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Challenges lie ahead for WBUWelcoming 2013

As hard as it is to believe, 2012 is just about gone. I am amazed at how quickly time seems to pass

in life. As I think about where we are, both as a university and as individuals, a few words come to mind.

BlessingsYour university is having a great school

year. With record enrollments at several of our campuses, including Plainview and San Antonio, we have been given wonder-ful opportunities to practice the ministry to which God has called Wayland Baptist University. New opportunities to expand the scope and reach of the school’s service are always given serious consideration, and invitations to consider such expansions seem to come to us regularly. We have added to and expanded the university’s ac-ademic offerings, constructed a new men’s dorm, and remodeled our university center. There is a strong spiritual vibrancy among our students which is deeper and more pronounced than at any time in the recent past. Many of the individuals attending Wayland today are deeply and passionately committed to changing our world through the word and the power of Christ. In many ways, our job as a faith-based institution of higher learning is to give these students the tools they need to fulfill that very calling.

ChallengesBecause of growing concerns surround-

ing government budget issues, student aid programs at both the state and nation-al level are being examined with a view towards large reductions and contractions. Last year, Wayland students received $5.3 million in need-based federal sponsored Pell Grant assistance. In Texas, our stu-dents received around $2 million in Tuition Equalization Grant funding from the state legislature. Both of these programs are

facing serious challenges and threats. If reductions are enacted, the impact on our students will be significant—especially on first-in-family college attenders.

Military tuition assistance is also in danger of being substantively reduced. Such a reduction would impact about 47% of those students who attend our external campuses. While no final decisions have been made yet regarding MTA, the news out of Washington D.C. is, at this point in time, discouraging.

Because of the looming “fiscal cliff” in our nation’s capital, all kinds of reve-nue-generating proposals are being given consideration. One of these ideas is to limit and/or eliminate the charitable deduction provision in the nation’s IRS tax code. Insti-tutions like Wayland, which depend heav-ily on the generosity of their friends and alumnae, are deeply concerned about such possibilities. The way philanthropy has been supported through the years is under grave threat of being changed forever.

GratitudeIn spite of the challenges we face, Way-

land Baptist University has been blessed. All of us who serve here have a very clear sense that the future clearly is bright for the school. You can be proud of your Way-land. Her future is filled with possibility and opportunity.

Your friendship towards and support of this school is more important than ever before. While the environment in which we serve changes on a daily basis, your belief in Wayland’s ministry remains strong and sure and steady. Thanks for your prayers and your gifts. They encourage and sustain us strongly on a daily basis.

We hope that 2013 will be for you and your family a blessed and happy year. Grace and peace... .

What the President is Reading: Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin; Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, Eric Metaxas; Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World, Evan Thomas

“You can be proud

of your Wayland.

Her future is filled

with possibility and

opportunity. “

Editorial BoardDanny Andrews, BA’72PublisherJonathan Petty, BA’95, MA’09EditorRichard Porter, BA’87Assistant Editor

Alumni OfficersSally Dillman Eaves, BS’75 PresidentTyke Dipprey, BSOE’96 Vice PresidentDanny Andrews, BA’72Director, Alumni DevelopmentBlake Durand, BA’10Assistant Director, Alumni DevelopmentAmber Smith, BS’07Alumni Assistant

Executive BoardDr. Gary Abercrombie, BS’73 Kevin Carter, BBA’93 Rose Ann Chavez, BSOE’06Michael Cox, BA’98, MA’10Brenda Gonzalez, BA’73Stacie Hardage, BBA’90Mike Manchee, BS’94, MEd’97Richard Miller, BS’87Danny Murphree, BS’69Daleyn Schwartz, AAS’85 Caren Smith, BA’92 Courtney Williams, BSIS’02Danny Wrenn, BA’84

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FOOTPRINTSVolume 58, No. 3

FeaturesWayland Baptist University students excel in the classroom and in life.

2 Miss Wayland 2013 has a heart for helping the homeless.

6 Dr. John Blevins uses medicine to share the gospel.

10 Anchorage student finds Christ in the classroom.

Also Inside12 Music student earns prestigious honor

14 Professor releases Piano CD

15 Harkey chosen to sing with quartet

22 Alum takes charge Down Under

24 Pioneer sports wrap

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Class Notes

If you have any questions or comments about Footprints, e-mail Danny at andrewsd@wbu.edu, Jonathan at pettyj@wbu.edu, or write to us in care of the Wayland Alumni Office.

Amanda Page has a plan. Being Miss Wayland wasn’t part of it. Page moved to Plainview to live with and care

for her 93-year-old grandfather, longtime Plainview busi-nessman John Page, as well as continue her education. She has taken no fewer than 19 hours per semester since starting school and will graduate from Wayland Baptist University with her bachelor’s degree in English next May, completing her degree in three years. She plans to attend graduate school, earn her master’s and doctoral degrees and find a position teaching college English by the time she is 30. All the while, continuing her humanitarian work which, to this point, has included starting a nonprofit organization to benefit the homeless in Bend, Org. – a fairly impressive resume for a 23-year-old.

Throw in the fact that she writes a blog targeting college women and promoting college life, sings, plays the ukulele, and never fails to get her grandfather to Mc-

Donald’s in time for breakfast with his friends, and you can see why spending time rehearsing and competing for the title of Miss Wayland was not high on her list of priorities … until someone talked her into it.

“As you can tell,” Page smiled, “I like to overcommit a little bit.”

The daughter of Garry and Ann Page, Amanda grew up in Plano. While familiar with Plainview and Wayland the thought of pursuing her education at the West Texas school never really crossed her mind even though her father and uncle, J. Don George who pastors Calvary Church in Irving, are both WBU graduates.

“I grew up coming to Plainview every year for my whole life,” Page said. “We would come the July 4 week because my grandfather’s birthday was July 5 so we would make a big family trip. I knew Wayland, I knew Plainview, but I don’t know why I just never thought about coming here.”

After graduating from high school, Page attended a school in Florida. Her sister was a student there at the time, but Page didn’t feel like Florida was the place for

Story by Jonathan Petty

newly crowned Miss Wayland shows her heart for missions

Page named Miss WBU

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her. She left school and took a few years off from education. Her time was well spent, however, as she began working with the homeless. Page and a friend volunteered two days a week to work with a ministry at the Cornerstone Baptist Church in Dallas, providing meals to the homeless.

“It was set up where it wasn’t re-ally like a soup kitchen,” Page said. “It was restaurant style and you were a server to the tables. You got to know the people and they had a fun experience.”

Page said the experience made an impression on her life. Over time she and her friend developed lasting relationships with many of the

people they served, some of whom Page remains in contact with by sending letters to the church which are delivered to the individuals.

“We realized very quickly that we couldn’t really change anybody’s situation, but we could give them all we had to offer, which was our friendship,” Page said.

During that time, Page said some of her friends moved to Bend, an area of the country that was hit hard by recession. Page said her friends, knowing she had been working with a nonprofit organi-zation, contacted her and asked if she would move to Oregon to assist in setting up an organization that would benefit the homeless there.

“[Bend was] really hit hard by the economy,” Page said. “Living in Dallas, I didn’t really see the hit as much. I moved to Bend and it was like, ‘Oh! This is what the news is talking about.’”

Many of the middle class had lost their jobs and homes and were living on the streets or in tent cities.

Page and her friends set up an organization that coordinated a net-work of doctors, dentists and other groups that would donate their time and services once a month to help those who were less fortunate. In time, they combined efforts with another nonprofit organization to set up a network using technology to benefit the homeless. If someone

Amanda Page entertains the crowd during the talent portion of the Miss Wayland competition in November.

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needed something specific, they would contact others in the network and find a way to have the goods or services donated.

“Using the technology like that made it to where we could meet the needs very quickly,” Page said. “It was really fun to be part of it, and it is still going on now.”

But it was the need of her own family that drew her to Plainview. As her grandfather fell into declining health, Page moved to Plainview to care for him. She also wanted to continue her education so she enrolled at Wayland. Although Page had never really considered Wayland as an option, what she found was a warm and inviting environment where her professors really seemed to care about her.

“I feel like a person with them,” Page said. “I feel like they want to see their students succeed.”

Leading her list of caring professors is Dean of the School of Languages and Literature Dr. Cindy McClenagan.

“She is doing what I want to do,” Page said. “And she is doing it in such a way that she is an inspiration to her students. She cares about your school-ing, but she cares about you.”

Page said there have been periods when she spent a good deal of time at the heart hospital with her grandfather. Dr. McClenagan and others were always there to make sure she had the freedom and support to care for her grandfather and still work with her to meet the classroom requirements.

It was Dr. McClenagan and the School’s administrative assistant Annette Coon who persuaded Page to compete for Miss Wayland.

“I told them no,” Page smiled. “I’ve never done a pageant. That is kind of not in my realm of things to do, I guess.”

But McClenagan and Coon wouldn’t take ‘no’ for an answer.“They said that I should try something outside of my box. They thought

I would really enjoy it,” Page said. “I’m really glad that they pushed me around.”

Sponsored by the School of Languages and Literature, Page joined the competition, not knowing any of the other 15 girls competing.

“I was a little intimidated going into a room full of girls fighting for one position,” she said. “That is not something I would put myself into, but ev-eryone was so wonderful. I made 15 new friends.”

Although rehearsing for several hours each night for a month prior to the pageant was difficult and time-consuming, Page said she really enjoyed getting to know each of the contestants and she has fully embraced what it means to be Miss Wayland and to represent the school to the community of Plainview.

“I have always loved public speaking,” said Page, who as a young girl got to meet Zig Ziglar whom she admired. “When I was told I would have the opportunity to speak about Wayland and promote the school around town, I thought that would be such a fun opportunity.

As her reign as Miss Wayland begins, Page is looking forward to promot-ing Wayland and its programs. She said Wayland has offered her so many opportunities that she probably would not have had at a larger school and she will forever be grateful.

“I have so many heartstrings attached to (Wayland),” Page said. “I love this school.”

“We realized very

quickly that we

couldn’t really

change anybody’s

situation, but we

could give them

all we had to

offer, which was

our friendship. “Amanda Page

Miss Wayland 2013

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Wayland graduate Dr. John Blevins was on campus as the guest speaker for the

School of Math and Sciences during Home-coming 2012. Here, Blevins, right, talks with

Dr. Glyndle Feagin after his presentation.

As Dr. Herbert Grover summed up the pre-sentation given by the

guest speaker for the School of Mathematics and Sciences’ 2012 Homecoming Lecture, he made an observation.

Grover, who is Dean of the School of Mathematics and Scienc-es, looked out over the lecture hall and then drew attention to a partic-ular part of the crowd.

“Look over here and in this cor-ner is half the religion faculty — in the science building,” Grover said,

alluding to the worldviews of the two disciplines, which many believe are in conflict with one another.

Those worldviews are not in con-flict for that day’s speaker, Wayland graduate Dr. John Blevins who is a medical doctor in Midland. Blevins’ topic was how his time as a student at the university helped prepare him to do medical mission work. He was quick to point out his impression of the compatibility of science and religion as he spent an hour talking to students in the Moody Science Building.

Blevins explained that from his perspective as a medical doctor

who also is a Christian, science and religion are not in conflict because “they answer two very different questions.” Science answers the question of how the world was created while religion addresses the question of why.

In fact, he continued, his spir-ituality is critical to much of his day-to-day work as a physician. He pointed out that particularly in West Texas doctors treat people who have a background of faith but regardless of background patients often will be dealing with faith issues — par-ticularly those who have critical or terminal illnesses. It is a challenge

Blevins uses medicine to share the gospelStory by Richard Porter

to help those patients without a spiritual perspective, he said.

For him, that was a critical part of what he got from his time as a student at Wayland.

“I feel like the faculty all helps you integrate that,” he said, adding that he should know since his inter-ests required that he take classes under several different disciplines.

Blevins explained that he had al-ways felt that God was calling him to be a doctor, but also to do mission work. At the same time, he enjoyed music and was active in the univer-sity’s music program. He realized as a teenager that he could combine his callings through medical mission work and that realization played a key role in the choices he made about his future and the focus he was going to need to reach the goal

of becoming a medical missionary.Wayland’s role in that process

was not only to allow him to get a quality education, but one with a strong emphasis on spirituality and “ethically-based research.” The fac-ulty not only taught him the appro-priate material in the classroom but helped him understand the impor-tance of organizing his time, max-imizing his energy and continuing to learn on his own, outside of the classroom. In short, Wayland taught him the discipline he would need to make it through the challenges of medical school.

