College Magazine LynchburgFall 2013

MAKINg LC Alumni Their MARK HIGHLIGHT ON FACULTY Except for the fi ve years he was earning his master’s and PhD in physics at the University of Virginia, Dr. Julius Sigler ’ has spent his entire adult life at Lynchburg College, and generations of students have been richer for it.

This is home — where he swam backstroke on “quite possibly the worst athletic team in the history of Lynchburg College;” met and courted Jan Cocke ’65, now his wife of forty- eight years; and discovered that his life’s vocation was teaching. Dr. Sigler came to Lynchburg from his hometown of Orlando, Florida, after learning he could earn free room and board in Westover Hall if he worked as a waiter in the dining hall. As the oldest of eight children and the rst in his family to attend college, he jumped at the opportunity. Dr. Shirley Rosser ’40, professor of physics, became his mentor and father gure. “He clearly had a huge impact on my life,” Dr. Sigler said. “He was the best teacher I’ve ever seen.” In 1967, Dean John Turner convinced the newly minted PhD to return to his alma mater to teach in a new master’s in physics program, designed to accommodate local companies B&W and General Electric. Dr. Sigler became a colleague of Rosser, teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses. For twenty- ve years, LC offered the physics master’s program; however, the Three-Mile Island nuclear accident and the sale of GE to Ericsson spelled its demise. Dr. Sigler served as chair of the Physics Department and dean of the School of Sciences before being tapped in 2007 to become vice president and dean for academic affairs. While he has enjoyed helping faculty achieve their goals, Dr. Sigler says he misses teaching. He still treasures hearing from former students and learning about their successes. He has seen many changes, but Dr. Sigler said the College has, and must continue, to stay true to its core values. Dr. Julius Sigler ’62 “Our mission is to produce good Half a century and counting citizens and leaders,” he said. “We do it very well.” www.lynchburg.edu/fall2013 LyCollegench Magazineburg

Web Fall 2013 Exclusives Vol. 21, No. 1

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Learn more about Slavery by Another Name.

Watch a slideshow on the Cuba trip by Mariam Ernesta-Savy ’15

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Ronald Davidson ’73 heads Gleaning for the Find out what graduate World history students dug up this summer.

Local food is all the rage; Senior Symposium students learned why.

Photo galleries

Take a look at the Student Center expansion project.

See what our profiled departments alumni looked like in Saturday, May 18 was a big day for blind student John Pastorius ’13 and his guide dog Houston, LC’s the Argonaut. 2 President’s Message first four-legged graduate. See more photos from commencement atwww.lynchburg.edu/fall2013.

3 Around the Dell Check out Commencement and features Westover Alumni Society 16 Hornet Highlights Weekend 2013. 38 Class Notes 20 Making their mark Eleven impressive alumni share their stories. 32 Eight days in Cuba LC takes its first study abroad trip to Cuba.

36 Pedal Pushers SCAN ME Students can earn a free bike at The Bike Shack. with your smartphone to check out this issue online! LyCollegench Magazineburg President’s Message

Editor Shannon Brennan

Production Manager Anne Stoutenburgh Nash ’65

Contributing Writers Mike Carpenter, Cody Clifton, Angela Deeds, Ryan Killilea ’11, MEd ’13 The long-term value of an LC education Class Notes Betty Howell It seems quite with student and alumni networking receptions Photographer John McCormick appropriate that in Richmond, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Contributing Photography Tom Cassidy ’73, We connected students doing internships to Andrew Wilds, Warren Wright just after we alumni in those areas for mentoring and net- Graphic Designers Katharine McCann celebrated our 110th working conversations. Christopher Peterson At Homecoming in the fall, we will host our Web Team Pamela Carder, Tracy Chase, LC commencement firstHornet-2-Hornet: College to Careers Con- Katy Rost, David Woody ’00 ceremony in May,

Director of Publications Anne S. Nash ’65 ference on the afternoon of Friday, October 18. this issue of the Every School of the College will feature alumni Director of College Communications and Marketing Deborah P. Blanchard LC Magazine panel discussions for undergraduates in these celebrates the programs. Current students will have the oppor- Alumni Association Executive Committee successes of a tunity to learn from alumni of their programs and, following the panel discussions, interact President Bryce C. Legg ’81 few of our many Vice President John P. Reilly ’86 with these alumni at special receptions. Alumni Outreach Committee Chair impressive alumni. We are excited to offer both our alumni and Jamar M. Hawkins ’04 Their stories resonate with the words we heard our current students these opportunities for con- Advancement Committee Chair from Ron Mulliken ’82, our commencement necting in meaningful ways. If you are interested Hannah Howe Besanceney ’96 speaker. Ron, who graduated with a degree in in returning to LC to be part of our first annual Communications and Marketing Committee Chair Jerry Daniello ’93 English and has more than thirty years of success h2h conference, please contact Ally Davis ’09 Student Engagement Committee Chair in the advertising industry, emphasized that his ([email protected], 434.544.8296). Lori Evans Ermi ’85 diploma from LC opened a world of opportunity Our next priority is the strengthening of our Traditions Committee Chair to him and prepared him to be innovative in the employer relations efforts — creating more Wendy Bradley ’91 Westover Alumni Society President ever-changing arenas of modern media. prospects for our graduates to secure meaning- Sherwood N. Zimmerman ’64 This is a time when innovation is increasingly ful employment in these challenging economic important, particularly in meeting the challenges times. The Hire a Hornet campaign consists Administrative Officers that our new graduates face in securing em- of expanding our outreach efforts to key President Kenneth R. Garren ployment in this post-recession economy. Sixty employers — including alumni — to increase Vice President and Dean, Academic Affairs percent of our recent graduates report being em- the number of internship sites and first-em- Julius Sigler ’62 ployed full time within six months of graduation ployment opportunities for LC graduates. We Vice President, Business and Finance Stephen Bright — slightly higher than the national average of 59 anticipate that this campaign will also benefit Vice President, Enrollment Management percent. However, being at the national average our alumni who are seeking new employment Rita Detwiler is not what we want at Lynchburg College — we possibilities. If you would like us to discuss Vice President, Advancement want to be a leader in this area and offer our stu- potential internship and employment opportu- Denise A. McDonald dents the very best career development services nities in your organization, please contact Scott Vice President and Dean, Student Development John Eccles we can, while remaining true to our liberal arts Robert ([email protected], 434.544.8339). Vice President, College Communications core. Building a “college to career” model is a We know that the significance of a Lynch- and Marketing Stephen Arnold ’00 MEd critical piece of our newly adopted strategic plan. burg College degree continues to grow in value To that end, a “Launching from LC” Task over time — as the testimonies of our alumni Lynchburg College Magazine is published Force has been working this past year to propose in this issue demonstrate. Our enhanced efforts semi-annually for alumni, parents, and friends by College Communications and Marketing, new and innovative ways we can prepare — and to connect students to alumni and prepare our 434.544.8325 or 800.621.1669. launch — our graduates into the worlds of work graduates for life after LC will build on this Send change of address to: and graduate school more effectively. Their work tradition of excellence and make LC a national Lynchburg College Magazine has resulted in a series of recommendations being leader in these arenas. Lynchburg College 1501 Lakeside Drive implemented across the campus. Lynchburg, VA 24501-3113 One of the top priorities from these recom- [email protected] www.lynchburg.edu mendations is the development of a vibrant

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Student-Centered LC graduates first DPT class Student Center Ron Mulliken ’82, an adver- tising executive with national campaign media companies including The New Yorker and Entertainment passes Weekly, was the commencement halfway point speaker. Mulliken has been an accomplished advertising exec- The Student Center campaign has utive for more than thirty years. raised more than $6 million toward He is currently with Marchex, the $12 million expansion and reno- a leading mobile advertising vation project that broke ground in company. May. This capital project is vital to LC awarded four honorary the future of the College as it seeks degrees: Doctor of Humane to provide a facility that will pro- Letters to E. Cabell Brand, mote community service, leader- founder and chairman of the ship, diversity, and wellness among Cabell Brand Center for Global our students and the greater Lynch- Poverty and Resource Sustain- burg community. Forty-one students from College, our faculty, and our ability Studies, and to Joan Fos- The most recent challenge grant the College’s first Doctor of students,” said Dr. Rusty Smith, ter ’69, ’70 MAT, ’85 MEd, the for the project comes from the Physical Therapy (DPT) class director of the DPT program. first woman to serve as mayor of Marietta McNeill Morgan & Samuel were among the 150 graduate TheDPT program is a three- Lynchburg; Doctor of Divinity Tate Morgan, Jr. Foundation of students and 500 undergraduates year graduate program that to the Rev. Robert Nelson Richmond, Virginia, which awarded who received their diplomas prepares students to enter the West Sr. ’50, former president LC a two-to-one challenge. The May 18. physical therapy profession. Es- of the Unitarian Universalist College must raise $50,000 in new TheDPT program was granted tablished in partnership with the Association (UUA); and Doctor gifts, pledges, employer matching candidacy status by the Com- regional healthcare community, of Education to Helen Mundy gifts, and grant commitments by mission on Accreditation in the DPT program is designed to Witt ’67, ’78 MEd, the first June 30, 2014, at which time the Physical Therapy Education meet the growing demand for African-American to graduate Morgan Foundation will contribute (CAPTE) in 2010 and was fully physical therapists. from Lynchburg and a lifelong $25,000 toward the Student Center accredited April 24, 2013. The 120-semester hour program educator in Lynchburg City project. “We are excited to receive this includes forty weeks of supervised Schools (see story page 30). prestigious full accreditation. clinical experiences at healthcare To help support the That speaks to the quality of the facilities in all fifty states. Student Center project, visit www.lynchburg.edu/giving or send a check (made payable to CVCC and LC establish Dual Admission and Enrollment Agreement Lynchburg College with a memo for the Student Center challenge) LC President Kenneth Garren and (AS) degree program. Upon advising at both institutions be- or pledge to Advancement Office, Dr. John S. Capps, president of completion of the academic re- ginning freshman year, and the Lynchburg College, 1501 Lakeside Central Virginia Community Col- quirements stipulated in the dual chance to take one course per Drive, Lynchburg, VA 24501. lege, signed a Dual Admission and admission offer, a student will semester at LC while paying the For more information, visit Enrollment Agreement in May for transfer to and complete the bach- CVCC tuition rate, Detwiler said. www.lynchburg.edu/giving/ high school students who know elor’s degree at LC. CVCC charges $122 per credit hour student-center. they want to attend LC after two “The high school students are while LC charges $450 per credit years at CVCC. This enhanced deciding much earlier that their hour for part-time students. Stu- WEB EXCLUSIVE Take a look agreement makes the transfer pro- destination is Lynchburg College,” dents admitted through the dual at the Student Center expansion cess even easier. said Rita Detwiler, vice president enrollment program will also have project at lynchburg.edu/fall2013. Students accepted under this for enrollment management at LC. the opportunity to participate in agreement will begin at CVCC in The agreement comes with selected events, clubs, and organi- an Associate of Arts and Sciences significant benefits, including the zations at LC. (AA&S) or Associate of Science opportunity to have academic

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Here’s a quick guide to the Climate scientist calls for action “irrefutable measurements” because of the burning of fossil that climate change is fuels. In fact, he said, scientists occurring because of human have understood the greenhouse burning of fossil fuels:

effect since 1827. The few climate • Temperature readings on “scientist” deniers are paid by every continent show the the fossil fuel industry to present Earth has heated up about contrarian views — in fact many 1.5ºF in the last century. of them are serial deniers, having been paid by the tobacco industry • Tree rings, ice cores, and to say cigarettes were not harmful corals show that the or by manufacturers to say CFCs temperature of the last were not destroying the ozone 11,000 years was relatively layer, Dr. Mann said. stable, and was in fact There’s also visible proof all declining until 100 years ago, around us: melting ice sheets and when it shot up dramatically glaciers, more extreme storms, (depicted in the famous shifting rainfall and drought, and hockey stick graph). Arctic sea ice in retreat. In some • The amount of carbon places, climate change will bring dioxide in the atmosphere is colder weather. “You’re still going 396 ppm compared with the to have cold winters in eastern pre-industrial level of 280 If humans continue on the could slam the brakes on right North America until 2050,” Dr. ppm. (A recording of 400 current path, the Earth will heat now, we could avoid the 2-de- Mann said. ppm occurred after this talk.) up between 7 and 9 degrees Fahr- gree Celsius warming (3.6º F),” In summer 2012, the entire • Burned fossil fuels leave a enheit by 2100, creating a hostile Dr. Mann said. In fact there is Greenland ice sheet showed melt- distinctive fingerprint on planet the likes of which we’ve still reason to be hopeful that ing, Dr. Mann said, adding, “This carbon dioxide molecules — never seen. we won’t continue the current is something we didn’t expect to proof that this is not cyclical “We could see six feet of sea path indefinitely. Nations came see for decades … Observations or “natural” warming. level rise by the end of the cen- together in 1987 to phase out are showing a far greater rate of tury,” said Dr. Michael Mann, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) to decline in what the models pre- author of Dire Predictions: Under- stop an expanding hole in the dict. We are thirty years ahead of standing Global Warming and The protective ozone layer, which is where we ought to be right now.” Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: now expected to recover in the Dr. Mann said that geo-engi- and storage, all have potentially Dispatches from the Front Lines. coming decades. neering schemes to fight global unintended consequences. But it doesn’t have to get that Dr. Mann said we need to warming, like filling the atmo- The real solution is to change bad, he told his Senior Sympo- move past the false debate about sphere with sulfur to mimic vol- our energy sources. “All options sium audience in April. “If we whether the planet is heating up canic activity or carbon capture really need to be on the table,”

Jay Erskine Leutze got a phone the state issued a permit for the quarry fessor of environmental science, brought “Stand call that changed his life and preserved a without serving notice to adjoining prop- Leutze to campus after hearing him speak mountain. erty owners. and doing an interview with him for Blue Up That Author of Stand Up That Mountain: The The muscle in the case came from en- Ridge Outdoors. Battle to Save One Small Community in the vironmental organizations, including the Leutze gave generously of his time Mountain” Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail, Mr. Southern Environmental Law Center and during a two-day visit to LC. In addition to Leutze spoke in February about the grass- the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, that a public reading and lecture on his book, roots activism that saved North Carolina’s joined the battle after much persuasion he visited several environmental science Belview Mountain from a gravel quarry. from Leutze. Once they saw the clear-cut- classes. In one of Dr. Henry-Stone’s classes, The phone call came from a fourteen- ting and blasting on the mountain in plain Leutze talked about the way he frames year-old girl and her aunt who got Leutze view of the Appalachian Trail, they realized conservation arguments when talking involved in the case after a local mining it would forever destroy the wilderness to folks with a wide variety of opinions company cracked the foundation of their feeling that they seek to maintain. — from property owners to members of home. The case hinged on the fact that Dr. Laura Henry-Stone, assistant pro- Congress.

4 LC magazine Fall 2013 Illustration Source Images: Thinkstock he said, adding there is room for worthy debate about how best to wean ourselves off fossil fuels. Dr. Mann noted that we have to have a carbon tax, cap and trade, and other mechanisms to reflect the true costs of fossil fuel burning to give renewable energy sources a chance to be competitive. Dr. Mann is Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Penn State University, with joint ap- pointments in the Department of Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute. He is also director of the Penn Nursing simulation lab dedicated State Earth System Science Cen- The Central Virginia The center began with a “Simulation is the latest ter and author of more than 150 Center for Simulation and Vir- $200,000 grant awarded by the and most effective type of ed- peer-reviewed and edited publi- tual Learning, a Centra facility Virginia Tobacco Commission ucation in which students can cations. He is a co-founder and operated jointly with Lynch- to LC and Centra in 2009. intervene, make decisions, and contributor to the award-winning burg College, was dedicated Dr. Garren gave credit to Dr. take actions in a highly con- science website RealClimate.org. May 30 in the lower level of the Linda Andrews, recently retired trolled environment,” said Patti Dr. Mann was a lead author on nearby Plaza Shopping Center. dean of the School of Health McCue, ScD, RN, MSN, NEA-BC, the Observed Climate Variability “Lynchburg College is Sciences and Human Perfor- Centra senior vice president of and Change chapter of the Inter- pleased to be a key partner in mance, for having the vision in patient care services and chief governmental Panel on Climate the simulation center, dating 2004 to create a nursing simu- nursing officer. Change (IPCC) Third Scientific back to our initial funding lation lab. “Students can practice in a Assessment Report in 2001. He discussions with the Virginia E .W. Tibbs Jr., president and controlled environment before received NOAA’s outstanding pub- Tobacco Indemnity Commis- CEO of Centra, said the facility working with actual patients. lication award in 2002 and was sion,” said LC President Ken- would serve all of central and In addition to students, current selected by Scientific American as neth Garren. “This facility will southwest Virginia “to drive health professionals have the one of the fifty leading visionaries provide students from across down medical errors” using opportunity to use the center in science and technology in 2002. the region with the technical lifelike manikins that simulate for advanced technical skill In 2007, the IPCC received the skills necessary to meet today’s real-world medical conditions. development and to improve Nobel Peace Prize. patient challenges and to be The first phase of the 15,221-​ communication and collabora- prepared for the changing med- square-foot center is complete tion skills as part of a team.” ical landscape of tomorrow.” and consists of five acute care The second phase of the inpatient rooms, one criti- simulation center will create a cal care inpatient room, one virtual hospital environment “What kind of world is this we’re He is also a national spokesman for the labor and delivery birthing with two acute care rooms, living in when women of child-bearing Land and Water Conservation Fund. suite, two primary care another labor and delivery age shouldn’t eat fish more than once a He told the students how hard it is exam rooms, one home birthing suite, two critical care month?” he asked. “It’s a strange thing to buy land to protect the Appalachian health apartment, and an rooms, an emergency depart- to accept.” Trail’s views. One tiny parcel can cost ambulance venue. ment triage area and trauma Trained as an attorney, Leutze has $2 million, he said. If he’s able to secure Six high-fidelity, com- bay, operating room, and a become a leading voice for state and $1 million from a private donor, he then puterized simulation mani- helicopter, as well as a nurse’s federal conservation funding for invest- has to borrow the rest and hope to kins include two adults, one station and medication room. ment in public lands. He is a trustee recoup the money from environmental child, a baby, a birthing Completion of the second for Southern Appalachian Highlands organizations, corporate sponsors, and mother, and a newborn. All phase is anticipated by spring Conservancy, one of the nation’s most federal and state dollars. manikins simulate human 2015. The center, one of the established land trusts. He has testified “I try to buffer the trail; I try to buffer actions such as breathing, largest in the state, will be the before Congress on the need for in- the Blue Ridge Parkway,” he said. “I heart and lung sounds, only one in the commonwealth creased federal conservation funding. think I have the best job in America.” speaking, crying, and other that offers the full spectrum of specialized functions. simulation venues.

