QUEENSSUMMER 2013 THE MAGAZINE OF QUEENS UNIVERSITY OF CHARLOTTE

Rogers Hall Opens

State-of-the-art science and health building inspires with unique spaces

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Raising Their Hands Art Professor Inspires What Change Doesn’t Change by Professor Cathy Anderson Sue Ross Plans Her Giving After two years of construction, the Levine Center for Wellness and Recreation ofcially opened on August 19. BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2013-2014 Please join us this fall to cheer on the Royals as Michael Marsicano, Chair David L. Pope Donna Jones Dean ’73, Vice Chair A. Alex Porter they regain their home court advantage. Kathryn Winsman Black ’93, Secretary Tomas J. Reddin Mary Anne Boldrick Rogers Howard Bissell III David V. Singer Jan Hall Brown ’73 Caroline Wannamaker Sink Deborah Butler Bryan ’68 Michael C. Tarwater Angeline Massey Clinton EMBA ’01 Brent Trexler Kevin Collins Cynthia Haldenby Tyson Marjorie Knight Crane ’90 Ruth Anne M. Vagt ’69 Christine Louttit Crowder ’82 F. William Vandiver, Jr. Jesse J. Cureton, Jr., EMBA ’02 Manuel L. Zapata David C. Darnell Pamela L. Davies, ex ofcio Carlos E. Evans A. Derek Painter ’92, ex ofcio – Anthony Fox Alumni Association President Ophelia Garmon-Brown Joseph Vaughn ’15, Student Liaison Kathryn Taylor Grigg ’87 to the Board Carson Sloan Henline ’81 Lyttleton Rich Hollowell ’67 Life Trustees Sandra P. Levine Catherine Parks Loevner ’71 Irwin “Ike” Belk J. Michael McGuire Dorothy McAulay Martin ’59 Katie B. Morris Hugh L. McColl, Jr., Chairman Michael W. Murphy II ’95 Emeritus Bailey W. Patrick John H. Sykes ’55 Larry Polsky Virginia Gray Vance ’49 whaT’s insiDe? QUEENS MAGAZINE • Three baskeTball/volleyball courTs SUMMER 2013 EDITORIAL DIRECTOR CONTRIBUTORS • 33-meTer sTreTch pool Rebecca Anderson EMBA ’13 Cathy Anderson [email protected] Rebecca Anderson • fiTness cenTer Katie Beirne MANAGING EDITOR Sara Blakeney

• Dance & fiTness sTuDios Laurie Prince Adelaide Anderson Davis ’61 Meghann Goddard • inDoor walking Track ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER Jenn Q. Goddu MFA ’13 Paige Gialanella Melissa Hankins • einsTein bros. bagels & sTuDenT lounge KC Preslar Jennifer Johnson Patrick Lynch PHOTOGRAPHERS • banqueT hall Bob Page Kristen Hines Baker Laurie Prince Sean Busher Dana Robles • locker rooms & Training faciliTies KC Preslar Jane Williams Daniel Sutton • classrooms PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION MANAGER • meeTing space Katelyn Lauro

• offices for coaches & faculTy PRINTING ON RECYCLED PAPER: Te Queens Magazine is printed on a paper which is 10 percent post- consumer waste fber and 10 percent total recycled fber. Elemental chlorine-free pulps, acid-free and chlorine-free manufacturing conditions meet and exceed archival standards. Using 10,341 lbs. of paper for this project, here are the benefts of using post-consumer recycled fber instead We’ll be celebrating the opening of the Levine of virgin fber: Center throughout the fall. Details on special events, 26.06 trees preserved for the future including the ofcial dedication and the 2013 Royals 11,069 gal wastewater fow saved 1,225 lbs solid waste not generated Hall of Fame ceremony, will be posted on 2,412 lbs net greenhouse gases prevented www.Queens.edu. Look for more pictures and 18,458,685 BTUs energy not consumed information in the winter issue of Queens Magazine! CONTENTS

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Departments A Lens for Life SIU CHALLONS-LIPTON, OXFORD-EDUCATED 14 From the President 2 CHAIR OF THE ART DEPARTMENT, INSPIRES STUDENTS TO SEE ART AS CENTRAL TO THE Campus News 3 HUMAN EXPERIENCE

Happenings 10 By Jenn Q. Goddu

Investing in Queens 12

Alumni News 21 Raising Teir Hands Class Notes 24 WHEN IT COMES TO LEARNING, THESE 16 STUDENTS HAVE GROWN BY TAKING Parting Thought 48 OWNERSHIP OF THEIR FUTURES, EXPLORING AND SHAPING THEIR DESTINIES

By Rebecca Anderson and Jennifer Johnson SUMMER 2013 SUMMER

OnThe Crowder the Green WallCover: of the James E. and Mary Anne Rogers Science and Health Building (see pages 10-11 for more information). Photograph by Mark Herboth.

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Your Letters Te cover story of the winter 2012 issue, “A Week in the Spotlight,” highlighted student involvement at the Democratic National Convention held in Charlotte September 2012. Te magazine also included an interview with President Pamela Davies titled “Great Minds Tink,” about the university’s 2017 strategic plan.

I was so intrigued with the winter issue of our Queens magazine that I could hardly put it down. All of the articles were interesting and informative. (L. to r.) William Yates ’14, President Davies, Saray Smalls ’13 and Te story of Amanda Seagroves’ summer Michael Murphy ’95 pictured at the annual Scholars Luncheon. internship at Duke,“Exploring the Human Genome,” was particularly interesting since Dr. Venter was a recent Queens Learning Society speaker. I thoroughly Dear Alumni and Friends, enjoyed his most interesting and readable book, A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life. No doubt you’ve seen the headlines. American higher education, I enjoyed reading about our new deans and our long venerated as the envy of the world, appears to be at a new board president, and our fabulous Royals teams. crossroads. Stories about escalating costs and the rise of massive I was particularly impressed with Queens’ (perhaps) open online courses abound. Te popular press is questioning the once-in-a-lifetime interaction with the Democratic value of traditional undergraduate education. Convention held here in our Queen City. It’s clear that advances in technology have created opportunities for people to learn in new and exciting ways. And online coursework, –Rose M. Grubb Daniel ’79, Charlotte, North Carolina once considered controversial, is now widely accepted (in fact, we are launching three new online graduate degrees this fall). But here I enjoyed reading the article by Ben Jenkins about at Queens we know students develop in ways that are bigger than taking an art history class [“Making the Grade”]. the Internet. It highlights the many benefts of a liberal arts Our alumni can attest: a Queens education strengthens the education, especially from Queens. intellect, deepens interpersonal capabilities and promotes service to One of these benefts occurred for me during others. We are particularly good at fostering an intimate learning my frst year after graduation working for a public environment where professors and students engage in meaningful accounting frm. While having lunch with a client, ways. In this issue’s feature story that begins on page 16, you’ll read the discussion somehow turned to the painter Jackson about students who are shaping their dream careers through research Pollack. I am sure you all are laughing now, asking projects, summer internships and international experiences. why accountants were talking about modern art, and Tese stories explain why computers will never replace the reason now escapes me these many years later, but professors who go the extra mile, who care deeply and personally I hope I did Dr. Porter proud. None of my associates about the success of their students. Technology will continue to was familiar with him, and I was able to hold my own contribute to innovation and progress in higher education, as in in this conversation with many people signifcantly the rest of the world. But Queens will use technology to serve our more senior than I was. It allowed me to connect with mission, not to replace it. a client on more than the business at hand. No matter what profession one chooses, too Best wishes, often there can be pressure to conform to the mold. I believe the liberal arts education enables one to approach things diferently. We often think about unique, novel alternatives to problems we encounter. Pamela Davies, PhD President –Jay McBride ’92, Charlotte, North Carolina

Tell us We’d like to hear from you about the stories in the magazine. Please send your letters to QUEENS MAGAZINE what you [email protected]. Letters should be limited to 250 words and include your full name, address and class year or Queens afliation. Letters may be edited for length and clarity. 2 think! CAMPUS NEWS

Something to Cheer About WHEN SENIOR LAUREN CARTER GOT BAD NEWS LAST FALL, THE SPUNKY CHEERLEADER QUICKLY LEARNED TO “FIGHT LIKE A DIVA”

int-sized and pixie-cut—thanks me there was a 90 percent chance it was non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer of to some recent hair growth— lymphoma.” the lymph nodes. Treatment includes education major Lauren Carter Her limbs went numb. Her parents, chemotherapy. P’13 possesses the aura of an exuberant at home in Cincinnati, heard the news on Tey called a meeting with Queens sprite. Te last few months of her life, speakerphone. When the doctor asked if President Pamela Davies and Dean of however, haven’t exactly been a fairytale. she wanted to go home, she immediately Students John Downey. “What’s great “Everything happened so fast,” she knew the answer. “No way. Even before about Queens is you can have that kind says. “It was Labor Day weekend and I my parents got down here, I’d already of intimate meeting with the president realized I had a swollen lymph node in decided I wasn’t going anywhere. I of the school,” Lauren says. She told her my neck….it grew to the size of a tennis worked too hard for the past three years folks she wanted her life to remain as ball within three hours. I went to Urgent not to graduate in May.” normal as possible.“I had already made it Care. Tey sent me to Te Carters were skeptical at frst. clear to my doctors that I could only have the ER. And at the Tey didn’t see how their daughter could chemo on Fridays because that’s when ER, they told continue to go to school while fghting I don’t have class,” she recounts. “My parents were like, ‘You told them what?’” President Davies won’t forget that meeting. “Tey were so scared,” she recalls. “But, we laid out a plan, and Lauren didn’t miss a beat. She was beyond impressive.” Teachers, coaches, staf and students rallied around her with the same break-neck speed of her sudden illness. Friends wore “We Love Lauren” buttons; they collected thousands of dollars for the Lymphoma and Leukemia Society and decked themselves in that agency’s signature color. “Purple ribbons, purple tanks, purple tees,” Lauren says, smiling. “Fight Like a Diva” was spotted all over campus. At the Levine Cancer Institute, schoolmates in Queens’ nursing program often came down to sit with her after their clinicals. She maintained her 4.0 GPA. She kept cheerleading, bald-headed. She had a bone marrow test, and then showed up for bid day at her sorority. Lately she’s been searching for a teaching job in Charlotte since she graduated in May. And there’s more good news. Pumping her petite fsts, Lauren n reports, “Now I am in remission!”

SUMMER 2013 SUMMER —Melissa Hankins

Lauren Carter cheered the Royals teams this past year despite a September diagnosis of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Nothing slowed down the popular cheerleader’s enthusiasm and determination to beat her opponent. She graduated in May, cancer free.

