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One of the major hallmarks of Westminster College is the rich and varied educational experienceswe offer our students. Our recently completed fall semester certainly attests to that environment.Just reflecting on the luminaries our students encountered the last few months and the educationalopportunities they received is overwhelming.

Our two-day Symposium on Democracy, a first-time event on our campus,brought some of the brightest and most informed minds on the IraqiWar to Westminster to share their insights through lectures and paneldiscussions with students, faculty and staff. As a visiting Woodrow WilsonScholar, Tanya Melich, one of the pioneers of the American women’spolitical movement, spent an entire week on campus, teaching three tofour classes a day, presenting a lecture and book reading, and interactingwith a multitude of student organizations. Hugh Grant, CEO of Monsanto,one of the largest corporations in America, delivered an IBM lecture oncampus and visited with many of our students. Hugh Lunghi, wartimetranslator for Churchill and one of the only living survivors of majorevents such as the Potsdam Conference, paid a visit to the ChurchillMemorial. Eight of our students came back to us this fall with eye-openingexperiences to share, thanks to our innovative new pilot program–TheTake-A-Friend Home program.

This issue of Leadership captures all of these major events and many more–such as the spectacularPresident’s Dinner. All of us who enjoyed the sights, sounds and tastes that night of the globalcommunity we have nurtured at Westminster as well as the remarkable talents of so many of ourstudents can confirm this was the best President’s Dinner in the history of this annual event.

From just this small sampling of the diverse learning experiences our students are receiving, itshould be no surprise that the world class education offered at Westminster continues to draw stateand national attention and recognition. For the fourth year in a row, U.S.News & World Reportnamed Westminster one of the top liberal arts colleges in the nation and The Princeton Reviewcited us as one of the Best Midwestern Colleges. We are one of only eight Missouri colleges anduniversities to be named to the Presidential Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. Ouradmissions web site is one of the most highly rated in the country by the National Research Centerfor College and University Admissions. The Council of Independent Colleges featured us as one ofonly six Missouri colleges and universities on its new national Historic Campus Architecture website. Our Emerson Center for Leadership and Service received the Innovative Program Award foroutstanding student affairs programs from the Missouri College Personnel Association.

To have so many prestigious citations in one semester is a tribute to the talents of our faculty, staffand students and one of the many reasons we are so justifiably proud of Westminster College.At our family weekend this fall, all the staff and student ambassadors were wearing t-shirtsemblazoned with the slogan “Small Campus, Big Experience.” That succinct but catchy phrasecertainly summarizes what is occurring here at Westminster because we have the best of bothworlds. Our students receive the individual attention and support that only is possible in a smallcollege environment. Yet they also gain a wealth of new and fascinating educational experiencesthat few colleges and universities can match.

We are able offer such a rich learning environment because of the strong support of people likeyou. Thank you for your significant role in ensuring Westminster maintains the highest ofacademic standards. Because of you, we do have truth in advertising. Westminster is a “SmallCampus, Big Experience.”

President Fletcher M. Lamkin

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Westminster Students Make Difference with Community ServiceApproximately 125 students at Westminster College spent their Saturday, Oct. 21, making adifference in the Fulton community through community service project work in their annual“Into The Streets” campaign, sponsored by the Emerson Center for Leadership and Service and theService Corps. This is the fifth year Westminster College students have participated in this project.

This year’s Into The Streets projects included painting at the Fulton Baptist Church, Haven House,CARDV and Central Missouri Community Action; cleaning the Senior Center; decorating JeffersonLodge for Halloween; helping with activities at Presbyterian Manor; sorting donations at theClothes Cupboard; re-roofing the storage shed at the campus garden; walking dogs for the GarretAnimal Shelter; assisting with YMCA youth soccer games; and raking and winterizing nine homesfor people who live on 7th and 8th streets.

FormerWestminster Professor Publishes NovelLeaving the Home Front, a coming-of-age novel by former Westminster English Professor Jay Karr,has been published by Kingdom House Books in Fulton, MO. The book tells the story of MilesMorgan, an All-American football player at the University of Iowa, who joins the military duringWorld War II and becomes one of the paratroopers who landed on the Island of Corregidor.

According to Karr, he started the book in 2001 with the intention of writing his memoirs and thenin the middle of his work realized the material would be better as a work of fiction. “I got two-thirds of the way through and said: ‘This has got to be a novel, because it’s not going to be mystory… it’s going to be the protagonist’s story.’” As a young Army paratrooper, Karr actually sailedpast the Island of Corregidor days after the Japanese surrendered and was always haunted by theimages he saw there of parachute shreds hanging from charred trees–a reminder of the paratrooperswho had jumped out of cargo planes to land on the seaside crags andretake the island from the Japanese. To deepen the story line, Karradvertised in military newspapers to obtain the personal accounts ofparatroopers who actually made the wartime leap and received 25responses.

Karr served as chair of the English Department at Westminster andtaught creative writing at the College for thirty years. In collaborationwith Professor Felix Morrison of William Woods, he established Janus,a student literary magazine, and is well known for his research intothe life and work of Fulton author Henry Bellamann, who wroteKing’s Row. His novel may be purchased at the Kingdom of CallawayHistorical Society in Fulton.

Churchill’s Wartime TranslatorVisits WestminsterHugh Lunghi, wartime translator for SirWinston Churchill, paid a visit to WestminsterCollege Nov. 10. During his visit, Lunghi, aBritish diplomat, historian and journalist aswell as a translator, toured the WinstonChurchill Memorial and Library in the UnitedStates and other campus buildings, met withhistory students over lunch and talked tomembers of the media. His visit was sponsoredby the Westminster History Department,History Club and the Churchill Memorial.

Lunghi served as one of the interpreters for theBritish side at the Tehran, Yalta and PotsdamConferences held by Churchill, Stalin,Roosevelt and later Truman during and afterWorld War II. Having learned Russian from hisAnglo-Russian mother, he was pulled from hisjob as an artillery officer in the Army duringWorld War II and sent to Russia as aide-de-camp to the head of the military mission, whoordered him to travel to the Tehran Conference.

Left to right: Jayme Palmgren, Elena Khramova, Annabelle Rector, Shauna Klein and Jahnvi Pananchikal

Hugh Lunghi


Westminster’s New DiningExperience on theWayThose traveling by the construction site of thenew Westminster dining hall facility, theMueller Leadership Hall, can now see a skeletalframe taking shape as framing and trusses ofthe main structure go up every day. This newgem at Westminster will open in August2007–just in time for the new academic year.One of the highlights of this state-of-the-artfood center will be the use of four of thebeautiful stained glass panels from SwopeChapel, which was vacated in 1966. Thestained glass will be showcased in the corridorconnecting the Mueller Leadership Hall to theMueller Student Center. The two buildings willbe connected so both buildings can be used formeal and catering functions.

While the maximum capacity for the currentdining facility, Robertson Dining Hall, is only230 students, the Mueller Leadership Hall willseat 380 in the main dining hall, whichfeatures a vaulted wood beam ceiling and largewindows overlooking Stinson Creek. Inaddition, three private dining rooms will beavailable for private functions and meetingswith a collapsible wall between two of theprivate rooms to make it possible to expandfor medium sized groups. A large patio,featuring umbrella tables, will also be availableso students can dine al fresco. Memorialpaving stones on the patio are still availablefor a $500 donation. Please contact MaryRundus, Director of Advancement Services andGrants, at (573) 592-5391 if you are interestedin making a contribution so that your name orthe name of a loved one can be memorialized.

Cameron Day Chair at WorkAccording to Dr. Mike Amspoker, Cameron Day Chair and Biology Professor, this fully endowedchair is now at the center of efforts to elevate the Westminster science program.

The department is in discussion with the MU Callaway Physicians Clinic about establishing studentinternships and shadowing experiences for Westminster students. Two physicians at the Clinic, Drs.Jim Stevermer and Kevin Kane, are recommending medical papers for Westminster students todiscuss in their Biology Journal Club, a new course similar to those at medical schools and graduateprograms where students discuss primary journal articles on cutting edge research. ProfessorAmspoker is also in discussion with the MU Health Education Center about Westminster becomingan official partner in the Bryant Scholars program to offer support to students in medical schoolthat commit to practice medicine in underserved areas of rural Missouri. Dr. Erik Hewlett ’68 is inthe process of establishing a competitive research fellowship for a Westminster student to work atthe University of Virginia School of Medicine.

Westminster continues to work in close partnership with Saint Louis University Medical Schoolthanks to the endowment. Dr. Rich Samson, Director of Core Graduate programs in the BiomedicalSciences, came on campus to speak about summer research opportunities available to Westminsterstudents. Dr. Randy Sprague, Professor of Pharmacological and Physiological Science and InternalMedicine also presented a lecture on campus.

In addition, Westminster alumnus and student at Pikesville College School of Osteopathic MedicineMichael Hawley ’01 and Dr. Michael Murphy, Associate Dean for Clinical Sciences at PCSOM, came

to campus this fall to talk to students aboutopportunities in osteopathic medicine and JudyNolke, Admissions Coordinator for the MUSchool of Medicine, spoke on how to seek admis-sion to medical school.

Resources of the Day Chair have also supportedthe research of Professor April Potterfield andthree students on breast cancer cells, the researchof Professor Jeff Mayne and two students onhow viruses attach to cell surfaces, and theresearch of Professor Amspoker on a new diatomgenus, Hyaloneis.

Dr. DrewMakes House Call toWestminsterDr. Drew Pinsky, famous radio and television expert on teen-age sex, addiction and relationshipproblems, gave Westminster students his views on these issues and took questions from theaudience August 31 in Champ Auditorium at this special event sponsored by the StudentGovernment Association.

Dr. Drew’s experience with addicts and teens spans over 20 years. He began as a radio host in 1982,answering medical questions on his show, Loveline, which originates from local California stationKROQ. Today Loveline is syndicated fivenights a week on over 100 radio stations,answering young people’s tough questions onsex, drugs and relationships all across thecountry.

In 1996, Loveline began an unheard of five-year run on MTV with Dr. Drew and co-hostAdam Corolla. Dr. Drew appears regularly oncountless television programs including TheOprah Winfrey Show, Today, Good MorningAmerica, The CBS Early Show and Dateline.

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Dr. Mike Amspopker, Cameron Day Chair and Biolgy Professor

Byron Thomas, Dr. Drew and Rance Hairston

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TwoWestminster Psychogy Teams Take First at Competition

Two teams of Westminster psychology students took first place with their projects at the MissouriUndergraduate Psychology Conference Nov. 10 at Avila University in Kansas City, MO. In the paperpresentation competition, junior Candice Crawford from Mokane, MO, junior Grant Hendersonfrom Houston, MO and senior Brad Dowling from Montgomery City, MO won first place for theirproject “Household Crowding and Aggression,” developed in the Personality Lab course of Dr.David Jones. Sophomore Stephen Long from Fulton, MO, junior Jessica Lang from Fulton, MO andjunior Stephanie Schwartz from Saint Peters, MO won first place in the poster competition for theirproject “Effects of Transgressor Attractiveness and Transgressor Gender on Females’ Ability ToForgive,’ which was developed in the Methods in Experimental Psychology” course of Dr. TedJaeger.

Other Westminster students who presented at the four state regional conference were seniorsBridget Johnston from Collinsville, OK, Alisha Toti from Eureka, MO, Emily Henry from OverlandPark, KS, and Jamie Winters from Jefferson City, MO; juniors Missy Kopp from O’Fallon, MO, ErinGreen from Eureka, MO and Crystal Blanchard from N. Little Rock, AR; and sophomore JordanImhoff from Jefferson City, MO.

Monsanto CEO Delivers IBM LectureHugh Grant, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Monsanto Company inSt. Louis, delivered the IBM Lecture Nov. 1, in the Wallace H. Coulter Science Center. Before the

lecture, Grant interacted with students in theInternational Business class and dined withWestminster students, faculty and staff.

Grant’s lecture, “Introducing New Technologies inDeveloping Countries,” explored how new kinds ofpublic/private partnerships offer the hope forfarmers in developing nations to gain access toagricultural technologies available to farmers inmore developed countries. He explained the needfor everyone, and specifically our major Americancorporations, to step up to the plate to assumeresponsible stewardship of our world resourcesthrough partnerships with other organizations

Established by the International Business Machines Corporation in 1980, the IBM Lecture inBusiness and Finance is designed to bring campus leaders in the world of business and finance orprofessors of economics and business administration to the Westminster campus.

Hugh Grant, Chairman, President and CEO of theMonsanto Company in St. Louis

Fall Sports ShortsSenior Josh Moore was named UpperMidwest Athletic Conference FootballLineman of the Year, UMAC South

Division Lineman of the Year and a SecondTeam CoSIDA Academic All-District Pick.A three-time first team South DivisionAll-Conference selection, Moore leaves

Westminster with individual career recordsfor tackles for loss (42.5) and sacks (22.5).

Junior Matt Mercer was named first-teamall-conference by vote of the St. Louis

Intercollegiate Athletic Conference men’ssoccer coaches. Mercer led the team ingoals (10), assists (5), points (25) and

game-winning goals (3).

Junior Danielle Shannon has been namedto the SLIAC women’s soccer first team forthe third consecutive year. Shannon playedin 12 matches and led the team with sevengoals before being sidelined with minor

injuries. Shannon is the Westminster careerleader with 41 goals scored.

The Westminster volleyball squad snappeda 28-match losing streak and won its firstconference match in three years. The BlueJays finished the season 5-21 with a squad

composed of nine underclassmen.

Follow the Blue Jays on the World WideWeb at www.westminster-mo.edu

All-Conference Selections

Football (UMAC South Division)Josh Moore, DL, First Team

Zach Thompson, LB, First TeamAaron Browne, DL, First Team

Nick Diefenbach, DB, First TeamChad Lane, WR/PR, First TeamMark Garber, RB, First TeamMichael Harris, TE, First TeamJacob Evans, OL, First Team

Andrew Malson, OL, Second TeamChad Shank, WR, Second TeamJosh Pierce, DL, Second TeamBen Woolf, LB, Second Team

Kyle Wagner, DB, Second TeamRyan Evers, QB, Honorable Mention

Neil McCutcheon, LB, Honorable Mention

Men’s Soccer (SLIAC)Matt Mercer, First Team

Zach Gorla, Honorable MentionDennis Patterson, Honorable MentionJack Rubenstein, Honorable Mention

Women’s Soccer (SLIAC)Danielle Shannon, First Team

Sara Cook, Second TeamMeaghan Jones, Honorable MentionTara Olendorff, Honorable Mention

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Fresh Ideas is proud to have served on the construction planning

committee for the new dining hall. The design features of the

future Mueller Leadership Hall will make it one of the best college

dining facilities we have seen. After one final year in

Robertson Dining Hall, Fresh Ideas is looking forward

to Fall 2007 and the grand opening of something truly special.

