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Chandler appointed Milliken & Co. chairman of the board On Sept. 1, Harold Chandler ’70 accepted the gavel as chairman of the board of Milliken & Co. He has served on Milliken’s board for 10 years, most recently as chairman of the human resources and compensation committee. Chandler has more than 38 years of experience in the banking and insurance industries, rising to positions including president, CEO and chairman of the board in that sector.
Hipp honored by Salvation Army and National Rural Health Association Van D. Hipp Jr. ’82 recently was honored with awards from two well-respected non-profit organizations, The Salvation Army and the National Rural Health Association (NRHA), for his years of service and volunteer work. On May 4, the NRHA presented Hipp with the President’s Special Achievement Award. He received the special recognition for his ongoing efforts to improve rural health and for his support of the association. Hipp’s firm, American Defense International Inc., specializes in developing and assisting in the implementation of a civilian application for innovations developed through the armed forces. He applies his expertise in telecommunications to improve application in telehealth for rural communities and works to improve and develop infrastructure, education and health services in those communities. Three days later on May 7, the Washington, D.C., area Salvation Army honored Hipp with the “Reflecting God” Award.
1989
Cherry wins first triathlon Molly Hughes Cherry ’93, chair of the Wofford Alumni Executive Council, won her first triathlon this summer at Lake Lure, N.C. As overall female winner, she stood on the top of the podium and was awarded a gift certificate for a bed and breakfast vacation in Lake Lure. Cherry is an attorney in Charleston, S.C.
Merklinger promoted within Association of Corporate Counsel The Association of Corporate Counsel, the world’s largest association of in-house counsel, announced that James A. Merklinger ’88, a long-time executive at ACC, has been named the new general counsel of the organization. In his new role as ACC vice president and general counsel, Merklinger will represent the organization on legal issues and advise the association on meeting the needs of the in-house counsel profession. Most recently, Merklinger served as ACC deputy general counsel and vice president for legal resources. Merklinger has been active in volunteering his legal services to the community. He currently provides pro bono immigration representation for clients in Washington, D.C. As a volunteer, Merklinger serves on the board of directors of the Tourette Syndrome Association of Greater Washington, D.C., and he has served as an advocate before the U.S. Congress for a variety of childhood disability organizations. He continues to practice law in D.C. and Virginia.
Schultz named to Greenville First’s Best & Brightest Melvin joins MSNBC Craig Melvin ’01 continues to climb the broadcast journalism ranks. He recently joined MSNBC and will contribute to various hours of the network’s live daytime news coverage. He also will be an NBC News correspondent reporting from all network platforms. Most recently Melvin anchored the weekend edition of the “Today Show” and filled in on MSNBC.
Caroline Schultz ’05, assistant vice president, retail checking and strategy at TD Bank, has been named to the 2011 class of Greenville First’s Best & Brightest 35 and Under. Now in its 18th year, the Greenville Business Magazine program was created to honor Greenville’s young leaders for their professional and community contributions, a mission it still upholds. Schultz is one of eight founding members of the Red Shoe Society, an organization that helps engage, empower and inspire young professionals to develop as community leaders. She also serves on the board of the Ronald McDonald House Charities.
Ware earns scholarship and other alcolades in Pharmacy School at USC Dodson appointed senior Finishing his third year of pharmacy school at minister at Peachtree UMC
the University of South Carolina, Nikko Ware ’11 serves as president of the university’s Student Pharmacy Association, a chapter that recently earned recognition from the Student National Pharmaceutical Association. Individually, Ware Johnston selected for 2012 won a Walgreens scholarship and the Rite Aid Community Leader of the Year Award. During Leadership Columbia the summer Ware completed an internship Willoughby & Hoefer, P.A., announce that at Cardinal Health, a nuclear pharmacy in attorney Chad N. Johnston ’03 has been Charlotte, N.C. He continues to tutor weekly selected for the 2012 Leadership Columbia at a local elementary school. Class, a Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce Program. Johnston joined the Gardner takes teacher education firm in 2010 and his practice areas include civil litigation and appeals, public utilities, and to Belfast and Abu Dhabi environmental and land use law. Pat Gardner ’84 , director of the Center for Teacher Education and Research at Westfield State University, continues to travel the globe providing professional development to K-12 educatiors. She visited Belfast, Northern Ireland, in May, and will be in Abu Dhabi in October to present the keynote address, “Teacher as Leader.”
