following the dedication, guests building technology. A nearby greenhouse Laboratory (CDL) sang a song of gratitude touring the Ecovillage viewed one of the houses an Ecological Machine that uses written for the occasion. townhouse-style apartments, the Commons, natural processes to treat all Ecovillage Mayor Steve Connelly, ’74, an alumnus the Sustainability and Environmental wastewater for non-potable uses. Water- of both the College and former Berea Studies (SENS) house, the Boyd and saving landscaping includes fruit trees and preschool, emphasized the strong historical Gaynell Fowler Child Development vegetable gardens. A Commons House connection between the city and College. Laboratory, the Ecological Machine, and located on the eastern edge is used for President Larry Shinn stressed the central the information kiosk. In the SENS house laundry facilities, mailboxes, kitchen, educational mission of the Ecovillage by guests watched “Living Upstream,” a dining, study, and meeting space. unveiling a plaque to honor Boyd and video work-in-progress about Berea’s The CDL on the western edge near Gaynell Fowler, for whom the Child efforts to become a more sustainable the park offers high-quality inclusive Development Laboratory is named. “My campus. The video is being produced in child care and enhanced early education excitement about what you’re seeing here partnership with the Kentucky Division experiences for children of college students, stems from these young children and of Energy and the U.S. Department of staff, and faculty. Enrollment is also their families,” Shinn said. “That is what Energy program Rebuild America. offered to children of the community on this village is about. It’s not about the Located across from the main a space available basis. Four students live buildings and the ecology alone; it’s campus, the Ecovillage illustrates energy- and work in the SENS house, a about the families that will be affected.” reducing and environmentally friendly demonstration and teaching facility. Before a crowd of nearly 200, building techniques. As Kentucky’s only As part of the “Year of the Sharonda Griffin, ’05, praised the ecological village, it continues the College’s Ecovillage” celebration, Berea will host Ecovillage as a rare opportunity. Living at long-standing commitment to good conferences, lectures, and workshops for the complex, she said, made it easier to stewardship of natural, human, and individuals and groups, including archi- be a good parent while being a full-time material resources. tects, building contractors, early child- student. “The Ecovillage gives families While meeting extremely high hood and environmental educators, and the opportunity to be who they are first— ecological, social, and educational others interested in sustainable living. a family,” she said. “I hope that this performance standards, the village can continue to be a blessing for Ecovillage addresses the well- all families to come.” being and education of its Children, aged 3-4 and 4-5, from the CDL sing residents and offers a model their original composition “We Love Our School, Yes We Do!” for the Ecovillage. Alice Ledford, ’06 Ledford, Alice Photo Photo by Alice Ledford, ’06
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Berea Kicks Off “Year of the Ecovillage” with Dedication Ceremony Campaign
“ e seek to understand the opportunity with a renovation that • Berea’s Portable Computers project, a interconnectedness of incorporated Lincoln Hall’s historic campaign initiative that puts a laptop W elements with eco-friendly components. computer in the hands of every our natural, fabricated, and Features include energy-efficient student, resulted in a 50 percent human worlds. We seek to lighting; recycled carpet, roofNews tiles, and decrease in student use of paper in understand the workings of other materials; and heating, ventilation, the first year of the program. and air conditioning systems designed to Students have been a driving force in our natural environment and use no ozone-depleting materials. Lincoln finding opportunities to become a more the consequences of human Hall recently became the first building in sustainable campus. Students helped interventions. We seek to reflect Kentucky to be certified by Leadership in establish the recycling program in 1991, Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). played a key role in designing the seriously upon the benefits and The depth of Berea’s commitment to Ecovillage, led campus and community limitations of scientific and sustainability is perhaps most evident in sustainability workshops, and will shape technological creations.” its everyday operations, where students the future with the tools they acquire and employees learn, work, and live in here at Berea. Being and Becoming: Berea College in the an increasingly sustainable community. HEAL (Helping Earth and Twenty-first Century, Berea College strategic Berea’s Energy Master Plan, which guides Learning), a student-run environmental plan, 1996 new construction and conservation and social justice organization, promotes efforts, includes a goal of reducing campus recycling, the purchase of eco- In the last ten years, Berea College’s campus energy use 45 percent by 2015. friendly materials on campus, and biking sustainability efforts have mushroomed The following examples are both instead of driving. La Vida Nueva is an from a fledgling student-led recycling practical and inspired: all-female “theme house” whose members program to a campus-wide initiative • The coal-fired heat plant is being vow to live plainly—and encourage encompassing new constructions, replaced with a more efficient natural others to do so—by sharing meals, renovations, campus operations, and the gas plant. buying local and organic foods, and curriculum. In an effort to understand • Printing Services purchases 100 percent hosting community workshops and the relationship between humans and the recycled paper for campus printers discussion groups. natural world, Berea began a journey that and copy machines. Berea’s formal curriculum reinforces became a model for environmental • All residence halls are equipped with its commitment to plain living with a responsibility and sustainability in low-flow showerheads and recycling Sustainability and Environmental Studies Appalachia. bins. (SENS) program and minor, established The College’s most notable project is • Berea College Crafts shreds in 1999. SENS is a multidisciplinary the Ecovillage, an innovative student departmental waste paper to use as program that explores the challenges of residence that demonstrates energy- packing material. creating a sustainable society that can reducing and environmentally friendly • The sawdust generated from meet its current needs without destroying building techniques and practices. Having Woodcraft is used as mulch around the ecological, social, and economic raised more than $10 million to build the campus, and scrap wood is distributed systems required to meet future needs. Ecovillage