L E TO U R N E A U U N I V E R S I T Y
FALL 2010
a message from the president “When we give from the heart, helping someone in need and expecting nothing in return, we truly are touching the hand of God.”—Tom Harken I read the above in The Millionaire’s Secret, written by Tom Harken, a 1992 Horatio Alger Award winner and owner of Casa Olé restaurants. Harken will be the featured speaker at LeTourneau University’s scholarship gala event Feb. 26, 2011 at Pinecrest Country Club in Longview. We will publicly thank many of our donors who have partnered with us to educate students to answer God’s call to be His ambassadors in every workplace in every nation. Giving is all about relationships. It’s about our personal relationship with Christ and wanting to serve Him by being good stewards of what He has entrusted to us. It’s about our relationships with others and wanting to share with those who need a helping hand. Giving can be of our time, our talent or our “treasure,” those finances that flow through us because of the gifts God has enabled us to control. Our founder, R.G. LeTourneau, knew our treasure is in heaven. He once said, “We businessmen have an old saying, ‘You can’t take it with you,’ but that’s wrong. You can take it with you. The Bible says we are sending it up, wood, hay and stubble, gold, silver, and precious stones. It’s going on up there. It will be tried by the fire. And what is left from the fire will be waiting for us when we get there. Maybe you can’t actually take it with you, but you can send it on ahead. Let’s ask God to use us to send it on ahead and have it waiting for us when we get there.” We are blessed at LETU to have relationships with great people who agree with Mr. LeTourneau. They have the heart to give of their earthly treasures to make an eternal difference by helping us equip graduates who see their life’s work as a holy calling. This Fall 2010 President’s Annual Report issue of the NOW magazine features our honor roll of donors as well as some who have seen the need for endowed scholarships that will help students for all the years to come.
You will read about some special friends like Bob and Barbara Ferguson of Granbury, Texas, who have funded an endowed scholarship to honor their family; LETU trustee Steve Voelzke of Longview whose family foundation has endowed an LETU scholarship in memory of his brother; an endowment started by Alpha Omega society alumni to honor professor Paul Kubricht and Sidney and Anna Lee Allen who have endowed our first nursing scholarship. You also will meet our Development team, those professionals you can call on to find out how you can partner with us. And you also will see some of the giving of service our students are doing to make the world a more comfortable place for children in wheelchairs. Despite a difficult economy, giving to LETU has been up, with over 800 new donors, and total gifts of $3.7 million. An increased emphasis on scholarship endowments has been very successful. We recently received the largest single donation in the university’s history, a $5 million endowment from an anonymous donor specifically for home-schooled students. Yes, our students are changed when their dream of a LETU education becomes possible. But the lives of those who give are also changed. As Tom Harken wrote, the giver is changed because he is able to touch the hand of God. We are all blessed whenever we can experience God.
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LETOURNEAU UNIVERSITY
DALE A. LUNSFORD, Ph.D. PUBLISHER MARILA PALMER EXECUTIVE EDITOR JANET RAGLAND EDITOR IN CHIEF KATE GRONEWALD WRITER / EDITOR TOM BARNARD CREATIVE DIRECTOR / GRAPHIC DESIGNER STEPHANIE BROWNLOW STUDENT GRAPHIC DESIGNER GAIL RITCHEY CLASS NOTES NIEMAN PRINTING PRINTING
On the cover is LeTourneau University’s new logo. The shield, a recognized traditional symbol for academic quality for universities, encloses a globe representing the university’s vision to equip students to make an impact for Christ in every workplace in every nation. Longitude and latitude lines form a stylized cross, providing a visual element of LETU’s core identity as an unapologetically Christian university. “LETU” inside the shield is easily recognizable as our official university abbreviation and refers to our Web address: www.letu.edu. Designed by Encore Multimedia, the new logo recently won a top MarCom award for brand identity.
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Claiming every workplace in every nation as our mission field, LeTourneau University graduates are professionals of ingenuity and Christ-like character who see life’s work as a holy calling with eternal impact.
LeTourneau University is an interdenominational Christ-centered university offering academic majors in the aeronautical sciences, business, education, engineering, healthcare, the humanities and sciences. LeTourneau University also offers undergraduate degree programs in business, education and psychology and graduate programs in business and education at educational centers in Austin, Bedford, Dallas, Houston, Tyler and online. NOW is published three times per year by LeTourneau University, 2100 South Mobberly, Longview, Texas 75607 w Sent free upon request to Editor, P.O. Box 8001, Longview, Texas 75607. w Postmaster: Send address changes to: NOW, P.O. Box 8001, Longview, Texas 75607. w E-mail us at NOW@letu.edu.
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Answering God's Call
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Meet the Development Staff
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Honor Roll of Donors
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News and Notes
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Faculty Feature: Dr. Viktor Roudkovski
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Class Notes
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Wheels in Motion
“BEHOLD, NOW IS THE ACCEPTABLE TIME; BEHOLD NOW IS THE DAY OF OUR SALVATION.” —II Cor. 6:2
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Answering God’s Call “God needs businessmen, as well as preachers and missionaries.” That message transformed the lives of the late LeTourneau University founder R.G. LeTourneau and his wife, Evelyn, when they heard it from their pastor over nine decades ago. And it is as true today as it was then. God also needs lawyers, professors, engineers, pilots, nurses, doctors, air traffic controllers and a host of others in a variety of godly professions to serve him in every workplace in every nation. LETU’s objective over the past year has been to increase endowments for scholarships across the board, to enable students with financial needs to get an excellent education. A total of 32 new scholarships have been endowed. More than $6.5 million was committed in this past year, specifically for endowed scholarships. Here are a few of the people who have answered the call to give.
Bob and Barbara Ferguson Written by Janet Ragland
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itting at his desk in his law office in Dalhart, Texas, Bob Ferguson heard the phone ring. He answered. One of his friends was inviting him that evening to hear R.G. LeTourneau speak to the men’s group at his church. It had been a long day. Bob declined at first. He knew who LeTourneau was, of course. The man built the huge earth-moving machines with electric motors that were currently being used to grade land for the new interstate highway system being built under President Eisenhower’s administration. Bob knew he was also the man who, with his wife, said they didn’t need what they thought they did, so they lived simply on 10 percent of their earnings and gave away 90 percent to support Christian ministries. At his friend’s urging, Bob changed his mind. It seems LeTourneau was making a fuel stop on his flight back to Longview from a trip to the new state of Alaska. Walking down the steps to the basement at the Baptist church, Bob was intrigued to hear what this famed industrialist had to say about living a Christian life in business. How often do we miss opportunities by allowing our immediate responsibilities to prevent an opportunity of a lifetime? Bob asked this question rhetorically, remembering the occasion to hear R. G. LeTourneau speak. Hearing LeTourneau tell of his experiences and his Christian faith as a businessman touched a chord in Bob’s conscience, especially since Bob had recently heard people remark tongue-in-cheek that you could not be a Christian and a lawyer at the same time. LeTourneau dispelled that idea and gave Bob a vision that, fortunately, began to expand into a deeper Christian faith. When Bob returned home that evening, he gave his wife, Barbara, a full account. They began supporting LeTourneau College, which Mr. and Mrs. LeTourneau had established in Longview, Texas. It was not until much later that they visited the campus, met several people and were able to see the effects of a life, or lives, well-lived. It was reported that “Mom” LeTourneau had even cooked meals in her home for many of the students. Barbara was surprised and pleased when she saw an exhibit on the campus that featured a story about R.G. LeTourneau having received an honorary degree from Colorado Women’s College that Barbara had attended after graduating from high school in Dalhart.
Barbara grew up in Dalhart and Bob grew up in Eastland, both smaller communities where the real values of life were apparent and where they were permitted to see the ministries, not only of their parents, but those of other people of faith. Bob practiced law in the Texas panhandle where he met and married Barbara in l953. Their three children were reared in Dalhart with the opportunity to grow up in similar circumstances to those that had blessed their parents. After Bob’s retirement, he and Barbara moved to Granbury where they continue to remain active in their church and community. “As we have become acquainted with LeTourneau University through the years, we are impressed with the quality of the students and of the administration,” Bob said. “When we read about the various accomplishments of students and faculty in varied undertakings throughout the world, we are given a blessing in realizing that our support through the years has been well utilized. On the last visit to the campus, Bryan Benson gave us a personal tour of the new performance center that we have been privileged to have a small part in building.” The Ferguson Families’ Endowed Scholarship Fund was recently established not only to honor the memory of the man for whom the university is named but also to honor the memory of the many mentors who have graciously nurtured the lives of Barbara and Bob and their family members through the years. The Ferguson’s permanent endowed scholarship fund is for new freshman students with demonstrated financial need who seek to attend LETU’s Longview campus. As an open endowment, anyone can donate to the fund, including friends, families and others, and it may receive proceeds from bequests, trusts, life insurance, real estate and personal property or other sources. “What better way for us to continue using the resources entrusted to us than being able to influence lives of Christian students who will receive financial assistance from the scholarship fund and who are dedicated to using the great gifts God has given them to give back to society,” Barbara said. Remembering the words of Luke 12:48, Bob and Barbara recognize that “to whom much is given, much is required.” Bob has said that the most important decisions we make in life concern our Master, our mate and our mission; they feel the lives of the LeTourneaus demonstrate that principle so beautifully. n
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Sidney and Anna Lee Allen Written and Photographed by Janet Ragland
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he lights were dimmed at the weekly Greggton Rotary Club meeting at the Summit Club in downtown Longview. Nearly all at the meeting had finished their lunches and pushed back their plates, settling comfortably into their chairs around white-tableclothed tables, to listen to the day’s program speaker. LeTourneau University student David Eaton was making a PowerPoint presentation about a new program called LEGS, in which engineering students were building new prosthetic legs for $100 apiece for amputees in the developing world. After the presentation, Sidney Allen couldn’t believe it. “I couldn’t see how you could make an artificial limb for $100 when it costs thousands to get one in the United States,” he said. After the Rotary Club meeting, Allen approached the student and asked to see for himself. During the tour, Allen saw the undergraduate students‘ research and realized how their work would change lives. He made his first donation to LeTourneau University to support the LEGS program. The Allens have supported LeTourneau ever since, including funding for the Belcher Center, where the Allen Lobby is named in their honor. “The LEGS program was what initially got me interested in having a relationship with the school,” Allen said. “Before that, I had never set foot on the campus.” Allen has lived in Longview since 1969. He and his father owned the John Deere dealership in Longview for 15 years. For the past 22 years, Allen has owned Longview Scrap and Metal Company. Allen is originally from Roswell, New Mexico, “where all the aliens are supposed to be,” he said, grinning. He and his wife, Anna Lee, went to the same high school. Allen studied business at Eastern New Mexico University, then transferred to Texas Tech in Lubbock. He and Anna Lee married in 1965, and he took his first job at a bank in Dallas before they moved to Longview four years later. The Allens have three grown children and seven grandchildren. A very civic-minded man, Allen enjoys working
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with local charities and contributing his time to community service. He serves on the Longview City Council where some of his liaison duties include construction advisory and appeals, drainage, wastewater, and development services and drainage task forces. He also is a new member of LeTourneau University’s President’s Advisory Council, where he attends monthly luncheons, gains new insights about the university and represents it to the community. “LeTourneau students need to be involved with people who live in the Longview community,” Allen said. “If I had missed that Rotary Club meeting, I would not have gotten to know about the LEGS program and LeTourneau would not have benefited.” That one, 30-minute presentation by the busy engineering student six years ago was the catalyst in a relationship that will bless LETU students from now on. That’s because the Allens have funded an endowed scholarship that will continue in perpetuity to provide college assistance to local-area students with career aspirations in professional nursing and health sciences. The new scholarship will help students through the new bachelor of health sciences and bachelor of science in nursing degrees, offered in partnership with the University of Texas at Tyler. The Sidney and Anna Lee Allen Endowed Scholarship Fund will provide scholarships for selected freshmen who are residents of Gregg County and have demonstrated financial need. As an open fund, it can receive additional donations from others who want to contribute, including proceeds from bequests, trusts, life insurance, real estate and personal property. "Community involvement helps build stronger communities," Allen said. This endowment was specified for nursing students after Allen asked President Lunsford where there was a need. “We realized we have an older population, and with the nursing field, we have application here to be employed locally at one of our two hospitals in Longview,” Allen said. “That benefits people locally. You don’t have to go to Caterpillar, Boeing or some-
where away from here. You can be from here, get an education here and find a job here. That builds community.” Because of his own experience, Allen is passionate about students being involved in the Longview community, and he suggests they ask themselves some questions. “As a student, do you want to make a difference?” he said. “Do you want to have a positive effect on your school? Are you here to help
LeTourneau and the community, or are you here to just get a degree and get out? We need more students to be involved in the community.” Allen says what matters is that students consider the contributions they can make when they incorporate their abilities with an expanded knowledge to make a difference, even in their local community. “Dr. Lunsford has said, ‘Every great city needs a great university,’” Allen said. “That’s LeTourneau.” n
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IN HONOR OF
Dr. Paul Kubricht Written by Rachel Stallard Photographed by Randy Mallory
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or 36 years, Dr. Paul Kubricht has promoted brotherhood at LeTourneau University as the advisor of the Alpha Omega Society. In the future, his name will be linked to scholarship of more than an academic meaning. AO men will find the burden of securing a Christian education a little lighter, thanks to an open endowment started by former AO member Steve Iffland and his wife Tess. Kubricht’s service with AO began when he was “a brand-new professor” in Fall 1974 when the previous AO advisor, English professor Ralph Gilbert, asked him to think about helping him co-sponsor the society. They worked together for many years, and Kubricht took charge of the group after Gilbert died. “A student named Merle Stoltzfus was the (society) president at the time. He and some of the other guys came to my office to visit with me and see if I was the ‘right kind of material for AO,’” Kubricht said. Stoltzfus would later become an LETU trustee. Kubricht was approved and settled in to watch the society, as well as the student body, grow over the years. In the early ‘80s, when the Ifflands attended, AO even built what Kubricht still calls the “new” brick house on campus where the society brotherhood could live together. In honor of the society’s 50th anniversary on campus this summer, the Dr. Paul Kubricht (Alpha Omega) Endowed Scholarship was announced at a time when many of the society brothers were on campus to celebrate the reunion. “We are giving honor where honor is due,” Tess Iffland said. “Dr. Kubricht has been a wonderful mentor — a man with so much wisdom and heart. We’re very fortunate he was the sponsor of Alpha Omega for the past 30 years.” Kubricht’s leadership was also a gift to the community at large. “The guidance we received here left such an imprint on us,” Iffland said. “We had some wonderful experiences here, and so when we
got a chance to connect back to LeTourneau and help students who were financially strapped, more so than when we were here, we wanted to do it.” Kubricht is starting to see sons of an earlier generation of AO alumni come through, including current AO president Logan Iffland. Kubricht calls each of them “a blessing to the house. They offer a continuity and perspective to the society.” Part of that common denominator over the years is the desire to “come together as a brotherhood.” AO has a chaplain in charge of weekly devotionals, a vice president who plans social events, an intramural director to organize teams and a member to coordinate community activities chosen each semester. The men’s annual dues are earmarked for missions, either for someone they know or to help one of their own go on a trip. “To watch these freshmen boys mature into seniors who take on leadership roles has been very rewarding,” Kubricht said. “Sometimes I don’t think they even realize what is happening, and then I see God working through them in His omniscient way to help them develop and grow into men after His own heart.” Tess acknowledges that she and her husband gave the Kubricht Scholarship “a good start,” but she is encouraged and hopeful that others can contribute and add to it over time. “People our age are looking for ways to be connected to something bigger than themselves,” she said. “We hope this endowment gives current students and alumni an opportunity to give to something bigger that will last long after their time as students at LETU is done.” While the intent is to help an AO student get through college, the after-effects reach even further. “We wanted to honor the Alpha Omega society of brothers who have meant so much to us through the years,” Iffland said. “That society has been the glue that brought us back to LeTourneau and that’s what gave us the good feelings of unity we have had.” n
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Steve Voelzke and Family Written by Janet Ragland Photographed by Randy Mallory
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ovial laughter and talking could be heard down the hallway at the Tegron Company Christmas party. It was in full swing that evening by the time brothers Dennis and Steve Voelzke arrived. They had just returned to Longview directly from a trade show in California. Dennis, at 35, was Tegron’s chief executive officer. Steve, younger by five years, was the company vice president. The year was 1999. It had been a tough year for the company which had renamed and rebranded itself as “Tegron,” a play on the word “integrity.” The launch of the new name went well, and Dennis even paid Steve a rare compliment when he announced at the party what a great job his brother had done that year. The company had received the National Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics and had opened a new operation in Waco. The brothers had worked tirelessly together to grow their business after buying out a third partner six years before in an amicable agreement. No one at the Christmas party could have imagined that two days later Dennis would be in a car accident that would leave him in a coma. He never regained consciousness. He died on Christmas Eve.
