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L E TO U R N E A U U N I V E R S I T Y
FALL 2012
a message from the president
When I came to LeTourneau University as president five
years ago, I was drawn here by the unique heritage and
mission of this place. One of the few remaining, truly
Christ-centered colleges, LeTourneau University was
founded not by a religious denomination nor by a church
leader, but by a businessman who saw God as his partner.
For R.G. LeTourneau, his engineering work was like worship to the God who created him and gave him his unique
abilities as one of America’s great inventors. He was a
man of unapologetic faith and incomparable ingenuity,
and he called his generation to do things bigger and better
while always giving God the glory for each achievement.
On Sept. 17, we announced a historic moment in the life
of LeTourneau University when we went public with the
university’s first university-wide, comprehensive funding
campaign to raise $27.5 million by December 2014. The
campaign is called “For Such a Time as This,” and it is the
most ambitious in the university’s history, providing funding for programs, scholarships and facilities.
As Mr. LeTourneau understood, Jesus Christ is Lord of all.
He is the Lord of the workplace and Lord of the marketplace. LeTourneau University has the opportunity to change
our culture by graduating professionals, in many fields, who
will see their daily work as God-honoring worship.
LeTourneau University is a university with a big vision:
Claiming every workplace in every nation as their mission
field, LeTourneau University graduates are professionals of
ingenuity and Christ-like character who see life’s work as a
holy calling with eternal impact.
Just as Mordecai challenged Esther to consider whether
God had placed her in a position of influence “for such a
time as this,” our campaign invites everyone to join in the
work that God is doing here at LeTourneau University.
R.G. LeTourneau stood firm on the promise of Matthew
6:33: Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.
LeTourneau University continues to stand firm on that
promise.
I hope you will partner with us in this vision to claim the
workplace for Jesus Christ. Seek God first in your workplace, in your family, in your church, in every aspect of
your life. And I ask that you prayerfully consider how,
for such a time as this, you can help make this campaign
successful with your financial gift. All gifts received before
Dec. 31 count toward 2012.
To hear what some of our students have to say about the
new campaign, go to http://campaign.letu.edu.
The new missionary is the civil engineer, the classroom
teacher, the accountant, the nurse and the aviation technician who commit their work to the Lord.
Follow me on Twitter: @dalelunsford
Facebook: www.facebook.com/dalelunsford
Blog: letupresident.blogspot.com
O
NW
“BEHOLD, NOW IS THE ACCEPTABLE
TIME; BEHOLD NOW IS THE DAY OF
OUR SALVATION.” —II Cor. 6:2
LETOURNEAU UNIVERSITY
DALE A. LUNSFORD, Ph.D. PUBLISHER
JANET RAGLAND EDITOR IN CHIEF
KATE GRONEWALD WRITER / EDITOR
TOM BARNARD CREATIVE DIRECTOR / GRAPHIC DESIGNER
ANDY TEEL GRAPHIC DESIGNER
GAIL RITCHEY CLASS NOTES
NIEMAN PRINTING PRINTING
Claiming every workplace in every
nation as their mission field,
LeTourneau University graduates are
professionals of ingenuity and Christlike character who see life’s work as a
holy calling with eternal impact.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
PHONE: 903-233-3000
WEB: www.letu.edu
E-mail: [email protected]
ADMISSIONS:
PHONE: 903-233-4300
TOLL FREE: 800-759-8811
DEVELOPMENT:
PHONE: 903-233-3800
TOLL FREE: 800-259-LETU
ALUMNI OFFICE:
PHONE: 903-233-3803
E-MAIL: [email protected]
ADULT AND GRADUATE
DEGREE PROGRAMS:
PHONE: 903-233-3250
TOLL FREE: 800-388-5327
LeTourneau University is an interdenominational
Christ-centered university offering academic majors in the
aeronautical sciences, business, education, engineering,
healthcare, the humanities and sciences. LeTourneau
University also offers undergraduate degree programs in
business, education and psychology and graduate programs
in business and education at educational centers in Austin,
Bedford, Dallas, Houston, Tyler and online.
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contents
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For Such a Time as This
6
Allen Family Student Center
12
Anna Lee and Sidney Allen
14
Joyce Family Athletic Village
16
LETU in Cambodia
23
Honor Roll of Giving
32
Class Notes
38
Married Student Housing
42
Dr. Paul Sam
44
A Graduate Looks Back
46
News and Notes
“God created us for work, to fully know Him
and make Him known in all the earth —
in every workplace in every nation.”
— Dr. Dale A. Lunsford
Written By Janet Ragland
T
he air crackled with excitement as
students, faculty, staff and community
guests filled the Belcher Center auditorium in preparation for the Monday
morning chapel service Sept. 17.
Worship arts professor Dr. Mark Jonah
was speaking about “celebration,” and LETU President Dr. Dale A. Lunsford had a special announcement to make at the end of chapel.
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Lunsford marked a historic moment in the life of
LeTourneau University when he announced the university’s first university-wide, comprehensive funding
campaign to raise $27.5 million by December 2014.
The “For Such a Time as This” campaign is the most
ambitious in the university’s history.
And there was already much to celebrate.
More than $18 million dollars had already been
pledged toward the $27.5 million goal.
The “For Such a Time as This” campaign
provides funding for five pillars, or commitments, of the university’s strategic plan.
These include:
· Center for Faith and Work programming
to prepare students to understand the integration of their faith in their workplaces
throughout the week, not just on Sunday
mornings.
· Endowed Scholarships for high ability
students challenged by the economy to
fund their education. When this campaign
is complete, LETU will have tripled the
amount of endowed scholarship funds
benefiting students for decades to come.
· Student Center and Athletic Village facilities
necessary to meet the changing needs of a
traditional residential student experience.
· Global Service Learning Center programs
to enable LETU to be a university of global
influence.
· Academic Excellence initiatives to support
the academic schools in their work to deliver exceptional, Christ-centered professional
programs and unique hands-on learning
experiences.
“LeTourneau University founder R.G.
LeTourneau understood his work as a businessman and engineer was an extension of
his Christian faith,” Lunsford said. “When
his pastor told him that God needed businessmen as well as he needed preachers,
LeTourneau knew he could use the gifts God
had given him to make a positive impact on
the world. He knew that his engineering
work was like worship to God.
“God created us for work, to fully know
Him and make Him known in all the earth —
in every workplace in every nation,” Lunsford
said. “Our vision to send professionals to be
ambassadors for Christ answers His Great
Commission, not just by those working in
traditional full-time ministry.”
The campaign name, “For Such a Time
as This,” is based on the Bible story in the
book of Esther when Esther was called to be
obedient and save her people.
“God will accomplish His will with or
without us,” Lunsford said, “but we want to
be obedient to His calling and to be part of
His plan to fulfill the Great Commission. We
believe that LeTourneau University exists ‘for
such a time as this.’
Updated campus facilities like the student center and the athletic village will help
students be successful during their years at
LETU. Both are integral parts of residential
life on campus.
“We grow spiritually in community, and
that’s why these facilities are so important,”
Lunsford said. “These facilities will be where
groups of students from different floors
and different majors on campus can come
together and interact like never before.”
He pointed out that growing scholarship
aid will close the gap for families who want
a quality Christ-centered education but are
struggling financially.
Faculty support and endowed professorships will put the best faculty in front of
LETU students. These faculty members will
prepare them to be future leaders with both
competence and Christ-like character.
“We see God working in mighty ways
all throughout His world,” Lunsford said.
“Financial support for our Global Service
Learning Center will enable us to send more
faculty and students worldwide to use the
ingenuity of their education to demonstrate
God’s love in places of great suffering.”
To stay true to Mr. LeTourneau’s legacy,
the university’s new faith and work initiatives, once funded, will equip LETU students,
alumni and Christians everywhere to see
their work as a holy calling with eternal
impact.
“The workplace is a strategic venue for
God’s redeeming work,” Lunsford said. “In
the workplace, Christians can grow in their
faith by fully integrating their Christian
worldview with their professional pursuits. In
the workplace, non-Christians can find Jesus
Christ.” n
LeTourneau University | 5
Sarah sits in a comfortable overstuffed chair with her iPad in her lap.
She stops reading for a moment to
straighten up and stretch. Her book
bag sits on the floor beside her. Around
her the sunlight bounces in from the
two-story glass wall facing the center
of campus. She can hear the sounds
of other students in friendly conversation, some eating snacks and drinking coffee, others talking on their cell
phones, checking their Facebook status
or watching television. As she looks
Written By Janet Ragland
up, she sees through a second-story
glass wall into the game room where
students are playing networked video
games, billiards and ping pong.
The open design of this student
center commons area creates a large,
airy space, but one that feels homey,
like a living room for the entire university campus. She comes here often,
sometimes to meet friends or work on
projects with other students, sometimes just to sit and read, sometimes to
cut across campus from Belcher Center
chapel on her way to the Corner Café
for lunch, or even to eat a quick, madeto-order lunch right here in the new
student center.
She thinks about those who envisioned this space, and how they
thoughtfully designed the building in an
“X” shape to make it a central destination point from four directions on campus. She thinks of the students and staff
who worked together to make it inviting
for students and convenient for visitors
to campus. She thinks of all the people
who faithfully gave funding to make
this space a reality. She thinks about
how God brought all of these people
to work together to bring this building
from a vision to reality. She smiles.
FIRST FLOOR
First floor amenities in the new $14 million student center include the university
campus bookstore, the mail center and print
shop. The Hive coffee shop has an expanded
grill, pizza oven and ability to prepare madeto-order hot and cold foods like burritos and
submarine sandwiches, making it a popular
site for lunch on the go.
A multi-purpose area for meetings and
activities sits on the east side of the building. The space was designed to accommodate a single, large group, or be sectioned
off into five separate rooms for maximum
functionality. Beside the Hive coffee shop
are commuter and TV lounges that sit near
the door to the university mall and bell
tower. Just outside a massive two-story
glass wall is a terraced patio area for eating
al fresco, enjoying outdoor concerts and
other activities to bring the campus community together.
Guests to campus can’t miss the admissions office that anchors the Southwest
corner of the first floor. Career Services
and the Alumni office also are conveniently
placed nearby.
SECOND FLOOR
A grand, open staircase near the Admissions office leads to the second floor for
the Student Life offices, the health and
counseling center, student activities and a
student game room. Several group study
rooms overlook the expansive commons
“living room” below and are located adjacent to the university’s Achievement Center
where students can get academic help
with course work. Appropriately enough, a
prayer room is also located nearby. Executive space unites the president, provost
and administrative offices together in this
60,000-square-foot building that serves as a
dynamic hub for the entire campus.
SATELLITE VIEW OF STUDENT CENTER LOCATION
FIRST FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
STUDENTS COLLABORATE WITH ARCHITECTS
The new student center would not be complete without input from the students it is intended to serve.
Throughout the 2011-2012 academic year, LETU administration encouraged
students to participate in focus groups and face-to-face meetings with architects,
Design Collaborative of Fort Wayne, Ind. The goal was to ensure the building
plans meet students’ needs effectively.
Todd Adams, a 2012 aeronautical science graduate from Rochester, N Y., served
as president of the Yellowjacket Activity Council (YAC) during this past academic
year. He said he learned of the plans for the new student center at the IMPACT
retreat at the beginning of the Fall 2011 academic year.
“Talking to the architects was the best part,” Adams said. “They offered insight
in things we didn’t think of, and we shared what we thought we would need. It
was a good give and take.”
He said he appreciated that students were given opportunity to provide direct
input during open sessions with the architects, adding that one of the students’
suggestions was to add a kitchen sink in the workroom planned for YAC projects.
Adams also said he thought the terraced patio area outside will be a great place
for YAC to serve Friday afternoon ice cream floats.
Carly Robinson, an interdisciplinary studies major from Clifton, Texas, worked
last year on the YellowJacket student newspaper staff and was involved in several
of the student center meetings.
“The school's invitation to student input about the overall project is commendable,” Robinson said. “I appreciate the amount of openness they have about the
building plans.”
Student input included a LAN (local area network) for multiple people to play
video games together on big screens in a game room. LETU students have long
been known for playing multiple-user video games from the confines of their
individual dorm rooms, but the new game room will provide more community by
enabling students to come together and play interactively online and in person.
Jedediah Schlung, a May 2012 biology graduate from Soldotna, Alaska, served
as the 2011-2012 student body treasurer. He said the multipurpose rooms were
really important and will be a great addition for students from both the men’s
and women’s residence halls to get together in the evenings.
“The architects were very friendly and easy to interact with,” Schlung said.
“They had a lot of variety built in already, but one of the things that students
really liked was to have a place to watch movies on Friday and Saturday nights.”
LETU student body president Joe Bailey, a 2012 mechanical engineering graduate from Otley, Iowa, said he liked that the architects and administration listened
to student input, like adding a prayer room upstairs and turning space architects
had originally envisioned as a fitness center into a space for interactive video
gaming, ping pong, foosball and billiards. He also liked the aspect of bringing
some LETU ingenuity into the building.
“I sat in on numerous meetings [with the architects] and got to know them a
little bit,” Bailey said. “They were eager to hear from us.”
Having flexible meeting space and having it open around the clock is also a
plus, Bailey said, since some students will work until the very early morning hours
to complete class projects.
“The people who know best what they need are the students,” Bailey said. “It’s
the crossroads of campus and will bring people from different majors together.”
n
Written by Janet Ragland
Photographed by Tom Barnard
Drizzly weather could not dampen enthusiasm
at the groundbreaking for the new Anna Lee and
Sidney Allen Family Student Center on Monday, Sept.
17 at LETU’s Longview campus. Students, clad in
blue T-shirts that read “LETU Digs Students,” stood
under umbrellas on the university berm to witness
a groundbreaking event. Groups of students, administrators and trustees took the shovels in hand and
ceremoniously turned dirt.
The Allens are a local family who love Longview
and LeTourneau University. Their support of LETU has
been significant.
From providing student scholarships and support
for mission trips, to helping senior engineering projects and the student Auto Society car show, the Allen
Family has invested in the lives of students.
To encourage students to travel internationally,
they helped students with travel expenses and now
have endowed a “Study Abroad” travel assistance
fund. They also created an endowed scholarship to
fund an LETU health science student from East Texas
to study nursing.
They supported the construction of the Belcher
Center, which has a lobby named in their honor, and
have sponsored shows in the yearly Performance
Series to bring cultural arts to Longview.
“The naming of this new student center honors the Allen family for their personal support for
LeTourneau University, and how they demonstrate
that you don’t have to be a graduate of LETU to
appreciate the valuable mission of what we are doing here,” said LETU President Dr. Dale A. Lunsford.
“LETU is important to the community of Longview
and worthy of the endorsement of influential citizens in the community, like the Allens, who see the
potential in our students and the potential in our
university.”
Sidney and Anna Lee are originally from Roswell, New Mexico, where they went to the same
high school. Allen studied business at Eastern New
Mexico University, then transferred to Texas Tech
in Lubbock. He and Anna Lee married in 1965 and
Sidney took his first job at a bank in Dallas.
In 1969, the Allens moved to Longview where
Sidney’s family owned the John Deere dealership for
many years. Now, the Allens own Longview Scrap
and Metal Company and have operated the firm
successfully for more than two decades. Sidney has
been elected twice to the Longview City Council with
his current term expiring in 2013. He has served on
the construction advisory and appeals board, the
financial task force, and the zoning board of adjustment. He has served for six years on the planning and
zoning commission, three as chair. He has also been
elected by the council as Mayor Pro Tem. He serves
on the LETU President’s Advisory Council.
In a short address to the students, Sidney Allen
encouraged them to be involved in the community
and to have a positive attitude.
“Do your best at what you do, and work harder
and better than anyone else,” he said, “and you will
fear no competition.” n
See progress on the Allen Center construction from our live webcam at:
campaign.letu.edu/live.html
Pictured with Anna Lee and Sidney Allen
at far right are Dr. Lunsford, center, and
Brian and Kerri Daugbjerg. Kerri is the
Allens' daughter.
J OYCE F AMILY A T
Written by Janet Ragland
A new day dawned on LeTourneau University athletics this year when the Joyce Family Athletic Village was
dedicated on Thursday, April 19, at the LETU campus
in Longview. And due to the generosity of a local
Longview family, LETU athletes played their first nighttime games in the school’s 66-year history.
More than $1.5 million in renovations over the
past two years have included improvements to grading, irrigation and drainage for all of the athletic fields
used for soccer, baseball and softball. New lighting,
scoreboards, brick backstops for baseball and softball,
expanded seating for spectators, ornamental fencing
and monument gates have been added.
