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SUMMER 2016

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4 Quiet Heroes 10 Commencement 2016 12 Planned Giving Estate Gifts 14 GC Women Use Their Leadership Voices 16 Pride Notes

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At our recent Commencement ceremony, we publicly recognized students, faculty, staff, and friends who have honored and benefited this 177-year-old institution with their talents and generosity. What we do is special and transformative, and we could not do it without them. And because so many people in this academic community contribute in this way, this issue of Points of Pride highlights even more of the quiet heroes who make the experience of attending this remarkable place so special. You’ll also read about one of our theatre graduates who is making a mark in his field. And you’ll learn about how Greensboro College is both helping and harnessing the development of women as philanthropic leaders both on behalf of the college and in the larger community.

Regardless of the field, the leadership and determination of the people who make up the Greensboro College community are making a difference for the college and in the world. As we prepare to begin our 178th year, may it be ever thus, and may we never lack for reasons to celebrate. With Pride, Larry

Did you miss Commencement? Watch the video on the GC website’s video-streams page, http://www.greensboro.edu/video-streams.php

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Donald Watkins ’10 has a bit of advice for budding actors and actresses: Don’t go changing. Despite early pressure to close the slight gap in his smile and straighten his teeth, Donald and his original choppers have found success. You can catch them both in the new historical drama “Free State of Jones” this summer alongside Matthew McConaughey and Keri Russell.

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“I have been to the movies, and I have seen a talking bear,” he says. “I have seen a man turn green and smash a city. I’ve seen people in space traveling and going to all these different galaxies. And I figure that if you can suspend your disbelief for those things for two hours, then you can suspend your disbelief that not everyone in the world has straight teeth.” Donald has won several other film roles, including a spot in “Pitch Perfect,” the role of Brock Mumford in the upcoming “Bolden!” and the part of Virgil in the remake of “Roots” that aired over the Memorial Day holiday. But while acting in film and theatre might come naturally to him, it does not always come easy.

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The commercial was for a made-up product called Mud Mouth Be Gone that supposedly cleaned and freshened the mouth. “We played it up,” he says, with a nostalgic nod of the head. “Oh, we played it so well.” Still, he didn’t “think to make a career” out of acting just yet. Donald began high school at Southern Guilford and graduated from Southeast Guilford. He loves sports, especially football and basketball, but he stopped playing in his sophomore year to focus on acting.

“I wasn’t ready to go off to Duke or Wake Forest and be No. 210 in a class,” he says. “But it was much harder than I expected. I don’t think I’ve ever been busier than I was here.” His schedule was tight: Class from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., a little stolen social time, rehearsal from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., then more work on scenes and dances. They practiced whenever and wherever they could across campus – Odell Building, dorms, the Parlor Theatre in Main Building. “We worked so hard,” he says. “You need to be ready for work.”

He began to see acting as a career while taking a class at Southern. His teacher, Sherri Raeford, even asked him to audition for a local film.

But Donald found himself well prepared for graduate school – he earned an MFA in Theatre at Louisiana State University – and the rigors of being a professional actor.

The drama teacher at Southeast was Tara Chappell, herself a Greensboro College graduate. She recognized that Donald had a gift and took him under her wing.

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“She helped me so much,” he says. “With posture, with diction, with everything.”

Donald loves his profession but warns that an actor’s life is not for everyone. “If you can do anything else and be fulfilled,” he says, “then do that.”

She even drove him to the audition for college programs at the North Carolina Theatre Conference, held in the Annie Sellars Jordan Parlor Theatre at Greensboro College.

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Donald can trace his love of acting back to the fourth grade, when he auditioned for a commercial the school was doing. It was a live commercial to be performed during a concert.

About 21 colleges were holding auditions. Donald got callbacks from all but one.

He immediately set out to work on his inflection, tone and diction. “I got the role,” he recalls. “I was so stoked; I felt so vindicated.”

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“I thought, hmmm, I may be all right at this.” He chose GC’s program partly because it serves undergraduates only: He wouldn’t be competing for roles with grad students. Also, with small class sizes, he could get more personal attention and instruction.

Although Donald’s spot in 2012’s “Pitch Perfect” was not a big one – Opening Treble No. 2 – the movie marked a major uptick in his career. Although he is primarily an actor, his varied experience at GC made him a triple threat: He can act, sing and dance. He wound up with the advanced dance group during the audition. When he got the role, he says, “I remember crying and just kind of going nuts. No one had a clue what ‘Pitch Perfect’ was going to be. It turned out to be very iconic. It was a great experience, and you learn very quickly. The whole experience was fantastic.” Stage acting uses a “different muscle” than film acting, he says. Making a movie is very much a “hurry up and wait” experience. Cameras are everywhere, everyone on the set has a very specific job, and “everything stops when it’s your turn.” Of course, there are constant retakes.

Donald will likely relocate soon from Louisiana to Atlanta to take advantage of the filmmaking boom going on there because of state-funded industry incentives. He loves film but feels like he was “born in the theatre.” “There’s no substitute for a live audience,” he says. “Theatre is still definitely my passion. The audience is going on a journey with you, it’s a shared experience.” Stage acting requires what he likes to call the “endurance muscle.” You have to inhabit a role for two and a half hours. Sometimes, you have to inhabit a role beyond anything for which you’ve rehearsed. One of his favorite GC Theatre memories stems from his performance as Sam in the 2008 production of “Blues for an Alabama Sky,” which featured an all-African American cast. He and some of his fellow cast members were onstage carrying on a conversation that was supposed to be interrupted by another actor. “We are out of dialogue now, and there is no knock at the door,” he says, almost wistful. “There are no breaks, no cuts. We have to continue the conversation. So we just go on living thoughtfully in imaginary circumstances for what felt like another 30 minutes.” Actually, the snafu lasted only about 90 seconds. “Things like that can happen. You have to be prepared for it.” Despite the challenges, Donald craves live theatre. “It’s so visceral; you are affecting people in the moment,” he says. “The audience is going through the emotions with you. You can hear people crying because they are with you; they are fully invested in it.”

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Elena Henry (1), director of advancement services, oversees

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GC’s Brock Collection, housed on the third floor of Main Building. The Brock includes a collection of dolls (2) representing classes as far back as the 1860s. A classic radio, a signed photo of Nelson Eddy , and Oxford shoes bring to life a re-created 1950s dorm room (3, 4). Of course,

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there are plenty of vintage clothing pieces (5, 6) donated by alumni.

