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around the green – faculty and staff
– Appointed– Attended
– Awarded
– Hosted
– Participated
– Performed
– Preached
– Presented
– Promoted
– Published
– Served
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Appointed
Karen Buerge, cashier/payroll clerk.
Denise Bruce, M.A., instructor of communication arts (interim co-director of forensics during sabbatical of John McCabe-Juhnke).
Jean Denney Grotewohl, M.F.A, director of dance for Bethel College Academy of Performing Arts (BCAPA).
Nathan Eigsti ’07, assistant in Information and Media Services.
Elizabeth Gatz, B.S.N., clinical instructor in nursing.
Brian Huxman ’00, assistant women’s basketball coach.
Kulsum Kapacee ’98, M.S.N., associate professor of nursing.
Joanne Kaster, M.S.N., clinical instructor in nursing.
Stacy Koontz ’95, assistant volleyball coach.
Suzanna Mathews ’94, M.A., instructor of communication arts (fall: interim co-director of forensics and interim chair of theater during sabbatical of John McCabe-Juhnke).
Mark Smith ’02, Haury Hall resident director.
Michelle Snodgrass, M.S.N., adjunct professor of nursing.
Mark Yoder, men’s basketball head coach.
Robert Yutzy, M.A., coordinator of congregational ministries for the Kansas Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (KIPCOR).
Attended
Rodney Frey ’67, registrar, Ami Regier ’85, professor of English, and Lisa Janzen Scott ’84, assistant professor of education and mathematics, attended the Higher Learning Commission Assessment Workshop July 25-27 in Lisle, Ill. Lisa also attended the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics regional convention in Kansas City Oct. 26.
Duane Friesen ’62, Edmund G. Kaufman professor emeritus of Bible and religion, attended a consultation of Muslims, Jews and Christians, Abrahamic Perspectives on Alternatives to War, June 13-15 in Stony Point, N.Y.
Karen Bauman Schlabaugh, professor of music, attended the Kansas Music Teachers Association fall conference Sept. 28-29 at Kansas State University in Manhattan.
Kay Schmidt ’88, associate registrar, attended JAM 2007, the annual meeting and conference for Jenzabar clients, May 30-June 2 in Orlando, Fla., and an F-1 Advising Workshop July 18-19 at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.
John Thiesen ’88, co-director of libraries, attended the Society of American Archivists meetings in Chicago Aug. 29-Sept. 2. He took (and passed) the re-certification exam of the Academy of Certified Archivists. Those with the “certified archivist” credential are required to re-certify every five years, and since John has been a certified archivist since 1992, this is the fourth time he has taken the exam.
Awarded
Professor Emeritus of Biology Dwight Platt ’52 received the Excellence in Botany Award for 2007 from the Kansas Native Plant Society.
Hosted
Allan Bartel ’73, vice president for admissions, Toby Tyner ’07, associate director of development, and Dave Linscheid ’75, director of alumni relations, hosted the 14th annual Summer Thresher Golf Classic and Barbecue Aug. 11 in Henderson, Neb.
Andi Schmidt Andres ’84, Kauffman Museum curator of education, hosted a meeting of the Wichita Museum Educators Sept. 24.
Participated
Gary Flory, KIPCOR director, participated in Kansas Dialogue XIV Aug. 24-26 in Hutchinson. Flory moderated a dialogue session titled “Salt Talks: Strategies for Resolving Conflict.”
Rodney Frey ’67, registrar, and Kay Schmidt ’88, associate registrar, attended the annual Kansas Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (KACRAO) conference Sept. 26-28 in Pittsburg.
David Kreider ’82, Kauffman Museum technician, completed a special project with the Kansas Humanities Council when he coordinated the travel and installation of the Smithsonian exhibit “Between Fences” at six Kansas museums in June. In early July, he traveled to the Mennonite Church USA Convention in San Jose, Calif., where he installed the Mennonite Church Historical Committee exhibit, which he and Kauffman Museum staff members Chuck Regier ’81 and Joel Gaeddert ’06 produced.