“We are grateful to Joe Bob Joyce, his wife, Lou Ann,
and the Joyce family for their generosity in providing
the significant lead gift,” said LETU President Dr. Dale
A. Lunsford. “Not only did they give sacrificially with
a large lead gift toward this project, Joe Bob spent a
great deal of time helping raise funds for this project
on top of running his company, Joyce Crane. The Joyce
family really stepped up to the plate to help us with
this project.”
The new improvements have already served hundreds of LETU’s student-athletes and energized the fan
base for YellowJacket teams. A new student-led sports
marketing team began some new traditions, including
putting out GAME DAY signs across campus and turning
the bell tower lights blue when LETU teams win games.
“As LETU’s athletic programs had grown over the
past several years, its athletic complex had become
dated and in need of significant overhaul,” said LETU
Athletic Director Terri Deike. "For many years, our
NCAA baseball, softball and soccer teams had to practice during the day since there was no lighting, which
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also meant scheduling games was difficult and cut into
class time. Because many of LETU’s students are from
out of state and don’t go home on weekends, the campus intramural athletic program provides heavy use of
the soccer fields and athletic facilities for more than
700 students during the academic year.”
Joe Bob Joyce, Sr. is the founder and owner of Joyce
Crane Service, a family-run business with more than
160 employees and dozens of pieces of equipment in
locations in Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana. Joyce Crane
supplies cranes for use in the oil and natural gas industries, highway construction projects, mining locations
and industrial sites.
Joyce serves his local church as a deacon, treasurer
and chairman of the finance committee. He has served
on LETU’s board of trustees since 2009 and is a member of the executive campaign committee. He has
shared his financial management expertise on various
professional boards and committees, including the
Safety Council of East Texas, Specialized Carriers and
Riggers Association Foundation and Eastman Chemical
Contractor Safety Council Board.
Joyce is a past president of the President’s Advisory
Council. The Joyce family has provided support for the
Corner Café, Belcher Center and student Baja team.
The family also annually funds a President’s Circle
annual corporate scholarship and supports LETU’s
annual golf classic.
Joyce said providing the lead gift and encouraging
others to participate in the project was important to
him because of the impact it would have on a wide
range of students. He and his family have been involved in coaching youth sports like baseball, softball
and basketball all throughout their lives.
“It was an easy decision for me and my family,” he
said. “Coaching lets you see how much sports can help
to mold you,” Joyce said. “You learn life lessons and
how to accept failure and live with success.” n
David rappelled into the broken water
well with some trepidation. Although two
others among his LeTourneau University
engineering team members had safely
descended and returned, David wondered
if he would be able to manage to climb
back out of the well once he was slimy
with mud.
Was the bottom of the well firm
enough to stand on, or just a thin plug
on top of the shaft? What if there was a
rat or cobra nest behind the crumbling
cement wall he was trying to seal? Would
mortar even cure properly in this cool,
shaded shaft?
In hindsight, the whole situation
seemed ludicrous—that a group of eight
Americans had flown over 9,000 miles to
the small village of Oom Pim Bai in Cambodia to climb into a broken water well
and put a layer of brick and mortar over a
hole that was letting mud into the well.
Written by Ron Watson
Photography Provided by David Wright
David had wondered many times during this trip if all the expense and effort
of getting their whole team there was
necessary to accomplish such a simple
task. But during those moments of confusion or doubt, David was sustained by the
memory of how clearly God had called
each team member to work in Cambodia
that summer, and how God had provided
for each one.
No orderly train of logic had convinced these eight
team members to make this trip, which had been rife
with sacrifice, frustration and spiritual testing. Rather,
the mystical, yet undeniable, call of God gave each of
them the courage to step out in faith, and gave David
the courage to step into that broken well. They trusted
God to use their act of service for His glory and to minister to the people of the village.
The impact of a simple water well repair job would
not be clear to the team members for many days. Actually, they are all still learning about the effects of that
trip, both on the village and on each of them. Only after
much time and post-trip contemplation have the team
members begun to see the many plans and stories God
is weaving together.
When the team first walked around the village of
Oom Pim Bai in May 2012, the rainy season was approaching. They could see there was much physical
repair work to be done, but they could not have known
that God knew there was other repair work on His
agenda.
The eight members of the team included Dr. Jesse
French, assistant professor of mechanical engineering
and the trip’s faculty adviser, along with six engineering students: team leader David Wright, a junior from
Cumberland, R.I.; Corey Ressler, a master’s student
from Sandwich, Ill.; and sophomores Amber Keith from
Glendora, Calif.; Michael Koreis from Apopka, Fla.; Phillips Stuart from Longview, Texas; and Jason Small from
Hampstead, Md. Rounding out the team was French’s
17-year-old daughter, Sydney.
Mission engineering was not new to Dr. French, a
veteran missionary who has rendered aid to sites in 13
countries. But it was not French who actually initiated
this trip. He was approached by a number of students
who felt God calling them to pursue mission work
abroad. They felt God telling them to go, but did not
yet know where He would send them.
“Ten people gathered together to pray about it that
month,” French said. The students committed to fasting and prayer as they sought God’s direction and His
provision for their financial needs. “By January, three
sites were revealed to us by the Holy Spirit. By February, it was narrowed down to Cambodia.”
French had received an urgent call from Pastor Choi
Sang Gil, a Christian missionary whom he had known
as a military chaplain years earlier when French served
in the U.S. military.
Pastor Choi is the site director for the Glory International School and Christian Church. It had been built
within the last two years, but sits below the annual
flood level and needed a retaining wall around its
structures to keep floodwaters at bay.
“The church and school were not built on a proper
foundation,” French said. “As floodwaters rose, the
backfill washed out, and the water came up high
enough to flood the school and church. Also, a water
well on the site had been damaged and unusable for
nearly two years. Pastor Choi was overwhelmed by the
harvest of the mission in this village. He told us the
need was great, but the human capital was lacking,
specifically workers with technical skills.
“Every mission site needs technical support, but it’s
not the need that drives true mission work,” French
said. “Many people are concerned with the work of the
hands, and that is very important, but the purpose for us
was to follow the will of the Lord. We traveled to Cambodia to find out what God was already doing there.”
Once the destination for this trip was set, the
students and their adviser turned to further spiritual
contemplation to discern exactly which of them were
being led to travel to Oom Pim Bai. Weeks of day-long
fasting and prayer whittled the total number to eight,
and since none of them had traveled to Cambodia
before, this initial trip was intended to gauge the needs
of the mission as well as the resources available for the
work there.
“One of the most important things is researching the
ramifications, the effects of not just what you’re doing
physically, but to find out the secondary and tertiary
effects as well,” French said. “You become morally responsible by hearing of the need, but you gain spiritual
authority by suffering with the people.”
Oom Pim Bai is situated along National Highway 5 in
central Cambodia about 35 kilometers from the capitol
city of Phnom Penh. The village population is approximately 500, with roughly 1,000 other people living in
the adjacent village of Jurisi and other family clusters
to the southeast of Udong.
Less than one percent of Cambodian people profess
to be Christian, with the majority being Buddhist and
with a growing number of Muslims.
“The residents of Oom Pim Bai are very spiritually
active, but not for the Lord God,” French said. “Our
challenge was to give something true, to give something real, to the people of Cambodia.”
The LETU team found idols were everywhere.
“Every plot of land has idols on it, and every high
place has a temple on it,” French said. “Even the property we were working on — the church and the school
— had idols on it at one time. Pastor Choi is trying to
live out an example for Jesus Christ in the midst of all
this.”
Pastor Choi, the mission’s director, has toiled against
this backdrop for the better part of a year. The 69-yearold widower, as a child, was cared for by American
troops during the beginning of the Korean War. He
later served in Vietnam as a member of the Korean
Marines. In his work as a missionary now, he also faces
other cultural hurdles.
“He is attending language school and working hard
to grasp the local culture,” French said. “It’s an impressive challenge. And because of his background of living
and working with Americans, he isn’t really considered
Korean or Cambodian. He is truly standing in faith, as
he has no social support network.”
Pastor Choi is aided in his ministry by a northern
Cambodian named Eab, who is considered the spiritual
leader of the village. Eab serves as the school’s director
and assistant pastor of the church, but more impor-
tantly to the villagers of Oom Pim Bai, Eab organizes
soccer matches held on the site.
“Soccer has a huge following there, and Eab is the
one who provides the soccer balls,” French said. “This
is one of the best ways the mission connects with the
villagers, through a simple, five-dollar stitched leather
soccer ball.”
Gambling is rampant there. Eab strictly enforces a
“no gambling” rule, and this is the only non-gambling
soccer match within 10 kilometers. Crowds began congregating around 5 p.m. each day in anticipation.
“The kids and young adults are very enthusiastic
about soccer there,” Jason Small said. “This was how
we were able to connect with many of the youth there
who didn’t attend the school or church.”
One of those youth is 11-year-old Lim, who wasn’t
allowed to attend the church or free school classes because his family is Buddhist and felt they had lost status
in the village when the Christian mission was built.
Lim’s family had been influential, living in what was
the “good” part of town, until electricity and water
wells placed near the mission complex made it more
desirable. Lim’s family was then caught on the “wrong
side of the village.” These facts did not dissuade Lim
from peering through the windows of the Christian
school. His curiosity offered the chance for the LETU
team to make a connection with him.
“We all became friends with Lim and helped to be-
gin a reconciliation between his family and the mission
when our team repaired the primary water well for
drinking and watering crops and animals on Lim’s side
of the village,” French said. “You couldn’t plan a curriculum that includes this sort of experience.”
By the time the LETU team left Oom Pim Bai, they
had completed construction of the retaining wall surrounding the church and school and had restored the
water well that had been damaged during the site’s
construction. But members of the team were quick to
point out, that they learned more about life and faith
than engineering.
Many of the team members said they dealt with
frustration on the trip.
“There was really no typical day in Oom Pim Bai,”
Small said. “As soon as we thought we were lined up to
complete something, to see a result through the work
of our hands, something else revealed itself. We had to
be flexible.”
The team members also felt frustrated and micromanaged by their host, who insisted on ordering their
meals, directing their activities and planning their waking hours.
“Dr. French told us early on about a philosophy that
we began calling ‘Semper Gumby,’ which to us means
‘Always Flexible,’” said Corey Ressler. “For me, it meant
letting go of my personal autonomy and accepting Pastor Choi’s love and hospitality for what it was. I began
to realize that was how he was offering me his love,
and I was able to get over myself.”
Jason Small also began to recognize the flexibility
required to understand his host’s motives.
“Pastor Choi was doing what was customary for all
hosts in his culture,” he said. “He seemed pushy and
proud, at first, but looking back, he was showing us
sacrificial love. I learned that culture effects the way
love looks.”
Although the trip has concluded, the team members
are still digesting what this life-changing journey has
meant to them spiritually.
“We were in Cambodia through a prayed-through
process,” French said. “We have entered a new season
of prayer to help us understand more about what this
trip meant to us. In many ways, we’re still unpacking,
and things are still being revealed to us.”
For Phillips Stuart, the trip has left him with the
certainty that he belongs in missions work.
“I have felt led for quite a while to work in some
kind of engineering mission work,” he said. “For me,
this experience in Cambodia was confirmation that this
was going to be a way of life for me.” n
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AIST Foundation
Alaska Principals Foundation
Allen Eagle Tennis Booster Club
Allied Waste (AWS)
American Association of Airport
Executives Foundation
American Legion Jack Warren Post
American Legion Post #353
American Legion Post 340
American Welding Society
Reading Section
Ameriprise
Amos Automotive
Applied Consultants, Inc.
Arizona Elks Association Inc.
Army Emergency Relief
AT&T
AT&T Foundation
Austin Bank Educ. Scholarship
Austin Computer Services
Awards & Recognition Industry
Educational Foundation
AWS Foundation Inc
B&D Electrical Contractors Inc
Baja Farms
Bank of America
Bartlesville Community Foundation
Baxter Sales Company Inc
Bechtel Group Foundation
Becky's Beauty Salon
Belcher Bayou Farm
Benton Rural Electric Asn.
Bledsoe Brace Systems
Blue Bell Creameries, LP
BNY Mellon
Boeing Gift Matching Program
Borden County Booster Club
Bouchard Physical Therapy
Services Inc.
Boy Scouts of America
BP Fabric of America Fund
BP Foundation
Bracketry Systems Inc
Brazos Community Foundation
Bridgeston Americas
Bristol Bay Economic
Development Corp
Bruce McMillan Jr. Foundation
Buckner Children & Family Services
California Correctional Peace
Officers Association
Care First Pediatrics
Caterpillar Foundation
CenturyLink
Cessna Foundation, Inc.
CETA Education Foundation
Charles E. Hand DDS
Chetco Federal Credit Union
Chevron Humankind
Chick-fil-A
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Citizens National Bank
Clorox Company Foundation
Coastal Bend Community Foundation
Colomex
Community Bank
Community Foundation of Abilene
ConocoPhillips
Conrad Dollars for Scholars
Conroe ISD Education Foundation Inc
Cotton Valley Investments, Inc.
Covenant Resources International LLC
Covington Aircraft Engines Inc
Cowboy's Chicken
CPN Scholarship Fund
Crescent Lake Bible Camp
Crista
Culver's VIP Foundation Inc
Daily Electric
David Kendall Danciger Charitable
Foundation
Deaf Smith Electric Cooperative, Inc
Deerfoot Lodge
Delta Air Lines
Delta Air Lines Foundation
Delta Air Lines Foundation
Delta Concrete Products Inc
Dennis W. Holder Scholarship Fund
Dennis-Wade Associates, Inc
Design Collaborative Inc
Dixie Youth Baseball
Doane Family Foundation, Inc
Dollars for Scholars
Dominion Foundation Matching
Dr. William Leifeste Memorial
Scholarship
Dresser Foundation Inc.
DTE Energy Foundation
Dynamic Aviation Group Inc
East Texas Chapter API
East Texas Mack Sales, LLC
East Texas Skydiving Club
East Texas Yamboree Assoc
Eastman Chemical Company
Eaton Corporation
EFH Corporate Services Company
Electramatic Inc
Encore Multimedia
ETS
European Council Assembly
Experimantal Aircraft Assn W
Express Employment Professionals
Extraco Trust
ExxonMobil Foundation
EZ Forex.Com, Inc.
Fergus Falls Area Dollars for
Scholars
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
First Bank & Trust East Texas
First National Bank
First State Bank of Colorado
Fish City Grill
Fluid Solution Technology
FM Global Foundation
Follett Higher Education Group
Forester Family Foundation Inc
Frameworks Custom Gallery
Friedman Industries
Gans & Smith Insurance
General Dynamics SATCOM
Technologies
General Sealants, Inc.
Giact Systems
Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council
Gladewater Round Up Association
Global Benefits Group Inc
Global Fabrication Services Inc
Government of Alberta
Greater Houston Community
Foundation
Green Electric Company
Gregg Industrial Insulators
H. Lorimer Corporation
Halliburton Foundation Inc.
Hals Hobby Warehouse
Hamil, Harrison & Co Mech Inc
Hampton Inn
Hardings Markets West Inc
Harper Band Boosters
Harper PTO
Hayes RV Center
Helen's Hope Foundation
Hinnant Foundation Inc
Holcim
Holiday Inn Express
Hollywood Theaters
Hol-Mac Plant #1
Home Instead, Inc
Hope Pierce Tartt Scholarship Fund
Horizon Farms, LLC
Hotchkiss Kiwanis Club
Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo
Hudson Graphics, Inc.
IBM Matching Grants Program
ID RA HA JE Scholarship
Foundation
IGA Food Cache
II-VI Foundation
Illinois Tool Works Foundation
Impact Eternity Now Inc
INJAM
Intel Matching Gifts to Education
Program
International Scholarship &
Tuition Services, Inc
InTrust Wealth Management
J T Minnie Maude Charitable Trust
J.A.Wedum Foundation
J.E. Hortman Company Inc.
James R. Hoffa Memorial
Scholarship Fund
JBraden Salon & Spa
JDW Services Inc.
John Deere Foundation
John Stuart Manly Foundation
Johnny Cace's
Johnson & Johnson
Joy Global
Joyce Steel Erection, LTD.
Just Java
JW Marriott San Antonio Hill
Country Resort
K Scott Brazil Attorney at Law
Karsten Mfg
Kellogg's Matching Grants
Kelly Community Credit Union
Kettler Veterinary Hospitals Inc
Kilgore Rotary Club
Kimberly-Clark Foundation
Kimmy Foundation
Knights of Columbus Council 2771
Larry's Interiors Inc
Longview Cycle & Ski
Longview Lion's Club
Longview News Journal
Longview Office Supply Inc.
