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LETOURNEAU UNIVERSITY 

FALL 2012

a message from the president 

When I came to LeTourneau University as president five 

years ago, I was drawn here by the unique heritage and 

mission of this place. One of the few remaining, truly 

Christ-centered colleges, LeTourneau University was 

founded not by a religious denomination nor by a church 

leader, but by a businessman who saw God as his partner. 

For R.G. LeTourneau, his engineering work was like worship 

to the God who created him and gave him his unique 

abilities as one of America’s great inventors. He was a 

man of unapologetic faith and incomparable ingenuity, 

and he called his generation to do things bigger and better 

while always giving God the glory for each achievement. 

On Sept. 17, we announced a historic moment in the life 

of LeTourneau University when we went public with the 

university’s first university-wide, comprehensive funding 

campaign to raise $27.5 million by December 2014. The 

campaign is called “For Such a Time as This,” and it is the 

most ambitious in the university’s history, providing funding 

for programs, scholarships and facilities. 

As Mr. LeTourneau understood, Jesus Christ is Lord of all. 

He is the Lord of the workplace and Lord of the marketplace. 

LeTourneau University has the opportunity to change 

our culture by graduating professionals, in many fields, who 

will see their daily work as God-honoring worship. 

LeTourneau University is a university with a big vision: 

Claiming every workplace in every nation as their mission 

field, LeTourneau University graduates are professionals of 

ingenuity and Christ-like character who see life’s work as a 

holy calling with eternal impact. 

Just as Mordecai challenged Esther to consider whether 

God had placed her in a position of influence “for such a 

time as this,” our campaign invites everyone to join in the 

work that God is doing here at LeTourneau University. 

R.G. LeTourneau stood firm on the promise of Matthew 

6:33: Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. 

LeTourneau University continues to stand firm on that 

promise. 

I hope you will partner with us in this vision to claim the 

workplace for Jesus Christ. Seek God first in your workplace, 

in your family, in your church, in every aspect of 

your life. And I ask that you prayerfully consider how, 

for such a time as this, you can help make this campaign 

successful with your financial gift. All gifts received before 

Dec. 31 count toward 2012. 

To hear what some of our students have to say about the 

new campaign, go to http://campaign.letu.edu. 

The new missionary is the civil engineer, the classroom 

teacher, the accountant, the nurse and the aviation technician 

who commit their work to the Lord. 

Follow me on Twitter: @dalelunsford 

Facebook: www.facebook.com/dalelunsford 

Blog: letupresident.blogspot.com

NO W 


“BEHOLD, NOW IS THE ACCEPTABLE 

TIME; BEHOLD NOW IS THE DAY OF 

OUR SALVATION.” —II Cor. 6:2 

4 For Such a Time as This 

contents 

DALE A. LUNSFORD, Ph.D. PUBLISHER 

JANET RAGLAND EDITOR IN CHIEF 

KATE GRONEWALD WRITER / EDITOR 

TOM BARNARD CREATIVE DIRECTOR / GRAPHIC DESIGNER 

ANDY TEEL GRAPHIC DESIGNER 

GAIL RITCHEY CLASS NOTES 

NIEMAN PRINTING PRINTING 

Claiming every workplace in every 

nation as their mission field, 

LeTourneau University graduates are 

professionals of ingenuity and Christlike 

character who see life’s work as a 

holy calling with eternal impact. 

6 Allen Family Student Center 

12 Anna Lee and Sidney Allen 

14 Joyce Family Athletic Village 

16 LETU in Cambodia 

23 Honor Roll of Giving 

32 Class Notes 

38 Married Student Housing 

42 Dr. Paul Sam 

CONTACT INFORMATION: 

PHONE: 903-233-3000 

WEB: www.letu.edu 

E-mail: NOW@letu.edu 

ADMISSIONS: 

PHONE: 903-233-4300 

TOLL FREE: 800-759-8811 

ADULT AND GRADUATE 

DEGREE PROGRAMS: 

PHONE: 903-233-3250 

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DEVELOPMENT: 

PHONE: 903-233-3800 

TOLL FREE: 800-259-LETU 

ALUMNI OFFICE: 

PHONE: 903-233-3803 

E-MAIL: alumni@letu.edu 

44 A Graduate Looks Back 

46 News and Notes 

LeTourneau University is an interdenominational 

Christ-centered university offering academic majors in the 

aeronautical sciences, business, education, engineering, 

healthcare, the humanities and sciences. LeTourneau 

University also offers undergraduate degree programs in 

business, education and psychology and graduate programs 

in business and education at educational centers in Austin, 

Bedford, Dallas, Houston, Tyler and online. 

NOW is published by LeTourneau University, 

2100 South Mobberly, Longview, Texas 75607 • 

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“God created us for work, to fully know Him 

and make Him known in all the earth — 

in every workplace in every nation.” 

— Dr. Dale A. Lunsford 

Written By Janet Ragland 

The air crackled with excitement as 

students, faculty, staff and community 

guests filled the Belcher Center auditorium 

in preparation for the Monday 

morning chapel service Sept. 17. 

Worship arts professor Dr. Mark Jonah 

was speaking about “celebration,” and LETU President 

Dr. Dale A. Lunsford had a special announcement 

to make at the end of chapel. 

Lunsford marked a historic moment in the life of 

LeTourneau University when he announced the university’s 

first university-wide, comprehensive funding 

campaign to raise $27.5 million by December 2014. 

The “For Such a Time as This” campaign is the most 

ambitious in the university’s history. 

And there was already much to celebrate. 

More than $18 million dollars had already been 

pledged toward the $27.5 million goal. 

4 | NOW Magazine | Fall 2012

The “For Such a Time as This” campaign 

provides funding for five pillars, or commitments, 

of the university’s strategic plan. 

These include: 

· Center for Faith and Work programming 

to prepare students to understand the integration 

of their faith in their workplaces 

throughout the week, not just on Sunday 

mornings. 

· Endowed Scholarships for high ability 

students challenged by the economy to 

fund their education. When this campaign 

is complete, LETU will have tripled the 

amount of endowed scholarship funds 

benefiting students for decades to come. 

· Student Center and Athletic Village facilities 

necessary to meet the changing needs of a 

traditional residential student experience. 

· Global Service Learning Center programs 

to enable LETU to be a university of global 

influence. 

· Academic Excellence initiatives to support 

the academic schools in their work to deliver 

exceptional, Christ-centered professional 

programs and unique hands-on learning 

experiences. 

“LeTourneau University founder R.G. 

LeTourneau understood his work as a businessman 

and engineer was an extension of 

his Christian faith,” Lunsford said. “When 

his pastor told him that God needed businessmen 

as well as he needed preachers, 

LeTourneau knew he could use the gifts God 

had given him to make a positive impact on 

the world. He knew that his engineering 

work was like worship to God. 

“God created us for work, to fully know 

Him and make Him known in all the earth — 

in every workplace in every nation,” Lunsford 

said. “Our vision to send professionals to be 

ambassadors for Christ answers His Great 

Commission, not just by those working in 

traditional full-time ministry.” 

The campaign name, “For Such a Time 

as This,” is based on the Bible story in the 

book of Esther when Esther was called to be 

obedient and save her people. 

“God will accomplish His will with or 

without us,” Lunsford said, “but we want to 

be obedient to His calling and to be part of 

His plan to fulfill the Great Commission. We 

believe that LeTourneau University exists ‘for 

such a time as this.’ 

Updated campus facilities like the student 

center and the athletic village will help 

students be successful during their years at 

LETU. Both are integral parts of residential 

life on campus. 

“We grow spiritually in community, and 

that’s why these facilities are so important,” 

Lunsford said. “These facilities will be where 

groups of students from different floors 

and different majors on campus can come 

together and interact like never before.” 

He pointed out that growing scholarship 

aid will close the gap for families who want 

a quality Christ-centered education but are 

struggling financially. 

Faculty support and endowed professorships 

will put the best faculty in front of 

LETU students. These faculty members will 

prepare them to be future leaders with both 

competence and Christ-like character. 

“We see God working in mighty ways 

all throughout His world,” Lunsford said. 

“Financial support for our Global Service 

Learning Center will enable us to send more 

faculty and students worldwide to use the 

ingenuity of their education to demonstrate 

God’s love in places of great suffering.” 

To stay true to Mr. LeTourneau’s legacy, 

the university’s new faith and work initiatives, 

once funded, will equip LETU students, 

alumni and Christians everywhere to see 

their work as a holy calling with eternal 

impact. 

“The workplace is a strategic venue for 

God’s redeeming work,” Lunsford said. “In 

the workplace, Christians can grow in their 

faith by fully integrating their Christian 

worldview with their professional pursuits. In 

the workplace, non-Christians can find Jesus 

Christ.” • 

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Written By Janet Ragland 

Sarah sits in a comfortable overstuffed 

chair with her iPad in her lap. 

She stops reading for a moment to 

straighten up and stretch. Her book 

bag sits on the floor beside her. Around 

her the sunlight bounces in from the 

two-story glass wall facing the center 

of campus. She can hear the sounds 

of other students in friendly conversation, 

some eating snacks and drinking 

coffee, others talking on their cell 

phones, checking their Facebook status 

or watching television. As she looks 

up, she sees through a second-story 

glass wall into the game room where 

students are playing networked video 

games, billiards and ping pong. 

The open design of this student 

center commons area creates a large, 

airy space, but one that feels homey, 

like a living room for the entire university 

campus. She comes here often, 

sometimes to meet friends or work on 

projects with other students, sometimes 

just to sit and read, sometimes to 

cut across campus from Belcher Center 

chapel on her way to the Corner Café 

for lunch, or even to eat a quick, madeto-order 

lunch right here in the new 

student center. 

She thinks about those who envisioned 

this space, and how they 

thoughtfully designed the building in an 

“X” shape to make it a central destination 

point from four directions on campus. 

She thinks of the students and staff 

who worked together to make it inviting 

for students and convenient for visitors 

to campus. She thinks of all the people 

who faithfully gave funding to make 

this space a reality. She thinks about 

how God brought all of these people 

to work together to bring this building 

from a vision to reality. She smiles. 


FIRST FLOOR 

First floor amenities in the new $14 million 

student center include the university 

campus bookstore, the mail center and print 

shop. The Hive coffee shop has an expanded 

grill, pizza oven and ability to prepare madeto-order 

hot and cold foods like burritos and 

submarine sandwiches, making it a popular 

site for lunch on the go. 

A multi-purpose area for meetings and 

activities sits on the east side of the building. 

The space was designed to accommodate 

a single, large group, or be sectioned 

off into five separate rooms for maximum 

functionality. Beside the Hive coffee shop 

are commuter and TV lounges that sit near 

the door to the university mall and bell 

tower. Just outside a massive two-story 

glass wall is a terraced patio area for eating 

al fresco, enjoying outdoor concerts and 

other activities to bring the campus community 

together. 

Guests to campus can’t miss the admissions 

office that anchors the Southwest 

corner of the first floor. Career Services 

and the Alumni office also are conveniently 

placed nearby. 

SECOND FLOOR 

A grand, open staircase near the Admissions 

office leads to the second floor for 

the Student Life offices, the health and 

counseling center, student activities and a 

student game room. Several group study 

rooms overlook the expansive commons 

“living room” below and are located adjacent 

to the university’s Achievement Center 

where students can get academic help 

with course work. Appropriately enough, a 

prayer room is also located nearby. Executive 

space unites the president, provost 

and administrative offices together in this 

60,000-square-foot building that serves as a 

dynamic hub for the entire campus. 

SATELLITE VIEW OF STUDENT CENTER LOCATION 


FIRST FLOOR 

SECOND FLOOR 



STUDENTS COLLABORATE WITH ARCHITECTS 

The new student center would not be complete without input from the students 

it is intended to serve. 

Throughout the 2011-2012 academic year, LETU administration encouraged 

students to participate in focus groups and face-to-face meetings with architects, 

Design Collaborative of Fort Wayne, Ind. The goal was to ensure the building 

plans meet students’ needs effectively. 

Todd Adams, a 2012 aeronautical science graduate from Rochester, N Y., served 

as president of the Yellowjacket Activity Council (YAC) during this past academic 

year. He said he learned of the plans for the new student center at the IMPACT 

retreat at the beginning of the Fall 2011 academic year. 

“Talking to the architects was the best part,” Adams said. “They offered insight 

in things we didn’t think of, and we shared what we thought we would need. It 

was a good give and take.” 

He said he appreciated that students were given opportunity to provide direct 

input during open sessions with the architects, adding that one of the students’ 

suggestions was to add a kitchen sink in the workroom planned for YAC projects. 

Adams also said he thought the terraced patio area outside will be a great place 

for YAC to serve Friday afternoon ice cream floats. 

Carly Robinson, an interdisciplinary studies major from Clifton, Texas, worked 

last year on the YellowJacket student newspaper staff and was involved in several 

of the student center meetings. 

“The school's invitation to student input about the overall project is commendable,” 

Robinson said. “I appreciate the amount of openness they have about the 

building plans.” 

Student input included a LAN (local area network) for multiple people to play 

video games together on big screens in a game room. LETU students have long 

been known for playing multiple-user video games from the confines of their 

individual dorm rooms, but the new game room will provide more community by 

enabling students to come together and play interactively online and in person. 

Jedediah Schlung, a May 2012 biology graduate from Soldotna, Alaska, served 

as the 2011-2012 student body treasurer. He said the multipurpose rooms were 

really important and will be a great addition for students from both the men’s 

and women’s residence halls to get together in the evenings. 

“The architects were very friendly and easy to interact with,” Schlung said. 

“They had a lot of variety built in already, but one of the things that students 

really liked was to have a place to watch movies on Friday and Saturday nights.” 

LETU student body president Joe Bailey, a 2012 mechanical engineering graduate 

from Otley, Iowa, said he liked that the architects and administration listened 

to student input, like adding a prayer room upstairs and turning space architects 

had originally envisioned as a fitness center into a space for interactive video 

gaming, ping pong, foosball and billiards. He also liked the aspect of bringing 

some LETU ingenuity into the building. 

“I sat in on numerous meetings [with the architects] and got to know them a 

little bit,” Bailey said. “They were eager to hear from us.” 

Having flexible meeting space and having it open around the clock is also a 

plus, Bailey said, since some students will work until the very early morning hours 

to complete class projects. 

“The people who know best what they need are the students,” Bailey said. “It’s 

the crossroads of campus and will bring people from different majors together.” 

• 


Written by Janet Ragland 

Photographed by Tom Barnard From providing student scholarships and support 

Drizzly weather could not dampen enthusiasm 

at the groundbreaking for the new Anna Lee and 

Sidney Allen Family Student Center on Monday, Sept. 

17 at LETU’s Longview campus. Students, clad in 

blue T-shirts that read “LETU Digs Students,” stood 

under umbrellas on the university berm to witness 

a groundbreaking event. Groups of students, administrators 

and trustees took the shovels in hand and 

ceremoniously turned dirt. 

The Allens are a local family who love Longview 

and LeTourneau University. Their support of LETU has 

been significant. 

for mission trips, to helping senior engineering projects 

and the student Auto Society car show, the Allen 

Family has invested in the lives of students. 

To encourage students to travel internationally, 

they helped students with travel expenses and now 

have endowed a “Study Abroad” travel assistance 

fund. They also created an endowed scholarship to 

fund an LETU health science student from East Texas 

to study nursing. 

They supported the construction of the Belcher 

Center, which has a lobby named in their honor, and 

have sponsored shows in the yearly Performance 

Series to bring cultural arts to Longview. 


“The naming of this new student center honors 

the Allen family for their personal support for 

LeTourneau University, and how they demonstrate 

that you don’t have to be a graduate of LETU to 

appreciate the valuable mission of what we are doing 

here,” said LETU President Dr. Dale A. Lunsford. 

“LETU is important to the community of Longview 

and worthy of the endorsement of influential citizens 

in the community, like the Allens, who see the 

potential in our students and the potential in our 

university.” 

Sidney and Anna Lee are originally from Roswell, 

New Mexico, where they went to the same 

high school. Allen studied business at Eastern New 

Mexico University, then transferred to Texas Tech 

in Lubbock. He and Anna Lee married in 1965 and 

Sidney took his first job at a bank in Dallas. 

In 1969, the Allens moved to Longview where 

Sidney’s family owned the John Deere dealership for 

many years. Now, the Allens own Longview Scrap 

and Metal Company and have operated the firm 

successfully for more than two decades. Sidney has 

been elected twice to the Longview City Council with 

his current term expiring in 2013. He has served on 

the construction advisory and appeals board, the 

financial task force, and the zoning board of adjustment. 

He has served for six years on the planning and 

zoning commission, three as chair. He has also been 

elected by the council as Mayor Pro Tem. He serves 

on the LETU President’s Advisory Council. 

In a short address to the students, Sidney Allen 

encouraged them to be involved in the community 

and to have a positive attitude. 

“Do your best at what you do, and work harder 

and better than anyone else,” he said, “and you will 

fear no competition.” • 

See progress on the Allen Center construction 

from our live webcam at: 

campaign.letu.edu/live.html 

Pictured with Anna Lee and Sidney Allen 

at far right are Dr. Lunsford, center, and 

Brian and Kerri Daugbjerg. Kerri is the 

Allens' daughter. 


JOYCE FAMILY AT 

Written by Janet Ragland 

Photographed by Tom Barnard 

A new day dawned on LeTourneau University athletics 

this year when the Joyce Family Athletic Village was 

dedicated on Thursday, April 19, at the LETU campus 

in Longview. And due to the generosity of a local 

Longview family, LETU athletes played their first nighttime 

games in the school’s 66-year history. 

More than $1.5 million in renovations over the 

past two years have included improvements to grading, 

irrigation and drainage for all of the athletic fields 

used for soccer, baseball and softball. New lighting, 

scoreboards, brick backstops for baseball and softball, 

expanded seating for spectators, ornamental fencing 

and monument gates have been added. 

