Darren, an insurance broker with Keenan & Scrugs Insurance, is a member of the Leadership South Carolina class of 2011. Catherine is a graduate student in speech pathology at the University of South Carolina. The couple has two children.
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Bentley Price is a partner in the law firm of Query, Sautter, Gliserman and Price. He also is municipal judge for the City of Folly Beach, S.C. Price and his wife, Melissa, live in Charleston, S.C. Living in Greenville, Tenn., Dr. Allison Hope Weems is the assistant director of the language and world business program at the University of Tennessee. She continues to teach French while having the opportunity to work with students as well as local, regional, national and international businesses to develop and supervise internships. She also will be accompanying a group of 21 undergraduates to France during the summer of 2011.
Class Chair, Alicia N. Truesdail Maj. Jeffery Todd Burroughs lives in Cameron, N.C., with his family. Along with being a husband, father and soldier, he is also a singer. His first album, “A Little More With a Little Less,” recently debuted. Burroughs says that he drew heavily from personal experience for many of the cuts on the album. In addition to being the songwriter, the former Wofford 2000 Terrier defensive end, also recorded all guitar, Class Chair, Anthony D. Hoefer Jr. keyboard and piano parts on the album. Dianne Stikeleather Crocker and her husband, Michael Crocker ’07, live 1995 in Inman, S.C. Dianne is financial analyst Class Chair, Brandie Yancey Lorenz and budget director at Converse College, Karen Mikaela Duncombe Braynen and Michael is a staff accountant at Smith is an associate director for UBS (Trustees) Kesler & Co. Bahamas Ltd. As associate director she is The Palmetto Bank announced the promodeputy of the information management team. tion of James T. Rambo to vice president, Braynen and her husband, Rodney, live in special assets. He has been employed at the the Bahamas. bank for nine years. Rambo and his wife, Jason Moser and his wife, Robin, live in Courtney Redmond Rambo ’01, live in Fairfax, Va. Moser is analyst with the multi- Simpsonville, S.C., with their two children. media financial service firm The Motley Fool. Lanecia A. Rouse is project manager The couple has two children. of The Art Project in Houston, Texas. The program is the initiative of Bread of Life Inc. 1996 of St. John’s United Methodist Church and Class Chair, Curt L. Nichols Jr. is geared toward persons who are homeless Dr. Brandon Brown has joined the and in transition. Rouse also is an active staff at the South Carolina Heart Center as an photographer and writer. interventional cardiologist. Brown received his doctor of medicine degree from the University 2001 of South Carolina School of Medicine. He Class Chair, Jenna Sheheen Bridgers and his wife, Sally Sue Garris Brown, Ginny Carter and her husband, Adonis live in Columbia, S.C., with their children, Mello, live in Chapel Hill, N.C. Carter is a Sarah and Daniel. high school ESOL teacher for Chapel Hill Living in Greenville, S.C., Muriel Green Carrboro City Schools. is vice president of sales and finance for BB&T Justin Daubert has been promoted to bank. She is also mother of twin boys, Austin rank of major in the U.S. Army. He is the and Kennedy Boulware. operations officer for the 5th Ranger Training Dr. Mary Beth Knight is senior asso- Battalion in Dahlonega, Ga. ciate for program and practice in the higher Dr. Keith Schiff is a pain management education division of The Education Trust physician at Piedmont Comprehensive Pain in Washington, D.C. The Education Trust Management Group. Schiff and his wife, Bari, is an advocacy organization focused on clos- live in Greenville, S.C. ing the nationwide gaps in opportunity and Laura Wile Wellon and her husband, achievement for low-income students and Robert, live in Norcross, Ga. Laura is account students of color. vice president for Wile Consulting Group, a Julie Pigg Schmidler and her husband, UBS Financial Services team, located in AtRay, live in Huntington Beach, Calif. Schmi- lanta, Ga. The couple has three children. dler is production coordination manager for Dr. Cliff Willimon and his family will the apparel manufacturing firm Premium. The be moving to Atlanta, Ga., after he completes couple has one daughter. a sports medicine fellowship at the Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colo. Willimon will be prac1997 ticing pediatric, adolescent and young adult Class Chair, Beth M. Guerrero sports medicine with Children’s Orthopedics Workman Meeks lives in Atlanta, Ga., of Atlanta at Egelston Children’s Hospital and and is a senior software application consultant the Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital. for SAP America Inc.
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Class Chair, Casey B. Moore Josh Harrison and his wife, Katie, live in Atlanta, Ga. Harrison is land acquisition coordinator for Georgia Power Co. The couple has one son, Henry, born April 14, 2010. Jenny Jo Sobers Johnson and her husband, the Rev. Lee Johnson ’00, live in Lincoln, Neb. Lee is pastor of St. John’s Reformed Church, and Jenny is homemaker to the couple’s five children.
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Class Chair, Zack O. Atkinson Wes Hickman is public relations manager at American University in Washington, D.C. Hickman formerly worked for U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham as the Piedmont regional outreach director. Trae Judy and his wife, Dr. Brianne Lea Dunn ’02, live in Columbia, S.C. Dunn is an assistant professor at the South Carolina College of Pharmacy. Judy is owner of All-In Entertainment Group. Eleanor McDonough Malinoski and her husband, Jon, live in Evansville, Ind. Malinoski is a therapist at Acacia Center Inc. She specializes in psychotherapy for children and adolescents.
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Class Chair, L. Yorke Gerrald Avery Greenlee and his wife, Beth, were proud hosts for the second annual Weston Cup Golf Tournament held on May 14, 2011. The golf tournament followed a kick-off party held on May 13. All proceeds benefit the Medical University of South Carolina for research in preeclampsia, an illness that caused them to lose their son, Weston Avery Greenlee in February 2010. Will Johnson is a member of the Leadership South Carolina class of 2011. Johnson is an attorney with the law firm of Haynsworth Sinkler & Boyd. He lives in Columbia, S.C. Adam Steen and his wife, Jennifer, live in Charleston, S.C. Steen is general manager of the tractor and farm equipment firm Steen Enterprises.
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Class Chair, Tracy A. Howard Dr. Ashley Costa Gochnauer and her husband, Matthew, live in Charleston, S.C. Gochnauer earned her medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in 2009. The couple has two children, Lillian and Mahlon.
Chair in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital returns to alma mater to inspire Wofford pre-med students
This spring, Smith (second from left) spoke to Wofford pre-med students and faculty about his practice, research and love of teaching.
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n the late 1950s, when Dr. Frank Smith ’80 was born, the long-term survival rate for children who developed leukemia or similar cancers was about 5 percent. Now, only five decades later, 80 percent of those cancers can be successfully treated. For a specialist in children’s oncology, it’s an exciting and better world, but one that still offers many challenges. Smith is a professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and currently holds the Marjory J. Johnson Endowed Chair in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. This research and teaching hospital is a consensus choice as one of the top five such facilities of its kind in the nation and is staffed by almost 80 faculty members working in children’s cancer specialties alone. Smith told an audience of Wofford pre-med students this spring that he feels very blessed to be able to live and work at the intersection of medicine and science. “To be a physician is, and always has been, a noble calling,” says Smith. “As a clinical practitioner, you have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of people, one at a time. Our young cancer patients are inspirational, virtuous and wise beyond their years.
“The world of basic science is complex but extraordinarily beautiful,” he says. “In just one lifetime, the amount of data available to us for our research has grown exponentially. It is an enormous challenge to process it and draw useful conclusions that have applicability in the clinic. I compare it to a giant haystack, which you approach realizing that you must find that one essential needle that will be clinically meaningful, but also recognizing the challenge in finding these important needles amongst the enormous amount of hay that has no clinical use in the foreseeable future. “However, when a discovery is made, you know that it will be spectacular and have practical applications that are important in the lives of people. So you persist joyfully.’’ Smith explained to the students that current cancer therapies — surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, blood marrow transplants — are close to being “optimized” and improving the cure rates in oncology will depend on new breakthroughs that are based on new scientific discovery. But he says that he remains optimistic. “This generation of students will do things we never imagined, because they are well schooled in information science, and they know how to make it work for them and for their patients. I love working with college students in the laboratory and the clinic, particularly the Wofford
pre-meds who come to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in the summers.” Smith predicts that the combination of a liberal arts undergraduate education combined with graduate work leading to an M.D. degree with a Ph.D. or J.D. will grow in importance over the years because society faces so many critical ethical, economic and policy decisions around the basic question, “Who will pay?” “We live in an era when those choices are global and more complex than ever before,” he says. “We need scientists and physicians who also speak the languages of business and public policy. I think we can find them at Wofford.” Smith earned his M.D. degree at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and did post-doctoral work at the University of Florida, the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He is married to Dr. Phyllis Dyches Smith ’82, and they have two children, Barrett (20) and Ian (17). Smith is a third-generation Wofford graduate. His father, the Rev. Dr. F. Oscar Smith Jr. ’54, was a distinguished United Methodist minister in the South Carolina Conference and served on the college’s Board of Trustees. by Doyle Boggs ’70
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