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The best collegiate campuses are composed of fine architecture and large trees in a park-like setting. It’s difficult to imagine a campus where this is more true than at LC. The magnificent tree canopy that shades the Dell is the most striking and important feature of the campus.

major objectives General goal: Make the trees safe, longer-lasting, and more beautiful. q improve the trees in good condition and in important locations. w Stabilize the trees in moderate condition and in important and moderately important locations.

e Eliminate the trees in poor condition.

r Plant new trees designed to  enhance the Dell

6 LC magazine Fall 2013 Infographic, Katharine McCann; Source: Van Yahres Associates Civil War historian worried about democracy Civil War historian James I. Robertson Jr. dedicated his talk, “What We Have For- Pulitzer Prize-winning author speaks to persistent past gotten: America, 1846-1861,” to two groups of people: those who write misguided let- Douglas A. Blackmon, the Pulitzer Blackmon said it’s only in recent years that ters-to-the-editor claiming that slavery had Prize-winning author of Slavery by he has connected the past to the current legacy nothing to do with the Civil War; and today’s Another Name: The Re-Enslave- of an unjust judicial system, and he has con- federal and state legislators who refuse to ment of Black Americans from the cluded that a vast number of white Americans compromise. Civil War to World War II, spoke feel safer if a large number of black males are “Compromise is the only thing that holds in February on “A Persistent Past: behind bars. a democracy together,” Dr. Robertson said Reckoning with Our Racial History A native of Mississippi, Blackmon said experi- in his April talk, co-sponsored by LC and in the Age of Obama,” sponsored by the John ences of his youth, including butting heads with Historic Sandusky, a local historical foun- M. Turner Lecture in the Humanities. members of the Ku Klux Klan, got him inter- dation that formed a partnership with LC in His book, a searing examination of how the ested in race relations. enslavement of African-Americans persisted Slavery by Another Name grew out of Black- deep into the twentieth century and profoundly mon’s 2001 article on slave labor in The Wall affected current American life, was awarded the Street Journal. It revealed the use of forced labor 2009 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. by dozens of US corporations and commercial “Is it time to stop paying attention to books interests in coal mines, timber camps, factories, like I write?” he asked the audience. Black- and farms in cities and states across the South, mon wondered aloud if young people, most beginning after the Civil War and continuing of whom don’t know the kind of racism that until the beginning of World War II. existed just forty years ago, should have to carry Hundreds of thousands of African-Ameri- that legacy forward. He argued that they should cans, men in particular, were arrested on flimsy for three reasons: charges like vagrancy to create a free labor • We must remember or we dishonor victims; supply, Blackmon said. “Laws essentially crimi- • It’s critical to understanding why millions nalized black life,” he said. of African-Americans are incarcerated Blackmon is also co-executive producer of a December 2011. Throughout the lecture, Dr. now; and documentary film based on Slavery by Another Robertson drew parallels between the period • We have built a judicial system that was Name, broadcast on PBS in 2012. Directed leading up to the Civil War and the current designed to fail. by distinguished filmmaker Sam Pollard, the political impasse — lamenting the lack of In as many as 6 to 8 percent of all cases, film was selected for the 2012 Sundance Film any true statesmen in either period. “Henry the justice system convicts innocent people. Festival. Clay was the last great statesman,” he said. Ironically, Blackmon noted, only those who are “A politician looks to the next election; a sentenced to death have any hope of someone statesman looks to the next generation,” he taking up their cause. Thousands of others are WEB EXCLUSIVE Learn more about Slavery said. “… Any politician who says, ‘I will not left in prison for years, if not their entire lives. by Another Name at lynchburg.edu/fall2013. compromise,’ to me, that’s treason.” Dr. Robertson said there was not a single decent president between Andrew Jackson • the federal government’s inability to The Danville, Virginia, native is the au- and Abraham Lincoln. Indeed, James Bu- govern. thor or editor of more than twenty books chanan is still ranked as the worst president As his talk drew to a close, Dr. Robertson that include such award-winning studies in American history, but Dr. Robertson said the only thing that can preserve the as Civil War! America Becomes One Nation, added, “He’s got a few challengers coming delicate balance of democracy is to have an General A. P. Hill, and Soldiers Blue and down the line.” informed citizenry that votes. Gray. His biography on Gen. “Stonewall” The Civil War did not start at Fort Sum- Dr. Robertson, Alumni Distinguished Jackson won eight national awards and was ter, he said. A series of events over fifteen Professor Emeritus of History at Virginia used as the basis for the Ted Turner/Warner years led to the inevitable war. Dr. Robert- Tech, is one of the most well-known Civil Bros. mega-movie, “Gods and Generals.” son identified four underlying causes: War historians in the country. On the 100th Dr. Robertson was chief historical consul- • slavery; anniversary of the American Civil War, Presi- tant for the film. • states’ rights combined with high dent John F. Kennedy asked Dr. Robertson to When asked what he enjoyed most in his emotionalism; serve as executive director of the US Civil War career, Dr. Robertson said teaching more • a shift of economic power from the Centennial Commission. He is also a member than 22,000 students at Virginia Tech and agrarian south to the industrialized of the executive committee of Virginia’s Civil turning them on to history. “History is the north; and War Sesquicentennial Commission. greatest teacher you can ever have,” he said.

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way to end modern-day slavery is to make it visible. “It’s very easy for us to relegate it to a far- off place,” said Corban Addison, author of A Walk Across the Sun, a novel based on traf- fi cking research he did from India to Europe to the US. “Until we are willing to confront it … we’re not actually going to see any sys- temic change.” Addison says there is hope on two fronts: slaves are “We spend more being rescued and rehabil- on military itated, and “history tells us that slavery can be defeated.” marching bands Th e modern abolitionist than [preventing] movement, which he said is only about fi fteen years human traffi cking old, can be as successful as in this country.” the one started in Britain by William Wilberforce, who led the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade for twenty-six years until the pas- sage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807. Addison added that citizens have to make A very dark place this a priority. “We spend more on military Several hundred students learned • Th e average cost of a child prostitute in marching bands than [preventing] human about one of today’s darkest secrets — the Th ailand is $24 a night. traffi cking in this country,” he said. extent of modern-day slavery — during A number of speakers participated in Th e speakers said there are some organiza- “Break the Chains: Human Traffi cking Aware- panels and visited classes to spread the word tions already hard at work, like the Richmond ness Week.” about these horrifi c events, but nothing was Justice Initiative, the Prevention Project in “People can’t believe that there are more more powerful than hearing words from Henrico County, and here in Lynchburg, slaves now than in any time in human his- victims in short video clips. In an excerpt Freedom 4/24. Timothy Spaulding of Free- tory,” said Lauren Hammond ’11, a gradu- from the PBS documentary, Half the Sky: dom 4/24 encouraged students to volunteer ate student and one of the event organizers. Turning Oppression into Opportunity for and work for such organizations or plan to Children and women are sold and kid- Women Worldwide, based on the book by support them monetarily. With a bit of In- napped into the sex slave trade worldwide, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, a ternet research, it’s easy to fi nd ways to help, while people of all ages and both genders young Cambodian girl told about the he noted. are sold or captured as laborers. brothel owner who poked her eye out when Sgt. Steve Anders of the Southern Virginia Dr. Todd Olsen, professor of health pro- she tried to resist being forced into prosti- Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force motion and coach of the women’s soccer tution and the men who didn’t care that she from the nearby Bedford County Sheriff ’s team, started themed weeks several years was bleeding from her gouged eye as they Department, said parents and schools need ago to draw attention to poverty and war in raped her all night. to educate children about the hazards of traf- Africa and elsewhere. As the father of a ten- Ann Wright of Show of Force, the pro- fi cking, starting as young as age fi ve. He has year-old daughter, he said this subject is the duction company that created Half the Sky, been involved in cases of fourteen-year-olds most important to date. said we must demand that people talk about being traffi cked from malls and girls going Indeed the statistics are daunting: slavery, especially the role men play in cre- from driver to driver at truck stops with their • At least 27 million people are in slavery, ating the demand. “How do we engage the pimps watching. “It’s here locally,” he said. more than twice the 12 million Africans majority of men who are not buying sex?” Dr. Kim McCabe, LC dean of the School in slavery during the 400-year slave trade. she asked. of Humanities and Social Sciences and au- • An estimated 100,000 to 300,000 slaves “We need to make a crazy, huge fuss for thor of Th e Traffi cking of Persons: National are in the US. something to really start here,” responded and International Responses, said many of the • Th e average age of entry into prostitution Holly Herdman ’14, president of LC’s chap- worst abuses occur in countries where in- in the US is 13. ter of Love 146, an organization working equality is accepted. Countries in which girls • Men will pay $1,500 to $2,000 an hour in to end child sex slavery. Th at theme was and children are devalued have to change the US for a 4- to 5-year-old girl. repeated by all the speakers, who said the their cultures for change to occur, she said.

8 LC MAgAziNE Fall 2013 ThinkSToCk THE LYNCHBURG COLLEGE CHORAL UNION Works by Martha Jackson Jarvis were featured at the Daura gallery, including Ancestors’ Bones: Free Spirits I, 2011, mixed- media drawing including black His Voice walnut ink, watercolor, oil, wax, raw pigment, collage, and AS THE photo transfer. (Reproduced by permission of the artist) HYMNS AND SPIRITUALS Sound Saturday, April 2o, 2o13 7:30 P.M., SNIDOW CHAPEL The Lynchburg College Choral union, conducted by Dr. Jong Lynchburg College H. kim, professor of music, presented its spring concert, Sunday, April 21, 2o13 “His Voice as the Sound,” April 6 P.M., ROCKFISH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | NELLYSFORD, VA 20 with mezzo-soprano Tara Bouknight and baritone Derrick AS A GIFT FROM LYNCHBURG COLLEGE Free and open to the public NO TICKETS REQUIRED | DONATIONS ACCEPTED thompson ’08.

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The Orchestra/Wind Symphony Spring Concert, Music for Festive Occasions, was conducted by Dr. Oeida M. Hatcher, dean of the School of Communication and the Arts, and included works of Bach, Beethoven, Bennett, and Bernstein.

r AROUND THE DELL LC Theatre presented the musical, The Pajama Game, about workers in the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory who have requested a 7.5-cent raise. Song highlights include “Hey There,” “Steam Heat” and “Hernando’s Hideaway.”

PhoToS By John MCCorMiCk Fall 2013 LC MAgAziNE 9 Around the Dell

ingly, was the 2002 Hill Distinguished Senior. Carrie came to campus, and despite pouring rain, fell in love with it. Carrie’s list of achievements before attend- ing college was already impressive: she is an emergency medical technician (EMT) and fire- fighter at her local fire station in Martinsville, where her father, Thomas Martin, was re- cently named chief and firefighter of the year. Her interest in nursing stems from being her mom’s nurse since she was ten years old, when her mother, Paulette Martin, was diag- nosed with scleroderma, or hardening of the connective tissues. “I’ve never wanted to be anything else,” Carrie said. “I want to be a flight nurse. That’s the five-year plan.” Carrie said her fiancé J.D. Tyree, also a native of Martinsville, accuses of her being an adrenalin junkie, and she admits to liking trauma, not for what it does to people and families, but for “the challenge it poses.” She likes to figure out what needs to be done first when someone has been injured. At LC, she has been a mentor to many of her fellow nursing students. She has served as a PASS leader since her freshman year, tutoring students in chemistry and biology. She worked in the new nursing lab where she helped students with prerequisite or nursing courses. In addition to her nursing major, she had minors in biology and health promotion. Nursing major named Hill As a member of Kappa Delta Sorority, she held many leadership positions and was ac- tively involved with Girl Scout troops in the Distinguished Senior surrounding Lynchburg community, helping Carrie Lee Martin ’13 knows firsthand “It just felt like a family,” she said of the instill confidence in young girls. “The Greek that nursing is one of the most demanding Farmville Hospital. “I’ve had that since I’ve community has been really important and majors at Lynchburg College. “It’s definitely been here at LC so that’s one of the main rea- has made me grow as a leader, a student, and been challenging,” she said. “I’ve given up a sons I took a job offer there.” a person,” she said. lot to make it through.” Carrie no doubt impressed the hospital Carrie made the Dean’s List each semes- What she lost — social life and sports — with her determination to complete her ter and is a member of Phi Eta Sigma, The she made up for in academic achievement clinicals during her last semester. She had National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, and was named the 2013 Robert L. Hill Dis- to delay them because she tore a rotator cuff Omicron Delta Kappa, Order of Omega Na- tinguished Senior Award recipient. The award and labrum when lifting a patient in the fall tional Honor Societies, and Sigma Theta Tau is given to a senior in the top 2 percent of the semester, a tear she said was inevitable because International Nursing Honor Society. class who has pursued a rigorous academic of damage from years of playing softball. Her ultimate goal is to attain her master’s curriculum while being involved in campus Carrie wasn’t sure she would be able to in nursing and become a college professor. In and community projects. finish her six-class load and work twelve-hour the meantime, she wants to be the best nurse Carrie’s stellar academic record and proven shifts Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays in she can be. work ethic have already landed her a job as an Farmville, but she did. “Good nurses do the smallest things, emergency room nurse at Centra Southside A native of Martinsville, Virginia, Carrie whether it’s offer a pillowcase or hug a pa- Community Hospital in Farmville, Virginia, initially wanted to stay at home and attend tient,” she said. “You have to love it.” where she just finished 160 hours of clinical community college, but was persuaded to work. She has happily accepted the job, check out LC by her cousin, Stephanie Brine- pending passage of state boards. gar Vipperman ’02, who perhaps not surpris-

10 LC magazine Fall 2013 Photo by John McCormick John and Houston graduate

When John Pastorius ’13 and his guide with a good joke or spin on any situation; dog Houston arrived at LC four years ago, the glass is always half full.” there were some concerns about a blind “I don’t consider blindness a disability,” student finding his way around campus. John said, “but society does.” He has been John quickly dispelled them. blind since birth from nerve damage caused In fact, when asked about his biggest by leukemia. He can make out a few colors, challenge, John didn’t hesitate. “The hard- but not much else. est part of any day is trying to get Houston John’s classmates quickly learned that his up for early classes,” John said. “Having a blindness is accompanied by a remarkable guide dog is like having a kid.” memory, honed by the necessity of remem- While John is an early riser, his dog isn’t. bering what he hears and where things are. Houston also dislikes rainy days because he When he played for his senior recital, for doesn’t like getting his feet wet. But he is example, he had to memorize all the pieces. a perfect companion in many ways. He sat There was no peeking at sheet music. “You obediently at John’s feet when he played his need to remember everything,” he said. “I French horn or taught fellow students how pay attention more because I can’t see.” in music education and eventually teach a blind person learns math. “It’s neat how amazing his memory is,” braille. But college convinced him other- Almost everyone on campus knew John said Megan Paugh ’15, who had two classes wise. “You find out who you are,” John and Houston, and people often paused to with John. “If we all had that memory, we said about his college experience. “You find watch the beautiful yellow lab romp around wouldn’t have to study.” Megan was sitting out what you want to do.” the Dell when John let him off his leash for in to watch John teach in A.J. Eccles’ math John discovered that he didn’t have the some exercise. methods class. John used circles cut into patience to teach so he switched to music Despite the challenges John faces, he fit pieces and musical notes as a way to teach performance. Along the way, he had a easily into the LC community. A lot of that blind students fractions. He also asked chance to tune a piano, and a new career can be attributed to his attitude. them to wear blindfolds. path was born. “John is one of the most upbeat students “It really makes you take a step back and A native of Smithfield, Virginia, John I have ever met,” said Dr. Oeida Hatcher, say, ‘Is that going to work for John?’” said is starting a two-year piano tuning school dean of the School of Communication and Tori Dott ’14, a classmate. for the blind in Vancouver, Washington, the Arts. “He is always positive and ready John initially thought he would major this fall.

Photos by John McCormick Fall 2013 LC magazine 11 Around the Dell

Graduating with gratitude Natalie Lombardo ’13 was just having a routine checkup before winter break in the Student Health Center when nurse prac- titioner Ruth Robertson felt a mass on her thyroid. It turned out to be thyroid cancer and Natalie had two surgeries over break. Five days after that second surgery she was back for her final semester of nursing. “It was so stress- ful,” Natalie said. She completed 120 hours of a clinical at Lynchburg General Hospital’s pulmonary care unit, despite the difficulty of regulating her hormones, and sleep, without a thyroid. Natalie is keeping a positive attitude as she faces continued treatments. (She had her first radiation over spring break.) “I always wanted to be a nurse,” she said, “but I didn’t know why. I feel like this was a sign.” After taking her boards, Natalie hopes to secure a job as an oncology nurse in her hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “I can act as a glimmer of hope,” she said. Natalie said she has learned that her cancer was caused by a genetic defect. So her twin brother, Nick, who just graduated from Tem- ple University, is going to be tested soon. And if Natalie has children, they will also be at The day after graduation, Natalie attended a was originally scheduled for June, but Natalie risk. She said she is so grateful that Ruth was ceremony at the nearby Awareness Garden as didn’t have time to plan the wedding, so she doing her job thoroughly and found the mass the recipient of a $1,500 scholarship, which had to push it back a bit. when she did. she can apply to her student loans. Natalie said the LC community and nurs- Ruth Robertson was amazed by Natalie’s Natalie learned about LC because her ing staff couldn’t have been more supportive attitude. “I just think she’s Superwoman,” she mother and stepfather play folk music and during her ordeal. “With all this happening, said. “I’m very proud of her.” met Dr. Woody McKenize, associate profes- I’m glad I didn’t feel like a number,” Natalie Dr. Lesley Friedman, who had Natalie in sor of human development and learning, at a said. “President Garren even sent me flowers. her ethics class last semester, was also im- number of jam sessions. Dr. McKenzie urged Lynchburg College has been so wonderful. pressed at Natalie’s ability to shoulder on and Natalie to give LC a try. I’m so grateful.” make all A’s. Dr. Friedman encouraged her to Not only did Natalie find a great academic apply for an Awareness Garden scholarship, home, she also met her future husband. which provides scholarships for those affected She plans to marry her LC sweetheart, Jaren by cancer or interested in cancer-related work. Brown ’11, on September 21. The wedding

12 LC magazine Fall 2013 Photo by John McCormick Shave it off LC students, faculty, and staff raised more than $14,000 for St. Baldrick’s Foundation, which fights childhood cancer. The event was even more meaningful as the students hosted Nathan Norman (left, second from right), a local 6-year-old battling brain cancer who signed as a “lifetime Hornet” with the LC baseball team last year. Students also raised more than $22,000 for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.