“We are grateful to Joe Bob Joyce, his wife, Lou Ann, 

and the Joyce family for their generosity in providing 

the significant lead gift,” said LETU President Dr. Dale 

A. Lunsford. “Not only did they give sacrificially with 

a large lead gift toward this project, Joe Bob spent a 

great deal of time helping raise funds for this project 

on top of running his company, Joyce Crane. The Joyce 

family really stepped up to the plate to help us with 

this project.” 

The new improvements have already served hundreds 

of LETU’s student-athletes and energized the fan 

base for YellowJacket teams. A new student-led sports 

marketing team began some new traditions, including 

putting out GAME DAY signs across campus and turning 

the bell tower lights blue when LETU teams win games. 

“As LETU’s athletic programs had grown over the 

past several years, its athletic complex had become 

dated and in need of significant overhaul,” said LETU 

Athletic Director Terri Deike. "For many years, our 

NCAA baseball, softball and soccer teams had to practice 

during the day since there was no lighting, which 


HLETIC VILLAGE 

also meant scheduling games was difficult and cut into 

class time. Because many of LETU’s students are from 

out of state and don’t go home on weekends, the campus 

intramural athletic program provides heavy use of 

the soccer fields and athletic facilities for more than 

700 students during the academic year.” 

Joe Bob Joyce, Sr. is the founder and owner of Joyce 

Crane Service, a family-run business with more than 

160 employees and dozens of pieces of equipment in 

locations in Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana. Joyce Crane 

supplies cranes for use in the oil and natural gas industries, 

highway construction projects, mining locations 

and industrial sites. 

Joyce serves his local church as a deacon, treasurer 

and chairman of the finance committee. He has served 

on LETU’s board of trustees since 2009 and is a member 

of the executive campaign committee. He has 

shared his financial management expertise on various 

professional boards and committees, including the 

Safety Council of East Texas, Specialized Carriers and 

Riggers Association Foundation and Eastman Chemical 

Contractor Safety Council Board. 

Joyce is a past president of the President’s Advisory 

Council. The Joyce family has provided support for the 

Corner Café, Belcher Center and student Baja team. 

The family also annually funds a President’s Circle 

annual corporate scholarship and supports LETU’s 

annual golf classic. 

Joyce said providing the lead gift and encouraging 

others to participate in the project was important to 

him because of the impact it would have on a wide 

range of students. He and his family have been involved 

in coaching youth sports like baseball, softball 

and basketball all throughout their lives. 

“It was an easy decision for me and my family,” he 

said. “Coaching lets you see how much sports can help 

to mold you,” Joyce said. “You learn life lessons and 

how to accept failure and live with success.” • 



David rappelled into the broken water 

well with some trepidation. Although two 

others among his LeTourneau University 

engineering team members had safely 

descended and returned, David wondered 

if he would be able to manage to climb 

back out of the well once he was slimy 

with mud. 

Was the bottom of the well firm 

enough to stand on, or just a thin plug 

on top of the shaft? What if there was a 

rat or cobra nest behind the crumbling 

cement wall he was trying to seal? Would 

mortar even cure properly in this cool, 

shaded shaft? 

In hindsight, the whole situation 

seemed ludicrous—that a group of eight 

Americans had flown over 9,000 miles to 

the small village of Oom Pim Bai in Cambodia 

to climb into a broken water well 

and put a layer of brick and mortar over a 

hole that was letting mud into the well. 

Written by Ron Watson 

Photography Provided by David Wright 

David had wondered many times during 

this trip if all the expense and effort 

of getting their whole team there was 

necessary to accomplish such a simple 

task. But during those moments of confusion 

or doubt, David was sustained by the 

memory of how clearly God had called 

each team member to work in Cambodia 

that summer, and how God had provided 

for each one. 


No orderly train of logic had convinced these eight 

team members to make this trip, which had been rife 

with sacrifice, frustration and spiritual testing. Rather, 

the mystical, yet undeniable, call of God gave each of 

them the courage to step out in faith, and gave David 

the courage to step into that broken well. They trusted 

God to use their act of service for His glory and to minister 

to the people of the village. 

The impact of a simple water well repair job would 

not be clear to the team members for many days. Actually, 

they are all still learning about the effects of that 

trip, both on the village and on each of them. Only after 

much time and post-trip contemplation have the team 

members begun to see the many plans and stories God 

is weaving together. 

When the team first walked around the village of 

Oom Pim Bai in May 2012, the rainy season was approaching. 

They could see there was much physical 

repair work to be done, but they could not have known 

that God knew there was other repair work on His 

agenda. 

The eight members of the team included Dr. Jesse 

French, assistant professor of mechanical engineering 

and the trip’s faculty adviser, along with six engineering 

students: team leader David Wright, a junior from 

Cumberland, R.I.; Corey Ressler, a master’s student 

from Sandwich, Ill.; and sophomores Amber Keith from 

Glendora, Calif.; Michael Koreis from Apopka, Fla.; Phillips 

Stuart from Longview, Texas; and Jason Small from 

Hampstead, Md. Rounding out the team was French’s 

17-year-old daughter, Sydney. 

Mission engineering was not new to Dr. French, a 

veteran missionary who has rendered aid to sites in 13 

countries. But it was not French who actually initiated 

this trip. He was approached by a number of students 

who felt God calling them to pursue mission work 

abroad. They felt God telling them to go, but did not 

yet know where He would send them. 

“Ten people gathered together to pray about it that 

month,” French said. The students committed to fasting 

and prayer as they sought God’s direction and His 

provision for their financial needs. “By January, three 

sites were revealed to us by the Holy Spirit. By February, 

it was narrowed down to Cambodia.” 

French had received an urgent call from Pastor Choi 

Sang Gil, a Christian missionary whom he had known 


as a military chaplain years earlier when French served 

in the U.S. military. 

Pastor Choi is the site director for the Glory International 

School and Christian Church. It had been built 

within the last two years, but sits below the annual 

flood level and needed a retaining wall around its 

structures to keep floodwaters at bay. 

“The church and school were not built on a proper 

foundation,” French said. “As floodwaters rose, the 

backfill washed out, and the water came up high 

enough to flood the school and church. Also, a water 

well on the site had been damaged and unusable for 

nearly two years. Pastor Choi was overwhelmed by the 

harvest of the mission in this village. He told us the 

need was great, but the human capital was lacking, 

specifically workers with technical skills. 

“Every mission site needs technical support, but it’s 

not the need that drives true mission work,” French 

said. “Many people are concerned with the work of the 

hands, and that is very important, but the purpose for us 

was to follow the will of the Lord. We traveled to Cambodia 

to find out what God was already doing there.” 

Once the destination for this trip was set, the 

students and their adviser turned to further spiritual 

contemplation to discern exactly which of them were 

being led to travel to Oom Pim Bai. Weeks of day-long 

fasting and prayer whittled the total number to eight, 

and since none of them had traveled to Cambodia 

before, this initial trip was intended to gauge the needs 

of the mission as well as the resources available for the 

work there. 

“One of the most important things is researching the 

ramifications, the effects of not just what you’re doing 

physically, but to find out the secondary and tertiary 

effects as well,” French said. “You become morally responsible 

by hearing of the need, but you gain spiritual 

authority by suffering with the people.” 

Oom Pim Bai is situated along National Highway 5 in 

central Cambodia about 35 kilometers from the capitol 

city of Phnom Penh. The village population is approximately 

500, with roughly 1,000 other people living in 

the adjacent village of Jurisi and other family clusters 

to the southeast of Udong. 

Less than one percent of Cambodian people profess 

to be Christian, with the majority being Buddhist and 

with a growing number of Muslims. 


“The residents of Oom Pim Bai are very spiritually 

active, but not for the Lord God,” French said. “Our 

challenge was to give something true, to give something 

real, to the people of Cambodia.” 

The LETU team found idols were everywhere. 

“Every plot of land has idols on it, and every high 

place has a temple on it,” French said. “Even the property 

we were working on — the church and the school 

— had idols on it at one time. Pastor Choi is trying to 

live out an example for Jesus Christ in the midst of all 

this.” 

Pastor Choi, the mission’s director, has toiled against 

this backdrop for the better part of a year. The 69-yearold 

widower, as a child, was cared for by American 

troops during the beginning of the Korean War. He 

later served in Vietnam as a member of the Korean 

Marines. In his work as a missionary now, he also faces 

other cultural hurdles. 

“He is attending language school and working hard 

to grasp the local culture,” French said. “It’s an impressive 

challenge. And because of his background of living 

and working with Americans, he isn’t really considered 

Korean or Cambodian. He is truly standing in faith, as 

he has no social support network.” 

Pastor Choi is aided in his ministry by a northern 

Cambodian named Eab, who is considered the spiritual 

leader of the village. Eab serves as the school’s director 

and assistant pastor of the church, but more importantly 

to the villagers of Oom Pim Bai, Eab organizes 

soccer matches held on the site. 

“Soccer has a huge following there, and Eab is the 

one who provides the soccer balls,” French said. “This 

is one of the best ways the mission connects with the 

villagers, through a simple, five-dollar stitched leather 

soccer ball.” 

Gambling is rampant there. Eab strictly enforces a 

“no gambling” rule, and this is the only non-gambling 

soccer match within 10 kilometers. Crowds began congregating 

around 5 p.m. each day in anticipation. 

“The kids and young adults are very enthusiastic 

about soccer there,” Jason Small said. “This was how 

we were able to connect with many of the youth there 

who didn’t attend the school or church.” 

One of those youth is 11-year-old Lim, who wasn’t 

allowed to attend the church or free school classes because 

his family is Buddhist and felt they had lost status 

in the village when the Christian mission was built. 

Lim’s family had been influential, living in what was 

the “good” part of town, until electricity and water 

wells placed near the mission complex made it more 

desirable. Lim’s family was then caught on the “wrong 

side of the village.” These facts did not dissuade Lim 

from peering through the windows of the Christian 

school. His curiosity offered the chance for the LETU 

team to make a connection with him. 

“We all became friends with Lim and helped to be- 


gin a reconciliation between his family and the mission 

when our team repaired the primary water well for 

drinking and watering crops and animals on Lim’s side 

of the village,” French said. “You couldn’t plan a curriculum 

that includes this sort of experience.” 

By the time the LETU team left Oom Pim Bai, they 

had completed construction of the retaining wall surrounding 

the church and school and had restored the 

water well that had been damaged during the site’s 

construction. But members of the team were quick to 

point out, that they learned more about life and faith 

than engineering. 

Many of the team members said they dealt with 

frustration on the trip. 

“There was really no typical day in Oom Pim Bai,” 

Small said. “As soon as we thought we were lined up to 

complete something, to see a result through the work 

of our hands, something else revealed itself. We had to 

be flexible.” 

The team members also felt frustrated and micromanaged 

by their host, who insisted on ordering their 

meals, directing their activities and planning their waking 

hours. 

“Dr. French told us early on about a philosophy that 

we began calling ‘Semper Gumby,’ which to us means 

‘Always Flexible,’” said Corey Ressler. “For me, it meant 

letting go of my personal autonomy and accepting Pastor 

Choi’s love and hospitality for what it was. I began 

to realize that was how he was offering me his love, 

and I was able to get over myself.” 

Jason Small also began to recognize the flexibility 

required to understand his host’s motives. 

“Pastor Choi was doing what was customary for all 

hosts in his culture,” he said. “He seemed pushy and 

proud, at first, but looking back, he was showing us 

sacrificial love. I learned that culture effects the way 

love looks.” 

Although the trip has concluded, the team members 

are still digesting what this life-changing journey has 

meant to them spiritually. 

“We were in Cambodia through a prayed-through 

process,” French said. “We have entered a new season 

of prayer to help us understand more about what this 

trip meant to us. In many ways, we’re still unpacking, 

and things are still being revealed to us.” 

For Phillips Stuart, the trip has left him with the 

certainty that he belongs in missions work. 

“I have felt led for quite a while to work in some 

kind of engineering mission work,” he said. “For me, 

this experience in Cambodia was confirmation that this 

was going to be a way of life for me.” • 


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HONOR ROLL OF GIVING 

The President’s Circle 

Members of the President’s Circle share four commitments: 

1. To support the mission and vision of LeTourneau University. 

2. To pray for the students, faculty and administration of the university. 

3. To spread the word about LeTourneau University to their friends, colleagues and associates as they have opportunity. 

4. To support the university’s ongoing financial needs at a level appropriate for their financial circumstances. 

President’s Circle membership begins with a gift of $1,000 or more annually and supports the LeTourneau University Annual Fund. 

For more information or to join the President’s Circle, contact University Development 

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LCdr. Ronald L. Wier 

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Mr. & Mrs. Donald H. Wolgemuth 

Mr. & Mrs. Terry A. Zeitlow 

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The following alumni and friends made contributions to LeTourneau University during the period from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012. Alumni who contributed $1,000 or more are 

listed in their donor category as well as with their class year. We deeply appreciate each and every gift and the many givers who make it possible to carry on the work of educating 

Christian young people. 

Founder's Society 

$5,000 or more 

Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Allen 

Anonymous 

Mr. & Mrs. Mike Benton 

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Mr. Trey Patterson 

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Mr. & Mrs. Dean Waskowiak 

Mr. Charles E. Workman 

Mr. Bob Zager 

Chancellor's Society 

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Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth C. Bengtson 

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Mr. Kenneth J. Sayler 

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Ms. Dorthy Miller Shore 

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Mr. & Mrs. Ted A. Timmons 

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Mr. William Wolcken 

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Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin M. Wright 

Ms. Dianne Zehner 

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Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Bolding 

Mr. Michael D. Bonilla 

Mrs. Lillian L. Bowers 

Mr. & Mrs. Roger H. Brake Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Brian Bunt 

Mr. Ron Cappella 

Mrs. Caroline Casselberry 

Mr. Jody Castle 

Mr. Ron Chase 

Dr. Bruce Coyle 

Mr. & Mrs. Clarence W. Cramer 

Mrs. Eleanor Crego 

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Dr. & Mrs. Steven C. Dossin 

Dr. Robert E. Driver 

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Mrs. Rose Marie Hinde 

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Mr. Marcus T. Hughes 

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Mr. Paul Knowlton 

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Mr. Paul Zettler 

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A Better Neighborhood Foundation 

Abbott Industries Inc. 

ABC Auto Parts Ltd 

Academy Rehab Clinic 

ACE Mentor Program of Denver 

ACT 

ACT AFAS 

Advantage Building Services 

AEA Educational Foundation Inc 

AEP/Southwestern Electric Power 

Africa Inland Mission 

Agustin A. Ramirez, Jr. Family 

Foundation 

AIST Foundation 

Alaska Principals Foundation 

Allen Eagle Tennis Booster Club 

Allied Waste (AWS) 

American Association of Airport 

Executives Foundation 

American Legion Jack Warren Post 

American Legion Post #353 

American Legion Post 340 

American Welding Society 

Reading Section 

Ameriprise 

Amos Automotive 

Applied Consultants, Inc. 

Arizona Elks Association Inc. 

Army Emergency Relief 

AT&T 

AT&T Foundation 

Austin Bank Educ. Scholarship 

Austin Computer Services 

Awards & Recognition Industry 

Educational Foundation 

AWS Foundation Inc 

B&D Electrical Contractors Inc 

Baja Farms 

Bank of America 

Bartlesville Community Foundation 

Baxter Sales Company Inc 

Bechtel Group Foundation 

Becky's Beauty Salon 

Belcher Bayou Farm 

Benton Rural Electric Asn. 

Bledsoe Brace Systems 

Blue Bell Creameries, LP 

BNY Mellon 

Boeing Gift Matching Program 

Borden County Booster Club 

Bouchard Physical Therapy 

Services Inc. 

Boy Scouts of America 

BP Fabric of America Fund 

BP Foundation 

Bracketry Systems Inc 

Brazos Community Foundation 

Bridgeston Americas 

Bristol Bay Economic 

Development Corp 

Bruce McMillan Jr. Foundation 

Buckner Children & Family Services 

California Correctional Peace 

Officers Association 

Care First Pediatrics 

Caterpillar Foundation 

CenturyLink 

Cessna Foundation, Inc. 

CETA Education Foundation 

Charles E. Hand DDS 

Chetco Federal Credit Union 

Chevron Humankind 

Chick-fil-A 

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma 

Citizens National Bank 

Clorox Company Foundation 

Coastal Bend Community Foundation 

Colomex 

Community Bank 

Community Foundation of Abilene 

ConocoPhillips 

Conrad Dollars for Scholars 

Conroe ISD Education Foundation 

Inc 

Cotton Valley Investments, Inc. 

Covenant Resources International LLC 

Covington Aircraft Engines Inc 

Cowboy's Chicken 

CPN Scholarship Fund 

Crescent Lake Bible Camp 

Crista 

Culver's VIP Foundation Inc 

Daily Electric 

David Kendall Danciger Charitable 

Foundation 

Deaf Smith Electric Cooperative, Inc 

Deerfoot Lodge 

Delta Air Lines 

Delta Air Lines Foundation 

Delta Air Lines Foundation 

Delta Concrete Products Inc 

Dennis W. Holder Scholarship Fund 

Dennis-Wade Associates, Inc 

Design Collaborative Inc 

Dixie Youth Baseball 

Doane Family Foundation, Inc 

Dollars for Scholars 


Dominion Foundation Matching 

Dr. William Leifeste Memorial 

Scholarship 

Dresser Foundation Inc. 

DTE Energy Foundation 

Dynamic Aviation Group Inc 

East Texas Chapter API 

East Texas Mack Sales, LLC 

East Texas Skydiving Club 

East Texas Yamboree Assoc 

Eastman Chemical Company 

Eaton Corporation 

EFH Corporate Services Company 

Electramatic Inc 

Encore Multimedia 

ETS 

European Council Assembly 

Experimantal Aircraft Assn W 

Express Employment Professionals 

Extraco Trust 

ExxonMobil Foundation 

EZ Forex.Com, Inc. 

