Dr. Margaret Redenbaugh

Dr. Margaret Redenbaugh looks back on her 26-year career in the Harold Walter Siebens School of Business as a “very rewarding experience.”
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Dennis Dykema

Looking back on his 31 years at Buena Vista, Dennis Dykema believes his most important contributions to the BVU art program were: “Good teaching, creating a community of artists within the art department, teaching students how to benefit from criticism and helping to nourish within them the precious gift of being an artist.”
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Dr. Carl Adkins

When Dr. Carl Adkins retired in 1998 after 32 years at Buena Vista, his career in academia did not screech to a halt.
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Dr. Charles Slagle

Known by some of his former colleagues as a “renaissance man,” Dr. Charles Slagle has many eclectic interests beyond his love of chemistry.
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Dr. Gerald Poff

When Dr. Gerald Poff completed his PhD at Colorado State University in 1967, he did research for three years with the National Heart Institute in Falls Church, Va. But he wanted to try teaching at a small undergraduate college, much like his alma mater, McPherson College in McPherson, Kansas.
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Dr. Manoocher Aryanpur

By most definitions, Dr. Manoocher Aryanpur has never fully “retired.”
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Dr. Sandra Madsen

It’s not always easy to find Dr. Sandra Madsen at home since she retired. She could be anywhere in the world — literally.
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Mac Hornecker

As a creator of larger-than-life sculptures — outdoors and indoors — Mac Hornecker is used to doing things in a big way.
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Emeriti faculty: Life After BVU

You may recall eye-opening lectures and discussions in the classroom; informal conversations in their offices, a hallway or lab; or getting that all-important letter of recommendation for grad school or your first job. Even after you graduated, you may have sought their career advice and still take pride in telling them about your latest accomplishments. Find out what has been going on in their lives since they retired from BVU:

• Dennis Dykema
• Dr. Carl Adkins
• Dr. Charles Slagle
• Dr. Gerald Poff
• Dr. Manoocher Aryanpur
• Dr. Margaret Redenbaugh
• Dr. Sandra Madsen
• Mac Hornecker

BVU Runner Wins Battle with Cancer

He was simply living out a dream of most athletes coming out of high school. As a member of his hometown Spirit Lake High School track and field team, Dan Pearson was a distance runner and a state champion as a member of the 4x800 relay team.
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Athletic Field, Stadium Renovations Commencing in Spring

Work on $2.4 million in renovations to the athletics playing field, track and facilities at J. Leslie Rollins Stadium is scheduled to begin this spring, with the goal of having most changes completed by the start of the fall 2011 football and soccer seasons.
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