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Summer 2010 Governor Manchin at Commencement
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The Buffett Challenge
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A Future and a Hope
Early one morning in June – just after the summer solstice – I was reflecting on the theme to guide us in the year ahead.
The past two years have been like a series of recurring miracles, and I wondered, “Can they continue?”
As the tree-filtered morning sun began to brighten the room, I spotted a long-forgotten book on a nearby shelf by a friend of many years ago, Dr. Lloyd Ogilvie, former Chaplain of the United States Senate. There – on the dust jacket of the book he had given us in 1988, staring at me straight-on – was the answer to my question:
‘For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not of evil, to give you A Future and a Hope.’
This affirmation from long-suffering Jeremiah brought me up short as I struggled to work through the College’s budget for the new fiscal year beginning in another nine days. And prepare for the Trustee Financial Oversight Committee conference call that would begin in another two hours. But the prophet’s words took hold, and a calm settled in as I resumed work on the financial plan with renewed zeal. Within about an hour the morning mail arrived in Halliehurst, with a letter from a dear and generous couple who care deeply for this amazing little College. It contained this message:
‘This morning we checked our email…We so enjoyed the uplifting news regarding the Buffett Challenge. The further news concerning Jack Gibbons becoming our “Artist-in- Residence” is indeed a coup for D&E.
‘Enclosed is a check in the amount of $300,000 for the use of the College…We wish this gift to be anonymous except as may be required to record in the college records.’
‘P.S. There is more to come.’
I called immediately to express profound thanks. And to let them know what a Godsend they are, especially since the summer is when we are most cash-strapped until student payments begin to arrive for the fall term. As we were about to hang up he queried, “You didn’t mention the P.S.” I acknowledged I was calling merely to say ‘Thank you,’ and didn’t know quite what to make of his added word, but figured it would become clear in due time. “Well, let me tell you,” he said, “We have so many good things happening at the College right now, yet the needs are so great. Now is the time for those of us in position to do so to do the best we can. Therefore, on the day after the fourth of July holiday, July 6, we plan to send you a check for one million dollars.” I of course was stunned. After a brief conversation of how they wished this further gift applied (scholarship endowment, renovation projects, ‘general college purposes’), we wished one another a happy holiday and said goodbye. I sat, almost limp, in the chair. A few hours earlier, I was wondering ‘Will the miracles continue?’ ‘How will we meet the summer payroll?’ ‘How will we pay for what we must do?’
The answers had come from Jeremiah, through my long-ago Presbyterian minister-friend:
‘For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not of evil, to give you A Future and a Hope.’
And now too we had our theme for the years ahead – ‘A Future and a Hope.’
G. T. ‘Buck’ Smith President
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Commencement 2010 With Governor Joe Manchin III
Survey Reveals Alumni Commitment
The NAC address by Richard Berman, ’75
Call to Artists!
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Campus News The Challenge of a Lifetime Gibbons Named Artist in Residence A Gershwin Gala!
First Lady Gayle Conelly Manchin and Governor Joe Manchin III with President Buck Smith getting ready for the processional to Harper-McNeeley Auditorium for Commencement Ceremonies. Randall ReidSmith, Commissioner for the WV Division of Culture and History, follows the Manchins.
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Alumni Notes With Official Homecoming Registration Form
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Team D&E: Behind the Scenes, Trustees Are Powerful Team
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2009-2010 Honor Roll of Donors
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On the Cover: Members of the Senator Baseball Team on their way to Spring Training. See more campus and event photos on our Flickr photo-sharing site. Link from www.dewv.edu.
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About the College Davis & Elkins College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will practice equal opportunity in all aspects of its operation. Davis & Elkins College is committed to assuring equal opportunity to all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, family status, or sexual orientation in its educational programs, activities, admissions or employment practices as required by Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended in 1991, the West Virginia Human Rights Act, and other applicable statutes. Inquiries concerning Title IX compliance should be referred to the College Title IX Coordinator. Inquiries concerning Section 504 compliance should be referred to the Dean of Students. Inquiries concerning equal opportunity in personnel practices should be referred to the Director of Human Resources. ©2010 Davis & Elkins College
Davis & Elkins College Board of Trustees Paul S. Stirrup, '60, Chair Wendell M. Cramer, '59, Vice Chair Karen H. Berner '64, Secretary Charles E. Hill, Treasurer Joyce B. Allen Brian D. Ball, '84 James Bialek, '74 Phillip Bussey, '63 Peter H. Dougherty, '75 Drake Dowler, '69 Nancy Evans-Bennett, '66 David A. Faris, M.D.
Kimberly M. Farry, M.D., '85 Jerome A. Halperin Richard M. Hughes, III Melissa H. Luce, '83 Rudy G. Luzzatto, '56 Deborah J. Madden James S. McDonnell, III William S. Moyer June B. Myles Cliff J. Neese, Jr., '83 Eric J. Nilsen, '82 Gary W. North, '62 Reginald Owens, Sr., '83 Donald M. Robbins William S. Robbins, '56 Sherman S. Robinson, M.D., '53
Ronald A. Rollins, M.D., '57 Thomas R. Ross, II G.T. “Buck” Smith James W. Spears Henry W. Steinbrecher, '71 William H. Sudbrink, '59 Life Trustees Carter Giltinan John H. Harling, '53 Thomas J. “Jack” Martin, D.D.S., '50 Chair Emeriti Henry M. Moore L. Newton Thomas, Jr. Leonard J. Timms, Jr.
The Mission of Davis & Elkins College:
To prepare and inspire students for success and for thoughtful engagement in the world.
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Our Newest Alumni. Valedictorian Jennie Finafrock (right) leads the Class of 2010 onto the Plaza where faculty, staff, family and friends offer their congratulations and best wishes.
Congratulations! A new class has graduated and new alumni are making their way in the world today. Congratulations to all for their hard work and personal achievement. Commencement 2010 honored 100 graduates as well as three recipients of honorary doctorates: Governor Joe Manchin, III, who received the Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, Gayle Conelly Manchin, who received the Doctor of Education, honoris causa, and June Myles, who received the Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa.
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Retirement honors were bestowed on three members of the faculty: Associate Professor of Spanish Dr. Barbara Fulks, Professor of Theatre Arts Terry Hayes, and Professor of Recreation Management and Tourism Dr. Edward Rhudy. Two retiring staff members were also honored: College Costumer Susan Hayes and Director of Veterans Upward Bound Michael Fisher. The Nurses Pinning Speaker was Denise Campbell, ’93. Our own graduating senior Daniel “Parker” Kwafo was the Baccalaureate Speaker. And Governor Manchin gave the Commencement Address. Richard Berman, ’75, spoke on behalf of the National Alumni Council. His remarks, which speak to alumni from every year, are reprinted on pages 6-7. The National Anthem was performed by Randall Reid-Smith, Commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History. To view additional photos of D&E’s 2010 Commencement Ceremonies, go to www.dewv.edu and click on the Flickr logo at the bottom of any page.
Inspiration. Baccalaureate Speaker Daniel “Parker” Kwafo and Joni Smith.
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Final Bows. Provost and Dean of Faculty Dr. Victor Thacker (far left) and President "Buck" Smith (far right) recognize retiring professors Dr. Barbara Fulks, Terry Hayes and Dr. Ed Rhudy.
Proud Moment. Associate Professor of Business Administration Harry Henderson with new graduate Jake Palm and parents Linda and Steve Palm.
Highest Honors. First Lady Gayle Conelly Manchin, Governor Joe Manchin III, and D&E Trustee June Myles received honorary doctoral degrees, awarded by President “Buck� Smith.
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June Myles, listening to President Smith read the citation for her honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.
The following excerpts are highlights from President Smith's citation for June Myles.
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t is not always that a college looks within to discover those it wishes to honor. But today we do just that with appropriate enthusiasm. “After three consecutive terms of service on the Board of Trustees, you’re taking the obligatory year off. Even so, your fellow trustees lost no time in making sure of your return to the Boardroom next month. They and the Faculty also saw this as a window of opportunity to express just how much they respect your extraordinary talents, and value your presence in the life of the College.
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In reflecting on what your adopted college might say to and about you, the closing line of Thoreau’s Walden came immediately to mind: ‘Only the day dawns to which we are awake.’ You – more than most – are surely awake to the possibilities of each new day, exercising both the artistic and analytical dimensions of your being ….”
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rtistic expression. Business acumen. Endurance to run marathons on both sides of the Atlantic. These qualities, for sure. But there’s a still further reason we honor you today: your great care for your home community. And this grateful college. Few people touch as many corners as you. And speaking of corners, as a risktaker for good, you’re now transforming the interface between town and gown along Randolph Avenue. Myles Gate embodies a bringing together of trees and boulders from the forestland of your adult years into the urban center of your childhood home – a beautiful and transforming gift. “For all these reasons – and more – and by vote of the Faculty and Board of Trustees, and the authority vested in me in the By-laws of Davis and Elkins
Family Ties. D&E Director of Financial Operations Greta Troastle celebrates with her new graduate, son David, and husband, Patrick.
College, it is my high and personal privilege to bestow upon you, June B. Myles., the degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa.” G. T. ‘Buck’ Smith, President Davis & Elkins College May 16, 2010
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First Lady. Gayle Conelly Manchin, the First Lady of West Virginia, receives her Doctoral Hood for her degree, Doctor of Education, honoris causa, from Provost and Dean of Faculty Dr. Victor Thacker and Dr. Tom Chadwick.
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Team Spirit. Graduates and friends Megan Beal, Betsy Barnett, Elvis Hedji, James Kpainay, Tristan Wierbonski, Joel Richardson, Parker Kwafo, Brett Keatley and Tim O’Toole.
Light On. Graduates of the College’s Nursing Program say the Florence Nightingale pledge by Candlelight during Saturday’s Pinning Ceremony.
President “Buck” and Joni Smith with Brett Keatley and parents Greg and Karen, at Hearthstone.
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To the Class of 2010... Remarks written and delivered by Richard T. Berman, ’75 Commencement Ceremonies on May 16, 2010
Look back. Think about the first friend you made here .... ... that initial intellectual repartee with a faculty member .... ... your first encounter on Bickel’s Knob .... Remember your first midnight argument about philosophy or a tough social issue with friends in your residence hall? ... or the first time you surprised yourself in a class or lab? ... how about all those times you laughed so hard it hurt? What about that time you helped a classmate through a really rough time?
Richard Berman, '75.
... or your personal best on a court, stage, or playing field? ... and that time a classmate helped you? How about those sunny days with friends at Stuart's Park? ... and nights at the Icehouse? And those times you caught a glimpse of your deeper capacity and potential? All those moments, the memories, your experiences, challenges, emotions, opportunities– They happened here .... ... on this hill .... ... at this place .... ... in your time .... ... in this community .... ... they happened, to you, at D&E.
Randall Reid-Smith, Commissioner of the WV Division of Culture and History, performed a stirring a cappella version of the National Anthem at commencement.
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Hold onto them. Tightly. Write 'em down. Treasure them. You learned here. You grew here. You came into your own here. I came to understand what really happened to me here, thirty-five years ago today, and how much this hill, this place, this community, this culture, this college changed my life! You may be similarly surprised. Look forward. ... attack your future .... ... push your capacity .... ... don't settle .... ... follow your curiosity .... ... resist the passive approach .... ... knock on the front doors ahead of you, but use your peripheral vision to catch a glimpse of the side doors along the way .... ... attack it I say .... ... and don't tell ’em what you think they want to hear ... tell ’em what you believe.
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rebel against." As I started my life and lifework, those memories slipped away from me ... for years. Then, thankfully, they started coming back after a few years, precious one by precious one, unfolding over the past thirty-five years since I sat where you sit now. And a few years down the line, when you may just see yourselves a little differently, look back to THIS hill, THIS place, THIS college ... and figure out how you can become a lively part of it again! ... tell ’em what they need to know to get a measure of you ... tell ’em what you care about and why ... and by all means, tell ’em what you have inside you! ... attack it .... Because kites rise against the wind, not with it. Apple founder Steve Jobs remarked that you can't possibly connect the dots looking forward, only looking back .... So connect your dots …. Take them with you on your journeys …. For our pasts illuminate our futures. This place shaped me ... particularly seven members of the faculty. Professor Dorothy Roberts helped me understand a lot about our world, and she also told me I wasn't cut out to be a political scientist. Dr. Ralph Booth didn't need to tell me I'd never be a chemist. I figured
that out entirely on my own, but he helped me understand persistence, resolve, & courage. Reverend Donald Walter revealed one thing about me and one thing inside me.
You may leave today, but each of you leaves behind you an indelible footprint, and the College is better for every one.
You see, layer by layer, he peeled back the flaws in my argument about the relationship between organized religion and violence. But at the same time, he helped me uncover my passions and zeal.
Thank you! Congratulations! Welcome!
Professor Phillips Brooks may have lit a match to America's great books in framing the topic of our final examination in Literary Criticism, and he lit a fire under me when he personally demonstrated the value of risk and self-examination.
Now go do ... that voodoo ... that you do ... so well! Head Coach of Men's Baseball, Ron Palmer and graduate Will Bell.
And I have no idea why Dr. Gloria Payne trusted me as the first intern on Snowshoe Mountain the year it opened. But it fundamentally confirmed I was indeed the odd duck in a family with way too many businessmen. Professor Phipps helped me see that even if I fancy myself a philosopher, that had no logical correlation with my capacity for becoming one. Then there was one. Dr. Thomas Ross made it clear I'd not make much of an historian either, but he sat me down, pointed out my creativity and rebellious bents, and said, "Richard, let's talk about what you might best Commencement | 7
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Philanthropist Doris Buffett and President “Buck” Smith announcing progress on the Buffett Challenge at the Evening With Gershwin concert in May.
The Challenge of a Lifetime Who knew that raising money could be so much fun? From helping area students, to creating a gala sensation, to recalibrating the fine and performing arts on campus, the BUFFETT CHALLENGE is having an impact at D&E like nothing seen before. Doris Buffett has been on a national book tour since May. One of her first stops was Davis & Elkins College, where we were razor focused on the $300,000 Buffett Challenge and the sensational Gershwin Gala – a weeklong event designed to celebrate her Challenge and the Highlands Scholarships.
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hanks to Doris Buffett, an amazing story has unfolded at Davis & Elkins College.
More than a celebration, the Gala brought our community and College together like nothing before, with lead sponsorships from Mike Ross, Inc., Davis Trust Company, Citizens Bank of West Virginia, The Inter-Mountain newspaper and Huntington Bank. All dedicated to supporting scholarships for Davis & Elkins College students from the surrounding area. Announced in March, the Buffett Challenge proved what D&E’s family can do. Donors from across the globe helped us surpass the $300,000 cash challenge in nearly half the time allowed. Doris Buffett, in correspondence to President “Buck” Smith, advised him to “keep on collecting your pledges and any money beyond the $300,000. We’ll settle up on August 30!” In making the announcement, President Smith said: "This is a huge achievement, accomplished in less than half the allotted time. Many, many thanks to everyone who has helped make it possible. Fortunately, the books are still open, so there’s still time to help underwrite the Highlands Scholarships." As the latest in her continuing interest in Davis & Elkins College and the Elkins community, Buffett’s words were welcome news for supporters of the nationally recognized Highlands Scholar program. With applications to D&E at an all-time high, Buffett and other donors are making college more affordable for some 200 students from the seven West Virginia Highlands counties this year. “This program is making college a reality for students who either couldn’t consider college for financial reasons,” said Buck, “or who would have ended up with significant debt.
“We recognized that we could help the people in our region through this program,” he added. “Happily, others from across the country – including Doris Buffett – have chosen to donate and help make even more scholarship dollars available. Buffett’s philosophy of giving people a 'hand up' mirrors our own approach. If we can help provide education to our region, we will help people and our area economy for years to come.” Doris Buffett has generated tremendous opportunity for D&E. First, with her cash challenge. Then, by bringing British concert pianist, Jack Gibbons, to campus for a threeday “Gershwin Gala” that filled the College auditorium in May. “She’s building quite a fan base here,” Smith noted. “We’ve been reading her book and following her media appearances in recent weeks. We are looking forward to her return to Elkins.” Her return is not far off. We will welcome Ms. Buffett and the return of our students on the weekend of August 28-29. The big event? An Evening With Jack Gibbons on August 29. Free, in concert. HarperMcNeeley Auditorium. Watch for more details at www.dewv.edu.
Gibbons Named Artist in Residence! Appointment Begins Transformation of Fine and Performing Arts
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avis & Elkins College President “Buck” Smith has announced that famed British concert pianist Jack Gibbons has accepted a multi-year appointment at D&E as “Artist in Residence.”
Gibbons, who received a standing ovation even at the intermission of his “Evening With Gershwin” concert on May 7, will begin his tenure in August, opening the College’s 2010-2011 academic year with a concert in Harper-McNeeley Auditorium on August 29 as part of Orientation Weekend. In an email to President Smith, Gibbons expressed his gladness over his decision to make Elkins home: “It was a very fortuitous moment when Doris Buffett first put me in touch with D&E. But even Doris, who prides herself on making things happen, didn’t foresee the wonderful fruition of that introduction!”
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Gibbons’s May visit to Elkins was made possible by Buffett, who arranged for the pianist to perform a threeday Gershwin Gala. Featured in media across the state, the Gala drew a capacity crowd to D&E’s 1200-seat performance hall. Gibbons’s enthusiasm, astonishing virtuosity and ready smile won over concert-goers from the first note. Buck notes that Gibbons’s presence at Davis & Elkins will benefit not only D&E students, but also the community and the region. “Jack is a wonderful performer with a unique ability to connect with audiences. We look forward to sharing his talent and his knowledge with the wider D&E family across the nation.” Gibbons has been described by the press as "one of England's most exciting young pianists." His performances have been received with tremendous standing ovations in some of the world's great concert halls, including annually in New York’s Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and London’s Queen Elizabeth and Royal Albert Halls. His recordings have consistently attracted rave reviews, awards and commendations. He has also recently returned to composition, and as a composer has had very successful all-Gibbons concerts in New York and the UK. Born in 1962, Gibbons began performing in public at the age of 10, made his professional solo recital debut playing Liszt’s B minor Sonata at the age of 15, his London debut with an all-Alkan solo recital at 17, and at 20 won the Newport International Pianoforte Competition with a performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Two years later he gave a critically acclaimed Queen Elizabeth Hall debut recital at London's South Bank Centre. His recording credits include a Gramophone Award nomination, MRA awards, and numerous special commendations by CD magazines and newspapers.
Gibbons enjoys sharing his enthusiasm for music with young people. He has been asked by the British Council on a number of occasions to give lectures and demonstrations to children in countries as far afield as Bahrain and Zimbabwe, and in the United States he has given master classes and seminars for students and children. He helped found the Young Concert Artists Trust, to establish an agency for young talented musicians that would provide a more permanent start to their careers than 'flash-inthe-pan' competition wins. YCAT is still going strong today, nearly 20 years after it was begun. In looking forward to how he can serve the young people and citizens in Elkins and West Virginia, Jack wrote from Oxford, England: “I am so impressed both with the college, and the community of Elkins, and also all the supporters of D&E. It's a remarkable place that seems to attract remarkable people, and I would love to be a part of that community and help in any way I can – even if it means putting a piano on a flatbed truck and going out into the rural areas.” Gibbons’s impact on D&E promises to be multifaceted. Among many responses is an honor from the Governor, Joe Manchin, III. In July, Davis & Elkins College was selected as the site of the Governor’s School for the Arts, beginning summer 2011 and continuing through 2013. Campus News | 9
British Pianist Jack Gibbons performing Gershwin in Harper-McNeeley Auditorium during D&E’s Gershwin Gala.
Philanthropist Doris Buffett talking with Trustee Jim Spears, Governor Manchin’s Chief of Staff, in his home during the “Strike Up the Band” preconcert party for the Gershwin Gala.
Sponsors and supporters of the public school concert included Dr. James Phares, Superintendent of Randolph County Schools; Mike Ross, Mike Ross, Inc.; Joyce Allen, D&E Trustee; Tammy Lipscomb, retired Elkins Middle School teacher; Jack Gibbons, Doris Buffett, Diane Grimsley, Vice President for the Sunshine Lady Foundation; Bill Johnson, President, Citizens Bank of West Virginia; and our own President “Buck” Smith.
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he Davis & Elkins College Gershwin Gala in early May was a celebration of the area community. Featuring three days with British pianist Jack Gibbons and philanthropist Doris Buffett, the gala highlighted D&E’s nationally recognized Highlands Scholarship, while at the same time bringing the College and community closer together. “By all measures, the three-day gala was a success,” said President Buck Smith. “It engaged area musicians and our schools, and it brought 1,200 people to our auditorium for the Friday evening benefit concert. But most importantly, it showcased the spirit and enthusiasm of our entire community – the magic that makes this area such a wonderful place.”
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A committee of volunteers and D&E staff, chaired by D&E Trustee Joyce Allen, had less than six weeks to create the event after receiving a generous offer from Doris Buffett. Founder of The Sunshine Lady Foundation, she brought her friend, pianist Jack Gibbons, to Elkins from London for three special events on campus: a master class, a school concert, and a public evening concert completely free of charge. The response was tremendous. D&E Trustees Bill Robbins and Debbie Madden with Diane Grimsley, Vice President of Doris Buffett's Sunshine Lady Foundation.
Concert emcee James Benner, D&E Trustee June Myles, and Audrey Underwood enjoy a moment with Gibbons at the post concert public reception.
Gibbons, standing behind the piano at right, leads a master class for area pianists in Harper-McNeeley Auditorium.
Curt and Joy Woodford, who made the winning $3,000 bid on a 20 lb. solid chocolate piano, with D&E Chef Derrick Lantz and President “Buck” Smith.
“Buck” Smith addresses the audience in Pinecrest, the historic home of Trustee Jim Spears, as auctioneer and President of Citizens Bank of West Virginia Bill Johnson looks on. Doris Buffett waits below for Buck’s announcement.
President “Buck” Smith, Trustee Joyce Allen, and Doris Buffett receive a check from Mike Ross, who helped sponsor the entire three-day Gershwin Gala.
The concert was even noted in USA Today. We hit a tipping point, and by the last day every single seat was taken.
“I think people recognized that experiencing a pianist of Jack’s talent and ability would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Smith said. “But the outpouring of support we received was over the top. Our corporate sponsors not only supported us financially, they also helped get the word out. As did area service clubs. We had banners donated, and volunteers hand-carried posters and flyers as far away as Morgantown. Articles in The Inter-Mountain, the Clarksburg Exponent-Telegram, and other newspapers, combined with broadcasts on public broadcasting and area news stations, created tremendous buzz.
Although the musical events were free of charge, the concert raised over $100,000 toward the $300,000 Buffett Challenge. Many private donors came forward in support of the Highlands Scholarships. A special pre-concert reception hosted by D&E Trustee Jim Spears and his wife, Ellen, helped launch the memorable evening. In addition to the five lead corporate sponsors, other area businesses who provided financial support included: Colonial Motors/Colonial Court Service Station/A&A Auto Rental; Elkins Regional Convalescent Center; Allegheny Insurance Services; Colonial Place Partners; Delbert Land Company; Elkins Sewing Center; Tygart Valley Lions Club; Busch, Zurbuch and Thompson, PLLC; Freedom Bank; and Mountain Valley Bank.
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olunteers. Alumni. Parents. Presbyterians. Professionals. Community Leaders. These are the people who quietly dedicate their time, talent and treasure to Davis & Elkins College. They are members of our Board of Trustees – the team of volunteers whose purpose (according to our bylaws) is to “conduct and perpetuate a college under the name Davis & Elkins College.” Why do they do it?
says Paul. “But my view was that nothing could be more worthwhile. The Board members had worked very hard to address pressing issues and it was the least I could do.”
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Working closely with Buck, the only D&E employee who reports to the Board, Paul notes that chairing the Board is a matter of understanding the important roles everyone has to play.
aul Stirrup and Buck Smith started their new jobs at Davis & Elkins College on the same day: July 1, 2008. A resident of Durham, NC, Paul, class of '60, was elected Chair of the Board of Trustees. Buck became President of the College. Together, they started a turnaround of not simply an institution, but also a community and a culture. Their team approach seems to have touched everyone who cares about the College – bringing out D&E’s best. “Serving on the Board is a commitment to the College,” says Paul. “A commitment to hopefully do things right. The Board works to benefit the College and the students, and it is enjoyable for board members to do something they feel is worthwhile. For some of us who graduated from D&E, we are, perhaps, paying back a debt for the education we received many years ago. My own wish is to know that D&E is better for my participation over the last few years.” Paul comes to Davis & Elkins as a college “insider,” not only as an alumnus, but also as a former staff member for Duke University. Previously a special agent for the FBI, Paul worked 16 years for Duke before retiring in 2008. He knows that every college and university faces challenges. “When someone approached me about being Chair, they said, ‘you’d probably be crazy to take this,’
Elected to the Board last year, Eric Nilsen '82 is sharing his expertise in business and management with D&E.
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“My job,” he says, “is to make sure the talent on the Board is being used for the betterment of the College. We have some brilliant board members. There is so much talent we can call on when necessary.”
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According to Paul, whether referring to Chuck Hill, who lives in Seattle, WA, and chairs the Business and Finance Committee, or to Joyce Allen, from nearby Coalton, whose organizational skills led the Gershwin Gala over the top, the trustees’ ongoing personal involvement with D&E makes his job “a whole lot easier.”
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ric Nilsen, D&E Class of 1982, currently IBM Client Director for Wal-Mart Stores in Bentonville, AR, and a Trustee since the Fall of 2009, says participating actively is essential for him. Time, he says, is not the issue, if it’s time well spent.
College. Davis & Elkins College has many good memories for June. And significantly, she says, it is the College’s role in the community that interests her most.
“I need to be engaged and involved because we all have a stake in D&E’s success,” says Eric. “We are part of a family. And when you are part of a family, you have to become a participant.”
President Smith is also a member of the Board – ex officio. “My first responsibility is to fulfill the Trustees’ expectations,” says Buck. “And be held responsible for the short and long-term progress of the College.”
Eric and two other newer trustees – Cliff Neese, Class of 1983 and President and CEO of Neese Industries in Louisiana, and “Reggie” Owens, Class of 1983 and Vice President of Air-Ground and Freight Services for FedEx Express in Memphis, TN – have been working on a strategic plan for D&E’s Business Department. All former students of Dr. Gloria Payne, Eric hopes their work can further the foundation Dr. Payne has established for D&E’s business programs.
“Davis & Elkins College adds a cultural dimension to Elkins that most small towns lack,” she notes. “As I grew up in Elkins, and now live here part-time, I find the constant influx of faculty and students a source of revitalization. So, supporting D&E and helping it to grow to be the best it can be is also adding to the quality of life in Elkins – or so I believe.”
Buck continues: “A college rises or falls by its appointments – especially its trustees. As a corporate group, their responsibilities are three-fold: to decide the future direction of the College; determine appropriate policies for effective governance and management; and help assure financial stability. “As individuals, they provide invaluable service in many ways. Some are major donors. Others provide hands-on help and advice, often on a daily basis. Most provide both.” Smith notes that, as individuals, many board members are addressing specific needs within the College community.
“As a trustee or as a volunteer at any level, you have to look at how you fit into the institution,” notes Eric. “I believe your past predicts your future, and those of us who are graduates have to identify and enhance our past. There is a two-way obligation here. We have to be after the minds of our community and enable people to participate how they are able. My generation has been developing its potential over the last 20 years. Now, how do we engage them? How are we going to deliver for D&E?”
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une Myles from Redding, CT, grew up in Elkins but went elsewhere for college. Yet, D&E has lived large in her life – her childhood friends were the sons and daughters of College employees, her high school dates were sometimes students here. In 2000, she began her first term as a trustee. And in May, she received the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the
June’s work to create a green space as an entrance to the College reflects her relationship to D&E. As a welcoming transition between the town and the front lawn of D&E, the area will include seating, native plants and trees, and an inviting walkway that will connect the campus and our students with the community. June shares that her understanding of what service on the D&E Board means has deepened over time. “Each administration uses its Board differently as the needs may differ from one decade to the next. But, always, a trustee is obligated to support and represent the best interests of the College in the present and the future. We are its advocates.”
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Debbie Madden and Bill Robbins with fellow Trustee Jim Spears in June, holding their awards from West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin III. Spears, who is Governor Manchin’s Chief of Staff, presented the awards which named Madden and Robbins “Honorary West Virginians.”
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eborah (Debbie) Madden from Wilkes-Barre, PA, is also not a graduate of the College. Yet her name is synonymous with D&E: The Madden Student Center, named in honor of her family, and the Madden-Robbins Fitness Center, a joint project she helped facilitate with fellow-trustee Bill Robbins, are both popular destinations for students. Madden says our students are what connect her to D&E.
“It is important that students know they are valued,” says Debbie. “They are the cornerstone of our success. Because of them, we continue to grow in many ways – expanding our intellect, creativity, and philosophy in building a solid community and education. My commitment,” she adds, “is to continue to spread the word about D&E, a college that energizes and appreciates its students.” Debbie’s thoughts are echoed by Bill, also of WilkesBarre, who graduated from D&E in 1956 and who renovated the College’s Robbins Chapel in honor of his parents. “I feel our students are the best,” adds Bill, whose year-round participation ranges from attending home athletic events to funding student scholarships and facilities. He has served as a trustee since 1976, and shown extraordinary dedication to the College. In commenting on his commitment, Bill notes: “I have always maintained that a loyal trustee should have three goals: to be the best he or she can be in devotion to the college; to help financially if possible and work for the school in as many capacities as time allows; and, above all, to develop a strong love for the school.” Both Bill and Debbie say that one of their rewards as trustees is attending graduation. “It is very special seeing each student walk across the stage accepting his or her diploma,” adds Debbie. “As we look around at the audience, family and friends are smiling, crying, and cheering for their graduate!
June Myles leading the inaugural run on the Myles Ahead Running Track in the McDonnell Center in 2007. The track is one of many projects June has led to bring the College and the community together.
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It is one of the purest and proudest moments … a memory each of us treasures.”
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ill Moyer, from Newville, PA, a retired executive for Exxon Mobil, also attended Commencement at D&E in May. It was his first since his son, John, graduated from the College in 1986. As a parent, Bill’s commitment reflects his son’s experience – a good one. His first personal involvement was creating a scholarship with his wife, Joan, in John’s honor in 2005. Today, Bill is actively involved with D&E, serving on the Business and Finance Committee and the Investment Subcommittee of the Board. He finds the work enjoyable, an extension of a lifetime in financial management. “When I came on the Board, the first thing I was given was a finance paper that had expenses lined out for five years – a chart of accounts,” Bill recalls. “Like any new endeavor you are lost at first, but I am comfortable now. I’m on the Financial Oversight Committee and the fact that we have a conference call every month gives me a very good feel for the way things are going. One of the most positive things that has developed is we now get monthly reports on
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the portfolio and we know what is happening. We receive monthly year-to-date reports, year-end forecast, and the budget we are working against. [Fellow trustee] Chuck Hill has done a marvelous job. “I’m not giving up anything,” Bill adds. “I‘m learning something. I enjoy coming down, and Joan enjoys coming down, which we enjoyed as parents, but now we come down more. I enjoy learning about the College. And my goal is that D&E will become completely viable and not have to worry about the money – where it’s coming from and where it is going. We’re on the right side of the ledger now.”
