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FacuLty updates
Dr. DaViD CorBin, vice president
for academic affairs, delivered the
address “Order, Chaos & the West”
at The Kings College on April 9th,
2019. He was also a symposium
discussant on the topic “Liberty
and the American National
Character” at the Liberty Fund/
Center for Western Civilization, Thought & Policy, in Boulder, Colorado, April 11-14, 2019.
Dr. LaWrenCe MuMforD,
visiting lecturer in music, had his
compositions, the Dawn Wind for
orchestra, and sonata allegro for
piano, reach the semi-finalist stage for
The American Prize. This prestigious
award is given annually to professional
composers who submit recordings of
original works. A portion of his choral piece, open the Gates, was recently performed by the Providence Chamber Singers in their first concert in Witherspoon Hall.
Dr. BenjaMin austin, preceptor in
New Testament and Greek, had his
book, titled Plant metaphors in the old
Greek of isaiah, published by the
Society of Biblical Literature in their
Septuagint and Cognate Studies
series. The book analyzes the
translation of Isaiah’s metaphors that
use plant imagery in the context of the Hellenistic Jewish translator in his Egyptian milieu.
tiMothy r. sCheuers ’10, lecturer in history, published a review of Coen Maas’s book “Medievalism and Political Rhetoric in Humanist Historiography from the Low Countries (1515-1609),” in
the sixteenth Century Journal, vol. XLIX, no. 3.
Deeper Learning for Greater Wisdom
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2018 FaLL dEAN’S LiSt
Students named to the Providence Christian College dean’s list must be enrolled full-time and maintain a GPA of 3.50 or higher for the semester. The fall 2018 dean’s list includes:
Joel Aguilar Haley Aguirre Paige Baker Melanie Balaban Shane Becker Jordan Belcher Iris Blanche Pon Natillie Bos Madison De Jager Nicole Del Moral Grace Diaz
Elisha Dunham Christine Eaton Samuel Fennema Ruth Fleeman Evan Friesen Brooke Gonsalves Keanan Gonzales Rebecca Hernandez Daniel Hicks
Kori Hodson
Kyle Huckins Micaela Josipovich Ian Kennedy Brennan Kiledjian Kees Kiledjian
Tate Kiledjian
Alexis Le Clech Catherine MacAdam
Hannah Mersch Benjamin Moelker Mariela Murcia Lindsey Osburn Adrina Palacios Alyssa Roberts Karissa Seeger Hannah Shenk
Isaiah Spivey
Danielle Stafford Megan Stewart
Micah Summers Bailey Thomas
Fayth Thompson Marika Tiessen Valentina Trovato Sophia Van Zonneveld Josiah Vanderveen Alexis Vasquez
Zoé Vernier Rebecca Vis Matthew Walls Amy Whitcher Dean Whitcher Calvin Willis Morgan Zylstra