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Comments are welcome and Be sure to update your secure personal should be addressed to Deborah Walker, Editor, 22 ACHIEVEMENTS e Path, Nyack College, Advancement Offi ce, 1 profile to help you stay in touch! 1 South Boulevard, Nyack, NY 10960 Questions or comments? 26 ALUMNI NEWS Please contact the Alumni Office at 845-675-4589 or [email protected]. FROM THE PRESIDENT In some ways, you can think of this season’s edition of Th e Path as a kind of travel visa. I write that because, looking over the various articles scheduled to appear in Th e Path, I was struck by how many of them focus on Nyack’s many ministries abroad. In this issue, you’ll read about our outreach in such places as Vietnam and India. You’ll read about the Winterim trips many of our students took overseas. You’ll read about members of the Nyack/ATS family in Ecuador and Peru. Of course, none of that kind of international ministry is accidental. It’s all a glorious and powerful illustration of one of Nyack’s core values: global engagement. Th e Nyack community has never been and will never be focused inward. Everything we work for on each of our campuses is aimed at ministry. Specifi cally, it’s intended to glorify the Lord by taking His gospel – and sharing His love and compassion – to men, women, and children all over the world. It’s important to note that our commitment to global engagement is nothing we came up with. It’s not even something our founder, A.B. Simpson, pioneered. It is our response to the Great Commission we received from Christ Himself through His Word. Since the church’s fi rst days, followers of Christ were by defi nition global missionaries. Th ey were world shapers and changers. Th ey were global engagers. We carry on their legacy. www.nyack.edu 2 GLOBAL TROTTING: WINTERIM RETURNS TO NYACK in the Philippines Joy Blanchard by Kristy Johnson Prof. Scott Reitz, Director of Global Service Learning For the fi rst time in nearly 20 years, Global Service Learning, he has made orphan girl spoke no English, the two Nyack College is off ering overseas that dream a reality. connected. “She sat down on my lap and Winterim programs between fall and did not move the whole night,” Wolfson spring semesters. Winterim began “One of my goals, and the goals of said. in 1972 as a series of mandatory the administration, is to focus on the interdisciplinary courses that were service learning model,” Reitz said. Stories like these give Reitz hope for considered part of the fall semester. Th e By partnering with professors across the future of the program. “We’re still theme of the fi rst set was “Th e City.” disciplines and campuses, Reitz has very young, but we’re in a good place,” initiated courses that introduce students he said. In the years to come, Reitz plans In January of 1973, the college off ered to the integration of their academic on sending Winterim students back to its fi rst overseas Winterim course, which disciplines with service to the poorest of some of the same sites, allowing Nyack developed into “Th e Free Overseas the poor. to maintain relationships over the years. Winterim” program, providing free “Th at’s the goal: that these courses airfare to London for students who Joy Blanchard, a social work major have a relational piece in which we had spent fi ve consecutive semesters at who traveled to the Philippines, wrote travel—not only as students to learn and Nyack. Th is program continued into the home on the Intercultural Studies to serve—but we travel as friends,” Reitz ‘80s, with professors such as Dr. Marion website, “While at times the poverty said. “We have a legacy here at Nyack of Howe or Dr. Glenn Koponen teaching and the pain of the people here has been Christ-centered global engagement and Fine Arts and Dr. David Turk teaching overwhelming, the programs and the we are committed to seeing the legacy Literary London or Th eatre. people that we have encountered have continue in this next generation.” given us hope. To know that the hands Winterim courses were also off ered on and feet of Jesus are at work in this place Repeat trips, such as the trips to Israel campus, and students were required to has given us a picture of what God has and to the Philippines, will continue attend three Winterim sessions during in mind for the people here that we have on a regular basis while the program their four years at the college. While grown to love.” expands, incorporating new destinations the program soon became an integral and classes each year. Th is coming part of the Nyack experience, it was Because not all students are able to winter, there will be seven Winterim discontinued in the late ‘80s because aff ord these trips, the college has classes with professors and students of the high cost and the fact that it instituted a stipend for juniors and from both the Rockland and Manhattan interfered with student work schedules seniors with a 2.75 GPA or higher. campuses traveling to Israel, the www.nyack.edu by lengthening the school calendar year. According to Reitz, the purpose of this Philippines, Mozambique, Spain, Venice, Th ough the program has been absent for stipend is “to help students get to those Egypt, and the Dominican Republic. nearly two decades, it resumed in January places where they can care for orphans 2008 with courses off ered in India, Israel, and widows.” Th e Intercultural Studies website, and the Philippines. www.nyack.edu/GSL, contains more Stipend recipient, Michelle Wolfson, information regarding the costs and Scott Reitz, a 1995 Nyack alumnus and said that one experience she had at an dates for each trip, as well as the course former head of Intercultural Programs orphanage in India was a life-changing titles and professors who will be leading 3 at Crown College, came to Nyack one.