Honorary alums Dr. Maureen Flannery (right) and Molly Levey with Alumni Association Director Jackie Collier Ballinger, ‘80, Mark Hinchman

“It was during his time on this campus that my father started to experience a love and a burden for the people of Japan,” remembered Mark Hinchman about his father’s time at Berea. “He wanted more than anything to tell the world how beautiful and joyful, and how eternal the love of Jesus Christ is.”

Mark Hinchman accepted the Distinguished Alumnus Award honoring his father, Rev. William L. “Bill” Hinchman, ’43, during the Summer Reunion ’02 alumni banquet. He also shared several excerpts from his father’s recently completed autobiography. Rev. Hinchman passed away October 7, 2001. He was born and raised in McConnell, W.Va.

He received his M.Div. from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He and his wife Nadine served for 44 years as missionaries in Japan, where he served as Mission Secretary in charge of all Baptist mission work in Japan. He helped establish several churches and served in Christian education as chancellor for Kanto Gakuin University, a 15,000 student university in Yokohama.
“My father was much trusted and much loved by the people he touched in Japan and the United States,” said Hinchman.

Dr. Maureen Flannery, former physician and acting director for Berea College Health Service, and Molly Levey, who has been active in the music department and played musical accompaniment for the Country Dancers, were made honorary alums at the Alumni Coffee on Saturday.
Over 1,400 alumni, their family members and friends attended the weekend activities, which included a picnic, luncheon, and reunions for 12 classes. Reunion activities concluded Sunday morning with worship at Union Church, led by Rev. David Green, ’77.

Class of '52 Celebrated Their 50th Reunion This Year

First Row: Imogene Huddleston Brown, Mary Louise King Donathan, Charles C. Smith, Josephine Baird, Mary “Tommie” Thomas Massey, Rosemary Maxie Weddington, Fannie Hardwick Feltner, Ursula Boehm Dickinson, Dan Center, Carlos Tackett, Barbara Cassell Brewer, Jim Brewer. Second Row: Gladys Osborne Smith, Gloria Goode VanWinkle, Anna Lou Planck McNeill, Barbara Childers Simmons, Gerry Christian Ensor, David Auxier, Nan Harris Sevy, Rose Moore Ramsay, Bill Ramsay, Avonelle VanHorn Sublett, Urban Peters. Third Row: Vinson A. Watts, Wheeler K. Bell, Mary Musser Nash, Annabelle Phipps Beverly, Patty Frasher Wallace, Nadene Wade May, Bert Clark, Jim Hale. Fourth Row: Harry A. Phillips, Martha Dendy King, Caroline Atkins Gula, Gaylyn Price Cumming, Clara Blackburn Bradbury, John Thompson, Betty Ross Hubbard. Fifth Row: Ed Harrill, Susan Wiseman Fisher, Mattie Lusk Powell, Lois Stephens Hoskins, Nell Halsey Porter, Ann Alley Kidd, Billie Wyatt Roark, Harriet Cline Goble, Betty Stallard Pope. Sixth Row: Margaret Smith McDonald, Nelvia Lowe Hunt, John C. Rogers, Corban Goble, Carol Henderson Pardue. Seventh Row: Nancy Renkenberger Woolsey, Amy Giles Johnson, Norma Morgan Robinson, Marolyn Olson Dunlap, Henry S. Brown, Gladys Thomas Parker, Glen Parker, Virginia Snedegar Beran, Byrne Tinney. Eighth Row: Lois Jolley Atwood, Barbara Huntsman Grizzle, Sue Propst Frye, Pauline Girdler Jones, Wilda Eskew Brown, Ruby Morrow Kuhl, Maudine Bastin Williams. Ninth Row: Fay Ramey Miller, Dorothy Alexander, Alex Chalmers, Starling Kessler Alley, Jr., Howard Kuhl, Cleo Williams, Margaret S. Haun, Ramona Davidson Jones, Garland Godsey, Peggy Brown Bryson. Tenth Row: Jim Cheney, Dillard B. Feltner, Walter W. Jacobs, James A. Fisk, William G. Bryson, Donald Boone Wagoner.

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