president’s message The Mission Thing Bad title. Mission is the point, and a phrase that sounds dismissive— a la “Oh, yeah. Can’t forget the mission thing”—is madness. It’s like saying “dude” when you meet the Dalai Lama. Mission demands respect. You’ll see a good bit about mission in this issue. I fret about mission imperfection—ideals outrunning performance—but I’m also proud of what we accomplish. And I’m proud, too, of how our sense of mission spills so easily into daily conversation. As I wrote this letter, I got another sign of this. I told the faculty, staff and board about what happened recently in Tennessee. Kettering’s sponsoring faith is the Seventh-day Adventist Church; in March, leaders of Adventist colleges got together to ask: “What would the ideal graduate of one of our schools look like?” The conversation was high-minded. The ideal graduate, they said, should “practice the Way of Christ.” How? By God’s “grace.” And also through careful thinking, “wholeness” of life and “educated servant leadership in community and congregation.”
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The list went on. The ideal graduate pursues truth, lives an authentic life and embraces “compassion, peacemaking and the stewardship of God’s creation”; takes time for holy rest; makes hope the “basis for witness and action.” Whew! Couldn’t graduates aspire to something easier? Like staying sober before breakfast, or telling the truth for ten minutes?
Back at KCMA, I asked for comments. The first person to respond—a teacher whose faith is not Seventh-day Adventist—said, “I wouldn’t change a thing.” Many, including the first responder, made qualifying comments, either to draw out further implications or to say how challenging it would be to make good on such an ideal. That last was satisfying, too. If it’s dumb to be unmindful of mission, it’s also dumb to be dreamy about it. You have to make the mission happen. What came out of the meeting in Tennessee was “provisional”—a draft, not something to carve into stone. It was the start of the conversation, not the end. I think the same of our College’s official mission statement. Our statement says we’ll graduate “health care professionals of high character” who reflect the spirit of “the Master Healer.” Someday, the college will think of a better way, I suppose, to express its purpose. Meanwhile, the implications of the statement—and the challenge to living up to it— should occupy us every day. So think of the mission-related words you read in these pages as part of a never-ending conversation. This is not just “the mission thing.” It’s the point. It’s why we matter.
DR. CHARLES SCRIVEN, PRESIDENT
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EDITOR Mindy Claggett ASSISTANT EDITOR Cheryl Kennison CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Julie Thompson, Charles Scriven, Vail McGuire, Joyce Grube, Pamela Wilson, Teresa Simmons, Sharon Millard. Photos Lee Ann Yahle, Jay Herndon, Bella Photographics, C. Gatland Photography, Amy Moretta, Michael Henry, Paula Reams, Kettering College Archives, Larry Becker. Feature story photos provided by Jenna Erwin. Physician assistant graduation photos (Page 9) courtesy of Christopher Kies. KCMA Baby Boom photos (Page 16) provided by the children’s families. © 2008 JupiterImages Corporation (Front cover, Pages 6-8, Page 12, Pages 14-15, IBC). PRINTING Mound Printing Kettering College of Medical Arts is a fully accredited coeducational college that specializes in health science education. A division of Kettering Medical Center, the College is located on the KMC campus in a suburb of Dayton, Ohio, and is chartered by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. An institution of Christian higher education, Kettering College graduates health care professionals of high character who, in the tradition of the Master Healer, give whole-person care to their patients and generous service to their communities.
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degree in nursing. She earned her A Kettering College alum, masters in nursing administration Rachel Goss joined the medical from Wright State University in sonography faculty as a full-time instructor for the obstetrics and gynecology modality in April, > Rachel Goss > Denise Sekerak after spending fall semester as an adjunct faculty member. Goss brought to KCMA four years of experience in obstetrics sonography, including three- and four-dimensional diagnosis while working in the high-risk perinatal department at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Goss earned her associate’s degree in medical sonography from Kettering College in 2004 and followed that with her bachelor’s degree in sonography in 2005. She is engaged to marry Edward Moutoux in > Robert “Joe” Spears > Mike > Jeb Sheidler September. After spending seven 2002. Sekerak is married to Ken, years as an adjunct and part-time and the couple has three children member of the nursing faculty, – Stacey, Jordan and Drew. Denise Sekerak became a full-time An assistant professor in the associate professor during winter physician assistant program, Jeb semester. Her primary responsibility Sheidler came to Kettering College at Kettering College is to act as after spending nine years as the coordinator for both the “Troopschief physician assistant at the to-Nurses” and the Grandview Orthopaedic Institute of Ohio in Medical Center “LPN-to-RN” Lima. Sheidler initially earned his programs. bachelor’s degree in zoology from Before coming to KCMA fullMiami University in 1987, then time, Sekerak spent seven years at went on to receive his associate’s Quaker Heights Nursing Home in degree in physician assistant studies Waynesville, Ohio, including six from Kettering College in 1991. as a nursing supervisor. She also He earned his Master of Physician worked at Deaconess Hospital in Assistant Studies from the Cincinnati for two years in case University of Nebraska in 2004. management. Sheidler lives in Lima with his Sekerak is a 1992 graduate of wife Sarah, who is a general Kettering College’s associate surgeon, and his two-year-old degree in nursing program and son, Andrew. a 1997 graduate from Miami University with her bachelor’s
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Robert “Joe” Spears became part of the physician assistant faculty in December, after spending eight years as an assistant professor in the PA program at the University of Findlay. He also taught in the physician assistant program at College of West Virginia (now Mountain State University) in Beckley, W.V., from 1998-99. A retired lieutenant, Spears was a PA while serving in the U.S. Navy for 22 years. Spears earned a bachelor’s degree in health science from George Washington University in Unterseher Washington, D.C., in 1990, and followed that with a bachelor’s degree in physician assistant from George Washington in 1994. He received his Master of Physician Assistant Studies from the University of Nebraska in 1998. Spears and his wife, Patti, have been married for 30 years and have nine children. The newest member of the Kettering College staff is Mike Unterseher, who joined Enrollment Services as a new recruiter in January. Unterseher was a recruiting intern, then associate director for recruitment at Walla Walla (Wash.) University before coming to KCMA. Unterseher earned his bachelor’s in business administration, with an emphasis in marketing, from Walla Walla in 2006. He and his wife Emily were married in May.
