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President’s Imprint

If I ever return to the weekly pulpit as pastor of a local congregation, I know one thing I will view differently—work.

Most of the time we pastors think of work as the work of the local church, the volunteer work needed to run the congregation and meet the needs of people in the community. Don’t get me wrong. This work is important stuff. And it needs to be done. But I realize after seven years out of the weekly congregational pulpit that most people spend the bulk of their time on a job. They are bankers and builders and bakers and brokers. Their work consumes their energy, interest, and creativity. And if I were their pastor today, I would seek to help them envision how God might right his world through their daily labor.

Some have suggested that work is a curse, the result of the fall in the Garden of Eden. But prior to their invasion of God’s tree, humans were already at work. And it appears that our work was not punishment but a gracious invitation to share in the creativity of God. We were tending, tilling, farming, harvesting, and caretaking God’s creation as partners in the management of the earth. As creatures made in the image of our Creator, we, like God, are workers.

Last night I was in Birmingham, Alabama, preaching at the Gardendale Church of the Nazarene. Following the service, I conversed with a man about his work. He was a sculptor. His art adorns a secular university campus. One of his

works is the sign of the fish, an early symbol of Christianity. Another prominently features triangles, the symbol of the unity and diversity of the Trinity. In each piece he crafted a reminder of God. Good work.

I work among people whose work is to prepare the next generation of workers. I see holiness in their labor. “Doc” Moredock wants Trevecca’s physician assistants to be competent in their care of a patient. Peter Wilson wants our counselors to be of help to troubled humans. Mary Ann Meiners wants our business graduates to understand micro-financing so they can participate in the economic transformation of the third world. Esther Swink wants future teachers to manage a school classroom with an appropriate authority for the sake of disciplined learning. Fred Cawthorne wants students to enter the scientific conversation with intelligence and faith that complement each other. Rob Blann wants people to read the great literature of the world with an eye that discerns God’s movements among humans.

I often find myself saying to those with whom I work, “This is good work we are doing.” I am coming to realize that it is also holy work. Where else on earth are workers being formed to go to their jobs with a God-honoring intent?

Good work

Dan L. Boone, D.Min.

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President’s Imprint ............................... Good work

Homecoming 2011 ..................................

Fall Celebration and Trevecca Showcase ...............................

Senator Elizabeth Dole accepts second

Nina Griggs Gunter Servant-Leader Award .....................................................

Campus News ........................................

Trevecca LIVE

School of Education

Vision

Training leaders

EPA grant

Leadership in the wild

Department of Music expands its offering

Students win in marketing contest

Trojan Talk .............................................

New athletic conference

Feature ...................................................

New responses to God’s call

Alumni News .........................................

Births, Marriages, News

Alumni and friends we will miss

Faculty-employee news

Where in the world...?

A great Trevecca story–A miraculous journey

Mission Nashville .................................

On the coverTrevecca students enjoy a sunset from the beach at Negril, Jamaica, during their mission trip there.

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Contents

Vol. 81 No. 4Winter 2011-2012

Dan Boone ’74President

Jan Greathouse ’67Editor

ContributorsJudy BivensMary Frances Hand EdD ’03Casey Johnson ’03/MBA ’10Tom Middendorf ’99Kathy Mowry ’85Roy PhilipGreg Ruff ’00

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November 4 and 5, 2011

Some traveled a long way. Some simply drove across town. Some brought family. Some came back seeking family—their college family. Some walked the sidewalks and remembered “the old days.” Some visited all the new parts of the campus and were amazed at the changes. Some attended every event. Some were going to events when they encountered long-lost friends and took the opportunities to catch up. Some had not been back to the campus in years. Some wondered why they had waited so long to return. Homecoming 2011—with its many opportunities for reconnection—reminded alumni that coming home to “the hill” helps them continue their own Trevecca stories.

Founder’s Day Chapel

Three persons received awards from the Trevecca Alumni Association in Founder’s Day Chapel— Lowell Clyburn ’63, Joe Moses ’61, and Paul Eby ’49. Each was introduced by a recorded message from a friend.

Lowell Clyburn ’63 received the T-Award for a minister. During his days as a Trevecca student, Lowell was known for being an excellent Greek student. “In fact,” said his friend, “when the Greek professor had to miss class, Lowell filled in for him.” From Trevecca Lowell served as pastor of four Churches of the Nazarene and later served as the superintendent of the Mississippi District and the Kentucky District of the Church of the Nazarene. Retired now, Lowell continues his ministry by serving residents of Trevecca Towers, and he teaches Sunday school at Trevecca Community Church of the Nazarene.

President Boone congratulates Lowell Clyburn, recipient of the T-Award for a minister.

Homecoming on the Hill


John Chilton ’64 provided a “snapshot of a truly remarkable man,” J. O. McClurkan, Trevecca’s founder.

Matt Taylor ’09 shared parts of his own Trevecca story during Founder’s Day Chapel.

Kim McLean ’06/MA ’08 told how Trevecca changed her own story and her music: “When I came here, I was broken; this place healed me.”

Paul Eby, recipient of the McClurkan Award (cen-ter), listens to a friend introduce him. Paul is sur-rounded by alumni president Kevin Ulmet (left) and President Boone (right).

President Boone congratulates Joe Moses, recipient of the T-Award for a layperson.

Joe Moses ’61 received the T-Award for a layperson. According to his friend, “Joe made a name for himself early in his Trevecca career” when—as a protest to poor cafeteria food—Joe started “Joe’s Meat & Three” in Tidwell Men’s Residence. Behind the locked door of his dorm room, said his friend, Joe provided “dorm-cooked” meals for his hungry roommates. Later Joe was a teacher and elementary school principal in Dayton, Ohio, and worked as a church musician. After retiring from public education, Joe spent ten years as part of the faculty of Trevecca’s School of Education and served as an ambassador for Trevecca.

Paul Eby ’49, formerly the owner of his own insurance business, received the McClurkan Award. Paul served Trevecca and his denomination in several roles. For twenty-five years, he was the minister of music at the McClurkan Church of the Nazarene, in Nashville, and he served on the Trevecca Board of Trustees and on the church board at First Church of the Nazarene. For twenty years, Paul and his wife were song evangelists in the Church of the Nazarene and traveled the South to sing in revivals and special church services. Paul later became the manager of Camp Garner Creek for the Tennessee District Church of the Nazarene.

President Dan Boone ’74 reminded listeners in the Founder’s Day Chapel that Trevecca really is a place where great stories begin. He described the “essence of Trevecca”: “It is the kind of place where people are encouraged to live in their own stories—to be rather than to seem.” Three alumni of Trevecca shared parts of some of those “great stories.”


The Trevecca Class of 1961 enjoyed their 50th-year reunion.

The reunion of the Trevecca Class of 1976+ had 135 attending.

Members of Trevecca’s volleyball teams and tennis teams from 1971 to 1976

reunited during homecoming.

President Boone speaks during the dedication ceremony for the new Alumni Center.

Alumni enjoyed the fellowship time following the dedication of the new building.

Dedication of the Alumni Center

Reunions

Homecoming photos are viewable at http://www.flickr.com/photos/trevecca.

