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New Saint Andrews faculty and alumni contribute to new book, Omnibus I: Biblical and Classical Civilizations, edited by Doug Wilson and Ty Fischer

Mitchell O. Stokes accepts
new faculty, Traditio II, position
for Fall 2005

Dr. Chuck Missler, well known Christian radio minister and Coeur d'Alene author, spoke at Disputatio, April 29

Dr. David Crabtree,
President of Gutenberg College, Eugene, OR, visited NSA and
spoke at Disputatio, April 15

Dr. David Beck, VP of Graduate Studies at
Liberty University, VA, will address the
College's 27 graduates at our
Eighth Commencement, May 11
























May 4, 2005

College faculty & alumni contribute to new Omnibus book

Several New Saint Andrews College faculty members and alumni have contributed to a new text of integrated biblical studies and humanities, Omnibus I: Biblical and Classical Civilizations, designed for seventh grade students and published by Veritas Press, Lancaster, PA.

The book is edited by Senior Fellow Douglas Wilson and Veritas Academy 's Headmaster Ty Fischer.

The text leads students through the study of the great works of Western Civilization. With Trinitarian thinking at the core of the study, the text interacts with timeless material in a wise and godly way for young secondary students. Omnibus I covers history, literature and theology from the dawn of Time to the Fall of Rome. The work also develops students' skills in composition, logic, and aesthetics.

The book should be available through the New Saint Andrews Online Bookstore sometime near the end of the summer. For more information about Omnibus I and other Veritas Press materials, visit the Veritas Press website.

New Saint Andrews contributors to the new work include:

Dr. Peter Leithart, Senior Fellow: Exodus, First and Second Samuel, First and Second Kings
Ben Merkle, Director of Student Affairs and Lecturer: Epic of Gilgamesh
Nathan Wiilson, Fellow and Alumnus: Histories
Toby Sumpter, Alumnus, and Michael Metzler, Alumnus (n.d.): Oresteia
Douglas Jones, III, Trustee and Senior Fellow: The Last Days of Socrates
Natali Miller, Lecturer and Alumna: The Early History of Rome
Jerrold Owen, Alumnus (n.d.): Isaiah
Jared Miller, Alumnus (n.d.): Julius Caesar
O. Woelke Leithart, Alumnus: The Screwtape Letters
Douglas Wilson, Trustee and Senior Fellow: Odyssey, Aeneid, The Magician's Nephew, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Horse and His Boy, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, The Last Battle, and Galatians

April 29, 2005

Chuck Missler, Coeur d'Alene pastor, speaks at Disputatio

Dr. Chuck Missler, Ph.D., a prominent radio Bible teacher and Coeur d'Alene pastor, presented his views on premillenial eschatology at Disputatio on Friday, April 29.

Dr. Missler received an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy and holds a Master's degree in engineering from UCLA. He served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force and worked for the Department of Defense, TRW, and the intelligence community as a civilian. Over the past 30 years, he served on the board of directors of several publicly traded companies and was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of six firms.

He received a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Louisiana Baptist University, and with the encouragement of his close friend, Hal Lindsey, began Bible teaching full time. He had been a teacher at Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa, CA, under Pastor Chuck Smith, for 25 years when he began his own ministry, Koinonia House. In 1992, he moved his ministry to Coeur d'Alene in North Idaho.

For more information about Dr. Missler and his Koinonia House ministries, see http://www.khouse.org.

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April 15, 2005

Gutenberg College president speaks at April 15 Disputatio

Dr. David Crabtree, Ph.D., President of Gutenberg College, Eugene, OR

Dr. David Crabtree, Ph.D., president of Gutenberg College in Eugene, OR, visited New Saint Andrews College and spoke at Disputatio on Friday, April 15. Gutenberg College, like New Saint Andrews, is a candidate for accreditation with TRACS. Gutenberg, a modified Great Books institution, started the same year as New Saint Andrews.

In his Disputatio presentation, Dr. Crabtree described the history, mission and vision of Gutenberg College, noting some uncanny parallels between Gutenberg and New Saint Andrews. Both stress close faculty-student interaction, heavy reading requirements, rigorous academic standards, classical curricula, and limited enrollment.

Gutenberg has about 40 students, a residence program, and two auxiliary institutes, the McKenzie
Study Center and the Art Project. It is located just a few blocks from the University of Oregon campus.

Dr. Crabtree was one of the founders of Gutenberg. He holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Oregon, an M.A. in Classical Greek also from Oregon, and a B.A. in Russian Language and Literature from the University of Washington.

For more information about Gutenberg College, see their web site www.gutenberg.edu.

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March 28, 2005

Mitchell Stokes accepts new faculty position for Fall 2005

Ph.D. candidate at University of Notre Dame will coordinate senior Traditio Occidentis course

The Mitchell & Christine Stokes family (from left): Shane (8), Jared (2), Mitch, Christine, Elena (7 months), and Summer (7)

Mitchell Stokes, a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy and Presidential Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, has accepted a new faculty position at New Saint Andrews, effective next August. He will coordinate the senior Traditio Occidentis integrated humanities course, teach mathematics, and electives in philosophy and other areas of his expertise.

Mr. Stokes expects to complete his Ph.D. dissertation in philosophy at Notre Dame this summer under advisors Dr. Alvin Plantinga and Dr. Peter van Inwagen. His dissertation is tentatively titled, "Meta-ontology and the Ontological Commitment of Speakers." He was honored with an Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award at Notre Dame in 2003. He published an article, "Extreme Dualisms: Our Greek Heritage," in the November 2004 issue of Christian Culture, edited by Andrew Sandlin.

Mr. Stokes holds an M.A. in philosophy from Notre Dame (2003), an M.A. in religion from Yale University (2001), where Dr. Nicholas Wolterstorff was his advisor, and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Central Florida (1994). He took additional graduate course work at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. He received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Florida in 1992. He holds four patents related to high efficiency gas turbine engines.

Mr. Stokes was an engineer in combustion technology at Siemens-Westinghouse Power Corp. in Orlando from 1994 to 1999, rising to the position of senior engineer in 1998. He was a research and development engineer at Precision Combustion, Inc., in New Haven, Connecticut, from 1999-2003.

Mr. Stokes and wife Christine are home schooling their four children and are members of the Michiana Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA).

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March 22, 2005

Bob Hieronymus named new Executive Vice President

UI administrator accepts top NSA post for advancement and administration effective July 1

Bob Hieronymus, the University of Idaho ’s Director of Communications and Marketing, has accepted the position of Executive Vice President for Administration and Advancement at New Saint Andrews College effective July 1.

Hieronymus served as a senior administrator for the past 10 years at the University of Idaho , directing its marketing and public relations, and as an advisor to four university presidents.  He will conclude his service there in June.

“Bob Hieronymus is a consummate academic professional who will bring years of distinguished service and experience to this new senior administrative post at New Saint Andrews,” said the classical Christian college’s President Dr. Roy Atwood.  “Bob’s professional, personal, and spiritual strengths are ideally suited to guiding the College into its second decade as a leader in classical Christian higher education.”

As the college’s top administrative officer, Hieronymus will oversee the non-academic aspects of the college, including the establishment of the college’s advancement organization.  He will report directly to the college president.

“I’m excited about this as an advancement in my career, but also as an opportunity to align my personal and professional interests,” said Hieronymus, who also serves on the Board of Directors at Logos School in Moscow , a nationally recognized classical and Christian private K-12 school.

During his tenure as the University of Idaho ’s chief marketing officer, the Idaho land-grant university experienced record enrollment growth and raised $129 million in the Campaign for Idaho .  From 1985 to 1995 Hieronymus directed Boise ’s Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center’s public relations and marketing. 

Prior to his work in Boise , Hieronymus was the assistant director of media relations with the Phoenix-based Arizona Wranglers Professional Football Club of the United States Football League. 

Hieronymus is a 1983 graduate of Ottawa University , a private liberal arts college in Ottawa , Kansas .  