3 CAMPUS NEWS Briefly Noted US PRESIDENT’S HONOR ROLL Queens was recently named to the 2013 President’s Higher Education

Community Service Honor Roll. Photo by Jennifer Johnson Te honor roll recognizes colleges Actor Damian Lewis is caught off-camera during a shooting for Homeland, a TV series and universities that emphasize occasionally flmed on Queens’ campus. Lewis, who plays Afghanistan veteran Nicholas community service and civic Brody, won the 2013 Golden Globe Award for best performance. involvement among their students BUSINESSWOMAN OF THE YEAR with visibly positive results. studies through online workshops Laura Schulte, president of Wells that allow them the solitude to write, EMBA RANKED FIFTH Fargo Eastern Bank, was named 2012 but the beneft of interaction with CEO Magazine has ranked the McColl BusinessWoman of the Year at the 28th professors and other writers. School’s EMBA program ffth in annual event on March 15. Schulte MUSIC ACADEMY STUDENTS North America. Te magazine looks presides over 32,000 team members TAKE NATIONAL PRIZE at faculty qualifcations and experience, throughout 14 states and the District faculty-to-student ratios and student/ of Columbia. She was chosen for her Sixteen-year-old pianists Clara Gerdes alumni input to establish rankings. exemplary leadership and commitment and Hannah Wang, students in the to both business and community. Queens Music Academy, won the HOMELAND FILMING grand prize in the senior piano duet MFA GETS HIGH MARKS If you’re a fan of Showtime’s popular category at the national fnals of the thriller Homeland, you’ve likely spotted Te MFA in Creative Writing Music Teachers National Association Queens in the background.Te Emmy program at Queens was ranked fourth competition in March. Teir teacher Award-winning show, which flms in among US low-residency programs is Paul Nitsch, Queens’ Carolyn G. Charlotte, has featured the campus in in a prestigious annual review of McMahon Professor of Music and n a number of scenes. During the second Poets & Writers magazine. Students Macavity Artist-In-Residence. season, Queens was cast to serve as spend time together in residencies on character Dana Brody’s school. campus but complete the bulk of their —Dana Robles

Sanjay Gupta Captivates Crowd “AMERICA’S DOCTOR” SHARES STORIES FROM GREATEST JOB IN THE WORLD

anjay Gupta ofered prescriptions major factor in our declining life for a healthier America to an expectancy and high incidence of heart attentive Learning Society of disease. Tat’s a big change from earlier SQueens audience on February 20 in generations when sweetness came from Charlotte’s Knight Teater. Te CNN seasonally ripe fruit. chief medical correspondent and He also spoke on the importance of practicing neurosurgeon said his goal social compassion. He told the audience is to foster conversations about living of students, community members, and more healthfully while presenting friends of Queens, “Taking care of one information that is “important, accurate another can bring us such great joy.” and hopefully actionable.” Getting the chance to do that, he Gupta addressed medical issues, said, makes him lucky. “I have one of n

QUEENS MAGAZINE particularly research into depression the greatest jobs in the world.” and obesity. Over-consumption of sugar—140 pounds annually—is a —Jenn Q. Goddu MFA ’13 4 CAMPUS NEWS

Making a Scene DYNAMIC DUO TURN THEIR ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS INTO A LEARNING LAB

ato School graduate students Rachael Balmain Sprankle ’09 and Caitlin Bower Russell ’09C share each other’s fourth grade classrooms as well as a penchant to perform in them.Tey’ve dressed up like nurses. Tey’ve impersonated rappers. Tey’ve transformed their corner of Collinswood Language Academy into a virtual junkyard. “Tat was to explore magnetism,” says Russell. “We used caution tape and wore jumpsuits. We even brought in old car parts.” Teir goal is to teach children in a way that will make a lasting efect on their lives. “To make it engaging,” Sprankle says. “We’re not the kind to lecture. We have to be moving.” Russell cuts in. “Tere’s that infamous question,” she says. “You know. ‘What did you do at school today?’ Well, we never want our kids to say, ‘Oh…nothing.’” Te super-charged role-playing and treating their classroom like a set— these aren’t stunts. Tey’re techniques, part of a complex teaching doctrine that borrows from the work of Ron Clark, an internationally-renowned teacher from eastern North Carolina Preslar Photo by KC who combines energetic teaching with Caitlin Bower Russell ’09 (front row left) and Rachael Balmain Sprankle ’09 (front row strict discipline. right) became best friends while undergraduates at Queens. Now, as fourth-grade teachers When they talk about their craft, at Charlotte’s Collinswood Language Academy, they collaborate to make education fun and they trade thoughts and fnish each relevant. In March they posed with their students for College Day, when uniforms are exchanged other’s sentences. “We have the same for T-shirts from favorite schools. background, the same experience,” Sprankle says. “We can look at each soon they decided it was time to go students just learning things we learned other, say, ‘Let’s do this!’ and we know back to school themselves. Tere was as undergrads.” it’s going to be great.” no question about where they would go. Sprankle and Russell graduated After earning their undergraduate “Queens had us feeling extremely with masters degrees in education in education degrees from Queens, prepared when we frst started May. And when they did, their fourth- they taught at diferent Charlotte teaching,” Russell says. “Tere was graders were cheering. never that moment other new teachers “Our kids know their teachers are Mecklenburg Schools. Russell SUMMER 2013 started at Collinswood, a Spanish have of ‘Oh my goodness, I have 30 students, too, and that’s important,” language-immersion school, and won kids in my classroom. What am I going says Russell. “It drives home our theme. n CMS’s First Year Teacher of the Year to do?’” Never stop learning.” award. Sprankle began teaching at Sprankle shakes her head. “In Collinswood in the fall of 2010, and grad school,” she says, “we fnd other —Melissa Hankins

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Growing Gains Exercise Sciences & Sport EIGHT NEW MAJORS PREPARE

STUDENTS FOR TOP CAREERS Interdisciplinary Sport Management Health Services Health t a time when many colleges Accounting

and universities are cutting Allied Health FINANCE back on academic programs, & Queens undergraduates are getting more

A Administration choices this year with the introduction and of eight new majors across a number of disciplines.

It’s all part of the university’s Digital Media plan to enhance its academic program and attract even more of the best and brightest students. As Provost Abiodun GÓké-Pariolá explains, the new majors play up the school’s prime position in one of the hottest cities in the South. Take the McColl School’s new accounting and fnance majors, for example. “If you consider the fact that we are located in the heart of Charlotte—the number two banking center in the country—with incredible opportunities for experiential learning, it just makes sense for us to ofer these two majors.” Te city boasts $2.3 trillion in assets, compared to $182 the two new sports-focused majors will Freedman, dean of the Knight School of billion in Atlanta and $151 billion in open doors with area teams. Charlotte Communication. “We’re not just talking Boston, reports the Charlotte Chamber is home to professional teams ranging about communication in the traditional of Commerce. GÓké-Pariolá says that from the Carolina Panthers (NFL) sense; we are training our students to be parents should expect a solid and prompt to the Charlotte Eagles (USL); it is a information analysts,” he explains. It’s return on an investment in these majors. city that likes the power of “game on.” not just the technical ability to move Four of the new majors are in the Te BS in exercise and sport sciences from platform to platform that counts. Blair College of Health. Kevin Burke, is focused on the science of exercise “We need people who can analyze that dean of the Blair College, anticipates and sport performance. Te BS in information, visualize that information sport management prepares students and tell a story about that information,” THE NEW MAJORS: for running sports organizations. But he says. Te McColl School of Business students don’t have to stay here. “Te Whether they’re operating in a BBA in Accounting sports sciences are popular across the recession or not, interpreting the times BBA in Finance country,” Burke says. while staying solvent is the driving task Te other two Blair College facing those who lead museums and Te Blair College of Health majors—one in allied health and other cultural institutions.Te new major BA in Allied Health the other in interdisciplinary health in art leadership and administration, BA in Exercise and Sport Sciences services—prepare students for a unique collaboration between the BA in Interdisciplinary Health graduate school (e.g., physical therapy College of Arts & Sciences and the Services or occupational therapy) or careers McColl School of Business, combines BA in Sport Management in health care organizations. Tese business with art for those headed into majors were strategically designed with administrative careers in the cultural Te Knight School of Communication Charlotte in mind. Te city’s two major world. “Arts leadership is a burgeoning BA in Journalism and Digital Media healthcare systems employ more than feld, particularly in metropolitan areas,” 86,000 people across several states. says Lynn Morton, dean of the College Te College of Arts & Sciences A new major in journalism and of Arts & Sciences. “In Charlotte, our BA in Art Leadership and digital media is on the cutting edge students have amazing opportunities to QUEENS MAGAZINE Administration of journalism curricula says Eric intern with local arts organizations as

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Exercise Sciences & Sport DigitalCharlotte.org THE KNIGHT SCHOOL PROMOTES DIGITAL LITERACY IN CHARLOTTE

pplying for a job, researching and Goodwill Industries of the Interdisciplinary Sport Management Health Services Health Accounting a political candidate, keeping Southern Piedmont are among the

Allied Health up with a friend in a far- partners ofering resources to create FINANCE & Aaway place—performing these tasks an “informed community.” Tis term demands literacy in online tools was key to a 2009 report issued by and networks. Tis spring, the the Knight Commission on the Administration and Knight School of Communication “Information Needs of Communities launched DigitalCharlotte.org to help in a Democracy” and describes a

Digital Media Charlotteans learn to use the power place where the information ecology

“Information is as vital to the healthy functioning of communities as clean air, safe streets, good schools and public health.” - 2009 report of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy

of digital media. It is one of several meets people’s personal and civic Knight School initiatives supported information needs. As a resource by a $6 million grant from Te John S. guide, an educational space and an and James L. Knight Foundation. arena for community-based activities, “To truly thrive in a networked DigitalCharlotte.org is designed to environment, people need the ability address the digital divide. they prepare for this type of career.” to access, analyze and engage in critical Te site ofers simple video Te new majors demonstrate thinking about the messages they tutorials, quizzes, challenges, tips and one more way Queens is elevating receive and send,” says Eric Freedman, other educational tools created by both its liberal arts and professional dean of the Knight School. “Tey also community members and by Queens programs in a city with much to ofer. need to know how to contribute to students, faculty and staf. It treats the Charlotte is home to 273 Fortune 500 their local information ecosystem.” city as a living laboratory and is one companies, including seven that are Te school is committed to raising of the frst virtual gathering spaces headquartered here. It’s at the center the digital media literacy rate of the in the United States to tailor digital of the sixth largest urban region in the greater Charlotte area and is partnering media literacy programs for a specifc United States, and manufacturing is n with community leaders and municipal community. no ghost of the past. More than 1,000 agencies. Te Charlotte-Mecklenburg manufacturers operate in the county Library, the Arts & Science Council —Bob Page and another 3,371 in the region, according to recent statistics from the Charlotte Chamber. Te healthcare and energy sectors continue to expand. Opportunities for careers, not just degrees, are strong. In the years to come, Provost GÓké-Pariolá expects to see undergraduate enrollment grow signifcantly, and with it, the faculty. More undergraduate and graduate degrees are on the way. “Tese decisions are very strategic in terms of leveraging our location in Charlotte,” n he says. —Laurie Prince

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HONORSIn the SEMINAR: Classroom MAPPING SLAVERY HONS 220

(L.-r.) Map of the world created in 1772. Slave advertisement published in the Virginia Gazette from August 13, 1767. Plan of the slave ship Vigilante, from 1822.

he frst line of the syllabus for Honors 220: suggestions that propel the research forward. Mapping Slavery asks, “Have you ever wanted to One line of inquiry took the class to the Wilson create a map?” If so, this is the course for you. Special Collections Library at UNC Chapel Hill. An T“I’m very interested in thinking about history early 20th century newspaper article, written by a former within a geographical or spatial context,” says Associate mayor of Charlotte, referenced a wagon-load of slave Professor Barry Robinson. “For this course the question boys purchased by his grandfather. Te students wanted is how can we map interesting stories about the Trans- to see if they could trace this group across the Atlantic Atlantic slave trade?” back to their starting points in Africa. Using cutting-edge geographic information systems techniques and good old-fashioned gum-shoe research, PROFESSOR: students use historical archives to uncover data and Associate Professor Barry Robinson, who joined Queens patterns that pique their curiosity. Along the way they in 2012 from Samford University, teaches history and encounter shipwrecks, slave rebellions, imperial rivalries in the interdisciplinary CORE program. His areas and more. of interest and research include late-colonial Mexico, Te starting point for their research is a massive Latin American independence, ethnohistory, historical historical archive, Voyages: Te Trans-Atlantic Slave geography, and comparative colonialism and slavery. Trade Database. Built by historians and researchers, Born and raised in North Carolina, Robinson earned a it has captured the records of more than 35,000 slave PhD in Latin American history at Vanderbilt University. voyages. Details include ship owners’ and captains’ names, He has traveled, studied and worked extensively in Latin ship origins, how many people were picked up and from America and continues to journey abroad with students where, ship destinations, and whether any passengers to conduct archival research. died on the crossing. Once an interesting pattern has been spotted—a SAMPLE READING SELECTIONS: two-decade spike in the volume of Danish slave trading, Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, David Eltis for instance—students cross reference their data with Seasonality in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Stephen D. new sources that allow them to add depth to the story. Behrendt Ultimately they map what they’ve uncovered. n Professor Robinson acts less as “the sage on the stage” www.GISFORHISTORY.org