Congratulations!

Fresh Ideas and Westminster College:A Continuing Partnership

Fresh Ideas provides food management, consulting and design for academicinstitutions and business and industry. For more information contact us at

(573) 445-4321 or visit our website at www.freshideasllc.com.

Lecture atWestminster byFulbright Robertson ProfessorDr. Richard C. Allen, visiting FulbrightRobertson professor from the University ofSunderland in North East England, presented apublic lecture Oct. 3 on “Historical Reflectionson Wales, the Welsh, and the World.”

The Fulbright Robertson Visiting Professor inBritish History award is given to a Britishhistorian who agrees to teach and conductresearch specifically at Westminster College.The candidate also is expected to establish acollaborative relationship and conductpersonal research at the Winston ChurchillMemorial and Library in the United Statesand neighboring presidential libraries as wellas accepting speaking engagements andparticipating in academic conferences in theUnited States and Canada.

“Junk Rock” Band a Hit at WestminsterHard-rock drumming and hip-hop funk filled Champ Auditorium when the national tour of theaward-winning “junk rock” band Recycled Percussion came to Westminster Oct. 25. Over 350members of the Westminster community and local music fans attended the concert.

Sponsored by the Westminster StudentGovernment Association, Recycled Percussionis a band of three drummers and a DJ whoplay everything from plastic buckets, hugeladders, mortar casings and giant 50-galloncontainers to a massive traditional drum kit.This fall leg of the group’s tour is their largesttour to date, with performances at over 200college campuses nationwide and numerousNFL and NBA half time shows.

Recycled Percussion

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Westminster Leadership ProgramWins State Innovation AwardThe Emerson Center for Leadership and Service at Westminster College has been awarded the 2006Innovative Program Award for outstanding student affairs programs in Missouri higher education.Created in 2002 in honor of the late Missouri Congressman and Westminster alumnus WilliamEmerson ’59, the Emerson Center for Leadership and Service is a four-point program, which includesleadership development, a servant-leader partnership between the College and the local communi-ty, the integration of leadership into designated curricula and a leadership awards program.

Westminster staff members John Comerford, Vice President and Dean of Student Life; Bob Hansen,Director of Counseling and Health Services; Meg Langland, Director of Career Services; JackieWeber, Director of Student Activities; and Bryan Carrier, Director of Residential and Greek Life;attended the ceremony to receive the award from the Missouri College Personnel Association(MOCPA) Sept. 25 at the Lodge of the Four Seasons in the Lake of the Ozarks.

Westminster Students Join Statewide Festival of SharingStudent members of the Westminster Chapel Leadership Council assembled care packages for needyfamilies Oct. 18, at the Hunter Activity Center as a part of statewide Festival of Sharing activities.

The Festival of Sharing is an annual, statewide event that promotes peace, caring and sharingamong different people, races, cultures and families in need. Every year the Festival includes a

Westminster College President’s Trip

Irish Folklore TourTour of the West of Ireland and Dublin

July 28 – August 4, 2007

Estimated Cost $2199 + airfare per person(based on double occupancy)

RSVP Deadline is April 15, 2007!

For More Information Contact:Mary Rundus, (573) [email protected] Rone, (888) [email protected]

collection effort to assemble various carepackages or kits for individuals and families inneed.

The Westminster Chapel Leadership Councilassembled personal health kits, comprised often items. The Council recruited 10 studentorganizations to participate in the project, andeach participating organization collected oneitem to be included in the kits. Once collectedand assembled, the personal health kits weretaken to the Festival of Sharing office inColumbia for distribution. This is the firstyear Westminster students and staff haveparticipated in this project.

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Westminster College Featured onNew National HistoricWebsitePeople wanting to view the historic campus ofWestminster College and learn more about itcan now do so on-line with the launching ofthe new Historic Campus Architecture Projectweb site www.cic.edu/hcap by The Councilof Independent Colleges. Westminster Collegeis one of only six Missouri colleges and universi-ties to be featured as a part of this first nation-wide architecture and landscape database ofindependent college and university campus.

The Westminster area of the site contains acolor campus map and profiles and pictures ofthe Churchill Memorial and Library, WestminsterGymnasium and the Westminster CollegeHistoric District, which includes The Columns,Newnham Hall, Westminster Hall, WestminsterGymnasium, Swope Chapel Memorial,Washington West House and Reeves Library.This new national website documents nearly2,000 campus sites of historic significance at370 different higher education institutions andincludes more than 4,300 images.

Westminster AdmissionWebsiteRanked Top in the CountryWestminster College has been notified that itscollege admissions website is among the mosthighly rated in the country by the NationalResearch Center for College & UniversityAdmissions (NRCCUA). Westminster Collegewas one of only 157 institutions to receive an“A” grade.

NRCCUA used its 8th Annual EnrollmentPower Index to analyze the admissionswebsites of more than 3,000 post-secondaryinstitutions. The research based study rateshow well the functionality and design ofcollege and university admissions websitesprovide information to potential students andmove them from prospect to applicant.Websites at higher education institutions weregraded on a 100-point scale.

FOX News FeaturesWestminster StudentWestminster sophomore Ian Mackey from Urbana, MO received theexperience of a lifetime when FOX News Channel contacted him toappear on the show “Studio B With Shepard Smith” on Nov. 2 inO’Fallon, MO. As President of the Young Democrats of Missouri,Mackey was invited on the program to debate the President of theMissouri Federation of Young Republicans on key issues of themidterm election in battleground states.

“It was a unique, thrilling learning experience as well as a tremendousresponsibility to speak on behalf of so many people on nationaltelevision,” says Mackey. “It seemed as if I had barely begun answeringthe first question before I realized I was already answering the last.I had an hour-long conversation in ten minutes that felt like tenseconds.”

Some of the issues Mackey discussed on the program were the U.S. Senate race in Missouri betweenU.S. Senator Jim Talent and Missouri State Auditor Claire McCaskill, Constitutional Amendment 2on behalf of stem cell research in Missouri, Constitutional Amendment 3 to increase state tobaccotaxes to cover health care costs and the Get-Out-The Vote effort of the Democratic Party inMissouri.

Mackey was elected President of the Young Democrats of Missouri his freshman year at Westminsterduring the Young Democrats State Convention held in Springfield, MO. He has also worked as anintern for Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan and managed to political campaigns. He hasserved as the President of Young Democrats at Westminster and plans to attend law school after fin-ishing his major in elementary education and political psychology.

Frank ’77, Emily ’08 and Tyler Hunter ’10share a priceless moment of family tradition onMove In Day 2006.

Tyler Hunter ’10, son of Frank ’77 and

brother of Emily ’08 recently joined the

132 year old Hunter family tradition of attending

Westminster College. His great-great grandfather,

Frank Allen Hunter graduated in 1874, and

his great-great-uncle, Frank O. Hunter, was a

member of the Class of 1904.

Alumni/Sibling Scholarship Awards are available

to the sons, daughters, grandsons,

granddaughters, brothers or sisters of

Westminster alumni.

For more information about this unique

scholarship, please call our Enrollment Services

Office at (800) 465-3361.

Alumni/SiblingScholarship Awards

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Political Leader SpendsWeek withWestminster Students

Tanya Melich, one ofthe founders of themodern women’spolitical caucus, spentOct. 22–27 teaching3-4 political scienceclasses daily andgiving a public lectureand public reading atWestminster as part ofthe Woodrow Wilson

Visiting Scholar Program. She also sharedmeals with members of various student organi-zations and faculty members and attendedcampus activities. Her visit was sponsored bythe Student Government Association.

Melich’s lecture in the Coulter Science CenterOct. 24 was entitled “What We’ve Become,What We Could Be,” and focused on theimpact of today’s U.S. foreign policy onAmerica’s reputation and ability to defenditself. On Oct. 23, at West Wood Coffeeshop,she read from her critically acclaimed book,The Republican War Against Women, whichtraces her personal struggle to fight forwomen’s rights as a part of the GOP’s nationalplatform.

Formerly a Republican on the political staffsof Nelson Rockefeller, Jacob Javits, CharlesGoodell and John Lindsey, Melich nowconsiders herself a Jeffords Independent. Sheran a political consulting firm for 20 yearsand served as public policy analyst for CBScorporate management and national electionsdirector for ABC News. She played a key role inthe election of Rudy Giuliani as Mayor of NewYork City and was senior advisor on centristvoters for the 2004 Kerry for Presidentcampaign.

Every gift to the Westminster Fund makes a realdifference in the quality of daily life of our students.

Your $10 or $25, added to those of your fellow alumni,makes it possible for Spencer to be involved in many activitieswhere he can further develop his leadership skills. Your support

of the Westminster Fund has an immediate impact on theday-to-day life and academic experience of today’s students.

Every gift, from $10 to $10,000, has an impact.

Prospective students also look at alumni giving as a sign ofconfidence and a show of commitment in the mission of

Westminster College. Help us to prepare our students, and futurestudents, for lives of success, significance and service by making

your Westminster Fund gift today. Give online atwww.westminster-mo.edu/giving or return your gift via the

postage paid envelope enclosed in this issue of Leadership.

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Westminster Community RaisesFunds for Injured PlayerMembers of the Westminster community havetaken steps to help the family of injuredWestminster sophomore football player TeronSutherlin of St. Louis to pay medical billsincurred from a recent car accident.

The Westminster Men’s Basketball team hassold “WC 4 TERON” t-shirts around campusand at athletic events with all profits going toSutherlin’s family. That effort has generatedover $2,000. The Student GovernmentAssociation has been selling royal bluebracelets with the slogan “WC 4 Teron–BuckleUp!” appearing on them to raise additionalfunds. The Westminster Athletic Departmenthas also established a special account atRegions Bank in Sutherlin’s name. Those inter-ested in donating money can go to any branchof Regions Bank to contribute to the TeronSutherlin Fund.

Sutherlin and fellow St. Louis freshmanteammate Joseppi Wallace were traveling toSt. Louis to attend a high school football gameOct. 6 when their vehicle was involved in anaccident on I-70 near St. Charles. WhileWallace escaped with bruises, Sutherlinsuffered extensive serious injuries. Originallyin critical condition in the Intensive Care Unitof St. John’s Mercy Hospital in St. Louis,Sutherlin has now returned home but faces along recovery.

Students Implement Voter Registration ProjectThe students in the “Political Parties, Voting, and Campaign Strategies” class of Professor AmyCarter were given the assignment of writing a grant proposal to implement a voter registrationdrive on campus. Those who submitted the best proposals, Seniors Henry Klaus of Columbia, MOand Kimberly Allyn of Saint Peters, MO, were each awarded a $50 prize and given a $100 toimplement their project. The result was a very successful campus wide voter registration driveSept. 20.

Students from Carter’s political science class had tables set up in the Hunter Activity Center andin the main entrance of the Wallace H. Coulter Science Center where students could register.Information was provided to out-of-state students on how they could register in their home statesand other states’ registration deadlines. By the end of the day, 78 new voters had registered for theNovember election.

Westminster Ranked High in Latest U.S. News Best Colleges ListFor the fourth straight year in a row Westminster College has been ranked one of the top liberalarts colleges in the nation, according to the recently published findings of U.S.News & WorldReport’s America’s Best Colleges 2007. U.S.News & World Report, a national magazine, evaluatesAmerica’s colleges and universities for their academic excellenceannually and publishes their findings in the newsstand book,“America’s Best Colleges.”

Westminster is one of only three Missouri higher educationinstitutions to be selected for inclusion among 212 liberal artsinstitutions across the country that focus on undergraduateeducation. The report found Westminster to be particularlystrong in alumni giving, graduation rate performance andretention and academic reputation.

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Dedication Ceremony Held for Professor Endowment ProgramA dedication ceremony was held Sept. 29 in the atrium of the Wallace H. Coulter Science Center tolaunch the new Science Professor Endowment Program at Westminster. Earnings from the endow-ment will provide grant money for students and faculty to conduct significant research projects.

The program was the brainchild of Dr. Doug Fickess, Professor of Biology; Dr. John Shultz, Professorof Chemistry; and the late Dr. Warry Williams, Professor of Biology. A plaque honoring the threeprofessors and recognizing contributors to the endowment was also unveiled adjacent to the atriumon the north wall.

Speakers at the event included President Lamkin, Dr. Fickess, and Dr. Barney Forsythe, WestminsterSenior Vice President and Dean of Faculty. Schultz and Williams’ wife Joyce were in attendance aswell as Dr. David Stubbs ’68, Dr. Rick Omohondro ’74 and Dr. Michael Duff ’67, who were instru-mental in the establishment of the endowment.

Anyone interested inhelping to perpetuatethe work of anotherfavorite Westminsterprofessor may contactMary Rundus, Directorof AdvancementServices and Grants, at(573) 592-5391 forhow an endowmentprogram can beestablished.

Dr. Doug Fickess, Dr. John Shultz and Mrs. Joyce Williams

Students Treat LocalChildren for Halloween

Over 200 local Fulton children received a veryspecial Halloween treat thanks to the highlysuccessful Student Government AssociationTrick or Treat event. Sixteen Westminsterorganizations participated by decorating theoutside of their living group, dressing incostume and handing out candy to children.Two $150 prizes were awarded by facultyjudges for the living group with the bestdecorations, participation and costumes.Wetterau Hall won the residential categoryand Sigma Chi won the Greek category. Otherparticipating living groups included Delta TauDelta, Kappa Alpha, Beta Theta Pi, Phi DeltaTheta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa AlphaTheta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, five otherresidential halls (Gage, Marquess, Rice, Scottand Emerson) and two other organizations(Education Association and a ResidentialHouse).

“This event provided Westminster studentswith a way to give back to the Fulton communityand display a positive atmosphere of collegelife to the children and their parents,” saysKelly Dye, SGA Community Relations Chair.

