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New Campus Sculpture Embodies Generosity in Service
2008–09 Annual Report
WestwindThe Journal of Walla Walla UniversityFall 2009
wallawalla.edu/westwind
The Student Missions Experience
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Alumni Homecoming WeekendApril 22–25, 2010Plan to join us for a memorable weekend where you can reconnect with classmates and friends.
Weekend Highlights
For schedule, ticket, and lodging information: alumni.wallawalla.edu or call (800) 377-2586
Homecoming BanquetA special tribute to our Alumni of the YearFriday, April 23, 5:30 p.m.
Gatewayto ServiceCelebrating 50 Yearsof Student Missions
Honor Class ReunionsSabbath afternoon, April 241960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 2000
Sabbath ServicesJoining together in Sabbath worshipFirstServe speaker—Jon Griebel ’00Second Service speaker—Karl Haffner ’85
Student Missions ReunionSpend time sharing memoriesSabbath, April 24, 7:30 p.m.
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4 Campus Current
9 Bits and Pieces
10 One Extraordinary Year
16 Alumnotes
19 In Memory
21 Annual Report
31 From My Point of View
32 College Avenue Crossings
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Contents
Westwind is published three times a year for alumni and friends of Walla Walla University, a Seventh-day Adventist institution. It is produced by Marketing and Enrollment Services/University Relations. This issue was printed in November 2009. Third-class postage is paid at College Place, Wash. © 2009 by Walla Walla University.
Westwind/University Relations 204 S. College Ave. College Place, WA 99324 Telephone: (509) 527-2513 Toll-free: (800) 377-2586 E-mail: westwind@wallawalla.edu Online: westwind.wallawalla.edu
Westwind Fall 2009, Volume 28, Number 2
Editor Rosa Jimenez Writers Lisa Krueger, Sarah Radelfinger, Chelsea Vymeister Production Manager Sarah Radelfinger Design Robert Car Graphics
About the cover Photographer Chris Simon, a senior psychology student, spent one year as a student missionary, working as a teacher in Palau.
Walla Walla University is a community of faith and discovery committed to – Excellence in thought– Generosity in service– Beauty in expression– Faith in God
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A biblical story of service and faith is at the heart of a new bronze sculpture
planned for the Walla Walla Univer-sity campus.
Inspired with words from the university mission statement, “Gen-erosity in Service,” the bronze sculp-ture will feature a life-size scene of Jesus washing the feet of contem-porary disciples. It will be installed this school year on the lawn in front of the University Church.
“Jesus’ use of water to wash the disciple’s feet preceding the Last Supper was to teach humility and service to those ambitious men by becoming their example, and an example to all Christians,” says sculptor Alan Collins.
The Class of 1950, led by class president Bruce Johnston (1925–2009), initiated the project in 1999 as a gift to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the class. Jon Dyb-dahl, president of WWU at that time, supported the project, encouraging planners to expand their idea of an interior sculpture and commission a campus centerpiece sculpture. Other donors have joined with the class to complete the project.
Collins received the commis-sion from WWU in 2006. Sculptor Alan Collins is an Oregon-based artist. One of his most well-known sculptures in Adventist circles is “The Good Samaritan,” installed at Loma Linda University and Medical Center. n
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A pedestrian-friendly College Avenue corridor and a revitalized campus core
are two of the initiatives outlined in Walla Walla University’s new campus master plan—the most comprehensive physical plan ever developed for the university. The plan will guide decisions about physical campus improvements, including building priorities, traf-fic flow, pedestrian safety, and the general use of campus space.
President John McVay worked with the administrative team and the University Master Planning Committee to launch the project in 2007.
“Walla Walla University was weighing significant decisions about potential new buildings and department relocations,” says McVay, “and we concluded that to make the best decisions, we needed to have a comprehensive, long-term plan for the campus.”
The university hired Integrus, an architectural firm based in Spokane, Wash., to assist in de-veloping the physical master plan. Integrus advised the university to begin the project by eliciting the opinions of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members. Through surveys and meetings, participants offered their opinions about everything from enrollment size and class offerings to campus parking and pedestrian flow.
Jim Nestler, who served as chair of the University Master Planning Committee during the plan’s de-velopment, reviewed the results of the surveys and discussions with
campus members and meetings with Integrus and city officials. “Issues that kept cropping up were College Avenue, car and pe-destrian traffic patterns through campus, and the need for a cam-pus core that better served our students and our academic mis-sion,” says Nestler. “The students, staff, faculty, and administrators on the committee did a superb job of working as a team to look at the long-term and campus-wide implications of every decision.”
The physical master plan ad-
dresses these issues and more. With an eye toward growth, the plan also outlines major building priorities, including a new library and student center. In addition, the plan also outlines new or re-vised roads and pathways for pe-destrian and vehicular traffic.
“Our goal is to accent the beauty of our campus and create a new, robust infrastructure for student services at the heart of it,” says McVay.
Although the plan is projecting some campus improvements as far as 20 years in the future, WWU is already making campus improve-ments through the following cur-rent projects.
NUrsINg AND soCIAl Work The leading current project is the renovation of the second floor of Winter Educational Complex.
When completed, the renovated space will be the home of the School of Nursing and the Wilma Hepker School of Social Work and Sociology. The funds for this project were raised as part of the Faith In the Vision capi-tal campaign. The two schools will enjoy a renewed and invit-ing east-facing entry along with the Department of Health and Physical Education.
PortlAND CAmPUs The School of Nursing on the Portland campus recently remod-eled existing space in its classroom building. The project included library renovation, new classroom dividers, and an additional com-puter lab. Also, construction on a classroom addition will start this year, allowing the program to grow by 60 more students.
BUsINessThe School of Business began the 2009–10 school year in a new location. Moving from the Winter Educational Complex, the school’s new home is in Bowers Hall. This relocation is one of the steps the school is taking to build visibility and enrollment for one of WWU’s largest programs.
CoNveNIeNCe storeAn expansion of The Express, WWU’s convenience store, is dou-bling the size of the store’s original 1,600 square feet. The new addi-tion will provide restrooms, more customer seating, and larger food preparation areas. n
An Eye to the Future
the proposed version of College Avenue (top) will enhance both safety and eye-appeal. Wide and attractive pathways (bottom) in the proposed physical master plan will encourage pedestrian traffic.
Document to Guide Campus Planning
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tom Thompson was finish-ing up his senior year in 1968 as a chemistry major
at Walla Walla University when he decided, just for fun, to add a few mathematics classes and a second degree program. Medical school came next. “But it didn’t grab me,” he said. So he headed to University of Washington for a master’s degree in mathemat-ics, graduating in 1971. During a time when jobs were scarce, he received two offers, including one from WWU. The position at WWU had become available when someone who had accepted the job had, at the last minute, unexpectedly declined to come.
Almost four decades later—taking just a short leave to complete his doctoral stud-ies at University of California Davis—Thompson is still in the classroom.
“I wasn’t planning to teach, but it was providential,” he says. “I knew this job was made for me. I’m starting my 39th year and I feel that I’m the luckiest person in the world. I’m doing precisely what I enjoy. I love working with the students. When I’m teaching them, I see the furrowed brows and then as I explain the concept to them, I see their faces relax and break into a smile as they begin to understand.”
During his career with WWU, he published a book in 1984, From Error Correcting Codes Through Sphere Packings to Simple Groups, now in its fifth print-
ing with The Mathematical Association of America. Based in part on what he did for his doctoral dissertation, his book incorporates mathematical his-tory, a professional hobby for him.
Last year, Thompson was chosen by fel-low faculty to be the 2009 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer. This honor is awarded to in-dividuals who have demon-strated excel-lence in teaching and scholarship, and involvement in governance, church, and com-munity service.
His lecture, “Shape and Dimension,” drew from his interest in mathemati-cal history, observing how familiar geometric shapes such as circles, spheres, and cubes have played im-portant roles throughout written history. “Sometimes these shapes were used in scientific descriptions such as the shape of the moon and its path in the sky. At other times these shapes were connected to es-thetic or even philosophical ideas,” says Thompson. “Examples here
include the most pleasing rectan-gular building or seeking the shape of perfection itself.” However, Thompson observes, during the early part of the nineteenth cen-tury, new ideas about shape and di-mension were emerging and, by the latter part of the century, mathema-
ticians were exploring geometrical dimensions greater than three.
Thompson’s classes include calculus and advanced calculus, as well as abstract algebra. Since 1991, he has also contributed to the honors program, teaching Science and the Arts with Terrie Aamodt, professor of English and history. He has been a math club sponsor since its inception five years ago. He has made presenta-tions around the globe, including in Brazil, Canada, and Poland.
In addition to being a math-ematics teacher, Thompson is an amateur astronomer, shar-ing his interest with colleagues and students who go stargazing with him. About 15 years ago, he was instrumental in helping raise money and setting up the observatory at Kretschmar Hall. He recently attended the Oregon Star Party in the remote Ochoco National Forest with more than 700 people. Another interest for Thompson is woodworking. The desk in his office is designed from recycled table pieces he re-trieved from the WWU library. On the walls in the lobby of the Department of Mathematics, there are several mathematical symbols, including a summation symbol, resembling an “E,” that are Thompson’s handiwork.
Thompson holds a doctoral de-gree from University of California Davis. He and his wife, Clare, a junior high teacher at Rogers Adventist School, have three grown children, Trina, Heidi, and Tyler. n
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“I’m doing precisely what I love doing,” says tom thompson, professor of mathematics.
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New Professors Start 2009–10 School Year
Alex Bryan, new senior pas-tor for Walla Walla University Church, and his wife,
Nicole, had just bought a house in Tennessee and were preparing to settle down, but Bryan says, God had other plans.
“Nicole and I had a very real sense of God’s call to Walla Walla. This is a church and community longing to be faithful both to scripture and to a
ministry in our present context.”After earning degrees in his-
tory and religion from Southern Adventist University, he attended the divinity school at Andrews University. He completed a doctoral
degree in ministry from George Fox University. Bryan has served as a pastor for 13 years.
“I love pastoring because I un-derstand it to be the business of helping others explore the limitless
adventure of God. We cannot con-tain Him in one book or sermon or conversation,” says Bryan.
Along with Nicole, a 1997 WWU graduate, and 3-year-old daughter, Audrey, Alex brings his vision of the potential for local churches.
“All other parts of Adventism find their meaning when the local church is firing on all cylinders. We desper-ately need a generation of young
people graduating from our schools, pouring into our local churches, and revolutionizing them with prophetic vision and transforming love.”
Bryan believes that a church should be on fire for God.
“The Walla Walla University com-munity has a reputation for initiative, innovation, curiosity, beauty, creativ-ity, excellence, and big thinking,” says Bryan. “The way I see it, these are the first qualities we recognize in the God of Genesis 1 and 2, and what He envisions for people who are created in His image. I love that WWU embraces this vision in such a profound way.” n
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the Bryan family welcomed more than 1,300 dinner guests at the church’s first “the longest table” event.
kari Firestone graduated from Walla Walla University with a nursing degree in 1994 and received her masters of sci-ence in nursing education from Loma Linda University in 2006. She began teaching as an as-sistant professor at Loma Linda University in 2005 and is joining the Portland, Ore., campus as an assistant professor of nursing. Debbie lampson is a 1982 WWU nursing graduate and is re-turning to the university to serve as a clinical instructor for chronic illness, an academic adviser, and a clinical placement coordina-
tor. She is currently working on her masters of nursing educa-tion degree at Walden University. Lampson has worked as an ad-ministrative supervisor for Kaiser Permanente Hospital. She also has two years of teaching experience as a clinical instructor.
Pamela Bing Perry joined the Billings, Mont., campus as the new assistant professor of so-cial work and also as the Billings social work program director. Bing Perry received bachelor of science degrees in business admin-istration and behavioral science from Union College in 1984,
and earned her masters in business administra-tion degree from the University of Kansas in 1988. She received a second master’s degree in marital and family therapy from Loma Linda University in 2003. In 2009, also from LLU, she earned a doctoral degree in marital and family therapy.
melodie selby is a 1986 WWU civil engineering graduate. In 1994 she received a masters of science in civil engineering with a concentration in environmen-
tal engineering from Washington State University. Selby has worked for the Department of Ecology in Lacey, Wash., where she taught and developed training sessions. She also managed the depart-ment’s storm water, waste water, and reclaimed water programs. n
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For seven Walla Walla Uni-versity students, a study tour of Bible lands became
an unforgettable setting for a pub-lic commitment to Christ.
Three chose to be baptized on the Isle of Patmos, where John the Revelator received his vision for the book of Revelation. Two others chose Philippi, in the river where Paul baptized Lydia, the first European convert. For the final two, the setting was a ho-tel swimming pool in the Greek town of Meteora.
