Torch, Winter 1992

'W'. <Ocontly t•lkod w;th fom Cedarville College alumni and a Cedarville professor about free enterprise, and bow they perceive it working today. The alumni graduated in four different decades and represent a variety of vocations. But all share a concern for integrating biblical principles into their daily practice in the marketplace, and all support the free enterprise system. Mel Entingh '56 was a student at the Baptist Bible Institute when BBI moved from Cleveland to take over the operation of Cedarville College. To pay his college expenses at Cedarville he started a sma!J business selling water softeners. After earning his Bible diploma, Mel took his business to Dayton, Ohio and has operated the Enting Water Conditioning Company there for 38 years. Today, Mel and his company supply water conditioning products internationall y, including proprietary drinking water systems. Carol Stevenson '66 graduated with a business education major, havi ng participated in Cedarville's cooperative effort with the teacher education program at Central State University. In 1970, she joined the bursar's office at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. In 1990, she was promoted to bursar. She currently serves as Secretary of the Ohio Bursars Association and chairs the Wright State University Organization for Women. Dale West '79 joined the accounting firm of Deloitte Haskens and Sells after graduating from Cedarvi!Je with a business degree in accounting. He gained certification as a CPA and earned a Master of Accounting Science degree at the University of Illinois before becom ing controller of the Knoxville News Sentinel in Knoxville, Tennessee. He recently joined a Christian friend who has started a business called Shop-at-Home in Newport, Tennessee. They market one-of-a-kind collectible items via a satellite television channel. Cathy Anderson '89 was a communication arts/professional writing major at Cedarville. She now lives in Erie, Pennsylvania and works for the Foundation for Free Enterprise Education, which sponsors "Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week." PFEW is a summer business education program which teaches the principles of free market economics to high school students. Participants receive scholarships to attend the program from local businesses within their counties. Business people volunteer as advisers, helping the young people operate a mock company. Dr. Richard Baldwin is associate professor of management and international business at Cedarville College. His Ph.D. is from The Ohio State University, and he has been at Cedarville since 1975. During spring break 1991, )1e was invited to share his expertise on free enterprise as a lecturer at the Foreign Language Institute of Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod), Russia. He addressed topics of management, international business, and doing business in the United States.