2016 Geneva Magazine - Spring Issue

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Play On! Dr. Eric Miller’s thoughts on the redemptive effect of sport

Pro Christo et Patria Dr. Robert Frazier’s historical account of Geneva’s motto

James Kelbaugh ’51 As he was growing up across the river from Geneva College in New Brighton, Jim displayed a remarkably broad range of interests—from history and the sciences to music and theater. He also possessed a strong urge to succeed. So Jim was naturally attracted to Geneva and its respected, well-rounded education.

Jim says that Geneva’s Christ-centered, liberal arts foundation, along with its excellent academic reputation and a strong recommendation from an alumnus uncle, convinced him that choosing Geneva was a wise decision.

But he had limited financial resources. He attributes Geneva’s affordability to helping him earn his college degree: “Geneva’s reasonable cost, along with help from an employer ‘angel,’ enabled me to work my way through school and reap the benefits of a high-quality education.”

Those benefits included being recruited prior to graduating from Geneva by The Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Company, where he worked for 15 years. This was followed by five years in general management consulting.

Jim then served for 22 years managing and directing materials control operations for Homelite Corporation, a major manufacturer of hand-held power equipment.

At Geneva, Jim says he was “blessed to receive a basic grounding in the Bible as a guide for Christian living, along with particularly strong guidance in several academic fields.” To express his gratitude for this experience, and to help others reap the benefits of an academically excellent, Christ-centered education, Jim included Geneva in his estate plans. If you, like Jim, are grateful for the blessings you received through Geneva and have the desire to bless others by making a planned gift, please visit Geneva.edu/give or contact the Office of Planned Giving at 724.847.6514.

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Geneva Magazine is published two times per year for Geneva College alumni, donors, students and parents. It showcases the college and its constituencies as they strive to fulfill the college’s mission. Opinions expressed in Geneva Magazine are those of its contributors and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the editorial review board or the official position of the college.

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EDITOR GREG WISE ’95 DESIGNER KRISTEN LANG EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD DR. WILLIAM EDGAR JOLYNN FREY LARRY GRIFFITH ’85 CHERYL JOHNSTON DAVE LAYTON ’88 Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Please send your correspondence to editor@geneva.edu or Geneva Magazine, Geneva College, 3200 College Ave., Beaver Falls, PA 15010.

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From the President

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Learning Christ’s Faithfulness

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Campus News

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A Letter to Seth

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Athletic News

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Pro Christo et Patria: Standard and Vision

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Play On

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In Memoriam

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Introducing Geneva’s Twentieth President

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Class Notes

What memories will I take away with me from

3. Melinda Stephens, chemistry professor and Chief

my year as Interim President of Geneva College?

Academic Officer; Larry Griffith, Executive Vice

I don’t really know. Memories are unpredictable

President; John Gallo, Dean of Graduate, Adult

and changing things. But here are some things

and Online Programs; and many other

that I expect to recall.

administrators who worked patiently and charitably with this novice as I tried to act the

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part of President for a Year. I will miss them.

1. The men’s soccer final against Westminster at Reeves Field in front of full and loud bleachers

HOPES

(Gary Dunda coach). The game went into double

1. That more and more alumni will remember friends

overtime, and then we lost on penalty kicks.

and lessons from their years here and thank God

The later tragedy of a car accident taking the life

that He led them here, forgetting irritations and

of freshman starter Nate Ferraco makes the game

remembering kindnesses.

especially poignant.

2. The Genevans’ Christmas concert in the First

2. That everyone at Geneva would embrace and live the grace and peace, which belong to all whom the

Presbyterian Church of Beaver Falls (David Smith

Lord has called. The Lord has met many people

director). The church was magnificent, it was

here over the years who were not looking for Him

packed full, the choir used all of the space

when they came here.

brilliantly, and the singing was magnificent.

God glorified!

3. The play Much Ado About Nothing (David Kuhns

3. That God would bless a host of new things that Geneva will be working on in the coming years: online classes attracting students from around the

director). It is my favorite Shakespeare play.

world; Chinese and other foreign students coming

Moving the setting to 1945, with American soldiers

to Geneva to study; serving new local businesses

home from war, worked. The actors disappeared

that will probably move into our area in the wake

into their parts. Such a fun play, with more than

of the construction of a “cracker plant” by Royal

a whiff of Resurrection hope at its conclusion!

Dutch Shell six miles from the campus; and lots more.

PEOPLE

4. That year after year our new president, Calvin

1. Heidi Mann ’16, soccer center midfielder: laying

Troup’83, will thank God that He sent him to work

off the ball unselfishly to teammates, but also

here because he can see the Lord’s blessing on the

managing to score her share of goals. Heidi Mann ’16,

work of his hands. That looking back, I will do the

Homecoming Queen. Heidi Mann ’16, basketball

same. Thank you for praying for me.

point guard. (See more about her later in this issue).

2. Jay Neikirk, political science professor and chair

Pray for Calvin.

of the Faculty Senate: a good partner in helping the college to move forward, faculty and administration

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together. We understood each other.

Interim President

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Geneva Continues Run of Recognition in Best College Rankings After 30 years, U.S. News & World Report has become known as the gold standard in college rankings. Its rankings measure how well a school educates its students. Among its criteria are freshman retention, graduation rates and the strength of a school’s faculty.

U.S. News & World Report once again recognized Geneva College in multiple highly respected Best Colleges rankings in 2016. For the third year in a row, Geneva is a Top Ten Best Value School out of North region colleges. This is based on academic quality and the net cost of attendance.

For the fourth consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report named Geneva’s engineering program one of the nation’s Top 100 Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs. A peer assessment survey determines the rankings among colleges accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, www.abet.org.

Geneva also placed #16 overall in the North Regional College geographical group.

And for Best Colleges for Veterans, a new addition to Geneva’s rankings, the college is #11 in the North region. This is based on its veteran friendliness, including factors such as GI Bill certification and Yellow Ribbon Program participation.

Geneva Joins PA TRAC Geneva College is pleased to announce that it is one of a very few private institutions that is a member of the Pennsylvania Transfer and Articulation Center (PA TRAC). Through its membership, Geneva identifies specific courses and degree programs that transfer seamlessly from other participating colleges and universities.

All 14 community colleges and 14 universities in the PA State System of Higher Education, along with six other PA institutions, participate in PA TRAC. Once the equivalencies and other details have been determined, students from these institutions will be able to easily identify courses and degrees that transfer to Geneva.

“I really enjoy working with transfer students,” said Geneva Registrar Dr. Jennifer Carter. “And I’m hopeful for what we can do for transfer students here at Geneva through this agreement;

TRANSFER AND ARTICULATION CENTER once everything is finalized, Geneva’s participation should be particularly beneficial for community college students interested in an academically excellent, Christ-centered degree.”

Geneva’s participation in PA TRAC means that transfer students are less likely to lose credits and better able to stay on track in earning a college degree. This can be especially important to students attending two-year institutions who transfer to Geneva to complete a bachelor’s degree.

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Faculty Kudos DR. JENNIFER CARTER, Registrar, successfully defended her dissertation, “The Patterns and Predictors of Religious Struggle Among Undergraduate Students Attending Evangelical Institutions: A Comparison to Other Private Religious Institutions, Catholic Institutions, and Nonsectarian Institutions,” earning her Ph.D. from Azusa Pacific University.

DR. BYRON CURTIS ’76, Professor of Biblical Studies, composed two anthems that were debuted

by The Genevans, “A Star There Shines” and “The Rebel Guest.” He presented “Biblical Chronology in the Renaissance: Sebastian Münster’s Hebraica Biblia (1534–35)” at the 2015 annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. Also, the Greystone Theological Institute appointed Dr. Curtis as a fellow.

REV. RUTLEDGE ETHERIDGE, Chaplain, was the invited speaker for the 10th Annual Reformed Leadership Workshop.

DR. ROBERT FRAZIER, Professor of Philosophy, published Responsible Belief: Limitations, Liabilities, and Melioration (Pickwick Publications, 2015).

Also, Dr. Frazier presented “Augustine on Political Authority” at the 2015 annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society.

PROFESSOR MATTHEW FUSS ’94, Assistant Professor of Business, presented “Business as the ‘Good Life’” at the Northeastern Association of Business, Economics and Technology Conference.

He also co-facilitated “Eliminating Division in the Academy: A discussion of Hugh Whelchel’s How Then Should We Work: Rediscovering the Biblical Doctrine of Work” at the Christian Business Faculty Conference.

DR. JONATHAN IMPELLIZZERI, Coordinator for the Marriage, Couple and Family Counseling Program, presented “Introducing STEP UP: A Model of Pre-Blended Family Counseling for Families in Formation” at the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors World Conference.

He also presented “What’s Life All About? The Role of Spirituality/Meaning in Counseling” at the Pennsylvania Counseling Association State Conference.

PROFESSOR ANTHONY SADAR, Adjunct Associate Professor of Science, published a review of The Triumph of Faith: Why the World is More Religious than Ever in The Washington Times (January 27, 2016).

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Geneva Alumna Honored with ATHENA Young Professional Award Dr. Josie Badger ’07 received the 2015 ATHENA Young Professional Award, named after the goddess of Greek mythology known for courage and wisdom. The award is given each year in recognition of an emerging leader who is 35 years old or younger. It celebrates excellence among the region’s population of young women who will be the change makers of tomorrow.

