UVa-Wise Magazine, Fall 2015

THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA’S COLLEGE AT WISE FALL/WINTER 2015

Meet Smiddy RED, GRAY AND NCAA BLUE

The road to athletic success

FROM THE CHANCELLOR

Dear Alumni and Friends, The fall 2015 semester is here, and our College has exciting news to report. In July, UVa-Wise was voted in as a full member of NCAA Division II. The threeyear effort required hard work from the athletic department, as well as leaders from across campus. Our full NCAA Division II membership started on September 1. We have held several special events to celebrate this milestone, and more activities are planned throughout the year.

The rigorous membership process gave us the opportunity to reflect on the College’s six decades of athletics. Competitive sports have always had a special place at UVa-Wise. Our history includes, wrestling and ironman clubs in the early years and an interesting season or two when basketball teams traveled to matches in a limo that was donated to the College. The number of sports has changed over the years as new teams were added and conferences were changed, but the spirit and dedication of our student athletes, coaches, and athletics director remains strong.

Chancellor Donna P. Henry This edition of the UVa-Wise Magazine highlights sports stories and our successful jump to NCAA Division II competition. The articles are sure to bring back memories for our alumni who competed on teams or cheered for the Cavaliers from the stands.

UVa-Wise is launching Wise Writes, our new quality enhancement plan (QEP). Wise Writes was designed to improve writing across all academic disciplines. We want each UVa-Wise graduate to have the successful writing skills required in their particular major. The QEP Committee, led by Professor Tom Costa, has mapped out a solid plan, which includes a newly designed writing center and a director. Details about Wise Writes can be found in this edition of the magazine as well.

I outlined many exciting things happening at UVa-Wise in my State-of-the College address during fall Convocation.

UVa-Wise is making strides in the overall student experience, undergraduate and faculty research, faculty recruitment and retention, and student success. Since the College was founded in 1954, it has been a catalyst for community development and economic growth for the region. The College’s role in helping the region’s economy must continue to grow. UVa-Wise faculty and students are working with companies in research and development, and the College is cultivating and encouraging entrepreneurship. As I announced during my fall address, that I intend to make Southwest Virginia’s future a focus of my chancellorship.

As always, UVa-Wise is able to serve the community and educate future leaders with the help of our generous supporters.

Thanks to our dedicated friends and alumni, our endowment stands at $85 million, which is more than many older Virginia colleges. But we do not intend to sit on our laurels. We plan to study our future needs and take initial steps toward the next fundraising campaign.

Thank you for your continued interest in and generous support of The University of Virginia’s College at Wise. Allen, Jessie, Maggie, and I hope to see you in the stands as we cheer for our NCAA Division II member Cavaliers. Go Cavs Go! Best regards,

Donna P. Henry Chancellor

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Crossing the finish line and looking back As UVa-Wise enters its first full year of NCAA Division II play, let’s look back at how far the College has come from the early conference-free days to Mountain East Conference.

UVa-Wise has a rich tradition of Cavalier spirit.

The UVa-Wise Magazine is produced by College Relations and Alumni Relations for alumni and friends of The University of Virginia’s College at Wise.

EDITOR Kathy Still ’84 CLASS NOTES AND ALUMNI NEWS EDITORS Pam Collie ’93 Kathy Flemming EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Susan Mullins PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY Tim Cox, Tim Cox Photo/Graphics HOMECOMING PHOTOGRAPHY Earl Neikirk CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Kathy Still ’84 Jordan Childress ’14 Darrell-Dingus Ely ’10 Luke Bolanos Ryan Clevenger SPORTS EDITOR Darrell-Dingus Ely ’10 MAGAZINE DESIGN Lanna Monday Lumpkins INTERNS Ryan Clevenger Anthony Lamb

Meet Smiddy He’s energetic, carefree and eager to make a big splash across campus and the region. Read his first interview inside.

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Homecoming 2015 UVa-Wise welcomed back many alumni and families during Homecoming Week.

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Writing is a necessary skill throughout college, but many hold to a belief that the talent to communicate well in written form is accomplished after basic composition and literature courses.

The University of Virginia’s College at Wise is implementing a Quality Enhancement Plan to change attitudes about the importance of writing skills in every academic discipline across campus.

The Wise Writes plan, developed by a committee of faculty, students, staff and others, is crafted to address writing skills in discipline-specific upper-level classes. A goal is to provide a new and more systematic approach to teaching and assessing writing while also placing a stronger emphasis on writing in all academic programs.

“Our goal for Wise Writes is that every student who graduates is more proficient in writing in his or her major discipline, whether that is biology, history, software engineering, theater or psychology,” Chancellor Donna P. Henry said when announcing the program at the beginning of the fall 2015 term. “Faculty, staff, students and board members all agreed that this was a high-impact practice that the College should pursue to improve student learning.”

According to the QEP proposal, students were arriving on campus with weak backgrounds in writing, and while many of the issues were addressed in general education courses such as composition and literature, there was a clear need for writing instruction beyond those classes. Students and faculty said in a survey that students 2 UVa-Wise Magazine

need to be reminded throughout their college career that they will be required to write in every class. Students in upper-level courses said there is a need for more writing assignments than graded assignments, and that they wanted more instruction in the different writing skills required in specific majors. In addition, the students expressed the need for a resource center to help with guides to various styles of writing, and they wanted more content-driven assignments in the basic writing courses.

“Interestingly,” according to Professor Tom Costa, chair of the QEP committee, “while entering freshmen think that writing will be important to their future careers, and they want to learn to write more effectively in their majors, they don’t really look forward to upper-level writing. Our QEP hopes to change those expectations.”

Professor Costa explained that the surveys, information from discussion groups and assessment data showed that a focus on writing would be of significant benefit to the College and its students.

Once the direction was determined, the committee added members from other academic departments that already have a heavy emphasis on writing. The expanded committee got to work to refine the plan.

Costa began reporting on the progress to College leaders across campus as well as the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors and President Teresa Sullivan.

“It was a pretty intensive two-year process developing the plan,” Costa said.

The committee determined that a director be hired to administer the program,

the existing writing center be relocated, expanded and improved so it can serve as an additional resource and instruction source for students. In addition, faculty from all academic departments will take part in workshops to train, teach and assess writing in upper-level courses.

Costa said the plan’s success would hinge on the measurable improvement in student writing in upper-level courses.

“We’d like to improve students’ writing and improve student attitudes toward writing,” Costa said. Once all the pieces of the plan are in place, Costa believes that UVa-Wise students will become more effective and confident writers. Once that happens, the QEP plan, designed as a five-year plan, would continue as a permanent writing program.

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the region’s economy UVa-Wise is rich with faculty members who are experts in a variety of disciplines, and the College’s Office of Economic Development is working hard to offer that expertise to the region’s industrial development leaders as they work to create jobs and boost Southwest Virginia’s economy.

The College has always been an economic catalyst for the region since it opened its doors to students in 1954. Chancellor Donna P. Henry revved the economic development engine to full throttle when she moved economic development and engagement to her office, deepening the College’s involvement in the region’s future.

The decision to make economic development a focus of her chancellorship made news headlines across Virginia, and it put the work that Shannon Blevins, associate vice chancellor for economic development and engagement, and her staff are doing to support the region in the spotlight. The OED has worked on several projects such as a $2 million Virginia Tobacco Commission grant that UVaWise and Micronic Technologies, a water treatment technology company, received in 2013 that helped the company decide to relocate to Wise County. Blevins and her office are also working with other companies as well.

Blevins, who also works with the My Southwest Virginia Opportunity, has found that pairing start-up companies with the expertise they need, whether it be research, technical help, basic business organizational skills or a touch of human resources assistance, works.

“We try to find the right person with the right expertise at the right time,” Blevins said.

With Micronic, the technology the company was developing and using was a perfect fit for UVa-Wise, Blevins explained.

“What they do dovetails with the expertise of our faculty,” she said. “We have a strong Natural Science department, so we brought them in to help.”

Blevins said Micronic has worked with faculty members who are environmental economists and with mathematics professors who help with modeling needed for the company’s work. Software Engineering students and faculty helped create QR codes that will allow the company to more easily keep track of water testing in the field.

“With Micronic Technologies, we have seven faculty members on the project, eight student interns, and we also secured a mass spectrometer for the Science Department,” Blevins said. “This gives our students access to state-of-the-art technology, and that makes our students more marketable.”

Blevins explained that UVa-Wise is finding that working with newly formed companies has yielded success, and the College has also expanded its research projects with early stage companies.

“Our sweet spot is working with early stage companies,” Blevins said. “These types of businesses come with risks, so many areas are not recruiting them. The companies may not have access to human resources help, they may need help creating employee manuals, or they need technical help, and that is where we come into play.

We have experts on campus.”

UVa-Wise can help introduce a prospective company to the people and organizations in the locality that can help them build the type of company structure that they want, Blevins added.

“Our job is to connect them with the resources they need,” she said. “We support economic development, but we are not competing with a locality’s ongoing economic development efforts,” she said. “We want to be another set of hands. We can’t be everything to everybody, but we can help with just about any project.”

And supporting the business startups in Southwest Virginia is vital in today’s economy because the region needs to develop and harness an entrepreneurial spirit. UVa-Wise has expanded its work to encourage entrepreneurship in the region. Four UVa-Wise students are part of a joint entrepreneurship class with the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering this fall, and they are among the best in the class, Blevins said.

“Students are learning what it takes to start a business,” she said. “The entrepreneurial piece is critical for our students and our region, but we never put all of our eggs in one basket. The region must have a multi-pronged economic development effort.”

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Obsessive questions led to trust It’s not always easy to get to Associate Professor Cathie Collins’ office in the lower level of Darden Hall.

Those who visit the chair of the Nursing Department will see various items displayed in between rows of textbooks on her shelves. One item that has grabbed prime real estate is a whimsical figure of an almost frantic lady whose hair and wrists are covered with pink ribbons that seem designed to remind the woman of something. She is holding a sign that repeats the words “obsessive thoughts” over and over.

“When I first became a department chair at Texas Tech, there was a group of faculty that I worked with,” Collins said.

“We were all young and on the same page. We worked well together.”

Collins’ team was working hard to launch a second degree nursing program at Texas Tech, and that meant plenty of meetings, planning sessions and rapid fire questions. Collins Collins and her obsessive doll gained a reputation for the barrage of questions.

“I would harp on things and ask the same questions over and over again,” she said. “One friend asked me why I was so obsessive. I told her it was just because I had started as the nursing chair and I was just trying to make sure that everything we were planning was in place.”

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The entire group joined in and told Collins that she already knew the answers to the questions she kept asking, and encouraged her to stop obsessing. Soon after that conversation, they bought her the frantic lady figurine, and it has graced her office at Texas Tech and sits in her office at UVa-Wise.

“When I look at it, it reminds me that I helped build a nursing program,” she said. “I’m still obsessive, but I trust people more. I trust the people I work with and I know that things are going to get done. I have a good team here in Wise.”

By Kathy Still ’84

Home in a storm As a child growing up on a farm in Pound, Francene Meade ’11 often sat on the porch swing in amazement and anticipation when she could see storms coming on the horizon.

‘There was the potential that something was going to happen or getting ready to happen,” the benefits administrator in human resources explained.

Viewing the coming storm from the safety of her family’s porch became a treasured memory that represented home.

The childhood memory came flooding back it an unexpected place.

It was in 2002 when she landed a job at UVa-Wise, a place where her father gained his education with the help of the GI Bill following the Korean War. He was a member of the first graduating class at what was then Clinch Valley College.

A tradition on campus for new employees was an opportunity to travel to Charlottesville to get oriented about the University of Virginia and its history. The new hires enjoyed a visit to Mr. Jefferson’s beloved Monticello. Her visit to the Monticello gift shop is where her memory of stormy days at home came rushing back.

“I’ve always loved Monticello,” she said. “I love the history of it. The fact that I was actually working for an institution founded by Thomas Jefferson was overwhelming.”

Meade was exploring the gift shop when she spotted a stunning print of Monticello. In the print, a stormy sky was behind Mr. Jefferson’s home.

Meade ’11 with her Monticello print

“When I saw that print and the stormy sky, I saw potential and related it to working here at the College,” she said. “I felt like I belonged here. I felt like I was home.”

Meade told the clerk she wanted to purchase the print, which was called Stormy Sky Monticello, and she received another good omen.

“She told me that I was in luck because they were selling that print that day for $5,” she said. “Sold, I said to her.”

Meade returned to campus and took the print to a framing shop. She spent quite a bit more than $5 for the professional framework, but it was worth it. The beautiful print hangs on the wall in front of her desk.

“It lets me know that I’m in the right place,” she said.

By Kathy Still ’84

Fearless Flyer A casual visitor to Rachel Rose’s ’02 office would likely never notice a small stone that sits on her bookshelf.

The shiny rock contains a quote from hockey great Wayne Gretzky that simply says, “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” The stone, purchased at a hotel gift shop in San Diego a year ago, caught the eye of the director of the Center for Student Development when she flew to California for a conference on the topic of mindfulness. Its message hit home because Rose, a licensed counselor, had a strong fear of flying. It took plenty of courage for her to board an airplane for a cross-country Rose’s wisdom stone

trip, and the Gretzky quote is a constant reminder of her mantra to never let fears get in her way.

“It represents strength, determination and the courage that I had to overcome my greatest fear,” she said.

And she conquered her fear alone when she boarded the airplane for her first flight. She only had to grip the stranger next to her a couple times when turbulence occurred.

“The quote is a great reminder that the way we grow and develop our full potential is to step out of our comfort zone and take risks, even if you are afraid,” she said.

The trip to San Diego required a connecting flight in Atlanta. However, the fear of flying was still there when she had to board the plan to California.

“In Atlanta, I realized there was no turning back,” she said. “I had a knowing feeling that flying to San Diego was what I was meant to do. I knew it was going to be okay.”

Once she landed in San Diego, Rose had a wonderful time and learned many new things that would help her in her position at the College.

“Despite my anxiety, I stepped out in faith to make it happen,” she said. “Taking a risk and flying has helped me to grow and has let to other opportunities that I would not have had if I allowed myself to be limited by my fear.”

Rose ’02 and her stone She is no longer fearful of flying, and took the trip back to San Diego in August as well.

“People get stuck in the same place due to fear,” she said.

“People miss out on wonderful opportunities that way. I refuse to fall victim to fear.”

The decorative stone is always there to remind her of that mantra.

By Kathy Still ’84

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t was a long three-year process that seemed, at times, much longer, but UVa-Wise learned in July that the College was successful in its bid to move from the NAIA to full NCAA Division II competition.

The move to NCAA Division II play is seen as a way for the College to increase its reach to other parts of Virginia and beyond, which will not only increase enrollment but will give UVaWise more public recognition.

“The three-year membership process has taken much work by our athletic department leaders and our leaders throughout the campus,” Chancellor Donna P. Henry said. “We were also greatly assisted by many Highland Cavalier supporters and the community as well.”

Henry explained that Division II emphasizes the entire studentathlete experience with a concentration on learning and development.

“Our student-athletes traditionally are among our top students in terms of GPA,” Henry added. “We plan to continue the emphasis on academic achievement and athletic competition with the goal of giving our student-athletes the opportunity to earn their degrees fully prepared for careers or graduate study.”

UVa-Wise has planned several special events for the 2015-2016 term to celebrate Division II membership. In honor of the transition from NAIA to NCAA, the following articles will provide readers a chance to glance back to see how athletics grew as the College grew and evolved over six decades. Each decade has its special moments and milestones, and several are highlighted in the following articles. From wrestling and Ironman clubs, the growth of the basketball programs, 25 seasons of football, and the first seasons of lacrosse, sports as UVa-Wise have been a source of pride from the start and will be for years to come.

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1954 1954 College opens

1957 Coach Kenneth B. Wheeler started a varsity wrestling program

Women athletes over the years Women have made their marks in sports at UVa-Wise for nearly 50 years, and the number of sports offered and athletes who have excelled on the fields, courts and in classrooms has grown substantially over the years.

The first female sport started in 1969 with volleyball. Basketball came in the winter of 1969 and softball in the spring of 1970. Clinch Valley College, as the school was originally called, started three women’s sports during the academic year of 1969-1970 with the help of many volunteers and Doris Kilgore who was involved in the athletic department. The only established sports at CVC during this time were men’s basketball and baseball, which started in the late 1950s.

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Clinch Valley College joins National Junior College Athletic Association

Professor Bill Hooper started a cross country team

1968 College leaves NJCAA as school transitions to four-year school

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playing by NAIA rules, but CVC did not belong to an official association.

CVC was led by three coaches: Deidra Brantley, who was a music professor, Judy Giolitto, a biology professor. and Kilgore. At this time CVC had no budget for women’s sports, but provided uniform tops. The women had to buy their own shorts and shoes and do their own laundry.

The 1969-1970 school year was a learning experience for CVC as the teams struggled in competition. Shirley Baker-Mullins, who was a sophomore that year, was instrumental in getting women’s athletics started at CVC. The same women played all three sports. The 1970-1971 school year brought another milestone as women’s intramurals sports was created.

“When we spent time together it was like family,” Baker-Mullins said. “Just like any family we agreed and disagreed but never forgot to work together. It was the same people involved in all sport activities and the way we had to give and all those who were so willing to help us achieve without

compensation for their time.”

CVC played local schools like Emory & Henry College, Virginia Intermont College, Sullins College and Carson-Newman College.

The local women’s teams would play each other and then play a tournament to see who would walk away with the championship.

Baker-Mullins said the tournaments would be played in Greear Gymnasium or at Emory & Henry because they were the only two institutions that had big gyms.

Travelling to play opposing schools or play in tournaments was difficult for CVC during the early years, but Merrill Sawyers, who was a custodian at CVC, would volunteer his time to take the teams to play.

“My favorite memory was to watch us grow.

We went from not being able to do anything to winning the basketball tournament my senior year,” Baker-Mullins said. “We had a lot of embarrassing losses our first year, so it made it sweeter to win when we were seniors.”

Kilgore said starting the women’s program at CVC paved the way for Kathy BentleyMahan and others.

Bentley-Mahan played basketball and softball for the Cavs from 1976 to 1980.

“We were a close-knit bunch of girls back then who played for the love of the game,” BentleyMahan said.

After CVC founded the first three women’s sports in school history, tennis came along in 1973.

Women’s sports progressed throughout the 1980s, but really hit a stride in the 1990s.

The women’s softball team won the College’s first state championship, which was held at Virginia Wesleyan College in 1980. Softball was suspended not long after this, but was

reinstated in the early 1990s. Women’s crosscountry was also started in the early 1990s.

In 1999, the Virginia General Assembly changed the College’s name from Clinch Valley College to The University of Virginia’s College at Wise. It was not long after the name change that women’s athletics started to win regional championships and earn bids to the NAIA National Tournament all with the help of Mullins and company in the 1970s.

The first national tournament appearance in school history came during the 2005-2006 basketball year when the Cavs turned in a 2410 record with a 15-5 record in Appalachian Athletic Conference play. The Cavs only lost one home game during that season. Sisters Sarah and Rachel Helton, LaShay Collier, Terri Ann Hill, and Chelsea Lee played most of their careers together, and the hard work paid off with a trip to the national tournament.

Sarah Helton finished her stellar career with 2,190 points, a school record that still stands today. Her sister Rachel poured in 1,136 points.

Sarah Helton was the school’s first NAIA All-American in 2006 with third team honors.

“To be able to play in a town that we grew up in and to play in front of family was an opportunity that most student-athletes don’t get to have,” she said.

The Cavs softball team saw several successful years in the late 2000s, earning NAIA Region XII championships in 2005 and 2007, which punched a ticket to the national tournament.

Maddi Ridenour became the second female athlete to earn NAIA All-American honors her freshman year in 2008.

The volleyball program saw a national tournament appearance in 2007 after producing a 25-16 record and 13-5 in AAC play. The Cavs won the NAIA Region XII and Britney Lawson received Libero of the Year award as well. Lawson also holds the school record for NAIA Academic AllAmerican honors with five between softball and volleyball. Lawson was a member of three Region XII championships as well.

The facilities have changed dramatically over the years from Greear Gymnasium to the Prior Center.

The Cavs added women’s golf in 2012 and

a lacrosse team in the spring of 2015.

No one has witnessed these changes first hand more than Kendall Rainey, associate director of athletics.

Rainey was a member of the Cavs volleyball and softball teams from 2001 to 2004. Rainey was a two time NAIA Academic All-American and holds the school record for assists in volleyball with 3,431.

“We have grown our women’s athletic programs pretty consistently over the past 10

years,” Rainey said. “The biggest difference between the two sports that I played is the speed of the game and sheer athleticism. I’m not sure that I could make a team right now.”

“I am proud of the history, excited about the present, and confident about the future of women’s athletics at UVa-Wise.”

By Jordan Childress ’14 Reprinted with permission of the Highland Cavalier

Women’s tennis took local star to new heights Graduating from UVa-Wise in a just three years, former women’s tennis star Kristen Hincher played an important role on one of Coach Danny Rowland’s most successful teams.

Hincher played for the Red and Gray from 1998-2001.

Before arriving at the College, Hincher led J.J. Kelly High to state titles every year except her senior year when they fell in the championship match.

Hincher, formerly Kristen Dotson played No. 1 and No. 2 singles for UVaWise and competed at the top doubles spot. The former Cavalier compiled a 30-20 overall doubles record for her career and went 24-11 in conference matches. Hincher also claimed 18 career singles wins against Appalachian Athletic Conference opponents and earned AllAAC honors multiple years.

Playing for the College when the school was making the transition from Clinch Valley College to UVa-Wise, Hincher had the unique experience of becoming a letter winner under both CVC and UVa-Wise. For a year after graduating, she worked in admissions and got to see the transition that came with the new name.

Things were much different for the College during that time, and the goal back then was to increase enrollment. While building upon the relationship with the University of Virginia and trying to expand the College, Hincher believes UVa-Wise was not affected by the name change and still held on to its strong sense of community and family. The entire campus was willing to lend a hand to make it happen. The former Cav says that many of the activities and organizations around campus remained unchanged and stayed as it is today.

The support Hincher received as a student

is something she believes is unique. The computer science major appreciated the small college feel in the classroom and in the computer information systems department.

“You just don’t get that support in everyday life typically,” she said.

The former Cav believes the relationship building during her time as a tennis player at UVa-Wise was the biggest thing she gained as a student-athletes.

“When I played tennis at UVa-Wise, I had different doubles partners,” she said. “You met people from different teams and we traveled.

Just to get those relationships built and see them being built upon was really nice. I’m actually still in contact with a couple of them who were from different schools. To be able to do that was great.”

With UVa-Wise competing as an NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) institution at the time, Hincher doesn’t remember having many issues with opponents and other teams. She said every team the College played was like family.

Her coach was supportive of Hincher and was aware she was taking full course loads in order to graduate within three years.

“We ran across some adversity on the team,” she said. “Danny was really good at being able to help us figure out how we come together as a team after those situations come about. “ Hincher helped lead the Cavs to a secondstraight AAC title and NAIA national tournament berth in the spring of ’99. As a freshman, she had the once in a lifetime opportunity of getting to play in the national tournament in West Palm Beach, Florida.

The trip to the Sunshine State for the national tournament was the longest trip the team had traveled to compete. It was also the first time many on the team, including Hincher, had flown.

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1977 1977 Women’s basketball standout Kathy Kilgore named Virginia Federation of Intercollegiate Sports for Women

1978 Clinch Valley College becomes a member of Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

1979 Coach Doris Hubbard leads women’s basketball to 21-4 record. The .840 winning percentage remains a school record for the program

1980 Men’s Basketball upsets NCAA Division I Virginia Military Institute 87-76

1982 Men’s basketball player Terry Edwards earns Academic All-American acclaim while being an Honorable Mention All-American honoree for his on-court performance 10 UVa-Wise Magazine

25 seasons of football In 1988, Chancellor Jim Knight was in search of a way to boost enrollment at then Clinch Valley College, and to give students a reason to stay on campus on the weekends.

Knight, along with others, developed the idea of starting a football program.

After $250,000 was raised to start the program, the Highland Cavaliers needed a place to play. Carroll Dale, director of athletics, worked out an agreement with local high schools to use their facilities for games on Saturday afternoons.

In need of a coach, the school advertised the position and received applicants from across the country. Abingdon attorney Randy Ramseyer saw the ad and alerted his father, Bill, who at the time was head coach at Wilmington College in Ohio.

Ramseyer was looking for a new challenge and applied for the position. After an interview, it was clear to Dale and others that Ramseyer was the right man for the job.

“Bill wanted a new challenge, and when Paul Brown (Pro Football Hall of Fame member) and Dan Devine (College Football Hall of Fame member) call to give a reference, you listen.” Dale said.

Ramseyer left Wilmington, leaving behind friend and assistant coach Bruce Wasem. The two would reunite not long after.

“When Bill left, I was just teaching at Wilmington,” Wasem said. “Bill called and said ‘I need you down here tomorrow for an interview.’ The interview went well and the next thing you know I was at Clinch Valley College.”

Serving as the school’s only two full-time coaches, Ramseyer and Wasem solicited part-time help from local residents including Dale, who played collegiate and professional football.

In 1991, the team played an eight-game schedule in its first season. In its inaugural game, CVC played host to Tusculum College, who was restarting its program after a four decade absence.

More than 8,000 fans turned out for the program’s first game at Carroll Dale Stadium in Wise.

With starting quarterback David Nara out of the lineup after suffering an injury in practice, CVC and Tusculum locked up in a defensive struggle. Leading 13-8 late in the

game, the Cavaliers found themselves with their backs against the goal line in the final moments.

The Pioneers had the ball first and goal with less than 90 seconds to play. After moving inside the five-yard line on first down, Tusculum would be unable to move the ball on the next two plays. Wasem, serving as defensive coordinator, called timeout to set up his defense for the game’s final play.

“Matt Hamilton was playing linebacker for us, and I told the guys that Tusculum was going to pass,” Wasem said. “Hamilton said ‘I hope they throw it in my area,’ and as luck would have it they did. He knocked the ball down, we won the game, and it set the tone for our defense.”

The Cavs would win two games in their first season, as the team collected a 23-21 victory over Thiel College. A year later, Clinch Valley posted three wins and moved toward the ’93 season with hopes of posting its first winning season.

The Cavs did just that as a 2-1 start to the year included the school’s first road win, a 2825 triumph at Hampden-Sydney College. CVC claimed six wins that season to go over .500 in just the program’s third year of existence.

A consecutive 6-4 campaign in ’94 set the stage for the most successful two-year run in program history beginning in ’95.

The Cavs started the season 8-0 before posting a 10-1 regular season mark in earning a berth in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) playoffs.

CVC lost its opening round playoff game at Lambuth, but the program had far exceeded expectations in its first five seasons.