as part of the Extending to local residents for firewood kindling. The Compton Foundation contributed Berea’s Legacy Comprehensive Campaign, • Dining services composts about 200 to Berea’s formal sustainability curriculum Berea still needs more than $226,000 to pounds of food waste per day for use by funding a Chair in Ecological Design, complete the SENS house and Ecological on campus gardens. appointed in 2001, and Compton Machine. Although the Ecovillage is the • People Services has reduced the Internships that give students hands-on most visible of the college’s sustainability amount of paperwork necessary for experience in ecological design. efforts, Berea has adopted low-energy new hires. Berea must raise $400,000, however, standards for all campus buildings. • Public Safety encourages foot patrol in order to reach its SENS program goal Of the more than a dozen buildings instead of overdependence on vehicle for the Extending Berea’s Legacy renovated with stringent ecological use. Campaign. A total of $4 million is needed standards, one of the most dramatic was • Facilities Management has replaced to fully fund this program. In addition, the renovation of Lincoln Hall. When 14 gas-operated vehicles with 13 an integrated, campus-wide sustainability part of the building collapsed in 2001, electric carts and one converted education program will help the entire Berea transformed disaster into electric truck. College community reap the full benefits
25 26 BEREA COLLEGE MAGAZINE : SUMMER 2005 Campaign News Campaign smaller ecological footprint on the Earth the on footprint ecological smaller a leave to prepared Berea from graduate Students region. the in living sustainable of model a become has Berea life, everyday community’s the in changes and curriculum, pioneering renovations, eco-friendly constructions, new innovative Through resources. natural our of stewards good become to years ten past the in strides impressive made future. the into living plain practice to commitment our on good make and life everyday into sustainability integrate to students and staff Berea’s allow will which program, this implement to $300,000 • include: Examples region. surrounding the and C Laboratory,Development Child the the in enrolled children residents, Ecovillage for programs and resources provide will coordinator,program project this a by Led region. and community surrounding the with learned lessons share and efforts sustainability various Berea’s of • • • ollege community,Berea, ollege of town the Machine Ecological SENS House SENS Ecovillage Programmatic Ecovillage Child Development Lab Programmatic Lab Development Child Construction Lab Development Child As of June 30, 2005 2005 30, June of As Mini-grants for research on the on research for Mini-grants Ecovillage residents. Ecovillage for topics pertinent other and Traininggardening urban on sessions and departments, campus for workshops office” “Green education, environmental and living sustainable for library A initiatives, sustainability other and Ecovillage The Berea College community has community College Berea The The C ollege must raise more than more raise must ollege
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With more than 17,000 members Distinguished Alumni around the world, the Berea College Office of Alumni Recently, two Berea College alumni were inducted Relations represents a diverse yet into the University of Kentucky Association Hall of connected extended community. Distinguished Alumni. Fewer than one percent of UK We encourage all our alums to develop alumni receive this award. strong ties with your friends and to Dr. G. Samuel Hurst, ’47, a retired research Berea by engaging in our many professor from Knoxville earned a physics degree programs, services, and activities. from Berea College, a master’s degree from UK (1948), and a doctoral degree in physics from the University of Tennessee (1959). A corporate research Dr. G. Samuel Hurst Fellow from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where his 33-year career involved research on instrumentation, atomic physics, gaseous electronics, and laser physics, including original work on Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy (RIS), Hurst holds over 20 patents. Among his inventions is the widely-used computer touch screen. He was a research professor in the Institute of Molecular Biophysics at Berea is Coming to You! Florida State University, a professor at the Ford Foundation, the first Berea College Alumni Chapters are director of the Institute of Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy at the all over the country—one is probably University of Tennessee, and a physics professor at the University of meeting near you! Chapter meetings Kentucky. for 2005-06 run through May, so don’t miss out! For more information, Robert Gene Lawson, ’60, a faculty member contact the Office of Alumni Relations of the UK College of Law for over 40 years, served at 1.800.457.9846, or e-mail as dean from 1971-73 and 1982-88. Lawson is best [email protected]. known among Kentucky’s lawyers and judges as the principal author of the state’s improved laws on crime and punishment and the principal drafter of the Alumni Executive Council Kentucky Rules of Evidence. His book on Kentucky Officers evidence law, used by all state judges and most trial President: Dr. J. Mark Estepp, ’77 President-Elect: Iverson Louis Warinner, ’66 lawyers, has played a role in more than 300 case Past President: Dr. Steele Mattingly, ’50 Robert Gene Lawson decisions by the Kentucky Court of Appeals. A sec- Dr. William A. Laramee ond book by Lawson, Beverly Hills: The Anatomy of Mae Suramek, ’95 a Nightclub Fire, provides an historical account of the fire that killed 165 Council Members Dr. Larry D. Shinn, Berea College President people near Covington in 1977. Jennifer Jones Allen, ’01 In 2001 he received the Acorn Award, which is given annually by the Celeste Patton Armstrong, ’90 Kentucky Advocates for Higher Education. He also received the Kentucky Dr. Charlotte F. Beason, ’70 Pansy Waycaster Blackburn, ’58 Bar Center Award for outstanding service to the bar and the citizens of Kristin Conley Clark, ’92 Kentucky. This is the Kentucky Bar Association’s highest service award. Marisa FitzGerald, ’99 Eunice Hall, ’78 Rachel Berry Henkle, ’64 Betty Forbes Maskewitz, ’39 James Cecil Owens, ’66 Rob Stafford, ’89 Virginia Hubbard Underwood, ’73 Iverson Louis Warinner, ’66 Tell Us Your Story! Larry Woods, ’75 Alumni Trustees Berea College Magazine and the Office of Alumni Relations want to hear from you! Vance Edward Blade, ’82 Dr. Robert N. Compton, ’60 During our Sesquicentennial Year, alumni may submit their thoughts, story ideas, and Jan Hunley Crase, Cx’60 memories to BCM. Themes for 2005-06: Fall—Labor and Learning & International Tyler Smyth Thompson, ’83 Commitment. Winter—Interracial & Coeducational Commitment. Spring—Christian Commitment & Sustainability. Summer—Appalachia and Service Learning. Go to www. berea.edu/alumni and send us your story!
