printer-friendly
around the green – faculty and staff
– Attended– Exhibited/Installed
– Hosted
– Participated
– Performed
– Presented
– Published
For position openings, please see www.bethelks.edu/careers
Attended
Dave Linscheid ’75, director of alumni relations, and alumni department staff from seven other Kansas Independent College Association institutions and one Missouri college held a day-long meeting at Newman University, Wichita, Nov. 6, to exchange ideas for alumni relations programming and compare administrative structures.
Chuck Regier ’81, Kauffman Museum curator of exhibits, and Joel Gaeddert ’06, assistant curator of exhibits, attended the Mountain-Plains Museums Association in Kansas City, Oct. 21-24.
Richard Zerger ’69, professor of chemistry, attended the University of Kansas School of Medicine 2008 Premedical Advisors Conference, Oct. 24 in Kansas City.
Exhibited/Installed
David Kreider ’82, Kauffman Museum technician, moved the Smithsonian Institution’s traveling exhibit “New Harmonies” from the McPherson Museum to the Atchison County Historical Society Nov. 11, completing Kauffman Museum’s contract with the Kansas Humanities Council to provide shipping and installation service for the exhibit at six Kansas museum and library locations.
Bob Regier ’52, professor emeritus of art, using the Web design and building expertise of Joel Gaeddert ’06, Kauffman Museum assistant curator of exhibits, has launched a Web site for his studio at www.bobregier.com.
Hosted
Tracy Tuttle, assistant professor of physics, and Don Lemons, professor of physics, hosted a meeting of the WSU-ACCK Physics Alliance at Tuttle’s house Nov. 7.
Participated
Andi Schmidt Andres ’84, Kauffman Museum curator of education, participated on a panel, “Sharing Kansas Day Success,” at the Kansas Museums Association annual meeting in Manhattan, Oct. 30. On Oct. 31, Rachel Pannabecker ’80, Kauffman Museum director, led the session “Grant Talk: The Basics of KMA Institutional Project Grants,” completing her third year on the KMA Institutional Project Grants committee. Schmidt Andres and Pannabecker won the “Funniest Costume” trophy for dressing as an Uncle Carl’s Camper chasing a butterfly.
John McCabe-Juhnke ’78, professor of communication arts, was an outside reviewer for Contagion: The Sad Case of a Performance Art Critic, directed by Justin Trudeau at the University of North Texas, Denton, Nov.14.
Performed
Karen Bauman Schlabaugh, professor of music, completed an East Coast tour with Wichita clarinetist Suzanne Tirk at the end of October. They performed in master class settings in three Pennsylvania schools – West Chester University, Lehigh University and Moravian College – and gave three complete recitals at Susquehanna University, Millersville University and Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania and the Longy School of Music in Boston.
Presented
Robert Yutzy , coordinator of congregational ministries at Kansas Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (KIPCOR), co-presented with his wife, Luann Yutzy, a half-day workshop on understanding and coping with compassion fatigue for volunteer chaplains at Promise Regional Medical Center in Hutchinson, Oct. 14. On Oct. 8, Yutzy spoke on “Finding God in the Center of Conflict” during Life Enrichment at Bethel College and on Nov. 6, he was a guest presenter for Hesston College’s Conflict Transformation class.
Kirsten Zerger ’73, KIPCOR director of education and training, made two presentations at the annual Leadership Conference of the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT), Nov. 4 in Topeka, on “Managing Difference and Disagreement by Promoting Positive Communication.”
Dwight Platt ’52, professor emeritus of biology, presented a paper, “Reproductive Strategies of Sympatric Populations of Thamnophis sirtalis and T. radix in Harvey County, Kansas” at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Kansas Herpetological Society, Nov. 8 at Friends University in Wichita, and moderated one of the paper sessions.
Published
James C. Juhnke ’62, professor emeritus of history, recently had the article “Mennonites and Democracy: Shaped by War and Rumors of War” published in Holding on to the Faith: Confessional Traditions in American Christianity, edited by Douglas Sweeney and Charles Hambrick-Stowe (University Press of America, 2008), which consists of papers presented at a conference at Wheaton College sponsored by the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals.