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VANGUARD UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
winter 2007
Bridging
Faith and
Reason
Alumnus Alan Padgett ’77
Class Notes
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Promoting Kids
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www.vanguard.edu
truth ~ virtue ~ service
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mission statement
As a Christian comprehensive university, “the purpose of Vanguard
University is to pursue knowledge, cultivate character, deepen
faith, and equip each student for a life of leadership and service.”
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In This Issue
Contents
Volume 7 number 111 • winter 2007
features
Bridging Faith and Reason ..............................................2
Alan Padgett ’77 is a leading theologian who explores questions of faith
in a way that scholars and laypeople can grasp.
Homecoming 2006.........................................................16
Promoting Kids...............................................................18
Dave Peters II ’73 went from promoting popular Christian music acts to
promoting charities for children.
departments
From the President...........................................................1
Class Notes ......................................................................9
Advancing Vision 2010...................................................14
Windows.........................................................................19
A Vine of His Own Planting ............................................21
On Campus ....................................................................22
Sports.............................................................................26
Calendar .........................................................................28
Postcards .......................................................................29
T
he pursuit of academic excellence has always beena n outstanding feature of a Vanguard education. Our world-class
faculty, high standards and rigorous expectations both academically and spiritually help us to produce some of the finest graduates in the country for a university our size. This was recognized
again this year by The Princeton Review which quite remarkably
placed Vanguard alongside UCLA, UC Berkeley and Cal Tech in its
list of the ten best values in California. This kind of recognition, and
the high rankings we receive from U.S. New & World Report annually, show that our reputation for quality continues to grow.
But the real proof of a Vanguard education is in the lives of our
alums. Alan Padgett ’77, the subject of our cover story, has become
a leading theologian and one of those rare academics (he is on the
faculty at Luther Seminary) whose books cross over to popular
audiences. Recently, he received one of the most prestigious fellowships in the area of theology and was chosen to spend a year at the
University of Notre Dame as a research fellow. He also founded one
of the more important professional organizations in his field. You’ll
enjoy meeting this joyful, profound thinker who has much to say
about our faith.
You’ll also meet a current Vanguard student named Afshin who
escaped from Iran, came to study in the U.S. and now hosts a
Christian television show that is beamed back to Iran and seen by
millions there. His gripping story seems torn from the headlines,
and you will be inspired by his personal journey of faith.
Alum Dave Peters II ’73, who is profiled in this issue, made his
mark as an early leader in the Christian music industry before
switching careers to help run charities for children. Dave’s skills as a
promoter and producer of events have helped him improve the lives
of hundreds of children. Today he heads up Kids Konnected which
serves kids whose families are affected by cancer.
University Governance
Chair, Board of Trustees
T. Ray Rachels
University Administration
President
Murray Dempster
Provost and Vice President for
Academic Affairs
Russell Spittler
Vice President for Advancement and
Enrollment Management
Rick Hardy
Vice President for Business
and Finance
Jim Stilwell
Interim Vice President for
Student Affairs
Ed Westbrook
Editor
Joel Kilpatrick
Art Director
Chauncey D. Bayes
Director of Marketing and
Communications
Patti Ammerman
Director of Alumni Relations
Heather Clements
This issue is full of your other favorite departments including Class
Notes, more alumni profiles, columns and campus news. Our
forensics team is one of the best in the nation this year, and our
men’s and women’s soccer teams had terrific seasons. This and more
are inside these pages. I trust that with every issue of vanguard magazine you experience the academic and spiritual richness of our
institution again. Read and enjoy!
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Alumni Feature
Bridging
Faith and
Reason
“One of the callings of a theologian is
to think through certain answers to
problems, then present that to the
community of Christian faith and see
what they think about it. That’s how
you get orthodoxy over the centuries.”
— Alan Padgett
s a philosopher, theologian and pastor Alan Padgett ’77 is
training the next generation of church leaders to think
critically about the big questions of life and faith, and to
become better ministers as a result. His efforts have been
widely recognized: his books have been published by InterVarsity
Press and Oxford University Press, and he recently received one of
the most prestigious fellowships in his discipline, a year-long post at
the University of Notre Dame.
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“The whole idea is to help Christians realize that part of being a disciple is loving God with your mind and learning to think as a
Christian grounded in Christ and the gospel,” Padgett says.
“Laypeople are very interested in theology, if you do it in a popular
way and connect the Scriptures to their lives.”
Winning the Notre Dame post “places Dr. Padgett into an elite fellowship of international scholars,” says Richard Bliese, president of
Luther Seminary where Padgett is a faculty member.
Padgett’s academic journey started at Vanguard where he enrolled as a
recent Christian convert.
“I had never heard of a Christian college, so they explained the
Christian approach to learning,” he says. “I loved that.”
Alumni Feature
There he met and married Sally Bruyneel ’76-77. He graduated with
honors but was torn between a career in law or ministry. After many
conversations and prayers with professor Dennis McNutt ’59,
Padgett was called to attend Drew Seminary, a United Methodist
Church school in Madison, N.J., on a full scholarship.
ted himself early on to pulpit ministry, in addition to theology, and is
ordained with the United Methodist Church.
Because Padgett’s views were more evangelical than the school’s, he
went beyond the textbooks and “read the evangelical scholars to get a
balance,” he says. “I did more work because I insisted on knowing
the evangelical perspective.”
After earning an M.Div from Drew, he served as a pastor in
California, then headed to the University of Oxford in England to
earn his doctor of philosophy degree on a full scholarship. He finished the doctorate in three years, an informal record for the program. He then taught philosophy at Bethel University in St. Paul,
Minnesota, taught theology and philosophy for ten years at Azusa
Pacific University and joined the Luther Seminary faculty in 2001.
He stayed in mainline colleges and churches because one of his life
passions is for the renewal of the mainline church. He also commit-
Along the way he was taught by some of the leading lights in theology
including the present Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams,
Alan Padgett, continued on page 4
Alumni Feature
Alan Padgett (right) with Father Brian Daley, a
renowned expert on early Christian theology in
Greek and Latin. Padgett has written and edited
many books, including Science and the Study of
God (Eerdmans) which was published in
paperback this year.
Alan Padgett, continued from page 3
and Anglican apologist and pastor
N.T. Wright.
Lessons learned at Vanguard still inform
him, too.
“The number one thing I took away from
Vanguard is that you can have a Christian
spiritual approach to scholarship,” Padgett
says. “I have kept that. I learned about the
Holy Spirit. I’ve always insisted on giving
equal time to the Spirit, not only to the
Word.”
Today Padgett engages students, congregations and fellow scholars in deep discussions
with welcome levity.
“My goal is to get them to think theologically about key issues,” he says. “To realize the
value of the theory of what they’re doing and
how that connects with Scripture. By doing
that you end up being a better minister.”
The right kind of theology “is always done
in community,” he says. “One of the callings
of a theologian is to think through certain
answers to problems, then present that to
the community of Christian faith and see
what they think about it. That’s how you get
orthodoxy over the centuries.”
Through his writing and teaching Padgett is
shaping tomorrow’s church leaders.
“Alan is one of the brightest guys I have ever
known and one of the most incredible
scholars working at any level at any university,” says Gayle D. Beebe, president of Spring
Arbor University and
Padgett’s former colleague
at APU. “His reputation
continues to grow and his
leadership and scholarship
have taken him around the globe as an academic ambassador for Christianity.”
first-year college students
to the Christian faith. His
latest book, But Is It All
True?: The Bible and the
Question of Truth
(Eerdmans), is written to
pastors, students and theologians.
This year Padgett received the Frederick J.
Crosson Fellowship from the Center for the
Philosophy of Religion at the University of
Notre Dame. As a Crosson fellow, Padgett
will spend a year at the Center and work
alongside some of the country’s most distinguished philosophy and religion scholars
such as Alvin Plantinga.
Padgett’s other major career work has been
to co-found the Christian Theological
Research Fellowship (CTRF) which now
counts 450 Christian theology scholars as
members. CTRF brings them together
annually for fellowship and scholarship.
CTRF also publishes books and an online
journal which Padgett edits.
“It’s one of the most prestigious fellowships
we offer,” says Thomas Flint, director of the
Center. “We look for someone ... who could
contribute significantly to our discussions
and who could also benefit from spending a
year interacting with our other fellows working in philosophy of religion, philosophical
theology, Christian philosophy and related
fields.”
The organization “has really been blessed by
the Lord,” Padgett says. “It’s struck a cord.
It’s still growing after all these years.”
Padgett plans to work on issues surrounding
God, science and the laws of nature and
hopes his time there will result in a book.
His recent writings include the first article
in a book called For Faith and Clarity (Baker
Academic, 2006) about the relationship
between theology and philosophy. Padgett
and his wife also wrote a book together
called Introducing Christianity to introduce
Padgett’s wife is a professor of church history and teaches in Minneapolis/St. Paul
where they live. They have one child, Luke.
Alan continues to speak at churches and
conferences, and enjoys his post at Luther
Seminary because the school is “evangelical
and oriented toward Christ and the gospel,”
he says.
“I encourage people to follow God’s call on
their lives and to use their head for Jesus,
not just their feet and their hands,” Padgett
says. “I want to add this other dimension of
richness to their lives.”
Class Notes
Let us know what’s going on with you! Email Heather Clements, director of alumni relations, at
hclements@vanguard.edu, visit the Vanguard Connection at www.vanguard.edu/alumni or call 714-966-5494.
’40s
Mary Ann (Canada 1949-1952) and
Norman Campbell ’52 of Bakersfield have
been missionaries to Costa Rica, Columbia,
Argentina and Ecuador for most of their
lives. They are still fully appointed missionaries in the U.S. and raise money for mission budgets of local churches. The
Campbells have four grown children,
Kathryn, Dan ’97, John ’96, and Jeff ’81,
and seven grandchildren that include VU
alums Andrew ’03 and Scott ’06.
Mary (Grisham ’48) and Raymond Schiek
’51 have been married fifty-seven years and
have four grown children and eight grandchildren. The Schieks are retired from fulltime ministry as administrators of Christian
preschools and staff pastors. They enjoy
their new condo in Fair Oaks and traveling
to see their growing family.
’50s
Anta (Mgrdichian ’51) Saroyan lives in
Whittier and has been involved in children’s
ministry, Sunday school and leading small
group Bible studies. She is especially grateful
for her two married sons and four grandchildren.
Peggy Sue Tillman 1958-1960 worked as a
bookkeeper for forty years before retiring. She
lives at Portofino Villas in Pomona where she
teaches handcrafts and a Bible class for fellow
residents. She has fond memories of the choir
and French Club at SCC and is a proud auntie to her nieces and nephews.
’60s
Marian Gladys Rose ’62 of North
Egremont, N.H., works at the Option
Institute in Sheffield, Mass.
(www.option.org).
Clyde Gonzales ’63 was a church pastor and
worked in public health before retiring. He
lives in La Puente and is involved in small
groups at his church.
Robert Goodman ’65 and wife Orlynda
recently celebrated their fortieth wedding
anniversary. They are both retired. Bob
taught middle school in public schools for
forty years; Orlynda was a registered nurse.
Their sons Rob and Ron work for the City
of Whitefish and as a middle school principal, respectively. Bob and Orlynda have four
grandchildren, attend Christian Center in
Kalispell and enjoy snowmobiling, motorcycling and riding horses. They make their
home in Columbia Falls, Mont.
Muriel (Theissen ’67) Turner recently celebrated her eighty-ninth birthday. She is
retired from thirty-three years of mission
work in Africa and is on the women’s missionary council at her church, First
Assembly of God in Bakersfield. Muriel has
two great-grandchildren, three granddaughters, and two grown sons, Wayne Turner,
Jr. ’70 and Roy.
Velvet Moore ’68 of Winslow, Ariz., is
retired from thirty years teaching in elementary schools. She has owned an antique store
called Home Sweet Home for nine years.
Velvet and husband William have two
grown children.
’70s
Lynn (Epperson ’73) Morgan teaches high
school mathematics at the Ukarumpa
International School in Papua, New Guinea,
and is a Wycliffe missionary. The Morgan
family includes children Matt, 24, Nathan,
21, and Liz, 19.
Lavonn (Adney ’74) Bormuth and husband
Jeff celebrated their twenty-third wedding
anniversary. Lavonn is a field editor for
Taste of Home magazine and has had several
recipes published. The Bormuths have been
personally building their own home for several years. In recent years they have traveled
to Hawaii and Europe to commemorate
major World War II events.
Vera (Linzey ’74) Clark has taught for thirty
years and is now an elementary special education teacher in public schools. She attends
Cornerstone Community Church with husband Timothy, a high school teacher. In
addition to Carolyn Dillinger ’00 and April
Moore ’98, their family includes Katie, 15,
and Eric, 13. A highlight for Vera was when
she, Carolyn, and April received their graduate degrees in the same weekend. The Clarks
live in Lake Elsinore.
Carol Coleman ’77 of Redwood City is a
fitness and wellness coordinator in a corporate health center.
Dawn (Joseph ’77) Ferguson and husband
Jerry live in San Bernardino. Their son
Jared, 5, is active in many sports.
Anne (Wood ’74) Perez lives in Pomona
and has three children, Mike, 24, Doug, 21,
and Kris, 13.
’80s
Janelle (Juhala) and Terrell Abbott ’84 of
Hood River, Ore., celebrated their twentythird wedding anniversary. They have three
children, Jennifer 20, Jamie, 18, and Jeremy,
16.
Candi Calkins ’81 of Garden Grove earned
a master’s degree in journalism from Regent
University in 1989.
Class Notes, continued on page 10
Class Notes
uncles had a gift for cooking.
Farrar and his business partners opened the
first Dinners Ready store near Seattle in
2003. They also opened up Dinner
University to train franchisees. The company now has 34 stores in eight states,
including one in Huntington Beach,
California. Customers spend two hours a
month preparing beef stroganoff, glazed
pork chops and other dishes under the
direction of the staff. Customers then take
the food home for freezing and eating
throughout the month. Farrar serves as
company president.
On the menu
Scott Farrar ’73 made a late career change
and founded Dinners Ready, a franchise
which helps people prepare meals for freezing and eating.
“Our food is the best in the industry,” says
Farrar. “We have some of the best chefs.”
Farrar entered the meal preparation business in 2003 after studying the competition and concluding “we could do this a
whole lot better, and it could be very
lucrative,” Farrar says.
His family had owned restaurants in the
Seattle area for years and his father and
Farrar came to VU at the request of his
Tustin High School wrestling coach who
was starting a wrestling team at VU. Farrar
and his teammates won the NAIA regional
championship that year. But the school’s
most lasting impact on him was spiritual,
he says.
After college he worked as a landlord and
property manager for 25 years before
founding Dinners Ready.
“Usually you work hard to retire,” says
Farrar. “I was almost retired and all of a
sudden I’m working harder than ever. But
I like it much better this way. It’s like a
second chance.”
Class Notes, continued from page 9
David Fagnilli ’80 is an attorney with Davis
& Young law firm. Wife Sara of twenty
years is a fellow attorney. They live in
Lakewood, Ohio, with children Catherine,
15, Joey, 13, and Vincent, 2.
Craig Froman ’88 is a financial
aid loan advisor at Evangel
University in Springfield, Mo.
He and wife Michelle celebrate
eighteen years of marriage and
have two children, Chelsea and Andrew.
Denise (McNutt ’81) and Frank Heinrichs
’82 of Costa Mesa celebrated their twentyseventh wedding anniversary. Denise is pursuing a master’s degree in nursing education
at CSU Long Beach while Frank is a computer consultant for Sound Advice. They
have three children, Denee ’05, Danny, and
Diann.
Kevin Johnsen ’83 is pursuing a doctorate in
humanities. He worked eight years as a
teacher in Los Angeles and four years as an
administrator. For the last five years, Kevin
has worked with real estate and restaurant
businesses. He, his wife and their five children live in Tyler, Texas.
Pamela (Titus ’86) and Terence
Mang ’85 have been married
twenty years. Terence is a PC
specialist and systems analyst
for BAX Global, a freight forwarding company (www.baxglobal.com).
The Mangs live in Fountain Valley with
children Dorri, 15, Jedidiah, 12, and Glorry
Faith, 8.
Joseph McCarthy ’89 earned a master’s
degree in organizational development from
Pepperdine University in 2002 and is an
associate pastor at North Hills Church
(www.NorthHillsChurch.us). He and wife
Elizabeth “Libby” have been married for
eight years. They live in Brea.
Lynette (Way) and David Salkeld ’89
recently celebrated their sixteenth wedding
anniversary. After sixteen years at as a senior
recording engineer at Focus on the Family,
he has taken a position as director of broadcasting at the Family Research Council in
Washington, D.C. The Salkelds have four
children and live in Falls Church, Va.
Stacy (Van Es) and Michael Tuccillo ’89
live in Chico. Michael has worked for EDS
information technology company since he
graduated. He is now the information specialist senior and designs health care systems
for insurance companies. Stacy home
schools their seven children.
’90s
Sarah (Gillis ’01) and Aaron Adams ’99 live
in West Sussex, England, with son Solomon
Nathaniel, 3, and daughter Elisha Eve, 1.
Aaron teaches at a local secondary school
and is pursuing his PhD in Victorian literature at the University of Sussex.
Jocelyn (Sievers ’93) Bailey and
husband Justin live in Everett,
Wash. Jocelyn teaches fifth
grade for the Everett School
District and teaches driver’s
education at Monrow High School. They
have a daughter Anika, 1, and attend New
Life Center Foursquare Church.