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The Second Annual Fall Celebration and Trevecca Showcase, held October 21, 2011, was a day to remember the legacies left by others. The musical legacy of the Speer Family was celebrated in music and in fond remembrances. Allison Durham Speer led musical segments that included songs by former members of the Speer Family, and Faye Ihrig Speer ’74 recounted family memories.

Interspersed throughout the day were performances by artists whose careers were started with the Speer Family: (L-R) Bob and Jeanne Johnson, Sue Dodge, Joyce Black West, Mike Allen, and Karen and Doug Young with Faye Speer and Allison Durham Speer.

Fall Celebration honors the

musical legacy of the Speer Family

Moody ’59 and Nina Gunter ’58, ambassadors for Trevecca, served as hosts. Speakers included President Dan Boone ’74, student Mica Massie, and alumnus Mark Greathouse ’68.

The purpose of the day is to bring senior adults to Trevecca for a day of music and fellowship and to experience Trevecca firsthand.

The event is sponsored by Trevecca Legacy Partners, supporters who commit to include the University in their estate plans.

The Gunters invite senior adults to make plans to attend next year’s event—October 19, 2012. The Collingsworth Family will be the featured artists. Lindsey Haywood Huggins ’05 opens

the morning’s program with music.

Faye Speer tells about life in the Speer Family during an interview conducted by

Steve Hoskins ‘86.

Allison Durham Speer sings old favorites of the Speer Family.

Moody Gunter welcomes guests.

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When the Nina Griggs Gunter Servant-Leader Award was established in 2009, plans included using that award to recognize a woman whose life has demonstrated a commitment to servant leadership and to give a scholarship to a current female student at Trevecca who has also shown servant leadership during her years at Trevecca.

On September 15, 2011, the University conferred the second Nina Griggs Gunter Servant-Leader Award on Senator Elizabeth Dole in a special chapel service. Senator Dole, a graduate of Duke University and Harvard University Law School, has modeled servant-leadership in a distinguished career of service to her country and to humanitarian causes in positions in both government and the public sector. A native of North Carolina, she served five United States presidents and

held two Cabinet positions (Nixon and Reagan administrations). She was the first female elected senator from the State of North Carolina. She served eight years as president of the world’s largest humanitarian organization, the American Red Cross, the first woman since Clara Barton to serve in that role. She sought her party’s presidential nomination, the first viable female candidate from a major political party.

Vera Pendergraft, a senior from Bradenton, Florida, received the scholarship award. Vera, a social justice major, says that her

participation in on- and off-campus service organizations and in Trevecca’s international mission trips has been her effort to use the gifts God has given her.

In her remarks in chapel, Senator Dole recounted her own spiritual journey and her eventual “total commitment to Christ” that required a reevaluation of her life priorities. Her chapel remarks can be heard online at www.trevecca.edu/campus-life/spiritual-life/chapel. (Scroll until you locate the September 15 chapel podcast.)

Nina Griggs Gunter ‘58 presents the

student award to Vera Pendergraft.

Senator Elizabeth Dolereceives Nina Griggs Gunter Servant-Leader Award

Senator Elizabeth Dole speaks to chapel listeners in the

convocation center in the Boone Business Building.

ongoing dialogue between the cast and those interested in what’s going on at dear ’ole TNU.

Trevecca LIVE is more than another opportunity to share; it is a way for us to preserve the ongoing story of Trevecca. Yearbooks consolidate an entire year of events into a single volume. Newspapers condense weeks of activity into a few pages. Trevecca LIVE enables us to document special moments in an instant, allowing the Trevecca community at large not only to see summaries of what has happened but also to experience the Trevecca story as it unfolds. Years from now we will be able to look through the archives of this new form of documentation and relive these individual moments, complementing the past-tense tales of yearbooks and newsprint with the present-tense accounts of Trevecca LIVE.

From my personal perspective, Trevecca has already influenced my life with a force I did not expect. Trevecca has affirmed and strengthened my faith; it has expanded and deepened my knowledge; it has catalyzed life-changing and—I hope—lifelong relationships.

*Dillon, a sophomore majoring in both religious studies and psychology, is from Pleasant View, Tennessee.


Trevecca LIVEA daily voice Dillon Jones ’14*

What a weekend!This weekend has been incredible. My Greek New Testament arrived from Germany a month earlier than expected, I learned to make origami thumb hats, my childhood neighbor/ best friend/de facto

brother Daniel came up for a spontaneous free concert night, and then we found my old Game Boy and played Pokemon for several hours (and those are only the things that I was able to capture on camera). A Dillon Jones blog entry on Trevecca LIVE

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As we have with all new technologies, my generation wants to find the most appropriate and balanced ways to use social media—Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. A new Trevecca web site, Trevecca LIVE, is a University-sponsored effort that blends social media into a single source of quality information about Trevecca, information relevant for current students, prospects, and alumni.

Trevecca LIVE is the work of six “cast members,” who record our time here at Trevecca and are having a lot of fun in the process! We have different backgrounds and interests, we represent a wide range of organizations and activities, and we have unique styles. Some are skilled videographers, some are talented photographers, and some are practiced writers. Using other social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube, we post our many experiences on the vibrant Trevecca LIVE web site (www.treveccalive.com), so you can expect new content every day. Also, viewers are able to leave comments on our posts, and our responses create an


With the start of its new Fifth-Year Residency Program, the School of Education sought teacher candidates for the first cohort group. Specifically, the School wanted students who possessed two main attributes: They demonstrated a commitment to achieving excellence as teachers, and they wanted to close the achievement gap between urban and suburban school settings. Six education majors applied and were accepted for this new program.

The applicants will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in education and immediately begin residency- program classes in May. When the new school year begins for public school in July, these candidates will become team teachers in two urban schools. They will serve as residents to complete their training in the most authentic environment—the classroom. Working alongside their mentor-teachers, these students will learn and work in real classrooms, a partnership that will result in a win-win situation for schools, students, and teacher candidates. These six are excellent students and will be assets to the schools where they will teach while they receive training for an additional endorsement in English language learners (ELL) education. They will graduate a second time with a master of arts in education with an endorsement in ELL and a focus on urban studies.

Admission requirements for this elite group included a GPA of 3.0, a predetermined writing assessment score, documentation of positive experiences with children in service learning or practica, a successful admissions interview, three reference forms from professors, and Praxis tests required by the state for their particular area of teaching. These teacher candidates were chosen as a result of meeting all of these requirements along with demonstrating adherence to the mission of the School of

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Education which is “to model competence, character, and compassion so that our students emulate and embrace these qualities in service and leadership.”

The following teacher candidates who will graduate in May 2012 are the first members of the Fifth-Year Residency Program cohort.

Michelle Bergman, from Martin, Tennessee, will graduate with a degree in mathematics education. Michelle plans to teach math and work in children’s ministries.

Devon Eby, a native of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, is an elementary education major and plans to teach English language learners in Nashville.

Laurie Pegram, from White House, Tennessee, wants to use her degree in elementary education as a teacher and wants to earn administration certification.

