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ave you ever heard of someone described as having the persona of a Harvard graduate? A Yale graduate? Do you know what it is about their character that gives them a distinctive flavor? We want our Corban graduates to be characterized by a distinguished persona or flavor. We want our students to absorb the desire and skills to be true Corban men and women—that is, men and women whose hearts and minds are dedicated to God. We want our alumni to be known for their lives, for their living sacrifices, as described in Romans 12:1: “I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God.” When we live as if we are gifts to God, we take on the corban flavor. First, our hearts and minds are dedicated to God as stated in Mark 12:30: “Love the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”

Second, our academic knowledge is thoroughly saturated with the word of God so that we are able to discern every issue in life from a biblical or Christian world view.

Third, we are academically prepared for our professional vocation.

Fourth, we consider our lives a ministry no matter what profession we choose.

Fifth, we have a broad general education in all areas of life in order to be competent thinkers, involved citizens and effective communicators on all issues that mankind faces.

These five characteristics are based upon our mission to educate Christians who will make a difference in the world for Jesus Christ, and our core values: Christ-honoring, Bible-centered, People-oriented, Excellence-driven, Future-directed.

The college experience has a major impact on a student’s life. Research indicates that normally students reflect the values of their college professors and tend to reflect these same values 25 years later. Since our faculty and staff live out these five characteristics, our graduates can have a different persona or flavor as Corban men and women.

There are many confusing messages in the world, some for good, some not. But as it says in Ephesians 4:14, those who are grounded in Scripture will not be “…tossed back and forth by the waves and blown here and there by every wind of teaching…”

In our cover story (page 8) we are discussing the Emerging Church Movement and its influence on the church today. It is very important to be diligent in measuring this movement and others with of the Word of God. At Corban it is the primary way we mentor our students and staff. I pray that our feature is helpful to you as you consider all of the choices presented by our multifaceted culture.

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CONTENTS

Volume II - No. 3 | Summer 2007

Features

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8 Emerging Church Understanding the postmodern movement

16 Jim Hills Honored Professor Hills receives honorary doctorate at commencement

23 Criminal Justice 23

Alumni influential in law enforcement and public safety

Stand in the gap between dreams and reality The Corban Annual Fund is the cornerstone for all giving. It is by far the best way to support the Corban experience. Your gift helps more students afford biblically-based Christian education.

Departments 2 From the President The Corban Flavor

14 Graduate Studies Furthering your education

6 Faculty News Learn something new about faculty

18 Alumni Action Alumni news & events

7 Campus Life Events & news on campus

23 Alumni Exclusive Highlighting alumni making a difference

12 Corban Chronicles Student & program news highlights

27 Class Notes Reconnect with classmates & friends

On the Cover: The illustration expresses the elements of the church today—combining the traditional church settings/buildings overlayed by the candle representing the more emerging meditative worship style. The fruit represents the emerging emphasis on “right living” over knowledge alone. ILLUSTRATION BY STEVE HUNT Contact Information: President’s Office: 503-375-7000; Advancement Office: Mike Bates, 503-375-7024; Alumni Office: Deleen Wills, 503-589-8182; Marketing Office: Steve Hunt, 503-375-7591; Admissions Office: Marty Ziesemer, 503-375-7005; Business Office: Chris Erickson, 503-375-7011; Academic Office: Linda Samek, 503-589-8155; Student Life Office: Nancy Hedberg, 503-375-7010.

Bridge the gap Would you give generously to the Corban Annual Fund today?

Call Dan at 1-800-845-3005 x8186 or e-mail dostlund@corban.edu for more information.

Personal checks should be made payable to Corban College and mailed to: Corban Advancement 5000 Deer Park Drive SE Salem, OR 97317-9392

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S U M M E R P O RT R A I T

Front Row: Gayle Hunt McLain ’68, Susan Cox Canfield ’77, Jan Rhodes Hawkins ’72, Bonnie Rhodes Jones ’75, Marilyn Brumbaugh Brammer ’76, Laura Kramer Brown ’69, Mary Edwards Smith ’60, Joanne Booth Hills ’67, Sandy Jantzen (hidden), Daphne Gugeler Lytle ’73, Ruthie Edwards LaFreniere’ ’67, Bonnie Jones Hills ’89, Tamara Bragg McGinnis ’85, Carol Johanson Pollard ’68, Shelly Lewis Emery ’81, Sharon Bartsch.

Middle Row: Dave Goetz ’74, Paul Eisentrager ’67, Emma Buscher ’07, Colleen Younger Cowan ’82, Linda Markwood Trammell ’81, Sandy Markwood Elliott ’87, Nancy Bradley Goree ’74, Judy Edwards Schaub ’60, Debbie Pennington Goetz ’75, Tina Haws Brown ’99, Virginia Cross, Christie Bass Edwards ’00, Ellen Brush Zarfas ’82, Brian Elliott ’84, Dave Oswald, Mark Cowan ’81.

Back Row: Erik Wood ’77, Elmer Jantzen, Gregg Trull, Bryce Bernard ’82, John Bartsch, Tom Carlson ’69, Marty Trammell ’83, Dan Anderson ’72, Steve Hunt ’69, Dave Spurbeck ’64, David Morrison ’66, Dan Pollard ’74, Mike Hawkins ’73 (hidden), Dan Wray ’84, Max Bennett ‘76, Tim Anderson.

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Alumni Choral Tribute

June 1st was a glorious day of reunion and fellowship as 47 alumni and friends were led by Dr. Richard Caulkins in a beautiful choral tribute to former professor Vic Hubbard. Participants gathered from around the west coast to remember old times and share their common respect for Vic and the Hubbard family.

More than 350 attended the Celebration of Life service (related story pp. 15).

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FA C U LT Y N E W S

Corban in Print Recent Books/Periodicals by Corban Personnel & Alumni The Assessment Process, a chapter written

by Dr. Matthew Lucas (dean of education) appeared in the book Schools as Communities, Purposeful Design Publications, 2007. Writing to Christian school administrators, Lucas shares a biblical approach to assessment, practical help for determining assessment standards, and different tools for measuring progress.

Reaching the Disenfranchised, is a chapter written by Dr. Marty Trammell (English) in The Complete Evangelism Guidebook, Baker Books, 2006, compiled by editor Scott Dawson. The book was honored this spring by the Outreach Resource of the Year Awards and named runner-up behind Bill Hybels’ DVD curriculum Just Walk Across the Room.

Conversion of the Novices, a poem by Dr. Colette Tennant (English) won honorable mention in the Oregon State Poetry Association contest this spring. The poem mourns the soldiers who have died in Iraq, comparing their sacrifices in the desert to a kind of baptism: “The Didache, an ancient text, teaches running water is best for baptism. If a river isn’t nearby, use a stream. If no stream, use standing water, a lake perhaps. If no lake, take a pitcher. Pour water over their heads. If no water, use sand.”

Faculty Activities Dr. Colette Tennant (English) will participate in the Oxford Round Table this July. In addition to being invited to attend, her paper, “An Assyrian in Jerusalem: The Christian Impulse in Gothic Novels: Patterns of Loss and Redemption” was accepted for presentation as part of the discussions. The program Tennant lasts six days and includes 37 participants from the U.S. and England. The Oxford Round Table has occurred annually since 1989 for the purpose of improving education and human understanding. Attendees are by invitation only to ensure a learning community composed of outstanding educational leaders. Past membership has included Ministers of Education, governors from the United States, members of Parliament, Executive Officers of international corporations, educational administrators, attorneys and academicians from major universities.

Dr. Claire Smith (education) presented her doctoral research Collocation in High School English Language Learners at the International TESOL Conference in Seattle, Wash. Smith examined Russian and Spanish-speaking students’ approach to collocation, combinations of two or more words used by native language speakers that aren’t obviously logical to English language learners.

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Beth Bartosik (English) earned her master’s degree and accepted the job of student liaison officer at AmbEx, Corban’s partnership study abroad program in Amberg, Germany. She will oversee the program in conjunction with director Jerry Orr. Bartosik

Christena Brooks (journalism) took students to the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association’s Collegiate Day at Western Oregon University. In its category, Corban’s monthly newspaper, The Hilltop News, won first place in design and picked up two honorable mentions in photography.

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Mike Miller (mathematics) teamed up with students in his spring classes, collecting money for families in developing countries through World Vision. Together, he and his students raised $500 to buy a cow, which can provide up to 200,000 glasses of milk over its lifetime, and $200 to construct a Tilapia pond for an African family.

Dr. Greg Trull (ministries) delivered the invocation at the Oregon State Senate, presented at Northwest Baptist Seminary in Tacoma, Wash., and spoke at chapel at Willamette Christian School in Turner, Ore.

Dr. Gary Derickson (ministries) spoke at a men’s retreat at Mountain Lakes Bible Camp in Klamath Falls, Ore. He challenged the men on topics involving male leadership—their calling to serve, the enabling of the Holy Spirit, their task to love Christians and their rewards and responsibilities in Christ’s kingdom.

Beth Bartruff (education) and several of her students presented at the Open Training and Education Network in conjunction with receiving mini-grants to purchase Inspiration 8.0, educational software, and headsets for students to do voice recording using Audacity.

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CAMPUS LIFE

Calendar of Events

Israel Study Tour

HIGHLIGHTS

Drs. Tim Anderson and Greg Trull have dreamed for years of teaching together in Israel. Next March 20-30, they would love for you to join them on their dream trip. They will lead an active study tour to some of the most important places in biblical history, including Mount Carmel, Nazareth, Gethsemane, Jerusalem and many others. See biblical events come alive as you study them in the very places where God miraculously acted. Lodging will be along the shores of the Mediterranean, Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee as well as inside the old city of Jerusalem. Call 503-375-7018 to receive information on this exciting opportunity. Check out the tour also on the Corban website: www.corban.edu/academics/israelstudytour.html

Diploma frames available from the Corban Bookstore

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San Diego Alumni: Dead Sea Scrolls Mariners’ Baseball: Alumni Outing

AUGUST 18 Soccer Corban women vs. Alumnae, 11 a.m.; Noon Barbeque, Corban Men vs. Alumnus, 1 p.m.; Volleyball, Corban vs. Alumnae, 7 p.m.; Refreshments, 8:30 p.m.

