Save the Date! REUNION June 5–7, 2015 www.davidson.edu/alumni home after attending law school at the University of Tennessee. Our thoughts and prayers are extended to his wife, Barbara, and his family and friends. One of Pete’s freshman hallmates (and of your class secretary as well) checks in from Edwardsville, Ill. Tim Jacks is an assistant professor at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. “I love it here.” Mollie Harrington Weaver and her husband, Jim ’91, offer up what Mollie thinks may be her first class note in 24 years since graduation. “Jim and I have three awesome daughters and live in Waynesville. The Pisgah National Forest is literally in our backyard (also awesome). I am a pediatrician, and work in Madison County with a rural, under-served population. I left medicine for six years after our third daughter was born (now 7). I discovered my passion for art during that time, so now paint and sell some of my oil paintings on the side!” Bert Williams checks in from Milledgeville, Ga., where he is athletic director and head football coach at Georgia Military College. Bert led his team in 2013 to an undefeated regular season and a trip to the national championship game for the third time in his 14 seasons as head coach. Bert was also honored by the AFCA as the Community College Coach of the Year in January 2014 and also by the NJCAA. Bert has crossed paths with a couple of classmates as well, reconnecting with Ken Nazemetz and Kevin Donnalley. Kevin is working with the Department of Athletics at UNCC. Billy Benson has seen a career change. “I have closed my private practice in Birmingham, Ala. I am now an attorney for the State of Florida, Department of Business and Professional Regulation, and living in Tallahassee.” Deb Bynum shifted in her career as well. “I started in May as the new program director for the internal medicine residency program (at UNC in Chapel Hill),” writes Deb. “My husband and I live in Cary (he is in private practice ophthalmology there), but I still do the commute (to Chapel Hill) every day. Our two boys are 13 and 10, but involved in primarily soccer… just living the crazy life of two full-time working parents and teenage/pre-teen boys with a thousand activities (all that seem to involve very, very, very smelly clothing and equipment!).” Katharine Armstrong Herndon made a Davidson connection this past summer. “Heath Hardage Lee ’92 and I got together in Richmond in July to talk books and Davidson. Heath just published Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause and was back in town promoting it. I’m executive director of a local non-profit for writers, James River Writers, so we connected about writing and the great RVA literary community.” Plenty to celebrate and reflect upon with our class. See you at the 25-Year Reunion June 5-7, 2015! Contact: Matt Terrell, 613 Rye Ridge Rd., Cary, NC 27519; 919-475-3271 (c); 919-843-6412 (w); mterrell@unc.edu FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS: Our sincere condolences are extended to the family and friends of Peter Halverstadt who passed away July 24.
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AS TOLD BY: Cecily Craighill and Bob Hornsby, Class Secretaries As we prepare this Journal update Cecily is packing for a trip to Japan and Hawaii (including a visit to Rob Lim and family), and Bob is recently back from work travel to Guinea (he’s now wrangling two daughters and a dog
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while wife Minne Iwamoto is filming GSK’s deworming medicine distributions in Malawi with Sandra Smith’s sister Mary Olive Smith ’88). But enough about us. Kearns Davis, a Brooks Pierce partner, was appointed to the North Carolina Equal Access to Justice Commission, which helps to provide greater access to the justice system for individuals of low and modest income in North Carolina. Jay Chaudhuri, general counsel and senior advisor to Janet Cowell, the North Carolina state treasurer, was named board chairman of the Council of Institutional Investors. Peter Bynum is the senior minister at First Presbyterian Church in Concord as of Aug. 1. Winn Maddrey sends greetings from Italy: “We are wrapping up a three-week house swap outside Florence, having traded houses with Larry Dagenhart’s sister. Not only is art history coming back to me, so are Malcolm Partin’s history lessons and notions of Napoleanic endeavors in Italy. All is well in Charlotte, still working in PR with FleishmanHillard and enjoying a rising sixth-grader and a rising fifth-grader. In the spring I played golf with Alec McAlister, Thurston Cooke, and Yandell Wood among others. In my spare time, I am the organizer of TEDxCharlotte. Ciao!” Mary Bernhardt Busko, Helen Hughes Plaehn, Ellen Crawford True and families (seven kids, ages 4-11) met up for a weekend in western North Carolina in June. The kids all bunked together in one room and actually got some sleep! (A three-hour hike on Saturday didn’t hurt.) Betsy Hurt Cunagin and her family couldn’t make the trip this time; they are now in their second year in Cape Town, South Africa. Doug Gibson, who lives in Asheville with his wife Stacey and son Griffin, writes that he’ll be publishing his first book next year, a fantasy novel for middlegrade readers, and that he sometimes sees Jim Weaver ’92 and Ben Gilmer ’92 around town. Cecily caught up over dinner