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SUMMER 2014

THE CLASS OF 2014

Commencement, graduate students, and a changing future

GOING BEYOND A look into Trevecca’s graduate programs Treveccan Summer 2014

WRITING A NEW LIFE STORY How God changed a recent graduate’s life

COME HOME TO THE HILL 2014 Homecoming schedule 1

COMPLEXITY AND CREDENTIALS Our world has become complex.

• My cell phone stores more memory than Apollo 13 had, and my kids tell me that I don’t use 20% of its capacity.

• When Denise recently broke her wrist, I was utterly amazed by the advanced healing skills of the medial professionals who treated her.

• Financial advisers and banks now use complex formulae to plan our futures.

• Architects and engineers are developing buildings with products that didn’t exist five years ago.

• Farmers are becoming scientists of the soil.

In almost every field, the expertise of the employed has grown dramatically—with one exception: the work of pastoral ministry. While the world has become exceptionally trained and educated, the leaders of the work of God in the world often take the easiest, shortest, cheapest, least rigorous route to ordination.

It hasn’t always been this way. The pastor in a community was once called “the parson”—a term of great honor.

The pastor was recognized as one of the most educated “parsons” in the community. When faced with complex decisions, members of the community looked to their college-credentialed parson for guidance.

Responding to a reader’s question about why the reader’s son quit attending the local church of his denomination in the new city where the son had moved, the editor of Holiness Today responded, “[Y]oung adults have little patience for simplistic answers. They won’t stick around if they can’t talk about the complexity of life and faith in meaningful ways. This is especially true for those who have honed critical thinking skills through higher education. We need clergy intellectually prepared to effectively engage people who are not satisfied with easy answers.”

Dr. William Greathouse often said that youthful enthusiasm and personal charisma would carry a pastor five to six years into his or her ministry, but then the lack of training would begin to show. Dr. Greathouse believed that a fruitful ministry that lasted across decades was the result of rigorous preparation for a lifetime of service. As I have observed decades of ministry, I believe he was right.

This world is a credentialed one. It requires leaders who have been trained to think critically, theologically, and carefully. The goal of Trevecca is to enable every pastor to complete a college degree, to hold a diploma from an accredited Christian university, to be trained for a life of ministry, and, for those who are able, to go on to postgraduate work to serve better as church leaders.

Taking action to reach that goal, Trevecca offers all Southeast Region Nazarene pastors (ordained or district licensed) a free class to launch them toward their completion of a college degree or a master’s degree. Following the one free class on the campus, other courses can be completed online. (See details on p. 24). Following this field test among Nazarene pastors, it is the University’s intent to widen this offer to others.

A complex world calls for a credentialed ministry.

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Complexity and credentials Vol. 84 No. 2 Summer 2014 Dan Boone ’74 President Jan Greathouse ’67 Editor Melissa Jackson Art Director and Designer Contrirbutors Nancy Dunlap ’67 Greg Ruff ’00/MOL ’14 Contact Information

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CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2014

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CONGRATULATIONS 4 Class of 2014 GOING BEYOND a look at Trevecca’s graduate programs

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CAMPUS NEWS TROJAN TALK

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NEW CENTER FOR PASTORAL HEALTH

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FEATURE WRITING A NEW LIFE STORY ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI CELEBRATING, CONNECTING

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ALUMNI AND FRIENDS WE WILL MISS

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HOMECOMING 2014

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ON THE COVER...

Education doctoral students finally relax during this year’s commencement. The ways that graduate students go beyond is explored inside this issue.

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Congratulations

CLASS OF 2014 113th Commencement of Trevecca Nazarene University

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he beautiful weather on May 3, 2014, was the perfect backdrop for Trevecca’s 113th Commencement, held outdoors in McClurkan Quad. The University presented diplomas to 727 graduates, while happy family members and friends watched. Festivities concluded with a reception for graduates and their families, hosted by the Office of External Relations and held in the Hardy Alumni Center. Five of those graduates share what that day meant to them.

ISAIAH FISH “Commencement was a time of rejoicing,” said Isaiah Fish ’14.

“Rejoicing about relationships my friends and I formed at Trevecca, about the conversations we could not have had anywhere else, and rejoicing about the experiences which propelled us into new junctures in our lives.”

“Today I may not be a completely different person from what I was when I sat in freshman orientation four years ago, but I know that I have grown and been stretched far beyond anything I could have imagined. The people with me at commencement were some of the most important people in my life, challenging me in our conversations and encouraging me in those memories that I will always have with me,” he said.

Isaiah, a social justice major from Hendersonville, Tennessee, will attend Union Theological Seminary in New York City this fall.

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MICHELLE PRICE-JOHNSON “Commencement was the fulfillment of twenty years of dreams and a door to a brand new future,” said Michelle Price-Johnson MHR ’13/MOL ’14. Succeeding as a “turn-around specialist” for under-performing radio stations and managing 360 affiliate stations for CNN, CBS, and NBC did not end her dream to complete college.

“MHR opened a door for me, and then the Master’s of Organizational Leadership (MOL) Program actually flung open that door. I realized that I really want to teach—to train broadcasters to be leaders, to do what I have done. During my MOL classes, I began a training program for WPFW in Washington, D. C., where I am the interim general manager, and I have been encouraging WPFW employees to enroll in Trevecca’s online MHR Program.

“Before I enrolled at Trevecca, I did not have choices, but now I have many choices. I have been accepted at my first choice for law school, but I am thinking about pursuing a PhD. I want to figure out the best way for me to give back what I have learned,” Michelle added.

Michelle Price-Johnson commutes between Washingon, D. C., and her home in Nashville.

HOLLAND CLEMENT “Commencement was bittersweet,” explained Holland Clement ’14.

“It was the end of late nights of study and hours spent preparing for exams. All that was left was walking across a stage with 7,000 onlookers.”

“But one thing was clear: My last day at Trevecca was just as amazing as my first. Surrounding me were my fellow students, closest friends, and siblings in Christ. Commencement illustrated Trevecca’s community aspect, stressed from my first day as a freshman. We were not separated by alphabetical order or major; we were allowed to sit where we wanted and with whom we wanted. That freedom meant more to me than anything else. On each side of me were people who had been with me every step of the way, persons who had done more for me than I’ll ever be able to repay. Graduation day at Trevecca was unlike any other—even so, it reminded me how Trevecca’s community had made such an impact on me.“ Holland, of Lafayette, Tennessee, majored in organizational communication and minored in communication studies. He is pictured with his parents, Julie and Rex Clement, after commencement.

