Frank Brenneman enjoys his final days in his office in the Mary J. Regier Building. Brenneman is completing his 33rd and final year as mathematics instructor at Tabor College. He has been largely responsible for the establishing a strong reputation for the department. Don Ratzlaff / Free Press

Frank Brenneman speaks about his passion for mathematics as if it were poetry.

“It’s a very artistic thing,” said the longtime professor of mathematical sciences at Tabor College. “It’s not only wanting to get it proved, you want to polish that proof. You want it to be elegant.”

Birds of a feather: Peg and Jules Glanzer are greeted by the Tabor College Bluejay after their arrival in late January. The official inauguration will be held at 7 p.m. May 9 at the college. Tabor College photo

On his first day as the new president of Tabor College, during an informal get-together with faculty and staff, Jules Glanzer pulled from his pocket a choir director’s pitch pipe and blew a note loudly enough for everyone to hear.

If a man is known by the company he keeps, Jules Glanzer’s personal friendship with historian and futurist Leonard Sweet puts the new Tabor College president near the cutting edge of postmodernist Christian thinking in America.