ALUMNI & FRIENDS
Classnotes HITTING THE ROAD These past few months President Baxter and college leaders have been connecting with alumni in a series of hometown get-togethers. Thanks for the welcome! If we missed you, a few events remain. (Check out the dates below.) And if we can’t meet face-to-face, send a message with your latest news to alumni@lagrange. edu. There’s nothing better than catching up on what great things you’ve been up to. —MARTHA PIRKLE DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS Rome: Thursday, April 11, 5:30 p.m. – home of Joe M’20 and Rebekah Montgomery Marietta: Tuesday, April 30, 5:30 p.m. – Glover Park Brewery Carrollton: Thursday, May 16, 5:30 p.m. – Local Ties Brewery Athens: Wednesday, June 12, 5:30 p.m. – Bitty & Beau's Coffee Shop
1950s
1957 Sylvia Cook Odum of Blackshear remains active in the sewing group The Piecemakers, which provides lap robes, bibs, etc., for nursing homes.
1960s
1966 Stacy S. Storer Jr. of Douglasville is retired from the Georgia Power Company. He has been enjoying traveling and helping raise his granddaughter.
1970s
1975 Dr. Karen F. Bullock M'77 of Peachtree City is a retired educator who now volunteers with the Fayette County Teacher Resource Center helping make instructional materials, posters and visual aids for Fayette County Teachers.
1980s
1980 Gail Lee Gordon of LaGrange was chosen to be a member of the 2024 Leadership Troup Class, a LaGrange-Troup County Chamber of Commerce program.
Wesley Methodist Church provided a Soul Food lunch for the Spiritual Life Center. Students were treated to Taste of Lemon poppyseed chicken along with homemade cookies from the Wesley hospitality committee. LaGrange College alumni assisting with serving were Bonnie Funderburk Dudley ’75, M ’83; Mary Wells Conway ’72; Carolyn Mitchell Wynens ’69; and Elaine Laster McCook ’84, M’88.
1980 Wesley Long Jr. '80 and Wesley "Trae" Long III '12 of LaGrange have made the decision to rebrand their company under a new name—Long & Long—after decades of serving the community under the name of Gay & Joseph. 1981 Lee Crowe of Savannah continues to teach traditional hand-drawn animation at Savannah College of Art and Design. She traveled from Savannah to Los Angeles on behalf of SCAD for the
CTN Expo in Burbank, California. There she moderated a panel on the pros and cons of using artificial intelligence in animation and animation education. 1986 Glenn Yates Jr. M'81 of LaGrange has been named the new Sales and Marketing Manager at Specification Rubber Products.
* This issue’s Classnotes are from information received through February 28, 2024. (Unless otherwise noted, geographic locations refer to Georgia.)
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