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INGRID KIPER “Commencement was the final chapter in a prequel,“ said Ingrid Kiper ’14, “And I am eager to see how this new life chapter answers my earlier questions,” she said. “When I was twelve, I sensed God calling me to mission work, and this spring the Church of the Nazarene asked me to serve as a missionary to Thailand.”

Rarely is a new college graduate given a missionary assignment, but Ingrid’s ability to communicate in five languages is what the denomination needed. She will translate the oral language of a Thai people group and develop a written form of it. She will also teach English and disciple Church of the Nazarene pastors in Thailand.

“I do not know the full plot of my story, but I know that God is writing it,” explained Ingrid as she makes plans to move to Thailand in September.

Ingrid Kiper, an intercultural studies major and English language learners minor, calls South Florida home.

CAROL SEALS “Commencement was the culmination of a lifetime longing, desire, dream,” said Carol Seals MHR ’13. She had completed three years of college when she and her husband immigrated to the U. S. from Costa Rica in 2002, but adaptation to life in a new country delayed her return to college. When Carol learned about Trevecca and its Management and Human Relations Program (MHR), she enrolled.

“If he were alive, my father would be so pleased. He sent my brothers to public schools and my sister and me to private schools because he believed that mothers need to be educated because they are responsible for the development of children and because the family is the microcosm of society; therefore, he wanted us females to have a better education.

“Trevecca has allowed the best of me to come out and helped me become a leader in the community,” Carol stated. She will eventually return to Costa Rica to work in the family business and its philanthropic efforts for education.

Carol, executive program director for the YMCA’s Latino Achievers Program, lives in Nashville.

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A LOOK INTO TREVECCA’S GRADUATE PROGRAMS Trevecca’s 20 graduate programs* and two doctoral programs are designed to meet the needs of adults who want specialized education to expand their opportunities for service and leadership. In order to help their students achieve those goals, leaders of Trevecca’s graduate programs are vigilant to ensure that these programs are current with the respective discipline, meet professional needs, and include appropriate learning experiences. The following profiles of some Trevecca graduate programs show how those programs are working to meet the needs of Trevecca’s 1,400 graduate students. *Trevecca offers master’s degrees in these programs: religion, education, management, business administration, medicine-physician assistant, library and information science, organizational leadership, and counseling. Its two doctoral programs are in education (EdD) and clinical psychology (PhD).

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BEING THE HANDS AND FEET OF JESUS

PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS SERVE IN HAITI

PA PROGRAM

Preparing competent physician assistants who will use their skills to serve communities in compassionate ministry

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For a week in March 2014, 14 second-year physician assistant (PA) students, PA instructor and group leader Tasha Adams MSM ’05, accompanied by science professor Alisha Russell, and Holly Bagwell MSM ’12, traveled to Jeremie, Haiti.

service part of their lives.

“When Trevecca started the PA Program in 1976, its goal for graduates of this program was for them to use their medical training to be the hands and feet of Jesus. That activity is who Trevecca PAs are and what we are about,”

“Like many Americans, I have so many advantages. Watching Haitians worship made me take a second look at how I’ve been living my life. Instead of praising God for what he has done in my life, too often I pray for God to give me things, make things happen.

Since returning from Haiti, I have been working to adopt a thankful heart for what God has done and is doing in my life. I cannot wait to go on another mission trip!”

Sierra Ross MSM ’14/ PA-S, of Tulsa, Oklahoma

They spent two days in mobile clinics set up in village churches and then four full days serving in established clinics. During those four days, group members provided care for 600 patients, and each group member provided complete care for the patients he or she served: recorded the patient’s medical history, performed all procedures or tests, determined the treatment needed, and provided it.

PA Program leaders want to expose their students to medical missions so that PAs will make medical mission

explained Tasha Adams, who has made four trips to Haiti and who will return to Haiti in July 2014.

Adams described this trip as the “highlight” of her teaching career: “Being able to watch my students love and serve the people there made me so immensely proud of them.

Watching them stand in the front of a church and give their testimonies, hearing them praying and crying over a patient with a terminal diagnosis, and seeing them loving precious kids who have no one else made me realize that I was seeing God at work

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in them. All of us were blessed to come alongside what God is already doing and join in, and we were changed by being part of God’s work. To God be the glory!”

PA Program leaders have a big goal: They want God to ignite a passion in PA students to serve so that, after students

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graduate, they will want to mentor future students and go on mission trips as providers.

That goal has a second part: To make annual trips to Haiti during spring break. “We know that the goal is big, but so is the need, and so is God who is calling us to serve others in big ways!” Adams noted.

“Going to Haiti made a huge impact on my life. Daily I was reminded that it is the beauty of God’s creation, relationships, and serving others that should bring joy and not a closet full of clothes, a planner full of special events, or the newest electronic gadget. This trip helped me refocus on the things God deems important—and not on the world’s values. I fell in love with the Haitian people and cannot wait to go back next year to serve again.”

Noelle Silas MSM ’14/ PA-S, of Flushing, Michigan

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“NATIONAL RECOGNITION” LIBRARY PROGRAM GIVES ITS GRADUATES INSTANT CREDIBILITY Trevecca’s Master of Library and Information Science Program (MLIS) is the only nationally recognized graduate program for librarians in the state of Tennessee. Earlier this year it received “national recognition” status from the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Programs (CAEP)—for the second time in the program’s history.

be employable nationwide. Moreover, state and national professional library organizations recognize graduates of CAEP AASL programs and encourage them to become leaders,” explained Judy Bivens, director of the MLIS Program and an associate librarian at Trevecca.

Trevecca’s MLIS Program, started in 2000, earned its first “national recognition” in 2009, and it is eligible to reapply every five years. The MLIS Program has graduated more than 250 school librarians and public librarians, and its graduates have a high rate of employment.

This award has great importance for Trevecca’s MLIS students. “CAEP AASL National Recognition is based on an institution’s research and its graduates’ demonstrated mastery of national standards.