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oyce Allen from nearby Coalton, WV, joined the Board of Trustees in 1992 at the urging of former trustee chair, Bob Livingston. Originally a member of the Academic Affairs committee – her
Trustee Bill Moyer receives some assistance from Provost and Dean of Faculty Dr. Victor Thacker before the processional for Baccalaureate Services. The parent of a D&E graduate, Moyer enjoys participating in the life of the College today.
true joy – Joyce now serves on the Advancement committee, because, as she and many others observe, fundraising comes naturally to her. One needs only to look to her record as co-chair of the successful D&E Centennial Campaign, the most successful capital campaign in D&E’s history. Joyce describes the campaign’s success as the high point of her service to D&E. She was thrilled to see the new Hilda and Robert R. Butler Lobby in the McDonnell Center named for her parents. Yet her interest in the College runs deeper. “I never cease to be amazed at some of our outstanding faculty,” she says. “But I really enjoy the students. I like anytime when we can make a festive mood for them – when it’s a party in their honor and it’s given by their college family.” She adds, “That’s what we become.” Joyce notes that the increases in enrollment and the facility improvements during the past two years make her work rewarding. But it’s the personal commitment
Joyce Allen and Joni Smith at the Gershwin Gala “Strike Up the Band” pre-concert event. Joyce has served with three presidents of Davis & Elkins College, and continues to share her time, talents, and treasure in the best interest of her D&E family.
that keeps her connected. “When you see what’s happening and get more involved, you want to put in more and more of yourself,” she explains.”If I didn’t feel I were making a difference, I’d find some other cause. But what would you do,” she asks, “if you didn’t have trustees that get that involved?” Buck Smith knows the answer. “The importance of our trustees to the success of Davis & Elkins College cannot be overstated. They support our present, but they also secure our future,” he explains. “They provide help as individuals. And they keep us moving forward as a governing body. They have been the key to our success during the past two years. They will be the key to our future success as well. “We are on the threshold of huge opportunity for the College,” Buck adds. “I am extremely eager to see what we do with this moment.”
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Spring Sports Summary by Jason Asbell, Sports Information Director
Baseball The D&E baseball program continues to improve under third-year head coach Ronnie Palmer ’99, as the Senators finished the 2010 campaign at 25-24. Five members of the team received All-West Virginia Conference honors, led by sophomore pitcher Zach McElroy and senior shortstop Caigan O’Callahan who were selected to the first-team. Junior outfielder Evan Gazza was a second-team selection, while senior pitcher Josh Haun and junior outfielder Marcus Weese received honorable mention. Senior infielder Josh Lopez was selected by conference coaches to receive the prestigious Shannon Stewart Heart and Hustle Award. The baseball team was also named the 2010 WVIAC Sportsmanship Champion as selected by league head coaches and game officials.
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On news of receiving the award Coach Palmer commented, “I'm really proud of our players. This award is all about them, the effort they put forth. To go about the game the right way, whether we win or lose, is obviously appreciated by our opponents. This means a lot to our program and college and we are honored to receive the Spring Sportsmanship Award for the WVIAC."
Softball The 2010 softball team lost a playoff spot on the last day of the regular season and finished the year at 16-36 overall and 9-19 in the conference. Junior Britne Bacca and sophomore Bridget Ours earned second-team All-West Virginia Conference honors. Bacca had a 2.42 earned run average on the pitching mound with 160 strikeouts, and finished with a .356 batting average. Ours hit .344 and led the team with 11 home runs and 37 RBIs.
Men's Tennis After a seven year absence the Senators return to the courts and show great promise as they move forward. Freshman Augustin Ochoa spent the season at the number one position for the team and was named to the All-Conference team, and was also ranked as high as 11th in the Atlantic Region. The team finished the year with a record of 4-13 and placed 7th in the conference. Head coach Otis Cutshaw stated, "We had a good group of guys that worked hard together and showed a lot of potential. We look forward to our next season together to build and improve upon what we have started."
Freshman Augustin Ochoa was ranked as high as 11th in the Atlantic Region for Men’s Tennis.
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Athletics Adds Marketing Director, Two New Coaches The Davis & Elkins College Athletic Program has added a Director of Marketing and Promotions and named new coaches in Softball and Men’s Soccer. All three appointments will enhance efforts to grow the Senator Athletic Program. Cary Sponaugle will serve as Athletic Marketing and Promotions Director. She will manage all aspects of marketing and promotions for the Athletic Department including fundraising, sponsorships, special promotions at athletic events and community outreach for the 14 collegiate sports teams on campus. Sponaugle has extensive experience in advertising and promotion, working with retail programs for Lowes, Sears and JC Penney, and also in professional sports. As Senior Account Executive with The Leffler Advertising agency in Baltimore, Maryland, Sponaugle gained notable sports-marketing experience with several NFL teams, a professional indoor soccer team and a Canadian Football League (CFL) team. D&E Vice President Kevin Wilson commented on the new appointment: “During the past two years, we have added new varsity sports as well as junior varsity teams, and built a new coaching staff from national programs. We have some great student-athletes who bring a lot to the community. Cary will help them connect with organizations throughout our region, and also will focus on special events and development of our Senator Booster Club.” Sponaugle will work closely with the College’s Assistant Athletic Directors – Professor of Physical Education Dr. Mary Ann DeLuca, Head Baseball Coach Ron Palmer and Head Men’s Basketball Coach Bruce Martin. Head Women’s Basketball Coach Jason Asbell will continue to manage Sports Information.
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Athletic Marketing and Promotions Director, Cary Sponaugle.
Kimberly Stiles, most recently the Assistant Softball Coach at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX, has been named Head Softball Coach. She brings a passion for the sport and impressive playing and coaching experience. “We are very fortunate to have Coach Stiles join our coaching staff,” notes Assistant Athletic Director Ron Palmer. “She brings a history of on-field achievements and coaching success that will benefit both our softball program and student-athletes.” A former NCAA Division I catcher at the University of Pittsburgh and Big East Academic Honor student, Stiles’s most recent success was at Midwestern State where her team finished the 2010 season with a 54-10 record. In addition, the Mustangs were named Lone Star Conference Regular Season Champions and NCAA Division II South Central Regional Finalists. A high honors student in both her undergraduate and graduate studies, Stiles earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a Master of Science in Kinesiology/Sports Administration from Midwestern State University. As a member of the MSU faculty, she taught a variety of courses in the Department of Kinesiology. Stiles competed for three seasons as catcher for the Pitt Panthers after earning a letter from the University of Vermont during her freshman year. In addition, she earned conference academic honors from the Big East and America East in each of her four seasons of competition.
Women's Softball Coach Kimberly Stiles.
Commenting on the appointment, President G. T. “Buck” Smith noted, “We were looking for a person to serve as role model for the women in our softball program, a person with a stellar academic record as well as successful playing and coaching experience. We believe we found just such a person in Kimberly Stiles.” During her undergraduate years, Stiles developed ski and snowboard camps for children. As with all members of the faculty and staff at D&E, part of her duties will include outreach to the larger community through softball clinics and camps for area youth. Aron Bassoff is the new Men’s Head Soccer Coach. Coming to D&E from Oakland City University in Indiana, Bassoff brings extensive intercollegiate soccer coaching experience spanning 11 seasons, including 10 seasons as a Head Coach. His coaching career chronicles a history of posting winning seasons, creating successful programs and cultivating academic excellence from his athletes off the field. “We are so pleased that Aron has accepted our invitation to lead the Men's Soccer program,” commented Assistant Athletic Director & Professor of Physical Education Dr. Mary Ann DeLuca. “He comes to D&E with high coaching skills, techniques, style and organization. As an athlete, he played at a Division III powerhouse, and as a coach he has proven that he can make a considerable impact with players and achieve winning records. Academically,
New Head Coach for Men's Soccer, Aron Bassoff.
Aron Bassoff will be an asset to our Sport Management majors and to the entire Health, Sport and Movement Science department.” Last year, Bassoff led his team to its first winning season in the programs’ history with a record of 10-5-3 and earned national rankings in the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) Poll and advanced to the Mid-East NCCAA Region Championship game. Achievements at other schools include three consecutive years in the Region XI Women’s Championship for the University of the Cumberlands, and a Florida Sun Conference Championship for Palm Beach Atlantic University. “I would like to thank President Smith, Mr. Wilson and Dr. Deluca for the opportunity to lead the men's soccer program at Davis and Elkins College,” says Coach Bassoff. “I am honored to be able to be part of a soccer program with such a rich and storied tradition. This program has a great history of producing tremendous coaches and players. I hope to carry on that tradition.” Bassoff graduated from Messiah College with a BS in Sport and Exercise Science and earned a Masters in Sports Management from Nova Southeastern University in May 2006. He has earned a USSF 'B' License, the second highest coaching license offered, and a NSCAA Premier Diploma, the highest coaching license offered. Aron’s family includes his wife, Tammy, and two children, daughter Kayla and son Drew. Athletics | 17
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Alumni Engagement and Follow-up to the 2010 Alumni Survey by Patricia Schumann, Vice President for College Advancement
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arlier this year, Davis & Elkins College conducted a survey of its alumni, seeking information about their experience as students, their personal and professional accomplishments, and their perceptions of and relationship with the College today. We are grateful to the more than 850 alumni who responded. (For response rates of graduates from each decade, see Table 1.) The information you provided has stimulated considerable discussion and reflection among College leaders, and will be helpful to us in many ways. Thank you.
Willingness to Assist Current Students with Career Development One of the primary purposes of this survey was to identify alumni who would be willing to assist today’s D&E students with their career development. More than 500 respondents (80.7%) volunteered to share their professional information with D&E’s new Career Management Center and, additionally, expressed an interest in helping current students in a variety of ways:
Preparation for Life after College A significant majority of respondents reported that their experience at D&E had a significant and positive impact on their lives:
• More than 200 respondents expressed an interest in mentoring students.
• 88.3% believe D&E prepared them well for the world of work.
• More than 200 expressed an interest in using their professional contacts to help graduates find jobs.
• 84.2% believe D&E contributed to their continued learning after graduation.
Graduates from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s expressed the greatest interest in assisting current students in these ways, which is not surprising given that graduates from these years are most likely to be established and active in their careers.
• 89.8% believe D&E significantly and positively influenced their values and life goals. These perceptions were consistent across the years, a strong affirmation that D&E’s recently revised mission statement, “To prepare and inspire students for success and for thoughtful engagement in the world,” accurately captures the College’s past as well as its present and future. These responses will serve as a compelling piece of evidence that D&E is successfully fulfilling its mission when the Higher Learning Commission team evaluates D&E for continuing accreditation this fall.
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• Nearly 100 respondents expressed an interest in sponsoring or hosting a workplace experience.
D&E’s initiative to connect alumni with current students through mentorships, workplace experiences, and other forms of professional development represents an effort to set the strengths of the entire D&E community behind the College’s mission of preparing and inspiring students for success and for thoughtful engagement in the world. While this enterprise holds great promise, it also poses considerable challenges. College representatives will be following up—in a detailed fashion—with all respondents who expressed an interest in working with current students through the Career Management Center. This will be a time-consuming process. Regular updates of our progress will be forthcoming through the Forward and other media. It will take time, however, to assemble this database and to begin the work of connecting students with alumni and we would ask for your patience and forbearance as we work to build this important program. Interest in College Programs and Services In order to help strengthen the ties between D&E and its alumni, the survey sought to identify the level of interest that alumni have in the College’s various programs, publications, and services. (Responses are summarized in Table 2.)
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Alumni Survey Response Rates by Class Overall Response Rate: 11.4%
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Approximately half of respondents expressed an interest in participating in reunions, and 37% expressed an interest in participating in D&E related social events close to where they live. Twenty-five percent expressed interest in alumni travel programs. Interest in D&E related travel opportunities was highest among the College’s most mature alumni, who are most likely to possess the necessary time and resources to take advantage of such opportunities.
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discrepancy to the likelihood that alumni who responded to the survey are already more likely to be actively engaged with the College. Implications and Follow-up We are taking the information provided through this survey seriously. Several outcomes are already in place: • The alumni survey results have been incorporated into the College’s Self Study and will be available to reviewers from the Higher Learning Commission. • A follow-up survey has been sent to all alumni who expressed an interest in working with students through D&E’s Career Management Center, and we are in the preliminary stages of developing a database of professional opportunities for current students. • As a result of feedback regarding programs and services, the Alumni Office will invest in improvements to the alumni section of the college Web site and will launch an alumni e-newsletter this fall.
percentage of respondents (33%) expressed interest in Facebook as a way to receive College information. This low level of interest held even among younger alumni who, we assumed, would have greater interest in social media. Forty-three percent of respondents expressed an interest in having a new printed alumni directory, and this level of interest was relatively consistent across all age groups. Overall, 40.3% of respondents expressed interest in an Alumni Professional Services Directory, although interest was significantly higher among younger alumni. We believe this difference is likely attributable to the greater interest that younger professionals might have in using such a directory for professional networking purposes.
Financial Support Colleges track their alumni participation rates— which represent the percentage of alumni who support their alma mater financially—as an indicator of institutional health. Nationally, an average of 10% of alumni support their colleges financially. The average for baccalaureate colleges is 23.9%. D&E’s current rate stands at roughly 15%, but the College is actively seeking ways to improve this rate. In response to questions about financial support, 49.8% indicated that they currently are committed to supporting D&E financially, and 67.9% said they look forward to being able to support D&E financially in the future. Not surprisingly, the rate of those who currently support D&E financially was higher among older respondents than among younger respondents, with graduates from the 1950s reporting a participation rate of 59% and the classes of 2000 and later reporting a rate of 14%. These figures are much higher than D&E’s current overall alumni participation rate of 15%. We attribute this
The Alumni Office, in partnership with the Provost’s Office and the National Alumni Council, is planning a series of focus groups to explore more deeply some of the questions raised by the survey: • More than 10% of alumni responded to the survey, which is a respectable response rate, but why did the other 90% not respond? What do the responses tell us about how other alumni feel? How can we learn more? • Why are more alumni not actively involved with D&E? What are the barriers? Can these barriers be overcome? If so, how? To view a complete summary of survey results or to offer your own comments, please visit the College web site at www.dewv.edu, or contact Pat Schumann at (304) 637-1340 or schumannp@dewv.edu. Alumni News | 19
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A Special Invitation to Alumni Artists
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avis & Elkins College has made a renewed commitment to the fine and performing arts.
To celebrate and support this commitment, a silent auction featuring art created by alumni will be held during Homecoming Weekend. If you are an artist, please consider supporting this effort by donating a piece of original art. Michael Doig, Assistant Professor of Art, will coordinate the auction. Of the request for donations, Doig says, “I do not ask this lightly. As a practicing artist myself, I know what goes into a piece of artwork. Not only the time, but the very effort and willpower that is poured
D&E Plate a National Favorite D&E’s West Virginia license plate was selected for a jigsaw puzzle of the United States featuring state license plates. Manufactured by TDC Puzzles, the puzzle affirms what we already knew – D&E has an OUTSTANDING West Virginia license plate! Do you have a D&E License Plate? If not, call (304) 637-1341 to request a form for a West Virginia or a Maryland vanity plate for D&E.
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into it. Each piece of art is a personal statement made by an artist, and that is why this donation will be so special. With these donations, we hope not only to raise funds, but also to raise awareness of the importance of the arts. Each piece donated will demonstrate the support that the arts have on our campus, and in our lives.”
If you are interested in donating, please contact Doig at doigart@ yahoo.com or (304) 637-1360. Donations may be sent to Michael Doig, Assistant Professor of Art, Davis & Elkins College, 100 Campus Drive, Elkins, WV 26241.
Funds raised during the auction will help launch D&E’s new Art program. Pieces of art will be displayed and bids accepted in Halliehurst on Friday and Saturday of Homecoming Weekend, and the winners announced during a “Live Art Reception” from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 16. Doig will create a piece during the reception that will then be sold in a live auction.
Whether or not you donate a piece of art, please encourage friends and classmates to come out and support the Alumni Art Auction. It is sure to be a beautiful expression of the creative energy of the D&E family!
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Upcoming Events Virginia Alumni Chapter Devil's Backbone Restaurant and Brewery
September 25, 2010 Roseland, VA
Featuring D&E alumnus Jason Oliver, '95, owner and brewmaster. He has won numerous high profile awards for his brewery, including the 2010 Gold Cup for the best small market brewery in the world! Visit the VA Alumni Chapter website at www. vachapterdavisandelkins.com for more information.
New York Metro Area Alumni Chapter
Family Weekend October 1-3, 2010
September 26, 2010
For information contact Lisa Senic, Coordinator of Parent Relations, at (304) 637-1240 or senicl@dewv.edu.
Hell's Kitchen Walking/ Tasting Tour
New York City
Featuring a guided neighborhood culinary walking/tasting tour of Hell's Kitchen in New York City. Visit the NY Metro Area Alumni Chapter website at mysite.verizon.net/vzeuu36l/ dnenymetro for more information.
Greetings from your National Alumni Council! During the NAC’s April meeting, we invited all graduating seniors to our second annual “Almost Alumni Reception” coordinated by Maribeth Headley Robenolt, ’82, and her dedicated committee. What a wonderful opportunity to meet, to network and to offer encouragement and advice to this talented group of proud achievers! As alumni we have an important obligation to help our students and recent graduates with their transition to life after college. During May’s commencement ceremony Richard Berman, ’75, brought greetings and challenges from the NAC. Our recent
Phipps Lecture
Christian Iosso, Coordinator, Social Witness Policy, Presbyterian Church (USA), Phipps Lecturer, Featuring a memorial tribute to Dr. William E. Phipps
November 15, 2010
Homecoming October 15-17, 2010 Registration materials are enclosed. For further information contact Wendy Morgan, Coordinator of Alumni Relations, at (304) 637-1341 or morganw@dewv.edu.
For information contact Pat Schumann at (304) 637-1340 or schumannp@dewv.edu.
D&E All Alumni Woodstock Summer Reunion July 29-31, 2011 For information contact Wendy Morgan at (304) 637-1341 or morganw@dewv.edu.
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s you can tell from the pictures and stories in this latest issue of the Forward, there is much to celebrate in today’s life at D&E, including its newest group of graduates.
graduates need to know, just like all alumni, that their relationship with the College does not end with the ceremonial walk across the stage whether it occurred at the Hermanson Campus Center, the Amphitheater or Memorial Gymnasium. Richard spoke eloquently about his relationship with D&E, and his remarks are reprinted on pages 6-7. There is much evidence that this lifetime relationship between D&E and her alumni is alive and well! Thanks to the almost 1,000 of us who took time to complete the alumni survey; your responses are helping to shape what the College and the NAC are focusing upon to better serve you. Successful regional alumni events sponsored by the Virginia and greater New York groups were held. A group of 70’s alumni traveled to Elkins this summer to plan a major reunion for Summer 2011. More than 500 alumni have volunteered to assist students through the new Career Management Center. The percentage of alumni who made financial contributions this year grew substantially.
today’s D&E! Keep the dates of October 15-17 circled on your calendar when we’ll have the next chance to visit in Elkins during Homecoming. See you then!
The key question for all alumni is not whether we support D&E, but rather how we do so. On behalf of the National Alumni Council, thank you for your significant and growing involvement in the life of
Blaine E. Steensland, ’72
Blaine Steensland NAC President
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Alumni Notes A Note about Notes ... Thank you to the many alumni who submit notes for publication in Forward magazine. We enjoy sharing your news, both in these pages and on our Web site. If you have a note, please complete and return the form below, or email your note to alum@davisandelkins.edu Sending photos? Just mail your prints or disk, or email your photos to our alumni office. Send all materials to: Davis & Elkins College Alumni Office, 100 Campus Drive, Elkins, WV 26241 or alum@davisandelkins.edu
Please publish this Alumni Note in the Davis & Elkins College Forward
1934 Raymond C. White, Raleigh, NC, received his Ph.D. from West Virginia University in 1939. He was a Professor of Chemistry for 38 years at North Carolina University. Raymond is 97 years old and has been married to Cleta Bennett White for 73 years. They reside at Springfield Community Center.
1948 Martha Ann Clark Donley, Largo, FL, is a great grandmother, still driving, volunteering at the Heritage Park, and is still a basketball fanatic! Although her husband passed away in 2006, Martha still lives in Florida. She travels back to her home in PA to enjoy the late summer and fall.
magazine in print and online. Anton A. " Joe" Sinisgalli, ’54. See 1954.
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Betty Jo Smith Rohr, Elkins, WV, has been a volunteer at Davis Memorial Hospital for 21 years and has over 20,000 hours.
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Richard W. Dye, Elkins, WV, has been enjoying retirement from Columbia Gas since August, 1983.
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1957 Gerald Goldstone is well and thriving in Carmel, IN. Richard T. Griffin and his wife, Marilyn, recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in Scottsdale, AZ. Judy L. Brewster, ’61, Owings Mills, MD, was a guest crew member in October 2009 on the Pride of Baltimore. See 1961.
1951 Billy Baer is still practicing law in Baltimore, MD.
1952 Emmett L. Lambert, Centerville, OH, has written a book titled Script of Life and Love. It is available through most major book stores or through McClain Printing Company at mcclain@mcclainprinting.com. In January, he had a triple by-pass and is recovering nicely. Emmett turned 90 in June and continues to be the visitation pastor at a church in Dayton, OH were he has been for 24 years.
1953 Edward T. Peck, Jr., Columbia, SC, is writing his third book, The Jamaica Avenue EL, which he promises "may make your hair stand up."
Stuart "Stu" Hendler, Hockessin, DE, was recently inducted into the Delaware Legends Basketball Hall of Fame for playing on three teams: the former Brown Vocational, Wilmington, DE, Goldey College, Wilmington, DE, and Brown Prep, in Philadelphia, PA. He was also honored for being the highest scoring high school player for the state of Delaware in 1947. Stu was awarded a full scholarship to Long Island University, where he played basketball during the 1949-50 season when LIU was the number one team in the nation. Drafted during the Korean war in 1950, Stu played basketball for Camp Carson, CO, and for the 4th infantry division in Germany. After returning to the states, Stu entered D&E in September 1954. He was able to assist D&E coaches Bud Shelton and Dick Dehart. Stu states, "outside of marrying my wife, D&E was the best thing I did for myself."
On May 17, 2010, David R. Mears, Huntington Beach, CA, attended a mini D&E Sig Ep reunion hosted by Tom Capetanos, ’57, Whippany, NJ. Also in attendance were Bill Gury, ’57, South Orange, NJ, Dick Niblett, ’58, Ocean Pines, MD, and Dick Matarante, ’59, of Bedminster, NJ. Although Dave and Tom have been fortunate to see each other nearly every year for the past few years, Dave had not seen Dick Niblett or Dick Matarante since 1957, and had not seen Bill Gury since 1964. Everyone had a great time reminiscing about their times at D&E and they hope to have another reunion sometime before the next 53 years pass.
1958 George J. Buschman, and his wife, Jo Ann, Orlando, FL, enjoyed a three-week fishing trip to Lido Beach on the Gulf of Mexico. After 12 days at home, they went on a 67-day cruise, visiting the South Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, Hawaii, and then returning to the U.S. mainland. George and Jo Ann loved it so much they signed up for a 62-day Mediterranean and North Africa voyage for their 50th wedding anniversary.
Then and Now – A mini D&E Sig Ep reunion was held in Orange, NJ. Pictured L-R: Tom Capetanos, ’57, Bill Gury, ’57, David R. Mears, ’57, Dick Niblett, ’58, and Dick Matarante, ’59. See 1957.
Patricia Little Tabler, Garner, NC, is enjoying retirement with watercolor painting and other activities. Pat's second great-grandchild was born in March 2010.
1954 Anton A. "Joe" Sinisgalli and his wife, Dalia, split their time between their home in Sarasota, FL, the Potomac/Rockville, MD, area visiting with four children and six grandchildren, and Netanya, Israel, to see three children and one grandson. Joe retired from the Department of Energy in 2000 where he was Division Director, Document Declassification Division (physicist) and continues to work as a selfemployed CPA. They thank God twice a day for His many blessings. Alumni Notes | 23
Alumni Your five yea r only happen reunion s onc … FIVE YEA e every R don’t miss th S! So Here are the e party. cla will be havin sses who ga reunion this special October:
1960, 1965, 1 1980, 1985, 1 970, 1975, 990, 1995, 20 00 EUNIONS ecial SPECIAL R ball with sp ft o /S ll a b e s team Tennis, Ba 80 baseball -’ 9 ’7 e th f o eception. recognition l All Greek R ia c e p s a S PLU
Friday, October 15
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Madden-Robbins Fitness Center Sponsored by the Health, Sport & Movement Science Department. Let students test your fitness and check out our fabulous Madden-Robbins Fitness Center.
Ice House (Cash bar)
Registration and Welcome Desk Open Halliehurst Great Hall
During registration hours: • Enjoy light refreshments in Hospitality area • Browse and bid at the Silent Auction on artwork by D&E alumni • Share your Homecoming experiences, photos, and video with friends and classmates in the Social Networking Center 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Scenic Lunch Train Ride to the High Falls of the Cheat River $50 Train Depot, Downtown Elkins (shuttle from Halliehurst will be available) Travel First Class in the Parlor Car – Advance tickets required!
Mini-Wellness Fair
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Art Exhibit Opening Reception Booth Library
Featuring paintings by Barbara Rollins, wife of D&E Trustee and Alumnus Dr. Ron Rollins, ’57 6:00 p.m.
Volleyball vs. University of Charleston McDonnell Center
Cheer on your Senator Women, support the Athletic concession and enjoy the exciting McDonnell Center. It’s a top facility in the conference! 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Class of 1960 Dinner Hearthstone
Hosted by Buck and Joni Smith, this gracious event will feature the induction of the class into the Half Century Club. Class photo will precede dinner.
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All Greek Reunion 6:30 p.m.
Tennis Reunion Reception $10 Tennis Pavilion
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Sigma Phi Epsilon Reception and Awards Presentation Halliehurst Dining Room 8:00 – 10:00 p.m.
President’s All-Campus Welcome Reception including Class Reunion Photos for ’60, ’65, ’70, ’75, ’80, ’85, ’90, ’95, ’00
Halliehurst Great Hall Enjoy an elegant and friendly reception with President Buck and Joni Smith. And bring your classmates for your official reunion photo. Look for special class gatherings for ’60, ’65, ’70, ’75, ’80, ’85, ’90, ’95, and ’00! 8:00 p.m.
Theatre Production Alumni $5/Non-Alumni $7 Boiler House Theatre
Seating begins at 7:30. For more information call the Theatre Department (304) 637-1212.
Weekend October 15-17, 2010
9:00 p.m.
11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
10:00 p.m.
D&E Tennis Court For information about playing in the tournament contact Coach Otis Cutshaw, ’97, (304) 637-1251 or cutshawo@dewv.edu
Ice House Open
Alpha Sigma Phi Alumni Get-together Graceland (Cash Bar)
Saturday, October 16 8:00 a.m. – Noon
Registration and Welcome Desk Open Halliehurst Great Hall
8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Silent Auction and Social Networking Center Open
World Team Tennis Match – Alumni vs. Current Senators
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
All Campus Picnic $12 Enjoy food and fellowship in the newly renovated Memorial Gym. (Members of the Half Century Club receive preferred seating; Class of ’60 is complimentary) Noon – 4:00 p.m.
Halliehurst
Senators Booster Club Tailgate Tent
8:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Noon
Softball and Baseball Reunion Breakfast $10
McDonnell Center Lobby All Softball and Baseball Alumni and current team members invited. Special recognition of the ’79-’80 Baseball teams. 8:30 a.m.
1904 Society & Heritage Society Breakfast Benedum Dining Room
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Sigma Phi Epsilon Alumni Association Annual Meeting
Riverbend Soccer Fields
Women’s Soccer Game
Riverbend Soccer Fields 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
T.R. Ross Society
Community Room, Booth Library
5:45 p.m.
“Live Art” Painting by Michael Doig auctioned
Halliehurst – Great Hall Place your bid to take home a piece of D&E! 6:30 p.m.
Homecoming Banquet & Alumni Awards Ceremony $24 (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.) Benedum Hall
Alumni Award Presentations
Distinguished Alumnus: Dr. Robert G. Smith, ’65 Tower Award: Dr. Frank M. Mele, ’58 Young Alumnus: Aaron Seth Taylor, ’00 Athletic Hall of Fame Inductions: Robert A. Wolf, ’72, and Michael Udofia, ’73 8:00 p.m.
Theatre Production Alumni $5/Non-Alumni $7 Boiler House Theatre
Men’s Soccer Game Riverbend Soccer Fields
Seating begins at 7:30. For more information call the Theatre Department (304) 637-1212.
4:00 p.m.
9:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
Sigma Phi Epsilon Alumni Association Pre-Dinner Party Sigma Phi Epsilon Lodge
Alumni Party at Ice House
Ice House
Rock on! Live DJ to play the music we know by heart.
Sigma Phi Epsilon Lodge
5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
10:00 a.m.
Timm's Lounge, Madden Center
Softball Game – Alumni vs. Current Senators
Elkins Middle School Softball Field
In honor of 2010 Athletic Hall of Fame inductees Michael J. Udofia, ’73, and Robert A. Wolf, ’72
10:00 a.m.
5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Presentation of Miss D&E and Mr. Senator at 10:45 p.m.
Halliehurst – Great Hall
Sunday, October 17
Featuring Assistant Professor of Art and “Painting Phenomenon” Michael Doig. Enjoy live music and LIVE ART with Michael Doig, who will create a painting during the reception. Then bid on the painting at 5:45 and take home an original from D&E!
10:00 a.m.
5:30 p.m.
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Baseball Game – Alumni vs. Current Senators D&E Baseball Field 10:00 a.m.
Dedication of the S. Benton Talbot Chair in the Natural Sciences and Nursing. Dedication Lecture by Dr. Anthony A. Kossiakoff, ’68 Booth Library
Soccer Reunion Reception
“Live Art” Reception & Auction
Alumni Art Silent Auction Closes Halliehurst – Great Hall
9:30 p.m. – 12:30 a.m.
Student Homecoming Dance Memorial Gym
Contemporary club music. Live band TBA.
Chapel Service
Robbins Chapel With Memorial Service honoring alumni & members of the D&E community whose passing we learned of in the past year. Led by Rev. Richard Huggins, ’60
Alumni Farewell Brunch $10 Hermanson Campus Center
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helped the cook prepare the meals. She reports the trip was very grueling but was glad she had the experience.
Lee J. and Barbara "Bobbie" J. Hogan Murray, ’68 enjoy spending their winters at their home in Maricopa, AZ. They both enjoy the almost always sunny skies and the warmth of the Southwest which allows Lee to pursue his passion of soaring in a glider. Maricopa is world famous for excellent soaring conditions. As his time allows, Lee continues to consult for his former employer via the internet and telephone.
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Donald E. Fowler, Warren, OH, retired as an assistant principal from Warren G. Harding High School in 2007. Don has been an official for high school football (46 years), high school basketball (45 years), and high school fast-pitch softball (33 years). He continues to officiate for high school football and fast-pitch softball. With a crew cut and a stare that was menacing to any student, Don was known as "Mr. Marine". He had a way of keeping everyone in line and the coaches knew everything was under control. In 1999, Don was inducted into the Ohio High School Athletic Association Officials Hall of Fame and the Warren Sports Hall of Fame in 2000. Don and his wife, Donna, have two daughters, one son and four grandchildren.
