COLLEGE MAGAZINE BEREA COLLEGE MAGAZINE 1 PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2016 President’s Report 2016 INVEST in LIVES CONTENTS BEREA COLLEGE MAGAZINE VOLUME 87 Number 2 of GREAT President’s Report 5 President’s Message PROMISE 8 Report on Financial Position Honor Roll of Giving 12 Vice President’s Message 13 John G. Fee Society 13 Founders’ Club Your gift to the Berea Fund helps our 16 President’s Club students graduate with little or no 19 Great Commitments Society debt. For them and their families, it’s a 23 Alumni by Class Year 33 Class Ranking gift that means so much. 35 Student Contributors 40 Honorary Alumni 40 Faculty and Staff Thanks to your gift, David is building a 41 Friends of Berea life after college by serving as an Army 73 Memorial Gifts specialist while pursuing his master’s 76 In Honor of Gifts degree. David is just one of 1600 78 Bequest Gifts examples of how you are changing lives Anna Skaggs ’17 78 Corporate Matching Gifts The fall foliage against a beautiful October sky makes a perfect frame for Phelps 78 Gifts from Foundations, Corporations, Stokes Chapel. every day. and Organizations Departments Make a gift by phone, mail, or visiting 81 Class Notes our website. 83 Passages Front Cover: We think the Quad is beautful in any season, but there really is something special about fall on campus. Photo by Anna Skaggs ’17. 800-457-9846 www.berea.edu/give Berea College CPO 2216 Berea, KY 40404 David Orr ’16, and his son, Emerson BEREA COLLEGE MAGAZINE 3 Lyle D. Roelofs, President Board of Trustees Glenn R. Jenning Honorary Trustees Harold L. Moses, Chair of the Board Shawn C. D. Johnson John Alden Auxier Scott M. Jenkins, Vice Chair of the Nancy Lampton James T. Bartlett Board Brenda Todd Larsen Martin A. Coyle Vicki E. Allums Eugene Y. Lowe, Jr. Alice R. Manicur Celeste Patton Armstrong Betty H. Olinger Elissa May-Plattner Charlotte F. Beason Douglas M. Orr Thomas H. Oliver Vance Blade Thomas W. Phillips David S. Swanson Dear Berea Nancy E. Blair William B. Richardson R. Elton White Anne Berry Bonnyman Dennis R. Roop Dawneda F. Williams Joseph John Bridy Charles Ward Seabury, II Scott Caldwell David E. Shelton David H. Chow David B. Sloan COLLEGE MAGAZINE Charles D. Crowe Tyler S. Thompson M. Elizabeth Culbreth Rocky S. Tuan Alumni and J. Morgan ’91, Director of Publications John E. Fleming Robert T. Yahng Donna S. Hall Stephanie B. Zeigler Bernadine Douglas, Vice President, Bob Hawks Alumni and College Relations Emily A. Parrish, Senior Graphic Designer College Administration Jeff Amburgey, Vice President for Finance Contributing Writers: Friends, Chad Berry, Academic Vice President and Dean of the Faculty Bernadine Douglas, Lyle D. Roelofs Virgil Burnside, Vice President for Labor and Student Life Huapei Chen, Chief Information Officer Contributing Photographers: Bernadine Douglas, Vice President for Alumni and College Relations Caleb Coffey ’17, Jonathan Kemp ’19, I am pleased to present the 2015-2016 Derrick Singleton, Vice President for Operations and Sustainability Chris Radcliffe, Anna Skaggs ’17, Linda Strong-Leek, Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Sarah-Anne Soares ’18, Tim Webb, President’s Report and commend it for David K. Tipton, Dean of Labor Crystal Wylie ’05 Judge B. Wilson II, General Counsel and Secretary your review. CORRESPONDENCE AND REPRINTS If you have comments, questions, or suggestions Alumni Executive Council 2015-16 for the Berea College Magazine or would like The Report contains information about our Patricia Campbell Estepp ’77, President, Virginia information about reprinting any article appearing Andrew Hamilton ’96, Past-President, Texas in the magazine, please contact: strong financial position and data pertaining David Cook ’85, Past-President, Kentucky Jenniver Hale Stafford, ’92, President-Elect, Kentucky Editor, Berea College Magazine to our sources of fiscal support. These pages Lyle D. Roelofs, President of Berea College, Kentucky Berea College Jackie Collier ’80, Associate Vice President for Alumni Relations, Kentucky CPO 2142 are wonderful documentation of the Beverly Clay Crabtree ’81, Member of Executive Committee, Ohio Berea, KY 40404 dedication and generosity of the many, Members-At-Large Tedd Masiongale ’88, Georgia AT YOUR SERVICE many people who have partnered with us Betty Jean Hall ’68, Virginia Frank Polion ’90, Kentucky Web: www.berea.edu Destiny Harper-Lane ’06, Virginia Evan Robinson, ’08, North Carolina Mail: CPO 2203, Berea, KY 40404 to support the mission of Berea College as Don Hodges ’00, Ohio Deborah Byrd Thomas ’80, Alabama Phone: 859.985.3104 Toll free: 1.866.804.0591 Adam Hardin ’97, Ohio Peter Thoms ’55, Michigan Fax: 859.985.3178 expressed in its eight Great Commitments. Amy Burkhardt Harmon ’99, California Eizabeth Mullins-Robinette ’82, Indiana Magazine: www.berea.edu/magazine David G. Harrison ’00, Kentucky Tamika Weaver ’97, Georgia Berea truly thrives only because of this Katherine Silver Kelly ’91, Ohio Ballard Wright ’59, Kentucky Berea College Magazine (ISSN 1539-7394) is partnership, which is something we never published quarterly for Berea College alumni and Alumni Trustees friends by the Berea College Integrated Marketing forget. The report also lists the names of the Celeste Patton Armstrong ’90, Alabama & Communications Department. Periodicals post- Charles D. Crowe ’70, Tennessee age pending at Berea, KY, and additional mailing Berea College Board of Trustees and national Robert F. Hawks ’77, Georgia offices. Betty Hyatt Olinger ’69, Kentucky alumni leaders, all of whom lend their time, Postmaster: Send address corrections to the Berea College Office of Alumni Relations, CPO 2203, passion, professional expertise, and financial Young Alumni Advisory Council 2015-16 Berea, KY 40404. Luke Sulfridge ’03, President, Ohio Berea College is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization support to the benefit of this remarkable and Hussene Youssouf ’05, Past-President, Georgia Chris Radcliff Missy Naseman Rivera ’05, President-Elect, Ohio under federal guidelines. transformative institution. Lyle D. Roelofs, President Susan Jones ’02, Executive Vice President, North Carolina Lisa Colletti-Jones, Coordinator of Student, Young Alumni, and Volunteer Engagement Programs, Kentucky Members-At-Large Martina Jackson-Haynes ’11, Jamie Nunnery ’13, Kentucky Rashaad Abdur-Rahman ’03, Kentucky Kentucky Cory Payton ’15, Kentucky Ehis Akhetuamhen ’11, New York Justin Kindler ’05, Florida Joe Saleem, II ’08, Kentucky Beth Bissmeyer ’09, Kentucky David Kretzmann ’14, Virginia Brittany Suits ’14, Georgia Jacob Burdette ’15, West Virginia Emily LaDouceur ’04, Kentucky Katy Jones Sulfridge ’03, Ohio William E. Cook, III ’06, Ohio Ashley Miller ’05, Kentucky Djuan Trent ’10, Kentucky FSC LOGO 4 BEREA COLLEGE MAGAZINE BEREA COLLEGE MAGAZINE 5 The 2015-16 year has been one of students giving easily exceeded effort to maintain a campus fully because of the slow growth of unparalleled success at Berea all other categories of donors, equipped to provide “the best projected for the world’s financial College. The financial position of Imagine that – and I’d venture to suppose as education money can’t buy” for markets. Especially in such times the College remained strong and, well that this group is giving a leaders in the 21st century and of uncertainty, Berea’s history in fact, got even stronger. Gradu- students becoming larger percentage of their income beyond. of responsible financial planning ation rates continued to improve, donors while still than most of the rest of us! and the many prudent measures and members of the graduating on campus! By the In addition to the science It is critical, both for the needs that have been developed to class and other young alumni end of the year the building, other improvements of the many students we serve prepare for various eventualities have moved on to truly impres- to our campus facilities and and as an example to the rest are real reasons for confidence. sive careers and other next steps. Berea Patrons infrastructure are continuing. of the country, that the inspiring We thank you for your partner- This has also been a banner year numbered 827, more The renovation of Bingham and unique experiment that is ship in ensuring that continued in terms of fundraising with the than half of the Hall is complete and students Berea College continue to financial success. Berea Fund achieving an all-time are enjoying the improvements, succeed. No one can predict the record by exceeding $4,355,000 student body. and work has begun on Seabury future, and some say that real In conclusion, the Bereans on in current year support along with Hall. All projects are a part of the financial challenges await us campus again want me to strong progress on our mini- convey to you, the Bereans in campaign to provide funding for a other places across the country new facility that will house math, and even around the world, just the sciences, and nursing. April how grateful we are for your 21, 2016, featured a groundbreak- continued support and interest. ing ceremony for the Margaret Truly you are a blessing to us! A. Cargill Natural Sciences and Health Building, and, as I write this note, excavation of the site, which is north of the Danforth Technology Building, has been completed, foundations have been Lyle D. Roelofs, President poured, and steel is reaching for the bright autumn skies. The success of the Berea Fund was due in part to incredible support on campus. A student- led group, known as the Berea Patrons, joined together and [A]s I write this note, worked throughout the year to encourage one another to sup- excavation of the site, port the College and the Berea which is north of the Fund through payroll deductions. Danforth Technology Imagine that – students becoming Building, has been donors while still on campus! By the end of the year the Berea completed, foundations Patrons numbered 827, more have been poured, and than half of the student body, steel is reaching for the and the funds they gave exceed- ed $20,000.