Rachel Pannabecker ’80, Kauffman Museum director, collaborated with the Newton-North Newton Historic Preservation Commission to bring StoryCorps to Newton June 19. Newton was one of only five sites in Kansas to host this national oral history project. Interviews in Newton included Keith Sprunger and Jim Juhnke ’62, emeriti professors of history, and Pannabecker interviewing Ozzie Goering ’49. All interviews are archived at the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress as well as the Newton Public Library.
Chuck Regier ’81, Kauffman Museum curator of exhibits, attended the Mountain-Plains Museums Association conference Sept. 11-14 in Fargo, N.D.
Patricia Shelly ’76, professor of Bible and religion, participated in Mennonite Church USA Executive Board meetings Sept. 28-30 in Newton. She was part of a public meeting with People of Peace group at First Mennonite Church, McPherson, Oct. 18.
Kirsten Zerger ’73, KIPCOR director of education and training, attended an all-day workshop Sept. 21 in Wichita, Domestic Violence and Child Welfare: Engaging Families and Working Together to Make Every Home a Safe Home.
Performed
Karen Bauman Schlabaugh, professor of music, performed in recent months with clarinetist Suzanne Tirk, assistant professor of clarinet at Wichita State University: the Clarinet Symposium at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, in June; the International Clarinet Association conference at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in July; and Tirk’s WSU faculty recital, Sept. 11.
Jim Pisano, assistant professor of music, did a two-week tour of several jazz venues in New England, including the Acton Jazz Café, The Pressroom and Elixir. Jim collaborated with several musicians, including pianist/composer Mark Shilansky. Jim also performed with the Wichita Grand Opera this past season in the productions of Puccini’s Tosca and Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet.
Preached
Amy Barker, campus pastor, spoke in chapel at Western Mennonite School, Salem, Ore., Oct. 25, and doubled as an admissions rep Oct. 25-26 during the school’s Mennonite College Days.
Brett Dewey, assistant professor of Bible and religion, preached at First Mennonite Church, Newton, July 1.
Patricia Shelly ’76, professor of Bible and religion, preached and gave two additional presentations May 27 at Salem-Zion Mennonite Church, Freeman, S.D. She preached the sermon and met with Sunday school classes for Peace Sunday, Oct. 21, at First Mennonite Church of Christian, Moundridge. She gave three presentations – sharing in Sunday school, a sermon and an afternoon Peace Forum – at First Mennonite Church, Iowa City, Oct. 14.
Presented
William Eash, professor of music, presented “Leading congregational music” Aug. 25 at West Union Mennonite Church, Parnell, Iowa, led a hymn sing in the evening and served as song leader during the morning worship service Aug. 26.
Gary Flory, KIPCOR director, presented the workshop “Analyzing Conflict and Reducing Its Impact,” at the Kansas Environmental Leadership Program training Aug. 16 in Independence.
Duane Friesen ’62, Edmund G. Kaufman Professor Emeritus of Bible and Religion, presented “How should the Anabaptist tradition relate to people of other religious faiths?” March 14 at First Mennonite Church, Hutchinson. He traveled with Jim Juhnke ’62, professor emeritus of history, and Sharon Eicher, associate professor of business and economics, to the Ukraine and Uzbekistan May 25-June 9, during which he presented a meditation at a worship service at Ak Metchet near Khiva. On July 1, along with Liz Friesen ’62 and Willis Harder ’53, he presented “Tracing the Mennonite story in the Ukraine and Central Asia” at Bethel College Mennonite Church. He presented a paper, “Gift of the other: Toward mutual transformation,” at the Called to be Peacemakers Conference and Mennonite/Roman Catholic Dialogue July 30-31 at the University of Notre Dame.
Allen Jantz ’84, associate professor of education, co-presented a paper, “Reading readiness: A collaborative/participatory action approach to increase student achievement,” at the Mid-Western Educational Research Association annual meeting in St. Louis Oct. 25.