Gidelyn (Banez) Bonine ’96 and husband
Kevin of Westminster have been married six
years. Kevin works for Security Solutions
while Gidelyn is a stay-at-home mom to
their son Devin, 4. The Bonines serve in
ministry at Coastview Christian Fellowship
in Huntington Beach.
April Bjornstad ’94 is senior manager of
strategic finance at Broadcom Corp. She
received her MBA from Kellogg Graduate
School of Management in 1999 and is a
member of the Institute of Chartered
Financial Analysts. She lives in Santa
Monica.
Gretchen (Brandt ’98) and Dan
Clements ’00 live in Salem,
Ore. Dan spent four years in
management with Jeld-Wen
Windows before becoming a
full-time pastor of membership care and
assimilation for Peoples Church (www.peo-
Class Notes
pleschurch.com). They have been married
seven years and have three children, Elijah
Richard, 5, Micah Daniel, 4, and Leah
Elizabeth, 1.
Timothy Erickson ’95 and wife Jessica have
been married eleven years and are proud
parents to Jilian and Jacqueline. They live in
Sun Valley.
Alexis Gelder ’98 lives in Minnesota where
she is the owner of Watermark Fine
Stationery, Inc.
(www.watermarkstationery.com). She is a
member of the Twin City Bridal Association
and the Association of Bridal Consultants.
Naliana (Duncan ’97) and Stephen Harper
’98 of Irvine have been married eight years.
Stephen is the early childhood programming
director for Mariners Church
(www.marinerschurch.org).
Tamera (Smith ’99) Henken
and husband Arlyn of Santa Ana
are two years married. Tamera is
a stay-at-home mom to their
son Timothy, 1, while Arlyn is a
licensing administrator for Veterinary Pet
Insurance.
Frank Howell ’92 lives in
Vacaville and is a correctional
officer for the Solano County
Sheriff ’s Department.
Laura (Rediger ’98) and Stephen
Larson ’95 recently celebrated
their tenth wedding anniversary.
Laura earned a master’s degree in
physical chemistry from CSU
Fullerton in 2001. Steve is an attorney. They
just moved back to Aliso Viejo with children
Anna, 3, and Jonathan, 1.
Patrina (Osborn ’96) and Xavier Limon ’00
of Costa Mesa have been married eight
years. Patrina works with Professional
Staffing while Xavier is an accountant for
Oakley (www.oakley.com).
Sherry (Enos) and Charles “Brian”
McGibbon ’95 live in Rancho Santa
Margarita and have been married eleven
years. Sherry is a teacher at Belmont Oaks
Academy, and Brian is a youth and children’s pastor at Mount Hope Community
Church (www.ourlifealive.org). They have
two daughters, Alyssa Lyn, 8, and Alyson
Kennedy, 7.
Donna (Buchan ’96) and Jeremy Moser ’97,
’04 MA of Fountain Valley have been mar-
ried nine years. They have two children,
Ethan, 7, and Kaden, 5.
Annamarie (Solano ’87) and Thomas Olson
’94 live in Porterville where Annamarie is a
library assistant and Thomas is pursuing his
MAT at Fuller Theological Seminary. They
have been married nine years.
James Phillips ’93 received a master’s degree
in secondary education from George Mason
University in 2003. He and wife Jill have
been married seven years and have two children, Noah, 4, and Jordan, 2. They live in
Centreville, Va.
James Shaw ’90 is a teacher,
webmaster and academic liaison
for the after-school intervention
program for students at
Wheatland Elementary School.
He and his wife of twenty-one years have
two daughters, Andrea, 15, and Caylin, 12.
They live in Lincoln.
Verity (Boes ’95) Sturdavant lives in Eagle
Creek, Ore., with husband John, an engineer, and children Cody, 9, and Jaydyn, 2.
Brad Switzer ’99 received his
doctorate of medicine from St.
George’s University School of
Medicine in 2005 and is pursuing a specialization in internal
medicine from the University of
Massachusetts, where he is also a career resident. He worked in the bio-tech industry
for several years and is a member of the
American Medical Association. He lives in
Worcester, Mass.
Marla (Vincent ’98) Welson and husband
Darren, a chemical engineer, have been married eight years. They have two daughters,
Valerie Anne and Madelyn Renee, and live
in Foothill Ranch.
Christin (Stephens ’98, ’02 MA) and Todd
Williams ’06 have been married two years.
Christin taught first grade in Santa Ana for
six years and now teaches Kindergarten.
They live in Ladera Ranch.
Keven Winder ’91, ’98 MA and
wife Kimberly of Castle Rock,
Colo., have been married ten
years. Keven works in medical
sales with Myriad Genetic Labs
where he provides genetic testing for hereditary cancer syndromes. The Winders have
two children, Karley Grace, 3, and Kalvin
Michael, 1.
’00s
Tara (Spaid ’01) Arreguin and husband Alex
recently celebrated their fifth wedding
anniversary. They live in Phoenix with
daughter Alexis, 1.
Claudia Aguilar ’06 is earning a bachelor’s
degree in biology at San Francisco State
University. She lives in Hanford and works
in a group home.
Tahara Akmal-Kariem ’06 is pursuing a
graduate degree in interdisciplinary/comparative religious studies at Claremont School
of Theology. She is a bereavement coordinator at Odyssey Healthcare Los Angeles
(www.odsyhealth.com) and lives in
Pasadena.
Sarah Brown ’06 is a library assistant for
Montgomery public schools near her home
in Montgomery, Ala.
Stacy Bruneau ’00 lives in Jacksonville, Ore.,
where she is a special education teacher at
Griffin Creek Elementary School.
Kelly Channing ’04 is a legislative analyst
for the County of Orange and resides in
Costa Mesa with friends.
Courtney Clark ’05 of Laguna Hills is a
media coordinator for FrontGate Media and
attends Church by the Sea in Laguna Beach.
She enjoys going to the theater and local
concerts.
Tiffany Clark ’00 earned a master’s degree in
occupational therapy from University of
Southern California in 2006. She is a pediatric occupational therapist at Saddleback
Pediatric Therapy and lives in Laguna Hills.
Dan Ford ’06 and Matt Meyer
’06 have spent the year traveling
to twenty-six countries. They
backpacked through Europe for
three months, spent three weeks
in Uganda volunteering at local schools, a
children’s home, and organizations that
include Invisible Children, and rested in
Australia, New Zealand and Fiji before
returning to the U.S.
Michelle Friesen ’02 lives in
Long Beach and is a program
director for the non-profit
organization called Leadership
Long Beach.
Edward Godinez ’02 of Baldwin Park is pursuing a graduate degree in recovery ministry
from Fuller Theological Seminary and is a
Class Notes
She finished her master’s degree in church
leadership from VU while in Costa Rica.
Family takes good
news to thousands
Jason Frenn ’88 (MA ’96) came to VU
because he wanted to plant churches in
Latin America. Today he speaks to thousands of people at public evangelism events
in Latin America and the U.S. In May he
spoke to 10,000 people at a bi-lingual
event at the Anaheim Convention Center.
“If you’d have told me while I was at SCC
that I’d be holding an event like the
Anaheim Crusade, I’d have said you’re
crazy,” Frenn says.
Frenn and wife Cindee (Larson ’86, MA
’98) came from vastly different backgrounds, she from a missionary family in
Latin America and he from a “highly dysfunctional” and unchurched family. But
both had decided at young ages to become
missionaries.
The Frenns met at VU and married in
1988, then moved to the mission field in
1991 where they were mentored by Doug
Petersen ’76.
“Vanguard was a great experience, great
school, very good education,” says Cindee.
“VU taught me how to learn, and taught
me the importance of developing the gift
God gave me,” says Jason. “In my masters
program Dr. Heuser, Dr. Camery-Hoggatt
and Doug Petersen poured a lot into my
life.”
Elizabeth (Whitlow ’03) Pickens and husband Mark have been married one year.
They live in Edmond, Okla.
Jason began holding revival conferences in
churches in Costa Rica. Then the Frenns
decided to present the gospel at larger
public meetings.
Jeremiah Taylor ’00 and wife Kelly of
Seattle recently celebrated three years of
marriage. Jeremiah is an account manager
for Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics.
“Wherever you saw a vacant lot, there we
were,” Jason says.
Ten years later Jason preaches to thousands at inter-denominational events
meant “to reach people who don’t know
the Lord and plug them into a local
church,” he says. His next major event is
in Mexico City in April 2007.
Early on, Cindee saw the need to reach
children, too. Today she leads a team of
young people who put on lively gospelthemed services for kids.
“It’s been incredibly well received,” she
says. “We solve a problem every night that
revolves around our clubhouse theme. We
use music and puppets.”
The Frenns’ daughters, 16, 14 and 11,
help produce and create the events.