You might say Elena Wegner Henry ’02 is a time traveler. Or perhaps you would call her a living, breathing Greensboro College history book. Henry, director of advancement services, oversees the Brock Museum on Main Building’s third floor. She is the keeper of GC’s long, rich history. During a recent visit, she shows off the doll room, a portion of the Brock that houses dolls – from lace-clad antique porcelain dolls to Queen Elsa and the Minions – representing classes as far back as the 1860s. Then she pauses beside the display case nearest the door. That case features a few dolls dressed as rescue workers. “Those dolls represent my graduating class,” she says. “We had just gone through 9/11.”

GC hired Henry two months after she graduated. She worked in the switchboard office for three years while she trained to replace the retiring advancement services director. She took over that position in the summer of 2007. Raising money to support college programs and scholarships has real meaning for Henry. She and her husband, Christopher, both came to GC on top music scholarships. “That scholarship made such a difference in my being able to attend,” she says. “Other people saw value in what the college does and gave to make it possible for people like me to come here.”

Henry, a vocal performance major whose mother taught voice, vividly recalls auditioning in Finch Chapel: “Sunlight just beamed through the windows, and I knew this was a good place.”

Henry shows off other rooms of the Brock, including rooms dedicated to GC’s female alumni – the HerStory archive – GC’s African American staff and students, and the college’s only female president, Lucy H. Robertson.

Sunlight beams through the large windows at either end of the narrow hallway that houses the Brock collection. Henry unlocks another door, one that opens into an authentic replica of a 1950s dorm room.

Henry smiles up at the portrait of Robertson that stares down from above a small fireplace mantle. She tells the story of how Robertson, who led the college from 1902 to 1913, was forced to raise $25,000 in one month during 1903 to keep its doors open.

Alums from the 1950s offered up their vintage clothing and furniture to preserve their experience for future generations of GC students. Henry, whose father is a museum administrator, understands the importance of studying history and learning from the past. “I always appreciate the broader background,” she says. “You don’t think about it, but Martin Van Buren was president when GC was chartered. There’s a fascinating historical context of seeing how we all fit in.”

Then Henry gently closes the door on the past and steps back into the sunlit hallways of the present.

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Cal Bond is wild about sponges. Yes, sponges. Bond, who has taught biology at Greensboro College for 20 years and who organizes the college’s annual Stream Walk cleanup, grows sponges in a 90-gallon saltwater research tank on the third floor of Proctor Hall East. He studies sponges under a microscope. He even has a website where he posts films of sponges. “It’s a niche,” he says, “a rather odd niche. I’m one of only a very few people working with live sponges.” So what grabs him about sponges? Scientists consider them one of the most primitive creatures in the animal kingdom.

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For Bond, sponges represent an overlap between cell biology, animal behavior and developmental biology. Many of the defensive chemicals produced by sponges are being harnessed in pharmaceuticals, especially cancer drugs. “Sponges are always changing, always in an embryonic state,” he says. “If we can understand how they react to the world, how their tissues are put together, we can understand a great deal about ourselves and other animals.”

border. Volunteer faculty, staff, students and community members clear trash and debris from the stream, and Bond assesses the stream’s water quality.

“He could play anything,” he says. “Music has always been an important part of my life, but I always wanted to be an actor.” The theatre bug hit Morgan early. At age 11, while watching the Academy Awards with some friends, he had an idea for an awards ceremony that would unite and recognize the New Jersey theatre community. In 1973, he founded the AVY Awards, named for his hometown of Avenel, N.J.

Then a biology position opened up at GC. Rich Mayes, a fellow biologist and now GC’s dean of the faculty, thought Bond would make a strong addition to the college’s biology department.

The New Jersey Association of Community Theaters renamed the AVY Awards the Perry Awards in Morgan’s honor in 2004. He attends the huge annual galas, which draw about 1,100 people, whenever he can, hoping to encourage and inspire young actors.

Bond thought so, too. “I like small schools,” he says. “I like collegial departments and collegial faculty. I like to teach, and I like to do research.”

“They tried to kill each the first year; then they began to negotiate,” he says. “It’s a dangerous playground in here, but it’s a nice little microcosm.”

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Morgan inherited an affinity for music and musical instruments from his grandfather.

“I was sort of an academic nomad like so many other people whose research was not easily funded,” he says.

Fish are necessary to healthy sponges as the fish feed on algae, keeping the reef tank clean. For the past 11 years, Bond has fed and cared for two surgeon or “tang” fish. One is bright yellow, the other is less colorful but has stripes.

Bond smiles as the fish seem to demand more food from him. “They are extremely spoiled,” he says.

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After Bond earned his Ph.D. in cell and developmental biology at UNC-Chapel Hill, he took on a visiting professorship at N.C. State, then taught as an adjunct at Chapel Hill, State and UNC Greensboro, where he teamed up with a shark researcher.

As he prepares a lab test in which his students will identify microscopic tissue samples, he also takes the opportunity to feed the fish that live in his research tank.

Cal Bond leads twice-annual StreamWalks along College Branch, the tributary of

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Perry Morgan’s mother, a professional actress working in New York, did all she could to keep Perry and his siblings out of show business. It didn’t work. Morgan, who directs the musical theatre program at Greensboro College, has made a career in theatre, as an actor and as a musician. But, he says, he much prefers directing and teaching. “There’s this thing about artists,” he says. “Each of us has this unspoken thing where you want to make sure the next generation has the tools and the skills so the art form can continue and grow and morph into whatever it’s going to morph into next.”

At the most recent ceremony, Morgan posed for photos with the outstanding young actor nominees. “I said to them, ‘Look at where you are. There are 1,100 people here, and I started this when I was 11 years old. You can do anything. Hold on to your dreams and don’t let anyone dismiss them. You are in a room full of people who like to do what you like to do. This night proves anything can happen.’”

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Rich Mayes loves baseball. Especially the Chicago Cubs. He loves the Cubs so much, in fact, that he wore a Cubs jersey under his gown at Baccalaureate last spring. He kept his Cubs cap tucked away under the podium, whipping it out to great applause. “I’m a baseball fan in general,” says Mayes, Greensboro College’s dean of faculty and Jefferson Pilot Professor of Biology. “I’ll watch any baseball I can.” Perhaps Mayes’s love of baseball is connected to his love of the outdoors and the environment. A botanist by training, he came to GC 30 years ago, in 1985, as an associate biology professor. “I’m a strange sort of biologist,” he says. “As a botanist, I prefer a wild environment to horticulture. If I even look at a houseplant it dies. My interest is in wild flora.” Mayes, a Chicago native, came of age in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the environmental movement was in full swing. He earned undergraduate and master’s degrees in biology and botany from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Ph.D. in botany and plant biology from the University of Texas at Austin. After earning his Ph.D., Mayes took a visiting assistant professorship at Virginia Tech. That’s when he fell in love with the landscapes of the Southeast. “I wanted to come back to the Southeast,” he says. “I guess it was growing up in the city and not really being able to see these kinds of things.” He was drawn to Greensboro College because of the college’s commitment to a liberal arts education. And then there is the faculty. “This is the best faculty I have ever worked with,” he says. “They are like a second family.”

