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Faculty and Staff Achievements
March 2008
Attended
Christopher Earles, assistant professor of mathematics, attended a Liberty Fund colloquium, "Persons, Property, and the State: in Locke, Rousseau, and Kant," Feb. 21-24 in Houston, Texas.
Participated
Mark Jantzen, associate professor of history, met with the youth group of Zion Mennonite Church in Elbing Jan. 27 to discuss the history of the Old Order Amish and the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (Holdeman) groups. On Feb. 3 he accompanied the group to Sunday School and worship at the Lone Tree Holdeman congregation north of Moundridge.
Tracy Tuttle, assistant professor of physics, and Don Lemons, professor of physics, participated in a meeting of the newly formed ACCK and Wichita State University Physics Alliance Feb. 20 at WSU.
Performed
During interterm, Richard Tirk, assistant professor of music, and Karen Bauman Schlabaugh, professor of music, performed a series of recitals and held masterclasses in a number of locations. Their first performance and masterclass was Jan. 13 at Bluffton University. Recital performances and trumpet masterclasses followed Jan. 15 at Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo) and Jan. 17 at Lawrence University (Appleton, Wis.). They also spent time in public school music classrooms in Bluffton, Ohio, and Dowagiac, Mich. They performed the recital, which featured 21st-century music for trumpet and piano Feb. 4 at Bethel College.
Preached
Brett Dewey, assistant professor of Bible and religion, gave the chapel sermon “God is Love, God is Trinity” Feb. 4 at Hesston College.
Presented
Jennifer Chappell Deckert, assistant professor of education and social work, presented “Protecting our children from sexual abuse: Encouraging safe communities and healthy families” Feb. 28 and 29 at a parenting workshop at Sunset Elementary School in Newton. She collaborated with Karla Guardiola, interterm 2008 Bethel College social work graduate, to present the program in English and Spanish.
Dale Schrag, director of Church Relations, concluded four presentations on Anabaptist Visions/Mennonite Realities March 2 at First Mennonite Church of Christian in Moundridge.
Tracy Tuttle, assistant professor of physics, presented Spectroscopic Study of the Beta Lyrae System and Other Emission Stars Feb. 29 at Fort Hays State University’s Physics Society Seminar. He also presented A Progress Report on the Stellar Spectroscopy of Emission Stars Feb. 13 at Kansas State University’s High Energy Physics (HPE) and Physics Education and Research (PER) seminar. On Jan. 16, Tuttle presented Wind Energy Analysis of North Newton Area, a progress report and wind profile analysis, to a meeting of city officials from Newton, North Newton, Hesston and Walton.
Published
Rachel Pannabecker, director of Kauffman Museum, recently learned that the National Museum of the American Indian Library, Smithsonian Institution, acquired a copy of her doctoral dissertation, “Ribbonwork of the Great Lakes Indians: The Material of Acculturation,” which she completed in 1986 at Ohio State University.
Served
Suzanna Mathews, instructor of communication arts, spends about an hour each week as a reader at Envision, an organization in Wichita that provides services for blind and low-vision individuals. She makes audio recordings of newsletters, novels and anything in print that a sighted person would read but that a non-sighted person could listen to.
Karen Bauman Schlabaugh, professor of music, served as an adjudicator for the Kansas High School Activities Association Regional Piano Contest Feb. 2 at Southwestern College. On Feb. 17, she performed one of the recitals on the historic Teschemacher organ during a Kauffman Museum Valentine fund-raising dinner.