Treveccan Summer 2011

Trevecca awards first

PhDs2011 Summer

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President’s Imprint

We lost 8-0. Our women’s softball team, nationally ranked number 2 in the NAIA, went down in the final game of the season 8-0. Losing is no fun. I slumped in the bleachers and lowered my head.

The world of higher education has recently taken a beating–rising tuition costs, under-performing graduates, campus communities marked by raucous behavior, sniping from the right and left, and failure to win ball games. The world of Christian higher education hasn’t fared much better. In Tennessee alone two church-affiliated universities have closed their doors. With multiple constituencies demanding different agendas, how does a university chart its course through choppy, shark-infested waters?

I’m a fan of Jim Collins. His Good to Great was a pivotal leadership book for me a decade ago. More recently, he has written a little follow-up monograph for the social sector institutions, Good to Great and the Social Sectors: Why Business Thinking Is Not the Answer. He makes the point that brand reputation is the key to the success of a university and that brand is built on tangible results and an emotional share of the hearts of supporters. The friends and alumni of a great university must not only believe in the mission of the university but also in the capacity of the university to deliver on that mission.

Trevecca has had its share of humility across 110 years. Moving from location to location, bankruptcy, digging out from the Great Depression, struggles with accreditation in the ’60s, financial stress, and the ever-present challenges of maintaining an aging campus. As one former president said, “If God had wanted to put Trevecca out of her misery, he sure missed several good chances.”

And then, a few weeks ago 826 graduates walked the Quad and received their diplomas. Among them the first PhDs in the history of Trevecca (clinical counseling). Afterwards, they made their way to the new Alumni Center, part of a $22-million campus improvement during the past five years, where they began their lives as alumni. They graduated from a university experiencing its best financial health in history. They go into the world highly skilled, ethically grounded, and fully aware of the story of God that tells them who they are.

And before we turn around twice, it appears that a record freshman class will be taking their place. Their university is deeply engaged in social justice, the work of Jesus making all things right. Their university is reclaiming the arts for the glory of God. Their university is filling public schools with Christian educators. Their university is preparing health professionals who are compassionate and skilled. Their university is deeply Christian, engaged in serious thinking, and committed to servant-leadership. And they will join the ranks of those whose lives have taken a better turn because of a place called Trevecca.

We lost 8-0. Our women’s softball team, nationally ranked number 2 in the NAIA, went down in the final game of the season 8-0. Losing is no fun. But the father of one of the players made his way to me. While the tearful team packed their gear, he talked with me about the life-transforming impact Trevecca had on his daughter: “She is a different young woman because of your school.” I knew he meant it. So I squared my shoulders, lifted my head, and thanked him for trusting us with his daughter. I knew we had delivered on the mission. It is a matter of esteem; I am proud of our university.

A matter of esteem

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President’s Imprint..........................

Commencement..............................

First PhD graduates........................

College of Lifelong Learning............

Campus News............ .....................

Grant for nursing students

School of Education

New online MA in education

Three-ton grocery run

First nursing graduates

Arboretum project

New personnel

Making significant LEAPS...............

Trojan Talk.....................................

Feature..........................................

“Ruined for Life as Usual”

William M. Greathouse: a tribute.........................................

Alumni News..................................

Marriages, Births, Deaths

Dan Beam–Habitat for Humanity House

Tammy Daughtry– Co-parenting book

Where in the world..........................

Homecoming preview......................

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On the coverTrevecca’s first PhD graduates are these seven graduates of the Clinical Counseling Program: (L-R) Amy Frew, Malinda Wilson, Deandrea Witherspoon, Andre Anderson, Anidolee Chester, Dianne Bradley, and Julie Barnes. Photo by John Gentry Photography

Contents

Vol. 81 No. 2Summer 2011

Dan Boone ’74President

Jan Greathouse ’67Editor

Elizabeth StreightCommunications Assistant/Photographer

ContributorsCasey Johnson ’03/MBA ’10Susan Lahey MMFT ’04Greg Ruff ’00

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Commencement

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On May 7, 2011, in McClurkan Quad, Trevecca celebrated commencement with 826 graduates. The University made history when it awarded its first PhDs—to seven graduates of the Clinical Counseling Program. (See the article on p. 6.) Another high point of the day was the awarding of honorary doctorates to two longtime friends of Trevecca, Don and Zelma Waggoner.

1 Leroy Pepper ’70 delivered the challenge to the graduates. Representatives of three different graduating groups responded to the challenge.

2 Jackie Winkle, senior class president, responded for the traditional students.

3 Dana Salters represented graduates of the Management and Human Relations Program.

4 Nadia Saint-Louis spoke for graduate students.

5 President Boone presents emeritus professor status to Porter King upon his retirement from the School of Education faculty.

The University awarded honorary doctor of letters degrees to Don and Zelma Waggoner, whose interest in and support of Trevecca through the years have made a tremendous difference in this university.

6 Zelma Waggoner accepts her honorary degree from President Boone.

7 Provost Steve Pusey and Charles Davis ’70, chairman of the Board of Trustees, adjust the hood of Don Waggoner before he receives his honorary degree.

8 Andrew Silvas accepts the 2011 Trevecca Citizenship Award from President Boone. Voted by the student body, this award is the highest honor accorded to a graduating senior in recognition of that student’s contributions to Trevecca, inspiration to students, and example of Christian character and integrity.

Photo of the three developers of the program.

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Trevecca’s 2011 Commencement was a milestone event. For the first time in its history, Trevecca awarded doctor of philosophy degrees and became the first Church of the Nazarene institution in the U.S. to offer the PhD. Behind that historic milestone are three men who envisioned a program that would meet the need of graduates of Trevecca’s master’s-level counseling programs—many of whom had asked Trevecca to begin a doctoral-level program in counseling—but those men had a larger vision. They wanted to provide quality education to counselors—PhD-quality.

When Peter Wilson, Don Harvey, and Terry Pruitt developed the doctoral program in clinical counseling, the University’s only doctoral degree was a doctor of education (EdD). Consequently, in 2007 when the Board of Trustees gave approval to the Graduate Psychology Program to begin offering a doctorate, it was an EdD degree, the EdD in clinical counseling.

Designed to prepare professionals in the fields of counseling, teaching, supervision, and research, this program has bigger goals than simply advancing the field of counseling; it is a training ground for advanced leadership within the helping profession. Students conduct doctoral-level research in areas such as postpartum depression, divorce, spirituality, and diversity issues. (The spring 2010

Treveccan included an article about one student’s research collection in India. See page 10 in that issue.) Students appreciate the quality of the program. They report their gratitude for the approachability and availability of faculty, and they state they are better equipped as counselors to practice within the field as a result of the program.

On Tuesday evening, May 3, prior to commencement weekend, graduates of the Graduate Psychology Program—both master’s and doctoral graduates—participated in a commissioning service. They knelt at an altar, and with their professors gathered around them, they committed themselves to the practice of their profession—as Christian counselors and therapists. According to Susan Lahey, coordinator of the doctoral program, this program “serves as occupational and vocational training for those who long to serve others through the counseling profession; additionally, many of our students report their specific calling to this profession.”

