from her professors at AU, both in and out of the classroom, are immeasurable in the auditions she frequents. She was always taught by her professors’ examples that you can indeed make a living at what you love if you are passionate and work hard, and she finds it thrilling to be doing that daily! As Walt himself once said, “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
corporations in fields such as technology, engineering, education, healthcare, finance and retail. I partner with them to develop and implement business strategies and deliver training to improve their sales effectiveness and increase sales revenues. My greatest pleasure is seeing personal and organizational improvements in the businesses I support.
Helen Talmadge ’83
J. Thomas White ’97
Sales Consultant and Actress, Sales Performance International
President, Cedarville University
As a former theater student at Anderson University, my passion is acting. I’m fortunate to have been able to work in theatre and television for over 25 years. This includes numerous theatrical stage productions, over 750 television commercials, over 350 corporate training films and several nationally syndicated television shows. I’ve been the spokesperson for Jeff Lynch Appliances for almost 18 years! My acting career has run parallel at times with my career in sales and sales management. In the last seven years, as a sales consultant, I have had the privilege of working in many countries of the world, with a variety of major multi-national
Thomas White became the 10th president of Cedarville University on July 1, 2013. Serving in a variety of leadership roles and responsibilities, White has more than a decade of administrative, teaching, and research experience and combines strong leadership with a pastoral heart for ministry while standing for biblical truth. As the son and grandson of Baptist ministers, White grew up with a firm spiritual foundation and was saved in September 1993. Little time passed before he felt a call to vocational Christian ministry. While White attended a Christian university, he also opened four karate schools and began to fight competitively, having been involved in the sport through high school. These competitions led to him being inducted
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