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Learning  to  love 


As  the  world  becomes  increasingly  interested  in  international  relations,  Southern 
College  students  and  faculty  are  being  prepared  for  culturally  integrated  lives. 
Here,  the  world-encompassing  diversity  of  the  student  body,  overseas  experiences  and 
backgrounds  of  the  faculty,  and  on-campus  international  organizations  provide  a  wealth 
of  opportunities  to  learn  about  other  cultures. 

Although  the  change  is  happening  slowly,  we  are  learning  to  respect  and  appreci- 
ate our  differences.  Southern  College  is  like  a  special  seasoning  salt.  Each  spice  is  unique 
and  comes  from  a  different  plant.  Yet,  when  the  individual  flavors  come  together,  they 
complement  each  other  and  create  a  powerful  and  distinctive  blend. 

This  special  issue  of  Southern  Columns  has  gi\en  us,  students  of  Dr.  Lynn  Sauls 
in  his  Magarine  and  Feature  Article  Writing  class,  an  opportunity  to  share  with  you  a 
few  of  Southern's  most  memorable  international  stories,  and  to  show  that,  regardless  of 
race  or  cultural  background,  we  are  all  children  of  the  living  God. 

Alicia  Goree 
Student  Editor 


Where  we  go  from  here 


D  ■■■■ 

r"^  rainstorming  the  future  of  Adventist  education,  Adventist  education  at  Southern 
A — /  College  in  particular:  This  was  the  agenda  for  more  than  two  dozen  trustees  and  a 
half  dozen  administrators  when  we  met  at  Cohutta  Springs  Adventist  Center  for  three 
days  in  February.  On  Sabbath  we  were  joined  by  the  faculty  of  the  Religion  Department 
for  a  refreshing  time  of  devotion  and  a  look  at  the  future  of  the  college  in  the  context  of 
the  Seventh-day  Adventist  Church. 

I  found  it  to  be  a  most  encouraging  time.  While  some  other  colleges  talk  basic 
sun'ival,  we  found  ourselves  exploring  ways  to  reach  out  in  wider  ministry.  We  explored 
choices  for  change  that  could  perhaps  increase  efficiency,  lower  cost,  improve  programs, 
or  enhance  services  for  students.    We  recognized  the  necessity  of  change  in  a  changing 
environment.  "Change  is  required  for  survival,  but  change  must  be  made  m  the  context 
of  mission,"  Malcolm  Gordon,  our  board  chairman,  reminded  us.  And  our  facilitator.  Dr. 
Ed  Wright,  pointed  out  that  change  brings  incredible  risk.  We  can  lose  it  all  if  we 
change  the  wrong  things. 

Here  at  Southern,  as  we  nudge  students  to  explore  the  world  of  ideas,  we  must 
continue  to  approach  that  world  within  the  framework  of  belief.  Education  may  very 
well  be,  as  Alvin  Toftler  has  said,  "a  major  way  of  anticipating  change."  But  at  the  same 
time,  Christian  education  builds  on  the  unchanging  principles  of  God's  kingdom. 

Donald  R.  Sahly 
President 

COVER:     Representing  the  cultural  Integration  at  Southern  College  are  students  Scon  Baker,  Delton  Chen, 
Becky  Pike,  Rick  Thongs,  and  Soma  Perez.  Photo  by  Grady  Sapp. 


Volume  47 


Number  I 


Doris  Stickle  Buroick 
Editor 

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Sonmnii  Coimss  is  the  official  magazine  of  Souriiem 
College  of  Seventh-day  Adventists,  produced  by  the 
Publications  Office  to  provide  news  and  informaDon 
to  former  students,  residents  of  the  Southern  Union, 
and  other  fnends  ol  the  college  Copynght  1995  by 
Southern  College  of  Seventh-day  Adventists. 


2  •  Spring  1995 


ExPLORJNG  Our  Planet 


Glimpses 
OF  Europe 


JUn   $19S6 


McKEE  LIBRARV 

Stu»h«rn  Con«9«  of  SDA 

CoUegedal*,  TK  37315 


LarisaMycn 
Junior  BFoadoajaunafan  M^ 


An  Alp  here,  an  opera  there;  a  cathedral  here,  a  prison  camp 
there;  a  leaning  tower  of  Pisa  here  . . .  OK,  you  get  the  drift.  It's 
a  combination  of  fun  and  serious  learning  known  as  the  Southern 
College  European  Study  Tour.  From  June  25  to  July  24,  1994,  24 
students,  faculr\'  sponsors,  and  alumni  toured  Europe  on  the  ninth 
trip  of  its  kind  since  the  semiannual  tours  began  in  1982. 

"It's  basically  a  trip  for  those  who  ha\'e  never  been  to  Europe," 
says  Dr.  Bill  Wohlers,  who  began  the  regular  study  tour  prior  to  his 
move  from  the  History  Department  to  the  Student  Services  vice 
presidency.  Not  only  that,  the  trip  provides  college  credit  in  his- 
tory-, if  arranged,  which  gives  the  student  background  to  the  sights. 
Va^'ing  slightly  from  year  to  year,  the  trip  encompassed  France, 
the  Netherlands,  Germany,  Italy,  Austria,  Switzerland,  and  Belgium. 
To  obtain  credit  hours  the  students  read  hooks,  prepared  outlines, 
and  kept  a  journal  ot  events  and  information.  "It's  an  academically 
oriented  trip,"  says  Wohlers.  "We  give  legitimate  college  credit." 
The  group  toured  famous  sights  such  as  Notre  Dame,  the  Eiffel 
Tower,  CoUoseum,  Corrie  ten  Boom's  house,  the  Dachau  prison 
camp,  and  Versailles.  But  they  did  not  go  strictly  to  famous  or 
"touristy"  areas.  Explains  Wohlers,  "We  stayed  away  from  some 
of  the  most  touristic  cities."  He  focused  on  areas  of  historical  and 
cultural  importance  rather  than  just  neat  gift  shops  such  as  the 
last  stop  of  the  trip  in  Brugge,  Belgium.  Due  to  its  economic 
miportance  in  the  Middle  Ages,  he  takes  groups  to  Brugge 
rather  than  to  Brussels.  "It's  a  combination  of  history  and 
ambiance,"  says  Wohlers. 

Some  travelers  appreciated  the  finer  things  in  life  . . .  like 
food.  "I  liked  the  waffles  in  Belgium,"  says  Junior  Heidi 
.'\asheim.  "You  could  buy  them  anywhere.  They  were  yummy." 
The  group  traveled  by  train  which,  according  to  Wohlers, 
IS  the  most  economical,  interesting,  and  efficient  way  to  travel. 
Senior  Alyssa  McCurdy  says  "It  was  neat  sleeping  on  trains, 
because  when  you  woke  up  you  were  in  another  country." 

The  trip  taught  more  than  history  and  facts.  "Each  country'  is 
like  a  totally  different  world  with  a  different  language,  a  different 
culture,"  says  McCurdy. 

"Instead  of  just  reading  about  European  history,  1  got  to  see  and 
experience  it,"  says  Brandon  Bryan,  sophomore.  "I  got  left  behind 
in  the  Austrian  Alps,  so  while  I  was  waiting  for  everybody,  1 
watched  people,"  says  Bryan. 

Wohlers  views  the  trip  of  '94  as  a  success  and  is  planning  an- 
other in  '96.  Wohlers'  wife  accompanies  him  and  though  some 
might  see  it  as  a  great  vacation  opportunity,  Wohlers  says  it's  a  lot 
of  hard  work.  Tliere  are  papers  to  grade,  a  curriculum  to  plan,  and 
over  20  people  to  keep  punctual  and  headed  in  the  right  direction. 
But  he  views  it  as  the  Wohlers'  contribution  to  Southern  and  says 
the  benefits  outweigh  the  disadvantages.  And  it  must  not  have 
been  too  much  of  a  sacrifice.  "Every  city  we  went  to,"  says  Bryan, 
"Wohlers  had  to  find  the  best  gelati  (ice  cream)  store."    • 

Ed.  Note:  On  Ma>  9  Ed  Lamb,  Behavioral  Science  Deparlmeni  chair,  and 
a  group  of  seven  students  departed  on  a  study  tour  to  nine  European  countries. 


SfllTIIERN  COIOMNS  •  3 


''4     , 

Student  serve 


by  Marca  Age 
Junior  English  Major 


It  was  a  hot  and  balmy  Sunday  when 
John  Appel  hoarded  the  Luzeiro  XXI. 
This  small  wooden  boat,  with  its  clean 
white  and  baby-blue  paint,  is  one  of  sev- 
eral "Light-bearer"  medical  launches 
which  serve  the  islands  of  the  Amazon 
Delta.  John's  companions  were  two  other 
Student  Missionaries  from  Southern 
College — nurses  Marci  Williams  and  Jill 
Sasser  (now  Schlisner),  and  a  Portuguese 
pastor. 

As  the  Luzeiro  got  under  way  from 
Manaus,  Brazil,  John  set  down  his  belong- 
ings, a  backpack  with  only  the  necessities: 
toiletries,  a  camera,  medical  books,  stetho- 
scope, a  few  t-shirts,  long-pant  scrubs  (they 
were  for  church),  and  his  Bible.  He  wore 
his  other  change  of  clothes,  a  pair  of  green 
faded  cut-off  scrubs,  and  a  baseball  cap. 

When  John,  a  two-year  nursing  gradu- 
ate from  Southern  and  a  native  of  Florida, 


made  the  decision  to  go  as  a  Student 
Missionary  to  Brazil,  he  didn't  know  what 
to  expect.  Now,  as  John  stood  on  the  bow 
of  the  Luzeiro  XXI,  looking  out  o\er  the 
Amazon  River,  his  future  experience  still 
seemed  uncertain,  but  not  scary.  He  was 
still  too  much  in  awe  of  his  unique  sur- 
roundings to  worr^'  about  homesickness 
or  fear. 

Once  out  ot  the  city,  John  found  jungle 
reaching  to  the  edge  of  the  Amazon.  He 
viewed  dense  green  mazes  of  vines,  tall 
grass,  and  trees.  Monkeys  played  in  their 
branches.  There  were  anacondas,  parrots, 
crocodiles,  boas,  and  even  dolphins  that 
became  John's  nearest  neighbors  over  the 
next  ten  months. 

From  July  through  April,  John  would  be 
a  dentist,  a  nurse,  a  doctor,  an  evangelist, 
and  a  friend  to  the  people  in  the  villages 
along  the  river. 


A  typical  day  for  the  passengers  of  the 
Luzeiro  began  at  the  break  of  dawn.  Every 
morning  John  would  roll  out  of  his  ham- 
mock and  have  a  breakfast  of  eggs  and 
bread,  and  finish  just  in  time  to  meet  the 
lines  of  people  needing  medical  care.  "The 
word  spread  fast  that  we  were  here  to 
help,"  remembers  John.  "Some  even  came 
to  us  in  canoes  from  farther  down  the 
river." 

The  villages  of  small  thatched  roof  huts 
averaged  250  residents.  The  villagers  had 
limited  hygiene  and  no  education,  so  for- 
eign help  was  a  welcomed  luxury. 

"I  didn't  realize  how  uneducated  the 
people  were  until  one  day,  a  lady  brought 
her  son  to  me  for  medication,"  John  re- 
calls. "The  people  love  medicine.  They 
tried  to  find  things  to  take  medicine  for. 
When  I  asked  the  lady  why  her  son  needed 
medicine,  she  said,  'because  he's  stupid.' 


4  •  Sprin(.  1995 


I  tried  not  to  laugh,  because  she  really  was 
sincere." 

Not  all  of  John's  patients  were  easily 
remedied.  One  such  case  came,  unex- 
pected, one  afternoon  as  the  Luzeiro  glided 
down  the  river  on  its  way  to  another  vil- 
lage. A  man  paddled  up  to  them  in  his 
canoe  and  spoke  in  a  frantic  native  tongue. 


jolted.  John  heard  a  crash  as  he  tumbled  to 
the  floor. 

"1  was  scared.  We  couldn't  see  any- 
thing. 1  heard  people  shouting.  We  had  hit 
another  boat,  but  we  couldn't  see  them. 
Isaiah,  the  captain,  was  thrown  out  ot  the 
boat.  He  didn't  swim,  so  1  jumped  in  and 
helped  him  back  on  deck.  There  was  a 


illagers  in  the  Amazon  Delta  islands 


John,  the  other  two  nurses,  and  the  pastor 
followed  the  man  to  his  little  hut  nestled 
alone  on  a  hill  beside  the  river.  His  wife 
was  in  labor  and  the  baby  was  breech.  John 
helped  the  woman  to  the  boat  and  they 
took  her  down  the  river  to  the  nearest  city, 
1 2  hours  away. 

"I  was  really  impressed  at  how  well  the 
women  handled  pain.  Handled  everything. 
They  worked  all  day  long,  watching  over 
countless  numbers  of  children,  while  the 
men  went  fishing  for  their  meals.  If  they 
didn't  catch  anything,  then  there  wasn't 
any  dinner.  That's  the  way  they  lived." 

The  people  survive  on  less  than  the 
necessities.  "They  didn't  have  any  luxuries 
like  Americans  do,"  says  John.  "One  of  the 
little  boys  who  came  to  me  for  treatment 
looked  at  my  hat  the  whole  time  he  was  on 
the  K)at.  When  he  was  leaving,  I  gave  it  to 
him.  I  knew  he  probably  would  appreciate 
it  more  than  I  did." 

After  long  days  of  doctoring,  meeting 
the  people's  physical  needs,  John  and  his 
fellow  missionary  friends  reached  out  to 
touch  the  spiritual  needs  as  well.  They 
held  meetings  each  night  of  their  week- 
long  stay  at  a  village.  And  finally  after  the 
last  few  villagers  were  gone,  John  and  the 
others  would  settle  down  in  their  ham- 
mocks and  cover  themselves  with  their 
mosquito  nets  for  a  night's  rest. 

One  dark  night  didn't  end  so  peacefully 
for  John.  It  was  during  two  months  when 
John  was  the  only  nurse  on  board  that  tht- 
accident  happened.  John  had  settled  in  for 
the  night.  TTie  Luzeiro  had  no  lights  on 
board,  sf)  the  captain  was  "feeling"  his  way 
down  the  river.  Without  warning,  the  boiii 


huge  hole  in  the  side  of  the  boat.  I  was 
scared  we  were  going  to  sink.  Somehow, 
we  made  it  to  a  city  where  we  could  get 
repairs,"  says  John. 

"That  wasn't  the  only  time  God  an- 
swered our  prayers  for  help."  John  pauses. 
"1  reali:ed  He  was  the  most  important 
instrument  we  had." 


John  is  quiet  now  as  he  thinks  hack  to  his 
last  day  on  the  ru'er.  He  sat  on  the  roof  of  the 
boat,  one  of  his  favorite  places  to  go  and  be 
alone,  and  he  looked  out  over  the  land  that 
had  become  his  life  and  the  river  that  had 
become  his  home,  and  he  was  sad  to  leave. 

"I  know  I'll  probably  never  be  able  to 
return  to  the  Ama:on,"  says  John,  "but  it 
will  always  be  a  good  memory.  It  was  worth 
It.  I'm  glad  1  went." 

Like  John,  many  others  at  Southern  have 
answered  the  call  to  go  beyond  our  world  of 
comfort  and  bring  light  into  darkened  lives. 
And  at  this  very  moment,  as  John  tells  his 
story,  six  other  Student  Missionaries  from 
Southern  College — Ryan  Anderson,  Becky 
Byers,  Jay  Facundus,  Karen  Phillips,  Jimmy 
Spilovoy,  and  Gary  Sundin — have  taken  up 
the  Luzeiro  mission.    . 


