Ransdell Chapel, lit green, to honor COVID-19 victims SUMMER 2020 VOLUME 18 NO. 1 2020 + FRIENDS OF CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY SUMMER FOR ALUMNI THE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2020 1 The Campbellsvillian is published three times yearly by the Office of University Communications for alumni and friends INSIDE of Campbellsville University. THIS ISSUE Cover photo provided by Ariel C. Emberton, staff writer/ photographer, Office of University Communications.
Dr. Michael V. Carter President
EDITORIAL BOARD President Michael V. Carter explains how Joan C. McKinney 3 the university is coping with COVID-19 Editor, Director of University Communications [email protected] Amber Meade (’18) CU graduate Jordan Read (’18) attends Assistant Editor, medical school during global pandemic Communications Operations Manager 4 [email protected] Dr. H. Keith Spears Senior Vice President and Madison Eads (a ’20), second Assistant to the President semester nursing student, hears Dr. [email protected] 6 Steven Stack’s call and volunteers in Benji Kelly (’95, M ’05) the fight against COVID-19 Vice President for Development [email protected] Ashley Farmer (M ’17) Director of Alumni Relations Dustin Barnes (’14) and his wife, [email protected] 7 Janet (’08) balances parenting with Darryl Peavler (’03, M ’05) frontline work Athletic Alumni Director [email protected] Jordan Alves (’13, M ’15) Free counseling through CU-Well Sports Information Director Counseling is available to all [email protected] 8
OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS Campbellsville University Lady Tiger alumni are helping 1 University Drive #787 on the frontlines Campbellsville, KY 42718-2190 10 Phone: (270) 789-5214 | Fax: (270) 789-5095 [email protected] or [email protected] for information regarding pictures. #FrontlineFriday salutes those helping in coronavirus pandemic Campbellsville University is accredited by the 12 Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award certificates, associate, baccalaureate, masters and doctoral degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at Tiger Tracks 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4500 for questions about the 12 status of Campbellsville University.
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2 Campbellsvillian A message from the president
For months, we have all had to focus on the pandemic. We share in your worries and uncertainties, but Campbellsville University will remain strong as we emerge from this crisis. At this writing, we do not know what the fall term will look like. Decisions are being made on how to have classes, football games, concerts and other activities that make up a university. We are already developing plans for the fall term, supporting students and furthering our mission of quality Christian higher education. Working from home, our University Communications team has been remarkable in assembling this Campbellsvillian issue. You will find stories of frontline workers, devoted faculty, determined students and alumni and innovative strategies that are rooted in servant leadership. During this crisis, your university has held true to the course. We have not THE PRESIDENT’S COVID-19 GROUP, made up of Campbellsville University’s vice presidents waivered, and we have used our platform to and others, meets almost daily to discuss the coronavirus and how it is affecting CU. On this Teams meeting are from left and top: First row – Dr. Donna Hedgepath, provost and vice president for academic support recovery and treatment efforts. From affairs; Ginny Flanagan, special assistant to the president; and Dr. Michael V. Carter, president. Second donations of protective personal equipment row – Dr. H. Keith Spears, senior vice president and assistant to the president; Jason Lawson, director (PPE) to the development of innovative of personnel services; and Rusty Watkins, dean of students. Third row – Tim Judd, vice president C-Terms, and the vast majority of office staff for finance; Benji Kelly, vice president for development; and Otto Tennant, senior vice president for were transitioned to work-at-home setups, operations and administration. (CU Photo by Kellie Vaughn) Campbellsville University has risen to the challenge. Your past and continued support is Campbellsville University had a strong start to the 2020 spring semester. what has made this possible. Alumni, family No one anticipated the turns it would take. and friends of Campbellsville University are Campbellsville University, along with the rest of the world, was shocked the backbone of what we do. Your prayers and by the rapid expansion of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the virus spread, support provide the foundation for this great our university administration worked tirelessly to develop and implement university as we move into the future. Thank policies that would ensure the health of our students, faculty, staff and you for dedication to Campbellsville University. coaches. Keeping the Christian mission of the university in the forefront May God bless you and your family, and may remains paramount to us. God bless Campbellsville University. Campbellsville University was well prepared for such a time as this. Our past five years have been years of tremendous growth. Further, Most cordially, Campbellsville University has developed a robust online education presence and has been utilizing technologies for meetings well before the pandemic dictated their use. Needed changes were not simple to make. Students were moved to remote coursework and the vast majority of office staff was transitioned to Michael V. Carter work-at-home setups. There were some students who needed to remain in our residence halls. We continued providing services and support for these students. The dining services, thanks to wonderful leadership by Pioneer College Caterers Inc., remained functional and provided exceptional service throughout the crisis.