“Wayland taught me how to teach myself,” he said, adding that the faculty prided itself in “teach-ing you how to become a lifelong learner.”

Blevins said he went to med

school (UT Galveston) with students from prestigious universities from across the country and was sur-prised at how well he fit in, academ-ically. In fact, he continued, he spent much of his first two years simply reviewing what he already had learned as an undergrad.

“I graduated number five in my class because Wayland prepared me,” he said.

While that academic background was important, Blevins told the students that the mental toughness and discipline he got from his Way-land professors was just as import-ant, if not more so. After all, he said, while he had first felt called to be a medical missionary as a teenager, it took him almost two decades to realize that goal.

Blevins got his first opportunity

Patients line up outside a medical clinic in rural Uganda hoping to see Wayland graduate and physician Dr. John Blevins. Blevins was part of a medical mission team that spent several days in the country.

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to follow his calling this past summer when he spent several days on a medical trip to Uganda. A group from Fort Portal, Uganda had visited his church in Midland and had asked for help. Blevins explained that he had not been able to attend the actual service but when his wife, Lisa, called him and told him he needed to come meet with the visitors he got to the church as quickly as he could.

The doctor ended up as part of a team that did medical work in some very remote areas of the country — areas where there was only a small, ill-equipped clinic and a single nurse practitioner treating all of the people of the region.

Blevins explained that the trip was very eye-opening on a lot of levels. To begin with, because of the poverty in the rural area where he was working, the medical professionals were thrilled with anything they could get their hands on. His team had put together 29 pallets of donat-ed medical supplies — material that was expend-able in the United States — that were seen as a true blessing to the people of Uganda.

He also was amazed at the level of medical need in the region and how God was able to use his commitment to serve as a way to meet that need.

“I saw some very, very, very sick kids,” he said (see related story on page 9).

In concluding his talk to the students, Blevins encouraged them to take their time at Wayland seriously and be grateful for the opportunity to get an education at a faith-based university. He encouraged them to dream big and take advan-tage of any opportunity they had to travel and expand their worldview.

“I’m going to encourage you guys, if you get an opportunity to go on a trip like this, go,” he said. “If you get a chance to travel, travel, espe-cially to a third-world country. God still is asking that question, ‘Who can I send? Who can I send?’”

Finally, he told them to stay focused and strong because sometimes it was a long road that had to be travelled to get from vision to reality.

“It took me until I was 35 years old to get to do what I was called to do when I was 17,” he said.

Wayland grad and physician Dr. John Blevins addresses students as the guest speaker for the 2012 Homecoming School of Mathematics and Sciences guest lecture. Blevins, who practices medicine in Midland, recently went on a medical mission trip to Uganda.

“If you get a

chance to travel,

travel, especially

to a third-world

country. God still

is asking that

question, ‘Who

can I send?’ “Dr. John BlevinsBS’99, MA’03

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Blevins recalls experience in Uganda

(Dr. John Blevins, BS’99 and MA’03 from the Lub-bock campus, was the speaker for the School of Math and Science lecture during Homecoming in October. He is a hospitalist in Midland and recently did medical mission work in Uganda. Here are his recollections.)

On July 7, a small team embarked on an incredible journey that took us to the Pearl of Africa, also known as Uganda.

The word that an American Christian physician had arrived spread like wildfire. I was able to see about 85 people in an 8-hour time span on the first day as well as caring for the president and several members of his entourage.

The second day, I was able to treat over 220 people in about an 11-hour marathon. While I was hardly even able to stop to catch my breath, I felt the Lord giving me the energy, knowledge, and drive to continue to push through the day. By around 6 p.m. of the second day, there were about 40 people who had been waiting since about 2 p.m. to be seen as we had been forced to stop taking new patients due to the sheer number.

I looked at my incredibly resilient team members and said I was going to see each one of these patients because they had been waiting to be seen by a doctor. They thought I was joking, but I just prayed for strength and guidance. I then went out into the waiting room and announced that I would see each one of them and address one or two problems for each one. I went down the line and was able to see each one of them. The Lord gave me the strength and patience to do it.

I was able to treat several extremely ill children as well as one who was virtually on death’s doorstep. I prayed that God would heal her, giving me the knowl-edge to do so. You know what? He delivered!

Several hours later that child was breathing much easier and her fever had greatly reduced. It was His doing, not mine, that saved that little child. You see, it was in the middle of the day and I heard that still small voice telling me to step out into the waiting area. I did

not know why, but I did.When I went out there,

I was able to hear the child struggling to breathe and was able to bring her back into the examination room and treat her there on the spot. Otherwise, that child might have died waiting to be seen as her number was more than 50 away at that time.

We then left Fort Portal for the bush area and Rwebsingo. There, I was introduced to a nurse prac-titioner who ran the only

clinic for miles around. I told her what I would be doing and while she was reluctant at first, she did eventually warm up to us and off to the races we went.

In just nine hours we were able to treat, document and supply medications to over 100 people. The follow-ing day we began where we left off; unfortunately, we were shut down by the government medical group as we were competing with their vaccination push. Despite efforts by the local nurse practitioner to combine the two clinics, our clinic was disbanded and the people were dispersed. By then we had seen probably 30-40 people in just over two hours.

I was able to say a quick prayer over each patient while examining them and documenting their issues and was able to share much more about Jesus’ love with several other patients. In every encounter the Lord was praised for our work. When people would thank me, I would immediately tell them, “Thank Jesus for bring-ing us here. It is for His glory we do this, not ours.”

This was truly a life-changing trip for me as well as those who traveled with me. The Lord was truly glorified and His kingdom was advanced.

Dr. John Blevins

It never occurred to Julie Arthur that enrolling at a Christian university could ultimately lead

to her spiritual salvation — and in the process give her a focus that could change her life completely.

Funny how things work. That is exactly what happened and the new convert took advantage of her recent graduation address to make that point to her fellow students.

Arthur graduated this past spring from Wayland Baptist Univer-sity-Anchorage and was afforded the opportunity to present a gradua-tion address during the ceremony. Her “civilian job” is a base engine manager for Pratt and Whitney and she is a member of the Alaska Air National Guard. In beginning her remarks to her fellow students she made it clear what had been her initial motivation for enrolling at Wayland.

“When I first began attending Wayland Baptist,” she said, “it was because I felt it was what I had to do and not what I wanted to do.”

Arthur went on to explain that she didn’t have very good self-es-teem, had not been a particularly good student in high school and college didn’t seem like a realistic goal to her.

She was faced with a conflict, however. Her mother had always

dreamed of her children going to college.

Even that, though, was compli-cated, Arthur told her classmates.

“On my 19th birthday my moth-er died from breast cancer. I was angry at God and hurt. I took her death personally,” she said, adding that even in her 30s she still was “full of doubt about myself, aca-demics and God.”

Despite those doubts, Arthur explained that out of love for her mother and respect for her moth-er’s dream, she went ahead and enrolled at the Anchorage campus of Wayland.

“I was scared and nervous,” she said. “My first class was English 1301 with Dr. (James) Waller. He wasn’t so scary until he said he gave his wife a C. Then I thought to

myself, ‘Oh no! If he gave his wife a C, what kind of a grade could I possibly get?’ ”

As it turned out, Arthur wound up with a B in her first college class and that success, along with the support from her husband, Don, and her sister, gave her the confi-dence to keep taking classes.

Something still was missing, though.

“Every grade I got, every test I passed, I longed to call my mom,” Arthur told her classmates.

She acknowledged that she still did not see any benefit to going to a faith-based university other than as an opportunity to fulfill her mother’s dream for her. She still was a long way from a personal relationship with the God toward whom she felt so much anger.

While she admitted in a subse-quent interview that she had attend-ed church as a child, she pointed out that it had little impact on her and that her husband had no spiri-tual background at all, even though he had decided to take a course in Old Testament with her.

Arthur told her classmates, “Don and I were not religious people. We went (to the Bible class) with the mindset that it was just another class and wondered who would get the higher grade.”

Funny how things work.Arthur went on in her address

Anchorage student findsChrist in the classroomStory by Richard Porter

“

On my 19th birthday

my mother died from

breast cancer. I was

angry at God and

hurt. I took her death

personally.

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to explain that it was in that class, without her and Don even realizing it, that a change began to occur in her life.

“Before I knew it,” she said, “we were talking about God. We didn’t even realize we were having Bible studies at our dinner table. We would go to bed talking about the verses we read and how they made us feel until we fell asleep.”

Then came the kicker.“That anger that I felt towards

God was disappearing without me even paying attention to it. I started hearing God’s whisper of encour-agement and love,” she said.

It was in a New Testament course, taught by Dr. Mark Good-man, that Arthur became a Chris-tian.

“I felt the entire time that Dr. Goodman was only talking to me,” she told her fellow students. “He was pulling me out of the darkness I had been surrounded by for so long.”

In the subsequent interview, Ar-thur elaborated. She explained that as she studied the New Testament and learned about the life of Christ and the struggles He went through – ultimately on her behalf – she began to gain a new perspective on her personal problems. At the same time, through her studies of Christ’s temptations, she determined that He already had conquered Satan and had done so, again, on her behalf.

“I felt like the whole time He was saying, ‘I’ve been through this. Come on. You can do it,’ ” she said.

On the podium at her graduation ceremony, Arthur laid it out for her classmates.

“It went from God’s whisper to God shaking me by my shoulders and saying, ‘I never left you. I’m here.’

“The testament classes took this self-doubter to a person of faith. I not only believed in Christ, but for the first time in my adult life I

believed in me. I learned to organize my life and school and, dare I say it, I loved college. Because of Way-land Baptist I am now a chaplain’s assistant for the Alaska Air National Guard one weekend a month. If you had told me before Wayland I would be a chaplain’s assistant, I would’ve laughed in your face. Wayland not only gave me the ability to get a degree, but to be a better wife, stepmother and steward of Christ,” she said.

Arthur’s graduation address was several months ago, but her excite-ment still is fresh. She talked about it with enthusiasm as she thought about the way she feels God has blessed her in her new relationship with Him.

“I think I realized that if I hadn’t turned my back on (God) I would have gotten through my mother’s death more easily. I was too busy blaming Him.”

She agreed — funny how things work.

Julie Arthur enjoys a post-graduation celebration with her husband, Don, and

stepdaughter, Erika, after delivering her graduation

address to fellow students during a recent ceremony at

Wayland Baptist University-Anchorage.

Courtesy Photo/Joselynn Finch Photography, Anchorage, Alaska

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Operatically GiftedWBU music student recognized for outstanding talent

Wayland Baptist Univer-sity sophomore Chris-tion Draper has known

from an early age what he wanted to do with his life – and it wasn’t the typical dream of adolescent youth. Draper wants to sing opera.

“I know I want to gig,” Draper said. “I want to go to some opera

house and just tear it up on stage and leave it all out there. I want to sing in Sydney (Australia). I want to sing all over the world and be in every single opera I can be in for the baritone role.”

It is Draper’s insatiable love of music that led to his being selected to represent the WBU School of Mu-sic in the prestigious Texas Associ-ation of Music Schools scholarship

competition at which Draper was named the grand-prize recipient.

A charismatic soul, Draper quickly made a name for himself on the Wayland campus, being named Freshman of the Year by faculty and staff. Hungry for knowledge, his pro-fessors took note of his willingness to learn and his passion for music.

“He is so excited to be a music scholar,” said Dr. Ann Stutes, Dean

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of the School of Music at Wayland. “He loves performing, but he also loves learning. When we have students in our classes who enjoy learning as much as he does, it makes our jobs incredibly worth-while.”

Not only is Draper a model student, but his professors also realized that he is phenomenally talented. As a result, Draper was nominated as the school’s representative in a scholarship competi-tion hosted by the Texas Association of Music Schools.

Stutes explained that a generous donation from the Clara Freshour-Nelson family funds the scholarship competition. The gift was given to the state organization due to the family’s desire to give music students from across the entire state a chance to earn scholar-ship money. As a result, TAMS set up three competitions, for two-year schools, four-year private institutions and four-year public institutions.

“Every school that is a member of TAMS is allowed to nominate one true second-semester freshman for the scholarship competition,” Stutes said.

The contestants compete and scholarships are awarded based on musical performance and need. Stutes, who judges the two-year and four-year public schools competitions, said the judging committees generally award multiple scholarships in each category depending on how many students they feel are worthy. The judging committee also names a single grand-prize recipient for each of the three categories.

