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by Mark Womack ’82

I don’t personally know many people who have a

building named after them. I doubt anyone sets out in

life with that honor as one of their ultimate goals.

However, I do know this ... If your name is on a

building, you’ve influenced people in some incredible

fashion. Period.

Such people like Don Callan, or “Coach” to many of

us, are difference-makers in their own special way.

And, so reads the plaque upon entering the Callan

Athletic Center, which I see nearly every day upon

heading to my office:

“In grateful recognition of the Christian testimony

and faithful service of Donald E. Callan as a coach,

missions leader, athletic director, professor, department

chair, and dean at Cedarville University.”

And those titles? Amazingly, he held five of them at

one time during his career on campus, which began in

1960.

Aman raised out of humble beginnings in southern

Indiana, he is still crafting a lasting legacy to match the

Bible verse attached to the very building named in his

honor.

“And the things that thou hast heard of me among

many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men,

who shall be able to teach others also” (2 Tim. 2:2).

I’ve had the privilege to play for him, win

championships with him, travel internationally with

him, broadcast with him, receive counsel from him,

pray with him, and, most importantly, call him a

close friend.

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