CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY J une 2008 • VOLUME 53 • ISSUE 2 INSPIRATION Metcalf School of Education initiatives include new international partnership with Joni and Friends Joni Eareckson Tada, founder Joni and Friends 19th Annual Lancer G o l f C l a s s i C Join us on June 3, 2008 at 10am reGistration: oreno alley anCh olf lub entry fee inCludees: M V r G C Golf, golf cart, range balls, “goodie 28095 John f. Kennedy driVe, Moreno Valley, Ca 92555 bag,“ lunch, dinner and a $100 tax 216 Player liMit - reGister noW! deduction per golfer with your donation of: Scholarship Fund Goal $200,000 indiVidual $175 reGistration: teaM $700 Please fill in all inforMation to the best of your ability and KnoWledGe. Name tournaMent inforMation: Company • Scramble Format (Best Shot) Address • Awards: 1st, 2nd Low Gross team City State Zip awards. 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Third Class Postage at Riverside, California Postmaster, Please send address change to: California Baptist University 8432 Magnolia Avenue Riverside, CA 92504-3297 14 16 Non-profit permit No. 268 athLETICS commencement calbaptist.edu ON THE COVER Joni Eareckson Tada visited CBU as keynote speaker for 18 20 the 2008 undergraduate commencement ceremonies. In GALA inspiration 2007, Joni and Friends donated funds to support CBU’s Disability Studies Institute. See Cover Story, pg. 20. THE ROUNDTABLE REPRINT POLICY Contents copyright 2008 by California Baptist University. All rights reserved. EDITORIAL INQUIRIES OR ARTICLE REPRINTS: Contact Karen Bergh 951.343.5067 [email protected] None of the content in this issue of The Roundtable may 24 28 be reproduced in part or in whole without written ExPELLED ALUMNI PROFILE permission from California Baptist University’s Marketing and Communication Division. To obtain permission, please send your request to [email protected]. message from the president DR. RONALD L. ELLIS As California Baptist University develops its broad In Athletics, we celebrated another championship spectrum of schools and programs, we face exciting year in aquatic sports. Both the men’s and women’s new opportunities with increasing frequency. One swimming and diving teams captured national titles. notable example is the arrival of Joni Eareckson Tada In addition the women’s and men’s water polo teams on campus to bless our graduates with an inspiring, won the inaugural Collegiate Water Polo Association/ entertaining and evangelical message at the May 2 NAIA National Invitational Tournaments, bringing our commencement ceremony. Mrs. Tada’s advocacy total of title championship teams to 18. organization, Joni and Friends, also partnered recently with CBU’s Disability Studies Institute to provide seed As the University’s history lengthens and our funding for research related to disability and society’s community expands, we more often face the loss treatment of the disabled (see article, p. 20). of family members (p. 5). We recently lost Wayland Marler, beloved history professor, after he suffered Another visit brought out crowds in March as a stroke. Professor Marler animated the facts and filmmaker Ben Stein spent time on campus with characters of history – particularly in the areas of students and faculty during a pre-release screening World War II and the Holocaust – for generations of of Stein’s filmExpelled (see article, p. 24). students during more than four decades of service and we feel the loss deeply. Our Board of Visitors business advisory council held its spring luncheon in March (p. 25). BOV members Underlying the growth, the opportunity, and the Mark Hawkins and George Reyes joined Greater talented people of CBU are the hundreds of people Riverside Chambers of Commerce CEO Cindy Roth in and organizations whose names are listed in the a panel discussion, urging the business and education annual Honor Roll of Donors (p. 29). CBU owes a communities to continue forging partnerships for great debt of gratitude to each of them. The need the shaping of our region. The Board of Visitors is for resources grows in tandem with the growth of instrumental in helping CBU strengthen those types enrollment and the campus. Those who understand of partnerships, while the University is preparing that need are joining us in the adventure of opportunity individuals who will become an integral part of the that you see briefly chronicled in these pages. Thank professional community. you and may the Lord continue to bless! Ronald L. Ellis, Ph.D. President 0 4 I 0 5 inmemoriam CBU I CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY J une 2 0 0 8 1937 - 2008 D. Wayland Marler loved history, children, his students Students and friends could “check out” books from and the Lord. Professor Marler died unexpectedly on April Professor Marler’s personal library, and he often shared 12, following his partial rehabilitation from a stroke in his natural generosity by giving books away as well. January and a more recent carotid artery surgery. With his death, the University lost a colleague, mentor, advocate, Paul Huard, who teaches social studies and economics and beloved friend. in the Ashland Unified School District, recently credited Professor Marler with his own love of learning and eventual The erudite professor of history was known for a memory pursuit of a teaching career. for details that made him a veritable “walking history book.” Professor Marler’s own walk led him through some “His lectures, peppered with inimitable observations and of history’s most chilling landscapes. As a teenager, he mordant humor, remain some of my fondest memories. wandered through the abandoned yards of the Dachau His methods in seminar constantly spurred me to look concentration camp. This experience, among others, beyond the obvious answer and to place my understanding ultimately transformed a somewhat casual interest in the of history fully within the scope of human events, not past into a disciplined study that led to a graduate degree just the narrow confines of chronology,” Huard, a 1983 in history and a 41-year teaching career at California Baptist graduate of CBU, said. University. Professor Marler also was held in immeasurable, almost Professor Marler also studied theology at The Southern palpable, respect by his colleagues. Baptist Theological Seminary. He was a member of Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church of Orange. “I do not possess adequate words to express the affection and respect I had for Wayland Marler,” said Dr. Gary Collins, During his tenure at CBU, he helped establish the associate dean of the CBU School of Behavioral Sciences. Humanities Division and the Integrated Humanities course. Dr. Collins and Professor Marler started their teaching He founded the “Nie Wieder” collection of Holocaust careers at CBU within months of one another in 1966. related materials in the Annie Gabriel Library through an initial donation from his own library. Professor Marler died at age 71. He is survived by his son, Christian, and by his sister, Delphia Anderson. Donations Professor Marler read three to five books a week, and had, honoring Wayland Marler may be made to the Wayland in his own words, “amassed” a collection of books that Marler Scholarship at California Baptist University. Contact literally took over his office, his home, and his garage. Cynthia Wright in Institutional Advancement at CBU: [email protected] or 951-343-4343. cbunews JNEU 2 0 0 8 hONORS students, FACULTY “FIDDLER ON ThE ROOF” BRINGS DOwN OF ThE YEAR NAMED AT ANNUAL ThE hOUSE – IN A GOOD wAY Convocation CEREMONIES Jeff Lewis, assistant professor of Intercultural Studies at CBU, was named Faculty Member of the Year at the annual Honors Convocation ceremony on April 9. The Min Sung Kim International Award was presented to Verania Willis of Costa Rica, who graduated in May with honors with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.