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“North Carolina offers up a wide variety of environments – coastal plain, sandhills, piedmont, mountains – that provide a convenient microcosm for the biologist.” — Rich Mayes

Mayes was instrumental in starting the Urban Ecology major, a rarity for a college the size of Greensboro College. He describes it as an interdisciplinary major that brings together chemistry, biology, social science and political science. “Primarily it’s ecology and field biology,” he says. North Carolina, he says, offers up a wide variety of environments – coastal plain, sandhills, piedmont, mountains – that provide a convenient microcosm for the biologist. And Greensboro is the perfect setting for the study of urban ecology. He has lived here long enough to see how the city has changed over the years, and how people have impacted it. In fact, Mayes see Greensboro as a laboratory of sorts. He has seen Greensboro and cities around it – High Point, Winston-Salem, Kernersville – growing together, moving toward one big metropolis. “Of course there’s been more urbanization; we’ve lost a lot of natural areas and rural areas,” he says. “There is increased traffic and development. Animals have been driven out of their habitats.” Mayes’s love of the natural world has taken him beyond plants. He has also developed an interest in animal parasitology. “I had read a couple of popular books like ‘Parasite Rex,’ and I really got into the science of it,” he says. “I developed a course around it. The pre-vet students and some of the premed students take it.” And, Mayes says, it is Greensboro College’s students who have made his time here so rewarding. “What was always special was when a student came in from another major, took that first biology course, and became a biology major.”

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Congratulations Class of 2016! Baccalaureate & Commencement Ceremonies May 6 & May 7, 2016

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$643,000 Estate Gift Will Benefit the George Center for Honors Studies A planned gift of $643,000 from the estate of Eleanor Anthony George ’38 will benefit the Greensboro College’s George Center for Honors Studies. President Lawrence D. Czarda, Ph.D., announced the gift May 7 during Commencement. The George Center has its roots in a 1995 challenge grant from the Teagle Foundation in New York, totaling $80,000, intended to spark development of an honors program as an original and creative way to reach out to students. A year later, George, a school teacher, and her husband, Claude, a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, worked with their estate planners to provide a gift of more than $500,000 to the endowment upon her death. The George Endowment is now worth more than $1.5 million. The George Center for Honors Studies at Greensboro College offers opportunities for students to participate in team-taught interdisciplinary honors seminars, independent projects, and senior research projects. Approximately 50 students participate in the program each year. She also created a charitable remainder trust that would provide income for her beloved sister-in-law, Bettye Cates George Jones, throughout her lifetime, with the remaining principal coming to Greensboro College upon Jones’s death. Jones passed away several months ago, and the final portion of the George estate came to GC this spring.

Mrs. George was from Burlington, where her father was one of the founders of Front Street United Methodist Church. After her graduation from Greensboro College, she taught in the public schools in North Carolina and in an American school in Japan. She and her husband moved to Chapel Hill in 1954, where Dr. George was professor of management and associate dean of the university’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business. Though the Georges had no children, they provided through their estates for family and the educational institutions in which they strongly believed. Mrs. George passed away on July 26, 2008. The George Center for Honors Studies at Greensboro College offers opportunities for students to participate in team-taught interdisciplinary honors seminars, independent projects, and senior research projects. Approximately 50 students participate in the program each year. “Eleanor George understood that an investment in Greensboro College would continue to make a difference beyond her own lifetime,” said Anne Jones Hurd ’81, vice president and chief advancement officer. “I like to think that she would be very pleased with the impact her planned gift has had – and will continue to have – on students who walk past the fountain every day just as she did.”

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Greensboro College Receives Unrestricted $100,000 Estate Gift from Fred and Myrtle Proctor Greensboro College has received an unrestricted $100,000 gift from the estate of Fred Proctor. The money will be used to address the college’s strategic priorities. The late Fred and Myrtle Proctor were associated with Greensboro College for many years, and Fred Proctor was a longtime college trustee. Their generous financial support for the college – totaling approximately $3 million – began with the establishment of endowed scholarships for outstanding business administration majors at the college, the Fred and Myrtle Proctor Scholarships, and support for business faculty, the Fred Proctor Chair of Business. In 1996, they made a $2 million gift for a major expansion of the Arts & Sciences classroom building, which was renamed Proctor Hall in honor of their many years of service. The gift also established the Proctor Family Trust for Special Education to support the college’s special-education program. “Through his estate, Fred Proctor established a fund that continued to support for a period of years the educational, religious, and humanitarian organizations that they felt were important,” said Fred Proctor’s longtime financial manager, Coak May. “The Proctors were generous to many, many organizations, including West Market Street United Methodist Church, Duke Divinity School and Greensboro College. He would have been pleased to help Greensboro College as it continues its strong tradition of teacher preparation.” Mr. Proctor was known as a humble, almost shy man, who politely declined to make a speech when he received the Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree in May 1990.

“My parents’ support for special education was a lifetime personal commitment,” remembers son Fred Proctor Jr. “I have fond memories of long discussions with Dr. Becky Blomgren (now dean of the School of Social Sciences and Education) and the other wonderful professors about special education programs, speakers, and equipment still in use today.” Fred Proctor grew up in Florida, raised by his mother because his father had died when he was young. In his early 20s, he married Myrtle Raulerson and moved to Asheboro, N.C., where he began a career in textiles. The Proctors were generous to many, many organizations, including West Market Street United Methodist Church, Duke Divinity School and Greensboro College.

Through the boom years, he was associated with the region’s most prestigious textile companies, including Burlington Industries and Madison Throwing Company. He co-founded Guilford Mills and Texfi Industries, founded Spanco Industries, Inc., and served on the board of ProSpin. He was also on the board of directors of First Union National Bank. In addition to Fred Jr., they have another son, Wes; daughter, Julie Lemley, and seven grandchildren. Now, eight years after Mr. Proctor’s death (his wife predeceased him in 1997), Greensboro College again benefits from the legacy of these generous benefactors. Careful planning for the future by the Proctors provided a source of financial support that exceeded their lifetimes.

Those interested in exploring a planned estate gift to Greensboro College may contact Anne Hurd, VP and Chief Advancement Officer, at 336-272-7102, ext. 5743, or anne.hurd@greensboro.edu.