“In a time of life when many young adults drift away from spiritual commitments, we were delighted to see these seven re-
affirming their decision to put Jesus first,” says Carl Cosaert, professor in WWU’s School of Theology. “The baptisms were a real spiritual blessing, but they were just a small example of the blessings we all experienced on this trip.”
The three-week tour of Turkey and Greece was the first of its kind sponsored by WWU. Participating students earned eight hours of general studies religion credit. From June 23 to July 14, 2009, 40 students, two faculty and one staff member saw the Bible come vividly alive as they visited sites mentioned in the book of Acts, Paul’s letters, and
the book of Revelation.The trip took the group as
far east as Antioch, just above the Syrian border, and the place where Paul began his missionary journeys, taking the gospel to the Gentiles. “Our students caught hold of the missionary zeal that prompted him to give his life
spreading the good news,” says Cosaert. Other stops included Istanbul, Tarsus, Laodicea, Pat-mos, and Ephesus. The tour con-cluded with the cities of Athens and Smyrna.
Cosaert followed this stu-dent tour by leading a two-week study tour for the North Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. The tour, “The Footsteps of St. Paul and the Seven Churches of Revelation,” led 22 participants through sites in Turkey.
Cosaert hopes this will be the first of many similar trips, and is already planning on leading a sec-ond tour in 2011. “I’m convinced this is a unique opportunity not only for our students to visit a dif-ferent culture, but to experience the Bible as never before,” he says. “It’s better than any sermon, book or Bible class.” n
During a day that included visits to Philadelphia, sardia, thyatira, and smyrna, students leave a gymnasium and head to a Jewish synagogue.
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NEW EqUIPMENT RESOURCE TO RAISE LEvEL Of STUDyScience study and research in the Walla Walla Valley has been significantly enhanced with a grant award from the National Science Foundation. The founda-tion awarded $800,000 to neigh-boring Whitman College for the
purchase of sophisticated equip-ment that will also be used by Walla Walla University students. Collaborative use of the equipment was a key component of the grant proposal.
The grant has secured two sophisticated instruments for shared use.
A 1,200-pound $388,000 nuclear magnetic resonance instrument,
or NMR, will give chemistry students the opportunity to view real spectra as opposed to textbook examples, and also the molecular structure of chemical compounds. A
$407,000 scanning electron microscope will give students
the opportunity to view surfaces magnified thousands of times. Students will gain skills as they operate the sophisticated equip-ment—experience critical for grad-uate schools.
“Funding organizations have in recent years increasingly favored collaboration grants,” says Ginger Ketting-Weller, vice president of academic administration. “These grants strengthen the exchange and sharing of ideas and resources between partners. With two un-dergraduate programs benefiting from this grant, the funding ac-complishes more.”
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Ring the BellsThanks to the Class of 2009, the Walla Walla University Church carillon and the Administration Building bell now ring in tandem at the top of every hour between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. Professors and students at the School of Engineering restored the carillon to working condition, and the bells have been pealing perfectly since commencement in June.
The carillon, originally installed in the late 1960s as a gift from Clyde and Marry Harris, stopped functioning properly in the 1990s. The carillon is now played from both an electro-mechanical controller and the organ keyboard in the University Church.
The Administration Building bell is one of the few artifacts remaining from the old administration building that was demolished in 2003-04. The bell is also
played from an electro-mechanical controller.
Field of DreamsThe new women’s softball field, The Hebbel-Janke Softball Complex, hosted its first game in October. Named after donor Richard Hebbel and long-time assistant coach Bernie Janke, the facility includes features such as new dugouts and field lighting. Walla Walla University President John McVay joined athletic director Tim Windemuth and softball coach Michael Jimenez at the dedication, which was followed by two games between the WWU Wolves and Boise State University. Hebbel and Janke threw the game’s first two pitches to commemorate the event.
Calling All Computer ProgrammersPut your problem-solving and computing skills to the test—and you may win one of three tuition grant prizes. If you are an academy or high school student, visit cs.wallawalla.edu/contest to see how you can win a grant of $1000, $500, or $250. The contest is open feb. 1 through March 21, 2010. Winners will be announced during University Days held April 4-6, 2010.
Let’s Go With LegoComing to Walla Walla University April 10, 2010, budding engineers will showcase their skills during the annual North Pacific Regional Robotics Challenge. Student teams, primarily fifth- to eighth-graders, will present a robot, created from Lego components, and compete with other teams in a series of challenges. This year’s theme “Smart Move: Transforming Transportation,” will help kids learn how to access people, places, goods, and services safely and efficiently. One month later, WWU will host the National Robotics Challenge. On May 10, 2010, the highest performing teams will compete.
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it’s mid-September, and Katie Davis’ suitcases lay untouched. As her peers begin folding away wool sweaters, zipping laptops into their
cases and strategizing how to cram that last crate into their parents’ al-ready over-stuffed minivan, Katie has yet to drop as much as a toothbrush into her two bags. Though the crisp evening temperatures in the Walla Walla Valley indicate the end of sum-mer and the start of another school year, Katie won’t be walking the halls of Kretschmar or Bowers this year. Instead, she will board a plane bound for balmy São Paulo, Brazil, where, come October, she’ll trade in her famil-iar role of pupil for teacher, Senhorita Davis to her new students.
Katie is one of 82 student missionar-ies who will leave the creature comforts of home this year to teach, preach and heal in far-flung places many of us would likely be unable to locate on a map. Whether bound for Palau or Pueblo,
Colo., each student has his or her own mission story.
Katie’s started years ago.“Ever since I was a kid I’ve always
wanted to be a missionary,” she says. “This is the most opportune moment for me to do it, when I have nothing hold-ing me back.”
Indeed, the 2009 Spanish graduate postponed the inevitable—matriculat-ing as a graduate student or navigating the prickly post-crash job market—to pursue her lifelong goal of being an SM. In preparation for her trip, Katie has been teaching herself Portuguese, a language similar to Spanish, and while the prospect of mastering an-other tongue is largely the reason Katie chose Brazil, she’s hoping to get more from her eight months abroad than a language lesson. She’s hoping to grow closer to God. To be pushed beyond her normal comfort level. To become more outspoken about her faith. In short, she’s hoping for the kind of
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Fifty years after Walla Walla University’s first student
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life-changing experience afforded only through a year serving others.
‘Get Your Apprenticeship For Foreign Mission Work At Walla Walla College’Katie’s clearly not the first to pursue a new sense of purpose through mis-sions. In fact, the 2009–10 school year marks the 50th anniversary of Walla Walla University’s Student Missions program. But the story of missions at WWU begins much earlier than that. The foundation of the university was built upon service.
Flip through chapter 12 of profes-sor Terri Aamodt’s WWU history Bold Venture and an image emerges of a university con-structed for the purpose of prepar-ing young people to answer God’s call
throughout the world. School planners “ex-
pected that virtually all of the college’s graduates would serve in either ‘home missions’ or ‘foreign missions,’” reads the text. This was a calling students were excited about. They were so keen in fact, that a small group formed the Foreign Missions Band in 1898, divid-ing themselves into groups representing their intended destinations including Africa, the Far East, South America, Europe, and India. Students met to train and study the languages and cul-tures of those places.
Also at that time, WWU’s curriculum was quite vocationally oriented, empha-sizing practical knowledge that would come in handy in the field (think: sponge bathing). Further solidifying the
university’s prep-school status, WWU was deemed by the General Conference as a training center for Malay and Chinese languages during World War II. Yet this entire curriculum had only one purpose: to train students for service after graduation.
Per Bold Venture, alumni and mis-sionaries Orley and Lillian Ford were even quoted in the 1925 Mountain Ash yearbook as saying, “We have seen prac-tically every college graduate succeed, many of those of lesser training unsuc-cessful, and everyone without any train-ing in one of our schools fail … Get your apprenticeship for foreign mission work at Walla Walla College and then come and help us.”
Of course students found time to volunteer, yet the fact remained that they were encouraged to pursue long-term mission work only after receiving their degrees. But in the summer of 1959, with little ceremony, WWU stepped into a
new era of its service history, send-
ing out its first student missionary: biology and physical education major Glenn Heath.
Now an artist in Mount Shasta, Calif., Heath recalls his summer “teach-ing Eskimos to swim” fondly. He felt no particular “call,” as many SMs do, saying he was merely asked by then-physical education professor Eugene Winter if he’d like a job teaching children to swim in Alaska, the same year the 49th state was admitted to the Union, incidentally.
Heath spent the next three months shuttling, sometimes by car but mostly by bush plane, from his base in Anchorage to camps in remote wilderness locations, staying in accommodations as basic as a tent or as lavish as a local’s home. More than a swim instructor, Heath was practically a one-man camp-
directing band, planning all of the kids’ activities, including morning and evening worships, and everything in between.
Though each stint lasted only seven to 10 days that was plenty of time to occa-sionally raise the locals’ ire.
“There were people who were really, really not happy we were there because they owned camps and we were kind of taking over things that they did,” Heath recalls. “If they really didn’t want us we packed up—one time in the middle of the night—and left.”
Yet the good almost always out-weighed the bad. Heath remembers most vividly the generosity of the people. When one of his host fami-lies learned he missed having a glass of milk with his meal—the Alaska tundra is no place to raise cows, after all—Heath found a glass of the scarce commodity in front of his seat, and his
seat alone, at the dinner table that evening.
“So I started drinking it,” Heath remembers. “And it was nasty! It was soy milk. I knew these people were poor, and I was raised to be po-lite and appreciative, so I drank the milk, so it wouldn’t be so bad. A lot of people like soy milk. It just isn’t a pref-erence of mine. Anyhow, I’m talking away and I look down and somebody had refilled my glass already!”
Fifty years later, SMs still appreciate the kindness of those they serve. What started with Heath, the first lone mis-sionary sent to the Alaskan wilderness, has blossomed into a thriving campus program that sends 70 to 100 SMs each year.
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‘The Better We Prepare Ourselves, The More Wisely We Serve’Though it’s no longer the practice to reserve long-term mission work for graduates, that is not to say students leave ill-prepared for their year abroad. In fact, the application process to be an SM is surprisingly rigorous—the first true test of a would-be missionary’s mettle.
Before she could even think about Brazil, Katie went through the same lengthy application process every SM completes before they leave for their post, starting with a visit to the small
building on College Avenue that houses the Student Missions
Office. Former SMs serve as the staff—a knowledge-able, reassur-ing voice for prospective missionaries. From there,
students fill out two de-tailed ap-plication packets, which include seven references, a person-
ality test, a health exam, a specially formatted resume detailing volunteer experience and hobbies and interests, and grade printouts. The candidate must also undergo interviews with five returned SMs, a three-credit ori-entation class, an orientation retreat, and much more. The application goes through no fewer than five commit-tees, often a four-month processing period, before a student is given the green light.
“When we have it that involved we have a very high success rate for students who go out,” says Jeanne Vories, director of student missions.
Theology professor Paul Dybdahl, who teaches the orientation class
“Introduction to Cross-Cultural Ministry,” agrees.
“I think God can use all sorts of peo-ple, but the better we prepare ourselves, the more wisely we will serve,” he says. “The more wisely we serve, the greater impact we will have.”
A former student missionary him-self, Dybdahl took the same class from his father, former WWU President Jon Dybdahl, back in the late ‘80s. He often relies on his own experience in Thailand to illuminate his lectures and curriculum, which is a mix of world religions, communications and basic travel knowledge.
“Probably the best part of class is the fact that recently returned SMs visit and share stories, advice, and encouragement to the outgoing SMs,” Dybdahl says.
Something else Vories and Dybdahl try to prepare students for is culture shock, both in go-
ing and coming back. According to Vories, students often have a harder time adjusting after returning home
from a post—a sort of reverse culture shock or “re-entry stress.”
“It’s difficult saying goodbye to the family and friends that they’ve met and made throughout the year. They don’t know if they’ll ever see them again,” Vories says. “Many times they say they cried all the way home.”
‘They Cannot Help But Be Changed’It’s undeniable the nearly 3,000 student missionaries sent by WWU over the past 50 years have had an impact on the peo-ple they serve and the places they tread. But, according to Vories, it’s often the SMs themselves who return the most
changed. Many will attest that their rela-tionship with God has grown. That they feel more confident. That they’re ready to lead. In fact, more than half of the last 10 ASWWU presidents have been returned student missionaries.
“Their experience overseas grooms them to be leaders,” Vories says. Today’s Adventist pastors, teachers and business-men and women aren’t just made in the classroom; they’re tried and tested in the marshes of the jungle and the heat of the tropics.
“No matter what their reasons were for going, they cannot help but changed,” Vories says. “Seeing how stu-dent misionaries are changed is the most rewarding part of my job.”
