ComMedia summer 2014

SUMMER 2014

INSIDE: ABBY DEATON WINS NATIONAL TELLY AWARD FOR STORY ON ‘THE LOCAL’ p. 3

NEWSLETTER OF THE GOSHEN COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION

COMM PROF AND STUDENTS ENCOUNTER EMERGENCY SITUATION IN MAY TERM TRAVEL p. 5 JASON SAMUEL SPENDS SABBATICAL WITH AMA p. 6

GC Students Practice PR in Kenya Student Abby Deaton helps Masaai children newly arrived from school to use Goshen College video cameras as two Maasai men look on. In the background are some of the Kenyan hosts for the Goshen College class, including FRB representative Eric Mattson (left) conferring with Professor Pat Lehman (center) and another FRB representative, Bev Abma (far right).

Goshen camp combines sports, writing in ‘winning partnership’ More than 20 middle school students will participate in the second edition of Write on Sports, which one Goshen seventh-grader described as the “best camp ever.” The camp will again be held over two weeks in July.

During the camp, students will interview athletes, including Justin Gillette, a marathoner who is ranked fifth in the world in total victories, and Gaby Romo, an all-state soccer player for Goshen High School who now plays for Indiana University/Purdue University at Fort Wayne.

Students will also learn interviewing techniques from journalists with The Goshen News and The Elkhart Truth.

Field trips include visits to Notre Dame University, WNDU-TV studios and a South Bend Silver Hawks game, where students will have a chance to interview team members before the game.

Students will write sports stories and create videos during the two weeks; their work will be published online at www.goshen.edu/ writeonsports and in a camp magazine.

The camp is free, with scholarships made possible by the Elkhart County Community Foundation, the Maple Leaf Athletic Club, MutualBank, United Way, the Windward Foundation and other donors.

Lunch will be provided each day in the cafeteria.

The Goshen camp is a partnership of Goshen College and Goshen Community Schools and is an extension of the Write on Sports organization, based in New Jersey. Students who live in other school districts were also invited to apply.

Byron Yake, a former national sports editor with The Associated Press and a 1971 Goshen College graduate, established the program in 2006.

The Goshen camp was the first affiliate and the first Write on Sports camp launched outside of New Jersey.

In this second year, the Goshen camp is expected to serve twice as many students as in 2013.

“We’re so pleased that all of the first-year campers who were eligible to return to camp have applied for a second summer,” said Duane Stoltzfus, a Goshen College communication professor who is directing the Goshen camp. “In doing so, they become our best ambassadors in making the case that sports and writing form a winning partnership.”

Department Announces STUDENT Media Leaders for 2014-15 YEAR The communication department faculty selected student leaders for co-curriculars for the upcoming academic year: GCTV Chau Bui, news director David Leaman-Miller, studio manager 91.1 THE GLOBE Danielle Kershhackl, station manager GOSHEN COLLEGE RECORD Elizabeth Franks-North, editor (fall) Kayla Riportella, editor (spring)

2 | SPRING

SUMMER Maple Scholars Engage Three Projects Among the 15 Maple Scholars research projects under way this summer are three that involve the communication department: telling video stories on Goshen Commons, creating faith mentoring video testimonials and digitizing Record archives.

Paired with librarian Eric Bradley, who serves as colleague and supervisor, student scholar Kolton Nay is scanning select volumes of The Record to evaluate changes in gender attitudes. In digitizing issues of the newspaper, Nay is developing metadata, converting scans to computer readable text and uploading finished material onto the internet. The completed product undergoes a content analysis, where the data is studied using the latest tools in statistical analysis.

Nay will write a research-based essay detailing the trends in Goshen College’s attitudes toward topics in gender and sexuality, and analyze what it means for our discussions of these topics today.

If time allows, he said, he will also be compiling a visual history pamphlet or chapbook highlighting important discussions over topics in gender and sexuality that have occurred via The Record in its past issues, “so that anyone may read such discussions in chronological order and see where we’ve been as a campus and how we’ve arrived at our more recent conversations.”