Brooklyn, Iowa, is the hometown of Jordan Roberts. An elementary education major, Brooklyn plans to teach English language learners in Nashville.

April Smith hails from Logan, Ohio. Her major is early childhood education, and she also wants to pursue administration certification.

Monica West, from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, will graduate with a degree in English education. Her plans are to teach English and coach softball.

The School of Education is proud of these candidates and is excited about the prospects for their future success.

Select group of students to begin new education program

Participants in the School of Education Fifth-Year Residency Program (L-R): front—Jordan Roberts, Laurie Pegram, Monica West, Devon Eby; back—April Smith, Michelle Bergman


A partnership of Trevecca’s School of Education and Metro-Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) was awarded a $2-million grant, part of the Tennessee First to the Top Initiative. The Exemplary Leaders Residency Grant, distributed during the next four years, will fund career and leadership development opportunities for 36 of MNPS’s most effective teachers.

Teachers were selected in May and began the program with a Summer Intensive Induction Experience that included courses in the Teacher Leadership Program at Trevecca. This fall, the 12 candidates were placed in teams of three in four high-priority MNPS elementary schools—Napier, Cole, Amqui, and Churchwell. Residency Grant mentors are spending this school year working with first- and second-year teachers to provide additional instructional support and to focus on student achievement initiatives through an action research project in each school. Team 1 at Cole Elementary with principal Chad High is composed of Melinda Knott, Fran Smith, and Tesia Wilson. Team 2 at Churchwell Elementary with principal

Front row (L-R) Bernice Russell, Keri Davis, Keisha Becerra, Jennifer Strait, and Susan McGinnis Back row (L-R) Tiffany McKie, Torina McCord, Fran Smith, Melinda Knott, Tesia Wilson, Carol Malone, and Susann Williams

Department of Music expands its offerings

The fall semester of 2011 was an eventful one for the Department of Music. Jeff Cox joined the faculty as the part-time guitar and bass coordinator; he oversees guitar ensembles, teaches private guitar lessons, and advises students. Cox is a prolific performer and experienced teacher who also tours with Grammy-nominated artist Earl Klugh in addition to his duties at Trevecca. The department successfully launched a new vocal jazz/pop ensemble called Vocal Edge. Directed by John Ray, this group will be the department’s primary touring ensemble, presenting a commercial program in the public schools.

On the classical side, the department hosted the First Messiah Sing-along on Sunday, December 11. This Nashville-wide event featured the University’s Choral Union, Trevecca Master Chorale, and Trevecca Symphony Orchestra. These groups will also tour Scandinavia in June of 2012. They will perform Brahms’ Requiem as the centerpiece for those concerts and as the featured work of the department’s closing concert in the spring.

Michelle Hendricks includes Keri Davis, Torina McCord, and Tiffany McKie. At Amqui with principal James Morris is Team 3: Bernice Russell, Jennifer Strait, and Susann Williams. With principal Ronald Powe at Napier is Team 4: Keisha Becerra, Carol Malone, and Susan McGinnis.

Working with Trevecca on this partnership are alumni Earl Wiman EdD ’02, special projects, human resources, and Dave Moore, EdD, executive director for instruction.

School of Education and Metro-Nashville Public Schools—Partners to train education leaders


• The planting of and caring for edible fruit trees is the centerpiece of the Tree Corps. When the trees have been planted, youths from the community will be employed to care for the trees under the supervision of a Trevecca student.

• Brown’s Creek Restoration, the watershed stewardship aspect of the program, combines water assessments and restoration efforts to ensure that these communities have a healthful watershed.

Putting learning and skills to work—and winning!

A real-world marketing experience became a very profitable learning experience for three Trevecca students. Along with students from six other Christian colleges, Betsy Harris, Greg Steward, and Amy Taylor accepted the invitation to develop a marketing plan for Trade of Innocents, a new Hollywood movie about human trafficking to be in theaters this spring.

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• In the Growing Clean Air phase of this project,

students in these three schools will test air quality and learn how houseplants can improve indoor air quality.

• The Food Corps will expand gardening efforts at the three schools, teach composting, and provide more hands-on gardening opportunities for the children. Through this part students will become agents of change within their communities, many of which are “food deserts” because residents do not have access to healthful, fresh, affordable food.

Fruit, clean water and air, homegrown vegetables—New means of ministry

Planting edible fruit trees. Assessing water quality. Ensuring clean air. Expand-ing gardening opportunities. These activities comprise a new ecosystem edu-cation program led by Trevecca and funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This fall the EPA announced that Trevecca’s Morsch Center for Social Justice would receive a $40,000 grant to fund this program.

Trevecca juniors Amy Taylor, Greg Steward, and Betsy Harris hold the check for their winning entry in the marketing contest for Trade of Innocents.

These projects are central to the Morsch Center’s long-range plans to minister in the communities closest to the University campus. “This money will fund the dreams of the Center, projects that we, in the Center, have been talking about for some time. Realizing these dreams will help the Center and Trevecca live out the gospel in our neighborhood through environmental care and justice,” says Jamie Casler, director of the Center.

The four parts of this new program will be implemented in the Napier and Chestnut Hill communities and in three schools there—Napier Elementary, Cameron Middle, and Johnson Middle Schools.


For the first time, Trevecca freshmen explored the wilderness through a new program, Adventure Leap. This new initiative is an optional part of the Life Calling and Purpose course (the freshman seminar course) for new students. During the month of October, three different Leap (mentoring) groups set out on a two-night, three-day hiking and camping trip in the Savage Gulf, located at the South Cumberland Recreational Area. Accompanying each of the groups was a faculty/staff mentor and peer mentors who taught a leadership curriculum and the hiking/camping skills necessary for these trips.

Staying true to the Trevecca mission of emphasizing leadership and service, Adventure Leap students obtained an immediate opportunity to lead and serve one another as they prepared their own food, set up camp, hiked miles in a forest, and invested in getting to know one another. Students were provided with a unique experiential environment that set the stage for the following: Initiated a group of people to connect on a deeper, more intimate level; eliminated the distractions of society to create space for self-discovery; revealed the beauty

The movie’s marketing company instructed participating students to come up with ways to market the movie to a university-student audience and offered $50,000 in prize money.

Using the market research they conducted among students, the three came up with their marketing plan and entered it in the contest. On November 9, a representative of the marketing company for Trade of Innocents came to campus to present the students with their $9,500 prize in a surprise ceremony in the Alumni Center. A representative of Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam also attended and presented citations to the students for their accomplishment.

The students reported the value of the experience went beyond the monetary reward. For Greg, the exciting part was the teamwork aspect: “The three of us used our unrelated majors to work together to complete the job in a way that one of us could not have done alone.” Betsy appreciated what she learned about “the problem of human trafficking—in this country and in our city. A highlight of our research was a meeting with persons who are actively working to give victims of human trafficking a new start.”

of God and his character naturally through his creation; and built confidence and courage in the individual leader.

More and more technology pushes young people into being accessible on a constant basis, an accessibility which can be a distraction from more meaningful interactions with people. This experience allowed people to go back to the basics—to eat together, pray together, commune together, and ultimately live life together. What better way to begin learning leadership and service than to understand what it means to be in authentic relationship with others?