A year later, CVC made history by becoming the quickest program in NAIA history to go undefeated in the regular season.

Ramseyer’s squad outscored opponents by 19.7 points per game during the regular season.

The last eight regular seasons wins all came by double figures as players such as Kent Grant, Rod Burnette and Shane Kilgore anchored a defense that limited opponents to 12.1 points per contest. On offense, the Cavs used a strong offensive line and the running ability of Greg Thomas to carve up opponents. Thomas gained 1,438 yards on the ground in ’96.

The ’96 team also went to the playoffs, marking the only time in program history the team has made consecutive playoff

appearances.

Ramseyer credited the team’s positive thinking to having so much success in the program’s infancy.

“Everything we did was positive,” said the UVa-Wise Hall of Fame Coach. “We had to be positive. We had no stadium and no scholarships. If we ever had a player say no, I told them their head could only go up-anddown it was never to go side-to-side.”

Using local talent to comprise the bulk of the roster during the early years. Ramseyer ventured to the state of Florida in search of skill position players.

“At the time there were only five colleges in Florida that played football,” said Ramseyer.

“I looked at every kid on tape and if it was a kid from Florida, I wanted him to be an impact player. I didn’t want a kid that far away from home sitting on the bench. It had to be somebody we felt could be a real asset not only athletically but to the College as well.”

The formula worked for the coach who guided the program for 11 seasons, compiling a 62-42 record at the helm. One of Ramseyer’s fondest memories came in ’99 when the Cavaliers played host to West Virginia Tech at Carl Smith Stadium in the program’s first oncampus contest.

Ramseyer guided the building of the facility one piece at a time. The coach believed turf was essential after experiencing numerous rainy seasons throughout his tenure at the school.

After carving the playing surface out, turf was laid and games began without bleachers or any seating for spectators.

“Carl Smith told me he would not have given as much as he gave had we not achieved the record we had,” Ramseyer said when discussing the construction of the stadium.

“It’s as fine a small college facility as there is in the nation.”

With a precedent of performing well in program firsts already established, playing its first game as UVa-Wise at Smith Stadium, the Cavs rolled to a 49-19 victory over the Golden Bears.

As time progressed, upgrades continued at Smith Stadium, including bleachers, lights and a press box.

Following a 6-4 campaign in 2001, Ramseyer retired, leaving the school in search of a coach for the first time since starting the program.

After much urging from officials at the College, Wasem agreed to become the head coach in the spring of ’02.

That fall, UVa-Wise would embark on a new era as the team played its first season as members of the highly competitive Mid-South Conference. Pikeville College visited Wise in week three. The game turned out to be another milestone for the program.

The Cavs outlasted the Bears 33-30, giving not only Wasem his first win as a head coach but also the school’s first ever Mid-South Conference victory..

After having not won more than six games since the playoff team in ’96, Wasem guided the Cavs to an 8-3 record in ’06. The coach credited the College’s willingness to hire a third full-time coach and the commitment of his entire staff for the success.

“We had Denny (Compston) and then we were able to get Dewey (Lusk) to become the third full-time coach, and that was a big help,” Wasem said. “We went 4-7 in ’05, but we knew moving forward we had a chance to be pretty good.”

Wasem’s Cavs followed their 8-3 season with a 9-2 record in ’07 and a share of the Mid-South East Championship. Led by the most prolific offense in school history, UVa-Wise averaged 49.5 points per game and scored no fewer than 35 points in any contest.

Quarterback Randy Hippeard passed for over 314 yards a game while tailback Ra’Shad Morgan gained 1,485 yards that season.

Morgan earned the Dudley Award, which is given annually to Virginia’s top small college collegiate football player for an impressive year.

A season later, UVa-Wise won eight games to cap the only stretch in school history in which the team won at least eight games in three consecutive years. Wasem remained the team’s coach through the conclusion of the ’10 season, winning 33 games over his last five years.

Lusk followed in Wasem’s footsteps as he made the jump from assistant coach to head coach in ’11. Lusk’s first season marked the end of an on and off rivalry when his UVaWise club squared off with his alma mater

Emory & Henry.

The Cavs found themselves down by three points late in the game without the football.

With just seconds remaining, the Wasps had the football in a fourth and long situation.

Emory & Henry elected to punt and what followed was a storybook ending.

Marcus Bratton fielded the punt and raced up field only to be tripped up shortly after crossing the 50-yard line. However, the athletic return man had the presence of mind and ability to pitch the ball to a teammate who went untouched into the end zone giving UVaWise a 33-30 victory.

Fans rushed the field at Smith Stadium and “The Play” earned College Football Play of the Year honors by CBS Sports while also appearing on ESPN and numerous other local and national media outlets.

The team played in the Mid-South until the conclusion of the 2012 season when the school made the jump to compete in NCAA Division II’s newest conference, the Mountain East Conference.

In the midst of a three-year transition process to NCAA Division II, UVa-Wise spent two seasons playing in the league while not eligible for postseason competition. Despite being unable to compete in postseason play, the program has continued to make strides.

The Cavs picked up a pair of MEC wins in 2013, finishing the season 2-2 at home in league competition. Last season, the team used its ability to count as a NCAA Division II opponent to play NCAA Division I FCS member Wofford.

As the school plays its 25th season of football the growth of the program is evident to the man who was directly involved with the team the longest.

“The school has made a commitment to football and they hired the right person to be the first head coach,” Wasem said. “Bill helped change the mindset of any of the doubters on campus or in the community. Recently, a professor told me football was the best thing that ever happened to our campus. It allowed people throughout the state to see our campus and allowed us to increase our recruitment and diversity in a way that would not have been possible without football.”

Today, the team competes on a field that recently had AstroTurf 3D installed and in a stadium complete with lights, scoreboards in both end zones, along with a field house and weight room that is used by not only the football program but all 13 sports offered by the College.

By Darrell-Dingus Ely ’10

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FEATURES

1990 Coach Ray Spenilla guides baseball team to second consecutive league championships

1991 Football and cross country begin

1992 In coach Preston Mitchell’s third season, women’s basketball sets school record for wins with 25

1996 Football goes 10-0 in regular season and makes second consecutive postseason appearance. Kent Grant becomes first NAIA AllAmerican in program history

Volleyball quartet uses 1990 time at UVa-Wise to lead others to greatness Four former volleyball players at UVa-Wise share a special bond through their time playing and coaching at the College. Over the past 17 years, the four have made an impact on the volleyball program as they now lead, guide and teach others.

Kim (Mathes) Moore, Kendall Rainey, Kristen Salyer and Ruthanne (Hoover) Duffy were four-year letter winners at UVa-Wise, and three out of the four have served as the Cavaliers’ head volleyball coach.

Moore played for the Red and Gray from 1998-2001 and was the head coach of the Cavs from spring of ’02 until the spring of ’06. Rainey played for UVa-Wise from 2001-04 and led the Cavs from fall of ’09 through the fall of ’11. Salyer suited up for the Cavs from 2005-08 and then served as a student-assistant coach for the 2009-10 school year and as an assistant coach behind Rainey from fall of ’10 through the fall of ’11, before taking over as the head coach in spring of ’12. Duffy played for the Cavs in 2005 and from ’07-’09 before serving as a student-assistant coach for the 2010 season.

Current volleyball Head Coach Salyer and Associate Director of Athletics Rainey serve important roles in UVa-Wise athletics.

Rainey also serves as the Senior Woman Administrator. Moore is the head volleyball coach at Union High School in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Duffy is the head coach at NCAA Division III Ferrum College.

It all began with Moore who, as a senior, played one season with the freshman Rainey.

Immediately following her senior season, Moore began the transition from player to coach. The former Cav started recruiting trips even before she graduated from UVa-Wise.

Moore remembers former Director of Athletics Ray Spenilla telling her that she had to “jump the fence” from peer to coach,

1998

1998

Martha Mosses becomes only women’s cross country runner inducted in UVa-Wise Athletics Hall of Fame

Christy-Gray Dalton finishes basketball career with 2,172 points and back-to-back Honorable Mention AllAmerican awards

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fortunately for her, the players responded. On her first team as a head coach was Rainey, who ended up playing three years for Moore after the two were teammates.

While coaching at the College, Moore wasn’t interested in records when she first started but was concerned with making progress. By the ’04 season, when Rainey was a senior, Moore led the team to an impressive 24-6 overall record as the Cavs were Appalachian Athletic Conference regular season co-champions. That same year the Cavs advanced to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Region XII semifinals for the first time in program history.

Rainey remembers that senior year and particularly a regular-season home match against conference rival King College in which the Cavs swept the Tornado, 3-0, inside Greear Gymnasium. Rainey recalls the moment when the baseball team jumped onto the floor with brooms to indicate the match sweep.

‘The last group that I recruited for UVaWise were seniors when they advanced to the national championships,” remarked Moore. “I take pride in those girls, they still seem like my family as if they were my own kids and they know that I love them.”

Throughout her time as a volleyball player at UVa-Wise, Moore’s love and passion for the game grew more and more. Moore loved the challenge of each match no matter what the outcome was, win or lose.

She attributes her personal experience and success as a player for driving her to coach.

“We strive for progress in all that we do, in every aspect of our lives,” stated Moore.

“Volleyball was a vehicle to my success and I wanted those young ladies who came after me to have more opportunity and an experience they could be proud of.”

Moore loves coaching for what it does for the girls on her teams.

“It’s beautiful to watch young girls grow into tenacious, determined, confident, strong and independent young women,” she said.

“It’s beautiful to watch girls work hard, grit their teeth and accomplish more than they ever thought they were capable of. There is much more to this game than the win/loss column; girls develop into goal oriented and

driven women.”

The most important things Moore took away from her time as a player and coach at UVa-Wise are confidence and independence.

The former Cav simply says she grew up while at the College.

Moore’s accomplishments as a player and as a coach led to her induction in the school’s athletic hall of fame in 2009.

During her four years playing for the College, Rainey saw the team improve each season, culminating in the program’s first trip to the Region XII Tournament. Her track record for success as a player carried over into her coaching career as the Cavs improved their win total in every season she was the head coach.

Rainey was also a four-year letter winner in softball. The former Cav didn’t intend to play volleyball at the College and had her sights set on Virginia Tech. Rainey was convinced that she wasn’t going to play college sports, period, softball or volleyball.

Visiting UVa-Wise late her senior year with high school teammate Nicole Poore, who ended up becoming a tremendous softball player for the College, Rainey fell in love with the school, the softball program, coaches and everybody she met on campus.

“It was just a great experience. Everybody was genuine,” Rainey noted. “They quickly accommodated anything we needed as far as information about financial aid, the college and majors. It was just a genuine feeling of this place is going to take care of you, and a real comfort level.”

That same day on her visit, Rainey chose to attend UVa-Wise. Softball head coach Leftwich was also the volleyball coach at the time and a lot of the softball players played volleyball.

Rainey’s great experience as a studentathlete made her want to come back later as a coach. Overall, as a student and business major at UVa-Wise, Rainey had excellent professors and a great experience with advising. The former Cav believes those things, in combination with the loyalty that faculty and staff showed on campus, is what made the biggest impact on her.

Some things that Rainey took away from her time as a student-athlete at the College were how to deal with adversity and how to manage a lot of different personalities, how to work with people in some challenges.

“A lot of things that were presented to us as challenges on or off the court certainly helped me grow and learn how to overcome some challenging situations in my career,” she said.

Moore’s passion for the game and genuine care for her players is who Rainey says is

the most important thing she learned as a volleyball player.

“If I had to look back and say I had a successful career here at UVa-Wise it would be that somebody could say those same things about me, the things I learned from my coaches,” Rainey said.

Following her playing career, Rainey went to Knoxville, Tennessee, where she began graduate school studies and eventually earned a Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee. During her time at UT, Rainey did everything from interning in athletics marketing to working as a student-assistant in the weight room for the Lady Vols, to being a team manager for the softball team. During Rainey’s final three years in Knoxville, she served as a graduate assistant and director of softball operations.

Rainey returned to the College after UT, to coach volleyball and to teach in the sports management program.

“While operations was a great experience, I think it was one of those moments where I’ve grown up all my life thinking I want to coach.

If I didn’t take an opportunity to do it then, especially at a place that I really care about then I didn’t know if I’d ever do it and I didn’t want to regret that.”

The former head coach led the volleyball team for three seasons (2009-11) as UVaWise made the decision to apply for NCAA Division II membership toward the end of the 2011 campaign.

With this new development, the College needed to add a full-time compliance officer and a senior woman administrator. Following the ’11 season, Rainey began the transition into an administrative role in athletics.

A year ago, Rainey joined her former teammate and coach in the school’s athletic hall of fame.

Salyer, serving as an assistant coach all three years Rainey was at the helm of the program, was hired as the head coach in the spring of ’12. Salyer had the opportunity to play one year under Moore before playing three seasons under Steve Dallman. She also played alongside current Ferrum College head coach Duffy for three seasons.

As a junior, Salyer was part of the ’07 volleyball team that went to the NAIA National tournament in Columbia, Missouri.

Finishing the regular season at 20-11 and being knocked out of the Appalachian Athletic Conference tournament, the Cavs didn’t think they were going to get an at-large bid into the NAIA regional tournament but they did.

Duffy and Salyer were teammates for the memorable ’07 season as the Cavs swept Indiana University Southeast before narrowly defeating King College and Bryan College,

3-2, in the NAIA Regionals. UVa-Wise was down two sets to none against King in the semifinals before rallying to defeat the

conference foe and regional host in five sets.

The Cavs then clinched the NAIA Regional with their win over Bryan, earning a berth in the NAIA National tournament.

Coach Salyer specifically remembers senior middle blocker and captain Natasha Viers pulling the team aside after the second set against King and telling them, “We’re winning this next one,” and they ended up winning the next three.

“No one had expected our team to achieve the things we did that season, but the amount of work that particular group put in on the court and off showed us that we can be just as good as we wanted to be,” Duffy said.

As a student-athlete, Salyer learned that you can do just about anything you put your mind too. Learning how to play with people she really didn’t know and hadn’t grown up with, Salyer learned that if everyone had the same goal they could accomplish it if they worked together. This is probably the most important lesson the head coach learned as player at the College.

Salyer has also taken a lot from her time as a student-athlete to use in her coaching today.

“It doesn’t matter how talented of a group we are, if we don’t play together we aren’t going to win,” she said.

The head coach’s passion for the program and the school was built during her time playing as a Cav. Salyer contributes much of this to learning from the people at UVa-Wise.

Rainey encouraged and pushed Salyer to becoming a coach. As a student, Salyer knew

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FEATURES

1999 1999 Shonn Bell becomes first player from Clinch Valley to appear in the National Football League when he suits up for the San Francisco 49ers

1999

Volleyball continued

1999 Women’s tennis wins second consecutive Appalachian Athletic Conference championship and makes second national tournament appearance in as many years

Men’s basketball star Nat Law claims second All-American honor as he finishes career with 2,092 points

2002

2002

Softball wins first conference championship in program history

Dirk Davis becomes first golfer to be inducted in UVa-Wise Athletics Hall of Fame

2003 School joins National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics 14 UVa-Wise Magazine

she wanted to coach but probably not at the collegiate level. After graduating and serving as a student assistant for the team, Rainey was able to talk Salyer into being her assistant coach.

Salyer found she really enjoyed coaching.

“I fell in love with watching the girls and watching them grow and mature each year,” she said. “There’s so much more to coaching than just wins and losses. Being able to mentor these kids and help them through challenging times in their lives is super rewarding, and probably one of the things I like most about coaching.”

Last year, Salyer led her team to the program’s first .500 season or better since she was a player in ’07. Entering her fourth year as the head coach, Salyer has been trying to get the Cavs back to their winning ways.

Believing it takes a strong core of leadership from within the team, Salyer thinks she is finally seeing the results of her coaching that she learned as a player and the time she spent as an assistant under Rainey. The head coach hopes that the ’14 season was the first step in the direction that the program continues to go in.

Playing under Coach Moore her freshman year, Duffy also had the privilege of playing for Coach Rainey during her final year suiting up in the Red and Gray. Duffy chose UVa-Wise because some of her high school classmates had attended the College, and once she visited the campus, she felt at home with the small-town lifestyle and the community.

Not being recruited to play volleyball out of high school, Duffy filled out a prospective student-athlete questionnaire, tried-out for the team and ended up being a walk-on. Duffy worked extremely hard on the court, and after a year or so she earned a scholarship.

Duffy’s coaches helped polish her skills, which now have benefited her as a head coach at Ferrum. A health and physical education major with a concentration in sports management, Duffy was able to do her internship through the volleyball program.

She assisted Rainey during the spring with practices, workouts and recruiting. All those things have been transferrable into what Duffy does every day as a head volleyball coach.

Preseason practices and camps were always tons of hard work and grind, but Duffy believes that is what made her and her teammates better volleyball players. Pushing through it as a team and getting better, the preseason created a team atmosphere and built relationships needed to be successful throughout the season.

Duffy credits Rainey with helping her get to where she is today.

“I was extremely fortunate to have Rainey become a mentor to me when she returned to UVa-Wise,” said Duffy. “She quickly made it easy for me to create a relationship with her where I wanted to give her 100 percent every

day.

During my internship, Rainey helped me realize that coaching was very much an option for my future if I wanted to put in the work.

She has given me so many opportunities

over the years and I do not think I would be coaching at this level if it was not for people like her and my teammates.”

By Luke Bolano

Kuich, a tennis and classroom standout Henning Kuich is perhaps the best men’s tennis player ever at UVa-Wise, not only a standout on the courts but also an excellent scholar. The Hamburg, Germany native played No. 1 singles for the Red and Gray from 2004-08 under current Head Coach Danny Rowland.

Kuich won both singles and doubles state titles at Gate City before enrolling at the College.

Although he received much encouragement while at Gate City High, the former Cav says his true introduction to real life in America happened while at UVa-Wise.

Kuich earned all-conference honors three times and finished his career with a 36-14 overall singles record, going 20-11 against Appalachian Athletic Conference opponents.

He also tallied 20 doubles victories in that time, including 12 wins in conference matches. Most impressively, Kuich only lost two singles matches at the top spot his final two years, going 20-2 over his junior and senior seasons.

A double major in biology and computer science, Kuich graduated with honors and a 3.95 grade point average. The former Cavalier earned independent research honors in biology his senior year, along with claiming the Joseph C. Smiddy Outstanding Scientist Award. Kuich was a member of the Sigma Zeta Honor Society and the Darden Honor Society, while earning the Joseph C. Smiddy Outstanding Freshman Biology Award and a member of the Poor Farm Society.

Always displaying respectful sportsmanship on the tennis court, Kuich

was named to the AAC All-Sportsmanship Team all four years of his career. The former Cav was also a three-time AAC All-Academic honoree.

Arriving on campus at the age of 17 and spending four years learning and playing tennis, Kuich believes that much of his growing up happened while attending the College.

Kuich was impressed with how the school embraced him as a student-athlete and the recognition and support he received.

“I was allowed to major in biology and computer science, which was possible only because I could complete courses as independent studies when there were conflicts,” he said.

“That if there is a will, there will be a way, if given support of your surroundings, to be successful in any endeavor.”

Another thing that has stuck with Kuich throughout his life and will continue is his identification with UVa-Wise and its

community is the feeling of unity and the unique atmosphere of the campus and the town of Wise.

“I made friendships that have lasted and are still close even to this day, although we don’t see each other frequently because of the distance,” Kuich said.

Coach Rowland was just as important to Kuich during his time at UVa-Wise, providing him with support both on and off the court.

“Danny was always there to support us as much as possible, and most importantly, this was not just limited to the court,” Kuich said. “I always thought that he felt deeply for the sport and for everybody on the team, and this attitude is important for a coach because it propagates through the team. He was always there to motivate, to give an insight in the right moment, and to make sure that we had everything we needed to focus on giving our best. As a foreign student, there were always situations where help was needed, and Danny was one of my columns of support throughout my four years at UVa-Wise. I am very thankful for the way he cared and I am sure still cares for the foreign students on the team.”

By Luke Bolano

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FEATURES

2004 2004 Coach Kim Moore leads volleyball to first regional berth with regular season AAC Co-Championship

2005 Volleyball and softball star Kendall Rainey finishes career as school’s all-time leader in volleyball assists with 3,431 before hitting .358 as a senior en route to Region Player of the Year and Academic All-American honors in softball

2006 Women’s basketball completes dramatic three-day run in conference tournament with 57-54 win over King College to claim AAC title and berth in national tournament

2006 Tailback Ra’Shad Morgan wins Dudley Award for Virginia’s top small college football player after leading the NAIA in rushing with 1,657 yards

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2006 AAC champions among College’s best-women’s basketball It has been 10 years, but the joy still remains for Head Coach Rachel Clay-Keohane when she reflects on the women’s basketball program’s only championship team.

A former women’s basketball player at the College, Clay-Keohane’s 2005-2006 team was picked to finish seventh in the preseason Appalachian Athletic Conference poll.

“We knew we were better than seventh,” said Clay-Keohane. “We had battled some injuries and had fallen on hard times in recent seasons, but we knew we had a chance to sneak up on some people.”

While expectations among the league’s coaches were low, internally the Cavaliers believed they were close to turning the corner.

Two seasons prior, UVa-Wise posted a 15-15 record before following the season up with a .500 mark in AAC play.

Clay-Keohane had built a team nearly entirely of Southwest Virginia natives, and her philosophy paid dividends. By the ’05-’06 season, Clay-Keohane’s 2003 recruiting class

2006 Coach Danny Rowland wins fourth conference coach of the year award in his career as women’s tennis wins third conference championship in program history

had become juniors. The juniors included sisters Rachel and Sarah Helton, Chelsea Lee, Terri-Ann Hill, Carolina Baca, Molly Baldwin and incoming transfer LaShay Collier. The seven players all played high school basketball in far Southwest Virginia, including six from Wise County.

“All of those players had an opportunity to play somewhere else,” said Clay-Keohane when asked about recruiting the local players. “All of those players had a strong love of our area and their families and they wanted to do something not only for themselves but for the area and the College.”

Having grown up and played with the same team mates throughout their life, they made a commitment to each other to play collegiate basketball together. Clay-Keohane credits Hill for getting the group together.

“We signed Molly Baldwin first and then we signed Terri-Ann Hill,” she said. “Her friendship with the Heltons and Chelsea Lee was the reason we were able to keep in contact with those players and let them know UVaWise would be a home for those players if they decided to stay close to home.”

Clay-Keohane, along with her assistant coaches, brothers Dante and David Lee, switched to an up-tempo offense prior to the start of the season, and the faster paced Cavaliers proved its value in the first game of the year. Playing on the road at Berea College, five UVa-Wise players scored in double figures in the opener led by a 24-point showing from Sarah Helton in a 103-88 victory.

The wins and the points kept coming for the Cavs in the early going. In total, UVa-Wise won its first eight games averaging 84.9 points per contest.

The run featured a 4-0 start in AAC play in which the team posted a scoring margin of 32.3 points per victory.

Expecting her team to be in a position to compete for a league title, Clay-Keohane had scheduled tougher competition over the winter break. The team traveled to South Padre Island, Texas for a tournament where they faced perennial power Oklahoma Christian.

The Cavs would go 0-2 on the trip as the club suffered through seven losses in nine games, but the team learned a valuable lesson against Oklahoma Christian.

“We wanted to play up a level because we wanted to be prepared for what was to come later in the season,” she said. “Oklahoma Christian played a defense that we were just not able to adjust to. We took that defense and made it our own, naming it Oklahoma after them and that really benefited us as our opponents had never seen it either.”

Using its new defense, UVa-Wise would go on its second extended winning streak of the season. This time, Clay-Keohane’s squad would rattle off 10 consecutive victories. Unlike its first winning streak, this time the Cavs would learn how to win tight contests. Four of the wins came by six points or fewer as the team continued its drive for a regular season championship.

“Those close games really benefited us in staying calm and buying into the system we were playing,” Clay-Keohane said. “We ran a pretty complex system and our players were able to run all of it.”

The team would eventually lose out on winning the regular season crown after dropping two of its final three games to enter the AAC Tournament as the third seed.

Playing Tennessee Wesleyan in its opening round tournament game, the Cavs found themselves in an overtime affair. The duo of

Sarah Helton and Collier would prove to be too much for the Bulldogs as UVa-Wise scored a 76-71 victory.

A day later, the Cavs once again found themselves in a tight contest. After scoring just 20 points in the first half, UVa-Wise battled back to have a one-point lead against Milligan in the final seconds of the conference semi-finals.

With the game on the line, Sarah Helton helped send her team to the finals as she blocked a game winning shot attempt preserving the victory. The Helton sisters combined to score 35 points in the win while Lee posted 13 points, seven rebounds and five assists.

Playing its third game in three days, and in the school’s first conference final, the team would meet host King College. The Tornado had been a longtime nemesis for Clay-Keohane.

“When I was a player, we had another season that rivaled this team, and the team that stopped us was King College,” Clay-Keohane said. “King College has been a bit sour in my mind since then, so it was even better to beat King for the championship.”

Hill would prove to be the difference maker for UVa-Wise. The St. Paul native turned in the best game of her collegiate career when her team needed it the most. Missing just three shots, she scored a game-high 18 points and

grabbed six rebounds in a 57-54 victory.

“Everybody knew their roles and that we were counting on them to fulfill that role,” Clay-Keohane said of the championship team.

“They loved each other as a team so much they were never worried about who was getting the most press.”

Sarah Helton earned Tournament MVP honors while also being named First-Team All-AAC and Third-Team All-America for her season. Lee and Collier earned Second-Team All-AAC accolades while Lee also garnered AllTournament team recognition.

Strong in the classroom as well, three Cavs received academic recognition as the Helton sisters and Lee were named Academic AllConference.

Sarah Helton finished her career as the school’s all-time leading scorer with 2,182 points. She also collected 1,020 rebounds and 333 steals. Meanwhile, Lee posted 1,447 points, 470 assists, 337 rebounds and 227 steals. Playing side-by-side for four consecutive seasons, the pair formed one of the best combinations in school history.

“We were Southwest Virginia’s team,” said Clay-Keohane. “Our girls represented not only UVa-Wise but the best our area had to offer.”

By Darrell-Dingus Ely ’10

Baseball is one of our country’s oldest team sports, and it’s one of the first sports played at UVa-Wise.

In the spring of 1955, a group of students and their coach, Theodore Gibson, formed the first baseball team at Clinch Valley College.

Using their own personal equipment and playing games with any local group they could find, the men used the sport as recreation and as a getaway from their day-to-day studies.

CVC began finding success with the sport in the 1970s when eventual UVaWise Athletic Hall of Famers Lester Moore and Bob Sage played for the school.

