MERCERSBURG MAGAZINE SPRING 2015
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Chris Everhart is owner of The Chili Cowboy LLC, which sells his personal-recipe hot sauces.
Harold Bushman’s wife, Ruth, passed away March 27, 2014.
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Richard Schellhase was appointed Davis Visiting Professor of Judeo-Christian Values at his alma mater, Ursinus College. In January 2013, he delivered a lecture titled “Some Thoughts about Being at Home in the Universe,” and the following January he learned that one of his former students endowed the Richard T. Schellhase Ethics Essay Prize at Ursinus in his honor. “Apparently, there are some friends who are trying to help me compensate for my lifelong ethical lapses!” Richard quips. “Old age, after all, has some advantages: They also receive who simply sit and wait.”
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Bill Clutz has launched a new personal website, www.williamclutz.com. The site features his artwork, which hangs in the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as well as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, and in many other museums and corporate and private collections.
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Bob Mertz was honored by the Elks Club of Sunbury, Pennsylvania, for service to his community and for philanthropy through his family business, Sunbury Motor Company.
Allen VanNoppen lives in Morganton, North Carolina. He worked as a physics instructor at Virginia Commonwealth University, as a newspaper reporter, and as a sales and marketing executive before founding VanNoppen Marketing LLC.
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Douglas Comer’s mother, Lois, passed away March 20, 2014. Board of Regents member Barrett Burns ’63 with his grandson, Colin Davis. “Getting a future Mercersburg student into the proper dress code at each stage of life,” Barrett says.
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Mark Talbott [Mercersburg, fall 2014] was named to Squash Magazine’s Top 50 Most Intriguing, InterestFormer faculty member Tom Graffagnino has written ing, and Influential People of 2014. a book, Wilderness to Water—a Gospel presentation through the use of poetry, prose, drawings, and photographs that weaves Christian apologetics with scripCarol Lewis Turner, mother of Joshua Turner and ture reflections. Charles Turner ’84 and grandmother of Bennett David M. Rahauser, father of David W. Rahauser, Chuck Turner ’15, passed away July 11, 2014.
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Rahauser ’70, and faculty member Tom Rahauser ’74, died January 4, 2015. He was also the father-in-law of faculty member Susan Rahauser and grandfather of Eric ’05, Chas ’06, Tim ’07, and Laura ’12.
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William Goodfellow’s mother, Edith, passed away July Dean Taylor, who has spent the past eight years as vice 28, 2014. She was also the widow of the late Chester president of baseball operations and assistant general Goodfellow ’37. manager of the Kansas City Royals, retired from that post in January. He is spending 2015—his 40th year Howard Neumann has been a member of the Caro- working in professional baseball—as a consultant for lina Panthers’ chain crew since the team’s inaugural the Royals, who are the defending American League NFL season 20 years ago. “I take great pride in the champions. Dean served three years (1999–2002) as accomplishment of having participated in the NFL general manager of the Milwaukee Brewers and nine in this significant capacity and for such a long time,” years as assistant GM of the Atlanta Braves (1991– Harvey Kirk ’64 (right) and Meg Hwang ’16 (center) Howard says. “Together with my nearly 40 years of of- 1999). He has also worked for the Cincinnati Reds and at a screening of Fading Away, a documentary film on Korean War refugees, in Washington, D.C. ficiating football, I also feel truly blessed.” the Los Angeles Dodgers. Harvey’s father, Lt. Col. Lewis H. Kirk Jr., was an officer managing the U.S. Army’s programs on South Korean refugees and North Korean prisoners Dorothy Allen, mother of Harold Allen, Ethan Al- Scott Christopher and his wife, Elizabeth, presented of war and rebuilding the industrial fabric of the len ’70, and the late Earl Allen ’68, passed away Au- a fine art exhibition titled “Art Is Wings” in Mercers- war-torn country. Harvey contributed many of gust 12, 2014. She was also the daughter of the late burg’s Cofrin Gallery in the Burgin Center for the Arts his father’s personal photographs for the film to Earl Douglass (1909) and the sister of the late Elisha in April and May. Scott and Elizabeth live in Santa Fe, director Christopher H.K. Lee (pictured at left). Meg Douglass ’35. New Mexico; his website is www.scottchristopherart.com. worked as an intern on the film in summer 2014.