Draper was nominated by the School of Music and submitted an essay and a 10-minute recording of his music. As a result, he was named the grand-prize recipient for the four-year private schools competition, competing against music students from schools such as Baylor, Southern Methodist and Texas Christian University.

“Christion is probably one of the finest vocal students we have ever had at Wayland,” Stutes said.

As a grand-prize winner, Draper will be invited to perform at the TAMS meeting in January.

“I get flown to Au stin to sing for all the deans in Texas. I get to put on a mini concert. It’s very prestigious. They are flying in my family, my accompanist, my voice teacher and my fiancée by then … probably,” Draper said with a smile.

His girlfriend/fiancée, Andrea Hamric, has also been recognized as a scholarship winner at the TAMS competition.

Draper said he plans to complete his degree in opera at Wayland then continue his education, earning a doctorate in vocal perfor-mance.

“We know he is going to go on from this institution and – what we like to say around here – make the world a better place through his music,” Stutes said.

“

We know he is going

to go on from this

institution and –

what we like to say

around here – make

the world a better

place through his

music.

“

Dr. Ann StutesDean, School of Music

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Fountain releases ‘American Ivory’ CD

It was a couple of years in the making, but on Thursday, Sept. 27, Dr. Richard Fountain released his first professional CD featuring himself, a Stein-

way Model D grand Piano and original compositions by his friend and colleague, Dr. Gary Belshaw.

Both professors in the School of Music at Wayland, Fountain and Belshaw began discussing the idea of collaborating on an album a couple of years ago when a school-sponsored visit to Germany and the Czech Republic sparked a creative fire in Belshaw.

While sitting in the practice room for the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Belshaw, Professor of Music Composition, said he should write something for piano, “some-

thing virtuosic.”“[Fountain] said I should write a sonata,” Belshaw

said.Belshaw wrote the first movement of a sonata that

he hoped to finish through the course of the summer. However, he was unable to complete the piece so he called it a rhapsody and gave it to Fountain, Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano, to premiere on the Wayland performance stage. Following the performance, the two began discussions on recording several of Belshaw’s compositions.

When the School of Music purchased a new Stein-way concert grand piano as the initial phase of its move to an All-Steinway School designation, Fountain thought the time would be right to actively pursue a professional recording. After raising more than $7,000 through the help of kickstarter.com and “the generosity of friends, family and total strangers,” Fountain and Belshaw began the technical process of producing the recording.

The compilation features the works of renowned composers Edward MacDowell, Samuel Barber and Aar-on Copland and six original pieces from Belshaw.

Both professors and other members of the School of Music say having the recording really validates what the school is trying to accomplish. And it hasn’t gone unnoticed by students.

“I’m really excited about it and I think it is great for the School of Music,” said Wayland senior music major Aaron Prentice. “It makes me that much more eager to study under someone when I can actually listen to a professional recording. It’s much more evident how good a musician he is.”

Belshaw said Fountain was definitely the right per-son to perform the selected pieces of music.

“Having my music played by someone of his caliber is a rewarding experience,” Belshaw said. “I think he is the most gifted pianist I have ever shaken hands with.”

For information on purchasing a CD for $15, contact the School of Music at 806-291-1076.

Story by Jonathan Petty

Dr. Richard Fountain

Harkey selected to sing bass with Signature SoundSouthern Gospel music

fans were buzzing recently with word that a new bass

singer was joining Ernie Haase and Signature Sound.

On blogs and online forums, it seemed to be unanimous that while music lovers were sad to see Ian Owens move on to other opportuni-ties, they are excited that Wayland graduate Paul Harkey will be the newest member of EHSS – an opin-ion shared by Owens himself.

“Owens posted a heartfelt con-gratulatory welcome on Harkey’s Facebook page, and that kind of support can only make the transition even more positive for the whole EHSS family,” one gospel music observer said.

“And since Harkey calls the leg-endary bass singer George Younce one of his early influences – espe-cially Younce’s rhythm, his phrasing, and his heart – Harkey can’t help but feel right at home with Ernie Haase, son-in-law of the late great Cathedrals bass singer.”

According to Haase, Paul Harkey “has a voice that fills up the room” and will bring “another level of excitement” to any live listening audience.

On the road since 2007, Harkey has enjoyed singing and touring with respected groups like Crystal River (during a two-month stint in Branson, Mo.), Anchormen and The LeFevre Quartet. With a bachelor’s degree in Church Music from Way-land in December 2003, the Plain-

view-born Harkey is well-prepared for a new adventure with Signature Sound with whom he debuted Oct. 18 in Elizabethtown, N.C.

“I was called into ministry,” Har-key said about his positive time serv-ing as a church minister of music – including time in Petersburg where he lived as a youngster as well as Abernathy before graduating from Plainview High in 1998. But he was encouraged to learn that singing on the road is “what I’m supposed to do,” and “lets me fulfill what God’s will is for me.”

Harkey, who said his deep voice came about in his late teens (“I was a very late bloomer”), was intro-duced to gospel music during a Homecoming Texas Style concert produced by Bill Gaither in Fort Worth “when I was 14 or 15.” Now living his dream, Harkey got to sing with the Gaither Vocal Band during a

concert in Myrtle Beach, S.C. but has not yet appeared on a Gaither video.

Harkey complimented the music staff at Wayland while he was a student. “All of them had a profound impact on who I am today as a sing-er and as a Christian. Robert Black (who retired last May as Director of Church Music) had a tremendous influence on me,” he said.

Harkey, a self-described “regular guy” who loves hunting and fishing, has the support of his whole family as he joins Ernie Haase and Signa-ture Sound. He and his wife Jenni-fer, and their 9-year-old daughter Cameron are also looking forward to meeting a new member of their family – a boy due in late April, 2013. The singer and his family live in Randleman, near Greensboro, N.C.

Harkey said his new group per-forms 115-125 days a year in the United States and outside.

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Stephen Padilla, his wife, Judi, and daughter, Elizabeth are joined by WBU President Dr. Paul Armes, right, and Alph Chi faculty sponsor Dr. Perry Collins, after a pinning ceremony signifying Padilla’s induction into the national honor society.

Because they let meAlpha Chi inductee admits reason for choosing Wayland

Stephen Padilla has an interesting reason for attending Wayland Baptist

University’s San Antonio campus. He signed up for classes there be-cause they let him.

While that may seem like a strange reason, Padilla elaborated while visiting Wayland’s home cam-pus in Plainview for his induction into the university’s chapter of the

Alpha Chi Honor Society. He made the almost 900-mile round trip journey with his wife, Judi, and their daughter, Elizabeth.

Padilla, who currently is get-ting a master’s degree in Christian ministry after receiving a bachelor’s degree from Wayland in scientific analysis technology in 2010, spent 25 years in the United States Air Force. He enrolled at the university’s San Antonio campus after complet-ing an associate’s degree through

the Community College of the Air Force. However, when he began try-ing to enroll in a four-year program he discovered that many four-year colleges would not accept the work he had done for his associate’s degree.

Enter Wayland Baptist University, which has a long history of working with the military to provide oppor-tunities for higher education to ser-vicemen and women, and allowed him to transfer all of his credits.

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“Wayland is one of the military-friendly schools that partners with the Air Force in a program called the Associates-to-Bachelors Cooperative. I started with Wayland for my four-year degree because they accepted my two-year degree,” he said matter-of-factly.

Padilla spent much of his time in the Air Force working in nuclear treaty monitoring and research and development. He and Judi both are on their third marriage and he acknowl-edged that much of his adult life was anything but conducive to strong family values.

“Judi and I are both divorced twice. This is our third marriage each. We’ve seen firsthand what it does to adults and children,” he said as he explained the choice of an advanced degree in Christian ministry despite all of his training and prior education in science and technology.

“I want to educate people to help prevent divorce and help heal people who have done it anyway,” he said.

One of his primary focuses will be on the impact of divorce on children and he plans to pursue that work by volunteering through Family Life Ministries and as a writer and author. In his own experience, he explained, he heard a lot about how the Bible condemns divorce and how those who get divorced and remarry are committing adultery.

“They don’t give practical and day-to-day solutions,” he said.

Padilla explained that when the Air Force transferred him to San Antonio, he and Judi decided that church would be a good place for their family. However, he acknowledged, he had not always felt that way.

“As a child I had been raised Roman Cath-olic. As an adult, I realized that my childhood faith was not in Jesus but in the rituals of the Church,” he said. “I drifted away from anything even nominally Christian.

“I spent the first 20 years of my adult life as an alcoholic and the Lord saved me from that,” he said.

Padilla became a Christian in 2004 and he and his family attend Northwest Hills Christian Church. His trip to Plainview for the induction

ceremony into Alpha Chi was a whirlwind affair that both he and Judi felt was important for their family.

From a personal standpoint, Padilla said there were two reasons he wanted to make the trip. The primary reason was because Judi said they were coming.

“When I told Judi I was inducted into this she asked me, ‘When’s the ceremony and where?’ Then she said, ‘I guess we’re going to Plainview in two weeks,’ ” he said, adding that when the time came, the couple pulled Elizabeth out of school for the day and headed north.

From his perspective, Padilla continued, a secondary reason was that the induction into Alpha Chi provided affirmation for what he wanted to do with his talents through his education.

“I’m already in Mensa but Mensa is a rec-ognition of the gifts God gave me. Alpha Chi is recognition that I’m using those gifts the right way,” he said.

The family perspective? Judi responded to that. She pointed out that because both she and Stephen are full-time students, their young daughter “sees a lot of homework” being tackled at their home.

“It’s important that Libby sees (Stephen’s) recognition and what she can accomplish, as well. It’s important that she sees that the hard work pays off,” Judi said.

As for her take on the trip?“I’m very proud of him and it doesn’t mat-

ter how far we have to travel,” she said.Padilla said that he decided to stay at

Wayland for his master’s degree because he had such a good experience with the school as an undergrad.

“I had such a good experience with Wayland philosophically, educationally and culturally that I decided to stick with Wayland,” he said.

Once he completes his master’s degree he plans to become a high school science teacher through the Troops-to-Teachers program while pursuing his passion for ministry.

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Oldest alum celebrates 104(This story about 104-year-old Wayland graduate,

AA’28, Cecile Weathers, appeared in the Sherman Herald Democrat in September. She is believed to be Wayland’s oldest living graduate.)

If you ask Cecile Weathers of Sherman to tell about her life, you may need to pull up a comfortable chair and clear your schedule … for a week or so.

After all, the lively, little lady has been around awhile — 104 years, to be exact. That calculates out to be 37,960 days and 911,040 hours — a lot of living that few peo-ple get the opportunity to experience.

Cecile celebrated her birthday at Traditions in Sher-man where she resides. She was surrounded by some of her favorite people and things — her daughter and son-in-law, Nelda and Don Allen of Sherman, friends from both outside and inside the facility, a chocolate cake and pink decorations.

Dressed to the nines in a sparkly, dark mauve/pink suit, dangly, crystal-like earrings and a bright smile, the honoree greeted guests, visited with friends and blew out the candles on her birthday cake quicker than most youngsters.

Her daughter and staff members laughed and shook their heads in amazement as Weathers happily dug into her birthday cake, followed by two helpings of ice cream, in between welcoming lots of birthday hugs and well-wishes. Even Sherman Mayor Bill Magers dropped by to present Weathers with a special birthday procla-mation honoring her achievement.

Like many people in 1908, Cecile was born into a ru-ral family. The eldest of seven children, she grew up on a cotton farm in Haskell. It was a life of hard work, the days stretching from well before daylight until long after dark. Somewhat of a tomboy, Cecile says she preferred plowing the fields and handling the teams of mules and horses to actually picking cotton. She also handled other daily chores, helping in the house and caring for her younger siblings. She developed a lifelong passion for baking by using the family’s wood stove.

After high school, the determined young woman be-

gan attending Wayland Baptist College (now University) in Plainview. There she met her husband, Elmer Merle Weathers, who was also a student at the school. They married when Cecile was 20, and the two finished their college education, even walking down the aisle together to receive their college diplomas in 1928.

From there Merle Weathers began his lifelong work as a Baptist minister and Cecile remained at his side, aiding the ministry, raising their daughter, and keeping the family’s home. The family lived in small communi-ties throughout Texas as Merle Weathers ministered to various churches.

After Merle’s death, Cecile remained in her home in Canyon until 2004 when she moved to Sherman to be near her daughter and son-in-law. She remained in an independent senior living apartment until several injuries forced her to switch into an assisted living site. Though no longer able to walk, Cecile is still doing fairly well physically, considering her age, says her daughter.

