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editor RENEE VARY KEELE Featured writers MARGARET DANIEL CAITLYN MITCHELL ’13 contributors DEBBIE AIKEN ’12 REED BARRICKMAN ’02 J. TODD BENNETT LINDSEY CARROLL JODIE SEXTON GOFF ’01 BARBARA BESSMER HENRY ’85 DON HENRY ’83 SYDNEY MOBLEY MOSS ’59 WEATHERLY RICHARDSON ’13 LINDA SANDERS SCARBOROUGH ’65 KELLY HOLLAND VRTIS ’97
photographers ROBERT FINDLEY ’14 AMANDA (BROOKE) FLOYD ’13 ONE MOMENT MORE PHOTOGRAPHY www.omm.com design em2 Brand Marketing That Moves You
Carillon is published twice a year for alumni, friends, and family of Oglethorpe University. Oglethorpe, founded in 1835, is a private, liberal arts college.
Photos Above The Oglethorpe community gathered in October 2012 to break ground on the new campus center. Pictured (l–r): Dean of Students & Vice President for Campus Life Michelle Hall, Student Government Association President Joscelyn Stein ’13, Trustee Belle Turner Lynch ’61, President Schall, Board of Trustees Chair Norman Findley and Trustee Warren Jobe. Visit progress.oglethorpe.edu to check out the progress of the new campus center, set to open in August 2013.
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6 strategic plan | 8 engaged campus community | 11 engaged living 15 engaged difference | 17 engaged creativity | 19 engaged life | 21 OUR alumni | 35 class notes | 41 our community | 47 our CHANNELS spring 2013 | CARILLON 3