Meredith Magazine Fall 2014

A Publication for Alumnae and Friends of Meredith College

M A G A Z I N E Fall 2014, Volume 39, Number 3

MEREDITH’S STRONG MILITARY CONNECTIONS HONOR ROLL OF DONORS 2013-14 | Special section inside

Meredith Magazine Volume 39, Number 3 Fall 2014 Executive Editor Kristi Eaves-McLennan Managing Editors Melyssa Allen Karen T. Dunton Assistant Editor Gaye Hill Writer Meaghan Bixby Art Director Vanessa Harris Designer Lauren Sumner Alumnae Connection Editors Hilary Allen, ’01 Sarah R. Terrell, ’12 Contributing Writers Jeni Baker Leslie Maxwell, ’01 Suzanne Stanard Editorial Assistant Kaye Rains Photographers Charlotte Claypoole Christopher Ferrer Gary Knight Lauren Sumner David Timberlake Jim Woltjen Elizabeth Yaros Michael Zirkle

CONTENTS FEATURES 16 MEREDITH & THE MILITARY 22 WINGS PROGRAM HELPS ADULT LEARNERS

TAKE FLIGHT

Renewed focus enables women of all ages to soar.

28 OWNING A LITERARY LANDMARK

Alumna Lisa Poole takes charge of Raleigh’s Quail Ridge Books.

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Class of 2018 One of Largest in Meredith History

10 Faculty Panel Discusses Summer Reading Book 12 Summer Features Educational Options for All Ages 14 Zawadi Africa Scholars Find Success After Meredith

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Meredith Campus News

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Letter from the President

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Meredith Experts in the News

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Newsmakers

13 Strong Stories 32 Alumnae Connection Meredith Magazine exists to serve the Meredith community by providing readers with insight and information about the news, activities, events, programs, plans, and people of the College. Meredith Magazine is published three times a year by the Meredith College Department of Marketing. Questions or comments may be submitted to marketing@meredith.edu. © 2014 Meredith College. The Meredith name and word mark are registered trademarks of Meredith College and may not be used without permission. All rights reserved. 14-126

On the Cover: Amy Mills Brown, ’00, the Army’s official artist-in-residence, captures a scene from Forward Operating Base Wolverine in Afghanistan.

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A special part of Meredith’s campus is the Three Sisters Garden, which provides the Meredith community with an opportunity to explore and grow fresh, healthy food. The garden is a way to showcase environmentally sound, local food production. The project is led by Professor of Nutrition Bill Landis, with assistance from nutrition students and other volunteers.

The garden’s name refers to the ancient Native American practice of planting a trio of food crops – corn, beans, and squash – together.

Graduate nutrition students Cassandra Gentile and Sarah Gilbertson (left to right)

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Class of 2018 One of Largest in Meredith History

By Melyssa Allen

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hen the Class of 2018 arrived for Move-In Day, the 470 students made their mark on Meredith before classes even began. The Class of 2018 is one of the largest in Meredith’s 123 year history. And, the new class is the first to experience StrongPoints™, an innovative advising and personal coaching model that will be a defining element of the Meredith educational experience.

Through this comprehensive initiative, students will identify their strengths, and examine over the course of their four years at Meredith how those strengths can help them shape their academic options, experiential involvement outside the classroom, financial goals and the means for achieving those goals, and career options.

The Class of 2018’s StrongPoints experience began during Orientation, when they completed an assessment to identify their strengths and started learning how to apply them. StrongPoints is being infused in First Year Experience classes, workshops, and other

enrichment activities throughout the fall semester and beyond.

“Through StrongPoints, students will make the most of their Meredith experience,” said StrongPoints Director Candice Webb.

“It’s intended to help students identify and apply their strengths in order to be engaged in meeting their goals.”

Campus Community Provides Warm Welcome

About the Class of 2018

In long-standing Meredith tradition, the campus community provided a warm welcome.

Move-In Day is special “because it is the day you meet your roommate, new friends, faculty, and staff, and feel an overwhelming welcome,” said Resident Assistant Gabrielle Hoover, ’16.

New students and their families were met with cheers as they drove along Main Campus Drive.

“When students arrive at Meredith, they are greeted by students jumping with joy, celebrating the arrival of each individual in the freshman class,” said Rebekah Gardner, ’10,

Members of the Class of 2018 come from 18 states and 17 countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, South Korea, Liberia, Mexico, Russia, Venezuela, and Vietnam.

The Class of 2018 includes 38 Honors scholars and 28 Meredith College Teaching Fellows.

Meredith welcomed more than 190 students in the IMPACT Raleigh program, which includes students from Wake County and out-of-state students who provide service and work each semester in their new home of Raleigh.

Watch Move-In Day on youtube.com/meredithcollege.

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residence director of Vann and Stringfield Residence Halls.

Residence Life staff, students on orientation crew, and alumnae were among those present on Move-In Day. “Every member of the campus community is excited to welcome each new student to the Meredith family,” said Assistant Director of Alumnae Relations Halie Sue Clifton, ’11.

Summer Study Abroad Increases by 50 Percent

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ore than 100 students studied abroad through Meredith College faculty-led programs in the summer of 2014, an increase of nearly 50% over the faculty-led study abroad participants the previous summer.

The number of students who participated in one of nine programs led by Meredith faculty represents the largest participation rate and number of programs since 2009.

Summer 2014 faculty-led programs included options housed at Meredith’s study abroad location in Sansepolcro, Italy. These were the

College’s long-running Italy/Switzerland program, as well as Childhood Italian Style in partnership with UNC Charlotte, a graduate education opportunity designed for in-service teachers, and an Italy-focused opera experience, in partnership with University of Toledo and the North Carolina Young Artists Project.

Meredith faculty also led a Business in China program for undergraduate and Meredith MBA students, an environment and literature program in Iceland, a fashion and internship program in Paris, a language and culture program in Spain, and a program in

the United Kingdom featuring literature and interior design options.

Several other Meredith students studied abroad throughout the world, completing coursework at the London School of Economics, conducting research on sharks in South Africa, learning photography in the outback of Australia, becoming immersed in language and culture in Cuba, exploring dance and performing arts in Argentina, engaging in French language and cultural studies in Angers, France, and studying psychology in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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ESI Grant Funds Summer Research Projects

By Meaghan Bixby

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ine of the 20 Meredith students selected by the Undergraduate Research Program to receive funds through its summer stipend program chose to explore research projects with a focus on sustainability. Students researched topics such as stream erosion, severe weather forecasting, and bioplastics.

According to Director of Undergraduate Research Paul Winterhoff, the program was able to award sustainability-focused researchers with monetary stipends through the College’s Environmental Sustainability Initiative (ESI), which is funded by a grant from the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation.

Mollie Melton, ’16, was one of the students to benefit from the grant funds. She worked with Assistant Professor of Geoscience Matt Stutz to measure stream erosion at Prairie Ridge Ecostation in Raleigh. For Melton, an environmental sustainability and English double major, the research offered an opportunity to put the knowledge she has gained in the classroom into practice.

“Observing a stream is such a dynamic process,” she said. “Getting to see how a stream behaves in an urban environment with the effects of development around it provided a great connection to sustainability.”

Stutz previously conducted research at Prairie Ridge, but students were only able to work on-site for approximately 20 hours per semester. With funding from the ESI, Melton was able to put in 200 hours of work time.

“The ESI program made it possible to really start studying the site,” said Stutz.

Mathematics major Megan Amanatides, ’15, used ESI funds to research severe weather patterns. She collaborated with three other undergraduate students from NC State in an effort to create a more informative and accurate model of thunderstorm structure for educational purposes.

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The project was a great experience for Amanatides, who is an aspiring meteorologist. “This project made me realize how much I love meteorology,” said Amanatides. “I loved going to work every day to forecast and study severe weather.”

“The experience strengthened my lab skills and made me more confident in myself as a chemist.” – Katie Brinson, ’15 Lamyae Sroute, ’16, and Katie Brinson, ’15, were awarded funds to work together to create bioplastics from renewable resources.

“I chose to do this research because I wanted to gain insight on methods of using green chemistry to produce environmentally friendly products with the potential to benefit the world,” said Sroute, an engineering dual degree student.

Potato starch, gluten, wood pulp, and cotton were among the natural resources they used to form bioplastics.

“The experience strengthened my lab skills and made me more confident in myself as a chemist,” said Brinson, a chemistry major. “It was a wonderful opportunity and I learned a lot.”

The ESI and Undergraduate Research Program also support Meredith’s research partnership with the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM). Several undergraduate researchers mentored students from the high school throughout their summer research projects.

As a mentor to the NCSSM students, it was important for Melton to provide a positive experience. She knew how essential teamwork was to their research at Prairie Ridge.

“I loved getting to work with [the NCSSM students] and getting to know them,” said Melton. “I learned the value of letting each person contribute with their own strengths.”

FROM THE PRESIDENT

The Power of Wings

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cannot tell you the number of times I have met a woman and thought, “I wonder what you could be if you had a Meredith degree.”

Whether meek and insecure or strong but misguided, these women are either off the pathway to personal and professional success or are short-changing their potential. And while Meredith may not be perfect for every woman, we do have an exceptional track record of helping women build on their strengths to achieve their goals.

For one particular group of students, that kind of support and guidance is especially critical: adult women. Many of these women have put their own education on hold, either because they could not afford to pursue college when they were younger or because they focused on supporting their husbands or children through school. Somehow, the time has never been right for them to pursue their own dreams. And many may now lack the confi- The Wings – Adult Education program will make a Meredith degree a reality for women of dence to make the bold move of returning to any age. college.

Historically, of course, Meredith has Meredith population was made up of older a woman. Wings are part of every woman’s reached out to these women and through spe- and returning students. make-up … she just may have to be remindcialized admissions and advising has coached Second is building the program as well ed they are there, develop their power, and non-traditional-aged women toward success. as developing messages that communicate trust in her ability to soar.

This summer, we had a reunion of alumnae both the strength of the new program and the Finally, as we re-establish Wings at Merfrom our adult education program and heard women it serves. I am delighted to announce edith, we hope you will help identify and wonderfully inspiring that the new program direct potential students to us. Our legacy stories of what their “Wings are part of every will be called Wings of making a difference combined with the Meredith degree has – a name that will potential for adult women to re-engage (and woman’s make-up...she meant to them. We resonate with many maybe even re-imagine) their strengths will also realized that we just may have to be women who were part no doubt prove to be a turning point in the have let this program reminded they are there, of our organization lives of many women. drift without strong develop their power, for adult students that And maybe then we can stop wondering leadership, resources, bore the same name what a woman might have been. and trust in her ability to and attention. (and stood for Women It is time – and we soar.” – Jo Allen in New Goal Settings). are thrilled – to rein In its new use vigorate the program.

Wings is not an acro First on the agenda nym, but a single word President is re-engaging the alumnae and leadership that represents the strength in rising up that that comprised and supported this program we envision for these women. Equally imporin its heyday, when 20% or even more of the tant is that wings really cannot be given to F all 2014 | M E R E D IT H M A G A Z I N E

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Alumna is NCAA Top-30 Honoree

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eredith College alumna Lara Pantlin was named a top-30 honoree in the 2014 NCAA Woman of the Year selection. NCAA colleges and universities nominated 446 student-athletes for this national award.

Pantlin earned the 2014 USA South’s Woman of the Year in May and is now one of 10 finalists representing all of Division III. The NCAA Woman of the Year award honors student-athletes for their collegiate achievements in service, leadership, athletics, and academics.

The USA South award was presented to Pantlin on September 19, 2014, on the Meredith campus.

In fall 2013, Pantlin concluded her athletic career at Meredith as a key member of the

Avenging Angels cross country team. She was a three-time All-Conference performer and helped Meredith to the program’s first Conference Cross Country Championship. She was named the team’s Most Valuable Runner.

In 2011, Pantlin earned the team’s Most Improved Runner award.

Pantlin graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in psychology, was named Outstanding Senior in Psychology, and was awarded Top 10 Most Outstanding Seniors of the Class of 2014. She has dedicated her time as an intern on multiple research projects and currently has several documents awaiting review for possible publication in journals. Pantlin is earning a graduate degree at Colorado State University.

Watch Lara Pantlin’s strong story on youtube.com/meredithcollege.

Meredith to Add Track and Field as Eighth Varsity Sport, Beginning Spring 2016

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eredith College will add track and field as its eighth sport, with competition to begin in spring

2016.

Head Cross Country Coach Amy Olsen will direct the new program and looks forward to the joint athletic responsibility.

“I am excited for this program to move forward in the next natural step,” said Olsen. “We’ve built a strong cross country program and have a beautiful track and field facility. It is the right time to add more to the winning tradition of our existing athletic programs.”

Olsen enters her 10th season this fall as Meredith’s cross country coach and earned 2013 USA South Coach of the Year honors.

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In addition to cross country the Avenging Angels field teams in basketball, lacrosse, softball, soccer, tennis, and volleyball.

Lacrosse, the college’s most recent addition, claimed the 2014 conference championship in the program’s second season of play.

By the Numbers: Meredith College | Going Strong Year One

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385,000

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Number of Meredith billboard locations

unique visitors came to meredith.edu, an increase of more than 150,000 over the previous year.

Number of episodes of Downton

1,000

Number of Going Strong t-shirts

Abbey shown during Meredith’s local sponsorship of Masterpiece

30%

Increase in admissions inquiries

distributed during the brand launch

Meredith Experts in the News Meredith faculty and staff served as experts in a wide variety of news articles, in media outlets such as Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and Investor’s Business Daily.

“He was fiercely competitive, and that was a factor in his ascension. He never wanted to be scooped, and he worked hard to make sure it didn’t happen often. He was also very hands-on with his program, handling many of the negotiations with the acts himself. If he caught wind that his competition was trying to sign an up-and-coming act, he would try to intervene. He knew how to deal with agents, and he beat the competition more often than not.”

– Associate Professor of Mass Communication Doug Spero, in an Investor’s Business Daily profile of Ed Sullivan

“Public health expands the focus in health-related careers rather than limiting students to a major in biology or to follow a path in medicine. Its ecological approach to health is something that attracts students, especially those looking for multiple career options.”

– Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Carolina Perez-Heydrich, in a USA Today College story about the rise in public health programs. Perez-Heydrich is the coordinator of Meredith’s new public health major.

“When these scenarios flare up, [the offenders] become scapegoats. They stand in and represent an attitude or a worldview. All sins are heaped upon the scapegoat, who, for purification, is driven out of town. It’s like saying goodbye to that worldview.”

– Assistant Professor Steven Benko in a Christian Science Monitor story about public reaction to controversial speech

“An incorrect social security number can have a ripple effect on whether information gets linked with all colleges to which the student has applied. It can be difficult to clear up the issue and may require completion of a new FAFSA form.”

– Director of Financial Assistance Kevin Michaelsen, in an article about college financial assistance, published on The Motley Fool’s financial education website.

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New Sensory Lab Benefits Meredith Autism Program Thanks to a grant from the A.J. Fletcher Foundation, Meredith Autism Program (MAP) added a sensory room to its resources. The $10,000 grant allowed the program to refurbish a classroom in Ledford Hall with a ball pit, trampoline, sensory wall, therapeutic swing, balance beam, obstacle course, and tunnel climbers, for use by MAP students.

The Meredith Autism Program is an early intervention program serving children who are diagnosed on the autism spectrum. The program provides an intensive behavioral intervention where children with autism can acquire developmentally appropriate skills including play, receptive and expressive language, social ability, and self-help.

Watch a video about MAP on youtube.com/meredithcollege.

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Newsmakers The Interior Design Program has received re-accreditation for six years by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation. This award of accreditation clearly identifies the quality of the interior design program and shows that Meredith prepares graduates with a strong foundation of knowledge and skills for an entry level position in the interior design field. Meredith has the only CIDA-accredited program in the Triangle.

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has awarded its Outstanding Student Chapter Award to Meredith College.

The award recognizes the Meredith SHRM chapter for its excellence and achievement during the 2013-14 Student Chapter Merit Award period. Meredith’s SHRM chapter has consistently earned recognition from the national organization. This is the ninth time the Meredith College chapter has earned this award, which is given to the top ten student chapters nationwide. In 2013, Assistant Professor Kristy Dixon, the chapter adviser, was named the 2012-13 SHRM Adviser of the Year.

Assistant Professor of Human Environmental Sciences Carol Morris has been named The Arc of Wake County’s Professional of the Year for her work with students and mentor families in her Supporting and Strengthening Families course. The course is part of Meredith’s child development program. Meredith B-K graduate Sarah Catherine Rhodes, ’10, is one of the organization’s three Teachers of the Year. Rhodes works at Root Elementary in a classroom serving children with developmental disabilities.

Associate Professor of Mass Communication Doug Spero has been inducted into the Long Island Journalism Hall of Fame, which recognizes trailblazing journalists, past and present. Spero is a member of the inaugural class of inductees to the Hall of Fame. The induction was held at the Press Club of Long Island Media Awards dinner on June 5, as part of the commemoration of the club’s 40th anniversary. Spero worked for three networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC, earning more than 40 professional awards, including an Emmy for Best Investigation, during his journalism career.

Meredith’s Human Environmental Sciences Program Celebrates Centennial On September 12, 1914, Meredith College offered classes in home economics. One hundred years later, the College community gathered to kick-off a yearlong celebration of the centennial of the program, now known as Department of Human Environmental Sciences.

“The program grew and changed through the 1900s to become one of the largest at Meredith College,” President Jo Allen said at the celebration. “Today 22% of all declared majors at Meredith are from the Department of Human Environmental Sciences in the majors of child development, family and consumer sci- Department Head Deborah Tippett led the ences, fashion merchandising and design, HES Centennial kick-off. and interior design.”

The kick-off event was held in Johnson Hall Rotunda, and included a timeline of highlights from 1914 to present day. There now are over 3,000 alumnae of this department who are making meaningful contributions to their communities. A major gift supporting student leadership opportunities was announced at the event.

A full-day celebration of the Department of Human Environmental Sciences centennial will be held on April 18, 2015.

Think Strong Team Attends Critical Thinking Conference As part of Meredith’s ongoing critical thinking initiative, now known as Think Strong, 10 faculty and staff members attended a national conference on critical thinking at the University of Louisville in May. Think Strong Director Steven Benko, an assistant professor of religious and ethical studies, said the team’s participation in the conference continues the important work of helping Meredith students become confident critical thinkers.

“The better we get at identifying the critical thinking skills that are relevant and necessary for students to possess, the better we get at designing classroom experiences, assignments, and co-curricular activities that bring those skills to the fore,” said Benko.

Conference attendees were Benko, Assistant Professor of Human Environmental Sciences Nina Bostic, First-Year Experience Co-Director Chrissie Bumgardner, Associate Professor of Mathematics Tim Hendrix, Marketing Content Strategist Gaye Hill, Director of Research, Planning, and Assessment Dianne Raubenheimer, Associate Professor of English Kelly Roberts, Assistant Professor of Education Cindy Morton-Rose, Survey and Report Coordinator Dilnavaz Sharma, and Associate Professor of Religious and Ethical Studies Margarita Suarez.

Meredith’s infusion of critical thinking in both curricular and co-curricular settings is not typically found at other schools. According to Benko, this difference is critical.

“We recognize that these skills only take hold if you practice them, and that thinking is a life skill that should be practiced in all areas of life. At Meredith, the academic and co-curricular support one another, so in order to make it a true campus-wide program we emphasize the curricular and co-curricular,” said Benko.

Most of the attendees also participated in a series of workshops during the spring semester designed to continue the infusion of critical thinking throughout campus.

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Faculty Panel Discusses Summer Reading Book

By Meaghan Bixby

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irst-year students and other Meredith community members attended this year’s Summer Reading Program lecture, “Now Let Me Fly: Academic Perspectives on The Invention of Wings,” in Jones Auditorium on September 2, 2014.

The Invention of Wings, a historical fiction novel written by Sue Monk Kidd, tells the story of the Grimké sisters, who were abolitionists and supporters of women’s rights in 1830s. It is richly descriptive, and the alternating narrators – Sarah Grimké and a young slave girl called “Handful” – offer thought-provoking perspectives on daily life and issues of the time.

In addition to being a compelling read, the novel also raises issues and questions that touch upon several academic disciplines. As such, this year’s lecture featured four Meredith faculty members who participated in a panel discussion of the book in relation to their fields of study.

Associate Professor of History Dan Fountain moderated the discussion and brought historical perspectives to the conversation. Fountain praised the book’s accurate and unflinching description of slavery, noting that it is a “real, ugly part of history.”

“We still deal with the reality and legacy of slavery,” said Fountain. “It’s important to delve into.”

Assistant Professor of History Angela Marritt spoke about class, labor, and women’s issues, during both the 1830s and present day.

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For Marritt, the relationship between Sarah Grimké and her father rang true, especially with regard to Sarah’s education.

Marritt said during that time period, fathers had to tell their daughters that they couldn’t receive the same education as their sons. Instead, women were expected to engage in “polite education for the female mind” and prepare for marriage.

“It’s a great gift on the part of the author that she gives us two parallel stories that are connected physically and emotionally.”

– Associate Professor of English Alisa Johnson

Professor of Human Environmental Sciences Diane Ellis commented on the value placed on slaves like Handful, and her mother, Charlotte, who served the Grimké household as seamstresses. The auditorium’s stage was decorated with examples of period costumes like those described in the book, including Mrs. Grimké’s mourning dress and Angelina’s wedding gown.

Ellis shared some ways in which history differs from the book. Typically, slaves with the sewing skills depicted in the book were not permitted to leave the master’s property out of fear of other slave owners stealing the slaves’ talents or designs.

Associate Professor of English Alisa Johnson used her expertise in African-American literature and culture to interpret the book.

“Do the characters seem real?” Johnson asked the crowd. “If the answer is yes, we have a book we can learn from. When it comes to books that deal with slavery that’s a challenge.”

Johnson applauded Kidd’s choice to use two narrators to tell the story. “It’s a great gift on the part of the author that she gives us two parallel stories that are connected physically and emotionally,” she said.

Because of the book’s classification as historical fiction and Kidd’s acknowledgement that the work is “a thickly imagined story inspired by [Sarah Grimké’s] life,” Marritt cautioned the audience to “be aware of the liberties taken.”

“It’s a piece of fiction,” she said. “Be careful how much history you think you can get from it. You have to balance what we can learn and use from the book with solid history and facts.”

Each of the panelists hoped the students would be inspired by the boldness demonstrated by both Sarah and Handful, and challenged the audience to use the examples from the book to help them make choices that allow them to stay true to themselves.

In addition to the panel discussion, Meredith students also had the opportunity to explore The Invention of Wings during small group discussions, and to participate in a service project related to the book’s themes.

Faculty, Staff, and Student Giving to The Meredith Fund Exceed Goals

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ike alumnae, Meredith College faculty, staff, and students show their support of the College through gifts to The Meredith Fund. During 2013-14 fiscal year, faculty, staff, and students gave at record levels.

The Faculty and Staff Giving Initiative goal for 2013-14 was 55% participation.

Meredith employees not only met that goal but exceeded it, achieving a 60% participation rate. This was a 10% increase from the previous year. In total, employee donors raised more than $55,000 in annual gifts to the College last year. Faculty and

staff designated their gifts to the College’s most pressing needs and to a variety of departments and programs on campus.

The Senior Class Gift is the fundraising campaign that enables seniors to further learn about philanthropy and the importance of giving back to the place they called home for four years. The Class of 2014 raised the most money of any senior class in Meredith history with more than $13,000 and obtaining 49% class participation. Their gifts will fund a continuation of the sidewalk along Main Campus Drive leading to Hillsborough Street. Addition-

ally, 114 members of the class joined the Ivy Society – a giving society for young alumnae that requires a minimum gift of $10 per month for 12 months.

The Meredith Fund is the College’s annual giving program. The gifts made to The Meredith Fund support a variety of campus initiatives, from the most pressing needs on campus (priorities such as scholarships for students, faculty development, and residence hall maintenance) to special projects and departments. Learn more at meredith.edu/giving.

Interior Design Students Help Revitalize Historic Home

By Melyssa Allen

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hen working to find a new owner for the oldest home still in residential use in Raleigh, Preservation North Carolina turned to Meredith’s interior design program. The organization asked Meredith students to show potential buyers how the Crabtree Jones House could be used.

“The work done by this talented group of students helps folks see what great potential this beautiful, historic space has,” said Lauren Werner, Preservation N.C.’s director of education outreach.

The Crabtree Jones House is a Federalstyle house dating from the late 18th or early 19th century. It was relocated to its current location in February 2014, and is available for sale by Preservation N.C. Three teams of Meredith students in the spring 2014 sophomore studio class taught by Professor of Interior Design Ellen Goode created updated floor plans and design ideas for the house.

The student teams researched the home’s history and were mindful of maintaining its historical integrity while blending the kind of modern design elements desired by potential buyers.

The Meredith students’ work is being used to help market the property. The student plans are

Meredith Interior Design students created design plans to help potential buyers visualize the home’s possibilities.

included on Preservation N.C.’s website and will be displayed at events such as an open house.

“While the Crabtree Jones House is quite large at close to 3,500 square feet, it has had some additions over the years and may present a challenge to potential buyers as they try to envision using the space for their needs,” said Werner.

Preservation N.C. has previously worked on design projects with Meredith College,

which has the only CIDA-accredited interior design program in the Triangle area.

“We turned to Meredith for help with this project because we have successfully partnered with Meredith in the past, and wanted to expose a group of young people with an interest in design to the world of historic preservation,” Werner said. “We couldn’t be more pleased with the result, and would love to work with Meredith College again in the future.”

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Summer Features Educational Opportunities for All Ages

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ot long after commencement celebrations end, Meredith’s campus fills with a new population of learners – students of all ages here for summer programs. Meredith offers a variety of summer academic, arts, and athletics options.

Academic Programs For 14 years, Meredith has hosted Governor’s School East, a five-week summer residential program for intellectually gifted high school students. Meredith is also the residential site for Duke TIP’s CRISIS (Creative Resolutions of Impending Situations with Intelligent Solutions) summer residential program for fifth and sixth graders. The campus also hosted the inaugural Advanced Placement Summer Institution. In addition to these outside programs, Meredith hosts its own academic options – including Looking Toward College, Young Writers Camp, and Focusing on Form program for women writers. New in 2014 was Meredith College Summer Math CAMMP (Comprehensively Applied Math Manipulatives Program) for elementary girls. Forty-seven students attended.

Athletic Camps The Avenging Angels athletics program hosted basketball, soccer, tennis, and volleyball camps, and, for the first time, a lacrosse camp that attracted 100 youth players. The camps helped younger players improve their skills and provided an opportunity for Meredith players to serve as coaches. More than 400 campers took part in Meredith’s athletic camps this year.

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Art Camps The Lamar Stringfield Music Camp, part of Meredith College’s Community School of Music, celebrated its 35th anniversary this summer.

Two camp sessions were held in June. The Lamar Stringfield Music Camp, founded by Meredith music faculty member Phyllis Garris in 1979, has educated thousands of young students in the art and technique of music-making, within a warm and entertaining camp setting.

Other arts program options included piano and music composition.

STRONG STORIES

AMY HRUBY, ’13

A strong student delivers

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he Meredith Legacy Scholarship is awarded to students who demonstrate superior academic achievement, intellectual promise, and leadership ability – qualities that are markedly apparent in Legacy Scholar Amy Hruby, ’13.

Hruby has completed her first year of graduate study at DePaul University, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy. But she has already had a chapter of a book accepted for publication that she co-authored with Meredith Assistant Professor of Religious and Ethical Studies Steven Benko.

Their work on this project grew out of their collaboration on an undergraduate summer research project on ethical subjectivity and Hruby’s senior thesis on a Levinasian ethics of reading.

“Dr. Benko and I have collaborated on concepts surrounding this topic since my junior year at Meredith,” said Hruby. “When he was invited to contribute to a book on transhumanism and religion, he asked if I would be interested in revisiting some of our former work and co-writing the chapter.”

The book is titled Religion and Transhumanism: The Unknown Future of Human Enhancement (forthcoming). Their chapter, “Critical Transhumanism as a Religious Ethic of Otherness,” applies a Levinasian ethic to trans- and posthuman critiques of what it means to be human.

According to Hruby, the support she received from Meredith faculty for her research and independent study projects was instrumental in her acceptance to DePaul, where she was offered funding for seven years of graduate work.

“Faculty in both the English and the Religious and Ethical Studies departments sponsored independent studies, listened to thesis topic ideas, read personal statements, and aided with mock interviews on my path to graduate school,” said Hruby.

She also noted that Benko’s expert guidance and the hands-on experience she

gained as editor of the student newspaper helped her build on her already strong critical thinking and writing skills, both of which are serving her well in graduate school.

“My coursework with Dr. Benko and in the Honors Program was crucial in developing my critical thinking capabilities, and my work at The Meredith Herald improved my grammar and argument construction skills,” said Hruby. “My writing set me apart in the application process and in my first year of studies. That’s a direct result of my coursework and mentorship at Meredith.”

Meredith College is Going Strong. And the best evidence of that strength lies in the success of our community – our students, alumnae, and our faculty and staff. We’ll be sharing strong stories in each issue of Meredith Magazine. You can find more strong stories, including videos, at meredith.edu/goingstrong.

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Zawadi Africa Founder Susan Mboya (third from right) with students and alumnae who attended Meredith through the program.

Zawadi Africa Scholars Find Success After Meredith

By Melyssa Allen

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hen Zawadi Africa Founder Susan Mboya delivered Meredith’s 2014 commencement address, she spoke about empowerment.

Mboya said she wants to instill in her Zawadi students the same strong values that Meredith College instills in its students. “I love Meredith’s new ‘Going Strong’ brand,”Mboya said. “This phrase captures for me the true essence of women’s empowerment, something I have dedicated my life to over the years.”

The results of Mboya’s efforts can be seen in the Zawadi Africa scholars who have graduated from Meredith as part of the program, which provides African women with scholarships at over 65 top universities in the U.S. and Canada. Meredith began this partnership in 2007, and has welcomed a Zawadi Africa scholar into each incoming class since 2008.

Ida Githu, ’13, and Kagure Wamunyu, ’13, were the first Zawadi scholars to attend Meredith. Both earned degrees at Meredith and engineering degrees at NC State University, as part of Meredith’s five-year dual degree engineering partnership.

“After graduating from Meredith, I got a job as a project coordinator with the Global Environment and Technology Foundation in Arlington, Va.,” said Githu, who earned

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a chemistry degree at Meredith. She is now women and girls in Mukuru slum Nairobi to continuing her education in the United King- be used in a precedent-setting lawsuit to chaldom. Githu began her studies at Oxford Uni- lenge the land tenure system in Mukuru and versity in fall 2014, and plans to earn a Master other Nairobi informal settlements.” of Science degree in water science, policy, and Githu and Wamunyu were joined at Meredith by Maria Githua, management. who earned a degree in Kagure Wamunyu “Meredith’s Going mathematics in 2013. earned a mathematics Strong brand captures Githua works at Credit degree from Meredith and a civil engineering the essence of women’s Suisse as a business analyst. degree from NC State. empowerment.”

Among the Class of Wamunyu received a – Susan Mboya 2014 was Rodda Ouma, full scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in city planning at the the most recent Zawadi Scholar to complete her Meredith degree. She now works as an University of California, Berkeley.

Wamunyu, like other Zawadi Africa analyst with Mu Sigma Inc., and plans to go scholars, works hard to give back. “I have on to graduate school. While earning a Bachactively been involved in organizations that elor of Science in chemistry with a minor in seek to educate children from Africa includ- mathematics, she also took courses in a variing being a keynote speaker at Asante Africa ety of disciplines.

Foundation Fundraising dinner in Oakland,” “Meredith College provides the opportunity to take classes from various departments Wamunyu said.

She recently interned with the United outside your major which builds an integratNations-Habitat Headquarters in Nairobi on ed skill set,” Ouma said. “I have been able to a slum upgrading program for 34 countries in take computer programming, public speaking, statistics, and research classes. Taking soAfrica, the Caribbean, and the Pacific.

“I have also been working on a studio ciology and religion classes have expanded my project through my department to provide way of thinking because the classes encourage evidence of health and sanitation impacts on you to see the world through a different lens.”

Strengthening Skills Through Internships

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ummer internships help students explore careers and strengthen their skills. Elizabeth Jaimes, ’15, Rimsha Afzal, ’15, and Abigail Lorentzen, ’16, were among the many Meredith students who completed internships this summer.

Elizabeth Jaimes, ’15 During Elizabeth Jaimes’ summer internship at the UNC Gillings School of Public Health, the Meredith senior worked in the nutrition department on a project that deals with the connection between macrophage-driven inflammation and obesity.

A chemistry major earning a biology minor, Jaimes said she became interested in a research internship after taking Biochemistry I and II lab courses. “At my internship, I enjoyed seeing the concepts I learned in my courses come into action.”

The laboratory courses she has taken and the critical thinking skills she’s gained at Meredith prepared her well for the work, and to achieve her career goals.

“My goal is to attend pharmacy school in the future, and I hope this experience will help to make me a competitive candidate,” Jaimes said. “I’m also considering the option of working in the science industry for a few years before enrolling in pharmacy school, and this internship taught me useful lab skills.”

Rimsha Afzal, ’15 Rimsha Afzal returned to the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Marlene and Stewart Greenbaum Cancer Center, in Baltimore, Md. For a second year she worked as a student intern in the Nathan Schnaper Cancer Research Internship Program. This summer, her project involved identifying how the activation of a gene present in many cancers, known as Myc, can lead to genomic instability.

Students including Elizabeth Jaimes, ’15, (above) and Abigail Lorentzen, ’16, gained valuable experience through summer internships. At Meredith, 94% of students complete internships or another kind of experiential learning.

Afzal is earning a double major in biology and theatre at Meredith. After graduation, she plans to attend medical school, and hopes to work in the field of oncology.

“The internship program was very appealing to me because it not only gave me a chance to work on basic research in a lab, but I got the chance to shadow many medical professionals at the University of Maryland outpatient cancer center,” Afzal said. “These physicians specialized in several types of cancers (solid tumors and blood cancers) so getting a good taste of everything was fascinating. With it being my second year here, I have also been able to network extensively.”

Abigail Lorentzen, ’16 As an intern with the Nicholas Sparks Foundation, Abigail Lorentzen, ’16, supported the non-profit’s mission to increase access to in-

novative global learning for students in rural, low-income communities.

Lorentzen worked with the communications team in foundation’s office in New Bern, N.C. “I worked with donors by sharing the mission and vision of the foundation, on the foundation’s Facebook page and website,” Lorentzen said A benefit of the internship was the opportunity for the mass communication and international studies major to explore potential careers.

“Working to help form the foundation’s image led me to consider a career in public relations,” Lorentzen said. “I would love to work in some capacity with an educational travel company that provides domestic and international travel experiences. These kinds of opportunities are a crucial part of the global, 21st century education that the Nicholas Sparks Foundation hopes to provide to rural students.”

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2012 Veterans Day Parade, New York City This oil painting depicts a participant of the November 11, 2012, New York City Veterans Day Parade and was created as visual documentation of a color bearer in a group of World War II re-enactors. Alumna Amy Mills Brown, ’00, completed the painting in 2013.