She takes only one prescription medication, wears glasses so she can see, is somewhat hard of hearing but not deaf, and still has enough of her own teeth that eating isn’t a problem. She enjoys visiting with family and friends and is still crazy about chocolate.

Cecile Weathers (right) is pictured with Carolyn Andrews, Wayland’s Administrative Assistant to the President and wife of alumni director Danny Andrews. Danny and Carolyn visited Cecile and presented her wtih a Wayland history book.

Story by Lynette GeorgeSherman Herald Democrat

An Evening for the ArtsYÜ|wtç? TÑÜ|Ä H? ECDF

In order to provide scholarships for students, the School of Fine Arts and the Friends of Fine Arts are hosting “AnEvening for the Arts.” The purpose is to support the recruitment of talented students in art, theatre and communicationstudies. The fundraiser event will be a semi-formal evening spotlighting artists and theatre students and offering anopportunity to purchase artwork to benefit the Friends of Fine Arts fund. The following are guidelines for those desiringto support Wayland by submitting artwork for the event:

� Entry is open to all artist alumni and current and former art students of Wayland Baptist University� Entries are open to all media: painting, drawing, photography, mixed media, textiles and digital

artwork� Artists will receive a donation acknowledgement form for tax purposes since all proceeds from the show will go

to the Fine Arts scholarship fund.� Donating artists will receive a discounted ticket to the event if they plan to attend.� Entry requirements

� Donated art is due to the School of Fine Arts by March 29. The artwork sheet/canvas size must be 5x7 inches total (with image size variable on the 5x7 sheet/canvas). No framing is required. Photos should be mounted on board. Signature and title should be placed on the back of the sheet to provide anonymity during the artwork sale. Each donated 5x7 work will be exhibited anonymously, and each work will sell for $75. Patrons will find out who the artists are after the purchase of the works!� All artwork must be delivered ready to hang or install but does not have to be framed.� All accepted work will become the property of the School of Fine Arts for fundraising purposes.�Wayland Baptist University retains the right to reproduce artwork for publicity purposes only.� Artists should submit an entry form with artwork for inventory and promotion purposes.

An Evening for the Arts Entry FormName:______________________________________________________________ WBU class year_______________

Mailing Address____________________________________________________________________________________

Email Address_________________________________________________________ Phone_____________________

Name of Artwork___________________________________________________________________________________

Media (circle one): Oil Acrylic Pastel Pencil Photography Digital Mixed Media Textiles

This is ________ of _______ pieces I am donating for An Evening for the Arts.

� I have enclosed $15 in a check or money order payable to Wayland Baptist University for each ticket to the April 5event that I am reserving as my special discounted donor artist rate. Number of tickets needed: _______

Please complete an entry form for each piece of artwork you are submitting. Questions regarding entries may beaddressed to: Dr. Candace Keller, 1900 W. 7th, CMB 1249, Plainview, Texas 79072 or kellerc@wbu.edu

Members of the Wayland Student Chapter of the American Chemical Society include (from left): Dr. Gary Gray, Sarah Kelly, Hailey Budnick, Jessica Kenneson, Anna Kite, Libby Saultz, Trevor Burrow, Taylor Eaves and Dr. Robert Moore.

Chem students recognized for achievements

For the second consecutive year, the Wayland Student Chapter of the American

Chemical Society has been recog-nized for outstanding accomplish-ments. According to Professor of Chemistry Dr. Gary Gray, the chapter received the ACS Certificate of Achievement for its chapter activ-ities for the 2011-12 school year. The recognition is based on an an-nual report outlining each chapter’s activities for the year.

“It’s definitely not an automatic. Most schools don’t get one. It’s a reflection of [our students’] effort. Last year they were really busy,” Gray said.

The Wayland chapter, which has a core group of 8-10 students, meets every two weeks throughout the school year and has a number of departmental and community activities in which it is involved, Gray said. In 2011-12 those includ-ed selling Christmas cookies as a fundraiser, chemical demonstrations at Plainview public schools and

spending an afternoon in Lubbock with students at Trinity Christian High School.

“The benefit for them (of receiv-ing the certificate) is it shows they are working their tails off, but it also makes them eligible for various grants the American Chemical Soci-ety gives out,” Gray said, explaining that the group received a $500 travel grant they were able to use for a trip to the ACS National Meeting in San Diego.

The report is compiled by the chapter secretary which last year

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was Jessica Kenneson, a sophomore molecular biology/chemistry student from Wiggins, Colo. — she recently was elected to be the chapter president for the coming year.

Kenneson said that one of her colleagues, past president Stephanie Whitaker, helped her compile the report but it still was a pretty big undertaking.

“It took forever,” she said with a laugh.

Kenneson said the recognition is affirmation for the close-knit nature of the group.

“We spend every day together,” she said. “I’ve told a lot of people it’s like a family down here,” she said, adding that one common characteristic of the group is its willingness to serve others.

“I’ve noticed the people in this group have a heart for service,” she said.

That willingness is manifesting itself in one of the chapter’s big projects, a weekly program where members assist area homeschool students with chemistry labs. Dr. Gray said the program meets two needs. It provides an excellent service opportunity for the chapter while also giving them a legiti-mate fundraiser (since they do charge a minimal fee for participation in the program).

“I think this group is finally starting to realize the potential for good they have for the university. I think they are realizing they can be clever enough in designing programs that both benefit the community and provide them with travel money,” Gray said.

While the group has demonstrated over the past couple of years that it is a consistently high-performing chap-ter, Kenneson said the time has come for the chapter to step up to another level because of the activities they want to do, and that means getting more

participation.“We’re going to need more people

involved,” she said. “Somehow we’re going to have to make ourselves known (to other students).”

That means having more social activities and coming up with better ways to integrate the organization into the regular functions of the university, she said.

Kenneson pointed out that students don’t have to be chemistry majors to be a part of the Wayland chapter.

One of the things the chapter is looking at in the future is establishing an endowed scholarship to help future students. Gray said that will give stu-dents yet another opportunity to help the community.

Outgoing president Trevor Burrow, a junior math/chemistry/molecular biology student from Lubbock, pointed out that the organization gives students a chance to use their passion to benefit the university, as well as individual stu-dents. Through the ACS chapter, they can help incoming students get a good start in the sciences at the collegiate level while also helping current stu-dents move onto graduate school.

“It’s kind of reaching in both direc-tions,” he said.

“If you have a passion for some-thing, you want to share it with people and maybe they’ll become interested in it as well,” he said.

For Kenneson, the notion of the chapter being able to endow a schol-arship made an already big smile grow and her reaction was an indication of the enthusiasm she and her fellow students have for helping others.

“We’re really interested in start-ing an endowed scholarship. There’s nothing better than being able to help somebody get through school,” she concluded.

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Harrelson tagged as Player/CoachThe Collie Crane Hire West

Slammers have pulled off a major recruiting coup

by wooing Goldfields Giants combo guard Ty Harrelson to Bunbury in Western Australia on a three-year deal, according to the South West-ern Times newspaper.

Harrelson, a two-year starter for the Pioneers after transferring from Collin County Community College, was Wayland’s first-ever first-team NAIA All-American as a senior in 2003. A former high school star at Sonora and Wichita Falls Rider, he still holds the Wayland school records for most assists in a game (15) and season average (6.8) and for best free throw percentage for a season (.888 on 191 of 215 chanc-es). He also is tied for 28th on the all-time Pioneer scoring list with 1,111 points.

Harrelson, 32, will join the Slammers as player/coach in a sig-nificant boost to the program. The American’s signature will go part of the way to filling the void left by the departure of the previous coach and two key players.

During his two years in the SBL Harrelson, who suited up for the Giants last season and played for Cockburn in 2011, has been widely regarded as part of the competi-tion’s elite.

He averaged almost 20 points a game for Goldfields and was named as a small forward in the SBL’s 2012 All-Star Starting Five. Harrelson also won the SBL Point Guard of the Year title in 2011 after he helped the Cougars, who had missed the playoffs the previous season, make a semifinal series.

Despite also being an assistant coach with the Giants, Harrelson said the chance to take on a senior coaching position had been a major drawing card.

His father, Scott Harrelson, was an assistant coach at Wayland and also coached the West Virginia Uni-versity women’s team. His mother, sister and brother-in-law are also coaches.

‘‘I come from a long line of coaches – it’s kind of in my blood,’’ Harrelson said. ‘‘The opportunity to do it and hopefully improve the Slammers over the next three years was definitely attractive.’’

While his coaching appointment has been a major coup, club officials anticipate Harrelson will provide a much-needed injection of experi-ence to the Slammers’ roster.

He scored 20 points or more on 13 occasions last season, while his mammoth 50-point haul for Cock-burn against the Perth Redbacks

in the 2011 playoffs was one of the best individual performances in recent history.

Despite conceding his new role would be challenging, Harrelson said he was confident of helping the club, which has won three consecu-tive wooden spoons (championship awards) be more competitive.

‘‘I am going to do my best to have us prepared,’’ he said. ‘‘I’m not promising anything other than I am going to give it 100 percent and that I’m going to expect the same from our team.’’

Harrelson said he had already spoken to several contacts about how to approach the task of having both on and off-court roles. ‘‘They gave me some good advice on how to handle in-game strategy,’’ he said. ‘‘I think preparation will be vital – we have to have a plan going into every game.’’

WBU Pioneer PrideShow your

Wayland Alumni Services is offering sturdy metal trunk me-dallions of the university sports logo (affixed with an adhesive

strip) for $12 with proceeds going to the general scholarship fund

and alumni activities. Cost is $12 each and they can be secured by check, cash or money order

by writing: Medallions, Wayland Baptist University, 1900 W. Sev-enth, CMB 1291, Plainview, TX 79072 or by calling credit card

information to 806-291-3603 or e-mailing andrewsd@wbu.edu.

Ty Harrelson, BA’03, recently made a gift of $10,000 toward a goal of $25,000 to refurbish the Wayland Pioneers’ dressing room in Hutcherson Center.

Harrelson’s gift came after he learned that former Flying Queen All-American Linda Pickens Price, BA’69, had given $25,000 for the renovation of the Queens’ locker room. Dedication for that project was made in October during a spe-

cial recognition for members of the 1953-58 teams that won a national record 131 consecutive games.

An appeal was made to about 300 former Pioneers who have played between 1960-2012 in hopes the funds can be raised for the remodeling to be done before the 2013-2014 season.

However, gifts from all friends of Wayland for any amount are appreciated and may be made to:

Pioneers Dressing Room, Wayland Baptist University, 1900 W. Seventh, CMB 1291, Plainview, TX 79072 or by credit card by calling Danny An-drews at 806-291-3603 or e-mail-ing andrewsd@wbu.edu

“We are most appreciative of our alumni like Linda Pickens Price, Ty Harrelson and others who are helping us upgrade our athletic facilities,” said Athletic Director Greg Feris.

Harrelson makes lead gift in lockerroom renovation project

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Fall success for Pioneer sportsWayland Baptist Univer-

sity sports teams have seen an historic fall

semester with the return of football after a seven-decade absence and a record number of wins in both the men’s and women’s soccer pro-grams. Those, coupled with strong seasons in volleyball and cross country, have given WBU sports fans plenty to yell about.

Football:Wayland Baptist’s first football

game in 72 years ended with a

loss, but also with a whole lot of promise. The Pioneers dropped a 59-21 decision to Monterrey Tech of Mexico at Heroes Stadium in San Anto-nio Sept. 1.

Approximately 4,000 fans turned out at Plainview’ Greg Sherwood Memorial Bulldog Stadium as the Pioneers made their home debut against Adam State University. The crowd remained enthusiastic de-spite a lopsided 55-7 loss.

The Wayland faithful got their

first taste of victory with a thrilling 27-23 victory over Howard Payne University at Bulldog Stadium in front of about 3,000 fans on Sept. 15.

“That was fun,” Wayland coach Butch Henderson said after the his-toric win. “The kids made play after play after play.”

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relieved to get that first win under the team’s belt, Hen-derson admitted to getting a bit choked up in his post-game speech to his players.

It would take five weeks for the Pioneers to get their second victory of the year. That came during Homecoming as Way-land defeated Southwest Assemblies of God, 58-37 on Oct. 20.

The matchup saw star running back Kendall Rob-erson earn five touchdowns on the ground and one in the air for 262 total yards in a game in which the Pioneers would pile up a staggering 560 yards on offense.

Despite a 2-7 record (the open-ing game was officially an exhibition game and did not count toward the team’s record), the Pioneers pulled off some major accomplishments for a first-year program.

