The Alumni Association sponsored Survival Kits

We prepared over 750 Survival Kits were delivered to IWU students! Our team of twenty volunteers lovingly prayed for each student who would receive these kits. Here are some highlights.

Alumni - retirement of Dr. A. Michael Goff - reception and commemorative book

Special Announcement – Dr. A. Michael Goff

 

Dr. A. Michael Goff, Professor of Biology at IWU since 1977, will be retiring at the end of this semester.  The Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics requests the honor of your presence at a reception to recognize Dr. Goff and wish him well. 

 

We will be hosting this reception today, Thursday, April 16, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., in the Student Center Piazza.

 

We have sent invitations to several of our alumni regarding a special Division reception that we are having next Thursday, April 23, 7:00-9:00 p.m., on the BHSN Rooftop Plaza.  We plan a special "SURPRISE" recognition time between 7:30-8:30 p.m.

 

We have also sent information to alumni regarding a book that is being put together by Stan McVay and Shirley Gates.  That information is as follows:

 

After well over thirty years as Professor of Biology at Indian Wesleyan University, Dr. A. Michael Goff is retiring this spring. As his student or colleague you are invited to write a letter of memories and congratulations to Dr. Goff. You may include references to a classroom incident or one that occurred on one of his many IWU trips with students, or of some other positive influence he has had on your life. Feel free to include photos. These letters will be placed in a three-ring binder and given to Dr. Goff at his retirement reception on April 23, 2009. If snail mailing your letter, please mail to Stan K. McVay: 12104 North Meridian Road, Logansport IN 46947. Or e-mail to Shirley Vogel Gates at shirleymgates@hotmail.com. Please mail your letter no later than April 15, 2009. This is to be a surprise for Dr. Goff. 

 

Published by the IWU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

New portraits at the Alumni House

Eric Helvie ('06) painted these portraits and have loaned them for display at the Alumni House. Picture includes members of the the class of 1981 as well as Dr. Byron Tippey, beloved retired faculty.

NIADC Easter Basket pictures

Here are a few images we took. It shows all the team members and the
enthusiasm for the kids at SCAN.

Charlene B. Thornton Named Special Agent in Charge of FBI Honolulu Division

Charlene B. Thornton has been named Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the FBI’s Honolulu Division. Director Robert S. Mueller, III appointed her to this position to replace SAC Janet Kammerman, who was recently appointed Associate Executive Assistant Director of the Human Resources Branch at FBI Headquarters. Most recently, Ms. Thornton served as SAC of the San Francisco Division.

Ms. Thornton entered on duty as an FBI special agent in 1979. Upon completion of training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, she conducted a variety of criminal, counterintelligence, and counterterrorism investigations at the Indianapolis and Los Angeles Divisions. In 1985, she was promoted to a supervisory position in the Legal Counsel Division at FBI Headquarters, where she assisted in the defense of the FBI and FBI employees. In 1989, she became Chief of the Legal Research Unit, responsible for providing legal advice and guidance to FBI executives and field offices.

Mrs. Thornton left FBI Headquarters in 1991 to return to the field. After three years supervising applicant, civil rights, white collar crime, and violent crime squads in the Baltimore Division, she was promoted to Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Honolulu Division in 1995. While there, she managed all investigative programs and had primary responsibility for administrative management. She also oversaw the FBI's extraterritorial investigations throughout Asia and the Pacific.

In 1997, Ms. Thornton returned to FBI Headquarters as Deputy General Counsel, overseeing the FBI's legal training, forfeiture, and legal advice programs. She served in that role until 1999, when she moved to the FBI’s Inspection Division. As an Inspector, she was responsible for overseeing comprehensive audits of the FBI's investigative and administrative operations.

Ms. Thornton was named SAC of the Birmingham Division in 2000. In that capacity, she directed all FBI operations in the Northern District of Alabama. In 2002, she assumed the duties of SAC Phoenix, responsible for all FBI operations in the state of Arizona. She served in Phoenix until 2004, when she was appointed Assistant Director of the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters. In that role she was responsible for the oversight of internal investigations of employee misconduct, as well as for evaluating the FBI’s investigative, financial, and administrative programs. In 2006, she was named SAC of the San Francisco Division.

