NOW Magazine - Fall 2013

L E TO U R N E A U U N I V E R S I T Y

FALL 2013

a message from the president LeTourneau’s Lasting Legacies This fall marks a historic year in the life of LeTourneau University—the 125th birthday of LeTourneau University’s late founder, Robert Gilmour LeTourneau.

Born Nov. 30, 1888 in Richford Vt., R.G. LeTourneau was a man who lived out the Great Commission in his workplace.

When he first came to accept Christ as his savior, he thought that the only way to serve Him faithfully was to become a missionary, but when a wise pastor told him that “God needs businessmen as well as pastors,” LeTourneau knew he could glorify God with the knowledge, skills and abilities God had given him, and he would do it with his whole heart.

He called God his business partner. In his autobiography, Mover of Men and Mountains, R.G. wrote about discovering the Lord, “. . .when you know Him, you’ll love Him, and when you love Him you’ll serve Him, and find the greatest happiness in doing so that you’ll ever know.”

LeTourneau used his personal talents and business resources to demonstrate God’s love. His 300 patents resulted in machinery that improved the lives of millions. His testimony shared in countless speaking engagements across the world led many to know, love, and serve God. You’ll read in this issue that long after his death in 1969 at the age of 80, Mr. R.G.’s legacy continues to demonstrate God’s love to a hurting world.

He and his beloved wife, Evelyn, founded the technical school in 1946 that today is LeTourneau University.

This fall 2013 issue of NOW magazine celebrates the life and legacies of our remarkable founder, and also introduces some of the exciting things happening at what I believe is Mr. LeTourneau’s greatest legacy— LeTourneau University.

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Legacy on Faith/Work Movement

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Legacy on Earthmoving Industry

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Legacy on Alumni

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Legacy on Campus

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News and Notes

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Bowman Shares Vision

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Impact On My Life

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LETU Campaign Expands Opportunities

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Faculty Feature: Byron Lichtenberg

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Class Notes

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Honor Roll of Donors

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A Pioneer of the Faith-and-Work Movement Written by Bill Peel

Robert Gilmour LeTourneau 1888-1969

R. G. LeTourneau’s name is often associated with generous giving, since he and his wife, Evelyn, practiced “reverse tithing” by giving away 90 percent and keeping 10 percent of their profits.

Yet few realize LeTourneau’s philosophy of giving was spawned by how he connected his faith with his work. LeTourneau was a pioneer and a leading spokesperson in the faith-and-work movement in the mid-twentieth century.

In his autobiography Mover of Men and Mountains, he wrote that according to his mother, he was restless, inquisitive, energetic, and ambitious. To his brothers, he was fanatically determined to amount to nothing. LeTourneau himself wrote, “My father's opinion of me during my first 14 years was usually expressed in a wide selection of Bible verses aimed at describing the fate of rebellious boys like me.”

After seventh grade, LeTourneau left school and took his first full-time job at Portland Ironworks, hauling sand for molds. From humble beginnings and a with a 7th grade education, LeTourneau built an empire manufacturing enormous earthmoving 4 | NOW Magazine | Fall 2013

machines that helped create the infrastructure of modern America.

By age 30, LeTourneau was a husband and a father. He was also unemployed and in debt. He fixed a farmer’s tractor, and then, to prove it was fixed, he leveled the farmer’s field. This experience became the launchpad for building a business doing what he loved: building machines to move dirt.

However, when his missionary sister chastised him to get serious about serving God, LeTourneau was confused. He was conflicted about the work he loved and what most people believed—that “going all out for God” meant going into fulltime ministry as a preacher, evangelist or missionary.

He attended a revival meeting at his church and made a commitment to give his life fully to God. Thinking he was headed to the mission field, he sought guidance from his pastor. After they prayed together, his pastor told him, “God needs businessmen as well as preachers and missionaries.”

LeTourneau decided that he would be God’s businessman and began almost 60 years of his business partnership with God. LeTourneau took the idea of being God’s business partner seriously, although he wrote that he believed God was getting a sorry specimen as a partner. Throughout LeTourneau’s career and lifetime, he credited God for any success he enjoyed. He believed his success made him a debtor to God and his fellow man.

His perspective translated not only into generosity, but also into quality work, bigger and better machines, and a commitment to help his employees flourish spiritually and physically. He hired both Christian and non-Christian workers, and employed full-time workplace chaplains. He developed new products to keep plants open and men employed, and he took personal responsibility for company failures.

LeTourneau’s faith in his Partner also made him a risk-taker, though he was careful not to presume

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“If I had a religion that limped along during the week, and maybe worked only on Sunday, or while you're in church, I don't think I'd be very sold on it. I think I’d turn it in on a new model that worked seven days a week, that would work when I was at church, in my home, or out at the plant. And that is what Christianity does.”

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on God’s blessing. He wrote, “When the Lord has a job for you to do, He’ll give you the strength and the ability to do it.”

LeTourneau’s brilliant and practical mind developed a remarkable theology of work.

Toward the end of his life he wrote, “When He created the world and everything in it, He didn’t mean for us to stop there and say, ‘God, you’ve done it all. There’s nothing left for us to build.’ He wanted us to take off from there and really build for His greater glory.”

LeTourneau believed that the ingenuity to do that came from God. “No one has ever measured the inventiveness that Christ awakens in a man’s soul because it is beyond measurement,” he wrote.

Without the myriad books, resources, and ministries that we have today to help people figure out what it means to follow Christ at work, LeTourneau recognized the theological implications of his earthy inventions.

“If there is no logical earthly explanation for my development of the digger, there’s a theological one, available to all of us, including the weakest,” he wrote. “By accepting God as your partner, there is no limit on what can be achieved. But God is no remote partner, satisfied if you go to church on Sunday and drop some religious money—the small change that goes to church—on the platter. He isn’t overwhelmed if you read the Bible once in a while and obey the Golden Rule.”

In a speech to the Chamber of Commerce in Peoria, Ill., LeTourneau asked, “What's the use of having a religion that won't work? If I had a religion that limped along during the week, and maybe worked only on Sunday, or while you're in church, I don't think I'd be very sold on it. I think I’d turn it in on a new model that worked seven days a week, that would work when I was at church, in my home, or out at the plant. And that is what Christianity does.”

For over 50 years LeTourneau traveled the world speaking to churches and calling lay people to go to work for Jesus Christ, laying the foundation for today’s modern faith-and-work movement.

Early on, he led what appears an almost spontaneous lay movement of people who gathered to teach each other what it meant to follow Christ in the workplace. One of the results was the Christian Businessmen’s Committee, which he helped launch in 1930 and which today claims 90,000 members around the world.

LeTourneau believed that it was the job of Christians in business to redeem the nation. He challenged laymen to take their place alongside pastors to make faith concrete.

"The preachers can tell us that Christianity works. … But unless we business men ... testify that Christianity is the driving power of our business, you'll always have doubters claiming that religion is all talk and no production," he wrote.

Bill Peel is Executive Director of LeTourneau University’s Center for Faith & Work, which seeks to close the gap between Sunday faith and Monday work. The Center champions the university’s historic commitment to R.G. LeTourneau’s legacy of faith-work integration in pursuit of claiming every workplace in every nation for Christ.

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EARTHMOVING INDUSTRY Written by Dale Hardy. Photos used by permission from Eric Orlemann and Joy Global.

Dale Hardy has studied the history of R.G. LeTourneau and has worked for over 20 years for LeTourneau Technologies, Inc., now a wholly owned subsidiary of Joy Global, Inc.

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tarting in his early teen years, R.G. had the ability to solve common everyday mechanical problems, and in the process invented new products.

He didn't invent something just to be inventing it; he was always attempting to solve a problem or to make an existing task more productive.

Earthmoving was one area of life that God chose for Mr. R.G. to make more productive.

Maybe it started in 1902, when his first job as a 14-year-old boy was an apprentice molder in an iron foundry. He was given his first task to shovel sand into a wheelbarrow. He wrote in his autobiography that he hadn’t moved 10 wheelbarrows before he was looking for an easier way to move dirt.

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In young R.G.'s first earthmoving job in 1919, it took two men and a tractor to slowly move three tons of earth. With the last earthmoving machine Mr. R.G. designed and built in 1965, one man by himself could move 360 tons of earth.

He was the first to build earthmoving equipment by welding all the parts together rather than bolting or riveting them. Electric arc welding had been around for a while, but Mr. R.G. was an early pioneer in the practical application of welding. In 1908, Mr. R.G. was introduced to oxyhydrogen welding. Some would call him “Tobin-Bronze Bob, The OneTool Mechanic” because of his prolific use of the welding torch. By 1912, he was using this process in his auto repair shop.

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His legacy continues to this day for being the first earthmoving manufacturer to install rubber tires on his equipment. In 1932, he replaced the steel wheels on one of his scrapers with Firestone truck tires. The owner was so pleased with its performance that he ordered more scrapers with rubber tires. One of Joy Global's largest tires today weighs over 15,000 pounds and stands 13 feet tall.

Through the years, Mr. R.G. was referred to as “the Dean of Earthmoving,” “Father of Modern Day Earthmoving Equipment,” and the “Pioneer of Modern Day Earthmoving Equipment.” George H. W. Bush described him as “the George Patton of engineering.”

In 1938, he purchased his first airplane, which he used for business purposes, but which he also used to travel around to speak of his faith. He considered God to be his business partner and came to be known as “God’s Businessman.” By the 1950s, one writer had called him the “Flying Preacher.”

In the 1950s, R.G. developed the first electro-mechanical drive system which he called the “electric wheel.” That concept is still in use today, allowing for each wheel to be operated independently of the others.

Even though he died in 1969 at the age of 80, his legacy continues on today in a very real and tangible way. Bigger and better machines are being built that use concepts that came from his lifetime of trials and ingenuity.

Also, many people today have a personal relationship with God because they, or someone in their family, once heard the Gospel unashamedly and unselfishly spoken by R.G. LeTourneau.

Today the company that he started in his driveway in 1929 is part of Joy Global, a worldwide leader in the production of earthmoving equipment. The Joy Global, LeTourneau-Series Wheel Loader produced today in Longview, Texas, is by far the largest front-end loader produced anywhere in the world, and these loaders are built using several concepts that were developed by Mr. R.G. himself.

See video on R.G. LeTourneau’s earthmoving legacy at www.letu.edu/earthmoving.

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Photos: 1. R.G. LeTourneau beside an electric wheel, which revolutionized earthmoving equipment.

2. R.G. LeTourneau in his 1965 VW Beetle beside his LT-360 scraper.

3. Largest tires today stand over 13 feet tall.

4. A young R.G. LeTourneau around age 14.

5. This L-1850 wheel loader is can lift nearly 100,000 pounds in its bucket.

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R.G. LeTourneau Written by Janet Ragland, Photos by Tom Barnard and/or used by permission.

R.G. LeTourneau influenced the lives of countless thousands during his lifetime, yet his greatest contribution to God’s kingdom could well be in his founding of LeTourneau University.

Today, 20,000 dedicated alumni—leaders in engineering, manufacturing, business, aviation, education, and vocational ministry—know their work matters to God and use their education and skills to impact workplaces around the world.

Young people years ago who heard LeTourneau speak often felt called into business as their path to serving God. One such student was Bob Walker. When he was only 13 years old, Walker heard R.G. LeTourneau give his testimony about being God’s businessman. Walker felt a distinct call to be a Christian businessman. He attended LeTourneau in the mid-1960s and remembers working on campus mowing with the Ford tractor and a Flail mower on the back before he graduated in 1969 with a degree in mechanical engineering. Today, Walker is

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president of Walker Mowers of Fort Collins, Colo., and is following R.G.’s legacy with God as his Senior Partner.

Lawnmower sales are seasonal, and if the bottom dollar were the only thing that mattered, Walker would hire people during the busy season and lay them all off in the winter months. But Walker wanted to treat people the way that he would want to be treated, and he knows that nobody has a seasonal life, so he was compelled to find a way to provide year-round employment for his dedicated workers.

In the late part of 2009, Walker tells of a time when lawnmower sales were slow. The easy thing to have done from a business-first perspective would have been to lay people off, but he thought of one of his favorite scripture verses from Philippians 2:4 to look not to your own interest, but the interest of others.

“We didn’t have enough work to keep people busy in November and December,” he said. “To

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save some jobs, we found work that needed to be done in the community. They stayed on the payroll but did community service, and it was the bridge that got us through to January and February when business picked up.”

Walker mowers today are used by family-owned mowing businesses around the globe, but also can be seen on the lawns of exclusive properties throughout the country and abroad—even at castles in Europe.

With dedication to integrity, excellence, gratitude and stewardship, Walker mowers have been able to create beautiful places for the glory of God. Paul Abbott is another alumnus whose life and business practices extend R.G. LeTourneau’s legacy.

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opportunities to grow in Christ—much the same way that R.G. LeTourneau did. As God kept blessing them, they were able to support others serving on the mission field.

“The more we gave, the more the business grew because we were using a large percentage of profits for Kingdom work, Abbott said. "I believe God owns it all. With that in mind, I try to be a better manager.

We've got to ask Him for wisdom to manage it in the right way to bring Him honor and glory.”

Alumnus Pat Bertsche of St. Charles, Ill., and his family also follow R.G. LeTourneau’s example of using biblical principles to run their company.

Camcraft is a global leader in manufacturing high-

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When Paul Abbott came to LeTourneau College in 1968, he thought he might someday be a missionary, yet today, he can now see how God has multiplied the impact of his life by enabling him to provide for numerous missionaries across the globe through aviation. He and his wife, Betty, own Covington Aircraft Engines, Inc., in Okmulgee, Okla.

Covington is a world leader in aircraft engine overhaul and repair, specializing in Pratt & Whitney radial and turbine engines. The company also installs and tests engines in addition to providing parts to customers all over the world.

During a mission conference at LETU in the early 1970s, Paul and Betty Abbott dedicated their lives to the Lord. When God opened the doors for them to own their own business, they purchased the company which has grown tenfold from six employees to 60. Today it exports nearly half of its engines abroad.

From their first year, they provided regular chapel services for their employees to give them

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precision machined components for the automotive and off-road vehicle engine markets. Camcraft’s four-fold mission is to 1) glorify God, 2) be a great place to work, 3) be our customers’ most valued and trusted partner, and 4) grow profitability.

The Bertsches view themselves as stewards of the business. They employ biblical principles to guide their work—even offering Bible studies during the workday, much like R.G. LeTourneau did, to help care for their employees spiritually.

“A lot of people never see the inside of a church, but they bump into Christians in the company every day,” he said. Pat graduated from LETU in 1989 and currently is the president of Matrix Design, L.L.C., a company recently acquired by the Bertsches.

“The heritage of Camcraft shows how God gave the business to my father,” Pat said. “Our mission is to care for all the people God has brought to our companies. As long as we are doing His will, we can be confident He will be pleased.”

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Legacy ON CAMPUS Continuing the

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he room buzzes as about two dozen freshmen engineering students receive their kit and instructions to build their own 3D printers. They each spread out their pieces and parts at their lab stations and get to work building what will be a high-tech tool they will use for the next four years in all of their engineering classes. Today 3D printers are being used for biomedical uses including producing low-costs prosthetics.

"We are the only university in the country, maybe in the world, that is doing this,” said LETU engineering dean Dr. Ron DeLap. “Other universities may be using 3D printers in some of their classes, but no one except LETU is requiring each freshman to build his or her own 3D printer. This project gives our students an incredible advantage.”

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This kind of educational ingenuity is not new to LeTourneau University, whose founder, R.G. LeTourneau, was known for his own engineering genius as the man whose problem-solving skills led to new machines that never before existed and garnered him nearly 300 patents.

While R.G. LeTourneau may have quit going to school in the eighth grade, he knew an education was key to success, so he continued his education through correspondence courses in engineering to give him the knowledge he needed.

He wrote in his autobiography that he saw no place for boys who were mechanically inclined to get a good education. “There were several wonderful schools, including all the state universities where a boy could get a fine technical

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ingenuity * global * personal * hands on * faith/work education, if he and his parents could afford it. But there were no technical schools founded on the earn-while-your-learn plan.”

LeTourneau fixed that.

Working adult education actually is what helped found the school that bears his name, because it was his innovative thinking that developed the “alter-day” program for young veterans returning from World War II who needed jobs and education.

LeTourneau set up an ingenious system where two men would share a job, with one working at his manufacturing plant while the other attended school. On alternate days, they switched. This creative solution resulted in providing opportunities for many who otherwise would not have been able to attend school.

LeTourneau added later, “Maybe I had gone out hunting for a plant-site adjacent to a steel mill, but the Lord had something else in mind. He wanted a school in which to train Christian engineers, and let me build my steel mill adjacent to it.”

Even decades after his death, the university that he founded ingeniously pioneered distance learning as it provided working adults a program that gave them the opportunity to earn degrees while still working and providing for their families. And as technology expanded, LETU was an early provider of online education. Today, LETU has thousands of alumni who have earned their graduate and undergraduate degrees from a Christian institution through its variety of expanding programs.

R.G. LeTourneau was a problem solver. He embodied ingenuity as he worked with his hands and his mind, much like our LETU students do today.

Education is hands-on at LETU where students actively engage in solving problems for people in developing countries, like providing a stair-climber water pump to provide water for agricultural needs of a village in Senegal, harnessing solar energy to recharge reusable batteries for lighting villagers’ homes in rural Mongolia, improving wheelchairs used by children with disabilities in Kenya and Guatemala, or developing low-cost temporary shelter solutions for victims of natural disasters worldwide.

R.G. LeTourneau had a global perspective. He thought about spreading the gospel of Christ around the world, as the machines he created that cleared farmland and built roads in missionary outposts in Peru and Liberia attest.

R.G. LeTourneau knew God was his Partner, just as LETU does today. R.G. LeTourneau knew that faith and work went together, that he could serve the Lord in his work every day—not just on Sundays.

He knew that God not only needed preachers, evangelists and missionaries, but that He could also use engineers, businessmen, teachers, pilots and a wide variety of other professionals.

It would be fair to say that LETU’s vision statement is an extension of the life and legacy of R.G. LeTourneau, and could even sound like a description of the man himself: Claiming every workplace in every nation as its 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.

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newsandnotes LETU RISES IN RANKINGS LETU has moved up in the national 2014 U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings of “America’s Best Colleges,” ranking for the 20th time in the top tier. LETU ranked 27th among all the universities in its category of “Best Regional Universities in the Western Region” for 2014, up from 36th last year and 39th in 2012, and was ranked 5th among schools in Texas for 2014. LETU ranked above all state universities in Texas in its category.

WHEELS TEAM PRESENTS RESEARCH Associate Professor of Biology Karen Rispin and two of her undergraduate biology students, Kristen Huff and Vanessa Parra, presented their research results for LETU’s Wheels Project at the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) annual conference near Seattle. LETU Assistant Professor of Engineering Norman Reese and undergraduate engineering student Tyler Johnson also presented their research on the Frontier Wheelchairs engineering project at the RESNA conference.

ERIC MCCRORY NAMED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR DEVELOPMENT Eric McCrory has been promoted to Executive Director for Development to lead the university’s fundraising initiatives to reach strategic goals. He serves on the President’s Cabinet and the university’s Administrative Council.

NEW DIRECTOR OF CURRICULUM DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY Dr. Colleen Halupa has been named the new Director of Curriculum Design and Technology. She previously served as the Assistant Dean of Online Learning in graduate and professional studies at LETU.

AGREEMENT WITH AMERICAN EAGLE FOR PILOT PIPELINE LETU and American Eagle Airlines signed an agreement Oct. 28 to provide a direct pathway for selected LETU flight students to find employment with American Eagle Airlines after graduation. President Dr. Dale A. Lunsford and American Eagle Captain Richard King signed the letter of agreement that states that LETU and AEA will collaborate “to facilitate a steady supply of airline qualified pilots through specific recruitment, screening, selection, training, and placement strategies for pilots to be employed by AEA,” known as the Pilot Pipeline Program. Learn more at www.letu.edu/eagle

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FREE COMMUNITY HEALTH FAIR LETU hosted the "Get it Together" Health Fair, one of East Texas' largest healthcare events with over 70 businesses and healthcare professionals on Oct. 3 in the Solheim Arena. The health fair, an annual community outreach event, emphasized lifestyle changes to improve overall health and provided free testing, screenings, and consultations.

LETU NAMES MATTHEW HENRY DEAN OF INNOVATIVE EDUCATION Matthew Henry now serves as the new Dean of Innovative Education and as the leader of LETU’s new Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning. As an administrative dean over academic technology, Henry serves as the senior academic technology officer and the leader in quality control of online/blended educational delivery.

He continues his previous role as Chief Information Officer in LETU’s IT department.

LETU BIBLICAL SCHOLARS PRESENT AT WORLDWIDE CONFERENCE LETU theology professors Dr. Viktor Roudkovski and Dr. Kelly Liebengood shared their research in biblical studies with other specialists in their fields of study from all over the world this summer at the International Society of Biblical Literature in St. Andrews Scotland, July 7-11.

LETU WELCOMES NEW FACULTY MEMBERS FOR 2013-2014 New faculty members for 2013-2014 include: Dr. Scott Anson, associate professor of mechanical engineering; Dr. David Dittenber, associate professor of civil engineering; Dr. Aaron Kuecker, associate professor of theology and director of Honors College; Dr. Daniel Ostendorff, assistant professor of history/political science; Dr. Jeffrey Quiett, professor of psychology; Dr. Luke Tallon, assistant professor of theology; and Dr. Mark Williams, professor of accounting.

LETU also welcomes former NASA astronaut Dr. Byron K. Lichtenberg as a visiting scholar in mechanical engineering.

LETU THEOLOGY PROFESSORS CO-AUTHOR BOOK CHAPTER LETU theology professors Dr. Kelly D. Liebengood and Dr. Aaron J. Kuecker have co-authored a chapter in a new book, Evangelical Faith and the Challenge of Historical Criticism. The book has been getting significant attention in theology and biblical studies circles for the manner in which it seeks to address the challenges of historical criticism, which, at times, seem to undermine the Christian faith.

LETU NAMES DR. TERRY CRUSE VP FOR ENROLLMENT Dr. Terry Dale Cruse was named as LETU’s new Vice President for Enrollment Services.

Cruse leads the university’s traditional and nontraditional student enrollment initiatives. He also partners with the academic deans to establish meaningful relationships with corporations, churches and other institutions to advance the university’s enrollment goals.

LETU PRESIDENT'S GUEST COLUMN APPEARS IN THE CHRISTIAN POST LETU President Dr. Dale A. Lunsford was published as a guest contributor in The Christian Post, the nation’s premier Christian news website.

His opinion piece titled “Missing Your College Freshman? Maybe This Helps” appeared Sept. 11 and encouraged parents with some reminders of the positive growth their students would experience in college.

DANNY KAMBEL NAMED NEW SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR Danny Kambel is the new LETU Sports Information Director. Kambel manages sports media and public relations for the 13-sport YellowJacket athletic department. He is also involved with the management of game operations, the official website (www.letuathletics.com) and social media strategies for the athletic department.

LETU 'STING' FLIGHT TEAM TAKES TOP HONORS AT NIFA REGIONALS LETU’s “Sting” Precision Flight Team won first place overall, first place in ground events, five first-place finishes, and received the Judge’s Trophy for being the top scoring team at the National Intercollegiate Flight Association 2013 Region IV SAFECON competition. The team qualifies to compete in national competition at Ohio State University in May 2014.

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DALLAS DANCER HOSTS ZUMBATHON FOR WHEELS PROJECT Inspired by the mission of LETU’s Wheels Project, a Dallas-area high school student is helping raise funds for LETU travel expenses by hosting a Zumbathon in Carrollton, Texas.

Funds raised will help the team to travel to Kenya this coming summer to continue research to improve wheelchairs for disabled children in developing countries. The high school student learned about LETU’s Wheels Project through her longtime friend and fellow dance class member, Dallas native Melanie Dittmer, a freshman biology major at LeTourneau University who is on the Wheels Projects team. In May, the project takes Dittmer to Kenya.

STUDENT SCHOLARS SHARE RESEARCH AT LETU CONFERENCE LETU hosted its biennial Student Scholars Conference Nov. 16. The conference theme was “Interpreting Texts, Contexts, and Events.” More than 60 LETU students from a broad variety of disciplines presented their scholarly research by reading their papers, giving presentations, presenting posters and serving on panel discussions on a range of topics from across the university.

SPORTS MINISTRY PROGRAM RANKED IN TOP 10 IN NATION LETU’s sports ministry program has been ranked among the top 10 in the nation by TheBestSchools. org. The organization selected the program on numerous factors, including overall academic excellence, program requirements and course offerings. The degree places a heavy emphasis on students gaining a strong background in biblical knowledge and the ability to use scripture effectively in their ministry fields.

EDUCATION GRADUATE NAMED 2013 STUDENT TEACHER OF THE YEAR LETU teacher education student Cristian Driver was named 2013 Student Teacher of the Year by the Texas Directors of Field Experiences in San Antonio Oct. 21. Driver graduated from LETU in May with a degree in mathematics education and is certified to teach grades 8-12 math.

He is now teaching algebra at Manvel High School in the Alvin Independent School District near Houston, where he also coaches track and basketball.

His adviser Dr. Julie Teel-Borders had nominated him and was at the conference to see him receive his award.

EMERITUS BIBLE PROFESSOR DR. MCKINLEY DIES Beloved LeTourneau University Emeritus Professor of Biblical Studies Dr. Kenneth F. McKinley died June 14.

McKinley began teaching Bible courses at LeTourneau Technical Institute in 1959 and continued teaching until his retirement in 1988, reaching the hearts and minds of thousands of students and alumni. He taught community Bible studies in Tyler, Longview and Dallas for many years, also serving as interim pastor at Pinecrest Bible Church in Longview and Tyler Bible Church in Tyler.

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LAURA LASTER NAMED DIRECTOR OF LETU FLIGHT OPERATIONS Laura Laster now serves as the Director of Flight Operations and oversees all university flight operations, including managing the university’s flight training activities, planning and coordinating all flight instruction and supervising the school’s 11 flight instructors. She also serves on the dean's leadership team and sets organizational goals.

ANSON PRESENTS RESEARCH AT TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE Associate professor of mechanical engineering Dr. Scott Anson presented at the Surface Mount Technology Association International conference in Fort Worth. Anson’s paper was titled “Evaluation of Solder Pastes for High Reliability Applications” and explored the manufacturability of various commercially available solder pastes, which are used in high reliability products such as medical devices, communications and military products. The paper was published in the conference proceedings.

ENGINEERING STUDENT WINS 2ND PLACE AT IEEE COMPETITION Engineering major Stephen Wood won second place in the 2013 IEEE Metro-Con Undergraduate Student Poster Competition. Stephen was presenting a poster on the 2011-2013 High Frequency Antenna Coupler (HFAC) senior design project, which was the focus of an electrical and computer engineering capstone course under the direction of faculty sponsor Dr. Joonwan Kim. The HFAC design project featured in Wood’s poster was a senior design team project in partnership with Rockwell Collins Inc. to create an antenna coupler with more precise tuning than current competitor models.

ENGINEERING PROFESSOR WINS NSF GRANT The National Science Foundation awarded a $249,900 grant to support Dr. Melanie Watson’s work in engineering education. The grant is for generating open source homework for three sophomore engineering courses in classes such as Statics and Mechanics of Materials, Electrical Engineering and Circuits and Thermodynamics, which are part of the core curriculum of any engineering program.

ENGINEERING PROFESSOR YONI ADONYI HONORED BY ALMA MATER Engineering professor Dr. Yoni Adonyi was honored

by Ohio State University at the 16th Annual Excellence in Engineering & Architecture Alumni Awards and received the Distinguished Alumni Award in honor of his outstanding professional achievement in engineering. Adonyi is noted for increasing enrollment threefold in the past 15 years at the LETU materials joining engineering program and has brought in $6 million in outside research and development funding and equipment. He was also instrumental in introducing a master’s in engineering degree program.

LETU INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS SHARE CULTURE AT SOUTH WARD In an effort to expand the worldview of many of the 5th grade students at South Ward Elementary School in Longview, Texas, LETU international students from all over the world shared information about their own homelands and heritage during classroom presentations. The LETU international students then worked alongside the children in a painting project to paint a map of the world on the school playground.

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LIBRARY GETS FACELIFT AND NEW DIRECTOR LeTourneau University’s Margaret new collaborative learning areas Estes Library and Learning Resource that include computer work stations Center has gotten a new facelift and built by students. New modular a new director as it supports LETU furniture and additional electrical students academically, physically, and outlets for charging mobile devices digitally. Leslie Bowman, the new were added. These changes have director, previously served as the increased student use of the library. supervisor of instructional support Library staff also taught information and development for one of Northern literacy to all 20 Cornerstones Virginia Community College’s six classes and several English, speech campuses in Alexandria, Va., where and psychology classes. Databases she managed educational technology are being reviewed and updated to procurement and training for 150 better meet student needs. A fresh full-time and 400 adjunct faculty library website is also in the works, instructing 17,000 students annually. along with the recently launched Bowman recently employed the use R.G. LeTourneau Museum and of a stack mover created and built by Archives digital database, available at LETU facility engineers in the 1980s museum.letu.edu. Archiving will be to move the Reference Section, all an ongoing project and alumni and without moving books off shelves. friends are encouraged to help by That move opened up space for some identifying people in the photos.

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Bowman Shares Vision for School of Business

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By Rachel Stallard Photos by Emily Rogers

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n Sept. 11, 2001, the world watched as two airliners crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, and another airliner slashed through the Pentagon. Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Bruce A. Bowman felt a deep personal loss. He had worked in the Pentagon only four months prior, before he retired from the U.S. Army in May 2001.

Not only did he lose several of his former coworkers there, but he lost a good friend in New York, the manager of security at the WTC. In some ways, it's as if Bowman never left military service. Granted, he's no longer jumping out of airplanes as a Green Beret or conducting major theatre-level war-gaming studies for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but he still applies the tactical assessment and business acumen from his distinguished 20-year military career wherever he goes.

“The Army is all about management,” Bowman said. “We manage people, budgets, resources, equipment. The Army provides extensive training to its officers. You definitely learn servant-leadership.

It’s ingrained in you to take care of the men and women in your unit.

“The Army also teaches that the enemy never comes at you like you think they will, and certainly not the second time around, so you’re constantly scanning the horizon, evaluating and adapting to new threats—just like you need to do in business,” he said.

That ability to look at the Big Picture, understand the system and its components and make leadership decisions is integral to his role as the new dean of LETU’s School of Business.

Bowman oversees undergraduate and graduate, campus-based and online business programs with more than 700 students and over 50 fulltime and part-time faculty members.

Programs include accounting, finance, marketing, management, human resources management, aviation management, healthcare management, international business and business administration.

Since he arrived in July, Bowman has launched a corporate education partnership initiative, recognizing that LETU’s core competencies are the generation and distribution of knowledge, as well as recognizing that knowledge doesn’t have to be packaged in standard three-credit-hour courses.

“We are reaching out to industry to provide workforce training, seminars and continuing education,” Bowman said. “We scored our first victories recently when Eastman Chemical invited us to provide speakers for a leadership seminar series and when the City of Kilgore, Texas, approved $14,000 in funding for a team of LETU students and faculty member to produce human resource plans for re-engineering the city’s benefits and compensation policies.”

Prior to LETU, Bowman served as the dean of the division of science, technology and business at Northern Virginia Community College. There he oversaw one of two academic divisions at NOVA’s campus in Alexandria, Va., a school of 7,000 fulltime students. His office was directly upstairs from that of English professor Jill Biden, the wife of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.

Prior to NOVA, Bowman was dean of engineering at Norwich University and director of Norwich’s Center for Innovation Leadership.

As dean of engineering, Bowman established an entrepreneurship program in partnership with the School of Business, launching a new bachelor’s program in engineering management.