QUEENS MAGAZINE and more “the guide by your side.”As students hone in on a line of inquiry, he provides unique reading and research —Rebecca Anderson 8 CAMPUS NEWS

Te Indispensable Man PROFESSOR KENT RHODES WINS THE HUNTER HAMILTON LOVE OF TEACHING AWARD

nglish professor Dorothy McGavran remembers the day Kent Rhodes explained Ea scientifc principle to a freshman class gathered in Dana Auditorium. Te popular biology professor called students on stage as he set up weights on a pendulum. He was about to illustrate simple harmonic motion. If the pendulum swung as predicted, no one would be hit. “Te students were to stand still and trust the pendulum to stop where the scientifc principle said it would,” McGavran recalls. Tey did and it did. It was an unforgettable experience and a compelling example of why she nominated Rhodes for the Hunter Hamilton Love of Teaching Award: “He is an expert in interactive and Professor Kent Rhodes accepting his award at the 2013 commencement ceremony. interdisciplinary teaching techniques, and he cares about reaching all of his students.” that the B she earned in the biology be an excellent scientist while looking Rhodes was named the 2013 for non-majors course—the only B to our ancient tradition for guidance on recipient of the award at Queens’ of her college career—was a price she how to live the examined life.” undergraduate commencement on May gladly paid. “It was worth every GPA Rhodes—who often bikes to 4. Selected by a committee of his peers, point that I might have lost. For the work in a plaid shirt, jeans and tennis he exemplifes the award’s criteria as a frst time since middle school, I actually shoes—has done a lot more than teach teacher who inspires student potential learned something about biology.” An biology and advise pre-med students. and who demonstrates an extraordinary English major, she is now in a master’s Bob Whalen, chair of the selection love of teaching. Te cash award is split of education program at the University committee, has known Rhodes for years between the recipient and an academic of South Carolina, a career path directly and ticks of a list of his achievements department or program selected by infuenced by Rhodes. “His love of with ease. “He’s a scientist, yet he can the recipient. Te award is funded by a teaching is contagious and it is largely walk into a classroom and teach Te gift from family members in honor of because of his infuence that I will be Illiad or the Bible. He’s always been very Buford and Frances Hamilton. entering the feld of higher education. I creative in the international program, Kent Rhodes arrived at Queens hope to one day inspire other students preparing students before trips and then in 1992 with nearly two decades of the way Dr. Rhodes has inspired me.” leading trips. He can teach about Rome; university teaching to his credit. After Te professor’s high standards have he can teach about Australia, and he can earning a PhD in developmental biology given him a reputation as a tough teacher also take them there,” he says. from Emory University in 1974, he who expects the best, yet his compassion Pausing to consider the breadth of had channeled his formidable intellect has enabled him to fnd ways to reach Rhodes’ infuence, Whalen, a professor SUMMER 2013 into teaching. If anything stands out in and inspire ordinary students. In an age of European and American history, the nominations that poured in from dominated by technology, his approach says, “Tere’s a book about George students, alumni and colleagues, it is is balanced, says Patricia Koplas, Washington, Te Indispensable Man. n his capacity for making science relevant chair of the biology department. “He Kent is our indispensable man.” while expecting top performance from demonstrates to students and the rest students. Leslie Pitman ’11 confessed of the Queens community that you can —Laurie Prince

9 H APPENINGS

Te James E. and Mary Anne Rogers Science and Health Building Standing proudly at the northeast corner of campus,Rogers Hall opened in January and bustles as the nerve center for Queens’ growing programs in the natural sciences, math and health. Along with classrooms, labs and faculty ofces, the building is also home to the Blair College of Health and Presbyterian School of Nursing. Everything about this Platinum LEED- certifed building was designed to be a “teacher of lessons.” Here are just a few of the building’s many surprises.

Sed Ministrare Tiles A series of 26 exterior tiles spell out Queens’ motto, “Non ministrari sed ministrare” (Not to be served but to serve). Each tile displays a letter from the motto and a leaf or fower of a plant whose scientifc name begins with that letter. Plants were chosen to represent the traditions of faith, science or the Carolina Piedmont.

On Refection Tis 20-foot-high COR-TEN steel sculpture anchors the Discovery Courtyard between Belk Chapel and Rogers Hall, standing proudly at the intersection of faith and science. Sculptor Robert Winkler’s works are defned by his ability to manipulate volume, mass and balance to create a sense of movement. Are they angel wings, DNA strands or something else entirely? QUEENS MAGAZINE

10 Crowder Green Wall If Rogers Hall has one signature feature, the Crowder Green Wall is it. In a nod to the science of molecular biology, this living wall features a DNA double helix pattern made of more than a Greenhouse dozen species of non-invasive fora. Colors and Controlled by computers to maintain textures change during each of North Carolina’s consistent temperature, humidity, and four seasons. Te exterior wall is one of the frst light levels, this rooftop greenhouse things seen by many visitors to Queens’ campus. serves as a living botany lab. Growth chambers simulate arid and humid environments, greatly expanding the type of research students can conduct. A Plexiglas beehive allows students to observe and monitor the colony.

Recycled Materials From the foors to the carpets to the furniture, recycled materials abound. One example? Nine hardwood trees from the building site were milled into distinctive fooring in the student lounge and the lower level event space. SUMMER 2013 SUMMER

11 INVESTING IN QUEENS

Sue Ross ’61 stays close to the water at her vacation home near Swansboro, North Carolina. In 1961, she left Queens to embark on a career in academia, shaping students’ lives. Today, whether teaching a child to waterski or lecturing at public libraries, she continues a lifelong passion of supporting the education of others.

ASUp AN You ENGLISH Go PROFESSOR AND DEAN OF STUDENTS, SUE ROSS ’61 HELPED GENERATIONS OF STUDENTS GET ON THEIR FEET. NOW SHE’S LAUNCHED A SCHOLARSHIP By Laurie Prince

on’t expect to fnd Sue Ross in the same building Ross walked to Queens, and Davidson. Before that, lounging around a retirement as a child to fetch ice for her Aunt while at Queens in the late ffties and home this summer, looking Charlotte. A block of ice for the icebox, early sixties, her plans to excel in school Dfor a canasta partner and trying to stay that is, the precursor to the refrigerator. landed her on the national Who’s Who out of the sun. No, the septuagenarian At 73, Ross is living her eighth registry—no mean feat considering will most likely be out in her new decade like all the others: she has a the many weekends she spent at Wake boat, teaching some youngster how to plan. Maybe not a cast-in-stone plan— Forest and Davidson parties perfecting keep knees to the chest, hold the rope she likes fexibility—but one with her shag dance steps. And with her between the skis and wait for the boat enough grit to maintain her priorities. estate, it’s to leave investments to the to lift the skis to the surface of the A vacation home is part of her strategy causes she values most. water. Te inland waterway in front of to stay connected to young folks. Who Years ago she named Queens in her eastern North Carolina home is a can resist a week in a charming coastal her frst handwritten will. Earlier this skier’s paradise. Around suppertime town with boats and kayaks waiting year she took advantage of the Byrum she may pop a fresh catch in the oven just beyond the door? As a young Endowed Scholarship Challenge— or, better yet, head out to the nearby woman her plan led to a doctorate part of a $20.9 million gift given by Ice House Waterfront Restaurant. in American literature followed by a Porter B. Byrum in 2011—and created

QUEENS MAGAZINE Swansboro’s family-style hangout is career in academia at UNC Chapel Hill, a scholarship at Queens. It was easy. By

12 INVESTING IN QUEENS gifting to the university the cash value Coincidentally, her Aunt Charlotte—a says Ross. “If I have a house and plenty of a life insurance policy she took out Duke graduate who came up with the of food and plenty of boats, they’ll decades ago when in graduate school, second home idea—was his frst grade come.” she doubled her initial gift. teacher’s sister. Tanks to some planning, a Seated in the alumni ofce in Terry says that even in her later youngster just might learn how to slacks and a classy sweater, with gray years, her home was a hub of activity for waterski this summer, soaking in the hair cut sporting short, she talks about Ross and her many cousins. “Charlotte late afternoon sun as it sparkles across the importance of the college years. was doing 20 sit-ups, fat on the foor, the quiet waters of Bogue Sound near “College helps you frame the great until two weeks before she died at Swansboro. questions: who you are, where you a hundred and two,” he recalls with And a college student just might came from and where you’re going,” she admiration. walk across a platform on a warm May explains. Tose questions were taken “I’m taking a life lesson from day, proudly accepting a diploma in n seriously when she was a student at her—to be in a place that’s really fun,” front of a crowd on the Burwell lawn. Queens and continue to be addressed today in Queens’ signature Core curriculum. Te school’s Presbyterian heritage provides a unique context for the legacy she wants to support. Planned Giving Can “It’s so important to make it possible for the next generation to have these Start Now opportunities,” she says. ast year the Triad Business Journal As an only child of educators, named Paul Foley ’00 to its “Forty Ross learned from an early age the Under Forty” list. Business North signifcance of a college education. Carolina says he’s among North Carolina’s Her mother began saving for it when L “Legal Elite.” Te North Carolina Super Ross was a child. “She started a little, Lawyers magazine calls him a rising star. tiny savings account at the bank that But the Winston-Salem ace in business and nobody knew about for my education— corporate law had a shaky start when he she put about $5 a month in it, so by arrived at Queens as a freshman. the time I came to college, they didn’t “I called my mom and told her, ‘Tis may not be for me,’” he remembers, have to borrow,” she says. Most of the speaking from his ofce at Kilpatrick Townsend. Worried by his lack of young women she met at Queens were preparedness, the Charlotte high school graduate knew things didn’t look from middle-class families like hers. good. Tanks to small classes, painful writing assignments, and professors College was a sacrifce and every bit who would call when he didn’t show up for class, he found his potential. “I of scholarship money helped. “I don’t came to college unprepared,” he says. “I left prepared.” After graduating in know anybody who wasn’t on some 2000, he earned a law degree from UNC Chapel Hill in 2004. “I combined kind of work scholarship or some sort the two things I liked the most: arguing and securities,” he says with a smile. of scholarship,” she points out. Tat’s An appreciation for what Queens gave him is at the heart of a decision still true today. to remember the university in his will. With a young child at home and “Tis gift is certainly consistent twins on the way, a daunting workload and civic duties, it’s not possible to with her concern for students, for make big gifts. His life is flled with pressing fnancial demands from many their growth and development,” says quarters. “At this stage in my life, with a young family, it’s difcult to make longtime friend Will Terry. Te former large annual contributions,” he explains. Planned giving is a way to give later, dean of students at Davidson College now. hired Ross in the fall of 1977 to serve Foley works every day with people who are looking toward the future; as associate dean and remains a close many of his clients manage a dizzying array of business ventures. Over the friend. He admired her strategies years, Foley has learned it pays to have a plan when assisting them. “With with students and now admires her clients and in life, I go back to Stephen Covey: begin with the end in mind.” purposefulness in retirement.

He works hard to live by those words and to help his clients do the 2013 SUMMER Evidenced by the Swansboro house, same. His estate gift will ensure others can begin with the end in mind: a n for example. “She’s the consummate college diploma. innkeeper—she loves to entertain,” he says. Like many others, he’s visited —LP the vacation house and gotten to know Ross’s circle of friends and family.

13 THE OXFORD-EDUCATED CHAIR OF THE ART DEPARTMENT INSPIRES STUDENTS TO SEE ART AS CENTRAL TO THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE in LifeBY JENN Q. GODDU

he night before Siu Challons- When she joined the department Lipton was married in full time, there were no art history 1991, she greeted guests at majors. At graduation that year, only Ta reception in what is now Withers three people walked across the stage House. She wasn’t yet working at to receive art-related diplomas. But at Queens, but remembers looking across this year’s commencement, 35 seniors the road and thinking, “Somehow that graduated from the art department, place will be important to me.” which Challons-Lipton now chairs, She later taught at Queens part completing majors in art history, time while her husband did a medical interior design, new media design and residency in Charlotte. She then studio art. traveled to England, where she studied Art history major Hannah French and Scandinavian art, and Caddell ’13 will be leaving Charlotte gained a doctorate in 19th-century art for graduate school at the University from the University of Oxford. She of Liverpool, joining other alumni trained at Sotheby’s, London, in 19th- who have entered prestigious and 20th-century decorative art. programs at the Smithsonian, UNC She had lived all over the world, Chapel Hill, and Savannah College growing up with a father working for of Art and Design. It probably helps the United Nations, and had attended that Challons-Lipton personally McGill University in Montreal, reaches out to the graduate schools Canada, for her bachelor’s and master’s where her students apply. Calling on of art degrees in Baroque art. Yet, this a student’s behalf helps communicate world-savvy art historian nevertheless how much she values her students, she felt a “strange sort of link to Queens.” says. “Tey realize that the student is After Oxford, she went to work important to you.” at the University of South Carolina. Challons-Lipton may not be the In 2005, an opportunity to come to only reason for the art department’s QUEENS MAGAZINE Queens as an associate professor of art growing success, yet her enthusiasm history made it possible for Challons- and one-on-one attention are having a 14 Lipton to follow her fate. life-changing impact on students. visitor is something I thrive on.” Tat enthusiasm for telling the story of art is shared by another of Challons-Lipton’s former students. Art is “one of the most intensely personal forms of expression,” says Catherine Carlisle ’10, a master’s student in art history at UNC Chapel Hill, who hopes to continue into the PhD program. No matter what the artist might have intended, the art will reveal cultural, societal, political, religious and economic conditions, Carlisle says. Art history, then, is “the perfect lens through which to study history.” Challons-Lipton, of course, agrees. “Te importance of art for all of us can’t be seen in a silo,” she says. “It is our history, our identity, our culture.” Something crucial to Challons- Lipton’s way of being as a professor is her experience at Oxford. Tere she learned a professor is not just an academic educator, but also a “moral tutor.” She fully embraces the liberal Siu Challons-Lipton, shown in the Max L. Jackson Gallery at Queens, has inspired a number of Queens students to enroll in graduate programs. Although her doctorate from arts notion that a professor helps Oxford University is in 19th-century art, her international experiences—including a childhood students not only learn a subject, but in Africa, Asia and Europe—inform her teaching on the universality of art. also fnd their path in life. To her, studying art can be a path It refects the life-changing undertaken by wealthy young European to just about anything. Her current impact art has had on her own life. men. Her teacher had been a student of research, which she presented in Early on, as a child traveling the one of Challons-Lipton’s mentors. March at her alma mater’s Oxford Pacifc, Africa, Asia and Europe with When she wasn’t studying, Roundtable, explores the creativity her family, she was struck by the Caddell learned to punt boats amidst fostered in an art classroom. universality of art; art represented weeping willows, explored both Bath Art students learn there is not culture and history wherever she went. and London and made a trip to Paris one straight line to follow, she says. “It was an interesting language for where she was agog with Monet’s “We talk about process a lot. It’s not me,” she says. “It’s crucial to our whole Water Lilies and wondered how to get always getting to that end result, but way of being.” the process of getting there.” Helping Queens students Tis creative and critical to translate, analyze and evaluate Art, says Challons-Lipton, thinking helps students cross that language is a welcome disciplines and take charge of challenge for Challons-Lipton. “is our history, our identity, creating a career.“If they choose Here they are much more our culture.” art history, or even if they open to discussion and the choose something else, they are Socratic approach,” she says, referring the Musée de l’Orangerie home with at an advantage,” she says. to a question-and-answer teaching her. She suggests it might “sound sort method used by Socrates. “Tey are Caddell, whose Queens internship of corny,” but after a big sigh Challons-

open to many things. You give them at the McColl Center for Visual Art Lipton describes the most rewarding 2013 SUMMER the possibility, and they will seize it.” led to a gallery staf position, aims thing about teaching as “seeing [her] Last year, Challons-Lipton to ultimately curate an art museum. students’ dreams realized.” encouraged Hannah Caddell to apply After helping Challons-Lipton Students are like a canvas whose to a summer program at Oxford. install an exhibition in fall 2011 “that “colors come out” while at Queens. Caddell was accepted, and while required a hilarious amount of efort,” Tey evolve as critics and independent there, she studied and wrote about the she realized how much she loved it. thinkers, to become not only “great art Grand Tour, the educational rite of “Figuring out where the art should historians, but also great people, great n passage through Europe traditionally go, and what story you want to tell the thinkers, and great individuals.” 15 Raising Their

HandsBY XXXXXXXXXX WHEN IT COMES TO LEARNING, THESE STUDENTS HAVE GROWN BY TAKING OWNERSHIP OF THEIR FUTURES, EXPLORING AND SHAPING THEIR DESTINIES

BY REBECCA ANDERSON AND JENNIFER JOHNSON “At Queens I’ve had PHOTOGRAPHY BY KC PRESLAR the opportunity to here’s no lack of coverage on the state feel limitless.” of higher education in today’s popular Tpress. You’ve heard it on 60 Minutes and you’ve read it in the Wall Street Journal. Our nation’s slow economic recovery, coupled with innovations in technology, has caused some to question the value of the traditional residential college experience. Gideon’s dream of becoming a doctor It’s a conversation worth having. was ignited at the age of nine. “My dad Technology can and should drive new had an accident at work,” he explains. “At ways to engage students on a journey of the hospital, I watched as the nurses and lifelong learning. But at Queens we believe doctors worked on him. I could see myself a carefully designed slate of experiences, in that role helping somebody else.” both in and out of the classroom, is the key He chose Queens because he to helping our students make the leap into wanted interaction with teachers in an successful adulthood. approachable learning environment. “My On the following pages you’ll meet professors helped me reach my potential. Alma, Gideon, Andrew, Reham, David Tey push you hard but at the end you and Raulston, all of whom chose life- look back and say ‘I didn’t know I could changing experiences. Tey raised their do this, but I did. I wonder what else I’m hands for global study that enhanced their capable of?’” understanding of the world, internships Gideon’s hard work paid of when he that led to careers and service projects that raised his hand for a prestigious summer developed their leadership skills. Along the enrichment program at UNC Chapel way they gained unparalleled connections Hill. Only 50 students were accepted. by attending a university in one of the most During the eight-week program, which important cities of the New South. Now, was designed to showcase what it’s like QUEENS MAGAZINE they’re ready to take on the world.

16 Alma Beciragic ’14 MAJOR: Environmental Science MINOR: Chemistry HOMETOWN: Charlotte, North Carolina FUTURE PLANS: Graduate school in pharmacy, toxicology or infrastructure and environmental systems

Alma was born in Croatia as a refugee after her father and pregnant mother gave up everything they owned to pay for a ticket out of war- torn Bosnia. After a tumultuous journey through Europe, her family found safe haven in Charlotte. “My parents succeeded in a new culture because they were well-educated. Tat’s what sprouted my keen interest in education,” Alma says. She spent the past several years working with the City of Charlotte on a longitudinal study to better understand recycling frequency and its relation to demographic groups. Her interest in digging into the story behind statistical data began with her frst geographic information systems class. Taught by Professor Reed Perkins, she learned that maps can tell a story. Tanks to her City of Charlotte project, she’s been a featured presenter at academic conferences and earned a coveted internship with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Maryland.

Gideon Yeboah ’13 MAJOR: Biology MINOR: Chemistry HOMETOWN: Gastonia, North Carolina FUTURE PLANS: Medical school

to become a doctor, Gideon took classes, shadowed a surgeon and pediatrician and attended medical conferences at North 2013 SUMMER Carolina State and Duke. He plans to take the MCAT this fall and hopes to attend UNC School of Medicine to become a cardiac surgeon. “It takes a professor to see the potential in you.” 17 Andrew Fuentes ’13 Andrew was accepted to three other schools but chose Queens for its inviting atmosphere and focus on MAJOR: International Studies and Dual Language global education. As a dual language and international French/Italian (double major) studies major, he earned the International Adventurer HOMETOWN: Tampa Bay, Florida Scholarship, a grant given to students participating in CAMPUS language-immersion or study abroad programs. INVOLVEMENT: Student Government Association, Pi Andrew studied abroad twice. First came a Sigma Alpha Honor Society, Pi Kappa summer in Florence, Italy, with a language immersion program. Next was a semester abroad in Australia. Phi Fraternity, honor council, Model Italy transformed him into a global citizen. “Now United Nations, theatre I know I have nothing to be intimidated by when it comes to meeting new people. Perhaps my greatest lesson was that we are all just people in the world, with likes and dislikes, things that make us tick, and reservations that could keep us from experiencing what the world has to ofer. No matter one’s appearance, nationality, language or expression, I will always ofer a friendly salutation to new faces.”

“I learned Reham Garash ’13 I can lead.” MAJOR: Biology, pre-med concentration MINOR: Philosophy HOMETOWN: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia FUTURE PLANS: Medical school

The Global Citizenship course, part of the Core Program in the Liberal Arts, inspired Reham to believe she could make a diference in the world. Students explore the world’s most pressing problems and ask themselves how a global citizen might approach resolving them. Finding a summer internship at a hospital in Sri Lanka, she worked in four diferent departments, shadowing doctors who showed her how they diagnose and treat patients. After witnessing the hospital’s poor conditions, she assigned herself an extra project: raising $4,000 to build and furnish an isolation room to help stop the spread of disease. Te money was raised and the room was fnished. “I learned I can lead a project like this; I don’t have to wait for someone else.” But her work didn’t stop there. She’s volunteered at an orphanage in the Philippines and spent another summer interning at a children’s cancer hospital in Egypt. With her scientifc mind, compassionate heart and tolerance for difcult medical situations, Reham is already establishing herself as a global citizen.

18 “My academic success is largely due to the excellent guidance of my advisor, Dr. Royden. Our meetings would frequently develop into long discussions about where my life was going.”

David proves that engagement is the key to success in college, confrming decades of research that show actively engaged students perform better academically, socially, spiritually and physically. A member of the men’s swim team, David also found time to immerse himself in extra-curricular activities and clubs. He’s uncovered leadership skills he didn’t know he had by serving in diferent roles with residence life and new student orientation and on the advisory board for the Center for Active Citizenship. Professors have played a key role. “Tey’ve helped me assess my strengths, fnd what I enjoy doing and look at potential career paths that will help me reach my personal and professional goals,” he says. For instance Professor Leanne Pupcheck, who recently completed research in the Ukraine as a Fulbright Scholar, arranged for David to stay with friends during his summer backpacking tour of Western Europe.

David Barnes ’15 MAJOR: Communication with a concentration in Media Studies MINOR: Pre-Law and Marketing HOMETOWN: Clayton, North Carolina CAMPUS INVOLVEMENT: Men’s Swim Team, Center for Active “I like the liveliness Citizenship Advisory Board, Residence and community we have Life and Orientation Board here at Queens.”

19 The Queens Experience EVERY STUDENT HAS A DIFFERENT STORY, BUT HERE ARE FIVE HALLMARKS OF A QUEENS EDUCATION:

Te Core Program in the Liberal Arts educates students for noble 1 lives, productive careers and responsible citizenship, all within a changing global community. It tackles issues through a sequence of four “Dr. Cox helped required courses taught freshman me achieve through senior year. Unique to Queens, the curriculum focuses on my goals.” incisive reading, persuasive writing and speaking, sound reasoning and thoughtful judgment.

