The AdvanceSept. 30, 2019, Issue 3 | Kansas Wesleyan University Salina, Kan.

A Reason to Celebrate: 50 Years of Women in Athlet ics (Pg. 4 & 5)

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Fe for a Cure Race Weekend

This weekend the annual Fe for a Cure 5k run and walk took place along Santa Fe Ave here in town to raise money benefiting patients currently being treat-ed at Salina Regional’s Tammy Walker Cancer Center. Runners showed up to the Kansas Wes-leyan University campus, the southern most end of Santa Fe, bright and early for the 9 AM run Saturday September, 21, for

the event. According to the to-taled results, there were over 550 runners registered. All the funds raised from the cost of entry fees and other donations go directly to the Cancer Cen-ter. Before the race began, those who are cancer survivors walk a lap around the track of the Graves Family Sports Complex at Kansas Wesleyan. Once that was over, a few race announce-ments and words were said and

those cancer survivors were given a welcome. After that, it was time to race. Runners from all over Kansas, and some even from out of state, lined up at the starting line in anticipation of the gun signaling them to go. Participants started at KWU, then proceeded north on Santa Fe Avenue. Once they reached Mulberry Street, the group of runners and walkers turned around, heading back to the university’s campus where the finish line was located. The en-tire street was blocked off for the race making sure the par-ticipants made it to the turn around and back safely.

After the passing the fin-ish line, runners were treated to live, local music and a pan-cake feed serving up stacks of the fluffy breakfast food on the Kansas Wesleyan campus lawn. Race awards were also given out to the top three male and female finishers in each age group. This year, the fastest runner complet-ed the race in 16 minutes and 18 seconds taking home the over-all winner medal. However, ev-eryone who competed received a free Fe for a Cure t-shirt in thanks for competing.

The cost of partaking in the run/walk was $25 for adults (12 and older) and $10 for kids (11 and younger). For those who decided to take a pass on the running but still wanted to be involved in the event, could sign up under the “Couch Pota-to Entry”. Those individuals still payed the same amount of the entry fees, either $25 or $10, re-

ceived a t-shirt, and got to skip out on the race. No one would know if they didn’t actually run or not, just that they support Fe for a Cure. Fe for a Cure has raised thou-sands of dollars in support of the Tammy Walker Cancer Cen-ter, but the race’s success is also due to the business sponsors who are partnered together to help put on the event. Salina Re-gional Health Center (including Salina Regional Health Founda-tion, SRHC Service Auxiliary, and the Tammy Walker Cancer Center), Kansas Wesleyan Uni-versity, Rocking M Media, and North Salina Community De-

velopment all join in to host Fe for a Cure and help those in the fight against cancer. For more information about the Fe for a Cure race or the Tam-my Walker Cancer Center, visit either feforacure.com or srhc.com/services/cancer-services.

Evin Miller | Staff Writer

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Freshman Networking DinnerAbby Wray | Staff Writer Speaking as a fellow fresh-man, students were either excited or apprehensive walking into the networking dinner on Thursday, September 19th at Martinelli’s Lit-tle Italy. But it is fair to say every student left with a full stomach, a good conversation, and possibly even a connection to the real world in their job of choice. This year, 35 different business and education professionals were present at the dinner and 7 of these professionals were KWU Alumnus. Personally, it was a pleasure to meet with some-one who has professional experi-ence in a field I was interested in. Patsy Stockham is the person be-hind the event in conjunction with the Wesleyan Experience classes.

This year was Stockham’s sec-ond year running the event and she thought it was a success saying, “I was very pleased with the event last night... I spoke to Dr. Thompson and we both felt that the students were very engaged in conversation with their tables, their peers, and professional mentors. The feedback was students saying, ‘Thank you for doing this, it was really cool, I got to meet some really neat pro-fessionals.’ And the professionals came back and said, ‘Wow this is an amazing event and you have a really great group of students and I want to stay in touch later on.’

Martinelli’s was a good place to have the event-great food (we were served bread, salad, and two dif-ferent pasta dishes), positive and competent wait staff, and enough seating to accommodate our large

crowd. This was the first year each table came preset with an envelope with some “conversation starters” in them. Among these pieces of pa-per were questions like- What’s the

difference between business casu-al and business professional? What is the importance of networking?  Name something interesting about yourself. These prompts opened the avenues for conversations that otherwise would not have come up and were a helpful tool to avoid awkward silences and pauses.

While I was at Martinelli’s I had the opportunity to try the cheesecake and I would highly rec-ommend it in the future. It was creamy, sweet, silky, and all around really good. It was clearly a home-made cheesecake.

When asked about the future of this event and if it will continue for freshman classes to come, Stock-ham said, “I do believe we will plan on doing this event every year.” She went on to talk about the impor-tance of the event and the connec-tions made during it being impact-ful to students futures and careers. “I think the biggest takeaway [from the event] is that the students learn they can communicate in a pro-

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fessional way. For many of these students they have never encoun-tered an event like this, they have never sat at a table with a vice pres-ident of a bank or the owner of a company and communicated with them on a level of this could be you someday. This is something total-ly new for most of these students if not all these students. The key take-away is there are a lot of people out there that want to see you success-ful,” - Patsy Stockham As Stockholm said at the begin-ning of the dinner, “I’m sure this dinner will be one the freshman won’t soon forget.”