Once SMs return to campus, Vories schedules an exit interview of sorts with each, where she gets her first oppor-tunity to see the changes in the stu-dent, many
of whom become like her own chil-dren after months of close work and prepa-ration for the journey and com-munication while in the field.
“I realize at that age they’re going to mature anyway, but they just seem head and shoulders above where they were when they left,” she says.
It’s not just Vories who notices shifts in returned SMs’ demeanors; many no-tice these changes in themselves, often in the midst of their year abroad.
Though less than six months returned from his teaching post in Palau, psy-chology major Christopher Simons can already sense changes in his perspective. Most of all, he says material possessions don’t matter so much to him anymore after seeing how little his students had, yet how happy they were.
One experience that really high-lighted this change was allowing his students to use his beloved camera, without reservation.
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“I wouldn’t let my kids use it at all because, you know, it’s my camera,” Simons remembers. “I didn’t want any-thing to happen to it. By the end of the year the kids took my camera around and walked around taking pictures, and it just didn’t matter to me. I realized those little things like that, even if some-thing were to happen to it, seeing the students light up and having fun and taking pictures of themselves with my nice camera made it all worth it.”
Newly returned SM Shantel Jamieson agrees that it matures one’s thinking. The junior nursing major spent six months working in two different or-phanages in Kenya, Africa, where her job description was simply to love the children. She played with them, co-ordinated their medical care and even organized a hygiene class for the young girls. But tragedy was never far from Jamieson’s view. One day, a young child died in her arms. “Once you’ve seen death right before you and life right before you, your perspective of your own world back here just changes com-pletely,” she says.
Many students chose a mission field closer to home, em-barking as taskforce workers to other states in the U.S. as
academy deans, tu-tors, and organiza-tional volunteers.
For 2007 English graduate Samantha Silva, a year in Portland, Ore., helped her solidify her true calling as a teacher—without even stepping foot into an academy as she had intended.
In the summer of 2004, Silva packed up her recently purchased car (an an-swered prayer from God) and headed for Vancouver, Wash., where she lived
with a friend’s family while working at International Children’s Care, which operates and funds homes for needy children across the globe. Silva’s main task was to write stories about these kids to help garner sponsorships and donations. Torn between a career in writing or teaching, Silva felt an op-portunity like ICC would help clarify her decision.
While she enjoyed crafting these nar-ratives, it was one of Silva’s seemingly banal tasks that would prove pivotal. The then 22-year-old was asked to learn a new database program the organiza-tion was adopting and teach her co-workers how to use it.
“One of the best days I had was the day I got to go teach it to them,” Silva remembers. “One of my co-workers looked at me afterward and said, ‘Sam, I don’t know how you did that. You did that with so much patience. You ran through the same question about 15 times. No wonder you’re going to be a teacher.’ God showed me through my co-workers that while I could do writ-ing, because I’m a good writer, my true gift, my true passion, was for teaching.”
Now an English teacher at Glendale Adventist Academy in Glendale, Calif.,
Silva is just one of many former service workers who say their missions experi-ence led them to choose a particular career path.
When Jamieson returned from Kenya, one of the first things she did was switch her major from physical therapy to nurs-
ing, having worked closely with a nurse at one of the orphanages.
“I just realized how much of a differ-ence you can make, even on a mission trip. You’re just able to be the first hand there that so many people need, espe-cially in Third World countries.”
After finishing her studies, Jamieson intends to return to a Third World country to help in some capacity.
‘Missions Is My Passion’Cynics would say that Jamieson’s pledge to lifelong service is just an idealized fantasy of a freshly returned SM. But what happens decades later when the sheen of a year abroad has tarnished? How does the mission experience trans-late after a career, a spouse, and kids enter the picture? Do the truths learned about one’s self and the world they in-habit still ring true? For many SMs the answer is an emphatic yes.
Donna Collins, a 1985 office admin-istration major, decided at the age of 7 or 8 that she wanted to be a student missionary af-ter a girl from her church returned from Peru regaling the congre-gation with her stories. So it was no surprise that
one of Collins’ first stops on the WWU campus during Summer Start was the chaplain’s office to
see what she needed to do to make her childhood dream a reality.
Shortly after the end of her fresh-man year, Collins left for Harajuku, Japan, where she taught English and led Bible study groups and Sabbath School classes. While there, she also befriended
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an elderly couple across the street, who became her “Japanese parents.” Though they’d lived across from the Adventist compound for 20 years, it was Collins who first introduced them to the church.
“The biggest thing I did was open a little bit of a door for them into what Christianity was—why that compound was there and what it was about,” Collins remembers.
But the chief effect that year in Japan had on Collins was to plant the seed of mission mindedness, one whose branches would become intertwined with her career aspirations.
“Because of my experience there and realizing what it felt like to be some-where else where you don’t know the language, you don’t know the culture, the food is all different, it kind of be-came a personal mission of mine to really kind of watch out for those kids who came on campus from different countries,” Collins says.
When she graduated in 1985 Collins was offered a job as an admissions coun-selor at WWU, a job that lent itself well to aiding newbie foreign students. She be-gan opening her home for weekend din-ners, eventually focusing her efforts into creating a campus multi-cultural office.
As the director of the program, Collins became the den mother for newly arrived international students, picking them up from the airport, tak-
ing them grocery shopping, eating lunch with them in the cafeteria and walking them to class during their first few weeks on campus.
“When I look back I can see how that started in Japan and kind of permeated through my life,” Collins says.
For Ron Wilkinson, a 1978 theology graduate, it was a year in Bangladesh that solidified his lifelong leaning to-ward service.
In 1982, Wilkinson, along with 1976 graduate Keith Canwell, went to war-torn Bangladesh to help build more than 1,200 houses for victims of the genocide. While Canwell was responsible for acquiring building materials, Wilkinson decided whom the houses would be built for and laid the groundwork in South Central Bangladesh.
Now an entrepreneur, Wilkinson not only continues his mission work in Asia but has passed the service ethic onto his children, taking his family on many mis-sion trips throughout the years, with his sons Ryan, a 2009 graduate, and Eric, senior business major, both going on long-term mission trips while students at WWU.
The project closest to Wilkinson’s heart is Sweet Home, an orphanage in Eastern India, where he says the 70 kids who live there feel like his own. He visits them twice a year, making
sure to attend their graduations, expect-ing many will immigrate to the U.S. after finishing nursing school. He also does work at the neighboring school, which happens to have been built by his grandfather.
“The way I explain it is I love busi-ness but missions is my passion and children, specifically, are my passion,” Wilkinson says. “I will do what-ever I can, any opportunity I find that involves kids overseas. Without Bangladesh, I don’t believe that would have happened.”
‘I’m Willing To Experience Anything’Katie will begin packing a week before she leaves for Brazil. She’s excited about the prospect of being in a place where she knows no one and doesn’t speak the language—though she admits she’ll likely become a little more nervous when the departure date draws closer. She also says that she’s embarking with no expectations.
“I’m going down there with a com-pletely open mind,” she declares. “I’m willing to experience anything, whatever comes at me, I’ll be satisfied.”
Yet, with 50 years of history on her side, it’s clear Katie can expect one thing from her year in São Paulo—an incom-parable, life-changing experience. n
It’s July and for the next three months Jeanne Vories will not see the light of day. Literally. By September, Vories and her staff—all recent student missionaries—will send more than 75 outbound students to stations of call around the world.
What does this work take? Energy, perse-verance, knowledge, practicality, attention to detail, and most of all, passion. Former student missionaries say Vories has all these qualities and more.
Vories has served as director of student missions for 10 years, and had a similar role in the Chaplain’s Office for the previous nine years. She remembers clearly the very first student missionary she “processed” 20 years ago. “His name was Grant Geschke, and he went to teach at Stanborough
Secondary School in England. When he re-turned it was incredible to see the change in his life. I was hooked,” says Vories. Since then Vories estimates she has overseen the departures of more than 1,600 students.
After students are at their post, Vories remains vigilant, always ready to resolve the issues that inevitably arise. One day it could be a problem with a visa to Tanzania. Another day the concern could be a hurricane threat to the Micronesian islands.
“What inspires me to this day is knowing that our students are having an experience that will change their lives forever,” says Vories. “They return with extraordinary lead-ership skills, clearer goals and more com-mitted lives. I’m happy to be a part of that.”
Clearing the Path
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Alumnotes
1950s Hal Harden ’59 and his wife, Warrine (McDuffie) ’58, live in Wenatchee, Wash.
Hal works as a semi-retired, self-em-
ployed family physician. In his spare time,
he enjoys photography, skiing, and avia-
tion. Hal and Warrine have three children,
Stephen ’83, Sharon, and Bryan att.
r. gary moon ’59 and his wife, Joan, live
in Lodi, Calif. While at WWU, Gary remem-
bers living in the dormitory and making
friends in the Biology Department. Gary
and Joan have four children, Robert Jr.,
Randall, Mark, and Danielle.
Nancy (Jacobson) schippmann ’59
and her husband, Douglas, live in Boring,
Ore. Nancy has had the opportunity to
travel seven times to mission fields in Be-
larus, Ukraine, Russia, and Mexico. Nancy
and Douglas has five children, Steven,
Stuart, Marie, Stanley, and Michael. She
enjoys spending time with her 19 grand-
children and eight great-grandchildren.
1960s sylvia (kinzer) Blanchfield ’69 and
her husband, Roger att., live in Churdan,
Iowa. In her spare time, Sylvia enjoys art,
writing, and gardening. She also is ac-
tive in her community as a speaker for
women’s ministries, a board member for
various organizations, and a grant writer
for community and social agencies. Syl-
via and Roger have two children, Brett
and Loralee.
Deana (lewellen) Buksas ’64 and
her husband, William, live in Mesa, Ariz.
Deana has taught for 32 years, 20 of
which were for Mesa public schools. She
volunteers at Adobe Adventist Christian
School where she teaches science and
social studies. Deana also enjoys making
quilts for foster children. The couple have
three children, Diane, Michael and John.
mildred (Pomeroy) Deen ’69 lives in
Richland, Wash. She has three children,
Thomas, David, and Carolyn.
shirley (van Derschelden) Davis ’65 and her husband, Kirby ’59, live in
Malo, Wash. Shirley has had the oppor-
tunity to travel around the world. While
at WWU, her memories include bird-
watching, making cards, and studying
wild flowers.
Arsenio Hernandez ’69 and his wife,
Iona (Thompson) att., live in Elmira, Ore.
Arsenio retired after 40 years of service
to the church as a teacher and principal.
However, he enjoys working as a medical
interpreter for PeaceHealth in Oregon.
He has also continued to teach Spanish
part-time at Emerald Christian Academy.
Arsenio and Iona have two children, Rick ’94 and Melissa ’96.
sid kettner ’65 and his wife, Carol, live
in Gray Creek, British Columbia, Canada.
Sid works as a medical doctor. In his
spare time, Sid enjoys jogging, radio-
controlled airplanes, and overseas health
evangelism. Sid and Carol have four chil-
dren, Todd ’93, Greg ’97, Shawna att., and Jane.
myrna (shultz) long ’64 and her hus-
band, Al, live in Prineville, Ore. Before
retirement, Myrna and Al served the
Seventh-day Adventist church at the
Upper Columbia Conference, Oregon
Conference, Gulf States Conference, and
the Georgia-Cumberland Conference.
They enjoy spending their retirement
years actively involved in their local
church. From her college years, Myrna
remembers the Friday night vespers
and worship programs in the dorm.
Myrna and Al have two children, valerie ’91 and Kevin.
roland mays ’69 and his wife, Rose, live
in Goodlettsville, Tenn. Roland works as a
owner and operator for Pyles Transport.
In his spare time, Roland enjoys garden-
ing, Civil War history, and working on
antique cars. From his time at WWU, he
remembers working in the plumbing
department for Leon Tsckritter. Roland
and Rose have two children, Aaron and
Amanda.
loren Nelson ’69 and his wife, Linda (Sichley) att., live in Eagle, Mich. Loren
works as the ministerial director for the
Michigan Conference of Seventh-day
Adventists. His favorite college memory
was meeting and dating Linda. Loren
and Linda have two children, Loren III
and Leslie.
marilyn (Banek) Nelson ’64 and her
husband, Laverne att., live in College
Place. In her spare time, Marilyn enjoys
canning, pencil puzzles, and writing let-
ters. She is also actively involved in her
church. Marilyn’s fondest memories of
college are her friends.
merlene olmsted ’69 lives in Portales,
N.M. Merlene works as a professor in the
family and consumer sciences depart-
ment at Eastern New Mexico University.
She is planning on retiring and moving
back to the Northwest. While at WWU,
Merlene especially remembers hiking in
the mountains.
