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around the green – faculty and staff
– Appointed– Attended
– Chaired
– Exhibited
– Hosted
– Participated
– Preached
– Presented
– Promoted
– Published
– Served
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Appointed
Rosa M. Barrera, assistant to the president. She has a B.S. from Kansas Newman University, Wichita. She most recently worked at Prairie View Mental Health Services, Newton.
Nathan Bartel ’02, assistant professor of English, accepted an appointment to the position for a second year.
Gregg Dick ’87, interim vice president for business affairs. He replaces Lowell Peachey, who resigned.
Patsy Dirksen ’81, office manager for Student Life. She was most recently assistant to President Barry C. Bartel, and replaces Kayla Corbett, who resigned.
Diana S. Graber ’72, administrative assistant in the Office of Alumni Relations. She has been a paraprofessional in the Moundridge High School library since 1986, as well as accountant/bookkeeper for her family’s farming operation. She replaces Judy Kliewer, who resigned.
Lois Preheim, director of elementary education. She earned a master of divinity degree from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Ind., and a Ph.D. in administration curriculum and instruction from the University of Nebraska. She replaces Judy Miller, who has retired.
Gerry Sieber, cross country coach. Sieber recently retired from 13 years at Bethel as a soccer coach and instructor of physical education.
Toby Tyner ’07, associate director of development. He graduated from Bethel in May.
Attended
Amy Barker, campus pastor and assistant professor of youth ministry, attended the Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada Youth Ministry Council gathering May 14-17 at Hesston College and hosted the group for lunch at KIPCOR May 16. During that lunch, Dale Schrag ’69, director of Church Relations, presented a brief history of General Conference Mennonites in Kansas and the formation of Bethel College and led a campus tour afterward.
Barry C. Bartel ’84, president, Dave Linscheid ’75, director of alumni relations, and Galyn Vesey, Bethel College Project consultant, along with six Bethel students and alumni from across the United States, attended the Bethel College African-American Alumni Association biennial planning meeting March 30-31 in Kansas City.
Brad Born ’84, vice president for academic affairs, Rodney Frey ’67, registrar, Ami Regier ’85, professor of English, Ada Schmidt-Tieszen ’74, professor of social work, and Patricia Shelly ’76, professor of Bible and religion, attended the Higher Learning Commission annual meeting, April 21-23 in Chicago. Born, Schmidt-Tieszen and Shelly presented the session “Restoring trust while revising General Education: Recommendations for shared governance.”
Mark Jantzen ’85, associate professor of history, attended the annual conference of the Kansas Association of Historians April 13 in Abilene.
Patricia Shelly ’76, professor of Bible and religion, attended the Executive Board meetings for Mennonite Church USA March 21-24 in Excelsior Springs, Mo.
Chaired
Penelope Adams Moon, associate professor of history, chaired two panels at the annual Kansas Association of Historians meeting April 13 in Abilene.
Exhibited
Robert Regier ’52, professor emeritus of art, along with Conrad Snider ’84 and Phil Epp ’72, were represented in the Kansas Masters Invitational Exhibition May 4-June 16 at the Strecker-Nelson Gallery in Manhattan. Regier has also had two of his bird illustrations accepted by Artists to Watch for distribution through Trader Joe’s retail outlets.
David Kreider ’82, Kauffman Museum technician, coordinated the 68th installation of the traveling exhibit “Mirror of the Martyrs” in central Illinois. The exhibit was hosted by the Illinois Amish Interpretive Center at the Old Order and Beachy Amish-supported Otto Center in Arthur and the Illinois Amish Interpretive Center in Arcola and was on display through June 15.
Hosted
Allen Jantz ’84, associate professor of education, coordinated, hosted and moderated the Spring Kansas Association of Colleges of Teachers of Education (KACTE) meeting April 20 at KIPCOR. Jantz serves as KACTE president.
Barry C. Bartel ’84, president, Brenda Bartel ’84 and Dave Linscheid ’75, director of alumni relations, hosted gatherings and visited with alumni and friends of Bethel in Normal, Ill., Elkhart, Ind., Bluffton, Ohio, and Prairie Village, in connection with the Bethel College Concert Choir’s spring tour.
Participated
Dwight Krehbiel ’69, professor of psychology, participated in a National Science Digital Library (NSDL) workshop for teachers at the Burroughs-Wellcome Center in Research Triangle Park, April 24-25 near Durham, N.C. Krehbiel presented on the topic of BiosciEdNet, the component of the NSDL about which he has been learning. He attended the workshop and made the presentation at the invitation of Robert Panoff, president and executive director of Shodor Education Foundation in Durham.
Penelope Adams Moon, associate professor of history, participated in Eastern Mennonite University’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute in May. She took the course Analysis: Understanding Conflict.