campus notes Second Annual Recruiting Event Another Success During the first weekend of April, Kettering College hosted 40 students and sponsors for “MedKamp,” a program tailored for prospective Adventist students, designed to give interested students and their parents a taste of what life is like at Kettering College. Positive feedback encouraged the MedKamp committee for next year’s event: “I really had a great experience here and would do it again and would definitely tell a friend about it,” one student said. “I thought everyone involved was very nice and informative. I felt very at home here. Thanks for such a great time. Dayton Dragons rule!” Opening night on Sunday featured the game show-style trivia game “ThinkFast!” Monday included Red Cross first aid certification for students and a college information session for sponsors in the morning, followed by a brief period of worship. After a pizza luncheon, everyone was divided into small groups and given “career tours” of academic programs and their individual skills labs. A pasta dinner that evening preceded a trek downtown to Fifth Third Field for opening night with the Dayton Dragons baseball team. On Tuesday morning, the highlight of the event’s “farewell meeting” was the giveaway of several prizes, including an iPod and multiple Kettering College scholarships. After lunch together, everyone went their separate ways, with many attendees declaring their intention to spread the word about this www.kcma.edu/medkamp yearly event.
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New Academic Dean Joins Administrative Team In March, College president Charles Scriven announced that William “W.G.” Nelson, Jr., will become the school’s new dean for academic affairs. He is slated to arrive on campus in July. Dr. Nelson comes to Kettering College after spending the last six years as a professor in the graduate School of Education at La Sierra University in Riverside, Calif. Since 2006, he also has chaired the university’s Department of Administration and Leadership. Prior to his term at La Sierra, Dr. Nelson was president of Walla Walla (Wash.) College from 1994-2001. From 1988-94, he served in various positions, most recently as vice president for academic administration, at Southwestern Adventist University in Keene, Texas. During the 1980s, he was principal at Shenandoah Valley Academy in
New Market, Va.; at Indiana Academy in Cicero, Ind.; and at Mile High Academy in Denver, Colo. “I was much impressed by Kettering College’s spirit of place during my visit there,” said Dr. Nelson. “It is clear to me that it is a positive educational and health care environment where good things are happening. I look forward to the opportunity of working with President Scriven and KCMA’s faculty, staff, students and administrative team, as we chart a strategic direction for the college’s future.” After obtaining his bachelor’s degree in history at Atlantic Union College in South Lancaster, Mass., in 1972, Dr. Nelson went on to earn his master’s in education at Worcester (Mass.) State College in 1978. He received his doctorate in education from Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., in 1993. “Dr. Nelson inspires people,” said Dr. Scriven. “He knows leadership is about getting things done. He will keep us on the ‘Journey to Better’ that is our legacy as a Kettering institution.” Dr. Nelson fills the vacancy left by Dr. Norman Wendth, who became president of Atlantic Union College last year.
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allow faculty members to remain at one bed while instructing an entire class, ensuring continuity of training. The space also features a medications room that will help students learn how to pull medications and prepare them for patients. Nursing students practice their skills on the lab’s new mannequins before entering their clinical rotations.
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On Tuesday, Jan. 29, Kettering College of Medical Arts celebrated the opening and dedication of the Anna May Vaughan Center for Nursing Education. Named in honor of longtime nursing faculty member and college benefactor Anna May Vaughan, the new center contains a state-of-theart nursing skills lab as well as meeting spaces and faculty offices. The $630,000 center features such technology as virtual IV, computerized charting and interactive mannequins that can mimic symptoms of real-life patients. More than twice the size of the original nursing skills lab, built in the 1960s, the center is set up to imitate an emergency department, with each bed space providing the same amenities found in a hospital, including suction and oxygen. Cameras and monitors placed at each station
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“Twenty-seven years ago, we clustered in our tiny skills lab around a bed to learn basic care, using ourselves as surrogate patients,” said 1972 Kettering College alumna and registered nurse Beverly Cobb, Ph.D., director of KCMA’s Division of Nursing. “Years later, we have sophisticated mannequins with electronic parts, IV pumps and electronic monitors of all kinds. I feel like we’ve come full circle as I watch our students cluster in small groups in the lab. The goal is still the same–to become nurses who effectively meet human needs–physical, emotional and spiritual.” Cherie Rebar, a 1995 Kettering alumna and chair of the Associate of Science nursing program, said the difference is astronomical. “I feel like we were in the Stone Age and have moved up with the Jetsons–that’s how far we’ve come in this move,” Rebar said. “We’ve gone from the 1960s to tomorrow overnight–that’s in our ability to practice, to teach, and to inspire students to become nurses. We’ve always had the people; now we have the place.” Students have appreciated the well-supplied and well-equipped lab.
Brenda Stevenson was instrumental in the nursing education center planning before her retirement last year.