Maple Scholars receive a $2,500 stipend for a summer of research and interdisciplinary mixing.

Abby Deaton, a junior, was paired with Kyle Hufford in telling video stories on Goshen Commons; and Lauren Treiber worked alongside Bob Yoder and Seth Conley in creating faith mentoring video testimonials.

Deaton is producing about one video a week.

The videos are published under the Goshen Commons logo and shared via The Elkhart Truth’s Community Blog at elkharttruth.com. The stories included the Humans of Goshen project, Arts on the Millrace and the Wiener Shack.

“The Humans of Goshen story was especially good,” Hufford said. “Abby shows us the importance of individuality and how our differences add up to form a community.”

Chau Bui, a senior broadcasting major from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, is working with Seth Conley, assistant professor of communication, to create, compile and catalog videos about faith. Bui will create a website, blog and digital database for the videos, with the hope that the research be used demonstrating Goshen College as a “faithmentoring” campus.

DEATON wins national award with ‘the local’ Last month, Goshen College senior and FiveCore Media student producer Abby Deaton received a bronze Telly Award for a short documentary-style feature video titled “Made in Goshen.”

Deaton, a communication major from Indianapolis, created the video as part of a series of stories about the Goshen community. The videos were released online through Goshen Commons, a local news blog site published in collaboration with the Goshen College Communication Department.

“Made in Goshen” tells the story of The Local, a retail space run by six local craftsmen and artists from the Goshen area. It received a bronze Telly in the category of Online Video/News Feature. Deaton created the video herself from the top down, including writing, interviewing, shooting and editing the project, under the supervision of FiveCore Media General Manager Kyle Hufford.

The Telly Awards is a national competition designed to honor commercials, video, film productions and work created for the web from professional advertising companies. The Telly Awards receive approximately 13,000 submissions nationwide each year and 20% of the entries receive a Bronze Telly, second only to the Silver Telly Award, which is the highest honor.

Deaton will receive a Bronze Telly statue with her name on it, designed by the same firm that makes the Oscar and Emmy statues.

This is the fifth Telly Award earned by a Goshen student or team.

See Deaton’s Telly Award-winning video here: http://vimeo. com/96943365. Watch Deaton’s other local news stories on Goshen Commons: http://www.goshencommons.org/author/abby-deaton/.

Goshen students earn statewide radio, TV honors For the third consecutive year, Goshen College was named Radio School of the Year in the 2014 Indiana Association of School Broadcasting’s (IASB) college broadcasting competition.

The college also scored the second highest number of points for Indiana Television School of the Year, narrowly missing a similar three-peat (Ball State took the top honors this time). In 2012 and 2013, the college won School of the Year awards in both radio and television.

Broadcasting students also won 22 other radio and television awards in the

competition, including five first-place honors.

“This is a significant accomplishment for our students, to win three years in a row,” said Jason Samuel, general manager of 91.1 the Globe (WGCS) and assistant professor of communication.

“Our ability to plug students in right away, to help them find out what they want to do and make them a part of a successful program, it gives them so many tools in their belt to make them the best broadcasters they can be.”

The first- place winners in radio were:

for radio imaging, Danielle Kerschhackl, Andrew Witkowski and Abby Deaton; for radio newscast, a news team; and for radio in-depth, Ashlee Evans and Danielle Kerschhackl.

The Correspondent is the college’s bi-weekly television news broadcast, produced by students and distributed via the campus cable system and the Internet.

Seth Conley, associate professor, is the adviser for The Correspondent.

The first-place winners in television were: for video magazine, Abby Deaton; and for copywriting, David Leaman-Miller.

Record staff members win state journalism awards A dozen Record staff members received individual awards from the Indiana Collegiate Press Association at the organization’s annual convention in April.