He is currently considering ideas for new business programs at LETU that partner with growth areas in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).

Bowman recruited Norwich’s two largest freshmen engineering classes in nearly 20 years while quintupling the annual charitable contributions to the engineering school. He was a Fellow of the Kern Family Foundation’s entrepreneurship education network. He also led and won ABET re-accreditation of all programs.

Teaching has long been one of Bowman’s passions, both during and after his military career.

“I was vice president of a Fortune 500 defense firm, but I found I was more energized by my adjunct teaching,” Bowman said. “I looked forward to my mid-week evening classes and felt drawn to fulltime teaching.”

Bowman taught graduate courses as an adjunct professor at George Washington University in Washington D.C. in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, traveling to the schools off-campus program in northern Virginia, California and New Mexico. He was nominated by students as top faculty of the year.

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While still in the military, Bowman taught at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He was an assistant professor in engineering management and systems engineering, overseeing student design projects and officer professional development program. At West Point, he was presented the Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Scholastic Achievement Award.

One of Bowman’s entrepreneurial career highlights was establishing the ACE Mentor Program in Washington, D.C. Bowman is the principle founder, chief operating officer and incorporator of the nonprofit after-school mentoring program that encourages inner-city high school youths to pursue educational and professional opportunities in architecture, construction management and engineering.

For five years Bowman enlisted chief executive officers, college engineering deans, national and regional engineering and architectural design firm managers and corporate sponsors to work together to mentor these at-risk students. The program has awarded over $400,000 in college scholarships.

For his work, Bowman was honored with an award from the Congressional Black Caucus Education Braintrust. Today, Bowman serves on the ACE Mentor Program board.

LETU’s new business dean Dr. Bruce Bowman has been devising a tactical strategy that moves LETU’s School of Business in a new direction.

Bowman has already begun researching ideas for new graduate programs to join the other popular offerings: Master of Business Administration, Master of Strategic Leadership and Master of Healthcare Management.

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Other career highlights include consulting for PricewaterhouseCoopers Management and serving in senior industry positions such as the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory where he worked with the team that responded to the anthrax attacks on Capitol Hill.

Bowman’s educational history includes a bachelor’s in chemistry from Indiana University, a master’s degree in Operations Research from the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology at WrightPatterson AFB in Ohio and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in civil engineering, both from Columbia University in New York.

When LETU Provost Dr. Philip Coyle called Bowman last December to talk about taking the reins of LETU’s School of Business, at first Bowman and his wife, Leslie, weren’t sure they were ready to be anywhere further south than Virginia.

“When we came down to visit the campus, something just grabbed us,” Bowman said. “We felt like we were supposed to be here. How can you say ‘no’ if you feel God’s hand is moving? You can’t stand in the way of that.”

Leslie is the new director of LETU's Library and Learning Resource Center, a position similar to what she was doing at NOVA. The Bowmans relocated to Texas in the middle of the summer, putting them geographically in the middle of their two sons: one is married and lives in California, conducting postdoctorate work at Berkeley; the younger recently graduated from Norwich University and is living in Maryland.

“Being in the military is definitely processoriented like academia, but it’s also very missionoriented,” Bowman said.

“We’re going to rebuild and rebrand our business school around three principle initiatives,” Bowman says.

1) Business as Mission. “First and foremost, undergirding everything else we do, we want to produce business graduates who will honor their promises, be trustworthy, exhibit servant leadership and exemplify Christian ideals of taking care of their people and reinvesting their profits to build God’s kingdom.”

2) Technology in Leadership. “In today’s technological era, leaders must understand and leverage

technology assessment and product development and know how to drive business value from organizational IT infrastructures. What is your critical business information? How will you store it and enable network access to your employees and vendors? How will you protect that information from hackers? Business leaders, to include nonprofit leaders, must answer these fundamental questions.”

3) Entrepreneurial Mindset. “We are not going to create an entrepreneur out of every student, but we want to create an entrepreneurial mindset so they will

“It’s all about teamwork, and service to something bigger than we are. That’s one reason I’m here at LeTourneau.

I love that service component. Only here, I’m serving the ultimate Commander-in-Chief.”

look at problems as opportunities and adapt quickly in the global marketplace.

Competitors are always around the next corner and things change quickly. After all, 70 percent of Apple’s revenue today comes from products that did not exist six years ago. Maintaining a competitive edge is difficult, so we need to create business leaders who are flexible, innovative and creative.”

Bowman expects students to gain business experience in the program.

“We can’t expect undergraduate students to postpone their aspirations for four years and incur opportunity

costs and college debts before they begin their business careers,” he says. “Nor can we expect graduate education to be overly theoretical and disconnected from the workplace.

“We’re going to teach undergraduate students how to start student-run businesses. We will push them, let them flail about, grit their teeth and learn from their mistakes in the protective environment of the university before we launch them out into the world with their degrees in hand. I foresee our MBA students mentoring undergraduates, thereby giving

graduate students all-important, handson management experience.”

A strong network of alumni and friends will play a key role, Bowman said.

“LeTourneau’s alumni and adjuncts are entrepreneurs, small business leaders, and corporate executives who have invaluable experience to offer,” he said. “It’s like a family here, and that gives us a competitive edge over forprofit schools. Can you imagine what is possible with their mentoring?”

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Written by Carly Robinson, senior education major from Clifton, Texas. Photos by Sharina Wunderink.

Psalm 16 has always been a source of perspective about the identity, confidence about the future, and purposefulness that come from abiding in Christ.

"You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy..."

This scripture concluded my graduation address in high school, and its truth certainly has held true for my journey through college in more ways than I anticipated.

Recently finding my old journal and homework from my college freshman year’s Cornerstones class brought back a flood of happy memories about the classes and people who have taught me since that first semester.

LeTourneau has been informative, unquestionably, but also incredibly formative.

My most important experiences here have shaped not simply what I have learned, but who I have become.

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Growing up in Texas had offered me a look at numerous schools, public and private, but from my first visit to campus, it was obvious that LeTourneau was different from the others.

My family and I visited campus during Fall Fest, when sidewalk chalk campaigns and funny costumes at lunch in Saga reveal the unique creativity and sense of humor of our student body. Over the years, I, too, would go around campus dressed as Mother Superior, Athena, and a mad scientist!

Signs of the school’s famed ingenuity were parked in the bicycle racks along the loop: many of these motorized bikes and modified wheelchairs were customized for class projects, but this engineering was also applied to non-academic contraptions, such as Penn 2’s grocery-cart-andcampaign-sign sled. I later rode it down the berm on one of our rare snow days.

LeTourneau’s deep sense of community was noticeable from my first tour, as passersby smiled and genuinely greeted visitors.

Davis Hall, where I spent the night as a previewer and later came to live as a D3 Lamb, grew from being just a new building to being home, and the dorm itself has bonded through Extended Orientation, brother-sister floor fellowship, pondings, and joint participation in Hootenanny and intramurals.

I have grown these past four years.

Faculty and administrators have offered not just academic instruction, but also mentorship through Life Group chapels, approachable open-door policies, and even study parties in their homes.

English professor Dr. Annie Olson always reminded her honors cohorts that “People will not care how much you know until they know how much you care.” This principle is one of the most significant lessons I’ve learned as a future teacher. It also is one of the things I love about LeTourneau because here, that caring is lived out.

While my small-town background resonated with the size and closeness of the campus, my interest in other cultures and overseas travel were met by the diversity of our student body. These past few years, I have developed and grown relationships with Chinese, Saudi Arabians, Koreans, Indonesians, and my roommate from the “foreign” land of Chicago!

Campus events like “Our World Cafe” highlighted the numerous cultures of international students and missionary kids on campus. I brought these friends home during holiday breaks and introduced them to quintessentially “Texan” activities like skeet shooting, riding in the back of a pickup, and picking wildflowers.

Each semester has been unique and not without its academic and personal challenges.

Balancing extra-curricular activities, relationships, and schoolwork proved to be the most frequent challenge, yet I have come to more greatly appreciate grace, time management, and coffee.

My favorite elective classes have been the most eclectic, such as a literature class on the Inklings and a class on introductory manufacturing processes lab. Every LeTourneau graduate should know how to weld, right?

Coursework in my teacher education program builds each year from theory to technique, incorporating field experiences and culminating in the final semester of student teaching. Two placements in eighth grade classrooms will serve as the capstone to my 4th-8th Language Arts and Social Studies degree. These observation times have affirmed my desire to teach. More than any final exam, the real test of what I have gained here will be how I can impact others for the glory of Christ.

Serving on mission trips to an after-school center in an Alaskan village during Spring Break and visiting a juvenile detention center with a prison ministry team have broadened my perspective on young people. Placing academics and application within a gospel-focused view of vocation has helped me to see middle school as a mission field.

Coming to LeTourneau was a part of God’s will for me. I know it because of the way He provided for the journey and blessed the experience. My decision was guided greatly by a significant scholarship from Heritage Weekend and confirmed through studying and living here.

My professors’ expertise and mentorships, my friends’ camaraderie and faith, and even Mr. R.G.’s original gumption and humility are best expressed again by Psalm 16: “The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.”

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LETU Campaign Expands Opportunities for Growth

By Eric McCrory, LETU Executive Director for Development

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n September of 2012, LeTourneau University publicly announced its largest, most comprehensive fundraising campaign in the history of the university. The $27.5 million "For Such A Time As This" Campaign has focused on five key opportunities: 1

Center for Faith and Work 2 Student Scholarships 3

Student Center and Athletic Village 4

Global Service Learning Center 5 Academic Excellence This past year, LETU President Dale Lunsford and several of our LETU Development staff have traveled throughout the country sharing the heart of the Campaign.

As we approach the end of 2013, the Lord has provided over $22.6 million dollars in pledges and gifts!

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We trust God to continue urging our faithful LETU alumni and friends to provide the remaining $4.9 million before the campaign is set to conclude in December of 2014.

The five key opportunities prepare and equip our students, like Carly Robinson (featured on page 22) to fulfill the vision of LeTourneau University as they go into every workplace and every nation as professionals of ingenuity and Christ-like character who see life's work as a holy calling with eternal impact.

To those who have joined God’s work by supporting the “For Such a time As This” campaign, I thank you for your prayers and generous contributions.

For others, it is not too late. We ask that you prayerfully consider giving generously to LeTourneau University “For Such A Time as This,” especially as we approach the end of 2013.

Also last fall, we announced LeTourneau University's Annual Fund would be renamed “The 1946 Society,” embracing the history and legacy of the founding of our school by R.G. LeTourneau in 1946 as World War II was concluding.

$22,645,102.97

As we celebrate this fall the 125th anniversary of Mr. LeTourneau's birth, we continue working diligently to make a LeTourneau education affordable for all students God calls here.

Many families continue to struggle with paying for college.

We are committed to doing our part to offset the cost of an LETU education by providing significant tuition discounts to students who otherwise could not attend LeTourneau University.

The 1946 Society is a key avenue to provide student scholarships. Your generosity makes this possible by helping students fulfill their dreams and make an impact for Jesus Christ in the workplace as they pursue their professional calling.

Thank you to all who give to the 1946 Society. You helped students get here . . . imagine how far they will go.

Are you a member of the 1946 Society? If you haven’t joined yet, you can start making a difference by joining online, or if you would like to give to the “For Such A Time As This” campaign, you can give your tax-deductible gift online at www.letu.edu/give or send it in by mail at LeTourneau University, Development Office, P.O. Box 7333, Longview, Texas 75607.

Allen Student Center Sneak Peek The new Anna Lee and Sidney Allen Family Student Center will open in the spring, but you can get a sneak peek at what your donations to the LETU capital campaign have done.

Watch the video tour by LETU President Dr. Dale A. Lunsford and Student Body President Carly Robinson.

Go to www.letu.edu/AllenSneakPeek

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Dr. Byron Lichtenberg Sharing a Global View in Engineering

Written by Rachel Stallard, Photograph by Emily Rogers

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s Dr. Byron Lichtenberg gazed out the window of Space Shuttle Columbia, he realized Earth did, indeed, resemble a large globe on an invisible stand.

He noted Italy's boot, Florida's peninsula and Australia's coastlines. But the borders, color-coded countries and names were distinctly absent.

It didn’t take many trips around the third rock from the sun for it to dawn on him that, as humans, we really are all in this world together.

Lichtenberg has orbited Earth as a payload specialist on two NASA missions, logging more than 300 laps around the planet from about 200 miles up. His first orbital trip was on Columbia in 1983; his second on Atlantis in 1992. Both trips succeeded in broadening his horizon concerning the great unknown.

"Those flights had a profound effect on my life," said Lichtenberg, LETU’s new visiting professor of engineering. "You look out there at the Earth, and it’s most of your field of view. You can see about 1,000 miles in any direction. About every 90 minutes, you’ve seen all of civilization as we know it.

“Everything God’s produced is right there,” he said. “It’s not until you come back and start talking to others who have gone up that this experience becomes a very human thing. Whether you’re a Russian test pilot, a Vietnamese fighter pilot, a Mexican engineer or a Saudi prince — whatever your background in terms of technology, ethnicity or socio-economic status— we have this human sense that we are now global citizens of the world."

Before Lichtenberg came to LeTourneau University to teach freshmen engineering classes this Fall; before he started ZERO-G, a company to help NASA provide reduced gravity aircraft services for science and engineering research; even before he became a founding member of the Association of Space Explorers, a worldwide astronaut and cosmonaut association, he filed a Flight Plan for his life — one that would include a stint in space exploration at a time when men were still gingerly approaching the moon.

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astronauts were going into space, so I looked at their career paths to see what I needed to do,” he said. “I saw that the early Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts were military test pilots. I decided I needed to be a military test pilot with a graduate degree in engineering, math or science. That meant I needed an undergraduate degree in engineering, math or science. That also meant I needed to join the Air Force, go to flight training and become a fighter pilot, which meant I needed to graduate at the top of my class. So that’s what I did.”

Lichtenberg entered Brown University as an aerospace engineering student in Fall 1965. He also enrolled in the Air Force ROTC program, which readied him for military life when he graduated in 1969 and

moved to Williams Air Force Base in Phoenix. He was the Top Gun in his class in 1970, and one of the first class of graduates to advance straight into the F4 Phantom’s pilot seat out of class. Normally, newbies sat in back to navigate.

He was stationed in the Philippines, and then in Vietnam where he flew 138 combat missions.

Despite receiving two Distinguished Flying Crosses and 11 Air Medals, Lichtenberg is more proud of another statistic.

“Everybody I took up all came back,” he said. “I never lost anyone who flew with me.”

By 1973, Lichtenberg noticed that NASA only needed two pilots for their shuttles, but four to six scientists were

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aboard to run the mission’s experiments.

“I decided to go to graduate school and be a fighter pilot with a doctorate degree and enter the space program that way,” he said.

He enrolled at Massachusetts Institute of Technology to get his graduate engineering degree, then joined the state’s Air National Guard where he could still take a spin in an F-100 whenever the need arose.

“I determined that flying for me is necessary, but not sufficient,” he said. “I need to do it, but I need to do more than just fly.”

Approaching his dream of space travel from an engineering perspective led to a new field of study that lent itself to scientific exploration — biomedical engineering.

Lichtenberg stumbled into the field to keep from taking a class in quantum physics, but ended up emerging on the cusp of NASA’s research projects. He was already using engineering techniques to explain the body’s innerear vestibular system and organs of balance.

When NASA made a plea for projects to take into space, the effects of weightlessness on the body was already heavy on Lichtenberg’s mind. He proposed his doctoral study on ocular counter rolling and gravity’s effects and became one of 19 Americans nominated for the chance to go into space as a payload specialist.

Following a series of interviews, including a twomonth crash course to familiarize himself with 72 experiments from several disciplines, the hunt was narrowed down to two — Lichtenberg and Dr. Michael Lampton, an astrophysicist from Berkeley, Calif.

He and Lampton spent the next four years traveling

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the world, learning the experiments from the principal investigators who created the studies that would be conducted in space. A year before take-off, the final decision was made about who would go into space.

Lichtenberg won out.