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Jordan Read (’18) receives his white coat from the Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine (KYCOM) in Pikeville, Ky. (Photo submitted)
4 Campbellsvillian Campbellsville University Jordan alumnus attends medical Read school during global pandemic
BY ARIEL C. EMBERTON, STAFF WRITER/PHOTOGRAPHER
For Jordan Read, going into the medical field had always been “We read stories about how devastating things like the plague, a calling and his passion. or the Spanish flu, or famines are in our history books. We never What he wasn’t expecting though was to be part of the “first think they can happen to us. Honestly, most of us probably generation of medical students, and soon to be doctors, who thought our world was so advanced in tech and healthcare will have completed part of their degree 100% online” due to the advances that something like this could never happen to us. Yet novel Coronavirus-2019. here we are, the world stopped in its tracks by a microscopic virus no one seems to know how to treat effectively,” Read said. Read graduated from Campbellsville University in 2018 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a minor in pastoral ministry. As a student, Read is no longer allowed to have patient contact He is now enrolled at the Kentucky College of Osteopathic as a part of class. However, when Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear Medicine (KYCOM) in Pikeville, Ky., one of the three medical and Dr. Steven Stack, Kentucky’s public health commissioner, schools in the Commonwealth, and is pursuing a degree to sent out emails asking for volunteers to help when the crisis become an osteopathic physician. He expects to graduate in 2023. begins to develop more, Read volunteered. “Right now, I have a passion for emergency medicine and As the world begins to dive into telemedicine more, Read critical care,” Read said. “For me, this was really a calling more believes it will be very prepared on how to integrate telemedicine than anything. I really believe God is leading me into this field into its practice as we are seeing its use and application first to be the light in a very dark place, a calm in the storm and be hand during the pandemic. able to point to the beacon of hope, Jesus, on the worst days of For Read, one of the hardest parts of this is the questions from people’s lives. That’s why I have a passion for emergency med friends and family for him and his classmates that they don’t and critical care.” have answers for. “Most of the time the answer to the questions On March 16, Read’s classes moved to fully online curriculum is ‘We just don’t know.’ for lectures and clinical labs which he said are “very “We all really want to help, and to some extent we do have complicated” and, he said, poses a lot of “what if” scenarios for skills to assist in patient care, but as of right now there seems medical educators and schools in the future. Clinical studies to be way more confusion than solid answers in the field as a are meant to be hands on and done with patients while doctors whole. Medicine is first to do no harm, but if we as a medical instruct students. Read said this isn’t possible due to the current community don’t know the best way to help, that’s a hard pill to COVID-19 situation. swallow,” Read said. “We as a school are doing our best to use things like Zoom, Overall, Read wants people to understand that doctors, nurses, Microsoft Teams, Google Hangout, etc.” PAs, NPs and other health care professionals were not trained Content for his classes has also shifted. “In our immunology for this. class we recently had a lecture on COVID and where it takes “Yes, they are smart and competent, but they are learning on its place among the other famous pandemics, how the vaccine the fly and making decisions on their best judgment.” He said no would have to work and what are some challenges associated one could have accurately predicted, prepared or trained for the with the virus we can’t seem to find answers to yet,” Read said. magnitude of impact this has had. In another class, Current Issues in Medicine, three lectures “I think having citizens who are aware and proactive with have been given by the dean of the COM and have been about their own health will do a huge service to our healthcare system. COVID and how to use and take off the personal protective Educate yourself from credible sources, don’t allow fear and equipment (PPE). Students listened to a Harvard medical grand panic to rule your life and above all trust that God is bigger than round lecture of experts in the field discuss the current state this pandemic,” Read said. of affairs worldwide, as well as what is means for medical “No one knows the end of the story, no one knows the toll it education for the coming months. will take or what the last pages will say. How we respond now as Read believes depending on how students do academically a human race will echo in the history books forever.” across the nation during this time, medical curriculum could change forever.
