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editor Renee vary staff Writer CHLOEY MAYO ’10 contributors BROOKE BOURDÉLAT-PARKS ’95 LINDSEY CARROLL AUSTIN GILLIS ’01 BARBARA BESSMER HENRY ’85 Sydney Mobley Moss ’59 LANCE OZIER ’01 PHILIP PEROUNE CHELSEA REED ’13 LINDA SANDERS SCARBOROUGH ’65 KELLY HOLLAND VRTIS ’97
photographers ARMANDA COLSON ’11 JEFFREY DIEDRICK ’12 CHLOEY MAYO ’10 CHELSEA REED ’13 JEFF ROFFMAN One moment more photography Cover photo ARMANDA COLSON ’11 design em2
Carillon is published twice a year for alumni, friends, and family of Oglethorpe University. Oglethorpe, founded in 1835, is a private, liberal arts college. Cover During a spring break service trip to Guatemala, Oglethorpe volunteers work with the Association of Mayan Women/ Traditional Medicine.
Photo Above Oglethorpe welcomed spring with a Holi color festival, sponsored by the Student Government Association. “Holi is celebrated as a harvest festival as well as welcome festival for the spring season in India. Sprinkling colored powder or colored water on each other breaks all barriers of discrimination so that everyone looks the same and universal brotherhood is reaffirmed.” (About.com) The festival was part of the campus-wide celebration of India’s art and culture, inspired by the OU Museum of Art’s current exhibition. (See page 36.)
Speak Out We’d love your feedback on this issue as well as what you might like to see in upcoming Carillons. E-mail: rvary@oglethorpe.edu or call 404-261-1441. 2 CARILLON | summer 2011
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5 did you know? | 6 From one side of the world to the other | 6 touch the world | 10 international pioneer | 12 if i don’t, who will? | 12 reaching out | 19 around the world 22 boundless endeavors | 24 alumni | 30 class notes | 34 our community | 38 our mascot Summer 2011 | CARILLON 3