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around the green – faculty and staff
– Appointed– Attended
– Exhibited
– Facilitated
– Hosted
– Participated
– Performed
– Presented
– Published
– Served
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Appointed
Donna Becker, assistant professor of nursing. She has a BSN and MSN from the University of Kansas and spent a number of years on the Bethel College nursing faculty as well as Bethel administration before retiring in 2006.
Jeff Boone, adjunct instructor of business. He has a B.A. from Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, and a master's degree in education from Wichita State University and is the owner of a small business.
Krishyn Caldwell, bookstore manager. She was most recently on the office staff for the Peabody-Burns School District.
Ron Cheyney,,adjunct instructor of business. He has a B.A. from Sterling College and an MBA from Baker University and is a senior manager at Coleman in Wichita.
Stephanie Collins, adjunct instructor of nursing. She has a BSN from Wichita State University.
Brett Dewey adjunct instructor of business. He has a B.A. from Westmont College, Santa Barbara, Calif., and a master of divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, Calif., and is pastor of Hope Mennonite Church in Wichita.
Shirley Dietzel,, assistant softball coach. She continues in her position as director of business services.
Chad Gerber, resident director of Warkentin Court. He has a B.S. from the University of Kansas and an M.S. from the University of Northern Colorado.
Marjean Harris, adjunct instructor of social work. She has master's degrees from Wichita State University and the University of Kansas (social work) and is on the staff of Prairie View Mental Health Services in Newton.
Kirsten Horton, head assistant softball coach. She is a graduate of Hutchinson Community College and Friends University and most recently coached softball at Newton High School.
Jesse Kaufman, web developer.
Weldon Martens, interim vice president for Student Life. He has a B.A. from Bethel College and an M.Div. degree from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Ind., and was most recently a pastor at Bethesda Mennonite Church, Henderson, Neb.
Phil Mason,assistant professor of business and economics. He has a B.A. from Goshen (Ind.) College and an MBA from Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vt.
Holly Nickel, adjunct instructor of literary studies. She has a B.A. from Bethel College and an M.A. from Emporia State University.
Daniel Shomali, graduate assistant in athletic training. He has a B.S. from Olivet Nazarene University, Bourbonnais, Ill., and is currently pursuing a master's degree from Fort Hays State University.
Michael Unruh, admissions counselor. He is a 2009 graduate of Bethel College who recently completed a term of voluntary service at Camp Mennoscah, Murdock.
Darel Voth, communications coordinator. He has a BFA from Wichita State University and most recently worked as a graphic designer at Newman University, Wichita.
Jovan Wilhoite, assistant men's basketball coach. He has studied at Pratt Community College and Labette Community College, Parsons, and is completing his degree at Bethel College.
Aimee Wilson, instructor of nursing. She has associate degrees from Butler Community College and Hesston College and a BSN from Tabor College.
Paulette Wollenhaupt, adjunct instructor of nursing. She has a B.A. in nursing from Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S.D., and an M.A. in education from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Anna Yoder, Web editor. She is a 2009 graduate of Bluffton (Ohio) University and was most recently in voluntary service in Chicago.
Lijun Zhu, adjunct instructor of Chinese language. She has a B.A. from Wuhan University, earned a master's degree in education from Central China Normal University and an M.S. from Pittsburg State University, and is an instructor of Chinese language in the Wichita public schools.
Attended
Mark Jantzen ’85, associate professor of history, attended the Kansas Association of Historians annual meeting April 1-2 at Johnson County Community College, where he moderated a panel on “Colonialism and Its Discontents.”
John McCabe-Juhnke ’78, professor of communication arts, attended a promotional event March 17 in New York City, “PERFORMING NEW LIVES: A Conversation with Artists Behind Bars on the Power and Potential of Prison Theatre,” along with other contributors to a book on prison theater. The book, Performing New Lives, edited by Jonathan Shailor, is a collection of 17 essays representing 14 programs across the country. Shailor, McCabe-Juhnke and seven other contributors to the volume – all of them facilitators of prison theater programs – shared stories of their work, engaged the audience in dialogue and signed copies of the book.
Barbara Schmidt ’65 , manager of KIPCOR’s Community Mediation Center, attended the Heartland Mediators’ Association conference April 7. She has served on HMA’s board of directors for five years, including four as treasurer.
Exhibited
David Kreider ’82, technician at Kauffman Museum, traveled to Evanston, Ill., April 18-20 to pack and transport more than 30 works of art by American Impressionist Albert Krehbiel for an exhibit at the Carriage Factory Gallery, Newton. The exhibit, “Krehbiel Showcase,” will be on display through July 31. Krehbiel was the son of Bethel founder J.J. Krehbiel, who operated a carriage factory at the current gallery location.
Facilitated
Kirsten Zerger ’73, KIPCOR director of education and training, and Gary Flory, KIPCOR director, designed and facilitated a day-long visioning retreat for Salina Mennonite Church April 16.
