Note: The Icon interviewed Dr. Howard Shelly several years ago. The interview focused on his career as a small town doctor. The interview follows:
I grew up in eastern Pennsylvania in a Mennonite community. I had seven brothers and one sister and they all came to Bluffton College. My oldest brother, Maynard, came to Bluffton College and became a minister and I followed in his footsteps.
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There are times when you just have to get out of town.
If you noticed a scant posting of stories over the past seven days there's a reason: The Icon editor flew the coop.
Headed west on U.S. 30 to Homewood, Illinois, to visit Rudi (brother) and Cheryl Steiner. Then took the toll road to Shorewood, Wisconsin, to visit Mary (sister) and Guy Lord.
While in Wisconsin, visited the Milwaukee Museum of Art and stopped briefly at the Roy Lichenstein shrine (see photo). Don't know who broke her heart, but we are confident that she'll eventually get over it.
When I think of Dick Jordan, several things come to mind.
• His license plate: 528 YZ. That was the family address on South Main Street.
• The Masonic Lodge. “A society of secrets, not a secret society,” or so he claimed.
• His Jordan triplet two brothers and one sister. My brother, Rudi, their contemporary, often said that Mrs. Jordan (their mother) should have been given sainthood. “She had Jordans three at one time.”
• His chuckle, reminiscent of the late Arden Baker’s.
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University senior combines passions to pursue environmental sociology
Alicia Loch, a senior from Quakertown, Pa., is in the middle of a year-long research project studying sustainability at Bluffton University. While the project fulfills her sociology field-experience requirement, the project combines elements from both of her majors—biology and sociology.