The vision of Harvey, Pruitt, and Wilson, director of the Graduate Psychology Program, has reached realization in the awarding of the first PhDs. Trevecca, its students, and the many clients of these new clinicians will benefit from their hard work and dedication to providing quality education for therapists.

Trevecca is the first Church of the Nazarene institution in the United States to offer a PhD program.

Trevecca makes history–

Awards first PhDs

Terry Pruitt, Don Harvey, and Peter Wilson


Three members of the administrative team of the College of Lifelong Learning take a break from their work for a photo: Angie Wetmore, director of online learning; Holly Shaw, recruiter; and Dave Phillips, dean of the College.

The new College of Lifelong Learning (CLL), formed earlier this year, is already in the process of expanding Trevecca’s academic offerings for adults. David Phillips, dean of the CLL, explains that the success of the Internet and the use of new technologies have made online education very popular with adult learners. He says, “Trevecca’s recognition of the value of online instruction and its formation of the College of Lifelong Learning indicate that it recognizes the value of this approach to education—and is committing itself to meeting the educational needs of adult learners who cannot attend classes on campus.” Phillips and Angela Wetmore, Trevecca’s new director of online learning, are in the process of developing new online adult degree-completion programs and graduate programs and will be developing online courses for the traditional undergraduate programs. Some of those new programs are already in operation. This summer more than 100 students participated in eleven general education courses offered online by Trevecca faculty. Trevecca’s first online graduate program, the Master’s of Organizational Leadership (MOL), began in 2010 with twenty students participating in the first two cohorts. This fall the first School of Education online program will be launched—the Master’s of Education in Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction Program. The MOL Program is a multi-disciplinary online leadership degree program designed to give a solid business and theological understanding in the area of organizational leadership within various Christian ministries. Popular with pastors, those serving in The Salvation Army, and those working in parachurch organizations, this graduate degree consists of twelve courses (36 semester hours) and can be completed in two years. The Master of Education in Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction is designed for K-12 teachers who wish to develop, update, or improve their teaching skills through the use of new technologies. This graduate degree consists of ten courses (27 semester hours) and three hours of practicum. Students can complete this degree in fifteen months. Both of these programs are delivered online in six-week, asynchronous (anywhere/anytime) classes at the very affordable tuition rate of $343 a credit hour, plus a $100 technology fee per course. With two six-week classes in the fall and two six-week classes in the spring, individuals can complete this continuing education program in one year. In addition to these degree programs, Trevecca also offers a non-credit online learning opportunity in worship arts.

“The faculty and staff of the College of Lifelong Learning are excited about the possibilities of these new programs and the opportunities we have to share the Trevecca values and message with new groups of students,” said Phillips.

College of Lifelong Learning Making education accessible


Bookstore now outsourcedAll bookstore operations were outsourced in late June to Tree of Life (TOL), head-quartered in Marion, Indiana. TOL has been operating college bookstores for ten years and now has fourteen college bookstores. Mount Vernon Nazarene University is the latest school to join that group. Additionally, TOL provides consulting services to other colleges about their bookstores.

In the coming school year the Trevecca Bookstore will focus heavily on increasing textbook rentals as part of an effort to provide the best overall value to the greatest number of students. Students will still be able to purchase textbooks (new or used), and prices will be set competitively with Amazon as an incentive to use the campus store. Merchandise options should increase because the bookstore will now have access to deals based on the buying power of a group of stores and will be able to provide more product options with anticipated lower prices.

Arboretum project proceedingThe effort to make Trevecca’s campus a Tennessee arboretum moved closer to completion in late spring when 265 arboretum tags were mounted on campus trees. Special thanks go to the Trevecca Classes of 1965 and 1980 for their contributions to the purchase of the tags.

Former president Homer Adams ’47 and Bennett Caldwell, the Boy Scout who helped with the project, stand in front of one of the tagged trees.

New leadership in Office of AdmissionsIn April, two persons accepted leadership roles in the Office of Admissions: Kathy Baugher, associate provost and dean of enrollment management, and Holly Miller Whitby ’95, director of admissions.

Baugher, a graduate of Samford with an earned doctorate in higher education from Vanderbilt, has twenty-five years of successful experience in higher education enrollment management and financial aid at Samford and Belmont Universities. Under her leadership, Belmont’s freshman enrollment tripled, and its overall headcount increased more than 100%.

Whitby, who earned an MBA from Belmont University, returns to Trevecca after a career in product presentation and sales. For the past twelve years she was employed by ePartners, a Microsoft Company, where she was the company’s leading salesperson.


Three-ton grocery runAccepting the challenge of the Physician Assistant (PA) Class of 2011, the PA Class of 2012 went to work. In only three weeks, the class of 2012 gathered more than 6,000 pounds of groceries for residents of Urban Housing Solutions, a local non-profit low-income housing organization—and surpassed the class of 2011’s 4,332 pounds.

Students focused on gathering healthful versions of shelf-stable foods to reinforce the healthy lifestyle principles the PA students have been promoting through weekly workshops during the fall and spring semesters. Brandi Ghergia, director of administration for Urban Housing Solutions, expressed appreciation for this effort:

“Trevecca Nazarene University’s Physician Assistant Program feeds our residents’ minds with vital health information and their bellies with the nourishing food they so desperately need. Thank you for giving so freely and enthusiastically–not only talking the talk, but walking the walk! We still can’t believe you beat the first food drive record–and loaded and unloaded the truck! Thank you!”

Accepting the check from the Butterfield Memorial Foundation are the following: (L to R) Chris Algren, PhD, RN, director of the Belmont University Nursing Program; Peg Cooning, Trevecca’s vice president for external relations; Beth Brown, vice-president of programs for Butterfield Memorial Foundation; Cathy Hendon, Trevecca coordinator of the Nursing Program.

Nursing Program wins grantThis spring the Butterfield Memorial Foundation awarded Trevecca a $50,000 grant, with $25,000 to be given during each of the next two years. These funds are designated to be used for upperclass nursing students and are intended to help offset their tuition costs. Butterfield Memorial Foundation is committed to providing empowering multifaceted support to Christian non-profit organizations whose initiative addresses health and medical needs for vulnerable populations.


As part of its accreditation reaffirmation process, the University asks alumni and friends to participate in the Quality Enhancement Project (QEP).

The two-question, anonymous survey is online at www.surveymonkey.com/s/VFB28DR and a link is on the homepage of www.trevecca.edu. The input from alumni and friends is vital to this project and will help Trevecca plan ways to improve students’ learning experience.

Seven nursing students earn diplomas

On May 13, through the Partners in Nursing Consortium, a joint effort of Trevecca Nazarene University and Belmont University’s School of Nursing, the first Trevecca students received their nursing degrees: Kristin R. Aucoin, Dorothy Hiatt, Cindy Overstreet, Grace Wampler Haun, Briceson E. Wilkerson, Jessica Wellette.