Photos by John McCormick and Simin Quoroshi Fall 2013 LC magazine 13 Around the Dell

Look what else our students are up to!

Adrienne Athanas ’13 was awarded a tuition scholarship to the New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore Col- lege July 1-26. She was one of only forty-five applicants from a pool of 400 to receive a scholarship and the only one from a Virginia school. She will attend the Institute’s Interme- diate Fiction Workshop. Diana Clark ’13 was also accepted into the advanced fiction class in the same program.

Brenda Martinez ’13 published an article titled, “Finding Community,” in the Jillian McGarrity ’14, an elementary education major at Lynchburg College March/April issue of Change Magazine. from Midlothian, Virginia, was the only college student named to Gov. LC once again earned a spot on the Pres- Bob McDonnell’s Task Force of School and Campus Safety. The panel was ident’s Higher Education Community Service charged with reviewing school policies Honor Roll. About 700 LC students contrib- and procedures in the wake of the uted 70,648 hours of community service in Sandy Hook Elementary School shoot- ing in Newtown, Connecticut. 2011-12.

Nineteen LC students, representing Belgium, won several awards at the 2013 after Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)” National Model UN simulation in New York was awarded second place in the US history Shelly Milks ’13, City, March 17-21. LC won the “Distinguished category and Joe’s paper, “Arbenz to the field hockey Delegation Award;” April Song ’15 and Julia Sandinistas: CIA Cold War Views on Latin co-captain, is one Tahija ’15 won the “Outstanding Delegates America” won second place in the graduate of 30 women se- in Committee” award, as well as an “Out- student category. lected from more standing Position Paper” award. Also winning than 450 nomi- “Outstanding Position Papers” were Jessica The 2013 Connection Leader nees for the 2013 Hamel ’14 and Vinny Mwano ’15; Jonathan Coordinators (CLCs), David Bowles ’14, NCAA Woman of Haggerty ’15 and Tiffany Scott ’14; and Amber Green ’14, Holly Lovern ’15, Mary the Year award. In Elizabeth O’Hara ’15. Vincent Ness ’14, and Samantha Sharkey September, three ’15, attended the NODA Region 8 Annual finalists from each Seven art majors were awarded ADDYs Conference. They won the Best Undergrad- division will be selected to make up the nine at the 2013 Western Virginia ADDY Awards uate Student Staff Presentation award for finalists for the award. The 2013 Woman of celebration, which celebrates local design their educational session titled “Using the the Year will be announced at an annual cer- work. They are David Dale ’13, gold; Meg FISH! Philosophy in Training of Orientation emony in Indianapolis on October 20. Shelly Thurman ’13, silver; Trey Crockett ’13 gold; Staff.” NODA is the Association for Orienta- is currently studying in LC’s Doctor of Physical Betsy Stipa ’14, silver; Tarsha Joyner ’13, tion, Transition, and Retention in Higher Therapy program. two silvers; Molly Keesling ’14, two silvers; Education, and Region 8 encompasses schools and Jennifer Watlington ’13. in Delaware, Washington, D.C., Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Kenley Hoover ’13, “Contemporary Text Mandie Middleton ’13 and graduate Virginia. and Evolving Genre: A Critical Analysis of students Joe Olsen ’12, Greg Starbuck, and First-Person Shooter Genre Innovation in the Kathy Brisentine presented their original Five Westover Honors Fellows Video Game Bioshock,” and Kelsey Shelton research at the Phi Alpha Theta Regional presented their thesis research at the spring ’13, “Gender Differences in Lifting Tech- Conference hosted by Christopher Newport 2013 Virginia Collegiate Honors Council nique.” The other participants were Abigail University. Mandie’s paper, “Knowledge is Conference. Two earned honors and a cash Burnette ’13, Orry Hatcher ’13, and Brynn Power: School Integration in Central Virginia prize for their presentations. They were Workman ’13.

14 LC magazine Fall 2013 Photos by John McCormick facultY neWs Faculty and staff dr. CaseY CLabouGh’s adaM dean had his book, An biography of George Garrett Agrarian Republic: How Debate awards is to be published this fall by Over Land Use Shaped the Civil the Texas Review Press. He War and Reconstruction, accepted Dr. robin bates, associate also published an essay on for publishing by the UNC Press. professor of English, Cary Holladay in the October Thomas C. allen award 2012 Hollins Critic and had work dr. Laura LonG, associate edition of Best Children’s Books for Excellence in academic published in the following an- professor of English, won of the Year by Children’s Book advising thologies: After Dark (Diversion the James River Writers and Committee (Bankstreet.edu); Press), Appalachian Story (KY Richmond Magazine 2013 Best the 2013 Notable Children’s Re- Dr. timothy meinke, Story Press), and Impact (Telling Unpublished Novel Contest for cordings; and the Notable Social associate professor of Your Stories Press. His recent What Will Burn. In addition, Studies Trade Books for Young political science, Shirley E. novel Confederado has now her chapbook of poems about as- People (cooperative project of rosser award for Excellence been translated into Portuguese, tronomer Caroline Herschel has National Council for Social in Teaching and he was a featured author been accepted for publication by Studies and the Children’s Book with both a book review and Finishing Line Press. One poem Council). It was also nominated Dr. nichole sanders, career retrospective interview in from the book was published in for the 2014 NYSRA Charlotte associate professor of the March issue of Th e Oxford WomanArts Quarterly, a literary Award. history, James a. huston American. Th is summer he ad- journal published at University award for Excellence in ministered the fi rst James Dickey of Missouri-St. Louis. dr. GeraLd Prante, assistant Scholarship Review Writers Retreat on Hat- professor of economics, and Aus- teras Island, North Carolina. dr. siLVia Lozano Martin tin John ’14, an LC economics Dr. ashley thompson, won the 2013 McGraw-Hill Dis- major, calculated marginal tax assistant professor of dr. brian CriM, associate pro- tinguished Paper Award and the rates — the highest rates on the sociology, Elsie Ervin Bock fessor of history, was awarded a Best Paper Award in the Mew highest levels of income — for award for Excellence in Mednick Memorial Fellowship Media, Advertising, and Market- all fi fty states. Th eir calculations Citizenship for 2013. He is using the award ing Communications category. have been reported in Th e New to complete research in the Na- Her paper, titled, “Th e Infl uence York Times, Forbes Magazine, rick cash, tional Archives in Washington, of Marketing Communication and Th e Sacramento Bee, as well dining services, D.C., and begin writing a book, on Capabilities: An Empirical as on Sacramento Public Radio and carole Our Germans are better than their Study of the Antecedents of and in numerous blogs. furter, Germans: Project Paperclip, Ger- Performance in International associate man Scientists and the National New Ventures,” was presented at dr. saLLY seLden, associate dean of students, Susan M. nichols Security State, 1945-1955. the March meeting of the Asso- dean for academic aff airs, is one Memorial Service award ciation of Collegiate Marketing of twenty-six mid-level admin- Educators. istrators nationwide selected angelo harris, dining by the Council of Independent services Minnie Johnson dr. sabita Manian published Colleges (CIC) and the American Campus Service Support an article on India-Pakistan Academic Leadership Institute award “Sub-Continental Lovers” (AALI) to participate in a year- that appeared in the jour- long Senior Leadership Acad- savannah nal, Critical Muslim. emy. Dr. Selden will participate cook, DPT, in two seminars and undertake a and olivia dr. Jeri Watts’ mentoring program, experiential Downey, children’s book, learning projects, and a series of dining services, Kizzy Ann Stamps, is readings and case studies. Lois Daniel offi ce/administrative/ included in the 2013 Technical Support award dr. Dr. Debbie bradney and Dr. tom bowman published “Lacrosse ed clark, dining services, iva Burford helmet Facemask removal” in the Jan/Feb 2013 issue of Journal of administrative/Managerial/Leadership athletic Training, and Bowman was the co-author of “Frustrations award among Graduates of athletic Training Education Programs” in the same issue of the journal.

iLLUSTraTion, ThinkSToCk; PhoToS By John MCCorMiCk Fall 2013 LC MAgAziNE 15 Basketball bounces back

MEN BEST IN 35 YEARS; WOMEN BEST IN TWO DECADES

he men’s basketball team had its best his stellar defense. Robby Kaiser provided season since 1978, fi nishing with a quick scoring for the Hornets after proving T19-8 record. to be a three-point ace, while Mike Glover Th e team has had its ups and downs over provided solid defense and the ability to that thirty-fi ve-year span, but head coach score from any position on the fl oor. Hilliary Scott has turned the program into Freshmen forwards Austen Arnold and a winner. Alex Graves both provided depth after lean- Th e promise began to show in Scott’s fi rst ing on the leadership of Chillemi and Wims. recruiting class. Th e 2009-10 team fi nished Th ese men did what some thought impossible with twelve wins, three times that of Scott’s — match the single-season win total set by fi rst season. Th is class continued to develop Coach Wayne Proffi tt thirty-fi ve years ago. and became the foundation of the 2012-13 Th e Hornets started the season 4-0 before winning season. winning eleven of twelve from December 7 “Th e key to our success starts with the to January 26 and taking the Manhattanville players,” Scott said. “Coach (Abby) Pyzik College Tournament Title in the process. and I really pride ourselves on recruiting Win after win, big game after big game, the great people who are good students and Hornets crept closer to nineteen, reaching it who happen to be pretty good basketball February 19 against Shenandoah University players. Th ey have worked extremely hard in the ODAC First Round. on and off the court and it’s great to see the Seniors will leave and freshmen will come fruits of their labor. We have also been very in to take their place, but in 2013-14, Scott, lucky to have a great staff of assistants who the team, and the Lynchburg community have worked hard to recruit good people as can set their sights on a new goal: 20. well as work to develop them while they are “Moving forward, we have to continue to here.” recruit high caliber players who fi t the Lynch- Th ree of those fi ve recruits, seniors during burg family,” Scott said. “We are excited the nineteen-win campaign, were fi xtures about the future of Lynchburg basketball.” in Scott’s starting lineup, while the other two provided skills crucial to the success of he Hornet women’s basketball team Lynchburg basketball. fi nished with an outstanding 2012-13 Austin Chillemi developed into one of Tcampaign and earned the program’s the top big men in the Old Dominion Ath- fi rst appearance in the ODAC Tournament letic Conference (ODAC), scoring 949 points semifi nals since 1989-90. Th e 18-10 season in his career while garnering third-team All- represents the most wins in twenty-three ODAC honors twice. years. Michael Wims made up the other half Head coach Abby Pyzik ’04 has been of the big-man tandem. Wims saved his slowly building and improving the program, best for crucial games, scoring from inside and that persistence has paid off . and outside while providing athleticism “Th eir enthusiasm, passion, and dedica- that produced mismatches to the Hornets’ tion to changing history were their driving benefi t. forces,” Pyzik said. “Th ey believed in doing Brandan Connor was a fi xture in the something that has never been done before lineup, as much for his unselfi sh play as for Continued on page 18

16 LC MAgAziNE Fall 2013 “The key to our success starts with the players. Coach Pyzik and I really pride ourselves on recruiting great people who are good students and who happen to be pretty good basketball players.” – MEN’S HEAD COACH HiLLiARy SCOTT

PhoTo By John MCCorMiCk Fall 2013 LC MAgAziNE 17 Men’s lacrosse makes deep NCAA run The men’s lacrosse team advanced to the NCAA Division III Tournament for the second-straight season and went further than any team in program history. The Hornets earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament and hosted a first- round game on Shellenberger Field against St. Mary’s College. LC trailed 5-2 at the start of the fourth quarter and was forced to play the first minute a man down. The Hornets rallied to post a 6-5 victory, with Vin Curran ’13 netting the game winner. LC next faced conference rival Roanoke College in the second round in Salem,

Vin Curran ’13

of Bridgewater College in the quarterfinals. The swarming Hornet defense allowed the Eagles to shoot just 28 percent from the floor and gave up just eight points over the final eight minutes to close out the win. Lynchburg faced top-seeded Eastern Men- nonite University in the tournament semifi- nals. The underdog Hornets took the Royals to the brink of elimination before falling in overtime. Sophomore forward Lauren Pen- ley and freshman Chaney Forbush played nearly the entire game, combining for thir- ty-three points and sixteen rebounds. Allan Virginia. The Hornets again came from be- finished with seventeen points and three hind, turning an 8-7 deficit into a 12-9 vic- Shannon Allan ’15 blocked shots. tory. Curran scored three times, and keeper The versatile Allan was named to first- Adam Davey ’15 made fifteen stops in the at Lynchburg, and I firmly believe that this team All-ODAC and All-State squads after net, including several down the stretch. strong bond and unbelievable team chemis- averaging 17.9 points, 6.5 rebounds, and 1.5 Lynchburg fell to eventual champion Ste- try is what has begun laying the foundation blocks a game. Penley received a third-team venson University in the quarterfinals, de- for something very special.” all-conference award, coming on strong in spite four tallies from Max Voumard ’13. LC entered the ODAC Tournament seeded the second half of the season. Voumard was named a United States fifth in the twelve-team field and began the With just one senior on the team, the sky Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) single-elimination bracket with a home game is the limit for this group of Hornets. third-team All-American and received USILA against Randolph College. Sophomore “We know that we have a lot of hard work Scholar All-American honors. Defender Jon forward Shannon Allan scored twenty-one ahead of us this year with a very competitive Gill ’14 joined Voumard on the All-American points along with seven rebounds and three schedule, but with a strong group of re- third-team, and Curran and Pat Ohrem ’13 blocks in an 83-70 victory. turners and a very talented group of young received All-American honorable mentions. The eight teams remaining traveled to the freshmen joining them, we are looking for- Head coach Steve Koudelka earned nearby Salem Civic Center for the remain- ward to seeing where our journey will take All-State Coach of the Year honors for the ing three rounds, a venue that has been un- us,” Pyzik said. second-straight year. kind to the Hornets in recent seasons. But Lynchburg ground its way to a 51-47 upset

18 LC magazine Fall 2013 Basketball Photos by John McCormick; Lacrosse, Softball Photos by Sideline media Productions Softball returns to NCAA Tournament The softball program returned to WEB CASTS national prominence in 2013, posting a 32-13 record and earning an at-large bid to the NCAA Division III National Tournament. Th e Hor- Watch the Hornets’ nets were ranked in the NFCA Top 25 for much home games LIVE at of the season and were just one of two teams athletics.lynchburg.edu/ to hand top-ranked Salisbury University a regular-season loss. information/webcasts Lynchburg had only one senior on the roster and she went out with a bang. Designated player/pitcher Cassie Phillips ’13 earned points, including 33 this season on 11 goals fi rst-team All-ODAC and third-team all-region and 11 assists as a standout off ensive, defensive, honors after slugging six home runs, all in and transition player for the Hornets. conference play. Melanie Tenney ’14 and Jessi Hall ’15 each earned third-team All-ODAC More milestones and All-Region accolades. Right-hander Hope Martin Henderlite ’15 put together one of Johnson ’15 took home third-team All-ODAC the best single-season pitching eff orts in recent honors and head coach Dawn Simmons ’97 memory for the baseball team. His 1.12 ERA led was voted the league’s Coach of the Year. the ODAC and was less than half of the next lowest (2.27). He earned ODAC Pitcher of the Men’s track and fi eld captures Year honors and was a fi rst-team All-ODAC, All- two titles Cassie Phillips ’13 State, and All-Region honoree. He earned sec- The Hornet men’s track and fi eld team ond-team All-American honors, the program’s continued its dominance in conference com- fi rst All-American since the 2008 season. petition, winning the ODAC indoor and out- extracurricular achievements. Th e equestrian team nabbed a couple of top door titles. Th e outdoor crown was the fi fth Shelly was awarded a $7,500 scholarship honors this spring. LC’s McKenzie Canard ’16 straight and twenty-seventh overall for the by the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Com- earned the conference’s Rookie of the Year program, with Doug Th omasey ’05 earning mittee for postgraduate study. She is currently award at the ODAC Championships in April. Coach of the Year honors. Th e indoor title studying in LC’s Doctor of Physical Th erapy Th e season ended on a strong note as Taylor was the sixteenth straight, and Tom Sippie ’16 program. Dalton ’14 took second place at the Intercolle- was named Rookie of the Year. An exercise physiology major, Shelly shone giate Horse Show Association (IHSA) Nationals. Men’s hurdler Rachad Davis ’14 and wom- in all areas. In the classroom, she boasted She competed in the walk-trot-canter class of en’s javelin thrower Leah Heal ’13 represented a 3.97 grade point average and graduated sixteen qualifi ers from around the country. Lynchburg at the NCAA Division III Outdoor summa cum laude as an exercise physiology Katherine Francis ’16 enjoyed an outstand- Championships held in La Crosse, Wisconsin. major with a minor in Spanish. She is a mem- ing fi rst collegiate season with the Hornet Davis, the ODAC 110- and 400-meter hurdles ber of several honor societies including Phi women’s lacrosse team. Th e midfi elder earned champion, competed in the 400-meter hur- Kappa Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Sigma ODAC and All-State Rookie of the Year honors dles and achieved a career best of 52.98. Heal, Iota, and Phi Eta Sigma. Th e two-time ODAC/ this spring. She led the team in goals (43), the two-time defending ODAC javelin cham- Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete of points (49), and draw controls (56) and caused pion, qualifi ed for nationals with a career-best the Year for fi eld hockey earned Dean’s List turnovers (26). toss of 135'11" at the Virginia Challenge. honors all eight semesters and was a four-time Th e Virginia Sports Information Directors Th omasey was also named the South/ member of the NFHCA National Academic announced the 2012-13 Academic All-State Southeast Region Coach of the Year for the Squad. She was also named a Scholar of Dis- team in mid-June, and six LC student-athletes outdoor season. tinction by the NFHCA. were recognized: Berk Ellis ’15, men’s lacrosse, On the fi eld, Shelly was a three-time NFHCA chemistry major; Shelley Hoath ’13, women’s Milks among top 30 NCAA women All-American, earning fi rst team honors each soccer, elementary education major; Shea Field hockey standout Shelly Milks of the past two years. Th e midfi elder was a Kelley ’13, women’s basketball, sport manage- ’13 is one of 30 women selected from more four-time All-ODAC honoree, earning First ment/journalism major; Shelly Milks ’13, fi eld than 450 nominees for the 2013 NCAA Woman Team honors for three straight seasons, which hockey, exercise physiology major; Rachel of the Year award. Th e winner will be an- coincided with her being named ODAC Player Sadowski ’14, women’s soccer, environmental nounced in Indianapolis October 20. of the Year three consecutive times (2010-12). science major; and Melanie Tenney ’14, fi eld Shelly also received the Marjorie Berkley She was also the LC Female Athlete of the hockey and softball, English literature major. Award in May, given by the ODAC to the top Year three times (2011-13), and was named the female senior student-athlete each year who All-South Region Player of the Year in 2011. rEPorTED By SPorTS inForMaTion DirECTor MikE CarPEnTEr anD GraDUaTE aSSiSTanTS ryan kiLLiLEa ’11 exhibits the highest athletic, academic, and Shelly fi nished her career notching 105 total anD CoDy CLiFTon

Fall 2013 LC MAgAziNE 19 MAKINg Carol Barger

Dr. Christopher Boyd

Michael Chambers

Ronald Davidson Robert Duff Their Mary Elcano

Stephanie Loveridge

Kristen Kowit Solmose

Susan Cary Strickland Helen Mundy Witt MARK Dr. Isaac “Ike” Wood

As Lynchburg College begins work on an expanded Student Center, we asked a number of impressive alumni to reflect on how their lives have met the College’s goals of fostering leadership, service, diversity, and wellness. What we found was that our alumni don’t fit neatly under any one category; most of them have excelled in a variety of ways. Enjoy their success stories.