Sage came to the College after transferring from Old Dominion University and played at the school from 1977 to 1980. The right fielder, along with his teammate Don Gibson, became the first players in program history to gain all-conference honors when the school joined the Kentucky Intercollegiate Conference in the fall of ’79.

Joining the conference was a transformation for the program.

“We didn’t have any overnight trips until my

senior season,” said Sage when asked about the team’s road trips. “We played at a lot of high school fields my senior season because they decided to renovate the field after joining the conference.”

Moore’s playing days came when the program was still in its infancy.

“Paul Bays (the head coach) asked me to come over and play, and I had some friends going to Clinch Valley,” said Moore.

Moore became a workhorse pitcher for the Cavaliers. The left-hander pitched on back-toback days on numerous occasions, including one instance when he pitched consecutive complete games against Lincoln Memorial and Emory & Henry.

During Moore’s tenure at the College, the team did not have a home field. The program traveled around the local high schools, using those fields to host their home competitions.

The baseball program neared extinction prior to Moore’s senior season in ’75. The school was on the verge of canceling the sport

due to funding issues and lack of a coach.

Professor Dick Davidson volunteered to coach to keep the team afloat. Moore and his teammates received a new set of uniforms for the first time in numerous seasons that spring.

“I really think we laid a good foundation in keeping the program going,” said Moore. “I’m proud of what that program has become, and it really took off in the 80’s when the school hired Ray Spenilla.”

The school found its first success in 1988 when Spenilla guided the team to a winning season, a first for the baseball program in just his third season at the helm.

“We started developing a belief that we could compete with Georgetown and Cumberland and some of the other teams in our league,” Spenilla said. “Our program turned around in ’88 when we lost 3-2 in game one of a doubleheader at Georgetown with Bill Higgins (Higgins finished his career with the lowest ERA in program history at 1.83) on the mound and in game two Miller Castle and Tim Largent split the game on the mound and we won 6-4.”

Defeating the Tigers laid the groundwork for not only the program’s first winning season,

Cavalier baseball tradition

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2007 2007 All-American Sarah Helton sets new women’s basketball career scoring mark with 2,182 points

2007 Football posts 9-2 record in becoming Mid-South Eastern Division Co-Champions. Tailback Ra’shad Morgan claims second All-American award while wide receiver Jason Lovett also earns All-American honor

2008 Baseball records second consecutive 30-win season and makes second consecutive regional tournament

2009 Coach Tori Raby guides softball team to third national tournament appearance under her guidance

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Baseball continued

2007 Softball wins fourth consecutive regular season AAC title

2007 Natasha Viers records a singleseason school record 733 kills as volleyball claims Region XII crown and advances to national tournament but also what would transpire in the ’89 and ’90 seasons.

Clinch Valley ran through the KIAC in ’89 claiming the school’s first regular season conference championship in any sport. By earning the top seed, the Cavaliers would play host for the league tournament.

“We won our opening round game and then a downpour set in,” said Spenilla. “Several people wanted to move the game to Kentucky and drier conditions, but we had earned the right to play at home and we fought to keep it at our field.”

Eventually the sun reappeared only to have a geyser come up from an underground mine seam in left field, putting about four to six inches of water on the field. Several team members collected mining bolts to punch in the ground to re-route the water. The team went to a local business to buy foam to soak up water.

The hard work paid off as the field dried up enough for the tournament to continue in Wise.

Playing Campbellsville in the second round, Clinch Valley found itself in a 3-0 hole early in the contest but the team battled back, scoring four unanswered runs to advance to the winner’s bracket championship game against Georgetown.

The Cavs defeated the Tigers, which meant they would have to be defeated twice on their home field in order to lose the championship.

Georgetown came back, taking advantage of an error by Clinch Valley to force a winner-takeall game the following day for the KIAC crown.

A back-and-forth affair would ensue in the championship game before Clinch Valley designated hitter, John Raynor, came through with what would prove to be the game-winning hit midway through the contest, giving the school an automatic berth in the regional tournament.

“The championship validated everything Coach Spenilla had told us,” said centerfielder Mike White. “His process was more than just the game. How you behave socially and how you do in the classroom always took precedent.

The character he developed in us was seen in that championship.”

After going 1-2 in the regional tournament in ’89, the Cavs returned the core nucleus for the ’90 season. Needless to say, expectations for the club were high but the team didn’t live up to those standards, at least not for most of the season.

Following a loss in game one of a doubleheader at Campbellsville, the team had seven regular season games remaining and would have to win six if it was to make postseason competition.

Coach Spenilla dug deep in his bag of tricks to motivate his team for the second game of the doubleheader.

“Coach filled out the lineup card for game two and he had put pitchers in the field,” said White. “He was trying to show us that if we weren’t going to take it seriously and play the way we were capable, he wasn’t going to waste his time.”

Spenilla spent the entirety of game two in the team van, leaving the players to coach themselves. His club responded by winning the contest and went on to win seven consecutive games to close out the regular season, earning the final berth in the KIAC Tournament.

After hosting the tournament in ’89, the team now had to go on the road to Georgetown to face their nemesis.

After beating Cumberland in the opening round, Clinch Valley defeated Georgetown in the winner’s bracket championship game for the second consecutive season, meaning once again the Cavs would have to be defeated twice.

Rain had been a thorn in the side of Spenilla’s team in ’89, but in ’90, Clinch Valley loved the rain. Short on pitching, the Cavs found themselves down double digits to the Tigers when the sky opened up with rain.

Georgetown didn’t have lights, meaning that game would have to be concluded before the championship game could be played. The rain gave Higgins all the time he needed as he pitched on three day’s rest the following day in leading the school to its second consecutive championship.

The ’89 and ’90 teams are the only ones to win back-to-back conference championships for any male sport at the College, but the run of success for the baseball program has carried on.

Spenilla continued coaching the team through the ’95 season with the last five seasons featuring Hank Banner, the starting second baseman on the ’89 and ’90 teams, as his assistant.

Banner would be one of the first coaching hires Spenilla would make when he assumed

the role of director of athletics in 1995. Under Banner’s direction, UVa-Wise has continued its run of success, having advanced to regional play on three occasions and claiming the program’s third league title in 2011.

Banner brought in former J.J. Kelly High standout Doug Bates as his pitching coach and when the team advanced to regional play in 2002, White, his former teammate, was also on his staff.

Led by shortstop Steve Tyler and a cast of young but talented arms, the Cavs ended their 11-year drought of not advancing to regional play.

Picked to finish last in the preseason conference poll, UVa-Wise nearly won the conference. The club lost three consecutive games in the bottom of the ninth inning at Tennessee Wesleyan with a regular season championship at stake.

“Travis Hylton was the only senior we had that really contributed on our pitching staff, but we were fortunate to develop some young arms,” said Coach Banner.

“Tyler is the only kid that I have ever coached that drew a ton of interest from scouts, and he is the best pure hitter we’ve had in my time here.”

Tyler hit .429 and set singleseason school records for runs scored with 55 and doubles with 21 that season.

While Tyler was Mr. Everything at the plate, Josh Scarbrough was the “thunder” in the lineup.

Scarbrough joined Tyler in the record books as he hit a singleseason record 15 home runs while knocking in 51 runs.

Combined, Tyler and Scarbrough hit 25 home runs and collected 111 RBIs in forming one of the more potent lineup combos in program history.

Picked to finish near the bottom of the Appalachian Athletic Conference in 2007, a perfect storm developed allowing the Cavs to shock everyone and advance to their fourth regional tournament. NCAA Division I transfer Brad Robbins (Western Carolina) joined the team as shortstop. Jorge Laboy was developing into one of the better middle infielders in school history. Joined by second baseman Edwin Narvaez, the trio lined over 200 hits in their careers.

On the mound, closer turned starter David Jones and Brock Funk formed a two-headed monster that proved to be as formidable as any in the conference.

“We didn’t have anybody else that could start,” Banner said. “Jones needed to be a closer but we had to have him as a starter.”

A season after picking up 10 saves, Jones posted a 2.81 ERA and won nine games as

a starter in ’07. Funk added six wins on the mound as the pair of juniors combined to start 25 games that season.

Indiana University transfer Josh Verts joined the club and provided valuable depth both at the plate and on the mound.

Verts had the ability to start or come out of the bullpen, and the Cavs used his versatility in the AAC Tournament with a trip to the Region XII Tournament on the line.

The transfer lined six hits, four of which were doubles, while picking up three RBIs in a 14-inning game against King University that ended near 2 a.m. While his hitting exploits would be something of legend, Verts also pitched three innings of relief in the victory.

The right-hander’s most important moment of the game came in the bottom of the ninth when he returned to the mound after more than an hour delay to keep the game tied after King had scored to tie the game prior to the delay.

The crew returned to the regional

tournament a year later, joining the ’89 and ’90 squads as the only teams to go to back-to-back regional tournaments.

“We just loved the game,” said Robbins.

“Jorge, Luis (Roa), myself and some other guys just always talked hitting and we fed off each other. Somebody was always on base, which puts a lot of pressure on the pitcher.”

The pressure usually boiled over for the opposition as the Cavs averaged 7.4 runs per game in ’07 and 6.8 runs per game in ’08. The ’07 version finished seventh nationally in team batting average at .351.

“We were very blue collar,” Robbins said.

“We all had a chip on our shoulder. We were typically picked near the bottom of the league, and Coach Banner did a great job of instilling some toughness in us and that showed in the way we played the game.”

UVa-Wise claimed its third league championship in 2011 when the team won the Mid-South Eastern Division crown.

Roa, a holdover from the ’08 regional team, provided veteran leadership for a team that was in its first season in the Mid-South Conference.

Catcher Tommy Meier and right fielder Brett Hylton, joined Roa to lead the offense as the pair each got on base over 40 percent of their plate appearances. Meanwhile, Roa averaged a hit a game and posted a team-high 28 RBIs in 39 games.

On the mound, Virginia Commonwealth University transfer Ryan Crosby posted one of the more impressive seasons in school history.

The Warrenton, Virginia native led the league in ERA at 1.87 and fanned 51 hitters.

Despite the strong performances by numerous individuals, UVa-Wise entered the final weekend of the regular season needing to win three of four from Rio Grande to claim the title.

The Cavs won game one of the series 6-3 as Crosby fired a complete game. Game two saw the Red Storm claim a 6-2 win, meaning they needed just one win to secure the title.

Rio Grande appeared to have the regular season championship in its grasp when the team built a 7-2 lead after two innings of play.

The score would remain unchanged until the sixth inning when the Cavalier offense erupted for five runs, tying the contest.

A second lengthy scoring drought would ensue until the bottom of the ninth when UVaWise scored to force a one game winner-take-all game later in the day for the title.

Hylton, Kirby Bush, Brian King and Chaz Hall had multi-hit efforts as part of a 12-hit UVaWise attack in the come from behind victory.

Game four of the series would be all UVaWise as Hylton picked up two more hits, scored a run and knocked in a pair to back starter Josh Joseph. Joseph would toss the team’s second complete game of the series in a six-hit shutout to win the championship.

The team would play in the Mid-South for two more seasons before moving to the Mountain East Conference in 2013.

A year ago, the school picked up its first four-game road sweep in its new conference with a sweep of Urbana University.

Entering its first season as full NCAA Division II member, the baseball program’s three conference titles are the most among all male sports at the College, and its five regional berths are third to the softball and women’s tennis programs for the most of any team on campus.

By Darrell-Dingus Ely ’10 Fall/Winter 2015 19

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2010 Kevin Perry’s tip in just before the buzzer gives UVa-Wise an 86-85 win over Union College in AAC Championship sending men’s basketball to NAIA National Tournament for a second time

2010 Baseball player Brad Robbins finishes career with 19 school records and All-American honors

2011 Baseball claims third conference championship when team wins Mid-South Eastern Division title

2012 College begins three-year transition to become NCAA Division II institution

2013 UVa-Wise joins NCAA Division II Mountain East Conference, women’s golf becomes College’s 12th sport

2014 Deon Boyce averages 14.8 rebounds per game to lead all levels of college basketball 20 UVa-Wise Magazine

Setting the foundation 2010 for softball success Tori Raby, who has won the most conference championships as a head coach of anyone at UVa-Wise, led the Cavalier softball program for seven seasons from 2004 to 2010.

Taking her team to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Softball National Championship in 2005, 2007 and 2009, Raby guided the Cavs to Appalachian Athletic Conference regular-season championships from 2005-07 and conference tournament titles in 2006 and 2009. Altogether Raby claimed five conference titles, clinched two NAIA Regional Championships and is the winningest softball coach in UVa-Wise history, posting a record of 202-154 at the helm.

When she began coaching at the College, Raby’s ability to use the limited resources she had to the maximum was the driving force behind the softball program’s success. Raby interviewed for the head coaching position when the current softball field was just being built. Holding the team’s first spring practice in the snow, the head coach believes it was pure determination and will that got her first team to the national championships.

“That first year we had no business going to nationals. We didn’t have a kid who could come off the bench and be a pinch hitter. We didn’t have a kid that could come off the bench and pinch run, or pinch bunt for that matter,” Raby noted about her first season coaching at UVa-Wise.

Claiming a conference championship and NAIA Regional title in her first year at UVaWise, Raby attributes much of the success to the change in mindset her players embraced when she arrived. She believes the team had never considered advancing all the way to nationals and always had set their goals at maybe winning the conference and going to regionals.

“A lot of the reason why I took the job at

UVa-Wise was because I knew the conference from being at Tennessee Wesleyan, and I knew we would have a shot at advancing,” Raby added. “To be honest, Wesleyan had a really good team that year and we had no business going to nationals, but that team believed they could do anything. They bought into all the stuff I fed them and they set into it. You just don’t get that kind of buy-in, especially in your first year, but they did.”

Raby knows it was that particular team who believed in her as a coach and trusted in themselves to set a new standard for UVa-Wise softball and create the foundation for a thriving program.

Relying heavily on her pitching staff, Raby remembers having injured players lead the team to victories in the regional games. Despite setbacks with injuries, Raby’s squad played scrappy and fought to the bitter end, even when playing against the No. 1 team in the country at nationals.

While her first team was very memorable, Raby developed the program in many other ways.

An intense rivalry continued between UVa-Wise and Milligan College that was established before Raby got to the College. The head coach believes it was the proximity of the two schools that really ignited the rivalry as each softball program would recruit in the same area and go after the same kids.

During Raby’s tenure at UVa-Wise, there was a certain family atmosphere not just within the softball program but throughout the entire athletic department. Raby credits a lot of the comradery to former Director of Athletics Ray Spenilla, who always had an open door policy in the athletic offices. Director of Athletic Media Relations Darrell-Dingus Ely remembers one particular instance when he was covering the softball team in a conference tournament on his birthday and the entire team sang

“Happy Birthday” to him. Those are the types of things that have made UVa-Wise meaningful for many.

“Everybody just got along and rooted for each other,” remarked Ely. “You never worried about your position or not having support, and that was Spenilla and Gary Juhan,” Raby said about the encouragement she received as a coach.

“Anytime any kind of issue came up, I knew before anything was said that I was going to be supported and I think everybody across the board felt that way. It was a lot of good people.

I’ve never worked with a group of people like that anywhere else and I don’t think I ever will.

It was just a really unique and special time.”

In January 2006, Raby became assistant athletic director in what was perhaps the most successful time for athletics. Not only was softball succeeding but the athletics program as a whole was beginning to thrive, and Raby believes other departments across campus were flourishing when she moved into the larger role as assistant athletic director. Raby knows that much of her recruiting was due in part to the way prospective student-athletes were welcomed across campus during their visits.

The head coach would always want her recruits to meet as many people on campus as they could because it was such a pleasant experience.

Additions of new positions to the athletic department and softball program also aided

in the growth and development. Full-time assistant coaches, another athletic trainer, the first full-time strength and conditioning coach and sports information director were all hired within a couple years after Raby arrived at UVa-Wise.

“We did a lot of community service projects,” she said. “We really worked to try and get the community involved, and I think that was probably one of the best things we did.”

“As a softball coach, I worked hard at doing that too because softball was pretty new and not very strong in the area,” Raby added.

“There just wasn’t a whole lot of coaching out there for pitching and things like that so it was something I took on myself to do.”

Raby’s biggest takeaway from being the head softball coach at UVa-Wise was the opportunity and experience of being able to go to the national tournament. As a player, she always wanted to get to a national tournament but never got there.

“As a coach, to be able to actually get to nationals and share it with your team was pretty awesome, and to be able to do it three times was really great,” she said.

Setting a foundation for success and aiding in the building of Cavalier athletics, Raby proved to her teams and everyone else what the power of belief and hard work can do. “Of all the different things, I think the community was really huge during that time and I think that was a lot of our success too,” she said.

By Luke Bolano

UVa-Wise fosters basketball coaching Three men who work the sidelines during the high school boys’ basketball season in Southwest Virginia all got their start in the same place.

Scotty Vermillion, T.J. McAmis and Zack Moore all played collegiate basketball at UVa-Wise. Today, each member of the trio are among the area’s premier coaches. Each claimed at least one district championship.

All three credit UVa-Wise for some of their success..

Vermillion played for the Cavaliers from 1993-97 after finishing a stellar high school career at Gate City. He was recruited by then UVa-Wise Head Coach Preston Mitchell with

some help from UVa-Wise alumnus Sandy Blackwell.

“I saw Sandy at the state basketball tournament and began asking him about some of his players,” Mitchell said. “Sandy said that in addition to Scotty’s basketball talent, I would not find a better person. That information was enough for me and we were blessed with not only a solid player but a great person for all four years he played here.”

Vermillion played behind NCAA Division I transfer Robert Spears as a freshman, and Mitchell said the transformation between his freshman and sophomore season was remarkable.

“Playing behind Spears opened Scotty’s eyes and allowed him to see what he would have to do to be a successful collegiate athlete,” Mitchell said. “He put on more muscle and became more athletic as a sophomore. He was a double-figure scorer and our leading rebounder.”

Vermillion broke his hand midway through his sophomore season, but his spirit would be undeterred as he returned stronger for the ’96 campaign. He averaged 16 points and nine rebounds per contest in earning all-conference and honorable mention All-America accolades. ­­— Continued on next page Fall/Winter 2015 21

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2015 Women’s lacrosse coach Meghan Dennehy earns MEC Coach of the Year in program’s inaugural season

2015 College becomes full NCAA Division II member

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Basketball continued The forward would have his courage tested again as he endured reconstructive ACL surgery between his junior and senior seasons.

Playing with a knee brace for the entirety of his senior season, Vermillion etched his name in school history as he finished his career with a then school record 848 rebounds and a second consecutive all-conference honor.

The Cavaliers claimed 61 victories during Vermillion’s career. He was team captain during his senior season when UVa-Wise overcame a 7-10 start to win 11 of its final 15 regular season games to post its second winning season in his four years and its third winning season overall.

Vermillion started his coaching career when he was 23 years old as the head boys’ basketball coach at Twin Springs High. Following his fifth year at Twin Springs, Vermillion had an opportunity to return home when the coaching job at Gate City became available.

“It was a hard move for me at the time, we were getting ready to be pretty good at Twin Springs and I was really close to my players there,” he said. “I was driving to get my master’s degree and God led me to pull over and open the Bible. The scripture I read led me to take the position at Gate City.”

Since returning home, Vermillion’s run at Gate City has been nothing short of spectacular. Entering the upcoming season, he has directed the program to 12 consecutive regional tournaments while playing for the state title on three separate occasions.

“The love Coach Mitchell had for his players is the most valuable asset I took from my time at UVa-Wise,” Vermillion said. “Coach (Lee) Clark brought a lot of passion to the game and both of those things are something I try to exhibit in my coaching.”

In his senior season, Vermillion became teammates with McAmis. Also a native of Southwest Virginia, McAmis played high school basketball in Wise at J.J. Kelly. Vermillion mentored McAmis during his inaugural collegiate season. A few years later, the two found themselves in a familiar position when McAmis became the girls’ basketball coach at Twin Springs while Vermillion was the school’s boys’ basketball coach. Once again, McAmis looked to Vermillion for guidance as he entered his first year of coaching.

“I called our superintendent and told him I knew a guy that wanted to get in coaching and would be a good chemistry teacher,” Vermillion stated about McAmis. “It just so happens he got the job and we spent the next three seasons coaching together.”

After leaving Twin Springs, McAmis

returned to his alma mater where he coached at J.J. Kelly until the school closed due to consolidation.

Today, McAmis is the head boys’ basketball coach at Central High, teaches chemistry and is the pastor of Mount Olive Freewill Baptist Church, which is located just down the road from Greear Gymnasium where Vermillion, McAmis and Moore played during their collegiate careers. McAmis contributes who he has become today to the teaching and coaching he received as a student-athlete at UVa-Wise.

“All the coaches and professors were dear to me,” he said. “At that time, I think we only had three chemistry professors, and they all were different in their personalities and teaching styles, but each really impacted me and the way I teach now. I was also a teaching assistant, and that really shaped me into the teacher I am today.”

McAmis learned a lot about coaching from Coach Clark’s style of coaching.

“The leadership skills, how to relate with kids, how to sell the program and how to motivate kids are really what I got from Coach Clark,” McAmis said. “He’s very passionate, especially at that time, and very intense and that’s sort of the way I have become in my coaching and in my teaching. Coach Clark was really good at selling the program and getting people to buy into their roles and the team concept.”

A member of the Darden Society, McAmis graduated from UVa-Wise with a degree in chemistry. He earned a departmental award for academic achievement finishing with a 3.8 grade point average and earned academic allconference honors all four seasons.

As a student-athlete, McAmis learned many important life lessons that have helped him in many ways. Balancing practice, games and school work, McAmis quickly learned how much similarity there is to being a studentathlete and working a full-time job.

“Having to be organized and the level of hard work I would have never understood,” he said. “Being able to balance things and striving to be the best at anything that you jump into, those are the things that I learned in the process of being a student-athlete. When you’re in the middle of academics, it’s late nights, it’s a lot of coffee and it’s like a job. You have to learn to really be self-motivated more so than have others motivate you.”

Following in his father’s footsteps as the pastor at Mount Olive Freewill Baptist, McAmis has often told people in his ministry that being organized and prepared under pressure, skills he honed at UVa-Wise, aid him in his teaching and ministry.

“Just understanding what an impact it made on your life gives you a desire to want to make an impact on other individuals and other kids,”

McAmis said. “I think that’s when it really solidified for me that I wanted to coach and teach because of those influences in college.”

McAmis says it has been interesting finding himself, Vermillion and Moore coaching regularly against each other. Each very competitive in their own ways, McAmis is emotional in his style while Moore is more internal with his competitiveness. Vermillion is closer to McAmis in his leading and guiding.

Having coached together with Vermillion at Twin Springs, McAmis is extra competitive with Vermillion. McAmis noted that there were times while the two were at Twin Springs that they would lock the gym doors without the kids around and play a highly competitive game of one-on-one basketball.

McAmis enjoys having both Vermillion and Moore coaching in the same high school league and getting to play them regularly.

“Every time we play Zack and Scotty I love to try to beat them but I also know they do a good job,” McAmis said. “When they are playing, I’m always the first one to root for them because we’ve been in the trenches together. We’ve been in those hard practices and we’ve been in those games together. We were a family at one time, that’s the way I feel.”

McAmis and Moore coach at schools separated by just over 10 miles. McAmis’ Warriors and Moore’s Union Bears have played in postseason competition in each of the last four years.

Moore came to UVa-Wise after leading Pound High to an appearance in the state finals. Moore’s brother-in-law, former Cavalier basketball player Donnie Jordan, was an assistant coach at the time. Jordan and Coach Clark helped lead the forward to play for his local team.

“My brother-in-law coached there and Coach Clark was really good to me.” Moore said. “I felt like I could come in and play right away, and if I couldn’t play Division I, I wanted to go to UVa-Wise.”

While Moore’s on-the-court talent was evident, Mitchell, who had returned to high school coaching, the type of person UVaWise’s eventual all-time leading scorer was.

“Pound played Clintwood for the regularseason district championship in Zack’s senior season,” Mitchell said. “Zack didn’t play to his potential and Clintwood won the title.

Out of all the players, Zack was the only one who stayed on the floor to congratulate each player from Clintwood after they celebrated the championship on the floor.”

Moore’s sportsmanship was evident when the Cavs suffered through a five-win season in ’00 that featured 11 losses by single digits.

Moore would go on to start a school record of 124 consecutive games.

Moore tallied 535 of his 2,307 points that season en route to being named freshman of the year by the conference.

The win totals increased each season during Moore’s career as UVa-Wise. The team claimed nine wins during his sophomore season before reaching 16 wins in ’02 to post the College’s first winning record since Vermillion’s senior season in ’96.

Serving as team captain and the team’s only senior, Moore averaged 21.5 points and eight rebounds per game in leading the Cavs to both

regular season and conference tournament championships in ’03. The conference tournament title landed UVa-Wise a spot in its first national tournament, regardless of sport. Winning the regular season outright and claiming the conference tournament title in the same season has not been accomplished in any other season by the men’s basketball program.

A three-time all-conference selection, Moore was an NAIA All-America honoree following the team’s run to the national tournament. He joined his wife, Kim MathisMoore, as a member of the Hall of Fame at UVa-Wise in 2012, becoming the first husband-wife duo in the club.

After leaving collegiate basketball to coach high school, Mitchell returned as an assistant coach during Moore’s junior and senior seasons at UVa-Wise. When his career ended, Mitchell was the athletic director at Pound, and gave the recent college graduate his first coaching job, leading the boys’ junior varsity team at his alma mater.

“I just wanted to stay involved with the game,” Moore said. “I always admired my coaches, especially Coach Clark, and I wanted to help pass on the knowledge they gave me.”

From Pound, Moore accepted his first head coaching position at Jenkins High in Kentucky before accepting an assistant job at nearby Letcher Central County High. His experience at Letcher would pay dividends later in his career as the school was in its first year of existence.

Moore left Letcher Central and returned back to Virginia to accept the head coaching position at Powell Valley High in Big Stone Gap. In that role, Moore was tasked with coaching in the same district that he once played and coaching against Pound.

“It was weird going to Pound and not being involved with the team,” said the former Wildcat. “It just never felt right for me to be in the gym and not be playing.”

Moore served as the coach at Powell Valley until the school closed due to consolidation after 2011.

His experience at Letcher Central during its first year of operation would help Moore in his new role as the first coach at the newly consolidated Union High.

Moore’s finest coaching job may have been Union’s first year. After his team got off to a 3-6 start, the Bears rebounded to claim the district championship while advancing to the state tournament.

Vermillion, McAmis and Moore are coaching in the Clinch Mountain Conference and are required to play each other twice a year. Routinely, the schools meet more than twice, competing in postseason play where the stakes are high.

The respect the men have for each other is always present.