Two Trevecca graduates received awards. Dorothy E. Hiatt received the Faculty Award which recognizes a graduating senior with outstanding scholarship, clinical competence, and leadership qualities. Jessica N. Wellete received the Certificate of Achievement Award, given to the students who exhibit the highest degree of professional growth and appreciation for lifelong learning. Jessica also received an honor for her service as a peer tutor at Belmont School of Nursing.

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The Tennessee Department of Education has awarded the School of Education a Vision Grant that would fund preparation for teachers to work with blind or visually impaired students. Trevecca, in partnership with the Tennessee School for the Blind (TSB), will provide training in assistive technologies and residential arrangements for individuals with visual impairments.

Some courses will be taught by individuals who teach at the TSB, and some of the classes will be held on the

TSB campus. The grant provides funding for a cohort of ten individuals to receive scholarships for full tuition for a thirty-hour master’s degree. The MEd in Visual Impairments Special Education includes courses in Braille and the use of assistive technologies, anatomy, and the issues of visual learning.

Applications are available through the School of Education Web pages at www.trevecca.edu/soe/vision. Trevecca is one of two schools in Tennessee offering this master’s degree.

New offering–Master’s program for teaching the visually impaired

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Making significant

LEAPSStudents’ accomplishments tell the story

Jeff Swink ’70*

For a few years Trevecca has been using LEAP language to describe the life changing that takes place in the lives of students at Trevecca. The Center for Leadership, Calling, and Service (CLCS) adopted that language for its new program for incoming freshmen — LEAP groups, in which a faculty member and a peer mentor-current student meet with a group of freshmen for the purpose of helping those new students explore their talents and gifts, develop their identities, envision their future, and discern how they can serve to fulfill God’s calling on their lives. As the faculty leader of a LEAP group for the past three years, I have watched the students in my group make some astounding personal accomplishments —their LEAPS!

In June of 2008, Bethany Ford ’11, peer mentor, and I met with our LEAP group, an enthusiastic and eager cohort. That fall Tom Middendorf ’99, associate director of CLCS, showed the new freshmen the inscriptions on the entrance to the campus with the inscriptions “Leadership” and “Service.” He encouraged them to develop themselves as leaders and to be leaders who serve. I believe this simple visual will forever remind students of Trevecca’s “mission.”

During these three years as Bethany and I have continued to meet with those students, we have worked with them on their strengths, their personality styles, and their personal mission statements, and we watched their growth. Two events this spring evidenced how much the members of our group—now rising juniors and seniors—have grown. When we ate dinner with them in April, we asked them to report about their plans for the summer and the future. Then later in April, many of them won significant honors in the annual Awards Chapel.

The following list of their accomplishments shows that members of our LEAP group alone participated in a large variety of events and activities that gave them opportunities to internalize and demonstrate the mission of leadership and service:

■ Member of Refuge; gifted songwriter; member of summer ministries team

■ Intern at Focus on the Family in Colorado for a semester; winner of New Testament Greek Award

■ Officer in the Student Government Association; winner of Kyle Funke Student Activities Award

■ President of Student Teacher Education Association; winner of Leadership in Education Award

■ Members of Trevecca soccer and golf teams■ Member of Trevecca summer ministries team;

winner of Distinguished Leadership Award■ Intern at Youth Ministry Camp in Georgia■ Participant in mission work in Nicaragua■ Worker at church’s summer day camp■ Participant in mission work in Jamaica and

Romania this summer; winner of Distinguished Leadership Award

■ Winner of the Outstanding Sophomore and Junior Business Awards; winner of Steinway Piano Gallery Music Excellence Award, Distinguished Leadership Award, and Resident Assistant of the Year Award; member of Madrigalians; an intern this summer

Achievements by Trevecca students demonstrate the positive impact that LEAP group experiences, as well as other opportunities, have had on developing students’ strengths and talents. We are pleased that they have made the LEAP, becoming effective servant leaders.

* Jeff is coordinator of assessment and retention for the Center of Leadership, Calling, and Service.


Under the leadership of Brenda Patterson, director of athletics, the Trevecca athletic department has worked to improve the overall grade point average (GPA) of Trojan athletes.

In the fall of 2010, the athletic department initiated the Study Table Program for student athletes, a time for student athletes to focus on their studies. Athletes who have a 3.0 GPA are not required to attend Study Table, but participation by other athletes depends upon the team’s combined GPA. For a team with a cumulative GPA of 3.0, members whose GPA is below 2.49 must attend Study Table four hours per week, and members whose GPA is between 2.5 and 2.99 attend the number of hours prescribed by their coach. For a team with a GPA less than 3.0, all members with less than a 3.0 cumulative GPA must attend Study Table four hours a week. All incoming students (freshmen or transfers) are required to attend Study Table four hours a week.

Held in a computer lab in the Center for Leadership, Calling, and Service (CLCS), Study Table is open each Monday through Thursday from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM and is staffed by graduate assistants from the athletic department and volunteers.

The results have been impressive, according to Patterson: “Study Table offers our student athletes a quiet time, free of iPods, cell phones, and other distractions. Many of them have found they can get more accomplished during those hours and now have more free time at night.”

In the spring of 2010, athletes had a notable 3.0 GPA. After implementation of the Study Table, the average GPA for all student athletes rose to 3.10 for the fall 2010 semester. This spring Trevecca athletes raised it again to a combined 3.108 GPA.

Ten of the 11 Trevecca athletic teams held at least a 2.982 GPA, and nine of the teams have a GPA higher than 3.0. Patterson believes that the structure of the Study Table will translate into athletes’ success in their chosen sports: “When the students find success and discipline in the classroom, that success helps build the foundation required to be successful in sports. It isn’t uncommon to find successful students are also successful athletes. That fact has been true throughout the history of sports.”

Of the approximately 150 Trevecca student athletes during the 2010-2011 school year, 61 were named TranSouth Scholar-Athletes. The Trevecca baseball team led the way with 15 of its 28 players making the TranSouth Scholar-Athlete list.

To be a TranSouth Scholar-Athlete one must be at least a sophomore academically and hold a 3.0 or higher cumulative GPA.

Trevecca produced 10 NAIA Scholar-Athletes this year. To be an NAIA Scholar-Athlete one must be at least a junior academically and hold a 3.5 or higher cumulative GPA.

Athletes’ academic success – strong and growing

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Ashley Scism had a successful year: TranSouth Golfer of the Year, TranSouth Tournament Medalist, and NAIA Scholar-Athlete (4.0 nursing student).

Craig Stem P. J. Francescon

softball

5th trip to nationals Trevecca’s softball team competed its season as No. 2in the NAIA, the highest ranking for any Trevecca sport in school history. The Trojans were 48-4 on the season and advanced to the NAIA Tournament for the fifth time in six seasons. During the season Trevecca earned Ben Tyree his 100th win as coach.

Team members also won some significant awards. Lauren Baker was TranSouth Pitcher of the Year and made first-team NAIA All-American. Haylee Rogers was named the TranSouth Freshman of the Year and joined Karli Rush on the second-team NAIA All-American. Ben Tyree was selected as the TranSouth Coach of the Year.

volleyball

Huff is a Trojan againFormer Trevecca Trojan volleyball player Kelly Huff ’09 is the new head coach at Lincoln High in Tallahassee, Florida, another Trojan team. She concluded her career in 2009 as Trevecca’s all-time leader in assists.