In one of Dennis’ last e-mails sent to a coworker, he wrote: “Dream huge and have faith. Remain true to your commitments to deliver the best, and never lose hope, no matter what happens. Set your sights high. God has no limits, so why should you?” – Dennis Voelzke, 1964-1999
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Dennis had been with the company since 1986. Steve joined the firm when he finished college in 1988. The brothers knew how to work together, beginning with their family’s farm in South Dakota. “We’d always worked together,” Steve said of his brother. “Even growing up, we had businesses together. We cut trees, raised sheep and did chores. Dennis was very industrious, hardworking. We always have been entrepreneurial.” Steve said his parents instilled in their children a strong sense of independence. “When I was 15, I was on my own financially cutting trees,” Steve said. “When I finally left for college, our dad took over the tree-cutting business Dennis and I had built. “Of the four of us kids, we all had a good work ethic,” Steve said, referring to his and Dennis’ older sister, Shelly, and older brother, Doug. “Dennis was always the brains and most industrious of the family, though. Dennis attended Oklahoma State University in Okmulgee, where he got his degree in electrical design. “Dennis was smart, serious and motivated, always driven. He was a list guy. He kept lists of everything; he was so organized. But the way he was smart, he was still fun to be around. You could grow from being around him. And he had a heart for people.” When Dennis died, he had only been married to his wife, Julie, for about 18 months, but Steve said he knew they were the best months of his life. Dennis had renewed a relationship with the Lord about two years before he met Julie. The Dennis L. Voelzke Foundation was established from his estate by his family to honor his memory and to provide scholarships for students. “Dennis had a big heart for the underdog,” Steve said. “He felt for people who didn’t have a lot of funds in college." Voelzke Scholarships are awarded based on merit, need, citizenship and moral character to students with outstanding potential who intend to pursue careers in engineering, engineering-technology or computer science. The first Voelzke Scholarship was awarded in the Spring of 2001, initially targeted to benefit students at Dennis’ alma mater, OSU. However, after Tegron hired several LETU graduates and provided students with internships, they found LETU students were a good fit with the company’s mission and work ethic.
“We decided LETU was where we wanted to place the scholarships permanently,” Steve said. The move freed them of much of the administrative burden and costs associated with awarding the scholarships. “I believe the endowed scholarship is a much better vehicle for us to memorialize Dennis,” Steve said. “The family was unanimous that it was the best way to go. We are better stewards of this foundation money because we can put it into something that lasts forever.” And as tragic as the end of Dennis’ life was, it was a beginning for four others because Dennis was an organ donor.
“Four people lived because of Dennis,” Steve said. “One man in Dallas had been praying for healing, not expecting that on Christmas Eve he would get the call to come in on Christmas Day for a heart transplant. We still have a relationship with him to this day.” Steve serves on the Board of Trustees for LeTourneau University. He and his wife, Melissa, live in Longview and have two children, Alex, 18, and Savannah, 15. And while he says business has never been as much fun as it was when Dennis was his partner, he has confidence that he will see him again one day in heaven. n LeTourneau University | 11
Meet the Development Staff Written by Kate Gronewald Photographed by Randy Mallory
“Our goal as a university is to equip our students to impact every workplace in every nation for Christ. It is a priority at LETU to build our endowment funds to help support our students and their parents so these talented students can fulfill that goal.” —Vice President for Development Ben Y. March
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BEN Y. MARCH
Vice President of University Development “It’s not just a one-way street.” Perhaps that’s not the first adage that comes to mind when giving to an institution (or anything) is concerned. But Ben March views university development as a means of blessing both donors and recipients. Being conscious about making sure donors receive as big a blessing as the recipient comes not from thank-you notes or gifts, but from thoughtfully finding what delights them individually. Like any good relationship, it requires listening. And it’s precisely why at LeTourneau University, a gift is not just a piece of paper with a bank routing number on it, or a scholarship that’s set up to keep on giving just for the sake of it. It’s personal. “We see ourselves as facilitators – of academic programs, of students’ future careers as salt and light in the workplace,” March said. “And we’re connectors to our constituents. They have needs as well, so we listen and discover what donors care about and then connect them with what they really want to give to.” March joined LETU in January 2009, bringing decades of sales and development experience, most recently at Baylor University and the Baylor Health Care System Foundation in Dallas. LETU’s mission, as well as its inventive students and their needs, motivates him to seek support for the university, day in and day out. Especially in today’s economy, March has scholarships on his mind, guiding the focus of the development staff to alleviate students’ debt on graduation day – in hopes that as each student moves their tassel to the other side of their mortarboard, a blessing is transferred to those who supported them.
If you'd like to contact the Development Office: E-mail to development@letu.edu or call 1-800-259-5388.
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SCOTT FOSSEY
Senior Director of Development It’s not unlike Scott Fossey to arrive at his on-campus office in the morning with make-up on, left over from his first gig of the day. After all, he starts every weekday as the morning weather anchor in the television news industry at Tyler CBS affiliate KYTX-TV. As for his off-camera day job, Fossey joined LETU’s development staff this summer, after serving as director of development for the University of Texas Health Center at Tyler and as president and chief development officer at a private, K-12 Christian school. He has worked with community leaders in the East Texas area to raise more than $10 million for nonprofit healthcare and academic entities. At LeTourneau, Fossey oversees annual giving, major gifts, gift planning and corporate and foundation development. And in every area, he looks for the intersection of interest and need. “Development and fundraising are all about relationships,” Fossey said. “For supporters blessed with material means – as our mission and vision fits what they want to do – we can connect peoples’ dreams with LeTourneau and together, with a singular vision, we can make things happen.” Fossey earned his MBA from LETU’s School of Graduate and Professional Studies in 2009. He was impacted by his instructors’ faith walks and was impressed by the Christian spiritual component in each course. Now he fuses faith into fundraising. “It is our mission to establish that relationship and figure out the faithful passion of each supporter and find the place that their support can best impact students and in turn, the world.”
RITA COURSON
Admin. Assistant to the Vice President of University Development Walk through the front doors of the University Development office on any given day. Now listen. You’ll hear Rita Courson visiting with an LETU alumnus – or maybe a donor that happened to have crossed paths with LETU earlier in life. It’s immediately clear this isn’t a firsttime conversation between a constituent and an office assistant. This is a personal, long-distance relationship played out over the phone lines between Courson and a donor with whom she’s kept in touch year after year. It’s a decades-long conversation. After 36 years working in the same department, Courson has seen a serious amount of change. When she began in 1974, the LeTourneau College Fund office was located across the street. Years before that, as a little girl, Courson’s family rented barrack space on campus. Now, the campus is filled with buildings for which she has coordinated gifts and buildings named after people she has personally kept in touch with long after the ground-breaking ceremonies were done. However, her enthusiasm for LETU individuals isn’t just a long-distance relationship. She and her husband, both classic car enthusiasts, are big supporters of the current students in LETU’s Auto Society and assist with their annual car show. While LeTourneau University was once her actual home address, it has never stopped being her home. And to Courson, it’s all about the people her home brings together, year after year. 14 | NOW Magazine | Fall 2010
JIM HUGHEY
Director of Community Development Try to count the conversations Jim Hughey has had in the past 18 years about LeTourneau University, and you may want to give up somewhere around the 30,000 mark. Aside from the fact he’s a natural people-person, he credits his commitment to community involvement to the very thing he sees as the ever-revolving axis that keeps LeTourneau University spinning. “People give to people,” Hughey said. “You can never overvalue relationships; they are the heartbeat of this university.” When he does something, he does it all the way. Hughey is not only investing in lives, he’s investing in the community – literally. He continually works to revitalize Longview’s downtown area as the chairman of the One Hundred Acres of Heritage / Urban Main Street Advisory Board and leader of Longview’s Urban Main Street program. In one of his many key efforts as a liaison between donors and students, Hughey coordinates the Presidential Scholarship Fund, which provides annual scholarships to deserving students from the East Texas area. As he connects local sponsors with local students, he clearly sees the draw of giving back to LETU. “I love giving people the opportunity to be a part of something bigger than any one of us – to help a student become someone who can change the world.”
MARTHA STEED
Director of Alumni and Parent Relations They say you can’t understand someone until you’ve walked a mile in their moccasins. Well, Martha Steed has walked several when it comes to alumni and parents. As a LeTourneau University parent (of current sophomore, Brady) and School of Graduate and Professional Studies alumna, she totally gets it: the anxiety of sending a student to college, the work it takes to graduate with an LETU diploma and the joy of lifelong connections between former students. Steed travels throughout the country visiting with alumni and meeting current students’ parents, and she can’t hear enough about their LETU experiences. “I love to connect with alumni and hear their stories,” Steed said. “And meeting other parents – I’ve always known LeTourneau has the best students ever, and now I know why.” Another title you could give her is that of “homecoming queen,” since she plans homecoming activities and reunions every year to help graduates reconnect with their alma mater. She attends all graduations and takes great pride in welcoming each graduating class as they enter into the LETU Alumni Association. After her first year as director of Alumni and Parent Relations, she is kicking off the launch of the revitalized LeTourneau Alumni Association, from which the funds from lifetime members will set up an endowment to fund alumni events. Steed brings people together based on their shared past, to shape the future of not only the university, but each individual. LeTourneau University | 15
BRYAN BENSON
Director of Gift Planning and Endowed Scholarships Bryan Benson has worked at LeTourneau University since 1979, first as a faculty member in the aviation department and later as the alumni director, all before working with donors. But no matter the job title, for three decades his main focus has been the people – in the cockpit, earning the degree or receiving the scholarship fund. (And he has three decades of entertaining LETU stories – just ask!) These days, Benson’s main focus is helping people plan estate-related gifts and split gifts (those that support the university both in life and in perpetuity.) He also aims his efforts at encouraging donors to give endowed scholarships that generate yearly awards – that’s because he wants working families to receive all the assistance possible, making an LETU education a reality for their sons and daughters. However, it is a love for relationship building that keeps him actively engaging with LETU supporters and alumni – out of his fervent enthusiasm about what he views as his ministry. “I love to get out and get in the homes and workplaces of LeTourneau graduates,” Benson said. “And after 31 years here, I have seen countless life-long lessons that are inspiring, have seen lives mature and be molded.”
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RANDY YEAKLEY
Dir. of Research, Corp. and Foundation Giving Step into Randy Yeakley’s office, and the first thing you spy (other than map imagery everywhere) is a hat rack filled with more types of fedoras, caps and berets than you’ve ever seen in one place (at least, one workplace.) Chat for a few minutes, and you’ll realize it sums him up pretty well: One man, many hats. After five years at LeTourneau, Yeakley juggles his time writing proposals, communicating with foundations around the world and doing development research. He is primarily supporting what he believes in – students’ global-service learning at a Christian school that backs up its beliefs. Every day, he represents their tireless research and project work to the organizations that can further empower their projects and ideas. Yeakley writes grant proposals to foundations and corporations and serves as a point person for senior design teams looking to raise money to fund their projects. In addition to his development work, Yeakley also serves as an adjunct faculty member for LETU’s School of Graduate and Professional Studies. With a background in grant writing for local and community health care, he recognizes peoples’ needs and desires, and solves the puzzle of pairing them up. And nothing gives him greater satisfaction at work than when he finds the perfect fit. “When we find a foundation that has a funding interest that lines up with something we’re doing here, I like to see those matches between donors and student projects on campus,” Yeakley said.
KENDA BEDFORD
Director of Annual Giving and Stewardship This fall, Kenda Bedford assumed the role of director of annual giving and stewardship after working in LETU’s Development office for over two years. In addition to her new responsibilities of coordinating donor stewardship and communications, she serves as the advisor for Student Foundation and heads up the student Phonathon, where current students call year-round to raise support as well as connect with and encourage alumni and friends of the university. Gifts raised through the Phonathon support the LeTourneau University Annual Fund — Student Scholarships. “What excites me most about being part of the Development office is furthering the relationships the university has forged with its alumni and donors, and, also, reconnecting old friends with the university,” Bedford said. Not only is Bedford a university employee, but she is also a parent (her daughter, Christine, is a psychology major.) This contributes to her enthusiasm about current students connecting with the broader picture of LeTourneau, particularly through personal conversations with donors and alumni through the student Phonathon. “When I listen in on the calls between students and alumni, it’s so fulfilling to hear these two diverse groups from different areas of the country come together for a common cause, an excellent Christ-centered education.”
KENDALL HARPER
Assistant for Database Management Kendall Harper has interacted with LETU alumni and donors for 28 years and counting. She served as the alumni assistant for the majority of that time and now manages key donor information. She remembers tears filling her eyes during one of the many fall convocation ceremonies she has attended, thinking, “I love this place; just the whole meaning of it – the purpose of training the students to be godly people and do their job for the Lord. We have so many staff and faculty members that really make an impact on students’ lives.”
JENNY FOSTER
Coordinator of Development As a cheerful, central contact in University Development for over two years, Jenny Foster is described as the human equivalent of sunshine. She provides coordination and support for the entire Development team and fosters a sense of community.
GAIL RITCHEY
Assistant to the Director of Alumni and Parent Relations As the primary support for the university’s alumni and parent communications and events, Gail Ritchey has the inside scoop. She’s an LETU alumna, mom of two grown children and the wife of School of Aeronautical Science Dean (and LETU alumnus) Fred Ritchey.
EBBY CHILDRESS
Assistant to Sr. Dir. of Development and Special Events Coordinator She may be the newest addition to the LETU Development staff, but Ebby Childress isn’t new to LETU. She is an LETU alumna and a Longview native with a decade of LETU staff experience working in the School of Graduate and Professional Studies. Childress now provides administrative support to the senior director of Development and works to promote awareness of university giving opportunities through LETU friends and supporters. n
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Honor Roll of Giving The President’s Circle 1. 2. 3. 4.
Members of the President’s Circle share four commitments: To support the mission and vision of LeTourneau University. To pray for the students, faculty and administration of the university. To spread the word about LeTourneau University to their friends, colleagues and associates as they have opportunity. To support the university’s ongoing financial needs at a level appropriate for their financial circumstances.
President’s Circle membership begins with a gift of $1,000 or more annually and supports the LeTourneau University Annual Fund. For more information or to join the President’s Circle, contact Ben March at (800) 259-5388 or e-mail BenMarch@letu.edu. Mr. & Mrs. Paul Abbott Mr. & Mrs. Bill Anderson Mr. & Mrs. James W. Asbury Mr. Paul D. Aubrey Dr. & Mrs. Alvin O. Austin Mr. & Mrs. Bryan E. Benson Mr. & Mrs. Pat Bertsche Mr. & Mrs. Jim Brake Dr. & Mrs. Joel Carpenter IV Dr. & Mrs. Richard C. Chewning Mr. & Mrs. Steve Class Mr. & Mrs. Edward L. Claypool Mr. & Mrs. David Cottrill Mr. & Mrs. Gus Davis Dr. Sherilyn R. Emberton Mr. & Mrs. Mike Fitzhugh Mr. & Mrs. Christopher W. Fontaine Mr. & Mrs. William L. Garfield, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. Paul E. Glaske Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Hall Mr. & Mrs. William R. Hansen Mr. & Mrs. Don Harrison Mr. Jack V. Harrison, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James N. Heath Dr. & Mrs. Tom Hellmuth Mrs. Lois Howe Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Hudson Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hughey, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Jager Dr. & Mrs. Amiel G. Jarstfer Mr. & Mrs. Phil Kuitems Mr. & Mrs. Loren D. Leman Dr. & Mrs. Dale A. Lunsford Mr. Tim D. Markley II Mr. & Mrs. Timothy D. Markley Dr. & Mrs. James E. Mauldin, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. William R. McDowell Mr. & Mrs. L. V. McGuire Mr. & Mrs. Al Mendez Mr. & Mrs. Curtis C. Mosley Mr. David F. Nickell Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Joe Nowiczewski Ms. Marila D. Palmer Mr. & Mrs. John H. Parks Mr. Leland F. Pemberton Mrs. Velma E. Poole Mr. & Mrs. Rogers Pope, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Ritchey, Jr. Mr. J. Lloyd Rohrer Mr. & Mrs. Byron J. Safstrom Mr. & Mrs. David W. Safstrom Mrs. Melania R. Scherer Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth D. Schreder Mr. & Mrs. Carl J. Schwartz, Jr.