in June with Kelly Crews Dayton and Trevor Wade in San Francisco. Kelly has taken a break from higher ed development and is evaluating her next career steps while keeping husband Peter and son Miller organized. Trevor was recently promoted to global marketing director at branding company Landor Associates. Her sons Tyler (9), Gage (7), and Wells (4) love Davidson basketball, an especially sweet thing given that husband Tony Schopen is a Duke grad. Additionally, Trevor got visits this summer from her Basement Rich roommate Ingrid Love Harding and Derrick and Jenny McDonald Willard as they toured Northern California with their kids. Caroline Cicero had a lovely visit this summer in Munich, Germany, with Marcy White Scholz, joining family forces with husbands and children over a raclette dinner together. Those clever traditional Swiss culinary methods sure are great for making melted cheese both very tasty and an interactive group dining experience. Jack Capitano left K&L Gates and joined Horack Talley. Dylan Glenn, a managing director at Guggenheim Partners, has moved back to Washington, D.C., from New York and is living in Georgetown. Suresh Acharya writes that things are “fairly uneventful” in Rockville, Md., where he lives with his wife and two middle-school daughters. Suresh puts his Davidson math major to use leading a team of data scientists for a software company. Suresh meets up occasionally with fellow classmate Bishu Adhikari and his wife April Dail ’89, who also live in the same area. Marya Howell caught up over the summer with 2nd Rich roommate Gagan Singh. After medical
school at East Carolina University, Gagan spent her residency at Yale, where she met her Finnish husband Jaakko Lappalainen. They live in Delaware with their twins, Anniina and Naval (11). Gagan, who still gets carded, is an interventional radiologist and chief at a VA hospital. Jaakko is the senior medical director for a pharmaceutical company, owns a biotech company, and remains active in academia. Anniina, who looks just like Gagan but for her father’s light blue Laplander eyes, dances ballet, plays guitar, and sings. Naval, who looks like “an Indian Finnish person,” was 5th grade valedictorian and is a gymnast. Speaking of valedictorian, guitar-playing, singing gymnast biotech pioneers who still get carded, Bob and Minne attended the July Philadelphia-area welcome event for incoming Davidson admits, who are all smarter, fitter, and more charming and talented than we remember being at that age. Our world may be a troubled, broken one, but an afternoon with the next generation of Wildcats gives one hope for the future. Contact: Cecily G. Craighill, 907 Ladson Ct., Decatur, GA 30033; 267-231-3987; cecilycraighill@gmail.com Robert P. Hornsby, Philadelphia, PA 191471234; 215-829-1142; bobhornsby@alumni. davidson.edu
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AS TOLD BY: Monica Lide Swofford, Class Secretary In the sweltering heat of San Antonio, Texas, I remember fondly back-to-school time at Davidson. New classes, seeing old and meeting new friends, and cooler temperatures— seems like. Ravi Raju accepted a position as Chief Marketing Officer and General Manager for Commercial Programs at Camgian Microsystems. Mary Beth Lovin is now working as the lab director at Carolina’s Pain Institute in Winston-Salem. Beth Brown is the president and Chief Operating Officer of the Community Foundation Sonoma County, a Santa Rosa, Calif.-based nonprofit organization that uses private money to solve public problems. Ashton Loyd celebrated 20 years in insurance sales in 2014. Since joining Nationwide Insurance/The Griffin Agency, Ashton has led their sales team to becoming a perennial top producing Nationwide agency in North Carolina and the United States, having been named Agency of the Year in North Carolina and an All -Star (Top 12 Nationally) on multiple occasions. Since being named a partner/principal associate in 2010, Ashton has been busy with agency acquisitions and now owns three locations: two in Statesville and his company headquarters in Mooresville. He leads a staff of 23 employees and also serves as a regional commercial sales training leader. He serves on the board of directors for the Mooresville Community HealthReach Free Clinic, and the “Hope at the Lake” charity board. In his free time, he enjoys golf and boating on Lake Norman, and he was recently selected to perform with the Charlotte Civic Orchestra as a vocalist. He has been married to his wife, Cinamon, for 18 years, and they reside in Mooresville with their two children, Taylor (daughter, age 13) and Preston (son, age 9). Finally, on July 25-27, 2014, I spent a fantastic weekend with the following classmates in San Francisco and the Napa Valley: Kristi Mitchem Mawhinney, Temi Nohlgren Flannery, Martha Lynn White Brinsfield, Amy Johnston Sabo, Christy Knight DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU
theUnion: Alumni Watson, Holt Hathaway, Cherry Rhyne Johnson, Marlet Gibson Bazemore, Mary Beth Lovin, and Alexa Boonstra Barnett. Needless to say, it was wonderful to catch up and reminisce! Contact: Monica Lide Swofford, 2343 Infantry Post Road, Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234; 703280-1899; mmswof@earthlink.net FROM ALUMNI RELATIONS: We extend our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Tomm Lorenzin who passed away Aug. 23.