SUMMER 2020 5 FEATURES NEWS ATHLETICS UPDATES Campbellsville University student called to the frontlines during COVID-19
BY ARIEL C. EMBERTON, STAFF WRITER/PHOTOGRAPHER
When Madison Eads arrived at the Ridge Wood Terrace, a nursing home in Madisonville, Ky. April 16, she joined a limited staff on a journey to help fight the spread of COVID-19. “When we arrived at the unit there was only one registered nurse, a med-tech and three aides for the three halls,” Eads, a Campbellsville University School of Nursing student from Hodgenville, said. At the age of 20, Eads, who is a second semester nursing student, was fighting a global pandemic in a facility that had seen over 60 cases. As one of the many people in the Commonwealth to offer themselves as a volunteer, Eads said, “The only criteria for the volunteerism was to be a nursing, medical or pharmacy student willing to volunteer and face COVID in a direct setting.” She received an automated phone call requesting her presence at a specific location on a certain date. While Eads served for one week at the nursing home facility, she said she gained a lot of experience. She performed the work of a certified nurse aid (CNA), which she was already working as, and helped the registered nurses at the facility. Eads said she volunteered because she is healthy and young. “This virus targets people of increasing age. When I received the phone call asking if I would be willing to go, I was so excited because that meant I could go and help people in need.” Volunteering meant Eads would not be compensated monetarily. However, Eads said when she first arrived at the facility it didn’t matter because she knew she was helping people who desperately needed it. “The smiles and the relationships you build with those people are the rewards of the experience,” Eads said. She worked from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and still managed to work on her nursing classes. Eads was paired with a University of Kentucky medical student and a pharmacy student who both had little experience with aid work. “I spent the first day teaching them a crash course in CNA work and helping the nurses in between.” Eads, being the only CNA volunteer, said she learned things from the medical and pharmacy students while they learned things from her. Eads also said she got to experience a wide variety of skills including checking glucose levels and giving medication through a G-tube, and she assisted with assessing and preparing patients being sent to the hospital. Eads got a thank you letter from Dr. Steven Stack, commissioner of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Department for Public Health, in Frankfort, Ky. Dr. Michele Dickens, interim dean for the School of Nursing and associate professor of nursing at Campbellsville University, said hearing Eads’ story brought tears to her eyes and solidifies why people go into the field of nursing. She said Eads is “a true reflection of our mission at Campbellsville University’s School of Nursing, which is caring, compassion and competency. Thank you again for your service and sharing your experiences. We have been praying for you and all frontline workers.” Eads said she would encourage anyone in the medical field, regardless of experience, to take time to volunteer.
From left: HEATHER FLEESE, MADISON EADS (a ’20) AND LINDSEY DUNWOODY were three of the six students to volunteer to care for patients at a healthcare facility in Hopkins County. They are pictured wearing their personal protective equipment consisting of a gown, gloves, a respirator and a face shield. (Photo submitted)
6 Campbellsvillian Teacher by day; Frontline worker by night
BY ARIEL C. EMBERTON, STAFF WRITER/PHOTOGRAPHER
During quarantine, parents are adding work routine in many ways. Along with complete opposite of my normal 7:30 a.m. the title “teacher” to their growing list of employees having to get their temperature to 3:30 p.m. schedule when I was working as jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. For checked before coming to work, the amount the school nurse,” Janet said. Dustin and Janet Barnes, while one of them of PPE hospital staff is required to wear has Dustin and Janet’s oldest son, Jackson, is a is checking their first grader’s homework, increased significantly. first grader and still has homework he must the other is suited up in personal protective “Before the virus, we would only wear complete online while also participating equipment (PPE), working on the front lines N95 masks in patients’ rooms with known in Zoom meetings with his teachers. Their to fight COVID-19. airborne transmitted diseases; now we youngest, Dalton, is a preschooler and while Dustin, a 2014 Campbellsville University treat every person as if they have COVID- he doesn’t have classwork to complete, graduate, works at Taylor Regional Hospital 19 whether they are exhibiting symptoms his parents work to make sure he is still in the cardiopulmonary diagnostics lab or not. So, we are wearing N95s in every engaged and learning. where he performs outpatient procedures. patients’ room,” Dustin said. According to both Dustin and Janet, His wife, Janet, a 2008 Campbellsville His schedule also changed for a few “Whoever is home for the day is the University graduate, is normally the full- months when elective procedures were put teacher.” time nurse in the Taylor County School on hold, along with the hospital attempting After a 12-hour shift at the hospital, System but is now working in the newborn to limit contact in all areas. Dustin said, Dustin and Janet come home from their nursery section of the Women’s Center at “The respiratory department has been split respective shifts and immediately undress, Taylor Regional Hospital. into two teams who never interact with each place their clothes in the washer and take Dustin received his Master’s in Business other or work with each other in an effort to showers before having contact with their Administration with an emphasis reduce potential spread of the virus if one of children or each other. in healthcare management from the teams should be exposed.” “The only thing I would like to let people Campbellsville University, having obtained Dustin and Janet are working 12-hour know is that with this disease there are a prior education elsewhere, while Janet shifts, opposite from one another. lot of unknowns, but medical professionals received her associate degree in nursing “Dustin works day shifts the opposite days are trying their best to serve their from the university. I work night shifts. I work 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., communities,” Dustin said. Dustin says COVID-19 has impacted his and he works 5 a.m. to 5 p.m., which is the
SUMMER 2020 7 FEATURES NEWS ATHLETICS UPDATES CU-Well Counseling Center offers free online counseling for anyone in Kentucky
By Scarlett Birge, student news writer
exacerbated by the amount of misinformation that people are being exposed to,” Hollis said. Recent government action to prevent the spread of COVID-19 has recommended social distancing and self-quarantining. “Long periods of isolation will result in increased levels of anxiety and depression,” Hollis said. “What’s worse is that long periods of isolation increase the likelihood of suicide, partner violence and child abuse,” he said. To combat these issues, Hollis said self-care needs to be a priority. “Eating well, adequate sleep, exercise, doing things they enjoy, maintaining contact with friends (even if that’s by phone or Skype) are self-care needs,” Hollis said. “We encourage people to not live on their screens; while we’re not suggesting that people need to stick their head in the sand, we know that constant exposure to the 24-hour news cycle will actually increase anxiety or depression,” he said. The CU-Well Counseling Center in Louisville, Ky. is operated by Campbellsville University’s Master of Marriage and Family Therapy program at the Louisville Education Center. “We intentionally located the CU-Well Counseling Center in an underserved area because we wanted to be able to make a difference in the lives of those who don’t always have access to the resources they need,” Hollis said. Dr. Kenneth Hollis Associate Professor and Director of Marriage and Family Therapy Staffed by licensed therapists, faculty and practicum students, the counseling center can provide online counseling to any faculty or staff member, as well as any student, dealing with anxiety during the coronavirus epidemic. Due to concerns surrounding the coronavirus (COVID-19), the “We have had people already contact the counseling center with CU-Well Counseling Center has developed a plan to offer three, increased levels of anxiety and depression. A number of people are one-hour group sessions every day in the morning, evening and experiencing financial stressors and can’t afford counseling, so afternoon that anyone in Kentucky can access through Zoom. we’re seeing those people for free,” Hollis said. “We know that uncertain times increase stress and anxiety, so we “We’ve already heard people say that it’s been days since they’ve see this as an opportunity to minister to our faculty, staff, coaches spoken to anyone. Our plan is to staff these group sessions with a and students as well as the public,” Dr. Kenneth Hollis, associate faculty member and a practicum student simply to give people an professor and director of marriage and family therapy, said. opportunity to connect, ” Hollis said. From worries over bills, lockdowns and the disease itself, multiple To schedule an online appointment call Tony Watkins, the CU- fears can be impacting individuals’ mental health at this time. Well Counseling Center clinic director, at (502) 694-1444. If Watkins “I think that ultimately all of these individual fears are rooted in is not available, leave a message and he will return your call within one overarching fear, and that’s the fear of the unknown. There’s 24 hours. simply so much about this that we don’t know, and then that fear is
8 Campbellsvillian Campbellsville University’s Limited Medical Radiography donates supplies
Michelle Eastham, limited medical radiography director
By Amber Meade, ASSISTANT EDITOR
On behalf of the Limited Medical will be eligible to sit for the American Campbellsville and Harrodsburg. Radiography program at Campbellsville Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) For more information or to set up University, Michelle Eastham, limited examination. a virtual meeting, contact Eastham at medical radiography director, has donated Limited Medical Radiography is a skilled [email protected]. To view the supplies the program had on hand to aid craft that includes the development of the LMR Facebook page, visit https://www. during the COVID-19 crisis. scientific inquiry, critical thinking and facebook.com/LMRatCU/. Eastham also made fabric masks and gave judgment skills required to perform patient to some of the clinical affiliates that did not care services. have a supply of disposable ones. Content and clinical experiences are A recent Facebook post from the designed for sequential development, Campbellsville University Limited Medical application, critical analysis, integration, Radiography Program’s page said, “The CU synthesis and evaluation of concepts and LMR program donated gowns and masks to theories in the performance of radiologic a local nursing home! Praying for protection procedures. for the residents and staff. Through structured sequential, “More masks made for a couple of the CU competency-based assignments in a clinical LMR clinical affiliates. We are grateful for setting, concepts of team practice, patient- your service on the front lines of medicine!” centered clinical practice and professional The Limited Medical Radiography development shall be discussed, examined program is modeled on the standards set and evaluated. by the American Society of Radiologic During this time, the Limited Medical Technologists (ASRT) and the Kentucky Radiography program is continuing classes Board of Medical Imaging and Radiation via distance learning using Teams meetings, Therapy (KBMIRT). Zoom and phone calls. The outcome of the program is to develop The instructors are lecturing through this Where there is a will, there is a a professional, skilled and safe healthcare method and students are able to continue way! CU LMR clinical coordinator/instructor workforce through a standardized training with the full curriculum. Cara Brown uses live interactive video to deliver and credentialing program. Course “This is a great time to set goals for the lectures to students during the COVID-19 objectives follow the ASRT curriculum, future and start something new,” Eastham alternative learning policy. which aligns with the KBMIRT standards. said in regard to the Limited Medical Students who complete the program Radiography enrolling for August 2020 at
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Former Lady Tigers are on frontline as nurses during COVID-19 pandemic