“That was a bittersweet time,” Lichtenberg said. “I had spent more time with him in those four years than I did with my family. I couldn't get too excited, because I felt bad he wasn't going to get to go.”

The STS-9 mission was launched in November 1983.

Lichtenberg said after 10 days in space they had demonstrated to the scientific community what could be done. A success in many regards, some of the experiments did not gather useful scientific data, but did prove they could operate successfully. A return flight was planned, this time with Lampton at the helm.

However, the Challenger explosion in 1986, followed

by Lampton battling abdominal cancer in the early 1990s, changed plans, and Lichtenberg found himself back in the shuttle, strapped to a rocket, when STS-45 went up for nine days in 1992.

Lichtenberg repeatedly has seen God take over his pilot’s logbook. An interest in zero gravity studies led him and a friend to start Zero Gravity Corporation, which is now owned by Space Adventures.

Originally, he would rent NASA’s Boeing KC-135 plane and take customers’ experiments on board as a precursor to space travel.

“We wanted to keep the research community alive in the years when the shuttle was grounded, and this was a cheap and easy way to do it," he said. “It costs thousands of dollars to fly in the airplane; hundreds of thousands to

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fly sub-orbital; and millions to go into space. So this is the place where you start out."

In time, so many people were coming up with zero gravity experiments just to go fly that Lichtenberg decided to buy a plane for commercial purposes and sell seats. Seven years later, the dream became a reality.

Lichtenberg likens it to “an 8,000-foot roller coaster in the sky.”

In addition to having a research contract with NASA, Zero Gravity Corp. (www.gozerog.com) also takes flights up for marriages, media and celebrities. Lichtenberg’s favorite was physicist and paraplegic Dr. Stephen Hawking.

“I was one of his spotters,” Lichtenberg said. “We did five parabolas and slowly flipped him around. To see his eyes light up, that was really amazing.”

Lichtenberg was the first director of curriculum development and a founding board member for the International Space University, a school educating future leaders in the space exploration and development field.

He was also a founding member of the Association of Space Explorers and X Prize Foundation, a non-profit organization that awards prizes for technological development.

With a family, including his wife, Tamara, and three children (plus two daughters from a previous marriage), Lichtenberg’s “day job” since 1994 has been flying as a commercial airline captain for Southwest Airlines.

His recent retirement in February readied him for a new adventure when he visited LETU in March with his daughter, Jessanne, who is interested in biomedical engineering. Lichtenberg knew about LeTourneau because his wife had recently completed her degree from

the Tyler location and taking online classes.

"I was looking for something to do, and when they started talking about how strong LeTourneau is in engineering and aerospace sciences, I sent a letter to Dr. DeLap, the dean of engineering, to introduce myself,”

DeLap called him in to visit, and soon Lichtenberg had a class of freshmen students to prepare for, including his daughter.

Lichtenberg says a few things drew him into the classroom.

“First, I hope to keep the cobwebs out of my brain,” he said. “And second, I want to give back to the kids.”

He remembers with amazement a class he took in his first year at Brown University under Dr. Paul Maeder, dean of engineering. Maeder was instrumental in building the Apollo Moon Rocket with NASA and worked alongside Wernher von Braun, one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany during World War II. Von Braun is credited as the “Father of Rocket Science.”

“Here I was, as a freshman, being taught by a guy who had been working on the moon rocket,” Lichtenberg said. “I thought it was really amazing that he would be willing to do that, to put that time in. That encouraged me, so I really wanted to teach freshman, hoping they would have a similar perspective. That freshman year is so tough coming out of high school, and especially in those difficult engineering courses, I want to give back and encourage them with the same kind of encouragement I had.”

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classnotes MEMORIALS Jerry Bishop (’58, IE) died June 17, 2013, in Fort Wayne, Ind. He is survived by his daughter, Janet Ashabranner, and brother, Jack Bishop (’61, IE), of Brooksville, Fla. Jeanette Breithaupt, wife of Paul Breithaupt (’70, WE), died June 7, 2013, in Rock Hill, S. C. They were married for 40 years. She is survived by Paul and their son, Randall, and his wife, Michelle, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Mike Jackson (’71, CHBS) died March 30, 2013, in Longview, Texas. He is survived by his wife, Mary, and son, Bill.

The loss of a loved one, friend or colleague often inspires us to ensure that their memory lives on. Many people find that supporting LETU is an ideal way to honor someone who has died. Gifts made "in memoriam" offer lasting honor to a loved one while providing family and friends with the satisfaction of knowing they have helped others. If you would like to give a memoriam to LETU, please call 1-800-259-5388 or donate online at www.letu/give. The family will be notified of your generosity when a memoriam is made.

BIRTHS

Nathan Woskie (’95, ATFL) and wife, Dayna, announce the birth of their first child, Garrett Luke, born Feb. 5 at 7 lbs. and 19.5 inches long in Keller, Texas.

Nathan White (’96, MT/AU) and wife, Valerie, announce the birth of Natalie Elissa, born Feb. 23 at 11 lbs. 3 oz. and 21.5 inches long in Soldotna, Alaska. The baby joins siblings Jonathan (6), Abigail (4) and Evelyn (2).

Chris (’98, CSMA) and Nicole (98, BYBS) O’Meara adopted two children from Ethiopia, Shaun (4) and Hope (2).

They join their big brother Joshua (11).

Gavin (’99, ATFL) Jones and wife, Carrie, announce the arrival of their quintuplets, David, Grace, Marcie, Seth, and Will on Aug. 8, 2012. They received national attention after the birth and have now celebrated a birthday. They join their brother Isaac (9) in their home in Duncanville, Texas. The family has a blog at: www.gavincarrie.blogspot.com.

Philip (’01, EE/CSE) and Kimberly Dean, welcomed their daughter, Abrielle, on May 16 at 7 lbs. and 20 inches long in Lisbon, Iowa. Abrielle joins Josiah (6), Leeza (6), Grace (5), and Kasia (3).

Seth Buttner (’94, ATBU) and wife, Toni, welcomed their first child, Tabytha Joy, born on July 19, weighing 7 lbs. 15 oz.

They live in Grapevine, Texas.

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Philip Steers (’02, ACCT) and wife, Jennifer, announce the birth of their daughter, Rachel, on March 20. She joins her big sister Katelynn (2).

Andrew “Andy” Carter (’03, ASAE) and wife, Andrea, announce the birth of their daughter, Jaylah Maribeth, on July 23, weighing 7 lbs. 12 oz. and 21 inches long.

She will join siblings Avery (5) and Macie (2) at their home in Pleasant Dale, Neb. Jesse (’04, ASAE) and Laura (’04, ASFM) Laster announce the birth of their daughter, Katherine “Kate” Jane, born Nov. 23, 2012, in Nacogdoches, Texas. Her big brother, Matthew (4), is excited to have a sibling.

Raul Valdes (’04, EE) and wife, Veronica, welcomed their twins, Anabella Elizabeth and Samuel Enrique, on June 17 at 4:50 pm and 4:51 p.m. respectively. Veronica became a U.S. citizen four days before her babies were born. Raul recently took a job with JBA Consulting Engineers, a multinational company based in Las Vegas.

Raul is the department manager for the electrical department in JBA's New Orleans office. He was LETU school body president in 2003 and 2004. His email is raulvaldes@ gmail.com.

Andrew (’05, ASFL) and Sara (Campbell) (’05, BYBS/PSYA) Westerhaus announce the birth of their daughter, Katelyn Joy, born June 6 at 8 lbs. 1 oz. and 20.25 inches long. She joins brothers, Benjamin (3) and Matthew (2), in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Eva Langton (’10, ELE1) and husband, Jeremy, announce the birth of their first child, Atticus Fletcher, born on Apr. 22.

Eva and Jeremy are settling into a new home in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Jason (’07, ASFS) and Esther (’04, ASAE) Tencza welcomed their daughter, Chloe Joy, on Sept. 27, 2012.

Ben Luckert (’09, ACCT) married Mandy Spicer on May 25 and now works as an internal auditor for First Command Financial Services, Inc.

Jacqueline “Jackie” Weaver (’12, TEC6) and husband, Mike, announce the birth of their daughter, Charlee Kate, born Apr. 12, weighing 6 lbs. 6 oz. She joins her big brother, Cooper, at home in Longview, Texas. Jackie recently took a job with Skip Morton & Associates Real Estate Brokerage in Longview, Texas.

Cam (’08 CE) and Jincy (’06, MK) Nichols announce the birth of Jaiden Lily Nichols on June 25 at 6 lbs. 11.5 oz. and 19 inches long in Salem, Ore. Ryan (’08, BME) and Shannon (Toews) (’06, BYBS) Potter announce the birth of Sydney Claire Potter on Oct. 14 at 9 lbs. 4 oz. and 20.5 inches long.

Jeremy (’09, AFPP) and Anna (Polson) (’10, ISE2) Cole welcomed their first child, Nathaniel Luke, on Feb. 13 in The Colony, Texas.

Tyler Kaminski (’10, ME) and his wife, Julie, welcomed their first child, Isaac Joseph Kaminski, on June 15.

Cassaundra Hamil (’08, ISBS) is engaged to Kyle Kenney and will be getting married on Dec. 14, 2013.

She is teaching Elementary Education in Lantana, Fla.

Jerome Yoder (’12, BME) and wife, Elise, announce the birth of their daughter, Kinley Ann, on Sept. 22, 2012. They have moved to Dhaka, Bangladesh, where Jerome is the general manager for United Surgical.

WEDDINGS Donna DeLancy (’72, BA) married Jon Spierer on May 18, and they now live in Las Vegas.

Sarah (Randow) Albertson (’04, HIPL) married Tim Albertson on June 30, 2012, among the redwoods in Crescent City, Calif. They now live in Longview, Texas, where Sarah is an adjunct history teacher and Tim is on staff at LETU in facilities services.

Hawk Harrison (’13, ME) and Megan Hillmann (’12, ISBS) were married on Oct. 11 at the home of Ron and Emily Bellamy in Longview, Texas. They now reside in Bettendorf, Iowa. Hawk works for John Deere as an engineer, and Megan works for LETU as the Study Aboard Program Coordinator.

CLASS NOTES 50s Charles Lucas (’58, IS) was presented with a Dedicated Service Award by the ASME for his volunteer service on their B30 Safety Committees. Charles and his wife, Mary, live in Tulsa, Okla.

60s Stanley Freeman (’62, MT) finished constructing his homebuilt airplane, a Zodiak 601 XL-B, after 2 years and 2,000 hours of work. The airplane is FAA approved.

Juan Colao (’65, ME) is now retired and lives in Miami, Fla. Ronald Jantzen (’67, AE) retired from FlightSafety International in Jan. 2012, where he was the director of engineering.

Bem Walker (’67, ME/IE) and his wife, Carol, celebrated 50 years of marriage on July 6 in Vancouver, Wash. They have four grown children, three sons and one daughter, and four grandchildren.

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classnotes 70s James “Jim” Henderson (’71, ET) and his wife, Kathleen, have moved to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. Jim is serving in the U.S. Army and has three grown children.

Jeff and (’76, ME/WE) Elsa (’76, EN) Shaver are currently serving with the Peace Corps in Botswana, Africa.

80s Daniel Cutler (’81, ATBS) is now working for Air New Zealand Technical Operations as a senior tradesman aircraft maintenance engineer and production planning support engineer. He, his wife, Judyanne, and children, Maeghan (3) and Nathaniel (1), live in Auckland, New Zealand.

Andrew Eagleton (’84, ATBS) now works as an aviation safety inspector for the FAA in Denver, Colo.

Todd Anderson (’86, BIAT/AU) has been working for Delta Airlines for the past 15 years and is now in Bloomington, Minn. in the cabin conditioning department doing line maintenance on the Boeing 777 and the Airbus 330. He lives in Bloomington with his wife, Parvin.

the plane could still be intact with Jerry alive. His family set up a website www. findjerry.com to raise awareness and prayer support.

90s Andrea Peterson (’92, BBM) completed a Master of Tourism Administration through George Washington University in May 2012. She opened ASAP Meetings & Events in 2009 in Houston. She recently relocated the business to Castle Rock, Colo., where she and her husband, Steve, have entered into franchise ownership of a Christian Brothers Automotive location as well.

Scott Merrill (’94, BSME) is now vice president of engineering for GWACS Defense Inc. in Tulsa, Okla.

Sarah (Randow) Albertson (’04, HIPL) married her husband, Tim, and teaches history for LETU. Stephanie Wolford (2004, BBA) is vice president and loan officer for Texana Bank in Longview and was recently honored by the Longview Chamber of Commerce as a recipient of the Emerging Leaders Award.

Timothee Howland (’96, CSMA) is now working for Intergraph Corporation as a software engineer. He and his wife, Jennifer, live in Madison, Ala. with their children Joshua (17), Abigail (16) and Chloe (7).

00s Linda Anderson (’00, BA) now lives in Avinger, Texas.

Philip Russell (’87, ME/AT) now lives in Warminster, Penn. and works as a customer engineer for NCR Corporation

Beverly (Myers) Caperna (’01, BBM) and her husband, Darren, live in Garland, Texas. She is the vice president of sales and operations at David King InsuranceNationwide Insurance.

Jerry Krause (’81, ATFL) and his twinengine Beechcraft 1900 aircraft went missing Sunday, April 7, in a storm off the coast of West Africa on approach to the Sao Tome airport. He was flying from Johannesburg, South Africa, to Mali when radio contact was lost. The emergency location transmitter in his aircraft was never activated, and despite searches in the Gulf of Guinea, no wreckage has been reported, which leads the family to believe

Philip (’01, EE/CSE) and Kim Dean live in Lisbon, Iowa.

Philip is working at Rockwell Collins, and Kim is at home with their children Josiah (6), Leeza (6), Grace (5), Kasia (3) and Abrielle, who was born in May.

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Mark Strait (’01, BBA) is partner in a new information technology business, Absolute Technology Solutions, which provides customized hardware, software and creative solutions for area businesses.

Mark and his wife, Alaina, have two children, Jackson (10) and Carah (7), and live in Kilgore, Texas.

Stephen Casey ('05, HIPL) and his legal partner were featured on The Kelly Files in October after their Texas Center for the Defense of Life sued a Texas judge for failing to protect a 15-year-old girl from a sexual predator.

Peter Shull (’05, ME/CE) received his doctorate in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 2012.

He is a professor of mechanical engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China, where he runs the research labs of haptics and biomechanics. Since he, his wife, Charissa (Sherwood) (’06, EN/HIPL), and son, Braxon (2), moved there in January, they are trying to quickly learn the language and and welcome a new child into their family.

Kenneth Bauer (’06, ASFS), his wife, Erin, and son, Nolan (2), live in Brea, Calif.

Charles Wesley (06, HIPL) and his wife, Alexis, made national news this year when they became the first husband and wife donors through the National Kidney Registry.

Charles, aka “Shroud,” can be reached by email at shroudd41@gmail.com.

Brandon Ray (’07, ASFS) recently renewed his Master CFI accreditation and is an instructor and owner of High Performance Aviation, specializing in high performance transition training at Sugar Land Regional Airport.

Leon Hernandez Jr. (’08, BBA) works for South Texas Nuclear Operating Co. as a projects and modifications scheduler in Wadsworth, Texas.

Jeremy Cole (’09, AFPP) started a new job in Dallas, Texas, in January with American Eagle Airlines as first officer.

Randy Buchanan (’11, MBA) now works as a director of operations at KAMO Power in Vinita, Okla.

Raina Howerton-Brandon (’09, ENLL/ HIPL, ’12, MBA) became executive museum director of the Gregg County Historical Museum, Longview, Texas, as of Aug. 1, 2013.

Stephen Campbell (’11, BA) now works for MapR Technologies as the director of Business Development.

Allison (Garrard) Thompson (’09, ISE1) was promoted to English as a second language (ESL) coordinator and technology teacher in Saltillo, Texas.

