I naM emoriam 1934 Chester A. Insko 6/28/12 • Chapel Hill, NC
1938 Leland Bland 8/21/12 • Bagdad, KY James A. Stevens 7/9/12 • Sarasota, FL
1939 Dorothy F. Rudy née Green 9/18/12 • Noblesville, IN
1946 James M. Collier 9/3/12 • Elizabethtown, KY
1947 Yvonne Shipman née Hubbard 6/27/12 • Clarksville, IN
1948 Joseph Benedict 6/3/12 • Atlanta, GA James W. Ray 6/19/12 • Louisville, KY
1949 Edna M. Knight née Marks 9/10/12 • Harrodsburg, KY
Bryant A. Bloss 9/30/12 • Newburgh, IN
M. G. Howell 10/31/12 • Henderson, KY
R. E. Pittman 5/19/12 • Lexington, KY
1955
Harold G. Hurst 5/20/12 • Lexington, KY
Dwayne A. Ruth 10/17/12 • Georgetown, KY
Jo A. McCaslin née Robertson 8/26/12 • Princeton, KY
Shirley Jeffares née Clifton 8/24/12 • Lexington, KY
Raymond O. Sommers 8/23/12 • Louisville, KY
Helen S. Kirtley 6/4/12 • Johnson City, TN
Ruthe B. Sphar 7/24/12 • Winchester, KY
Adelaide McManus 5/22/12 • Fort Thomas, KY
Linda F. Williamson 7/17/12 • Sadieville, KY
1961 David W. Mullen 5/26/12 • Moneta, VA
1962 Ronald C. Burkhart 7/12/12 • Daphne, AL
1963 Barbara L. Jacobs née Dugan 6/6/12 • Lexington, KY Thomas W. Westerfield 9/11/12 • Crofton, KY
1966 Phyllis T. Cooksey née Tandy 7/31/12 • Louisville, KY
1968 George A. Luttrell 7/3/12 • Liberty, KY
1969 Jullienne G. Keightley née Gist 9/11/12 • Louisville, KY
Walter R. Shettler 9/28/12 • Erlanger, KY
1972
1950
David M. McMurtry 5/18/12 • Lexington, KY
Carroll P. Callender 7/5/12 • Owensboro, KY
1974
Robert D. Thompson 5/23/12 • Burgin, KY
Richard D. Edwards 6/24/12 • Brooklyn, NY
1951
1979
Hannible E. Foley 5/31/12 • Mount Washington, KY
Gregg M. Macmann 6/8/12 • New Lebanon, OH
1953
1981
Rolfe W. Dorsey 5/21/12 • Louisville, KY
William C. Hanshaw 10/29/12 • Olive Hill, KY
Doris C. Kemper née Smith 7/12/12 • Owenton, KY
2009
John T. Thompson 6/7/12 • Nicholasville, KY
Allen L. McCowan 6/7/12 • Lavington, NSW
1954
Friends of GC
C. F. Dykins 7/24/12 • Plainfield, IN
Virginia W. Cotton 7/1/12 • Cincinnati, OH
Note: The word née after a married woman’s name is followed by her maiden name.
Jim Collier, Former GC Trustee and Philanthropist, Passes Away Jim Collier, attorney, scholar, philanthropist, and former Georgetown College trustee, passed away September 3, 2012. Born in Crab Orchard, KY, Mr. Collier was a World War II veteran. He earned undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Kentucky and completed masters and doctoral degrees at Rutgers University. He taught at Georgetown before serving on the law school faculties of Baylor and Mercer universities. Mr. Collier began practicing law in Elizabethtown in 1957. He became a partner in Collier, Arnett, Quick, and Coleman, a law firm dating back to the 1890s. Mr. Collier was the son of the late James Melvin Collier, Sr. and Lula Jones Collier. His mother was a housemother at Georgetown for a number of years. In 1985, Mr. Collier established a scholarship in memory of his father for students from the Crab Orchard area. Collier Hall, a men’s dormitory in Georgetown’s Mills Residence Park was named in memory of Mr. Collier’s mother. Through the years, Mr. Collier continued to provide funds for scholarships and convocation ceremonies, including the Collier Lecture Series, at Georgetown College. Mr. Collier was a leader in the college’s Decade of Progress Capital Campaign in the 1970s. He was named GC’s Philanthropist of the Year in 1997. Jim Collier’s three children, Dr. James Collier, III, Sarah Pitney, and Susan Collier are all GC graduates.
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