“Receiving this award was a huge honor,” said Badger, “but I always feel a bit hesitant to be honored just for doing something I love and feel called to do.”

Badger, who is disabled, is a leader for youth with disabilities.

She is a campaign manager of #IWantToWork, an organization that lobbies for employment policy and legislation changes to help individuals with disabilities. She helped found and lead the Children’s Hospital Advisory Network for Guidance and Empowerment (CHANGE), which assists people with complex health conditions transition from pediatric to adult healthcare.

Badger also serves as Youth Development Director for the Parent Education and Advocacy Leadership (PEAL) Center, which helps children with special healthcare needs, their families and medical professionals.

In 2011, Badger was selected as Ms. Wheelchair America. This gave her the opportunity to travel extensively and speak about the potential for people with disabilities to lead full and enriching lives.

Badger was also a featured TED Talk speaker. TED is a nonprofit organization that presents short, powerful talks from a variety of speakers. Badger’s presentation, “Exceptional by Choice,” may be viewed online at https://youtu.be/n1jr5b00Dr0.

2+2 Program Established with Taiwan’s Christ’s College Geneva College has a new agreement with Christ’s College in Taiwan—a 2+2 Program. Geneva and Christ’s College have had a close partnership that dates to the 1990s, and many Christ’s College students have graduated from Geneva. With the new 2+2 Program, there is now a greater opportunity for students from Christ’s College to earn a Geneva degree.

In the 2+2 Program, students complete two years at Christ’s College, and then transfer to Geneva for their final two years to complete a bachelor’s degree. Approved majors for the 2+2 Program are: Biblical Studies, Business, Communication, Criminal Justice, English, History, Human Services, Missions, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, Sports Management, Student Ministry and Writing.

From TV to You: The Impact of a Geneva Education Summing up the impact of a higher education in a 30-second video story can be challenging. Geneva College did just that, though, based on what many students and alumni say makes a Geneva education special: the relationship between faculty and students. The commercials, called Faculty: Impact of a Geneva Education, feature interactions that are common in the close Christian community.

The commercials, which air on local stations, can also be viewed online at Geneva.edu/impact.

Geneva invites students and alumni to share how faculty had an impact on their Geneva education. Just click the gold “Share Your Story” button at Geneva.edu/impact.

And real Geneva people act out the scenes. The professor in both commercials is Dr. Jonathan Watt, Chair of the Bible Department and beloved Biblical Studies professor. Returning alumna in the undergraduate video is Laura (Capper ’07) DePietro. She explains, “Having Dr. Watt as my Bible professor while a student at Geneva was a great experience. The way he taught made the stories of the Old Testament come alive, and had a big impact on my understanding and appreciation for them which I have carried with me beyond the classroom.”

Shannon (Gallagher ADP ‘11) Angelo, who attended Geneva as an adult, is in the adult online commercial. She notes, “Dr. Watt was a great teacher! He was always available to help when needed and had such great insights to add to the topics studied.”

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OMING Distinguished Service Award Winners

Two-Sport Student-Athlete Graduates as Five-Time Career Record Holder Colorado Springs native Heidi Mann ’16 excelled in her career as a Golden Tornado student-athlete. Mann was a member of the women’s NCAA Division III basketball and soccer teams. She ends her NCAA Division III career with top-ten records in four career categories for basketball and one category for soccer.

In basketball, Mann achieved fourth place in steals (250), fifth in points (1371), and seventh in both rebounds (692) and points per game (13.8). She was a second-team All-Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) selection for this season. The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) twice named Mann Player of the Week.

Mann was also a standout on the soccer field, finishing fourth in career goals with 43. She was a first-team All-PAC selection for the 2015 season, and the ECAC named her Player of the Week.

“Heidi has had an incredible athletic career at Geneva,” said women’s basketball Head Coach Lori Wynn. “Her accomplishments on the court are matched by her contribution to our program off the court, as well. I’m incredibly proud of her accomplishments on the court, but more proud of the young woman she has grown into.”

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Off the court and field, Mann was highly involved in campus life and the community. She was named Homecoming Queen in 2015.

A mathematics education major, Mann also served as a math tutor and mentor for local children through Tiger Pause.

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The Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) recognized 54 of Geneva College’s student-athletes on its Fall 2015 Academic Honor Roll. The list honors student-athletes who have earned a grade-point average (GPA) of 3.6 or higher during their semester of competition.

“Early morning lifting sessions, afternoon practices and evening film sessions can quickly fill a student-athlete’s schedule,” said Athletic Director Van Zanic ’93. “However, Geneva consistently provides an environment that allows its student-athletes to find success in the classroom.”

The Fall 2015 PAC Academic Honor Roll is available at www. pacathletics.org/news/2016/1/7/GEN_0107163422.aspx.

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Men’s Soccer Finishes Season as PAC Finalist

Over 1,000 spectators rallied in Geneva’s Reeves Field for the Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) 2015 Men’s Soccer Championship. The Golden Tornadoes hosted the game, finishing the regular season with a record of 12-4-4. This game was the men’s soccer team’s third championship appearance since joining the PAC in 2007.

After two halves and two overtimes, second-seeded Geneva and fourth-seeded Westminster were scoreless. Westminster finally won the game on penalty kicks, outscoring Geneva 4-2.

“In a penalty kick shootout, anything can happen,” said Head Coach Gary Dunda. “We could do it again and have a different result.”

Following the PAC Championship, Geneva was invited to play in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) post-season and selected to host the quarterfinals.

The team’s season ended after losing 1-0 to Alvernia College in the ECAC Regional Semifinal. The Golden Tornadoes finished 2015 with an overall record of 13-5-4.

Men’s Tennis Makes a Comeback Geneva College’s men’s tennis returned after an 18-year hiatus.

The 11-member team includes no seniors. According to Head Coach Mandee Craft, this is perfect for rebuilding the program on a strong foundation.

“Everyone is stepping up and leading in different ways, and it’s just a really good group of guys,” said Craft.

The newly formed team competes in the NCAA Division III Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC). Men’s tennis opened its historic 2016 spring season at home, falling 7-2 to Mount Aloysius.

Megan Hinds Makes Geneva History

How does an athlete handle the pressure of playing in a conference championship? Megan Hinds explained, “The thing that pushed me through was something a teammate told me: ‘God knows the outcome of the match, so there is no pressure.’ That thought is what made my success achievable.”

Hinds won the 2015 fifth singles Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) Women’s Tennis Championship, becoming Geneva College’s first women’s tennis conference champion.

Hinds won the quarter finals over Thiel’s Mercedez Quarles (6-0, 6-2), played in the semi-finals against Thomas More’s Maryann Meadows (3-6, 6-4, 6-2) and won a long series final, defeating Westminster opponent Stephanie Homitz (6-3, 3-6, 6-4).

“Megan played so hard and so well, carrying herself with the grace she always does,” said Tennis Head Coach Mandee Craft.

“I’m so proud of her.”

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Play On!

BY ER IC MILLER, PH.D. PROFES SOR OF HISTORY AND HUM ANITIES, AND DIR EC TOR OF HONORS PROGR A MS

I did not want to move to Brazil. The reasons were many, and one of them had something to do with this: the Pirates had just won the World Series.

The Steelers had won the Super Bowl four out of the previous six Januarys.

A native of western Pennsylvania, 13 years old, I loved sports. And I knew victory. Both were indescribably sweet.

Within two years I would be swept up in a sports storm that still bursts from my memory with titanic force. Upon hitting that red Brazilian dirt, I had begun a shockingly rapid conversion from baseball to futebol, trading glove and cap for kichute and camisa, the soccer cleats and team-shirts my new friends wore. They took me into the wonder-world of Brazilian soccer— futebol arte, as the Brazilians called it—where legends lived, magicians with a ball, making magic for the world.

And the world was watching. As the national team—known simply as the Seleção (“selection”)—played its way into the 1982 World Cup, the storm would take my vicarious participation to new degrees of intensity. The sense grew that this team was unusual, even by Brazil’s standards. It was armed with a midfield as dominant as any since the fabled days of soccer’s undisputed greatest player ever, Brazil’s Pelé, who had led the country to World Cup championships in 1958, 1962, and 1970. I was scrambling to learn Portuguese by reading the sports magazine Placar, trying to absorb the scene fully. By the time the world’s soccer powers converged upon Spain, anticipation had turned to a month-long climax, filled with jubilation—and defeat.

But first came the victories. Brazil, led by athletes with mythical names—Zico, Sócrates, Falcão, and Leandro—dispatched opponents with such joie de vivre that final victory seemed only a blink away. Russia, Scotland, and New Zealand fell. All Brazil swelled with glee. Argentina and Italy awaited—past champions both. But the Brazil–Argentina showdown proved to be one more Brazilian show. Now victory over Italy would mean a semi-final berth.

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To that point Italy had played uninspired soccer. Suddenly it found inspiration. Brazil went for broke, putting its jogo bonito (“beautiful game”) on display. But Italy held them to two goals and managed three. The all-but-certain coronation never came. Italy went on to win its third Copa.