“I see what T.J. does and I think, I like that,” Moore said. “His team plays the same way I would play if I were coaching, and I think that is a reflection and a testament to Coach Clark and our time at UVa-Wise.”

“We are such good friends, I wish we didn’t have to play,” Vermillion said about his games against Central. “It’s tough to put my team out there against his with how close we are as friends.”

“Does it bother me if Central loses to Zack or Scotty?” McAmis said of coaching against the former teammates. “In one way it does because you’ve competed with them and played with them and you want that pride, but in another way you would rather lose to two guys you know and know work extremely hard.”

Chances are one of the men will claim another district championship this season and add to their lengthy list of coaching accomplishments on a foundation that was built at UVa-Wise.

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2015 2015 The new Cavalier mascot is introduced

Meet Smiddy Smiddy, the UVaWise Cavalier, arrived just in time to celebrate the College’s first year of full NCAA Division II membership. He’s energetic, carefree and eager to make a big splash across campus. The UVaWise Magazine sat down with Smiddy to ask probing questions about his first weeks on campus and his plans for the future.

Q: Is there one word that best describes you?

A: Mischievous. There is nothing as fulfilling as a well-played prank.

Q: Can you give us an example of one of your successful pranks on campus so far?

A: I suppose I can confess. You know those rare green salamanders that Associate Professor Wally Smith is finding around Flag Rock and High Knob? Well, I can honestly say it is difficult to catch those fast little critters and douse them with green food coloring. The look on Wally Smith’s face when I confessed was worth it all.

Q: You’ve been on campus for a while now and I’m sure you have met a lot of people.

Is there someone you admire?

A: That’s a silly question. O’D, of course.

My dream is to have a dance off with Professor O’Donnell during a football or basketball halftime. It would be epic. He could win, but I’m sure I’ll be the best dressed.

Q: Any secret crushes?

A: Well, yes, but she is already taken.

Professor Margie Tucker. It’s chemical.

Now there’s a woman who knows how to wear safety goggles. And don’t get me started on lab coats. Professor Tucker, call me.

Q: Do you have a favorite Cavalier sports team?

A: Come on now, I’m not going there. It would be like asking Chancellor Henry to choose between campus pups Goldie or Bailey. I am proud to say I LOVE all Cavalier teams.

Q: Do referees have a sense of humor?

A: Does O’D own a coat? Next question.

Q: If you were a member of the Marching Highland Cavaliers, what instrument would you play?

A: Tuba. I’ve always been a fan of heavy metal music.

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Q: What makes UVa-Wise special?

Q: Any elusive goal or bucket list?

A: The family atmosphere and the uniqueness that come with a small college campus. And Turkey Day in Smith Dining Commons, of course.

A: I hope to create a new dance for the alma mater song Dogwood and Rhododendron.

You know it would go viral. One day, Cavs fans. One day.

Q: Red or Gray?

Q: What do you enjoy most about being the Cavalier mascot?

A: Yes. Next question.

Q: Where did you learn those dance moves?

A: Hanging out in McCraray Hall on Saturday nights. That’s the secret of my success.

A: There is nothing better than looking at a sea of cheering Cavalier fans, especially if Professor Tucker is in the crowd. Professor Tucker, call me.

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ATHLETICS

Tyshchenko Tabbed MEC Women’s Tennis Player of the Week Sophomore women's tennis player Daria Tyshchenko was named Mountain East Conference Women's Tennis Player of the Week for the week of Sept. 15 -21.

Tyshchenko, who was a first-team AllMEC selection last season as a freshman, became the first UVa-Wise men's or women's tennis player to earn MEC player of the week honors in school history.

The sophomore No. 1 singles player from Kirovograd, Ukraine, had a perfect 3-0 week in singles play where she earned two MEC wins and a non-conference win against Milligan College.

Tyshchenko, who goes by Dasha rather than Daria, earned a three-set 1-6, 6-3, 1-0 (10-6) victory over Milligan College's Rachel Hodas before taking down Shepherd University's Molly Lovern 6-3, 6-1. She

continued her four-match singles win streak by defeating Fairmont State's Taylor Nichols 8-5 to wrap up the week.

She also upset the University of Charleston's Toni Katipa in a third-set tiebreaker the previous week 4-6, 7-6 (3), 1-0 (10-8). Katipa ended last season ranked 10th in singles in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Atlantic Region.

Leading the Cavaliers to two consecutive home MEC team wins during the week, Tyshchenko went 2-1 in doubles on the week by teaming up with teammate Bailey Christoforatos at the top spot. The duo earned two MEC victories as they defeated the Rams' Nicolette Bruley and Alisha Adkins (8-3), and the Falcons' Nichols and Harman Waraich (8-4).

Daria Tyshchenko

Men’s Basketball releases 2015-16 schedule The UVa-Wise men’s basketball program released its full 2015-16 schedule earlier this year. This season’s schedule features two three-game homestands and a six-game home stretch. The 2015-16 slate also features an exhibition game at NCAA Division I and Big South Conference member High Point University, Sunday, Dec. 13, which will be streamed live on the Big South Network.

UVa-Wise opens up the season by traveling to Institute, West Virginia, for two games as part of the Mountain East Conference/Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Challenge at West Virginia State, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 13-14.

The Cavaliers will take on Elizabeth City State University, Friday, Nov. 13, at 3 p.m. in the season opener before facing Chowan University, Saturday, Nov. 14, at 4 p.m.

Following the first weekend of games, UVa-Wise will begin Mountain East Conference play with road contests at the University of Charleston, Saturday, Nov. 21, and at West Virginia State, Monday, Nov. 23.

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The Cavs wrap up their stretch of five games played away from home to begin the 2015-16 season by traveling to Harrogate, Tennessee for a non-conference matchup against Lincoln Memorial University, Saturday, Nov. 28.

UVa-Wise returns to the David J. Prior Convocation Center for its home opener against Montreat College (N.C.), Monday, Nov. 30. The home opener begins a threegame homestand as UVa-Wise will play five out of six games at home during nearly a month stretch from Nov. 30 to Dec. 20, with the only road game being the contest at High Point.

Playing five-straight MEC games on the road the first two weeks in January, the Cavs will return to Wise for a six-game homestand from Jan. 16-30. UVa-Wise will hit the road once again to play four league games away before its final three-game home stretch Feb. 18-25.

The Cavs will finish the regular season in Athens, West Virginia, against Concord University, Saturday, Feb. 27.

With a 22-game conference schedule, the Cavs host 11 league games out of their 14 home contests. In addition to Montreat College (N.C.), for the home opener on Nov. 30, UVa-Wise will welcome Averett University (Dec. 17) and King University (Dec. 20) for non-conference home games.

The Cavs host West Virginia Wesleyan (Dec. 3), reigning MEC tournament champion Glenville State (Dec. 5), defending MEC regular-season champion West Liberty (Jan. 16), Wheeling Jesuit (Jan. 18), Concord University (Jan. 21), Charleston (Jan. 23), Shepherd University (Jan. 28), 2015 MEC tournament runner-up Fairmont State (Jan. 30), Notre Dame College (Feb. 18), Urbana University (Feb. 20) and West Virginia State (Feb. 25) in conference matchups at the Prior Center.

Women’s Basketball releases 2015-16 slate

Stories by Darrell-Dingus Ely ’10 and Luke Bolanoss

Kristin Kunzman’s Cavaliers are poised to take the next step after advancing to the second round of the Mountain East Conference Tournament in each of the last two seasons. The 2015-16 campaign will be the first for the program as a full NCAA Division II member, meaning the team is now eligible for postseason competition.

UVa-Wise will open the season with three consecutive games away from the Prior Center, beginning with a trip to Winston-Salem State on Nov. 18. A year ago, the Cavaliers claimed six road victories, five of which came against MEC competition.

Kunzman’s squad begins league play on Nov. 21 at the University of Charleston before battling West Virginia State on the road two days later.

A year ago, the Cavs posted a 2-2 record in four games against those opponents.

Tusculum College visits Wise for the home opener on Nov. 28. The game is the first of a five-game home stand that features league contests against West Virginia Wesleyan and Glenville State. The MEC home opener is Dec. 3 when West Virginia Wesleyan comes to town.

Likely, the most difficult portion of the schedule will come when the calendar flips to 2016. Beginning with a trip to Fairmont State on Jan. 4, UVaWise plays four consecutive MEC games on the road. The stretch includes visits to West Liberty University and Notre Dame College. West Liberty is the reigning MEC Champion while Notre Dame returns conference player of the year Martha Nagbe.

Following the trip, the Cavs play five of their next six at home. The extended period of home games includes visits by West Liberty and Shepherd University, both of which qualified for the national tournament last season.

A second four-game road trip in early February precludes the final three home games of the year. Basketball Homecoming and Senior Day will be Feb. 20 when Urbana University is in town for a 2 p.m. tip.

The regular season finale is at Concord University on Feb. 27 with the MEC Tournament beginning on March 3 at on-campus sites. The quarterfinals – finals will take place at the Charleston Civic Center in Charleston, West Virginia.

Seniors Blair Harding and Kehana Grayer return to lead a group of seven returning letter winners for the Cavs. The duo joins rising juniors Kayla Carey and Taylor Sandidge as returning starters from a year ago.

“With the core group we have back and the newcomers we have added, we are very excited for the upcoming season,” said Kunzman. “The women have been putting in a lot of work this summer into preseason and I’m looking forward to watching us grow as a team in the next month heading into our season.”

In addition to having two teams qualify for the NCAA Tournament, four players from the MEC earned all-region accolades while one earned All-America honors.

The MEC will hold its annual media day for women’s basketball on Nov. 3 at the Bridgeport Conference Center in Bridgeport, West Virginia.

Tickets are on sale now for all home women’s basketball games at the Prior Center.

For more information or to purchase tickets please call (276) 376-3431 or visit http:// www.etix.com/ticket/v/9810/uvawise-athletics Tickets are $5 for adults for each home contest, including game dates that feature both men’s and women’s games.

Men’s basketball season to start Nov. 18

Shaquon Wilkins named MEC Runner of the Week

UVa-Wise men’s cross country’s Shaquon Wilkins was named Mountain East Conference Runner of the Week on Sept. 8 for his performance at the Queens Twilight.

The senior from Fredericksburg, Virginia (Riverbend High School), ran a personal best time of 15:54 on the 5,000-meter course at the Queens Twilight in Charlotte, North Carolina. Wilkins placed 22nd out of 64 runners in the meet that featured NCAA Division I Furman and several highly regarded D-II teams in the Southeast Region such as Queens, Anderson, and Limestone.

The Cavaliers finished fifth out of six teams in the highly competitive race. Wilkins claimed the conference’s first weekly honor of the season.

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DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Scholarship endowments are making a difference 2014-2015 Gifts and pledges

$6,874,518

Total endowment

$84,580,185 Robert S. Bragg

Alumni donors

973

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Donors

3,133

Alumni participation

10.65%

By Robert S. Bragg

ccording to the Wall Street Journal, 71 percent of the Class of 2016 graduating from a college in the U. S. will have substantial debt. The average loans owed by these students will exceed $35,000, which is more than a ten-fold increase since 1994. Imagine the crippling effect this will have on a generation of students.

UVa-Wise students, on the other hand, leave college with one of the lowest average debt loads in the nation at $12,496. More than half of our students graduate with no debt at all. This is a remarkable achievement that would not have been possible without the generosity of our donors. Last year $2,601,650 in scholarship support was awarded to our students, mostly provided through endowed funds established by our donors and managed through the University of Virginia’s Investment Management Company.

Endowed scholarships may be established with a minimum gift of $10,000, and once fully funded, will provide scholarship income to our students into perpetuity. At the end of the fiscal year, the College’s endowment grew to $84,580,185 through gifts and market appreciation, an increase of $10,528,024 over the prior fiscal year. This ranks our College far above the other nine members of the Mountain East Conference as well as our 29 COPLAC peers.

The College concluded fiscal year 2014-15 on June 30, 2015 with $6,327,557 in outright gifts and $546,961 in pledges for a total of $6,874,518. There were 3,133 donors in FY 2014-15, an increase of 2.30 percent over the prior year. Alumni participation was 10.65 percent of all eligible alumni, above the national average of nine percent for public universities.

Since assuming the vice chancellor for development and college relations role in early July, I have been inspired by the commitment of the alumni and friends that I have had the opportunity to meet. This gives me every reason to be optimistic for the future of our College. If I have not had the opportunity to meet you yet, I look forward to learning your UVa-Wise story. You, too, have an important role to play in making UVaWise a place where we help students achieve their dreams.

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New in Development Robert S. Bragg is the vice chancellor for development and college relations at The University of Virginia’s College at Wise.

Bragg, former director of development at Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University from 2011-2015, was selected for the post at UVa-Wise following an extensive nationwide search.

Bragg has been a development professional for more than 20 years.

During his 13-year tenure with West Virginia University, he successfully raised $180 million for the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources and the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute. He led two capital campaigns at WVU, which greatly impacted these programs.

A native West Virginian, Bragg grew up in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is a 1980 graduate of Virginia Tech and earned an MBA and an MA in government from the College of William and Mary in 1983 and 1987, respectively.

Bragg oversaw the largest gift in WVU history, $45 million to name the college of engineering. He is credited with raising $1 million for an endowed teaching fellowship for young faculty. In addition, he has successfully raised funds for several endowments and programs at WVU. In his former post at the Morgantown, West Virginia school, Bragg oversaw fundraising, external relations and alumni relations for the college of 4,400 students.

Virginia Bankers Association awards grant A three-year grant from the Virginia Bankers Association Education Foundation to The University of Virginia’s College at Wise will allow the College’s Center for Economic Education to promote financial and economic literacy in the region’s public schools.

The grant, totaling $21,000, was announced on Tuesday, Sept. 8, on campus.

The three-year commitment of $7,000 per year will support the Center’s efforts to help area public schools comply with Virginia’s requirement that each high school student complete a personal finance and economics course before graduating.

Bruce Whitehurst, president and CEO of the Virginia Bankers Association, said the support of the UVa-Wise Center for Economic Education celebrates the solid relationship between Virginia banks and the College. Whitehurst explained how Virginia banks have strongly encouraged Virginia to require the financial literacy and economics course in schools for several years.

“As community bankers, what we do in the classroom is so natural for us,” Leton Harding, UVa-Wise alumnus and CEO of Powell Valley National Bank said. “This gift will allow us to bring more information to the classrooms and to Southwest Virginia.”

Powell Valley National Bank is headquartered in Jonesville, Virginia and is a strong supporter of the Wise County community and the VBA Education Foundation.

Chancellor Donna P. Henry welcomed the Virginia bankers and guests to campus and told the group that UVa-Wise is dedicated to preparing its students for the responsibilities of citizenship, which includes financial literacy and a strong understanding of economics.

“Our students have many opportunities to be involved in and engage with the community through internships and work they do with faculty on various research projects,” Henry said. “Our role in economic development is critical to Southwest Virginia’s future. We’re working

hard to diversify the economy in Southwest Virginia.”

Del. Terry Kilgore ’83, an alumnus of UVa-Wise, praised the VBA Education Foundation and the local community banks for stepping up in Richmond and stressing the need for financial literacy and economic education in public schools. Kilgore said promoting financial education is key when it comes to economic development of Southwest Virginia.

Daniel Mortensen, executive director of the Virginia Council on Economic Education, praised the VBA Education Foundation for being a strong supporter of the VCEE. “I am a strong believer in the education of our young people in financial literacy and economics,” he said. “What students learn are essential life skills, and this tends to level the playing field.”

Gary Stratton, a UVa-Wise professor and director of the Center for Economic Education, thanked the VBA Education Foundation for funding the program.

“We will conduct economic workshops for teachers on topics that relate to basic economics, entrepreneurship, and the stock market among other economic issues,” Stratton said. “The Center will also provide materials with these workshops.”

Established in 1893, the Virginia Bankers Association is the unified voice for commercial and savings banks in Virginia.

The VBA maintains an active legislative advocacy program, provides training to bankers statewide, and provides a variety of products and service to help its member banks best serve their communities.

The Virginia Bankers Association Education Foundation was formed in 2007 with the objective of recognizing the importance of economic education and financial literacy in Virginia and supporting the banking industry as a key participant in these areas. Their mission is to advance personal financial literacy to students in all public and private schools across the Commonwealth.

College opens Wetlands Education and Research Facility The University of Virginia’s College at Wise officially opened its Wetlands Education and Research Facility this fall which means students will have a convenient and well-equipped location to conduct field studies.

The environmental field station is funded by a $25,000 grant from the Dominion Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Dominion, Eastman Chemical, and Wise Kiwanis.

The facility is located near the campus wetlands and once served as faculty and student housing.

“I’m looking forward to seeing what goes on here for years to come,” Chancellor Donna P. Henry said.

Faculty asked Henry shortly after she arrived at UVa-Wise if the house could be used for research purposes.

Henry contacted the campus housing department and learned that there would be no problem converting the house for field research.

Austin Marshall, a resident of Haysi, Virginia, is a UVa-Wise biology major who will fully use the field station for his research on dragonflies.

“I’m excited to see the facility finally open,” Marshall said.

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HOMECOMING 2015

FEATURES

Chuck Slemp enjoys the Red and Gray 5K Color Run

Red and Gray 5K Run Awards

Smiddy makes new friends

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Enjoying an indoor cookout

Showing team spirit

Celebrating the Class of ’65, class members Sam Wharton ’65, Habern Wallen ’65, David Graham ’65, Chancellor Donna P. Henry, Chancellor Emeritus Joseph Smiddy, Faye G. Metzl ’59 and Alumni Association President Cathy Sandidge ’71

n Friday, Oct. 2, 2015, Homecoming weekend began with the annual Red & Gray Day. Alumni from the Class of 1965 gathered with fellow classmates and friends in the C. Bascom Slemp Student Center for a reunion luncheon. Chancellor Emeritus Papa Joe Smiddy and Chancellor Donna P. Henry awarded each class member a 50th medallion. Following the luncheon, class members were invited on a bus tour of campus.

On Friday in Cantrell Hall, Fran Hunt ’80 and Bob Sage ’79 hosted an open panel discussion on the Journey to Success in Business sponsored by the Department of Business and Economics.

Due to rain, the outdoor events were moved to the David J. Prior Convocation Center. The students, faculty, staff, alumni and guests were treated to a meal, followed by the introduction of the new mascot, Smiddy, at center court.

The Silver Saber competitions included a themed banner, boat contest, cheer-off and dance competitions with members of the teams competing for a cash prize. The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity won the Silver Saber 2015 competition.

Saturday morning went off with a bang as runners of the Red & Gray 5K Color Run took off for a quick 3.1 mile campus tour with a fast finish at Carl Smith Stadium. Several community members and alumni participated in the 5K Run and 1 Mile Fun Walk. Proceeds from this event went toward the establishment of a new Alumni Association scholarship honoring the 10,000 alumni of the College.

The Alumni Family Carnival and Picnic was also held inside the David J. Prior Convocation Center with a traditional hamburger and hotdog lunch provided by the UVa-Wise Alumni Association. Smiddy the Cavalier made an appearance and had photos taken with Cavalier fans. Inflatables, games and door prizes kept the crowd entertained until game time.

At halftime, the 2015 Homecoming Court was presented on the field. The UVa-Wise Marching Band provided suspense with a drum roll as the 2015 Homecoming King Jordan Smith and Queen Destiny Allen were announced.

Homecoming weekend came to a close with the annual Alumni Dance at the Quality Inn in Norton.

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The University of Virginia’s College at Wise Alumni Association and the Office of Development and College Relations held an alumni faculty and staff brunch at Alumni Hall. Over 40 alumni and friends of the College joined in the celebration of Homecoming 2015. A light meal was served and several door prizes were awarded.

By Pam Collie ’93 Sprinting to the end zone

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FEATURES

Homecoming King Jordan Smith and Queen Destiny Allen

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Rebecca Horne ’91 and Chance lead the Cavaliers to the field

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Even with the rain, our spirits weren’t dampened as alumni and their families returned to campus to celebrate and share in the many festivities of Alumni Homecoming.

Cathy Sandidge ’71

Ben Mays ’84 gets a high five from Smiddy the Cavalier

Chancellor Donna P. Henry with the 2015 Homecoming Court

Bob Colyer ’57 and Bill Wendle ’93

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Fran Hunt ’80 and Bob Sage ’79 discuss business success and strategy

Steve Curran ’75 and Danny G. Mullins ’70

Ready for the game

Smiddy roots for the Highland Cavaliers

Working hard on the field

Even in the rain, the band marches on

Football fans show their enthusiasm

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CLASS NOTES

CLASS NOTES Alumni in action

Sandidge focuses on expansion Cathy Sandidge is the 2015-2016 UVa-Wise Alumni Association President. Cathy Sandidge received a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education from The University of Virginia’s College at Wise (formerly known as Clinch Valley College) in 1971. In 1973 Cathy earned her certification in early childhood education from East Tennessee State University. She went on to earn a Master of Arts in Education from Union College in 1975. Cathy is a lifetime member of the Virginia Education Association and a member of the National Education Association. Upon graduation, Cathy began her teaching career in Scott County School System, teaching fifth through eighth grades at Yuma Elementary School for two years. She then taught kindergarten, second, and fourth grade for 36 years at Weber City Elementary School.

During her time at Weber City Elementary, Cathy lent a creative

hand and leadership role to the development of the school yearbook for 21 years. She received the Weber City Elementary School Teacher of the Year Award in 2009. Cathy retired from the Scott County School System in 2009. She remains active in the Scott County School System by working as a substitute teacher. “One of Cathy Sandidge ’71 the most rewarding aspects and the Nominating Committee. of being a teacher is to have a former During her term as president of the student come back and tell you that UVa-Wise Alumni Association, Cathy you made a difference in their life,” is dedicated to growing scholarships she said. and increasing the percentage of During her time at Clinch Valley alumni giving. Supporting the College College, Cathy lived in Martha has always been important to the Randolph Hall and McCraray Hall.

Sandidge family, which includes her She was a member of Student sister, Jane Ann, and their mother, National Education Association, Helen. Cathy will focus her time as the attended school functions and Alumni Association president to aid, supported many organizations. She strengthen, and expand the alumni’s states that the best part of campus involvement with the growth of UValife was making lifelong Wise. “Hitting the 10,000 alumni mark friends that she still keeps in this past May with the graduating class touch with today. Cathy has of 2015, made me realize that it is remained active in the life definitely our time to shine,” she said. of the College through her During her free time Cathy enjoys involvement in the UVaplaying the piano, traveling especially Wise Alumni Association. to her favorite city, New York City; Cathy has served on the walking on the beach, attending Alumni Board of Directors concerts and plays, and spending for many years and serves time with friends, family and her on the Cavalier Alumni special niece, Sarah Elizabeth. Cathy $elebration Committee, the is a member of the Gate City United Homecoming Committee, Methodist Church, and lives in Gate Sandidge ’71 looks to expand the alumni’s involvement with the Executive Committee City, Virginia.

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1962 Winfield H. Rose, who has a doctorate in philosophy, was honored with the 2015 Distinguished Professor Award from Murray State University on March 31, 2015.

This award is given to the professor who has a profound impact on students and shows this by their excellence in teaching and commitment to the university and community. Winfield is employed with Murray State University as a professor of political science.

He earned a bachelor’s from Carson Newman College in 1964, master’s from Duke University in 1970, and a doctorate in philosophy from Duke University in 1973.

Winfield and his wife, Judith, live in Murray, Kentucky.

Winfield H. Rose ’62 receives award

1974 Frieda Patrick Davison has published a book titled, “More Than a Name: The Duncan Park Veterans Memorial.”

Frieda’s book, which was released May 21, 2015, is about all of the veterans listed on the Duncan Park Memorial located in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Frieda is the dean of the library at the University of South Carolina Upstate. She lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

1975

Tom Henner earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the University of Virginia in 1978. He earned a Master of International Business Studies from the University of South Carolina in 1985. Tom is employed with Arch Auto Parts as the chief financial officer. He is married to Lucy Henner and they have three children, Ryan, Jacob and Madeleine Anne.

They live in Avondale Estates, Georgia.

1989 Mary Lee Hagy is employed with NASA Develop National Programs as a fiscal clerk. She is married to Marty Hagy and they live in Norton, Virginia.

1976 G. Jackson Barnette earned a Master of Science in Education and a Master of Science in Special Education. Jackson is married to Sharon Goins Barnette. Sharon earned a Bachelor of Science in Special Education and a Master of Science in Special Education from Radford University.

Jackson and Sharon have three children, Jason, Erika and Brett. They live in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

1982 Dr. Steven B. Powers received the Eastern Virginia Medical School Distinguished Alumni Service Award in March 2015. This award is given to alumni of Eastern Virginia Medical School who give back to the school through dedication, support and service. Steven received this award for being a preceptor for more than 150 medical and physician assistant students since 2005. Steven is a physician with Total Care for Women. Steven and his wife, Susan, live in Chesapeake, Virginia.

Mary Lee Hagy ’89

1992 Angela Davidson Collingsworth earned an educational specialist degree from Lincoln Memorial University in July 2015. She is employed with the Lee County Public School System as a special education teacher. She lives in Jonesville, Virginia.

1994 Bridgette Arnette Hawkins is employed with Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics as a technical applications specialist, chemistry/immunoassay. She is married to Lucian Wayne Hawkins and they have a son, Alex. They live in Troutville, Virginia.

Greg Tarleton has moved to Goldsboro, North Carolina.

1995

Vanessa Freeman Zerhusen has been selected to the Phi Sigma Sigma Foundation Board of Directors. Vanessa, of the Theta Rho Chapter of UVa-Wise, was named for her service to the fraternity which includes nominating committee member, community archon, and chapter key advisor. She and her family live in San Diego, California.

Steven B. Powers receives service award

1996

Mark L. Mullins is employed with the Lee County Public School System as a special education teacher. Mark has two daughters, Kayla and Emma. They live in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

Frieda Patrick Davison ’74

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CLASS NOTES Hannah Sluss Walker earned a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling from Liberty University. She is employed with Delta Air Lines as a flight attendant.

Hannah and her husband, Richard, live in Saline, Michigan.

1996

Charles Thomas and Carla Heaton Thomas ’97 have two children, Aaron Scott and Erica Renee. Charles is employed with The Salvation Army as an accounting manager. They live in Seymour, Tennessee.

2001 Joshua Jones and his wife, Ashley, have moved to Bristol, Tennessee.

Alicia West is employed with the Licking County Adult Court Services as a probation officer. Alicia and her daughter, Camryn, live in Zanesville, Ohio.

2006 Ashley Sheppard earned a Master of Arts in General Psychology from East Tennessee State University in 2008, and a Doctorate of Psychology-Experimental Concentration from East Tennessee State University in 2014. Ashley is employed with West Virginia University Institute for Community and Rural Health as the program coordinator. She lives in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Isabell Woodworth Mckiernan is married to Aaron Mckiernan. They live in Australia.