“I’ve been careful not to push the performing family thing, but it’s exciting to
see that they enjoy having a part of people
coming to know the Lord,” says Cindee.
case manager at Pacific Clinics, a mental
health service. He is also a certified alcohol
and drug abuse counselor and conducts
trainings for churches, schools and drug
treatment centers through www.streetchoices.com.
Jenny Jacobs ’06 lives in San Dimas and is
pursuing a doctorate in physical therapy
from Chapman University.
David Lyke ’01 is a youth pastor at Epic
Student ministries in Missoula, Mont. He
and wife Megan love Missoula’s climate and
small city vibe.
Nicole (Thorn ’03, ’06 MA) and David
Miller ’02 of Midway City have been married three years. Nicole is a first and second
grade teacher at Prince of Peace School in
Costa Mesa. David works at AbleStik.
Stephanie (Ricardo) and Nicholas Mulcock
’05 live in Maspeth, N.Y., where Stephanie
is pursuing a law degree and Nicholas is an
audio/video technician. They recently cele-
brated their first wedding anniversary.
Jonathan Primrose ’06 is a Scion customer
specialist with Toyota Motor Sales, USA. He
lives in Irvine.
Sara VanNatta ’04 lives in Portland, Ore.,
where she is a staff accountant at the public
accounting firm Aldrich, Kilbride & Tatone
LLC (www.aktcpa.com).
Randy Wallen ’02, ’05 MA of Newport
Beach is a broker with Wallen Brokerage
Group, a commercial real estate brokerage
(www.wallenbrokeragegroup.com). He is a
member of the Southern California
Mediation Association.
Julie (James ’02) Woods and
husband Timothy, an information technology manager, have
been married three years. They
live with son Thomas, 2, in
Garden Grove.
Future Alumni
Angela (Brink ’04) and Michael
Bridgford ’05 of Placentia welcomed daughter Ellie on August
23, 2006. After working as a
student worker and full-time
staff member in the financial aid office at
VU for six years, Angela is now a stay-athome mom. Michael works with Bridgford
Foods.
Nicole (Baker ’98) Cote and husband Brad,
an engineer, are proud parents to Christian
Rory, born in August 2006. They live in
Canada.
Marlyn (Lamsen) De Mesa ’93
and Anthony of Chula Vista are
proud parents to Gabriella
Nicole, born July 9, 2006.
Kimberly (Battle-Walters ’89) Denu and
husband Yohannes were married in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia, in January 2006 and are
parents to Joshua Yohannes, born November
18, 2006. Kim is a faculty moderator at
Azusa Pacific University.
Jaime (Brigman ’00) and Ryan Donovan
1996-1997 welcomed daughter Katelyn
Ryanne on February 22, 2006. Ryan is a
deputy sheriff for San Bernardino County.
Jaime is a stay-at-home mom.
Tamar (Mariano 1996-1998) and Steve
Gronowski ’97 of Glendale, Ariz., have been
married eight years. Steve is the area manager
for the Boot Barn while Tamar is a stay-athome mom and works at the Coffee Beanery.
Their children include Hailey, 7, Jeremiah,
5, William, 2, and Annabelle, born in March
2006.
Amaris (Mattox ’97) Hossli and husband
Christian welcomed son Caleb on September
25, 2006. They live in Rancho Santa
Margarita.
Alison (Singer ’89) and Steve
Lasley ’86 of Sonoma are proud
parents to Luke, 12, Jadon &
Jesse, 9, and Judah Nathaniel,
born April 21, 2006. Steve is a
carpenter. Alison is a home school teacher.
Alison (O’Leary ’97) and Nathan Miller ’99
live in Modesto where Nathan is a CPA with
Grimbleby-Coleman while Alison enjoys
being a full-time mom to Kate, 5, Claire, 3,
and Jack Andrew, born on September 21,
2006.
Mike Slagle ’92 and wife Miranda announce
the birth of their daughters Kate Hanna and
Emma Rebecca, born October 16, 2006.
The Slagle family lives in Santa Ana.
Cherish (Miller ’96) and David
Steinbach ’97 are excited about
their new addition, Madeline
Kelly, born November 1, 2006.
She joins Conor David, 2. The
family lives in San Pedro.
Just Married
Susan (Nylander ’01) Benton
and husband James were married
September 29, 2006. James is a
church administrator at Menlo
Park Presbyterian Church while
Susan is the assistant director of the church’s
high school department staff
(www.mppc.org). They live in Menlo Park.
Rachel (Laverty ’06) married
Daniel Lindburg on August 6,
2006. Daniel is a sixth grade
teacher. Rachel works at VU as
the Student Life secretary. They
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“Much of our lives have been dedicated to
education, with the last few years at Vanguard
University. Including the university in our will gives
us much pleasure and satisfaction. We can think of
no better legacy than investing in Vanguard’s future
leaders and world-changers with this bequest.”
Dr. Klaude and Mable Kendrick
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Vanguard University.
By designating Vanguard as a beneficiary in your will or living trust, you can help
students achieve their academic goals and dreams.
To learn more about our Wills and Bequest Program and other giving
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Advancing Vision 2010
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“We are thrilled with Ralph’s continuing support of Vanguard
University and our department of music with this donation,” says
James Melton dean of VU’s School of Communication and the Arts.
“It’s a wonderful tie to contemporary music history of which Ralph
has been a forerunner and trend-setter. This will be a wonderful historiography for our students to look at and a centerpiece for our
music department’s future efforts.”
alph Carmichael ’44-48, renowned composer and
arranger, and his wife Mar have made a generous donation of seventy-eight musical scores to Vanguard
University’s department of music, giving students invaluable access to his original works.
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“My hope was that someday they might have a use for these if they
started a film scoring class,” Carmichael says. “To teach young
arrangers and composers they might look at my scores.”
VU’s music department jumped at the opportunity to receive the
scores, which showcase Carmichael’s remarkably wide range. The collection includes a score written for Nat King Cole’s appearance on
the Bing Crosby Show, scores for I Love Lucy, the Roy Rogers Show and
the Oral Roberts dramatic Easter special from 1972. They also
include the scores Carmichael wrote for Billy Graham films, including Joni (1979), The Restless Ones (1965) and For Pete’s Sake (1966).
Also in the mix are Carmichael’s score for The Cross and the
Switchblade (1970), The Blob (1958) starring Steve McQueen, and
scores for television commercials for Bonanza, Pepsodent, Sunsweet
Prunes, Chevrolet and the United Way.
Ralph credits wife Mar for maintaining his library of handwritten
scores for decades. At one point she rescued his arrangements from a
garage flood and worked assiduously to catalog them.
“Every time I pull something out of the library I thank God for her
special gift,” Ralph says.
Film and television scores have been a major part of Carmichael’s
career. His first job writing background music and cues for a dramatic
program was with the Far East Broadcasting Company’s radio program
when Carmichael was 18 and still a student at VU. (FEBC was founded by VU alums Bob Bowman ’36, John Broger ’39 and Bill Roberts
’30.) He discovered that each score is “a separate adventure,” he says.
Film scoring mostly involves supporting and extending the vision of
the film and its makers, but as Carmichael grew in his craft he began
writing songs specifically for film soundtracks. The most well known
of these is “He’s Everything to Me” from The Restless Ones.
He also began getting work in secular film and television. In 1958 he
wrote an experimental score that used dissonance for what would
become a sci-fi classic, The Blob.
“I thought, when Christendom finds out I’ve done The Blob, that’ll
be the end of me,” he says, explaining why he wrote the film’s score
under a pseudonym.
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“I thought, when Christendom
finds out I’ve done The Blob,
that’ll be the end of me.”
The Carmichaels first thought of donating the scores to VU when Ralph got a
call from an archivist at a large public university in another state. The university
wanted to add Carmichael’s scores to its growing library of original film scores.
But Carmichael wanted his scores to go to his alma mater. He hopes one day to
donate his entire library of more than 3,000 original arrangements to VU.
“I could have profited by having a film score library to study when I was a student,” he says. “It wouldn’t have been trial and error, hunt and peck and the
years of experiments that I had to do, if somebody had shown me the shortcuts.”
The gift also coincides with an expansion in the size and scope of VU’s music
program. VU’s master plan calls for the construction of a new academic music
building and concert hall which may include a hall of fame, in which
Carmichael’s work would feature prominently, Melton says.
“Special collections and historical archives preserve significant benchmarks in the
institutional memory of the University, and its alumni, personnel, mission and
academic interests,” says President Murray Dempster. “I am elated and personally
grateful that Ralph Carmichael has donated this highly coveted collection of his
works to Vanguard University, his alma mater. The Ralph Carmichael Collection
identifies the University as a significant place for research and understanding of
the development of contemporary TV/film scores, as well as the musical artistry
of Ralph himself.”
Class Notes
live in Newport Beach with cats Frodo and
Sam.