“It has everything we could need,” said first-year nursing student Dawn Parton. “I haven’t come across anything I’ve needed that hasn’t been there.” Anna May Vaughan, a pioneer in international nursing mission service in Africa and the Far East, was one of the founders of Kettering College. She also was the first director of an academic nursing degree in the greater Dayton area and was instrumental in developing the curriculum that led to the creation of Kettering College of Medical Arts. Bearing Vaughan’s name, the center is a monument to its namesake’s spirit and leadership. Vaughan’s legacy includes the founding of the two-year academic nursing degree and providing professional structure for other allied health careers.
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enna Erwin will probably always remember her first patient. Alice was just 2 weeks old when Erwin was assigned to her care. Alice was recovering from an eye injury and required round-the-clock assistance. Erwin spent nearly all her time with Alice, feeding her every three hours and even taking her for walks on occasion. It wasn’t too hard of a job. After all, this was just the type of situation Erwin prepared for in nursing school. Or maybe not. In this situation, Erwin’s work wasn’t done in a hospital, but in the wide-open spaces of South Africa. Her little, precious patient wasn’t a girl, but a baby lion. Erwin’s time with Alice was one of many things she did while volunteering at Seaview Game & Lion Park near Port Elizabeth, South Africa, earlier this year. The four-week adventure came on the heels of Erwin’s December 2007 graduation from Kettering College and just prior to her start date as a nurse in the emergency department of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. The trip was a reward for
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Erwin, who put herself through nursing school by working up to 40 hours a week as a supervisor at UPS. It also was an opportunity to return to one of her first loves: animals. “I always had a lot of animals,” Erwin said. “I wanted to do something with animals when I grew up, but then I realized how much help people need, too. I thought that I could go into [nursing] and when I had free time, help with animals.” Erwin researched exciting places to volunteer with animals and quickly came upon Seaview. The idea was to have a once-in-a-lifetime experience and then return home to start her new role as an ER nurse. Before long, Erwin learned that her work at the park wasn’t much different from being a nurse in the States, and that Africa would become a part of her forever
Out of America Erwin had never left the United States before boarding her plane for Seaview. A lifelong resident of Dayton, Erwin graduated from Fairmont High School in Kettering and decided to attend
Kettering College. The idea to leave that world behind was both exciting and uncertain, she said. Within half a day, her plane ride would transport her to a whole new world. Established in 1975, Seaview sits on the Eastern Cape’s sunshine coast just west of Port Elizabeth’s city center. The park’s 300 acres offer unique close-up viewing of more than 40 species including giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, and monkeys. The park’s main attraction is its lions — particularly its white lions. One of the park’s main purposes is to create a second gene pool to breed healthy white lions and conserve the rare species. Erwin worked alongside volunteers from Brazil, England, Denmark and Norway. These 20 volunteers became friends as they worked together and enjoyed pockets of time sitting by the ocean and taking in the nearby nightlife. “You kind of help with whatever the park ranger is doing at the time,” Erwin said. “Every day was a new challenge.” A lot of the work was routine maintenance, like helping to pick up animal carcasses from local KETTERING COLLEGE OF MEDICAL ARTS
farms to feed to the park’s animals or clearing roads that had been blocked. “We got our hands dirty, that’s for sure,” she said. Then there were the jobs that tugged at the heartstrings. She witnessed the births of two giraffes. Once, she had to keep a zebra from frightening a baby giraffe who was nursing.
Playing the Lion’s Advocate Perhaps one of Erwin’s most treasured times at the park was nurturing, feeding and protecting the young white lions. Alice, Nicco and Sultin were just a few of the lions that she formed a bond with. Like human babies, each one took on its own personality and gravitated toward the volunteers like they were their primary caregivers. After feeding the lions every three hours and guiding them on safe walks, Erwin wasn’t surprised by the connection. The cuddly cubs would often find their ways into volunteer laps to take a bottle or to rest for a while. “You would get so attached to them like they were your own PACESETTER Spring/Summer ’08
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babies,” Erwin said. It was in her relationship with the cubs that Erwin saw her nursing training come out. One of her duties while working with the cubs was to help the visiting public handle them. Her ability to properly communicate to different age groups and cultures became very important in order to keep the lions from overstimulation. “I had to be an advocate for the lions,” Erwin said. “It’s not that different from being a nurse. You have to be an advocate for people. These lions would become anxious and stop eating when they had too many handlings.” Erwin’s top priority was to know her lions and to be able to read them. She then had to translate their needs to people who were sometimes very excited to be so close to them. “I had to be friendly but get my point across,” she said. Patient advocacy is perhaps one of the most important parts of nursing, said Cherie Rebar, chair of the Associate of Science nursing program at Kettering College. “It is the crux of what nursing is all about,” she said. “We teach the students communication and patient advocacy from the very first class.” Rebar said she was not surprised to hear Erwin could take what she learned in nursing school and use it on an African animal reserve. “Jenna is one of those people who make good use of all the material she learns,” Rebar said.
for Africa and her new friends. Describing her experience to friends and family at home, however, proved difficult. “I told my mom that, no matter how well I tell it, words and pictures would never describe the experience that I had,” she said.“I can’t explain the beauty that was there, every day being able to walk up to giraffes and zebras and then looking out at the ocean.” Erwin returned to a new life waiting in the wings. Prior to leaving on her trip, she had secured a job as an ER nurse at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital— a job she knew she wanted when she did her pediatric rotation in an intensive care unit. “I loved it there,” she said. “I got to see families when they were in their most horrible times. I got to make a difference in their life, and I wanted to be a part of that.” She also was drawn to pediatrics because she loves working with children. They’re playful, she said, just like—that’s right — lions. She’s excited to begin a new chapter in Cincinnati, but she is eager to return to Africa. “It’s a part of me now,” she said. “My mom said, ‘I know you just can’t wait to get back there.’ And I said, ‘You know it.’”