“Trevecca’s MLIS Program revitalized me as an educator! I began Educators immediately to use the information I was learning to facilitate and recognize the enhance instruction in the classroom. Trevecca not only prepared value of a me to be an effective library media specialist but also enhanced standardsmy love for education.” based curriculum Cami Townsel ’02, Library Information Specialist at Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet School, which allows Nashville, Tennessee graduates to 10

MLIS PROGRAM

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Preparing library information specialists for lifelong learning and effective leadership and service

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GRADUATE RELIGION PROGRAM INNOVATIONS

Providing graduate work in theology, Bible, preaching, and pastoral arts for service to the world through the church

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“Exposed to God and Christian beliefs for most of my life, I have continuously learned the world in front of the text, but my studies at Trevecca taught me that I must study the world behind the text to appreciate fully the written Word.”

Tammy Mentzer Brown, author/ inspirational speaker and current graduate religion student, Tullahoma, Tennessee

Trevecca’s Graduate Religion Program provides training in ways that Trevecca founder J. O. McClurkan could not have dreamed were possible when he taught those first classes for Christian workers.

For 30 years, Trevecca has offered master’s classes in Bible and theology to meet the needs of youth pastors, lay persons, senior pastors, and district superintendents. Approximately 10 years ago, the Graduate Religion Program began offering a master’s in preaching, one of the first of its kind. The recently added master’s in pastoral arts is a broad program that includes training in counselingpastoral care, administration, and the study of ways a church can adapt or transition its understanding of what it means to be the church in that particular community.

In January of 2015, Trevecca will begin offering a completely online master’s degree. “Adding this program is a response to numerous requests from persons in foreign countries and in the States for an online master’s degree program in religion,” explained Tim Green, dean of the Millard Reed School of Theology and Christian Ministry.

Graduate religion’s latest innovation is the offer of one free class to all Church of the Nazarene district-licensed pastors in the Southeast—Trevecca’s effort to enable every Nazarene pastor to complete college or to begin postgraduate work. The University hopes that congregations will make a match gift for their pastors to take another class at half tuition. (See p. 24.)

“My experience at Trevecca prepared me well for further studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School.

Because I was able to count the hours I earned at Trevecca (M.A. in religion, biblical studies) at Vanderbilt, I was able to complete my M.Div. in two years rather than the typical three.”

Ben Anderson MA ’11

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TURNAROUND SCHOOLS

EDUCATION PROGRAM HELPS SCHOOLS AND EDUCATORS Trevecca’s School of Education now provides training for educators who want to make a difference in their schools. Its new Turnaround School Leadership EdS Program will help educators in two ways.

First, this training will teach them how to transform schools and sustain learning. Second, completing this degree places a person in an excellent position to earn a doctorate in leadership and professional practice at Trevecca (with admission to the program and the completion of an additional 27 hours).

“This new program creates a real win-win for professional educators who want to be change agents in their schools, to be the kind of leaders who can turn around underperforming schools and create a new, positive attitude about education in this country,” explained Suzann Harris MEd ’91/ EdD ’03, dean of the School of Education.

For questions about this program, contact Richard Moore (rmoore@trevecca.edu/615-441-6121).

For questions about admission to the program, contact Lewis Bridges lbridges@trevecca.edu/615-248-1587).

“This new program focuses on a growing need in this country, and it will help school leaders develop the leadership skills needed for a more comprehensive approach to studying effective school strategies and recognizing indicators that inhibit school growth and improvement.”

Lora E. Hall, Ed.D., University Liaison, Human Capital Metropolitan Nashvillve Public Schools

“Trevecca Nazarene University’s Turnaround Specialist School Leadership degree will fill a niche and meet a need that is not currently being addressed in Tennessee’s colleges and universities.”

Connie J. Smith, Ed.D., State Director, AdvancED Tennessee

GRADUATE EDUCATION Modeling competence, character, and compassion so that our students emulate and embrace these qualities in service and leadership

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COUNSELING GRADUATES

GRADUATE COUNSELING PROGRAM

Equipping students to become competent mental health professionals who will use their skills in service to others

COMMISSIONED TO BE AGENTS OF HEALING

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Trevecca’s Graduate Counseling Program hosts an annual Graduate Counseling Commissioning Service and Reception as a way to honor program graduates and to call attention to the serious work that they will be doing in the lives of persons whom they counsel and serve. Additionally, this occasion provides a time for meaningful interaction of faculty and graduates and graduates’ families.

Dressed in full academic regalia, faculty and graduates congregate in the sanctuary of Trevecca Community Church in front of graduates’ families and begin an event that is both a celebration and a meaningful experience. The program includes participation from faculty members and soonto-be graduates. A featured guest speaks, an adjunct faculty member of the year is recognized, and then the faculty invites the PhD candidates to kneel at the altar. Members of the faculty surround those soon-to-be-

PhDs, place their hands on candidates’ shoulders, and pray that God will bless their service to others as they use their skills as counselors and therapists.

“Without a doubt, the Commissioning Service is the highlight of the year for me—and for our faculty,” said Peter Wilson, director of the graduate counseling program.

Professor Don Harvey agreed and added, “Our Commissioning Service illustrates three important components of this program: first, the faculty’s serious commitment to the development of the spirit of our therapists; second, Trevecca’s challenge, which is in plain view on campus, ‘Do as I have done’; and third, the way that biblical command is echoed in the program’s motto, ‘Where

education and caring meet to create skilled, compassionate therapists.’

Certainly, professionalism is one of the program’s benchmarks for success, but we [faculty] want our graduates to know that they are entering a hurting and needy world not simply as professionals but as servantleaders. In a very real way, they are offering a cup of cold water to those who thirst and bringing healing to those who suffer and are in pain.”

This year’s Commissioning Service took place on May 3 with the theme “Celebrating Our Stories.” During that service, one graduate told how God used the program to change his life story, which can be found on page 16 in this publication.

The Graduate Counseling Program has been instrumental in the establishment of the Center for Pastoral Health, which is described on page 23.

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TNT@TNU—A WEEKEND OF FUN AND COMPETITION A total of twenty-five hundred teens and chaperones took part in the 28th annual TNT@ TNU beginning April 3. The event, hosted by Nazarene Youth International in the Southeast states and Trevecca, opened in a massive tent on Trevecca’s Campus with guest speaker Jeremy Cowart. Jeremy, a renowned photographer and designer, shared how he was inspired by Philippians 4:13 to turn from his insecurities toward an amazing career of creativity and service for God’s kingdom. Other featured guests were the members of Enemy Opposition, a team of talented BMXers, inline skaters, and skateboarders.

