Nominations Sought for President’s Awards

Bethany President Scott D. Miller is again seeking nominations from all campus constituencies for the President’s Awards for Excellence in Performance. One will be awarded to a member of the faculty and another to a member of the staff. Recipients will be announced during the annual Honors Day Convocation. Nominations should be sent directly to the President at President’s Office, Bethany College, Bethany, WV 26032.

Faculty Spotlight

Communications and Media Arts
Dr. Jason K. Smith, Assistant Professor of Communications & Media Arts, will be presenting his paper: “This is Philip Defranco and You Have Been ‘Philled-In’”: Corporate Exploitation of YouTube ‘Circuitry,’ at the Annual Popular Culture Association /American Culture Association Conference held on March 27-30, 2013 at the Wardman Park Marriott in Washington, D.C.

Humanities - World Languages
Dr. Harald Menz, Professor of World Languages and Cultures & Director of International Studies, has been invited to serve a two-year term on the FACDIS (The West Virginia Consortium for Faculty and Course Development in International Studies) Steering committee. The Steering Committee (made up of six Institutional Representatives plus the FACDIS Director) makes decisions about travel grant funding and the selection of participants for other FACDIS special programs, including the annual Scholar-Diplomat Program."!

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Bethany College Announces 2013 Commencement Speaker

Ralph Baxter, chairman and chief executive officer of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, has been announced as Bethany College’s 2013 Commencement speaker. This will mark the college’s 173^rd Anniversary Commencement Weekend.
 
Commencement will be held at 10 a.m. on May 18 in the Tilock Amphitheatre in the Pennington Quadrangle.

Baxter has held his position since 1990, during which he expanded Orrick, diversifying and extending its geographic reach and transforming the company from a domestic firm with California origins to one of the world’s largest and most prominent law firms, with more than 1,100 lawyers in offices across the United States, Europe and Asia.

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Bethany College Announces Addition of Marching Band for 2013-14

Bethany College has announced the addition of a marching band for the 2013-14 academic year, according to Bethany President Dr. Scott D. Miller. The Stampede Marching Band will be directed by J. Matthew White, lecturer in music at Bethany.

“Bethany College is very pleased to announce this exciting new addition to the music program. It’s another great example of the how we seek to improve the opportunities provided to our students inside and outside of the classroom,” said Dr. Miller. “Matthew provides the leadership and musical skills necessary to launch this new endeavor.”

White currently serves as the director for the Pep Band and Wind Ensemble. He also provides instruction for Bethany students who study brass woodwind and percussion instruments. With  20 years experience teaching and performing with instrumental groups that range from elementary bands, middle school bands and high school bands to Trinidadian steel drum bands, jazz bands, woodwind, brass and percussion ensembles, White brings an expansive knowledge to the newest performance option in the Music program at Bethany.

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Seglin ’78 Named to Top 100 List by “Trust Across America”

Bethany College alum Jeffrey Seglin ’78 was recently named one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior by “Trust Across America” for the second consecutive year.

Seglin, who is also the communications program director for the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, writes “The Right Thing,” a weekly column on general ethics that has been syndicated by Tribune Media Services since September 2010. Seglin lectures widely on business ethics and is regularly featured as an expert on ethics on CNN, CNBC, Fox 25 Boston, and other media outlets.

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ECHO Student Literary Contest

Bethany students are encouraged to submit their poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction to the ECHO student literary contest. The third annual Echo contest is open to undergraduate students currently enrolled at Bethany College, Heidelberg University, Hiram College, Marietta College, University of Mount Union, and Muskingum University. Each work will be judged as an individual entry, and entrants may win more than one prize. Prizes in each category will be $175, $100, and $50. Interested students may visit the ECHO contest website http://echocompetition.wordpress.com/ or contact Dr. Jessie Janeshek for more information. The deadline for entries is February 4, 2013.

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Bethany College and BD&E Win Two 2012 Collegiate Advertising Awards

Winners of the national 2012 Collegiate Advertising Awards were recently announced and the team of Bethany College and BD&E of Pittsburgh received two gold awards.

The entries which earned the recognition were the college’s 2012 admissions postcard series as well as a brochure promoting Bethany's dual degree programs.

