Presenting the Graduating Classes of 2022!

from Dimensions Magazine – Spring 2023

SHOOTING for the Moon

“In this room, we have straight-A students, conference champions, and leaders ready to receive the baton, because it’s our time to serve. We’re all here today, because we didn’t let the distractions of this world bring us down with them. Instead, we used them as reasons to win, as reasons to become victorious.”

Nathaniel Carrasco ’22 Las Vegas, NV

“I went from being a young girl who was so timid and filled with so much doubt in herself, to someone who was sure of what she wanted and who she wanted to be. If you had told that girl that she would be standing right here in this exact moment, she would say ‘yeah right!’ The moral of the story is, Newberry helped us to become who we are. It allowed us to know what it feels like to belong.”

Biasia Roberts ’22 Fort Mill, SC

Awards

Dr. L. Grady Cooper Award

Carlton Kinard ’16

Sumner Moorer ’22 (Chapin, SC)

Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award

Elijah Fulmore ’22 (Irmo, SC)

Mary Mildred Sullivan Award

Chandler Watson ’22 (Powder Springs, GA)

Dr. George B. Cromer Award

Biasia Roberts ’22 (Fort Mill, SC)

“The challenges of our lives are moments of our greatest growth. Meeting adversity prepared with a healthy dose of fear and determined heart are the ingredients of a successful outcome.”

Dr. Jerry Alewine, Interim Dean of Nursing and Health Sciences Professor of Respiratory Therapy, Professor of the Year

DR. CHRISTINA MCCARTHA PROFESSOR EMERITA OF CHEMISTRY

The fall 2022 ceremony honored Dr. Christina McCartha with the title professor emerita of chemistry. She served Newberry College from 2002 until her retirement in summer 2022. She joined the faculty as an adjunct professor and became full-time in 2003. She was instrumental in creating the forensic chemistry concentration in 2005, as well as earning over $2.2 million in grants for STEM and other College programs. She left the classroom in 2020 to serve as foundations and grants officer.