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20 LC magazine Fall 2013 ’67 BA, Sociology CAROL BARGER serving By leaDing

he concept guiding me in life is the My initial work as a legal aid lawyer with Th e third phase of my career is serving in timeless idea of servant leader, the phrase Dallas Legal Services was followed by my pio- the leadership of charitable and other non- coined by Robert K. Greenleaf, which neering the expansion of legal services for the profi t organizations dedicated to assisting Tfi rst starts with wanting to serve others poor into previously unserved areas of Texas. low- and moderate-income families on issues and then attempting to lead people and in- I opened, for the fi rst time, legal services offi ces of social and economic justice. Among many stitutions, striving for a more just and loving in East Texas. My law degree allowed me to such organizations, currently I am serving society, off ering innovation and motivation. be on the front line of service to the poor. as treasurer of the Texas Organizing Project I have viewed my formal education as a plat- Th e second phase took me out of court- Education Fund and board member of the form from which to fi rst serve and then lead. rooms and into the Texas Capitol by opening Texas Access to Justice Foundation, and am Each of my stages of education ushered the Southwest Regional Offi ce of Consumers active in the Women Donors Network. me forward, from the liberal arts education Union of us, Inc. in Austin to lobby on be- In more recent times, with my husband, at Lynchburg College, where I earned my half of low- and moderate-income families. I obtained the third certifi cation in Texas bachelor’s degree in sociology, to my ad- Th is career change allowed me to advocate on for organic cattle ranching and the fi rst vanced educational work: a master’s degree behalf of a broad class of the less fortunate by organic certifi cation for pecan farming. I in political science, a law degree, advanced changing legislation and administrative law in manage the ranch today, along with our studies in theology, and a master’s degree in the areas of utilities, banking, health care, and rescue dog, Josephine. I even have my own spiritual science. insurance that historically were biased against tractor, a John Deere, with an accompa- the poor. I am particularly proud that I: nying weed mower (called a bush hog in Texas) and named “Molly,” in memory of • Successfully opposed utility rate increases my friend, Molly Ivins, the noted Texas “My becoming a texas and practices that unfairly burdened res- political journalist. idential ratepayers in purchasing electric, lawyer has been a vital My constant focus for the last quarter of telephone, gas, and insurance services; contribution to my life’s a century has been my spiritual life. Th e • Created two public counsel offi ces to rep- opportunity for service and intensive study work on social and eco- resent consumer interests before the Pub- on spirituality was enabled by advanced nomic justice. During the lic Utility Commission and State Board of studies in theology at the smu Perkins School Insurance; of Th eology, my master’s degree of spiritual fi rst phase of my career, i science from the Peace Th eological Seminary • Created an affi liation of women lobbyists; and College of Philosophy in Los Angeles, served the poor by claim- and California, and work with Th e Institute for ing their rights in federal • Started the public interest movement in Individual and World Peace. Th e Movement and state courtrooms, Texas by encouraging other public interest of Spiritual Awareness (msia) has aff orded groups to locate in Texas. Later, I chaired me the opportunity for additional service by such as securing basic combined public interest groups that grew hosting seminars in my home and traveling standards of habitability into lobbying eff orts for civil rights, civil worldwide as coordinator for spiritual-fo- liberties, women’s rights, and environ- cused seminars and retreats. In 2001, I was for rental property.” mental protection. honored by msia as Volunteer of the Year.

Fall 2013 LC MAgAziNE 21 ’97 BA, communication studies DR. CHRISTOPHER BOYD the path of purpose

During my corporate tenure, I was privi- I should qualify this a bit. While a student “Experience is not what happens to you. It leged to marry the best friend I’ve ever had, at lc, I was privileged to be a Montgomery is what you do with what happens to you. fellow lc graduate Jennifer Mul-key Boyd ’95. Scholar and presented with the “Church Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.” Our union presented the opportunity for Related Occupational Scholarship.” Dr. Rex — Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life a new life in the Atlanta, Georgia, area and Mix, college chaplain at the time and overseer we’ve been blessed to parent three wonderful of the scholarship, was an infl uential mentor children. Our union also exposed me to new and provided signifi cant career coaching, have never been the smartest, most athletic, relationships and new opportunities to ad- specifi cally related to communication and most articulate, or most creative person vance my leadership. I developed an interest interpersonal skills. Th is, however, was not in any environment in which I’ve found in fi nance, sales, marketing, process improve- known by the senior pastor of our church and Imyself. Rather, my greatest attributes have ment, technology, and data analysis, among the fact that the nature of what he presented as been integrity, hard work, and a good atti- other things. I was aff orded educational an occupational opportunity related so closely tude. Th ough I learned the defi nition of these opportunities at Th e Ohio State University, to the preparation I received from lc and the terms through childhood experiences, my Clayton State University, Shorter University, training I received since, pointed directly to involvement at Lynchburg College helped me from which I earned an MBA, and Regent Uni- destiny and a call of God. appreciate the relevance that these attributes versity, where I just completed my PhD in For nearly seven years I have served as ex- have to leadership. From Residence Life, I organizational leadership. I learned that each ecutive pastor of our church. In the corporate learned the power of teamwork, systems, and of these experiences was shaping and form- world, this role would be titled chief operations processes. From the Black Student Associa- ing me to fulfi ll my life purpose. offi cer (coo). Th e ministry serves more than tion, I learned how to add value with limited 19,000 members and distributes television resources. From Student Government, I ministry worldwide. On any given day, I serve learned to serve my community and engage our community as a teacher, counselor, tech- people with diverse talents and skills in ac- nical director, salesman, consultant, creative tivity that makes a diff erence in the present director, fundraiser, and in myriad other roles. and in the future. Each of these experiences “little did i know I get joy from being able to serve the needs of taught me that relationships are the basis of that others were the moment. My experience at LC prepared life and communication is the basis of all me for such a time as this. Integrity, hard meaningful relationships. watching my growth work, and a good attitude will continue to From Lynchburg College I carried these as well, and in a open doors of opportunity in the future. lessons into a professional career that in- Shakespeare penned these famous words in cludes a variety of roles in two organizations. moment of surprise his tragedy, Hamlet, “Th is above all: to thine Th rough a relationship with a Lynchburg i was presented with own self be true, and it must follow, as the College trustee, I was aff orded an opportunity night the day, thou canst not then be false to to serve in the corporate world for nearly ten an opportunity to any man.” Authenticity begins with knowing years as an executive with Vertis Communi- lead the operations one’s self. It ends with balanced decision-mak- cations, a printing and advertising company. ing and relational transparency. It is lived I gained valuable experience, developed of our church, word by having high ethical and moral standards. treasured skills, traveled the country, and es- of faith family Th is has been the testimony of my life. I am tablished relationships with friends that I hold not perfect. I have been blessed. One of my dear to this day. My experience at lc made worship Cathedral.” greatest blessings has been and continues to me such a good fi t for this opportunity. In be Lynchburg College – my relationships and fact, my leader once asked, “Are there more my experiences that lead me down the path like you at your college?” To his question I of purpose and destiny. I trust that by God’s responded, “Absolutely! Would you like me grace, positive relationships and new experiences to give you a name?” will lead me on.

22 LC MAgAziNE Fall 2013 ’97 BS, Environmental Science MICHAEL CHAMBERS a fortuitous Detour

was a young transfer student in search We look at the environmental impact that of a semester layover before continuing will result from development and put forth to a larger university when I landed at alternatives to reduce that impact. We see ILynchburg College. Years later I credit projects as small as putting in a deck or as that detour with shaping the sincere interest large as doing a 60,000-square-foot home. in others that presently drives my career and We advise against tree and shrub removal. overall happiness. We suggest a gravel driveway instead of a However, before I take you to the end, paved one. Where ground infi ltration is dif- let’s stay focused on the beginning — the fi cult, we look for drainage solutions at the fateful decision that directed me to the small surface: directing water to a pond or creating a mountainside campus we aff ectionately call pond or a cistern where water can be reused. lc. My need for a new beginning and a desire With each passing day I remain grounded, to head south compelled me to chat with keeping in mind several key principles I learned friends about life at a small college. I followed throughout my youth that were reinforced the advice of some high school classmates during my time on campus. Th ey include a and packed up for Lynchburg. willingness to confi dently stand out front as One would think the epic ice storm that a leader and the desire to provide service and forced the closure of school and sent students support to those in need. scrambling for various destinations would Th ose principles helped me become a be enough to send an uncommitted student quasi-political fi gure, responsible for encour- packing. However, while campus remained aging sensible development through proven dark, the dining hall served as the location building and engineering practices. Th ere is for respite through new friendships and ulti- great reward in returning home to be a part mately persuaded me to remain at lc. Th ere of the community in which you were raised. by the acceptance within my community as a were many enjoyable meals with friends, It is a feeling that is not dissimilar to the one key fi gure willing to engage all stakeholders. administrators, and professors. I once had mentoring in the Young Cham- For much of that, I have the education I ob- Notwithstanding the relationships we forge pions program sponsored by the College, or tained from Lynchburg College and its many through family, I think college friendships even during my time as an assistant working great professors to thank. remain near and dear to us so I am glad to for Dr. Guy Rivers in the biology department. Th e lost hours and endless laughs that I learn of the plans for the new Student Center We had totally divergent personalities: Dr. once shared with classmates in the Westover and expanded social opportunities that will be Rivers was the old Southern boy and I was Room are today replaced with the many passed onto future lc students. a young black guy from the Northeast, and great charities I willingly serve each day: Since returning home to Connecticut, I’ve the two of us were arm in arm all the time. AmeriKids, AmeriCares, the Red Ribbon been fortunate to fi nd success in employment, I’m now humbled by my recognition in Foundation, and the Connecticut Chapter while enjoying happiness through service. Connecticut as an environmental leader and of the National Audubon Society. I maintain that there is nothing more re- warding than experiencing the appreciation of people truly less fortunate as they benefi t from “i serve as the director of the inland wetlands and your service to community. Th is is no better witnessed than in my capacity as a counselor watercourses agency in greenwich, a position i and advisor at Camp AmeriKids, a camp for have now held for more than six years. the agency inner-city kids aff ected by aids/hiv. Th ere truly is no better feeling for me than watching oversees development projects and makes sure they a kid smile. preserve or enhance the overall quality of wetlands, Th e education and experience I received on our small campus seem to be paying divi- ponds, streams, and marshes in greenwich.” dends to others along the way.

PhoTo By ViSko haTFiELD, CoUrTESy GrEEnWiCh MaGaZinE Fall 2013 LC MAgAziNE 23 ’73 BA, Religion RONALD DAVIDSON “gleaning for the worlD”

s a student at Lynchburg College, soap products, and other needed items for stayed in the church. God in His eternal I took a course in communications the poor worldwide. We “glean” non-salable wisdom never asked me what I wanted to do. where we had to write a speech using supplies from for-profi t companies and sort, As our faith grows we learn that God knows Aa blackboard. On the day it was due, repack, and put these items in the hands of what He is doing. I had forgotten the speech, so I winged it. our missionaries. In fi fteen years we have Second, it takes an army to work in the Dr. Allen Stanger ’33, my advisor and chaplain placed 2,809 tractor-trailer loads with a value mission fi eld. We only have fi fteen staff run- at lc, called me into his offi ce and chastised me. of $541 million in fi fty-two countries. In this ning this large ministry. However, we have an As I had been pastoring a church for three same fi fteen years, we have saved fi fty acres army of more than 2,000 volunteers that help years, I thought doing a fi ve-minute speech of landfi ll space and saved millions of lives us do the work. One of the lessons of success was going to be easy. His last comment, at the same time. All of this work is done at is realizing that my job is to help everyone else which I will never forget, was: “Ron, there a warehouse located in rural America fi fteen do their job. People do not follow a leader are three things we consider when looking miles from lc. because you have some authority tied to your at the future of a student. One is looks, the name. Th ey follow the example of the leader. second is a natural ability to lead, and the Leadership is listening to God, fi nding people third is a commitment to succeed. You have “gleaning for the world who believe in His vision, and making sacri- the talent, but looks and commitment aren’t fi ces to see miracles happen. It also involves your cup of tea. You can make it on natural is one of the largest caring for those less fortunate, loving the un- ability or you can use what God gave you one hundred nonprofi ts lovable, and setting an example. and be a lot better. It looks like you just Th ird, you have to be willing to do whatever want to make it and not really do your best. in america and has is necessary to fulfi ll the vision. I went from Th at is a sin against God.” been recognized four pastoring a 1,200-member church to driving a I knew he was right; I made a commitment truck in twenty-four hours. Th e days were long to use my natural talents and sharpen my skills. of the last fi ve years and lonely, the work was hard, but nothing For twenty-seven years, I served the United as the most effi cient good ever comes easy. We have two creeds we Methodist Church, pastoring some of the larg- follow at Gleaning. One is: “Our worst day at est churches in Virginia. In November 1997, I and effective nonprofi t work is the best day the poor will ever have.” made a commitment to start a nonprofi t help- in america by forbes Th e other is: “Whatever it takes, we will do it.” ing abused women and the homeless. Our goal When disasters happen in America, was to place several tractor-trailer shipments of magazine.” Gleaning is one of the fi rst nonprofi ts hand- clothes, food, and other supplies in the hands ing out water, blankets, cleaning supplies, of these ministries. stuff ed animals, and food. When disasters Little did I know that God had other strike America, we cannot worry about sleep, plans. What was going to be a part-time How did this ministry become the most hunger, or anything else until we get the “feel good” ministry quickly turned into a effi cient nonprofi t in America and reach so supplies on the ground. We do “whatever it large international ministry. many people each year? Many people have takes” — loading trucks in the middle of the Gleaning for the World is a $50 million asked how I came up with the concept. Th e night and working twenty-hour days, all the ministry reaching six million people a year truth is I didn’t. If God had shown me what while thanking God for the chance to help with food, clothing, shoes, medical supplies, the ministry would become, I might have people who are suff ering.

24 LC MAgAziNE Fall 2013 PhoTo By John MCCorMiCk ’93 Ba, political Science ROBERT DUFF serving as a CitiZen-legislator

Robert Duff (left) with Connecticut Gov. Daniel P. Malloy.

orwalk, Connecticut has been my life- A career beckoned in real estate with modern society, some good, some with ques- time home, a diverse city on the shore William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty. tionable eff ects. How these chemicals interact of Long Island Sound. Family ties here It remains my primary occupation to this with the body is still unknown. I’ve been able Ngo back fi ve generations. It was my par- day. Helping people buy and sell property to work on legislation banning the harmful ents and grandparents who instilled in me the off ers me an opportunity to meet all kinds bisphenol-A in children’s products, as well as belief that I could make a change for the bet- of people, and provides a unique insight into toxic pesticides from school grounds. ter; that being passionate about what is right my local economy. One of the most satisfying aspects of my is about as American as it gets. So when the Taking the lessons learned as a Lynchburg public service has been the opportunity to future of a local ball fi eld came into question, student and later as a congressional intern, promote real progress in the areas of social I voiced my concerns to the city mayor. Th e I ran for public offi ce. justice and civil rights. I was very proud when seeds of public service had been planted — at the age of eight. After graduating from the city’s public schools, I chose to attend Lynchburg College. “since 2001, i’ve been privileged to serve the people of Perhaps unsurprisingly, my major was po- litical science. Being involved in campus life my community as a member of Connecticut’s general at Lynchburg was very important to me. So assembly. we all serve on a part-time basis, upholding I joined the Student Activities Board and served in the Student Senate and many other an ideal of citizen-legislators who are not just career campus committees. And I became one of politicians, but also working men and women.” the founding brothers of our campus’s Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter. Because diversity on the Lynchburg campus was an increasingly important issue, I helped found the Multicultural Advocacy Group. I My service has included leadership positions our state became one of the fi rst to legalize made friends among the international students on a number of legislative committees, in- gay marriage in 2008. As recently as 2011, I on campus, many of whom have become cluding Banking, Housing, Results-based joined with my fellow legislators to extend friends for life. Th ese and other experiences at Accountability, and my current positions as our state’s comprehensive non-discrimination Lynchburg prepared me well for success later Energy & Technology chairman and Assis- protections to transgendered people, in the in life as a civic leader in my diverse home- tant President Pro Tempore of the Senate. face of signifi cant opposition. Just last month, town, where I live with my wife Tracey and Serving in a leadership role has allowed me I voted to extend state veterans’ benefi ts to our two sons. to address a number of pressing societal issues, service men and women who were discharged Th e co-curricular opportunities at Lynch- including the promotion of renewable energy from the military under the discriminatory burg encouraged me to work as an intern for to protect the delicate ecosystem of our planet. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. US Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.). In a struggling economy, it’s important to To students now at lc, my advice is to Th e lessons learned there would prove benefi - work for local growth and to help those who make the most of your experience. Don’t shy cial in the years to come. have fallen on hard times. So, I was proud to away from new things. Push your boundaries, After college, and back in my hometown, help rewrite Connecticut’s home foreclosure and above all, meet people from all walks of I took a position from 1993 to 1995 as a sub- laws a few years ago. As a result, more families life. Listen to them. Learn from them. Share stitute teacher. It was a brief stint in terms of were able to stay in their homes. what you know. You’ll benefi t by what you my overall career, but it left me with a lasting One of my ongoing areas of interest is take away. Lynchburg will enrich your life respect for the importance of the profession the impact of toxic chemicals on the health now, and open countless doors for you in and the challenges all teachers face. of our children. Chemicals are everywhere in the years to come.