“We got our first win and our first homecoming win. Those are two big starting places,” Henderson said. “That gave us a good start.”

Roberson lead the Pioneers in rushing with 669 yards on 138 carries for a 4.8-yard average. He also led the team in scoring with 12 touchdowns (72 points) and all-pur-pose yards with 868 total yards (199 receiving yards combined with his rushing total).

The Pioneers leading receiver was Chris Acosta, a freshman from Amarillo, who had 34 receptions for 344 yards for a 10.1-yard average.

Two Pioneers

shared much of the quarter-backing duties with El Paso fresh-man Anthony Campuzano complet-ing 111 passes out of 191 attempts for 1,089 yards. Luis Gonzalez, a freshman from Alamo, Texas, had 68 completions on 120 attempts for 701 yards.

On defense, Jon-Lucas Poe, a freshman from Midland, led the team in tackles with 33 solo and 35 assisted tackles, for a total of 68. Irving, Texas freshman Kevin Carter led the team with 2.5 sacks.

Men’s Soccer:Wayland’s soccer program had

one of its most successful years ever with both the men’s and wom-en’s teams setting records for most wins in a season.

On the men’s front, on Sept. 4, in their first field appearance since receiving votes in the NAIA Top 25 poll for the first time ever, the Pio-neers didn’t disappoint.

Samman Hassan, Samson Defeugaing and Travis Somersall scored one goal apiece, and the Pioneers posted a 3-2 victory over

Oklahoma Baptist in Wayland’s Sooner Athletic Conference opener.

“Today was a total team effort against an extreme-ly talented OBU squad,” Wayland coach Jamath Shoffner said. “We knew going into the game it was going to be a tough place

to play and come away with a win.”

WBU finished with an 11-5-2 record and advanced to the SAC Tournament semifinals where the third-seeded Pioneers lost to Okla-homa Baptist, 2-1 in overtime.

The Pioneers fared well in end-of-season honors. Wayland Baptist’s Miguel Teos was named Newcomer of the Year in the Sooner Athletic Conference, preventing a sweep of the top men’s soccer honors by the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. Joining Teos, a mid-fielder, on the first team was WBU goalkeeper John-Ramses Thomas, while Pioneers making the second team were defender Vitalis Atemafac and midfielder Jevaughn Vance.

Teos, a junior form Green-ville, S.C., had three goals and a team-leading seven assists for 13 points for the Pioneers. His seven assists ranked third in the SAC. He took 19 shots (.158 shooting per-centage) and had 10 shots on goal (.526).

Thomas, a sophomore from Plymouth, Tobago, who was SAC Goalkeeper of the Year as a fresh-man, ended the season with 62

Athletics Wrap

saves while allowing 20 goals. He faced 178 shots and had a .756 save percentage. He recorded seven shutouts.

This is the second straight year Vance was honored on the all-con-ference second team. The sopho-more from Arima, Trinidad, pro-duced five goals and five assists for 15 points, making him third on the team in all three categories. He got off 19 shots (.263) and nine shots on goal (.474).

Atemafac, a junior from New Carrollton, Md., led a Pioneer defense that allowed 81 goals on the season. Offensively, he had two goals and three assists for seven points. Additionally, he took 16 shots (.125), including six SOG (.375).

Women’s Soccer:On the women’s side, on Oct. 18

the Pioneers defeated Mid-American University 1-0 for their record-set-ting eighth win in a season.

The victory gave Wayland (8-6-1 overall, 2-3-1 SAC), despite a roster depleted by numerous injuries, its record eighth victory of the season, eclipsing the seven wins posted during the 2008 season.

The women collected a number of individual honors with freshman Jessica Bell being named to the women’s soccer All-Sooner Athletic Conference second team.

Bell, a 5-foot-3 forward from Ci-bolo, scored six goals and tallied 13 points for the Pioneers, the second most on the team in both catego-ries. She ended with 34 shots, a .176% shot percentage, 13 shots on goal (.382 shot on goal percentage) and one assist. She had a team-high two game-winning goals for the Pio-neers (8-9-1), who qualified for the

SAC Tournament. WBU lost to No. 6 Oklahoma City University, the even-tual champion, in the first round.

Wayland Baptist women’s soccer players Haley Hill and Katherine Teinert were named to the Capital One Academic All-District 7 Team.

Teinert, a sophomore from Portland, Texas, was honored for her 4.0 GPA as a mass communications major. She is a 5-foot-4 forward for

the Pioneers. Hill, a graduate student from San Angelo, was honored for her 3.91 GPA.

Volleyball:After the

Wayland Baptist volleyball team lost seven of its first eight match-es, fans might have believed they were in for a long season. Although it might have taken a while for the Pio-neers to pick up steam, the squad

was rocking and rolling by the time its Sooner Athletic Conference schedule rolled around, going 8-4 in conference and 19-15 overall. Perhaps even more impressive, the team of seven underclassmen and four upper-classmen thrived at the conference tournament, finally falling in the championship match to first-seeded, No. 10-ranked Oklahoma Baptist.

With 10 of the team’s first 12 matches coming in tournaments, the Pioneers experienced a trial by fire, playing 44 sets in just two

weeks. They struggled, but even then, head coach Jim Giacomazzi saw glimmers of hope, including when the team set a new record for match digs with 163 versus Eastern New Mexico, toppling the old mark of 145 which had stood since 2000.

Individually, the Pioneers had a strong season, as well.

Shahala Hawkins was named regional Freshman of the Year and Natasha Giacomazzi also was rec-ognized by the American Volleyball Coaches Association.

Both Pioneer players, who led Wayland to the Sooner Athletic Conference Tournament champion-ship match, were honored on the AVCA’s NAIA Midsouth Region team. Hawkins made the team as a middle hitter and Giacomazzi as a setter.

Hawkins, of Denver City, was the only freshman on the 14-mem-ber Midsouth team, and only one sophomore made the squad. The 6-foot Hawkins led the Pioneers in many major statistical categories, including kills (364, 3.01 per game), hitting percentage (.290), aces (35), blocks (138) and points (483).

Natasha Giacomazzi, a 5-5 setter from Canyon, ended the season with 1,090 sets, an average of 9.48 per game, and a .790 set percentage. Her 28 aces were third on the team and she recorded a team-best 464 digs (4.03 pg).

Men’s Cross Country:The Wayland Baptist University

men’s cross country team finished 12th in the 2012 NAIA Coaches’ Top 25 Postseason Poll.

Wayland’s Edward Taragon, a senior from Kenya, finished fourth at the NAIA National Cross Country Championships for the second year in a row.

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Hawkins

Giacomazzi

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At the end of a wet, muddy day, things just did’t go the way the team had planned as the Pioneers finished 12th overall.

Out of 309 runners, Wyatt Landrum wound up 66th with a time of 25:49, Hildon Boen was 78th in 25:56 and Lopez was 124th in 26:25.

The heartbreaker of the day for Wayland was a fall by senior Lucius Lopez.

“Lucius was in the top 45 and running really well,” Whitlock said. “About halfway through the race, somebody stepped on the back of his shoe, he fell down and the shoe came off. Since the laces were double-knotted, it took him around a minute to get it back on and back on the course.”

Until his fall, Lopez was on pace to finish in under 26 minutes and was running somewhere between teammates Boen and Landrum. He ended in 195th place in 26:59.

In other competition this fall, after having struggled with knee pain due to tendonitis,Taragon had a spectacular performance at the Sooner Athletic Conference cross country championships, capturing the individual title.

The men’s team finished second in the team standings with 47 points, just 12 behind conference winner and meet host, Oklahoma Baptist, which had 35 points. The Pioneers all finished in the top 20, with an average team time of 25:15.40.

Taragon’s championship time was 24:13.00, a full 25 seconds faster than the second place fin-isher. Hildon Boen was fifth with a time of 24:43.00, followed by Wyatt Landrum in seventh with a

25:09.00. Julian Lopez finished in 26:00.00, good enough for 16th place, and Lucius Lopez was 19th with a 26:12.00.

Women’s Cross Country:On the women’s side, Wayland

freshman Emileigh Willems earned an at-large spot in the NAIA Cross Country National Championships.

SAC champion Oklahoma Bap-tist was the only conference team in the national field, although five individuals also will represented the conference. In addition to Willems, a freshman from Lubbock who came in seventh at the SAC meet, other national qualifiers are Brenda Felipe of Rogers State, Katrina Nolan of Oklahoma City, Monika Kalicinska of St. Gregory’s and Gladys Miranda of Lubbock Christian.

Wrestling:In wrestling, the Wayland pro-

gram gets high marks for partnering with the local YMCA to establish a youth wrestling program.

The program’s season will run from Dec. 3 to Feb. 29. Open to both boys and girls ages 5 through

14, the program, will cost $24 per month for YMCA members and $45 for non-members. Addition-ally, a $40 fee for a USA Wrestling membership card must be paid for with the first month’s program fee. Financial assistance is available.

WBU assistant wrestling coach Luke Salazar said that while wres-tling is considered a combat sport, it is practiced in a controlled environ-ment.

In addition to teaching partici-pants how to wrestle, Salazar said the skills they will learn will translate positively into many other areas of their lives.

“Wrestling teaches kids that what you put in to something is what you’re going to get out of it,” he said. “It teaches them discipline, good nutrition, the importance of a healthy lifestyle, body awareness and staying out of trouble. Wrestling is also good for kids that maybe ha-ven’t connected with another sport. It doesn’t matter what size or shape you are, we can teach the skills nec-essary to be successful.”

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From a Friend

My wife, Kerri (WBU ex, and Houston Baptist alumna), and I have contributed to

various endowed scholarships at Way-land over the past several years. It has never been much, and the gifts have been spread out over a period of years, but Alumni Director Danny Andrews re-cently asked me to give a short descrip-tion of WHY we give to WBU endowed scholarships. I think the answer is pretty straightforward, and can be summed up in a few simple points.

Christian higher education is extremely important, but increasingly expensive. As both a product and em-ployee of a Christian academic institu-tion, I am keenly aware that there is no better education available anywhere. The illumination of God’s word and the influence of his people really do make an enormous difference in the process and outcomes of higher education.

Kerri and I benefitted greatly from our time at Wayland, and hope that our kids have a similar experience when the time comes. Unfortunately, the cost of a college education has been growing at a pace that far outstrips the rest of the economy. WBU is the most afford-able Christian college that I know of, but even Wayland’s tuition costs have been subject to significant increases in recent years. College costs are going to continue to increase for the foreseeable future, and the best way that I know of to keep WBU tuition costs affordable for students of modest means, is by build-ing the WBU scholarship endowment.

Wayland has been blessed with

some incredibly dedicated and talent-ed faculty through the years, and an endowed scholarship in their name is a great way to acknowledge the con-tributions that they have made to our lives and to WBU. Kerri and I have had the honor of contributing to scholar-ships named for Dr. J. Hoyt and Joanne Bowers, Dr. Harold and Audrey Temple, and Dr. Vaughn and Johnene Ross. Collectively, these folks have done more for my family and my alma mater than I can ever repay. It is truly a privilege for us to help acknowledge their service through permanently endowed scholar-ships in their names.

We know exactly where these funds are going, and exactly how they will be spent. As stewards of the financial resources that God has given our family, it is very important to Kerri and me that we not only give back a portion of these blessings, but that we carefully consider how we invest God’s money. A contribu-tion to an endowed scholarship at WBU is an investment that we know will be properly and conservatively managed, and we trust that God will use these funds to reap dividends beyond our ken in the lives of generations of young people.

I hope that you’ll add your own con-tributions to the WBU endowed scholar-ship of your choice – or to any Wayland endeavor – soon. Collectively, our little contributions spread out over many years can make a huge difference in what WBU can do for students seeking a truly Christ-centered education.

Building endowment important to education

Dr. Joel BoydBachelor of Science ’97

Dr. Joel Boyd, BS’97, served on the faculty

of the School of Math-ematics and Sciences from 2001-2010, was

co-chair of the Division of Math and Science for one year and was then associate dean

of the School of Math and Science for a year. For the past two years, he has been Associate

Professor of Chemis-try at Gordon College in Wenham, Mass. He has been a consistent contributor to various Wayland scholarships

for the past several years.

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Thinking Out Loud

Danny AndrewsDirector of Alumni Development

One of the things I love most about the Christmas season is decorating the tree.

