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The 2008 Outstanding Student Award Winners(L-R) Sarah Field, A.A., London, England, United Kingdom |
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The 33 graduates of the Class of 2008 brings the College's total number of alumni to 195. The first two alumni graduated in 1998.
Outstanding Student Awards
The Faculty also recognized four students with 2007-2008 Outstanding Student Awards: Sarah Field, David Henreckson, Kelly Johnson, and Katie Morin. Graduate Jody Jacobs, from Palmer, Alaska, received an outstanding student award last year as a Junior. Mr. Douglas Jones presented the awards on behalf of the Board of Trustees.
Outstanding Student Award winners are selected by the College faculty for academic achievement, exemplary service and leadership during their time at the College.
Sarah Field, a member of the Evangelical Free Church in London, completed her associates degree and hopes to study at Oak Hill Theological College, London, next year. David Henreckson is from a Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (Covenanters) congregation in Illinois and plans to pursue graduate study in political theology in a few years. Kelly Johnson, a member of Trinity Reformed Church (CREC), Moscow, will be joining her father's financial consulting business next year. Katie Morin, who comes from a United Reformed Church background and hails from Alberta, Canada, hopes to be a Christian school teacher.
The outstanding students received a small cash gift from the College. A plaque with the four Award recipient's names now hangs on a second floor wall just outside the administrative offices with the plaques of other Outstanding Student honorees selected in previous years.
The Class of 2008
The Class of 2008 included 15 men and 18 women. Eight graduates received academic honors (Summa Cum Laude and Cum Laude). The graduates came to the College as freshmen averaging 1243 on the SAT and 27 on the ACT standardized exams (virtually the same as last year’s class).
The graduates hailed from more states, more countries and more Christian denominations than any of the College's previous graduating classes. The graduates came from all across
The graduates belonged to 12 Reformed and evangelical denominations, with a third from Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), a quarter from the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA), another quarter scattered among seven other Presbyterian, Episcopal and Reformed denominations, and the rest from independent, non-denominational and evangelical church backgrounds.
Disciplina Christiana Awards
The College also recognized Mr. Thomas Garfield, Moscow's Logos School Superintendent, and Mr. Douglas Wilson, NSA Trustee and Senior Fellow, with the College's Disciplina Christiana Award for the Advancement of Classical Christian Education. President Roy Atwood read the citations for the awards, which were given for Garfield and Wilson's crucial pioneering roles and leadership in reviving and advancing the classical Christian educational paradigm at Logos School, the Association of Classical and Christian Schools (ACCS), and New Saint Andrews College. ACCS now has more than 200 member schools around the world.
Congratulations to all the 2008 graduates, Outstanding Student Award winners, and the recipients of the Disciplina Christiana Awards.
May 2, 2008
Poetry editor Chris Wiman speaks at year's last Disputatio
Christian Wiman, the editor of Poetry magazine, one of the nation's leading poetry journals, read his own poems and told New Saint Andrews students that he and the foundation that sponsors the magazine are working to see poetry return to being an important part of American education and culture at the year's last Disputatio Friday.
Wiman became editor of Poetry in 2003, the same year the magazine received a $200 million grant from the estate of Ruth Lilly. Under Wiman's editorship, Poetry's circulation has grown from 11,000 to almost 30,000. Wiman's editorial preferences at Poetry have leaned more toward formal poems than what he calls "broken-prose confessionalism" and "the generic, self-obsessed free-verse poetry of the seventies and eighties," according to an interview published in New Yorker magazine.
Wiman created a stir in the poetry and arts community when he wrote an essay in the summer of 2007 describing his return to the Christian faith after discovering he had a terminal disease. Wiman's article, "Gazing at the Abyss: The sudden appearance of love and the galvanizing prospect of death lead a young poet back to poetry and a 'hope toward God,'" appeared in the influential intellectual journal, American Scholar.
Poetry magazine was founded in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, who was working as an art critic of the Chicago Tribune. Poetry's contributors have included T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, Marianne Moore, Charlotte Wilder, William Carlos Williams, Basil Bunting, Yone Noguchi, Carl Rakosi, Dorothy Richardson, and Carl Sandburg.
The magazine's financial backer, the Poetry Foundation, also sponsors a national poetry recitation competition, similar to the national spelling bee, for K-12 students. Interested schools can find out more about the recitations on the Poetry Foundation's website. The foundation also provides a poetry service for publications interested in including high quality poems as part of their editorial mix. The service selects the poems and handles all the copyright permissions for the publishers.
