alumni & friends
2010s
2010 Dr. Wesley Meares of North Augusta, South Carolina, was selected as the graduate program director for the Augusta University Master of Public Administration. Denise Maio Lange ’95 of Sarasota, Florida, and her son, Felix, on a college tour with Presidential Student Ambassador, D.J. Kelley.
2010 Amanda Olsen of Knoxville, Tennessee, is working on her doctoral degree in finance at the University of Tennessee.
coach at LaGrange College. 2009 Ryan Gatens of LaGrange was featured in “20 under 40” by LaGrange Daily News. He is part owner of UrgenCare Clinic. 2009 Jessica Baker O’Neal M’09, Ed.S’11 of LaGrange has been nominated for 2022-2023 teacher of the year at LaGrange High School.
2011 Katherine Bomar Madaris of Carrollton has written a young adult fantasy novel, “The Oracles Beginnings: Earth and Air,” published by Dorrence Publishing Co. 2011 Kathryn E. Shroeder of Atlanta is the director of fundraising campaigns and volunteer engagement with the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation. She
will be leading the Atlanta Take Steps Walk. 2012 Trey Duffey of Sharpsburg is owner of Intelligent Design Productions, a full-service video production and photography company that provides commercial services to businesses and clients across the metro-Atlanta area. 2012 Lona Panda of Gainesville is an operations process manager of shared services for The Home Depot. 2013 Kristoffer Emil Appel of Frederiksberg, Denmark, was a Social Democratic candidate for the November 2021 municipal elections. 2013 Sharva Pruitt of LaGrange is the owner and certified lactation
Fowler named to Sports Hall of Fame
David Fowler ’85 was posthumously inducted into the LC Sports Hall of Fame during the Alumni Awards Luncheon on October 29. A LaGrange native, Fowler graduated summa cum laude from LaGrange College and from Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University in 1988. While at LaGrange, he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. Fowler followed his father – the late B. Delma Fowler ’54, one of the first male students at LC and namesake of the college’s basketball MVP award – to the Hill. An avid Panther fan, he helped form the LC Panther Club to raise funds for student-athletes. He also served as an adjunct professor at LaGrange College and was named to the LC Wall of Outstanding Alumni in 2010. Fowler was an attorney for 30 years and, near the end of his life, served as a Municipal Court Judge for the City of LaGrange. He also was a vice president and treasurer of the Troup County Bar Association, president of the Coweta Circuit Bar Association and was a member of the State Bar of Georgia. In the photo, President Baxter, far right, pauses with Fowler’s family. They are, Dorothy Fowler, Lauren Fowler Mosley and Betsy Strickland Fowler Johnston ’82. 19