The anguish was the precise opposite of the overwhelming joy that had rumbled through the country the previous two weeks. All Brazil had shut down for its five games: no shoppers served, no mail delivered, no gas pumped. The festa seemed eternal. The defeat they greeted with abject disbelief. The dream abruptly died—for a time. But although Brazil has since won the Copa twice, its victorious sides have never equaled the grace of that 1982 Seleção. Even in defeat, it made history.

It was the public nature of the joy that so affected me. I’d had a taste of it when I watched the miraculous USA hockey team skate to gold in the 1980 Olympics. When the United States defeated the Soviets, I had marveled at seeing news clips that showed cars along the roadside and people spontaneously breaking into “God Bless America.” This was my point of reference for national celebration. But what happened in Brazil completely eclipsed it.

I was changed forever. When I entered Brazil in 1980, I was wearing the yellow t-shirt an uncle had given me at a farewell party. It featured a muscular eagle wrapped in stars and stripes, with a banner beneath it that read American and Proud of It. When I re-entered the United States four years later, I was sporting yellow again. But it was the golden, green-trimmed jersey of the Seleção. I was all-American no more.

It is striking that this is the title we drape across the shoulders of our champions: All-American. The 1940 film Knute Rockne, All-American suggests how this came to be. “The life of Knute Rockne,” runs a declamation as the film begins, “is its own dedication to the Youth of America and to the finest ideals of courage, character, and sportsmanship for all the world. Knute Rockne was a great and vital force in molding the spirit of modern America….”

America, an invented nation, required this molding. But by the twentieth century something new had to be found to ensure that the recently urbanized nation had a great citizenry to match. Modern industry had made modern cities. But it was still human beings who would inhabit them. Outside the factories, what would people do?

Sports teams became the city’s way of preserving the venerable old world village. As modern living wove people into a tangle, communal impulses took new forms, and gatekeepers were hoping that something like a dance might emerge. Sport was one of the dances they turned to, with an intensity that can only be called innocent.

Knute Rockne gives a taste of this innocence. The child of parents who immigrated from Norway, young Knute eventually finds his way onto a football field, and declares to his parents that “We’re all Americans now—especially me: I’m a left end!”

After he had become head coach at the University of Notre Dame, Rockne wins his players’ allegiance with a passionate, gruff, principled approach to coaching, and to life. The film is remembered today as a Ronald Reagan movie, and Reagan’s George Gipp delivers the tribute to Rockne that reveals what “All-American” was to encompass. “He’s given us something they don’t teach in schools. Something clean and strong inside—not just coaching but a way of living, something we’ll never forget.”

so huge that churches held services an hour early to ensure that fans could make it to the game; 40,000 showed up at Polo Grounds in 1890 to watch these Ivies slug it out. The era of mass spectacle was underway, though even football reflected the grip of old-stock elites on public life: Harvard, Yale, and Princeton were the titans of the gridiron.

This is where the lowly Carlisle Indians come into the story, and where the marriage of nation and sport is revealed in its corrupt complexity—as well as its redemptive worth.

Carlisle was a team of actual Indians, students at an experimental school outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, founded when Captain Richard Henry Pratt corralled a pan-Indian collection of youngsters back East for (re)education. His sympathy for and devotion to the Indians are as evident as his repellant cultural stamp; among his mottoes was “Kill the Indian, save the man.” It is no wonder that Jenkins describes Carlisle as a “violent social experiment,” where braided hair (on boys) was shorn, and members of tribes were separated.

And yet Pratt loved the Indians. When some boys asked permission to start a football team, he cautiously said yes, and then watched in wonder. “Their grace and exceptional speed in getting all over the field was a revelation,” he recalled. In 1900 Harvard’s coach declared that football was “the ultimate expression of Anglo-Saxon superiority”—precisely the kind of culture-defining conceit that irked Pratt. When he gave the go ahead to football, he did so with two conditions: first, that the players practice self-control in the face of provocation; second, that they prepare themselves to “whip the biggest football team in the country.”

They fulfilled both conditions, and managed to change history, too, creating the game we know today. In the face of the bone-

It is a jock-flick best seen as a species of all-American romance.

Like all such romances, it seeks to preserve ideals—virtue, harmony, joy—but at the expense of the person. We cannot believe in these characters. We know there must be another side of the story, the story of sports and the making of modern America.

In her book The Real All Americans: The Team that Changed a Game, a People, and a Nation, Sally Jenkins gives it to us.

Jenkins’s tale centers on the remarkable connection between football and that part of history that other tales so easily elide: the fate of the indigenous people who fell before the all-American engine. If she too tilts steeply toward romance, she writes with a pleasing sympathy to all sides of this ugly, beautiful story.

In the midst of modern change, Jenkins shows, the popular game of football helped us define ourselves as a nation—but not necessarily in ways we can be proud of. “The game, like the country in which it was invented, was a rough, bastardized thing that jumped up out of the mud,” she notes. By the late nineteenth century, the annual Yale–Princeton match-up was

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crunching Anglo-Saxon style, the Indians showed the world another way. “They had invented a whole new brand of game,” Jenkins writes. “Carlisle football, mixing the run, pass, and kick with elements of surprise, was the game of the future.

The traditional powers would cling to their old tactics at their peril.” Between 1911 and 1913, taking on the most dominant teams, the team would pile up 38 victories against only three defeats. After the climactic episode in the book, the 1912 Jim Thorpe-led defeat of the powerhouse Army Cadets, the New York Times declared Carlisle’s “the most perfect brand of football ever seen in America.”

Their innovating coach, Glenn Scobey “Pop”’ Warner, helped channel the genius of the Indians into a form that has stood the test of time (including, contra the blatantly false claim of Knute Rockne, the perfecting of the forward pass as a primary offensive weapon). And it was Warner who lauded their achievement most poignantly. “Whenever I see one of those All American teams,” he mused, “I cannot help but think what an 11 could have been selected from those real All Americans who blazed such a trail of glory.”

Can the trail of glory ever emerge from anything so tangled in the thorns of this corrupt world? For as readily as Knute Rockne applies varnish, Jenkins strips it. She forces us to confront the malign motives, the violent impulses, the idolatrous yearnings that modern sport has been mixed up in since its birth.

This reality is bound to trouble those charged with setting themselves apart as a holy nation. Sports, like so much distinctive to the modern world, seem coated in compromise. Yet, as this story make evident, it is both wheat and tares that fill our fields, tares that invariably choke life, wheat that miraculously gives it. There is no escaping this tangle. There is only the persisting need to dedicate ourselves to preserving the good that is here, and expose the evil that threatens it. If sports have become the playthings of irresponsible corporations, and if becoming a fan so often turns into a hollow semblance of true belonging, there remains the undeniable beauty of sport itself to uphold, and the marvelous reality of the creatures of God almighty who find themselves irresistibly drawn to them.

Consider the story Jenkins tells about the Carlisle–Yale game of 1896. The Indians were coming off of a 22-6 loss to Princeton, after which the Philadelphia Press had chortled, “The race with a civilization and a history won the day. It was a clear victory of mind over physical force.” Just a few days later Carlisle was to take its grandest stage yet, Polo Grounds, to play mighty Yale. The team was a curiosity, and the game attracted a huge crowd. After Carlisle went up by a score early on, Yale came back, and took a 12-6 lead into the closing minutes. But near the end the Carlisle left end broke away from a pile-up and spurted down the field for a touchdown.

The unthinkable was happening.

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And then it happened again—this time in the other direction.

As Carlisle was lining up to kick the extra point, a late whistle

sounded. One of the referees—a Yale alum and also (in a situation not uncharacteristic of the day) the Carlisle coach— was calling the play back. The players were stunned. The crowd started to boo. The Indians threatened to leave, talked out of it only by Pratt.

The clock wound down. But the crowd stormed the field and carried the Indians off. The New York Sun hoisted the players as well, declaring, with sudden clarity, that the call was “characteristic…of nearly all the crimes committed against the Indians by the whites, for it was accomplished by the man of all men who should have looked out for their interests and their rights.”

How we glory in exceptional play. We delight in fierce competition.

We thrill to witness the fruit of demanding training. We watch, enchanted, as athletes hurtle themselves toward their dreams.

We sense our spirits rise. It is in fact “just a game.” But it hints at that which lies beneath, yet is also integral to life on this wondrous earth. The swell of admiration, the ennobling of sacrifice: it reminds us of who we are, and where we are bound.

We are bound for a land that transcends these identities— American, Brazilian, Norse, Lakota—even as it redeems them.

And this difficult but wonderful tension between the universal and the particular is perhaps the most redemptive effect of sport. It previews a day when we will know ourselves for what we at root are: human beings, distinct but united, many but one, destined for an eternal dance—destined for play— in the kingdom of God. Until that day, those who know that hope can honor it with bravura goals and bountiful cheers. Somewhere, some confused teenager, or marginal man, or aged woman, will see. And will know. G This is an abridged version of an essay from Dr. Miller’s book, Glimpses of Another Land (Cascade Books, 2012).

Introducing Geneva’s Twentieth President, Dr. Calvin Troup ’83

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member of the Class of 1983, Dr. Calvin Troup decided to come to Geneva College because, “I really wanted what Geneva provided—the understanding of all of life from a Christian perspective.” Since being named president-elect by the Board of Trustees in February 2016, he’s preparing to join the college’s administration, faculty and staff to continue the integration of faith into all of life at Geneva.

