The Ohio Independent Baptist, October 1999

4 /' ll , , >11(1/ c t 111, I, 1111 t: ,111,J ,o/, \ /OI \ 0111 filhllll lcll 1111tl 111,111,1111 <' 11<1( ,/, \ 111 o • ( .,, II I t /, • I I , ,,, I < • I > I , ti I I I It I\ • , ,,, • /?11,111, \, • \ 111111111( \ PHELPS FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. I \ 'I R !'ht I ,, ( ti' l I I' RI I' I l 1l I c~,, 11 I'., \ l l· 1d1'", I )11\ l' \\l' 'l'f\ l l'lhh,-l•tl l PHONE: 614-899-6000 Gu i d eOne FAX: 614-8 99-6022 a service oriented architectural firm churches christian schools commercial resident ial or:l' jack berry D a rch i t ect 0 9 n. 3rd st. , suite 200 QQ newark, oh 43055 ,,, 0 .. ~ . .. , , , 11 phone: 7 40 366 4827 T his n1onth we hope you will co1ne lo Portsn,outh and " clcbratc the Wall. " The Port ·n1outh fl ood wall fcaturc the larges t continuou work of art in the United States by a single arti l. It' s a "can' t mi ·s" on your trip to the annual conference. Arti t Robert Daffler ha depicted highpoints of Port mouth hi: tory in beautiful I arge mural . Featured are hometown hcroe ·uch as Roy Roger and Branch Rickey, the . former maj or league Ba eball Commis- ioner who igned Jackie Robin on. And did you know that the Detroit Lion got their NFL · tart in Portsmouth a the Spartan ? Or that the fir l night NFL football gan1e wa played in Port - mouth? Pa tor Gowdy of Temple Bapti t i mo t proud of the mural featuring the ori ginal Portsmouth Moto_rcyc le Club, . the fir t in the tate of Ohio, because h1 grandfath 7 r' br~ther, S~encer ,~owdy ',, and hi wife, Edith, are in the li ne-up of rider on the walL A the first Bapti t church in Port - mouth Pa tor Gowdy and Temple have I • al o been contacted to have a part 1n a new mural being des igned to depict ~he spiritual life of the are.a. The ~omffilt~ee which decides what will be painted wil l likely feature their original ~uildi ng, which burned to the ground 1n 1925. Perhaps you will see this painting in progre during the conference. Before you leave, be sure t? check out the other ide of the Wall , facing the ri ver. There you will see the "Star ," signed by local celebri~ie, . One of these " tar " i Temple Baptist s own secre-. tary , Eli zabeth Bell , the 1986 Mrs. Ohio. You just might have to spend an extra morning in Portsmouth after all!! To your email address book & change the OIB address to da nd lthomas@g lasscity.net! Please send all your OIB communications to this address . Thanks! (The Warrens' address has not changed. It is sti11 warrenoarbc@ juno.com) . Cedarville College News C edarvtllc began its J 999-2000 year of instruction on September 23 with approximately 2,750 students enrolled . Upon arri val , tudents f~und n.umerous changes to the campus, 1nclud1ng a newly-opened dorm complex and conferencc center, new athletic fi eld '>, continuing con truction on the Stud~nt Life Center, a resurfaced gym noor 1n the Athletic Center, and a new parkjng lot where the beloved Bethe] Hall had stood for 51 year . A team of six Cedarville College engineering tudents r~centJ y .earned the grand pri ze of $6,000 1n ~he sixth an~ual International Padnos Des ign Competi– tion, which recognizes innovati ve and environmentally-responsible student engineering projects. The Cedarville group, al l of whom have si~ce grad~– ated, travelled to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) De ign Engineering Technical Confer– ence in Las Vegas September 12- 15 to receive their prize money and an invitation to pub li sh their research report in the Technology Journal of Franklin Institute. The team won the grand pri ze by de igning and building a portable machine that efficiently removes rod guides from oil well sucker rod o that the sucker rods can be reused . Their proj ect benefits the oil in~ustry ~y decreasing supply costs, 1ncreas1ng . profit from old oil wells, and reducing environmental waste. Chuck Allport, a istant to the . academic vice president and associate professor of mechanjcal engineering at Cedarvi ll e College, wa recently . honored as Outstanding Faculty Advisor in the 1999 Ethanol Vehicle Challenge (EVC) program. . The $10,000 award was inaugurated thi s year by The Governors' Ethanol . Coalition to recogni ze faculty leade~s~1p and "impact on students" at the part1c1- pating EVC colleges. $ 1,000 goes to .the individual and $9 ,000 to enhance their program. The Ethanol Vehicle Chal– lenoe is an Advanced Technology 0 .. Vehicle engineering compe tition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy , Natural Resourc~s Canada and General Motors Corporauon. . Allport has been advisor to Ced~v11le alternative fuel teams for the past six year and has advi~ed more th~ 30 various intercollegiate competJtJon teams in his 1O years at Cedarville College.