1992 Miracle Yearbook

Dr. Stanley Ballard Cedarville College is built upon the lives of committed people who have faithfully and quietly dedicated the majority of their lives to the college's ideals. Most of their work goes on behind the scenes.Some professors have highly visible ministries in large general education and introductory courses, but many work primarily with students within their department in upper level courses.These professors have the privilege of mentoring their students and leading them through their personal example. Dr. Stanley Ballard is an excellent example of a man who quietly and behind the scenes has dedicated 27 years of his life to Cedarville College. He has served as Dean of Men,Bible Professor,Psychology Professor,and Chairman of the Psychol- ogy Department. He has chaired and served repeatedly on most of the important committees which, although little recognized, have been crucial to Cedarville College's stability, growth, and vitality. Dr. Ballard has also been the driving force behind the Psychology Departmentfor 20 years,building it into a program which has been the prototype for other Christian colleges and which has through its alumni supplied the professors for some of those programs. Dr. Ballard is known as a demanding teacher with an extraordinary vocabular who assigns lots of papers. He has been very effective in motivating and preparin his students for graduate school. His students usually return in a few years sayin graduate school waseasycompared to Cedarville.He is dedicated to the integratio of psychology and theology.He is one of thefew psychologists who is asconverse with theology as psychology. His classes challenge students to approach psycho ogy from a biblical perspective and from a Christian world and life view. He ha, produced a generation of students who teach and counsel for Christ across th United States. Oneof Dr. Ballard's mostpowerfulinfluenceson Cedarville College hasalso bee one of the least visible. Dr. Ballard is a mentor. He has a life long commitment to h students. It is not uncommon for his former advisees and students to visit correspond with him for advice and guidance many years after graduation. He has had a continuous mentoring relationship with som students for twenty years in which he taug them, helped them into graduate school, e couraged them through it, helped them wit career plans after graduateschool,supervise them for licensure, helped them get esta lished in practice, and welcomed them as co leagues. Through years of mentoring, D Ballard has influenced his students, who have affected the world. Dr.Ballard,like Cedarville College,is known for his depth, his commitment to individual students and his spiritual balance. These are the Cedarville College treasures which lieb yond face value. GETTING THE POINT ACROSS Dr. Ballard leads an informal class discussion. •Dr. Charles Dolp Dedication