“It is a remarkable place because the Geneva College motto begins with the words, ‘For Christ,’” said Dr. Troup in his first meeting with the campus community. “All the work that we do happens under the one living and true Word. It is an incredible privilege to join the work, to encourage the work, to uphold to the work, to try to support the meaningful work that goes on here.”

After graduating from Geneva, Dr. Troup worked as a trend analyst for The Naisbitt Group, a congressional staff aide to Rep. Duncan Hunter and an executive for the National Association of Life Underwriters in Washington, D.C. Dr. Troup then returned to academia, earning a master’s degree in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Speech Communication in 1994, both from Pennsylvania State University. Next, he served on the faculties of Penn State and Indiana University before moving

to the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University in 1996, where he has been directing the institution’s nationally ranked Rhetoric Ph.D. program.

Dr. Troup says he was well prepared for all of these endeavors thanks to the rich intellectual experience provided by Geneva.

And because of the meaningful relationships he formed during his student years, Dr. Troup maintained a strong connection with the college. After returning to the Pittsburgh area, he joined the Board of Corporators and Board of Trustees. He has also been the Chair of the Board of Trustees’ Education Committee for many years.

As Dr. Troup reflects on the steps that led to him being named Geneva’s 20th president, he says the process was centered on “being open to God’s leading and call on my life. It became clear that academic leadership at Geneva College is what the Lord was preparing me to do.”

Dr. Troup’s term will begin shortly after commencement, and his inauguration is scheduled during Homecoming & Family Weekend on Friday, September 23, 2016. Look for more information on Dr. Troup and his vision for Geneva College in the Winter 2017 issue of Geneva Magazine. G

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Learning Christ ’s Faithfulness in a Hard Way

TR ANSCR IP TION OF DR . C ALVIN TROUP ’S CH APEL MES S AGE FROM 2.17.16

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hen was the last time that you woke up in a place and you didn’t remember where you were? You think, “How did I get here? Where am I?” Then you remember where you were.

“Oh, I’m at my friend’s house. Oh I’m on the road. Oh, I’m in a motel. Oh, I’m OK. I’m all right.” Then you go back to sleep.

One day I woke up, looked around and didn’t know where I was. I saw white walls. But I couldn’t snap out of it. I thought, “Am I in a dream? Where am I?” And then I started to hear beeping and I realized that it was kind of dark. It troubled me.

I couldn’t remember how I had gotten there. The last thing I could remember was being in a car with some roommates and friends.

I thought, “I’m in a hospital.” And I thought, “I’m not doing so well.” I had a lot of pain. I realized I was hooked up to a lot of things. Then a doctor and nurse came in and started talking about me like I wasn’t there, saying, “Well, he’s breathing this many times a minute.” And I tried to say, “Hey, I’m breathing fine on my own.” But I couldn’t because of the respirator in my throat.

One day I woke up, looked around and didn’t know where I was.

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And so I thought, “What in the world happened?” I didn’t know what city I was in. I didn’t know what hospital I was in. I didn’t know where I was, and I didn’t know why. And I thought, “You know, you’re pretty messed up.”

And the Lord started to deal with me in a very specific way.

I had never felt the kind of pain that I was feeling, and I was alone. I thought, “I’m pretty heavily medicated here, and the Lord Jesus experienced every type of pain that I was experiencing and didn’t have any medication.” The Lord was a real comfort to me in that moment. Then a thought came that was a grace to me. “If I’m hurt this bad, I was probably in a car accident, and someone could have died—someone I know.” I didn’t know what had happened yet, but God gave that to me in my heart and my mind. And then I thought, “I’m pretty messed up; I could die.” And I thought, “I am OK with that. Christ died for me. Christ suffered for me. Christ could take care of me. I am OK.” In fact, I was in the trauma unit of Allegheny General Hospital.

That night, I had been at a wedding rehearsal dinner for my good friend, Eddie Hartman [’83], and his fiancée. We left the rehearsal dinner and were driving down Route 8. We were taking Eddie out on his last night of freedom before he got married.

A man and his wife had been drinking heavily on the North Side of Pittsburgh and were driving home, having an argument.

She wanted a divorce, and he said, “You don’t have to worry about a divorce, I’m going to kill both of us.” And he turned into our lane of traffic. The car in front of us was able to avoid the accident, but we were hit head on. The impact was 100 miles an hour between the two cars. Eddie was killed, and Keith [Myers ‘83], another good friend and roommate, was also killed.

I have this wonderful image in my mind of them getting to heaven. We used to have “deep theological arguments” in our room. Keith argued that Christians could lose their salvation.

Eddie said, “No, the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints means that salvation could never be lost.” We just went around and around about that. So Eddie and Keith get to heaven and before Keith can get in a word edgewise, Eddie says, “Aren’t you glad you got here before you lost your salvation?” And Keith probably just slaps him because he has no good answer at that point.

So I was pretty messed up—like Humpty Dumpty. But I’m here to talk to you about God’s faithfulness, because one of the things that happened was that Andrew [Bernard ’83], a great friend and roommate, survived. So they told me, “Andrew survived.” I said to them, “You’re lying. You’re lying to me. Get him on the phone. If he really lived then get him on the phone.” They got him on the phone. The trauma nurses brought a phone in. I talked to Andrew a lot.

One day, a few weeks into our recovery, I said to Andrew, “If anyone comes in here and quotes Romans 8:28 to me again, I’m going to punch them with my good arm.” I only had one good arm. Because people would come in, and they wouldn’t know what to say so they would quote Romans 8:28. And I wanted to say, “Look, I believe Romans 8:28 to my core. All things work together for good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose. But this was not good.

God will bring good out of it, but this wasn’t good.”

So now I can talk to you a bit about some of the good things that God brought out of the accident. The first thing was that I started to understand the human heart. There are a lot of people here who have lost people close to you this year,

So now I can talk to you a bit about some of the good things that God brought out of the accident. and you feel like there is a hole in your heart. It is because there is. In The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis talks about some other author who taught him that when you lose someone who is close and dear to you, you lose them. You also lose the parts of your friend that only they could bring out. And I’m looking forward to getting those things back. And so you understand the pain that you feel is because there is real pain. Something happens to your heart.

And I had a deep question. I didn’t know why I lived and why Eddie didn’t. He was the godliest young man I knew, and I don’t have an answer to that question except for God’s providence. But I can tell you this: at that time I thought that when people were trying to follow the Lord faithfully, and when they were walking with Christ faithfully, that God would bless them with prosperity. Not a lot of wealth, but that they would be able to have the ordinary, beautiful things in life.

Eddie wanted to have a family. He wanted to have kids.

Obviously he was getting married. And I thought that God’s faithfulness should mean that he should be able to have those things. And I was wrong.

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Christ goes with us and will raise us by the power of His indestructible life.

This picture of Dr. Troup and his wife Amy, by Terry Clark, accompanied “Calvin Troup rebuilding life after crash,” which was published in Beaver County Times on Monday, May 21, 1984.

Either God was unfaithful and God wasn’t gracious, or I didn’t understand what that meant. Why was it that my parents could drive to Allegheny General Hospital and find me there alive, when Eddie’s mom had to go to a morgue? Why did my fiancée get to fly back from a family wedding in New York State and hold my hand, while Eddie’s fiancée had to go to a funeral? That didn’t fit my understanding of God’s faithfulness. I had a formulaic understanding of faith.

And then I realized that I had scars, and that I was going to have scars my entire life. I had fears. I’d lie awake at night and my heart would race. And I began to understand who Christ is.

Some of you are too far away to see my face. I want you to hear my heart and I want you to look at Jesus Christ this morning.

Jesus Christ has scars. Jesus Christ experienced loss as a human being. Jesus Christ was made incarnate for us, and He did not exempt himself from suffering.

God is never far away from us when we suffer, because Christ came into our lives and suffered with us while He walked the Earth and suffered for us on the cross in a way that we will never fully understand. And He kept his scars. Ask Thomas. Christ kept his scars. We have scars, in our bodies and in our hearts. When we read Psalm 23 and it says “though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for you are with me.” Yes, Christ has walked that path. That is the Christ that we worship.

That is the Christ that we serve.

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So I want to read some verses that have become very dear to me, because Christ isn’t just an example. He isn’t just a companion. Hebrews chapter 7, talks about Christ and His priesthood and says, “This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek, who has become priest not on the basis of a legal requirement based on bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life. For it is witnessed of Him that you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. On the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness. For the law made nothing perfect. But on the other hand, a better hope is introduced through which we draw nearer to God.” Later in the passage the thought continues. “This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant. The former priests were many in number because death prevented them from continuing in office. But He holds His priesthood permanently because He continues forever. Consequently, He is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.”

Our lives are a mess. We have issues. All of us do. We have problems. Only Christ, can resolve those things for us. Only Christ can lift us up when something happens in our life that we can’t understand and we can’t answer. Only Christ has an indestructible life. He’s been through the grave. He’s already been there. He blazed a trail. No one in this room ever has to

go through the grave alone. Christ goes with us and will raise us by the power of His indestructible life. And as we sit here, He intercedes for us and will pray for us forever.

What that means is, Christ didn’t get over the crucifixion. He’s got the scars. They are forever a part of His life. And we don’t get over things like losing our best friend who dies right next to us in the car. You can continue to move and live and walk.