New Saint Andrews alumnus Aaron Rench, who is the College's admissions director and a graduate student in Oxford University's creative writing program, helped arrange Wiman's visit to the College.
April 17, 2008
College now part of new "U-CAN" accountability network
New Saint Andrews College is now part of the new University and College Accountability Network (UCAN), an online college information and search program sponsored by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU). The UCAN site is designed to provide comparative data from the more than 900 independent colleges and universities that are part of its network. According to the U-CAN website, NAICU developed the U-CAN program as a free, consumer-informed college information web site. Independent institutions of higher education came together to develop and deliver key college information directly to consumers. U-CAN is designed to better educate consumers about their college choices, and to foster student satisfaction and success.
April 14, 2008
NSA joins Association of Reformed Institutions of Higher Ed
The Association of Reformed Institutions of Higher Education voted to receive New Saint Andrews College as a member at its meeting in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada, Saturday, April 12.
The ARIHE-member presidents were holding their two-day spring meeting on the campus of Redeemer University College when they received New Saint Andrews as a new member of the organization.
Dr. Ken Smith, the head of ARIHE and president of Geneva College, contacted New Saint Andrews President Roy Atwood by email with the news: "I wanted you to know straight away that we voted to admit New Saint Andrews into the association. Welcome aboard!"
The Association of Reformed Institutions of Higher Education (ARIHE) is an international association now with 10 member institutions in the Reformed and Presbyterian Christian tradition.
"The institutions are," according to the association's website, "from the same religious tradition and are serious about continuing the world-view grounded in that tradition. The Presidents and other administrators of the member institutions are committed to collaborate on projects that can nurture the collective Reformed Christian identity of these institutions and be of mutual benefit. "
The ARIHE-member institutions are Calvin College (MI), Covenant College (GA), Dordt College (IA) Geneva College (PA), Institute for Christian Studies (ON), King's University College (AB), Providence Christian College (CA), Redeemer University College (ON), Trinity Christian College (IL), and now New Saint Andrews College (ID).
April 11, 2008
Martyr's son tells rest of missionaries' story at Disputatio
Steve McCully, son of martyred missionary Ed McCully, challenged the students of New Saint Andrews to consider carefully the stories their lives are telling and how they line up with the central story in the universe: Jesus's death and resurrection to save the world.
McCully, now a middle school teacher in Federal Way, and an old secondary school classmate of President Roy Atwood, spoke at Disputatio and the Community Christian Ministries' showing of "End of the Spear" about the personal, social, and spiritual legacy of his father's effort to reach a murderous tribe in the jungles of Ecuador in the early 1950s. That effort cost Ed McCully and four missionary colleagues their lives in 1956, just as Steve was turning 4 years old and his mother was eight months pregnant with the youngest of his two brothers.
The story of the missionaries' deaths made international headlines and inspired a generation of Christians to dedicate their lives to the spread of the Gospel to the ends of the earth. Despite the murders, relatives and missionaries close to the martyred men continued to reach out to the tribe that killed them and eventually a number of the tribal leaders became Christians.
When the movie "End of the Spear" was being produced to tell the story of the tribe's murder of the missionaries and their later conversion, McCully and his three brothers traveled to Ecuador and met his father's killers. They have visited several times since.
Three of his father's killers are still alive and are Christians. They now have grandchildren of their own--something that was unheard of prior to the Gospel ending the tribes history of ending almost any dispute by murder. Before they embraced the Christian faith, the tribe had dwindled to a few hundred. Today, it has several thousand members.
For more of McCully's story, see the advance article published in the Moscow Pullman Daily News, Thursday, April 10, below:
Advance Story From the Moscow-Daily News
Son of murdered missionary to share his story
By Hadley Rush
Daily News staff writer
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Steve McCully tracked down the men who killed his father, and then found a way to forgive them.McCully's father, Ed McCully, was among five men murdered in 1956 by Waodani tribal warriors while doing missionary work in Ecuador's Andean rainforest. He will visit New Saint Andrew's College in Moscow on Friday to discuss how he and his brothers turned the tragedy of their father's death into a story of forgiveness.
McCully's presentation is part of NSA's weekly Disputatio, and will begin at 3 p.m. at the Nuart Theatre in Moscow. A special showing of "End of the Spear," a film about the story of Ed McCully and the other men who are now remembered as martyrs will be shown at 7 p.m.