Returning to a New Life Leaving Seaview was one of the hardest things Erwin has ever done. “I cried the entire way home,” Erwin said. “I really did get attached to the lions. It’s terrible because you want to still be able to get updates and pictures of them.” She also developed an affection
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First Master’s Degrees Granted Nineteen physician assistant students made Kettering College history on Dec. 15, earning the institution’s first master’s degrees. Faculty, staff, family and friends gathered at Dayton’s Mandalay Banquet Center to celebrate the graduation of the first master’s-level class. After dinner together, the formal ceremony featured special achievement awards, followed by a brief message from former Kettering College PA professor Scott Massey. The administration and faculty introduced and hooded the graduates, then participated in pledges and prayers of dedication. Founded in 1973, the physician assistant program at Kettering College is one of the oldest academic departments at the school. It has advanced from offering associate’s degrees to certificates and bachelor’s degrees and is the first program at the school to grant master’s degrees. The December graduates, along with 27 others who completed their master’s degrees this spring, were formally acknowledged at the school’s 40th annual commencement ceremonies on April 26.
Where are they now? >> Members of Kettering College’s first master’s class have found employment in more than 10 specialties and are spread across the United States. Some of them include:
NAME Marlise Botelho Elizabeth Diem Amanda Disbennet Sarah (Pugar) Dooley Sarah Franks Mark Gooding Christopher Grimm Gary Hackett Jeffrey Holtz Yvonne Luneke Elizabeth MacIvor Mary Pfiester Vanessa (Salgado) Rogers Melissa Smith Nivia Varela
SPECIALTY Gastroenterology Emergency medicine General surgery Neurology Family practice Internal medicine Emergency medicine Orthopedics Neurosurgery Infectious disease Emergency medicine Orthopedics Dermatology Internal medicine Plastic surgery
LOCATION Kettering, Ohio Kettering, Ohio Lancaster, Ohio Port Orange, Fla. Eaton, Ohio Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati, Ohio Crestview, Ky. Cincinnati, Ohio Dayton, Ohio Lancaster, Ohio Cincinnati, Ohio Las Cruces, N.M. Greensboro, N.C. Modesto, Calif.
Information current as of April 1, 2008.
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in a community founded by former slaves after On Saturday, April 26, Nelson Award winner Angela the Civil War. He shared how this tight-knit Kettering College of Medical Mason (right) community not only looked after each other, Arts conferred degrees and but looked after health care needs as well. His certificates on a record number upbringing ultimately guided him to a life that of 294 students at the school’s has been dedicated to serving the underserved. 40th annual commencement Jackson challenged the graduates to be ceremonies. thankful for the gifts and talents God has given The event, held at James S. and to use them to help change the world. He Trent Arena in Kettering, also encouraged them to be willing to look featured keynote speaker Alvin within their hearts and to provide a glimmer Jackson, M.D., director of the of hope for those who are less fortunate. Ohio Department of Health. During the The class eclipsed the previous conferral of degrees, record of 237 set in 2007, Keynote speaker Dr. Alvin Jackson the College marking the third president granted consecutive 193 Associate of record-setting Science degrees in graduating class. the following areas: Among the nursing (121), evening’s highlights radiologic technolwere the presentations ogy (23), medical of the George B. sonography (19), Nelson Award and respiratory care t h e Margaret L. (19) and nuclear Rodenburg medicine (11). The Graduate Scholar following certificates Award to Angela of completion were Mason (medical granted: magnetic sonography) and Franklin Baker resonance imaging (physician assistant), respectively. (9), computed Named after the founding tomography (1) president of Kettering Medical and general Center, the Nelson Award is angiography (1). given to the associate’s or The College bachelor’s graduate who most awarded 43 exemplifies the spirit and practice Rodenburg Award winner bachelor’s degrees, of the College’s mission. Presented Franklin Baker (right) including the first this year for the first time, the seven of the new Rodenburg Award recognizes a Bachelor of Science in human biology. Twenty-one master’s-level graduate for achieving excellence in Bachelor of Science in Health Professions degrees scholarship and professional growth, for providing were awarded in the following specialties: health care compassionate Christian service, for demonstrating professional studies (8), medical sonography (7) and leadership and an interest in his or her profession advanced imaging (6). Fifteen Bachelor of Science in that exceeds customary academic requirements, and Nursing degrees were presented as well. for commitment to quality and lifelong learning. Most notable was the commencement of 46 Nominations for both awards are made by the students from the school’s first-ever graduate academic department chairs. program, the Master of Physician Assistant Studies. Jackson’s address, “Let Your Light Shine,” reflected on his life growing up in the South
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College Faculty and Staff Mark End of School Year with Assembly and Special Awards During the College’s annual spring general assembly on April 11, faculty and staff celebrated Kettering College of Medical Arts’ 40th anniversary and received honors for their service. Approximately 100 faculty and staff gathered in the College gymnasium for a buffet breakfast. They welcomed new employees, received updates on committee actions for the academic year and congratulated the recipients of the Staff Excellence Award and the Faculty Excellence Award. This year’s Staff Excellence Award winner was Linda King, office assistant for the nursing program. Dr. Paul DeLange, chair of the arts and sciences program, received the Faculty Excellence Award. Winners, selected by their peers, must exhibit excellence in their professions; Christian caring both on and off the job; compassionate communication style; and collegiality in support of the College as a whole. Following the meeting, each faculty and staff member received a golf umbrella imprinted with the 40th anniversary seal. This celebration was the last in a series of celebratory programming planned and coordinated by the 40th anniversary committee. Other programming included a birthday party on Sept. 17, 2007, marking the exact day the College opened in 1967; a series of events during Alumni Weekend 2007; and a section of the College Web site dedicated to the college’s history, http://www. kcma.edu/40th.