Jessica (Magliano ’00) married
John Putterman on March 24,
2006. John is a client specialist at
Distribution Alternatives. Jessica
works in accounting at Carey
Sign Graphics (www.careysigns.com). They
live in Chino Hills.
Brigette (Caligure) and Dave Martin ’05 were
married on July 20, 2006. They live in
Colorado Springs where Brigette is an administrative assistant for Focus on the Family and
Dave is in sales for Ferguson Enterprises.
Corina (Montelongo ’03) married Josh Greegor on November
4, 2006. Corina is a piano
teacher and has worked with the
All American Boys Chorus and
ArtLinks. The couple lives in Tracy.
Frederic Piaget ’97 married
Helene, a speech therapist, on
May 20, 2006. They live in
Cortaillod, Switzerland.
Rochelle (Scott ’03) married
Gregory Harrop on November
18, 2006 at their church in
Winter Park, Fla. Rochelle is a
senior accountant for Wyndham
Vacation Ownership.
Matthew Sonnenberg ’98 and
wife Anna were married on
August 19, 2006. Matt is a multimedia specialist for Toshiba while
Anna is a teacher for the City of
Anaheim. The Sonnenbergs live in Lake Forest
with daughter Brittany.
Heather Joy (Wells ’98) married
Daron Hubbert, a college administrator at Azusa Pacific
University, on November 19,
2006. Heather is the director of
campus activities at California Baptist
University. They live in Montclair.
In Memory
Evelyn (Johnson) Coad ’47 passed away
November 21, 2006.
Matt Stankus ’82 passed away August 26,
2006.
Roy Spece ’51 passed away July 7, 2006.
Carmichael was the subject of a vanguard magazine cover story in fall 2006.
Homecoming 2006
Homecoming 2006
Homecoming 2006 brought hundreds of alums together for events on and around
campus. Sixty young alums (top left) attended a homecoming dinner at BJ’s Pizza. Alums
enjoyed the basketball game from the upper deck in The Pit, and James Melton and Hal
Keener ’44 shared a laugh between events.
The women’s basketball team squared off against an alumni team in the Blue-Gold game
(bottom left), and Melinda Rediger ’88 enjoyed a first-of-its-kind communications
department reunion, which celebrated 25 years of that department with a blooper reel of
alum student projects and an alumni panel on working in Hollywood, with panelists
Rediger and Randy Argue ’86. Artist-in-residence H. Keith Ewing’s painting class was
another hot ticket.
Homecoming 2006
On Saturday, alumni awards were presented to
Alumnus of the Year Johanna Townsend ’66 (far
top, holding flowers; pictured with family and
friends); Jim Marocco ’71 (top right, with wife
Colleen ’72), this year’s Distinguished Service
Award winner; Chuck Buck ’57 (top left, with VU
president Murray Dempster), who won the Career
Achievement Award; and the 2006 Outstanding
Young Alum, Nicole Suydam ’95 (left, with her
former professor Dennis McNutt ’59).
Friday night’s alumni Vanguard Singers & Band
Reunion concert drew 60 participants who
performed by year. And alums and the current
men’s basketball team competed for bragging
rights, with the current VU team taking the prize.
Do you know
someone who
deserves an alumni award at
homecoming 2007?
If so, visit www.vanguard.edu/alumni
or call 714-966-5494 for more information.
Mark your calendars
for Homecoming 2007.
november 7-10
VU Profile
Promoting
Kids
ave Peters II ’73 helped promote
the early careers of Andrae
Crouch, James Dobson and
dozens of other Christian artists
as a founding member of the first Christian
artists agency in the 1970s. Now Peters puts
his promotional talents to work as executive
director of Kids Konnected which helps kids
whose families are affected by cancer.
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“It’s been fantastic working here,” Peters
says. “Kids Konnected is so unique in its
mission. I’ve found my niche.”
Peters came to VU from a household of
music and ministry. His father served as
music minister at North Hollywood
Assembly of God and other churches, and
was a professor of music at Bethany College
in Santa Cruz. At age six, Dave directed the
orchestra at one of Sacramento’s largest
churches.
As a Vanguard student in the late 1960s,
Peters found himself in the middle of a new
movement in Christian music.
“On Fairview Drive there was a little dinky
church that became Calvary Chapel having
services every night,” he says. “We got wind
of this at SCC — that they were packing
them in and having great music. Hot musicians that had been in bar bands were converting to Christianity, and it was changing
the style of music.”
Peters booked Andrae Crouch at VU for two
concerts in the gym. Peters then joined VU’s
singing group, The Accents, in 1969 with
Rusty Peavy ’70, Eddie Chaviz ’70 and Bob
Cull ’71. Pat Boone heard the group’s album
and invited them to tour with him “because
he said we sounded like the Osmonds,”
Peters says. Peters also sang back-up on
albums for Ralph Carmichael ’44-48, Jimmy
Owens and Otis Skillings.
“The Accents gave me the platform that
spring-boarded me into a career,” Peters says.
“SCC was a great experience for me. I thoroughly enjoyed it and made some great
friendships.”
Then Wayne Coombs, Boone’s agent and
co-manager, invited Peters, who was still a
VU student, to help found an agency to represent emerging Christian singers and
authors. The Wayne Coombs Agency
opened on Hollywood Boulevard in 1973
with clients like James Dobson, who would
soon release his first book, Dare to
Discipline, Larry Norman, Randy Stonehill,
the Pat Boone family, quarterback Archie
Manning (father of Peyton and Eli) and
Nicky Cruz. In 1977, following the success
of Debby Boone’s song “You Light Up My
Dave Peters, continued on page 19
Windows
Editor’s note: This column gives a view into
student and university life from the perspective
of a different staff or faculty member each issue.
Phil Robinette
Professor of Sociology
Classroom Rituals
A
Four years later I have students participate
It is designed to break students out of their
s a professor of sociology, I am fasin an ending ritual that facilitates the oppoestablished social structures and get them to
cinated by rituals. They signal
site process. It teaches that “breaking up” is
broaden and deepen their social connecbeginnings and endings, and estabnot easy, and helps them understand some
tions. Without rituals like this, many would
lish group behavior. Vanguard has always
of the challenges ahead as they graduate and
go through their collegiate experience with
had its share of rituals. Alums from the ’60s
lose the established social connections they
little new social interactions.
probably remember wearing a “beanie” with
have made at Vanguard. At the
“SCC” (for Southern California
College) imprinted above the
Past Vanguard rituals included a lights-out final session of my senior seminar
class, students are given an opporbill. That marked you as a freshpolicy at 10 p.m. and the administration
tunity to say goodbye to the proman so upper class students
fessor and their classmates. But
could ask you to carry their
publicly announcing engagements on
there is a surprising rule: after givbooks, get them a Coke or percampus.
Ah,
the
good
old
days!
ing a farewell to the group, each
form other menial tasks.
student must exit the room and
Freshmen went along with it to
I ask students to convene in an outside
not return. This means that those who speak
pay the price so they could exploit the new
courtyard visible to everyone else on the
first don’t get to hear the remarks of most of
incoming class in subsequent years.
campus. We join hands in a circle and each
the class. And those who share near the end
person silently prays for the person on his or
Other past rituals and rules included a
have only a few students left to hear their
her right and squeezes that person’s hand.
lights-out policy at 10 p.m., males and
comments. This exit ritual encourages stuThen comes the unforgettable group bondfemales being made to sit on opposite sides
dents to pursue complete and satisfying
ing ritual. Students place their arms around
of chapel, public confessions of dorm violagood-byes with people they have grown to
the shoulders of the people next to them
tions being made in chapel, and the adminlove and value. It prods them to prepare to
and step forward simultaneously. This comistration publicly announcing engagements
feel unattached, at least for awhile, when
presses the circle and generates a group hug.
on campus. Ah, the good old days!
they leave college and once again negotiate
For a brief moment everyone in the circle is
These days the rituals are different. In my
new unknown groups and social structures.
united into a single group. Class interactions
classes I have established two of my own,
It also gives them hope and courage to face
are never quite the same again. Students feel
one to signal a beginning for my students,
what comes next in life, which is at the heart
included in a group some of which were prethe other an ending. The first ritual takes
of Vanguard’s mission.
viously
strangers.
place in my Introduction to Sociology class.
Dave Peters, continued from page 18
Life,” Peters booked her national tour.
“I was blessed to be connected with a lot of
fantastic ministries,” he says. “It was the first
time Christian music was getting national
exposure. We didn’t know what we really had.
We just knew records were selling like crazy.”
In 1980 Peters started his own agency to
manage clients such as Gavin MacLeod and
Chuck Woolery. But his life took a new
direction on a 1990 trip to Guatemala with
MacLeod to shoot a Feed the Children television special. There, Peters was deeply moved
to see children living off the city dump.
“A light went on,” he says. “I felt I should
use my connections in the entertainment
and corporate world to help kids.”