27 28 BEREA COLLEGE MAGAZINE : SUMMER 2005 Summer Reunion 200 Reunion Summer Appalachia novel, first Wheeler,His ’55. Manhattan of signing book a head resident of Talcott Hall from 1972-96.being including capacities, of variety the served Relations, College from retired recently laboratory.biocontainment Nelson, and facility research major a establish WattsBranch, to Medical helping is Texasof University the at Diseases Infectious Emerging and Biodefense for Center the for administration Ozarks. the of College the at humanities of professor visiting distinguished recently most was instructor.English He Berea former and Tennesseein (LMU) University Memorial Lincoln at affairs academic for president the to service for Merit Special Awardof Bussey C. Rodthe received Nelson Rebecca writer administrator.staff education Retiring higher veteran and scholar English an WattsM. Douglas Dr.Crain, and Brad Dr.expert diseases infectious to given Awardswere Alumnus Distinguished awards. received graduates 1965 Ecovillage. built newly the and campus of tour self-guided a on buildings open through strolled Alumni Department. Relations Public the in during“Share Your Oral History” activities memories college favorite recounted alumni several cameras, video rolling Before alumni. the of lives the on impact an made who those honored Recognition reminiscing. and picnicking, hugging, for time of plenty busy,all was kept there tours although and lectures, Luncheons, 2005. Reunion family,Summer alumni, for friends and 400 nearly welcoming from community and College Berea stop didn’t rain Even Otherspecial reunion events included scientific for director Associate vice and provost retired the is Crain three banquet, alumni the During and Remembrance of Service A , a second novel by Billy Edd Billy by novel second a , C , was published in 2003. in published was , ollege for 33 years in a in years 33 for ollege 5 C ollege. Kudzu Covers Kudzu Star of Star
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November 4-6 Welcome Back, Special Reunion Classes of 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, & 2005 Homecoming150 Years of Learning, Labor, and Service 2005
Date:______Name (as you want it to appear on name tag):______Class Year:______
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Home Phone:______Work Phone:______# of Tickets ______Awards Reception, 11/4 NO CHARGE. Ticket required. Meet this year’s award recipients at a special Friday evening reception in Baird Lounge. Distinguished Alumnus Award: Dr. George Lester, ’54 Outstanding Young Alumnus Awards: Jeanette Humphrey Byrd, ’89 and Dr. Paul White, ’89 Rod C. Bussey Award of Special Merit: Susan Curtis Vaughn, ’80 ______Sesquicentennial Carnival, 11/5 NO CHARGE. Ticket required. Celebrate 150 years of learning, labor, and service on the Quad. Fun, food, and games in a carnival-like setting! *** This special Saturday afternoon event will take the place of regular class luncheons and ALL alumni are invited to join in the fun. Hospitality rooms will be set up for each special reunion class (1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, & 2005) and class photos will be taken at a designated time/location. Cheer on the Mountaineers! 11/5 Come show your Berea spirit Saturday evening and watch the women’s basketball team take on the University of Virginia-Wise while the men take on Milligan College. Each ticket will admit you to both games. Tickets are limited and sold on a first-come, first-serve basis. ______ADULTS $6.00 each ______CHILDREN (5 and under) $3.00 each Young Alumni Pre-game Bash, 11/5 If you graduated within the last 10 years, you won’t want to miss this pre-game cook-out, complete with music and plenty of opportunities to socialize and network. Ticket price includes dinner, admission to both basketball games, and a $2 donation to the Berea Fund. ______ADULTS $15.00 each ______CHILDREN (5 and under) $7.50 each
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PAY BY CREDIT CARD: Charge my VISA, MasterCard, PAY BY CHECK: (Payable to Berea College) Discover, American Express, or Diners Club card Contribution to Berea Fund $______Contribution to Berea Fund $______Ticket Costs $______Ticket Costs $______TOTAL CHECK AMOUNT $______TOTAL CHARGE AMOUNT $______Card:______Exp. Date______Card Number______Registration forms must be postmarked by October 28th and sent to: Signature of Card Holder______Berea College Office of Alumni Relations CPO 2203 *** For a pre-printed name tag & registration packet, early reservations must Berea, KY 40404 be made by OCTOBER 28, 2005. Registration packets will not be mailed, but will be available for pick-up at the Alumni Building beginning November 3rd. or FAX to (859) 985-3178, or call 1-866-804-0591. For a Tickets can also be purchased at the registration desk during Homecoming. complete Homecoming schedule, check back on our th Tickets purchased after October 28 are non-refundable. website: www.berea.edu/alumni, or give us a call at 1-866-804-0591.
