achieve magazine: spring 2010

A C H I E V EM A G A Z I N EThe alumni magazine of William Jewell College

Spring 2010

Special Edition:Looking to the Future

Library and LearningCommons

John Priest Greene Society

Hilltop Challenge

Cardinal Term

Achievement Day 2010

Justice Summit 2010

Journey Grants

Powering forwardAlthough our nation is experiencing itsmost challenging financial times sincethe Great Depression, Jewell must not sitand wait for the storm to pass. Ourstudents—our greatest asset—count onus to fulfill our promise for atransformative education.

I can promise you Jewell has notstopped moving, and we have manyfriends to thank for powering us forward.In this issue we celebrate philanthropyby showcasing what becomes possiblewhen a community of people valuehigher education.We share our plans tocontinue moving forward with a new

Library and Learning Commons that will serve as a catalyst for engaged andexperiential learning.This $20 million facility responds to the needs of the 21st-century student, providing both personal and collaborative study space in atechnology-rich learning environment.

This fund will provide every junior and senior an opportunity for an education-enhancing, hands-on experience anywhere in the world. Last fall, we dedicatedShumaker Hall Greek Commons and Sorority Houses, a living and learningenvironment for generations of Jewell women.We also made a step forward inthe National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division II membership process tobuild on our tradition of engaging student-athletes in competition and theclassroom. In this special edition of Achieve you can read about our newlyestablished Journey Grants program which will provide every junior and senioran opportunity for an education-enhancing, hands-on experience anywhere inthe world.

Jewell students continue to win the nation’s most prestigious nationalfellowships and scholarships with a consistency that surpasses many nationalliberal arts colleges. Our graduates are accepted into the country’s finest post-graduate programs, and they are hired at leading corporations and nonprofitorganizations.These student successes are indicative of the preparation theyreceive from talented faculty and peers and an intentional curriculum—thatdoesn’t happen by sitting still.

Uncertainties may exist regarding the economy, but we are confident aboutour future and we are committed to making it better than our past. Goodteams face the facts but keep the faith.We believe in William Jewell, ourdirection, our purpose, and we’re thankful you’re on our team to fuel our momentum.

From the President

ACHIEVE MAGAZINE

SPRING 2010

VOLUME 1, NO. 3

PRESIDENT

David L. Sallee

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VICE PRESIDENTFOR INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT

Chad J. Jolly ’94

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DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

Robert A. Eisele

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOROF ALUMNI RELATIONSAND ANNUAL GIVING

Kent Huyser ’93

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DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI SERVICES

Tanna Campbell ’08

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DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI PROGRAMSAND VOLUNTEERS

Lindy Sheets

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COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR

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MANAGER OF PRINT

COMMUNICATIONS

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ContentsFeatures

4 Library and Learning Commonsfor the 21st CenturyWilliam Jewell continues to plan for the technology and collaborative resources to best serve 21st-century learners.

9 Keeping a President’s Legacy AliveThe Neth family become inaugural members of new giving society that honors the servant-leader legacy of former Jewell President John Priest Greene

10 Hilltop ChallengeAlumni Board of Governors engages alumni in a new class giving competition.

12 Celebration of AchievementJewell honors M. Susan Chambers ’90, Daniel Belcher ’92,Dr. Karen Edison ’85, Dr. Hiley Ward ’51 (posthumously).

Other Stories8 Donor Profile: Mark ’75 and Cyndi ’74 Stingley11 Cardinal Term 201014 Center for Justice and Sustainability15 Journey Grants

Our MissionWilliam Jewell College promises students an outstanding liberal arts education that cultivates leadership,service, and spiritual growth within a community inspired by Christian ideals and committed to open,rigorous intellectual pursuits.

Plans for a modern Library and LearningCommons announced last year are takingshape as the College identifies thetechnology and collaborative resources thatwill best serve 21st-century learners. To bebuilt on the current site of Greene Hall, theLearning Commons is a three-level, 25,300-square-foot facility featuring flexible andcomfortable spaces in a technology-richenvironment. The facility itself is designedwith a commitment to sustainabilityprinciples, and site development allows theCollege to take great leaps toward a moreenergy-efficient campus and infrastructure.

