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– Appointed– Attended
– Facilitated
– Participated
– Performed
– Preached
– Presented
– Published
– Served
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Appointed
Kent J. Allshouse, athletic director and head track and cross-country coach. Allshouse is a1984 graduate of Graceland University, where he majored in health and physical education with a minor in biology and endorsements in K-12 teaching and in coaching. He earned a master of science in physical education in 2010 from Emporia State University. Allshouse has filled a variety of roles in the athletics department at Graceland University in Lamoni since 1996. He is currently in his eighth season as head cross-country coach and has also been head track coach and an assistant football coach, for receivers and for defensive backs, for the Graceland Yellowjackets. Other past experience includes sports broadcaster and program director at KELR/KLAL radio in Chariton, Iowa, and founder and president of the Rough Riders Rugby Club in Osceola, Iowa.
Thane Chastain ’82, adjunct instructor of communication (radio practicum)
Stephanie Collins, adjunct instructor of nursing
Bruce Heyen, adjunct instructor of chemistry
Manjula Koralegedara, adjunct instructor of chemistry
Randy Krehbiel ’65, adjunct instructor of social work
Attended
Larry Friesen ’67, professor of social work, attended the fall meeting of Kansas Council on Social Work Education at Fort Hays State University Nov. 5. Friesen serves as treasurer for the organization.
Marla Krell ’97, director of career development and placement, attended the Kansas Association of Colleges and Employers conference Nov. 4-5 in Wichita.
Dave Linscheid ’75, director of alumni relations, attended a day-long meeting of Kansas Independent College Association alumni directors at Southwestern College, Winfield, Nov. 4. Ten participants represented Bethel along with Central Christian College, Friends University, Hesston College, Kansas Wesleyan University, McPherson College, Newman University, Ottawa University, Southwestern College and Tabor College.
Chuck Regier ’81, curator of exhibits at Kauffman Museum, attended the annual meeting of the Kansas Museums Association (KMA) in El Dorado Oct. 28-29 and hosted an exhibitor’s booth with Joel Gaeddert ’06 of Flint Hills Design. Chuck also led a roundtable discussion on “Exhibit Design and Low-cost Label Production.” Rachel Pannabecker ’80, Kauffman Museum director, also attended KMA and collaborated with Carla Patterson of Mid-America Arts Alliance to present “Working with Your Board: Lessons Learned from the HELP Governance Training Program.” Pannabecker also co-led a roundtable discussion on “Establishing Emergency Response Networks in Kansas.”
Ada Schmidt-Tieszen ’74, professor of social work, attended a threeday training in June titled “Creating a Process of Change for Men Who Batter.” The training meets the Kansas standards for facilitators of batterer intervention programs. The training was sponsored by Offender Victim Ministries, for which Schmidt-Tieszen is a board member.
Lisa Janzen Scott ’84, assistant professor of education and mathematics, attended the Urban Education Symposium at the Chicago Center for Urban Life and Culture Nov. 4-5.
Facilitated
Gary Flory, director of KIPCOR, facilitated a one-hour discussion among a panel of judges and attorneys titled “Abused, Neglected, Protected: When Children Go to Court,” Nov. 17. This discussion, built around a factual scenario about neglected children, was co-produced by Topeka public television station KTWU and the Kansas Supreme Court’s Office of Judicial Administration (OJA), and was filmed in the studios of KTWU. It will be broadcast by KTWU in March and will also be used by OJA in training sessions for potential guardians ad litem. Two shorter facilitated discussions relating to abused children were also filmed, and these will be used exclusively by OJA as training films.
Participated
Gary Flory, director of KIPCOR, and Ada Schmidt-Tieszen ’74, professor of social work, have begun volunteer work through the Kansas Department of Corrections as facilitators of Victim-Offender Dialogues in crimes of severe violence. They received six days of training during summer and fall 2009.
Ami Regier ’85, professor of literary studies, collaborated with Newton Public Library and Newton High School as part of “The Big Read,” a set of community events supporting reading sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. Regier and Scott McCloud ’84, a teacher in the English department at NHS, moderated public book and film discussions on Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Oct. 5 and 14 at NPL.