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Marlene Ellis Payne taught with the Kentucky 1954 Institute for International Studies in Denmark during 1968 Dempsey Bailey and summer 2004. John Payne worked at a medical clinic in Sara Kennedy, wife Kathleen Gibson Phebe, Liberia from February to June 2004. daughter of Eddie Bailey, ’57, celebrated Larry Owen and his wife, Betty, recently moved to Kennedy and Norma their 50th wedding Fearrington Village near Chapel Hill, NC. Proctor Kennedy, ’80, anniversary. They are both Dr. Paul Peercy was elected Chair of the Section on passed away March 23, retired from Lancaster City Physics by the American Association for the Advancement 2005 from rhabdomyo- Schools in Lancaster, OH. Kathleen Gibson and of Science. He is currently Dean of Engineering at the sarcoma, a rare form of Dempsey Bailey University of Wisconsin, Madison. childhood cancer. As Sara, Norma Proctor, and Eloise Painter Plavney and her husband, Cedric, part of her legacy, Sara Eddie Kennedy 1955 continue to travel and hike throughout the U.S. and her parents created Dr. Robert K. Dorton of St. Louis, MO celebrated an ongoing fund, SaraCare, at UK Children’s Hospital and his 45th reunion from Vanderbilt University Medical Kentucky Clinic to provide services for young patients School. 1963 undergoing chemotherapy and their families. The Dr. Helen Bessent Byrd retired from the faculty of Kennedys have been an active part of the Berea the School of Education, Special Education Department, community for many years, Norma having worked in the 1956 at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, VA in July 2004. She Alumni Association office and Eddie having taught in the Tommy Clark and his wife, Dorothy, recently enrolled full-time in the Master of Divinity Program at Berea Community School. Contributions to SaraCare may celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary. Tommy plays Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of be sent to People’s Bank, 419 Chestnut St., Berea, KY trombone for two bands. The Clarks reside in Christian Education. 40403. Charlottesville, VA and have traveled to 35 countries. Thad Mills of Belleview, WA works full-time as a corporate jet 1964 1969 captain, having twice retired--once Joyce Thompson Bergen and her family visited Catherine Stewart Johnson and John Kent in 1980 from the U.S. Navy as Rome and Venice last July. They reside in Hilton Head, SC. Johnson have retired and reside in Lexington, KY. captain, and again in 2001 as Chief Linda Crawford Kenney retired in June after 33 Pilot for Bill and Melinda Gates. years of teaching. Husband James Kenney, Cx’68, Wayne Spiggle and Elizabeth 1965 manages a Milton Propane plant in Rochelle, IL where the Betty Sutton Spiggle, ’63, reside in David Reber retired from teaching in June 2004. couple lives. Keyser, WV. Wayne was appointed to He resides in Milwaukee, WI with his wife, Polly. Ron Kiviniemi and Ann Harris Kiviniemi reside the Governor’s Pharmaceutical Cost Thad Mills Patsy Dills Tracy, Cx’65, recently moved to Murray, KY. in Pisgah Forest, NC. Ann retired in June 2004 after 33 Control Council and has been elected Gary Vaught retired from the City of Cincinnati years of teaching kindergarten and first grade. Ron for a six-year term to the Mineral County Commission. Recreation Department after 30 years. retired in June 2005 after 35 years in public education, Betty works as a youth counselor in her local church. the last four as principal of Pisgah Forest Elementary. Rubynelle Waldrop Thyne resides in Woodstock, Barry Wood is in his 34th year of teaching at Peters GA. Her husband, James Thyne, died in January 2004. 1966 Township High School in McMurray, PA. He also teaches Kenneth Crase and Mary Sue Keith Crase, Cx’67, theater for Waynesburg College. He was recently nominated reside in North Augusta, SC. Ken is technical advisor to to participate in the 2005 Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. 1957 Radiological Protection Services of Westinghouse Last summer he hosted/directed a large production which Carson Robinson and Savannah River Company. Sue is a retired real estate celebrated 30 years of musicals in Washington Park by Betty Brown Robinson, appraiser. the Washington Community Theater. He currently resides ’60, are retired and living in Beula Adkins Fraley has retired as children’s in Houston, PA. Missoula, MT. librarian from the Paris-Bourbon County Library in Kentucky after 17 years. Her contributions to storytelling and children were recently featured in the Lexington 1970 1958 Herald-Leader. Dr. Judith Sherrow Conde teaches Spanish at Roy Walters, Jr. and Lewis Plummer retired from the Commonwealth of Lexington Community College in Lexington, KY and at Janath Casto Walters, Virginia in September 2004 with 36 years of credited Western Hills High School in Frankfort. Betty Brown and Carson Ronald Dockery retired from the public school Cx’53, celebrated their 53rd Robinson service. He resides in Narrows, VA. wedding anniversary in Robert Vinson has just finished 11 years on State system after 31 years of service. Currently he is a biology December 2004. They reside in Morganton, NC. Council for California Teachers Association, and nine instructor at Morehead State University and supervises years on CTA’s political action committee, six of which he biology student teachers. He and wife Charlotte reside in served as a state officer. He teaches learning disabled Wittensville, KY. 1960 students at Alvarado Middle School in Union City, CA. Annette Hobbs of Gambrills, MD retired after 32 Thomas Coomer, Fd. ’60, retired in January from Kathy Timmermann Vinson, Cx’65, recently retired years of public service. Most recently she was Assistant the VA Medical Center where he had worked since 1974. from a computer company. Chief Information Officer for Information Technology at He and wife Barbara reside in Ashland, KY. They plan to Ft. Mead, MD. She worked for the Army for over 22 years. develop their farm near Lake Cumberland. Sylvia Barnett Johnson of Detroit, MI is a 1967 participant in the Black Women’s Health Study. The Richard Briggs married Faith Niday Plummer on 1971 research will contribute to the study of sarcoidosis, an September 16, 2004. Wayne Byrd was appointed Executive Director of autoimmune condition that disproportionately affects Dennis Wooten retired after 32 years of service the Office of Field Operations for Kentucky Department of African-Americans. with Perry County Schools, serving the last 14 as principal Revenue. He has been with the Revenue department for of Buckhorn Elementary and High School. He has been 31 years. He and wife, Linda, reside in Harrodsburg, KY. the Perry County Sheriff since 2003. He resides in Dennis Tolliver was promoted to Quality Director 1961 Buckhorn, KY. Worldwide, CVA at Arvin Meritor, Inc. He lives in Florence, Vance Davis and Liz Tester Davis, ’60, have KY and operates from the Troy, MI headquarters of Arvin retired. They enjoy taking cultural tours and reside in Meritor. Evelyn Combs Tolliver, ’70, retired in 2000. Mountain Home, TN.
33 34 BEREA COLLEGE MAGAZINE : SUMMER 2005 About Berea People Berea About Medicine in New Bern, NC. Bern, New in Medicine Internal Carolina Eastern of Clinic Care Urgent the WA.Seattle, in (POCAAN) Network AIDS Against Color of People for Program Man Every DuPont. with chemist development and research 1979 NC. Highpoint, in resides currently She DC. Washington, in Seminary Theological Wesley at Program Ministry of Doctor the into accepted 1978 census. care foster Kentucky on focuses dissertation Her College. Cumberland at teaching and work social in PhD 1977 CA. Saratoga, in resides and Capital Private Invesco at Partner General is He 2004. Homecoming during Panel Career Department 1974 University.Kentucky Eastern at Governance and Compliance Policy of Director Executive and Staff of 1973 Education. in Rights Human and Civil Awardfor Wilson S. Smith-Atwood Harth Lucy 1972 products are sold at the Ralph Stanley Museum and at and Museum Stanley Ralph the at sold are products The label. Legacy Appalachian the under products CA. Oakland, in located Company Steelcase a Corporation, Furniture TechnologyMetropolitan at WV.Wayne, in resides He 2004. and 2003 during vehicles stolen recovering in state the leading for Bureau Crime Insurance National the by recognized also Year.the of Officer was Enforcement He Law Outstanding 1983 KY.Louisville, in East Hospital Baptist for coordinator Georgia. in system school County Jackson the in pathologist speech-language a as works She TN. Harrogate, in College Memorial Lincoln from Administration and Supervision Educational 1981 198 Judy Kenny Dr. Lynne Sandra Esfandiar Virginia Barbara Angela Gerald Mark Joan Beth Michael 0 Rafson Crull Jarrell Bradshaw Blankenship McMullen Sutherland Carpenter Hope November 4–6, 2005 November4–6, Hubbard Baker completed her specialist’sin her degree completed 25 Lohrasbpour works as Family Nurse Practitioner in Practitioner Nurse Family as works Banks Gould Manual th of Berea, KY recently received the received recently KY Berea, of was named West Virginia’sWest named was 2004 is program coordinator for the 4 the for coordinator program is
is Director of Information of Director is Underwood resides in Buffalo, NY and is a is and NY Buffalo, in resides is the employee health employee the is HOME Mullins Caldwell Davis served on the Math the on served COMING , Cx’83, creates Cx’83, , is completing her completing is was recently was was named Chief named was
McCreary County.McCreary in Resources Natural and Agriculture for Agent Extension County the as Agriculture of College Kentucky of University the for works Greg 2004. 17, December on Whitis Charity March. in CO Aspen, in week paid all-expense an received winners The force. sales top the in being in achievement his for VerizonWireless for Winner TN. County Grainger in Center Health Blaire at practitioner nurse practice VA.Boyce, in reside Beth, wife, and He School. Department. Payable Accounts the in Kentucky Sister support. r NC. Marshall, in School High Madison Development. Central Kentucky’sof of Office University Rick husband, her and She PLLC. Kelly Jackson for services School. Middle Erwin at teach to continues and University Salisbury,in Adkins NC. Reamer,& Randolph Hayes, 1984 war). the (against Out Speak Families Military of member a is KY Frankfort, in Advocacy Public of Department 2006. early or 2005 late in home return to expected is Iraq, in stationed currently children. four have wife his and He IN. Brownstown, of Church Presbyterian First of pastor is VA.Clintwood, in resides Angela nationwide. retailers exclusive Cindy
Julia egistrar’s office doing web publishing and technical and publishing web egistrar’sdoing office with you. with on going what’s know us let Please Berea. attending while used name and year class the include Please [email protected]. e-mail or 1.800.457.9846, call may you Or submitclassnotesguidelines.asp. www.berea.edu/alumni/forms/at: web the on guidelines submission the check please photos, us send Toor world. news the your report and U.S. the over all Bereans from hearing enjoys Relations Alumni of Office College Berea The Birth: Timothy Mary Ed Sherry Suzanne Eric Kimberly Mike Paul Rev. Adkins Burns Barker Novak Crowden Bradley one and a half a and one Pearson A daughter,to A Denise, Emily Cunningham Adkins Morris , reside in Hurricane, WV.Hurricane, in reside , Pearson Setters DuVall Terry is in his 20th year at Clarke County High County Clarke at year 20th his in is Adkins Robbins
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and technicianatWest Liberty State College inWest Liberty, WV. of nephew the of grandson the is Iain McMullen. David TN. Huntsville, in resides She 2006. April in degree Engineering Architectural 1986 GA. Cochran, in reside and Peter,children three have husband, and She College. Georgia Middle at support 1985 Studies. the in published was university’sP.the Charles won Awardand Middlesworth Zines” through TeenSpeak Revived: Girls “Ophelia thesis, Her 2004. May in University Duke from studies liberal Anders. and Adison, Aiden, sons, three Program. Residency Medicine Family League. Junior Dunedin Clearwater the with Traininginvolved and committee Education Development, Membership the chair will Michelle year Next Search. Executive Edgewater firm, research executive an daughter and Jeff, husband, her 1988 Doug. husband, her with IN Hill, Moores in resides She America. ToyotaNorth for Manufacturing, specialist NC. Jefferson, West in reside They 12. January Burkett and Ivan to Blake, sons. three their with along China Shanghai, in Hat Lilly.and Abigail, Ginny,daughters, and Scott, VAFairfax, husband, with Flanders 1987 daughters. three and wife Chandler,his with AZ in lives Tempe.TechnologyAndrew in Enterprises Arizona Venturesfor Science Health of director use. medication and delirium Psychiatry.researching of is Department She the in medicine and nursing of professor associate tenured to University.promoted State was Pennsylvania Donna for work both they PAwhere Boalsburg, to moved recently and ’65 , Cx’87, live and work and live Cx’87, , Andrew Birth: Lisa Mary Mimi Monica Ruth Michelle Annette Birth: Dat Karen Alan Dr. Dorothy and Donna Lambert Banks Ramsey resides in resides Baldridge A son, Iain Charles, to Charles, Iain son, A Marsh O’Brien A son, Evan son, A Wallis Cindy Sandfoss L. Neff November 4–6, 2005 November4–6, Maggie Layne 2 will complete her Master of Master her complete will Wooten Birkenhauer Buckland 0 Lisa Gareis is the assistant interlibrary loan interlibrary assistant the is on Turner of Bahama, NC received a master’sa of received NC Bahama, of Lao Journal of Graduate Liberal Graduate of Journal th is program director of the Knoxville the of director program is Allen Earp Niemi