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Amy Mills Brown, ’00, the Army’s official artist-in-residence, captures a scene from Forward Operating Base Wolverine in Afghanistan. See more of Brown’s work at meredith.edu/magazine.

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my Mills Brown, ’00, has a job that only eight other people have held since its creation in 1992. Furthermore, she is only the second woman to hold the position.

Brown is the Army’s official artist-in-residence, and she is helping to record not only the history of the Army but also of the country. While the Army has had dozens of artists since World War I, it established the official position of artistin-residence in 1992. Only one service member holds this position at a time, though there are other artists in the Army.

“I pinch myself every day still,” Brown said. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”

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Meredith has a long history of military service, from Marie Mason, ’47, (shown below) who served in World War II in the Army Nurse Corps, to Sabrina Hearst, ’00, (above) who keeps a part of Meredith with her on her Coast Guard uniform.

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Of course, it’s not unusual for Meredith alumnae to achieve success in their chosen careers. The College has long prepared women for success in whatever career they choose, including male-dominated fields such as medicine, business, and engineering.

With women making up just 15% of active-duty military personnel, there is room for women, including Meredith alumnae, to lead the way in this historically male field.

Brown is not the only Meredith alumna who has served or is serving in the U.S. military in significant ways.

For Kat Maitrejean, ’05, who served in the U.S. Navy before attending Meredith and joined the U.S. Air Force after graduation, the women’s-only education she received at Meredith helped her find strength and prepared her for her career.

“There was such a wonderful community, very supportive and creative,” said Maitrejean, who majored in social work. With the support of her professors, Maitrejean organized a state-wide social work conference at Meredith, which she said helped her gain confidence and professionalism.

After graduation, she said, “I was ready to be in a more corporate or professional setting,” noting that Meredith helped prepare her for that kind of environment.

Now in her 20th year in the military, Maitrejean serves as Assistant Aide de Camp for the Air Force Joint Chief of Staff, a position for which she was nominated. She advises him on issues related to family and personal life for enlistees, including the increasing emphasis on preventing sexual assault in the military and issues related to family life on Air Force bases.

Sabrina Hearst, ’00, served in the Coast Guard for eight years before attending Meredith as an inactive reserve member. After graduating from Meredith with a degree in nutrition, Hearst again became an active-duty member of the Coast Guard. Like Maitrejean, Hearst went from a male-dominated world to a women’s college and back to the male-dominated world of the military. And like Maitrejean, Hearst said that Meredith gave her confidence in her personal and professional life.

Coming up on her 20th year in the mili- to inform citizens of possible dangers. She tary, Hearst has worked as an instructor for served as an instructor in Army training, inothers in the Coast Guard since 2008. It’s a po- cluding in Iraq, and then became the Army sition she might not have applied for without artist-in-residence in 2012, a position she will her experience at Meredith: “The confidence hold for another year. Her job as official artist I developed at Meredith allowed me to put in has taken her all over the United States and the world, including to Afghanistan, where for instructor duty at our training center.”

Marie Mason, ’47, is Meredith’s oldest she visited the front lines to record the Army’s known alumna veteran. Mason, a psychol- experiences there. ogy major who went on to get her Ph.D. and As the Army artist-in-residence, Brown return to Meredith in 1970 as Dean of Stu- said she captures “the emotional response to dents and professor of psychology, served in war.” the Army Nurse Corps during World War II “I have the ability to condense several moments into one moment, or to take creative before she attended Meredith.

Mason, now 98, cited a feeling of obliga- license,” Brown said. “There are 10,000 things tion as her reason for joining the Nurse Corps going on on the battlefield. There’s not a moin 1943: she had a younger brother serving in ment missed if I don’t want it to be missed.”

Because women make up such a small the U.S. Army Air Corps.

“I was thinking, if he gets hurt, I hope percentage of the United States military, Meredith College is somebody takes care to increase of him. And I said, “I capture the emotional working awareness of female ‘Well, what about you, service members and Marie? Why can’t you response to war.” go take care of him?’” – Amy Mills Brown,’00, Army artist-in-residence veterans. For instance, in 2012 and most re So Mason, who cently in 2014, Merwas already a trained edith was named a nurse, joined the Army Nurse Corps, attending training at “Military Friendly School” by Victory Media, Camp Davis in Onslow County in North a veteran-owned company. This designation Carolina. She was commissioned as a second signifies that Meredith is among the top 20% lieutenant and served overseas, including in of schools nationwide in providing a good Aversa, Italy, near Naples. When Mason left experience for veterans or current service the military in 1946, she returned to North members.

Carolina and began studying at Meredith, Meredith is working in other ways to completing a degree she had begun before shine a spotlight on the contributions of women like these alumnae. For the past enlisting.

Brown, the Army’s official artist, also two years, Meredith has held a Veterans joined the military out of a sense of patrio- Day Service specifically honoring female veterans. The event is planned again for this tism and desire to serve the United States.

After graduating from Meredith, she was November. a high school art teacher in Wake County in “As a women’s college, it’s important for North Carolina. The morning of September us to give students and members of the com11, 2001, she and her students watched the munity knowledge of all kinds of ways that news images of the terrorist attacks. Soon af- women have been important in our history,” said Jean Jackson, ’75, vice president for Colter, Brown talked with an Army recruiter.

After basic training, Brown served as a lege Programs. “Serving in the military is one multimedia illustrator, a job that included of those ways, and it’s something that most of designing for the internet and creating leaf- us know little about unless we’ve had direct lets for the Army to drop in towns overseas contact.”

Meredith’s Ship Comes In During World War II, Meredith College, as well as its faculty and students, contributed nearly $200,000 to the war effort, according to a 1967 issue of the Twig student newspaper. This service to the country earned the College something that many people don’t know about today: the name of a ship.

The SS Meredith Victory was a Mer-

chant Marine cargo freighter named for Meredith College, commissioned in 1945 and designed to carry supplies during World War II. The ship deployed again during the Korean War, when its legacy was cemented.

In 1950, the SS Meredith Victory aided in “one of the greatest marine rescues in the history of the world,” according to a 1960 letter from the U.S. government. The ship, which was designed to carry supplies and about 35 crew members, rescued 14,000 North Korean refugees, carrying them 450 miles to a South Korean port.

The ship served again during the Vietnam War, and afterward, it was decommissioned and sold for scrap metal.

It still holds the Guinness World Record for largest evacuation from land by a single ship.

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Meredith holds an annual Honoring Women Veterans event each Veterans Day. In 2013, the featured speaker was U.S. Air Force Col. Jeannie Leavitt, the Air Force’s first woman fighter pilot.

Leavitt was Commander of the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, and has since become chief military adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Defense.

Patty Blackwell, who works in customer service for the facilities department at Meredith and serves on the planning committee for the Veterans Day event, is a seven-year veteran of the Air Force. Blackwell, who served in the first Gulf War, notes the importance of recognizing the contributions that women have made in the armed forces. Female service members, said Blackwell, are “bucking the system in a male-dominated profession, just like we do in other professions.”

Before attending Meredith, senior Holly Monday, a psychology major, served in the Air Force for four years, working in accounting and finance. Monday believes that Meredith’s focus on female veterans is important.

“A lot of times, you look at the media, [and] the veterans who are portrayed are predominantly men,” Monday said. “We want to bring attention to women.”

Supporting Meredith students and alumnae who have served in the military aligns with Meredith’s mission of preparing women to “provide leadership for the needs, opportunities, and challenges of society.” And it aligns, too, with Meredith’s emphasis on helping women find and develop their strengths.

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and in her Coast Guard career.

“The confidence that my professors, the staff and my peers had in me to do good things still inspires me, to this day, to give things my best effort, to be an active citizen, in my work in the U.S. Coast Guard and in the communities in which I’ve lived,” Hearst said.

“As a women’s college, it’s important for us to give students and members of the community knowledge of all kinds of ways that women have been important in our history.”

– Jean Jackson, ’75

Maitrejean noted that her social work education at Meredith helped her hone her strength of empathy, which she uses every day in her job. “As a supervisor, I’ve had 200 to 400 people at a time that I’ve had to be in tune with,” she said. And in her work with Air Force families, she uses empathy to help think “about the emotions and confusion that families might feel in situations.”

As for Brown, she said that Meredith left her well prepared for her career as both a high school teacher and a member of the Army.

“When I started teaching in North Carolina, I felt very prepared,” she said. And now, she said, with most experiences in the Army, she knows that she will be prepared for almost anything.

“Being in the Army is not always about being physically strong,” Brown said. “I am mentally strong, as well.”

Maitrejean described her Meredith experience as one that allowed her to “grow as a person and as a woman in a supportive environment.”

Their Meredith education continues to play an important role for all of these current and former service member alumnae.

Hearst, who was a member of Silver Shield Honorary Leadership Society at Meredith, said that being a part of the society is still a point of pride for her, comparing her Silver Shield pin to the rack of ribbons that she wears on her military uniform.

“Every now and then,” Hearst said, “I wear my Silver Shield under the pocket flap [of my uniform], and it reminds me that other people believe in me to do the right thing.”

How were wars perceived on Meredith’s campus?

World War I, 1914-1918: In World War I, one alumna, Fay Memory, Class of 1911, served as a nurse in France, according to Mary Lynch Johnson’s History of Meredith College. On campus, Johnson said, students helped the war effort by “rolling bandages, making soldiers’ kits, and participating in Liberty Loan [a type of war bond] drives.” Charlotte Ruegger, a professor of music at Meredith, served in the Red Cross from 1915-1919. The class of 1918 dressed in Red Crossstyle dresses for Class Day (and their doll, which you can see in Johnson Hall or online, wore the same dress). “Our hearts were thrilled as we realized the significance of their simple, soldierly costumes,” said the 1918 Meredith College Bulletin. Meredith students also sang patriotic warrelated songs, with a leaflet called “Meredith College War Songs.”

“Meredith College Students Set Pace in War Work Drive,” a 1918 Raleigh Times headline proclaimed. The article describes Meredith as a leader in the United War Work campaign and notes that, for one thing, Meredith students planned to do their own laundry, putting the money saved toward the war effort.

World War II, 1939-1945: A May 1942 Twig article featured the headline “Meredith Girls Bravely Face Rationing,” describing how students on campus rationed sugar, tea, coffee, and more. A November 1944 Twig article encouraged students to support a scrap paper drive sponsored by the War Activities Committee. And of course, students, faculty, and the College as a whole contributed to war bonds (see sidebar about SS Meredith Victory).

While alumna Marie Mason, ’47, joined the Nurse Corps, other alumnae also supported the war effort. Johnson said that Mary Kate Collier, ’39, went from “teaching home economics to using a monkey wrench” in a factory. Johnson also wrote that Meredith alumnae included: “seventeen WACS,” the Women’s Army Corps; “three WAVES,” Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service; “one WASP,” the Women Airforce Service Pilots; “one marine, and three camp librarians.” Other alumnae served as Army hostesses, which provided recreational activities for military service members.

Twig editorial urged students to provide cards, gifts, and letters to the troops for Christmas. However, the tide seemed to shift on campus. In 1969, Johnson wrote, “students had a ‘write-in’ … when letters were written to their congressmen and to President Nixon, protesting” the Kent State killings “and the invasion of Cambodia.”

In October 1969, students held a panel discussion about “the nation’s involvement in Vietnam and Cambodia.” The Raleigh Times described the discussion as “sane, sound, but definitely spirited.”

Johnson also reported that two Meredith students participated in the March Against Death held in Washington, D.C., in November 1969.

Gulf War, 1990-1991: The Meredith Herald published names of soldiers killed in the conflict. And the College sponsored the Middle East Careline for students concerned about the conflict or for students with family members or friends in the military.

Iraq War, 2003-2011, and Afghanistan War, 2001-present: In the weeks leading up to the Iraq War in 2003, The Meredith Herald ran articles about the potential for war. In one opinion piece, the writer urged students to be sure that they thought the war was “for the right reasons.” In a letter to the editor a few weeks later, another student argued for the war – showing that students once again had varying viewpoints. Meredith’s 2004 summer reading selection was Anne Garrels’ Naked in Baghdad, a book about her experience as a reporter in Iraq during the war. Garrels gave a lecture for students and members of the community. As well, the College sponsored panel discussions about U.S. involvement in Iraq.

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WINGS PROGRAM HELPS ADULT LEARNERS

TAKE FLIGHT Renewed focus enables women of all ages to soar.

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Historically a leader in higher learning for non-traditional-aged women, “Meredith has served this population well through the years, and we’ve recommitted to – and renewed our emphasis on – adult education,” said Allen.

According to the National Student Clearinghouse, more than one-third of U.S. undergraduate students are 25 and older. The sharpened focus on this population through Wings will help Meredith continue its adult learning legacy – and meet the needs of today’s students.

Now more than ever, “Meredith should be uppermost in the minds of all women who seek higher learning as a route to a better future,” Allen said, “We know it makes a difference in their personal and professional lives, as well as in the lives of their families, communities, and our world.”

A Familiar Refrain: “Meredith changed my life” Since 1972, more than 2,000 non-traditional-aged women have earned bachelor’s degrees through Meredith’s adult learning initiative, known most recently as the 23+ Program. These women have included – and will continue to include through the Wings program – the following: • First-time college students who didn’t enroll in college after completing high school • Women completing bachelor’s degrees they’d previously started working toward

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Many alumnae have credited Meredith with changing their lives, said Allen.

“The stories of the women who have gone through our adult education programs often are quite powerful,” she said. “For various reasons, many delayed their own pursuit of a college education until much later in life – often with pretty serious self-doubts about their abilities.”

Others initially started college but had to stop, Allen said, while some already held college degrees but decided to pursue degrees or majors more conducive to helping them achieve their goals.

“For each of these women, the special attention Meredith places on scheduling, learning styles, goals, time management, and intellectual aptitude has made all the difference in their success,” said Allen. “Meredith is, has always been, and will continue to be committed to the success of all women.”

Meredith’s renewed focus on adult education,” says Provost Matthew Poslusny. “And beginning in the spring 2015 semester, we’ll start doing things like increasing the number of classes we offer in alternative formats and at more unconventional times.”

“Meredith’s adult-learning program will soon be going even stronger,” said Allen. “We will all be the beneficiaries of that strength.”

Read more about President Allen’s plans for Wings in her column on page 5.

The stories that follow feature four women whose lives were transformed by their participation in Meredith’s Adult Education program.

Want to know more about Wings?

Go to meredith.edu/adulteducation or call (919) 760-8581 to learn more about Wings, including the admis-

Stay Tuned as Wings Prepares to Take Off

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“This fall we’ll be holding information sessions for the community to tell them about

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CHRISTIE BISHOP BARBEE, ’83 Consultant and Former Lobbyist, Construction Industry Completed first bachelor’s degree in religion at age 32 Christie Bishop Barbee first went to Meredith as part of the Class of 1973. She took a leave of absence during her junior year when she accepted a job offered by a political campaign for which she’d been working.

“I wasn’t able to return until I was married with two children under 4 years old,” said Barbee, who graduated the year her original class celebrated its tenth reunion. “My husband traveled in his job, so I was a one-woman show every Monday to Friday.”

She chose Meredith to finish her degree in religion (now called religious and ethical studies) for several reasons.

“I knew that Meredith is a great institution from my prior experience there and because my mother was a graduate,” said Barbee. “Not only does a Meredith degree represent a high-quality education and values I treasure, the College’s religion program is outstanding.”

The College’s flexibility and support for adult students was another deciding factor for Barbee.

After meeting with Anne Dahle, then-director of the 23+ Program, “I knew that Meredith was willing to work with me so I could get the courses I needed while managing the responsibilities of motherhood and running a home,” she said. “The support and encouragement from Anne and every one of my professors made all the difference in the world.”

Barbee has these words for non-traditionalaged women considering going – or going back – to college: “Don’t shortchange yourself; go to Meredith, where the mission is to educate women of all ages to make a difference in their communities and chosen fields,” she said. “No one will let you cut corners, but they will guide you toward your degree with an eye toward you as an individual and your goals.”

“You’ll not only find yourself in a community of strong women of all ages and cultural backgrounds, you’ll leave Meredith a stronger person than when you arrived, with enormous confidence in your ability to accomplish whatever you wish.”

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BEVERLY MECUM, ’15 Full-time student, part-time employee at Wake Tech Community College Slated to earn first bachelor’s degree in art education at age 56 Before coming to Meredith to pursue her first college degree, current student Bev Mecum weathered some of life’s most difficult challenges: an abusive marriage, divorce, and raising children alone.

Mecum also had two careers before coming to Meredith, first in probation and parole and then substance abuse counseling. For her third career, Mecum decided to combine her lifelong passion for art with her years of experience helping others by majoring in art education.

“When my son graduated from NC State, I decided it was my turn – especially since I think it’s important to model the expectations I have for my children,” she said.

“My daughter, who graduated from Meredith in 2002, absolutely loved it and always encouraged me to go here.”

Mecum now understands why her daughter still speaks of her experience at Meredith as one of the greatest in her life.

“The faculty and staff have encouraged and supported me from the start,” she said. “From admissions, advising, and the registrar to accounting and financial assistance, people have always taken the time help me and been pleasant, helpful, and understanding.”

Even more important, Mecum said, are the new doors being opened to her.

“Meredith has given me many opportunities to participate in the art community by attending workshops, conferences, holding leadership positions, and being a member of several honor societies – opportunities that will really help me when I graduate,” she said.

“Networking is another of the great advantages to having a Meredith education. I’ve met more artists through the networking of the art education faculty than I ever would have on my own.”

Mecum is making the most of these opportunities; she curated her first art exhibition on Meredith’s campus – the 2014 Creative Spirit exhibit, which showcased work by Meredith’s faculty and staff.

“Whatever career I have in art, it will be because of the education and support I’m getting from Meredith,” she said. “This college has its finger on the pulse of the community, state, and in many cases, the nation.”

Watch Bev Mecum’s strong story on youtube.com/meredithcollege.

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BARBARA GOODMON, ’94 President, A.J. Fletcher Foundation First bachelor’s degree in history at age 50 “A lot of women in my generation didn’t get to go to or finish college,” said Barbara Goodmon.

“That wasn’t really a priority then, and some women were from environments that made going to college difficult.”

A “diploma RN” who worked as a pediatric nurse before her time at Meredith, Goodmon had never earned an undergraduate degree.

“In my mid-40s, I decided I wanted a college education. I started with one course and ended up staying five years to earn a bachelor’s degree at 50 years old,” recalled Goodmon, president of the A.J. Fletcher Foundation since 2003, wife, and mother of three.

“Every part of going to college was new to me because I simply hadn’t been exposed to so many things,” she said. “I didn’t even know how to type or use a computer when I started.”

Meredith’s adult education focus helped Goodmon get up to speed and achieve her goals.

“It was really about people like me – women who didn’t get the chance to go to college or finish a degree, adults who needed flexibility because they had jobs and families and things they needed to do,” she said.

“Meredith’s faculty and staff were very supportive of non-traditional-aged students, and I met many women whose stories were like mine, including some in their 70s and 80s.”

Goodmon’s years at Meredith were transformational, and she went on to earn a Master of Liberal Studies from NC State.

“It was a wonderful, life-altering experience that opened doors and led me to do things I’d never dreamed about – and may not have even known about,” she said. “Meredith provided an environment that enabled me to become well-educated, confident, and empowered. Getting my degree at Meredith truly changed my life, and that can happen for other women, too.”

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CULLEN MOSER, ’07 Interior Designer, Hatteras Yachts Second bachelor’s degree in interior design at age 27 After earning a degree in advertising from UNCChapel Hill in 1998 and deciding the field wasn’t for her, Cullen (Thompson) Moser wanted to pursue a second degree in interior design.

While researching the offerings of smaller schools near her then-Chapel Hill home, she discovered Meredith’s accredited interior design program.

“That accreditation was a must – not only for getting a quality education from a well-respected college, but because it’s something respected design firms look for in prospective employees,” said Moser, now an interior designer with Hatteras Yachts. “In addition, the thought of sitting in a classroom of 30 students or less was very appealing!”

Twenty-four when she started the program, Moser was “extremely worried about being the oldest person in the class, but soon learned that was not at all the case,” she recalled. “There were so many students just like me – in their mid- to upper 20s, going to Meredith for a second degree, working to support themselves – so I felt like I had a real support system.”

As for most other adult learners, that support – from both fellow students and faculty members – was invaluable to Moser.

“Working and going to school full-time wasn’t easy, but with Meredith’s variety of class times and accommodating professors, it wasn’t as stressful as it could have been,” she said. “It was those kinds of things that got me through my three years and made me appreciate how truly special Meredith is.”

Moser couldn’t be happier with what she gained by pursuing that second degree.

“My Meredith degree has given me the education and knowledge I need to be successful in my career, as well as the confidence to get to where I am today – something I didn’t necessarily have when I began the program,” she said. “It also has given me a wonderful network of women all over the country who are great mentors and friends.”

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Alumna Lisa Poole takes charge of Raleigh’s Quail Ridge Books.

By Suzanne Stanard

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isa Poole, ’86, always wanted to own a bookstore. In July 2013, her dream became reality when she took the helm of Quail Ridge Books & Music, a beloved Raleigh institution known as much for its people as its 70,000 carefully curated titles.

Hand-selected by Quail Ridge founder Nancy Olson to take over the store upon her retirement, Poole said she was “equally thrilled and anxietystricken” at the news that she had been chosen over several other potential buyers to shepherd the independent bookstore into a new era.

“I had done retail when I was younger, but nothing like this,” Poole said. “The learning curve has been huge, and I’m still learning. Our team is wonderful, and they have all been very helpful and sweet.”

Born and raised in Raleigh, Poole attended St. Timothy’s School, Hale High School (now St. David’s), and Sanderson High School before attending Meredith.

“At Meredith, I really didn’t have any idea what I wanted to do until I started doing live theatre,” Poole said. “I participated from my sophomore year through my senior year, and that was my love.”

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She performed in Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke and as the title character in Hello Dolly, among several productions.

“It was such a thrill for me and taught me the value of being able to get up in front of people and speak.”

Armed with a degree in American history and a minor in communication, Poole moved to Florida with her husband, Ven Poole, soon after graduation. The couple lived there for five years, during which time Poole earned her teaching certificate and taught sixth grade. When she and her husband decided to start a family, they moved back home to Raleigh.

They have three daughters: Chelsea, 23, who recently graduated from North Carolina State University and now manages social media for Quail Ridge; Craven, 19, a student at Elon University; and Caroline, 15, a student at St. David’s.

As Poole began to approach an empty nest, she started thinking about the next chapter of her life. She had never let go of the self-described “fantasy” of having a bookstore.

“One day my husband put this newspaper article [announcing Quail Ridge was on

the market] in front of me, and he said, ‘This could be the one thing you are looking for,’ and we talked about it back and forth,” Poole said. “Then I met with Nancy Olson, and we just hit it off. “

“I think there are still a lot of people, young and old, who just want to hold a book in their hands. And there’s something about the independent bookstore community. We all rally around each other, at the local and national levels.”

– Lisa Poole, ’86

Describing the store as “a family affair,” Poole said that, in addition to Chelsea working there full-time, her husband provides excellent business counsel, daughter Craven also has worked at the store, and Caroline will jump in as a gift-wrapper during the holiday rush.

“The first year has been a challenge, and I still have so much to learn. Even finding where books are located in the store is a

challenge for me, and then sometimes they’re moved, and I’m lost all over again,” she said with a laugh. “I really want to master handselling. That’s what our folks are so good at doing. They know the books, they know the authors, and they make thoughtful recommendations.”

Her favorite part of the job? The events.

“In the last year, we’ve hosted Jimmy Carter, Pat Conroy, and Sue Monk Kidd, among other great authors,” Poole said. “They were all amazing. I was especially awestruck meeting President Carter. He was so gracious.”

Two of these events on Poole’s “top-three” list took place at Meredith, as part of a longstanding relationship between the store and the College. Meredith has hosted Quail Ridge events for years, including visits in the last decade by Khaled Hosseini, Rosanne Cash, and Frank McCourt. Although simple geography may have sparked the connection between Meredith and Quail Ridge – located just across the street from each other – it has deepened into a fruitful partnership over time.

“The folks at Meredith are really great, and we love working with them,” Poole said.

“We hosted Sue Monk Kidd in the Chapel

Best-selling author Pat Conroy shared his latest, The Death of Santini, at a Quail Ridge Books-sponsored event in Meredith’s Jones Auditorium.

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Authors Jenny Hubbard, ’87, and Jenny Han participated in a panel for authors of young adult literature at Meredith, and in an evening event at Quail Ridge Books.

and Pat Conroy in Jones Auditorium. Everyone we’ve worked with at Meredith has been super helpful.”

In April, Meredith hosted young adult literature authors Jenny Hubbard and Jenny Han on campus. Hubbard, a 1987 Meredith graduate, was one of Poole’s classmates. Han attended Meredith for two years before transferring to UNC-Chapel Hill. The authors spent an afternoon speaking with Meredith students, then read from their work and signed books at Quail Ridge that evening.

Associate Professor of English Kelly Roberts, ’91, coordinated the event.

“We worked closely with the Quail Ridge staff to put the event together, and they were on top of everything,” Roberts said. “They’re a well-run and well-respected book store.”

Students in the College’s Colton English Club helped with the event by handing out programs, setting up chairs, and introducing the authors.

“I love the fact that our students get hands-on experiences like that,” Roberts said. “Many of them are aspiring writers, and events like this one show them what’s possible. We really do have a beautiful partnership

with Quail Ridge.”

In addition to hosting numerous authors on campus, Quail Ridge also supports Meredith lectures by managing book sales at those events. And each spring, the store is part of a long-standing tradition in the Meredith English Department.

“It has become a wonderful ritual for English faculty members to go to Quail Ridge to purchase a special book for each graduating senior,” said Professor of English Robin Colby, ’81. “We’re a very close-knit department, and we typically graduate about 12 majors each year. At the spring Senior Tea, which is a grand occasion with all kinds of traditions unto itself, we give the books to the students as handselected mementos of their time at Meredith.

Years later, they will still talk about the tea, and the book exchange is part of something that is very meaningful to them.”

“I love Quail Ridge, and I’ve been going there for years,” Colby said. “They have such a wonderfully chosen collection, and the people there are so eager and willing to help you. I encourage my students to go to Quail Ridge to start the life-long habit of going into independent book stores.”

Despite the marketplace dominance of online booksellers and big box stores, independent shops like Quail Ridge continue to thrive, Poole said.

“I think there are still a lot of people, young and old, who just want to hold a book in their hands,” she said. “And there’s something about the independent bookstore community. We all rally around each other, at the local and national levels.”

Quail Ridge is definitely not a one-stop shop, Poole said, describing it as a “wonderful browsing store.” She intends to preserve the qualities that set Quail Ridge apart from the others.

With one year under her belt at Quail Ridge, Poole looks toward the future with confidence and good humor.

“This is completely new territory for me, and I love it. Nancy [Olson] is an icon, and I’m thankful that she trusts me with this store. I’m also thankful for this wonderful team who didn’t leave me,” she said with a little laugh. “Above all, I’m really thankful for the customers who have kept on coming despite the fact that this new person came in and took over. This is a very special place.”

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ALUMNAE

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1954

Essie Cooper Faircloth turned 100 years old on October 5, 2014.

Dorothy Hampton Marcus has written an autobiography, I Didn’t Know What I Didn’t Know, A Southern White Woman’s Story About Race. She worked on it for more than 15 years until she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s; her daughter helped complete and edit the book.

1944 Mary Hill Garber, who lives in Albemarle, has retired from volunteering at the nearby hospital and garden club. She is still chairman of a Baptist Women’s group and helps in the church library. Fannie Memory Farmer Mitchell lives in Whitaker Glen Retirement Community in Raleigh, is active at First Baptist Church, and continues to attend Meredith events. Sadie Outlaw Neel lives at her home in Grantham and stays busy with church and family--especially her four great grandchildren. Madeline Latta Purcell lives in an assisted living facility in Hillsborough and is surrounded by friends there. Grace Swann moved from Garner to Glenaire, a Cary retirement community, in 2010. She enjoys vacations with her four children and ten grandchildren.

1949 Joyce Vinson Canady was featured in The News and Observer discussing her talents as an educator.

1952 Marilyn Morrissette Brandt retired from teaching English at NC State University in 1991, after which she and her husband, Jim, enjoyed several European vacations and their place on Bogue Sound in Pine Knoll Shores, N.C. She keeps busy volunteering as copyeditor for a monthly town newspaper and at her church as librarian and office assistant. One of her granddaughters is a 2014 graduate of Meredith College and another is a freshman.

1961 Evelyn Simpson Osbahr writes that she has moved to a small house near her son and his family. She participates in bridge clubs and plays on her piano.

Her church presented her with a special “Heart and Soul” pen for 20 years of service.

1964 Nancy Spencer Bartlett and her husband, celebrated their 50th anniversary at Mt. Jefferson State Park, July 21, 2014. Friends and family of all ages enjoyed mountain music and BBQ, as well as witnessing the couple’s renewal ceremony. Nancy Evans Dellinger will be moving from Davidson, N.C., to Oxford, Miss. She is moving to be close to her family. Jo Crowder Dermid received the George Zell Award from the National Association of Catering and Event Professionals for exemplifying the goals and spirit of the hospitality industry. She lives in Nashville, Tenn., and is the owner of Graceful Tables with her daughters Beth Harmon, ’87, and Amanda Robinson, ’91. Martha Haywood Hanford is enjoying retirement with her husband and enjoys relaxing at Carolina Beach several weeks each year.

Betty Hooks Henderson, who lives in Raleigh, is a thankful five-year breast cancer survivor. She is the mother of three children and has six grandchildren.

Sue Anne James Schoonderwoerd is celebrating her 30th wedding anniversary in Paris and a riverboat cruise in Europe. She writes that “...being a class agent for 50th Reunion was a privilege...” She loved the opportunity to re-connect and establish new friendships.

1968 Happy Neal Goethert was happy to have her classmate, Elaine, visit recently. They had a few days together talking about Meredith times, the upcoming reunion plans, and their suitemates Ellen and Gay. They were able to call them and have a chat. She was able to raise a few hundred tomato seedlings in the living room in preparation for spring and work on a neighboring farm. Millicent Wood Nash enjoyed a trip to England and France with her husband and their younger daughter as their guide. They had lots of fun, lots of history, and lots of laughs. One of her daughters lives in Boston, the other lives in Austin, and her son is a Naval officer who is all over the place. They were all able to celebrate July 4th together this year.

Marion Nolan O’Quinn retired from Wake County Public Schools in 2008. Since that time she has worked part-time with beginning teachers, and says it has been very rewarding to help young teachers succeed in their classrooms. In addition, she loves spending time with her five grandchildren who range in age from 8 to 2. Jane Waller Smith is running for the NC Senate, District 13 (Robeson and Columbus counties). She had three other opponents in the May primary, but won the Democratic nomination without having a runoff. She has opposition in November but hopes to win again then and begin serving in Raleigh when the next session starts in January.

Compiled by the Office of Alumnae & Parent Relations from March-July 2014. Information may be edited for space limitations and content restrictions. Submit class notes to your class agent, online at meredith.edu/alumnae, by email at alumnae@meredith.edu, by fax (919) 760-2818, or by phone to the Office of Alumnae and Parent Relations at (919) 760-8548. Deadline for the spring 2015 issue is November 5, 2014. Submissions received after this date will appear in the summer 2015 issue.

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1969 Barbara Wall Fraser and her husband spent a weekend over the summer with Evelyn Carter Pollock.

Seeing her Meredith roommate was a highlight of the summer. She is a proud grandparent of seven grandchildren. She is now in her retirement and doing quite a bit of sailing off the coast of North Carolina down to Florida and the Caribbean. Ginger Rhodes Kruse retired after teaching 25 years in Seminole County, Fla. Fran Simpson Summerlin enjoyed connecting again with classmates at her 45th reunion. She and her husband attended the 2014 British Open in Hoylake, UK.

1971 Suzanne Reynolds, who has served as Wake Forest Law’s Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for the past four years, was recently named interim dean of Wake Forest Law. She is the first woman to serve as dean of the school.

1974 Hope Faircloth Coffey planned, executed, and enjoyed the wedding of her daughter in April 2014. Woody Dicus spent a lot of her time over the summer at her amazing beach “hotel” in Kure Beach. Christy Farrior is associate minister of music at First Methodist Church in Cary. Kathy Harrison continues to be a force at the Mary Biddle Duke Foundation in Durham. Cindy Rosser Higgins sent greetings following her 40th reunion - saying, “Thanks for keeping me in the loop and so glad it was a wonderful time. I’ll be there the next go round, God willing!” Peggy Walser Howard retired from public education, and now enjoys living at beautiful Lake Gaston. She is excited about her new venture as an independent CAbi Fashion consultant. Paige Foster Lamberson teaches language arts and social studies to 8th graders in Roanoke Rapids City Schools. She also reports that she, Woody Dicus, Peggy Walser Howard, Hope Faircloth Coffey, Lissy Wall, Cindy Godwin, Kathy Harrison, Jeanie Alford Scott, Kathy Fleetwood McNeill, and Christy Farrior have held mini reunions a few times yearly since their 2009 reunion. Life is too short to not embrace their connections! Mary Nieber Madenspacher spent July 4th with Teri Wilson Prather and Judy Walker Packer (she transferred to NCSU sophomore year) at Teri’s home in Ojai, Calif. They spent several wonderful days visiting Ventura, Santa Barbara, and Big Sur. She has worked for Life Experiences in Cary for 19 years. Recently, she adopted an adorable rescue dog named Sydney.

Deborah Jordan Matthews hosted her 40th Reunion evening in May. She enjoyed seeing so many classmates and catching up. She and her husband are enjoying their new home and move to Cary from Raleigh. In late May, their son and his wife renewed their vows at the Chapel

A TASTE OF

TUSCANY

Spring 2015 Tuscan Intensives in Sansepolcro, Italy April 25 – May 8, 2015 (includes travel days) Instructor: Margherita Tirabosco Chef Margherita will again offer her very popular cooking class with the addition of an exploration of the history of Tuscan cooking as reflected in its art. Learn to make different handmade pastas, vegetable, and meat dishes. One day will be devoted entirely to creating delicious dolci (desserts). Cook in the mornings with Margherita, eat what you have prepared for pranzo (lunch), and travel to neighboring sites in the afternoons to explore farms and farmers’ markets, enjoy wine tastings in lovely vineyards, a visit to Aboca Erbe, an herb farm where you will pick your own herbs and learn to cook using these herbs. Meet other guest chefs from the area who will share their special dishes, then independently explore the varied and excellent restaurants in Sansepolcro.

Cost: $2,100 (does not include airfare) Deposit of $500 due January 27.

You can send in deposit money any time to hold your place. Contact Linda FitzSimons for an application at lindafitzsimons7@gmail.com.

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at Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh. She continues to work with Bridgewood Educational Services and North Carolina New Schools. It is very fulfilling work for her.

She greatly enjoys helping schools develop systemic, sustainable innovation and students who are ready for college, careers, and life. Kathy Fleetwood McNeill has retired from public education and jumped right back into teaching American history at a private school, and serving in guidance and administrative capacities. Elaine Bartholomew Scarborough hates that she missed the 40th Reunion. She was hosting an engagement party at her house for her son and his fiancé on May 17.

