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the State of North Carolina. His decades of service include a four-year term as mayor of West Jefferson, N.C., following retirement from the Methodist ministry. He also served eight years on the Ashe County Board of Education and has been active with the West Jefferson Lions Club, Optimist Club, and rescue squad. While at Pfeiffer, A.B. was the student pastor of Richfield-New Mount Tabor United Methodist Churches, and his daughter, Joallen Weaver
Lowder ‘90, was on campus with him, on a regular basis. When asked on her college application, “Why did you choose Pfeiffer?,” her response was “Is there anywhere else?” Sharon Bryant ‘73 left the United States in March to serve as a mission co-worker in Thailand. She was appointed by the Presbyterian Church (USA) to a three-year term as Coordinator of Christian Volunteers. Most recently she had served as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Stephenville, Texas. She grew up in Thailand, the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries, and came to Pfeiffer shortly after returning to the U.S. Read about Sharon’s work in her blog www. thailandtales.wordpress.com. David Joyce ‘75 has been appointed as the 13th president of Brevard College, in Brevard, N.C., and will assume his duties on Jan. 1, 2012. He has more than 30 years of experience in private higher education and has served as president of Ripon College, in Ripon, Wis., since 2003. Al Kaye ‘78 has been named a 2010 Health Care Hero by the Greater Knoxville (Tenn.) Business Journal for his commitment to helping people with disabilities live challenging and fulfilling lives. He is a clinical specialist/ recreation therapist for the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center in Knoxville.
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Bill Moore ‘80 presented his Playing Your Best seminar series on the Misenheimer campus in October. The seminars are designed to help participants enhance human performance across performance domains such as music, sports, business, and life. As president of Moore Performance Consulting, Bill helps athletes, performing artists and business leaders improve their performance under competitive stress. He has published a number of books on performance psychology for athletes, coaches and musicians.
Ruth Moose ‘84 is the author of TEA and Other Assorted Poems, published in 2010 by Main Street Rag. She has taught creative writing at UNC Chapel Hill since 1996 and written two books of short stories, as well as five other poetry collections. Her poems and stories have appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Redbook, Prairie Schooner, Yankee, The Nation, and Christian Science Monitor. Mike Cerino ‘88 has been named the first head coach of the Charlotte Hounds, an expansion team for Major League Lacrosse. Most of his coaching career has been spent at Limestone College in Gaffney, S.C., where he led the men’s lacrosse team to an NCAA Division II national championship in 2000. 1990s
Mike Downs ‘83 has been named county manager for Cabarrus County (N.C.). With Cabarrus County government for more than 25 years, he had most recently served as deputy county manager. Alicia Randolph Rapking ‘83 has been appointed director of the Upshur Cooperative Parish House in Buckhannon, W.V., after having served United Methodist churches in the West Virginia Annual Conference for the past 22 years. Upshur Parish House is a mission project of the Conference.
Ryan Bennett ‘97 is the new principal at Anthony Elementary School, in Ocala, Fla. He joined the school district in 1998 as a special needs teacher and most recently served as assistant principal for Maplewood Elementary School. Tammy Fesperman ‘99 earned the master of social work degree from Winthrop University in May 2011. She was named one of five Child Welfare Scholars in the State of South Carolina and has obtained her provisional license as a clinical social worker.
Robin Whitley ‘83 works at Southwestern Community College, in Sylva, N.C., as a student success coordinator. She is choir director at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church and has authored In a Southern Closet, which was published by Regal Crest Books in 2011.
Timothy Ludwig ‘99, vice president for Ancillary Services at CarolinaEast Health System, has been named to the North Carolina State Health Coordinating Council by Gov. Beverly Perdue.
Sandy Booth George ‘84 was named Principal of the Year for 2010-11, in the Mount Airy City School District. Under her leadership as principal of Mount Airy High School, the school has been ranked in the top three percent of high schools in America for the past two years and had the highest academic performance of any traditional high school in the five-county region, in 2009-10.
Bo McSwain ‘99, a detective with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, is one of several detectives featured on A&E’s new series “The First 48.” The show follows detectives during the first 48 hours of murder investigations, and Bo was featured during the debut segment. The Pfeiffer criminal justice graduate said it was surreal seeing himself on television. “It was a good