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member, where she worked until March 2005. She now 1989 resides in Spokane, WA. 2006 Elizabeth D. Gilbert Fellowship Dr. James Short, current adjunct professor of Married: Annette Cable and Aidan Broadbridge at in Library Science psychology, was recognized as a teacher who values and Union Church on December 22, 2003. The couple lives in encourages diversity as part of the University of Lanark, Scotland. Annette is employed with South This $3,500 fellowship is Cincinnati’s “Future of Learning: Addressing Issues of Lanarkshire Schools. awarded in May to a senior or Diversity” Project. Mike McClellan, ‘97 and Kelly Stone McClellan graduate of Berea College intending to of Lexington, KY have a two-year-old son. Kelly is a social worker at the University of Kentucky and Mike works as a pursue graduate study in preparation 15th HOMECOMING 1990 resident director. for professional librarianship. This November 4–6, 2005 Ashley Morgan was named associate director of needs-based graduate study fellowship Habitat for Humanity in Madison County. He resides in is given as a memorial to Elizabeth Tara Bellando is publishing a children’s book, Berea, KY. Welcome to Cricket Hollow. The book is being illustrated Birth: A son, John Paul, to Greg and Regina D. Gilbert, Berea College Librarian, by her sister-in-law, Jennifer Bellando. Shields Rickert, Cx’94, in August, 2004. Regina is a 1944-73. stay-at-home mom in Lexington, KY and home schools the Seeking Stories couple’s five children. Criteria for the award are quality of Andrew Stanberry overall academic performance at Berea Tammy Horn, author of Bees in America, invites and his wife, Cleo College, quality of performance in the readers to send stories for a second book on bees Scheich Stanberry, ’95, College Labor Program, evidence of a and the lives of women throughout history. reside in Cambridge, OH with their two children. career commitment to librarianship Andrew teaches ceramics or related professions, evidence of Valerie Salley’s essay, “Inventory,” was recently and Cleo is a psychiatric financial need, and, if appropriate, published in an anthology of Kentucky women writers nurse. quality of academic performance in a entitled I to I: Life Writings by Kentucky Feminists. Rebecca Thacker Summers recently moved graduate program: to Kingsport, TN. She and To receive an application, send a 1992 her husband, Mark, David Boling completed his master’s thesis titled, letter of inquiry to: celebrated their 10th Rebecca Thacker Summers “Dust storm transport of pathogenic microbes to Viking wedding anniversary. and family Scandinavia” at Oregon State University. He works in Gilbert Fellowship Committee Alaska as a legislative secretary. c/o Anne Chase, Freddie Brown, president of the YMCA’s Black 1995 10th HOMECOMING Director of Library Services Achievers program, was featured in an article in the November 4–6, 2005 CPO Library Lexington Herald-Leader, entitled “A Measure of Hutchins Library Progress,” covering a conversation with six leaders from Chrystal Reis Clark is a special education teacher Berea, KY 40404 Lexington’s black community reflecting on its changes. and resides in Stafford, VA with her daughter, Emily. Birth: A son, Aaron Thomas, to Shannon McCurdy Sean Hennessey’s art work was featured in the Final application must be received by Madon and Greg Madon, ’93. They reside in Middle exhibit “Theatrical Artisans: Props and Crafts from DC February 10, 2006. River, MD. Theatre” at the Montpelier Cultural Arts Center in Laurel, MD. For further fellowship information, Misty Lay, Cx ’95 is a school psychologist for the email [email protected] or call 1993 Bullitt County school system and resides in Mount 859.985.3266. Keith Goodin works in Carrollton at the Dow Washington, KY. Corning plant. Wife, Jennifer Graham Goodin, ’94, is the Israel Ray works for the Masonic Homes of new director of student life/advising at Ivy Tech Kentucky–Louisville. A licensed long-term care Mike Robinson is the vice president of academic Community College of Indiana, Madison campus. They administrator, he received his master’s in health and student services at Argosy University. He was married reside in Bedford, KY. administration from the University of Kentucky. in May 2004 and resides in Glen Ellyn, IL. Adam Howard is associate dean of faculty and Amy Brenda Sadler teaches at Rockcastle Middle Michael Thiel is the training and marketing manag- associate professor of education at Antioch College. He School and returned with her husband, Robert, and their er for the Johnson Motors Group in Western, WI. He and resides in Yellow Springs, OH. two children to live in Berea. his wife, Lisa, reside in Elk Mound, WI. Birth: A daughter, Eden Elise Lowry, to Tanya Lawson Stephanie Schilling Seraphine is a school psy- Lowry and Fred Calloway Lowry, Jr. Eden has one sister, chologist in the Nelson County Schools. She resides in Oliva Lowry, age 3. The family lives in Hamilton, OH. Louisville, KY with her husband, Jason. 1997 Birth: A daughter, Samantha Lee Melton, to Juanita Greg Goebel and Victoria Tozzi Goebel currently Melton and Roger Melton on April 19, 2004. They reside reside in Columbia, SC. Greg is finishing his MA in New in Clinton, TN. 1996 Testament at Columbia International University and Erin White Thomas accepted a position with Benjamin Drummond teaches American History working in the campus library. Victoria is beginning her Birmingham-Southern College as their fiscal compliance and World Civilization and coaches soccer at Todd Central graduate studies in clinical counseling at CIU. manager. She lives in Pinson, AL with her husband and High School in Elkton, KY. He received his master’s at Carrie Hoisington resides in Lakewood, OH. Her their two sons. Western Kentucky University in 2000 and an administra- first book, Tales of Extraordinary Beauty, was released tion degree from Austin Peay State University in 2003. He in spring 2005. lives in Elkton, KY with his wife, Angela, and their two Bradley Pace and Katie Elder, have a son and 1994 daughters. reside in Urbana, IL where Brad is pursuing his PhD in Mona Bayyuk joined the Leon and Sylvia Panetta Birth: A daughter, Zoe Elizabeth, to Robyn philosophy at the University of Illinois. The family will, Institute for Public Policy as an AmeriCorps VISTA Ferguson Lowe and Jeff Lowe on November 11, 2004. move to Sewanee, TN while Brad works on his Masters of member in February 2000 and taught at a local school. In They reside in Woodville, TX. Divinity at the School of Theology, University of the South July 2001 she returned to the Panetta Institute as a staff and finishes his dissertation.