George M. Lauderbaugh, Jacksonville, AL, was invited by the School of Latin American Social Sciences (FLACSO), a graduate school in Quito, Ecuador, to lecture at an international seminar commemorating Ecuador's bicentennial. His lecture, "The United States and Ecuador During World War II," has been published as a chapter in a book that covers the history of Ecuador's international relations. George would like to thank Dr. Georgiana Vazquez for preparing him for his lecture which he had to deliver in Spanish. He continues to teach history at Jacksonville State University in Alabama.
David A. Blaszczak, ’74, and his wife, Lorraine, are proud grandparents of Gianna Marie born February 3, 2010. See 1974.
1959 Dick M. and Kay Woodward Royster, ’62, Hampton, VA, celebrated 50 years of marriage on October 10, 2009.
1961 Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity brothers, Tharon Jack, Elkins, WV, and Gary Weissenberger, ’63, Wake Forest, NC, ran into each other on a recent cruise through the Panama Canal. They had not seen each other since leaving school 48 years ago. Judy L. Brewster, Owings Mills, was a guest crew member in October 2009 on the Pride of Baltimore. Fighting a gale, they set sail from Gloucester, MA, where “The Perfect Storm” was filmed, and arrived in Baltimore, MD four nights later. Judy assisted at the helm from 12 - 4 a.m., then 12 - 4 p.m., and in between she
During a Panama Canal cruise Tharon, ’61, and Judy Mewha Jack, ’62, and Gary Weissenberger, ’63, and his wife, Barbara, enjoyed an unexpected D&E reunion. See 1961.
1965
45th Reunion at Homecoming October 15–17th
John C. Free serves as pastor of the United Presbyterian Church in Ingram, PA and has been appointed as chaplain of the Syria Shrine of Pittsburgh. John has seven grandchildren and recently brought three of them to the Elkins area for a short vacation. They were very impressed with the campus upgrades – "Keep up the good work." Julia Holmaas, La Porte, IN, invites classmates and friends to visit her website, www.juliaholmaas.com, where she has her art work on display. Judy A. Howard Murphy, Fanwood, NJ, has three sons, Jamie, Todd and Matt, and four grandchildren. Jamie has two boys, ages 4 yrs. and 18 months, and Todd has one daughter, 8 yrs., and one son, 3 1/2 yrs. Matt, Judy's youngest son, lives in Vermont.
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1970
40th Reunion at Homecoming October 15–17th
Stuart J. Penman, Washington, NJ, and his wife, Nancy, have four daughters and two granddaughters. Elizabeth, their oldest, has a 3 year old daughter, Ashly; Anne gave birth to a little girl, Evelyn Jean, on May 13 and received her MBA from the University of Virginia on May 23; Laura married Tim Kirk in March; and Wendy, their “baby,” has passed all her exams and is now a CPA. Three generations – Tharon L. Jack, ’61, Tharon L. "T.L" Jack, ’89, and Tharon L. Jack III, D&E graduate 20??.
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coach of OSU. While she was there, Mrs. Obama challenged the students at GW to perform 100,000 hours of community service, and in exchange, promised to be the University's commencement speaker. Barbara reports the students met the challenge and exceeded it to the tune of 169,000 hours and Mrs. Obama was a "woman of her word." The First Lady received a Doctor of Public Service degree and was their keynote commencement speaker.
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During Christmas break, Patricia A. "Patty" Wagner Gow, Elkins, WV, travelled to NJ to visit with her family. While there she enjoyed a D&E reunion at the home of Joanna Gellas Crouse, ’73, in Middletown, NJ, with Judi Rittle Atchison, ’74, Pittsburgh, PA, and Debbie Mayo Iden, ’73, Melbourne, FL. The road trip and reunion continued with Patty and Debbie travelling to Judi's home for several days.
Laura Constantine, Yorktown Heights, NY, is working as the permit coordinator for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's Croton Water Filtration Plant project. This plant is currently under construction in the Bronx. When completed, the Croton Water Filtration Plant will supply about 10% of New York City's drinking water during normal times and upwards of 30% during droughts, and will have the capacity to treat 290 million gallons of water daily.
1974 David A. Blaszczak and his wife, Lorraine, Oakland, NJ, are proud grandparents! Their daughter, Dana, and her husband, Jason Gunter, gave birth to a little girl, Gianna Marie, on February 3, 2010. Lorraine M. "Lori" Ricigliano, Tacoma, WA, recently celebrated her 30th anniversary at the University of Puget Sound where she serves as associate director of the library.
1976 Barbara A. Porter lives in Arlington, VA, with her husband, Jerry Green. They have four children, Dorian, 26, Tommy, 22, Viktor 13, and Nadya, 12, and one grandchild, Alyse, 8. Barbara works at George Washington University where she is chief of staff to President Steven Knapp. She writes it is an exciting and hectic job, but she loves it! In November 2009, Barbara was fortunate to meet President and Mrs. Obama when they came to watch Oregon State University play GW in basketball. Mrs. Obama's brother is the
1982 Following graduation from D&E, Col. Jason C. Seal, was commissioned through the Officer Candidate Course of the Marine Corps. Throughout his military career, Jason has been assigned to duties in Okinawa, Japan, Camp Pendleton, CA, Camp Lejeune, NC, New Orleans, LA, and Hawaii. During his many tours of duty, Jason has been deployed in support of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, the US Peacekeeping training mission with the African Crisis Response Initiative, and Operation Enduring Freedom. As a US Marine Exchange Officer with the UK Royal Marines during the summer of 1993, he received temporary additional duty orders to the Royal Marine Commando Training Centre and with Lima Company 42
Commando. Jason completed studies at the U.S. Army War College as well as Webster University, and has been awarded two Masters Degrees – one in Strategic Studies and the other in Management. As a member of the U.S. Military Pentathlon team (CIOR), he earned a bronze medal at the NATO military sports competition in 1993. Jason has earned numerous personal awards/devices including the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion
Barbara A. Porter, ’76, enjoyed meeting President and Mrs. Obama during a basketball game at George Washington University against Oregon State. L-R- President Barrack Obama, President Steven Knapp, his wife, Diane, their daughter, Sara, and niece, Lindsay, Barbara and First Lady Michelle Obama. See 1976.
of Merit (Gold star in lieu of second award), Meritorious Service Medal (Gold Stars in lieu of Second and Third Awards), Joint Service Commendation Medal, Joint Service Achievement Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (Gold Star in lieu of Second Award), Combat Action Ribbon and the Navy/Marine Corps Parachutist Insignia. Jason now serves as Commanding Officer with the Deployment Processing Command East at Camp Lejeune, NC. In September, Jason will retire after 28 years of active duty.
Col. Jason C. Seal, ’82. See 1982.
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Patricia A. Bennett, ’85, and grandsons, Case Sherman Alt and Carson Stihl Alt. See 1985.
Michael "Shepp" Sheppard, Culpeper, VA, is a Washington Area Music Association and Grammy nominated artist! Shepp is a member of the group "Milkshake", a Baltimore-based children's band, and they have had a spectacular year. Their album Great Day received two WAMA nominations for Children's Music Artist (solo/duo/group) and Children's Music Recording. WAMA is an umbrella organization of Washington area musicians, concert promoters, lawyers, recording engineers, managers, graphic artists, and related businesses working together to address areas of common concern – Raising the Curtain on Washington, DC, Music. Great Day was also nominated for a 2010 Grammy award in the category Best Musical Album for Children. During their Grammy weekend, they were invited to be part of a special concert at the Grammy Museum Theater featuring all the nominees in their category, which included Ziggy Marley - Family Time, Jonathan Sprout American Heroes #3, Cathy & Marcy With Special Guest Christylez Bacon - Banjo To Beatbox, Greg & Steve - Jumpin' & Jammin, Buck Howdy - Pete Seeger Tribute - Ageless Kids' Songs. Although the WAMA and the Grammy went to other artists, Shepp and the band have had a fabulous time! For more information check out Shepp's websites – www.4cryinoutloud.com and www.milkshakemusic.com, or contact him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ michaelleroysheppard.
1983 Timothy S. and Michelle Davis Edwards, Gainesville, GA, had a great time during 2009 Alumni Weekend. Classmates can reach Tim and Michelle at tim.edwards@ star-svcs.com.
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25th Reunion at Homecoming October 15–17th
Patricia A. Bennett, Riverton, WV, enjoys being grandma to Case Sherman Alt, born February 21, 2010, and Carson Stihl Alt, born March 13, 2009. If Grandma Patti has anything to say about it, these little guys are destined to become D&E legacies.
Eric V. Sibley, ’98, and Wendy Gerlich were married on June 19, 2010. See 1998.
1989 In 2009, Steven H. Bohner, Boothwyn, PA, accepted the position of Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance for the AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies. He is responsible for financial management and strategic financial direction of the Family of Companies, and providing financial oversight for new business development in all regions. Steve has been with AmeriHealth Mercy for 17 years.
1993 Scott H. Sanders, Joppa, MD, was reminded of just how small the world is when Michael Kader, ’69, Wye Mills, MD, recognized Scott's Maryland D&E license plate. Not only do they work near each other, but Michael also knew one of Scott's classmates, Chad Helfenbein, ’93.
1996 This spring, Heather R. Konhaus, York, PA, was one of 10 local artists asked to contribute to the "Window Art Tour" when York hosted the Pennsylvania Governor's Art Awards ceremony. Heather provided a painting that was based on a photograph she had taken of the stone archway connecting the Liberal Arts and Albert Hall buildings at D&E. She chose this subject because she wanted to share the
warmth and sense of belonging she felt while at D&E. Her painting was on display for three weeks. See page 27.
1998 Sarah A. Nethery Scott, Culpeper, VA, passed the Professional in Human Resources certification (PHR) exam in January 2010. The PHR is a designation in the HR field similar to the CPA in Accounting and a PMP in Project Management. To earn the PHR designation, one must have practical experience as well as demonstrated knowledge of every aspect of Human Resources, including Employee and Labor Relations, Workforce Planning and Employment, Human Resource Development, Total Rewards (benefits and compensation), Risk Management and Strategic Business Management. Sarah is currently working for a communications
Michael 'Shepp' Sheppard, ’82, and Milkshake at the 52nd Grammy Awards in Hollywood, CA. L-R - Cord Neal (bass/vocals), Shepp (electric guitars/vocals), Lisa Mathews (lead vocals), Brian Simms (keys/ vocals), Mikel Gehl (acoustic guitars), Tom Moon (drums, percussion/vocals). Photo by Bill Auth. Used with permission. See 1982.
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Melissa R. Bonner Harlan, ’04, and Jake – Christmas 2009. See 2004.
Productions. He is the writer and director of the recently released Women's Studies, a horror/thriller about homicidal feminists. For more information, visit www. lonniemartin.com.
Nicholas Bryler Wilson, son of M. Nick, ’02, and Casey D. K. McNiesh Wilson, ’04, born on February 12, 2010. See 2002.
company in Manassas, VA. In October 2009, Sarah raised over $500 and walked with thousands of people around the country in the Out of Darkness Community Walk at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, to benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. She walked in memory of her sister, Mary, who she lost in 1989 at the age of 16. For more information, go to www.outofthedarkness.org. Eric V. Sibley, and Wendy Gerlich were married on June 19, 2010. Eric earned his bachelor's degree in business management from D&E and in 2001 received his master's degree in business administration from Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA. He currently works for the Anacostia Watershed Society in Washington, DC. Eric and Wendy live in Washington, DC.
1999 Peter J. Moran, Seattle, WA, is the president of Rezin Marketing where they have been doing some big things in the pro sports world. Check out his website – www.rezinmarketing.com.
2000
10th Reunion at Homecoming October 15–17th
Calette W. Smith, Georgetown, SC, is a Career Transition Specialist for adult education at Howard Adult Center in Georgetown County.
2002 Lonnie L. Martin, Woodbridge, VA, is the founder of Ningen Manga
M. Nick and Casey D. K. McNiesh Wilson, ’04, Elkins, WV, would like to announce the birth of their first bundle of joy. Nicholas Bryler Wilson was born on February 12 at 1:23 p.m. Bryler was 20.5 inches long and weighed 7 lbs. 7 oz.
she plans to stay awhile and travel. You may stay in touch with Laura by visiting her blog at thereandbackagain2nz.wordpress.com or by email lauradbonser@gmail.com.
2003 Andrea Yoak, Richmond, VA, received a law degree from Washington & Lee and now specializes in elder law with the Thompson McMullan law firm.
2004 Melissa R. Bonner Harlan, and her husband, Kenneth, Sumter, SC, are enjoying life and their big "baby," Jake.
2008 Laura D. Bonser is studying abroad in the beautiful country of New Zealand. Following the completion of her Diploma of Computer Graphic Design in March 2011,
Painting of the stone archway connecting Liberal Arts and Albert Hall at D&E by Heather R. Konhaus, ’96, featured during the “Window Art Tour” in York, PA. See 1996
Joshua T. Larkin, ’10, and Amanda R. Chadwick, ’06, were married on January 23, 2010. It was a true D&E affair with the wedding and reception held in Halliehurst Hall. See 2010.
Chrisantha A. Frederick Hermanson, Edinburg, Scotland, will be attending Oxford this coming academic year.
2010 Joshua T. Larkin, ’10, and Amanda R. Chadwick, ’06 were married on January 23, 2010. It was a true D&E affair with the wedding and reception being held in Halliehurst Hall. Amanda graduated with a B.S. in Physical Education and is now the Director of Campus Life & Housing in the Office of Student Life at Davis & Elkins while she pursues her Master’s degree from WVU in Sport Management. Joshua, a Lance Corporal in the Marine Corps Reserves, and son to Associate Registrar Debbie Larkin, was called to active military duty in April. He is currently training in Camp Pendleton, California to be deployed to Afghanistan in the fall. Alumni Notes | 29
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Every effort has been made to present a clear and accurate report of those who have given of themselves for the betterment of the College. Occasionally, however, mistakes and omission occur. If you have questions regarding this report, please feel free to contact us so that we may correct our records. The gifts contained in this report reflect contributions that were made to Davis & Elkins College between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010. You may direct your question or concerns to Karen L. Wilmoth, Director of Advancement Operations and Stewardship, Davis & Elkins College, 100 Campus Dr., Elkins, West Virginia 26241, (304) 637-1374, wilmothk@dewv.edu.
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Gifts from Other Constituents
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Contributions from 2009-2010 Trustees
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Contributions from Former Trustees
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Faithful Supporters
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Legacy Gifts & Heritage Society
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Gifts Made in Honor or Memory of Alumni & Friends
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Senators Booster Club
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Friends of Augusta
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Honor Roll of Volunteers
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1904 Society Since Davis & Elkins College’s founding in 1904, gifts from individuals and organizations have played a crucial role in the development of the College. Throughout the years, alumni and friends have made gifts that have enabled the College to carry out its mission of providing a quality liberal arts education to each new generation of students. To thank those whose outstanding, consistent support is sustaining and empowering the College in its second century of service, Davis & Elkins College created The 1904 Society and is proud to recognize its members. The College invites you to enjoy the benefits of becoming a member of The 1904 Society by giving $1,000 or more during the 2010-2011 fiscal year.
Henry Gassaway Davis Circle Named for one of Davis & Elkins College's founding fathers, the Henry Gassaway Davis Circle recognizes donors who made gifts of $10,000 or more to the College during the year. Mr. & Mrs. John Crile Allen Ms. Jo Ann Post Barlow Ms. Karen H. Berner The Margaret A. Cargill Foundation Davis Trust Financial Corporation/ Davis Trust Company Daywood Foundation Inc. Mr. Antony E. Fiorentino Mr. W. L. Goddin & Dr. Margaret P. Goddin Mr. & Mrs. John H. Harling Sarah & Pauline Maier Foundation Inc. Mr. & Mrs. James S. McDonnell III/James S. McDonnell Family Foundation Inc. Mr. & Mrs. David Miller Mr. & Mrs. William S. Moyer Ms. June B. Myles/Myles Family Foundation Prichard School Mr. William S. Robbins The Hon. Mike Ross/Mike Ross Inc. Joni & Buck Smith Mr. William B. Snyder Mrs. Marcella Stevens Paul & Karen Stirrup Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation Mr. & Mrs. L. Newton Thomas Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Wamsley/ Colonial Motors Mr. & Mrs. Henry B. Wehrle Jr./ The H.B. Wehrle Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Howard H. Wolfe/ Wolfe Family Foundation
Stephen Benton Elkins Circle Named for the other founding father of Davis & Elkins College, the Stephen Benton Elkins Circle recognizes donors who made gifts of $5,000 - $10,000 to the College during the year. James & Kristina Bacca Dr. & Mrs. Phillip Bussey/Phillip Bussey & Associates Inc. Carbon Fuel Foundation Fund
Dr. & Mrs. Michael F. DiMario Mr. & Mrs. Peter H. Dougherty Mr. James W. Hancock III The Rev. Richard L. Huggins Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence B. Hunt Huntington Banks of WV Mr. & Mrs. William T. Jordan Mrs. E. Sue Lohn & Mr. Willis Gore Ms. Deborah Madden Dr. & Mrs. Thomas J. "Jack" Martin Mr. & Mrs. Eric J. Nilsen Mr. Edward A. Pencek Mr. Donald M. Robbins & Ms. Elizabeth J. Clarke-Robbins Mr. David S. Rogers/The Graymer Foundation Mr. Bob Smakula Dr. & Mrs. David M. Sneed Mrs. Doris Stalnaker Mr. William H. Sudbrink & Ms. Kathryn L. Howard The Hon. O. Alan Thulander Mrs. Joanne C. Dougherty Vaughan Mr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Wells III
Hallie Davis Elkins Circle Named for the daughter of Henry Gassaway Davis and the wife of Stephen Benton Elkins, the Hallie Davis Elkins Circle recognizes donors who made gifts of $1,000 - $5,000 to the College during the year. Anonymous Allegheny Insurance Services Mr. & Mrs. John C. Allen Jr. Mr. James G. Allen Dr. Walter J. Alvarez & Mr. Morey L. Herman Mr. Eric J. Anderson Dr. Ellen M. Andrews Appalachian Power Company (Charleston) Bob & Ann Baird/Elkins Physical Therapy & Sports Injury Clinic Ms. Bailey S. Barnett Miss Dorothy E. Bartgis BB&T West Virginia Foundation Ms. Diane L. Bennett Mr. Richard T. Berman Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Biggs Mr. Joe Biola & Dr. Heather R. Biola Mr. & Mrs. E. Martin Blendermann Ms. Margo Blevin Denton & Mr. David A. Denton Bluegrass Preservation Society Inc. Dr. Joseph W. Boatwright III
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Dr. & Mrs. Harry Boggs Mr. Newton P. Bohme Mr. & Mrs. Mickey W. Boles Dr. & Mrs. W.W. Branch Jr. Mr. Jonathan L. Brandt Mr. Fletcher Bright Mr. & Mrs. James F. Brown IV Mr. James O. Bushyeager Mr. John L. Caracciolo Mr. Robert T. Carney Dr. Patrick V. Castellano Mr. Edward T. Christian Jr. Dr. Domingo T. Chua & Mrs. Linda Chua Mr. Philip E. Cline Mr. & Mrs. Wendell M. Cramer Dr. Steven Creasey & Dr. Stephanie Frame Mr. David E. Cutlip D&E College Aid Club Lt. Col. Michael G. Dakes USAF (Ret) Mr. Clark B. Dearth Dr. C. Brent DeVore Mr. Frank W. Disharoon Jr. Dr. Thomas P. Ditty & Ms. Patricia Schumann Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Dye Mr. Richard D. Earle/Delbert Land Company Dr. Wally Edgell First Presbyterian Church Fairmont, The Women's Association Elkins Regional Convalescent Center Ms. Nancy Evans-Bennett David A. Faris M.D. Mr. & Mrs. David W. Ferreby Mr. & Mrs. Frederick J. Fincken Jr. First Presbyterian Church Charleston Mr. David Fredin Mrs. Barbara Fritz/Mr. & Mrs. James Z. Fritz/Fritz Family Charitable Fund Ms. Katherine H. Gates Mr. & Mrs. David L. Genter Mr. & Mrs. James Gibbs Mr. Kenneth D. Gibson Dr. Bijan J. Goodarzi Capt. Robert T. Gregory SC USN(Ret) Mr. & Mrs. Alberto Grignolo Miss Anne E. Haislip Ms. Marilyn C. Hamelman Jeanne G. & Lawson W. Hamilton Jr. Family Foundation Mr. David H. Harte Mr. & Mrs. T. Richard Harvey Mr. & Mrs. Mark Haynes Mr. & Mrs. Richard Hechenbleikner
The Rev. Dr. Jean H. Henderson Mrs. Anne H. Hill Ms. Sandra Hofferth Mrs. Sue Hoover Mr. Gary Horvath The Hon. John A. Hutchison Dr. J. Davis Illingworth Mr. & Mrs. Philip S. Inglee Mr. & Mrs. Tharon L. Jack Stephen & Jean Jory Kanawha United Presbyterian Church Mrs. Doris Dye Kelly Dr. Ralph L. Kendall Mr. & Mrs. Frank Knox Mr. Ralph Kortyna Mr. Robert E. Kother Mr. & Mrs. C. Kerr Kump Mr. & Mrs. John W. Lainhart IV Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. LaNeve George & Susan Lauderbaugh The Rev. Dr. William A. Leist/ Marie Leist Foundation Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Jack Lengyel Mr. Richard S. Libby Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Livingston Mr. & Mrs. John P. Locke Jr. Ms. Melissa H. Luce Anna & Norman Lunde Mr. & Mrs. Rudolph G. Luzzatto Mr. David B. Martin The Hon. & Mrs. Robert E. Maxwell Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Willard L. McQuary Dr. & Mrs. Frank M. Mele Steve & Erin Merrick Dr. & Mrs. Jerry Metheny Eileen Miller Dr. A. Jean Minnick Mr. & Mrs. Henry M. "Don" Moore Col. & Mrs. Joseph W. Moran Jr. USAF (Ret.) Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Morehead Mr. & Mrs. Dwain Morgan Ms. Alice C. Moser Dr. & Mrs. L. Gregory Myers Mr. & Mrs. Cliff J. Neese Mrs. Joyce M. Nestor & Mr. Robert G. Nestor Mr. John Newsome Gary & Helen North Mr. & Mrs. William W. Nuttall III The Ogden Newspapers Inc. Ms. Betty Ollestad Mr. & Mrs. Reginald Owens Dr. Gloria Marquette Payne Ms. Gloria C. Phares Mr. & Mrs. David Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Stanley F. Phillips Dr.* & Mrs. William E. Phipps
Mr. & Mrs. James R. Pifer/Elkins Sewing Center Mrs. Vada M. Powers* Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Presbyterian Scholarship Fund Dr. & Mrs. Nitesh Ratnakar Mr. Marvin S. Reitz & Mrs. Kathy W. Reitz Mrs. Carolyn Respess Dr. & Mrs. Sherman S. Robinson The Hon. John D. Rockefeller IV & Dr. Sharon P. Rockefeller Dr. & Mrs. Jack Rogers Dr. & Mrs. Ronald A. Rollins Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Ross II Betty & Joe Ruddle/Anchor Aquatics Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Gordon H. Rutherford Mr. & Mrs. David A. Rutherford Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Seybolt Mr. James N. Shields Mr. & Mrs. Robert Simpson Jr. Mrs. Nancy R. Smith Mr. & Mrs. William Smyth Mr. & Mrs. Ray A. Snyder Mrs. Sally Spears Mr. & Mrs. James W. Spears Mr. James Steen Jr. Mr. Richard G. Steffens Jr. Mr. Henry W. Steinbrecher Steptoe & Johnson PLLC Mr. Charles A. Straw Mr. & Mrs. Allan Swanson Synod of the Trinity Dr. L. Gordon Tait Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Talbott Jr. Dr. Duke Talbott Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Tarbett Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Taylor Dr. & Mrs. Victor L. Thacker Mr. & Mrs. Leonard J. Timms Jr. Tygart Valley Lions Club Mr. Harold B. Varner Vienna Presbyterian Church Mrs. Peggy Wagner Mr. & Mrs. James E. Wallace Mr. Keith C. Weese Mrs. Harriett Welshonce Mr. Elkins Wetherill Mr. Leonard B. Whiting Mr. & Mrs. John E. Whitman Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Wilkens Mr. & Mrs. Frank Wilkens Mrs. Romany E. Wilkinson Mrs. Karen L. Wilmoth Mr. & Mrs. Ralph E. Wilmoth Mr. James L. Wilson Woman's Club of Elkins Mr. & Mrs. C. Curtis Woodford/ Woodford Oil Company
Gifts from Alumni Class of 1934 Mrs. Maudaline Montgomery Barnard Dr. Raymond C. White Class of 1936 Mr. Howard H. Wolfe Class of 1937 Mr. Joe E. Bullivant Mr. Roscoe E. Murphy Mrs. Jane Price Sharp Class of 1938 Mr. William A. Miers Jr. Mrs. Vada Marie Gear Powers*
Team of 20 The “Team of Twenty,” captained by Dr. Ronald A. Rollins, Sr., ’57, reaches out to alumni from the Classes of 1969 and earlier. A program for younger classes has not yet been formalized, but a number of Class Representatives have already volunteered to serve. If you are interested in serving as a representative of your class, please contact Patricia Schumann, Vice President for College Advancement at (304) 637-1340 or schumannp@ dewv.edu. Mr. Walter C. Cathie '65 Mr. Robert S. Craig '49 Mr. D. Drake Dowler '69 Ms. Judith Eadson '67 Ms. Nancy Evans-Bennett '66 The Rev. Ruth Herbert Gnagey '59 The Rev. Dr. Jean Humason Henderson '64 The Rev. Richard L. Huggins '60 Mr. Tharon L. Jack '61 Mrs. Judy Mewha Jack '62 Mrs. Elizabeth G. Guye Kittle '47 Mrs. Barbara J. Bowen McConnell '66 Dr. Frank M. Mele '58 Mr. Frederick R. Miller '56 Mrs. Kathleen M. Barndt Mitchell '68 Mrs. Lorna J. Gibson Phares '50 Mrs. Harriett Hays Nicely Rector '63 Dr. Sherman S. Robinson '53 Mr. Leonard B. Whiting '52 Mr. John E. Whitman '50
Class Representatives Ms. Vicki Lunde Rodriquez '78 Mrs. Robin Jo White Rybczynski '86 Dr. Blaine E. Steensland '72