Every undergraduate is required to complete at least one internship; Raulston Boger ’13 2most do two and many do three MAJOR: Business and Communication or more. Students gain real-world (double major) experience that prepares them to make MINOR: Ancient History the transition from college to career. HOMETOWN: Princeton, New Jersey INTERNATIONAL Global exposure has long been a TRAVEL: South Africa and Guatemala symbol of a Queens education. 3Students today have four options for international study: faculty-led study tours, semester or year abroad, foreign language immersion programs Each summer, Queens sends some of its best and brightest and international internships. business students to the rigorous, 10-week internship program at Ford Finance in Dearborn, Michigan. In 2012, thanks to the guidance of Professor Steve Cox, Raulston was one of them. At Queens we don’t live “behind She’d already interned with a local consulting frm and also the hedges.” In fact, we claim worked directly with visiting dignitaries during the Democratic 4 the entire city of Charlotte as National Convention. But Ford was her frst experience with a our extended campus. Queens students multinational corporation. take advantage of experiential learning She worked in Export & Growth, a small department where opportunities only a dynamic and she was assigned a research project on improving Ford’s global growing city can provide. revenue forecasting process. “I was calling Ford employees all over the world to learn about their forecasting processes and identify the gaps. I learned a lot about management style and the importance Te Presbyterian heritage of of communicating clearly with people you don’t know,” she reports. Queens has fostered a strong During her fnal semester at Queens, Raulston received sense of stewardship across the 5 a much-awaited job ofer. Her internships led to a highly university. Te university’s motto, “Not competitive position with Ford as a cost analyst. Raulston credits to be served, but to serve,” is central. QUEENS MAGAZINE her passionate and well-connected professors. “Dr. Cox helped me n achieve my goals.” 20 ALUMN I

Joining the Ranks KATHRYN KEETON ’08 LOVED HER UNDERGRADUATE EXPERIENCE, BUT AFTER HANGING UP HER CAP AND GOWN, SHE WONDERED, WHAT NEXT? THEN SHE STRUCK GOLD

athryn Keeton ’08 could not get the thought of Queens out of her mind after she left her campus tour back in 2003. “It was so memorable. K Kathryn Keeton ’08, left, and Gilda McGee ’03 Even as I was touring other universities my the Last Decade”—sponsors social catch up on campus. mind kept wandering back to Queens.” gatherings, networking opportunities, Ever since that frst campus tour, the fond and access to Queens events. “GOLD is memories of Queens have continued a wonderful network of young alumni, teaching her the importance of giving to grow. Whether playing board games with whom I can continue to make great back. A scholarship made it possible with fellow students in the second foor memories,” she says. for her to attend; now she supports the lobby of Wallace or asking Professor GOLD and Queens have helped university as a way of thanking those who Acheson for movie recommendations, Kathryn in her professional career. helped her receive an education. “Giving Kathryn found a community of friends Queens graduate Gilda McGee ’03, a back is my way of saying thank you. It and mentors. “Queens is a special place fellow Phi Mu sister, helped her get her also allows me to stay connected to and the professors are a driving force frst job in market research at Harris Queens and have an impact on the future behind that. Tey challenge and inspire Teeter Supermarkets. Jennifer Beasley of the university.” while encouraging students to have PMBA ’00 was a mentor at Harris Exactly what kind of impact does conversations about what they learned.” Teeter, introducing her to executive she dream about? “When you donate you After graduating in 2008 with coach Valerie McMurray MSOD ’12 are leaving a legacy, and who knows— a BA in psychology and corporate MSEC ’13. Valerie’s coaching has had a maybe someday you will see the Keeton n communications, Kathryn wanted to stay signifcant impact on Kathryn’s career as Scholarship at Queens!” connected. A special alumni program she transitioned into her current work as gave her the opportunity. GOLD— a consultant for retail development. —Patrick Lynch, Assistant Director of the acronym stands for “Graduates of Kathryn credits Queens with Annual Giving

What is GOLD? he Queens Graduates of the Queens alumni experience; you’ll fnd Last Decade (GOLD) program out there is much more to being an alum GOLDGRADUATES OF THE LAST DECADE started two years ago as a way to than a degree or giving. You can have a welcomeT and include recent graduates lasting impact on your alma mater and in the greater alumni community. future Queens alumni. Looking for a way to get involved? Special programming, opportunities to We’re excited to welcome our Join us at one of our GOLD engage with current students and career newest GOLD members, the class of events: networking events are tailored to the 2013, and hope to see you at upcoming n • Service Day needs and interests of Queens’ newest events! • Mix and Mingle / Happy Hour alumni. • Regional Chapter Events Graduates of the last decade make —Meghann Goddard, Assistant Director of 2013 SUMMER GOLDGRADUATES OF THE LAST DECADE • Student / Young Alumni up 30 percent of the entire Queens Alumni Relations, [email protected], Panels alumni base. If you graduated between 704-337-2504 • Holiday Party 2003 and 2013, you belong. Connecting Please contact Meghann Goddard through GOLD events gives you an —Patrick Lynch, Assistant Director of for dates and further information. opportunity to build relationships with Annual Giving, [email protected], others during the early stages of your 704-337-2504 21

Spring Three 2006 classmates enjoyed an evening at the home of Anne and Randy Martin for the Alumni Club of Atlanta event in February. Pictured left to right are: Katherine Bilbro, Erin Cooper and Amber Rigsby.

(left to right) Kaki Woodruff Williams ’75, President Pamela Davies, Kent Anderson Leslie ’64 and Anne Pankey Martin ’65 (hostess) enjoyed catching up during the Alumni Club of Atlanta event. President Davies shared a university Charlen Griffith Cathcart ’58 update with more than 40 alumni and guests in attendance. and Judy Berry Fouche ’65 stop for a quick photo before hearing remarks from President Davies at the Alumni Club of Charleston event in February.

Judy Moore Leonard ’67 (right) hosted a pre-game reception in February at her home in Davidson. Both Queens and Davidson alumni from the Charlotte area enjoyed dinner at the Leonards before heading to the basketball game. Pictured with Judy is Dottie McAulay Martin ’59.

A rainy night in Charleston didn’t dampen the spirits of the Charleston Alumni Club for an event at the home of Jane ’69 and Don Furtado. Pictured left to right are: Caroline Green Baarcke ’69, Kathleen McLeod Gelzer ’67, Patti Powell Evans ’74, Jane Gage Furtado ’69, and Caroline Thompson Burns ’73.

Queens alumna Donna Gordon Elyea ’85 (right) and her husband Chuck, at the Queens/ (left to right) Amy Church McMurray ’88, Ann Church Davidson reception with Queens staff member and alumna Anna

(Amy’sQUEENS MAGAZINE sister), Jared Vitez (son of Carla) and Carla Jeffords Vitez ’78 joined the Charlotte Alumni Club Drake MSOD ’12. for a reception prior to the spring Learning Society 22event. Dr. Sanjay Gupta spoke on “Medicine and the Media” at the Knight Theatre in uptown Charlotte. WINTER 2012 23

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to find 3,000 eggs! eggs! 3,000 find to

Queens 2013 Egg Hunt on Hunt Egg 2013 Queens

pauses for a quick picture quick a for pauses Courtney Huckel Carr ’02 Carr Huckel Courtney

son and his friend at the at friend his and son

with the Easter Bunny, her Bunny, Easter the with alumni, friends and children children and friends alumni,

March 23. More than 300 than More 23. March gathered on the Burwell lawn Burwell the on gathered

Beyond High Windows

Adelaide Davis.

Alumnus Award and President Pamela Davies. Davies. Pamela President and Award Alumnus

’73, Alumna Service Award, Wayne Smith, Young Young Smith, Wayne Award, Service Alumna ’73,

(left to right) Derek Painter ’92, AAB President, President, AAB ’92, Painter Derek right) to (left

Nora Tubbs Tisdale ’73, Outstanding Alumna Award, Award, Alumna Outstanding ’73, Tisdale Tubbs Nora

Sandra Levine, Honorary Alumna Award, Beth Rivers Rivers Beth Award, Alumna Honorary Levine, Sandra Curry ’63, Sed Ministrare Award, Donna Jones Dean Dean Jones Donna Award, Ministrare Sed ’63, Curry

(Back row left to right) DeAmonFrances Evans ’59, Linda Reed Alred Crews ’60 (front row) gathered to celebrate Mary Alred

Atkins ’59, Lynn Rogers Fricks ’60, Adelaide Anderson Davis ’61, Crews new book of poetry. Sue Reid ’60 Terrell and Sara Bee Craig Johnson ’57 and Mary Susan McEwen and

together for a signing and reading on March 2nd at the home of

Genie Thomas Morgan,

of 1978 stop for a quick photo during the Reunion Carol Cooper Kingsmore. Awards Luncheon. (left to

A few members of the class

right) Linda Lawrence Sizer,

Back row row Back Trang Sen.

Sara McCarthy Richardson. Sara

Jennings Wood ’57 and Adelaide Anderson Davis ’61. Davis Anderson Adelaide and ’57 Wood Jennings

Copeland ’57. Middle row: Sara Bee Craig Johnson ’57, Merrill Merrill ’57, Johnson Craig Bee Sara row: Middle ’57. Copeland Baker Deal ’57, Jean Trueworthy Batten ’57 and Carolyn Cooper Cooper Carolyn and ’57 Batten Trueworthy Jean ’57, Deal Baker Wrenn, Jewel S. Wiesinger, Lori DiCapua Gorgone, Liz Cozad, Gorgone, Liz Cozad, S. Wiesinger, Lori DiCapua Wrenn, Jewel

to right) John Horton, Jeff Demirjian, Lindsey Demirjian ’02, Lindsey Demirjian Demirjian, Horton, Jeff to right) John

’57 (front row) who spoke on her recent novel, novel, recent her on spoke who row) (front ’57

(l. to r.) Jeannie Satterfield, Evelyn Copelan Edwards ’57, Catherine Catherine ’57, Edwards Copelan Evelyn Satterfield, Jeannie r.) to (l. Class of 1957 members gather with classmate Dr. Sarah-Ann Smith Smith Sarah-Ann Dr. classmate with gather members 1957 of Class their 10th reunion and reconnect at Selwyn Pub. Back Row (left Pub. their 10th reunion and reconnect at Selwyn Kate Hopta, Kami Hayes Espinoza, Janice Gabrial. Front row, Alison Gabrial. Front Janice Kate Hopta, Kami Hayes Espinoza,

Members of the Class of 2003 came back to campus to celebrate

Kendrick ’04, Lindsay Thomas, Sam Hadley Moya, Rebekah Howell Sam ’04, Lindsay Thomas, Kendrick 2013 2013 CLASS NOTES

Tank you to everyone who sent a note to stay connected with classmates. Queens alumni love updates!

Please let your classmates know what’s new by submitting a note for the next issue (winter 2014) by September 15, 2013. To submit your class note, go to: www.queens.edu/class-notes. Remember, class years ending in 4 and 9 will celebrate reunion weekend April 11-13, 2014.

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1942 precious grandchildren: three boys and one girl. 28409. Her door is always open to Queens friends. Te class expresses sympathy to Ann Mauldin Aline keeps busy writing their church newsletter, Elliot, on the death of her sister Sue Mauldin helping with their church thrift shop and with Smith ’39, who passed away on January 7. a local Daughters of the American Revolution 1950 chapter. Queens will always hold a special place Marianne Permenter Hibbard and husband in her heart. John celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in 1944 December 2012.Tey are moving into a retirement Eleanor Lazenby Biggers is in good health at 90. Te class expresses sympathy to Jean Campbell community this summer that will be just seven Family, friends, church and community activities Williams, on the death of her husband, Davant miles away and close enough for many visits. It is keep her busy, and she still drives and lives in Tomas Williams, who passed away on September going to be hard for them to leave their beautiful her own home. She does not enjoy traveling 27, 2012. beaches community after living almost 50 years in anymore but has wonderful memories of the years their home. Marianne is looking forward to the after retirement when she and Sherrill traveled Donnie Rhodes Yandle lives in Wilmington. She 65th class reunion at Queens. throughout the world. She would enjoy hearing moved there from Roanoke, Va. Son Stephen and from classmates and sharing memories of our his family (three children, seven grandchildren) live Frances Harris Kennedy enjoys her home in happy experiences at Queens. in Wilmington. Daughter Carol and her family Black Mountain. Her four children and their (two sons and two grandsons) live in Columbia, spouses, along with 10 grandchildren and one S.C. Son Gary and his family (two sons and two of their spouses, gathered at her home for the 1947 granddaughters) live in Concord. She keeps in touch Christmas holidays. She has good visits with sister Te class expresses sympathy to Jean Fant Gilbert, with Doris Turner Tomas. Her new address is Eugenia and less time with brother Al in Florida on the death of her sister Marion Fant Williams ’48, 4610 Holly Tree Road, Apt. 116, Wilmington, NC and brother-in-law Whit and wife Aileen in who passed away on January 6. Virginia.