By 1990 he had left entertainment and was
working full-time with nonprofit children’s
agencies in international adoptions. He traveled Eastern Europe and Russia, visiting
orphanages and helping to provide medical
relief in war zones in Croatia and Bosnia.
The work was often dangerous, and Peters’
assistant was murdered in Moscow.
However, his work was also rewarding. For
example, one orphan boy had no outer ears
but had skin covering his ear holes, making
him functionally deaf. A volunteer plastic
surgeon took cartilage from the boy’s rib and
Dave Peters, continued on page 20
VU Profile
Dave Peters with Kids Konnected
kids at summer camp.
Dave Peters, continued from page 19
built an ear structure over the course of two
years and many surgeries. Peters then placed
the boy with an adoptive family in San
Diego. In six years Peters facilitated more
than one hundred adoptions of children
from Eastern Europe and Russia by qualified couples in the U.S.
Peters then accepted a position with Olive
Crest Abused Children’s Foundation in
Orange County to raise funds and produce
special events.
“Dave’s heart is in helping children and
families,” says Tim Bauer, who hired Peters
at Olive Crest and is now a vice president
with the nonprofit Child Abuse Prevention
Center. “I knew he wasn’t just trying to
meet a goal but really cared about how the
funds [he was raising] would be used. While
we were at Olive Crest we got a tremendous
amount of work done ... Dave was a big
part of that.”
In 2005 Peters accepted the top position at
Kids Konnected, an agency that provides
therapeutic care for
kids when a parent
is newly diagnosed
with cancer. Kids
Konnected produces a popular
Teddy Bear Care
Package that has
age-appropriate coloring books and tools to teach kids what
chemotherapy is and what to expect when
their parent undergoes treatment.
“When a family has cancer, depression, academic failure and separation anxiety become
big issues,” Peters says. “I had a cheerleader
from Missouri tell me she worries about
going to Friday night games because she’s
afraid her dad won’t be home when she gets
back. Parents say to me, ‘Knowing my kids
are okay, I can concentrate on fighting the
cancer.’ If you’re worried about your children you don’t get well as quickly.”
Last year Kids Konnected helped 1,100
families nationwide. The agency is listed in
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, and
ABC’s Extreme Makeover television program
remodeled a home for one of its families.
Peters’ five-year goal is to be as well known
as Ronald McDonald House and the MakeA-Wish Foundation.
He also continues to be involved with
Vanguard and has advised the University on
community events. In 2005 Vanguard gave
him its Distinguished Service Award.
“God laid out a plan I could never have
designed,” Peters says. “Vanguard was the
platform that led to everything I’ve had
happen to me.”
A Vine of His Own Planting
Editor’s note: This column looks at major
episodes in Vanguard University’s history.
Lewis Wilson
Academic Dean Emeritus
Vanguard at
a Crossroads
H
ad a 1953 agreement been carried
out, there would never have been a
Vanguard University. The school
was founded in 1920 as Southern California
Bible School and was immediately endorsed
by the Assemblies of God, a national fellowship of churches created only six years earlier. The denomination grew rapidly, but its
educational efforts remained limited to
modest two- and three-year Bible schools.
SCBS did become Southern California Bible
College in 1939 and a Texas school added a
junior college program, but the primary purpose of all the endorsed Bible schools continued to be the training of ministers.
But slowly, support for a denominational
college to educate those wishing to enter
other professions developed, and in 1953 a
liberal arts college was mandated by the
General Council of the Assemblies of God.
Its general superintendent believed that the
new college could most readily be created by
modifying one of the existing schools and
recognized that SCBC was uniquely qualified to make the transition. In September he
invited the school’s president and board
chairman to Springfield, Missouri, to explore
that possibility.
The invitation came at a critical period in
Vanguard history. The 1950 move from
Pasadena had proved challenging, enrollment had fallen precipitously, and financial
pressures were eroding morale. Though the
Southern California District had owned the
college since 1941, it
had not always been a
happy, supportive
relationship.
Transferring ownership and responsibility to the national
body promised increased funding, a national
student pool, and accelerated academic
development. The proposal was so enticing
that a preliminary agreement was reached
that SCBC with all its assets would be transferred to the denomination. Its curriculum
would be broadened, its campus relocated,
and a more appropriate name adopted.
Except for its library and faculty which
would be absorbed by the new college, little
of the institution which had effectively operated for thirty-five years would remain. Four
months later, with an executive from the
national office present to acknowledge the
generous gift, the agreement was officially
and overwhelmingly approved at the
Southern California District Council in
Fresno.
But between the initial September agreement and its formal ratification in February,
the proposed transfer was effectively aborted.
The General Presbytery had met in
December with representatives from the
endorsed Bible schools to discuss the new
liberal arts college, and the meeting produced an unanticipated resolution. The new
college would offer neither a Bible nor
theology major and its general education
Vanguard campus, 1950
requirements would be limited to no more
than two units of Bible per semester. But
SCBC had always regarded the training of
pastors and missionaries as a vital part of its
mission and a treasured part of its heritage.
Its Bible department was the school’s
strongest, and a larger proportion of its
graduates were serving as foreign missionaries than those from any other school in the
denomination. Consequently, though SCBC
with all its assets was offered to the General
Council, the gift carried a stipulation: the
new college must offer a Bible or theology
major.
Disappointed national and district leaders
sought to reconcile the two positions, and in
July a specially called district council was
convened to consider a compromise. But all
the efforts failed. SCBC would remain in
Costa Mesa to become SCC in 1959 and
Vanguard University forty years later.
Over half a century later, Vanguard continues to educate ministers as well as teachers,
doctors, lawyers and those preparing for a
variety of other callings. Its friends and
alumni can be grateful and proud that at the
most critical time in its history, principle triumphed over expediency.
On Campus
preparation for their reconstruction.
On past trips VU students “mudded”
homes, meaning they removed furniture,
carpets, mud and other debris. Gutting a
home goes much further and involves ripping out everything but the wooden frame
to make it ready for renovation and re-occupation. New Orleans and neighboring cities
have deadlines by which homes must be gutted or face demolition. The VU team saved
three homes from demolition.
The team also hosted a dessert for long-term
volunteers who have been living at the
School for Urban Missions and devoting
their lives to rebuilding New Orleans. It was
a meaningful time of celebration, prayer and
commissioning for the next chapter of their
lives, says Cooper.
Fletcher Jones
Foundation Awards
Grant for Science
Equipment
center when it is completed. The science
center is part of Vanguard’s Vision 2010
capital campaign, the University’s guiding
blueprint to become a nationally recognized
comprehensive Christian university.
The Fletcher Jones Foundation of Los
Angeles has awarded VU a grant for
$366,460 to acquire laboratory equipment
for the future Townsend Academic Center
for Science and Technology.
The contribution allows Vanguard to keep
pace with the dynamic changes in science
technology and is a significant stride toward
achieving the goals of Vision 2010.
Established in 1969, the Fletcher Jones
Foundation supports private colleges and
universities, particularly in California.
“This generous funding greatly strengthens
our science programs, including our new
nursing program, and accommodates the
urgent demand for the preparation of
healthcare personnel and science education
professionals,” said VU president Murray
Dempster.
The substantial investment from the foundation provides science students with state-ofthe-art educational technology like adult and
infant human patient simulators, a DNA
sequencer and high-quality microscopes.
The equipment can be purchased immediately and then migrated to the new science
Students travel far
and wide to volunteer,
minister
Teams of students traveled to New Orleans,
Seattle and India in December to volunteer
and minister.
Amanda Cooper and Kirsten Nielsen, the
director and coordinator of leadership development/activities at VU, respectively, led a
team to New Orleans to gut houses in
The VU team then volunteered at a
Christmas outreach and helped construct a
bathroom and showers at a nearby church
which will allow it to host volunteers for
future Katrina clean-up efforts.
“We have made a lasting connection to the
School for Urban Missions and have a commitment to rebuilding New Orleans,” says
Cooper. VU is sending its fourth team to
New Orleans this summer.
Another team from VU spent a week in
Seattle working with Youth with a Mission
(YWAM) to serve the poor. The team spent
mornings at the Union Gospel Mission leading worship services and proclaiming the
gospel. Then they served lunch to street people. The team also spent a cold, rainy
evening with UGM's Search and Rescue,
driving around the city to hand out blankets,
food and warm clothing to homeless people.
In the afternoons the team worked with atrisk children of the Rainier Valley District,
inventing games and skits for the kids. The
trip ended with a Christmas party at the
Boy's and Girl's Club.
On Campus
“Time and again we were told how encouraging we were to many people because we
were young people devoted to the work we
were doing,” says team leader Eric Wilson,
coordinator of VU’s inner city outreach.
A third, smaller team from VU ventured to
India for two weeks, attempting to preach
the gospel to remote tribes.