Faculty and Staff Excellence Award Winners year
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Bev Ervin Larry Beneke Joan Ulloth Ken Millard Randi Quale Marsha Purtee Paul DeLange
Robin Vanderbilt Robert Reeder Jackie Ravine Diane Beneke Stella Freeman Sue Dalton Linda King
(Names of winners prior to 2001-02 unavailable. If you can help us complete our list, please e-mail the Pacesetter staff at pacesetter@kcma.edu.)
Faculty Excellence Award Paul DeLange, Ph.D. Chair, Arts and Sciences
Paul’s wife, Julie, used to teach here, but when she left, Margaret Rodenburg, then chair of arts and sciences, hired Paul in order to have a DeLange on faculty. I had Paul for microbiology. He was one of the hardest teachers I ever had. Even though I am not in health care, I remember a lot of what he taught, especially the practical things. He is also greatly appreciated by the students as well as faculty and staff. — Award presenter Teresa Simmons, assistant professor, Learning Commons
Staff Excellence Award Linda King Administrative Assistant, Nursing
I was so delighted to be able to introduce the recipient of the Staff Excellence Award this year. Words I would use to describe Linda include—and I don’t think I would get a fight out of anyone here about these: • • • • •
Gracious and caring Cool, calm, collected and so tactful Creative, organized and productive Collaborative—a wonderful team player Committed to the College, to students and to colleagues
Congratulations to Linda, my wonderful friend and colleague. — Award presenter Sharon Millard, Ph.D., chair, Bachelor of Science in Nursing program
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We hear from many of our alumni each year, and over the past few years, a pattern has emerged—a pattern of interests, concerns, desires, needs. Well, we’ve listened to those patterns and re-created the Kettering College of Medical Arts Alumni Association. We think you’ll be happy because it’s for you, formed by ideas from you. We’ve even created a new tagline, Connecting for Life, to illustrate our commitment to serving our graduates throughout their lives. Following are some of the new ideas and directions we are headed. Thanks for your input. Now we can’t wait to connect with you. RELEVANT SOCIAL EVENTS: You’re busy. You want to reconnect with fellow classmates and instructors, but you have to prioritize. We’re planning relevant social activities: CEU opportunities with fun thrown in; family events so you don’t need a babysitter; continued workplace gatherings; and arts and entertainment events with your KCMA friends.
MORE DEPARTMENTAL EVENTS: Yes, you are proud of your class year, but you’d love to get together with other program classmates. Now we’ll offer you opportunities to reconnect and network with program classmates, like the nursing conference in May and the upcoming respiratory and ultrasound events scheduled for fall 2008. Watch for other events in 2009 and spring 2010.
LARGER NUMBERS AT ALUMNI WEEKEND: Many of you travel a long way for Alumni Weekend. We want to make sure it’s worth your efforts, so we are going to hold Alumni Weekend on a rotating basis. The next one will be in the fall of 2010. If you would like a large turnout from your class year, start planning now. You can start by calling the alumni office to get a class list and making a few phone calls now.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR INVOLVEMENT WITH LESS COMMITMENT: So you want to be an active participant in the Alumni Association, but you didn’t want to commit three years to serving on the board of directors. Now you can make a difference by serving on the alumni advisory council with a one-year commitment and as few as three meetings during the year. Contact Cheryl in the alumni relations office.
WAYS TO STAY IN TOUCH WITH GRADUATES: How about a secure online community just for Kettering College alumni and former and present faculty and staff? You will be able to share news, search for jobs and stay in touch in a simple and safe way. Look for more details in your mailbox later this year.
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alumni news Nursing Program and Alumni Association Host Continuing Education Event ^ Nursing faculty Anne Grogan-Ryan and Jan Bruns
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Joyce Pennington, nursing faculty, with Katie Lochtefeld, a 1995 graduate
^ Marianne Kowalchuk, a 1976 graduate, with Sandy Popovich, who graduated in 1977.
The Kettering College Alumni Association and the nursing program recently partnered to offer the first departmental alumni event. “Rebuilding Your Nursing Curriculum to Reflect Today’s Practice Reality,” a two-day conference featuring dynamic national speaker Donna “Iggy” Ignatavicius, MS, RN, ANEF, drew more than 50 alumni, faculty and staff May 14-15. Attendees said they enjoyed the opportunity to reconnect with alumni and nursing faculty and to continue the journey of education. Ignatavicius is nationally recognized as an expert in nursing education and medical-surgical/gerontological nursing with 35 years of experience as an educator, clinical nurse specialist, and nursing administrator. She has presented more than 2,000 workshops in 49 states in the past eight years. She is the author of a number of articles and books, including Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking for Collaborative Care, 5th ed. (2006) with Linda Workman. In 2007, she was inducted as a fellow into the Academy of Nursing Education for her contributions to the field of nursing education (ANEF).
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Presented by the nursing program and supported by the Alumni Association, the event included two full days of presentations, refreshment breaks, networking luncheons and a dessert reception sponsored by the Kettering Medical Center Foundation, all at no cost to attendees. Attendees learned a variety of skills including how to move from a disease-based model to a nursing care model; the importance of using new pedagogies in a student-centered curriculum; and how to apply quality and safety competencies into clinical, classroom, and simulation experiences. Those able to attend the full conference received 12 hours of continuing education credit.
