Keeping the Faith NEW ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN BUILDS ON 60 YEARS OF MINISTRY AND CHAPLAINCY
While I valued the classroom education at North Central College, it was the chaplains—George St. Angelo ’41 and Larry Bouldin—who helped put what I learned into a larger worldview.” REV. DON SCHULTZ ’69
Generations of North Central College alumni treasure the impact that campus ministry and chaplaincy had on their campus lives as students and their adult lives today. Now more than ever, placing a value on those experiences and memories is critical for supporting a new $3 million fund that will endow the College’s chaplaincy and Office of Faith and Action. Strengthened by the Wesleyan tradition of uniting “knowledge and vital piety,” North Central has expanded its mission well beyond the words of its first president, A.A. Smith, who said the College was “to be a moral lighthouse sending out a clear and steady light upon all subjects that pertain to the well-being of mankind.” (sic)
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The position of campus chaplain was first created in 1955 when President Harvey Geiger appointed the Rev. George St. Angelo ’41 to the role. He was responsible for the leadership of campus religious activities and had an extraordinary vision for campus ministry. St. Angelo developed the campus church community; European travel opportunities; convocation programs with speakers such as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer and Henry Kissinger; a student trip to Selma, Ala., to support voting rights; and service opportunities in Chicago. North Central chaplains’ ministries have encompassed worship, study, pastoral counseling, spiritual development and prophetic voice. Each chaplain addressed these responsibilities according to their
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strengths, ministering in ways that were consistent with their own gifts and graces. For example: • Rev. Barbara Isaacs created New Visions, New Visions Summer Company, New Beginnings, and Growing Edge, all of which involved students traveling throughout the Midwest to provide programming and worship for congregations and camps. United Methodist Church (UMC) grants strengthened multicultural awareness/diversity and feminist empowerment. • Rev. Dr. Lynn Pries ’67 directed social justice trips so students could participate in the Appalachian Service Project and Habitat for Humanity, and he organized a