2008 Steven Fryatt is employed with Crutchfield as a sales advisor. He is married to Ashley Freeman Fryatt who is a stylist with Tracy’s Salon on Main Street. Steven and Ashley have three children, Haley, Avery and Adler. They live in Wise, Virginia.

J. Marcus Riley earned a master’s in human development and counseling from Lindsey Wilson College in 2012. He is employed with the U.S. Courts serving in the Western District of Virginia as a probation officer. Marcus lives in Roanoke, Virginia.

Dean Schwartz and his wife, Dawn Peebles Schwartz, welcomed their son, Ezra Dean Schwartz, on July 21, 2015. Ezra weighed seven pounds eight ounces. Ezra has two big sister, Caitlyn Baker and Megan Garrett. Dean Schwartz is employed with Southside Virginia Community College as the veteran’s representative. Dawn is the senior manager of accounting, financial reporting and fixed assets for Longwood University. They live in Farmville, Virginia.

Shelley Newton is employed with Bluefield College as the head softball coach. She lives in Bluefield, West Virginia.

Shelly Newton ’08 Alicia West ’01

2003 Brian Hines is employed with Vokal as the director of systems engineering. He currently lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Ezra Dean Schwartz

2004

2009

Ella Smith-Justice and Joshua Justice ’07 were united in marriage on May 30, 2015 at Peuther Chapel in Clintwood, Virginia. The matron of honor was Sally Smith Lyall ’10 and the best man was Matthew Justice. Ella is employed with the University of Pikeville as the assistant professor of Spanish. Joshua is employed with UVa-Wise as the director of residence life. They live in Wise, Virginia.

Molly Abbott lives in Taylors, South Carolina.

Mr. and Mrs. Justice

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Daniel Robinson and Selinda Robinson welcomed their daughter, Eleanor Jane Robinson, on January 8, 2015.

Eleanor weighed seven pounds and ten ounces. They live in Abingdon, Virginia.

Matthew Ferguson is married to Matthew Higgins. They live in Church Hill, Tennessee.

Nicole Fones is employed with the Charleston County School District as a registered nurse. She lives in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

Britta Groseclose is employed by the Carroll County Department of Social Services as a family service specialist II. Britta has a son, Lincoln Gritt Groseclose, and they live in Hillsville, Virginia.

Eleanor Jane Robinson

Kyndall Wininger Watts and her husband, Josh, welcomed their son, Max Marion Watts, on December 22, 2014. Max weighed seven pounds and three and a half ounces. Kyndall earned a Master of Science in Library Science from Old Dominion University in 2013. She is employed with King University as the course design specialist. They live in Kingsport, Tennessee.

Jessica Weaver and Matt Pennington were united in marriage on May 20, 2013.

Jessica earned a Doctorate of Philosophy in Biology from Northeastern University in 2015. She defended her dissertation in April which was titled “Investigating the regulation of Zct1, a key repressor of terpenoid indole alkaloid production in Catharanthus roseus.” Jessica is employed with Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital as a research assistant III in the hematology/ oncology lab. Matt earned a Bachelor’s in music and songwriting from Berklee College of Music in 2013. They live in Brighton, Massachusetts.

Kasi Hubbard Clifton and Zac Clifton ’12 welcomed their daughter, Hadley Elise Clifton, on May 29, 2015. Hadley weighed six pounds and ten ounces. They live in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

Mr. and Mrs. Pennington

2011

2010

Robert Clubb is employed with the Prince William County Sheriff Department as a deputy sheriff. He lives in Manassas, Virginia.

Joshua Edney and Marshell Bradley were united in marriage on June 2, 2015 at the Stone Tower Winery in Leesburg, Virginia. The maid of honor was Bridget Kargbo ’12 and the best man was Tim Edney. Joshua is employed with the Loudoun County Sheriff ’s Office as a field deputy. Marshell is employed with Shenandoah University as a learning services specialist. They live in Chantilly, Virginia.

The Clifton family

Alicia Richards is employed by the Fauquier County School District as a special education teacher at Liberty High School in Bealeton, Virginia. She lives in Bealeton, Virginia.

Jariel Walton is employed with the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and IMF as a physical science technician. He lives in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Rick D. Mullins Jr. earned a Master of Education in Administration and Supervision from Liberty University in 2013. He is married to Sara Brooke Stidham Mullins who earned a Master of Education: Program Specialist in Mathematics from Liberty University in 2014. Sara is employed with the Montgomery County School System as a mathematics teacher. Rick and Sara live in Christiansburg, Virginia.

Bradley Ricker and Meghan Rutherford Ricker are both employed by the Washington County Public School System. Bradley is a health and physical education teacher for Highpoint Elementary School. Meghan is a part-time substitute teacher and girls’ basketball coach. They live in Bristol, Virginia.

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CLASS NOTES Ashley Ryan is employed with Atlantic Media as a senior associate, communications council in Washington, DC. Ashley lives in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia.

2012 Rachel Hensley Lindsey and Jesse Lindsey were united in marriage on May 16, 2015 at Dara’s Garden in Knoxville, Tennessee. The maid of honor was Stephanie Adkins Cooperstein ’12 and the bridesmaid was Kwynn Rumberger ’12. Rachel is attending East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine. Jesse is a U.S. Navy veteran. They live in Johnson City, Tennessee.

Kelsey Blair Kurtser is employed by Urban Studio LLC as a billing manager.

Kelsey is married to Andrew Kurtser who earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Andrew owns his own business, Kurtser, LLC. They live in Westwood, New Jersey.

Meghan Osborne Greene is married to Stephen Greene and they have a son, Hudson Carroll Greene. Meghan is employed with BB&T as a branch banker/ new account and loan officer. Stephen is employed with American Electric Power as a lineman. They live in Clinchco, Virginia.

Carlee Reiber is employed with Old Dominion University as the future monarch center coordinator. Carlee lives in Newport News, Virginia.

Katie Scott is attending graduate school at Radford University. She lives in Radford, Virginia.

Brianna Stallard is employed with Micronic Technologies as a project assistant.

She lives in Norton, Virginia.

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Alexandra Carter Withers is employed with St. Margaret’s School as an admission and financial aid coordinator. She is married to James Withers who is employed with Northern Neck Soil and Water Conservation District as a conservation specialist. They live in Dunnsville, Virginia.

Logan Clark is employed with Family Preservation Services as a therapeutic day treatment aide in Abingdon, Virginia. He lives in Meadowview, Virginia.

Brianna Stallard ’14

Michael Paul Mullins is employed with the University of Kentucky as an agriculture and natural resources assistant in Whitesburg, Kentucky.

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Sarah Goldman is employed with UNC Health Systems as a registered nurse.

She works at UNC Memorial Hospital on the surgical step-down unit. Sarah lives in Carrboro, North Carolina.

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Gregory L. Kiser is employed as a project sales engineer with Ceramic Technology Inc. in Cedar Bluff, Virginia.

Greg lives in Dante, Virginia.

Jordan Viars ’15

Jordan Viars is employed as a resident director in the office of housing and residence life at the University of Pikeville, Pikeville, Kentucky.

Reaching out to refugees in need The attention and concern the Syrian refugees are garnering internationally does not surprise recent UVa-Wise graduate Nikki Lane ’14.

The Grundy native, now a graduate student at Tulane University’s Payson Graduate Program in Global Development, an arm of Tulane’s law school, recently spent six weeks in Ethiopia working with several United Nation groups on immigration and refugee issues. The political science major is pursuing a master’s degree in international development, and she readily admits her work in Ethiopia solidified her determination to focus her career on immigration, refugees and poverty alleviation.

“It’s interesting work,” she said. “I didn’t really have a plan for it, but the opportunity came up and I just took it. I was there with one of my favorite professors, Sarah Austin.”

Participants get a quick course in various topics before immediately beginning the emotionally hard but vital work helping the poverty stricken refugees. Lane’s course was in refugee issues.

“It really wasn’t enough time,” she said.

“Everything was kind of fast.”

Her work with the United Nation’s Center for Refugees took place in the capital city of Addis Ababa. She worked with the International Organization for Migration as well.

“I got to pick a group to work with and the one I picked was Ethiopian Female Migrants,” Lane said. “The women, out of desperation, go to the Middle East to become domestic workers and house staff. They have to go because the government is often corrupt

and the economy is so bad. They have little options.”

Lane soon learned that the women are often victims of human trafficking.

“They go to some countries in the Middle East for $100 a month,” she said. “Their employer takes away their passport or visa and they become contract labor. They work about 20 hours a day and are often abused. It’s a sad and desperate situation.”

Lane learned that the women who manage to leave their employer’s home find themselves arrested because they lack their passports or other travel papers. Often they languish in prison after a questionable trial.

“The International Organization for Migration does rescue missions and brings some back to Ethiopia, and that is how I did my research,” she said. “They are physically and psychologically traumatized and they are even more impoverished than when they left in the first place. They struggle even if they go back to their own families.”

Lane interviewed the women in areas called return camps, and she was shocked at details of their plight.

“It was difficult work,” she said. “The women are so destitute. We ask them if they would go back to the Middle East knowing what they have experienced and they often say that they would return because they are so poor. It depressed me, but it was an informative experience for me.”

Lane did not expect her first trip abroad would change her. She did not take the journey with missionary work in mind.

“It was sobering and humbling to talk to someone my own age that but for an accident

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of birth had to suffer these horrific events,” she said. “I came home very grateful and with a changed view. I found that a situation that I could not change had changed me.”

Her undergraduate career at UVa-Wise prepared her for the work in Ethiopia and for her graduate studies.

“The support I got, even after I graduated, was wonderful,” she said. “The professors and staff had great relationships with me all four years. They are still the ones that I contact when I have big decisions to make.”

She said the financial assistance from the Lettie P. Whitehead scholarship and from her campus work in Student Development helped her realize her dream of a college degree. She hopes to one day return the favor by donating a scholarship to UVa-Wise students.

By Kathy Still ’84

In Memoriam Paul E. Kilgore ’56 passed away on June 26, 2015. He lived in Norton, Virginia.

Paul R. Quillen ’56 passed away on April 12, 2015. He lived in Saint Paul, Virginia.

Vennice L. Hall ’61 passed away on August 18, 2015. She lived in Wise, Virginia.

Bobby Gene Barker ’62 passed away on August 21, 2015. He lived in Wise, Virginia.

Rodney A. Lawson ’64 passed away on August 4, 2015. He lived in Fincastle, Virginia.

Gail C. Sullivan ’71 passed away on April 3, 2015. She lived in Richlands, Virginia.

Glenna Sue Campbell Nolan ’72 passed away on July 10, 2015. She lived in Jenkins, Kentucky.

Karen K. Bishop ’86 passed away on September 9, 2015. She lived in Wise, Virginia.

Patricia Barnett Hughes ’96 passed away on July 14, 2015.

She lived in Kingsport, Tennessee.

Anthony P. Keene ’98 passed away on August 2, 2015. He lived in Grundy, Virginia.

Chadwick Allan Fore ’04 passed away on October 30, 2015.

He lived in Church Hill, Tennessee.

Anthony Salvatore LoBiondo ’06 passed away on August 22, 2015. He lived in Wise, Virginia.

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HONOR ROLL of

BENEFACTORS The faculty, staff, students and alumni of The University of Virginia’s College at Wise gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the following donors during the 2014-2015 year. The gifts listed on the following pages were made between July 1, 2014, and June 30, 2015.

PHILANTHROPIST SOCIETY

Members of the Philanthropist Society have included the College in their will, named the College as a beneficiary of life insurance, made a gift of paid-up life insurance or deeded property to the College while retaining use of the property for their lifetime.

Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Luther F. Addington † Morton O. Alper † Estate of Carol H. Atwood Rex Baird Sally S. Baird ’92 Jettie E. Baker † Lavonne Baker ’71 Raymond C. Bice, Jr. † Glenn Blackburn Jere Noel Blackburn Kermit A. Bolling † Estate of Roger Ray Brooks Estate of Carol P. Buchanan Donald W. Caudill Elizabeth G. Cauthen Jirina H. Chapin † Gertrude Cherry † Estate of Phyllis Marks Cohen Estate of Wallace M. Cohen James S. Cox ’75 Susan Leigh Cox ’73 Clinton Fletcher Dean ’86 Jane Meade-Dean ’89 Estate of Paul F. Dishner Paul F. Dishner † Donna Fields ’77 Jerry L. Fields ’75 Kathy Sutherland Finn ’84 Estate of Larry Fish Sarah Elizabeth Fugate Charles I. Fuller, Jr. † Estate of Dorothy Gilley Garrison Fay Bond Gillespie ’70 † Leslie F. Gilliam Marcia E. Adams Gilliam Marvin W. Gilliam, Jr. Patricia A. Gilliam ’73 Richard B. Gilliam, Sr. ’74 Sterling L. Gilliam † David F. Guza Sarah Guza Estate of Verta Hamilton Estate of Robert C. Hancock Robert C. Hancock † 40 UVa-Wise Magazine

Judy G. Harding ’75 Charles H. Henderson III Mary M. Henderson Avis L. Holda † Cass Holda † James W. Holyfield Martha A. Holyfield Estate of Anne Jackson Harold C. Jackson † Betty M. Johnson Elmer R. Johnson ’56 † Sandra L. Jones Marguerite T. Kanto William P. Kanto, Jr. Estate of Denton D. Kendrick Dennis F. Kern ’72 Charlotte King † Mel Klein † Estate of Clinton Lambert Lucille Lambert † Margaret Edds Lipper Robert J. Lipper Estate of Gertrude Manhal Martha Markusich † Estate of Frank Bruce Mayorshi Gerry Mayorshi ’56 Helen McFall † Leland V. McFall † Estate of Virginia Irene Meador David W. Mersereau Marianne Mersereau ’84 Patricia I. Mersereau † Wallace D. Mersereau Duane A. Miller ’94 Jean D. Moore † Ronald L. Moore ’61 † Cecilia F. Mullins Douglas R. Mullins, Sr. Jill O’Donnell Michael E. O’Donnell Bette Patton Robert C. Patton Estate of Laura L. Peters * ** *** **** †

Denotes five years of giving to the College Denotes 10 years of giving to the College Denotes 15 years of giving to the College Denotes 20 years of giving to the College Denotes the friend or alumnus is deceased

Eva C. Phelps ’75 Jack C. Phelps, Jr. ’75 Anne P. Phillips Joseph T. Phillips † Don R. Pippin ’58 Gloria R. Pippin ’73 Alta E. Porter † Cecil Porter † Nancy R. Pulaski Ron Redman ’62 E. Hagan Richmond † Estate of Lelia Maude Richmond Pauline B. Richmond † Eliza S. Rigg † Kent Rigg Carson Robbins Laura M. Sage Robert H. Sage ’79 Debra A. Sarvela ’79 Paul D. Sarvela Ben F. Sergent Nancy H. Sergent Clyda Rae Simms ’76 † Albert Dewey Smith ’02 Helen M. Stallard Estate of Iloe Read Stallard Nicolas A. Starkovsky † Andrew Johnson Still Delores R. Still Estate of Kathleen Miller Strunk Gaye Sturgill Estate of Kathleen C. Sturgill Kathleen C. Sturgill † William J. Sturgill ’56 Estate of Farley Sutherland Estate of Helen Jackson Sutherland James Darryl Swartz ’01 Jennifer R. Swartz Estate of Frederick G. Tice Estate of Claude V. Warren Estate of Thelma Phipps Weaver Roy L. Wells, Jr. ’56 Ruth B. Wells Estate of Beth Wendell Beverly G. Wendle Estate of Harold C. Wright Joan M. Wright Roger E. Wright † Estate of Evelyn D. Wyllie

DARDEN SOCIETY ($25,000 & over) Estate of Carol P. Buchanan Estate of Ann Cawood Center for Scholarship Administration, Inc. ** Columbus Phipps Foundation *** Carroll W. Dale & Patricia S. Dale ’58 ***** Dominion Foundation Marianna Edmonds Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Dawn Gilbert ’82 **** Marvin W. Gilliam, Jr. & Marcia E. Adams Gilliam ’82 **** Richard B. Gilliam ’74 & Leslie F. Gilliam *** Don M. Green ’61 ***** Phyllis A. Green † ***** Hunter Smith Family Foundation * Alex Jensen & Melissa S. Jensen * Charles W. Johnson Kline Foundation ***** Lee County Community Foundation Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation ***** Marcia & Marvin Gilliam, Jr. Foundation Larry J. McReynolds ’70 ***** Napoleon Hill Foundation *** Don Nicewonder & Etta Nicewonder * Norton Community Hospital-MSHA ***** James L. Oleson * Oliver Coal Sales *** Pam Orcutt * Richard & Leslie Gilliam Foundation Robert and Jeannie Stallard Foundation Slemp Foundation *** Hunter J. Smith ***** James Smith & Nancey Edmonds Smith * Jim Smith & Kelly Smith * Southwest Virginia Community Health Services, Inc. Joe Stallard & Pat H. Stallard **** Robert F. Stallard ’76 & Jeannie N. Stallard ’80 **** Nick D. Street & Fay H. Street ** Wise County Schools Educational Foundation * JEFFERSON SOCIETY ($10,000 to $24,999) Anonymous **** Anonymous **** Anonymous *** Alpha Natural Resources PAC * James Atkins & Caroline Howard Atkins Rex Baird & Sally S. Baird ’92 ***** Donald W. Caudill ** R. Winston Ely ’61 & Tamara S. Ely ’90 *****

Hampton Roads Community Foundation * Charles H. Henderson III & Mary M. Henderson ** Allen C. Henry & Donna Price Henry Terri A. Hill-Funk ’07 * A. Darrell Holbrook ’73 & Joy P. Holbrook ’77 ***** Charlie R. Jessee ’62 & Jill Jessee ’62 * Lacy & Mattie Meador Scholarship *** Massey Foundation ** E. Morgan Massey & Joan Massey ** William B. Massey, Jr. & Randee Massey ** William E. Massey, Jr. & Rebecca C. Massey ** Donald Mullins & Eva J. Mullins Bruce K. Robinette ***** Amy C. Rolen ’60 **** Scholarship America ** H. A. Street * Eleanore B. Sturgill * William J. Sturgill ’56 & Gaye Sturgill ***** UVa-Wise Alumni Association **** Wellmont Lonesome Pine Hospital * Mark G. White ’81 & Elizabeth H. White Widgeon Foundation WASHINGTON SOCIETY ($5,000 to $9,999) Anonymous *** Mike L. Allen ’81 & Mary Beth Allen ***** Christopher Michael Basham ’95 & Heather L. Basham * James S. Berkman & McKey W. Berkman * Blankenship/Justice Scholarship Fund * Cavalier Pharmacy, Inc. ** Central High School ** Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe China Garden *** Marjory B. Cook Van W. Daniel III ***** F. Wayne Edwards ’62 & Brenda P. Edwards **** First Bank & Trust Company Paul Fletcher & Ruble Fletcher Frank E. Page Scholarship Fund * James M. Gott ’72 & Eva L. Gott **** Keith D. Horton & Ann N. Horton ’81 ** James N. Humphreys ** George E. Hunnicutt, Jr. ’72 & Lotus Hunnicutt *** Joseph F. Hunnicutt ’82 ** K & F Venture LLC Thomas A. Kennedy ’92 & Natasha M. Kennedy ***** William D. Kilgore, Jr. & Christa Kilgore *** Wilma R. Lambert ***

Lewey K. Lee ’64 & Brenda B. Lee ’70 ***** John G. Macfarlane III & Dudley W. Macfarlane Mullins Insurance Agency, Inc. *** Danny G. Mullins ’70 & Kim Mullins **** Rick L. Mullins ’91 *** Penn Virginia Resource Partners **** Pepsi Cola Bottling Company ***** Scott Perkins & Rhonda M. Perkins ’73 ***** Anne P. Phillips **** Oleg Rudnik & Tatiana Rudnik *** Southern Management Corporation Southwest Virginia Angus Association Sykes Enterprises, Inc. ** T. Reid Rankin Family Educational Trust Fund The Scholarship Fund of Alexandria ** UMWA Dickenson-Russell Training & Education Fund * Lewis W. Webb III & Helen E. Dragas Roy L. Wells ’56 & Ruth B. Wells ***** Wilson Sales & Service, Inc. Danny Wilson ** Winston Witt & Judy Witt *** CHANCELLOR’S SOCIETY ($1,000 to $4,999) Anonymous ***** Anonymous **** Anonymous **** Anonymous **** Anonymous ** Anonymous Judith P. Abbott ’77 ***** Access College Foundation * Accounting By Belinda, PC Alfred Street Baptist Church Edward M. Allen, Jr. & Deborah K. Allen * Carolyn S. Alper * Richard S. Alper & Kate A. Herrod * Appalachian After Hours Care PC Appalachian Health Care Associates PC Arlington County Scholarship Fund for Teachers, Inc. Army Emergency Relief * Jack R. Arnold ’58 & Darlene Arnold ** Arrington, Schelin & Munsey, P.C. ** C. Mike Asbury ’73 & Sheila Asbury * J. B. Atwood, Jr. & Freda A. Atwood **** Marvin C. Barker & Velma Greene Barker Todd Barnette & Crystal Barnette ***** Wendell Barnette ’63 & Brenda Barnette **** Bassett Kiwanis Scholarship Education Foundation * Fall 2014 Fall/Winter 2015 3537 41

HONOR ROLL OF BENEFACTORS Belcher Insurance Agency Jerry C. Bentley & Karen Lynn Bentley * Tony Bentley & Patricia Bentley Michael D. Berry ’05 & Nicole R. Berry ’05 * Big Stone Gap Productions, LLC Brian Keith Blanton ’92 & Daphne Dawn Blanton ’93 **** Blue Grass Community Foundation Morgan E. Bolling ’58 & Betty M. Bolling ’57, ’70 **** BP Wampler Consulting, Inc. Bristol Compressors, Inc. *** Buchanan First Presbyterian Church * David R. Call & Rita Greene Call Candace Rakes Scholarship Jamboree * Robert J. Cantrell ’78 & Eileen Cantrell *** Joseph R. Carico ’95 *** Carl Smith Donor Advised Fund of The Community Foundation ** Shawn Carpenter & Jonette Dixon Carpenter ’01 ** Castlewood High School * Castlewood Lions Club * Elizabeth G. Cauthen **** CGI Charles H. Hood Fund Charlottesville Scholarship Program-Annual Scholarship Fund Chickasaw Nation Education Services Mike Clisso *** Cocke County Education Foundation David Cohn & Patricia Alper-Cohn * Colgard Outdoor Sports **** H. Fred Colley & Juanita Greene Colley Bobby Colyer, Jr. ’80 & Elva K. Colyer ’01 ** Bobby H. Colyer, Sr. ’57 & Margie L. Colyer ***** Roderick Alan Colyer ’84 & Valeri J. Colyer ’83 ***** Comanche Nation Commonwealth Foundations, G.P. Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River Region * Cornerstone Pharmacy LLC Thomas M. Costa & Mary E. Martin **** County of Dinwiddie * County of Wise **** Bob Cranwell Crutchfield Corporation *** William G. Crutchfield, Jr. *** CSE Agency, Inc. * George E. Culbertson ’57 & Nancy B. Culbertson ’77 ***** Jeffrey B. Culbertson & Alise M. Culbertson 42 UVa-Wise Magazine

German P. Culver, Jr. Carolyn Cummins **** Richard Davidson & Phyllis L. Davidson ***** Dirk Paxton Davis ’85 & Jennifer Davis *** Dion F. DeLeone & Patricia DeLeone Keith A. Denson & Belinda H. Denson ’87 * Designing Smiles Cosmetic Dental Centre * Dickenson County Freewill Baptist Conference *** Robert B. DiNardo & Allison Cryor DiNardo Roger B. Dingus & Carla S. Dingus ** East Tennessee Foundation * Eastman Chemical Company * Eastman Credit Union Eastside High School * Environmental Monitoring, Inc. ** Eric Albano Youth Soccer Foundation Ernest H. Ern & Jeanette P. Ern ** Farmers & Miners Bank ** Thomas F. Farrell II & Anne Tullidge Farrell * Fas Mart * James Allen Fischer ’61 & Sue Fischer **** Foggyboot Enterprises, LLC * Ford C. Quillen Scholarship Fund *** Foundation for Roanoke Valley Fraternal Order of Eagles #4123 Randal Frazer & Sally B. Frazer ** John D. Fulton & Eva Fulton * German P. Culver, Jr., CPA, PC Jack Gibbs † William H. Goodwin, Jr. & Alice T. Goodwin Fred D. Gose, M.D. ’78 & Donna Gose GPM Investments, LLC * Grand Chapter of Virginia, Order of the Eastern Star * Great Aspirations Scholarship Program Fred B. Greear, Jr. & Ann Greear ** David F. Guza & Sarah Guza Hall’s Free School Foundation * W. W. Hamilton & Sandra Hamilton * Hantzmon Wiebel, LLP Elsey A. Harris III & Amelia J. Harris *** Haysi High School * Charles W. Henderson Don W. Henderson Frances L. Holbrook ’77 *** William C. Horne ’91 & Rebecca Horne ’91 *** Bennett E. Hylton & Dolly L. Hylton ’00 * International Scholarship and Tuition Services, Inc. * J. T. Minnie Maude Charitable Trust *

Jack H. Gibbs Trust Fund **** Jesse Walker Foundation * Betty M. Johnson **** Judith E. Johnson ’94 **** John P. Jones ’79 & Patty R. Jones * N. Brent Kennedy ’73 & Robyn Kennedy ** Travis Kennedy, Jr. ’90 ** Kentuck Baptist Church Keokee High School Alumni * Robert D. Kilgore & Courtney Lynn Kilgore ’89 ***** Kingsport Chamber Foundation, Inc. ** Jim Gott Landmark Financial Services, LLC ** Russell M. Large & Charlene Large ’87 * Steve Lawson ’78 & Valerie S. Lawson ’87 **** Lee & Phipps, PC *** Donald J. Leech & Michelle M. Villeneuve Lee-Jackson Educational Foundation Links, Inc. Danville Chapter Lopez Wealth Management, LLC Jeffrey D. Lucas ’89 & Gina C. Lucas ’89 * Donnie Maine & Rita E. Maine ** Malone Family Holdings LLC Russell H. Malone III & Beth J. Malone Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation * Lloyd C. Martin, Jr. & Joyce A. Martin * Marty Realty Company * Jonathan Keith Mason ’02 ** David B. Mattern & Charlotte H. Crystal Miners Exchange Bank ***** Timothy D. Morgan ’76 & Donna Morgan ** Morgan-McClure Chevrolet **** Mountain Valley Charitable Foundation Douglas R. Mullins, Sr. & Cecilia F. Mullins Freddie E. Mullins ’96 & Marnie Rae Mullins ’97 * Freddie E. Mullins ’71 & Karen S. Mullins ’74 *** Lawton Mullins ’04 ** N. Carroll Mullins ’70 ***** NAPA Auto Parts at Wise **** National Merit Scholarship Corporation * Russell D. Necessary ’87 & Martha C. Necessary *** Don Newlon & Cynthia Johnson Newlon ’92 **** North Carolina Community Foundation * Oak Level Baptist Church Michael E. O’Donnell & Jill O’Donnell ***** Par Ventures, Inc. Payless Super Markets ***** Richard H. Peake ***** Gregory Perry & Carol L. Perry **

Paul L. Phipps ’72 & Barbara R. Phipps ’83 **** Pi Kappa Phi Alumni Chapter Poplar Springs Baptist Church Randall J. Porter ’80 & Gina A. Porter ’81 James T. Potter, Jr. & Lauren D. Potter * Janis Powers * William Prince & Gena J. Prince ’79 Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation Merry Lu Prior ** Nancy R. Pulaski Qatar Foundation Intl., LLC Quesenberry’s, Inc. **** Christopher Michael Quillen & Jennifer L. Quillen ’01 ** Mike Quillen & Debbie H. Quillen **** Kendall Rainey ’05 * Christopher W. Ratliff ’98 & Sonya Renee Ratliff ’02 *** Paul R. Read & Kelly H. Read Regent Allied Carbon Energy, Inc. * P. Heith Reynolds ’93 & Myra D. Reynolds * J. Philip Robbins & Patricia P. Robbins * Robert Hale Scholarship Fund * Edwin R. Roop ’76 & Karen M. Roop ***** Thurston Rose ’63 & Mary Ann Rose ’63 ***** Rotary Club of Bluefield VA Jim R. Sample & Joyce C. Sample Scott County Farm Bureau Ben F. Sergent & Nancy Sergent *** Felix E. Shepard, MD Short Mountain Silica Bobby L. Shortt & Judy D. Shortt ’79 ** Joshua Ryan Skeens ’02 & Cecille Lawson Skeens ** Tommy Skeens ’72 & Linda Skeens *** Joseph C. Smiddy & Reba Graham Smiddy ***** Richard C. Smith & Lynn Z. Smith South-West Insurance Agency ***** Clyde Stacy ** John R. Stafford, Jr. & Shirley L. Stafford Jimmy C. Stewart & Jo Stewart ’84 **** Ervin Stiltner **** May B. Straughan **** Strongwell ** Sturgill Funeral Homes ***** Suncoke Energy Jewell Coal **** Brenda Swindall ’66 *** The Alper Family Foundation, Inc. * The Art League of Marion The English Foundation John D. Tickle ** Kenneth J. Tiller & Gillian Huang-Tiller *** TRANE (Roanoke) Tuck Mapping Solutions, Inc.