Left;  The  Luzeiro  XXI  plies  the  brown  waters  of  tfie 
Amazon  Delta,  this  day  under  a  rainbow  arc  of  promise. 

Below  right:  The  middle  one  of  these  three  young  boys 
admired  John  Appel's  hat  until  he  ended  up  in  proud  possession. 

Below   Patients  assemble  at  the  gangplank  ready  for  the 
morning  clinic.  (Photos  courtesy  of  John  Appel) 


.Smitiifbn  (loiUMNS  •  5 


Brazil  1977 


Romania  1982 


Spam  1991 


Academic  Administrator  Values  Travel 


Beyond  Our  Shores 


by  Julie  Tillman 
Junior  Public  Relations  Mapr 


On  a  table  in  his  office  is  a  set  of  nesting 
dolls,  each  doll  the  image  of  a  Russian 
leader.  The  dolls  are  progressively  smaller 
so  that  they  fit  inside  each  other.  He  says 
he  picked  them  up  in  Moscow.  The  biggest 
is  painted  as  Boris  Yeltsin  and  others  are 
Gorbachev,  Brezhnev,  Stalin,  and  Lenin. 

Next  to  the  nesting  dolls  is  a  child's  toy 
of  red,  yellow  and  blue  pieces  that  stack  on 
a  rod.  When  put  together  it  resembles  the 
Spasky  Tower  in  Red  Square,  Moscow. 

Dr.  Floyd  Greenleaf,  vice  president  for 
academic  administration,  says  that  he  and 
his  wife  don't  spend  a  lot  on  souvenirs. 
"We  do  try  and  get  a  bell  from  every  coun- 
try we  visit.  My  wife  has  a  bell  collection 
and  it's  a  nice  way  to  add  to  it.  Once,  while 
we  were  visiting  Spain,  we  made  a  quick 
trip  to  Gibraltar.  They  have  a  colony  of 
monkeys  that  live  over  the  tow-n  in  the 
trees.  So  we  got  a  bell  that  had  a  monkey 
on  it.  When  we  get  a  bell,  we  try  to  get  one 
that  is  unique  to  the  country  we  visited." 

"I'm  not  sure  I'm  the  one  you  should  be 
interviewing,"  Greenleaf  says  as  we  sit 
down.  "There  are  so  many  other  teachers 
who  ha\'e  traveled  much  more  than  1 


have."  While  that  may  he  true,  Greenleaf  s 
travels  to  36  different  countries  are  nothing 
to  laugh  at.  Southern  College  encourages 
the  faculty  and  staff  to  travel. 

"It  is  very  educational,  and  it  helps  to 
broaden  our  horizons,"  he  explains.  "It 
helps  us  to  see  the  diversity  in  the  world." 

Some  have  been  pleasure  trips,  others 
have  been  with  Southern-sponsored  tours 
such  as  the  1989  orchestra  trip  to  Greece. 
He's  also  spent  a  lot  of  time  in  Mexico. 

During  his  doctoral  studies,  he  became 
interested  in  the  Mexican  Revolution  and 
chose  the  topic  of  Mexican  foreign  policy 
for  his  dissertation.  He  traveled  to  Mexico 
City  and  did  research  at  the  Foreign  Minis- 
try. He  tells  of  one  time  he  talked  to  a 
college  girl  on  the  trolley.  "She  was  a  very 
opinionated  young  lady.  She  was  studying  an 
Italian  textbook.  1  asked  if  she  spoke  Ital- 
ian and  we  got  into  a  rather  animated  dis- 
cussion. She  began  telling  her  thoughts  and 
attitudes  on  Mexican/American  relations. 
She  said,  'It's  not  the  people  we  don't  get 
along  with,  it's  the  governmental  policies.' 

"Her  statement  really  made  an  impres- 
sion on  me.  1  found  it  very  interesting  that 


she  was  able  to  deal  with  individuals  in- 
stead of  governments.  Not  everybody  is 
able  to  do  that.  She  was  very  frank  and 
open — very  unapologetic  for  her  views." 

Although  Dr.  Greenleaf  claims  he  isn't 
tluent  in  Spanish,  when  1  asked  what  lan- 
guage he  and  the  young  lady  used  in  their 
conversation  I  discovered  it  was  Spanish. 

Once  while  he  and  his  wife  were  on 
vacation  in  Europe,  his  wife  commented 
that  ever  since  she  was  a  little  girl  she  had 
wanted  to  see  the  Swiss  Alps.  "So,"  he  says, 
"we  decided  to  go  see  the  Swiss  Alps.  We 
found  a  gondola  to  take  us  to  the  top  of  the 
mountain.  At  the  top  was  a  small  village. 
They  didn't  have  cars.  There  were  wide 
paved  sidewalks  instead  of  roads. 

"As  1  was  taking  a  picture  of  my  wife 
against  the  backdrop  of  the  Alps,  a  lady  came 
along  and  offered  to  take  a  picture  of  us 
together.  We  gave  her  the  camera  and  she 
took  the  picture.  After  that,  the  three  of  us 
started  talking.  She  spoke  perfect  English. 
She  asked  if  we  would  like  to  see  her  house 
so  we  could  see  how  people  in  the  Alps 
lived.  We  agreed.  She  took  us  to  her  house 
and  showed  us  every  nook  and  cranny. 


6  •  Sprim,  1995 


Southern  IS  People 


Nofth  Afna  1991 


Bermuda  1993 


"We  discovered  that  she  was  a  language 
teacher  in  another  part  of  Switzerland. 
When  she  was  not  teaching  she  would  go 
to  her  house  in  the  Alps.  She  had  grown  up 
there  and  considered  it  her  home. 

"She  was  so  proud  to  show  us  her  house 
and  her  village.  As  we  walked  down  the 
hilbide  to  meet  the  gondola,  we  heard 
someone  calling  out.  We  didn't  turn 
around  because  we  didn't  think  anyone 
would  be  calling  us.  However,  the  calling 
continued,  and  we  finally  looked  back.  We 
saw  the  lady  we  had  just  met.  She  was 
standing  on  her  balcony  waving  goodbye." 

Vjreenleaf  says  when  they're  on  vacation 
they  travel  without  advance  reservations. 
"We  just  wander  around,"  he  says  with  a 
smile.  With  few  exceptions,  they've  always 
had  a  nice  place  to  stay. 

"The  first  time  we  went  to  Germany,  we 
stayed  at  a  bed  and  breakfast  inn.  It  had  the 
most  wonderful  gwise-down  comforter,"  he 
says.  "The  weather  was  quite  cool,  and  the 
comforter  was  fluffy  and  big.  It  took  very  little 
time  after  crawling  under  one  of  those  things 
before  we  were  all  toa.sty  warm.  Every  place 
we  stayed  in  Germany  had  a  featherbed." 

Another  fun  thing  for  the  Greenleafs  to 
discover  is  ffxxJ.  "FtKxl  is  always  such  an 
interesting  cultural  thing.  Some  say  that  in 
order  to  eat  food  in  foreign  countries,  you 
need  'nerves  of  steel  and  a  cast  iron  stom- 
ach,' "  he  laughs.  "In  a  lot  of  places,  the  fofxJ 
is  quite  different,  and  you'd  better  be  ready 
for  some  interesting  changes.  In  Europe  the 
pa.stries  are  nice  and  in  Latin  America 
there's  such  a  variety  of  fruit.  Of  course 


there  are  certam  foods  you  can  find  nearly 
everywhere,  such  as  pizza  and  french  fries. 
Part  of  the  fun  of  traveling  is  the  food." 

When  asked  which  country'  is  his  favorite, 
he  rubbed  his  chin,  thought  for  a  moment, 
then  sighed.  "1  don't  know.  You  remember 
different  places  for  different  reasons.  As  far 
as  sheer  enjoyment,  Switzerland  is  as  satis- 
fying as  there's  ever  been.  As  far  as  seeing 
exciting  things,  I've  seen  some  very  excit- 
ing things  in  Europe  and  Latin  America. 
The  old  Indian  ruins  in  Mexico  and  Peru 
were  very  exciting  to  me.  I'll  never  forget 
some  of  the  natural  wonders  such  as  the 
Andes  Mountains  and  the  great  Iguazu 
Falls  on  the  border  of  Brazil  and  Argentina. 
In  Europe,  there  was  the  beauty  of  the 
Swiss  countryside,  the  Alps. 

"I  visited  Russia  after  the  Communist 
fall.  It  is  one  of  my  favorite  memories. 
These  Russians  were  the  people  that  as  a 
teenager  1  had  been  taught  were  my  en- 
emies. I  was  told  'if  we  don't  get  them  first 
they'll  get  us.'  Now,  years  later,  I  was  visit- 
ing with  them.  On  Friday  night  at  the 
Zaokski  Seminary  we  worshipped  together. 
It  was  moving  to  experience  a  brotherhood 
with  these  people.  1  really  felt  close  to  the 
Russian  Adventists." 

Just  as  Greenleafs  Russian  dolls  show 
the  progression  of  leaders,  Greenleafs 
experiences  show  the  progression  of  inter- 
personal relations  with  the  Russian  people. 

"I  realized  that  no  matter  what  our 
nationality,"  says  Greenleaf,  "we  are  all 
one  human  family.  We  all  belong  to  the 
Lord."    • 


Mari-Carmen 
Gallego 

Once  upon  a  time,  a  youni;  girl  named  Maria 
del  Carmen  Gallego  [pronounced  gah-yay-go] 
Arandilla  lett  her  home  in  Spain  to  attend 
school  at  Collonges,  France.  She  didn'r  speak 
French.  She  went  because  it  was  the  only  way 
to  finish  her  theology  degree.  Gallego  grew  up 
in  a  non-Adventist  home  in  Bilbao,  Spain.  She 
began  learning  English  in  the  si.xth  grade  and 
continued  English  classes  through  her  senior 
year.  During  her  sophomore  year  in  high  school, 
she  began  attending  a  Seventh-day  Adventist 
church  with  a  school  friend.  At  Christmas  of 
her  senior  year,  she  was  baptized. 

"My  parents  and  family  weren't  thrilled 
about  my  decision,  but  they  accepted  it,"  she 
says.  "After  a  while,  they  were  pleased  to  see 
how  determined  I  was  to  attend  an  Adventist 
college."  In  Spain,  most  schools  are  public,  so 
students  don't  need  to  work  in  the  summers. 
"They  just  party,  sleep  in,  and  give  theit  parents 
a  pain  in  the  neck,"  she  says  with  a  smile. 

"But  1  was  supporting  my- 
self and  going  to  school — thai'^ 
really  unusual  in  Spain,"  says 
Gallego.  She  earned  enough 
money  to  attend  the  Adventist 
college  in  Sagunto. 

"I  chose  theology  because  I 
wanted  to  work  for  the  church. 
My  original  plan  was  to  go  to  Africa  as  a  mis- 
sionary." After  graduating  at  Collonges,  she  felt 
she  wasn't  ready  to  be  a  missionary. 

"1  decided  to  come  to  the  States  to  get  my 
mastet's  In  French,"  .she  says.  She  also  finished  a 
Spanish  minor  at  Andrews  University.  The  new 
graduate  began  work  at  Broadview  Academy  as 
assistant  dean  and  French,  Spanish,  Bible,  and 
math  teacher.  Two  years  later,  in  l'^92,  she  was 
invited  to  teach  modern  languages  at  Southetn. 

After  living  in  thicc  different  countries, 
Gallego  has  found  that  "People  are  so  much 
more  open-minded  here.  In  Europe,  there's  the 
attitude,  'if  It's  good  emiugh  for  my  parents,  it's 
good  enough  for  me.'  I  find  that  frustrating." 

Gallego  is  partial  to  the  U.S.  "I  enjoy  life 
here.  Everything  is  much  more  convenient." 
There  are  also  things  that  really  annoy  her 
about  the  U.S.  "I  think  that  everybody  has 
gotten  carried  away  with  lawsuits.  I'm  all  for 
freedom  and  rights,  but  it's  gotten  to  the  point 
that  you  have  to  be  really  careful  so  that  you 
don't  offend  anyone." 

Gallego  has  settled  very  well  into  life  in 
Collegedale  and  is  deciding  whether  or  not  to 
become  an  American  citizen.     • 


Europe  101 


by  Jennifer  Schmidt 
Senior  English  Major 


A  COMPOSITE  OF  THE  EXPERIENCES  AND  PERCEPTIONS  OF  SOUTHERN  CoLLEGE  STUDENTS 
WHO  HAVE  ENROLLED  IN  THE  AdVENTIST  COLLEGES  ABROAD  PROGRAM. 

These  students  spent  a  year  learning  a  foreign  u\nguage  at  the  Adventist  college 
IN  EITHER  Bogenhofen,  Austria;  Collonges,  France;  or  Sagunto,  Spain. 


The  light  shining  through  the  stained 
glass  window  slurred  Mr.  Rudi's  figure 
as  he  approached  the  first  students.  Since 
Joe's  family  name  started  with  Z,  he  was 
the  last  student  in  line.  Crossing  borders 
and  oceans  didn't  change  eimtiiing 

It  was  June.  Graduation.  From  his  in- 
the-comer  \antage  point,  Joe  observed  the 
assembled  students  representing  1 3  coun- 
tries and  four  continents.  They'd  made  an 
interesting  group,  but  after  today,  it  was 
time  to  fly.  Mr.  Rudi  sauntered  toward  Joe's 
Ukrainian  roommate.  Last  year,  if  some- 
one had  offered  Joe  $100  bucks  to  provide 
three  facts  about  the  Ukraine,  his  answer 
would  have  run  something  like  "small — in 
Europe/Asia — women  with  hairy  legs." 
Now  having  celebrated  Christmas  and 


New  Year's  with  his  roommate's  family,  he 
felt  qualified  to  write  a  book  on  the  subject. 

His  roommate  reached  out  a  rough, 
worn  hand  to  accept  his  state-stamped 
certificate.  "That  makes  four,"  Joe  thought. 
"Four  languages  to  my  two."  He  smiled  and 
shook  his  head,  "and  back  home  people'll 
think  I'm  amazingly  intelligent." 

Joe  glanced  down  the  line.  Lars  came 
next.  He  remembered  Lars  playing  soccer, 
Lars  on  the  volleyball  court,  Lars  surrounded 
by  attentive  women,  Lars  in  a  new  activity 
geared  to  liven  up  the  week,  but  most  of 
all,  he  remembered  Lars  in  the  classroom. 
At  first,  he  had  wished  Lars  would  jump  in  a 
Viking  boat  and  sail  home.  Admiration  was 
all  Joe  could  manage  now.  Lars  was  amazing 
— the  Scandinavian  Renaissance  man. 


Mr.  Rudi  worked  his  way  down  the  line 
passing  out  language  certificates — begin- 
ning, intermediate,  advanced.  Ernesto  from 
Mexico,  Olga  from  St.  Petersburg,  Eliza- 
beth from  California,  Zelko  from  Bosnia 
and  his  cousin  Myladen  from  Serbia — from 
whom  Joe  had  received  first-hand  crisis 
information  all  year:  "Forget  the  New  Ynrk 
Times  ,  man,"  and  "Rob"  from  China.  "Rob" 
was  the  .Americans'  name  for  him,  since  no 
one  could  pronounce  his  real  one.  But 
Rob's  r's  sounded  like  I's.  So  his  name 
actually  turned  out  "Lob." 

Joe  focused  on  Mr.  Rudi  again.  He'd 
stopped,  turned  around,  and  begun  a  story. 
Joe  shaded  his  eyes,  trying  to  make  out  who 
it  was  about.  Rochelle.  This  would  be  good. 