Longview Partnership Inc
Longview Regional Medical Center
Longview Scrap & Metal Company
LTBrewer Design
Manion's Drug Store
Mardel
Marine Corps Scholarship
Foundation
Markay Cabinets
Marriage Maintenance
Marshall Pro Rodeo Association, Inc.
Marshall Woman's Club
Marti Foundation
Martin Luther King Jr Scholarship
Martin Resource Mgmt Corporation
Matanuska Electric Association
Medtronic Foundation
MG Franklin E. Miles Chapter 229
Michaels
Mid-South Baptist Foundation
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
Motorola Solutions Foundation
Mundt Music
NAACP Abilene Taylor County
Unit 6228
Nacogdoches Rotary Club
NASDA
National Business Aviation
Association, Inc.
National FFA Foundation Inc.
National Merit Scholarship
Corporation
National Utilities Co NUCO
Natural Rewards LLC
Network IP
Newton Mechanical
Norfolk Southern Charitable
Match Trust
North Austin Rotary Foundation
North East Texas Workforce
Development Board
Nowiczewski Foundation
Orono-Old Town Kiwanis Charities
Pacific Northwest Regional Council
of Carpenters
Patterson Nissan
Pfizer Foundation
Phoenix Aviation Managers Inc.
Pietro's
Pioneer Marine Inc
PJ Cheese
Polar Electro Inc
Polycom Inc
Preferred Energy LLC
Pugh Charitable Trust
Queen Pageant Scholarship
Program
R & H Machine
Ralph F. Pelaia Jr & Associates
Raytheon Matching Gifts
Red Lobster
Richard Wallrath Educational
Foundation
Rivers Recycling
RLM General Contractors
Rockwell Collins Charitable
Corporation
Rosa May Griffin Foundation
Rotary Club of Orange
Rotary Club of Paonia Foundation
RSM Family Limited Partnership
Rural Health Clinis
Rusk County Rodeo Association
SAE Foundation
San Antonio Livestock Exposition, Inc.
SAP Matching Gift Program
SBP Minerals LP
Schlumberger Corp
Scholarship Foundation of
Santa Barbara
Scholarship Management Services
Scott City Quilting Guild
Shakespeare Club
Shell Oil Company Foundation
Shelton & Shelton Plumbing LP
Simpson Charitable Trust
Sobol Welders Supply Co Inc
Southern Bleacher Company Inc.
Southside Bank
Southside Bank-Tyler
Southwest Colorado Federal
Credit Union
Spirit of Martyrdom
Spring Hill State Bank
Sprint Foundation
Spurs Foundation
State Farm Companies Foundation
State of Kansas
State of Rhode Island & Providence
Plantations
Stebbins Aviation
Stewards Ministries
Stoltzfus Structures LLC
Stowell Family Trust
Subway Sandwiches of East
Texas, LLC
Supervalu Foundation
Suzanne Cook & Company
Swarner Crown Hill Cemetery
T. Boone Pickens YMCA
T. Ragan Ryan Foundation, Inc
TASO Baseball Houston Chapter
Tate & Lyle Americas, Inc.
TEC Well Service Inc
Tech Petroleum Services, Inc
TEEA, Inc.
Tennessee Baptist Foundation
Texas 4-H Youth Development
Foundation
Texas Assn. of Sports Officials
Texas Bank & Trust
Texas Extension Education Assoc.
Texas FFA Foundation
Texas Interscholastic League
Foundation
Texas Kayak
Texas Municipal League
Textron Matching Gift Program
The Challenge at Oak Forest
Country Club
The Chubb Foundation
The Clara Abbott Foundation
The Columbus Foundation
The Happy Davis Foundation Inc.
The M. E. Foundation
The Made Rite Company
The Neiman Marcus Group
The Pampered Chef
The Robert A. Welch Foundation
The Service League of
Orange Texas
The Sewing Heart
The T. Rowe Price Program for
Charitable Giving
The Toro Foundation
The Verne Cooper Foundation Inc
The VF Foundation
Thomasson Foundation Inc.
Tiger Stripe Investments
Timmer Family Farms LLC
Toyota of Longview
Transet Co
Troy Business Forms
Trull-Hollensworth Architects
TSRHC Scholarship Fund
Tulsa Community Foundation
Twin Buttes Ranch Inc
Tyco Int'l Inc.
United States Treasury
United Technologies Matching Gift
Unitronics, Inc
University of Texas Health Center
Upshur EE Association
Upshur-Rural Electric Cooperative
Corporation
US Airways Education Foundation
USBC SMART Team
Verizon Foundation
Vermeer Charitable Foundation
Vermont Student Assistance Corp
Veterans of Foreign Wars District 2
Virginia Baptist Foundation, Inc.
Von Rosenberg Foundation
Walker Mfg Co
Whites Texas Stone Enterprises
Wholesale Electric Supply Co., Inc.
Wild Ride Ministries
William & Marian Ghidotti
Foundation
Wilmington Trust
Women in Aviation International
Woolley G's Bike Fitness
Wycliffe Bible Translators
Xcel Energy Foundation
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc
Alumni Donations
By Class
Class of 1949
Total Gifts $900.00 5.56% Participation Mr. Donald C. Green
Mr. Ralph House
Mr. Harold L. McMillan
Mr. Stewart Sickles
Class of 1950
Total Gifts $15.00 2.04% Participation Mr. John Morton
Class of 1951
Total Gifts $1,350.00 10.87% Participation Mr. Harold E. Abbey
Mr. George Broberg
Mr. David Houck
Mr. Albert Rust
Mr. Robert E. Scribner
Class of 1952
Total Gifts
$1,525.00 8.33% Participation Mr. Howard C. Anderson
Mr. Kenneth C. Bengtson
Class of 1953
Total Gifts $130.00 3.70% Participation Mr. Winton A. Hancock
Class of 1954
Total Gifts $1,400.00 7.14% Participation Mr. Howard A. Crosby
Mr. Ramon Farley
Dr. John Hardison
Mr. E. F. Holmes
Class of 1955
Total Gifts $1,765.00 15.38% Participation Mr. C.C. Creach
Mr. Jack Hoff
Dr. John L. Hoffer, Ph.D., M.D.
Mr. Hoffer
Mr. Herbert L. Orwig
Mr. Raymond C. Peterson
Rev. Peter P. Polloni
Mr. Frank Ritchey
Mr. Winslow E. Whitten Jr.
LCdr. Ronald L. Wier
Class of 1956
Total Gifts $5,380.00 13.51% Participation Mr. Robert S. Frey Sr.
Mr. Frank A. Goodrich
Mr. Paul Leistner
Dr. Ken Schreder
Mr. William Thomason
Class of 1957
Total Gifts $1,105.00 11.11% Participation Mr. Richard Hamby Jr.
Mr. Duane A. Johnson
Rear Adm. Richard K. Maughlin,
USN Ret.
Mr. William C. Slothower
Mr. Albert M. Vogel
Mr. Dale Wolgemuth
Class of 1958
Total Gifts $3,705.00 20.69% Participation Mr. Bill H. Bennett
Mr. Bennett
Mr. Jerry H. Bishop
Mr. John C. Bowen
Mr. Thurl Briggs
Mr. Don Cowles
Mr. William Dinkins Jr.
Mr. Gordon Fenner
Mr. Jacob C. Gingerich Jr.
Mr. Robert A. Jones
Mr. Robert O. Langness
Mr. Joseph C. Lee
Mr. Charles E. Lucas
Mr. Larry E. Neely
Mr. Carlos G. Priemer
Mr. Duane Rhodes
Rev. J. S. Sullivan Jr.
Mr. Ted M. Wilkinson
Class of 1959
Total Gifts $2,010.00 21.67% Participation Mr. Jesse H. Brown Jr.
Mr. Lanny R. Clark
Mr. Vernon H. Everhart
Mr. George W. Fink
Mr. Norman G. Gaut
Mr. Randall C. Herring
Mr. Tom Hunt
Mr. Lyle K. Johnson
Mr. Ralph R. Jones Sr.
Mr. Harrison S. Neff
Mr. Frank Phillips
Mr. Thomas M. Sochor
Mr. James M. Tucker
Class of 1960
Total Gifts $7,220.00 11.76% Participation Mr. Eliud Arrazate
Mr. Elmer R. Baker
Mr. Carl Grace
Mr. Marvin Hays
Mr. Charles S. Kline
Mr. Gary L. Lisman
Mr. Roderick B. MacAskill
Mr. Allan Nilson
Mr. Blair W. Paul
Mr. Norman F. Yearick
Class of 1961
Total Gifts $2,615.00 11.54% Participation Mr. Paul Crump Jr.
Mr. DeWayne Everitt
Mr. William D. Feller
Mr. E. L. Henderson
Mr. Harold L. McElwee
Mr. Fred Pfau
Mr. Weston Poyner
Mr. James F. Roads
Mr. David Sutter
Class of 1962
Total Gifts $695.00 9.86% Participation Mr. Stanley Freeman
Mr. James D. Hensel
Mr. David Hentschel
Mr. John E. Miller
Mr. Robert M. Myers
Mr. Paul G. Stokholm
Mr. William Young
Class of 1963
Total Gifts $3,085.00 15.00% Participation Mr. William E. Baskett
Mr. John Bush
Mr. James F. Eckman
Mr. Morten Eriksen Jr.
Mr. Don R. Froehner
Mr. Carroll Handly
Mr. Kenneth Henry
Mr. Herb H. Kressler Jr.
Dr. Jim D. Lilley
Mr. Robert Moyer
Mr. Larry B. Smith
Mr. Norman Spanberger
Mr. Robert Thornbloom
Mr. John Vigna
Mr. Jerry Wolf
Class of 1964
Total Gifts $67,905.00 11.24% Participation Mr. William R. Brooks
Mr. Daniel L. Christen
Mr. Aaron Hoffman
Mr. Art D. Johnson
Mr. Merton E. Knightly
Mr. Cordell Loken
Mr. Charles E. Roberts
Mr. James D. Rosser
Mr. David Scheevel
Mr. John Solheim
Class of 1965
Total Gifts $22,335.00 12.26% Participation Mr. John F. Bradshaw
Mr. David Comfort
Mr. Carl C. Cyphers
Mr. Henry C. Fogle
Dr. Douglas I. Ford
Mr. Wayne Hansen
Mr. Douglas Hvistendahl
Mr. William Hyslop
Mrs. Joan Loken
Mr. Walter J. Nekoroski Jr.
Mr. David S. Rowe
Mr. David R. Snow
Mr. John Swizdaryk
Class of 1966
Total Gifts
$1,062,145.30 15.29% Participation
Anonymous
Mr. David Brandt
Mr. James H. Etem
Mr. Paul L. Kelsey
Ms. Kay Lightle
Mr. Keith A. Martin
Mrs. Sheila Martin
Mr. L. V. McGuire
Mr. Ronald G. Robinson
Mr. Verlan Snodgrass
Mr. Arthur Warren
Mr. Ted Wessman
Mr. Kent Wilson
Class of 1967
Total Gifts $6,829.00 14.93% Participation Mr. Felton R. Bollinger
Mr. Tom E. Brink
Mrs. Nancy Ciavarelli
Mr. George E. Crone
Mr. Jimmie H. Cross
Mr. John R. Davis
Mr. Dennis M. Eben
Mr. Stephen G. Holm
Mr. Warren J. Hudson
Mr. Ronald Jantzen
Ms. Lois E. Knouse
Mrs. Miriam R. Lancaster
Mr. Peter E. Lawson
Dr. Robert R. Miller
Mr. Pramod Ravade
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Reid
Mr. Ariel W. Rosentrater
Rev. Thomas P. Shorb
Mr. Ronald E. Wilburn
Mr. Ray Wilsdorf
Class of 1968
Total Gifts $2,770.00 8.55% Participation Mr. Terry L. Anderson
Mr. Harry G. Barrett
Mr. Gary D. Foster
Mr. Timothy Heemstra
Mrs. Deborah Irving
Mr. Richard J. Newell
Mrs. Jan P. Scott
Mr. Charles M. Snow
Lt.Col. Rogers R. Walker
Rev. Larry P. Weiss
Class of 1969
Total Gifts $19,035.00 16.88% Participation Mr. David A. Beckmann
Mr. Paul H. Bennett
Mr. Donald W. Biggs Jr.
Mr. Stephen Burry
Mr. Edward L. Claypool
Mr. Theodore Dillard Jr.
Mr. James E. Dingmon
Mrs. Judith K. Dingmon
Mr. Eugene T. Dorneman
Mr. Robin E. Guyer
Mr. Dale R. Hill
Mr. Samuel Hollinger
Mr. Kenneth A. Holloway Sr.
Mr. Daniel S. Irving
Rev. James J. Kibelbek
Mr. Edwin Kissinger
Mr. James League
Mr. Loren D. Leman
Mr. David K. Reinbold
Mr. Dell R. Ridley
Mr. David R. Riniker
Mr. Thomas G. Schrag
Mr. Stan M. Simmons
Mr. Harold R. Tyler
Mr. Robert W. Walker
Mr. Dave P. Whitten
Mr. William D. Wright
Class of 1970
Total Gifts $175,065.00 7.69% Participation Mr. Richard D. Baney
Mr. David Bell
Mr. Mark B. Gamble
Dr. Orman W. Gwynn
Mr. Gerald O. Hall
Mrs. Edith E. Hoad
Mr. Paul A. Larson
Mr. Donald Moon
Mr. Joe Nowiczewski
Mr. Jack Saucerman
Class of 1971
Total Gifts $329,927.54 16.56% Participation Mr. Paul Abbott
Mr. Thomas M. Ames
Mr. William R. Anderson
Mrs. Nanette Anderson
Mr. Matthew D. Ciavarelli
Mrs. Carolann M. Crawford
Mr. Thomas Gillis
Mr. Thomas D. Hartberg
Mr. Paul A. Helgesen
Mr. Robert E. Hopkins
Mr. Michael L. Jackson
Mr. Hillis O. Kauffman
Mr. Donald Koch
Mr. Daniel H. Larsen
Mr. Caleb LeTourneau
Mr. Duane L. Martinsen
Mr. Randall W. Matthewson
Mr. Timothy J. Morscheck
Mrs. Edna Pearson
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Pomeroy
Mr. Timothy K. Rupp
Mr. Phillip I. Temple
Mrs. Joyce Temple
Mr. John Tiemersma
Mr. Lawrence Wendling
Class of 1972
Total Gifts $144,810.00 7.50% Participation Mr. R. W. Borthwick
Mr. Eddie Chow
Mr. Steven D. Kellogg
Mr. Kenneth L. Moore
Mrs. Cherry A. Moore
Mr. Norman Moss
Mr. Douglas R. Nordell
Mr. Gary Palmer
Mr. Wayne R. Salsman
Mr. Donald L. Smith
Mr. Arthur B. Waskey
Mrs. Sandy Waskey
Class of 1973
Total Gifts $1,620.00 10.87% Participation Mrs. Leona Ayres
Mr. Kenneth M. Bailey
Mr. John Carlson
Mr. Albert E. Curtis III
Mr. Dan L. Davidson
Mrs. Mary J. Davis
Mr. John Hunker Jr.
Mr. Ronald L. Kickert
Mr. David G. Miller
Mr. John E. Nikerle
Mr. Dennis Pauls
Mr. Kermit Seiler
Mr. James V. Wittenberger
Mr. Steven W. Yothers
Mrs. Alice Yothers
Class of 1974
Total Gifts $467,955.00 10.29% Participation Mr. Lawrence B. Campbell
Dr. Philip S. Clifford
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Davis
Mr. Brad J. Dukek
Mr. Herman Dumas
Mr. Jerry W. Fritsch
Mr. Roland Giddings
Mr. David W. Goodell
Mr. Paul F. Hager
Mr. Kenneth W. Hall
Mr. LeRoy D. Hammond
Mr. Norman Hawes
Mr. Donald L. Kreider
Mr. Dale A. McCombs
Mr. James R. Nolt Jr.
Mr. Richard M. Ogren
Mr. Michael B. Palm
Mr. Jeffrey Rowland
Mr. Knute Watne
Mr. Paul Weston
Mr. Keith D. Wyckoff
Class of 1975
Total Gifts $11,270.00 8.76% Participation Mr. Douglas Bondurant
Mr. Philip A. Britton
Mr. Kenneth W. Cowin
Mr. Charles E. Davis Jr.
