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– Exhibited/Installed
– Participated
– Performed
– Preached
– Presented
– Published
– Served
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Appointed
Gary Flory, KIPCOR director, has been named to the Advisory Board of Mediation Resource Center, Inc. (MRC), a new non-profit mediation center in Lawrence.
Mark Jantzen ’85, associate professor of history, was appointed to the Beirat (editorial board) of the Mennonitisches Lexikon (Mennonite Encyclopedia) Supplemental Volume project sponsored by the German Mennonite Historical Society. Hans-Jürgen Goertz, professor emeritus at the University of Hamburg, chairs the project.
Attended
Megan Abrahams ‘08, Karey French ’06 and Garrett Whorton ’07, admissions counselors, along with Rodney Frey ’67, registrar, and Kay Schmidt ’88, associate registrar, attended the Kansas Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (KACRAO) meeting Sept. 24-26 in Garden City. Frey was on a panel at one of the sessions, speaking on his experiences in KACRAO over the last 16 years.
Gary Flory, KIPCOR director, attended Kansas Dialogue in Kansas City Aug. 15-17. The theme was “Exploring our Neighborhoods” and Gary led a session called “Immigration: A Positive Dialogue.”
Patty Shelly ’76, professor of Bible and religion, attended Mennonite Church USA Executive Board meetings Sept. 18-20 in Philadelphia. She also participated in Mennonite Central Committee’s New Wine-New Wineskins Summit: Reshaping MCC for the 21st Century Sept. 21-23 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, as a representative of MCC Central States.
Exhibited/Installed
Rachel Epp Buller ’96, adjunct assistant professor of art, had a print in a national juried show titled “The Printed Image.” The print was reviewed in the October issue of Review Magazine.
David Kreider ’82, Kauffman Museum technician, installed the Smithsonian Institute traveling exhibit “Between Fences” for the South Dakota Humanities Council at the South Dakota State Fair in Huron in late August.
Participated
Don Lemons, professor of physics, participated in the Mennonite College and University Faculty Conference in Harrisonburg, Va., Aug. 7-9.
Rachel Pannabecker ’80, director of Kauffman Museum, coordinated a “prairie walk and talk” program at Kauffman Museum Oct. 12 as part of The Big Read-Wichita, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts. Ami Regier ’85, professor of English, facilitated a discussion of Willa Cather’s My Ántonia, incorporating student responses from a current Bethel College Understanding Literature class.
Merle Schlabaugh, professor of German, participated in the Loyola College/Max Kade Berlin Literature Seminar in Berlin July 7-12, where six contemporary German authors read from and discussed their works with the participants, all German professors from American colleges and universities. He also participated in the annual Deutsches Wochenende (German Immersion Weekend) of the Kansas Association of Teachers of German held in Baldwin City Sept. 12-13.
Performed
Karen Bauman Schlabaugh, professor of music, performed with clarinetist Suzanne Tirk Sept. 9 in a faculty recital at Wiedemann Hall on the Wichita State University campus. They performed again Sept. 14 at Oklahoma City University, playing works by Ferguson, Reinecke, Muczynski and Poulenc. On Nov. 9, Karen played a piano dedicatory recital at Bethel College Mennonite Church and on Nov. 16, she played a recital of piano duets with Susan Gaeddert ’00, Madison, Wis., in the Ad Building chapel.
Preached
Dale Schrag ’69, director of church relations, preached on “Anabaptist Anguish: The Apostle Paul and the Crucible of Community” Oct. 26 at Tabor Mennonite Church in rural Newton.
Duane K. Friesen ’62, Edmund G. Kaufman professor emeritus of Bible and religion, preached the sermon “The Cosmos Bends toward Justice: A Politics of Judgment and Hope” at Bethel College Mennonite Church Oct. 12.
Presented
Gary Flory, KIPCOR director, presented an update on KIPCOR’s Child in Need of Care (CINC) work to the Kansas Supreme Court’s liaison committee on child welfare Sept. 19. Also, for the eighth year, Flory facilitated the “Time of Discovery” sessions for the Hutchinson Ulster Project, which brings teens from Portadown, Northern Ireland, to Hutchinson for a month to work on issues of divided societies.