Jordan Doram, a native of Georgetown, Ky., is a little closer to home as a registered nurse at the University of Kentucky Medical Center. She also wore No. 14 for the Lady Tigers. “The floor I work on has been designated to care for patients with the COVID-19 virus,” she said. “We are taking the steps to be prepared and able to take the best care of the patients that come in during this hard time. A lot is different now in the hospital because none of the patients can have visitors or go outside due to trying to decrease the spread of the virus. “We are trying to help the patients keep a positive outlook, even through these hard times,” Doram said. “I never pictured being a nurse during a pandemic, but I’m glad I get to help people as From left, Lindsey Ramage Brewer (‘14), Jordan Doram (‘19) and Daizah an essential frontline worker.” Kimberland (‘15) are former Lady Tiger basketball players who now are nurses on the frontline of All majors require an additional level the COVID-19 pandemic. (CU Photo by athletics) of commitment from student-athletes Colvin said. “It is my observation that playing a sport and being in the nursing BY CORBIN HARRIS, GRADUATE ASSISTANT, OFFICE OF SPORTS INFORMATION regimen requires a whole different level of commitment,” she said. After fulfilling their college careers on the hardwood at Campbellsville University, three Lindsey Ramage Brewer, who is from former Lady Tigers basketball players have moved on to the front lines of the nation’s fight Russell Springs, Ky., left CU at the end of her against the coronavirus. 2013-14 season and is back in school after Daizah Kimberland (’15), Lindsey Ramage Brewer (’14) and Jordan Doram (’19) completed a medical mission trip to the Dominican requirements for nursing degrees and are applying what they learned in the classroom and Republic in January. clinicals -- helping patients just like they supported their teammates. “I am currently in nurse anesthesia school “As a coach, one of my goals is to win games,” Lady Tiger Basketball Coach Ginger High- at Union University, graduating this July Colvin said. “Winning certainly is a plus, but ultimately we want our girls to learn life where I will graduate with my DNP, CRNA,” lessons. When I see those three making the sacrifices they are to be the successes they are, I feel she said. “Before that I worked in the neuro like we have won at the game of life.” ICU at Erlanger in Chattanooga, Tenn. Bardstown, Ky. native Daizah Kimberland is approaching 5 years since hanging up her No. “Unfortunately, because I’m so far along 14 jersey for hospital scrubs. After earning the title of registered nurse, Kimberland began her in school I’m not doing anything to help nursing career at Norton’s in Louisville, Ky. where she stayed for 2 1/2 years. with COVID because we are presently not in She moved on as a traveling nurse, exploring a handful of destinations across the United clinicals. I feel helpless, but so proud of all my States. Most recently, she accepted a short-term assignment in New York to help along the former co-workers.” frontlines in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Colvin remembers Brewer as an incredible “On this specific assignment, I am facing different obstacles that I may or may not have teammate in her collegiate coaching career. seen, and I am here to lend a helping hand in any way that I can at the facilities that are “Her effort every day made the other understaffed,” Kimberland said. members of our team better,” she said. “Working with the many patients who have been affected by the coronavirus, I am here to “These girls have to be disciplined, hard assist in any way I can to properly care for the mass number of those affected. This is a scary workers and tenacious with classes and their time, but I am very thankful for the experience I had as a student-athlete at Campbellsville sport. These three were such a huge part University, which helped pave the way for me to be able to have this opportunity. to our successes, and I am so proud of the “I’m very blessed and thankful for my academic process which allows me to be here today sacrifices they continue to make,” Colvin said. doing what I love to do — which is caring for others,” Kimberland said.
10 Campbellsvillian Alumni Directors’ Messages
Ashley Darryl Farmer Peavler
Alumni and Friends, Greetings Tiger Alumni, In the best of times, we at We’ve experienced a time Campbellsville University in history that we’ve never wish you and your loved been through before. I’m glad ones the utmost health and to hear from so many of you happiness. In unprecedented and that you are happy and times such as this, the healthy. A huge thank you to sentiment takes on new those on the front lines of the meaning. No matter where you are in the world, we know your life has changed. virus including my wife, Sherry. It’s times like these that we have the privilege of seeing true heroes rise to the occasion. Life at CU has changed, too, but it has not stopped. Our students continue to learn in an online format, and our staff is working CU has been weathering the storm and has done well thus far remotely as well. For our students, these changes often bring thanks to the incredible leadership of Dr. Michael Carter and complications such as lost wages, transportation issues, food the university administration. In navigating these uncharted insecurity and more. Many of you have reached out with offers waters, a student relief fund has been set up in conjunction with of assistance and expressions of concern. We thank you for those the student scholarship fund. The gifts made to this fund will offers. For more information on how you can help students go directly to students who have needs due to COVID-19 and the encountering difficulties, please visit our giving opportunities shutdown of our state and nation. page on the website. Your gifts help provide emergency funds for students during this great time of need. For generations, Tigers have taken care of Tigers. We are a family, and that never changes. Now is a great time to show our Although there is uncertainty on what the “new” normal will look like, we look forward to having you with us again, whether current generation of Tigers that we care. Please visit our website in person or virtually. It has been inspiring to witness the CU at www.campbellsville.edu and click on the “Help Students Now” community come together on behalf of one another and in service button to give. to the greater good. We will continue to work together to help I pray that you and your family are doing well. I’d love to hear address this crisis. Please stay safe and be well. from you and hear your CU story! We ARE CU! Always proud to be a Tiger, On, You Tigers!
