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IN THIS (ISSUE) News from your class agent News From Your Class Agent What’s New With You? Alumni Spotlight: Chris Goebel Keeping Time Homecoming 2011 Family of the Year Run With Friends Football Game Coupon Fall Alumni Events From the Desk of Lisa Tilma

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Ken Allensworth, M’08 MHCL Class Agent ken.allensworth@va.gov

Read about Homecoming 2011 inside!

I hope this newsletter finds each of you well and progressing in your healthcare leadership careers.

Congratulations to Malea Gonzalez, G’06/M’08, who was awarded a scholarship from the Kansas Hospital Association Healthcare scholarship program. Malea is pursuing a Master in Public Health degree.

Interested in attending an upcoming athletics or fine arts event? Athletic game dates and times can be found online at www.friendsathletics.com and the Fine Arts Performance and Exhibit Calendar can be found at www.friends.edu/performanceexhibit-calendar.

Homecoming will be held Saturday, Oct. 1 (more information on page 3). You are welcome to bring your motorcycle or car out to ride in the parade, join other alumni as they sing the national anthem prior to the football game or even have your children send in their coloring contest entries to win a Crayola® Color Wonder Sound Studio.

(Entry forms can be found in the latest issue of Focus, the Friends University magazine.)

With the help of the Wichita Alumni Advisory Board, nationally known Christian

recording artist and Friends University alumnus, Mitch McVicker, G’95, will perform a concert on campus Friday, Oct. 21, with proceeds going toward student scholarships. You can purchase tickets by contacting the Alumni Office at alumni@friends.edu or 1-800-794-6945 ext.

5900. General admission is $12; VIP tickets are $20.

As alumni, we have many opportunities to be involved in developing healthcare leaders, and to participate in the many events that occur at Friends throughout the year. I encourage you to visit www.friends.edu/ alumni-friends. At this site, you will find a link for volunteer opportunities. Among the options is the Campus Connection class agent, which allows a MHCL graduate to keep fellow alumni informed via this newsletter.

I would encourage anyone who would be interested in this to contact me as I am moving to Texas to take on a new role as the associate director of the West Texas VA Health Care System.

Let’s make this newsletter a valuable source of information for current and future MHCL alumni.

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 • (MHCL)

Alumni Spotlight One of the perks of having a class newsletter is that we in the Alumni Office hear from time to time of great and exciting things happening with our alumni.

In this issue of the Campus Connection class newsletter, we are pleased to spotlight Master of Science in Management (MSM) alumnus Chris Goebel, M’91.

For those of you who live in the Wichita area, you may know Chris as the CEO for Star Lumber Company. This year he was selected as Admiral Windwagon Smith for the Riverfest. As the festival’s 40th admiral, he considered it a special honor because his uncle had also served as a past Admiral Windwagon Smith.

Goebel has been involved with Riverfest and with Wichita Festivals for more than 25 years. He, his father and his uncle built the original Windwagon in 1974 with materials donated from Star Lumber. This year’s Riverfest was June 3 through 11.

If you would like to be considered for a future alumni spotlight for Campus Connection, please contact the Alumni Office before Dec. 1, 2011.

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.

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.

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 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

Run with Friends Friends University is asking alumni, students, board of trustees members, faculty, staff and others affiliated with the University to participate in one of the Wichita Prairie Fire Marathon races or come cheer our Friends University participants on during the race.

“We’d love to see a sea of Falcon red at the event,” said Susan Arant, wife of Friends University President T.J. Arant.

Races will take place Sunday, Oct. 9, including a marathon, half marathon, Mayor’s 5K Challenge and Fun Run and Walk. A FIT FOR LIFExpo will also take place Saturday before the race, and volunteers are needed to staff the Friends University booth at the Expo.

Everyone affiliated with Friends University who can participate in the races, cheer for the participants or volunteer at the Expo booth is asked to sign up through the University.

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 T-shirts will be given to the first 200 race participants to sign up and donate a can of food.

Food will be collected at the Expo for Life and donated to the Kansas Food Bank.

For more information on the Prairie Fire events or to officially register to participate in a Prairie Fire race, visit www.friends.edu/prairie-fire.

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