50th Year of Female Athletics at KWU This year marks the 50th year that women have been able to partic-ipate in collegiate athlet-ics at Kansas Wesleyan University. It is a histor-ical landmark because if you look at the history of the male athletics, it goes back to the begin-ning of the institution which was founded in 1886 but it took over 75 years for females to have a fighting chance in col-legiate athletics. Thanks to tahe wonderful Dr. Mary Virginia “Ginny” Bevan, who is credit-ed with helping lay the foundations for female athletics in Kansas and at Kansas Wesleyan Uni-versity, we now have an amazing female athletics department that brings in many athletic and academic accomplish-ments every year.

Our lady Yotes are consistently bringing in the highest team GPAs with having the top sev-en cumulative team GPA’s in the spring se-mester of 2018. This past spring’s semester, there

were a total of twen-ty-four 4.0’s in athletics with nineteen of those athletes being female. To add some more icing on the cake, out of the people that did not get above a 2.0 which was 94, only fifteen of those students were female. Every year since 2011, our Lady Yotes have brought back at least one KCAC Champion-ship title, whether it is from Soccer, Golf, Vol-leyball, Softball, Tennis or Cross-Country, our female teams have domi-nated their conference. Dr. Mary Virgin-ia “Ginny” Bevan has a long history with Kan-sas Wesleyan universi-ty which started back in 1952, when she en-rolled in the institution to major in English and HPER (Health, Physi-cal Education and Rec-reation). From there, Dr. Bevan was hired at Kansas Wesleyan Uni-versity as a physical ed-ucation professor. She wouldn’t retire from KWU until 1997, which

just shows her commit-ment to not only female athletics, but also Kansas Wesleyan as a whole. In 1968, Dr. Bevan was part of a group of wom-en physical education professors who met to try and organize wom-en’s intercollegiate ath-letics at the state level. While there were female sports that sometimes had interschool contests at various colleges, they were not held in any organized manner. In 1969, that group of fe-male educators formed the Association of Kan-sas Women’s Intercol-legiate Sports, which helped start the legacy of female athletics that we have today. Women’s athletics has come a long way since 1969 and we are ex-tremely proud to see where it will go from here. Hopefully, this has brought some insight to our Lady Yotes history and as always Roll Yotes.

Hunter Pane | Staff Writer

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Voices of Eve: An Evening of Women in Music The music department here at Kansas Wesleyan is planning a concert to hon-or the women who have changed the face of music throughout history.  The concert, which is called “Voices of Eve: An Eve-ning of Women in Music” is scheduled for October 7th and will be headlined with a performance by the KWU Wind Ensemble. Howev-er, the evening will be more than a concert and it will be the opportunity to learn about women’s suffrage and the history leading up to the creation of the 19th Amendment to the Consti-tution. That evening, Doc-tor Anita Specht, the Asso-ciate Professor of History here at KWU will be giving a “Concert in Context” lec-ture in the Fitzpatrick Au-ditorium. Alongside this informative lecture, com-ments from composers and the chair of the KWU Mu-sic Department, Doctor Milt Allen will be present as well to help but the con-cert itself into the histori-cal prospective that Doctor Specht will be presenting that evening. After an informative his-torical experience, the eve-ning will change locations and move into Sam’s Chap-el, where the concert prop-

er will begin with the sup-porting act as the KWU Middle School Honor Band will take the stage for a short performance, after the conclusion, the main event featuring the KWU Wind Ensemble will begin.

After the evening has concluded, the five com-posers of the overall mu-sical presentation, Grace Baugher, Kimberly Ar-cher, Nicole Piunno, Mak-enzi Johnson and Steph-anie Berg will be present for a reception in Pioneer Hall. “Voices of Eve” will premier only a few days be-fore KWU’s Homecoming Weekend, during which the university will be celebrat-ing fifty years of women in KWU athletics. The con-cert will hopefully be an incredible, unforgettable experience filled with his-torical significance and an opportunity to open a di-alogue and to have discus-sion. When combined with the upcoming Homecom-ing festivities the following weekend, the concert will serve to kick off a celebra-tion of female contributions to KWU as a whole. For more information and ticket purchases, be sure to visit www.kwu.edu/boxoffice.

Bryce Boyd | Staff Writer

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Sa-WINE-a, the Salina Wine Walk

Melissa Anderson | Staff Writer

If  you love wine, you don’t want to miss this ex-perience. Salina Downtown busi-nesses will become tast-ing rooms. Participants can sample showcased Salina made wines with wine stops, brewery stop, coffee stops, snack stops and water stops. This event will begin at 4 PM and end at 7 PM, and is in conjunction with the Friday Night Live #firstfridaynightlive art edition. Participants will receive a bracelet and a souvenir wine “teaser” to use for samples. The wineries will have bottled wine avail-able for sale. Tickets are $25 per per-son and can be purchased online.