Participants competed in 70 events in athletics, instrumental and vocal music, visual and dramatic arts, Bible quizzing, and others. New categories added this year were skateboarding, the 100-meter dash, and story-telling. Winning districts were South Carolina and Tennessee.

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LATE SPRING THEATRE PRODUCTIONS FEATURE STUDENTS’ WORKS The theatre part of the Department of Communication Studies presented two productions during the spring semester as a way to explore new ideas through shorter dramatic forms created by students. Hot Ice and Wondrous Strange Snow was a unique weekend of studentdirected, one-act plays. Mosaic was comprised of original, ten-minute one-act plays written by students from Professor Jeff Frame’s playwriting workshop course.

These pieces, representing various topics and themes and read/acted by students as well, were shaped and presented in the form of staged readings by guest director, Kristin Moon ’09. Mosaic, which is planned to become an annual event, also included original songs written by students in the songwriting course taught

by Kim McLean ’06/MA 08, and original art created by students in Professor Betsy Karounos’s mixed media and intermediate drawing courses.

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WRITING A NEW LIFE STORY: HOW GOD CHANGED A RECENT GRADUATE’S LIFE “A high school dropout. A teen-age father. I don’t deserve to be here.” And with those words Douglas Pearce MA ’14 began his presentation to his classmates in the 2014 Graduate Counseling Commissioning Service.

“Four years ago,” he continued, “part of me died.

I was holding the body of a dead twelve-year-old Afghani boy and knew that I, the platoon leader, was responsible for his death. I returned to the States in February 2011 broken and traumatized, and when I arrived at Ft. Campbell, no one was there to greet me. My wife had abandoned me and filed for divorce, and I stood alone in that hangar.”

Doug’s inner pain intensified, and his body was shutting down, and he realized he was close to dying. “In a moment of complete brokenness,” Doug said, “I cried out to God for help.” He sensed that God was helping him, but, he added, “I also realized that God expected me to live a different way. I had lived a life of destruction—both professionally and personally—but God clearly called me to change one step at a time: to trust God, to live a life of authenticity, to gain power over myself.” Accepting that new way of living, which he calls “living in the flow with God,” Doug began living a life of purpose—for the first time in his life.

“Four years ago, part of me died.

I was holding the body of a dead twelve-year-old Afghani boy and knew that I, the platoon leader, was responsible for his death.”

Disabled from injuries sustained in military service, Doug resigned his commission as an Army officer and began trying to discern what God wanted him to do with the remainder of his life. He knew that the next chapter of his life needed to include healing. “I had had enough destruction,” he explained. He visited Trevecca, learned that Trevecca had a master’s in marriage and family therapy program (MMFT), and applied.

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The news that he had passed the entrance exam for this program made Doug weep. “I was so scared when I took that exam; I never believed I was good enough, and life seemed to reinforce that belief. But when I passed that test, I heard God telling me that I am good enough, and that affirmation began resonating within me,” he said.

As a student in Trevecca’s Graduate Counseling Program, Doug found himself facing his own brokenness and destructive patterns of behavior.

Instead of being depressed, Doug remembered God’s affirmation and saw another option: He could work to change those things, mend those broken relationships, and do his part to be healed.

An Afghani girl holds the stuffed animal given to her by Doug’s platoon.

Living life in the flow with God was becoming easier for Doug until Jan Harvey MA ’00, clinical coordinator of the Graduate Counseling Program, informed him that he needed to complete a required internship at Ft. Campbell’s Family Life Center. That information caused a recurrence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for Doug.

Returning to Ft. Campbell was the last thing that Doug wanted to do, and he asked Harvey about alternate internship opportunities with another agency; however, falling back on his training as a soldier, he heard himself saying, “Regardless of where I want to go, I will follow orders and go where God wants me to go.” And with a smile, Doug said, “I was sure I heard God say, ‘Exactly.’

And I said to myself, ‘Ah, I’ve been set up.’” He immediately called the chaplain at the Family Life Center at Fort Campbell and said, “I need to intern for you. It is where I am supposed to be.”

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Doug was surprised by what happened during his internship: “I did not go to Ft. Campbell to heal, but healing is what I found there. I wanted to help others, and I have, but in that process, God has helped me overcome my long-held resentments.”

Doug added, “I now pray that God will help me to see myself as God sees me, love myself as God loves me, and forgive myself as God has forgiven me. Then I ask God to help me see others, love others, and forgive others as God does. This new way of experiencing God and self transforms me every day. I realized that I have the power to create and receive wonderful things in my life.”

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who loves and accepts him unconditionally.

Accepting that unconditional love, according to Doug, was the most difficult part of his journey.

“Living in the flow with God does not mean that I live a charmed life,” Doug explained. “It does mean that I now see purpose and a plan in my life.”

And then he looked into the faces of his Graduate Counseling classmates, and said, “And if you have not found God’s plan for your life, I encourage you to find it.”

With graduation behind him, Doug continues to volunteer at the Ft. Campbell Family Life Center.

Eventually, he wants to go into private practice as a marriage and family therapist.

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NEW HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES Two former Trevecca Trojan All-American athletes and a favorite coach will be inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday, November 8, 2014, during homecoming weekend. Ashley McCool Cozart ’07, a former softball player, and Brad Coon ’14, from the Trojan baseball program, will join former women’s basketball coach Julie van Beek Heisey in the Trevecca Hall of Fame Class of 2014.

With these additions, the total number of members in the Trevecca Athletic Hall of Fame, started in 1993, will be 60.

JULIE VAN BEEK HEISEY Heisey, who restarted the Trevecca women’s basketball program in 1996 and developed the program into a national power, led the program to the NAIA national championships in only

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her fourth season, and created a 162-119 record.

Her team that won Trevecca women’s first NAIA Tournament berth had a stunning 24-9 record, won the TranSouth Eastern Division title, finished second overall in the TranSouth, and reached the Sweet 16 at the NAIA National Tournament.

During her final six seasons, Heisey produced a 130-62 record with six consecutive trips to the NAIA National Tournament. In her last season at Trevecca, she led the team to the “Elite 8” round of the NAIA National Tournament. Heisey, who has completed her ninth season as the head coach at Seattle Pacific University, lives in Seattle with her husband, Randy.