Mark Jantzen ’85, associate professor of history, presented “Wealth and Power in the Vistula River Mennonite Community, 1772-1914” at the Mennonites and Money: Wealth and Poverty in the Past and Present conference at the University of Winnipeg Oct. 9-10.
Patty Shelly ’76, professor of Bible and religion, gave the presentation “Has Not One God Created Us?” at an international dialogue on peacemaking with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, Sept. 25 in New York City (see page ). She reported on the meeting to a Bethel College Mennonite Church Sunday school class Sept. 28, at Life Enrichment Oct. 1 and at an MCC forum in Sioux Falls, S.D., Oct. 20.
Noreen Templin, adjunct instructor of business, presented “Teaching Economics Using Experiments” during one of the break-out sessions at the 4th Annual Economics Teaching Conference in San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 6-7.
John Thiesen ’88, co-director of libraries, was one of four speakers at the Kansas City Area Archivists fall symposium, “Go Online with Your Digital Collections – How to Put Your Digital Collections on the Web,” at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City Sept. 26.
Robert Yutzy, KIPCOR coordinator of congregational ministries, taught an elective Sunday school class Aug.17, 24 and 31 at Hesston Mennonite Church on topics such as being created in the image of God, the nature of conflict, and the role and limitations of forgiveness in reconciliation.
Kirsten Zerger ’73, KIPCOR director of education and training, and Gary Flory, KIPCOR director, conducted a series of training sessions for Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) senior management. Zerger and Flory also facilitated a Bethel student forum Sept. 1.
Jim Juhnke ’62, professor emeritus of history, was a keynote speaker for “Germantown: Gateway to North American History,” Oct. 17-18 in Philadelphia. Professor Emeritus of History Keith Sprunger was on the planning committee for the conference and gave a paper on the historical interpretations of D.K. Cassel. The conference commemorated the 300th anniversary of the formal organization of the Germantown Mennonite Church.
Published
Rachel Epp Buller ’96, adjunct assistant professor of art, had an essay entitled “Representations of the Maternal Body in Contemporary Art” published in Mothering in the Third Wave (Demeter Press, 2008).
Mark Jantzen ’85, associate professor of history, published “Fighting Mennonites: Reflections on the Role of Conflict in Mennonite History,” in Mennonite Historical Bulletin 69, no. 3 (July 2008).
Don Lemons, professor of physics, co-authored a paper with Dan Winske, William Daugharthy and Brian Albright, “Small-Angle Coulomb Collision Model for Particle-in-Cell Simulations,” which has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Computational Physics. Johns Hopkins published Don's third book, Mere Thermodynamics, which came off the press in early November. The book deals with the fundamentals of thermodynamics as well as advanced topics such as the relationship between the Second Law of Thermodynamics and entropy.
Duane K. Friesen ’62, Edmund G. Kaufman professor emeritus of Bible and religion, published “Security, Public Order, and Policing: Reflections on a Conversation” in the Spring 2008 issue of Conrad Grebel Review.
Served
Rachel Epp Buller ’96, adjunct assistant professor of art, chaired a session at the Mid-America College Art Association conference in Indianapolis Oct. 15-17.
John McCabe-Juhnke ’78, professor of communication arts, served as the Humanities Scholar for the Prime Time Family Reading Program sponsored by the Kansas Humanities Council at the Wichita Public Library. Prime Time, designed to foster academic skills for children ages 6-10, was a six-week storytelling and discussion series on Tuesday evenings Sept. 9-Oct. 14.
Merle Schlabaugh, professor of German, served as an Advanced Placement reader for German at the Educational Testing Service in Lincoln, Neb., June 11-19. He served as a team chair for the Kansas State Department of Education Program Review process for several Kansas universities Oct. 21-22 in Topeka.
Duane K. Friesen ’62, Edmund G. Kaufman professor emeritus of Bible and religion, was a resource person for the annual retreat of the Mennonite Congregation of Boston, Oct. 19, on the topic of “Mennonites and Political Engagement.” He was the instructor for the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary-Great Plains fall course “Nonviolence and the Christian Faith.”