Fergus Falls Area Dollars for 

Scholars 

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund 

First Bank & Trust East Texas 

First National Bank 

First State Bank of Colorado 

Fish City Grill 

Fluid Solution Technology 

FM Global Foundation 

Follett Higher Education Group 

Forester Family Foundation Inc 

Frameworks Custom Gallery 

Friedman Industries 

Gans & Smith Insurance 

General Dynamics SATCOM 

Technologies 

General Sealants, Inc. 

Giact Systems 

Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council 

Gladewater Round Up Association 

Global Benefits Group Inc 

Global Fabrication Services Inc 

Government of Alberta 

Greater Houston Community 

Foundation 

Green Electric Company 

Gregg Industrial Insulators 

H. Lorimer Corporation 

Halliburton Foundation Inc. 

Hals Hobby Warehouse 

Hamil, Harrison & Co Mech Inc 

Hampton Inn 

Hardings Markets West Inc 

Harper Band Boosters 

Harper PTO 

Hayes RV Center 

Helen's Hope Foundation 

Hinnant Foundation Inc 

Holcim 

Holiday Inn Express 

Hollywood Theaters 

Hol-Mac Plant #1 

Home Instead, Inc 

Hope Pierce Tartt Scholarship Fund 

Horizon Farms, LLC 

Hotchkiss Kiwanis Club 

Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo 

Hudson Graphics, Inc. 

IBM Matching Grants Program 

ID RA HA JE Scholarship 

Foundation 

IGA Food Cache 

II-VI Foundation 

Illinois Tool Works Foundation 

Impact Eternity Now Inc 

INJAM 

Intel Matching Gifts to Education 

Program 

International Scholarship & 

Tuition Services, Inc 

InTrust Wealth Management 

J T Minnie Maude Charitable Trust 

J.A.Wedum Foundation 

J.E. Hortman Company Inc. 

James R. Hoffa Memorial 

Scholarship Fund 

JBraden Salon & Spa 

JDW Services Inc. 

John Deere Foundation 

John Stuart Manly Foundation 

Johnny Cace's 

Johnson & Johnson 

Joy Global 

Joyce Steel Erection, LTD. 

Just Java 

JW Marriott San Antonio Hill 

Country Resort 

K Scott Brazil Attorney at Law 

Karsten Mfg 

Kellogg's Matching Grants 

Kelly Community Credit Union 

Kettler Veterinary Hospitals Inc 

Kilgore Rotary Club 

Kimberly-Clark Foundation 

Kimmy Foundation 

Knights of Columbus Council 2771 

Larry's Interiors Inc 

Longview Cycle & Ski 

Longview Lion's Club 

Longview News Journal 

Longview Office Supply Inc. 

Longview Partnership Inc 

Longview Regional Medical Center 

Longview Scrap & Metal Company 

LTBrewer Design 

Manion's Drug Store 

Mardel 

Marine Corps Scholarship 

Foundation 

Markay Cabinets 

Marriage Maintenance 

Marshall Pro Rodeo Association, Inc. 

Marshall Woman's Club 

Marti Foundation 

Martin Luther King Jr Scholarship 

Martin Resource Mgmt Corporation 

Matanuska Electric Association 

Medtronic Foundation 

MG Franklin E. Miles Chapter 229 

Michaels 

Mid-South Baptist Foundation 

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney 

Motorola Solutions Foundation 

Mundt Music 

NAACP Abilene Taylor County 

Unit 6228 

Nacogdoches Rotary Club 

NASDA 

National Business Aviation 

Association, Inc. 

National FFA Foundation Inc. 

National Merit Scholarship 

Corporation 

National Utilities Co NUCO 

Natural Rewards LLC 

Network IP 

Newton Mechanical 

Norfolk Southern Charitable 

Match Trust 

North Austin Rotary Foundation 

North East Texas Workforce 

Development Board 

Nowiczewski Foundation 

Orono-Old Town Kiwanis Charities 

Pacific Northwest Regional Council 

of Carpenters 

Patterson Nissan 

Pfizer Foundation 

Phoenix Aviation Managers Inc. 

Pietro's 

Pioneer Marine Inc 

PJ Cheese 

Polar Electro Inc 

Polycom Inc 

Preferred Energy LLC 

Pugh Charitable Trust 

Queen Pageant Scholarship 

Program 

R & H Machine 

Ralph F. Pelaia Jr & Associates 

Raytheon Matching Gifts 

Red Lobster 

Richard Wallrath Educational 

Foundation 

Rivers Recycling 

RLM General Contractors 

Rockwell Collins Charitable 

Corporation 

Rosa May Griffin Foundation 

Rotary Club of Orange 

Rotary Club of Paonia Foundation 

RSM Family Limited Partnership 

Rural Health Clinis 

Rusk County Rodeo Association 

SAE Foundation 

San Antonio Livestock Exposition, Inc. 

SAP Matching Gift Program 

SBP Minerals LP 

Schlumberger Corp 

Scholarship Foundation of 

Santa Barbara 

Scholarship Management Services 

Scott City Quilting Guild 

Shakespeare Club 

Shell Oil Company Foundation 

Shelton & Shelton Plumbing LP 

Simpson Charitable Trust 

Sobol Welders Supply Co Inc 

Southern Bleacher Company Inc. 

Southside Bank 

Southside Bank-Tyler 

Southwest Colorado Federal 

Credit Union 

Spirit of Martyrdom 

Spring Hill State Bank 

Sprint Foundation 

Spurs Foundation 

State Farm Companies Foundation 

State of Kansas 

State of Rhode Island & Providence 

Plantations 

Stebbins Aviation 

Stewards Ministries 

Stoltzfus Structures LLC 

Stowell Family Trust 

Subway Sandwiches of East 

Texas, LLC 

Supervalu Foundation 

Suzanne Cook & Company 

Swarner Crown Hill Cemetery 

T. Boone Pickens YMCA 

T. Ragan Ryan Foundation, Inc 

TASO Baseball Houston Chapter 

Tate & Lyle Americas, Inc. 

TEC Well Service Inc 

Tech Petroleum Services, Inc 

TEEA, Inc. 

Tennessee Baptist Foundation 

Texas 4-H Youth Development 

Foundation 

Texas Assn. of Sports Officials 

Texas Bank & Trust 

Texas Extension Education Assoc. 

Texas FFA Foundation 

Texas Interscholastic League 

Foundation 

Texas Kayak 

Texas Municipal League 

Textron Matching Gift Program 

The Challenge at Oak Forest 

Country Club 

The Chubb Foundation 

The Clara Abbott Foundation 

The Columbus Foundation 

The Happy Davis Foundation Inc. 

The M. E. Foundation 

The Made Rite Company 

The Neiman Marcus Group 

The Pampered Chef 

The Robert A. Welch Foundation 

The Service League of 

Orange Texas 

The Sewing Heart 

The T. Rowe Price Program for 

Charitable Giving 

The Toro Foundation 

The Verne Cooper Foundation Inc 

The VF Foundation 

Thomasson Foundation Inc. 

Tiger Stripe Investments 

Timmer Family Farms LLC 

Toyota of Longview 

Transet Co 

Troy Business Forms 

Trull-Hollensworth Architects 

TSRHC Scholarship Fund 

Tulsa Community Foundation 

Twin Buttes Ranch Inc 

Tyco Int'l Inc. 

United States Treasury 

United Technologies Matching Gift 

Unitronics, Inc 

University of Texas Health Center 

Upshur EE Association 

Upshur-Rural Electric Cooperative 

Corporation 

US Airways Education Foundation 

USBC SMART Team 

Verizon Foundation 

Vermeer Charitable Foundation 

Vermont Student Assistance Corp 

Veterans of Foreign Wars District 2 

Virginia Baptist Foundation, Inc. 

Von Rosenberg Foundation 

Walker Mfg Co 

Whites Texas Stone Enterprises 

Wholesale Electric Supply Co., Inc. 

Wild Ride Ministries 

William & Marian Ghidotti 

Foundation 

Wilmington Trust 

Women in Aviation International 

Woolley G's Bike Fitness 

Wycliffe Bible Translators 

Xcel Energy Foundation 

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc 

Alumni Donations 

By Class 

Class of 1949 

Total Gifts $900.00 

5.56% Participation 

Mr. Donald C. Green 

Mr. Ralph House 

Mr. Harold L. McMillan 

Mr. Stewart Sickles 

Class of 1950 



Mr. John Morton 

Class of 1951 

Total Gifts $1,350.00 


Mr. Harold E. Abbey 

Mr. George Broberg 

Mr. David Houck 

Mr. Albert Rust 

Mr. Robert E. Scribner 

Class of 1952 



Mr. Howard C. Anderson 

Mr. Kenneth C. Bengtson 

Class of 1953 



Mr. Winton A. Hancock 

Class of 1954 



Mr. Howard A. Crosby 

Mr. Ramon Farley 

Dr. John Hardison 

Mr. E. F. Holmes 

Class of 1955 



Mr. C.C. Creach 

Mr. Jack Hoff 

Dr. John L. Hoffer, Ph.D., M.D. 

Mr. Hoffer 

Mr. Herbert L. Orwig 

Mr. Raymond C. Peterson 

Rev. Peter P. Polloni 

Mr. Frank Ritchey 

Mr. Winslow E. Whitten Jr. 

LCdr. Ronald L. Wier 

Class of 1956 



Mr. Robert S. Frey Sr. 

Mr. Frank A. Goodrich 

Mr. Paul Leistner 

Dr. Ken Schreder 

Mr. William Thomason 

Class of 1957 



Mr. Richard Hamby Jr. 

Mr. Duane A. Johnson 

Rear Adm. Richard K. Maughlin, 

USN Ret. 

Mr. William C. Slothower 

Mr. Albert M. Vogel 

Mr. Dale Wolgemuth 

Class of 1958 



Mr. Bill H. Bennett 

Mr. Bennett 

Mr. Jerry H. Bishop 

Mr. John C. Bowen 

Mr. Thurl Briggs 

Mr. Don Cowles 

Mr. William Dinkins Jr. 

Mr. Gordon Fenner 

Mr. Jacob C. Gingerich Jr. 

Mr. Robert A. Jones 

Mr. Robert O. Langness 

Mr. Joseph C. Lee 

Mr. Charles E. Lucas 

Mr. Larry E. Neely 

Mr. Carlos G. Priemer 

Mr. Duane Rhodes 

Rev. J. S. Sullivan Jr. 

Mr. Ted M. Wilkinson 

Class of 1959 



Mr. Jesse H. Brown Jr. 

Mr. Lanny R. Clark 

Mr. Vernon H. Everhart 

Mr. George W. Fink 


Mr. Norman G. Gaut 

Mr. Randall C. Herring 

Mr. Tom Hunt 

Mr. Lyle K. Johnson 

Mr. Ralph R. Jones Sr. 

Mr. Harrison S. Neff 

Mr. Frank Phillips 

Mr. Thomas M. Sochor 

Mr. James M. Tucker 

Class of 1960 



Mr. Eliud Arrazate 

Mr. Elmer R. Baker 

Mr. Carl Grace 

Mr. Marvin Hays 

Mr. Charles S. Kline 

Mr. Gary L. Lisman 

Mr. Roderick B. MacAskill 

Mr. Allan Nilson 

Mr. Blair W. Paul 

Mr. Norman F. Yearick 

Class of 1961 



Mr. Paul Crump Jr. 

Mr. DeWayne Everitt 

Mr. William D. Feller 

Mr. E. L. Henderson 

Mr. Harold L. McElwee 

Mr. Fred Pfau 

Mr. Weston Poyner 

Mr. James F. Roads 

Mr. David Sutter 

Class of 1962 



Mr. Stanley Freeman 

Mr. James D. Hensel 

Mr. David Hentschel 

Mr. John E. Miller 

Mr. Robert M. Myers 

Mr. Paul G. Stokholm 

Mr. William Young 

Class of 1963 



Mr. William E. Baskett 

Mr. John Bush 

Mr. James F. Eckman 

Mr. Morten Eriksen Jr. 

Mr. Don R. Froehner 

Mr. Carroll Handly 

Mr. Kenneth Henry 

Mr. Herb H. Kressler Jr. 

Dr. Jim D. Lilley 

Mr. Robert Moyer 

Mr. Larry B. Smith 

Mr. Norman Spanberger 

Mr. Robert Thornbloom 

Mr. John Vigna 

Mr. Jerry Wolf 

Class of 1964 



Mr. William R. Brooks 

Mr. Daniel L. Christen 

Mr. Aaron Hoffman 

Mr. Art D. Johnson 

Mr. Merton E. Knightly 

Mr. Cordell Loken 

Mr. Charles E. Roberts 

Mr. James D. Rosser 

Mr. David Scheevel 

Mr. John Solheim 

Class of 1965 



Mr. John F. Bradshaw 

Mr. David Comfort 

Mr. Carl C. Cyphers 

Mr. Henry C. Fogle 

Dr. Douglas I. Ford 

Mr. Wayne Hansen 

Mr. Douglas Hvistendahl 

Mr. William Hyslop 

Mrs. Joan Loken 

Mr. Walter J. Nekoroski Jr. 

Mr. David S. Rowe 

Mr. David R. Snow 

Mr. John Swizdaryk 

Class of 1966 

Total Gifts 

$1,062,145.30 


Anonymous 

Mr. David Brandt 

Mr. James H. Etem 

Mr. Paul L. Kelsey 

Ms. Kay Lightle 

Mr. Keith A. Martin 

Mrs. Sheila Martin 

Mr. L. V. McGuire 

Mr. Ronald G. Robinson 

Mr. Verlan Snodgrass 

Mr. Arthur Warren 

Mr. Ted Wessman 

Mr. Kent Wilson 

Class of 1967 



Mr. Felton R. Bollinger 

Mr. Tom E. Brink 

Mrs. Nancy Ciavarelli 

Mr. George E. Crone 

Mr. Jimmie H. Cross 

Mr. John R. Davis 

Mr. Dennis M. Eben 

Mr. Stephen G. Holm 

Mr. Warren J. Hudson 

Mr. Ronald Jantzen 

Ms. Lois E. Knouse 

Mrs. Miriam R. Lancaster 

Mr. Peter E. Lawson 

Dr. Robert R. Miller 

Mr. Pramod Ravade 

Mr. and Mrs. Jim Reid 

Mr. Ariel W. Rosentrater 

Rev. Thomas P. Shorb 

Mr. Ronald E. Wilburn 

Mr. Ray Wilsdorf 

Class of 1968 



Mr. Terry L. Anderson 

Mr. Harry G. Barrett 

Mr. Gary D. Foster 

Mr. Timothy Heemstra 

Mrs. Deborah Irving 

Mr. Richard J. Newell 

Mrs. Jan P. Scott 

Mr. Charles M. Snow 

Lt.Col. Rogers R. Walker 

Rev. Larry P. Weiss 

Class of 1969 



Mr. David A. Beckmann 

Mr. Paul H. Bennett 

Mr. Donald W. Biggs Jr. 

Mr. Stephen Burry 

Mr. Edward L. Claypool 

Mr. Theodore Dillard Jr. 

Mr. James E. Dingmon 

Mrs. Judith K. Dingmon 

Mr. Eugene T. Dorneman 

Mr. Robin E. Guyer 

Mr. Dale R. Hill 

Mr. Samuel Hollinger 

Mr. Kenneth A. Holloway Sr. 

Mr. Daniel S. Irving 

Rev. James J. Kibelbek 

Mr. Edwin Kissinger 

Mr. James League 

Mr. Loren D. Leman 

Mr. David K. Reinbold 

Mr. Dell R. Ridley 

Mr. David R. Riniker 

Mr. Thomas G. Schrag 

Mr. Stan M. Simmons 

Mr. Harold R. Tyler 

Mr. Robert W. Walker 

Mr. Dave P. Whitten 

Mr. William D. Wright 

Class of 1970 



Mr. Richard D. Baney 

Mr. David Bell 

Mr. Mark B. Gamble 

Dr. Orman W. Gwynn 

Mr. Gerald O. Hall 

Mrs. Edith E. Hoad 

Mr. Paul A. Larson 

Mr. Donald Moon 

Mr. Joe Nowiczewski 

Mr. Jack Saucerman 

Class of 1971 



Mr. Paul Abbott 

Mr. Thomas M. Ames 

Mr. William R. Anderson 

Mrs. Nanette Anderson 

Mr. Matthew D. Ciavarelli 

Mrs. Carolann M. Crawford 

Mr. Thomas Gillis 

Mr. Thomas D. Hartberg 

Mr. Paul A. Helgesen 

Mr. Robert E. Hopkins 

Mr. Michael L. Jackson 

Mr. Hillis O. Kauffman 

Mr. Donald Koch 

Mr. Daniel H. Larsen 

Mr. Caleb LeTourneau 

Mr. Duane L. Martinsen 

Mr. Randall W. Matthewson 

Mr. Timothy J. Morscheck 

Mrs. Edna Pearson 

Mrs. Elizabeth A. Pomeroy 

Mr. Timothy K. Rupp 

Mr. Phillip I. Temple 

Mrs. Joyce Temple 

Mr. John Tiemersma 

Mr. Lawrence Wendling 

Class of 1972 



Mr. R. W. Borthwick 

Mr. Eddie Chow 

Mr. Steven D. Kellogg 

Mr. Kenneth L. Moore 

Mrs. Cherry A. Moore 

Mr. Norman Moss 

Mr. Douglas R. Nordell 

Mr. Gary Palmer 

Mr. Wayne R. Salsman 

Mr. Donald L. Smith 

Mr. Arthur B. Waskey 

Mrs. Sandy Waskey 

Class of 1973 



Mrs. Leona Ayres 

Mr. Kenneth M. Bailey 

Mr. John Carlson 

Mr. Albert E. Curtis III 

Mr. Dan L. Davidson 

Mrs. Mary J. Davis 

Mr. John Hunker Jr. 