Union High School United Negro College Fund UVa-Wise Student Services ** Robert VanGundy & Amelia VanGundy * William P. Varson & Chances Varson Verizon Foundation Roger C. Viers ’64 & Beverly W. Viers ***** Virginia 529 College Savings Plan Virginia Cable Telecommunications Association Virginia High School League * Virginia Sheriffs’ Institute, Inc. ** VirginiaFIRST Visualize and Rize Foundation, Inc. W2C Wise LLC Wadlow Gap Ruritan Club David W. Wall & Frances M. Wall ’73 **** R. L. Wallen ’76 & Jennifer S. Wallen * Walmart #3480 Benny Wampler & Patricia Wampler Bruce Wasem ***** WDBJ Television, Inc. Wellmont Health System ** Wells Fargo Bank Wells Fargo Foundation, Inc. William D. Wendle ’93 & Teresa F. Wendle ** William C. Horne, Jr., D.D.S., P.C. David L. Williams ’67 **** S. Hoyt Williams & Dawneda F. Williams ***** Vernon Mandel Williams ’84 & Shari A. Williams ’85 ** Steven Winters & Carolyn S. Winters ’82 ** Wolfe Williams Reynolds **** Joseph E. Wolfe ’72 & Jami R. Wolfe **** FOUNDERS SOCIETY ($500 to $999) Michael H. Abbott ’82 & Debra J. Taylor ***** Bonnie M. Aker ’73 **** George T. Albiston ’80 & Debra C. Albiston Ray D. Ammon & Teresa H. Ammon * David B. Amos ’03 & Stephanie Amos ** Greg Andranovich ’78 *** Andrew Haley Scholarship Fund Ashland Kiwanis Charitable Foundation Fred W. Banner ’70 & Sue Banner ** Steve Banner & Rita Jo Banner ’74 ** Jordan C. Barnette ’09 Ted Barnette & Karen Barnette **** Bobby Bates & Debbie J. Bates *** Billie Cook Berman Berry Enterprises, Inc. Best Western Motel *

Bethel-Emmanuel United Methodist Church Thomas B. Bishop & Kyra K. Bishop John C. Blanton ’62 & Judith A. Blanton ’62 **** Ricky Lee Brown ’04 & Rachel W. Brown ’04 * Buchanan County Chamber of Commerce Wesley D. Burke & Karen Y. Burke ’84 *** C. R. Pate and Company *** C. S. & S. Coal Corporation Cancer Outreach Foundation Chatham Family Charitable Trust * Terry E. Chisenhall & Gina Chisenhall ’89 ** Clarke County Little League Coeburn Civic League *** Carl R. Coffman & Karen E. Coffman Gregory C. Cole ’84 & Roberta P. Cole Pamela J. Collie ’93 *** Contracting Enterprise, Inc. Jack Sewell Cooper ’60 & Debbie Cooper ** George F. Cridlin & Karen Cridlin ** Mark P. Cronin ’81 & Kelly Downing Cronin Dairy Queen Sharon S. Daniels ’88 **** David Tipton Scholarship Fund * C. Fletcher Dean ’86 & Jane Meade-Dean ’89 *** Christine Dean Deel Insurance Agency, Inc. *** Anthony N. Dickenson ’77 Keith Dishner & Linda Q. Dishner ’71 ***** Pierre V. Duy & Carla Mueller Duy E. C. Glass High School Scholarship Fund East Orange Ruritan Club Edward G. Stout, Attorney Terry W. Edwards ’83 & Gleda A. Edwards ** Claude E. Elkins, Jr. ’93 & Ruth A. Elkins ** Lu Ellsworth & Phyllis P. Hatcher ’75 **** ESI, Inc. ** Essex High School Barry A. Evans ’91 & Marla Evans ’92 ** Simeon E. Ewing & Glenda F. Ewing *** Fairbanks Coal ** Federal Employee Education & Assistance Fund FIRST First Bank & Trust Co. Betty H. Flanary Doug Fleming & Sue Ellen Fleming *** Fall 2014 39 Fall/Winter 2015 39 43

HONOR ROLL OF BENEFACTORS The Galax Foundation for Excellence in Education * Gardner, Inc. Edwin A. Gendron, Jr. & Eva K. Gendron Tyler G. Giles ’03 ** Earl S. Gillespie & Sylvia Parsons Gillespie ’58 * Patricia A. Gilliam ’73 ** William A. Goins & Rhonda K. Goins ’90 **** Louise Witt Good **** S. Michael Goodnough & Rita H. Goodnough ** Judy G. Harding ’75 ** Leton L. Harding, Jr. ’78 & Tammie Harding * Charles W. Hartgrove ’97 & Marcy S. Dunn *** Gary A. Harvey ’91 & Melissa Harvey *** Michael D. Hebert & Valencia A. Hebert Diane Holdren Frances F. Howard ’70 **** Hunt Commercial Properties Group ** Robert Isaac, Sr. & Dorothy Isaac **** J. A. Street & Associates **** Duane L. Johnson & Elsa B. Farmer Jonhson ’93 ** Sewell F. Johnson, Jr. **** William R. Jones & Pauline Greene Jones Jonesville Woman’s Club * Joshua V. Justice ’07 & Ella M. Smith-Justice ’04 * William P. Kanto, Jr. & Marguerite T. Kanto ** Mary C. Katz ’82 ** Estate of Denton D. Kendrick J. Jack Kennedy, Jr. ’78 *** Dennis F. Kern ’72 ** K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc. * Jack Lawson Tony Lawson ’74 ** Leonard Splaine Co., Inc. Edward F. Leonard ’09 Michael J. Lipps ’02 & Linda P. Lipps ’96 ** Lunenburg Chamber of Commerce Archie Maggard **** Lynn Michele Manchester ’96 ** John C. Marion & Janet Marion * William J. McConnell Rick D. Meade ’89 & Holly P. Meade *** Ronald W. Meister & Jane M. Sovern *** James A. Millard III & Babette Millard Millbrook High School Band Booster Association Frank D. Molinary ’72 & Constance W. Molinary ’80 *** Francis E. Moravitz & Sally H. Moravitz 44 UVa-Wise Magazine

M. A. Morgan & Molly D. Morgan Bobby G. Morrison & Georgeanna B. Morrison ’03 Jettie Greer Mullins ’97 ** Shelcy Mullins, Jr. & Karen T. Mullins *** Tom E. Mullins & Alma R. Mullins *** New Peoples Bank, Inc. *** Norfolk Southern Good Government Fund Matching Gift Program * Norton City Schools * William G. Olinger ’76 & Robin D. Robinson Olinger ’77 Paramount Mechanical Corporation Randy Partin & Jennifer L. Partin ’12 * Patrick Henry High School Frank Peele & Louise L. Peele Todd Pillion & Amanda Lawson Pillion Powell Valley National Bank **** Pulaski County High School Donnie Ratliff & Victoria G. Ratliff **** Danny Rife & Janice F. Rife Edward A. Riner ’79 *** Rish Equipment Company Gary Robbins & Donna Thacker Robbins * Frances C. Roberson ***** Robinette Steel and Scrap Metal Company **** Russell County Board of Supervisors Robert H. Sage ’79 & Laura M. Sage ***** Ruby S. Salyers ’70 * Cathy L. Sandidge ’71 ***** Leonard W. Sandridge, Jr. & Jerry S. Sandridge Donald E. Sharitt & Cindy D. Sharitt Shelcy Mullins, Sr. Raffle Ronnie Shortt & Marcia Lee Shortt ’85 Sisters of Ivy Educational Foundation, Inc. Matthew Slemp ’05 Luis J. Smith & Sarah J. Pilkenton ’97 ** Snyder Nursing Home Foundation Snyder Nursing Home, Inc. Estate of Minnie B. Snyder South Star Distributors Spotsylvania High School Spotsylvania High School Athletic Booster Club St. Mary’s Health Wagon, Inc. * Tracy Stallard ** Rodney D. Stanley ’97 & Laura Gail Deel-Stanley ’98 ** William H. Starnes, Jr. & Sofia Starnes * Kathy Thacker Stewart ’77 ***** Michael L. Still ’84 & Kathy L. Still ’84 * Edward G. Stout ’71 & Linda D. Stout ’72 ***** Joe Gary Street Dennis Sturdavant & Frances M. S. Sturdavant

Talmadge Johnson Management Company The Clapboard House, Inc. ** TKB Inc. * Todd’s Hair Studio ** Turkey Gap Coal Company, Inc. ** Vermont Student Assistance Corporation Victaulic Company of America Virginia Business Education Association Virginia Electric Supply, Inc. ** Virginia FBLA Virginia Lottery Vos Electric Inc. D. C. Walker Walton F. Mitchell Scholarship Fund Randy L. Wampler & Yvonne Greene Wampler ’86 * Neal E. Ward, Sr. ’80 & Chris Newbaker Ward * Warren County School Board West River Conveyors & Machinery Co. Sam M. Wharton ’65 & Debra A. Wharton ’78 **** Emmet T. White & Betty Orr White ’66 * Shirley G. Willis **** Brian Wills & Elizabeth S. Wills ’74 **** Wise County Animal Hospital *** Wise County Family & Community Education Club * W-L Construction & Paving, Inc. * CAVALIER SOCIETY ($300-$499) Anonymous Abingdon High School ** J. D. Adams & Sherry Adams ’88 ** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. ** BA Bartlett, Inc. * Larry O. Baker ’67 & Patricia A. Baker **** Anne Barker ’78 *** Billy Bartlett & Allison Bartlett ** Martha D. Beach ** Brandon Lee Bolling ’98 ** John H. Brickey III ’86 & Karen Brickey **** Valerie A. Bruce ** Bruner Golf Services, LLC Blake Bruner & Jennifer Bruner Taylor R. Burgess ’95 & Pebbles Burgess * Dorothy Chittester * Charles Clarke & Carole Clarke The James J. Collins Family **** Robert D. Collins & Pamela Minor Collins ’79 ** Robert Ronald Collins ’59 **** Diane Cornett ’88 ** James S. Cox ’75 & Susan Leigh Cox ’73 ****

W. Eugene Cox & Joyce Cox Mike Craft * O’Brien Craft Christopher D. Davis ’99 & Nichole L. Davis ’99 * Clinton F. Dean & Peggy J. Dean * Eric M. Dean ’06 & Elizabeth Dean ’05 * Dale DePriest & Stefanie DePriest Frank A. Dickenson & Phyllis Dickenson Don R. Pippin, Attorney at Law D. Michael Donathan **** David A. Dotson & Henrietta M. Dotson ** Douglas C. Dotson ’76 & Betty Jo Dotson ’81 * James W. Dotson & June Dotson *** Double D Horseshoeing Wesley L. Elswick & Brenda K. Elswick ’86 *** Paula C. Ely * First Baptist Church Terry Fitzer Jim Flanigan & Susan Flanigan * Ricky H. Fogg & Michele P. Fogg ’80 ** Freddie E. Mullins, P. C. Freedom Ford ** William T. Gardner ’98 Garland Hall/State Farm Bill Gembach & Rue Gembach ** Mike G. Giles & Lisa S. Giles * Maurice J. Gover & Cynthia Gover Louella Short Greear ’64 **** J. C. Hale & Donna G. Hale ’71 * Garland A. Hall ’91 & Melissa Hall ** Glynn Helbert & Fredia Helbert *** Ron Helton & Kathy Helton *** Dennis G. Hensdill & Glenna B. Hensdill ’77 **** Paul Hibbitts & Jennifer R. Hibbitts *** Aaron C. Hicks ’97 & Candi N. Austin-Hicks ** Hillcrest Baptist Church Home Hardware & Furniture Company * HOPE Christian Community Foundation Bob Howard ’77 & Susan Howard ***** Jack R. Howard & Patricia K. Howard *** James D. Hughes ’01 & Amanda G. Hughes Impressions of Norton, Inc. *** Homer W. Jordan ’61 ** Christopher L. Kommes ’94 & Karen Kommes ** Wayne R. Lane & Linda A. Lane ** Donald W. Lee ’90 & Teresa G. Lee ’90 *** Lemons Jewelry Lindsay M. Lipps ’08 * R. Bruce Lowe ’77 & Charlotte Lowe Maggard Sales & Service * Catherine J. Mahony † *

Martha A. McGlothlin Randy McMahon ’80 & Laura McMahon **** Richard D. Meade ’71 *** Royce V. Meade & Linda S. Meade ** Michael H. Abbott, Attorney at Law James L. Miller II & Kyla Bohon Miller ’88 **** Preston D. Miller, Jr. & Mary Jane Miller Randy Moore ’80 & Imelda Moore ’81 *** Mountain Empire Hearing & Balance Eddie W. Neely & Jeni L. Neely ’74 *** Thomas E. Neff ’86 & Rene M. Neff ** Wesley M. Pattillo & Zelma M. Pattillo ’58 *** Jack C. Phelps, Jr. ’75 & Eva C. Phelps ’75 ** Don R. Pippin ’58 & Gloria R. Pippin ’73 ***** Augusto A. Portuondo & Daisy Portuondo **** Laura D. Pritchard ’91 ** Marcia K. Quesenberry *** Wayne Rader Fred L. Ramey, Jr. ’88 & Jessica Lynn Ramey ’88 ***** David Redwine Thomas E. Renfro, M.D. & Janice K. Renfro * Donnie Rife & Doris M. Rife Riggs Oil Company, Inc. *** Arnie Riggs **** Walter E. Rivers & Teresa E. Rivers *** Bradley D. Robinson ’01 & Laura F. Robinson ’01 ** Stanley Rogers & Ruby W. Rogers ’74 **** Sara M. Roop ’07 * Danny Ray Rowland ’84 **** RPC Rentals, LLC Russell County Farm Bureau Ben Russell & Debbie Vanover ’13 * Saint Paul Baptist Church Helen F. Sandidge *** Jane Ann Sandidge *** Paul D. Sarvela & Debra A. Sarvela ’79 ***** Norma A. Siemen ’85 ***** Charles H. Slemp III ’03 & Erin W. Slemp ’03 Southwest Storage, Inc. Maurice A. Sovern *** K. Matthew Stanley ’04 & Kimberly M. Stanley ’06 * Brandon P. Tester ’07 & Elizabeth D. Shuler ’02 * The Dickenson Family Living Trust Thompson & Litton **** Anthony J. Tonzola & Susan E. Tonzola

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HONOR ROLL OF BENEFACTORS Charles A. Vestal ’92 & Lorraine A. Vestal * Michael Wampler William Byrd Baseball Booster Club Leo Stanley Willis & Barbara M. Willis **** Wise County Litter Control Wally Witt ’70 **** Radford E. Wolfe & Shirley J. Wolfe **** Terry W. Wright & Dinah J. Wright ’84 **** CENTURION SOCIETY ($100-$299) Anonymous Anonymous A & A Employment Services, Inc. A & A Enterprises, Inc. *** AAUW-Norton/Wise County Branch Kevin W. Abel * Access Advertising Ad Media 101 Don G. Adams & Anna Adams *** James W. Adams ’94 & Stephanie R. Adams ’92 *** Sam Adams * Adkins & Hunnicutt **** Bob Adkins & Teresa Adkins ** Carol Mullins Adkins David J. Adkins ’93 & Kara G. Adkins ’98 J. Marty Adkins ’85 & Marybeth M. Adkins ’92 *** Jimmy J. Adkins ’04 & Pearl L. Adkins ’04 * Alpha Psi Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma International ** Rick Amari & Mary Ann Amari ’89 * AARP, Inc. Danny Anderson ** Erin M. Anderson Frederick J. Anderson & Kathryn M. Anderson Stephen Grant Anderson ’01 & Amanda L. Anderson Elizabeth Angelos Daniel K. Appel & Cheryl E. Appel ’95 ** Camden E. Arthur ’98 ** Ascot Holdings, LLC Gloria Jewell Askins ’73 ** Linda C. Bailey ’79 * Charles Malloy Baker ’01 * Danny Baker ’97 & Anne Marie Baker ’86 John D. Baker ’71 & Joanna M. Baker ***** Larry Dean Baker & Patsy Rife Baker Lavonne Baker ’71 ** Russell L. Baker ’72 & Brenda A. Baker ** Gary L. Barker ’65 & Sue Anne Barker **** Barnette Contractors * Michael Barnette ’97 & Michelle H. Barnette ’97 * Shirlee E. Barnette 46 UVa-Wise Magazine

George M. Barton ’81 & Lisa Barton ’81 * Greg Barton & Laura E. Barton ’82 ** Anthony Bartone, Jr. & Kimberly G. Bartone ’95 Betty Basham **** Terry Bass Robby Bates & Brandi Bates * Randy E. Batson & Eva E. Batson Linda Beamer Jestin M. Beck ’01 * Adam M. Bell ’00 & Tammy N. Bell ’99 * Jerry Bell † * David A. Belyea & Audrey A. Belyea Charles W. Bennett ’58 **** Bryan M. Bentley ’11 Charles David Bentley ’70 & Katherine Sue Bentley ’81 ** James H. Bettendorf, Jr. & Anna P. Bettendorf Marshall Kent Bevins, Jr. ’01 & Ashley Reba Bevins ’01 Pat R. Bevins ’94 ** Big Bore Outfitters Daniel W. Bird, Jr. * Nick Bitter & Karen Bitter John E. Black & Rowena S. Black ** Gilmer W. Blackburn & Martha Burke Blackburn ** Glenn Blackburn & Jere N. Blackburn ***** Melissa N. Blackburn ’14 Jim Blackmore C. R. Blair ** Brandon D. Blanton & Suzanne Blanton * Bledsoe Law Office * Andrew Bledsoe Charles Bledsoe & Jearline Bledsoe ** Dennis R. Blevins ’90 & Shannon R. Blevins ’91 ** Phillip Blevins, Sr. Phillip L. Blevins, Jr. ’13 Robert A. Blevins ’90 & Cindy L. Blevins ’91 ** Bob’s Market C. L. Boggs & Loretha Boggs ’95 * Teresa Scott Boggs *** Wendell C. Boggs & Tana M. Boggs ** Charles R. Bolling & Kathy J. Bolling James E. Bolling ’74 & Nancy B. Bolling ’71 Bolwell Financial Consultants, LTD Gary L. Bond ’62 **** L. J. Boothe ’07 Ray Boyson & Gwen Jones * Conrad Brandts & Dorothy Brandts Travis L. Brannon ’10 & Meagan L. Brannon * William Lee Brannon & Belinda L. Brannon *

Jeffrey W. Bray ’00 & Kelly M. Bray * Anthony Breece & Connie Y. Breece John H. Brickey, Jr. & Shirley R. Brickey ** Sean Andrew Brown ’94 * Ryan Broyles Buchanan County Public School Education Foundation * Eric W. Buchanan & Lisa M. Buchanan Jonathan Buchanan & Samantha Buchanan Scott Buchanan & Angie Buchanan ’80 * Bullworx, Inc. Joseph G. Bunn & C. Haley Bunn George S. Burgan ’89 ** David S. Burgess ’94 & Rachel D. Burgess ’06 ** Wendel S. Burke & Rachel O. Burke Alice G. Burlinson Jarrod Burton C. Jeffrey Stump, CPA PC Donnie Cagle ** A. Bruce Cahoon & Tricia C. Cahoon Braxton F. Cann, Jr. Joseph Cano Byron D. Cantrell & Carmen M. Cantrell ’81 *** Joseph W. Carey & Gwynne W. Carey Peter K. Carlson ’12 & Sarah Smith Carlson ’11 Clifton W. Carson & Regina R. Carson ** Mark A. Caruso & Carol B. Caruso * Jeremy Cason Billy Cassell Bobby R. Cassell & Mary A. Cassell * Central Baptist Church * Joe L. Chase & Susan N. Chase ’74 * Elijah J. Christman ’03 * Mark A. Church ’13 Scott Church & Deidre Anne Church ’84 *** Mark W. Clark & Leigh G. Clark *** Stephen Clark & Amy Clark Thomas V. Clark & Mary E. Clark * Clarke County Eagles Athletic Association Steven P. Clay R. Michael Clemmer ’63 Dean R. Clemons & Elizabeth A. Clemons John E. Clogston & Reita R. Clogston * Cloverleaf Chiropractic * Makenzie B. Cluesman Coastal Property Services & Landscaping, Inc. Cochran Family Foundation ** Lee S. Cochran **** Teri S. Coffey Carl R. Coffman & Sandra Coffman Billie Jean Cole ’86 * Darrell H. Cole & Judy Diana Cole ’87 *

David L. Cole & Diana G. Cole * Rick W. Cole ’83 & Karen L. Cole * Terrance C. Cole & Joy B. Cole Tom A. Cole & Vicky S. Cole Rickey J. Colley ’90 & Tina M. Colley ’89 ** James N. Collie & Sherry Collie *** Carol Ann Collier ’62 Terry Collier *** Wendi L. Collier ’96 * Collins Auto & Towing (Wise) Collins’ Auto & Towing Inc. David Collins Steve D. Collins & Deborah Hill Collins ’73 ** Kenny Combs & Deb Combs *** Mike Combs & Sheila B. Cox-Combs ’72 ***** Robert K. Combs & Shelia L. Combs ’88 Commerce Bank Commercial Insurance Services, Inc. Community Foundation for Central Blue Ridge Brett S. Compton ’02 & Jessica B. Compton ’03 * Randy V. Compton ’74 & Phyllis Compton *** James E. Cornett & Sue Cornett ***** Gary W. Counts ’96 & Gina D. Counts David L. Cox ’94 & Melissa G. Cox Scotty L. Cox ’90 * Roy Crawford ** R. Jack Cress ’63 & Marian W. Cress * John A. Crockett ’86 & Shelli R. Crockett ** Kenneth L. Crowder & Norma Crowder ’83 * Becky Curtis * Custom Heating & Air Conditioning, LLC Cutting Edge Dermatology PLLC Russell Cyphers & Vanessa Y. Cyphers ’10 Luciano D’Amato & Janice D’Amato **** Dari Delite LLC James L. Daugherty ** Charles R. Davis ’83 & Patti A. Davis Whitney Davis & Kimberly T. Davis ’92 *** Frieda M. Davison ’74 Chrisopher De Angelis John Y. Dean William R. Deel ’74 ** Mark DeLeon ’08 & Melissa W. DeLeon ’02 ** Shana D. DelForge ’99 * Susan M. Dethlefs Jeanne Dhaem Ron W. Dickenson ’71 & Judy G. Dickenson ’74 *** Cleo E. Dingus ** Disability Claims Service

Jimmy Dishner & Pat Dishner * Charlotte C. Dison ’56 ** Gregory A. Dodson ’93 & Krista L. Dodson Donnie Counts Insurance Agency * Dotson Chevrolet, Inc. * Bernard E. Dotson, Jr. ** Cory Dotson & Ashley Dotson * Roger Dotson & George Anna Dotson * Bill Dotten & Kaye Dotten Stacey K. Doyle & Fran M. Doyle ’83 * Jeffrey H. Driver & Terri C. Driver ’86 *** Homer D. Duff & Sandra S. Duff Theresa A. Dunton * Gary L. Dutton & Gayle Sandefur Dutton ’02 * Lawrence Eagle & Ellen Elizabeth Sovern *** Donald E. Earls ’61 & Sandy Earls *** Joseph Early & Margaret V. Early Brad P. Easterling ’98 & Brigitte L. Easterling ’94 John W. Edge & Lu Ann Edge Alex Edwards ’80 & Diana Edwards *** Richard W. Edwards ’77 & Rita O. Edwards * Jeffery L. Elkins ’86 & Cindy A. Elkins ** Darrell-Dingus Ely ’10 & Miranda B. Ely ’09 * Kenny W. Ervin & Sandra S. Ervin Everette B. and Linda D. Orr Family Foundation Farmer Pediatric Dentistry, PSC Daniel W. Fast & Teena M. Fast ’90 ** Tim Ferrell Fleming Law Office PC * Jackie O. Fleming & Crystal B. Fleming * Roger Mack Fleming & Susie F. Fleming Gary Shane Fletcher Foundation for the Tri-State Community Inc * Leon R. Fox & Shirley Fox * Rafael E. Franchi & Terry A. Franchi ’84 * Chad S. Franklin Friendly Floral, The Flower Shop ** Fred Tiny Funk, Jr. & Roxanne C. Funk * Rick D. Galyean & Cathy L. Galyean * Gap Development Corporation * Clyde Garrett & Linda Garrett Stephen Garrett & Debbie Garrett ’75 *** James D. Gibson Jeanie Gibson Jerry G. Gibson & Kimberly A. Gibson ’84 ** Kenny Gilley ’73 * Garnett P. Gilliam & Carolyn B. Gilliam ’63 **