ICPA presented the awards at its annual conference, this year held at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

Phil Scott received first place for Best Editorial Cartoon, titled “Out to lunch with grandpa.” Isaac Fast took first place in Best Overall Design for the Oct. 10, 2013, issue. Fast also won second place for Best Front Page, Sept. 2013; third place for Best Sports Page, Oct. 10, 2013; and third

place for Best Sports Feature, for “Breaking records in good company.”

Kate Yoder earned second place for Best Non-Deadline Reporting, with “Coinless laundry machines installed.” Doreen Arnold and Seth Zimmerman earned second place for Best Sports News with “Goshen College will host six marathons.” Additionally, Logan Miller and Twila Albrecht earned a second place spot for Best News or Feature Series, with “What should students call their professors?”

Lauren Stoltzfus and Becca Kraybill earned third place in the Best Themed

Issue category with “Goshen celebrates Valentine’s Day.” Alex Pletcher’s photography won third place for both Best Feature Photo and Best News Photo.

Christina Hofer earned third place in Best Entertainment Column with “Artist Corner: Abbie Miller.”

The Record also received several team awards. The fall 2013 staff earned second place for Best Single Issue for the Oct. 31, 2013 issue. The staff earned third place for Best Pullout/Wrap Section for “Go Goshen Go.” Additionally, the staff earned third place in the Newspaper of the Year for Division III.

SPRING | 3

Goshen College students and faculty, Foods Resource Bank representatives and local farmers from Ndeiya, Kenya, met at a local church to get to know one another before videoing and interviews began.

Students share stories across continents Ten students in the communication department traveled to Kenya during May term to document the work of Foods Resource Bank (FRB), which partners with Mennonite Central Committee, World Renew and other church relief organizations.

Goshen College Professor of Communication Pat Lehman and Kyle Hufford, assistant professor of communication, accompanied the group. Three staff members of the Foods Resource Bank – Bev Abma, Eric Mattson and Kelsey Day – also traveled with the class and coordinated the logistics.

The team of Goshen students planned to document the stories of two FRB sites through video, photography and writing for posting to the FRB website. After arriving in Nairobi on May 1, the group traveled to Ndeiya, about 40 minutes outside of the capital city, where FRB partners with World Renew and Anglican Development Services to assist farmers.

One group of students met and videotaped farmers who spoke of “farming God’s way” – by which they meant sustainable agriculture on small plots of land.

Lexi Kantz, a senior, wrote in her journal: While we were visiting our second location of the day in a town called Kamangu, I met a committee member and farmer named

4 | SPRING

Grace. She was an older Kenyan woman who had been working the land while suffering from diabetes that often left her bedridden. ...

Grace spoke only a couple words in English as her native language was Kiswahili. I began speaking with Grace and she opened up about her sickness and how after just a short time since (in March) the FRB had given her chickens, rabbits and goats to help sustain her farm for their manure as well as for their eggs and meat…she has been able to gain the strength to work in the field, has rid herself of insulin and no longer needs to walk with a cane. After our conversation Grace did what was culturally appropriate and shook my right hand and I asked her for a picture. She agreed and afterward gave me a huge hug. ... I will never forget this woman and her kind heart.

Other students interviewed women who formed a group to care for grandchildren whose parents have died from AIDS. They make baskets and purses from sisal to provide income for school fees and expenses. Two grandchildren have gone on to college.

Twila Albrecht, a junior, journaled about this group of women: Today we met with...grandmothers who spoke with us about being guardians for orphaned children. They are part of a self-help group called Tumaini, meaning “hope.” They also showed us how to make baskets out of beads and sisal.

DOCUMENTING WORK THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE Far left, Twila Albrecht talks with a woman who works with the Food Resource Bank (FRB) in Ndeiya, Kenya, and a local community member.

Above, students capture footage of several Masaai men in the Ngong Hills. Near left, Lexi Kantz and her friend Grace.

