CLASS notes Class of 1976 very Fouts was named the A University of South CarolinaUnion’s distinguished teacher of the year. Students who nominated him for the award said he uses “user friendly” techniques to communicated demanding concepts; is clear, patient, and thorough; makes himself available to students; and goes “above and beyond” to help them. He’s in his third year teaching philosophy and religion at USC-Union following 17 years in California. ark Garber has been M appointed chief human resources officer for Angel Medical Center in Franklin, North Carolina. J udith Helms Poole has been elected to serve as president of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses. She is a nurse manager in birthing care and special maternity care at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is a consultant with the Professional Education Center in Chico, California. avid Whitson is now the D dean for administrative services at Blue Ridge Community
College in Flat Rock, North Carolina. He formerly held similar positions at Haywood Community College and Mayland Community College.
Class of 1978 T om Carringer has joined ACS Technologies in Florence, South Carolina, as executive director of client analytics. ACS Technologies provides software and other information management services to churches, schools, and other faith based organizations. Genny and Tommy Robertson celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. The couple has two children and five grandchildren and lives in Timberlake, North Carolina.
Class of 1979 avid Mathis is now the D associate superintendent for administration with the Aiken County, South Carolina, School District.
1980s Class of 1980 J ohn Bennett has been appointed chair of the
Department of Communication at Queens University of Charlotte. amela Maxwell Randolph P is a transition specialist for the Abbeville County School District adult education program. ichael Sitton was inducted M into the Carl A. Lampert Music Hall of Fame at the University of Kentucky, where he earned his master’s degree. He is in his third year as Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Eastern New Mexico University. Among his recent activities in this role have been a June 2007 trip to China to cultivate the university’s exchange programs with a number of Chinese institutions; fundraising and planning for a renovation and expansion of the university’s music building; and leadership of the successful completion of the institution’s NASM accreditation review. He continues to perform as a solo pianist and accompanist and to work actively as a composer. He has three new choral works forthcoming from Paraclete Press of Massachusetts; he is completing a commission from St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, for a major work to premiere
Race, Record Fundraiser, and Reunion Gina Allen Terry ’87 (left) put all three of those things together last December. She writes: December 9th I ran my second half-marathon at Kiawah Island, raised over $4000 for the International Myeloma Foundation to honor my mother, who is fighting the disease, and did so with the support of many friends and family, including of course, my husband ( Wendell Keith Chris Terry MHC ’88 ) and donations from people like my college roommate, Susan Odom Midgett MHC ’86 (right), who also ran the half-marathon. Other donors include Todd Reeves (MHC ’84) and his parents (his mother is in remission from Leukemia), who first introduced me to MHC back in 1981. Chris and I have kept in touch with Susan and her family, who live nearby in Greensboro, but we haven’t seen each other in 20 years. We e-mailed a lot during training for the half marathon (her first). It was a fun reunion and a joy to meet one another’s children especially.
in December; and his Missa Brevis was performed and recorded in Spring 2007 by the St. Mary’s College Women’s Choir of Notre Dame, Indiana.
Class of 1981 uzanne Powell Hess has S been named chair of the Northwest North Carolina Chapter Board of Directors of the American Red Cross. eith Johnson was promoted K to director of Davidson County Department of Social Services in Lexington, North Carolina.
Class of 1982 T erry Peterson has been named vice president of the credit division of Carolina Farm Credit.
Class of 1984 J anie Mae Jones Sealey married Lawrence Charles McKinley in October 2006. ari Wiles is now the Minister M to the University at Chowan University.
Class of 1985 aren Hefner Stephens is K now the assistant principal at Isenberg Elementary School in Salisbury, North Carolina. Karen has spent 22 years in education: 17 of them in Mitchell County and four in Davie County, before moving to the Rowan-Salisbury School System last year.
Class of 1986 T ammy Mosteller married Dr. Bruce Smit and now lives in the Chicago suburbs. She works as a private duty home nurse and enjoys writing newspaper columns about being raised in North Carolina.
Class of 1988 We have received word that
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