Mrs. Sharon W. Delong
Mr. James Dumas
Mr. Darrel Eppler
Mr. Kenneth D. Foreman
Mrs. Freda Goerner
Mr. James D. Holbrook
Mr. Thomas J. Landon
Mrs. Terri L. Landon
Mr. Timothy C. Maggard
Mr. Jack L. Niethamer
Mr. Edward Rohrer
Mr. Bradley L. Sink
Mr. Gregory J. Smith
Mr. Nathan Strong
Mrs. June Weber
Class of 1976
Total Gifts $7,150.00 10.49% Participation Mrs. Lynn M. Campbell
Mr. Kenneth P. Farrar
Mrs. Sue Gebhardt
Mr. Paul T. Graybill
Mr. Timothy A. Grover
Mrs. Loretta L. Hill
Mr. Brent Hoff
Mrs. Nancy Mendez
Mrs. Virginia L. Olson
Mrs. Ruth Pierce
Mr. Arthur W. Salatin
Mr. Jeff L. Shaver
Mrs. Elsa L. Shaver
Mr. Jay Shearer
Mr. James M. Tolson
Class of 1977
Total Gifts $7,810.00 14.58% Participation Mr. Mark T. Ahlenius
Mr. Jonathan Bromley
Mr. Randall W. Brown
Mr. Barry K. Brown
Mr. Daniel Byker
Mr. Robert D. Campbell
Mr. William A. Grubb
Mrs. Joy Hartman Jr.
Mr. E. Bernie Hayes
Mr. Keith W. Leonhardt
Mr. Philip D. Olson
Mr. Kenneth R. Petersen
Mr. Michael A. Ringler
Mrs. Joyce Roden
Mr. David W. Safstrom
Mr. Benjamin Schubert
Mr. Peter M. Strubhar
Mrs. Susan Strubhar
Mr. David Wankmuller
Mr. Merlin D. Weber
Mr. George P. Zitzmann III
Class of 1978
Total Gifts $13,433.00 14.22% Participation Mr. Van A. Abel
Mr. Jon W. Arrowsmith
Mr. Bernard Banzhaf
Mr. Bryan E. Benson
Dr. Richard D. Campbell
Mr. Michael L. Capp
Mr. Jerry L. Cassel
Mr. Steve Classen
Mr. Paul A. Diffenderfer
Mr. Melvin Flowers
Mrs. Donna Forrest
Mr. Daryl A. Hoffman
Mr. Kevin D. Jackson
Mr. Alan J. Koch
Mr. Norman Kopesky II
Mr. Arthur E. Kruppenbacher
Dr. Duane K. Miller
Mr. Jesse M. Newton
Mr. Matt D. Poelman
Mr. Steven H. Reas
Mr. Sidney Roberts
Mr. Nathanael Saint
Mrs. Deborah Saint
Mr. Andrew Seiler
Mr. Brad Shaw
Mr. David R. Strait
Mrs. Vicki Strong
Mr. Vern R. Swanson
Mr. Dewayne Vogt
Class of 1979
Total Gifts $37,969.00 11.27% Participation Mr. Theodore T. Collins II
Mr. Jose Cosa
Mrs. Sheree Cosa
Mr. Griffith J. Decker
Rev. Daniel R. Duda
Mr. William W. Ewin III
Mr. Russ M. Frank
Mrs. Catherine Frank
Mr. Gregory J. Gebhardt
Mr. Dan Gutwein
Mr. Robert E. Harold
Mr. Randy L. Hartman Jr.
Mr. Allen R. Hartman Jr.
Mrs. Lorna Helbing
Mr. John D. Herrmann
Ms. Anne M. Kaneshiro
Mr. Vern Schmidt
Mr. James E. Strickler
Mr. Billy Sullenger
Mr. Abimael Velazquez
Mr. Bryan White
Mrs. Denise E. White
Mr. Charles E. Wisser
Class of 1980
Total Gifts $10,662.31 9.54% Participation Lt.Col. Carol B. Andrews
Mrs. Ruth A. Arrowsmith
Mr. Dan Boggs
Mr. Raymond E. Farrar
Mr. Joseph G. Forrest
Mr. David M. Gegel
Mr. John M. Johnston III
Mr. Andy W. Lewis
Mr. Paul S. Louden
Mr. Carroll J. Manchester
Mr. Robert B. McAfee
Mr. Keith R. Moser
Mr. William R. Patterson
Mr. Victor M. Paul
Mr. Kory O. Pehl
Mr. Fred L. Ritchey Jr.
Mrs. Deb L. Robey
Mr. Lawrence L. Robinson
Mr. Mark A. Shelly
Mr. James J. Smith
Mr. Stephen M. Thompson
Mr. Bradley S. Vanasse
Mrs. Lynn T. Vanasse
Mr. James D. Wahlstrom
Mr. Paul G. Wittenbach
Class of 1981
Total Gifts $6,120.00 14.22% Participation Mr. Donald L. Beiler
Mr. Rick H. Bicknell
Mr. Jeffrey A. Bowes
Mr. Mark D. Clark
Mr. Ronald A. Collins
Mr. Ben P. Cowles
Mr. Lynn D. Crouse
Mrs. Cathy L. Gaetz
Mr. Jeff Gaetz
Mr. William L. Garfield Jr.
Mr. Stephen E. Gooch
Mr. Donald E. Greene
Mr. Mark D. Hanna
Mr. Jon E. Hansen
Mr. Martin O. Hill
Mr. Rick Jenkins
Mr. David M. Jonathan
Mr. John E. Kinard
Mr. David J. Landon
Mr. Daniel R. Liggett
Mrs. Lauren Liggett
Mr. Tim P. Munsterman
Mr. Duane Olson Jr.
Mr. Al Preston
Mr. Daniel Pun Kay
Mr. David L. Ramaly
Mr. Ron G. Rand
Mr. Douglas P. Redman
Mr. Matthew H. Strong
Mr. Jim E. Sutton III
Mr. James G. Walker
Mr. Edward Wolbert
Class of 1982
Total Gifts $13,612.00 13.14% Participation Mr. Thomas E. Anderson
Mr. Damian G. Barrett
Mr. Gareth W. Blackwell Jr.
Mr. Walter Bowles Jr.
Mr. Randall Brock
Mr. Steve Bush
Mr. Roger Davis
Mrs. Brenda Diffenderfer
Mr. John P. Eleutheriou
Mr. Dean M. Frederick
Mr. Gerald L. Gehman
Mr. John M. Holmes
Mr. Brent L. Johnson
Mr. Mark Lehmann
Mr. John A. Levander Jr.
Mr. Phil V. Liddle
Mr. Mark D. McDowell
Mrs. Lydia R. Rountree
Mr. Jay H. Slagle
Mr. Gregg R. Sweeten
Mr. Ted A. Timmons
Mr. Keith F. Trosen
Mr. James A. Walter
Class of 1983
Total Gifts $3,885.00 8.33% Participation Mr. Tim Bauder
Dr. Tim Belcher
Mr. Bruce Cole
Mr. Darwin P. Kauffman
Dr. Martin A. Koschnitzke
Mr. Russ McClellan
Mr. Stephen McDonald
Mr. David O'Connor
Mr. Paul S. Ruppert Sr.
Mr. Robert R. Schuit
Mr. Roger Sherman
Mr. Trent L. Sommers
Mr. Wayne Steege
Mr. Rob C. Tomenendal
Mrs. Nancy Walter
Class of 1984
Total Gifts $7,210.00 9.51% Participation Mr. Jeffrey D. Aiken
Mrs. Deborah S. Aiken
Mr. Andrew Bartel
Mr. Donald B. Bell
Mr. Barney Burks Jr.
Mrs. Terry L. Cassis
Miss Ruth Cocking
Mr. Thomas E. Ehresman
Mr. Walter E. Gartner
Mr. Nathan Hewitt
Mr. David A. Hoeks
Mr. David E. Hoffman
Dr. Don W. Korenczuk Ph.D.
Mr. Philip P. Kuitems
Mr. Daniel R. Near
Mr. Charles Oliveto II
Mr. Glenn Perez
Mrs. Sylvia Ramaly
Mr. John W. Ramsay
Mr. Doug Roszhart
Mrs. Carol Roszhart
Mr. Robert G. Rountree
Dr. Daniel M. Schmidt
Mr. Donald F. Shellhart
Mr. Randy Vroom
Class of 1985
Total Gifts $25,810.00 9.09% Participation Mr. James K. Abell
Mr. Peter R. Austin
Mr. Dale J. Burns
Mr. Russell L. Davis
Mrs. Rhonda L. Davis
Mr. Steve Erickson
Mrs. Mary Hoffman
Mr. Steven Holm
Mr. Steve Iffland
Mr. Steven Linscheid
Mr. Daniel M. McCabe
Mr. Stephen D. Reason
Mr. Kenneth A. Stone
Mr. Dick Travis
Mrs. Lori Travis
Mr. Dean Waskowiak
Mr. Victor R. Willis
Class of 1986
Total Gifts $21,800.77 15.63% Participation Anonymous
Dr. Julia Binford
Mr. Jim Brake
Mr. David S. Busenitz
Mrs. Gayle R. Busenitz
Mr. David M. Campbell
Mr. William Conforti Jr.
Lt.Col. H. T. DeGroot
Mr. Frank A. Dubisz
Mr. David W. Elliott
Mr. Bill R. Fosbenner
Mr. Robert Fricke
Mr. Kenneth Hanna
Mr. David R. Johnson
Mr. David P. Kimball
Ms. Dawn Lockhart
Mr. Stephen J. Marks
Mr. Scott Mulligan
Mr. Bill P. Panagotopulos
Mr. David S. Prewitt
Mrs. Annette M. Prewitt
Mr. David E. Puttbach
Mr. Troy Ritchie
Mr. Timothy M. Schroeder
Mrs. Lorraine Senseney
Mr. Scott D. Stallard
Mr. Eduardo Vaflor
Mr. Edwin W. Walton
Mr. Mark D. Whitten
Mr. Neal Willford
Class of 1987
Total Gifts $8,185.00 9.22% Participation Mr. Paul D. Aubrey
Mr. Matthew J. Baldwin
Mr. Jeffrey J. Baumann
Mrs. Kathryn A. Booth
Mr. Carl E. Buczala
Mr. Steve Class
Mr. Randall W. Gabbert
Mr. Bradley J. Johnson
Mr. David Lednum
Mrs. Marilie A. Marks
Mrs. Roberta K. Nixon
Mr. Gregory S. Pike
Mr. Steve S. Reichenbach
Mr. Todd L. Roebke
Mr. Matthew J. Sample
Mr. Ruben D. Watson
Mr. William E. Worman Jr.
Mr. Terry A. Zeitlow
Mrs. Jill Zeitlow
Class of 1988
Total Gifts $2,760.00 5.69% Participation Mr. Michael Bulgrien
Mr. Arthur O. Christensen Sr.
Mrs. Tiffany DeGroot
Mr. Doug L. Faull
Mr. Gordon J. Johnson
Mr. Douglas M. Koppe
Mr. Philip J. McIntosh
Mr. Dean B. Nixon
Dr. Mark D. Roth M.D.
Mr. Carl J. Schwartz Jr.
Mrs. Lisa W. Skielnik
Mr. Steven L. Weidner
Class of 1989
Total Gifts $67,500.00 14.97% Participation Mr. John V. Baker
Mr. Kevin R. Berk
Mrs. Melanie Bertsche
Mr. Patrick A. Bertsche
Mr. Steven J. Boggess
Mr. Ronald R. Bouchard
Mr. Mark Budai
Mr. Andrew H. Curtis
Mr. Jeffrey G. DeLong
Mr. George E. Dunham
Mr. Scott P. Edinger
Mr. Timothy A. Graber
Mr. Allan Griffin
Mr. Arlin K. Hobbie
Mr. Brian V. McIntyre
Mr. Scott A. Patterson
Mr. Vincent L. Pomeroy
Mr. Douglas J. Roads
Mr. Brian E. Steinbruegge
Mr. Walter W. Waweru
Mr. Anthony C. Wolfe
Mr. Stanley E. Young
Class of 1990
Total Gifts $10,869.00 5.41% Participation Mrs. Jami L. Crider
Mr. Kenneth W. Daniels Jr.
Mr. Steven A. Dudden PE
Mrs. Ginger A. Graber
Mr. Robert A. Lorenz Jr.
Dr. Michael Myers
Mr. Gregory E. Scobee
Mr. Rod K. Spade
Class of 1991
Total Gifts $11,838.00 7.05% Participation Mr. Doug W. Anderson
Mrs. Starr M. Anderson
Mr. Marlin R. Brubaker
Mr. Frans A. Deblois
Mr. Scott C. Gardiner
Mr. Gary A. Hanson
Mr. David V. Harvey III
Mr. Joseph K. Henkel
Mr. Daniel R. Landis
Mr. James A. Mann Jr.
Miss Allison Pletcher
Mr. Christopher D. Pratt
Mr. Norman C. Reese
Mr. James P. Schmid
Mr. Stanton D. Spaulding
Mr. Darren L. Warkentin
Mr. Joshua R. Williams
Class of 1992
Mr. Harry G. Barrett Jr.
Mr. Mark W. Barrett
Mr. Adrian Bonilla
Dr. Douglas F. Britton
Mr. Bruce A. Chase
Mr. Anton E. Coy Jr.
Mr. Mark H. Devos
Mr. Richard V. Hall Jr.
Mr. Daniel J. Harding
Mrs. Kathryn A. Hirsch
Mr. Craig G. Hummel
Mr. Dean Q. Lewis
Mrs. Dawn A. Lilley
Mrs. Lori A. Mowen
Mr. Shane H. Patterson
Mr. Nathan A. Roden
Mrs. Angela Williams
Mr. Scott Winne
Ms. Virginia A. Wyatt
Mr. Roy S. Zeitlow
Class of 1993
Total Gifts $10,265.00 4.23% Participation Mrs. Laurie Barrett
Mr. Kenneth C. Bell
Mr. Christopher D. Bena
Mr. James E. Beylotte
Mr. Titus Crabb
Mr. Timothy M. Epp
Ms. Karen K. Gassett
Mr. Jonathon N. Hirsch
Mr. Jason D. Holland
Mr. Daniel P. Johnson
Mr. Thomas L. Kimbrough
Mr. Jeffrey I. Linstra
Ms. Lisa W. Mayfield
The Hon. Robert N. McFarland
Dr. Ann M. Olson
Mr. Jeffrey R. Piepmeier
Dr. Jenelle L. Piepmeier
Mrs. Peggy A. Snyder
Mr. Jason C. Stell
Mr. Philip M. Winters
Mr. William Wolcken
Mr. Michael E. Young
Class of 1994
Total Gifts $10,005.00 3.92% Participation Mr. Abelardo A. Alaniz
Mrs. Jennifer Bartram
Mr. Leonard V. Bates
Mrs. Marion Benson
Mrs. Tiffany N. Beylotte
Mrs. Jessica L. Bowers
Mr. Brian K. DeKruyff
Mr. Joseph P. Gagliano
Mr. Paul S. Grenon
Mr. John P. Gutierrez
Mrs. Denise M. Main
Mr. David M. Mills
Mr. Ronald S. Revell
Mr. Slade R. Rinehart
Mrs. Beth A. Ruwe
Mr. Brian D. Smoker
Mrs. Renee Smoker
Mr. Stephen D. VanNattan
Mrs. Janine M. Weber
Class of 1995
Total Gifts $5,305.00 1.72% Participation Mrs. Lynda Alder
Mr. Brian S. Bowers
Mr. Matthew Heironimus
Mrs. Sharmen Kimbrough
Mr. Glen Kotapish
Mr. Chris J. Oliver
Mr. Wayne F. Peterein Jr.