Ashley Farmer, Director of Alumni Relations Darryl Peavler, Director of Athletic Alumni
#FrontlineFriday
Campbellsville University’s mission includes preparing students as Christian servant leaders. And right now, we know we have alumni out there leading the way and making a difference in this world during the COVID-19 pandemic. #FrontlineFriday is CU’s way of showing support and saying thank you to those alumni who are out there fighting to keep us healthy and safe. See page 12 for some of those #FrontlineFriday heroes.
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’00s CHRISTY GRAVES NENTWICK (’03) is the project coordinator at the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department in Lexington, Compiled and written by joan c. Mckinney, editor Ky. At Campbellsville University, amber meade, assistant editor she was involved in the Student Government Association (serving Editor’s note: years of graduation or attendance at Campbellsville University are determined by the last year of attendance. For example (’65) is a 1965 grad; (a ’65) is as senator, parliamentarian, vice someone who attended his or her last year in 1965; and (’65, M ’69) is someone who president and class president her graduated with a bachelor’s or associate’s degree in 1965 and a master’s degree in 1969. sophomore, junior and senior years), Society of Professional Journalists, Campus Times and Baptist Student Union (BSU). She is the daughter of ERIC GRAVES (’94, M ’16), assistant director of athletics and #FrontlineFriday coordinator of athletic academic support at Campbellsville PDR. JACQUELYN SAMANTHA SHIPP University, and his wife, TAMMI GRAVES (’04). She and her E. YOUNG (’08), (’16, ’19), ADN, BSN husband, Steven, have a 7-year-old son, Damien. Address: DNP, APRN FNP-BC Employed at Taylor 309 Devonshire Drive, Winchester, KY 40391. Email: Graduated from Regional Hospital, [email protected]. CU’s first nursing Campbellsville, as school class in nurse in ER 2008. Employed at TRAVIS GAY (’04, M ’06) has been CU as an assistant named principal of LaRue County professor and High School for the 2020-21 school director of the Master’s of Science year. He has served as assistant Family Nurse Practitioner Program. principal. Gay has a Bachelor’s BRYAN STEARS Practices as family nurse practitioner, Fast Degree in Communication and a Pace Urgent Care, Campbellsville (’18), ADN Works as RN in Master’s in Special Education. He MELISSA COVID-19 ICU, also has an Educational Specialist NETHERLAND (’11), Lake Cumberland Degree from Asbury University with ADN, BSN (’20) Regional Hospital, endorsements in principalship, Somerset, Ky. Works at Hardin instruction supervisor and director of pupil personnel. Memorial Hospital, Elizabethtown, Ky., Address: 130 Geneva Drive, Elizabethtown, KY 42701-9058. on medical floor
JOCKY DENGUESSI weddings (’18), major in political science and SUZANNE MORRIS (’16) and minor in pastoral DANA ANDREW BENNETT (’12) were WESTMORELAND ministry Phlebotomist at married Jan. 4, 2020 in Ransdell (’10), ADN Chapel at Campbellsville University Working in the ER CHI St. Joseph East, Lexington, Ky. in Campbellsville, Ky. Mrs. Bennett at a hospital in is the records quality assurance Louisville coordinator at Tri-Generations LLC in Campbellsville. Bennett is the #FrontlineFriday is CU’s way of showing support and saying audio visual coordinator at the thank you to those alumni who are out there fighting to keep Office of Broadcast Services at us healthy and safe. Campbellsville University. Address: 903 Spruce Court, Campbellsville, KY 42718. Email: Suzanne: [email protected] and Bennett: ’80s [email protected] NATHAN WHISNANT (’86) and his wife, Tammy, have written a book, “Imagine Not as Much.” They are using the tools and tiger cubs techniques they have learned to lose weight and to inspire CORRECTION others on their own weight-loss journeys. Created for group WHITNEY BALLINGER HOOPER or individual use, the book is more than a typical weight-loss (’11) and CLAY HOOPER (’14) book. It’s a tool to strengthen body, mind and spirit – losing announce the birth of a daughter pounds but gaining a closer relationship with the Lord. The July 9, 2019 at Hardin Memorial Whisnants live in Owensboro and have two daughters, six Hospital in Elizabethtown, Ky. grandchildren and a dog. They have served as pastor and Addilyn Grace Hooper weighed wife of churches in Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia and 6 pounds, 11 ounces and was 18 inches long. Addi has an older Indiana. They have been married for 38 years. To connect brother, Jaxson Garrett Hooper. with the author or request a review copy of “Imagine Not as Mrs. Hooper is a math teacher at Much,” contact publicity director Liz Burgdorf at media@ North Hardin High School and also emeraldhouse.com. head basketball coach for the Lady Trojans. Clay Hooper
12 Campbellsvillian is a special education teacher and is also the offensive line football coach for the Trojan High School football team. Address: 608 Peaceful Drive, Elizabethtown, KY retirement 42701-6465.