Registered children for the event also receiveda Westminster bracelet, a frosty coupon forWendy’s Restaurant and a fake tattoo.

The Westminster College community lost Dr. Tammy Stiller, Associate Professor ofBiology, Nov. 3 after a courageous battle with cancer. A memorial service for family andfriends was held Nov. 4 in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury oncampus. Donations can be made in her memory to the Westminster College ProfessorEndowment for Student Research.

During her fifteen year tenure atWestminster, Dr. Stiller was Chair of theBiology Department (1999-2001) andDirector of the Westminster Seminarprogram (1998-2001). Since 2003, shehad served as Director of the HealthProfessions program. She was also theMarshal of the College, leading the Skullsof Seven during commencement andlecture ceremonies.

In Memory of Dr. Tammy Stiller



PRESIDENT’SDINNER

DestinationWEstminsterGuests for the sixth annual President’s Dinner Oct. 20 were treated to a spectacular globalexperience at “Destination Westminster” that they will not soon forget as they explored thediverse worlds that have converged at Westminster thanks to a student population that nowrepresents 55 different countries.

Each of the 169 guests were given a passport for the evening’s journey and seated in one of fourdistinct areas of the Mueller Student Center decorated to represent the continents of Europe,Asia, Africa and South America. Before dinner, guests circulated throughout the room, enjoyingdelicious hors d’oeuvres from each continent. The appetizers ranged from South African meal loafand Peruvian marinated shrimp to poached salmon and sushi.

Following a three course dinner, the guests were entertained by the men’s choir Sublime Harmony,an international fashion show, the Blue Diamond Dance Team, an African drum duet and anexciting performance of the South African gumboot dance by a group of international anddomestic students.

During the recognition segment of the dinner, President Lamkin inducted Dr. Robert Volz ’54into the Leadership Society honoring those whose lifetime giving tothe College meets or exceeds one million dollars, inducted RonKostich ’63 into the Robertson Founders Circle honoring thosewhose lifetime donations to the College meet or exceed $250,000 andinducted Peter Childs ’59 and Bob Muehlhauser ’68 into theSentinels of the Columns honoring those benefactors whose lifetimegiving falls between $249,000–$100,000.

Ron Winney ’64, Chair of The President’s Club, told the group aboutthe first President’s trip, an Alaskan cruise last July, and announcedthat this year’s President’s trip would be to Ireland.

Members of The President’s Club who give a minimum of $1,000annually to the College has reached arecord 382 members this year.

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Students Learn About Middle

L e a d e r s h i p W e s t m i n s t e r C o l l e g e


Students at Westminster learned about the Middle East and prospects for democracy in the regionfrom a wide range of viewpoints during the first Symposium on Democracy held on campus Sept.20-21. One of the most popular sessions, which drew standing room only crowds, was a panel ofWestminster students from Middle Eastern countries who explained what it is to live in this region.Panelists included Aluat Hamoudi (Algeria), Akin Aytekin (Turkey), Rita Udisho (Iraq), MustafaBdraldeen (Iraq), Bahaa Al-Dahoudi (Palestine) and Hasan Adwan (Palestine). The dramatic impacthostilities have on the citizens in the region was brought home when students heard Adwan’s storyabout the difficulties of getting from his home to the United States so he could attend college atWestminster. He had just arrived in Fulton the night before the panel after days of travel, whichincluded making his way through a battle zone.

Two keynote speakers for the Symposium with very contrasting viewpoints on Iraq were U.S.Army Lieutenant General David Petraeus and documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim. Petraeuswas the first commander of the Multi-National Security Transition Command responsible fortraining, equipping and mentoring Iraqi security force in Iraq. Noujaim directed the controversialdocumentary Control Room which focuses on the Arabic language cable news station Al Jazeera, astation that questions the prevailing images and positions offered on the war by the U.S. newsmedia and has been condemned by some American and Arab government officials for its reporting.

Other speakers for the two-day event, which included panels on Iraqi culture, the insurgencymovement and media coverage of the war, included U.S. Army Major Daniel Barnard, a facultymember of the U.S. Military Academy history department; Dr. Najib Ghadbian, Asst. Professor ofPolitical Science and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Arkansas; Roger Gafke, a Universityof Missouri journalism professor; and Saleem Al-Habash and Fred Vultee, twodoctoral students in journalism at the University of Missouri.

Because the Symposium was such a huge success, a faculty and staffcommittee is already making plans for a second Symposium to be held onSeptember 26-27, 2007.

East at First Symposium

The following interviewson pages 16 – 21 wereconducted by students inDr. David Collins’ class inMagazine Writing and Editing.

Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus, one of the most decorated soldiers in the United States Army,commanded the elite 101st Airborne, the fabled “Band of Brothers,” on the drive to Baghdad in the SecondIraq War. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point (top five-percent of his class),General Petraeus went on to earn a Ph.D. at Princeton University. He thrives on competition. A formersuperior officer jokes that while most men in their fifties are slowing down, Petraeus is “driving youngofficers half his age into the ground like tent pegs.” He can do seventy-five push-ups a minute whenchallenged and can outrun anyone in a ten-mile race. He has recently been named the Top U.S. andCoalition Commander in Iraq. General Petraeus was the keynote speaker at the first Symposium onDemocracy at Westminster College.

WC: General Petraeus, we’d like to thank you very much for agreeing to talk with us today. Wehope to learn a great deal from what you have to say and have many, many questions.

To begin, you graduated in the top five percent of your class at West Point. You earned both anM.A. and a Ph.D. from Princeton and had a fellowship at Georgetown University. Education isobviously very important to you. How did your education prepare you for the battlefield?

Gen. Petraeus: Don’t get me wrong, a huge part of the global on terror has to be to kill orcapture those who are absolutely, unalterably opposed to our way of life, our values. But there’sa wonderful quotation from a little known British political scientist named Martin White:“The truth is not to be found in any school of thought but debate among them.” I havejokingly said that when we are going hard at it with some other country what we ought to do –immediately – is to triple the number of full ride scholarships given to their students so evenmore of them can come over here and appreciate what is possible in a country where there’s adegree of tolerance for views that are completely different from one’s own.

Regrettably, military action has its place, but even more important is what you’re doing in thisSymposium on Democracy, exposing people from different cultures to American culture, Americanvalues: the concept of democracy, free market economics, the host of opportunities available toordinary people. I’m not implying that we’re a perfect nation, but ours is a country whose basicstructures – economic, political, and social – have provided a unparallel degree of upward mobility-for people. That’s what makes the American dream, and it is that American dream that attracts somany people from other countries here.

People often ask me, “What prepared you most for the early days in Iraq, after the fight to Baghdad,after Saddam was gone?” Interestingly, what prepared me most for that period was having gone toa civilian graduate school. We try very hard to generate new insights in the Army. Commissionedofficers actually spend a lot of time in school in the course of their careers. We have provocativespeakers, thought provoking readings and lectures. But you do that with fellow officers, and at theend of the day, even if you have the most provocative speaker in the world, you end up at thecoffee pot with people who generally think the same way that you do. An old boss of mine used todescribe our existence as a “grindstone cloister.” I think it’s very important for leaders to be takenout of their intellectual comfort zone.

In the mid-1980s I went from the Staff College at Fort Leavenworth to graduate school. At Ft.Leavenworth the big debate at that time was about nuclear weapons, whether we needed 100 ofthese very powerful, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, each with 10 warheads, or if weneeded 200. I went to off to a civilian graduate school and, lo and behold, found out that therewere some folks – extremely bright, quite thoughtful – who argued that perhaps you needed noneof these types of missiles because they might be destabilizing. That was a great educationalexperience. A little intellectual humility goes a long way – and I think graduate school will do thatfor you.

Interview conducted by Patrick Clark, Shawn Manning, Ashley Nelson, Rachel Nichols and Mike Willis

An Interview with LieutenantGeneral David H. Petraeus


WC: You have been called by people close to you themost competitive man on the planet. Where does thatcompetitiveness come from?

Gen. Petraeus: True, I’m competitive. I think you get itfrom your upbringing, through your parents. I had a verycompetitive father. He was a crusty old sea captain and hewas not big on excuses. His inevitable response was,“Results boy!” Life is a competitive endeavor. No matterwhat you are doing, you should be creating and settinggoals to make you compete with yourself. I told someone that I would go through a Ph.D. program,and I regretted it a thousand times after that. But the fact that I made that pledge made me stickwith it. I knew it would be very difficult, but when you lay down a marker like that for yourself itforces you to produce. I think a competitive spirit is a good thing. At the end of the day, combat isthe ultimate competition. The other guy is not just out there to pass you in the final lap, or tomake it into the end zone – that guy is out to kill you. And so I say to my soldiers, “I love you toomuch, Ranger, not to make you do ten more push-ups!”

Of course, you need to be to be a team player a lot of time. You want to engage in healthycompetition with your buddies and with your fellow commanders and their units, but at the endof the day, you’re going to go to war together to do a tough mission. Together.

WC: Brigadier General Frankly said that when you led the 101st your competitiveness on occasionpinned you against the wall. Does your level of competitiveness ever hinder you?

Gen. Petraeus: Undoubtedly, it does. But it’s a question of dynamics. When you are in combat,you can’t give mixed messages to your soldiers. When I led the 101st in the fight to Bagdad, wehad every condition set so when that first soldier was shot at we could respond with everythingthat is appropriate – we call that “setting the condition.” We did that, and it was very effective. Wesoundly defeated and destroyed some big threats. People sometimes want to have more dialogue,but you know, the boss has to sit down and ask to whom do I want to listen to right now? At some

point you have to listen to your own counsel and make a decision.

WC: Another of your critics, David Hackwood,has called you a “Perfumed Prince.” How wouldyou respond?

Gen. Petraeus: That was a strange one. I havespent more time deployed than any other officerin the army. If you go back fifteen years, I don’tthink there’s been anyone who’s spent moretime in the units and in the field. I’d invite any-

one who feels that way to join me for a run, orhave a little contest on the pull-up bars. Thenwe’ll both be sweaty princes, if they can hang.

WC: In order to make enlistment quotas, theArmy has lowered standards for enlistees. Themaximum age has been raised from thirty-fiveto forty-two. Mental standards have beenlowered as well. Would you want to lead theseless qualified soldiers into combat?

Gen. Petraeus: When you make suchchanges, you have to do it intelligently. Ourarmy has lots of different skill sets. You can’ttake the oldest enlistee and say “Welcome tothe infantry!” Physical ability is very importantto those who are going to ruck up and strap onKevlar, but we have all kinds of different jobs,a lot of people who work behind the scenes:drivers, electricians, journalists, medicalpeople, doctors, lawyers. True, we have taken anumber of what are called “Cat 4’s,” thosewho scored at the lower levels on the generalIQ test. There is a place for those folks; youjust have to do it intelligently.

Read the full interview with General Petraeus atwww.westminster-mo.edu


www.westminster-mo.edu/pdfs/news/symposium/PetraeusInterview.pdf

Jehane Noujaim is a rising star in the world of documentary film, working on a dream to unite the worldthrough the power of film. Her recent appearance at the Westminster College Symposium on Democracyfocused on her experience as a filmmaker with a unique blend of Middle Eastern and American culturalinfluences – a diversity of perspectives she explored in her film Control Room. Contrasting the reporting ofWestern newspeople whose information came from Central Command in Qatar with that of reportersworking for the Middle Eastern news network Al Jazeera, Noujaim reveals the difficulties of reporting “thetruth,” a problem that lies at the heart of all journalism.

Her work in several documentary films focuses on the universal nature of subjective experience: Mokattam,about an Egyptian garbage-collecting village, startup.com, a depiction of the online business world, andUnfiltered, a documentary series for MTV. This point of view has earned her several awards including onefrom the Director’s Guild of American and the IDA Award for “best film.” As a recipient of the TED prize(Technology, Entertainment, Design), Noujaim is currently working on her wish to unite the world throughfilm for one day each year.

WC: We would like to begin by congratulating you on receiving the TED Prize. What motivatedyou to choose as your wish “to bring the world together through the power of film.”

Jehane Noujaim: Thank you. The reasons are many. I grew up traveling between the Middle Eastand the United States. I have an American mother and an Egyptian/Lebanese/Syrian father, andthat kind of background forces you always to be putting yourself in another person’s shoes. Thenegative side of that is that you can never really make a decision because you’re constantly seeingthe other side of the situation. I started with film and photography because it was a way for me tobring my Egyptian life to the States and my American life to Egypt. It was a great way to help peo-ple in both places understand. When I showed Control Room both in the States and in Egypt, thereactions showed me the real power film has to create understanding between people. That reactionmade me feel that this was the way to lead people to a better understanding – the second bestoption to having people meet in person. I felt that by having a day of screenings across the world,and projecting on places like the Great Pyramid and the Reuters screen in Times Square, and broad-casing on Fox and Jazeera and a number of other stations, it will really get out to a wide popula-tion. The content will be from well-known filmmakers from around the world because the contenthas to be fantastic the first year; the focus will be on film highlighting our common humanitywhile at the same time appreciating that we are a diverse world.

Interview conducted by Amy Barclay, Ashley Creek, Erin Houlihan, Justin Pilarski and Nike Stinger

An Interview with Jehane Noujaim


WC: Have you faced any obstacles in establishing sites across the globe and making the dream areality?

Jehane Noujaim: The biggest obstacle for me was “What is going to be the content?” WithControl Room we were talking about the media specifically, and it’s been a popular film around theworld because everybody has questions about the media and its objectivity, about whether we’reseeing what everybody else is seeing. Trying to think about films that are going to appeal tosomebody in the United Sates and somebody in China and somebody in the Middle East is verychallenging. I want people to be truly inspired and affected by the films. To make sure that we holdpeople’s attention, I think that we’re going to be doing ten minutes films interspersed withspeeches and music. The logistics were actually less of a concern because we’re partneringwith the people that put on Live 8, and there are a lot of companies that want to be involved– companies like Nokia and HSBC – because they want to be part of this new awareness.

WC: Will the images you show be able to transcend not only language barriers but culturalbarriers as well?