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For the complete text of Dianna Blackwell Goodman’s presentation, visit https://www.greensboro.edu/newsevents.php?p=895. If you would like to know more about Greensboro College’s Women in Philanthropy and Leadership initiative, contact Vice President Chief Advancement Officer Anne Hurd, at 336-272-7102, ext. 5743, or anne.hurd@greensboro.edu.

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Events Calendar Aug. 13: First-year students move in. Aug. 17: First day of regular classes. Sept. 1-4: GC Theatre: “Small Engine Repair”

Dianna Blackwell Goodman’s beautiful, talented, athletic daughter was struggling with an eating disorder. And to Goodman, it seemed that even more than life was at stake. “She diminished before our eyes … hiding from what her mind and heart were telling her,” Goodman, a 1969 graduate, recalled during Alumni Weekend in April at the college’s first Women in Philanthropy & Leadership event, an educational forum held at the O. Henry Hotel. “Her voice was silenced,” Goodman recalled. “And I dove inward also. … There was no support group for me to share or learn from. I stayed there a long time … silent … feeling like I didn’t have a voice. Thankfully, and with hope, utilizing prayer and vigilance, I emerged with a purpose.” That purpose became gathering together people and resources that have grown into T.H.E. Center, a treatment, healing and education center for disordered eating.

Goodman’s story is just one example of the power and purpose of women’s philanthropy, which is emerging as a key player in philanthropy overall. Some 43 percent of the nation’s top wealth holders are women, the I.R.S. reports. As women’s wealth increases, so does their visibility and leadership in business, government and the nonprofit sector. Women’s philanthropy is emerging as one of the key trends that will change the course of society and the face of philanthropy today. Greensboro College has launched the Women in Philanthropy & Leadership initiative as an opportunity for education and engagement in philanthropy for the different generations of its alumni base. This initiative will recognize and celebrate women’s contributions to our alma mater. Greensboro College embraces its rich history as the first college for women in North Carolina and the second in the South. For 105 of its 177 years, it was a women-only campus. And while GC’s alumnae were credited with raising great sums of money to save the college during financial hardship, the largest donors most often credited were men.

Yet financial support by women actually began before the college opened. According to the memoirs of W.M. Curtis, the college’s business manager and treasurer from 1905 to 1938, the first planned estate gift to Greensboro Female College was made by Mrs. Susanna Mendenhall. In her will, written in 1837 (the college was chartered in 1838), she bequeathed $4,000 on the condition that the college should be built. Her will was probated in the early 1840s, before the foundation of the first Main Building was laid. Mr. Curtis wrote: “It is interesting to note that the first and largest contribution to the first building of the first chartered college for women in North Carolina was made by a woman.”

And to be sure, women have played important roles in U.S. philanthropy for two centuries. “Since at least the early 1800s, U.S. women have participated in shaping education through philanthropy,” Andrea Walten writes in her 2005 book, Women and Philanthropy in Education. “By volunteering their time and donating both money and gifts-in-kind, women have fashioned careers as philanthropists and educators, have used education to promote social change, and have been instrumental in establishing and sustaining a wide array of institutions where education occurs.” That larger history has played out in Greensboro College’s history. During the college’s first 150 years, men controlled much of the nation’s wealth, yet women played a key role in the college’s financial health, including herculean efforts by alumna Nannie Lee Smith and President Lucy Robertson.

Now, five alumnae – Goodman, BJ Farrell Williams ’58, Candace Lambeth Kime ’69, Judith Ross ’70, and Lynn Lewis Lane ’73 – have created a permanent endowment fund to benefit the college and provided funding to support philanthropy education. To honor their mother’s memory, brothers Joe, Cooper and Tom Brantley, sons of the late Eva Allen Mann Brantley ’38, have given to help initiate the fund, as well. At the event, Dr. Carolyn Chappell, an educator and philanthropist in her own right and wife of Greensboro College President Lawrence D. Czarda, Ph.D., shared some of her own experience and then introduced the featured speaker, Goodman, who spoke about finding her voice through giving: “Keeping silent was no longer an option.” The women in her medical community came together to donate a certain amount each year over three to five years, and the donors choose who receives the grant. Their combined giving accomplishes a lot, she says: “It gives us a voice.”

Goodman compared the college’s nottoo-distant struggles with her own, during which time, she said, the college pulled within itself as she had pulled within herself. But, she said, because of this quiet, thoughtful time, GC is emerging solid and better.

Sept. 5: Labor Day holiday

Oct. 7: Board of Trustees meeting

Oct. 10-11: Fall break Oct. 20-23: GC Theatre: “Sugar”

Oct. 22: Homecoming

Oct. 27: The Reynolds Lecture

Nov. 23-27: Thanksgiving holiday Dec. 1: Showcase Day Dec. 1-4: GC Theatre: Student-directed

“As graduates, we have an incomparable heritage: a good education and a passport to a future beyond our education in the form of careers, passions, and engagement in the world,” she said. “Having an impact, collectively, for programs and students at Greensboro College is an honor too grand to pass up. … It is a voice we can have together.”

one-act plays by Louis E. Catron, Tommy Trull, and Edward Albee. Dec. 4: 51st Annual Festival of Lessons & Carols

Check www.greensboro.edu and watch for PrideLine on the first of every month for even more information on upcoming events on campus!

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PrideNotes All cities/towns are in North Carolina except where noted.

Frances Winslow Smith 1945, Colfax: “Ben & I will celebrate our 65th wedding anniversary with our family of 34 on Oct.1, 2015 – with two more babies expected this spring. God is good! Memories of GC are still so precious.” Jeanne Williamson Wall 1947, Thomasville, decided to “retire” to a retirement community last year, where she is staying busy. Ruth Jones Hess 1949, Danville, Va., and husband Ralph have moved to a retirement home in Danville where they remain active, but are enjoying being waited on. One son and daughter-in-law live nearby, and the other son lives on the Outer Banks. She has two granddaughters in college. Louise Sanford Beasley 1952, Durham: “I’m 85 years old and still doing ballroom dancing @ Fred Astair Studio in Durham, N.C.” Annette Inge Casey 1952, Midland, Texas, has four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren who all live in Texas. Joan K. Goforth 1952, Rutherfordton, “Although I have some health problems, I am thankful that I can still live alone in my own home. I have been active in prison ministry for 17 years. I am blessed to lead a Saturday morning Bible study in a men’s correctional facility.” Betsy Lawrence Wengert 1953, Cape Coral, Fla.: “Class of 1953 – Please consider joining the G.C. Society. The $1,000 can also be deposited in our class of 1953 Scholarship Fund.” Blanche Selden Bullock 1954, Chadbourn, “I’m still playing organ at Chadbourn Presbyterian Church. Had my 1st great-grandson Oct. 14, 2015. Do I feel old???” Frances Kendrick Springs 1954, Mount Holly, is still enjoying retirement. She’s volunteering with Habitat Gaston, Mt. Holly Parks and Rec, Board - Christian Education at First Presbyterian Church, has 3 married children, and 5 grandchildren.