“William Jewell College is focused onstrengthening and positioning the Collegefor the future and preparing cominggenerations to live accountable, ethical livesof service. Part of this preparation requiresan investment that will best support and

equip faculty and students in the digitalage,” said Dr. Tim Fulop, academic dean.

The Library and Learning Commons is amulti-faceted project that does more thanstrengthen the academic core; it alsoreshapes the physical core of the campus.New Pedestrian Plazas on either side of thefacility will integrate Brown Hall andPillsbury Music Center into the Quad aswell as better showcase Jewell Hall as guestslook up the hill from the College entrance.The Charles F. Curry building will continueto serve as an integral structure on theQuad and will house the College’s bookcollection. After remodeling, Curry also willbecome home for critical student services,the Office of Admission and the Office ofthe President.

With over $9 million raised toward this $20million project, Jewell is actively seeking

additional investment in what many believeto be the most transformative project theCollege has undertaken in decades. “We aregrateful for those who see the impact thisfacility will have on enrollment success,faculty development, new ways of teachingand learning, and Jewell’s goal to become a Phi Beta Kappa institution,” said Dr. Chad Jolly, vice president forInstitutional Advancement.

Synergy Through Proximity“The Learning Commons is a catalyst forengaged and experiential learning,” saidWilliam Jewell College president Dr. DavidSallee. “We have been very intentional aboutshaping the centers and offices that will finda home in the facility. By centralizingresources and creating new centers ofexcellence focused on faculty development


Priority Project Update:

The Library and Learning Commons

for the 21st Century

and engaged learning, students will gainbroad exposure to the world throughinternships, study abroad, service learning, leadership building andcommunity engagement. ”

Lower Level: Gateway to CampusThe Library and Learning Commons’ east façade overlooks Greene Stadium andthe Terry D. Barnes Fountain at theCollege’s entrance.

The Kansas City Gallery: Celebrating a GreatAmerican CityAs campus guests enter the CollegeWelcome Center in the LearningCommons, they will pass through the

Kansas City Gallery. This premier space willcelebrate the value of living and learning at anational liberal arts college in a greatAmerican city.

William Jewell’s connection to Kansas Cityenables students to explore powerful andmeaningful experiences off campus,including internships, career shadowing,service projects, cultural opportunities andaccess to some of the nation’s leadingcorporations and nonprofits. Thisdimension is one that few national liberal arts colleges can match.

The Kansas City Gallery also will showcaseWilliam F. Yates Medallion forDistinguished Service honorees, the highestnon-degree award given by the College.These Medalists embody civic service,entrepreneurial spirit and demonstrable

Lower Level: Gateway to Campus (Achitect’s rendering)


leadership, which are qualities WilliamJewell has been instilling in students for 160years. Gifts to the Kansas City Gallery willhelp the College convey the life-enrichingexperiences that can unfold in Kansas City.

Also on this level, the Presentation Studiowill be a media-equipped studio for student,faculty and guest presentations while theLearning Theater will connect students tothe world via live and virtual conversations.The new Center for Innovation in Teachingand Learning will reside on this floor andwill assist faculty in creating instructionalmaterials and active learning environmentswith the most current instructionaltechnologies. The Center will send apowerful signal to prospective students andother visitors who enter through theWelcome Center.

Intermediate FloorWith special attention to accessibilitythroughout the structure, the College plans20-hour per day access to this floor and the

Quad level. The Learning Commons Café,with both indoor and outdoor plaza seating,will support a comfortable and socialatmosphere while Group Study Roomsmeet a different need. The Media andCollaboration Center will allow for privateand group study, both live and virtual. TheCenter for Innovation in Teaching andLearning will use the Innovation Classroomto train faculty on technology applicationsand instruction and as an open lab forstudying. The Multimedia andCollaboration Studios will be equipped for creating, editing and practicing media presentations.