They got married in September. She’s sorry she missed seeing everyone. Ann Lowery Shivar was this year’s recipient of the 2014 Meredith Reunion Philanthropy Award. She encouraged alumnae to consider making Meredith a philanthropic priority, and to make a gift to be proud of. Jeanie Alford Scott has retired from public education. She works with seniors in recreation activities, and thoroughly enjoys her time with her grandchildren.

Lissy Wall and her mother Jean celebrated Jean’s 88th birthday in August with a Danube cruise. Meredith Marr Watson and husband, enjoyed the two-week trip with Meredith alumnae to Great Britain. She says “It was wonderful to reconnect with old friends and to make new ones! We also came back so much smarter than when we went!” Judy Williams, class giving agent, writes that she received a letter of appreciation to the Class of 1974 from Vice President for Institutional Advancement, Lennie Barton, on behalf of the College, thanking the class for its gift to the Linda Keith Ray, ’74, Scholarship Endowment.

She thought that those who were not at the reunion would like to hear about that.

1975 Cheri Garnett Furr enjoys seeing pictures of her classmates and hearing about their retirements on Facebook. She and her husband are enjoying their two grandchildren.

1976 Kathy Midyette Anderson has recently moved to Durham, N.C. She is self-employed, doing legal transcription, and is anxiously awaiting the birth of her first grandchild. Reya Blount Roller has had a very traumatic past year. Her youngest son was hurt in a car accident sustaining a spinal cord injury which resulted in paralysis from his chest down. He was told he most likely would not walk again. He was sent to The Shepherd Center in Atlanta for rehab. Over Christmas her husband got really sick and spent the entire holiday in the hospital and wasn’t able to go back to work until February. Reid was able to come home at the end of February. On a more positive note, she will be a first time grandparent this fall. Julia Turner moved to Kansas City in January to take a job with GE Capital. Her husband, moved there a month later. They have now sold their house in Winston Salem and are settling into life in Overland Park, Kansas.

1978 Georganne Branham Griffin went to Italy on one of the Meredith Tuscan Intensives. Her group spent two weeks studying the Renaissance and Dante with a twist on Dan Brown’s Inferno. They stayed at the wonderful Meredith Palazzo with side trips to several

Tuscan and Umbrian towns and a weekend excursion to Florence. She had an amazing experience and hopes that many Meredith alumnae will experience this fabulous Meredith program.

1979 Molly Hall Fairchild received her Master of Arts in pastoral theology from Seattle University. She is working as a chaplain with Franciscan Hospice House in University Place, Wash. Anne Parker Justice has joined Lipscomb & Pitts Insurance as program director for the program/franchise department. Most recently she had been the national accounts customer service manager for ServiceMaster. She lives in Memphis, Tenn. Miriam Victorian joined Meenan P.A. in Tallahassee, Fla., in March 2014 and will continue her insurance regulatory practice.

1980 Leslie Landis Hayes is chairing the United Way of Forsyth County campaign. Last year they raised $17.3 million. Juana Ruble Mikels has authored her first book, Choosing Him All Over Again: A Story of Romance and Redemption (Ambassador International, fall 2014). It’s a nonfiction adult book about Christian faith and marriage. She speaks at women’s events and churches. She and her husband have been married for 33 years and have four children – the youngest born totally blind. Shearra Beachum Miller was elected to serve as the 2014 President of the NC School Board Association. She has served on the Cleveland County Board of Education for 23 years.

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nder the leadership of the Alumnae Association, The Meredith Fund and Alumnae Relations offices launched the 1891 Club this year.

With nearly 200 student members, the 1891 Club has quickly become one of the largest student organizations on campus.

The 1891 Club will serve as a vital resource for students during their time at Meredith. The purpose is to educate current students about the significance of the Alumnae Association and their role as future alumnae. Areas of focus include outreach and philanthropy. Membership includes special events with alumnae throughout the academic year.

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• Going Strong Week Events in com• •

• • Since launching in February, the 1891 Club had several events during the spring semester including:

• Snow day – 1891 Club kick-off event

memoration of Founders’ Day St. Paddy’s Day Mixer with Alumnae Board members and volunteers Young Alumnae Board Meeting – club members attended and updated the Board on the new student organization End of Year Lawn Party featuring Craig Woolard and the Embers Back to School Kick Off Party with the Band of Oz

Based on the success of this year, the Alumnae Office looks forward to increased awareness and support of the 1891 Club during the 2014-15 academic year.

1981 Kiki Massenburg Farish teaches design in the Meredith Art Department. She is featured in Line, Touch, Trace, an exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art’s North Carolina Gallery until March 2015.

1983 Patricia Mixon Crowe recently retired from the Department of Public Safety (formally known as the Department of Correction). She stays quite busy and enjoys volunteering and being an adoption counselor at Safe Haven for Cats in Raleigh. Carolyn Dunn was named department head for the Department of Youth, Family, and Community Sciences at NC State University.

1984 Quincy Foil was promoted to associate vice president of the CPCC Services Corporation, Resource Development & Sponsorship. In her role, she is responsible for overseeing the CPCC Services Corporation, a nonprofit organization that generates alternative sources of revenue for the college by investing in college businesses that generate unrestricted annual earnings of approximately $3 million.

Beth Madren Kasai was featured in Triangle Business Journal’s Financial Executives of the Year edition.

1987 Catherine Stanley Alligood was STEM project manager for Craven County Schools. She has accepted a position as assistant principal at Ben D Quinn Elementary School in New Bern where her daughters went to elementary school. One of her daughters finished at Duke in May 2014 and the other is now a sophomore at UNC-Chapel Hill. Lisa Talbott Lisson debuted her new website this past spring. She is a genealogist, blogger, and Etsypreneur specializing in North Carolina and Virginia research.

1988 Robin Fastenau is vice president of corporate communications and investor relations for Metabolon, Inc., a life sciences company in Research Triangle Park, N.C.

1989 Melanie Parkins Bacheler started an ovarian cancer walk/run in memory of her mother. This was the event’s 12th year. The walk is held in September, which is ovarian cancer awareness month. All money raised goes to the Duke Cancer Institute specifically for ovarian cancer research. Donna Fowler-Marchant is a United Methodist pastor currently serving as minister of pastoral care at First Presbyterian Church, Fayetteville N.C., and has led workshops on prayer and spiritual autobiography

[ALUMNAE GOING STRONG]

CATHERINE PANNILLROHRBAUGH, ’11 Asteroid Ambassador

By Melyssa Allen Catherine Pannill-Rohrbaugh, ’11, introduces her students to new worlds as a seventh grade science teacher.

Last school year, Pannill-Rohrbaugh started an asteroid search team as an extracurricular activity for students at Raleigh’s Dillard Drive Middle School. Her initial goal for the four student team was to locate and confirm one asteroid. “I knew I could find the asteroids, but it is not about me, it’s about allowing the students to take on the leadership role,” she explained.

The team far exceeded PannillRohrbaugh’s expectations, ending the search with 19 asteroid locations and a provisional asteroid discovery. Their work gained attention, resulting in an invitation for the team to present at NASA’s Asteroid Initiative Opportunities Forum.

NASA has invited Pannill-Rohrbaugh to help them make astronomy more accessible for students and other amateurs. She was offered an opportunity to work with NASA this past summer and throughout the 2014-15 school year.

“I am participating and presenting in online conferences for NASA as part of their Asteroid Grand Challenge Program,” Pannill-Rohrbaugh said. “I am also partnering with the International Astronomical Search Collaboration to do teacher recruitment and training for the asteroid search programs.”

The asteroid team idea was sparked by her experience at Meredith searching for asteroids in Professor of Physics Bill Schmidt’s astronomy class. “I have 23 observations and three discoveries from my college search days,” she said.

Pannill-Rohrbaugh praises her Meredith professors for being a network of mentors. Schmidt and others at Meredith shared insight to help make the asteroid team successful.

“Dr. Schmidt allowed me to take on a lot of leadership roles and learn the ropes of asteroid hunting throughout my time at Meredith,” Pannill-Rohrbaugh said. “When I wanted to begin my own team, I immediately emailed him to see exactly how to get started.”

Though she’s won several recognitions for her work, her greatest reward is the success of her students. Some who previously disliked science praise her for making the subject fun.

“My students often will tell me that they will pay attention just to see what random science thing I will do next,” she said. “My greatest professional strength is my love for science. If you truly love your content, you will naturally be more motivated to succeed in it.”

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2015 ALUMNAE TOURS The Alumnae Travel Program will feature visits to Ireland and Italy in 2015.

Circling the Emerald Isle June 4-15, 2015 “Come Away . . . .” (an invitation from Yeats himself) with Meredith College to Ireland, on a tour designed to delight your mind, your heart, and your senses.

We will start in Dublin, where we will lay the ground work for the rest of our trip, which will focus on the arts, artifacts, history, and cultural richness of Eire. We will spend most of our time on the west coast, traveling there via the beautiful Boyne Valley and magical New Grange (older than Stonehenge and the pyramids!). Sligo, the Connemara, Galway, the Clare Burren, Dingle Peninsula, and the Wicklow Mountains are among the places we aim to visit. There will be an optional three-day add-on to Northern Ireland.

Pageantry, Palaces, Paintings, and Pumpkin Pasta September 10-21, 2015 From the famed canals of Venice to the Roman coliseum of romantic Verona to the stunning d’Este fortress in Ferrara, this custom tour will focus on the Veneto and the surrounding area, including Mantua, Padua, and Lake Garda! The tour will also include the possibility of a ring-side seat for the Palio della Balestra in Sansepolcro, in Tuscany, where Meredith has had a vibrant study abroad program for over 20 years and the crossbow competition and attendant pageantry have taken place for centuries. We promise a most interesting sojourn, with excellent food, on and off the beaten track, during this delightful time of the year.

Coming soon: Program details including pricing information, application forms, and deadlines. These tours work equally well for singles, couples, mothers and daughters and granddaughters, Meredith classmates, friends of Meredith graduates, and friends of their friends. Space is limited, so apply early!

For more information contact Denise Parker at dpparker@meredith.edu.

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for people from around the United States. She and her husband traveled to Normandy to visit the D-Day beaches and to partly trace the route taken by her uncles in June of 1944 as they served under General George Patton.

Margot Nelke Holloman has been teaching orchestra in the Wake County Public School System for 25 years.

She received her graduate degree in music education from East Carolina University in 2007. She performs with the Meredith College Sinfonietta and the Duke Medicine Orchestra. She is current chair for NCMEA Honors Orchestra and Chair-Elect for NCMEA Orchestra Section.

She is an artist in The Waverly Artists Group Studio and Gallery in Cary. Her paintings are also exhibited in the Wainwright Music Building lobby at Meredith. Kristen Myers was awarded a Presidential Teaching Professor Award this year by Northern Illinois University, where she is a professor of sociology and director of women’s studies. Beth McArdle Sturdivant celebrated her 22nd wedding anniversary and is a cancer survivor. Her oldest daughter, Caroline, is a freshman at Meredith.

1990 Bebie Barrett lives in Greenville, N.C., and is starting her 23rd year of teaching kindergarten. She enjoys spending time with her 9-year-old nephew and 5-year-old niece. She is involved with several charities that support Breast Cancer and Childhood Cancer, Vidant Children’s Hospital, and Oakmont Baptist Church. Alyson Kuhlke Jones and her husband continue to serve on staff with the Christian mission organization Campus Crusade for Christ and more specifically, with The JESUS Film Project.

They have been married for 18 years and have four children. They have traveled around the world filming and capturing stories of how God is working in the world today. She is involved in the women’s ministry, serving the women mainly through event planning and helping to run a kids’ camp during donor conferences. She also teaches part-time at the elementary school two of her children attend. She is in her 11th year of teaching and currently teaches third grade.

They live in Orlando, Fla., but love to travel, so their summers are usually enjoyed in places such as Colorado, Hawaii, or Virginia/the Carolinas. She has fond memories of Meredith and enjoys staying in touch with classmates through Facebook. Linda Walther Messer started a home baking business called Made with Love by Linda Messer. She makes specialty cakes and cupcakes for celebrations big and small.

She has three children ages 12, 10, and 5. She and her husband, Ray, have been married 14 years this December. Laura Prestwood Thomson is principal and president of Archillume Lighting Design, Inc. in Austin, Texas. She is a registered interior designer

in the State of Texas with over 20 years of practice experience. Her expertise is architectural lighting design and education.

1991 Tracy Lewis and her husband recently relocated to Ashburn, Va., after he completed his medical residency at Duke in radiation oncology. As an active member of the US Navy, he will be stationed at the Walter Reed Military Medical Hospital in Bethesda, Md. Tracy will be working from her home office for Cisco Systems. They are enjoying their time with her husband’s children, who live close by.

1993 Mitchell Brown along with co-author Kathleen Hale, published a textbook with Wiley/Jossey-Bass titled Applied Research Methods in Public and Nonprofit Organizations. Catherine Buchholz Carver moved from her downtown Raleigh cottage to Fuquay Varina in October 2013. She is enjoying the view of the sky above. Her office on St. Mary’s St. was sold, so after doing massage therapy there for 10 years, she joined Eastern Traditions, Lei Zheng. She has a granddaughter at Appalachian. She is still feeling young! Valerie Collier now works at Corinth Holders High in Johnston Country. She just began her 22nd year of teaching.

Katherine Gu Granger moved to Columbus, Ohio, two years ago for her husband’s job at Ohio State University. She has since joined Cardinal Health and has accepted a six-month assignment to China. She and her daughter are moving to Shanghai and they are very excited about the opportunity as Shanghai is her hometown. Her daughter will be enrolled in a local school and will have an opportunity to learn the culture and language. Mandy Dill Hines is still teaching at Davie County High School. She coaches two culinary/ restaurant teams at the high school. This spring, her Culinary Prostart team won the North Carolina state title and competed at Nationals in May in Minneapolis.

Her Restaurant Management Team took second in the state competition for the second year in a row. As a sales director with The Pampered Chef for more than 12 years, she continues to train her consultants and loves doing cooking shows with people to show off their products. With teaching, coaching, and selling kitchen tools, she can’t stay out of the kitchen. Becky Yarbrough Norman graduated from Winthrop University with a Master of Social Work degree. She obtained her clinical license and recently started her job as a Therapist with RHA Health Services, Inc. Kelly Phillips Erb of The Erb Law Firm PC, Paoli, received the inaugural Pennsylvania Bar Association Solo and Small Firm Practice Section Award during the PBA Annual

Meeting Awards Luncheon in May. Dawn Simpson is currently the financial / technical director for Give Her Wings, Inc. In this volunteer position, she supports the organization, which raises funds to help mothers and children who have left abusive relationships. They are in the process of procuring their 501(c)(3) certification.

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of the Johnston County Scholarship Organization and serves on the Johnston County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council, the Board of Directors of the Neuse Charter School, and the Advisory Board for the Clayton branch of the State Employees Credit Union.

2001

Michelle Smith has been named Teacher of the Year at Great Falls Elementary School for the 2014-15 school year. She teaches second grade.

Katherine Withers Armstrong won the 2013 Pinnacle Award and will be named to the Circle Of Excellence with Bristol Myers Squibb. This award recognizes individuals who accomplish sales numbers that are in the top 10% in the country for the year. This significant level of achievement earned her a trip with her husband to the Grand Cayman Islands. Kelley Davidson Johnson is now the high school director of curriculum for Johnston County Schools.

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2002

Carol Torian is a writer and playwright living in Durham, N.C. Her play The Traditionalists was selected for the Cary Playwrights’ Forum Spring Staged Reading Showcase in May 2014. A scene from her play In the Afternoon was produced by The Owl Tree Theater in August 2014.

Christina Witherspoon-Winokur is the assisting director of adult residential services at SPIN, Inc. in Philadelphia, Pa. She recently celebrated the third birthday of her daughter.

Carol Hill Cato has been elected and installed as the president of The Woman’s Club of Raleigh. Her term will be 2014-16.

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1998 Kimberley Debus earned her Master of Divinity at Union Theological Seminary. She was also awarded the Robert E. Seaver Award for Excellence in Worship and the Arts. She is the ministerial intern at One Island Family Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Key West, Fla. Michelle Patterson Jones is a Child Care Center Director for Vance Granville Community College and has a master’s degree in early childhood.

She and her husband live in her hometown of Louisburg. She models part time.

2003 Tasha Matheny Michaels was recently promoted to pharmacy manager at Kerr Drug/Walgreens in Chapel Hill and continues to be the site coordinator/ primary preceptor for the post-graduate year one (PGY1) Community Pharmacy Residency Program with UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.

2005 Seria D. Lakes graduated with her Doctorate in Information Assurance in May 2014. Lakes also recently received her project management professional (PMP) certification.

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2007

Adrien Murray Albright teaches in Chatham County and in February was inducted into the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame. Courtney Duncil recently became a staff attorney with McGuireWoods in Charlotte after serving as assistant district attorney in Mecklenburg County.

Heather Blackwood has recently moved to Charlotte, N.C., for a job with Team Epic. This position focuses on corporate hospitality hosting across the NASCAR circuit for Toyota Racing. Audrey Tamer Harrell was named assistant principal at Holly Springs High School in Wake Count Public Schools in December of 2013.

2000 Michelle Drake Denning is seeking elected office as Johnston County’s Clerk of Superior Court. She has served as an attorney with the North Carolina Industrial Commission since 2006, and currently serves as a Special Deputy Commissioner. Denning is also an adjunct faculty member at Johnston Community College. She lives in Smithfield with her husband and their son. They love serving the community and are active members of their church. She is the president

2008 ToniAnn Gambella began her fourth year at the Rebecca School, a specialized program for children with neurodevelopmental disorders of relating and communicating, which utilizes the Developmental Individual difference Relationship (DIR)/ Floortime model. She also holds an Intermediate Certificate in DIR/Floortime from the Interdisciplinary Council on Development and Learning (ICDL). She was recently F all 2014 | M E R E D IT H M A G A Z I N E

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MARLEE RAY, ’75 Community Changemaker

By Meaghan Bixby After a 32-year career in public education, during which she worked mostly with academically gifted students in a variety of roles, Marlee Ray, ’75, was ready for a new challenge.

She had a desire to continue working and making a difference in the community, so when she was offered the role of executive director of WAGES – the Wayne Action Group for Economic Solvency – she happily accepted.

“It was a great way to branch out and do something different, but also to continue to give back to the community,” Ray said of her career change.

For the past seven years, the focus of Ray’s work has shifted to concentrate on WAGES’ three central goals: mobilizing resources, improving the community, and changing lives of citizens for the better.

Based in Goldsboro, N.C., WAGES is the Community Action Agency (CAA) for Wayne County that plans, develops, administers, and implements human services programs designed specifically for that community. Programs offered include First Steps for expectant mothers and their newborns; Head Start and Early Head Start for young children; a self-sufficiency program for adults living below the poverty line; and Foster Grandparents, Senior Companions, and Meals on Wheels for seniors.

“People will say ‘Oh, I know Meals on Wheels, I know Head Start, but I didn’t know that was WAGES,’” said Ray. In her position, Ray is responsible for securing the resources that enable WAGES to continue providing these programs in the community. “One of the things I’m constantly doing is seeking and advocating for funds and grants that will help us make a difference,” said Ray. She also uses her leadership and teaching strengths to make a positive impact. “You have to have the passion to say ‘what can I do to help you do it for yourself?’ Not ‘what can I do to help you,’ but ‘what can I do to help you do it for yourself?’ Then you’ve built that structure in place for them to continue to grow and be successful, which is key to what we do.”

Ray continually sees how these programs benefit the community. “What stands out to me are the human stories – the impact that a CAA can make on a person’s life, and we get those daily,” said Ray. “We receive the most wonderful thank you notes from people and families who say ‘you made a difference.’”

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recognized by the American Speech Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) for excellence in continuing education. She currently lives in New York City.

2009 Carshia Craven is now web marketing analyst at Gilbarco Veeder-Root in Greensboro, N.C. She has also started the Digital Media & Marketing Professional Certificate Program at Duke University. Katherine Perkins graduated in August 2013 with a Master of Music in music education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Toni Tricarico obtained a Master of Arts in physical education degree in May 2014 from the University of South Florida. She teaches physical education at Thomasville Primary School in Thomasville, N.C.

2010 Rachel Bockner has a new job at Arris, A Design Studio, Inc. Arris is the 3rd largest interior design firm in Maryland. Lindsey Cox recently graduated from Charlotte School of Law. Emily Dawson started working at Barton College in October 2013, and was promoted in July 2014 to admissions counselor and technology specialist. Rebekah Shingleton Gardner started a new job in June as a residence director at Meredith College. Jennifer Johnson lives with her husband in Kansas City and began working for Myriad Genetics as a preventive care account executive in November 2013. The company is involved with providing genetic testing for multiple hereditary cancers.

Caitlin McNabb has recently moved to Columbus, Ohio, and taken a job with Bob Evans Farms as their graphic designer.

2012 Jennifer Prince graduated from Appalachian State University in spring 2014 with a Master of Arts degree in college student development. She began work in July at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga., where she serves as the assistant director of community engagement.

2014 Calais Johnson works for Duke Energy Small Business Energy Saver Program/Lime Energy.

MARRIAGES 1975 Melynda McIntyre to Charles Ciccotti, 01/18/14.

1976 Julia Turner to Joseph Pisano, 01/16/14.

1989 Ida Barrett Parker to Ronald Rae, 04/26/14.

1990 Audra Nunn to Edward Tyree, 02/22/14.

1998 Michelle Patterson to Ted Jones, 05/28/14.

2001 Sandi Leigh Matthews to Bryson Douglas Trexler III, 4/26/14.

2002

01/12/13 and Andres Sebastian, 06/18/14. Tasha Matheny Michaels, a son, Eric Phillip, 03/26/14. Erin Taylor Rice, a son, Banks Theodore, 05/10/14.Elizabeth Kelly Smith, a son, Camden Conrad, 10/29/13.

2004 Sarah Liles Pittman, a son, Jameson Liles, 06/06/14.

2006

Ann Brock Duke, 04/22/14.

1969 Cornelia Little Allen, 04/03/14

1973 Robin Noel Britt, 04/25/14.

1974 Beverly Poe McCain, 07/12/14.

1975

Ashley Ellis to Darek Carter, 05/17/14.

Ashley Black Gaylord, a son, Parker Owen, 5/8/14.

Melissa Poe Parks, a son, Thomas Michael, 04/29/14. Ashley Bohn Roberson, a son, Price Weaver, 12/30/13.

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2008

1990

Rosanna Harrell Thomas, a son, Henry Richardson, 12/13/13.

Karen Templeton Everett, 07/18/14. Mary Elizabeth Smith, 06/07/14.

Anna Inman to Clay McCullohs, 05/17/14.

2008

Mallory Brown to Hayden McNeill, 06/07/14.

Jeanette Kimbrough to Jerry Lopez, 06/14/14.

Emily Crowell to Jonathan Paul, 03/29/14.

2010 Danielle Baskin to Matthew Edwards, 06/13/14.

Matney Murad to Benjamin Gaddy, 07/05/14.

Rebekah Shingleton to Nicholas Gardner, 10/12/13. Jennifer Johnson to Dr. John Maxwell, 05/25/14. Julia Spruill to Captain Daniel S. McNear, USMC, 04/26/14. Kerianne Bethea to Chad Peaden, 07/11/14. Amy Brooks to Ricky Roach, 08/06/11.

2010 Brittany Pearl Kelley, a son, Cormick Lee, 04/07/14.

DEATHS 1944

Lucille Sawyer Harris, 08/02/14.

1949

2013

Sue Jarvis Martin, 04/27/14.

Brittany Jaked to Branson Holt, 05/16/14.

1951

BIRTHS

Nell Rankin Leazar, 07/15/14. Louise Shingleton Shivers, 07/26/14.

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1952

Lisa Brown De Armas, two sons, Christian Manuel,

1954 Sally Dean Knight in the death of her husband.

Rebecca Haynes Morvil in the death of her brother.

Betty Owens Purser in the death of her husband.

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1956

1954

2003

Naomi Pugh Barefoot in the death of her grandson.

1953

1997

Jamie Tunnell Carter, a son, Aaron Alexander, 03/31/14. Annette Snyder Deese, twins, Hannah Brooke and Nathaniel Paul, 5/19/2014.

1948

Katie Lee Currin Kimbrough in the death of her husband.

Lori Elliott Cooper, a daughter, Amelia Kate, 02/25/14.

2002

Milly Thornton Middleton in the death of her husband. Cleo Glover Perry in the death of her sister-in-law.

Jane Slate Brooks, 04/20/14.

Glyndora Benner Campbell, 05/19/14. Carolyn Brady Harris, 7/7/14. Pat Andrews McArthur, 11/11/13. Alma Brigman Richards, 05/20/14.

Beth Eastman-Mull, a daughter, Sadie Grace, 04/25/13. Betsy Hayes Worthington, a son, Brantson Hayes, 11/23/13.

1945

Martha Blue Purser Hooks in the death of her brother. Jetta Funderburk Spencer in the death of her husband.

Dr. Jane Templeman Lewis, 3/15/14.

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1946

Morgan Collins to James Creager, 06/28/14.

Sarah Murray to Michael Robinson, 08/31/14.

Jonna Anderson Yarbrough, a son, John Davis II, 10/28/13.

Sarah Herring, 06/30/14.

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1948

1995

1983

Sarah Yates Goare, 08/11/14.

2012

Wendy Barham Banner, adoption of a baby boy, Henry Paul, 10/03/13.

Gale Helton Hess, 06/05/14.

Ann Lovell, 04/23/14. Florence Powers Williamson, 07/10/14.

1955 Sarah Mangum Daniel, 6/4/14.

1958 Martha Bone Crow, 07/26/14.

1962 Brenda Davis Stocks, 04/25/14.

1963 Barbara Blanchard Allen, 07/14/14.

1965

Harriet Andrews Adcock in the death of her husband.

1960 Elizabeth Carter Neal in the death of her brother.

1961 Mary Lynn Caldwell Morrill in the death of her brother.

Mary Carol Warwick in the death of her husband.

1962 Betty Bone Haggerty in the death of her sister.

1971 Betsy Best Phillips in the death of her husband.

1973 Carolyn Carter in the death of her brother. Debbie Martin in the death of her mother. Susan Irvine Morris in the death of her daughter. Angie Clinton Welsh in the death of her father.

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Master Networker

1977

As vice president for operations for Blueforest Studios, a growing integrated video production firm with clients such as Cree, Greenshield Organics, and the NCADA, Kathy Hughes Langfield, ’07, MBA, knows the importance of building a strong network.

“There were only four people in the company when I started, so it was very important to learn to work with a wide variety of people,” she said. “Networking has helped me gain business, find talent, and help others.”

Langfield, who oversees finance, marketing, and operations for Blueforest, considers networking one of her greatest strengths as an executive, and she credits the Meredith MBA program with helping to develop her skills.

“There were many opportunities to meet and work with a diverse group of people in the MBA program. I was able to interact with people from all around the world with different backgrounds, which gave me time to practice networking while learning about different cultures,” she said.

Langfield said the “team work, assignments, and extracurricular activities” she participated in at Meredith helped her gain several promotions at Blueforest Studios.

Her experiences connecting with other professionals through the program have been so powerful Langfield has been inspired to give back to Meredith by regularly organizing networking events for MBA students and alumni.

“The MBA Program has given so much to me in terms of long-time friends, experiences that I will never forget, and knowledge that I want to ensure that others benefit from Meredith College.”

She plans to continue creating networking opportunities for the Meredith community as graduate representative on the Meredith Alumnae Association Board.

“I’m excited about sharing the graduate perspective with the alumnae board and helping to keep Meredith College Going Strong in whatever way possible,” she said.

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Cindy Godwin in the death of her life partner.

Cookie Guthrie Newton in the death of her mother.

KATHY HUGHES LANGFIELD, ’07, MBA

By Kristi Eaves-McLennan

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1974

Patricia Crowell Everett in the death of her father.

Lee Ann Michael in the death of her father.

Margaret Rhyne Miller in the death of her father.

Freda Middleton Tricarico in the death of her mother.

Laura Jackson Williams in the death of her mother.

1978 Elizabeth Raynor Santana in the death of her mother.

1979 Sharon Nixon Escochea in the death of her father.

Katherine Keith Thomas in the death of her mother.

1980 Susan Dutton Kinney in the death of her husband.

1981 Patricia Forbes Poe in the death of her father.

1982 Martha Baker Fraize in the death of her husband.

1983 Joy Cox Sloan in the death of her father.

1985 Kellie Jo Falk in the death of her father.

1986 Donna Martin Pilkington in the death of her mother.

Mary Lynn Purcell Roberts in the death of her father.

1987 Mary Ellen McKown Fines in the death of her father. Karen Carr Gearing in the death of her father.

1990 Robin S. Andrews in the death of her mother.

Victoria Ellen Parker in the death of her mother.

1993 Virginia Lambeth Mayone in the death of her mother.

1995 Shannon Lambeth in the death of her mother.

1996 Emily Robinette Harpe in the death of her father.

2005 Alicia Baucom in the death of her father in law.

2014 Kiki Sloan in the death of her grandfather.

HONOR ROLL

OF DONORS 2013-14 Meredith is grateful to the many alumnae and friends who supported the College financially last year. Your gifts are deeply appreciated, not only because they help to make Meredith a stronger, more vibrant institution, but also because they represent your confidence in the College. Thank you!

Thomas Meredith Society Membership in the Thomas Meredith Society is extended to donors who contribute $100,000 or more in current and deferred lifetime gifts to Meredith College.

Gold Circle $1,000,000 or more Baptist State Convention of North Carolina Elizabeth Triplett Beam, ’72, and J. David Beam James Bovender* Broyhill Family Foundation, Inc. Porter B. Byrum Charitable Trust Virginia Murchison Carson, ’27* Joyce Anne Causey, ’55* Gwendolyn Picklesimer Davis, ’62, and Charles A. Davis Elizabeth Botzler Decker and James L. Decker* Jessie Ball duPont Fund A. J. Fletcher Foundation Janet Freeman* Lucy Finch Gaddy* and Charles W. Gaddy* Shepard Kimbrell Halsch, ’85, and Tom Halsch Estate of Ruth Huskins Independent College Fund of NC Christina Brown Jones* and Seby B. Jones* Lola M.* and Hubert F. Ledford* Carolyn Sperry Leith, ’85 Margaret Craig Martin, ’30* Sue Jarvis Martin, ’49*, and Sidney Martin* Grace and Roy Nifong Edla Adams Ogburn, ’30*

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Margaret Weatherspoon Parker, ’38* Cleo Glover Perry, ’45, and Elwood Perry* Minnie Huffman Reddish Foundation Vida L.* and John A. Senter* Ann Lowery Shivar, ’74 Carol C. & O. Temple Sloan, Jr. Foundation Margaret J. Tharrington, ’71 Deborah and Jim Tippett Irving H. Wainwright* Dianne and Marvin Welton Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation

Silver Circle $500,000-$999,999 Aramark Corporation Annette L. Bailey, ’79 Alicia M. Baucom, ’05, and Bill Baucom, Jr. Margaret R. Beale, ’77 Josephine Smith Cooper, ’67 Frances Tatum Council, ’38*, and C.R. Council* Duke Energy Foundation Hazel Faulkner Edwards, ’35*, and Luby Edwards* Richard Farrow GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Brigadier General Hugh B. Hester, USA*

Pamela Hester, ’81, and Worth Hester Anne Morris Hinson, ’70, and James Hinson IBM Corporation - Matching Gift Program Ione Kemp Knight, ’43 Shirley Spoon Knox, ’56 Kresge Foundation Vicky and Eugene M. Langley, Jr. Robert H. Lewis Ruby C. McSwain, ’54 Polly Moore Mixon, ’66, and Ben Mixon NC Baptist Foundation, Inc. Sarah McKee Nooe, ’22* Park Foundation, Inc. Dorothy Dent Park, ’36 Sarah Cook Rawley, ’29*, and D.A. Rawley* Rachel Fulton Rawls, ’42* Joyce McIntyre Rudisill, ’42 Katherine Furches Rumley, ’43, and J. Leon Rumley* Alice Goodman Satisky, ’37*, and Daniel Satisky* Sandra and Charles Shelton Kester A. Sink Nancy P. Siska, ’76, and Brian D. Siska Ellen Skinner, ’48* O. Temple Sloan, Jr. Phyllis Brooks Wainwright

Betty Webb, ’67, and John Rose Wells Fargo Vida Thompson Williams, ’37*, and W. Fred Williams, Sr. Winston-Salem Foundation Judy C. Woodruff, ’68, and Al Hunt

Bronze Circle $100,000-$499,999 Jo Ellen W., ’57*, and Justus Ammons Dorothy Ashworth, ’73, and Robert Ashworth Sue and Bruce Ballard Bank of America Madge Daniels Barber, ’20* Kitty Johnson Barefoot* and C.C. Barefoot* Peggy and Charles D. Barham, Jr. Nell Barker, ’29* Mary Elizabeth Barnes, ’60 The Belk Foundation Virginia Staples Blanton, ’35*, and C. David Blanton* BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina Sarah Katherine Phillips Bowerman, ’51 Branch Banking & Trust Company Dorothy Ray Branham, ’35* Ellen Dozier Brewer 18* Mamie Forney Bridges, ’35*

Betty Smith Broder, ’56* Brown Foundation Christine Speight Brown, ’76 Yvette M. Brown, ’90 Faye Arnold Broyhill, ’59* Paul Broyhill Burroughs Wellcome Fund The Cannon Foundation, Inc. Margaret A. Cargill Foundation Carolina Power & Light Foundation Clara Horne Carswell, ’24* Kemp S. Cate* CBF of North Carolina, Inc Evelyn King Cheek, ’39* Nancy Williams Cheek, ’63, and Neal Cheek Bruce Tull Clare, ’64, and Robert Clare Betty W. Clark Sada Clarke, ’39* Coca-Cola Bottling Company Elizabeth Speight Cooley Jean Batten Cooper, ’54, and Robert Cooper Margaret Blanchard Cooper, ’37*, and John Cooper, Jr.* Hesta Kitchin Crawford, ’29* Iris Culler Creech, ’43* Anne Clark Dahle, ’54 Data General Corporation The Honorable N. Leo Daughtry

LaRue Pearce Davenport, ’65, and Norman Davenport Egbert L. Davis, Jr.* The Dickson Foundation, Inc. Margaret Dixon, ’56, and Thomas Dixon Graham W. Dobbin* Elizabeth James Dotterer, ’30*, and John E. Dotterer* Edna Lee Leib Trust Charlotte Downs Ellis, ’72* Kathryn and Sam E. Ewell, Jr. Lucy T. Fassett Memorial Trust Bettie D. Ferrell* Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund First Gaston Foundation, Inc. Ruth Fonville, ’91, and Chris Fonville Foundation for the Carolinas Susan Harris Frazier, ’81 Betsy Porter Fritschel, ’77, and Scott Fritschel Louise Futrell, 1914* Brigadier General Norman Gaddis [U.S. Air Force, Ret.] Gaston County Dyeing Machine Patricia Houser Gay, ’60 Genworth Financial Lois Williams Gerald, ’55 Gigi Jackson Giersch, ’62, and Van Giersch Annie Grady Glover, ’94 Michelle Rich Goode, ’73 Barbara Lyons Goodmon, ’94, and James Goodmon Goodnight Educational Foundation Ann Baggett Goodnight, ’67, and Jim Goodnight Dorothy Loftin Goodwin, ’47, and William Goodwin

* Deceased

Theresa Greene Margaret Hines Griffiths, ’36* Lalon* and Emory Groover* Charlene Grunwaldt G. Fred Hale Charitable Trust Norma and James Hamrick Mary Streeter Harmelink, ’94, and Tom Harmelink* Donna and James Harrill Laura Weatherspoon Harrill, ’27* Helen M. Harris* Julia Hamlet Harris* Henry M. Hatcher* Thomasine Herring Hayes, ’39* The William Randolph Hearst Foundations Ola W. Hendren* Rebecca Beddingfield Henley, ’42* Hickory First Baptist Church Idalia Oglesby High, ’49 Nancy Ricker High, ’62, and Ernie Minor Blanche Dupree Hodul, ’49 Ruth Tucker Holleman, ’35* Nancy Craig Hollingsworth, ’59 and W. Claude Hollingsworth Charlotte and H. Alexander Holmes Evelyn Squires Lloyd Howell, ’32* Martha Hamrick Howerton, ’47, and Thomas Howerton Catherine Wyatt Hudson, ’42 Irwin Belk Education Foundation Ann Batson James, ’67, and Allen James Jefferson-Pilot Foundation Nancy C. Joyner, ’58 Ruth and Norman Kellum The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust

Katharine Kerr Kendall, ’42* Doris E. King Katherine Chungho King, ’57, and Louis H. Li Durema Fitzgerald Kohl, ’45 Isabel and William W.* Lawrence Helen Henson Leggett, ’53 Judith and Gordon LeGrand Edna Leib, ’36* Rachel W. Lewter* Martha Foy Lineberry, ’27* Susan Holliday Lobinger, ’41* Mabel Claire Hoggard Maddrey, ’28* Martin Marietta Materials Marie Mason, ’47 Massachusetts Mutual Life Ins. George V. McCotter* Sue Hilton Metzger, ’66, and Gerald Metzger Mary Beth Coleman Mosca, ’87, and Daniel Mosca NC Community Foundation News & Observer Foundation Sarah Ridgell Nicholson, ’53* Marguerite Warren Noel, ’34* Parker Normann, ’85, and William Normann Maureen Kelley O’Connor Barbara Bullard Page, ’54, and Allen Page Laura J. Page, ’67 The Palin Foundation Pauline Davis Perry, ’37* Larnette White Phifer, ’60 Philip Morris Companies, Inc. Anne Parker Phillips, ’66, and Terry Phillips Betsy Best Phillips, ’71, ’86, ’89 MBA

Doris and J. Earl Pope Joyce Thomas Porter, ’47*, and Oscar Porter* Myra Motley Prince, ’42* Margaret Bullard Pruitt, ’37* Elizabeth Vance Raft, ’56 RJR Reynolds Tobacco Company Foundation Virginia Lancaster Robertson, ’42*, and Leon Robertson Rodgers Builders, Inc. Dorothy Turlington Royal, ’28* Janie G. Shearin, ’39*, and Raymond F. Shearin* The Shelton Foundation Paula J. Sims Sink Family Ltd Partnership Marvin L. Skaggs* Carol Carson Sloan, ’75* Deborah Dove Smith, ’80 Mary Louise Ott Spain, ’43 Evelyn and Earl W.* Spangler Robert W. Speight, Jr. Theola R.* and Roy M. Stewart* Minnie* and Fred A. Stone* Joyce and William R.* Stroud Marilyn and Charles Stuber Charles and Edith Sullivan Charitable Remainder Trust Dorothy Sink Sykes, ’73, and Charlie Sykes Elizabeth and James A. Taylor Jane Williamson Teague, ’54, and Edward Teague* Fran Jennings Teter, ’83, and Chris Teter Betsy Ann Moore Thigpen, ’60* Frances Almond Thompson, ’51, and Hannis Thompson Mary Louise Milliken Thompson, ’48, and Reid Thompson

# Denotes members of the Ivy Society, recent graduates (2003 to 2014) who make a monthly gift of $10 or more annually.

Lou Perry Tippett, ’62 , and Walter Lyndo Tippett Triangle Community Foundation, Inc. Connie Frazier Turlington, ’73, and John Turlington Stuart Weatherspoon Upchurch, ’35* Cynthia Worsham Urquhart, ’94, and Richard Urquhart, III Laura Anne Vick and C. Ed Vick, Jr.* Jennie Harris Wallace and Stuart Wallace W. Herbert Weatherspoon* Angela Caveness Weisskopf Wells Fargo Foundation Cecile Ward White, ’52, and Robert White Captain Carolyn C. Wiggins, CHC, USN (Ret), ’76 William Bruce Hutchison Trust Jerry Williams and Claude B. Williams, Jr. Mary Jane and David R. Williams Ida Carol Senter Wilson, ’62, and Donald Wilson Paula and Ronald Withrow Louise L. Wyatt, ’30* Helen F. Yeargan* Helen Parker Yeargan, ’36* Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Nancy Johnston Zimmerman, ’42

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Recognizes and honors those who have committed to supporting Meredith College through an endowed gift.

