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A Chapter Ends as the Wartburg Story Continues The drizzle began as Paul Granlund was George Dehne, who has describing his creation of “Dancing St. Francis,” been consulting with the the exciting sculpture that is now the centerpiece college, believes that of Wartburg’s new entrance and courtyard. There distinctiveness will be the we were, huddled in the rain, enthralled with the measure of whether a design of the newly unveiled St. Francis. Looking college will flourish or around, we felt good about ourselves and the struggle for survival. college. We liked what we saw. Dehne’s paper, “A Look at What we saw were visible signs of Wartburg’s the Future of the Private progress over the past decade: A Fine Arts Center, a College,” has been a Communication Arts Center, a Chapel, and now a catalyst for our discussion. new Classroom Technology Center—all tied Dehne has identified together by skyways and courtyard. What we felt specific institutional issues was a deeper sense of appreciation for developments Wartburg needs to address less visible but every bit as significant. And we felt as we set goals and priorities good because we knew it was all coming together. for the years ahead. With the feeling of accomplishment was also a While the title for this new chapter in sense that a chapter was coming to a close—a very Wartburg’s history is yet to be determined, I believe important chapter in Wartburg’s history. This “distinctiveness” will be part of it. Building on the chapter’s formal beginning was May 1988, when strengths we have, the college must find ways to the Board of Regents adopted the long-range plan, add value to academic and co-curricular programs “The Decade of Opportunity.” and communicate that value to a new generation of Interestingly enough then, the “decade” lasted prospective students and friends. only seven years. Some of the achievements are We know a meaningful life is not segmented. described in more detail in the report that follows. So, too, education should be of a single piece. For We draw this chapter to a close with thanks and generations, this has been true at Wartburg. In a appreciation to those who made it happen through remarkable way, things fit together in the Wartburg their efforts, their prayers, and their financial experience. support. The leadership emphasis, cultural immersion A chapter may be ending, but the story line experiences, the focus on the future, and our continues. We begin now the writing of a commitment to faith, values, and good new chapter. The horizon for citizenship—these are “points of difference” that our dreams and aspirations make the Wartburg experience distinctive and is the 21st century, with distinguish Wartburg’s educational opportunities new challenges and from other schools. Wartburg’s commitment to opportunities. students is to provide both theoretical and practical learning opportunities, helping students put head, hands, and heart together. The next months will be filled with conversations about the future of Wartburg College. We know that endowment for scholarships and a new library for the 21st century will be major priorities. These next years will be full of excitement. You are invited to be a part of it. CONTENTS T Fall 1995 Volume 12, Number 1 2 It's a Whole New Scene 9 Report of Giving 10 College and Faculty Milestones 12 Convocation opens academic year The President's Round Table Wartburg’s Opening Convocation included the dedication of Dancing 14 St. Francis, a sculpture by Paul Granlund that is the centerpiece of the Giving Summaries new campus courtyard. This view of the ceremony was taken from the skywalk connecting the Wartburg Chapel and the Fine Arts Center. 15 Heritage Club Membership Also dedicated at ceremonies this fall were the Classroom Technology Center, the new Grossmann Hall, and the Pool of Remembrance 18 outside the Wartburg Chapel. Tower Club 25 Alumni About the cover 40 The expansive new vista at the south end of the Wartburg College Faculty and Staff campus extends across the front and back covers of this issue. The view includes, from front to back, the Fine Arts Center, the skywalk, 42 Parents the Wartburg Chapel, and the Classroom Technology Center, which is anchored to Luther Hall. 47 Cover photo by DLJ Studio Productions, Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa Organizations 48 In Memoriam 49 Friends 52 Foundations 53 Firms and Corporations 55 Congregations 57 Knights in the News TRANSCRIPT POLICY: Alumni who wish to obtain an official college transcript should contact the Registrar's Office, Wartburg College, 222 Ninth St. N.W., P.O. Box 1003, Waverly, Iowa 50677-0903. The fee is $4 per transcript. Requests should President: Dr. Robert Vogel ’56 include maiden and all married names used by an alumna/alumnus, as well as birth Director of Alumni/Parent Relations: Jan Welsch Striepe ’59 date and/or Social Security number. Enclose return address and payment with the request. Director of College Relations: Sherry Bryson NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY: Wartburg College does not discriminate on Editor: Linda Stull Moeller ’66 the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or handicap in admission, Associate Editor: Duane Schroeder ’58 ecmomplpolyiamnecnet ,w pitrho Tgirtalem VsI, , oTri talec tIiXv,i toier sS. ePcetirosno n5s0 4h amvianyg cionnqtuaicrite Jsa rmegiea rHdiingght ower. Designer: Penny Sund Wartburg College, 222 Ninth St. N.W., P.O. Box 1003, Waverly, Iowa 50677-0903, or Production Coordinator: Lori Guhl Poehler 75 the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education. 1 FALL 1995 ▼ It’s a wl (ollege adds facilities, enhances programs to enrich ei “If you had come to visit us in 1988,” says President Robert Vogel, “and then came back today, you would, I think, be surprised.” “When alumni see what’s happened here in the last four or five years,” adds Dr. Richard Torgerson, vice president for development, “they’re blown away. It’s a whole new scene, not just in buildings but in programs as well.” Seven years ago, Wartburg College launched a strategic plan called “The Decade of Opportunity.” The plan aimed to enrich the educational experience Wartburg offers its students and enhance the college’s reputation for excellence. Among the initiatives it called for were developing a leadership emphasis within the academic program, expanding global outreach, enriching the arts, encouraging worship and faith expression, and providing needed facilities and equipment. Since 1988, Wartburg has: • established 10 endowed chairs and professorships; • built a new Fine Arts Center; • developed the R.J. McElroy Communication Arts Center; • built a new chapel; • built a Classroom Technology Center; • built the new Grossmann Hall residence facility; and • completed various special projects, including the purchase of sophisticated laboratory equipment for the natural sciences and the establishment of a symbolic computation laboratory in mathematics. Wartburg Looks Back on "Decade of Opportunity A Decade of Opportunity June 1988-May 1995 Endowment Funds $13,496,261 (44%) cational experience for students • Academic Chairs and Professorships • Scholarships • Program Support • Unrestricted Endowment “We deliberately set no overall fund-raising goal, in terms of a dollar amount,” says Vogel. “We wanted to work toward fulfilling our Capital Project Funds $9,231,706 (30%) mission, project by project. In general, we thought meeting these goals •Fine Arts Center and might require $15 million or $20 million over 10 years. No one Communication Arts Center expected that we’d raise more than $30 million in seven years. • Chapel • South Campus Project “That’s why we can say our decade is over, after only seven years. (including Classroom Technology Center) We’ve accomplished nearly all that we set out to accomplish. Now • Grossmann Hall there will be new initiatives” • Special Projects Current Funds $7,832,114 (26%) • Unrestricted • Restricted i A New Look and a New Outlook TOTAL $30,560,081 In seven years, the Decade of Opportunity has produced striking changes in the appearance of Wartburg’s campus, changes even a casual Endowed Chairs and Professorships • The R.J. McElroy Chair in Communication Arts visitor would notice. “The South Campus Project has given Wartburg a • The Dr. Myrle Burk and Vera Burk Will Chair in Biology front door,” says Fred Hagemann, chair of the Board of Regents. “This • The James A. Leach Chair in Banking and will forever change the all-important first impression any visitor has of Monetary Economics the college. We now make a very good first impression.” • The Irving R. Burling Chair in Leadership If you stop to ask Wartburg students, faculty members, and • The Herbert and Cora Moehlmann Chaplaincy Chair administrators how recent developments have affected them, you • The Board of Regents Chair in Ethics • The Franklin I. and Irene Saemann Chair in Global and come to see how the Decade of Opportunity has also changed the Multicultural Studies college community’s outlook. • The Harry and Polly Slife Professorship in Humanities • The Carl and Dorothy Hagemann Professorship in Business and Economics • The Ralph E. Otto Professorship in Chemistry • The 0. Jay and Patricia Tomson Chair in Social Work Teaching Students to Take the Lead As director of the newly endowed “As an example, one student, for his program in leadership education, Dr. Fred required community service project in the Waldstein has been a key player in leadership theories course, decided his developing a leadership emphasis at church basement needed painting. After we Wartburg. talked about what that might do in terms of The effort has earned national attention, his leadership development, he decided to in part because of the college’s unique get some of the young people in the church approach. “We define leadership as taking involved. To make a long story short, he During the past seven years, the Global responsibility for our communities and ended up becoming the founder of a youth and Multicultural Studies Program has making them better through public action,” group in his church. evolved into a significant and distinctive Waldstein explains. “Our principal focus is “How do you calculate the multiplier emphasis at Wartburg, overseeing a wide to convince students that they can make real effect of that kind of activity?” range of off-campus experiences for students contributions to their communities. We For Christine Nath, a ’95 graduate, and faculty and sponsoring co-curricular want our graduates to be responsible leadership education was a highlight of her programs to enhance intercultural relation¬ citizens, not just people who get jobs and learning experience at Wartburg. “When I ships on campus. succeed at the personal, private level. took the leadership theories and practice “What’s distinctive is our focus on cultural Personal success is important, but it’s not class during my senior year,” she recalls, “I immersion,” says Dr. Janice Yee, co-director enough.” also was working as a student intern in of the program. “Most colleges offer some To provide ways for students to put this marketing at the Iowa Plastics Technology sort of overseas study opportunity, where definition into practice, leadership Center. As a matter of fact, I did all the students may travel to other countries. From education at Wartburg offers four kinds of marketing for the center, and the class really the beginning, we have gone a step further, experiences: helped me define how I wanted to develop encouraging students and faculty to become 1. Skill development and self-awareness the program. involved at a grassroots level in whatever off- workshops, which have been combined with “As a result of that experience, a whole campus site they’re located—whether that’s a efforts to connect first-year students to the world of opportunity has opened for me. village in Tanzania, a Hispanic-American campus community; For one thing, the center hired me full-time community in Denver, or wherever they 2. A mentoring program, which pairs after I graduated; but even more than that, may go. students with community leaders in the my whole understanding of leadership has “We want them to get to know the region on a year-long basis; changed. I had to focus on my own culture, rather than simply observe it.” 3. Academic course work, including leadership capabilities, on where I need to The general rubric for Wartburg’s off- Waldstein’s popular leadership theories and go and what I need to develop further. Now campus experiences is “Venture Education.” practice course, as well as a renewed I know that leadership and learning are Opportunities include semester-long emphasis on leadership in the person and lifelong processes. service/learning programs in Tanzania, society general education course; “One of rhe most important things Jamaica, England, and Wartburg West in 4. Community outreach, where Wartburg does is to develop your whole Denver, Colo. Students also may choose to Waldstein works individually with students person. It goes far beyond the classes—which study abroad for a year or a term in Japan, who are engaged in specific projects. are important—but when you step out into France, Germany, Spain, Mexico, China, According to Waldstein, the impact of the real world, it’s a lot different from sitting England, Israel, Brazil, Indonesia, and these new opportunities has been far-reaching: in class. I had a great experience here.” Turkey. During the four-week May Term, Wartburg regularly offers classes that involve immersion experiences in such locations as Guyana, Palestine, Guatemala, El Salvador, England, France, Germany, Mexico, and Tanzania. Co-director Kim Folkers cites the active involvement of academic departments as another strength of the Global and Multicultural Studies Program: “The T WARTBURG MAGAZINE V, rie of the most important things Wartburg does is to develop your whole person. it goes far beyond the classes—which are important—but when you step out into the real world, it's a lot different from sitting in class. I had a great experience here." departments bring these opportunities into with my host families and interacting with being. They create the courses, make the people on the street, I gained an under¬ connections, and come to us with the plans standing of the Mexican and Spanish they would like to implement. Our role is to societies and the way they see things. It publicize and facilitate, to make it easier for changes your perspective. It makes you think students and professors to engage in cultural about the way things are here in the United immersions.” States, too.” As a result, Wartburg students take part According to Yee and Folkers, the in off-campus experiences that are both endowed chair in Global and Multicultural academically and personally rewarding. Studies has helped bring focus to cultural “I was in Tanzania for three months last immersion experiences. They estimate that year,” says Sarah Woodard, a senior 100 to 150 Wartburg students take part in English/secondary education major from Venture Education experiences each year. Lindsborg, Kan. “I taught English as a second language to students at a secondary school there, helping especially with the students who were struggling most. At the same time, I visited Masai villages to study how Christianity is practiced in Tanzania, A New Home took an interdisciplinary credit in for the Fine Arts contemporary Tanzanian culture, and started learning Swahili. “Living there has helped me understand With the completion of the new Fine Arts what I value. It’s made me aware of how Center, Wartburg’s Art and Music depart¬ important my own spiritual life is to me. I ments moved into a facility that enhances the also know that I want to travel more and, reputation for quality these programs had when I become a teacher, to encourage my already achieved. students to look at different cultures and to The result has been increased interest, learn from them.” across the campus, in the course offerings, Kevin Dempsey, a senior international degree programs, and performance oppor¬ business/computer information systems/ tunities centered in the new building. Spanish studies major from Jesup, Iowa, is “When I came here in 1989,” says Ted equally enthusiastic about his cultural Reuter, chair of the Music Department, “we immersion experiences in Mexico and Spain: had about 68 majors. This fall, we’re between “I went to Cuernavaca, Mexico, for a May 105 and 110—over half again the previous Term and then spent a semester at the number. We also have far more students who Center for Cross-Cultural Studies in Seville, take lessons and who are involved in the Spain. Both times, I lived with a host family, various ensembles. The choir, band, and rather than with other American students. orchestra are as large or larger than they’ve “I learned a lot of Spanish because I was ever been. We even have more non-majors speaking it all the time. Also, through living taking music courses just because they’re FALL 1995 ▼ interested and they know the courses will be good.” To account for these increases, Reuter cites a number of factors: “Like other programs on this campus, the Music Department has developed a strong regional reputation because of our touring ensembles In May 1992, the Communication Arts reflect the new capabilities we have with and because of our graduates who are out Department moved into its remodeled and this facility. We now offer, in addition to there doing good work. These things have a newly equipped facility, the R.J. McElroy print and public relations, an electronic snowball effect.” Communication Arts Center. Since then, media emphasis that combines radio Then there’s the new building: “It’s the program has blossomed. New curricular production, television production, really a very fine facility. The classrooms are offerings, increased enrollments, and hands- corporate video, and more.” good. The studios for applied lessons are on opportunities for students are all now Students have found the new facility and large and attractive, and they contain part of the communication arts scene at the revitalized program very appealing. excellent equipment. The practice rooms Wartburg. Price cites a 50 percent increase in the have good pianos. We have a recording “When I was a student here,” muses number of new communication arts majors studio with digital recording capability and assistant professor Shelly Green, an ’87 over last year. a very functional electronic music lab. graduate and now faculty adviser to the What’s more, these students are “Our students realize they are in an Trumpet and Fortress, “journalism was in benefiting from experiences that make environment where professionalism is Neumann House, and all we had were Wartburg’s communication arts program a important.” typewriters, some of them manual. It wasn’t leader in its field. Senior communication Dr. Paul Torkelson, director of the that long ago. arts major Kirsten Johnson of Ames, Iowa, Wartburg Choir, agrees and points also to “Now, in the new Journalism Lab, we’re spent a semester in Sydney, Australia, and the impact the Fine Arts Center has had on working with Power PCs, pagination, and a did her internship at a television station recruiting: “Prospective students are very tabloid-size printer that prints out the pages there. “The producer told me I must have conscious of facilities. When we were in the as they’re laid out. We’re even taking some had a good experience at my college because old building, it was a lot more difficult for publications on-line. It’s been a phenomenal I knew a lot more than some of his us to sell the music program, simply change.” employees. During the time I spent there, I because the facility looked outdated. Another phenomenal change has been was always looking back to things I’d “Now the whole atmosphere has the expansion of broadcasting into a full- learned here.” changed. It’s