The Collegiate Advertising Awards is an elite program designed to recognize today’s most talented educational marketing professionals for outstanding excellence in all forms of advertising, marketing and promotion. Jeff Flick '82, serves as the President and CEO of BD&E.

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Bethany Alum Appointed as Judge to District Court in Carroll County, Maryland

Brian Green ’80 on Dec. 28 was appointed as a judge to the district court of Carroll County in Maryland by Governor Martin O’Malley.

For the past 23 years, he has served as an attorney there with the Office of the Public Defender. Green also has significant teaching experience. He is an adjunct professor for the criminal practice clinic at the University of Baltimore School of Law, and has worked for the Shemer Bar Review since 1999. Green began his legal career as an assistant state’s attorney in Baltimore City. He graduated from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in 1987 and from Bethany College in 1980.

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Bethany College Announces Speaker for MLK Day

Paulo Nzambi, senior vice president and COO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation, has been as announced as the speaker for Bethany College’s Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Celebration on Monday, January 21, 2013.
 
Sponsored by the Office of Student Life, Nzambi will speak at 7 p.m. in the Agostino Room of Benedum Commons in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., and his incredible life’s work.

All day, there will be passive programming within the residence halls, titled “Honor the Man, Live the Dream.” From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. there will be service projects in the Ogden Dining Room which include decorating and creating flower pots and door decorations for assisted living homes, cards of appreciation for the troops, posters and cards for children in the hospital and pillow cases and care packages for women’s shelters.

In addition, starting at 11:30 a.m., there will be inauguration coverage on the televisions in the Ogden Dining Room.

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Brown ‘97 to Direct New Public Health Group at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Bethany Alum Shawn T. Brown ‘97, Ph.D., has joined Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center as director of public health applications. In this role, he will lead a new group at PSC whose research addresses the problems of predicting disease spread via large-scale agent-based modeling, vaccine supply chain logistics in developing countries, and public health decision-making support via high performance computational modeling.

This position is a unique one for a high-performance computing facility such as PSC, and is part of a general trend to use supercomputing to address "big data" problems in the life and public health sciences.

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Alpha Xi Delta Supports Autism Speaks

Since 2009, the Alpha Xi Delta Fraternity has been in partnership with Autism Speaks. This year, the fraternity proudly announced that they have reached a milestone of $1 million in total donations. The Bethany College Delta Chapter of Alpha Xi Delta is honored to have played a role in this achievement.

In the fall of 2012, the Delta Chapter began what they hope will become tradition for their charity fundraising. On Sept. 2, the sisters attended the Washington Wild Things’ Fan Appreciation baseball game at Falconi Field. Here, they were given the opportunity to set up a booth at the gate and collect donations, while spreading awareness for Autism Speaks. Sister Amanda Neilsen threw the first pitch following the announcement of the group’s cause. With the support of 20 tickets purchased by Bethany College’s Office of Student Life and the donations of the Wild Things fans, the Delta Chapter raised $196.43 for the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization. 

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Bethany President Chairs Meeting of the Colleges and Universities of the Christian Church

President Scott D. Miller presided at the annual meeting of the Colleges and Universities of the Christian Church. He is currently serving a two-year term as chair of the council.

Sven de Jong, senior vice president of Bethany, and liaison from the TCUCC vice presidents to the council, presented results of the recent branding and marketing campaign.

The group also heard reports from Dr. Kenneth R. Garren (president of Lynchburg College), treasurer, Dr. A. Guy Waldrop, director of the TCUCC, and the Rev. Todd Adams, associate general minister of the Christian Church.

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Bethany College Announces 2013 Oreon E. Scott Lectures

Bethany College has announced Rick Lowery, Ph.D.as the featured speaker for the 58^th annual Oreon E. Scott Lectures to be held April 8-9 at Bethany’s Mountainside Conference Center.
 
Lowery is an author, Bible scholar and an adjunct professor of Hebrew Bible at Lexington Theological Seminary in Kentucky, where he also served as dean. He is the author of several books on biblical studies and social and ecological justice, including "Sabbath and Jubilee." He’s currently writing a book titled "Genesis and Human Rights." He is a former regional president of the Society of Biblical Literature and is married to the Rev. Dr. Sharon Watkins, General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the US and Canada.