Jehane Noujaim: We’re still working on the directive we’ll give the filmmakers in order togive the films a certain cohesiveness, a certain connection. We’re hoping to create a “globaltapestry.” There will be dialogue, a challenge we’re going to have to work with in terms oftranslation, but there will not be a huge emphasis on dialogue because when you’retalking about these huge screening events you want to concentrate on the emotions eachfilm portrays. I do think it’s very difficult to cross cultural barriers; you have to keep thestories very personal, there are some things such as father-son stories, mother-daughterstories, and love stories that are universal across the globe. It will have to be about reallypersonal stories. One of our ideas is to go to emotions – joy, fear, guilt, and so on – andso on. Each filmmaker will have to choose an emotion and that will be the title of his orher film. So, for example, Errol Morris might choose “Joy” and create a film about somebodyexperiencing joy that will translate to Asia, Africa, the Middle East.

WC: In addition to this media experience, we understand that you are trying to initiatean online component as well.

Jehane Noujaim: This is very important because if you make a film and put it outthere people are all affected in their own ways, but I really want there to be somethingconcrete carrying this day forward throughout the year. How do you do that? I’ll giveyou an example. There are two organizations working within Israel/Palestine right now;one is called “One Voice” which is working with Israelis and Palestinians who areworking together for peace, the other is called “Just Vision” and it has been workingwith a place called “The Bereaved Family forum.” “The Bereaved Family Forum” bringstogether Israelis and Palestinians who have lost family to the conflict and who are nowworking together through peaceful means. “Just vision” has just made a film calledEncounter Point which is about these families working together. The concept of thesefamilies working together is so powerful because they have great standing in theircommunities; they have lost family to the crisis. Nobody can say, “You don’t under-stand what it’s like.” Many of them are heroes in their communities; they’re standingup and saying “We will not let our leaders use our names to justify any more violenceagainst each other.” That’s a very powerful statement because right now the news isconsumed by extremist voices on either side – and it’s very hard to fight those extremist

voices. “One Voice” is working in Israel and Palestine doing a group survey;they’ve sent out ballots to thousands asking them to rate issues interms of their importance. It’s the first time a real grassroots decisionmaking from the people has been organized in that part of the world.“One Voice” has an amazing web site that connects Israelis andPalestinians. If an Israeli says, “In order to accomplish this I need aPalestinian working with me,” the web site that helps in finding thatperson.

If we are able to project Pangea on the wall in the West Bank, we can showclips from these different organizations and lure people to watch these twowebsites. People inspired by the speeches, the music, the visuals, the filmswill then be able to go someplace after the day. They’ll be able to go to thewebsite and say, “OK, this is happening in my community.”

Read the full interview with Jehane Noujaim at www.westminster-mo.edu


www.westminster-mo.edu/pdfs/news/symposium/NoujaimInterview.pdf


Major Daniel Barnard, born and raised in Columbia, Missouri, descends from a military family that hasserved the United States since the Revolutionary War. Though his military career began as a practicalmeasure, a means to pay for college, following his experience as a peacekeeper in Bosnia, it has became hispassion and life-long vocation. In addition to Bosnia he has been deployed several times in the Middle Eastand currently serves as an instructor of history at the United States Military Academy at West Point. MajorBarnard holds a Master’s Degree in Middle Eastern History and is working on a Ph.D. at the University ofChicago, scheduled for completion in 2007.

WC: In college you joined the Reserve Officer’sTraining Corps and, upon graduation, signedon in the regular Army as a second lieutenant.Recently promoted to Major, you’ve risenrapidly in the Officer Corps. Were you to writeyour own press release, how would youdescribe yourself? Five words.

Maj. Barnard: Five words, a tough job! I’d gowith local boy does well, you know, somethinglike that. I’m proud of being from Missouri. Ibelieve the education I received in Missouripublic schools prepared me to compete at thehighest levels. I try to count Columbia in mybackground as I travel around the UnitedStates. That’s what I’d put down.

An Interview with Major Daniel BarnardInterview conducted by Laura Smith and Amy Elliott

WC: As a military historian can you draw parallels between the reconstructions of the Southfollowing the Civil War and reconstruction in Iraq that might help Americans understand thesituation there?

Maj. Barnard: There’s a great deal of interesting scholarship on that. I think that thereconstruction of the South is very illustrative for Americans, not only because it shows howsignificantly changed the region was, but because it directly parallels the situation in Iraq. Duringreconstruction tens of thousands of Union troops were stationed in the South for a long periodof time. Their presence was required to maintain law and order, a task seriously challenged by aninsurgency motivated by hatred of African Americans and supported by the pillars of society.While Union troops remained in the South this movement was suppressed; when they left, itsucceeded. The Ku Klux Klan flourished; the Jim Crow Laws were passed. A hundred years ofrolling back civil rights was the direct result of removing the Union Troops. Currently, there isa powerful impulse to pull our troops out of Iraq. I understand the domestic and militarypressures that support this. Nearly every soldier has been in Iraq, some several times, and

we’re exhausted. Families of military personnel feel this too. We see in Iraq the same prejudices thatexisted in post Civil War America; extreme elements move quickly to violence and sectarianpassions. But if we pull out now we will see a rise in those sentiments in Iraq. Pulling our troopsout of Iraq now would result a loss of liberty for the Iraqi people – the direct opposite of our goal.

Read the full interview with Major Barnard at www.westminster-mo.edu

www.westminster-mo.edu/pdfs/news/symposium/BarnardInterview.pdf


An Assistant Professor of Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arkansas, Syrianborn Dr. Najib Ghadbian has come to be recognized as one of our country’s foremost experts on events inthe Arab world. Educated at the University of the United Arab Emirates (B.A.), Rutgers University (M.A.),and City University of New York (Ph.D.), Professor Ghadbian has published widely in scholarly journals inboth English and Arabic. His book-length study of conditions in the Middle East, Democratization and theIslamists Challenge in the Arab World, was published in 1997. His expert commentary has been soughtout by numerous television stations in the United States, by the BBC, and by Al-Jazeera. Prior to acceptinga position at the University of Arkansas, Dr. Ghadbian worked as a research analyst at the EmiratesCenter for Strategic Studies and Research in Abu Shabi, where he headed the media unit and served on theadministrative board.

WC: Let’s begin with a question about the general level of knowledge people in the United States –college students and the general public – have of the Middle East and its problems. How would youassess the situation?

Dr. Ghadbian: I think that when it comes to the Middle East there is a lot of – I don’t want to sayignorance, but maybe lack of knowledge. That became apparent to me after 9/11 when peoplebegan asking all kinds of questions and I because very involved. I realized how little the averageAmerican knows about it. What I see from my perspective is a lack of communication. I see certainstereotypes, resentment, and sometimes even opposition, and in the Shiites case hatred of theU.S.A. Sometimes, listening to the news media, reading newspaper articles, I see actual mistakes.“Wow!” I think to myself. To give you an example: Not long ago I was reading The Washington Postand somebody said there that Yemen is a tiny Persian Gulf country. Everything is wrong with that.This is the beginning of an article in a prestigious, national newspaper! Yemen is not a tinycountry, nor is it a Persian gulf country. I feel that there is a serious problem with understanding ormisunderstanding in America, and I believe the way to understanding in this country is througheducation.

WC: You have on several occasions commented that the American news media seldom tells the fullstory of the Middle East in general, or the Iraq war in particular. Do media outlets in the Arab worldalso spin their coverage?

Dr. Ghadbian: I don’t want to sound simplistic in saying that coverage here is insufficient, but Iwill say we’re not getting the full story by watching just American news. In my Introduction toComparative Politics class I asked if they had been watching the news in the last three years – andthen asked them to give me the population of Iraq. I didn’t get an answer. They had no clue. Whenwe watch the mainstream media – CNN, Fox News, or other twenty-four hour channels – there is alot of coverage, but all you get is sound bites. There is no competent background and there is atendency to cover the sensational elements only. Fox News obviously leans to the right and hassucceeded in attracting more viewers; as a result the other channels have shifted to the right aswell. Competition: that is the disadvantage of privately owned media. You’re after profit, and by so

doing you’re really not giving the other sidemuch attention.

You can say the same thing for Al-Jazeera. I’vewritten about Al-Jazeera, I’ve contributedcommentary to Al-Jazeera, and I think it is agreat contribution to the freedom of expres-sion in the Arab world. But Al-Jazeera is biasedtoo. They cover a part of the other side as well.You really have to watch all these newsstations to get a full picture of what’s going on.I tell my students – many are fans of Fox News– to continue watching Fox, but to try towatch a little bit of CNN, and then to watchsome of the BBC coverage. Read theIndependent, read the KOPN Perspective, andthen read something from the Arab world inEnglish, available online now. You need to getall of these perspectives to fully understandthis story.

An Interview with Dr. Najib GhadbianInterview conducted by Elizabeth Blood, Marshall Chambers, Dustin Davis, Robert Davis, and Joey Falkaoff

Read the full interview with Dr. Ghadbian atwww.westminster-mo.edu

www.westminster-mo.edu/pdfs/news/symposium/GhadbianInterview.pdf

Elena (Lena) Khramova from Kaliningrad, Russia andKelly Pittman from Kansas City, Missouri

Lena and Kelly spent most of their time at Lena’s homein Kaliningrad, a portion of Russia enclosed by Polandand Lithuania. Lena and her family were nervous aboutthe language barrier prior to Kelly’s visit. Lena’s fathercould only communicate through gestures, her thirdgrade brother was only starting to learn English, and hermother, who could speak a little English, was afraid ofmaking mistakes. The family was also apprehensive aboutwhat Kelly would think of their standard of living incomparison to America. They made repairs and replacedwallpaper to make her feel comfortable. They need nothave worried.

“Kelly was accepting of everything that I am telling herand showing her,” says Lena. “I do not think she wasjudging anything as bad or good, according to her ownstandards.” Kelly was also so positive and confident aboutthe experience that Lena’s family soon relaxed aboutcommunication barriers and with Lena as an interpreter,communication went smoothly.

One of the largest adaptations for Kelly was adjusting to life in a crowded Russian city. Shewas amazed at how close people came to her and felt awkward having her personal spaceinvaded. However, the warm hospitality of Lena’s family and the friendliness of the people inthe stores and shops put her at ease. She also learned the benefits of living in a city where allshopping needs were within walking distance.

A trip to the Amber Museum was a high point of Kelly’s visit, and Lena had really wanted herto see it because she felt this circular building that was once a fortress and now containedbeautiful artifacts was a symbol of her region. Taking Kelly through the museum, Lena gaineda deeper understanding of her own history and culture.

While serving as a guide for Kelly’s visit, Lena learned new information about the Russianpeople and their behavior and even her own family. Kelly’s assessment was: “The trip mademe more open to new experiences and made me think about other cultures and realize theyare just as fascinating as our own.” She loved Lena’s family and found Russian food to beexcellent–even better than American food in some aspects.

A New InnovativeWestminster Experience

With over ten percent of its student population from 55 different countries, Westminster College certainly offers a global community where young peoplefrom diverse backgrounds can live and learn together. Presenting different cultural backgrounds and outlooks, expanding an understanding of today’sworld, and developing an appreciation for differences are all part of the Westminster experience.

Yet Westminster officials have chosen to take this experience to a new level this year with an exciting pilot project called the Take-A-Friend Home Program.Under this program, four domestic students spent three weeks of their summer break visiting the homes of four internationals students and in return, theinternational students will spend academic year breaks in the homes of the domestic students. This cross-cultural learning experience has been madepossible thanks to the generous contributions of members of the Westminster College Board of Trustees. The wide range of experiences enjoyed by the eightstudents who completed the international segment of this remarkable journey are profiled below.

Above: Kelly and Lena (far right) with Lena’s parents Alexander and Ludmila.

Left: Königsberg Cathedral was the main church of old Königsberg and today it remains a landmark of modern Kaliningrad.The cathedral stands on Kneiphof island. A number of Grand Masters of the Teutonic Order and Prussian princes are interredin the vaults of Königsberg Cathedral. Adjoining the cathedral, on the north side of the choir, is the grave of the famedphilosopher Immanuel Kant, the “sage of Königsberg.” Along with Kant, many of the professors of Königsberg Universitywere buried there.



Nikolay Domashev from Kirovo-Chepetsk, Russia andDustin Davis from Independence, Missouri

Dustin’s visit to Russia was quite different from that of Kelly. Nikolay and his mother Tatiana hadarranged a whirlwind visit of a wide range of venues that included schools, mines, cathedrals,government buildings, restaurants, the cinema and even a graduation ceremony. They visited thecities of Murmansk, a city on the Arctic Ocean; Kirovsk, an industrial town in the middle of theKola Peninsula; and Saint Petersburg, Russia’s second capital on the Baltic Sea. In Murmansk, theystayed in a hostel at the train station. In Kirovsk, they lived with a friend of Nikolay’s mother, Irina.In Saint Petersburg, they stayed in an apartment of Nikolay’s friend Antonina, an English languageteacher at Petrozavodsk State University. Nikolay’s mother is the chairperson of the InterregionalAssociation for the Support of the UN of Russia so she led presentations on critical thinking at theschool visits, while Nikolay and Dustin gave their opinions and shared personal examples.

The biggest difficulty for Dustin was adjusting to hot tea, thenon-alcoholic beverage of choice for Russians. Because tapwater is not safe to drink, Russians boil their water and flavorit with tea. One of the most fascinating experiences wasexperiencing a “polar day” in Kirovsk. During the summermonths, it is never dark in this part of the Russian North butduring the long winter, the sun is rarely seen.

“It was amazing to see how eager Russian young people wereto meet Dustin and share their personal hobbies with him,”says Nikolay. “People would recognize from 500 meters thatDustin wasn’t a Russian because he has an expression offreedom and a relaxed attitude.”

Food was a mixed experience for Dustin. He liked thepancakes they served for breakfast which were similar toFrench crepes, but not being a fish lover, he found it ratherunappealing to see people walking around selling whole fishon a string. He was quite surprised by their square pies andRussian style pizza, which contained mayonnaise.

“I was very surprised to find that even in a place as remote asKirovsk, people still live meaningful lives, welcome foreigners,know the English language, and are excited for change,” saysDustin.