Ms. Thornton graduated from Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana, with a degree in Political Science and Economics. She earned a Juris Doctorate, with honors, from the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis, and a Masters of Law in Taxation from the University of San Diego Law School. She is a graduate of the National Executive Institute and is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. In 2005, Mrs. Thornton was awarded the Presidential Rank of Meritorious Executive in recognition of her sustained high level of achievement in managing demanding and multifaceted FBI operations.

 

Indiana Wesleyan University - Partners with area Colleges and Universities - NIADC

Area schools collect Easter baskets for SCAN

http://www.fwdailynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=
2646:Area-schools-collect-Easter-baskets-for-SCAN&catid=61:times-online2
&Itemid=6

fwdailynews.com - Kendallville,IN,USA
... University of St. Francis, Indiana Wesleyan, Huntington University,
... The project is sponsored by the Northeast Indiana Alumni Directors
Consortium. ...

New Wesleyan Seminary at IWU - Marion Campus

MARION — Indiana Wesleyan University plans to open a seminary for the Wesleyan Church next September on its Marion campus.

The school says the seminary will include about 200 students currently enrolled in master's programs and 75 other master of divinity students entering over the course of its first year.

Only about 15 percent of Wesleyan pastors hold seminary degrees, but leaders of the Fishers, Ind.-based denomination say they hope the seminary will double that number.

Indiana Wesleyan says all of the seminary's students will be required to have full-time ministries in local churches while they pursue their degrees.

The Wesleyan Church has 400,000 members in 80 countries.

 

More News - http://www.indwes.edu/news/ArchiveNews/2009/Seminary-to-Open-At-Indiana-Wesleyan-University.htm

 

Text Version:

 

Seminary to Open At Indiana Wesleyan University

The first seminary in the history of The Wesleyan Church will open in September on the Marion campus of Indiana Wesleyan University. The IWU Board of Trustees unanimously approved the historic proposal on April 3.

The seminary format will be similar to IWU’s successful adult education programs, which allow students to further their education while maintaining family and professional responsibilities.

"We have taken the very best of the future and the very best of the past to create a new model," IWU President Henry Smith said. "Our purpose was to make a seminary education more practical, more accessible and more affordable."

Although seminary training is encouraged, only about 15 percent of Wesleyan pastors have seminary degrees. Denominational leaders are hoping the new IWU seminary will double that number.

While Wesleyan pastors are seen as key candidates, the seminary is expected to draw ministerial students from other evangelical Christian denominations.

A seminary task force, consisting of officials from IWU and The Wesleyan Church, met for two years to consider creating a seminary in Marion. Dr. Ken Schenck and Rev. Russ Gunsalus, IWU religion professors, guided the task force.

The idea gained momentum in December when the Higher Learning Commission extended IWU’s accreditation to include the Master of Divinity (M Div.) degree. The M. Div. is the foundational degree for a seminary.

The seminary will open this fall with an expected 200 students who currently are enrolled in master’s programs plus 75 M.Div. students over the course of the first year.

A $6 million building, that would include classrooms, offices and lodging for students, already is on the drawing board, but no date has been set for the start of construction. The building is planned for the 4400 block of South Landess Street.

All students will be required to have – and to maintain – full-time ministries in local churches while they pursue a seminary degree. "We do not want to take seminary students away from their local churches and their ministries," Smith said.

Many students, who do not live close to campus, can take two-thirds of their classes online and come to campus for intense one-week classes. Students within driving distance of Marion can take all of their classes on campus.

The 75-hour M. Div. degree will take four years to complete. As many as four professors will teach each class to better integrate various components – such as Bible, theology, church history and practical applications – into each course.

"I firmly believe this will be the most practical seminary in the world," said Dr. Kerry Kind, General Director of Education and the Ministry for The Wesleyan Church.

The IWU Board of trustees will govern the seminary and will appoint a seminary board. The seminary, which does not yet have a name, will have a chief operating officer, an academic dean and its own faculty.

"Several faculty members already are teaching in our graduate religion programs, and we are in an active search to build a new faculty of ministry scholars," said IWU Provost David Wright.

The Wesleyan Church was formed in1968 through the mergers of several like-minded denominations, dating as far back as 1843. The denomination has 400,000 constituents in 4,000 churches and missions in 80 countries.