Top Floor: The Quad LevelThe Information Plaza is designed as a largeopen area just inside the Quad levelentrance and will be an inviting space forstudy and resource acquisition. Studentsapplying for the nation’s top fellowships orwho want to explore study-awayopportunities will find assistance in the

Office of Prestigious Fellowships and Officeof Global Studies. The Center for Justiceand Sustainability, created in 2009, willrelocate to the Learning Commons andcontinue its focus on exposing students tothe most challenging problems facing ourworld today. The Center for EngagedLearning will facilitate the development andapproval of student experiential learningprojects and administration of the College’snew Journey Grants program (see insideback cover). The Oxbridge Study Room willoffer private space for students in Jewell’ssignature honors program.

To review the various levels of supportneeded for this transformation, go towww.jewell.edu/learningcommons/ orcontact Chad Jolly, vice president forInstitutional Advancement, [email protected] or 816-415-7567.


Top Floor: The Quad Level (Achitect’s rendering)

“We all understand that a

media booth does not turn

a student into a

scholar–nor does a

seminar room or even a

writing tutor. But when

these and other elements

are combined within a

reconceptualized service

framework and projected

onto a reconfigured library

floor plan, the result

can mesh with creative

pedagogy to become

something that seems

greater than these

constituent parts.

This is a characteristic

element of an

emergent phenomenon.”– DON BEAGLE,

Leading thinker on LearningCommons development

Learning Theater

Presentation Room

Group Study Room


Faces of Philanthropy: Donor ProfileMark ’74 and Cynthia Reames Stingley ’75


Mark has been a partner in Bryan CaveLLP since 1995 and serves as an adjunctprofessor at the University of MissouriKansas City School of Law. Cyndi hastaught for 35 years as an elementaryteacher in the Platte City, St. Joseph andOlathe school districts. They are part of aJewell legacy that encompasses theirdaughter Erin Stingley ’06, son KyleStingley ’08, Cyndi’s parents, Vera HarrisGiese ’50 and the late Gary Reames ’50,nephews Chris Reames ’05 and CoryReames ’09, Mark’s brother John Stingley(attended ’74-’76,) and Cyndi’s sister-in-law, Deborah Overstreet Reames ’77.Mark and Cyndi’s gifts to Jewell includethe Cynthia Reames Stingley Room inShumaker Hall and support for a studyroom in the new Learning Commons,along with ongoing support of thewomen’s softball program, Cardinal Cluband the Jewell Fund.

Why is Jewell such an important part of your philanthropy?We value the Jewell experience. Threegenerations of our family have graduatedfrom William Jewell and have benefitedfrom living in the Jewell community. Thecritical thinking skills, the interaction

with professors who cared about ourprogress, the great friends we’ve made,the opportunities to grow beyond theclassroom… this doesn’t happen at everycollege or university. We want futuregenerations to have the same opportunity.

Why have you chosen to make earlycommitments on important projects such as Shumaker Hall and the Learning Commons?We are proud to be behind projects thatdemonstrate Jewell is always puttingstudents first. These two initiatives arerecent examples of Jewell enriching thestudent experience, both throughpromoting a community livingenvironment and meeting the demandsof a changing world. We also hope ourearly support will remind others howfortunate Kansas City is to have anational liberal arts college in our midst.Jewell produces highly qualifiedgraduates who move through ourbusiness and private sectors and shapeour communities.

How do you envision the LearningCommons affecting the College andfuture generations of students?William Jewell has a tradition of high

achievement because it is constantlyadapting to ensure students have thenecessary tools for success. The LearningCommons is a perfect example of Jewell’sforward-thinking approach to education.The innovation, technology, facultysupport, career mentoring, globalconnectedness… it’s all there. The factthat the infrastructure is designed to beflexible demonstrates Jewell’scommitment to be responsive to theneeds of students. Supporting theLearning Commons is not a matter ofinvesting in a building; it is a matter ofinvesting in the learning experience.

What has been Jewell’s lasting impact on your lives?William Jewell personally andprofessionally has been the cornerstoneof our lives. We met there and two of our three children attended WilliamJewell. Additionally, the network ofWilliam Jewell has helped us advanceprofessionally. In other words, the impact Jewell has had on our lives is immeasurable.


One of William Jewell’s greatestvisionaries was also its longest-servingleader. Dr. John Priest Greene holds aplace in College history not only for his30-year service as president (1892-1920and 1921-23) but also his 20 years ofservice as a Trustee. Dr. Greene’ssustained commitment to the institutionput Jewell on the path to become one oftoday’s top private colleges in the nation.

His administration was marked by steadyprogress as he strengthened thecurriculum, doubled the endowment inhis first five years, admitted women asstudents, guided the College throughWorld War I, added six key buildings,installed running water and sewers, builtroads and sidewalks and added centralheating and electric lights. Known for hisintegrity and belief in hard work, thenative Missourian also demonstrated agenuine concern for faculty and students,knowing each one by name.

To honor Dr. Greene’s exemplaryleadership and longstanding commitmentto the College, Jewell created the JohnPriest Greene Society in late 2009. Thisleadership society recognizes donorswho, like Dr. Greene, will provide a long-term commitment with an annual gift of$1,000 or more to the Jewell Fund. Thisannual, sustained support can provide thecritical resources for scholarships,technology, service-learning, facultydevelopment, student experiences andcampus aesthetics.

Two members joining this year’sinaugural class of the John Priest GreeneSociety are Howard ’52 and Jean Neth,loyal supporters of Jewell. Howard andJean have made a consistent annual giftto the College for more than 30 years.They not only embody the spirit of thesociety, but their Jewell journey tiesdirectly back to Dr. Greene himself.

Their story started insouthern Germany in1886 with a 16-year-old girl, Anna Sautter. Whenher older sister decidedat the last minute notto leave her family tostart a new life inAmerica, Anna tookthe passport and madeher way to the Germansettlement of Arleynear Kearney, Mo.Anna later marriedfellow immigrantWilliam Neth and washired as a domesticworker in the home ofWilliam JewellPresident Dr. Greene.

Anna and William’sson married Frances(Tapp) Neth ’25, one ofthe first female graduates of the College,and Frances’ two sons, Raymond ’49 andHoward ’52, attended Jewell as did alleight of their children. Today, more than20 relatives of this multigenerationalJewell family have graduated from theCollege, and many have chosen to stay inthe Liberty area as entrepreneurs,business owners and contributors toindustries such as agriculture, education,business, construction and publishing.

“William Jewell is the best thing Libertyhas,” Howard says about his decision tocontinue supporting the College yearafter year. “Many people have come toJewell from other cities and states andhave decided to stay in the Kansas Cityarea to work and start businesses. A

college adds a lot to the community interms of education and culture. There’sjust something special about a town witha college influence.”

Like Howard and Jean, all John PriestGreene Society members have aconnection to the group’s namesake asthey proudly chose to make Jewellimportant in their lives year after year.Carrying on Dr. Greene’s legacy, theyeach have a lasting effect on students andin strengthening Jewell for futuregenerations. Learn more about the newleadership giving society atwww.givetojewell.com or call AndreaMeloan at 816-415-7831. To join theinaugural class, indicate yourcommitment by June 30, 2010.

Keeping aPresident’s Legacy Alive

Jean and Howard ’52 Neth

primarily one thing: the percentage ofalumni who give to the college. Theamount of each gift is not important tothem. The goal of the Hilltop Challenge isto remind alumni that a gift to the JewellFund, or to any other area on campus, inany amount—whether it is $5 or $5,000—istremendously beneficial to our alma mater.”

The Hilltop Challenge is structured to placethe classes of 1950 through 2009 in a classgiving competition for decade awards andan overall class giving award based on thepercentage of alumni in each class whoprovide a financial gift in a given fiscal year(July 1- June 30).

Alumni who value their Jewell experienceand desire to help current Jewell studentsare participating in a new class competition.

The Hilltop Challenge is an initiativeimplemented by the William Jewell CollegeAlumni Board of Governors to promote theimportance of alumni giving and increasethe percentage of alumni who give to theCollege annually.

“Jewell is a great school,” said Eric Zahnd ’91,Platte County, Mo., prosecuting attorney,who is serving as one of the HilltopChallenge co-captains. “When organizationslike college ranking services or foundationslook at alumni involvement, they consider

“Every Jewell alum has a vested interest inhow well the College can prepare graduatesfor the challenges of the 21st century,” saidTyler Griffin ’01, manager at CernerCorporation in Kansas City, Mo., andHillltop Challenge co-captain. “Bysupporting Jewell financially, alumni areensuring that quality programs and richexperiences are in place. As the value of aJewell education rises, so does the value of the diploma each one of us has received.”