African American Alumnae Chapter George I. Alden Trust Jo Ellen W., ’57*, and Justus Ammons Judy Wilkerson Anderson, ’82* Aramark Corporation Bess Peeler Averre, ’55 Mary Ayscue, ’27* Annette L. Bailey, ’79 Meredith C. Bailey Sue and Bruce Ballard James L. Ballou Bank of America Baptist State Convention of North Carolina Madge Daniels Barber, ’20* Ann Hiott Barham, ’92 Peggy and Charles D. Barham, Jr. Nell Barker, ’29* Jane E. Barnes Mary Elizabeth Barnes, ’60 Marilyn Williams Barnhill, ’59 John Thomas Battle* James Beale Margaret R. Beale, ’77 Elizabeth Triplett Beam, ’72, and J. David Beam Celia Witt Beauchamp, ’78 Eugene Beddingfield* T. Lyndon Bennett* Eliza Turner Bingham, ’33* Jean Ferebee, ’49*, and John Bishop* Beth L. Bolton Jeff Bolton Joseph A. Bolton James Bovender* Sarah Katherine Phillips Bowerman, ’51 Branch Banking & Trust Company Dorothy Ray Branham, ’35* Betty Smith Broder, ’56* Christine Speight Brown, ’76 Hannah Savage Brown, ’44* Peyton J. Brown* Yvette M. Brown, ’90 Broyhill Family Foundation, Inc. Paul Broyhill James E. & Mary Z. Bryan Foundation Daniel L. Bryant Everett W. Bryant William E. Bryant Gilbert H. Burnett Julian H. Burnett Phyllis C. Burnett* Porter B. Byrum Charitable Trust Anna Fay Jackson Campbell, ’60 Sandra Flynt Canipe, ’66 Carolina Power & Light Foundation

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Jean and G. Paul Carr John D. Carr Virginia Murchison Carson, ’27* Charlotte Wester Cate, ’38* Joyce Anne Causey, ’55* CBF of North Carolina, Inc Graham V. Chamblee* Evelyn King Cheek, ’39* Parkman H. Clancy* Virginia Clancy Bruce Tull Clare, ’64, and Robert Clare Betty W. Clark Class of 1953 Class of 1954 Class of 1958 Class of 1960 Class of 1964 Class of 1973 Class of 1977 Elizabeth Clay Anonymous Sophie Clayton* Sandra Critzer Close, ’86 Edwin S. Coates Kelly Knott Cobb, ’69 Coca-Cola Bottling Company Billie Jo Kennedy Cockman, ’79 Dorothy Collier* Annetta Burnett Collins* James Lee Cone Meg* and Jim Conner* Norma Baker Cook, ’63 Elizabeth Speight Cooley Jean Batten Cooper, ’54, and Robert Cooper Margaret Blanchard Cooper, ’37*, and John Cooper, Jr.* Frances Tatum Council, ’38*, and C.R. Council* Beulah Rimmer Craig* Iris Culler Creech, ’43* Nell Baker Creech, ’31* Sylvia Burnett Crippen Roger Crook Estelle Duckett Culbreth Phyllis Cunningham Anne Clark Dahle, ’54 Katie Carpenter Daniels, ’44* The Honorable N. Leo Daughtry LaRue Pearce Davenport, ’65, and Norman Davenport Bettie Jean Davis, ’56 Gwendolyn Picklesimer Davis, ’62, and Charles A. Davis Egbert L. Davis, Jr.* Elaine McKinney Dawson Mona Horton Dean, ’58 Elizabeth Botzler Decker and James L. Decker* Betty Dedmon The Dickson Foundation, Inc. Charlotte B. Didawick* Kristy McLaurin Dixon Deborah Lakin Doster, ’73* Elizabeth James Dotterer, ’30*, and John E. Dotterer* C. Elizabeth Dove, ’84 Duke Energy Foundation

Jessie Ball duPont Fund Ruth Ann Walters Dyer, ’69 Hazel Faulkner Edwards, ’35*, and Luby Edwards* Jolene Weathers Edwards, ’48 Charlotte Downs Ellis, ’72* Encee Chemical Sales Martha Beale Eppes, ’74 Ruth Cole Eure, ’53* Kathryn and Sam E. Ewell, Jr. ExxonMobil Foundation Richard Farrow Sallie Williams Faulk, ’28* First Baptist Church Raleigh A. J. Fletcher Foundation Susan Creech Fowls, ’76 Susan Harris Frazier, ’81 Betsy Porter Fritschel, ’77, and Scott Fritschel Brigadier General Norman Gaddis [U.S. Air Force, Ret.] Lucy Finch Gaddy*, and Charles W. Gaddy* Marilyn Ballard Gardner, ’71 Minnie Murchison Gaston, ’24* Lois Williams Gerald, ’55 Gigi Jackson Giersch, ’62, and Van Giersch Elmer Ginn GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Margaret Williams Glazener, ’40 Julian Goff Michelle Rich Goode, ’73 Goodnight Educational Foundation Ann Baggett Goodnight, ’67, and Jim Goodnight Ellen C. Graden William Granberry Charlene Grunwaldt Jean Hallman Guion* Shepard Kimbrell Halsch, ’85, and Tom Halsch Mary Streeter Harmelink, ’94, and Tom Harmelink* Donna and James Harrill M. Elizabeth Harris, ’33* Marvin Harris Maureen Hartford Phoenix Chen Haydon, ’74 Thomasine Herring Hayes, ’39* Betty Dobbins Heilman* and E. Bruce Heilman Mattie J. Henderson, 1907* Ola W. Hendren* Joanne Brown Herring, ’54 Pamela Hester, ’81, and Worth Hester Idalia Oglesby High, ’49 Lynn P. Hill Anne Morris Hinson, ’70, and James Hinson Carolyn B. Holland Ruth Tucker Holleman, ’35* Kathryn Fenters House, ’72 Suzanne Hage Houyoux, ’90 Evelyn Squires Lloyd Howell, ’32* Catherine Wyatt Hudson, ’42 Betty Jo Welch Hull, ’53 Jean Joyner Humbert, ’52*

Betty Hewlett Hurst, ’26* Estate of Ruth Huskins Independent College Fund Of NC Richard Isaacs Ira J. Jackson, III N. Jean Jackson, ’75 Ann Batson James, ’67, and Allen James Catherine McCracken James, ’77 Mary Nell Bostick Jenke, ’78 Mary Anne Jobe, ’58 Barbara Smith Jones, ’60 Mildred Burnett Jones Christina Brown Jones* and Seby B. Jones* Jean Journigan Joyner, ’54 Nancy C. Joyner, ’58 Kappa Nu Sigma Harry Katz Charitable Trust Michael Katz* Vivian A. Keasler, ’77 Grace Butler Keith, ’26* Ruth and Norman Kellum Katharine Kerr Kendall, ’42* Doris E. King Ione Kemp Knight, ’43 Durema Fitzgerald Kohl, ’45 James E. Lambeth, III Vicky and Eugene M. Langley, Jr. Isabel and William W.* Lawrence Lola M.* and Hubert F. Ledford* Helen Henson Leggett, ’53 Carolyn Sperry Leith, ’85 Charles F. Lewis* Robert H. Lewis Rachel W. Lewter* Margaret Hine Linville, ’42* The Mangum Group Marshall Moore Marchman, ’66 Mary Summersill Markham Martin Marietta Materials Margaret Craig Martin, ’30* Marie Mason, ’47 Gwendolyn Matthews, ’71 Anna Elizabeth Liles Maynard* George V. McCotter* Edith Hall McKinney, ’42* Deborah Stanley McNeill, ’71 Cynthia Long McPhail, ’75 Susan Jackson Mellette, ’42* Sue Hilton Metzger, ’66, and Gerald Metzger Carol Lancaster Milano, ’79 Olive Hamrick Miller, ’40* Polly Moore Mixon, ’66, and Ben Mixon Dorie Atkins Monroe, ’52 Patricia Miller Moore Sally Newton Morrow, ’58 Mary Beth Coleman Mosca, ’87, and Daniel Mosca Constance Flynt Mullinix The Nationwide Foundation NC Council of Women’s Organization Thomas R. Neese, Jr. C. Louise Nelson* Margaret Covington Nelson, ’38* Jennie Reid Newby, ’38*

News & Observer Foundation Marguerite Warren Noel, ’34* Sarah McKee Nooe, ’22* Parker Normann, ’85, and William Normann Edla Adams Ogburn, ’30* Lois Griswold Outland, ’32*, and Robert B. Outland, Sr.* Mary Pryor Rodwell Overby, ’51* Barbara Bullard Page, ’54, and Allen Page Marlene and Craven Page Elizabeth Nanney Page, ’38* Susan M. Page Park Foundation, Inc. Margaret Weatherspoon Parker, ’38* Margaret Faucette Parker, 1908* Adele Patrick Clarence Patrick* Estate of Ola W. and John W. Patterson Mary Helen Simms Patterson, ’69 Paxton Company Cleo Glover Perry, ’45, and Elwood Perry* Dorothy Singleton Perry, ’48 Pauline Davis Perry, ’37* Larnette White Phifer, ’60 Betsy Alford Phillips, ’66 Betsy Best Phillips, ’71, ’86, ’89 MBA Ruth Burnett Phillips* Kathy Adams Pierce, ’97 W. Gordon Poole* Doris and J. Earl Pope Ina Mae Byrd Powell, ’36* Dorothy Knott Preston, ’54 Myra Motley Prince ’42* Margaret Bullard Pruitt, ’37* Public Service Company of NC Mary Burnett Quaintance Elizabeth Vance Raft, ’56 Frances Wallace Rankin, ’46 Evelyn Hampton Rappaport, ’43* Sarah Cook Rawley, ’29*, and D.A. Rawley* Linda Keith Ray, ’74* Minnie Huffman Reddish Foundation Claude Rhyne Estelle Wilkins Ridenhour, ’28* Pamela Mitchell Riley, ’73 Charles Ripley Mary Jon Gerald Roach, ’56 Virginia Lancaster Robertson, ’42*, and Leon Robertson* William A. Rose Dorothy Turlington Royal, ’28* Joyce McIntyre Rudisill, ’42 Anne Roberts Samsel, ’66 Charles Sanders Alice Goodman Satisky, ’37*, and Daniel Satisky* Gladys Strickland Satterwhite, ’24* William D. Schorger* David A. Senter Vida L.* and John A. Senter* Janie G. Shearin, ’39*, and Raymond F. Shearin*

Sandra and Charles Shelton Hugh M. Shingleton Ann Lowery Shivar, ’74 Helen Canaday Simms, ’40 Mary Ann Canaday Simms, ’42 G. H. Singleton Kester A. Sink Nancy P. Siska, ’76, and Brian D. Siska Claire Sullivan Slaughter, ’72 Carol Carson Sloan, ’75* Deborah Dove Smith, ’80 Eleanor Beddingfield Smith, ’34* Elizabeth Shelton Smith-Cox, ’46* Mary Louise Ott Spain, ’43 Melba Truelove Sparrow, ’84 and Ray Sparrow Robert W. Speight, Jr. Theola R.* and Roy M. Stewart* Joyce and William R. Stroud* Charles Sullivan* Edward W. Summersill, III Helen Knott Taylor, ’44 Hoyt L. Taylor Elizabeth and James A. Taylor Jane Williamson Teague, ’54, and Edward Teague* Fran Jennings Teter, ’83, and Chris Teter Georgia Clancy Theys Frances Almond Thompson, ’51, and Hannis Thompson Sandra Sneed Thompson, ’82 Deborah and Jim Tippett Lou Perry Tippett, ’62, and Walter Lyndo Tippett Bonnie Torgerson James Towler Louise Vann Tronnes* Martha Renfro Tucker, ’54 Elizabeth Ankers Tuttle, ’73 Stuart Weatherspoon Upchurch, ’35* Nan Davis Van Every, ’43 Laura Anne Vick and C. Ed Vick, Jr.* Irving H. Wainwright* Phyllis Brooks Wainwright Alyce Epley Walker, ’54 Jack Wardlaw* Eva Neel Wardrup, ’70 Sarah E.V. Watts, ’34* Betty Webb, ’67 and John Rose Angela Caveness Weisskopf Dianne and Marvin Welton Sharyn Hemrick West, ’71, and Harold West Clara J. Spell Westbrook* Cecile Ward White, ’52, and Robert White Captain Carolyn C. Wiggins, CHC, USN (Ret), ’76 Bobbitt Clay Williams, ’57 Claude B. Williams, Jr. and Jerry Williams Claude B. Williams David R. and Mary Jane Williams Jane Condrey Williams, ’54* Lena Mae Williams, ’26* Vida Thompson Williams, ’37*, and W. Fred Williams, Sr.

* Deceased

Ida Carol Senter Wilson, ’62, and Donald Wilson Ruth C Wilson* Winston-Salem Foundation Ronald and Paula Withrow Jan Perdue Woodard, ’94 Sharon Harding Woodlief, ’88 Judy C. Woodruff, ’68, and Al Hunt Mabel James Woods, ’27* Louise L. Wyatt, ’30* Cecil M. Yarborough Edna Beddingfield Yarborough, ’30* Cecil Yarbrough* Betty Jean Yeager, ’47* Helen F. Yeargan* Helen Parker Yeargan, ’36* Nancy Johnston Zimmerman, ’42

Heritage Society The Heritage Society, established in 1989, recognizes both living and deceased alumnae and friends who are committed to supporting Meredith College through a will, trust, insurance policy, or gift annuity.

Jayne Osborne Abernethy, ’83 Margaret Holland Adams, ’52 Edna Lou Lamb Aldrich, ’45* Barbara K. Allen Caroline Hart Allen, ’77 Jo Ellen W., ’57*, and Justus Ammons Betty Anderson, ’42* Kathryn Midyette Anderson, ’76 Frances Marie Andrews, ’53 Homer Andrews Dorothy Massey Ankers, ’47* Dorothy Ashworth, ’73, and Robert Ashworth Rebecca E. Askew, ’76 Mary Ayscue, ’27* Annette L. Bailey, ’79 Hazel Baity, ’26* Mary Farrior Baker, ’23* Bessie B. Ballentine, ’23* Rebecca S. Ballentine, ’48 Madge Daniels Barber, ’20* C.C. Barefoot* and Kilty Johnson Barefoot* Nell Barker, ’29* Jane E. Barnes Martha Pittman Barnes, ’37* Mary Elizabeth Barnes, ’60 Frances K. Barnett, ’32* Marilyn Williams Barnhill, ’59 Beverly A. Batchelor, ’30* Alicia M. Baucom, ’05 and Bill, Jr. Elizabeth Triplett Beam, ’72, and J. David Beam Antoinette Beasley, ’15* Celia Witt Beauchamp, ’78 Lydia Beavers, ’29* Katherine Weatherly Benningfield, ’89 Ruth Abernethy Benton, ’37*

Meredith College Recognition Levels Lifetime Giving Societies Thomas Meredith Society ($100,000+) cumulative giving to any fund(s) Stringfield Endowment Society ($25,000+) giving to any endowment fund Heritage Society Gift in will, trust, insurance policy and gift annuity

Annual Giving Societies Iris Society – President’s Circle ($5,000+ Annually) Recent graduates* ($2,500) Iris Society ($1,000–$4,999 Annually) Recent graduates* ($500) Ivy Society Annual Giving Society for recent graduates $10/monthly per year *graduates of the last ten years

Caroline Biggers, ’15* Eliza Turner Bingham, ’33* Jean Ferebee, ’49*, and John Bishop* Ethel S. Blackman* Mary Delbridge Blalock, ’55 Virginia Staples Blanton, ’35*, and C. David Blanton* Eula Hodges Boatright, ’28* Claudilene S. Bone, ’22* Georganne Joyner Boone, ’55 Helen Hall Bosse, ’46 Anne Parr Bowne, ’56 Kenneth E. Boyd Kristina Benton Bracy, ’86 Anne Irby Bramlett, ’61 Dorothy Ray Branham, ’35* Betsy Watson Brennan, ’45* Ann Eliza Brewer, ’22* Rock Brinkley Jane Slate Brooks, ’52* Peyton J. Brown* Madaline Elliott Buchanan, ’28* Clara Ray Bunn, ’54 C. Allen Burris Marilyn G. Burris, ’57 Jean Miller Burroughs, ’52 Luther Butler Dianne Timm Byerly, ’75 Sandra Graham Cagle, ’79 Ashley Taylor Cantrell, ’93 Martha Ballou Caphton, ’63 Deborah S. Carawan, ’65 Najla Nave Carlton, ’79 Carr Bradshaw Estate Mrs. Earl N Carr* Elizabeth Woody Carroll, ’61 Virginia Murchison Carson, ’27* Carolyn H. Carter, ’73 Martha Linda Carter, ’82 Ruby Greene Carter, ’46 Cooper D. Cass* Joyce Anne Causey, ’55* Joy McNeill Chafin, ’97 Graham V. Chamblee* Lorraine G. Chapman, ’72 Ruby Garner Chartley, ’34* Evelyn King Cheek, ’39* Carolyn Boyette Childress, ’60

Bruce Tull Clare, ’64, and Robert Clare Lorna Staples Clark, ’55 Rogers H. Clark Virginia Highfill Clark, ’47 Sada Clarke, ’39* Courtney Spooner Clay, ’92 Irma Ray Clipson, ’52 Sandra Critzer Close, ’86 Edwin S. Coates Kelly Knott Cobb, ’69 Betsy Lane Cochrane, ’58 Billie Jo Kennedy Cockman, ’79 Susan Creech Coenen, ’25* Evelyn Dillon Coleman, ’43 Meg* and Jim Conner* Ellen Goldston Cook, ’50 Norma Baker Cook, ’63 Jean Batten Cooper, ’54, and Robert Cooper Josephine Smith Cooper, ’67 Margaret Eagles Copeland, ’26* Carolyn Hutchinson Coram, ’73 Roger E. Corey Frances Tatum Council, ’38*, and C.R. Council* Bertha Langdon Creech, ’20* Iris Culler Creech, ’43* James Bryan Creech* Nell Baker Creech, ’31* Roger Crook Sandra Long Crutchfield, ’79 Phyllis Cunningham Katie Carpenter Daniels, ’44* LaRue Pearce Davenport, ’65, and Norman Davenport Bettie Jean Davis, ’56 Blanche Horton Davis, ’28* Cathy Rollins Davis, ’76 Gwendolyn Picklesimer Davis, ’62, and Charles A. Davis Egbert L. Davis, Jr.* April Marie Dawkins, ’93 Edna Frances Dawkins, ’37* Elizabeth Botzler Decker, and James L. Decker* Jane Greene Deese, ’29* Lou Joyner Dennis, ’79 Boyd King Dimmock, ’71 Vera K Dixon, ’24*

# Denotes members of the Ivy Society, recent graduates (2003 to 2014) who make a monthly gift of $10 or more annually.

Janie Parker Dixon, ’14* Kristy McLaurin Dixon Margaret Dixon, ’56, and Thomas Dixon Graham W. Dobbin* Mary Frances Kerr Donaldson, ’43 Elizabeth James Dotterer, ’30*, and John E. Dotterer* Ivy G. Doughton, ’26* Peggy Easton Driggs, ’74 D. Phyllis Duncan, ’66 Mae Spencer Duncan* Betty Jo Kiff-Eason, ’57* Lois V. Edinger, ’45 Hazel Faulkner Edwards, ’35*, and Luby Edwards* Jolene Weathers Edwards, ’48 Marguerite Mason Edwards, ’30* T. Wayne Eidson Ellen Bonham Goode Lucille L. Ellis* Sharon Ellis, ’76 Frances Elrod, ’47 Burton Y Endo* Gloria Little English, ’71 Elizabeth H. Shermer, ’41* Ruth Cole Eure, ’53* Kathryn and Sam E. Ewell, Jr. Erika S Fairchild* Linda Thompson Fairchild, ’74 David Falk* Hester Farrior, ’18* Minnie Bryan Farrior, ’14* Richard Farrow Lucy T. Fassett Memorial Trust Elizabeth Kendrick Faucette, ’23* Sallie Williams Faulk, ’28* G.H. Ferguson* Bettie D. Ferrell* Jeanne Puckett Fishwick, ’82 Virginia White Flythe, ’25* Ruth Fonville, ’91, and Chris Fonville Lynn Davis Foote, ’58 Nancy Clendenin Forbes, ’80 Lois E. Frazier Susan Harris Frazier, ’81 Janet Freeman* Jane Lassiter Freeman, ’49 Katharine Parker Freeman, ’10* Kistina Mechelle Freeman, ’06 Lena W. Freeman* Shirley Cliatt Frost, ’53 Louise Futrell, 1914* Mary Lily Duncan Gaddy, ’42 Marilyn Ballard Gardner, ’71 Virginia Garnett, ’34* Evelyn Crutchfield Garrison, ’35* Helen B Garvey, ’39* Susan Brooks Gaster, ’78 Edna Lovelace Gaston, ’84 Patricia Houser Gay, ’60 Lois Williams Gerald, ’55 Betty Kichline Gerow, ’37* Paula Tudor Gilbert, ’70 Elmer Ginn Lucinda Howell Glover, ’64 Julian Goff Jennifer Hunter Gole, ’78

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Keeping Meredith Strong

Educating Future Generations

W

hen Mary Estes Speight, ’53, opened a gift from her children on Christmas morning last year,

she had no idea of its significance – to her personally, and to Meredith students for years to come.

Speight’s

children,

Chris

Speight

Brown, ’76, Elizabeth Speight Cooley, and Robert Wilton Speight, Jr., were looking for a meaningful and lasting way to honor their mother. With three generations of Meredith alumnae in their family and a deep Mary Estes Speight, ’53 (center), with her children, Chris Speight Brown, ’76, Elizabeth Speight Cooley, and Robert Wilton Speight, Jr.

commitment to helping others succeed, they decided that creating an endowed scholarship was the ideal way to both support the College and create a powerful legacy in their mother’s name.

Speight graduated from Meredith in

1953. Originally her father had encouraged her to attend Mary Baldwin, but an acquaintance

convinced

her

Meredith

offered a stronger education. A childhood education

major,

she

formed

close

relationships with other students – at that time, the smaller size of the College meant that all ages of students came to know one another.

According to Mary Speight’s daughter,

Chris Brown, that close sense of community is one of the characteristics she and her mother cherish about Meredith. Brown also appreciated the all-women’s environment

With three generations of Meredith alumnae in their family and a deep commitment to helping others succeed, they decided that creating an endowed scholarship was the ideal way to both support the College and create a powerful legacy in their mother’s name.

opportunities. After a six-week trip to Spain, she knew it wasn’t enough and departed four weeks later to Santiago, Chile, where she spent a semester. Today, De Armas and her husband own and run El Informador, a Spanish language publication in the Charleston, S.C. area.

The Mary Estes Speight Endowment

will fund “opportunity” scholarships for

Thanksgiving. It was awesome because

path to graduation, but have exhausted

you had to establish friendships,” said

their financial ability to stay at Meredith.

Chris Brown. “I still have some of those

friendships today.”

reflecting on the gift. “And we were raised

with the belief that it’s important to help

Brown’s daughter, Lisa Brown De Armas,

’03, was the third generation of Speight’s

“When I was a student, you weren’t

family to attend Meredith. An international

allowed to take an overnight trip until after

business major with a concentration in

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of languages through two study abroad

upper-level students who are on a clear

that allowed her to focus on her education.

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Spanish, De Armas built on her early love

“We’re a very close family,” said Brown,

other people.”

Elizabeth Futrell Goode, 1905* Michelle Rich Goode, ’73 Bernice White Goodman, ’23* Dorothy Loftin Goodwin, ’47, and William Goodwin Arabella Gore, ’35* Ellen C. Graden Jeanne Grealish, ’57 Joan E. Green, ’67 Jeannette Biggs Greene, ’21* Theresa Greene Betty Stroud Griffin, ’88 Margaret Hines Griffiths, ’36* Ruth Ann Tucker Grimes, ’80 Charlene Grunwaldt H. E. Gwin G. Fred Hale Charitable Trust Leslie Woodruff Hales, ’83 Barbara Radford Hall, ’64 Norma Gargis Halterman, ’66 Bobby W. Harrelson Laura Weatherspoon Harrill, ’27* Deanna R. Harris, ’90 Helen M. Harris* Lucille Sawyer Harris, ’46* Marvin Harris Virginia Bailey Harris, ’43* Sylvia Cooper Harriss, ’74 Mary Esther Williams Harward, ’40* Anne Simms Haskins, ’31 Henry M. Hatcher* Virginia Hudson Hatcher, ’34* Thomasine Herring Hayes, ’39* Helen Oldham Hayes, ’28* Betty Dobbins Heilman*, and E. Bruce Heilman Del H. Helton, ’91 Ola W. Hendren* John T. Henley* Rebecca Beddingfield Henley, ’42* Brigadier General Hugh B. Hester, USA* Pamela Hester, ’81, and Worth Hester Betty Whichard Hickman, ’51 Nancy Ricker High, ’62, and Ernie Minor Ruth Hough High, ’31* Helen T. Hill, ’79 Drulynn Morgan Hinsley, ’52* Anne Morris Hinson, ’70, and James Hinson Andrea Smith Hitt, ’85 Emma Byrum Hobbs, 1911* Blanche Dupree Hodul, ’49 Susan DeLeon Hoffman, ’74 Carolyn B. Holland, ’28* Carl P. Holleman* Ruth Tucker Holleman, ’35* Ruth W. Holleman Nancy Craig Hollingsworth, ’59, and W. Claude Hollingsworth Frances H. Horner, ’37* Diane Jackson Houlihan, ’68 Suzanne Hage Houyoux, ’90 Ester Holder Howard, ’46 Grover E. Howell* Corinne Lowery Howey, ’57 Felicia Stewart Hoyle, ’82

* Deceased

Ruth Ann Hubbell, ’19* Catherine Wyatt Hudson, ’42 Betty Jo Welch Hull, ’53 Hortense Honeycutt Hunter, ’28* Nancy Hinson Hunter, ’69 Lauri Ann Hickman Hurd, ’84 Estate of Ruth Huskins Marie Dunn Inscore, ’65 Verna Brown Jackson, ’30* Pauline Goodwin Jobe, ’29* Mary Lynch Johnson, ’17* Meredith Johnson, ’35* Barbara Smith Jones, ’60 Fayette Jacobs Jones, ’73 Marilyn L. Jones, ’75 Seby B.* and Christina Brown Jones* Susan Singleton Jones, ’66 Nancy C. Joyner, ’58 Anne Parker Justice, ’79 Naoko Kadowaki, ’87 Jane Guion Kanipe, ’65 Kathryn Chapman Kay, ’42 Grace Butler Keith, ’26* Katharine Kerr Kendall, ’42* Elizabeth Boomhour Kerr, ’31* Annie Mercer Kesler, ’18* Doris E. King Katherine Chungho King, ’57, and Louis H. Li Peggy Jo Dalrymple Kirby, ’54* Nancy Lee Kistler, ’53 Ione Kemp Knight, ’43 Virginia E. Knight Edith Timberlake Knott, ’47 Shirley Spoon Knox, ’56 Debora Opheim Kolb, ’95 Pauline Williams Koonce, ’17* Dorothy Reich Kornegay, ’39* Carolyn Ann Laine, ’57* Katharine Covington Lambeth, ’38* Ailene Young Lancaster, ’28* Nancy Watkins Laney, ’71 Vicky and Eugene M. Langley, Jr. Dorothy Dockery Larkin, ’36* William C. Lassiter Isabel and William W.* Lawrence Velma Patterson Lawrence, ’25* Lola M.* and Hubert F. Ledford* Helen Henson Leggett, ’53 Edna Leib, ’36* Sarah McC. Lemmon, ’91* Charles F. Lewis* Robert H. Lewis Rachel W. Lewter* Ida Pettigrew Lightner, ’44 Martha Foy Lineberry, ’27* Doris Allen Litchfield, ’54 Susan Holliday Lobinger, ’41* W. Randall Lolley Melba LeGrand Long, ’46 Virginia Owens Long, ’68 Carol Hedspeth Lowe, ’78 Anne Elizabeth Lynch, ’71* Elizabeth Park Lynch, ’36* Buddy Lyon Wanda Pulley Madden, ’71 Mabel Claire Hoggard Maddrey, ’28* Dondra Traylor Maney, ’76

Margaret Craig Martin, ’30* Sue Jarvis Martin, ’49*, and Sidney Martin* Virginia McGougan Martin, ’42* Marie Mason, ’47 Brooks McGirt Maxwell, ’70* Alberta Harris McCain, ’27* George V. McCotter* Velma Preslar McGee, ’31* Ruby Johnson McGlaughon, ’32* Frances McManus, ’34* Virginia M McMillan, ’44* Ruby C. McSwain, ’54 Lori Robinson Medlin, ’84 Elizabeth Carraway Meikle, ’68 Dorothy Merritt, ’33* Sue Hilton Metzger, ’66, and Gerald Metzger Christa Burris Middleton, ’78 Olive Hamrick Miller, ’40* Fannie Memory Farmer Mitchell, ’44 Belle McNeill Monroe, 1914* Dorie Atkins Monroe, ’52 Jean Johnson Moore, ’52 Beatrice Nye Morris, ’22* Sara Blalock Munford, ’54 Elizabeth Reid Murray, ’46* Lynn B. Myers, ’65 Margaret Covington Nelson, ’38* Elizabeth Carter New, ’41* Jennie Reid Newby, ’38* Maude Wilson Newell, ’39* Sarah Ridgell Nicholson, ’53* Grace and Roy Nifong Marylene Noel Parker Normann, ’85, and William Normann Charles S. Norwood* Vivian Nowell, ’46* Maureen Kelley O’Connor Edla Adams Ogburn, ’30* Dorothy McNeer O’Quinn, ’78 Murphy M. Osborne Lois Griswold Outland, ’32*, and Robert B. Outland, Sr.* Sara Cotey Overby, ’77 Barbara Bullard Page, ’54, and Allen Page Elizabeth Nanney Page, ’38* Laura J. Page, ’67 Susan M. Page Celeste H. Pageau, ’88 Margaret Weatherspoon Parker, ’38* Estate of Ola W., and John W. Patterson Maurine Winfree Patterson, ’38* Mary Lou Bullock Paul, ’45 Cleo Glover Perry, ’45, and Elwood Perry* Pauline Davis Perry, ’37* Larnette White Phifer, ’60 Anne Parker Phillips, ’66, and Terry Phillips Lucy Hayes Pittman, 1909* Ricki Wisenburg Plunkett, ’73 Mary Virginia Warren Poe, ’48* Dave Pollard W. Gordon Poole* Parker Poole