*Tom is the associate director of the Center for Leadership, Calling, and Service.

Learning leadership

in the wildTom Middendorf ’99*

women’s golf

The women’s golf team had a successful season. It made its first-ever trip to the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) National Invitational, where it finished seventh. In that contest Ashley Scism was 12th (of 41) individually. At the Trevecca Invitational, the Trevecca women finished third, and Ashley Scism was third (of 30) individually for Trevecca.

Ashley Scism, Whitney Phillips, and Maddie Privott were named 2011 NCCAA Scholar-Athletes, and Scism was named TranSouth Golfer of the Week.

men’s golf

The men’s golf team participated in the NCCAA National Championship and performed well on the national stage. In fact, Trevecca was poised to win after two rounds. The Trevecca team was third and only eight strokes out of


In early November, Trevecca’s athletic department learned that Trevecca had been approved as a charter member in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC), the newest NCAA Division-II athletic conference. The G-MAC is seeking approval from the NCAA.

According to athletic director Mark Elliott, joining a new conference was part of Trevecca’s plan: “This step is the logical next one for Trevecca in our process of moving through the NCAA candidacy stage and then moving toward full NCAA Division-II membership. The G-MAC schools are similar to Trevecca in a number of ways. The schools share similar missions, and from a diversity perspective, there is a good mixture of faith-based schools and public schools.”

Trevecca joins five other institutions as charter members of this new conference: Cedarville University (Cedarville, Ohio), Central State University (Wilberforce, Ohio), Kentucky Wesleyan College (Owensboro, Kentucky), Urbana University (Urbana, Ohio), and Ursuline College (Pepper Pike, Ohio).

The new conference will begin competition in the 2013-2014 academic year pending NCAA approval and the lifting of Division-II’s moratorium on new conference membership. The G-MAC would become the NCAA’s 24th Division-II conference.

If Trevecca stays on course, the 2013-2014 season will be its provisional year in the move to NCAA Division-II membership. The provisional year will allow Trevecca to compete for conference championships.

Trevecca joins newathletic conference

women’s Soccer

The women’s soccer team produced the best season in school history. No team has finished with more wins or a higher winning percentage. The 8-8-2 record earned the team top-seed and host honors for the 2011 NCCAA Mid-East Regionals. Unfortunately, Covenant edged Trevecca 2-1 in overtime at the regional semifinals.

Team members won significant honors. Five Trojans were named to the 2011 NAIA Scholar-Athlete Team: Taylor Beaulieu, Jessica Porter, Lindsey Robinson, Kayla VanEs, and Kate Worley. Eleven Trojans made the 2011 TranSouth Scholar-Athlete Team: Taylor Beaulieu, Aubrey Black, Erica Carroll, MacKenzie Cox, Lanie Foutch, Audra Fullen,

Jessica Porter, Audrey Robinson, Lindsey Robinson, Kayla VanEs, and Kate Worley. Lindsey Robinson, Brooke Gann, and Jordan Ponto made the 2011 NCCAA Mid-East All-Region Team.

Brett Armstrong, women’s soccer coach, has now won more games at Trevecca than any other coach in program history.

men’s Soccer

The men’s soccer team finished 8-8-1 and advanced to the 2011 NCCAA Mid-East Regional. The team won its opener against Tennessee Temple but lost to Oakland City in the semi-finals to finish 9-9-1. The nine wins are equal to the second most wins in school history. Only the 2003-2004 team produced more wins (10) in a season.

The men chalked up honors. Jonathan Baskin earned 2011 Capital One Academic All-District honors, and eleven players made the 2011 TranSouth Scholar-Athlete Team: Chet Hemenway, Alex Stagman, Darragh Bugter, Jordan Enix, Zachary Trobaugh, Javier Delgado, Dibran Rexhepi, Anthony Dikhtyar, Jonathan Baskin, Holland Clement, and Austin Halstead. Dibran Rexhepi was named a 2011 NAIA Scholar-Athlete. Jordan Enix, Donny Maciel, and Sisco Maciel made the 2011 NCCAA Mid-East All-Region Team, and Hayden Coffman was the TranSouth Defender of the Week once this season.


first place. The team shot a tournament-best 296 on the second day. The Trojans finished fifth overall (of 18). Joey Bradley was 13th (of 93) for Trevecca; William Potts was 17th. Trevecca also defeated Union for the third consecutive year at the annual Ryder Cup-style Greystone Cup challenge.

women’s Cross

Country

The women’s cross country team produced personal best times at almost every distance. The team also moved up the standings in nearly every event they entered. Three-harriers went to the NCCAA National Championship, and Emily Husted led the effort with an 87th-place finish. Rachel Mudd turned in a personal record time of 22:09 at the NCCAA Championship. Emily Smith earned NCCAA Scholar-Athlete and NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors. Audra Fullen joined her on the 2011 TranSouth Scholar-Athlete Team.

men’s Cross Country

All members of the men’s cross country team set new personal record times, and the team moved up its finish in many events. The best performance was Tyler Martin’s 10th-place finish at the Union Invitational. Three runners participated at the NCCAA National Championships, and Chauncey Arner was the top Trojan, placing 124th. Spencer Cole made the 2011 TranSouth Scholar-Athlete Team.

volleyball

The volleyball team surpassed most expectations with a 20-15 record and advanced all the way to the 2011 NCCAA Mid-East Regional Finals. The team advanced through pool play and defeated Campbellsville in the semi-finals. The season ended with a loss to Asbury in the finals.

Four players made the 2011 TranSouth Scholar-Athlete Team: Halley Wiggins, Jenna Robertson, Persephonie Devereaux, and Brittany Eller. Shelby Sorce and Jenna Robertson were named TranSouth Players of the Week. Robertson was named to the 2011 NCCAA Scholar- Athlete Team.


Immerse—An opportunity to experience the Kingdom of God

Summer of 2011 marked the launch of Trevecca’s newest mission program, Immerse. Nineteen students organized in teams spent twelve weeks immersed in places not like home—Vidrare, Sofia, and Razgrad, Bulgaria; and Sighisoara, Romania. They held youth camps, participated in church plants, worked in orphanages, taught English, interacted with students in local high schools, and preached, but they also figured out a new alphabet, studied language, and learned the skills necessary for life in places without many of the conveniences they have long thought essential.

The new program was the dream of Kathy Mowry ’85, holder of the J. B. Elizer Chair of Christian Ministry. She wanted students studying mission to have a longer and more realistic mission experience, one that would allow them to confront the inevitable disillusionment of culture learning and culture shock—and then work through it. Knowing that many Trevecca students have completed several one- or

Throughout its history Trevecca has fostered in its students an interest in mission work. That tradition is still carried out each year as Trevecca students and faculty members engage in wide-ranging mission efforts nearby and far away. Some Trevecca students assist with social justice efforts in the community surrounding the campus. Others devote their fall and spring breaks to mission endeavors in other urban areas or in rural communities. Other groups of students spend all or part of their summers in mission work in foreign countries. All of these students are responding in different ways to God’s call to all Christians—to go and make disciples. In the pages that follow are accounts of modern-day missionaries—Trevecca students who want to be part of God’s big plan for their world.