Carolyn and I have hundreds of orna-ments collected over 43 years of marriage – everything from the shiny Wayland orna-ments the Museum of the Llano Estacado offers every year to the plastic “Hambur-glar” one of our three kids got in a McDon-ald’s Happy Meal when they were little.

Each ornament carries a good memory. In that vein, I’d like to hang some “pre-cious memory” Wayland ornaments on my mental tree.n Being encouraged in the summer of

1967 by Dr. Neil Record, assistant to the president and possessed with the “Voice of God,” to abandon plans to attend West Texas State University and come to Wayland

n Meeting on my first visit to Gates Hall one of the nicest people I’ve ever known – public relations secretary Melba Jo Willis, who remains a dear friend

n Having the honor of being editor of The Trailblazer newspaper for two years, producing the first 12-page edition and selling advertising for the first time

n Being in the second pledge class of Al-pha Phi Omega, men’s national service fraternity whose motto is “Leadership, Friendship and Service”

n Covering Wayland basketball games for The Plainview Herald and first broad-casting them on 10-watt campus radio station KHBL (forerunner of KWLD) in a cranny of Gates Hall – good experience even though we only had about one listener per watt. I also enjoyed being a late-night disc jockey even if you could not play back-to-back 45s unless you talked while cueing the second record since we only had one 45 turntable

n Making friends with such guys as Danny Murphree, Gary Abercrombie, Dick Helms and Mike Ballew who are the same great fellows today they were when we met more than 40 years ago

n Having Dorothy Jamar for English – even if she did decide that classmate Charles Hardin and I had a “personality flaw” because we didn’t turn in our term papers on time

n Having fun officiating flag football games, even though the Men of McDonald Hall are still mad at me four decades later for forfeiting a game due to a player who insisted on tackling the opposing runner

n Enjoying eating tacos and watching a new program called “Hee-Haw” on Monday nights on the black-and-white TV with friends in our concrete-block Collier Hall apartments – $62.50 a month, all bills paid

n Continuing to realize that but for the grace of God…and that of French teacher Christa Smith and biology prof Gerald Thompson I would not possess a Wayland degree

n Getting to come to my Alma Mater to take over alumni services from a Wayland legend – Joe Provence – and working with some of the best people on earth

n Being a part of a faith-based institution preparing young men and young wom-en to be great leaders wherever God takes them

The title of the iconic Christmas movie says it all – “It’s A Wonderful Life.”

Blessings to all Wayland alumni and friends at this most wonderful time of the year…and for a happy, healthy and pros-perous 2013.

Decorate with memories that have special meaning

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The title of the iconic Christmas movie says it all – “It’s A Wonderful Life.”

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Wayland Mission Center

Dr. Richard ShawDirector, Wayland

Mission Center

Upcoming Mission Trips:

w Kenya, January

w Michigan, spring break

w Brazil, May

w Turkey, June

w Kenya, July

w Eastern Europe, August

All of the Wayland Mission Center’s

global missions are open to WBU students and

others committed to shar-ing the love of

Jesus Christ.

Wayland Mission Center has focused on local missions through the fall of 2012.

Three mission groups, operating under the auspices of the WMC, serve the Lord Jesus through meeting the needs of the commu-nity of Plainview.

Apostolos, now in its fifth year of com-munity ministry, partners Wayland students with youth at risk from Plainview High School. The collaborative effort, overseen by two student co-directors, sees Wayland mentors meet with their “little brothers” and “little sisters” twice each week. Strong relationships have been established, with WBU students leading the way in helping PHS students develop life skills and stron-ger self-esteem, as they work to complete their high school education. Mentors also focus on helping high school youth learn of Jesus Christ and His love for them.

Diakonia, also led by students, is ready to launch a weekend food backpack pro-gram with children attending Thunderbird Elementary School. WBU students will pack a weekend’s supply of ready-to-eat foods for some of the most food-insecure folks in Plainview. A large, anonymous donation to the Wayland Mission Center, has allowed Diakonia to purchase a large quantity of food through the South Plains Food Bank in Lubbock. Each Friday in the spring 2013 semester, Diakonia (which means “minis-try” in New Testament Greek) will minister to children in the name of Jesus Christ.

The third student-led mission group, Kerygma, meaning “proclamation of the Gospel,” has been working in east Plain-view, in the area known as the “Barrio.” Kerygma students have gone door-to-door, sharing the love and story of Jesus Christ with residents. Understanding that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is about the whole person and the whole community, mem-

bers have surveyed the residents of the Barrio, discovering and recording people’s needs.

The group was formed out of the introductory religion course, “Introduc-tion to Christian Missions,” with students expressing and then demonstrating their obedience to God’s call to do missions right where they are, to the residents of Wayland’s Jerusalem—Plainview.

2013 will see global missions high-lighted with students, graduates, and West Texas Christians joining in mission. In con-junction with WBU’s Kenya Program, we will lead teams to the east African nation in January and July. In July a team composed of the Youth Choir “Breath of Heaven” and sponsors from First Baptist Church of Plainview, and members from First Baptist Church of Petersburg, is planning to lead a youth conference in Kakamega, Kenya, of Baptist youth from the Western Baptist As-sociation of Kenya. The July team will also work in Limuru and among the Maasai.

Spring Break 2013 will see the return of WBU students to the U.S. cities of Dearborn and Detroit, Michigan.

Summer mission trips include WMC’s third year to travel to Salvador and Tor-rinhas, Brazil, working with pastors and indigenous missionaries from the Igreza Batista Metropolitana, in May. The first ever trip to Istanbul and Izmir, Turkey, in June will be highlighted by loving service to the people of western Turkey, and the study of the seven churches of the Revelation. WMC’s sixth trip to the eastern Europe-an countries of Macedonia, Kosova, and Greece, will cap off the WMC’s summer missions program in August.

All of the Wayland Mission Center’s global missions are open to WBU students and others committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ.

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Baptist Student Minitries

Donnie BrownDirector , Baptist Student Ministries

The semester has been packed with ministry opportunities and has been a very fruitful time. We

have focused on evangelism, discipleship and missions.

In the area of discipleship we have had a successful dorm small group ministry. Ev-ery dorm on campus has had at least one small group that met weekly. These groups came in all shapes and sizes. Some were made up of very strong believers that dove deep into The Word. Others were filled with seekers and not-yet-believers and many questions were answered about faith and what it means to be a Christian.

Each week it was exciting to hear what had taken place in the small groups. God was at work in the hearts and lives of many students and our small groups played a vital role.

Another ministry in the area of disciple-ship was Focus, our weekly worship service. This was a great time of Bible teaching, worship through music and the sharing of testimonies and prayer. It was exciting to see how quickly our students opened up and prayed for each other and our campus.

This semester was also filled with min-istry to our athletes. I led daily devotions after each football practice and a chapel service after the pregame meal every Sat-urday. The Gospel was shared openly and each player was challenged to be the man God created him to be. I had the privilege of baptizing one of the players and antic-ipate more to make a decision to follow Christ.

We have started an accountability group that meets every Friday to help these young men continue to grow in relation-ship with Christ. These men are hungry for change in their lives.

In the area of evangelism we have focused on being on mission right where you are. Look around see where God has

placed you because you are not there by accident. Develop a friendship with those around you. Get to know people and listen to their story and share your story. Many students have taken this challenge and are continuing to invest in the lives of those around them.

We also had one day set aside for inten-tional evangelism to take place on campus. We set up different stations using Soulari-um cards and also an empty chair. Both of these methods give students an opportu-nity to share their spiritual journey. Several students heard the gospel and many seeds were planted. We continue to pray for the harvest.

Missions has also been our focus. Each summer Texas Baptist BSMs send students to the nations through GoNow missions. In the fall semester, each BSM raises money to help send students. This year we had a No Shave November fundraiser. It was a competition between two people to raise money. The loser had to spin the wheel of doom and get his face shaved in an odd way and wear it for a week. The girls did not want to be left out, so they did not shave their legs for a month. The loser had to wear a dress for a week, revealing her bushy legs. Let me just say, this was very disturbing. Our goal was to raise $1,500 and we raised $2,500. Praise God! Way to go Pioneers.

We are also planning for several mission trips. We will be in Haiti Jan. 1-9, serving at an orphanage, conducting VBS and leading an Experiencing God study for the adults. Over Spring Break we will be at South Padre Island sharing the Gospel with thousands of college students. May 19-29 we will be serving in Guatemala, helping a church with construction projects. In July we will be in Billerica, Mass., conducting VBS.

BSM touching students’ lives through ministry

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Looking back I can see that God has blessed us in many different ways. He has been at work in students’ lives. Looking ahead, I know He will con-tinue to work. So we continue to plant seeds and pray for the harvest.

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$5 million gift will fund Dean museum

The legend of Jimmy Dean continues to grow in his hometown of Plainview; spe-

cifically at Wayland Baptist University. On the heels of a $1 million gift in

2008, Dean’s death in 2010 and the opening of Jimmy Dean Hall in August, Dean’s influence continues to im-pact his hometown university as a $5 million donation has been made by his widow, Donna Dean-Stevens, to fund a Jimmy Dean Museum. The museum will serve as a memorial to a man who grew up in the poor neighborhood of Seth Ward on the outskirts of Planiview and became a legend in the entertain-ment industry.

“The museum will be a fitting and attractive tribute to Jimmy’s life and career,” explained Wayland Baptist University President Dr. Paul Armes. “The new building will be more than a museum; it will be a gathering place for our university and community.”

Tentative plans call for the Jimmy Dean Museum to be built adjacent to the existing Museum of the Llano Estacado on the Wayland campus and include a community venue that can be used for various activities and events.

Dean-Stevens originally planned to use the money to fund a museum on the Dean property in Virginia. However, zoning and construction complications made the project exceedingly difficult to undertake. In her ongoing conver-sations with Wayland representatives, she decided to donate the money to Wayland with the stipulation that it be used to fund a museum.

“Construction will probably begin sometime next summer,” Armes said.

“We are currently meeting with muse-um consultants to develop a conceptu-al plan for the structure.”

The museum will house memo-rabilia, videos and awards earned by Dean throughout his long career as an entertainer, singer, television person-ality and businessman. The Sara Lee Corporation that purchased the Jimmy Dean Sausage Company in 1984, has also committed to donate a life-size bronze of the legendary pitch-man.

Dean’s personal items and memo-rabilia have already been shipped from Virginia and are in storage, awaiting construction of the museum.

Armes said the majority of the donation will be used for construc-tion and to set up an endowed fund to offset the cost of maintenance and upkeep on the structure. Dean-Stevens, who will have input into the process as it moves forward, stipulated that any additional funds may be used at the university’s discretion.

Armes said the Deans’ generosity has had a major impact on the univer-sity.

“At just the right moment, the

Deans intersected the life and min-istry of the university,” Armes said. “Their support represents more than the dollars they have contributed. By their generosity, they have enhanced and empowered the mission of the school. They will always be cherished at Wayland.”

In total, the Deans have donated approximately $6 million to Wayland since 2008. A Jimmy Dean exhibit is already in place as part of the Hale County Hall of Fame exhibit in the Museum of the Llano Estacado. Jimmy Dean Hall, a 350-bed men’s dormitory, opened in August of 2012.

Story by Jonathan Petty

Jimmy Dean Hall opened in August, housing 350 men. A generous donation from the Dean

family will now fund a Jimmy Dean Museum addition to the Museum of the Llano Estacado.

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Wayland Baptist University administrators took time during homecoming to

recognize several families that have en-dowed scholarships to benefit Wayland students.

During the Homecoming Chapel, Director of Alumni Development Danny Andrews recognized Charles and Mary Abercrombie with three honors, including an endowed scholarship es-tablished by the couple’s four children. The Abercrombies were also present-ed with the Distinguished Benefactor Award and the Keeper of the Flame Award, recognizing individuals for sig-nificant donations to the university.

Although the couple did not attend Wayland, two of their four children did. Dr. Gary Abercrombie (wife, Janice), of Plainview, and his sister, Trisha Worth-en (husband, Bill), both graduated from the university and currently Dr. Abercrombie serves as the chairman of the board of trustees.

The Joanne Bowers Chemical Education Endowed Scholarship was dedicated during a special reception held in the Moody Science Building. The scholarship was in recognition of Bowers’ 50-plus years of service through chemical education, teaching at the high school and collegiate levels. Joanne Bowers is married to Dr. J. Hoyt Bowers, former longtime science faculty member at Wayland, and the couple has a son, Mark, and two grand-children.