Class of 1939 Ms. Jane Armentrout Maxwell Class of 1940 Mrs. June Gallaher Eyzaguirre Mrs. Martha Sonner Mero Class of 1941 Miss Dorothy E. Bartgis Mrs. Leah Fitzwater Richards Class of 1942 Miss Anne E. Haislip Robert P. Irons M.D. Mrs. Elaine Caplinger Smith Class of 1943 Ms. Julia Millar Ellis Dr. Gloria Joan Marquette Payne Mrs. Carolyn Collett Respess Mrs. Irene Burky Snyder Class of 1944 Mrs. Pauline Payne Eyler Mrs. Jearline Heltzel Hatch Mrs. Virginia Earle Isner Mrs. Mary Margaret Carroll Morrison Class of 1945 Mrs. Alma M. Crosier Campbell Mrs. Doris E. Dye Kelly Class of 1946 The Hon. Robert E. Maxwell Mrs. June Hines Snodgrass Class of 1947 Mr. Ervin B. Calain Mr. Eugene R. Hoffman Mr. Russell D. Isner Jr. Mrs. Elizabeth Guye Kittle Mrs. Nancy Armentrout Lang Ms. Elizabeth Harper Rupp Mrs. Hilda L. Burky Wilmoth Class of 1948 Mrs. Alwilda Cochran Benton* Mrs. Leah Easton Brown Dr. Clarence H. Conner Mrs. Martha Ann Clark Donley Mr. Nicholas Hahon Mr. Frederick D. Harman Jr. Mrs. Norma A. Swink Hinchman Mrs. Lena Bradley Itnyre Miss Elizabeth A. Mariniello Mrs. Betty Smith Rohr Mrs. Joyce Ziman Simpson Mrs. Norma P. Daetwyler Stalnaker Mrs. Anna Kramer Tobias Mrs. Dollie T. Enevoldsen Wiseman* Dr. Mohsen Ziai Class of 1949 Mrs. Eileen Knapp Basil Mrs. Margaret L. Hook Burdette Mr. Paul D. Corley Mr. Robert S. Craig The Rev. Frank A. Davison
Mrs. M. Rebecca Hellems DiGiovanni Mr. John N. Funk Jr. Mrs. Alice Leonard Gillespie Mrs. Doris A. Smith Gurd Mr. Eric R. Karg Dr. Ralph L. Kendall Mr. Charles Lester Kerns Mr. Donald T. Kosak Mr. Ross E. Marteney Mr. Donald R. Meierdiercks Mr. Robert T. Paul Mrs. Mabel Vanscoy Phares Mr. Robert Simpson Jr. Dr. James W. Tinsley Mr. Harold B. Varner Mr. Frederick D. Ware Mr. Richard C. Winterhoff Class of 1950 Mr. William M. Benton Col. William H. Byrom Jr. Ms. Camcy F. Boggs Courten Mr. Richard W. Dye Mr. Arnold H. Gelfer Dr. Margaret Purdum Goddin Mr. Kenneth M. Graham Mrs. Barbara Phillips Grindle Mr. Paul R. Grindle Dr. Walter H. Hasbrouck Mrs. Betty Liles Little Intemann Mrs. Joan Vanscoy Kittle Mrs. Jean Jennings Lanham Dr. Thomas J. Martin Mr. Charles D. Mays Mr. Joe C. Midkiff Mr. Ralph E. Morrison Mr. John W. Moser* Mr. James K. Phares Mrs. Lorna J. Gibson Phares Mrs. Margaret L. Cox Rector Mr. Charles R. Showen Mr. Charles Wehrle Mr. John E. Whitman Mr. Ralph E. Wilmoth Class of 1951 Mr. Billy Baer Mr. Robert T. Carney Mrs. Chata Ingram Carr Mrs. Dorothy R. Bennett Chensky Mr. Charles C. Christian Jr. Miss Dorothy V. DeBevoise Mr. Richard D. Earle Mr. Thomas L. Elkins Mr. John A. Geissinger Mrs. Doris White Hall Mrs. Miriam W. Reed Holt Mr. William J. Hourigan Jr. Dr. William L. Jones Mr. Robert E. Kother Mr. Cecil G. Layman Jr. Mr. Robert P. McLean Mrs. Cecilia Martin Meierdiercks Mr. Wilbert D. Mick Mrs. Betty Cunningham Newman Mrs. Eleanor Shiflet Porterfield Mr. Matthew R. Purvis Jr. Mr. Donald L. Rice Mr. Bert P. Robinson* Mr. Vernon A. Shahan Mr. Robert L. Shaw Mrs. Rebecca Mewha Shinaberry Mr. William B. Snyder Mrs. Catherine Adams Starcher Mrs. Agatha Cortellesi Towe Mr. Richard B. Walden Mr. Keith C. Weese Mrs. Monna Fae Harman Yount
*As found throughout the report, indicates that the named person is deceased. This report reflects gifts made July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
Class of 1952 Mr. Richard E. Barber Mrs. Vera Cornell Berg Mr. Byron Bland Jr. Dr. William H. Carr Dr. Helenjane Weiner Cougan Mrs. Peggy A. Rogers Crichton Mrs. Irma Crosier Curran Mr. Harry R. Fee Ms. Jeanne Greves Fee The Rev. F. DeWitt Furrow Mr. W. L. Goddin Mrs. Mathilda Soliday Gontarski Ms. Marilyn C. Brown Hamelman Mrs. Virginia Smith Holborow Mr. Emmett L. Lambert Mr. Herbert J. Libby Mrs. Gayle Paul Moore The Rev. John M. Nehrebecki Mrs. Mary Frances Hiser Pryor Mr. Eugene H. Renner Mrs. Helen Cutright Robinson Mr. John L. Sellick Jr. Mrs. Christine Kesling Shumway Dr. Douglas Shumway D. O. Mrs. Dorothy Steele Stacy Mrs. Peggy Talbot Wagner Mr. Leonard B. Whiting Class of 1953 Mrs. Charlotte McCammon Adams Mrs. Virginia Masters Ayars Ms. Janice Everett Mrs. Nancy Hugart Greer Dr. Eugenia Yarbrough Hanson Mr. John Henry Harling Mr. Norman J. Hobbie Mrs. Dorothy Gerhardt Jones The Rev. Charles R. Leary Mr. William L. Lindner Mr. Mike Linkovich Mr. Norman A. Lunde Dr. Scott McCormick Jr. Mr. William E. McEldowney Mrs. Alice Murachanian Norford Mr. Edward T. Peck Jr. Mrs. Edith Buck Renner Dr. Sherman S. Robinson Mrs. Ella Mae Strader Bryant Seward Mrs. Patricia Little Tabler Mrs. Rita Kyle Thomas Mrs. Louise Thomas Whitman Mrs. Sarah Jane Mills Withrow Class of 1954 Mr. E. Martin Blendermann Mrs. Frances M. Villee Blendermann Mr. Arthur S. Hirshey Mr. David R. Hoffman Dr. Gilbert Richard Hoy The Rev. Dr. Thomas W. Jackson The Rev. John E. Kuchta Mr. Carl E. Kuehn Mr. Keyolan G. Light Mr. John C. Little Mr. John Maffucci Mr. Richard W. Moore Mrs. Barbara Jean Skinner Morgan Mr. Paul W. Phipps Mr. Anton A. Sinisgalli Dr. Richard D. Snyder Mr. Vilas D. Stalnaker Mr. James Steen Jr. Mrs. Elaine Pizzoferrato Ware Mrs. Bonnie J. McDonald White Mr. Robert A. White Mrs. Louisa Sager Yeuell
Class of 1955 Mr. Jack R. Blacka Dr. Patrick V. Castellano Mr. Clarence F. Crosby Jr. Dr. Loy S. Harrell Mrs. Phyllis Lee Scott Jackson Mr. Ralph Kortyna The Rev. Dr. William A. Leist Mrs. Ramona Peterson Leslie Mrs. Anna Jean Daetwyler Lunde Mr. Ronald F. MacDonald Mr. Paul R. Macklin Dr. Charles W. Martin Jr. Mr. John J. McKenzie Mrs. Tish Ann Davis McKenzie Mr. H. Maxwell Morgan Dr. Joseph H. Morton Dr. James C. Mosher Dr. Nicholas A. Pace Dr. John P. Petrali Jr. Mr. Sidney C. Smith Mr. Roger G. Waddill Mr. Jackson B. Winter Class of 1956 Mr. Oran D. Bennett Mr. Branem J. Coberly Dr. George L. Colvin Dr. Sheldon C. Downes Mr. Eugene Karl Gilsleider Mrs. Phoebe Hickman Johnkoski Mrs. Grace Lee Jordan Mr. John K. Kelley The Rev. John M. Klembara Mr. Herbert J. Kresser Jr.* Mr. Charles N. Lewis Mr. Rudolph G. Luzzatto Mr. Gerald J. Maynard Mr. Frederick R. Miller Mrs. Alice M. Burky Phillips Mrs. Norma Jean Townsend Rector-Triplett Mr. William S. Robbins Mr. Howard Rubenstein Mrs. Mary Lou Sechrist Shields Mr. Benno Silberman Mrs. Joan Montgomery Stern Mr. George Triplett Class of 1957 Mrs. Gladys M. Warnke Calhoun Mr. Thomas G. Capetanos The Rev. Dr. Daniel B. Gerhardt Dr. Gerald Goldstone Mr. Stuart Hendler Mr. Edward J. Henriksen Mr. Leonard L. Hood The Rev. Robert E. Hullstrung The Rev. Ruth Ann Lautenbach Keck Mr. Richard S. Libby Mr. Garret K. Lockwood Mrs. Fay McGee Maynard Mr. David R. Mears Mr. Robert Miserentino Mr. Niel P. Petersen Dr. Syngman Rhee Mrs. Mary L. Bliss Rhodes Dr. Ronald Allen Rollins Sr. Mr. Charles Sciara Lt. Col. Leon J. Testas Jr. USAF (Ret) Mrs. Joanne C. Dougherty Vaughan Dr. Cosmo J. Vetrone Class of 1958 Mrs. Mary Willis Ambrose Mr. William J. Amos Lt. Col. Harold L. Arner USAF (Ret)
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Gifts from Alumni Mr. Barry E. Blacka Mrs. Nancy J. Compton Bodnar Mr. George J. Buschman The Rev. L. Norman Butler Mr. Walter C. Calhoun Jr. Mr. Raymond R. Fry Jr. Mrs. Barbara Ellen Brown Hart Mrs. Exie Singleton Irons The Rev. Dr. Neil L. Irons Mr. William T. Jordan Dr. Frank M. Mele Mr. C. Carney Moran Class of 1959 Mr. Robert D. Back Ms. Doris A. Hoffman Baker Mr. Wendell M. Cramer Lt. Col. Michael G. Dakes USAF (Ret) Mrs. Priscilla C. Weaver DiMario Mr. Harold R. Elbon Mr. Eugene V. Filippi Mr. William F. Frantz Jr. Mr. Herbert G. Gaiss The Rev. Dr. Ruth Herbert Gnagey Mr. Charles H. Gover Sr. Capt. Robert T. Gregory SC USN(Ret) Mr. Rolf T. Hammer Mr. Donald E. Hauck The Rev. Arthur C. Heldman Jr. Mrs. Betty Lou Faulkner Heldman Mrs. V. Christine Hester Hinzman Mr. William R. Hitchner Mr. Leonard E. Howell Mrs. Almeda Shimer Huffaker Mr. Philip Scott Inglee Mr. Albert H. Phillips Mr. Dick M. Royster Mr. Joe R. Ruddle Mr. W. Miles Runner* Mr. John W. Schabow Ms. Grayson Clark Schick Mrs. Mariwyn F. McClain Smith Mr. Andrew L. Snelson Mr. William H. Sudbrink Mr. G. David Vandenbergh Mr. Herbert N. Wallace Mr. James E. Wallace Mr. David W. Waterman Class of 1960 Mr. Leighton E. Andersen Mrs. Lesley Jean Whitehead Andersen Ms. Barbara E. Bowers Mr. Kenneth N. Connaughton Dr. Michael F. DiMario Miss Carol A. Douglas Mr. Robert E. Dunn Mr. Richard H. Evans Mr. Charles R. Fondelier Mr. Kenneth D. Gibson Mr. Roger L. Hall Miss Charlotte Hinkle Mr. David L. Hoyt Mrs. Nancy J. Drake Hoyt Mr. Harold S. Hudspeth The Rev. Richard L. Huggins Capt. G. Ed Huke Mrs. Dixie Singleton Jones Mrs. Joan Carr Kilpatrick Mr. William J. Lentino The Rev. Bruce A. Macbeth Mr. Herbert P. Marshall Dr. Jack C. McDonald Mrs. Joyce H. Blacka Miller Mr. Eugene E. Morgan Mr. Edward A. Pencek Mr. George A. Rao
Mrs. Belle Spencer Rogers Dr. Jack Rogers Mrs. Betty E. Fletcher Ruddle Mr. James D. Ruyak Mr. Edward G. Sawtell Mr. Arthur F. Schmidt Mr. David H. Semendinger Mrs. Della Mae Pope Semendinger Mr. Paul R. Semendinger Mr. Richard P. Smatana Mr. Terry L. Smith Mr. Paul S. Stirrup Mr. Donald R. Strosnider The Rev. Charles D. Symons Mrs. Judith Newbery Thompson Mrs. Gail T. Lewis Tubbs Mr. William J. Tubbs Mr. John A. Warren Mrs. Katherine McGlothlin Warren Class of 1961 Mrs. Susan J. Gore Back Mr. Walter Bartlett Miss Patricia Bethany Mrs. Elizabeth Reed Branch Mrs. Judy L. Beckham Brewster Mrs. Jacqueline Thornhill Bright Mrs. Marilyn Lantz Burch Mr. Douglas L. Conary Mr. David W. Ferreby Mrs. Paula Ingram Ferreby Mrs. Mary K. Collett Fry Mr. Robert W. Hanson Mr. William G. Hartman Mr. George R. Heavner Mr. Tharon L. Jack Mr. Gerald S. Lawrence Sr. Mr. Thomas Y. Ling Mr. Robert P. Livingston Mr. Jim B. Lloyd Mr. Leonard W. Martin Mr. John S. McConnel Mrs. Sharon Laceil Jack McQuain Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson Mennig Mrs. Pauline Herrmann Moran Dr. George P. Morgan Jr. Mrs. Ruthann Hallett Normann The Hon. Mike Ross Mr. George A. Smith Jr. Mr. Robert P. Sommer Sr. The Rev. Charles N. Thompson The Hon. O. Alan Thulander Dr. Samuel Topal Mrs. Dorothy Herring Wamsley Mr. Kenneth C. Watson Class of 1962 Mr. Peter Abramov III Mr. Frederick J. Fincken Jr. Mr. Edward F. Hart Mrs. Ann Hickman Heater Mr. Gary Horvath Mrs. Judy K. Mewha Jack Mr. Robert M. Jarrett Mr. Lucius Q.C. Lamar III Mrs. Dorothy J. Garner Ling Mr. Huxley T. Madeheim Mr. Michael S. Maiden Mr. Paul K. McCallum Mr. Willard L. McQuary Mr. George F. Middleton Dr. Charles H. Nauman Mr. Gary W. North Mr. John E. Polhemus The Rev. Robert R. Reich Mrs. Kay Woodward Royster Capt. Donald Santamaria USN (Ret.) Barry I. Saul M.D. Mr. Fred C. Shepler Jr.
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Mr. John B. Slorah Mr. C. Richard Thompson Mrs. Carolyn A. Darnall Titcher Class of 1963 Mr. Robert H. Aaronson III The Rev. Gary L. Baer Mrs. Janice C. White Bain-Kerr Mrs. Barbara A. Matz Brunermer Dr. Phillip Bussey Mr. Jim D. Cook Mr. Lee F. Dobbs Mrs. Barbara Donaruma Fincken Mr. Robert J. Fletcher IV Mr. Donald E. Fowler Mr. Robert W. Gracey CFP Mr. Roger P. Hailes Mr. David Hiester Mrs. Madeleine N. Truesdell Hiester Mr. Robert E. Hingel Mrs. Margaret Anne Hall Kitchen Mr. Richard K. Lee Mr. John P. Locke Jr. Mrs. Patricia A. Ginter Plescia Mrs. Harriett Hays Nicely Rector Mrs. Judith McColly Reich Dr. Leonard Rudnick Mrs. Sandra-Jo Moore Rudnick Mrs. Maria Erhard Santamaria Mr. Richard C. Seybolt Mr. James N. Shields Mr. Jennings R. Skinner Mrs. Patricia Perkins Slorah Mrs. Carolyn Roberts Smoes Mrs. M. Lynn Viereck Stoner Mrs. Barbara Frank Warren Mrs. Romany E. Sear Wilkinson Mr. Robert M. Wood Class of 1964 Mr. Thomas A. Andersen Mrs. Ellen J. Zimmerman Behrhorst Ms. Karen Harmeier Berner Mr. Russell B. Blight Mrs. Kathy Opdyke Bolig Mr. Alan R. Colussy Mrs. Judith Meinen Cramer Mrs. Christine Laird Fallon The Rev. Dr. Gilbert J. Fitzsimmons Mrs. Susan K. Hodgman Fitzsimmons Mr. Gerald D. Foster The Rev. Dr. Jean Humason Henderson Mrs. Cary Muldoon Hopwood Mr. Anthony D. Howd Dr. Andrew H. Johanson Jr. The Rev. Dr. David A. Kirk Mrs. Nancy Bohne Locke Mr. Kent W. Mason Mrs. Mary Louise DuBose McQuary Mrs. Eileen Cody Miller Mr. Rowland I. C. New Mrs. Linda E. Schaarschmidt Parthun Mr. Danny C. Phares Mrs. Ann Poling Rexrode Mr. David W. Robinson Ms. Nancy A. Rogers Sanders Mr. D. Terry Shorr Mrs. Hannah Palmer Snyder Mrs. Bonita Weaver Walker Mrs. Mary M. Spivey Wehrle Dr. Daniel M. Woodworth Class of 1965 Mrs. Carol Rice Armentrout
Mr. Richard W. Bendy Ms. Diane L. Winans Bennett Mr. Lee S. Bohme Mr. James O. Bushyeager Mr. Dennis L. Bye Mrs. Donna L. Manzella Cathie Mr. Richard L. Cathie Mr. Walter C. Cathie Mr. David E. Clapp Mr. James C. Corts Sr. Mr. Barry L. Field The Rev. John C. Free Mrs. Carolyn Ekins Heasley Miss Julia Holmaas Mrs. Barbara Laing Larsen Mr. David L. McConnell Dr. Curtis S. McKee Dr. H. Thomas Mullis Ms. Judith A. Howard Murphy Mr. Lee J. Murray Mrs. June Toth Myers Mrs. Linda Lee Hurst New Ms. Judith L. Shelton Dr. Robert G. Smith The Rev. Samuel G. Strohm Mr. Frederick Walker Mrs. Susan Lloyd Woodworth Class of 1966 Mrs. E. Lynn Aeschbach Ackermann Mrs. Corina DeMotto Belan Mrs. E. Joanne Person Bendy Mrs. Nancy E. Morgan Brown Mrs. Suzanne Jackson Bye Mrs. Nancy S. Walker Caparulo Mr. Ralph Chapin Mr. Frank R. Enders Ms. Nancy Evans-Bennett Mr. Robert L. Fields Mr. Wayne J. Finkbeiner Mrs. Claire J. Rehill Fliess Mr. Thomas M. Gill Mrs. Beverly A. Howell Gulley Mr. William J. Heronemus Mr. James Stephen Hiner Mr. Walter A. Hopwood Mrs. Elizabeth J. Johnston Mrs. Gale Robinson Lawless Mr. Stewart S. Macsherry The Rev. Pamela A. Wadding McCamant Mrs. Barbara J. Bowen McConnell Mrs. Martha M. Briegel McIlvaine Dr. Robert M. McIlvaine Mr. Guy C. Miller Mrs. Elizabeth A. Chambliss Pitt Mr. Roger Lowell Sanders II Mr. Jan R. Smith Mrs. Sandra Kay Wilfong Smith Mrs. Carol J. Anderson Specht Dr. David Specht Mr. Gary T. Swift Mrs. Karen Gordon Tillotson Mr. David R. Van Metre Mrs. Mary H. Lafayette Williams Mrs. Suzanne B. Rose Williams Mr. Roger C. Wilmoth Mr. W. A. Stewart Wright Jr. Class of 1967 Mr. John R. Addeo Mr. Robert R. Baird Mrs. Dianne Sue Lapp Cathie Mrs. Susan Hillick Colussy Mr. Clark B. Dearth Ms. Emilie Ann Brodisch Dick Ms. Judith Eadson Miss Joan B. Harding
Col. Donald S. Harlacher USAF (Ret) Ms. Deborah Harker Hoeper Mr. Lawrence B. Hunt Mr. Gerald F. Johanson Dr. George M. Lauderbaugh Mrs. Carole Leland-Vellenoweth Lutness Dr. Gail Hagerman McKee Mrs. Karen D. Kauffman Scherling Class of 1968 Mr. Kenneth W. Bielemeier Mr. Leif P. Carlson Dr. Norman Christiansen Mr. Philip Carl Eastman Mr. Thomas W. Flinn Mr. Dennis Willam Fricke Mr. Richard J. Frome Mrs. Janet Ellyn Hughes Gilbert Mr. Christopher S. Glover III Mrs. Barbara Ann Sanders Hanna Mrs. Catherine Brooks Hauck Mr. James W. Hill Jr. Mrs. Nancy E. Dassdorf Hiner Mrs. Kathryn P. Cordero Hultquist Miss Janice Louise Humbert Mr. Richard C. Jones Mr. Frederick G. Konhaus Ms. Susan E. Kreh Major John E. Lothes Mrs. Jo Ann Simmons Meier Mrs. Kathleen Marie Barndt Mitchell Col. Joseph W. Moran Jr. USAF (Ret) Mrs. Barbara Jeanne Hogan Murray Mrs. Gretchen Gould Jester Pingley Mr. Charles H. Potter II Mr. David M. Roberts Mr. Dean Crawford Rogers Jr. Miss Dorothy A. Silbert Mr. Ralph F. Smiecinski Mrs. Joy Lou Thompson Teter Mr. Giles Ernest Wright Class of 1969 Mr. Edward T. Alexander The Rev. Charles W. Best Mrs. Mary Anne Morgan Biggs Col. Peter D. Brown USAF (Ret) Mrs. Faith Earl Carlson The Hon. Charles N. Clevert Jr. Dr. Virginia Prichard Dansby Mr. D. Drake Dowler Mr. William W. Duncan Mrs. Ruth Cattelle Fotheringham Mrs. Robin L. Nilsen Fox Mrs. Anna Psihountas Frome Dr. Joseph A. Fry Mrs. Sandra Sweitzer Fry Mrs. Gail Davis Greenway Mr. James A. Heaney Jr. Mrs. Mary Carmona Heaney Mrs. Anne F. Hickling Mr. Michael R. Higgins Mr. Lawrence P. Johnson Ms. Linda Keller-Zierold Mrs. Patricia Taggart Konhaus Mrs. Alice Hart Lainhart Mr. John W. Lainhart IV Mrs. Susan Salisbury Lauderbaugh Ms. Patricia D. Moore Mrs. Suzanne Smith Moran The Rev. Nicholas B. Morgan Brig. Gen. Robert M. Murdock USAF (Ret)
Gifts from Alumni Mr. Lance Roland Pledger Mrs. Susan Kinsey Powell Mrs. Mary Scudder Revell Mr. Thomas R. Revell The Rev. Edward R. Rich III Mr. Michael G. Sheppo Mrs. Anita Norton Smyth Mrs. Ann Stanley Snyder Mr. Ray A. Snyder Mr. Dale C. Stahle Jr. Mrs. Sarah J. Spinks Van Metre Mr. Richard M. Varchetto Class of 1970 Mrs. Jeannette Grier Anderson Mr. Mark Anderson Mr. Barry S. Band Mrs. Carol Yost Band Dr. Joseph Weldon Boatwright III Mrs. Sharon Schnebly Cappeluti Mr. Edward T. Christian Jr. Mrs. Karen Knowlton Daley Mr. Frank W. Disharoon Jr. Mrs. Carol Dapp Farringer Mr. James E. Fraser Mrs. Lynne Adele Johnson Glover Mr. James W. Hancock III Mrs. Carol Evans Hendon Mrs. Peggy Rice Horisk Mrs. Janice A. Kemp Hutchison Dr. June M. Idzal Mrs. Annabel Williams Johnson Mr. Gregory W. Judge Mr. Morris G. Kittle Mrs. Jarrell Simmons Larew Mr. Thomas Michlovic Mr. Raymond W. Naudain Ms. Christine M. Nilsen Mr. William W. Nuttall III Mr. Stuart J. Penman Mrs. Susan Evert Polino Mr. Gerald F. Scheffler Dr. Vicki J. Schell Mrs. Elvie Beamer Scott Mr. Charles A. Straw Mr. John G. Walker Class of 1971 Mrs. Donna M. Fisher Adams* Mr. Glenn Alexander Ms. Gloria Alston Mr. Phillip K. Barton Mrs. Suzan McClelland Bright Mr. David C. Buerger P.H.R. Diane Weese Buerger Esq. Mr. James H. Caulfield Mr. David A. Coombs Mrs. Linda C. Schacht Coombs Mr. Harvey H. Cross Jr. Mr. Ronald V. Davies Dr. Joseph E. Donnelly Mrs. Charlotte A. Vierheller Eskew Mrs. Deborah A. Leaf Frasher Rev. J. Gregg Hickman II Mr. Philip A. Holt Mr. Glenn R. Krechel Mrs. Grace Ellen Gray Krechel Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell Nuttall Mrs. Susan B. Niedhammer Phelps Mr. Samuel G. Polino Mrs. Dorothy Pennington Price Mr. David G. Schoettinger Mrs. Mary G. Patrick Schoettinger Mrs. Karen Groves Sheppo Mr. Christopher E. Spade Mrs. Julie A. Noble Stahle Mr. Henry W. Steinbrecher Mr. J. Preston Thomas II Mr. William C. Van Brunt
Mr. Albert W. VanWinkle Mr. David E. Williams Class of 1972 Mrs. Ana Conde Anderson Mr. David R. Anderson* Mr. Bruce L. Atchison Mr. F. Jeffrey Bruneau Mr. John L. Caracciolo Mrs. Jennifer Jo Klasan Dowler Mr. Alfred D. Grimm Mrs. Beth Bachand Grimm Mr. Howard W. Hoffman The Hon. John A. Hutchison Mr. Gary L. Kreps Mr. James McCluskey Mrs. Martha Moats McConnell Mr. Douglas C. Norman Mrs. Ann Manners Palm Mr. William Smyth Dr. Blaine E. Steensland Mrs. Wendy Mills Steensland Dr. William L. Turner Jr. Mr. William F. Volz Mrs. Ellen Graham White Mrs. Deborah A. Helsing Williams Mr. John S. Zeart Class of 1973 Mrs. Karen E. Davis Carr Mr. George R. Cline Mrs. Susan Henninger Cross Dr. Pauline K. Keppel Cushman Mr. John A. Evenden Mrs. Nancy Wilson Evenden J.P. LadyHawk Freeman Mrs. Patricia A. Wagner Gow Mr. Joseph F. Hampel Jr. Miss Elizabeth J. Hauck Mr. Nils A. Heinke The Rev. William W. Humphreys Mr. Jeffrey F. Krizan Mrs. Susan Beekman LaMora Mr. David B. Martin Mrs. Susan Bennett McGuire Mr. Donald C. McMahon Mr. Frank A. Miller Lt. Col. Karen Harger Myrick USAF (Ret) Mrs. B. Robin Galford Price Mrs. Susan B. Cramer Rotondo Mr. Ronald A. Shipley Mr. Richard E. Sittler Mr. Donald E. Spahr Lt. Col. John G. Townsend Mr. Geoffrey H. Walker Mrs. Janice Carlson Zeart Class of 1974 Mrs. Judith Rittle Atchison Mr. James Bialek Mr. David A. Blaszczak Mr. Clifford J. Decker Mrs. Pamela A. Malkmes Decker Dr. Eric P. Dreibelbis Ms. Georgina J. Peiser Dreibelbis Mr. Michael R. Judge Mr. C. Kerr Kump Mr. Glenn D. Kvidahl Mr. Raymond K. LaMora Jr. Mr. Robert Mays Dr. Victoria G. Thompson Mullennex Mr. Anthony G. Mumblow Mr. Jack A. Nagle Ms. Carol L. Obermann Mrs. Patricia L. Bartlett Owen Ms. Mary E. Owens Dr. Virginia A. Bowman Rich Ms. Lorraine M. Ricigliano
*As found throughout the report, indicates that the named person is deceased. This report reflects gifts made July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
Mrs. Julia L. White Smail Mr. James E. Wendt Mr. John R. Wenzel Class of 1975 Mr. Richard T. Berman Mr. Jeff Lincoln Buckwalter Mrs. Judith A. Snatchko Cornman Mr. Peter H. Dougherty Mr. Mark C. Forbes Mrs. Judith R. Gallagher Herman Mr. Frank J. Porter Mr. Michael R. Price Mrs. Debra Slater Warden Mr. George H. Warden Mrs. Diane C. Tauber Zsombik Class of 1976 Mr. George C. Bartocci Mr. Harry L. Freed Mr. Robert R. Herman Jr. Miss Laura E. Hill Mr. Glenn A. Main Ms. Joy A. Petersen Mr. Charles A. Preusch Mr. Louis W. Stark Mr. Richard G. Steffens Jr. Ms. Sarah E. Tully Class of 1977 Mr. David E. Cutlip Mrs. Nancy Cook Estler Dr. Bijan J. Goodarzi Mr. Kenneth T. Hart Mrs. Frances Ward LaKernick Ms. Sally A. McCauley Mr. Craig W. Merriam Mr. John J. Rector Class of 1978 Dr. Walter J. Alvarez Mr. Fred W. Brokaw III Mrs. Nancy T. Wendell Brokaw Mrs. Jo Anne Vaccaro Cerven Mr. Paul F. Estler Mrs. Cheryl L. Hamrick Fridley The Rev. James H. Garrett Mr. T. Richard Harvey Mrs. Paula Hepler Heinke Mr. Paul E. Hull Mr. David C. Kerr Ms. Vicki Lunde Rodriguez Mrs. Sherri E. Bennett Marstiller Mr. David S. Rogers Mr. Bruce M. Walk Class of 1979 Mr. Steven B. Barley The Hon. Clark S. Barnes Ms. Elizabeth A. Johnson Casazza Mr. Richard H. Cresson Dr. Thomas P. Ditty Mrs. Lisa Bernzott Etter Ms. Rebecca J. Hoffman Hammer Mrs. Darla Sturm Main Mr. Stephen R. Matlack Mr. Frank P. Micalizzi Mrs. Hilary Lutz Micalizzi Mr. David H. Morrison Mr. Thomas D. Nicholson Mrs. Debora S. Robinson Mr. Mark A. Tomblyn Mr. Kurt D. Ullom Mrs. Deborah Jean Feather Wright Class of 1980 Mrs. Barbara Mitchell Ballou Mr. Mitchel E. Bernstein Mr. Nicholas B. Blanton Ms. Dorothy J. Carr Dr. Mary Ann DeLuca Mr. Stephen W. Dieringer
Mrs. Ruth Ann Sorice Fenton Mr. James G. Flatt Mr. David H. Harte Mr. Clifford E. Marstiller Mrs. Mary Anne Murphy Maybury Mrs. Eileen M. Eschbach Monastersky Mrs. Peace Ideozu Okoya Mrs. Robin Camp Rector Mr. William H. Rice Mr. Broc Sanford Mrs. Rebecca Hastings Severino Ms. Tanya K. Kittle Shelton Mr. Glen E. Tsaparas Mr. Gary M. Zahn Class of 1981 Mrs. Dawn E. Hughes Brandstrom Mrs. Martha Lou Caplinger Brinkley* Mr. Greg W. Brown Ms. Laura A. Constantine Mrs. Kaelu Tolley Cooley Mrs. Rita Cuff Dieringer Ms. Elizabeth J. O'Brien Dumperth Mr. Harry W. Fenton Mrs. M. Deborah Payne Fragale Mrs. Jayne M. Wood Harris Mr. Ted R. Henry Mr. David S. Hoag Ms. Lois C. Konkle Mr. Stephen E. Maybury Mrs. Jo-Anne Jenkins McCoy Mrs. Diane L. Matlack Noel Mr. Bradford V. Nye Mr. Philip C. Tomblyn Mr. William J. West Mrs. Catherine A. Wilkinson Zahn Class of 1982 Mrs. Dannah M. Lapin Beauregard Ms. Cynthia L. Blough Mr. Craig K. Deemer Mrs. Judith L. Forbes Deemer Mr. Charles D. Evens Mrs. Martha A. Fenn King Mr. Stephen H. King Mr. John A. Little Mrs. Nancy Oleson Martin Mr. Donald S. McCaslin Mr. Eric J. Nilsen Mrs. Maribeth I. Headley Robenolt Mrs. Norma Virginia Wright Teta Mrs. Sharon L. Teter Mr. Martin D. Allen Class of 1983 Mr. Douglas K. Chappel Mrs. Melinda L. DeMundo Mrs. Michelle Davis Edwards Mr. Timothy S. Edwards Ms. Sarah Thompson Fletcher Mr. Barry A. Greene Mr. Michael L. Hall Mrs. M. Leann White Lesser Mr. M. Scott Loane Ms. Melissa Hambrick Luce Mr. Cliff J. Neese Mrs. Deborah D. Gawthrop Neese Mrs. Susan E. Quick Nilsen Mr. Reginald Owens Mrs. Tracy L. Smith Topolosky Mr. Stephen E. Wamsley Mrs. Karen L. Cost Wilmoth Class of 1984 Ms. Michele D. Amendola Mr. Charles B. Ammann Mrs. Heather L. Jack Antolini Mr. Brian D. Ball Ms. Beth C. Case
Ms. Elisabeth H. Hammer Mrs. Diane M. Skillman Johnson Mrs. Mary Kanaskie Kolle Ms. Marsha B. Rehrer Mrs. Lynne M. Snyder Schaefermeyer Mrs. Nancy J. Timpert Semple Class of 1985 Mrs. Leslie R. Eckhof Aitcheson Ms. Patricia A. Bennett Mr. Muhammad Aslam Chaudhry Mrs. Cathy Honaker Cole Ms. Sylvia A. Grasis Mrs. Mendy G. Alt Marshall Mrs. Marcella McDonnell Stevens Class of 1986 Mrs. Jane C. Thomas Casciato Ms. Deyanira Garcia Mr. Alan D. Hale Mrs. Katye R. Whitaker Hale Mrs. Susan Starks Hayes Mr. David R. Lacey Mr. J. Steven Moore Mr. John S. Moyer Dr. Peter T. Okun Mrs. Robin Jo White Rybczynski Mr. Jason F. Sugarman Mrs. M. Colleen Stevens Sugarman Mr. Robert C. Wagner Jr. Mr. James A. Yeager Class of 1987 Mr. Thomas H. Barton Mrs. Kelly A. O'Donnell Edwards Ms. Margarita Erika Buck Gerharz Dr. Leon P. Michos Class of 1988 Mrs. M. Ann LaBresque Baird Mr. Alexander A. Edwards Miss Patricia M. Gorman Mrs. Paula S. Kyle Leonard Mr. Mark McCammon Mrs. Lisbet T. Okun Miss Nancy R. Peterson Class of 1989 Mr. Steven H. Bohner Mrs. Holly E. Jack Conrad Mr. James Z. Fritz Mr. Tharon L. Jack II Mr. Vincent D. Kilduff Jr. Mr. David W. Leonard Mrs. Cynthia B. Kittle Sullivan Mr. Barry G. Young Class of 1990 Ms. Marilynn Cuonzo Mr. H. Flint Engleman II Miss Spring R. Jones Mr. David F. Kelley The Rev. Christopher E. Moore-Keish Mr. James D. Queener Mrs. Cynthia S. Reed Ramsay Mr. Larry G. Smith Class of 1991 Mr. Edwin L. Curry III Mrs. Heather K. Ulrich Fritz Mrs. Margreet K. Jenness Mrs. Rachel Elizabeth Halperin Montgomery Mrs. Joyce M. Booth Nestor Miss Kelly E. Stull Miss Lucinda E. VanNoy Class of 1992 Mrs. Kris L. Horvat Curry Mrs. Catherine Garnett Engleman
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Gifts from Other Constituents Much of Davis & Elkins College's success can be attributed to the parents, faculty, staff, friends and businesses who support the College's mission. Your gifts are a valuable component in continuing Davis & Elkins College's tradition of a quality education rooted in the liberal arts. Parents of Current and Former Students
Gifts from Alumni (con't) Mr. Cornelius E. Keenan Mrs. Diana L. Cassell Nelson Mrs. Lisa M. Tennant Wamsley Mrs. Stephanie L. Teter Winston Class of 1993 Mr. Timothy B. Avanzato Mr. Douglas A. Homer Ms. Stacy L. Kay McKean Mr. Michael J. Mitcherling Miss Deborah Faith Rice Mrs. Amelia C. Bosworth Rossi Mr. Scott H. Sanders Mrs. Hillary P. Cederberg Shryock Mr. Richard W. Shryock Jr. Mr. Stephen M. Wilkens Class of 1994 Mr. Jason J. Gatt Mr. Randy A. Lambert Mrs. Kristie A. Bennett Skidmore Mrs. Karen L. Cadwallader Wilkens Mrs. Jeanine R. Stivers Zurbuch Class of 1995 Mr. Frederick P. Carter Mr. Jeffrey T. d'Hedouville Mrs. Roann D. Welch d'Hedouville Mrs. Daisy DeWeese-Gatt Mr. Conway Li Mr. Stuart G. Peters Mrs. Darlene A. Smith Roy Mr. Scott D. Tarr-Whelan Ms. Sharon S. Wetzel Class of 1996 Mr. Scott D. Goddard Mrs. Sharon K. White Class of 1997 Mr. Timothy R. Davis Mr. Jeff C. Tacina Class of 1998 Mr. Erik Richard Judd Mrs. Mary Legg Propst Class of 1999 Mrs. Amy R. Spencer Goddard Mr. Thomas A. Matherly Ms. Phyllis Ann Meals Mr. Ronald E. Palmer III Mr. Cory R. Wagner
