Alumnotes, Fall 2014

Fall 2014 | Cedarville University News | alumnotes Lisa (Nuciglio) Hardy ’91 serves the Greater Dayton, Ohio, area as a realtor for RE/MAX Victory at The Greene. Prior to becoming a realtor, Lisa worked in marketing for LexisNexis for 16 years. Lisa and Shane ’91 have two boys who attend Dayton Christian, Andrew (17) and Joseph (15). Todd Fogle ‘92 assumed command of the 1st Special Operations Mission Support Group on July 28, 2014, where he commands 2,000 Airmen to provide personnel, civil works, security forces, communications, logistics, and contracting support for the fourth-most-populous base in the Air Force. He and his wife, Johanna (Burtis) ‘90 , live in Hurlburt Field, Florida, with their children, Nathan, Claire, and Adam. Matt Moore ‘92 , Associate Professor of Theatre at Cedarville, presented a class at Faith Academy in the Philippines in August. He was able to host an alumni dinner while he was there. Pictured are Mark McDaniel ’05, Matt Moore ’92, Lori (Lindner) French ‘92, and Crystal Missler ‘05. Carre (Armstrong) Gardner ’93 published a novel, All Right Here , released on June 1, 2014, by Tyndale House. Carre served as a missionary in Russia from 2007–2010. She now works as a nurse in Portland, Maine, and is the mother of three teenagers. The novel is the first of a three-book series. The second book will be released in spring of 2015. David Barshinger ’00 has written a book, Jonathan Edwards and the Psalms: A Redemptive-Historical Vision of Scripture , published on October 3, 2014, by Oxford University Press. Tricia (Lott) Williford ’01 has written a book, And Life Comes Back: A Wife’s Story of Love, Loss, and Hope Reclaimed . The book tells of Tricia’s journey of finding purpose in the pain after the loss of her husband at the age of 35. It is described as a “traveler’s guide to finding new life after setbacks [and] offers no easy answers or glib spiritual maxims but instead draws you into your own story and the hope that waits for you even now.” To find out more about Tricia’s book, please visit tricialottwilliford.com K. Michael Cole ’04 is preparing to leave in December for Togo, West Africa, where he will be serving for a year with the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism (ABWE) at the Hospital of Hope, a mission hospital opening in Mango, Togo, in January 2015. He left active duty service with the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps on March 1 after serving there for more than nine years. Anne-Marie Gaynier ’05 was awarded the 2014 Humanitarian of the Year award at the hospital where she works in Kansas City. Rachel Barnard ‘09 successfully defended her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Michigan in May of 2014. She is staying on at U of M as a teaching post-doc to teach general chemistry and do chemistry education research as a part of the new STEM education initiative on campus called REBUILD. Aaron Cook ‘99 is the new Director of Discipleship Ministries at Cedarville University. He returns to Cedarville from Scioto Hills Christian Camp and Retreat Center, where he served as Program Director. While Cook has a passion for the outdoors and doing ministry in a camping environment, his number one love is discipleship. “My favorite part at Scioto Hills was building into the lives of college students, training them, walking with them, stepping back and watching them spread their wings and fly,” he said. “Many of them were from Cedarville. It was a very natural fit.” Cook will meet with 12 students on the Discipleship Council, who will lead groups of eight to nine Discipleship Leaders, who will then disciple the 100-plus discipleship groups on campus. “It really is a 2 Timothy 2:2 model: We entrust the Gospel to faithful men and women who will be able to train others to do the same,” he said. He will also run the Fit to Be Tied program, which pairs seriously dating or engaged couples with mentor couples. “We provide them with a series of relevant seminars to aid them in preparing for a God-honoring marriage,” he said. “Our hope with both programs is to produce reproducers.” Cook noted the passion of Cedarville students to pursue God. “There is such an opportunity and responsibility to be diligent and faithful to point them to Christ,” he said. “Our influence at Cedarville for the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ goes far beyond these four years. We want to watch them persevere to the end, living lives that overflow the Gospel of Jesus into the lives of others.” Aaron Cook ‘99 Returns to Cedarville as Director of Discipleship Ministries