Alumni
Gift income received in 2009-2010 4.10%
$396,976.85
10.59%
Corporation
$374,898.00 $1,122,002.23
10.00% 29.90%
Foundation
Trustees
10.59%
18.10%
Mr. & Mrs. Peter J. Segerstrom Mr. & Mrs. David D. Seibel Mr. & Mrs. F. Stan Settles, Jr. Mr. John Solheim Mrs. Elizabeth Spain Maj. General & Mrs. Fred Starr Mr. & Mrs. Merle Stoltzfus Dr. & Mrs. Glenn Sumrall Dr. & Mrs. Dannie J. Tindle Mr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Trull Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Walker Mr. & Mrs. George R. Walrod Mr. & Mrs. Dean Waskowiak Ms. Mary S. Whelchel LCdr. Ronald L. Wier Mr. & Mrs. Donald H. Wolgemuth Mr. & Mrs. Roy S. Zeitlow Mr. & Mrs. Terry A. Zeitlow
$1,023,901.31
27.31%
Friends
$678,128.39
18.10%
Other
$153,400.22
4.10%
$3,749,307.00
29.90% 27.31%
10.00%
The following alumni and friends made contributions to LeTourneau University during the period from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010. Alumni who contributed $1,000 or more are listed in their donor category as well as with their class year. We deeply appreciate each and every gift and the many givers who make it possible to carry on the work of educating Christian young people. Rest assured that your gifts are used in a manner consistent with the sacrifice that accompanies them.
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Founder’s Society $5,000 or more Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Allen Mr. Earl V. Angell Mr. & Mrs. Mike Benton Mr. & Mrs. Gary M. Brown Mr. & Mrs. John Cameron Mrs. Irene Cook Mr. & Mrs. Jake Diel Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Ferguson Mr. & Mrs. Brian Christian French Mr. & Mrs. Jerry W. Fritsch Mr. & Mrs. J. Neal Garland Mr. & Mrs. Matthew H. Ide Mr. Raymond W. Jarvio Mr. & Mrs. William Kayser Mr. & Mrs. Harold LeTourneau Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Emilio A. Marianelli Dr. & Mrs. Michael W. Myers Mr. & Mrs. James R. Nolt, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Bud & Betty Otis Mr. & Mrs. Mario Ramos Dr. & Mrs. John B. Ross V Mr. Gregory J. Smith Mr. Alan N. Spain Mr. Andrew R. Steiger Mrs. Elizabeth Strube Mr. & Mrs. Keith F. Trosen Mr. & Mrs. Mike Tucker Mr. & Mrs. David S. Vinton Mr. & Mrs. Steve Voelzke Mr. & Mrs. Dean Waskowiak Mr. & Mrs. Ted M. Wilkinson Mr. & Mrs. Tom Wilmeth Mr. & Mrs. Kent Wilson
Chancellor’s Society $1,000 - $4,999 Mr. & Mrs. Van A. Abel Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey D. Aiken Mr. & Mrs. Garrett J. Atkins Ms. Jenelle G. Bagwell Mr. & Mrs. Damian G. Barrett Mr. & Mrs. C. Calvin Bass Mr. & Mrs. John Bauer Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Becker Dr. & Mrs. Tom Beets Mr. & Mrs. Joe B. Bickley Mr. & Mrs. Scott N. Bowen Mr. & Mrs. John F. Bradshaw Mr. Charles W. Brand Mr. & Mrs. Barry K. Brown Dr. & Mrs. Edwin E. Buckner Mr. & Mrs. Bobby J. Burns Dr. & Mrs. John R. Busch Mr. & Mrs. Wallace Campbell Dr. & Mrs. Jay Chastain Dr. & Mrs. Philip S. Clifford Mr. & Mrs. Jose Cosa Mr. Kenneth W. Cowin Mrs. Isabelle Dahl Mr. Joe C. Degraffenried Mr. & Mrs. Tom Dome Mr. & Mrs. Steven A. Dudden Mr. & Mrs. Raymond E. Farrar Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Fenner Mr. & Mrs. Mike Fitzhugh Mrs. Jane Foster Mr. & Mrs. William Gadwood Mr. John Garner Ms. Karen K. Gassett Mr. & Mrs. John Geigel Mr. & Mrs. John E. Gilchrist Mr. Andrew R. Groves Mr. & Mrs. Robin E. Guyer Ms. Kelly Hall
Mr. Charles Hart Mr. & Mrs. Kyle J. Hart Mr. & Mrs. Randy L. Hartman, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Alan Henderson Mr. & Mrs. Dale R. Hill Mrs. Rose Marie Hinde Mr. & Mrs. David W. Horton Mr. & Mrs. Warren J. Hudson Mr. & Mrs. Gordon E. Huyser Mr. & Mrs. Walter E. Imes Mr. & Mrs. Bob Irwin Mr. & Mrs. W. C. Jernigan Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth C. Jobes Mr. & Mrs. Eric Joseph Mr. Paul L. Kelsey Mr. & Mrs. William Kielhorn Mr. O. L. Kimbrough Rev. & Mrs. Kenneth G. Kirk Mr. Randolph W. Knop Ms. Lois E. Knouse Mr. & Mrs. Arthur E. Kruppenbacher Mr. & Mrs. David Lednum Mr. & Mrs. Roy LeTourneau Mr. & Mrs. Aaron S. Lorson Mr. & Mrs. Roderick B. MacAskill Mr. & Mrs. Richard Manley Mr. & Mrs. Ben Y. March Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Martin Rear Adm. Richard K. Maughlin USN Ret. Mr. Dale A. McCombs Mr. & Mrs. Glenn McCutchen The Honorable & Mrs. Robert N. McFarland Mr. & Mrs. A. P. Merritt, Jr. Ms. Margaret B. Merritt Ms. Nancy Mobley Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Moore Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Morscheck Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Nale Mr. & Mrs. Carl A. Nilson Dr. & Mrs. Nathan E. Nissley Mr. Adam C. Noble Mr. Jerome O’Connor Mr. & Mrs. Douglas L. Orre Mr. & Ms. L. Robert Pasquesi Mr. & Mrs. Jeff T. Perritte Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Philbrick Lt. & Mrs. Aaron Pickett Mr. & Mrs. Randy Pierce Mr. & Mrs. Gregory S. Pike Mrs. Susan Poorman-Blackie Mr. Rogers Pope, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James R. Porter Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Ritchey, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Roberts Mr. & Mrs. Earl Roberts, Jr. Mrs. Beverly Roesink Mr. & Mrs. Larry B. Rohrer Ms. Teresa Rudolph Mr. & Mrs. Gregg Russell Mr. & Mrs. Nate Saint Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Sanda Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Schmidt Mr & Mrs. James D. Schreder Miss Doris Schuring Mr. John Schwope Mr. & Mrs. Greg B. Sellers Mr. Tim Shaughnessy Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Shook Ms. Evelyn W. Sibley Dr. Rodney Slone Mr. Mike J. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Dudley E. Snyder Mr. & Mrs. James E. Stevens Dr. & Mrs. Barrett R. Summers Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Taylor Mr. Daniel D. Thiessen Mr. Roy D. Thomason Mr. & Mrs. Ted A. Timmons Mr. Brent J. Toavs Mr. & Mrs. James M. Tolson
Mr. Michael E. Trull Mr. & Mrs. James G. Walker Mr. Frank D. Williams Mr. Ronald J. Wind Ms. June S. Wolfley Mr. & Mrs. Clyde Woolsey Mr. Phillip D. Wright Mr. Patrick Z. Wyers Mr. & Mrs. Stanley E. Young Mr. & Mrs. David W. Zoutendam
Dean’s Society $500-$999 Mr. & Mrs. Stephen D. Adell Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Ames Mr. & Mrs. William F. Arnold Mr. & Mrs. William Ball Mr. & Mrs. Rick Baskin Mr. & Mrs. Bob Bondurant Mrs. Diane Bornmann Mr. G. W. Boyd Dr. Walter Bradley Ms. Wendy Burgess Dr. & Mrs. Fredric J. Carlson Mr. & Mrs. John S. Carlton, Jr. Mrs. Caroline Casselberry Mr. & Mrs. Jimmy R. Cavel Mr. & Mrs. C. Berkeley Cone Dr. & Mrs. Stanley K. Coppinger Mr. & Mrs. Clarence W. Cramer Mrs. Eleanor Crego Mr. & Mrs. Tim Crider Mr. Logan A. Damewood Mr. Kyle J. Davis Ms. Sondra deGraffenried Mr. & Mrs. Doug Douglas Mr. & Mrs. Karl Driza Mr. Holland B. Evans Dr. & Mrs. John W. Fite Mr. & Mrs. Christopher W. Fontaine Mr. & Mrs. James D. Forbis Mr. & Mrs. Timothy E. Gochnauer Dr. & Mrs. Henry Gor Ms. Charlotte A. Griddin Mr. & Mrs. Keith H. Griffin Mr. & Mrs. Dale Harper Mr. Francis E. Hendrickson Mr. Paul D. Herndon Mr. Gregory Horrocks Mr. Marcus T. Hughes Mr. Duane A. Huseby Mr. & Mrs. Steve Iffland Dr. Marian V. Iordache Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Jackson Mrs. Julia S. Janz Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kendall Mr. Charles King Mr. & Mrs. Robert Kirkwood, Sr. Mr. Paul Knowlton Mr. Gregory E. Mansker Mr. & Mrs. William F. Markley Mr. & Mrs. Stephen McDaniel Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Merritt Mr. & Mrs. Steve Metcalf Mr. & Mrs. Kerry Mills Dr. & Mrs. John H. Oglesbee III Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oskamp Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Payton Mrs. Lorena Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Eldon L. Poe Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Polvogt III Mr. & Mrs. Edward Quick Rev. & Mrs. Dennis Richardson Mr. & Mrs. Jay Ricks Mr. & Mrs. Barry Robbins Mr. Corey R. Ross Drs. Viktor & Melanie Roudkovski Mr. & Mrs. William Schwaab Dr. Vicki L. Sheafer Mr. & Mrs. Rick Stephens
Mr. & Mrs. Myron E. Ullman Mr. David Willard Mr. Austin C. Williams Mr. & Mrs. David L. Wilson Dr. & Mrs. Loyd A. Wolfley Mr. & Mrs. Buddy Woolley
Friend’s Society $1-$499 Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Aaker Mr. & Mrs. Carrol W. Adams Mr. & Mrs. Dennis R. Adams Mr. Robbie Adams Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Adgate Mr. & Mrs. Tom Adkins Dr. & Mrs. Yoni Adonyi-Bucuroiu Ms. Hannah Aitken Mr. DeAuntre Z. Alex Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Alexander Mr. & Mrs. Marty Alleman Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin C. Allen Mr. & Mrs. Randy Allen Mr. & Mrs. John Alley Mr. & Mrs. Julius A. Allstaedt Mr. & Mrs. Matt Almeter Mrs. Leslie M. Alvey Mrs. Alline Anderson Mr. Jarvis Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Andrus Mrs. Marilyn S. Antosh Mrs. Evelyn J. Apacki Dr. & Mrs. James K. Archer Mr. & Mrs. John Archibald Mr. & Mrs. Steve Arden Mr. & Mrs. William H. Armstrong Mrs. F. E. Arnold Mr. Forrest F. Arp Mr. Michael A. Arrowsmith Mr. & Mrs. Delon D. Askvig Dr. Martha Aston Ms. Clarice T. Ator Mr. & Mrs. Hector S. Aubert Mrs. Mary E. Aubert Mr. Alexander Auer Mr. & Mrs. Delmar Augustus Mr. & Mrs. Peter R. Austin Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Ayers Dr. & Mrs. Brent L. Baas Rev. & Mrs. Guy R. Baer Mr. & Mrs. G. W. Bagwell Mr. & Mrs. Jack C. Bailey Mrs. Sheila Bailey Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Baker Mrs. Edna V. Baldwin Ms. Megan C. Baldwin Dr. & Mrs. Steven L. Ball Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Ballard Mr. & Mrs. Rick Bandas Mr. & Mrs. Rollin Bard Mr. Nicolas J. Bargen Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Barlow Mr. & Mrs. Stan Barnard Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Barnard, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Kevin Barnes Mr. & Mrs. William T. Barnett Mr. & Mrs. Mike Barr Mr. & Mrs. Aurelio F. Barreto III Mr. & Mrs. Wilmer Bartel Mr. & Mrs. David A. Bauerle Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Baumer Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Beachy Mr. & Mrs. Keith L. Beachy Mr. & Mrs. David Beams Mrs. Sandra Beard Ms. Wilma Bearss Mr. & Mrs. Maurice H. Beasley Mr. & Mrs. Rodney Beaty Mrs. Lenora Becker Mr. & Mrs. William Beckman, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Vernon Bedford
Mrs. Warren P. Beedle Dr. Bobbie Behrens Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bellows Mr. & Mrs. David H. Bendor-Samuel Mrs. Waltraut Berge Mr. Jefferson Bernards Mrs. June Bernero Mr. & Mrs. Scot Berthiaume Mr. Shane Best Mr. & Mrs. Charles Bethany Ms. Suzan Beyer Ms. Cheryl S. Biedrzycki Mr. & Mrs. Berle C. Bigelow Mr. & Mrs. Doug Birky Mr & Mrs. Michael Black Dr. & Mrs. Omer W. Blodgett Ms. Joyce Blood Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Bock Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Boggs Ms. Karla S. Boles Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Bombero Mr. & Mrs. Jack B. Bookout Mr. & Mrs. Luther Bookout, Jr. Ms. Nanette M. Bookout Mr. & Mrs. Roger L. Boone Mr. & Mrs. William R. Booth Mr. & Mrs. Neil Bornmann Ms. Patricia A. Bornmann Mr. & Mrs. David Boulware Mr. Lawrance Bowen Ms. Sharon R. Bowers Mr. Rufus Bowie Ms. Ruthetta Bowie Mr. & Mrs. Ron Boyett Mr. & Mrs. John E. Bozarth Mrs. Elizabeth Bradley Mr. & Mrs. Terry Braker Mr. & Mrs. Merlyn J. Brammer Mr. Joel P. Brandt Mr. & Mrs. John P. Brandt Mr. & Mrs. Ray H. Branson Mrs. Mary K. Branton Mr. & Mrs. Dan Brauning Mr. Frank P. Breazeale Mr. & Mrs. Calvin Breed Mr. & Mrs. David P. Brewer Mr. & Mrs. William P. Brickwell Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Briggs, Jr. Mr. Curt A. Brisco Mrs. Charlotte Broll Mr. Samuel E. Brooks Ms. Claudette S. Brown Ms. Summer R. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Paul D. Browne Mrs. Sharon Browning Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Broyles Mr. & Mrs. Albert Brubaker Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Brubaker Mr. & Mrs. Noah M. Brubaker Mr. & Mrs. Joe Brummer Mr. Robert H. Bruns Mr. & Mrs. Adrian Bryan Ms. Carolyn A. Bryce Mr. & Mrs. David Buhrmann Mr. & Mrs. Eddie L. Bullard Ms. Sedina Bunch Mr. & Mrs. Anthony D. Buonodono Mr. & Mrs. Glenn D. Burbank Ms. Maryrose Burk Mr. Harry Burke Mr. & Mrs. John W. Burke Mr. Ray A. Burke Mr. & Mrs. Scott Burke Mr. & Mrs. Steven T. Burke Mr. Thomas M. Burke Mr. Bill R. Burks Ms. Laura C. Burnett Mr. & Mrs. David M. Burns Mrs. Emily A. Burris Dr. & Mrs. Jonathan Bynum Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Byrne Mrs. Kimberley Cagle