Other scholarships were dedicated at a special luncheon. The Weldon and Betty Beckner scholarships honor Dr. and Mrs. Beckner who graduated from

Wayland Baptist College in 1955, Betty with a B.A. in English and Dr. Beckner with a B.S. in business administration. Dr. Beckner’s career as an educator included serving as a vice president at Wayland.

Dr. Fred and Sally Meeks were recognized with the endowment of a scholarship that will benefit students at Wayland who plan to pursue vocational Christian ministry. Dr. Meeks served as a pastor before entering education. He taught courses in Bible, theology and Christian ministry for 21 years at Way-land and held the position of Dean of the Division of Religion and Philosophy. He now serves as the director of the Logsdon Seminary Lubbock Program.

Sally Meeks is a registered nurse who served in various hospitals and public schools. She retired as school nurse at Plainview High School in 2006. The couple has two daughters, Marnie and Meredith.

Loren Phillips of Lubbock estab-lished the Garland L. and Waty D. Phillips Endowed Scholarship in honor

of his parents out of gratitude for their love, provision and Christian influence on his life. Garland Phillips was a native of Rotan and worked for Vulcan Materials in Denver City. Mrs. Phillips was a native of Emory, Texas and was a homemaker.

The university also recognized the Browning family for a series of scholar-ships established based on a generous in-kind gift, including the Hollis W. and Venita Browning Scholarship. Hollis and Venita Browning were married in 1928 and were owners of cotton gins, ice plants and grocery stores, while also being engaged in farming. Hollis died in 1967 and Venita in 1998.

Four other scholarships were named in honor of other members of the Browning family, including the Jeane Lee II and Sandra Sioen Brown-ing Scholarship, the Paul and Kathryn Browning Holloway Scholarship, the James and Karen Browning Higgins Scholarship, and the John T. and Alicia S. Browning Scholarship.

WBU recognizes scholarship donors

Scholarship plaques line the podium as Wayland President Dr.

Paul Armes adresses the crowd at the homecoming luncheon in

October.

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News in Brief

Enrollment shows modest increase

The Fall 2012 enrollment num-bers show a modest 1.11 percent increase throughout Wayland cam-puses with the Plainview campus enjoying a 5.86 percent increase in student enrollment. Plainview cam-pus enrollment reached 1,826 stu-dents while the system enrollment grew to 6,834. Those students are enrolled in 48,779 credit hours with 17,927 being taken at the Plainview campus, an increase of more than 3 percent.

The Plainview campus shows a 3.43 percent increase in under-graduate enrollment with 1,387 students, up from 1,341 a year ago. The largest increase came in the number of students enrolled in graduate programs with 439, a 14.3 percent increase from the 2011 numbers. Wayland offers graduate programs in history, English, coun-seling, education, business adminis-tration, management, religion, Chris-tian ministry, public administration and multidisciplinary science. The WBU School of Nursing, based at Wayland’s San Antonio campus, also offers a master’s degree in nursing.

The San Antonio campus re-mains the largest Wayland campus in terms of head count with 1,969 students, an increase of nearly 4 percent from a year ago. The enroll-ment at Wayland’s Lubbock campus dropped to 624 students, down from 686 a year ago. The campus in Amarillo remained steady with 109 students, up from 106 in 2011.

STEM students present findings

The Wayland Baptist University School of Mathematics and Sciences participated in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math-ematics) conference at Midland College on Oct. 5-6 in Midland. Two presentations from Wayland stu-dents were awarded second place in their categories.

Rick Ross, a senior from Mun-cy, Ind., received second place for his mathematics talk concerning a graph theory problem on which he is preparing an honors thesis.

Hailey Budnick, a senior from Missouri City, and Jessica Kenneson, a junior from Wiggins, Colo., pre-sented a poster on their research project identifying an alternative and

more cost effective way to identify and analyze enzymes.

Dr. Robert Moore, assistant professor of chemistry, said their specific research deals with analyz-ing an enzyme that plays a role in the tuberculosis organism’s ability to adapt and mutate. However, he feels their discovery of an alternative method could be hugely beneficial to small schools with tight research budgets.

Scholarship started to honor O.T. Ryan

The Wayland Baptist University Office of Development announced that an endowed scholarship fund has been established in honor of the late longtime Plainview High School band director O.T. Ryan and his wife, Pat.

Enrollment up; students impress at conference

Wayland students Rick Ross (from left), Hailey Budnick and Jessica Kenneson stand next to a poster that was presented by Budnick and Kenneson at a recent research conference dealing with science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Budnick and Kenneson won second place for their presentation. Ross took second place for his mathematics talk dealing with graph theory.

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According to Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Advancement Mike Melcher, the fund is a way to honor the enormous impact the Ryans have had on Plainview and the surrounding area, as well as the band director’s role in establishing what is now a state-record 75 consecutive First Divi-sion ratings in the annual University Scholas-tic League marching festival.

Individuals who want to contribute to the fund may do so in a variety of ways. Melcher explained that people can come by the Ad-vancement office, located at 810 Utica, and donate either through cash or with a check — simply memo the check as going to the O.T. and Pat Ryan Scholarship. Additionally, individuals may donate by going to the Way-land Baptist University website, www.wbu.edu, and clicking on the yellow Give Now icon on the left side of the site. That will take them to the giving page where they can select “Other Designated Areas” from a drop-down menu and designate the donation for the O.T. and Pat Ryan Scholarship. The site then will allow them to enter the appropriate credit card information.

Music school honorsAll-Steinway supporters

The School of Music continues to move forward with its All-Steinway Initiative, raising money to replace every piano on campus with a Steinway, Boston or Essex model.

As part of Phase II of the four-phase proj-ect, longtime Plainview attorney Bill LaFont and his wife, Peggy, provided a $50,000 challenge gift to help raise money for the new Steinway pianos. The gift was given in honor of Dr. Ann Stutes, Dean of the School of Music.

In recognition for their support of the All-Steinway Initiative, the LaFonts were hon-ored at a reception on Sept. 27.

For information on giving to the All-Stein-way initiative, contact the School of Music at 806-291-1076.

Representatives from Way-land Baptist University attend-ed the 17th annual National Philanthropy Day Awards Lun-cheon at the Lubbock Coun-try Club in November, where longtime Wayland supporters Cary and Sally Eaves were rec-ognized for their contributions to and support of the school and its mission.

In a prepared statement that was read in recognition of the Eaves, university officials said, “Wayland Baptist Univer-sity has no better friends and supporters than Cary and Sally Eaves. They are a complete package as they generously volunteer their time, share their resources and truly support every aspect of the university.”

A longtime, Plainview busi-

nessman, Cary, who graduated from West Texas A&M, is a partner in the Morgan-Eaves Agency. Sally, who graduat-ed from Wayland in 1975, currently serves as a member of the WBU Board of Trustees. She is also president of the Association of Former Students and a charter member of The Sally Society, a women’s philanthropy group at Way-land.

“Every university should be so fortunate to have the energy and enthusiasm of Cary and Sally Eaves working on their behalf. For their loyal and com-mitted efforts, Wayland Baptist University is honored to rec-ognize this humble, gracious couple for their extraordinary, philanthropic spirit.”

Sally, Cary Eaves recognized for contributions to WBU

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Christian love and sympathy is extended to the family and friends to these members of the Wayland family.

Cecelia Gibson: Died Oct. 9, 2012, in Lubbock, at age 81. She was the wife of DR. JOHN S. “JACK” GIBSON, former speech and theater professor at Wayland. She taught school in Lubbock, Pla-inview and Arlington for more than 30 years before retiring in 1993. Surviving are her hus-band of more than 60 years, a son, a daughter, a sister and two grandchildren. (5713 68th St, Lubbock, TX 79424)

Violet Laverne Guess May-field: Died Sept. 11, 2012, in Rowlett, Texas, at age 93. She was the mother of DR. ARCH MAYFIELD, BA’72, a member of the English faculty in the School of Languages and Literature at Wayland for 40 years and his wife, EDY LOU WILKENS MAYFIELD, BA’72, a teach-er at Estacado Junior High. She is also survived by two daughters, two brothers and

three grandchildren. (mayfiel-da@wbu.edu)

DR. MARVIN EMBRY TATE JR.: Died Nov. 16, 2012, in Louisville, Ky., at age 87. After teaching at Wayland in the 1950s, he was professor of Old Testament interpre-tation at Southern Seminary from 1960 until 1995, and then a senior professor until 2003. Surviving are his wife of 55 years, Julia, four daughters, a son and five grandchildren. (3212 Five Oaks Place, Louis-ville, KY 40207)

Dora Maye Todd: Died Nov. 25, 2012, in Allen, Texas, at age 90. She was the mother of DR. JIM TODD, Dean of the School of Education at Wayland, and was a pastor’s wife. Also surviving are two daughters, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. (toddj@wbu.edu)

COL. (RT.) ROBERT Mc-CLELLAN WRIGHT: Died June 10, 2012, in Albuquer-que, N.M., at age 67. He was a longtime employee at the Albuquerque campus and was instrumental in opening and running the Kirtland Air Force Base office for the last decade. Surviving are his wife, Marcia,

three stepsons, two stepdaugh-ters, two brothers, two sisters and several grandchildren.

1940sW.G. “BILL’ TUDOR, EX’45: Died Aug. 28, 2012, in Dallas, at age 86. A U.S. Navy veteran, he was a Certified Public Accountant for more than 50 years. He received a Ph.D. in history from Texas Christian University and enjoyed writing and teaching. Surviving are Mary, his wife of 63 years; a daughter, a son, two sisters, six grandchildren and five grandchildren. (9625 Brentgate Drive, Dallas 75238-1813)

1950sLAURA BROOKS HAR-RIS, BA’53: Died Sept. 1, 2012, in Lawton, Okla., at age 81. She taught children with learning disabilities and also was a Realtor. She enjoyed working with international students at Wayland. Surviv-ing are her husband, REED HARRIS, BA’56, former advancement officer and Alumni Director at Wayland; a daughter, CINDY HARRIS ADAY, BA’79, ministry as-sistant at First Baptist Church of Lawton; son-in-law, PHIL ADAY, BS’76, a dentist, and

a brother and two grandsons. (Cindy and Phil: 1602 NE 45th, Lawton, OK 73507; pcaday@sbcglobal.net)

HENRY BRUCE RICH JR., BA’54: Died Sept. 12, 2012, in Amarillo, at age 85. He served as a pastor in Oregon and later as a teacher and principal and then had a career with a subsidiary of IBM. He also served as a chaplain in Albuquerque, N.M. Surviving are three daughters, a son, eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. The family suggests memorials to the Missions Center, Wayland Baptist University, Box 1291, Plainview, TX. 79072.

2000sKATHY GIVENS, MA’09: Died Sept. 14, 2012, in Cros-byton, Texas, at age 61. She taught English at Crosbyton High School and was a guid-ance counselor with the Ralls and Lorenzo school districts and recently had headed up a new division at the Crosby County Juvenile Probation Department as the Youth Ser-vices Coordinator. Surviving are her husband Mickey, two sons, a daughter, a brother and two granddaughters. (114 RR 2, Crosbyton, TX 79322)

LISA JACOBS, BSOE’01: Died Oct. 25, 2012, in Lub-bock at age 49. She was a Sub-stance Abuse Counselor at the Serenity Center in Plainview. Surviving are a daughter, her mother, father and stepfather.

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LAURA BRANDENBURG, assistant professor of English, recently received her Ph.D. in Technical Communication and Rhetoric from Texas Tech University. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English and journalism from Angelo State University and her mas-ter’s degree in English, with an emphasis in linguistics, from Texas Tech. Her dissertation research used think-aloud protocol and reader-response theory as a framework for understanding how writers and readers co-construct the writer’s ethos – the essence of the writer’s character as well as her credibility or expertise. Her husband, Howell, is an account manager at Airgas for the West Texas region. (lbran-denburg@wbu.edu)

DEBBIE PRICE, ad-ministrative assistant in the School of Education, and her husband Mike welcomed a new grandson, Weston Daniel Price, on Oct. 19 in St. John’s

Ga., weighing 7 pounds, 14 ounces and measuring 20 ¾ inches. He is the son of Micah and Laura Price and has two brothers, Jaxon, 7, and Gavin, 5.

