{"id":44866,"date":"2020-02-17T09:05:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T14:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=44866"},"modified":"2020-02-20T13:51:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T18:51:58","slug":"new-psychology-endowment-honors-three-emeritus-professors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/new-psychology-endowment-honors-three-emeritus-professors\/","title":{"rendered":"New psychology endowment honors three emeritus professors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>  Endowments such as these affirm, energize and invite students to more deeply commit to a community of explorers and travelers in one of the newest disciplines in higher education &#8230; I&#8217;m honored to support ongoing \u2018holy moments\u2019 at EMU through this scholarship. <\/p><cite>Professor Emeritus Judy Mullet &#8217;73<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>A new endowment in support of psychology majors at Eastern Mennonite University honors three exemplary emeritus professors. <strong>Kim Gingerich Brenneman \u201885, Galen Lehman \u201873,<\/strong> and <strong>Judy Mullet \u201873<\/strong> have 101 years of service between them at EMU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The endowment honors the transformative impact of their teaching, scholarship and advising on hundreds of EMU students, but also supports the continued studies of new generations of students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is an honor to have my name on the psychology endowment, especially with two other brilliant psychology faculty whom I know have made huge differences in the lives of EMU students,\u201d said Brenneman.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"highlight highlight-right\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/crowdfunding\/psychology-endowment-2020\">Support the endowment.<\/a> <\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p>This scholarship is the first of its kind for psychology majors at EMU. Full-time psychology students in their first year at EMU will qualify as recipients, and students of African, Hispanic, Asian and Native American descent will be given priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dennis Showalter \u201873, <\/strong>who graduated alongside Lehman and Mullet, saw an opportunity to create it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cI decided that a psychology scholarship was definitely needed,\u201d Showalter says. \u201cOur EMC 45th reunion was coming up, so I reached out to the 10 psychology majors from the class of 1973, to see if they would partner with me in securing the scholarship.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tLehman and Mullet joined Showalter and <strong>Gretchen Maust \u201873<\/strong>, administrative assistant for the Visual and Communication Arts Department, to help establish the endowment. They then invited Brenneman, who was eager to join the team. But the coalition still needed to name the scholarship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tEach professor was \u201ctoo humble to want it to be named after him or herself, so we named it after all of them,\u201d says Showalter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019re seeking $10,000 in financial support through EMU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/crowdfunding\/\">new crowdfunding platform<\/a>, which has recently helped fund the <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/crowdfunding\/matt-garber-2018\">Matt Garber Endowed Scholarship<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/crowdfunding\/mj-sharp-2018\">MJ Sharp Peace &amp; Justice Endowed Scholarship<\/a>, both in honor of young alumni who have passed away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEndowments such as these affirm, energize and invite students to more deeply commit to a community of explorers and travelers in one of the newest disciplines in higher education,\u201d says Mullet. \u201cAs a faculty member in the department I sought to live what we explored together both in and out of classrooms. The richness of one-to-one conversations were \u2018holy moments\u2019 that I cherish to this day. I&#8217;m honored to support ongoing \u2018holy moments\u2019 at EMU through this scholarship.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/20190425-Kim-Brenneman-3-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/20190425-Kim-Brenneman-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/20190425-Kim-Brenneman-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/20190425-Kim-Brenneman-3-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Professor Emerita Kim Gingerich Brenneman <strong>\u201885<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/IMG_0463-1000px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/IMG_0463-1000px.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/IMG_0463-1000px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/IMG_0463-1000px-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Professor Emeritus Galen Lehman &#8217;73<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/MA-in-Education-15-1000px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/MA-in-Education-15-1000px.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/MA-in-Education-15-1000px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/MA-in-Education-15-1000px-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Professor Emerita Judy Mullet &#8217;73<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Legacies live on through students and colleagues<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>All three former faculty have left indelible marks on the program through their tenure. Maust is proud of how far the department has come since she was a student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\t\u201cI am delighted to see our current psych majors challenged to explore all sorts of career options. I\u2019m most excited about the new art therapy concentration which prepares our grads for advanced degrees in art therapy and the collaboration between our undergrad psych program and the graduate Master in Counseling program,\u201d Maust says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tLehman, having joined the faculty in 1973, brought some of the earliest improvements to the program, including Apple II computers, and renovating the formerly dirt-floor Suter Science Center basement into instructional and collaboration space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tMullet, in addition to teaching psychology, also directed the Honors program, taught undergraduate and graduate courses in education, and co-founded and co-led Student Kairos Place, a week-long gathering of EMU undergraduate writers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She had a reputation as an excellent listener and mentor with deep compassion for her students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\t\u201cJudy Mullet is one of the kindest, and without a doubt the most affirming, persons I have ever known,\u201d said<strong> Joshua Kanagy \u201813, <\/strong>a mental health counselor at Morrison Child and Family Services in Portland, Oregon. \u201cJudy has a remarkable knack for recognizing and encouraging her students\u2019 talents, and she was instrumental in my own decision to become a counselor. I am a gentler, more vulnerable, and more hopeful human being because of her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brenneman, respected for her academic rigor, also led many cross-cultural trips to India over the years. And she was skilled at putting her colleagues and students at ease.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\t\u201cHer ability to always treat me with the highest respect for both who I am and the emotions that tag along with me has had an impact that will last throughout my entire life,\u201d said <strong>Emily Suttles \u201816.<\/strong> \u201cI have met many people who are good listeners, but she definitely tops the list, and I continue to strive to be that same type of listener for other people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tUltimately, Brenneman hopes to provide \u201ca bit of financial relief\u201d for tomorrow\u2019s psychology students. \u201cI hope it also shows that we are committed to encouraging the next generation of psychologists academically as well as financially.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Endowments such as these affirm, energize and invite students to more deeply commit to a community of explorers and travelers in one of the newest disciplines in higher education &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/new-psychology-endowment-honors-three-emeritus-professors\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about New psychology endowment honors three emeritus professors<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":44916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4515,266,17562,5642,5603],"tags":[13790,5944,9137,11487,10050,13780],"feature":[17426],"class_list":["post-44866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni","category-digest","category-faculty-and-staff","category-psychology","tag-galen-lehman","tag-giving","tag-gretchen-maust","tag-judy-mullet","tag-kim-gingerich-brenneman","tag-psychology","feature-myemu-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New psychology endowment honors three emeritus professors - EMU News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/new-psychology-endowment-honors-three-emeritus-professors\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New psychology endowment honors three emeritus professors - EMU News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Endowments such as these affirm, energize and invite students to more deeply commit to a community of explorers and travelers in one of the newest disciplines in higher education &#8230;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/new-psychology-endowment-honors-three-emeritus-professors\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"EMU News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EasternMennonite\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-17T14:05:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-02-20T18:51:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/psych-endowment-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"667\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Randi B. 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