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Miss Mavis Calahan Mr. & Mrs. Brian E. Caldwell Mr. & Mrs. Brian T. Callahan Mr. Kenneith H. Calvert Ms. Marilyn H. Calvert Mr. & Mrs. Tom Calvert Mr. & Mrs. Ronald C. Campbell Ms. Dorothy Cantalamessa Mr. & Mrs. Banfield R. Capron Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas J. Cardinale Mrs. Myrle Cariker Dr. & Mrs. Harold F. Carl Mr. Philip N. Carl Mrs. Doris K. Carroll Mr. Douglas E. Carter, Jr. Mr. Thomas W. Cartwright Mr. & Mrs. John Casteel Mr. & Mrs. William M. Castonguay Mr. Dominick Casulli Mr. & Mrs. Douglas R. Cato Mr. & Mrs. Frank R. Cepak Mr. & Mrs. Herschel Chadick Ms. Mary Chakos Mrs. Mary V. Chambers Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Charney Ms. Janice L. Chesher Mr. & Mrs. Mong K. Chew Mr. & Mrs. Ronald G. Childers Mr. Kenneth Chinn Mr. & Mrs. Ray Chitwood Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Christy Mr. & Mrs. Scott Christy Mr. & Mrs. Arland M. Clark Mrs. Clara A. Clark Mr. David Clark Mr. & Mrs. Fred G. Clark Mr. W.A. Van Cleve, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Sam Clonts Mr. Isaac A. Coats Mr. & Mrs. Theodore C. Coats Mr. & Mrs. Kerry K. Coffey Mr. & Mrs. David C. Coldwell Mr. & Mrs. Drew Coleman Mr. & Mrs. Steven G. Coleman Mr. Nelson W. Coles Ms. Gwen E. Colliander Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Collier Mr. & Mrs. James C. Collins Ms. Grace M. Colombo Mr. & Mrs. Charley Colvin Mr. & Mrs. Norman C. Colwell Mr. John D. Condie Mr. & Mrs. Jim D. Cook Mr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Coonan Ms. Kristina M. Cooper Mr. & Mrs. Ray Cooper Mr. & Mrs. Gene K. Coppin Ms. Lois R. Copple Mr. Conrad Corley Miss Lauren M. Costlow Ms. Joanne D. Cothern Mr. Richard Cottingham Mr. Ronald V. Coulcombe Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Courson Ms. Mary A. Couvillion Mr. John Cowles Mr. & Mrs. Gene Cox Mr. & Mrs. Terry C. Cox Mr. & Mrs. Carl A. Cranford Mr. & Mr. Paul Cronkite Mr. & Mrs. Buddy Crossley Mr. Donald L. Croup Mr. & Mrs. Albert L. Crow Mr. & Mrs. William E. Crow Mr. & Mrs. Wes Crowder Mr. Daniel J. Crum Mr. & Mrs. William J. Dare Mr. & Mrs. Mayo B. David Mr. & Mrs. Alan Davis Mr. & Mrs. Allen D. Davis Ms. Audrey Davis Mrs. Azalea J. Davis
Ms. Darleen F. Davis Mr. & Mrs. James Davis Ms. Kim Davis Mrs. Lois Davis Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Davis Mr. & Mrs. Randall J. Davis Mr. & Mrs. David L. Dawson Dr. Robert D. Day Ms. Kathy Dean Ms. Viveca Deanes Mr. & Mrs. David Deas Mr. & Mrs. John DeBellevue Mr. & Mrs. Dale Deike Mr. W. E. Deivert Mrs. Joan D. DeLuca Mr. & Mrs. Scott Denham Mr. Michael J. Denholm Mr. & Mrs. Rod DenOuden Ms. Lola Denow Dr. & Mrs. Frank Denton Mr. & Mrs. Brett Derveloy Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Deschaine Mrs. Leonor Deutsch Mr. & Mrs. William F. Devos Mr. & Mrs. Loren Dick Mrs. Mary C. Dieter Mr. & Mrs. Michael H. Dieter Ms. Patricia E. Dietz Mr. & Mrs. Paul Dietz Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Dilyard Mr. & Mrs. Russell Dimmick Mrs. Leona Doerr Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Domowski Ms. Charlotte Donner Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dorn Dr. & Mrs. Steven C. Dossin Mr. & Mrs. Walter Douty Mr. & Mrs. Ken Dowdy Mr. Thomas B. Doyle Dr. Robert E. Driver Mr. Daniel Driza Ms. Marion Dunlavy Mr. Myron C. Dunlavy, Jr. Mrs. Jamie DuPaul-Ferguson Ms. Esther M. Duranske Mr. & Mrs. Matthew G. Duranske Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth R. Durham, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James Dwyer Ms. Frances A. Eager Ms. Cheryl L. Eaton Dr. John P. Eberts, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Rudy Eden Mr. & Mrs. Paul V. Edmunds Mr. & Mrs. Jack P. Edmundson Mr. & Mrs. Russell L. Edwards Mrs. Vivien Efting Ms. Claudia Egliht Mr. & Mrs. James Ehl Mr. & Mrs. Mark Eicholtz Ms. Stephanie Eidson Mr. & Mrs. Ramon Elizondo Ms. Dianne Elkins Ms. Suzanne Elliott Mr. & Mrs. Clint H. Ellis Mr. & Mrs. E. W. Ellis Mr. Ronald B. Ellis Mr. Kenton E. Embleton Dr. & Mrs. Carlos Encarnacion Mrs. Muriel Endersby Ms. Ruth Endersby Ms. Carole Engle Mr. M. Eugene Engle Mr. & Mrs. James S. Englund Mr. & Mrs. Roger Erickstad Mr. & Mrs. Randy Erlandson Mr. & Mrs. Paul Erwin Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Eshleman Dr. & Mrs. Danny Essary Ms. Renee C. Estelle Mr. Stephen Estes Mr. & Mrs. Paul Eveland Mr. & Mrs. Roger Everett
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Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Eynon Ms. Erika Fallos Mr. & Mrs. David L. Farah Mr. & Mrs. Andy A. Farrell Mr. & Mrs. Richard Farris Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Faull Ms. Dorothy H. Featherling Dr. & Mrs. Charles Feer Mr. & Mrs. Kerry Fehlis Mr. & Mrs. Seeley T. Feldmeyer Mr. Edwin R. Feller Ms. Melody N. Felts Ms. Anita G. Fennell Mr. Stephen R. Ferguson Ms. Pamela G. Ferry Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Fields Mr. & Mrs. Dan Fischer, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Mel Fish Mr. & Mrs. Alan D. Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Larry Fisher Miss Javerna Fjelsted Mr. & Mrs. Darrell Flanagan Mr. & Mrs. Norman S. Fleet Mr. & Mrs. Paul Fleetman Mr. Steven J. Formichella Mr. Norm Fox Mr. & Mrs. Kirk Frambes Mr. & Mrs. F.W. Francis Mr. & Mrs. Lance Francis Dr. & Mrs. William H. Franklin Mr. & Mrs. Howard H. Fraser Mrs. Lee B. Freedman Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Freeman Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Fretz Mr. & Mrs. Paul Friesen Mr. Scott A. Friesen Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Friesendorf Ms. Suzanne Friesendorf Lt.Col.Ret. & Mrs. Monta M. Frost Ms. Helen I. Gambrel Mr. & Mrs. Douglas A. Gammon Mr. Rafael Garcia Ms. Dori K. Garey Dr. & Mrs. Donald R. Garrett, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Gatton Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Gavin Mr. & Mrs. Mark F. Gazette Ms. Kristen Geoghegan Mr. & Mrs. Billy E. George Mr. & Mrs. Clarence A. Gerfers Mr. Leonard E. Gerlat Ms. Lois I. Gibelyou Mr. William W. Gignilliat Mrs. Betty J. Giguere Mrs. Patti Gilley Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Gilmore Mr. & Mrs. Ernest U. Gingrich Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Gionet Mr. & Mrs. William S. Glucksman Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Goard Ms. Natalie J. Goard Mr. & Mrs. Alan C. Goodman Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Goodman Dr. & Mrs. R. William Graff Mr. & Mrs. Joel T. Graham Ms. Ashley B. Grames Mr. & Mrs. Kenny Grames Dr. & Mrs. Gilles Gravelle Mr. & Mrs. Belton Green Dr. Carol C. Green Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Green Ms. Joyce M. Green Mr. Marcus Green Mr. & Mrs. Matthew G. Green Mr. & Mrs. John Greene Mr. Tim Gregor Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Griffin Mr. & Mrs. Hall Griffin Mr. & Mrs. Robert Grindrod Mr. & Mrs. Ira L. Groff Mr. & Mrs. John A. Grubb Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Grundy
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Churches and Schools Alamo Heights Baptist Church Alliance Bible Church Alvin ISD Education Foundation Inc. Ambassador Baptist Church Bang Na Christian Fellowship Bar None Cowboy Church Bethel Baptist Church Bethel Church Bible Baptist Church Bible Church of Lakeshore Brookville High School Bullard Southern Baptist Church Calvary Hill Baptist Church Central Minnesota Christian School Chalk Hill Community Church Chelten Baptist Church Christian and Missionary Alliance Church Colfax First Baptist Church Columbia International University Community Christian School Cypress Valley Bible Church Danville Community School District No 118 EFC Gospel Centre Estes Park Wesleyan Church Fellowship Bible Church Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches First Baptist Carrollton First Baptist Church of Bryan First Baptist Church of Harvester First Baptist Church of Liberty City First Baptist Church of Longview First Baptist Church of Pequea First Baptist Church of Round Rock First Baptist Church of San Antonio First Church of God First Church of the Nazarene First Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church Grace Bible Church Grace Presbyterian Church Graceland Baptist Church Greenville Church of the Brethren Inc Hallsville ISD Handong Global University Harvey Drive Church of Christ Henderson Independent School District Hillside Fellowship EFCA Indian Hill Bible Church Kingwood United Methodist Church Korean World Mission Baptist Church La Namseoul Grace Church Langlois Community Church Libby Christian Church Lutheran Community Foundation Mobberly Baptist Church Mt. View Baptist Church Nacogdoches Dragon Athletic Club New Life Presbyterian Church New Prospect Baptist Church Oakland Heights Baptist Church Okinawa Christian School Olive Knolls Church of the Nazarene Peninsula Bible Fellowship Philadelphia Baptist Church Plano Bible Chapel Pleasant Hills Community Presbyterian Church Portland Christian Center Red Bluff Joint Union High School District Sabine Athletic Booster Club Santa Cruz Bible Church Shady Grove Baptist Church Shepherd ISD Shiloh Terrace Baptist Church Sicklerville United Methodist Church Smyrna Baptist Church Soldotna Bible Church Southern Baptist Association of Christian Schools St. Francis Community Church St. Paul Lutheran Church Terrell Athletic Booster Club Terrell Church Volleyball Association Texarkana ISD Texas Cowboy Church The North-MAR Church The School District of Greenville County The Valley Church The Woodlands High School Tomoka Christian Church Trinity Episcopal Church Trinity Grace Bethren Church Union Congregational Church Westminster Christian School PTO
Foundations and Corporations 9 Dollars for Scholars 3M Company 4-H Clubs & Affiliated 4-H Organizations A Cut Above Pet Salon, Inc Abbott Industries, Inc. ABC Son Shine School ACE Hardware of East Texas Ace Precision Machining Corp ACT ACT AFAS AEP/Southwestern Electric Power AIG Matching Grants Program
AIST Foundation Alan Plummer Associates, Inc Alaska Principals Foundation Allied Waste (AWS) Alpha Mu Epsilon Amarillo Area Foundation Ambucs of East Texas Ambucs of Longview Inc. American Baptist Home MIssion Society American Legion Post 27 American Legion Post 33 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Anchor QEA Annonymous Anonymous ARC Specialties Archer Leupp Arkema Foundation Army Emergency Relief Association of Texas Professional Educators AT&T Foundation/Southwestern Bell Austin Computer Services AWS Foundation, Inc B & D Properties B&D Electrical Contractors Inc BancorpSouth Bandag Incorporated Baptist Foundation of Texas Baptist Intl Missions Barbers Hill Homecoming Scholarship Association Bartlesville Community Foundation Baxter Sales Company, Inc Beako Farms Bechtel Group Foundation Benchmark Industrial Services Blue Bell Creameries LP Boeing Gift Matching Program Boles Brothers Memorial Golf Classic Boles Feed Company, Inc Boy Scouts of America BP Fabric of America Fund BP Foundation Brazos Community Foundation Brazos Valley Area Alumnae Chapter Brenda Sellers Consulting Brew Honda Inc Bristol-Myers Squibb Bruce J. Shook Buckner Children and Family Services Buckner Retirement Services Camp Barakel Cappa Granite Inc Career Opportunities Through Education Inc. Carlisle Alumni Association Carrollton Farmers Branch ISD Educational Foundation Caterpillar Foundation CenturyTel Cessna Foundation Inc. Chevron Humankind Chickasaw Nation Chick-fil-A Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma CHS Golf Booster Club Claims Administrative Services Inc Clemens & Truitt Insurance Clorox Company Foundation Comfort Keepers Commercial Renovators Inc ConocoPhillips Conroe ISD Education Foundation Inc Copper Valley Electric
Association Inc Corporate Aero Group LLC Cotton Valley Investments Inc. CPN Scholarship Fund Culver’s VIP Foundation Inc Custom Care Orthopedic Bracing Dairyville Community Club Inc David Wallace Concrete Davis Foundation Davy Crockett-Trinity SWCD DD Hachar Charitable Trust Fund Delta Air Lines Foundation Delta Waterfowl Two Lakes Chapter Dennis-Wade Associates Inc Diagnostic Clinic of Longview Dippel Dippel Jackson & Pugliese LLC Doane Family Foundation Inc Dollars for Scholars Duke Energy Foundation Duquesne - West Mifflin Rotary Club Dynamic Aviation Group Inc Eastex Telephone Cooperative Inc Eastman Chemical Company Eaton Corporation EB Scholarship Fund Edge Office Products EFH Corporate Services Company Emerson Electric Company Encore Multimedia Environmental Improvements EP Lions Estes Park Rotary Foundation Inc Eureka Foundation Executive Women International Extraco Trust ExxonMobil Foundation Faiths’ Creation Christian Center Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Fidelity Foundation First National Bank & Trust First National Bank of Gilmer First Presbyterian Society Flint Hills Resources FM Global Follett Higher Education Group Fort Bend County Fair Fort Hood Area Military Family Fountain of Living Waters Franklin Public School Friedman Industries Gans & Smith Insurance General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies George & Fay Young Foundation Inc Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund Good Shepherd Health System Goodrich Foundation Greater Houston Community Foundation Gregg 4-H Adult Leaders Association Gregg County Gregg Industrial Insulators Groveton Ex-Student Fund H&D Hardware and Automotive Hartwell Environmental Corp Hayes RV Center Hearing Loss Association of Longview Herman Furlough Jr Scholarship Foundation Hershey Company Hewlett Packard Hilltop Guild Hogan Family Foundation Inc. Holmsley Elementary PTO Hope Pierce Tartt Scholarship Houston Endowment
Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Hudson Graphics Inc. IBM Matching Grants Program II-VI Foundation Illinois Tool Works Foundation International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 1 International Scholarship and Tuition Services Inc InTrust Wealth Management I-Tec Inc J T Minnie Maude Charitable Trust J.P. Morgan Chase & Co Jacks Air Conditioning & Heating, Inc. Jacobs Technology James A. Watson James C & Elizabeth R Conner Foundation James River Pest Control & Green Lawns Inc Jerry A. Reeter John Brown University John Deere Foundation Joyce Steel Erection LTD. Karsten Mfg Katy Girls Softball Association Kellogg’s Matching Grants Kimberly-Clark Foundation Kimmy Foundation Kiwanis Club of Longview KRS Express, Inc. Kyle’s Kwik Stop #3 Larry’s Interiors Inc Leola W Hugg Charitable Trust Lewis Architects Engineers LexisNexis Liberty City Ladies Club LICOR Biosciences Lindale ISD Longview Ambucs Too Longview Area Association of Realtors Inc Longview Cycle and Ski Longview Educational Secretaries Association Longview Foundation Inc. Longview Lion’s Club Longview Partnership Inc Longview Regional Medical Center Longview Scrap and Metal Company Lubrizol Foundation (Chemron Corp) Luminant Energy MAF Foundation Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Markay Cabinets Marti Foundation Martin Midstream Partners Marty Pate Scholarship Fund MA-TEX Wire Rope Co Inc McDaniel’s Quality Body Works Inc McKinney Education Foundation Mennonite Brethren Foundation Mennonite Foundation Merritt Properties, LLC Michael Baker Corporation Mid-South Baptist Foundation Modern Woodmen of America Montgomery Insurance Agency Morganton Kiwanis Foundation Inc Mosby Mechanical Co., Inc. NACE International National Field Archery Association Foundation National Merit Scholarship Corporation Nelda C. & H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation Nike Employee Matching Gift Program
Nowiczewski Foundation Oates Distributing LLC Orange County Sheriff’s Posse Inv Patterson Nissan Pfizer, Inc. Prairie Gardens Premier Designs Inc Prosperity Bank Pugh Charitable Trust Quality Control Testing Inc Raytheon Matching Gifts Region VII Education Service Center Republican Women of Harrison County Rework, Inc. Richard Wallrath Educational Foundation Riverside Foundation Charitable Trust Rockwell Collins Charitable Corporation Rockwell Collins, Inc. Rotary Club Kelseyville Sunrise Rotary Club of Orange Rotary Club of Port Orford Rotary-Lions American Flag Program Rusk County Electric Cooperative Sabine Federal Credit Union San Antonio Livestock Exposition, Inc. San Jacinto Go Texan Committee Scholarship America Scot Industries Shell Oil Company Foundation Shepherd FFA Alumni Sherman and Sherman Orthodontics Short Wing Piper Education Foundation Siemens Energy, Inc. Siemens Industry Simpson Charitable Trust Soapies Inc Southeastern Christian Southside Bank-Longview Southside Bank-Tyler Southwest Colorado Federal Credit Union Spring Hill State Bank Sprint Foundation SSACI State of California State of Oklahoma Stephen W. McDaniel Law Firm Stoltzfus Enterprises Stow Alliance Fellowship Subway Sandwiches of East Texas, LLC Supervalu Foundation Suzanne Cook & Company Swarner Crown Hill Cemetery Tarrant Regional Water District TDH Services Inc. Technical Machine Sales, Inc. Tenaska Gateway Partners Texana Bank Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Inc Texas Association of School Business Officials Texas Bank and Trust Texas Interscholastic League Foundation Texas Iron and Steel Co., Inc. Texas Kayak Texas Partners Federal Credit Union Texas Section SAE Textron Matching Gift Program
The Brunswick Foundation Inc The Clara Abbott Foundation The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc The Dennis Lee Voelzke Foundation The Duane D Hoff Charitable Trust The Lord’s Gathering The M. E. Foundation The Medicine Shoppe The Robert A. Welch Foundation The Salvation Army Disbursement Account The VF Foundation The Waters Thomas J. Clay Agent Thomas J. Watson Scholarship Program TIFT TMB Marketing Inc Town of Mansfield Transco Products Inc. Transet Co Trinity County Fair Triple H Farms Inc Truist Turtle Creek Veterinary Medical Center Twin State Trucks UBA Pharmacy United Negro College Fund United Society of Friends Upshur-Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation US Airways Education Foundation US Marine Corps Food Service Association USG Foundation Inc. Valdez BPO Elks Lodge No 2537 Verizon Foundation % Cybergrants Inc Vermont Student Assistance Corp VFW Spindletop Post Virginia Baptist Foundation Inc. Vision Site Vocational Agriculture Teachers Assoc. of Texas Von Rosenberg Foundation Wachovia Foundation Waco Foundation Wal-Mart Foundation Weaver Popcorn Co Inc Wells Fargo Foundation Western Towers White House Soccer Booster Club Whitehead Scholarship Committee Wilmington Trust Wilson’s Welding Service Windgate Charitable Foundation Women In Longview World Gospel Missions XCELL2 Educational Services Zeleskey Law Firm PLLC
Alumni Donations by Class Class of 1948 Total Gifts $65.00 3.85% Participation Mr. Johnnie B. Whiteley Class of 1949 Total Gifts $325.00 3.16% Participation Mr. William D. Cariker Mr. Donald C. Green Mr. Stewart Sickles
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Class of 1950 Total Gifts $510.00 3.64% Participation Mr. John Morton Mr. Hersel Studebaker Class of 1951 Total Gifts $220.00 4.00% Participation Mr. Roy F. Caldon Mr. David Houck Class of 1952 Total Gifts $150.00 12.50% Participation Mr. Howard C. Anderson Mr. John Deurwaarder Class of 1954 Total Gifts $200.00 4.92% Participation Dr. John Hardison Mr. Glenn A. Stowell Class of 1955 Total Gifts $1,425.00 8.82% Participation Mr. C.C. Creach Dr. John L. Hoffer, Ph.D., M.D. Mr. Hoffer Rev. Peter P. Polloni Mr. Frank Ritchey LCdr. Ronald L. Wier Class of 1956 Total Gifts $10,200.00 7.50% Participation Mr. Frank A. Goodrich Mr. Paul Leistner Dr. Ken Schreder Class of 1957 Total Gifts $1,450.00 7.27% Participation Mr. Robert Burks Rear Adm. Richard K. Maughlin USN Ret. Mr. William C. Slothower Mr. Dale Wolgemuth Class of 1958 Total Gifts $8,755.00 15.73% Participation Mr. Bennett Mr. John C. Bowen Mr. Thurl Briggs Mr. Gordon Fenner Mr. Jacob C. Gingerich, Jr. Mr. Arthur J. Howell Mr. Wilbur L. Johnson Mr. Robert A. Jones Mr. Robert O. Langness Mr. Joseph C. Lee Mr. Charles E. Lucas Rev. J. S. Sullivan, Jr. Mr. Ted M. Wilkinson Mr. Wilbur O. Wilson Class of 1959 Total Gifts $1,990.00 11.48% Participation Mr. Lanny R. Clark Mr. Norman G. Gaut Mr. William Kielhorn Dr. Edward L. Nichols, Sr. Mr. Harvey A. Price, Jr. Mr. James M. Tucker Mr. Birne Wiley Class of 1960 Total Gifts $4,860.00 8.99% Participation Mr. & Mrs. Kirk T. Faulkner
Mr. Carl Grace Mr. Marvin Hays Mr. David A. Jones Mr. Gary Lisman Mr. Roderick B. MacAskill Mr. Carl A. Nilson Mr. Blair W. Paul Class of 1961 Total Gifts $1,550.00 7.50% Participation Mr. Paul Crump, Jr. Mr. DeWayne Everitt Mr. Fred Pfau Mr. Weston Poyner Mr. James F. Roads Mr. Harold S. Tice Class of 1962 Total Gifts $2,450.00 6.58% Participation Mr. James D. Hensel Mr. David Hentschel Mr. Robert M. Myers Mr. Bruce Philbrick Dr. F. Stan Settles, Jr. Class of 1963 Total Gifts $2,135.00 14.43% Participation Mr. John Bush Mr. James F. Eckman Mr. Morten Eriksen, Jr. Mr. Roger M. Helm, Sr. Mr. Kenneth Henry Capt. Kenneth B. Kelm Mr. Herbert H. Kressler, Jr. Mr. Werner Langenbach Dr. Jim D. Lilley Mr. Robert Moyer Mr. Larry B. Smith Mr. John Vigna Mr. Kenneth Wilkins Mr. Jerry Wolf Class of 1964 Total Gifts $48,175.00 8.89% Participation Mr. William R. Brooks Mr. Daniel L. Christen Mr. Aaron Hoffman Mr. Charles E. Roberts Mr. James D. Rosser Mr. David Scheevel Mr. Roger D. Schroeder Mr. John Solheim Class of 1965 Total Gifts $3,650.00 10.81% Participation Mr. Gary R. Amey Mr. John F. Bradshaw Mr. Carl C. Cyphers Dr. Douglas I. Ford Mr. Wayne Hansen Mr. Kennon G. Hess Mr. Walter J. Nekoroski, Jr. Mr. David S. Rowe Mr. Eugene F. Shields Mr. David R. Snow Mr. Ronald W. Tyrone Mr. Richard Ward Class of 1966 Total Gifts $43,305.00 7.95% Participation Mr. Larry E. Dickson Mr. Donald P. Kegarise Mr. Paul L. Kelsey Mr. L. V. McGuire Mr. Ronald G. Robinson Mr. Kent Wilson
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Class of 1967 Total Gifts $4,670.00 11.03% Participation Dr. Daniel Armstrong Mrs. Nancy Ciavarelli Mr. George E. Crone Mr. Stanley Erickson Mr. Stephen G. Holm Mr. Warren J. Hudson Mr. Ronald Jantzen Ms. Lois E. Knouse Mrs. Miriam R. Lancaster Mr. Peter E. Lawson Mr. William G. Milby Mr. Ariel W. Rosentrater Rev. Thomas P. Shorb Mr. Evan R. Smith Mr. Ronald E. Wilburn Class of 1968 Total Gifts $1,245.01 7.63% Participation Mr. Ronald Courson Mr. Gary D. Foster Mr. Timothy Heemstra Mrs. Deborah Irving Mr. Richard J. Newell Mrs. Jan Polhamus Scott Mr. Charles M. Snow Mr. Ronald Strand Mr. Rogers R. Walker Class of 1969 Total Gifts $6,785.00 13.13% Participation Mr. David A. Beckmann Mr. Paul H. Bennett Mr. Donald W. Biggs, Jr. Mr. Edward L. Claypool Mrs. Judith K. Dingmon Mr. Eugene T. Dorneman Mr. Robin E. Guyer Mr. Dale R. Hill Mr. Samuel Hollinger Mr. Kenneth A. Holloway, Sr. Rev. Robert B. Johnson Rev. James J. Kibelbek Mr. Edwin Kissinger Mr. Loren D. Leman Mr. David T. Reed Mr. David K. Reinbold Mr. Thomas G. Schrag Mr. Harold R. Tyler Mr. Robert W. Walker Mr. Dave P. Whitten Class of 1970 Total Gifts $31,250.00 8.33% Participation Mr. David Bell Dr. Lowell Caneday Mr. James K. Edwards Mr. Gerald O. Hall Mr. John R. Hoving Dr. Paul A. Hunter Mrs. Janie Hunter Mr. Paul A. Larson Mr. James R. Miller Mr. Joe Nowiczewski Class of 1971 Total Gifts $332,249.60 12.99% Participation Mr. Paul Abbott Mr. Thomas M. Ames Mr. William R. Anderson Mrs. Nanette Anderson Mr. Matthew D. Ciavarelli Mr. Daniel G. Eaby Mr. William J. Ferguson Mrs. Joan Fratzke Mr. Thomas D. Hartberg
Mr. Robert E. Hopkins Mr. Michael L. Jackson Mr. Hillis O. Kauffman Mr. Donald Koch Mr. Duane L. Martinsen Mr. Randall W. Matthewson Mr. Timothy J. Morscheck Mr. Larry R. Rehnquist Mr. Phillip I. Temple Mrs. Joyce Temple Mr. John Tiemersma Class of 1972 Total Gifts $9,940.00 6.17% Participation Mr. R. W. Borthwick Rev. Donna Delancy Mr. Jerome Edinger Mr. Kenneth C. Jobes Mr. Kenneth L. Moore Mrs. Cherry Moore Mr. Norman Moss Mr. Wayne R. Salsman Mr. John Schwope Mr. Donald L. Smith Class of 1973 Total Gifts $1,958.00 8.70% Participation Mr. John Carlson Mr. Dan L. Davidson Mr. Paul Gordey Mr. David A. Hebble Mr. John Hunker, Jr. Mr. Gordon E. Huyser Mr. Jeff King Mr. David G. Miller Mr. John E. Nikerle Mr. Steven W. Yothers Mrs. Alice Yothers Class of 1974 Total Gifts $34,730.00 9.80% Participation Dr. Philip S. Clifford Mr. Brad J. Dukek Mr. Herman Dumas Mr. Jerry W. Fritsch Mr. Dale R. Gibble Mr. Roland Giddings Mr. P. Freddie Hager Mr. LeRoy D. Hammond Mr. Norman Hawes Mr. Donald L. Kreider Mr. Dale A. McCombs Mr. David F. Nickell, Jr. Mr. James R. Nolt, Jr. Mr. Richard M. Ogren Mr. Michael B. Palm Mr. Larry B. Rohrer Mrs. Carol A. Rohrer Mr. Jeffrey Rowland Mr. Jerry Ruggles Mr. Knute Watne Class of 1975 Total Gifts $20,787.86 8.33% Participation Mr. Gary Blair Mr. Philip A. Britton Mr. Kenneth W. Cowin Mrs. Sharon W. Delong Mr. Darrel Eppler Mr. Harry Fleming, Jr. Mr. Kenneth D. Foreman Mr. Jerry L. Foulk Mrs. Freda Goerner Mr. Greig Haggart Mr. Allan Himebaugh Mr. Fred Shay Mrs. Patsy Shay Mr. Gregory J. Smith
Mr. Merle Stoltzfus Mr. Nathan Strong Mr. Gary R. Ware Mrs. June Weber Class of 1976 Total Gifts $3,150.00 8.28% Participation Mr. Kenneth P. Farrar Mr. Paul T. Graybill Mr. Brent Hoff Mr. Stephen P. Lemp Mrs. Nancy Mendez Mr. Mark Nymeyer Mrs. Virginia L. Olson Mr. Arthur W. Salatin Mr. Jeff L. Shaver Mrs. Elsa L. Shaver Mr. James M. Tolson Mr. Stanley L. Watne Class of 1977 Total Gifts $4,540.00 11.89% Participation Mr. Randall W. Brown Mr. Barry K. Brown Mr. E. Bernie Hayes Mr. David Jensen Mr. Keith W. Leonhardt Mr. Charles E. Lucas, Jr. Mr. Philip D. Olson Mr. Kenneth R. Petersen Mr. Michael A. Ringler Mrs. Joyce Roden Mr. David W. Safstrom Mr. Peter M. Strubhar Mrs. Susan Strubhar Mr. David Wankmuller Mr. Merlin D. Weber Mr. Dale Wilder Class of 1978 Total Gifts $17,005.00 11.76% Participation Mr. Van A. Abel Mr. Bryan E. Benson Mr. Michael L. Capp Mr. Jeff Hoffart Mr. Daryl A. Hoffman Mr. Kevin D. Jackson Mr. Alan J. Koch Mr. Calvin Kooy Mr. Norman Kopesky II Mr. Arthur E. Kruppenbacher Dr. Duane K. Miller Mr. Jesse M. Newton Mr. David E. Parker Mr. Richard H. Petrie Mr. Matt D. Poelman Mr. Nathanael Saint Mrs. Deborah Saint Mr. Brad Shaw Mr. David R. Strait Mrs. Vicki Strong Mr. Vern R. Swanson Mr. Dewayne Vogt Mr. Philip M. Yorgey Class of 1979 Total Gifts $9,614.56 6.83% Participation Mr. Jose Cosa Mrs. Sheree Cosa Mr. William W. Ewin III Mr. Russ M. Frank Mrs. Catherine Frank Ms. Caroline L. Geer Mr. Robert E. Harold Mr. Randy L. Hartman, Jr. Ms. Anne M. Kaneshiro Mr. J. Larry Sickler Mr. Dwight Slaback Mr. Billy Sullenger
Mr. Stacey Wilbur Mr. Lee E. Williams, Jr. Class of 1980 Total Gifts $7,277.32 5.34% Participation Mr. Craig Brown Mr. David Cottrill Mr. Willard L. Fancher Mr. Raymond E. Farrar Mr. John M. Johnston III Mr. Dean A. Norfleet Mr. Thomas B. Ozinga Mrs. Pauline A. Patrick Mr. Kory O. Pehl Mr. Fred L. Ritchey, Jr. Mrs. Deb L. Robey Mr. Lawrence L. Robinson Mr. Mark A. Shelly Mr. Stephen M. Thompson Class of 1981 Total Gifts $8,029.01 10.62% Participation Mr. David F. Arnold Mr. Rick H. Bicknell Mrs. Sue E. Bradley Mr. Mark D. Clark Mrs. Judy Cottrill Mr. Ben P. Cowles Mr. Paul J. Dekker Mr. William L. Garfield, Jr. Mr. Stephen E. Gooch Mr. Mark D. Hanna Mr. Jon E. Hansen Mr. Martin O. Hill Mr. Craig D. Janke Dr. Amiel G. Jarstfer Mr. Rick Jenkins Mr. John E. Kinard Mr. Tim P. Munsterman Mr. Dan Pun Kay Mr. Ron G. Rand Mr. Douglas P. Redman Mr. Randy Schunter Maj. Jeffrey Sievert Mr. Matthew H. Strong Mr. James G. Walker Class of 1982 Total Gifts $13,340.00 9.77% Participation Anonymous Mr. Damian G. Barrett
Mr. Walter Bowles, Jr. Mr. John P. Eleutheriou Mr. John A. Levander, Jr. Mr. Phil V. Liddle Mr. Timothy B. MacDowall Mr. Timothy J. Moyer Mr. Randall Plants Mrs. Lydia R. Rountree Mr. Kevin Stoltzfus Mr. Gregg R. Sweeten Mr. Ted A. Timmons Mr. Keith F. Trosen Mr. Mark F. Williams Class of 1983 Total Gifts $2,038.00 6.67% Participation Mr. Keith E. Anderson Mr. Bruce Cole Mr. Dave L. Fyock Mrs. Maxine Johnson Mr. Darwin P. Kauffman Dr. Martin A. Koschnitzke Mr. Russ McClellan Mr. James A. Miller Mr. Kurt T. Peterson Mr. Roger Sherman Mr. Wayne Steege Mr. Rob C. Tomenendal Class of 1984 Total Gifts $10,374.38 7.98% Participation Mr. Jeffrey D. Aiken Mrs. Deborah S. Aiken Mr. Andrew Bartel Mr. David S. Brown Mr. Barney Burks, Jr. Mr. Damon M. Cole Mrs. Kathryn DiFrancesco Mrs. Corinne Frick Mr. David A. Guth Mr. David A. Hoeks Mr. David E. Hoffman Mr. Lawrence R. Kewin Mr. Philip P. Kuitems Mr. Raymond G. Moffat Mr. John W. Ramsay Mr. Robert G. Rountree Dr. Daniel M. Schmidt Mr. James E. Stevens Mr. Randy Vroom Mr. Randall W. Ziglar Mr. David W. Zoutendam