Trevecca’s mission tradition

New responses to God’s call

two-week mission trips throughout high school and college, Kathy wanted them to have a longer experience with completely different dynamics.

“As I watched the new student government officers line up across the front of the chapel for a prayer last spring,” Kathy said, “it struck me that more than half of Trevecca’s student government officers for the next year were about to spend their summer in Eastern Europe. These amazing, competent young leaders were about to empty themselves intentionally and spend a summer feeling incompetent, being babies in an unfamiliar place. I couldn’t help wondering what changes would mark them on their return and how their changes might impact a campus.”

Immerse team members had many firsts—and more surprises. Many had not done much cooking before the trip, particularly cooking everything from scratch. They shopped in the market, rode public transportation,

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One “make it/break it” trip to Bulgaria

Driving a stick shift for the first time across a foreign country? Check. Preaching week after week to a family church in which no one knows English? Check. Spending hours each day on hot public transportation fighting the urge to throw up? Check. Getting caught walking home in a hailstorm midsummer? Check. Getting fleas from the local street dogs? Check.

That short list of accomplishments was the start of a blog entry by Daniel Smith, a senior religion major from Hermitage, Tennessee, writing about his twelve-week summer mission trip to Bulgaria. But what stands out in that blog is Daniel’s account of the effects of his summer mission experience.

“I knew that this summer would most likely be a ‘make it or break it’ trip for me to decipher my calling . . . . I was hoping that I would fall in love with Bulgaria and living overseas while I was here, loving the food, accommodations, the atmosphere, the lifestyle, etc. While some of this is true, I did not feel completely at home while I was there. No storybook affirmation to my calling, I guess.

“However, never have I felt such a strong conviction on my life, a calling to spend a lifetime in fellowship with Christ in a place of the world that needs the most hope. It has become obvious to me that this place is not in America . . . . Away from the busyness of my “real life,” I have found my real self. God has sanded my rough edges, and he has been . . . bending me more and more toward the man he wants me to become . . . . As I examine my past and future, God’s fingerprints are evident on both sides of the present . . . . I know that my God will be faithful to me as long as I surrender myself to his will and take up my cross and follow him—wherever that may be.”

Students participating in Immerse 2011

Vidrare, Bulgaria Bethany Hill, Preston

Hunt, Davina Kinney, Vera

Pendergraft, Daniel Smith

Razgrad, Bulgaria Bailey Bussell, Katelyn Hays,

Johnna Hill, Jake Resor,

Graham Scott

Sofia, BulgariaLauren Boyer, Kathleen

Dunn, Dana Franchetti, Todd

Osborne, Jonathan Sharpes

Sighisoara, RomaniaMichael Follis, Katie Gibson,

Kate Worley, Evans Knowles


Recent Trevecca graduates have been influential in reopening the country of Croatia to the work of the Church of the Nazarene. On September 2, 2010, a group of new graduates landed in Zagreb, Croatia, committed to living there for a year, learning language, building relationships, seeing where God was already at work, and imagining what it would look like for the Kingdom to come in that place. Though the Church of the Nazarene has had a previous work in Croatia, five years have passed since the Church had a presence there. The home church members from the time had dispersed among other Christian churches. After receiving requests for the Church of the Nazarene to return to Croatia, the denomination’s field directors for Central Europe invited Trevecca to form a team of recent mission graduates to help them respond to the requests. Mission professor, Kathy Mowry ’85, sounded the call, and Brittany Argabright ’10, Hope Brock ’10, Emily Humble ’10, and Jerry Romasco ’10 responded.

During the early months in Croatia, the team was welcomed and aided by other Christian groups, but they also experienced firsthand some of the challenges of being new in a place and having to initiate relationships at the same time that they were trying to learn to live and to speak Croatian, a very difficult language. The group built friendships through Ultimate Frisbee, soccer, and volunteer activities.

During fall break in October 2011, ten students and two professors spent a week in Trinidad and Tobago in order to learn about social work and social justice issues in a different culture. From their base at the West Indies Theological College (WITC) in Trinidad, the students visited social service agencies, a public school for the blind, and a retirement home. They also devoted a large part of their week to painting a facility on the campus. Evenings were spent attending classes with WITC students.

Five months after the group arrived, the Church of the Nazarene sent Dave and Betsy Scott, who had been doing similar work in France, to provide a long-term presence for the work in Croatia. At the end of the first year, the original four from Trevecca returned to the States and were replaced by two 2011 Trevecca graduates: Stephanie Sherwood ’11, a social work major; and Ben Ponder ’11, a religion major. Today the Scotts and Stephanie and Ben are working with Croatian leaders to shape a new organization that is the official presence of the Church of the Nazarene. They are becoming increasingly involved in several orphanages. They are dreaming of a community center where people can have a place to belong, engage in theological discussions, take language classes, find support for their families, and have coffee together—a key social and relational practice for Croatians. In addition, the group hopes to begin a thrift store that provides affordable clothing and an opportunity for people to recycle things they no longer need.

Friends or alumni of Trevecca who want to support these exciting developments in Croatia may give online at trevecca.edu/Croatia.

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in TrinidadOne student summarized the week’s experiences in this way: “I have loved my time here. We have seen a culture that is very different from our own and yet with many underlying similarities. I have loved trying the new foods, learning island dances, and forming new relationships with the people. We have all been struck by how generous and hospitable the people are here in the island and hope that we can learn a thing or two about what it means to be a host and love one’s ‘neighbor.’”


First TAG Team to India: Front Row (L-R) — Tiffany Thornton, Casey Kania, Delaina Lantz, Allyssa VanArsdale, and Lauren Dennis. Second Row (L-R) — Brielle Fox, Bryce Fox, Jessica Atwood, Erin Holt, Hannah Crouch, Alyssa Ponder, Kelly Huddle, Erin Gardner, Heather Halstead, Leslie Speer, and Roy Philip.

In May, Trevecca sent its first mission team to India: sixteen students and co-sponsors/Trevecca faculty members Roy Philip and Bryce Fox. The team conducted a vacation Bible school (VBS) for 500 girls in Coimbatore, India (in the southern state of Tamilnadu), in the Michael Job Orphanage, headed by P. P. Job, formerly president of Voice of the Martyrs, who started this orphanage in memory of his sons who died. The orphanage serves girls because girls are often considered a “burden” in many places in India.

Trevecca students conducted a six-day VBS for these girls—liv-ing, eating, and playing with them. Before leaving for the United States, the team returned to Chennai to visit another or-phanage run by World Vision; they also visited the United States Consulate and participated in a question-and-answer session for Indian students who were inter-ested in studying in America.

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TAG trip to India

Pastors and laypersons in the Southeast interested

in celebrating and chronicling the history of their churches are

invited. This day, a celebration of Trevecca’s heritage and

the histories of Churches of the Nazarene in the Southeast,

will include a reception, chapel, and lunch. Additionally,

participants may take two workshops focusing on the tools

and techniques necessary for preserving a church’s history.