J. Earl and Doris Pope Sandra J. Pope Sybil Williams Pope, ’62 Virginia Branch Pope, ’28* Estelle L. Popham* Lewis W. & Ann C. Porter Trust Ann White Porter, ’44* Joyce Thomas Porter, ’47*, and Oscar Porter* Crystal Davis Potter, ’26* J. Dewey Powell* Loleta Kenan Powell, ’41 Mabel Martin Powell, ’35* John Robinson Prince* Myra Motley Prince, ’42* Rev. Bruce Rabon* Marcy Stephens Rackley, ’90 Evelyn Hampton Rappaport, ’43* Virginia Reynolds Rapport, ’37 Rachel Fulton Rawls, ’42* Linda Keith Ray, ’74* Minnie Huffman Reddish Foundation E. Kemp Reece* Jo Ann Funderburke Reeves, ’77 Kathy Seeger Rhoades, ’84 Estelle Wilkins Ridenhour, ’28* Pamela Mitchell Riley, ’73 Jessie Markert Rivers, ’71 Mary Jon Gerald Roach, ’56 Nellie Ball Roberts, ’39* Katherine Holt Robison, ’57 Aileen Rogers, ’42* Norma V. Rose, ’36* Mary and Romelo Rotella, ’45* Dorothy Turlington Royal, ’28* Fannie Turlington Royal, ’20* Gertrude Pierce Royal, ’46 Amy Myers Rudd, ’40* Joyce McIntyre Rudisill, ’42 Helen Wallis Rusher, ’47 Oma Taylor Russell, ’41 Elizabeth Hill Sainio, ’62 Hideo Sakane Emma Sanders* Louise Sanderson, ’45* Alice Goodman Satisky, ’37*, and Daniel Satisky* Sue Anne James Schoonderwoerd, ’64 Chloe Scott* Edith Johnson Seifert, ’57 Vida L.* and John A. Senter* Jane Fleming Severance, 1910* Janie Green Shearin, ’39*, and Raymond F. Shearin* Ruth Sheets, ’22* Sharon Holder Shehdan, ’78 Carolyn Griffin Shepherd, ’66 Hugh M. Shingleton Ann Lowery Shivar, ’74 Catherine Yates Short, ’56 Virginia H. Silver, ’29* Margaret Rymer Simmons, ’65 Paula J. Sims Elizabeth N. Sinclair* Kester A. Sink Marvin Slate, Jr.* C. C. Smith

# Denotes members of the Ivy Society, recent graduates (2003 to 2014) who make a monthly gift of $10 or more annually.

Dawn Biggerstaff Smith, ’81 Deborah Smith* Deborah Dove Smith, ’80 Deloris B. Smith Margaret English Smith, ’56 Susan Moore Smith, ’78 Gertrude Smitherman, ’21* Ruth Lowdermilk Snyder, ’28* Dolores Burnham Soderberg, ’88 Mary Louise Ott Spain, ’43 Earl W.* and Evelyn Spangler Melba Truelove Sparrow, ’84 LaRose Spooner Margaret Carter Springston, ’60 Frances Morris Spurrier, ’26* Nancy Herring Stallings, ’68 Frances Gorham Stewart, ’63 Betty Rand Coward Stillwell, ’56 Minnie* and Fred A. Stone* Joyce and William R. Stroud* Jane Phinney Suggs, ’56 Charles Sullivan* Lucy Alderman Sutton, ’17* Grace Alexander Swann, ’44 Charleen Swansea, ’54 Charlotte Tedder Swift, ’30* H. Patrick Taylor Helen Knott Taylor, ’44 Margaret J. Tharrington, ’71 Betsy Ann Moore Thigpen, ’60* Melinda Wrenn Thomas, ’86 Sarah E. Thomas, ’53 Frances Almond Thompson, ’51, and Hannis Thompson Patricia A. Thorp Georgie Brewer Tilley, ’44 Deborah and Jim Tippett Lou Perry Tippett, ’62, and Walter Lyndo Tippett Bonnie Scott Truelove, ’71 Emily Campbell Tuck, ’60 Audra Nunn Tyree, ’90 Stuart Weatherspoon Upchurch, ’35* Hepsie Lane Utley, ’46* Elizabeth Vann, ’17* Joan Vella, ’86 Laura Anne Vick and C. Ed Vick, Jr.* Willene Y. Vincent, ’35* Irving H. Wainwright* Phyllis Brooks Wainwright Alyce Epley Walker, ’54 Margaret Slate Walker, ’58 Jennie Harris Wallace, and Stuart Wallace Wesley H. Wallace* Beth Wicker Walters, ’78 Susan Leath Walton, ’68 Glenn Ward, ’20* Eva Neel Wardrup, ’70 Mary Ann Warren Mary Carol Warwick, ’61 Bettie Griffin Watts, ’66 Sarah E.V. Watts, ’34* John Weems Elizabeth Walters Weidle, ’84 Angela Caveness Weisskopf Dianne and Marvin Welton Sharyn Hemrick West, ’71, and Harold West

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Clara J. Spell Westbrook* Anne Harris Whaley, ’44* Glenn White* Captain Carolyn C. Wiggins, CHC, USN (Ret), ’76 Helen Proctor Wilkie, ’71 Sally Wilkins, ’25* Bobbitt Clay Williams, ’57 Claude B. Williams, Jr. and Jerry Williams George B. Williams George L. Williams Lena Mae Williams, ’26* Luther W. Williams* Mary L. Williams, ’40* Mary Seagraves Williams, ’40* Vida Thompson Williams, ’37*, and W. Fred Williams, Sr. Zelma Greene Williams, ’61 Margaret Webb Wilson, ’44 Ruth C Wilson* Jan Perdue Woodard, ’94 Sharon Harding Woodlief, ’88 Judy C. Woodruff, ’68, and Al Hunt Mabel James Woods, ’27* Mary Lucretia Wooten, ’75 Darlene Smith Worthington, ’77 Gladys Wrenn Louise L. Wyatt, ’30* Mary Yarbrough, ’26* Betty Jean Yeager, ’47* Helen Parker Yeargan, ’36* Mabel Oldham Young, ’24* Zaytoun & Associates, Inc. Susan Sherron Zaytoun, ’80 Nancy Johnston Zimmerman, ’42

Class of 1941

Meredith Alumnae Class of 1934

Percentage of Class Giving: 38% Iris Society Sadie Outlaw Neel Helen Knott Taylor

Annual Donors Jewell Ballentine Stephens

Class of 1937 Iris Society – President’s Circle Alice Goodman Satisky* Annual Donors Martha Joyner Adkins

Class of 1938 Annual Donors Dorothy Haywood Corey Mary Wyche Mintz

Class of 1939 Annual Donors Mary Gavin Edwards Elizabeth Jackson Middleton Lois Johnson Ramsaur Frances S. Robertson

Class of 1940 Annual Donors Frieda Culberson Burts Mary Esther Williams Harward* Dorothy Coble Helms Naomi Sommerville Lee Frances Dixon Leete Minetta Bartlett Newbold Helen Canaday Simms

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Iris Society Myrtle Edna Bailey Lasley Annual Donors Rosanna Barnes Fountain Oma Taylor Russell

Class of 1942 Iris Society Catherine Wyatt Hudson Joyce McIntyre Rudisill Annual Donors Mary Moore Beam Eleanor Gibbs Sara Justice Hempley Etherlene Stevens Maddry Mildred Askew Nichols Mary Hester Powell Mary Helen Gatlin Senter* Mary Ann Canaday Simms Gretchen Fanney Wyatt Nancy Johnston Zimmerman

Class of 1943 Percentage of Class Giving: 21% Iris Society Mary Louise Ott Spain Annual Donors Kathleen Thompson Bogasse Suzanne Bagnal Britt Willie Barger Gates Theda Hopkins Hatfield Ione Kemp Knight Sheila Gulley Plott

Class of 1944

Annual Donors Virginia Ayers Bradford Mary Hill Garber Sarah Yates Goare Ida Pettigrew Lightner Annie Mary Matthews Luke Fannie Memory Farmer Mitchell Mary Silver Peterson Madeline Latta Purcell Grace Alexander Swann Margaret Webb Wilson

Class of 1945 Percentage of Class Giving: 27% Iris Society – President’s Circle Durema Fitzgerald Kohl Iris Society Lois V. Edinger Laura Ellen McDaniel Walker Annual Donors Christine Webb Beamer Willie Mae Cherry Griffin Lillian Humphrey Henderson Eleanor Loftin Jones Rachel Strole Matthews Mary Lou Bullock Paul Cleo Glover Perry Doris Tulburt Robinson

Grace Patton Swann Marie Shuffler Welch

Class of 1946 Percentage of Class Giving: 29% Iris Society Elizabeth Reid Murray* Jean Davis Newell Annual Donors Mary Wilson Berryhill Helen Hall Bosse Mary Jo Clayton Willa Lewis Connor Gwendolyn Krahnke Farrier Jean White Finch Marjorie Blum Gentry Lucille Sawyer Harris* Betsy Hatch Pollard Frances Wallace Rankin Jean Brothers Rogers Nancy Harris Shaw Arlene Foster Shuler Hilda Frink Trent Sallie Ray Bowers Wilkerson Deleano Hall Williams

Class of 1947 Percentage of Class Giving: 45% Iris Society Marie Mason Annual Donors Geraldine Dawkins Atkinson Carol Bray Bailey Ruth Miller Brewster Virginia Highfill Clark Nancy Resch Clemmons Josephine Joyner Creason Nancy Gates Dale Frances Elrod Anne Hughes French Doris Allen Frye Dorothy Loftin Goodwin Martha Hamrick Howerton Dorothy Maness Hutton Hilda P. James Irene Olive Kittinger Edith Timberlake Knott Peggy Parker McCaskill Pattie Whitfield Nelson Dorothy Cooper Oliver Helen Wallis Rusher Mabel Baldwin Rutledge Jetta Funderburk Spencer Hilda Liles Strider Glenda Norman Strole Jean Joyner Taylor Zelma Murray Thomasson Joan Drake Turner Jean Griffith Wall Carolyn Lockamy Warren

Class of 1948 Percentage of Class Giving: 23% Iris Society – President’s Circle Mary Louise Milliken Thompson Iris Society Margaret M. Garner Ann Wallis Stephenson

Annual Donors Lou Hoots Angel Naomi Pugh Barefoot Louvene Jordan Cooper Jolene Weathers Edwards Frances Ward Holland Frances Thompson Knoizen Meredith Liles Lillian Phillips Lovelace Geraldine Burgiss Mangum Doris Mitchiner Matthews Jeanne Arthur Mays Gloria Mayer Murphy Barbara Johnson Parnell Elizabeth Emory Price Mary Frances Keene Remsburg Edith Stephenson Simpson Elizabeth Taylor Wilson Barbara Shellsmith Wood Sarah Lewis Wright

Class of 1949 Percentage of Class Giving: 41% Iris Society – President’s Circle Idalia Oglesby High Annual Donors Joyce Williams Adams Helen Carr Bigham Eunice Andrews Bland Betty Jean Johnson Brown Doris Thomasson Brown Marianna Mizelle Brown Peggy Mitchell Bulla Jane Sparrow Byrd Joyce Vinson Canady Harriette Littlejohn Compton Margaret Lamb Dorsett Lois Shuffler Edwards Marjorie Wilson Elinor Anne Lassiter Emory Betty Sinclair Franks Jane Lassiter Freeman Betty Brooks Fuller Evelyn Hodges Hill Orea Mauney Homesley Lela Butts Hovis Dorothy Swaringen Hughes Doris Williamson Jones Jean McLamb Jones Ella Shirley Knight Sara Davis Koontz Melba Byrd Musselwhite Dorothy White Rascoe Julia Powers Sandercock Jean Gaddy Scholl Mary Lou Sawyer Sutton Victoria Harrell Teal Frances Ward Thornton Billie Hart Warren Jean Fleming White Eleanor Lockamy Williams Rita Britt Williams

Class of 1950 Percentage of Class Giving: 38% Annual Donors Marjorie Tripper Bennett Christine Williamson Bormann Betty Tysinger Cranford Charlotte Bowman Cunningham

Ann Josey Egleston Josephine Snow Farnandez Mina Mayton Hampton Sally Taylor Johnson Elva Gresham Leighton Roxanne Vallas Serletis Jane McDaniel Shouse Winnie Fitzgerald Smith Alice G. Tuttle Bertha Wilson Woltz E. Louise Yarbrough

Class of 1951 Percentage of Class Giving: 34% Iris Society – President’s Circle Sarah Katherine Phillips Bowerman Iris Society Frances Altman Greenlee Daphne Horney Mary Bland Josey Frances Almond Thompson Annual Donors Margot Grimes Anderson Betty Rogers Atkinson Shirley Bone Beal LeGrace Gupton Benson Daphne Faye Nichols Benton Jeanette Atkins Brooks Betty Johnson Byrd Joanne Mason Clark Martha Smith Clement Helen Brunson Cook Jamie Perry Cox Donna Walston Crawford Joyce Bailey Getzen Bettie Compton Godfrey Nancy Hefner Goodson Rosalind Knott Harrell Betty Whichard Hickman Margaret Swann Jones Rebecca Knott McKinley Marcella Winn Minter Ina Gresham Murrell Martha J. Norman Marjorie Joyner Northup Virginia Waldrop Powell Virginia Jones Stephens Anne Fouche Styron Jennett Bramble Whiteside Sheila Knapp Woodard Patricia Lawrence Wooten

Class of 1952 Percentage of Class Giving: 38% Iris Society – President’s Circle Sally Massey Wienke* Iris Society Jane Slate Brooks * Annual Donors Margaret Holland Adams Jerry Staton Batchelor Lucyann Liddy Billups Marilyn Morrissette Brandt Jean Miller Burroughs Jeanne Ramsey Byrd Irma Ray Clipson Mary Evelyn Hensley Divers Barbara Hale Edwards Betty Jo Smith Farrington

Rosalyn Poole Farthing Dorothy Miller Faulkenbury Nancy Cheek Gaines Mary Ruth Godfrey Martha Stallings Martin Jean Parrish Mason Barbara Schettler Massenburg Virginia Harris McGranahan Alice W. Milton Evelyn Krause Moss Ernestine Nance Newman Elaine Hancock Perry Mary Brown Wells Emily Kathleen Chriscoe Whatley Linda Swann Winslow

Class of 1953 Percentage of Class Giving: 47% Iris Society – President’s Circle Helen Henson Leggett Mary Estes Speight Iris Society Sarah E. Thomas Adele Buening White Annual Donors Mary Fisher Beaver Betty Finklea Bell Martha Baird Blackley Elizabeth Hamrick Brady Doris Perry Cox Anne O’Quinn Crockett Janet Stallings Cumbee Ann Horton Flanagan Nancy Jo Wallis Fleming Jane Cate Fowler Bette Winchester Glance Doril Williams Henderson Sally Melvin Horner Betty Jo Welch Hull June Eller James Melrose Canaday Lee Virginia Harris Lee Joyce Brown McIntyre Jill Scruggs Moore Patricia Smathers Moulton Allen Hart Norris Jeannette Leopard Overby Janne Dawson Phillips Ann Baucom Pitts Penina Bowden Ramseur Eleanor Henry Reim Marilyn Hunt Rollins Juanita Ipock Smith Doris A. Stainback Estelle Waller Summerlin Dorothy Brigman Sutton Annabelle Whitehurst Thornton Ann Seagrove Tolleson Emma Jean Maddrey Vann Lynette Hooks Walters Sarah Smith Watson Elizabeth Faucette Wilson Bessie Francis Zulch

* Deceased

Class of 1954 Percentage of Class Giving: 66% Iris Society – President’s Circle Dorothy Knott Preston Iris Society Carolyn Belton Bonahue Jean Batten Cooper Anne Clark Dahle Joanne Brown Herring Lou Gardner Kline Bonny Morgan Lewis Anna Ruthe Tyson Annual Donors Carolyn Sawyer Alexander Anne Ruth Thames Andrew Barbara Propst Andrews Shirley West Arledge Melba Barbour Arnold Katherine Waynick Bastian Mary Stone Booth Carolyn Hall Borden Shirley Graham Brown Barbara Rice Bunch Janis Witherington Cannon Sara Langdon Clinard Mary Maxwell Corbin Mary Ruth Willcox Coss Verna Willetts Croom Kay Sugg Crum Barbara Jones Cummings Barbara White De Louise Betty Olive Dennis Doris McMillan Faires Ann Quay Gardner Vivian Byrd Glover Miriam Allen Hall Mary Ellen Upchurch Hartis Dorothy White Hartley Eva Townsend Herring N. Blanche Hodge Lorette Oglesby Hollinshed Melissa Matthews Jones Jean Journigan Joyner Margaret Edwards Joyner Jean Morton King Sally Dean Knight Ruth Champion Lancaster Doris Allen Litchfield Ann Lovell* Dorothy Hampton Marcus Carolynn Little Miller Sara Blalock Munford Ann Draughon Opferkuch Barbara Bullard Page Sonnya Hamilton Quinn Patricia Bland Rose Alstine F. Salter Jeannette Scott Patricia Eberhart Simpich Doris Page Smith Freida Moss Snyder Theresa Raynor Tayloe Evelyn Waugh Taylor Jane Williamson Teague Evelyn Wallace Teeter Betty Smith Thompson Pat O’Quinn Tomasino Phyllis Trible

Martha Renfro Tucker Louise Stephens Upchurch Alyce Epley Walker Jacquelyn Ammons Walker Jean Pace Warren Celia Townsend Wells Bernice White Whiteside Barbara Dickens Wilder Carmena Barnes Zimmerman

Class of 1955 Percentage of class giving: 56% Iris Society Cleo Jones Edwards Lois Williams Gerald Jane Lancaster Kibler Ruth Jeanne Allen Moss Phoebe Barnhardt Satterwhite Patty Melvin Watson Annual Donors Sue Rucker Andrew Bess Peeler Averre Lillian Leary Balzer Leah Scarborough Barton Mary Delbridge Blalock Georganne Joyner Boone Myra C. Bristol Jennie Barbour Brooks Lorna Staples Clark Betty Ball Cope Anne Barbrey Davis Shirley McLean Davis Marjorie Stowe Floyd Effie Sneeden Green Mary Lane Hagan Nancy M. Hall Alice Spell Holder Vivian Stanley Hughes Frances Patterson Ingram Barbara Andrews Jones Katie Lee Currin Kimbrough Frances Carr Kratt Jean Sheets Leonard Charlotte Cooper Locke Patricia Anne Allen Lucas M. Ophelia McLean McCallum Nancy McGinnis McGill Virginia Mumford Nance Mary Moore Newman Kathleen Clemmons Parker Nina Ruppelt Phillips Mary Glenn Randall Pittman Carolyn Wood Plowman Joan Allen Rainey Margaret Brunson Simkus Gladys Daphine Mayton Sparrow Sarah Pate Styron Annette Caudle Tarlton Janette Huneycutt Trull Gerry Brown Vaughan Rebekah Upchurch Way Hortense Wiggs Wilkins

Class of 1956 Percentage of Class Giving: 44% Iris Society – President’s Circle Elizabeth Vance Raft Iris Society Charlene Smith Bennett Mary Jon Gerald Roach Iris Merritt Womble Annual Donors Sarah Whittier Adams Harriett Andrews Adcock Edna Smith Austin Miriam Knight Bell Nancy Reece Belton Anne Parr Bowne Suzanne Davis Bunn E. Adair Whisenhunt Cantwell Bettie Jean Davis Polly Richardson Farned Barbara Brantley Frucci Betty Deloatch Havener Eleanor Chandler Hollowell Marjorie Thore Hoots Frances Parker Hughes Ruby Britt Jackson Sarah Outlaw Johnson C. Loree Keen Mary Jo Pinner Lassiter Sarah Bissette Matthews Norma Bridges McGee Virginia A. Morris Delores Blanton Murphrey Trudi Moore Nelson Virginia Williams Nichols Alphia Small Paddock Annice Smith Rhue Nancy Drake Savage Rovilla Myers Sellers Catherine Yates Short Margaret English Smith Betty Rand Coward Stillwell Edna Earle Cooper Sturdivant Jane Phinney Suggs June Freeze Treece Sarah Thompson Winn

Class of 1957 Percentage of Class Giving: 48% Iris Society – President’s Circle Betsy Wells Schrum Iris Society Nancy Bunn Bunting Corinne Lowery Howey Mary Catherine Cole Metters M. Faye Wheeler Simmons Marjorie Jackson Wiggins Annual Donors Jo Ellen W.* Betty Smith Bartlett Barbara Stanley Batts Gwen Maddrey Bell Eileen Browne Bostick Patty Swann Boyer Marilyn G. Burris Mamie Shutt Burton Diane Morris Clark Eliza Culberson Cocke

# Denotes members of the Ivy Society, recent graduates (2003 to 2014) who make a monthly gift of $10 or more annually.

Carolyn Strayhorn Compton Janet Fulcher Cooper Patricia Jackson Cothran Sara Lawrence Dupree Lucy Atkinson Edmundson Shirley Jordan Finch Joyce Herndon Goodwin Mary Edna Grimes Grantham Mary Helen Cooper Hamlet Anita Hiatt Hennis JoAnn Selley Hunter Jacqueline Little Jones Jocelyn Nelms Kenion Gail Ward Lassiter Ann Anthony Lathrop Bette Nock Laursen Mary Ann Braswell Lawrence Ida Mullins Leese Eleanor Palmer Maness Julene Barlow McPhaul Nancy Young Noel Barbara Cozart Pollard Marie Peele Robertson Katherine Holt Robison Bessie Codas Roupas Iris Sullivan Saaf Marcia Horrell Scaggs Cecilia Young Denning Sneed Joyce Fulcher Taormina Virginia Whitley Webb Kathryn Marshall White Bobbitt Clay Williams Peggy Peoples Winkles Angela Griffith Yarbrough Jeanne Tong Yeh

Class of 1958

Percentage of Class Giving: 43% Iris Society Mary Anne Jobe Nancy C. Joyner Sally Newton Morrow Virginia Stone Thomas Annual Donors Christine Livingston Arthur Jane Maynard Bowers Louise Moore Bryan Betty Kellum Burnett Beulah Bradley Cameron Betsy Lane Cochrane Martha Bone Crow* Vivian Morris Deal Mona Horton Dean Nancy Perkins Edwards Anne Howard Farmer Janncey Wellons Ferrell Lynn Davis Foote Fran Fulp Franklin Lucretia King Gilbert Sheila Balfour Goodman Norma Stephenson Griffin Susan Moss Grigg Janet Jenkins Harding Hilda Myers Holmes Fay Chandler Honeycutt Betty Williams Jackson Sarah Williams Koonce Joyce Herring LaMotte Lou Winstead Lindanger Honor Roll of Donors 2013-14

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Mae Omie Hobby Mosely Pat Watkins Parker Martha Fasul Poulos Margaret Anita Farris Ratchford Geraldine Parham Ritter Molly James Sloan Lu Jones Snipes Mary Fran Oliver Spencer Janice Dawkins Squires Elizabeth Baxter Stover Miriam Lundy Strickland Margaret Creech Sutton Shirley Strother Taylor Patricia Barrett Terrill Margaret Slate Walker Betsy Greene Waters Peggy Yancey Whitaker

Class of 1959

Percentage of Class Giving: 41% Iris Society Elizabeth Taylor Barber Linda Smith Wall Annual Donors Marie Croom Ashburn Morie Pruden Austin Marilyn Williams Barnhill Ann Freeman Beale Betty Hoyle Blue Donna Ellington Brady Peninah Powell Brown Alice Burrows Gelynda Thomas Capel Bobbie Conley Carpenter Elaine Burleson Clarke Charlotte Jones Corner Marlene Clayton Coulter Jane Owen Duckworth Ellen Carole Kerley Ellis Janice Wilson Fowler Samantha Robinson Geoghegan Carol Inscoe Hamrick Inez Owen Hatcher Emily Dean Henderson Martha Elmore James Betsy Hooks Johnson Julia Railey Justice Louise White Laughton Sylvia Maynard O’Kelley Joyce Foster Pate Patricia Maynard Prather Carolyn Price Purcell Joyce Hargrove Ross Mary Cole Snotherly Kathryn Godwin Taylor Frances Caudle Tharrington Sue Ridge Todd Joan Madre Trueblood Jo Anne Kendall Urwick M. Louise Waters Katherine Renfrew Wolfe Diane Williams Yamamoto

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Class of 1960 Percentage of Class Giving: 54% Iris Society – President’s Circle Betsy Ann Moore Thigpen* Iris Society Anna Fay Jackson Campbell Lillian Brandon Dinklage Patricia Houser Gay Betty Galloway Harkey Annual Donors Susan Sanderlin Antoniewiez Betty Ann Chandler Atkins Barbara Howard Aycock Anne Carroll Baird Linda Jenkins Barnard Carol Mackintosh Barnes Mary Elizabeth Barnes Angeline Norris Bean Iracema Paez Bolch Frances Ward Brooks Stuart James Burroughs Jane Matthews Campbell Janis Meggs Carroll Carolyn Boyette Childress Patricia Hight Copley Rachel Watkins Council Kitty Berger DuPlessis Janis K. Fisher Barbara Booth Florence Rose Daniels Gambill Lois Haigh Gibbon Rebecca Turner Gillespie Elizabeth Milliken Golding Barbara Armstrong Haas Jane Wagoner Hoover Emma Everett House

Shirla Griffin Hudson Joy Goldsmith Jarrett Ellen Paschall Johnson Barbara Smith Jones Jo Anne Carter Jones Ann Rackley Kilian Peggie Jernigan Lindsay Glenda Pressley Lovelace Harriett Hill Marquis Jeanette McDonald Marzen Judy Garland McLamb Lelia Davenport Midkiff Amelia Ann Allred Miller Alyce Pickelsimer Nadeau Mary Jo McDonald Naylor Elizabeth Carter Neal Rebecca C. Oliver Helen Parker Patterson Elizabeth Vernon Pearce Betsy Thomerson Pendergraph Frances Thomas Petty Larnette White Phifer Patricia Jarrett Phifer Barbara Medlin Raynor Mary Ann Finley Ridenhour Carolyn Bullard Rock Margaret Elaine Yates Rogers Carolyn Brown Smith Margaret Carter Springston Rosemary Edwards Sundeen Mary Conner Swanson Bettie Herbert Sykes

Jane Manning Trowbridge Emily Campbell Tuck Jane Dorward Valentine Helen Carlton Walker Willilou Mason Walters Sylvia McLin Wilkins Janice Smith Williams Nan Owen Wilson Josephine Weatherford Wimbish Sarah Helms Winslow

Class of 1961 Percentage of Class Giving: 53% Iris Society Jenny Taylor Bond Faye Carter Formy-Duval Annual Donors Frances Rogers Alderman Peggy Perry Alston Anne Britton Ammerman Julia Hardee Anderson Margaret Ricks Asbury Pat Rhue Bickel Anne Irby Bramlett Mary Fowler Brooks Suzanne Sault Brooks Betty Kennedy Carraway Elizabeth Woody Carroll Faye Corbett Carroll Judith Schaffer Cleveland Ann Raynor Courie Susan Self Courtney Alma Jeannette Worthington Davis Judith Jones Davis Kathleen Simmons Edwards Martha Blair Emery Betty Walton Frye Nancy Scott Fuller Mary Lou Allen Gallagher Nina Wagner Graves Celia Moye Haines Suzanne Leath Hamner Marjorie Edwards Holleman Quincy Stewart Inman Carole Hamrick Johnson Imogene Harrelson Jones Raney Bradshaw Jones Alexa Howell Jordan Emily Dunn Joyce Sara Bowers Keistler Beth Boyette Knoche Hilda Strayhorn Leigh Phyllis Green Liner Anne S. Sharpe Mace Sylvia Strayhorn McBane Peggy Ratley McNeill Sonia Mattocks Moore Mary Lynn Caldwell Morrill Evelyn Simpson Osbahr Anita Everett Powell Joan Cope Readling Paige Bunch Rowell Faye L. Samuels Betty Jo Kinlaw Simmons Myra McKenney Skinner Camille Boyette Smith Virginia Britt Smith Jennie Turlington Spell Novella Rountree Spivey

Carolyn Liles Stith Phyllis Williams Swanson Mary Lee Lassiter Taylor Sara Hurst Thomas Ann Isenhour Thompson Rachel Rogers Thompson Betty Edwards Timberlake Donna Taylor Tucker Molly Stevens Wells Sally Holbrook Whelan Gail Brinn Wilkins Zelma Greene Williams Gaynelle Gray Wood

Class of 1962 Percentage of Class Giving: 47% Iris Society Gwendolyn Picklesimer Davis Diane Journigan Garcia Gigi Jackson Giersch Lou Perry Tippett Ida Carol Senter Wilson Annual Donors Verna Dryden Asplen Carol Park Barksdale Letitia Blount Bratton Peggy DeLoatch Bridgers Lena Epps Brooker Patricia Taylor Clark Katherine Gravett Cochran Frances G. Cooper Peggy Leonard Crutchfield Judy Smith Daniels Jean Knight Davis Carolyn Lay Dowd Pattie McCay Dunn Mary Baugham Ennis Carolyn Nicholds Fitzgerald Diane Price Fleming Pattie Steen Fleming Sarah Shoaf Gamble Lucille Benton Griffith Johanna McKevlin Grimes Crissie Gurkin Hardison Reca Sanders Hines Scarlett Hill Howard Judith Young James Margaret Summey Jarrett Joan McGranahan Jones Linda Motsinger Keiner Linda L. Kirby Alice McGuire Kirk Anne White Knopf Theresa Brown Leatherwood Linda Rose Lee Patricia Bryant Lee JoAnn Clayton Leist Joyce Collie Lindberg Martha Jean Horton Locke Carol Heck Lucas Celia Caldwell Maddry Nancy Phillips Makin Martha Morgan Maner Jessie Mae Long Matthews Elizabeth Anne Braswell McGee Judith Goodwin McGehee Brenda Payne Millar Peggy Martin Nuckols Mary Hawkins Pfalzgraf

Sybil Williams Pope Sara Leiby Potter Sue Holland Rodgers Doris Yates Rogers Anne Mallard Sanders Judith Bullard Sanford Beverly White Shearon L. Elizabeth Gray Singletary Billie Jean Jones Stallings Daphne Clark Stone Mary Anne Eason Tingen Barbara Worthington Walker Brenda Sanders Williams Carol Harris Williams Ruth Dial Woods

Class of 1963 Percentage of Class Giving: 40% Iris Society – President’s Circle Patricia Hutchins Alexander

Iris Society Susan Leathers Burnette Nancy Williams Cheek Mary Anne Johnson Dickson Jean Hege Durham Jane Link Fleming Mary Belle Pate Mary Frances Carver Perkinson Amy Robinson Plowden Annual Donors Margaret Klick Abernathy Barbara Blanchard Allen* June Leonard Barger Harriet Dodd Barlowe Martha Spence Blount Bryna Barrett Bozart-Barnes Martha Ballou Caphton Norma Baker Cook Elizabeth Haywood Derreth Annette McFall Epps Velma McGee Ferrell Elsa Anders Glover Katherine Weede Griggs Betty Young Guffin Harriett Cole Guyton Beverlye Huff Hancock Virginia Holloway Harward Barbara Walker Hudson Jane Lawrence Hutchison Mary Lou Davis Jackson Barbara A. Jones Berma Jean Davenport Kincaid Katheryn Smith Knowles Linda Foster McGlamery Mary Lasley Milam Joyce Tripp Miller Elizabeth Holleman Muirhead Joan Strickland Parker Betty Jo Johnson Pearson Bettie McManus Phillips Gretchen Leffler Pindell Anna Shadoin Rickell Ann Barnhardt Ridenhour Julia Ann Sorrell Rodgers Ellen Lockhart Rogers Rebecca Griffin Schmickley Nancy Stephens Sears Helen Daniel Shingleton

Philecta Clarke Staton Frances Gorham Stewart Brenda Bunn Taylor Nancy Dail Taylor Linda Baxter Thompson Susan Moore Waller Leah Rose Williams

Class of 1964 Percentage of Class Giving: 74% Iris Society – President’s Circle Camille Griffin Camp Martha Rivers Dickson Barbara Sue Ennis Kearney Freda Hartness Wilkins Iris Society Nancy Spencer Bartlett Frieda Farmer Bostian Sara Gwynn Bryan Brackett Margaret Strickland Collins Jo Crowder Dermid Elizabeth S. Godwin Barbara Radford Hall Ann Dean Honeycutt Ann Waters Jones Joy Adams Lucas Frances Walters Lumpkin Sue Moody McDaniel Jane Kincheloe McDonald Brenda Williams McLean Ann DeWitt Mulford The Honorable Sarah E. Parker Catherine Stovall Peacock Peggy Fish Rada Martha McLester Tanner Joyce Ellen Mackintosh Wardlaw Martha Jane Willis Watkins Annual Donors Katherine Ratley Almond Betty Brock Anderson Paula Johnson Arnold Elizabeth White Auman Rebecca Matthews Barnes Brenda Cole Beall Clarene Roberson Bennett Margaret Pruitt Benson Penelope Senter Bethune Rebecca Watson Blake Joyce McMillan Bolton Mary Featherston Brame Betsy Forbes Brewer Brenda Elliott Brickhouse Millicent Pearce Brooks Kay Fox Buckner Betsy Long Bucks Ann Nooe C’ de Baca Mary Lyon McKenney Camper Ann Cockerham Carmichael Patricia Williams Carter Mary McManus Chapman Bruce Tull Clare, and Robert Clare Mary Ann Grimshaw Clifford Betsy Boone Crowder Jean Tate Davis Sandra Harrill Davis Sandra Butler Deal Nancy Evans Dellinger Carol Coxe Devir

* Deceased

Jane Carver Bumpass Dixon Patricia Lay-Dorsey Suellen Walter Edens Mary Ellen Ellis Nancy Godwin Epting Phyllis Hart Garner Lucinda Howell Glover Mary Winfield Gray Martha Haywood Hanford Sylvia Cash Harvey Betty Hooks Henderson Lillian McFarland Hicks Scott Beaver Hill Mary Owens Hollifield Joyce Ellen Stainback Holloway Margaret Houghton Howell Emmalee Warlick Hughes Linda Evans Kearns Marie-Louise Allen Kempf Peggy Tutor Kring Jane Reams Lucas Caroline Vaught McCall Linda Thomas McDonald Carol Don Montague Gwen Short Munzer Yvonne Norris Nance Barbara Bivens Neal Lena Patterson Parks Nan Phipps Perkins Margaret Rackley Phillips Adalia Wiggs Powell Karen Roberts Sandra Wallace Roberts Nancy Upchurch Russell Sue Anne James Schoonderwoerd Sandra L. Sessoms Pat Bescher Sevier Betty Bass Shows Charity Russell Snider Brenda Smith Stott Ann White Tate Mary Louise Tyndall Gayle Sullivan Van Velsor Elaine Wareing Anne Hodges White Diane Bowers Whitehead Francine Wilkerson Rhonda Morgan Wilkerson Frances McNairy Wilkins Elizabeth Ann Rivers Yancey