Class of 1985 Total Gifts $27,438.72 7.98% Participation Mr. Peter R. Austin Mr. Peter J. Bradley Mr. Daniel E. Case Mr. Russell L. Davis Mrs. Rhonda L. Davis Mr. Steve Erickson Mrs. Mary Hoffman Mr. Steve Iffland Mr. Stuart R. Ogden Mr. Charles G. Pinkerton Mr. Kenneth A. Stone Mr. Dick Travis Mrs. Lori Travis Mr. Dean Waskowiak Mr. Victor R. Willis Class of 1986 Total Gifts $4,970.00 10.88% Participation Mr. Jim Brake Mr. Thomas M. Coe Mr. William Conforti, Jr. Mr. David Elliott Mr. Bill R. Fosbenner Mr. Robert Fricke Mr. David A. Jones Mr. Jonathan Kaetzel Mr. David P. Kimball Mr. Stephen J. Marks Mr. David S. Prewitt Mrs. Annette M. Prewitt Mr. David E. Puttbach Mr. Troy Ritchie Mr. Timothy M. Schroeder Mr. Scott D. Stallard Mr. Jeffrey A. Stout Mr. Roy D. Thomason Mr. Eduardo Vaflor Mr. Edwin W. Walton Mr. Neal Willford Class of 1987 Total Gifts $9,538.00 8.78% Participation Mr. Paul D. Aubrey Mr. Matthew J. Baldwin Mr. Jeffrey J. Baumann Mrs. Kathryn A. Booth Mr. Steve Class Mr. Bradley J. Johnson Mr. Lednum
Mrs. Marilie A. Marks Mr. Ronald D. Memmelaar Mr. Todd L. Niemann Mr. Brad Olson Mrs. Valerie L. Palmer Mr. Gregory S. Pike Mr. Todd L. Roebke Mr. Matthew J. Sample Mr. Terry A. Zeitlow Mrs. Jill Zeitlow Class of 1988 Total Gifts $11,150.00 1.90% Participation Mr. Steven J. Hamstra Mr. Matthew H. Ide Mrs. Sarah Olson Mr. Carl J. Schwartz, Jr. Class of 1989 Total Gifts $8,740.00 9.72% Participation Mr. John V. Baker Mrs. Melanie Bertsche Mr. Patrick A. Bertsche Mr. Robert W. Bruner Mr. Mark Budai Mr. Jeffrey G. DeLong Mr. George E. Dunham Mr. Bryan K. Edwards Mr. Timothy A. Graber Mr. Arlin K. Hobbie Mr. Anthony C. Wolfe Class of 1990 Total Gifts $14,410.00 3.97% Participation Mrs. Jami L. Crider Mr. Steven A. Dudden Mrs. Ginger A. Graber Mr. Jeffrey L. Myer Dr. Michael Myers Mr. Rod K. Spade Class of 1991 Total Gifts $2,405.00 5.35% Participation Mr. Doug W. Anderson Mrs. Starr M. Anderson Mr. Daniel M. Bergeron Mr. Ken Burgess Mr. Frans A. deblois
Mr. Brent F. Dickerson Mr. David V. Harvey III Mr. Joseph K. Henkel Mr. Daniel L. Landers Mr. James P. Schmid Mr. Quintin J. Schwartz Mr. Stanton D. Spaulding Mr. Darren L. Warkentin Class of 1992 Total Gifts $3,255.00 3.58% Participation Anonymous Mr. Harry G. Barrett, Jr. Mr. Aaron C. Bequette Mr. Adrian Bonilla Mr. Bruce A. Chase Mr. John S. Clow Mrs. Karyn A. Davies Mrs. Michelle English Mr. Daniel J. Harding Mr. Craig G. Hummel Mr. James A. Pete Mr. Adam K. White Mr. Scott M. Wier Mr. Scott Winne Ms. Virginia A. Wyatt Mr. Roy S. Zeitlow Class of 1993 Total Gifts $9,312.86 3.98% Participation Mr. Kenneth C. Bell Mr. Christopher D. Bena Mr. James E. Beylotte Mr. Rydell D. Bontrager Mr. Raymond F. Caffrey, Jr. Mr. Timothy M. Epp Ms. Karen K. Gassett Mr. Daniel P. Johnson Mr. Thomas L. Kimbrough Mr. Jeffrey I. Linstra Mr. Gregory D. Main The Honorable Robert McFarland Mr. Michael J. McNichols Dr. Ann M. Olson Dr. Jeffrey R. Piepmeier Dr. Jenelle L. Piepmeier Mrs. Donna M. Pugh Mr. Larry D. Rawlings Mr. Brent J. Toavs Mr. William Wolcken Mr. Michael E. Young
The President’s Circle GOLD Graduates Of the Last Decade
Members of the President’s Circle Gold share four commitments:
1. To the mission and vision of LeTourneau University. 2. To pray for university students, faculty and administration. 3. To spread the word about LeTourneau to their friends, colleagues and associates as they have opportunity. 4. To support the university’s ongoing financial needs at a level appropriate for their financial circumstances. * 1-3 years out - $100 * 4-5 years out - $250 * 6-8 years out - $500 * 9-10 years out - $750 Full membership in the President’s Circle begins with gift of $1,000 or more annually and supports the LeTourneau University Annual Fund
Mr. Sterling E. Blackmon Mr. & Mrs. Danny Bradley Mr. Byron K. Carter
Mr. & Mrs. Nathan A. Didlake Mr. Derek A. Fitchett Mrs. Sherrill E. Hash
Mr. & Mrs. Roger P. Jones, Jr. Mr. Jonathan W. Preu
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Class of 1994 Total Gifts $4,315.00 2.85% Participation Mr. Abelardo A. Alaniz Mrs. Jennifer Bartram Mr. Leonard V. Bates Mrs. Marion Benson Mrs. Tiffany N. Beylotte Mr. Seth D. Buttner Mr. Ricky J. Edwards Mr. Sam Goforth Mr. Paul S. Grenon Mrs. Denise M. Main Mr. David M. Mills Mr. Ronald L. Northcut Mr. Slade R. Rinehart Mrs. Janine M. Weber Class of 1995 Total Gifts $4,830.00 2.25% Participation Mrs. Lynda Alder Mrs. Mary S. Hatcher Mrs. Erica S. Horst Mr. Keith A. Horst Mr. David J. Hunker Mrs. Sharmen Kimbrough Mr. Glen Kotapish Mr. Nathan J. Lee Mrs. Susan Poorman-Blackie Mr. Stephen C. Pries Mr Matthew A. Smith Mr. David J. Tesser Mrs. Yvonne Ward Mr. Ronald J. Wind Mr. Robert Winsor Mr. Nathan J. Woskie Class of 1996 Total Gifts $2,740.00 1.32% Participation Mrs. Dena M. Anderson Mr. Jason E. Borsheim Mrs. Sylvia J. Caruvana Mr. Robert C. Coombs Mr. Lynn Gibson Mr. Andrew R. Groves Mrs. Jamie M. Hess Mr. Rob F. Lund Mr. Ricky A. Price Mrs. Kathy A. Rawlings Class of 1997 Total Gifts $6,261.86 2.41% Participation Ms. Melinda N. Annin Mr. Edward W. Belding Mr. Jeff A. Billo Mrs. Cara-Lee Billo Mr. & Mrs. Tommy Breaux Mr. Jarvis W. Clarke
Mr. Dan M. Davisson Mr. Gerald D. Hess Mr. Michael W. Hoye Mr. David Kirkwood Mrs. Marta Martin Mr. Charles R. Randall Ms. Norma Richey Miss Tracey L. Riverman Mrs. Laurie A. Spivey Mr. Peter H. Van Wieren Class of 1998 Total Gifts $4,495.00 1.44% Participation Mr. Paul J. Alexander Mr. Brent Landau Mr. Aaron S. Lorson Dr. Seth J. Norton Ms. Deborah G. Rand Mrs. Sherry J. Steigrod Mr. Jerry R. Sumrall Mr. Jonathan L. Walton Mr. Daniel V. Wilkin Class of 1999 Total Gifts $13,016.04 2.44% Participation Mr. Peter P. Baba Mrs. Dianne H. Benton Mr. Ray G. Brown Mr. Gordon J. Bullivant Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Cason Mr. Marvin R. Clede Ms. Stephanie L. Emerson Mr. Christopher W. Fontaine Capt. Edward Krejci Ms. Jeni M. McClurg Dr. Nathan E. Nissley Mrs. Aradhana R. Nissley Mrs. Shiloh R. Norton Ms. Jodi M. Reyburn Mrs. Kathryn R. Symank Mr. Gregory M. Tonini Mr. Erik M. Williamsen Class of 2000 Total Gifts $3,470.00 1.89% Participation Mr. Jeff T. Anderson Anonymous Mrs. Laura A. Brown Mr. Ben J. Dieter Ms. Virginia A. Fabbro Mrs. Rachelle L. Fairback Mr. David M. Fairback Mrs. Betsy D. Freeman Ms. Patricia E. Henry Mr. Paul B. Hvass Mrs. Kassia Peter Mr. Daniel D. Thiessen Mr. Kenny D. Wiley Mrs. Heather A. Williamsen
Class of 2001 Total Gifts $5,956.49 2.15% Participation Mr. Michael E. Askew Mr. Garrett J. Atkins Mr. Christopher A. Boehme Mr. Phillip C. Briggs, Jr. Mr. Randolph W. Knop Mrs. Barbara J. Lau Mrs. Maria G. Moore Miss Katie N. Morman Dr. Matthew K. Olson Mr. Andrew L. Olson Mr. Seth G. Persons Mrs. Gail Ritchey Mr. Daniel P. Ryan Mr. Donny R. Shubert Ms. Meredith N. Todd Class of 2002 Total Gifts $9,445.00 2.81% Participation Mrs. Lindsey A. Adams-Gainer Anonymous Mr. Vernon M. David Mr. Aaron J. Davis Dr. Andy Dettmer Mr. Randall S. Knutson Ms. Virginia A. Luptak Mr. Kenneth W. Martens Mrs. Katrina M. Olson Mrs. Susan L. Olson Mr. Kevin P. Olson Mr. Richard Palm Mr. David Parker Lt. Aaron Pickett Mrs. Bettina M. Pickett Mr. Jonathan W. Preu Dr. Natacha Qureshi Mr. Shane P. Qureshi Mr. Brian J. Roggenbaum Mrs. Kelly S. Scott Mr. Ryan S. Scott Mrs. Martha M. Steed Class of 2003 Total Gifts $21,625.00 1.67% Participation Mrs. Doris V. Brooks Ms. Patty E. Daigle Mr. Benjamin P. Dobbs Mr. Andrew J. Duncalfe Mr. Mark L. Espeland Mrs. Bertha A. Evans Mrs. Sarah A. Francis Mr. Brian C. French Mrs. Elsie Gullett Mr. Andrew R. Steiger Mr Jeff Stutzman Mr. Shane M. Warner Mr. Russell Williams
Class of 2004 Total Gifts $3,894.68 2.19% Participation Mrs. Sharon A. Coppinger Mrs. Lynda K. David Mrs. Querida R. Duncalfe Mrs. Miriam E. Fisk Mr. Justin R. Fisk Mrs. Mary Hughey Mr. Adam J. Hunter Mrs. Betsy V. Hunter Ms. Michelle L. Jackson Mr. Jeshua C. Johnson Mrs. Tammy M. Mitchell Mr. Lee Sarver Mrs. Deneen D. Sowell Mr. Ken M. Stidham Ms. Kimberly J. Stubberfield Mr. Vince D. VanValkenburg Mrs. Jessica N. Warner Class of 2005 Total Gifts $3,756.30 3.33% Participation Mrs. Elizabeth A. Childress Mrs. Heidi A. Durant Mr. David M. Eaton Mrs. Sunny M. H. Ellis Mr. Brenton M. Ellis Mr. Brandon E. Gooding Mr. Richard R. Graves Ms. Sarah A. Hess Ms. Beth K. Horner Mr. James D. Howard Mr. Daniel N. Leatherwood Ms. Jessica L. Marshall Mrs. Rebecca A. Minelga Mr. Eric Minelga Miss Anna K. Ross Mr Jonathan M. Tack Mr. James R. Townsend Mr. Terrance A. Turner Mr. Charles Wesley Mr. Demetri M. White Class of 2006 Total Gifts $2,850.00 2.07% Participation Mr. Wayco W. Beckman Mr. Ronald A. Campbell Mr. Jonathan R. Demildt Ms. Barbara J. Dixon Mr. Matthew P. Edmunds Mr. Mark A. L. Evers Mr. Derek A. Fitchett Mrs. Courtney D. Gill Mr. Wayne R. Hamilton Mr. Philip J. Hulse Mr. Jacob I. Maples Mr. Robert S. Russell Mr. Erik A. Sparks Mr. Robert J. Surprenant Mrs. Catherine V. White
Circle of Honor Distinguished Alumni To better identify and honor the accomplishments of our distinguished alumni, LETU is awarding the LeTourneau University Circle of Honor. This new recognition is a lifetime achievement award for alumni who have distinguished themselves within their communities, churches and careers. Nominations for the 2011 awards need to be submitted to the Alumni Office (alumni@letu.edu) by December 15, 2010. The criteria are: 1) Must have been enrolled at LeTourneau Tech, College, University or been granted an honorary degree from the institution; (2) Strong and active personal faith in God; (3) High standards of faith, integrity and character consistent with the values of LeTourneau University; (4) Personal accomplishments and excellence in his/her field; (5) Outstanding service to church, family, community and profession; (6) Continuing interest and support to the university. The award can be given posthumously.
Class of 2007 Total Gifts $6,964.96 1.85% Participation Mrs. Heidi M. Burgess Mr. Jonathan B. Chapin Mr. & Mrs. Nathan A. Didlake Mrs. Rachel A. Gaines Mrs. Catherine Hart Green Mr. Keith E. Jones Mr. Tim D. Markley II Mr. Scott A. Melton Ms. Elizabeth R. Moss Mr. Adam J. Noreen Mr. Steve Rash Mrs. Whitney A. Schubarth Mr. Jason K. Trosen Class of 2008 Total Gifts $5,388.91 3.38% Participation Mr. Thomas F. Barnard, Jr. Mrs. Jordan E. Baumer Mr. Richard E. Baumer Mr Danny Bradley Mr. Nathan G. Brower Mr. Benjamin R. Cail Mrs. Edna S. Caldwell Ms. Holly K. Clark Mr. Thomas G. Cooper Mr. Jordan W. Davis Mr. Larry L. Dye Mr. Jonathan G. Eriksen Mr. Michael J. Gaines, Jr. Mr. Christopher M. Hamilton Mr. Leonardo Hernandez Ms. Courtney M. Lemmond Ms. Heather D. McKay Mr. Adam C. Noble Mrs. Ellen M. Oglesbee Mr. Jared S. Poe Mr. Nathaniel S. Roszhart Mr. James R. Saunders Mr. Ruedi T. Schubarth Mrs. Margaret E. Tatum Mrs. Michaela I. Tenkink Mr. Ryan A. VanZandt Class of 2009 Total Gifts $2,500.30 1.62% Participation Mr. Jason D. Albright Ms. Marilyn J. Anderson Ms. Andrea M. Blumentritt Mr. Stephen I. Brown Mrs. Sandra A. Eaton Mrs. Kris Elmore Mr. Daniel A. Fisher Mrs. Jenny K. Foster Ms. Maria E. Gomez Mr. Harold S. Graham Mr. Sean J. Momsen Mr. Daniel K. Papke Mrs. Bethany J. Roszhart Mrs. Mary B. Trogdon Class of 2010 Total Gifts $1,922.00 3.20% Participation Mr. Timothy A. Burdett Ms. Rachel N. Chapman Ms. Linda F. Crockett Mr. Justin D. Cutchall Ms. Mackenzie A. Fonfara Mr. Samuel R. Hovan Mr. John B. Lewis Mr. Carlton W. Mitchell Mr. Christopher R. Mounce Mr. Daniel L. Patches Ms. Janet Ragland Mr. Justin W. Roland Ms. Rebekah A. Valencia Mr. Phillip D. Wright
of Mover of Men and Mountains This fall marks the 50th anniversary of R.G. LeTourneau’s autobiography, Mover of Men and Mountains. If you are interested in getting a copy of the book that chronicles LeTourneau’s life, his mission and faith, you can contact the LETU bookstore at (903) 233-3690.
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Spring 2011 will be the 50th anniversary of women on campus! The technical school that R.G. and Evelyn LeTourneau started shortly after World War II became a college in 1961 and began admitting female students. On this page is a photo from a 1961 issue of the NOW magazine showing the first five women co-eds at the college. If anyone has information on where they are now, please get in touch with us at NOW@letu.edu. We A 1961 issue of NOW Magazine reports the arrival of the first new coeds on campus. From left to right are Dana Andersen, Pat McClellend, Elizabeth McWherter, Sharon Crawford, & Jo Anne Duncan. Where are they now?
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newsandnotes ANONYMOUS DONOR GIVES $5 MILLION ENDOWMENT An anonymous donor has given a $5 million endowment to LETU to provide scholarships specifically for home-schooled students. It is believed to be the single largest endowment for home-school scholarships ever established at any college or university anywhere. Fifteen incoming freshmen students are receiving the gift this semester, with opportunity to renew annually. The number of home schooled students at LETU has risen in the past 13 years from 2 percent of the incoming student population in 1997 to 19 percent in the incoming class for 2010.