Dale ortmann ’69 and his wife, Diane,
live in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Dale works as
the principal for the Haaland Group, Inc.
Dale and Diane have two children, Kelli
and Missy.
Janice (Jensen) ross ’69 lives in Wood-
land, Wash. She enjoys needlework, work-
ing with charities, and volunteering at her
local church. Janice has three children,
Michael ’98, Matthew ’97, and Reuben.
Willard santee ’69 and his wife, Joan,
live in Post Falls, Idaho. Willard is a pastor
of two churches. He has written three ar-
ticles for Ministry magazine and an award-
winning sermon in a 1994 talent search in
narrative/expository preaching. His ser-
mons have also been featured on three
radio stations. Willard and Joan have three
sons, Kevin, Kelly, and Kenny.
Dale taylor ’69 and his wife, Sara, live in
Renton, Wash. Dale works as a purchas-
ing agent for the city of Redmond, Wash.
Dale’s favorite WWU memories includes
Friday night vespers.
Jonathan Watt ’69 and his wife, Abbie
(Lam yuen) ’69, live in Vancouver, Wash.
Jonathan works as a medical doctor. In
his spare time, he enjoys traveling,
golfing, woodworking, and mission work.
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Alumnotes
Jonathan and Abbie have four children,
Michelle, Shawn ’96, Jonathan ’02, and
Brandon ’04.
Jerald Whitehouse ’65 and his wife,
Judith (Dietrich) att., live in Loma Linda,
Calif. Jerald works as a special consultant
for Muslim relations for the General Con-
ference of Seventh-day Adventists. They
have lived and worked internationally for
16 years in Libya, Lebanon, Sudan, and
Bangladesh. Jerald and Judith have five
children, Jeralyn, Lavelle ’94, yvette ’94,
Rebecca and Rakilly.
muriel (Wilbur) Zaugg ’64 and her hus-
band, Keith ’62, live in McMinnville, Ore.
Muriel and Keith have two children, Ray-
lene and Deanna. They enjoy spending
time with their seven grandchildren.
1970s margorie (Hodgson) Adelman ’79 and
her husband, Robert, live in Edmonds, Wash.
They have two children, Jennifer and Travis.
lyle Albrecht ’70 and his wife, Peggy,
live in Eagle, Idaho. Lyle works as an evan-
gelist for the North Pacific Union Confer-
ence of Seventh-day Adventists. In his
spare time, he enjoys restoring antique
Cadillacs. Lyle and Peggy have two chil-
dren, Tami att., and Troy att.
glenn Balkins ’79 and his wife, Jennie (Osborne) att., live in Corvallis, Ore. Glenn
works as a dentist. Jennie and Glenn have
two children, Emily curr. att., and Amy.
John Christensen ’79 and his wife, Kris (Hieb) att., live in College Place. They
have four children, BJ att., Jason att., Da-vid att. and Angela att.
Jim eiseman Jr. ’70 and his wife, Lana (Pfaff) att., live in Milton-Freewater, Ore.
Jim retired after 33 years of employment,
the last 13 years spent working as the
academic vice principal at Walla Walla Val-
ley Academy. He writes that he survived
a serious motorcycle accident in 2007, a
life-changing experience for him. Jim and
Lana have one son, James att.
Yvonne (Ames) House ’70
and her husband, Dwayne
att., live in Spokane, Wash. Yvonne works
as the corporation treasurer for the Up-
per Columbia Conference of Seventh-day
Adventists.
teresa (Bromgard) Jones ’79 and her
husband, Bruce, live in Everett, Wash.
While at college, Teresa especially re-
members studying in the book stacks on
the top floor of the library and looking
out a little window at the tennis courts
below. Teresa and Bruce have two chil-
dren, Matthew and Conner.
lora (mcFarlane) Jorgenson ’74 and
her husband, Gary att., live in Laclede,
Idaho. After graduating from WWU, Lora
worked at Rogers Elementary School in
College Place. Gary and Lora were married
in 1975. Since then, they have worked in
the timber industry. Lora and Gary have
two children, Brian ’04 and Kevin.
kathy (Coffin) marshall ’70 and her hus-
band, James, live in Salem, Ore. Kathy works
as a landscape designer. In her spare time,
she enjoys gardening, birdwatching, and
ballroom dancing. The couple met on eHar-
mony .com. Kathy and James have two
children, victor ’99 and Sidney att.
marsha owens-mott ’70 and her hus-
band, James, live in Aurora, Colo. In her
spare time, Marsha enjoys traveling and
spending time with friends and family.
From her WWU years, she remembers all
the great times with wonderful friends.
Clay Patchett ’73 lives in Pasadena, Calif.
Among his lifelong highlights is a trip to
Antarctica to see the emperor penguin.
keith riese ’70 and his wife, Jacqueline,
live in Lincoln, Neb. Keith works as a pro-
fessor at Union College. In his spare time,
he enjoys backpacking, collecting stamps
and playing the organ. From his years at
WWU, Keith remembers the old house
north of Sittner Hall burning down, and
dropping glass bottles down onto Sittner
Hall Courtyard. Keith and Jacqueline have
two children, Kevin, who is deceased,
and Kent.
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gwen (groboll) reeves ’74 and her
husband, Ron ’76, live in Kettle Falls,
Wash. Gwen works as a registered nurse
at Eagle Health Care Systems. Gwen and
Ron have five children, Rhonda, Ben, Jo-
seph, Christian, and Deborah.
kathleen (tucker) salzman ’74 lives in
College Place. When her husband Mark ’71, passed away in 2008, she came to
College Place to live with her son, Alex
curr. att., who is a senior at WWU. Kath-
leen enjoys reading, hiking, gardening,
and healthy cooking.
suzanne (oliver) Wallace ’79 and her
husband, Clifford, live in Battle Ground,
Wash. Suzanne has worked as a regis-
tered nurse for Adventist Health West for
25 years in intensive care. From her col-
lege years, Suzanne remembers attending
WWU during summer school for two years
and working for the custodial department
where she made many lifelong friends.
Suzanne and Clifford have three children,
Kendra att., Jerry ’09, and Crysti curr. att.
linda (Andregg) Wagner ’75 and her
husband, Ed ’79, live in Rogue River, Ore.
Linda works as the
head of the nurs-
ing department at
Rogue Community
College. In her
spare time, Linda
enjoys dirt bike
riding, birdwatch-
ing, and hiking in the hills surrounding
her home. Linda and Ed have two chil-
dren, Eric curr. att. and Chris.
Phyllis (Carlson) Wagner ’75 lives in
Walla Walla. Phyllis volunteers as the
community service director at the Walla
Walla City Church. In her spare time, she
enjoys sewing quilts, gardening, and trav-
eling. Phyllis has two children, Thomas
and Kathleen att.
gladys (steinke) Wentland ’79 and
her husband, Lorin att., live in Milton-
Freewater, Ore. After graduating from
WWU, Gladys traveled to Japan as a stu-
dent missionary and taught English for
two years. Most of her working years was
spent as the materials manager for Can-
ada’s only Seventh-day Adventist-owned
hospital. From her time at WWU, Gladys
fondly remembers getting an “A” from
Dick Kegley on her economics project
and report during her senior year.
1980s Janet Blackwood ’89 lives in Bloom-
ington, Ind. Janet is a doctoral student
at Indiana University. While at WWU, she
remembers the Delta Sigma secret soci-
ety activities, working in the financial aid
office, and being in Verlie Ward’s classes.
greg Brothers ’80 and his wife, Narelle,
live in Lincoln City, Ore. Greg works as a
pastor for a Seventh-day Adventist church.
They have two children, Cecilia curr. att., and Rebecca curr. att.
Joan (thornton) evoy ’89 and her hus-
band, Bob, live in Simi Valley, Calif. Joan
and Bob have two children, Zachary and
Tara.
stephen Winslett ’81 lives in Salem,
Ore. In his spare time, Stephen enjoys
painting chess sets and attending film
and theater events. While at WWU, Ste-
phen remembers friends, the College
Bowl, and theatrical presentations under
the guidance of Donnie Rigby.
1990s Cynthia Dinwiddie ’95 lives in San An-
tonio, Texas, where she works as a senior
research engineer in the geosciences
and engineering division at Southwest
Research Institute. She received the 2007
Rossiter W. Raymond Memorial Award
from the American Institute of Mining,
Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers.
She has also been selected to receive the
2007 Alfred Noble Prize from the America
Society of Civil Engineers. Cynthia is the
author or co-author of 12 peer-reviewed
publications.
r. Brian dos santos ’90 and his wife,
Melissa, live in Ravensdale, Wash. Brian
works as a senior development lead at
Microsoft. He has previously worked for
companies such as Boeing Commercial
Airplane Group, Corning Optical Fibers,
and GE Nuclear. Brian says, “As I review
my career and the places I have been,
it is the opportunities to witness about
Jesus to co-workers that stand out as the
only thing worth remembering, and the
missed opportunities to witness as the
only moments worth regretting.” Brian
and Melissa have three children, Tyler,
Derrick and Anna.
kim Nelson ’90
lives in Salem, Ore.
Kim works as a
graffiti abatement
program manager
for the Salem Po-
lice Department.
Heidi (Jackson) schmalenberger ’99 and her husband, Peter, live in Battle
Ground, Wash. Heidi works in the operat-
ing room as a registered nurse. She en-
joys biking, camping and spending time
at the beach. Heidi and Peter have two
children, Noah and Emma.
Julie (rodman) smithson ’99 and her
husband, Eric ’98, live in Auburn, Wash.
Julie works as a data entry specialist at
Iron Mountain, Inc. They have two chil-
dren, Kyle and McKenzie.
Annette (Beaudry) treat ’99 and her
husband, Kirby, live in Worland, Wyo. An-
nette is a housewife. The couple have
two children, Theron and Jayce.
2000s tammy (Carriveau) Conant ’00 and her
husband, Court, live in Sherwood, Ore.,
with their two children, Evan and Max.
Tammy is a labor and delivery nurse and
recently became a clinical instructor at
Concordia University. Tammy writes that
she “has a wonderful husband, two beau-
tiful boys and a great dog that makes us
laugh everyday.” She is appreciative of the
education she received and believes her
training prepared her well.
Natalie (Davis) Hager ’00 and her hus-
band, Eric, live in Princeton, W. Va. Natalie
is an attorney at Harvey and Janutolo Law
Offices. In 2007, Natalie and Eric adopted
a 15-month-old boy, Alexander, from
Russia. They are currently in the process
of adopting a little girl from Russia. In her
spare time, Natalie enjoys Zumba, danc-
ing, traveling, and bootcamp exercises.
machelle Hartman ’00 and her hus-
band, Jerrold ’99, live in College Place.
Machelle works as a chemistry and en-
vironmental instructor for Whitman Col-
lege and the University of Phoenix. Since
graduation, Machelle has served two
years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the
Philippines, earned a master’s degree,
and produced documentaries with her
husband Jerry ’99 in Suriname. The docu-
mentaries are posted at: eclecticreel.com.
Machelle and Jerry have two children,
Aidan and Mica.
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Fall 2009 Westwind 19
Arnold—Floyd ’77 was born May 1,
1936, in Elko County, Ill., and died March
15, 2009, in Portland, Ore. Surviving: wife
Vicki Arnold att., of Milton-Freewater,
Ore.; son Aaron att., of Otis Orchards,
Wash.; daughter Renee Tomczek ’91 of
Chehalis, Wash.; and sisters Debra Ed-
wards of Pendleton, Ore., and Theresa
Frederickson of Boise, Idaho.
Becker—Robert ’53 was born May 10,
1916, in Beisiker, Alberta, Canada, and
died June 26, 2008, in Elk Grove, Calif. Sur-
viving: son Gerald of Loma Linda, Calif.,
and daughter Sandra of Napa, Calif.
Bolton—Marjorie (Gerking) att., was
born May 21, 1917, in Pocatello, Idaho,
and died April 10, 2009, in Wenatchee,
Wash. Surviving: husband Robert ’36 of
Wenatchee; son Robert att., of Vancou-
ver, Wash; daughters Ruth ’67 of Banning,
Calif., and Alice ’74 of Redlands, Calif.;
brother Duane of Prosser, Wash.; and sis-
ter Darlene of College Place, Wash.
Border—Geraldine (Poole) ’65 was
born Jan. 19, 1918, in Marsland, Neb., and
died Jan. 23, 2009, in Bozeman, Mont.
Surviving: daughter Sylvia Grindley of
Bozeman; brother Arthur Poole of Milton-
Freewater, Ore.; and sister Gloria Garver of
Candler, N.C.