Class of 1965 Percentage of Class Giving: 49% Iris Society – President’s Circle Marie Dunn Inscore Iris Society Verona Chow Hung Estelle Isley Thomas Dorothy Bullock Wilkerson Annual Donors Sarah Carver Adams Elizabeth Holland Albritton Betty Jo Steele Anderson Alice F. Baker Mary Allcott Beach Sue Teachey Bowden Margaret Ann Beard Buffaloe Cathy Smart Butler

Deborah S. Carawan Susan Frye Carpenter Phoebe Lassiter Clarke Carolyn Long Cobb Nancy Armstrong Cooke Martha Stone Courie Kay Hall Crawford Jessica Adams Creech Kay Bridgers Creech Carol Lloyd Crowell Mary Elizabeth Currin LaRue Pearce Davenport Patricia Berry Davidson Patricia Rogers Dozier Kay McCorkle Edwards Martha Branon Edwards Brenda Petty Eskridge Martha McArthur Floyd Andra Smith-Jones Garbutt Linda Arledge Gruehn Mary Israel Harbison Martha House Helms Mary Ann Britt Hopkins Ginger Brown Horton Donna Dull Hurt Elizabeth Reavis Hutchby Mary Ann Ainsley Hutchinson Patricia Tupper Hyatt Faye Autry Jackson Jane Guion Kanipe Nell Britton Kilpatrick Polly Finan Laubinger Crystal Hartness Leathers Janet Pugh Martin Sarah Parker Martin Sandra J. Mayhew Susan Kesler McFatridge Nell Shelton Meece Betty Ipock Mickle Judith Strickland Miller Catherine Vestal Mobley Sarah Howard Moore Lucinda Swayne Morris Lynn B. Myers Patricia Newlin Zona Carawan Norwood Gail Williams O’Brien Margaret Jane Parrish Helen Smith Paul Sandra Dean Peedin Jo Ann Stafford Peer Patricia Walker Plaisted Lynn Abraham Powell Annette Wicker Rains A. Maynette Regan Jane Eaton Roda Harriet Taylor Ross Priscilla Macomber Seals Judith Elliott Sherrill Margaret Rymer Simmons Eleanor Marks Snead Carol Andrews Southerland Lura Penney Stringer Diane Drake Truelove Betty Kirkpatrick Tysinger Beverley Lipscomb Walker Carol Bucher Washburn Jerry Martin Watson Janice Purgason Whicker

Glenda Brown Worley Connie Becky Craver Zimmerman

Class of 1966 Percentage of Class Giving: 42% Iris Society – President’s Circle Marshall Moore Marchman Anne Roberts Samsel Iris Society Paula Lowry Herren Anne Parker Phillips Bettie Griffin Watts Annual Donors Nancy Litton Anderson Judy Alligood Bailey Fran Rabon Bartlett Beverly Brown Branch JoAnn Knight Brown Ann Dahl Bulla Sandra Flynt Canipe Betty Hastings Carter Nell Wilkerson Chesley Mary Herring Childs Ann Eaton Covington Judith Wilson Daniel D. Phyllis Duncan Sylvia Woodford Ellen Wilda Marie Ferguson Johnette Ingold Fields Jane Wilson Finger Jean Hooks Gibbs Elizabeth Carlson Gordon Norma Gargis Halterman Lucy Whedbee Hancock Susan McCormick Harrington Barbara Watson Hawkins Rebecca Shaver Johnson Barbara Johnson Kennedy Louise Stokes Kinken Mary Katharine Lambeth Elizabeth Booker Lawson Marian Bunch Mankin Pansy Hudler Mann Judith Riley Matlock Florence Dickens McDonald Jean Lyles McLeod Shirley Tarleton Napier Sandra Morgan Oelschlager Anita Hauser Ogburn Betsy Scarborough Pierce Janet Brown Ramser Candace Welsted Ramseur Marcia Sned Reamer Delinda B. Rodgers Carlton Lipscomb Rowe Dianne Lumsden Shearer Carolyn Griffin Shepherd Janet Grogan Shepherd M. Betty Lester Smith Lee Smith Spong Margaret Worth St. George Linda Carter Stensvad Price Marsh Thrower Joy Daniel Todd Martha King Tucker Beth Eakes Turner Patricia Hurst West Ann Hanchey Whaley

# Denotes members of the Ivy Society, recent graduates (2003 to 2014) who make a monthly gift of $10 or more annually.

Janet Morris Whitaker Ruth Ann Sloop Whitener Julia Ratchford Williams Susan Bell Wooten

Class of 1967 Percentage of Class Giving: 37% Iris Society – President’s Circle Judith Carroll Gardner Ann Batson James Iris Society Joyce Rudisill Donahoe Helen Everett Goins Judy Ramsey Roberts Betty Webb Annual Donors Carroll Capell Anderson Gail Gentry Bailey Rita Nurkin Bailey Carol Ann Griffin Bell Ann Hampton Bennett Patricia Denny Burkett Gail Butler Cannady Louise Whitty Carey Josephine Smith Cooper Patsy Howell Cuthrell Pamela Fitchett Daniel Judy Ellis Daniels Georgia Kimball Garner Nancy Forrest Goddard Joan E. Green Gayle Biggs Hall Margaret Hall Hayes Mickey Wynn Head Lynn Grumbles Hildenbrand Laura Worthington Holley Loretta Clements Hughes Jean Lemmond Hunt Judy Journigan Kallgren N. Ellen Kirby Sharon Bradshaw Lamm Brenda Jean Vaughan Lawson Martha Jane Wilson Lineberger Carolyn Overton Lynch Elizabeth Perry Marvin Mary Lou Patrick McJunkin Karen Cockerham Modlin Patricia Lewis Morris Kathryn Hardenburg Newman Betty Hartley-Oldham Mary Helen Bradley O’Neal Linda Wright Osborn Kathryn Turner Page Laura J. Page Jo Ann Pickett Candace Crumly Rankin Susan Grant Rawls Marilyn McGoogan Salyer Rebekah Chapman Saul Linda Blanchard Sparks Caroline Gambell Staton Gloria McDonald Stubbs Elizabeth King Thompson Carol Melton Tyson Susan Goulais Walton Barbara Jean Carver Warren Marie Howell White Frances Maness Wooten

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Class of 1969

Percentage of Class Giving: 36% Iris Society Lynn L. Dodge Theresa Ayers Griffin Judy C. Woodruff and Al Hunt

Percentage of Class Giving: 42% Iris Society – President’s Circle Janet Hamilton Blanton

Annual Donors Elizabeth Maynard Avett Ruth Overman Bass Elizabeth Porter Black Judith Alexander Bobo Vickie Tart Burlington Hilda Myers Burton Kathryn Booth Butler Claudia Currin Daniel Pennie Daniel Duggins Norma Hanchey Elrod Anne Stone Ervin Mary Kathryn Moffitt Fisher Bonnie Poplin Gainey Linda Gallehugh Carolyn Neal Goethert Linda Mashburn Griffin Donna Von Cannon Griffith Margaret Matthews Hanchey C. Ann Crockett Hardenbergh Cathy Roberts Harris Diane Jackson Houlihan Marsha Gaston Howe Sandra Holder Irving Jessie Dixon Ives Dava Drew Jarman Eve Moser Jones Anne Dulin Joyner Eloise Behnken Kaeck Nancy Boyd Kipp Alma Jo Hall Langston Irene Hines Laube Jeanne Ebelein Leonard Suzanne Guthrie Letchworth Virginia Owens Long Linda Haigler Marks Judith Ratley May Nancy Batson Mizelle Leila Jernigan Moeller Millicent W. Nash Agnes Stancil Niess Marion Nolan O’Quinn Shannon Pruitt Rock Janice Sanford Scott Ann Felton Smith Jane Waller Smith Nancy Herring Stallings Lucia Lewis Stanley Frances Hayes Swanson Kay Pruett Taylor Mary Gay Summer Taylor Carol Forney Temple Barbara Bailey Von Hofe Clara Safrit Wade Lynne O’Dell Washington C. Annette Cooley Watson Elizabeth Watkins Watts Brenda Smith Woodcock Susan Diane Parker Wright Jean Levin Yates

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Iris Society Ruth Ann Walters Dyer Rebecca Batson Lawson Hollis Fields Mullen Martha McGinnis O’Donnell Annual Donors Donna Hanson Bailey Kathryn Reaves Barton Rebecca Kiser Beal Ellen Derby Best Mary-Charles Wheless Boyette Del Cross Horton Boyle Elizabeth Garrett Cake Sarah Hutchins Chandler Kelly Knott Cobb Eva Nancy Blalock Cook Wanda Lindsey Daniels Dale Ritter Dodson Josie Woodard Douglas Betty McNeill Fahed Dianne Mitchell Forsyth Barbara Wall Fraser Joyce Robertson Fulcher Eleanor Squires Gow Sondra Neel Harrell Shera Jackson Hube Jacquelyn Boone James Mary Neil Senter King Carol Jean Thompson Kinsley Louise Watson Lamm Dale Tatum Mercer Gail Smith Mobley Mary Ann Hardenburg Mock Judy Park Molleur Kate Huggins Morrow Alice Smith Nichols Mary Watson Nooe Mary Helen Simms Patterson Susan Fletcher Phillips Evelyn Carter Pollak Suzanne Carpenter Raine F. Page Vaden Ritter Mary Shipp Robinson Nancy Bruce Starkey Sanderson Nancy Stroud Saunders Janet Bridgen Sessoms Catherine Ferens Sigmon Linda Graham Stogner Linda Sears Suggs Mary Frances Simpson Summerlin Barbara Neville Taylor Carrie Frampton Thompson Elaine McNeill Treece Claudia M. Tutterow Sandra V. Tyre Marilyn Childress Vernon Cathryn Woodbury Walker Gwen Whitehurst Ward Karen Hyland Williams Martha Lee Williamson Judy Kennedy Winslow Donna P. Wood

Louise Foster Wood Catherine Walston Wooten Carol Herring Wright

Class of 1970 Percentage of Class Giving: 39% Iris Society – President’s Circle Paula Tudor Gilbert Ann Robertson Iris Society Betty Fuquay Hyatt Cynthia Griffith McEnery Beverly Barefoot Smith Annual Donors Julia Hacskaylo Abernethy Elizabeth Nicholls B. Baxter Janet Morris Belvin Brenda Pierce Bonardi Betty Moore Burkett Margaret Timmerman Carter Ayn Sullivan Cole Margaret Martin Conley Sue Hammons Cook Jeanne Spach Cox Phyllis Jeffreys Culbreth Susan Soloway Daul Victoria M. Davis Alicia Suarez Eller Peggy Williams Elmore Diane Clayton Felmet Anne Davenport Godley Elizabeth Goss Barbara Brewer Hankins Linda Haddock Harriett Chery Heedick Belinda Smith Helms Anne Pretlow Henderson Anne Morris Hinson and James Hinson Ann Cheek Euliss Holt Kathy Parrish Horton Margaret Whitlow Howard Lynda Barker Imhoff Betty King Johnson Evelyn Godwin Kientz Dianne Yelton Kinard Donna Burgess Lupo Georgia Glass Maner Rita Caveny Mangum Ann Davis Matheny Gary Clarke McInnis Marilyn Albright Michael Jackie Anderson Mole Mary Suzanne George Palmer Bonnie Sparks Parrish Carolyn Langhorne Pittman Nancy Williams Prevatt Sharon Ray Jean Wolf Robb Frances Sessoms Emma Bartholomew Stewart Lou Jackson Taylor Evelyn Hodgin Tolson Anne Holloway Underwood Maria Thornhill Vincent Mary Turner Wannamaker Ann Carroll Ward Jacqueline Briles Ward

Eva Neel Wardrup Ruth Talton Watson Karen Watson Watts Catherine Moran Winstead Sophia McLawhorn Yarborough

Class of 1971 Percentage of Class Giving: 35% Iris Society Marilyn Ballard Gardner Johnnie Lamm Jackson Sharyn Hemrick West Annual Donors Mary-Stuart Parker Alderman Sharron Robbins Atkinson Beverly Easter Bingham Anne Luter Bromby Anne Bryan Christine Barker Calvert Joan Meeks Clark Susan Crouch Craig Jane Cromley Curtis Roberta Wardell Cyrus Jane Alligood de Vos Boyd King Dimmock Christine Fecho Dixon Martha Lyday Dobbins Gloria Little English Olivia Harris Fleming Virginia Bost Ford Rose Blanton Gisonna Paula Smith Hare Nancy Garner Harper Betty Alligood Harrington Janice Holleman House Janet Traynham Killen Jane Davis Knox Jennie Lancaster Nancy Watkins Laney June White Lucas Wanda Pulley Madden Judy Hubbard Marx Judith Smith Maxwell Patricia Conyers Maxwell Doris McIlwain Deborah Stanley McNeill Susan Hooker Metts Jane Kiser Modlin Ellen Manson Moore Barbara Vail Morrison Sara Kennemur Mountford Ann Clark Munns Lynn McDowell Pelsmaeker Jean Davenport Peterson Becky Trader Raynor Suzanne Reynolds Joyce Rhodes Eugenia Tull Rhoten Ann Singletary Richards Jessie Markert Rivers Fair Merriman Robey Vivian Regan Rolfe Sandra Stone Shealy Pamela Pruitt Sherman Glynda Warren Smith Shirley L. Staples Charlotte Vick Sullivan Carolyn Barrett Thackston Margaret J. Tharrington

Bonnie Scott Truelove Peggy Williamson Wiggins Helen Proctor Wilkie Peggy Allen Williamson Martha Millard Worsley Dorothea Jones Wright

Class of 1972 Percentage of Class Giving: 29% Iris Society – President’s Circle Kathryn Fenters House Iris Society Elizabeth Triplett Beam and J. David Beam Hulene McLean Claire Sullivan Slaughter Kathy Moore Watkins Annual Donors Mary Thompson Austell Nancy Barnhill Aycock Jo Ann Bryan Banks Susan Smith Basnight Carol Swarr Beaumont Edna Sue Floyd Bess Vickie Wimberley Blanchard Elizabeth Biggs Britt Camie Barnes Brooks Catherine Asbill Brown Sandra Clemmons McClain Buller Marjorie Weaver Campbell Gail Knapp Cooke Margaret Alexander Cox Cassandra Crump Margaret Person Currin Elaine Dawkins Daves Marti Miller Elliott Judy Abner Elmore Carol McLaney Felts Carolyn Harrelson Fitch Penelope L. Gallins Dorothy Cate Hamby Mary Elizabeth Bradley Hearn Carol Pearson Helms Betsy Newton Herman Liz Gregg Hurst Gail Woltz Jones Elizabeth S. Knott Nan Kutulas Jeanie Brown McCandless Mary Alice McGee Ann Merritt Lynda Bell Moore Sylvia Morris Moore Shelor Strider Morgan Dianne Jones Moser Meredith Elam Muse Betty Sue Manning Norris Ann Googe Nusbaum Marianne Nifong Raker Cynthia Beal Richardson Kathy Ogburn Roebuck Betty Anne Haskins Schlegel Marcia Miller Schmid Ann Johnson Shields Miki Jones Spencer Glenda Tie Standley Martha E. Stephenson Carol Boyd Tillman

Keeping Meredith Strong

Every Gift Matters

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eslie Hayes, ’80, learned the importance of alumnae support while she was still at Meredith. As

a student worker in the alumnae office, one of her jobs was to open the mail and record the gift on an index card with the name of the graduate.

“I quickly learned that each gift a graduate sent in made a difference,” said

Hayes.

“I

remember wanting to have a good job so that I could have an index card with

Gifts to Meredith support students across all academic disciplines.

my name on it, because I knew that my gift would matter!”

“My education gave me the ability to

on the Board of Trustees, and she gives

learn, ask questions, work in a team, and

generously to the Opportunity Fund and

ambition to have a “good job.” She

strive for excellence.”

The Meredith Fund.

interviewed with Wachovia Bank on

In addition to learning from first-

“I give to Meredith because it made

Meredith’s campus the spring of her senior

rate professors and developing lifelong

a difference in my life. I want to be sure

year and was immediately hired. Today,

friendships, Hayes cited several powerful

that future Meredith students have the

she works for the same organization,

Meredith experiences that helped shape

same experience to learn and grow and

now Wells Fargo, and has risen steadily

her. She was business manager for

build the type of friendships that I still

through the ranks to her current position

The Twig, the college newspaper, and

have today.”

of business banking division manager.

gained real-world experience through an

She credits Meredith with providing a

internship with Burroughs Wellcome (now

strong foundation that prepared her to

GlaxoSmithKline).

succeed professionally.

“I definitely remember being part of

the Tomorrow’s Business Women’s Club

Hayes has succeeded in her early

“I often tell people that while at

Meredith you felt that you could do

– we liked how that sounded,” she said.

anything that you set your mind to, and I

believe that carried over to my job at the

direction of the College, especially the

bank,” said Hayes.

new Going Strong brand. She serves

Today Hayes is excited about the

“My education gave me the ability to learn, ask questions, work in a team, and strive for excellence.” – Leslie Hayes

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Karen A. Voelker Martha Bielat Wall Deborah Brown Ward Ellen B. Williams Mary Jo Harrison Wilson Margaret Incerto Zachry

Class of 1973 Percentage of Class Giving: 27% Iris Society Theresa Smith Hooks Fayette Jacobs Jones Bobbie Heilman Murphy Pamela Mitchell Riley Elizabeth Ankers Tuttle Ann Harden Whitford Annual Donors Lola Towles Anheuser Dorothy Ashworth Marcia Hollins Babb Rebecca Johns Bertram Jo Anna Geffcken Boyette Margaret Bridges Luanne Roebuck Brown Julia Carmer Bryan Carolyn H. Carter Deborah Hudson Champion Susan Burt Cherry Ann Wilbourne Childress Ginger Eades Collins Carolyn Hutchinson Coram Mary Ann Tadlock Crawford Mary Anne Corey Crowe Nancy Bass Drake Linda C. Ehrlich Jane Brett Fahey Kay Carpenter Finger Linda Poole FitzSimons Debra Pearce Godwin Michelle Rich Goode Lynn Moore Gordon Judy Thompson Hale Susan G. Herring Dona Isley Hill Patricia Matthews Hothorn Carla Whitaker Jernigan Joanne Eckert Kesler Sally Jordan Killough Susan Lassiter Lampley Shirley Whitehurst Liner Barbara Dorsett McClure Deborah Tingle McCutchen Sharon Schultz McGraw Jean W. McLaughlin Jeanne Tilley Nash Marilyn Fowler Neely Paula Gupton Page Mary Beth Pruette Parker Linda Weeks Peterson Linda Goodrich Purnell Brenda A. Richardson Mary Penn Fitzsimmons Sherlin Judy Yates Siker Carol Cauley Simmons Susan Dilday Smith Susan Derby Stackhouse Elizabeth Thornton Sutton Laura Hawkins Teague Connie Frazier Turlington

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and John Turlington Karen Farless Webb Angela Clinton Welsh Blanche Jones Williams Patricia Battle Wilson Rita Ritchie Wolfe Mary Earp Worley Anne-Carter Shiflett Zetts

Class of 1974 Percentage of Class Giving: 33% Iris Society – President’s Circle Ann Lowery Shivar Iris Society Dianne Forshee Baker Cecilia Watson Blackwell Alice Winecoff Clayton Michelle Alverda Francis Cynthia C. Godwin Patricia Nathan Groves Sarah Young Meacham Jeanne Guthrie Newton L. Victoria Owens Robinson Annual Donors Janet Rice Anderson Catherine Chambers Bailey Anne Yount Beam Maureen Blankenbeckler Theresa Herrin Bowles Elizabeth Roberson Boyd Sarah Reierson Bradsher Jody Johnson Brashear Pam Faison Brewer Elizabeth Dickie Campbell Leah Spencer Chauncey Alison Maready Civils Peggy Bryan Cochran Agnes Jane Lee Cooke Susan E. Creager Eugenia Sealy Cross Mary Woodley Dicus Peggy Easton Driggs Martha Beale Eppes Anne Parson Everett Linda Thompson Fairchild Christine B. Farrior Teresa Wiggins Finley Genevieve Johnson Frazier Kay Carlisle Grady Kathryn Johnston Harris M. Jane Harris Sylvia Cooper Harriss Phoenix Chen Haydon Cynthia Rosser Higgins Lisa Brown Hines Gwendolyn Daye Hodges Susan DeLeon Hoffman Donna Hopewell Charley Peele Hopkins Margaret Walser Howard Marilyn Kornegay Hroza Joanne Saunders Huntley Elizabeth Williams Kain Maryalice Johnson Kimel Janet Olive Kinsey Peggy Stone Lamm Mary Loving Lane Leigh Steele Lehan

Linda Moore Lewis Daphne Owens Lyon Lynne Oliver Martin Deborah Jordan Matthews Marae Paschal McGhee Kathleen Fleetwood McNeill Peggy Schafer Meares Bernice E. Minga Elizabeth Love Mitchell Caroline Roberts Mock Mary Sloop Montgomery Meredith W. Neill Kay Hall Norman Eleanor Hill Oakley Karen Youngblood Padgett Jane Baker Pearson Louise Sullivan Peters Frances Houser Petty Lynn Jones Poston Mary Lewis Potter Carol Lewis Purcell Barbara Longest Raynor Marie Swindler Rodden Margaret Karstedt Sanders Elaine Bartholomew Scarborough Gloria Smith Schwartz Laura Lee Slate Kitty Brewer Spillman Allynna Brooks Stone Jean M. Summerville Jane Lewis Sutton Rebecca Olive-Taylor Belinda Hartman Thomas Katherine T. Vessells Meredith Marr Watson Marilyn Lawrence Weiler Elizabeth Judd Wiggins Judith L. Williams Joyce O’Leary Wilson

Class of 1975 Percentage of Class Giving: 29% Iris Society Patricia Whisnant Cease Ann Darden Gibbs N. Jean Jackson Sherri McGee Cynthia Long McPhail Annual Donors Sue Grant Allen Mary Lee Womble Bailey Beth C. Barr Sherri Houchens Blight Mary Lou Jernigan Bowen Linda McKinnish Bridges Kenna Ritchie Bullard Dianne Timm Byerly Nancy Neal Cagle Mary Jo Williams Carr Barbara Yates Clapp Virginia M. Clark Karen Cvetko Conrad Gail Stott Cook Laurie L. Cressman Helen Copeland Crisp Debra Edge Day Patricia P. Doyle Carol Marshall Dubose Linda Susan Wood Eubanks

Cheri Garnett Furr Susan Hamlin Gentry Celeste Till Harris Ellyn Elizabeth Harris Alice Linda Hassell Patricia Young Herrington Mary Benjamin Hester Amy J. Hill Lynette Broadwell Holmes Mary Anne Kelly Howard Rhonda Strickland Irwin Emily P. Johnson Karen Oliver Johnson Kay Smith Jones Marilyn L. Jones June Leggett Judge Jane Hartley Kaman Carolyn Sater Kanoy Cathy McCaskill Kearney Jacqueline Cullifer Kinney Catherine Morgan Kolk Laura Ann Bailey Leamon Joan Bailey Leatherman Mary Beth Hardy Leavitt Norma Heath Lundy Susan Swift Lynch Barbara Morton Marsh Margaret Martin Karen Harris McManus Marsha Howard Morgan Sybil Burgess Murray Jo Ann Hill Overton Kathryn Garris Owen Lynne Thomason Park Sue Ellen Beal Parrish Jan Carrigan Payne Valerie Glenn Pearce Carol Bonham Penick Sheryl Harrell Pollard Carolyn Comer Price Martha Ray Deborah Phillips Riley Dale Hawkins Russell Marea Sanos Virginia Crouch Slack Katherine Fuller Stokes Mary Ratchford Thornbury Nancy Morris Turrone Susan Webster Vallance Starlette Thomas Walston Nan Harris Watson Ellen P. Wester Cynthia Baughan Wheaton Mary Brown Wicker Mary Beth Wilkie Ann Williams Jo Ann Williford Christine Cornwell Wilson Susan Ferguson Winstead Susan Senter Worrell Penny Benson Ziemer

Class of 1976 Percentage of Class Giving: 30% Iris Society – President’s Circle Nancy P. and Brian D. Siska Iris Society Carolyn Dunn Hawver Meredith McGill

Jacqueline Owen Stallings Annual Donors Marla Tugwell Adams Patricia Vehorn Allen Elisabeth Horton Ambrosio Kathryn Midyette Anderson Rebecca E. Askew Cynthia Creech Beasley Donna Wood Berkeley Kathryn Lewis Boswell Christine Speight Brown Amy Garber Byrd Susan White Carroll Ann Shaw Coats Joanne Ward Compton Susan Merritt Cox Lucy Davis Deeprose Gwen Weatherly Earley Margaret Morrisey Early Sharon Long Eddins Gerry Leigh McRoy Edwards Frances Wynn Ehrlich Patricia Lynne Estes Dianne Creech Finan Katharine Tuck Fisher Mazie Tilley Fleetwood Elizabeth Neville Fonville Virginia Kimball Ford Susan Creech Fowls Lynn Green Gardner Ann Upchurch Godfrey Kathy Hollins Gregersen Vickie Kiziah Gulledge Susan Carroll Hamilton Frances Charlene High Pamela Jefcoat Holt Lou Flynt Jackson Sallie Marshburn Johnson BettyAnn West Jones Jackie Hemingway Joyner Louise Crouch Lee Dondra Traylor Maney Julie Sutton Martin Patrice DesVergers McNeill Susan Dean McWhorter Mary Stuart Menees Joy Hussey Menius Lee Ann Kirk Michael Margaret Taylor Park Lou Mickey Paules Karen Britt Peeler Deborah Vick Peters Elizabeth B. Pope Janet Michael Rippy Denise Brown Rix Shearon Florence Roberts Catherine Roberts Robson Catherine Bland Rodgers Sharon McClanahan Setzer Susan Jordan Small Beverly Jean Glass Stamp Teresa Twine Sullivan Annette Rountree Taylor Susan Goodwin Thornbrough Julia H. Turner Janet L. Tysinger Susan Hill Wadsworth Linda Matthews Wann Laura Boone Ward

Pamela S. Watson Suzanne Deal Wells Jeanette Griffin White Gay Cameron Wilson Kathleen B. Wyche

Class of 1977 Percentage of Class Giving: 31% Iris Society – President’s Circle Betsy Porter Fritschel Catherine McCracken James Anne Fonville-Sams Iris Society Margaret R. Beale Teri Meadows Hires Sharon R. Stephenson Laura Jackson Williams Joyce Pendergraft Young Annual Donors Margaret Phoenix Agee Gail D. Andersen Debra Godwin Avery Virginia Patrick Avery Debra Coates Barton Cinda Tart Bass Kathryn Christian Bender Jenny Barton Bolen Mary Kay Allsbrook Bradshaw Kay Jenkins Brown M. Amelia Bryant Nedra Rogers Bryant Andra Knott Burt Deborah Niswonger Caldwell Gail Yates Carnagua Millie McLaney Chalk Elizabeth Steagall Christenbury Rebecca Barnes Coble Anne Reece Collins Omega Evans Collins Anne Edge Dale Catherine Harris de Lespinois Suzanne Styron Edwards Geneva Hale Etheridge Rhonda Harris Evrard Teresa Kiger Farmer Martha Small Ferebee Barbara Wiggins Fleming Diane Arnaiz Garner Pamela Schultz Guptill Mary Elizabeth Hall Hargrove Phyllis Smith Hayes Janice Stewart Hinson Alice P. Johnson Rebecca Armstrong Johnson Cheryl Koob Cathy Pickett Lamb Carol Clapp Lemke Jacquelyn Webb Lewis Nancy Martin Long Patricia Fishel Long Mary J. Ludt Jennie Lynch Mays Jane Harris Miller Katy Harper Montgomery Dorothy Booker Moore Elizabeth Graham Morrison Kimberly Hicks Naegelen Sue Crabtree Newton

* Deceased

Jayne Lynne Callahan Nimocks Lynda D. Noffsinger Mary Don Tallman Olds Sara Cotey Overby Deborah Talbert Patton Hazel Browning Possiel Grace Cawley-Rhine Leatha Perry Ritchie Janet Hornaday Rogers P. Susan Stone Rogers Cherry Croom Rouse Deborah Doss Russell Nancy L. Schult Joy Denny Seif Helen Carolyn Gay Shackelford Connie Adams Sherrill Evelyn Buie Shytle Jean Robinette Simpson Judith A. Smith Robin Withers Smith Nancy Brewbaker Stanton Susan Faulk Stedman Jane Siceloff Stokes Julia Surratt Taylor Julie A. Taylor Deborah L. Thompson Jo Ann Marks Trethaway Freda M. Tricarico Carolyn Pennington Vicinus Harriette Schreiber Weinstein Denise Gaskins Willey Charlot Frye Wood Lee Coble Worden

Class of 1978 Percentage of Class Giving: 27% Iris Society Mary Elizabeth Johnston Arthurs Joni Fay Watts Fetterman Suzanne Stocks Hawley Margaret Carter Herring Mary Nell Bostick Jenke Teresa Carter Kline Elizabeth Cobb Lilly Sharon Brewer Nault Annual Donors Sondra Williams Adams Julie C. Amos Carla Ashley Marsha Carol Kelly Bain Molly Bailey Bayard Celia Witt Beauchamp Kay Allen Blizzard Dana Gay Parks Brogden Debra M. Bryant Karen Harrison Calhoun Cynthia Floyd Cash Betsy Culler Cockman Mary Kathryn Morgan Crowe Elizabeth Bailey Daniel Mary Anne Hardy Dawson Phoebe Nestor Dixon Deanne Margot Dorsey Donna Kay Douglas Mary Jane Lockamy Evans Julia Dorman Fort Susan Coldfelter Foushee Nancy Radford Frazier Carol Sustek Garris

Jamie Council Garvey Eleanor Chappell Goss Georganne Branham Griffin Margaret Ballard Hess Nancy Shinn Highfill Patricia Price Hinkle Joyce Montgomery Hinton Elizabeth Lee Hodges Jacqueline Huber Debbie McGee Hunter Anne Hicks Jeanblanc Elizabeth Black Johnson Tess Winslow King Margaret Hester MacMillan Sharon Hardin Maynor Lucy King McGee Leigh Anne Boone McLean Nancy Rosenbaum Meek Christa Burris Middleton Cathy York Morrison Claire Elmore Natt Frances Cuttle Newby Sherry L. Olson Betty Anne Parker Page Rose Pond Sara Lynn Neel Powell Mary Glynn Bates Roberson Mary Brittingham Rollins Sally Lawrence Sandifer Elizabeth Raynor Santana Sharon Holder Shehdan Marjorie Warren Sink Mazie Swindell Smith Rebecca Sugg Smothers Alix Willcox Snyder Sharon Harper Spears Mary Margaret Steele Emily Widman Texter Jenny Miller Tolson Carol Fitch Walker Elizabeth Adams Watkins Kathleen Compton Westbrook Julia Nipper Wilkins Jan Williamson Wilson Tonya Jones Wright

Class of 1979 Percentage of Class Giving: 25% Iris Society – President’s Circle Carol Lancaster Milano Iris Society Karen Mangum Allen Annette L. Bailey Sandra Graham Cagle Sandra G. Godwin Emily Graham Howell J. Renee Keever Susan Kitts Messer Miriam O. Victorian Annual Donors Dell Hooper-Barbee Katherine R. Beale Landis Beddingfield Kay Pollock Bender Diana Cashwell Browning Beth Wheless Bundy Najla Nave Carlton Carole Jones Carr

Susan Wilkins Cashwell Lois Hayes Chamblee Billie Jo Kennedy Cockman Barbara Westbrook Collins Carol Michael Crenshaw Camilla Reierson Diehl Elizabeth Cridlin Ebel Teressa M. Edwards Sharon Nixon-Escochea Jennifer Norvell Farrell Nena Warren-Felsher Deborah Morgan Fulk Debbie Peele Glaser Stella E. Hall Linda K. Hallman Pandora Dunn Holloway Rita Blevins Jennings Laura Leppla Joyner Rebecca Brown Joyner Anne Arnold Keen Susan Kellam April Dean King Leigh Ferrell Kirkman Sharon Wood Lloyd Anne Rogers Lowder Katherine Knobeloch MacDonald Holly Waddell Marchisello Suzanne Mattox Barbara Schreffler McMillan Mary Beth Baecher Metcalf Gail Moody Milteer Alice Arico Morrison Charlotte Lolley Murphy Donna Dean Parrish Elizabeth I. Pate Robin Reich Lisa Biddix Royal Nancy Walker Scott Susan Diane Faw Shaw Belinda A. Smith Deborah Curry Smith Jennifer Carter Stephenson Carol Edmiston Stewart Anna Comer Stidham Denise Jones Stroud Katherine Keith Thomas Anne Timberlake Wheeler Molly Lawrence Whitaker Lisa Wall Williams Nora Griffin Williford Carrie Compton Wintermute Chris Phillips Wright Patricia K. Yelvington Laurie Baker Zissimos

Class of 1980 Percentage of Class Giving: 32% Iris Society – President’s Circle President Jo Allen Leslie Landis Hayes Silda Wall Spitzer Iris Society Amy Davis Adams N. Jane Campbell Ella Plyler Frantz Deborah Dove Smith Karen Maness Stone

# Denotes members of the Ivy Society, recent graduates (2003 to 2014) who make a monthly gift of $10 or more annually.

Annual Donors Frances Diane Bacon Terri Moore Bailey Kimberly Smith Ball Marcia Hall Bethea Valerie Ray Blankenship Robyn Wright Bone Myra Herring Brown Robin Howell Burt Cathy Clapp Byman Malinda Owens Coombs Melinda Haney Costa Lisa K. Cunningham Victoria Ballard Currin Elizabeth Parker Dagenhart Lisa E. Dahlgren Vicki Miguel Davis Booker Chewing Deakyne Susan Dowdy Dunlow Allison Foster Edwards Betsy Hutt Fauntleroy Nancy Clendenin Forbes Marjorie Mills Freeman Janet Liles Gowan Rebecca Parrish Green Sheri A. Green Sandra Hancock Jennifer Coltrain Harris Lee Callahan Hayden Linda Michael Hege Jane Belk Hemingway Julie Ranson Hester Cynthia Smith Hoffner Pamela Kornegay Jenny Faithe Grantham Jobe Beverly Taylor Johnson Dana Draughn Johnson Gloria Boyd Johnson Catherine Wright Jones LuAnn Whitley Joyner Phama Mullen Larsen-Johnston Juana Ruble Mikels Shearra Miller Thelma Goodwin Miller Melody Owensby Moore Ruth Franklin Murphy C. Andrea Neese Terri Hamilton Northcutt Ann Wright Owen Lou Ann Murphy Parker Sally Merrill Pittman Anne Cherry Price Cynthia Christie Price Florence Hassell Rabon Mary Bowden Ray Mary Powell McLeod Rhodes Mary Pickett Rizzo Kitty Cox Rollins Janet Conway Rose Danette Gordon Rutherford Jeanie Griffin Sherman Julie Slade Kimberly Settle Southard Mary Nelson Spruill Kim Lawson Strong Tammy A. Summers Beverly Dawn Hall Sutton Jan Bethune Tart Kristy Beattie Taylor

