Volume 6, Issue 6/7 From the Arbor June/July , 2008 Of Special Interest : @ Baker University… • Recommend a student- Monthly news from Jerry Weakley, VP for Endowment and Planned Giving • Recommend800-873-4282 a student • Alumni800- 873-4282 Office- Former Baker President Passes Away… 888-781-2586 • Contact Alumni Office The Rev. Dr. James Edward Doty, 86, passed away at Alliance • 888-781-2586Make a donation Community Hospital, Alliance, Ohio, on Father’s Day, June • Make800-726-1554 a Donation 15, 2008. He was born on May 8, 1922, in Lakewood, Ohio and • Create a planned gift or was the son of Ordello and Margaret McCurdy Doty. He was 800-725-1554 married to Merciel Smith Doty for 65 years, and she survives create an endowment • Create a planned gift or her husband. Together, the Doty’s have three children, all of 785-594-8332 Create an Endowment whom are graduates of Baker and who survive their father: • 785-594-8332Baker Orange 800-726-1554 on-line The Rev. Dr. Mark Allen Doty ‘69, Brewer, Maine, Dr. David www.thebakerorange.com Wesley Doty ’71 of Maysville, and Ms. Martha Suzanne Doty ’75 of Chicago, Illinois. Inside This Issue : Dr. Doty received his BA degree from Mount Union College in 1944, his M. Div. degree cum laude from Boston University James E. Doty Passes Away…1 School of Theology in 1947, his Ph.D degree from Boston Uni- versity Graduate School in 1959. He also did graduate work at Ks. East Conference Meets… 1 Harvard and Oxford Universities. Dr. Doty was awarded Doc- tor of Divinity degrees from Mount Union and DePauw. He Baker Orange Wins Again… 2 was an ordained Elder of the Northeast Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church, Dr. Doty served 15 pastorates New Dorm Update… 2 during his professional career in Massachusetts, Indiana, Texas, and Ohio. He was the founding pastor of two churches Hall of Fame Inductees... 3 in Indiana, and he served as the Interim Pastor of nine con- gregations. He retired from active ministry in 2007. New Web Site Soon… 3 From 1957-66, Dr. Doty served as the Director of Pastoral Care Colorado Events… 4 and Counseling of the Indiana Area of the Methodist Church. In 1966, Dr. Doty was named to serve as the 22nd President of Methodists Meet on Campus… Baker University , a post he held until 1973. Following his ten- ure at Baker Dr. Doty served as the Director of the Corpus Christi Pastoral Counseling Center, Corpus Christi, Texas, 800 Kansas East Conference Method- from 1973 to ‘84. As a Diplomat in the American Association ist delegates came to Baker in early of Pastoral Counselors, Dr. Doty founded 12 Pastoral Care and June to meet for four day as they have Counseling Centers in New England, the Midwest and in Sin- for years. Trustee Myron McCoy de- gapore. For 25 years, he had a private practice in Marriage and livered two outstanding Keynote ad- Family Therapy before moving to Sebring, Ohio, in 2000. Dr. dresses and University Minister, Dr. Neal Malicky ‘56, former Dean and Interim President at Ira DeSpain ’70, lead a Friday session Baker , represented the University and spoke at the funeral ser- that was the final event in the year- vice in Ohio. The University wishes to pass along its sincere long celebration of the University’s condolences to the entire Doty family. 150th year. Page 2 Baker Adds Two Sports… Final Projects Underway on Dorm Construction... Women’s bowling and men’s wrestling have officially been added to the number of sports in which the University will field intercollegiate teams beginning this next year. Wrestling has been on the ra- dar screen for some time as many of the participants of this spring sport also play football. Woman’s bowling is a more recent interest and the word across cam- pus is that we may already have a quality kegler (had to use that term) or two on campus. A wrestling coach is being ac- tively sought at this time and a bowling coach will be added in the spring. The addition of these two sports will bring The project lists at the new dorm have changed dramatically as the total intercollegiate teams to 21. workers are in full sight of the finish line in August. Gone are the bricklayers and roofers and arriving daily are the “finish” folk who The Baker Orange Wins Again!!! are installing sidewalks surrounding the facility, the ac/heating people, the plumbers who are handling all of the final plumbing The Kansas Associated Collegiate Press and trim for baths and the finish carpenters who are doing the has named Baker’s student-run newlspa- small trim work. The flooring/carpets will be installed just before