After her graduation from Trevecca, Huff earned a master’s degree at the University of Tampa while serving as a graduate assistant there. The Spartans were 31-4 last season and reached the NCAA Division-II championship game.

Huff graduated magna cum laude from Trevecca with a bachelor’s degree in mathematical biology, and she was a three-year captain for the Trojans as a setter. The first-team all-TranSouth selection also earned all-region honors and was recognized on the all-TranSouth Tournament tream. Huff was a three-time TranSouth Scholar-Athlete and National Dean’s List student.

women’s golf

Ashley Scism, a 5-foot-two junior, won the 2011 TranSouth Championships Medalist Honor for a second time; the first was in 2009–her freshman season. Scism was also named the 2011 TranSouth Golfer of the Year after winning four of the eight tournaments she played in this season. Scism set a TNU record for most wins in a season and tied Mindy Seigenthaler’s record for the most career wins (5). The two-time TranSouth Scholar-Athlete was honored as an NAIA Scholar-Athlete this season, maintaining a 4.0 grade point average in nursing.

men’s golf

The Trevecca men’s golf team completed one of its most successful seasons. Junior Joey Bradley won two tournaments while senior Grant Moffett and David Saldana were named to the TranSouth All-Tournament Team.

baseball

The Trevecca baseball team held a 19-11 record against ranked teams and returned to the NAIA Top 25 this season. The Trojans finished second in the TranSouth Conference for the second time in three years. Coach Jonathan Burton was named the 2011 TranSouth Coach of the Year.

Two current students were drafted in the 2011 Major League Baseball League (MLB) Amateur Draft. Craig Stem, a 6'5" junior and starting pitcher from Nashville Tennessee, was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 15th round. P. J. Francescon, a 6'1" junior from Nolensville, Tennessee, was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 40th round.

My friend, Zach Litton ’01, and I drove a 1971 VW campervan across the back roads of America and Canada to Alaska and back down Highway 1 to Southern California—camping in state and national parks all along the way. Before returning home, we worked together at the Los Angeles Mission. Thanks to my aunt and uncle, Barbara and Mike Edwards, urban missionaries, I was no stranger to this concrete canyon, humming and howling with human misery and oppression. From the time I could stand on a crate to wash dishes, my brother and I spent

summers commuting to these angry streets. This visit, my last, would mark the end of knowing where my life was headed. The explosive collision of the gospel and people oppressed by poverty and addiction produced in me such joy and praise to God that I was ruined for the life as usual—and for church as usual.

As a student at Trevecca, I was troubled by a chapel sermon that used Eugene Peterson’s translation of John 1:14: “The Word became flesh and blood and moved into

the neighborhood.” As I reflected on the shape of the campus ministry to neighborhoods, it bothered me how unlike this description our activity was. We would throw a party in the housing projects and then retreat to the safety of Trevecca’s campus. There was no solidarity and few relationships built. After graduate school, while I farmed for nine years with men in recovery from addiction and at-risk boys just outside Nashville, I continued to be troubled that I attended Trevecca Community Church as a commuter. I wondered, “What would it mean to follow the risen Christ into the neighborhood?”

Ruined for life as usual Jason Adkins ’99*

Within months of graduating from Trevecca in 1999, I ended up in Los Angeles living on Skid Row—though not by the typical path.


The answer to this question came through the invitation of neighbors in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood—directly behind Trevecca—and by some friends who pledged to move into the neighborhood with my family of seven. Inspired by the early life of the disciples, my family has come to understand that being reconciled to Christ and his poor is the work of a community of believers who live out discipleship through a daily life together—sharing meals, prayers, work, study, play, and resources. This group of fifteen has formed Castanea**, and through the hospitality of our neighbors, we are seeking to receive from God a life that is good news to the poor.

One by one, the neighborhoods surrounding downtown Nashville—abandoned by white-flight decades ago—have been redeveloped from low-income neighborhoods to housing for the wealthier classes of people who left them long ago. This gentrification process often prices the poor out of neighborhoods where they have lived for a long time and removes many important assets that they need to thrive—family networks, social services, and public transit. The Trevecca Business Association and the J. V. Morsch Center for Social Justice (CSJ) are supporting Castanea’s effort to secure affordable housing in the Chestnut Hill area.

Visible from the west porch of the Jernigan Student Center sits an apartment building that has been notorious for decades for drugs, violence, and prostitution. Through the Castanea Project, we are renovating those apartments to house our community of friends and to provide ten units dedicated to affordable housing. We are working with Safe Haven family shelter and refugee organizations to offer safe, beautiful, and affordable spaces where their clients can live alongside Christian neighbors who will seek to support their journey toward wholeness. We also hope to host Trevecca students who want to experience neighborhood regeneration in the context of Christian community. We have no idea how this work will be finished. However, the size and cost of this project being bigger than our means

has forced us to tell our story to people all over Nashville and beyond. It has forced us to hazard ourselves on a God whose faithfulness is continually turning impossibility into praise.

As environmental project coordinator for Trevecca’s PlantOperations and adjunct professor in the J. V. Morsch Center for Social Justice, I am able to share this way of life with Trevecca students as we work to develop urban food systems and other outreach for our neighborhood. Coming alongside flood victims and working in food pantries, homeless shelters, churches, and schools, these students love their neighbors in ways I only imagined as a student. It may be the beginnings of a love that moves into the neighborhood.

We are engaged in some practical extensions of that love. We are developing an urban farm composed of plots on Trevecca’s campus and lots outside campus by planting fruit trees around campus and in schoolyards, parks, and abandoned lots throughout the neighboring communities; growing tilapia in an aquaponics system; and raising edible mushrooms on waste wood products. On the west end of the campus we are raising baby chicks so that in the fall we will have as many as 500 eggs each week which we can sell in Nashville’s “food deserts,” areas where fresh foods are not available. In partnership with Hands on Nashville, we are beginning to develop a three-acre urban farm just outside Trevecca’s campus on land that Richard Perkinson, of Perk Enterprises, is allowing us to use. We are attempting to create a total food system in miniature to teach students environmental justice and practical life-skills in a way that will result in service to the neighborhood. All of these endeavors are about more than food. Like Wesley before us, we hope to seek out the reconciliation that can occur around practical work together with the neighbors God has placed us here to love.

*Jason is Trevecca’s environmental projects coordinator.**Castanea is the botanical name for the chestnut tree.


William M.Greathouse 1919-2011

a tribute The death of William M. Greathouse is a historical moment in the Church of the Nazarene and in the story of Trevecca. He embodied the Trevecca motto, “Esse quam videri,” “To be rather than to seem.” His service to the Southeast Region, Nashville First Church, and Trevecca as pastor, professor, and college president shaped the thinking of those who listened to him. He was a seminal leader in the Wesleyan movement. The breadth of this influence can be seen in the reactions to his death. Trevecca honors one whose life touched so many. I requested that this issue of the Treveccan include this special article and comments by Dr. Greathouse’s friends.


On March 24, 2011, William M. Greathouse, former president of Trevecca (1963-1968), slipped peacefully into the presence of the Lord whom he loved. His life was celebrated in a service on March 31, 2011, at First Church of the Nazarene in Nashville, where he had served as pastor (1958-1963). The service, much of which he had prescribed before his death, included some of his favorite scriptures and hymns and was, by all accounts, a celebration.

The following prayer, given at Dr. Greathouse’s funeral by H. Ray Dunning ’48, Dr. Greathouse’s former student, colleague, and co-author, expresses why Dr. Greathouse was loved by so many.

Our Father, I offer this prayer to you on behalf of that multitude of men and women, including myself, who have been impacted by the life and ministry of William Greathouse. We thank you for the gift you gave us in allowing us the privilege of experiencing the extraordinary life of this man of God.

Through his teaching those of us who were his students have been inspired to mine the rich resources of the Scriptures with integrity; all of us have seen a vision of holiness of heart and life that is neither narrow nor pinched nor limited, but a vision that is as broad and deep and liberating as the love of God itself. We have been encouraged to see the church with its banners flying and to love and believe in the body of Christ in spite of its many foibles.

His churchly leadership has demonstrated to us the possibility that there can be embodied in one person the traits of greatness and humility; his academic life has shown us that learning and simplicity can exist together and across many years; and through difficult circumstances he has demonstrated that a human life can reflect the glory of God as it is personified in the person of Jesus Christ if one is willing to be “crucified with Christ.”

By both precept and example, he has taught us how to worship God with dignity, reverence, and passion. He has challenged us by his example to pursue with unswerving commitment the call to reflect the image of God under the conditions of existence and to honor the Holy Spirit as the dynamic of holy living.

It is with great reluctance that we give him up, but in doing so we pray that as with Elijah of old, there may be some Elishas upon whom his mantle will fall for the glory of God and the edification of the church.

With hearts filled with both grief and gratitude we say farewell to our friend and brother in the sure and certain hope that we shall be reunited when the last trumpet sounds and the dead in Christ shall be raised to eternal resurrection life. We pray this prayer in the name of the one whose own resurrection is the guarantee that it will be so. Amen

Writing the preface to Outward Sign and Inward Grace: The Place of Sacraments in Wesleyan Spirituality by Rob Staples ’51, Dr. Greathouse succinctly summarized one of his lifelong pursuits:

It is time the Church of Jesus Christ overcame the disjunctions created by the 16th-century Reformation. What is called for is the “evangelical catholicism” of John Wesley’s “middle way” in which the two historic Christian traditions were synthesized. In this synthesis the English Reformer not only recovered for the Church a viable doctrine of holiness but also pointed the way to a scriptural view and practice of the sacraments that is both apostolic and catholic.

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The celebration of the life of William M. Greathouse can be viewed at www.vimeo.com/25249505


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When we were students at Trevecca in the ’60s while Dr. Greathouse was the pastor of Nashville First Church, Gene was in the hospital at the same time I gave birth to our first son. Dr. Greathouse came to the hospital to see us. We have always been impressed that he would take the time as a busy pastor to visit two poor Trevecca students and encourage our hearts. We have always held him in high esteem as a wonderful man of God. We were privileged to have known him Gene ’62 and Patsy Frame ’62

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A friend told Dr. Greathouse that I had cancer, and Dr. G. immediately called me, told me he was so sorry and that he understood what we were going through since his wife had been through the same thing, and said that he would be praying for us. It was almost like hearing from God, and indirectly it was. I thank him for that telephone call. That’s the kind of person he was and why he meant so much to so many people. Peggy Carson King ’63

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Everyone who heard him in a denominational business meeting, preaching, or sitting about the table for lunch knew the Holy Spirit through Saint William Greathouse. And we have this hope within us: We will see him again with the Savior whom he loved and served without reservation. Tom ’59 and Linda E. Spalding ’56

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Dr. Greathouse taught me an important lesson about humility when he was the presiding general superintendent at a district assembly. His response to a pastor’s report was kindly but courageously rebutted by the young pastor. When Dr. Greathouse realized he was in error, he rose from his chair on the platform, came down to the pastor, put his arm around the man’s shoulders, and gave him a sincere, public apology. While I don’t remember the words or the context of that exchange, I shall never forget the humility of this highly respected church leader who occupied the highest elected office in the Church of the Nazarene. What an indelible lesson!

Wes Eby ’58

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The thing that impacted me early about Dr. Greathouse was watching him worship on the platform at NTS during chapel. In those years it was more common for the worship leader to be on the platform for the whole service, and we all loved to see him sing with gusto, announce a loud amen when he particularly approved of a point the speaker was making, and show that wonderful smile. I have often thought since, that we have removed the model of the “pastor at worship” in our churches these days, by moving the pastor off the platform, moving the worship team on; sadly, many of these teams are more into performing than they are teaching us all how to worship. I miss him still, in that respect. He radiated a worshipping relationship with his God that we all needed to see as students, and that remains with me still.

Terry Read, Nazarene Theological Seminary alumnus

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During Dr. Greathouse’s module on Romans that met from 8 AM to noon for a week in 1991, Mrs. Greathouse became ill and was hospitalized. Throughout the week, Dr. Greathouse would come to class, teach for four hours, grab lunch, go to the hospital and sit by Mrs. Greathouse’s bedside, sleep on a cot in the room, then get up early, and start the process all over again. It was incredible. His love for her. His commitment to the class. His stamina. I’ll always remember that experience fondly.

Brad Estep, Nazarene Theological Seminary alumnus

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I was blessed to receive Dr. Greathouse’s scholarship to go to Nazarene Theological Seminary. During that time, when I would come back to Nashville to visit friends, I wouldstop by Dr. Greathouse’s home and visit with him. He always wanted me to talk about what I was learning and reading, and he would talk about what he was learning and reading.I was always so impressed at his constant thirst for knowledge.

Kevin Knight ’05

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Dr. Greathouse brought together that group of theologians who became known as the “Trevecca Connection” (H. Ray Dunning, John A. Knight, Mildred Bangs Wynkoop, and Greathouse) who purposefully worked to bring the Church of the Nazarene and the holiness movement back to Wesley. . . . This is my theological heritage. Wesleyan thought has shaped my life in profound ways. I am a product of the “Trevecca Connection” and like to think of myself as a part of the continuation of that Connection. I was introduced to classical Wesleyan theology at Trevecca. At NTS I learned of Wesley’s liturgical/sacramental/Anglican commitments, as well as those foundations in the Church Fathers. Thus, Dr. Greathouse’s influence and vision has shaped me. Dr. Greathouse was a churchman, a pastor, an educator, a theologian, and a true bishop of the Church catholic…William Greathouse lived what he preached and taught. And he preached and taught holiness of heart and life. We Protestant types, of course, understand that the New Testament identifies all Christians as “saints.” In Dr. Greathouse, however, it was easy to see.

