magazine for alumni and friends of avondale college of higher education 2018 | Vol 38 No 1 Who will you meet? WELCOME TO THE LARGEST ALUMNI EVENT OF THE YEAR Honour year Honour year Jacs go back roll call citations Find your name and those of your Your classmates honoured for excellence A yearbook snapshot: classmates in Avondale’s lists of graduates and commitment to service how the cover changed over 70 years Program Homecoming Registration What Human Flow says 4-7 pm, Avondale College Seventh-day Adventist Church about home Dinner 5.15-6.15 pm, Cafeteria (Lake Macquarie campus) It’s personal and visceral. Human Flow is artist Ai Weiwei’s $15 or prepaid. documenting of the journey of the millions of people around the world forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change Opening Reception and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. 7 pm, Ella Hughes Chapel Shot over a year in Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe and the Features: Devotional by Professor Ray Roennfeldt, Middle East, the film is “a witness to its subjects and their search FRIDAY President, Avondale College of Higher Education. Includes: for safety, shelter and justice.” Presentation of citations for the 1948, 1958, 1968, 1978 and 1988 honour years; live music from alumni including A temporary relocation to Avondale is not at all like this massive Rodney Cooke (1968), Barbara Fisher (1968), Dr David human migration but is a little like this search for refuge. You’ll hear Heise (1968), Dr Lyell and Gaylene Heise (2008), John stories of disillusionment, dislocation and of the need for tolerance, Pocock (1988), Bronwyn Reid (1988) and Christie compassion and trust. But you’ll also hear stories of courage, Venegas (2008); and light refreshments. Hosts: Dr John endurance and adaption. I hope you’ll leave Homecoming with a Hammond (1968) and 2017 Alumnus of the Year Dr Wilf better sense of the human spirit and of our call to strengthen it. Pinchin (1968). Seventh-day Adventist pioneer Ellen White reminds us of that call Registration in a book exploring biblical principles of Christian education. She 9-11 am, Avondale College Seventh-day Adventist Church wrote it for parents and teachers. Her message (simplified and paraphrased): God’s given you the gift of thinking and doing, so Sabbath School use it. White makes the statement to encourage us to explore the CHAPEL CLASS sciences and the Scriptures, and then to engage—to act. 9.30 am, Dean’s Room, Andre Hall Adult Bible Study Guide study and mission focus. What prompted White to write? I asked Ellen G White Seventh-day CHILDREN’S MINISTRIES Adventist Research Centre Director Dr John Skrzypaszek, who told 9.30 am, Children’s Courtyard, me she’s encouraging us to “adapt to the changing circumstances” Avondale College Seventh-day Adventist Church and “develop a clear understanding of what it means to live in the Beginners (0-3 years), Kindergarten (3 years-Kindergarten), real world.” Why? So we can “provide the best service.” Primary (Years 1-3) and Junior (Years 4-6). COLLECTIVE YOUTH White published Education in 1903, only six years after she helped 9.30 am, Cafe Rejuve found Avondale. Adventists believe White exercised a prophetic Breakfast and Bible study. gift, but her think and do advice is practical. Our thinking must E14 lead to doing that serves needs other than our own. 9.30 am, E14, Education Building SATURDAY Adult Bible Study Guide discussion. I’m going to ask you this wekend to join a journey through giving NU2 SMALL GROUP with Avondale by donating to Think&Do. It primarily supports our 9.30 am, NU2, Nursing Building four research centres as they help us seek a better understanding Bible-based discussion and mission and prayer focus. of how to teach and learn, how to live happier and PARENTS OF YOUNG CHILDREN healthier and how to relate to God. This focus 9.30 am, Children’s Courtyard, on the mental, physical and spiritual will not Avondale College Seventh-day Adventist Church only strengthen our spirit but also our ability to Bible-based discussion. strengthen the spirit of others, particularly those TEENS seeking a sense of home. 9.30 am, Ella Hughes Chapel OASIS > Brenton Stacey, Public Relations Officer, 9.30 am, Picnic tables outside Cafe Rejuve (E13, Education Avondale College of Higher Education Building if wet) Adult Bible Study Guide discussion. Editor: Brenton Stacey, [email protected], +61 2 4980 2251 Contributors: Dr Jean Carter, Dr John Hammond (1968), Dr Lyell Heise, Lynnette Lounsbury (1998) and Adele Nash Avondale Alumni: [email protected] | avondale.edu.au/alumni | facebook.com/avondalealumni | © Avondale College of Higher Education Cover photograph: Pr Lyndon Thrift with students from 1947 at their honour year reunion as part of Avondale Alumni’s Homecoming 2017. Credit: Colin Chuang. Program Homecoming Worship Service Concert: Jaime Jorge 11 am, Avondale College Seventh-day Adventist Church 7 pm, Avondale College Seventh-day Adventist Church Features: Sermon (“A Place to Call Home?”) by A performance of inspirational and fine music by violinist Dr Kendra Haloviak Valentine, Professor of New Jaime Jorge as part of the 2018 Avondale Concert Series. Testament Studies, H M S Richards Divinity School, Features: Meet the Artist at 6.40 pm. Hosts: Avondale La Sierra University; Avondale Singers and Avondale Alumni and Avondale Conservatorium. $20 (Single), $30 SATURDAY Symphony Orchestra. Includes: Presentation of the (Double), $50 (Family—Two adults and any number of Alumna, Alumnus and Young Alumnus of the Year children aged 17 years and under). awards and citations for the 1998 and 2008 honour years. Hosts: Avondale Alumni; Avondale College Seventh-day Agricultural and Domestic Sprayers Reunion Adventist Church; and Avondale Conservatorium. 10 am, Cafeteria (Lake Macquarie campus) Open to all alumni employed by Australian Domestic Lunch Sprayers. Includes: Brunch. $15 or prepaid. Host: Calvin 12.30-2.30 pm, Cafeteria (Lake Macquarie campus) Stewart. $20 or prepaid. (re)connect: STRONG WOMAN Class of 1968 Honour Year Reunion 10.30 am-1.30 pm, Ella Hughes Chapel 12.30 pm, Ella Hughes Chapel SUNDAY When did we stop talking to each other? When did we Open to all 1960s alumni. Includes: Lunch. $20 or prepaid. start using social as the only to connect? (re)connect at this Host: Dr John Hammond (1968). pop-up mini conference. $50 (Single). Includes: Brunch, two keynote speakers and a gift bag. strongwomanofficial. Class of 1948 Honour Year Reunion com Host: Shauna Ryan, Founder, STRONG WOMAN. 2.30 pm, Kressville Activities Centre, Avondale Lifestyle Community Dr Kendra Haloviak Valentine (Cnr Freemans Dr and Central Rd, Cooranbong) Dr Kendra Haloviak Valentine Open to all 1940s alumni. Includes: Afternoon tea. is Professor of New Testament Studies in the H M S Richards Class of 1958 Honour Year Reunion Divinity School at La Sierra 2.30 pm, Kressville Activities Centre, University (Riverside, California, Avondale Lifestyle Community USA). She has pastoral and SATURDAY (Cnr Freemans Dr and Central Rd, Cooranbong) educational experience in Seventh- Open to all 1950s alumni. Includes: Afternoon tea. day Adventist churches in the United States and in colleges and universities in the United States and Australia. Class of 1978 Honour Year Reunion She completed her doctoral studies at the Graduate 2.30 pm, Foyer, Administration Building Theological Union (Berkeley, California, USA) with a Open to all 1970s alumni. Includes: Afternoon tea. dissertation on the hymns of the book of Revelation. Book Host: Mike Dye (1978). publications include Signs to Life: Reading and Responding to John’s Gospel (Signs Publishing, 2013) and Worlds at Class of 1988 Honour Year Reunion War, Nations in Song: Dialogic Imagination and Moral 2.30 pm, Family Room, Vision in the Hymns of the book of Revelation (Wipf and Avondale College Seventh-day Adventist Church Stock, 2015). Open to all 1980s alumni. Includes: Afternoon tea. BIOGRAPHIES Jaime Jorge Class of 1998 Honour Year Reunion Born in Cuba in 1970, Jaime Jorge 2.30 pm, Cafe Rejuve began violin studies at age five. Open to all 1990s alumni. Includes: Afternoon tea. At age 10, his family immigrated Host: Lynnette Lounsbury (1998). to the United States where Jaime began lessons with eminent Class of 2008 Honour Year Reunion violinist Cyrus Forough, a student 2.30 pm, Cafe Rejuve of the great David Oistrakh. Open to all 2000s alumni. Includes: Afternoon tea. Jaime’s mother wanted Jaime to play professionally but Host: Joshua Moses (2008). he dreamed of becoming a missionary doctor. Entering college in 1988, Jaime began all the courses to prepare for Dinner medical school, earning acceptance into the University o 5.15-6.15 pm, Cafeteria (Lake Macquarie campus) f Illinois in 1992. In his second year, Jaime felt God’s call to $15 or prepaid. leave for a life of service dedicated to music ministry. Program Homecoming Worship service Prelude Stephen Aveling-Rowe, organ Congregational Song “Shout to the Lord” Avondale Singers (Darlene Zschech Avondale Symphony Orchestra arr. Lloyd Larson) Aleta King, director Daniel Laredo and Emily Thomas, song leaders Welcome Pr Nimrod Maua 1948 Lead Visionary, Avondale College Seventh-day Adventist Church Roll Call and Citations Tamara Peach (1998), recipient Lynnette Lounsbury (1998), presenter Colin Chuang on behalf of Calvin Chuang (2008), recipient Joshua Moses (2008), presenter Brenton Stacey, reader Congregational Song “It Is Well” Avondale Singers (Horatio Spafford and Avondale Symphony Orchestra Philip Bliss arr. Travis Cottrell) Aleta King, director Daniel Laredo and Emily Thomas, song leaders Young Alumnus of the Year Brock Goodhill (2012), recipient Lynnette Lounsbury (1998), presenter 1958 Alumna and Alumnus of the Year Alastair and Jill Macgillivray (1968), recipients Dr John Hammond (1968), presenter Brenton Stacey, reader Special Music “O Praise the Name (Anástasis)” Avondale Conservatorium (Marty Sampson, Benjamin Hastings and Dean Ussher arr.