Mark Jantzen ’85, associate professor of history, presented “The trouble with marrying Lutheran boys: The end of exogamous marriages in the Mennonite community in the Vistula Delta, 1713-1803” at the Myth and Reality of Anabaptist/ Mennonite Women conference Aug. 31-Sept. 1 in Amsterdam.
Don Lemons, professor of physics, presented “My life changing sabbatical” during Life Enrichment at Bethel Sept. 26.
Karen Bauman Schlabaugh, professor of music, presented a session on piano pedagogy for elementary students to the Newton Music Teachers Association Oct. 30.
Patricia Shelly ’76, professor of Bible and religion, continued reporting on her participation in a religious delegation to Iran in February with presentations May 30 in Hutchinson for a South Central District Women’s Meeting (Disciples of Christ); June 3 in Valley Center for a combined Sunday school class at the First United Methodist Church; and July 4 in San Jose, Calif., for the Mennonite Church USA convention. On Sept. 24, Patty joined 125 other church leaders for an interfaith meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York, at which she read Scripture and offered a closing blessing (see full story).
Promoted
Lori L. Livengood, director of institutional communications and marketing, to the President’s Cabinet.
Published
Duane Friesen ’62, Edmund G. Kaufman professor emeritus of Bible and religion, reviewed Rethinking Christ and Culture: A Post-Christendom Perspective by Craig Carter in the spring 2007 edition of Conrad Grebel Review. Friesen’s review of Transforming The Powers: Peace, Justice, and The Domination System, edited by Ray Gingerich and Ted Grimsrud, was published in the spring 2007 edition of Direction.
Mark Jantzen ’85, associate professor of history, had a review of Christopher Dowe’s Auch Bildungsbürger: Katholische Studierende und Akademiker im Kaiserreich [We Too Belong to the Educated Middle Class: Catholic Students and Professors in Imperial Germany] published Sept. 26 on H-German, an e-mail discussion list of more than 2,400 professors and others interested in German history.
Don Lemons, professor of physics, and Margaret Penner ’06 are authors of the paper “Sadi Carnot’s Contribution to the Second Law of Thermodynamics,” accepted for publication in the American Journal of Physics. Lemons’ 270-page manuscript Mere Thermodynamics has been accepted for publication by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Penelope Adams Moon, associate professor of history, published “Broken and Blessed: A Response to Darrin W. Snyder Belousek” in the latest issue of Mennonite Life.
Served
Gary Histand, associate professor of chemistry, served as an AP reader at the 2007 College Board Advanced Placement Program and Educational Testing Service.
Allen Jantz ’84, associate professor of education, in his role as president of the Kansas Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, presided over the annual fall KACTE/ATE-K meeting at Benedictine College Oct. 19.
Jim Pisano, assistant professor of music, served as the Honors Jazz Ensemble director at the 60th annual High Plains Band Camp at Fort Hays State University this summer and as a judge for Kansas State Solo and Ensemble Festival. He has been selected to direct this year’s South Central District High School Jazz Ensemble.
Richard Tirk, assistant professor of music, was the brass coach for Camp Da Capo, a chamber music festival for amateur musicians, Sept. 8-9 at Prairie Pines in Wichita. Tirk was also selected to be the South Central Kansas Music Education Association 1234A Regional High School Band Clinician in November.
Merle Schlabaugh, professor of German, served on a foreign language folio review team for the Kansas State Department of Education Oct. 23 in Topeka.
Barbara Schmidt ’65, Community Mediation Center manager, has been elected treasurer of Heartland Mediator’s Association, serving Kansas and Missouri mediators.
Kirsten Zerger ’73, KIPCOR director of education and training, serves on the Office of Judicial Administration’s Mentor Mediator Advisory Committee, which is charged with developing policies related to the mentoring of new mediators and the Kansas Supreme Court’s process of approving new mediators.