For details, go to http://www.trevecca.edu/library/archives

Telling Your Church’s StoryThursday, March 22, 2012

Sponsored by the Thrasher Archives and the Office of the Chaplain

More information is available from Andrea Gales, archivist and special collections librarian, at [email protected] or 615-248-1798.

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TAG Team:Using spring break to share hope


For the last two years, Trevecca has taken a Trevecca Around the Globe (TAG) team to the clear blue waters of the Caribbean during spring break. This year’s group traveled to Frome, Jamaica, where students helped with the construction of the Gamertsfelder Mission Center, a clinic, and participated in outreach to the many tourists visiting the beaches of Negril. An added bonus was time spent with the youths of the community at sports courts and in a vacation Bible school.

The outreach included four concert events, and Trevecca students engaged persons who came to hear the music. They had the opportunity to share stories, offer encouragement, and pray with some of the tourists who attended the concert. The students connected with people from the U. S., Germany, Iceland, and France. One of the team members prayed with a young Canadian “spring breaker” on the beach and reported, “The woman was really inebriated; I didn’t know if she’d even remember meeting me, but I prayed with her anyway. When we got back to the States, I had a Facebook friend request from her, and she said, ‘I don’t know if you’ll remember me, but you prayed with me on the beach . . . .’”

Participants report that the best thing about every TAG trip is seeing God at work in other settings. “The best thing about this TAG trip was that we saw God use this one place to send hope back to so many other places,” said one.

Aaron ’91 and Michelle Snodgrass of Hendersonville, Tenn., triplet daughters— Annabelle Grace, Hattie Mae, and Mazie Jane, born 12/15/09. The triplets were welcomed by proud brothers, Alec (8) and Wyatt (5), and proud grandparents Bob ’68 and Joyce Snodgrass. Aaron is director of the supply chain for Hunt Brothers Pizza, and Michelle is a school psychologist for Sumner County Schools.

Jason ’98 and Stacey Staudinger of Thornton, Colo., a son—Tavin Chase, born 4/22/11. Tavin is welcomed by big brother Brennan. Jason was formerly the campus pastor at Westminster Nazarene, and Stacey, a physician assistant at Denver Health, is completing her studies for a broker’s license.

Nathan Tutt of Columbia, Mo., and Phebe Braik ’99 of St. Louis, Mo., were united in marriage on 4/2/11. Phebe is a realtor with Century 21 Advantage. Nathan works for the USDA. They reside in Columbia, Mo.

Tom ’99 and Jessica Downs Middendorf ’00 of Nashville, Tenn., a daughter—Marley Lane, born 10/1/11. Tom is the associate director of the Center for Leadership, Calling, and Service at Trevecca, and Jessica works in the School of Education.

Josh ’01 and Monica Pepper Landen ’01 of Smyrna, Tenn., a daughter—Annelise Lauren, born 7/17/10. Josh teaches history at Ravenwood High School in Williamson County, Tenn. Monica stays home with Annelise. Proud grandparents are Leroy ’70 and Martha Moore Pepper ’69. Annelise was adopted as an embryo through Bethany Christian Services and the National Embryo Donation Center in Knoxville, Tenn.

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Daniel and Charissa Lynch Yusi ’02 of Nashville, Tenn., a son—John Alexander, born 6/13/11. Alex was welcomed by big brother Bennett and big sister Norah. Daniel owns and operates his company, MyTechGenius, and Charissa home-schools Bennett and Norah.

Tim Jackson ’03 and Melissa Snyder were married on 10/15/11 at First Church of the Nazarene in Nashville, Tenn. Tim is an academic advisor in the College of Lifelong Learning at Trevecca, and Melissa is the director of creative services at Trevecca.

Will Partin ’03 and Audrey Leatherman Partin ’04 of the Dominican Republic, a daughter—Ruby Ann, adopted in the fall of 2011. Will and Audrey are serving as missionaries through G. O. Ministries, Inc.

Jamie Holloway ’08 and Vince Malaney were married in Westover, Md., on 10/22/11.

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Who are your Trevecca “work buddies”?Currey-Ingram School, located in Brentwood, Tennessee, has a large group of Trevecca alumni who are employees. They posed for the Treveccan on the Currey-Ingram campus.

If you work with several Trevecca alumni, send a photo of the group to [email protected] with a photo caption that identifies the members of your group.

Back Row (L-R): Rachel Herrera ’08, Eli Parrot MMFT ’10, Eric Johnson ’05/MBA ’10, Bev Fulkerson ’80, Rob Killen ’96. Front Row (L-R): Stephanie Cutrer MA ’13, Terri Mills MEd ’04, Felicia Weishaar ’99, Levi Hamilton ’02 MA ’07. Not Pictured: Ryan Chavez Richmond MEd ’07, Jennifer Seay MA ’04, Eric Vinson ‘05, Lee Warbel EdD ’11.



Alumni Connecting

Paul Eby ’49 (See p. 4 & 5.)

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Nina Griggs Gunter ’58 (See p. 7 & 8.)

Moody Gunter ’59 (See p. 7.)

Toby Williams ’59, the eligibility chairman for the TranSouth Conference from Trevecca Nazarene University, gave a tribute to E. L. Hutton, who was inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame. Toby served as the faculty athletic representative and eligibility chair for the conference for the entire length of Hutton’s time as commissioner.

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Joe Moses ’61 (See p. 5.)

Lowell Clyburn ’63 (See p. 4.)

John Chilton ’64 (See p. 5.)

Five Trevecca alumni had articles featured in the October 2011 Holiness Today: LeBron Fairbanks ’64, Harold Ivan Smith ’69, Kevin Ulmet ’81, Michael Johnson ’82, and Andy Woods ’96/MA ’01.

Mark Greathouse ’68 (See p. 7.)

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Faye Ihrig Speer ’74 (See p. 7.)

Corlis McGee ’75, president of Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Mass., was selected as the first recipient of the South Shore Women’s Business Achievement Award in Boston, Mass. The award recognizes a businesswoman who exemplifies the South

Shore Women’s Business Network’s commitment to helping other women grow and develop professionally.

Patricia Stephens-Pride ’75 recently retired in Memphis, Tenn., after serving as educator for 38 years.

Bill Hall ’76 is the director of patient financial services at The Regional Medical Center (The MED) in Memphis. Darla Brower Hall ’82, Bill’s wife, is the admissions director for the graduate program at Union University (Memphis Campus). They attend Calvary Church of the Nazarene in Memphis. Their daughter, Brittany Hall ’08, is employed as a substance abuse social worker for the Davidson County penal system in Nashville. Their son, Devin, is a junior at Union University.

Robert Dodd ’77 leads “Men of Honor,” a support organization for men from 20 to 70 years of age. Members of the group meet to support each other and to give back to the community. Robert has 22 years of experience as a pastor and years of counseling experience.

Randy Carden ’78, professor of psychology, had his oil painting “Magenta” accepted into the PennyRoyal Juried Art Exhibition in Hopkinsville, Ky.

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Bev Fulkerson ’80 (See p. 22.)

Becky Hulstine Garner ’81 (See p. 30.)

