CLASS NOTES 1975 Aubry Alexander serves on the [ attention, all alumni ] The College of Charleston Alumni Association will vote on proposed bylaw changes at the Alumni Association’s Annual Meeting on May 5, 2012. The meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the College’s Physicians Memorial Auditorium. All alumni are invited to attend. The proposed changes may be viewed online at alumni.cofc.edu. To have a copy of the proposed changes mailed to you, contact the Office of Alumni Relations at 843.953.5630.
1942 Morris Rosen, founder of Rosen,
Rosen & Hagood, received the James Louis Petigru Award from the Charleston County Bar Association. The award recognizes individuals who bring honor to the legal profession and is the highest recognition bestowed by the Charleston County Bar Association.
1951 Stacy Latto Poydasheff is the
chair of the Columbus, Ga., Council of Garden Clubs and serves on the Keep Columbus Green Commission. She also volunteers with the Columbus Library Foundation. George Rabb, retired director of Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo, has been nominated for the 2012 Indianapolis Prize, the world’s preeminent honor for animal conservationists.
1955 Jim Anderson, a retired CofC math
professor, was elected to the Cougar Club Board.
1957 Pano Lamis is the chief medical
National Monument: Where the Civil War Began was named Book of the Year at the Souvenir Wholesale Distributors Association Convention in Las Vegas. Doug is the author of 20 books, many of them about Lowcountry history. Martha Flanagin Cole works for Carolina One Real Estate in Mt. Pleasant.
1977 Frances Bramlett and Russell
Wallace were married in October. Frances is the director of donor relations for The Citadel Foundation and serves on the College’s Alumni Association board of directors.
1978 Greg Cummings has retired as
senior vice president of manufacturing for Philip Morris in Richmond, Va. Greg serves on the Claflin University Board of Trustees in Orangeburg, S.C. Debra Turner is the managing partner with WebsterRogers, a regional accounting and consulting firm. Debra is based in the firm’s Charleston office.
1980 Carolyn Burroughs Muller is the
vice president of claims with Auto-Owners Insurance Company. Carolyn and her husband, Barry, live in Dewitt, Mich. Catherine Poydasheff Ross is a teacher at Frank R. Loyd Elementary School in Fort Benning, Ga.
1981 Lisa Bollinger Burbage is the
officer for Atlanta Medical Center/Tenet.
1966 Ken Bonnette retired from being
1982 George Cobb is a professor and chair
1970 Laura Blanchard is a certified
financial planner with Ameriprise Financial Services in Myrtle Beach.
1971 Bobby Marlowe is the College’s
senior vice president for economic development. Bill Neely retired from his post as chief district judge for the State of North Carolina and is now an independent alternative dispute resolution professional. Bill and his family live in Asheboro, N.C.
1972 Bud Ferillo is the director of
strategic and presidential communication for the University of South Carolina. Jane Riley and Jim Gambrell were married in November. Jane is the executive director of Communities in Schools of the Charleston Area and a member of the College’s Alumni Association board of directors.
1974 Chanda Fripp Vick is the director of
global opportunities at Trident Technical College.
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vice chair of the College’s School of the Arts Council. Lisa works with Carolina One Real Estate in Charleston.
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of Baylor University’s environmental science department. George is also the president of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
1983 Teresa Bormes Akins is the
facilities coordinator for Red Ventures, which was voted best place to work in the Charlotte area. Lenora Plowden James is the operations director in business insurance–strategic planning and execution at Travelers Insurance in Hartford, Conn. Mark Mixson has left his post of senior counsel and full-time trial attorney for the City of New York and is now an attorney with offices in Summerville and Hollywood, S.C. He is also the leading founder of Charleston’s new Threshold Repertory Theatre on Society Street.
1984 Patricia Herring McAbee is the
first president of the emerging project Dream Big Greenville, which aims to link people with unique local experiences in Greenville, S.C. Marc New is a gastroenterologist in Charleston and was elected to the Cougar Club Board.
1985 Chrissy Parke Booth is the vice
president for planned giving and development for the Nashville Area United Methodist Foundation. She lives in Clarksville, Tenn., with her husband, Bill, and their two sons. Gwen McCullough is a benefits counselor and leave administrator in the College’s Office of Human Resources.
1986 Bobby Creech is a representative for
the College’s Alumni Association on the Cougar Club Board. Bobby is a partner and CPA with WebsterRogers in Charleston. Betsy Thrailkill Tetsch is the owner and founder of CanvasOne.com and facilitates sales training for Sales Performance International. Betsy and her husband, Christian, live in Taylors, S.C., with their two daughters, Madelene and Iris.
1987 Laura Workman McConnell is a
research chemist at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center of the USDA and was named a Fellow of the Division of Agrochemicals by the American Chemical Society.
1990 Frank Metzger is a project manager for Linden Construction in Charleston. Amanda Watson Smith is a budget manager in the College’s Office of Budgeting and Payroll Services.
1991 Malia Towles Dunn has retired
from her 18-year career as a classroom teacher and is now a math coach at McBee (S.C.) Elementary School. She also teaches human growth and development at Coker College in Hartsville. She and her husband, Paul, live in Cheraw. Melissia Gambrell Ford and her husband, Billy, are proud that their son, Kyle, is attending the College and majoring in studio art. Craig Tangeman is the director of clinical nonlabor practice at Huron Healthcare. Craig and his wife, Cayce Cole Tangeman ’97, and daughter, Anna Leigh, live in Hanahan, S.C.
1992 Sara Greenslit won the Ronald
Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize for As if a Bird Flew by Me and the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction for The Blue of Her Body. Sara earned an MFA in poetry from Penn State and lives in Madison, Wisc., where she is a smallanimal veterinarian. Margaret Carmody Hagood is the co-editor of The Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, which is the only literacy journal published exclusively for literacy advocates of older learners. Margaret is an associate professor of teacher education at the College. Kevin Smith was elected to the Cougar Club Board.
1993 Michael and Amy Burdette Cash
announce the birth of their son, Turner Charles, born in March 2011. The Cash family lives in Hillsborough, N.C. Jay Davis (M.P.A.) is an attorney and partner with Young Clement Rivers in Charleston and