It  had  been  fall,  the  beginning  ot  the 


8  •  Sprint,  1995 


R.  H.  Pierson  Institute  of  Evangelism  and  World  Missions 


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Egyptian  Student  is  Baptized 
Second  AIDSwalk  Reaches  Washington 
Professors  Teach  in  Rostov,  Russia 
Campus  Connects  With  Net  '95 


Vol.  3,  No.  1 


Southern  College  of  Seventh-day  Adventists 


Spring  1995 


Charlie  Eklund  helps  run  the  cement  mixer 


Maranaiha  Students 


Make  a 


Run  for  the  Border 


b\  Torn-  Barklex  and  Debbie  Case 


Ihdl  would  you  say  if  someone 
asked  you  to  give  up  your 
Christmas  vacation  to  drive  50  hours 
one  way  in  a  packed  \an,  work  eight 
to  ten  hours  a  day  for  free,  and  pay 
$500  to  do  it?  Ten  Southern  College 
students  answered  the  question  with 
a  resounding  "Let's  go!" 

On  December  15,  1994,  Tony 
Barkley,  Jose  Cintron,  Charlie  Eklund, 
Becky  Gomoll,  Agnieszka  Jaworska, 
Eddie  Morgan,  Matthew  Niemeyer, 
Eileen  Ramos,  and  Arnold  and  Emily 
Thurman  packed  themselves  and  two 
weeks'  worth  of  supplies  into  one 
van  and  left  Collegedale  for  a 
Maranatha  Volunteers  International 
Christmas  adventure.  After  fifty  long 
cramped  hours,  the  group  arrived  at 
their  destination — Cajigal,  Mexico. 

"The  van  was  packed  to  the 
gills,"  said  Charlie.  "At  times  it  was 
really  claustrophobic." 

"I  didn't  mind  the  van  ride  too 
much,"  remembers  Jose.  "If  it  hadn't 
been  for  Arnold  letting  us  use  his  van, 
I  wouldn't  have  been  able  to  go. ..the 
plane  ticket  was  too  expensive." 

Despite  the  long  ride,  everyone 
arrived  in  Mexico  ready  to  work. 
"There  were  24  of  us  in  all,"  said 
Eileen.  "We  worked  from  the  day  we 
got  there  till  the  day  we  left."  Sab- 
bath brought  welcome  rest. 

"We  were  supposed  to  work 
eight-hour  days  but  we  usually 
worked  longer,"  said  Becky. 

"The  students  really  showed  a 
true  joy  and  enthusiasm  about  their 
work,"  said  Dr.  Ron  du  Preez,  South- 
ern College  religion  professor  who 
coordinated  the  trip  and  participated 
in  it.  "I  was  working  alongside 
young  people  who  genuinely  love  the 
Lord." 

Starting  with  only  a  concrete 
foundation  and  a  metal  superstruc- 
ture, the  group  worked  for  two  weeks 
on  the  2,500-square-foot  church. 


2    Missio 


"We  put  the  roof  on  and  finished 
the  last  w  all  Friday  afternoon."  said 
Matthew.  "We  had  Sabbath  sersices 
in  the  church  the  day  before  we  left 
...it  was  awesome." 

"We  really  had  to  push  those  last 
few  days."  said  Emily.  "But  when 
we  stood  up  front  in  the  finished 
church  on  Sabbath,  it  was  worth  it." 

The  project  was  coordinated  by 
Steve  Case,  president  of  Piece  of  the 
Pie  Ministries.  Construction  super- 
intendent was  Fred  Specht.  He  has 
been  on  23  Maranatha  trips.  Meet- 


ing the  goal  of  bringing  together 
college-aged  students  from  around 
the  U.  S.,  students  also  participated 
from  Union  College,  Pacific  Union 
College  and  a  few  public  universities. 

Maranatha  Volunteers  Interna- 
tional is  a  non-profit  organization 
committed  to  building  Adventist 
churches  and  other  buildings  in 
needy  areas  around  the  world.  Their 
goal  for  1995  is  to  build  50  new 
churches  and  complete  100  previ- 
ously started  churches  in  the  country 
of  Mexico.  9 

Left:  Man  Niemeyer  witnesses  to  children 

Below:  Eileen  Ramos  tells  a  children 's  story 

Bottom:  The  Mexico  94  group 


Church  Raised  in  Mexico 

Last  summer,  Simon  Madrigal  from 
Southern  and  Oscar  Alba,  from  Pacific 
Union  College,  went  to  Mexico  to  con- 
duct a  mini-crusade  in  the  staunchly 
Catholic  town  of  Ameca,  where  there 
were  no  Seventh-day  Adventists. 

Simon  and  Oscar  began  their  work 
using  health  evangelism  as  an  entering 
wedge.  They  took  blood  pressure  and 
cholesterol  readings  and  gave  invitations 
to  a  stop-smoking  clinic.  The  clinic,  held 
at  the  governor's  own  forum  for  health 
services,  got  a  tremendous  response.The 
stop-smoking  seminar  was  followed  by  a 
healthful  living  seminar,  then  flyers  were 
distributed  and  local  media  was  used  to 
advertise  the  upcoming  meetings. 

But  some  rather  unusual  things 
began  to  happen:  Simon's  vehicle  was 
wrecked  while  parked;  many  holes 
showed  up  in  the  portable  baptistry  after 
it  was  placed  in  a  rented  area;  and  the 
rental  agreement  for  the  hall  was  can- 
celed with  the  excuse  that  rental  was  not 
allowed  for  political  or  religious  use. 
(However,  the  following  month  a  politi- 
cal rally  was  held  there,  and  a  local  priest 
conducted  a  mass  there). 

With  the  hall  canceled  on  short 
notice.  Simon  and  Oscar  spent  days 
searching  for  another  meeting  place. 
Eventually  they  located  a  disco-like 
room,  complete  with  bar  and  huge  beer 
advertisements.  Bible  meetings  were  held 
there  for  two  weeks  with  an  attendance 
of  about  40  to  .SO  people,  an  amazing 
blessing  since  Ameca  is  such  a  strongly 
Catholic  town. 

Near  the  end  of  the  second  week- 
end. Amccas  political  elections  were 
held.  No  public  meetings  were  permitted 
during  this  time,  but  the  crusade  was 
allowed  to  conclude  with  police  guarding 
the  doors. 

In  spite  of  the  problems  encoun- 
tered, 1 1  were  baptized  and  30  requested 
Bible  studies.  The  West  Mexican  Mis- 
sion has  assigned  a  pastor  to  this  church. 

May  God  be  praised  for  the  way  He 
led  in  raising  up  a  new  church  in  an 
unentered  area.  "All  things  work  together 
for  good  to  those  who  love  God,  to  those 
who  are  called  according  to  His  purpose." 


Spring  1995    3 


Walking 

forUfe: 
AIDSwallc  for 

Absrinence 

Participants  reach  their  destination.  Washinghm.  DC  where  they  meet  Congressman  Zach  Wamp 


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During  the  spring  breai<  for  two 
years  running  (make  that  "walk- 
ing") Dr.  Ron  du  Preez,  associate 
professor  of  religion  at  Southern 
College,  has  led  a  group  of  students 
from  the  college  on  an  AIDSwalk 
for  Abstinence. 

This  year  16  students  and  five 
adults  joined  Ron  on  a  600-mile  trek 
to  the  nation's  capitol  from  the 
Collegedale  campus.  Last  year's 
440-mile  hike  from  Florida  to  Ten- 
nessee involved  1 1  students. 

Their  efforts  were  designed  to 
raise  awareness  of  abstinence  from 
drugs  and  extramarital  sex  as  the 
only  safe  way  of  combating  AIDS. 

This  year's  relay  took  seven 
walking  days,  a  pace  of  nearly  90 
miles  a  day.  Along  the  way  the 
group  made  more  than  two  dozen 
media  contacts,  one  leading  to  a 
news  brief  in  USA  Today,  others  to 
radio,  television,  and  print  coverage. 

The  media  helped  spread  the 
abstinence  message  last  year  as 
well,  with  interviews  on  a  dozen  TV 
stations,  as  well  as  in  the  pages  of  a 
dozen  newspapers.  One  TV  station 
featured  the  AIDSwalk  16  times. 

"One  of  the  biggest  surprises  of 
the  walk  was  media  reaction,"  says 
Ron.  "They  really  encouraged  us 
and  never  once  accused  us  of  being 
naive  or  out  of  touch  with  reality. 
The  message  of  abstinence  from 
drugs  and  extramarital  sex  was  very 
well  received,  especially  since 
young  people  were  promoting  it." 

Highlight  of  the  1995  trip  was 
meeting  with  Congressmen  Roscoe 
Bartlett  (Md.)  and  Zach  Wamp 
(Tenn.)  in  Washington,  as  well  as 
with  Dr.  Ben  Carson  of  Johns 
Hopkins  Medical  Center. 

"AIDS  is  the  only  disease 
known  to  mankind  that  is  totally 
fatal.  It  is  also  the  only  disease  that 
would  disappear  in  one  generation  if 
people  simply  behaved  themselves," 


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Congressman  Bartlett  told  them. 

Along  the  way  the  group  made 
contact  with  students  at  nearby  Lee 
College  (where  10  students  joined 
the  walk  for  tv\o  rainy  miles),  the 

AIDS  would  disap- 
pear in  a  generation 
if  people  simply 
behaved  themselves. 

University  of  Tennessee  at  Knox- 
ville,  and  Liberty  University. 

Generally  two  walkers  were  on 
the  road  at  all  times.  23  hours  a  day. 
except  during  morning  and  evening 
worship  and  the  Sabbath.  Each  stu- 
dent walked  between  1 0  and  20 
miles  a  day.  estimates  Ron. 

The  1994  seven-day  walk  began 
in  Panama  City  where  thousands  of 
students  celebrate  spring  break. 
Nearing  home,  they  paused  in 
Atlanta  and  met  with  Dr.  James 
Curran.  U.S.  Assistant  Surgeon 
General  at  the  Centers  for  Disease 
Control  and  Prevention,  who  told 
them,  "Peers  will  listen  to  peers." 

Throughout  both  journeys  walk- 
ers distributed  Abstinence  or  AIDS 
leaflets  which  had  been  researched 
and  produced  by  Ron.  One  of  last 


Royalties  Donated  to  Ministerial  Scholarship 

After  a  decade  of  work  Dr.  Jack  Blanco  completed  a  paraphrase  of  the  Scripture  called  The 
Clear  Word,  printed  by  the  Review  &  Herald  Publishing  Association. 

Tens  of  thousands  have  been  sold  and  many  people  have  written  to  express  their  appre- 
ciation for  the  blessing  it  has  been  to  them.  A  number  are  coming  to  church  again  and  some 
have  given  their  hearts  to  the  Lord  for  the  first  time. 

"When  young  people  with  glowing  faces  tell  me  how  it  has  changed  their  lives,  when 
older  brothers  and  sisters  with  tears  in  their  eyes  tell  of  the  blessing  that  has  been  theirs,  and 
when  little  ones  ask  parents  to  read  from  The  Clear  Word  because  they  can  understand  it.  all 
those  hours  of  work  in  the  early,  early  morning  have  been  worth  it,"  says  Dr.  Blanco. 

All  royalties  are  going  directly  into  a  Ministerial  Scholarship  for  theology  majors  in  the 
Religion  Department  of  Southern  College. 


year's  student  walkers.  Kristina 
Fordham,  put  it  simply:  "It"s  impor- 
tant for  people  to  know  that  it"s  cool 
to  be  abstinent." 

"One  of  my  goals  in  life  is  to 
find  creative  ways  to  reach  the 
world  with  the  Bible's  message," 
explains  Ron.  "The  AIDSwalk  for 
Abstinence  was  carefully  thought 
out.  I  wanted  to  find  a  noncontrover- 
sial,  relevant  issue  through  which 
we  could  send  a  positive  biblical 
message  to 
the  world." 
As  for  reach- 
ing the  world. 
Ron  has  al- 
ready spoken 
to  non-SDA 
and  Adventist 
groups  both 
in  the  USA 
and  South 
Africa. 

"I've 
realized  that 
the  church's 


young  people  need  the  abstinence 
message  also."  adds  Ron  who  dis- 
agrees with  those  who  promote  the 
compromising  message  of  condom 
use  as  the  best  way  to  combat  AIDS. 

A  secondary  focus  has  been  to 
promote  a  healthy  lifestyle  through 
walking.  As  the  1993-94  Tennessee 
Champion  Race  Walker.  Ron  knows 
the  health  benefits  of  walking.  "It's 
an  excellent  form  of  exercise,  virtu- 
ally injury  free."  Ron  adds,  "and  one 
that  Ellen  White  heartily  commends." 

Ron  hopes  to  some  day  walk 
across  the  USA  promoting  absti- 
nence as  the  best  solution  to  the 
spread  of  AIDS.  "God  has  shared 
so  much  with  me.  In  whatever  1  do 
I  want  to  share  Him  with  others." 

To  this  end  Ron  has  had  to 
make  some  big  sacrifices.  "But,  it's 
all  worth  it,"  he  smiles,  "when  I  .see 
young  people  give  their  lives  to 
Christ,  and  elect  to  live  healthy, 
happy  lives,  centered  around  God's 
Word.  It's  something  I'd  walk  a 
million  miles  to  achieve."  9 


Spring  1995    5 


Destination  Rostov-on-Don 


by  Douglas  Bennett 


Our  destination  was  Rostov-on- 
Don,  a  city  ot"  two  million 
people  about  800  miles  south  of 
Moscow.  Rostov  is  headquarters  of 
the  North  Caucasus  Conference. 
Conference  membership  is  40.000, 
with  70  widely  dispersed  churches. 

There  are  two  SDA  churches  in 
Rostov,  one  with  about  200  mem- 
bers and  one  with  400  to  500.  Like 
most  churches  in  the  conference, 
both  meet  in  rented  auditoriums,  but 
rental  is  expensive  and  availability 
uncertain.  Vladimir  Predoliak, 
North  Caucasus  Conference  presi- 
dent, indicated  that  building 
churches  would  be  nearly  impossible 
since  a  500-seat-capacity  building 
would  cost  S70,000  to  SI 00,000. 

A  team  from  Wildwood,  Ga., 
and  Southern  College  was  invited  to 

Rostov  in 


May  1994  to  promote  spiritual 
growth  and  conduct  special  educa- 
tion classes.  Classes  were  held  for 
120  pa.stors  and  leaders  who  had 
been  brought  to  Rostov  by  the  con- 
ference for  instruction  in  health  and 
public  evangelism  and  biblical  stud- 
ies. I  taught  classes  each  


sincerity  and  acceptance.  Night  af- 
ter night  they  came  to  the  audito- 
rium for  a  three-hour  service.  They 
were  attentive,  and  many  took  notes 
each  evening.  These  people  live 
under  crude  conditions,  yet  they 
make  the  best  of  what  they  have  and 


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morning  and  some  after- 
noons and  was  able  to  com- 
plete a  study  of  the  books 
of  Daniel  and  Revelation. 

Dr.  Roby  Sherman,  her 
husband.  Bill,  and  others 
provided  health  lectures, 
classes,  and  demonstrations. 
Henry  Uhl,  director  of 
Adventist  Interchurch  Ministries, 
conducted  a  nightly  evangelistic 
meeting  and  a  stop-smoking  clinic. 
The  600-seat  auditorium  was  nearly 
full.  Since  Russians  have  a  great  in- 
terest in  learning  English,  classes 
were  held  by  Nell 
Bennett.  As  English 
classes  grew,  it  was 
necessary  to  teach  a 
children's  class,  a 
beginning  class,  and  a 
conversational  class. 