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alumni news New Alumni Day at the Dayton Dragons More than 100 graduates from the Class of 2008 joined their friends and family members at Fifth Third Field on Monday, May 5, for a Dayton Dragons game to celebrate their academic achievements. The graduates’ first alumni event provided a great opportunity to reconnect with classmates in a relaxed social setting a few weeks after graduation. The Dayton Dragons, a minor-league baseball team, celebrated with the alumni, providing each with a Dragons hat and recognizing them in the game program, on the video board and over the PA system. Several program chairs and college administrators also attended the game. Brandon Kennison, college recruiter, threw out the game’s ceremonial first pitch. This event marks the second “New Alumni Day” sponsored by the Alumni Association.
AROUND THE WORLD WITH KETTERING COLLEGE Would you be interested in an alumni travel program? Your alumni association needs your input. Please take a few moments to answer a brief 13-question survey. Visit www.kcma.edu/Alumni/survey. Those who respond by July 31 will be entered into a drawing for a Kettering College sweatshirt.
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Kent Spuehler ’73 lives in Denver, where he is the chief financial officer for CollegeInvest. His e-mail is kjscpa@msn.com. Kay (Daugharthy) Newcombe ’76 works for Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital in Richmond, Va., as a nursing manager in behavioral health. Prior to this position, she worked in emergency medicine as a shift supervisor and in radiology as a lead nurse. She has two sons, ages 28 and 25, and one 4-year-old grandson. Kay writes that she remains an avid hockey fan thanks to the late Don Martin. Her e-mail is hakay@earthlink.net.
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Tiffiny (Chesley) Miller ’85 moved “home” after graduating and began her nursing career at Frederick Memorial Hospital in Frederick, Md., where still works after 23 years. She lives in Frederick with her husband, Craig. Roger Streidl ’85 lives in Beavercreek, Ohio, and a certified biomedical equipment technician in clinical engineering at Grandview Medical Center in the Kettering Health Network. His e-mail is rstreidl@hotmail.com. Andrew Bair ’87 lives in Moses Lake, Wash., where he is the vice president for patient care and chief nursing officer for Samaritan Hospital. He and his wife, Robin, are proud of their daughter, Brittany, who will be graduating in 2008 from Kettering College’s radiologic technology program. His e-mail is abair@samaritanhealthcare.com.
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Steven Kinzer ’92 is a physician assistant for Freiberg Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. He and his wife, Janie, live in Cincinnati. His e-mail is skinzer@cinci.rr.com. Noella Audain ’93 att. completed her master’s in physical therapy from Andrews University in 1996 after taking prerequisite classes at Kettering College. Noella lives and works in South Carolina. Roland Fisher ’95 lives in Covington, Ohio, and works for Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton on the IV therapy/ PICC team as an RN/CRNI. Roland lives on his family farm and writes that he
class notes enjoys his time spent with friends and all 69 of his family members. He says God has richly blessed him.
He lives in Galt, Calif., with his wife, Amber. Philip’s e-mail is xfltmdc@msn.com.
David Collins ’96 att married his wife, Lavinia, on March 4, 2007. They are moving to Romania to begin a ministry based on Matthew 25 and will be working with abandoned children and orphans. His e-mail is davidcollinsalm@gmail.com.
Savannah (Selby) Woolums ’04 was married on Oct. 13, 2007. She and her husband, Aaron, live in Hamilton, Ohio, where Savannah is a nuclear medicine technologist at McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital. Her e-mail is swoolums@mhmh.org.
Crystal Sark ’96 is an assistant director of nursing for Whetstone Gardens Care and Rehabilitation Center, a 260-bed facility in Columbus, Ohio. She earned her BSN in 1989 from Southern Adventist University. Crystal has a 4-year-old daughter, Hannah Rose. Her e-mail is friendinprayer@hotmail.com.
Rachel (Becher) Albert ’05 works at Kettering Medical Center-Sycamore as a charge RN. She and her husband, Benjamin, were married on Oct. 20, 2007.
Heather (Truxal) Zentner ’97 lives in Fairborn, Ohio, with her husband, Jeffrey, and their two children, Abigail, 2, and Tyler, 1. She works for Dayton Children’s Medical Center. Heather’s e-mail is hzentner424@yahoo.com.
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Peter Compton ’00 is an emergency medicine physician assistant at Magruder Hospital in Port Clinton, Ohio. He and his wife, Tracy, live in Troy, Ohio, with their son, Kyle, 2. Peter’s e-mail is phcompton@verizon.net. Echo (Tuinstra) VanderWal ’00 and her husband, Harry, use their education as a physician assistant and medical doctor to do medical relief work in Africa with the Luke Commission (www.lukecommission.org). Echo’s e-mail is vanderwal@lukecommission.org.
Chris McKinney ’05 is a lead radiologic technologist at the Mayfield Clinic Spine Surgery Center. He and his wife, Paula, live in West Carrollton, Ohio. Paul Savard ’05 and his wife, Angela, live in Fairborn, Ohio. Paul is a physician assistant for Health Specialists of Dayton. Paul’s e-mail is airwolf.paul@gmail.com. Alexandra Craig ’06 is an RN for Mercy Hospital Fairfield in Fairfield, Ohio. She lives in Hamilton, Ohio. Amanda (Mears) Friedlander ’06 and her husband, Adam, were married Oct. 20, 2007. They live in Clayton, Ohio. Amanda is an RN at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton. Amanda’s e-mail is jopink127@yahoo.com.