Mr. Gary M. Potts
Mr. Matthew N. Ruwe
Mr. David J. Tesser
Mr. Ronald J. Wind
Mr. Robert Winsor
Mr. Nathan J. Woskie
Class of 1996
Mr. Tony D. Benningfield
Mr. Jason E. Borsheim
Mr. Jonathan D. Caruvana
Mrs. Sylvia J. Caruvana
Mr. Stephen M. Chandler
Mr. Brian Decker
Mrs. Lisa L. A. Decker
Ms. Vera R. Ford
Mr. Terry L. Gunn
Mr. David Hamblin
Mr. Aaron L. Knaub
Mr. Rob F. Lund
Mr. Gabriel C. Morrow
Mr. Cary S. Olson
Mrs. Shelley A. Olson
Mr. Ricky A. Price
Mr. Jonathan H. Weimer
Class of 1997
Mr. Chung H. Baik
Mrs. Julie K. Boss
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Breaux
Mr. Timothy A. Crouthamel
Mr. Dan M. Davisson
Mr. Michael W. Hoye
Mr. Paul W. Johnson
Mr. Barry T. Knighton
Mrs. Sarah M. Kranz
Mrs. Marta Martin
Mr. Douglas B. McMahon
Ms. Sarah E. Morale
Mrs. Jennifer E. Nelson
Mr. David L. Nelson
Mr. Steve I. Ortiz
Mr. Charles R. Randall
Mrs. Laura A. Spivey
Mr. Matthew J. Tayloe
Mr. Jeff L. Thielman
Mr. Owen J. Watkins
Class of 1998
Total Gifts $7,481.00 3.00% Participation Mr. Paul J. Alexander
Mr. Jason P. Boss
Mr. John D. Eiford
Mr. Bryan D. Fiscus
Mr. Karl W. Gross
Mrs. Rebecca J. Hill
Mr. Andrew P. Kalitka
Mr. Aaron S. Lorson
Mrs. Angela F. Morrow
Dr. Seth J. Norton
Mr. Chris M. O'Meara
Mrs. Nicole E. O'Meara
Mr. Craig A. Portz
Ms. Deborah G. Rand
Mr. Ronald S. Sanda
Mr. Kenneth J. Sayler
Mrs. Melissa A. Smith
Ms. Stella E. Stewart
Mr. Matthew W. Sweet
Mrs. Misty M. Tayloe
Mr. Jason Tinsley
Mr. Jonathan L. Walton
Mr. Daniel V. Wilkin
Class of 1999
Mrs. Dianne H. Benton
Mrs. Kelli Billingsley-Metzenthin
Mr. Gordon J. Bullivant
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Cason
Ms. Georgia K. Emry
Mr. Christopher W. Fontaine
Mrs. Heather R. Little
Mrs. George Meza
Mr. Benjamin P. Monroe
Mr. Matthew J. Nelson
Dr. Nathan E. Nissley
Mrs. Aradhana R. Nissley
Mrs. Shiloh R. Norton
Mr. Ted R. Siegel
Mrs. Jeanette M. Sweet
Mrs. Kathryn R. Symank
Mrs. Allison M. Tuinstra
Mr. Michael P. Tuinstra
Class of 2000
Total Gifts $1,405.00 1.40% Participation Mrs. Brianna E. Abraham
Mr. Ben J. Dieter
Mr. Daniel T. Harrison
Ms. Patricia E. Henry
Mr. Paul B. Hvass
Mr. Tommy J. LaNasa
Mr. Imie Mark III
Mr. Timothy H. Medin
Mr. Orin R. Owen
Mr. J. R. Robertson Jr.
Mr. Daniel R. Smith
Class of 2001
Total Gifts $5,467.46 2.29% Participation Mr. Mohit R. Abraham
Mr. Michael E. Askew
Mr. Garrett J. Atkins
Mr. Phillip C. Briggs Jr.
Mr. Douglas N. Croffitt
Mr. Nathan J. Geib
Mrs. Bertha L. Goode
Mrs. Barbara D. Lau
Mr. Jeffrey A. Little
Ms. Teri L. Lopez
Dr. Matthew K. Olson
Mr. Andrew L. Olson
Mrs. Gail Ritchey
Mr. Daniel P. Ryan
Mr. Kelvin L. Solco
Ms. Meredith N. Todd
Class of 2002
Total Gifts $14,711.00 2.07% Participation Mr. Vernon M. David
Mr. Nicholas J. Hayden
Mr. Randall S. Knutson
Mrs. Lori A. Low
Mr. Randall D. Loyd
Mr. Kenneth W. Martens
Ms. Diana G. Martin
Mrs. Katrina M. Olson
Mr. David Parker
Lt. Aaron Pickett
Mrs. Bettina M. Pickett
Mr. Jonathan W. Preu
Dr. Natacha Qureshi
Mr. Shane P. Qureshi
Mrs. Martha M. Steed
Mr. Philip L. Steers IV
Class of 2003
Total Gifts $3,525.00 1.68% Participation Mr. Stephen D. Casey
Mr. William T. Chick
Mr. Timothy P. Clark
Mrs. Deborah K. Douthit
Mr. Mark L. Espeland
Mrs. Emily A. Hannah
Mr. Brian D. Hannah
Mrs. Bethany Hara
Mr. Shawn P. Hara
Mr. Peter H. Hoewisch
Mr. Andrew R. Steiger
Mr. Shane M. Warner
Mr. Anthony D. Zappasodi
Class of 2004
Mrs. Mandy K. Asp
Mr. Aaron Bliss
Mr. Gary A. Day
Mrs. Mary Hughey
Ms. Michelle L. Jackson
Mrs. Laura J. Laster
Mr. Jesse T. Laster
Ms. Tammy M. Mitchell
Mr. Dezi J. Rios
Mr. David C. Runyon
Mr. Ken M. Stidham
Mr. Joshua M. Suarez
Mrs. Janita D. Thornal
Mr. Raul E. Valdes
Mrs. Jessica N. Warner
Class of 2005
Total Gifts $3,088.82 3.68% Participation Mrs. and Mr. Alyssa J. Anderson
Mr. Jeremy J. Anderson
Anonymous
Mr. Stuart D. Asp
William D. Barry
Mr. Geary Benge
Mrs. Lauren R. Bliss
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew H. Cadman
Ms. Brenda A. Day
Mrs. Heidi A. Durant
Ms. Sarah A. Hess
Ms. Shelia K. Jennings
Mr. Eliot F. Landrum
Mr. Daniel N. Leatherwood
Mr. Caleb T. Roepke
Miss Anna K. Ross
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan M. Tack
Mr. James R. Townsend
Mr. Terrance A. Turner
Mr. Charles Wesley
Mr. Demetri M. White
Mr. Winslow E. Whitten Jr.
Mrs. Katie M. Zappasodi
Class of 2006
Total Gifts $4,340.02 2.92% Participation Mr. Ronald A. Campbell
Ms. Linda F. Carper
Ms. Amy E. Davis
Ms. Barbara J. Dixon
Mr. Matthew P. Edmunds
Mr. Derek A. Fitchett
Mrs. Courtney D. Gill
Mr. Jacob L. Gregg
Mr. Wayne R. Hamilton
Mr. Michael W. Kindel
Mr. Jacob A. Kobliska
Ms. Wanda J. Kuykendall
Dr. Charles D. Moorehead
Mr. William C. Owens
Mrs. Kristin M. Roepke
Mr. Stephen W. Simpson
Mr. Eugene Sung
Mrs. Pauline R. Sung
Mr. Robert J. Surprenant
Mrs. Catherine V. White
Mr. Douglas L. White
Class of 2007
Total Gifts $5,616.64 2.45% Participation Mr. and Mrs. Nathan A. Didlake
Mrs. Rachel A. Gaines
Mrs. Catherine Hart Green
Mr. Tim D. Markley II
Ms. Nashunda Y. Mitchell
Mr. John M. Morrison
Ms. Elizabeth R. Moss
Mrs. Roberta G. Moss
Mrs. Tamera L. Phallan
Mrs. Nola K. Plumb
Mr. Steve Rash
Mr. Jonathan L. Ridenour
Mrs. Whitney A. Schubarth
Mr. Steven A. Shogren
Mrs. Janna C. Suarez
Mr. Jason K. Trosen
Mr. Charles R. Trowbridge
Class of 2008
Total Gifts $1,681.17 2.99% Participation Mrs. Jordan E. Baumer
Mr. Richard E. Baumer
Mr. Danny Bradley
Mrs. Lauren L. Bradley
Jerica L. Cadman
Christopher R. Cook
Mr. Thomas G. Cooper
Mr. Michael R. DeGroat
Mr. Joshua S. Eicholtz
Mrs. Katie B. Eicholtz
Mr. Michael J. Gaines Jr.
Mrs. Catherine M. Gibson
Mr. Joshua C. Hasty
Mrs. Terese M. Hasty
Mrs. Lana E. Jordan
Mrs. Laura A. Leahy
Ms. Courtney M. Lemmond
Mrs. Stacie K. Otto
Mr. James R. Saunders
Mr. Ruedi T. Schubarth
Annetta M. Scott
Mrs. JoAnna E. Stewart
Class of 2009
Total Gifts $3,117.46 1.45% Participation Mr. and Mrs. Jason D. Albright
Mrs. Elsa Bailey
Mrs. Kris Elmore
Mr. Scott F. Fossey
Mrs. Jenny K. Foster
Richard F. Godley
Mr. Harold S. Graham
Mr. Steven C. Hadfiel
Major CaSaundra M. Harris
Mr. Joshua L. Trempert
Mrs. Mary Beth Trogdon
Ms. Nancy L. Westbrook
Class of 2010
Total Gifts $2,502.00 3.09% Participation Ms. Megan C. Baldwin
LaShunda T. Bible
Mr. Justin B. Bowen
Kelly Brighi
Mr. John L. Cardenas
Mr. Otis J. Chandler
Carter C. Collum
Mrs. Mindy R. Crawford
Mr. Daniel A. Ferguson
Kaylee L. Godley
Mrs. Christine E. Hadfield
Patricia Huizar
Mrs. Linda K. Johnson
George L. Jones
Monica J. Klaus
Mr. Carlton W. Mitchell
Caleb G. Obholz
Daniel L. Patches
Derek R. Phillips
Mrs. Janet Ragland
Natalie Rogers
Charles E. Roquemore
Sara J. Shogren
Mr. Bob L. Ssekyanzi
Mr. Daniel J. Towner
Melissa D. Trost
Ms. Rebekah A. Valencia
Daphine D. Watley
Class of 2011
Bettie Berard
Mrs. Melissa Bleckley
Angele R. Blick
Mr. Kevin R. Boatman
Sarah A. Brooks
Stephen M. Campbell
Tyrus R. Cobb III
Ulrich E. De La Fuente
Travis D. Eliason
Ms. Virginia A. Fabbro
Mitchell C. Fairchild
Trista E. Fongemie
Cynthia M. Garlinger
Jered P. Gebel
Stephen B. Griffith
Mr. Matthew P. Gustafson
Angela Hapka
Jonathan J. Harris
Steven J. Hederstedt
Sylvia B. Jimerson
Shane M. Johnson
Jodie L. Kalas
Mrs. Latraya S. Lane
Mr. Nathan T. McGarvey
Eric C. McLaughlin
Hope D. Means
Aaron L. Midcap
Kenneth D. Misiak
Venessia B. Rieper
Benjamin J. Schultz
Mr. Patrick L. Stewart Sr.
Michael P. Walhof
Mr. Tyler A. Whitney
Brittney R. Wiley
Mr. Nolan J. Willis
Mrs. Erin M. Wilson
Mrs. Grace L. Worcester
Carla R. Yaw
Class of 2012
Total Gifts $908.00 2.69% Participation Evan W. Basnaw
Barnabas G. Bridgman
Stacie L. Francis
Heather L. Gavin
Jeffrey L. Nickles
Lorrin E. Quinn
Adam J. Sarhage
Matthew S. Uncapher
Joseph D. Wallace
Introducing the 1946 Society — The New
LeTourneau University Annual Fund
When Evelyn and R.G. “Mom and Pop” LeTourneau
founded LeTourneau Technical Institute in 1946, Harry
Truman was president, gasoline was $0.15 a gallon and the
radio was playing music by Frank Sinatra, the Ink Spots,
Bing Crosby, Duke Ellington, Perry Como and the Andrews
Sisters. The all-male technical school was dedicated to
combining academics with a spiritual emphasis.
Much has changed since 1946. In 1961, the school went
co-ed as LeTourneau College, expanding in 1989 into what
we know today as LeTourneau University. But one thing
hasn't changed over the past 66 years. LETU is still fully
committed to fusing academic and spiritual life — and to
producing the brightest and best graduates who ingeniously impact the world as Christ-like professionals.
To honor this commitment and the historic year of our
founding, the 1946 Society (formerly the LETU Annual
Fund) carries on the legacy of Mom & Pop LeTourneau by
providing much-needed scholarships, fulfilling program
and research needs, and enhancing educational opportunities for LeTourneau University students.
Whether you’re an alumnus, parent or friend of the
university, you can help support this legacy and make a
difference in the lives of our students by joining the 1946
Society as a pioneer member — for just $19.46 per month.
As a pioneer, you will join in Mom & Pop’s vision for the
future, pledging $19.46 per month for 10 years. Donations
to The 1946 Society are unrestricted gifts that are vital to
LeTourneau University, providing the flexibility to identify
and address strategic priorities and emerging opportunities that otherwise would go unfunded.
Join the 1946 Society now, as a pioneer member, forging
the path for generations to come. A time capsule will be
buried at the 2014 dedication of the Sidney and Anna Lee
Allen Family Student Center, including memory cards from
all 1946 Society pioneer members. This capsule will be
opened in conjunction with the university's 75th anniversary celebration in 2021, where we'll honor your contribution to the LeTourneau legacy.
To honor 1946 and contribute to the lasting vision of Mom
& Pop LeTourneau, visit www.letu.edu/give. Learn more
at www.letu.edu/1946, or like us on Facebook, at
www.facebook.com/The1946Society.
classnotes
MEMORIALS
Sammy Glaze (’53 IS)
died April 14, 2010, in
Longview, Texas. He
graduated as “First Honor
Student” from LeTourneau
Technical Institute and
spent his entire professional career working for the LeTourneau
Plant. He is survived by his wife, Opal, of
58 years, three grown children, several
grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
David Neweceral (’54 ME) died Sept. 9,
2010, of cancer. He resided in Coronado,
Calif.
Eugene A. Rundquist (’54 IS) died Dec.
1, 2011, in Acworth, Ga. His daughter
Pamela said that Eugene had a very
special place in his heart for LeTourneau.
He was one of the original college students
who went to Peru with
R.G. to build houses
and churches. He
is survived by three
grown daughters; five
grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
Robert Hoffer (’55 PT)
died May 21 in Retsil,
Wash., at the age of 90.
He is survived by his wife
of 66 years, Irene, and
two grown children.
Paul W. Coupland (’55 ME) of Folsom,
Calif., died Aug. 2, 2011, and is survived
by his wife of 54 years, Marge. He only attended LETU for one year but said it was
a time of learning lifetime values.
William “Bill” J. Stewart (‘55 LI) died on
May 19, 2011, in Fort Atkinson, Wis. He is
survived by his wife of 58 years, Martha,
four children, nine grandchildren and
seven great-grandchildren.
James “Jim” Dingmon (’69 ME) of
Nederland, Texas, died on May 11. He
is survived by his wife of 43 years, Judy,
three grown daughters and their husbands and one grandson.
Daniel Minor (’71 ATBS)
died unexpectedly in a motorcycle accident on Aug.
25 in Ovilla, Texas. He is
survived by his wife, Pam,
of 40 years, his parents,
siblings and grandchildren.
Wayne Donnelly (’72 IE)
died June 13, 2011, in
DeKalb, Ill. He is survived
by his wife, Cynthia (to
whom he was married
for 55 years) five grown
children, 19 grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren.
Michael L. Capp (’78
ENGR) died on Sept 6
after losing his battle with
cancer. He is survived
by his wife, Jerrie, who
resides in Bristol, Wis.
Susan (Iverson) O’Neill
(’79 RE) died Jan. 9
in Apex, N.C. She is
survived by her husband,
Robert (’80 WT), and
three grown children.
Dale Robinson (’80-’83)
died Oct. 27 in Longview,
Texas. He is survived
by his wife, Ronda,
daughter Shea, son Ty,
his parents and numerous aunts, uncles and
cousins.
Scott N. Bowen (’82 MT) died on Feb.
8 at the age of 51. He is survived by his
wife, Melody, of Claremore, Okla., and
his three grown children and many family
members.
Laurence Cappella (’82 EE) died April 1
in Renton, Wash. He is survived by four
sons and his wife, Debra, who said he
loved to serve people. He was with Boe-
ing for 25 years, had a love for AWANA
programs and the community pumpkin
patch in their town. He inspired the lives
he touched with his full, godly life.
Kurt McCoy (‘82 IM)
died April 23 at Houston
Hospice, in Houston. He
is survived by his wife,
Rhonda, four grown children, his father and many other relatives.
Eugenio Bultedaob (’89 MT) died on
Apr. 2, 2011, in Sequim, Wash., of liver
cancer. He is survived by his wife, Jane,
two grown children, seven siblings and
a large extended family in Palau and
around the world.
Virginia Satterlee (’93 BBM) died on
May 24, 2011, in Arlington, Texas. She
is survived by her husband Warren, two
siblings, a daughter and son-in-law, and
three grandchildren.
Rena LaRue Gant (’94
ACCT) of Birmingham,
Ala., died Dec. 25, 2011.