It is so inspiring to see these women working hard to empower other women in their community. They are eager to help each other and to expand their network. Lydia, one of the group members, said in her delicate English, “You being here, and seeing what we are doing, gives value to our life and work.” She further explained that having guests come to admire your work, shows other skeptical community members that what you are doing is working and is successful! Their faces lit up as they discussed future goals of expanding their group and reaching out to more children in the area.

From this group, I learned that women truly are the backbone of Kenyan society. (Although they don’t always seem to get a lot of recognition for all that they do.)

In the second week, students spent three days visiting several Masaai communities near Ngong Hills. Here they documented the changes facing many in the Masaai tribe who have now developed homesteads and an agricultural-based life rather than a traditionally pastoral, nomadic one. They visited a sand dam to understand and document how water can be made available to the community during the dry season. Students also watched as villagers made hay bales that can be stored to feed cows who no longer are able to roam freely – a zero grazing approach to feed cows year round.

Students met and interviewed women who make and sell beadwork for income. In one community a woman spoke to our group, an unusual event in this male-dominant society. “We have something here called gender equality,” one of the men told our group before she spoke. Lassane Ouedraogo, a senior from Burkina Faso, reflected on his experience with the Masaai people: This was the first time that a Masaai woman from the village was given the opportunity to speak in public with foreigners in the presence of the men. It took them a while to decide who would speak...and when they finally decided on the wife of the chief, she welcomed us and talked about the daily life of a Masaai woman.

What we learned from her is that Masaai women do most of the work in the community. Most of their daily life goes around taking care of the household and the cattle. Now, they have started to send their children to school and they have to do the tasks that were reserved to the children as well. To me, giving the speech to a woman here was so important because part of what FRB tries to do is to empower women. So, having foreigners with cameras give such attention to a woman was very important.

Read more at www.goshen.edu/blogs.

SPRING | 5

SETH CONLEY Seth Conley embarked on a second May term trip to Greece and Rome, following the footsteps of the Apostle Paul, to end the 2013-2014 acadmeic year. In this trip, he focused on capturing video related to a project on faith mentoring led by Bob Yoder.

He spent much of his summer with his family and catching up on projects around the house that sat idle while he finished his master’s degree coursework last summer.

Seth works part time as a fill-in news anchor for NBC affiliate WNDU in South Bend, Ind., and spent a few evenings this summer helping out in the newsroom. He also found time to fall in love with books on tape, learning more about history, politics, and broadcasting.

KYLE HUFFORD Kyle Hufford had a lot of firsts this last Spring semester. In April Kyle, along with colleagues Jason Samuel and Seth Conley, traveled to Las Vegas for the annual Broadcast Educators Association conference to present and moderate on 3 different panels. In the Spring semester, Kyle taught a new course, Advanced Pre-Production. During May term, he joined Pat Lehman in leading a cross-listed course in Kenya; Kyle taught a documentary film making component, in which six students enrolled. In the Fall of 2014, Kyle will teach an Advanced PostProduction class that will finish the stories captured in Kenya.

Over the summer, serving in his role as General Manager of FiveCore Media, Kyle and his staff will be producing twenty videos for the City of Goshen’s new “Good of Goshen” ad campaign.

PAT LEHMAN Pat Lehman co-taught the course “Practicing Public Relations With the Foods Resource Bank in Kenya” with Kyle Hufford in May term. Public Relations students interviewed individuals from two project sites in Kenya, one a partnership with World Renew and one a partnership with Mennonite Central Committee. On the return home, Pat stopped in Istanbul and spent four days exploring the city. This summer she plans to read novels and work on plans to take her play “Heavenly Voices” to Hesston

QUINN BRENNEKE, 2014 GRADUATE Internship: The Elkhart Truth “Some professionals stop working at the end of the day, but others never stop. A journalist is the kind of professional that never stops working because news always happens. During my internship at The Elkhart Truth, I found myself “working” even after I finished my shift. It was a unique experience that came with a healthy amount of challenges and successes.