To find out more about how you can be apart of the Hilltop Challenge, go towww.jewellalumni.com/hilltopchallenge.


Classes Compete inSupport of Jewell Students

Eric Zahnd ’91

Tyler Griffin ’01

When Clayton Brown ’90was a student at WilliamJewell, he was anenthusiastic participant inthe Winterim term of

informal seminars conducted between thefall and spring semesters. As part of aWinterim course on James Bond movies, hecollaborated with some of his classmates toproduce a 007 film spoof. That long-lost,low-budget spy movie was screened for anew generation of Jewell movie lovers as theintroduction to Brown’s January 2010Cardinal Term seminar on independentfilmmaking. Now a film professor atNorthwestern University in Chicago and asuccessful moviemaker whose work hasbeen screened on the PBS program“Independent Lens” and at film festivalsinternationally, Brown joined fellow alumniand friends of the College sharing theirexpertise on a variety of Cardinal Termtopics, ranging from health care reform tomusic of the Holocaust, as the winter termtradition was revived at William Jewell in 2010.

“In talking with alumni, I often heard aboutthe great memories they have of the winterterm courses,” said William Jewell Collegepresident Dr. David Sallee. “I thought thiswould be a good opportunity for alumni andcommunity members to connect with ourcurrent students.”

Among the Cardinal Term presenterssharing their expertise this year were Dr.Mark Luce ’71, Dr. Bert Adams ’54 and Mrs.Diane Betts Adams ’55. (See Cardinal TermPresenter Spotlight for more detailed bios.)Dr. Luce and Dr. and Mrs. Adams spokerecently with Achieve about their lifeexperience and how their years on the Hillhelped to shape the people they wouldbecome.

Achieve: How did your Jewell educationprepare you to become active, engagedcitizens of the world?

Mark Luce: The liberal arts curriculumrequiring composition, speech, foreign

language, religion, Western civilization and courses from different fields gave mea broad education as well as the tools tosucceed in the world.

Bert Adams: My coursework as a Spanishmajor led me to greater interest in othercultures. I think that helped us feelcomfortable with the offer to take ourchildren to live and teach abroad and led us to continue experiences in Africa andelsewhere whenever possible.

Diane Adams: I was always interested inother cultures and appreciated courses atJewell in English under P. Caspar Harveyand in psychology under Dr. HarveyThomas for their broadening experiencesand thought.

Achieve: Why do you think it is important to be aware of the influences of globalpolitics and to have an awareness of different cultures?

Mark Luce: The world has changed to such an extent that Americans can no longer be insular and isolated. The post-World War II world is gone and the United States cannot remain the richest and strongest country in the world without an awareness of other cultures.Today Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan are perfect examples of why we are obligated to understand each other, because without it we are doomed tocontinued strife and conflict.

Bert Adams: The world has ‘become smaller,’ and we need to learn to appreciateworld-wide diversity.

Diane Adams: ‘No person is an island’ seems so appropriate today, with multi-national corporations and global bankingaffecting each of our lives. We had jolly well better understand world cultures from a less than ethnocentric point of view.

Cardinal Term Presenter SpotlightMark Luce: “Afghanistan: History andPerspectives for the Future”

Class of 1971, double majorin classics and history. PeaceCorps member, taught Englishin Afghanistan. M.A. in NearEastern Languages and

Literature. Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languagesand Civilizations, University of Chicago.Taught and directed technical English trainingfor the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.Directed English Language Center, Universityof Peshawar, Pakistan. Senior DeputyDirector, International Rescue Committee’sprograms for Afghan refugees in Peshawar.

Bert & Diane Adams: “Kenya: People,Politics and Public Life”

Bert Adams, class of 1954,voice and Spanish major;B.D. and Th.D., SouthernBaptist Seminary, Louisville,Ky.; Ph.D. in sociology,

University of North Carolina. Served on thefaculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1965 to 2000. Served as seniorlecturer in sociology at Makerere University inKampala, Uganda. Completed nine majorpublications in a National Science Foundationstudy of Asians expelled from Uganda.Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship.