Bungard—Marjorie (Wilcox) att., was
born Feb. 25, 1924, in Keene, Texas, and
died March 27, 2009, in College Place,
Wash. Surviving: husband Stanley ’53 of
College Place; daughters Karen att., of
San Diego, Calif., Marcia Anspach att., of
College Place, Janet Wallenkampf att., of
Bayside, Calif., and Susan ’81 of College
Place.; brother Kenneth of Grants Pass,
Ore.; and sister Marianette Johnston att., of Medford, Ore.
Carleton—David att., was born Dec.
8, 1933, in Sterling, Colo., and died June
19, 2008, in Portland, Ore. Surviving: wife
Marlene Carleton of Tillamook, Ore.; sons
Jon ’75 of Colo, Iowa, Tim of Anchorage,
Alaska, Russell of Nevada, Iowa, and Ste-
ven of Salem, Ore.; and brother Richard of
Westcliffe, Colo.
Collings—Elvin att., was born July 12,
1930, in Elma, Wash., and died Nov. 12,
2008, in Monroe, Wash. Surviving: wife
Velma (Lacy) ’50 of Gold Bar, Wash.; son
David of Bath, Maine; daughters Elaine
att., of Gold Bar, Janine of Napa, Calif., and
Ann of Steamboat Springs, Colo.; and sis-
ter Marie of Vancouver, Wash.
Corwin—Joanne (Wheeler) att., was
born Nov. 2, 1930, in Los Angeles, Calif., and
died Dec. 15, 2008, in Roseburg, Ore. Sur-
viving: husband Duane att., of Roseburg;
son Daryl att., of Roseburg; daughters
Duanna of Auburn, Wash., and Lonna of
Bend, Ore.; brothers Richard of Enterprise,
Ore., and Philip Sieck att., of Roseburg.
Criswell—Beverly (Erntson) att., was
born Jan. 1, 1942, in Portland, Ore., and
died Oct. 26, 2008, in Salem, Ore. Surviv-
ing: daughter Linda Fisher of Kalkaska,
Mich.; and brother Verland Erntson Jr. ’66 of Laurel, Md.
Fleck—Kenneth ’44 was born March
13, 1916, in Battle Ground, Wash., and
died April 24, 2008, in Battle Ground.
Surviving: wife Alcyon (Logan) att., of
Battle Ground; sons Ronald ’65 of Walla
Walla, and Richard ’77 of Battle Ground;
daughters Carolyn att., of Portland, Ore.,
and Alicia ’71 of Greenacres, Wash.; and
sister Jean Fleck-Duncan ’44 of Battle
Ground.
Force—Clifford ’51 was born Aug. 12,
1922, in Saltese, Mont., and died March
29, 2009, in Hillsboro, Ore. Surviving: wife
Doris (Cartwright) att. of Hillsboro; sons
Michael att., of Sacramento, Calif., Gary ’73 of Mead, Colo., and Thomas of Tigard,
Ore.; and daughter Kathleen Saunders att., of Lincoln City, Ore.
Forss—Carl ’58 was born July 19, 1931,
in Bellingham, Wash., and died Jan. 11,
2009, in Walla Walla. Surviving: wife Betty (Bardon) att., of Walla Walla; son Rodney
of College Place; daughter Diana Ras-mussen att. of Binghamton, N.Y.; and
brother Herb of Ferndale, Wash.
Fullerton—Victor ’47 was born Aug.
11, 1924, in Vancouver, Wash., and died
April 18, 2009, in Walla Walla. Surviving:
wife Harriet (Danner) ’46 of College
Place; son Kevin Fullerton ’86 of Walla
Walla; and daughter Linda Leseur att., of
Roy, Wash.
Hallsted-Hoffman—Grace (Colberg) att., was born June 17, 1922, in Linton,
N.D., and died Sept. 7, 2008, in College
Place, Wash. Surviving: husband Walter
Hoffman of College Place; sons Chuck Hallsted ’70 of College Place, David Hall-
sted of Woodland, Wash., and Jake Hall-
In Memory
Long before Donna “Dee” Marie (Westover) Gottschall
att., stepped on the Walla Walla University campus, her pioneer family had historical ties to the Walla Walla Valley. Arriving by wagon train from Illinois in 1865, Dee’s predecessors home-steaded near the current town of Waitsburg, Wash.
Dee met her husband-to-be, Marvin Gottschall ’49, in col-lege, where they both worked in the cafeteria, then located in the basement of Conard Hall. Dee’s children often heard stories about WWU, where Dee’s grandmother attended on the school’s opening day in 1892 and her mother grad-
uated from WWU in 1919 with a two-year degree in bookkeeping.
Dee was a nurturing mother and grandmother, enjoying a unique, loving relationship with each grandchild and great-grandchild. An avid reader and book collector, she developed a personal book collection that numbered in the thousands. Her reading interests ranged from mysteries to history to philosophy to religion and art. Her passion for travel was infectious, and she passed on that love to her chil-dren and grandchildren. She also had a life-long love affair with classic movies; she had a nearly encyclopedic knowledge of mov-ies, actors, and related lore.
Dee was born on Feb. 16, 1927, in Bellingham, Wash., and died Jan. 26, 2009, in Spokane. She is survived by her hus-band, Marvin Gottschall ’49, of Spokane; sons Terry ’73 of Walla Walla; and Marvin Gottschall Jr., ’74, of Chewelah, Wash.; daughter Vicki Colburn att., of Portland, Ore.; sister Virginia Penfold att., of Wenatchee, Wash.; and brother Vic Westover ’49, of Coeur D’Alene, Idaho.
Alumna Proud of Pioneer Roots
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In Memory
sted of Katy, Texas; daughters Jan Hallsted
of College Place, and Judy Hall att., of
Milton-Freewater, Ore.
Holm—Melvin ’52 was born June 10,
1926, in Stanwood, Wash., and died June
26, 2008, in Portland, Ore. Surviving: wife
Dorothy (Kuhn) ’55 of Battle Ground,
Wash.; sons Brent of Oregon City, Ore.,
Wayne ’79 of Vancouver, Wash., and
Bruce ’82 of Sherwood, Ore.; and sisters
Olive White of Everett, Wash., Twila Lyman
of Seattle, Wash., and Arlene Coordt of
Fullerton, Calif.
Holmes—Marjorie (Brath) att., was
born June 27, 1929, in Chicago, Ill., and
died July 18, 2008, in Kettle Falls, Wash.
Surviving: husband Lee Roy ’50 of Kettle
Falls, sons Douglas att. of Long Beach,
Calif., Dennis att. of Redding, Calif., and
Darrel att. of Bozeman, Mont.; and sister
Ellen Enneberg ’48 of Gresham, Ore.
Henriques—Cleve (Bisset) ’48 was
born Dec. 2, 1914, in Trinidad, and died
Feb. 23, 2009, in Pasco, Wash. Surviving:
son John Henriques ’65 of Pasco, and
daughter Maria att., of Woodinville, Wash.
Hoe—Sean att., was born Feb. 4, 1970,
in Braddock Heights, Md., and died Dec.
1, 2007, in Lihue, Hawaii. Surviving: father
Raymond ’68 of Lawai, Hawaii; mother
Sherryl of Lawai; and sister Chara att., of
Lawai.
Jorgensen—Roger att., was born Nov.
21, 1921, in Ogden, Utah, and died Dec. 4,
2008, in Walla Walla. Surviving: wife Viv-
ian of Milton-Freewater, Ore.; son Michael
Jorgensen of Pensacola, Fla.; and daugh-
ters Colleen Stocking of Connell, Wash.,
Cassandra Nelson of Milton-Freewater,
Debora Montgomery of Boise, Idaho,
Loretta Smith of Forest Grove, Ore., and
Heidi Keller of Las Vegas, Nev.
Klopfstein—Warren ’51 was born June
11, 1921, in Loma Linda, Calif., and died
April 9, 2009, in Morton, Wash. Surviv-
ing: wife Virginia (Denney) ’51 of Randle,
Wash.; daughters Janet att., of Salem,
Ore., Shirley James att., of Pe Ell, Wash.,
and Myrna Neff ’74 of Packwood, Wash.;
and brother Clarence ’50 of Gentry, Ark.
Matar—Alfredo ’47 was born Jan. 13,
1922, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Re-
public, and died Nov. 24, 2008, in Loma
Linda, Calif. Surviving: wife Dorothy (Ti-ninenko) ’47 of Loma Linda; daughters
Dorothy Wareham of Yucaipa, Calif., and
Sally Curnow of Loma Linda; brothers
Joe of Monterey Park, Calif., Angel att. of
Santa Maria, Calif.; and sister Grace Savre
of Victorville, Calif.
McDowell—Julia (Bryan) att., was
born Aug. 5, 1916, in Portland, Ore., and
died Oct. 19, 2008, in Portland. Surviving:
husband Alvin McDowell att., of Port-
land; and daughter Judy Shaner ’68 of
Caldwell, Idaho.
Myhre—Gail (Strauss) att. was born
April 24, 1935 in Aberdeen, S. D., and
died Dec. 29, 2008, in Kailua, Hawaii, on
the island of Oahu. Surviving: son Joel
Myhre of Marina del Rey, Calif.; brother
Gary Strauss ’53 of Paradise, Calif., and
sister Linda (Strauss) Hansen att. of Sa-
lem, Ore.
Nelson—Lowell ’60 was born May 18,
1933, in Frazer, Mont., and died Oct. 13,
2008, in Cool, Calif. Surviving: wife Arl-adell (Bond) ’60 of Cool; sons Jefferey of
Spokane, Wash., Jerry of Arroyo Grande,
Calif., and Jimmy of Auburn, Calif.; and sis-
ter Marlene Ferguson of Wolf Point, Mont.
Poole—Joan (Selfe) ’52 was born
Sept. 7, 1923, in Wales, England, and died
March 19, 2008, in Salem, Ore. Surviving:
husband Vernon ’51 of Salem, Ore.; son
David of Orlando, Fla.; daughter Elizabeth
of Salem, Ore.; and brother William of
Prineville, Ore.
Salzman—Mark att., was born July 7,
1951, in Lincoln, Neb., and died June 25,
2008, in Michigan Bluff, Calif. Surviving:
wife Kathleen (Tucker) ’74 of College
Place; son Alex curr. att. of College Place;
father Alex of Scottsdale, Ariz.; brother
Ted att., of Salem, Ore.; and sister Darla
McAleer of Vancouver, Wash.
Smith—Marguerite (Gardner) att., was born May 12, 1922, in Los Angeles,
Calif., and died April 20, 2009, in Loma
Linda, Calif. Surviving: husband Louis ’48
of Redlands, Calif.; and daughter Patti Catalano ’76 of Redlands.
White—Brenda (Lane) ’73 was born
Feb. 14, 1949, in St. Paul, Minn., and died
Sept. 24, 2008, in Walla Walla. Surviving:
husband Nicholas White att., of Mil-
ton-Freewater, Ore.; son Andrew of Mil-
ton-Freewater; daughter Kandis ’01 of
Milton-Freewater; mother Ruth Foss of
College Place; and brothers Randy ’73 of
Hermiston, Ore., Marlin Foss of College
Place, and Terry Foss att., of Cotopaxi,
Colo.
White—Gladys ’40 was born Dec. 25,
1911, in Crosby, N.D., and died June 27,
2008, in Berrien Springs, Mich. Surviving:
sons Merlin att., of Hurdsfield, N.D., Le-
roy of Portland, Ore., Cleon ’63 of Berrien
Springs; and daughter ClaoMay att., of
Berrien Springs.
Witzleben—William ’82 was born April
4, 1935, in Sheridan, Wyo., and died Dec.
5, 2008, in Walla Walla.
Michael and Vanessa (Feldkamp) Pullen, both
graduates of the Class of 1993, were passengers in an airplane that crashed near Butte, Mont., in early 2009. Their children, Christopher and Sydney, and Vanessa’s sister, Amy Jacobsen, were among the nine other pas-sengers who also died in the crash.
The couple married six months after graduating from Walla Walla University, where Michael earned an engineering degree and Vanessa majored in German and went on to graduate from Loma Linda University.
Vanessa was a pediatrician and while devoted to her professional practice, she was even more
devoted to her family creating a tranquil home and active and happy family life. Vanessa was a world traveler and also actively involved in politics.
Michael was a dentist who was known as having a gentle and kind spirit. He also had a reputation for professional excellence. Michael had many interests, including con-struction, photography, gardening, and gourmet cooking.
The Pullen family was travel-ing with two other families: Amy, her husband, Erin Jacobsen, and their three children; and Brent and Kristen Ching, and their two chil-dren. The pilot, Ellison “Buddy” Summerfield, also died in the crash.
Michael was born Dec. 24, 1968, in Deer Park, Calif., and died March 22, 2009, in Butte, Mont. He is survived by his par-ents, Louis and Noellene, of Galt, Calif; and sister Jodi Nevis of Galt.