Hayward Gilliam & Nancy Sorah Gilliam Rick Gilliam & Sherry Gilliam ’86 * Glass Slipper Bridal Boutique, Inc. ** Frank W. Glass James M. Glovier Michael E. Goldman ’80 Srikumar Gopalan & Renu Gopalan *** Barbara I. Gover * Patricia S. Graham ’73 Robert F. Graham & Marylou L. Graham * John F. Grant & Carolyn Grant Kent Matthew Grant ’97 & Tonya L. Grant ’97 * Michael H. Green & Phyllis R. Green Eric T. Greene ’91 & Kathy M. Greene * Guest Services, Inc. George H. Gumm & Rebecca T. Gumm **** Donald G. Gurney & Linda R. Gurney Michael J. Hac & Mary R. Hac Daniel Hafemeister Hagy & Fawbush Funeral Home, Inc. ** Lena S. Haight G. Thomas Haines & Pamela F. Haines ** Michael Halcomb Donald L. Hall ’58 & Maurine F. Hall * Joseph E. Hall & Jean D. Hall Richard A. Hall ’70 & Doris M. Hall **** Hamilton Pharmacy, Inc. Josh M. Hamm ’05 & Jamie D. Hamm ’04 * Eric J. Hanson Robert G. Harrison & Susan P. Harrison ** Bob Hartley Gary L. Hartsock ’73 & Deborah M. Hartsock ** Jerry B. Hayes ’76 & Carol W. Hayes HCE Systems, Inc. Kirby Hearl ***** Ron Heise & Julia R. Heise ***** Rachel L. Helton ’07 Dawn Henzel Heritage Hall-Wise Michael D. Hernandez Tiffany Hernandez Tabitha Hibbitts ’00 ** Highlands Chiropractic & Wellness Clinic Larry J. Hill ’62 & Brenda Hill ***** Matt Hlebinsky & Sheena Strouth-Hlebinsky ’09 Larry G. Hobbs ’65 & Nancy Hobbs * David Holbrook & Teresa Greene Holbrook Roger A. Holbrook ** Honaker High School Andrea L. Hopkins Doug Horne & Sherry R. Horne ** William Horne & Joyce Horne Chad Horvat ’06 *

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HONOR ROLL OF BENEFACTORS Judith A. Hounshell * Jonathan Houser Dennis C. Hubbard ’79 Larry Hubbard & Diane Hubbard Charles Huff & Julie D. Cartagena ’86 Joshua Daniel Hughes ’98 & Mendy Hughes ** Sandy Huguenin & Margaret Huguenin * Charles D. Hunt ’64 & Rosalind W. Hunt * Tom Ierace Insurance Building of Norton, Inc. Mary J. Isaac ’73 **** J & M Parts Delivery, Inc. * J&R Turner, Inc. * J. C. Driskill, Inc. Craig B. James & Sheryl T. James * David W. Jarvis & Leah J. Jarvis ’88 ** Joan T. Jay Jeff Elkins Attorney at Law Jennings Insurance Agency ** Ed Jennings ’71 & Jan E. Jennings * Danny B. Jessee ’72 & Rosemary B. Jessee ** Roy M. Jessee & Cindy Jessee ’98 * JOC Properties LLC Drew Johnson ’78 & Pamela S. Johnson ’79 *** John Johnson James W. Joines & Drucilla Joines * Robert M. Joines & Lorene E. Joines * Joanne L. Jones ** Sandra L. Jones ’97 ** Tim Jones ’81 & Martha S. Jones *** William H. Jones & Sibyll M. Jones ’89 * Daniel W. Jordan & Gloria Hayes Jordan ’67 Kimberly Justice Phillip C. Justice, Jr. ’97 ** Gregory M. Kallen *** Alihan Karakartal ’02 * Gonul B. Kaya ’03 * Kegley Service Center, Inc. David L. Kelly & Betty Jo Kelly ** Kennedy Enterprises LLC * Kennedy Law Office Richard Kennedy & Susan Gumm Kennedy * Kentucky Baptist Foundation Lonnie L. Kern & Ada L. Campbell **** Ronnie R. Kern & Donnese C. Kern * Bobby L. Ketron & Suzan H. Ketron ’85 **** Nolan L. Kilgore ’67 & Betty L. Kilgore ’67 *** Randall Kilgore & Dana G. Kilgore ***** Carla R. Kincer Rich Kirby & Mary Beth Bingman ’66 ** Jerry Kiser 48 UVa-Wise Magazine

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Selena M. Kiser ’00 ** Madge Kiser * Garry L. Klaiber & Vickie R. Klaiber Kenneth E. Knorr & Jean K. Knorr Kwikway Markets Bobby Kyle & Barbara Kyle * Michael R. Lambert ’78 ** Chastity Hope Lane ’95 Neal Lane Ronnie Large & Jane Kilgore Large * Roy R. Laster ** Clint Lawson, Jr. ’76 & Nancy Lawson James R. Lawson ’94 & Lori Lawson * Navada H. Lawson Luke R. Layne ’07 * Warren S. Leap III ’00 & Lydia B. Leap ’00 ** Lebanon Community Fellowship Lebanon Lions Club Bill J. Lee † ***** Erin Taylor Lee Phil Lee & Valerie Lee Terry Lee Mark T. Leonard & Jean L. Leonard Robert A. Leonard ’57 & Robin K. Leonard **** Charles Lewis Dennis Boyd Lewis ’79 & Patsy L. Lewis ’76 Franklin E. Lewis & Carolyn B. Lewis * Roy Glenn Light & Freda V. Light ** Thomas E. Lighton & Sharon V. Lighton Little Union Baptist Church Living Waters Christian Fellowship Louisa County High School Jamie L. Love LPI Inc. James G. Lucas & Susanna B. Lucas Danny S. Maggard & Margaret S. Maggard Michael D. Maggard ’90 Alice Malina Jim Manicure & Wanda Manicure Paul Marcum ’61 *** Nick Marshall ’09 & Brittany D. Marshall ’09 * D. M. Wendy Martin ’01 ** Timothy D. Martin & Paula Susie Martin ** A. George Mason, Jr. & Donna I. Mason Brian Mason Michael B. Mason ’72 & Teresa Stepp Mason ’77 ** Joseph S. Matney ’63 & Christinia A. Matney **** Maxim Engineering, Inc. ** William F. Maxwell ’59 & Marilyn Maxwell *** Les V. Mayhew Homer Maynard & Phyllis J. Maynard *

Cathy Joann Mays Tommy McAmis & Denese McAmis ** Ron D. McCall ’72 & Linda McCall **** Donald G. McCamey & Joan B. McCamey * John C. McCarroll ’95 & Brandy M. McCarroll ’06 Hunter McCoy Robert G. McCoy † *** Brian B. McDavid & Jennifer T. McDavid Tom McGarril & Kathy H. McGarril ’83 *** Rod McGinnis & Sharon L. McGinnis * John Thomas McGuire ’99 & Misty D. McGuire ’99 *** Brian D. McKnight ’97 & Pamela J. McKnight ’99 * Matthew M. McLaughlin & Denise Lynn McLaughlin Lena C. McNicholas Family Rita McReynolds ** David S. Meade ’12 Virginia H. Meador **** Frank Meredith * David Mersereau & Marianne Mersereau ’84 *** Wallace D. Mersereau & Patricia I. Mersereau * Toby Middleton & Glenis Middleton Duane A. Miller ’94 *** James H. Miller & Mary Ann Miller *** Randall S. Miller & Cathy T. Miller William H. Miller ’66 & Patricia Miller **** Daniel S. Minahan & Debra L. Minahan ’81 ** Mine Service Company, Inc. Elizabeth Ann Minor ’76 * Richard L. Minter ’04 & Marcie W. Minter ’03 * Preston W. Mitchell & Patricia Baumgartner **** Rusty Mize Moccasin Gap NAPA ** James A. Monahan & Margaret T. Monahan * Monroe County Health Center Carrington Montague & Shelby White Montague H. Ronnie Montgomery & Sandy Montgomery *** James W. Moody, Jr. & Jo Clark * Moon Dog Brick Oven II Carol Moore Thomas Moore & Darlene H. Moore *** Stephen E. Morgan & Beverly G. Morgan Morris Michael Mosberg & Brenda K. Mosberg ’71 **** Adam Mosley

Janet Mosley Mt. Olive Christian Church Mullican Flooring * Bryan L. Mullins & Michelle F. Mullins ** Bryan S. Mullins & Denise R. Mullins Chris Mullins & Victoria J. Mullins * David Mullins * Don Jack Mullins ’56 & Cathy D. Barker ** Donnie R. Mullins ’83 & Janie A. Mullins *** Doug Mullins, Jr. & Jill Mullins ** Ella Jane Mullins Emory A. Mullins ’90 & Justin M. Mullins *** Jack B. Mullins *** James Wesley Mullins ** Mrs. Jerry L. Mullins **** Kevin W. Mullins ’93 **** Michael T. Mullins ’75 & Jeanne Mullins ** Nancy C. Mullins Robert M. Mullins *** Roger G. Mullins Wallace Mullins Reginald Mungrue Mutter Insurance *** Lyle C. Mutter ** Mark W. Mutter ** Natural Resource Services, Inc. Fred Necessary & Janet Necessary Oscar Neece & Orana S. Neece ’90 *** Paula Heslin Nelson Cory Nicely NRV Investments ** K. Ryan Nutter ’07 * Oak Crest Vineyard & Winery, Inc. Ronald D. Oakes & Phyllis A. Oakes * O’Quinn Trailer & Motor Company Dennis Orr & Mona L. Orr *** Everette B. Orr ’76 & Linda D. Orr **** Edward T. Overton, Jr. E. Blake Owens ’06 Michael S. Owens ’96 * Tony Owens & Nancy Owens Hans C. Palmer & Beverly W. Palmer Charles W. Pangle & Rhonda Pangle ** Luke H. Parks ’10 Brandon W. Parrott & Jessica W. Parrott Charles H. Parsons, Sr. & Sue Parsons ***** Aaron J. Patrick & Laura A. Patrick Robert C. Patton & Bette Patton ** John W. Peace II ** Thomas R. Peake & Peggy A. Peake Stephanie Pease Douglas Pennington & Jessica D. Weaver ’10 Jeff Perry ’86 & Amy Perry Clarence Peters, Jr. Leslie Elaine Peterson ’84 *

Edwin M. Phillips ’69 & Frances K. Phillips ’71 ** Glyn Phillips, Jr. & Paulette B. Phillips ’87 ** Jeffery W. Phipps & Jackie G. Phipps Rick Pientka & Sheryl Pientka Tim Pillion & Shannon G. Pillion Jason Blaine Pittman & Rebecca K. Pittman Poor Farm Society * Mike Porter & Narda B. Porter ’88 Steven B. Powers ’82 & Susan A. Powers * Presley Trucking Company, Inc. Dale Presley S. Dale Profitt & Peggy M. Profitt Quality Inn & Suites ** Bill Quillen & Darlene Quillen Bob Quillen & Myrl Quillen **** Renata R. Quillen ** Oscar Raile & Gloria G. Raile Charlie E. Rainey, Jr. & Sharon R. Rainey * Randy Partin Construction, Inc. Karen S. Rasnake * Larry W. Rasnake ’71 & Patricia F. Rasnake ** Ronald S. Ratliff ’74 & Teresa T. Ratliff ’00 * Camellia Crockett Reece Brian Reilly ’84 John M. Reinhardt ’84 Michael L. Renfro ’73 & Diana C. Renfro * W. Rhudy Renfro Reno’s of Wise Stewart C. Reynolds ’04 * Larry Richardson & Betty Richardson **** D. Doug Rife ’78 & Michelle Boyd Rife Randy Rigg & Lisa H. Rigg *** James S. Riggs *** Jason Riggs & Karen Ely Riggs * Rinco Enterprises, Inc. Bobby J. Ring ’97 & Brooke Swanson-Ring ’06 * Eddie W. Robbins Heather M. Robbins ’14 Jimmy R. Roberson & Sherry M. Roberson Betty H. Roberts * Glenn E. Roberts, Jr. & Patti Roberts ’70 *** James R. Roberts Jonathan D. Roberts & Diana O’Bryan Roberts ’79 Lona W. Roberts *** Robertson Farms Robinson Auto Parts No. 4 ** Cara N. Robinson ’15 Dennis T. Robinson * Martha F. Robinson *

Troy Robinson & Mary C. Robinson ’82 ***** Jeraldine M. Roop ** Vada Rose ** RRC & Co LLC Justin B. Runyon ’98 ** Yong Sun Ryu Ryan Sabin & Twila G. Williams-Sabin Saginaw Valley State University Chad Salyer ** Fern C. Salyer Joe B. Salyer, Jr. & Nancy H. Salyer ’80 *** Phil Salyer & Tammy Salyer Royal Ines Salyers David M. Sanders ’77 & Sharon Sanders Gary A. Sarnoff Stanley R. Satterfield & Lou Castle Satterfield ’58 * Joe A. Scardo ’63 & Gerry Scardo ** R. Matt Schwarz & Janice M. Schwarz ’86 *** Andy Scott ’05 & Wendy B. Scott * S. Buford Scott & Susan Bailey Scott *** Deborah Segal James P. Senter ’60 & Ginger Rose Senter ** Sidney R. Sewell & Carolyn W. Sewell ’78 **** Brittany M. Hall Seybert ’07 Mel R. Shelton ’71 & Cathy Flanary-Shelton ** Edward P. Shepherd ’64 & Karen L. Shepherd Bobby J. Short ’90 & Angela Short ****

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HONOR ROLL OF BENEFACTORS Dawn Michelle Short ’98 ** Charlene Shortt ’74 ** Mack A. Shortt & Lucetta L. Shortt Terry L. Shortt & Shelby Shortt ***** Jeffery A. Shupe ’96 & Elizabeth N. Shupe ’96 Roncie Silcox ’70 & Lettia P. Silcox ** Eddie Skeens ’76 & Marianne H. Skeens ** Glen Skinner & Jan P. Zentmeyer *** Brack E. Slate ’68 & Rosemary M. Slate ** Slemp Law Office Smith Consultants, Inc. Greg W. Smith & Sandra R. Smith * Justin Todd Smith ’04 Lane A. Smith III ’89 & Honi Smith **** Lloyd L. Smith & Kathy Smith Preston M. Smith ’12 Thomas E. Smith ’83 & Page H. Smith * Worley Smith & Delores W. Smith ’87 Larry A. Smithers & Sheila G. Smithers Carl R. Snodgrass ’58 & Louise A. Snodgrass ** Jacob P. Somervell ’99 & Cynthia E. Somervell ’99 * Sonny Merryman, Inc. Gregory South ’67 & Patty South * Southwest Disposal, Inc. ** Southwest Regional Recreation Authority Southwest Surgical ** Southwest Tool Rental, Inc. The Southwestern Virginia Technology Council Spiegler, Blevins & Company PC Stewart Randall Spradlin ’92 * Kenneth Spurlock, Jr. & Martha Spurlock * James W. St. Clair St. James Episcopal Church St. Paul Builders & Supply Company ** Addison M. Stallard & Elizabeth H. Stallard * F. Harold Stallard ’66 & Katherine B. Stallard ’71 ** Kevin Stallard Darren Stanley & Kristin Ely Stanley Randy D. Stanley ’78 & Betsy Grossman ** Tracy L. Stapleton ’91 & Wendy Kay Stapleton ’92 ** Christopher T. Starnes ’98 & Autumn M. Starnes * Al Stecker & Jane B. Stecker ***** Gary C. Steele & Carlotta M. Steele ’92 Carol Steinfeldt Karen A. Steinman ’63 ** Danny L. Sterling & Kimberley P. Sterling ’97 *** Billy J. Stewart & Louanna B. Stewart * Jentlea E. Stewart ’71 **** 50 UVa-Wise Magazine

William N. Stokes, Jr. ’74 & Toni Gilliam Stokes ’74 *** Gary R. Stratton *** Walter J. Strength Fred Strouth & Rebecca Jane Strouth ’92 Michael Strouth ’80 & Carolyn S. Strouth ’67 ** C. Jeffrey Stump * Robert Stump & Alice M. Stump *** Sturgill Law Office, PC ** Donald B. Sturgill & Anne N. Sturgill * Jeffery Allan Sturgill ’74 & Kathy Sturgill *** Mark E. Sturgill ’90 & Kimberly H. Sturgill ’89 *** Marvin Sturgill & Betty Lou Sturgill Robin Sturgill Robert F. Summers & Twila F. Summers ’70 ** Susan B. & S. Buford Scott Trust Fund ** Billy Sutherland & Erra Sutherland * William H. Sutherland & Thora M. Sutherland James D. Swartz ’01 & Jennifer R. Swartz * Tan Land Larry Martin Tapper & Julia R. Winston Janet I. Tate Tommy J. Taylor ’62 & Phyllis A. Taylor Tester Chiropractic, LLC The Creel Company, Inc. The Inn at Wise Thomas E. Neff Insurance Agency ** Whitney N. Thompson ’12 William A. Thompson III & Jan Chaffin Thompson *** Alice Thorne Tommy K. Thornton & Sharon V. Thornton Thrower, Blanton & Associates, P.C. ** Tim Short Chrysler, LLC Adam L. Tolbert ’06 Tractor Supply Andrew F. Traynor, Jr. * James W. Trullender ’02 TruPoint Bank Bubby Turner Charlie R. Turner ’90 * Robert L. Tyus, Sr. & Peggy S. Tyus UVa-Wise Bookstore UVa-Wise Seven C’s UVa-Wise Student Government Association Valley Broadcasting & Communications, Inc. ** Valley View Animal Clinic Anthony Ray VanNostrand ’85 & Raye Jean M. VanNostrand *** David Vanover

Henry A. Vanover ’74 & Suzzanne B. Vanover ’75 Mr. Justin Vanover Grace J. Varona Richard C. Varona & Karen M. Varona Santana L. Vasquez ’07 * Margaret E. Vaughn Tommy R. Vestal ’03 * Bob G. Viers ’64 Lewis V. Walker * Mary Vicars Walker James David R. Wall ’93 & Sabrina G. Wall ** Habern Wallen ’65 & Ann H. Wallen ’70 ** Waller Insurance & Financial Services, Inc. Walter E. Rivers, Attorney at Law Jariel M. Walton ’10 Charles R. Ward ’76 & Brenda H. Ward ’76 ** Ernie W. Ward & Debbie Ward **** Walter Ware & Andy Ware * Timothy J. Watkins & Karen D. Watkins ’95 * Edwin D. Watson ’76 & Debra D. Watson ’91 ***** Patricia D. Watson William H. Watson & Alicia T. Watson Wayne F. Watts ’70 & Frances Watts * The Estate of Don Wax Wells Fargo Matching Gifts Program Barry R. Wells & Martha W. Wells ’73 ** Alethea West-Harding Jim Wheeler Roger D. Whitaker ’70 & Brenda L. Whitaker *** Jerry Wayne White ’74 & Sherry A. Wolfe **** Greg Whittaker & Chantale Whittaker ’71 **** James R. Wiandt & Victoria L. Wiandt * Marion M. Wiles ’92 * William H. Miller, Insurance Agent Damon L. Williams ’90 & Melanie S. Williams **** David Williams & Mitzi M. Williams ’88 Gary S. Williams ’71 & Vicki G. Williams ’74 * Kevin M. Williams ’94 & Blairanne Williams *** Phillip Williams & Sara G. Williams ’99 * Robert L. Williams & Connie A. Dreusicke Roger L. Williams ’72 & Lora E. Williams ’71 ** Sandra E. Williams ’58 *** Willis Land & Goat Company Jerry Ray Willis & Judith G. Willis Johnny Willis *

Charles J. Wills ’05 & Karrie Wills James M. Wilson ’01 & Jessica A. Wilson ’01 * Rickey E. Wilson & Donna W. Wilson Steve Wilson & Kim Wilson ** Winston Ely Health and Wellness Center Wise County Chamber of Commerce *** Wise County Shrine Club Wise Fire Department Witt Associates L. C. Ryan W. Witt & Elizabeth Witt William C. Witt, Jr. & Kathleen A. DePonte **** Edna O. Wood Ted G. Wood * Michael D. Wright ’72 & Diane D. Wright ** Philip L. Wright & Marie A. Wright Troy W. Wright ** William L. Wykoff, III Bobby L. Yates & Mildred Kirby Yates ’71 *** Gary Yates & Marilyn Yates Guy E. Yates & Barbara A. Yates Peggy S. Yates Edward Young & Susan D. Young Gerald E. Young & Phyllis E. Young Peter J. Yun ’08 Peter S. Yun & Sandy J. Yun *** Edmund Zduoba & Zita D. Zduoba Simona A. Zduoba RED AND GRAY SOCIETY ($1-$99) Anonymous * Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous A Matter of Taste Joe M. Adair & Jane V. Adair Clara C. Adame de Heu Adams & Co., P.C. Adam’s Friendly Tire Service Dalena J. Adams Dorothy C. Adams ’93 * Spencer Todd Adams, Jr. ’11 Arnold L. Addington & Sue Davis Addington * Matthew L. Adkins ’07 * Janice C. Agee Amanda Jean Brown Aker ’13 Morris L. Akers ’92 & Donna J. Akers ** William R. Akers, Jr. Karley L. Allen Maicee M. Allen Grace M. Allio ’70 ** Patsy L. Anderson ’71 ****

Timothy Scott Anderson ’05 & Alicia K. Anderson ’07 * Stanley L. Andrews, Jr. & Wanda C. Andrews Dana K. Angell ’79 * Brittany A. Angello ’09 Annette’s Dari-Barn Gregory B. Arnott & Rebecca B. Arnott ’70 Nell Asbury **** James P. Ashley & Sandra D. Ashley ’86 *** AutoZone D. Greg Baker ’82 & Sherry Baker *** December Baker Scott Baker & Danielle Baker Carolyn M. Baldwin ’00 Randy W. Baldwin & Dinah P. Baldwin William P. Barber, Jr. & Barbara J. Childs-Barber ’14 Keith Barton & Charlene Barton Kethena K. Barton ’13 Larry W. Barts & Gayle Barts Larry R. Basenback & Penny L. Basenback * Arlie Bates & Judy Fletcher-Bates Terry E. Bates ’64 & Donna Marie Lawson Bates ’74 ** Emily N. Baxter ’13 Binta Bayoh Fred A. Bays ’86 & Teressa Y. Bays ***** Jeremiah Bean & Nephateria Bean Stephen D. Beavers & Jennifer D. Beavers ’80 Danny Belcher ** George E. Belcher & Nancy K. Belcher ’83 ** Randall C. Belcher ’97 & April D. Belcher * Gary D. Bellamy & Carol O. Bellamy ’70 ** James W. Bellamy, Jr. ’97 & Jacqueline Bellamy ** Benevity/American Endowment Foundation Terry C. Benshoff ’79 Alvin Berkompas & Joy M. Berkompas Kevin D. Berry & Laura K. Berry ’07 * Ashley M. Bierlair ’11 Ryan A. Bierlair ’12 Dimitri A. Bikos ’08 & Danuta K. Bikos * R. A. Billings & Linda Billings Santana T. Bishop Mark Blair & Heather Blair ’11 Steve N. Blankenbecler ’86 & Lisa Blankenbecler * Matt Blansett Josh N. Blatt ’12 Ernest Kent Blevins & Pamela Jean Blevins Jerry W. Blevins & Devona Faye Blevins Jen M. Boa Garry L. Bogan, Jr. ’04 *

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Roger A. Bolling & Janice E. Bolling ’95 ** Tayler N. Bolling ’14 Bonanza Family Restaurant ** J. David Bonham & Betsy R. Bonham Harold H. Booth & Carole L. Booth * G. Rosa Bott ’05 K. Wayne Bott ’76 & Gwyneth M. Bott ’79 * Bradford J. Bowen ’00 & Whitney M. Bowen ’00 ** Zach Bowen ’08 LaRae Boyd ’10 John C. Brake & Margo S. Brake Pam Branham Carla Bresee Ryan Brewer Amber S. Brooks ’13 Daniel W. Brooks & Virginia M. Brooks Suzanne Brooks Wilma B. Brooks * Mark G. Broughear & Debra L. Broughear Aron J. Brown ’06 Brian S. Broyles ’93 & Alana C. Broyles ’94 Frank Bucca, Jr. & Connie T. Bucca Rick Buchanan & Pam Buchanan William E. Bullock & Dorothy C. Bullock Gary D. Burgess & Linda Burgess ** Burke’s Outlet Jeanne V. Callaway ’79 *** Jack D. Calton & Shirley Calton Bart Came & Sarah E. Came ’11 Katelyn N. Cantrell ’15 Kayla L. Cantrell ’08 Kayla G. Carey Lee D. Carey & Elaine A. Carey Jola Kayreen Carico Betty Wells Carter ’72 *** Oren Jackson Carter, Jr. & Nancy Joan Carter Michael G. Casey & Kathleen D. Casey Anthony Cashio & Miranda Cashio Dickie J. Cassell & Zona C. Cassell John D. Cassell ’63 & Janice W. Cassell ** Jimmy Caudill & Wanda B. Caudill ’74 James N. G. Cauthen & Helen M. Cauthen Reagan J. Cecil ’09 Cedar Hills Country Club Joseph W. Chadwell ’92 * Jerred Chandler & Ashley P. Chandler Changes by Dwayne & Co. Salon Elizabeth D. Chappell ’09 C-Health Foundation Joy Cheek Patricia Chelette David G. Chesterfield & Pamela A. Chesterfield Fall/Winter Fall 2014 2015 47 47 51