Fall 2013 LC MAgAziNE 25 Transformative leadership became a hall- mark of my career. I joined the usps in 1982 as an employment attorney, but when my

’71 BA, History • Lynchburg College Board of Trustees son was born, I transferred over to the “client side” in human resources management. As the executive director of eeo/Affi rmative Ac- tion and the director of Human Resources for MARY ELCANO the Northeast Region, I learned the business as a client and was able to implement major transforMative leaDership policies like diversity awareness in manage- ment. I later went on to become the executive vice president of Human Resources, responsi- ble for the employment programs of 800,000 employees. s the acting president of the American and returned to the us to attend law school. By 1992, it was back to the practice of law Red Cross in 2008, I found myself I graduated from Catholic University Law for me. I became the usps General Counsel standing before a crowd of 3,000 em- School in 1976, which turned out to be a managing 400 lawyers and covering 6,000 Aployees, volunteers, and donors giving monumentally good decision. I met my federal court and administrative cases. Always the keynote speech at the Red Cross National husband there and since our wedding in having enjoyed the international arena, I Convention. My message was: “We’re all Dublin, Ireland, we’ve been happily married represented the usps in the World Trade interims! Th at’s right. We are all supporting for thirty-two years. Organization, the United Postal Union, actors and temporary custodians of the beacon I loved the law and being an attorney. and in transactions worldwide. of hope that is the Red Cross. Each of us has It brings together the right combination of I changed a confl ict-ridden usps culture been blessed with the opportunity to be of intellectual focus, practical application, and with redress, a nationwide eeo mediation fl eeting service to a mission of caring, steeped forums to challenge the status quo and be program that yielded an 80 percent resolution in American history, and vital to our nation’s argumentative. My Lynchburg College days rate, 20 percent drop in complaints, and a $12 future. Our obligation then — as leaders, em- foretold an early legal interest when I served million savings in two years. For these career ployees, volunteers and donors — is to sustain in the Student Senate and Student Appeals accomplishments, I received the usps John and build this noble undertaking in the time Board. Wannamaker Award and the National Diver- given us.” sity Award, and published three chapters in I have to admit that I also wondered: books related to postal privatization. “How did I ever get to this career pinnacle?” During the past decade as the general Looking back on the years since leaving counsel and corporate secretary of the Amer- Lynchburg College in 1971, I see my career “a public service legal ican Red Cross, I directed its legal services has always refl ected these same themes – the career always was my in both the corporate and nonprofi t realms. interim leadership of ordinary people with In keeping with a transformative leadership extraordinary compassion and goodwill, the course. starting as a focus, I coordinated the historic reform of capacity and honor to be in public service, Baltimore legal aid the Red Cross Board resulting in a model and the opportunity to impart lasting im- of nonprofi t governance and the landmark provements to America’s vital institutions. attorney reforming American Red Cross Governance Moderniza- As a history major at Lynchburg College, overcrowded prisons, tion Act of 2007. I was privileged to study with the best — As the acting president and ceo of the Red Dr. Clifton Potter ’62, Dr. Robert Frey, and to the Department Cross in 2008, I directed a massive corporate Dr. William Wineman. Th ey were rigorous of labor challenging headquarters reorganization, downsizing scholars, brilliant thinkers, and role mod- 1,000 employees by extensive re-engineering els who served me well in my career. Th ey union corruption, to and change management. Th is eliminated a demonstrated the right balance of demanding the us postal service $200 million defi cit and set the Red Cross on high quality work and allowing for individual a positive business trajectory. contribution. I always wanted to stray from (usps), to a partner I knew my time at the Red Cross was end- the pack and focus on independent studies or in sidley austin llp, ing when I looked out my offi ce window and unique projects. Th ey kindly agreed to enable saw the Corcoran Gallery of Art. I graduated me and inspired my self-confi dence. and to the american from the Corcoran College of Art in 2012. After leaving Lynchburg, I studied history red Cross, i was hon- I left the Red Cross and am now an artist. in graduate school at Georgetown Univer- For me, art is not such a wide turn away from sity. I was not to be an historian, however. ored to improve vital law. Art, like the law, is a quest for truth. I While traveling through Europe on leave public institutions.” look forward to many more interim stops on from Georgetown, I took my lsats in Paris that journey.

26 LC MAgAziNE Fall 2013 ’13 Master of science in nursing STEPHANIE LOVERIDGE helping KiDs in Crisis

was going through a divorce, a move, and “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking struggling to raise two teenage boys while and prying with a purpose.” Getting frontline working full time. But I loved my professors nurses to recognize that they have the power and my colleagues and was learning so much. to improve patient outcomes through research Th e small class sizes and one-on-one atten- is exciting. tion from faculty were huge. I felt like lc’s My next research project will examine factors master’s of science in nursing program was involved in child and adolescent psychiatric tailor-made for me. readmissions. Although Centra’s readmission

“since graduation, i have remained the unit manager of the Child and adolescent psychiatric unit at Centra’s virginia Baptist hospital. the unit accepts children from all over virginia who are in crisis. having struggled through a tumultuous adolescence myself, i feel like my job is one of the most fulfi lling in the world.”

Our Centra staff does some pretty amazing rate is low, it is a quality indicator across all things in helping these children and their service lines nationwide. If we can add to the families through some major life crises and body of knowledge regarding factors involved new mental health diagnoses. I am so thank- with children/teens, we may be able to improve ful to be working alongside such a passionate, the outcomes. talented, and diverse team; we are privileged When not working, I am an avid Wash- raduating from lc in January 2013 was to play a part in these kids’ recovery. ington Capitals hockey fan and mom to two a major accomplishment. Having been In addition to the love of my unit, I fell in teenage boys, one a hockey goalie in the out of college for fi fteen years, getting love with research while a staff nurse. Having Lynchburg Youth Hockey Association. I love Gback into the swing of academia was and support the local arts and can’t wait to won Centra’s Craddock-Terry Research Grant a real challenge. I had to reorient myself to in 2010, I completed a research project involv- see the renovated Academy of Music Th eatre. literature searches, apa format, and how to ing teenagers who self-injure. Th e research will We are so lucky to have such a diverse arts/ study. But it was all worth it in the end. be published in Th e Journal of Psychosocial music community here in Lynchburg. I also After graduating with a bachelor of science Nursing later this year. Although I had a won- enjoy taking my dog to the dog park, hiking, in nursing from Radford University in 1996, derful mentor, Dr. Sharon Kopis, I realized and working out. Any kind of leadership I spent three years in the military as a Navy after this project that “I didn’t know what position can be stressful — exercise defi nitely nurse. Th e Navy taught me the self-discipline I didn’t know.” I needed to learn more and gives me the stress release to maintain wellness. to be able to succeed in anything, and the Lynchburg College was the place to do it. Serving on a Centra magnet team addressing teamwork was unparalleled. I applied these While at lc, I began serving as the co-chair frontline nurses’ education, I am living proof lessons at lc. Being a single mom, I wouldn’t on Centra’s Nursing Research Council. It was that education is addictive. I never thought have been able to attend graduate school had helpful to be learning about research in the I would enjoy being in school so much; I’m it not been for Lynchburg’s deferred tuition msn program and, at the same time, seeing looking at doctoral programs now. lc was a agreement and Centra’s tuition reimburse- the actual development of research at Centra. huge part of reigniting that desire to learn and ment. Th ere were times I wanted to quit. I I love the quote by Zora Neale Hurston: grow. I won’t ever forget that.

PhoTo By John MCCorMiCk Fall 2013 LC MAgAziNE 27 ’01 BS, health promotion • ’03 MBA KRISTEN KOWIT SOLMOSE fit for a lifetiMe

hile at lc, I was a soccer player, ran track for a year, and was also involved in the student council Was my class treasurer. I majored “i also started an in health promotion with minors in coach- ing and sports relations. I interned at a local afterschool program fi tness facility as well as Miriam’s House, for students to designed to serve homeless women and chil- dren. While there, I was able to give seminars improve their fi t- to teach the women how to make healthy ness while having choices for their diet and how to stay active to benefi t their overall health. I stayed at lc to fun listening to earn an mba while assisting as a soccer coach music and playing to Dr. Todd Olsen. After graduating, I obtained a job with John games. i called it Hancock and was working in New York City ‘fun & fit’, and it about three months when I decided I wasn’t “active” enough and was not satisfi ed with a concentrated on desk job and sitting on a bus for an hour com- the importance mute. I was asked to fi ll in for a physical educa- tion teacher on leave and be the assistant coach of movement and for a Division ii women’s soccer program at a health.” nearby college. It seemed like a perfect fi t. Not only did I end up loving teaching, but the next year I was off ered a permanent position at a private grammar school as the physical education teacher and athletic director. Th is led to an assistant coaching position for the I organized a school walk-a-thon as a fund- soccer in a women’s league, which comprises women’s soccer team as well as track and fi eld raiser and developed a new standard for fi eld people much like me who played in college at my high school alma mater, and eventually, days and pep rallies. I off ered soccer clinics and like to stay competitive. Now, after having head coach for the women’s soccer program. after school and during the summer months three children, including two at the same time, Th is experience triggered a love for helping as well as helping with the middle school I’m not only including them in my running children develop healthy lifestyles. soccer team. Developing health and wellness and workout routines, I am developing new I went back to school to earn my teaching programs was, to me, as important as the aca- healthy and organic recipes. degree for health and physical education. I demic, social, and emotional iq to the overall Th ere was a personal connection to the switched schools and was encouraged to de- development of the child. Eventually this led faculty at Lynchburg that created opportuni- velop and implement my ideas into a wellness to personal training for some of my co-work- ties which may have otherwise been missed and fi tness program. I was responsible for ers and teaching group fi tness classes at a gym. at a larger university. It was almost as if every- physical education and health for grades k–8 I have always had a passion for health and one had a stake in my future and made sure as well as launching a new tumbling program wellness and as a competitive athlete I felt it that I always moved forward. I felt connected for early childhood (pre-k–3rd grades). I also necessary to keep competing after my college to something bigger and that made me more created a cross-curriculum program that ad- soccer career ended. I played semi-profes- accountable. I really do credit lc with giving dressed the needs of the children to help with sional soccer for a couple of years on the east me the self-confi dence to achieve in so many the mind-body connection. Th is program was coast. Afterward, I started doing triathlons: diff erent arenas. Th e relationships I built with based on new brain-based learning research that I’ve done the New Jersey Triathlon a couple the faculty and staff as well as friends and not only added a new modality, but strength- of times and a few local ones and really love teammates have been integral to the person ened the ties between cognition and move- the challenge. I always participate in the local I have become. I was lucky enough to meet ment. My kids were taught to use their bodies 5ks and some 5-milers, as well as running a my husband, Levi Solmose ’02, at Lynchburg to calm themselves, explore their body aware- half marathon in Central Park. I don’t love and still keep in contact with my coaches and ness, and build strength and coordination. running but I love to compete. I still play so many great friends.

28 LC MAgAziNE Fall 2013 ’75 BA, History SUSAN CARY STRICKLAND paying it forwarD

Following that start, I went on to teach grant-funded Archeology Club at Oxon Hill both public and private high school. While High School, or helping other teachers with my children were small, I earned a master’s lesson plans. lc taught me to see myself as an in history at George Mason University, worked asset and use my skills to serve others. I found part time as an adjunct professor at Northern my calling in teaching because it keeps giving Virginia Community College, Manassas Cam- me new avenues to help others. lc taught me pus, and wrote a book before resuming a full- to believe there were no limits to what could time teaching career. be done.

“in 2013, i was named the national teacher of the year by street law inc. (a nonprofi t organization that creates classroom and community programs to teach people about law, democracy, and human rights) for my work teaching practical law. this year i was asked to help coordinate a health and Biosciences academy Susan Strickland (right) receives Street Law award at friendly high school, in fort washington, Maryland, came to Lynchburg College not quite where i currently teach.” sure who I was or what I would become. I knew that a technical fi eld was out and II liked to write. For the fi rst time, sitting in small classes on a tree-laden campus that seemed ancient to me, my opinion mattered. I also coordinate a mock trial program for In twenty-eight years of teaching I have I discovered I loved history and made it my four counties in Maryland. My tasks have been served students of all races and all ages in major. My professors nurtured my writing wide-ranging and varied but each allowed me two states: Maryland and Virginia. When I and self-esteem. Th ey included me and fellow to think creatively to respond to the needs of feel challenged, I think back to that young history students at parties in their homes and diverse groups of learners. girl sitting in the classroom at lc and remem- on campus. I was part of a community and Along the way I found that thinking outside ber how no one allowed me to feel lost. Th en found I liked giving back. the box and valuing the opinion of others (skills I have the inner peace to be kind to a raging When I left lc, I was warned it might be I learned at lc) helped me give back to the parent, to stay up that extra hour to get the hard to fi nd a teaching position in history. schools I served. My professors listened to me job done, or to see past the recalcitrant child I was determined. After a year of trying, I and heard my voice. I have tried to do the same to the true learner within. found my fi rst job at a small Catholic school at every school where I’ve taught and in my Th e best thing any student ever said to me in Clinton, Maryland, with forty kids per community. When you truly listen to people, was, “I know you care.” Th ose four words put class, grades 6-8, in six diff erent classes — you feel their joy and their pain, and you can into action have helped me transform my life three science and three history. I kept up reach inside your heart to give them what from a scared college freshman to a dedicated the lc tradition of volunteering to serve; I they seek. Sometimes it’s just a shoulder to teacher. I like to think that the thousands of transformed the Science Fair into the fi rst lean on; other times I found myself writing lives I’ve touched along the way are “paying it Education Fair to embrace all subjects taught grants, organizing fun activities — like our forward” and caring for others. at the school.

PhoTo By nELL EnriQUEZ Fall 2013 LC MAgAziNE 29 ’67 BA, education • ’78 med, early childhood education HELEN MUNDY WITT an early integrator

n 1967, I was extremely honored to become tennis greats Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe. Even though I was an early integrator, my the fi rst African-American to graduate African-Americans were not permitted to play three youngest daughters were better at inte- from Lynchburg College, where I had the on any other courts in the city. gration than my husband and I. Th ey were Iprivilege of enjoying many wonderful ex- At the age of sixteen, I went to Florida determined to go to all-white Amelon Ele- periences. While integration was new to the a&m with Althea on a full-scholarship ar- mentary School in Madison Heights, and so College, it was hardly new to me. My father ranged by Dr. Johnson with the president of in 1963, they were enrolled, realizing it could was white but, as a baby, he had been left Florida a&m. After a year, the president was mean that Leroy would lose his job with Nel- with an African-American family who raised replaced and without written proof of my son County Schools. Leroy and I fi gured we him. He married my mother who was Afri- scholarship, I was unable to return to the could survive for two years if we had to sue can-American, so I, and my sister, grew up school, despite the fact that I had already won the school system. On the fi rst day of school, in an integrated home. two girls national tennis championships and however, I was there, armed with approval My father took his mixed-race daughters other trophies by that time. from the newly formed Virginia Pupil Place- everywhere he went. While my sister could I came home and soon met and married ment Board in Richmond, and my daughters pass as white, I couldn’t. I was about fi ve Leroy Witt, my husband for fi fty-fi ve years were allowed to attend without a problem. years old when my father bought tickets for and a teacher in Nelson County. Leroy prom- Two other black students joined them, and the fi rst diesel-powered train from Lynchburg ised me that I would go back to school after by the next year, twenty-fi ve African-Ameri- to Roanoke. When the conductor saw me, our house was built, but with fi ve children it can students attended the school. he changed our tickets to make us all sit in was a struggle. I did most of my papers at 4 I returned to lc to work on my master’s in the “colored car.” I knew that I was being o’clock in the morning. childhood education. I stopped working on treated diff erently because of my skin color. I received an associate’s degree at the it for a while because I was terrifi ed of taking In high school, I became a member of Lynchburg branch of the University of Virgin- the oral exams to obtain the degree. When the fi rst tennis team at Lynchburg’s all-black ia before transferring to lc in 1965. In 1967, I an option became available to take two extra Dunbar High School and was coached by received my bachelor’s in education just as the classes instead of the oral exams, I was able Dr. R. Walter Johnson, who also coached Lynchburg City Schools were being integrated. to complete my degree in 1978. I taught kin- dergarten at Linkhorne Elementary for nearly three decades, retiring in 1994. In 2007, I was honored to receive the J. Edward Petty Outstanding Alumni Award “i was the fi rst african-american student teacher at Bass established by the lc School of Education and Human Development to recognize a former elementary and the fi rst african-american teacher at graduate student for distinguished professional forest hills elementary, where all the students were work. In May, lc awarded me an honorary Doctor of Education. white. at forest hills, the janitor and i were the only I also returned to my alma mater in January african-americans.” to speak at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration to refl ect on civil rights fi fty years after the historic march on Washington, d.c. It’s hard to believe how much time has gone by, and though we’ve come a long way, the struggle is not over.