Mr. Ronald L. Kickert 

Mr. David G. Miller 

Mr. John E. Nikerle 

Mr. Dennis Pauls 

Mr. Kermit Seiler 

Mr. James V. Wittenberger 

Mr. Steven W. Yothers 

Mrs. Alice Yothers 

Class of 1974 



Mr. Lawrence B. Campbell 

Dr. Philip S. Clifford 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Davis 

Mr. Brad J. Dukek 

Mr. Herman Dumas 

Mr. Jerry W. Fritsch 

Mr. Roland Giddings 

Mr. David W. Goodell 

Mr. Paul F. Hager 

Mr. Kenneth W. Hall 

Mr. LeRoy D. Hammond 

Mr. Norman Hawes 

Mr. Donald L. Kreider 

Mr. Dale A. McCombs 

Mr. James R. Nolt Jr. 

Mr. Richard M. Ogren 

Mr. Michael B. Palm 

Mr. Jeffrey Rowland 

Mr. Knute Watne 

Mr. Paul Weston 

Mr. Keith D. Wyckoff 

Class of 1975 



Mr. Douglas Bondurant 

Mr. Philip A. Britton 

Mr. Kenneth W. Cowin 

Mr. Charles E. Davis Jr. 

Mrs. Sharon W. Delong 

Mr. James Dumas 

Mr. Darrel Eppler 

Mr. Kenneth D. Foreman 

Mrs. Freda Goerner 

Mr. James D. Holbrook 

Mr. Thomas J. Landon 

Mrs. Terri L. Landon 

Mr. Timothy C. Maggard 

Mr. Jack L. Niethamer 

Mr. Edward Rohrer 

Mr. Bradley L. Sink 

Mr. Gregory J. Smith 

Mr. Nathan Strong 

Mrs. June Weber 

Class of 1976 



Mrs. Lynn M. Campbell 

Mr. Kenneth P. Farrar 

Mrs. Sue Gebhardt 

Mr. Paul T. Graybill 

Mr. Timothy A. Grover 

Mrs. Loretta L. Hill 

Mr. Brent Hoff 

Mrs. Nancy Mendez 

Mrs. Virginia L. Olson 

Mrs. Ruth Pierce 

Mr. Arthur W. Salatin 

Mr. Jeff L. Shaver 

Mrs. Elsa L. Shaver 

Mr. Jay Shearer 

Mr. James M. Tolson 

Class of 1977 



Mr. Mark T. Ahlenius 

Mr. Jonathan Bromley 

Mr. Randall W. Brown 

Mr. Barry K. Brown 

Mr. Daniel Byker 

Mr. Robert D. Campbell 

Mr. William A. Grubb 

Mrs. Joy Hartman Jr. 

Mr. E. Bernie Hayes 

Mr. Keith W. Leonhardt 

Mr. Philip D. Olson 

Mr. Kenneth R. Petersen 

Mr. Michael A. Ringler 

Mrs. Joyce Roden 

Mr. David W. Safstrom 

Mr. Benjamin Schubert 

Mr. Peter M. Strubhar 

Mrs. Susan Strubhar 

Mr. David Wankmuller 

Mr. Merlin D. Weber 

Mr. George P. Zitzmann III 

Class of 1978 



Mr. Van A. Abel 

Mr. Jon W. Arrowsmith 

Mr. Bernard Banzhaf 

Mr. Bryan E. Benson 

Dr. Richard D. Campbell 

Mr. Michael L. Capp 

Mr. Jerry L. Cassel 

Mr. Steve Classen 

Mr. Paul A. Diffenderfer 

Mr. Melvin Flowers 

Mrs. Donna Forrest 

Mr. Daryl A. Hoffman 

Mr. Kevin D. Jackson 

Mr. Alan J. Koch 

Mr. Norman Kopesky II 

Mr. Arthur E. Kruppenbacher 

Dr. Duane K. Miller 

Mr. Jesse M. Newton 

Mr. Matt D. Poelman 

Mr. Steven H. Reas 

Mr. Sidney Roberts 

Mr. Nathanael Saint 

Mrs. Deborah Saint 

Mr. Andrew Seiler 

Mr. Brad Shaw 

Mr. David R. Strait 

Mrs. Vicki Strong 

Mr. Vern R. Swanson 

Mr. Dewayne Vogt 

Class of 1979 



Mr. Theodore T. Collins II 

Mr. Jose Cosa 

Mrs. Sheree Cosa 

Mr. Griffith J. Decker 

Rev. Daniel R. Duda 

Mr. William W. Ewin III 

Mr. Russ M. Frank 

Mrs. Catherine Frank 

Mr. Gregory J. Gebhardt 

Mr. Dan Gutwein 


Mr. Robert E. Harold 

Mr. Randy L. Hartman Jr. 

Mr. Allen R. Hartman Jr. 

Mrs. Lorna Helbing 

Mr. John D. Herrmann 

Ms. Anne M. Kaneshiro 

Mr. Vern Schmidt 

Mr. James E. Strickler 

Mr. Billy Sullenger 

Mr. Abimael Velazquez 

Mr. Bryan White 

Mrs. Denise E. White 

Mr. Charles E. Wisser 

Class of 1980 



Lt.Col. Carol B. Andrews 

Mrs. Ruth A. Arrowsmith 

Mr. Dan Boggs 

Mr. Raymond E. Farrar 

Mr. Joseph G. Forrest 

Mr. David M. Gegel 

Mr. John M. Johnston III 

Mr. Andy W. Lewis 

Mr. Paul S. Louden 

Mr. Carroll J. Manchester 

Mr. Robert B. McAfee 

Mr. Keith R. Moser 

Mr. William R. Patterson 

Mr. Victor M. Paul 

Mr. Kory O. Pehl 

Mr. Fred L. Ritchey Jr. 

Mrs. Deb L. Robey 

Mr. Lawrence L. Robinson 

Mr. Mark A. Shelly 

Mr. James J. Smith 

Mr. Stephen M. Thompson 

Mr. Bradley S. Vanasse 

Mrs. Lynn T. Vanasse 

Mr. James D. Wahlstrom 

Mr. Paul G. Wittenbach 

Class of 1981 



Mr. Donald L. Beiler 

Mr. Rick H. Bicknell 

Mr. Jeffrey A. Bowes 

Mr. Mark D. Clark 

Mr. Ronald A. Collins 

Mr. Ben P. Cowles 

Mr. Lynn D. Crouse 

Mrs. Cathy L. Gaetz 

Mr. Jeff Gaetz 

Mr. William L. Garfield Jr. 

Mr. Stephen E. Gooch 

Mr. Donald E. Greene 

Mr. Mark D. Hanna 

Mr. Jon E. Hansen 

Mr. Martin O. Hill 

Mr. Rick Jenkins 

Mr. David M. Jonathan 

Mr. John E. Kinard 

Mr. David J. Landon 

Mr. Daniel R. Liggett 

Mrs. Lauren Liggett 

Mr. Tim P. Munsterman 

Mr. Duane Olson Jr. 

Mr. Al Preston 

Mr. Daniel Pun Kay 

Mr. David L. Ramaly 

Mr. Ron G. Rand 

Mr. Douglas P. Redman 

Mr. Matthew H. Strong 

Mr. Jim E. Sutton III 

Mr. James G. Walker 

Mr. Edward Wolbert 

Class of 1982 



Mr. Thomas E. Anderson 

Mr. Damian G. Barrett 

Mr. Gareth W. Blackwell Jr. 

Mr. Walter Bowles Jr. 

Mr. Randall Brock 

Mr. Steve Bush 

Mr. Roger Davis 

Mrs. Brenda Diffenderfer 

Mr. John P. Eleutheriou 

Mr. Dean M. Frederick 

Mr. Gerald L. Gehman 

Mr. John M. Holmes 

Mr. Brent L. Johnson 

Mr. Mark Lehmann 

Mr. John A. Levander Jr. 

Mr. Phil V. Liddle 

Mr. Mark D. McDowell 

Mrs. Lydia R. Rountree 

Mr. Jay H. Slagle 

Mr. Gregg R. Sweeten 

Mr. Ted A. Timmons 

Mr. Keith F. Trosen 

Mr. James A. Walter 

Class of 1983 



Mr. Tim Bauder 

Dr. Tim Belcher 

Mr. Bruce Cole 

Mr. Darwin P. Kauffman 

Dr. Martin A. Koschnitzke 

Mr. Russ McClellan 

Mr. Stephen McDonald 

Mr. David O'Connor 

Mr. Paul S. Ruppert Sr. 

Mr. Robert R. Schuit 

Mr. Roger Sherman 

Mr. Trent L. Sommers 

Mr. Wayne Steege 

Mr. Rob C. Tomenendal 

Mrs. Nancy Walter 

Class of 1984 



Mr. Jeffrey D. Aiken 

Mrs. Deborah S. Aiken 

Mr. Andrew Bartel 

Mr. Donald B. Bell 

Mr. Barney Burks Jr. 

Mrs. Terry L. Cassis 

Miss Ruth Cocking 

Mr. Thomas E. Ehresman 

Mr. Walter E. Gartner 

Mr. Nathan Hewitt 

Mr. David A. Hoeks 

Mr. David E. Hoffman 

Dr. Don W. Korenczuk Ph.D. 

Mr. Philip P. Kuitems 

Mr. Daniel R. Near 

Mr. Charles Oliveto II 

Mr. Glenn Perez 

Mrs. Sylvia Ramaly 

Mr. John W. Ramsay 

Mr. Doug Roszhart 

Mrs. Carol Roszhart 

Mr. Robert G. Rountree 

Dr. Daniel M. Schmidt 

Mr. Donald F. Shellhart 

Mr. Randy Vroom 

Class of 1985 



Mr. James K. Abell 

Mr. Peter R. Austin 

Mr. Dale J. Burns 

Mr. Russell L. Davis 

Mrs. Rhonda L. Davis 

Mr. Steve Erickson 

Mrs. Mary Hoffman 

Mr. Steven Holm 

Mr. Steve Iffland 

Mr. Steven Linscheid 

Mr. Daniel M. McCabe 

Mr. Stephen D. Reason 

Mr. Kenneth A. Stone 

Mr. Dick Travis 

Mrs. Lori Travis 

Mr. Dean Waskowiak 

Mr. Victor R. Willis 

Class of 1986 



Anonymous 

Dr. Julia Binford 

Mr. Jim Brake 

Mr. David S. Busenitz 

Mrs. Gayle R. Busenitz 

Mr. David M. Campbell 

Mr. William Conforti Jr. 

Lt.Col. H. T. DeGroot 

Mr. Frank A. Dubisz 

Mr. David W. Elliott 

Mr. Bill R. Fosbenner 

Mr. Robert Fricke 

Mr. Kenneth Hanna 

Mr. David R. Johnson 

Mr. David P. Kimball 

Ms. Dawn Lockhart 

Mr. Stephen J. Marks 

Mr. Scott Mulligan 

Mr. Bill P. Panagotopulos 

Mr. David S. Prewitt 

Mrs. Annette M. Prewitt 

Mr. David E. Puttbach 

Mr. Troy Ritchie 

Mr. Timothy M. Schroeder 

Mrs. Lorraine Senseney 

Mr. Scott D. Stallard 

Mr. Eduardo Vaflor 

Mr. Edwin W. Walton 

Mr. Mark D. Whitten 

Mr. Neal Willford 

Class of 1987 



Mr. Paul D. Aubrey 

Mr. Matthew J. Baldwin 

Mr. Jeffrey J. Baumann 

Mrs. Kathryn A. Booth 

Mr. Carl E. Buczala 

Mr. Steve Class 

Mr. Randall W. Gabbert 

Mr. Bradley J. Johnson 

Mr. David Lednum 

Mrs. Marilie A. Marks 

Mrs. Roberta K. Nixon 

Mr. Gregory S. Pike 

Mr. Steve S. Reichenbach 

Mr. Todd L. Roebke 

Mr. Matthew J. Sample 

Mr. Ruben D. Watson 

Mr. William E. Worman Jr. 

Mr. Terry A. Zeitlow 

Mrs. Jill Zeitlow 

Class of 1988 



Mr. Michael Bulgrien 

Mr. Arthur O. Christensen Sr. 

Mrs. Tiffany DeGroot 

Mr. Doug L. Faull 

Mr. Gordon J. Johnson 

Mr. Douglas M. Koppe 

Mr. Philip J. McIntosh 

Mr. Dean B. Nixon 

Dr. Mark D. Roth M.D. 

Mr. Carl J. Schwartz Jr. 

Mrs. Lisa W. Skielnik 

Mr. Steven L. Weidner 

Class of 1989 



Mr. John V. Baker 

Mr. Kevin R. Berk 

Mrs. Melanie Bertsche 

Mr. Patrick A. Bertsche 

Mr. Steven J. Boggess 

Mr. Ronald R. Bouchard 

Mr. Mark Budai 

Mr. Andrew H. Curtis 

Mr. Jeffrey G. DeLong 

Mr. George E. Dunham 

Mr. Scott P. Edinger 

Mr. Timothy A. Graber 

Mr. Allan Griffin 

Mr. Arlin K. Hobbie 

Mr. Brian V. McIntyre 

Mr. Scott A. Patterson 

Mr. Vincent L. Pomeroy 

Mr. Douglas J. Roads 

Mr. Brian E. Steinbruegge 

Mr. Walter W. Waweru 

Mr. Anthony C. Wolfe 

Mr. Stanley E. Young 

Class of 1990 



Mrs. Jami L. Crider 

Mr. Kenneth W. Daniels Jr. 

Mr. Steven A. Dudden PE 

Mrs. Ginger A. Graber 

Mr. Robert A. Lorenz Jr. 

Dr. Michael Myers 

Mr. Gregory E. Scobee 

Mr. Rod K. Spade 

Class of 1991 



Mr. Doug W. Anderson 

Mrs. Starr M. Anderson 

Mr. Marlin R. Brubaker 

Mr. Frans A. Deblois 

Mr. Scott C. Gardiner 

Mr. Gary A. Hanson 

Mr. David V. Harvey III 

Mr. Joseph K. Henkel 

Mr. Daniel R. Landis 

Mr. James A. Mann Jr. 

Miss Allison Pletcher 

Mr. Christopher D. Pratt 

Mr. Norman C. Reese 

Mr. James P. Schmid 

Mr. Stanton D. Spaulding 

Mr. Darren L. Warkentin 

Mr. Joshua R. Williams 

Class of 1992 



Anonymous 

Mr. Harry G. Barrett Jr. 

Mr. Mark W. Barrett 

Mr. Adrian Bonilla 

Dr. Douglas F. Britton 

Mr. Bruce A. Chase 

Mr. Anton E. Coy Jr. 

Mr. Mark H. Devos 

Mr. Richard V. Hall Jr. 

Mr. Daniel J. Harding 

Mrs. Kathryn A. Hirsch 

Mr. Craig G. Hummel 

Mr. Dean Q. Lewis 

Mrs. Dawn A. Lilley 

Mrs. Lori A. Mowen 

Mr. Shane H. Patterson 

Mr. Nathan A. Roden 

Mrs. Angela Williams 

Mr. Scott Winne 

Ms. Virginia A. Wyatt 

Mr. Roy S. Zeitlow 

Class of 1993 



Mrs. Laurie Barrett 

Mr. Kenneth C. Bell 

Mr. Christopher D. Bena 

Mr. James E. Beylotte 

Mr. Titus Crabb 

Mr. Timothy M. Epp 

Ms. Karen K. Gassett 

Mr. Jonathon N. Hirsch 

Mr. Jason D. Holland 

Mr. Daniel P. Johnson 

Mr. Thomas L. Kimbrough 

Mr. Jeffrey I. Linstra 

Ms. Lisa W. Mayfield 

The Hon. Robert N. McFarland 

Dr. Ann M. Olson 

Mr. Jeffrey R. Piepmeier 

Dr. Jenelle L. Piepmeier 

Mrs. Peggy A. Snyder 

Mr. Jason C. Stell 

Mr. Philip M. Winters 

Mr. William Wolcken 

Mr. Michael E. Young 

Class of 1994 



Mr. Abelardo A. Alaniz 

Mrs. Jennifer Bartram 

Mr. Leonard V. Bates 

Mrs. Marion Benson 

Mrs. Tiffany N. Beylotte 

Mrs. Jessica L. Bowers 

Mr. Brian K. DeKruyff 

Mr. Joseph P. Gagliano 

Mr. Paul S. Grenon 

Mr. John P. Gutierrez 

Mrs. Denise M. Main 

Mr. David M. Mills 

Mr. Ronald S. Revell 

Mr. Slade R. Rinehart 

Mrs. Beth A. Ruwe 

Mr. Brian D. Smoker 

Mrs. Renee Smoker 

Mr. Stephen D. VanNattan 

Mrs. Janine M. Weber 

Class of 1995 



Mrs. Lynda Alder 

Mr. Brian S. Bowers 

Mr. Matthew Heironimus 

Mrs. Sharmen Kimbrough 

Mr. Glen Kotapish 

Mr. Chris J. Oliver 

Mr. Wayne F. Peterein Jr. 

