Longwood Publisher Editor Creative Director Associate Editors Contributors
Longwood University Foundation Inc. Dennis Sercombe David Whaley Kent Booty, Gina Caldwell Duane Berger, K. Johnson Bowles, Beth Cheuk, Diane Easter, Cocheyse Gilliam, ’97, Alyson Goff, Alex Grabiec, ’07, David Hooper, ’00, Cricket Gicz Morris, ’06, Greg Prouty, Paula Prouty, ’85, Katie Register, James Rutter, Nancy Shelton, ’68, Mary Jo Stockton, Ken Woodley
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Editorial Advisory Board
Longwood University
Dennis Sercombe, Chairman, Associate Vice President for Marketing and Communications Kent Booty, Public Relations Writer and Photographer H. Franklin Grant, ’80, Interim Vice President for University Advancement Gina Caldwell, Media Specialist David Hooper, ’00, Director of Web Communications Greg Prouty, Associate Athletics Director for Media Relations Chris Register, Associate Professor of Art Nancy Shelton, ’68, Director of Alumni Relations David Whaley, Director of Publications and Visual Arts
Patrick Finnegan,
President
John B. Adams Jr.,
Rector of the Board of Visitors
Dr. R. Kenneth ‘Ken’ Marcus, ’82, Michael A. Sheffield, ’89, Board of Visitors
President of the Longwood University Foundation Inc.
President of the Longwood University Alumni Association
John B. Adams Jr., Rector, Richmond, Virginia M. Jane Brooke, ’63, Richmond, Virginia Otis L. Brown, Vice Rector, Richmond, Virginia Marjorie M. Connelly, Richmond, Virginia John W. Daniel II, Richmond, Virginia Edward I. Gordon, M.D., Farmville, Virginia Rita Berryman Hughes, ’74, Virginia Beach, Virginia Chin Han ‘Hank’ Kim, ’90, Chesterfield, Virginia Ripon W. LaRoche II, M.D., Farmville, Virginia Judi M. Lynch, Ph.D., Blacksburg, Virginia Stephen Mobley, ’93, McLean, Virginia Susan E. Soza, ’62, McLean, Virginia Ronald Olswyn White, Midlothian, Virginia
Volume 10, No. 1, Published January 2011
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