You can continue to rejoice in Christ. You can do all kinds of things. But it changes your life forever. There is no “back to normal.” There wasn’t for Christ, and there is not going to be for us.

“… but because Jesus lives forever, He has a permanent priesthood. Therefore He is able to save completely those who come to God through Him, because He always lives to

So what do we do? When I was in junior high, my family took an educational vacation to Gettysburg. We ended our battlefield tour at a house that was used as a surgical hospital on the day of the battle. Outside the house, there was a huge tree, and there was a cannonball stuck in this tree. And there was a plaque next to the tree that said this cannonball was shot into the tree on the day of the Gettysburg battle, and it almost killed the tree because on the day of the battle the cannonball was almost as wide as the tree. Today the tree is huge and the cannonball is small. When these traumas come into our lives by which Christ makes us His and clarifies who He is for us, it’s like getting hit by a cannonball and you almost die. You don’t know how to take the next breath. And what happens is, by God’s grace, that cannonball becomes part of our life. And we live with it and it changes us forever and stays part of our life.

We can’t get rid of it.

that we are able to bear the burden so much better. The thing I want you to remember is that your heart is not your own. You didn’t make it, God did. If you’re in pain today, if you have a cannonball that just hit you in the heart, it’s not going away.

But our prayer is that God will grow our hearts that when we lean on His everlasting arms, He will hold us and strengthen our hearts so that we can walk with Christ who is gentle with us, who bears our burdens for us and with us. G

But by God’s grace we continue to grow around that cannonball.

It doesn’t change, but God changes us and makes us grow so

The full audio from President-Elect Dr. Calvin Troup’s chapel message is available at Geneva.edu/chapel.

intercede for them.”

Hebrews 7: 24-25

Standing (l-r): daughter Miriam (Troup ’14) and son-in-law Greg Mead ’13; daughter Rebekah (Troup ’09), granddaughters Maria ’37 and Eliya ’33, and son-in-law Antonis Mastris ’09; daughters Hannah ’17 and Laura ’11 Seated (l-r): wife Amy (Spear ’83) and Calvin ’83

Photograph by Hardwig Photography

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A Letter to Seth

BY Z AC H A R Y S H E L D O N ’16

Zachary Sheldon is a January 2016 Geneva College graduate who majored in Communication with a concentration in Integrated Media. This article originated with a letter to his brother Seth that was first presented to the public at one of the college’s Reading Series events. Geneva Magazine is grateful that Zack is willing to share this story of his love for his brother.

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hen I was preparing to marry Kathleen (Schwartzenburg ’15) this past summer, I wrote each of my groomsmen a letter to tell him how much he meant to me and exactly why I had asked him to be a part of the day. These letters were fun to write—and also challenging, humbling and a bit scary. I don’t have a problem telling people what I think, but expressing what I feel is something completely different. It helped that I was writing to such great friends, but still ….

I didn’t write a letter to my brother Seth, though. Seth was our ring bearer, and he and I were both excited for him to do the job, but I didn’t precisely know how to write a letter to him.

Seth has Down syndrome, and the areas where he struggles most are language and comprehension. He can speak with some difficulty, but only in phrases or individual words. He relies on the person to whom he’s speaking to interpret his words and help connect his ideas. Seth is incredibly smart and funny in many ways, but communication is not one of his strengths.

Attentiveness is not a strength either. One reason we chose Seth as our ring bearer, instead of best man, was because we couldn’t reliably predict whether or not he’d actually walk down the aisle. In addition, the likelihood of Seth having the patience to stand in one place for the duration of the ceremony was slim at best. In fact, there was doubt about whether or not Seth would be at the wedding because he underwent a significant neck surgery in May. We weren’t sure if he’d be cleared to travel from Pennsylvania to Maryland or what affects the procedure might have on his movement. Fortunately, he healed well and was able to participate in the proceedings.

So I had some trouble writing to Seth. I wanted to, and I thought about it often, but I didn’t know how I could actually tell him all that I wanted to say. Seth can’t really read, either.

He understands a lot, even complex, abstract ideas, but not the way most of us do. But the idea of writing Seth a letter persisted even after the wedding.

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Photography by Robert Jinks Photography It occurs to me that there are often people in our lives to whom we wish we could say certain things, but feel we can’t.

Thoughts rest heavily on our hearts and we wish that we could express them and be understood just the way we intend. Sometimes we’re just too scared or nervous to express our feelings.

For some of us, we literally cannot tell these people: for me, Seth can hear but he can’t fully understand the words that I want to tell him.

Eventually I wrote my letter to Seth, Here it is. Maybe reading it will encourage you also to tell someone how you really feel about them.

—not just because you’re my brother and I have to, but because you’re pretty much the best person I know. You’re one of my best friends.

You’re kind of everything to me in a lot of ways: you’re a teacher and an entertainer. And you’re also just plain annoying a lot of the time, but I know that I am, too.

The funny thing is that I barely remember you coming into my life. I was 5 years old when you were born, and even though I remember trips to Pittsburgh to see you in the hospital, I only remember little details; I don’t remember you. I don’t remember being introduced to you, or recall when you made the transition from “baby brother” to just “brother” in my head. It truly feels like you’ve just always been there, fully formed as my brother and partner in crime since the very start.

I always feel kind of strange when I look at old pictures of you, because in my mind you were never that young or small.

You’ve always had the biggest personality. And looking back, I can’t help but think your little body was just too small to contain it. Maybe that’s why you were so crazy and energetic all the time. Whatever it was, it worked for you and I loved it.

The other thing that I see when I look at old pictures is just how far you’ve come and how much you’ve overcome. I am so, so proud of you, Seth. You never let anything stop you or slow you down—not surgeries, not broken bones, not anything.

You are, and always have been, incredibly comfortable in your own skin, more so than I have ever been.

And you’ve taught me so much. Without you, I would be a far more selfish person, far less compassionate, far less loving and kind. I’m not saying that I’m an expert at any of these things, but through you, I’ve learned what the qualities really mean.

And the way that you live them out is the way that I wish I could. You are (almost) always smiling, and always loving, and the way you care for others is amazing.

I love watching you play with other kids or, now, watching you talk to older kids or adults. I know I said you’ve always seemed like yourself to me, fully formed just as you are—and that’s true—but it’s also been pretty amazing to see how even just in the last few years you’ve grown into a young man. Watching that has been one of the coolest things in the world to me.

Your approval means a lot to me, little brother. Thankfully, you loved her from the very beginning.

Seth, I can’t tell you how much it meant to Kathleen and me that you made it to the wedding. When you were in the hospital recently, I was scared. You’re such an active kid and love to run and move, and this problem that threatened to rob you of your mobility scared me beyond words. But God is good, and you made it down to Maryland and walked down the aisle with me. And although you barely stood there for two minutes before you wandered off because you were bored, you being there meant the world to me. Of course, if you were able to stand still for more than five minutes at a time, then you’d have been the best man. But then that would be changing you, and Lord knows we wouldn’t want that. Thank you for being a part of our wedding, Seth.

Now I know that things are evolving for us. Being married and living in Beaver Falls means that I’ll probably see you less. And as I look to grad school in the near future, there will probably be even more distance between us. I’ll miss you, of course, even more than I already do. But I’ll never be more than a phone or Skype call away. I know we don’t really do either of those things now, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start, you know. One thing that I take comfort in is that no matter what, I know that when I come home, or you come and visit, it will always be like nothing’s changed. You’ll still always be the crazy, loving, compassionate, funny guy you are. And, well, I’ll always be the big brother, trying to live up to the standard you’ve set.

One thing that’s been very special to me is watching you get to know Kathleen, watching you accept her as a friend and a part of our family. You always accept everyone just as they are, but watching you connect with this person whom I love is especially meaningful to me. If you hadn’t loved Kathleen the way that you did, or become friends with her as fast as you did, I can honestly say that I think I’d have had some doubts about her.

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Pro Christo et Patria: Standard and Vision

BY DR. ROBERT FRAZIER, PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY

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n his first address to the college community as President-Elect, Dr. Calvin Troup ’83 focused attention on the motto found on the face of the podium below him. It read Pro Christo et Patria (For Christ and Country). Dr. Troup observed that there are many things done at Geneva that hardly distinguish the college from other institutions, listing a litany of similarities. But “the standard above,” as our 19th century Geneva forebears would have called it, sets us apart and creates unique opportunities for us as we live and work in its light. Also, the Prince it celebrates fosters opposition from those who reject him. Pro Christo et Patria is a remarkable claim and defines the existence and goals of our college.

To provide a framework for understanding Geneva’s adoption of this standard consider a passage from Augustine’s City of God. In Book II, Augustine explores the adequacy of Cicero’s definition of the publica (political community) as “an association united by a common sense of justice and common interest.” Augustine rejected this definition because “true justice is found in a community whose founder and ruler is Christ.” Cicero’s suggestion failed to establish the grounds necessary for legitimate political authority; true justice will not be realized without Christ.

The question of legitimate political authority was at the heart of the crisis faced by Augustine and the Roman Empire as it was unraveling before its invaders. In Augustine’s day, as in our own, the claim of social critic and philosopher Jürgen Habermas rings true: “The tacit boundary condition of the political system” has eroded, leaving in its wake a “chronic need for legitimation.” The framers of Pro Christo et Patria sensed that a similar crisis was their plight, as well—a crisis of legitimacy in government and education.