Doris Turner Tomas theddts@ Te class expresses sympathy to bellsouth.net sold her house in Marilyn Biggers Neisler on the November 2012 in Brunswick, death of her husband, Henry Parks Ga., after husband Dan died in Neisler, Sr., who passed away on April 2012. She now lives in a January 7 and her brother-in-law lovely apartment in Westminster Charles “Red” Andrew Neisler, Woods on Julington Creek in who passed away on October 14, Jacksonville, Fla. She would love 2012. to hear from any of her classmates. Her address is 115 Lake of the Woods Lane, #106, St. Johns, FL 1951 32259; phone 904-287-7189. Barbara Schweizer Crawford continues to volunteer at a Aline Jones Wankow has lived in national wildlife refuge near her New Jersey for most of her life but home. She enjoys the work, her visits her home state of Maryland Ara Brown Griffn ’55 (left) and Mary Lois Ridings Bynum ’55 (center) family and life in general. whenever possible. She and her had dinner with Phyllis Scutt Thacker ’55 (right) in January at her new husband have been married retirement home at The Lakes of Litchfeld, North Litchfeld Beach, S.C. Te class expresses sympathy to A good time was had by all! almost 55 years and have four Carolyn Bishop Tornhill, on QUEENS MAGAZINE

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For Women over 30 KRISTIN BOOKER ’93 DUMPED THE CORPORATE LIFE TO BECOME A FASHION BLOGGER, DISCOVERING DREAMS COME TRUE

ost of us only dream of she also started her taking a leap of faith at blog, Fashion.Style. some point in our lives. Beauty. “I wanted MKristin Booker ’93 took that leap and to create the type of can confdently say that she is now publication I wanted fying. Booker came to Queens on an to read,” she says. She art scholarship in the fall of 1989 from calls it “the ultimate Charleston, West Virginia. She recalls fashion and beauty the moment she decided it was where blog destination for she needed to be. “I came to Queens women of a certain Four years ago, Kristin Booker left corporate life to launch for a visit in December of 1988. It was age.” It proved a great a blog from her home in New York City. She navigates the snowing when I left West Virginia. place to showcase her dizzying world of fashion, style and beauty, dishing up When we arrived on Selwyn Avenue, talent as a writer and advice and insider tips as well as interviews with celebrities the sun was shining, it was 60 degrees editor and has led to like Tory Burch and Kim Kardashian. and the streets were lined with such a thriving writing beautiful trees.” career. and Marie Claire for a national ad After graduating from Queens Her blog is now four years campaign for CLEAR Scalp and Hair in 1993, Booker worked for corporate old, and she’s had the opportunity Terapy. It’s a whirlwind life, but she America in a variety of areas, including to conduct multiple celebrity and says her business degree from Queens marketing, human resources and designer interviews with such and a background in art prepared her. recruiting. In 2007, she realized just notables as David Yurman, Edward “I couldn’t have done the things I’ve how far she was from anything she Burns, Christy Turlington, Hope done without the education I received truly wanted to do. She sold everything Solo, Girls’ Alison Williams, Tory at Queens.” she owned in Charlotte and bought a Burch, Drew Barrymore and Kim What is her next step? “I’m really one-way ticket to New York City, with Kardashian. In addition to her blog, happy, but I hope to complete the book one motivation: to become a writer. she is busy freelance writing for that I am writing and move more into She started over that year, multiple magazines, including Marie writing publishing and styling for and while she worked in human Claire, ELLE, ELLE Canada, PAPER n photo shoots and editorial.” resources for Merrill Lynch, she began and such online publications as freelancing on the side for a website StyleCaster, Refnery 29 and xoJane. —Sara Blakeney, Executive Director of called SheFinds. When the economy She also serves as a spokesperson for Alumni Relations crashed in 2008, she decided to become Simple Skincare, and campaigns for a full-time freelance writer and editor. Target and Timex. In the summer of Visit Kristin’s blog at While she worked to build her career, 2012, she appeared in Harper’s Bazaar www.fashionstylebeauty.com.

- Weekend of November 1 and 2, 2013 - 25 years of basketball NOVEMBER - First men’s basketball team being 2013 SUMMER 1 AND 2 inducted into Royals Hall of Fame ROYALS ALUMNI EVENT

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the death of her husband, Warren A.Tornhill III, Jane Basinger Gage and husband have downsized Asia Minor, was to both the Greek and Roman who passed away on January 2. after nearly 40 years at 324 Lockley Dr. in civilizations. She has been busy with readings and Charlotte. Teir new address is 8919 Park Road, meeting with book clubs discussing her novel, Apt. 3017, Charlotte, NC 28210. Tey continue Trang Sen, which was published last year. See 1952 to enjoy their mountain chalet and activities with photograph from her reading at Queens. Te class expresses sympathy to Betty Mauldin adult children and grandchildren! Fulenwider, on the death of her sister Sue Mauldin Smith ’39, who passed away on January 7. 1958 1956 Gloria Grifth Bulluck’s daughter and husband Te class expresses sympathy to Mary Virginia Mitzi Plonk Folk sold her house to one of her adopted a 6-year-old girl from India in September Sommers Neisler, on the death of her husband, sons and moved on January 14 into Sharon Towers 2012. She is a delight. Now, Gloria has four Charles “Red” Andrew Neisler, who passed away retirement home. It has been a good move for her, grandchildren, two boys and two girls. on October 14, 2012, and on the death of her and she really enjoys it. Come see her if you are brother-in-law Henry Parks Neisler, Sr., who in Charlotte. Jo Holland Hardwick remarried in 2008 to Taylor passed away on January 7. Hardwick. Together, they have fve children, Jessie Scott LeMoyne works at St. James 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Jo Episcopal School in administration. She has continues to write poetry and memoirs. She and 1953 nine grandchildren; one recently graduated from Taylor enjoy visiting art galleries and life in Ponte Jeanne Harrison MacDonald and husband college and two will graduate from high school. Vedra Beach, Fla. Charles enjoy their retirement years, living at She lives in Florida, a block from the beach. She the Cypress of Charlotte. Jeanne is still involved reports that it is great and everyone is healthy. Susan Sharpe Houg is working on choral demos, with her art and had a painting exhibited at Te after having released a CD, World, Goodnight, of RedSky Gallery on Elizabeth Avenue. Jeanne and Betty Reinhardt Millsaps and husband Joe joined her original songs. All of her songs will be available Charlie have two children, Susan MacDonald two other couples on a two-week trip to France. from www.snowfowermusic.com. She joined a local Roddey of Charlotte and Bob MacDonald of Touring Normandy was #1 on Joe’s “bucket hiking group, which explores mountain settings Laurel, Md. Susan and husband Hunter have two list.” Tey leased a nine-passenger van to better along the Pacifc Crest Trail and valley foors of children. Bob and wife Peggy have two children. accommodate their group. Te beautiful city of her home in far Northern California. She makes Being grandparents and parents is the highlight Léon proved to be their biggest challenge, when frequent trips to San Francisco to visit family and of their lives. they entered an underground lot and became occasional ones to Salt Lake City to see daughter stuck, with the roof of the car scraping the top Sara Zarr, noted young adult fction writer. Te class expresses sympathy to Nita Asbill Neely, and the wheels against the curb. Out of nowhere, a on the death of her husband, James Roger “Buddy” man appeared and directed them out. Mary Moore Mason Redfern remains the editor/ Neely, who passed away on September 13, 2012. editorial director of Essentially America magazine (www.essentiallyamerica.com), launched in the 1957 United Kingdom in 1994 by Mary and now 1954 Te class expresses sympathy to Shirley Long available in Mexico, China, Brazil and soon in Te class expresses sympathy to Sissy Rhodes Johnson, on the death of her sister Virginia Long Germany and Canada. Some issues are also now Craver, on the death of her husband, Sam Herrin ’54, who passed away on December 21, 2012. being distributed throughout London with the Wyndham Craver, Jr., who passed away on prestigious Sunday Telegraph. Mary has been February 2. Jeanne Fleming Reynolds had a wonderful time nominated as vice chairman of the British Guild with classmates last July. Afterwards, however, of Travel Writers. she experienced great sadness due to the death 1955 of son-in-law, William “Bill” Harden Webster II, Nancy Whisnant Collins is president of a start- who passed away on September 10, 2012, from 1959 up company that produces educational apps for lung cancer and sudden death of childhood friend Joy Arrington Dufy and her husband celebrated the iPhone. It planned to launch in early summer. Sharon Burkhard Barnum. Sharon attended their 50th wedding anniversary by taking a cruise Queens with her during their sophomore year. in December 2012 to the Panama Canal. Family Gaye Sanders Fisher reports that Te Gaye Jeanne’s husband had surgery on October 1, 2012, and friends planned to join them late spring for Sanders Fisher Gallery is celebrating its 15th and was discharged a week before Christmas.Tey a big celebration. Teir family is well, and their year at 124 Church Street, Charleston, S.C. Gaye recently took a cruise to the Caribbean. grandchildren are excelling in all they undertake. completed a series of watercolors on the church She looks forward to the next reunion. Take care steeples of Charleston, exhibited in March. Te Sarah-Ann Smith spent two weeks in October all of you! gallery and garden are being ofered for small 2012 in Turkey, experiencing some of that weddings and events. culture and learning how important Turkey, then Frances DeArmon Evans and husband Don have QUEENS MAGAZINE

