class notes 1976 Jordan Tozer, son of Tom ’76, and Dana Bishop Tozer ’77 of Charlotte, received his doctorate of medicine from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond in May. He will start his residency as a emergency room physician at VCU Hospital. Tom Tozer is an editor at the Charlotte Observer and Dana is an occupational therapist. 1973 KIRK DOLL is the running backs coach and special teams coordinator for the ECU football team. In 1971 and 1972, he lettered as a defensive end for ECU and helped Sonny Randle’s Pirates to a Southern Conference title as a senior. He has coached collegiate football for the last 33 years, most recently at San Jose State. 1971 BRENDA MORGAN RYALS received the 2012 Jerger Career Award for Research in Audiology from the American Academy of Audiology. She is a professor of communication sciences and disorders and
director of the auditory research laboratory at James Madison University and an adjunct professor of psychology and of speech and hearing at the University of Maryland. MIKE JONES is the director of Pamlico County’s Small Business Center. He was the Northeastern Region coordinator for existing industry for the N.C. Department of Commerce. 1970 JUDY MARLOWE STEAD, a noted children’s author and illustrator, published The New Quotable Woman in 2011. The Twelve Days of Christmas in North Carolina, a children’s book she wrote and illustrated, came out in 2009, sold out and was reprinted for 2010 and again for the 2011 season. It has also been included in the Christmas Gift Guide of Our State magazine for the past two years. 1969 The International Bipolar Foundation appointed Steve Abramson as development officer. Abramson previously spent 25 years at the United Jewish
Federation, lastly as executive vice president. From 2006 to 2008, he was senior executive director for the University of California, San Diego, and from 2008 to 2012 he was a senior development officer at the Scripps Research Institute. He has received Leadership Awards from the Council of Jewish Federations, Agency Professionals, National Federation Professionals, United Jewish Federation and United Jewish Appeal. Michael Bumpass, president and CEO of both the Guilford Merchants Association and Greensboro debt collection company FirstPoint Inc. for the past 25 years, retired May 31. “When I got here 25 years ago,” he told the Greensboro News & Record, “I found a first-class organization with great employees, members and customers. My single goal was to leave it better than I found it.” Under his leadership, the Greensboro Merchants Association doubled its membership and expanded its workshop offerings and networking programs.