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Enclosed is your class newsletter QSM/TQM • Spring 2011
Friends University Issue 32 Spring 2011
Campus Connection
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From Your Class Agent Martha Linsner mlinsner@tckansas.com
In Other University News... After a six-month nationwide search, the Friends University Board of Trustees unanimously selected Dr. T.J. Arant to become the 13th president of Friends University. After a highly process-driven search, the 14-member Presidential Search Committee identified four highly qualified finalists and Dr. Arant rose to the top. By late February, the committee was in full consensus to recommend Dr. Arant to the Board of Trustees. Arant, 55, has a doctorate in English from Duke University and served as executive vice president of Mount Olive College in North Carolina, since 2008. Arant and his wife, Susan, will move to Wichita in late June and Arant will assume office July 1, 2011. Interested in attending a Fine Arts performance for free? The Friends University Fine Arts Office is looking for alumni to help usher at various performances at the Wichita campus this spring. Volunteers will receive free admission to the performance and are asked to stay for the entire performance to assist with intermission. For more information or to volunteer, please e-mail the Alumni Office at alumni@friends.edu. Garvey Lecture Series to feature author Blanco 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 bestseller, 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. 2011 Athletic Hall of Fame inductees announced Congratulations to the following alumni athletes and Falcon supporters that were inducted into the Friends University Athletic Hall of Fame Saturday, February 12: • Morris Lolar, G’03/M’10 – football • Barry Cobb, G’93 – baseball • Tammy Brewer, G’95 – soccer • Dr. Biff Green, Friends University President 1991-2011 To see who else has been inducted, please go online to www.friends.edu/athletic-hall-of-fame. Easter Egg Hunts right around the corner! Plans are already underway for the annual Friends University Easter Egg Hunts at our Wichita, Topeka and Kansas City campuses. The northeast Kansas hunts will take place Saturday, April 16; the Wichita hunt will take place Saturday, April 23. Martha L. Linsner, G’98
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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