Mr. Gary M. Potts 

Mr. Matthew N. Ruwe 

Mr. David J. Tesser 

Mr. Ronald J. Wind 

Mr. Robert Winsor 

Mr. Nathan J. Woskie 


Class of 1996 



Anonymous 

Mr. Tony D. Benningfield 

Mr. Jason E. Borsheim 

Mr. Jonathan D. Caruvana 

Mrs. Sylvia J. Caruvana 

Mr. Stephen M. Chandler 

Mr. Brian Decker 

Mrs. Lisa L. A. Decker 

Ms. Vera R. Ford 

Mr. Terry L. Gunn 

Mr. David Hamblin 

Mr. Aaron L. Knaub 

Mr. Rob F. Lund 

Mr. Gabriel C. Morrow 

Mr. Cary S. Olson 

Mrs. Shelley A. Olson 

Mr. Ricky A. Price 

Mr. Jonathan H. Weimer 

Class of 1997 



Anonymous 

Mr. Chung H. Baik 

Mrs. Julie K. Boss 

Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Breaux 

Mr. Timothy A. Crouthamel 

Mr. Dan M. Davisson 

Mr. Michael W. Hoye 

Mr. Paul W. Johnson 

Mr. Barry T. Knighton 

Mrs. Sarah M. Kranz 

Mrs. Marta Martin 

Mr. Douglas B. McMahon 

Ms. Sarah E. Morale 

Mrs. Jennifer E. Nelson 

Mr. David L. Nelson 

Mr. Steve I. Ortiz 

Mr. Charles R. Randall 

Mrs. Laura A. Spivey 

Mr. Matthew J. Tayloe 

Mr. Jeff L. Thielman 

Mr. Owen J. Watkins 

Class of 1998 



Mr. Paul J. Alexander 

Mr. Jason P. Boss 

Mr. John D. Eiford 

Mr. Bryan D. Fiscus 

Mr. Karl W. Gross 

Mrs. Rebecca J. Hill 

Mr. Andrew P. Kalitka 

Mr. Aaron S. Lorson 

Mrs. Angela F. Morrow 

Dr. Seth J. Norton 

Mr. Chris M. O'Meara 

Mrs. Nicole E. O'Meara 

Mr. Craig A. Portz 

Ms. Deborah G. Rand 

Mr. Ronald S. Sanda 

Mr. Kenneth J. Sayler 

Mrs. Melissa A. Smith 

Ms. Stella E. Stewart 

Mr. Matthew W. Sweet 

Mrs. Misty M. Tayloe 

Mr. Jason Tinsley 

Mr. Jonathan L. Walton 

Mr. Daniel V. Wilkin 

Class of 1999 



Anonymous 

Mrs. Dianne H. Benton 

Mrs. Kelli Billingsley-Metzenthin 

Mr. Gordon J. Bullivant 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Cason 

Ms. Georgia K. Emry 

Mr. Christopher W. Fontaine 

Mrs. Heather R. Little 

Mrs. George Meza 

Mr. Benjamin P. Monroe 

Mr. Matthew J. Nelson 

Dr. Nathan E. Nissley 

Mrs. Aradhana R. Nissley 

Mrs. Shiloh R. Norton 

Mr. Ted R. Siegel 

Mrs. Jeanette M. Sweet 

Mrs. Kathryn R. Symank 

Mrs. Allison M. Tuinstra 

Mr. Michael P. Tuinstra 

Class of 2000 



Mrs. Brianna E. Abraham 

Mr. Ben J. Dieter 

Mr. Daniel T. Harrison 

Ms. Patricia E. Henry 

Mr. Paul B. Hvass 

Mr. Tommy J. LaNasa 

Mr. Imie Mark III 

Mr. Timothy H. Medin 

Mr. Orin R. Owen 

Mr. J. R. Robertson Jr. 

Mr. Daniel R. Smith 

Class of 2001 



Mr. Mohit R. Abraham 

Mr. Michael E. Askew 

Mr. Garrett J. Atkins 

Mr. Phillip C. Briggs Jr. 

Mr. Douglas N. Croffitt 

Mr. Nathan J. Geib 

Mrs. Bertha L. Goode 

Mrs. Barbara D. Lau 

Mr. Jeffrey A. Little 

Ms. Teri L. Lopez 

Dr. Matthew K. Olson 

Mr. Andrew L. Olson 

Mrs. Gail Ritchey 

Mr. Daniel P. Ryan 

Mr. Kelvin L. Solco 

Ms. Meredith N. Todd 

Class of 2002 



Mr. Vernon M. David 

Mr. Nicholas J. Hayden 

Mr. Randall S. Knutson 

Mrs. Lori A. Low 

Mr. Randall D. Loyd 

Mr. Kenneth W. Martens 

Ms. Diana G. Martin 

Mrs. Katrina M. Olson 

Mr. David Parker 

Lt. Aaron Pickett 

Mrs. Bettina M. Pickett 

Mr. Jonathan W. Preu 

Dr. Natacha Qureshi 

Mr. Shane P. Qureshi 

Mrs. Martha M. Steed 

Mr. Philip L. Steers IV 

Class of 2003 



Mr. Stephen D. Casey 

Mr. William T. Chick 

Mr. Timothy P. Clark 

Mrs. Deborah K. Douthit 

Mr. Mark L. Espeland 

Mrs. Emily A. Hannah 

Mr. Brian D. Hannah 

Mrs. Bethany Hara 

Mr. Shawn P. Hara 

Mr. Peter H. Hoewisch 

Mr. Andrew R. Steiger 

Mr. Shane M. Warner 

Mr. Anthony D. Zappasodi 

Class of 2004 



Anonymous 

Mrs. Mandy K. Asp 

Mr. Aaron Bliss 

Mr. Gary A. Day 

Mrs. Mary Hughey 

Ms. Michelle L. Jackson 

Mrs. Laura J. Laster 

Mr. Jesse T. Laster 

Ms. Tammy M. Mitchell 

Mr. Dezi J. Rios 

Mr. David C. Runyon 

Mr. Ken M. Stidham 

Mr. Joshua M. Suarez 

Mrs. Janita D. Thornal 

Mr. Raul E. Valdes 

Mrs. Jessica N. Warner 

Class of 2005 



Mrs. and Mr. Alyssa J. Anderson 

Mr. Jeremy J. Anderson 

Anonymous 

Mr. Stuart D. Asp 

William D. Barry 

Mr. Geary Benge 

Mrs. Lauren R. Bliss 

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew H. Cadman 

Ms. Brenda A. Day 

Mrs. Heidi A. Durant 

Ms. Sarah A. Hess 

Ms. Shelia K. Jennings 

Mr. Eliot F. Landrum 

Mr. Daniel N. Leatherwood 

Mr. Caleb T. Roepke 

Miss Anna K. Ross 

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan M. Tack 

Mr. James R. Townsend 

Mr. Terrance A. Turner 

Mr. Charles Wesley 

Mr. Demetri M. White 

Mr. Winslow E. Whitten Jr. 

Mrs. Katie M. Zappasodi 

Class of 2006 



Mr. Ronald A. Campbell 

Ms. Linda F. Carper 

Ms. Amy E. Davis 

Ms. Barbara J. Dixon 

Mr. Matthew P. Edmunds 

Mr. Derek A. Fitchett 

Mrs. Courtney D. Gill 

Mr. Jacob L. Gregg 

Mr. Wayne R. Hamilton 

Mr. Michael W. Kindel 

Mr. Jacob A. Kobliska 

Ms. Wanda J. Kuykendall 

Dr. Charles D. Moorehead 

Mr. William C. Owens 

Mrs. Kristin M. Roepke 

Mr. Stephen W. Simpson 

Mr. Eugene Sung 

Mrs. Pauline R. Sung 

Mr. Robert J. Surprenant 

Mrs. Catherine V. White 

Mr. Douglas L. White 

Class of 2007 



Mr. and Mrs. Nathan A. Didlake 

Mrs. Rachel A. Gaines 

Mrs. Catherine Hart Green 

Mr. Tim D. Markley II 

Ms. Nashunda Y. Mitchell 

Mr. John M. Morrison 

Ms. Elizabeth R. Moss 

Mrs. Roberta G. Moss 

Mrs. Tamera L. Phallan 

Mrs. Nola K. Plumb 

Mr. Steve Rash 

Mr. Jonathan L. Ridenour 

Mrs. Whitney A. Schubarth 

Mr. Steven A. Shogren 

Mrs. Janna C. Suarez 

Mr. Jason K. Trosen 

Mr. Charles R. Trowbridge 

Class of 2008 



Mrs. Jordan E. Baumer 

Mr. Richard E. Baumer 

Mr. Danny Bradley 

Mrs. Lauren L. Bradley 

Jerica L. Cadman 

Christopher R. Cook 

Mr. Thomas G. Cooper 

Mr. Michael R. DeGroat 

Mr. Joshua S. Eicholtz 

Mrs. Katie B. Eicholtz 

Mr. Michael J. Gaines Jr. 

Mrs. Catherine M. Gibson 

Mr. Joshua C. Hasty 

Mrs. Terese M. Hasty 

Mrs. Lana E. Jordan 

Mrs. Laura A. Leahy 

Ms. Courtney M. Lemmond 

Mrs. Stacie K. Otto 

Mr. James R. Saunders 

Mr. Ruedi T. Schubarth 

Annetta M. Scott 

Mrs. JoAnna E. Stewart 

Class of 2009 



Mr. and Mrs. Jason D. Albright 

Mrs. Elsa Bailey 

Mrs. Kris Elmore 

Mr. Scott F. Fossey 

Mrs. Jenny K. Foster 

Richard F. Godley 

Mr. Harold S. Graham 

Mr. Steven C. Hadfiel 

Major CaSaundra M. Harris 

Mr. Joshua L. Trempert 

Mrs. Mary Beth Trogdon 

Ms. Nancy L. Westbrook 

Class of 2010 



Ms. Megan C. Baldwin 

LaShunda T. Bible 

Mr. Justin B. Bowen 

Kelly Brighi 

Mr. John L. Cardenas 

Mr. Otis J. Chandler 

Carter C. Collum 

Mrs. Mindy R. Crawford 

Mr. Daniel A. Ferguson 

Kaylee L. Godley 

Mrs. Christine E. Hadfield 

Patricia Huizar 

Mrs. Linda K. Johnson 

George L. Jones 

Monica J. Klaus 

Mr. Carlton W. Mitchell 

Caleb G. Obholz 

Daniel L. Patches 

Derek R. Phillips 

Mrs. Janet Ragland 

Natalie Rogers 

Charles E. Roquemore 

Sara J. Shogren 

Mr. Bob L. Ssekyanzi 

Mr. Daniel J. Towner 

Melissa D. Trost 

Ms. Rebekah A. Valencia 

Daphine D. Watley 

Class of 2011 



Anonymous 

Bettie Berard 

Mrs. Melissa Bleckley 

Angele R. Blick 

Mr. Kevin R. Boatman 

Sarah A. Brooks 

Stephen M. Campbell 

Tyrus R. Cobb III 

Ulrich E. De La Fuente 

Travis D. Eliason 

Ms. Virginia A. Fabbro 

Mitchell C. Fairchild 

Trista E. Fongemie 

Cynthia M. Garlinger 

Jered P. Gebel 

Stephen B. Griffith 

Mr. Matthew P. Gustafson 

Angela Hapka 

Jonathan J. Harris 

Steven J. Hederstedt 

Sylvia B. Jimerson 

Shane M. Johnson 

Jodie L. Kalas 

Mrs. Latraya S. Lane 

Mr. Nathan T. McGarvey 

Eric C. McLaughlin 

Hope D. Means 

Aaron L. Midcap 

Kenneth D. Misiak 

Venessia B. Rieper 

Benjamin J. Schultz 

Mr. Patrick L. Stewart Sr. 

Michael P. Walhof 

Mr. Tyler A. Whitney 

Brittney R. Wiley 

Mr. Nolan J. Willis 

Mrs. Erin M. Wilson 

Mrs. Grace L. Worcester 

Carla R. Yaw 

Class of 2012 



Evan W. Basnaw 

Barnabas G. Bridgman 

Stacie L. Francis 

Heather L. Gavin 

Jeffrey L. Nickles 

Lorrin E. Quinn 

Adam J. Sarhage 

Matthew S. Uncapher 

Joseph D. Wallace 


Introducing the 1946 Society — The New 

LeTourneau University Annual Fund 

When Evelyn and R.G. “Mom and Pop” LeTourneau 

founded LeTourneau Technical Institute in 1946, Harry 

Truman was president, gasoline was $0.15 a gallon and the 

radio was playing music by Frank Sinatra, the Ink Spots, 

Bing Crosby, Duke Ellington, Perry Como and the Andrews 

Sisters. The all-male technical school was dedicated to 

combining academics with a spiritual emphasis. 

Much has changed since 1946. In 1961, the school went 

co-ed as LeTourneau College, expanding in 1989 into what 

we know today as LeTourneau University. But one thing 

hasn't changed over the past 66 years. LETU is still fully 

committed to fusing academic and spiritual life — and to 

producing the brightest and best graduates who ingeniously 

impact the world as Christ-like professionals. 

To honor this commitment and the historic year of our 

founding, the 1946 Society (formerly the LETU Annual 

Fund) carries on the legacy of Mom & Pop LeTourneau by 

providing much-needed scholarships, fulfilling program 

and research needs, and enhancing educational opportunities 

for LeTourneau University students. 

Whether you’re an alumnus, parent or friend of the 

university, you can help support this legacy and make a 

difference in the lives of our students by joining the 1946 

Society as a pioneer member — for just $19.46 per month. 

As a pioneer, you will join in Mom & Pop’s vision for the 

future, pledging $19.46 per month for 10 years. Donations 

to The 1946 Society are unrestricted gifts that are vital to 

LeTourneau University, providing the flexibility to identify 

and address strategic priorities and emerging opportunities 

that otherwise would go unfunded. 

Join the 1946 Society now, as a pioneer member, forging 

the path for generations to come. A time capsule will be 

buried at the 2014 dedication of the Sidney and Anna Lee 

Allen Family Student Center, including memory cards from 

all 1946 Society pioneer members. This capsule will be 

opened in conjunction with the university's 75th anniversary 

celebration in 2021, where we'll honor your contribution 

to the LeTourneau legacy. 

To honor 1946 and contribute to the lasting vision of Mom 

& Pop LeTourneau, visit www.letu.edu/give. Learn more 

at www.letu.edu/1946, or like us on Facebook, at 

www.facebook.com/The1946Society. 


classnotes 

MEMORIALS 

Sammy Glaze (’53 IS) 

died April 14, 2010, in 

Longview, Texas. He 

graduated as “First Honor 

Student” from LeTourneau 

Technical Institute and 

spent his entire professional 

career working for the LeTourneau 

Plant. He is survived by his wife, Opal, of 

58 years, three grown children, several 

grandchildren and great-grandchildren. 

David Neweceral (’54 ME) died Sept. 9, 

2010, of cancer. He resided in Coronado, 

Calif. 

Eugene A. Rundquist (’54 IS) died Dec. 

1, 2011, in Acworth, Ga. His daughter 

Pamela said that Eugene had a very 

special place in his heart for LeTourneau. 

He was one of the original college students 

who went to Peru with 

R.G. to build houses 

and churches. He 

is survived by three 

grown daughters; five 

grandchildren and two 

great-grandchildren. 

Robert Hoffer (’55 PT) 

died May 21 in Retsil, 

Wash., at the age of 90. 

He is survived by his wife 

of 66 years, Irene, and 

two grown children. 

Paul W. Coupland (’55 ME) of Folsom, 

Calif., died Aug. 2, 2011, and is survived 

by his wife of 54 years, Marge. He only attended 

LETU for one year but said it was 

a time of learning lifetime values. 

William “Bill” J. Stewart (‘55 LI) died on 

May 19, 2011, in Fort Atkinson, Wis. He is 

survived by his wife of 58 years, Martha, 

four children, nine grandchildren and 

seven great-grandchildren. 

James “Jim” Dingmon (’69 ME) of 

Nederland, Texas, died on May 11. He 

is survived by his wife of 43 years, Judy, 

three grown daughters and their husbands 

and one grandson. 

Daniel Minor (’71 ATBS) 

died unexpectedly in a motorcycle 

accident on Aug. 

25 in Ovilla, Texas. He is 

survived by his wife, Pam, 

of 40 years, his parents, 

siblings and grandchildren. 

Wayne Donnelly (’72 IE) 

died June 13, 2011, in 

DeKalb, Ill. He is survived 

by his wife, Cynthia (to 

whom he was married 

for 55 years) five grown 

children, 19 grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. 

Michael L. Capp (’78 

ENGR) died on Sept 6 

after losing his battle with 

cancer. He is survived 

by his wife, Jerrie, who 

resides in Bristol, Wis. 

Dale Robinson (’80-’83) 

died Oct. 27 in Longview, 

Texas. He is survived 

by his wife, Ronda, 

daughter Shea, son Ty, 

his parents and numerous 

aunts, uncles and 

cousins. 

Susan (Iverson) O’Neill 

(’79 RE) died Jan. 9 

in Apex, N.C. She is 

survived by her husband, 

Robert (’80 WT), and 

three grown children. 

Scott N. Bowen (’82 MT) died on Feb. 

8 at the age of 51. He is survived by his 

wife, Melody, of Claremore, Okla., and 

his three grown children and many family 

members. 

Laurence Cappella (’82 EE) died April 1 

in Renton, Wash. He is survived by four 

sons and his wife, Debra, who said he 

loved to serve people. He was with Boeing 

for 25 years, had a love for AWANA 

programs and the community pumpkin 

patch in their town. He inspired the lives 

he touched with his full, godly life. 

Kurt McCoy (‘82 IM) 

died April 23 at Houston 

Hospice, in Houston. He 

is survived by his wife, 

Rhonda, four grown children, 

his father and many other relatives. 

Eugenio Bultedaob (’89 MT) died on 

Apr. 2, 2011, in Sequim, Wash., of liver 

cancer. He is survived by his wife, Jane, 

two grown children, seven siblings and 

a large extended family in Palau and 

around the world. 

Virginia Satterlee (’93 BBM) died on 

May 24, 2011, in Arlington, Texas. She 

is survived by her husband Warren, two 

siblings, a daughter and son-in-law, and 

three grandchildren. 

Rena LaRue Gant (’94 

ACCT) of Birmingham, 

Ala., died Dec. 25, 2011. 

She is survived by her husband, 

Tom; son David and 

other family members. 