Preached
Amy Barker, campus pastor and assistant professor of youth ministry, provided the message for the Good Friday service April 6 at Kidron Bethel Village, North Newton.
Brett Dewey, assistant professor of Bible and religion, delivered the sermon “The fog of witnesses” at New Creation Fellowship, Newton, March 25. He also gave the sermon “¡Si, se puede, con Dios!” for a Bethel College chapel March 28.
Patricia Shelly ’76, professor of Bible and religion, delivered the sermon “Lenten journey to Iran” March 11 (Bethel College Sunday) at Trinity Mennonite Church, Hillsboro.
Presented
Christine Crouse-Dick, assistant professor of communication arts, and Allison McFarland, professor of business and economics, were the featured presenters for the Publicity and Advertising workshop April 12 in Hutchinson. The workshops are held each year to provide helpful information and opportunities for collaboration among Mennonite Central Committee relief sale coordinators from Kansas, the Midwest region and across the country. Crouse-Dick talked about working with the media, and McFarland on attracting new consumers.
Duane Friesen ’62, Edmund G. Kaufman Professor Emeritus of Bible and Religion, taught Contemporary Theology for Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary’s Great Plains Seminary Education Program during the spring semester. On March 14, he presented “Anabaptist perspectives on religious pluralism” at First Mennonite Church, Hutchinson.
Gary Histand, associate professor of chemistry, attended the Kansas College Chemistry Teachers Conference April 12-14 in Salina. He presented “Environmental chemistry as a teaching tool,” demonstrating the concepts of greenhouse and atmospheric window using a simple gas generator, IR gas cell and IR spectrometer.
Dwight Krehbiel ’69, professor of psychology, presented “The National Science Digital Library: Finding and submitting resources for teaching, learning and research” April 5 at Truman State University, Kirksville, Mo., for the Mathematical Biology Seminar. On April 6, he presented “Continuously measured emotional and physiological responses to music for Truman State’s Biology Seminar Series.
Dan Quinlin, associate professor of languages, presented the paper “A ‘major change’: Implications for a system of advising” at the National Academic Advising Association Conference March 9 in Austin, Texas.
Gregg Schroeder ’92, director of nursing, presented “Nursing knowledge development for the 21st century” March 20 at Yaroslav-the-Wise Veliky Novgorod (Russia) State University Nursing Academy. The academy celebrated the 10th anniversary of its program at the university level and 10 years of collaboration between its director, Gennadi Chuvakov, and Schroeder.
Patricia Shelly ’76, professor of Bible and religion, presented “Update on Israel/Palestine” to a Sunday school class at Trinity Heights Methodist Church, Newton, Feb. 4. She presented “God-talk” to the Issues and Christianity Sunday school class at Bethel College Mennonite Church (BCMC) Feb. 11. Shelly also gave her reflections on participating in a religious delegation to Iran in an event sponsored by Mennonite Central Committee, Mennonite Church USA and BCMC March 19 at the church.
Promoted
David Long, associate professor of art, was granted tenure.
Penelope Adams Moon was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of history.
Ami Regier ’85 was promoted to professor of English.
Published
Mark Jantzen ’85, associate professor of history, published The Danzig Mennonite Church: Its Origin and History, 1569-1919 (Mennonite Library and Archives/Pandora Press) as co-editor with John Thiesen ’82, co-director of libraries. Jantzen also had his book review of In Defense of Privilege: Russian Mennonites and the State before and during World War I published in Mennonite Quarterly Review, Vol. 81 No. 2 (April 2007).
Jon Piper, professor of biology, published two articles on prairie restoration in June. “Does the number of species in a seed mix affect the establishment of four tallgrass prairie species? A seven-year study in Kansas” was published in Ecological Restoration, Vol. 25. “Effects of species richness on resident and target species components in a prairie restoration,” coauthored with Emily Schmidt ’05 and Angela Janzen ’02, appeared in Restoration Ecology, Vol. 15.
Gerry Sieber, retired instructor of health and physical education, published “Using the obituaries to connect health to life and death” in Great Ideas! In Teaching Health & Wellness, Vol. 5.
Howard Snider, professor emeritus of sociology, published Jesus or Christ? (Infinity Publishing 2007), addressing the role Paul played in creating Christianity.
Served
Rodney Frey ’67, registrar, serves on the Kansas Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Strategic Planning Task Force, which met May 3 at Sterling College.
Karen Bauman Schlabaugh, professor of music, served as an adjudicator April 28 in Wichita for the Music Progressions Auditions, a musicianship program in 10 levels sponsored by the Kansas Music Teachers Association. On April 29, she was the soloist in Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” with the Bethel College Wind Ensemble.
John McCabe-Juhnke ’78, professor of communication arts, served on the individual events tabulation staff at the Pi Kappa Delta National Tournament and Convention, March 7-10 at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant.