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IN THIS (ISSUE) News from your class agent News From Your Class Agent What’s New With You? Remembering Les Davis, G’56 Keeping Time Homecoming 2011 Family of the Year Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Peters Football Game Coupon Fall Alumni Events From the Desk of Lisa Tilma

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Thanks to those of you who recently wrote in with news. Here’s who I heard from since the last class newsletter:

Dr. Price retired in 1996 from Kansas State University and was awarded emeritus faculty status at that time.

Gay Gilbert Anderson, G’55, and her husband James have retired and moved to Hermitage, Tenn., to be near their daughter and grandchildren.

Unfortunately, I also received notice of several of our classmates having passed away.

John Fleming, G‘50, lives in Minneapolis, Kan., and owns Fancie Baux Companie. If you need a “fancy box for a fancy lady” call John at (785) 392-2500 or send him an email at jrf1717@gmail.com.

Joyce (Hadley) Grimm, G‘51, moved to Westminster, Colo.

John, G’50, and Lola (Lindamood) Struthers, FS’51, live in Clearwater, Kan., and are retired. They welcomed a greatgranddaughter on Feb. 10, 2011.

Paul Boles, G’54 1950s Class Agent patsyb@pld.com

Francis Spear G‘54, is ministering as a chaplain counselor at the Sedgwick County jail in Wichita.

Dr. Floyd H. Price, G’51, and Phyllis A. (Mcguire) Price, G’50, have moved into a retirement community in Newton, Kan.

Read about Homecoming 2011 inside!

Alvin Kauffman, G’58, passed away last Nov. 14, 2010. He had been living in Fox Lake, Ill. In January of 2011, Hal W. Hawkins, G’53, and Darrell J. Denney, G’58, both died. Hal was a retired US Navy Chaplain, and Darrell taught English as a second language.

Mary Emily (Perisho) Lilly, G’59; Dr. K. Stanley Gale, G’52; George W. Hirst, G’52; and Sybil A. (Marshall) Washburn, G’56, all passed away in February 2011.

Hubert J. Wiebe, G’52, died on March 14, 2011. He taught industrial arts at Friends University for 18 years.

Joslyn B. Shelton, G’58, passed away on April 27, 2011. He resided in Bristol, Tenn.

Eleanor H. Bell, G’50, and Max Hapner, G’52, both passed away in May 2011.

WHAT’S NEW WITH (YOU?)

Friends University is more than just getting a degree, but developing a lifelong friendship, which is why we want to stay connected with you as a member of the Friends University Alumni Association.

If you have some exciting news that you would like to share with your classmates, let us know! You can update your information online at www.friends.edu/update-your-information. Use your ID number to process the changes quicker.

Fall 2011 • The (1950s)

Remembering Les Davis Leslie “Les” Davis, G’56, passed away Feb. 27, 2011.

After he graduated from Friends University with his bachelor’s degree, he began his coaching career in 1956 in Grenola, Kan. For the next 50 years, he would coach in different high schools all throughout the state including Greeley, Wichita, Towanda and Sedan.

In 2001, Les was inducted into the Friends University Athletic Hall of Fame as a three-sport athlete having played baseball, football and basketball during his college years. In 1961, he returned to Friends and worked for a year as the head baseball coach and assistant basketball coach.

KEEPING TIME Once again, Wichita students at Friends University can tell the time by sound at the beginning of the hour and at each half hour.

After more than two years of silence, the Davis Administration Building clock tower bell received a much-needed repair and began ringing again June 23, 2011.

After leaving Friends University, Les went on to become the second coach in Kansas high school history to win more than 300 football games. His basketball team in Sedan, Kan., holds the regular season winning streak record at 65 games. Additionally, Les claimed 512 baseball wins, one state championship, the state record 42-game winning streak, and a dozen consecutive appearances at the state baseball tournament. Other awards received included being named Coach of the Year for baseball in 1979, District #5 National Coach of the Year in 1981, and Area Football Coach of the Year in 1999-2000.

Funded by money set aside by the Student Government Association starting 2009, the repair included a digital device that bypasses the original gears, keeping the clock on time while preserving the historical components of the 80-year-old clock.

Knowing that it is because of former student athletes like Les Davis and others who have already been inducted into the Friends University Athletic Hall of Fame as well as those to come in the future, our Falcon athletics would not be where it is today.