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Shoshanna (Matthiesen) Egbert ’01 was married in 2003 to her husband, Nathan, in Grand Junction, Colo. After working as a traveling nurse for three years, Shoshanna works for St. Charles Medical Center in Redmond, Ore. Her e-mail is wa_native@yahoo.com. Nicole (Cobb) Garver ’02 is a respiratory therapist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She was married Sept. 26, 2004, to her husband, Jamie. They live in Franklin, Ohio, and have one son, who turns 2 in August. Philip DaVisio ’04 is a physician assistant and allied health site director for Valley Emergency Physicians in Stockton, Calif. KETTERING COLLEGE OF MEDICAL ARTS
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Baby Boom From October 2006 to January 2008, eight babies were born
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to 10 Kettering College faculty and staff members. Two of the babies were even born on the same day! Must be something in the water‌ 1 Hayden Kennison son of Cheryl (alumni relations director) and Brandon Kennison (recruiter) Oct. 16, 2006 2 Jillian Burdick daughter of Jack (chief business officer) and Jeneane Burdick July 8, 2007 3 Chase Clinefelter son of Robin (assoc. director of financial aid) and Chris Clinefelter July 21, 2007 4 C. James Nesbit IV son of Jim (chief information officer) and Jane (associate professor of mathematics) July 21, 2007 5 Gannon Claggett son of Mindy (public relations officer) and Don Claggett Sept. 11, 2007 6 Grace McDonald daughter of Becky (director of admissions) and James McDonald Nov. 25, 2007 7 Brooklyn Bromagen daughter of Laurie (instructor of biology) and Shawn Bromagen Dec. 30, 2007 8 Ethan Gayheart son of Eric (senior workstation technician) and Kathi Gayheart Jan. 14, 2008
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partnerships
Medical sonography program partners with GE Healthcare The medical sonography program has embarked on a new partnership with GE Healthcare-Ultrasound. The partnership includes four state-of-the-art ultrasound systems and a free-standing volume imaging workstation. It also establishes the first academic program GE has worked with to create standard curriculum that integrates three-dimensional and four-dimensional imaging. “The partnership with GE is literally a dream come true,” said Joyce Grube, chair of the sonography program. “The imaging possibilities for our students are endless. They truly will be using the latest and greatest of ultrasound technology right here on our campus. GE is making a huge investment in the future of our graduates, and they realize education is the key toward that investment.” The new systems include two Logiq 9s, GE’s premium ultrasound machine for abdominal and obstetrics/gynecology imaging, complete with 3D and 4D capabilities; the Logiq 7, GE’s top-line echocardiography system, also with 3D and 4D capabilities; and the Logiq I, GE’s portable ultrasound system. The LogiqWorks workstation will give students the opportunity to learn and manipulate ultrasound volume data sets for 3D interpretation and diagnosis away from the ultrasound system. Several individuals were instrumental in making the partnership happen, including two Kettering College alumni. Merle Peterson ’71, director of medical imaging at Kettering Medical Center, reconnected the College’s sonography program
^ J.P. Moreland (GE volume imaging specialist), Will Powers, Sharon Silverman `96 (GE Applications) and Andrew Davis
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with GE. Sharon Silverman ‘96 of GE Applications was vital in forging the partnership and continues to provide lab instruction on new volume imaging. Andrew Davis, GE West sales manager, and Will Powers, GE sales for Ohio, were also fundamental in this process. In February, the sonography program held an open house to celebrate the partnership and to thank GE for investing in Kettering College students. The event was sponsored by the Kettering Medical Center Foundation.
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perspectives
This is the first in a series of articles in which college personnel will explore the mission of Kettering College.
Called to Serve by V ail M c G uire , P h .D., associate professor of English
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For me, teaching is not simply a profession, but a service. Here, the real synergy between these two definitions becomes apparent. One is for self; the other for God. A beautiful irony, however, integrates these two disparate views of calling. Just when you think that you are in your “ giving” mode, you find yourself in a “receiving” mode, and you are being blessed beyond your wildest expectations. Each time, it takes me by surprise. Through teaching, I am taught. Through transforming, I am transformed. Through giving, I receive. If my teaching allows others to encounter God in me, it also allows me to encounter God through them. This is, I think, at the heart of Kettering College’s mission. Students who see their chosen professions in health care as the means by which they can be used for service in the world are embarking on a journey where they will encounter the face of God. This is easy to forget when work becomes discouraging and the day seems to loom like a cliff face to be scaled. Being called, however, has little to do with how we feel, since the call itself does not originate from us. So we keep putting one foot in front of the other, and at the end of the day, we find that we’ve been used in ways we can’t even imagine. I have been called to teach at Kettering College. Our students have been called to their own place and work, and I only hope that Kettering College can play a role in helping to prepare them for that calling.
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behind the scenes
Who Is
Ken Millard?
Longtime biology professor Ken Millard, PhD., sat down with us for a question-and-answer session… What led you to become an educator?
What was the last book you read?
I enjoy learning, and I love the college environment. I’ve also been inspired by some really great teachers.
I just read Stone of Heaven, which is a history of the intermingling of the jade trade with the history of Burma and China. Pretty depressing, actually.
If you weren’t an educator, what other career field might you have chosen and why? I’d probably be a geologist, or even just a prospector. Anything to spend as much time as possible out among rocks.
What is something about you that would surprise most people? I have no idea. What you see is pretty much what you get.
What was your most instructive blunder or blind alley? Do you mean just today? Or in my whole life? I make them pretty frequently, and I hope that I learn something from each. I changed careers back nearly 40 years ago, and that was quite instructive, because I learned quite a bit in my first career, both about the world and about myself.
What’s your “uniform” or the typical outfit you wear every day? Whatever is on top of the pile when I wake up in the morning.
