Graduating year - 1987
 

Mark O'Keefe (’87): Mark has been named editor of Religion News Service, and online news release. Mark has also served as an adjunct professor Here’s an update from Jerusalem. I graduated from Regent (CBNU) at the time in 1987. I’m been assigned here in Jerusalem as the CBN News Middle East Bureau Chief since August 2000 just a few weeks before the current intifada began.

Steve Barclift (’87): I am the managing editor of Kregel Publications, a Christian book publisher; I'm working on my eighth year in this position. Prior to this I was a senior editor at Multnomah Publishers, another Christian book publisher, located in Sisters, Oregon. My first professional position after graduating from Regent (then CBNU) was founding managing editor of Christian Parenting Today magazine. I published a children's devotional titled Beginning with God: My Very Own Devotional with Kregel Kidzone this year. The book was the third title I've published for children. My first book, The Beginner's Devotional, won an Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) Gold Medallion Award in 1992. Beginning with God, for children 5 to 10 years old, seems to be selling well. My next writing project will be a book for adults; it will deal with the high and low points of caring for the elderly. I'm at the absolute front end of this project, with no publication date in sight. On a personal level, I live with my wife and two youngest children near Grand Rapids, Michigan. Our older two children have left the nest and now live in Oregon.

Tim Dillard (’87): is President/CEO of Dillard Local Branding. He is called to grow things and grow people. With over 20 years in the advertising and marketing business, he has been the subject of numerous local, regional and national news stories and some of his techniques have been the subject of study at American universities such as Texas A&M and Oklahoma State. He has spoken to numerous organizations on Brand Development including the National Collegiate Athletics Association National Convention. He is author of the yet-to-be published, Local Branding Confessions of the Local Ad Man. His writing and broadcast production talents have been widely recognized.

Chris Mitchell (’87): Here’s an update from Jerusalem. I graduated from Regent (CBNU) at the time in 1987. I’m been assigned here in Jerusalem as the CBN News Middle East Bureau Chief since August 2000 just a few weeks before the current intifada began.

Beverly Coney Heirich ('87): Beverly is the author of Mornings with Fulton Sheen (Servant Publications 1997), a national best seller at Catholic bookstores (see 19 reviews at Amazon.com). Beverly is now putting finishing touches on a revision of Guide for the Perplexed: The Right and Wrong Book. Originally written at Regent University, the book is a parents’ manual for teaching children and adults God’s practical ethics as revealed in the Book of Proverbs. Beverly is a semi-retired literary agent (WhiteStone Literary Institute), a former editor for Writer’s Digest Magazine, and a freelance copy editor for Thomas Nelson Publishers. She is a national award-winning feature writer published in dozens of newspapers and magazines, including Good Housekeeping and Guideposts. Beverly is listed in Who’s Who among America’s Teachers 2000 and 2003 as an adjunct college instructor of English writing & literature, speech, American history, and business communication seminars (Leadership vs. Management and Image as Communication). Her long and fascinating career has also brought recognition as a political speechwriter quoted in Time and USA Today.