Elizabeth “Ebby” 

Childress ('05 BBA) 

died Aug. 6 in Longview, 

Texas, after her battle 

with cancer. She is survived 

by her son, Wade, 

his wife Carley, her mother, siblings and 

many nieces and nephews. 

Kyle Atchison (’08 AFPP) died Oct. 24 

in Everett, Wash. He is survived by his 

wife, Lisa (Jones) Atchison (’05 ASDT). 

Michael “Lee” Barnett (’08 BBA) of 

Tyler, Texas, died on April 2, in a chain 

reaction car accident. He is survived 

by his wife, Laurie, his parents and five 

siblings. 

The loss of a loved one, friend or colleague 

often inspires us to ensure that 


their memory lives on. Many people find 

that supporting LETU is an ideal way to 

honor someone who has passed away. 

Gifts made “in memoriam” offer lasting 

honor to a loved one while providing 

family and friends with the satisfaction of 

knowing they have helped others. If you 

would like to give a memoriam to LETU, 

please call 1-800-259-5388 or donate 

online at www.letu/give. The family will 

be notified of your generosity when a 

memoriam is made. 

BIRTHS 

Ruth (Hartshorn) Anderson 

(’78 DT) welcomes 

her first grandchild, William 

Kenneth, born on Oct. 

25, 2011, in Alaska to son 

Edwin and his wife, Megan. 

Dan Hoobyar 

(’80 EE) is praising 

the Lord for 

the arrival of his 

grandson, Benaiah 

James, born Sept. 21, 2011, to son, 

David, and his wife, Kathleen, in Calif. 

Paul J. Wilson (’91 ATBS, BUBS) and 

wife, Andrea, announce the birth of their 

daughter, Phoebe Joy, 

born on Nov. 3, 2011, in 

LaPlata, Md. They are 

currently serving with New 

Tribes Mission in Papua, 

New Guinea. 

Justin Baba (’94 

ATFL) and wife, 

Carmen, announce 

the birth of Matteus 

Panya, on May 30. 

He was 5 lbs, 6 oz and 18 inches long, 

and joins his brother Jonathan at their 

home in Knoxville, Tenn. 

Wayne Cummings (‘95 

ATFL) and wife, Veronica, 

welcomed their daughter 

Amelia Michelle on Oct. 18, 

2011, in Shelbyville, Ky. 

Jonathan Gardner (’96 CST) and wife, 

Rachel, announce the Sept. 2011 arrival 

of their son Eric. He is welcomed by five 

siblings in their home in Carrolton, Texas. 

Jonathan is a software engineer for AMR 

American Airlines contract Tigua Tech in 

Fort Worth, Texas. 

Laurie (Salo) Spivey (ME 

’97) and her husband, Jason, 

announce the arrival 

of Lucy Claire on May 18. 

Lucy was welcomed home 

by her siblings Wyatt, 

Lydia and Lily. 

Marta Martin (’97 

HIPL) and husband, 

Matt, would like to 

announce the Oct. 5 

birth of 6 lb., 15.5 oz. 

Maria Luisa. She is 

welcomed home by 

her sister Morgan. 

Joel “Neb” Rurak (’00 ETAT) and wife, 

Allison, announce the birth of their first 

child, William Daniel. 

He was born in South 

Hamilton, Mass., on 

Feb. 9, and weighed 7 

lbs, 2 oz. 

Shawn Hara (’03 

BUBS) and wife, 

Bethany (‘03 

BYBA), announce 

the arrival of their 

daughter Madelyn Paige. She was born 

on Nov. 11, 2011, in Longview, Texas. 

She weighed 6 lbs, 2 oz. 

sister, Anna. 

Adam Hunter (’04 ME) 

and wife, Betsy (’04 

BME), welcome home 

daughter, Sadie Grace. 

She was born on Nov. 11, 

2011, in Park Ridge, Ill. 

Matt Bulpitt (’03 EE) and 

Jennifer (Drouin) Bulpitt 

(’04 BUBS) welcomed 

their son, Andrew Murray, 

on Jan. 13 in Waldorf, 

Md. He is joining his big 

Damon Stokes 

(’07 EE) and wife, 

Erin, announce 

the birth of Clara 

Ruth, born on 

Feb. 12 in Keizer, Ore. She weighed 7 

lbs, 9 oz and was 21 inches long. 

Michael Skeen (’08 MK) and wife, Katie 

(Reed) Skeen (’10 BI), announce the 

birth of their daughter, Abigail Grace, born 

on March 22. She weighed 7 lbs, 4 oz, 

and they live in Longview, Texas. 

Joshua Stewardson 

(’08 CSBC) and Kendall 

(Smith) Stewardson 

(’08 BYBS) 

of DesMoines, Iowa, 

received national attention when their 

son Asher was born on Jan. 26, weighing 

in at 13 lbs, 12 oz. His brother Judah 

welcomed him home. 

Peter Greenwald (’10 AFFS) and his 

wife, Ashley, are celebrating the birth of 

their son, Cade Bennett Greenwald, who 

was born on Jan. 26, 2011, Longview, 

Texas. 

WEDDINGS 

Charmyn Tumey (’11 MBA) 

would like to announce 

the birth of daughter, Eliza 

Brielle, born Aug. 3, 2011 in 

Longview, Texas. 

Chelle (Wilkins) Swanson-Wilson 

(‘95) and Paul Wilson were married Oct. 

29, 2011, and are living in Olathe, Kan. 

Chelle is a professional artist/designer, 

and she and her husband own Repurposed 

Design Company. 

Nathaniel Horton (’08 MJE) married Lt. 

Kristen L. Wallis June 16, and they reside 

in Fairborn, Ohio. Nathaniel graduated 

in Dec. 2011 with his M.S. in Materials 

Engineering, Metals and Ceramics, from 

Clemson University. 

Scott Storey (’08 ASFL) and wife, 

Jessica, were married on Jan. 21. They 

currently reside in Longview, Texas. Scott 

works for Express Jet Airlines as a first 

officer. 

Allison Garrard (’09 ISE1) and Travis 

Thompson were married on March 16. 

They and their daughter, Hannah Faith, 

reside in Saltillo, Texas. 


classnotes 

Richard Godley (’09 EE) and Kaylee 

Sumrall (’10 BYBS) were married June 

27, 2010, and reside in McKinney, Texas. 

Joshua Harper (’10 

EE) and wife, Emily, 

were married May 

2011, and reside in 

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 

where Joshua works 

for Rockwell Collins. 

Elijah Lofgren (’10 

CSE) and Megan 

married March 

24. They reside in 

Ludlow, Ky., where 

Elijah is working for 

TiER1 Performance 

Solutions. 

Jennifer Marsh (’11 BBA) was recently 

married to Charles Dimsdale. The couple 

resides in North Richland Hills, Texas, 

where Jennifer is an accountant with 

United Parcel Service. 

Class Notes 

60s 

Andrew Toth (’68 ME/AE) wanted to 

add acknowledgement to the Spring 

2011 NOW magazine “The Women of 

LeTourneau” by mentioning the Student 

Wives Club. This club supported their 

husbands, the campus and student life 

in general. It also provided fellowship for 

wives (and husbands) that might have 

isolated themselves from student life. 

The Toths are retired after 40 years of 

missionary service and reside in New 

Braunfels, Texas. They have a grandson 

who is currently attending LeTourneau. 

70s 

Howard Spencer (‘72 IE) is now the 

safety consultant for Conner Strong & 

Buckelew J.A. Montgomery. He and his 

wife, Barbara, reside in Marlton, N.J. 

Ron Yaddaw (’72 MT/ATBS) and wife, 

Lucille, are now retired from Wycliffe, 

Orlando, Fla., as of Oct. 1, 2011, after 

38 years of ministry. They will start their 

retirement by traveling around the country 

to say thank you to their ministry partners. 

David Abuhl (’73 ATBS) 

has recently retired and 

he and his wife, Priscilla, 

now live in Price, Utah. 

Terry Michmerhuizen 

(’75 MT/ATBS) has recently taken the 

position of assistant professor in the 

College of Aviation at Western Michigan 

University. He and his wife, Nelva, now 

reside in Gobles, Mich. 

Tim Kinney (’78 MT) recently moved 

to Las Vegas, where he is the owner/sr. 

project manager of West Wing Consulting. 

Theodore “Ted” Collins (’79 ATBS) 

retired from GE in March 2011, after 24 

years, and formed his own company, 

Collins CFM Consulting Services LLC, 

in Fairfield, Ohio. Ted also received his 

Master in Education from Mt. Vernon 

Nazarene University in 2006. 

Bruce 

Shauger 

(’79 ET/ 

ATBS) 

wanted to 

share a 

picture of his family with their son who 

graduated from Marine Boot Camp in 

Oct. 2011. Bruce and his family reside in 

Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

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Russell Callison 

(’80 BUBS/ATBS) 

shared a picture 

of his son, Chase, 

and grandson, 

Beckham Cade. 

Russ has recently moved to Kimberling 

City, Mo. 

Kevin Walters (’81 WT) and wife, 

Coleen, have recently resigned from 

Wycliffe Bible Translators’ on-the-field 

partner, SIL, and are now working with 

Serving In Mission (SIM) in Nigeria. They 

are also first-time grandparents to Titus 

John, born Sept. 28, 2011. 

James Berge (’85 WE) 

has written and published 

a book called Prayer, 

Quantum Physics, 

and Hotel Mattresses: 

Dissolving the Barrier 

Between Seen and Unseen. Jim lives in 

Shreveport, La., with his wife, Kayla, and 

two children. 

R. Douglass Kollmar 

(’86 MT) is now an 

engineering technician in 

RETTEW’S civil/municipal 

division in the firm’s 

Lancaster, Pa., office. 

He and his wife, Gail, currently reside in 

Spring Grove, Pa. 

Steve Biggs (’87 ET) and wife, Sylvia 

(Wallis) Biggs (’79 MABS), have recently 

moved to Claremore, Okla., where Steve 

has taken a job with Baker Hughes International 

as a motor engineer. 

Mike Bunn (’88 ATBS) and Jodi (Collingridge) 

Bunn (’91 ASAT, BSEng) are 

now on loan to the training department of 

JAARS in Waxhaw, N.C., after 17 years 

of service with YWAM’s flight operation in 

the Amazon region of Brazil. Mike serves 

in Aviation Training, while Jodi helps staff 

the Intercultural Communications Course 

(ICC). 

Blaine (’89 MT) McCauley was reassigned 

to the Western Algeria Sahara 

Desert with Conoco Phillips about two 


years ago. Wife, Sharyl (Wambauch) 

(’89 BYBS), has left her QA manager 

position with University of New Mexico 

to shuttle their two boys, Jacob (15) and 

Jarod (12), to swimming relays, where 

she also volunteers/officiates swim team 

events. They currently reside in Montgomery, 

Texas. 

Cheri Hudspith (’89 ACCT) was hired as 

the director of Leadership Development 

at the Evangelical Center for Spiritual 

Wisdom. More information can be found 

at www.ecswisdom.org. Cheri is married 

to David Hudspith (’93 CSMA). 

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Andrew Simpson (’91 AMT) and wife, 

Dawn, have recently moved to Norristown, 

Pa., where Andrew is a paramedic 

for Global Systems Medics. 

Stanton Spalding (’91 ATBS) recently 

took a job with Interstates Construction 

Services, Inc., in Sioux Center, Iowa, as 

their electrical purchasing leader. 

Steve Straw (’93 ATBS/BI) and wife, 

Alace, continue to serve as missionaries 

with Air Calvary in Gabon, Africa. Their 

children, Joe, Megan and Sam, attend 

Rain Forest Int’l School, just two hours 

away by 

plane (15 

hours by 

car). 

Darrell Sekin (’95 BBM) was elected 

president of the National Customs 

Brokers and Forwarders Association of 

America in April. He is currently president 

and CEO of DJS International Services 

Inc., an international freight forwarding 

and customs brokerage firm in Colleyville, 

Texas. 

Becky Renfro-Borbollo (’96 BBM) was 

recently inducted into the Dallas Chapter 

of Les Dames d’Escoffier, an international 

philanthropic society of professional 

women leaders in the fields of food, fine 

beverage and hospitality. 

Gabriel Morrow (’96 ATFL) and Angela 

(Franzen) Morrow (’98 BYBS) have 

moved to Wis. for Gabriel to begin his 

MDiv at Nashotah House Theological 

Seminary. 

Jonatas Berberian (’97 ETAT) is now 

in Goiania-Go, Brazil, serving as the 

technical director for Gulf Coast Avionics 

Brazil. He and his wife, Danielle, have 

two children, Alex (7) and Laura (4). He 

says thanks to LETU for opening all the 

doors to get him where he is today. 

Michael Campbell (’98 BSBM) has obtained 

a teaching certificate and is now a 

teacher and football coach with the Lone 

Oak School District. He also works with 

troubled and special needs youth, teaching 

primarily business classes to junior 

high and high school students. 

Charlie Couch (’98 MBA) completed 

a PhD in Education, specializing in 

Leadership for Higher Education. He and 

his wife, Lori, and four children reside in 

Windsor, Colo. 

Vance Dunahoe 

(’99 BUBS) has 

been with Farm 

Bureau Insurance 

for three years in 

Henderson, Texas. 

Vance and wife, Stephanie, celebrated their 

son Caleb’s second birthday on Feb. 5. 

Nathan Rylander (’99 MT) was promoted 

to major in the U.S. Marine Corps 

Reserves on Sept. 22 in El Paso, Texas. 

Nathan is also a broker with Transwestern, 

and he and his wife, Michele, reside 

in Plano, Texas. 

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Luis Zelaya (’00 ATFL) is First Officer 

on the Embraer 145 at American Eagle 

Airlines in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. He 

really enjoys working with the alumni 

there and said he will soon be receiving 

an upgrade. 

Eric Orosco (’01 

BBA) was recently 

promoted to general 

manager of Devcon Security’s Fort Worth 

branch. 

Robert Watson (’01 ME) recently entered 

the Biggest Energy Saver contest and 

was the grand prize winner for the patent 

pending Smart Meter 500 powered by 

Benchmarx. Robert and two others developed 

this software application that would 

enable customers to better monitor and 

control their home energy usage. 

Leif Wickland (’01 CSBS) has recently 

been promoted to senior principal applications 

engineer at Right Now Technologies 

in Bozeman, Mont. His wife, Elizabeth 

(Bitikofer) Wickland (’01 EN), owns her 

own Mary Kay business and daughter Eliana 

is in kindergarten at Petra Academy. 

Michelle Wilson (‘01) and husband, 

Paul, were married on Oct. 29, 2011, and 

currently reside in Olathe, Kan. Michelle 

is a professional artist and designer, 

a worship leader and participant in an 

exclusive ensemble, Rezonate, at United 

Methodist Church of the Resurrection. 

Paul and Michelle design art furniture 

and own their own business, Repurposed 

Design Company. 

Shirley Ann “Shane” Yelverton (’02 

BBM) has taken a job with Fluor in Sugar 

Land, Texas, as the interface management 

tech/engineering technician. 

Hector Aubert (’04 ASMG) was recently 

hired by UPS Airlines, Aircraft Maintenance, 

in Lexington, Ky., with a position in 

the Management Training Program. 

Chip Glass (’04 BUDT) 

was recently promoted 

to Second Lieutenant 

in the U.S. Army and 

received the Patterson 

Award on May 3, in Ft. 

Benning, Ga. 

Teal (Medrano) Neighbors (’05-’09) 

works as administrative assistant for 

the Media Ministry at Great Hills Baptist 

Church and as a freelance writer. Her 

husband, Matt (’06) works with the Texas 

representative for Johannus Organs. 

They reside in Austin, Texas. 


classnotes 

Charles Wesley (’05 

EN; CSMA) was in 

the U-T San Diego 

newspaper (formerly 

Union-Tribune) for 

donating his kidney to a 

complete stranger. He 

and his wife, Alexis, adopted a little boy 

this summer, who will be a little brother to 

their daughter, Laelia. 

Daniel Chiew (’06 ASEL), with two others, 

has received a patent for “Synthetic 

Vision Dynamic Field of View.” He has 

been extensively involved in the Synthetic 

Vision for Avionics Displays at Rockwell 

Collins, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, since his 

graduation. 

Jonathan Demildt (’06 ASEL) was selected 

as a semi-finalist from Government 

Systems at Rockwell-Collins, in Cedar 

Rapids, Iowa. These awards are to recognize 

employees’ outstanding technical 

creativity and innovation that significantly 

impacts the company and the engineering 

profession. 

Kyle Miller (‘06 ASMG) created the 

evolution HD rifle chassis for the custom 

built Remington M700 that was used by 

snipers at the 2012 Super Bowl. Kyle 

lives in Mack, Colo., and works at XLR 

Industries. 

Jonathan Wilson (’06 BUBS; HIPL) 

received an Master of Arts and Master of 

Philosophy in History from Syracuse University 

and is now working on a PhD dissertation 

in American Intellectual History. 

He is currently co-teaching a freshman 

course at the Maxwell School of Citizenship 

and Public Affairs in Syracuse, NY. 

Ben Ehmke (’07 CMYM), Jonathan 

Bracy (’05-09) and James Bracy (’07- 

09) are the co-founders of the company 

42Floors in San Francisco, Calif. Ben 

currently lives in Longview, Texas, while 

Jonathan and James live in San Francisco, 

Calif. 

Curtis “Fjord” Hawthorn (’07 CSE) 

and Andrew Spencer (’08 EN) just 

had their first book published, Murder 

in Jefferson: The 1868 Stockade Case. 

Spencer, who earned his degree in 

English with a history minor, is in the 

English PhD program at Texas A&M 

Commerce. 

Whitney Phelps (’07 HIPL) is enrolled 

at Seattle University Law School and 

interned at the Inter-American Court of 

Human Rights this summer. She applied 

for an externship this fall with the 

Inter-American Commission of Human 

Rights in Washington, D.C., before 

taking the bar exam. 