HONOR ROLL OF BENEFACTORS Autumn C. Chisenhall ’13 Louis P. Cipriani & Michele E. Cipriani F. Venus Clark ’57 ** Jessica I. Clark ’15 John Clark Tonia Cleary Todd Clendenon & Angela S. Clendenon ’00 Zachary Clifton ’12 & Kasi E. Clifton ’11 Clintwood High School Class of 1970 Rebecca R. Clippard ’15 Jimmy Cluesman & Mickey Cluesman H. Ralph Cole & Nancy A. Cole Roger Coleman Tim A. Coleman & Susan E. Coleman Shizuka H. Coley ’04 T. Michael Colley & Cathleen A. Colley Barbara G. Collins * Carter Collins ’56 & Anna B. Collins *** Justin M. Collins ’04 & Jody L. Collins * Karen E. Collins ’99 & Susan Walters * Michelle Collins Mingkwan Collins Ronald G. Collins Congo’s Hallmark Edward D. Conley & Pam K. Conley ’84 **** Joshua Cook & Sandra H. Cook ’03 Steven K. Cooney ’82 & Mary D. Cooney ** James D. Cooper & Patty W. Cooper * Joseph Lynn Cooperstein ’14 & Stephanie Adkins Cooperstein ’12 Robert J. Corazza & Carolyn J. Corazza Robert L. Coughlin & Patricia C. Coughlin ’86 Council High School * Jeannie Cowden Bradley J. Cox & Jessica J. Cox ’06 James Cox & Juanita Thompson Cox ’99 Brenda Craft Linda Crenshaw Critter Sitter Jace S. Cuje ’88 & Nancy L. Cuje **** D. Ray Curd & Judith A. Curd Michael K. Dalton & Marie M. Dalton James L. Daugherty ’72 & Paula J. Daugherty ** Joshua L. Davidson & Kelly H. Davidson ’10 * Ron Davidson ’73 & Janet Davidson Brad Davis & Kayla Wolfe Davis ’05 Greta Denise Davis ’77 ** Jefferson W. Davis ’95 * Jennifer Rose Davis ’05 Johnnie L. Davis ’70 & Marian P. Davis Karen Bowman Davis ’73 52 UVa-Wise Magazine

Steven C. Davis ’09 & Julie S. Davis ’09 Toni L. Davis ’08 Erin P. Dawson ’04 Mary Ann De Angelis Harry J. Deale & Iris S. Deale Ricky L. Deale & Cyndi W. Deale Timothy N. Dean ’87 & Stephanie G. Dean ’94 * Daryl Roger Delp ’74 & Susan Delp * Meghan Dennehy Clifton S. Diaz ’12 Richard David Dick & Joyce D. Meeks * Jaclyn Rose Dickens Marianne V. Dickt Allen L. Dillion & Jamie R. Dillion Caleb D. Dingus & Marcie A. Dingus Amy Disney Robert Elijah Dixon & Lindsey N. Dixon ’11 Mark Dockery & Katelyn J. Dockery Dominion Office Products, Inc. Donna’s Nails William B. Dorough & Doris E. Dorough Bobby L. Dorton ’73 & Sandra E. Dysart * Denise R. Doss John F. Dotson & Kay B. Dotson Kenneth D. Dotson ’66 & Judy H. Dotson ’67 * Robin D. Dotson ’81 & Karen D. Dotson ’83 ** William L. Dotson, Jr. ’72 & Melinda A. Dotson ’89 Jason Dubay & Chelsie M. Dubay ’06 Wayne Dye & Anita M. Dye ’88 Easterly-Coleman Furniture LLC Jeanette Ecker * Samantha L. Edge Joshua C. Edney ’10 & Marshell N. Edney ’10 Christopher J. Edwards ’90 & Lisa A. McConnell Gregory P. Edwards ’70 & Christina Edwards ’70 * Kemper S. Edwards ’09 & Randi R. Beverly ’11 El Castillo Mexican Restaurant Ray Eldridge ’83 & Norma J. Eldridge * Doug Elosser & Bonnie Elosser ** Charlotte W. Estep † ** Sandy Etter & Debra W. Etter ’78 ** Euritha’s Gift Shoppe Chris Evans ’75 Jody Lee Evans ’82 & Kimberly D. Evans ** Matthew O. Faircloth ’10 Judith G. Farley ’65 * Franklin N. Farmer & Donna S. Farmer John J. Ferguson & Iva M. Ferguson Philip E. Ferski ’79 *

Brett Matthew Fields ’01 * Jordan T. Fifer ’13 William W. Finch & Maxie Finch Kathy Sutherland Finn ’84 *** Mina Fischer Audrey Flanagan Ms. Madeline K. Flannery ’82 David Fletcher & Susan Fletcher Matthew Ryan Fletcher Christopher R. Foley & Dottie A. Foley Food City John Ford & Kathleen Ford ’64 William Forte & Rose Forte Thomas J. Foy & Emma M. Foy Edsel B. Fraley ’88 & Charlene H. Fraley *** Ed Franks ’94 & Shannon C. Franks ’94 * Samuel J. Freccero & Dawn E. Y. Freccero Sammie Freels ’11 Vincenz C. Freels ’15 Dennis P. Fritz ’79 & Alice Fritz *** Ronald H. Fuller ’56 & Carole Fuller * Raymond W. Gallagher & Linda Hill Gallagher ’71 *** Dakota M. Gallimore Sherri R. Gardner ’97 * Tony A. Gardner ’83 & Jennie Gardner ’74 Caroline J. Garrett ’11 Robert M. Gaucher & Renea L. Gaucher ’92 ** William Geringer & Lucy T. Geringer Curtis M. Gibson ’13 & Allie R. Gibson ’11 * John O. Gibson, Jr. & Barbara Gibson Stephen M. Gibson & Rosa Lee Mullins Gibson ’96 * George T. R. Gillen & Tammy R. Gillen Catherine M. Gillespie Gladeville Quality Cleaners Ollie B. Glodis Marie Glover Kreshanna Goforth Kimberley M. Good ’15 Grand Home Furnishings Kehana D. Grayer Tommy G. Green & Cindy L. Green Karen L. Greene ’84 Margaret M. Grove ** Andrew A. Gulino ’93 & Allegra M. Gulino ’93 *** William Haderer & Brittni Altmann Haderer ’15 Ronald V. Hale ’87 & Tempi H. Hale * Joan Roberson Hall ’61 **** Happiness Nails LLC B. Todd Harris ’03 & Leah Harris Larry D. Harris & Angela R. Harris Richard Harris

Richard W. Hartless & Irmgard R. Hartless H. Edward Harvey, Jr. & Ellen G. Harvey Matthew E. Harvey ’06 Sidney B. Harvey & Shirley S. Harvey Scott A. Hauer ’80 & Sandy Hauer Dennis W. Hawk * Michelle Hawkins Wayne Hawkins & Bridgette A. Hawkins ’94 * Olga C. Hayes ’08 Jewele H. Haynes ’91 ** Bryan C. Head ’98 & Marnie M. Head ’96 Aaron G. Hearl ’08 Mary Beth Helstrom ’93 Deborah J. Helton ’80 Brandi Bishop Hensley ’06 Pam Hensley Honey M. Hernandez ’96 Robert E. Herron ’91 & Pauline E. Herron ’00 John L. Hickman & Jennifer G. Hickman ’83 * Christopher L. Higgins ’15 Iris Kymberly Hill Marilyn A. Hilliard * Kenneth Hinners & Katherine Hinners Ed Goodson Hitting Jerry L. Hobbs & Victoria Johnson Hobbs ’83 ** Jeweldine H. Hodges ’78 Michael D. Hoffmann & Julie A. Hoffmann Malinda Hogan Jeffrey L. Holliman, Sr. ’91 & Dena M. Holliman * Nita A. Hollinger Lacie D. Holmes ’05 Brittany N. Holts Chad E. Hood ’96 & Adrienne Hood Ashley Nicole Hooven ’15 James R. Hooven & Connie M. Hooven Marslean C. Hooven Krista E. Huckaby ’10 Jim Huff & Pam Huff Don Huffman & Carol J. Huffman Carolyn Hunsucker Fran G. Hunt ’80 & Martha Hankins Hunt ’81 ** Sara D. Hurd ’08 Clinton T. Hurley ’15 Cody Hutchinson & Kaylee J. Hutchinson ’08 * Walter E. Hylton & Melinda Kay Hylton ’02 ** Sherifa Idris Innovative Graphics & Design, Inc. * Joan Ison ’73 Clemon L. Jackson & Gloria J. Jackson ’79 * Doyle James, Ph.D. & Reba B. James

Briana Jamison ’15 Corey B. Jenkins ’15 Debbie Jessee Kenneth D. Jessee & Connie Collins Jessee ’80 Tammy Jessee Cody Jewell Austin T. Johnson Lola Johnson Reba F. Johnson ’95 Douglas K. Jones & Letha Jones Elena R. Jones Jeffery A. Jones ’98 & Alicia C. Jones ’10 Nehemiah A. Jones Stephen N. Jones & Deandra Anderson Jones ’91 Juste Music Debbie Kale Nancy M. Kamal ’10 Jim Kegley & Rae Ann Kegley Erin L. Kellam ’14 James S. Kennedy ’67 & Cheri Kennedy * Dean Kerkhoff & Robin Kerkhoff * Andrianah J. Kilgore ’14 Paul Kilgore & Diana Tate Kilgore ** James A. Kiser ’75 & Brenda W. Kiser ’86 * James Kitelinger & Amy Kitelinger Bobbie June Knoll Gregory A. Kozera & Lynnda K. Kozera Gregory Lee Kress ’81 & Tracy Kress * James A. Kring & Sarah Teresa Kring ’83 ** Linda M. Kristofek Labash Boutique Sharon M. Lane Rob Laney & Gequetta B. Laney ’96 Roger D. Langrel & Mary A. Langrel ’67 * Sara Marie Lanningham ’80 * Stephen B. Large ’06 & Julie S. Large ’09 Nathaniel R. Law ’99 & Keeisha Law Fred Lawson & Mary E. Lawson Ron R. Lawson & Suzanne W. Lawson Lebanon High School Lebanon Insurance Agency, Inc. Lebanon Memorial United Methodist Church Lee County Career & Technical Center Monti A. Lee & Sabrina B. Lee Randall T. Legros & Italia I. Legros Lewis Leigh, Jr. & Rosalie F. Leigh Michael W. Leonard & Teresa G. Leonard Rosanne C. Letson ’81 ** Lettucebake, Inc. Charles E. Lex III & Sarah F. Lex Matthew M. Lindamood & Ashley Lindamood Tracy Linkous ’95 * Keith E. Linville ’14 Dwayne Lipe *

Danny L. Lloyd & Mary Ellen Lloyd ** Brian B. Lockhart & Ellen Baldwin Lockhart ’87 ** Chris L. Lockhart & Lois F. Lockhart * Luke Logan ’11 & Mikaela R. Logan ’12 Dan A. Long ’62 & Linda H. Long *** Longworth Sports Group, Inc. Chad Longworth ’09 & Kristi F. Longworth ’05 * Tony Love & Hettie Childress Love ’94 Gary T. Lowery Lanna Monday Lumpkins Tim Mabe & Cindy Mabe ’95 Mike Maggard & Tracy M. Gose-Maggard ’97 Tommy J. Maggard & Cathy A. Maggard ’80 ** Doris B. Mahan ’72 ** Shahid Malik ’78 & Sabiha S. Malik ** David J. Mallard & Karen P. Mallard ’88 Eric Mann & Lori Mann Phillip D. Manos & Dana Manos Kelly E. Maples ’09 Chelsea V. Marshall ’14 Graham A. Marsteller ’99 & Sarah H. Marsteller * Michael L. Martin & Debbie L. Martin Sherri Martin ’05 Maurices Justin E. Maxey & Melissa S. Maxey Sheila Dougherty May ’84 Michael G. McBride ’07 Laura E. McClellan ’98 * Scott C. McDaniel ’06 & Jade B. McDaniel ’10 Michael B. McElrath & Crystal S. McElrath M. Steven McKenzie ’90 & Karyn McKenzie * Aaron McKinney & Kristi R. McKinney Elizabeth McKinney Sean E. McNalley ’03 & Jessica L. McNalley ’04 Sarah Love McReynolds ’87 ** Shawn P. Mead April Meade Francene Meade ’11 Lorra Meade * Michael Mebrahtu ’09 Johnny Merricks & Cynthia J. Merricks ’79 Stacy Messer & Leigh Ann Messer Ricky L. Meyer & Karen S. Meyer Mi Finca Mexican Restaurant James C. Michnowicz & Stephanie P. Michnowicz ’00 * LaRue Carter Miles * Samuel J. Miles ’00 ** Timothy P. Miles ’00 ** James D. Miller & Bonnie Miller Fall 2014 Fall/Winter Fall/Winter 2015 2015 49 53 49

HONOR ROLL OF BENEFACTORS Linda G. Miller Mark Miller & Rhonda B. Miller ’81 Marlin D. Miller & Jennifer M. Miller ’84 Thomas K. Miller & Sherry Y. Miller Allen D. Mink & Kaye C. Mink ’82 * Angela S. Minter ’02 * Christina M. Molinary ’92 * Monterrey Mexican Restaurant Jeffrey B. Moore ’92 & Vickie Moore * Lester I. Moore ’75 & Carolyn W. Moore ’75 Steven K. Moore & Suzanne R. Moore ’93 * Ben Morgan Frank D. Moritz II ’03 & Marissa Vito Cruz Joe Morton & Donna Morton MountainRose Vineyards * Matthew P. Mueller & Cynthia K. Mueller Burma Mullins Craig T. Mullins ’05 & Santana Mullins Gregory A. Mullins ’97 & Stephanie G. Mullins ’99 Jackie M. Mullins & Judy B. Mullins James Ron Mullins & Nola L. Mullins ’83 * Jessica D. Mullins ’09 Jonathan E. Mullins ’07 & Jennifer S. Mullins Juanita B. Mullins ** Larry B. Mullins & Janet M. Mullins ’71 * Sam Mullins & Kenna L. Mullins ’85 * Samantha J. Mullins ’14 Susan Mullins Tyler Mullins ’12 & Kendra Duty Mullins ’12 Kevin L. Musick & Rhonda Sullivan-Musick ’05 * Joe R. Necessary ’12 Justin L. Necessary ’07 & Jessica J. Necessary * Samuel R. Needham & Judy C. Needham ’96 *** Michelle L. Newberry James L. Newton & Betty E. Newton ’83 Stephen W. Niece & Rhenea C. Niece * Bob G. Nixon & Sharon H. Nixon *** Norton Cinema City James W. Nunley & Connie P. Nunley ’72 ** Thomas L. Nyman Michael O’Bryan & Denise Greene O’Bryan ’88 ** Frances G. Orr * Joseph A. Ott & Joan M. Ott William R. Palmer Pamela’s Hair Designs Ashley M. Pannell ’14 Stanley K. Parrish & Rebecca F. Parrish Fern L. Passini Janice M. Patrylak 54 UVa-Wise Magazine

Mark J. Patrylak Robin Pauls Robert W. Payne, Jr. & Lisa W. Payne David E. Peace ’04 ** Judy Ann Pearce * Travis Matthew Perry ’96 & Stephanie D. Perry ’96 * Paul A. Phillips ’96 ** Hancel Derek Phipps ’89 & Jennifer Phipps * Pi Kappa Phi * Piggy Went-a-Smokin Alexandra M. Pilcher F. Scott Pippin & Kathy A. Pippin *** Robert J. Pippin, Jr. & Deborah E. Pippin ’73 Gini L. Pleasants ’78 Alan L. Plisko ’72 & Valena White Plisko ** Ronald L. Porter & Rita J. Porter ’71 ** Charles B. Poston ’93 Dorothy J. Powers L. Jeanne Powers ’80 *** Lori E. Price ’07 Scott Price & Rose M. Price ’91 Carol Propst Eugene L. Pruitt ’70 & Kimberly Pruitt Sean E. Quick & Julia E. Quick Melvin E. Quillen & Phyllis H. Quillen ’75 * Betty G. Rainey Jaime E. Ramos & Joyce T. Ramos Mark Ramsey & Suzanne Adams-Ramsey ’80 ** Bill Ramseyer & Mary A. Ramseyer ***** Augustus M. Raney & Pat Flanary Raney * Harry M. Redman & Rebecca L. Redman William D. Reece & Dorinda B. Reece Celine A. Rhodes Rhonda’s Hallmark Charles B. Rice ’76 & Katherine B. Newson Nicholas W. Richards ’06 Danny E. Rife II ’05 ** Catherine C. Rigg ’11 Joanna M. Roberson Jason M. Robinette ’02 & Cherub Robinette Bill Robinson Dale Robinson & Irene Robinson * Jaime F. Robinson Michael B. Robinson ’03 & Tamara S. Robinson ’93 Roger’s Auto Sales and Service *** Romano’s Restaurant Roma’s Pizzeria * Antony D. Roop ’97 & Amy D. Roop *** Tyler C. Rosado ’11 Kenneth Rose & Joe Ann Rose ’63 ** Randy K. Rose ’80 & Ann L. Rose ** Christopher M. Ross ’93 & Jennifer L. Davies-Ross *

April Rowland John Rowland ’70 & Phyllis Rowland ’70 Michael W. Rowland ’80 & Tina D. Rowland **** Annamarie Russell Ashley L. Ryan ’11 David J. Sabo ’13 Frederick K. Saffouri ’97 & Denise Lynn Saffouri ’97 * Marlene F. Salyer ’95 * Richard Salyer & Maria S. Salyer ’94 Patsy G. Salyers ’99 Michael F. Samerdyke & Elizabeth Steele Samerdyke ** Coy R. Sams & Judith P. Sams Corey Sanchez ’13 Gabriel Sanchez & Ana M. Sanchez Veronica M. Sanchez ’15 John P. Sanders ’64 * Joel Sanford & Jennifer M. Sizemore-Sanford ’90 ** Madison Savarese ’14 Joshua C. Sawyers Carolyn Scamoffa Jessee Scarberry & Margit Scarberry ’09 Joshua B. Scarbrough ’02 & Sarah H. Scarbrough ’05 * Kristin Schaffer B. June Schmidt James G. Schneider & Angela B. Schneider William A. Schulz Billie Jean Scott * Don Scott & Peggy W. Scott ’83 **** Shannon C. Scott ’71 & Shari Scott ** Carlos L. Secrist & Deborah Hungate Secrist Dennis M. Semones & Betty B. Semones Faetina H. Sensabaugh ’94 Adam R. Sharp & Allison L. Sharp David William Shelton ’93 & Ami M. Shelton ** Edward Shepherd ’64 Ashley B. Sheppard ’06 Robert R. Shepperson & Filomena Essig Shepperson Kevin D. Shinn & Teah Webb Shinn ’91 ** John D. Shockey ’61 & Judy Y. Shockey ’61 John Short & Shelia C. Short ’97 Gregory B. Shortal & Faith A. Shortal Iris M. Shorts S. Kay Shortt ’66 ** Stephen D. Shortt ’75 & Margaret B. Shortt Shrader Insurance Agency Eugene Shuler, Jr. & Kimberly J. Shuler ’79 * Ronald Arthur Sinicrope ’70 & Jeri L. Sinicrope *** Vicky Sizemore Meredith Mitchell Skelton

Brad Slade ’09 & Karli Y. Slade Kathy Sloce * Adam D. Smith ’05 & Tabitha H. Smith ’05 * Albert D. Smith ’02 * H. William Smith ’05 & Nancy Smith * Keith Smith & Christy Smith Kelsey L. Smith Larry L. Smith & Sandra F. Smith ’92 Megan E. Smith Pearl M. Smith ** Deloris W. Smithers Cindi L. Smoot ’09 * Southwest Virginia Veterinary Services Steven R. Sproles ’00 & Cassandra J. Sproles ’00 * Joshua E. Spurlock ’12 & Kara C. Spurlock ’11 Curtis A. Stacy ’74 & Betty H. Stacy ’73 ** Deja Makayla Stallard Jared W. Stallard ’07 & Heather-Marie H. Stallard ’08 Roger Stallard *** Jay Patrick Stanley ’96 & Aleasha Stanley ** Trudy W. Stanley ’67 ** Karin Ficus Stapleton ’79 * David Starnes * Erik Steele & Maggie Y. Steele ’06 * John V. Stefaniak & Shirley K. Trammell John W. Steffey ’93 Don Stephens, Jr. & Jonelle Stephens ’85 ** Michelle Stewart Randall D. Stidham & Vicki A. Stidham ’79 Claire S. Stinson ’91 * Sean Strait & Danielle M. Strait ’04 ** Becky Strange Sylvia Straughan Virgil E. Straughan † Jeffrey A. Sturgill & Vonda K. Sturgill ’91 Lisa N. Sturgill Matt Sturgill & Rebecca D. Sturgill ’10 Subway Darnell C. Sumrell, Sr. & Annette Sumrell ’74 ** Louise Sutherland Steve Swecker & Kim Swecker Katherine G. Sydnor T Anderson Enterprises James C. Tanner, Jr. & Darlene J. Tanner J. Fred Tate & Opal Tate Teddy’s Restaurant Ernest H. Telgheider & Judith A. Telgheider Carol L. Terwilliger ’92 The Hanger Grill The Vintage Salon Chelsea R. Theriault ’12 Thomas Walker High School Class of ’50

Ronald G. Thomason & Elizabeth Nesbitt Thomason ’89 *** Diane Thompson Marcus K. Thornton & Brittany B. Thornton Tommy K. Thornton & Betty M. Thornton Paige L. Tiller ’13 Patsy K. Tilton Jason E. Tipton & Mary E. Tipton Isaac Tobin & Brandy S. Tobin ’05 Lloyd Tomlinson ’12 Armando J. Torres & Sarah D. Torres ’01 * Tracy’s Salon Lindsey F. Tucker Clifford Turner & Shirley L. Turner ** Ronny V. Turner & Gloria V. Turner ’71 **** Ashley C. Tuttle ’15 USA Sports & Marketing Services Lisa Peters Valdez ’89 * Santana D. VanDyke ’14 Eric T. Vanover ’08 & Brandi E. Vanover ’14 Jimmy Vanover, Jr. & Donna Vanover * Gary Varner & Geneva C. Varner ’77 ** Alicia Vasquez J. Kenneth Vaughan & Pamela B. Vaughan Joshua E. Vaughan ’10 * Russell Vaughan, Jr. & Judith D. Vaughan Jordan W. Viars ’15 Greg Vicars Larry W. Vicars & Ann S. Vicars Ronald E. Vicars ’94 & Sonya S. Vicars ’94 Vic’s Decorating, Inc. *** Virginia High School * Vito Cruz Medical PLLC Walter D. Vliet & Molly Day Vliet ’57 * Walker Funeral Home, LLC Hannah S. Walker ’96 * Geri L. Wallace ’78 ** Michael K. Wampler ’97 & Wendy Clark Wampler ’92 Nancy K. Wampler ** Russell Wampler ’90 & Jenny Lee Wampler ’04 Julian T. Ward, Jr. & Deborah N. Ward William Lindley Wellons & Jane D. Wellons Mark Wells & Natalie J. Wells ’96 * T. Lynn Wells ’57 ** Roland M. Wheeler & Sarah A. Wheeler * White Elephants Edwin R. White & Tracey P. White ’84 ** Edward D. Whitlow & Ellen H. Whitlow Keith Whittington & Lynda Whittington Jaxon Wilkens ’06 & Nora L. Kern Wilkens ’06 Williams Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church

Charles F. Williams, Jr. & Phyllis D. Williams Joe Williams * Naya Rose Williams Peggy A. Williams ’77 *** Philip G. Williams & Nelda Williams Cody Wilson ’10 * Eddie Wilson & Joyce Wilson Joshua M. Wilson ’15 Justin W. Wilson ’13 & Stephanie Lawson Wilson ’11 * Kevin J. Wilson ’12 Aaron M. Wolfe ’11 Witold P. Wolny Donald L. Wood & Mary Lou Wood James Worley & Jewell B. Worley ’76 Buford H. Wright ’67 & Carolyn S. Wright ** Grant W. Wright ’09 Matthew W. Wright ’08 * Lyle F. Yates & Jackie M. Yates Terry E. Yates & Kitty H. Yates Tom Ziemba & Toni Ziemba MATCHING GIFT CORPORATIONS America’s Charities Capital One Services, LLC Eli Lilly and Company Foundation GE Foundation GlaxoSmithKline Merck Foundation Nationwide Insurance Foundation Norfolk Southern Foundation Pfizer Fdn. Matching Gifts Program Procter & Gamble Fund Wells Fargo Matching Gifts Program YourCause, LLC ‡About Matching Gifts: Almost 1,000 corporations match gifts made by employees, board members, retired employees and spouses to their institution of choice. Matching gifts enable you to double or even triple your gift to UVa-Wise. Alumni and friends receive full credit and recognition for personal gifts as well as corporate matches.

Participation is simple. Just search the HEP/CASE Matching Gift Network at www. matchinggifts.com/rit to find out if your company matches gifts and to obtain contact information for the program manager. Please obtain a matching gift form, complete the form, submit it to your employer and watch your gift grow!

Thank you for making the extra effort and for your doubled support!

If you have additional questions, please contact the Office of Development at 276-328-0129.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

SAVE THE DATE: Nov. 12 13th annual Super Raffle Dec. 2 Lighting of Crockett Hall Dec. 14-18 Alumni Travel Bahamas Cruise Feb. 20 Basketball Homecoming Apr. 22 21st Annual Community Spring Swing Golf Tournament Apr. 29 Roanoke Club Gathering Apr. 30 Richmond Club Gathering May 7 Commencement May 14 30th annual Cavalier Alumni $elebration

Mark your calendars! We will be celebrating the 50th and 60th reunions for the classes of 1956 & 1966, June 24-26, 2016 at UVa-Wise! Please come and experience a new tradition! Look for more information in your mailbox.

We hope to see you there!

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UPCOMING ALUMNI TRAVEL

Travel opportunities

BAHAMAS CRUISE - December 2015 Itinerary: Departing Port Canaveral, Dec. 14 Nassau, Bahamas Coco Cay, Bahamas Returning to Port Canaveral, Dec. 18

$467.17 for cruise only $567.17 for bus & cruise $200 deposit per cabin Travel on the bus from UVa-Wise is $100.

(Bus will depart Dec. 13 at 8 p.m. from Greear Gym at UVa-Wise.)

Each cabin includes: • $75 on-board spending credit • A complimentary dinner for two in a specialty restaurant • A coupon booklet (($400 value) • Free EFFY jewelry set • A surprise gift from Cruise Planners

Contact the Office of Alumni Relations at 276-328-0128 or register at www.voyageseeker.com/group/Cavs Pricing and availability subject to change after Sept. 1, 2015. The pricing & promotions listed on this advertisement are being included by the travel agency and are not the responsibility of Royal Caribbean International or its parent company or affiliates. Contact your travel agency for more information. All itineraries are subject to change without notice. ©2014 Royal Caribbean Cruises Let. Ships’ registry: The Bahamas.

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