Torch, Summer 1999

' .,, Residence Complex Named C edarville College's newest residence complex has been named in honor ofretired College administrators Clifford Johnson, Harold Green, and Kenneth St. Clair. Configured and furnished exactly as the existing McKinney and McChesney residence halls and the Miter Conference Center, the new complex will house a total of 250 students. Construction is progressing nicely, and the complex will be ready for occupancy this fall. Sports Information Director Honored for Web Sites Web sites designed by Mark Womack, Cedarville College sports information director, were recently named top 10 finishers in a national contest sponsored by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Sports Information Directors Association (NAlA-SIDA). Womack, a 1983 graduate of the College, created and updated the sites for the American Mideast Conference (AMC) and the Cedarville College athletic department. Womack's work was judged against 49 web sites, six of which were athletic conference sites. His AMC site took first place among conference sites and seventh place overall, while his Cedarville site tied for tenth place overall. To get a first– hand look at Womack's work, visit www. amcsports.org or www.yellowjackets.cedarville.edu . Engineering Team Repeats First Place at Ohio Engineering Conference C edarville College mechanical engineering design teams took first and second place at the third annual Senior Project Showcase of the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) on May 21. This was the second year in a row that Cedarville produced the OSPE's first place team. The showcase, located in Sandusky, Ohio, was held in conjunction with OSPE' s 121st annual meeting and convention. First place went to the team of Rob Bayley (West Chester, Pa.), Jeff Connors (Baileyville, Ill.), Brett Frey (Orwigsburg, Pa.), John Moodie (Plover, Wis.), Paul Puryear (Carrollton, Va.), and Jed Smith (Freeport, Ill.) for their unique running machine design. The running machine uses a four-bar linkage system to emulate natural motion and thus eliminate impact as the athlete runs, preventing leg and knee injuries during training. Slight design variations could accommodate the sni de length and foot pattern of individual runners. Advisor to the team was Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Thomas Thompson. A second team, composed of Keith Cole (Cedarville), Lonny Cooper (Polk, Neb.), Dave Edwards (Anchorage, Alaska), Dan Farrell (Glen Ellyn, ill.), Chris Nolt (Dalton, Ohio), and Debbie Pittman (Alconbury, England), won second place for devising a machine that efficiently removes rod guides from oil well sucker rods so that the sucker rods can be reused. This project benefits the oil industry by decreasing supply costs, increasing profit from old oil wells, and reducing environmental wast~. Advisor to the team was Cedarville Instructor of Mechanical Enginee1ing and Mechanical Engineering Technician Jay Kinsinger. The running machine team had recently won third place at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Region IV Student Conference in Cleveland. They were one of two senior design groups selected by the Cedarville engineering faculty to compete against 23 ASME student groups from Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ontario, Canada. previous issue of Torch (Spring/Summer 1999), we received questions from many readers as to the name of the doctor pictured in the article. Our gracious model for the photos was Dr. Richard McNeely of Suburban OB/GYN in Bellbrook, Ohio. His patient was portrayed by Roxy Huck, wife of Torch photographer Scott Huck, from Dayton, Ohio.