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Frances Wooten Theodorakis Katharine Noble Theriot Vickie Thornton Tribble Mary Ferrell Twine Betsy Stockard Upton Jane Marshall Vance Karen Womble Wallace Betty Leigh Osborne Walters Barbara Sirles Westmoreland Lura Anthony Whitcomb Barbara Bear Whitley Margaret Bassett Williams Barbara Browde Wilson Elaine Robinson Wise Cindy Thomas Wood Katherine Williford Yates Susan Sherron Zaytoun

Class of 1981 Percentage of Class Giving: 23% Iris Society – President’s Circle Cindy Casey Goode Iris Society Patricia Forbes Poe Annual Donors Jackie Revels Abbott Mary Elizabeth Buchanan Alphin Olivia Heath Banks Diane Jones Bassett Cynthia Cobb Bedsworth Amy Mendenhall Benson Lee Whitley Black Dianne W. Bostrom Diane Hoggard Boyd Denise Walters Burchett Dottie Phillips Buster Sandra Sain Byrd Nancy Jill Paget Carpenter Sherrill A. Cash Robin Bailey Colby Sara Lucinda Cole Cecilia Foushee Cook Mary Leigh Lambert Cottrell Beth Hines Crews Sharon Swain Currin Martha Anderson Dobson Lynn Davis Edwards Susan Harris Frazier D. Sharmon Simmons Herring Katherine Grindstaff Hinkle Margot Houtz Huffines Amy Cline Hull Frankie Virginia Knott Johnson Deanna Frazier Kaplan Susan Kellum Jan Gardner Kelly Mary Williams-Kotnik Connie Taylor Lewis Julia King Lopez Talmadge Hinnant Mangum Sonya Ammons Massengill Joyce Witherington Mattox Rebecca Correll McClendon Sandra Watson McDaniel Julia Richardson McGrath Deborah Bartlett McKay Elaine Powell McLeod Susan White Minter

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Elizabeth Brashear Mobley Tudy Moncure Ramona Milligan Parker Jeannie Bowers Phillips Elizabeth Allen Pierce Susan Walters Puryear Jane Hensdale Raney Judith Carr Reel Carol Ross Rodriguez Janet Green Rosie Cindy Leary Schellenberg Eva Kathryn Korschun Simmons Karen Carpenter Smith Deborah Mosley Stilley Courtney Atkins Swanson Susan Jones Turner Teresa Flythe Warren Martha Hollowell Welch Suzanne Ripley Weston Connie Rogers Whitt Catherine Ann Lancaster Wright

Class of 1982 Percentage of Class Giving: 28% Iris Society – President’s Circle Gloria A. Gaskin Mary Katherine Parks Iris Society Jerry Tolson Bartlett Jane Dameron Worley Annual Donors Donna Tripp Adams Mary Graham Andrews Elba Crowe Barnes Jane Reynolds Bateman Virginia Porter Bateman Mary Ward Robbins Baucom Sharon Hall Bauer Kelly Lennon Belcher Roxanne Scism Bridges Christine N. Buchanan Geneva T. Burcham Martha Linda Carter Beth Grantham Chambers Lora Dinning Chisholm Catherine White Couch Stacey Douglas Daniels Donna Griffin Davenport Jeanne Lynn Hurt Davis Celia H. Dickerson Kaywood Graham Draughon Laney Hodge Edwards Lydia Stokes Finlayson Mary Diane Lindley Fisher Joni Coleman Fitzgerald Nan Davis Fleming Martha Baker Fraize Kelley Stone Garris Michelle Gregory Graham Cynthia Perry Griesedieck Kay Jones Hicks Sheila Lawson Hite Felicia Stewart Hoyle Darlene Wilson James Judy Chandler Jeremias Margarte Pittard Jones Georganne McMullen Kirven Constance Wilder Lieder

Susan Hoover Lyon Kay Murphy Madden Johnsie Pass Mason Susan Foster Massengill Judith Andrews Mays Jean Bond McCamy Daphne Barfield McCormack Marie Hiott McEntire Susan Coggin Miller Linda Pepper Morton Tracy Moseley Margaret Smith Murray Janet Meares Nettles Liz Harrell Newell Susan Jones Platt Jenna Miranda Bowers Proctor Elizabeth Belton Rabun Jamie Hofler Robbins Gina Patterson Robinson Bobbie Finch Schatz Cynthia N. Sellers Laura Fulton Shankle Glenda Morgan Shelton Bryn E. Smith Kelly Smith Lynda L. Smith Terri Lynnette Snead Phyllis Dale Stallings Elizabeth Roach Switzer Amy Eidson Tayloe Mary Boehling Traynham Jane Brenegar Trexler Deborah Mokros Voress Margaret McGaughey Wells Sarah Williams Leslie Saunders Williford Kelly Sullivan Wyatt

Class of 1983 Percentage of Class Giving: 16% Iris Society – President’s Circle Christie Bishop Barbee Fran Jennings Teter Iris Society Jayne Osborne Abernethy Virginia Hayworth Hoover Lynn Vaughan Leidheiser Stephanie Georgallis Proctor Annual Donors Nancy Sparks Adams Cinda Bodford Alexander Anne Norvik Altieri Barbara Keegan Armstrong Lisa A. Bailey Leigh Anne F. Barham Suzanne Springston Benge JoAnne Williams Branch Karen McAden Broadway Anna E. Brown Julie Moore Bullock Rebecca Hall Clark Kimberly M. Cozart Patricia Mixon Crowe Laura Grady Crumpler Kristin Kemm Davenport Carolyn Dunn Debra Highsmith Falkner Kimberly Denton Gay

Carla Fowler Gibbons Jona Riggan Gilliam Kelly Weaver Goley Maria Rodriguez Green Martha Wagner Greene Caroline Greene Hamrick Connie Lineberry Hastings Virginia Taylor Hurdle Susan Davis Johnson Lori Howell Kelley Constance Melvin Kinney Stacey Psillas Lahey Carla L. MacClamrock Martha King Mason Elizabeth Parker Watson Denise Perry Parker Cynthia Smith Scheipers Angela Spaanbroek Schuster Michelle Farrier Seaboch Kathleen M. Sherman Melissa Davis Sikes Martha Ensley Stokes Kimberly Morin Toxey Lynne Whitfeld Robyn Compton Whitman Donna Newton Wiggins Sally Bruce Withers

Class of 1984 Percentage of Class Giving: 21% Iris Society – President’s Circle C. Elizabeth Dove Iris Society Martha Waugh Barnwell Denise M. Biccum Henrietta Edwards Braun Kathy Seeger Rhoades Elizabeth Rodgers Stabler Annual Donors Lisa D. Bailey Catherine Cole Baldwin Wendy Barham Banner Kelly Efird Burleson Beverly Herron Carlton Linda Norris Chapman Renee Duffee Clark Gwyn Trueblood Cloninger Emily Craig Susan Saye Crews Elaine Jolly Davis Kimberly Elliott Dittmann Jane Harrell-Dodd Deanna Carlton Drescher Karen Sutton Dyson Pamela Mortensen Elks Carol Hawkins Fields Edna Lovelace Gaston Melody Warren Gerald Susan Kientz Grigg Alice Grigsby Grigsby Tanessa Gradford Groah Cynthia Lawson Harding Cynthia A. Harris Evelyn Booth Hughes Lauri Ann Hickman Hurd Sharon Rinker Johnson Dianne Powell Jones Aimee Eddy Jordan

Deborah Munt Keefe Caroline Cooper Lamm Betsy Beals Lowder Amy Dement Lowe Laura Payne Lowe Deborah Martin Marks Susan M. McDonough Frances R. Mundy Marguerite Davenport Nicholls Jane Morgan Nixon Lisa Loftis Obermiller Dora Weaver Owens Lisa Harrold Pace Ann Thomasson Parker Sheri Howell Paul M. Noel Pellish Linda Dotson Perkins Donna Steele Pinckney Terrie Holland Priest Lane Parker Raskauskas Kimberly Jenkins Rawlings Kimberly Causey Ray Paula Tilghman Roberson Wynne Carey Rodgers Mary Kay McIver Shelley Shelia Bass Steed Camille Stuckey Stell Sheri Wayne Stockton Linda Cheek Su Lynne Jackson Thompson Carol Brooks Uphoff Elizabeth Walters Weidle Patricia Lewis West Melissa Stewart Woodell

Class of 1985 Percentage of Class Giving: 10% Iris Society – President’s Circle Jena Muntz Gallagher Carolyn Sperry Leith Iris Society Kellie J. Falk Parker Normann Annual Donors Kimberly Jones Adams Anita Waters Alpenfels Martha Gibson Anderson Zan Bunn Beth Krewson Carter Elizabeth J. Caviness Karen Davis Charlton Lori Lewis Day Helen King Dunklin Anne Ferebee Gavaghan Rebecca Evans Glass Angie Sutton Lock Julia Beckett Marsh Linda Mumford McSwain Cammy Smith Mullen Autney Reavis Nelms Lee Page Patricia Matthews Privette Maia McAnulty Setzer Kay Robertson Sokolovic Carol Hicks Stott Betty Lynn Suber Kimberly McCall Whitley Michelle Richardson Williams

Annual Donors Christine Schmitt Albro Laura Bynum Beasley Serena Blankenship Buckner Anna Goodwin Collins Kelly Wyatt Crawley Patti Pollard Dickson Ellen Henry Edmunds Dalinda Dunn Fairley Kimberli McMurray Flaugher Allison Draper Gant Amy Watson Hancock Jane Mills Haug Harriet M. Jablonover Georgia Parrish James Michele Cherry Larson Barbara Garris Lee Virginia Leach Lenaeus Teresa McMaster Martin Kathryn Nalani Masewicz Donna Martin Pilkington Mary Lynn Purcell Roberts Laura K. Robinson Lynne Temple Sanders Sally Woolard Sandy Nancy Shore Sawtelle Lori Coleman Schomburg Jonelle Davis Strickland Holly Connell Tehan Marcia Taylor Thompson Maria Kling Tierney Barbara B. Vinson

Margaret Gill Virginia McCartney Gliarmis Sophie Fishel Grady Emily Adcock Hayne Lucy O. Henry Felicia Mabes Heyward Carolyn J. Hill Fannie Rowland Howell Susannah Fleming Hughes Wendy Hayes Inge Penelope A. Jarvis Cleta Anderson Johnson Sherrill Lanett Jolly Nan Henry Keel Susan Beck Kunar Nancy Floyd Long Julia Ann McKeithan Ruth Ponder Moore Kelly Nobles-Parker Lisa Powers O’Connor Greta Schott Paith Cheryl D. Perry Donna Pope Powell Kriena Nederveen Raffin Patricia Brannock Rhodes Sheila Vaughan Seagle Audrey Locke Shearin Phyllis O’Hara Smetana Allison Godwin Spears Kelli Barefoot Stroud Carlissa Oakley Taylor Carmel Swanson Tritschler Leslie Swain Vaughan Michele Merritt Webb Rhonda L. Whitaker Dana Pierce White Joy Terry Wilkes Susan Nix Williams Harriet Huggins Wilson

Class of 1987

Class of 1988

Susan Monroe Williford Catherine Everett Wilson

Class of 1986 Percentage of Class Giving: 11% Iris Society Sandra Critzer Close

Percentage of Class Giving: 19% Iris Society – President’s Circle Mary Beth Coleman Mosca

Percentage of Class Giving: 9% Iris Society Sharon Harding Woodlief

Iris Society Jennifer Lyn Hubbard Kim Giddeons Quinn Martha L. Register Donna Wilson Thagard Caroline Powell Veronee

Annual Donors Laura Taylor Alridge Paula Tomlinson Benson Jane Mellon Bofenkamp Angela Lynn Bryant Lisa Inge Burgwyn Jennifer Vick Catellani Carol Clark Dean Christen Hayworth Duke Andrea Pullen Eason Mary Robin E. Fastenau Betty Stroud Griffin Gina Fowler Hopkins Anne Kirkman Jones Julia Edwards Kinlaw Jean Van Lieu Leichte Kelly Foard Leonard Lou Anne Stephenson Liverman Terri Marks Carol Asplen-Masden Anne Nelson Meeks Christal Porter Mitchell Celeste H. Pageau Jacqueline Rudy Phelps Helen Carla Quinn Rouse

Annual Donors Tabitha Hall Alexander Catherine Stanley Alligood Mary Louise Tousignant Antoci Sandra Todd-Atkinson Leslie Hodge Bauer Leigh Sneed Berrier Helen Rebecca Bizzell Kimberly Weeks Braxton Lisa Burch Alice Milton Butler Jennifer Drinard Castro Elizabeth Sanders Colleen Anna Galloway Currie Dorcas Hostetler Douglas Marion McMahon Driver Leigh Allison Eury Stephana Lynn Gay

* Deceased

Joy A. Spencer Mary R. Umstead

Class of 1989 Percentage of Class Giving: 11% Iris Society Mary Elizabeth Sanderson Deaton Cindy Parkman Godwin Kimberly Brittsan Lancaster Winborne Thorn Macphail Annual Donors Melanie Parkins Bacheler Maria A. Barndt Katherine Weatherly Benningfield Monica Borden Laura Jane Abernethy Brock Deborah Shaw Capps Lora Shoaf Chambers Leslie Belsha Collins Kathryn Morris Defriese Cynthia Price Ellington Laura Van Hoven Erdman Sheila Liverman Forbes Donna Fowler-Marchant Susan Kelley Harrell Lori Parrish Herring Susan E. Holec Catherine Plasters Imperial Dana Bailey Johnson Kathryn Strange Jones Jan Carter Liquori Kathleen J. Lohff Page Chaffin Londrey Mary Dickson Long Leslie Amanda Stroupe Masters Jennifer Horton McIntyre Cheryl Whitfield Moreland Sonya Beth Williams Oates Teri Waters Pantelakos V. Elizabeth Parham M. Hope Proctor Parker Terry Conard Phillips Christine Quante Ida Barrett Rae Sherri Pegram Robie Robin Brumfield Ruffin Beth Wood Smith Susan Whichard Tankard Lynda Collier Taylor Alice Tropman Thacher Iris Wilkins Turner Kristin Richey Watkins Chandra Corriher Whicker

Class of 1990 Percentage of Class Giving: 13% Iris Society Yvette M. Brown Anne Carroll Mustian Ezzelle Deanna R. Harris Annual Donors Gayle Woodard Alford Robin S. Andrews Leanne Jackson Camp Amanda Brooks Carson Cynthia Daniel Cave Maria Parker Costello Glenda Barton Darrell

Amber Hager Elam Dawn Flynn Euman Laura Bishop Fiveash Susan Worley Forbes Patricia Lee Foster Susan Dorato Fox Beth Outland German Laura Plowden Hollar Suzanne Hage Houyoux Jeannine Manning Hutson Kimberley Hudson Jackson Kimberly Lemmons Kenney Anna McCants Manley Suzanne Stovall Mann Tracy Woolard Mayo Jennifer L. McLean Virginia Wood Norris Elizabeth Wilson Norton Victoria E. Parker Laura E. Prestwood Lisa Woodruff Roberds Roberta Katherine Crowder Rowe Sandra Michael Russell Jennifer Sharpe Schwartz Kathryn Elizabeth Slate Salma Murad Smith Tori McPhail Stadler Nancy E. Stevens Kathryn Nanin Stieneker Audra Nunn Tyree Myra G. Waddell Michelle Rowe Walsh Jenny Bradsher Wells Amelia Stinson-Wesley Frances Viverette Willis Cynthia Dawn Steudel Winchell Stephanie Beck Yount

Class of 1991 Percentage of Class Giving: 13% Iris Society Amy Kain Mayer Katharine Bragg Scruggs Annual Donors Mary Y. Arnold Deanna Fogle Boksleitner Margaret K. Burke Sheila C. Butler Charlotte A. Carroll Kim Price Chestnutt Christine Womack Copa Margaret A. Deal Crystal Cheatham Drum Catherine Dunstan Eagles Dana Lucy Egan Sara Elizabeth Ragsdale Eskridge Ruth and Chris Fonville Kit Moseley Galligan Robbie Walker Griffin Helen N. Harris Alyson Ann Honeycutt Kelli Johnson Isenhour Rebecca Roush Kanach Gladys Cusley Langdon Tracy J. Lewis Jane Evans Mason Kay Jernigan McGriff Holly Hensley Messick Kimberly Corcoran Moore

# Denotes members of the Ivy Society, recent graduates (2003 to 2014) who make a monthly gift of $10 or more annually.

Laura Peedin Moushey Rhonwyn Curtis-Nicholson Sylvia E. Nofsinger Kelly White-Owens Penny Peacock Kerri S. Rawls Nancy Roark Kelly Morris Roberts Christy Sizemore Robeson Paula Newkirk Roseman Donna Newton Ryals April Boyer Sitler Maria Williams Styers Stacey Thomas Laura Edmonds Thornton Nancy Smith Toppin Suzanne Perry Triemstra Roslyn Sloop-Troutman Karen Cecil Viggiano Amy-Lyn Lafferty Warren Lynne Loving Wilkerson Teresa Baldwin Willis

Class of 1992 Percentage of Class Giving: 6% Iris Society Ann Hiott Barham Emily Bell Gibbons Annual Donors Amy Thompson-Barfield Leslie Leigh Bleecker Kendra Neese Bowers Angela Owens Buie Martha B. Danek Amy Lee Daugherty Lesley Williams Faulkner Virginia McCotter Hevener Gwen Daughtry Hodges Anna Hollifield Martha Inscore Howard Stephanie B. Jessee Ruby Edwards Johnson Lesley Foss King Jessica Fischer Kuehl Holley Milam Lewis Michelle Murrow Maynard Marcia Stevens McLain Alice Saylor Miller K. Paulette Mitchell Mary Ann Monk Mary Adcock Pearce Melissa Barefoot Pearce Kimberly Sanders Libby Volker Stucky Paula Fields Taylor Mary Snow Burnette Thornton Luci L. Weldon Melissa McDowell Wright

Class of 1993 Percentage of Class Giving: 6% Iris Society Trinnie Terrell O’Connor Angela Swain Williams Annual Donors Megan Dee-El Caines Cloninger Rebecca Knowles Floyd Yvonne Herald Fus

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Kimberly Colston Hilliard Amanda Dill Hines Mallory Hearne Hodges Virginia E. Holthausen Kelly Kiernan Jaynes Kate Wilson King Kristi Narron Legnante Brice Jones Melton Page Hankin Midyette Leigh Anne Perkinson Naas Karen Nipper North Jamie Bunn O’Briant Kelly Brown Ogburn Kelly Phillips Erb Kristina McGee Preston Andrea Kristen Roberts Nancy M. Rocamora Martha Boaz Shaw Amanda Moore White Susan Smith Wray Elizabeth Farmer Zimmer

Class of 1994 Percentage of Class Giving: 15% Iris Society – President’s Circle Amanda Chitsaz Reid Iris Society Susan Elisabeth Burnette Cynthia Worsham Urquhart Annual Donors Aimee Ipock Allen Karen Mooney Brenneman Janet C. Bullock Wendy Royal Cabral Elizabeth Sloan Carroll Carol Hill Cato Shelly Warden Cefalu Laura Zimmerman-Clark Katie Kincaid Coley Rachel Gilley Collins Elizabeth Dickerson Cosgrove Alissa Brown Denbo Ann Case Edmondson Jennifer Jones Fernandez Amy Shepard Galvan Jennifer Williams Gaskins Barbara Lyons Goodmon Elizabeth Weidler Gustafson Tracy Howell Harkness Mary Streeter Harmelink Hannah Simonds Harvey Elizabeth Eisele Hayes Carolyn M. Kerr Mary Hamilton Lasater Tracy Salter Leary Sheryl R. Long Susan Taylor Long Angela M. Mangum Cynthia King Mazur Michelle Lewis Mazzola Elizabeth First McClellan Dawn Fleming McDonald Shannon McGinnis Edith Allison Hodges Molinaro Wendy R. Moody Kimberly Simmons Pope Tracey Rawls Preslan Elizabeth T. Rihani

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Judy A. Rodgers Amanda Gemayel Rossi Robin Outland Schwartz Sarah Espy Settlemyre Rebecca Faw Spears Kimberly D. Spell Stephanie Holland Stallings Leigh Stanislaw Adrianne Hurt Staten Jennifer D. Stoneham Lori Watson Strickland Mary Blythe Taylor Nancy Bradley Thompson Jacqueline Tope Jessica Showers Turton Kimberly Taylor Walker Anne Leigh Wankel Dawn C. Ward Tiffany Short West Ellen A. Williamson Jennifer Davidson Williamson Caroline Ballard Wilson Melanie Perkins Young

Class of 1995 Percentage of Class Giving: 13% Iris Society Andrea Oakley Fox Hollie Goins Kernan Carol A. Mims Catherine Davis Rideout Holly Lennon Wilford Annual Donors Sharon Duffer Adams Cynthia J. Affronti Truly C. Ager Rebecca Sweeney Anderson Sherrie Lane Bass Angela Lilly Bennett Tina Sylvester Blocker Shannon Baynor Braxton Jeanette Milosavljievic Bruce Elizabeth P. Burlew Jill Sellars Caldwell Valerie van Oosten Cline J. Michelle Smith Cowan Laine Marus Crowe Jane S. Davis Hollace A. Dowdy Kelly C. Formy-Duval Sarah Garmhausen Gilbert Georgia Hanford Katherine Davis Honeycutt Sara Bordeaux Hunter Kathleen E. Iafrate Teresa Latham Keever Ashley Wardell King Debora Opheim Kolb Christy Moore Mallut Amy Blevins May Kristin Applehans McGlaughlin Mary Barron Millen Cynthia Keyes Miller Leah Ritchie Mills Catherine L. Moore Mary A. Moore Beth Morris Nance Stephanie Singleton O’Shaughnessey

Stacey Young Penn Lynn Sauls Petillo Jennifer Tingen Reese Elizabeth Trible Reid Elizabeth A. Schmitt Spencer Clement Sossa Karen Elrod Southern Jacqueline Mann Straub Jennifer Cranford Walker Thomissa Talley Wallwork Lorelei M. Watts Melissa White Wells

Class of 1996 Percentage of Class Giving: 9% Iris Society – President’s Circle Ann Carter Kirkland Iris Society Kristen Bradshaw Atkins Mary Esther Clark Baker Shelly Barrick Parsons Annual Donors Paula Beam Anstrom Lori Miller Buckheister Allison K. Carroll Tiffany A. Clark Margery Clifton Jennifer Stables Cole Clarky Lucas Davis Lori Gillis Duke Suzanne Macon Parker Fino Christy Odom Hamm Emily Robinette Harpe Diana Canedo Hollifield Amanda Steele Johnson Shauna March King Lisa Powell Loflin Andrea Mace Molly Shepherd Nichols Jennifer Sharp Noonan Beth Huber Patafio Carmen M. Prevette Lisa Nance Reddy Regina A. Reid Ruth Anne Bowles Sawyer Heather Graves Shurm Elizabeth Stewart Amy L. Stroud Lori Jones Sykes Amanda Thomas Tart Diep M. Tran Hope Lee Murdock Venetta Laura G. Ward Ashley Carawan White Diane Y. Winstead

Class of 1997 Percentage of Class Giving: 7% Iris Society – President’s Circle Kathy Adams Pierce Iris Society Wendy G. Kelly Annual Donors Nancy Welton Avett Veronica King Aycock Sheila Barrett Barnes Kristye Koontz Brackett Megan L. Carney

Joy McNeill Chafin Julia Maria Wright Chalifour Carrie Snider Cogbill Amy E. Davis Laura Hufton-Harms Angie M. Harris Jasmine L. Hart Ashley Parr-Henderson Carol Evans Jones Amber Lewis Lovelace Caroline Hardy Lytle Jessica K. Monroe Virginia Walsh Paisie Megan Schmidt Phelps Anita Pleasant Pope Jennifer Moore Porter Amy Rooks Lori Goforth Shaw Michelle R. Snead Theresa Vela Strader Amanda Austin Stratton Hillary West Strengholt Cindy M. Wardle Monica Jones Williams

Class of 1998 Percentage of Class Giving: 7% Annual Donors Anna Bolin Absher Barbara F. Banadyga Suzanna McNeely Beamish Jennifer Habeeb Bell Emily Laughinghouse Brazik Kimberly Ann Collins Hettie Nelms Faulkner Martha Susan Gilliam Nancy Taylor T. Ginger Charla Boyette Hutchinson Janae Michelle Lehto Amy Arrowood Lin Melissa Blackwood Long Amy Woodard Marriott Mary Edmondson Mayeux Sarah Upchurch Owen Jennifer Blackwood Rogers Mika Murdock Scarlett Kelly Conkling Scott Jennifer Vaughan Stauffer Meredith Lovelace Swindell Kimberly Ann Talley Jill Lianne Green Teel Sarah Young Walas Elisabeth Corson Whetstine Carol Swink Wooten Jennifer McCurry Young

Class of 1999 Percentage of Class Giving: 8% Iris Society Lori Messina Moscato Janet Butler-Stephens Annual Donors Jennifer Laws Barker Brittany Cleavenger Bass Amy Wade Brewer Natalie Thompson Brincefield Shannon MacFarlane Byers Amanda England Cole Tisha Admire Duncan

Caroline Bradford Fleming Elizabeth Adkins Flowers Jennifer West Freeman Helen Lewis Gibbs Joanna Wilson Gmyr Ashley Hutchins Gower Michelle Verdegaal Gray Mary McDougal Heggie Media Scronce Hooks Ginger Hudson Patricia Tart Jones Chatham Fralix Kildosher Katherine Hardersen King Wendy Holman McLawhorn Cynthia Simmons Messimore Nelly Navarro-Britt Candice M. Pinocci Dana Flotkoetter Rawls Carrie Fields Richardson Cicely Penney Shoemaker Elizabeth Dobbins Smith Mamie McKinney Sutphin Amanda McCullen Warren

Class of 2000 Percentage of Class Giving: 5% Iris Society Amber Pittman Barnes Annual Donors Caroline Austin Ashburn Kelli Brown Beaver Erin E. Bowman Elizabeth Pegram Burns Kelly Tetterton Casey Melanie A. Chrisp-Thorpe Julia Thompson Cranford Jenna Burlington Fitch Veronica Cartwright Johnson Sarah N. LeRoy Laura May June Bischoff McQueen Jennifer Ricks Merritt Melissa McGee Meyer Elizabeth Viar Moore Renee Ann Overton Jami Barnhill Powers Elizabeth Goodale Ray Traci Mutzabaugh Smith Bonnie Clark Tkac Lindsey Hansen Volin

Class of 2001 Percentage of Class Giving: 14% Annual Donors Hilary S. Allen Katherine Withers Armstrong Mary Ann C. Bacon Sarah M. Barnhart Nancy Atlee Bowman Kate D. Breen Carrie Flowers Burns Meredith Dillehay Butler Laura Chalk Dana Turnage Chong Rebecca Howard Cower Kim Joyner Dail Laura Autry Dunlap Rachel Langley Embler Elizabeth Jackson Fazenbaker

Deanna Whaley Ford Shannon Morris Fox Kimberly Clendenen Franklin Christine Furmick Fussell Natalie Thackston Gilliam Melissa D. Gould Kimberly Shive Green Elizabeth Warren Hamilton Erica Kelly Hege Mary Kemple Sutphin Henderson Jamye M. Hickman Robin Naylor Higgins Sarah Friench Johnson Pamela Hale Josey Penny G. Kucera Cacie McLaurin Langley Jenna Leggett Leissner Emily Gail Lucas Leslie Gilliland Lynette Leslie C. Maxwell Natalie Murray McGowan Elizabeth Hamilton McLamb Amy Alm Moore Cassie M. Mozingo Rye Anderson Myers Elizabeth Arruda Otey Lesley M. Parr Janell L. Patterson Amanda G. Puckett Leigh Jernigan Ragone Elizabeth Kelly Reilly Betsy Rhame-Minor Kelly A. Roder Marley Finch Russell Lindsey R. Rutledge Chassie Deitz Selouane Melissa Denning Sevigny Elizabeth Anne Bondurant Spires Wallis Kirby Stott Krystal G. Tyndall Jennifer White Urban Debra K. Wiggins Elizabeth Hart Williams

Class of 2002 Percentage of Class Giving: 10% Iris Society Beatrice G. Zepeda Annual Donors Lindsay Styron Allen Emily Roudabush Anderson Leesha Austin-Buehlmann Talia A. Caligiuri Elizabeth Carbrey Castellow Jean Metz Cole Kathleen Goforth Darden Tiffany Debnam Melissa G. Duncan Jenny Costa Honeycutt Anna Fletcher Inman Carly L. Lantz Amanda Knox Lyle Stephanie Jordan Mayberry Keri E. Medlin Suzanne Coddington Morris Megan N. Muzychka Amanda J. Oliver Brooke E. O’Neal Kristina Wood Ray * Deceased

Christine Kelley Storch Julie Kerr Swanner Heather Craven Sykes Tara M. Thomas Juanita Hall Watkins Cara C. Watson Collins Dineen Whitfield Anna Walston Williams Sarah Edwards Wilson

Class of 2003 Percentage of Class Giving: 18% Iris Society Cathy Smith Marion Lora Hawk-Tillman Annual Donors Malissa de La Fosse Albright Anna M. Aman Stella Sutton Barker Joelle N. Baysden Lindsay Sutton Beavers Kelli Paschal Billingsley Meredith Olson Blair Alison Suber Braswell Melissa Currin Byrum Carolyn Barnes Clark Abbey Nelson Clayton Ashley P. Dempsey Tara Baker Dew Kylene Dibble Lara Stroud Dick A. Nora Duran Allison Rowe Edwards Amanda L. Fletcher Dori White Franklin Christina Meade Gainor Hunter Eddins Gentel Margaret Dean Greer Meagan Chaney Gumpert Cassie K. Hall Kristen L. Hamilton Jennifer Carter Hare Lisa Wilson Harmon Allee Byrd Harrell Elizabeth Holden Burke Hayes Lauren E. Highfill Lindsey Moorefield Howard Amanda Austin Hummel Kendall Byrum Hussey Beth M. Jarvis Tracy Harward Jones Shradhdha N. Joshi Michelle K. Kehoe Sarah Shelton Lawrence Amanda Warren Lee Crystal Whitley Lester Sue Anne Lewis Sarah Watson Lynch Susan May Alesha Still McCauley Renn Baker McMurray Natasha Matheny Michaels Jennie Scott Frazier Mitchell Taylor Macy Nguyen Holly M. O’Berry Shannon V. O’Berry Christina DeWees Orthner Elizabeth Stephenson Pelter Allison Koos Rash

Theresa A. Reuter Erin Taylor Rice Stormmie G. Richardson Jill M. Rosenbaum Elizabeth Hastings Hughes Ruger Christy L. Sadler Mary Hannah Edwards Sasser Mary C. Saunders Renee Bass Schreibman Mary K. Schreier Ashley Dews Smith Elizabeth Kelly Smith Kelly Cain Smith Anne B. Stewart Margaret Wilkins Strader Lauren Boone Stroupe Caroline Mercer Sweezy Sarah Wood Swihart Leslie L. Teachey C. Blair Honeycutt Therit Allison Shivar Tompkins Anna Jones Townsend Courtney L. Vaughan Camden Watts Roessler Kristin M. Wittenborn

Kelly E. Rhodes Hannah Gray Rinehart Whitney Pence Rodgers Johanna Lukhard Steis Rachel E. Stenbuck # Ruth T. Stephenson # Meredith Brook Stone # Krystal M. Twiford Emily Gupton Upchurch Mary Kathryn Hardy Washington # Barbara Hambel Werner Kareema Whitfield # Mary Frances Daniel Wilson

Megan Arnold Parker Meghan G. Rasmussen Amanda Strawbridge Richardson Kathryn Bailey Runy # Jenni Drew Smith Christi McKee Standley # Mary Beth Knox Stutts # Jennifer Burns Thompson Jessica Horton Thompson Meredith P. Trotter Leslie Scott van den Berg Amanda A. Whitley Amy Beattie Wilkinson #

Class of 2005

Class of 2006

Percentage of Class Giving: 20% Iris Society – President’s Circle Virginia Alexander Neustadt #

Percentage of Class Giving: 10% Iris Society – President’s Circle Kelly Beth Smith Hapgood #

Iris Society Alicia M. Baucom # Victoria K. Bunch # Laura McNeill Cox # Mary Sterling Winslow Grimes # Virginia Sloop Johnson # Catherine C. Jones #

Iris Society Christine L. Davis # Lindsey de La Fosse Turnau #

Class of 2004

Annual Donors Holly Schmidt Akkerman Kendra Keech Alexander Sarah Gransee Arnaudin Chambliss Hill Barrow Emily J. Bennett Jennifer Smith Bissette # Amanda L. Bordeaux Wakana Bracey Margaret Hudson Cameron # Whitney Clayton # Christi Roberson Coiner Sarah Wilson Collins # Anna Nichols DeShazier Jordan L. Dickerson Katie Fuller Dohrman Jean M. Ehmke Anne Newberry Elliott Stephanie Ellis # Nikki B. Evans Rachel Chilcot Findley # Rachel Salsman Harrison # Jill Nester Hayes Katherine T. Henderson Elizabeth Briggs Holt Meredith Heinisch Huie Sara Seago-Blanton Illig Megan Huey Johnson Kelly B. Jones Megan L. Jones # Cynthia L. Keller Whitney C. Lamm Allison Trask Lawhorn Inez Baldino Leyden Abigail McAlister Littlefield Amber A. Lumley Meagan Matt Maddox # Allison Clapp Marth Elizabeth Wilson McAllister Karoline E. Moore Ann Morrison Courtney Morris Newberry Elizabeth J. Newton

Percentage of Class Giving: 13% Iris Society Blair Briggs Roberts # Annual Donors Lindsay T. Bass # Amanda C. Beasley Karen S. Bobinyec # Amanda Smith Browning Meredith Parker Canterbury Sharla Smith Collins # Mary-Kathryn Pate Connor Casey Nave Cox Laura E. Cress # Whitney C. Crowder # Dianna D. Culbreth E. Kathryn Cushwa # Mary Daniels # Cassandra Lee Davis Amanda P. Denny Jamie Morris Firebaugh Jennifer L. Fleetwood Sandee Bizzell Hales # Kristina M. Harkness # Tamar N. Harris Lauren M. Hassenzahl Sara Stevenson Hines Ryan Mary E. Huffstetler Jennifer L. Jones Lindsey M. Jones Kimberly Turnage Keith Paige Kemmerer Kiser # Abigail J. Kody Malone Lockaby # Shannon Massey Lowry # Tracey K. Marina Kara Duckett McLendon Emily Cox Mitchell # Karla Gregory Nantz Amy Cornett Penny Rebecca A. Perkinson Melissa A. Prevatte Brandi L. Privette

# Denotes members of the Ivy Society, recent graduates (2003 to 2014) who make a monthly gift of $10 or more annually.

Annual Donors Julia Marie Adams #

Heather Allmond Barker # Erin Michelle Biggio Suzanne Britt Kelly E. Cash # Ashley Penman Dashputre Ashley Leigh Daughtry # Genevieve Sawyer Dozier # Sarah C. Edwards # Leah Parrott Englebright Talley Rouse Evans # Kistina Mechelle Freeman Meredith L. Frye # Anna Sells Garcia # Amy Smith Gentry Emily R. Harkey Charlotte Fetterman Harrell # Jennifer Noel Henderson Virginia Benner Kemp Paige Lineberry King Allison McCarter Kurtz Jacquelyn B. Manning # Ashley Meredith Flouhouse Mokris Molly Rose Parker # Melissa Poe Parks Lindsey French Parnell # Courtney Brooke Peterson Jill Marie Rogers Michelle L. Scott Samantha Speers Christina Adkins Steel Mary Covington Walker # Karen Allison Kroszner Zimmerman

Class of 2007 Percentage of Class Giving: 8% Iris Society Susan Hill # Annual Donors Amber C. Beckwith Susan Machilek Boone Stacy Cabeen Buck Kary Creekmore Charlebois # Christina Hooks Copersito # Minnie L. Corwin

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Keeping Meredith Strong

Investing in Strength

A

s a member of the North Carolina Business Hall of Fame and a highly successful businessman,

Charlie

Shelton

knows

a

strong

investment when he sees one. He also values good stewardship of resources and careful money management. Shelton said he sees all of these qualities in Meredith – and all are an important part of why he continues to support the College financially.

