NAMED: Chase Jones, head drum major, University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Jones is conductor for the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corp and attends the Mount Comfort church in Fayetteville. Soundings, literary journal published through the language and literature department and English Honors Society at Oklahoma Christian University in Oklahoma City, first runner-up award for best literary journal at the Sigma Tau Delta annual conference. Student editors are Roy Rhodes and Angela Bebb and faculty sponsor is Peggy Gipson. Kimberly Britton, 2008-2009 Professor of the Year by students at Ohio Valley University in Vienna, W.Va. Britton attends the Pennsboro, W.Va., church. David Wadlington, head women’s basketball coach, Ohio Valley University. MaLinda Fay Wade, Tri-State Defender’s Woman of Excellence Award for community service. Wade attends the Coleman Avenue church in Memphis, Tenn. HONORED: Cascade College recognized seven 15-year employees before the closing of the Portland, Ore., school: Brian Simmons, professor of communication; Gary Tandy, professor of English; Shawn Jones, professor of Bible and academic dean; Jeff Shewmaker, business office and bookstore staff; Pearl Howarth, admissions, alumni and advancement; Betty Astin, assistant registrar; and Brenda Smith, business office staff.
 
NEW ELDER: Alva Routh, Clinton, Mo., church.

NEW MINISTERS: Josh Graves and David Rubio, preaching and teaching team, Otter Creek church, Brentwood, Tenn.

ANNIVERSARIES: 68th: Hugh and Freda Bowie, Abilene, Texas. Leon and Iris Reese, Abilene, Texas. 59th: Don and Mary Lee Boston, Forest Hill, Texas. 57th: Robert and Carleene Whinery, Dill City, Okla. 50th: Chuck and Bobbye Wilson, Austin, Texas.

PASSAGES:  Windell Wells Jones, 82, April 13, elder of the Costa Mesa, Calif., church for more than 30 years, former president of the Baja Bible Institute in Tijuana, Mexico. Norene Catron Ketcherside, 70, April 18, longtime member of the McPherson, Kan., church. Ethel McGuiggan, April 12, wife of minister Jim McGuiggan, missionary in Northern Ireland. Lonnie “Lon” William Mohundro, 81, April 11, part of the Exodus Movement church-planting effort, former elder of the Burlington, Mass., church, preached for churches in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, member of the Mountain Island church in Charlotte, N.C. Daton Palitayan, 74, April 26, church planter among the Iloco-speaking people of Northern Luzon in the Philippines, speaker for World Radio Gospel Broadcasts.