Kathy Lewis Mowry ’85 (See p. 16.)

Steve Hoskins ’86 (See p. 7.)

Tom Greene ’88 is now the station manager at WIBI in Carlinville, Ill.


Paul Vann ’95 sang the theme song for the “Where in the World is Matt Lauer?” segment on the NBC Today Show’s fall segment of the same name.

Kip Brown ’96 is the new coach of boys’ basketball at Pope John Paul II High School in Hendersonville, Tenn., after serving as the assistant coach there for the past six seasons.

Rob Killen ’96 (See p. 22.)

T. Bre Jackson MHR ’97 has founded DemmeHouse, Christian Publishing for Women, a publishing house dedicated to advancing the writing of women “who reveal light through their book’s message.” More

information can be found at www.demmehouse.com.

J. Russell Frazier M.A ’89 graduated from the University of Manchester, Nazarene Theological College, in England, with a PhD. His thesis is entitled The Doctrine of

Dispensations in the Thought of John William Fletcher (1729-1785). He is the pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene in Paducah, Ky. ………………………………………………………

Rachel Williams Hester ’90 received one of the 2011 “academy awards” of the nonprofit community in Nashville. She was named Bank of America CEO of the Year at the annual Bank of America Salute to Excellence this fall. As the executive director of Room in the Inn’s Campus for Human Development in Nashville, Rachel leads multiple programs that meet the needs of Nashville’s homeless population.

Susan Hyde Van Hook ’93 has published a Bible study of I Kings 17-II Kings 2, Elijah: Hearing God in the Midst of Life’s Drama, available from www.westbowpress.com.

Brad Kelle ’95, professor of Old Testament at Point Loma Nazarene University, translated the Book of Judges for a newly released Bible translation, the Common English Bible. He is currently writing the scholar’s notes on the Book of Judges for a study Bible version of the Common English Bible. Brad co-authored Biblical History and Israel’s Past: The Changing Study of the Bible and History with Megan Bishop Moore; that book was released by Eerdman’s Publishing Co.

Coming soon: Annual alumni survey

In February and March, graduates of the following years can expect to receive the annual alumni survey:persons who graduated in December 2010, May 2011, and August 2011, and those who graduated in December 2006, May 2007, and August 2007.

Graduates will receive a postcard with the survey details as well as an e-mail for graduates with a current personal e-mail address on file with Trevecca. All eligible graduates who participate in the survey will be included in a drawing for $200. The winner will be contacted by March 31, 2012. Last year Sarah McCall MEd ’10 won the $200 prize.

Trevecca’s Office of Institutional Research uses information from this survey to gather data regarding alumni employment and continuing education. Your participation is very important and much appreciated.

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Felicia Weishaar ’99 (See p. 22.)

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Rosanne Sanford MEd ’00, who has had a 33-year career in public education, is the principal of the new Carmel Elementary School in the Clarksville-Montgomery County (Tenn.) School System, scheduled to open in August 2012.

Levi Hamilton ’02/MA ’07 (See p. 22.)

Brannon Hancock ’02 graduated from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, with a PhD in literature, theology, and the arts on

6/28/11. He was ordained an elder in the Church of the Nazarene on 7/15/11. Brannon and his wife, Gloria (Barrett) ’02, serve at the Church of the Nazarene in Xenia, Ohio.

Earl Wiman EdD ’02 (See p. 11.)

Kevin B. Harper ’03 is the men’s varsity basketball coach at Davidson Academy in Nashville, Tenn., for 2011. Heather Mattson Harper MEd ’05, his wife, is the new director of retention support services at Volunteer State Community College.

Andy Lyons MEd ’04 became the new principal at Byrns L. Darden Elementary School in Clarksville, Tenn., in August 2011. He had been serving as assistant principal at that school.

Terri Mills MEd ’04 (See p. 22.)

Jennifer Seay MA ’04 (See p. 22.)

James Storie ’04 was omitted from the list of math majors (Treveccan, Fall 2011) who have earned master’s degrees. The editor apologizes for this omission.

Lindsey Haywood Huggins ’05 (See p. 7.)

Eric Johnson ’05/MBA’10 (See p. 22.)

Eric Vinson ’05 (See p. 22.)

Kim McLean ’06/MA’08 (See p. 5.)

Kelley Pujol MHR ’06 is the new College of Lifelong Learning coordinator at Columbia State Community College, in Columbia, Tenn. Kelley is enrolled in the EdD Program at Trevecca.

LaDonna Shelley Gough MEd ’07 has been promoted to assistant principal at Crestview Middle School in Cordova, Tenn.

David Allen Minnick ’07, from Melbourne, Fla., is now a second lieutenant in the US Army. At Trevecca, David lettered in soccer all 4 years and served in multiple leadership roles in student government. David earned an MBA at the Florida Institute of Technology, and he was later awarded numerous citations for outstanding service, leadership and scholarship by the Army. In November David began training at Fort Rucker, Ala., to become an aeromedical evacuation officer (pilot). David’s proud foster parents are Stuart ’79 and Teri Rowan.

Ryan Chavez Richmond MEd ’07 (See p. 22.)

Stephen Reynard ’07 is living in Bunia, Eastern Democratic Republic Congo, where he works in sports4hope, a ministry that he and his brother started. As an effort to bring reconciliation to youths from three communities involved in a 2003 massacre, the brothers are leading a sports and peace education program.

Rachel Herrera ’08 (See p. 22.)

Melissa Gomez EdD ’09 is the new assistant professor of health and human performance at Austin Peay State University (APSU). She most recently was associate dean of student affairs at Hopkinsville (Ky.) Community College. From 2005-2008, Gomez was coordinator of New Student Programs at APSU, becoming director in 2008.

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hand-washed their clothing, and dealt with illnesses, doctors, and pharmacies in places far from the comforts of Mama’s chicken soup. They learned that preaching a sermon through a translator in the yard of a village home with chickens meandering around is a bit different from preaching a sermon in a classroom for their peers. They had to rely on new Bulgarian, Romanian, or Roma friends for help, but they also learned to rely on the Lord in new ways. Jake Resor summed up his experience: “When removed from all familiar sources of emotional, spiritual, and mental ‘food’ and support, I learned what it was to truly wait on the Lord. I learned the importance of prayer, reading Scripture, confession, and reflective thought. I was forced to learn where our ‘daily bread’ really comes from.”

In early August, the students returned to Nashville and plunged into student government assignments and preparation for a new school year. For many, the reentry was difficult, and meshing these new experiences with their old lives was an emotional and time-consuming process.

“I see deep changes in the lives of these students,” says Kathy. “For some this summer was about discovering their gifts and calling, but for all of them, it was a summer of seeing the Kingdom of God bursting into the present in unfamiliar and unexpected places. They may forget things they learned in a classroom, but they won’t forget that. It has become part of the fabric of who they are.”

Continued from page 16Brittany Argabright ’10 (See p. 18.)

Hope Brock ’10 (See p. 18.)

Emily Humble ’10 (See p. 18.)

Eli Parrot MMFT ’10 (See p. 22.)

Jerry Romasco ’10 (See p. 18.)