Above: Dustin and Nikolay at the Aurora, one of the mostfamous ships in Russia. In October 1917 the ship’s crew wascommanded to fire into the Winter Palace, the place of theProvisional Government of Russia at that time. Ironically, theshot was a fake one (it had no gun powder charge). However,it served as a signal for communists to attack, overtake publicoffices and ultimately ignited the October Revolution. Thishistoric battleship is now a museum and stationed in Saint-Petersburg.

Left (from left to right): Antonina Schukina, a Senior Dean ofthe Foreign Languages Department at Petrozavodsk StateUniversity (Kola branch), Antonina Sidorovich, Head of theParents’ Committee of YMCA-Kirovsk Chapter, Dustin andNikolay.


Shauna Aminath from Malé, the Maldives andKim Siess from St. Clair, Missouri

Kim and Shauna certainly had the most exciting adventure of any of the participants in theprogram. The night before Kim arrived, people in Malé demonstrated on the streets against thegovernment, demanding the release of political detainees. Several of Shauna’s friends were arrestedby the government for participating in this nonviolent demonstration. So one of the first events inKim’s visit was joining Shauna in a meeting with the opposition party members petitioning tonegotiate the release of the demonstrators. “It was difficult for Kim to comprehend the reasoningbehind the arrest of that many people for participating in a non-violent demonstration in a‘democratic’ country,” says Shauna. “The meeting and the distribution of our petition around theisland gave an insight to the Maldivian political system for Kim and comprehending the issues thatare important to the youth.”

Even Kim’s arrival was eventful when Shauna was two hours late to meet her because she couldn’tget past an immigration officer at the airport. Kim also had many other interesting and enlighten-ing experiences. Malé, the capital city of the Maldives, has 100,000 people living in a 1.5 squaremile area so one of the first culture shocks for Kim was the overcrowded conditions. Then she hadthe opportunity to travel to the island Addu where Shauna had lived until the age of six. Thispeaceful environment with its unindustrialized, subsistence-based society was a total contrast toMalé. Kim learned about the environmental problems of the Maldives and the unequal distributionof wealth among the classes. “Some public areas were used as garbagedumps because people were not accessible to the area the governmenthas designated for garbage disposal,” says Kim. “The island did not haveproper garbage disposal methods; thus, beautiful beaches were pollutedwith garbage.”

After their trip to Addu, Kim did get to experience the paradise side ofthe Maldives. Shauna’s father arranged for them to stay at his workplace, Cocopalm Resort and Spa, where they saw dolphins, participatedin a snorkeling safari with a marine biologist and enjoyed the resortamenities. Kim also had the opportunity to visit the island ofThulhaadhoo one afternoon and Hulhamalé, an artificially reclaimedisland annex of Malé.

Overall, Kim had a great time and wants to fulfill Shauna’s dream oflearning how to milk a cow when Shauna visits her home.

Below: A small part of the Maldives from the air.

Below left: Shauna and Kim after their snorkelingsafari on the way to Cocopalm Resort and Spa

Ajit Balkawade from Daravali, India andJamie Brown from St. Clair, Missouri

Jamie was immediately immersed in Indian culture when Ajit took her on a guided tour of hishometown during her first day. “He drove me around the city in one of his Dad’s cars, and at first Iwas a little scared because the traffic of the city was chaotic,” Jamie recalls. “It was a bit of a shockto hear nothing but horns and Ajit singing along with the radio. The masses of people walkingalong the street and the occasional cow relaxing in the road didn’t help in calming me down either.Then the highlight of the day was when I was informed that Ajit didn’t have a driver’s license afterhe bumped into a rickshaw.”

One of the more interesting experiences for Jamie was helping Ajit’s sister prepare for an interviewwith the family of a potential husband for her as a part of the arranged marriage process that takesplace in India. Jamie helped her dress in “the most amazing sari,” the traditional fashion of India,and straightened her hair with a flat iron so she was able to wear her hair down.

In Delhi, Jamie visited the India gate built by the British during the colonial period and a templethat was in the shape of a lotus flower as well going a few hours outside Delhi to the mostbreathtaking sight of her entire trip–the Taj Mahal.

On the day of Jamie’s departure, Ajit’s family gave her a spectacular send-off. They had invited asnake expert to their home to put on a show. Everything was going well with the snakes until Jamiedecided to take a flash picture of the king cobra. The cobra didn’t like this attention at all andquickly focused on Jamie, but the snake expert acted quickly to bring the cobra back under control.Ajit’s family also prepared a traditional going away ceremony for Jamie to ensure her safe travelback to America.

“I hoped to show Jamie a lot of my day-to-day activities and some of the main attractions that‘outsiders’ have about India,” says Ajit. “I tried to prepare my family better to interact with her soshe didn’t feel left out since she didn’t speak Hindi or Marathi. We both were continuouslyinteracting about what she would like to see and how I could organize it. My family liked herpositive attitude toward India a lot, and now, we hope she will be able to visit India sometimeagain.”

During her adventures, Jamie fell in love with India and her biggest regret of the trip is that shedoesn’t know if she will ever be able to return.

In all four cases, the Take-A-Friend Home Programproved to be a transformational experience for thestudents involved. Hosting a friend in one’s homeinvites hospitality and builds good will. Bonds offriendship have been formed that will last alifetime. Both the guests and the hosts gainedvaluable insights about their own countries andcultures as well as acquiring a new appreciationfor the countries and cultures different from theirown. They learned how to adjust to being outsidetheir comfort zones and gained the confidencenecessary to be open to new opportunities andexperiences in the future. The domestic studentswere truly sensitized to the challenges faced byinternational students when they enter theWestminster campus, and they now see theimportance of having a friend to help make thetransition to a foreign land.

Certainly, from the results, Westminster isenthusiastic about continuing this valuablelearning experience. In fact, administrators wouldlike to expand the program this summer andeventually be able to offer Take-A-Friend Home to10-15 pairs of students. If you are interested inparticipating in the endowment for Take-A-FriendHome, please contact the Office of Development at(573) 592-5370.

Above: Ajit with his sister Ashwini, his cousin Jyoti and his mother Usha Balkawade

Right: Jamie the snake charmer.



College life in the movie worlds of “Van Wilder” and “Animal House” may be filled with the “partydown, sleep in” mentality, but the small and select liberal arts school of Westminster Collegedemonstrates that this student stereotype is reel world, not real world.

Certainly, Westminster has a healthy, active social life,and sleeping in does happen when the schedule allows.However, the prevailing atmosphere at Westminster isstudent involvement–on campus and within the localcommunity. On any given day, students can be foundhosting blood drives, visiting senior centers, partneringwith Missouri’s Division of Youth Services, andvolunteering at the local soup kitchen, schools, theYMCA and Little Brothers/Little Sisters.

Last year alone, Westminster students performed morethan 6,500 hours of service. For Make a Difference Daythe end of October, over 150 students gave up theirSaturday to complete local community service projects,ranging from raking leaves and winterization at thehomes of senior citizens to cleaning up a Head Startfacility. Why?

“Because developing leaders of character prepared tocontribute in a global community is what we are about atWestminster,” says President Dr. Fletcher M. Lamkin. “Wedon’t just give lip service to this focus. Our students liveit and breathe it every single day.”

The heart and soul of that commitment on campus is theEmerson Center for Leadership & Service, created in 2002in honor of the late Missouri Congressman andWestminster alumnus William Emerson ’59.

The Emerson Center for Leadership & Service is a four-point program, which includes leadershipdevelopment, a servant-leader partnership between the College and the local community, theintegration of leadership into designated curricula and a leadership awards program.

The leadership program itself is a series of academic credit-bearing classes and lab experiences thatresult in a Leadership Minor or Leadership Certification for participating students. This programprovides a model for integration of academic and student affairs and is taught by a combination ofstudent affairs staff and tenure-track faculty under ajointly created curriculum.

“Students today are demanding skills beyondbasic academics that will set them apart fromothers when they enter the work force,” saysPresident Lamkin. “They are searching for a totaldevelopmental experience that will help them inall aspects of their lives to include family, careerand community interaction. Our LeadershipCenter fulfills those needs.”

Leadership Lives Large at


The Center also integrates academic and student affairs throughits support of service-learning. Stipends and operational funds areprovided for faculty who wish to incorporate service-learning intotheir courses. Center staff works with the faculty members toensure particular service projects meet a community need andincorporate learning through reflection. For example, last yearduring tax season, Center staff worked with accounting professorson a program where students prepared tax returns for low-incomefamilies and helped them receive tax credits.

“The Emerson Center for Leadership & Service is based on the servant-leadership model,” saysDr. David Humphrey, Center Director. “Our goal is to instill values in leadership development andteach our students that to lead, you must reach out and serve those who you wish to influence.”

The results are receiving prestigious recognition. The Center recently received the 2006 InnovativeProgram Award presented by the Missouri College Personnel Association for outstanding studentaffairs programs in Missouri higher education. Westminster was also notified that the College is oneof only eight colleges and universities in Missouri to be named to the President’s Higher EducationCommunity Service Honor Roll because of its record of student community service.

Reaching out in partnership with the community since its inception, the Center has involvedhundreds of students in programs and opportunities that address human needs such as literacy,nutrition, health promotion, youth development and housing. Clothing and blood drives, bonemarrow drives, campus recycling, Habitat for Humanity house construction and alternative springbreak trips to help Katrina victims rebuild from the devastation are just a short list of some of theprojects Westminster students have undertaken through the Leadership Center.

One of the more unique projects initiated last year is the campus organic garden project to raiseawareness about sustainability and environmentally sound agricultural practices. The produceraised was given to local senior citizens and to Westminster international students who live inFulton during the summer while the College dining hall is closed. The ultimate goal of the gardenproject is to produce enough vegetables and herbs for use at the local soup kitchen and foodpantry.

Another project that will be greatly expanded this year ismentoring and tutoring with the Little Brothers/LittleSisters organization. Under this program, Westminsterstudents take a youth mentoring leadership lab to studychild development and learn best practices. Then they arematched up with young people who have been identifiedin need of after school support through the state STARS(Students and Teachers as Research Scientists) after schoolprogram. Approximately 25 students are participating inthe program compared to 15 last year.

“Learning about values and the importance of giving backto the community, state and nation are an integral part ofour educational process,” says Lamkin. “We believe thatcharacter counts.”

Westminster

Westminster’s most famous visitor, Sir WinstonChurchill, who delivered his “Iron Curtain”address on campus in 1946, once said: “Wemake a living by what we get, but we makea life with what we give.” Students atWestminster College are making a life forthemselves through their involvement in theEmerson Center for Leadership & Service.


John McFarland ’62 is a happy man. Tonight, he is sitting with his wife

Karen and “thier” students…; Ashton Ellett, class of 2008 and Amber

Martin, class of 2007. The event is the annual President’s Dinner.

Ashton excitedly talks about his goal of joining the United States

Foreign Services. His love of politics and service is evident as he

animatedly discusses his desire to travel the world and help bring

diverse cultures together. Amber talks about the challenges and rewards

of being a resident student advisor, a role which will help her prepare

for her graduate studies and career as a teacher.

John sits back and smiles…

A Story of Touching Lives…Now and For Generations To Come

John and Karen McFarland with scholarship recipients Amber Martin and Ashton Ellett


In Ashton and Amber, John sees the future ofthis country and he is pleased. Through theMcFarland Family Endowed Scholarship Fund,which John and Karen established in 2002, theyknow that they have touched the lives of Ashtonand Amber… and, the two students realize theimpact of this scholarship will benefit them foryears to come.

Each year, the story of John, Karen, Ashton andAmber is repeated 100 times at Westminster.That’s the number of named endowed scholar-ships that are currently making it possible fordeserving students to experience Westminster.

“The beauty of establishing an endowedscholarship is that you can chose the criteriathe students must meet in order to receive theaward,” said McFarland. With the McFarlandFamily Scholarship, John and Karen wanted toreward demonstrated excellence and impact theretention rate at Westminster by targeting juniorsand seniors. Good grades are a must and thestudents have to demonstrate leadership skillsand good character.

For the students, the “carrot” of continuing the scholarship is a powerful incentive. Both Ashtonand Amber have enviable grade point averages, both belong to at least two honor societies and theylove to participate in campus activities.

Like so many dedicated alumni, John wanted to “give back” to the College that gave him so much.A successful businessman, John realizes the impact Westminster has made in his life… and he wantsthat impact to be felt by future generations of students. “My desire is that those students whoreceive this scholarship will realize that hard work and good character pay off.” McFarland adds.

Hard work and good character has been paying off for Westminster students for more than 155years, in no small part due to the insightful generosity of people like John and Karen McFarland.

Young Rev. B.Y. George, one of the first 50 students to attend, then Fulton College, in 1851 couldnever comprehend the Westminster of today. Yet, even at the College’s inception, our founderswere looking to the future. In Bill Parrish’s book, Westminster College: An Informal History, 1851-1999, he notes that trustees of the College established a “scholarship plan” permitting, “a purchaserto secure to himself and his sons for a period of twenty years the complete prepatory and collegecourse for $150.” Parrish adds that an endowed scholarship could be established for $500.

In 1892, a successful businessman from Hannibal, Missouri, William Sausser passed away leavingthe College his entire estate valued at $125,000. This amount more than doubled the College’sendowment. Sausser was not an alumnus but he valued the College’s commitment to values andcharacter. Though the amount of these scholarships and bequest seem small by today’s comparison,they allowed the College to survive many turbulent years to include the Civil War and GreatDepression.

Today, Westminster enrolls more than 900 students, employees nationally respected faculty andprovides a nurturing living and learning environment. The success of recently completed Campaignfor Westminster provided for the state-of-the-art Wallace H. Coulter Science Center, the renovationof the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library, new technology and the Mueller Leadership Halldining facility which will open in the fall of 2007.

The Campaign for Westminster has greatly helped the College of today. The question is;what will become of the Westminster of the future?

“Growing the College’s endowment isn’t aboutmonetary goals and national rankings,” saidWestminster College President FletcherLamkin. “Securing the College’s endowmentis all about ensuring that deserving studentslike Ashton and Amber will be able to benefitfrom the Westminster experience for the next155 years and beyond.”

For the one who establishes the endowedscholarship, however, it is even more personal.“I’m genuinely interested in being a part ofthese student’s lives,” said McFarland. “I wouldsincerely hope to keep in touch with studentslike Aston and Amber after graduation.”