20 Fall Term Early Registration (only for students who have been asked to be on campus early) 25-27 Fall Term Orientation 27-28 Fall Term Registration 29 Fall Term Instruction Begins

• Four styles available • Order form/pamphlets available on campus and through the mail.

SEPTEMBER 16 Music Concert at Sisters Community Church 20 Adult Degree Program classes begin 24 R.L. Caulkins Lectureship Series: Peter Illyn

• Samples are on display in the Bookstore.

• For ordering information see: www.corban.edu/alumni/gifts.html or call 503-375-7035.

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OCTOBER 5-6 Homecoming Weekend 18-20 Online Orientation (Adult Degree) 22 50th Anniversary of Ministry Reception: Bob & Rita Wright 22-26 Missions Conference

NOVEMBER 2-3 Parent Weekend 8-10 Fall Drama 15-17 Fall Drama 30 2nd Annual Christmas Soiree & Showcase Concert

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Understanding the Emerging Church Movement

An interview with three of Corban’s Ministry Faculty: Dr. Sam Baker Dr. Greg Trull Dr. Robert Wright

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Every Sunday morning

across America, parking lots fill and sidewalks buzz with activity as Christians make their way into churches or community centers.

In today’s progressively diverse culture you may not see or experience many of the traditional aspects that you associate with going to church. The word “church” might not be on the building’s signs. Instead of heading off to Sunday school, children may go to an interactive “learning lab” and meet with adult mentors during the week. Small groups may gather to critique a film, learn about photography and sustainable farming; and worship may encompass singing, silence, film, and painting.

Although gatherings attract several hundred attendees per Sunday and boast a healthy budget, its leaders may intentionally reject the idea of constructing a church building in favor of meeting in a public school or other nonreligious facility.

Does this sound different? Good, say emerging church leaders, who feel that western Christian churches must recapture the importance of “planting churches that are a cultural fit for their time and place.” As this movement reaches a decidedly young, postmodern demographic, it is characteristic of an array of congregations known as the “emerging church movement.”

The movement has attracted much attention over the last five years, due, in large part, to its attempts to square with postmodern culture. As emerging thinkers all over the world revamp—and often throw out—traditions, reactions have been strong. Responses range from glowing reviews to scathing criticism from pulpits, in the electronic media, and in books and magazine articles.

Some Christians may find themselves sorting through the philosophical and theological landscape, wondering, “Are these changes good?” and

“How should I respond to the emerging church?”

Three of Corban’s ministry professors who’ve paid special attention to the subject—Professors Greg Trull, Bob Wright and Sam Baker—say the movement is so diverse that some emerging Christians are preaching the Gospel while others are convoluting its core. Thus, they urge each Christian to use Scripture to sift the new practices they encounter for their inherent truth and motive.

“The complexity of the world we live in requires us not to be simplistic—either by jumping onto a trend’s bandwagon or by rejecting things out of hand,” Dr. Trull says. “Life is not that simple, and God wants us to be diligent and discerning.”

Postmodernism and the church One of the emerging church movement’s most well-known and controversial authors is Brian McLaren, the Englishprofessor-turned pastor who founded Cedar Ridge Community Church in the Washington D.C. area. In his books, including the recent A Generous Orthodoxy, he argues that evangelicals must shake off the shackles of a modernist mindset that he says limits our faith.

He points out that secular philosophers moved beyond modernism, with its roots in the Enlightenment, many years ago. After 200 years of depending on humanistic rationalism to find truth, thinkers began theorizing that humankind is unable to know truth at all. As products of our environment, culture and language, our experience of the world is subjective. We are not as rational as we once thought.

This new way of thinking—postmodernism—has influenced everything from education to music to politics.

Now, says McLaren, the church must respond.

Postmodernism has lessons for the church. Among them: we should focus on “right living” rather than puzzling over theological points, we should take a more mystical approach to experiencing God rather than trying to cognitively define Him, and we should stop acting like we have the corner on the market when speaking to people of other faiths.

Phil Johnson, executive director of Pastor John McArthur’s website, Grace to You, disbelieves that postmodernism is somehow a solution, an antidote, to modernism. He

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“We should ask ourselves, ‘Does it transform me into Christ’s image?’ If it does, it has merit.

Orthopraxy should serve as a means to an end, not an end unto itself.”

–Dr. Sam Baker, Corban Professor of Bible

also disparages the idea that evangelical Christianity and modernism were ever friends.

“Modernism at its very core and inception was an overt attempt to subvert and defeat the truth of Scripture with humanistic rationalism. Modernism failed and failed miserably,” he says. “Postmodernism is not really a significant departure from modernism; it is just a similar attempt to subvert and defeat the truth of Scripture by glorifying irrationality and by portraying all truth as hopelessly paradoxical, ambiguous, unclear, uncertain, unimportant…”

Corban’s Dr. Bob Wright is glad Christians are finding the shortcomings in modernist thinking, but he cautions against accepting postmodern thinking as some kind of cure-all for the faith—a kind of jump-from-the-frying-paninto-the-fire reaction.

“Members of the emerging church are asking the right questions. I question whether they’re coming up with the right answers,” he says.

Behavior vs. belief For Dr. Sam Baker, the crux of his concern about some emerging churches is a tendency to emphasize behavior (orthopraxy) over belief (orthodoxy). He and other traditional theologians hold that Christians first believe—understanding the nature of God, sin, salvation and sanctification—and from that flows Christ-like behavior.

“The problem comes when we put the cart before the horse, when we put orthopraxy before orthodoxy,” Baker says.

“You’ve got to have right-thinking; it’s tethered to right-living.”

Many emerging church leaders contend that the world is full of Christians who hold correct beliefs but don’t practice Christ-like behavior. They react against evangelicals who seem more interested in debating the finer points of theology than serving other believers and the world.

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“Experience does not prove that those who believe the right things live in the right way,” emerging theologian Scot McKnight writes in Christianity Today. “No matter how much sense the traditional connection makes, it does not necessarily work itself out in practice. Public scandals in the church— along with those not made public—prove this point time and time again.”

Sitting around a table, Baker, Trull and Wright agree that the Bible clearly calls Christians to both right thinking and right living. It’s true, they say, that Christians can get caught up in mental exercises rather than focusing on their relationship with God. “The extreme of rationalism is that we worship the Bible instead of the God of the Bible,” Baker concedes. However, he adds that it is unwise to preach about good works without sharing, clearly and often, the secret to that spiritual fruit—the salvation of Jesus Christ and indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

That crucial question, of course, is what makes someone a Christian. The trio of Corban professors point to the Bible’s requirement for salvation, which has nothing to do with “good works.”

The appearance of ancient rites Because the emerging church movement is a collective in the truly postmodern sense—grassroots-style, personal-choice focused, leader-light—it is often difficult to define. Emerging churches don’t belong to a convention or organization. Their beliefs and worship styles often differ widely.

“You do have people who are deeply entrenched in postmodern thinking, but you also have people who are conservative theologically who are adopting emerging church outreach,” Trull says.

A common thread, though, among many emerging churches is a re-introduction of mystical ancient

rites used by Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches.

These 21st-century Christians are creating environments for experiencing God by walking through labyrinths, conducting contemplative prayer, lighting candles and adopting other ancient practices.

The inclusion of some of these practices is disconcerting to Wright. While serving with his wife, Rita, as a missionary in the Amazon for 20 years, Wright was distressed by the mixing—or syncretism—of Christian and pagan practices in the local Catholic churches. Among other things, he noticed churches hanging fetishes and building up their church doorways to satisfy the pagan belief that evil spirits would “trip” and be unable to enter.

“This is not biblical,” he says. “I always told the believers down there to judge everything by the Word.”

As his students question the introduction of ancient rites, Baker sends them to the Bible and urges them to ask questions as, “What does this practice accomplish?” and “Does it matter how I conduct this practice?” For example, the emerging church movement has stirred believers’ interest in meditation, which the Bible clearly promotes. But Christians should understand that biblical meditation calls for intentionally engaging one’s mind with God’s truth and Scripture, where the popular New Age version urges adherents to empty their mind, focusing on breathing or a mantra.

Conversely, Baker notes, “I want to be careful not to throw the baby out with the bath water.” He points out that some people have found these practices to be beneficial to their faith. “We should ask ourselves, ‘Does it transform me into Christ’s image?’ If it does, it has merit. Orthopraxy should serve as a means to an end, not an end unto itself.”

Professors Dr. Sam Baker, Dr. Greg Trull and Dr. Robert Wright discuss the various approaches of authors and their books on Postmodernism and the church.

salvation, when it downplays the deity of Christ, when it allows the social gospel to supersede believers’ vital relationship with their Savior, and when it teaches that knowing God and his truth is somehow impossible.

As Christians wrestle with the emerging church movement, they should rejoice in the opportunity to grow in their faith by seeing daily life through the lens of the precious gift God has given us in the Bible. That journey of critical thinking and prayerful consideration is something from which a believer can benefit, explains Trull.

“We don’t want to think for people. We want to train people to have their lives shaped by the Bible,” he says. C — BY CHRISTENA BROOKS

Embracing the essentials As Christians search for answers in the debate over the emerging church, we should first turn to God and His word, say Trull, Wright and Baker.

Change can be a good thing. Contextualization— presenting God’s truth in a way that is understandable to a particular culture—is necessary. For 2,000 years, Christians have shared the Gospel with people of wide-ranging histories, values, traditions and beliefs, and there’s no reason to give up the Pauline challenge in I Corinthians 9:22 to “become all things to all men” in the 21st century.

But when has a body of believers gone too far in embracing the postmodern culture around it? That happens, says the trio, when a church moves away from the essentials of Christianity: when it no longer clearly preaches personal

Recommended additional reading: Reclaiming the Center, Crossway Books, edited by Millard J. Erickson, Paul Kjoss Helseth and Justin Taylor.

A compilation of 13 authors who share their views on Postmodernism and the church.

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Adult Degree Program

Virtual classes build real community

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eet a portion of the cyber Class of 2009. These 10 students will spend roughly the next 18 months together in a tightly-knit virtual community as they earn their bachelor’s degrees through Corban’s online Adult Degree Program.

• Melissa Kurtcuoglu, 29, is a stay-at-home mom in Switzerland.

• Arlene McDonald, 37, is a preschool teacher in Texas.

• Nancy “Kitty” Sickler, 49, is an Oregonian who wants to earn a master’s degree in art therapy.

• Barbara Ellich, is a 25-year-old wife and new mom.

• Mary Horton, 44, of Georgia, works at a homeless shelter for battered women.

• Nicole Hinckley, is a 23-year-old newlywed who wants to finish what she started at Seattle Pacific University.

• Janet Kush, 60, is a successful paralegal who promised her father that she’d go back to school.

• Dorothea Lander, 54, has traveled the world as a Wycliffe translator but now wants to teach on the college level.

• Charles Bickel, 45, is married with kids, and he’s finally managed to pare his accountant’s job to part-time so he can finish earning his bachelor’s degree.

• Tom McGowan, 30, is a firefighter/ 12

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paramedic in Grants Pass, Ore., who says that returning to school is a “pre-midlife crisis.”

These students first met each other at a 2 ½-day orientation on campus in April.

Now, they’re back home, and classes have begun. They won’t see each other again until graduation, but they “talk” online a least three times a week, bouncing ideas off each other as they read and research. After work, on lunch breaks, between baby’s naps, and, sometimes, in the morning’s wee hours, they post answers to their instructors’ questions and responses to their fellow students’ thoughts.

“We have found that the online students often get to know each other better than the on-campus degree completion students because they talk to each other three to four times a week,” says Adult Degree Program Dean Nancy Martyn. “In this online format, everyone’s voice gets heard, which doesn’t always happen in a classroom setting.”

Each of Corban’s Adult Degree online classes—or “cohorts”—begins and ends the journey together. Each cohort starts with the required 2 ½-day training on campus, a feature that builds friendships and contributes to the program’s unusually high 94-percent retention rate.

“If online students can meet each other, the retention rate is higher because there’s

that personal connection,” Martyn says.

“That’s what brings them back for graduation.

They’re excited to see their friends.”

After the initial training, courses begin right away, but instead of taking several at once, the cohort moves through them oneby-one, with each course “module” lasting no longer than six weeks.

Almost immediately, every student also begins working on a dissertation-style project due upon completion of the program. Those in the Family Studies track, with its social psychology focus, will complete an internship with a social service organization. Those in the business-oriented Management and Communication track will devise a research project that ties into their job or career goals.

“The students get excited about this research because they can put it to use right away,” says Bruce Merritt, Management and Communication program chair.

So far, Corban’s online students have hailed from 34 states and seven countries.

On average, 56 percent are women. When the college awarded 34 degrees to online students at the May 5 graduation, 25 of those had maintained at least a 3.8 GPA. “This program works for the typically busy adult, whether he or she works in the home or out of it,” Martyn says. “It can be taken anywhere at anytime while working full-time and maintaining family and church responsibilities.”

Adult Degree Program “Finish What You Started.”

On-Campus or Online BACHELOR’S DEGREE PROGRAMS: Family Studies Management & Communication Admissions Office: 800-764-1383 adp@corban.edu

Visit us online:

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Be a part of the clock tower & Legacy Plaza Help us create a sense of place at Corban College Rising 51 feet high, Corban’s new clock tower and surrounding Legacy Plaza is designed to be the flagship feature the College. Its purpose is to associate a sense of place that students and alumni fondly associate to the College and their Corban experience.

Amidst the naturally wooded setting of the Corban campus, Legacy Plaza will provide a serene setting that faces west over a vista of more than 500 acres of the Willamette Valley.

Legacy Plaza continues our tradition of support for student activity at the College.

According to Nancy Hedberg, Corban’s vice president for student life, the new plaza will benefit both students and alumni, but its primary function is to provide an engaging, welcoming campus environment for all members of the community. The clock tower and surrounding plaza will provide a wonderful, centralized icon that greatly increases the opportunity for students to connect with other students, college faculty and staff, alumni and community members.

The College will formally dedicate the new clock tower in association with Corban’s Homecoming festivities set for October 5-6, 2007. While a generous anchor gift has been received, we are looking for smaller gifts to complete this project.

This photo illustration of the finished clock tower shows how it will look in comparison to the surrounding area.

Construction is planned to begin July 1st.

Commemorative bricks to pave the way for Legacy Plaza Individuals can help Corban in this venture by contributing to a fund for commemorative bricks. Your name, and the names of family and friends you’d like to honor, will be engraved on bricks that will be permanently placed into the walkways of Legacy Plaza. For a gift of $150 for each brick, donors will be able to commemorate loved ones for years to come as part of the Clock Tower landmark.

The tower’s clock movement is presently on display on the main floor of Schimmel Hall. It was manufactured in Morez, France in 1897 by the famous French clockmaker, L.D. Odobey. The clock movement is a prime example of craftsmanship that lasts for centuries. Its power is derived from descending weights and its mechanics produce two functions: timekeeping and hourly strike.

Architect’s rendering of the completed clock tower and plaza. The plaza area around the clock tower (brown) will contain the commemorative bricks donated by friends and alumni of the college. The alumni areas will be sectioned by decade so that alumni can have their own identity with classmates.

For additional photos and information or to purchase your commemorative brick go to: www.corban.edu/clocktowerplaza

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Graduate Studies Program

Scott Jantzi’s family, wife Rhoda, daughters Megan, Marta (lower middle), and Erica (far right) with friends Ovidio and Jovita Flores. The Flores are active in a Honduras church and in International Education.

Scott helps good friend and church leader, Cesar Flores on a family outing to his father’s coffee farm in Honduras.

New ESOL director mixes academics with cross-cultural experience

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popular idea today floating around in American schools is “content literacy.” Some college teachers are rejecting the traditional 60-to-90-minute lecture in favor of a format that includes shorter lectures and activities to reinforce what’s being taught.

One developer of a content literacy program recently wrote that instructors often focus too much on simply feeding information to students. “This [content literacy] turns that around,” she said. “The focus isn’t on ‘I taught it.’ The focus is on ‘They learn it.’”

Content literacy isn’t an entirely new idea.

Teachers have long known that hands-on experience, mixed with related academic instruction, makes learning stick for students.

In light of this, Corban’s graduate studies administrators were delighted to hire a new faculty member who offers students a convergence of academics and experience.

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endorsement training currently offered to M.Ed. students. An ESOL endorsement helps teachers work effectively with the non-native English-speakers in their classrooms.

Graduate Studies Dean Matt Lucas plans to put Jantzi to work teaching master’slevel classes, but he also expects the new ESOL director to develop undergraduate courses that will include out-of-country teaching experiences. Starting in May 2008, undergraduate education students can mix their cross-cultural training with real life.

“Scott’s experience and connections in Guatemala will be used to create our first course,” Lucas said. “The goal is to teach a week-long course to prepare students for the trip, spend two to three weeks in a foreign country teaching in local schools and return for two to three days of debriefing. Students will receive credit.”

Jantzi and his family were missionaries in Guatemala for four years, and he has led many short-term mission trips to the Central American country. He is fluent in both

Spanish and German.

As a college student, Jantzi spent a year living and working in Germany. He then graduated from Goshen College in Indiana, taught English for several years and earned his M.Ed., from Oregon State University.

He served as principal of a private school in Puerto Rico, then, for five years, led a program at Eastern Mennonite University, helping foreign students improve their English for seminary classes.

“I really enjoyed teaching in a Christian college environment,” Jantzi said. “At Corban, I will have the chance to teach ESOL classes and take on the international education piece, too.”

Jantzi leaves a position with the SalemKeizer School District, which has the largest number of ESOL students among districts in Oregon. He teaches at North Salem High School and does work for the district on ESOL-related professional development.

For information on Corban’s Graduate Studies Program, contact Holly Cozby at 503-589-8145 or e-mail hcozby@corban.edu.

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Corban partners in the launch of new study abroad program

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hristian college students from all over the U.S. will be taking advantage of a new German exchange program accredited through Corban College. The new study-abroad program is located in southern Germany where students can fulfill college requirements while studying German language and history, Reformation theology and a Christian worldview.

Named for its location in the picturesque Bavarian town of Amberg, AmbEx is now accepting applicants for spring 2008. The semester-long program begins in January and ends in April. It’s designed to complement a four-year college degree, with attending students paying tuition comparable with or less than the rates at their home institutions.

AmbEx offers students a unique mix of classroom instruction and travel in a country with a fascinating history. Two week-long trips, “The Land of Luther” and “The Land of Calvin,” are part of the curriculum. Course instructors are qualified professors, some of them visiting from U.S. Christian colleges and

others living full-time in Germany.

Amberg is a 1,000-year-old walled medieval city known for its schools—both colleges and specialized boarding schools for high-school age students—and its quality of life. Three American military bases are located nearby, an arrangement that has led over the years to friendly German-American relationships.

AmbEx was created by Jerry Orr, a U.S.

citizen who lives with his wife and family in Germany. He’s held a number of academic and tourism positions in America and internationally. AmbEx joins a group of other study abroad programs such as the Israelexchange program, IBEX, from The Master’s College.

For more information, go to the AmbEx website at www.ambex-germany.org.

Former faculty member Vic Hubbard with the Lord Vic Hubbard, beloved by many friends and alumni for the past several decades, passed away at his home with his family, Saturday, May 26th.

For the past year he had been in declining health—afflicted with a respiratory ailment—and more recently began making plans for his anticipated home-going celebration.

A Celebration of Life service was held at the Psalm Performing Arts Center on the Corban campus, Friday, June 1st. Friends and alumni who were mentored by Vic were invited to join a reunion choir, directed by Dr. Richard Caulkins, and sang the old favorite choral arrangement of “When He Shall Come.”

Alumnus David Morrison ‘66, Pollock Pines, CA, officiated at the service. Dorothy James ‘58, Salem, OR, and John Bartsch were accompanists. Special music was presented by Ruth Edwards-LaFreniere’ ‘67 Salem, OR, and Paul Eisentrager ‘67 Bellingham, WA. Dr. Virginia Cross represented the music department with remarks about Vic’s ministry at the College. Other tributes were presented by Walt Nelson and family members.

Vic and Vivian Hubbard

For an expanded story and tributes, see: www.corban.edu/news/2007-08/vichubbard

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Professor Jim Hills receives a standing ovation by his fellow professors for his life work and acheivements at Corban.

Professor Jim Hills receives honorary doctorate at commencement

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ne of Corban’s well-known instructors, professor Jim Hills, received an honorary doctorate at the college’s 61st graduation on May 5. A professor of English and writing at Corban for the last 34 years, Hills has taken his love of literature far beyond campus.

A surprising fact: for a dozen years, Hills taught writing, literature, poetry, drama and Shakespeare to prison inmates. By day, he taught classes at Corban. By night, he helped inmates in local state and federal prisons work toward their two-year degrees.

“I had some very good students out there,” Hills recalls. “I learned not to stereotype my inmate students. Even guys who’d done bad things weren’t hopeless.”

He admits, though, that he wasn’t sure at first about how inmates would react to poetry. Himself a prolific author and poet, he ended up writing short story—“Emily and the Inmates”—about the day that changed his mind. He recounts reading Emily Dickinson’s poem “After a Great Pain, a Formal Feeling 16

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Comes” to a class and being met with dead silence.

“Then a kid in the back row raised his hand and said, ‘That’s what it feels like to get busted,’” recalls Hills. “Everyone in the class started nodding and commenting. It was one of the most amazing days in my teaching career.”

At Corban, Hills is famous for using literature to make his students reflect on God, history, religion and themselves. That didn’t change in prison, as he regularly used a day’s lesson to encourage positive change.

These days, Hills continues to teach at Chemeketa Community College while working at Corban. At Corban’s graduation, he was honored for all of his community contributions. After receiving his doctoral hood and a standing ovation, he gave the commencement address to 206 graduates.

“Jim’s a true Renaissance scholar,” said English department chair Dr. Marty Trammell.

“His mastery of English, his compassion for students and his ability to extricate God’s

wisdom from various texts and genres has made him a champion of what it means to be truly human as a Christian gentleman and scholar.”

“He has consistently maintained strong relationships with his students, continuing to mentor them in writing and literature even after graduation,” said Dr. Richard Caulkins.

“He is also a joy to have as a fellow professor.”

Hills was born in Ithaca, New York in 1943. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Los Angeles Baptist College (now The Masters College) in 1965 and a second bachelor’s and a master’s from California State University at Los Angeles in 1968. He and his wife, Bonnie, arrived in Oregon in 1973. The couple has four children and five grandchildren.

Double your Donation For a limited time, your investment in Corban will go twice as far.

Please use the enclosed envelope for your gift or contact Dan Ostlund for more information: 1-800-845-3005 x8186 (toll free) 503.589.8186 (local) advancement@corban.edu

Corban College has received a $25,000 challenge gift that provides a dollar-fordollar match for donations to the Corban Annual Fund. However, your gift must be received no later than June 30, 2007.

Will you consider a generous gift to the Corban Annual Fund today?

ALUMNI ACTION

ALUMNI action Greetings, Alumni

Be True to Your School!

What an exciting Spring we’ve had on campus! Several hundred people attended a tribute honoring past president John G. Balyo and wife Betty in late February, followed by two hundred women on campus for a one-day retreat called Woman to Woman in early March. Alumnus George Massey ‘61 came to visit all the way from Alabama. The Resurrection sculpture (dedicated to former employee Doug West ‘96) was started and is nearly finished. Two hundred ladies were on campus for the 40th annual Corban Connection to help raise funds for purchasing two new Left to right: George’s sister, Pat Lord of pianos, carpeting for Aagard Hall and scholarships. Fern California, Ruthie Edwards LaFreniere ‘67, Judy Edwards Schaub ‘60(n), George Massey Aagard, of the famed Aagard family, came from California ’61 of Alabama, escorted on a campus tour with for the event. We’re set to break ground for the 51-footDirector of Alumni Services, Deleen Wills. high clock tower and Legacy Plaza. And finally, our alumni family grew by 206 as Corban seniors graduated on May 5. They now join you in the ranks of alumni and are well trained and prepared for jobs in ministry, teaching, and business—some are going abroad, into the military and a myriad of other worthy fields of employment. See page 21 for a list of graduates.

Corban College alumni are part of a larger community that shares many of the same experiences and values. Be part of the excitement and stay active in our college community by attending music, drama or special presentations on campus, sporting events, reunions and regional events when we come your way.

Don’t hesitate to contact your alumni office anytime. We are here for you! Call 503-589-8182 or e-mail dwills@corban.edu.

Deleen Wills Director of Alumni Services Classmates and their families at the Class of ‘76 reunion in summer 2006.

Get your very own Corban College Alumni chrome license plate frame. The cost is $10 per frame plus $2 for shipping and handling. Drop by the Corban Bookstore or call 503-375-7035.

Telephone & E-mail please We need your telephone and/or cell phone number plus e-mail addresses! We might need to get in touch with you quickly for alumni events. Don’t forget to tell us when you move, too! Please go to www.corban.edu/ alumni/update and send in your information.

Rediscover your alma mater and reconnect with friends!

Discover Corban campus life at the 2007 Homecoming. The weekend will honor Corban’s past and celebrate its future.

Along with activities and events for all alumni, reunions will be held for the Classes of ’67, ‘72, ’77, ’82, ’87 and ’97.

Questions?

Email dwills@corban.edu Phone 503-589-8182

Also, graduates of the Adult Degree Program will have their own gathering. The program is celebrating 15 years! There will be something for all ages, so plan to bring your entire family!

Plan ahead—see our website for updated info and registration:

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AL U M N I A C T I O N

The Alumni Advantage

Spring has Sprung

Are you aware of the benefits provided

by Corban College for alumni?

ebruary was a busy month with lots of visitors. Rebecca Rice ’06 came from Plains, Montana for our first Young Alumni event in conjunction with Corban basketball.

Jeremy Lee ’02 and wife April of West Linn came to watch a performance by the Covenant Players during chapel. Heather Combs ’06 of Portland, Amanda Kirkelie ’03 of Eagle River, Alaska and Mat Rapoza ’97 and wife, Darcy, of Salem dropped in. Jan Hopkins Dixon ‘75(n) and her father, Bill, from Spokane Washington, were driving back from a 100th birthday party for her grandfather in Corvallis Hopkins Dixon and stopped by after seeing the Corban College signs prominently displayed on Interstate 5; Jan hadn’t been on campus in decades. As the weather warmed in March Sam Salave’a ’93 with wife Beth Milnes Salave’a ‘94 of Tacoma, Washington dropped in. Cindy Nichols ’97(AD) brought husband Frank of Turner for a tour and Director of Career Services, Daren Milionis ’81 joined the group for lunch. Jonathan Wright ‘79, son Nichols of Bob ‘81 and Rita ‘81 Wright was visiting family and friends from Vienna, Austria. Shawnee Hoke Elliott ’95 from Beaverton and Lori Elker Loyd ’95 of Keizer, with children Emily and Thomas, stopped by. Director of Development, Dan Ostlund, showed them around, treated them to snacks at Common Grounds and played foosball with the kids while sharing Wright with Lori about the growth and vision of her alma mater. The entire Cowan family of Port Angeles, Washington stopped in—Travis ’92 and Lisa DeWaard Cowan ‘92, with children Cody, Jonathan, Ben, Isaiah and Anna. Dr. Tim Dailey ’73 and Laurie Wheeler Dailey ’73, serving in Kuwait for Vision International Education Network visited with President DeWaard Cowan Reno Hoff ’73 in April.

We want you to know about and utilize the valuable benefits that you can access as Corban alumni. No longer live in Salem?

No problem! Your Corban connection has no geographic boundaries. Check out the following list of benefits and take advantage of all that your alma mater has to offer, no matter your location.

• Corban magazine is sent quarterly to alumni: This free publication keeps alumni up to date on college happenings and provides scholarly and thought-provoking articles.

• Career assistance from the Career & Academic Services Center: List or find a job.

• Technology Center: Use of computers in the lab located on the ground floor of the Academic Center.

• Corban Facilities: If you need summer accommodations, a room for a business meeting or facilities for a wedding or reception, Campus Care can help. Corban alumni are entitled to use the college’s facilities at a reasonable rate.

• E-directory: Your link to other alumni.

• College Bookstore: Discounts on most items.

• Performing Arts Events: Invitations for alumni.

• Use of our Library: Facilities include access to print and media materials plus computer workstations for researching electronic resources and study rooms. Stop by the desk on your first visit for your free library i.d. card.

Graduates of Corban, did you know your child can receive an automatic grant as a legacy child?

That’s right, automatic. No state schools can offer this, nor does Azusa Pacific University, George Fox University, Lewis & Clark College, Linfield College, Pacific University, Reed College, Seattle Pacific University, Simpson College, Willamette University... the list goes on and on and on. But we do. Contact our Financial Aid Office at 503-375-7006.

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Next time you are in the Salem area, please allow some extra time to return to your alma mater. Make the Alumni Office in Schimmel Hall your first stop; we will give you a personal walking tour or provide you with a map for your own self-guided tour. And great welcome gifts, too!

Classy, Sassy Massey returns home George Massey ’61 returned to campus after being away for more than 30 years. The Alumni and Communications Offices hosted a party for the past registrar, and alumni and friends had a chance to get reacquainted with funloving George. His sister Pat Lord from California, accompanied him.

George visits with President Reno Hoff.

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Alumni & Campus Events John G. Balyo and wife Betty Honored Alumni, family and friends gathered Sunday, February 25 to honor a very special couple, Dr. John G. Balyo and his wife, Betty. Dr. Balyo, the former president of Western Baptist, and Betty were treated to a stretch limousine ride to campus escorted by four ladies who are residents of Balyo Hall. The couple was also accompanied by their son, Michael and grandson, John, for this recognition.

Dorothy Johanson James ’58, Anne Swearingen Jeffers ’53, Sheldon Nord ’82, Paul Null ’73, and Adrian Petrisor ’86 each gave personal tributes to the influence and work of Dr. Balyo. Grandson, John Balyo, Jr., of Grand Rapids, Michigan, also shared his special memories. Guests enjoyed hearing three selections from a faculty quartet, comprised of Tim Anderson, Bryce Bernard ‘82, Matthew Strauser, and Marty Trammell ‘83 with John Bartsch, Jr. accompanying on piano. They sang “Faithful Men,” “Daystar,” and “Triumphantly the Church Will Rise.”

Alumni Board Awards Five Scholarships Five Corban students shared a total of $12,000 in financial aid and were recognized at Corban’s final chapel of the year on April 27.

Alumni Board Chair Tyson Pruett ’92 and Secretary/Treasurer Daryl Knox ’96 made the presentations to Tricia Breiter, David Collett, Adam Karnes, Shawnee Randolph and Jeremy West. Proceeds from the annual Corban Golf Challenge (this year on October 5) along with other donations from alumni raise funds to help students. 68 students completed the application process this year.

Several members of the Board of Trustees attended and presented as part of the day. Tom Carlson ‘69, the Board of Trustees chair, acted as emcee, and Jo Sherman ’81, presented a photo album that documented the construction of Balyo Hall and its dedication on November 10. Board member Anna Herrman gave them a memory book with over 100 letters and cards of appreciation. Alumni Board Chair, Tyson Pruett ’92 then bestowed upon both the Balyo’s the title of “Honorary Alumni” with a framed diploma, and Director of Alumni Services, Deleen Wills, gave a new Corban College Alumni license plate frame, including installation by Daren Milionis ‘81.

Following the presentations, Betty Balyo graciously thanked those involved, sharing some humorous and touching memories of early years and their time at the college. Donn Mogford, Board member, closed in a word of thanksgiving. President Reno Hoff ’73 then hosted a private dinner for family and close friends in the newly built John G. Balyo Hall.

Attention Soccer and Volleyball Players Mark Saturday, August 18, on your calendar for sports reunions. Corban soccer women’s team takes on alumnae at 11 a.m. At 11:30 there will be a barbeque for all alumni on the field. The men’s game begins at 1 p.m. That evening volleyball begins at 7 p.m. in the gym. Refreshments will be served after the games. These events are co-sponsored by Corban Athletics and the Alumni Office.

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Left to right: Jeremy West, David Collett, Shawnee Randolph, Tricia Breiter and Adam Karnes.

Betty, Doug Beals ‘87 and Larissa Smith Beals ‘85(n)

Southern California Alumni Last Chance Corban alumni are invited to share an evening together while viewing The Dead Sea Scrolls at the San Diego Natural History Museum on Monday, July 2 at 6 p.m.

Tickets are $28 per adult.

Please contact Deleen in the Alumni Office to reserve your tickets by June 20. Call 503-589-8182 or e-mail: dwills@corban.edu.

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Class of 2007 Academic Awards Distinguished Graduate: Raleigh Willard

Student of Science Award: Nicholas Wilson

Excellence in Journalism Award: Charissa Bernard

Lighthouse Award (for outstanding Christian educator): Rachel Kriens & Scott Fitchett

Outstanding Ministry Graduates: Chelsea Weber & John Jaskilka John G. Balyo Excellence in Preaching Award: Raleigh Willard

Welcome

Joshua Barnabus Award (business) 15th year: Andrew Bertz

Sparky Alan Clancy Diane R. Noland Jarred Kent Peterson Rebecca Lee Peterson

BACHELOR OF ARTS Uli Banka Chapa Cheryl Ann Evans Dina Garza Jared Paul Hernandez Angela Mae Hibbard Rachael Ruth Melhorn Patrick George Poole Alicia Joy Selander Sarah Nicole Zinzer

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Christopher Michael Adkins Aylee Meeka Allen-Rhea Kristin Ana Andrews Tina Marie Barton Corry Bellis Marcy Anne Berg Bryan Wayne Bernard Charissa Anne Bernard Thomas Charles Berney Karla Jean Bertolini Andrew David Bertz Anna Marie Bertz Jolie Rae Bess Christie Ilene Boorman Kevin Micheal Bowder Kristin Kay Bowder Jordan Alan Bradley Jessica Lynn Brammer Daniel Scott Buhler Emma Reed Buscher Kari Elizabeth Camillo Brianne Michele Carras

Management and Communication Servant Leader Award: Linda Darling Management and Communication Best Project Thesis: Kim Ferguson Independent Study Project: Debra Sharp Family Studies Servant Leader Award: Cherry Skiles

Blaise Pascal Distinguished

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Honors Program: Kathleen Kazmierski Anastasia Soohoo-Hui

Newest Alumni!

Stephanie Louise Clark Desirae May Collins Judith Joy Collins Sarah Elizabeth Compton Aaron Marcus Conger Kristina Loraine Cook Jennifer L. Costalez Jayme Nicole Coulon Lindsey Rachelle Coy Jessica Ann Crockroft Kendra Leigh Crosby Monica Marie Crumley Jonathan James Daniels Noel Richard Daniels Linda Ruth Darling Sarah Ashley Hubeek Mykal Anne Hull Faith Chieko Ito Michael John Jaskilka Jacquelyn Nicole Johnson Laura Regina Johnson Kathleen Susan Mae Kazmierski Emily Jean Kintigh Kyle Christian Koontz Kimberly Dawn Kopplien Rachel Megan Veronica Kriens Constance Louise Kyle Andrea Nicole Lee Dixie Raelene Lee April Marie Livingston Sandra Lynn Lord Lael Ruth Loyd Teresa Ann Lukens Amanda Louise Lundquist Kari Danielle Lute Scott A. Marshall Kendra Kristine Mathews Tonya Chêrié Mattox-Bassett Rebecca C. McBee Jonathan James McElravy John Tanner McNeal

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Christy Lynne Smith Richard B. Smith Sherrie Lea Sprenger Holly Mee Seong Stangle Jennifer Lind Stanton Jeremy Lane Steele Sandra Thomas Stein Holly Barbara Maureen Steward Kathleen Margaret Studenny Jason Michael Swank D. Gene Taylor Jason Richard Taylor Robert Conrad Taylor Brett J. Timmerman Erin Elizabeth Vallier Garrett Earl VanHess Heather Lynn Visser Elizabeth Rose Wadlow Chelsea Anne Weber Za’chary Joel Westbrook Lori Ann Whipple Alexander Dean White Raleigh Thomas Willard Melanie Dawn Williamson Nicholas Tyler Wilson Elizabeth Anneliese Wold James Edward Young Michael Abel Yzaguirre

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Alumni Abroad

Former Alaskan Daylan Arnold at home in Africa

Daylan Arnold (left) and fellow teacher Kayla at the top of Mount Kenya in early April. “The smiles are completely fake because we were sick, freezing cold and completely miserable. But it was totally worth it—the most beautiful thing I have ever seen,” she says.

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education, is spending two years as a teacher at West Nairobi School, a Christian school in Kenya’s capital city. She has plunged wholeheartedly into a life of service, accepting her new lifestyle’s joys and difficulties as a grand adventure.

She’s responsible for a sixth-grade class of 27 students from Kenya, Korea, Greece, Germany, Canada and the U.S. She also teaches pre-algebra to seventh and eighth graders, helps with a youth group and coaches a girls’ soccer team.

These days, she’s grateful for the grueling process of producing work samples—a requirement of her Corban education program.

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t her school staff retreat last fall, Daylan Arnold ’05 spent hours watching wildebeests and chasing giraffes. During spring break in early April, she hiked to the top of Mount Kenya, the second-tallest peak in Africa.

Not the typical outings for a middle school teacher, but Arnold is not your typical teacher.

Arnold, 24, who hails from Alaska and earned her bachelor’s degree in elementary

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objectives, giving appropriate assessment and making modifications for the diverse needs within my classroom. I use all these things in my classroom every day.”

At Corban, she was also introduced to the idea of combining missions and education.

After graduating, she subbed and taught for a year back home in Alaska and then accepted her teaching job in Kenya.

Right away, Arnold was shocked by her international class of students. They are unusually creative and motivated, characteristics she chalks up to their lack of exposure to television, the media and pop culture. That’s not to say that they are perfect.

“Sixth graders are sixth graders wherever you go,” she says, but “I can’t count how many times a day one of my students makes me laugh—not just a chuckle but a laugh from the bottom of my belly.”

Outside of the classroom, Arnold enjoys hanging out with her four roommates, running, hiking, backpacking, camping, reading, writing, music and “anything that has to do with a flying disc.”

When she jogs through the city, Kenyan onlookers shout “You can do it!” or “Muzungu!

Muzungu!”—the term for a white person.

More than anything, she looks for extra opportunities to mentor her students.

“There are things that happen in the classroom, the grading, the planning, the discipline, the field trips,” she says. “Teachers work very hard to put all these things together, but what makes a huge difference for the kids we teach is when they know that we are interested in spending time with them outside of school.”

Read more about Daylan Arnolds’ adventures: www.daylanarnold.blogspot.com

ALUM N I E X C L U S I V E

Alumni influential in criminal justice system 100identify alumni Criminal Justice as career choice

Steve Bellshaw ‘84 was a guest speaker recently in a criminal justice class on campus. Combining real-life experience in the classroom is one of the unique features of Corban’s Criminal Justice program.

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ith its proximity to corrections, police stations and the sparkling new Oregon Public Safety Academy, Corban College is physically surrounded by law enforcement culture. And, less visibly, for the last four years, Corban has been quietly developing a criminal justice minor. In May, the college unveiled its criminal justice major, with classes slated to start this fall.

As part of the college’s social science program, the new major requires students to take 30 hours of criminal justice-specific courses and fulfill other education requirements. Instrumental to the program’s development are Ron Whitehead, adjunct criminal justice instructor and retired sheriff (Mariposa County, CA); Dr. Robert Mathisen, social science chair; Dr. Rich Meyers, psychology department chair, and Provost Dr. Linda Samek.

As it turns out, a large number of Corban graduates already work in the field of law enforcement. The college has not officially tracked the number of alumni employed as police officers, 911 call-takers, records clerks, probation and parole officers and jail workers, but initial research places the number at well over 100—and growing.

We recently talked with five men and women who’ve found their way into jobs dedicated to public safety.

Name: Steve Bellshaw ’84 Age: 47 Position: Deputy Chief, Salem Police Department Six years ago, Steve Bellshaw traveled to Russia to talk about law enforcement with local police. When the Russians discovered he was a Christian, they immediately asked how a man of faith was allowed to hold a government job. With their communist background, they couldn’t understand how a Christian could make that career choice.

“I explained that being a Christian and having that training has helped me understand people and make good decisions. That it has served me well in my career,” Bellshaw says. “It’s important to have Christian influences in law enforcement.

Police officers have a “I like my job because I significant amount of really feel like I’m making a power.” difference, that I’m having Bellshaw has been an impact on my town.” a police officer since he was 28. The son of a pastor and former Corban board of trustees member, he graduated from Corban with a degree in theology. He gained leadership experience as a restaurant manager and then moved into law enforcement, first as a reserve CORBAN MAGAZINE

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deputy, then as a police officer in Salem.

He moved up through the ranks, working as a patrol officer, a detective and a supervisor of internal affairs. He’s investigated nearly 50 homicides and 500 child abuse cases and helped establish a domestic violence team.

“I like my job because I really feel like I’m making a difference, that I’m having an impact on my town,” he says.

Now Bellshaw oversees detectives, drug teams, youth services, the gang unit, crime prevention, police volunteers and the domestic violence team.

“Don’t discount law enforcement as a mission field—it really is,” he says.

Name: Jason Camillo ’00 Age: 30 Position: Patrol Officer, Albany Police Department From the time he was a boy, Jason Camillo wanted to be a police officer. Four years ago, that dream came true. Amid a nationwide recession and governmental funding shortages in Oregon, he managed to land a job as a patrol officer in Albany, Ore. He says, “I love this job. It’s the only job where I get excited to go to work every day.”

Patrolling in a growing “...my faith helps me when I’m city of 45,300 involved in high-stress situations. residents, I think it’s outstanding when Camillo is on Christians get involved in the front lines in the fight law enforcement.” against drugs and crime. He says he’s still amazed by the astounding amount of methamphetamine use and sexual offenders that his department must handle.

Most disturbing of all are the detestable situations in which he often finds young children. Kids’ unsafe and abusive living situations concern him even more than the daily danger of the job, and, for that reason, he goes to work each day with a clear purpose.

Camillo says he’s supportive of Corban’s decision to offer a criminal justice major, as there is a huge need—and expanding job market—for law enforcement officers with good ethics and decision-making skills.

Christians, he says, certainly are in demand.

“I would like to think my moral base helps me, my faith helps me when I’m involved in high-stress situations,” he says. “I think it’s outstanding when Christians get involved in law enforcement.”

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Name: Jennifer Ohta ’03 Age: 25 Position: Juvenile Probation Officer, Marion County Juvenile Department Jennifer Ohta says that she wouldn’t have believed God if He’d told her she was going to become a full-time probation officer after graduation. Instead, He took her step by step through a series of part-time juvenile justice positions, finally presenting her with the high-intensity probation career she enjoys.

“It’s more than a job.

“It’s more than a job.

It’s about the kids,” she It’s about the kids. I really says. “I really feel like feel like the Lord was the Lord was opening opening doors for me.” doors for me.”

Ohta works with approximately 30 juvenile offenders at a time, and it’s her job to help them connect with community resources, provide restitution for their crimes, go back to school, stay clean and sober, and deal with the issues that contributed to their poor decision-making. Her caseload is filled with kids convicted of felonies, needing to work off significant debt, or too dangerous to remain unsupervised.

“We run a strength-based program, where we try to connect kids with resources so that when we’re gone, they still have support,” Ohta says.

Like others in law enforcement, Ohta says it’s difficult to keep believing that offenders can and will change. She chooses to hope, though, and victories make the job worthwhile. A success story she likes to remember is the teen drug user who kicked the habit and recently said to her, “You told me something no one had ever told me before. You told me that I was worth more than that—that I was worth more than meth—and I believed you.”

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Name: Kelly Braaten ’97 Age: 32 Position: Community Justice Officer, Deschutes County, Oregon

Name: Terry Brown ’03 Age: 58 Position: Special Operations Captain, Oregon State Penitentiary Terry Brown says he was going through a “really dark period” in his career as a correctional officer when he signed up to complete his bachelor’s degree through Corban’s Adult Degree program. After more than 30 years of working with some of Oregon’s toughest inmates, he’d resigned himself to thinking that his work was fruitless.

“In the Family Studies program, I heard, ‘Your work matters to God,’” Brown says. “I studied that, and I came to the realization that I had to “Inmates are God’s break the cycle. I realized creatures.

They may not that my circumstances were always act like it, but what I made them.” they’re God’s creatures.”

Brown recognized that the Oregon State Penitentiary’s 2,000 inmates and 400 staff members are an unparalleled service opportunity.

“I’ve always considered myself a people-person, and there’s no greater place to serve people than in a maximum security prison,” he says.

Brown has found many venues for using his skills and talents. In prison, he specializes in emergency preparedness, which includes tactical teams and crisis negotiators; oversees the arsenal; and conducts trainings. He took on the additional responsibility of teaching an online criminal justice class for community college students after earning his master’s degree in 2005.

One accomplishment he’s particularly proud of is his role in establishing a hospice program—for inmates, by inmates—in Oregon.

He traveled to other states to help develop this valuable system for dying inmates who have no family to support them.

“Inmates are God’s creatures. They may not always act like it, but they’re God’s creatures,” he says.

As a college student, Kelly Braaten was sure he wanted to work with youth, but he didn’t see himself as a youth pastor, so he pursued a Community Youth Services major that mixed ministries, psychology and sociology classes. After completing a practicum at a juvenile correctional facility, he knew he’d found his calling.

“I definitely see myself being in some form of juvenile justice throughout my career,” he says.

Now in Central Oregon, he works for a cutting-edge juvenile justice program that seeks to improve upon the older offender-focused model of criminal justice.

“Traditionally, with an offender, you’d lock him up, make him pay a fine, give him some probation time and send him home,” Braaten says.

“How is he going to learn that his actions affected other people? We want to give him an opportunity to fix it.”

Braaten and his co-workers find ways for juvenile offenders to understand how their actions affected the community—repairing property they damaged, meeting with victims of crimes similar to those they committed, and other conscience-building activities.

“In our program, we give equal time to the youth, the victim and the community. The kid’s going to be in the community; he’s going to live there after everything is said and done,” Braaten explains. C

Corban Adds Criminal Justice to list of Majors Available this fall, Corban’s new criminal justice major has been developed by instructors with real-life law enforcement experience.

Its driving force was Ron Whitehead, 75, a retired California sheriff and chaplain who spent 23 years in law enforcement. While doing missions work in Salem in 2003, he was invited by Dr. Rich Meyers (psychology) to develop curriculum for a criminal justice minor. He became an adjunct instructor in 2004, sharing the minor’s class load with adjuncts Larry Allen, a retired sheriff’s office captain; Alan Bittel, a former probation officer; and Pat Poole, a retired state police and FBI employee.

Ron Whitehead “Now, introducing a criminal justice major is exciting, not just for me, but for alumni and those in the profession,” Whitehead says.

The criminal justice major prepares students to become police officers, corrections workers, parole and probation officers, private investigators, 911 call-takers, court workers and other law enforcement specialists.

Part of the social science program, the major requires 30 credit hours of specific courses that include Crisis Counseling, Administration of Justice, Criminology and Juvenile Delinquency. Students are strongly encouraged to minor in ministry or psychology.

“In our minds, the criminal justice major certainly fits the college’s mission. We like to think of ourselves as a redemptive community wanting to come alongside and serve people,” says social science program chair Dr. Bob Mathisen. “Justice and compassion—it’s appropriate to a Christian mindset and a Christian view of the world.”

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Warriors continue winning in athletics and in life

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or years Corban student athletes have been making a name for themselves and the college through their sports careers.

Even more impressive are those alumni Warrior athletes continuing their “winning ways,” using their sports, education, and even marriages to make a difference in the world for Jesus Christ.

A few of the ever-growing network of former Warrior athletic couples who excel in carrying out the Corban mission include Toby and Jenni Rainbow and Tyler and Kim Satterthwaite.

The Rainbows and Satterthwaites, all four of whom competed athletically at Corban during glory days in their respective sports, continue to draw upon their rich college experiences to faithfully minister to younger student-athletes.

Toby, a former Wyoming high school soccer star, migrated to Corban in 1995 just in time to become an integral part of the winningest stretch of Warrior men’s soccer history. From 1995 through Toby’s graduating year in 1999, Corban’s soccer team won 56 games, qualified for two NAIA regional tournaments and captured both the NCCAA national title and the Cascade Collegiate Conference championship in 1997.

Since those highly successful days, Toby has gone on to coach high school soccer, where in five years at Northwest Christian

High near Spokane, his teams have accomplished two state runner-up finishes, often beating much bigger 4A and 5A programs in the area.

“It’s been an amazing experience being involved with the program and the players,” says Toby, an Accounting major at Corban. “I have learned a lot and gotten really close to the kids. I have had several players come back and say they’ve learned a lot.”

Jenni Rainbow ‘00 played Tyler Satterthwaite ‘99 and Kim Segrin Satterthwaite ‘99. volleyball for Corban in the late 1990’s and was one of the top conference championships and back-to-back servers for the 1997 Warrior team that won trips to the NAIA National tournaments in a national Christian college championship 1997 and 1998. In his senior year, Tyler (’99) and established a school best 31-10 season averaged over 21 points and eight rebounds record. She is currently second all-time in per game on his way to garnering Cascade serving aces per game and fifth in career aces Collegiate Conference Player of the Year and at Corban.

NAIA All-American honors.

After several years coaching middle schoolToday Tyler teaches and coaches boys’ aged volleyball and club teams, Jenni has basketball at the varsity level at David stepped aside to devote full-time to daughters Douglas High in Portland, Ore. He and Kim Chloe 4 and Isabel 2. She values the life serve as leaders in the Young Life campus lessons she gained from both her sports ministry at the same school. Both are eager to career and academic training at Corban-note the Corban influence in shaping their life everything from diligence and responsibility, and career pursuits. to integrity and worth ethic.

For Tyler, the memorable years of ’97 and Another integral member of that ’98 at Corban gave him a huge dose of a memorable ‘97 Warrior championship thriving Christian family atmosphere inspired volleyball team, Kim Satterthwaite ‘99 taught by godly, caring coaches, and mature and and coached at the high school dedicated Christian teammates who, together, level for several years before were determined to excel as competitors and also moving into a more fullas Christ’s ambassadors. focused mothering role.

Kim knows her college education Kim ranks among the top (secondary education/language arts) and three Corban all-time leaders athletic career impact her current ministry in match, season, and career building relationships, teaching small groups, digs, and among the top 10 in and mentoring young student athletes. kills, proving to be one of the She sums it up well: “It’s the reason we are more versatile performers in involved. It’s how we can directly talk to kids Warrior history. about Christ. It’s how we are living out the Kim’s husband, Tyler, as Great Commission.” a transfer student, made an impressive mark in just two For an expanded version of this story, seasons as a Warrior post, along with personal quotes, please go to: helping spearhead the first www.corban.edu/news/2007-08/ Jenni Wright Rainbow ‘00, daughters Isabel and Chloe and Toby 0604warriorswinning.html Rainbow ‘99.

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CLASS notes 60s Class of ‘67 40-year Reunion at Homecoming: October 5 & 6 (see ad page 18) Jim Koedyker ’68 and wife Cherie Whittlesey Koedyker ’69 have lived in Indio, California for 34 years. They have two children, Kriste, age 35, who is a school teacher and son David, age 29, who helps run his father-in-law’s cabinet company. They attend Southwest Community Church and have been involved in a variety of volunteer ministries. After a 21 year career in law enforcement and 10 in education with at risk kids, he is now the principal of an elementary school, Jordan Christian Academy.

70s Class of ‘72 35-year and Class of ‘77 30-year Reunion at Homecoming: October 5 & 6 (see ad page 18) Tim Dailey ’73 and wife Laurie Wheeler Dailey ’73 have lived in Kuwait for the past four years. Tim is vice president of International Operations for Vision International Education Network and a pastor on staff at the National Evangelical Church in Kuwait. The NECK is made up of 75 congregations from 22 different language groups, and on any given weekend they minister to over 25,000 people. Tim serves with the English Language Congregation, and they have around 3,000 people from 45 different nations who worship regularly with them. It requires nine services a weekend in order to meet the needs of this growing ministry.

Vision International Education Network is a Bible college program training men and women for Kingdom expansion. They serve 125 countries of the world with over 4,000 learning centers. There are thousands of student studying the Word and involved in aggressive church planting around the globe.

Wayne Davidson ’74(n) and wife Joan Lounsbury Davidson ’74(n) live in Salem and have five grandchildren.

This photo was provided by great-grandparents Francis and Ila Davidson, who worked

at Western Baptist from 1971-77 and now live in Sun City, Arizona. Kailee (7) and Mady (4), are daughters of Wayne and Joan’s daughter Sherlai and son-in-law Kiley. Connor (7), Avery (5) and Faith (2 months) are the children of Wayne and Joan’s son Douglas and daughter-in-law Erika.

Calvin Howe ’74 and wife Joan Elmore Howe ’74 are mid-term missionaries with WorldVenture. They serve as dorm parents at Black Forest Academy in Germany.

Angie Leong Alden ’75 is a social worker with the Department of Children & Family Services in Walla Walla, Washington, where she and husband Gil reside.

He is a chaplain at Washington State Penitentiary. She graduated in 1999 from Liberty University with a Master’s in Professional Counseling. They are active at Trinity Baptist Church, and she loves to knit, read and walk, usually 25 miles a week.

Jeannie Jones Spradling ’76, after being a widow for eight years and raising daughter Haley and son Ryan in Salem, married Mark Spradling from Independence, Oregon.

They have lived in Fairbanks, Alaska for the past five years. They also spent a year in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands because of Mark’s job with Boeing. Jeannie has a two-year-old granddaughter. She enjoys being involved in church worship teams, and God has allowed her the time to travel and oil paint.

Paul Magnussen ’77 works for Boeing in Tukwila, Washington, at their customer service center as a technical illustrator. He has been with Boeing for 16 years and loves his job.

Paul and Shelley have been married for 12 years. Their “adopted” son Feelix from Ghana is now a Canadian immigrant, living in British Columbia. They look forward the Homecoming weekend and seeing classmates at their class of ’77 reunion.

Donna Cook Braly ’78 and husband Greg work with children and family ministries at a large church in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

They have been there for about six years and have had a wonderful experience. She writes “God continues to amaze us as we have the opportunity to work with families and their children. I appreciated the foundation that I

received at Corban and have used many of the lessons in life. This past year God has added a new adventure as we have adopted a teenager and are getting a whole new perspective on parenting.”

80s Class of ‘82 25-year and Class of ‘87 20-year Reunion at Homecoming: October 5 & 6 (see ad page 18) Sonny Padock ’80 returned to his home country of Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. He is a missionary to his own people serving under the World Wide New Testament Baptist Mission and is also pastoring Capital Hill Baptist Church in Nanmal/Kipar.

Their church is small but growing every year.

Four churches currently support their ministry on a monthly basis. His wife is Ponapean. They

have five children and their oldest son, Sonny Jr. (22) serves as deacon and youth advisor in their church. Their daughter Sonya attends Harvest Baptist Bible Institute in Guam. Son Haworth attends Calvary Christian Academy with his younger brother Roland and sister Sonsha. To read Sonny’s prayer updates that cover their work and ministry visit www.wwntbm.com/padock.

Art VanWeerdhuizen ’80(n) and wife Bev Fletchall VanWeerdhuizen ’81(n) write, “Shalom.” This was the greeting they heard many times on their recent trip to Israel with Dr. and Mrs. Herb Anderson. The Andersons were spiritual guides as they traveled with their group of 27 from Tel Aviv to the Sea of Galilee, Masada, Ein Art was the only one of the group Gev, the Dead who opted to experience a camel ride during their visit in Ein Gev. Sea, Jordan CORBAN MAGAZINE

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River, Bethlehem, Jerusalem and many other biblical sights including the Mt. of Olives, Via Dolorosa, Gethsemane and the Garden Tomb, just to name a few.

They feel blessed to have seen God’s Word come alive before their very eyes and to walk the streets and paths which our Savior also walked many years ago. It was truly a trip of a lifetime, giving each a new and fresh closeness with our heavenly Father.

Steve Bellshaw ’84 of Salem was promoted to deputy chief from lieutenant at the Salem Police Department. He will oversee detectives, drug teams, youth services, the gang unit, crime prevention, police volunteers and the domestic violence response team.

He joined Salem Police in July 1989.

Since then, he has worked in various roles, including as a patrol officer, a detective investigating sex crimes and homicides, and a supervisor of internal affairs. He and wife Tammi have two daughters, ages 13 and 16 and a son, age 19.

Tami Toreson Bernard ’89 and husband Chris Bernard ’91 live in Redmond, Oregon where Tami recently started her own business, Bernard Accounting. She also enjoys volunteering at school where their children, Taylor (9) and David (8) attend. Chris is a real estate broker with Keller Williams Realty of Central Oregon.

90s Class of ‘97 10-year Reunion at Homecoming: October 5 & 6 (see ad page 18) Joel Gillespie ’91 resides in Kent, Washington and completed his Master’s of Science in Project Management from the University of Alaska Anchorage in December 2006. He works for Alaska Airlines as a manager in the procurement department. He also coaches a Bible Quiz team at Highlands Community Church in Renton where wife Laura and children Austin and Kira attend.

John Pontius ’92 and wife Shari Inabnit Pontius ’93 live in Oakley, California, where John is a middle school pastor at Golden Hills Community Church, and Shari is a first grade

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teacher. Their daughter Larissa is going into high school, Heather into middle school and twins Michael and Kelsey are going into 4th grade.

LaVonne Peterson Bennett ’94 and husband Chet were married April 14, 2001, and reside with their two children in Douglasville, Georgia, just west of Atlanta.

She has been a stay-at-home mom since having their children. She serves as preschool director, is involved in adult choir and ladies ensemble at Heritage Baptist Church. Chet is a dealer for John Deere.

Mark Patterson ’94(n) works at Professional Mortgage Corp. in Salem as sales manager.

He returned to Salem after establishing a Professional Mortgage Corp. branch office in Bend during the past year.

Enoch Stevenson ’94 teaches Latin at PennCrest High School in Eddystone, Pennsylvania. He and wife Merrilee welcomed their first daughter, Rosalind Elise, on October 27, 2006. Her brothers, Julien (5) and Tristan (4), are happy to have a sister. They also bought their first home just outside Philadelphia only five days later, and Merrilee enjoys being home full-time.

Tami Wells Thompson ’95(n) of Lincoln, California is a wedding planner and volunteers with senior adult activities in her church. She also teaches in the children’s department. She was married April 1995 to Dan Thompson, and he works for the Department of Corrections for the State of California.

Rich Young ’96 is a business analyst at Unitrin Kemper Auto and Home Insurance. He and his wife, Brenda, live in Saint Augustine, Florida. They have three children; Gee, Mac and Sam. They attend Deepstream Community of Faith Church.

Brian Hills ’97, former Warrior basketball player, was featured in the Oregonian newspaper on February 23, 2007, for his coaching at Gresham High School. He led the girl’s varsity basketball team into the playoffs for the second straight season. He and wife

Sara Reeves Hills ‘98, who played volleyball at Corban, and their two sons, Connor (3) and Blake (6 months) live in Gresham.

Lisa Wold ’97 was awarded the degree of Master of Science in Community Counseling on May 6, 2007 at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho.

Susan McNeilly ’98(AD) is serving in Good News Clubs, Prison Ministry (Warm Springs jail), AWANA and raising two foster children (to be adopted) and coordinating SMART reading. She lives in Madras, Oregon.

David Spencer ’98 works for Chewelah School District in Washington as the HomeLink (home school program) teacher and driver’s education coordinator. It is his first year teaching as he returned to school in 2002, attending Washington State University where he received a Social Studies Education degree specializing in middle level education.

Jodie Anders Hartfield ’99 and her husband, Andy, bounced around the Northwest for a while when plans to head to the mission field fell through. They landed in Colorado Springs, Colorado where Andy is a youth pastor at First Evangelical Free Church. Since moving there they added son Micah Anders who joined his brother Drew (5) and sister, Alexis (3).

