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Campus Life 20 PORTiCO WinTeR 2007 School of Psychological Sciences In November, Dr. Victoria Hilkevitch Bedford presented a symposium titled “Masculinity scripts and talking about feelings in older men’s relationships” at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Along with her intern, Jenna Yarnevic, Dr. Bedford also presented “Cohort influences on intimacy between heterosexual men and their brothers in late midlife.” This is Dr. Bedford’s final year as the representative of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America to the Research, Education, and Practice committee of both the GSA and Association of Gerontology in Higher Education. She also gave an address at the Psi Chi induction ceremonies at UIndy this spring. Dr. David L. Downing had two articles reviewed for Psychoanalytic Psychology as part of his duties as member of the editorial board. He was elected member-at-large of the Psychoanalysis Division of the American Psychological Association. He was also elected to the position of Section IV representative to the Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) Board of Directors of the APA. As cochair of the Division of Psychoanalysis’s Education and Training Committee, he completed a research project that involved surveying all APPIC-affiliated predoctoral internships in clinical and counseling psychology in the U.S. and Canada and received a $7,500 grant to conduct the project. He presented the results at the spring meeting in Philadelphia and delivered a report to the division Board of Directors. “Psychoanalytical Training Opportunities in Pre-Doctoral Internships: Opportunities and Challenges” will be published in Psychologist-Psychoanalyst. In addition, Dr. Downing helped reorganize the Center for Psychoanalytic Study in Chicago. He also presented many papers at conferences and meetings in California, Louisiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Dr. John McIlvried (chair) coauthored a journal article titled “Unique Internship Structures that Expand Training Opportunities” that appeared in the August 2006 issue of Professional Psychology: Research and Practice. Dr. McIlvried was also elected as chair of the Board of Directors of Volunteers of America for the state of Indiana. Dr. Jacqueline Remondet Wall gave four presentations at the Gerontological Society of America Meeting in November. She also presented at the Dementia Care Conference in September. Along with Dr. Nicole Taylor and a student, Dr. Wall presented at the Brain Injury Association of Indiana conference. Dr. Wall and Dr. William Essman cowrote a book review, and Dr. Wall completed a movie review, both of which will both appear in PsycCRITIQUES. Social Sciences In October Dr. Bobby A. Potters gave a presentation at the Elder W. Griggs Elementary School 42 to members of “The Positive Act Group,” a leadership development program for sixth graders, titled “A Formula for Planning and Achieving Success Beyond Elementary School.” In November, Jim Wolfe presented twice at the annual meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology in St. Louis—once on the three types of civil religion and once on humanist virtues. Theatre During Spring Term, Cate Moran traveled to Athens, Greece, with a class of 17 students. The group visited the University of Indianapolis-Athens and performed in ancient theatres. She also presented at the American Theatre in Higher Education conference in Chicago and showed a short film that she made of the Life in Community Art project she did with older adults from the Senior Center in Fountain Square. In November, Moran helped to arrange a campus visit by Curt Tofteland, artistic director of the documentary and award-winning film Shakespeare Behind Bars. After a showing of the film, Tofteland answered questions from students and shared anecdotes of his experiences with the Shakespeare drama program at a Kentucky prison. “The Guys,” directed by Theatre associate adjunct Jen Alexander, raised $6,000 for the Indianapolis Firefighters Bereavement Fund. The play, originally produced by CTI at the Wheeler Arts Community, played in the Studio Theatre in Esch Hall in October. Recent Theatre graduates Rissa Guffey ’05 and Jared Duymovic ’06 assisted with the production.
New endowment supports education of tomorrow’s church leaders An innovative new charitable endowment offers an opportunity for United Methodist congregations in the South Indiana Conference to help develop the next generation of church leadership. Established by the South Indiana Foundation, the endowment will generate income to provide scholarships and special studies funding for students in the University’s United Methodist Youth Leader Scholars program. Foundation Executive Director Marie Lang hopes churches with their own scholarship programs will consider dedicating some or all of their endowments or resulting income to the new UMYLS Legacy Endowment. Such a move would relieve the congregations of their management responsibilities and ensure that the money is put to good use. Often, she noted, church scholarship programs are established with guidelines so specific and restrictive that the money sits unused for long periods. Although the foundation manages other scholarship endowments connected to seminaries or specific churches, the UMYLS Legacy Endowment may be the only direct collaboration with a university. “In that way, it’s like the first step in a new partnership, so that’s exciting,” Lang said. The University of Indianapolis created the Youth Leader Scholars program during the 2002–2003 academic year in conjunction with the Crossings Project, a Lilly Endowment-funded venture that provides vocation exploration opportunities as students plan their careers. Lilly Endowment has provided supplementary funding to continue the UMYLS program for three more years, but the University must also increase the funding it contributes each year. Beginning in 2009, the church and the University will have to generate $50,000 annually to continue providing $2,500 scholarships to 20 students each year. Although UIndy offers a major in youth ministry and a pre-theology program for students seeking ordination, the UMYLS program is open to students in any major who plan to be active in their churches. The program requirements include enrolling in at least one Christian vocations course each year, participating regularly in the life of a United Methodist congregation, completing at least one service project each year, and getting involved in at least one of the Christian ministries on campus. “We think of this as preparing future lay leaders as well as future clergy,” said Dr. Michael Cartwright, dean for Ecumenical & Interfaith Programs at UIndy, which is UMC-affiliated. One UIndy student who has benefited from this sort of support is junior Laura Steed, an Illinois native who came to Indianapolis initially to study athletic training and physical therapy. By the end of her freshman year, she had decided to change her major to youth ministry, but the decision was affirmed the following summer when she worked as a staff member for Appalachian Service Project, a Tennessee-based home repair ministry that uses volunteer labor to improve housing in poor, rural areas. Steed was awarded a $1,250 stipend to supplement her modest staff salary, making it feasible for her to spend the summer working with high school-age volunteers. She found the experience even more rewarding than she expected. “That sealed the deal for me,” she said. “Now I know that I’m supposed to work with youth.” “Laura is an example of someone who has taken advantage of the leadership opportunities that we have to offer,” Cartwright said. “She is becoming a mentor to other students in the process.” Given the church’s ongoing need to cultivate future leaders, partnerships with higher education make sense, said Cartwright, himself an ordained elder in the South Indiana Conference. Lang, who has been visiting and writing to area churches to stoke interest in the new endowment, is hopeful that other congregations will see the value of pooling their resources to support the broader cause of educating tomorrow’s United Methodist leaders. “I believe there’s some potential out there for it, or we wouldn’t be so proactive about building this fund,” she said. For more information about the UMYLS Legacy Endowment, contact the Rev. Marie Lang, executive director of the South Indiana Foundation, at (317) 788-7879. —Scott Hall Laura Steed (above), a junior at the University of Indianapolis, is developing leadership skills through the University’s United Methodist Youth Leader Scholars program. The church-affiliated South Indiana Foundation has established a new endowment that supports the program by pooling unused scholarship funds from local congregations. 21 alumni.uindy.edu 21
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