Allison and husband, Travis, have a daughter, Hannah Faith (2), and are expecting their second child in Dec. 2013

10s James Christophersen (’10, PSYS) joined Students for Life of America (SFLA), July 23, as their director of medical student and law student programs in Manassas, Va. SFLA organizes pro-life student groups across the nation and has a website with more information about the projects James will be managing: http://studentsforlife.org/ Tim Hewitt (’10, ME) is now a manufacturing quality engineer for General Electric in Rutland, Vt.

Sarah George (’12, TEC6) is now teaching special education (SPED) at Leander ISD, Leander, Texas, in one of their elementary schools. This is her first teaching position since receiving her SPED certification.

Cyndi Swinton-Jackson (’12, PSYC) lives in Lansdowne, Penn. and is a relations representative for Gateway Health Plan.

James "Trey" Mays (’12, BUBS) is the CEO and publisher of The Truth Dispatch, LLC, in Plano, Texas.

Ian Reed (’13, ME) has moved to El Segundo, Calif. He is a quality engineer for SpaceX. Jim Zimmermann (’13, BHS) and wife, Krystin, now live in Aledo, Texas, with their children Kristen (21), Makenzi (16), Madison (12), Karson (10) and Keaton (10). Jim is a teacher at Weatherford ISD.

RG LeTourneau wasn’t afraid to see the world differently – to see possibilities where others saw obstacles. He was both a dreamer and a doer, and his dreams shaped the world as we know it today. Through LeTourneau University, he left behind a legacy of dreamers and doers – of students and alumni whose faith and ingenuity continue to move mountains. You are a part of that legacy.

This year, Nov 30th would have been RG’s 125th birthday. In honor of his 125th year, we want to celebrate his legacy, but we need your help. R.G. wore black wayfarer style glasses toward the end of his life. As we work to spread the message and mission of our founder, we encourage you to see the world through R.G.'s eyes... and his glasses.

Visit www.letu.edu/RGglasses, fill out the form, and we’ll send you a free pair of LeTourneau University RG glasses. Once you get them, send us a photo of yourself wearing them. It could be in your workplace, your home, with your family, on vacation, wherever you are in your everyday life.

Help us celebrate RG’s birthday by showcasing an important part of his legacy - YOU.

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IN Honor & MEMORY In Honor Of

Ellie Grace Alexander Paul & Leslie Alexander

Peggy & Howard Coghlan Sam & Jan Forester

Mary Jackson Margaret Nowak

Dr. Larry Anderson Mark & Elizabeth Hanna

Phil Coyle Jim and Gerrie Forbis

Stephanie Kirschmann Jim and Gerrie Forbis

Harry G Barret, Sr. Harry & Carolyn Barrett

Dr. Ken Fairweather Coby & Christine Gipson

Louise LeTourneau Dorothy I. Shaffer

Michael David Charles Bonham Teddy & Marion Hansard

Sam & Jan Forester Peggy & Howard Coghlan

Nathan Lewellen Wayne & Nancy Trull

William Bunker Elsie Jez

Dr. Bill Graff Timothy & Susan Schroeder

Andrew Long Robert & Carol Long

Mike Childress Rodney & Sherry Gilstrap

Peter Hoewisch Thomas & Tricia Hoewisch

Dr. Dale Lunsford Hannah Lunsford

Maverick Cayce A. P. & Suzie Merritt

Jason Albright Erin Albright

Ebby Childress Glenn McCutchen

J. D. Hancock A. P. & Suzie Merritt

Tommy Anderson A. P. & Suzie Merritt

Gilford R. Clark Clara A. Clark

Neal Hawthorn A. P. & Suzie Merritt

Elgin Archer Cletus & Barbara Creach

Jean Clark Lanny R. Clark

Charles Gordon Hinde Rose Marie Hinde

Elizabeth Arnholt Paul & Carol Arnholt

Mrs. Jean Clark Norm & Barbara Yearick

Leo Honea, Jr. Jim and Gerrie Forbis

Kyle Atchison Brenda Weatherall

Bud Darden Bud & Betty Otis

Mrs. Ralph House Ralph House

George Bagwell Elizabeth B. Bagwell

James E. DeYoung Jamie K. DeYoung

Louise & George Hunt Tom & Betty Hunt

Steve Beacham Timothy M. Schroeder

Marty Donner Donald & CybellBeiler Gerald & Doris Hall

Wayne Huyett John & Elsie Bush

Mr. & Mrs. Carl C. Grimm John & Patricia Rosenlof

John Bradshaw Charles & Linda Weindorf

Glenn C. Ellis William & Gail Ellis Hazel M. Engle Gene Engle

Margaret Brantley A. P. & Suzie Merritt

Maydell Flannagan A. P. & Suzie Merritt

David Brogoitti A. P. & Suzie Merritt

Phyllis Fritsch Gerald W. Hardy

Mike Jackson Cheryle & John Barnesz Lauren & Kathy Bitikofer Weldon & Sharol Burnett Harold & Gwen Carl Charles & Linda Davis Roger & Charlotte Erickstad Steve & Pam Gatton Marshall C. Gregory Linda Kapperman Chuck & Mary Kline Dan & Nonie Larsen Jesse & Laura Laster LETU Academic Secretaries Ken & Cherry Moore Margaret Nowak Stebbins Aviation Fredna H. Stuckey The Wilson Family David R. Witt

Gerard Cace Evelyn & Lloyd Bolding

Billy Gee A. P. & Suzie Merritt

Cassity Jones A. P. & Suzie Merritt

Mr. & Mrs. Loyd Cameron Samuel & Glendia Cameron

George E. Gerard Phyllis Gerard

Mary B. Jones Robert A. Jones

Violet Capps Arthur Capps

Leo & Lucile Graus Gil Graus

William C. & Beryl M. Kayser Bill & Suzan Kayser

Christopher Becker Jeffrey & Barbara Dilyard Leslie Bentley Ruby E. Bentley Bill Best Bud & Betty Otis

Paul Duffey Felton & Rachel Bollinger Myron C. Dunlavy Marion Dunlavy Roy Ellerd A. P. & Suzie Merritt

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James Prater John & Eloise Prater

Steve Mason Jim and Gerrie Forbis

Matthew Ridgway Marjorie & Clyde Ridgway

Mr. & Mrs. Charles McElwee Harold & Sandy McElwee

Ruedi & Whitney Schubarth Cheryle & John Barnes

Fred & Ruth McKennon James & Geraldine Roads

John, Mark & Chrissy Sturm Bob & Jane Sturm

Phil Michmerhuizen Terry & Nelva Michmerhuizen

Mike VanBrocklin Coby & Christine Gipson

Daniel S. Patten Eric & Martha Patten

Riley Randolph Wyers Patrick & Joyce Wyers

In Memory Of

Melissa Sue Ahrens Paul & Nancy Ahrens

Dr. Phil Beatty Robert & Joanna Allen

Morgan Elena & Maria Luisa Martin Marta & Matt Martin

Bill Kielhorn Byron & Dorothy Horne Greg & JoAnne Pike Johnny Lansford Bud & Betty Otis Rena LaRue Heidi L. DeKoster Mom & Pop LeTourneau Bud & Betty Otis R.G. LeTourneau Dorothy I. Shaffer Ted LeTourneau Harold & Joyce Abbey Fay Livers David & Carolyn Hebble Jayne O. Love Joe A. Love Carl Manns Betty L. Manns Frank Marshall Mary B. Marshall Evelyn Maughlin Rich & Dollie Maughlin Dr. John Wallace Mayes Fredna H. Stuckey School of Arts & Sciences Mrs. Elaine McCoy Norm & Barbara Yearick Bonnie McGraw Bud & Betty Otis Frank Merrifield Bud & Betty Otis Michael W. Merritt Margaret B. Merritt Jim “Coach� Miller A. P. & Suzie Merritt

R.L. Pete Neumeyer A. P. & Suzie Merritt Charles E. Perkins William & Mary Anderson Charles Edwin Perkins Connie Perkins H. M. Pilz Helmut Pilz David Rabenstein Sr. Barbara Rabenstein Dusty Rhodes A. P. & Suzie Merritt Mr. & Mrs. L.F. Rosenlof John & Patricia Rosenlof Stephen Sapaugh Marvin W. Sapaugh Don Scott Jan P. Scott Ed & Hazel Sizemore Emma Carr Hazel Sizemore Estelle Wooten Peter A. Skielnik Antoni & Betty Skielnik Mr. Earl Thompson Roland Giddings Sam Vaughn A. P. & Suzie Merritt Lizzie Lacy Walker Mike & Teresa Merritt Lincoln Watson A. P. & Suzie Merritt Floyd K Younger Margaret Trout

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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 Eric McCrory at (900) 259-5388 or email EricMcCrory@letu.edu.

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Abbott Mr. & Mrs. Bradley C. Ames Mr. & Mrs. Bill Anderson Mr. & Mrs. James W. Asbury Mr. Paul D. Aubrey Dr. & Mrs. Alvin O. Austin Mr. & Mrs. John V. Baker Mr. & Mrs. Donald C. Barnett Mr. & Mrs. Bryan E. Benson Mr. & Mrs. Pat Bertsche Mr. & Mrs. Joe B. Bickley Mr. & Mrs. Brian D. Bradley Mr. & Mrs. Jim Brake Mr. & Mrs. Gordon J. Bullivant Dr. Joel Carpenter IV Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Chandler Dr. & Mrs. Jay Chastain Dr. & Mrs. Richard C. Chewning Mr. & Mrs. Steve Class Mr. & Mrs. Edward L. Claypool Mrs. Suzanne Cook

Mr. & Mrs. Gus Davis Mr. & Mrs. John Deurwaarder Mr. & Mrs. Doug Douglas Mr. Gordon Fenner Mr. & Mrs. Mike Fitzhugh Mr. & Mrs. Christopher W. Fontaine Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Frost Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Ernest M. Fudala Mr. & Mrs. William L. Garfield Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Paul E. Glaske Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Hall Mr. & Mrs. Jon E. Hansen Mr. & Mrs. Daniel R. Hetrick Mr. & Mrs. Bret Hornaday Mr. & Mrs. Jay P. Hughes Dr. Robert & Dr. Pamela Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Joe Bob Joyce Ms. Lois E. Knouse Mr. & Mrs. Phil Kuitems Mr. & Mrs. Loren D. Leman Mr. Keith W. Leonhardt Ms. Liela LeTourneau

Mr. & Mrs. Roy LeTourneau Mr. & Mrs. Aaron S. Lorson Dr. & Mrs. Dale A. Lunsford Mr. Tim D. Markley II Mr. & Mrs. Timothy D. Markley Dr. & Mrs. James E. Mauldin Jr. Mr. & Mrs. L. V. McGuire Mr. & Mrs. Al Mendez Mr. & Mrs. Curtis C. Mosley Mr. & Mrs. Matthew J. Nelson Mr. David F. Nickell Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Joe Nowiczewski Mr. & Mrs. Douglas L. Orre Mr. & Mrs. John H. Parks Mr. Wayne F. Peterein Jr. Drs. Jeff & Jenelle Piepmeier 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

Mr. & Mrs. James D. Schreder Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth D. Schreder Mr. & Mrs. David D. Seibel Dr. & Mrs. F. Stan Settles Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Joshua B. Smith Mr. Robert D. Snell Mr. & Mrs. John Solheim Maj. General Fred Starr Mr. & Mrs. Merle Stoltzfus Mr. & Mrs. Luis Trevino Mr. Jason K. Trosen Mr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Trull Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Walker Mr. & Mrs. George R. Walrod Mr. & Mrs. Dean Waskowiak Ms. Mary S. Whelchel Mr. & Mrs. Paul G. Wittenbach Mr. & Mrs. Donald H. Wolgemuth Mr. & Mrs. Terry A. Zeitlow Mr. & Mrs. Roy S. Zeitlow

The following alumni and friends made contributions to LeTourneau University during the period from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013. 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.

All Giving By Constituents 2012-2013 Alumni

$616,604.37

9%

Trustees

$858,210.58

12%

Corporation

$981,443.55

14%

Foundation

$3,499,461.54

48%

Friends

$1,176,654.86

16%

Other

$105,020.12

1%

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Founder’s Society $5,000 or more Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey D. Aiken Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Allen Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Mike Benton Mrs. Melody Bowen Mrs. Debra Cappella Mrs. Irene O. Cook Mr. & Mrs. Jose Cosa Ms. Sandra Couch Mr. & Mrs. Daniel C. Fauber Mr. & Mrs. Sam Forester Mr. Jerry W. Fritsch Mr. & Mrs. J. Neal Garland Ms. Paula J. Greer Dr. & Mrs. John Greifenkamp Mr. & Mrs. Bill D. Henry Mr. Billy Hibbs Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David R. Johnson Mr. Richard Korman Mr. & Mrs. Randall H. Mason Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Morscheck Dr. & Mrs. Michael W. Myers Mr. & Mrs. James R. Nolt Jr. Mr. Trey Patterson Mr. & Mrs. Dean C. Phillips Mr. Rogers Pope Jr. Mr. Jonathan W. Preu Mr. & Mrs. Eddie Rhodes Mr. Pretlow Riddick Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Roberts Mr. & Mrs. Earl Roberts Jr. Dr. & Mrs. John B. Ross, V Mr. & Mrs. Roger Sage Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Randy Schunter Mr. & Mrs. Phil Simpson Mr. Gregory J. Smith Mr. & Mrs. William J. Splawn Mr. & Mrs. A. S. Taylor III Mr. & Mrs. Keith F. Trosen Mr. & Mrs. Mike Tucker Dr. & Mrs. Barry F. Van Duzee Mr. & Mrs. Steve Voelzke Mr. & Mrs. Dean Waskowiak Mr. & Mrs. Stacey Wilbur Mr. & Mrs. Tom Wilmeth Mr. & Mrs. Clyde Woolsey Mr. & Mrs. Tom Worley Mr. & Mrs. James R. Wright Chancellor’s Society $1,000 - $4,999 Mr. & Mrs. Van A. Abel Mr. & Mrs. Stephen D. Adell Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Jon W. Arrowsmith Mr. & Mrs. R.C. Bagwell Mr. & Mrs. Joel M. Barker Mr. & Mrs. Damian G. Barrett Mr. & Mrs. C. Calvin Bass Mr. Wayco W. Beckman Dr. & Mrs. Timothy Belcher Mr. & Mrs. Glendon Berry Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Bock Mr. Joshua D. Bradley Mr. & Mrs. Roger H. Brake Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Tom Burt Mr. & Mrs. Wallace Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Douglas R. Cato Mr. & Mrs. Chris Cheeley Mr. Seth Chernoff Mr. & Mrs. William W. Chinn Dr. & Mrs. Philip S. Clifford Mr. Howard Coghlan & Dr. Peggy Coghlan

Mr. & Mrs. David C. Coldwell Mr. Kenneth W. Cowin Dr. & Mrs. Philip A. Coyle Mr. & Mrs. Titus Crabb Mr. & Mrs. Tim Crider Mr. & Mrs. George E. Crone Mr. & Mrs. Howard A. Crosby Mr. & Mrs. Paul Crump Jr. Mrs. Isabelle Dahl Mr. Logan A. Damewood Ms. Amy E. Davis Mr. & Mrs. Ben J. Dieter Mr. & Mrs. Tom Dome Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dorn Mr. & Mrs. Steven A. Dudden PE Mr. & Mrs. George E. Dunham Mr. & Mrs. Johnathan Elmore Mr. & Mrs. Raymond E. Farrar Mr. & Mrs. Larry L. Feirick Dr. & Mrs. Larry J. Frazier, Jr. Mr. Fred Gonzales Mr. & Mrs. Joel Goodwin Mr. & Mrs. Carl Grace Mr. & Mrs. John P. Gutierrez Mr. & Mrs. Robin E. Guyer Mr. Danny Harris Mr. Charles J. Hart Mr. & Mrs. Randy L. Hartman Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Bruce A. Hathaway Mr. & Mrs. David W. Hayes Mr. & Mrs. Alan Henderson Mrs. Rose Marie Hinde Mr. & Mrs. David W. Horton Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Hudson Mr. & Mrs. Warren J. Hudson Mr. Marcus T. Hughes Mr. & Mrs. Larry T. Huntley Mr. Phil Hurley Mr. & Mrs. Walter E. Imes Mr. Howard L. Johnston Mr. & Mrs. William Kayser Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Kniep Mr. & Mrs. Arthur E. Kruppenbacher Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Kuenstler Mr. & Mrs. Brent Landau Mr. & Mrs. David J. Landon Mr. & Mrs. Randy Lawrence Mr. & Mrs. David Lednum Dr. & Mrs. Paul R. Leiffer Mr. & Mrs. Stephen P. Lemp Mrs. Louise LeTourneau Mr. William L. Lombardo Ms. Hannah Lunsford Mr. & Mrs. Roderick B. MacAskill Mr. & Mrs. Ben Y. March Mrs. Margaret Martin Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Martin Mr. Dale A. McCombs Mr. J. B. McCracken Mr. & Mrs. Stephen McDaniel The Honorable & Mrs. Robert N. McFarland Ms. Margaret B. Merritt Dr. & Mrs. Duane K. Miller Ms. Laura K. Mood Mr. Donald Moon Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Moore Mr. & Mrs. Allan Nilson Mr. & Mrs. Bud & Betty Otis Mr. & Mrs. Don E. Panetti Mr. & Mrs. Bob W. Parrott Dr. Jenny K. Patrick M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Scott A. Patterson Mr. & Mrs. Bill Peel Mr. Joel Peel Mr. Don Peluso Mr. & Mrs. Scott A. Peluso

