Bethel Magazine Fall 2019

ALUMNI NEWS

Dear Alumni,

As I reflect back on the last six months, I am overwhelmed with gratitude for the opportunity to see so many of you at our events. Thousands of you! Your support was such a blessing to us as we traveled to camps, hosted the 50 year class reunion, enjoyed a ballgame with the South Bend Cubs, and gathered on athletic fields for alumni games. There is so much excitement around our new name, new logos, and a new school year and it’s fun to see our alumni embracing these changes. Monthly e-newsletters began in October. Be sure we have your most current information by updating us at BethelUniversity.edu/AlumniUpdate or contact us at the email below. Also use that link to send us an update that we can include in the next issue of Bethel Magazine! I hope you’ll join us at an alumni event, fine arts production or athletic event soon. Having alumni back on campus is a highlight for our office!

See you on campus soon!

Emily (Rodgers) Sherwood ’99 , Director of Alumni Relations 574.807.7619 | Alumni@BethelCollege.edu

Rev. Carol (Plodowski) Knox ’63 retired from UMC in 2012.

From 1980 to 2004, he volunteered on the Osceola Fire Department and was an advanced EMT with the Osceola Ambulance Service. Jim has been pitching softball for 45 years, presently in the Mishawaka Senior League. Lynn has taught private music lessons for 56 years and taught music at several Catholic schools for 26 years. She retired from St. Vincent de Paul in 2015. She has served as choir director or worship accompanist at several churches, presently at Osceola United Methodist Church. She enjoys Bible Study Fellowship, Penn Neighbors Homemakers, Bethel Ladies and church friends. Both have given much time to St. Joseph County 4-H for over 50 years. Plans for celebration are a Route 66 road trip and a party.

Will ’97 and Kim (Albert) Dodd ’98,’04 (2) moved to California almost four years ago for Will’s job. Kim is currently a Pastoral Counselor at Village Church in Burbank, Calif., and Hope Garden in Sylmar, Calif.

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Jim and Lynn (Clark) Lambert ’72 (1) celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this summer. They are blessed with two married children, Micah (Jennifer) Lambert and Rebeccah (Michael) Butler, and six grandchildren – Kyle, Kaley, Wyatt, Owen, Natalie and Mia. They have resided at the same Osceola address 49 of those years. James finished his four-year term as a Corpsman with the Navy and Marines in 1970 and Lynn finished her Music Education degree at Bethel College in 1972. Jim worked at Miles Laboratory and attended South Bend Memorial School of Nursing. In 1979, he started his own Lambert Custom Upholstery shop where he still works regular hours, nursing furniture. From 1994-1996, he was a security guard at Bethel College.

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Spencer and Heidi (Stephenson) Adams ’04 (3) welcomed their daughter, Eliyana Lynn on Oct. 23, 2018.

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Steven Allard ’13 finished his last class at Bethel in September 2013 and was employed as a Quality Engineer by October 2013 in his hometown. He has been working on projects for customers around the world and has started his own 3D printing business out of his home.

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