For the student, the scholarship is nothingless than making a dream come true. Ashton, aRhodes Scholar candidate, plans to follow inhis parent’s footsteps after his duty in theForeign Services is complete. “Teaching history,literature and foreign relations at a smallprivate college or university like Westminsterwould be the opportunity of a lifetime and adream come true. Thank you.”

If you are interested in touching the lives ofstudents and helping to make their dreamscome true, please consider establishing anendowed scholarship at Westminster. Pleasecontact Dan Diedriech, Vice President forInstitutional Advancement at (573) 592-5370to help begin building relationships that willlast a lifetime.

westminster at a glance

See for yourself what’s happening at Westminster College

Alumni WeekendApril 20–22, 2007



CLASSNOTES

Martha Kochheim, former Betahousemother in the 1980s,celebrated her 98th birthday in2006. She is doing well living inSeminole, FL, and enjoys herhealth and family.

Bill Backer ’43 married JeanLincoln on December 14, 2006.The couple resides in Fulton, MO.Backer is the Owner of the AutoWorld Museum.

Dean Macris ’53 retired from acareer as the San FranciscoPlanning Director after workingfor mayors Joe Alioto, DianneFeinstein, Art Agnos and GavinNewsom. Macris is known as thearchitect of the San Franciscoskyline.

Reverend Otis Young ’53retired in September 2006 fromthe First-Plymouth CongregationalChurch in Lincoln, NE afterserving as the Senior Minister for35 years. Young plans to continuehis popular “All About Books”book review program on NETRadio and has begun working asa church consultant, sharing hisexpertise in church planningand management with othercongregations in Nebraska andelsewhere. He also will dopart-time community relationsfor Sampson Construction Co.

Dr. Bill Cross ’55 was featuredin the September 7, 2006 issue ofthe Kansas City Press Dispatch in“A lesson in what teaching is allabout,” and the November 9,2006 issue of the Sun Tribune in“Stopping not an option forGladstone mayor.”

Dick Schwieder ’57 and wifeJonne (Thompson WWU ’55)celebrated their 50th weddinganniversary on August 18 2006.

Col. Linn Schofield ’60 retiredfrom the Department of Defenseand moved to Hawaii. Schofield’sdaughter Valerie is a junior atWestminster and plans to attendmedical school.

Tom Kleinschmidt ’62 is anAttorney with Schneider &Onofry in Phoenix, AZ.

Carl Tegtmeier ’66 received theDistinguished Service Award fromthe Missouri Military Academy inMexico, MO during the 2006Homecoming Alumni Convocation.

Jim Morton ’67 is the ViceChairman of Nissan NorthAmerica, Inc. in Nashville, TN.

Dan Harris ’70 is the DeputyAssistant Secretary forInternational Operations in theUS Commercial Service inWashington, DC.

Dan Grubb ’71 works in Salesfor the Targeted Publications andCatalog Group of QuebecorWorld.

John Weidner ’71 is aFounding Partner of CornellGlobal LLC in Wilton, CT.

Scott Mulford ’74 is the PressSecretary for Illinois AttorneyGeneral Lisa Madigan inSpringfield, IL.

Dr. Craig Roth ’74 wasrecognized with the MinnesotaLaureate Award from theAmerican College of Physiciansin November 2006. Roth is anAssociate Professor of Medicine atthe University of Minnesota.

Johnson Ho ’75 is the Presidentof Pantheon Wine Society, aworld class showcase store inNorthbrook, IL. Visit the websiteat pantheonwinesociety.com.

Jim Rosen ’75 is a VicePresident and Director of Leasingwith Pace Properties in St. Louis,MO.

Bob Baker ’76 is a PortfolioManager with Morgan StanleyInvestment Management inHouston, TX.

Bob Edwards ’76 is a SocialSecurity Representative withAllsup, Inc. in Belleville, IL.

Jim Kiburz ’76 is a Senior VicePresident, Enterprise RiskManagement with UMB FinancialCorpCredit Alliance, Inc. inKansas City, MO.

Al Minor ’76 is the VicePresident of Sales for OnSiteNetwork.

Kerry Kimble ’78 completedthe Federal EmergencyManagement Agency EmergencyManagement CertificationProgram in September 2006.Kimble works for the State ofColorado Division of EmergencyManagement in Centennial, CO.

Rene Smeraglia ’78 is anInformation Security Officer withthe United States Mint inWashington, DC.

Ted Wilson ’78 is President ofthe Bank of Weston in Weston,MO.

David Nicholson ’79 was electedCircuit Court Clerk of JeffersonCounty in November 2006.Nicholson and wife Debracelebrated their 25th weddinganniversary in August 2006 andhave 2 children, Sara, age 18 andSam, age 15.

Dr. Jeff Sanders ’79 foundedthe volunteer-based Jefferson CityFree Medical Clinic in 1996,providing free health services tocommunity members. Sandersrecently turned over management

of the clinic and it was renamedthe Community Health Center.

Steve Spitsnogle ’79 retired andmoved to Florida. Spitsnogle isrecently engaged to his highschool sweetheart.

Nathan Carrington ’80 is aQuality Assurance Specialist forthe Claim Division of AmericanFamily Insurance. His primaryresponsibilities are to review theeffectiveness and accuracy ofprocesses, performance andstandards of the Claim Division.Carrington resides with his familyin St. Joseph, MO.

Bill Esry ’80 was electedPresident of the MissouriIndependent Bankers Association.Esry will guide the MIBA as itserves Missouri’s communitybanks by providing legislativerepresentation, hosting educationand seminar programs, as well asother services designed exclusivelyfor community banks. Esry is thePresident and CEO of Blue RidgeBank and Trust in Independence,MO.

Randy Sparks ’80 and wifeLaura recently celebrated their16th wedding anniversary. Theyreside in Charlotte, NC with theirtwo boys, Matthew, age 9, andWilliam, age 6. Sparks is the ChiefCounsel to Bank of America’sGlobal Treasury Services Divisionand was recently appointed to theadditional role of Chief Anti-Money Laundering Counsel forthe Bank’s Global Corporate andInvestment Bank.

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Barrett and Brooke, age 10, children ofLes ’79 and Nina Baledge

Bill Esry ’80


Howard ’83 and JocelynHubbellwere married on April 22, 2006 inCharleston, SC. The couple residesin Johns Island, SC. Hubbell is aCT Technologist at Roper Hospitalin Charleston.

General Larry Kay ’83 is theDeputy Director for the MissouriVeterans Commission in JeffersonCity, MO.

Dennis Meyer ’83 is a StaffUnderwriter and ProductSpecialist with Allied/NationwideInsurance in Des Moines, IA.

Scott Schenck ’82 is a Coachat Conscious Choices inHendersonville, NC.

J.T. Nangle ’85 is the Director ofResort Operations with SummerwindsResort Services, LLC in Branson,MO.

Rusty Smith ’85 is a ManagingPartner of Third Coast InternationalGroup, LLC in Chicago, IL.

Dr. Jim Williams ’86 will beteaching “Winston Churchill: WarLeader, Politician, Author, Artist”through the Cooperative Centerfor Study Abroad London SummerProgram 2007. Williams is aProfessor of History at Middle

Tennessee State University inMurfreesboro, TN.

William and Matthew Sparks, sons of Randy’80 and Laura Sparks

Matthew Kim, age 3, son of Michael ’87and Marleen Kim


CLASSNOTES

Jack Talbot ’93 is an Attorneywith Bridges, Young, Matthews &Drake PLC in Pine Bluff, AR.

Jonathan Wade ’93 is the CEOof Covenant Hospital Plainview inPlainview, TX. Wade and wifeKimberly are expecting twins inApril.

Gary Bonsall ’94 is theGuidance Counselor at SouthCallaway High School in Mokane,MO.

Kimberly Clarke-McCarty ’94works in Training andProductivity with Keller WilliamsRealty in Texas.

Ehren Earleywine ’94 is theHead Softball Coach at theUniversity of Missouri-Columbia.Earleywine and wife Lisa have twochildren, a son Connor, age 3,and a daughter Duran, age 1.

John Rollins ’87 is a Partnerwith Kenner and Kavanaugh inKansas City, MO.

Drew Erwin ’88 and wifeStephanie (WWU ’89) are proudto annouce the birth of their 4thson, Alden Templeton Erwin, onAugust 16, 2006. Alden joins bigbrothers Adlai, age 10, Ashtyn,age 5, and Aubrey, age 4. Thefamily resides in Quincy, IL whereErwin practices law.

Gayle (Leone) Gilley ’88 is aSenior Accountant withIntergraph Service Company inHuntsville, AL.

Greg Richard ’88 is the SeniorVice President of Sales andMarketing with Synarc, Inc.Richard is responsible for leadingSynarc’s global commercial salesand marketing strategy.

Tom ’89 and Tiffany(Thomas) ’96 Holmanwelcomed Nathan James Holmanon July 9, 2006. Nate joins olderbrother Nicholas, age 3. The familyresides in Columbia, MO whereTom is the Chief Appraiser withDistrict 2 MoDOT and Tiffany is a1st Grade Teacher at FairviewElementary.

Dr. Mark Taylor ’89 is anAssistant Professor of MathematicsEducation at the University ofTennessee in Knoxville.

David Phillips ’90 is a VicePresident and Branch Managerwith Stephens, Inc. in Conway,AR.

Tom Gorman ’92 was namedthe October 2006 Bartlesville (OK)Area Chamber Board Member ofthe Month. Gorman has been aChamber member since 2001 andis the President of GormanManagement Company, whichmanages residential apartmentsthroughout the state ofOklahoma.

George Mahn ’92 is working onlicensing and scoring opportunitieswith major film and televisionprojects. Mahn scored the inde-pendent film The Promise in 2004and finished a collection of newinstrumental pieces in 2005.

Angela Pangelinan-Reed ’92and husband John welcomed JohnCharles Reed, VI on December 12,2006. The couple was married onMay 9, 2005 in Las Vegas, NV.John joins older siblings Kieran,age 11, and Kody, age 9. Thefamily resides in San Antonio, TXwhere Pangelinan-Reed is aProduct Director with USAA.

Lisa (Gebken) Thibault ’92and husband Michael welcomedLucille “Lucy” Elizabeth Thibaulton July 25, 2006. Lucy joins oldersisters Genevieve, age 7, andSophie, age 6. The family residesin Indianapolis, IN.

James Barrington ’93 is anAttorney with Bremer WhyteBrown & O’Meara in Las Vegas,NV. Barrington and wife Jenniferhave two sons, Jack, age 4, andHank, age 1.

Kelly (Ferguson) Cravens ’93was admitted as Partner in thefirm Mauldin & Jenkins CertifiedPublic Accountants, LLC inBirmingham, AL in September2006.

Lila Ohler ’93 is an AcquisitionsLibrarian at the University ofOklahoma in Norman.

Jenny Otting ’93 is an EnglishLanguage Teacher at KoçUniversity in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Ashtyn, Aubrey and Adlai Erwin welcomenew baby brother, Alden

Brea, age 1, daughter of Brian and Kim(Boswell) ’90 Daniel

Emily (Richardson) ’94 and Jeff ’94Blake

Julie (Dabney) Devoti ’94 and childrenJoseph, age 7, Sophia, age 6, and Nicholas,age 2, cheer on the Blue Jays during the Fall2006 Football Season.

Ehren Earleywine ’94

Sophie and Genevieve Thibault welcometheir new baby sister Lucy

Dr. David Jacobson ’90 prepares anexperimental fuel cell for real-time imagingat the National Institute of Standards andTechnology (NIST) Center for NeutronResearch in Gaithersburg, MD. ©Robert Rathe

The Theroff Family - Ken ’88 and Susie,Emmi, Anna and Grace

Nate Holman

Cary Justice ’94 and wife Ginnyannounce the birth of SamuelBullitt Ward Justice on August 1,2006. The family resides inWashington, DC. Justice is theDeputy Associate Director forLegislative Affairs in the Office ofNational Drug Control Policy atThe White House.

Damon Sacra ’94 is an AssistantDistrict Attorney with the TulsaCounty District Attorney's Office.

Meredith Wampler ’94graduated with a Doctorate inPhysical Therapy through a jointprogram from San Francisco StateUniversity and the University ofCalifornia San Francisco in August2005. Wampler is a Faculty Memberat San Francisco State University.

Lance Baker ’95 was promotedto Branch Manager and AssociateVice President of the A.G. EdwardsOklahoma City office in March2006. Baker and wife Laura havetwo children, Elizabeth, age 6,and Harrison, age 4, and are inthe process of adopting a little girlfrom China.

Sam Harper ’95 received a PhDin Public Health from theUniversity of Michigan. Harperresides in Montreal, QC.

Wendy Humphrey ’95 is anAttorney with Lovell, Lovell &Newsom, LLP in Amarillo, TX.

CLASSNOTES

Audra Miller ’95 is a ManagingPartner with Full Sail PropertiesLLC in Kansas City, MO.

Donna (Gorbet) Redmond ’95is an Internet DevelopmentManager with Herff-Jones, Inc. inIndianapolis, IN.

Jessica Spanglehour ’95 is theDirector of Development at theCentral Missouri Food Bank inColumbia.

Amy (Collier) Swanson ’95and husband Jeramie welcomedAndrew Carter Swanson on March10, 2006. Andrew joins big brothersJacob, age 7, and David, age 4.The family resides in Lincoln, NEwhere Swanson is the VicePresident of Operations with DECCapital Inc.

Angie Bono-Severy ’96 is aPatient Care Manager andCounselor at the Carle AddictionRecovery Center with the CarleClinic Association in Urbana, IL.

Brad Buckner ’96 was selectedas the McGinnis Woods CountryDay School 2006 Teacher of theYear, where he has taught kinder-garten for the last 6 years.Buckner resides in Cumming, GAwith his wife Aime, a 4th GradeTeacher at the same school.

Karen (Griffin) Butcher '96and husband David welcomedAudrey Marie Butcher on October9, 2006. Audrey joins older broth-er Anthony, age 3. The familyresides in Columbia, MO whereButcher is a Human ResourcesSpecialist with Salton, Inc.

Jennifer (Janson) Kirby ’96and husband Charles welcomedAbbey Marie Kirby on July 20,


Jill (Schnurbusch) Sanderson’97 and husband Joshuaannounce the birth of QuinnTaylor Sanderson on August 19,2005. Quinn joins older sibling,Kergan, age 3. The family residesin Lake Saint Louis, MO.