She is survived by her husband, Tom; son David and
other family members.
Elizabeth “Ebby”
Childress ('05 BBA)
died Aug. 6 in Longview,
Texas, after her battle
with cancer. She is survived by her son, Wade,
his wife Carley, her mother, siblings and
many nieces and nephews.
Kyle Atchison (’08 AFPP) died Oct. 24
in Everett, Wash. He is survived by his
wife, Lisa (Jones) Atchison (’05 ASDT).
Michael “Lee” Barnett (’08 BBA) of
Tyler, Texas, died on April 2, in a chain
reaction car accident. He is survived
by his wife, Laurie, his parents and five
siblings.
The loss of a loved one, friend or colleague often inspires us to ensure that
their memory lives on. Many people find
that supporting LETU is an ideal way to
honor someone who has passed away.
Gifts made “in memoriam” offer lasting
honor to a loved one while providing
family and friends with the satisfaction of
knowing they have helped others. If you
would like to give a memoriam to LETU,
please call 1-800-259-5388 or donate
online at www.letu/give. The family will
be notified of your generosity when a
memoriam is made.
BIRTHS
Ruth (Hartshorn) Anderson (’78 DT) welcomes
her first grandchild, William
Kenneth, born on Oct.
25, 2011, in Alaska to son
Edwin and his wife, Megan.
Dan Hoobyar
(’80 EE) is praising the Lord for
the arrival of his
grandson, Benaiah James, born Sept. 21, 2011, to son,
David, and his wife, Kathleen, in Calif.
Paul J. Wilson (’91 ATBS, BUBS) and
wife, Andrea, announce the birth of their
daughter, Phoebe Joy,
born on Nov. 3, 2011, in
LaPlata, Md. They are
currently serving with New
Tribes Mission in Papua,
New Guinea.
Justin Baba (’94
ATFL) and wife,
Carmen, announce
the birth of Matteus
Panya, on May 30.
He was 5 lbs, 6 oz and 18 inches long,
and joins his brother Jonathan at their
home in Knoxville, Tenn.
Wayne Cummings (‘95
ATFL) and wife, Veronica,
welcomed their daughter
Amelia Michelle on Oct. 18,
2011, in Shelbyville, Ky.
Jonathan Gardner (’96 CST) and wife,
Rachel, announce the Sept. 2011 arrival
of their son Eric. He is welcomed by five
siblings in their home in Carrolton, Texas.
Jonathan is a software engineer for AMR
American Airlines contract Tigua Tech in
Fort Worth, Texas.
Lydia and Lily.
Laurie (Salo) Spivey (ME
’97) and her husband, Jason, announce the arrival
of Lucy Claire on May 18.
Lucy was welcomed home
by her siblings Wyatt,
Marta Martin (’97
HIPL) and husband,
Matt, would like to
announce the Oct. 5
birth of 6 lb., 15.5 oz.
Maria Luisa. She is
welcomed home by
her sister Morgan.
Joel “Neb” Rurak (’00 ETAT) and wife,
Allison, announce the birth of their first
child, William Daniel.
He was born in South
Hamilton, Mass., on
Feb. 9, and weighed 7
lbs, 2 oz.
Shawn Hara (’03
BUBS) and wife,
Bethany (‘03
BYBA), announce
the arrival of their
daughter Madelyn Paige. She was born
on Nov. 11, 2011, in Longview, Texas.
She weighed 6 lbs, 2 oz.
sister, Anna.
Matt Bulpitt (’03 EE) and
Jennifer (Drouin) Bulpitt
(’04 BUBS) welcomed
their son, Andrew Murray,
on Jan. 13 in Waldorf,
Md. He is joining his big
Adam Hunter (’04 ME)
and wife, Betsy (’04
BME), welcome home
daughter, Sadie Grace.
She was born on Nov. 11,
2011, in Park Ridge, Ill.
Damon Stokes
(’07 EE) and wife,
Erin, announce
the birth of Clara
Ruth, born on
Feb. 12 in Keizer, Ore. She weighed 7
lbs, 9 oz and was 21 inches long.
Michael Skeen (’08 MK) and wife, Katie
(Reed) Skeen (’10 BI), announce the
birth of their daughter, Abigail Grace, born
on March 22. She weighed 7 lbs, 4 oz,
and they live in Longview, Texas.
Joshua Stewardson
(’08 CSBC) and Kendall (Smith) Stewardson (’08 BYBS)
of DesMoines, Iowa,
received national attention when their
son Asher was born on Jan. 26, weighing in at 13 lbs, 12 oz. His brother Judah
welcomed him home.
Peter Greenwald (’10 AFFS) and his
wife, Ashley, are celebrating the birth of
their son, Cade Bennett Greenwald, who
was born on Jan. 26, 2011, Longview,
Texas.
Charmyn Tumey (’11 MBA)
would like to announce
the birth of daughter, Eliza
Brielle, born Aug. 3, 2011 in
Longview, Texas.
WEDDINGS
Chelle (Wilkins) Swanson-Wilson
(‘95) and Paul Wilson were married Oct.
29, 2011, and are living in Olathe, Kan.
Chelle is a professional artist/designer,
and she and her husband own Repurposed Design Company.
Nathaniel Horton (’08 MJE) married Lt.
Kristen L. Wallis June 16, and they reside
in Fairborn, Ohio. Nathaniel graduated
in Dec. 2011 with his M.S. in Materials
Engineering, Metals and Ceramics, from
Clemson University.
Scott Storey (’08 ASFL) and wife,
Jessica, were married on Jan. 21. They
currently reside in Longview, Texas. Scott
works for Express Jet Airlines as a first
officer.
Allison Garrard (’09 ISE1) and Travis
Thompson were married on March 16.
They and their daughter, Hannah Faith,
reside in Saltillo, Texas.
classnotes
Richard Godley (’09 EE) and Kaylee
Sumrall (’10 BYBS) were married June
27, 2010, and reside in McKinney, Texas.
Joshua Harper (’10
EE) and wife, Emily,
were married May
2011, and reside in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
where Joshua works
for Rockwell Collins.
Elijah Lofgren (’10
CSE) and Megan
married March
24. They reside in
Ludlow, Ky., where
Elijah is working for
TiER1 Performance
Solutions.
Jennifer Marsh (’11 BBA) was recently
married to Charles Dimsdale. The couple
resides in North Richland Hills, Texas,
where Jennifer is an accountant with
United Parcel Service.
Class Notes
60s
Andrew Toth (’68 ME/AE) wanted to
add acknowledgement to the Spring
2011 NOW magazine “The Women of
LeTourneau” by mentioning the Student
Wives Club. This club supported their
husbands, the campus and student life
in general. It also provided fellowship for
wives (and husbands) that might have
isolated themselves from student life.
The Toths are retired after 40 years of
missionary service and reside in New
Braunfels, Texas. They have a grandson
who is currently attending LeTourneau.
70s
Howard Spencer (‘72 IE) is now the
safety consultant for Conner Strong &
Buckelew J.A. Montgomery. He and his
wife, Barbara, reside in Marlton, N.J.
Ron Yaddaw (’72 MT/ATBS) and wife,
Lucille, are now retired from Wycliffe,
Orlando, Fla., as of Oct. 1, 2011, after
38 years of ministry. They will start their
retirement by traveling around the country
to say thank you to their ministry partners.
David Abuhl (’73 ATBS)
has recently retired and
he and his wife, Priscilla,
now live in Price, Utah.
Terry Michmerhuizen
(’75 MT/ATBS) has recently taken the
position of assistant professor in the
College of Aviation at Western Michigan
University. He and his wife, Nelva, now
reside in Gobles, Mich.
Tim Kinney (’78 MT) recently moved
to Las Vegas, where he is the owner/sr.
project manager of West Wing Consulting.
Theodore “Ted” Collins (’79 ATBS)
retired from GE in March 2011, after 24
years, and formed his own company,
Collins CFM Consulting Services LLC,
in Fairfield, Ohio. Ted also received his
Master in Education from Mt. Vernon
Nazarene University in 2006.
Bruce
Shauger
(’79 ET/
ATBS)
wanted to
share a
picture of his family with their son who
graduated from Marine Boot Camp in
Oct. 2011. Bruce and his family reside in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
80s
Russell Callison
(’80 BUBS/ATBS)
shared a picture
of his son, Chase,
and grandson,
Beckham Cade.
Russ has recently moved to Kimberling
City, Mo.
Kevin Walters (’81 WT) and wife,
Coleen, have recently resigned from
Wycliffe Bible Translators’ on-the-field
partner, SIL, and are now working with
Serving In Mission (SIM) in Nigeria. They
are also first-time grandparents to Titus
John, born Sept. 28, 2011.
James Berge (’85 WE)
has written and published
a book called Prayer,
Quantum Physics,
and Hotel Mattresses:
Dissolving the Barrier
Between Seen and Unseen. Jim lives in
Shreveport, La., with his wife, Kayla, and
two children.
R. Douglass Kollmar
(’86 MT) is now an
engineering technician in
RETTEW’S civil/municipal division in the firm’s
Lancaster, Pa., office.
He and his wife, Gail, currently reside in
Spring Grove, Pa.
Steve Biggs (’87 ET) and wife, Sylvia
(Wallis) Biggs (’79 MABS), have recently
moved to Claremore, Okla., where Steve
has taken a job with Baker Hughes International as a motor engineer.
Mike Bunn (’88 ATBS) and Jodi (Collingridge) Bunn (’91 ASAT, BSEng) are
now on loan to the training department of
JAARS in Waxhaw, N.C., after 17 years
of service with YWAM’s flight operation in
the Amazon region of Brazil. Mike serves
in Aviation Training, while Jodi helps staff
the Intercultural Communications Course
(ICC).
Blaine (’89 MT) McCauley was reassigned to the Western Algeria Sahara
Desert with Conoco Phillips about two
years ago. Wife, Sharyl (Wambauch)
(’89 BYBS), has left her QA manager
position with University of New Mexico
to shuttle their two boys, Jacob (15) and
Jarod (12), to swimming relays, where
she also volunteers/officiates swim team
events. They currently reside in Montgomery, Texas.
Cheri Hudspith (’89 ACCT) was hired as
the director of Leadership Development
at the Evangelical Center for Spiritual
Wisdom. More information can be found
at www.ecswisdom.org. Cheri is married
to David Hudspith (’93 CSMA).
90s
Andrew Simpson (’91 AMT) and wife,
Dawn, have recently moved to Norristown, Pa., where Andrew is a paramedic
for Global Systems Medics.
Stanton Spalding (’91 ATBS) recently
took a job with Interstates Construction
Services, Inc., in Sioux Center, Iowa, as
their electrical purchasing leader.
Steve Straw (’93 ATBS/BI) and wife,
Alace, continue to serve as missionaries
with Air Calvary in Gabon, Africa. Their
children, Joe, Megan and Sam, attend
Rain Forest Int’l School, just two hours
away by
plane (15
hours by
car).
Darrell Sekin (’95 BBM) was elected
president of the National Customs
Brokers and Forwarders Association of
America in April. He is currently president
and CEO of DJS International Services
Inc., an international freight forwarding
and customs brokerage firm in Colleyville,
Texas.
Becky Renfro-Borbollo (’96 BBM) was
recently inducted into the Dallas Chapter
of Les Dames d’Escoffier, an international
philanthropic society of professional
women leaders in the fields of food, fine
beverage and hospitality.
Gabriel Morrow (’96 ATFL) and Angela
(Franzen) Morrow (’98 BYBS) have
moved to Wis. for Gabriel to begin his
MDiv at Nashotah House Theological
Seminary.
Jonatas Berberian (’97 ETAT) is now
in Goiania-Go, Brazil, serving as the
technical director for Gulf Coast Avionics
Brazil. He and his wife, Danielle, have
two children, Alex (7) and Laura (4). He
says thanks to LETU for opening all the
doors to get him where he is today.
Michael Campbell (’98 BSBM) has obtained a teaching certificate and is now a
teacher and football coach with the Lone
Oak School District. He also works with
troubled and special needs youth, teaching primarily business classes to junior
high and high school students.
Charlie Couch (’98 MBA) completed
a PhD in Education, specializing in
Leadership for Higher Education. He and
his wife, Lori, and four children reside in
Windsor, Colo.
Vance Dunahoe
(’99 BUBS) has
been with Farm
Bureau Insurance
for three years in
Henderson, Texas.
Vance and wife, Stephanie, celebrated their
son Caleb’s second birthday on Feb. 5.
Nathan Rylander (’99 MT) was promoted to major in the U.S. Marine Corps
Reserves on Sept. 22 in El Paso, Texas.
Nathan is also a broker with Transwestern, and he and his wife, Michele, reside
in Plano, Texas.
00s
Luis Zelaya (’00 ATFL) is First Officer
on the Embraer 145 at American Eagle
Airlines in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. He
really enjoys working with the alumni
there and said he will soon be receiving
an upgrade.
Eric Orosco (’01
BBA) was recently
promoted to general
manager of Devcon Security’s Fort Worth
branch.
Robert Watson (’01 ME) recently entered
the Biggest Energy Saver contest and
was the grand prize winner for the patent
pending Smart Meter 500 powered by
Benchmarx. Robert and two others developed this software application that would
enable customers to better monitor and
control their home energy usage.
Leif Wickland (’01 CSBS) has recently
been promoted to senior principal applications engineer at Right Now Technologies
in Bozeman, Mont. His wife, Elizabeth
(Bitikofer) Wickland (’01 EN), owns her
own Mary Kay business and daughter Eliana is in kindergarten at Petra Academy.
Michelle Wilson (‘01) and husband,
Paul, were married on Oct. 29, 2011, and
currently reside in Olathe, Kan. Michelle
is a professional artist and designer,
a worship leader and participant in an
exclusive ensemble, Rezonate, at United
Methodist Church of the Resurrection.
Paul and Michelle design art furniture
and own their own business, Repurposed
Design Company.
Shirley Ann “Shane” Yelverton (’02
BBM) has taken a job with Fluor in Sugar
Land, Texas, as the interface management tech/engineering technician.
Hector Aubert (’04 ASMG) was recently
hired by UPS Airlines, Aircraft Maintenance, in Lexington, Ky., with a position in
the Management Training Program.
Chip Glass (’04 BUDT)
was recently promoted
to Second Lieutenant
in the U.S. Army and
received the Patterson
Award on May 3, in Ft.
Benning, Ga.
Teal (Medrano) Neighbors (’05-’09)
works as administrative assistant for
the Media Ministry at Great Hills Baptist
Church and as a freelance writer. Her
husband, Matt (’06) works with the Texas
representative for Johannus Organs.
They reside in Austin, Texas.
classnotes
Charles Wesley (’05
EN; CSMA) was in
the U-T San Diego
newspaper (formerly
Union-Tribune) for
donating his kidney to a
complete stranger. He
and his wife, Alexis, adopted a little boy
this summer, who will be a little brother to
their daughter, Laelia.
Daniel Chiew (’06 ASEL), with two others, has received a patent for “Synthetic
Vision Dynamic Field of View.” He has
been extensively involved in the Synthetic
Vision for Avionics Displays at Rockwell
Collins, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, since his
graduation.
Jonathan Demildt (’06 ASEL) was selected as a semi-finalist from Government
Systems at Rockwell-Collins, in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. These awards are to recognize employees’ outstanding technical
creativity and innovation that significantly
impacts the company and the engineering
profession.
Kyle Miller (‘06 ASMG) created the
evolution HD rifle chassis for the custom
built Remington M700 that was used by
snipers at the 2012 Super Bowl. Kyle
lives in Mack, Colo., and works at XLR
Industries.
Jonathan Wilson (’06 BUBS; HIPL)
received an Master of Arts and Master of
Philosophy in History from Syracuse University and is now working on a PhD dissertation in American Intellectual History.
He is currently co-teaching a freshman
course at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in Syracuse, NY.
Ben Ehmke (’07 CMYM), Jonathan
Bracy (’05-09) and James Bracy (’0709) are the co-founders of the company
42Floors in San Francisco, Calif. Ben
currently lives in Longview, Texas, while
Jonathan and James live in San Francisco, Calif.
of Navy Week NOLA. He was commissioned
an ensign May 14 and is scheduled to attend Coast Guard helicopter flight school in
Pensacola, Fla.
Curtis “Fjord” Hawthorn (’07 CSE)
and Andrew Spencer (’08 EN) just
had their first book published, Murder
in Jefferson: The 1868 Stockade Case.
Spencer, who earned his degree in
English with a history minor, is in the
English PhD program at Texas A&M
Commerce.