Vanessa was born May 25, 1971, in Loma Linda, Calif., and died March 22, 2009, in Butte, Mont. She is survived by her par-ents, Irving M. “Bud” and Pam Feldkamp of San Bernardino, Calif.; brother Irving IV; and sister Maggie Cotton.
Family Lived Life to the Fullest
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Annual Report 2008-09
OuR ViSiON
Walla Walla university is a community of faith and discovery committed to
– Excellence in thought
– Generosity in service
– Beauty in expression
– Faith in God
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Revenues $50.5 millionFor the year ending June 30, 2009, WWU suffered its first negative change in net assets in recent memory. However, of the $3 million total loss incurred, $3.5 million (over 100%) is attributable to realized and unrealized losses in endowment net assets and annuity & life contracts resulting from unfavorable market fluctuations stemming from the financial crisis that began in September of 2008.
Auxiliary Enterprises $7.4 million
Sales ($1.5) millionTuition and Fees $37.3 million
Gifts and Grants $3.4 million
Church Subsidies $3.9 million
Sources of Student Aid $35.8 millionThe university operating budget provided $10.1 million in aid to students in 2008-2009. Government aid programs, gifts from alumni and friends, and the endowment make up the remainder of student aid funds.
Walla Walla University $10.1 million
Government $18.4 million
Gifts $4.9 million
3rd Party Lender $2.4 million
Expenses $53.4 millionThe largest annual expenditure is for the instruction of students (faculty salaries, equipment, and books).
Auxiliary Enterprises $6.1 million
Academic Support $2.9 million
Instructional $15.5 million
Public Service $1.4 million
Student Services $3.9 million Institutional Support $7.6 million
Operating and Maintenance $7.2 million
Scholarships $8.8 million
2008-09 Revenues and Expenditures
Gifts From All Sources $6.6 million
Religious Organizations $4.1 million
Foundations $232,312
Business/Corporations $348,313
Alumni $1.1 million
Other Individuals $591,318
Fund Raising Consortia $60,546Other Organizations $120,006
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PercentClass Agent Year Graduates Donors Participation Total(No Class Agent) 1923-1940 162 18 11% $5,725.50
AJ Patzer 1941-1945 140 40 29% $11,322.00
(No Class Agent) 1946 52 12 23% $9,767.50
Muriel Chapman* 1947 61 20 33% $1,732.00
Verona Schnibbe 1948 67 45 67% $9,280.50
Bill Loveless 1949 118 53 45% $11,917.00
Bruce Johnston* 1950 146 59 40% $5,312.00
Ken Spady 1951 145 54 37% $8,910.00
Olen Nations 1952 105 47 45% $15,615.00
Ed Norton 1953 106 32 30% $6,528.45
Stewart Shankel 1954 93 38 41% $5,075.00
Joe Riederer 1955 93 43 46% $2,630.00
Tom and Brooke Stafford 1956 103 42 41% $7,443.00
Victor Fitch 1957 108 56 52% $13,831.50
Pat Johnston 1958 137 68 50% $5,775.50
Ralph and Bobbie Jo Davis 1959 131 64 49% $17,394.50
Shirley Thomas 1960 154 63 41% $7,573.98
Don Dawes 1961 169 58 34% $29,690.50
Dale Beaulieu 1962 136 66 49% $8,335.00
Ed Scheresky 1963 162 54 33% $3,377.00
Bob Brody 1964 160 62 39% $4,985.50
Gerry Miller 1965 147 73 50% $23,835.32
Carlton Cross 1966 204 81 40% $9,385.09
Gary Fresk 1967 166 43 26% $4,789.09
Don Hall 1968 203 47 23% $16,856.50
Jim Robertson 1969 222 55 25% $3,024.84
Larry Evans 1970 226 44 19% $3,958.00
Bruce and Mary Lou Ham 1971 234 49 21% $8,665.00
Fred Biesenthal 1972 261 69 26% $11,885.00
Sheila Palmer 1973 285 57 20% $21,786.39
Rick and Karen Mace 1974 277 68 25% $8,699.00
Ted and Linda Carpenter 1975 288 58 20% $11,751.00
Diana Pierce 1976 283 63 22% $12,734.50
Ralph Perrin 1977 277 57 21% $8,459.00
Beverly Foster 1978 277 79 29% $18,867.00
Warren Kay 1979 269 65 24% $8,091.00
Jeff Kinne 1980 260 67 26% $12,061.00
Lisa Bissell Paulson 1981 293 62 21% $6,228.50
Helen Teske 1982 291 50 17% $7,356.25
Graduates Giving
*Deceased
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Graduates Giving
Gabe Acosta 1983 296 63 21% $6,949.00
Bob McGhee 1984 259 56 22% $5,532.00
Dean Tupper 1985 238 41 17% $16,110.24
Jerry Bauman 1986 273 63 23% $5,932.90
Kevin Krueger 1987 264 40 15% $3,490.75
Keith Perrin 1988 223 34 15% $10,209.50
Linda Abdul-Malek 1989 230 21 9% $4,451.50
Mike Devitt 1990 200 27 14% $1,840.00
Cecily Geschke 1991 237 41 17% $5,031.75
Stacy Peterson 1992 299 33 11% $1,648.50
Julie Sanders Keymer 1993 249 35 14% $4,246.00
Peter Fackenthall 1994 343 16 5% $37,225.00
Jim Kneller 1995 318 30 9% $2,452.50
Tom Hamel 1996 326 28 9% $24,077.48
Ken Aso 1997 359 37 10% $8,229.04
Jorge Barcelo 1998 328 21 6% $5,600.49
Les Zollbrecht 1999 374 21 6% $1,860.00
Greg McCulloch 2000 354 22 6% $2,076.61
Chris Drake 2001 347 24 7% $4,243.61
Mike Vercio 2002 363 20 6% $12,043.50
Chris Santana 2003 337 17 5% $1,447.50
Jessica Stone 2004 430 25 6% $2,870.36
Steve Sanders 2005 435 19 4% $4,456.64
Michelle Santana 2006 454 15 3% $3,458.55
Melinda Hebbel 2007 460 10 2% $751.69
Aaron Linfoot 2008 423 14 3% $1,237.20
Totals 15,430 2,854 24% $568,126.22
PercentClass Agent Year Graduates Donors Participation Total
2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09
Giving Through the Years
$6,621,336.94
$11,119,841.00
$6,468,531.63
$10,267,448.48
$8,317,890.71
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Loan Funds
LoAn BALAnce
African Engineering and Computer Science --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------96,623.64
Wade L. Barnes Memorial --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------12,800.78
George W. Bowers ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10,699.02
Ruth E. Burgeson Memorial ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1,561.49
Roy F. Carpenter Memorial ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------27,558.99
Harold J. Chastain Memorial ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10,592.42
Class of 1924 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------15,008.49
Class of 1958 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------8,828.64
Class of 1961 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5,782.02
Class of 1976 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7,322.92
Engineering ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1,586.21
Andrew and Evelyn Fisher -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2,258,999.63
Ford Foundation Faculty Loan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------146,722.59
Clifford A. Graves Memorial ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2,945.05
Elvin C. Gaines------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------30,334.09
Bertha S. Gray ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6,677.54
William Gettner -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2,276.77
Idaho Conference Laymen Worthy Student -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------165,542.48
International Students --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------12,683.87
Jacob G. Mehling ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------69,075.46
Perkins Nursing Student ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3,793,373.91
Nursing Student --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1,289,463.97
Nursing -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------14,119.26
Orpha Osborne Worthy Student ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------26,646.44
John Potts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------17,729.86
Dr. Eng C. Saw Chinese/Asian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------19,033.87
Bertha Schneider --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3,439.28
Sloop Family ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------50,863.62
Hyretha Smith Memorial -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3,801.19
Starr-Larrabee Memorial ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3,998.75
John E. Weaver Memorial Elementary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------15,989.05
Carrie Welch Memorial -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------93,912.21
Eugene Winter Family ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------57,541.69
Robert G. Wirth --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------855,743.62
Women In Ministry --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------25,365.15
Women’s Student -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------35,119.99
Worthy Student -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------221,901.71
WWU -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1,288,612.46
Total ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10,710,278.13
ENDOWMENT Balance New Gifts ENDOWMENT Balance New Gifts
Endowments
Administration Building Maintenance 1,093,019 -ASWWU Student Aid 37,929 - James and Ruth Bebee Computer Science Scholarship 41,218 16,000 James and Ruth Bebee Nursing Scholarship 110,373 10,000 Beverly Math Faculty Improvement 60,775 500 Shannon Marie Bigger Memorial Christian Service Volunteer Scholarship 31,165 730 Shari Booth Memorial Scholarship 449 270 Lester and Geraldine Border Christian Service Scholarship 137,712 - Alice I. Bowden Memorial Theology Scholarship 61,698 - George W. Bowers Excellence in Chemistry Scholarship 5,859 250 Boyson Family Communication Scholarship 13,330 - John F. Bregar Memorial Scholarship 23,331 1,000 Junior Senior Business Scholarship 9,850 - School of Business 21,654 - Clair and Myrtle Calkins Library Book 121,412 4,000 D. Ordell and Margaret A. Calkins Business/Education and Faculty Development 115,058 - Merle Clairon Calkins Computer Science Faculty Development 26,674 2,500 Lewis Canaday Memorial Technology Scholarship 29,049 - Dr. James R. Chambers Memorial Scholarship 8,603 - Janice P. Chance Memorial Nursing Scholarship 11,787 - Dr. Muriel Chapman Nursing Scholarship 40,799 - Advancement of Chemical Research at Walla Walla University 1,667 35 Percy W. Christian Excellence in History Scholarship 17,301 - A.J. and Gladys E. Christiansen Memorial Scholarship 38,295 1,000 Class of 1954 Scholarship 30,351 2,070 Class of 1955 Scholarship 6,242 - Class of 1957 Scholarship 14,217 550 Class of 1959 Student Missions Scholarship 4,553 4,546 Class of 1965 Scholarship 41,433 1,940 Class of 1971 Scholarship 12,521 940 Class of 1978 Scholarship 8,641 - Class of 1983 Scholarship 14,489 520 Class of 1984 Scholarship 15,839 - Class of 1989 Edwin Zaugg Memorial Scholarship 13,767 120 Class of 1996 Scholarship 112,370 27,020 Class of 1997 Scholarship 5,569 2,250 Class of 2003 Scholarship 5,326 50 Class of 2009 Student Missionary Scholarship 9,717 9,717 Verlin L. and Thelma Kumalae Cochran Memorial Scholarship 16,168 600 Communication Development Course 29,010 - Computer Science Magazine 828 - L.P. “Jim” Corbett English Scholarship 61,709 - L.P. “Jim” Corbett History Scholarship 37,536 - L.P. “Jim” and Jane B. Corbett Student Aid Scholarship 70,445 - Lee Crain Memorial Music Scholarship 1,150 - Edward F. Cross Engineering Scholarship 118,354 -