Class of 2000 Ms. Tracy L. Bowers Chenoweth Ms. Carolynn C. Chlada Ms. Kara L. Fox Mrs. Lisa A. Weese Moudry Mrs. Paula Taylor Class of 2001 Mrs. Erin Elizabeth Gamrod Melbert Mr. Matthew David Melbert Class of 2002 Mr. Dennis Emanuel Calain Sr. Ms. Jamie Cecile Hicks Mr. Lonnie Lloyd Martin Ms. Gail Marie Rasor Class of 2003 Mrs. Deborah Barnes Mr. Robert Baylor Ms. Lisa M. Hedrick Senic Class of 2004 Ms. Christine M. Hanna Ms. Nicole R. Hinkle Ms. Brenda L. Moore Class of 2005 Ms. Caitlin T Clark-Braverman Mr. Christopher C. Gilligan Mr. Gary J. Vandevender Mr. Kent C. Walker Class of 2006 Ms. Kathryn T. Bright Mr. Mark Thomas Ruscello Class of 2007 Ms. Megan M. Browning Class of 2008 Mr. Kylee L. Griffith Mrs. Ann Woodling Knotts Harris Mr. Steven M. Harvey Mr. Tyler R. Hern Mr. Blake L. Rogers Mr. Wayne E. Startt Mr. Andrew C. Thommen Class of 2009 Ms. Rhonda Cooper Ms. Emilie Rebecca Humes Ms. Mallory Kara McCartney
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Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Adams Mr. & Mrs. Robert Aldous Mr. & Mrs. James Alford Dr. & Mrs. Dean Allard Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John E. Allen Mr. & Mrs. Charles Ammann Mr. & Mrs. John Amoroso Dr. & Mrs. Clinton L. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Carl J. Antolini III James & Kristina Bacca Mr. Sidney Bailey Bob & Ann Baird Ms. Doris A. Baker Mr. & Mrs. George C. Barger The Hon. & Mrs. Clark S. Barnes Ms. Goldie Barnes Ms. Bailey S. Barnett Mr. & Mrs. James M. Barnsley Dr. & Mrs. Edward W. Beal Mr. & Mrs. Lee Behrhorst Dr. & Mrs. William L. Bekenstein Mr. William Bell Mrs. M. K. Bennett Mrs. Jo Ann Beziat Mr. & Mrs. James Bialek Mr. & Mrs. D. Bryan Billings Ms. Jean J. Blalock Mr. Newton P. Bohme Mr. & Mrs. Mickey W. Boles Ms. Judith Bowling Mr. & Mrs. Harold E. Bowman Mrs. M. Louise Bowman Ms. Joyce Brown Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Brunermer Mrs. Janet Burr Mr. & Mrs. John E. Busch Mr. Stephen Butler & Ms. Doreen Rice Mr. & Mrs. Dennis E. Calain Sr. Mr. Paul D. Campbell Dr. Marshall Carper Mrs. Patricia Carroll Mr. & Mrs. Clayton L. Carter Mr. & Mrs. Scott P. Chesser Ms. Benedicte Christensen Dr. Domingo T. Chua & Mrs. Linda Chua Mr. & Mrs. William E. Clark Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Coberly Mr. & Mrs. John R. Coburn Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Commins Jr. Dr. Steven Creasey & Dr. Stephanie Frame Mr. Ralph L. Deacon Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Deemer Mr. & Mrs. Bruce W. Dillon Dr. & Mrs. Peter Dillon Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Dubiel Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Dunnagan Mr. & Mrs. David Eckerd Mr. Edward Edgerton & Mrs. Melissa Meyer Mr. & Mrs. John Elder Mr. & Mrs. William R. Ellis Mr. & Mrs. Warren Elmer Mr. & Mrs. Kirby Eskew
Ms. Nancy Evans-Bennett Mr. & Mrs. George Fantry Mr. & Mrs. Jon B. Fenton Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Fiden Mr. Daymon Frasier Mrs. Barbara L. Fritz Mr. & Mrs. Barry Fyock Mr. & Mrs. Bill Gazza Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Gietzen Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Giltinan Sr. Mrs. Samuel E. Glass Mr. Robert W. Gracey CFP Ms. Anne B. Gray Mr. & Mrs. Frank Greives Mr. & Mrs. John F. Gustitis Mr. & Mrs. Jerome A. Halperin Ms. Marilyn C. Hamelman Mr. & Mrs. Roger Hammond Mr. & Mrs. Phil Hart The Rev. & Mrs. Collier S. Harvey Mr. & Mrs. T. Richard Harvey Mr. & Mrs. Terry Hayes Mrs. Virginia M. Hayes Mr. & Mrs. Mark Haynes Mr. & Mrs. Richard Hechenbleikner The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. Basil A. Hensley Mr. & Mrs. Terry Hinkle Mr. Allan W. Holman Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Russell Howell The Rev. & Mrs. Robert E. Hullstrung Mr. & Mrs. N. T. Humphrey Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Tharon L. Jack Mr. Grover C. Jackson Mr. & Ms. Thomas Kalinosky Mr. & Mrs. Greg Keatley Mr. & Mrs. Alan Keesee Mrs. Barbara Keish Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Kelley Mr. & Mrs. John L. Kirkpatrick Dr. & Mrs. Richard Knapp Mr. & Mrs. Frank Knox Rudi & Deb Kolb Mr. & Mrs. Frederick G. Konhaus Mr. Curtis Kopecek & Mrs. Willa Metz Mr. & Mrs. Allen Krum Mr. & Mrs. Steve Larkin Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Livingston Mr. & Mrs. Tom Logan Ms. Barbara G. Lubran Mr. Robert Lubran Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Marshall Mr. & Mrs. David Martin Mr. Richard G. Mason Mr. John L. Matherly Mr. & Mrs. Scott McAninch Ms. Susan McCartney Mr. & Mrs. Jesse McDonald Mr. & Mrs. Wayne McDonald Mr. & Mrs. Jeff McElroy Mr. & Mrs. John J. McKenzie Mrs. Sharon L. McQuain Mr. & Mrs. Allan Miller Mr. & Mrs. Henry M. "Don" Moore Mr. & Mrs. Peter Morici Mrs. Mary Margaret Morrison
Mr. & Mrs. William S. Moyer Dr. Victoria G. Mullennex & Mr. Howard B. Mullennex Mr. & Mrs. Randy Murschell Mr. & Mrs. Robert Myers Mr. & Mrs. Don Neuenschwander Mr. Tim O'Callahan Mr. John O'Toole & Ms. Linda Jackson Mrs. C. Lucille Obermann Mr. & Mrs. Jack Okun Mr. & Mrs. James E. Oliver Mr. & Mrs. Steven R. Palm Capt. & Mrs. Stuart M. Parcher Dr. Gloria Marquette Payne Ms. Cathy Pepper The Hon. & Mrs. Roger L. Perry Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Petrella Ms. Anna M. Petrizzo Mrs. Robert K. Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Stanley F. Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Pifer Mr. & Mrs. Samuel G. Polino Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Pugh Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Quinn Ms. Denice Reese & Mr. John Warner Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert F. Rexrode Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John H. Rhodes Mr. & Mrs. David G. Rivers Mr. & Mrs. Lance Robinette Dr. & Mrs. Sherman S. Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Gary Rogers Mrs. Nancy H. Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Rosenberger Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ross The Hon. & Mrs. Mike Ross Mr. & Mrs. Danny Roy Mr. Shankar Roy & Dr. Sharmistha Roy Robert & Patricia Rusak Mr. Alan Sader & Ms. Ann L. Chenoweth Mr. & Mrs. J. Gregory Sarfino Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence K. Saunders The Rev. & Mrs. Donald E. Shamble Mr. & Mrs. Frank Simone Mr. & Mrs. Richard Sindicich Mrs. Mildred L. Skerbetz Mr. Cyrus S. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Judson L. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Virgil Smith Mr. Robert P. Sommer Sr. Mr. & Mrs. William G. Spencer Mr. Tjaarda Storm Vanleeuwen Ms. Karen Sullivan Mr. & Mrs. S. Wayne Talton Mr. & Mrs. R. Kent Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Teter Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Tillman Mr. & Mrs. James J. Toner Mr. Dominick Tortorici Mr. & Mrs. Mark Totin Mr. & Mrs. Patrick B. Troastle Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Turner Dr. James J. Van Gundy & Mrs. Judy V. Van Gundy Ms. Elizabeth von Doemming
Gifts from Other Constituents Mr. & Mrs. Gerd R. Von Doemming Ms. Sharon Walker Mr. & Mrs. George H. Warden Sharon White Mr. & Mrs. Frank Wilkens Mrs. Hilda L. Wilmoth Mr. & Mrs. Joe Windon Mr. & Mrs. Donald G. Wood Mr. & Mrs. Samuel D. Yokum Mr. Neil Young Mr. & Mrs. W. Wayne Young Dr. & Mrs. John Zuboy
Campus Family Mr. Jason Asbell James & Kristina Bacca Dr. Heather Roberts Biola Ms. Margo Blevin Denton Ms. Kathryn T. Bright Dr. Thomas Chadwick Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti & Dr. Kisor Chakrabarti Dr. R. Carol Cochran Mr. Donald L. Corbin Ms. Jane Corey Dr. Steven Creasey Ms. Lora Cruz Mr. James Dearien Dr. Mary Ann DeLuca Dr. Wally Edgell Ms. Kara Fisher Mrs. Amy R. Goddard Mr. Scott D. Goddard Dr. Margaret P. Goddin Mrs. Ann W. Harris Mr. & Mrs. Terry Hayes Dr. Stephanie C. Haynes Ms. Nicole R. Hinkle Mr. Hugh G. Hitchcock Mrs. Ruth Humphrey Dr. William E. King Mr. & Mrs. John L. Kirkpatrick Mrs. Deborah Larkin Mr. Bruce M. Martin Dr. John P. Martin Mr. Stephen Mattingly Mr. Russell McClain Mrs. Melissa DeWeese McCoy Dr. Robert R. McCutcheon Jr. Mr. Craig W. Merriam Mr. Steve Merrick Mrs. Brenda J. Miller Mr. David Miller Mr. Gerald C. Milnes Dr. A. Jean Minnick Mr. Dale Moore Mrs. Adwina Morgan Dr. Oma Morgan Mrs. Mary Margaret Carroll Morrison Dr. Brian Moudry Dr. Victoria G. Mullennex Mrs. Joyce M. Nestor Mr. Gene Ochsendorf Dr. Peter T. Okun Mr. Raul Ovalle Mr. Ronald E. Palmer III Ms. Rebecca K. Pauls Dr. Gloria M. Payne Dr. William E. Phipps* Mrs. B. Robin Price Mr. Christopher Randolph Ms. Denice Reese Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert F. Rexrode Jr.
Dr. Dorothy F. Roberts Dr. Joseph M. Roidt Dr. Thomas R. Ross* Mrs. Joyce Brown Rossbach Mrs. Amelia C. Rossi Mr. Shankar Roy & Dr. Sharmistha Roy Mrs. Carol Schuler Ms. Patricia Schumann Mr. Ronald J. Selders Ms. Lisa M. Senic Mr. William Shaw Mr. Richard W. Shryock Jr. President G.T. "Buck" Smith Mrs. Judith B. Smith Dr. David M. Sneed Ms. Kaila St. Louis Mr. Matthew Tarbett Mrs. Paula Taylor Dr. Victor L. Thacker Mrs. Greta Troastle Mr. William R. Trostel Dr. James J. Van Gundy Mr. Gary J. Vandevender Mrs. Sharon K. White Mrs. Karen L. Wilmoth Mr. Kevin Wilson Dr. John Zuboy
Friends Anonymous Dr. & Mrs. Fouad Abdalla Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Agee Mr. & Mrs. John C. Allen Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John Crile Allen Nick & Sue Angelozzi Mrs. Dorcus Arbogast Mr. & Mrs. Richard Arndts Ms. Elizabeth Asbell James & Betsy Ashbrook Mr. Paul A. Atkins Scott & Kim Backer Mike & Sheri Backus Mr. John N. Ballantyne Mike & Cherie Barker Ms. Jo Ann Post Barlow Mr. Bill Barr Bill & Jamie Bayless Ms. Janice Moore Beck Ms. Anne-Marie Bender Bill & Mary Ann Bendgen Mike & Sharon Benner Mr. & Mrs. Douglas C. Bennett Ms. Kate Bennett Ms. Mary Beth Bennett Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Bennett Mrs. Roberta G. Bennett Ms. Barbara Bentley Dr. Philip E. Berghausen Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Raymond H. Bertier Mr. & Mrs. Raymond W. Bertier Ms. Anna E. Bertovich Mrs. Mary Kay Bidlack Mr. & Mrs. William B. Billings Mr. Joe Biola & Dr. Heather R. Biola Jeff & Barbara Bird Ms. Misty Bitler Dr. R. Randall Blackburn Ms. Margo Blevin Denton & Mr. David A. Denton Dr. Robert Bluford Dr. & Mrs. Harry Boggs Ms. Julie Bolton Mr. Richard E. Bond
*As found throughout the report, indicates that the named person is deceased. This report reflects gifts made July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
Ms. Susan Bond Mr. Walter Bown Ms. Theresa Brackett Ms. Diane Brady Johnny & Adena Brady Mr. Michael Brannan John & Freda Branson Lynn H. Brewer Mr. Cesar Briseno & Ms. Julie V. Stanton Bruce & Anne Bristol Mr. & Mrs. James F. Brown IV Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey R. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Brown Mr. & Mrs. William J. Brown Ms. Krista M. Bryan Mrs. Eris-Marie Bunnell Ms. Mary Buscemi Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Butchello Roger & Joyce Butler Col. & Mrs. William H. Byrom Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Campbell Mr. Donald C. Carr Gina & Matt Carr Mr. Jay Carr Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Carr Randy & Tammy Carr Mr. Don Carter Mr. & Mrs. Gerald N. Carter Mr. & Mrs. Jack Casperson Dr. Marc C. Cassella Mr. Neven Cernobori Mr. & Mrs. Richard Chambers Ms. Carolyn Chapman Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Chapman Mr. Jamie C. Chapman Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Chapman Helen & Jim Chebatoris Ms. Willa Chebatoris Ms. Joan Ciallelo Ms. Cynthia Jane Clark Dave & Lista Clark Ed & Lisa Clark Mr. Gary Clay Ms. Joyce Commins Mrs. Jo Ann Conway Bill & Noreen Costello Mr. Ronald Cracco Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Craig Ms. Corlista Crowe Mr. Daniel J. Crusen Mr. & Mrs. Angel M. Cruz Ms. Ruth Curran Ms. Cassie Cutright Mr. John Czajkowski Ms. Shirley Daderio Mr. & Mrs. Dennis W. Dant Mr. & Mrs. Kevin J. Dant Lorena Hernandez David Yenny Yuraima David Stacie & Richard Davidson Mr. & Mrs. Gerald L. Davis Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy DeAngelo Mr. Robert J. DeFrance Ms. Lucille DeFrancesco Mrs. Elizabeth D. Degges Mr. Jack Delargey Mr. Rick Delargey Mike & Anna Determan Mrs. Gladys DeVito Mr. & Vincent J. DiFuccia III Ms. Nancy D. DiFuccio Mr. Jeff Diskin Ms. Laurie Dittman
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Doak Mr. William Donehower Jr. The Ralph L. Dove Family Ms. Jo Ellen Dowdy James L. Doyle & Charleye Dyer Mr. Robert J. Dunbar Mrs. Santina D. Duritt Mr. Barry R. Edgerton Dr. John W. Eilers Mr. & Mrs. Douglas S. Ellis Mr. Bill Elswick Dr. & Mrs. C. Anderson Engh Jr. Ms. Jane Englert Mr. Enos Ennis Mr. & Mrs. Christopher J. Fawls Jeff & Dawn Ferron Mr. & Mrs. Paul H. Fett Mr. Antony E. Fiorentino Ms. Amy Fiorin Ms. Betty J. Fisher Mrs. Mary K. Fisher Mr. Van Fitzer Ms. Cara Flanagan Ms. Luann Flanagan Mr. & Mrs. Arron S. Fleming Mr. Edward R. Fletcher & Ms. Catherine Todesko Mr. Jared Forbes Ms. Jessica Ford Mr. Thomas Fornataro Ms. Beverly Friend Mr. William Fultineer Coralie S. Fyock G.W. Fyock L.C. Fyock Karen & Ralph Gambardella Mrs. Lynne S. Garcia Joan Taylor & the Gascoigne Family Ms. Katherine H. Gates Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Gauvreau Mrs. Eleanor R. Gay Mr. David Gaylor Mr. E. Robert Gazza Mr. Jim Gazza Mr. Mark D. Gebhart Mr. & Mrs. David L. Genter Mrs. Anne S. Genther Ms. Doris George Dr. Alexandra W. Gerry Mr. Jim Gibbons Mr. & Mrs. James Gibbs Dave & Katie Gifford Ms. Mary Jane Gile Mr. & Mrs. Gary T. Gizinski The Glathart/Knight Family Ms. Helen Godin Ms. Lucille S. Gohdes Mr. Greg Greenwood Jason & Courtney Greenwood Ken & Melva Greenwood Ms. Tamara Greenwood Mr. John Greives Mr. & Mrs. Edward H. Griesel Ms. Sharon Grieves Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Griffith Mr. & Mrs. Alberto Grignolo Ms. Karen Grimes Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Griscom Mr. Lois B. Groomes Mr. John Guy & Ms. Elizabeth Cannon Mr. Chad Hallett Ms. Geraldine D. Hamilton Ms. Janet C. Hamric
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Hansen Mrs. Zetta R. Harris Ms. Nancy L. Hash Mr. & Mrs. Clark Hathaway Mr. Voras K. Haynes Jr. Ms. Velma Heavner Ms. Jackie Hellman Mr. Donald W. Helmuth & Ms. Judith A. Clementson Mr. Howard Hemsley Mr. & Mrs. George C. Henrich Brian & Stacy Henry The Hank Henry Family (Virginia & Darlene) Wardney & Daisy Henry Mr. Morey L. Herman & Dr. Walter J. Alvarez Mr. & Mrs. John R. Hess Sr. Dr. Ralph Charles Hess III & Mrs. Nioka Hess Mrs. Anne H. Hill Mr. David W. Hill Ms. Michele Hill Mr. & Mrs. Brian D. Hirst Mr. & Mrs. Hugh G. Hitchcock Ms. Crystal Hively Mrs. Marjorie V. Hollandsworth Mr. & Mrs. Jack E. Holliday Mr.* & Mrs. Benjamin N. Hoover Mr. William H. Sudbrink & Ms. Kathryn L. Howard Mr. Michael P. Howard & Mrs. Mary C. Howard Mr. Donald Hoy Mr. & Mrs. Brian Hoyt Ms. Jane J. Huang Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Humphrey The Rev. Dr. Richard G. Hutcheson Jr. Mrs. Ann Hutchison Ms. Reba Pfalzgraf Hutton Mr. Robert Iacovone Mr. Tom Iacovone Dr. J. Davis Illingworth Ms. Karin Ninesling Infuso Mrs. June Ingram Mr. & Mrs. William R. Ishman Emilee & Ada Jackson Ms. Dawn Jacobs Kim R. Jakeway Mr. & Mrs. Terry W. Jameson Mrs. Jacquelin Q. Jeutter Mr. & Mrs. Vincent Johnkoski Mr. & Mrs. Brian W. Jones Ms. Jessica L. Jones Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Jones Ms. Peggy Jones Stephen & Jean Jory Mrs. Stephanie Kadel-Taras Ms. Bridget Kagan Mr. Ian Kalinosky Ms. Lorraine Kalinosky Mr. Frederick R. Kane Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Karlen Mr. Greg Karp Mr. James P. Karp Mr. Douglas S. Keith Mr. & Mrs. Charles J. Kelly Mr. & Mrs. Davis Lee Kennedy Mr. Norman N. Kerbel Mr. & Mrs. Martin T. Kern Mr. & Mrs. William Kerr Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kerr Mrs. Barbara Kight Mrs. Bula Kiser
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Gifts from Other Constituents Dr. R. W. Knotts Mr. Paul Knupp Ms. Kathy Kopp Mr. & Mrs. Robert Krute Mr. Kenneth C. Kunz Mr. Matthew C. Kyle Mr. & Mrs. Phil J. Kyle Mr. & Mrs. Patrick C. Lafayette Mr. & Mrs. Ivar Larsen The Rev. & Mrs. Norman E. Lassiter Mr. Arthur C. Lease Michael & Jeanie Ledden Mr. & Mrs. Michael C. Legaspi Lee Lehman Mr. & Mrs. Jack Lengyel Mr. & Mrs. Walter A. Lesser Ms. Carol Lewis Mr. James K. Lightner Mr. Matt Lindsey Mr. Patrick Little Mrs. E. Sue Lohn & Mr. Willis Gore Bob & Renee Lohr Mr. & Mrs. John B. Lounsbury Mr. & Mrs. John Lowrie Mr. Mike Luongo Mr. & Mrs. Mark Lybeck Mr. Jeffrey Mace Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Madden Ms. Deborah Madden Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Maffeo Mr. & Mrs. Ed Maier Ms. Melissa Malcolm Dr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Mallow Mr. & Mrs. Clyde V. March Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Marciano Mr. John A. Marszalek Dr. & Mrs. John P. Martin Mrs. Antonia Mascaro Dr. & Mrs. Louis E. Mattison Ms. Susan Mazzoccoli Mr. Christopher T. McAninch Mr. Larry McCabe Mr. Alan McCartney Ms. Marion McCartney Mr. & Mrs. William A. McClintock Mr. & Mrs. Joseph McCloskey Mrs. Eva M. McElroy Ms. Aubrey McGhee Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. McIntosh Ms. Betty McLaughlin Mr. & Mrs. James R. McMillen Ms. Karen McSharry Ms. Shelley J. McVicker & Mr. David R. Callahan Mr. & Mrs. Bill Meier Terry & Sandra Mentzer Mr. Ron Merle Dr. & Mrs. Jerry Metheny Mr. Darrell Metz Mr. Jimmy Michael Mr. Joe Michael Mr. & Mrs. M. A. Michael Mr. & Mrs. David W. Milburn Mr. & Mrs. David Miller Mr. & Mrs. George Miller Mr. Walt Miller Ms. Lydia Milnes Dr. A. Jean Minnick Ms. Helen Mitchell Mr. Timothy Mitchell Mr. John R. Mohr Edgar Alberto Hidalgo Montezuma Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Morehead Mrs. Carol Morris
Ms. Alice C. Moser Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Moses Ms. Gay D. Mothershed Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Mow Michael & Peggy Mroz Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Mullaney Ms. Christina Murray Ms. Sharon Murray & Mr. Robert Fett Craig & Debbie Murschell Ms. Emily Murschell Mr. Matthew Murschell Mr. Ron Murschell Mr. Wayne Murschell Wayne & Keri Murschell Ms. Christine Myers The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. John M. Myers III Dr. & Mrs. L. Gregory Myers Ms. June B. Myles Ms. Angeline R. Nanni Mrs. Peggy Hays Nelson Mr. Robert G. Nestor & Mrs. Joyce M. Nestor Michael & Teresa Newman Ms. Maureen O'Callahan Mr. & Mrs. Otis O'Connor Ms. Judith O'Donnell Steve & Jeanine O'Donnell Ms. Sharon O'Neal Ms. Sarah Ogilvie Dr. Douglas W. Oldenburg Ms. Betty Ollestad Ms. Bernice Oseland Mr. Ralph Oswell Mike & Ang Pallatto Mr. & Mrs. Jack Pappas Michael & Carrie Paris Mr. & Mrs. James F. Parker Mr. & Mrs. Clinton J. Parkinson Mr. Frank Pastore Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Frank Pastore Sr. Ms. Sara Patton Mr. Hank Peacock Ms. Phyllis Perry Paul & Kathy Petrichenko Ms. Barbara A. Petroski Mr. Charles W. Phares Ms. Gloria C. Phares Dr. & Mrs. James B. Phares Mr. & Mrs. David Phillips Mrs. Martha Ann Phipps Ms. Shirley Piazza Mr. & Mrs. James R. Pifer Jeff & Lisa Plotkin Mr. & Mrs. William Preaskorn Mr. Howard O. Preston Mr. Mark Preston Pete & Kathe Price Mr. T. McClellan Pritt II Alex & Sherri Procyk Mr. Leon C. Prophet Mr. & Mrs. Lanny A. Propst Mr. & Mrs. Emery L. Prunty Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Quick Dr. & Mrs. Nitesh Ratnakar Mr. Kevin Reed Rick & Jodi Reed Ms. Dorie Reese Rob & Barb Reese Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Reese Mrs. Cecilia Repair Tony & Gerri Rice Mr. Newton F. Riggleman Mr. Nick Riscinto
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Ms. Catherine Ritchie Russell & Mary Rittenhouse Mr. Paul J. Roarty Mr. Donald M. Robbins & Ms. Elizabeth J. Clarke-Robbins Dr. Dorothy F. Roberts Taylor Robertson & Family Mr. Jeffrey Robinette Mr. Rick E. Robinette Mr. T.R. Robinette Thornton & Judy Robinette Jim & Sarah Robinson Mr. Tom Robinson Dr. George C. Rodgers Mr. & Mrs. Anthony B. Rogers Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Ross II Mr. James Royle Ms. Linda Rudy Jan & Sam Runner Mrs. Ruth Runner Mrs. Elaine Davidson Russell Mr. Joseph Russo Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David A. Rutherford Mr. & Mrs. Gordon H. Rutherford Mr. Victor D. Salazar Mrs. Jesusa P. Sanchez Mr. & Mrs. Juan P. Sanchez Mr. & Mrs. L. Phillip Schmidt David & Lisa Schnorrbusch Mrs. Barbara J. Schulz Ms. Elena Sciulli Mr. & Mrs. Ferdinand F. Scorza Ms. Elaine Seibert Dr. & Mrs. William S. Sessions Mr. & Mrs. Kenny Sexton Don & Gloria Shaffer Robert & Sally Sheets Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Shepherd Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Shepler Mr. & Mrs. Mark C. Smith Doug & Jeanne Sheridan Jack & Mary Kate Sheridan Mr. Mike Sherrell Dr. Steven S. Shin Ms. Kim Siebert Mr. & Mrs. Gary Siegel Mr. Ralph Sites Mr. & Mrs. Robert N. Skinner Mr. & Mrs. David P. Smith Mr. Harry Smith III & Mrs. Judith Bertenthal Smith Mrs. Nancy R. Smith Ms. Jean Snedegar Mr. Andrew Chung So Lenny & Pat Spadter Mr. & Mrs. James W. Spears Mrs. Sally Spears John & Dana Speicher Joseph & Karen Spiegel Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Spitz Mr. Mark Spohn Mr. Charles C. Stalnaker Mrs. Doris Stalnaker Mr. Roy F. Stalnaker Pastor & Mrs. Irvin Stapf Ed & Linda Starett Mr. Donald R. Stepler Jr. Mrs. Martha N. Stone Ms. Marla Strang Ms. Arlena Straw Gabriel Suarez Mr. Thomas Sudbrink & Ms. Kristin Matherly Mrs. Grace Wilson Sundelin Ms. Patricia Swancott
Contributions from Trustees 2009-2010
Contributions from Former Trustees
Mrs. Joyce Butler-McKee Allen Mr. Brian D. Ball Ms. Karen H. Berner Mr. James Bialek Dr. Phillip Bussey Mr. Wendell M. Cramer Mr. Peter H. Dougherty Mr. D. Drake Dowler Ms. Nancy Evans-Bennett Dr. David Allen Faris Mrs. Allen Carter Giltinan Mr. Jerome A. Halperin Mr. John H. Harling Mr. Charles E. Hill Mr. Richard M. Hughes III Ms. Melissa H. Luce Mr. Rudolph G. Luzzatto Ms. Deborah Madden Dr. Thomas J. "Jack" Martin Mr. James S. McDonnell III Mr. Henry M. "Don" Moore Mr. William S. Moyer Ms. June B. Myles Mr. Cliff J. Neese Mr. Eric J. Nilsen Mr. Gary W. North Mr. Reginald Owens Mr. Donald M. Robbins Mr. William S. Robbins Dr. Sherman S. Robinson Dr. Ronald Allen Rollins Sr. Mr. Thomas R. Ross II Dr. Thomas R. Ross* Mr. David A. Rutherford Mr. James W. Spears Mr. Henry W. Steinbrecher Mr. Paul S. Stirrup Mr. William H. Sudbrink Mr. L. Newton Thomas Jr. Mr. Leonard J. "Joe" Timms Jr. Mr. Joseph M. Wells III
Mr. Robert W. Agee Dr. Clinton L. Anderson Dr. Harry Boggs Mr. Mickey W. Boles Mr. James F. Brown IV Mr. Ralph L. Deacon Dr. Michael F. DiMario Mr. David L. Genter Dr. Alexandra Wetherill Gerry Mr. James H. Harless The Rev. Dr. Jean H. Henderson The Rev. Dr. Richard G. Hutcheson Jr. Dr. J. Davis Illingworth Mr. Philip Scott Inglee Robert P. Irons M.D. Mr. Davis Lee Kennedy Mrs. Barbara Kight Mr. Robert P. Livingston Dr. Frank M. Mele The Rev. Dr. John M. Myers III Mrs. Peggy Hays Nelson Dr. Syngman Rhee Mr. Louis W. Stark Mr. Richard H. Talbott Jr. Dr. Thornton W. Tucker Dr. Paul L. Vance Mr. James E. Wallace Mrs. Dorothy H. Wamsley Mr. Henry B. Wehrle Jr. Mr. Elkins Wetherill Mr. Ralph E. Wilmoth The Rev. George B. Wirth Mr. Howard H. Wolfe Dr. Mohsen Ziai
Gifts from Other Constituents Mr. & Mrs. Allan Swanson Mrs. Lorraine C. Swanton Mr. & Mrs. Andrew C. Swecker Ms. Kate Tagliaferri Dr. L. Gordon Tait Dr. Duke Talbott Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Talbott Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Talbott Mr. Darrell R. Taylor Mr. & Mrs. David Taylor Mr. Jim Taylor Ms. Joyce Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Teed Ms. Kathleen Tegeder Jay & Gabriella Testa Dr. & Mrs. H. Byrd Teter Mr. Mark Thomas Ms. Violet Thomas Dr. & Mrs. A. C. Thompson Tom & Barb Thurston Mr. & Mrs. Leonard J. Timms Jr. Mr. George T. Toliver Mr. & Mrs. Philip C. Tomblyn Ron & Audrey Toth Ms. Sylvia Totin Dr. & Mrs. Thornton W. Tucker Ms. Carol Sue Tyler Dr. Paul L. Vance Mr. & Mrs. David Vaughan Ms. Nancy Vetter Marlin Vilera Dinorah Diyirs David Villasmil Marlene Villasmil Mr. Victor Argenis David Villasmil Yajaira Villasmil Gene & Sandy Voight Kathleen & Dom Vulpis Mrs. Luetta Waddell Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Walker Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Wall Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Wamsley Mr. Brice Watson Mr. Richard Watson Mr. & Mrs. Henry B. Wehrle Jr. Ms. Heather Weilbacher Mr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Wells III Ms. Judy Wellsbury Mrs. Harriett Welshonce Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey C. Welshonce Ms. Cheryl Wenker Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. West Mr. Elkins Wetherill Mr. & Mrs. Don Wetsch The Randy White Family Mr. Jim Whitley Ms. Barbara Widener Mr. Richard Wild Mrs. Rosalie W. Wilhelm Mr. Lowell T. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Joe V. Williford Ms. Carol K. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. James F. Wilson Mrs. Margaret G. Wilson The Rev. George B. Wirth & Mrs. Barbara Wirth Mr. & Mrs. K. Dale Wissman Mrs. Mary G. Wohleber Mr. & Mrs. Lonnie C. Wolfe Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Wood Mr. & Mrs. C. Curtis Woodford Ms. Brenda Wright Ms. Patricia Wright Dan & Lynn Yobbi Bill & Maggie Yoder
The Rev. Samuel T. Young Mr. Dave Zimmerman Mrs. Della Zoladz Dr. Hal D. Zorger & Mrs. Janice Zorger Mr. & Mrs. Peter Zurbuch
Randolph County Businesses and Organizations 515 Creative All Creatures Great and Small Veterinary PLLC Allegheny Insurance Services The Art Medium Barnes & Associates Inc. Beta Rho Chapter of Phi Mu Mary S. Boyd M. D. Builders Group Inc. Busch Zurbuch & Thompson PLLC Classic Floor Coverings Colonial Court Service Station Colonial Motors D&E College Aid Club D&E College Social Club D&E College Student Nurse's Association Davis Memorial Hospital Davis Trust Financial Corporation/ Davis Trust Company Delbert Land Company Elkins Branch AAUW Elkins Lions Club Elkins Physical Therapy & Sports Injury Clinic Elkins Regional Convalescent Center Elkins Rotary Club Elkins Sewing Center Huntington Banks of WV JoJo's Floral And Bridal Kay's Beauty Shop Kiwanis Club of Elkins Mountain State Forest Festival Association Mountain State Transport PEO Chapter X Propst Realty QBH Frame Shop Randolph County Bar Association Randolph County Community Arts Center Randolph County Creative Arts Council Joung W. Rhee M. D. Mike Ross Inc. Steer Family Steakhouse Talbott Realty Terri's Shear Magic Tygart Valley Lions Club Tygart Valley Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Inc. Valley Supply Company Inc. W.H. Mint LLC West Virginia Children's Home Society Woman's Club of Elkins Woodford Oil Company Yorkey & Associates
Other Businesses and Organizations Anchor Aquatics Inc. Appalachian College Association Inc.
