Torch, Spring 1990

CAMPUS NEWS Dr. Daniel Wetzel, chairman of Cedarvi lle's department of Science and Mathematics, demonstrates a CAD unit. Dr. Wetzel currently oversees the pre-engineering program and chaired the committee which conducted the feasibi lity study for engineering at Cedarville. The Cedarville College forensics team won the state forensics (speech competition) championship based on sweepstakes points ac– cumulated at two final tournaments sponsored by the Ohio State Forensics Association. Cedarville accumu– lated 480 points, The Senior Gary Clemmer, state Ohio State University champion in the After Dinner Speaking category for two was second with 30 I consecutive years points, and Bowling Green State University was third with 287 points . For the past six years Cedarville has topped other colleges in state competition, but this was the first overall state championship. Dr. David Robey, associate professor of commu– nication arts, directs the forensics program at Cedarville. A gift of computer hardware and software from CAD CAM, Inc. of Dayton, will enhance Cedarville's new engineering program which is slated to begin in the fall of 1990. The company donated eleven 386 20MHz computers with 40MB hard drives, eleven digitablets, two plotters, one printer, and AutoCad software. The new equipment will accommodate 20 students at one time and will be used in entry level CAD (computer aided design) courses and in all design courses in the engineering program. Presently housed in the CAD Lab in the Science Center, the equipment will be moved to a lab in the proposed 61,455 square feet engineering building at its scheduled completion date in the fall of 1992. The CAD CAM gift is valued at $90,000. The College will continue to add Engineering Department faculty as the program, which offer majors in electrical and mechanical engineering, progresses. Interested candidates should contact Dr. Duane Wood, Academic Vice President. Dr. Don Callan Dr. Don Callan, men's basketball coach and athletic director, received recognition from both the NAIA and NCCAA this spring. He received NAIA's highest honor when he was inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame on March 16 in Kansas City. The committee cited his athletic achievements and his exemplifying the highest ideals of intercollegiate athletics and fine moral character. Callan 's 465-369 record places him among NAIA's top 15 winningest coaches. Cedarville College received the NCCAA 's first Sports Ministries Award in recognition of the Athletes for Christ teams that have ministered under the direction of Dr. Callan. The award cited the basketball ministry in the Philippines, Coach John McGillivray's soccer team in the Ivory Coast, the women 's basketball team in China, and the ministry in Spain in which Callan helped missionaries by holding basketball clinics and organizing men's recreational programs. Dr. Callan is completing his 30th year at Cedarville College.