per the Orange as the best 4-year private the furniture arrives and all of this will hopefully be installed and college newspaper in Kansas. The awaiting the arrival of the first wave of students in August. award is the 4th in a row for the Univer- sity and the 9th in the last 11 years. In Baker Trivia Question for June/July … addition, several individual awards for excellence were received by members of the staff as well. Congratulations to Name the Baker graduate author of this poem… Gwen Mellinger, faculty advisor to the Orange, and to the entire staff as well!!! “To every morn there is a noon With sun swung high and light divine, Alumni Weekend a Huge Success.. When affluent glories burn and shine And dawn and midday are in tune. Hundreds of former students and alumni made the trek back to Kansas City and If clouds dash black across the deep Baldwin City for activities associated And light is dim though noon be here, with the annual Alumni Weekend in We lose not faith nor banish cheer May. Bolstered by the 250 some guests Nor let our hearts learn how to weep. who attended the events of the Alpha Chi Omega Sorority’s 100th celebration, Because we know the sun rides far the University enjoyed one of the largest Serene beyond our tempest’s gloom, turnouts for the overall number of events And sky-deeps are in wealth of bloom it hosted in many years. I hope you will Of light and grace no storm can mar. place the 3rd weekend of May, 2009 on your schedule now and make plans to So, morning, know the noon is thine! attend next year as we continue to make Those tall steeps of the midday own this “Stag” weekend one of the biggest To be thy heritage and throne for a school of our size in the nation!!! Whereupon to sit by right divine.” Volume 6, Issue 6/7 Page 3 New Website Launch Nears…. The Baker Buzz... For the past several months the University has Campus Busy with Groups This Summer… been working with an outside consultant to ready a new university-wide web site for launch this Baker’s campus in the summer is not exactly deserted as summer. This new site will significantly change you might think. Though most of our traditional stu- how the University (through its four individual dents have departed for homes/jobs elsewhere we have a school units) will be viewed by the myriad of constant stream of activity throughout the summer. daily web site visitors. The new site will to a Here’s a sampling of some of the camps and activities greater extent than the current web site also inte- that have or will be held at Baker this summer: two ses- grate tone, functionality and unification of these sions of summer school, the Kansas East Conference of four schools. the United Methodist Church Annual Conference, ses- sions of the Methodist Youth Institute, wrestling camps, A select committee of web users from within the basketball camps, cheerleader camps, soccer camps, a University community will begin testing the site camp for woodcarvers, two sessions of Broadway at in late July. They will be looking specifically for Baker (a theater camp), a summer basketball league and updates and modifications that will need to be classes for Music Educators. A one-day gathering of folk accomplished prior to the official “public” from Missouri and Kansas who comprise a National launch on August 13th (don’t worry...it’s not a Heritage group interested in the Civil War in this area Friday!) :) Members of the testing committee are set to meet late in July. have been appointed and represent the staff, fac- ulty, department heads, the Board of Trustees, Wandering Wildcats Return Refreshed… the Educational Technology Committee and members of the Alumni Board of Directors. All 28 members of the Wandering Wildcats returned from their 15 day adventure and cruise around the Medi- I will keep you informed as we move closer to the terranean and Adriatic seas refreshed and with fond official launch! memories of newfound favorite spots and with new friendships. I am still working on details for next year’s trip that will include several days in Vienna and Central 2008 Athletic Hall of Fame Class Europe. I will try to have all details and pricing firmed Selected… up by the August issue of the Arbor . Homecoming weekend 2008 will see the induc- Former Baker V.P. Receives Honor… tion of 5 individual athletes into the Baker’s sto- ried Athletic Hall of Fame. This year’s inductees Former Vice President for University Relations, Dr. Bill include: McCollum, recently was named by BG O'Neill at the US Army Command and General Staff College as the 2008 Ted H.