Diane Betts Adams, class of1955, music and educationmajor; received a master’sdegree in continuing andvocational education from the

University of Wisconsin-Madison. Worked asa school teacher in Kansas, Missouri andKentucky. With her husband and two sons,traveled to Uganda and taught music.Conducted early childhood studies in Kenyaand studied early childhood training for theWorld Bank. Completed a series of interviewson the elderly women, ex-colonial residents ofKenya’s Harrison House that becamedocumentary film “The Women of Harrison House.”


Cardinal Term provides opportunitiesfor alumni to reconnect

(Clockwise, from top left) Honorees M.Susan Chambers ’90, Daniel Belcher ’92, Dr.

Karen Edison ’85; speaker James Bradley; Ki Daikodrummers lead the processional; Don and AdeleHall, past Achievement Day honorary eventchairmen; Nancy Lee and Jonathan Kemper, 2010honorary event chairmen; Dr. David Sallee and2010 event chairman Debbie Smith.

Achievement Day speaker honors ‘everyday heroes’Author James Bradley paidtribute to the people he calledthe “everyday heroes” ofAmerican life during WilliamJewell’s recent 66th annualCelebration of Achievement.

Speaking to a crowd of


more than 600 alumni and friends ofthe College gathered at Kansas City’sWestin Crown Center Hotel, the best-selling author of Flags of Our Fathersrecounted the individual storiesbehind the figures photographed inthe iconic World War II image ofAmerican soldiers raising the flag atthe battle of Iwo Jima.

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“If you’re going to study heroes, Iwo Jima’s a pretty good laboratory,” Bradley said.

One of the men pictured in what hasbecome the most reproduced image inphotojournalistic history is Bradley’s father.Although John Bradley received the NavyCross for heroism at Iwo Jima, his sonrecalled that the man he knew growing up always said “I didn’t do much” when questioned about his wartime accomplishments.

“Everyone talks about the ‘greatestgeneration’ stuff, but to these men, it wasjust doing their duty,” Bradley said. “It wasn’tunusual for them. It was simply the qualityof their lives.”

Although Bradley said he was proud of hisfather’s actions at Iwo Jima, he maintainedthat the most enduring achievements cameafter the war when his father and others ofhis generation were involved in buildingpublic school systems and libraries, servingon hospital boards and establishingscholarship funds for deserving college students.

“It’s the everyday heroism that lingers withus,” Bradley said. “There’s a roomful ofeveryday heroes here tonight. It is whatmakes this country great.”

Reflections onAchievement 2010 Achievement Dayhonorees

Daniel Belcher ’92,baritone andinternationallyacclaimed operaperformer:“Life is

not a dress rehearsal. Live everyday to the fullest.”

M. SusanChambers ’90,Executive VicePresident, Global PeopleDivision, Wal-Mart Stores,

Inc.“Think about what matters the most to you,and align what you do with what you believeis most important.”

Dr. Karen Edison ’85,Associate Professor andDepartment Chair ofDermatology, University ofMissouri-Columbia School

of Medicine “Embrace the liberal artsexperience. This is your time to develop yourown humanity.”

Dr. Hiley Ward ’51(posthumously), author and former DepartmentChair and Professor of Journalism, Temple University


(above, from top, left to right) Dr. Harry Ward ’51accepts his brother Hiley’s posthumously awarded

Citation for Achievement; Honoree M. SusanChambers, Dr. David Sallee, and honorees DanielBelcher and Dr. Karen Edison; honorees Belcher,

Chambers and Edison acknowledge applause atthe Achievement Day Convocation.

Issues such as economic fairness, peace, sustainability and socialjustice seem broad in scope, perhaps too far-reaching for oneperson or one community to address, but the 85 people whoattended William Jewell’s first Justice Summit did just that.