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moved to 868 Cherokee Rd., Charlotte, NC 28210 England, Scotland and Wales and a canoeing trip daughters and their families on the West Coast. after the home burned down in March 2012. in July 2012 to Ontario. Marianna and two fellow Queens Chi Omegas, along with their husbands, Catherine Steagall Peeler and husband Don spent two fun weeks in Tuscany enjoying the art, toured China in September 2012; in October she 1960 food, wine and olive oil. celebrated her 55th high school reunion. Tey Mary Allred Crews has a new book of poetry, celebrated Tanksgiving in Charleston, S.C., with Beyond High Windows. Adelaide Anderson Davis says not to miss the all their family and saw all their grandchildren nice feature on our own Sue Ross on page 12 in over Christmas. Teir oldest granddaughter Donna Irving Lambeth’s son Hunter has moved to this magazine. We are so proud! graduated in May from Covenant College in Nazareth, Israel, where he and his wife are building Lookout Mountain, Ga. Older daughter Libby a Young Life program in Israel and Palestine. Teir Henrietta Taylor Filer and Bruce enjoy living lives in Dallas, Texas. Younger daughter Ginger 8-year-old daughter attends an Arabic speaking in Hampstead. Tey go to their beach house at lives in Virginia Beach, Va. Older son Russell school.Tey were in the United States for Christmas. Surf City, which is on Topsail Island, and often lives in Charlotte. Younger son Randy lives in Donna’s daughter and family are in Apex. Donna are joined by members of their family from Cambridge, Mass. is on the Lillians List of NC board. Tom serves as Greensboro, Hampstead and Marietta, Ga. Tey chair of the Reynolda House Museum board and spent a few days of their Christmas holidays with Methodist Children’s Home board. Susan Brooks Kirkland at her home on Sugar 1962 Mountain. Tey planned to go on a cruise in June Nancy-Coe Teeter Hall’s father, Robert Henry Sarah Kenney Potter is a retired educator living to Alaska. Teeter, passed away on November 15, 2010. She in Kings Mountain with husband Jim. Tey have is busy now with compiling the Teeter genealogy three children, seven grandchildren and one great- Lance Alston Hamilton wishes her classmates that her father left behind. Her other activities grandchild, all living in the area. Tey are richly blessings and good health. She is doing well include quilting, knitting, oil painting and caring blessed. Daughter Edie works at the Levine Cancer and getting older—drat! Ian and she have eight for youngest grandson Joel Paige Staton, 2. Oldest Center in Charlotte. Son Tom teaches at Forestview grandchildren, who she says are better than any daughter Carmi lives in Mooresville.Tema lives at and Belmont Abbey. Son Kenney is on the music you have, trust her. Ian retired in January 2012 at the home place, as does youngest daughter Reba. staf of Wingate. Sarah and Jim love to travel. 75 years and now is everywhere—in the kitchen, in Son Mark Hall lives in Gastonia. the yard, in the neighbors’ yard—but he is so cute, Marjorie Bisson Stevens is on the move again. After so she is gonna keep on keepin’ him. Kitty Hobbs Hord and husband Bob had a just four years in New Mexico, she has now moved great 2012 that included Queens and Davidson to Idaho. With the exception of youngest daughter Susan Brooks Kirkland took her grandchildren reunions and two more grandsons, twins who were Kimberly and her family, the entire clan is in the to Charlotte to see Cirque Dreams Holidaze for born on December 5 and are growing bigger each greater Boise area. For Christmas 2012, they were Christmas. A highlight of the visit to Queens was day. Te 50th reunions were really wonderful. blessed with a family all-together celebration for the the new science building. She said you must see frst time in 12 years. Family is joy! the green wall, which exhibits a live plant design Linda Cashwell Jewell and Rob celebrated her of a double helix. A fabulous Queens trip to New February birthday on a cruise with friends. Linda’s Patricia Hogg Verreault had surgery to remove a York included a visit to the Rockefeller Foundation book club attended Friends of the Library Book tumor from her thymus gland, just before Christmas. with New York alums. It was fun being with the and Author Luncheon in March at Queens, which Te tumor was benign. It was discovered when she Hadleys and hearing Dr. Pamela Davies’ glowing is a wonderful occasion. Linda was very saddened had a heart scan just before Tanksgiving, so she may Queens report. Get involved! by the death of her sister Barbara Jewell Macaulay have gone on for some time without knowing about from Rocky Mount on November 12, 2012. it. She feels very fortunate. She and Joe are planning Gail Carter Nichols and husband Baylor are to move to a retirement community. Teir cottage is artists and retired art educators.Tey live in a small Ruth Scholten Lynch and Mary Louise Coiner being built now, and they hope to move this summer river town, West Point, Va., near Williamsburg. Fisher visited Ruth’s home in Plymouth, Mass., or early fall. Tey have seven children, 13 grandchildren in August 2012. Tey joined Linda Pegram in and four great-grandchildren. If you are in the Cotuit, Mass., on Cape Cod for a delightful tour Te class expresses sympathy to Nancy Ingram Williamsburg area, give them a call. and day. Ruth enjoys volunteering as an ESOL Walters, on the death of her husband, Percy Frank tutor at the Plymouth Public Library. Walters, who passed away on November 9, 2012. Jackie Shaw O’Neill plays piano for theater and

churches in Charlotte and performs at Brookgreen Virginia Bopp Springer and Al took their “land 2013 SUMMER Gardens in Pawleys Island, S.C., for the Cool yacht,” LOON A SEA, for the winter from North 1961 Summer Evenings Concert series. Music is and Carolina to North Fort Myers, Fla.Tey spent two Marianna Christian Broaddus had a fun year! always will be a vital part of Jackie’s life. Jackie weeks in the Everglades, fshing.Tey also planned She and husband Scott celebrated their 50th is the proud “grammy” of fve grandchildren. She a visit to Ginny’s sister Suzie Bopp Lovette and anniversary in August 2012. Tey took trips to spends several months every year visiting her three husband in Miami Springs, Fla.

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Nurse on a Mission VERONICA RANKIN MSN ’11 PUSHES THE STATUS QUO

eronica Rankin MSN ’11 has Rankin’s ongoing three daughters. Right now, eforts in nursing, her their choices of future careers Queens faculty was include,V “teaching, dancing and being unsurprised. ‘spider-girl.’” Tat’s just fne with Rankin is always Rankin. “I want them to fnd a career “looking for ways to that excites them just like I have.” improve a situation,” Rankin knew early on that nursing says Tama Morris, was the career for her. Growing director of the up in Jacksonville, North Carolina, Presbyterian School she witnessed the importance of of Nursing in the Blair meaningful work. Her mother was a College of Health. nurse aide. “At the end of a work day I While at Queens, could tell that although her body ached, Rankin was inducted she had barely had a lunch break and into Sigma Teta she had done some of the dirtiest duties Tau, the international the profession called for, the reward of honor society of caring for her patients outweighed any nursing. stress she had endured that day,” Rankin Seeking to Growing up in Jacksonville, Veronica Rankin saw frsthand the importance of top quality nursing care as she witnessed says. “Her passion and excitement improve situations her mother’s nursing career. Today, she oversees patient towards her job made the profession is an attribute that care for the medical-surgical unit at Carolinas Medical seem worthwhile and essentially vital to led the dedicated Center in Charlotte. life.” nurse to become an Rankin is now a clinical nurse inventor. Frustrated with “People today are living longer than leader, overseeing patient care in the having to wait for an interpreter to they ever have before,” she says. “My Carolinas Medical Center’s medical- communicate with Spanish-speaking patient population is depending on me surgical unit. Her passion, she says, patients, she developed and patented to be clinically competent and skilled in is geriatrics and the care of elderly the Spanish Translation Board, a book order to improve health outcomes.” patients. Currently she’s coordinating that helps staf communicate basic care Rankin is up to the task. “Nursing an efort to obtain Nurses Improving questions. It is now widely used by co- is a profession created just for me,” she the Care of Healthsystem Elders workers in other labs and units. Still, says. “I know that I am privileged to n (NICHE) designation for the center. Rankin isn’t about to rest on her laurels. sincerely enjoy my job.” When the Certifed Nursing Leader In fact, she sees ongoing education as Association recently recognized her obligation as a nurse. —Jenn Q. Goddu MFA ’13

Jane Sanders Townsend and husband Jim second granddaughter, who joined 3-year-old urban Brookstone School 15 years ago, which enjoy living at Ocean Isle Beach; it is fun to sister and parents, who live near Green-Wood is going strong. She looked forward to the 50th see other Queens friends who have houses Cemetery in Brooklyn, N.Y. reunion and reconnecting with friends. Sara fnds there or vacation there. They celebrated their it quite exciting to live in Charlotte and witness 50th anniversary in July 2012 with a trip to Brenda Blackwelder looked forward to reunion. the small bud develop into a beautiful fragrant Rome and Sicily. On the Sicily portion, they She still dances, travels and enjoys retirement. fower that is having a major impact on the city. were joined by their son and his family. Sara Harrington Byne has experienced many Harriette McMichael Majoros visited her changes over the past 50 years: marriage, two daughter Rebecca Majoros ’02 for a week in 1963 daughters, fve grandchildren, survivor with November 2012 in Orange, Calif. In January 2012, Janet Judd Barrett welcomed, in early 2013, her leukemia and involvement starting the faith-based Harriette and husband Bill spent Christmas with QUEENS MAGAZINE

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Becca. Tey saw the Rose Parade and went whale Te class expresses sympathy to Carol Nunn Scott. Sandra reports he is perfect and precious, watching. Plans are in process now for a two-week Midler, on the death of her mother, Annie but she does not like the fact the he is in Chicago trip in September back to Ireland. She remains McLendon Nunn ’39, who passed away on and she is in Florida! Her Facebook friends have very active with the National Corvette Museum in October 18, 2012. seen all the photos, but she will send out one Bowling Green, Ky. for her Queens family. Sandra reports this made Fran Milton Patterson loved celebrating a special turning 70 “OK.” Te class expresses sympathy to Linder Carter anniversary with husband Tom, son Tom Jr., Tucker, on the death of her husband, Charles daughter-in-law Sharon and grandson Derek. In Linda Tigpen Swan enjoys ongoing friendships Jackson Tucker, who passed away on May 16, 2012. spring 2012, Fran and Tom enjoyed attending the with some Queens friends, Nancy Clotfelter Queens party for Atlanta alumni in Ansley Park. Hildreth ’64 and Suzie Fleming Warmath Fran recently had dinner with fellow classmates among them. She enjoys her current career of 1964 Nancy Clotfelter Hildreth, Peggy Hagler Lynch writing and attended the Writer’s Symposium Christine Saford Beck serves on three nonproft and Carolyn King Walker at the Fish Market in at Queens in October 2012. In July 2012, Linda boards, all education-related with special focus Buckhead. had brain surgery, with a slow recovery but a on children from low-income families. Her book, great result. She enjoyed positive support from Listen to Our Voices, written with seven black males Te class expresses sympathy to Elizabeth Myers Kent Anderson Leslie ’64 and Becky Whitfeld ages 10-12, is being used in a few high schools’ Pender, on the death of her father, Dennis E. Sherwood, as well as Nancy and Suzie. courses. She and Leif are traveling a bit more, Myers, Jr., who passed away on November 25, 2012. enjoy their two grandsons and feel blessed that Frances Sours Turner thanks all the Queens their sons are doing well and leading productive Kathryn Oehler Sellers has retired. She friends who have been so supportive since her lives. Chris and Sue Dyer Milbourne keep in keeps busy with volunteering (church, historic husband, Robert Greene Turner, passed away on close touch. preservation and Civil War history) and with fve August 18, 2012. Life is diferent after 43 years of grandchildren, who all live nearby. marriage, but it is a blessing to have good health Nancy Clotfelter Hildreth stays busy with her and to be able to carry on. She enjoyed being with interior design company and working on her side Carolyn King Walker [email protected] Eleanor Judd Tucker and husband Tommy in venture, creating custom cards and invitations. would like to remind class members that our 50th North Carolina after Eleanor’s hip replacement in She spends as much free time as possible with reunion will be next spring, 2014. October 2012. Frances enjoyed a visit with Marty her two grandchildren in Atlanta and her other McDaniel Woodward in December 2012 in Falls grandchild in Maryland (and of course their Church, Va. parents). After returning from a ski trip to 1965 Steamboat Springs, Colo., she looked forward Ann Shafer Bagwell’s children both moved to warmer weather, so that she could enjoy being in 2012. Her daughter left Richmond, Va., for 1966 outside more often. Hamilton, N.Y., where she is a psychology Betsy Buchan Pierce is happily and professor and her husband is provost at Colgate enthusiastically retired and busy with family and Kent Anderson Leslie turned 70 in September, University. Ann’s son moved from Arlington, Va., friends, after teaching high school for 32 years. as did twin brother Tate. Oldest daughter Jennie, to begin a job in Richmond. It was sad for Ann Husband Tom has retired but works part time who teaches at the medical school in Portland, and Fred to see their grandchildren, 8 and 5, move with Wingate University. Tey travel as much as Ore., turned 40, so Kent and family celebrated by so far away, but they are thrilled to have their possible and have, in recent years, been to England, spending Tanksgiving week on a remote island, grandchildren, 2 and 6-months, living nearby. Scotland, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Poland, the Harbor Island. Jennie and husband Bradley, Kate Czech Republic, Austria, Guernsey and France. (a therapist in Chapel Hill) and husband Justin, Barbara Allen Grimes [email protected] Some of these travels have been with Janice Wertz and Kent and Bob took of to fsh, hike and swim. and husband Sam, who retired two years ago, have Berkley and husband. Tey are well after Bob’s bout with cancer and spent a lot of time with grandchildren, traveling Kent’s hip replacement. and going to Carolina sports events. Son Latham has moved from Charlotte to Chapel Hill, so the 1967 Phoebe Pierce Martin [email protected] and grandchildren, 9 and 7, are two-and-a-half hours Jackie White McGrath, husband Bill and Schnauzer Kent Anderson Leslie got together at a recent closer and Barbara and Sam have a place to stay “Abby” embarked in August 2012 on their third Queens alumni gathering in Atlanta and came up after late night basketball games! If you are in ocean cruise in their 50-foot motor cruiser. Tey

with what they hope everyone will think is a great eastern North Carolina, email them or give them a cruised up the coasts of Northern California, Oregon 2013 SUMMER idea for the 50th reunion! In celebration of it, they call at 252-946-6446. and Washington, into the Canadian Gulf and San would love to see our class present a one-time, Juan Islands and fnally into Puget Sound. Realizing one-year scholarship for a new student. Tey will Sandra Cash Jones has been blessed with a there was far more in these peaceful cruising grounds be in touch regarding the scholarship. If anyone grandson, Jack Schribner Kemper, who was born than they could see in a month, they plan to cruise in has any ideas about this, please email her. on June 29, 2012, to daughter Jaime and husband these waters for the next several years.