*As found throughout the report, indicates that the named person is deceased. This report reflects gifts made July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
Baltimore Door & Frame Co. Inc. Casto Technical Services Covington & Burling LLP Dr. Luke Eye Fraternal Order Of Eagles Freedom Bank Fritz's Pharmacy & Wellness Center GMS Mine Repair & Maintenance Inc. Hardman Trucking Inc. Hawks Nest Antiques & Decoys J.F. Allen Company Little General Store McCluskey Hardware & Supply Millwood Crossing Shops LLC National Property Inspections National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Neese Industries North Arrow LTD North Penn Counseling Center Owl's Club of Waynesboro Inc. Phillip Bussey & Associates Inc. Relay Medical Inc. Santa Rosa Hardwood Flooring LLC Scott's Automotive and Transmissions South Mountain Fish & Game Star Services Heating & Air Conditioning LLC Starett's Well Service LLC Steptoe & Johnson PLLC The Capitol Group of Companies Verizon VFW Post 410 (Barbour County) West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association (WVIAC)
Matching Gift Companies 3M (Matching Gifts) The Abbott Fund Matching Grant Plan The Arthur J. Gallagher Foundation Bank of America Foundation J. P. Morgan Chase Foundation ChevronTexaco Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Dominion Foundation ExxonMobil Matching Gift Programs GE Foundation Hospira Employee Giving Campaign IBM Corporation Merck Partnership for Giving Nationwide Insurance Foundation PACCAR Foundation Pfizer Foundation Sam's Club Foundation Shell Oil Company Foundation State Farm Companies Foundation Towers Perrin UPS Foundation Inc. The Vanguard Group Foundation Verizon Foundation
Churches & Church Organizations Beckley Presbyterian Church, Women of the Church, Beckley, WV
Davis Memorial Presbyterian Church, Elkins, WV Davis Memorial Presbyterian Church, Women of the Church, Elkins, WV First Presbyterian Church, Charleston, WV First Presbyterian Church, Fairmont, WV First Presbyterian Church Fairmont, The Women's Association, Fairmont, WV Grove St. United Methodist Church, Petersburg, WV Highlawn Presbyterian Church, Women of the Church, Huntington, WV Kanawha United Presbyterian Church, Charleston, WV Dr. Lacy Bible Class, Elkins, WV Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Presbyterian Scholarship Fund Presbyterian Women of West Virginia Presbytery of West Virginia Synod of the Trinity Vienna Presbyterian Church, Vienna, VA Westminster Presbyterian Church, Charleston, WV
Gifts Received through West Virginia Independent Colleges and Universities, Inc. Dr. & Mrs. Constantino Amores Appalachian Power Company (Charleston) BB&T West Virginia Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Joe Beeson Mr. & Mrs. G. Ross Boyce Mr. Charles G. Brown Mr. & Mrs. William C. Campbell Carbon Fuel Foundation Fund J. P. Morgan Chase Foundation Mr. Philip E. Cline Mr. & Mrs. Richard Conway Dickinson Properties Limited Mr. & Mrs. Barry W. Dobson Dominion Foundation Madge Douds Charitable Remainder Trust ECA Foundation Fenton Foundation Inc. Fifth Third Bank J. H. Fletcher & Co. Jeanne G. & Lawson W. Hamilton, Jr. Family Foundation Dr. William E. Hamm Mr. James H. Harless Huntington Federal Savings Bank The Imperial Charitable Trust Jackson Gas Company The James & Law Company Kanawha-Roxalana Company Lynch Foundation Mr. Richard G. Mason Mr. James R. McCartney Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc. Mr. Kermit E. McGinnis Lewis N. McManus Memorial Scholarship Fund Mr. & Mrs. Henry M. Moore Mr. & Mrs. John Neuner Norfolk Southern Foundation
The Ogden Newspapers Inc. The Mary Alice Rahall Family Trust Ms. Rita Ray Mr. & Mrs. Tracy L. Riffe The Hon. John D. Rockefeller IV & Dr. Sharon P. Rockefeller Sarah & Pauline Maier Foundation Inc. The Tom & Virginia Seely Foundation Mr. Robert Shell Jr. Mr. & Mrs. I. N. Smith IV Mrs. Jae Spears Starvaggi Charities Inc. Mr. & Mrs. L. Newton Thomas Jr. Tri-State Roofing & Sheet Metal Company, Davisville, WV Tri-State Roofing & Sheet Metal Company, Charleston, WV Mr. C. Hyde Tucker United Banks, Inc. UPS Foundation Inc. Mr. & Mrs. D. Stephen Walker Cecil I. Walker Machinery Co. Charitable Trust The H. B. Wehrle Foundation WesBanco, Inc. Wharton Cadillac/Nissan Wilbur Aldine Stutler Trust Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Yurko
Charitable & Family Foundations Anonymous New Dawn Challenger Communities Foundation Of Texas Community Foundation Of Western Massachusetts The Margaret A. Cargill Foundation Daywood Foundation Inc. Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Fritz Family Charitable Fund The Graymer Foundation Greater New Orleans Foundation - The Gervis-Lubran Fund Luzerne Foundation Marie Leist Foundation Inc. Marietta Community Foundation Inc. James S. McDonnell Family Foundation Inc. Myles Family Foundation Naylor Family Trust Presbyterian Foundation Prichard School Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation Wolfe Family Foundation
State & Federal Agencies National Endowment for the Arts United States Department of Education West Virginia Development Office West Virginia Division of Culture & History West Virginia Division Of Highways West Virginia Humanities Council West Virginia Parkways Economic Devevelopment & Tourism Authority
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Faithful Supporters One of the most meaningful ways that donors express their commitment to the College is by giving faithfully year after year. The individuals and organizations listed below have passed the five-year, ten-year, and fifteen-year milestones in giving consistently to Davis & Elkins College. The College is deeply grateful for their sustaining support. Five Year Support Dr. & Mrs. Fouad Abdalla Mr. Peter Abramov III Mrs. Charlotte M. Adams Mr. John R. Addeo Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Agee Mr. Edward T. Alexander Mr. Glenn Alexander Ms. Gloria Alston Mr. & Mrs. John Amoroso Appalachian Power Company (Charleston) Mr. Sidney Bailey Mrs. Maudaline Montgomery Barnard Ms. Bailey S. Barnett Dr. Philip E. Berghausen Jr. Mr. Mitchel E. Bernstein The Rev. & Mrs. Charles W. Best Mr. Byron Bland Jr. Ms. Margo Blevin Denton & Mr. David Denton Dr. Robert Bluford Dr. & Mrs. Harry Boggs Mr. Newton P. Bohme Mr. & Mrs. G. Ross Boyce Mrs. Suzan M. Bright Mr. Charles G. Brown Mr. Jeff Lincoln Buckwalter Mr. Joe E. Bullivant Mrs. Marilyn L. Burch Dr. & Mrs. Phillip Bussey Mr. & Mrs. Dennis E. Calain Sr. Mr. Thomas G. Capetanos Carbon Fuel Foundation Fund Dr. Patrick V. Castellano Mrs. Donna L. Cathie Mr. David E. Clapp Mr. Philip E. Cline Mr. Branem J. Coberly Mr. James C. Corts Sr. Dr. Steven Creasey & Dr. Stephanie Frame Mr. Clarence F. Crosby Jr. Dr. Pauline K. Cushman D&E College Aid Club D&E College Student Nurse's Association Mrs. Karen Knowlton Daley Dr. Virginia P. Dansby Mr. Clark B. Dearth Mr. & Mrs. Clifford J. Decker Dr. Mary Ann DeLuca Ms. Carol Denney Dickinson Properties Limited Mrs. M. Rebecca DiGiovanni Madge Douds Charitable Remainder Trust Elkins Physical Therapy & Sports Injury Clinic Fenton Foundation Inc. Mr. Antony E. Fiorentino Mrs. Mary K. Fisher
J. H. Fletcher & Co. Mr. Gerald D. Foster Mrs. M. Deborah Fragale Mrs. Cheryl L. Fridley Mr. John A. Geissinger Mrs. Anne S. Genther Mrs. Alice L. Gillespie Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Giltinan Sr. Mrs. Samuel E. Glass The Rev. Dr. Ruth Gnagey & Mr. William Gnagey The Graymer Foundation Mrs. Doris A. Smith Gurd Mr. Nicholas Hahon Mr. Roger P. Hailes Mr. Roger L. Hall Ms. Rebecca J. Hammer Col. & Mrs. Donald S. Harlacher USAF (Ret) Mr. James H. Harless Mrs. Barbara E. Hart Mr. & Mrs. T. Richard Harvey Mrs. Jearline H. Hatch Mr. Donald E. Hauck Mrs. Ann Heater Mr. Stuart Hendler Mr. Ted R. Henry Rev. Dr. & Mrs. J. Gregg Hickman II Mrs. Anne H. Hill Mr. William R. Hitchner Mr. David S. Hoag Mr. Douglas A. Homer Hospira Employee Giving Campaign Huntington Federal Savings Bank The Imperial Charitable Trust Mrs. Exie Irons Dr. & Mrs. William N. Johnston Mr. Erik R. Judd Kanawha-Roxalana Company Mr. Douglas S. Keith Mr. Vincent D. Kilduff Jr. Mrs. Joan Kilpatrick Dr. R. W. Knotts Mr. Donald T. Kosak The Rev. John E. Kuchta Mr. & Mrs. C. Kerr Kump Mr. Emmett L. Lambert Mrs. Gale Robinson Lawless Mr. William J. Lentino Mr. & Mrs. Mike Linkovich Mr. John C. Little Mr. Garret K. Lockwood Mrs. E. Sue Lohn & Mr. Willis Gore Mr. Peter Lucas Ms. Melissa H. Luce Lynch Foundation Anna & Norman Lunde Ms. Deborah Madden Mr. John Maffucci Sarah & Pauline Maier Foundation Inc. Dr. Charles W. Martin Jr.
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Mr. Richard G. Mason Ms. Jane A. Maxwell Ms. Sally A. McCauley & Mr. Frank A. Miller Lewis N. McManus Memorial Scholarship Fund Ms. Phyllis A. Meals Dr. & Mrs. Jerry Metheny Mr. Frederick R. Miller Mrs. Joyce H. Miller Mrs. Eileen M. Monastersky Mr. & Mrs. Henry M. "Don" Moore The Rev. Christopher E. MooreKeish Dr. H. Thomas Mullis Brig. Gen. & Mrs. Robert M. Murdock USAF (Ret) Mrs. June Toth Myers Ms. June B. Myles Myles Family Foundation National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) The Rev. John M. Nehrebecki Mrs. Peggy Hays Nelson Mrs. Joyce M. Nestor & Mr. Robert G. Nestor Mrs. Betty Newman Norfolk Southern Foundation Mr. & Mrs. William W. Nuttall III The Ogden Newspapers Inc. Nerses Ohanian Dr. Douglas W. Oldenburg Mr. David C. Parman Mr. Edward T. Peck Jr. Mr. Edward A. Pencek The Hon. & Mrs. Roger L. Perry Mr. Frank J. Porter Mrs. Susan Powell Mrs. Vada M. Powers* Presbyterian Scholarship Fund Mrs. Dorothy P. Price Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Pugh Mr. Matthew R. Purvis Jr. The Mary Alice Rahall Family Trust Mrs. Norma J. Rector-Triplett & Mr. George Triplett Mrs. Robin C. Rector Ms. Carmen Rexrode Dr. Syngman Rhee Ms. Lorraine M. Ricigliano Mr. & Mrs. Tracy L. Riffe Mr. David M. Roberts Mr. David W. Robinson Mrs. Debora S. Robinson Dr. & Mrs. Jack Rogers Dr. Robert A. Rose & Ms. Marjorie Moses Mr. & Mrs. Danny Roy Mr. & Mrs. David A. Rutherford Dr. Vicki J. Schell Dr. Thomas & Mrs. Carol Schuler Dr. & Mrs. William S. Sessions Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Seybolt Mr. Vernon A. Shahan
Dr. & Mrs. Douglas Shumway Mr. Richard E. Sittler Mr. & Mrs. I. N. Smith IV Mr. & Mrs. Timothy B. Smith Mr. & Mrs. William Smyth Dr. Richard D. Snyder Mr. Robert P. Sommer Sr. Mrs. Jae Spears Mrs. Dorothy S. Stacy Mrs. Catherine Adams Starcher Mr. & Mrs. Louis W. Stark Starvaggi Charities Inc. Mr. Henry W. Steinbrecher Mrs. Joan M. Stern Mrs. M. Lynn Viereck Stoner Mr. Charles A. Straw The Rev. Samuel G. Strohm Mr. Donald R. Strosnider Mr. Gary T. Swift Mrs. Rita K. Thomas Mrs. Karen G. Tillotson Mr. Dominick Tortorici Mrs. Tina Towe Lt. Col. John G. Townsend Tri-State Roofing & Sheet Metal Company (Davisville) Tri-State Roofing & Sheet Metal Company (Charleston) Mr. C. Hyde Tucker United Banks Inc. Dr. James J. Van Gundy & Mrs. Judy V. Van Gundy Mr. & Mrs. David R. Van Metre Mr. William F. Volz Mr. & Mrs. Roger G. Waddill Cecil I. Walker Machinery Co. Charitable Trust Mr. & Mrs. D. Stephen Walker Mr. Geoffrey H. Walker Mrs. Elaine P. Ware Mr. & Mrs. John A. Warren Mrs. Mary M. Wehrle Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. West Westminster Presbyterian Church Dr. Raymond C. White Mr. Robert A. White & Mrs. Bonnie J. White Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Wilkens Mr. Lowell T. Williams Mrs. Margaret G. Wilson The Rev. George B. Wirth & Mrs. Barbara Wirth Mrs. Sarah J. Withrow Woman's Club of Elkins Mr. & Mrs. Samuel D. Yokum Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Yurko Mr. & Mrs. John S. Zeart Mr. & Mrs. Peter Zurbuch
Ten Year Support Anonymous Mr. Robert H. Aaronson III Mrs. Eileen Basil Dr. Heather R. Biola & Mr. Joe Biola
Mr. Jonathan L. Brandt Mr. & Mrs. George J. Buschman Dr. Thomas Chadwick Mrs. Linda Chua & Dr. Domingo T. Chua Mr. Douglas L. Conary Dr. Helenjane "Rusty" W. Cougan Mr. Robert S. Craig Dr. Thomas P. Ditty & Ms. Patricia Schumann Mr. Wayne J. Finkbeiner Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Flinn Mrs. Lynne S. Garcia Ms. Katherine H. Gates Mr. & Mrs. Alan D. Hale Miss Joan B. Harding Miss Elizabeth J. Hauck Dr. Stephanie C. Haynes Mr. Voras K. Haynes Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Herman Jr. Mr. Robert E. Hingel Mr. Gary Horvath Dr. & Mrs. William E. King Mrs. Margaret A. Kitchen Kiwanis Club of Elkins Dr. & Mrs. Richard Knapp Mr. Herbert J. Kresser Jr.* Ramona Leslie Mr. Ronald F. MacDonald Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Willard L. McQuary Mr. & Mrs. Mike Miller Dr. A. Jean Minnick Dr. & Mrs. R. Andrew Montgomery Mr. & Mrs. Dwain Morgan Mr. Ralph E. Morrison National Endowment for the Arts Mr. Niel P. Petersen Ms. Gloria C. Phares Mr. Albert H. Phillips Mr. & Mrs. David Phillips Mr. & Mrs. James R. Pifer Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert F. Rexrode Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John H. Rhodes Mrs. Mary Bliss Rhodes Mr. William S. Robbins Dr. Dorothy F. Roberts Dr. & Mrs. Ronald A. Rollins Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Ross II Mr.* & Mrs. W. Miles Runner Mr. & Mrs. Gordon H. Rutherford Mrs. Barbara J. Schulz Mr. & Mrs. Ronald J. Selders The Rev. & Mrs. Donald E. Shamble Mr. Robert "Artie" Shaw Mr. Fred C. Shepler Jr. Mr. James N. Shields Miss Dorothy A. Silbert Mrs. Mildred L. Skerbetz Mr. Jennings R. Skinner Mr. Sidney C. Smith
Faithful Supporters Mrs. Nancy R. Smith Mr. James Steen Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Blaine E. Steensland Mr. & Mrs. Allan Swanson Mr. Jeff C. Tacina Dr. Barbara Tedford & Mr. Sidney H. Tedford Dr. & Mrs. Thornton W. Tucker Mrs. Joanne C. Dougherty Vaughan Mrs. Peggy Wagner Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Wamsley Mr. & Mrs. John E. Whitman Mrs. Karen L. Wilmoth Mrs. Mary G. Wohleber Mr. & Mrs. Howard H. Wolfe Wolfe Family Foundation Mr. Robert M. Wood Mr. Neil Young
Fifteen Year Support Mr. & Mrs. John Crile Allen Mr. & Mrs. Charles Ammann Mr. & Mrs. Leighton E. Andersen Mr. & Mrs. William K. Armentrout Lt. Col. Harold L. Arner USAF (Ret) Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Back Mr. Billy Baer Bob & Ann Baird Mr. John N. Ballantyne Miss Dorothy E. Bartgis Mr. Phillip K. Barton Dr. & Mrs. William L. Bekenstein
Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Bendy Mrs. M. K. Bennett Ms. Karen H. Berner Mr. & Mrs. James Bialek Mr. Kenneth W. Bielemeier Mr. Barry E. Blacka Mr. Jack R. Blacka Ms. Jean J. Blalock Mr. Russell B. Blight Mrs. Nancy J. Bodnar Mr. Steven H. Bohner Mr. & Mrs. Mickey W. Boles Mr. & Mrs. Harold E. Bowman Mary S. Boyd M. D. Dr. & Mrs. W.W. Branch Jr. Mr. Fletcher Bright Mrs. Leah Easton Brown Mrs. Eris-Marie Bunnell The Rev. L. Norman Butler Mr. & Mrs. Walter C. Calhoun Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Campbell Mrs. Alma M. Campbell Mr. Robert T. Carney Dr. Marshall Carper Mr. & Mrs. Gerald N. Carter Mrs. Jo Anne Cerven Mr. Douglas K. Chappel Mr. Muhammad A. Chaudhry Mr. Kenneth N. Connaughton Ms. Laura A. Constantine Mr. & Mrs. Wendell M. Cramer Lt. Col. Michael G. Dakes USAF (Ret) Davis Trust Company
The Rev. Frank A. Davison Daywood Foundation Inc. Dr. & Mrs. Michael F. DiMario Mr. & Mrs. Peter H. Dougherty Mr. & Mrs. D. Drake Dowler Dr. Sheldon C. Downes Mr. Robert E. Dunn Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Dye Mr. Thomas L. Elkins Julia Millar Ellis Mr. & Mrs. H. Flint Engleman II Ms. Nancy Evans-Bennett Mrs. Christine Fallon Ms. Jeanne G. Fee Mrs. Ruth Ann Fenton & Mr. Harry W. Fenton Mr. & Mrs. Frederick J. Fincken Jr. First Presbyterian Church Fairmont, The Women's Association Mr. Robert J. Fletcher IV Dr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Fry Mr. & Mrs. Raymond R. Fry Jr. Mr. John N. Funk Jr. Mr. Herbert G. Gaiss Mrs. Eleanor R. Gay Dr. Alexandra W. Gerry Mr. Kenneth D. Gibson Dr. Margaret P. Goddin & Mr. W.L. Goddin Dr. Gerald Goldstone Mrs. Doris W. Hall Mr. & Mrs. Jerome A. Halperin Mr. & Mrs. Rolf T. Hammer Mr. James W. Hancock III Mr. & Mrs. William G. Hartman Mr. & Mrs. Terry Hayes Mr. George R. Heavner The Rev. Dr. Jean H. Henderson Mr. Edward J. Henriksen Mr. & Mrs. David Hiester Mrs. Norma A. Hinchman Mrs. Marjorie V. Hollandsworth Mr. Allan W. Holman Jr. Mrs. Miriam W. Holt Mr.* & Mrs. Benjamin N. Hoover Mr. & Mrs. David L. Hoyt The Rev. & Mrs. Robert E. Hullstrung Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence B. Hunt Mr. & Mrs. Philip S. Inglee Mrs. Lena Bradley Itnyre Mr. & Mrs. Tharon L. Jack Dr. & Mrs. Andrew H. Johanson Jr. Mrs. Dixie Jones Mr. & Mrs. William T. Jordan Mr. Michael R. Judge Mr. Eric R. Karg Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Kelley Mr. Norman N. Kerbel The Rev. Dr. David A. Kirk Mrs. Elizabeth G. Kittle The Rev. John M. Klembara Ms. Lois C. Konkle
Mr. Robert E. Kother Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. LaNeve Mrs. Jean Lanham Mrs. Jarrell Simmons Larew Mr. & Mrs. Ivar Larsen George & Susan Lauderbaugh Mr. Cecil G. Layman Jr. Mrs. M. Leann Lesser & Mr. W. Hunter Lesser Mr. Conway Li Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Y. Ling Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Livingston Mr. & Mrs. John P. Locke Jr. Major John E. Lothes & Mrs. Wilga B. Lothes Mrs. Carole L. Lutness Mr. & Mrs. Rudolph G. Luzzatto Mr. & Mrs. Clifford E. Marstiller Mr. Ross E. Marteney Dr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Martin The Hon. & Mrs. Robert E. Maxwell Mrs. Martha M. McConnell Mr. & Mrs. John J. McKenzie Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Meierdiercks Dr. & Mrs. Frank M. Mele Mr. Wilbert D. Mick Eileen Miller Mr. Robert Miserentino Mrs. Kathleen M. Mitchell Col. & Mrs. Joseph W. Moran Jr. USAF (Ret.) Mr. & Mrs. C. Carney Moran Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Morehead Dr. George P. Morgan Jr. Mr. & Mrs. H. Maxwell Morgan Mrs. Mary Margaret Morrison Mr. John W. Moser* Mr. & Mrs. William S. Moyer The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. John M. Myers III Dr. Charles H. Nauman Gary & Helen North Mr. Bradford V. Nye Ms. Carol L. Obermann Old Stone Presbyterian Church Capt. & Mrs. Stuart M. Parcher Mrs. Linda E. Parthun Mr. Robert T. Paul Dr. Gloria Marquette Payne Ms. Joy A. Petersen Mrs. Mabel V. Phares Mrs. Susan B. Phelps Dr.* & Mrs. William E. Phipps Mr. Paul W. Phipps Mrs. Eleanor Porterfield Mr. Charles H. Potter II Presbyterian Women of West Virginia Presbytery of West Virginia Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Preusch Prichard School Mr. & Mrs. John J. Rector
*As found throughout the report, indicates that the named person is deceased. This report reflects gifts made July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
Mrs. Harriett Hays Rector Mr. & Mrs. Eugene H. Renner Mrs. Maribeth I. Robenolt & Mr. Scott Robenolt Mr. David S. Rogers Dr. Thomas R. Ross* The Hon. Mike Ross Mr. Howard Rubenstein Ms. Elizabeth H. Rupp Capt. & Mrs. Donald Santamaria USN (Ret.) Dr. Barry I. Saul Mr. Edward G. Sawtell Mr. David G. Schoettinger & Mrs. Mary G. Schoettinger Mr. & Mrs. David H. Semendinger Mrs. Rebecca Shinaberry Mr. & Mrs. Robert N. Skinner Dr. & Mrs. Robert G. Smith Mr. Terry L. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Ray A. Snyder Dr. & Mrs. David Specht Mr. & Mrs. Dale C. Stahle Jr. Mrs. Marcella Stevens Paul & Karen Stirrup Miss Kelly E. Stull Mr. William H. Sudbrink & Ms. Kathryn L. Howard Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation Mrs. Lorraine C. Swanton Synod of the Trinity Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Talbott Jr. Lt. Col. Leon J. Testas Jr. USAF (Ret) Mr. & Mrs. L. Newton Thomas Jr. The Rev. & Mrs. Charles N. Thompson The Hon. O. Alan Thulander Mr. & Mrs. Leonard J. Timms Jr. Dr. William L. Turner Jr. Vienna Presbyterian Church Mr. & Mrs. Richard B. Walden Mr. Bruce M. Walk Mr. & Mrs. Herbert N. Wallace Mr. David W. Waterman Mr. Keith C. Weese Mr. & Mrs. Henry B. Wehrle Jr. The H. B. Wehrle Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Wells III Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey C. Welshonce Mrs. Harriett Welshonce West Virginia Division of Culture & History Mr. Elkins Wetherill Mr. Leonard B. Whiting Mr. & Mrs. Ralph E. Wilmoth Mr. Roger C. Wilmoth Mr. & Mrs. James F. Wilson Mr. Jackson B. Winter Mr. Richard C. Winterhoff Mr. W. A. Stewart Wright Jr.
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Heritage Society
Legacy Gifts Gifts from Trusts & Estates
Pooled Income Fund Participants
Thanks to the foresight and generosity of these alumni and friends, Davis & Elkins College received income from the following estates and trusts in fiscal year 2009-2010.
By participating in a pooled income fund, the following individuals receive income for life while creating a future gift to Davis & Elkins College.
Clyde B. Hutson Trust Madge Douds Charitable Remainder Trust Estate of Carla Daruda Estate of Henry A. Rutherford Jr. Estate of Isabel Arnold Estate of Marie D. Martin Estate of Thomas R. Ross Estate of Gloria C. Phares Lewis N. McManus Memorial Scholarship Fund Wilbur Aldine Stutler Charitable Remainder Trust
Charitable Gift Annuities The following individuals have created charitable gift annuities that will provide benefits for both themselves and the College. Mrs. Eileen Knapp Basil Mr. John A. Geissinger Mr. W.L. Goddin & Dr. Margaret P. Goddin Dr. William W. Joness Dr. & Mrs. Charles W. Korbonits Mr. & Mrs. William Moyer Mrs. Mabel D. Phares Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Talbott Jr. Mrs. Bernice Sacks Thomas
Mr. Ben Hoover* Mr. & Mrs. Earl Morton Jr.
Trusts The following individuals have created irrevocable gift commitments through trusts that will provide future income for the College. Mr. Louis Croes Jr. Mr. John Harling Mrs. Maynard C. Nugent Mr. William S. Robbins
Bequests The following funds established through bequests will provide future income to the College for a designated purpose.