In addition to IWU, the denomination operates colleges in Houghton, New York; Central, South Carolina, and Bartlesville, Oklahoma. There also is a Wesleyan Bible college in Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada.

Indiana Wesleyan University is an evangelical Christian comprehensive university of The Wesleyan Church, which has its world headquarters in Fishers, Indiana. IWU was founded in 1920 and is committed to liberal arts and professional education.

More than 3,200 students are enrolled in traditional programs on the University’s main campus in Marion. Another 12,200 adult learners attend classes at regional campuses in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio and online.

 

Retirement event: Jerry Showalter Open House / also information about the retirement of Dr. Mike Goff

Jerry Showalter, Professor of Business at IWU, will be retiring at the
end of this semester. The Division of Business will be hosting an open
house to honor Prof. Showalter' many years of dedicated service to the
Division of Business and to wish him well in his retirement.

The reception will be this Wednesday, April 15 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in
the Division of Business office, Maxwell 206.

Please plan to attend to greet and honor Professor Showalter. If you
cannot attend, please pass your regards via email to Sharon Blankenship,
Secretary.

Sharon Blankenship
Division of Business Secretary
Indiana Wesleyan University
765-677-2289
sharon.blankenship@indwes.edu

Related news article from the Chronicle-Tribune (also includes
information about retirement of Dr. Mike Goff)

Story:
IWU losing longtime profs
Goff, Showalter have decades of teaching time between them, and they'll
leave behind a legacy at Marion campus

Two Indiana Wesleyan University professors who have made an impact on
the college are saying farewell to full-time teaching.

Mike Goff and Jerry Showalter, who have more than 70 years combined
experience teaching, are retiring at the end of the school year.

For more of this story, click on or type the URL below:

http://www.chronicle-tribune.com/articles/2009/04/14/news/doc49e3fd3e0cc
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Dr. Keith Newman next VP University Relations

Dr. Keith Newman to Join IWU as Vice President for University Relations

I am pleased to share the good news that Dr. Keith Newman has accepted our invitation to become IWU's next Vice President for University Relations. He has held the same position at Mount Vernon Nazarene University in Ohio since January 2003.

Dr. Newman will join IWU on July 1, 2009, and will be a member of the President's Cabinet.

Before joining Mount Vernon Nazarene, Dr. Newman was a pastor for 18 years in the Nazarene Church. He served as the senior pastor of large Nazarene churches in Arkansas, Texas and California. Dr. Newman is an exceptional mission fit. Although he has served the Nazarene Church for several years, he is committed to joining The Wesleyan Church.

I have known Keith since he joined Mount Vernon Nazarene seven years ago and feel we can work together effectively. The chemistry between a University president and the Vice President of University Relations is so important because of the need for the two of us to travel together extensively.

Dr. David Blanchard, who chairs the University Relations Committee of the IWU Board of Trustees, interviewed Dr. Newman and said he was very

favorably impressed with Dr. Newman's breadth of experience and credentials and his commitment to furthering Christ's Kingdom through Higher Education.

Dr. Newman has a Bachelor's of Arts degree from Houston Baptist University and a Master of Ministry degree from Southern Nazarene University. He earned his Ed.D. degree in Leadership Education from Spalding University. He also has a Certificate in Fundraising Management from The Center of Philanthropy at Indiana University in Indianapolis.

Before beginning his ministry in the Nazarene Church, Dr. Newman served for nine years as a police officer and detective sergeant on the Houston (Texas) Police Department. Dr. Newman has taken an active role in the Mount Vernon, Ohio, community since he joined the Mount Vernon Nazarene University six years ago. He has served on the board of directors of the American Red Cross, the Chamber of Commerce and the Convention and Visitors Bureau.

For three decades, Dr. Newman has been a speaker at youth camps, conventions, retreats, capital stewardship banquets, parent-teacher organizations and civic associations. He was a founding trustee of a Christian high school in Houston.

Keith's wife, Carolyn and their high school daughter, Alana, will join the IWU family later this summer.

Dr. Newman will succeed Dr. Brian Simmons, who recently resigned earlier to become President of the Association of Christian Schools International. Dr. Simmons has served IWU very capably for the last three years and we all pray the very best for the next steps for the Brian and Bonnie in Colorado Springs.

Henry Smith
President
Indiana Wesleyan University