35 36 BEREA COLLEGE MAGAZINE : SUMMER 2005 About Berea People Berea About Marlena University of Louisville. She resides in Louisville, KY Louisville, in resides She Louisville. of University the at education master’sreading her in completing Kentucky.of University the from education childhood early and studies family master’sher in KY.received McKee, She in Center Care Comprehensive River Cumberland at interventionist Inc. Ashland, for auditor financial international an KY.Frankfort, in Library Public Sawyier Paul the KY.Berea, in Elementary Creek Silver Corporation. Financial Cincinnati The for Underwriter Lines Commercial a as working also while University Wesleyan Indiana at management and science 2001 Robinette. VANicole Gap, wife, Stone his Big with in resides KY.Richmond, MT. Athman 2000 Kentucky.of Commonwealth the for worker social a country.is Marlena cross coaches and health and education physical school Terryhigh where teaches KY Providence, in reside They TN. Goodlettsville, in resides He School. High II Paul John at Services School Independent University.International Trinityfrom education master’s in a degree on working husband her with KY Ashland, in resides and Police State Kentucky Restaurant. Evans Bob a manages 1999 nurse. psychiatric a as WV Huntington, in works and KY. researcheratKentucky Wesleyan College inOwensboro, China. People the in Institute Art Ceramic Sanbao WA.Bellingham, in reside They 2004. February 1998 IL. Forest, River in University Dominican at Science Information and Library
Rachel Mary David Allison Ellice Shawn Mark Jana Birth: Birth: Jason Melissa Rhonda Michael Bonnie Susana Ann Married: Verlena in June, 2004. The family lives in Glendive, in lives family The 2004. June, in Hazels Rutledge Marie A son, Ethan Tyler,Ethan son, A to Ruth Castle Jones Holly A daughter,to A Nichole, Carrie Harrison , Adkins Eugenia Jason. Luzuriaga Bush George Simms Dillenbeck Jenkins Arnholt November 4–6, 2005 November4–6, Tina 5 Isaacs received a fellowship to Jingdezhen to fellowship a received Bailey is general manager for Sodexho for manager general is teaches physical education and education physical teaches Chick th Underwood Starks Gehrke is working on a master’sa in on working is is pursuing a master’sin a degree pursuing is is assistant youth coordinator at coordinator youth assistant is resides in Columbus, OH and is and OH Columbus, in resides
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at Duke University from 1950-92. He is survived by wife Integrated Food and Farming Systems, he was also the College Officers Joyce Lockhart Harris, ’48. Chairman of both the Barry Conservation District and M. Elizabeth Culbreth, ‘64 Jean Gray Masengill, Cx’43, died March 18, the Rural Partners of Michigan. Chair of the Board 2005. She was a retired teacher after 20 years at Barbara Smith McDonald, ’63, of Hemphill, TN Dr. Larry D. Shinn Dobyns-Bennett High School in Kingsport, TN. died in August 2003. President Robert Brickey, Cx’44, of Columbus, OH died Phillip Rollins, ’64, of Florence, KY is deceased. Dr. Carolyn R. Newton March 14, 2005. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army Air He was former principal at Conner Middle School in Academic Vice President and Provost Corp and a certified public accountant. He is Hebron, Ky. Dr. Stephanie Browner survived by wife, Jane Brickey. Judith Ann Wilson, Cx’65, of Liberty, KY is Dean of the Faculty Margaret Troutman Saul, Cx’44, of Centralia, deceased. IL died December 7, 2004. She is survived by husband, Betty Payne Bisbee, ’67, of Lubbock, TX died Gail Wolford James Saul, Cx’44. April l5, 2005. Vice President for Labor and Student Life Dr. William Voris, Cx’44, Navy V-12, of Peoria, E. Diane Kerby, ‘75 AZ died January 6, 2005. He is survived by wife, Mavis Vice President for Business and Voris. 1980s Administration Keven Hollars, ‘88, a registered nurse at Frazier Glen Charles, Cx’45, Navy V-12, of Crestwood, Dr. William A. Laramee Rehab in Louisville, KY died March 1, 2005. KY died November 27, 2003. Vice President for Alumni and College Loretta Head, ’45, of Berea, KY died January 14, Relations 2005. She was a dietician for many years. 1990s Jeff Amburgey Dr. Polly-Ann Burmley Proett, ’45, is Charles Howard, ’92, of Independence, KY died Vice President for Finance deceased. December 25, 2004. Judge B. Wilson, ’78 Victor Creighton Vybiral, Cx’45, of Bush, LA General Counsel and Secretary died April 20, 2003. , a former high school 2000s Lillian Davis Drew, ’46 Ora Lee Hill, Hon. ’00, of Birmingham, AL died College Trustees teacher living in Vevey, IN died December 20, 2004. in February. She is survived by husband, Ernest Hill, ’36. M. Elizabeth Culbreth, Arlington, VA , of Bedford, KY died Jean Smith Sibley, Cx’47 Chair of the Board October 31, 2004. Dr. Larry D. Shinn, Berea, KY Kathryn Abels Stratton, ’47, a former Faculty/Staff/Trustees professor at Indiana University of PA, died in July 2004. President of the College Jim Bergman, former Baptist Student Union Monroe Hall, ’48, a retired teacher and Navy vet- Vance E. Blade, ’82, Louisville, KY Director at Berea College, passed away December 14, eran of World War II from Louisville, KY died October Nancy E. Blair, Stamford, CT 2004. He also held administrative positions at Alice 6, 2004. He is survived by his