Vera Davis-Michel Memorial English Scholarship 8,485 500 Edward F. and Clara M. Degering Memorial Educational Scholarship 99,759 - Claude and Annie Deming Memorial Scholarship 23,552 1,100 Loren Dickinson Communications Scholarship 43,576 644 Dietrich/Wilkinson Aviation Scholarship 253 122 Frances Dixon Special Education 7,311 - Dr. Ralph A. Drake Memorial Scholarship 154,526 - Lars and Anna Dybdahl Scholarship 21,790 - Josephine Cunnington Edwards Memorial Scholarship 14,149 20 H. Russell and Genevieve Emmerson Memorial Scholarship 9,228 - Engineering Chair 268,942 - Mary Garner Esary Memorial Scholarship 19,561 - Faculty/Staff Scholarship 78,930 2,951 Dena W. and R.B. Farnsworth Nursing Scholarship 75,715 - Ray and Alice Fowler Scholarship 4,517 - Norma S. Gardner Memorial English Scholarship 56,579 - Wilford and Emma Goffar Scholarship 20,498 - Graduate Dean’s Award 3,010 - Albert E. and Reta J. Graham Memorial Scholarship 160,960 - John J. Hafner Music Scholarship 11,975 10 Lovyl and Mary Hagle Memorial Worthy Student Scholarship 149,969 - Richard and Dena Hammill Memorial Scholarship 16,233 - Thomas Hampson Humanities Merit Scholarship 73,874 - Clyde and Mary Harris Challenge Grant 30,651 - Pauline Hart Memorial Social Work Scholarship 33,029 - Richard and Georgianna Hayden Christian Service Scholarship 83,608 210 Wilma E. Hepker Scholarship 1,576 - Paul and Frances Heubach Memorial Theology Scholarship 31,217 - Jess Holm Memorial Scholarship 10,975 - Juanita Wagner Holm Memorial Nursing Scholarship 13,144 - Helen and Archie Howatson Nursing Scholarship 97,478 - Oland F. Hubbs Memorial Theology Scholarship 20,237 - Vera Johnson Hubbs Memorial Business Scholarship 16,568 - Dr. and Mrs. Harold Huber Scholarship 76,520 - Wynelle J. Huff Nursing Scholarship 78,774 - Jess M. Hutson, M.D., Memorial Scholarship 26,308 - IBCC 23,546 - Jensen Memorial Math Scholarship 22,949 - Murray L. and Ilene Johnstone Scholarship 118,600 - Carl and Lucile Jones Nursing Scholarship 16,073 1,000 Peggy Henderson Kaye Nursing Scholarship 8,945 - Helen Wineberg Kendall Women in Business Scholarship 48,658 - KGTS 14,178 - A.H. and Mary Koorenny Memorial Scholarship 98,932 63,790 Robert H. and Thorna Koorenny Scholarship 35,324 - Kretschmar Hall Maintenance 1,366,381 -
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ENDOWMENT Balance New Gifts ENDOWMENT Balance New Gifts
Endowments
Laura G. Larson Memorial Nursing Scholarship 293,129 - H. Lloyd Leno Memorial Music Scholarship 13,206 50 Lewiston/Clarkston Scholarship 48,371 - Harold Lickey Music Scholarship 1,849 - Jennie M. Livingston Memorial Library 81,493 - Dr. C. Stanley Lloyd Jr. Scholarship 90,222 - Kelly Logan Social Work Scholarship 5,682 5,500 Romulo and Mercedes Lozano Scholarship 10,149 1,132 Mary E. Marker Memorial Theology Scholarship 60,569 - Roy and Lois (Dorland) Martin English Scholarship 21,499 - Mathematics Scholarship 28,797 8,400 Sukhdev Mathaudhu Engineering Scholarship 11,515 - Warren Matheson Memorial Christian Service Scholarship 14,459 - Matiko Theology Award 8,284 - Harden M. McConnell and Alvin L. Kwiram Award 16,934 500 Eldena McDow Scholarship 6,056 - Messenger/Loewen Scholarship 8,843 - Jack Evan Miles Memorial Scholarship 14,781 - Joseph and Beth Murray Memorial for Resident Assistants 43,745 25 Music Scholarship 15,398 - Llewellyn and Vivian Nixon Scholarship 41,421 - Nursing Scholarship 39,531 55 Daniel A. Ochs Memorial Theology Scholarship 7,401 - Dr. and Mrs. Howard Osborne Scholarship 18,445 - Blythe Owen Music Scholarship 26,575 - Doreen Paulson-Evans Memorial Scholarship 16,758 150 Yvonne Pickett Memorial Scholarship 26,995 - Piper-Johanson Scholarship 46,750 - Helen L. Popoway Library 79,505 - Robert L. Reynolds Excellence in History Scholarship 15,810 - Robert M. Reynolds Memorial Scholarship 15,168 - Donald W. Rigby Biology Faculty Research 54,526 - Donald W. Rigby Biology 95,112 25 Donnie Rigby Drama Award 7,102 1,000 Rigby Hall Maintenance 97,235 - Lilah Schlotthauer Risinger Mathematics Scholarship 9,915 -
John D. Rogers, M.D., Memorial Scholarship 52,050 - Rosario Marine Station Maintenance 327,828 - Thomas C. Rowsell Memorial Scholarship 34,182 1,000 Gayle L. Saxby Memorial Scholarship 14,940 - Schlotthauer Mathematics Scholarship 10,016 - Eleanor B. Schofield Memorial Teachers Scholarship 713,824 - Cecil W. Shankel Memorial Chemistry Scholarship 18,422 2,175 Shattuck/Zitterbart Memorial Nursing Scholarship 139,181 - Donald and Virginia Sherwood Memorial Scholarship 92,817 - Carolyn Stevens Shultz Scholarship 11,135 200 Dan Shultz Music Scholarship 10,417 - Solomon Scholarship 98,354 - Gene and Betty Soper Music Scholarship 40,006 - Robert L. Spies Memorial Scholarship 8,304 - Glenn Spring Music Scholarship 9,416 - Joseph L. Stubblefield Memorial Scholarship 214,973 10,000 Janis Suelzle Memorial 83,720 - T5 Foundation Business Excellence 114,278 - Theology Library Book 13,480 - George and Lola Thompson Memorial Scholarship 37,262 - E.E. and Jane Breese-Trefz Christian Service Scholarship 122,962 - Clarence O. Trubey Memorial Music Scholarship 9,385 - Undergraduate Advanced Study 4,692 - Verde Fund for Graduate Marine Research 2,721 - Eva Stratton Vliet and Jess Vliet Scholarship 22,111 200 Stanley E. Walker Music Scholarship 11,227 - Francys C. Welch Scholarship 293,905 - Melvin K. West Music Scholarship 5,107 - Lois Whitchurch Nursing Scholarship 7,502 - Monte Wilkins Memorial Scholarship 39,237 - John and Inez Willey Family Memorial Scholarship 11,516 100 WWU Student Aid 1,352,604 6,603 Randy Yaw Pi Contest Scholarship 3,020 - Young Memorial Lecture in Biology 45,497 - Norma R. Youngberg Scholarship 16,521 - Totals: 11,672,137 194,070
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Lester and Geraldine Border Christian Service EndowmentMission and volunteerism were the hallmark of the lives of Lester and Geraldine Border. Lester, who attended WWU, and Geraldine (Poole), a 1965 graduate, were frequent volunteers with Maranatha International. Their dedication to service led to their desire to support student missionaries.This scholarship is awarded to returning student missionaries who have served at least one school year in the field.
Class of 1957 EndowmentMembers of the Class of 1957 contribute to this fund to assist students with their education. This scholarship is awarded to students who demonstrate financial need and academic merit.
Dr. C. Stanley Lloyd Jr. EndowmentC. Stanley Lloyd Jr. believed his life was one of many miracles. Stanley arrived on campus with only $4 of the $36 required to attend school. A chance meet-
ing with the college president led to a campus job for Stanley. A few months later, he had the funds necessary to begin classes. After graduating from WWU in 1935, Stanley attended Loma Linda University Medical School. Following in his footsteps, all five of his children and five grandchildren attended WWU. This scholarship was established by Stanley and his wife, Pearl, and is awarded to students who demonstrate financial need and academic merit.
Dena W. and R.B. Farnsworth EndowmentAs a team, Dena W. and R.B. Farnsworth helped countless people through their service in the medical field. As a general practitioner, R.B. delivered more than 1,000 babies in home births. He later specialized in ear, nose, and throat medicine. Dena was a nurse. This scholarship is awarded to students who have two-year nursing degrees but are returning to school to obtain a bachelor’s degree in nursing. Also eligible are female students who are starting nursing education later in life.
New Scholarships
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Benefactors Society and Independent Colleges of Washington
Benefactors SocietyMembers of the Benefactors
Society have included Walla
Walla University in their
estate plans.
Alice Ames
Kirk and Melody Ayers
Don and Alyce Bais
Beverly Beem
Darold and Barbara Bigger
Tim and Lois Blackwelder
Maxine E. Blome
Robert and Georgene Bond
Lester* and Geraldine* Border
Burton Briggs
Merrilyn Brown
Grace Cafferky
D. Ordell and Margaret Calkins
Merle Calkins
Lois Carscallen
Sue Cason
Muriel Chapman*
Douglas and Carmen Clark
Naomi Cochran*
Carlton and Nancy Cross
Walden and Ellen Davis
Donald and Orletta Dealy
Donald* and Elaine DeVries
James* and Joyce Dutro
Jon and Kathryn Dybdahl
Paul and Kristyn Dybdahl
Wilder Eby
James and Vicky Edwards
James Eiseman
D. Joyce Engel
Dorsett Feyen
Howard Finke*
Allan and Donna Fisher
James and Christine Forsyth
Brant and Marion* Foster
Marcene Garriott
Henry and Mayme Gerber
Oscar Gerst
Earl* and Vera Dean Gregg
Don Hall
James and Ruth Hall
Beatrice Ham
Bruce and Mary Lou Ham
Howard and Elizabeth Hanafin
Edward Harding
Lewis and Ruth Hart
Eugenia Hixson
Stanley and Mary Hixson
Lloyd and Lorena Hoffman
Helen Holiak
Archie Howatson
Wynelle Huff
Eunice Johnson
Ed and Marilyn Karlow
Mary Kincaid
Charles and Irene Kirkpatrick
Clarence and Helen Klopfenstein
Melvin and Joyce Lang
Louise Lawson
William and Winona Lee
Nancy Ann Linder
Walter and Luella Litchfield
C. Stanley Lloyd, Jr.*
Sandra Love
Dan and Betsy Matthews
Lyman and Victoria Miller
Eldon and Opal Mills
William and Marjorie Moreno
James and Alice Nash
Olen and Mary Nations
Dan and Mary Necker
Ted and Nancy Nedderman
Jim and Nancy Nestler
Joan Ogden
Calvin and Alyse Olson
Howard and Monta Osborne
Effie Pampaian
Jim and Della Park
Beulah Payne
Tom and Barbara Pelett
Fyrnn Pendry
Lloyd and Fern Piper
Hoe T. and Mary Poh
Betty Pritel
Robert and Barbara Richards
Lois Norton Ritchie-Ritter
Geneva Smith Roberts
Alberta Roth
Glenna Ryder
James Sadoyama and Thais
Thrasher
MayBelle Sargeant
Doyle and Lorelei Saxby
Marcella Schwisow
Jaclin Smith
Lloyd and Edith Smith
Louis and Marguerite* Smith
Sam and Carol Smith
Ralph and Franice Stirling
Everett and Shirley Tetz
May Tetz
Roger Thiesen
Griffith and Shirley Thomas
Ella Thornton
Margaret Trautwein-Cook
Gordon Travis
Phil and Reid Wasser
Ray and Pat Watson
Ray and Rosemary Watts
Dorothy Weisz
Melvin and Betty West
Sylvia Wilson
Virginia H. Wilson
Tim and Cheri Windemuth
Gerald and Vicki Winkle
Wade and Rosalee Wolfe
Yew-Chong and Lilly Wong
*Deceased
Giving Through Independent Colleges of Washington (ICW)
The following companies and
individuals support higher
education by contributing to
ICW (a consortium of private
colleges), which directs its gifts
to the state’s private colleges
and universities.
Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air 1
The Anderson Foundation 1
Loren J. and MaryAnn W.