Performed
Karen Bauman Schlabaugh, professor of music, performed with Wichita State clarinetist Suzanne Tirk at a Clarinet Summit Oct. 22-23 at the State University of New York at Potsdam. She performed with Timothy Shade, instructor of instrumental music, Oct. 31 at a concert of area performers at West Zion Mennonite Church, Moundridge. Nov. 14, Schlabaugh and Susan Gaeddert ’00, Madison, Wis., performed a recital on the Bethel campus of works for four hands at the piano.
Preached
Peter Miller ’08, resident director of Warkentin Court, spoke at First Mennonite Church, Hillsboro, Nov. 7, about his recent term in Jerusalem with Mennonite Central Committee, the current political situation and a faithful response to exclusive theologies of land.
Patricia Shelly ’76, professor of Bible and religion, preached “Communion with Middle Eastern Christians,” Oct. 2 at Southern Hills Mennonite Church, Topeka. She also preached the sermon “A Wisdom and Power Worth Wanting” at Trinity Mennonite Church, Hillsboro, for Bethel College Sunday, Nov. 21.
Presented
Brad Born ’84, vice president for academic affairs, presented the paper “When the Bruised Reed Breaks: The Art of Consolation in Four Mennonite Women’s Writing about Familial Mental Illness” at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Oct. 14.
Rachel Epp Buller ’96, adjunct professor of art, presented a paper, “Obscurity in East Berlin: The Post-War Fate of a Weimar Artist,” at the International Cold War Cultures Conference in Austin, Texas, Oct. 2.
Christine Crouse-Dick, assistant professor of communication arts, presented a paper at the National Communication Association conference in San Francisco, Nov. 14-17, on “No Simple Matter: The Commodification of Simplicity in ‘Real Simple’ Magazine,” at the Feminist/Women’s Studies Division.
Gary Flory, director of KIPCOR, and Ken Grotewiel, senior associate with KIPCOR’s Great Plains Consensus Council, presented a one-day training in Lawrence on Environmental Conflict Resolution, Nov. 11. Attendance consisted primarily of state and municipal governmental representatives.
Peter Miller ’08, resident director of Warkentin Court, was invited by the Mennonite Central Committee U.S. board to give a reflection on Jerusalem at their board meeting Nov. 6. He also spoke to the Tabor College Pax Club Nov. 19 about human rights issues in Palestine and Israel and about American involvement in the region.
Jon Piper, professor of biology, gave an invited talk, “Studies on the Restoration of Two Native Kansas Ecosystems: Oak Woodland and Tallgrass Prairie,” as part of the Wichita State University Department of Biological Sciences seminar series Oct. 18.
Ada Schmidt-Tieszen ’74, professor of social work, was the guest speaker at Hutchinson Community College’s Introduction to Social Work class in September. She spoke at Butler Community College in November to a similar class.
Patricia Shelly ’76, professor of Bible and religion, spoke at a Hesston College chapel Nov. 10.
Toby Tyner ’07, associate director of development, delivered the Leadership Newton 2010 Address at the Newton Area Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet Sept. 23.
Published
Christine Crouse-Dick, assistant professor of communication arts, had a book review published in the spring issue of Women’s Studies in Communication 33(1) of Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life by Mario Luis Small (2009).
Ada Schmidt-Tieszen ’74, professor of social work, wrote the foreword for Forever Family, a book about foster-to-adopt parenting by Laurie Oswald Robinson, published in Dec. 2010.
Dwight Platt ’52, professor emeritus of biology, had the article “Sex ratios in samples from eight snake populations in sand prairies in south-central Kansas” published in Reptiles & Amphibians (International Reptile Conservation Foundation 17:3). The article is based on research done at Bethel’s Sand Prairie Preserve.
Keith Sprunger, Oswald H. Wedel professor emeritus of history, wrote two articles for the new Mennonitischen Lexikon being published in Germany, “Cornelius Krahn” (former professor at Bethel and longtime friend of Sprunger’s) and “Roland Bainton.”
Served
Karen Bauman Schlabaugh, professor of music, served as adjudicator for the high school division of the Wichita Piano Teachers’ League concerto competition at Wichita State University Nov. 20.