Peter Aus (athletics) taught at hockey schools in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Alaska during summer 2002.

James Beilby (biblical and theological studies) is editor of Naturalism Defeated? Essays on Alvin Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism, published by Cornell University Press in March 2002.

Teresa DeGolier (biology) gave a presentation with seniors Rob Anderson (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Bretta Vrieze (West Concord, Minn.) titled "Habitat Quality of Grassland Reconstruction Using Small Mammals as an Indicator" at the St. Croix River Research Rendezvous in October. She also had an article titled "Using a Guided-Inquiry Approach for Investigating Metabolic Rate in Mice" published in The American Biology Teacher and a book review of Good Eating: The Bible, Diet, and the Proper Love of Animals by Stephen H. Webb published in the Religious Studies Review (July 2002).

Neal Dutton (health and physical education) gave a presentation on athletic training during Career Day at DeLaSalle High School. He also presented at a workshop for Approved Clinical Instructors in Athletic Training, which was held at Bethel in June. In addition, Images from HolyLandPhotos.org: (above) the Temple of Apollo in Corinth and (right) the Church of All Nations at the foot of the Mount of Olives adjacent to Garden of Gethsemane. Focus Spring 2003 CAMPUS NEWS Student collaborates with professor on textbook

Dutton was named to the Sports Medicine Advisory Committee at Northeast Metro 916 in White Bear Lake.

Timothy Essenburg (business and economics) gave a presentation in November titled "Conceptualizing Racial Conflict in Minneapolis: Some Preliminary Thoughts to the `Black and Blue' Discussion." The presentation was part of a weeklong series entitled "Black and Blue: Beyond Conflict and Toward Healing a City's Wounds" sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Mary Hammond (education) completed her doctoral degree in education at Nova Southeastern University in fall 2002.

Gretchen Hansen (athletics) presented two sessions at the Minnesota State High School Volleyball Coaches Association Annual Coaches Clinic during summer 2002. She also hosted two weeks of youth volleyball camps at Bethel, which were attended by more than 140 girls; served as a head clinician at the Midwest Volleyball Instructors Elite Camp at Macalester College; and coauthored an article titled "Accomodating Students with Disabilities: PSA as an Example of Universal Instructional Design," published in Teaching of Psychology.

Steve Henkel (health and physical education) conducted an in-service training for teachers in August at Chapel Hill Academy in Chanhassen on the topic of "Teacher as Shepherd." Henkel also had his article "Creative Dramas: Picture the Possibilities" published in the Journal of Elementary Physical Education.

James Hurd (anthropology and sociology) reviewed the book The Riddle of Amish Culture for the Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage Journal.

Steven Kaatz (education) gave a presentation titled "Does BD mean `Boys Disorder'?" at the Minnesota Department of Children, Families, and Learning Council for Exceptional Children Educators Conference in Brooklyn Park in winter 2002. Kaatz also gave a presentation titled "Save the Males: Effective Instruction for Males Labeled Emotionally/Behaviorally Disturbed" at the International Child and Adolescent Conference in Miami, Fla.

Peggy Kendall (communication) is leading ongoing communication training and research with medical residents at Gillette Specialty Children's Hospital and the Children's Hospital of St. Paul clinic.

Rollin A. King (chemistry) coauthored the article "Locally Correlated Equation-of-Motion Coupled Cluster Theory for the Excited States of Large Molecules" with T.Daniel Crawford of Virginia Tech. The article appeared in Chemical Physics Letters in December.

Jill Martin (education) provided several staff development sessions on "multiple intelligence" to employees at Secure Computing Corporation in Roseville, Common Bond Communities in St. Paul, and Rise Corporation of Minneapolis. In November she led a faculty development session on "Content Area Reading Strategies" to middle and high school teachers in the Albany Public Schools and also led three training sessions on "Active Teaching Strategies" to the volunteer staff of Common Bond Communities. In January she taught a session on developing an outcome-based professional portfolio for public nurses at the Minnesota Department of Health.

Jenell Williams Paris (anthropology and sociology) served as chapel series speaker at George Fox University in Newberg, Ore., in October. Her topics were "Good Sex: Don't Settle for Less" and "Sexual Identity: Who Am I?" She also gave a talk entitled "Building Community" at the Urban Homeworks annual retreat in Minneapolis.

Patricia Paulson (biology) presented a 90-minute workshop titled "Increasing Competence and Confidence in Elementary Science Teachers" at the Hawaii International Conference on Education held in Honolulu in January.

Richard Peterson (physics) presented two papers at the St. Olaf College Department of Physics 2002 colloquia series. He discussed his paper "The Challenge of Sound and Light Together" and joined with recent Bethel graduate Nate Lindquist '02 and current senior Steve Gardeen (Burnsville, Minn.) to present "Sonoluminescence and Optical Diagnostics." In addition, Peterson was appointed to the Governing Board of the American Institute of Physics in November, and in December he served on the national review panel for proposals in the Atomic, Molecular, Optical, and Plasma Physics Program of the National Science Foundation.