Beverly Cox Stout 1956, Ramseur, husband, Roger, is in remission from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and is now under the care of Randolph Cancer Center. Her sister, Emily Cox Johnson 1957, drives Roger to the center for his doctor visits. Beverly no longer drives due to Parkinson’s disease. Beverly and Roger have moved back to Ramseur, where their family lives close by and can check in on them. Jane Love Burton 1957, Wilmington, “Enjoying living back in old hometown of Wilmington after being in Florida 35 yrs! We go to NC State football games in Raleigh, seems like old times!” Martha “Parkie” Parsons 1959, Southern Pines, still bikes 8 miles daily and would love to hear from some classmates. Fredda Thompson Peele 1959, Atlanta, Ga., moved to Atlanta last spring and enjoys living close to her three daughters. Gail Lambert Gilligan 1961, Chesterfield, Va., became a first-time grandma when her son, Patrick, became a father to Maia 2 years ago. You may have heard of her other son, Vince Gilligan, who is a writer and producer known for “The X Files,” “Hancock,” “Breaking Bad,” and “Better Call Saul.” Rebecca Cheek Searcy 1962, Columbus, has moved to Tryon Estates retirement community after living in Asheville for nine years. Alice Ann Edwards Mundy 1963, Gainesville, Ga.: “Now that my husband has retired (I did in 2003) we are enjoying traveling lots while we are still in good health. But the most fun of all is the time we have w/ our 3 grandchildren: Hope, 8; and twins, Ty and Mercy, 5.” Sara Williams Jacobson 1964, Chickasha, Okla., is retired, enjoying her grandchildren, and staying involved in spiritual activities by volunteering at a local church. She continues to appreciate her GC education.

The Rev. Dr. Joseph C. Seymour Jr. 1969 lives in Davidson. His most recent published book is titled “The Christian Skeptic: Caught between Belief and Doubt.” It is available through Amazon.

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Phyllis Gilliam Clark 1973 celebrated the birth of her first grandchild on August 29, 2015. Judith Hall Desper 1975, Carrboro, retired in August 2015 after 40 years of teaching in North Carolina public schools. William A. Pike Jr. 1975, Richmond, Va., has written and published two seasonal books for children, “The Last Pumpkin,” published in 2012, and “Murray and the Mudmumblers: The Christmas Benefit at the The Last Pumpkin Haw River Ballroom,” published in 2014. Both books were illustrated by Nell Chesley, a North Carolina native, like Bill. Since 1975, Bill has resided in Virginia and currently lives with his wife, Betsy Cloud Pike 1977, in Henrico County just outside of Richmond. Bill worked for 31 years in the public schools of Virginia as a teacher, coach, assistant principal, and principal. He currently serves as the Director of Operations at Trinity United Methodist Church. Linda Bowden Selleck 1975, High Point, is enjoying her new retirement and beautiful grandchildren after 38 years of pastoral ministry, work as a public and private K-12 music educator and the joy of giving countless Celtic harp performances.

Elin Widdifield Abercrombie 1977, Chapel Hill, was the featured presenter on Feb. 19, 2016, as a part of the TannenbaumSternberger Colloquium Series at Greensboro College, speaking from the perspective of parents coping with mental illness. Elin and her sister, Mary Widdifield, interviewed parents of young adults with mental illness for their book “Behind the Wall: The True Story of Mental Illness as Told by Parents.” Freddy Johnson ’77 was inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame on May 6, 2016. He is recognized as the winningest high school basketball coach in the state.

The Rev. John W. Van Tine 1969 and Virginia Roosa Van Tine 1970, Milford, Del., celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary with a river cruise on the Danube River from Budapest, Hungary, to Nuremburg, Germany. Vicki Seawell Miller 1970, High Point, is a retired principal who works as an adjunct faculty member in the School of Education at High Point University.

Points of Pride

Doris Broome Vander Wiele ’66 (second from right) hosted an alumni event in her home on February 27, 2016. Also pictured: (l-r), Erica Bledsoe ’09, Michelle Levan ’97, Carol Wilson Kuhn ’77, and Anne Jones Hurd ’81

Greensboro College Alumni Gathering, Greensboro Country Club, Feb. 11, 2016 Clare Ruch Abel 1968, Lisa Alley 1993, June Anderson 1969, Ken S. Anderson Jr. 1963, Karen Riegel Anzola 1986, Caroline Newson Barber 1969, Nickolay Bochilo 2003, Ned Bryan Jr 1996, Leslie Lewis Bryan 1982, Megan Cavanaugh 1999, Kris Brunnemer Cooke 1968, Linda Torrence Denmark 1962, Anne Carraway Dooley 1978, Carolyn Watkins Flowers 2003, Kevin Green 1978, Mary Jane Lassiter Greene 1956, Elena Wegner Henry 2002, Gail Brower Huggins 1965, Andrea Meador Humble 1995, Anne Jones Hurd 1981, Patricia Graves Ingram Dunn 1966, Millie Chafin Johnson 1967, Gene Edwards Jones 1958, Cindy Robinson Joseph 1959, Lisa Winstead Kilsheimer 1987, Dr. Candace Lambeth Kime 1969, Margaret Harry Kluttz 1965, Margaret Parsons Franklin 1965, Shani Porter Lester 1992, Sallie G. McLarty 1971, Ruth Moss 1977, Russ Myers 1982, Galina Petrova 2003, Kristen Porter 2000, Kelly Rexer 2014, Col. George F. Robinson III 1985, Patricia Fields Ross 1955, Bonita Watson Scales 2001, Shannon Scales 2001, Jon Scarpola 2008, Julie Showfety Schatz 1989, Gary Schatz 1989, Sissy Kocur Silver 1999, Barbara Lee Spencer 1953, Betsy Gibson Sweetman 1961, Patricia Hughes Troxler 1960, Barbara Reynolds Valentine 1957, Lisa Wall 1989, Jean Fortner Ward 1956, Anita Williams Williamson 1976, Martha Huggin Yarborough 1966

Carol Wilson Kuhn 1977, Greensboro, Ga., “Recently attended a social in Atlanta with other alumni living in the area. Had a wonderful time sharing memories and realizing that there are many common threads regardless of when we went to G.C. Looking forward to seeing classmates for our 40th!” Other alumni in attendance: Doris Broome Vander Wiele 1966, Michelle Levan 1997, and Erica Bledsoe 2009. Kay Vass Darling 1980, Chesterfield, Va., has become the Theological Librarian at Virginia Union University. Anne Jones Hurd 1981, Greensboro, has returned to GC as the Vice President, Chief Advancement Officer. Hurd is a past alumni association president, trustee, and the mother of Kelly Flora Young ‘10. She is also the daughter of Gene Edwards Jones ’58, longtime senior administrator and trustee Fred Jones, and sister of Thomas Jones ’84.