“I have been very impressed with

the investment practices by the Board of Trustees,” said Shelton.

Equally the

first-rate

significant, education

however,

is

received

by

his daughter, Mandy Houser, ’90, who attended Meredith at his recommendation.

Years before, when he passed by the College on work-related travels, Shelton said he was struck by the beautiful and well-maintained campus. So when it came time for Houser to start looking at colleges, he remembered his positive impression and encouraged her to consider Meredith.

She did, and ultimately chose to study there, based on the strength of the interior design program.

Shelton’s

long-standing

financial

support of Meredith began during his daughter’s college years. Initially, his focus was on initiatives for current students,

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Meredith’s interior design program is the only CIDA-accredited program in the Triangle area.

such as helping to build the gate house that

still stands at the College’s entrance. After

who need some help,” said Shelton. “In

Houser graduated, Charlie established

my experience, some of the best people

a scholarship in honor of his wife, The

come from a background that includes a

Sandra Graham Shelton Scholarship for

few challenges – they tend to work a little

Interior Design.

harder.”

“I have been very impressed with the investment practices by the Board of Trustees.” – Charlie Shelton

“I always like to support young people

Shelton said that his daughter’s

education prepared her to succeed both personally and professionally. She was the owner of a thriving interior design business for a number of years. Now she balances raising a family and working in the family’s winery business. “I think it’s a great school,” said Shelton. “I like the management, and I believe their focus is always on education and the good of the students.”

Jessica Pike Currin # Evelyn Lozada Dreyer Jennifer Garner Megan L. Gillikin Elizabeth Vogedes Hicks Kalee L. Hill Rebekah Miller Hopkins Ashley C. Huffman Rebekah Hroza Ivey Kenya L. Lawrence Lindsey Barker Lotspeich Emily H. “Molly” Loughridge # Katherine E. Moreschi Candice Eller Morgan Megan Hembree Morlok Angie Lapino Patrick Francesca E. Perez S. Grace Sugg # Lindsay M. Sutton # Lauren J. Thie # Rachel Forshee Thomas Laura Wagner Christen Crouch Ware #

Class of 2008 Percentage of Class Giving: 11% Iris Society Laureen Herrmann # Quintala S. Parham # Annual Donors Leigh Ann Alford # Megan L. Anderson Mary Elizabeth Armstrong # Sarah W. Beck # Paige Birdsall Amanda Clark Cogdill # Natalie Roane Colhoun Krystal S. Desai # Melinda S. Durham Megan Borland Eargle # Erica Futrell Fitts # Stephanie A. Fuchs # Courtney L. Godwin # Emily A. Hedrick # Megan A. Hentze Nicole McGuinness Hines # Brooke Johnson # Amber N. Krawczyk # Mackenzie G. Lyons Britney Brown Matthews # Mary Elizabeth McLean # Nichole Ecklund Miller # Virginia Nobling Phillips Carrie E. Pratt Molly Aiken Proudfit Meredith R. Pugh # Laura Brittany Rice # Leslie Brooke Rice Caitlyn E. Riner # Meredith Tooker Roberson Lennis Dionne D. Sample # Meredith L. Secosky # Melissa Bland Turner S. Elizabeth Vines Elizabeth Murray Watson #

* Deceased

Class of 2009 Percentage of Class Giving: 12% Iris Society – President’s Circle Natalie W. Broyhill # Annual Donors Meredith E. Alexander # Margaret C. Armstrong # Ashley W. Bahor # Meredith E. Beeman # Bethany K. Burriss # Anna M. Buryk Shelley M. Cousins Anna H. Cutler Caitlin M. Dillon # Melissa I. Drefke Lauryn B. DuPree # Stephanie L. Farmer Sarah-Jane Fitch Emily H. Harper # Charis A. Hill Adrienne E. Holland Kristin L. Jones Alison M. Langford Mary E. Moffitt # Whitney E. Morrison Kandice Lewis Mott # Sarah E. Mulla # Anna E. Neely Emily B. Paul Courtney M. Plaisted # Samantha J. Price Elizabeth P. Riddick # Jennifer L. Seha Anna E. Simmons # Hanna E. Slomianyj # E. Holt Smith # Polly A. Smith Joanna E. Still # Meredith Moore Stokes # Crystal Sumner # Rachel R. Tabbi Whitney Rains Taheri Cristina E. Welty Meredith R. Wynn Diana D. Zellner

Class of 2010 Percentage of Class Giving: 13% Iris Society Courtney N. Allen # Katie Nagel # Annual Donors Sherri S. Alston Anna Youngblood Armstrong Samantha Rice Ashby Lindsay A. Astor Amanda D. Bitler # Samantha M. Cibelli Abbey E. Collins Amy L. Damone Amanda N. Faison Sarah A. Fischer # Rebekah J. Gardner Lindsay M. Gobush # Leah M. Grady Rachel E. Greene Amy Sapp Holcomb Lauren Connell Huber #

Terri A. Johnson # Lindsay Kay Kelvington # Meghan R. Kent # Collette R. Kinane Marie C. LaHaye # Kathryn Maples Lawn Emily L. McKenzie # Lauren White McLawhorn # Caitlin E. McNabb Carolyn Penning Mercer # Christina E. Metcalf Jesse L. Monroe # Meredith Moore Moody # Taryn M. Oesch # Caitlin A. Prazenica Jessica A. Prescott Erin Etheridge Prim Helen Grace Smith Jennifer S. Smith # Susan D. Snead Hillary Goodson Spear Renata Heineman Spencer # Kala B. Stanton # Ashley Stein Stevens # Elizabeth Britt Tatum # Virginia Claire Tharrington # Allison C. van den Berg # Lauren H. Williams

Class of 2011 Percentage of Class Giving: 18% Iris Society Adair E. Mueller # Annual Donors Margo J. Alfieri # Caroline E. Ashworth Heather N. Ayers Afeefa A. Ayesh Jasmine L. Broadnax Samantha J. Bryant # Nataleigh Timberlake Carscaddon Halie Sue Clifton # Lacey B. Coward Marian K. Cregger # Claire Dwyer # Brittany M. Forlidas # Kristin L. Fowler Ellen Frazier # Brittany L. Frieson Courtney N. Girton Anna Beavon Gravely # Anne C. Griffin Courtney T. Griffith # Rebecca Britt Harper # Ellen S. Hefner Kristy Herrmann # Stephanie L. Hillmann Amber C. Horton Elizabeth C. Howard # Susannah M. Howard Julia A. Jackson Catherine Tate Junis Rachel L. Karaman Alyson B. Kolberg Emery A. Lai Rebecca H. Lang # Christie Lee Elizabeth M. Matthews Brittany S. Morgan #

Carver A. Morrow # Raschelle H. Nail Janie R. Perry Brittany M. Phelps Alissa R. Pollack Rebekah Purkiss Caitlin B. Quinn Annelise Rogers Karen Small # Meredith Smith Margaux M. Spiegel # Laura M. Stanley # Carly E. Stoneman # Allyson L. Sutton # Katherine Thomas Zannah T. Webster # Sarah A. Wheeler Mary N. Woessner Kaitlin E. Woolard Madelyn Wooten

Class of 2012 Percentage of Class Giving: 23% Annual Donors Ashlea K. Armstrong Erica L. Bader # Rachael N. Beckner Jessie A. Breazeale Linda P. Bridgers # Brittany V. Brown Elizabeth L. Brown # Kathryn C. Bunn Brianna E. Castillo Cathleen Y. Collins Jenna L. Craddock Rebecca A. Davis # Ashley A. Durand Pricilla Elezaj # Kyndle W. Faulkner # Lindsay F. Fields Kelsey Fitchett # Alison M. Flanagan # Gina M. Gambella Allison Huber Godwin Betsy S. Graves Elizabeth Alexander Green Kayley H. Hake Katherine D. Harper Ashton P. Herbert # Logan L. Hill # Laura K. Holder Mary Katheryn Howard # Salena M. Howlett Ashley D. Irvin # Lauren J. Johnson # Katrina E. Kempney Lydia L. King Preethi Manohar Alison R. Marchi # Hannah R. Massey # Chanell N. McCain Joyce E. McLeod Allison E. Meares Christina B. Mendenhall Debra H. Miller Sarah S. Murray # Mary Sarah O’Bryan Kathy Palmieri Emily C. Pappas #

# Denotes members of the Ivy Society, recent graduates (2003 to 2014) who make a monthly gift of $10 or more annually.

Ashley E. Pearsall Jennifer L. Prince # Morgan L. Reece Nienke Barbara A. Riccardi # Natalie A. Riddick # Ai-Vy Riniker Lindsay N. Ross Sydney E. Sauers # Michelle A. Smith Taylor C. Smith Jordan E. Stewart Ruth Shore Stewart Sarah R. Terrell # Abigail E. Tester Jodi E. Von Jess Renada L. Vuono # Anna M. Williams Savanna M. Wilson Whitney R. Windsor Hailee L. Wingfield Rebecca E. Yow

Class of 2013 Percentage of Class Giving: 30% Iris Society Jacqueline P. Dering Annual Donors Meahgan G. Absalom Maria E. Adonay # Shanna J. Alley Alexandra E. Apple # Rachel Atkinson Molly P. Ballard Anna C. Barefoot # Lindsey D. Belote Sarah M. Beno # Marianna F. Blizzard # Avery C. Brewer Diana L. Burrafato # Talisha R. Burt Miller L. Cheatham # Christina M. Cole # Jennifer S. Collins # Chelsey G. Combs # Christiana H. Conrad Sarah R. Coreno # Sara Kathryn Cranford # Kelsey I. Davis # Hannah H. Dawson # Sydney C. Decker # Nicole D. Dutton # Kaylee M. Dyson Frances B. Edwards # Sara E. Farrell-Buchanan # Leslie Suzann Flory # Emily W. Fuquay Michelle L. Galloway # Colleen E. Gibbons # Kelly L. Griffin # Laura B. Hainley # Suzannah J. Harrelson # Kristen I. Hartshorn # Casey E. Heath # Elizabeth A. Hicks Karie L. Hudgins Jessica L. Huneycutt Angel N. Jackson # Meredith L. Jenkins # Jasmine N. Johnson # Honor Roll of Donors 2013-14

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Jessica M. Johnson Morgan L. Johnson Brittany L. Jones # Whitney C. Jones Caroline E. Kaleel # Emma L. Keim # Shelby L. Kesler # Kristin L. Kirby # Christie M. Lane # Emily A. Lane # Debra L. Laube Heather A. Losee # Ives A. Maready Kathryn A. Martin # Ashley T. Matthews # Andrea L. McKerlie Luke Emily E. McLaughlin Morgan P. Merritt # Elizabeth S. Mills Jane E. Morgan Catherine J. Moye # Ashley B. Murray # Brittany J. Murray # Elizabeth H. Oates # Holly A. Pennington # Ashley M. Pruett Mary L. Rawls Zeenat A. Razvi # Jade N. Rice # April L. Richard Hope A. Robertson # Anna K. Rochester Julia E. Ross Karen L. Santrock Brittany A. Scuotto # Rachel E. Serrano Emily E. Smith # Sara E. Sorgione Alexandra M. Stratas # Kelsey N. Suther Lauren B. Symonds Tiffany J. Varnell # Allison J. Vigna Kayla M. Walker # Samantha J. Wiggins Felice L. Williams Laura J. Williams # Taylor M. Wilson # Elizabeth M. Wood

Class of 2014 Percentage of Class Giving: 49% Annual Donors Allison G. Adams Stephanie P. Alford # Madelynn M. Archer # Ashlea C. Arizaga # Brittany M. Baker # Bryana L. Bass # Hillary B. Batten # Marley C. Blanchard # Sarah A. Blue # Ashley B. Bradshaw # Ashley E. Branch Jolean A. Brann # Francesca M. Bugler # Sarah K. Calloway # Cady L. Carawan Chelsea N. Cerca

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Sarah D. Chaney Alethia E. Chappell # Katherine E. Clary # Brittany A. Coley # Nikki B. Collins # Jordan N. Cone # Carter R. Craigg # Aubrey A. Cuthbertson Caitlin A. Davis # Jessica A. Davis Caitlyn R. DeBona # Shelby E. Decker # Lauren B. Delucia # Sara A. Dew # Sydney L. Ducker # Madeline M. Duke Bailey N. Dunn # Kathryn K. Edwards # Kathleen E. Elliott # Eliza V. Evans # Kathryn E. Fair # Kaltrina B. Fana # Morgan T. Fitzgerald # Stacey L. Florence # Lindsey N. Floyd # Cassidy A. Forlidas # Erin E. Frazier Leah M. Friedman Victoria A. Garrard # Kasey G. Garrison # Meredith A. Green # Katie J. Griffin # Elizabeth S. Guiles # Elizabeth L. Hatcher # Anna G. Hayes Maitlyn E. Healy # Chelsea L. Holland Kelsey E. Hopper # Elizabeth W. Irvin # Calais R. Johnson # Heidi M. Johnson # Taylor M. Jones # Catherine E. Junker # Katelyn B. Kingsbury # Heidi H. Kocon # Phoebe U. Landon # Carly J. Ledford # Kristin E. Lee # Amber S. Liles # Amber N. Lindsey # Lindsey N. Linton # Jennell A. Little Jessica M. Lloyd # Deidra S. Lowery # Melissa H. Mahony # Michelle D. Maiden # Caitlyn E. Martin Jessica A. Matijow # Landis E. Matthews # Sydney A. Maxwell Paige E. McCabe # Sarah R. McGrath # Sara E. McLaughlin Alison M. McQueen # Kathlyn L. Miller # Holly R. Mills # Dorothy G. Moore # Casey M. Nickalson Sarah O. Noble #

Hannah C. Orr # Lara N. Pantlin Kaitlin M. Petruska # Lacy R. Pfeiffer # Kristen E. Piner Glenda Y. Polanco Brandi K. Poole # Angelica M. Ramkellawan # Jessica M. Ray # Lauren E. Richards # Katie L. Riggs # Emily K. Rose # Morgan R. Rowe # Barrett E. Royal # Li S. Rusterholz # Hannah K. Sadler # Elizabeth A. Schlieper # Melissa A. Sherrill # Tamara M. Shovelton # Chesney G. Smith # Kayla E. Smith # Megan R. Smith Senttra E. Snowden-Gregg # Hillary M. Stone # Andrea M. Stuber # Morgan R. Taylor # Meghan E. Thedford # Taylar G. Thomas # Elizabeth G. Thompson # Hannah E. Thornton # Malia K. Thornton # Chelsea L. Tipton # Ila E. Torfin # Leia A. Trotter # Emily H. Tucker # Rosanna L. Turchi # Kaitlyn E. Turner # Meredith F. Upchurch Kelsey L. Vanstaalduinen Kilty E. Walker # Kathryn F. Y. Warren Samantha J. Watson # Carrie D. Webster # Lenelle H. Welch # Abigail F. B. Wieland Barker E. Wiggins # Malissa G. Wiggins # Lindsey M. Wilcox # Whitney A. Williams # Erin T. Wilson # Shelby R. Wilson # Margaret D. Wyatt # Kristin M. York #

Class of 2015 Annual Donors Mary J. Gooden Jennifer Paschal Diane Sherman

Corporations, Organizations & Foundations Iris Society – President’s Circle Aramark Corporation Baptist State Convention of North Carolina Broyhill Family Foundation, Inc. CBF of North Carolina, Inc

Coca-Cola Bottling Company Jessie Ball duPont Fund The Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina Estate of Alice Goodmon Satisky Estate of Evelyn B. Lewis Glenn White Charities Goodnight Educational Foundation Hickory First Baptist Church IBM Corporation - Matching Gift Program The John R. & Betty Jo Kiff-Eason Revocable Trust Martin Marietta Materials The Meredith Fund Endowment Earnings PNC Foundation Minnie Huffman Reddish Foundation Triangle Community Foundation, Inc. Una Familia Sin Fronteras Foundation James & Mildred Wilkinson Charitable Trust Iris Society BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina Branch Banking & Trust Company James E. & Mary Z. Bryan Foundation Charles Aris Cherry Bekaert LLP Choate Construction Company Class Of 1974 Dominion NC Power Duke Energy Progress Elizabeth L Labelle Music Studio INC Lucy T. Fassett Memorial Trust A.E. Finley Foundation Follett Higher Education Group Independent College Fund Of NC Charles & Irene Nanney Foundation NC Baptist Foundation, Inc. NC Community Foundation Providence Baptist Church Raleigh Piano Teachers Association Carol C. & O. Temple Sloan, Jr. Foundation The UPS Foundation Womble Carlyle Sandridge Rice Annual Donors American Express Foundation AT&T Matching Gift Foundation Bell Family Foundation Porter B. Byrum Charitable Trust Cary Orthopaedic & Sports The Class of 1973 College Park Baptist Church Dale’s Seafood of Whiteville Drucker & Falk Eye Care Associates EYP, Inc. First Baptist Church Raleigh Greensboro College Greensboro Study Club Hine Sitework, INC. Homes by Dickerson, Inc.

Lawn Doctor of Wilmington Lorraine Hale Music Instruction Maynard and Harris Attorneys at Law, PLLC Metropolitan Life Foundation NC Association of CPAS NC Society for Human Resource Management NC State NCDOT Division Of Motor Vehicles Pascali Piano Perkins Eastman Architects Photo Specialties Robert W. Baird & Co. Simply Carpet, INC. SJV Medical Products, LLC Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, L.L.P Wells Fargo Foundation Wells Fargo Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Wine and Design

Faculty & Staff Iris Society – President’s Circle President Jo Allen Iris Society Craig M. Barfield Jane E. Barnes Charles L. Barton William C. Brown Melinda B. Campbell Marie B. Chamblee Erin Cleghorn Cynthia C. Godwin Carolyn M. Happer Jeffrey Howlett N. Jean Jackson Robert W. Luedtke Katie Nagel # Walda A. Powell Denise M. Rotondo Bonnie Torgerson William Garrett Walton, Jr. Betty Webb Harold L. West Annual Giving Margo J. Alfieri # Hilary S. Allen Melyssa Allen Shanna J. Alley Douglas R. Alm Allison Anthony Lyn Aubrecht Rebecca L. Bailey Astra R. Barnes Tim Bartlett Amber Caudle Beckwith Steven A. Benko Ellen Binder Meaghan Bixby Patricia M. Blackwell Monica Lewis Borden Shery Boyles Kristye Koontz Brackett Karen Mooney Brenneman Linda P. Bridgers # Jeremy Bryant

Christina Nuttle Bumgardner Teresa Burgess Martha Burpitt Anna M. Buryk Marisa S. Campbell Sharon Campbell Gail Yates Carnagua Amanda Brooks Carson Alicia C. Casadonte Hann-Yi H. Chen Vilma Concha-Chiaraviglo Melanie A. Chrisp-Thorpe Carmen Christopher Charlotte Claypoole Patricia Clements Halie Sue Clifton # Billie Jo Kennedy Cockman Ashley Cohen Robin Bailey Colby Alyson Colwell-Waber Laura B. Davidson Jessica A. Davis Pamela Davis Callie Ann K. Debellis Mary Kay Delaney E. Jacquelin Dietz Tammi Dittmar Kristy McLaurin Dixon Lori Gillis Duke Rebecca S. Duncan Tisha Admire Duncan Denise B. Dworznicki Kaylee M. Dyson Cynthia A. Edwards Sarah C. Edwards # Stephanie Ellis # Doreen Fairbank Lindsay F. Fields Laura Fine Susan G. Fisher Amanda Fore Grace Franceschelli Jean Maskol Gambrill Beth Gankofskie Rebekah J. Gardner Carol Gellerstedt Ann C. Gleason David Godshall Ellen Bonham Goode Melissa Gore Angela Gouge Carol A. Gramer Eloise Grathwohl Daniel Green Carolyn Happer Emily R. Harkey Betty G. Harper Tamar N. Harris Vanessa F. Harris Mattie L. L. Hawkins Sharon Henderson Natalie Herrmann Gaye D. Hill Jennifer M. Hontz Sylvia P. Horton Kristin C. Householder Elizabeth C. Howard # Cheryl Jenkins Heather Johnson

* Deceased

Jessica M. Johnson Veronica Cartwright Johnson Marilyn L. Jones Sharon L. Jones Wendy Jones Caroline E. Kaleel # Virginia Benner Kemp Rebecca Kirstein Tracy G. Knight Donna Knott Barrett Koster Donna LaHaye Christie M. Lane # Jeff Langenderfer Carly L. Lantz Debra L. Laube Heidi A. LeCount Christie Lee Todd Lehner Mary Jane Lenard Crystal Whitley Lester Stephanie Little Amy and Thomas Losordo Dave Lyons Debora Maldonado-DeOliveira Julie A. Malley Sharon Malley Lillian Mallia Cammey C. Manning Jacquelyn B. Manning # Andrea Marritt-Pabalate Brynn Mason Leslie C. Maxwell Stephen McAdams Monica B. McKinney Melinda McLain Kristi Eaves-McLennan Elizabeth A. Meier Susan Hooker Metts Kevin Michaelsen Page Hankin Midyette Kay L. Miller Jesse L. Monroe # Meredith Moore Moody # Jeannie S. Morelock Beth A. Mulvaney Jackie Myers Carrie Nichols Claytona D. Nixon Evie Odom Jennifer Olson Cathleen Ostrowski Kathryn Garris Owen Katherine Palmieri Stacy Pardue Denise Perry Parker Wetonah Rice Parker Meagan Paschal Judy Peel Mary Ellen Philen Ann Phillips Brent A. Pitts Jill Pogledich Matthew Poslusny Kathryn Potts Kaye Harris Rains Juan Rendon Andrew Richards Jean Ann Rick

Anthony D. Riddick Lindsey Ringenbach Kelly Morris Roberts Catherine Bland Rodgers Jeannette Rogers Susan Drury-Rohner Peggy Ross Geraldine Sargent Kim Scavone Aaron Schettler Christine Schulze Romita Sen Diane P. Sherman Phyllis O’Hara Smetana Eleanore J. Smith Tracy E. Smith Anne J. Smithson Douglas A. Spero Jennifer L. Spiker Amanda J. Steele-Middleton Heather Steudel Brandon Stokes Brenda Stokes Diane E. Strangis Kristen E. Sugg S. Grace Sugg # Marie B. Sumerel Dana Faircloth Sumner Lauren E. Sumner Janice Coffey Swab Richard Talach Danielle Taylor Sarah R. Terrell # Deborah Tunstall Tippett Cheryl C. Todd Bonnie Torgerson Jacob Vaccaro Allison C. van den Berg # Karina van Wakeren-Shields Sharon Lassiter Vinson Jonathan Wade Edward M. Waller Steven Walters Linda Matthews Wann Kristin Richey Watkins DeShane Watson Candice F. Webb Lori White Kimberly McCall Whitley Barbara Wilder Donald L. Williams Ellen B. Williams Susan R. Williams John R. Wilson Whitney R. Windsor Paul A. Winterhoff Elizabeth D. Wolfinger Scott Wray Elizabeth Anne York Bing Yu

Friends Iris Society – President’s Circle Elizabeth and John Cooley Ann Cowan Helen and N. Leo Daughtry Mary and Tom Dossenbach Richard Farrow Brigadier General Norman Gaddis

[U.S. Air Force, Ret.] G. Fred Hale Charitable Trust William F. Humbert, III Vicky and Eugene M. Langley, Jr. Robert H. Lewis Susan and Dalton McMichael Patricia Miller Moore Maureen and Timothy O’Connor Marlene and Craven Page Edward Rankin Wayne Robertson Virginia and John Sall Faye Branham Sharpe Sandra and Charles Shelton Deanna Sherman Paula J. Sims Robert W. Speight, Jr. Angela Caveness Weisskopf Mary Jane and David R. Williams Iris Society Paula and Gregory Bennett Martin Brinkley Cornelia J. Brown Kathryn V. Clancy Rogers H. Clark Margaret and Michael Clover Mary and Bernard Cochran C. Grayson Covington Elizabeth and Randolph Cox Sandra and E. Lawrence Davis Jacqueline P. Dering Elsie Eads Beth and Loren Edwards Van Ellen Eure and Steve Thanhauser Kathryn and Sam E. Ewell, Jr. Lucy T. Fassett Memorial Trust Pamela Foster Amy and Vance Fowler Michelle and Steven Fox George W. Griffin Josephine and Mario Guglielmi Norma and James Hamrick Carolyn M. Happer Betty Dobbins Heilman* and E. Bruce Heilman Charlotte and H. Alexander Holmes Charlotte Johnson Virginia E. Knight Francis A. La Monica Connie and Durwood Laughinghouse Julia and Robert Livingston Tracey and James Lorentzen Sylvia S. Lowe Elfriede and Robert Luedtke Margaret and Harrison Marshall Mary Anne and Douglas Maynard Betty Creech McCaw and David McCaw Cornelia and Duncan McMillan Mary Elizabeth and James Outland Vera and Robert Outland Ronnie and Charles Pfeiffer Susan and Carlton Prickett Gina and Kelly Puryear Carol and Walter Robinson Denise M. Rotondo Margi and Sanjay Shah

# Denotes members of the Ivy Society, recent graduates (2003 to 2014) who make a monthly gift of $10 or more annually.

Meredith Shrimanker Joyce and William R.* Stroud Marilyn and Charles Stuber Elizabeth and James A. Taylor Louise Todd Taylor Jane Thompson Laura Anne Vick and C. Ed Vick, Jr.* William F. Wade, Jr. Jennie Harris Wallace and Stuart Wallace Kathleen Waylett Nell and John Wiggins Sheila and Jack Wiggins Susan and W. Fred Williams Teresa L. Wilson Paula and Ronald Withrow Anne and John Yarbrough Annual Giving Maureen and Alan Aarons Mary Abler Elizabeth Adcock Lorraine Allen Terry Allen Michael Amendola Louise R. Ammons Yolanda Anderson Michael Angove Daniel F. Arch Katherine Arch Valerie Arch Mary E. Armstrong Frances L. Ashburn Haley E. M. Attix Daniel K. Bailey Lois Bailey Mary Ruth and Warren Bailey Meredith C. Bailey Rebecca L. Bailey Karole F. Bair Annette C. Baker Joan Baker Penny and Brian Baker Dail Barbour Ruth Barbour Sandy and Danny Barnes Emily and Harry Barrick William Bauer Martha Paxton Beale Faithe Beam Doris Bell Jeanette Bennett Doris and James Bentley, Jr. Peter A. Berzins Sandra and Doug Bettenhausen Jodi and Stephen Binard Neil Bleau Denise and Claude Bobbitt Lee Ann Boles Elizabeth Bolyard Joanna T. Boone Cynthia and Jason Botts John B. Bourne* Frank Boyd Leigh Walston Brady and Causey J. Brady Donna and Heath Brafford Julian Braxton Dorothy and Tom Broughton Ann and Clarence Brown Honor Roll of Donors 2013-14

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Carol and Talmage Brown Nicole Brown Stuart Upchurch Buice Carol and Jeffrey Burgess Jane and C. Allen Burris Jean Burrows Lindalyn A. Burton Stephanie Byrd Jessie Cannon Christine and James Carmichael Linda and Sam Carothers Patricia Carr Kathrine M. Cays Ramona Cayton Hann-Yi H. Chen Larry M. Christ Debbi Clarke Barbara Clawson Brenda and Dale Cline Carrie L. Cokely Tamara and Curtis Cone Jean and Arthur Cooper Kimberly and Gary Cooper Mary J. Coppola Frederick Cox Susan and John Creed Michelle Dacanay Betty and Wayne Dancy Maria and Christopher D’Arco Betty Sue Davis Pamela Layfield Davis Kathryn Deal Carol and Frank Delucia Brian DiDiano Susan Ord Dixon and Charles Dixon Lois Doss Theresa Dunlap Peggy and Ronald Dunn Wanda Easley Delores and James Edwards Vicki and Michael Eggleston Joyce Elam Ann and David Elder Elizabeth Conrad Estate Bradford Ellis John R. Ervin Nailah Esmail Bonnie and Royce Everett, Jr. Maria T. Fernandez Elizabeth and Edgar Fisher Catherine and Brian Fitzgerald Aubrey Florence Penni and Jeffery Forshee Lois E. Frazier Lila P. Friday Meredith Frye Rosalie P. Gates Steve Gates Liza Gellerstedt Susan and John Gilbert Martha Glass Susan and Kurt Glendenning Fran and Clifton Glover Rusty Godwin Keilah and Jerry Goff Alice Y. Goode Meredith Carson Goodwin Debbie and Joseph Gordon Bluma K. Greenberg

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Honor Roll of Donors 2013-14

Martha and J. Craig Greene Mary Ann and Jim Gregory Elizabeth Grimes Helen L. Grippo Dianne Hagwood Grant and Tori Hall Sarah E. Hamrick Richard E. Hardison Connie L. Harris Elizabeth Hayes Vivian and James Hayes Jason Hayes Lane Henderson Mary Aycock Hensley Gloria and Robert Herr Gray Hill Kris and John Hinton Sue Hladik Shirley Hollars Brenda Holloman Mary Mayesky Holroyd Sherry and Jay Holt Britt Hopkins Polly and Jack Huber Kim and Ron Hudgins Mary K. McDonald and Timothy Hull Martha R. Hulse J. A. Humphrey Betty D. Hunt Susan and Brian Hurley Thanta C. Isenhour Judith Jeffery Glenda and James Jervey Debra Johnson Denise and Keith Johnson Nancy and James Johnson Maureen Johnson Sara H. Johnson Susan and Nelson Johnson Tamara S. Johnson Claudia Jones and Kenneth Dodge David Jones Deborah and Kevin Jones Susan and Benny Judd Kathy Junker Wanda Kemp-Maxson Barbara B. Kennedy Phillip J. Kirk, Jr. Lynne and Richard Kohn Steven Kreisman Nancy and Ira Landis Karen Larsen Debra Lawler William Lawrence Jeanne N. Lawson Barbara and Jeffrey Lawyer William R. Ledford Judith and Gordon LeGrand Mary E. Leonard and Edwin C. Leonard Sharon Letchworth Margaret A. Link W. Randall and Lou Lolley Crystal and Ernest Long Susan and Kirk Lynch Elizabeth and Steven Mack Angela Manning Evelyn S. Marion Steven J. Martin

Judy and John Massengill Minnie Massengill David McCall Diana and P.J. McClung Lynda and John McConnell, Jr. Megan Beth McCullough Sharon and Richard McCullough Leigh McDonald Sue and Richard McDowell Benjamin F. McGilvray Barbara and Herbert Mckenzie Elizabeth and Lewis McMillan Robert L. McMillan Bonnie Lee Medinger Michelle and Christopher Michalak Elizabeth and William Mills Barry Moffitt Loretta Morgan Andrew Moriarty Wendy and Peter Morris Mary and Malcolm Morrison Patricia Morrison Daniel Mosca Kristen and William Moss Sandra and Robert Moulton Constance and Steven Mullinix Dr. and Mrs. Hyman B. Muss Frank E. Muth Robert Nadeau Kausalya and Canagasabapathy Nallainathan Julie Nau Anne Nelson Jean Nichols Carole and Darrell Nicholson Tambi and James Nida Laura S. Nye Edward Oliver Samuel Oliver Nancy and James Olson Danita Ostasiewski Helen Outten Carlos Padilla Ann Parks and E. Bennett Parks Charles W. Patterson, III Melissa and Richard Pattison Heidi and Christopher Peach Cornelia Pelzer Steven Peterson Rebecca J. Pezzoni Stephen Popovich Angela and Brian Powell Cheryl and Walter Powell Logan Price Pia and William Price Herman Province, Jr. Anne McMillan Purcell Truett Ray Diane and Michael Ray Nancy and David Recht G. Gray Reed Patricia and Jack Reed Gail and John Richards Ann and Edward Rick Gresham Riggs Sandra Robertson Janita S. Robinson Barbara and John Roger Jeannette Rogers

Linda and Walter Rogers, Jr. Susan Drury-Rohner Soo and James Romano Ila and Jeff Katz Samuel and Carolyn Ruby Wynn Bradford Rust James Rutherford Kelli and Anthony Saenz Sarah J. Safrit Barbara L. Seay James A. Sebastian James and Suzette Sells Karen and Fred Shectman Blanche Shelton Patricia Shi Virginia and John Shutt Elizabeth and William Simmons O. Temple Sloan, Jr. Traci Smith Sandra and James Snead Rebecca and David Sparrow J. Gilbert Stallings Sarah Stroud Mary Patricia Stumpf Patricia and Kenneth Summerville Janice Coffey Swab Susan G. Szep Anna Tatarchuk George Tatum Elizabeth R. Taylor Frank Taylor Olive and Paul Taylor Carol L. Thomas Matthew Thomas Tommy Thomas Deanna Thompson Marianna Thompson Susan and Terry Thompson Lidia Tomulet Jennings and Gary Trawick Blanche S. Triplett Ann and Ralph Troutman Douglas B. Tully Rosemary Turnage Jolene Umbenhauer Robert Underwood Dan Unkefer* Robert Usry John G. Vannoy Barbara and Arthur Vernon Martha K. Walston Janie Ward Margaret Swafford Warren Terrell Webster Jean Weigel Paula and William Whitton Judith and Ed Wilkins Brian Williams Laurie and Robert Williams Johnnie and David Witt Todd Womble Mary and Vincent Wood Joe Woolard Jake H. Wright Jane and Ricky Wright William Yakowenko Shelton Young Jeanette and Harlan Zackery

We make every effort to be accurate in listing our donors. To report an error or omission, please contact Astra Ball at (919) 760-8519 or by email at aball@meredith.edu.

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