The  Russians  are  a 
gracious  and  talented 
people.  The  towns- 
people supplied  the  mu- 
sic with  choral  groups, 
string  ensembles,  duets 
and  solos.  The  music  di- 
rector is  a  gifted  musician 
who  washes  windows  for 
his  livelihood. 

Several  things  stood  out 
in  my  mind:   The  people 's 


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do  not  complain.  An  SDA  pastor 
makes  about  $70  a  month.  (A 
monthly  ticket  to  travel  by  bus  costs 
$40.)  A  ride  through  the  streets  of 
Rostov  is  unforgettable.  The  streets 
are  broken  and  have  huge  potholes. 
There  appear  to  be  no  laws  govern- 
ing traffic.  A  sacred  and  meaningful 
baptism  of  30  was  conducted  on  the 
first  Sabbath.  The  22-hour  train  ride 
from  Moscow  to  Rostov  was  unfor- 
gettable. I  saw  the  country  people 
and  their  homes  from  a  different 
perspective. 

I  was  impressed  with  the  devo- 
tion and  generosity  of  the  Russians. 
Though  their  resources  are  limited 
they  give  what  they  have.  We  went 
to  minister,  yet  we  left  knowing 
they  had  actually  ministered  to  us. 

Departures  are  sad.  A  delegation 
came  to  the  train  to  bid  farewell  to 
their  American  friends.  As  the  train 
sped  away,  we  all  felt  we  were  leav- 
ing a  part  of  ourselves  in  Rostov.  9 


My  Christmas  Gift  to  Russia 


by  Ron  Springen 


M  t  the  request  of  the  Russian 
#^North  Caucasus  Conference,  the 
Religion  Department  at  Southern 
College  invited  me  to  go  to  Rostov 
to  conduct  a  class  in  New  Testament 
Epistles  for  the  pastors  there. 

The  officers  of  that  conference 


Abroad 


have  negotiated  with  Zaokski  Theo- 
logical Seminarv'  to  make  Rostov  an 
extension  school  of  the  seminar>' 
which  can  conduct  classes  for  credit. 
Thus,  pastors  in  this  region  not  only 
will  save  the  expense  of  traveling 
the  long  distance  to  Zaokski  in  order 
to  study,  but  they  can  receive  credit 
for  work  done  at  Rostov.  There  is 
also  a  branch  of  the 
seminary  at  Kiev  in 
the  Ukraine,  and  one 
at  Vladivostok  in  Si- 
beria. Zaokski  has 
appointed  a  coordina- 
tor for  these  branches. 
1  arrived  in  Mos- 
cow on  December  19. 
1994,  with  the  tem- 
perature at  -30" 
Celcius!  After  a  brief 
visit  at  the  Division 
office,  a  22-hour  train 
ride  took  me  to 
Rostov. 


Classes  began  immediately  and 
with  a  break  for  lunch  v\  ent  from  9 
a.m.  until  5:30  p.m.  for  10  days. 
About  120  students  were  in  the 
class;  howe\er,  the  church  was  al- 
ways full  because  many  members 
not  in  the  class  also  sat  through  the 
course.  The  coordinator 
from  Zaokski  was  present 
for  many  of  the  lectures, 
and  all  the  leaders  were 
anxious  for  things  to  run 
smoothly.  This  was  the 
first  course  for  which  they 
hoped  to  get  seminary 
credit. 

The  pastors  were  eager 
for  explanations  of  Scripture  and 
information,  since  they  have  been 
deprived  of  both  for  so  long.  It  was 
a  pleasure  to  teach  them  and  to  an- 
swer their  many  questions.  I  taught 
through  the  Christmas  holidays  be- 
cause in  Russia,  January  7  is  Christ- 
mas Day  and  the  big  celebration  is 
New  Year's  day.  So  the  only  time 


off  was  the  morning  of  January  1; 
we  only  began  at  1  p.m. 

Oleg  Predoliak,  a  Southern  stu- 
dent and  my  translator,  typed  the  list 
of  study  questions  which  1  gave  the 
students  near  the  end  of  the  course. 
The  pastors  studied  these  during 
January;  then  in  February  I  sent  a 
test  to  the  conference  office  to  be 
administered  to  the  pastors  during 
their  regional  meetings.  The  confer- 
ence office  will  mail  the  tests  back 
to  me  for  grading  and  I  will  send  the 
grades  to  Zaokski  to  be  recorded. 

Because  of  the  rapid  growth  of 
Adventism,  church  buildings  are  in 
great  need.  The  brethren  in  Rostov 
and  in  other  places  are  negotiating 
with  the  government  to  retrieve 
some  o\'  the  properties  which  were 
confiscated  by  the  Communist  re- 
gime or  at  least  receive  some  other 
properties  to  replace  them.  At  this 
time  1  do  not  know  the  outcome. 

I  returned  to  Moscow  and  spent 
some  time  the  evening  of  January  4 
exploring  Red 
Square  and  deliver- 
ing messages  for  Dr. 
Ray  Hefferlin,  a 
physics  professor  at 
Southern  College 
who  has  many 
friends  in  Russia. 
It  was  a  small 
sacrifice  to  give  up 
my  Christmas  vaca- 
tion in  order  to  help 
these  people  whose 
needs  are  so  much 
greater  than  ours  in 
so  many  respects.  •' 


Spnni>  1995     7 


Info  China 


b\  Jack  Blanco 


i  stand  humbled  and  in  awe  of  what  the  holy 
Spirit  is  doing  in  China  to  reach  those  who  are 
longing  for  god  and  peace  of  heart  which  only 
He  can  give.  As  in  scripture,  "when  they  seek  Me 

WITH  ALL  THEIR  HEART  THEY  SHALL  SURELY  FIND  Me." 


Along  with  the  dean  of  the  Semi- 
nary at  Andrews  University,  Dr. 
Werner  Vyhmeister.  and  ten  General 
Conference  representatives,  I  was 
invited  by  the  Chinese  government 
to  visit  mainland  China  in  May 
1994.  This  was  the  church's  first 
official  visit  to  China  since  the 
founding  of  the  People's  Republic  in 
1949.  Our  visit  sought  government 
permission  to  train  youth  for  the 
ministry',  and  more  equitable  treat- 
ment for  our  church  members. 

China  has  five  officially  recog- 
nized religions — 100  million  Bud- 
dhists, 20  million  Moslems,  10 
million  Taoists,  7  million  Protes- 
tants, and  5  million  Catholics.  Yet 
these  make  up  a  small  fraction  of  the 
population — about  150  million  out 
of  I  billion,  2  hundred  million 
people. 

Protestant  denominations  are 


grouped  by  the  Bureau  of  Religious 
Affairs  and  are  guided  toward  post- 
denominationalism — excluding 
Catholics.  Protestants  come  under 
the  guidance  of  Three-Self  Patriotic 
Movement  (TSPM)  leaders.  Three- 
Self  means  self-administration,  self- 
support  and  self-propagation.  In 
1980  the  China  Christian  Council 
(CCC)  formed  to  facilitate  the  post- 
denominational  move.  TSPM  and 
CCC  officers  are  elected  every  five 
years  by  provincial  representatives 
who  form  the  National  Christian 
Conference,  the  supreme  authority 
of  both  organizations. 

Adventists  are  not  officially  rec- 
ognized as  a  denomination  but  are 
respected  and  accepted  as  fellow 
Christians  by  the  TSPM  and  the 
CCC.  Various  degrees  of  freedom 
are  allowed  depending  on  local  Prot- 
estant leadership.  In  some  areas  they 


are  permitted  to  build  churches — 
beautiful  ones — but  are  not  allowed 
to  put  the  SDA  name  on  those 
churches.  In  other  places  they  are 
permitted  to  v\  orship  in  other  large 
Protestant  churches.  And  in  still  other 
areas  Adventists  are  only  allowed  an 
inadequate  room  or  basement.  This 
has  created  many  "house  churches." 

Part  of  our  delegation  visited 
Manchuria  in  northern  China  where 
over  4,000  had  recently  been  bap- 
tized. According  to  the  official  gov- 
ernment count,  we  have  over  250,000 
Adventist  believers  in  China. 

Two  problems  facing  our  church 
in  China  are  that  there  are  few  or- 
dained pastors.  One  is  as  old  as  104! 
So  our  people  look  to  untrained  lay 
leaders  who  give  what  time  they  can 
to  pastoring.  The  majority  of  believ- 
ers in  China  are  women  and  many — 
like  the  men — give  time  to  pastor 
various-size  congregations. 

No  Adventist  young  people  are 
being  trained  for  full-time  ministry. 
Though  we  met  with  Zhu  Shi  Yuan, 
department  chief  of  the  Second  De- 
partment of  the  Bureau  of  Religious 
Affairs;  Bishop  Ding,  head  of  the 
TSPM;  and  Bishop  Shen,  head  of  the 
CCC  in  charge  of  theological  educa- 
tion, we  were  unable  to  make  ar- 


I 


Over  250,000 
Adventist  believers 
are  in  China. 


rangements  to  train  our  young 
people  for  ministry.  The  Religion 
Department,  under  the  auspices  of 
the  Robert  H.  Pierson  Institute  of 
Evangelism  and  World  Missions,  is 
tr>'ing  to  solve  this  problem  by  re- 
cording Southern's  theology  courses 
and  transmitting  them  into  China  by 
way  of  Adventist  World  Radio. 

The  office  staff  of  the  Southeast 
Asia  Committee  in  Hong  Kong  in 


8    Missio 


charge  of  producing  audio  and  video 
productions  to  be  transmitted  into 
China  are  a  hard-working  and  com- 
mitted group.  In  addition  to  their 
regular  broadcasting  work,  they 
travel  weekly  into  mainland  China 
with  supplies  such  as  hymnals. 
Bibles,  and  other  books  for  our  be- 
hevers.  Two  Chinese  students  whom 
we  sponsored  to  study  at  Southern 
are  now  part  of  the  staff.  Daniel  Jiao, 
a  theology  graduate,  is  translating 
into  Chinese  God  Cares  by  Merv  yn 
Maxwell.  Geoffrey  Church,  a  com- 
munications graduate,  produces  vid- 
eos for  use  in  China.  Since  monitors 
and  VCRs  are  purchased  easily  in 
China,  plans  are  being  laid  to  pro- 
duce videos  for  the  training  of  lay 
leaders  and  potential  pastors. 

We  were  able  to  visit  our  former 
China  Division  in  Shanghai,  where 
we  once  had  division  offices,  a  hos- 
pital, a  theological  training  school, 
and  a  publishing  house.  Now  only 
the  small  church  survives,  engulfed 
by  huge  buildings. 

Near  the  end  of  our  visit  we 
stopped  in  Hangzhou  at  the  Sir  Run 
Run  Shaw  Hospital,  operated  by 
Loma  Linda  University.  Officially 
opened  in  May  1994,  this  hospital  is 
the  first  built  in  China  since  1949.  It 
is  the  most  modem  hospital  in  China 
and  better  equipped  than  many  in  the 
U.S.  Dr.  David  Fang,  a  physician 
from  Loma  Linda,  is  in  charge  and 
has  been  there  from  its  inception  as 
engineer,  architect,  and  fund  raiser. 

In  Shanghai  The  Desire  of  Ages 
has  been  translated  into  Chinese  and 
our  believers  are  making  arrange- 
ments with  the  government  and  the 
CCC  to  have  it  printed.  Other  Chris- 
tians are  printing  Bibles  with  permis- 
sion from  the  government.  One 
million  copies  a  year!  We  praise  the 
Lord.  Without  a  doubt,  people  are 
hungry  for  the  Word  of  God. 


Sdzih  and  Menat  at  their  baptism  hy  Pastor  LJ  W 


Coptic  Monk  Convert 

hy  Stacy  Spaitlilin^  Delay 

Nazih  Yacoub's  arrival  did  not  go  unnoticed.  Nazih  walked  off  the  airplane  in  a  full-length 
black  robe — his  monk"s  habit.  Fern  Babcock.  director  of  the  Teaching  Materials  Center,  and 
some  others  remember  it  well.  "We  made  a  sign  with  his  name  in  Arabic,  so  Nazih  would 
know  who  we  were,"  says  Babcock.  "But  there  was  no  doubt  who  he  was." 

Even  as  a  young  boy  in  Egypt.  Nazih  wanted  to  become  a  monk.  "I  read  books  about  St. 
Anthony,  the  first  Egyptian  monk."  he  says.  "1  liked  his  life."  Nazih  entered  the  monastery  in 
1978  and  was  ordained  a  priest  after  two  years.  He  then  served  as  a  monastery  secretary  in 
Alexandria  before  becoming  secretary  to  Pope  Shenouda  III.  the  leader  of  the  Coptic  Ortho- 
dox Church,  an  independent  branch  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church.  He  also  served  churches 
in  Egypt.  England,  and  Holland,  and  even  had  opportunity  to  become  a  bishop.  "I  refused."  he 
says.  "Because  as  bishop,  everyone  comes  to  bow  to  you.  and  1  don't  like  that." 

When  Nazih  went  to  Holland  in  1990,  he  started  studying  the  Bible  by  himself.  "I  began 
to  hate  that  life,"  says  Nazih.  "I  knew  that  my  church  had  many  traditions  which  weren't  in 
the  Bible  and  1  was  frustrated  becau.se  the  Bible  doesn't  change,  yet  tradition  and  monks 
change  all  the  time."  Through  his  study,  Nazih  found  that  the  Bible  doesn't  say  anything 
about  monks.  "It  also  dt>esn't  say  anything  about  the  Pope,  the  seven  sacraments,  or  worship- 
ing the  saints,"  says  Nazih.  About  this  time.  Nazih  met  some  friends  who  were  Seventh-day 
Adventists.  and  he  saw  they  believed  the  same  things  he  learned  in  the  Bible. 

When  Pope  Shenouda  published  an  article  about  Seventh-day  Adventists  and  Jehovah's 
Witnesses,  Nazih  studied  more.  "He  said  they  were  the  same,"  says  Nazih.  "1  felt  there  was  a 
difference  between  the  two."  He  discussed  his  concerns  with  the  Pope.  "I  told  him  about  the 
Sabbath  and  said  'Give  me  any  verse  in  the  Bible  that  shows  Sunday  is  the  Sabbath.  You  have 
studied  the  Bible  and  I  have  studied  the  Bible.  When  was  the  Sabbath  changed  to  Sunday?"' 
The  Pope  said.  "Every  day  is  for  God."  Nazih  also  talked  with  him  about  the  monk  tradition. 
"When  I  said  there  are  no  monks  in  the  Bible,  he  told  me  about  the  prophet  Samuel,"  says 
Nazih.  "But  I  told  him,  Samuel  was  married  and  had  sons. "  When  the  Pope  couldn't  answer, 
he  told  Nazih.  "You  are  a  Protestant  now." 

Pope  Shenouda  ordered  Nazih  to  return  to  the  monastery  to  retrain  his  mind,  but  he  re- 
fused. This  caused  Nazih  many  problems  in  the  church.  He  even  received  death  threats  over 
the  phone  because  of  his  beliefs.  In  199.^  Nazih  left  the  Orthodox  Church.  "1  left  everything 
because  I  loved  God,"  says  Nazih.  "I  needed  Him,  not  tradition." 

About  this  time,  a  friend  asked  Nazih  to  take  care  of  his  wife,  Mervat.  and  his  daughter 
In  case  he  should  die.  "He  was  not  sick  at  the  time,"  says  Nazih.  "But  three  weeks  later  he 
died  from  a  heart  attack."  Nazih  helped  Mervat  settle  her  estate.  "Nazih  was  so  good  to  her," 
says  Babcock,  "that  when  he  was  put  out  of  the  church  she  ignored  the  ban  on  helping  him." 