Dr. David Carson, Geneva’s beloved Professor of Political Science, wrote in Pro Christo et Patria: A History of Geneva College that the “motto Pro Christo et Patria was adopted in 1881.” Geneva had just moved to Beaver Falls the previous year, and the adoption of this standard witnessed a sense of hope and vision for the

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college. The motto functioned as both a political and an educational statement—a “flag,” one might say, to witness to the identity and uniqueness of the college and its sponsoring denomination. It embedded the college within a national movement led in great part by the Reformed Presbyterian Church and its scholars, some of whom taught at Geneva.

The adoption of the motto also signaled the resolve to dissent from political and educational endeavors that lacked legitimation, the consequence of failing to confess that proper authority is grounded in Christ, who said, “All authority is given unto me.” Political dissent is rooted in the idea that there are moral boundaries that qualify the community. When these boundaries are fractured, dissent is the morally appropriate way to respond.

The malfunctioning of the political structure in establishing unjust laws or in compromising proper rootedness begs for a response that seeks to heal the fracture.

It helps to understand political dissent by considering that the presence of the Covenanters preceded the college’s arrival by decades in Brighton, the name of Beaver Falls prior to 1868. The Brightons were significantly involved in the abolition movement from its earliest days. As local historians have reflected on anti-slavery along the Beaver River in the early 19th century, the Covenanters are cited as the trailblazers in the county in this effort, and were later joined by the Quakers. They did so as an act of political dissent, a declaration of the illegitimacy of the law of the land and the lax way that Pennsylvania handled its own move away from slavery.

And so these Covenanters, with their long history of political dissent dating back to John Knox’s rejection of Queen Mary’s rule and carrying through their history of persecution after the rejection of the Solemn League and Covenant, were primed historically, philosophically, and theologically to courageously resist the oppressive regime of human degradation known as slavery. In the midst of this centuries-long debacle, a political/

theological movement was born that exposed the causes of the decline in confidence in leadership that was defacing our young nation and provided the context of the adoption of the motto we acknowledge at Geneva.

This movement—the National Reform Association—provided the framework that propelled an idea, Pro Christo et Patria, to its place of distinction and honor in the Geneva community. The National Reform Association is well known by students, past and present, who have taken Geneva’s capstone Political Science course that was established in 1881-82. A dissenting organization that was franchised in 1864, the National Reform Association espoused two chief concerns: the continued need for a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery in the United States and, given the Preamble’s failure to acknowledge Jesus Christ as the Lord of the social contract, a rewriting to include deference to Christ.

Philosophically and theologically, the roots of the quest for reform can be illustrated by considering two articles written by Dr. Thomas Sproull, a professor at the Reformed Presbyterian Seminary. The first of these, preached in the 1830s called on Christians to repent of their failure to elevate social and political covenanting to an issue of concern. Sproull, along with the pastors and theologians of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, understood that the social and political problems of things such as slavery and the growing secularism of the nation were the result of the lamentable situation that Christ was not declared Prince of the nation. In response to the call for covenanting, the Reformed Presbyterian Church adopted the Covenant of 1871.

The second article outlined the grounds of legitimacy in political rule grounded in the Mediatorial Kingship of Christ and contended that governments failing to make confession of Christ welcomed God’s judgment against them.

Sproull is important not only because of his theological influence, but also because of his relationship in mentoring Dr. David McAllister. McAllister was selected to occupy Geneva’s first chair in Political Philosophy, as it was called in 1882. He is a central figure in the story of Pro Christo et Patria and its connection to the National Reform Association. He was appointed the General Secretary of the association in 1872-73 and worked tirelessly for a confession of Christ, since the first concern had been addressed with the abolishment of slavery. He travelled the country organizing local chapters, speaking and preaching, and was instrumental in the continued success of the journal The Christian Statesman.

McAllister’s place in the National Reform Association is captured in Stewart Olin Jacoby’s doctoral dissertation, The Religious Amendment Movement: God, People, and Nation in the Gilded Age, outlining its history and influence. He writes, “McAllister’s assumption of leadership strengthened the Covenanter influence in the movement. McAllister, himself a Covenanter, seems to have been closely allied with Sproull, Willson, and others concerned

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with the doctrinal purity of the movement.” McAllister asserted that, “a nation is a moral person … bound to acknowledge its dependence upon God or suffer judgment.” Although Geneva adopted as its motto Pro Christo et Patria in the early 1880s, McAllister employed this language in his preface to his Manual for the National Reformed Association in the mid-1870s: “Under the standard, Pro Christo et Patria, for Christ and for our Country, this Manual is sent forth into the midst of an irrepressible moral struggle, in the hope that it might contribute something, however little, to the triumph of the right.”

McAllister’s formal association with Geneva began in the winter of 1879 while the college was still located in Northwood, Ohio.

His national prominence in the National Reform Association and the Christian Statesman evidenced his scholarly bent and accomplishment. Examining his work also illuminates the specific educational framework and application at Geneva in the 1880s.

Dr. McAllister gave four lectures on political philosophy at Geneva in the spring of 1879. The Cabinet recalled him as an eloquent and erudite scholar, with the lectures being well received, and invited him to write a summation of his lectures for the April 1879 issue. He wrote of the need for training in political philosophy, claiming it as “one of the most imperative demands of our national life.” He asserted that in this fledgling democracy where “the people are the sovereign rulers,” to neglect political education, “our government will lamentably fail.” McAllister contended that for the most part, the politicians of his day—those making the laws and enforcing taxation, establishing the “rights” of citizens, and establishing relations with other nations—were “ignorant of the first principles of political science (philosophy).”

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McAllister asserted the need for people of virtue to rule, but also that they needed to be “carefully trained for their responsible post.” He located the college as the place of this training in political philosophy and the development of moral virtue. The kind of education that McAllister encouraged was unique in his day.

Only a few colleges had a course in political science. None were to be found with political philosophy founded on a theological framework emergent from the Scriptures declaring the Kingship of Christ. He wrote, “all college students need to be taught the origin of the nation; its nature, sphere and functions; its moral as well as its economical relations. They need to understand the principles which underlie all the great moral questions that enter so largely into the politics of our land.” The need is for an uncompromisingly rigorous college that includes, centrally, a deep and thick education in political philosophy.

This institutional commitment to the rigor of the college ideal devoted to Christ is echoed in Dr. H. H. George’s 1878 article, “Geneva College Founded upon an Idea.” Dr. George was President of Geneva as it moved from Northwood to Beaver Falls, and was also instrumental in the National Reformed Association. But he recognized that political authority, and hence proper dissent, was fixed in a more basic educational authority because of its priority in establishing true belief. He wrote that the college had a “fixed determination that the standard of classical, scientific, and literary culture shall be as high as that of any other institution” in the country. He warned of the influences of secularism and its deepening rootedness in university education.

George saw that the college ideal needed the strong foundation of the Scriptures permeating and shaping the disciplines of the

Rev. J.R.W. Sloane on May 26, 1881 gave an address, “Dedication

The standard, Pro Christo et Patria, and the seal of the college with the Holy Scripture opened for discovery and application to all disciplines are the core of the educational experiment called Geneva College.

college and the practices of common life. “The religious idea” of the Bible’s authority requires of the college an “unyielding” commitment to its application in all of life. In a prophetic tone, George declared that the religious idea “lends its influence unhesitatingly to that grand movement of our country, to more thoroughly Christianize all the institutions of government, and more entirely leaven our entire civilization with the heaven born principle of religion.”

An editorial found in The Cabinet of the same period reflects this position taken by George and McAllister, arguing the need for training as statesmen—free citizens who know the foundations of the morally good, politically informed and theologically framed life, to paraphrase Carson’s definition in A View from the Study. The editors wrote, “There is no greater evidence of patriotism than the study of what will best acquaint one with the needs of his country and prepare him for active work in its service.” Pro Christo et Patria, one might say.

Hence, its adoption shortly thereafter.

Understanding the necessary link between one’s political ideal and education was not new to the 19th century. Aristotle long before wrote, “Anyone meditating on the art of politics knows that the fate of the empire rests on the education of its youth.” The art of politics was expressed in a kind of thinking applied in practical settings, which yielded morally right actions. Aristotle called this art of thinking phronesis; Augustine and Aquinas called it prudentia. Practical wisdom was this art, and our forebears knew that to acquire it required the proper King of all be confessed as the legitimate source of all authority. And so they meditated on what would bring about “completeness” of character, which included practical wisdom yielding statesmen for our country. One might say that a well ordered education in practical wisdom was truly patriotic.

of Geneva College,” congratulating the college on locating in Beaver Falls. He pondered the beauty of her location on the hill overlooking the Beaver River. And then he outlined the kind of education offered, which placed Christ first in its endeavor.

Sloane argued for an education that gave “prominence” to the classical languages of Hebrew, Greek and Latin. He encouraged learning the classical Greek and Roman authors, without which a freeing education in practical wisdom would not occur. He celebrated the study of language in written historical sources and the mastery of contemporary academic languages, such as French and German. Mathematics and the rapidly maturing physical sciences were to be studied because, “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork.” Also, because the Reformed Presbyterian Church confesses the “Universal Headship of Christ,” Sloan said that the college must offer a course of study in political philosophy.