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AS TOLD BY: Nethea Rhinehardt, Class Secretary As interim class secretary, I am privileged to be the stand-in for the inimitable Sarah Sadowski. Sarah thanks each of you for your encouragement and support as she kicks cancer to the curb. I recently had a three-day extravaganza with Sarah and her family in the Boston suburbs. But I am not the only classmate laying claim to the Sadowski clan. Tom McDermott also made his way to the Northeast to visit Sarah and experience her fabulousness in person. If you can’t quite make the trip to visit Sarah, you can connect with her on Facebook. I revel in her status updates and I’m sure you will, too! We love you, Sarah! I also had the good fortune to visit Adriana Tavernise and her husband, John Vance, and their toddler, Elisa. We had a glorious time catching up in Braselton, Ga., over the Memorial Day weekend. Jared Baxter presented “Van Gogh’s Last Supper: Transforming the guise of observable reality” at IAFOR’s European Conference on Arts and Humanities in Brighton, England, last July. The paper was then published in the January 2014 Art History Supplement. Jared will be presenting a new paper in September 2014 in Providence, R.I. With three other papers that include 10 original contributions to Van Gogh scholarship, he continues to seek a publisher for his nonfiction narrative. Meanwhile, Jared has reconnected with classmate Samantha Hazel, living in Portland, Ore. Sam Adams is encountering Davidson alums of all eras as a professor at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Va. I read Sam’s blog on the Huffington Post and was delighted to learn that his second book comes out in August 2014, a study of social and economic life for Jews and Christians in the ancient world. Sam led a trip to Turkey and Israel just a few short weeks before the recent tragedy began to unfold in Gaza. He recounts an amazing experience and even saw Pope Francis during his stay. His wife, Helen Bell Adams ’91, continues to thrive as a primary care physician and mom. The couple recently celebrated their 17th wedding anniversary. In January 2014, Paige Scarlett Miller, Associate Pastor at Mills River United Methodist Church, traveled to Israel and Palestine with 30 other United Methodist pastors currently serving rural churches in western North Carolina. The group visited the holy sites during the peaceful climate at that time. Paige has also traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border twice to study immigration issues. She writes of the churches that are opening their doors and homes as sanctuaries for the flood of refugees. Julia Lake Shealy is currently teaching French at her alma mater, Ashley Hall, in downtown Charleston, S.C. This past spring she guided her second trip with students to Paris and several towns in southern France. Over the summer, Julia enjoyed exploring Glacier DAVIDSONJOURNAL.DAVIDSON.EDU
National Park in Montana with her husband, Andy, and their sons, Will and Julian. Her photography is breathtaking and I am convinced would make a marvelous coffee table book. Amy Hoffheimer Carroll just completed her first Half Ironman Triathlon in Raleigh on June 1, 2014. She trained for five months with the help of twos coaches—twins and fellow Davidson Wildcats, Kelly and Meghan Fillnow ’05. Amy continues to work part time as a physical therapist while raising two children, Noah and Annie, with her husband Ned ’91. Next on her to-do list was the New York City Marathon on Nov. 2, 2014. Go Amy! Mark Johnson has founded a global intelligence firm, Sovereign Intelligence, in McLean, Va. The company performs special due diligence in emerging markets for equity groups and hedge funds. He previously spent 10 years as a special agent for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). Mark and his wife, Kimberly, have two children. Ellie Martin made the trek back to the Davidson campus to bring her son, Alex, to a Duke TIP camp. For three weeks, he lived in Belk dormitory and attended classes in Chambers. Ellie writes that she hopes there are future Davidson experiences for all her children, including daughters Anne and Charlotte. Ben Wiley brought his two younger sons to their first Davidson experience at soccer camp this summer, directed by Matt Spear, while touring the campus with his older son. Ben writes that it was fantastic to visit the campus again and remember the good times, but even better to see his sons Sam, Christopher and Max form their own memories. He also encountered Tracy Barwick Robison, picking her son up from the same camp! Ben visited with Bobby Bowers and ran into Amy Norwood Holthouser during his trip. Tracy writes that for the second year in a row, she and her husband, Dan ’91, sent their son, Holt, to Davidson soccer camp under the leadership of head coach Matt Spear. Once again, Holt