This year’s event will focus on “Genesis and Human Rights.”

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Nominations Sought for President’s Awards

Bethany President Scott D. Miller is again seeking nominations from all campus constituencies for the President’s Awards for Excellence in Performance. One will be awarded to a member of the faculty and another to a member of the staff. Recipients will be announced during the annual Honors Day Convocation. Nominations should be sent directly to the President at President’s Office, Bethany College, Bethany, WV 26032.

Save the Date: Florida!

Bethany College Alumni and Friends in the Florida area will have four opportunities to attend a reception with President Scott D. Miller in late January. Please save the dates and make plans to join us in:

Boca Raton, Fla. Wednesday, January 23, 2013 St. Andrews Country Club 5:30-7:30 p.m. Hosted by Eugene Miller ‘47 Ponte Vedra, Fla. Thursday, January 24, 2013 The residence of Nancy and Bob '59 Goin 6-8 p.m. Hosted by Bob Goin '59

Tampa/St. Pete, Fla. Saturday, January 26, 2013 Marchand’s Bar & Grill at the Vinoy Renaissance 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Estero, Fla. Sunday, January 27, 2013 Estero Country Club at the Vines

Join Bethany’s LinkedIn Group!

Bethany College has an alumni group on LinkedIn.  The Bethany College Alumni-Bethany, West Virginia group is to help with networking and connecting alumni.  The group also includes 20 subgroups that cover a variety of professional fields that alumni can join. Click here (http://goo.gl/hGD0Y ) to join this group and start connecting with other Bethanians.

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Brownlee ’06 Moderates Title Game Press Conference

2006 Bethany graduate Ben Brownlee served as post-game press conference moderator for the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl XL, the NCAA DIII football national championship. Brownlee, who served as PAC Assistant Director in 2006-07, is currently the Associate Commissioner of the NCAA Division II West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC). The former Bison swimmer, also currently serves on the NCAA Division II swimming & diving national committee.

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West Virginia Poet Laureate to be Featured at Bethany College Founder’s Day

Bethany College will celebrate 173 years as a small college of national distinction with its annual Founder’s Day on March 7. This year’s featured guest speaker will be Bethany alum and recently appointed West Virginia Poet Laureate Marc Harshman ’73. Festivities will begin at 11 a.m. with the traditional Founder’s Day Convocation in historic Commencement Hall. 
 
“The celebration of the founding of our great college will only be further enhanced by the presence and words of such a prestigious alumnus,” said Bethany College President Scott D. Miller. “Marc’s professional and personal accomplishments exemplify the model and tradition of Bethany.”

Harshman is a long-time Wheeling resident, where he lives with his wife Cheryl Ryan, who is also a writer, and their daughter Sarah. He earned his bachelor’s degree in literature from Bethany in 1973. He went on to receive a master’s degree in religion from Yale University and a master’s degree in English from the University of Pittsburgh.

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Nola ’75 Sets Pennsylvania High School Football Records

The Clairton High School football team, coached by Bethany alum and Beta Theta Pi member Tom Nola ’75, recently won its fourth-consecutive state title. The team also set the record for most consecutive wins, 63, in the history of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In addition, they are the high school with the most consecutive wins in the entire country.

Numerous stories, both local and national, can be found on Nola and his team:

• WPXI: http://www.wpxi.com/news/sports/high-school-football/clairton-wins-fourth-consecutive-piaa-class-footba/nTW7s/
• New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/22/sports/in-clairton-pa-a-high-school-football-team-keeps-a-towns-heart-beating.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
• CBS Evening News: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57557659/winning-football-team-gives-hope-to-struggling-pa-town/

Bethany to Support Beta Theta Pi with Previdi Memorial Scholarship

In response to the sorrowful loss of Caroline Previdi, daughter of alumnus Jeff Previdi ’94, during the senseless tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday, Bethany College is supporting Beta Theta Pi in the establishment of the Caroline Previdi of Sandy Hook Elementary Memorial Scholarship. This endowment will ensure Caroline will be remembered in a positive way by providing annual scholarships to worthy students who are majoring in Education.

For more information or to donate, visit  https://betathetapi.informz.net/betathetapi/archives/archive_2858804.html.