Steve McCully, a middle school teacher in Federal Way, Wash., said contrary to what people might think, it's not hard for him to talk about his father's death."I don't even really remember my dad," he said. "I was not quite 4 years old (when he was killed). It's not hard for me. I enjoy doing it."
McCully said everything he knows about his father's death was relayed to him by his mother, Marilou McCully, because he was so young when the incident occurred."
Basically anything I share, I learned from my mother," he said. McCully said his parents were aware that the tribe of warriors were dangerous, but they continued to do their missionary work regardless."
My parents knew that these people were killers but they felt that God wanted them to befriend them," he said. McCully said he's given similar presentations numerous times, but this will be the first time he'll speak about his father's death to college students. "I'm going to tell the story of ... how the Indians' lives have changed and how it has affected other people all over the world," McCully said.
McCully, his two brothers and his mother continued living in Ecuador for six years after his father's death. They then moved to Washington state to be closer to his mother's family.
McCully said the incident was first written about in a book titled "[Through] Gates of Splendor," and later a documentary was made. He said "End of the Spear" is the theatrical version of the story. "It's the same story but (with) more of an emphasis from the tribe's perspective," he said.
NSA President Roy Atwood grew up with McCully after he and his family moved to Washington. Atwood said he's wanted to bring McCully and his story to the community for some time.
"I had contacted him a year ago when the film was more recent," Atwood said, adding that there was a conflict of schedules at the time. "I wanted to invite him to visit the college."
McCully said he jumped at the offer."Roy Atwood is a friend of mine and asked if I'd do it, and I love doing it," he said.
Atwood said he wants the Moscow community and his students at NSA to hear McCully's story because "you want people to be aware of the way people have sacrificed for the spread of the gospel."
McCully said the message he hopes people take away from his presentation and the film is that there is a plan for each of us.
"If we are willing to follow (God's) plan to do what he asks us to do, good things can and will happen," he said.
Hadley Rush can be reached at(208) 882-5561, ext. 239, or by e-mail at hrush@dnews.com.
April 4, 2008
College announces hire of Dr. David Erb as new music fellow
Dr. David Erb will join the New Saint Andrews College faculty as a Fellow of Music beginning with the 2008-09 academic year, College officials announced today.
Dr. Erb, who holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts and Choral Conducting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be leaving his posts at Trinity Church and Providence Classical Christian School in the Seattle area where he had taught music and led children and adult choirs since 2002.
Prior to moving to the Northwest, Dr. Erb taught and conducted choirs at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at Bucknell University. Dr. Erb earned a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1997.
"We're delighted to attract someone with the experience and credentials that Dr. Erb will bring to the College," said NSA President Roy Atwood of the national search that netted Dr. Erb. "He's widely known in the Northwest and is highly regarded among significant groups to the College, namely the broader Christian community, the Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches, and the Association of Classical Christian Schools."
President Atwood made the public announcement today at the College's weekly all-student Disputatio. Dr. Erb plans to be active in the Moscow choral community and work with local churches.
March 28, 2008
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February 21, 2008
Aaron Rench has poem published in Oxford Magazine
The College's Director of Admissions Aaron Rench had one of his poems, "Night Skying," published in the most recent edition of Oxford Magazine, a publication of Oxford University, England.
Rench, a 2001 alumnus of New Saint Andrews, is a student in Oxford University's graduate program for creative writing. His program allows him to still work at the College, with periodical trips to Oxford for seminars and work with his Oxford tutors.
Rench has been active in poetry writing since catching the literature bug during his undergraduate days at New Saint Andrews. He is part of a creative writing group in Moscow and also been active as a literary agent the past several years.
Congratulations, Aaron!
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January 31, 2008 (updated February 1)
Winter storm slams region, closes College classes
The snow just kept falling and falling and falling and falling some more. Accumulations of up to 16 inches (and more in areas of drifting) buried Moscow and the surrounding region and forced the College to cancel classes due to weather for the first time in its 14-year history.
The College had already cancelled the Prospective Student Weekend and Windy by Wednesday afternoon because of the severe winter storm forecast issued by the National Weather Service. About 25 guests from as far away as Florida and Missouri had planned to attend this weekend's events.
All were able to reschedule their flights and travel arrangements. The next regularly scheduled PSW is set for April 4-7.