NSF AWARDS $1.6 MILLION IN ENGINEERING GRANTS The National Science Foundation recently awarded nearly $1.6 million in grants for three separate engineering projects: Materials Joining: NSF awarded $798,823 for upgrading LETU’s materials joining engineering lab for research and education, under the direction of Dr. Yoni Adonyi. Upgrades include a complete overhaul of the electrical wiring to the laboratory, increasing the capacity needed to operate complex equipment used in the lab for joining advanced engineering materials. Completion of the project is expected by Fall 2011. Retention: NSF awarded about $500,000 over the next five years to support retention of first-year students majoring in engineering and 28 | NOW Magazine | Fall 2010
NIFA TEAM WINS FIRST PLACE IN REGIONALS LETU’s “Sting” Precision Flight Team won first place overall, first place in ground events and third place in the flying events at the recent National Intercollegiate Flying Association’s 2010 Region IV SAFECON competition hosted by Central Texas College in Killeen, Texas. The competition was held Nov. 2-6. The team’s first place overall win at regionals qualifies the students to compete May 16-21, 2011 in Columbus Ohio at The Ohio State University. Pictured above are, from left, Rachel Ballou, Michael Felts, Caleb Waite, Brandon McCann, Sam Myers, Steve Hederstedt, Bennett Hoogewerf, Jered Gebel, Patrick Harney, Stephanie Amavisca, Ken Misiak, Alex Minium, Chad Mertz, Jessie Mellon, Marc Gravelle and Daniel Johnson. engineering technology. Under the direction of Alan Niemi and Robert Warke, the “First-Year Initiatives for Retention Enhancement” or FIRE grant expands on a coordinated mentoring program for first-year students with a new, two-course freshman sequence that exposes students to real-world engineering practices. In addition to faculty and peer mentors, industry mentors will broaden students’ perspective of job opportunities in engineering. ACL Research: NSF awarded $300,000 over the next three years for further research to develop a computer model that may change how knee stability is currently assessed. Under the direction of Dr. Roger V. Gonzalez, it could also allow for potentially transformative changes in the current preventive, treatment and rehabilitation practices prescribed for injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).
NEW MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING LETU received accreditation approval to launch a new Master of Science in Engineering program. The new residential, research-oriented graduate engineering program allows students to continue their undergraduate research and complete a master’s with another year of studies. The M.S. in Engineering has a common core, followed by specialized engineering courses and a thesis in the areas of electrical, mechanical, biomedical,
computer, civil or materials joining. Applications are being accepted with a Jan. 15, 2011 deadline for consideration for the Fall 2011 term. Details can be found online at http://adults. letu.edu/ms-engineering.asp US NEWS RANKS LETU IN TOP TIER LETU has again ranked in the top tier nationally in the 2011 U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings of “America’s Best Colleges.” LETU is ranked in the top 10 among private schools in Texas and above all state universities in Texas in the same category. LETU is ranked 35th among all of the Best Universities — Master’s in the Western Region. For 17 years, the university has been listed in the magazine’s top tier rankings.
LETU WINS NINE MARCOM AWARDS Two platinum awards, three gold awards and four bronze awards were won by Marketing Services and University Relations in the international 2010 MarCom Awards competition. LETU’s Platinum winners included the NOW Winter/ Spring 2010 Floor Lore issue and the Authentic Fall Travel Piece. Platinum winners are “judged to be among the most outstanding entries in the competition.” Gold winners include the NOW Summer 2010 Faculty Focus issue, New Logo Welcome Banners, and Bell Tower Seasons Video/ slideshow. Bronze award winners included the NOW Fall 2009 Welcome Home Aviation issue, Realities admissions magazine, and two University Relations student-produced videos on LEGS and Pilot Summer Camp.
ENROLLMENT BREAKS RECORD FOR FALL 2010 The Fall 2010 incoming class exceeded the largest ever incoming class record for LETU’s traditional program at the Longview campus, with 460 new students, compared to 432 last year. Engineering and aeronautical science drew the largest number of new students. Online enrollment also marked a record, totaling 959 online students, compared to 885 last year. The university’s total Fall 2010 enrollment is 3,173, including all students in working adult programs online and across the state. DR. TIM WATSON NAMED SPECIAL ASSISTANT LETU has named former full-time pastor and teacher Dr. Tim Watson of Longview as a special assistant to the president
focusing on outreach. Watson will travel and preach in churches around the state to share the legacy of LETU founder R.G. LeTourneau and share a gospel message that implements the university’s strategic vision to impact every workplace in every nation for Christ. Watson will share that “working for God” is not just limited to those who work in full-time ministry employment, but that God is glorified through believers working in a variety of fields, including education, business, engineering, aviation and many others. He also will develop relationships with churches that have families interested in sending their college students to LeTourneau University. SEAN FORTIER NAMED NEW ASSOCIATE DEAN LETU has named Sean Fortier as the new associate dean of the LETU School of Aeronautical Science at the Paul and Betty Abbott Aviation Center at East Texas Regional Airport. He will assist Fred Ritchey, the dean of the school, with the increased administrative responsibilities since the school relocated to the airport campus. Fortier will work in strategic planning and new programs. As a professor, Fortier has worked at LETU since January 1994, teaching aircraft systems.
LETU PRESIDENT TOPS TWITTER LIST President Dr. Dale A. Lunsford was named at the top of a list of 25 college and university presidents to follow in the social networking site Twitter, according to www.BachelorsDegree.org. The website provides information for students choosing which colleges to attend.
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newsandnotes AUTHOR DR. TIM ELMORE SPEAKS AT LETU During Spiritual Emphasis Week in September, author Dr. Tim Elmore conducted a series of sessions and spoke in chapel on developing leadership skills, including a session for faculty on the iY generation. Elmore is founder and president of Growing Leaders, Inc., a nonprofit organization created to develop emerging leaders worldwide. Elmore was mentored and worked alongside Dr. John C. Maxwell, author of The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, which was a New York Times bestseller. Elmore served as vice president of Leadership Development for EQUIP, Inc., a nonprofit founded by Maxwell to train 50 million leaders at hospitals, orphanages and faith-based organizations around the world.
LETU SERVES AS HOST FOR LAUSANNE CONFERENCE The S.E. Belcher Jr. Chapel and Performance Center served as a remote host site Oct. 22 for the Lausanne Third Congress on World Evangelism which was held in Cape Town, South Africa. The first International Congress on World Evangelization was held in 1974 in Lausanne, Switzerland, called together by the Rev. Billy Graham and drawing more than 2,300 evangelical leaders from 150 countries. That event produced The Lausanne Covenant, a declaration “intended to define the necessity, responsibilities and goals of spreading the Gospel.” This year’s Lausanne Congress in Cape Town sought to promote unity, humbleness in service and a call to action for evangelizing the globe.
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JOEL ALLISON TO SPEAK AT COMMENCEMENT LETU’s commencement speaker for the winter commencement ceremonies at the Belcher Center at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 11, will be Joel Allison, president and chief executive officer of Baylor Health Care System in Dallas. In his role at Baylor, Allison develops the hospital’s reputation as a patient-focused hospital that offers safe, quality patient care that can be measured and reported. BRUCE CHASE NAMED PRESIDENT-ELECT OF UAA LETU’s Bruce Chase has been named president-elect of the premier collegiate aviation association in the world, the University Aviation Association. Chase is LETU’s assistant professor of Flight Science and assistant chief flight instructor. The UAA plays a pivotal role in the advancement of degree-granting aviation programs that represent all segments of the aviation industry. Chase has taught flight at LeTourneau University for 18 years. NEW LETU TRUSTEES, OFFICERS NAMED LETU welcomed two returning and three new trustees to its Board of Trustees at the semiannual meeting in November. The three new trustees are Joe Bickley of Montgomery, Texas, a certified public accountant and business owner; Timothy Morscheck of Portage, Mich., retired vice president of technology for Eaton Corporation:
Truck Group; and James Schreder of Yorba Linda, Calif., Danjon Engineering owner and president. John Solheim of Phoenix, Ariz., chairman and president / CEO or Karsten Manufacturing Company / PING, Inc., and Patrick A Bertsche of St. Charles, Ill., superintendent of Westminster Christian School, returned to the LETU board. New officers are: Chair Nancy Mendez who serves as assistant city manager of the City of Whittier, Calif.; Vice Chair Pat Bertsche; Secretary Kenneth Moore of Longview, who is an airline pilot and captain; and Treasurer Merle Stoltzfus of Elverson, Penn., who is a general partner for Stoltzfus Enterprises, Ltd., custom home builder and real estate developer.
LETU TO PARTNER WITH NORTHSTAR ACADEMY LETU signed an agreement with NorthStar Academy to offer dual credit courses to its online high school students in more than 80 countries worldwide. NorthStar Academy is an online school with many students from missionary families living abroad and others who are students of foreign diplomats. About 40 percent of their students are homeschoolers here in the United States. First classes are expected to begin in January 2011, taught by LETU faculty. NorthStar Academy is part of the Network of International Christian Schools (NICS) that serves 4,500 students from school campuses in 16 countries.
LETU INSTALLS NEW AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SIMULATORS State-of-the-art air traffic control simulators have been installed at LETU’s new Paul and Betty Abbott Aviation Center at East Texas Regional Airport. Two 240°-field-of-view tower training simulators have high fidelity 3D graphics for photorealistic high definition, out-of-the-window views. LETU students will experience a “real world” airport environment with aircraft, ground vehicles, wildlife and weather simulated at a high level. n
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s Dr. Viktor Roudkovski stepped to the podium in July to present his two professional papers at the International Society of Biblical Literature in Tartu, Estonia, he reflected on how far his motherland had come in the past few decades. The bread, butter and milk lines were gone, thanks to an influx of capitalism and free enterprise. Also, he had succeeded in leaving the Soviet Republic to pursue his true calling as a writer and scholar — not the trade he had spent three years studying at Technical and Industrial College. He wondered if teachers had finally stopped deriding Christians in the classroom. He hoped so, but he is grateful that his children, Nikolas and Viktoria, would not have to live that way. The 36-year-old assistant professor of biblical studies also had the unique opportunity of returning and speaking to family members and their church friends about LeTourneau University. He said he had a hard time spelling it in his native language, but everybody in the congregation could tell how much the university meant to the naturalized American citizen. Growing up in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in the shadow of the Tian Shan mountain range that extends to the Himalayas, Roudkovski dreamed of being a hockey player who would someday beat the Americans. He had been told Americans were “greedy, mean, always ready to start wars; and that they thought they were better than us,” he said. Upon following his brother to the States in 1993 for school, “my opinion definitely changed,” he said. Roudkovski was taught atheism in the Communist classroom and that religion was “a threat to Communism.” However, his upbringing, and that of his parents, made him unpopular and, at times, ostracized in his own country. “I was very unusual because I was born into a Christian family,” Roudkovski said. His father was an evangelical minister and a school teacher. His mom taught Communist Economics at the university level. “I lived in two societies — one at school and one at home,” he said. “We tried to be good witnesses, and we’d tell people we were Christians if they asked, but generally Christianity was looked down upon.” Because Roudkovski so despised being “put in the box of religion” at such a young age, he did not make a conscious effort to follow Jesus Christ until he was 17 years old.
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“In the classroom, I try to stress that Christianity is not a religion, but a way of life,” he said. “Jesus didn’t call us to be religious. He called us to be loyal and faithful to Him.” Roudkovski’s doctoral dissertation sets Jesus against the corrupt Temple establishment — a viewpoint Roudkovski continued to explore on his trip to Tartu where he presented to one of the largest gathering of biblical scholars in the world. This opportunity marked him as LeTourneau’s first professor to represent at this event. Roudkovski’s personal spirituality began in earnest when he met a group of missionaries from Australia. Shortly thereafter, he left for Mueller College in Australia “mostly to better my English.” Several semesters later, when that government declined to recognize his student visa, he continued his studies on the Fiji Islands attending the South Pacific Missionary Training Center in Suva. In the afternoons he worked in the sugar cane fields to pay his way. “This was a formative time in my life,” he said. “I knew God had called me to a ministry of some sort, but I didn’t know what it would be. I was very open to opportunities.” His next step took him to the Deep South to study Bible at Blue Mountain College in Mississippi. From there he attended New Orleans Theological Seminary where he met his wife, Melanie (who was also pursuing her doctorate). New Orleans changed him forever. That’s where he became a fan of the New Orleans Saints football team, got married, saw the birth of his two children and applied for U.S. citizenship. Roudkovski has called himself a Russian-American since his ceremony in 2006. “Citizenship was an important step in my journey,” he said. “It was not an easy decision, but after living here for a while, it was something I felt I needed to do, and I’m proud of it.” He’s also proud of how nobly he defended his new homeland against anti-American sentiment while visiting his family on his trip to Moscow. Roudkovski continues to be amazed at the number of churches he passes every day. There are 150 in Longview alone. “I work with the most wonderful people,” he said. “I learn continually from my colleagues, and I get to share my passion for the Bible with students.” Roudkovski has been a full-time professor at LETU for the last three years. “It is a privilege and a responsibility to introduce students to Christian concepts, as well as the worldview through biblical literature,” he said. “It is important because it impacts them for the kingdom of God.” n
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classnotes MEMORIALS
Jo Anne Bishop, wife of Jerry Bishop (’58 IE), passed away on June 20. Please pray for Jerry and the Bishop family as they mourn the loss of their loved one. Joe Denbleyker (’58 MES) passed away on Feb. 15. The memorial service was held on Feb. 19 at Mayfield Kiser Chapel in Burleson, Texas.
Jon Downing (‘90 ME) died from a sudden heart attack at age 42, on Mar. 6. He loved the Lord and inspired many. He was a loving husband and father. He is survived by his wife, Shirley, and their seven children. Sabrina Hawthorne (’93 BBM) passed away on May 17. Mrs. Hawthorne was a health sciences teacher at Hallsville High School, Hallsville, Texas. Her services were held at Longview Christian Church on May 20.
BIRTHS Harold Krause (’68 BI) is pleased to announce the arrival of his granddaughter, Jael Rose, to parents Tim Ruth (’94 ATFL) and his wife, Lori, on Aug. 17. She weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces.
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their family, Amari (3 ½) and Jedidiah (1). They join brothers and sisters, Rebecca (16), Sophia (11), Daniel (10), Annie (8) and William (6).
Joshua (’02 BUDT) and Emily (’02 CSMA) Hopping welcomed a new boy, Jadon Thaddeus. They adopted Jadon on Feb. 1.
Ruben Watson (’87 ACCT) and wife, Debbie, announce the adoption of Lily Sara YuFeng. She was born on March 2 in the Jianxi Province of China. She joined the Watson family on Aug. 22.
Darius Teichroew (’02 ME) and his wife, Elisabeth, welcomed their new daughter, Lillian Mae, on July 8. The Teichroews now reside in Minneapolis, Minn.
Kevin McIlravy (’96 ET) and wife, Michelle, announced the birth of their son, Jeremiah Taylor, on Aug. 10. He weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces and was 21 inches long. Sean Brittain (’97 CHPY) and his wife, Elizabeth, welcomed the birth of daughter, Charlotte Elizabeth Brittain. Also, Sean was promoted to associate professor and granted tenure at Clemson University.
Pepper Edwards (’97 BUBA) and her husband, Nick, welcomed a beautiful set of twins, Jesse and Avery Edwards, on Oct. 15, 2009. Michael (Brett) Burnett (’99 BS) and his wife, Lori, had their baby girl, Jillian Alexa, on Saturday, May 28. She weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces and was 21 inches long. Kurt Metzger (’99 ME), his wife, Johanna, and his two children, Kassia and Luke, welcomed their new addition, Matthias Metzger, on Aug. 8. Both mom and baby are doing well!
Brian (‘05 ME) and Carly (Schouten) (‘04 BME) Vander Woude are proud to announce the birth of Lane Douglas on Jan. 17. He joins big sister, Reagan. The Vander Woudes live in Lynden, Wash., and Brian works as a design engineer with Fiberglass Structural Engineering in Bellingham. Michael Noble (’06 ASFL) and his wife, Teresa, welcomed their daughter, Hannah Michelle, on Nov. 1, 2008, and then welcomed their son, Jeremiah Dennis, on Feb. 17. Mike is a first officer on the ATR for American Eagle Airlines in Dallas. The Noble family currently resides in Midlothian, Texas. Jonathan Bear (’08 MJE), wife, Paige, and big sister, Madison Paige, announce the arrival of Kimberly Michelle Bear on April 23. She was 7 pounds and 20 ½ inches long. R. J. (’09 BBM) and Brooke (’04 ISBS) Fergon were married June 21, 2007. Brooke received a master’s degree in educational administration from Lamar University in May. Their son, Nicholas, was born April 15.
WEDDINGS Stephanie Emerson (’99 ENE1) married Jason Russell on Sept. 10 in The Colony, Texas.