BRAD COON Coon, Trevecca’s NAIA All-American center fielder for two seasons, was named the 2005 TranSouth Athletic Conference and NAIA Region-XI Player of the Year. Throughout his career he set school records. As a senior, Treveccan Summer 2014

Coon hit .377 with 72 runs, 20 doubles, eight triples, four home runs, 42 RBI, and 39 walks, and he was successful in 51 of 55 stolen-base attempts.

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Coon is the highest draft pick in Trevecca baseball history. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim selected him in the 15th round of the 2005 Major League Baseball Amateur draft. He played eight seasons of professional baseball for four different major league organizations and spent six years inside the Angels organization, reaching as high as Triple-A. Coon is now an assistant coach for Lipscomb University’s baseball team

Logan Rodgers, a rising sophomore from Denton, Texas, will represent the Trojan track and cross country programs at the 2014 USATF Junior Outdoor Championships, held July 5 and 6 at TrackTown USA–Hayward Field on the campus of the University of Oregon, in Eugene, Oregon.

Rodgers will run in the 10,000-meter run. The event includes the best athletes under the age of 20.

He and his wife, former Trevecca women’s basketball player Candice McCool, live in Nolensville, Tennessee, with their daughter.

ASHLEY MCCOOL COZART Cozart helped Trevecca to a pair of top-five finishes at the NAIA Softball World Series.

She ended her career as a four-time All-TranSouth First Team and NAIA Region XI First Team selection, and she earned TranSouth Scholar-Athlete honors three times.

She left Trevecca with the most career hits (268), doubles (67), extra base hits (97), runs scored (146), and RBI (175). She was also second on the list in batting average (.397) and home runs (26).

Cozart is still Trevecca’s all-time career leader in doubles and is second in hits and extra- base hits.

She had the second most doubles in NAIA history and was the first Trojan to hit a career-high 20 homeruns.

Winners of the 2014 USATF Junior Outdoor Championships will qualify for the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships. Top performers will be part of the American team that will return to Eugene from July 22 to 27. This year is the first time that the IAAF World Junior Championships has been held in the United States.

Rodgers, who ran for Denton (Texas) Ryan High School, had an outstanding year for the Trojan cross country and track teams. He set many Trevecca track records in the program’s inaugural year.

Hayward Field has a rich history of track and field including the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team Trials, USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships, the annual Nike Prefontaine Classic, NCAA Division-1 Championships, and Pac-10/Pac-12 Conference Championships.

Cozart has finished her first season as the head softball coach at the University of North Alabama.

Her squad finished 38-18 and advanced to the NCAA Regional. Cozart and her husband, Shaun, have a son.

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REED MEMORIAL TOWER NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION Immediately following commencement, construction on the Millard Reed Memorial Tower began on the lawn in front of the Adams Administration Building and alongside Hart Street.

Designated and funded by longtime friends of former president Millard Reed as a way to honor his contributions to Trevecca, the bell tower will be 71 feet tall and will rest on a stone base, designed to match the other historic buildings on campus.

The tower, which will have a chime system, will include attractive arches, through which students and others will walk as they traverse the campus.

University administrators expect that construction of the tower will be completed by the start of the new school year in August.

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LOCAL STUDENTS DIG URBAN FARM EXPERIENCES The University’s urban farm continues to provide learning experiences for local students. In May, 60 students and four teachers from Rose Park Science and Math Magnet School toured the farm and engaged in learning activities in the compost yard, the science lab terraria, the greenhouse and aquaponics tanks, and the animal farm. One teacher said, “I usually don’t like field trips, but this one is fabulous!” In June, 20 students from four local high schools participated in a competition for seven paid internships for summer jobs on the farm, and in July, another group of 20 high school students will compete for seven additional paid summer internships on the farm. More than 500 visitors will visit Trevecca’s urban farm operations during the summer months.

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FRESHMAN ORIENTATION— STARTING TO MAKE MEMORIES Transfer students and members of the Trevecca Class of 2018 arrived on campus on June 13 for summer orientation and their introduction to life at Trevecca. Under the theme “Experience Trevecca,” they participated in a whirlwind schedule of getacquainted events, academic advising, meetings about financial aid, information sessions for parents, and visits to dorms and other buildings on campus. Tom Middendorf ’99, director of the Center for Leadership, Calling, and Service, which hosted the event, invited participants to begin discovering their own “benchmark moments” at Trevecca—“those Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter times”—that they will later realize were some of the best times of their lives.

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NEW CENTER FOR PASTORAL HEALTH A PLACE OF HELP, HOPE, AND HEALING

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hrough a collaboration with the districts of the Church of the Nazarene in the Southeast and Treveccca’s Graduate Counseling Program, Trevecca has established the Center for Pastoral Health as a way to strengthen those in ministry. The Center’s purpose is twofold: to provide holistic ministry to the minds, bodies, and spirits of current pastors and their families in the Church of the Nazarene on the Southeast region, and to develop programs and services for students in Trevecca’s Millard Reed School of Theology and Christian Ministry and its Center for Worship Arts.

This new center is, according to President Boone, an effort to address two needs: “the pressures on ministry that call for therapeutic help for stressed pastors and their families, and Trevecca’s desire to serve the denomination by providing personal counseling and development training for future ministers.”

Rick Underwood MA ’03/PhD ’14, who earned his doctorate in clinical counseling from Trevecca’s Graduate Counseling Program, will lead this new center. Rick is an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene, a licensed

professional counselor (LPC), and a mental health service provider (MHSP), and he also teaches in the Graduate Counseling Program’s Healthy Sexuality Program. He understands the pressures of pastors and their families, and for some years he has worked in the field of pastoral development. He stated, “I am excited about the opportunity to serve in this new area of ministry and to offer clergy and their families a place of help, hope, and healing in the Center for Pastoral Health.”

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positive responses. Among them was this response from Larry Leonard, superintendent of the Tennessee District Church of the Nazarene: “There is no greater gift the academy can give to the local church, the denominational districts, and the general church than this opportunity to strengthen its pastors through proper self-awareness and a healthy spiritual and physical lifestyle . . . . I applaud Trevecca for this progressive statement of service to its constituency:” For more information about the Center, contact Underwood at 615-248-1213 or runderwood@trevecca.edu.