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Lt. & Mrs. Aaron Pickett Mr. & Mrs. Gregory S. Pike Mr. & Mrs. Weston Poyner Mr. Shane P. Qureshi & Dr. Natacha Qureshi Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Ritchey, Sr. Miss Brenda G. Robertson Mr. & Mrs. Bryan Roche Mrs. Beverly Roesink Mr. & Mrs. Corey R. Ross Mrs. & Mr. Patty L. Ross Mr. & Mrs. James D. Rosser Mr. & Mrs. Gregg Russell Dr. Robert M. Russell Mr. & Mrs. Nate Saint Mr. & Mrs. Ronald S. Sanda Mrs. Jan P. Scott Mr. & Mrs. David Seeley Mr. & Mrs. Brad Shaw Dr. Vicki L. Sheafer Ms. Evelyn W. Sibley Mr. Alan N. Spain Mr. John B. Spiegel Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Stafford Mr. & Mrs. Travis Stanley Mr. & Mrs. Robert Steed Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Steege Mr. Andrew R. Steiger Dr. Carlton D. Stolle Mr. John S. Sudduth Dr. & Mrs. Barrett R. Summers Mrs. Jane Tice Mr. & Mrs. James M. Tolson Mr. & Mrs. Raul E. Valdes Mr. & Mrs. David S. Vinton Mr. & Mrs. James G. Walker Mr. & Mrs. Scott Ward Mr. & Mrs. Mark Wester Mr. William Fredric Wolcken Mrs. June S. Wolfley Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Workman Dean’s Society $500-$999 Mr. Kyle Adams Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Ames Mr. & Mrs. William F. Arnold Dr. & Mrs. Brent L. Baas Mr. & Mrs. William R. Ball Mr. & Mrs. James Barham Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Becker Mrs. Emma Bishop Mr. Rex L. Black Mr. & Mrs. Adrian Bonilla Mr. & Mrs. Edwin M. Bruere Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas J. Cardinale Mr. & Mrs. Clarence W. Cramer Mrs. Eleanor Crego Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Davis Mr. & Mrs. Dale T. Deike Mr. & Mrs. Paul V. Edmunds Ms. Mary B. Edwards Mr. & Mrs. Roger Erickstad Mr. & Mrs. James D. Forbis Mr. & Ms. Rex French Mr. & Mrs. Everette L. Gardner Mr. & Mrs. Matthew P. Henry Mrs. Laura A. Holth Mr. & Mrs. James R. Hugman Dr. Marian V. Iordache Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery D. Jones Mr. James B. Keefer Mr. & Mrs. James M. Keefer Mr. JiHyun Kim Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Kindig Mr. & Mrs. Robert Kirkwood Sr.

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Mr. & Mrs. David A. Tjepkema Mrs. Grace Tobita Mr. & Mrs. Richard Todd Mr. & Mrs. Leon D. Toews Mr. & Mrs. Mark Tomaszewski Mr. John P. Tomcik Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Toms Ms. Dorothy M. Tong Mr. Jeffrey Tong Mr. Dallas F. Toon Mrs. Romalyn Trewitt Mr. & Mrs. James B. Trippett Ms. Margaret Trout Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Troxel Mr. & Mrs. Gary G. Troxell Mr. & Mrs. Philip Truesdale Mr. & Mrs. Clint Tuel Ms. Donna Tulach Mr. & Mrs. Robert N. Tullock Mr. & Mrs. Chris Turner Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Turner Mr. David Tutt Ms. Goldie M. Tutt Mr. & Mrs. Roy P. Tutt Mr. & Mrs. Ted Tutt Mr. Tom D. Tutt Mrs. Mary Ullrich Dr. Stan D. Upchurch Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Usher Mr. & Mrs. Maurice E. Van Leer Mr. James J. Vander Roest Mr. Joshua VanLeer Mr. & Mrs. James VanLopik Mr. Rayland C. Vannorman Mr. & Mrs. Donald VanSaders Mr. Frank Vanson Mrs. DeLyndia Vaughn Mrs. Sarah Vermillion Ms. Linda Waggoner Mr. & Mrs. Donald Wagner Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Walker Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Walter Mr. Alan Ward Mr. Ron Ward Ms. Bevely Warren Mr. & Mrs. Tom Watkins Mrs. Judy L. Watne Mrs. Melissa Watson Mr. & Mrs. Wendell J. Weaver Mr. & Mrs. David W. Webster Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Weeks Mr. & Mrs. James Weems Mr. Andrew J. Weiandt Mr. William Weir Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Jerome G. Weisenfelder Mrs. Betty B. Welch Ms. Janet B. Welch Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Wergin Mr. & Mrs. David J. Wessies Mr. & Mrs. Gene W. Wester Dr. & Mrs. Robert B. Wharton Ms. Ramona Whisennand Mr. & Mrs. Jed Whitake Mr. Bob White Mr. Craig White Dr. F. Allen White Mr. & Mrs. Faber A. White Mr. John White Ms. Sue Ann Whitehead Mr. & Mrs. Troy L. Whitehead Mr. W. L. Whitehead Ms. Gail E. Whitemore Mr. & Mrs. Terry D. Wickland Dr. & Dr. John Wildenthal Mr. & Mrs. Jim Willett Mr. & Mrs. Archie Williams Mrs. Leora Williams

Mrs. Lisa G. Williams Mr. Gary D. Willis Mr. Bruce E. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Wilson Ms. Valerie A. Wilson Mr. J. Floyd Wine Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Winsor Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Winter Mr. Jim Wise Ms. Sheri L. Wise Mr. Bill M. Witt Mr. & Mrs. Wesley Witt Mr. & Mrs. William D. Witten Mr. & Mrs. Brad J. Witty Mr. & Mrs. Louis Witwer Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Wojahn Mr. & Mrs. James B. Wolfe III Mr. & Mrs. Jay Wolgemuth Ms. Bonnie Wood Mr. & Mrs. Jackie D. Wood Mr. & Mrs. M.B. Wood Mr. & Mrs. Tod Wood Ms. Estelle Wooten Mr. & Mrs. William E. Worman Sr. Mrs. Karla Worrell-Memmott Mr. W. Steve Wright Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Z. Wyers Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Wynia Mr. & Mrs. Albert J. Yale Mr. James Yarbrough Jr. Mr. William Yates Mr. Kenneth Yeakey Mr. & Mrs. Randy Yeakley Mrs. Michelle Young Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Zeeb Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Zeitlow Mr. Ricky Ziebell Mrs. Mary A. Zink Churches and Schools Advent Christian Church Athens Life Fellowship Bangor Baptist Church Bethany Baptist Church Bethel Mennonite Church Calvary Baptist Church Calvary Chapel Okinawa Canyon Creek Christian Academy Chelten Baptist Church Christian Missionary Fellowship Crossroads Vineyard Church Danville Alliance Church EFC Gospel Centre Evangelical Bible Church Faith Evangelical Free Church of Spring Farley Street Baptist Fellowship Bible Church First Assembly of God Church First Baptist Church, Cedar Hill, TX First Baptist Church, Scott City, KS First Baptist Church, Point, TX First Baptist Church, Gilmer, TX First Baptist Church, Longview, TX First Baptist Church Groesbeck First Baptist Church of Liberty City First Baptist Church of Pequea First Presbyterian Church Foothills Fellowship Fresh Start Community Church of God Gateway Community Church Glacier View Bible Church Grace Church of Bainbridge Grace Crossing United Methodist Church Guilford Center Baptist Church

Iglesia Nueva Vida Katy Bible Church Kingwood United Methodist Church Little Rock Baptist Church Longview Christian Fellowship Moonshine Church New Beginnings Baptist Church New Beginnings Christian Center New Covenant Church of Humble New Harmony Baptist Church Northshore Baptist Church Pathway Church Shawnee Alliance Church Sherman Station Calvary Baptist Church Sicklerville United Methodist Church St. Charles Church St. Philip's Episcopal Church St. Theresa's Catholic Church Summit Church Sunray Baptist The Chapel The Church in Tyler Towamencin Mennonite Church Trinity Episcopal Church Village Baptist CHurch Ward Evangelical Presbyterian Church Women of Turner Presbyterian CHurch Athens ISD Gorham-Middlesex CSD Henderson Independent School District Keller Independent School District Mendota Township High School Mesquite High School Booster Club Mineral Wells High School North Newton Junior-Senior High School Siloam Springs High School Slocum ISD Student Activity Fund Tatum ISD The School District of Greenville County University of Texas Pan American Foundation Washington University in St. Louis Foundations and Corporations A Better Neighborhood Foundation Abbott Industries Inc. ABC Auto Parts Ltd ACMPE Scholarship Fund, Inc. ACT ACT AFAS AEP/Southwestern Electric Power Agustin A. Ramirez, Jr. Family Foundation Airman Memorial Foundation Alliant Tech Systems Al's Electric LLC Ambucs of East Texas American Baptist Home Mission Society American Glass Company of Nacogdoches American Welding Society Reading Section Ameriprise AMVETS National Service Foundation Anel Corporation ARC Specialties Armed Forces Communications and Army Emergency Relief ArtsView Children's Theatre Aspire Assisting Single Parents

AT&T Foundation Athens Rotary Club Austin Community Foundation Automotive Specialties AWS Foundation Inc Baker Hughes Foundation Bank of America BankTexas Baskins Western Wear Baxter Sales Company Inc Bechtel Group Foundation Belcher Bayou Farm Benton Rural Electric Asn. Bethany Relief and Rehabilitations Intl Bette Ade Scholarship Fund Blue Bell Creameries, LP BNY Mellon Bodacious Bar-B-Que Boeing Gift Matching Program Bon Appetit Mgmt Co Boon Shaver Echols Coleman & Goolsby PLLC Boren Enterprises, Inc BP Fabric of America Fund BP Foundation Bridgestone Americas Bristol Bay Economic Development Corp Bruce McMillan Jr. Foundation Buckner Children and Family Services Captain Jason Dahl Scholarship Cardone Foundation Carrols LLC Caterpillar Foundation Cayuga ISD CCA Central Texas Electric Co-op Cessna Foundation, Inc. Chapel in the Woods Chevron Humankind Chickasaw Nation Chick-fil-A Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma CIEE CITGO Petroleum Citizens Firefighters Club of Garland Citizens National Bank City of Longview Clorox Company Foundation Coastal Bend Community Foundatio Coil Specialist Inc Community Bank Cotton Valley Investments, Inc. Covington Aircraft Engines Inc Cowboy's Chicken Crawford & Co. Crista Crockett Lions Club Rodeo Account Cross County Bank Deerfoot Lodge Delta Air Lines Foundation Dixie Youth Baseball Dominion Foundation Matching Don Maxwell Aviation Services, Inc Dr Hans & Clara Davis Zimmerman Foundation Dynamic Aviation Group Inc East Texas Chapter API East Texas Communities Foundation East Texas Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Associates Inc East Texas Professional Credit Union Eastman Chemical Company Eaton Corp Edom Area Chamber of Commerce

Encore Multimedia ERA Climate Technologies Estes Valley Sunrise ETS Extraco Trust ExxonMobil Foundation Falcon Insurance Agency, Inc. Fallen Officers Fund Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund First Bank & Trust East Texas Flash Walker, L.Z. Bryan Scholarship FM Global Foundation Follett Higher Education Group Forester Family Foundation Inc Four Winds Mobile Sound Co LLC Fraternal Order of Eagles No 4125 Friedman Industries General Air General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies Gladewater Round Up Association Global Spheres Center Golden Needles Quilt Guild Good Shepherd Health System Grainger Greatcom Ministries International Inc Gregg Industrial Insulators Hamil, Harrison & Co Mech Inc Hampton Inn North Hardings Markets West Inc Hayes RV Center Hewlett Packard Hibbs Family Foundation Hollywood Theaters Hope Pierce Tartt Scholarship Fund Horizon Farms, LLC Houston Endowment Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Hudson Graphics, Inc. Hullum Family Trust Hydro-Quip Mfg & Supply Company IBM Matching Grants Program ICUT II-VI Foundation Illinois Food Retailers Educ ation Foundation Illinois Tool Works Foundation International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 1 International Chapter P.E.O. Sisterhood International Scholarship and Tuition Services, Inc Irving Fire Foundation, Inc. J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation Jacksonville Athletic Booster Club Jacksonville Education Foundation Jacksonville Lions Club Jacksonville Tennis Association Inc Jasper Foundation Inc JL Aero John Black & Associates John Deere Foundation John Stuart Manly Foundation Johnny Cace's Johnson & Pace Inc. Joy Global Joyce Steel Erection, LTD. Karsten Mfg Ken Newton Chiropractic Clinic Kimberly-Clark Foundation Kiwanis Club of Castle Rock Kiwanis Club of Longview KRS Express, Inc. L.C. and Mary Worley Memorial Foundation

Langley & Langley Inc Larry Lawrence Construction Larry's Interiors Inc Laura Jackson Charitable Trust Lebanon C.U.S.D. #9 Lebanon Lions Club LegacyTree Foundation Legay Scholarship Program Lifeway Littleton #1650 LMEPAC Lockhart Company Inc Lockheed Martin Matching Gift Program Longview Chapter American Business Clubs Ambucs of Longview Longview Financial Corporation Longview Lion's Club Longview News Journal Longview Office Supply Inc. Longview Partnership Inc Longview Regional Medical Center Longview Scrap and Metal Company MAF Foundation Mardel Markay Cabinets Marriage Maintenance Marshall Metro Rotary Club Foundation Inc Martex Drilling Company, LLP Martin Resource Mgmt Corporation Matanuska Electric Association Maximus Operating LTD McCallum High School PTSA McGlaughlin Oil Company McKaig Chrevolet Buick McKinney Boyd Soccer Booster Club Medical Park Pharmacy Medical Plaza Pharmacy Mendon Community School District Foundation Mendota Area Ministerial Association Mennonite Foundation Michaels Minco Pipe Inc Ministerios La Vina Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Mosby Mechanical Co. Inc. Mutual Sprinklers Inc Myers McRae Inc Network For Good Network IP NIvison Enterprise Trust Norfolk Southern Charitable Match Trust North Newton Academic Boosters Nowiczewski Foundation Olive Garden Omega Travel & Tours Open Hands Foundation Overton Financial Corporation Palestine Rotary Scholarship Foundation Patrick Michael Couch High Flight Foundation Patterson Nissan Pegues-Hurst Motor Co. Petal School District Educational Foundation Peters Chevrolet Inc Pfizer Foundation Philips HRSS Human Resource Shared Services Phillips Flooring Center Phillips66 Pine Tree Properties Ping Inc. Pioneers