Team leaders Andrew Richey, VU’s coordinator of global outreach, and wife Amanda
led three students into the jungles of southeast India where they found villages where
people had never heard the name of Jesus.
The team slept on the floor of a remote coffee plantation and spent three days hiking
through the jungle on wild animal paths
with their Indian hosts. When they reached a
village they would introduce themselves and
share the gospel. About fifty people prayed to
receive Christ, Andrew Richey says.
“We were able to share the gospel with a
couple hundred people who’d never heard it
before,” says Richey. “I’m delighted that it
happened.”
For more information on VU’s outreach
efforts, visit www.vanguard.edu/outreachministries
the business community.
Russell Williams, president of Passkeys
Foundation and founder of the Ethics in
America Awards, is giving the awards program to Vanguard. He says his purpose from
the beginning was to transfer ownership of
the Awards to a university which took a
strong public stand on the value of ethics in
public life.
“This is the best direction for the program
and VU is well positioned to bring this story
forward,” says Williams. “I’m pleased
beyond imagination that Vanguard
University saw the opportunity. I’m so grateful for this university and its vision.”
VU became a host and main sponsor of the
Awards in 2005. Now it has signed an agreement to take over the event by 2010. The
University will likely expand the event in
significant ways to publicly honor people
who exemplify ethical professional behavior
in business and the broader society.
“The Ethics in America Awards Program
will assist us in branding Vanguard as a university that integrates ethics into the curriculum in our School of Business and
Management and cultivates character, leadership and service within all our students as
an essential part of our institutional mission,” says President Murray Dempster.
“Russ Williams has given to the University
an incredible gift of value in donating this
intellectual property and signature program
to the University. We are grateful for Russ’s
generosity and his trust that we will be good
stewards in expanding the influence and
excellence for which this program has
become known in our region.”
Forensics Team
Sweeps Tournament
VU’s forensics team took third place in the
overall team sweepstakes of four-year schools
at the 2006 Fall Championships at CSU
Long Beach and ended the fall semester as
one of the top teams in the nation.
“This team has so much character and
enthusiasm," said Karen Nishie, VU’s director of forensics. “The students are committed to the success of the team. We work
hard, but we have a lot of fun.”
Following three days of competition, VU’s
squad came away with a variety of awards in
categories such as extemporaneous and
On Campus, continued on page 24
VU to take over ethics
awards
The Ethics in America Awards, founded by
the Passkeys Foundation eleven years ago,
will soon be run exclusively by VU, which
plans to grow it into a national event. The
awards will continue to honor people like
John Wooden and Art Linkletter who promote ethical behavior and moral values in
(back row, l to r) Vanguard’s David Elliott, David Alford,
Renee Smith and Rick Hardy with Russell Williams
(front left) and VU president Murray W. Dempster.
Williams gifted the Ethics in America program he
created to Vanguard University.
On Campus
On Campus, continued from page 23
impromptu speaking. Three of VU’s teams
advanced into eliminations rounds following
the group stage. Students Emily Barrett,
Jessica Cross, Andy Long, Catherine Riley,
Lance Trueb and Andrew Ntzouras made it
to the finals in various events.
VU is ranked seventh in the nation, above
teams such as UCLA, UC Berkeley and
Wheaton College. This year the team is
excelling in overall sweepstakes awards
which measure the strength of a team rather
than individuals. VU won sweeps at four
out of five tournaments.
The most important part of their season lies
ahead. A spate of spring tournaments will
test the team’s mettle.
Students serve local
needy over holidays
On December 2, several dozen students
went to Skid Row in Los Angeles to hand
out hygiene packets and lunch to the people
who make that street their home. Groups
have gone from VU for the past three years.
Students spent several hours talking with
and ministering to street people among the
tents and sleeping bags laid out on the sidewalks.
“You don’t have to travel across the globe to
see need like this,” says Jamie Brownlee,
VU’s director of Outreach Ministries.
The next weekend students put on the
annual Children’s Christmas Party in partnership with The Crossing church. The
event had a much greater turnout of children, volunteers and a wider variety of
games and booths than last year. Children
made crafts, decorated cookies, got their
picture taken with Santa Claus (played by
VU professor Marty Harris) and decorated a
frame for their photo. Everyone who attended received lunch and each child received a
gift and heard the Christmas story.
“It’s my favorite event we do,” says
Brownlee. “It’s such a personal event, with
plenty of opportunity for people to talk to
kids and parents from the community.”
The event helped to promote local learning
centers. Thirty VU student volunteers
helped run the event.
Christmas Fantasia
re-born at new venue
Gentlemen” in bluegrass, classical and rock
styles, and brought the house down. The
Vanguard Singers spoofed “Deck the Halls”
with their “Variations on Fa-La-La,” the
University Concert Orchestra played the
Polar Express Concert Suite, and half a
dozen other choruses performed, including
the Women’s Chorus under the direction of
music professor Joni Fukuda and the Jazz
Ensemble under the direction of music professor Kenneth Foerch.
Christmas Fantasia kicked off a new era with
two sold-out shows and a first appearance at
the nationally acclaimed Cerritos Center for
the Performing Arts, whose acoustic superiority helped take the time-honored VU
event to a new level of excellence.
Melton also interviewed several VU music
students to demonstrate the heart and character at the center of the music program.
“It was a tremendous success,” says Rick
Hardy, vice president for university advancement. “We had 2,500 people in attendance at
both presentations. Tickets sold out well in
advance. The Cerritos Center
really matched the excellence of
our music program.”
“We so enjoyed it,” she says. “David went
around telling everyone what a wonderful
night we’d had, how great the music and variety were. We’ve attended the concert for many
On Dec. 7 at the Center and
Dec. 8 at St. Andrews
Presbyterian church, VU’s 200
singers and musicians performed a delightful variety of
Christmas favorites, with several surprises thrown in. The
concert began in candlelight
with the students singing in
the aisles, and ended, as is customary, with the Hallelujah
Chorus. In between, James
Melton, dean of VU’s School
of Communication and the
Arts, took the audience on a
musical journey of Christmas.
A four-guitar ensemble under
the direction of music professor Greg Glancey performed
“God Rest Ye Merry
Marilyn Botzenhardt, a longtime supporter
of VU, attended at the Cerritos Center with
husband David and several friends.
On Campus
years and it’s always been very good. I think
this year having it in the performing arts center made it feel like more of an occasion.”
Today all CDP courses are offered online,
and students may access their class anytime
via the Internet.
Christmas Fantasia has been one of VU’s
most important community events for
ten years.
“It is important that early education professionals have a variety of options in format,
duration of class time, convenience and
course content,” says Keeler. “[VU’s] courses
have provided a much-needed avenue for
additional training for those working in the
field. Many students can engage in the
learning process in the comfort and convenience of their own home. The peer mentoring that takes place exceeds a typical on
campus course.”
Online education
courses prove popular
VU’s pioneering online Child Development
Program (CDP) trained nearly 900 students
over the past two years, and its enrollment
has doubled over last year.
“This is the first online program for VU,
and it meets a unique need for Christian
early educators,” says Bren Martin, administrator of the program which was developed
in collaboration with the Association of
Christian Schools International (ACSI) and
is offered through VU’s School of
Education. “It has also led the way for VU
to offer other courses online.”
Martin agrees and says that VU’s instructors
“have found that the online format can create a stronger sense of community than the
traditional classroom.”
VU is one of the few Christian universities
to offer early education courses online which
meet California’s and many other states’
requirements for formal educational training. VU’s classes can be applied to the ACSI
preschool associate credential (PAC) and
Directors Certificate training requirements.
“CDP has been part of an educational journey for VU in how to use this type of technology in teaching,” says Martin.
“This program is very distinct in that it
offers training in early education from a biblical worldview,” says Debbi Keeler of ACSI.
“Here in southern California there are no
known online early childhood education
course that are taught from a Christian perspective and [there are only] limited programs across the U.S. The students appreciate this uniqueness.”
The online CDP has greatly expanded VU’s
reach and has given students worldwide the
opportunity to take required education
courses through VU rather than through a
community college.
Last fall VU expanded its online presence by
embarking on an eLearning pilot program
with 14 VU faculty members who are creating technologically enhanced courses for
online/hybrid delivery.
For more information on Vanguard’s online
CDP courses visit http://vanguard.edu/cdp
Pre-VU shows off
campus life
Two hundred students and parents attended
Pre-VU 2006 this fall to experience firsthand what life at Vanguard is like.
“Pre-VU gives our prospective students a
great opportunity to see the Vanguard campus in action,” says Calli Adams ’05, assistant director of undergraduate admissions.
“They interact with our outstanding faculty
and students, stay in the dorms and attend
chapel. We want them to get a taste of it all.”
and Missouri to see the campus and have a
Q-and-A session with president Murray
Dempster. Parents dined with the president,
and everyone enjoyed times of worship and
entertainment with the Delivery Boys and
Entourage student comedy/ministry teams.