Anderson 7
Ash Grove Charitable
Foundation 6
Babieri Charitable Foundation 6
Bank of America Foundation 7
Banner Bank 6
Richard E. and Betty Jane
Bangert 5
Richard E. and Dawn Bangert II 6
George D. Bartell 5
C. Michael and DeLona Lang Bell 7
Ben Bridge Jeweler 5
The Boeing Company 1
Violet A. Boyer 5
George Bridges 7
Brooks Manufacturing Company 6
Nancy Bruner 7
Burlington Northern Santa Fe
Foundation 4
Paul Cantor 7
Anne Cassidy and Bob Fuller 7
Analisa Castaneda 7
CH2M Hill 6
Ben B. Cheney Foundation 4
Columbia Bank 5
Costco Wholesale 2
Crane Fund for Widows and
Children 5
Craves Family Charitable
Foundation 6
Alice J. Cunningham 6
Michael and Patty Daniels 7
Joseph and Sandra DePaepe 7
Mark Doumit 7
Philip W. and Sharon K. Eaton 7
Expeditors International of
Washington, Inc. 2
Ferguson Construction 5
The O.D. Fisher Charitable
Foundation 5
Tom Fitzsimmons 6
Foss Maritime Company 5
The Fosseen Foundation 5
William M. Garvin 7
Kenneth J and Beryl N Goodchild 4
Green Diamond Resource
Company 5
Nicholas Goman 7
Groninger and Co. Inc. 7
Richard W. and Pamela B. Gross 7
Gull Industries, Inc. 5
Chris T. and Jennifer M. Heman 6
HSBC North America 3
Roy F. Heynderickx 7
Independent Colleges of
Washington 4
Don and Ann Jenkins 7
Glenn Johnson and Michael
Melancon 6
JP Morgan Chase and Co. 4
William W. Kilworth Foundation 4
Isabel Joyce Piliavin Charitable
Trust/The Seattle Foundation 7
Isabelle S. Lamb 7
Lawton Printing, Inc. 7
James T. Linardos 6
Leigh Ann Lucero 7
John K. and Pamela S. McVay 7
McVey Marketing Inc. 7
Microsoft Corporation 7
Miller Nash LLP 5
R. Steven Mitchell 7
Greg Montgomery 6
Jim and Eve Moran 7
The Norcliffe Foundation 3
Nordstrom 3
Norman Archibald Charitable
Foundation 4
PACCAR Inc 3
PEMCO Foundation, Inc 2
Proctor and Gamble Fund 7
Rodney G. and Constance
Proctor 7
Puget Sound Energy 4
The Rabel Family Advised Fund/
The Seattle Foundation 5
Red Lion Hotels Corporation 5
Laura and Jim Rehrmann 6
William P. Robinson 7
Kathleen Ross, snjm 7
Todd and Melaine Ruberg 6
Safeco Insurance Foundation 3
Doloros Saletic 6
Cynthia and Greg Scheiderer 6
Douglas W. and Amy L. Schutt 6
Steven T. Seward 7
Sheraton Seattle Hotel 4
Robert Spitzer, S. J. 7
Sterling Savings Bank 4
Stephen V. Sundborg, S. J. 7
Ronald R. and Mary D. Thomas 7
Cleven J. and Connie B. Ticeson 7
Titus Will Families Foundation 6
The UPS Foundation 3
US Bank 3
Ellen J. Wallach 7
Joseph H. Ward 6
Washington State Auto Dealers
Association 5
Wells Fargo Foundation 5
The Wollenberg Foundation 2
1=$ 100,000+
2=$50,000-$99,999
3=$25,000-$49,999
4=$10,000-$24,999
5=$2,500-$9,999
6=$1,000-$2,499
7=Below $1,000
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Volunteers and Activities
Alumni Association Officers David Hutton, Chair
Robert Wood, President
Jerry Hiner, Vice President
Sherrice Croft, Secretary
Richard Hellie, Treasurer
Board MembersEd Ammon
Toni Busby
Dennis N. Carlson
Don Dawes
Lorraine Jacobs
Mike Kearbey
Beulah Stevens
Randy Unterseher
Executive CommitteeEd Ammon
Dennis N. Carlson
Sherrice Croft
Richard Hellie
Jerry Hiner
David Hutton
Robert Wood
ParliamentarianThomas Knoll
Alumni Endowment Investment Committee Ed Ammon
Corina Car
Janine Childs
Richard Hellie
David Hutton
Duane Meidinger
Loren Peterson
Randy Unterseher
Robert Wood
Alumni Event Hosts
DESERT HoT SPRiNGS,
CALiF.
Jerry and Beverly Bass
Pat and Dorothy Larson
LoMA LiNDA, CALiF.
Clark and Melissa Bassham
John and Ione Brunt
Bert and Eveyln Connell
Alan and Heather Krause
PoRTLAND, oRE.
Tom and Brooke Stafford
Jim and Judy Zarchrison
SEATTLE, WASH.
Gary and Udell Fresk
Richard and Carmen Graham
SPoKANE, WASH.
Brad and Susan Davis
WALLA WALLA, WASH.
Michael and Tobi Goff
Jason and Becky St. Clair
BRiTiSH CoLuMBiA, CANADA
Adriana Scuka
WWU VolunteersJanet Anderson
Alice Archer
Jean Bakland
Don and Lois Barrett
Valerie Bass
JaneAnn Bennett
Deirdre Benwell
Jack and Evelyn Bergman
Robert Bergman
Garnet Bigger
Rella Brandenburg
Marjorie Bregar
Carl Brenneise
Cheryl Cain
Jim Cain
Sandi Campbell
Larry and Lois Canaday
Dorothy Canwell
Casey and Barb Casebolt
Rick and Betsy Claridge
Jon Claridge
Sandra Clark
Bryce Cole
Bernard and Margaret Cook
Ann Cornell
Loretta Cotter
Marion Dressler
Bonnie Eichner
Jean Fletcher
Carolyn Gaskell
Paul and June Giarde
Norma Glatt
Virginia Gonthier
Larry and Jacqueline Goodhew
Charleene Grellmann
Stan and Kathy Hazen
Frances Henderson
Virginia Hoffarth
Ilo Hutton
Bernie and Carolyn Janke
Pat Johnson
Echo Johnston
Ruth Joice
Kevin Kellogg
Lois Kind
Richard and Twyla Kruger
Durwood and Irma Lee
Viola Lenz
Curtis and Audrey Lindsay
Don Loomer
Katrina Lyons
Timber McCandless
Camille McNeilus
Walt Meske
Deana Miller
Dolores Morgan
Bill and Virginia Napier
Susie Olson
Lois Pegel
Milford and Carol Perrin
Don and Shirley Peterson
Carol Pflugrad
Carmella Phillips
Nina Prohaska
Pat Reynolds
LaVerne Rudolf
Lester and Vera Ruud
Aimee Saddler
Teri Sannar
Bob and Shirley Sarve
Aileen Saunders
Doris Smith
Garrett Smith
Mary Smith
Ward and Lois Soper
Otis Standley
Vivian Swanson
Wilbur and Lola Sylvester
Karl and Becky Thompson and family
Mike Tohivsky
Caroline Torkelson
Gina Tsujimura
Janis Tsujimura
Helen VanDenburgh
Nancy Vaughn
Barbara Vories
Jim and Kara Wagner
Mabel Wagner
Victoria Wahlen
Cheri Wallace
Verlie Ward
Rosemary Watts
Tim and Cheri Windemuth
Anne Wiseman
Kittee Wohlers
Helen Thompson Zolber
Many more volunteers than those listed on this page give their time to Walla Walla University. Although we do not have their names in our records, we extend our appreciation to these individuals as well.
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Board of Trustees and University Administration
Board of Trustees
chAiR
Max Torkelsen II
Vice chAiR
Russell Gilbert
SecReTARy
John K. McVay
MeMBeRS
Tom Allen
DeLona Bell
Alex Betancourt
Gary Botimer
Kenneth Crawford
Larry Dodds
Mumtaz Fargo
John Freedman
George Gainer
Carmen Graham
Yoswa Gwalamubisi
Don Hall
Alan Hurlbert
Marshall Keymer
Gordan Lacey
Cameron Libby
John Loor, Jr.
Stephen McPherson
Bryce Pascoe
Barbara Prowant
Al Reimche
Mark Remboldt
Paul Rhynard
Sue Smith
Bruce Thorn
inViTeeS
Darold Bigger
Darren Wilkins
Alphonso McCarthy
University Administration
PReSidenT
John K. McVay
Vice PReSidenT foR AcAdeMic AdMiniSTRATion
Ginger Ketting-Weller
Vice PReSidenT foR finAnciAL AdMiniSTRATion
Steve Rose
Vice PReSidenT foR STudenT Life And MiSSion
Ken Rogers
Vice PReSidenT foR uniVeRSiTy AdVAnceMenT
Dennis N. Carlson
Vice PReSidenT foR MARkeTing And enRoLLMenT SeRViceS
Jodi Wagner
ASSiSTAnT To The PReSidenT foR diVeRSiTy
Pedrito U. Maynard-Reid
ASSociATe Vice PReSidenT foR gRAduATe STudieS
Joseph Galusha
ASSociATe Vice PReSidenT foR AcAdeMic AdMiniSTRATion
Scott Ligman
ASSociATe Vice PReSidenT foR finAnciAL AdMiniSTRATion
Glenn Carter
cRediTS
Executive Editor: Dennis N. Carlson
Managing Editors: Dede Steffanson, Chelsea Patten
This report lists information about gifts received from July 1,
2008, to June 30, 2009. A copy of Walla Walla University’s
financial statement may be requested by contacting:
University Advancement, Walla Walla University
204 S. College Avenue, College Place, WA 99324
Phone: (509) 527-2002, Fax: (509) 527-2398
E-mail: dede.steffanson@wallawalla.edu
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Has it really been thirty-seven years since I served as a student missionary?
I look at an old black-and-white photo of village kids gathered around me. Seeing them is like pushing “play” on a video of the adventure of a lifetime—of a year that profoundly clarified my pur-pose for living.
This virtual video of mine be-gins to play. It is now 1972 on the Walla Walla campus. I meet Ron Wilkinson. He’s 19 and I’m 20. Within minutes we discover that we share the dream of going as Extreme Student Missionaries—going where no SM has gone be-fore. Someplace primitive, where people are in desperate need of the help that we can give. We de-cide to team up for a year, if the opportunity comes.
It almost doesn’t. But then an urgent telegram arrives. Needed: two Americans to oversee relief proj-ect in Bangladesh. Millions had recently died in a war. Thousands of refugees returned to find their homes destroyed. Many would die of exposure. This project is to construct over 1,000 tin-and-tim-ber houses near a small Adventist hospital. This is exactly what we were looking for!
Fast-forward six months. We’re now on the ground in the middle of that project. It certainly isn’t all fun and games! Nothing ever gets done on time. Some villagers lie to get houses; others threaten to harm our workers if they’re denied. And eventually a gang
of violent, underground com-munists threatens us. To them we are CIA agents posing as relief workers. (We are shooting film footage of our work, but we’re just making an SM promotional movie.) In spite of the setbacks we soon see hundreds of houses rising up in the surrounding vil-lages. Over 1,000 families will now sleep warm and dry during monsoon storms. Our hard work is paying off.
In the evenings we help out in surgery. A Hindu father brings us the only remaining member of his family—his 5-year-old son. The boy is critically ill with a bowel obstruction. As we roll him into the operating room, the father very reluctantly finally lets go of his son’s hand. A few minutes later I look up to see the father lick-ing a frosted window pane, trying desperately to see how his son is doing. Such love brings tears to my eyes. And a wonderful truth dawns on me: This man may not know God’s name as I know it, but he certainly knows God! I be-gin to see that God already dwells in the hearts of many we were taught to see as “heathen.”
On Sabbath we visit nearby vil-lages. With picture rolls we teach the plan of salvation and the hope of heaven. I rest in the thought that God was already here long before we came. I play my gui-tar, sing about His love, and Ron snaps a photo.
Fast-forward again to near the end of our project. The timber
is almost gone. The monsoon season is bearing down fast, and far-too-many villagers still need houses. Desperate mothers come to us, laying their babies at our feet. They bow low, grasping our ankles as they beg us to build for them. “And if you can’t,” they say, “please take our babies to America or they will die.”
You can’t just walk away from such experiences unaffected. They change you—permanently. I be-gin to realize that life will never be fully good for any of us until it is finally good for all of us—till pain and suffering are no more. And I determine to spend my one life helping people in need, thereby siding fully with the Great Provider and opposing fully the Great Predator.
Now fast-forward 37 years. I am managing a 38-foot Winnebago mobile dental clinic for Medical Teams International. There comes a knock on the door, and I open it to find a woman whose cheek is so swollen that one eye barely opens.
“Is this the place where dentists don’t charge?” she asks. “I don’t have insurance, and I lost my job. I haven’t slept much for three nights.”
I say, “You’ve come to the right place. Come on in.”
Soon the volunteer dentist provides her with the sweet relief of numbness. (He just happens to be Ron’s uncle, Ted Flaiz—a young, 89-year-old retired mis-sionary dentist.) He extracts her tooth because it’s too far gone.
Then I arrange for a partial den-ture so she can job-hunt with dignity.
“God bless you folks for what you do!” she says through tears. “You have no idea what this means to me.”
Actually, I think I do. That’s exactly why I love my work. Bangladesh taught Ron and me that nothing can satisfy like help-ing people. Through our student mission experience, college re-ally did become “the gateway to service” for us. And not for us alone. Hundreds before us and thousands after have also learned to leverage their lives through ser-vice. If I could give just one gift to every college student, it would be to send him or her somewhere as a student missionary. n
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From My Point of View
Keith Canwell, a 1976 theology graduate, answered a call to service in 1972, overseeing a relief project in Bangladesh.
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You don’t have to be an engineer to join Engineers Without
Borders. Senior psychology student Chelsea Moore and junior civil engineering stu-dent Kiffer Green tell Brittany Blankenship all about Walla Walla University’s chapter of this international organiza-tion. Blankenship, a senior English major, stopped by the group’s booth at WWU’s Welcome Back Bash.
Engineers Without Bor-ders is a nonprofit humani-tarian organization that partners with developing communities worldwide to improve their quality of life through sustainable engi-neering projects. Most of its members are engineering students and engineering professionals, like Profes-sor of Engineering Curtis Nelson, who helped found the WWU chapter several years ago.
The WWU chapter plans to travel to Honduras this school year to begin the group’s first project—building an elementary school in the small town of Luis Garcia. Ten years after Hurricane Mitch devas-tated the town, Luis Garcia residents are still trying to rebuild. The three-phase project will begin with the construction of two classrooms, a water tower, a security wall, and a septic diversion channel. n
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