H.K. Kingkade, right, Director of the College’s Office of Religious Life, posed with Dr. Greg Earwood and family around the willow oak tree that commemorates the BSK’s move to campus. From left, Scott Earwood ‘00, Greg and Nell Earwood, son-in-law Jon Redding, daughter Angela Earwood Redding ’09 and Todd Earwood.

Georgetown College President Bill Crouch and BSK President Greg Earwood in front of the seminary’s suite of offices on the first floor of the Ensor LRC.

Copy that! The Haddens were humbled when Dr. Earwood surprised them with the plaque that bears their names.

Terry ’75 and Jan Lester ’73 were honored with a plaque in the BSK administrative suites. Terry, a former BSK board member, is pastor of London’s First Baptist Church.

Elizabethtown pastor Roger Jasper, GC class of ’06 and current BSK student, with his Living Faith Baptist Fellowship members, from left: Karen Birdwhistell, Alice Mull, Creed Caldwell, (Jasper), Jerry Money, and Linda Caldwell.

Jim Durham
News Bureau Director

The Baptist Seminary of Kentucky commemorated its recent move to the Georgetown College campus Tuesday with BSK President Greg Earwood’s delivery of the sermon during the school year’s “First Chapel.”

Dr. Earwood told the Hill Chapel audience he was grateful that “President Crouch has put together various streams of the Baptist family” and welcomed the BSK. “It was so wonderful to see so many BSK ‘friends’ sitting there amongst the College community,” he said.

Earwood said the day was a “kairos moment” for him. “Kairos is a Greek word meaning ‘the right, favorable, acceptable time for God,” he said. BSK was located in Lexington – first at Calvary Baptist Church, then Lexington Theological Seminary – for it first eight years of existence. “It seems to us that everything has finally come together.”

After chapel a large number of well-wishers attended a brief ceremony by an oak tree that was recently planted to symbolize the relationship between the College and the BSK. The 8-foot willow oak is between the Music Building and the main entrance of the Ensor Learning Resource Center.

“The tree is a wonderful way to mark a new beginning,” Earwood said, then with an eye at the hot, clear sky, added with a laugh, “now we need to make sure we keep watering it!”

A reception followed in the LRC lobby and in the BSK office suites on the first and ground floors. Roger Jasper ’06, the recently-hired pastor of Living Faith Baptist Fellowship in Elizabethtown, and five of his church members served as hosts. “We support both the seminary and the College and we just felt this was something we could do to show that,” said Jasper, who is a second-year BSK student.

Earwood, who proudly noted that nine of BSK’s current 45 students are GC grads, said:

“Baptist Seminary of Kentucky has located on the campus of Georgetown College because of the College’s Baptist identity, excellent reputation for liberal arts education, and a sense of permanency given their significant historical roots dating to 1787. The Seminary will bring to Georgetown College a reinforcing and enhancing of their Baptist identity, several revenue streams, and help in recruiting high school students to campus.”

Already, Steve Hadden, a former pastor at Faith Baptist Church in Georgetown and later at Crestwood Baptist in Oldham County, is developing areas that are of mutual interest to the BSK and the College, according to H.K. Kingkade, Director of the College’s Office of Religious Life.

“Baptists I’ve talked to see the seminary’s move here as a good fit,” said Kingkade ’83.

Earlier, Kingkade said: “The seminary has strived to follow God’s leading in Christian higher education by reaching out to men and women in order to prepare them for ministry in today’s world. They have accumulated a gifted faculty and staff who have dedicated themselves to provide a quality theological education to their students.”

Earwood said he is thrilled with the BSK’s new home and he is especially grateful for the welcome he’s felt from the LRC staff. “(Head librarian) Mary Margaret Lowe has been wonderful to work with and the whole staff is very gracious,” he said.

The BSK’s next big event is their annual Christian Education Conference from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 23. The site is the College’s Hall of Fame Room on the main floor of the Cralle Student Center.

For more information about the conference or the BSK, call Debbie Moody at (502) 863-8301 or go to www.bsky.org.

‘Class’ of 2010-11

Georgetown College is pleased to have two of its alumni among seven new faculty members this fall. Kenny Sibal ’04 and Robert Bevins ’98. Here are the “lucky seven” – hopefully, lucky for them, lucky for GC – along with some interesting factoids on each:

Dr. Robert Bevins Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology (Georgetown College ’98, BS; University of Kentucky, PhD) The first course he officially taught was here at Georgetown as an adjunct, and this will be the first year he will be seeing students that took Bio 100 from him as freshmen graduating this May.
Kenny Sibal Assistant Professor of Communication & Media Studies (Georgetown College ’04, BA; Western Kentucky University, MA; PhD in progress, Ohio University) Kenny played on the GC National Football Championship Teams in 2000 and 2001. He uses his football experiences as part of his teaching, incorporating how athletes tell stories.
Dr. John Henkel Assistant Professor of Classics and General Studies (College of William and Mary ’02, BA; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ’05, MA; University of NC at Chapel Hill ’09, PhD) John spent the first year after his PhD teaching in a study abroad program for Classics students in Rome, Italy (actually the same one he had gone to as a student). Most of the course was taught on-site, which meant that he traveled three days a week, and spent week-long field trips in Sicily and around Naples. He likes to garden, and makes wine as a hobby. Oddly enough, this dovetails well with his professional interests, since his dissertation was on a Latin poem about farming (including growing grapes for wine-making).
Dr. Sue Hill Visiting Assistant Professor of Graduate Education ( University of South Carolina ’74, BA; University of Texas at Dallas ’84, MS; Texas A & M ’98, PhD) Sue’s dissertation research was done in a woman’s prison and everyday for 18 months she had to go through the same checkpoints and procedures as prisoners do. Sue was a Religion major who was working as an aide in a kindergarten classroom and over the weekend the teacher, who was an older woman, died. They begged her to take over the class and thus started her teaching career.
Dr. Yvonne Niemann Visiting Assistant Professor of Graduate Education (Southern Illinois, Carbondale ’60, BS; University of Louisville ’71, ME; University of Louisville ’77, Sp. Edu; University of Louisville ’07, PhD) After teaching 30 years in public school Yvonne retired and took a few years off to travel. She then went to U of L to work on grants. She was teaching Master’s level students and taking a few classes. The next thing Yvonne knew she had completed courses for her doctorate and was writing her dissertation. This goes to show that even grandmothers can go back to school and successfully complete Ph.D.’s! She again tried retirement, but missed being in the classroom, and began working part time for the LBD Fieldwork component at Georgetown and next thing she knew was teaching classes.
Dr. Kristine Roinestad Assistant Professor of Mathematics (St. Mary’s College of Maryland ’04, BA;Virginia Tech ’07, MS; Virginia Tech ’10 PhD Candidate) Kristine said she is severely “directionally” challenged and literally would be “lost” without a GPS. At Virginia Tech, her classes usually would exceed 40 students. Here at Georgetown, Kristine is thrilled to have small classes, which allows her to get to know her students better and provide more individualized instruction.
Ivan Ivanov Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science (University of National & World Economy Sofia, Bulgaria ’00, BA; Central European University Budapest, Hungary ’01, MA; University of Vienna ’02, MAIS; University of Cincinnati ’08; PhD) Originally from Bulgaria (Sofia), Ivan would always keep a small souvenir to remind him of places and countries he would visit or where he was affiliated with an institution such as a folder, rocks, flowers, coffee.

Dr. Greg Earwood, President of BSK

Jim Durham
News Bureau Director

The Baptist Seminary of Kentucky – after eight years of existence in Lexington, KY – is preparing to share its excitement about the recent move to the Georgetown College campus during its first public chapel service on Tuesday, Sept. 21.

Dr. Greg Earwood, President of BSK, will deliver the sermon at 11 am in John L. Hill Chapel. Then, at noon he will give a brief litany by an oak tree that was recently planted to symbolize the relationship between the College and the BSK. The 8-foot willow oak is between the main entrance of the Ensor Learning Resource Center and the Music Building. An open house in the BSK office suites will follow.

Earwood is excited about sharing this space and calls this relationship a “win-win for a Baptist seminary and a Baptist college.”

Earwood writes:

“Baptist Seminary of Kentucky has located on the campus of Georgetown College because of the College’s Baptist identity, excellent reputation for liberal arts education, and a sense of permanency given their significant historical roots dating to 1787. The Seminary will bring to Georgetown College a reinforcing and enhancing of their Baptist identity, several revenue streams, and help in recruiting high school students to campus.”

“We are grateful to God and Georgetown College for this opportunity to move toward our future. We believe this is an outstanding step toward growth and increased stability for Baptist Seminary of Kentucky within the providence of God.”

H.K. Kingkade ‘83, Director of the College’s Office of Religious Life, welcomes the BSK to campus with: “The seminary has strived to follow God’s leading in Christian higher education by reaching out to men and women in order to prepare them for ministry in today’s world. They have accumulated a gifted faculty and staff who have dedicated themselves to provide a quality theological education to their students.”

Kingkade, who served the Kentucky Baptist Convention as Campus Minister at the University of Kentucky before returning to his alma mater in 2006, continued: “With the seminary on the college’s campus, we can together coordinate educational opportunities to provide practical and contextual experiences for undergraduate and graduate students. May this relationship further the Kingdom of God and be a witness to what working together can do for the Christian community.”

Ken Holden, Executive Director of the Marshall Center for Christian Ministry on campus, and Greg Earwood actually served as pastors in Georgetown for several years – the former at Georgetown Baptist, the latter at Faith Baptist. According to Holden, they and with many other concerned and interested pastors and laity served on a committee in the late 1990s that explored the possibility of a new Baptist seminary to be established in Central Kentucky – and possibly one being “connected” in some ways to Georgetown College.

“Even though that official GC/BSK connection would not come until 2010, a Seminary was birthed in 2001 and the seeds of a meaningful relationship were planted,” Holden said. “I am delighted that Baptist Seminary of Kentucky is on the campus of Georgetown College.”

There are 45 seminary students enrolled this fall semester in the BSK and nine of them are Georgetown College graduates. The four first-year students are: Alix Davidson ‘10, Andrew Noe ’08, Jeremy Shannon ‘10, and Adam Standiford ’10.

Lauren Fannin, Lindsey Harp

Alumni and Friends,

Your assistance is greatly needed at this time to help establish an endowed scholarship at Georgetown College, a minimum of $25,000 must be donated in order to achieve that goal so that two amazing women will be memorialized at the college they loved so much, and for those who will always remember them.
Lauren Fannin and Lindsey Harp were lost to their family and friends in the early morning hours of September 24, 2006. Tragically, they lost their lives when they together crossed a flooded street in Lexington, KY. Both were 2003 graduates of Georgetown College with degrees in Biology. Each continued their education: Lauren was pursuing a doctorate from the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy. Lindsey was a 2006 graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Nursing. Aside from their academic achievements, they affected the lives of many others with their witty personalities, their drive to succeed, and their lasting friendships.

The purpose of the scholarship is to honor Lauren Fannin and Lindsey Harp and to provide a lasting tribute to their memories. The contributions of those, whose lives were touched by Lauren and Lindsey, will enable future Georgetown College students to pursue similar goals and career paths. The Lauren Fannin and Lindsey Harp Memorial Scholarship was established in 2007 with initial gifts from Lauren and Lindsey’s Kappa Delta sorority sisters.

The 1st annual Lauren Fannin and Lindsey Harp Memorial Golf Scramble will get under way on Saturday, October 2, 2010. The event will take place at Canewood Golf Course in Georgetown, KY. Registration is set to begin at 8 a.m. with a tee off at 9 a.m. The cost is $75 per player. This includes 18 holes and lunch. Hole sponsorship opportunities are also available: Bronze $50, Silver $100 and Gold Hole Sponsor $500. Any and all golfers are welcome. The proceeds will directly benefit the scholarship fund. Please contact fannin.harpscholarshipfund@gmail.com for pre-registration and payment info.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Mary Dartt Richeson ’03
Tara Young Carnes ’03
Brooke Galloway Enochs ‘03