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PJ Cheese Polygon Composites Power Engineers, Inc. Preferred Energy LLC Prosperity Bank Pugh Charitable Trust Ralph F. Pelaia Jr & Associates Raymond James Charitable Endowment Richard Wallrath Educational Foundation RLM General Contractors Robert McKendrick Photography Rockey Farms, LLC Rockwell Collins Charitable Corporation Ronald McDonald House Charities Rosa May Griffin Foundation Rotary Friends RSM Family Limited Partnership Rusk County Democratic Club Rusk County Electric Cooperative Salem Keizer Education Association Samaritan's Purse SAME Dallas Post Foundation San Antonio Livestock Exposition, Inc. SAP Matching Gift Program SBP Minerals LP Scholarship Management Services Scot Industries Shakespeare Club Shell Oil Company Foundation SIM USA Inc Simpson Charitable Trust Skylight Foundation SME Education Foundation Smotherman's Scenery Inc Solheim Foundation Southern Tennis Patrons Foundation Southside Bank Southside Bank-Tyler Spouses Club of the Ft. Sam Houston Area Spring Hill State Bank Sprint Foundation St. David's Foundation Community Fund State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Stebbins Aviation Stewards Ministries Stewart & Stevenson Stow Alliance Fellowship Subway Sandwiches of East Texas, LLC Sunflower Bank Suzanne Cook & Company T. Boone Pickens YMCA T. Ragan Ryan Foundation, Inc Tate & Lyle Americas, Inc. Tejas Flow Products Tenaska Gateway Partners Tennessee Baptist Foundation Teradata Cares Texas 4-H Youth Development Foundation Texas Academic Decathlon Texas Bank and Trust Texas Farm Bureau Texas FFA Foundation Texas Interscholastic League Foundation Texas Scholar Award Textron Matching Gift Program The Angela Stanford Foundation The Athlete Stop The Chubb Foundation The Columbus Foundation

The Community Foundation of Mount Vernon & Knox County The Happy Davis Foundation Inc. The Made Rite Company The Neiman Marcus Group The Robert A. Welch Foundation The T. Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving The Toro Foundation The U.S. Charitable Gift Trust The VF Foundation The Winston-Salem Foundation Thomasson Foundation Inc. Thompson Construction Inc Today's Interiors Tompat Partnership Toyota of Longview Transet Co. Trinity Contractors Trinity Industries Inc. Trinity Valley Electric Coop Tulsa Community Foundation United Technologies Matching Gift USBC SMART Team Vanguard Vermeer Charitable Foundation Vietnam Veterans of America Virginia Baptist Foundation, Inc. Von Rosenberg Foundation WARRIOR Enterprises WaterStone Wells Fargo Foundation Educational Matching Gift Program West Shore Inspections, LLC Wester Insurance Agency White Rock Ranch Scholarship Wingate Inn Wisconsin Energy Foundation Wood Grinding Unlimited

Class of195 Total Gifts $100.00 3.57% Participation Mr. Winton A. Hancock

Alumni Donations

by Class

Class of 1958 Total Gifts $3,682.84 13.79% Participation Mr. Bennett Mr. John C. Bowen Mr. Ernest Bunata Jr. Mr. Don Cowles Mr. Gordon Fenner Mr. Jacob C. Gingerich Jr. Mr. Arthur J. Howell Mr. Robert A. Jones Mr. Robert O. Langness Mr. Joseph C. Lee Mr. Charles E. Lucas Mr. Larry E. Neely

Class of 1949 Total Gifts $895.00 5.63% Participation Mr. Francis H. Dieter Mr. Ralph House Mr. Harold L. McMillan Mr. Stewart Sickles Class of 1950 Total Gifts $15.00 2.04% Participation Mr. John Morton Class of 1951 Total Gifts $569.99 10.87% Participation Mr. Harold E. Abbey Mr. George Broberg Mr. Roy F. Caldon Mr. Montague R. Collins Mr. Albert Rust Class of 1952 Total Gifts $1,500.00 8.33% Participation Mr. Howard C. Anderson Mr. John Deurwaarder Class of 1954 Total Gifts $3,810.00 7.69% Participation Mr. Howard A. Crosby Mr. Harold Crossman Mr. Ramon Farley Dr. John Hardison

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Class of 1954 Total Gifts $4,050.00 8.47% Participation Mr. Howard A. Crosby Mr. Ramon Farley Dr. Paul Reitzer Mr. Arthur L. Rendall Mr. Glenn A. Stowell Class of 1955 Total Gifts $380.00 6.35% Participation Mr. C.C. Creach Dr. John L. Hoffer Ph.D., M.D. Mr. Raymond C. Peterson Rev. Peter P. Polloni Class of 1956 Total Gifts $7,200.00 13.51% Participation Mr. Henry Jacks Jr. Mr. Paul Leistner Mr. Don E. Panetti Dr. Ken Schreder Mr. William Thomason Class of 1957 Total Gifts $925.00 9.26% Participation Mr. Richard Hamby Jr. Rear Adm. Richard K. Maughlin USN Ret. Mr. William C. Slothower Mr. Albert M. Vogel Mr. Dale Wolgemuth

Class of 1959 Total Gifts $1,719.60 13.79% Participation Mr. Roger Carr Mr. Lanny R. Clark Mr. Norman G. Gaut Mr. Randall C. Herring Mr. Tom Hunt Mr. Frank Phillips Mr. Thomas M. Sochor Mr. James M. Tucker Class of 1960 Total Gifts $7,215.00 11.9% Participation Mr. Elmer R. Baker Mr. Carl Grace Mr. Marvin Hays Mr. Charles S. Kline Mr. Gary L. Lisman Mr. Roderick B. MacAskill Mr. Allan Nilson

Mr. Larry S. Page Mr. Blair W. Paul Mr. Norman F. Yearick Class of 1961 Total Gifts $3,900.92 13.16% Participation Mr. Rollin L. Bard Mr. Paul Crump Jr. Mr. DeWayne Everitt Mr. William M. Fleming Mr. E. L. Henderson Mr. Harold L. McElwee Mr. Fred Pfau Mr. Weston Poyner Mr. James F. Roads Mr. David Sutter Class of 1962 Total Gifts $2,216.00 7.04% Participation Mr. Michael E. Kuenstler Mr. John E. Miller Dr. F. Stan Settles Jr. Mr. Paul G. Stokholm Mr. William Young Class of 1963 Total Gifts $2,888.46 17.17% Participation Mr. William E. Baskett Mr. John Bush Mr. Robert H. Coake Mr. James F. Eckman Mr. Morten Eriksen Jr. Mr. Don R. Froehner Mr. George Haley Mr. Herb H. Kressler Jr. Dr. Jim D. Lilley Mr. Gary L. Nelson Mr. John O. Randall III Mr. Larry B. Smith Mr. Norman Spanberger Mr. W. Tal Taylor Mr. John Vigna Mr. Kenneth Wilkins Mr. Jerry Wolf Class of 1964 Total Gifts $60,754.20 12.79% Participation Mr. L. N. Bates Mr. William R. Brooks Mr. Daniel L. Christen Mr. Aaron Hoffman Mr. Art D. Johnson Mr. Cordell Loken Mr. Charles E. Roberts Mr. James D. Rosser Mr. David Scheevel Mr. Roger D. Schroeder Mr. John Solheim Class of 1965 Total Gifts $2,543.60 11.32% Participation Mr. Carl C. Cyphers Mr. Richard R. Dickman Mr. Henry C. Fogle Dr. Douglas I. Ford Mr. Douglas Hvistendahl Mr. William Hyslop Mrs. Joan Loken Mr. Walter J. Nekoroski Jr. Mr. Victor C. Rice Mr. David S. Rowe Mr. David R. Snow Mr. Jerald G. Vander Kooi

Class of 1966 Total Gifts $1,065,342.04 10.71% Participation Anonymous Mr. Paul L. Kelsey Ms. Kay Lightle Mr. Keith A. Martin Mrs. Sheila Martin Mr. L. V. McGuire Mr. Ronald G. Robinson Mr. Ted Wessman Class of 1967 Total Gifts $16,663.98 14.18% Participation Mr. Felton R. Bollinger Mr. Tom E. Brink Mr. Donald A. Carlson Mr. George E. Crone Mr. Jimmie H. Cross Mr. William G. Ellis Mr. Stephen G. Holm Mr. Warren J. Hudson Mr. Ronald Jantzen Ms. Lois E. Knouse Mr. Richard Korman Mrs. Miriam R. Lancaster Mr. Pramod Ravade Mr. Jim Reid Mrs. Roberta Rice Mr. Ariel W. Rosentrater Rev. Thomas P. Shorb Mr. Ronald E. Wilburn Mr. Ray Wilsdorf Class of 1968 Total Gifts $3,286.00 7.69% Participation Mr. Ronald Courson Mr. Gary D. Foster Mrs. Deborah Irving Mr. Richard J. Newell Mrs. Jan P. Scott Mr. Charles M. Snow Lt.Col. Rogers R. Walker Rev. Larry P. Weiss Mr. Daniel Work Class of 1969 Total Gifts $62,716.73 15% Participation Mr. David A. Beckmann Mr. Paul H. Bennett Mr. Donald W. Biggs Jr. Mr. Daryl Bussert Mr. Edward L. Claypool Mr. James E. Dingmon Mrs. Judith K. Dingmon Mr. Robin E. Guyer Mr. Dale R. Hill Mr. Kenneth A. Holloway Sr. Mr. Daniel S. Irving Rev. James J. Kibelbek Mr. Edwin Kissinger Mr. James League Mr. Loren D. Leman Mrs. Carolyn McCalmont Mr. David T. Reed Mr. Dell R. Ridley Mr. David R. Riniker Mr. Thomas G. Schrag Mr. Harold R. Tyler Dr. Barry F. Van Duzee Mr. Robert W. Walker Mr. Dave P. Whitten

Class of 1970 Total Gifts $175,340.00 10% Participation Mr. David Bell Mr. Darrel Dick Mr. Mark B. Gamble Mr. Gerald O. Hall Mr. Kenneth H. Helvie Mr. Paul G. Howard Dr. Paul A. Hunter Mrs. Janie Hunter Mr. Paul A. Larson Mr. James R. Miller Mr. Donald Moon Mr. Joe Nowiczewski Mr. John F. Saucerman Class of 1971 Total Gifts $308,005.60 10.67% Participation Mr. Paul Abbott Mr. William R. Anderson Mrs. Joan Fratzke Mr. Thomas D. Hartberg Mr. Paul A. Helgesen Mr. Robert E. Hopkins Mr. Michael L. Jackson Mr. Hillis O. Kauffman Mr. Donald Koch Mr. Daniel H. Larsen Mr. Randall W. Matthewson Mr. Timothy J. Morscheck Mrs. Edna Pearson Mr. Dean C. Phillips Mr. Timothy K. Rupp Mr. John Tiemersma Class of 1972 Total Gifts $7,546.00 3.75% Participation Mr. Eddie Chow Mrs. Cherry A. Moore Mr. Kenneth L. Moore Mr. Wayne R. Salsman Mr. Donald L. Smith Mr. David R. Witt Class of 1973 Total Gifts $1,025.00 8.82% Participation Mrs. Leona Ayres Mr. Kenneth M. Bailey Mr. John Carlson Mr. Dan L. Davidson Mrs. Mary J. Davis Mr. Paul Gordey Mr. David A. Hebble Mr. John Hunker Jr. Mr. John E. Nikerle Mr. James V. Wittenberger Mrs. Alice Yothers Mr. Steven W. Yothers Class of 1974 Total Gifts $286,454.92 8.82% Participation Mr. Lawrence B. Campbell Dr. Philip S. Clifford Mr. Charles W. Davis Mr. Brad J. Dukek Mr. Jerry W. Fritsch Mr. Roland Giddings Mr. Paul F. 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. Michael B. Palm Mr. William H. Pikett Jr. Mr. Royce B. Thiessen Mr. Knute Watne Mr. Paul Weston Class of 1975 Total Gifts $14,333.38 8.8% Participation Mr. Richard T. Ackley Anonymous Mr. Lauren G. Bitikofer Mr. Philip A. Britton Mr. Kenneth W. Cowin Mr. Charles E. Davis Jr. Mrs. Sharon W. Delong Mr. James Dumas Mr. Darrel Eppler Mrs. Freda Goerner Mr. Terry A. Michmerhuizen Mr. Jack L. Niethamer Mr. Tom J. Pierce Mr. Fred L. Ritchey Sr. Mr. Bradley L. Sink Mr. Gregory J. Smith Mr. Merle Stoltzfus Mr. Nathan Strong Mrs. June Weber Class of 1976 Total Gifts $10,965.00 9.15% Participation Mr. Tom Burt Mr. Joel Cronbaugh Mr. Kenneth P. Farrar Mr. Paul T. Graybill Mr. Timothy A. Grover Mrs. Loretta L. Hill Mr. Brent Hoff Mr. Stephen P. Lemp Mrs. Nancy Mendez Mrs. Virginia L. Olson Mrs. Ruth Pierce Mr. Arthur W. Salatin Mr. James M. Tolson Class of 1977 Total Gifts $5,927.00 14.58% Participation Mr. Mark T. Ahlenius Anonymous Mr. Jonathan Bromley Mr. Randall W. Brown Mr. Barry K. Brown Mr. Richard W. Carlson Mrs. Joy Hartman Jr. Mr. E. Bernie Hayes Mr. David Jensen Mr. Keith W. Leonhardt Mr. Richard Noel II Mr. Philip D. Olson Mr. Kenneth R. Petersen Mr. Michael A. Ringler Mr. David W. Safstrom Mr. Benjamin Schubert Mr. Peter M. Strubhar Mrs. Susan Strubhar Mr. Carl A. Stutsman Mr. Merlin D. Weber Mr. George P. Zitzmann III Class of 1978 Total Gifts $18,758.92 14.78% Participation Mr. Van A. Abel Mrs. Meg Ackley Mr. Jon W. Arrowsmith

Mr. Bernard Banzhaf Mr. Robert T. Bartels Mr. Leland J. Beachy Mr. Bryan E. Benson Mr. Stephen G. Biggs Mrs. Laurie Chamberlin Mr. Stephen Chamberlin Mr. Steve Classen Mr. Daryl A. Hoffman Mr. Larry T. Huntley Mr. Kevin D. Jackson Mr. Alan J. Koch Mr. Norman Kopesky II Mr. Arthur E. Kruppenbacher Mr. Daniel Marvin Dr. Duane K. Miller Mr. Jesse M. Newton Mr. Mark L. Pauling Mr. Steven H. Reas Mr. Sidney Roberts Mrs. Deborah Saint Mr. Nathanael Saint Mr. Brad Shaw Mr. David R. Strait Mrs. Vicki Strong Mr. Vern R. Swanson Mr. Dewayne Vogt Class of 1979 Total Gifts $78,192.74 12.81% Participation Mr. Paul F. Ahrens Anonymous Mr. Dwight Beadle Mrs. Sylvia K. Biggs Mr. Jay A. Childs Mr. Jose Cosa Mrs. Sheree Cosa Mr. Griffith J. Decker Rev. Daniel R. Duda Mr. William W. Ewin III Mr. Timothy U. Gingrich Mr. Dan Gutwein Mr. Allen R. Hartman Jr. Mr. Randy L. Hartman Jr. Mrs. Lorna Helbing Mr. John D. Herrmann Mrs. Lois R. Hunter Ms. Anne M. Kaneshiro Mr. Brian E. Ransom Mr. Vern Schmidt Mr. Dwight Slaback Mr. Billy Sullenger Mr. Kenneth L. Wagner Mr. Bryan White Mrs. Denise E. White Mr. Stacey Wilbur Mr. Charles E. Wisser Class of 1980 Total Gifts $9,542.46 7.25% Participation Mr. Mark L. Anderson Mrs. Ruth A. Arrowsmith Mrs. Lisa S. Beadle Mr. Dan Boggs Mr. Raymond E. Farrar Mr. John M. Johnston III Mr. David Luckert Mr. Carroll J. Manchester Mr. Robert B. McAfee Mr. William R. Patterson Mr. Victor M. Paul Mr. Kory O. Pehl Mr. Fred L. Ritchey Jr. Mrs. Deb L. Robey Mr. Lawrence L. Robinson

