Class Notes Share your news with other Young Harris College alumni and friends. Send achievements, announcements and photos to: Young Harris College Class Notes Office of Alumni Services • P.O. Box 275 Young Harris, GA 30582 • alumni@yhc.edu ACHIEVEMENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Trustee Emeritus William C. “Bill” Hatcher, Vice Chairman (Retired) of Genuine Parts Company, was recently honored as a “Community Leader of Faith” by the Alliance for Christian Media. He has been a longtime member of Northside United Methodist Church in Atlanta and served on the YHC Board of Trustees for more than 20 years. He was the recipient of the Young Harris College Medallion in 2004. Trustee Emeritus Jeffery P. “Jeff” Adams was promoted to president of Balentine, an Atlanta-based independent, employee-owned investments firm. Adams was named to the newly created position in February 2011 and works alongside chairman and CEO Robert Balentine to lead the firm. Adams is a founding member of the firm, which has more than $800 million in client assets under management. He is also a trustee of The Culver Academies, which, under his guidance, was named Small Endowment of the Year in 2010 by Institutional Investor. He also begins a term as vice president of community/vocational service for the Rotary Club of Atlanta in summer 2011. 1930s
Edna Echols Collins, ’32, celebrated her 99th birthday on Sunday, Feb. 13. She is pictured at her party with a YHC pennant.
husband, Cal, enjoyed and used the unlimited free passes on EAL and other airlines as well. While working for EAL, she attended John Marshall Law School at night. She left EAL to devote more time to preparing for the bar exam, which she passed in May 1991. Sadly, her husband died in December of the same year. She continues to enjoy her profession, and while most of her cases revolve around family law (divorce, custody, etc.), she has a general practice and enjoys working on different types of cases. John Parmele Jr., ’62, recently was inducted into Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society at age 68. After earning his MPA, he returned to Tidewater Community College in Virginia Beach where he earned an AAS in Management through the G.I. Bill. He taught in the Business Division in 1987-1988. Now he is an audit student taking “fun” classes and enjoying the campus life. James Whitaker, ’63, was recently honored by the Board of Directors of Circles of Care for his 40 years of employment and service to the organization. Circles of Care is a comprehensive behavioral health care organization serving the citizens of Brevard County, Fla. He has been President and CEO for the past 34 years. Joe Nicholson, ’65, was elected President of the Georgia Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation in April 2010. 1970s
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Nan Harman-Dempsey, ’62, graduated from Georgia State College (now University) after YHC. One month after graduation, she accepted a job with Eastern Airlines and, along with her
Jimmy Tallent, ’70, was named to the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “Who’s Who” list of the top 100 business and government leaders guiding metro Atlanta’s financial sector. He serves on the Board of Trustees of Young Harris
College and also on the Board of Directors for Georgia Power. He is President and CEO of United Community Banks, Inc., headquartered in Blairsville and the third largest bank holding company in Georgia. 1980s
Julie Sibley, ’80, has given to the YHC Office of Alumni Services the first of a permanent collection of her work. The oil paintstik drawing on satin, “The Lemon,” was part of a Fruit Show, which debuted at the College’s Campus Gate Art Gallery in October 2008. With more than 30 years as an artist, designer and teacher, she credits part of her abilities and development of talent to training received in the YHC art department led by Ezra Sellers. See more of her work at www.artfromthewilds.blogspot.com. Greg Roach, ’85, is now the Director of North Georgia Technical College’s Currahee Campus in Toccoa. Kelli Goolsby Morrow, ’86, is now representing the Vasculitis Foundation as a chapter leader for the Birmingham, Ala., area, after being diagnosed in 2010 with a rare vascular disease called Wegener’s Granulomatosis. She helps provide support for other patients and their families at the renowned UAB Hospital and Kirkland Clinic. She hopes to bring awareness to others regarding Wegener’s as well as other diseases that fall under Vasculitis. To learn more, visit www.VasculitisFoundation.org. (Continued on page 58)
2010-2011 YHC Alumni Association Board Carol Chastain, ’84 President Young Harris, Ga. Rufus Brown, ’60 President Elect Gainesville, Ga. Lita Tipton Barnette, ’85 Clarkesville, Ga. Bobby Bolton, ’76 Ellenwood, Ga. Richard Burrell, ’47 Lilburn, Ga.
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Bud Clegg, ’55 Dahlonega, Ga.
Sylvia McCoy Hutchinson, ’58 Athens, Ga.
Ed Nichols, ’60 Clarkesville, Ga.
Jared Downs, ’96 Savannah, Ga.
Ceil Jarrett, ’75 Berkeley Lake, Ga.
Linda Lee Boleyn Saye, ’61 Atlanta, Ga.
Ron Hinson, ’76 Atlanta, Ga.
Brian Johnson, ’94 Atlanta, Ga.
Michele Turner, ’95 Athens, Ga.
Ramona Fricks, ’71 Rome, Ga.
Jan Biggers Keith, ’69 Atlanta, Ga.
Todd Turner, ’81 Hiawassee, Ga.
Oscar Garrison, ’90 Hoschton, Ga.
Shirley Carver Miller, ’54 Young Harris, Ga.
Barbara Marshall Williford, ’87 Marietta, Ga.
Candler Ginn, ’77 Cartersville, Ga.
Rob Murray, ’75 Young Harris, Ga.