Perhaps the best successes I experienced at The Truth were publishing several A1 centerpiece stories. Early in my internship, I also worked on Thursday evenings. When I walked into the newsroom one Thursday, my editor asked me to quickly jump in the car with a photographer because someone was waiting to talk to a reporter and for us to make it on time we had to leave right away. When I got in the car, I still had no idea of who I

6 | SPRING

College at the end of September for their Homecoming weekend.

JASON SAMUEL Jason Samuel traveled to Philadelphia in May to attend the annual Non-COMM Convention at the University of Pennsylvania and WXPN/World Cafe Studios. While there he attended programming seminars, interviewed several artists, including Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Ian McLagan and Goshen’s Tim Showalter, who tours under the pseudonym, Strand of Oaks. He also began preliminary research for a sabbatical.

The sabbatical began in May and continued in June at the Americana Music Association offices in Nashville, Tenn. Jason’s research was two-fold. First, he created profiles of Americana radio stations across the country, complete with a Google Maps document, for musicians to use as a touring and promotional resource. In addition, using 1,500 collected surveys, he cultivated demographic data profiling Americana music fans, using the theory of uses and gratification to better understand listeners.

Jason will travel back to Nashville in September to offer his findings at the 15th Annual American Music Association Music Festival and Conference. His research represents the most comprehensive prospectus on Americana Music since the association’s inception in 1999.

DUANE STOLTZFUS In the spring, Duane Stoltzfus spoke to a Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society audience about his book Pacifists in Chains: The Persecution of Hutterites during the Great War. The book was released by Johns Hopkins University Press in December. He also gave presentations at several Hutterite colonies in Manitoba; Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania; and the Bruderhof in New York State. He and John Roth are participating in planning for a conference to be held at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City in 2017. The conference is titled “Remembering Muted Voices: Conscience, Dissent, Resistance, and Civil Liberties in World War I Through Today.”

Duane and his wife, Karen, will serve as faculty directors for three SST units in Peru, beginning in fall 2014.

would talk to and what he would say. The photographer briefed me a little bit in the car and I found out that a man named Ed Neufeldt who had introduced Barack Obama when he spoke in Elkhart County would be removing his bracelets. I thought, “Why is this even a story?” But when I asked the photographer more questions, I found out that Neufeldt had vowed to wear three green bracelets until the unemployment rates in the United States, Indiana and Elkhart County fell below a certain point. ... Neufeldt became a local and national poster child for the unemployed during the recession of 2008. He had lost his job and struggled to find work at that time. Going to meet him, I had no idea how significant it was for him to remove his bracelets, but when the story landed on the front page of Sunday’s paper, I realized that I had been given a special opportunity.”

Quinn Brenneke, who graduated in May, is serving with Teach for America for the next two years.

Speech on ‘Welcome Table’ Wins PEACE Oratorical Contest In winning the C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest in February, Abby Deaton urged Goshen College to change its hiring policy with regard to LGBT applicants.

Deaton , a junior majoring in communication and American Sign Language, won the top prize of $500 and a chance to enter her speech in the bi-national intercollegiate oratorical contest.

Her speech, entitled “The Welcome Table: Discussing Goshen College’s Hiring Policy,” highlighted the college’s employment practice, which does not include the hiring of LGBT people in covenanted, same-sex relationships.

Deaton, a leader of GC Open Letter, a group of students, alumni and staff who are working to

change that position on hiring, called the campus community to open the doors to discussion.

“This is not just about money or enrollment; this is not just about theology or church practices,” Deaton said. “When you strip away the arguments, the complications, the reasons for or against, you are left with people. You are left with people who are talented and passionate. You are left with people who know and show God’s love.

You are left with people who are being left out.”

Martin Hofkamp, a senior majoring in peace, justice and conflict studies, was the runner-up for a speech on juveniles in adult prisons. Hofkamp drew on his own experiences working with incarcerated youth in Elkhart County.

