Torch, Spring 1996

CAMPUS NEWS Spring Break Ministries D uring the spring break, student ministry teams returned to Joy Ranch (Virginia), Master's Mission (North Carolina), and Chicago's Pacific Garden Mission and Inner City Impact. Gospel teams ministering in churches and schools included the Kingsmen Quartet (Cleveland, Ohio), the Master's Puppets (Des Moines, Iowa), the Swordbearers (Atlanta, Georgia; Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tennessee), and the Lifeline Players (North Carolina). L.I.F.E. (Labor Invested for Eternity) students helped build homes for low-income families in Florida and Louisiana. In April, nursing student teams served in Togo, West Africa and on an Indian reservation in New Mexico. One nursing student ministered in a clinic in Alaska. Tutoring Electronically A $25,000 Ameritech Partnership Award will enable Cedarville College students to give individualized interactive tutoring via computer to K- 12 students in the Cedar Cliff school system in Cedarville. The competitive technology grant, the largest given by Ameritech in the state of Ohio, will fund hardware and software for interaction over telephone lines. Initially benefiting students who need individual or advanced instruction, the program may later extend to students who are homebound because of extended illness and to outlying schools. <{\merite0 Athletes Honored S enior finance major Chad Eder and Stephanie Sherman, 1995 biology/secondary education graduate, were named Yellow Jacket Male and Female Athletes of the Year for 1995. Eder, a resident of Cedarville, qualified for the U.S. Olympic trials in race walking. He won the National Collegiate Alliance of Race Walkers 20K competition, was fourth in the U.S. Indoor, and was named NAIA All-American when he placed second in NAIA's 5K race. Sherman, one of three President' s Award recipients at the 1995 college commencement, was a IO-time NAlA All-American and a 12-time NCCAA national champion in track and field . Sherman was a two-time NAIA champion in the triple jump (outdoor) and was twice named Yellow Jacket Female Athlete of the Year. During Alumni Basketball Weekend in January, the first-ever women's basketball jerseys were retired. 1980 graduate Vicki Butler (#32) of Cincinnati is the all-time leading scorer and holds 14 school records. She is a member of the Cedarville College Hall of Fame. Amy Zehr Mcintosh (#40), 1993 graduate from Ft. Wayne, Indiana, is the all-time rebounder, third all-time leading scorer, and holds five school records. Named First Team All-American for both NAIA Division II and NCCAA, she was also Mid-Ohio Conference Player of the Year. 14 Torch Callan Honored Dr. Donald Callan, athletic director and chair of the Department of Health and Physical Education, received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the eighth annual Ohio Professional and Amateur Athlete of the Year Awards Banquet, held in Dayton in February. Dr. Callan retired last year as head basketball coach, a position he held for 35 years. He reflects, "I wanted to create a program at Cedarville that was honoring to God, that was competitive, that attracted attention, yet gave a good image of the school and we've been able to accomplish that."