K AR A BAYLOR
Faculty/Staff Notes Seemee Ali, associate professor of Great Ideas and English, will begin her residency in Washington as a Fellow of Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies in January 2015.
Doug Arion, professor of physics and astronomy, has been named to the new joint panel on undergraduate physics education (J-TUPP) that is developing national guidelines for undergraduate science education. In addition, the National Science Foundation awarded $43,700 in funding that will allow Prof. Arion and Carthage to expand a partnership with the Appalachian Mountain Club to include Dartmouth College and two other institutions.
Kevin Crosby, chair of the Division of Natural Sciences; director of the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium; and professor of physics, astronomy and computer science, was named the 2014 Janet Andersen Lecture Award winner for the Physical Sciences, Math, and Computer Science by the Midstates Consortium for Math and Science. Two faculty members are honored each year, and the winners present the Janet Andersen Lecture at the fall Undergraduate Research Symposia. The award honors Prof. Crosby’s dedication to an active and productive undergraduate research program that includes space sciences projects for NASA.
Mike Kishline, web developer, and Rob Schiferl, director of interactive recruitment, were awarded second place in a custom software development contest. The honor came during an annual
It’s not about me — it’s all about we Have you heard? There is a new campus
it was to have someone in this call who happily
pastor at Carthage, and it’s me … Kara Baylor. If you happen to live in Kenosha and receive the
would bridge the worlds of Racine and Kenosha at Carthage. All of these reminders are about WE,
newspaper, you can’t help but know because my installation service was front-page news on Sept.
and none of them is about me. Thank God. On Oct. 7, Casey Sugden ’12 preached in
29. And, again on Friday, you could find me in the Faith section of the newspaper. Yikes!!
chapel, and his text was from the Gospel of John. We were reminded to love another and to abide in
It was all pretty overwhelming. I don’t have a problem with attention — Ask my brothers; I’m
that love. We don’t just abide in the love of God in Christ for the sake of ourselves, but for the sake of
the youngest and have to admit I was the spoiled child — but it did feel like a bit much, especially
others and the world. Casey, a seminary graduate from Luther
when a member of the YMCA asked why he had to see me in the paper so much. Oh, my … too
Seminary on his internship at St. Luke’s in Greendale, Wisconsin, called on us to use our
much me. But then I was blessed to have a few
gifts in service to others. Faculty members grade papers for the sake of the students’ growth in
conversations that helped me see that it wasn’t about me at all; it is about the “we” of Carthage,
learning, and staff members lend an ear to help students discern their lives’ paths and to create
the “we” of the community of faith, the “we” of the community of Kenosha and Racine, and
a caring environment. Both actions are all about what WE do together.
more. A faculty member reminded me that my installation wasn’t about me, but about
Carthage exists because some Lutherans thought it was a good idea to give a good
celebrating the Lutheran roots of Carthage and claiming our Lutheran identity through the
education to young people for the sake of making a difference in the world. The same is true today,
process of calling a new campus pastor. A local pastor made me think about how all of this press gave the community of faith in our area a chance to reflect. Conversations about faith and being interfaith were happening because of these articles. People are talking about the faith community, sharing ideas, and seeing the church in a new, more open way. And a member of the community opened my eyes to see how important
because it is about a lot more than me — it’s about WE! In Christ,
Rev. Kara Baylor Campus Pastor
Read about some of Pastor Kara’s interfaith initiatives – p. 11
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