Barbara Lewis Southard 1984 and Mark F. Southard 1984, Shelby, visited campus recently, stopping by Finch Chapel, where they were married in August of 1984.

Parker family Carlton H. Parker Jr. 1982, Middletown, Del., received his doctoral degree in School Leadership and Innovation from Wilmington University at the commencement ceremony held at the Riverfront Center in Wilmington, Del., on February 7, 2016. Dr. G. Darryl Waller 1983, Alexandria, Va., has added yet another degree to his resume. In addition to a Ph.D., Dr. Waller has earned a Master of Music from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va., in August 2015. He lives in Washington, D.C. and is employed as a Music Test Development Specialist for the American Institutes for Research.

Melanie Poloff 1987, Boynton Beach, Fla., has been named Head of Interlibrary Loan at the S.E. Wimberly Library at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla. Lt. Col. Dianna L. Echard-Danis 1989, Fort Bragg, N.C., is serving as a detail inspector general with the U.S. Army Reserve Command. She was recently featured in an article that covers her journey into the Army and the influences that led her there. Dr. Bobbi J. Kotrba 1992, New Bern, owns Craven Animal Hospital and will have a new facility opening in 2016. Rebecca Boyte Cipriani 1993, Summerfield, was recently interviewed by the Reidsville Review as she looked back on her 18 years as the Register of Deeds for Rockingham County. She retired in April 2016.

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Dr. Patty Raube Keller 1998, Lincoln, N.D., has accepted a sports management faculty position at the University of Cincinnati to begin in August 2016. Granger W. Roseberry 1998, Chapel Hill, writes: “This May, I will have worked for the N.C. Dept. of State Treasurer Unclaimed Property Division for 10 years.”

Softball Alumni Game Sarah Bell 2011, Kelsey Burkett 2012, Jessica Clack 2008, Shelby Drummonds 2016, Brittany Evans 2012, Cyndel Henson 2011, Hayley Hicks Hudgins 2013, Jackie Nicholson 2015, Ashley Pennington 2009, Kelsey Sanfilippo 2014, Britney Smith 2009, Brittany Teer 2012

Timothy M. Randall 1993, Calabash, has been selected as Chairman of the Brunswick County (N.C.) Chamber of Commerce. Sherri Sell Worrell 1994, Belews Creek, was has been named the Southeast Middle School Teacher of the Year. Sherri is a sixth-grade math teacher. Anthony V. Dent 1995, Medford, N.J., was renewed as the superintendent of the Medford Lakes School District and awarded a five-year extension through 2020. Dr. Lynette Charles Tannis 1995, Plainfield, N.J., spoke on campus on Sept. 2, 2015, sharing insight from her doctoral research, which became a book, “Educating Incarcerated Youth.” Tannis is shown in front of the iconic fountain with her young son. Carrie Nicholson Williford 1996, Mooresville, is a newly licensed Realtor with Sellstate Select. Karen Pierre Higgins 1997, Elizabeth, N.J., joined GC faculty, staff, alumni, and friends in attending a presentation by Dr. Lynette Charles Tannis 1995 on Educating Incarcerated Youth. “This place gave us our identity,” Karen says of GC. “We figured out who we were while we were here.” Jason C. O’Keefe 1998, Jamestown, has been named the head men’s soccer coach at Appalachian State University.

Jo Watlington Wagner 1999, Hurst, Texas, is working as a research associate in the Department of Radiology at UT Southwestern. Christy Parr Watkins 2000, Katy, Texas, was named Best Actress in the 2015 Houston Theater Awards for her portrayal of Annie Sullivan in the A.D. Players’ production of “The Miracle Worker.” Merinda G. Wilkinson 2002, Pleasant Garden, earned her MBA in Healthcare Management from Florida Institute of Technology in June 2015. Jason M. Feliciano 2003, Londonderry, N.H., was sworn in as a police officer in Manchester, N.H., on Monday, March 7. He has previously served as an officer in Somersworth and Dover. Danny Mackey 2003, (pictured left), Greensboro, was the featured speaker at the January Senior Salute dinner. Erik D. Naglee 2004, Greensboro, was honored by the Triad Business Journal’s 40 Leadership Under 40. Erik is the principal of Pearce Elementary, and last year led the school to rank as Guilford County’s highest-performing elementary school based upon its testing scores. Pearce has earned the United Way’s Spirit of N.C. Award for four years running. In addition to his position as a principal, Erik has served as a youth coach and volunteer with Out of the Garden Project and the Greensboro Children’s Museum.

Dr. Kate T. Creasy 2005, Mountain View, Calif., earned her Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in April. Her dissertation project focused on genetic regulation of lipid metabolism and the resulting effects on cardiovascular and liver diseases. She will continue researching lipid metabolism and cardiovascular disease as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California San Francisco. Tony Falvino 2006, Greensboro, has been named the new head coach of the Carolina Dynamo soccer team. Tony, who is also the head coach of the men’s soccer team at GC, played for the Dynamo as a student in 2004 and 2005. Jamie Trout Smothers 2006, Browns Summit, is the Senior Financial Advisor and Senior Vice President of First Citizens Investor Services. Farzanna L. Stewart 2006, San Diego, Calif., is working as a logistics specialist for the United States Navy. Brian V. Beasley 2008, Pace, Fla., has received new orders and will be a helicopter pilot instructor at Naval Air Station Whiting Field in Milton, Fla. He recently returned from a 10-month deployment to the Middle East with the Navy. Following his return, Brian and his wife, Caroline Young Beasley 2008, hiked the High Sierra trail, which summits Mount Whitney.

Eric L. Pugh 2004, Wilmington, Del., completed the doctorate in educational leadership degree from Delaware State University in Dover, Del. He is currently serving as a school counselor at Highlands Elementary School. Adam R. Clay 2005, Greensboro, has been named the new head coach for Western Guilford High School’s football team. He has been a part of the football staff for the past six years, and is also an English teacher at the school. Christi Smith Collins 2005, M.Ed. 2014, Browns Summit, was selected as the Haynes-Inman Education Center Teacher of the year for the 2015-2016 academic year.

Caroline Young Beasley 2008, (pictured above), Pace, Fla., began working as a tax accountant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLC in January 2015. Brick Crowder 2010, Grifton, has recently been named the new head coach of the junior varsity football program at Bethel Christian Academy in Kinston.

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Points of Pride

Kindle L. Headman 2010, Windham, Conn., is working as a human resources manager for G4S, a nuclear security company. She has moved to Connecticut, bought a house, and recently became engaged. J. Lance Pickeral 2010, Kernersville, has joined the Greensboro College faculty as an Instructor in Kinesiology. Donald E. Watkins 2010, Baton Rouge, La., stopped by campus for several days while GC hosted the Pickeral Southeastern Theatre Conference’s annual High School Play Festival in March. As a student, Donald was on the search committee that selected Dr. Lawrence Czarda as the next college president. A theatre grad, Donald’s acting career is gaining traction with a role in the remake of the mini-series “Roots” Watkins and the movie “The Free State of Jones,” which will be released in June 2016.

Marriages Donna Nilson and Claude D. Shockley 1976 were married on Sept. 19, 2015. Stephanie A. Robertson 2008 and Joshua Bowman were married on Nov. 29, 2014, at The Cetwick in Asheboro. Vanessa A. Pizzi 2009 (pictured left) and Gerard Dick Jr. were married on Oct. 18, 2015, at David’s Country Inn in Hackettstown, N.J. The wedding was photographed by Amber-Drew Foster 2007. Kelly Flora ’10 married Jeremy Young on September 26, 2015, at Phillips Chapel, Canterbury School in Greensboro.

Births Tina Kamura born to Dr. April Alston Purnell 2003 and husband Hakeem Purnell on Nov. 8, 2015. Allison Lanier Peschell 2007 and husband Alex celebrated the arrival of their daughter, Emery Grayann, (pictured left) on Aug. 10, 2015.

Robin E. Welch 2010, Greensboro, has been named head cheerleading coach at Greensboro College. In addition to her coaching position, she is also an elementary school teacher with Guilford County Schools. Leslie Grey Orsini 2011, McLeansville, is a third-grade teacher with the Guilford County Schools. Dianne Sexton Steed 2011, Lexington, an Exceptional Children Preschool Teacher with Davidson County Schools, won Teacher of the Year in May 2015 for The Arc of Davidson County. In September, she was awarded The Arc of North Carolina Teacher of the Year. Leah K. Tucker 2011, Jacksonville, is working at Animed Veterinary Hospital as a veterinarian.

Men’s LAX Alumni Game John Anglin 2012, Mars Anguiano 2002, Tracy Armstrong 2015, Taylor Babb 2015, William Baker 2013, Brian Bishop 2009, Bill Blakely 2013, Randall S. Brooks II 2014, Brian Burke 2012, Jaegar Carlyle 2015, Michael Cobb 2013, Christopher Cositore 2009, Zachary Frohne 2013, James Furlow 2014, Michael Gialanella 2000, Alex Haskins 2012, Paul Hidalgo 2008, Kyle Hughes 2014, Skip Jakupi 2013, Brian James 1994, Mitchell Kanowicz 2014, Ryan Kissner 2016, Scott Kopf 2011, Anthony Meley 1995, Justin Pearson 2015, James Reed 1997, Nick Sagraves 2016, Scott Showalter 2015, Matt Ward 2008, Dennis Williams 2007, Former Coach, Dan Cetrone

Bridget Kilcourse VanderVeen 2011 M.Ed., Jamestown, is a third-grade teacher at Morehead Elementary.

Please note that every attempt has been made to ensure the accuracy of information. Please contact the Alumni office with any corrections.

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Jena G. Cabe 2013, Greensboro, has been promoted to the Athletic Department’s Compliance Director at Greensboro College. Jena has been the Athletics Coordinator since June 2014, a role in which she continues to serve. In April she received Greensboro College’s Ann P. Lojko Distinguished Service Award, presented annually and voted on by her peers. Chelsea A. Harvey 2013, Statesville, is the chorus teacher at Statesville Middle School. She is also enrolled in the college’s PAL Program and expects to complete her studies in May 2016. Kari E. Kesler 2013, Greensboro, is working as a probation officer for the State of North Carolina. Kory R. Strother 2014, is a first-year band teacher with Elkin City Schools.

Men’s Basketball Alumni Game Lance Albritton 2013, Brad Apple 1995, Kevin Beard 2010, Bryant Camp 2007, Damon Forney 1981, Mike Galuski 2000, Freddy Johnson 1977, Michael McDuffie 2009, Ed McKee 2001, Shannon Scales 2001, David Skeels 1977, Brian Thomas 2015, Anthony Ware 1998

Becca Pink 2012, Greensboro, is working as a digital strategist with G-Force Marketing. Allen Stallings 2012, Concord, is a rear tire carrier on the pit crew for NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne (pictured left), and Hendrick Motor Sports. David Bartholomew 2013, Charleston, S.C., is a student at Charleston School of Law.

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Erica H. Francisco 2015, Greensboro, has joined the Greensboro College staff as an admissions counselor. Vontreece M. Hayes 2015, is a Graduate Assistant Coach for the Lady Hawks Women’s Basketball team for the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Briana A. Thomas 2015, Waldorf, Md.: “Well, I have great news! I just accepted a graduate assistant position with the Institute of Systems Research at the University of Maryland in College Park. It is a public relations administrative position with the ISR, which specializes in robotics, manufacturing, and engineering. The better news is my tuition is completely paid for! I get an annual stipend of over $25,000 and health benefits. Please share the good news with my GC family!” Bridget G. Hall 2016, Greensboro, completed her undergraduate course work in December and, having turned down a full ride to divinity school at Harvard, has accepted a full ride to pursue her M.Div. at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Keya Strudwick 2016, North Chesterfield, Va., is working as a training specialist with PIEtech, Inc.

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Sympathy Extended to Virginia Clarke Gray-Backus 1942 in the passing of her daughter, Virginia L. Gray 1968, Nov. 9, 2015.

Mary Jo Davis Doeringer 1955 in the passing of her cousin, Beth Davis Peele 1948, Oct. 28, 2015.

Frances A. Clarke 1966 in the passing of her cousin, Virginia L. Gray 1968, Nov. 9, 2015.

Maymie Casey Causey 1942 in the passing of her sister, Dr. Nancy Casey Dunigan 1949, Jan. 17, 2016.

Elizabeth Harris Proctor 1956 in the passing of her husband, James Proctor, May 3, 2015.

Sue Jacobs Wooten 1967 in the passing of her cousin, Pauline Satterfield Miller 1963, Sept. 14, 2015.

Britt Davis Griffin 1946 in the passing of her husband, Thomas Battle Griffin, July 15, 2015.