just been amazing. Among fledged electronic media track within the As another example, Green mentions a both faculty and students, there is a sense of communication arts major. Grant Price, recent graduate who had an internship at pride about what has happened here and executive-in-residence, describes what has CNBC in Washington, D.C., where her the direction we’re going. I don’t know how happened: “Ten years ago, television didn’t responsibilities included editing tape for a you assess the psychological impact of a exist at Wartburg, and the radio program news broadcast: “Her supervisor told her building, but I believe it reflects in the was very limited. When we moved to the that none of the previous interns had edited energy level you find here—in the attitude new facility, the radio station came out of tape. None of them had known how, so the of the students and the teaching of the Players Theatre into a space that was station didn’t let them do that kind of faculty.” designed for a radio station, and we thing. But we can teach our students those Outside groups have come to appreciate installed all-new equipment in the on-air skills here.” the new Fine Arts Center, too. “For the last studio. Hands-on learning in the new Com¬ three years,” reports Reuter, “we have “The new television production studio munication Arts Center gives Wartburg hosted junior high, high school, and allows us to produce programs live or to students a competitive edge when they enter collegiate music competitions sponsored by tape. We can use the facility for classes, and the job market. “It’s a real advantage,” says the Music Teachers National Association. students can gain hands-on experience Price, “when you walk in that news We could never have hosted events like this through our news production team. The director’s door for the first time to be able five years ago. Now these groups ask to equipment is all new as of four years ago. to say, ‘I know how to write. I know how to come here—and when they’ve been here It’s pretty much state-of-the-art for current edit tape. Yes, I can shoot video.’ These are once, they’re even more eager to come television news department practice. practical advantages that many large back.” “So we’ve changed the curriculum to universities cannot offer.” ow the chapel tells everyone who we are. It's a real witness. It says, loud and clear, we are a church-related place. Worship is important here.' A New Place for Worship The centerpiece of capital improvements “I used to feel like I belonged to a small at Wartburg, in many respects, has been the group. Now it seems like everyone’s here. I’m Wartburg Chapel. Dedicated in the fall of not lonely anymore.” 1994, the chapel has exceeded the expec¬ According to Trachte, the new chapel has tations even of those most closely involved turned out to be everything its planners had in its planning and design. hoped for—and more. “We told the architect “To be frank,” says campus pastor Larry early on that we wanted intimacy—and we Trachte, “I was somewhat skeptical when also wanted transcendence. We wanted a planning for the chapel began. I have always modern building, but we also wanted it to believed you can worship anywhere; God is reflect our tradition, a tie to our roots. We not confined to a building. So how much wanted it to seat 100, and we also wanted it difference could a chapel make? to seat 500. “Now I know. This space has literally “And he did it. The space works beautifully. transformed the tone and spirit of worship We get intimacy because of the balconies on campus. Anytime we get together now, and the benches around the perimeter. For it’s a celebration. Wednesday night Eucharist, we can dim the “Before, in Neumann Auditorium, we lights and have closeness. Then on Family used to start big for chapel, but as the Weekend, we can seat 550 people in there. semester wore on, attendance would “And the singing! Students love singing, dwindle. Last year, instead of dwindling, and there’s no better place to sing on attendance grew. We had more and more campus. Even I sound good in there. people coming to chapel. “And the light! Neumann had no “So we started the Wednesday night windows, but here you can look out and see Eucharist, a candlelight communion service the clouds or the blue sky. It’s just a beautiful led by students with guitar and piano setting for worship.” accompaniment. It’s fun, upbeat, celebra¬ From the outside, the chapel serves as a tory. Those of us who are part of the prominent expression of Wartburg’s experience are uplifted by it. It’s just a great connection to the church. “For a long time,” spiritual expression. And student attendance explains Trachte, “we’ve had an unabashed has been very good.” commitment to being a college of the Students involved in campus ministry church. We’ve articulated it. We’ve said it. have also noticed the change. “I can’t explain We’ve had the programs. But it’s kind of like how it happened,” says senior Michael trying to have a good