pronounced it “so awesome!” The Robisons returned a few weeks later with their daughter, Mary Margaret, who took an official Davidson tour with the admissions office. Tracy hopes they have two budding Wildcats. We do, too! Amy Branch Munn and her husband, Barry, also spent a long weekend on campus while her youngest stepson attended soccer camp and the oldest attended admission events. Amy writes that their daughter, Virginia, a preschooler, was content exploring the campus, but disappointed not to find Tom Hunter there. Bonita Paysour and Brian Zumbach were married May 10, 2014 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The happy couple was joined by Davidsonians Mary Elizabeth Coley, Ann Todd and Richard Terry ’81, and Sam and Meredith Boone Tutterow. Bonita writes that it was truly a wonderful way to kick off married life. We could not be happier for them! Our deepest condolences to Ann Todd and her husband, Richard, on the passing of Richard’s father, Frederick D. Terry. We also extend our sympathies to Meredith Boone Tutterow and her husband, Sam, on the loss of Meredith’s mother, Virginia Meredith “Merrie” Boone, wife of Daniel Walter Boone III ’66. Matt Spear, Phelps Sprinkle, Matt Cox, Stancel Riley, Cabe Loring, Matt Dormer and Jon Hoveland ’95 hosted the on-campus memorial to celebrate the life of Chris Hoveland May 10, 2014. The event began at the Belk Visual Arts Center because of Chris’ passion for the arts. Professor Shaw Smith gave a talk, and there were many touching testimonials from the
aforementioned host group, Allison Ariail Erdle, and Chris’ father Jim. The bench honoring Chris is located by our 1993 Class Gift sculpture. We miss you, Chris. Everyone says that the first thing they do upon receiving the Davidson Journal is flip to the back to read our Class Notes. I’ll admit to stalking some of you on Facebook for news, but please know that your classmates just want to participate in your lives, even from afar. It’s our connection, our shared Davidson history that makes all your news matter. So please keep Class Notes coming; no news is too small. Much love to all y’all! Contact: Nethea Rhinehardt, 3231-C Post Woods Dr., Atlanta, GA 30339; Nethea@gmail.com
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AS TOLD BY: Lisa J. Sitek-Shaver, Class Secretary Hello Everyone! It was nice to see so many of you at the reunion. Sometimes I had my notebook with me and was able to write down information about many of you. If you don’t see your news here and would like to send in an update for the next edition, we’d love to hear from you. I noticed a lot of changes around Davidson, including a traffic circle (really, a traffic circle!) and that the bookstore, with considerably less books, has moved to Main Street. If you didn’t make it this year, please consider coming back for our 25th! I had the pleasure of staying at the hotel with Angela Capillary Martin and her husband, Gary, while at the reunion. After many years in New Jersey, they now live in Charleston, S.C., where they enjoy the more relaxed pace of life. At the Friday kickoff event I saw Susan Wildey Peddy, Lisa Lorenzin, Carol Brinkhous Wertz, Kristen Atkins, Amy Bertram, Chris Edmonston, Colleen CamaioneEdmonston, Aimee Weaver Ertley, Karen Sullivan Mercer, Rima Chakrabarti Roy and many others. On Saturday I saw Ashley Payne Davis and Andrea Boshamer Powell briefly in the bookstore and that afternoon I yelled hello to Suma Desai Jain and Carolyn Hanson from the car. At the fantastic dinner under the tent I saw Alden Smith, Kristi Brown, Lori Brown, Meg Kendall Lehman, Amy Howard, Martha Knight, Alice Spivey Hutto, Ross Sloop, Duncan Spears, Jill Bennett Branca, Julie Rannik Houston, and so many more people. Susan Beale Reale lives in Louisville, Ky., and is an account manager for Thompson and Reuters. She came to the reunion with her husband, two daughters, and her mother. Barry Stowe, his wife Cindi, and their son, Anderson (2), live in Charlotte where Barry is a pediatric anesthesiologist. Rob King lives in Largo, Fla., and teaches online classes for Phoenix University. Leslye Marshall Black, husband Mike, and their daughters, Marley and Morgan, live in Weddington, N.C.. Leslye attended the dinner in a stunning red dress looking as good as she did 20 years ago. Will and Rebekah Fanning Canu live in Boone. “I am an early intervention specialist (I work with children 0-3 years old who have developmental delays or disabilities, and their families and child care providers). Yes, Will is a clinical psychology professor at Appalachian State. We have a son, Owen (8), and daughter Sophia (6). Both seem to like growing up in the mountains (especially Owen, whose goal in life appears to be to climb as high as possible at all times).” Patrick and Becca Peters Jopling have three WINTER 2015
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