Todd Stepp ’91

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A sermon by Dr. Greathouse on sanctification relieved my doubt and changed my life. He made it clear that my experience did not have to be like any other person’s experience, and he helped me understand that even if I could not pinpoint the date and time and even if my experience was not like others I had heard about, I could still “know” that my consecration was complete and that I had entered into the sanctified life. Using a simple illustration, he stated that when we travel from Tennessee to Kentucky (which our family frequently did to my grandmother’s home in Louisville) we may not realize the exact moment when we cross the border between the two states but soon enough there will be signs that we are now in Kentucky, not Tennessee. I related to that illustration and claimed it for myself. I won’t say that I never again had doubts, but his sermon was and continues to be for me a moment that is faith-building.

Esther Costa Swink ’69

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We shared a backyard fence with the Greathouse family when I was a student at Trevecca. When our firstborn came, Dr. Greathouse was happy that we used the biblical name Joel and especially that we had chosen as his second name Wesley. As an adult Joel Wesley enjoyed with Dr. G. a good mentoring friendship. He impacted my life and that of my son. I am so grateful.

H. Lamar Smith ’66

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Dr. Greathouse shaped my theological thinking. He stretched me to comprehend the dimensions of what it means to live and lead with the mind of Christ.

LeBron Fairbanks ’64

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The thought of Dr. G. in heaven is comforting. His loss here is massive. He was the consistent practitioner—of kindness, graciousness, and holiness to be lived as a reality! Many preached it. He lived it! He gifted my soul.

Harold Ivan Smith ’69

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Shawn ’98 and Amy Snider Mitterholzer ’98 of Lebanon, Tenn., a son—Bennett Gregory, born 3/1/11. Bennett was welcomed by big sister Addisen. Shawn is a high school band director in Macon County, Tenn., and Amy works part time at a music publishing company in Nashville. Rick Lee James ’00 and Jennifer Olsen were married 3/26/11. Rick is currently a touring singer/songwriter and a part-time worship leader at First Church of the Nazarene in Springfield, Ohio.

Charles and Courtney Whipps McFarlin PA ’01 of Glen Carbon, Ill., a daughter—Avery Elizabeth, born 3/23/11. Avery is welcomed by big sisters Makenzie and Lainey. Courtney continues to work in Belleville, Ill., as a geriatric physician assistant.

Chris ’07 and Shelley Cook Cotton ’01/MA’07 of Kansas City, Kan., a boy—Camden Royer, born 11/2/10. Chris is currently a youth pastor at Living Hope Church of the Nazarene, and Shelley was formerly a recruiter for Nazarene Theological Seminary.

Brian Johnson ’08 and Ashley Foster ’06 were married 9/11/10 in Lafayette, Ala., at the Oak Bowery Reserve. They were married by their grandfathers, both of whom are elders in the Church of the Nazarene. Brian and Ashley have been living in Savannah, Ga., since the beginning of 2011. Brian, who has been with SunTrust Bank for 3 years, is serving as a licensed banker. Ashley is in wedding planning with Tricia Huddas & Co. (See also p. 28.)

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Alumni Connecting

Homer Adams ’47 (See p. 8.)

H. Ray Dunning ’48 (See p. 17.)

Rob Staples ’51 (See p. 17.)

Tom ’59 and Linda E. Spalding ’56 (See p. 18.)

Wes Eby ’58 (See p. 18.)

Nina Griggs Gunter ’58 (See pp. 28 & 29.)

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Barbara Stiles Seghers ’60 (See at right & p. 28.)

Gene ’62 and Patsy Frame ’62 (See p. 18.)

Peggy Carson King ’63 (See p. 18.)

Sharon Norrick Wade ’63 (See at right & p. 28.)

LeBron Fairbanks ’64 (See p. 19.)

Al Truesdale ’64 was the guest speaker at the commencement ceremonies for Eastern Nazarene College on 5/7/11. Al served at ENC as interim academic dean and interim president and taught at the college from 1973 to 1976. In 2003, ENC conferred upon him an honorary doctor of letters degree.

Suzanna McManus Hartzler ’65 (See at right & p. 28.)

H. Lamar Smith ’66 (See p. 19.)

Dell Taylor Miller ’68 is currently an assistant professor of nursing at Columbus State University, Columbus, Ga. At the 2011 Annual Georgia

Association for Nursing Education held February 17-19, Dell shared her presentation: New Kids on the Block: Transitioning from Clinical Expert to Novice Educator.

Five friends from the ’60s had their own reunion earlier this year. Pictured at above are: (L to R) Barbara Stiles Seghers ’60, Suzanna McManus Hartzler ’65, Carolyn Moore Estep ’63, Sharon Marlin Shands ’63, and Sharon Norrick Wade ’63.

Harold Ivan Smith ’69 (See p. 19.)

Esther Costa Swink ’69 (See p. 19.)

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Leroy Pepper ’70 (See p. 5.)

Jeff Swink ’70 (See p. 11.)

Linda Carraway Binkley ’71 and Steve Binkley ’72 (See pp. 28 & 29.)

Brenda Hancock ’71 (See p. 24.)

Jerome Hancock ’71 (See p. 24.)


Larry ’92 and Elaine Meredith Cornett ’71 have retired from pastoral ministry after 38 years and have moved to Madison, Tenn.

John Bledsoe ’77 is the new pastor at Faith Community Church of the Nazarene in Ashland City, Tenn. John had been serving as pastor for elementary school children at Nashville First Church of the Nazarene, and prior to taking that position, he had been senior pastor at Old Hickory Church of the Nazarene for 11 years.

Dan Beam ’78 (See p. 25.)

Kermit Kidder ’78 has been a pastor of two churches for ten years and has been a song evangelist for 15 years.

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Lori C. Hawkins ’80 (See p. 24.)

Karen E. Jones ’80, assistant professor, is the director of STEP, the accelerated business administration degree for working adults, at Northwest Nazarene University. She also serves as treasurer of the Wesleyan Holiness Women Clergy.

Libbie Sparks Lide ’81 (See pp. 28 & 29.)

Oileen Roberts ’82 (See pp. 28 & 29.) Fred Coburn ’85 (See p. 24.)

Michael Turner MEd ’86 was inducted into the Old Timers Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Tenn., which was organized by the Cleveland Parks and Recreation Department to honor outstanding athletes.

Chloe Garth-Elkins MEd ’87 is the 2011 Jackson Public Schools Teacher of the Year. Chloe teaches English at Lanier High School in Jackson, Miss.

Mike Mirranne ’87 (See pp. 28 & 29.)

Reginald Tiller ’87/MA ’89, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was awarded a doctoral degree in strategic leadership from the School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship at Regent University on 5/7/11. Reginald, who is employed by the National Park Service at the William Howard Taft National Historic Site in Cincinnati, will serve as an adjunct professor at Bethel University.

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Todd Stepp ’91 (See p. 19.)

Stefanie Coburn Fuller ’92 (See p. 24.)

Steve Fuller ’92 (See p. 24.)