Brandon Beshears ’98 is theCoalitions Director and Ag &Sportsmen Outreach Coordinatorfor Missouri Victory ’06.

Rick Erwin ’98 and KalyHarkins ’98 were married onOctober 14, 2006 in Fort Morgan,AL. The wedding party includedChaney (Harkins) Hagemann’97, Justin Gage ’98, andJeremy Salmons ’98. Also inattendance were Kerrie Knoll’98, Kristen Kennedy ’98, DanHagemann ’99, ChristopherMonroe ’01 and Robyn Erwin’04. The couple resides in St.Louis, MO where Erwin isDirector of Operations for theCity Museum and Harkins is aEnvironmental Project Managerwith Williams & Co. Consulting.

Rob Fasoldt ’98 is the Directorof Ticket Sales for the St. LouisBlues.

2006. The couple was married onJune 25, 2005 in Little Rock, AR.The wedding party includedBethany Moran ’97. The familyresides in Houston, TX whereKirby is now a stay at home momafter a 10 year career withHealthSCOPE Benefits as Directorof Account Management.

Todd Marler ’96 is an Attorneywith Borengasser & MarlerAttorneys and Counselors at Law,LLC in Lake Saint Louis, MO.

Jason White ’96 and wife Tessaannounce the birth of Jevin JamesWhite on October 11, 2006. Jevinjoins older siblings Miranda, age11, and Jace, age 6. The familyresides in Eldon, MO. White is aBusiness Teacher and BasketballCoach at Eugene High School.

Samuel Justice

Andrew Carter Swanson

Andrea (Wiley) ’96 and Dennis Sagelywith twins Aubyn and Ashtyn

Abbey Marie Kirby

Jevin James White

Rick ’98 and Kaly (Harkins) ’98 Erwinand wedding party

Audrey Marie Butcher

Christine and Ryan ’95 Hunter withchildren Lola, 6 months, and Mason, age 2


Aaron Fray ’98 is President ofION-E Network, Inc. in Newark,DE.

Amy (Schaeperkoetter)Herman ’98 and husband Dalewelcomed Ivie Schae Herman onApril 13, 2006. The family residesin Durham, NC. Herman is theAssistant Athletic Director forCompliance at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jim Hoodenpyle ’98 is a RegionTeam Leader in the FinanceDepartment with Frito Lay inSpringfield, MO.

David Mayor ’98 is aCommercial Manager, LatinAmerica with Nokia in Irving, TX.

Tyler Schaper ’98 and wifeChristy welcomed BlakeAlexander Schaper on September11, 2006. Blake joins older broth-er Jacob, age 1 1/2. The familyresides in Godfrey, IL whereSchaper is a Senior FinancialConsultant for three branches atUS Bancorp. Schaper is aPresident’s Club Producer whorecently earned a 2006 PinnacleAward for his 3rd quarterperformance and production.

Jill (Swank) ’98 and Barret’99 Seymour welcomed CoriStockton Seymour on June 9,2006. The family resides inOklahoma City, OK.

Rebecca Dillender ’99 is aHealth Insurance Specialist withthe Centers for Medicare &Medicaid Services, Kansas CityRegion. Dillender was recognizedin September 2006 with theAdministrator’s AchievementAward for identifying an error inthe 2006 Medicare AmbulanceFee Schedule that saved theMedicare program more than $65million in overpayments forambulance services.

Dodson Harper ’99 is aStructural Engineer with Resource

Engineering Group in CrestedButte, CO. Harper earned a degreein Civil Engineering fromColorado State University.

Trey ’99 and Audra (Meyers)’99 Jackson welcomed CarterElizabeth Jackson on September28, 2006. Carter joins olderbrother Lucas, age 2. The familyresides in Fort Smith, AR.

Dr. Dan Neller ’99 is a ForensicPsychologist at Georgia RegionalHospital at Augusta.

Nancy Picht ’99 is a LabAssistant II with NorthwestRegional Laboratory inBellingham, WA.

Dean Pat Kirby catches up with Amy(Schaeperkoetter) ’98 and Dale Hermanand baby Ivie during a recent campus visit

Cori Stockton Seymour

Rebecca Dillender ’99 with Dr. MarkMcClellan, CMS Administrator, and TomLenz, CMS Kansas City Region Administrator,at the CMS Awards Ceremony in Baltimore inSeptemeber 2006Jacob and Blake Schaper

Donald Wood ’00 is theAssociate Director ofDevelopment with the Sigma ChiFoundation in Evanston, IL.

Marcus Dixon ’01 graduatedfrom the University of Phoenixwith an MBA in 2004. Dixon is aVehicle Remarketing Manager ofthe Southern Auto Auction ofDaimlerChrysler Services NorthAmerica LLC in East Windsor, CT.

Alisia Eckert ’01 graduatedwith an MBA from the YaleSchool of Management in May2005. Eckert is a DevelopmentCoordinator with Children’sMemorial in Chicago, IL.

Matt ’01 and Katie (Rader) ’03Haverstick welcomed Daniel R.Haverstick on April 1, 2006.Daniel joins older brothersSteven, age 5, and Wyatt, age 2.The family resides in Fenton, MO.Matt is a Family Advocate withthe YWCA Head Start and Katie isa Senior Accountant with CodeConsultants, Inc. in St. Louis.

Mike W. Hawley ’01 a thirdyear student at the PikevilleCollege School of OsteopathicMedicine.

Elizabeth Malm ’01 is aResident in Urology at theUniversity of Missouri-ColumbiaHospital.

Tyson Ross ’01 married MelissaMeli on November 11, 2006. Rossworks for Promotion Incorporatedin St. Louis, MO.

Lauren (Burdolski) Taylor ’01is the Assistant to the President ofuclick.com and gocomics, aDivision of Andrews McMeelUniversal, in Kansas City, MO.Taylor is responsible for contractssuch as Garfield, Ziggy, Tokyo Popand Teenage Mutant NinjaTurtles.

Amber Thompson ’01 marriedLuke Shafer on August 26, 2006 inTroy, MO. The couple resides inClarksville, MO. Thompson is thePresident of the Bank ofLouisianna.

Christopher Beale ’02 is in hisfinal year as a Youth and CommunityDevelopment Volunteer in theEastern Caribbean serving on theisland nation of Antigua andBarbuda. As a PCV, Beale workswith government agencies andlocal organizations to helpstrengthen their capacity with afocus on program design andmanagement. Beale also workswith schools and youth groups inthe context of the HIV/AIDSepidemic.

Erica Darmstaedter ’02 is anAgent Assistant and CustomerService Representative withAmerican Family Insurance, BillVoss Agency in Ellisville, MO.

Prity Vanmali ’02 married CurtStubinger on August 4, 2006 inOcho Rios, Jamaica. The coupleresides in Jefferson City, MOwhere Vanmali is a Realtor withCentury 21.

Sarah (Idel) Watts ’02 andhusband Nathan welcomed sonCameron Lee Watts on August 23,2006. Cameron joins older brothersDawson, age 6, and Gabriel, age 11/2. Watts is a Senior AccountExecutive with Pitney Bowes, Incout of the St Louis district. Thefamily resides in Columbia, MO.

Amanda (Knight) Black ’03 isa Pampered Chef Consultant inFayetteville, AR.

Amanda Brondel ’03 marriedJacob Rodemann on June 3, 2006in Jefferson City, MO. The weddingparty included Aspen Burrow’03 and Katie Farris ’03. Thecouple resides in South Bend, IN.Brondel is a Medical Student at

Kirksville College of OsteopathicMedicine and will graduate inJune 2007.

Nick Cacciabando ’03 is aSenior Associate with SeniorLiving Investment Brokerage inSt. Louis, MO.

Hillary (Haas) Clark ’03 is anEnvironmental Specialist with theMissouri Department of NaturalResources in Jefferson City, MO.

Brandon Heath ’03 is a BranchManager with Regions Bank inCollierville, TN.

Whitney Locke ’03 marriedMichael Holliday on June 3, 2006in Hannibal, MO. The weddingparty included Christine(McCaul) Howard ’03,Whitney (Kinnard) Backsen’03, Maggie O’Donnell ’03,Lauren Humphrey ’03, BrettEllis ’03 and LaurenChristmann ’03. The coupleresides in Hannibal, MO whereLocke is a 10th Grade HistoryTeacher. She received a Masters inEducation from the University ofMissouri-Columbia in 2004 and aSpecialist Degree in EducationalAdministration from WillliamWoods in 2006.

Gregg Klinginsmith ’00 is theAssistant Principal at SouthMiddle School in Joplin, MO.

Michelle Miller ’00 marriedThomas Fassler on May 6, 2006at Lake Ozark, MO. The weddingparty included Candice(Criswell) Chastain ’00. Thecouple resides in Imperial, MO.Miller is currently completing aMaster’s in School Counseling atLindenwood University.

Cecil Skaggs ‘00 is a ComputerTechnician with ColumbiaIntegrated Technologies inColumbia, MO.

Beth (Howard) Stubbs ’00 is aPharmacist and Part Owner ofKilgore’s Medical Pharmacy inColumbia, MO.

James Turner ’00 is a DeputySheriff in the K9 Unit with theTulare County Sheriff’sDepartment in Visalia, CA.

Joe Winters ’00 married MaryGilmore on September 9, 2006 inColumbia, MO. The couple residesin Columbia, MO. Winters is aRecreation Supervisor at theMissouri Department ofCorrections in Moberly.

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2000’s

Gregg Klinginsmith ’00

Jocelyn Schaefer, age 4 months, daughter ofJennifer (Whitaker) Schaefer ’00

Gabriel, Dawson and Cameron, sons ofSarah (Idel) ’02 and Nathan Watts

Whitney (Locke) ’03 and MichaelHolliday

Josh and Rhonda (Herndon) ’03Kottemann


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Amanda Masiel ’03 and JoshuaJacob were married on September2, 2006 in Cape Girardeau, MO.The wedding party included Julie(Binggeli) Hicklin ’03. Thecouple resides in Nashville, TNwhere Masiel is a ProjectConsultant with VanderbiltUniversity.

Brian Naslund ’03 marriedJessica Landsbury ’05 onOctober 28, 2006 in the Church ofSt. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury.The couple resides in Nixa, MO.Nasland is a veterinarian techni-cian with Gentle Care AnimalHospital and Landsbury is a YouthCare Worker in a residential facili-ty for Burrell Behavioral Health.

Tiffany Norris ’03 and GregorySchwartz were married on July 8,2006 in Fulton, MO. The weddingparty included Brad Harrigan’03, Brandi Schubert ’03, KateMcClain ’03 and Elisa Donnelly’03. The couple resides in St.Louis, MO where Norris is a LawClerk with Thompson CoburnLLP.

Gina Rackers ’03 is the Directorof Marketing Events with GravesMenu Maker Foods in JeffersonCity, MO.

Dr. Amanda Signaigo, DC ’03is the Owner and Chiropractor ofTiger Family Chiropractic &Wellness Center in Columbia,MO.

Julie Slisz ’03 married RobertGastler ’05 on July 22, 2006 atRock Bridge Memorial State Parkin Columbia, MO. The weddingparty included KristyHalverson ’02 and TrishaPeplinski ’06. The coupleresides in Columbia, MO. Slisz is aHigh School Science Teacher atFulton Public Schools and Gastleris studying Applied Mathematicsat the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Elizabeth (Moore) Stickley’03 is a First Grade Teacher atNorth Glendale Elementary inKirkwood, MO.

Valerie Stuart ’03 graduated inAugust 2006 from WebsterUniversity with a Master’s Degreein Secondary Mathematics. Stuartis a Mathematics Teacher at SeckmanHigh School in Imperial, MO.

Lindsey Brondel ’04 marriedPhil Pitts on July 22, 2006 inJefferson City, MO. The coupleresides in Jefferson City. Brondelis an Office Support Staff III in theAccounting Department at theUniversity of Missouri-Columbia.

Mira Doneva ’04 is a SeniorConsultant in Enterprise RiskServices with Deloitte & ToucheLLP in St. Louis, MO.

Ashley Driggers ’04 graduatedfrom the Accelerated Option atResearch College of Nursing witha Bachelor’s of Science in Nursingin August 2006. Driggers is aRegistered Nurse in the NewbornNursery at Research MedicalCenter in Kansas City, MO.

Hope Eaton ’04 is anEmployment and TrainingCounselor with WorkforceOklahoma in Norman. Eatonserves students in various nursingprograms.

Kasey Hames ’04 graduatedwith a Master of Science (Reseach)degree in Biology from St. LouisUniversity in May 2006. Hamesreceived the Outstanding TeachingAssistant Award from both theBiology Department and from theGraduate School Association. Sheis currently attending theUniversity of Missouri-Columbiaon a Life Sciences Fellowship topursue a PhD in Plant Sciences.

Brooke Jackson ’04 marriedWhitney Mahar on September 16,2006 in St. Lucia. The coupleresides in St. Louis, MO. Jacksonis an Interpretive ResourceTechnician at Mastadon StateHistoric Site in Imperial, MO.

Danny Jackson ’04 andKristen Leone ’06 were marriedon October 13, 2006 at theChurch of St. Mary the Virgin,Aldermanbury in Fulton, MO.The wedding party includedDavid Jackson ’10, PeteMiranti ’04, Dan O’Hearn ’04,

Ben Young ’04, Scott Rigg’04, Matt House ’06, KaliWright ’04 and JoannaCarpenter ’06. The coupleresides in Columbia, MO whereJackson is a third year medicalstudent at the University ofMissouri-Columbia and Leone isthe Assistant Store Manager atEddie Bauer.

Lindsay Knight ’04 marriedDenver Reigel on September 30,2006. Knight is pursuing graduatestudies at the University ofMissouri-St. Louis.

Katie Kramer ’04 is a SalesRepresentative with PARSInternational Corp. in New York,NY.

Blaire Leible ’04 married RyanGarwitz on June 24, 2006 inColumbia, MO. The weddingparty included Sarah Muenks’04, Kali Wright ’04 andBrooke Jackson ’04. Thecouple resides in Columbia,MO. Leible graduated from theUniversity of Missouri-Columbiain May 2006 with a Master’s inJournalism and is an InformationSpecialist at the State HistoricalSociety of Missouri.