Conley, students witness a life saved in Munich airport

BY BRIAN YODER SCHLABACH Somewhere in the world, there is a man who owes his life in part to Goshen College students. Call it a coincidence, call it fate or call it divine intervention. Whatever you call it, the students were fortunately in the right place at the right time.

On May 1, not long into the second leg of their flight to Thessaloniki, Greece, for a May Term class to study the Apostle Paul and the ancient church, a flight carrying 30 Goshen College students and faculty made an emergency landing due to a technical issue. The students and other passengers disembarked in Munich, Germany, and learned that a cracked windshield was responsible for the unplanned stopover.

Frustrated and jet-lagged, the group gathered in the terminal for a long layover until the next available flight to Greece.

A Goshen College student noticed that a man nearby had collapsed.

“As he was motionless on the floor of the airport I could tell that he was in bad shape,” said Seth Conley, associate professor of communication and a coleader of the class. “I saw that his face was beyond blue, it was deathly gray and still. One or two people stood and stared down at him but really didn’t appear to know how to help.”

“Another man...tried to find a pulse in his neck and said to me, ‘It’s done,’ then he walked on,” Conley added.

But it wasn’t done. Panicked, Conley ran around the corner to a group of Goshen College students, asking if they knew CPR. Molly Malone and Julianna Tennefoss, both education majors who had recently completed CPR training, jumped up to help.

“They appeared fearless,” Conley said.

Malone, a 2014 graduate, and Tennefoss, a senior, ran around the corner and to the spot where the man lay lifeless.

Malone began compressions and Tennefoss called for an AED machine. As luck would have it, a third student, Brett Conrad, had noticed one in the airport earlier and sprinted to grab it.

Paramedics took over and eventually took him – alive and talking – to a hospital.

The students never learned his identity.

As the group resumed their wait, Conley couldn’t help but wonder if there was a reason the group ended up in Munich.

“Did God allow us to be diverted to give this man a chance at life? Did God allow our education majors trained in CPR to be there at that place and that exact moment for that purpose?”

SPRING | 7

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2014 GRADUATING SENIORS The Goshen College Department of Communication congratulates the graduating seniors of 2014. A special reception for graduates and their families as well as a department get-together brought opportunities to celebrate together, to honor collegiate achievement and to share plans for the coming months and year. Back row left to right: Ezra Ocubamichael, Elizabeth Core, Isaac Fast, Quinn Brenneke,

Stuart Graber, Alex Matthews, Professor of Communication Pat Lehman, Tony Miller, Jerron Jamerson, Benjie Aguilera, Lassane Ouedraogo and Logan Miller.

Front row left to right: Lauren Weaver, Maryn Munley, Kate Stoltzfus, Lexi Kantz, Kelley Scholfield and Angie Troyer. (Not Pictured: Natasha Weisenbeck, Andrew Witkowski.)

Crossing miles and years, speech champ conveys thanks A national collegiate speech champion, Ronald Krikac, paid an unexpected visit to Goshen College in May – 54 years after his victory.

Krikac was a freshman in college in South Dakota in 1960 when he entered the speech contest of the Intercollegiate Peace Association, founded by Goshen College, Bluffton College and Earlham College.

Krikac delivered the speech on the stage in South Dakota, where he won in the preliminary round. He then sent the tape

8 | SPRING

to Goshen College where he was judged the national winner in the extemporaneous division, as confirmed in a letter sent by Roy Umble, the longtime Goshen College professor of speech and theater.

Krikac went on to become a professor of speech himself, most recently at Sheridan College in Wyoming. Over the years, he said, he had a warm spot in his heart for Goshen College but had never visited the campus or even been in direct contact with Umble or any other professors here.

Then in May, he was in nearby Michigan visiting friends. They drove him south to Goshen where he took an hourlong tour of the campus, including a stop at the Umble Center, where he saw the stage for the current peace oratorical competition.

Before leaving, Krikac, who is retired, made a generous donation to the C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest fund.

“It was a great thrill, after more than 50 years, finally to see the school and to extend a thank you,” he said.