According to Sloane, the entire education must be built on the foundations of philosophy—“the science of sciences”—that, next to theology, he called the “noble pursuit of the human mind.” He continued, given that “philosopher means a lover of wisdom,” to understand philosophy is the “designation of one who stands in the highest rank of intellectual greatness.” Training in philosophy enables one to refute the “speculative” ideas of their day. This curriculum rigorously taught was the ideal he had in mind.

Sloane ended his piece with the following claim, the vision that is behind Pro Christo et Patria at Geneva. “But above all, this is to be a Christian college. Christianity is to leaven all the instruction here given; a constant reference made not only to God, as the fountain of all knowledge, but to Christ as the Revealer of all saving truth. This college is dedicated to principles which put forward the very highest claims for King Jesus. The book of books—the Bible—God’s revealed word, is to be enthroned in these halls and nothing will be placed above the revelations of the Holy Scriptures.”

The standard, Pro Christo et Patria, and the seal of the college with the Holy Scripture opened for discovery and application to all disciplines are the core of the educational experiment called Geneva College. These 19th century leaders of Geneva understood these well and bequeathed to our community of learners the responsibility to nurture this grand enterprise to the glory of the Triune God. Might this be for us a tradition we might live by?

As Jaroslav Pelikan, a scholar of the history of Christian theology, contends, may it be a “tradition of the living faith of the dead” and not “traditionalism which is the dead faith of the living.” G Author’s Note: For more complete information about the National Reform Association, read Dr. William Edgar’s article on the theological and philosophical underpinnings of the National Confession in God and Politics, edited by Gary Smith, or William Gould’s article on the same subject found in Dr. Jay Niekirk’s Great Issues of Politics syllabus for Political Science 352.

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In Memoriam 30s Rev. Melville W. Martin ’39 on February 16, 2016

40s Rev. T. Richard Hutcheson ’40 on March 7, 2015 Dr. William H. Yanko ’40 on August 14, 2015 Elinore F. (Gardner ’41) Davis on February 15, 2016 Mary A. (Geiser ’42) Cornelius on September 21, 2015 Mary Louise (Lurting ’43) Sawyer on August 11, 2015 Rev. Malcom S. Vandevort ’43 on July 2, 2015 Rev. Robert A. Henning ’44 on August 21, 2015 Rev. Joseph A. Hill ’47 on September 25, 2015 Theda M. (Houlette ’48) Davis on February 27, 2016 Rev. James L. Evans ’48 on August 14, 2015 Philip W. Hirschy ’48 on January 31, 2016 Greta J. (Steffan ’48) Yorke on February 19, 2016 Margaret (Weir ’49) Carson on November 21, 2015 Betty M. (Heidrick ’49) DiLiberatore on October 20, 2015 Frank Fazio ’49 on October 15, 2015 John L. Harr ’49 on November 8, 2015 John Terlesky ’49 on January 8, 2016

50s

Philip S. Hamilton ’50 on November 29, 2015

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George A. McClure Sr. ’50 on January 30, 2016

Orlando “Orly” N. Marinaccio ’58 on September 25, 2015

Donald G. Portman ’50 on January 7, 2016

Dorothy V. (McGraw ’58) Ramsey on September 15, 2015

Charles J. Eazor ’51 on October 10, 2015

Barbara “Babs” E. Alberts ’59 on December 30, 2015

Myrna J. (Evans ’51) Fleming on December 8, 2015

Frank R. Lyons ’59 on August 15, 2015

Robert R. Knight ’51 on June 23, 2015

Nancy (Russell ’59) McDade on November 11, 2015

Cleaver M. Standley ’51 on July 28, 2015

John L. Papa ’59 on February 27, 2016

Burt L. Yoho ’51 on September 5, 2015

Robert M. Wilhelm ’59 on September 10, 2015

Harold T. Bricker ’52 on July 18, 2015

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Jane M. (Hamilton ’52) Jackson on December 17, 2015 James “J.D.” D. Klein ’53 on January 11, 2016 James R. Ross ’53 on January 27, 2016 Benjamin P. E. Wescott ’53 on December 8, 2015 James E. Wike ’53 on August 17, 2015 Irving D. Caplan ’54 on October 11, 2015 Donald “Diz” A. Dean ’54 on January 12, 2016 Phyllis “Marlene” (Betz ’55) Schneck on November 8, 2015 Angelo S. Frangopoulos ’56 on January 2, 2016 Glenn L. Graham ’56 on July 5, 2015 Loyal W. Wilson Jr. ’57 on January 6, 2016 Harriet L. (Harrington ’58) Doran on January 31, 2016 Daniel R. Durham ’58 on September 16, 2015

Dr. Elmer F. Litzinger Jr. ’60 on January 3, 2016 Richard A. Rotondo ’60 on August 2, 2015 John C. Sowash ’60 on November 30, 2015 Dean R. Westerman ’60 on August 29, 2015 Leah C. (Schill ’61) Bork on February 19, 2016 Allen L. Connelly ’61 on November 5, 2015 Milas R. Cook ’61 on August 26, 2015 Thomas B. Rimbey ’61 on November 30, 2015 Andrew G. Walter ’61 on September 13, 2015 Michael G. Raich Jr. ’62 on October 24, 2015 William H. Alexander ’63 on August 21, 2015 Arthur R. Hohl ’63 on September 27, 2015 Ivan L. Peters ’63 on October 18, 2015

Linda S. Heckman ’65 on October 9, 2015

John B. Jones ’77 on October 13, 2015

Joann E. (Parris ’65) Romig on January 29, 2016

John Ungham III ’78 on July 18, 2015

Edith A. (Burgess ’66) Strosnider on February 1, 2016

David P. Swift ’79 on February 7, 2016

Dr. Robert W. Timmons ’66 on December 31, 2015

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Diane “Dee Dee” (Vooletich ’66) Walker on September 13, 2015 Richard D. Bonyak ’67 on February 5, 2016 S. Keith Edgar ’67 on January 26, 2016 Dennis M. Norman ’67 on August 30, 2015 Wendy (Rose ’67) Reese on July 28, 2015 Ronald R. Sanders ’67 on July 8, 2015

James R. Buck on January 15, 2016 Richard K. Evans, Jr. on October 15, 2015

Charles “Chip” R. Martsolf ’80 on December 9, 2015 JoAnne K. (Gaskill ’80) Swick on December 18, 2015

Denotes members of the

Victoria (Madden ’86) Parris on July 31, 2015

Heritage Society,

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contributions of alumni and

Mary P. Dawson ’93 (DCP #013) on August 28, 2015

friends who include Geneva

Timothy P. Kappel ’94 (DCP #030) on July 5, 2015

00s

Jon B. Slaby ’69 on July 1, 2015

James A. Bradley ’05 (DCP #162) on September 21, 2015

70s

Katherine “Kate” E. (Boyce) Landman ’05 (DCP #172) on October 11, 2015

Stanley L. Breckenridge ’71 on October 21, 2015

Friends

which recognizes the valuable

in their estate and/or financial plans by gifts made through annuities, charitable trusts, gifts of life estates, undivided partial interests in real estate or life insurance, and gifts made through their will.

Angelo Ferrazzano ’71 on February 16, 2016 Janet M. (Deffenbaugh ’73) Fabian on July 18, 2015

Nathaniel “Nate” M. Ferraco

Robert D. Sciarro ’73 on January 1, 2016

Freshman engineering student Nate Ferraco died as a result of injuries suffered in a tragic car accident on January 24, 2016. Nate and three of his Geneva soccer teammates were on their way back to campus from playing an indoor soccer league game in Butler County when the accident occurred.

Nicholas M. Thomas ’73 on August 8, 2015 Francis “Frank” J. Greco ’74 on November 19, 2015 Robert E. Peters Jr. ’74 on June 19, 2015 Anne (Anderson ’74) Pursley on October 23, 2015 Ronald J. Burkholder ’76 on August 14, 2015

NATE FERRACO 4.25.1997 - 1.23.2016

“Nate was a special person with many wonderful talents,” says Head Soccer Coach Gary Dunda. “He was a standout soccer player, gifted student, and he truly cared deeply for his teammates and friends. Nate will always hold a special place in my heart and I will forever cherish the time I got to spend with him.”

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1943

Dr. Vivian Hewitt celebrated her 95th birthday at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City on February 17, 2015. Former Geneva chaplain Dr. Tim Russell was in attendance.

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1973

Catherine (Nileski) Mellen resides in Tallmadge, OH, with husband Robert and daughter Alexandra.

1977

Priscilla (Luethy) Allard—See Allard ’79

1979

Andrew and Priscilla (Luethy ’77) Allard reside in Corona, CA, where Andrew is the CFO of A&P Business Services. He recently received Series 65 securities licensure to add to his financial planning tool kit. The Allards have two children, Daniel and Ashleigh.

Dr. Rody Cox works full-time as a professor of medicine, teaching in medical school, as well as internal medicine residents. At 89, he is having too much fun to consider retirement.

Rody recently completed his five-year tenure renewal and has been approved as “exceeds expectation.”

Dr. Thomas Gault is a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine. He received his M.A. from California State University, Fullerton, and his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. Thomas and wife Debbie reside in La Habra, CA, with daughter Kendra.