30 LC MAgAziNE Fall 2013 PhoTo By John MCCorMiCk ’78 Bs, life Sciences DR. ISAAC “IKE” WOOD healing with eMpathy

ment Committee in the Behavioral Sciences for the National Board of Medical Examiners, “i developed service the body which administers the national models for in-home licensing examinations for physicians. I serve ince graduating from Lynchburg College on the committee that reviews licensing in 1978, I have had the privilege of treatment of the most examinations and the appropriateness of becoming a psychiatrist, teacher, and seriously mentally ill interdisciplinary questions. I regularly serve Sleader at the Virginia Commonwealth as a site visitor for the Liaison Committee on University School of Medicine. children and adolescents Medical Education, which accredits medical Five years ago, I was selected to become who were at risk for schools in the United States and Canada. I the senior associate dean for medical edu- also present at national medical meetings on cation and student aff airs for the medical residential treatment.” “Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning,” school. During this time, I have worked with a teaching method that allows students to architects from the I.M. Pei fi rm to develop apply the scientifi c method of discovery in a state-of-the-art medical education center the classroom. for training future physicians. I have also During this time I began formal teaching in Th e true secret to success is a fi rm foun- developed and implemented a new curriculum the pre-clinical curriculum and the fi rst year dation, which I must attribute to my days at for the School of Medicine that is competen- I received the outstanding professor award. Lynchburg College. Th ere, I developed my cy-based, clinically-driven, and centered on Shortly afterwards, I became the director passion for learning, experienced role models the needs of learners. of the course in behavioral sciences for the in ethical behavior, and received a rewarding Prior to my most recent appointment, my second year medical students, director of the education which resulted in my being named love for students and teaching and my interest psychiatry clerkship for the third-year medical the Sommerville Scholar my senior year. Some in behavior made me a great fi t to become the students, and then director of undergraduate of my fondest memories are of the campus, associate dean for student aff airs for the vcu medical education in the behavioral sciences my peers, and professors — many inspiring School of Medicine. In that role, I developed and psychiatry. and all encouraging. Being in higher educa- a nationally recognized program for mentoring Since then, I have received the School of tion, I am aware of the cutting-edge innova- medical students — Project h.e.a.r.t. (Heal- Medicine’s highest recognition for teaching, tions in teaching adults. ing with Empathy, Acceptance, Respect and in addition to the educational innovation lc was way ahead of the game. In my inTegrity). award for developing a laboratory in which “Introduction to Psychology” class, we had My journey at vcu began in 1982, when I students could simulate the experiences of pre-readings, worked in teams to learn the was awarded a doctor of medicine degree. I psychosis and better understand the obstacles material, applied the information in class, completed an internship, a residency in gen- faced by the chronically mentally ill. and had no lectures. Th ese are all the ele- eral psychiatry, and a fellowship in child and Also during this time, I had the opportunity ments that defi ne the type of active learning adolescent psychiatry with Virginia Common- to become a Harvard-Macy Scholar. While most eff ective in adult education. I felt that wealth University Health Care System. studying at Harvard University, I developed a I had a relationship with every professor I I was in private practice for a year, and then model curriculum on cultural competency for encountered, and their commitment to my joined the full-time faculty at vcu, where I medical students that is currently being used growth and success was palpable. Lynchburg specialized in working with seriously disturbed by the school. College is truly a unique experience. It was a youth and those with co-morbid medical and I have served on multiple national commit- wonderful introduction to what has been a psychiatric conditions. tees. I have chaired the Test Material Develop- very meaningful career.

Fall 2013 LC MAgAziNE 31 EIGHT DAYS IN

Photos by GleNN McGraTh ’74

32 LC MAgAziNE Fall 2013 With help from Alex Akulli, director of lc’s by Dr. David Richards, Center for Global Education, we began assistant professor of international relations, the complex and lengthy process of getting and Dr. Nichole Sanders, the necessary visas and making myriad associate professor of history arrangements. To allow students to see firsthand a com- pletely different political and economic system and to have the chance to decide, for themselves, the results of both the Cuban system and its interactions (or lack thereof) with the American system seemed like a dream come true. In March, we were hen, able to take ten students to Cuba, most of whom had been enrolled in a semester-long in late 2009, the Obama administration lifted course on the island nation. Out of our some travel restrictions to Cuba, our first thought group of twelve none had been to Cuba was, “We need to take a group of students down before, so we had no idea what to expect from our experience. We found that the there.” Our next thought was, “How in the world Cuban reality was even more complex than would that work actually? Would we be placing we expected. The main goal of the trip was to help the students, and ourselves, in danger by taking students understand Cuba, both from a us them to a country that the United States has had perspective — which we covered in class strained relations with for the past fifty years?” both before and after the trip, and from the Cuba perspective — hence the actual trip to Cuba.

Fall 2013 LC magazine 33 Prior to departure we had read ar- propaganda, yet every Cuban we The students had their percep- ticles about the social development met was happy to talk to us? Was tions challenged around almost successes of the Cuban government there anybody who did not work for every corner. Initially some were since the revolution and the po- the government? Why were most hesitant to go outside the hotel in If you asked any of us who litical repression that the Cuban tourists funneled off to all-inclusive Havana. But slowly they began to people endure. We watched videos resorts miles away from any “real” find the streets not only safe, but went, we’d all go back about the old cars still in use, the part of Cuba? Why were there two local Cubans to be generally wel- again in an instant. But I “Yank Tanks,” and about Cuban currencies, one for Cubans and one coming, especially after they realized think we would also tell baseball players who defected to the mainly for tourists? they were talking to Americans. us to pursue their dreams of a better The students gained an idea By American standards most Cuban you that Cuba, while it has life. In short, we had conflicting and about how complex Cuba and are poor — they often have few pos- many great things going complicated ideas about what we Cuban-American relations are. sessions and do not own their own on, is far from perfect. Like would find in Cuba. They enjoyed the wonderful colo- home or car. But we never saw beg- The trip itself answered some nial style architecture of Havana gars or street children. We were told other countries, it has pos- questions (not every car on the road and marveled at the endless natural that local “Committees of the Rev- itives and negatives. in Cuba today is a 1950s classic), beauty of Vinales Valley. But they olution,” the same groups that the but raised many others. Why were also saw half-empty government government uses to track political buildings often very run down? supermarkets and horses pulling opposition, were also used to make Why was there so much anti-us carts that doubled as taxis. sure no one in a neighborhood fell

34 LC magazine Fall 2013 between the cracks of the Cuban beach time one windy morning at social safety net. So while Cubans an all-inclusive resort on one of the do not have political freedoms, northern keys. The resort, while they are guaranteed food, housing, nice enough, was only accessible via education, and health care. a ten-mile causeway. As part of the The group spent about half the contradictions of Cuba, pedestrians trip in Havana — we could have and cars getting onto the causeway spent weeks. Every block had at least had to pay a toll, and only Cuban one building that in any other city workers going to the various hotels would have been a crown jewel. were bused in at no charge, effec- But in Havana it was just another tively keeping the ordinary Cubans decaying building in need of fixing off the key. up. Luckily we also spent several If you asked any of us who went, days outside the city, touring the we’d all go back again in an instant. countryside and seeing historical But I think we would also tell you sites such as the Bay of Pigs and that Cuba, while it has many great Santa Clara. things going on, is far from perfect. One thing that was obvious Like other countries, it has positives to the group was the focus on the and negatives. In the end we found Cuban Revolution. Most of the the Cuban people to be welcoming historical sites we saw were in some and full of life, which makes it a way connected to events from the great place to visit. These contradic- revolution and its aftermath. Images tions also made it an ideal location of Che Guevara and Cein Fuegos for lc students to think critically were literally everywhere we went. about contemporary political and Curiously, however, images of Fidel social issues. Is, for example, current Castro were much harder to find. us policy working? We are sure Pre-Revolutionary Cuba was each student now has a good answer, present, too. We spent one after- informed in large part by their expe- noon exploring an old French coffee riences in Cuba itself. This, to us, is plantation, another morning explor- the goal of study abroad — to chal- ing Hemingway’s “finca.” lenge our students and to provide WEB EXCLUSIVE Watch a slideshow on the Cuba trip by And, of course, this being the the experiences necessary to be good Mariam Ernesta-Savy ’15. www.lynchburg.edu/fall2013 Caribbean after all, there was even global citizens.

Fall 2013 LC magazine 35 Pedal pushers Sharing the road to sustainability by Kevin Peterson, professor of Mathematics

was five years old when my father took the training our main goal. In our first academic year, we adopted out 50 bicycles and did maintenance wheels off of my Batman-​themed two-wheeler and on another 100. Although we are pleased with these results, it is evident that we have pushed me down our driveway on my way toward a been afforded an opportunity to fix more than bikes. lifetime of cycling. For instance, a student came by my office to ask a bike question. Since this is now a Who doesn’t remember that first ride? The Lowering humanity’s impact on the planet fairly common event, I assumed she wanted fun, the exhilaration, the freedom! Nearly five with the hope of achieving a carbon neutral help fixing a bike, but I was wrong. “Actu- decades later I’ve realized just how special that way of life will require the efforts of every ally, I was hoping someone could teach me first ride was and, more importantly, how the individual and institution on the planet. Over to ride a bike,” she said. I was taken aback. bicycle can act as a vehicle of change. Open- the past few years, LC has hosted a diverse I told her I wasn’t expecting that question ing Lynchburg College’s Bike Shack has given group of amazingly committed speakers who from a college student. She calmly explained, Mike Coco, Brian Kane, and me an opportu- have inspired us to navigate the road to a sus- “Well, in Afghanistan women are forbidden nity to spread our excitement for the bicycle tainable future. Joel Salatin, with his down- from riding bikes.” We are now working on a and for riding to the Lynchburg community. to-earth but in-your-face style, cultivated his skill-building workshop to help those new to For many, the bicycle is a symbol of hope vision of an environmentally friendly farming cycling and those who have been away from it and freedom. H.G. Wells captured this feeling model (what he calls “beyond organic”) become more confident in the saddle. best in his quote, “When I see an adult on a that replaces industrial agriculture to yield In another case, a story about The Bike bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the healthier local foods for all. Toby Heminway Shack that aired on the local CBS affiliate human race.” Essentially unchanged for nearly planted the seed of using permaculture design caught the eye of Brad Stowe from Hand-N-​ 100 years, the bicycle is an example of simple principles to change the way we interact with Hand Companion & Staffing Services in elegance. Its unique blend of human power the natural world. Both Shane Claiborne and Martinsville, Virginia. He contacted us to say and the genius of mechanical advantage make Tom Benevento preached that sustainability, that he had about 200 old bicycles to donate it the most efficient mode of transportation social and environmental justice, and peace and wanted to know if we were interested on the planet. By using its passenger as the are interconnected and are common threads in them. I couldn’t say yes fast enough! This engine, the bike is significantly less expensive throughout the New Testament. LC’s own Dr. generous donation allows us to overhaul and to design, build, and ship than other forms Todd Olsen coached us on the finer points distribute some of these bikes to those in need, of personal transportation. It is about twenty of how soccer can bring people together in both here in Lynchburg and abroad. To us, times more efficient than its 4,000-pound war-ravaged regions of Africa. Finally, Mel each of these bicycles represents an opportu- adversary, the average car. Studies have shown Chin illustrated how art can raise awareness, nity to change someone’s life. that getting more people to cycle decreases raise money, and save lives. Lynchburg College is fostering a critical mass our use of fossil fuel, improves our health, The Bike Shack humbly hopes to follow of concerned and enthusiastic students, staff, and creates safer, cleaner, more tightly knit these leaders and to peddle its unique formula faculty, and community members who realize communities. The Community Bike Shop for a better future. It is abundantly clear that the time has come to carefully consider the movement has allowed bike lovers to use their capitalizing on one’s passions to fuel positive impact of our every action, to work together passion and knowledge to become part of the change is the best way to make a meaningful to overcome barriers, to find joy in solving sustainability solution. These shops are open- difference. our problems as a community, and to literally ing all over the world with the common goal When we opened The Bike Shack in fall share the road to a sustainable lifestyle. of providing safe, reliable bicycles to everyone. 2012, fixing bikes and educating people was

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Fall 2013 LC magazine 37 Alumni Association Alumni News Board of Directors Hire a Hornet

Th is issue of the Lynchburg Alumni Board member, generously provided PrEsiDENT College Magazine features a venue in their historic offi ce space for the Bryce C. legg ’81, Hunt Valley, Md. some of our very impressive Richmond event. viCE PrEsiDENT alumni, who share their Attending or hosting an alumni event in your John P. reilly ’86, Midlothian, Va. experiences at lc and beyond. area is not only a wonderful way to reach out to Many of them mention the other alums, but off ers an opportunity to talk to AluMNi ouTrEACH CoMMiTTEE CHAir importance of mentors and rising seniors and prospective students in your Jamar M. Hawkins ’04, Woodbridge, Va. networking on their way to area about Lynchburg College. ADvANCEMENT CoMMiTTEE CHAir successful lives and careers. Members of the alumni board are participat- Hannah Howe Besanceney ’96, Winter Park, Fla. Now we are asking you, as an alumnus or ing in the fi rst ever “Hornet-2-Hornet: College alumna, to be an integral part of this process for to Careers Conference” during Homecoming sTuDENT ENGAGEMENT CoMMiTTEE CHAir the Hornets following you. As we all know, the this fall. We encourage you to take part. If you lori Evans Ermi ’85, Laytonsville, Md. job market is not the best for college graduates can’t make it to Homecoming, we hope you

CoMMuNiCATioNs AND MArKETiNG CoMMiTTEE CHAir just now, but our new “Hire a Hornet” initia- will schedule a visit to campus to talk about Gerald J. “Jerry” Daniello ’93, South Orange, N.J. tive will benefi t alumni and students alike. your professional experience with a class or As alumni of lc, part of our commitment organization. It is a golden opportunity for stu- TrADiTioNs CoMMiTTEE CHAir means “walking the walk” when it comes to the dents to realize what is possible in life after lc. Wendy Bradley ’91, Woodstock Valley, Conn. next step in our graduates’ journeys. We’re eager Strong alumni support and involvement translate to amazing opportunities for our WEsTovEr AluMNi soCiETY PrEsiDENT to include you in this undertaking. sherwood N. Zimmerman ’64, Forest, Va. In President Garren’s message on page students — future alumni who will have success two, he references two successful networking stories to share. We welcome your time, talent, MEMBErs-AT-lArGE events that took place this summer. Th e Hornet-2- and expertise, as well as your fi nancial support. Christopher D. “Chris” Barclay ’89, North Wales, Pa. Hornet (h2h) program kicked off with alumni Roll up your sleeves and choose a way to get John M. “Johnny” Black ’08, Baltimore, Md. networking receptions in Richmond, Virginia, involved that makes sense for you. It makes a Emily G. Brown ’02, Arlington, Va. and Washington, d.c., where the College and huge diff erence. David J. Capps ’77, Lynchburg, Va. Melissa MacGregor Centanni ’81, Glen Ridge, N.J. alumni connected with students in those areas laura Miller Crank ’79, Midlothian, Va. for mentoring and networking conversations. Tracy K. Epps ’01, Manassas, Va. Alumni Association board members in both Mark B. flynn sr. ’77, ’82 M.Ed., New Church, Va. of these geographical areas were instrumental Paul E. Goldenbaum ’66, San Antonio, Texas in planning, coordinating, and participating in Bryce C. Legg ’81 J. Mark “Journey” Johnson ’78, ’80 M.Ed., the events. John ’ and Laura Miller Crank ’, President, LC Alumni Association Brentwood, Tenn. robert P. “Bobby” Kelland ’77, Richmond, Va. Kathryn E. McDaniel ’12, Orange, Va. Brian M. Parker ’00, St. Louis, Mo. randi Alper Pupkin ’84, Baltimore, Md. David A. rosser ’90, Waxhaw, N.C. Homecoming Elizabeth Carter “Betsy” smith ’67, Lynchburg, Va. OCTOBER 18–20 Helen Hebb stidham ’66, Manassas, Va. 2013 lesley Day villarose ’02, Eden, N.C.

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Norton Hurd ’38 was the recipi- ent of the 2013 Pride of Middlesex award, which is given annually by the Rotary Club to recognize and honor individuals or groups in Middlesex County (Va.) that exemplify the Rotary motto of “Service Above Self.” Norton has served on the Lynchburg College Alumni Association board of directors and was inducted into the LC Sports Hall of Fame in 1995 for his achievements in athletics. He lives in Deltaville, Va. 40s

George Loving Jr. ’45 has written several books, including his latest, Bully Able Leader: The Story of a Fighter-Bomber Pilot in the Korean War. A career Owen Brodie ‘58 played the bagpipes for the Student Center groundbreaking April 27. Air Force officer with thirty-seven years of service, George was a fighter pilot in World War II. During the Korean War, he commanded a fighter-bomber squadron and fought in five major campaigns. “Bully Able Leader” was his radio call sign. His final active duty 50s 60s assignments were as commander, United States Air Force, Japan; and commander, 5th Air Force, with Classes of ’54 and ’59 in Reunion Classes of ’64 and ’69 in Reunion headquarters at Yokota Air Base near Tokyo. As com- April 25-27, 2014 April 25-27, 2014 mand pilot, his decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, Legion of Merit, and Distin- Robert “Bob” West Sr. ’50 Jeffrey “Jeff” Aultice ’62 guished Flying Cross, as well as a number of other U.S. was the recipient of the honorary received the T. Gibson Hobbs and foreign decorations. He lives in Williamsburg, Va. doctor of divinity degree from Memorial Award at Westover Lynchburg College during Com- Alumni Society Weekend 2013 in mencement 2013 in recognition April. The late Thomas Gibson of his outstanding contributions Hobbs, a member of the first to the Unitarian Universalist graduating class of 1904, exem- Fighting Nazis Association (UUA). Bob was plified the purposes, ideals, and elected president of the UUA in 1969 and served principles of Lynchburg College. This award is given Dr. Rev. M.E.N. Lindsay ’26 was one of two in that role for eight years. The UUA recognized his to alumni who demonstrate an exemplary record of ministers who led the efforts against the German leadership and faithful stewardship by awarding service in the areas of church, community, and alma American Bund, an organization with close ties to him the 2004 Distinguished Service to Unitarian mater. After graduation, Jeff began a life dedicated the Nazi party, which bought land and planned to Universalism Award. Bob and his wife, Nancy to others by serving in the United States Army for establish a training camp in Southbury, Conn. in Smith ’53, live in Boston, Mass. three years, after which he began his civilian work as 1937. Town leaders, including Rev. Lindsay (now a banker. He has been passionately involved in his Thomas “Tom” Walker ’53 retired in 2012 after deceased), quickly put a stop to the plan by creat- church for many years. Jeff has remained connected more than fifty-four years as a physician, most ing a zoning board and restricting the use of the to LC by serving on various boards and committees, recently at Emporia (Va.) Medical Associates. He property for residential purposes. The event made including the College’s strategic master planning plans to continue to give back to the community international news as the first place in America to committee. Jeff currently volunteers for Habitat for where he has made his home for so many years. stand up to the Nazis. A movie about this event, Humanity, drives for Meals on Wheels, and is active Because of his service to church, community, and Home of the Brave: When Southbury Said ‘No’ to in many other community organizations. Jeff and his alma mater, he received the T. Gibson Hobbs the Nazis, was made in 2012. Dr. Lindsay’s daugh- wife, Mary “Ranny,” will celebrate their fiftieth wed- Memorial Award, Lynchburg College’s highest ters appeared in the film: Joan Lindsay Redford ding anniversary this year. They live in Lynchburg, Va. ’53, Lois Lindsay Brown ’48, and Carol Lind- alumni award, in 1977. He has served for many say Hagy ’56. Lois and Carol were recognized years on the LC Board of Trustees. In 2000, Tom Thomas Layne III ’63 has retired after teaching at the end of the presentation at the US Capitol and his wife of fifty-seven years, Barbara Jones math for fifty years and has moved south to in May. The film, commissioned by the Southbury ’54, gave equipment to the College to establish warmer weather. He was a professor of mathe- Historical Society, was also shown at the Boston a human performance laboratory that was later matics at Shenandoah University for forty-six years. International Film Festival in April. named in his honor. They reside in Emporia, Va. He currently lives in Summerville, S.C.