Brent “Spork” Bradbury (‘08 CSBS) 

recently recruited at LETU’s Career 

Fair. He is a software developer for 

Connamara Systems in Chicago and 

is engaged to Elizabeth Hjort, a PhD 

candidate at Northwest. 

Daniel Williams (’08 ME) recently 

moved to Plano, Texas, and is working 

for Meggitt Inc. as a project engineer. 

This division designs and manufactures 

air conditioning systems for 

airplanes and helicopters. 

Eric Blakey (’08 HIPL) was hired in 

July 2011 as a flight operations crew 

scheduler at Southwest Airlines in Dallas. 

His wife, Kimberly, was also hired 

at Southwest shortly after moving to 

Dallas as a fuel inventory auditor. 

Alex Johns (’09 AFFS) was recently 

featured in the Lulig, La., newspaper 

for his duty aboard the Coast Guard 

Barque EAGLE for training and as part 

of Navy Week NOLA. He was commissioned 

an ensign May 14 and is scheduled to attend 

Coast Guard helicopter flight school in 

Pensacola, Fla. 

Jonathan Wilcoxson (’09 HIPL; BI) has 

been accepted into Notre Dame’s PhD program 

in the early Christianity and Judaism in 

Antiquity along with a fellowship. He and his 

wife, Kirby (Posey) Wilcoxson (’09 KMIN), 

are currently residing in Winona Lake, Ind. 

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Peter Greenwald (’10 AFFS) and wife, 

Ashley, are now missionaries serving with 

Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) as a pilot/ 

mechanic family. They have been raising 

financial and prayer support and are about 

to begin work in Indonesia. 

Megan Ross (‘10 BYBS) attends Texas 

A&M University System Health Science 

Center - College of Medicine. Since graduating 

from LETU, Megan attended UT Austin’s 

School of Public Health and graduated with 

her master’s degree in May. 

Jared Gebel (’11 AFPP) is now working as 

a full-time flight instructor for Anson Aviation 

in Sugar Land, Texas. He says the training 

he received at LETU has been a great help 

in starting his career and he always enjoys 

seeing LETU alumni. 

Dugan Shry (’11 MBA) was promoted to 

an assistant trainmaster for the Kansas City 

Southern Railroad in Laredo, Texas. 

Stoney Wilson (’11 MBA) recently took a 

job with the Upper Tampa Bay Chamber 

of Commerce in Oldsmar, Fla., as the vice 

president of sales. 

Melinda Calvin (’12 Psych) has recently 

taken a teaching position with Alief ISD in 

Houston, Texas. 

Chance Davison (’12 AAAS) began employment 

with Aerotek to work for Honeywell 

in Houston on May 23. • 


ScheduleD Events 

Silent auction | Golden Jackets recognition luncheon 

and reunion | Ladies of LeTourneau Tea | 

Dad/student/alumni sports tournament | Pray 

the Loop | Hootenanny | NIFA Pancake Breakfast 

| Intersociety Rope Pull | Picnic on the 

grounds | Cardboard & Duct Tape Boat Races 

(In Pond) | Catamelon Competition (East Side of 

Pond) | Campus Tour | Welding Lab Presentation: 

"O, Brother Where Art Thou?" | Tyler Hall 

Movie Night & Alumni Open Mike Night (Corner 

Café). 

Register online or call 1-800-259-ALUM (2586) 

or email us at Alumni@letu.edu to RSVP or for 

more information. 

save the date! 

Reunions 

Class of 1963 - If you graduated in 1963 or before, 

come back to recognized as one of the Golden Jackets. 

KZX 50th Reunion 

Contacts: Class years 1963-1973 - Joe Nowiczewski 

novatech47@hotmail.com 

Class years 1974-1983 - Jim Hooker 

jim.hooker@sbdinc.com 

Class years 1984-1993 - Steve Dudden 

steve.dudden@csagroup.org 

Class years 1994-2003 - Paul Riley 

djjazzkzx@yahoo.com 

Class years 2004-2012 - Kevin Haveman 

kevinhaveman@gmail.com 

LAS 50th Reunion 

50 Years of Tyler Hall 

Tyler Hall West 1A Reunion 

Contact Brian Kelly at bkelly@mail.smu.edu 



Written by Kate Gronewald 

Photographed by Tom Barnard 

A little boy in cowboy boots rides his bike down 

the sidewalk, while girls in brightly colored bows 

scramble over playground equipment. Young parents 

sit on porches swapping advice on the latest baby 

gear. Men grill burgers near brightly blooming flowers 

while wives sit around a dining room table chatting 

over coffee. It sounds like just another evening in just 

another American neighborhood – timeless, idyllic. 

But zoom out a few hundred yards, and you’ll spot a 

cafeteria, dorms and academic buildings. You’ll rapidly 

realize that this slice of family life is a unique microcosm 

of a university campus community. 

Unlike your average neighborhood of young 

families, LeTourneau University’s Married Student 

Housing is a community of couples and children 

brought together by a common thread – education. 

Their residence at the east side of campus 

represents the priority they place on earning their 

degree amidst the chaos of adult and family life. It’s 

a land of training wheels and textbooks, pacifiers and 

prayers to pass classes, newlyweds and never-ending 

term papers. 

The current residents of Married Student Housing 

represent marriages ranging from mere months to 

more than a decade, students pursuing both graduate 

and undergraduate work, and children from birth 

to age seven and up. The newest residents include 

seven babies born to MSH couples since January 

2012. 

With so many children in one place, chaos is 

inevitable. Here, it’s daily life for a dad to be doing 

homework at the kitchen table while his son hones 

his coloring skills beside him, or for parents to pass 

off their kiddos to a neighboring couple to babysit 

while they go to Bible study or class. 

Upon first glance, Married Student Housing is 

an appealing residential option primarily for quick 

commutes to class. However, it’s quickly evident that 

the benefits of MSH stretch far beyond practicality 

— and that behind the chaos, lives a pervasive sense 

of calm. It’s a calm fueled by commonality and an 

abiding sense of purpose. 

Former MSH Resident Assistants Ryne and 

Rebekah Bergren brought two children home from 


the hospital while living in MSH and earning their degrees. 

Rebekah, a teacher education student, is now 

employed as a teacher in Longview, and Ryne, a flight 

science major, now serves as a flight instructor at 

LeTourneau’s Abbott Aviation Center. Their children 

are now three and four, and MSH is the only home 

they’ve known until now. Prior to the family’s recent 

move off campus to fully embark on their professional 

lives, Rebekah reflected upon on her family’s 

MSH experience. 

“We will always appreciate Married Student Housing 

not for the convenience, but for the community,” 

Rebekah said. “It’s a community that helps young 

couples be successful in their marriages and their 

academic studies. It’s a support system.” 

As the Bergrens know, college campus doesn’t 

shield against the realities of life. MSH residents 

have experienced everything from first fights as 

newlyweds to the loss of parents and even the loss 

of babies. But no matter the struggle, these couples 

and families aren’t alone, and they constantly prove 

it. Whether it’s babysitting another couple’s children 

or cooking meals for another family during a tough 

time, a sense of togetherness connects these homes 

and lives. 

Couples make their way to Married 

Student Housing from as close as the LETU 

residence halls across Harris Drive or as far away as 

professional ventures around the world. But one 

thing is for sure — everyone has a story. 

Zelina and Ryan Tiemann moved into MSH in 

January from Minnesota for Ryan to pursue a degree 

in electrical engineering after working 11 years as 

an electrician. Zelina, an interior designer originally 

from Mexico, has created a warm, welcoming home 

in the couple’s 850-square-foot apartment on campus. 

Sitting in their living room listening to her play 

the piano, it is easy to close your eyes and vividly 

imagine all the young married LeTourneau couples 

who have come before them. 

Couples have long been a central part of the 

LeTourneau community. From the inception of 

LeTourneau Technical Institute in 1946, faculty and 

student wives have participated in campus life, even 

before female students entered the mix in the early 

1960s. 

Since the early days at LeTourneau, married students 

have lived in a designated residential area on 

campus. Initially wooden barracks, remnants of the 

Harmon General Hospital, housed young LeTourneau 

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families. Married students have lived in the current 

brick apartment buildings on campus for more than 

40 years, yet prior to their construction, a group of 

on-campus trailers was home to this student population 

in the late 1960s. Among these students were 

two newlyweds from West Virginia. 

Mike and Mary Jackson arrived at LeTourneau 

University in 1966 with a baby and a mission — for 

Mike to earn his degree. While he participated in the 

alter-day program of balancing his studies with work 

at the LeTourneau plant, Mary remembers pushing 

strollers across Mobberly Avenue with other student 

wives to grocery shop at Kroger and swimming on 

hot summer days with her kids in the on-campus 

pool. Looking back, the Jacksons view their young 

married life at LeTourneau as a strong foundation for 

decades to come. 

“We learned so much about doing things as a 

couple,” Mary said. “Living in Married Student Housing 

was a growing experience that has followed us all 

through our lives.” 

She participated in the Student Wives Club, a 

group of young ladies who hosted parties, suppers 

and the annual LETU Sweetheart Banquet. 

The ladies would visit Mom LeTourneau 

for advice and would look up to the older faculty 

wives as mentors. Mary even attended a graduation 

ceremony of her own in which she earned her “PHT,” 

her ‘Pushing Hubby Through’ certificate, in honor of 

her work supporting her husband as he earned his 

college degree. 

“The closeness of the student wives was tremendous, 

and many of us remain close to this day,” Mary 

said. “We prayed together, cried together and swam 

together. We learned a lot as young wives.” 

While MSH and LETU have transformed over the 

past decades, life on campus as a married student remains 

the same. Mary may no longer live on campus, 

but she has worked at the university for 38 years and 

regularly advises young married students living on 

campus, including the Bergrens. She nods her head 

as she remembers when she was in the same boat, 

facing life’s struggles as a young parent on campus. 

While this collection of connected apartments 

may not be a traditional neighborhood, it is clear 

that it serves as much more. Married Student Housing 

is a support system that has provided encouragement 

and a solid foundation for LeTourneau couples 

and families for generations — and it will for generations 

to come. • 


Dr. Paul Sam 

Impacting the World through Education 

Written by Kate Gronewald, Photographed by Johnny Hanson 

Ayoung man sits in a dark, one-room efficiency 

apartment on an urban island packed with 

more than seven million people. Out of them 

all, he knows none. He’s used to tropical temperatures 

and suya, a favorite dish in his homeland, not 

ramen noodles for dinner and three flights of stairs. The 

elevator in his building is broken, but Paul Sam is going 

nowhere but up. 

At the age of 20, Sam traveled to the United States on 

his parents’ promise that he could return home if he got 

too homesick. Home was more than 5,250 miles away, 

in Nigeria. He had just crossed an ocean, from the West 

Coast of Africa to New York City, living in an unfamiliar 

country and climate – for the sake of an education. But 

Sam didn’t need to return home – because for him, there 

are no bounds on his commitment to learning. 

The promise of warmer winters led Sam to leave New 

York in search of educational opportunities in Dallas, Texas, 

earning his bachelor’s in economics and finance from 

the University of Texas at Dallas in 1985, as well as an 

MBA in management from Amberton University in1989. 

But Sam’s search and education didn’t stop there. 

His original journey from the Gulf of Guinea landed 

him near the Gulf of Mexico, in Houston, where he 

earned a Master of International Business from the 

University of St. Thomas. That degree was followed by 

his PhD in organization and management with a specialty 

in information technology management from Capella 

University. His commitment to education expanded from 

a love of learning to a love of teaching. 

Sam began teaching at LeTourneau University's 

Houston educational center in 2000. In the 12 years 

since then, he has taught 25 different business courses 

on-ground and online at both the undergraduate and 

graduate level as an adjunct faculty member. 

He has taught operations management, organizational 

behavior, strategy, leadership, statistics, management, 

entrepreneurial leadership, innovation and leadership, 

international business, cross cultural issues in business 

and management computer systems. But beyond his expertise 

in communicating business concepts to students, 

he builds relationships with them. 

“I love teaching students — transferring knowledge 

to them and seeing the sparkle in their eyes when they 

learn,” Sam said. “It brings me so much joy.” 

His joy is contagious, almost tangible. Sam is the sort 

of professor that lights up a room with his enthusiasm, 

for business, but more importantly for people. He is the 

sort of professor who students come back to visit, even 

after they finish his classes because his love for teaching 

continues to inspire them. He is the professor who stops 

to pray with a student before her class presentation after 

learning that her five-year-old was killed. Faith, and living 

God’s love, he knows is more important than a grade. 

However, learning and teaching are only two components 

of Sam’s educational trajectory. He has also 

pursued an exceptional career in business. He worked 

at Hewlett Packard as a global project manager, where 

he traveled extensively as part of a multi-national team, 

facilitating the corporation’s technological initiatives 

internationally. Since 2008, he has served as director of 

operations at Benchmark Electronics. He is certified as 

a Project Management Professional (PMP), as well as in 

Certified Production and Inventory Management (CPIM). 

He also holds a Master’s Certification in Project Management 

from George Washington University in Washington, 

D.C. His experience in business informs his teaching. 

Dr. Carol Green, LETU vice president for the School of 

Graduate and Professional Studies, notes that his commitment 

to his career rivals his longstanding commitment 

to his students. 

“Dr. Sam’s professional experience is quite remarkable, 

as is his love for students and his impact on them,” 

said Green. “He has taught with LETU for over a decade, 

which means that he has impacted hundreds if 

not thousands of students through Houston and online 

classrooms.” 

Sam also finds time to volunteer as an administrator 

at his church in Houston, the Redeemed Christian Church 

of God, where he teaches adult Sunday School classes 

and also assists in counseling and conflict resolution. His 

faith walk is a pivotal part of his journey across international 

borders, over state lines and into the lives of 

students. 

For Sam, learning fuels limitless possibility. Whether 

sitting at his computer after work communicating with 

a student in an online devotional forum or standing at a 

podium espousing the premises of project management, 

he translates this possibility to other budding business 

professionals, expanding their global perspectives and 

preparing them to impact the world — the world he 

crossed for the sake of education. • 



At LETU, people matter more than programs. A recent study indicates that something as simple as a student being an 

invited guest into a faculty or staff member’s home can have a huge, positive impact on a student’s college experience. 

Mary Burklin graduated in May 2012 commencement exercises with her bachelor’s degree in digital writing and has 

moved to Colorado Springs, Colo. to pursue her career. 

Growing Up at LeTourneau University: 

A GRADUATE LOOKS BACK 

Written by Mary Burklin, 

Photographed by Janet Ragland 

I went to class the first day of my freshman year at 

LeTourneau University expecting to be recognized. 

History/Political Science professor Dr. Paul Kubricht 

called the role at the start of Western Civilization class. 

When I confirmed that I was present, he looked up. “Another 

Burklin? How many more are there?” 

I shrugged and smiled. “You’ve got four left to go.” 

Dr. Kubricht is one of the many LeTourneau employees 

who has become a part of my family’s lore. He taught 

both of my parents in college, and over 20 years later, he 

taught first my older sister and then my older brother. I 

grew up hearing anecdotes about the way Dr. Kubricht 

made Russian history come alive for my parents. In 2008, 

it was my turn to become a part of the family tradition. 

Growing up around LeTourneau University provided a 

lot of chances to be part of a bigger family lore as well. A 

few years after my parents graduated and served a few 

years in the mission field, they came back to LeTourneau 

so my father, Walter Burklin, could take a position in 

Facility Services. My parents started having a few fellow 

missionary kids over for chai tea a few weekends each 

semester as a way to provide a safe haven and a way to 

connect for students struggling with the culture shift. 

The gatherings grew until, by the time I was born in 

1991, dozens of students were coming over for what my 

parents officially called Chai Parties. 

Over my lifetime, hundreds of students have spent 

long nights at my parents’ house, adopted one by one 

into our extended family. Even after graduation, some 

alumni travel for hours just to spend an evening as part 

of the family. These ties stretch across decades and continents. 

With every new fall, a new group gathers in the 

Burklin backyard, sharing conversation and stories over 

cups of chai and brownies. 

My view of LeTourneau had to change when I started 

as a student, instead of as an observer. I signed up to 

take Mrs. Fredna Stuckey’s “English Composition I” class 

for dual credit while I was still a senior in high school. 

Mrs. Stuckey quickly won my attention with her unquenchable 

enthusiasm and her thoughtful comments 

on my writing. Because I was pursuing a degree in Digital 

Writing, I viewed that first class like writing boot camp. 

Mrs. Stuckey turned out to be a more than apt commander. 

Although I learned a lot about comma usage and how 

to format papers that semester, as the course progressed 

I began to learn something significantly more important. 

I learned how to invest myself in my writing, even if the 

piece was an academic assignment I previously would 

have labeled boring. Mrs. Stuckey steadily spurred us on, 

as well as giving us space to be creative, and for me, that 


connected for the first time the creative writing I loved 

and the academic writing I had hated. I learned how 

to pursue each assignment with a willingness to invest 

myself in it, to explore and to create, rather than just 

meet the criteria. Mrs. Stuckey seemed to care about my 

writing at least as much as I did. The things I learned in 

her class would become foundational for my writing in 

every class thereafter. 

I started my journey into the university’s required 

Bible courses during my second semester at LeTourneau. 

I had chosen the professor on the recommendation of 

my older brother, who was at that time a junior. While it 

would take me a class period or two to fully get used Dr. 

Viktor Roudkovski’s Russian accent (one with a slightly 

southern flavor), his insight, his knowledge, and above 

all his sense of humor and his kindness quickly won my 

loyalty. I came back to his class for Biblical Literature, and 

when he asked me if I wanted to take the four semesters 

of Greek, even though I wasn’t a Bible major, I decided to 

commit. 

By the time I walked across the stage at commencement, 

I had taken nine courses from Dr. Roudkovski. I 

have been asked often why I kept choosing his classes, 

and my honest response is that he’s an incredible 

teacher. He requires effort, but he also seems to know 

when to offer grace, a combination that has won many 

students over. I am certainly not the only student who 

keeps going back to his classes. 

Ultimately, no university is made of only academic 

programs or opportunities, but every university is made 

of people. The character of these people, from top administration 

to the staff to the faculty, will determine to 

a large extent the character of the school. In my two decades 

living around LeTourneau University, both as a staff 

kid and as a student, I have interacted with many people 

in many areas and have been continually impressed by 

the wisdom, ability, dedication, and most of all the kindness 

of this diverse LeTourneau family. • 


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U.S. NEWS RANKS LETU IN TOP TIER OF “AMERICA’S BEST COLLEGES” 

LETU has ranked again in the top tier nationally in U.S. News and World Report’s annual 

rankings of “America’s Best Colleges.” LETU ranked 6th among schools in Texas 

for 2013 and was ranked above all state universities in Texas in its category of “Best 

Regional Universities in the Western Region.” LETU ranked 36th among all universities in its category. LETU has ranked in 

the magazine’s top tier for nearly two decades. 

LETU ENROLLMENT GROWS 

SIX PERCENT ON CAMPUS 

LETU’s Fall 2012 enrollment of traditional 

students grew six percent over last 

year. The new class of first time in college 

and transfer students represesnted 

a 13.4 percent growth over last years’ 

incoming class. The university also saw 

a 64 percent increase in international 

students and a record number of online 

students. Grad school enrollments are 

also up over last year, with the growth 

in the number of graduate programs being 

offered. Total university enrollment 

is 2,843. 

pendent Colleges and Universities of 

Texas. Lunsford was also selected to 

serve as the board treasurer through 

2014. ICUT is a nonprofit that has 

served for nearly 40 years as a voice 

for Texas’ fully accredited, nonprofit, 

tax-exempt private colleges and universities 

with state policy makers in 

support of higher education. 

LETU WINS FIRST PLACE 

IN AVIATION MAINTENANCE 

A team of aviation students from 

LeTourneau University won first place 

at the Southwest Regional Professional 

Aviation Maintenance Association 

competition in Fort Worth, 

Texas, competing against several other 

aviation maintenance technology 

schools in Texas and Oklahoma. PAMA 

is the premier aviation maintenance 

organization for aviation maintenance 

technicians which fosters continuous 

improvement in aviation safety. 

LETU’S SOUTH HALL RECEIVES 

AWARD FOR DESIGN EXCELLENCE 

LETU’s new South Hall residence was 

recognized for design excellence by a 

national jury of architects. The building 

is featured in the November 2012 

issue of American School & University 

and also on the Web at www. 

SchoolDesigns.com. 

LETU PRESIDENT ELECTED 

TO ICUT BOARD AS TREASURER 

LETU President Dr. 

Dale A. Lunsford was 

elected by independent 

college presidents 

across Texas to 

serve on the board of 

directors of the Inde- 

LETU PROGRAMMING TEAM 

WINS FIRST PLACE IN REGIONALS 

A team of LETU computer programming 

students won first place in the 

2012 South Central USA Regional 

International Collegiate Programming 

Competition (ICPC). The programming 

contest challenges teams of 

three university students to use their 

programming skills and rely on their 

mental endurance to solve complex, 

real world problems under a grueling 

deadline. The team qualifies to 

compete in the World Finals in Saint 

Petersburg, Russia, next summer. Two 

other teams placed 26th and 40th. 

LETU WINS FIRST PLACE 

AT IEEE ROBOTICS COMPETITION 

Senior electrical engineering majors 

won 1st place in the IEEE Region Five 

Robotics Competition in Tulsa, Okla., 

with their compact mobile autonomous 

robots that harvested energy 

from simulated renewable energy 

sources on a predefined playing field. 

LETU students won for their robot 

which finished the challenge in the 

least amount of time. 

LETU COMPUTER PROGRAMMING 

TEAM TAKES FIRST, SIXTH PLACE 

LETU Programming Teams took 1st 

place and 6th place at the Abilene 

Christian University Invitational Programming 

Competition. 


FLIGHT TEAM WINS 2ND PLACE 

AT NIFA REGIONAL 

The “Sting” Precision Flight Team won 

2nd place at the 2012 Regional Intercollegiate 

Flight Association SAFECON 

flight competition in October at Texas 

State Technical College in Waco. They 

qualified to compete at nationals in 

May 2013 at The Ohio State University. 

The team had six individual first 

place finishes in separate events, but 

disappointing results in landing events 

dropped the team to second place 

overall, according to Brad Wooden, 

flight team faculty adviser. 

COMPUTER ENGINEERING TEAMS 

COMPETE GLOBALLY 

In a 24-hour global IEEE Xtreme 5.0 

computer programming competition, 

1,515 teams totaling more than 4,000 

students from 63 countries competed. 

Two of those teams were LETU engineering 

students. They placed 3rd and 

5th regionally, 22nd and 43rd nationally 

and 93rd and 149th internationally. 

STUDENTS PLACE AMONG TOP FIVE 

AT ASME COMPETITION 

Engineering 

students 

won 2nd, 

3rd and 5th 

place at the 

2012 Regional ASME Student Design 

Competition at Louisiana State University. 

Students designed, built and 

raced four autonomous vehicles that 

competed without human intervention 

in relay races. Vehicles had to be 

small and contain an on-board energy 

source that would trigger the motion 

on the next vehicle. 

LETU BAJA TEAM WINS 2ND, 5TH 

AT REGIONAL COMPETITION 

Engineering students won 2nd place 

in the suspension 

event 

and 5th place 

in the endurance 

race to 

gain an overall 

SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS AWARDED 

Scholarship and Global Service grants totaling $50,000 were 

awarded to faculty members from biology, engineering, business, 

theology and literature and language arts departments to pursue 

research. Recipients included Bruce A. Hathaway for “Preparation 

of Substituted Triazines as Potential Antimicrobial Drugs,” $9,500; 

Seung Kim for “Double Fabry-Perot Biosensor Research,” $9,500; 

Gustavo Cortez for “Affordable Shelter Project,” $4,000; Norman 

Reese for “Course and Conference in Rehabilitation Engineering,” 

$3,200; Juan R. Castro for “World Finance Conference Presentations,” $2,750; Patrick Mays for “LeTourneau University 

Theological Symposiums,” $2,500; Karen Rispin for “Wheels Project,” $2,000; and Annie Olson for “Visual Praxis: Merging 

Teaching and Research,” $1,550. 

GLOBAL SERVICE GRANTS AWARDED 

Five faculty members were awarded Global Service Learning Grants to explore 

ways their expertise can be used to demonstrate God’s love by easing human 

suffering and eradicating social injustices. Recipients included Gustavo Cortes, 

“Temporary Shelter Project,” $1,500; Juan Castro, “Financial Freedom for the 

Poor,” $1,500; Annie Olson, “Visual Literacy and Problem Solving Research,” 

$1,500; Norman Reese, “Wheelchair Project Assessment,” $1,500; and Karen 

Rispin, “Wheels Project,” $1,500. 

LETU AWARDED $25,000 RESEARCH GRANT FROM ROCKWELL COLLINS 

LETU was awarded a $25,000 research grant from the Rockwell Collins Charitable Corporation University Grant Allocation 

Program for a high frequency antenna coupler (HFAC) project students have designed and prototyped. Under the direction 

of engineering professor Dr. Joonwan Kim, the design goal for this project is to prototype a high-end, commercial, HF 

antenna coupler that is cost effective and more efficient than models currently available on the market. 

LETU RECEIVES MATERIALS JOINING GRANTS 

The LETU School of Engineering has received nearly $560,000 in grant funding for materials joining research. A $250,125 

grant was awarded from the Federal Highway Administration for a two-year research project on welding on modern bridges, 

adding to a current $180,000 grant, for research aimed at using innovative welding technologies to build bridges to last over 

100 years. A recently completed a $129,000 grant from the II-VI Foundation funded development of new technology for 

microwave welding to join bismuth telluride to copper for building thermo-electric generators. 


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15th place ranking against 100 teams 

in the regional Society of Automotive 

Engineers (SAE) 2012 Baja Team competition 

in Auburn, Ala. The competition 

requires students to design, build 

a one-seat off-road vehicle and test 

its acceleration, maneuverability, hill 

climb and suspension, before completing 

an endurance course. 

BUSINESS STUDENTS PRESENT 

RESEARCH AT DALLAS CONFERENCE 

Four LETU business students presented 

papers at the Economics Scholars 

Program conference for undergraduate 

research in Dallas, Texas, sponsored 

by the Federal Reserve Bank 

of Dallas. One paper was on “S&P 

Downgrades US Credit Rating and the 

Effect on Wells Fargo Company” while 

the other was on “Abnormal Returns 

in the Japanese Market.” 

TEERINK NAMED 

2012 TEACHER OF 

THE YEAR 

Aviation faculty and 

LETU alumna Becky 

Teerink won the 

2012 Teacher of the 

Year award from 

the Association for Women in Aviation 

Maintenance (AWAM). 

PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR RECEIVES 

TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARD 

Psychology Professor 

Dr. Vicki Sheafer 

won the Frank Costin 

Memorial Award 

for Excellence at 

the 34th Annual 

National Institute 

on the Teaching of 

Psychology conference 

for her poster titled “Using 

Drama to Enhance Learning of Classic 

Experiments in Social Psychology.” Her 

research poster was judged by insti- 

tute faculty as best promoting quality 

teaching methods. 

LETU BUSINESS PROFESSOR 

TEACHES ECONOMICS IN KOREA 

Dr. Juan R. Castro, a 

professor of finance 

and economics, taught 

international economics 

at the Pukyong 

National University in 

Busan, South Korea 

during July. Castro traveled to Central 

America in 2010 as a Fulbright Scholar 

to teach graduate-level students in El 

Salvador about financial strategy and 

risk management while he researched 

how developing countries can eradicate 

poverty. Castro is also currently 

serving as a research referee for the 

Journal of Economics and Business. 

LETU CIVIL ENGINEERING 

PROFESSOR TEACHES IN HAITI 

Dr. Gustavo Cortes, an assistant professor 

of civil engineering, traveled to 

Haiti to inspect transitional shelters 

built for families left homeless after 

the January 1010 Haiti earthquake. 

He also lectured civil engineering 

students at the American University of 

the Caribbean in Les Cayes about the 

importance of hurricane and earthquake 

resistant designs for shelters. 

WHEELS PROJECT SERVES 

DISABLED CHILDREN IN KENYA 

LETU’s Wheels project facilitated 

the donation of two types of wheelchairs 

in early 2012 to Bethany Kids 

at Joytown, an organization in Kenya 

caring for children with disabilities. 

An interdisciplinary team of students 

traveled during the summer to collect 

data on how well the wheelchairs 

worked for the children. This fall, the 

team facilitated more donations of 

new kinds of chairs, and in May 2013, 

another team of LETU students will 

travel to Kenya for more research. 

Their work, under the direction of assistant 

biology professor Karen Rispin 

is designed to improve wheelchairs 

for the disabled across the globe. 

FRONTIER WHEELCHAIRS PROJECT 

SERVES IN GUATEMALA 

LETU engineering students developed 

an improved foot rest to assist 

wheelchair-bound, disabled children in 

an orphanage at Hope Haven International 

Ministries in Guatemala as part 

of the Frontier Wheelchairs program, 

headed by assistant professor Norman 

Reese. Each plate of the foot rest can 

tilt up and down, adjust to different 

heights for each leg, move forward and 

backward and swing outward to make 

it easier for children to get in and out 

of the wheelchairs unassisted. The cost 

for Hope Haven to manufacture the 

foot rest is estimated at $5 to $10. 

LETU LIBRARY RECEIVES 

VOLUMES FROM ISSR PROJECT 

LeTourneau University won a competitive 

grant and was awarded a 224-volume 

set of books on a wide variety 

of issues on science and spirituality 

for the Margaret Estes Library from 

the International Society for Science 


and Religion. LETU was selected as 

one of 150 institutions worldwide to 

receive this full set of books written 

by experts from many academic 

disciplines, faith traditions and regions 

that expand into the sciences, social 

sciences, history, philosophy, religion 

and the environment. 

LETU RANKED A ‘BEST BUY’ 

FOR ONLINE BUSINESS DEGREES 

LETU’s online MBA program and 

online Master of Strategic Leadership 

program were ranked a “Best Buy” by 

the national online learning review 

team at Get- 

Educated.com. 

GetEducated.com 

provides advice 

to consumers on 

where they can 

obtain high quality 

degrees at a 

reasonable cost. 

LETU NOW MAGAZINE, VIDEO 

WIN MARCOM AWARDS 

LeTourneau University’s NOW magazine 

Fall 2011 “Five Pillars” issue won 

a platinum MarCom Award, the organization’s 

top honor, in the 2012 international 

competition that recognizes 

outstanding creative achievement by 

marketing and communication professionals. 

LETU’s new “For Such a Time 

as This” campaign video won gold at 

MarCom. 

LETU MAGAZINES WIN AWARDS 

The International Academy of Visual 

Arts awarded 2012 Communicator 

Awards to LETU’s Realities Fall 2011 

recruitment magazine and LETU’s 

NOW Fall 2011 “Five Pillars” issue. The 

annual competition honors the best 

in advertising, corporate communications, 

public relations and identity 

work for print, video, interactive and 

audio. 

LETU HEALTH FAIR DRAWS OVER 

1,000 FROM COMMUNITY 

LETU’s annual Get it Together health 

fair Oct. 11 on campus served more 

than 1,000 members of the community 

who benefitted from free medical 

lab tests, kidney function tests and 

health assessments. In partnership 

with Good Shepherd Medical Center, 

the Get it Together Health Fair is 

one of East Texas’s largest healthcare 

events. 

LETU HOSTS FIRST THREE-PART 

THEOLOGICAL SYMPOSIA SERIES 

LETU’s Theology Department hosted 

three world-renown theologians at 

the Spring 2012 Theological Symposium 

Series featuring Dr. David 

Naugle, Dr. Aaron Kuecker, and Dr. 

Darrell Bock. Speakers spoke in chapel 

services before presenting academic 

papers. LETU faculty responders 

provided critical interaction with the 

academic presentations. 

LETU HOSTS ANNUAL READING 

CONFERENCE FOR EDUCATORS 

About 150 local educators attended 

the East Texas TAIR Reading conference 

featuring children’s author 

Denise Brennan-Nelsen and Texas 

historical fiction author Donna Van 

Cleve. The conference is committed to 

assisting Texas teachers in focusing on 

reading success for all students. 

LETU, KILGORE COLLEGE SIGN 

ARTICULATION AGREEMENT 

LeTourneau University and Kilgore 

College signed an articulation agreement 

designed to ease the transfer 

of students into LETU from Kilgore 

College and enable junior college 

students to maximize their credit 

hours by knowing which credit hours 

will transfer to LETU degree programs. 

BILL KIELHORN REMEMBERED 

Longtime LeTourneau University engineering professor William H. “Bill” Kielhorn 

taught welding engineering at LeTourneau for 45 years, never missing a day of 

class. He started every lecture with a devotional. His last class was taught from 

the bed of his hospital room in the Intensive Care Unit. He died of cancer Jan. 6 at 

his home in Longview. The university celebrated his life during a memorial service 

on campus Jan. 11. The family asked that memorials be made to the William H. 

Kielhorn Scholarship Fund at LeTourneau University. 

“Bill had a keen sense of calling, and he was an extremely dedicated servant of 

God,” said LETU Engineering Dean Dr. Ronald A. Delap. “He provided a wonderful 

example to each of us—of how to live a righteous life, and how to finish well. His 

legacy will live on in the many lives he touched.” 

1931 - 2012 


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NEW PROGRAMS for LETU 

LeTourneau University is offering an increasingly robust collection of undergraduate and graduate academic programs. 

With a mix of on-ground and online offerings, many of these new programs provide students with greater flexibility. 

They also increase the breadth of industries in which LeTourneau students are impacting the world for Christ through 

their professions — in every workplace and every nation. 

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES DEGREE exposes students to 

global issues and prepares them for global ministry and 

service. 

HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT DEGREES, at the associate, 

bachelor’s and master’s degree levels, enable health 

care professionals to advance their careers at a time when 

demand is high. 

MASTER OF ARTS IN MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPY 

equips graduates to assess, diagnose and treat individuals, 

couples, families and groups to achieve healthy relationships. 

COMMUNICATIONS DEGREE focuses on integrated media 

management and teaches students to manage ideas, from 

creation to composition to communication, in a variety of 

media including print, video, social media, and Web. 

SPORTS COMMUNICATION DEGREE combines courses 

in kinesiology, communication and marketing to provide 

training and education to be successful in sports media 

and sports journalism, as well as public relations in sportsrelated 

fields. 

THREE MATH CONCENTRATIONS in financial mathematics, 

biomathematics and applied statistics focus on new career 

opportunities for math majors. 

HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEGREE, available both 

in classes on campus and fully online, prepares students to 

fill the growing need in healthcare for professionals who 

can manage and maintain both software and hardware 

systems effectively. 

DEGREE IN FORENSIC CHEMISTRY combines chemistry, 

biology, and criminal justice courses in an interdisciplinary 

degree to equip students to work in one of the fastest 

growing fields of chemistry employment. 

3-YEAR BACHELOR DEGREE IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 

gives students the residential experience on campus, but 

also uses online capabilities to make use of summers to 

advance the student through the course work to degree 

completion. 

4 + 1 BACHELOR + MBA OPTION enables undergraduate 

students to take up to 12 credit hours at the graduate 

level toward a Master in Business Administration degree 

that can also count toward the student’s undergraduate 

degree, allowing them to complete their undergraduate 

degree in four years and their graduate degree in one. 

Check out all our academic programs at: 

www.letu.edu/majors 

Apply for admission at: www.letu.edu/apply 



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