Amanda (Masiel) ’03 and Joshua Jacob

Julie (Slisz) ’03 and Robert ’05 Gastler

Mira Doneva ’04 and Forrest

Jessica (Landsbury ’05) and Brian ’03Naslund

Lindsey (Brondel) ’04 and Phil Pitts

Brooke (Jackson) ’04 and WhitneyMahar

Kristen (Leone) ’06 and Danny ’04Jackson


Casey Maloney ’04 graduatedfrom nursing school in May 2006and is a Registered Nurse in theEmergency Room at Lake RegionalHospital in Osage Beach, MO.

Eoghan Miller ’04 is pursuing aMaster’s Degree in US History atthe University of Missouri-Columbia.

Jennifer (Jones) Walker ’04 isa Lab Technician at St. Mary’sHealth Center in Jefferson City,MO.

Sara Weir ’04 is a Public PolicySpecialist with B&D Consulting,LLP in Washington, DC.

Brian White ’04 is attendingthe University of South DakotaLaw School in Vermillion.

Jenny Wilkins ’04 is anEquipment Consultant with GrayAutomotive Products Co. in St.Joseph, MO. Wilkins is pursuingan MBA at Baker University inOverland Park, KS.

Josh Wright ’04 is anAccountant with Cerner inKansas City, MO.

Sara Bagley ’05 is a StudyCoordinator in the PsychiatryResearch Lab at WashingtonUniversity School of Medicine inSt. Louis, MO.

Jeanette Bell ’05 is an AssistantCoach for Women’s Basketballand Soccer at Culver-StocktonCollege in Canton, MO.

Patricia Catrow ’05 is a CarePartner with Tenet Healthcareworking at St. Louis UniversityHospital in St. Louis, MO.

Mark Clements ’05 is a 6thGrade Social Studies Teacher at

Montgomery County R-II MiddleSchool in Montgomery City, MO.

Adam Froidl ’05 is a RetailSupervisor with Central Bank inJefferson City, MO.

Cameron Highsmith ’05 isserving in the Peace Corps inUkraine.

Jessica Howe ’05 is pursuinggraduate studies in Anthropologywith an Archaeology focus atSouthern Illinios UniversityCarbondale. Howe is a ResearchAssistant.

Valentin Leppert ’05 marriedJennifer Kerr on August 7, 2006 inPlaya Del Carmen, Mexico. Thecouple resides in Atlanta, GA withtheir son Carmine. Leppert is anInvestment Representative withEdward Jones in Alpharetta, GA.

Amy Mengel ’05 is a Teacher atSt. Margaret’s Episcopal ChurchParent’s Day Out Program.Mengel is pursuing a BSN at theUniversity of Arkansas for MedicalSciences in Little Rock.

John Miller ’05 is pursuing aMaster’s in Education and TeachingCredentials in History at ChapmanUniversity in Orange, CA.

Sergey Morozov ’05 is aWeb Developer with OpusCommunications in Mission, KS.

Chris Nicholas ’05 has joinedthe family grocery business atDave’s Country Market inBoonville, MO.

Vanya Petkova ’05 works atthe Bulgarian Embassy inWashington, DC.

Susan Sullivan ’05 is pursuinga Doctor of Medicine degree atthe University of Arkansas forMedical Sciences College ofMedicine.

Brad Taylor ’05 is a GeneralManager with PRG Managementin St. Louis, MO.

Cassie Tritthart ’05 is theWomen’s Soccer Coach at OzarkChristian College in Joplin, MO.

Colby Beal ’06 is a MarketingRepresentative with the ZimmerRadio Group in Jefferson City,MO and the surrounding areas.

Dorin Ciobanu ’06 is theDeputy Director of Operationsand HUD and Tax CreditCompliance Consultant with USHousing Consultants in NewLondon, CT.

Ryan Dillon ’06 is a PersonalAide to 4th District USRepresentative Ike Skelton,Chairman of the House ArmedServices Committee, inWashington, DC.

Brian Dye ’06 married KellyShepard ’08 on May 13, 2006 inthe Church of St. Mary the Virgin,Aldermanbury on the Westminstercampus. The wedding partyincluded Derek Duncan ’07,Josh Beck ’06 and StephanieGordon ’08. Honorary brides-maids included the Women ofKappa Kappa Gamma andhonorary groomsmen includedthe Men of Delta Tau Delta. Thecouple resides in Fulton, MOwhere Dye is pursuing a Mastersin Educational Leadership PolicyAnaylsis at the University ofMissouri-Columbia. Shepard iscompleting her undergraduatedegree in Biology at WestminsterCollege and is a ReservedAdmissions Candiate at theUniversity of Missouri-Kansas CityDental School.

Jared Genenbacher ’06 isSpecial Education Teacher atSaeger Middle School in theFrancis Howell School District inSt. Charles, MO.

Adam Hans ’06 marriedMichelle Latty on August 5, 2006at the Church of St. Mary theVirgin, Aldermanbury. The coupleresides in Fulton, MO. Hans is aSalesman with Fastenal inColumbia.

Jenna Manning ’06 is a FederalTax Associate with KPMG, LLP inMcLean, VA.

Lisa Moore ’06 married MitchellJenkins on May 21, 2005 inEureka, MO. The couple resides inFulton, MO. Moore is an 8thGrade Science Teacher withSouthern Boone County SchoolDistrict in Ashland.

Patrick Morris ’06 is theDirector of Junior Developmentin Arkanasas for the United StatesTennis Association. Morris is incharge of working with all 18 andunder players, and trying toimprove the state of US tennis.

Luda Nazaria ’06 is a MarketingProject Manager with CPICorporation in St. Louis, MO.

Emily Herzog ’09 was acceptedinto the American University,Washington Semester Programand is spending the Spring 2007in Washington, DC.

Kathryn “Kay” M. Lawrenceof Fulton, MO on December 6,2006. Lawrence was a formerdirector of the men’s choir, “Menof Song,” at Westminster Collegefrom 1953-62. Lawrence’s sonsGary ’66, Greg ’68 and Kenny’75 attended Westminster.

Jim McGee of Fulton, MO onNovember 27, 2006. McGee wasthe husband of Barb McGee,Executive Assistant to the Deanof Enrollment Services.

Reverend Walter D. Langtry’31 of Metairie, LA on September


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Blaire (Leible) ’04 and Ryan Garwitz

Kelly (Shepard) ’08 and Brian ’06 Dye


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29, 2006. Langtry was a memberof Delta Tau Delta. He was theStated Clerk and Moderator ofNorth Mississippi Presbytery andthe New Orleans Presbytery andSecretary of the Board ofPublications of Louisiana Synod.Langtry was the organizing pastorof Church of the Covenant. Healso served the Prytania StreetChurch, the Sardis and BatesvilleChurches in MS, as Student Pastorat the University of Virginia, andthe St. Andrews PresbyterianChurch in St. Louis, MO. He alsohelped organize the Greater NewOrleans Federation of Churches.Langtry was a Board Member andPresident of the Children’s Bureauand the Seamen’s Bethel and wasa member of Kiwanis, the RoundTable of New Orleans and theHigh 12 Club and held thehighest Masonic Offices. After heretired in 1975, he served asInterim Pastor in New Orleansand other areas.

Reverend John A. Lampe ’33of Delray Beach, FL and WestDover, VT on September 17, 2006.Lampe was a member of Delta TauDelta. He received an honoraryDoctorate of Divinity fromWestminster in 1955. In a 70 yearcareer as an ordained ministerLampe served The First PresbyterianChurch of Jerseyville, IL, TheRogers Park Presbyterian Churchin Chicago, IL, The Front StreetPresbyterian Church of Hamilton,OH and Carmel PresbyterianChurch of Glenside, PA. Followinghis retirement in 1977 he servedmany churches in Pennsylvaniaand Florida as interim pastor.Lampe was also very active in thePresbyterian Church on the local,synod and national level. Lampewas active in local issues, such asbuilding community centers,promoting the growth of publicschools, and building life carecommunities for the elderly.Lampe authored numerousshort-stories and wrote severalbooks of commentary onAmerican life and faith.

R. K. Barton Jr. ’35 of St. Louis,MO on October 20, 2006. Bartonwas a member of Kappa AlphaOrder and the Skulls of Seven,and served on the AlumniCouncil. Barton was a secondlieutenant in the Army Reserveand was called into active duty inthe Army shortly after the bomb-ing of Pearl Harbor. He commandedthe 170th Engineering Battalionof the Corps of Engineers andtook part in the invasion of thePhilippine Islands and Okinawa,earning the rank of colonel by theend of the war. Barton joined hisfather’s business, BartonManufacturing Co. in St. Louis,which produced DyanShine ShoePolish, serving as president of thecompany until it was sold in themid-1960s. Barton served as presi-dent of The Players TheatricalGroup, chairman of the LadueZoning and Planning Committee,was active in the LandmarksAssociation of St. Louis, historicalpreservation projects in JeffersonCounty and the Boy Scouts ofAmerica.

Dr. D. T. Knight ’41 of Joplin,MO on November 18, 2006.Knight was a member of DeltaTau Delta. He served as a B-25Bomber Pilot in the US Army AirCorps and retired as Lt. Col. withover 20 years service with the USAir Force Reserves. He saw activeduty in both World War II andKorea and obtained several awardsand citations including the SilverStar, Distinguished Flying Cross,Distinguished Unit Badge, AirMedal with Oak Leaf Clusters, andthe World War II Victory Medal.Knight retired from his career inbroadcasting as General Managerat KODE-TV in 1975. Knight waspast president of the Joplin areaChamber of Commerce and wasOutstanding Chamber Citizen in1974. He served on the Board ofDirectors for Freeman HealthSystems, Twin Hills Golf andCountry Club, United MissouriBank and the Joplin Family Y.

Dwane S. Icenogle ’47 ofKansas City, MO. on August 8,

2006. Icenogle was a member ofDelta Tau Delta and the Skulls ofSeven. He was a veteran of WWII,serving in the US Marine Corps,later joining the Naval Reserve,from which he retired as Lt.Commander. He was a 39-yearemployee of Liberty MutualInsurance Company, and was alifelong member of the ChristianChurch (Disciples of Christ).

Leonard V. Luna ’50 ofSpringfield, MO on June 25, 2005.

Carl E. Pitts ’50 of Three Rivers,CA on October 26, 2006. Pitts wasa member of Kappa Alpha. He wasChair of the Social/BehavioralDepartment at Webster College inSt. Louis, MO during the earlysixties. Other teaching positionsincluded United States InternationalUniversity, Dept. of Psychology(San Diego) and California Schoolfor Professional Psychology,Section Head (San Diego). Later,he became a business consultant,developing training programs forclients ranging from GeneralElectric’s aerospace division toCitibank in Asia Pacific. Pittsfounded Maestro for An Evening,a group of eight fellow aficionadoswho met once a month to sharefavorite music selections. Pittshelped form a Three Rivers politicalgroup working for a change in USleadership. Pitts loved the oceanand the Sierra foothills, and heenjoyed playing golf and wood-working.

Hoyt A. Shotwell ’51 ofKeokuk, IA on September 22,2006. He played baseball atWestminster and and received amaster’s in education from theUniversity of Missouri. Shotwellbegan teaching at Keokuk JuniorHigh School in 1953, where hetaught 7th grade geography untilhis retirement in 1985. He servedin the Navy from 1942-45, aboardthe mine sweeper Scirmish in theSouth Pacific. He was a lifetimemember of the National EducationAssociation and Iowa StateEducation Association. He was amember Trinity United MethodistChurch, where he tended the rose

garden for many years. Shotwelltook up carpentry after retirementand enjoyed building furnitureand repairing and refinishingantiques in his workshop.

Dr. Charles C. Abel ’52 of St.Louis, MO on October 23, 2006.Abel was a member of SigmaAlpha Epsilon. Abel was anInternist at Barnes Hospital for41 years.

William A. Tedrick ’54 ofVandalia, IL on March 24, 2006.Tedrick was a member of SigmaAlpha Epsilon. He was a retiredManager at Vandalia CitizensSavings and Loans.

Wilfred E. Botterbush ’61 ofRolla, MO on October 4, 2006.Botterbush was a member of PhiKappa Psi. He served in the USArmy in Vietnam and the PanamaCanal. Botterbush was a memberof the Rolla Masonic Lodge andthe Order of the Eastern Star. Heenjoyed fishing, hunting, garden-ing and providing a dynamicfireworks display each 4th of Julyfor his neighbors.

Otto J. Miller II ’62 of Godrey,IL on August 6, 2006. Miller was amember of Sigma Chi. Miller wasthe Owner of Money ConceptsFinancial Planning Center inAlton, IL for 25 years. He was aformer Army reservist and amember of the First PresbyterianChurch, Eagles Alton Aerie 254,Piasa Masonic Lodge 27, Shrineand was a Tennessee Squire.

James A. Reinke ’62 of St.Louis, MO on July 30, 2006.Reinke was a member of BetaTheta Pi. Reinke had a long dancecareer with Arthur Murray inBoston, later managing studios inSan Antonio and Beaumont. Healso worked with the disabled andtaught high school equivalencycourses. Reinke retired in 2001and enjoyed his extensive library,his cats and many pen-palsaround the country.

David G. Schumacher Jr. ’77of Trophy Club, TX on August 28,2006. Schumacher was a memberof Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

CLASSNOTES

All alumni class notes

received after 12/13/06

will appear in the next

edition of Leadership.

Schumacher was a member ofHope Lodge 251, Washington,Scottish Rite and Shriners. Hegraduated from the Universityof Missouri-Columbia, with anMBA and a master’s of hospitaladministration.

Dave J. Wiethop ’84 ofOrlando, FL on October 18, 2006.Wiethop was a member of PhiGamma Delta. Wiethop distin-guished himself throughout a 22-year writing career as a reporter,columnist and award-winningeditor. He worked as a reporter inFlat River, MO, Galesburg, IL,Kokomo, IN, Elgin, IL and WinterHaven, FL. He was editor of theFulton Sun and won numerousawards. He also served as writerand editor of several trade maga-zines in Chicago and Orlando.At the time of his death he waseditor of The Watermark inOrlando. Wiethop was a memberof Orlando Metropolitan Church.

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