Greetings from Bryan College.

It has been an exciting, eventful year at Bryan, and we appreciate the opportunity to keep you posted on activities on The Hill.

Our next E-Lumine will be in August as the 2009-10 school year is about to begin. The coming year will be challenging, but by God's grace and with your continued support, Bryan will continue with excellence its work of educating students to become servants of Christ to make a difference in today's world.

This issue highlights activities of students and recent graduates in internships around the world and a new opportunity to recognize young alumni for contributions they are making at the beginning of their careers.

We trust this E-Lumine will be an encouragement to you, and we look forward to August when we once again will let you know what's happening at Bryan. Until then, have a great summer, and may God bless you richly.

Set your calendars now for symposia presented by the Bryan Institute for Critical Thought and Practice:

· Sept. 25-26, 2009 Christ and Culture.

E-Lumine

Wanted: Young alumni to honor

Bryan College will present its first Young Alumnus/Alumna of the Year award at homecoming in October, and the Alumni staff is looking for an alum to honor.

Alumni Director David Tromanhauser said the new award is being made to recognize the contributions of alumni early in their careers. “We have always honored alumni who have a long record of service, but younger alumni just starting their careers often have accomplishments that are worthy of recognition as well,” he said. “The Young Alum presentation will be part of our homecoming celebration to point out the amazing achievements of our alumni fresh out of Bryan.”

To qualify for the award, an alum must have graduated within the past 10 years, must have distinguished himself or herself academically, professionally or in community service, and must demonstrate a strong relationship with Bryan College.

“We encourage alumni and friends of the college to nominate recent graduates for the award,” Mr. Tromanhauser said. “Visit the alumni page on the Bryan web site to nominate a graduate or email alumni@bryan.edu with your recommendations.”

At the same time, nominations are invited for the Alumnus/Alumna of the Year award. This award recognizes a graduate with a distinguished record that reflects honor on Bryan College over his or her career.

“These awards are the highest honors the Alumni office can bestow on graduates, and we want to make sure we know about alumni who deserve this type of recognition,” Mr. Tromanhauser said. “Please visit the web site or contact our office and help us bring honor to whom honor is due.”

Resume, job posting options expand

Bryan's Career Center has made its services more accessible to alumni and employers with jobs to fill.

Marlene Wilkey, director of career planning and corporate relations, said alumni can post their resumes and employers can post job openings on Your Membership Bryan community pages, which may be reached through the alumni link on the Bryan web site.

There is no cost for either employers or alumni to post their items, although alumni must register with Your Membership, if they have not already done so. “That should take about three minutes,” she said.

While the system allows alumni and employers to post entries by themselves, Mrs. Wilkey is available should they want assistance. She may be reached by email at careers@bryan.edu.

Although the site was launched only recently, about 40 job openings have been posted, ranging from summer internships to educational opportunities to horse wrangling in Colorado.

Employers should note that positions will be deleted after 90 days unless other arrangements are made.

“This is a perfect opportunity for Bryan alumni to help new graduates find positions, or to help other alumni who may need new positions in these difficult economic times,” Mrs. Wilkey said.

Acts Project interns working around the world

Hands-on experience and a growing partnership between Bryan College and mission communities around the world are complementary goals of Bryan's innovative Acts Project and its summer internship program.

Matt Benson, dean of spiritual formation, said eight students will be working with missionaries from India to Southeast Asia to Europe this summer, applying vocational skills they have learned in school to life in missions settings.

“These are professional internships,” Mr. Benson said. “We have asked the host agencies to plug the interns in to their ongoing efforts around their core initiatives and strategies, not to simply create tangential projects for them, as might be the case with a short-term mission trip. We want our internships to be field-driven, to be helpful to the mission.”

Students with majors from business to communication studies to biblical studies will be working in fields ranging from education to film-making to business to church-planting.

One student, who is working in a sensitive area in Asia, said he chose to participate because “I have always wanted to pursue the idea of using my business degree to serve God. This chance was really exciting to get to work with a man who is already doing this in his own life. Also, because I had never left the country, this was a great chance to experience a completely different part of the world.”

Mr. Benson said because students work at tasks crucial to the daily operation of the ministries they come away with a view of life on the missions field that is “less romanticized,” and the missionaries often are encouraged as well. “Augustine Asir of Word for the World mission in India said our students ‘enrich' the lives of his missionaries,” he said.

Rain forces ceremony indoors; 191 graduate

Rain forced graduation indoors for the first time in seven years, but failed to dampen spirits as members of the Bryan Class of 2009 received their diplomas.

Seven graduates received their Master's of Business Administration degrees, 80 received Bachelor of Arts degrees, and 104 received Bachelor of Science degrees.

Awards presented included:

· The P.A. Boyd Award, to the senior man and woman “whose principles and character have secured for them the highest degree of influence over their fellow students,” to Ben Johnson of Dayton, Tenn., and Faith Ammen of Roanoke, Va. Miss Ammen also received the Highest Scholastic Record Award and the Faithfulness and Loyalty Award, recognizing her contribution to the college community.

· The Aspire research award, to Lisa Dunn of Graysville, Tenn.

· The Most Progress Award, to Melkam Kifle of Woodbridge, Va.

Bryan President Dr. Stephen D. Livesay encouraged the graduates to live out the college motto of “Christ Above All” as they enter a new phase of their lives.

Commencement speaker Michael Reneau, a Communication Studies graduate from Ooltewah, Tenn., challenged his classmates to consider and cling to the “power and beauty of the Gospel” as they face the challenges and triumphs of life.

And Dr. Marilyn Laszlo, a 1959 graduate who served as Alumni Marshal for the service, told the class that God has equipped them to be missionaries in whatever vocation, in whatever location they are planted.

Dr. Livesay also presented Golden Anniversary Diplomas to 26 members of the Class of 1959, who were special guests of the college for the weekend.

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