The Heritage Society recognizes all who have provided for the future of Davis & Elkins College by making the College a part of their estate or gift planning process and have informed the College of their plans. To discuss your plans or request further information on bequests or gift planning options, please contact Patricia Schumann, Vice President for College Advancement at (304) 637-1340 or schumannp@dewv.edu. Mr. A. Bryant Applegate & Mrs. Lynn Marie Applegate Mrs. Alice E. Bampton Ms. JoAnn Post Barlow Guy J. Barrow M.D.* Mrs. Eileen Basil Dr. & Mrs. Julian M. Bayuk Ms. Margo Blevin Denton & Mr. David A. Denton Dr. Alex E. Booth Miss RuthAnn Brooks Mr. Robert T. Carney Mr. Edgar H. Coberly Dr. Helenjane W. Cougan Mr. Louis Croes Jr. Miss Kathy A. Crouse Mr. & Mrs. Peter H. Dougherty Mr. & Mrs. H. Flint Engleman II Mr. John A. Geissinger Mr. W. L. Goddin & Dr. Margaret P. Goddin Ms. Patricia A. Guercio Miss Anne E. Haislip Mr. & Mrs. John H. Harling The Rev. Dr. John E. Harris & The Rev. Victoria L. Moss Mr. & Mrs. James A. Heaney Jr. Mr. Christopher E. Heller Mrs. Marjorie Hodson
Miss Julia Holmaas Mr.* & Mrs. Benjamin N. Hoover Mr. James R. Howley The Rev. Richard L. Huggins The Rev. & Mrs. Robert E. Hullstrung Mr. & Mrs. Philip S. Inglee Mrs. June Ingram Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Janis Dr. William W. Joness Mrs. Flora Kessel Mrs. Margaret A. Kitchen Mrs. William A. Knowlton Mr. Donald H. Kolb Mr. Richard Marks Mr. David B. Martin Dr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Martin Dr. Scott McCormick Jr. Dr. Curtis S. McKee & Dr. Gail H. McKee Mrs. Margaret Meadows Dr. A. Jean Minnick Mr. Robert Miserentino Ms. Fran Molsky Mr. & Mrs. Earl F. Morton Jr. Dr. Joseph H. Morton Mr. John S. Moyer Mr. & Mrs. William S. Moyer Mrs. Laurie Murray
Julia Hartman Nursing Scholarship Scott & Emma McCormick Endowed Artists/ Lecture Series The Richard and Lucy Varchetto Scholarship
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*As found throughout the report, indicates that the named person is deceased. This report reflects gifts made July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
Mrs. Peggy Hays Nelson Gary & Helen North Mrs. Avolene Nubel George Pappas M.D. Dr. & Mrs. John P. Petrali Jr. Mrs. Mabel V. Phares Mr. Charles H. Potter II Mr. T. McClellan Pritt II Mr. James D. Queener Mrs. Carolyn Respess Mr. Daniel B. Richards Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Ross II Mr. James N. Shields Mr. & Mrs. Ray A. Snyder Mr. Richard G. Steffens Jr. Mr. William H. Sudbrink & Ms. Kathryn L. Howard Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Talbott Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Wendell Thomas Mr. J. David Thomas The Hon. O. Alan Thulander Dr. William L. Turner Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Peter J. Ullman Mr. Richard M. Varchetto Mr. James D. Wells Mr. John Wheeler Mr. Leonard B. Whiting Mr. A. Jack Wilfong Mrs. Lano Zagar
Gifts made in Honor or Memory of Alumni & Friends Many choose to honor or remember a friend or loved one with a gift to Davis & Elkins College. The College is pleased to recognize both those who made gifts of this nature and those who are honored or remembered by the gift. In Honor of Harter Banks '59 Mr. Donald R. Strosnider In Honor of John D. Barrow '36 Ms. Jo Ellen Dowdy In Honor of Margo Blevin Denton Anonymous Friends Mr. Edward V. Bowes Mr. Michael J. Clark Ms. Melanie Climis Ms. Alice C. Hurwitz Mr. Brian Lockman & Mrs. Nancy Karrvois Lockman Mr. Felix Lockman Ms. Eugenia E. Moore Ms. Carmen Rexrode Ms. Heidi Wettlaufer In Honor of Lora Cruz Ms. Denice Reese & Mr. John Warner In Honor of the Davis & Elkins College Athletic Department Coaches Jason Asbell, Jim & Kristina Bacca, Scott Goddard '96, Ben Grimm, Bruce Martin, Ronald E. Palmer III '99 Mr. William S. Robbins In Honor of the Davis & Elkins College Nursing Department Dr. R. Carol Cochran, Lora Cruz, Dr. Julia Hartman, Brenda Miller, Karen Seel R.N., Christina Swecker Ms. Denice Reese & Mr. John Warner Mr. William S. Robbins In Honor of the Davis & Elkins College Office of Campus Security Jake Gooden, Dale Jackson, Michael R. Jordan, Daniel Simons, Derek Simons Mr. William S. Robbins In Honor of the Davis & Elkins College Office of College Advancement Wendy Morgan, Carol Schuler, Patricia Schumann, Lisa Senic '03, Karen L. Wilmoth '83 Mr. William S. Robbins In Honor of the Davis & Elkins College Office of Enrollment Management Katie Bright '06, Kara Fisher, Nicole R. Hinkle '04, Steve Merrick, Rebecca K. Pauls, Christopher Randolph, Randy Trostel, Gary J. Vandevender '05, Kevin Wilson Mr. William S. Robbins In Honor of the Davis & Elkins College Office of Student Life Diana Burke-Ross, Carolyn T. Church '88, Amanda C. Larkin '06, Susan L. Mullens '90 Mr. William S. Robbins In Honor of Jerome A. Halperin Dr. & Mrs. David M. Sneed In Honor of Joe M. Harris '63 Mr. Donald R. Strosnider
In Honor of Terry & Susan Hayes Ms. Megan M. Browning Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Humphrey Mr. Lonnie L. Martin In Honor of Jean Humanson Henderson '64 Mr. & Mrs. Lee Behrhorst
In Honor of Dr. Gloria Marquette Payne's birthday Mr. & Mrs. Jon B. Fenton In Honor of Albert H. Phillips '59 Mr. Donald R. Strosnider
In Honor of Jonathan K. Hiser Mr. & Mrs. Christopher J. Fawls
In Honor of Dr. William E. Phipps Mr. Richard T. Berman Dr. & Mrs. Andrew H. Johanson Jr.
In Honor of Beverly A. Hofsass Dr. & Mrs. David M. Sneed
In Honor of B. Robin Price '73 Mr. William S. Robbins
In Honor of Philip S. Inglee '59 Mr. Donald R. Strosnider
In Honor of William S. "Bill" Robbins '56 Ms. Deborah Madden Ms. Barbara A. Petroski Mr. Donald M. Robbins & Ms. Elizabeth J. Clarke-Robbins Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Ross II Mrs. Karen L. Wilmoth
In Honor of Mary S. Jones Mrs. Almeda Huffaker In Honor of Gerald S. Lawrence Sr. '61 Anonymous In Honor of Yuri Lubran's 21st Birthday Mr. Robert Lubran In Honor of Marion MacDonald Mr. Ronald F. MacDonald In Honor of Deborah Madden Mr. & Mrs. Peter H. Dougherty Mr. Donald M. Robbins & Ms. Elizabeth J. Clarke-Robbins In Honor of Dr. John Martin Mr. & Mrs. Paul F. Estler In Honor of Dr. Robert McCutcheon Mr. William S. Robbins
In Honor of William S. Robbins' Birthday Mr. & Mrs. Peter H. Dougherty Ms. Barbara A. Petroski In Honor of Dr. Dorothy Roberts Mr. James W. Hancock III In Honor of Dr. Ronald A. Rollins '57 Mr. & Mrs. Dwain Morgan Mr. William S. Robbins In Honor of T.R. Ross II Dr. Thomas P. Ditty & Ms. Patricia Schumann
In Honor of John W. Moser '50 Mrs. Patricia Little Tabler Mr. Keith C. Weese
In Honor of SAFFIRE - The Uppity Blues Women Legacy Gaye Ann & Andra Faye Ms. Nancy H. Cooke Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Fernands Mr. Kenneth Moe Mr. & Mrs. Lyle Moe Ms. Suzanne Moe Ms. Florette R. Orleans
In Honor of John S. Moyer Mr. & Mrs. William S. Moyer
In Honor of Mary Ellen Schubert Ms. Bailey S. Barnett
In Honor of Greg Myer's Birthday Mrs. L. Gregory Myers
In Honor of Patricia Schumann Ms. Gay D. Mothershed
In Honor of Lee Norton Dr. & Mrs. David M. Sneed
In Honor of David Shamble's D&E Education The Rev. & Mrs. Donald E. Shamble
In Honor of Mary Margaret Morrison '44 The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. Basil A. Hensley
In Honor of Betty Ollestad Dr. & Mrs. David M. Sneed In Honor of Dr. Gloria Marquette Payne '43 Mr. Robert Baylor Mr. David A. Blaszczak Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bowers Mrs. Jayne Wood-Harris Mrs. Margaret A. Kitchen Mr. Carl E. Kuehn Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Y. Ling Mrs. Mendy G. Marshall Mr. & Mrs. David L. McConnell Brig. Gen. & Mrs. Robert M. Murdock USAF (Ret) Ms. Cathy Pepper Mrs. Patricia A. Plescia Mrs. Joanne C. Dougherty Vaughan
*As found throughout the report, indicates that the named person is deceased. This report reflects gifts made July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
In Honor of Buck & Joni Smith Mr. & Mrs. Jack Casperson Ms. Sara Patton In Honor of President Buck Smith Mr. Keith C. Weese In Honor of Andy & Emma Kay Sneed Ms. Betty Ollestad In Honor of Daniel J. Storm Vanleeuwen Mr. Tjaarda Storm Vanleeuwen In Honor of Donald Strosnider Anonymous In Honor of William H. Sudbrink '59 & Kathryn Howard Mr. Michael P. Howard & Mrs. Mary C. Howard
Mr. Thomas Sudbrink & Ms. Kristin Matherly In Honor of Richard H. Talbott's 79th Birthday Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Talbott In Honor of Sidney H. Tedford Anonymous Alumni Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Bendy The Rev. & Mrs. Charles W. Best Miss Patricia Bethany Dr. & Mrs. W.W. Branch Jr. Mrs. Nancy S. Walker Caparulo The Hon. Charles N. Clevert Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Colussy Dr. Virginia P. Dansby Mrs. Charlotte A. Eskew Mr. Philip A. Holt Mr. & Mrs. Frederick G. Konhaus Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Y. Ling The Rev. & Mrs. Robert R. Reich Ms. Judith L. Shelton Mr. & Mrs. Giles E. Wright In Honor of Dr. David R. Turner Mr. Timothy B. Avanzato In Honor of Richard Varchetto Mr. & Mrs. D. Drake Dowler Mr. & Mrs. James A. Heaney Jr. In Honor of Joanne Dougherty Vaughan '57 Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. David Vaughan
In Memory of Coach Ira Blankenship Mr. Donald R. Strosnider In Memory of Matilda Bohme Mr. & Mrs. Lee S. Bohme Mr. Newton P. Bohme In Memory of Ralph Booth '49 Mr. Richard T. Berman Mr. & Mrs. Paul F. Estler In Memory of Carol Anne Brown Mr. & Mrs. John Crile Allen In Memory of Mary M. Bullivant Mr. Joe E. Bullivant In Memory of Richard B. Bunnell '50 Mrs. Eris-Marie Bunnell In Memory of William (Billy) Burky Mrs. Alice M. Phillips Mr. & Mrs. David Phillips Mrs. Hilda L. Wilmoth In Memory of Virginia Butler The Rev. L. Norman Butler In Memory of William G. Carr '71 Bob & Ann Baird/Elkins Physical Therapy & Sports Injury Clinic Mr. & Mrs. Lanny A. Propst/ Propst Realty Mrs. Karen L. Wilmoth In Memory of Donald L. Carroll '51 Mr. & Mrs. John E. Whitman
In Honor of Dr. Donald Walter Mr. Richard T. Berman
In Memory of Lt. James S. Carroll Mrs. Mary Margaret Morrison
In Honor of Mr. & Mrs. Steven M. Wilkens '93 & '94 Mr. & Mrs. Douglas C. Bennett
In Memory of Stephanie Yessen Cattano '73 Mrs. Deborah A. Frasher
In Memory of Dean Charles E. Albert Mr. Keyolan G. Light
In Memory of Irene Holbert Corley Mr. Paul D. Corley
In Memory of Robert H. Arrasmith '50 Mr. Robert E. Kother
In Memory of Mary Ellen Updike Craig '49 Mr. Robert S. Craig
In Memory of Robert M. Ayars Mrs. Virginia Ayars
In Memory of Charlie "Cadillac Daddy" Curtin Mr. Jeff C. Tacina
In Memory of Marion Ballantyne Mr. John N. Ballantyne
In Memory of Jay C. Deemer '63 Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Deemer
In Memory of Dr. Guy J. Barrow '42 Ms. Kim Walton
In Memory of Steven Duritt Clair J. Andreas Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy DeAngelo Mr. & Mrs. Louis Deangelo Ms. Lillian DePuglio Mrs. Santina D. Duritt Mr. & Mrs. Richard Eckstein,Mr. & Mrs. Robert Eckstein, Mrs. Loretta Eckstein Mr. Joseph P. Focarile Mr. & Mrs. Brian D. Hirst Ms. Marie Iseicz Ms. Lynda Klebold Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lasser New Hanover Township School Staff Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Northey Mr. & Mrs. Gregory J. Santacroce Mr. & Mrs. James Sonday Mr. & Mrs. Peter Voorhees
In Memory of Peggy Beekman Mrs. Diane C. Zsombik In Memory of Roberta E. Bennett Ms. Kate Bennett Mr. & Mrs. James R. McMillen Mr. John R. Mohr Mr. William H. Sudbrink & Ms. Kathryn L. Howard Mr. & Mrs. Frank Wilkens Mrs. Karen L. Wilmoth In Memory of Roy "Chip" Beziat Mrs. Jo Ann Beziat In Memory of J.R. "Ron" Blake '73 Mr. Richard E. Sittler Mr. John R. Wenzel
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In Memory of Judy Evans' Mother Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Fund Inc. Mr. James Lande In Memory of Judith Fahlgren Mr. & Mrs. John Crile Allen In Memory of Claire Deiss Fiorentino Capt. Robert T. Gregory SC USN(Ret) Mrs. Betty Newman In Memory of Lucille & David Fitzsimmons The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. Gilbert J. Fitzsimmons In Memory of Dawson Frasier '68 Mr. Daymon Frasier In Memory of John P. Garcia '59 Mrs. Lynne S. Garcia In Memory of Laury Gauvreau Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Gauvreau In Memory of Robert A. Genther '59 Mrs. Anne S. Genther In Memory of Dr. Martin L. Gerhardt Mrs. Dorothy Jones In Memory of Mildred Raikes Goldberg '35 Mr. & Mrs. John Crile Allen Mr. & Mrs. Allan Swanson In Memory of Eugene "Chip" Gott IV '78 Mrs. M. K. Bennett In Memory of Dr. Robert Greer III '53 Mrs. Nancy Greer In Memory of Charles Heartwell III Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Wamsley In Memory of Mary Heineman Mr. & Mrs. John Crile Allen Mr. & Mrs. Allan Swanson Mrs. Joanne C. Dougherty Vaughan Mrs. Karen L. Wilmoth In Memory of Marybeth Hermanson Mr. James G. Allen
In Memory of Edward N. (Eddie) Hinzman II Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert F. Rexrode Jr. In Memory of J. Keith Hiser '55 The Ralph L. Dove Family Mr. & Mrs. Christopher J. Fawls Grove St. United Methodist Church Mr. & Mrs. Emery L. Prunty Mrs. Mary F. Pryor In Memory of Norma N. Hiser '73 The Ralph L. Dove Family Grove St. United Methodist Church Mr. & Mrs. Emery L. Prunty Mrs. Mary F. Pryor In Memory of Edna & Philip Hodgman The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. Gilbert J. Fitzsimmons In Memory of Sam Hoover '30 Mr.* & Mrs. Benjamin N. Hoover In Memory of Jellica HowardSudbrink Mr. Michael P. Howard & Mrs. Mary C. Howard Mr. Thomas Sudbrink & Ms. Kristin Matherly Mr. William H. Sudbrink & Ms. Kathryn L. Howard In Memory of John Hugelen Ms. Nancy Weston In Memory of Richard J. & Helen S. Hunt Col. & Mrs. Donald S. Harlacher USAF (Ret) In Memory of The Rev. John S. Hutchison '70 Mrs. Janice A. Hutchison In Memory of Tatiana Jatdetzsky The Rev. John E. Kuchta In Memory of Harry Jones Mrs. Almeda Huffaker In Memory of Mary S. Jones Mrs. Janet Burr Mrs. Almeda Huffaker Mr. & Mrs. Allan Swanson Mrs. Karen L. Wilmoth
In Memory of Ralph C. Hess Dr. Ralph Charles Hess III & Mrs. Nioka Hess
In Memory of Carolyn Karg Mr. Eric R. Karg
In Memory of Don Himes Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Shepler
In Memory of Kenneth R. King '52 Dr. Eugenia Yarbrough Hanson
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In Memory of Marian King Mr. & Mrs. John E. Whitman
In Memory of Dr. Nelson Knaggs '29 Dr. Philip E. Berghausen Jr.
Mr. Robert "Artie" Shaw Mr. Charles R. Showen Mrs. Tina Towe Mr. & Mrs. John E. Whitman Mr. Lowell T. Williams Mrs. Karen L. Wilmoth Mrs. Della Zoladz
In Memory of Samuel E. Lanham '48 Mrs. Jean Lanham
In Memory of Christine S. Moyer Mr. & Mrs. William S. Moyer
In Memory of Lois Latham Mrs. Jarrell Simmons Larew
In Memory of Felix Mrozinsky Mrs. Rosanne Mrozinsky
In Memory of Virginia Lauderbaugh George & Susan Lauderbaugh
In Memory of Norman L. Lohn '57 Mrs. E. Sue Lohn & Mr. Willis Gore
In Memory of Louise S. Murray Mr. & Mrs. Paul H. Fett Ms. Janet C. Hamric Ms. Christina Murray Ms. Sharon Murray & Mr. Robert Fett Mrs. Luetta Waddell
In Memory of Dorothy MacConkey Miss Dorothy E. Bartgis
In Memory of Dr. Henry Myers Mrs. June Toth Myers
In Memory of Waldo MacDonald Mr. Ronald F. MacDonald
In Memory of Kevin Nestor '97 Mr. & Mrs. Patrick B. Troastle
In Memory of Mrs. Irene Martin Dr. Charles W. Martin Jr.
In Memory of Frank Ninesling '49 Ms. Karin Ninesling Infuso
In Memory of Mrs. Joan A . Martin Dr. Charles W. Martin Jr.
In Memory of Carl Payne '50 Major John E. Lothes & Mrs. Wilga B. Lothes
In Memory of Raymond W. Kiser '40 Mrs. Bula Kiser
In Memory of William R. Libby Mr. Herbert J. Libby
In Memory of Royce K. McDonald Mrs. Marjorie V. Hollandsworth In Memory of Michael J. McQuillen '89 Mr. Timothy B. Avanzato In Memory of Elizabeth Woodford McVicker '46 Ms. Shelley J. McVicker & Mr. David R. Callahan In Memory of L. E. & Beatrice F. McWhorter Mrs. Sally Spears In Memory of Daniel F. Moats '75 Mrs. Martha M. McConnell In Memory of John W. Moser '50 Mr. Neven Cernobori Mr. Thomas L. Elkins Mr. W. L. Goddin & Dr. Margaret P. Goddin Mrs. Betty L. Intemann Mrs. Joan V. Kittle Mr. Robert E. Kother Mrs. Jean Lanham Mr. Wilbert D. Mick Ms. Alice C. Moser
In Memory of Dr. Edward Perkins Mr. & Mrs. Paul F. Estler In Memory of Robert A. Pfrangle Mrs. Alma M. Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Campbell In Memory of Luella Phares Ms. Gloria C. Phares In Memory of Stanley V. Phares '51 Mrs. Mabel V. Phares In Memory of Coach Bob Phillips Mr. Donald R. Strosnider In Memory of Daniel J. Phillips '78 Mr. & Mrs. Stanley F. Phillips In Memory of Dr. William E. Phipps Dr. Robert Bluford Mrs. Martha L. Brinkley* Ms. Carolyn Chapman Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Chapman Mr. Jamie C. Chapman Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Chapman Covington & Burling LLP Dr. Thomas P. Ditty & Ms. Patricia Schumann The Rev. Dr. Jean H. Henderson Mr. & Mrs. Walter A. Hopwood Mr. & Mrs. Tharon L. Jack Mrs. Jacquelin Q. Jeutter Dr. & Mrs. Andrew H. Johanson Jr. Dr. & Mrs. John P. Martin Dr. & Mrs. Louis E. Mattison The Rev. Pamela A. McCamant Dr. Curtis S. McKee & Dr. Gail H. McKee Mrs. Joyce H. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Moses North Penn Counseling Center Ms. Sarah Ogilvie Dr. Douglas W. Oldenburg Dr. Dorothy F. Roberts Betty & Joe Ruddle/Anchor Aquatics Inc. Mr. & Mrs. David H. Semendinger Mrs. Julia L. Smail Mr. & Mrs. Allan Swanson Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Talbott Jr.
Dr. Barbara Tedford & Mr. Sidney H. Tedford Mr. & Mrs. James E. Wallace Mr. & Mrs. Joe V. Williford Mrs. Karen L. Wilmoth In Memory of Laurence Pierce Ms. Mary Ellen Reedie In Memory of Philip Sloan Powers '38 Mrs. Vada M. Powers* In Memory of Harold N. Repair '50 Mrs. Cecilia Repair In Memory of Robert C. Respess '50 Mrs. Carolyn Respess In Memory of Dr. Daniel Rhodes Mrs. Catherine Adams Starcher In Memory of Ruth Riggs Mr. William H. Sudbrink & Ms. Kathryn L. Howard In Memory of Barbara Pollitz Robinson '49 Mrs. Elizabeth G. Kittle In Memory of George C. Rodgers '29 Dr. George C. Rodgers In Memory of Dr. Thomas R. Ross Anonymous Alumni Mr. & Mrs. John Crile Allen Mrs. Mary W. Ambrose Ann & Bob Baird/Elkins Physical Therapy & Sports Injury Clinic Mrs. Maudaline Montgomery Barnard Ms. Janice Moore Beck Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Bendy Ms. Patricia A. Bennett Mr. Richard T. Berman The Rev. & Mrs. Charles W. Best Mr. David A. Blaszczak Dr. & Mrs. W.W. Branch Jr. Mr. Greg W. Brown Mrs. Janet Burr Mrs. Nancy S. Walker Caparulo Mr. Jay Carr The Hon. Charles N. Clevert Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Colussy Dr. Pauline K. Cushman Dr. Virginia P. Dansby Mr. & Mrs. Craig K. Deemer Dr. & Mrs. Michael F. DiMario Dr. Thomas P. Ditty & Ms. Patricia Schumann Mr. & Mrs. Peter H. Dougherty Mr. & Mrs. D. Drake Dowler Dr. & Mrs. C. Anderson Engh Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Paul F. Estler Mr. & Mrs. Frederick J. Fincken Jr. Mrs. Robin L. Fox Mr. Thomas M. Gill Ms. Rebecca J. Hammer Mr. James W. Hancock III Ms. Christine M. Hanna Mr. & Mrs. Donald Hansen Miss Elizabeth J. Hauck Mr. Stuart Hendler The Hank Henry Family (Virginia & Darlene) Mr. & Mrs. Fred Hickling Ms. Jamie C. Hicks Mr. & Mrs. David Hiester Mr. David R. Hoffman Mr. Stewart M. Homme & Mr. Jeffrey Homme Mr. & Mrs. Walter A. Hopwood Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence B. Hunt
Gifts made in Honor or Memory of Alumni & Friends The Hon. John A. Hutchison Ms. Reba Pfalzgraf Hutton Mr. & Mrs. Tharon L. Jack The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. William T. Jordan Stephen & Jean Jory Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Karlen Kay's Beauty Shop Mr. & Mrs. Davis Lee Kennedy Mrs. Elizabeth G. Kittle Mr. & Mrs. Frederick G. Konhaus Mr. & Mrs. C. Kerr Kump Dr. Lacy Bible Class Mr. Emmett L. Lambert George & Susan Lauderbaugh Mr. Garret K. Lockwood Ms. Vicki Lunde Rodriguez Mr. & Mrs. Clifford E. Marstiller Dr. & Mrs. Louis E. Mattison Dr. Scott McCormick Jr. Dr. & Mrs. R. Andrew Montgomery Ms. June B. Myles Mrs. Peggy Hays Nelson Gary & Helen North/North Arrow LTD Dr. Douglas W. Oldenburg Ms. Joy A. Petersen Mrs. Mabel V. Phares Dr.* & Mrs. William E. Phipps Mr. & Mrs. James R. Pifer Mr. Charles H. Potter II Mr. T. McClellan Pritt II Randolph County Bar Association Mr. & Mrs. John J. Rector Mrs. Margaret L. Rector Joung W. Rhee M. D. Mrs. Maribeth I. Robenolt & Mr. Scott Robenolt Dr. Dorothy F. Roberts Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Ross II Betty & Joe Ruddle/Anchor Aquatics Mr.* & Mrs. W. Miles Runner Mrs. Robin Jo Rybczynski Ms. Judith L. Shelton Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Shepler Mr. Cyrus S. Smith Mr. & Mrs. James W. Spears Mr. Charles C. Stalnaker Mr. James Steen Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Blaine E. Steensland Mrs. Marcella Stevens Mr. William H. Sudbrink & Ms. Kathryn L. Howard Mr. & Mrs. Allan Swanson Joan Taylor & the Gascoigne Family Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Taylor Dr. Barbara Tedford & Mr. Sidney H. Tedford The Rev. & Mrs. Charles N. Thompson Dr. William L. Turner Jr. Dr. James J. Van Gundy & Mrs. Judy V. Van Gundy Mrs. Peggy Wagner Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Wamsley Mrs. Harriett Welshonce Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey C. Welshonce Mrs. Rosalie W. Wilhelm Mrs. Karen L. Wilmoth Mrs. Margaret G. Wilson Dr. Hal D. Zorger & Mrs. Janice Zorger In Memory of Lillian Keeley Rudolph Mr. & Mrs. John Crile Allen
In Memory of W. Miles Runner '59 Mr. Jason Asbell Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Back Mary S. Boyd M. D. Ms. Diane Brady Mrs. Martha L. Brinkley* Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Brown Lt. Col. Michael G. Dakes USAF (Ret) Dr. & Mrs. Michael F. DiMario Ms. Sarah T. Fletcher Karen & Ralph Gambardella Mr. & Mrs. Clark Hathaway Ms. Jackie Hellman Mr. & Mrs. George C. Henrich Mr. & Mrs. Tharon L. Jack Mr. & Mrs. William T. Jordan Mr. & Mrs. David W. Milburn Mr. & Mrs. Jack Pappas Mr. & Mrs. James F. Parker Mr. T. McClellan Pritt II Relay Medical Inc. Taylor Robertson & Family Jan & Sam Runner Dr. Steven S. Shin Mr. D. Terry Shorr Mr. Roy F. Stalnaker Paul & Karen Stirrup Ms. Carol Sue Tyler Mr. G. David Vandenbergh Mrs. Harriett Welshonce Mr. & Mrs. John E. Whitman Mrs. Karen L. Wilmoth Mr. & Mrs. K. Dale Wissman In Memory of Henry A. Rutherford Jr. '31 Mr. & Mrs. David A. Rutherford Mr. & Mrs. Gordon H. Rutherford In Memory of Minnie & Isaac Sabel Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Morehead
Dr. Richard D. Snyder Mrs. Doris Stalnaker Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Talbott Dr. Cosmo J. Vetrone Mr. Richard C. Winterhoff Dr. Mohsen Ziai In Memory of Dr. Harold Teplitz '43 Dr. & Mrs. George L. Colvin In Memory of Helena Thacker Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Wamsley Mrs. Karen L. Wilmoth In Memory of Paul A. Thomas '56 Mr. Clarence F. Crosby Jr. In Memory of Jean Lambert Thompson '48 Mrs. Martha Ann Clark Donley In Memory of Margaret A. & Odin S. Thulander The Hon. O. Alan Thulander In Memory of Dr. William L. Tolstead Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Jarrett In Memory of Myron Tomblyn Mr. & Mrs. John Crile Allen Mr. & Mrs. Philip C. Tomblyn Mrs. Karen L. Wilmoth In Memory of Mrs. Sue Tomblyn Mr. & Mrs. Philip C. Tomblyn Mrs. Karen L. Wilmoth In Memory of Lucy Varchetto '39 Mr. & Mrs. D. Drake Dowler Mr. & Mrs. James A. Heaney Jr. Mr. Richard M. Varchetto In Memory of August Vilseck '59 Mr. Donald R. Strosnider
In Memory of Irl C. Schoonover '30 Mrs. Sue Hoover
In Memory of Charles R. "Chappie" Wagner '52 Mrs. Peggy Wagner
In Memory of Donald H. Slocum '51 Mr. Robert E. Kother
In Memory of Austin J. Ward '27 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. West
In Memory of Alexander L. Stalnaker '39 Mrs. Doris Stalnaker
In Memory of Profesor David E. Warner Mr. Robert E. Kother
In Memory of Howard & Frances Sudbrink Mr. William H. Sudbrink & Ms. Kathryn L. Howard
In Memory of O. Carl Wartenburg '69 Miss Dorothy A. Silbert
In Memory of Dr. S. Benton Talbot Miss Dorothy E. Bartgis Dr. Clarence H. Conner The Rev. Frank A. Davison Mrs. Martha Ann Clark Donley Mrs. Alice L. Gillespie Dr. Gerald Goldstone Mr. Nicholas Hahon Mrs. Doris W. Hall Dr. Walter H. Hasbrouck Mr. & Mrs. Russell D. Isner Jr. Mrs. Doris Dye Kelly Dr. Ralph L. Kendall Mrs. Elizabeth G. Kittle Mr. & Mrs. John J. McKenzie Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Meierdiercks Mrs. Martha S. Mero Mr. & Mrs. Dwain Morgan Dr. & Mrs. John P. Petrali Jr. Ms. Elizabeth H. Rupp Dr. & Mrs. Douglas Shumway Mr. & Mrs. Robert Simpson Jr. Mrs. June Snodgrass Mrs. Irene Burky Snyder
In Memory of Michael S. Webb '06 D&E College Student Nurse's Association Ms. Denice Reese & Mr. John Warner In Memory of James R. Welshonce Mr. Frank W. Disharoon Jr. In Memory of Paul Wilcox '59 Mr. Jim B. Lloyd In Memory of Harry R. Wilmoth '48 Mrs. Hilda L. Wilmoth In Memory of David Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Bill Meier In Memory of James L. Wilson '52 Mrs. Margaret G. Wilson In Memory of William D. Yount '51 Mrs. Monna Fae Yount In Memory of Michael A. Zebuhr '05 Mr. & Mrs. Kent C. Walker
Senators Booster Club The mission of the Senators Booster Club is to provide both moral and financial support for intercollegiate athletics at Davis & Elkins College. Membership is open to students, parents, alumni, faculty, staff, community and friends of Senators Athletics. Director's Level ($1,000+) Mr. & Mrs. John Crile Allen Mr. James O. Bushyeager Ms. Cat Cole Ms. Melissa H. Luce Ms. Deborah Madden Mr. Reginald Owens Mr. William S. Robbins Paul & Karen Stirrup