“Pre-VU parents and students love the opportunity to get to know our faculty and staff on
a personal level,” says Adams. “It eases their
concerns and fears about attending college or
sending a student away to college.”
On average, half the students who attend
Pre-VU enroll at Vanguard.
Jesus, CEO author to
speak at
Commencement
Laurie Beth Jones, author of Jesus, CEO:
Using Ancient Wisdom for Visionary
Leadership, will speak at Vanguard
University’s 2007
Commencement
ceremonies on
May 5.
Laurie Beth Jones
burst onto the
national scene
with the best-selling Jesus, CEO, a
book which promoted bringing
spiritual principles
back into the
business world. That book, and subsequent
books, have been translated into twelve foreign languages. As a speaker and trainer,
Jones has been invited to present to presidents of countries and companies, business
teams, churches, ministries and educators.
Commencement will be held May 5, 2007
at 5 p.m. at the Pacific Amphitheatre in
Costa Mesa.
Students came from as far away as Minnesota
Sports
Kicking
it up a
notch
U soccer coach Randy Dodge ’93
led the men’s and women’s teams
to the regional finals this year, a
first-time achievement for any
Golden State Athletic Conference coach.
V
McLeish also gave Dodge his
first high school coaching job at
age 18. At VU Dodge met his
wife Stephanie (Pruitt ’94). His
brother Phil ’92 is also an alum.
Under his leadership, VU’s soccer program
has reached a high point in its history, and
both teams have a strong chance to make
the national tournament in years to come.
This year the men held their opponents to
0.48 goals per game and the team was
ranked as high as fourth in the NAIA, the
highest ranking ever for VU men’s soccer.
After graduating from VU,
Randy continued to coach high
school, college and club soccer.
For five years he was a head
trainer with the California Youth
Soccer Association in Orange
County. He earned a master’s
degree in education from CSU
San Bernardino
in 1997.
The women’s team went to the first VU
women’s soccer Region II Championship
game ever and tied the school record for
total wins in a season.
“We now have respect across the country
and we’ll continue to grow,” says Dodge.
Dodge learned his passion for coaching
while playing for VU during the ‘90s after a
stellar high school career that included four
league championship games. As a four-year
starter at VU, Dodge was inspired by former
VU soccer coach Dave McLeish.
“Dave put a desire and passion in me to
coach,” says Dodge. “He had a tremendous
influence on me. I saw my calling to teach
soccer through him.”
This year the men’s soccer
team was ranked as high
as fourth in the NAIA, the
highest ranking ever for VU
men’s soccer.
He returned to VU after serving
as men’s soccer coach assistant at
UC Irvine for three years.
“I wanted to get back to my alma mater,”
he says.
His VU coaching career got off to an inauspicious start when, during his first game, the
homecoming alumni game, goalkeeper
Tamasso Bianchi ’05 suffered a compound
fracture to his arm. (Bianchi later became
the first VU soccer player to be drafted by a
Major Indoor League Soccer team — the
California Cougars in 2005.)
Dodge’s first-year team had only sixteen
players but managed an 8-12 record.
The next season they went 13-6 and missed
the national playoffs by a percentage point.
That has been a recurring theme for the
men’s team, which has narrowly missed the
national playoffs each of the past four years.
But they won their conference in 2004 and
posted records of 16-5, then 9-7-2 and this
year 15-3-2. This year Will Johnson,
Christian Marston and Sem Lopez made the
All-GSAC team. Will Johnson and Christian
Marston advanced to the All-Region II
Team, and Chris Swift ’06 was named to the
GSAC Scholar-Athlete team.
Dodge began coaching the women’s team in
April 2006 and the team defied all odds to
post one of the best years in VU women’s
soccer history with a 13-5-2 record. The
Lions qualified for the program’s second
straight Region II Tournament and its seventh postseason appearance overall. Players
Stacia Hoover and Marissa Swift made the
All-GSAC team, and Emelia Miller, Lauren
Walker, and Cassie Rodeiro were named
GSAC Scholar-Athletes.
says Dodge, is that “we’re bringing the right
kids into VU.”
Former men’s goalkeeper Bianchi, who is
earning his teaching credential at VU and
will play for the California Cougars this
year, says, “Being selected [by the Cougars
in the draft] is not only a personal accomplishment, but represents the quality program Vanguard has.”
Like all coaches at VU, Dodge emphasizes
character building through the Champions
of Character program.
“We’re not just at Vanguard to win soccer
games,” he says. “Champions of Character is
a big part of the program. We have a
tremendous amount of influence on who
student-athletes become. That’s a huge
responsibility.”
His goal for both teams in coming seasons is
to reach the national tournament finals.
“That’s the next step in this journey,” he
says. “I’m excited about the future of
Vanguard soccer.”
The main reason for both teams’ success,
Calendar
Music
Athletics
Men’s Basketball
Season in progress
Women’s Basketball
Season in progress
Baseball
Softball
March 9 – 18
Spring Break Choir Tour
April 22
Music Department Spring Concert
Season begins
February 2
For more concert information, place contact the Music
Events Office at 714.662.5272 or concerts@vanguard.edu or visit www.vanguard.edu/music
Season begins
February 2
University Events
For a complete listing of schedules please visit
www.vanguard.edu/athletics
Theatre
February 23 - March 4
“Glass Menagerie & Southern Bell Tolls”
March 30 – April 15
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
For box office information and show synopses please
visit www.vanguard.edu/theatrearts
February 23-24
Center for Women’s Studies
Strategies Against Sex Trafficking
Featuring keynote speaker Dr. Laura Lederer, senior
advisor on trafficking for the U.S. Department of State
in Washington, D.C.
For more information please call 714.556.3610, ext.
2240 or visit www.vanguard.edu/cws
February 26
VU Basketball Campus Visit Event for
sophomores, juniors, seniors and transfers
For more information please visit
www.vanguard.edu/admissions
April 2
Spring Pre-VU
For more information please visit
www.vanguard.edu/admissions
May 3
Graduate program hooding ceremony
May 4
Baccalaureate
May 5
Commencement
For a complete listing of schedules please visit
www.vanguard.edu/commencement
{2010}
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Vision 2010 will take Vanguard University from being an excellent regional
university to being an extraordinary, nationally-recognized university by
• Building out the campus
• Enhancing academic programs, centers, and institutes
• Growing the endowment
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Postcards
Advancing Vision
2010
Editor’s note: This column, features an essay
by a different alum in each issue.
Right Timing
A
sk anybody at Vanguard and they’ll tell you that business
professor Ed Westbrook can get anyone a job or internship
that will lead to a fulfilling career. He has an amazing
knack for networking people and jobs.
But his Midas touch hit a wall with me.
Professor Westbrook was my business advisor and I eagerly took
his internship class, hoping to find my career. But while other students went happily into their chosen internships, I couldn’t find
one that was right for me. Professor Westbrook and I spent a fruitless and frustrating semester seeking options.
But that turned out to be a good thing, and it taught me a lesson
about God’s timing. One day my consumer behavior class took a
field trip to a grocery store. The store manager discussed the strategies that went into product placement. I found the science of consumer behavior fascinating and soon Professor Westbrook, true to
form, connected me with someone who worked at a food brokerage. I interned there and got my first job out of Vanguard as a
marketer for grocery items.
My job was to find ways to entice consumers to buy brand-name
products. Every aspect of product presentation, from the height of
the product on the shelf to its package shape, is designed to appeal
to people walking down the aisle. I promoted products inside the
stores through sweepstakes, give-aways and promotions. I worked
on Unilever’s Best Foods mayonnaise, Wish-Bone dressing and
Ragu spaghetti sauce accounts. We ran incentives like “Buy 5 and
save $10 on Angels tickets.” My workdays were spent designing
banners, pedestal signs and end-of-aisle displays. I traveled each
month to a city along the Pacific coast, presenting our promotional programs and working with local stores to move products. One
time we gave away a yellow Volkswagen Beetle at a Northern
California store to promote Lipton Tea’s new yellow packaging.
Ed Westbrook had helped me find a fulfilling job after all. But like
many people in today’s labor force, I sought fresh challenges.
When the timing was right I jumped industries and accepted a
position with a leading engineering and construction company
that builds lakes and water features for residential projects, golf
courses and resorts in the Southwest.
But even as I changed careers, the lessons I learned at Vanguard
went with me. I saw that surrounding yourself with good people,
then building good relationships is the key to business success. I
had built many strong friendships at Vanguard, and I have seen
the benefits of surrounding myself with people who shared my
morals. In every job I take I seek to build that kind of atmosphere
of integrity and character.
I’m grateful for that lesson and the many others I learned at VU
that still guide me. Perhaps the biggest lesson of all is that when
you trust God with the important decisions in your life, like getting your first job, he comes through at the right time. And sometimes he doesn’t even need Ed Westbrook’s help.
Missy Ashurst ’02
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