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Distinguished

Clifton “Clif” Potter Jr. ’62 and Dorothy “Bundy” Turner Potter ’64 were honored by the City of Lynchburg as recipients naval graduate of the 2013 Mayor’s Award of Excellence at the annual State of the City address in March. This award is given to only a handful of people who have made significant community contributions. The Potters, both LC history professors who have been married nearly fifty years, are known for their extensive work documenting the city’s past. They live in Lynchburg. Roger Tetrault ’76 MBA was inducted Helen Mundy Witt ’67, ’78 MEd Fame in 2012 and has been on three National MSBL into the US Naval Academy Distinguished was the speaker at Lynchburg Championship teams. Garland is retired after twen- Graduate Program in March for significant College’s Snidow Chapel for the ty-six years as a teacher and administrator in Fairfax contributions to the nation, the Navy, and annual Martin Luther King Jr. County Schools. He lives in Lovettsville, Va. the Naval Academy. There are roughly fifty celebration. She was also the living Distinguished Graduates selected from Susan Braun Payne ’68, ’73 MAT retired last year recipient during LC’s Commence- an alumni base of approximately 40,000 from Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, ment 2013 of the honorary doc- N.C., as dean of college and career readiness after and only three to four inductees a year. tor of education degree. She lives twenty-six years of service. She moved to North Roger’s nomination package was prepared by in Madison Heights, Va. See her story on page 30. Myrtle Beach, S.C., in December 2012. Admiral Hank Chiles and supported by letters of recommendation from Admiral Bruce Garland Cooper Jr. ’68 was Joan Fitzgerald Foster ’69, ’70 Demars (former commander, Naval Reactors), inducted into the Loudoun Valley MAT, ’85 MEd, was the recipient the Honorable Sean O’Keefe (former Secre- High School Athletic Hall of Fame of the honorary doctor of in 2012. He played baseball and humane letters degree from tary of the Navy and NASA administrator), basketball for the school before Lynchburg College at Com- and the Honorable Joe Reeder (former coming to LC, where he played mencement 2013. Additionally, Undersecretary of the Army). Admiral Chiles baseball and served as captain she received the 2013 Elizabeth wrote, in summary, “Roger remained stead- during his senior year. He was M. Forsyth Award, named in fast to his extraordinarily high principles named the Dixie Conference First Team All-Academic honor of the founder of Miriam’s House, during despite great personal and professional risk. Centerfielder in 1968. He served as baseball coach at an annual luncheon in May. Miriam’s House, His many accomplishments and leadership three high schools and continued to play baseball for located in Lynchburg, Va., seeks to end the cycle qualities exhibited on active duty, as an the Men’s Senior Baseball League (MSBL). He was of homelessness of women and children. Joan and industry executive, supporting missions of also inducted into the (Washington) DCMSBL Hall of her husband, Robert ’69, live in Lynchburg. great national importance for the Submarine Force, Army, and Marine Corps armor, the turn-around and establishment of strong ethical values at McDermott International, and at NASA (pro bono) attest to the hard work, keen intellect, and high moral stan- dards all USNA graduates should embody. Westover Specifically, in the mid-1970s he built the alumni society weekend 2013 team at Naval Nuclear Fuels Division, Bab- photo gallery cock and Wilcox, that revolutionized the production of naval reactors to a modern see more of the weekend at standard utilized today, overcoming many www.lynchburg.edu/fall2013 severe technical challenges and ultimately saving the country billions of dollars.”

40 LC magazine Fall 2013 Ronald “Ron” Mulliken ’82 was the speaker for LC’s 2013 Commencement. Ron is the vice president of sales for the marketing company, Marchex Inc., based in Seattle. He works in New York City and lives in Darien, Conn.

Roseanna Spangler Mitchell ’86, a nurse at Virginia Baptist Hospital in Lynchburg, Va., was recently recognized for being a nationally certified nurse. She lives in Spout Spring, Va.

Kimberly Bausum-Brown ’88 earned a master’s degree in literacy and culture from Longwood Uni- versity in 2008. She works at the Office of Special Education in Chesterfield County (Va.), where her focus is on literacy. She works to ensure quality core instruction as well as specialized instruction. Kim lives in Richmond, Va. 90s Gloria Cabble Preston ’85, ’98 MEd, ’02 MEd and her husband, Donald, were recipients of Lynchburg’s 2013 Mayor’s Classes of ’93 and ’98 in Reunion Award of Excellence. Gloria is director of student services for Lynchburg City Schools and Donald is a B&W retiree. They were recognized for their many years of community volunteer work on behalf of children. The couple resides in Lynchburg, Va. October 18-20, 2013

Curtis Shoch ’94 was promoted to national sales Cogswell College in Everett, Wash. In 2003, he director for Inland Securities Corporation. Curtis is retired and moved back to his native country, Swit- responsible for the sales team of external whole- zerland, where he resides and tutors English, math, salers, internal wholesalers, and a business develop- and physics. ment team. Inland Securities is the exclusive dealer/ John “Jack” Hobbs ’78 has accepted a top executive manager for real estate investment programs position with Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. (SBS), offered by Inland Real Estate Investment Corpora- the largest publicly traded Hispanic-controlled media tion. Curtis has been with Inland since 2000 and and entertainment company in the U.S. It owns and lives in Kennesaw, Ga. operates twenty radio stations located in various large Hispanic markets. The company has four delivery channels — television, radio, digital, and in-touch Patsy Warren ‘75 MEd, Anne Gibbons, associate chaplain concert. Jack lives in Coppell, Texas. of the College, Patsy’s two daughters Nancy Warren Sehn ‘77 and Ginny Warren Garvic ‘73, and Ed Polloway, Roger Ward ’78 has been appointed manager of the vice president for community advancement, attended the Timken Company’s Keene, N.H. plant. He joined Student Center expansion groundbreaking April 27. Timken in 2005 and has worked in the Altavista (Va.) Bearing Plant and the St. Clair Plant in Eaton, Ohio. 70s Classes of ’73 and ’78 in Reunion 80s October 18-20, 2013 Classes of ’83 and ’88 in Reunion October 18-20, 2013 David Thomasson ’70 has published his first novel, The First Impression, a mystery available in paperback William “Billy” Gordon ’80 MEd was inducted and Kindle editions. A man is framed, his life ruined, into the Waynesboro (Va.) High School Athletic Hall and then the twists begin. David is a freelance writer of Fame. He graduated from Waynesboro High in in Washington, D.C., where he lives. 1962 and then attended Staunton Military Academy Andreas Richter ’71 MS moved to Seattle after before receiving his BS from Virginia Tech in 1968. graduation in 1971 to pursue his PhD in laser After completing his MEd in counseling at LC, he Southpaw, the Lynchburg Hillcats baseball team mascot, optics and electrical engineering, which he com- has been the admissions coordinator at Centra in and President Kenneth Garren at the Daura Gallery pleted in 1987 at the University of Washington. He Lynchburg, Va., for twenty-three years. Billy resides opening reception of “Field of American Dreams: A Journey has since worked for Boeing and taught at Henry in Lynchburg. Through the History and Culture of Baseball.”

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Nissa Banks Glover ’97 received the Exceptional Ft. Belvoir, Va. In 2011, he successfully relocated the Education Teacher of the Year Award for 2012 at US Army Ordnance Museum, the largest in the history Cosby High School in Midlothian Va., where she of the military branch, and received the Department Mediterranean teaches special education. Nissa taught for eight of the Army Achievement Medal for Civilian Service. years at the elementary school level before moving Jason resides in Chester, Va. Antiquities to the high school level. She teaches a writing class Julia “Julie” Beyer ’06, ’08 MEd is a certified read- through her church’s seminary, which awarded her Luxury Cruise ing specialist for K-12. She is a teacher at Ridge an honorary doctorate of Christian studies. Nissa has High School in Basking Ridge, N.J. She bought her been teaching since she graduated and resides in first home in October 2012 in Chatham, N.J. MAY 21-29, 2014 Midlothian, Va. Stephanie Moehlenkamp ’06 MEd was named the 2013 School Counselor of the Year by the Lynchburg Venice | Dubrovnik | Kotor | Corfu (Va.) Area Counselor Association. Stephanie is a guid- Zakynthos | Santorini | Athens 00s ance counselor at Rustburg (Va.) Elementary School Classes of ’03 and ’08 in Reunion and lives in Evington, Va. October 18-20, 2013 Camilla Wilson McCoy ’09 MEd passed the Join President Kenneth R. Garren National Clinical Mental Health Counseling Examina- and his wife, Sheila on a Mediterranean Amanda Connors ’01 is pursuing her master’s tion (NCMHCE) and received her license in December cruise to historic ports of call. degree in nurse anesthesia at Northeastern University 2012. She is the director of operations for Virginia • 7 nights aboard Oceania Cruises’ in Boston, Mass. After completion of this competitive Amateur Sports, where she was an intern for three two-year program, she will be a Certified Registered summers. She lives in Bedford, Va. Insignia, including all meals and Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA). Amanda is a registered entertainment on the ship nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston • 2-for-1 cruise fares with free airfare and was recently engaged while on vacation in and $1,000 savings per stateroom Costa Rica. She lives in North Andover, Mass.

• Discount fares still available at press Jennifer Smith ’01 MEd was selected in May as 10s time—call Go Next for information principal of Goochland Middle School in Goochland, Zoe Eisenberg ’10 has written a screen play for a Explore the revered antiquities of the Va. She brings with her sixteen years of experience in education, with five years at the higher education new film, Courtesy Flush, a feature film set in Hawaii. Mediterranean as you sail to ancient A conflicted young couple, a polyamorous trio trying ports on the legendary coasts of Italy, level at three private colleges in Virginia. She lives in Richmond, Va. to dig a hole, and a mysterious recluse spin a tale of Croatia, Montenegro and Greece aboard love, murder, and madness. Zoe lives in Bridgeport, the elegant Insignia. Let medieval Kelly Bozman Garrison ’04 had an article, “Col- Conn. ruins, storied cultures and old-world laborative Quality Improvement Efforts Yield Success charm bring ancient times to life on this for Asthma Patients,” published in the spring issue Thomas A. Field ’11 MEd won the American incredible voyage. of the North Carolina Medical Journal. Kelly is quality Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA) improvement manager at Northwest Community Foundation Dissertation Research Award in June. Go Next: 800.842.9023 or 952.918.8950 Care Network in Winston-Salem, N.C., and is respon- The award recognizes a student whose dissertation www.GoNext.com sible for overseeing improvement in primary care for research furthers knowledge of clinical mental health 150 practices in seven counties. She and her husband, counseling. The $1,000 award is designed to assist www.lynchburg.edu/alumnitravel John ’03, live in Pfafftown, N.C. doctoral students with research costs in accredited 800.621.1669 or 434.544.8293 counseling programs. Thom, a National Certified [email protected] Jason Powell ’05 has accepted the museum curator Counselor, is currently a PhD candidate at James position for the US Army Center for Military History at Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va.

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Kathryn “Kara” Barclay ’12 is a mounted offi cer for the New York City Department of Parks and recreation. she patrols and protects Central Park. Kara’s main partner is a black Percheron named Monte. she resides in Darien, Conn. HORNET

charity Waldron ’11 is the director of operations sarah Phillips ’02 to kelly Martin on May 18, 2013 for Virginia amateur Sports, organizers of the Com- at the historic Jasmine Plantation in new kent, Va. PRIDE monwealth Games of Virginia, where she previously The couple will be honeymooning in Croatia in Sep- worked as an intern. She will receive her master’s tember. Sarah is employed by Capital one, and kelly degree in sport administration in December from is an associate at Tronfeld West and Durrett in rich- East Tennessee State. Charity lives in Bedford, Va. mond, Va., where they also live. each molly barkman ’12 is the outreach coordinator michael ranson ’03, ’06 med to kelly henley on $4.15 at the Cacapon institute in high View, W.Va. The Jan. 19, 2013 at Mary’s Cottage at Falls Creek in mission of the institute is to protect rivers and water- Greenville, S.C. a cocktail hour followed at Smoke sheds through science and education. Molly works on the Water before the dinner reception at The Lazy hOrnEt FOr LiFE throughout the eastern panhandle of West Virginia Goat. The couple lives in Greenville, where Michael outside application decal and lives in Winchester, Va. works as the assistant baseball coach for Furman University and kelly is a sales and events manager at LYnChBurg COLLEgE 1.5 x 15.5 inches justin ferrell ’12 is the business development Table 301. outside application decal coordinator for the Physical Therapy and Sports Performance division of Bon Secours in Motion ellen Konikowski ’04 to Scott hartwell on oct. 13, LYnChBurg ALuMni 1.5 x 15.5 inches Sports Performance. he continues to be involved 2012 in hague, n.y. The couple resides in Mount outside application decal with Virginia Beach Field house, handling market- Tabor, n.J. ing and sponsorship. Justin lives in Virginia Beach, Va. Decals for every sport and even allison clarkson ’07 to Tim Lindy on Dec. 31, 2012 Mom and Dad also available! at Belmont Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in roanoke, Va. The wedding party included marsha Order online at marriages clarkson burton ’04, matron-of-honor, and ellen www.lynchburg.edu/CampusStore Parks smith ’07, bridesmaid. The couple lives in Click mail order catalog on left menu bar and select brooke connors ’00 to Charles “Charlie” Mummert Lynchburg, Va. the “decal” category. All major credit cards accepted. on Sept. 1, 2012 at Wentworth By The Sea Country elizabeth skalski ’08 to James Lowe on april 21, Club in rye, n.h. The couple resides in naples, Fla., 2012 in Baltimore, Md., where they also reside. The where Brooke works as a realtor at John r. Wood couple honeymooned in California and hawaii. and Charlie works for arthrex, a global medical LC Campus Store device company. Hours of operation: Weekdays 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 434.544.8241 for mail orders

Fall 2013 LC MAgAziNE 43 Jessica “Jessie” Rossiello ’10 to Paul Robertson ’10 Allison Clarkson ’07 to Tim Lindy

Michael Ranson ’03, ’06 MEd to Kelly Henley Michelle Dillon ’12 MEd to Christopher “Chris” Trent Smith. Brooke Connors ’00 to Charles “Charlie” Mummert

Sarah Phillips ’02 to Kelly Martin Ellen Konikowski ’04 to Scott Hartwell

44 LC magazine Fall 2013 Are You a Jessica “Jessie” Rossiello ’10 to Paul Robertson Feb. 1, 2013. He joins big sister Nina, 2. The family ’10 on Aug. 18, 2012 on the beach in Virginia Beach, resides in Columbia, S.C. Va. Kristin Rossiello ’13, Stephanie Harms ’09, US Military To Amanda Kennedy Margelot ’05 and husband and Michael Stultz ’09 were among the wedding Joe, a daughter, Mia Cassidy, born Nov. 13, 2012. party. Paul graduated in May 2013 with his JD The family lives in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Veteran? from the University of Richmond, and Jessie graduated in May 2012 with her MS from Virginia To Carla Burnette Wenzel ’06 and husband Tim, a Commonwealth University. The couple lives in daughter, Mia Elaine, born Sept. 13, 2012. She joins Richmond, Va. big brother Evan, 3. The family resides in Upperco, Md.