Gwendolyn Kenes Zanakos ’93 became the coordinator of the First Impressions Program for First Baptist Church of Ft. Lauderdale in February. She is responsible for over-seeing the ministries for first-time guests, which includes coordinating and training teams of volunteers who assist with all the worship services in order to move those guests from a first visit toward church membership.

Susan Mackey Collins MEd ’94 has been selected as middle school teacher of the year in Cheatham County, Tenn. The 20-year veteran educator teaches advanced language arts for grades 6-8.

Holly Miller Whitby ’95 (See p. 8.)

Kip Brown ’96, former Trevecca basketball player, is the interim head coach of boys’ basketball at Pope John Paul II High School in Gallatin, Tenn.

Cheryl Jolley MEd ’96, a teacher at Nashville’s International Newcomer Academy, was named a Tennessee TESOL Educator of the Year (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages).


Tony Lamair Burks MEd ’98 is one of the five finalists for the Dothan, Ala., city schools superintendent position. Tony is currently the area nine superintendent for the San Diego Unified School District.

Three alumni from the ’90s have collaborated on a book. Tripp York ’98 wrote Third Way Allegiance: Christian Witness in the Shadow of Religious Empire. Matt Litton ’97/MA ’06 wrote the foreword, and Chuck

Seay ’96/MA ’06 created the discussion guide. The book encourages Christians to give attention to creation, animals, our neighbors and especially our enemies in order to avoid being unwittingly shaped by larger cultural forces bent on domesticating Christianity.

Jason Adkins ’99 (See pp. 14 & 15.)

Tom Middendorf ’99 (See p. 11.)

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Zach Litton ’01 (See p. 14.)

Brannon ’02 and Gloria Barrett Hancock ’02 (See p. 24.)

Brian Bell EdD ’03 was unanimously selected to become the next director of schools for the Alcoa (Tenn.) School System. He previously served as Blount County’s assistant director of schools

Amy Guthrie MEd ’00/EdD ’04, a 7th grade reading teacher in Rutherford County, was named a District- Level Teacher of the Year for Rutherford County.

Nathan Hancock ’03 (See p. 24.)

Andy Lyons MA ’04, the former assistant principal of Barker Mills Elementary School in the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System, is the new principal at Byrns Darden Elementary School in that same system.

Deborah P. Martin MA ’04 has been accepted by Stanford Who’s Who as a result of her professional career. As a psychotherapist running her own private practice for the past 7 years, Deborah has exhibited the passion, vision, and dedication necessary to be considered among the best.

Katherine Hancock Mathis ’04 (See p. 24.)

Diana Hara MLIS ’05, currently assistant principal at Hazelwood Elementary, has been named principal at Burt Elementary in the Clarksville-Montgomery (Tenn.) County School System.

Kevin Knight ’05 (See p. 19.)

Mickey Miller, ’05 MEd is the new principal of Pleasant View Elementary School in Ashland City, Tenn.

Elizabeth Lemons MBA ’06 is the new chief operation officer for Middle Tennessee Medical Center (MTMC). She went to work at MTMC in May of 2010 to be vice president of clinical operations after 27 years as a nurse and more than 15 years as a healthcare leader.

Laura Vaden MEd ’06 was one of three who were presented a Merriman-Puckett Professional of the Year Award for outstanding work as a physical education teacher at Sango Elementary School in Clarksville, Tenn. The award is presented annually to someone who exhibits high personal and professional standards as a physical educator.

Valarie Carpenter Miruka ’07 (See p. 24.)

Julie Sartin MEd ’07, a second grade teacher at Finley Elementary School in the Dyer County (Tenn.) School System, was named a teacher of the year for 2011.


As a child of divorce with memories of the “handing off” and the accompanying unpleasantness, she was determined that her own divorce would not have the same kind of negative impact on her young daughter. And that resolve resulted in the creation of a program for divorced parents (Co-parenting International) for use in churches and other organizations—and now a book.

In July, Zondervan will release Co-Parenting Works! Helping Your Children Thrive after Divorce by Tammy Bennett Daughtry* ’11 MFT. This book is a guide for divorced parents who want to give their children the blessings of stability and life success and whole and healthy lives with two parents who get along and to enable their children to avoid divorce in their own lives.

“This book provides the resources that I sought for use with my own daughter, Angelia. My ex and I determined that she would have ‘one heart and two homes.’ I wrote this book so that other children of divorce would have that same opportunity,” said Tammy. She and her husband, Jay, are raising a blended family of four children, ages eleven to twenty-three. For more information about this book, visit

www.CoparentingInternational.com.

*Tammy is the director of admissions events for Trevecca’s

Office of Admissions.

Helping children of divorce have“One Heart and Two Homes”

Coburn-Hancock Linkous Reunion

Fred W. Coburn ’85, recipient of the 2010 South Carolina Distinguished Alumni Award, organized a family reunion in Summerville, W.Va., on August 7, 2010. Twenty-nine members of the group were alumni of Church of the Nazarene colleges or universities. Eleven of that group were Trevecca alumni: Fred, Lori C. Hawkins ’80, Stefanie Fuller ’92, Steve Fuller ’92, Valarie Carpenter Miruka ’07, Jerome Hancock ’71, Brenda Hancock ’71, Brannon Hancock ’02, Gloria Barrett Hancock ’02, Katherine Hancock Mathis ’04, and Nathan Hancock ’03.


Dan Beam– His influence lives onThe name and influence of Dan Beam ’78 continues to have an impact in one of Dan’s community involvements. In late April Habitat for Humanity of Williamson County (HFHWC) announced that it was naming a new floor plan in Dan’s honor. HFHWC explained that whenever the organization uses a new floor plan it names that plan after someone who means a lot to the organization. Dan Beam’s name was given to a unique floor plan, one that HFHWC had never used before. Built on Glass Street in Franklin, the new building is a duplex, the first time that HFHWC has built a two-family house.

Noting that this structure is a special build, HFHWC stated that it needed to be named after a very special person, and Dan was that person. Before he died unexpectedly in August of 2010, Dan had served on the HFHWC Board of Directors for six years and had worked with other Habitat projects—Habitrot, the Family Selection Committee, and many of the financial decisions the Board made. The building of this two-family dwelling was made possible by donations from Brentwood Baptist Church, Bethlehem United Methodist Church, Christ United Methodist Church, Brentwood Church of the Nazarene, Clearview Baptist Church, First United Methodist Church of Franklin, St. Andrew Lutheran Church, Pinnacle Bank, and an anonymous donor.


Dan Brigman EdD ’09 is one of seven candidates for the position of superintendent of the Huntsville, Ala., school system. Dan has served as the superintendent of the Macon County School System in Franklin, N.C., since 2006 after serving two years as superintendant of the Coffee County School System in Manchester, Tenn.

Kelly Huff ’09 (See p. 13.)

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Anita Chesney EdD ’10 (See p. 28.)

Ross Muirhead ’10 and Nathan Wright ’10, the first students to participate in the Trevecca-Vanderbilt partnership for engineering students, graduated from Vanderbilt with degrees in civil engineering in May.