DR. LEE BAGGETT, BA’64, and his wife Ruthie, have been doing missionary work in Mexico for many years. He is a physician who operates Hands in Service Ministries. His Guadalaja-ra-based Manos Hermanas is currently distributing 45 tons of a lentil-based supplement through feeding projects with some 250 NGOs. Manos Hermanas will also distribute about 2,000 heavy, family-size blankets in the highlands of central Mexico to help needy people to sleep warmer this Christmas. “We open a friendship with them and share God’s love for them,” said Lee. He and Ruthie, a Baylor graduate, attended the Wayland Alumni and Friends Dinner at the Texas Baptist Convention in Corpus Christi in October. Their daughter, Dhana, and her husband Eric Cox have four children. (3005

Shores Court, Amarillo, TX 79109; lbaggett1@gmail.com).

SHELTON H. RIGGINS, BS’77, retired in July as a Command Sgt. Major with the U.S. Army after more than 35 years of service. Riggins served in several posts in the United States as well as in Kosovo. He was employed as a military technician for 26 years. He received many medals and honors, includ-ing the Meritorious Service Medal with 3 Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters. Shelton writes: “Coach Bill Hardage was an inspiration in my life. I talked with him often after I graduat-ed. My track teammates were great guys that included Jack Cheney, Ron Melnichuk, Cliff Addison, Stanley Chatman, Herman Evans and Jack Gilm-ore. Wayland was a good expe-rience for me. It allowed me to grow up, get a good education and make some good friends.” He lives in Bryan. He and his wife Tracy have three children. (rigrig@aol.com)

SHERMAN ATEN, EX’85, and four other men had the opportunity to share Christ through testimony and song to thousands of Muslims in Lahore, Pakistan in March and April, participating in a Good Friday service with Christians there before returning home. “Women are not yet participat-ing in these events, so Tammy was here praying,” Sherman wrote of his wife, TAMMY PAYNE ATEN, BM’85. The Atens, who have been in the evangelistic music ministry for more than 20 years, have a son and a daughter. (atenmin@juno.com; Aten Ministries, P.O. Box 5925, Granbury, TX 76049; www.a10s.org)

DR. MICHAEL DAVIS, BA’87 with Honors, was inducted into the Pampa High School Hall of Fame in September, addressing the stu-dent body in an assembly and later speaking at a community luncheon. He is the Nuclear Training Policy & Compliance Manager at the Nevada Test Site, near Las Vegas, where he currently works for National Security Technologies, LLC. Dr. Davis has received the Distinguished Young Alumni Award in 1997, the Distin-guished Benefactor Award at Homecoming 2011 and last April became the youngest recipient of the Keeper of the Flame, an honor given to those who have contributed $100,000 or more to Wayland.

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He has been the driving force for four endowed scholarships and has supported many other projects at Wayland. (mikeda-vis4@cox.net)

DR. KIRBY KENNEDY, BA’80, plans to start home dialysis soon as he awaits a possible kidney transplant after suffering from kidney issues most of his life. “I am a blood type B+ so anyone with Type O or B (the Rh factor does not matter) can begin the process to see if they can be a donor,” Kirby writes. When he informed his church – First Baptist of Palatka, Fla. where he is senior pastor – he re-ceived encouragement from a sermon “Where is God When It Hurts” from Habakkuk 3:17-19. CINDY GASAWAY DUNSMOOR, BA’81, has set up a Facebook page event called “Prayer for Kirby.” Folks can go to that open event and commit to pray at noon daily during December, he says. Kirby and his wife Debbie have two daughters. (kirbykennedy@yahoo.com)

LARRY LANDERS, BS’81,

who has been a salesman for Contractors Wholesale in Amarillo, has been diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer’s. His wife, JO ELYN TARV-ER LANDERS, BS’82, is the education secretary at First Baptist Church. Their oldest daughter, Allison, graduated from WTAMU with a degree in Special Education on Dec. 14. Their youngest daughter, Stephanie, attends nursing school at Amarillo College. Both girls assist with Larry’s care. (4122 Tucson, Amarillo, TX 79109; joelyn@firstam-arillo.org.

RONNIE ARRINGTON, BBA’96, and her husband JOEL ARRINGTON, a current online student, moved to Borger in July 2011. Joel is Pastor to Children and Fam-ilies at First Baptist Church and Ronnie assists with ministry as well as substitutes in the schools. They have four children – Hannah, Mala-chi, Kestra and Tyler. (103

Davenport, Borger, TX 79007; arringtonmom@yahoo.com; joel@firstborger.com)

DR. SHANE DAVIDSON, MBA’96, is new Vice Presi-dent for Enrollment Services at the University of Evansville in Indiana. A former financial aid director at Wayland, he has been Vice President for Enrollment and Marketing at Hardin-Simmons University the past 15 years. He is also was elected in May to the Abilene school board. He and his wife, AMY COATNEY DAVIDSON, MEd’97, who has been an elementary school teacher since 2000, have two sons.

PATTI GILBERT-BON-NER, BSOE’96, MBA’06 from the Amarillo campus, is a management analyst for DCMA Bell Helicopter Tex-tron in Amarillo. She also has a Master of Education from Strayer University and a Doc-tor of Education degree from Argosy University. She also is a volunteer for several organi-zations and peer reviewer for several professional journals. (Patti.Gilbert-Bonner@dcma.mil)

MANDI GRIFFIN LEWIS, BS’98, is an accountant for the Sherman Independent School District. She and her husband, Eric, who is studying to be a radiology technician after teaching agriculture for seven years, have a 4-year-old son, Hadley Max. (1403 S. Travis, Sherman, TX 75090; mandilewis1976@gmail.com)

JOSEPH MULLER II, AAS, BSOE’99 from the Wichita Falls campus, is the new business administrator for the Oriskany Central School District in Oriskany, N.Y. He will be directly responsible for managing the district’s $13 million budget, as well as serv-ing as the Board of Education clerk, district purchasing agent and records management officer. Muller most recently served as the director of dis-trict operations and safety for the Utica City School District. Prior to that he worked as a safety coordinator for the Oneida-Herkimer-Madison BOCES in New Hartford. A U.S. Air Force veteran, he and his wife Lori have three high school-aged children and live in Taberg. (4354 Sheehan Rd, Taberg, NY 13471)

KYLE REESE, BA’93, is in his sixth year as pastor of Hendricks Avenue Baptist in Jacksonville, Fla. and is serving on the search committee for a new executive coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. He and his wife, AMY GRISSOM REESE, EX’94, have three children – Peyton, 15; Hannah, 13; and

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Wyatt, 11. ( 2451 Sedgewick Place, Jacksonville, FL 32217; kyle@habchurch.com)

ANDY WEISS, BSOE’91 from the Hawaii campus, writes that “A good friend, who also was the production engineer for the VP8 Image Analyzer in the 1970s, opened a Shroud of Turin museum in Alamogordo, N.M., and asked me to create a website in 2009, ShroudNM.com. When the Shroud is processed through the VP8, which makes brightness maps, the image on the Shroud displayed is 3-di-mensional. This experience of being the webmaster and my exposure to the Shroud and its scientific study was the latest in my conversion process. This experience helped cause me to re-evaluate what many people believe is my call to become a deacon in the Catholic Church. I have started my second of four years in the program and if I am chosen to finish, I will be ordained in 2015.” A retired Air Force veteran, Andy says he enjoyed his Old Testament classes with Dr. John Brangenberg and Dave Boatman for many of his business classes as he com-pleted his degree in Hawaii. (melekali@msn.com)

TOM WHITE JR., BSOE’98, from the Wichita Falls campus, is the new direc-tor for the Medical Laboratory Technician program at Volun-teer State Community College in Gallatin, Tenn. He was previously clinical laboratory manager at McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas. Prior

to that, he was education pro-gram director at McConnell.

BRETT COX, EX’05, and RITA WILEY COX, MA ’09, are parents of twin boys, Chaucer (5 pounds, 6 ounces) and Miles (4 pounds, 3 ounces) who were born June 17, 2012, in Lubbock. Brett is manager of Harral Auditorium and Rita teaches at Floydada High School. Proud grandpar-ents are DEBBIE WILEY, MAR’03, the Theological Research and Writing Lab Director in the WBU School of Religion, and her husband Buddy. (coxb@wbu.edu; wileyd@wbu.edu)

BRANDON DOUGLAS, BA’06, recently completed his Master of Education degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Study from the Uni-versity of Texas at Arlington. He teaches Social Studies at Houston School in Plainview. While working on his degree, Brandon did his internship hours at Houston School and has passed all necessary state

exams and holds the princi-pal certification for the State of Texas. He hopes to work as an assistant principal and eventually a principal in an Alternative Education setting. (brandon.douglas@plainview.k12.tx.us)

LUPE GUTIERREZ, BSOE’02, MA’11, recently was promoted to the rank of major and changed duty stations from Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, to Ramstein Air Base,

Germany. Gutierrez was commissioned in June 2002 via the Air Force Officer Training

School and became a muni-tions maintenance officer. He has deployed in support of Iraqi Freedom and Endur-ing Freedom and his medals include the meritorious and commendation medals as well as the NATO medal. He and his wife, Georgia, have two sons.

APRIL WALKUP, BA’05 from the Albuquerque cam-pus, recently retired after 30 years as a police officer. She is

now a constable in Hunting-don, Pa., for the Common-wealth of Pennsylvania. Her daughter, Amber Hopkins, is a model in Las Vegas, Nev. April is spending her retirement traveling and volunteering. (aprilrain59@yahoo.com)

REBEKAH WILKINS-PE-PITON, BA’01, has been named executive director of the St. Lawrence County Arts Council in Watertown, N.Y. An artist working in a variety of mediums as well as an art educator, she taught high school visual arts in Colorado where she developed Pagosa Springs’ Fine Arts Magnet Academy and was Public Rela-tions and Marketing Director for Square Top Repertory Theatre. She also spent two years in the Peace Corps in Southeast Asia. Her work has been in galleries throughout the U.S. Her book Broken Cycles, a conversation between her photography and the poetry of Damon Falke, was published by Shechem Press in 2007. She and her husband, CHARLIE PEPITON, BA’01, live in Canton, N.Y.

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LANCE HEINEN, BA’12, accepted a graduate assistant position at West Virginia Wes-leyan College in Buckhannon, W. Va. as Outdoor Recreation Director. A former President’s Ambassador, Lance writes: “In short, my job now involves me being paid to go skydiving, whitewater rafting, hiking, skiing, etc. with students...not a bad gig at all!”

LORNA HASTINGS LYDICK, a junior at Wayland and KENNY LYDICK, BA’12, are parents of a son, Keenan Tate, born Dec. 5, 2012, in Lubbock weighing 6 pounds, 13 ounces. Lorna, who was named Freshman

of the Year in 2011, formerly worked in Admissions and Kenny is an intern for Baptist Student Ministries. (lydickk@wbu.edu)

JOSEPH SLEDGE, MA’12, and his wife Elizabeth wel-comed their first child, Eliana Ailene, born Sept. 10, 2012, in Lubbock, weighing 7 pounds, 15 ounces and measuring 22 ¼ inches. Joseph, who teaches at Terra Vista Middle School in the Frenship (Lubbock area) district, also just completed his masters in history last summer. His wife is finishing he final year at Texas Tech Medical School. (5301 51st St., Apt G3, Lubbock 79414; jsledge42@gmail.com)

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The Price is Right!Linda Pickens Price sits in front of the lockers in the newly remodeled Flying Queens lockerroom. Price, a former Flying Queen All-American, donated $25,000 to renovate the players’ facility. The renovation included new leather couches, a flat screen TV, a computer station, new lockers and more.

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Students enjoy newly renovated cafeteriaWayland Baptist University students

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rollment Management Dr. Claude Lusk, the university opened the cafeteria while renovation work continued on the rest of the university center.

“All along the order of priority was cafeteria first, (then) first floor, second floor and basement (Pete’s Place) following that,” Lusk said.

Renovations, which began over the summer, forced the complete closure of the university center and all the of-fices and functions associated with the building were moved to different places on campus. The bookstore and student services were moved to McDonald Hall while food services were moved to the Laney Center. Lusk pointed out that Sodexo, Wayland’s food services contractor, spent the first month of the semester cooking food in a makeshift kitchen and then transporting it to the Laney Center where tables were set up on the gymnasium floor for the students.

Lusk said that everyone associated with the university understood that there would be some inconveniences related to the renovation work. Howev-er, he continued, there comes a point where a sense of normalcy needs to return and he and others began to realize that time was approaching.

“We’ve got to finish this cafeteria,” he concluded.

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said, all efforts were made over a span of several weeks to get the cafeteria through the body of inspections that were required and to get the rest of the worksite moved to the point that people could safely move into and out of the UC. Thanks to the cooperation and determination of Wayland staff, construction contractors and represen-tatives from the city, the goal was met, he said.

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