Nazih  felt  he  needed  to  study  more.  He  came  to  Collegedale  in  1994  and  now  has  a  stu- 
dent visa.  Nazih  and  Mervat  had  planned  to  marry  before  he  left,  but  the  situation  got  so  bad 
that  Mervat  wanted  Nazih  to  leave  before  he  got  killed.  "They  were  constantly  on  the  tele- 
phone," says  Babcock.  "He  was  delirious  the  day  he  found  out  she  was  fmally  able  to  come." 

Nazih  and  Mervat  married  last  August.  Now,  Nazih  is  taking  religion  classes,  and  study- 
ing English  with  Mervat.  He  hopes  to  share  his  experience  with  others.  "It  would  be  hard  for 
me  to  go  back  to  Egypt."  he  says,  "All  of  my  family  are  in  the  Orthodox  Church.  The  church 
might  make  trouble  for  me.  But  there  are  millions  of  Egyptians  in  the  United  Slates,"  says 
Nazih.  Many  are  members  of  the  Coptic  Orthodox  Church.  In  fact,  there  are  55  Coptic  Ortho- 
dox Churches  in  the  U.S.  "I  want  to  tell  these  people  what  I  have  learned,"  says  Nazih. 

But  for  now,  Nazih  will  study.  "He  loves  studying,"  says  Babcock. 

Nazih  smiles,  "I'd  rather  read  than  sleep." 


Spring  1995     9 


leflrnhg  hy  Doing 

Heohh  Evangelisiii  Shnleiils 


h\  Leo  R.  Van  Dolson 


We  have  come  to  a  time  when 
every  member  of  the  church 
should  take  hold  of  medical  mis- 
sionary work."  Inspired  by  that  chal- 
lenge from  the  pen  of  Ellen  White, 
students  in  Southern  College's 
Health  Evangelism  class  "learn  by 
doing"  in  the  Chattanooga  area. 
During  the  1994-95  school  year, 
students  assisted  with  the  Net  "95 
program  in  Chattanooga  and  con- 
ducted health-related  seminars  de- 
signed to  develop  interest  for  the 
Mark  Finley  evangelistic  series. 

During  the  fall  semester,  Debra 
Carby,  Nicole  Dixon,  Aaron  and 
Colette  Muth.  Eileen  Ramos,  and 

Julia  Struntz,  

along  with  non- 
credit  registrants 
Josene  Spencer, 
Effie  Thompson, 
and  Sherry  and 
Barney  Tiiley 
assisted  in  the 
Discoveries  in 
Daniel  Seminar 
presented  by 
Mark  Finley. 
They  also  helped 
their  instructor. 
Dr.  Leo  Van 
Dolson,  and  Jim 
Erwin,  pastor  of 
the  McDonald 
SDA  Church, 
conduct  a  fol- 


low-up Your  Health  and  Your  Fu- 
ture seminar  in  the  nearby  Harrison 
Bay  area.  Health  topics  closely  tied 
to  each  chapter  in  Daniel  were  pre- 
sented nightly  before  the  Discover- 
ies in  Daniel  lessons. 

In  addition,  the  class  partici- 
pated with  Drs.  Robert  Dunn  and 
Leo  Van  Dolson  in  presenting  a 
five-session  stress  seminar.  The  in- 
troductory first  session  discussion 
on  Understanding  Stress  was  fol- 
lowed by  one  evening  devoted  to 
studying  the  physical,  mental, 
psychosocial,  and  spiritual  strategies 
for  stress  control.  This  Taming  Ten- 
sion Through  Total  Health  seminar 

was  conducted 

»-H-^    at  the  Life  En- 
*""    richment  Semi- 
nar facilities 
rented  from  the 
Jewish  Commu- 
nity Center  of 
Chattanooga. 

The  winter 
semester  stu- 
dents included 
Brandon  Bryan, 
Andrew  Caban, 
Joel  DeWild, 
Tamera  King, 
Philip  Neal, 
Mark  Peterson, 
Todd  Silver- 
stein,  Melissa 
Smith,  and  Carli 


Sullivan.  Students  jumped  right  into 
community  service  by  assisting  in 
the  Natural  Lifestyle  Cooking 
classes  held  by  Mark  and  Teenie 
Finley  at  the  Chattanooga  Conven- 
tion Center.  The  Finleys  presented 
the  first  two  weeks  of  a  series  of 
five  cooking  classes.  Three  follow- 
up  sessions  were  held  in  eight 
churches  with  the  Health  Evange- 
lism class  taking  responsibility  for 
the  classes  conducted  in  the 
Ooltewah  Seventh-day  Adventist 
Church  near  Collegedale. 

The  students  also  took  part  in 
the  Discoveries  in  Prophecy  evange- 
listic series  that  culminated  the  Net 
■95  presentations  in  the  Chattanooga 
area.  This  largest-ever  Adventist 
evangelistic  series  in  North  America 
was  telecast  by  satellite  throughout 
the  Division.  From  February  24-26 
the  students  teamed  up  with  others 
from  Southern's  nursing  department 
and  health  service  and  the  Wild- 
wood  Lifestyle  Center  in  putting  on 
a  Health  Expo  at  the  Convention 
Center  from  6  to  7  p.m.  just  before 
the  evangelistic  meeting.  The  Health 
Expo  centered  around  eight  instruc- 
tional booths  illustrating  the  natural 
remedies  outlined  in  The  Ministry  of 
Healing.  Health  Evangelism  stu- 
dents followed  up  the  Health  Expo 
with  nutrition,  cancer  prevention, 
and  stress  seminars  also  held  in  the 
evenings  before  the  evangelistic 
series.  Presentations  were  based  on 
the  laws  of  health  found  in  the  writ- 
ings of  Ellen  White  who,  under  di- 
vine inspiration,  directed:  "To  make 
plain  natural  law.  and  to  urge  obedi- 
ence to  it,  is  a  work  that  accompa- 
nies the  third  angel's  message" 
{Counsels  on  Health,  p.  21 ).  In  con- 
nection with  the  Net  '95  program  in 
Chattanooga,  Southern  College  stu- 
dents demonstrated  how  this  can  be 
done.  9 


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The  most  ambitious  evangelistic 
goal  in  our  church  will  have 
taken  place  by  the  time  you  read 
these  lines.  And  Southern  College 
and  religion  majors  had  something 
to  do  with  it.  Net  '95  downlinked 
Mark  Finley"s  evangelistic  meetings 
from  the  Chattanooga  Convention 
and  Trade  Center  to  almost  1000 
churches  and  other  centers  in  North 
America  with  a  potential  viewing 
audience  of  more  than  fifty  thou- 
sand people.  January" s  Discover 
Jesus  Seminar  and  Natural  Lifestyle 
Cooking  Class  drew  800  and  600 
people,  respectively.  Also  there  are 
about  180  personal  Bible  studies 
being  conducted. 

What  is  Southern's  role  in  all 
this?  The  Religion  Department  coor- 
dinated a  field  school  of  evangelism 
with  students  preparing  for  ministry. 
They  visited  interested  guests,  gave 
Bible  studies,  helped  during  the 
evening  crusade,  as  well  as  helped 
people  prepare  for  baptism,  and  at- 


tended evangelism  classes  with 
trainers  Brad  Thorp.  Don  Gray,  and 
Mark  and  Teenie  Finley. 

The  Personal  Evangelism  class 
has  many  students  who  joined  oth- 
ers in  following  up  personal  Bible 
studies  tied  with  Net  '95.  Over  100 
Student  Prayer  Warriors  met  for 
prayer  and  intercession  at  various 
times  of  the  week  since  October. 
For  the  ten  days  preceding  the  start 
of  the  crusade,  students  met  every 
morning,  noon,  and  evening  to  pray 
for  a  mighty  outpouring  of  God's 
grace  upon  Chattanooga,  as  well  as 
the  campus  community. 

Hundreds  of  posters  were 
placed  throughout  the  city.  Around 
20,000  brochures  were  hand  deliv- 
ered as  invitations  to  three  zip  codes 
areas  in  the  vicinity.  All  this  by  stu- 
dents at  Southern  College.  Weeks 
of  Prayer  at  a  half-dozen  area 
schools  have  been  conducted  during 
the  last  few  months  by  Student 
Ministerial  Association  members 


and  others  in  preparation  for  the 
meetings. 

There  were  high  expectations 
about  what  God  could  do  through 
this  outreach.  Much  more,  through 
what  God  could  do  with  His  church 
as  His  children  yielded  in  service 
and  love  for  the  sake  of  others.     ^ 


Net  "95 

by  Jack  Blanco 

From  February  1 8  through 
March  25,  eight  Southern  College 
students  from  the  Religion  Depart- 
ment successfully  participated  in  the 
Net  '95  evangeli.slic  thrust  held  by 
Mark  Finley  in  the  Chattanooga  Con- 
vention and  Trade  Center.  They  were 
enrolled  in  the  course  RELP  465 
Personal  Fivangeiism,  in  addition  to 
RELP  466  Public  Evangelism,  and 
will  participate  in  the  evangelism 
follow-up  program  until  May  5.  Each 
received  a  $1,000  scholarship. 


Net  '95?    Southern  and  its  Religion  Department  had  something  to  do  with  it! 


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llelen  Banvelos  had  been  sent  by  a  Pentecostal  church 
to  teach  English  in  an  economic  school  located  in  Xinjiang 
Province  in  the  extreme  northwest  portion  of  China.  While 
there  she  began  listening  on  her  shortwave  radio  to  an 
Adventist  World  Radio  (AWR)  program  "College  on  the 
Air."  As  she  continued  listening  to  this  daily  broadcast, 
recorded  by  Dr.  Douglas  Bennett,  she  became  convicted 
concerning  the  Adventist  message. 

After  returning  to  the  United  States  in  1994  due  to 
illness.  Helen  contacted  Dr.  Bennett  and  made  plans  to 
come  to  Southern  College  of  Seventh-day  Adventists  to 
prepare  for  baptism.  On  November  26,  1994,  she  was 
baptized  at  the  Collegedale  Seventh-day  Adventist 
Church.  Back  in  China  Helen  left  behind  some  Muslims 
who  have  also  been  listening  to  "College  on  the  Air" 
programs.  Helen  planned  to  return  to  China  in  March 
1995  to  resume  her  work  there  for  the  Lord. 


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Editorial  Director:  Jack  J.  Blanco 
Editor:  Leo  R.  Van  Dolson 
Associate  Editor:  Run  dii  Preez 


STATEMENT  OF  MISSION:  The  Robert  H.  Pierson  Institute  of  Evangelism  and  World  Missions  is  operated  by  the 
Religion  Department  of  Southern  College  of  Seventh-day  Adventists.  The  purpose  of  this  institute  is  to  promote  and  participate 
in  the  world  mission  and  evangelistic  outreach  of  the  Seventh-day  Adventist  Church.  Its  objective  is  to  communicate  the  gospel 
of  salvation  by  grace  through  faith  in  Jesus  Christ  to  all  the  world  in  the  setting  of  the  three  angels'  messages  of  Revelation  14. 

This  mission  objective  will  be  implemented  by  Southern  College  faculty  and  students  by  such  means  as:  teaching  classes  at 
seminaries,  holding  field  schools  of  evangelism,  presenting  health  education  and  health  evangelism  programs,  conducting  radio 
and  television  classes  and  other  instructional  programs. 

In  addition  the  institute  will  produce  a  publication  that  will  report  on  its  functions  and  activities,  and  will  develop  a  study 
and  research  center  on  the  Southern  College  campus  dedicated  to  promoting  the  objectives  and  programs  outlined  above. 

Puhlished  and  copyrighted  ©  1995  by 

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vear.  For  some  reason,  the  teachers  were 
convinced  they  must  include  all  students 
in  the  Week  of  Prayer  service.  Rochelle 
had  ended  up  having  the  scripture.  "It's  all 
wTinen  out  tor  you,"  they'd  told  her.  "\ou 
won't — it  would  be  almost  impossible  to — 
make  a  mistake.  The  text  has  only  23 
words."  So,  on  a  glowing  tall  European 
morning,  shy  Rochelle  sat  behind  the  po- 
dium, ready  to  make  her  first  public 
"speech"  in  a  foreign  language. 

She'd  been  nenous  as  she  faced  the 
mike.  Even  from  the  back  row,  Joe  could 
see  her  blush.  Maybe  she  thought  she'd 
make  it  better — add  a  little  disclaimer 
before  she  began,  try  to  get  audience  sym- 
pathy just  in  case  she  did  mess  up,  who 
knew?  However,  what  she  thought  she 
knew — the  word  for  "embarrassed" — she 
really  didn't.  What  she  actually  knew  was 
the  translation  for  the  word  "pregnant." 
Unfortunately,  when  she  had  whispered 
shakily  into  the  mike  "1  hope  you'll  pardon 
me,  but  it's  just  that  I'm  pregnant . . . ,"  she 
still  didn't  realize  her  error. 

Now  as  the  laughter  died  down,  Roch- 
elle smiled  and  recalled  it  as  the  best  mis- 
take she'd  ever  made.  Sure,  Rochelle.  "No 
really,  it  was  in  that  moment  that  1  became 
a  devout  believer  in  vocabulary/verb  lists." 

"Lists  that  paid  off,"  thought  Joe,  as 
Rochelle  reached  out  to  accept  her  certifi- 
cate, one  which  had  enabled  her  to  sit  for 
the  state  examination.  She'd  be  entering 
the  university  in  the  fall.  He  wished  his 
plethora  of  grammatical  usage  and  intona- 
tion mistakes  had  paid  off  in  more  ways 
than  just  for  the  amusement  of  his  fellow 
students. 

Mr.  Rudi  moved  down  the  line  talking, 
reminiscing,  and  commending,  his  thought- 
ful, yet  lined  face  becoming  more  distinct 
as  the  sunlight  lost  touch  with  the  last 
colorful  window.  "It  certainly  won't  be  the 
same  program  without  him,"  thought  Joe. 

He  remembered  the  director's  under- 
standing of  and  respect  for  the  many  cul- 
tures and  lands  represented  in  his 
classroom.  Even  more,  Joe  recalled  his 
amazing  gift  for  teaching — not  just  the 
language,  but  culture  and  local  traditions. 


Mr.  Rudi  instilled  a  new  pride  in  his  stu- 
dents— a  pride  for  each  one's  own  country. 

Remembering  meals  in  the  cafeteria — 
nuts  and  sugar  on  top  of  noodles,  those  big, 
brown  ball-things  they  had  eaten,  the  mys- 
tery-meal stew,  and  countless  other  euro- 
cooked  wonders ...  Joe  thought  maybe  it 
was  out  oi  respect  for  Mr.  Rudi  that  they'd 
walked  through  line,  smiled,  said  thanks, 
sat  down,  and  hoped  they  weren't  the  only 
ones  planning  to  go  out  to  eat  later  on.  Mr. 
Rudi  had  helped  them  understand  and 
accept  the  bad  with  the  baguettes — the 
good.  He  was  irreplaceable. 

Mr.  Rudi  held  one  more  certificate.  Joe 
looked  at  it,  the  last  one.  The  last  class,  the 
last  trip,  the  final  weekend.  It  seemed  to 
ha\e  flown  by,  like  a  speeding  European 
train  that  hovers  above  the  tracks.  Had  he 
actually  touched  this  all,  felt  it  all,  learned 
it  all?  Had  he  immersed  himself  in  life  here 
or  had  he  just  whizzed  by  only  concerned 
with  a  final  destination? 