Jean Fortner Ward 1956 in the passing of her husband, William S. Ward, on Oct. 25, 2015.

John F. Worsley II 1970 in the passing of his mother, Adeline Conner Worsley 1946, March 7, 2015.

Hannah Davis Hammer 1947 in the passing of her cousin, Beth Davis Peele 1948, Oct. 28, 2015.

Barbara Reynolds Valentine 1957 in the passing of her husband, Tim Valentine, Nov. 10, 2015.

Julia Safrit Gadd 1974 in the passing of her cousin, Jean Brower Foreman 1962, Dec. 25, 2015.

Dorothy Stoltz Brogan 1947 in the passing of her husband, Dr. Wesley G. Brogan, on Dec. 12, 2015.

Ruby Keeton Averette 1958 in the passing of her husband, James C. Averette, Aug. 6, 2015

Beverly Caldwell Yates 1974 in the passing of her cousin, Jean Brower Foreman 1962, Dec. 25, 2015.

Martha Brady Bruton 1947 in the passing of her sister in-law, Edith Bruton Thompson 1947, Oct. 13, 2015.

Sharlia Brasington Ragan 1958 in the passing of her cousin, Jean Brower Foreman 1962, Dec. 25, 2015.

Alese Greene Reams 1974 in the passing of her husband, Stephen W. O. Reams, Dec. 12, 2015.

Georgia Hayes Niven 1948 in the passing of her husband, William E. Niven, Aug. 19, 2015.

Emily Tesh Shealy 1959 in the passing of her son-in law, Donnell W. Guy Jr. 1982, Nov. 18, 2015.

Phyllis Jacobs Dandison 1975 in the passing of her cousin, Pauline Satterfield Miller 1963, Sept. 14, 2015.

Dorothy Steedman Shoaf 1949 in the passing of her husband, Herman “Nick” Shoaf, March 5, 2016.

Margaret McLeod McDonald 1963 in the passing of her husband, Dr. Garreth M. McDonald, Dec. 9, 2015.

Virginia Clarke Hitch 1985 in the passing of her cousin, Virginia L. Gray 1968, Nov. 9, 2015.

Betty Sisk Swain 1949 in the passing of her husband, David Swain, June 5, 2015.

Joanne White Schlaginhaufen 1964 in the passing of her husband, Eric Schlaginhaufen, Dec. 6, 2015.

Angela C. Bensberg 2015 M.A. in the passing of her mother, Rachel M. Buie 1948, Nov. 24, 2015.

Elizabeth Davis Herring 1951 in the passing of her cousin, Beth Davis Peele 1948, Oct. 28, 2015.

Gail Brower Huggins 1965 in the passing of her cousin, Jean Brower Foreman 1962, Dec. 25, 2015.

Rusty LaRue, former head men’s basketball coach, in the passing of his son, Riley, Sept. 19, 2015.

Patricia Jackson Capehart 1952 in the passing of her sister, Susan Jackson Noble 1954, Oct. 4, 2015.

Elizabeth Pugh Jones 1966 in the passing of her husband, Fred I. Jones, Feb. 25, 2016.

Deaths Jane Hess Johnson 1940, Nov. 11, 2015.

Mary Ann Houck Crone 1948, Aug. 19, 2015.

Jennie Gray Carter 1964, Oct. 29, 2015.

Ora E. Jones 1940, July 31, 2015.

Evelyn Bullard Flack 1948, Dec. 17, 2015.

Virginia L. Gray 1968, Nov. 9, 2015.

Anna Lois Cobb Bulla 1941, Feb. 20, 2015.

Beth Davis Peele 1948, Oct. 28, 2015.

Frances Jones Tyson 1968, Feb. 16, 2016.

Jeanette Gord Bingham 1942, Oct. 27, 2015.

Jean Umstead Spencer 1948, Dec. 18, 2015

Jane Blair Carroll 1969, Feb. 17, 2013.

Frances Gardner Snyder 1942, Aug. 18, 2015.

Carolyn Stokes Watson 1948, Oct. 19, 2015.

Patricia Milo Guffey 1969, Sept. 27, 2015.

Lee Warner Vinroot 1943, Oct. 14, 2015.

Mary Dula Whittington 1948, Aug. 17, 2015.

Starr Puckett Simmons 1972, Dec. 9, 2015.

Catherine Moore Harman 1944, Jan. 16, 2016.

Margaret Hughes Bowman 1949, Sept. 25, 2015.

Dorothy Summerow Warlick 1975, Oct. 8, 2015.

Sebie Midyette Hewitt 1944, Oct. 29, 2015.

Dr. Nancy Casey Dunigan 1949, Jan. 17, 2016.

Frederick E. Lewis Jr. 1979, April 5, 2015.

Margaret Jon Hardin McLeod 1944, Jan. 26, 2016.

Caroline Bunting Schreier 1949, Aug. 20, 2015.

Donnell W. Guy Jr. 1982, Nov. 18, 2015.

Nancy Ward Pritchett 1944, Sept. 27, 2015.

Mary Casstevens Booker 1950, Feb. 16, 2016.

Anne Carter Webster 1989, Dec. 15, 2015.

Jane Foushee Garrison 1945, Aug. 19, 2015.

Patsy Blake Moseley 1952, Sept. 7, 2015.

Tammy Murrell Presnell 1997, Nov. 14, 2015.

Ruth Enloe Hay 1945, Jan. 2, 2016.

Nancy Suttles Robinson 1952, Oct. 8, 2014.

Paul A. Valdes 2002, Aug. 26, 2015.

Virginia McLean Little 1945, Nov. 19, 2015.

Susan Jackson Noble 1954, Oct. 4, 2015.

Dr. Wesley G. Brogan, former special education

Emily Joyce Copeland 1946, Sept. 18, 2015.

Joyce Via Anderson 1955, Jan. 22, 2016.

faculty member, Dec. 12, 2015.

Adeline Conner Worsley 1946, March 7, 2015.

Ruth Lucas Latham 1955, Dec. 24, 2015.

Dr. Garreth M. McDonald, former music faculty

Eleanor Brinn Knotts 1947, Jan. 16, 2016.

Donna Uhlendorff Huber 1961, Nov. 20, 2015.

member, Dec. 9, 2015.

Edith Bruton Thompson 1947, Oct. 13, 2015.

Julia Brower Foreman 1962, Dec. 25, 2015.

Dr. Helen E. Misenheimer, former French

Jane Butler Black 1948, Nov. 12, 2013.

Sally Stapes Fry 1963, Oct. 10, 2015.

professor, Oct. 25, 2015.

Rachel M. Buie 1948, Nov. 24, 2015.

Pauline Satterfield Miller 1963, Sept. 14, 2015.

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