Whitney Phelps (’07 HIPL) is enrolled
at Seattle University Law School and
interned at the Inter-American Court of
Human Rights this summer. She applied for an externship this fall with the
Inter-American Commission of Human
Rights in Washington, D.C., before
taking the bar exam.
Brent “Spork” Bradbury (‘08 CSBS)
recently recruited at LETU’s Career
Fair. He is a software developer for
Connamara Systems in Chicago and
is engaged to Elizabeth Hjort, a PhD
candidate at Northwest.
Daniel Williams (’08 ME) recently
moved to Plano, Texas, and is working
for Meggitt Inc. as a project engineer.
This division designs and manufactures air conditioning systems for
airplanes and helicopters.
Eric Blakey (’08 HIPL) was hired in
July 2011 as a flight operations crew
scheduler at Southwest Airlines in Dallas. His wife, Kimberly, was also hired
at Southwest shortly after moving to
Dallas as a fuel inventory auditor.
Alex Johns (’09 AFFS) was recently
featured in the Lulig, La., newspaper
for his duty aboard the Coast Guard
Barque EAGLE for training and as part
Jonathan Wilcoxson (’09 HIPL; BI) has
been accepted into Notre Dame’s PhD program in the early Christianity and Judaism in
Antiquity along with a fellowship. He and his
wife, Kirby (Posey) Wilcoxson (’09 KMIN),
are currently residing in Winona Lake, Ind.
10s
Peter Greenwald (’10 AFFS) and wife,
Ashley, are now missionaries serving with
Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) as a pilot/
mechanic family. They have been raising
financial and prayer support and are about
to begin work in Indonesia.
Megan Ross (‘10 BYBS) attends Texas
A&M University System Health Science
Center - College of Medicine. Since graduating from LETU, Megan attended UT Austin’s
School of Public Health and graduated with
her master’s degree in May.
Jared Gebel (’11 AFPP) is now working as
a full-time flight instructor for Anson Aviation
in Sugar Land, Texas. He says the training
he received at LETU has been a great help
in starting his career and he always enjoys
seeing LETU alumni.
Dugan Shry (’11 MBA) was promoted to
an assistant trainmaster for the Kansas City
Southern Railroad in Laredo, Texas.
Stoney Wilson (’11 MBA) recently took a
job with the Upper Tampa Bay Chamber
of Commerce in Oldsmar, Fla., as the vice
president of sales.
Melinda Calvin (’12 Psych) has recently
taken a teaching position with Alief ISD in
Houston, Texas.
Chance Davison (’12 AAAS) began employment with Aerotek to work for Honeywell
in Houston on May 23. n
ScheduleD Events
Silent auction | Golden Jackets recognition luncheon and reunion | Ladies of LeTourneau Tea |
Dad/student/alumni sports tournament | Pray
the Loop | Hootenanny | NIFA Pancake Breakfast | Intersociety Rope Pull | Picnic on the
grounds | Cardboard & Duct Tape Boat Races
(In Pond) | Catamelon Competition (East Side of
Pond) | Campus Tour | Welding Lab Presentation: "O, Brother Where Art Thou?" | Tyler Hall
Movie Night & Alumni Open Mike Night (Corner
Café).
Register online or call 1-800-259-ALUM (2586)
or email us at [email protected] to RSVP or for
more information.
Reunions
Class of 1963 - If you graduated in 1963 or before,
come back to recognized as one of the Golden Jackets.
KZX 50th Reunion
Contacts: Class years 1963-1973 - Joe Nowiczewski
[email protected]
Class years 1974-1983 - Jim Hooker
[email protected]
Class years 1984-1993 - Steve Dudden
[email protected]
Class years 1994-2003 - Paul Riley
[email protected]
Class years 2004-2012 - Kevin Haveman
[email protected]
LAS 50th Reunion
50 Years of Tyler Hall
save the date!
Tyler Hall West 1A Reunion
Contact Brian Kelly at [email protected]
Written by Kate Gronewald
A little boy in cowboy boots rides his bike down
the sidewalk, while girls in brightly colored bows
scramble over playground equipment. Young parents
sit on porches swapping advice on the latest baby
gear. Men grill burgers near brightly blooming flowers
while wives sit around a dining room table chatting
over coffee. It sounds like just another evening in just
another American neighborhood – timeless, idyllic.
But zoom out a few hundred yards, and you’ll spot a
cafeteria, dorms and academic buildings. You’ll rapidly
realize that this slice of family life is a unique microcosm of a university campus community.
Unlike your average neighborhood of young
families, LeTourneau University’s Married Student
Housing is a community of couples and children
brought together by a common thread – education. Their residence at the east side of campus
represents the priority they place on earning their
degree amidst the chaos of adult and family life. It’s
a land of training wheels and textbooks, pacifiers and
prayers to pass classes, newlyweds and never-ending
term papers.
The current residents of Married Student Housing
represent marriages ranging from mere months to
more than a decade, students pursuing both graduate and undergraduate work, and children from birth
to age seven and up. The newest residents include
seven babies born to MSH couples since January
2012.
With so many children in one place, chaos is
inevitable. Here, it’s daily life for a dad to be doing
homework at the kitchen table while his son hones
his coloring skills beside him, or for parents to pass
off their kiddos to a neighboring couple to babysit
while they go to Bible study or class.
Upon first glance, Married Student Housing is
an appealing residential option primarily for quick
commutes to class. However, it’s quickly evident that
the benefits of MSH stretch far beyond practicality
— and that behind the chaos, lives a pervasive sense
of calm. It’s a calm fueled by commonality and an
abiding sense of purpose.
Former MSH Resident Assistants Ryne and
Rebekah Bergren brought two children home from
the hospital while living in MSH and earning their degrees. Rebekah, a teacher education student, is now
employed as a teacher in Longview, and Ryne, a flight
science major, now serves as a flight instructor at
LeTourneau’s Abbott Aviation Center. Their children
are now three and four, and MSH is the only home
they’ve known until now. Prior to the family’s recent
move off campus to fully embark on their professional lives, Rebekah reflected upon on her family’s
MSH experience.
“We will always appreciate Married Student Housing not for the convenience, but for the community,”
Rebekah said. “It’s a community that helps young
couples be successful in their marriages and their
academic studies. It’s a support system.”
As the Bergrens know, college campus doesn’t
shield against the realities of life. MSH residents
have experienced everything from first fights as
newlyweds to the loss of parents and even the loss
of babies. But no matter the struggle, these couples
and families aren’t alone, and they constantly prove
it. Whether it’s babysitting another couple’s children
or cooking meals for another family during a tough
time, a sense of togetherness connects these homes
and lives.
40 | NOW Magazine | Summer 2012
Couples make their way to Married
Student Housing from as close as the LETU
residence halls across Harris Drive or as far away as
professional ventures around the world. But one
thing is for sure — everyone has a story.
Zelina and Ryan Tiemann moved into MSH in
January from Minnesota for Ryan to pursue a degree
in electrical engineering after working 11 years as
an electrician. Zelina, an interior designer originally
from Mexico, has created a warm, welcoming home
in the couple’s 850-square-foot apartment on campus. Sitting in their living room listening to her play
the piano, it is easy to close your eyes and vividly
imagine all the young married LeTourneau couples
who have come before them.
Couples have long been a central part of the
LeTourneau community. From the inception of
LeTourneau Technical Institute in 1946, faculty and
student wives have participated in campus life, even
before female students entered the mix in the early
1960s.
Since the early days at LeTourneau, married students have lived in a designated residential area on
campus. Initially wooden barracks, remnants of the
Harmon General Hospital, housed young LeTourneau
families. Married students have lived in the current
brick apartment buildings on campus for more than
40 years, yet prior to their construction, a group of
on-campus trailers was home to this student population in the late 1960s. Among these students were
two newlyweds from West Virginia.
Mike and Mary Jackson arrived at LeTourneau
University in 1966 with a baby and a mission — for
Mike to earn his degree. While he participated in the
alter-day program of balancing his studies with work
at the LeTourneau plant, Mary remembers pushing
strollers across Mobberly Avenue with other student
wives to grocery shop at Kroger and swimming on
hot summer days with her kids in the on-campus
pool. Looking back, the Jacksons view their young
married life at LeTourneau as a strong foundation for
decades to come.
“We learned so much about doing things as a
couple,” Mary said. “Living in Married Student Housing was a growing experience that has followed us all
through our lives.”
She participated in the Student Wives Club, a
group of young ladies who hosted parties, suppers
and the annual LETU Sweetheart Banquet.
The ladies would visit Mom LeTourneau
for advice and would look up to the older faculty
wives as mentors. Mary even attended a graduation
ceremony of her own in which she earned her “PHT,”
her ‘Pushing Hubby Through’ certificate, in honor of
her work supporting her husband as he earned his
college degree.
“The closeness of the student wives was tremendous, and many of us remain close to this day,” Mary
said. “We prayed together, cried together and swam
together. We learned a lot as young wives.”
While MSH and LETU have transformed over the
past decades, life on campus as a married student remains the same. Mary may no longer live on campus,
but she has worked at the university for 38 years and
regularly advises young married students living on
campus, including the Bergrens. She nods her head
as she remembers when she was in the same boat,
facing life’s struggles as a young parent on campus.
While this collection of connected apartments
may not be a traditional neighborhood, it is clear
that it serves as much more. Married Student Housing is a support system that has provided encouragement and a solid foundation for LeTourneau couples
and families for generations — and it will for generations to come. n
Dr. Paul Sam
Impacting the World through Education
A
Written by Kate Gronewald, Photographed by Johnny Hanson
young man sits in a dark, one-room efficiency
apartment on an urban island packed with
more than seven million people. Out of them
all, he knows none. He’s used to tropical temperatures and suya, a favorite dish in his homeland, not
ramen noodles for dinner and three flights of stairs. The
elevator in his building is broken, but Paul Sam is going
nowhere but up.
At the age of 20, Sam traveled to the United States on
his parents’ promise that he could return home if he got
too homesick. Home was more than 5,250 miles away,
in Nigeria. He had just crossed an ocean, from the West
Coast of Africa to New York City, living in an unfamiliar
country and climate – for the sake of an education. But
Sam didn’t need to return home – because for him, there
are no bounds on his commitment to learning.
The promise of warmer winters led Sam to leave New
York in search of educational opportunities in Dallas, Texas, earning his bachelor’s in economics and finance from
the University of Texas at Dallas in 1985, as well as an
MBA in management from Amberton University in1989.
But Sam’s search and education didn’t stop there.
His original journey from the Gulf of Guinea landed
him near the Gulf of Mexico, in Houston, where he
earned a Master of International Business from the
University of St. Thomas. That degree was followed by
his PhD in organization and management with a specialty
in information technology management from Capella
University. His commitment to education expanded from
a love of learning to a love of teaching.
Sam began teaching at LeTourneau University's
Houston educational center in 2000. In the 12 years
since then, he has taught 25 different business courses
on-ground and online at both the undergraduate and
graduate level as an adjunct faculty member.
He has taught operations management, organizational behavior, strategy, leadership, statistics, management,
entrepreneurial leadership, innovation and leadership,
international business, cross cultural issues in business
and management computer systems. But beyond his expertise in communicating business concepts to students,
he builds relationships with them.
“I love teaching students — transferring knowledge
to them and seeing the sparkle in their eyes when they
learn,” Sam said. “It brings me so much joy.”
His joy is contagious, almost tangible. Sam is the sort
of professor that lights up a room with his enthusiasm,
for business, but more importantly for people. He is the
sort of professor who students come back to visit, even
after they finish his classes because his love for teaching
continues to inspire them. He is the professor who stops
to pray with a student before her class presentation after
learning that her five-year-old was killed. Faith, and living
God’s love, he knows is more important than a grade.
However, learning and teaching are only two components of Sam’s educational trajectory. He has also
pursued an exceptional career in business. He worked
at Hewlett Packard as a global project manager, where
he traveled extensively as part of a multi-national team,
facilitating the corporation’s technological initiatives
internationally. Since 2008, he has served as director of
operations at Benchmark Electronics. He is certified as
a Project Management Professional (PMP), as well as in
Certified Production and Inventory Management (CPIM).
He also holds a Master’s Certification in Project Management from George Washington University in Washington,
D.C. His experience in business informs his teaching.
Dr. Carol Green, LETU vice president for the School of
Graduate and Professional Studies, notes that his commitment to his career rivals his longstanding commitment to his students.
“Dr. Sam’s professional experience is quite remarkable, as is his love for students and his impact on them,”
said Green. “He has taught with LETU for over a decade, which means that he has impacted hundreds if
not thousands of students through Houston and online
classrooms.”
Sam also finds time to volunteer as an administrator
at his church in Houston, the Redeemed Christian Church
of God, where he teaches adult Sunday School classes
and also assists in counseling and conflict resolution. His
faith walk is a pivotal part of his journey across international borders, over state lines and into the lives of
students.
For Sam, learning fuels limitless possibility. Whether
sitting at his computer after work communicating with
a student in an online devotional forum or standing at a
podium espousing the premises of project management,
he translates this possibility to other budding business
professionals, expanding their global perspectives and
preparing them to impact the world — the world he
crossed for the sake of education. n
At LETU, people matter more than programs. A recent study indicates that something as simple as a student being an
invited guest into a faculty or staff member’s home can have a huge, positive impact on a student’s college experience.
Mary Burklin graduated in May 2012 commencement exercises with her bachelor’s degree in digital writing and has
moved to Colorado Springs, Colo. to pursue her career.
Growing Up at LeTourneau University:
A G R A D U AT E L O O K S B A C K
Written by Mary Burklin,
Photographed by Janet Ragland
I went to class the first day of my freshman year at
LeTourneau University expecting to be recognized.
History/Political Science professor Dr. Paul Kubricht
called the role at the start of Western Civilization class.
When I confirmed that I was present, he looked up. “Another Burklin? How many more are there?”
I shrugged and smiled. “You’ve got four left to go.”
Dr. Kubricht is one of the many LeTourneau employees
who has become a part of my family’s lore. He taught
both of my parents in college, and over 20 years later, he
taught first my older sister and then my older brother. I
grew up hearing anecdotes about the way Dr. Kubricht
made Russian history come alive for my parents. In 2008,
it was my turn to become a part of the family tradition.
Growing up around LeTourneau University provided a
lot of chances to be part of a bigger family lore as well. A
few years after my parents graduated and served a few
years in the mission field, they came back to LeTourneau
so my father, Walter Burklin, could take a position in
Facility Services. My parents started having a few fellow
missionary kids over for chai tea a few weekends each
semester as a way to provide a safe haven and a way to
connect for students struggling with the culture shift.
The gatherings grew until, by the time I was born in
1991, dozens of students were coming over for what my
parents officially called Chai Parties.
Over my lifetime, hundreds of students have spent
long nights at my parents’ house, adopted one by one
into our extended family. Even after graduation, some
alumni travel for hours just to spend an evening as part
of the family. These ties stretch across decades and continents. With every new fall, a new group gathers in the
Burklin backyard, sharing conversation and stories over
cups of chai and brownies.
My view of LeTourneau had to change when I started
as a student, instead of as an observer. I signed up to
take Mrs. Fredna Stuckey’s “English Composition I” class
for dual credit while I was still a senior in high school.
Mrs. Stuckey quickly won my attention with her unquenchable enthusiasm and her thoughtful comments
on my writing. Because I was pursuing a degree in Digital
Writing, I viewed that first class like writing boot camp.
Mrs. Stuckey turned out to be a more than apt commander.
Although I learned a lot about comma usage and how
to format papers that semester, as the course progressed
I began to learn something significantly more important.
I learned how to invest myself in my writing, even if the
piece was an academic assignment I previously would
have labeled boring. Mrs. Stuckey steadily spurred us on,
as well as giving us space to be creative, and for me, that
connected for the first time the creative writing I loved
and the academic writing I had hated. I learned how
to pursue each assignment with a willingness to invest
myself in it, to explore and to create, rather than just
meet the criteria. Mrs. Stuckey seemed to care about my
writing at least as much as I did. The things I learned in
her class would become foundational for my writing in
every class thereafter.
I started my journey into the university’s required
Bible courses during my second semester at LeTourneau.
I had chosen the professor on the recommendation of
my older brother, who was at that time a junior. While it
would take me a class period or two to fully get used Dr.
Viktor Roudkovski’s Russian accent (one with a slightly
southern flavor), his insight, his knowledge, and above
all his sense of humor and his kindness quickly won my
loyalty. I came back to his class for Biblical Literature, and
when he asked me if I wanted to take the four semesters
of Greek, even though I wasn’t a Bible major, I decided to
commit.