If I weren’t from the United States, I would want to be a native of … Someplace hot and dry—perhaps Australia or Mexico—because deserts are best, because you can see the structure of the earth, and get at the rocks easily.
Who would you love to have as a student? Whoever I have right now. I really enjoy students, and the present ones suit me just fine.
You’re stuck in an airport for a five-hour flight delay. How would you keep busy? I would read.
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What did you want to be or what did you like to do when you were a kid? I became interested in the natural world very early, and I loved hiking in the woods, often alone, even when I was very young. Biology and geology have always been very close to the center of my interests.
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? When I was young and realized that I was in love, I talked to my dad about it. He said that if that was so, I should get married and get on with it. So I did.
What’s the one magazine that will never be found in your home? I don’t know that I can answer this one. I can’t control what magazines my wife orders.
What is your most poignant moment as an educator? This is unfortunately easy to remember. I arrived at an 8 a.m. class on a Monday morning and learned that a student who I knew well and respected enormously had been killed in an automobile accident a few hours earlier while returning to school.
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Mission Trips Abroad Strengthen Service Learning Each spring, when the rest of the Kettering College faculty are wrapping up the school year, giving exams and turning in grades, Paula Reams, chair of the Bachelor of Science in Health Professions program, is preparing for the Vaughan-Beaven Service Learning Honors Program’s annual mission trip to Belize. Reams and two other faculty members–Rock Munsee (physician assistant) and Rick Williams (extension division)–took a group that included 13 students to Belize from April 27 through May 6. The KCMA cohort visited an orphanage, set up a clinic and conducted two health fairs. The Belize trip is just one of many mission opportunities available to those who attend and work at Kettering College. Groups from the school also have traveled to Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago in recent years. These trips help to drive home the “service” part of the KCMA mission.
“The mission of the college is for the health care professionals we produce to give generous service to their communities,” Reams said. “Community, in my mind, is bigger than right outside our door. It is the world. International medical mission experiences allow students, staff and faculty to have a greater understanding of the needs of the world and to be thankful for all the blessings we have in the U.S.” Research shows that college students who participate in international service learning experiences tend to return and do more service at home than students who do not participate in out-of-country experiences, Reams added. “Also, the Adventist church promotes worldwide service, and as an Adventist college, we should exemplify this belief,” she said. If you would like to contribute funding for future Kettering College mission trips, contact the Kettering Medical Center Foundation at (937) 395-8607.
Reflections of Trinidad
by Pamela Wilson, assistant to the academic dean When asked by Paula Reams to attend the 2007 mission trip to Trinidad, I was pleased. Smiling and excited, I could not believe I would be going outside the country to help others. I had assisted in the planning for Service Learning Honors Program mission trips and remembered hearing of the experiences students shared. I had heard heartfelt stories about underserved families helped by our students, who came to their aid. It was wonderful to help those who were in desperate need. Our days in Trinidad would start at 5 a.m. We traveled to villages and schools to set up health fairs. My responsibility was to assist with the eye exams. Each day, Trinidadian families were lined up with smiles on their faces hoping to see a “doctor.” The days were long and hot, but it was fulfilling to know we helped a little one or the elderly person who had never had an eye exam or had knowledge of giving a breast self-exam. I had two experiences that I will never forget. One was witnessing to the young girls at the school about teen pregnancy. The girls who became fond of me were young teens. My advice to them was to practice abstinence and stay in school. They were very receptive and shared many experiences they had encountered while growing up. One girl even became my pen pal. My other experience involved the plane ride back from Trinidad. I was to sit by my group, but another passenger wanted to sit with her sister, and I did not mind finding
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another seat. I sat by an elderly man from Guyana by the name of Goffery Ramsey. He was traveling to the States to receive a cataract surgery that his son had arranged for him. Initially, I was unaware he was 90 percent blind. When I heard the flight attendant orient him to where his food was placed on his tray—the term “6 o’clock” alerted me that he was blind—I assisted with his meal and filled out his papers to enter the country. We had a lovely conversation about life, and he commented on how excited he was about the upcoming surgery. After the five-hour plane ride, he told me that he wished he could see me, and he continued to thank me for helping him. Mr. Ramsey told me that I was a beautiful person and said he hopes that God continues to bless me and my family. At that time, my eyes filled with tears. I knew my mission was accomplished. My mission trip experience continued outside the borders of Trinidad because I was able to serve Mr. Ramsey on my flight home.
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campus candids 1. College chaplain Clive Wilson was part of a Kettering Medical Center team that hosted the North American Division of Seventh-day
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Adventists’ Campus Ministries Convention in March. The annual leadership development convention brings together students and staff directors of campus ministries programs from all of the Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities in North America. 2. Cherie Rebar, chair of the Associate of Science nursing program, and Victor Brown, dean for enrollment management, interact during the annual faculty and staff retreat in February. 3. [clockwise, starting at lower left] Jenny D’Allura (nursing), Janice Barrett (nursing), Nicole Heitman (arts and sciences), Erica Mikesell (human biology), Ashley Evilsizor (arts and sciences), and Kara Tapalman (arts and sciences) take in a Dayton Dragons game in April. 4. Nursing students Sarah Yancey, Melanie Roth and Meghan Molloy at a schoolwide Hawaiian-themed event in April. 5. Nursing student Kevin Moon (lower left) and arts and sciences students Joshua Strunk, Kevin Van Tassel and Matthew Fuller enjoy food and fun at the annual residence hall luau in April. 6. Program chair Sue Wulff (foreground) prays over graduates Franklin Baker (left) and Bryan Stephens during the physician assistant dedication ceremony in April.
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