Sara Veazey ’11 to Clyde Harkrader Jr. ’09 on To Allison “Ally” Datz Davis ’09 and husband Dec. 29, 2012. The couple met at LC in the Concert Caleb, a son, Liam Bruce, born Feb. 19, 2013. Ally is Choir and currently resides in Roanoke, Va. the assistant director of alumni relations at LC, and the family lives in Lynchburg. Michelle Dillon ’12 MEd to Christopher “Chris” Trent Smith on May 4, 2013 at Sandy Ridge Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, Va. Included in the wedding party were Steven “Steve” Smith ’86 MAd, the In Memoriam best man and Chris’ father, and David Smith ’11, a groomsman. Ben Updike, who received his teaching Edna Large Mathis ’32, Dec. 1, 2011 certificate from LC, was also a groomsman. The Annie Jones Cardwell ’38, Jan. 11, 2013 couple honeymooned in Riviera Maya, Mexico, at Harold Caldwell ’39, Jan. 29, 2011 the Valentin resort. Michelle is a clinician for Harvest Outreach Center, a nonprofit counseling agency Mary Jane Kuhlmann Hawkins ’39, Jan. 21, 2013 benefitting children and adolescents in the Campbell Virginia Ports Odor ’39, Feb. 24, 2013 County area of Virginia. Chris is currently enrolled in Virginia Vaynes Villani ’39, Jan. 6, 2013 the doctor of physical therapy program at LC. The Gwindolyn “Gwin” Board Phillips ’40, July 30, 2012 couple lives in Gladys, Va. Nell Kegley Beasley ’41, Jan. 20, 2012 Joseph “Joe” Blackburn ’41, May 10, 2013 Edward Norment ’41, June 18, 2012 New Arrivals Charles “Charlie” Weaver ’41, Nov. 9, 2012 Mary Fazzi Younger ’41, Nov. 16, 2011 To Daniel “Dan” Delp II ’92 and wife Brooke, a son, Worthy, born Jan. 7, 2013. He joins big N. “Gordon” Cosby ’42, Mar. 20, 2013 brother Rex and big sister Willow. The family lives Esther Gottschall ’42, Jan. 18, 2013 in Wytheville, Va. Morris Lambdin ’42, April 1, 2010 To Elizabeth “Liz” Blackwood Troxler ’92 and Charles “Chuck” Hundley ’43, Feb. 26, 2013 We would like to husband Mark ’93, a son, Jacob, born Jan. 18, Gay Morrow ’43, Jan. 10, 2013 2013. He joins big sisters Jessica, 19, and Madison, Dorothy “Dotty” Collins Carswell ’44, Dec. 30, 2012 honor you in our 17. The family lives in Cranford, N.J. Carolyn Minnick LaRoque ’44, Mar. 28, 2013 Annual Veterans Day To Candace Dell’Accio Hammonds ’97 and hus- Mary Jo Baker Baldridge ’45, Jan. 1, 2013 band Bradley “Brad” ’98, a son, Aidan Lee, born Mary Carol “Mac” McCaleb Ferguson ’45, Ceremony Program Aug. 6, 2012. He joins big brother Ryan, 2. The April 25, 2013 family resides in New York City, N.Y. Davis Ashwell ’46, Dec. 10, 2010 To Dana Smith Woody ’00, ’12 MSN and husband Roberta “Bobbie” Terrell Jarvis ’46, May 3, 2010 David ’00, a daughter, Liza Grayce, born March Mary “Betsy” La Prade Knowland ’46, H November 11, 2013 H 24, 2013. She joins big brother Lucas, 7, and big Aug. 30, 2011 sisters Lainey, 5, and Lauryn, 3. The family lives in William “Bill” Thomas ’46, Mar. 28, 2013 Appomattox, Va. William “Fleming” Browning Jr. ’47, Nov. 1, 2011 To Timothy “Tim” Key ’02 and wife Melanie, a son, Corrine “Carolina” Holloway Smith ’47, Brady Christopher, born Dec. 28, 2012. The family May 27, 2010 Please send us your branch of service, lives in Palmyra, Va. Morris “Jack” Campbell ’48, Jan. 31, 2013 rank, current status, and email address. To Stephanie Brinegar Vipperman ’02 and hus- Walter Ridgway Jr. ’48, Feb. 23, 2013 [email protected], 434.544.8293, band Jason, a daughter, Kendra Michelle, born Jan. Mary Jane Holdren Cross ’49, Sept. 20, 2012 or 800.621.1669 25, 2013. The family resides in Stuart, Va. Gladys Lanum Looney ’49, Jan. 27, 2013 To Erika Sherman Wilson ’03 and husband Nancy Edwards Franzen ’50, May 21, 2013 Christopher ’03, a son, Rowen Christopher, born Robert Gober Sr. ’50, Feb. 9, 2013

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chase hoadley irvine ’50, May 6, 2013 jean hilton Wilson ’61, Feb. 10, 2013 Douglas hudson ’75, May 14, 2013 robert “rob” martin sr. ’50, Jan. 13, 2013 george brooks ’62, May 13, 2013 guy smith ’77 med, Feb. 9, 2013 jean huff Page ’50, Sept. 30, 2010 lorne “neil” black ’63, June 13, 2013 robert Kilgore ’78 mba, april 4, 2013 William Wood ’50, Jan. 22, 2013 “ann bruce” tinsley cheatwood ’63, Jan. 29, 2013 scott mcgahan ’78, May 7, 2013 george fawcett iii ’52, Jan. 20, 2013 sharon tedrow latham ’63, nov. 22, 2011 Patricia “Dale” burks turpin ’78, april 8, 2013 henryetta Pritchett johnson ’52, Jan. 28, 2013 gail Wilkinson ’65, May 6, 2013 milton branham ’79, Mar. 8, 2013 earl martin ’52, Feb. 22, 2013 Kemper beasley jr. ‘66, May 5, 2013 robert “skip” owen jr. ’79, May 28, 2013 james martin ’52, May 22, 2013 Dan burnett ’66, May 21, 2013 mary “bernie” Parish ’85, Jan. 29, 2013 roy foutz ’53, May 12, 2012 g. “russell” hunt ’66, June 3, 2013 christopher bucko ’87, Jan. 27, 2013 Phyllis Williams holdway ’53, July 26, 2012 c. “bruce” middlebrooks ’66, May 14, 2013 laura “beth” mahan mulford ’88, Feb. 11, 2013 betsy booker avis ’54, Jan. 28, 2013 c. franklin “frank” mcPhatter ’68, May 30, 2013 james stern ’90, Jan. 3, 2013 briskel “b.b.” baird ’54, May 13, 2013 robert lyles jr. ’69, May 27, 2013 jerry Peverall ’93 med, ’00, Jan. 31, 2013 W. “nolan” teague ’55, Feb. 2, 2013 john mcKee jr. ’69 med, april 14, 2013 richard Pingley iii ‘97, april 26, 2013 mildred hines thomas ’55, Mar. 3, 2013 David smiley ’69, May 27, 2013 evorial mccray ’99, June 14, 2013 elwood mccormick ’56, april 24, 2013 linwood “lin” Daniel jr. ’70, June 17, 2013 Doris “Dot” minix speierman ’56, april 9, 2013 cecil “Wayne” gibson ’70, May 25, 2013 in sympathy robert “bob” taylor jr. ’56, Feb. 3, 2013 Daniel “Dan” herncall ’70, Mar. 12, 2013 george “ed” buck ’57, Mar. 17, 2013 luther Wright ’70, april 13, 2013 maury hundley jr. ’38, brother, Feb. 26, 2013 samuel “sam” lillard ’57, Jan. 14, 2013 roberta “robin” james fort ’71, Dec. 2, 2012 jayne Wiebel stouffer ’42, husband, Jan. 15, 2011 thomas “tommy” george ’58, Jan. 27, 2013 john chewning ’72, May 21, 2013 betsy ratcliffe coleman ’47, husband, Feb.12, 2013 William “bill” runkle ’58, Jan. 12, 2013 beulah “bea” markham gilbert ’72 med, Donald “Don” lee ’48, wife, June 28, 2012 joseph fuller motley ’59, Mar. 17, 2013 Feb. 18, 2013 faye thomas eagle ’49, husband, Mar. 26, 2010 george Pace sr. ’59, Feb. 15, 2013 charles stokes ’72, June 14, 2013 Kathryn harper easley ’49, husband, May 12, 2005 Dottie Duke hendrix ’60, Feb.18, 2012 gerald “jerry” brooks ’73, Feb. 20, 2013 e. “leon” looney ’49, wife, Jan. 27, 2013 carol bevell chambers larmon ’60, June 14, 2013 james “jimmy” Diuguid ’74, april 8, 2013 jean Wood ’50, brother, Jan. 22, 2013 r. “lanier” clance ’61, april 16, 2013 Patricia ferguson jordan ’74 med, april 1, 2013 royce Woodford teague ’53, husband, Feb. 2, 2013

We remember

Dr. D.l. “Pete” Warren, one of Grows, Voices, and america’s Promise. in 2006, he the most beloved members of the served as chair of the United Way of Central Virginia’s Lynchburg College community annual Campaign. and the city of Lynchburg, died among his numerous awards were the humanitarian March 22, 2013. he was 84. and Caring Person award from the american From 1969 through 1994 Pete Counseling association; Peace Education award took on a diverse set of roles at from the Lynchburg Peace Education Center; national LC, including professor of coun- Conference of Christians and Jews humanitarian seling and human development, dean of the school award; the Liberty Bell award from the Lynch- of education, dean of students, interim director of burg Bar association; the Career Service award church relations, and director of counselor education. from the Virginia Counselors association; and the he also served as the executive director of the Vir- George Stewart award from the Lynchburg area Pete’s Place ginia Counselors association. in august 2008 Pete Chamber of Commerce. LC trustees rebecca b. Dufour ’82 and was asked to serve as LC’s interim chaplain until June Dr. rosel h. schewel ’71 med, ’83 eds, ’00 30, 2009. in 2012, he was awarded an honorary Pete earned a Ba in religion from Phillips University, Ded and their spouses, Dr. richard DuFour doctor of humane letters by the College. a master in counseling from East Carolina University, and elliot schewel ’00 Dhl, have offered and a doctorate in counseling and higher education in 1996, Pete was elected to Lynchburg City Council from oklahoma State University. a $125,000 challenge in memory of Pete and served as mayor from 1998 to 2000. his numer- Warren to raise funds for a club and orga- ous local volunteer activities included board service Pete is survived by Patsy Warren ’75, his wife of nization room in the Student Center to be for kids’ haven, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Mental sixty-two years, daughters virginia “ginny” garvic named “Pete’s Place.” To contribute to the health association, Free Clinic, interfaith outreach, ’73 and nancy sehn ’77, seven grandchildren, and challenge grant, call 434.544.8665 or give new Land Jobs, Christmas in april, Lynchburg fourteen great grandchildren. online at www.connect.lynchburg.edu/give.

46 LC MAgAziNE Fall 2013 nancy thomas gregory ’55, brother, Mar. 28, 2013 shirley blankinship brooks ’76 med, husband, bruce cheatwood ’91, mother, Jan. 29, 2013 merle goldman ’56, wife, april 18, 2013 May 13, 2013 sharon thomas rickmon ’91, mother, Mar. 3, 2013 nancy main buck ’58, husband, Mar. 17, 2013 susan “sue” getz billett ’77, father, Jan. 19, 2013 Kevin adams ’92, mother, Feb. 16, 2013 john “johnny” carpenter jr. ’58, wife, suzanne stevens fowler ’77, mother, oct. 10, 2012 carolyn Keeling skinnell ’92, husband, Mar. 19, 2013 april 8, 2012 m. David “Dave” howard ’77, ’82 med, father, leslie “les” camm jr. ’93, father, april 12, 2013 charlie “coleman” allen ’59, wife, Mar. 31. 2013 april 7, 2013 shirley bates ’94, mother, May 10, 2013 june heier runkle ’59, husband, Jan. 12, 2013 totten avis ’78, mother, Jan. 28, 2013 Kathleen “Katie” haggerty gay ’94, father, Pauline rose clance ’60, ’12 DSc, husband, h. thomas “tom” heller iii ’78, wife, June 12, 2013 Dec. 21, 2012 april 16, 2013 june Wheat childress ’79, husband, nov. 26, 2012 teresa Patton tatlock ’94, husband, Feb. 15, 2013 harry “Pete” cheatwood jr. ’61, wife, Jan. 29, 2013 charlie allen jr. ’81, mother, Mar. 31, 2013 William “billy” strain ’95, father, april 23, 2013 Deirdre “Dee” gleason irons ’62, husband, james “jimmy” stinnett ’81, father, Feb. 18, 2013 stephanie beverly ’97, mother, May 9, 2013 January 11, 2013 elizabeth “liz” Wilhelm boothe ’82, husband, mary bartram stalling ’97 med, mother, emily chapman barron ’63, husband, Jan. 25, 2013 Feb. 8, 2013 Mar. 21, 2013 Dottie loving Diuguid ’64, ’70 med, husband, harriet taylor ramsey ’82, brother, May 2, 2013 lori Wray White ’97, father, Feb. 17, 2013 april 8, 2013 “abe” craddock mcWane jr. ’83, father, Katherine “Kathi” lockwood garnett ’98 med, edwin “ed” story ’67, brother, May 9, 2013 Dec. 3, 2012 father, May 5, 2013 carolyn allen burnett ’68, husband, May 21, 2013 randall “randy” gilbert ’85, mother, Feb. 18, 2013 brandon bryant ’99, father, Jan. 24, 2013 Denise Duke hunt ’68, ’72 med, ’86 eds, barbara morris ’85 med, mother, Mar. 20, 2013 Kathryn “Katie” skinnell helfen ’99, father, husband, June 3, 2013 eileen brunner nolan ’85, mother, Jan. 28, 2013 Mar. 19, 2013 marcia landis Dent ’70, father, Mar. 16, 2013 victoria “vicki” thomas lunsford ’86 med, melissa Dawn heller-rector ’99, ’00 mba, harold rod Pitta ’70, mother, Feb. 14, 2013 mother, Mar. 3, 2013 mother, June 12, 2013 mary Yager ’70, father, aug. 31, 2012; mother, carolyn Kittinger baker ’87, mother, april 19, 2013 regina carr stinnette ’01, father, Jan. 19, 2013 Jan. 5, 2013 joseph “joe” barry ’87, sister, Dec. 15, 2012 johari bass ’02, mother, april 15, 2013 john Phillips ’72, ’74 med, mother, July 30, 2012 Dianne hall ’87, mother, Mar. 22, 2013 Zachary “Zach” Daniel ’03, father, June 17, 2013 allan “buzzy” Weber ’72, mother, Jan. 25, 2013 amy brunner thompson ’87, mother, Jan. 28, 2013 brittney tatlock Patton ’09, father, Feb. 15, 2013 mary Kostecki rogers ’74, mother, Mar. 21, 2013 alan ferguson ’88, mother, Feb. 6, 2013 michelle Piasecki sandifer ’12, father, april 30, 2013 Patsy cravens Warren ’75 med, husband, scott Winnagle ’90, father, april 6, 2013 Mar. 22, 2013

offiCE of AluMNi rElATioNs sTAff Matt Brandon Ben Mayhew ’91, ’02 MBA Betty Howell Ally Datz Davis ’09 434.544.8293, 800.621.1669 Stay Fax: 434.544.8653 Email: [email protected] Class Notes email: [email protected] in touch! www.lynchburg.edu/alumni We have raised $6 million towards let us know when you move, change offiCE of PArENTs ProGrAMs Jan Cocke sigler ’65, Coordinator our goal of $12 your phone number (or area code!), million. 434.544.8660, 800.621.1669 change jobs, or have other major Fax: 434.544.8569 We need your help Email: [email protected] to renovate the changes in your life. www.lynchburg.edu/parents Student Center. Give today! NEWs for ClAss NoTEs www.lynchburg.edu/classnotes or [email protected]

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Fall 2013 LC MAgAziNE 47 Upcoming Events

October friday, october 18, 2013 n John P. Seamster ’92 Memorial Golf Tournament at London Downs Golf Course, Forest, Virginia. (During Homecoming Weekend)

December thursday, december 5, 2013 n Westover Alumni Society Holiday Luncheon. Come celebrate the holiday Homecoming Weekend season with friends and fellowship. Coffee hour starts at 11 a.m. with lunch Come and Join the Fun! following. East Room, Burton Student Friday-Sunday Center October 18-20, 2013 April n Classes of 1973, ’78, ’83, ’88, ’93, ’98, ’03, and ’08 will celebrate their class reunions on friday-sunday, April 24-26, 2014 campus. For more information, contact the n Westover Alumni Society Weekend Office of Alumni Relations: 434.544.8293; Classes of 1954, ’59, ’64 and ’69 will 800.621.1669; lynchburg.edu/alumni celebrate their class reunions on campus.

FEATURED EVENT n Saturday, October 19 • 1- 4:30 p.m. May Join us for a pig roast! Friday, may 16, 2014 Parking lot behind Hopwood Hall, pre- n 5 p.m., Baccalaureate Ceremony Parents & Family register for a discounted meal ticket and Weekend complimentary drink ticket to Hornet Zone. Saturday, may 17, 2014 $15 per ticket includes one plate (pork, bun, n 10 a.m., Commencement Ceremony Friday-Sunday beans, slaw, chips, cookies, soda or water) September 20-22, 2013 and one drink ticket to Hornet Zone. May 21-29, 2014 n Make your “Lynchburg College” reservation Mediterranean Antiquities Luxury Cruise featureD EVENTS for October 18 and 19 NOW! See our ad on page 42. It’s not too late! n Friday, September 20 The Wind Symphony and Orchestra presents • Courtyard by Marriott, near River Ridge Mall, 4640 Saturday, may 24, 2014 Murray Place, 434.846.7900. Use code LCHO. ($99-109) “The American Experience, Reflections of n William H. Shellenberger Scholarship Democracy.” Tickets required (no charge), • Craddock Terry Hotel and Event Center, Golf Tournament at London Downs Golf 434.544.8344. Sydnor Performance Hall, SOLD OUT! downtown, 1312 Commerce Street, Course, Forest, Virginia. 7 p.m. 434.455.1500. Mention LC Homecoming Weekend. ($189-219) n LC Concert Choir. Snidow Chapel, 8:15 p.m. • Holiday Inn Downtown, 601 Main Street, n For more information on these events, Saturday, September 21 434.528.2500. Includes continental breakfast. Art faculty will give a talk at the Daura Use code YNC. ($89-109) contact the Office of Alumni Relations: Gallery, “Creative Conversations,” from 434.544.8294; 800.621.1669; • Class of 1973 at Hilton Garden Inn, near Lynchburg Noon to 2 p.m. Airport, 4025 Wards Road, 434.239.3006. Mention LC lynchburg.edu/alumni For more information, contact the Office Class of 1973. ($114) of Parents Programs: 434.544.8660, For updated information and web addresses, visit 800.621.1669, [email protected], or lynchburg.edu/alumni/lodging-and-travel lynchburg.edu/parents

48 LC magazine Fall 2013 STUDENT-CENTERED

Lynchburg College is focused on giving our students every opportunity to succeed, whether it’s world-class academic programs and faculty or a great work space. Your Annual Fund gift will support this year’s greatest needs: the Student Center expansion, scholarships, learning resources, athletics, and more.

Be a part of our success. Give online today at www.connect.lynchburg.edu/AnnualFund or call 800.621.1669 or 434.544.8289.

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