Coach's Level ($500-$999) James & Kristina Bacca Bob & Ann Baird/Elkins Physical Therapy & Sports Injury Clinic Dr. & Mrs. Peter Dillon Dr. & Mrs. L. Gregory Myers Mr. & Mrs. Eric J. Nilsen Mr. Donald R. Strosnider
Captain's Level ($100-$499) Mr. Martin D. Allen Ms. Karen H. Berner Mr. & Mrs. James Bialek Mr. & Mrs. William J. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Carr Dr. Thomas Chadwick Lt. Col. Michael G. Dakes USAF (Ret) Mr. James Dearien Dr. Mary Ann DeLuca Dr. Wally Edgell Mr. James G. Flatt Mr. Donald E. Fowler Mr. Kenneth D. Gibson Mr. & Mrs. John H. Harling Mr. & Mrs. T. Richard Harvey Mr. Gary Horvath Mr. & Mrs. Russell Howell Mr. & Mrs. Tharon L. Jack Ms. Vicki Lunde Rodriguez Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Marshall Mr. Stephen R. Matlack Ms. Phyllis A. Meals Mr. William A. Miers Jr. Mr. Anthony G. Mumblow Mrs. Diane L. Noel Mr. Robert T. Paul Mrs. Maribeth I. Robenolt & Mr. Scott Robenolt Mr. Donald M. Robbins & Ms. Elizabeth J. Clarke-Robbins Dr. Thomas R. Ross* The Hon. Mike Ross Mr. W. Miles Runner* Joni & Buck Smith Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Tarbett Mr. & Mrs. Richard B. Walden Mr. Keith C. Weese
Mr. & Mrs. John E. Whitman Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Peter Zurbuch
Starter's Level ($10-$99) Mr. Jason Asbell Mrs. Dawn E. Brandstrom Mr. Samuel John Calvert Mr. & Mrs. Donald L. Corbin Ms. Lora Cruz Mr. & Mrs. William F. Frantz Jr. Mr. & Mrs. R. Christopher Gow Mr. Kylee L. Griffith Mr. James W. Hancock III Mr. Steven M. Harvey Mr. & Mrs. Nils A. Heinke Mr. Tyler R. Hern Miss Charlotte Hinkle Ms. Emilie R. Humes Mrs. Betty L. Intemann Mr. & Mrs. John L. Kirkpatrick Mr. & Mrs. Raymond K. LaMora Jr. Mr. John A. Little Mr. & Mrs. Clifford E. Marstiller Mrs. Melissa McCoy Mr. William E. McEldowney Mrs. Susan B. McGuire Mr. & Mrs. Dwain Morgan Mr. John W. Moser* Ms. Angeline R. Nanni Mr. John O'Toole & Ms. Linda Jackson Mr. Gene Ochsendorf Mrs. Peace Okoya Mr. Raul Ovalle Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Palmer III Mr. Frank J. Porter Mr. Blake L. Rogers Mr. Scott H. Sanders Mrs. Rebecca H. Severino Mr. Robert L. Shaw Mr. & Mrs. William Shaw Mr. Donald E. Spahr Mr. Wayne E. Startt Mr. & Mrs. Allan Swanson Mr. Andrew C. Thommen Mr. & Mrs. Stephen E. Wamsley Mr. William J. West Mr. Leonard B. Whiting Mrs. Karen L. Wilmoth
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Friends of Augusta The Augusta Heritage Center preserves and shares the best in traditional music, dance, and art from Appalachia and around the world through workshops, performances, festivals, and recordings. Augusta is 85% self-sustaining through revenue generated by workshops, concerts, and production of traditional recordings. Thus support through annual gifts, grants, and endowment plays a vital role in sustaining and enhancing the internationally known program. Annual Gifts Anonymous Friends Mr. James G. Allen Mr. Eric J. Anderson Clair J. Andreas Dr. Ellen M. Andrews George T. Bachmann Ms. Madalyn Benjamin Mr. Roger S. Benjamin Ms. Deborah A. Bennett Mr. & Mrs. James L. Berry Mr. William J. Blackley Donald Blanford M.D. Ms. Margo Blevin Denton & Mr. David A. Denton Bluegrass Preservation Society Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bowers Mr. Edward V. Bowes Mr. Jonathan L. Brandt Ms. Emily B. Branscome Ms. Patricia Brienesse & Mr. Gerrit Brienesse Mr. Fletcher Bright Builders Group Inc. Jerry & Jennifer Burke Ms. Pamela Byrne & Mr. John E. Huerta Mr. Robert W. Chamberlin Mr. Michael J. Clark Ms. Melanie Climis Mr. Lawrence Cohen Ms. Catherine Collins Mr. Brian Conaway Ms. Nancy H. Cooke Ms. Dawn R. Corder Mark & Jodi Crable Ms. Heather B. Cunningham Ms. Pam Curry
Mr. Daniel J. Curtin Estate of Carla Daruda Ms. Sandra Jo Davis Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy DeAngelo Mr. & Mrs. Louis Deangelo Ms. Carol Denney Ms. Lillian DePuglio Mr. & Mrs. Grant D. Dermody Dominion Foundation Mr. Robert A. Donaldson Mr. Graham Draughon Ms. Laren Droll Mrs. Santina D. Duritt Ms. Karen Eckhart Mr. & Mrs. Richard Eckstein, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Eckstein, Mrs. Loretta Eckstein Ms. Kim L. Eddinger Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Fund Inc. Richard & Judith Ellis Ms. Judy A. Evans Ms. Sabra A. Everett Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Fernands Mr. Joseph M. Fleischauer Mr. Joseph P. Focarile Mr. Bob Folkert Mr. David Fredin Mr. Joe Gibson Mr. Paul Gilman Jennings Gilpin Mr. Jefferson C. Glassie & Ms. Julie Littell Ms. Linda C. Goodman Ms. Ellen Gozion Mr. Michael E. Grace Mr. Christopher T. Haas Mr. Robert P. Hale Cliff Hall
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Ms. Cindy Harris Mr. F. Richard Heath Ms. Linda L. Henry & Mr. John Henry Dr. & Mrs. Martin Hickey Ms. Karen Hillmer Mr. & Mrs. Brian D. Hirst Ms. Lena Hittelman Ms. Sandra Hofferth John & Donna Hopkins Ms. Alice C. Hurwitz Ms. Marie Iseicz Mr. Daniel Kauffman Ms. Deborah J. Kauffmann Mr. Robert K. Kelly Joseph & Kim Kengor Mr. R. Richard King Ms. Lynda Klebold Ms. Patricia E. Kleckner Mr. Martin F. Kohn Ms. Marcijane Kraft Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Kuiper Mr. Keith Lahti Mr. James Lande Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lasser Ms. Eileen Leahy & Mr. Charles Bean Mr. William Leebel Ms. Marilyn R. Leung Ms. Heather Livingston Mr. Brian Lockman & Mrs. Nancy Karrvois Lockman Mr. Felix Lockman Mr. Eugene N. Losey & Ms. Sarah Ott Ms. Margaret R. Loyd Mr. Peter Lucas Erynn Marshall Grace & Richard Mason Ms. Joyce Mason Ms. June Maugery Ms. Anne McCabe Ms. Mary Kay McCaw Mr. & Mrs. Richard McClane Mr. Lawrence R. McCoy Jr. Ms. Stacy L. McKean Ms. Jacqueline A. Merritt Mr. Harold Messenger III Ms. Sharon L. Meyer Mr. Ronald Miller Terry L. Miller Mr. Kenneth Moe Mr. & Mrs. Lyle Moe Ms. Suzanne Moe Ms. Karyn L. Molines Ms. Eugenia E. Moore Mr. Howard Moss Mr. Nicholas Munger New Hanover Township School Staff Mr. John Newsome
Ms. Deb Nickell Mr. Robert T. Nordmann & Mrs. Rochelle Bloch-Nordmann Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Northey Mr. George T. O'Brien Jr. Nerses Ohanian Mr. Cecil S. O'Neal Ms. Florette R. Orleans Mr. Pedro Ottaviano Mr. David C. Parman Ms. Joanna Patti-Jaworski Mr. Robert C. Paulus The Hon. & Mrs. Roger L. Perry Ms. Linda Prager Mr. Andrew Puckett Dave & Karen Puffett Ms. Patrica Quinn Mr. George Radcliff Mr. Edward Ramsaur Mr. Marvin S. Reitz & Mrs. Kathy W. Reitz Ms. Carmen Rexrode Ms. Dorothy L. Riddle Mr. & Mrs. David Joseph Rivera Ms. Pamela Walker Roberts Ms. Amy D. Rockhill Dr. Bret A. Rosenblum & Ms. Susan Rogers Mr. & Mrs. John Rossbach Mr. Ray Rossell Mr. & Mrs. Gregory J. Santacroce Mr. David J. Savage & Mrs. Judith H. Savage Mr. Richard Savignano Mr. Brian E. Schentag Mr. & Mrs. William Craig Sease Mr. Kenneth W. Seaver III Ms. Anne Sergeant Peter Shaw Ms. Linda Shearer Ms. Sarah Shirk Mr. Joseph E. Sickles II Ms. Julie L. Siegel Mr. Bob Smakula Ms. Victoria Smedley Mr. Steven J. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Timothy B. Smith Ms. Deanna Snapp Mr. Douglas Snapp Ms. Rebecca L. Snead Mr. & Mrs. James Sonday Mr. Kevin Sontheimer Mr. Barry Speyer Ms. Mary F. Starbuck Ms. Amy L. Stivers Ms. Lydia J. Stivers-Young Ms. Stephanie Stullich & Mr. Bob Schnabel Mr. Ralph P. Suechting Ms. Barbara Svoboda Mr. Harvey A. Swadlow Ms. Alice A. Talmadge Ms. Maureen Terman Mr. Tim Terman Mr. Robert R. Thompson Dr. James J. Van Gundy & Mrs. Judy V. Van Gundy Mr. John N. Verdi Mr. & Mrs. Peter Voorhees
Ms. Ellen H. Wakefield Mr. Matthew E. Watson Mr. Willis Werter Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. West Ms. Nancy Weston Ms. Heidi Wettlaufer Mr. Rod Whitacre Mr. & Mrs. John P. Wilcox Mr. James L. Wilson Ms. Julia R. Winterbottom Mr. Carl S. Zebooker
State & Federal Agencies Gifts were received from the following state and federal agencies to support the programs of the Augusta Heritage Center. National Endowment for the Arts West Virginia Development Office West Virginia Division of Culture & History West Virginia Humanities Council West Virginia Parkways Economic Dev. & Tourism Authority
Current Funds Gifts to the Augusta Heritage Center current funds provide annual scholarship and program support. Augusta Annual Fund Augusta Apprentice Program Augusta Folk Life Programming Fund Augusta Home Place Fund Augusta Youth Scholarships Fredin Augusta Youth Fiddle Scholarship Mary Beth Hermanson Memorial Fund Margaret Kump Roberts Fund Candace Laird Scholarship for Weavers Patty Looman Scholarship Mike McQuade Scholarship
Endowed Funds Endowed funds which are invested to produce income and capital growth provide for the present and future needs of Augusta Programs. Freyda Epstein Memorial Scholarship Fund Christine Walker Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Future Endowed Funds The following funds have been established and will be endowed when they reach a minimum funding level of $10,000 and when guidelines for administration are established. Augusta Carla Daruda Blues Education Fund Augusta Mick Moloney Irish Week Scholarship Margo Blevin Endowment
Honor Roll of Volunteers The Davis & Elkins College community is enriched in countless ways by the many individuals who volunteer their time and talent to serve on boards and committees, plan reunions and events, work on special projects and seek financial support for the College. The following people assisted the College as volunteers during 2009-2010.
A/PART
The Alumni/Parent Admissions Recruitment Team (A/PART) is a volunteer program coordinated by the admissions and alumni offices to assist D&E Admissions Counselors in the recruitment efforts of the College. The following A/PART volunteers assisted the College during 2009-2010. Mr. David A. Blaszczak '74 Ms. Carolyn C. Chlada '00 Ms. Nancy Evans-Bennett '66 Mr. Stuart Hendler '57 Mr. Charles H. Potter II '68 Ms. Vicki Lunde Rodriquez '78 Mrs. Robin Jo White Rybczynski '86 Mr. Timothy H. Smith '73
National Alumni Council 2010-2011
The National Alumni Council seeks to engage alumni of Davis & Elkins College in developing an active program of alumni support for the mission of the College. Mr. Robert N. Beckwith '67 Ms. Patricia A. Bennett '85 Mr. Richard T. Berman '75 Mr. David A. Blaszczak '74 Mr. Greg W. Brown '81 Ms. Carolynn C. Chlada '00 Mr. George R. Cline '73 Ms. Laura A. Constantine '81 Mr. H. Flint Engleman II '90 Mrs. Catherine N. Garnett Engleman '92 Mr. Jeremy A. Golston '04
Mr. James W. Hancock III '70 Ms. Christine M. Hanna '04 Mrs. J. Renee Heckel '94 Ms. Jamie Cecile Hicks '02 Mr. Lawrence B. Hunt '67 Mr. Tharon L. Jack '61 Mr. Cornelius E. Keenan '92 Mrs. Elizabeth G. Guye Kittle '47, Honorary Lifetime Member Mr. Jeffrey F. Krizan '73 Mrs. Susan Beekman LaMora '73 Ms. Vicki Lunde Rodriguez '78, Vice-President Mr. Clifford E. Marstiller '80 Mrs. Eileen M. Eschbach Monastersky '80 Mrs. Rachel Halperin Montgomery '91 Mrs. Susan Quick Nilsen '83 Mr. Charles H. Potter II '68 Mrs. Maribeth I. Headley Robenolt '82, Secretary Mrs. Robin Jo White Rybczynski '86 Dr. Blaine E. Steensland '72, President Mrs. Janet Slaugenhaupt Toth '93 Dr. William L. Turner Jr. '72, Financial Officer Catherine Wilkinson Zahn '81
Regional Alumni Chapter Coordinators Ms. Laura A. Constantine '81, Greater New York Chapter Lconstantine@PIRNIE.com Mr. H. Flint Engleman II '90, President, Virginia Chapter
The Office of College Advancement Staff Patricia J. Schumann Vice President for College Advancement (304) 637-1340 schumannp@dewv.edu
Mr. Gary Horvath '62, Vice President Dr. William L. Turner, Jr., '72, Administrative Controller webmaster@vachapter davisandelkins.edu Mr. A. Patrick Gray '99, Delaware Alumni Chapter apatrickgray@yahoo.com Mrs. Larisa Draeger Swartz '00, California Bay Area Regional Alumni Chapter larisa.swartz@fmc-na.com
Reunion Coordinators/ Event Hosts Mr. A. Bryant Applegate '77 Mrs. Elizabeth Branch '61 Ms. Kathryn T. Bright '06 Col. Peter T. Brown USAF (Ret) '69 Mrs. Judith Cramer '64 Mr. Otis H. Cutshaw III '97 Ms. Michele D. DeBerry '88 Dr. Michael F. DiMario '60 Mr. Peter H. Dougherty '75 Mr. D. Drake Dowler '69 Mr. Alexander A. Edwards '88 Mr. H. Flint Engleman II '90 Mrs. Lisa B. Etter '79 Ms. Kara L. Fox '00 The Rev. Dr. Ruth H. Gnagey '59 Mr. A. Patrick Gray '99 Mr. James A. Heaney Jr. '69 Mr. Thomas E. Heller II '84 The Rev. Richard L. Huggins '60 Mr. Philip S. Inglee '59 Dr. Jack C. McDonald '60 Dr. Frank M. Mele '58
Dr. George P. Morgan Jr. '61 Mrs. Susan L. Mullens '90 Mr. Robert J. Murphy III '79 Ms. Gena Norwood '88 Ms. Mary E. Owens '74 Mr. Thomas R. Revell '69 Mr. Paul S. Stirrup '60 Mr. Donald R. Strosnider '60 Mr. Raymond VanArsdale Jr. '80 Mr. Jonathan H. Walter '94 Mr. Barry G. Young '89
Additional Volunteers Ms. Beth A. Adams '06 Mr. and Mrs. John Crile Allen Mr. Brian D. Ball '84 Mr. James Benner Ms. Joscelyn Broschart Ms. Maggie Carney Ms. Faye Channell Lt. Col. Michael G. Dakes USAF (Ret) '59 Mrs. Catherine N. Engleman '92 Ms. Joan Fenton Mr. Sean P. Gallagher '99 Mr. Donald D. Goff Ms. Dixie G. Gutmann '79 Ms. Jean E. Hashagen '79 Mr. Randall Lee Hill '78 Ms. Shana Horrigan Mr. Ken Irwin Mr. Jim Keenan Mrs. Denise Kramer '78 Mr. Richard A. Marzolf '79 Mrs. Amanda Y. Monroe '02 Mrs. Pat Nestor Mr. Rob Orr Mr. Ashton Phares Mrs. Beth W. Phillips '77 Ms. Emily Prentice
Mr. Marvin S. Reitz & Mrs. Kathy W. Reitz Dr. and Mrs. Edward Rhudy Ms. Kelly Roidt Ms. Mary Ellen Smith Mrs. Samantha Smith '95 Mrs. Jerri Snyder Mr. & Mrs. James W. Spears Mrs. Cary Sponaugle Mr. Robert M. Stewart '99 Mr. and Mrs. Allan Swanson Mr. Berry Taylor Mrs. Mary T Thacker Ms. Katie Tipton Mr. and Mrs. Randall N. Underwood Mr. Timothy Valentine Mrs. Judy V. Van Gundy Mr. Raymond VanArsdale Jr. '80 Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Wamsley Mr. Adam M. Williams '10 Mr. Flawn Williams Mrs. Jinni L. Williams '90 Dr. Daniel M. Woodworth '64 Mrs. Susan Lloyd Woodworth '65 Ms. Joyce Workman Mr. Shane T. Yeager '06
David M. Sneed
Karen L. Wilmoth, '83
Wendy Morgan
Special Counsel to the President (304) 637-1339 sneedd@dewv.edu
Director of Advancement Operations & Stewardship (304) 637-1374 wilmothk@dewv.edu
Coordinator of Alumni Relations (304) 637-1341 morganw@dewv.edu
Carol Schuler
Lisa Senic, '90 & '03
Melody Loudin
Director of Communications & Marketing (304) 637-1338 schulerc@dewv.edu
Coordinator of Parent Relations and Special Projects (304) 637-1240 senicl@dewv.edu
Office Assistant (304) 637-1354 loudinm@dewv.edu
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T
he individuals listed below include members of the D&E family whose passing we have learned about within the last six months. Although some left us years ago, we wanted to remember them here on behalf of all alumni and friends of Davis & Elkins College. 1912 Neil L. Wilson, unknown date of death 1913 Ivy L. Taylor, unknown date of death 1917 Clara G. Hiner, September 1, 1966 1918 Rachel L. Wishart, July 1, 1976 1918 Ella Wood, unknown date of death 1921 Vera K. Keim Lawson, February 1, 1993 1921 Naomi W. Thorne Wallin, April 1, 1984 1923 Willa B. Tyree, June 1, 1976 1925 Edgar H. Coberly, February 3, 1994 1929 Willis H. Hertig, October 2, 1995 1930 Dorothy E. Isner Chapman, January 1, 1993 1930 V. Ruth Summers Douglas, October 18, 2001 1930 Walter B. "Byron" Woods, January 6, 1999 1931 Ruth Alderton, August 11, 1990 1931 Charles L. Fields, February 2, 2004 1931 Hubert W. "Wayne" Powers, February 6, 2010 1931 Madeline Robinson Squyres, December 28, 1988 1931 Mary Elizabeth Wamsley Wilson, December 7, 1995 1932 Louise Lucas Abernethy, November 1, 1988 1932 Aleen W. Talbott Channel, August 1, 1980 1932 Robert A. Markley, July 7, 1990 1933 Zack G. Laney, November 1, 1982 1933 Pearl Blankenship Wilmoth, April 9, 2001 1934 Margaret C. Baker, April 29, 1996 1934 S. Margaret Jeffers Feather, April 7, 1997 1934 Marvin J. Kapp, December 13, 1998 1934 Ella V. Hockenberry Shattuck, February 1, 1975 1935 Madge T. Tolbard Dunbar, January 1, 1985 1935 Margaret R. Kump Roberts, July 1, 1992 1935 Loetta Harris Waugh, April 8, 1998 1936 Joseph B. Burke, June 19, 2003 1936 C. B. Fink, unknown date of death 1936 George J. Goldberg, December 1, 1982 1936 Kathleen Phares, unknown date of death 1937 Mary J. Cross Armstrong, February 7, 1995 1937 Delton R. Bonner, April 23, 2001 1937 William L. Harshbarger, unknown date of death 1937 Nana R. Hinkle, September 9, 1988 1937 John P. McNeel, March 9, 2009 1937 Myrtle A. Phares, June 27, 1988 1937 Verdie Phares, January 20, 1990 1937 Mabel B. Brandenburg Robinson, June 21, 1996 1938 Mildred Knaggs Berzito, February 3, 1999 1938 Rosemary Reynolds Chapline, July 26, 2005 1938 Jean M. Morrison Quick, April 1, 1995 1939 Elsie F. "Frances" King Hoffman, December 29, 1989 1939 Roberta J. Fidler Miller, July 17, 2000 1940 Ruby L. Dahmer Booth, July 6, 2008 1940 Joe Dowler, December 1, 1974 1940 Theodora A. "Teddie" Ashby Tomson, March 26, 2010
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1942 Arden L. Brock, June 30, 2007 1942 Louis P. Cappola, January 27, 2000 1942 Robert B. Isner, December 29, 2005 1942 Sally C. Pinto Kraft, May 16, 2005 1943 Hazel W. Landis Conklin, December 23, 2009 1944 Clio C. Henderson, August 4, 1995 1945 Edith C. Campolio Neal, July 16, 2006 1946 Pauline R. Goff Harris, February 1, 1995 1947 Richard B. Harrison, December 17, 2007 1947 John A. Siedhoff, July 20, 2001 1947 Oliver H. Wratchford, March 1, 1986 1948 Carl S.Auvil, December 22, 2007 1948 C. Doyle Kester, July, 2008 1948 Arden M. Reynolds, June 9, 2006 1948 William H. Sellers, September 25, 1990 1948 Iris J. Lambert Thompson, April 28, 2008 1948 A. Jack Wilfong, July 20, 2000 1949 Barbara J. Hamilton Andres, January 19, 2005 1949 Eleanor L. McQuain Chenoweth, February 26, 2010 1949 Warren A. Friend, September 21, 2002 1949 Dale E. Jordan, September 1, 1981 1949 Ruth R. DeJunis Ninesling, June 2, 2005 1949 George D. "Red" Stalnaker, December 30, 2009 1949 James O. Yount, February 5, 2009 1950 Woodrow W. Bodkin, December 3, 2004 1950 Gail W. Busch, January 21, 1988 1950 Iden K. Core, October 25, 1991 1950 Mary Lou Beatty Foote, February 19, 2000 1950 Richard W. Foote, January 4, 1997 1950 Walter A. Gudz, June 20, 2007 1950 Enid E. Harper, January 1, 1989 1950 Robert L. Hinchman, July 27, 1991 1950 Ben H. Hiner, September 4, 1982 1950 William D. McLean, November 19, 2009 1950 Matilda J. Compolio Monto, September 24, 2003 1951 George E. Auvil, December 1, 1979 1951 Wilbourne G. "Tex" Blake, February 8, 2010 1951 Joseph M. Catala, July 1, 1985 1951 James H. Cummings, January 8, 2010 1951 Robert C. Donaldson, January 11, 2010 1951 Violet B. Long Goss, March 28, 1990 1951 Charles A. Graeb, September 7, 2009 1951 Richard P. Hayes, September 29, 2003 1951 William M. Hillyard, March 1, 1978 1951 Snoden E. "Kenneth" Hinkle, May 18, 2006 1951 Evelyn P. Hill Marcinkowey, September 27, 1996 1951 Clarence A. Quirk, February 5, 1996 1951 Bert P. Robinson, June 24, 1992 1951 Josephine A. Tucci Roth, January 28, 2010 1951 Lucius H. Stephenson, October 5, 2009
1951 Thomas M. Stover, December 1, 2004 1951 Nathaniel B. Underwood, November 2, 2009 1952 A. Thomas Babad, March 16, 1999 1952 Keith A. Brockmann, August 9, 2004 1952 Deloris Gibson Buxton, December 26, 2009 1952 Douglas J. Calder, February 24, 1994 1952 Mazie E. Lewis Caplinger, April 17, 2010 1952 Rogers C. Engle, March 10, 2010 1952 John A. Gennantonio, May 2, 2009 1952 Anthony Pizzoferrato, December 24, 2009 1952 Frances Klauber Rappaport, April 18, 2001 1952 Maurice G. Scott, April 25, 2002 1952 Daniel W. Scully, March 2, 1988 1952 Dolores Graden Wray, August 2, 2001 1953 Enid H. Harper Crickard, November 5, 2007 1953 Glenna C. Shaffer Gribble, November 1, 1981 1953 Roscoe C. Harris, September 15, 1995 1953 Albert M. Hawley, Jr., May 19, 2003 1953 William R. Heckel, December 21, 2002 1953 Nell T. McVicker, January 13, 1997 1953 Edward A. Mowton, January 15, 1990 1953 Bernice Seitz Schoonover, October 11, 1994 1953 Panteleymon Shohov, January 4, 2010 1954 J. Robert Butler, December 5, 2002 1954 Allen Feingersch, July 1, 1997 1954 Richard D. Griffith, August 24, 2007 1954 David J. Heron, April 16, 2007 1954 William P. Herzog, March 25, 2005 1954 Ronald L. Hockman, September 29, 1988 1954 John F. Kelly, January 22, 2010 1954 Clyde C. Kyle, March 27, 2000 1954 Edward J. "Jay" Moran, September 17, 2001 1954 Fred M. Wilmoth, February 16, 1999 1955 Harold W. Cross, April 24, 1999 1955 Conrad Heckmann, January 30, 2003 1955 Warren G. Herron, December 9, 2006 1955 James W. Humphreys, August 1, 1981 1956 William R. Hutchison, January 30, 2009 1956 Bruce R. Ihle, December 15, 1988 1956 Herbert J. Kresser Jr., August 6, 2010 1957 Philip E. Harr, September 1, 2008 1957 Clarence R. Harrison, January 15, 1989 1958 Robert E. Girtanner, February 10, 1999 1958 Martin A. Grassgreen, April 12, 2008 1958 Lester R. Grove, May 7, 2010 1958 Mary Kathryn Shumaker Johnson, October 6, 2009 1959 Kenneth J. Andersen, February 27, 2010 1959 Mary E. "Ellen" Flint Dolly, October 6, 2009
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1959 Diego Hennessey, June 17, 1997 1959 W. Miles Runner, April 23, 2010 1960 Sarah S. Stephens Dunkle, December 25, 1997 1960 Robert W. Hulsen, February 11, 2010 1961 Charles P. Howell, August 9, 2003 1961 Barbara L. Trickett Reynolds, unknown date of death 1964 William A. Jones, December 17, 2009 1964 Robert D. Miningham, April 15, 2010 1964 Phillip W. Musick, January 5, 2010 1964 Allen R. Van Horne, April 10, 2010 1968 Richard R. Lapen, January 1, 1986 1968 Susan J. McMillen, November 1, 2008 1968 Craig Mertz, December 1, 1979 1968 Charles E. Miller, unknown date of death 1970 Joseph C. Barnes, July 17, 1994 1971 Donna M. Fisher Adams, May 15, 2010
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1974 Hal R. Blankenship, September 1, 2007 1974 Alfred R. Chamberlain, October 1, 1992 1975 Peter M. Casola, February 25, 2002 1975 Michael C. Christian, November 4, 1996 1975 James H. Crane, March 24, 1999 1975 Karl T. Hohing, August 25, 2000 1975 Todd T. Jackson, January 31, 1995 1978 Denise A. Harrell, October 15, 1990 1978 Rodney A. Taylor, March 26, 2010 1979 Betty M. Weekley, December 30, 2009 1980 Mary A. Leach Mulligan, July 10, 2008 1981 Martha Lou Caplinger Brinkley, August 5, 2010 1984 Timothy D. Richard, December 11, 2009 1986 Carolyn Tackett Carder, January 13, 1998 1993 David K. Schollenberger, November 20, 2009 1997 Melanie N. Miller, February 6, 2010
1999 Derek M. Benham, February 28, 2010 2002 Nicholas R. Haynes, March 14, 2010 2006 Donna L. McFalls, January 18, 2010 Margaret Reitz Bowers, January 25, 1990 Former Student Geraldine Pitzer Brown, January 10, 2010 Former Student Vada M. Gear Powers, May 2, 2010 Former Student Donald B. Swecker, February 3, 2010 Former Student Mary L. Shimer Jones, March 19, 2010 Former Trustee Vallie Goff, February 2, 2010 Former Employee William E. Phipps, March 2, 2010 Former Professor
Dr. William Eugene Phipps
Dr. William Eugene Phipps, 80, author and professor emeritus of religion and philosophy at Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, died Tuesday, March 2, 2010, at his home in Richmond, Va. He was born Jan. 28, 1930, in Waynesboro, Va., son of the late Rev. Charles H. Phipps and Ruth Patterson LaVelle Phipps. He graduated from Waynesboro High School in 1946, and earned the bachelor's degree in physics from Davidson College. In 1952, he received the master of divinity from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, and was ordained into the ministry by Lexington Presbytery. In 1954, he was awarded the Ph.D. in Biblical criticism from St. Andrews University in Scotland. On Dec. 21, 1954, he married Martha Ann Swezey of Waynesboro, Va. From 1954 to 1956, Dr. Phipps was professor of Bible at Peace College in Raleigh, N.C. From 1956 until his retirement in 1995, he was professor of religion and philosophy and department chair at Davis & Elkins College. On a sabbatical in 1962-1963, he earned a master in philosophy at the University of Hawaii.
On subsequent sabbaticals and throughout his retirement, he wrote numerous books and articles, including: "Was Jesus Married?," "Influential Theologians on Wo/Man," "Death: Confronting the Reality," "Genesis and Gender: Biblical Myths of Sexuality and Their Cultural Impact," "Cremation Concerns," "Assertive Biblical Women," "Wisdom and Wit of Rabbi Jesus," "Muhammad and Jesus," "William Sheppard: Congo's African-American Livingstone," "Darwin's Religious Odyssey," "Mark Twain's Religion," "Amazing Grace in John Newton," "Clerical Celibacy: The Heritage," "Supernaturalism in Christianity," and "Ginter Park Presbyterian Church: the First Hundred Years." Another book, "The Apostles' Creed Critically Examined," will be published later this year. Upon his retirement, alumni of Davis & Elkins College and friends honored Phipps by establishing a lectureship in his name. Accomplished scholars from a variety of backgrounds are brought to campus each year to encourage students to inquire more deeply into religious faith and philosophical values, to discover relationships between religion and other academic disciplines, and to set higher standards for personal religious commitment and intellectual achievement.
Dr. William Phipps in front of a D&E classroom during the 2005 Phipps Lectureship. Always active in the life of the College and an inspired thinker, Dr. Phipps last visited the campus in November.
Dr. Phipps had an unceasing interest in extended family and in maintaining long-term relationships with students and colleagues. He was a dedicated scholar, church member, and prodigious writer, exploring new topics in religion throughout his travels, research, and writing. He was a minister member of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia, and formerly of Davis Memorial Presbyterian Church in Elkins, West Virginia. Memorial, contributions may be made to Davis & Elkins College, 100 Campus Drive, Elkins, W.Va. 26241. In Memoriam | 49
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