(Update, Friday, February 1) 
The College resumed classes on Friday morning. Other area schools and universities remained closed because of challenges in clearing parking lots and risks for commuters braving drifting snow.
Idaho's and Washington's Governors declared North Idaho and Eastern Washington disaster emergency areas because of the severe winter storm and its related problems. With most of the town major roads plowed and a majority of the College's students and faculty living close to downtown, the administration decided to hold classes on Friday.
ALERT: Students, staff and faculty are strongly encouraged to check emails and the College website regularly for announcements about weather-related schedule changes. More snow and wind are predicted over the next several days, so classes and activities may be subject to delays or cancellations. Use caution and wisdom when travelling on city streets and county roads. Several roads in the region, including portions of Highways 95 and 195 in and out of Moscow and Pullman remain closed.
January 14, 2008
Wilson's Leepike Ridge receives praise in NYC and KC
Fellow N.D. Wilson's Leepike Ridge received some high praise last year.
The children's adventure book was selected as one of New York Public Library's top 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing for 2007. And a Kansas City Star reviewer chose Leepike as one of the top children's books of the year.
Wilson is a Fellow of Literature at New Saint Andrews and teaches the first-year course, Classical Rhetoric Colloquium, and electives. He is a 1999 graduate of the College and holds a Master's degree from St. John's College in Annapolis, MD. Leepike Ridge, published by Random House, was Wilson's first children's book. His second major book, 100 Cupboards, also from Random House, is the first installment of a new trilogy.
The Kansas City Star recommended Leepike Ridge as one of its top picks in children literature for 2007. Here's the Star's story:
Five books for children recommended
Whenever I make my annual prediction for the prestigious children’s book award, the John Newberry medal, I invariably get a big case of the guilts.
So many books cross my desk each year that there is no way to read them all. So I’m sure I’ve missed some terrific ones, ones I would love to recommend, even if they won’t win the big awards.
On the other hand, I like to make sure I have read the ones that librarians and book reviewers are talking about — books on the top of the mock Newberry lists and “best of 2007” lists that people are blogging about.
Here are five books I would recommend to the Newberry committee (and to anyone else looking for a good middle-grade book to read):
Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt, Leepike Ridge by N.D. Wilson, Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban, Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis and Emma Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree by Lauren Tarshis. . . .
January 2, 2008
The College's Top Ten Stories for 2007
The College turned heads and captured headlines around the world in 2007 by making news in Boise, New York, Oxford, Virginia, and beyond. The national kudos going to the scholarly, creative, and apologetic writings of the College's faculty members, Peter Leithart, Douglas Wilson and Nate Wilson, highlighted a fantastic year of achievement and recognition for the College. But the Number One story was . . . .Below is a countdown of the top 10 stories from the year past.
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NSA President appears before the Idaho House Education CommitteeNSA President Roy Atwood addressed the Idaho House Education Committee at the Boise Capitol, highlighting the College's students as the among the best and brightest in the state. |
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NSA President offers Christian perspective on the Virginia Tech tragedy on national television |
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Ben Merkle receives Master's Degree at Oxford University, accepted into Doctoral ProgramFellow Ben Merkle completed his Master's in Jewish Studies and will continue on leave from New Saint Andrews to complete his doctorate at Oxford. |
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Doug Wilson debates atheist Christopher Hitchens online
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Peter Leithart wins Associated Church Press first place award for his article,"The Divine Light of Kings," in TouchstoneAward Citation: “This essay is a profound theological reading of both the text and the times." |
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Doug Wilson writes an evangelical reply to Harris's Letter to a Christian NationDoug Wilson's Letter from a Christian Citizen is the first major evangelical response to Harris's best selling anti-Christian diatribe, Letter to a Christian Nation. |
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Random House publishes Nate Wilson's new kid's adventure novelFellow Nate Wilson's major new children's book from Random House was released Tuesday, May 22, and the Moscow community turned out to welcome its publication with a signing party at the Palouse Mall. |
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Two Wilsons receive national honors for "Books of the Week"Christianity Today's Books & Culture, one of the nations' leading journals of Christian thought, selected Nate Wilson's Leepike Ridge and Doug Wilson's Letter from a Christian Citizen as back-to-back "Books of the Week." |
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New York Times features New Saint AndrewsThe New York Times published a remarkably favorable 2,500-word article, "Onward Christian Scholars," about New Saint Andrews College in the Sept. 30, 2007 edition of its Magazine. |
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