Don Postema (philosophy) gave several presentations in spring 2002 at Children's Hospital, HealthPartners, and The Forum at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist. He spoke on topics including ethical issues at the end of life, ethics of access in emergency and chronic shortage situations at Children's Hospital, and the use of racial identifiers in medical records. Postema also presented a session on ethics and medicine titled "When No One Speaks for the Patient" for Medicine Grand Rounds at Regions Hospital in November.

Carl Rasmussen (biblical and theological studies) led a summer study tour of 18 adult learners to Turkey and Greece, visiting sites associated with Paul and the seven churches of Revelation.

Jay Rasmussen (education) attended the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, on December 10. Rasmussen was a Fulbright Scholar conducting research at the Institute of Educational Research at the University of Oslo. He was one of eight Fulbright Scholars selected to attend the ceremony. According to Rasmussen, "Attending the ceremony was a highlight of my experience in Norway. The event had special significance because I have such high respect for President Carter and his work since leaving the presidency. I'll never forget when Carter boldly proclaimed that he worships Jesus Christ and that Christ is his model as he labors for world peace."

Daniel Ritchie (English) had an article titled "Want Great Writing? Let's Read Great Books" published in the fall issue of The College Board Review.

John Rohwer (health and physical education) gave a presentation at the national convention of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance on the topic "Primary Prevention for Eating Disorders in the Middle School Years." Rohwer also presented at the National Lutheran Educators Conference on the topic "How Are Good Teachers Like Good Students?" and gave a presentation at the Minnesota Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance Conference titled "Body Image: Myths and Perceptions." In addition, his article "Evaluation of Disordered Eating Prevention Programs" was published in the Journal of School Health, and he was selected to be an inductee in the Athletic Hall of Fame at Concordia University in St. Paul.

Wayne Roosa (art) served as moderator along with Susan Jacobson of the Minneapolis Institute of Art for a panel discussion about art and religion in public life at The Basilica of St. Mary in June. Roosa also taught a class titled "Material Witnesses: Expressions of the Sacred in the Visual Arts" at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia, in July.

Harley Schreck (anthropology and sociology) participates on the Community Advisory Board for Catholic Elder Care, a long-term health care center in Northeast Minneapolis. In addition, he recently wrote a chapter for a book on college community partnerships.

David Schuelke (Center for Graduate and Continuing Studies) presented a paper at the National Communication Ethics Conference at Western Michigan University in 2002 on "Ethical Communication for Students in Online Courses: How Do We Thread the Forum?"

Myrla Seibold (psychology) was reappointed by then Governor Jesse Ventura to a new four-year term on the Minnesota State Board of Psychology. In addition, Seibold represented the state of Minnesota at the annual conference of the state and provincial boards of psychology, held in Orlando, Fla., in winter 2002.

Scott Sochay (communication) moderated a panel titled "Indigenous Ways of Knowing: The Differences and Similarities Between Native and Eurocentric Epistemology in the Media and Academia" at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Convention in Miami, Fla., in August.

Keith Stein (physics) gave presentations at the Sixth Japan-U.S. International Symposium on Flow Simulation and Modeling in Fukuoaka, Japan, in May. Stein also presented two papers at the Fifth World Congress on Computational Mechanics in Vienna, Austria, in July.

Deborah Sullivan-Trainor (modern world languages) presented a paper at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium held at Ohio State University titled "Promenades, Prostitutes, and Prisons: Flora Tristan's Encounters with English Industrial Capitalism."

Phyllis VanBuren (modern world languages) was awarded the Premio Narvaez award from the Minnesota Chapter of the Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese for her sustained contribution to the field of foreign language education. The award is named after University of Minnesota linguist Ricardo Narvaez.

Sandi Weightman (modern world languages) was awarded a doctor of philosophy degree in Hispanic languages and literatures from UCLA in December.

Luanne Wyssmann (education) and her husband Joe presented on "Good Communication within a Marriage" on October 15 in Shimla, Himachel Pradesh, India. The Wyssmanns were in India as part of a team from North Heights Lutheran Church.

Amos Yong (biblical and theological studies) had his article "The `Baptist Vision' of James William McClendon, Jr.: A Wesleyan-Pentecostal Response" published in the Wesleyan Theological Journal (Fall 2002).

In October, Samuel Zalanga (anthropology and sociology) gave a presentation in Rochester, Minn., titled "The Retention of Minority Faculty in Predominantly White Populated Colleges and Universities: Exploring the Issues."

Meg Zauner (theater arts) performed in the Tales of Christmas at Roseville Covenant Church and led dialect coaching for a production of The Diary of Anne Frank at Calvary Baptist Church.

Former Faculty

C. Howard Smith, professor of music emeritus, passed away on December 21, 2002. He was 87. Smith taught at Bethel from 1949 to 1980. Memorials may be made to the Department of Music or Central Baptist Church Foundation.