THE FLAME VOL. 1 NO. 1 – NOVEMBER 2014
A PUBLICATION OF WELCH COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Legacy for the Future Ketteman Student Scholarship Drive—Februar y 22, 2015 When young L. C. Johnson, newly selected president of Free Will Baptist Bible College (now Welch College), drove up to 3609 Richland Avenue for the first time in September 1942, Paul Ketteman was sitting on the doorstep waiting. He was the first student to enroll in 1942, and later worked at the college for more than 25 years. Mr. Ketteman was beloved across the denomination and even more by the students on campus. Many former students remember him walking up to them while they waited in line at the snack shop, handing them a dollar bill, and saying, “Let me buy your soda today.” Paul Ketteman invested his life in the students of the college. He knew they were the future of the denomination,
and he committed himself to making the school the very best it could be to serve students during his lifetime and beyond. According to Dr. Robert Picirilli, “Paul wanted, more than anything else, for the school to be strong, growing, and faithful to its founding—training young men and women for ministry to the church and to Free Will Baptists.” Ketteman began the annual Christmas fund drive, which was renamed The Ketteman Student Scholarship Drive (KSSD) after his death. He understood better than most how costly it is to provide quality Christian education, and how important it is for churches and individuals to provide regular, generous support. More than anyone else, his work made us conscious of the need to provide a legacy for future generations. Today, Welch College continues to provide men and women with tools to make not only a living but also a life. From the original majors of Pastoral Ministry and Missions, the college has introduced new degrees ranging from Education, Business, Music, Christian Education, and Youth Ministry to Psychology, Exercise Science, and Children’s Ministry. Welch College continues to change the world one student at a time. The KSSD has also changed. Beginning in 2013, the drive moved to February to avoid the year-end appeals from other ministries. Learn more at www.welch.edu/kssd.
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: JOY CORN Joy (Ketteman) Corn (81), daughter of Paul and Helen (Smith) Ketteman, teaches math at Pleasant View Christian School, in Pleasant View, Tennessee. She works alongside her husband Randy (78) at Bethlehem Free Will Baptist Church in Ashland City, Tennessee, where he has pastored since 1995. Joy is president of Cumberland Women Active for Christ and takes an active role as an Alumni of Welch College. She and Randy have two grown sons, Ben and Paul, and one granddaughter, Melody (pictured).