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ALUMNI CELEBRATING MARRIAGES AND BIRTHS

Phyllis Carter Beam ’76 and Gary Coulter were married on 3/29/14 at Reynold’s Plantation in Georgia. Prior to her marriage, Phyllis served as Trevecca’s director of annual and corporate giving from 2012 until March 2014. Gary, who had taught and coached at Trevecca from 1972 to 1978, retired in February from Docs Who Care in Olathe, Kan. 1

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Nathan ’07 and Abbey Knight, of York, Penn.,—their first child, a daughter, Maximillia Jane, born 4/16/14. 2 Josh and Audrey Lively MSM ’11, of Houston, Tex.,— a daughter, Myla Grace, born 11/24/13. Josh works in petroleum sales, and Audrey is a PA in orthopaedic trauma. 3

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Michael ’13 and Kimberly Potts Follis ’10 were married 10/11/13. They are living in Hermitage, Tenn., where they are both teachers. 4

ALUMNI CONNECTING

1950s

Robert Perry ’58 (See p. 31.)

Gene Shelton ’58 was named pastor emeritus by Columbia (Tenn.) Grace Church of the Nazarene in honor of his 66 years in ministry, several years of which were served at Columbia Grace. Gene also served as the assistant coach of the Trevecca’s women’s golf team in the 1970s.

1960s

Jerry M. Holt ’67 retired from teaching in the spring, concluding a 47-year career in the schools of Marshall County, Tenn.

Ruth McDowell Lavender ’68 and her husband, Richard, share a happy moment with George Kitsao, whom they sponsored during his years at Africa Nazarene University (ANU). Ruth met George, newly orphaned, in the summer of 2010 when she was in Kenya to celebrate the graduation of the ANU students she had taught during her sabbatical in the 2006 spring term. Ruth retired in May 2013, after 25 years of teaching English at Furman University, Olivet Nazarene University, and Milligan College.

Don Hastings ’69 (See p. 31.)

1970s

Dan Boone ’74 has written The Way We Work: How Faith Makes a Difference on the Job, available from Nazarene Publishing House. (See also p. 2.)

Equinox Information Systems, founded by partners Byron Middendorf ’79 and Wayne Lowe, was nominated for the Nashville Business Journal’s 2014 Best in Business Award.

Founded in 1986, Equinox is the dominant supplier of Fraud Management Systems (FMS) to U. S. telecommunications companies. Middendorf and Lowe measure the company’s success “in terms of people and sense of honor.”

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exhort followers of Christ to live their lives on mission, right where they are.” The book is available from Amazon.

Donna Kaney Philemon ’76 (See p. 31.)

1980s

Rick Underwood MA ’04/PhD ’14 (See p. 23.)

Tasha Adams MSM ’05 (See p. 8.)

Murphy ’88 and Michelle Gill ’88 enjoyed the snow when they visited Grand Traverse Bay, Mich., in April. Murphy is the lead pastor at Spring Arbor (Mich.) Church of the Nazarene.

Virginia “Ginger” J. Connell ’05 has joined MTR Family Law in Nashville, Tenn. Ginger is an accomplished attorney who is already experienced in family and juvenile law. Prior to completing law school, she was a paralegal at a law firm and a paralegal for Child Support Services of Davidson County, Tenn.

1990s

Paula Baggott Winchester ’90 (See p. 31.)

Suzann Harris MEd ’91/EdD ’03 (See p. 12.)

Aaron Salow ’05 has started a company in Nashville called XOEye Technologies. Aaron’s company has developed a set of tech-infused glasses for manufacturing, field services, and construction sectors which enable workers to use their eyes to perform job functions that currently require their hands.

Allison Hendershot Stark ’91 (See p. 31.)

Kim McLean ’06/MA ’08 (See p. 15.)

Mae Spruill Beavers ’92 (See p. 31.)

Mason Bellamy MEd ’07/EdD ’10 is the new director of Services for Exceptional Children for Clarksville-Montgomery County (Tenn.) School System. Photo right.

Sandra Williams Aldridge ’91/MEd’95/EdD ’13 began a new position in July 2013 as director of federal programs for Tuscaloosa (Ala.) City Schools.

Dawn Knowling Adams ’94 is the director of community relations and coordinator of outreach for Food 4 Souls, a nonprofit, faith-based organization serving the homeless in Indianapolis, Ind. Ché Haselwood ’99, the pastor of College Hill United Methodist Church since 2008, in Waco, Ky., has been appointed principal of Shannon Johnson Elementary School in Berea, Ky. He and his wife, Christy (former Trevecca employee), have three children: Emma (11), Hayden (9), and Zachary (7).

Kelly Plummer King ’99 (See p. 31.)

Tom Middendorf ’99 (See p. 22.)

Kevin Sykes ’99 earned a PhD in health policy and management in May at the University of Kansas. He is the director of clinical research in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery of the University of Kansas Medical Center, in Kansas City, Kans.

2000s

Jan Harvey MA ’00 (See p.16. )

Houston Thompson EdD ’07, dean of the School of Professional Studies at Olivet Nazarene University, has published Conflict Management for Faith Leaders.

Thomas Crummer ’09 (See p. 31.)

Kristen Moon ’09 (See p. 15.)

Jared Myracle MEd ’09, who teaches in the Gibson County (Tenn.) School District, has published Common Core Standards for Parents for Dummies, designed to help parents and others understand the standards. It is available from Amazon.

Jessica Harris MEd ’11 is the new principal of Hazelwood Elementary School in the Clarksville-Montgomery County (Tenn.) School System. Prior to this appointment, she had served as assistant principal at Hazelwood.

CMYK

Cami Townsel ’02 (SeeLET’S p. 10.)

GO RACING! “BOOGITY, BOOGITY, BOOGITY!

“The Race is a great book ... it shows us His plan for our lives.” —JD Gibbs, Joe Gibbs Racing

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Winning is in every racer’s blood. They continually push themselves to the edge, physically and emotionally, in pursuit of the checkered flag and a visit to Victory Lane. It is the racer’s way.

Just released: The Race: Living Life on Track, co-authored by Kyle Froman ’04, Darell Waltrip, and Billy Mauldin. Froman and Mauldin participate in Motor Racing Outreach, which provides chaplaincy services to NASCAR. Kyle said that the purpose of the book is “to encourage and We too are racers in the middle of the greatest race known to mankind: life. We want to live in a way that, when we reach our finish line, we can be proud of what we’ve accomplished. We want to be an example for our family and friends. And if we are followers of Christ, we want to hear the words, “Well done my good and faithful servant.”