Mr. Stephen M. Thompson Mr. Bradley S. Vanasse Mrs. Lynn T. Vanasse Mr. Paul G. Wittenbach Class of 1981 Total Gifts $21,839.62 13.78% Participation Mr. Joel M. Barker Mr. Donald L. Beiler Mr. Rick H. Bicknell Mrs. Sue E. Bradley Mr. Ronald A. Collins Mr. Ben P. Cowles Mr. William L. Garfield Jr. Mr. Stephen E. Gooch Mr. Donald E. Greene Mr. Mark D. Hanna Mr. Jon E. Hansen Mr. Martin O. Hill Mr. Craig D. Janke Mr. Rick Jenkins Mr. John E. Kinard Mr. David J. Landon Mr. Daniel R. Liggett Mrs. Lauren Liggett Mr. Tim P. Munsterman Mr. Duane Olson Jr. Mr. Al Preston Mr. David L. Ramaly Mr. Ron G. Rand Mr. Douglas P. Redman Mr. Sheldon Schmidt Mr. Randy Schunter Mr. Scott A. Shaver Mr. Matthew H. Strong Mr. Jim E. Sutton III Mr. James G. Walker Mr. Edward Wolbert Class of 1982 Total Gifts $12,637.64 12.14% Participation Mr. Thomas E. Anderson Anonymous Mr. Damian G. Barrett Mr. Walter Bowles Jr. Mr. Paul Broda Mrs. Margaret P. Broda Mr. John P. Eleutheriou Mr. Dean M. Frederick Mr. Gerald L. Gehman Mr. John M. Holmes Mr. Jeffrey C. Johnson Mr. John A. Levander Jr. Mr. Randall Plants Mrs. Lydia R. Rountree Mr. David L. Russell Mr. Paul K. Schufeldt Mr. Jay H. Slagle Mr. Gregg R. Sweeten Mr. Ted A. Timmons Mr. Keith F. Trosen Mr. James A. Walter Class of 1983 Total Gifts $4,189.06 6.67% Participation Anonymous Dr. Timothy Belcher Mrs. Carol Carr Mr. Dave L. Fyock Mr. Russ McClellan Mr. Roger D. Patrick Mr. Robert R. Schuit Mr. Roger Sherman Mr. Chris R. Spengler

Mr. Wayne Steege Mr. Bob E. Sturm Mrs. Nancy Walter Class of 1984 Total Gifts $20,574.98 9.51% Participation Mrs. Deborah S. Aiken Mr. Jeffrey D. Aiken Mr. Andrew Bartel Mr. Barney Burks Jr. Miss Ruth Cocking Mr. Robert A. Dunn Mr. Thomas E. Ehresman Mr. Rodney Fellenbaum Mr. Nathan Hewitt Mr. David A. Hoeks Mr. David E. Hoffman Mr. Lawrence R. Kewin Mr. Philip P. Kuitems Mr. James Merkle Mr. Charles Oliveto II Mr. Timothy P. Ostigaard Mr. Daniel Parks Mr. Glenn Perez Mrs. Sylvia Ramaly Mrs. Carol Roszhart Mr. Doug Roszhart Mr. Robert G. Rountree Dr. Daniel M. Schmidt Mr. Randy Vroom Mr. David W. Zoutendam Class Of 1985 Total Gifts $46,893.92 10.11% Participation Mr. Robert Allen Mr. Peter J. Bradley Mr. Dale J. Burns Mrs. Rhonda L. Davis Mr. Russell L. Davis Mr. Steve Erickson Mr. Daniel C. Fauber Mr. Warren Habib Dr. Delinda S. Hall Ph.D. Mrs. Mary Hoffman Mr. Steven Linscheid Mr. Daniel M. McCabe Mr. Stuart R. Ogden Mr. Stephen D. Reason Mr. Brian S. Taylor Mr. Dick Travis Mrs. Lori Travis Mr. Dean Waskowiak Mr. Victor R. Willis Class of 1986 Total Gifts $24,188.42 11.98% Participation Anonymous Mr. Jim Brake Mr. David S. Busenitz Mrs. Gayle R. Busenitz Lt.Col. H. T. DeGroot Mr. David W. Elliott Mr. Bill R. Fosbenner Mr. Robert Fricke Mr. Andy R. Hawker Mr. David R. Johnson Mr. Stephen J. Marks Mr. Scott Mulligan Mrs. Annette M. Prewitt Mr. David S. Prewitt Mr. David E. Puttbach Mr. Troy Ritchie Mr. Timothy M. Schroeder Mr. Keith L. Shippy

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Mr. Scott D. Stallard Mr. Eduardo Vaflor Mr. Marc West Mr. Neal Willford Class of 1987 Total Gifts $10,279.92 8.25% Participation Anonymous Mr. Paul D. Aubrey Mr. Matthew J. Baldwin Mrs. Kathryn A. Booth Mr. Carl E. Buczala Mr. Steve Class Mr. Randall W. Gabbert Mr. Bradley J. Johnson Mr. David Lednum Mrs. Marilie A. Marks Ms. Laura K. Mood Mr. Gregory S. Pike Mr. Todd L. Roebke Mr. Matthew J. Sample Mr. William E. Worman Jr. Mrs. Jill Zeitlow Mr. Terry A. Zeitlow Class of 1988 Total Gifts $1,967.04 2.84% Participation Mr. Marc A. Charpentier Mrs. Tiffany DeGroot Mrs. Dorinda K. Hammond Mr. Gordon J. Johnson Mr. Philip J. McIntosh Sr. Dr. Mark D. Roth M.D. Class of 1989 Total Gifts $135,635.00 10.96% Participation Anonymous Mr. John V. Baker Mrs. Melanie Bertsche Mr. Patrick A. Bertsche Mr. Mark Budai Mr. Andrew H. Curtis Mr. Jeffrey G. DeLong Mr. George E. Dunham Mr. Bryan K. Edwards Mr. Timothy A. Graber Mr. Brian V. McIntyre Mr. Scott A. Patterson Mrs. Wendy S. Paver Mr. Douglas J. Roads Mr. Anthony C. Wolfe Mr. Stanley E. Young Class of 1990 Total Gifts $12,486.00 5.41% Participation Mrs. Jami L. Crider Mr. Kenneth W. Daniels Jr. Mr. Steven A. Dudden PE Mrs. Ginger A. Graber Dr. Michael Myers Mr. Jeffrey C. Short Mr. James P. Straubel Mr. Jonathan R. Woodworth Class of 1991 Total Gifts $1,207.00 6.29% Participation Mr. Doug W. Anderson Mrs. Starr M. Anderson Mr. Marlin R. Brubaker Mr. Robert W. Hammond Mr. Gary A. Hanson Mr. David V. Harvey III Mr. Joseph K. Henkel

Mr. Stanton D. Spaulding Mr. Joshua R. Williams Class of 1992 Total Gifts $5,279.04 13.1% Participation Mr. Harry G. Barrett Jr. Mr. Mark W. Barrett Mr. Adrian Bonilla Dr. Douglas F. Britton Mr. Anton E. Coy Jr. Mrs. Karyn A. Davies Mr. Mark H. Devos Mrs. Michelle English Mr. Daniel J. Harding Mr. Craig G. Hummel Mr. Dean Q. Lewis Mr. Christopher L. Maurer Mr. Titus J. McDaniel Mr. Carl H. Nelson Mr. Shane H. Patterson Mr. Nathan A. Roden Lt.Col. David M. Trombly Mrs. Megan Trombly Mrs. Angela Williams Mr. Scott Winne Mrs. Rebecca Woodworth Mr. Roy S. Zeitlow Class of 1993 Total Gifts $7,750.96 8.23% Participation Mrs. Laurie Barrett Mr. Kenneth C. Bell Mr. Christopher D. Bena Mr. James E. Beylotte Mr. Titus Crabb Mr. David L. DeBoer Mr. Timothy M. Epp Mr. Jason D. Holland Dr. Ann M. Olson Mr. Jeffrey R. Piepmeier Dr. Jenelle L. Piepmeier Mr. Jason C. Stell Mr. William F. Wolcken Class of 1994 Total Gifts $3,996.00 8.55% Participation Mrs. Tiffany N. Beylotte Mr. Seth D. Buttner Ms. Heidi L. DeKoster Mr. Brian K. DeKruyff Mr. Aaron Goyne Mr. Paul S. Grenon Mr. John P. Gutierrez Mr. David M. Mills Mr. Slade R. Rinehart Mrs. Beth A. Ruwe Class of 1995 Total Gifts $4,246.00 4.89% Participation Mr. Joseph G. Farmer Mrs. Linda Goyne Mr. Matthew Heironimus Mr. Wayne F. Peterein Jr. Mr. Gary M. Potts Mr. Matthew N. Ruwe Mr. David J. Tesser Mr. Robert Winsor Mr. Nathan J. Woskie Class of 1996 Total Gifts $2,199.20 6.06% Participation Mr. Jason E. Borsheim Mr. Jonathan D. Caruvana

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Mrs. Sylvia J. Caruvana Mr. Stephen M. Chandler Mr. Jonathan N. Gardner Mr. Jason R. Gardner Mr. Michael G. Iverson Mr. Aaron L. Knaub Mr. Gabriel C. Morrow Mr. Carlon R. Voran Class of 1997 Total Gifts $3,091.00 5.43% Participation Anonymous Mrs. Julie K. Boss Mr. Timothy A. Crouthamel Mr. Michael W. Hoye Mr. Kenneth B. Johnson Mrs. Marta Martin Miss Tracey L. Riverman Mrs. Laura A. Spivey Mr. John B. Walrod Class of 1998 Total Gifts $6,916.00 9.15% Participation Mr. Jason P. Boss Mr. Bryan D. Fiscus Mr. Karl W. Gross Mr. Andrew P. Kalitka Mr. Brent Landau Mr. Aaron S. Lorson Mrs. Angela F. Morrow Dr. Seth J. Norton Mr. Christopher M. O'Meara Mrs. Nicole E. O'Meara Mr. Ronald S. Sanda Mr. Jonathan L. Walton Mr. Benjamin L. Wigton Mrs. Rebecca I. Wigton Mr. Daniel V. Wilkin Class of 1999 Total Gifts $11,150.00 5.19% Participation Mrs. Dianne H. Benton Mr. Gordon J. Bullivant Mrs. Allison Gardner Mr. Matthew J. Nelson Mrs. Aradhana R. Nissley Dr. Nathan E. Nissley Mrs. Shiloh R. Norton Mr. Stephen D. Westover Class of 2000 Total Gifts $1,644.46 6.9% Participation Mrs. Brianna E. Abraham Mr. Ben J. Dieter Mr. Scottie D. Dragoo Mr. Daniel T. Harrison Mr. Paul B. Hvass Mr. Imie Mark III Mr. Timothy H. Medin Mrs. Vanessa B. Meling Mrs. Kassia Peter Mr. Daniel R. Smith Class of 2001 Total Gifts $4,914.14 5.78% Participation Mr. Mohit R. Abraham Mr. Michael E. Askew Mr. David C. Dunkin Mr. Joshua M. Johnston Mr. Darren C. Lewis Mr. Andrew L. Olson Dr. Matthew K. Olson Mrs. Gail Ritchey

Ms. Meredith N. Todd Mr. Leif W. Wickland Class of 2002 Total Gifts $12,387.12 9.9% Participation Anonymous Mr. David T. Babb Mr. Michael B. Curylo Mr. Vernon M. David Mr. Coby S. Gipson Mrs. Emily J. Hopping Mr. Kenneth W. Martens Mrs. Katrina M. Olson 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 Mr. Philip L. Steers IV Mr. Christopher D. Waskey Class of 2003 Total Gifts $2,444.46 3.7% Participation Mr. Timothy P. Clark Ms. Jamie K. DeYoung Mrs. Bethany Hara Mr. Shawn P. Hara Mr. Peter H. Hoewisch Mr. Andrew R. Steiger Mr. Jeff Stutzman Class of 2004 Total Gifts $4,800.00 3.38% Participation Anonymous Mrs. Ashley C. Johnson Mr. Jesse T. Laster Mrs. Laura J. Laster Mr. Dezi J. Rios Mr. Andrew A. Rucker Mr. David C. Runyon Mr. John B. Spiegel Mr. Raul E. Valdes Class of 2005 Total Gifts $711.52 2.89% Participation Mr. Demetri M. White Ms. Sarah A. Hess Mr. Eliot F. Landrum Mr. Daniel N. Leatherwood Mr. Jonathan M. Tack Class of 2006 Total Gifts $3,379.46 4.67% Participation Mr. Wayco W. Beckman Mr. Wesley D. Brittain Mr. Eric J. Burkholder Ms. Amy E. Davis Mr. Matthew P. Edmunds Mr. Jacob L. Gregg Dr. Charles D. Moorehead Mr. Eugene Sung Mrs. Pauline R. Sung Mrs. Catherine V. White Class of 2007 Total Gifts $3,080.00 2.78% Participation Mrs. Rachel A. Gaines Mr. Tim D. Markley II Ms. Nashunda Y. Mitchell

Ms. Sabrina N. Parsons Mr. Brandon J. Ray Ms. Erin R. Swanson Mr. Jason K. Trosen Class of 2008 Total Gifts $3,208.40 4.5% Participation Mr. Adair D. Ballagh Mr. Danny Bradley Mrs. Lauren L. Bradley Mr. Christopher R. Cook Ms. Alissa Cooper Mr. Ian T. Cooper Mr. Joshua A. DeGraffenried Mr. Michael R. DeGroat Mr. Michael J. Gaines Jr. Mr. Timothy K. Shirley Class of 2009 Total Gifts $2,580.00 0.9% Participation Mrs. Kris Elmore Mr. Dylan L. Garrison Class of 2010 Total Gifts $598.00 1.66% Participation Ms. Ellie Garrison Mr. Eli R. Jacky Mrs. Janet Ragland Mr. Owen R. Swearengen Mr. Daniel J. Towner Class of 2011 Total Gifts $534.38 4.56% Participation Anonymous Mr. Ulrich E. De La Fuente Mr. Matthew P. Gustafson Miss Elise E. Lanning Mr. Chad A. Mertz Mr. Aaron L. Midcap Mr. Kenneth D. Misiak Mr. Jonathan M. Nelson Mr. Benjamin J. Schultz Mr. Brett A. Smith Ms. Kimberly S. White Class of 2012 Total Gifts $2,157.84 2.69% Participation Anonymous Mr. Joshua D. Bradley Ms. Amy R. Embleton Mr. Kenton E. Embleton Ms. Megan R. Hillmann Ms. Heidi N. Morgan Mr. Adam J. Sarhage Mr. Joseph D. Wallace Class of 2013 Total Gifts $280.00 6.76% Participation Ms. Bethany L. Baas Mr. Brock A. Boulware Mr. Isaac A. Coats Mr. Cameron R. Hamilton Mr. Daniel J. Hawk Mr. Galvino F. Medina Mr. Ethan R. Pearce Mr. William R. Pickenpaugh Mr. Aaron D. Shelton Mr. Micah O. Shennum

General Operational Fund (Fiscal Year End June 30, 2013)

31.4% 11.1% 27.7% 17.5% 4.7% 7.5%

Instructional, Research and Academic Support Student and Enrollment Services Institutional Support Plant and Auxiliary Operations and Maintenance Debt Service Capital Projects

74.6% 20.2% 2.0% 1.4% 0.4% 1.3%

Tuition and Fees (net of 11,489,449 financial aid scholarships) Auxiliary Operations Unrestricted Non-Capital Gifts and Grants Grants, Contracts and Research Investment Income Miscellaneous

Expenditures

Revenue

Institutional Research and Academic Support

Tuition and Fees

35,027,560

14,739,171

Student and Enrollment Services

5,212,375

Unrestricted Non-Capital Gifts and Grants

928,471

Institutional Support

13,000,045

Auxiliary Operations Plant and Auxiliary Operations and Maintenance

8,233,723

Capital Projects

Debt Services

2,218,353

3,517,478

Grants, Contracts and Research

9,489,449

672,193

Investment Income

187,711

Miscellaneous and Transfers From Other Funds

9,489,449

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