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around the green – faculty and staff
– Appointed– Attended
– Exhibited/Installed
– Hosted
– Preached
– Presented
– Published
– Served
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Appointed
John Graber ’02, adjunct instructor of mathematics. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Iowa.
Travis Graber ’97, interim head football coach.
Bridget Kratzer ’06, multicultural student advisor.
Kristin Larson-Jantzi, admissions counselor.
Sarah Masem, clinical instructor of nursing. She has a B.S. in nursing from Tabor College and is scheduled to complete her M.S. in nursing education from Fort Hays State University in May 2010.
Tressie Maugans, adjunct assistant professor of nursing. She has an M.S. in nursing with a specialization in health-care education from University of Phoenix and is also certified in emergency nursing.
Todd Moore, vice president of enrollment. He earned a master’s degree at Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, and most recently was a gift officer in the Office of Advancement at Southwestern College, Winfield.
Allen Wedel ’69, interim vice president for business affairs. He has an MBA from Wichita State University and serves as adjunct faculty in accounting at Bethel.
M. E. Yeager, assistant professor of communication arts. She earned her Ph.D. from Kansas State University and joins Bethel’s Department of Communication Arts as a two-year sabbatical replacement for Christine Crouse-Dick.
Attended
Mark Fox, women’s basketball coach, attended the Read and React Clinic, presented by Rick Torbett, creator of this offensive system, at Grapevine (Texas) High School Sept. 12-13.
Fred Goering ’72, director of development, attended the Mennonite Foundation Planned Giving Conference in Lancaster, Pa., met with the development officers from other Mennonite colleges and visited alumni and donors in Pennsylvania Sept. 26-30.
Dwight Krehbiel ’69, professor of psychology, attended “Vision and Change,” an undergraduate biology education conference in Washington, D.C., July 15-17, sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Science Foundation.
Patricia Shelly ’76, professor of Bible and religion, attended Mennonite Church USA Executive Board meetings in Kansas City, Sept. 23-25.
John Thiesen ’82, co-director of libraries, attended a pre-conference workshop on e-mail archives, along with the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists, in Austin, Texas, Aug 11-16.
Exhibited/Installed
David Kreider ’82, Kauffman Museum technician, moved the Smithsonian Institution’s traveling exhibit “Journey Stories” Sept. 29 from the Glasco Community Foundation in Glasco to the Geary County Historical Society, Junction City, where it will be on display through mid-November. This work is part of a contract Kauffman Museum has with the Kansas Humanities Council to provide shipping and installation services for “Journey Stories” at six Kansas museum/library locations during the next six months.
Hosted
Merle Schlabaugh, professor of German, hosted the annual Deutsches Wochenende, a German-language immersion weekend sponsored by the Kansas Association of Teachers of German, on the Bethel College campus Sept. 18-19.
Preached
Patricia Shelly ’76, professor of Bible and religion, preached at First Mennonite Church, Hutchinson, Sept. 13, and during Sunday school presented “Three meetings with the President of Iran.” She also preached at Hope Mennonite Church, Wichita, Sept. 27, and presented “Three meetings with the President of Iran” during Sunday school.
Presented
Dwight Krehbiel ’69, professor of psychology, gave the lecture “Biopsychological Responses to Music Chosen by a Computer: Validation of a Music Search Engine” for the concluding symposium of the summer undergraduate research program of the College of Natural Sciences, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, July 31. He also chaired a panel to review grant proposals for the Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement Program of the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Va., July 13-14.
Patricia Shelly ’76, professor of Bible and religion, presented “Three meetings with the President of Iran” at Shalom Mennonite Church, Newton, Sept. 30.
Tracy Tuttle, assistant professor of physics, offered a hands-on and multimedia presentation, “Telescopes, Computers and CCDs,” to attendees at the first Kansas Cosmosphere public star party, “Starry Night 2009,” Aug. 21. He demonstrated computer-driven telescope operation and astronomical imaging techniques in conjunction with the Kansas Cosmosphere.
Garrett Whorton ’07, admissions counselor, gave the baccalaureate address to the graduating seniors from his alma mater, Little River High School, May 13.
Published
Francisca Méndez-Harclerode, assistant professor of biology, along with three coauthors published “A Molecular Examination of Relatedness, Multiple Paternity, and Cohabitation of the Southern Plains Woodrat (Neotoma micropus)” in the Journal of Mammalogy 90(4): 819-831.
Mark Jantzen ’85, associate professor of history, had his article “Wealth and Power in the Vistula River Mennonite Community, 1772-1914” published in Journal of Mennonite Studies 27 (2009): 93-107.
Ami Regier ’85, professor of English, wrote an article in 2004 that will be reprinted in a volume titled Native American Writers, published as a part of Harold Bloom’s Modern Critical Views series in 2009. The article is entitled “Revolutionary Enunciatory Spaces: Ghost Dancing, Transatlantic Travel and Modernist Arson in Gardens in the Dunes,” from MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Volume 51, Number 1 (Spring 2005): 134-157.
Served
Gary Histand, professor of chemistry, recently completed a term as a member of the committee that produced the 2009 General Chemistry First Term Examination (American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Education, Examinations Institute).