He  remembered  clearly  when  this  day 
had  f)een  his  final  destination.  Later,  the 
wings  outside  his  window  had  entered 
furious  grey  clouds.  Rain.  Climbing  higher, 
head  forced  back  against  the  seat,  pressure 
in  his  ears,  higher  and  higher,  wanting  to 
turn  around — land,  find  his  parents,  get  in 
the  car,  drive  home,  forget  this  whole  year- 
abroad  idea,  have  his  ears  feel  normal  again. 
Suddenly  light  streamed  in,  bright  and  hot 
on  his  face.  The  plane  had  broken  through. 
Craggy  peaks  shot  through  the  white  fluff. 
They  were  flying — level,  pressure  gone. 
Seemed  they  were  floating.  He'd  smiled. 
Two  minutes — already  a  change,  already 
the  difference  between  night  and  day. 

Joe  looked  up  into  Mr.  Rudi's  face.  He 
smiled — grasped  the  certificate.  A  glint  of 
sun  broke  through  the  foyer  window  and 
washed  across  the  group.  Light — he  saw  a 
world  bathed  in  it;  not  just  a  state  or  coun- 
try, but  a  world  that  was  his.  A  world  that 
he  had  touched.    • 

Ed.  Note:  Since  /980,  the  AC  A  experience 
has  ennched  the  education  nf  77  Southern  itudenu. 
Of  these,  29  studied  at  Sagunto,  27  at  Colbnges, 
20  at  Bogenhofen,  and  one  m  .Singapwe. 


Opposite  page:  Tasha  Paxton  and  Kenia  Morales  sip  a  milkshake 
during  their  student  days  at  Sagunto,  Spam, 

Below:  Trudi  Hullquist  took  this  photo  of  Le  Source,  the 
administration  building  at  Collonges-sous-Saleve.  France,  while  she 
and  two  others  from  Southern  attended  school  there  as  ACA 
students. 

Trudi,  left,  ndes  a  friendly  hippopotamus  with  another 
international  student  at  a  park  in  Geneva,  Switzerland,  during  a 
Pathfinder  treasure  hunt. 

Elizabeth  Dameff  picks  up  a  Canadian  fnend  in  front  of  the 
Louvre  in  Pans.  Liz  attended  school  in  France  last  year. 


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Southern  Update 


•  A  tour  to  Washington,  D.C.,  spon- 
sored by  the  History'  Department  and 
Southern  Scholars,  took  eight  students  and 
Dr.  Ben  McArthur  to  the  nation's  capital 
during  spring  break.  Visits  included  the 
White  House,  the  National  Archives,  and 
the  Library  of  Congress.  Tliey  also  had  a 
State  Department  briefing  and  met  with 
two  senators. 

•  Students  participating  in  Partners  at 
Wellness  (P.A.W.)  have  signed  a  personal 
fitness  contract  which  encourages  healthy 
lifestyles.  Kelli  Matthews  is  the  student 
director  of  the  program. 

•  Southern  College  is  in  its  45th  year  of 
continuous  accreditation  with  the  South- 
em  Association  of  Colleges  and  Schools. 
This  accreditation  extends  to  all  of 
Southern's  programs,  and  the  next  reaffir- 
mation is  due  in  2002. 

•  Environmental  awareness  grew  on 
campus  this  spring,  due  in  part  to  an  inter- 
departmental competition  organized  by  the 
Environmental  Conservation  class  with 
the  support  of  college  administration  and 
the  Biology  Department.  Departments 
were  judged  on  efficiency  in  water  conser- 
vation, environmental  management,  recy- 
cling, etc.  The  Nursing  Department  won 
grand  prize. 

•  This  year's  guest  for  the  annual  supper 


and  vespers  meetint;  <if  the  Communica- 
tion Club  wa.s  Atlanta  News  Anchor 
Brenda  Wood.  Her  topic  was  "Keeping  the 
Faith. "  She  spoke  of  her  own  experience 
of  becoming  a  professional  anchor  while 
maintaining  her  faith  in  God  and  belief  in 
the  Sabbath. 

•  The  Music  Department  collaborated 
with  the  English  and  Speech  Department, 
as  well  as  the  Art  Department,  to  present 
the  musical  "My  Fair  Lady"  this  semester, 
with  Wendy  Carter  as  Eliza  Doolittle, 
Vince  Romeo  as  Colonel  Pickering,  and 
Scott  Huling  as  Henry  Higgins. 

•  The  students  who  form  The  Destiny 
Drama  Company  will  be  directed  next 
year  by  James  Appel.  As  a  witnessing  tool 
for  Christ,  their  focus  this  past  year  was  on 
the  Great  Controversy  and  its  conclusion 
with  the  Second  Coming  of  Jesus.  They 
have  performed  in  Massachusetts  and 
Maryland,  at  Bass  Memorial  Academy  in 
Mississippi,  and  at  Winter  Fest  in  Colo- 
rado. Carrie  Young  was  the  student  direc- 
tor for  1994-95. 

•  The  Life  Care  Foundation  for  Educa- 
tion and  Research  has  awarded  an  initial 
grant  of  $75,000  to  fund  scholarships  for 
Long-Term  Health  Care  Administration 
students.  The  money  will  be  received  in 
$1 5,000  installments  over  a  five-year  pe- 


Destiny  Drama  Company  Shares  Gospel 

A  student  group  seeking  to  communicate  the  joy  of  friendship  with  Chnst.  Destiny  Drama  Company  took  their 
message  to  a  thousand  youth  at  the  Sixth  Annual  Adventist  Winter  Festival  in  Colorado  in  March.  Last  fall  they 
performed  for  hundreds  of  Pathfinders  at  a  camporee.  In  January  they  performed  at  Highland  View  Academy, 
world  church  headquarters  in  Silver  Spring.  Md  ,  and  at  Sligo  Church.  "The  Present  End."  their  major  production, 
focuses  on  the  Great  Controversy  and  the  Second  Coming  of  Christ. 


riod,  and  originates  with  the  Benjamin  M. 
Preston  Memorial  Scholarship  Fund.  Re- 
cipients will  be  known  as  Benjamin 
Preston  Scholars,  in  recognition  of  the 
father  of  Forrest  L.  Preston,  president  of 
Life  Care  Centers  of  America. 

•  This  semester's  week  of  spiritual  em- 
phasis focused  on  "God's  Hand  in  My 
Life,"  presentations  by  faculty  members 
based  on  personal  experience. 

•  Three  dozen  students  under  the  direc- 
tion of  Vanessa  Brown  formed  a  back-up 
choir  for  the  Steve  Green  concert  spon- 
sored by  the  Chaplain's  Office  and  held  on 
campus  this  semester. 

•  The  theme  of  Black  History  Week, 
Out  of  One,  Many;  Out  of  Many,  One, 
focused  on  diversifying  and  unifying  issues. 
Highlights  included  music  by  the 
Morehouse  College  choir,  an  assembly 
presentation  by  Eric  Anderson,  historian 
from  Pacific  Union  College,  and  Sabbath 
services  with  Chaplain  Barry  Black. 

•  After  Southern  Scholars  students  made 
original  Christmas  cards  for  residents  of 
the  nearest  Life  Care  Center,  the  activity 
director  wrote,  "Thank  you  for  all  of  the 
beautiful  homemade  Christmas  cards. 
The  residents  were  thrilled  and  showed 
them  off  continually.  The  students  at 
Southern  do  such  a  wonderful  service  in 
our  community." 

•  Among  the  unconventional  summer 
classes  this  year  are  a  European  study  tour 
May  9  to  June  6  offered  by  the  Behavioral 
Science  Department  and  led  by  Ed  Lamb; 
Tropical  Marine  Biology  under  Dr.  Steven 
Nyirady  with  a  week  of  field  work  in  the 
Caribbean  country  of  Belize;  Communica- 
tion Workshops  May  8  to  1 1  conducted  by 
the  Journalism  and  Communication  De- 
partment; and  a  Public  Evangelism  Field 
School  in  Jacksonville,  Fla.,  from  May  19 
to  June  24. 

•  The  Behavioral  Science  Club  collected 
over  400  books  for  Chattanooga  area 
preschoolers  enrolled  in  Head  Start.  The 
RIF  (Reading  Is  Fundamental)  book  drive 
was  intended  to  combat  literacy  by  helping 
children  discover  the  pleasure  of  reading. 


10  •  SPKlNt  1995 


Freshman  Kamil  Cak  used  to  be  an  athe- 
ist. But  that  changed  after  communism 
fell  in  Czechoslovakia  and  a  pastor  named 
Tony  Mavrakos,  '86,  decided  to  preach  in 
the  eastern  bloc. 

Growing  up  in  communist  Czechoslo- 
vakia, Kamil  says  he  and  his  family  could 
not  go  to  church.  He  also  had  to  guard  his 
words.  "There  were  agents  everywhere." 
After  communism  fell,  Kami!  and  his 
family  began  talking  about  the  pt>ssibility 
of  God  and  the  purpose  of  life.  At  that 
time,  Kamil  became  involved  with  the 
Slovakian  National  Unity  Party.  "The 
party  leader  was  Catholic.  He  asked  me  to 
talk  to  his  priest,"  Kamil  says.  "Three  times 
1  went,  but  when  1  got  to  the  door,  every 
time  1  walked  away.  1  don't  know  why." 

Eventually,  Kamil  found  out  what  this 
leader  and  his  party  really  stood  for.  "He 
was  for  the  separation  of  Czech  and 
Slovakia,"  he  says.  "If  by  the  end  of  the 
year  separation  had  not  come  through,  he 
planned  to  carry  out  terrorist  attacks." 

Even  though  15-year-old  Kami!  hadn't 
actually  joined  the  party,  the  state  knew 
that  he  associated  with  members,  and  the 
secret  police  opened  his  mall.  "My  mom 
got  scared  then,"  says  Kamil.  "1  didn't 
know  what  to  do.  1  wanted  to  get  out  of  it. 
It  was  dangerous  for  my  family." 

That's  when  he  received  an  invitation 
to  Tony  Mavrakos's  meetings.  Kamil's 


by  Socy  Spaukling  Delay 
Juiior  Public  Relations  Major 


mother,  Katka,  called  and  reserved  seats. 

The  evening  the  meetings  were  to  start, 
however,  Kamil  had  to  stay  late  at  schixil 
and  wasn't  able  to  attend.  The  next  night, 
Kamil  thought  to  himself,  "1  have  to  go 
tonight,"  and  left  home  two  hours  before 
the  meeting  was  to  start.  "1  got  there  an 
hour  early,"  he  says. 

The  presentation  sounded  gmxl,  says 
Kamil,  but  he  wanted  puxif  "We  had  no 
Bibles.  [A  shipment  was  late.]  I  didn't 
know  much,  but  I  knew  that  the  Bible  was 
the  authority  for  Christians.  But  I  couldn't 
compare  what  Tony  said  with  the  Bible." 

On  the  third  evening,  Kamil's  mother 
persuaded  his  brother  Csaba  (pronounced 
Chaaba)  to  attend.  Reluctant  at  first,  he 
ended  up  enjoying  the  meeting,  and  by  the 
next  evening,  even  Kamil's  four-year-old 
sister  was  at  the  children's  program. 

"That  evening  we  got  the  Bibles,"  re- 
calls Kamil.  "I  was  pretty  excited.  We  were 
supposed  to  leave  them  there  and  take 
them  home  at  the  end  of  the  meetings.  But 
I  took  mine  home  that  night.  1  wanted  to 
go  over  the  lessons." 

Kamil  studied  his  Bible.  "1  came  to 
believe  what  Tony  said  because  I  could  sec 
it  in  the  Bible,"  he  says.  "It  was  something 
I  was  looking  for." 

Kamil  told  one  of  the  pastors  that  he 
wanted  to  be  baptized.  "It  shocked  him  at 
first,"  he  says.  "I  was  the  first  person  from 


that  series  who  wanted  to  be  baptized." 
The  pastor  arranged  to  visit  Kamil's  home, 
and  his  baptism  was  set  for  a  month  later. 
A  week  before  Kamil's  baptism,  Tony 
felt  moved  to  talk  about  a  dream  he  had 
had  in  1968.  He  saw  a  woman  bearing  on  a 
glass  door  with  her  hands  asking  him  to 
come  help.  This  reminded  Kamil  of  his 
mother,  who  had  cut  her  arm  on  glass  a 
few  years  earlier. 

The  next  night  Kamil's  mother  decided 
to  share  this  with  Tony  and  show  him  her 
scar.  "She  talked  to  Tony's  interpreter," 
says  Kamil,  "and  the  interpreter  went  to 
Tony  and  said,  'This  woman  wants  to  talk 
to  you.'  "  Surprised,  Tony  said  that  she  was 
the  lady  he  had  seen  in  his  dream. 

Afterwards,  Kamil's  mother  decided  to 
be  baptized  along  with  him.  The  evening 
before  the  baptism,  Kamil's  brother  de- 
cided to  join  them.  On  March  I,  1992, 
they  were  all  baptized  together. 

Tony  also  made  It  possible  for  Kamil  to 
come  to  the  U.S.  to  study.  Now  Kamil  is 
studying  religion  at  Southern.  I  Ic  says  he's 
very  satisfied  with  his  education  here. 
"In  Slovakia,  there  is  one  pastor  for 
every  four  or  five  churches,"  he  says. 
"Many  are  just  lay  pastors  and  not  edu- 
cated in  a  seminary,  since  there  were  no 
seminaries  during  Communism."  Kamil 
hopes  to  go  back  to  his  country  to  preach 
to  his  people.    • 


Soi-niFRN  C/OMIMNS  •  1 1 


Southern  People 


•  Michelle  Erwin,  a  sophomore  hiology 
major,  received  a  tour-month  internship  at 
the  Dolphin  Research  Center  on  Grassy 
Key  in  Florida.  Michelle's  research  in- 
volves studying  calt  independence  to  dis- 
cover different  dolphin  parenting 
techniques. 

•  Bob  Garren,  art  professor,  and  Orlo 
Gilbert,  music  professor,  spent  ten  winter 
days  in  St.  Petersburg  at  the  invitation  of 
Aleksei  and  Leonid  Sokolov,  two  Russian 
resident  guest  artists  who  spent  time  here 
last  fall. 

•  By  invitation  Dr.  George  Babcock, 
chair  of  the  Education  and  Psychology 
Department,  presented  a  series  of  lectures 
in  Dubai  at  the  national  teachers  conven- 
tion sponsored  by  the  government  of  the 
United  Arab  Emirates. 

•  Dr.  Bill  Hayes,  associate  professor  of 
biology,  is  the  editor  of  the  Iguana  Times,  a 
four-color  newsletter  of  the  International 
Iguana  Society,  Inc. 

•  Brent  Goodge,  a  senior  from  Kno.x- 
ville,  and  his  team  of  4  were  named  chain- 
pions  of  the  1 2th  annual  College  Bowl.  A 
double  elimination  tournament  in  this 
"academic  sport  of  the  mind"  determined 
the  winners.  This  was  his  third  time  in 
four  years  to  be  on  the  winning  team.  Stan 
Hobbs  has  coordinated  the  tournament  for 
10  years,  and  as  a  student  helped  organize 
it  two  years  earlier. 

•  The  importance  of  outdoor  minis- 
tries— leading  youth  to  know  their  Creator 
through  nature — was  the  topic  of  Carl 
Swafford,  assistant  professor  of  education, 
at  the  North  American  Division  Camping 
Ministries  meetings  held  in  conjunction 
with  the  1995  American  Camping  Asso- 
ciation convention  in  Orlando.  Southern 
is  the  only  Seventh-day  Adventist  college 
teaching  courses  in  Outdoor  Ministries  and 
Environmental  Education. 