football team without Stadtmueller of Seguin, Texas, vice president a football field. of the Campus Ministry organization, “but “Now the chapel tells everyone who we we’re a lot more vocal now. The chapel went are. It’s a real witness. It says, loud and clear, up, and all of a sudden, everyone is excited we are a church-related place. Worship is about Campus Ministry. They’re talking important here.” about it. They’re trying to get people involved. // fL 're using technology as it ought to be used— not as an end in itself, but as a tool for learning in a different way." A New Place to Learn and a New Place to Live The last two major building projects approach: “I had already been using images “We saw this as an opportunity. The from the Decade of Opportunity—the from a laser disc as a teaching tool in suite arrangement encourages groups of Classroom Technology Center and the new American history, although the old students to interact in a particular way. So, Grossmann Hall—were completed this fall. technology was cumbersome. With the new as returning students applied to live in the Both have generated considerable facility, I can combine still images with new Grossmann, we asked them to come enthusiasm among the campus community, audio and video clips. For example, I can together with a common educational theme. but their actual impact is yet to be assessed. play a song, display the lyrics, and bring up “For example, one suite has four guys Originally conceived as a lecture hall, the historical images that relate to the song and who share a career goal of working with new classroom complex connects Luther the lyrics—and control them all with the children. One wants to be a pediatrician, Hall and the chapel. It has evolved into a touch of a button.” another wants to be a social worker, and the forward-looking facility designed to Dr. Peggy Pruisner, associate professor of other two want to be teachers. They’re encourage the integration of technology into education, hopes the new facility will enable taking different classes, but when they come teaching and learning. her to redefine her teaching role: “The back from class, they can talk about how “In one of the classrooms,” says Dr. James technology allows you to step away from their different experiences tie together. Pence, academic dean, “the professor can use being the expert in the classroom, the “Other groups share an interest in music a touch-screen computer to project images deliverer of knowledge, and to become a or in campus ministries. For the first-year from videotape, satellite TV signal, CD- facilitator of learning. If students have to students, we tried to cluster them based on ROM, or computer. The goal is to create a deliver a project using HyperCard, for common courses. We’re very interested to teaching space that provides an efficient way example, the technology itself forces them to see what kind of impact this will have.” to use technology in learning. clarify their ideas and their position. At the “Another classroom can be used for same time, it creates occasions for one-to- collaborative learning with computers. one discussion between each student and Individual, high-speed, multimedia work¬ me.” \ stations provide enough network capacity so “What really excites me about this whole that groups of students can work together project,” says Dean Pence, “is that we’re i What’s Next? on a common problem.” using technology as it ought to be used— The Classroom Technology Center also not as an end in itself, but as a tool for houses a fiber-optic, interactive video learning in a different way. ” New challenges and new opportunities classroom for distance-learning programs. Meanwhile, in another part of campus, lie ahead. According to President Vogel, International students use the classroom for the first residents are living in the new Wartburg’s next decade will see a concen¬ English as a second language courses taught Grossmann Hall. With room for 188 trated effort to increase endowment support by professors at Drake University in Des students, the new residence hall has increased for scholarships and the construction of a Moines. Wartburg cello students use the the college’s overall housing capacity; but 21st-century library. room for lessons with a master cellist in Des Peter Armstrong, director of residential life, “We will continue our efforts to become Moines. hopes it will do even more. a more distinctive, stronger institution,” he Pence expects that faculty members will “Where old Grossmann had a traditional says. “At the same time, we need to keep find different ways to use the new facilities, corridor arrangement, the new building has finding ways to communicate the value of corresponding to their teaching styles. suites with four, three, or two bedrooms. It’s what we have already accomplished Dr. Terrence Lindell, associate professor easier for students to connect with the kind together.” of history, envisions a multimedia lecture of group where they feel most comfortable.