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Glenn Asquith, professor of pastoral theology
at the Seminary, attended the annual meeting of the Society
for Pastoral Theology,
June 19-21in Los Angeles. Its theme was “Honoring Multiculturality
in Self and Community.” With Carrie Doehring, a colleague
at Iliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado, he led a study
session on “Embodiment,” describing a new course
he team-taught in the spring with Deborah Appler, assistant
professor of Old Testament, on “Gender Dynamics and
the Hebrew Bible.” He also was elected to a four-year
term as co-editor of the Journal of Pastoral Theology.
Carole
Brown, associate professor of English, received the Lehigh
Valley Community Foundation’s Vision in Philanthropy
award at its annual Rolland L. Adams Society dinner in
July. The award recognizes those who have upheld Adams’s
tradition of giving to the community. Carole envisioned
centralized, customized, state-of-the-art services for
the youngest victims
of abuse and started the Child Advocacy Center Fund in
1993. It has provided grants to create a comforting setting
for
counseling and to buy a sophisticated diagnostic instrument
called a colposcope, among many other projects. In 2001,
Carole helped open the Child Advocacy Center in Lehigh
County.
Linda Heindel, dean emerita of continuing
and graduate studies, will receive the 2003 Emeritus Award
from the
Association
for Continuing Higher Education. She has won three previous
awards from its Region IV chapter. She’ll be given
the national award at the society’s November meeting
in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Joel Wingard, professor
of English, attended the summer meeting of the Council
of Writing Program Administrators,
July 10-13
in Grand Rapids, Michigan, co-sponsored by Calvin College
and Grand Valley State University. He participated
in a roundtable discussion on first-year writing programs
with
administrators
from Philadelphia University, Stanford University,
and
the University of Delaware. Joel says Moravian’s
writing across the curriculum approach compares favorably
with Duke
University’s much larger and flashier program.
Dana
Dunn, professor of psychology, attended the annual
meeting of the American Psychological Association,
August 9-11 in
Toronto. He was session chair for talks by Timothy
D. Wilson (Dana’s mentor at the University
of Virginia) and Faye Crosby, University of California
at Santa Cruz. He spoke
at the awards session of the Society for the Teaching
of Psychology and participated in the society’s
executive committee meetings. This was Dana’s
third and last year as chair of STP’s teaching
awards committee.
Incoming!
Tim Poirier became assistant dean
of residence life the first week of August. He holds
a B.A. from
Daniel Webster
College,
Nashua, New Hampshire, and an M.A. in counseling
pyschology from Antioch New England Graduate
School in Keene,
New Hampshire. He comes here from a similar position
at Daniel
Webster,
where he also was director of academic support
services. He oversees Greek life, disciplinary
procedures, and special-interest housing.
James Gold ’98
has become major gifts officer for Moravian Theological
Seminary. He comes to the job with excellent
family connections: His grandfather was a Moravian
minister, and his brothers Jeffrey ’90 and Joshua ’99
are fellow alumni. He interned with Moravian’s Office
of Institutional Advancement, then became a fund-raiser
for
Denison University, Gran-ville, Ohio. He also
has been a planned giving officer at Lehigh University
and Fifth Third
Bank in Cincinnati. |
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