In The Race, Motor Racing Outreach (MRO) leaders Billy Mauldin and Kyle Froman share the lessons they’ve learned in the pits and among the NASCAR community to help others with their personal mission—preparing for it, receiving it, and then living faithfully on mission. Throughout, three-time NASCAR champion and Hall of Fame inductee Darrell Waltrip offers related stories on what it takes to win the race, giving fans an inside look at his profession and the personal belief in God that keeps him on mission.

DARRELL WALTRIP is the winner of eighty-four career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series™

races and a three-time champion. He currently serves as the lead analyst for NASCAR on FOX. He was recently inducted into the prestigious NASCAR Hall of Fame. Darrell is the author of several books. @AllWaltrip

KYLE FROMAN is MRO Director of Development, overseeing a network of forty Associate Chaplains, as well as external donor and relational development.

@KFromanMRO

BILLY MAULDIN is the President and CEO of Motor Racing Outreach whose sole mission is to introduce the racing community to a personal faith in Christ and to activate church involvement through relationships. www.go2mro.com

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Ashley McCool Cozart ’07 (See pp. 18-19.)

2010s

Kevin Wilkerson ’10, an associate product manager at Bear Archery in Evansville, Ind., leads Anchor Visual Arts, a devotional DVD production agency for Christian authors. In late May, Kevin went to Myanmar, where he

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made a documentary about nonprofit UnCharted International and its Restore Houses for orphans, widows, and victims of human trafficking.

Anita M. Chesney EdD ’10, received an Alumni Achievement Award from North Carolina A&T State University, in Greensboro, N.C., during the March 2014 Founder’s Day program, celebrating that school’s 123rd anniversary. Anita was one of seven distinguished alumni recognized for outstanding contributions to their respective professions, community, and the university. She was nominated for the award by the School of Nursing.

Clifton Smith ’10, was featured in The Tennessean on Sunday, 4/20/14. Clifton and his bride, Rachel Weakley, were the Couple of the Week. The article told how they met and the details of their wedding on 3/15/14 in Clarksville, Tenn.

Ben Anderson MA ’11 (See p. 11.)

Holly Bagwell MSM ’12 (See p. 8.)

Brad Coon ’14 (See pp. 18-19.)

Holland Clement ’14 (See p. 5.)

Richard (Ritchie) Davis ’11 received a master’s degree in school counseling on 5/2/14 from Southeastern University, in Lakeland, Fla. Isaiah Fish ’14 (See p. 4.)

Ashley Hoffner ’14 won the 2014 Citizenship Award, in recognition of the ways she exemplified the spirit of Trevecca.

This award is the highest honor the University gives to a student at Trevecca. Last fall Ashley was the recipient of the Nina Griggs Gunter Student Scholarship Award for 2013.

Ingrid Kiper ’14 (See p. 6.)

Michelle Price-Johnson ’13/MOL ’14 (See p. 5.)

Douglas Pearce MA ’14 (See pp. 16-17.)

Sierra Ross MSM ’14 (See p. 8.)

Carol Seals ’14 (See p. 6.)

Noelle Silas MSM ’14 (See p. 9.)

Tyler Whetstone ’14, editor of TrevEchoes during his junior and senior years, is a reporter for the Jackson Sun, in Jackson, Tenn.

Tammy Mentzer Brown, current student (See p .11.)

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ALUMNI AND FRIENDS WE WILL MISS . . .

Wilma B. Glenn ’39, of Jacksonville, Fla.—1/15/14 Wilma was a faithful servant in Nazarene congregations in Atlanta, Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla. Ruby Stovall Hawkins ’45 of Albany, Ky.—10/9/2012 Ruby was a retired elementary school teacher.

Adrian Wayne Rosa ’49, of Concord, Mich.—5/10/14 Adrian was attending Trevecca and preparing for ministry when he joined the U.S. Navy in 1941, following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He was injured during the Saipan invasion and received a number of awards for his acts of bravery.

He was the pastor of several churches and taught Christian education.

Donald K. Ballard Sr. ’50, of Memphis, Tenn.—4/3/14 Donald was a retired lieutenant-JG in the U.S. Navy and a retired minister in the Church of the Nazarene.

Carey L. Foster ’51, of Haw River, N.C.—4/4/14 Carey, a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, was retired from Bank of America after many years of service.

He was a longtime member of the White Rock Church of the Nazarene in N.C. Melvin L. Thompson ’59, of Franklin, Tenn.—4/1/14 Rev. Thompson served as a pastor in the Church of the Nazarene for 38 years. He was a pastor who operated on principle and integrity and served with unquestionable ethics.

All who knew him considered him a selfless servant of Jesus Christ.

Robert Chason ’67, of Monroe, La.—4/23/14 Robert was a retired minister, having served in Churches of the Nazarene in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

Peggy Quarles ’69, of Dalton, Ga.—3/1/14 Peggy taught 35 years in public schools and 9 years in graduate school at Lincoln Memorial University. She was a proponent of lifelong learning and devoted her summers to institutions here and in Europe.

William Ray Thompson Jr. ’69, of Marietta, Ga.—11/13/13 Bill traveled with the Trevadores quartet as pianist while at Trevecca, and he served for many years as a church pianist and organist.

Terry Jewell ’78, of Nashville, Tenn.—4/25/14 Terry, whose career included positions with AT&T and La-Z-Boy, died following a courageous battle with cancer.

He had been a member of the Nahsville Symphony Chorus in the past.

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Gregory Coleman Milby ’85, of Syracuse, N.Y.—4/10/14 Greg was a web developer, graphic designer, and dog lover. He enjoyed playing the guitar and banjo and was a fierce Scrabble opponent. He cared deeply for his family, and especially his wife, for whom he would do anything.

He worked for WNAZ during his Trevecca days. Gary succumbed to cancer.

Karissa Carr Smith ’00, of Taichung, Taiwan— 4/13/14 Karissa’s zest for life expressed itself through her love of reading, cooking, scuba diving, hiking, and traveling. She had a passion for helping others and enjoyed volunteering at an orphanage in Korea. Her teaching career included positions in Nashville, Tenn.; Cheonan City, Korea; and Taichung, Taiwan.

