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IN THIS (ISSUE) News from your class agent News From Your Class Agent 1 What’s New With You? 2 Alumni Spotlight: Kim Norwood 2 25 Years of Graduate Education 2 Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees 3 Inauguration Date Announced 3 Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Kettler 3 Spring Alumni Events 4 From the Desk of Lisa Tilma 4
Lu Duerksen, M’01 MFGP Class Agent luandu@sbcglobal.net You are invited to the inauguration of President Dr. T.J. Arant.
Over the last few months, I have been thinking about humor and the benefits from a great laugh. I usually start my education groups with some jokes and hope for laughter. It gives me a measure of how my patients are feeling that day. It is so good to see someone who has not been feeling well start to smile and then laugh.
I love those laughs where you start feeling it in your tummy and you are trying to keep it quiet. The laugh ends with tears in your eyes. Of course, when you tell some one else about this, they don’t think it is half as funny and give you that “look.” When was the last time you had a great laugh? My MFT class was usually willing to laugh and enjoy each other. I recall seeing an Elvis birthday cake, several people coming to class dressed as nuns and all of us leaving the class through the back door while the instructor stepped out to get something. Humor was such a help getting through those two grueling years.
One of the great things about this class newsletter is that it gives us an opportunity to network as professionals, reconnect as former classmates, celebrate each other’s successes and even offer words of encouragement or prayer for those who may need it. You will notice on page 2 of this newsletter that one of our own MFT graduates, Kim Norwood, M’98, has been selected as the “Alumni Spotlight” feature. In fact, this spotlight of Kim will be featured in all of the Friends University graduate class newsletters - 14 total in all that will go to approximately 5,000 alumni readers all over the U.S.! The world is not so big of a place as it once was, and our paths cross more often than we probably know. With that said, I encourage you to let me know what you have been doing since you finished / survived your MFT graduate degree. I would love to be able to share your news with all our fellow MFT alumni. You are always welcome to send me an email or you can even fill out the form on the top of page 2 and send it to the Alumni Office who will make sure I receive your news.