Tim Sanford ’99 is a youth corrections group life coordinator at MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn, Oregon. He and wife Janis have two children, Keenan and Kelly.

Marci Rainbow Shuck ’99 is a bookkeeper for her husband Brian’s law office in Cheyenne, Wyoming and is a stay-at-home mom. Son Connor Jackson was born April, 2005. She enjoys photography, traveling and music.

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in East Asia to Xi’an, home of the famous Terra Cotta Warriors, for two years learning Mandarin, as they connect with other professionals serving in China.

Following completion of language school, they plan to teach English in a university setting while being part of a team strategy. They have two children; Emma and Josiah.

Micah Pilgrim ’00 and Rebecca Hill Pilgrim ’02 moved to London, England in January 2007 for Micah’s work as a CPA. They embarked on a life changing event that will allow them to grow professionally and personally. Becky will complete her Master’s Degree in June 2007 and begin work as a teacher for a local school in September. While they both are having a blast seeing Europe, Micah and Becky look forward to their return in 2008. To follow their adventure, visit their blog at www.micahandbecky.blogspot.com.

Chaille Shipps ’00(AD) is a licensed broker with Keller Williams Realty, Mid-Willamette Valley, working from home in Salem as well as Corvallis and Albany offices. She and husband Curt are regional sales directors for Ameriplan Health.

Josh Bain ’01 of Salem was named a 2007 Master Agent by Country Insurance & Financial Services. To receive the designation, agents must have served five full consecutive years with the organization, be a current All-American and have qualified for All-American status at least three other years. He began his career in with Country in 2001 and his office is in Stayton.

Beth Buhler ’02 has taught with English Language Institute China for the past two years. She is in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia at the Inner Mongolia Electric Power College where she teaches English majors, writing and literature. She is also working on earning a graduate degree in teaching from Lee University in Tennessee.

Delaina Yonally Vest ’02 married Brad Vest ’03 on June 14, 2003 and bought their first home last December in Tigard.

Paula Keener Jorgensen ’03 is a financial advisor with Merrill Lynch in Mesa, Arizona. She works on a team of three advisors and focuses

mainly on institutional business. She has been married for three years to Jeremy Jorgensen.

They have a daughter, Emily Grace.

Ashley Westling ’03 works at Coldwell Banker Curtis Irving Realty in Eugene, Oregon. She is the relocation and referral director. She and husband Cameron attend Northwood Christian Church in Springfield.

Andrew Cornelius ’04 and Danielle Smith Cornelius ’04 live in Loma Linda, California where Andrew is a thirdyear medical student also in the Air Force, going to school on an academic scholarship.

He plays on the soccer, volleyball and flag football intramural teams and was the class president last year. He is on the Academic Review board committee and is doing research in the orthopedics department. Danielle worked as a substitute teacher as well as at a residential treatment facility for Childhelp USA since graduating. Danielle stays at home with seven month old daughter Ella Rene’, born October 18, 2006 (see photo 7 on page 31). She has a photography business and enjoys making crafts, cloth bags, scarves and hats. Her customized cloth bags are for sale through the Corban Bookstore. They spent time seeing family in Alaska and Oregon and plan to do missions again after Andrew finishes his education and Air Force commitments. Danielle writes, “Corban was where Andrew and I met and was an instrumental place for our growth in the Lord and furthering our hearts towards missions.”

Tad Hildebrand ’04 resides in Medford with wife Jenna. They were married August 2005 and after six months of marriage moved to Costa Rica where they became directors of a shelter for abused and neglected children. Nine months later, God led them back to Medford, Oregon. Tad is an interim youth director at Westminster Presbyterian Church, and Jenna works as a medical assistant in a Hispanic clinic.

Jennifer Wanner ‘05 graduated from Houghton College in New York with an M.A. in Music with an emphasis in Music Theory. She was accepted by her first choice school, the University of Connecticut, to begin her doctoral studies this fall.

Pat Poole ’07 is registrar for Koinonia Institute in Post Falls, Idaho, where they offer in-depth studies for serious students of the Bible. He completed a career in law enforcement and worked in the technology field for several years before enrolling at Corban to complete a Management and Communications degree.

He and wife Margaret live in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and have three daughters and nine grandchildren.

Down the Aisle Dawn Parks Courtney ’05 married Jake Courtney on October 8, 2006 and they live in Stehekin, Washington.

Crystal Whitfield Lloyd ’05 married Nathan Lloyd on March 3, 2007 in Ridgecrest, California.

Crystal works as a data analyst, and Nathan is a police officer.

Christine Hayes Rich ’06 married Michael Rich ‘07 in Salem on March 14, 2006. She grew up in Alaska and Michael in Washington. Michael’s father performed the ceremony. Christine is employed at the Red Cross as a youth Hayes/Rich specialist, and Michael is a mental health skills trainer with Easter Seals.

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Shelby Raichl ’06 and Luke Todd ’06 were married on November 25, 2006 in Seaside, Oregon. They reside in Potter Valley, California.

All in the Family Megan Smith Stuck ’00 and husband Brian of Salem welcomed son Isaiah Allen born on March 18, 2006. 1 Jennifer King Lucas ’02 and husband Jeffrey of Salem welcomed daughter Ellie Marie, born April 8, 2006. 2 Brian MacSwan ’03 and Sjana Overby MacSwan ’03 of Salem welcomed son Hunter Thomas on February 2, 2006. 3

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Jason Stopher ’03 and Terra Barker Stopher ’05 of Salem welcomed Caleb Daniel born December 8, 2006. Terra is case worker for DHS, child welfare of Marion County and Jason is in management at Winco Foods. 4 Cyrus Rettman ’04 and wife Kim Greenwood Rettman ’04 of Keizer welcomed Ruth Adelle born on February 11, 2007. She was 20 inches long and weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces. Cyrus works in ministry at Keizer Community Church as well as working towards his Masters in Divinity. Kim spent two years teaching high school English at Salem Academy and now enjoys staying at home with their new baby. 5 Luke Monroe ‘05 and Cara Monroe ‘05 of Lacey, Washington welcomed son Corban Josiah, born on March 19, 2007. Luke works as a civilian contracted gunsmith for the Army.

Cara is a stay-at-home mom, and they are involved in Wednesday night home groups and are on their churches worship team at Dupont Villages Community Church in Dupont, where Cara’s parents are both pastors. 6

With the Lord Chaplain George L. Moore went home to be with his Lord, March 30, 2007. He pastored churches in Pennsylvania, California, and Washington. After his first wife Connie died, in 1963 he married Dorothy Ruhlman ‘60, a teacher and Dean of Women at Western Baptist Bible College from 1958-1962. He served on the Board of Trustees for WBBC in the 1950s.

Gerald Sanden ’69 passed away unexpectedly on January 18, 2007 at the age of 60 at home in Sonoma, California.

He was an officer at the Tacoma Police Department for about two years followed by years of working for Handyman Home Centers around the United States. When Handyman closed he worked for H&E Home Center in Victorville, California. Jerry then worked for Friedman’s Home Improvement buyer in Santa Rosa. He was a member of St. Andrew Presbyterian Church where he served as an elder, deacon and a Bible study leader. He was also an amateur radio operator and an officer in various radio clubs throughout the country.

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establishing disaster preparation programs. He was an avid golfer and model train builder. He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Odessa; three sons, two grandsons and brother, Carl.

Zoe Frances Ringhoff Wall ’75 of Dallas, Oregon, died at her home on March 1, 2007.

After graduation she got her Master’s Degree at Oregon College of Education in Early Childhood Education. She loved to travel. She married Samuel Wall in 1979, and they lived on a dairy farm. She helped with milking, haying and tractor work. Zoe was a member of the Evangelical Bible Church and was active in AWANAs. She home-schooled her children. She was diagnosed with brain cancer in 1997 and kept a fighting spirit about her. She and Sam traveled extensively for the past seven years.

She was an avid quilter and made hundreds of quilts to give to foster children and others in need. She is survived by her husband; two sons, one daughter, parents, sister and brother.

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Warriors in the World Where in the world are you showing your Corban spirit?

Send us your photographs of the places you have been with your Corban or Warrior wear.

If we print your submission, you will receive a Corban T-shirt to wear while visiting some other interesting locale.

Send your photos,* along with a description of the location where the photograph was taken and your T-shirt size, to the Corban Alumni Office, 5000 Deer Park Drive SE, Salem, OR 97317, or to alumni@corban.edu. *Please send high-resolution images or prints only.

Phil James ‘84 holds a prize Spotted Bass that he caught while fishing on the Itapara River, a tributary of the Amazon near Manaus, Brazil. Phil was there on a fishing retreat with other men from his church, Crosswinds Church of Dublin, California.

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Planned Giving Options Name________________________________ Date of Birth_ ________________________ Address______________________________ _____________________________________ City__________________________________ State_________________________________ Zip___________________________________ Telephone____________________________ E-mail Address________________________ Send to: Chris Erickson Corban College, 5000 Deer Park Drive SE Salem, OR 97317-9392

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id you know you can take advantage of a

the Christ honoring mission of the College. This is a

substantial tax deduction now by making a

wonderful way to make a substantial gift that helps train

future gift of your personal residence? This is called a

tomorrow’s leaders to advance the kingdom of God.

Life Estate Reserved. Very simply, your home is deeded

The professional staff at Corban College will prepare

to the College now and you receive a tax deduction as a

all the legal paperwork for you and will assist you in

charitable gift based upon “fair market value.” The tax

planning your estate. For help, please stop by and visit

deduction can be carried forward for up to five years.

or give us a call at 800-845-3005 ext. 7011.

The proceeds from your deeded home will be used in

Corban College is a non profit, 501(c)(3), tax exempt educational corporation. We offer several other planned giving vehicles such as a: 1) Charitable Gift Annuity, 2) Charitable Lead Trust, 3) Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust and 4) Charitable Remainder Trust. Gifts of real property or life insurance are another way to support the mission of the College. Please phone Chris Erickson at (800) 845-3005 ext. 7011 or e-mail at cerickson@corban.edu. You may also visit our website at www.corban.edu and click on “Donor Opportunities.”

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