Ross earned a full scholar-ship from Vanderbilt, something that is rarely done for transfer students at Vanderbilt, and he is the 2011 recipient of the Arthur J. Dyer Jr. Memorial Prize in Civil Engineering given for “Best work in the study of design in the use of

structural steel.” Ross and Nathan, who were inducted into the Chi Epsilon Honor Society, are now employed by Cornett Engineering Services in Madisonville, Ky.

Sarah McCall MEd ’10 won the $200 prize in the drawing of participants in the annual alumni survey. Administered from February 16 to March 15, 2011,

the 2011 survey was sent to graduates from December 2009, May 2010, and August 2010 (1-yr graduates) and December 2005, May 2006, and August 2006 (5-yr graduates).

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Andre Anderson ’11 (See cover photo.)

Kristin R. Aucoin ’11 (See p. 10.)

Julie Barnes ’11 (See cover photo.)

Dianne Bradley ’11 (See cover photo.)

Anidolee Chester ’11 (See cover photo.)

Tammy Bennett Daughtry ’11 MMFT (See p. 24.)

Bethany Ford ’11 (See p. 11.)

Amy Frew ’11 (See cover photo.)

Dorothy E. Hiatt ’11 (See p. 10.) Cindy Overstreet ’11 (See p. 10.)

Diana Reaves ’11 received a full-tuition waiver and a $10,000/year stipend to attend the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Program in Creative Writing (poetry) at the University of Arkansas. She will also teach two sections of freshman composition each semester. Diana has had her poetry published in Tar River Poetry and Boxcar Poetry Review.

Eleni Karounos Reid ’11 has been accepted into Baylor University’s PhD program in literature with expenses paid for the five-year program. She will begin work as a teaching assistant at Baylor in 2012.

Nadia Saint-Louis ’11 (See pp. 4 & 5.)

Dana Salters ’11 (See pp. 4 & 5.)

Andrew Silvas ’11 (See pp. 4 & 5.)

Adam Wadding ’11, who graduated with a journalism degree, was chosen as one of five college journalists to cover the Country Music Association (CMA) Festival this year.

Donald F. Waggoner DLitt ’11 (See pp. 4 & 5.)

Zelma W. Waggoner DLitt ’11 (See pp. 4 & 5.)

Grace Wampler Haun ’11 (See p. 9.)

Jessica N. Wellete ’11 (See p. 9.)

Briceson E. Wilkerson ’11 (See p. 9.)

Malinda Wilson ’11 (See cover photo.)

Jackie Winkle ’11 (See pp. 4 & 5.)

William M. Greathouse ’43 Hermitage, Tenn.—3/24/2011 (See pp. 16-19.)

Nellie Jenkins Robinson ’46 Lenior City, Tenn.—4/2/11

Helen V. Gober ’49 Nashville, Tenn.—4/14/2011

Arthur Thomas Underwood ’51 Waynesboro, Va.—4/26/11

Clifford B. Hampton ’55 Johnson City, Tenn.—4/22/11

John Bunce ’62 Mesa, Ariz.—1/16/11

Robert “Bob” Barnhill ’63 Monrovia, Md.—6/4/11

Jimmy Brannon Taylor ’69 Lexington, S.C.—5/6/11

Patricia Dian Booth ’73 Gainesville, Fla.—3/18/11

Ronald Doolittle Jr. ’84 New Hanover County, N.C.—4/3/11

Kelle Watkins Tuck PA ’86 Lima, Ohio—3/23/2011

Pat Meyer ( former employee) Hermitage, TN —5/7/11

Deandrea Witherspoon ’11 (See cover photo.)

Kirk Shrum, current EdD student, is now the principal of Manning Oaks Elementary in Alpharetta, Ga. He has been recognized by the Public Education Foundation of Chattanooga as a “Highly Effective Teacher” and a “Leadership Fellow.” The Tennessee Association of Social Studies Teachers also named him an “Outstanding Teacher.”

Robert Yates, current graduate education student and a second grade teacher at Lakeview Design Center, was selected as one of five teachers from the Metro-Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) to participate in the Sally Ride Academy in San Diego, Calif. Robert will receive training about integrating scientists and science careers into the curriculum, training that he will later share with MNPS teachers.


Brian ’08 and Ashley Foster Johnson ’06 are sporting Trevecca shirts while on their honeymoon in Hawaii. They are pictured on the east coast of Oahu.

Anita Chesney EdD ’10 wore her Trevecca shirt while sailing through the Panama Canal aboard the Queen Victoria with her husband, Clyde. The Chesneys celebrated their 40th anniversary during the cruise.

When the women’s trio from 1962 reunited earlier this year, their first reunion in 45 years, the members donned Trevecca shirts: (L to R) Sharon Norrick Wade ’63, Barbara Stiles Seghers ’60, and Suzanna McManus Hartzler ’65.

The Lide family–Gary, Libbie ’81, Griffin, and Graeme–visited Barrow, Alaska, “America’s northernmost city,” last summer. Gary took the photo of Graeme, Griffin, and Libbie in front of some whale bones. All three are wearing Trevecca shirts under their coats. Griffin is a Trevecca freshman.

Mike Mirranne ’87 wore his Trevecca shirt when he ran in the 2011 Boston Marathon on April 8, 2011. Mike’s finishing time was 3:46 for the 26.2-mile race.

Oileen Roberts ’82 wore her Trevecca shirt when she had her picture taken with her mother, Magdalena Young, and Nina Griggs Gunter ’58 at the Belize Church of the Nazarene District Assembly in March. Nina, representing the Board of General Superintendents, conducted the ordination service.

On a recent Caribbean cruise, Linda Carraway Binkley ’71 and Steve Binkley ’72 wore their Trevecca shirts when they visited Curaco, one of 8 ports they visited, including Aruba and Bonaire. Looks like Steve had also been reading the Treveccan.

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7 Student Homecoming Banquet Sponsored by the Class of 2012

7 Fall drama, Boone Convocation Center

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Friday 10 Founder’s Day Chapel, Trevecca Community

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7 Pilgrimage to McClurkan’s Grave……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

10 Class of 1961, 50-Year Reunion Luncheon

2 Dedication of the Alumni Center

4 Homecoming Parade

4:30-7 Festival at the Alumni Center– Dinner & “Light on the Hill” outdoor production

7:30 Young Alumni Reunion (2001-2011 alumni)

8 Drama, Boone Convocation Center

9 Trojan Madness, Moore Gymnasium

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Saturday 9 Class of 1961, Breakfast, Home of Melvin Welch

9:30 Alumni Board Meeting, Alumni Center

10 Home Run Derby, Jackson Field

11 Alumni Baseball Game, Jackson Field……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

12 Tailgate Cookout, near Moore PE Center

12:30 Baseball Luncheon, Towers Annex

1 Musical Concert, Trevecca Community Church Featuring the Trevecca Gospel Choir and the Trevecca Heritage Men’s Chorale

3 Lady Trojans’ Basketball Game, Moore Gymnasium


5 Trojans Basketball Game, Moore Gymnasium


7 ’76+ friends 35th Class Reunion, TSAC

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Summer 2011

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