News from Union College fall 2013 S 2 o 1 c . ia p l C m r e - e k e a m o d t a in n o ia s b g t e a g e c s e g a n g F V a e in e P m t d r ic il o B u f s in r b e n o i e b e ll s s w in t e d p r a e e o g y N t g e t rc c n r o h e i r o n ld e n i t l u ir - o b e p c s g R . n R 1 i I 6 y - ta A S P Creating connections Charlie and Naoma Henkelmann o i r a z a N e v e t S : s o t o h p fter raising cattle for 30 years Charles ’56 and Naoma ’54 Henkelmann knew it was time to sell some of their 250 acres of land, but they discovered it made more sense to A give the land as a gift to Union College. Managing 250 acres is not an easy task. Add in the responsibility of caring for a herd of cattle and you end up working a lot of very long days. When Charlie had worked enough of those long days and decided it was time to retire, he knew he would have to part with at least some of his land. He also knew he would need a steady stream of income, one that would be guaranteed and worry free. Over the years Charlie and Naoma maintained a close connection to Union College and felt the need to give back to the college they loved; especially since Naoma had received a scholar - ship which allowed her to attend and graduate from Union. “We wanted to establish two scholarships; one to help nursing students and one to help music majors,” Charlie said. Charlie had heard about charitable gift annuities and thought setting one up would be the perfect solution for them. But Charlie quickly realized that if he sold his land to fund a charitable gift annuity, they would be left with a hefty tax bill. The Henkelmanns hoped to downsize their ranch, receive a steady stream of income, endow two separate scholarships, and avoid paying a lot in taxes. Were they asking too much? (continued on page 35) It tak es For eSight ... CORDmagazine staff: LuAnn Wolfe Davis ’82 Vice President for Advancement/Publisher magazine CORDVol. 77, N o. 2 Fall 2013 Ryan Teller ’98 Director of Public Relations/Editor Steve Nazario Editorial/4 Campus News/5 Director of Visual Communications/Designer Scott Cushman ’03 Director of Digital Communication Staying connected Linda Deibel Skinner ’71 before Facebook/12 Copy editor Two groups of Union College stu - Kenna Lee Austin Carlson ’73 Class-ifieds Editor dens found unique ways to stay connected after graduation long y Joellyn Sheehy ’14 before inventions like the r a r b News Writer Internet and Facebook. i L e g e l l o C n o i n U Articles and photos as credited. f o y s e t p r Indicates more information is available on u o c Union’s Web site or read CORDmagazine online: : o t www.ucollege.edu/cordmagazine. o h p Union College Alumni Association College connections fuel Officers and Board Members: Ardis Dick Stenbakken ’62 . President future success/14 Larry Christensen ’72 . .President-elect David Nowack ’76. Past President n College professors helped Jeff o s Larinda Hoskinson r e Peterson ’87 build a personalized t e Fandrich ’86 . Board member at large P f f degree that proved to be the perfect e J Kent Seltman ’64. Golden Club President f o preparation for his career. y s e t Matthew Roque ’05 . GOLD Rep ’02-’12 r u o c Ralph Schnell ’87 . Class Rep ’82-’01 : o t o Karen Affolter Johnson ’72. Class Rep ’62-’81 h p Anita Keith Kidwiler ’61. Class Rep up to ’61 Kenna Lee Austin Carlson ’73. Alumni Activities Director LuAnn Wolfe Davis ’82 . .Vice President for Advancement About the cover: d This artistic representation of the evolution of tools used by hu - Using social media l a mans to connect over the past 150 years was created by u m Raschelle Casebier, a graphic design major who plans to graduate o R as a ministry tool/16 in May 2014. a n n A f o Anna Romuald ’12 has found y s © 2013 Union College all rights reserved. No material may e t social media to be an r be reproduced without permission. CORDmagazine is pub - u o lished as a service to Union College alumni and friends. We c essential tool in her ministry to : encourage readers to submit letters and article ideas. Please o t send inquiries, submissions and address changes to: o young adults in Minnesota. h CORDmagazine Union College p 3800 South 48th Street Lincoln, NE 68506 or [email protected] . Name announced for science and math building/8 Connecting through tragedy/11 Class-ifieds/22 In memory/26 pwww.ucollege.edu CORD magazine 3 _E__D__I_T_O__R__I_A__L _________________________________W____H__Y ___D__O ___W__E___C__O__N__N__E_C__T __? Editorial by John Wagner, Union. You’ll read specific examples of how Union College president we are building connectedness, such as: • Providing hands-on assistance to those s I write this, I am looking forward to in need hAaving a wonderful time with friends and • Traveling abroad to gain new colleagues at our annual employee perspectives Christmas party. Events like this are an • Studying students’ own genes to o important part of forging a community. Even understand the human genome i r a z the ancient philosopher Plato advised com - • Interacting with alumni to learn from a N e munities to eat together, going so far as to your experiences v e t S recommend communal meals be a constitu - The process of building connections : o t o tional requirement for cities. between ideas and each other doesn’t stop h The connections we make spending time at graduation. I am continually inspired and p together in ordinary ways build the bonds re-created by the connections I make and we rely on in extraordinary times. Think of renew each day. I am grateful for the ways your true friends. How did you meet? It was this school—and the lasting friendships I’ve probably unremarkable. It may be so ordi - made here over the last thirty years—con - nary you don’t even remember it exactly— tributed much to who I am. perhaps sitting next to each other in class, I am equally impressed by the many playing baseball, or maybe asking for a recipe after potluck. Little ways Union alumni show loyalty to each other and their school moments that formed lifelong bonds. long after leaving campus. My wife recently traveled to the west I am continually amazed at the countless ways my colleagues coast and met with several Union alumni. She immediately felt at Union College intentionally create a community for our stu - connected to these friends whom she had never met—enriched dents. Studying together, working together, playing together, vol - by the rapport of those who shared a common experience—a unteering together, worshiping together, and, yes, inviting stu - highly valued experience—the Union experience. dents to their homes to eat together—connecting in unity. I truly believe Union College provides the environment, les - Like the triple-braided cord in Ecclesiastes 4:12, our strength is sons and support our students need to create the syllogism they owed to the diversity of connections we make, and with whom are meant to become. Please pray that Union College will contin - we make them. Constructive connections are at the heart of a ue to be a place where young adults grow and thrive and change Union College experience, and this issue of CORDmagazine is all the world, one little corner at a time. C about connections made at Union, with Union, or because of Alumni directory update nion College and the Alumni Associ - into our contract; unfortunately that is no Mailing address: aUtion Board offer sincerest apologies to longer the case. Although we have made Alumni Research, Inc. all alumni who have ordered an alumni numerous inquiries over many months, 3333 US Hwy 19 directory from Alumni Research, Inc. 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