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Friends University Issue 32 Fall 2011
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From Your Class Agent Vince Schmidt cschmidt4@cox.net
Greetings from your HRM class agent! I hope this newsletter finds you doing well! The search continues for a new president for Friends University. The University has conducted interviews and announced the four finalists at the time of writing this newsletter. More information about the candidates can be found online at www.friends.edu/presidential-search-updates. Plans are already underway for the annual Friends University Easter Egg Hunts at our Wichita, Topeka and Kansas City campuses! The northeast Kansas events will take place Saturday, April 16 and the Wichita event will take place Saturday, April 23. If you have the opportunity, make plans to join your alma mater for this fun event! Survivor, expert and activist Jodee Blanco is one of the country’s pre-eminent voices on the subject of school bullying. She is the author of the New York Times best-seller, Please Stop Laughing at Me and the award-winning sequel, Please Stop Laughing at Us. The lecture will take place Friday, April 1, 2011 at 7 p.m. in Alumni Auditorium, located in the Davis Administration Building. For more information, e-mail garveylecture@friends.edu or call 316-295-5611. The Friends University Campus and Career Transitions Office is hosting its annual Career Fair Thursday, March 31, 2011, from 3:30 to 6 p.m. Held in conjunction with Newman University, this fair will take place at the Newman Conferece Center. For more invormation, go online to
www.friends.edu/career-fair. Our congratulations go out to Jean Harrison, G’93, of Great Bend, Kan. She was awarded Woman of the Year 2010-2011 by the National Association of Professional Women. More information about this organization can be found at www.napw.com/site-tour/. Congrats Jean! Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of Laurie Dorschel, G’96. She went home to be with the Lord on November 3, 2010. Laurie served honorably in the United States Air Force. She was devoted to her family and friends. Burial was in North Syracuse Cemetery in New York on November 9, 2010. Please drop us a note, we would like to hear from you. If you have a comment, announcement or update you’d like your fellow HRM’ers to hear about, fill out the “Help Keep Us Informed” portion of the newsletter and mail it back to us! Until next time, be great!
Vince Schmidt, G’89
Alumni Office Alumni Office Friends University 2100 W. University Ave. Wichita, KS 67213 316-295-5900
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Search Underway for 13th University President
December Seniors Honored at Special Luncheon
As you may have heard, Dr. Biff Green, president of Friends University, will be retiring June 30, 2011. The Board of Trustees has launched a national search for the 13th president of Friends University which is expected to conclude by March 1, 2011. To find out more about the presidential search, please visit www.friends.edu/presidential-search.
With the help of the Wichita Alumni Advisory Board, the Friends University Alumni Association honored those traditionalundergraduate seniors who graduated in December with a special luncheon Dec. 8.
Friends University Offers Hometown Advantage Grant Do you know a high-school senior from Sedgwick County, Andover, Augusta or Rose Hill who is exploring college options? Friends University is offering students from these areas a $5,000 grant toward tuition at Friends University starting in fall 2011. The $5,000 grant is renewable, is available in addition to other scholarships and does not need to be paid back. It is designed to make it more affordable for new students who demonstrate financial need to get an independent college education.
Members of the Wichita Alumni Advisory Board, University President Dr. Biff Green and his wife, Binnie, and Board of Trustees Chairman Rodney Pitts, G’82, served a tasty Mexican buffet of steak and chicken fajitas, Spanish rice, refried beans, cinnamon chips and all the fixins! Students received words of encouragement from Dr. Green, Mr. Pitts and Wichita Alumni Advisory Board members Marvin Connet, G’82/’84, and Lisa Kraemer, G’10. As they prepared to enter the world as representatives of Friends University, the seniors were urged to remember the time they spent with their classmates and friends. Congratulations once again to this group of graduating seniors!
For more information, call 316-295-5100 or e-mail duncande@friends.edu.
don’t forget Easter Egg Hunt Lenexa – April 16 Topeka – April 16 Wichita – April 23 Commencement Lenexa – May 1 Topeka – May 1 Wichita – May 7
From the Executive Director of Alumni and Annual Fund You may recall that the Alumni Office has been working with the State of Kansas to create a Friends University license plate. On Jan. 4, 2011, the director of vehicles informed us that while they have all the necessary documents to move forward, they would need additional monies from the state budget to produce the plates. At the time of the printing of this newsletter, the director of vehicles stated that they would be meeting with the secretary of revenue in mid-January to work on adding our plate costs to their agency budget.
The Alumni Office anticipates re-grouping with the director of vehicles in mid-February to determine where funding is with our plate request. More information will be posted online at www. friends.edu/kansas-license-plates.
Lisa Tilma, G’01/M’04 Executive Director of Alumni and Annual Fund