Located on Friendship Square in downtown Moscow, New Saint Andrews is a highly selective, limited enrollment, 4-year, co-educational Christian liberal arts college. Founded in 1994, the college has 150 students from 30 states, three foreign countries, and 20 different Christian denominations. The college’s mission is “to provide the highest quality undergraduate education in liberal arts and culture from a biblical worldview.” 

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March 16, 2005

Eighth Commencement, May 11, will honor 27 graduates

Dr. David Beck, VP for Graduate Studies at Liberty University, is Commencement speaker

The College's Eighth Commencement will be Wednesday, May 11, and Dr. David Beck, Professor of Philosophy and the Vice President of Graduate Studies at Liberty University in Virginia, and Associate Director of the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS) accrediting agency, will address the College community and honored graduates.

The College anticipates 27 students, 13 men and 14 women, will receive their diplomas this year, including 20 B.A. and seven A.A. recipients. The 27 new graduates will join the College's current 78 alumni, bringing the total number of alumni to 105.

Dr. Beck, who has visited the College twice, serves as a regional coordinator for TRACS, working primarily with seminaries, international education, and several U.S. colleges. He received his Ph.D. from Boston University, his M.A. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and his B.A. from Houghton College. Dr. Beck has spent many years traveling and teaching abroad (which he continues to do) and has been with TRACS since 1998. He has taught at Liberty University since 1978. He and his family reside in Forest, Virginia.

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February 23, 2005 (updated March 28)

N. Wilson's Shroud story gets international news coverage

Image copyright 2005
by N.D. Wilson

Fellow Nathan Wilson is causing an international hubbub with a new article on the infamous Shroud of Turin titled, "Father Brown fakes the Shroud," published in the latest issue of Books and Culture, March/April 2005.

The latest round of national coverage came with an interview of Mr. Wilson on ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, on Tuesday, March 22, evening's broadcast. ABC Correspondent Bill Blakemore conducted the interview from New York over a speaker phone while Mr. Wilson was being videotaped at the New Saint Andrews building in Moscow. While the ABC news crew was taping its interview, Mr. Wilson received a call from a New Zealand news reporter wanting an interview. He also appeared on a national Hungarian TV program Easter day.

The international reach of the story was driven home by Bill Garaway, Nate Wilson's father-in-law, who reported seeing the ABC World News Tonight report in Kurdish Iraq where he is visiting the Classical School of the Medes on behalf of Servant Group International. The ABC-produced news story also appeared the next day (March 23) on Good Morning America.

Mr. Wilson's Shroud article grew out of an informal experiment to reproduce a Shroud of Turin-like image. He put fabric under a glass panel painted with a human face and left it in the sun for a few days. The 3-D results on the fabric were almost, dare we say, miraculous!

Some of the top shroud scholars in the United States and around the world have been contacting him, wanting to learn more and examine his sun-glass-fabric creation. National coverage of Mr. Wilson's experiment has also appeared on the Associated Press wire, DiscoveryChannel.com and WorldNetDaily.com. Local coverage has included a story in Spokane's Spokesman-Review and Northwest Public Radio (real audio link).

More information and images from Mr. Wilson's experiment are also available at his own website, Shadowshroud.com.

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February 23, 2005

Spring Windy slated for Lewiston Elks Lodge, April 1

The New Saint Andrews Spring Windy Scholarship Fundraiser, held in conjunction with the Spring Prospective Student Weekend (April 1-4) has now been scheduled! Please mark your calendars:
Friday, 1 April 2005, 9 p.m.-12 a.m., Elks Lodge, Lewiston, ID
Individuals 16 years old and older are invited to attend.
Tickets are $25, if paid in advance (purchase at the NSA office or online at the College Online Bookstore).
Tickets will be $35 at the door.
Dress is "folk" or "Celtic"--think more along the lines of Rob Roy than Jane Austen.
We'll have maps and directions available for you soon, as well as more information about dinner possibilities beforehand.
We look forward to seeing you there!