Bethel Magazine Fall 2019

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White Named New Vice President for Administration & Finance and CFO Jerry L.White, CPA , has been named Vice President for Administration & Finance and CFO for Bethel University, beginning Aug. 19. White has more than 17 years of career experience working in business and finance for higher education, where he has excelled

students. The team set up in four different rural villages over the course of four days, serving populations that typically do not have access to medical care. They provided medical and spiritual care to 502 Guatemalans of all ages. Spain : Jennifer Ochstein, MFA , Assistant Professor of Writing and English, and Tyler Grant ’09 , Director of Global Engagement, led students on a Christian pilgrimage to the tomb of the apostle James in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. The group hiked more than 100 km along the Camino de Santiago, bearing one another’s burdens, serving other pilgrims and coming to understand the Christian walk in a deeper way. Summer in Spain : Nan Hussey, Ph.D. , Associate Professor of Spanish, led the Summer in Spain experience. Nine students spent nearly seven weeks traveling and studying in Spain, earning nine credits while exploring cathedrals, visiting museums and Roman ruins, enjoying a month-long home stay and studying Spanish. Habegger, McClendon Added to Board of Trustees Brian Habegger ’79 and Joan McClendon ’10 have been added to the Bethel University Board of Trustees. Habegger is co- owner of Habegger’s Ace Hardware and Lumber Yard, his family’s business in Berne, Ind., which he’s been active in for 30 years. He recently finished a 10-year term on the Missionary Church General Oversight Council, and currently serves on the Missionary Church Central Regional Board as a lay member. McClendon currently serves as the Operation Program Director for the Nonprofit Professional Development Department at the University of Notre Dame. Recently, she launched the BRITE Women Project to lead the charge in increasing representation of diverse women on nonprofit boards.

at balancing budgets, overseeing capital projects and negotiating contracts. Prior positions include Vice President for Finance and Administration at Albion College (Albion, Mich.) Vice President for Finance and Administration at Spring Arbor University (Spring Arbor, Mich.), and Controller/Director of Financial Services at Huntington University (Huntington, Ind.). He holds a Bachelor’s in Accounting from Anderson University (Anderson, Ind.), a Master’s in Education from Purdue University, and attended the National Higher Education Treasury Academy. White comes to Bethel from Culver Academics in Culver, Ind., where he most recently served as Chief Operations Officer. He and his wife Polly have been married for 30 years and have three sons.

Lentsch Named New Vice President for Institutional Advancement Matt Lentsch, MPA, CFRE , has been named Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Bethel University. He began July 8. Lentsch comes to Bethel with 30+ years of professional fundraising experience in our region. He graduated from Asbury University, earned a Master’s in Public

Former Professor Publishes Books on Adoption Journey Rebecca Wilson, Ed.D., (Professor of Education 1991-2015), recently published two books (Seoul Searching, and Re-Searching

Seoul) about her cultural and adoption experiences in Seoul, Korea, where she taught for eight years (1981-89). Readers will learn to appreciate the Korean culture and experience her emotional highs and lows as she fights the Korean government in four separate legal battles, all without an attorney. Her adventures include teaching first and then second grade, earning a master’s degree in a foreign country,

Administration from Indiana University South Bend, and has maintained a CFRE (Certified Fundraising Executive) designation since 2001. He formed the first Association of Fundraising Professionals chapter for our region and served on the Mishawaka Planning Commission for 20 years (currently as president). Lentsch most recently served for six years as Executive Director, Organizational Advancement, for the Oaklawn Foundation, where he was responsible for a comprehensive Fundraising and Community Relations effort. He helped grow their fund balance from less than $200,000 to over $3.5 million, and nearly doubled annual funds raised. He and his wife Connie ‘08 have been married for 27 years and have four daughters and six grandchildren. - Brianna Densmore ‘23

writing the No. 1 selling English textbooks for Korean middle schools and enjoying the 1988 Seoul Olympics, all while trying to adopt her daughters. Both books are available through Xulonpress. com/bookstore , Amazon.com , and BarnesandNoble.com .

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