William David Brown ’93, of Lawrenceburg, Tenn.

—3/25/14 William, a native of Paris, Tenn., and a military veteran, was the safety director of school buses for Lawrence County Schools.

Former employee Wayne Gallup, of Erin, Tenn.—4/8/14 Dean Gallup, as he was known to many, served the Trevecca Nazarene University family for 18 years in a variety of roles. He later served another ten years at Trevecca Towers. Wayne loved to sing, and he often performed solos and sang in quartets.

Charles Ronald “Chip” Clark II ’97, of Columbia, Tenn.

—4/13/14 Charles was a physician assistant in the emergency room at Maury Regional Medical Center in Columbia, Tenn. He had volunteered on mission trips to Swaziland and Mozambique.

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2014 Homecoming Schedule

Thursday, November 6 7:00 PM

BIG FISH: The Musical Benson Auditorium Adult $10, child and senior adult $8

10:00 AM

Founder’s Day Chapel Sanctuary, Trevecca Community Church

11:00 AM

11:30 AM

Pilgrimage to McClurkan’s Grave

Friday, November 7

Emeritus Reunion Luncheon President’s Dining Room, Jernigan Student Center, for alumni of 50+ years

1:30 PM Nazarene Theological Seminary Reunion

Fireside Room, Bud Robinson Bldg.

2:00-4:00 PM

Waggoner Library Open House

4:30-6:30 PM

Homecoming Family Dinner Apple Dining Room, Jernigan Student Center, a come-and-go event

7:00 PM Trevecca Town and Country Showcase

“The Courts,” Trevecca Community Church

Last year’s hit returns!

7:00 PM BIG FISH: The Musical—Benson Auditorium

Adult $10, child and senior adult $8

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9:00 PM

Trojan Madness Trojan Fieldhouse Student-led pep rally for first Trojan basketball game

Saturday, November 8 8:00 AM

TNU Challenge Fun Run A fund-raising event for KidPOWER sponsored by Trevecca’s Department of Athletics and KidPOWER.

8:30-11:30 AM Reunions of classes, clubs, and

affinity groups 11:00 AM

Homecoming Parade and Street Fair NOW ON SATURDAY! Campus Center.

11:30 AM

Pre-game Tailgating Lunch Hart St. at the side of Tidwell Building with blow-up games for kids

2:00 PM

Lady Trojan Basketball Game— Trojan Fieldhouse Trevecca vs. Tennessee Wesleyan

3:00 PM BIG FISH: The Musical—Benson Auditorium

Adult $10, child and senior adult $8 4:00 PM

Trojan Basketball Game— Trojan Fieldhouse Trevecca vs. Tennessee Wesleyan

7:00 PM BIG FISH: The Musical—Benson Auditorium

Adult $10, child and senior adult $8

Sunday, November 9

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Visit the church that you attended during your Trevecca days.

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2014 Alumni Awards T-Award—Minister

First Chapter Award

ROBERT PERRY ’58 Robert, who earned an MA and a PhD, served as pastor of Churches of the Nazarene in Hartsville, Anniston, and Florence, Alabama, and a United Methodist Church also in Alabama. For 35 years, he was a missionary to Mozambique and Swaziland, South Africa; he established the Nazarene Information Center in Johannesburg, which houses early records and a comprehensive pictorial display of Nazarene work in Africa in education, health care and church activities. He and his wife have three daughters.

KELLY PLUMMER KING ’99 Kelly is the first Trevecca graduate to become a partner in a big-four accounting firm, PwC, and she did so in fewer than 15 years. She began her career with PwC immediately after graduation and worked in Bermuda for PwC for three years. Each year Kelly speaks to Trevecca accounting students, and she frequently mentors accounting students. She was a featured speaker earlier this year at the Trevecca Association of Business Professionals Luncheon. She is married and the mother of a son.

T-Award—Layperson

McClurkan Award

MAE SPRUILL BEAVERS ’92 Mae, who began college at Trevecca in the 1960s, returned later to earn an MHR degree. She has served her community and state in the following positions: Wilson County Commission, 1990-1994; member of the TN State House of Representatives, 1994-2001; TN state senator, 2002—; former Chair, Judiciary Committee, TN State Senate; current first vice chairman of the State Transportation Committee; a member of the Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. She is a member of Trevecca Community Church; she and her husband have two sons.

JUDITH STOCKS Judith Stocks earned a BS, MN, and PhD and then served as a missionary nursing instructor in Swaziland, Africa. She also taught nursing at the University of Alabama, Medical College of Georgia, Olivet Nazarene University, and Texas Woman’s University.

At Northwest Nazarene University, she established a program of nursing and was chair of the Department of Nursing. Currently writing a training module for Crisis Care Training International, she is retired in South Carolina, where she enjoys Bible Study Fellowship, making new friends, and being with family.

Reunion information will be available on www.trevecca.edu/alumni and through the mail.

Reunions TBA—Young Alumni and Trevecca Missionaries. Contact alumni office if you want to participate.

Cluster reunions for these classes: 2004 (those in 2003 and 2005, please join), 1994 (those in 1993 and 1995, please join), 1984 (those in 1983 and 1985, please join), 1974 (those in 1973 and 1975, please join), 1964 (those in 1963 and 1965, please join) If this year is a special reunion for your class and you would like a reunion, please contact the alumni office at ndunlap@trevecca.edu Art by Alumni An exhibit of art by Trevecca alumni artists will take place in Waggoner Library during Homecoming Weekend.

Contact ndunlap@trevecca.edu/615-248-1238 if you would like to display your work.

NEW ELECTED ALUMNI BOARD MEMBERS Don Hastings ’69, President East Tennessee—Thomas Crummer ’09 Georgia—Allison Hendershot Stark ’91 South Carolina—Paula Baggott Winchester ’90 North Carolina—Donna Kaney Philemon ’76 Treveccan Summer 2014

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The Magazine of Trevecca Nazarene University

Summer 2014

HAPPENING AT TREVECCA July 6-10 Camp Electric July 14-18 Worship Arts Summit July 14-18 Master’s Teacher Conference July 21-25 The Salvation Army Graduate Religion Week August 22 Move-in Day for Freshmen August 24 Move-in Day for Upperclassmen August 25 Registration Day for Upperclassmen August 26 First Day of Classes

Go to www.trevecca.edu for more information.

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