wife, Henrietta Hall. Ann Jones Bowling, Darien, CT Lloyd College under five presidents. He is survived by Anna Johnson Smythe, ’48, of Tonawanda, NY Dr. Robert N. Compton, ’60, Oak Ridge, TN his wife, Betty. died November 19, 2004. Martin A. Coyle, Bemus Point, NY Rev. Raymond Eugene Gibson, ‘44, of Charlene Mullins Stone, ’49, a former Jan Hunley Crase, Cx’60, Somerset, KY Shelbyville, KY died at his home in Hillsborough Center, kindergarten teacher of Asheville, NC died April 5, 2005. Dr. Chella David, ’61, Rochester, MN NH on June 19. He was a Berea College trustee from Glenn R. Fuhrman, New York, NY 1963-85. A Congregational Church minister in New 1950s Hampshire, New York, and Rhode Island, he earned James P. Gray, II, Lexington, KY , of Lexington, KY his bachelor of divinity degree from Union Theological Hon. William R. Gruver, Eagles Mere, PA Dr. Barbara Noel Bevard, ’50 ~ died March 27, 2005. She was a Doctor of Chiropractic. Seminary and his Ph.D. in philosophy of religion from Heather Sturt Haaga, La Canada, CA Phillip Cameron, ’51, of Maple Heights, OH Columbia University. An active participant in civil rights, Donna S. Hall, Lexington, KY died December 23, 2004. he participated in the march to Montgomery with the Marian L. Heard, Natick, MA Jane Sherrow, ’51, of Beattyville, KY died Rev. Martin Luther King. An artist and craftsman, he Dr. Geneva B. Johnson, Brookfield, WI February 5. She was a teacher in the Lee County school founded Gibson Pewter at Hillsborough Center in 1966. Rev. Canon Lucinda Rawlings Laird, system for 40 years. He leaves a wife, Susan Cochran Gibson, ‘45; four Louisville, KY Dr. Milton Wise, ’51, of Seneca, SC died on sons, Cyrus Gibson of Portsmouth, RI, Mark Gibson of Brenda T. Larsen, Kiawah, SC January 3, 2005. A former long-term president of Hubbardston, NH, Christopher Gibson of Sebastopol, Dr. Eugene Y. Lowe, Jr., Evanston, IL the American Society of Animal Sciences, he was a CA., and Jonathan Gibson of Hillsborough, NH; a Dr. Elissa May-Plattner, Camp Springs, KY member of the Order of the Palmetto, and a Kentucky daughter, Lauren Chapin of Brooklyn, NY; two brothers, Dr. Harold L. Moses, ’58, Nashville, TN Colonel. He is survived by wife, Elenita Ellison Wise, Wallace Gibson Jr. of Richmond, MI, and Roy J. Gibson James E. Nevels, West Chester, PA ’51, brother, Tom Wise, Cx’64, sisters, Gay Wise of Louisville, KY. Dr. Charles W. Seabury, II, Westlake Village, CA Franklin, ’56, and Leola Wise Coffey, ’58. Mary Lou Parsons, who retired after 25 years as Dr. David E. Shelton, ’69, Wilkesboro, NC Joyce Gilliam Byrd, ’53, of Carrollton, GA died a statistician in the Berea College Development Office, Mark Stitzer, Greenwich, CT in November 2003. She is survived by husband, Dr. passed away May 2, 2005. She is survived by a son, David S. Swanson, Walpole, ME Dexter Byrd, ’55. John David Parsons of Frankfort, KY and a sister, Irene Tyler S. Thompson, ’83, Louisville, KY Homer “Hap” Porter, Jr., ’53, of West Covina, Parks, of Berea. CA died January 20, 2005. He was a special agent for Alfred Jehu Stokely, longtime Berea College David O. Welch, ’55, Ashland, KY the FBI until his retirement in 1979, whereupon he trustee, died on July 10 at his home in Whitestown, IN. Dawneda F. Williams, Wise, VA worked for the Motion Picture Association and the In addition to serving on the College Board of Trustees Drausin F. Wulsin, Cincinnati, OH Recording Industry Association of America. He was the from 1962-85, he was retired President and Chairman Robert T. Yahng, ’63, Kentfield, CA father of Berea College former Provost Dave Porter. of the Board of Stokely Van Camp, a company founded Dr. Derl Stallard, ’55, of Maggie Valley, NC died by his father. One of his more notable accomplishments Honorary Trustees March 25, 2005. He practiced dentistry until his was bringing the then-unknown product, Gatorade, Alberta Wood Allen, Bethesda, MD retirement in December 2003. under the Stokely label in 1967. During his long and Dr. John A. Auxier, ’51, Lenoir City, TN Delno Ausmus, ’59, of Knoxville, TN died distinguished business career, he served on many Barry Bingham, Jr., Glenview, KY February 20, 2005. He was a physicist in the Nuclear corporate boards, including Indiana Bell, Bank One, Jack W. Buchanan, ’46, Jensen Beach, FL Science Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory until American United Life, and the National Association of Wilma Dykeman, Asheville, NC his retirement in November 2000. Manufacturers. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Kate Ireland, Pemaquid, ME Jimmy Rader, ’59, of Dallas, TX died April 2, 2005. Jeanette Tarkington Stokely; four children, Alfred J. Dr. Juanita M. Kreps, ’42, Durham, NC Stokely, Jr., Randolph H. Stokely, Barbara E. Stokely, Dr. Alice R. Manicur, Frostburg, MD 1960s and Martha T. Stokely Parson; two step-children, Linda Kroger Pettengill, Cincinnati, OH Thomas Guthrie, Cx’62, of Delton, MI died T. Danner and William B. Danner; and a sister, Janie February 19, 2005. Executive Director of Michigan Stokely Weinberg of Chattanooga, TN.
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President Larry D. Shinn congratulates Kaleb Hall, age 3, and his mother, Shelly Smith, who graduated with a B.S. in nursing. Joe Bagnoli, ’88, Associate Provost for Enrollment Management, looks on.