alumni & friends
Landon Baize ’08, right, delivered 70 of his “Baizeboxes” to the college’s Wilkinson Family Servant Scholars in December. The scholars will distribute the boxes, which contain basic toiletry items. They have become his personal philanthropic effort and carry the motto “Helping Others by Delivering Smiles.” Assisting with the delivery are Joey Merrifield ’07, left, and Director of Alumni and Community Relations Martha Pirkle. | More at lagrange.edu/news
2016 Hannah Landers of Sommerville, Alabama, is a sales specialist at Siemens Healthineers. Katelyn Little ’19 of Monroe serves as secretary on the board of trustees for the Georgia Nurses Foundation and recently attended the Georgia Nurses Foundation Nursing Hall of Fame. She is pictured with Wanda Jones, president of Georgia Nurses Foundation.
Team members and family of the 1982-1983 basketball champions met up for breakfast at Gus’s Grill. They are, clockwise from left, Merrett Fay; Paula Fay; Lauren Venters Knowles ’17, M’20, Assistant Director of the LaGrange College Fund; Allison McKoy Smith ’88; Liz Sill; Mitch Hanson ’83; Kim Lillie ’84; Carl Sill; Martha Pirkle, Director of Alumni & Community Relations; Mike Fay ’84; Rick Smith ’85; and Maria Fay.
2016 Zachary Tatham of Alpharetta is the accounting supervisor at RangeWater Real Estate. 2016 Nicholas Raszeja M’18 of Fort Mill, South Carolina, is the sports performance assistant football coach at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. 2016 Peyton Hanners Garland of Fountain, Colorado, has signed a contract with Wipf and Stock Publishing to release a second book, "Tired, Hungry, and Kinda Faithful." 2017 Jamie Fredlund of Alpharetta is a full-time sports freelancer with CNN. 2017 Corey Morgan of Albany received the Dr. James E. Carter Award from Albany State University upon completion of his Master of Public Administration degree. 2017 Meagan Cascone of Dallas worked as a tour director/actor for Missoula Children's Theatre.
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She is currently a PAIR specialist, academy teacher and TVY director at the Springer Opera House, where she has been performing since 2018. 2017 Lawrence West of Hutto, Texas, is an entertainment host/ emcee for Carnival Cruise Lines. 2017 Elisabeth Clements of Tucker is currently working as a professional actor, choreographer and director in the Atlanta area while serving as the degree program coordinator for the theater studies program at Emory University. She is a director at Act3 Productions and a choreographer at Mill Creek & Brookwood High Schools. She is represented by East Coast Talent. 2017 Garrison Brown of Alpharetta is a senior talent partner at Blu Banyan. 2017 Sydney Aronson of Peachtree City is a contract attorney on the software resilience team at NCC Group.
