California Baptist University - Angelos Yearbook (Riverside, CA)

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Tom McClellan and Mary Pomroy take last minute pictures before the group leaves for their trip across the sea. 1988 China Group Top Row: Liz Loper, Dr. Dennis Sheridan, Michelle Cover, Rex Young, Steve Berzansky, Chris Henson, Tom McClellan, Brent Sanders, Way- land Marler, Dan Kohn, Bonnie Metcalf, and David Peery. Middle Row: Samantha Hansen, Keri Weirich, Rhonda Corlis, Mary Bray, Paula Sheridan, Lisa Alex- ander, Juanita Tuttle, and Gary Avants. Bottom row; Suzay Ky- ung Soo Cha, and Karen White. Dr. Dennis Sheridan and Juanita Tuttle load their luggage prepar- ing to leave for LAX. Steve Berzansky spends time with some Chinese students as they practice their English with him. 178 CLOSING

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king part in a SAA pizza party. Dot nk and some friends dig into a hot Kim Benson sketches out the torso of her za. subject during art class lab. ke Norton and Tanya Combs spent an Students walk into chapel, held at Mag- oyable evening together at the 1988 nolia Avenue Baptist Church, sporting a le Festival. variety of expressions. Reading to the student body, William Ed Jones and Vince McAllister get Hendricks, from Southern Baptist The- rowdy at Magic Mountain earlier ological Seminary, stresses a point from this year. Scripture. FEATURE 177

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China: A Life- Liz l.oper sils on the Great Wall, one of the most spectacular sights in the world, and a highli ght of the trip Brent Sanders talks about Amer- ican life as these Chinese students listen intently. Expe for Changing rience Students, Faculty The China Exchange Program was new in 1988. It was developed as a cultural exchange between Cal Baptist and the Shanghai International Studies University. Between May 27 and July 4, 1988, twenty students and faculty travelled to China for a five-week tour of Beijing, Xi ' an, Nanjing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Upon arrival in China, the group went through a government security check and then went on to Beijing, the capital of China. While in the city, they were housed at the Postal and Telecommunications University, and took their meals at the foriegn student facilities, isolating them from the Chinese students. Dennis Sheridan, co- ordinator of the exchange, divulged, Our hosts were gracious and kind. We were segregated, but not as much as typical tour ists. The next weeks were filled with many challenging and exciting experiences for the Americans in Asia. They saw the Great Wall, tombs of the Ming dynasty. The For- bidden City, the tomb of Mao Tse Tung, and the Great Hall of the People, where the governing Communist Party meets. I felt like a foriegn dignitary because we were allowed to enter the Hall by a special entrance that the ordinary Chinese were not allowed to use, stated one student. The group then went to Xi ' an, via a 1930 ' s vintage train, complete with plush velvet seats and all the trim. The week spent here was utilized for sight-seeing. Then, it was on to Nanjing, where the travellers visited the Ginling Union Theological Seminary, the first Protestant seminary to reopen in China since the end of the Cultural Revolution on 1976. During their stay in Nanjing, the group visited a war memorial honoring the victims of ' The Rape of Nanjing, which occurred during the Jap- anese occupation of the Chinese mainland in World War II. Next it was on to Shanghai, where the students stayed for two weeks. Here, they participated in a summer session offered by the Shanghai International Studies University. The session included classes in Chinese his- tory, language, and culture. Tom McClellan shared about the trip to this point, I was thankful for each opportunity that came my way. I wanted to absorb as much as I possibly could. Besides their studies, the students and faculty members had time for a sight-seeing cruise down the Huangpo River and also visited a number of Prot- estant churches in the Shanghai area. Lisa Alexander told us, The churches in China were Beautiful! They seated many people and were like the cathedrals of Europe in some ways. Upon leaving Shanghai, they group flew to Hong Kong, a British-controlled principality. During the stay here, classes were offered to the students in Chinese Christianity and Baptist history. On July 4th, the tour ended for the twenty Americans, as they departed for the United States. Dennis Sheridan summed up his feelings this way: This was a once-in-a- lifetime opportunity. I don ' t think anyone who went came back quite the same. 1988 CHINA EXCHANGE 179