As an additional bonus, the digital component adjusts automatically for daylight saving time and standard time.

The project experienced a few setbacks, but fortunately, the clock tower repair cost around $8,000, which was less than the amount that SGA planned for in 2009.

HOMECOMING 2011 Milestone Class Reunions • 2:30 Davis Admin. Bldg. (1961, 1971, 1986) • Check-in at 2 p.m., first floor.

• Visit during Class Reunions from 2:304:30 p.m. (campus tours included).

Parade • 5 p.m.

University Ave. & Hiram St. • Motorcyclists and classic car enthusiasts wanted for parade.

• Bring the family to enjoy the floats and collect candy!

Block Party • 5:30 p.m.

Garvey Practice Field • FREE carnival games and inflatables.

FAMILY of the YEAR Friends University established the Family of the Year Award in 2010 as a way to recognize the legacy of those families who: 1. Have shown longevity in the number of years their family has attended Friends; 2. Are able to document that multiple members of their family tree have attended Friends; and 3. Have a history of dedicated service to the University.

The Alumni Office is pleased to announce that members of the Joseph and Olive Schoonover family tree have been named the 2011 Family of the Year.

They will be recognized at halftime of the Sept. 24 home football game vs. the McPherson Bulldogs.

FREE (ADMISSION) Present this coupon after the Alumni Appreciation Tailgate for free admission to the Sept. 24, 2011, Falcons football game!

(Limit two free admissions per coupon.)

• FREE tailgate dinner of hamburgers, hot dogs and all the fixin’s!

Football Game vs.

Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes • 7 p.m.

• Halftime - crowning of Homecoming Royalty

Meet Dr. Peters We here in the Alumni Office thought that you, as a graduate of the College of Business, Arts, Sciences and Education, would like to know more about the current dean.

Dr. Peters earned a Master of Arts in theater arts from Baylor University and a Ph.D in theater and arts administration from Texas Tech University. He most recently served as associate dean of Academic Affairs and Research for the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts at Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich. Prior to Wayne State, he was director of Wichita State University’s School of Performing Arts.

As President of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) since 2007, Dr. Peters also serves as ATHE’s representative to the Coalition for Theatre Education, a national coalition of arts organizations that brings together the leadership of all major membership organizations for teachers in K-12 and university educational theater.

Dr. Peters has directed more than 50 productions, including “Hamlet,” “The Cherry Orchard,” “The Glass Menagerie” and “Our Town.”

Dr. Peters lives in Andover, Kan., with his wife, Sandy, and their sons James and Matthew.

SEE YOU (SOON!) FROM THE DESK OF (LISA TILMA)

Alumni Appreciation Tailgate & Distinguished Family of the Year Award Presentation

1974 & 1976 Alumni Football Athletes Reunion

Homecoming 2010

Stay up-to-date with Friends Flash! at www.friends.edu/friends-flash!

Saturday, Sept. 24 Tailgate: 5 p.m. • Garvey Practice Field Falcon Football: 7 p.m.

Adair-Austin Stadium on Hoyt Athletic Field Family of the Year Award Presentation: Halftime

Saturday, Oct. 1 • www.friends.edu/homecoming See page 3 for more information.

You may have noticed that Campus Connection has taken on a whole new look!

By updating this newsletter, we hope that you not only find out about activities at your alma mater but also learn about achievements by your fellow classmates – those who you remember from your time as a student as well as those who you interact with through work, church or social circles but had no idea they were also Friends alumni.

Alumni Office

MORE (INFO)

316.295.5900 800.794.6945 ext. 5900 alumni@friends.edu www.friends.edu/alumni

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Saturday, Oct. 15 Lunch: 11:30 a.m. • Garvey Physical Education Center Falcon Football: 1:30 p.m.

Adair-Austin Stadium on Hoyt Athletic Field

In each issue, we will also ask for your help with the information we have on file about you. (See the top of page 2.) Please, don’t think of it as homework, but as our way of keeping your information up-to-date for future reunions and networking opportunities both on and off campus. As your Alumni Director, I want to make sure that we continue to serve you in the best way possible!

If you have additional ideas as to how we can make your class newsletter better, please feel free to let your class agent or me know. We’d love to hear from you!

Lisa Tilma, G’01/M’04 Executive Director of Alumni Relations