•  Rick  Halterman,  associate  professor  of 
computer  science,  is  beginning  his  doctoral 
study  leave  at  the  University  of  Tennessee 
at  Knoxville  next  fall.  His  book.  Funda- 
mentals of  Programming:  An  Iniroduction  to 


Computer  Programming  U.sing  C++,  is  now 
in  use  at  Southern  as  well  as  at  several 
other  institutions.  It  was  published  by 
William  C.  Brown  just  last  January. 

•  Nearly  100  students,  staff,  and  faculty 
have  enrolled  this  year  in  Surfing  the 
Internet,  a  course  taught  in  the  Journalism 
and  Communication  Department  by  Dr. 
Pamela  Harris,  chair  of  the  department. 
Southern  College  joined  the  Internet  in 
August  1993. 

•  Southern  College  students  Stephanie 
Kime  (violin,  Ohio),  Warren  Jan:en 
(cello,  Tennessee),  and  Chad  Carlson 
(horn,  Florida)  won  places  as  soloists  for 
the  Concerto  Concert  presented  this  se- 
mester by  the  Southern  College  Symphony 
Orchestra.  Other  winners  among  22  en- 
trants were  Sharlyn  Pellington  and  Brian 
Liu  from  Collegedale  Academy  and  Sara 
Beth  Nordmoe  ot  Bryan  College. 

•  Dr.  Cecil  Rolfe,  professor  emeritus  ot 
business  administration,  returned  to  cam- 
pus briefly  this  spring  to  speak  on  econom- 
ics in  the  E.  A.  Anderson  Business  Lecture 
Series.  He  was  one  of  10  speakers  who 
participated  in  the  24th  year  of  the  series. 

•  Jerre  Conerly,  a  27-year  employee  at 
the  College  Press,  has  been  promoted  to 


assistant  manager.  Filling  his  place  as 
pressroom  foreman  is  Terry  Haight. 

•  President  of  the  Student  Association 
in  1995-96  will  be  Luis  Gracia,  a  religion 
major  from  Florida.  Executive  vice  presi- 
dent will  be  Jeremy  Stoner,  a  biology  ma- 
jor from  Kentucky.  Peter  Hwang,  a 
marketing  major  from  Georgia,  was  elected 
social  vice  president. 

•  Student  publications  for  next  year  will 
be  edited  by  Stacy  Spaulding  DeLay  and 
Larisa  Myers,  Sowtlieni  Accent  (student 
newspaper);  Sandra  Larsen,  Soui/ieni 
Memorit's  (yearbook),  and  Bianca 
Andersen,  Joker  (student  directory). 
Grady  Sapp  III  and  Cindy  Willey  were 
elected  Festival  Studios  (the  year  in  pic- 
tures) directors. 

•  Dr.  George  and  Fern  Babcock  and  Dr. 
Bob  and  Elaine  Egbert  have  been  invited 
by  the  Romanian  Union  and  the  Euro- 
Africa  Division  ot  Seventh-day  Adventists 
to  teach  for  three  weeks  at  the  Romanian 
Seminary  near  Bucharest  this  summer. 
Some  200  teachers  are  expected.  The 
Babcocks  and  Dr.  Egbert  are  on  the  Educa- 
tion and  Psychology  Department  faculty, 
and  Mrs.  Egbert  is  the  administrative  secre- 
tary in  Talge  Hall. 


Senior  Class  Selects  Officers 


Tlie  graduating  class  of  1 995  chose  Alexandria  Alonso.  center,  of  Hagerstown,  Md,  as  president.  With  her,  from 
left  to  right,  are  Shelley  Patterson  of  Collegedale,  Tenn.,  vice  president;  Andrew  Corbett  of  British  Columbia, 
Canada,  pastor;  and  Rondora  Jefferson  of  Atlanta,  Ga.,  secretary.  Class  sponsors  are  Ken  Rogers,  campus  chaplain, 
and  Dr.  Steve  Nyirady.  chairman  of  the  biology  department. 


12  •  .SpRhc  1995 


Those  Who  Walked  These  Halls 


Complied  by  Ijnsa  Myen 


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Holbrook  Indian  School  in  Holbrook.  An:.,  held  a 
groundbreaking  tor  a  new  dormiton  on  April  3.  The 
dorm  IS  a  gift  ftom  the  McKee  familv  in  memor\'  ot  their 
mother.  Ruth  (King)  McKee,  '26. 

Grace  (Porter)  Myers,  24,  died  in  an  auto  accident 
on  .March  5.  She  had  been  a  secretary-  for  the  Florida 
Conference  and  sen  ed  2C  vears  as  a  hospital  volunteer. 


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Doris  (Davis)  Albock,  '38.  recently  moved  to  Mis- 
sissippi. Her  husband  passed  away  m  January  1991. 

Anne  (Bovce)  Denslow.  '33,  lives  in  Orlando,  Fla., 
where  she  is  retired. 

Thelma  (Thomson)  Hartwell.  '37.  lives  in  Avon 
Park.  Fla.  Her  husband.  Donald,  deceased,  worked  at 
Flonda  Hospital  in  Orlando  and  Walker  Memorial 
Hospital  in  .^von  Park.  Thelma's  three  children,  Frances 
Ann,  Kathleen,  and  Ray,  are  all  Southern  graduates. 

Coyne  Knight,  attended,  graduated  from  Loma  Linda 
ai>d  practiced  medicine  in  St.  Petersburg.  Fla.,  from 
1950  to  1983.  He  IS  now  retired  and  living  with  his  wife, 
Jean,  on  Aima  Mana  Island  in  Florida. 

Lucille  (Ward)  Lukat  Myers,  '37.  recently  died 
following  an  extended  illness  and  unsuccessful  heart 
by-pass  surgery.  She  lived  in  Stapleton,  Ala. 


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Several  members  of  the  1945  graduating  class  of 
Southern  Junior  College  and  Collegedalc  Academy  are 
without  addresses  in  the  Alumni  Office.  Please  give  any 
information  or  names  of  individuals  who  might  know 
these  class  members  to  the  ,'\lumni  Office  (615-238- 
2827):  Sandy Truitt Campbell,  Raleigh.  N.C..  Donald 
Ray  Danner,  Hickory  N.C..  Gerald  Lewis  Harvey, 
Charlotte.  N  C  ,  Hilda  Hcnderlighl  Cook,  Knoxville, 
Tenn..  Wilma  Marie  Young,  Turtletown,  Tcnn..  Rob- 
ert Kenneth  Ray,  Athin>.  Tcnn..  Leo  Dean  Tucker, 
Murray.  Ky.,  Carl  Hamilton,  Pcnsacola.  Fla..  Cynthia 
Proctor,  St   Petersburg.  Fla. 

Charles  Dobbs,  attended,  retired  after  teaching  for 
35  years  and  now  travels  full  time. 

Talietha  (Belz)  Fousi,  '42,  works  as  a  hospital  ad- 
ministrator in  Sacramento,  Calif. 

Carol,  attended,  and  Wall  Herrell,  former  em- 
ployee, live  in  Keene,  Texas,  where  Carol  works  in  a 
dental  office   They  have  two  children,  Jon  and  Debra. 

B.  Page  Haskell,  '47,  retired  from  his  associate 
treasurer  position  in  the  Southwestern  Union  (Confer- 
ence. He  still  lives  in  Burleson,  Texas. 

O.R..  '47,  and  Mary  (Riley)  Henderson,  '46,  are 
retired  and  living  in  Avon  Park,  Fla. 

Jack,  '48,  and  Donna  (Connell)  Just,  attended, 
celebrated  their  50th  wedding  anniversary  March  4. 
They  live  in  Salem,  Oe. 

Mildred  (Berggren)  Krcger,  '47,  taught  church 
schofil  for  35*  yeats  both  overseas  and  in  the  United 
Stales.  She  is  married,  works  as  a  librarian  at  Walker 
Memorial  Junior  Academy,  and  lives  in  Avon  Park,  Fla. 


Harold.  '3S.  and  Gracie  (Beaube)  Pervis.  '40,  are 
both  retired  from  the  medical  field  and  raise  palm  trees 
in  Palmetto,  Fla.  They  have  two  children,  seven  grand- 
children, and  five  great-grandchildren. 

Dorothy  Jean  (Graves),  '49,  and  Phai:e  Salhany, 

'50,  are  retired  in  Lawrenceburg,  Tenn.  He  is  on  special 
assignment  with  the  Kentucky-Tennessee  Conference. 

Ruth  (Snide)  Sandin,  attended,  is  a  retired  R.N. 
living  with  her  husband,  Don,  in  Napa,  Calif.  The 
couple  has  three  children  and  two  grandchildren. 

Haiel  (Brooks)  Snide,  '42,  died  on  March  5.  She 
lived  in  Hendersonville,  N.C. 

Renie  Veltman,  "49,  lives  in  Angwin,  Calif.,  and 
works  part  time  in  telecommunications. 

Robert  H.  Wood.  '47.  retired  in  March  after  .ser\ing 
as  president  of  the  Texas  Conference  and  vice  president 
of  the  Southwestern  Union  Conference.  He  lives  with 
his  wife,  Sandi,  in  Parthenon,  Ark. 


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Jack,  '57,  and  Donna  (Weber)  Bohannon  served  1 7 
years  as  missionaries  in  Iran,  Lebanon,  and  Africa. 
They  now  live  in  Glenwood  Springs,  Colo. 

Annetta  Boyles,  '53,  is  retired  from  elementary 
teaching  and  medical  transcribing  and  is  now  involved 
in  home  health  nursing.  She  lives  in  Punta  Gorda,  Fla., 
and  enjoys  crafts,  needlework,  oils,  and  wedding  cake 
decorating. 

William  R.  Catron,  attended,  married  Linda  A. 
(Newsom)  and  has  been  involved  with  State  of  Florida 
economic  ser\ices  since  1981. 

Pat,  '51,  and  Gordon  Cross,  attended,  are  living  in 
Punta  Gorda,  Fla.  She  is  semi-retired  as  a  hair  stylist 
and  he  retired  in  September  1994  fnim  McKee  Foods. 
They  have  three  daughters  and  four  grandsons. 

Dale  Fisher,  '51,  is  the  owner  and  administrator  of 
a  tool  manufacturing  company  in  Corona,  Calif.  He  is 
now  semireiired  and  manages  several  country,  moun- 
tain-type rental  shops. 

Roy,  '52,  and  Miriam  Frith  retired  from  schot)l 
teaching  and  are  living  in  Mount  Dora,  Fla. 

Carl  Jansen,  '58  and  '63,  is  associate  medical  direc- 
tor at  San  Bcrnadino  County  Medical  Center  and 
chairs  the  Radiology  Association.  He  lives  in  Redlands. 

Harry  Brooker  (H.B.)  Mills,  II.  '57,  retired  from 
the  Air  Force  in  November  1994  and  is  living  in 
Apopka,  Fla. 

La  Verne  (Hughes),  '53,  and  Robert  E.  Northrop, 
'53,  live  in  Loma  Linda.  Calif.,  where  she  teaches 
elementary  sch(H)l  for  the  Southeastern  California  Con- 
ference and  he  works  for  Loma  Linda  University  in 
accounting.  La  Verne  is  working  on  her  dissertation  for 
her  Ed.D.  at  La  Sierra  University. 

Beth  (Hardy)  Peterson,  '47  and  '50,  enjoys  retire- 
ment in  Longwood.  Fla.,  where  her  husband.  Garland, 
still  leaches  band. 

Joe  Reams,  '54,  retired  from  pastoring  in  1987  and 
lives  in  Avon  Park,  Fla.  He  has  worked  for  the  South- 
ern Union,  Southwestern  Union,  and  (Columbia  Union 
conferences.  He  has  a  son  and  two  grandchildren  who 
have  attended  Southern,  and  one  grandchild  is  cur- 
rently a  junior  here. 

Hugh  M.  Shcpard,  Jr.,  attended,  is  retired  and  lives 
in  Av(m  Park,  Fla.  He  has  three  children  and  five 
grandchildren. 


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Eleanor  (Lohr)  Brayshaw,  attended,  lives  in  Jack- 
sonville, Fla..  with  her  husband,  Gerald,  and  works  as  a 
physical  therapist. 

Larry  Caviness,  '65,  recently  accepted  an  invitation 
to  be  president  of  the  Nevada-Utah  Conference.  He 
and  his  wife,  Linda,  have  two  children  after  losing  their 
son  Tad. 

JoAnn  (Winkler)  Croley,  '6?.  and  her  husband. 
Bill,  live  in  Dayton,  Ohio.  She  holds  a  master's  in 
psychiatric-mental  health  nursing  from  Emory  Univer- 
sity in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  and  a  master's  in  hospital  and 
health  care  administration  from  Xavier  University  in 
Cincinnati.  She  works  at  Good  Samaritan  Hospital. 

Glenn  A.,  '62,  and  Jeannine  (Holley)  Fuller,  at- 
tended, live  in  Collegedale  where  Glenn  is  president 
and  CEO  at  Sovex  Natural  Foods  and  Jeannine  is 
coordinating  a  laymen's  health  ministry  into  Georgia- 
Cumberland's  "dark  counties." 

Jack  Leitner,  '66,  is  a  professor  of  computer  science 
at  the  University  of  Notth  Florida.  He  lives  in  Jackson- 
ville. 

David  Osborne,  '64,  is  pastor  of  the  Carmichael 
SDA  Church  and  lives  in  Sacramento,  Calit. 

Sharon  (Derosia)  Quinn,  '68,  lives  in  Spring  Val- 
ley, Calil.,  and  works  as  a  clinical  dietitian  at  Paradise 
Valley  Hospital. 

Wilfred  Reyna,  '60,  lives  in  Chula  Vista,  Calif.,  and 
serves  as  a  chaplain  at  Paradise  Valley  Hospital.  His 
wife,  Glofia,  is  a  physical  therapist  and  the  couple  has 
three  married  children  and  thtee  grandchildren. 

Barbara  (Foster)  Starncs,  '62,  is  living  in  Longwood, 
Fla.,  with  her  husband,  Richard,  attended. 


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Dale  Bohannon,  '77,  lives  in  New  Castle,  Colo., 
where  he  is  a  bus  driver. 

Terry  Benson,  '72,  and  his  wife,  Jerilyn,  pastor  the 
Peachtree  City  SDA  Church  in  Atlanta.  She  is  director 
of  Lifeline  Ministries.  Their  daughter  Heidi  will  gradu- 
ate from  Atlanta  Adventi.st  Academy  this  year,  their 
son,  Jonathan,  is  a  sophomore  at  AAA,  and  iheit 
daughtet  Laura  is  in  sixth  grade  at  Peachtree  City  SPA 
School. 

Rose  (Melba)  Cavanaugh,  aiteiidcd,  and  Glenn, 
'69,  live  in  St.  Petersburg,  Fla.  She  works  at  Manatee 
Memorial  Ho.spital  in  quality  improvement.  Their 
sons,  Andrew  and  Steve,  are  in  the  U.S.  Marine  Corps. 

Wanda  Chamberlain,  attended,  is  a  court  reporter 
in  Avon  Park,  Fla.,  where  she  lives  with  her  four 
children. 

Judith  (Osborne)  Crabtree,  '71,  lives  in  Sacra- 
mento, Calif.,  and  works  as  a  nurse  practitioner  in 
obstetrics  and  gynecology. 