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Living in Marietta, Ga., Peter Graser is president of International Expansion & Co. Inc. Harold McLeod and his wife, Rebecca, live in Richmond, Va. McLeod is senior vice president and Richmond region president of Citizen & Farmers Bank. Dr. Pearl Gizelle Myers is associate professor of pathology at William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Myers lives in Hattiesburg, Miss. Timothy Ormand is a financial representative for Northwestern Mutual Financial Network. He and his wife, Nancy, live in Simpsonville, S.C. The couple has two children. Living in Spartanburg, Dr. Ashish Gajanan Shanbhag is medical director of Palmetto Spine & Pain Physicians. His practice focuses on minimally invasive spinal medicine. Shanbhag and his wife, Dr. Meenu Potdar, have a daughter, Anika (3).
The Rev. Dr. Stephen M. Dodson ’84 was appointed as senior minister at Peachtree City United Methodist Church by Bishop B. Michael Watson at the denomination’s North Georgia Annual Conference, meeting in Athens, Ga., June 14-17. The appointment is the fifth for Dodson, a Georgia native and fourth generation Methodist preacher. His father, Dr. Malone Dodson, was the longtime senior pastor of the Roswell United Methodist Church, one of the state’s largest Methodist congregations, until his retirement in 2001. During his more than 25 years in ministry, Stephen Dodson has developed a reputation as an engaging preacher and a visionary church leader. Most recently, Dodson preached at White Oak Camp Meeting’s spring revival in Columbia County. Last spring, he was one of the evangelists at Indian Springs Holiness Camp Meeting near Jackson, where his ministry has been requested again in 2013. In July 2012, Dodson is scheduled to share the pulpit with his father at Mt. Zion Camp Meeting near Griffin.
Class Chair, Michael R. Sullivan Classmates John Bauknight and Brian Overcarsh participated in a mission trip with their church, the Episcopal Church of the Advent, in the fall of 2010. The two live in Spartanburg, where they remain good friends and neighbors. Kevin Bringewatt and his wife, Dr. Tamara Woods Bringewatt, live in Davidson, N.C. Kevin is a managing partner of the Bringewatt & Snover law firm, and Tamara is a physician at Carolinas Medical Center. The couple has five children. Living in Fort Lawn, S.C., Cheryl Robbins Burnett is manager of clinical practice at Gentiva Home Health. Dr. William Green is an orthodontist in Columbia, S.C. He and his wife, Amy, have two daughters. Melissa Kuhnell Haynes is subcontracts manager for Scientific Research Corp. She lives with her family in Hanahan, S.C. Dr. Angela Lea Hinds lives with her husband, H. Glenn Garner, in Mesa, Ariz. Hinds is a family physician. The couple has three children. John Kirkley Jr. lives with his wife, Laura, and two children in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Kirkley is associate director of area business for Watson Pharmaceuticals. Living in Durham, N.C., Laura Martin is director of sales for the retirement community Alta Walk.
1990
Class Chair, Scott W. Cashion Dr. Shawna Satterfield Collins and her husband, the Rev. Jason Nathaniel Collins ’93, live in Conway, S.C. Shawna is a dentist at Family and Cosmetic Dentistry in Conway. Jason was ordained an Episcopal Deacon on June 4, 2011, and serves as associate rector at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Conway. The couple has two children. Dr. James Engelhardt is acquisitions editor for the University of Alaska Press. He and his wife, Dana, live in Fairbanks, Ala., with their daughter, Wendelynne. The Rev. Russell Freeman is pastor at Red Bank United Methodist Church. He lives with his wife, Lia, in Loris, S.C. The couple has three children. Living in Camden, S.C., Michael Sean Garity is the principal at Leslie M. Stover Middle School. He had been assistant principal at Lugoff-Elgin High School. Garity and his wife, Kelly, have a son, Michael (12). Tim Holck and his wife, Alex Thomas Holck ’92, live in Atlanta, Ga. Tim is west region sales director for Lupin Pharmaceuticals. The couple’s triplets, Thomas, Michael and Hannah, turned 4 years old in May 2011. Ladson Howell, a partner in the law firm of Howell and Christmas LLC, has been appointed secretary of the Charleston County Bar Association. Howell and his wife, Galen, live in Mount Pleasant, S.C. Lisa Deavenport Ireland and her husband, Eric Ireland ’92, live in Simpsonville, S.C. Lisa is organizational development director for ScanSource Inc., a point-of-sale technology distributor, and Eric is marketing and technology director for Momentive Specialty Chemicals. They have two children. Fatima Peres Keeley is a senior financial analyst with ITT Corp. She and her husband, Jason, live in Shortsville, N.Y., with their son, Jacob.
Living in Greenville, S.C., Stephen Middleton is human resources manager for Baldor Electric. Austin Neal is director of the project management office for the Texas Department of Public Safety. Neal and his partner, Pedro Navarro, live in Austin, Texas. Marc Rogers is inventory control manager for the refrigeration and logistics services firm Millard. He lives in Lakewood, Wash.
1991
20th Reunion, Homecoming 2011 Class Chair, Leslee Houck Page Living in Blythewood, S.C., Tres Cox is a sales person for Nichols Store, an outdoors/ sportsman retail store. Mickey Gray and his wife, Taletha, live in Hendersonville, N.C. Gray is a senior territory sales representative for Dean Foods. The couple has two children. Dr. Benjamin Griffeth and his wife, Amanda Picklesimer Griffeth, live in Simpsonville, S.C. Benjamin works for the Greenville Hospital System as assistant head of mental health, with specific duties in education for the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville. The couple has two children. Nelson Lindsay and his wife, Heather Welch Lindsay ’92, live in Camden, S.C. Nelson has been selected as the first economic development director for Richland County. He served as economic development director for Kershaw County for 14 years. The couple has three children. Living in Charlotte, N.C., Frances Sanford is a registered nurse working for Carolinas Hematology Oncology Associates.
1992
Class Chair, Nicholle Palmieri Chunn Margaret Bartel and her husband, Jeffrey Ziolkowski, live in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. Bartel is a registered addictions specialist in the state of California. Jennifer Lewis Browning and her husband, Mark Browning ’89, live in Greenville, S.C. Jennifer is president and owner Browning Geriatric Consulting. The couple has two children. Davie Burgdorf and his wife, Beverly, live in Williamsburg, Va, with their two boys, Michael and Maybank. The couple owns Colonial Art, which specializes in modern folk ware and antiquated books, maps and prints. Davie also is vice president for business development for Verus Government Solutions, and he is an instructor with the United States Army Transportation Center and School at Fort Lee, Va. Matt Grayson is vice president of BlackRobe Capital Partners LLC., a merchant banking firm offering services and financial solutions in commercial claim finance and management. He lives in Mount Pleasant, S.C. Amy Wood Kelly is a freelance researcher and editor. She and her husband, Bryan, live in Englewood, Colo., with their daughter, Morgan. Living in Stockbridge, Ga., Monique McDowell recently joined the legal department of Southern Co. in Atlanta, Ga., as the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) attorney. She will be responsible for employee benefits compliance. Attorney Gary Pickren has joined the law firm of Rogers Townsend & Thomas. His practice areas include residential and commercial real estate, mortgage lending, real estate litigation and business counseling. Pickren and his wife, Emily, live in Columbia, S.C, with their two children.
1993
Class Chair, Sarah Copeland Sawicki Dr. Noel Brownlee is a pathologist at Upstate Pathology PA in Greenville, S.C. He and his wife, Carolina, live in Piedmont, S.C., with their two sons. Geoffrey Gillespie is regional real estate manager (Midwest) for Check Into Cash Inc. He and his wife, Jeri, live in Spartanburg. Living in Raleigh, N.C., David King is a staffing consultant for Sensus, a communications and advanced metering technologies company. Keely Sheffield Mabry and her husband, Sgt. Billy Mabry, live in Spartanburg. Keely is a Montessori teacher for upper elementary students at E.P. Todd School. Chadwick Stamper and his wife, Tara Horejsi Stamper, live in Kernersville, N.C. Chadwick is a real estate broker with Allen