By the time I walked across the stage at commencement, I had taken nine courses from Dr. Roudkovski. I
have been asked often why I kept choosing his classes,
and my honest response is that he’s an incredible
teacher. He requires effort, but he also seems to know
when to offer grace, a combination that has won many
students over. I am certainly not the only student who
keeps going back to his classes.
Ultimately, no university is made of only academic
programs or opportunities, but every university is made
of people. The character of these people, from top administration to the staff to the faculty, will determine to
a large extent the character of the school. In my two decades living around LeTourneau University, both as a staff
kid and as a student, I have interacted with many people
in many areas and have been continually impressed by
the wisdom, ability, dedication, and most of all the kindness of this diverse LeTourneau family. n
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U.S. NEWS RANKS LETU IN TOP TIER OF “AMERICA’S BEST COLLEGES”
LETU has ranked again in the top tier nationally in U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings of “America’s Best Colleges.” LETU ranked 6th among schools in Texas
for 2013 and was ranked above all state universities in Texas in its category of “Best
Regional Universities in the Western Region.” LETU ranked 36th among all universities in its category. LETU has ranked in
the magazine’s top tier for nearly two decades.
LETU ENROLLMENT GROWS
SIX PERCENT ON CAMPUS
LETU’s Fall 2012 enrollment of traditional students grew six percent over last
year. The new class of first time in college and transfer students represesnted
a 13.4 percent growth over last years’
incoming class. The university also saw
a 64 percent increase in international
students and a record number of online
students. Grad school enrollments are
also up over last year, with the growth
in the number of graduate programs being offered. Total university enrollment
is 2,843.
LETU’S SOUTH HALL RECEIVES
AWARD FOR DESIGN EXCELLENCE
LETU’s new South Hall residence was
recognized for design excellence by a
national jury of architects. The building is featured in the November 2012
issue of American School & University and also on the Web at www.
SchoolDesigns.com.
LETU PRESIDENT ELECTED
TO ICUT BOARD AS TREASURER
LETU President Dr.
Dale A. Lunsford was
elected by independent college presidents across Texas to
serve on the board of
directors of the Inde-
pendent Colleges and Universities of
Texas. Lunsford was also selected to
serve as the board treasurer through
2014. ICUT is a nonprofit that has
served for nearly 40 years as a voice
for Texas’ fully accredited, nonprofit,
tax-exempt private colleges and universities with state policy makers in
support of higher education.
LETU PROGRAMMING TEAM
WINS FIRST PLACE IN REGIONALS
A team of LETU computer programming students won first place in the
2012 South Central USA Regional
International Collegiate Programming
Competition (ICPC). The programming contest challenges teams of
three university students to use their
programming skills and rely on their
mental endurance to solve complex,
real world problems under a grueling deadline. The team qualifies to
compete in the World Finals in Saint
Petersburg, Russia, next summer. Two
other teams placed 26th and 40th.
LETU WINS FIRST PLACE
IN AVIATION MAINTENANCE
A team of aviation students from
LeTourneau University won first place
at the Southwest Regional Professional Aviation Maintenance As-
sociation competition in Fort Worth,
Texas, competing against several other
aviation maintenance technology
schools in Texas and Oklahoma. PAMA
is the premier aviation maintenance
organization for aviation maintenance
technicians which fosters continuous
improvement in aviation safety.
LETU WINS FIRST PLACE
AT IEEE ROBOTICS COMPETITION
Senior electrical engineering majors
won 1st place in the IEEE Region Five
Robotics Competition in Tulsa, Okla.,
with their compact mobile autonomous robots that harvested energy
from simulated renewable energy
sources on a predefined playing field.
LETU students won for their robot
which finished the challenge in the
least amount of time.
LETU COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
TEAM TAKES FIRST, SIXTH PLACE
LETU Programming Teams took 1st
place and 6th place at the Abilene
Christian University Invitational Programming Competition.
FLIGHT TEAM WINS 2ND PLACE
AT NIFA REGIONAL
The “Sting” Precision Flight Team won
2nd place at the 2012 Regional Intercollegiate Flight Association SAFECON
flight competition in October at Texas
State Technical College in Waco. They
qualified to compete at nationals in
May 2013 at The Ohio State University. The team had six individual first
place finishes in separate events, but
disappointing results in landing events
dropped the team to second place
overall, according to Brad Wooden,
flight team faculty adviser.
COMPUTER ENGINEERING TEAMS
COMPETE GLOBALLY
In a 24-hour global IEEE Xtreme 5.0
computer programming competition,
1,515 teams totaling more than 4,000
students from 63 countries competed.
Two of those teams were LETU engineering students. They placed 3rd and
5th regionally, 22nd and 43rd nationally and 93rd and 149th internationally.
STUDENTS PLACE AMONG TOP FIVE
AT ASME COMPETITION
Engineering students
won 2nd,
3rd and 5th
place at the
2012 Regional ASME Student Design
Competition at Louisiana State University. Students designed, built and
raced four autonomous vehicles that
competed without human intervention in relay races. Vehicles had to be
small and contain an on-board energy
source that would trigger the motion
on the next vehicle.
LETU BAJA TEAM WINS 2ND, 5TH
AT REGIONAL COMPETITION
Engineering students won 2nd place
in the suspension event
and 5th place
in the endurance race to
gain an overall
SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS AWARDED
Scholarship and Global Service grants totaling $50,000 were
awarded to faculty members from biology, engineering, business,
theology and literature and language arts departments to pursue
research. Recipients included Bruce A. Hathaway for “Preparation
of Substituted Triazines as Potential Antimicrobial Drugs,” $9,500;
Seung Kim for “Double Fabry-Perot Biosensor Research,” $9,500;
Gustavo Cortez for “Affordable Shelter Project,” $4,000; Norman
Reese for “Course and Conference in Rehabilitation Engineering,”
$3,200; Juan R. Castro for “World Finance Conference Presentations,” $2,750; Patrick Mays for “LeTourneau University
Theological Symposiums,” $2,500; Karen Rispin for “Wheels Project,” $2,000; and Annie Olson for “Visual Praxis: Merging
Teaching and Research,” $1,550.
GLOBAL SERVICE GRANTS AWARDED
Five faculty members were awarded Global Service Learning Grants to explore
ways their expertise can be used to demonstrate God’s love by easing human
suffering and eradicating social injustices. Recipients included Gustavo Cortes,
“Temporary Shelter Project,” $1,500; Juan Castro, “Financial Freedom for the
Poor,” $1,500; Annie Olson, “Visual Literacy and Problem Solving Research,”
$1,500; Norman Reese, “Wheelchair Project Assessment,” $1,500; and Karen
Rispin, “Wheels Project,” $1,500.
LETU AWARDED $25,000 RESEARCH GRANT FROM ROCKWELL COLLINS
LETU was awarded a $25,000 research grant from the Rockwell Collins Charitable Corporation University Grant Allocation
Program for a high frequency antenna coupler (HFAC) project students have designed and prototyped. Under the direction of engineering professor Dr. Joonwan Kim, the design goal for this project is to prototype a high-end, commercial, HF
antenna coupler that is cost effective and more efficient than models currently available on the market.
LETU RECEIVES MATERIALS JOINING GRANTS
The LETU School of Engineering has received nearly $560,000 in grant funding for materials joining research. A $250,125
grant was awarded from the Federal Highway Administration for a two-year research project on welding on modern bridges,
adding to a current $180,000 grant, for research aimed at using innovative welding technologies to build bridges to last over
100 years. A recently completed a $129,000 grant from the II-VI Foundation funded development of new technology for
microwave welding to join bismuth telluride to copper for building thermo-electric generators.
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15th place ranking against 100 teams
in the regional Society of Automotive
Engineers (SAE) 2012 Baja Team competition in Auburn, Ala. The competition requires students to design, build
a one-seat off-road vehicle and test
its acceleration, maneuverability, hill
climb and suspension, before completing an endurance course.
BUSINESS STUDENTS PRESENT
RESEARCH AT DALLAS CONFERENCE
Four LETU business students presented papers at the Economics Scholars
Program conference for undergraduate research in Dallas, Texas, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank
of Dallas. One paper was on “S&P
Downgrades US Credit Rating and the
Effect on Wells Fargo Company” while
the other was on “Abnormal Returns
in the Japanese Market.”
TEERINK NAMED
2012 TEACHER OF
THE YEAR
Aviation faculty and
LETU alumna Becky
Teerink won the
2012 Teacher of the
Year award from
the Association for Women in Aviation
Maintenance (AWAM).
PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR RECEIVES
TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARD
Psychology Professor Dr. Vicki Sheafer
won the Frank Costin Memorial Award
for Excellence at
the 34th Annual
National Institute
on the Teaching of
Psychology conference for her poster titled “Using
Drama to Enhance Learning of Classic
Experiments in Social Psychology.” Her
research poster was judged by insti-
tute faculty as best promoting quality
teaching methods.
LETU BUSINESS PROFESSOR
TEACHES ECONOMICS IN KOREA
Dr. Juan R. Castro, a
professor of finance
and economics, taught
international economics at the Pukyong
National University in
Busan, South Korea
during July. Castro traveled to Central
America in 2010 as a Fulbright Scholar
to teach graduate-level students in El
Salvador about financial strategy and
risk management while he researched
how developing countries can eradicate poverty. Castro is also currently
serving as a research referee for the
Journal of Economics and Business.
LETU CIVIL ENGINEERING
PROFESSOR TEACHES IN HAITI
Dr. Gustavo Cortes, an assistant professor of civil engineering, traveled to
Haiti to inspect transitional shelters
built for families left homeless after
the January 1010 Haiti earthquake.
He also lectured civil engineering
students at the American University of
the Caribbean in Les Cayes about the
importance of hurricane and earthquake resistant designs for shelters.
WHEELS PROJECT SERVES
DISABLED CHILDREN IN KENYA
LETU’s Wheels project facilitated
the donation of two types of wheelchairs in early 2012 to Bethany Kids
at Joytown, an organization in Kenya
caring for children with disabilities.
An interdisciplinary team of students
traveled during the summer to collect
data on how well the wheelchairs
worked for the children. This fall, the
team facilitated more donations of
new kinds of chairs, and in May 2013,
another team of LETU students will
travel to Kenya for more research.
Their work, under the direction of assistant biology professor Karen Rispin
is designed to improve wheelchairs
for the disabled across the globe.
FRONTIER WHEELCHAIRS PROJECT
SERVES IN GUATEMALA
LETU engineering students developed an improved foot rest to assist
wheelchair-bound, disabled children in
an orphanage at Hope Haven International Ministries in Guatemala as part
of the Frontier Wheelchairs program,
headed by assistant professor Norman
Reese. Each plate of the foot rest can
tilt up and down, adjust to different
heights for each leg, move forward and
backward and swing outward to make
it easier for children to get in and out
of the wheelchairs unassisted. The cost
for Hope Haven to manufacture the
foot rest is estimated at $5 to $10.
LETU LIBRARY RECEIVES
VOLUMES FROM ISSR PROJECT
LeTourneau University won a competitive grant and was awarded a 224-volume set of books on a wide variety
of issues on science and spirituality
for the Margaret Estes Library from
the International Society for Science
and Religion. LETU was selected as
one of 150 institutions worldwide to
receive this full set of books written by experts from many academic
disciplines, faith traditions and regions
that expand into the sciences, social
sciences, history, philosophy, religion
and the environment.
LETU RANKED A ‘BEST BUY’
FOR ONLINE BUSINESS DEGREES
LETU’s online MBA program and
online Master of Strategic Leadership
program were ranked a “Best Buy” by
the national online learning review
team at GetEducated.com.
GetEducated.com
provides advice
to consumers on
where they can
obtain high quality degrees at a
reasonable cost.
LETU NOW MAGAZINE, VIDEO
WIN MARCOM AWARDS
LeTourneau University’s NOW magazine Fall 2011 “Five Pillars” issue won
a platinum MarCom Award, the organization’s top honor, in the 2012 international competition that recognizes
outstanding creative achievement by
marketing and communication professionals. LETU’s new “For Such a Time
as This” campaign video won gold at
MarCom.
LETU MAGAZINES WIN AWARDS
The International Academy of Visual
Arts awarded 2012 Communicator
Awards to LETU’s Realities Fall 2011
recruitment magazine and LETU’s
NOW Fall 2011 “Five Pillars” issue. The
annual competition honors the best
in advertising, corporate communications, public relations and identity
work for print, video, interactive and
audio.
LETU HEALTH FAIR DRAWS OVER
1,000 FROM COMMUNITY
LETU’s annual Get it Together health
fair Oct. 11 on campus served more
than 1,000 members of the community who benefitted from free medical
lab tests, kidney function tests and
health assessments. In partnership
with Good Shepherd Medical Center, the Get it Together Health Fair is
one of East Texas’s largest healthcare
events.
LETU HOSTS FIRST THREE-PART
THEOLOGICAL SYMPOSIA SERIES
LETU’s Theology Department hosted
three world-renown theologians at
the Spring 2012 Theological Symposium Series featuring Dr. David
Naugle, Dr. Aaron Kuecker, and Dr.
Darrell Bock. Speakers spoke in chapel
services before presenting academic
papers. LETU faculty responders
provided critical interaction with the
academic presentations.
LETU HOSTS ANNUAL READING
CONFERENCE FOR EDUCATORS
About 150 local educators attended
the East Texas TAIR Reading conference featuring children’s author
Denise Brennan-Nelsen and Texas
historical fiction author Donna Van
Cleve. The conference is committed to
assisting Texas teachers in focusing on
reading success for all students.
LETU, KILGORE COLLEGE SIGN
ARTICULATION AGREEMENT
LeTourneau University and Kilgore
College signed an articulation agreement designed to ease the transfer
of students into LETU from Kilgore
College and enable junior college
students to maximize their credit
hours by knowing which credit hours
will transfer to LETU degree programs.
BILL KIELHORN REMEMBERED
Longtime LeTourneau University engineering professor William H. “Bill” Kielhorn
taught welding engineering at LeTourneau for 45 years, never missing a day of
class. He started every lecture with a devotional. His last class was taught from
the bed of his hospital room in the Intensive Care Unit. He died of cancer Jan. 6 at
his home in Longview. The university celebrated his life during a memorial service
on campus Jan. 11. The family asked that memorials be made to the William H.
Kielhorn Scholarship Fund at LeTourneau University.
“Bill had a keen sense of calling, and he was an extremely dedicated servant of
God,” said LETU Engineering Dean Dr. Ronald A. Delap. “He provided a wonderful
example to each of us—of how to live a righteous life, and how to finish well. His
legacy will live on in the many lives he touched.”
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NEW PROGRAMS for LETU
LeTourneau University is offering an increasingly robust collection of undergraduate and graduate academic programs.
With a mix of on-ground and online offerings, many of these new programs provide students with greater flexibility.
They also increase the breadth of industries in which LeTourneau students are impacting the world for Christ through
their professions — in every workplace and every nation.
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES DEGREE exposes students to
global issues and prepares them for global ministry and
service.
HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT DEGREES, at the associate, bachelor’s and master’s degree levels, enable health
care professionals to advance their careers at a time when
demand is high.
MASTER OF ARTS IN MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPY
equips graduates to assess, diagnose and treat individuals,
couples, families and groups to achieve healthy relationships.
COMMUNICATIONS DEGREE focuses on integrated media
management and teaches students to manage ideas, from
creation to composition to communication, in a variety of
media including print, video, social media, and Web.
HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEGREE, available both
in classes on campus and fully online, prepares students to
fill the growing need in healthcare for professionals who
can manage and maintain both software and hardware
systems effectively.
DEGREE IN FORENSIC CHEMISTRY combines chemistry,
biology, and criminal justice courses in an interdisciplinary degree to equip students to work in one of the fastest
growing fields of chemistry employment.
3-YEAR BACHELOR DEGREE IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
gives students the residential experience on campus, but
also uses online capabilities to make use of summers to
advance the student through the course work to degree
completion.
SPORTS COMMUNICATION DEGREE combines courses
in kinesiology, communication and marketing to provide
training and education to be successful in sports media
and sports journalism, as well as public relations in sportsrelated fields.
4 + 1 BACHELOR + MBA OPTION enables undergraduate
students to take up to 12 credit hours at the graduate
level toward a Master in Business Administration degree
that can also count toward the student’s undergraduate
degree, allowing them to complete their undergraduate
degree in four years and their graduate degree in one.
THREE MATH CONCENTRATIONS in financial mathematics,
biomathematics and applied statistics focus on new career
opportunities for math majors.
Check out all our academic programs at:
www.letu.edu/majors
Apply for admission at: www.letu.edu/apply
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