Larry  Dunford,  '76,  graduated  from  the  Loma  Linda 
University  School  of  LX'ntistry.  He  has  finished  a 
residency  in  pnisthodontics  at  the  Medical  College  of 
Georgia  and  now  practices  in  Fort  Myers,  Fla. 

Wanda  (Weikum)  Freitas,  '74,  lives  in  Sacramento, 
Calif.,  and  works  as  an  R.N.  She  is  married  and  has  a 
daughter,  Brittanie,  5. 


SOIITIIEIIN  (tlLIIJINS      1 3 


Those  Who  Walked  These  Halls 


Gary  Gryte,  70,  is  a  youth  pastor  in  Boulder,  Colo. 
He  and  his  wile,  Ladonna,  attended,  have  three  chil- 
dren .iges  2 1 ,  20,  and  12. 

Elvcn  M.  Hud.son,  71,  i.iught  elementar\'  schtwl 
trom  1%*^  73,  tau);hl  mcarccnitcd  juveniles  from  1974- 
88,  and  now  teaches  public  special  and  mainstream 
education.  He  lives  in  Arcadia,  Fla. 

Tristan  Ivey,  attended,  died  on  December  13,  in 
Nashville.  Tenn.  He  owned  Tire  Town  and  Tire  Town 
Auto  Sales  and  w;is  an  active  member  ot  the  Cleveland 

r,ii.hv>liTm  Club 


The  Kay  family 
David  Kay,  79,  his  wife,  Irene  (Ruprecht),  at- 
tended, and  tamily  live  in  San  Antonio,  Texas.  David 
is  the  first  of  two  ,^rmy  physician  assistants  selected  by 
the  Department  of  Defen.se  to  work  on  advanced  studies 
leading  to  a  doctoral  degree.  He  is  attending  the 
University  of  Texas  at  Austin  to  get  a  Ph.D.  in  Higher 
Educational  Administration.  Irene  is  completing  her 
bachelor's  degree  in  early  childhood  education. 

Lorinda  Lang,  attended,  is  now  a  senior  dental 
student  at  Loma  Linda  after  being  a  dental  hygienist  for 
10  years. 

Sandee  (Huston)  Lawrence,  70,  has  taught  grades 
three  and  four  for  23  years.  She  and  her  husband,  Alan, 
live  in  Lake  Su:y,  Fla. 

Carolyn  (Mullins)  Lowe,  75,  is  a  homemaker  and 
director  of  her  home  church's  preschool  of  90  students. 
She  and  her  husband,  Michael,  have  two  sons,  Shawn, 
13,  and  Evan,  7. 

Lillian  (Gray),  '73,  and  William  McKinney,  former 
employee,  are  retired  in  Collegedale.  They  have  three 
children  who  live  in  Portland,  Seattle,  and  Boston. 

Marion  Moses,  attended  and  former  staff,  and  his 
wife,  \hriam(Swallen),  liveinOroveland.Fla.  Marion 
works  as  dean  ot  the  Massage  Associates  in  Florida  and 
is  head  elder  of  the  Leesburg  Church.  Miriam  is  the 
head  Sabbath  School  superintendent  and  still  holds  her 
C.D.M. 

Sharon  (Swinson)  Priest,  '71,  teaches  grades  two 
through  tour  at  New  Port  Richev  .'\dventist  School. 
She  has  two  daughters,  Cherie.  a  freshman  at  Southern, 
and  Becky,  a  junior  at  Forest  Lake  Academy. 

Don  Rima,  attended,  is  president  of  Custom  Sys- 
tems Solutions,  Inc.,  in  the  D.C.  metro  area.  His  wife, 
Cindy  (Secrist),  '86,  is  working  on  her  master's  in 
nursing  and  nurse  practitioner  license  at  George  Wash- 
ington University. 

William  Robert.s,  Jr.,  '76,  his  wife,  Lynn  (Phelps), 
and  son,  Ryan  William  Arnold,  bom  February  3,  live  in 
Frederick,  Md.,  where  William  has  a  dental  practice. 

Kathy  (Cross)  Sanderford,  '77,  works  part  time  as  a 
nurse  in  outpatient  surger\'.  Her  husband,  Danny,  is  a 
dentist  in  Ft.  Myers.  Fla.,  and  the  couple  has  two  sons, 
Justin,  10,  and  Aubrey,  7.  Kathy  is  active  in  music  and 
serves  as  a  home  and  school  leader. 


John,  79.  .mj  Patti  (Pierce)  Shanko,  7S,  live  in 
Jacksonville,  Fla.,  where  John  is  a  nurse  anesthetist. 
The  couple  has  three  cats. 

Doug  Tallman,  '77,  is  chaplain  for  Campion  Acad- 
emy. His  wite,  Sandy,  attended,  is  dean  of  girls.  The 
couple  has  a  son,  B.J.,  10. 

Larry  Zumstein,  '75,  is  in  his  tenth  year  as  vice 
president  tor  tinance  at  Paradise  Valley  Hospital.  He 
and  his  wife,  Linda  Faye,  have  two  daughters.  Holly,  1 1 , 
and  Heathet,  6. 

Daniel  Zunitch,  attended,  graduates  from  Loma 
Linda  Universitv  School  ot  Dentistry  in  May.  His 
daughter,  Kiin,  plans  to  begin  her  nursing  studies  at 
Southern  College  this  year. 


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Patti  (Schuman)  Aguas.  '85,  is  married  to  Michael, 
'87,  and  is  assistant  director  of  advancement  at  Forest 
Lake  Academy.  Michael  teaches  biology  at  Forest  Lake 
and  thecouple  has  three  children,  Jonathan,  7,  Amanda, 
6,  and  Cassi,  3. 

Thomas  Bae:,  '80,  lives  in  Calhoun,  Ga.,  where  he 
works  as  the  evangelism  and  adult  church  ministries 
director  tor  the  Georgia-Cumberland  Conference.  He 
has  two  daughters,  Christina,  8,  and  Steffenie,  5. 

Ronald  Boston,  attended,  was  named  the  Chatta- 

noogaPublicSchoolsTeac/iero/l/icYcar  for  1994.  As 
a  result,  he  was  invited  to  the  White  House  in  October 
for  a  ceremony  in  the  Rose  Garden.  While  there,  he 
met  President  Bill  Clinton  and  Vice  President  .Al  Gore. 
His  wite,  Patricia  (Nunley),  also  works  in  the  Chatta- 
nooga Public  School  System. 

Evan,  '83,  and  Jan  (Hawthorne)  Chesney,  '82,  live 
in  Maitland,  Fla.,  where  Evan  is  minister  of  music  at  the 
Forest  Lake  SDA  Church.  He  received  his  master's 
degree  in  music  in  1990  from  the  Eastman  School  of 
Music.  Jan  is  an  R.N. 

Kevin  K.  Costello.  '87.  recently  returned  from  Guam 
and  now  serves  as  treasurer  of  the  Oklahoma  Confer- 
ence. He  lives  in  Oklahoma  City. 

Sally  (Pierson)  Dillon,  '80,  her  husband,  Bruce,  and 
sons,  Michael  and  Don,  live  in  Timber%'ille,  Va.  She  is 
CEO  of  BSJ  Associates,  an  information  services  firm. 
She  chairs  the  health  care  branch,  gives  critical  care 
and  management  seminars,  and  is  a  freelance  writer 
with articlesappearing  in  Guide.  Insijhr. CailiolicDi- 
gest,KidsS!i^,T(wcfiJimii)rTnii<;..AccemonLning, 
and  more.  In  .April  ot  1994,  .Andrews  University  Press 
published  herbtmk.Crossroad.'i  in  TiTTie. 

Tom  Eisendrath,  '85,  is  a  literature  evangelist  and 
lives  in  Elizabeth,  Colo. 

Angela  Estrada,  '89,  works  at  Florida  Hospital  in 
Orlando  in  surgery.  She  has  completed  her  .^ORN  and 
ACLS  certifications. 

Hilma  L.  Griffin.  '82,  is  assistant  principal  in  the 
Riverside  Unified  School  District  and  a  contract  teacher 
for  La  Sierra  University.  She  graduated  in  1993fromLa 
Sierra  with  a  doctorate  in  education  and  is  engaged  to 
be  married  on  Oct.  8,  1995,  to  Rodney  Watson. 

Dixie  Henderson,  '86,  is  an  image  consultant  for 
color  analysis  and  skin  care  cosmetics  in  Portland,  Ore. 
Her  two  brothers.  Rocky  and  Cliff,  also  live  in  Portland. 


Jeff  Holweger,  '8 1 ,  worked  as  a  CRN  A  for  Erlanger 
Medical  Center  in  C^hattanooga  and  is  now  staff  CRNA 
at  Pickens  County  Medical  Center.  He  married  Jeri 
Lynn  (Albrecht)  in  1988,  and  the  couple  lives  in 
Reform,  Ala.,  with  their  daughter,  Heather,  10. 

Navy  Lt.  Cmdr.  Jeffrey  C.  Kuhlman,  '83,  was  re- 
cently designated  a  Naval  flight  surgeon.  His  wife, 
Sandy  (Monlaperto),  attended,  and  two  children  live 
with  him  in  London. 

Lucinda  (Emde).  '89,  and  Todd  Lang,  attended,  are 
co-owners  ot  Bayside  Eye  Centre.  Lucinda  has  been 
office  manager  there  since  September  1991  whenTodd 
began  his  private  practice  in  optometry.  He  ran  his 
fourth  marathon  in  Portland,  Ore.,  in  October  1994 
with  his  dad  and  two  brothers,  Rob  and  Chris. 

Don  MacLafferty,  '89,  was  ordained  last  August  by 
the  KentuckyTenne.ssee  Conference.  He  and  his  wife, 
April  (Thayer),  '88,  minister  in  the  South  Fulton 
Tennessee  district. 

Bruce,  '83  and  '87,  and  Kathy  (Brooks)  McCorkle, 
'81,  live  in  Jacksonville,  Fla.,  where  Bruce  works  as  a 
nursing  home  administrator  and  Kathy  is  an  x-ray 
technologist. 

Joel  McQuistan,  '86,  is  boys'  dean  at  Mt.  Vernon 
.■Academy  in  Mt.  Vernon,  Ohio.  His  wife,  Shari 
(Bergman),  '86,  is  a  stay-at-home  mom  with  Korinn,  4, 
Adam,  3,  and  Caleb,  1. 


The  McQuistan  famiiy 
Juvernia  Oft,  '84,  lives  in  Avon  Park,  Fla.,  and  keeps 
busy  as  head  deaconess  of  Walker  Memorial  Church. 

Bo  Smith,  '88,  works  in  network  administration  at 
Mckee  Foods  in  Collegedale.  His  wife,  Tina  (Frist), 
'89,  is  free-lancing  in  the  Chattanooga  area. 

David,  '83,  and  Debra  (Scheibe)  Stunkard,  at- 
tended, live  in  Orlando,  where  David  is  the  associate 
pastor  for  youth/young  adult  ministries  at  Orlando 
Central  Church.  Debra  is  secretary  to  the  assistant  vice 
president  for  human  resources  at  Florida  Hospital.  They 
have  two  children,  Darlene,  9,  and  D.J.,  7. 

Jim  and  Lucia  (Gilkes)  Tiffany,  '81 ,  live  in  Bamako, 
Mali,  in  West  Africa.  Jim  is  country  director  for 
ADR.A.  They  have  two  sons,  Benjamin  and  Jeremy. 

David  Twombly,  '82,  is  an  RN  at  Moccasin  Bend 

Mental  Health  Institute  in  Chattanooga.  A  National 
Guard  2nd  Lieutenant,  he  served  in  Desert  Storm. 


14    Spring  1995 


Those  Who  Walked  These  Halls 


John  White,  artended,  married  Janice  Smith  on 
March  1 1 .  John  is  a  project  manager  over  residential 
homes  with  D.M.  White  Coiutniction  Company  in 
Eliabethtown,  N.C. 

Doug  WTiitsett,  'S3,  hves  in  Dunnellon,  Fla.,  with 
his  »ite,  Mar>'5e.  attended,  and  children  Stephanie,  6, 
and  Bnan,  4.  Both  Doug  and  Man-se  are  R.N.s. 

Chuck,  attended,  and  Maureen  (Mayden)  Wisener, 
'84,  live  in  National  City,  Calif.,  and  work  at  Paradise 
Valley  Hospital.  Maureen  is  working  on  a  master's  in 
mass  communication  at  San  Diego  State  University. 
The  couple  has  a  year-old  son,  Jeffrey. 


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The  Wong  family 

Robert  Wong,  '83,  graduated  from  Andrews  Uni- 
versity in  June  of  1994.  He,  his  wife,  Mary,  and  son, 
Wesley,  plan  to  do  some  missionary  work  in  Hong  Kong 
this  year. 


James  Appel,  attended,  just  returned  from  service  as 
a  Student  Missionary  in  Ecuador  and  Brazil.  He  cur- 
rently anends  Pacific  Union  College. 

Arthur  Chamberlain,  '93,  is  finishing  his  master's 
degree  in  public  relations  at  the  University  of  Florida. 

Donna  Denton.  '94,  moved  to  Apopka,  Fla.,  last 
August  and  teaches  at  Forest  Lake  Academy. 

Joel  Henderson,  '94,  is  an  advertising  executive  for 
The  .Meu'S-Sun  in  Sehring,  Fla.  He  married  Teri  (Mote), 
attended,  on  July  4. 

Jamie  Lewis,  '87  and  '92,  is  an  R.N.  in  the  critical 
•  sre  unit  at  Florida  Hospital,  Orlando. 

Rick  Mann,  '94,  teaches  U.S.  history  and  drama  at 
Campion  .Academy  in  Colorado.. 

Luc  Sabot,  '93 ,  has  postponed  his  studies  at  Andrews 
University  to  serve  as  intem-pastor  of  the  Hawksbury 
and  Nepean  churches  in  Ontario.  He  married  Anita 
(Goniale:),  '94.  on  July  31 .  They  live  in  Ottawa. 

Ray  Stephenson,  '93,  has  returned  from  spending  a 
year  as  a  Student  Missionary  in  China  and  is  living  in 
Winston-Salem,  N.C. 

DeAnn  (Champion)  Torkelsor,  '92,  married  Ken, 
attended,  in  August  1994  and  attends  Loma  Linda 
University  School  of  Medicine. 

Julie  Vatel.  '93,  is  an  R.N.  at  Florida  Hospital, 
Orlando,  and  is  pursuing  a  B.S.N. 


Woody  White,  '91 ,  and  Tammie  Mentzel,  attended, 
will  get  married  July  29,  in  Fayetteville,  Ark.  Woody 
practices  law,  focusing  on  criminal  and  civil  litigation, 
at  Hestei,  Grady,  Hester  &  Greene  in  North  Carolina. 
Tammie  graduated  from  Union  College  in  May  of  1992 
and  has  been  working  as  a  sales  associate  for  Wrangler, 
Inc.,  in  Fayetteville,  Ark.  They  plan  to  live  in  North 
Carolina. 


Alumni  Association 
Executive  Committee 

Jim  Ashlock.  Direaor  of  Alumni 

K.  R.  Davis,  Associate  Director  of  Alumni 

Verle  Thompson,  '69,  Association  President 

Mary  Elam,'5l,  Association  President-Elect 

David  Winters,  71,  Past  President 

Jan  Haveman,  Secretary 

Ruth  Jacobs,  '29,  So-Ju-Conian  Representative 

Bob  Benge,  77,  Young  Alumni  Representative 

June  Blue.  '43 

David  James,  '75 

JolenaKing,  '61 

LeClare  Litchfield,  '75 

Ray  Minner,  '70 

Carl  Swafford,  '75 


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