Ben Ponder ’11 (See p. 18.)

Stephanie Sherwood ’11 (See p. 18.)

Lee Warbel EdD ’11 (See p. 22.)

Curtis Watkins ’11, a 12-year police department veteran and a graduate of Trevecca’s Criminal Justice Program, has been promoted to lieutenant by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department and assigned to the Background & Recruitment Unit.

Nick Eagles, current student, and his video crew—brother Zach ’10 and brother-in-law William Kearce, current student—are still making videos and winning contests. Their videos recently won contests sponsored by Tasty Image Chocolate, Shopathome.com, Orbitz Travel, and Horizon Milk. They already have their video ready for the Doritos’ Superbowl Contest. View one of their entries at http://www.crashthesuperbowl.com/#/gallery?video=11119. Friends can vote for their entry when Doritos opens online voting in January.

Stephanie Cutrer MA ’13 (See p. 22.)


Three members of the Trevecca campus family—Susie Barnes (Financial Services) and Matthew Huddleston (science faculty) and his wife, Kelly—participated in a relay race from Chattanooga to Nashville on Nov. 4 and 5. The race began on Friday and continued through the night, ending on Saturday.

Graham Hillard, creative writing instructor, has been awarded a fellowship by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA). He will be one of 25 select artists focusing on their own creative projects at this working retreat for visual artists, writers, and composers. Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in rural Virginia, the VCCA serves more than 350 artists annually, enabling them to make significant contributions to the creative arts in the U. S.

Faculty-Employee News

Tim Johnson, professor of exercise and sport sciences, was instrumental in implementing the Walking Works for Schools Program in Tennessee public schools. Through Johnson, Trevecca was a partner with the Office of the Governor of Tennessee, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Tennessee, and several other organizations to promote this health initiative across the state.

Trevecca science professor Matthew Huddleston (left) begins a leg in the relay race from Chattanooga to Nashville.

Merle Hutcheson Stanford Davis ’23 of Hermitage, Tenn.—11/19/11 Merle was Trevecca’s oldest living alumna. She died at age 104.

E. Bernice Brakefield Maish ’40 of Xenia, Ohio—11/6/11

Mary Catherine Steenbergen Balof ’41 of Russell, Ky.—9/27/11. Mary and her husband, Ted, were in the grocery business for many years in Ironton, Ohio. Mary also spent several years as an employee and tailor at McConnell’s clothing store in Russell, Ky.

Genevieve McMackin Cubie ’48 of Mount Vernon, Ohio—9/8/11. Genevieve served as a faculty member at Mount Vernon Nazarene University for almost 20 years.

Dorothy Tripp Peters ’50 of Orlando, Fla.—6/29/10

Thomas Cooper Jr. MA ’09 of Nashville, Tenn.—10/16/11.

Grace C. Bentley of Bethany, Okla.—9/14/11. Grace, a former Trevecca employee, was a woman of strong faith who touched many lives. Her passing left a great void for all who knew and loved her.

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Frank ’70 and Sylvia Jamison Ruckman ’67, Ken ’66 and Linda Hill Walker ’67, Nancy Cauthron, Sharron Shands ’63, Winnie Nhlengetwa, and Jimmy and Brenda O’Neal Haynes ’69 sing the Trevecca Alma Mater while on a missions trip to Manzini, Swaziland.

Larry ’77 and Ladonna Brinkman wore their Trevecca shirts while visiting Schloss Neuschwanstein in Schwangau, Bavaria. They were in Germany to celebrate the first birthday of their grandson, Braeden. Their son, Jonathan, is stationed in Afghanistan. The Brinkmans are retired and reside in Centre, Ala.

Members of the Hastings family are having fun in their Trevecca gear at Epcot in Florida. Pictured are Matt ’98/MA ’07 and Kerri Attig Hastings ’95 and their four children: Bailee, Emily, Matthew, and William.

Cathy Crump MHR ’99/MA ’01 is pictured enjoying semi-retirement with her granddaughters Ceresa and Katara at Trunk or Treat at Faith Lutheran Church, Thompson’s Station, Tenn.

Alan and Carolyn Smith, retired employees of Trevecca, wore Trevecca shirts while visiting Savannah, Ga., in October. In the picture, they are sitting at “The Waving Girl” statue along the Savannah River.

Roy Philip, marketing professor, and his sons, Caleb and Josiah, proudly display their Trevecca shirts at Chennai Beach while in India this summer. Jooly Philip, Roy’s wife and Trevecca English professor, took the picture.

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My journey as a student at Trevecca took me from a non-Christian home, a home of chaos and turmoil where love, acceptance, and tolerance were nearly nonexistent. At Trevecca I was thrust into a world where I watched young people walk their faith 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They did not walk their faith perfectly, but their examples showed me the reality of what Jesus could do in a life given to him. I had attended church most of my life and had heard teaching about Christian ethics and character. But it was not until I became a part of that very special campus family that I began to internalize that peace and order in Christ Jesus can initiate a different reality that can literally change a life and the world.

All those life lessons most children receive at home came to me from my Trevecca family. Gentleness, kindness, loyalty, devotion, patience, dedication, benevolence, faithfulness, gratefulness, humility, integrity, perseverance, temperance, virtue, excellence, zeal—the list is endless. But perhaps the most valuable of all the gifts I received was plain old brotherly (and sisterly) love. All those students and professors who passed through my life during those four short years became the most valuable teachers I’ve ever known.

I have often wondered if they had any idea the profound influence they made on that very broken and painfully naïve

young woman all those years ago. It was by a miracle I found myself at Trevecca. It was by a very great grace that I became a part of a very special group of people who walked that hill from 1977 to 1981.

There is a before and after for each of us every day because our lives are transformed a little bit with each passing moment. But some of the transition times are marked by the very clearly defined handprint of God. For me, those people who moved through my life during the span of my four years of college made that handprint on my life. I will be forever grateful to each of those persons for being the vital, life-changing instruments of God, for demonstrating life in God’s family in all its many aspects and helping this young woman begin the journey of a lifetime—as a part of a true and eternal family.

*Becky lives in Fort Myers, Florida, with her husband, Van, the senior pastor of the North Fort Myers Church of the Nazarene. Becky, who serves as the associate pastor, is completing the last two classes for ordination as an elder. Becky and Van have four children.

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Since its founding in 1901, Trevecca has had a strong history of training people to lead, serve, and minister to others. This legacy of leadership and service is at the heart of Trevecca. It’s in that spirit the University is launching Mission Nashville, a summer urban immersion camp.

Mission Nashville will provide churches with a fully organized mission trip for their youth—an opportunity for teens to see real need fi rsthand and respond to God’s command to be his hands, feet, and heart to others.

Each evening corporate worship will be led by guest speaker Matt Hastings and Trevecca’s bands, Refuge and EverPraise. Students will have the opportunity to make new friends, have fun, and spend time with youth from all over the country who share a passion for ministry to others.

Registration for Mission Nashville opens January 16, 2012. The $150 cost per student includes lodging and meals. Mission Nashville will be a life-changing experience, and you don’t want your youth group to miss it!

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