1962

Lynette (Billinghurst) Thomas resides in North Charleston, SC, with son Garrett.

Christine (Kelbaugh) Musgrave—See Musgrave ’63 Carol (Pacella) Rinehimer and husband Carlton celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on August 21, 2015 by taking a transatlantic cruise. The couple resides in Allentown, PA.

1963

Chuck Goehring and wife Joyann reside in Indianapolis, IN. They have one son, Brian.

Chuck received an M.Ed. and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.

Bob and Kathleen (Aikin) Hohl celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 2014.

Ronald and Christine (Kelbaugh ’62) Musgrave celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on March 22, 2013.

1966

Dennis and Rebecca “Ann” (Hart ’86) Hanka have two grown daughters, Rebecca and Sarah, and reside in East Liverpool, OH.

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1984

Dennis Patrick is celebrating 12 years in business with Simpson of Maryland. He is also starting a new business endeavor, Celtic Construction.

Kevin D. Harris Esq. was appointed and sworn in as the Municipal Clerk in the Town of Morristown on January 1, 2015, after 20 years of practicing law. In this capacity, he serves as Corporate Secretary to a municipality with a population of 19,085, a $37 million annual budget and a municipal workforce of 175 employees. He also serves as the municipality’s Chief Election Official, Chief Registrar of Voters, Custodian of Public Records and Registrar of Vital Statistics.

Kevin, wife Debbi-Ann and daughter Juliana reside in West Orange, NJ.

1992

Joe Godzin is a Sales Engineer at Total Equipment Co. in Coraopolis, PA. He and wife Lisa have three children: Joel, Josh and Brock. The Godzin family resides in Belle Vernon, PA.

1996

Andrew and Lindsay (Wilson ’05) Young have four children, ages 8, 6 and 2-year-old twins.

1997

Dr. Ilia Matos was recently appointed by Florida Governor Rick Scott to serve a threeyear term as a member of the State of Florida Commission for Independent Education.

Jeanette (McFarland) Nagel served as a parttime grant and publications writer from 2010 to 2015 with a Christian ministry to people in crisis. She and husband Harry ’87 reside in Fairfax, VA, and have four children: Josiah, Micah, Ezra and Lydia.

1986

Rebecca “Ann” (Hart) Hanka—See Hanka ’66.

1987

Harry Nagel—See Nagel ’85

1988

Judy Willson became President of Collegiate Sports Information Directors of America, the national organization for collegiate athletics communications directors. She is heading into her sixth year on the communications staff of the Mountain West Conference, based in Colorado Springs.

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1991

1985

Beverley (Shaffer) Kiefer retired as the Music Director of Tapestries of Ohio, Inc. in 2015.

She is also a retired cataloger from the Warren Trumbull County Public Library. Beverley and husband John have two grown children, Ryan and Erin, and reside in Niles, OH. Diana (Evans) Schott retired in 2013. She and her husband have three grandchildren.

development of the glycol filtration strategy on the 2012 Ford Focus electric vehicle. David and his wife reside in Canton, MI.

David Fabricatore was awarded a patent by the U.S. Patent Office related to the

Yvonne (Sterrett) married Lincoln Martinez on May 3, 2014 at the College Hill Reformed Presbyterian Church in Beaver Falls, PA. Their son Solomon Lincoln was born on February 21, 2015. Yvonne is the middle school and high school choir director in the Big Beaver Falls Area School District.

1999

Rebecca Husberger earned an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Design at Lesley College in 2005 and was promoted to Coordinator of Teacher Education Services for the Teach Beyond Global team in November 2015.

2000

Ben Becze was named as a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) by CFRE International. Ben, Director of Development for Oncology Nursing Society Foundation in Pittsburgh, PA, joins over 5,300 professionals around the world who hold the CFRE designation. “The CFRE credential was created to identify for the public and employers those individuals who possess the knowledge, skills and commitment to perform fundraising duties in an effective and ethical manner,” states Jim Caldarola, CFRE, Immediate Past Chair of CFRE International. “As the certification is a voluntary achievement, the CFRE credential demonstrates a high level of commitment on the part of Ben Becze to himself, the fundraising profession and the donors who are served.”

Dr. Stephanie (Vesolich) Wilsey is Director for the Undergraduate Psychology Program at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, PA.

2004

Lisa (Cilli) Thomas (M.A. Counseling ’10) resides in Champaign, IL.

Kaye (Gideon) Weaver and husband Zach welcomed their third child, Lorelei Kathryn, in March 2015. Brothers Gideon and TJ are thrilled to have a little sister. In addition to being a busy mom, Kaye is a CPST-I. The Weaver family currently resides in Hawaii.

2005

Erica (Wachtel) Loftus was named Marketing and Public Relations Manager of the Ambridge Regional Distribution & Manufacturing Center. Loftus has strong ties to the Pittsburgh region, having served as President of the Beaver County Chamber of Commerce for the past five years.

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2001

Marlin Thomas (M.S. Organizational Leadership ’04) is a financial professional for Prudential. He has one child, Braylin, and resides in Beaver Falls, PA.

2002 Kristin (Glunt) Blosel (M.Ed. Reading ’11) and husband Christopher welcomed daughter Charlotte Marie on December 4, 2014.

Dr. Travis York (M.A. Higher Education ’07) recently accepted the position of Director of Student Success, Research & Policy for the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities in Washington, DC. Lindsay (Wilson ) Young—See Young ’96

Tami (Zupkow) Hannon was promoted to partnership at Mazanec, Raskin & Ryder Co., L.P.A. in Cleveland, OH. She has been with the firm since 2007, and her practice concentration is civil rights defense. Tami has been named an Ohio Super Lawyer Rising Star for Municipal Law since 2013.

2006

2008

Zachary Northen (M.A. Higher Education ’11) and his wife reside in Lancaster, PA.

2009

Joshua and Shea (Bohaski) Albrecht welcomed son Hayes in 2015. He joins big brother Paxton. Shea is a Human Resource Specialist for the Office of Professional Management. The Albrechts reside in Butler, PA. Sarah (Kerwin) Kuhnle and husband Scott were married in September 2013 and reside in East Stroudsburg, PA.

Autumn (Pletcher) Perkins resides in Chesapeake, VA. Christine (Padgett) Smith and husband Khori reside in Lutherville Timonium, MD. They have two sons, Kamden and Kellen. Christine has a master’s degree from Towson University and is a Speech Language Pathologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

John and Deborah (Sweigart ’09) Perkins announce the birth of son Ezra J. Perkins, born on June 16. He joins big sisters Emaleigh and Julia.

Deborah (Sweigart ) Perkins—See Perkins ’07 Brendon and Blair (Bruce) Petersheim reside in Elverson, PA. Jody Hazy (M.A. Counseling) and wife Marian welcomed son Paul Noah on August 25, 2015. The family resides in Greensburg, PA.

2010

David Ketter (M.A. Higher Education ’13)

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graduated from Trinity School for Ministry in 2014. He is currently the Village Church Pastor for Church of the Savior in Ambridge, PA, where he resides. David is planting a congregation in Economy-Crestview Village in Ambridge, and is in discernment for ordination in the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh.

Bethany Moslen is going into her third year as the Assistant Marching Band Director at the University of California, Davis.

Brian and Bethany (Klinger) Sedziol were united in marriage on September 28, 2014.

They reside in Canton, OH.

2011

Elizabeth (Michalak) (MBA ’13) and John Stenberg were married on December 28, 2014. They reside in Marietta, GA.

2012

Alex and Danielle (Nowak) Lake reside in Novelty, OH. Danielle received a master’s degree in English from East Carolina University and is an English teacher at Cornerstone Christian Academy in Willoughby Hills, OH. Joshua Mann and wife Julia are expecting their third child.

Joanna (Morrison) and Cody Morgan were united in marriage. The couple resides in Athens, GA.

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2014

Kayla Jackson is a Letter Carrier for the United States Postal Service. She resides in Beaver Falls, PA. Joel Shannon received the Edith Hughes Emerging Journalist Award in the 2016 Keystone Press Awards. Joel was Editor-inChief of The Geneva Cabinet and is currently the Innovation Editor for York Daily Record.

Marissa (Seighman) married Lee Wiley on July 19, 2014. Marissa is a K-2 Inclusion Intervention Specialist at Valley Christian Schools. The couple resides in Austintown, OH.

2015

Ainsley (Guess) and Daniel Knapke were married on May 23, 2015. Ainsley is an engineer for GRW Engineers in Fort Mitchell, KY. She received her engineer-in-training (E.I.T. ) license for the state of Kentucky shorty after graduating. The couple resides in Batavia, OH. Sean Pace is a Methods Engineer for Mack Trucks in MacUngie, PA, where he resides.

Holly Vizino is an HR Fellow at UPMC. She resides in Sewickley, PA.

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Elise (Johnson) and Shayler Phipps were married on June 15, 2013. They live in Poland, OH.

Gretchen Morgan, wife of the late football coach By Morgan celebrated her 100th birthday on February 20, 2016 surrounded by family and friends, including her children Byron E. Morgan Jr., Karen (Morgan ’64) Norris, Marjorie Morgan Satterthwait and Robert G. Morgan.

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