The College’s Center for Justice and Sustainability sponsored aJanuary summit, “24 Hours to a Better World,” with students, staff,alumni and friends collaborating on how to turn lofty ideals intopractical actions. Featured speakers Dr. Ellis Jones and BrettJohnson, authors of The Better World Handbook, led groupdiscussions on topics such as banking, shopping, food andcommunity involvement.

“Our goal was to bring together individuals committed to choosingan intentional lifestyle that leads to a better world for all,” said Dr.Andy Pratt, director of the Center for Justice and Sustainability andJewell’s vice president for Religious Ministries. Near Jewell’scampus, for example, churches and schools are organizingcommunity gardens and urban farming projects, cities arecentering marketing efforts on supporting local merchants andgrowers, and volunteers are rolling up their sleeves to revitalizeneighborhoods. One municipality is creating a sustainabilityinternship to identify areas of improvement for the city and itsresidents. “Justice and sustainability is not one movement, but athousand movements of people asking, ‘What can I do where Iam?’ ” said Dr. Pratt.

Summit keynote speaker Robert Mann, a 1963 Jewell alumnus andco-director of Shadowcliff retreat center in Colorado, comparedjustice and sustainability initiatives to the civil rights movement.He said the grassroots effort will become widespread when people“take it to the streets.” Mann challenged citizens to get personally

involved, to educate others and to integrate personal values withdaily choices at home and in the workplace.

Dr. Mark Kilstofte, an associate professor at Furman University inSouth Carolina, presented a session on sustainability in the arts.The composer won Jewell’s Justice and Sustainability nationalchoral composition competition, and the Concert Choirperformed his winning pieces at the Summit.

The Center for Justice and Sustainability began functioning in 2009to guide students to examine social, economic and ecologicaljustice. To follow the Center’s activities, go to www.jewell.edu.

The Center for Justice and Sustainability formally beganfunctioning in January 2009 with a focus on putting ideas intopractice. Some of the initiatives accomplished in the Center’s firstyear include:• Started cardboard recycling in all residence halls

and campus buildings.• Partnered with Dining Services to begin organic

recycling in campus dining areas.• Hosted President Jimmy Carter who celebrated the founding

gift to the Center.• Coordinated a concert, Rock Out Reach Out, as a fund-raiser

for 14 area nonprofit organizations.• Sponsored the Human Family Reunion to celebrate diversity

and focus on the next generation of leaders for justice and sustainability.

• Organized the Matthew 25 project, uniting volunteers throughout the metropolitan area to paint four houses in Kansas City’s urban Palestine neighborhood.


From left: Keynote speaker Robert Mann ’63 challenged citizens to get personally involved in the justice and sustainability cause; Dr. Mark Kilstofte, anassociate professor at Furman University in South Carolina, presented a session on sustainability in the arts.

Center for Justiceand Sustainability:

Aimingfor a

better world

When asked to describe the Jewell experience,many of us on the Hill often find the word“journey” working its way into our response. As in,“An exciting journey begins the moment a newstudent takes that first walk around the Quad . . . .”I like the word journey. For me, it calls forth theappropriate sense of exploration, discovery andadventure. We are proud that each Jewell Journeyis shaped by a number of intentionally designedexperiences; some shared and others personallytailored to the passions and interests of eachstudent. There is a richness and depth ofopportunity at Jewell that is truly distinctive withinour region.

For the class entering in fall 2010, the JewellJourney will become all the more compelling.Every student who successfully completes thesophomore year will be eligible to receive a“Journey Grant” to fund a transformative hands-on experience.

Journey Grants will be a minimum of $2,000, withthe possibility for additional funding based on thequality and type of proposal. Journey Grants cansupport self-designed research projects, study-awayopportunities, internships, civic engagement initiatives or service projects at home or abroad.Students may use a Journey Grant to start theirown business or pool grants together to createsubstantive collaborative projects. If they can imagine it, they can do it.

This special issue of Achieve highlights many of theexciting things happening at Jewell. I encourageyou to view the Honor Roll of Donors for 2008-2009 (www.jewellalumni.com/donorhonorroll) forthe names of the alumni and friends who continueto change lives on this Hill each day. We aregrateful for all who stand with us.

The Jewell Journey continues.

Journey GrantsBy Chad Jolly ’94, Vice President for Institutional Advancement

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