|Class Notes| serves Canterbury Episcopal Chapel on the University of Alabama campus.
2008 Ashley Kelly recently received a master’s degree in music from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and is pursuing a doctorate in musical arts at Louisiana State University. Carolyn Nealy Vardaman M.Ed. ’09 has been selected Teacher of the Year at Vermilion Catholic High School in Abbeville, La. Nealy and her husband, Henry Atkins, recently completed a whole-home renovation project including the addition of a ceramics studio. The couple resides in Kaplan, La.
2009 Carrie Jones Busby M.Ed. has been named assistant principal at Hoover High School. She has served at HHS since 1995, most recently as 10th grade administrator.
2010 Jordan Barrios has recently accepted a position in the Global Shared Services division of the accounting department at Siemens Corporation’s offices near Winter Park, Fla. Candyce Osburn Hughston has received a master’s degree in social work from the University of Alabama and works as a senior social worker at Tuscaloosa County Department of Human Resources.
Larry Gibson ‘83, Alabama’s 2012 Art Educator of the Year, poses with Debi West of Georgia (left) and Debra Pylypiw of North Carolina (right), vice presidents of the National Art Education Association.
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Kalyn Wolfe of Orange Beach, Ala., a graduate assistant at the University of West Fla., recently launched a foundation to help support the Mapp Child and Family Life program at the University of South Alabama Children’s and Women’s Hospital in Mobile. The Mapp program enables pediatric patients to continue their education while in the hospital. Kalyn was a beneficiary of this program as a child, and writes that she wanted to give back to the people who helped her by founding Symbols of Encouragement.
Jennifer Hunteman Holmes and Lane Shackelford were married Dec. 15 at University Baptist Church in Montevallo. Both are employed with Publix Super Markets. They reside in Wilsonville.
2000 Sarah Mims and Matt Moran were married Nov. 2 at the Century Memorial Chapel in Naperville, Ill. After a honeymoon trip to the Isle of Man in the UK and Dublin, Ireland, the couple resides in Darien, Ill., where Sarah teaches at a daycare center and Matt works at Guitar Center of Joliet.
|Mentoring Program: preparing students for the workforce| In an effort to better prepare students for the workplace, the University of Montevallo Career Development Center has launched a mentoring program to provide career and professional guidance to undergraduate and graduate students. The program seeks to foster meaningful and productive one-on-one relationships between mentors and students in order to offer students valuable insight into the world of employment. The program is being built around a loyal network of alumni and business professionals who support the University by volunteering to take time with
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students eager to prepare themselves for success. Participants are matched based on commonalities in their professional interests, career field, specific job and/or particular academic program. The goal is an enriching experience for both the mentee and the mentor. The mentoring commitment is flexible and can be tailored to the schedule and communication preference of the business professional. While most students will have only one contact with the person who will be advising them, they may have more meetings if the mentor is available and willing to devote
more time to the project. Jah’zmin Young, job development and experiential learning specialist in the Career Development Center, says, “We will not place expectations on the gift of time and knowledge; we simply appreciate the willingness of the mentors to invest in our students’ success.” Business professionals from any field of study or career area who are at least three years beyond graduation are encouraged to volunteer their services. For additional information, visit www. montevallo.edu/career or call Young at 205-665-6262.