Carl Maxfield (‘99 MTDT) married Darlene Timmer on Sept. 19, 2009. They live in Canton, Ohio, where Carl works as a design engineer and Darlene as a registered nurse. Shane (‘06 ASEL) and Linda (Nielsen) (‘03 ASAE) Beans celebrated their first anniversary. They were married on March 21, 2009, by Dwayne King (’60 MI/ATBS) in Redondo Beach, Calif. They now live in Fair Oaks, where Shane is an avionics technician for Duncan Aviation and Linda is a pilot for Horizon Airlines. Traci Birdsong (’06 MK) married Jared Eifert on Mar. 6 at First Presbyterian Church in Longview, Texas. Jason Amos (’07 MBA) married Misty Tuttle on July 29 in Phoenix, Ariz. Mike Cross (’07 CE) married his best friend, Cyndi Ann Hadfield, on June 4 at Valley View Baptist Church in Las Cruces, N.M. They spent their honeymoon at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, Calif. Nathan Didlake (’07 EN) married Rachel Shumaker on July 10 at Glen Ellyn Bible Church in Glen Ellyn, IL. He wanted everyone to know, “She rocks so much that I wanted to give her a Flooder shirt.” Erick Blakey (’08 HIPL) married his sweetheart, Kimberly Thomas, on Nov. 14, 2009, in Pasadena, Texas. The couple resides in Longview, Texas, and Erick is working for LETU as the flight dispatcher for the School of Aeronautical Science. Jonathan Wilcoxson (’08 BI & HIPL) and Kirby Posey (’09 KMIN) were married Jan. 2 in Holy Trinity Community Church in Longview, Texas, by Dr. Stan Coppinger. The couple moved to Winona Lake in July, where Kirby works at
Grace College. Jonathan began his MBA in classics/theology from Notre Dame in the fall. David L. West (09’ BIS- TEACH) and Sabrina Ruiz (West) married on July 11 in Dallas. David is a police officer for the University of Texas college system. Sabrina is a 4th grade teacher at Mesquite ISD. They live in Mesquite, Texas.
Class Notes 60s Fred Rudy (’68 BUBS) and his wife, Pat, just celebrated their 41st wedding anniversary with friends and family. They have two sons, Aaron and Matthew, and two grandchildren, Logan (3) and Addison (1). Fred and Pat live in Palatine, Ill. Fred has his own company and does publishing and rights management consulting. Morgan Kizer (’69 ME/IE) recently wrote an editorial for Machine Design Magazine. Check it out at: http://machinedesign.com/ article/the-inventorium-how-universitiescan-encourage-innovation-0824
70s Paul Reiche (’70 WT) and his wife, Amanda, enjoyed an Alaskan Cruise this summer to celebrate their 40th year of marriage. Stephen LaFleur (’72 BUBS) released his new book, Champion’s Choice, in June. According to www.familychristian. com, Stephen’s book is a combination of psychology, theology, life experience and common sense that guides the reader through a clear and concise understanding of how decisions are made. Michael J. McCaskey (‘72) has been involved in the development of a $30 million facility in central Pennsylvania to process poultry manure to produce renewable energy. It will be the first of its kind in the nation. McCaskey is vice president for business & project development for EnergyWorks. Steven (’73 ATBS) and Alice Yothers (’73 ENBI) have moved to Castro Valley, Calif.
Lois Hunter (’79 BUBS/ATVS) celebrates 25 years with Wycliffe Bible Translators. Lois splits her time working in the USA and West Africa.
80s Jim McCabe (’80 ATBS) and his wife, Judy, mark 25 years with Wycliffe Bible Translators. Jim spent most of his career in aviation maintenance/management serving the JAARS facility in Waxhaw, N.C.; Cameroon, Africa; and Tucson, Ariz. Judy also held positions as tour guide, public relations support and a Wycliffe recruiter. The couple is considering moving to Chad, Africa, in spring of 2012. Dan Pleshko (’85 MET) joined Lockheed Martin as corporate vice president of global supply chain operations effective April 12. Dan will lead the consolidation of the two organizations currently made up of global supply chain and subcontract program management. David Mueller (’88 BUSB) is going back to school at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, Alaska. He will complete an A.S. in process technology in May 2011.
90s Steve Dudden (’90 ME) and his family are back in the states from Hong Kong. They are now living in Albuquerque, N.M., where Steve works at CSA International. He has been promoted to manager of business coordination for PV Module Testing Services. Kurt Huber (’94 BBM) started a new job on July 19 as an Aircraft Integration Program Manager for ATK Defense Electronic Systems located in Clearwater, Fla. He is responsible for integrating aircraft survivability equipment on international customers’ aircraft. Harry (Rod) Moyer (’94 ATBS), wife, Michelle, and daughters, Cristiana and Katie, moved to Ala. to be a part of Samaritan’s Purse’s flight program after eight years with Samaritan’s Purse in Africa.
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classnotes Jason Borsheim (’96 BUSB), after working for Audi as a product engineer, recently attained a new job with Volkswagen in part logistics.
50 percent of the remaining profits will go to a charity of the buyer’s choosing.
David Cohen (’96 MBA) retired from P & G Engineering Management in June 2009 and is now pursuing a career in education. He will have his full teaching certification in December and will be ready for a staff role in a special education classroom environment. His six grandchildren live in Frisco, Texas, so David will be looking for job opportunities in a school nearby.
Ryan Mason (’05 BBA) has accepted a call to become minister of singles and discipleship at Hermitage Hills Baptist Church in Hermitage, Tenn. He and his wife, Kilie, are excited about this new role and raising their family in the Nashville area.
Edward Belding (’97 BBM) completed a Master of Science in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Arlington on Aug. 18. Jennifer (Coate) Floyd (’97 PSYBI) graduated from Central Piedmont Community College in May with an A.S. in interior design. She was awarded the Architecture and Interior Design Dept.’s Commercial Project of the Year award. She is currently pursuing commercial interior design work in the Charlotte, N.C., area, where she lives with her family: husband, Rob; and children, Alyssa, 10; Rachel, 9; and Luke, 5. Jason Fry (’98 BUMK) has started a charity/business called GROOBS Shoes (www.groobs.com) that will not only give you fashionable shoes, but the proceeds will also go to buying a second pair and sending it abroad to a person in need and
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cist in the states of Texas and Nebraska. She will be working for CVS in the Houston area. Gregg Wright (’07 PSYS) received his Master of Science in Psychology with a concentration in industrial/organizational psychology in Dec. 2009 from Capella University. He is now pursuing his Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology with a specialization in coaching psychology at Capella and will graduate in June 2012.
Tiffany Davis (’06 BBA) will graduate from Southern Methodist University with a Master in Education and teacher certification (EC-6) in December. Gary May (’06 BBA) completed his Ed.D. at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has been a pastor of First Baptist Church in Diana, Texas, since 1998. Damien Morris (’06 MBMN) and wife, Michelle, moved to Lake Charles, La. Deena Shelton (’06 PSYS) was recently named the executive director of East Texas Child Advocates in Longview, Texas. She is also serving as an adjunct professor with LeTourneau’s distant learning education, teaching psychology classes.' Maggie Sleigh (’06 BYBS) graduated from Creighton University’s pharmacy school in May and is a licensed pharma-
A small family of alumni from LeTourneau had a reunion at the graduation ceremony in 2008. (Pictured left to right) Beth Nilsen Bjorkman (DT ’74), Ross Schultz (ME ’04), Sharon Maggard Nilsen (HIST ’72), Tim Maggard (MET ’75) and Peter Bjorkman (AAS ’08) met with other fam-ily, Cheryl and Ann Maggard and Dave Bjorkman. The photograph is by Sarah Maggard Shultz. It was a blessed time for family and LeTourneau Alumni!
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Top Video Highlights on www.letu.edu
PILOT SUMMER CAMP Junior high students attend LETU summer pilot camp and get an introduction to general aviation and the joy of flying.
CONVERSATIONS WITH KARA When an undergraduate was suddenly diagnosed with leukemia and placed in isolation in a hospital in Dallas, she was not alone. Her friends at LETU were with her through prayer and technology.
LETU has been busy this past year providing rich media content for the LETU home page. You can watch short videos online at www.letu.edu under the Highlights section of the home page. Drop down to the “See more. . .” link to get a look at a variety of events and happenings on campus this year. The LEGS and Pilot Summer Camp video were two that recently won bronze MarCom awards.
LEGS SUMMER 2010 Student members of the LEGS prosthetic team share their experiences traveling to Kenya to show clinicians how to build the knee that helps amputees in developing countries reclaim their mobility.
FALL 2010 STUDENT MOVE-IN Relive the days of registration and moving in by watching this short video that brings it all back.
FALL FEST 2010 At the annual Fall Fest, student floors select themes and dress in costumes to compete to elect their campus monarch. From V for Vendetta to Alice in Wonderland, it is a time to show creativity.
MEN’S SOCCER OPENING GAME The first game of the 2010 soccer season gave LETU YellowJackets a big morale boost. See some of the highlights and the winning goal.
TRICK OR TREAT ON COLLEGE STREET As an outreach to local children and families, LETU students provided a safe place for Longview-area neighbors to trick or treat and hear about the miracles of Jesus and receive free Bibles.
FRESHMAN FORGING FRIENDSHIPS SERVICE PROJECTS Service to the community is part of becoming a student at LeTourneau University. Students build relationships with each other as well as building relationships with people in their new hometown.
LETU HELPS LUCAS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY LETU students voted in an online competition to help Lucas Christian Academy near Dallas win $500,000 for their school.
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Written by Rachel Stallard
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Photographed by Karen Rispin, Elizabeth Richardson, Rachel
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s the little wheelchair bumped along the rocky terrain, 15-year-old Lauren Bally’s heartbeat quickened. Her steps faltered a little and, just before her 6-minute trek pushing 8-year-old Samuel Walls was complete, she began to feel the effects of the noonday Texas sun beating down on her neck. The good news was she was steps away from an air-conditioned building at Christian Heritage School in Longview — not performing the task in Thika, Kenya, as LeTourneau University students did this past summer. Bally and her schoolmates have volunteered their able service to help LeTourneau University students collect objective outcomes measures with a goal of determining the efficiency of pediatric wheelchairs, now being used in developing countries. The team, led by LETU assistant professor Karen Rispin, will analyze data collected from using Regency Pediatric Wheelchairs developed and distributed by Joni and Friends, the foundation started by Joni Earickson Tada. The LETU student research team will also make comparisons to the pediatric wheelchair developed by the Association of Physically Disabled in Kenya. The research goal is to determine the functionality of both chairs in regard to measuring energy cost, maneuverability and psycho-social parameters as a way to inform prescription and justify spending. “As a missionary kid growing up in Kenya, I saw a lot of inappropriate donations that couldn’t be used by the people they were donated to,” Rispin said. “People in the States would feel good about themselves, but they would give away something that really wasn’t helpful. And that’s something that always troubled me.” Rispin co-wrote a grant with Dr. Roger Gonzalez of LETU’s LEGS program, a research program that provides low-cost prosthetics to amputees in developing countries. After working with science students to provide outcomes measures for LEGS, Rispin was challenged to find an additional assistive device for which she and her team could provide outcomes measures. Doors have opened to do so for wheelchairs appropriate for children living in low-income countries. “I approached Joni and Friends and found out that they’d just begun making and distributing the Regency pediatric wheelchair and were very interested in obtaining research data that would let them know how well it works in low income countries,” Rispin said. “Then doors opened to do this research with Bethany Kids (Relief and Rehabilitation) in Kenya and, in the process, provide the disabled children they work with at Joy Town Primary School with better quality wheelchairs.” Before Rispin and students Rachel Follingstad, a senior kinesiology major, and Elizabeth Richardson, a sophomore biology major, visited Kenya this summer, they had already been working to raise funds to ship 45 wheelchairs donated by Joni and Friends to Joy Town. “A lot of the children with cerebral palsy can’t self propel very well, but spina bifida kids can, depending on how far down the spinal cord their disability reaches,” Follingstad
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said. “The ones who can self propel do, but they often don’t have wheelchairs that fit them, so it’s more difficult than it should be. Another child may push them, but the wheelchairs don’t always have adequate support for the children with cerebral palsy.” Children coping with ill-fitting wheelchairs was only part of the reality Follingstad and Richardson witnessed in Kenya. The other side was a picture of hope. "The school is the best possible place for these children to be, because many of their families could not provide the proper care for their special needs," Follingstad said. “In Kenya, most of the schools are not set up to mainstream disabled children,” Rispin said. “If you have a child with a disability, they usually can’t go to school unless they go to a boarding school for children with disabilities. Most of these are kids who would be mainstreamed over here. These are very bright kids. Most are normal mentally but have physical handicaps.” Because these special needs students often must wait until someone finds them, and then tells their parents about the school, the average age per grade is slightly older than in the United States, Follingstad said. But these disabled students still possess a positive spirit. “They are much better off here than if they were left in a corner at home,” Follingstad said. “It is much better than other alternatives.” Like her professor, Follingstad is also a missionary kid who grew up in Kenya. She said this is the kind of project that drew her to transfer to LETU from a school in California. “The fact that an undergraduate could do this kind of research work and make a difference without having graduated was really a cool thing to me.” Handson research is also what drew Richardson to Longview from Anchorage, Alaska. Follingstad has already been accepted into Texas Woman’s University’s Physical Therapy program where she foresees three years of school and then paying off loans. “After that, either short-term or long-term, I would love to be doing something with a school like Joy Town,” Follingstad said. “Just being there this summer definitely made me realize the need, and there are many exciting opportunities there to serve.” Richardson was originally intent on pursuing medical school and especially in serving through the LEGS program when she got to LeTourneau. “I was interested in getting out into the world and doing something to benefit others,” she said. But now
she said she also sees the benefits of outcome research. “It’s helped me realize you can be involved in people’s lives from a lot of different angles.” Richardson completed her credit for the special topic course in biology for Wheels. Follingstad is now the veteran, training new recruits like dental school hopeful Taylor Geyman in research this semester. “This is actually applied knowledge,” Geyman said. “And you’re helping people in real ways. It’s not like many other research projects.” Rispin plans to have him shadow Joy Town’s dentist when they return to Kenya this summer, since the children also have unique dental issues. Rispin knows the class is more about a special calling than a course credit. Not only does it include two semesters of research and a summer trip overseas, it is also self-funded. “The students really go way over and above with this,” Rispin said. “They get more undergrad research credit hours than they need. They’re going over and above academically.
They’re going over and above financially. These students are people with a real heart to serve. They’re special people.” After sending letters to 100 friends and family members and giving presentations at area service clubs, the students are also improving their public relations skills. “Many research projects have grants, but not many government granting agencies fund things like this,” Rispin said. “To do this, you really have to have a passion to make a difference. But the cool thing about this is that a little makes a big difference because there is such a need.” Richardson agreed the experience had immediate effects. “This trip gave me a bigger picture of the world,” she said. “I realized there are a lot of people who don’t live the same way I do. I also realized you don’t have to be super smart to change the world. God can use me now, not in 20 years when I’m older.” To find ways to give to this program, visit www.letu.edu/ wheels. n
Pictured at bottom left: Rachel Follingstad, foreground, and Elizabeth Richardson, background, monitor children in their pediatric wheelchairs at Joytown in Kenya. In photos on previous pages, they performed similar tests on able-bodied volunteers from Christian Heritage School in Longview, Texas.
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LeTourneau University – General Operating Fund Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2010
2009/2010 Revenue Tuition & fees
75%
Auxiliary Operations
17%
(net of $7,818,523 financial aid scholarships)
Unrestricted non-capital gifts & grants
2%
Grants, contracts & research
3%
Investment Income
1%
Miscellaneous & transfers from other funds
2%
Total Revenue and Transfers In ($50,499,820)
100%
Tuition & fees (net of $7,818,523 financial aid scholarships) Auxiliary Operations Unrestricted non-capital gifts & grants Grants, contracts & research Investment Income Miscellaneous & transfers from other funds
2009/2010 Expenditures Instructional, research & academic support
29%
Student and enrollment services & support
15%
Institutional support
20%
Plant and auxiliary operations & maintenance
16%
Debt service Capital Projects Total Expenditures ($50,499,820)
2% 18% 100%
Instructional, research & academic support Student and enrollment services & support Institutional support Plant and auxiliary operations & maintenance Debt service Capital Projects
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LETOURNEAU UNIVERSITY 2011
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Plan to join us for:
Women’s Residence Hall Reunion
We will be celebrating 50 years of women being a part of the LeTourneau legacy!
50th Reunion of Class of 1961
It’s also 50 years since LeTourneau Technical Institute became LeTourneau College. Come celebrate our progress! Mark your calendars to be a part of this memorable event!
Don’t miss any of our Homecoming Events which include: The Circle of Honor Distinquished Alumni Banquet Hootenanny Picnic on the LeTourneau Grounds (By Pond) WRH Reunion and Banquet
Student Foundation Silent Auction Inter-Society Rope Pull (In Pond) Card Board and Duct Tape Boat Races (In Pond) Class of 1961 Dinner at Johnny Cace’s