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The Olivetian
Summer 2006
ONUStudents in the News
The Right Sort of Independence By Michael W. Benson, University Chaplain
Olivetians take regional SIFE title: Members of Olivet Nazarene University Students in Free Enterprise were named champions of the regional SIFE competition in Chicago. Schools from seven states competed for top honors in seven leagues, with Olivet winning league five. Six Olivet students presented the organization’s annual report, highlighting involvement in the community with projects such as eBay training sessions, international tax day and SIFE Life elementary school program, to a panel of 20 judges. Judges gave ONU SIFE the highest marks in five of the six categories: market economics, success skills, entrepreneurship, financial literacy and program sustainability.
We sincerely hope that the chapel series offered each semester will encourage our students to plumb the depths of life’s experiences and dreams. By addressing significant issues that the students are presently facing and will face, issues that are significant in our society at large, we are helping them to do some “pre-thinking,” if you will, on what it means to live as a human being — a person who was purposefully and intentionally created in the image of God. In our mailbag — both written notes and the e-mail variety — we often hear students express their appreciation for the topics we have covered in a given series. “This semester’s chapel services on relationships and boundaries are just awesome. They have already changed the hearts and minds of a lot of students here.” “Thanks for addressing these issues without compromise. I believe God will bless with genuine fruit. It is because people have shared their pain that I would be spared my own pain.”
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Erica Rumbley
Taking on D.C. politics: Katie Nichols ’08 from Omaha, Neb. and Jonathan Swigart ’08 from Tolono, Ill., journalism students at Olivet, have been accepted to the Washington Journalism Center in the nation’s capital for the fall 2006 semester. The Washington Journalism Center is an advanced, experiential semester on Capitol Hill that cultivates professional news skills. It also enables students to experience being a Christian journalist in a city home to the powerful and the powerless. Students will balance their time with classes, industry internships, guest lectures from some of the profession’s leading names and community service projects.
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REV. GORDON C. WICKERSHAM ’47
Grad one of five to receive full fellowship from University of Kentucky: Erica Rumbley ’06, a music performance graduate from Boonville, Ind., has received one of five multi-year fellowships from the University of Kentucky Graduate School. She will begin her studies in musicology in the fall.
SIFE members, pictured, from left: Ryan Walker ’06, Stephanie Henderson ’06, Clint Puckett ’07, Katie Sifferd ’07, Jonathan Agan ’06, Lindsey Reeves ’06, and Ben Schmitt ’06.
DeWees wins national music director honors: Mallory DeWees ’07, a mass communications major from Bourbonnais, recently received the Music Director of the Year award from the Program Directors Forum. Music directors from the four formats of Christian radio — contemporary hits, adult contemporary, rock and inspirational — were eligible for the national award. DeWees was picked from more than 100 other music directors, most of whom have had years of professional radio experience.
For more on these and other ONU news stories, go to www.olivet.edu and click on “News & Events.”
for these UPCOMING EVENTS!
Prime Time at Olivet with guest speaker Dr. Talmadge Johnson General Superintendent Emeritus
and special music by Larry Ford
ONU again one of “Best Christian Places to Work”: For the second year in a row, the Best Christian Workplaces Institute has chosen Olivet Nazarene University as one of “The 40 Best Christian Places to Work” in a survey published in the April 2006 issue of Christianity Today magazine. “We are thrilled with the achievement,” says David Pickering ’89/’94 M.B.A., director of Business Services at ONU. “Our employees’ satisfaction with their work and their environment ultimately encourages better relationships with their peers and employer, and with students, parents and friends of the University.”
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Ladies Day at Olivet
Olivet’s Bishop goes the “Second Mile” for his students: Department of Communication professor Mark Bishop ’93 has received Olivet Nazarene University’s annual Second Mile Award. Each year, members of Olivet’s faculty, staff and student body are invited to nominate a full-time teaching faculty member for the award. Recipients demonstrate a commitment to student success that goes above and beyond the call of duty. Bishop is the director of the television and video production and film studies concentrations. He also manages Olivet’s television news magazine, “Access ONU.” His students have landed internships with Emmy award-winning Towers Productions, the Chicago Bears media department, ABC-TV of Chicago, FOX SportsNet of St. Louis and Comcast Sports Network. In addition to his responsibilities at Olivet, Bishop serves as the on-air weekend meteorologist for WLS-TV, the ABC-owned television station in Chicago.
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Jeannie McCullough
Watch for more information in future issues of The Olivetian.
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We strive to get to the crux of the matter in each chapel service and to proclaim clear teaching from the Word of God. As these students move forward toward the right sort of independence, the gift of solid, scriptural guidance will last a lifetime.
Olivet names Upchurch dean of School of Education: Olivet Nazarene University has appointed Dr. James D. Upchurch, a 1971 graduate of the University, as dean of the School of Education. “Dr. Upchurch brings a wealth of significant experience in the field of education, having served as a teacher, principal and long-tenured superintendent of schools in the Chicagoland area,” says Dr. Gary Streit, Olivet’s vice president for academic affairs. “His academic preparation well supports his practical experience, having earned degrees at Olivet, St. Xavier, Northern Illinois University and his doctoral degree in curriculum and instruction from Loyola University.”
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“Our daughter enjoys sharing with us about her times in chapel. We have seen spiritual growth in her unlike any time in her past. It is our continued prayer that she will desire to serve the Lord all her life and we can see that ONU is preparing her to do just that.”
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“The girls on my floor are very impressed with the chapel services. [These] messages definitely touch the heart. Thank you for giving us solid, biblical teaching.”
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