Hosted
Sondra Bandy Koontz ’70, vice president for advancement, hosted the Wichita Public Library’s 25th anniversary celebration and showing of Academy Award-nominated short films (animation, live action and documentary) Feb. 26 at the Orpheum Theater in Wichita. Koontz opened the day’s celebration as she described the beginnings of the program, which she created for the library during her tenure as state film librarian and head of the art, music and film departments.
Participated
Marla Krell ’97, director of career development and placement, collaborated with the ACCK career services directors to organize and participate in the annual Teacher Interview Day, held March 8 this year at Tabor College, Hillsboro. Approximately 80 teacher candidates interviewed with 46 school district administrators from across the state of Kansas.
Performed
Karen Bauman Schlabaugh, professor of music, was the collaborating pianist with Richard and Suzanne Tirk in concerts at the University of Alabama- Birmingham Feb. 6 and at the University of Alabama Feb. 8. Schlabaugh also was the pianist for Scott Oakes, bassoonist, at his faculty artist recital at Wichita State University April 26.
Presented
Gary Flory, KIPCOR director, and Ken Grotewiel, senior associate with KIPCOR’s Great Plains Consensus Council, presented two workshops for the 44th Annual Conference of the Kansas Rural Water Association at Century II in Wichita. The first workshop, March 29, was on “Resolving Disputes in a Neighborly Way,” and the second workshop, March 30, was on “Dealing with Difficult Customers.
Gary Histand, professor of chemistry, along with seniors Trent Baalman, Trey Ronnebaum and Carrie Schulz, presented chemical demonstrations to all 8th grade science classes at Chisholm Middle School April 13. Histand and Schulz hosted and worked with the Newton High School Chemistry II class April 26. The students performed analyses using NMR spectroscopy materials they made at the high school. In addition, they looked at ion concentration in popular sodas, finding that of the sodas tested, Pepsi had the highest phosphate ion concentration.
Nicholas Krehbiel, visiting assistant professor of history, gave a presentation Feb. 24 for the Friends of the Mennonite Library and Archives Lecture Series titled “The Mennonite General’s Alternative Service: Lewis B. Hershey and Conscientious Objection during World War II.” The presentation was a brief overview of his Ph.D. dissertation, completed at Kansas State University in 2009.
Rachel Pannabecker ’80, director of Kauffman Museum, gave an illustrated talk on “Fibers to Fabrics: Clothing Kansans 1854-1904” to the Moundridge Study Club Feb. 10. The presentation included audience sharing about antique clothing from their own collections. Pannabecker also spoke to the Harvey County Retired School Personnel on the educational mission and history of Kauffman Museum March 11.
Ami Regier ’85, professor of literary studies, presented “Functions of Multiperspective Narrative in Writing Haitian American Diasporic Community in Edwidge Danticat’s 2004 The Dew Breaker” at a research conference of MELUS (Multiethnic Literature of the United States) in Boca Raton, Fla., April 8. She also delivered the Bethel College Women’s Association’s annual Faculty Lecture June 3, “German Immigrant Stories as a Comparative Discourse in the Ojibwe Upper Midwest: How Louise Erdrich Radically Reshapes the Novel with Community Histories.”
Tracy Tuttle, assistant professor of physics, gave a workshop to the physics department and students at Fort Hays State University in practical astronomy and astronomical imaging/data acquisition Feb. 18, in which he taught how to acquire and understand digital data using a Charge Coupled Device (CCD) camera and Schmidt Cassegrain telescope. The group then went out at night and learned how to take and process astronomical images.
Published
Mark Jantzen ’85, associate professor of history, published “Tenuous Bridges over the Iron Curtain: Mennonite Central Committee Work in Eastern Europe from 1966 to 1991” in the 2010 issue of Mission Focus. The same article was reprinted in the February 2011 issue of Religion in Eastern Europe.
Nicholas Krehbiel, visiting assistant professor of history, had the article “Relief Efforts Denied: The Civilian Public Service Training Corps and the Starnes Amendment, 1942-1943” published in War and Society, Vol. 30 No. 1: 48-60.
Francisca Méndez-Harclerode, assistant professor of biology, with Ceballos, G. P. Manzano, M. L. Haynie, D. H. Walker and R. D. Bradley, had an article published by Occasional Papers, Museum of Texas Tech University, entitled “Geographic Distribution, Genetic Diversity and Conservation Status of the Southern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys volans) in Mexico,” 299: 1-15.
John Thiesen ’82, co-director of libraries, had a book review of Lexikon der Mennoniten in Paraguay published in the April 2011 Mennonite Quarterly Review.
Served
William Eash, professor of music, and Karen Bauman Schlabaugh, professor of music, served as guest conductor and pianist for the Mennonite Schools Council Music Festival in Salem, Ore., April 7-10. They rehearsed with the mass choir of 180 high school students each day, leading up to the final performance April 10.
Dwight Krehbiel ’69, professor of psychology, served on a review panel for the National Science Foundation, Feb. 11-13 in National Harbor, Md.
Karen Bauman Schlabaugh, professor of music, served as an adjudicator at the KSHSAA State Piano Festival, Feb. 19 at Tabor College, Hillsboro.