E.J. PAVY (’09, M ’16) and his wife, ANNA MARIE JOHNSON PAVY (’11, M ’17), announce the birth of their twin boys on April 22, 2020 at Spring View Hospital in Lebanon, Ky. Noah Jude Pavy, left in picture, weighed 5 pounds, 14 ounces and was 19 inches, and Gideon David Pavy weighed 5 pounds, 9 ounces and was 18.5 inches. They have three other children Olivia, Nazareth and Spencer. Pavy works at Campbellsville University as the Title IX coordinator and assistant director of personnel services, and Mrs. Pavy is the director of institutional research at the university. Address: 428 Red Fern Road, Campbellsville KY 42718. Email: E.J.: [email protected]. Anna Marie: [email protected].
AUTUMN DAVIS (’15, M’16) and her husband, KYLE DAVIS (’11, M a ’20), announce the birth of their DR. JIM MOORE, professor of music, had a surprise reception April 29 – the day he would first child together, a daughter, have been in a reception for his retirement from Campbellsville University after 40 years. Feb. 18, 2020 at Taylor Regional The reception would have been in the Betty Dobbins Heilman House (President’s Home), Hospital in Campbellsville, Ky. Arya but, due to the coronavirus, could not be held. His wife, Nevalyn Moore, who also taught Kate Davis weighed 8 pounds, music at CU and who is retired, called her husband’s office and asked him to come to their 8 ounces and was 20 ¼ inches house for a few minutes to help her with something. She surprised him with this menu: long. Mrs. Davis works at The Kid homemade chicken salad with pecans and grapes, a shrimp ring with cocktail sauce, stuffed Spot Center as a positive behavior eggs, baby carrots, grapes, freshly roasted pecans from Georgia, and, of course, “Mrs. Moore support specialist, and Davis Brownies.” Nevalyn is famous for her personal “secret” brownie recipe. The music students serves as the director of campus safety and security always loved her brownies, and even, after she retired, they would pass along to new music for Campbellsville University. Address: 1 University Drive, UPO 822, Campbellsville, Ky. 42718. Email: majors her reputation as “the brownie lady.” She continued to make them for the annual Autumn: [email protected] and Kyle: fall School of Music picnic at the lake. She used real china and cut-glass serving bowls for [email protected]. her husband’s reception. Others retiring from CU this year are the REV. ED PAVY, campus minister, who was at CU from 1994 until June 2020 and CHRIS MAPES, who was director of financial aid and worked at CU from 2000 until March 2020. in memoriam Dr. Charles Hedrick dies at age 79 BY ARIEL C. EMBERTON, STAFF WRITER/PHOTOGRAPHER
“Dr. Hedrick was a loyal alumnus, faithful churchman and servant leader and had a passion for Christian higher education,” Dr. Michael V. Carter, president of Campbellsville University, said. Dr. Charles Hedrick Jr. had several roles at Campbellsville including serving as assistant to the president of Campbellsville University in church relations, serving in the Office of Church Outreach and serving as a fundraiser in the Office of Development. He died March 25, 2020 in Louisville, Ky. He was 79. “He loved CU with a devotion that inspired all who knew him,” Carter said. “While he showed great passion for all of CU, he had a special love for Tiger and Lady Tiger basketball. He and his dear wife Sharon were faithful followers of both teams. We are going to miss Charles and the way he worked to promote the university to our Baptist churches and beyond,” Carter said. Hedrick served God for almost 60 years as transitional, interim pastor and senior pastor at IMB Missionary in Nigeria. Before his death, he was serving at Campbellsville Baptist Church as a Sunday school teacher. He was born April 7, 1940 to the late Dr. John Charles Hedrick Sr. and Christine Jones Hedrick in Clarksburg, W.V. His father was a southern Baptist minister and Hedrick would go with him to tent revivals. Thirteen southern Baptist churches were established by his father in West Virginia. Hedrick was married to Carrie Faye Stears for 40 years before her death. He is survived by his second wife, Sharon Watson Hedrick (’73), two daughters, Cindy Butler and Rebecca Treon, and one son, Charles Hedrick. His full obit can be found at parrottramsey.com. “Charles was a servant leader and loved Campbellsville University with all his heart. His support and generosity will be missed. Our prayers are with Sharon and his family,” Benji Kelly, vice president for development, said.
DOROTHY B. HARMON (’42) DEWEY WOODS (a ’52) GERRY R. BRAND (’64) SANDRA JUSTINE PAUL (’71) Faculty/Staff Feb. 19, 2020, Louisville, Ky. Feb. 10, 2020, Jeffersonville, Ind. Feb. 21, 2020, Edinburgh, Ind. April 15, 2020, Great Mills, Md. JILL BROWN BONNIE ABNER (’50) NANNIE DAVIS (’62) ROBERT VAUGHAN SCHULER (’65) JOSEPH E. MILLS (a ’07) Feb. 5, 2020, Wilmore, Ky. April 23, 2020, Louisville, Ky. April 18, 2020, Liberty, Ky. Dec. 29, 2019, Milwaukee, Wis. March 1, 2020, Louisville, Ky. DR. JOHN CHARLES HEDRICK JR. BARBARA KELLEY (’52) JENNIE M. NELSON (’62) REV. JAMES WILLARD WATT JR. (’66) DAVID JOHNSON (M ’2018) Mar. 25, 2020, Campbellsville, Ky. April 17, 2020, Richmond, Ky. March 1, 2020, Frankfort, Ky. Feb. 20, 2020, Greenville, Ky. Dec. 31, 2019, Franklin, Ky.
Full obituaries for these alumni, faculty, staff and coaches can be found at campbellsville.edu/alumni/campbellsvillian/
SUMMER 2020 13 FEATURES NEWS ATHLETICS UPDATES Remember When?
Dr. Robert Street, professor of computer information systems, is shown during his younger years. Notice the cassette player. (CU Photo by Dr. Robert L. Doty)
The Campbellsville University Technology Training Center staff around 2002 include from left: Teresa Elmore (’03, M ’09), Adam Hayes, Doug Lamb and Virginia Flanagan (’65), the first director. The center is now named for Flanagan, and is called the Virginia Ponser Flanagan Technology Training Center. Dr. Mark Bradley was among the stars in Campbellsville College’s production of the musical “1776” about the passage of A younger Dr. Frank Cheatham laughs during a break the Declaration of Independence. (CU Photo from teaching. (CU Photo by Dr. Robert L. Doty) by Dr. Robert L. Doty)
This issue’s Guess Who? Guess Who? is someone who became well known on campus from 1988 until 1996. Let us know her name, her position on campus and what she was affectionally known as. The winner of the spring 2020 Guess Who was Tammie Contact Joan McKinney with your guesses at Gibson VanBuren. [email protected], (270) 789-5214 or These Russell County football players on the CU team in Campbellsville University, #787, 1 University Drive, 1987 from left were: Jim Sears, David Delk, Vince Stephens, Campbellsville, KY 42718. Buddy Bernard, John Stewart and Mark Winfrey. We will choose the winner 10 days after we receive the Others guessing correctly were Shelley Bishop and Deana Campbellsvillian in the mail. Good luck! Grider.
14 Campbellsvillian SCRAPBOOK DAVID WRAY, postal COVID-19 pandemic affects campus clerk, works at the university’s post office. The post office, like all other offices on campus, took extra social distancing measures during the pandemic. (CU Photo by Ariel C. Emberton)
KIM BEHRINGER, manager of Tigerville Grille, rings up an order. Per Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, people were allowed to order in locations on campus for carryout purposes only. They were to remain six feet CU’S STARBUCKS® kiosk could not fill personal apart, one person per household and could not stay in the restaurant. cups during the COVID-19 crisis. Savannah Moss is (CU Photo by Ariel C. Emberton) the barista. (CU Photo by Ariel C. Emberton)
OTTO TENNANT, left, and his wife, Pam, demonstrate six feet of social distancing as they walk near Winters Dining Hall during the COVID-19 pandemic in April. Tennant is senior vice president DR. H. KEITH SPEARS, senior vice president and assistant for operations and administration, and Pam to the president, works from home during the pandemic. (Photo by Rita Spears) is coordinator of the E. Bruce Heilman Student Complex. (CU Photo by Alexandria D. Swanger)
RHONDA WRIGHT, a custodian at the university, cleans the windows at the Winters Dining Hall. (CU Photo by Ruiwen Yao) BUILDINGS ON CAMPUS were closed with signs like this one on the Bennett-Smith Nursing Building. (CU Photo by Alexandria D. Swanger)
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2020 HOMECOMING CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY
SAVE THE DATE OCTOBER 23-24, 2020 This year's Homecoming will be held in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local health department's recommendations. This means some events may have a virtual component to them to enforce social distancing. To stay informed please visit our website at www.campbellsville.edu/alumni/homecoming/