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Cathy Condon Nail and roomie Keith McKenna home instruction for today’s technology. iArrive@ hobbies. Her mother, Stacie Orr Houser ’39, is Pension could be found in January 2012 30 miles YourDoor gives her fexible hours and some fun doing well, inspiring all the rest of the family. south of the Arctic Circle chasing Northern Lights money for these fxed income years, and she can in 51-below-zero degrees. Tey ended 2012 with a pursue her love of teaching. She spent four days Chris Sprenkle Jones and husband Bill are both delightful trip to Australia/New Zealand, where last summer in Maine visiting with Gretchen Gee retired and live in Charlotte, along with both they experienced 115-plus degree temps at Ayers Leone and husband Bill.Tey enjoyed catching up married sons and two grandchildren. Tey keep Rock in the Australian Outback. In August 2012, on their fun freshman year in Long Dorm! busy playing with the grandchildren, reading, they squeezed in a trip to Scandinavia and the Baltic. hiking, gardening and spending time with Who knows where they might turn up next! Lana Hobbs Wolcott’s daughter Hobbs and her friends and a large extended family. She loves the husband, along with Lana’s only grandchild, the annual visit to Pawleys Island, S.C., with Nancy Connie Gill Rogers, in 2012, took her frst cruise, beautiful Annabel, traveled from Santa Cruz, Dashiell Fanning, Bonnie North Flood, Lura attended a family gathering in Austin, Texas, Calif., to spend Christmas with Lana in Virginia Deaton McMurray, Sidney Walker Pease, Janie and went to her 45th reunion in Charlotte. She Beach, Va. She took time of from working in her Hamilton Radclife, Mary Jane Brown Reynolds took three family visits with grandchildren and antiques shop, Te Antique Design Center, in and Mary Maroney Walker. ventured of in September 2012 to Sedona, Ariz., Norfolk, Va. In early January, son Alex moved near for kayaking, a jeep ride and a Grand Canyon her on the north end of Virginia Beach. Judy Barry Maynard’s sister Beverly Fazier went trip. In November 2012, she visited dear friend to be with the Lord on January 25 after an uphill and freshman roommate Cynthia Hale Gross six-year battle with breast cancer. She was just 64. and suitemate Denny Hubbard Mecham. She 1968 She impacted so many with her ministries; there did volunteer work between trips. She hopes to Nonie Holt Booth retired in September 2012 as were over 1500 at her funeral. Judy’s one and only relocate to Charlotte in 2013. sanctuary choir and handbell director at the Outer grandchild lives in Durham with parents who are Banks Presbyterian Church. Campus Crusade staf at Duke University. Te Carol Anderson Rothenberg enjoyed attending class expresses sympathy to Judy Barry Maynard reunion and reconnecting with friends. She and Pat Bagg Cole is taking a break from serving on the death of her sister. Jeannie Simms Barnwell planned to meet again on boards to volunteer in two kindergartens. in March. She and husband Jim spent fall 2012 She and her husband are traveling more to visit Ellen Robinson Rolfes’ daughter Ellie and in the Smoky Mountains and Orlando. Tey went their children and grandchildren in Richmond, husband Rev. Ollie Rencher have moved to to New York City to see the Broadway show, Te Va., and Columbia, S.C. Tey planned to take a Charlotte. He is the new rector of St. Peter’s Heiress, as son Leon is the sound designer. Tey cruise with longtime friends (they had the cruise Episcopal Church uptown. She looks forward to planned to spend the winter exploring and golfng planned before the dates for reunion came out). visiting them often. in Florida and will go to Australia and New Patricia enjoys the wonderful Colorado weather, Zealand this fall. which means she enjoys outside activities almost Anne-Lynn Stahl Teal is ofcially retired and still everyday, from hiking to golf. loving life in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area. Her frst Betty Simpson Smith started a new business as grandchild, a girl, was due in May, and she was she saw the need for those over 50 to have in- Te class expresses sympathy to Joan Trash Fraley, over-the-moon excited. She planned to spend a on the death of her month in San Diego, Calif., awaiting the birth and mother, Virginia Anne helping afterwards. Buckner Singletary, who passed away on January 8. Kathy Fristoe Tronco went to Lourdes, France, in May 2012, with the Order of Malta to care Marilyn Houser for the sick and terminally ill. In September Hartness and husband 2012, she and husband Joe toured St. Petersburg, John are very active Russia. Tey spent a week in February in Rome with their jobs and celebrating the 900th anniversary of the founding also visiting six of the Order of Malta. Te most amazing grandchildren. She experience was shopping in Charleston, S.C., spends most days at and coming face to face with freshman roommate Wingate University Anne Craig! in the department of fne arts, where Leigh Barnett Walker, husband Vince and she is an associate their two dogs moved from Maryland to North Elizabeth Barr Johnson ’68 (left) and Becky Beck Bovell ’69 (right) professor. Marilyn Carolina to be closer to family and friends. Tey enjoyed the Big Apple nightlife during the Queens New York City enjoys lap swimming settled in Fearrington Village. 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reading at a local school and enjoys being with Jennie Goodman Deal recently returned from them with another granddaughter, so it is double the her 2-year-old granddaughter. Guatemala on a Habitat for Humanity (Global fun in Richmond, Va. Sherry enjoys bridge with the Villages) mission trip through her church, St. Richmond Chi O alumnae group and reconnecting James Episcopal Church in Lenoir. She also visited with Ellen Blackburn, Mary Beth Burry Donati 1969 Antigua. It was a very rewarding service experience! and Nancy Black Shafer. She thinks that it is now Becky Beck Bovell and Elizabeth Barr Johnson time for an LH/Harris/Watkins Dorm reunion ’68 joined the Queens New York City theater tour Nancy Withers Dishman lives on a small farm while we can still dance the night away! in December 2012 and so enjoyed reuniting with outside Davidson. Her daily routine each other, Dr. Hadley and other alumni. includes caring for two horses, two goats, three dogs and two cats, all Pat Davis Buckles retired in September 2012 as adopted except the two goats. Most a hospital social worker for 37 years. Husband Sunday mornings fnd her driving Hugh passed away in June 2009. Out of their three to a nursing home in Statesville, sons and families, two live locally and the third in where she sings for residents. She Aurora, Colo. She loves her four grandchildren, has discovered they like moon pies which all happen to be girls! It did not take Pat more than homemade cookies! long to adjust to retirement; however, those closets Nancy loves sharing an occasional keep calling...one of these days! lunch with former classmate Barbara Triplett. Jenni Cunningham Marshall wants to have another reunion real soon...we need to make Mary Beth Burry Donati and believe we are 21 again. She does lots of traveling husband Vic of McComb, Miss., these days, but her life is really all about playing welcomed their third grandchild golf and being grandmother. in December 2012. Tey have After 41 years, Ann Clark-Durkin ’71, also known as “Airline Annie,” retired from her career as a fight attendant three sons and their families: Vic at American Airlines. Ann and her parents were employed Katie Seashole Pressly welcomed her fourth III of St. Petersburg, Fla., Tim of with AA continuously from 1944 until this year. granddaughter, Lila, joining Lucy, Parker and Hattiesburg, Miss., and youngest Pressly.Te University of Florida boards keep her son Tyler, a naval aviator currently busy when she is not hopping on a team plane serving in Japan following deployment on the USS somewhere. She and husband Jamie enjoy their George Washington. Mary Beth retired this past Kennebunkport, Maine, home when they can year from her nursing career and enjoys spending 1971 steal away. Katie enjoys her work for Pine Jog time with family. Ann Clark-Durkin [email protected], also Environmental Center and for Te Palm Beach known as “Airline Annie,” has retired from her Garden Club. In February, she saw Carla Elof Nancy Rogers Lindsey and her husband moved career as a fight attendant at American Airlines Dupuy, who had foot ankle surgery, and had in summer 2012 to Charlotte from Virginia, after 41 years. Ann and her parents were employed a visit in fall 2012 from Jenny Cunningham where they had lived for 40 years.Tey retired and with AA continuously from 1944 until this year, 69 Marshall. decided to live near their oldest daughter and her of American Airlines’ 84-year history. She plans family. Te downsizing and move have gone well, now to relax and enjoy her family. She raises funds Lucy Sonntag vonRoenn has fond memories and they enjoy living near their grandsons! for the Alzheimer’s Association as they search for of her years at Queens, although she fnished a cure, while honoring her mother’s memory. her education at another university. She started Sallie Moore Lowrance’s 65th birthday a therapeutic riding center, Sunrise Terapeutic celebration was one that will never be forgotten! Anne Nickell Comer, MBA ’04, in 2009, Riding Center, Inc., in Lanesville, Ind. Tey Her husband surprised her with a weekend at the became president of Presidium, an independent, use fve wonderful horses for riding and equine Inn at Little Washington, along with her children fee-only consulting frm, providing unbiased psychotherapy. Lucy has fve grandchildren that from Charlotte, Nashville and Beijing! To cap objective advice to clients. Presidium specializes keep her busy. She is on Facebook and has a of the weekend, he presented her with the Sallie in comprehensive, customized solutions for website. Please get in touch. Moore Lowrance Trustee Scholarship, which retirement plans, addressing all aspects of will allow students who show merit, need and fduciary duties and responsibilities, plan design,

leadership experience to attend Queens. Getting implementation, operations and oversight. 2013 SUMMER 1970 older is not all that bad! Gwen McNeill Ashburn and Sallie Trippe Broach ’71 Segar Gravatt is doing well in Virginia Beach, Va. enjoy their common ground of Queens in their work Sherry Pittman Means and husband Mike took She has lived one block from the beach for the past together at UNC Asheville. Sallie is the major giving a trip to Bermuda to celebrate retirement and 20 years and fnds that is literally her salvation from ofcer in advancement. Gwen is dean of humanities. almost did not return! Teir daughter has blessed the worries and stresses of being an Episcopal priest.

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Segar still has energy for ministry, so retirement is enjoy being grandparents. Youngest son John has Tara Luther Schmohl, husband Bob and Cody, not in her immediate future. She thinks of her time completed his navy tour of duty in Pensacola, Fla., their Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, moved two at Queens and everyone from Queens with fondness and he and wife Kelly have moved to Lexington, years ago to Broomfeld, Colo. (12 miles east of and appreciation. Ky. John is in an optometry practice in Lexington. Boulder). Tey bought a house and really enjoy it. Tara fnds it is a great change from the humidity Cathie Henson (C.H.) Holcombe in Florida. She is retired and does volunteer work [email protected] lives in Greensboro 1973 with Cody, a pet therapy dog. She enjoys all the but has recently changed her identity to “single” and Jan Hall Brown and husband Ed planted a Cabernet outdoor activities in Broomfeld and travels “grandmother.”While she is still working on writing, Sauvignon vineyard in Napa, Calif., in 2007. Tey regularly. tutoring in ESL and assisting Alzheimer’s patients, experienced their third harvest in 2012. Ed named she longs to see the rest of the 50 states (by car or the vineyard RedHead Vineyards. Tey harvested trailer or bus?) and is looking for a travel partner... 34 tons of grapes and sold 95 percent of the grapes 1975 maybe from the class of 1971? Email her if you have to other vintners. Tey always hold back some for Betty Staples Berghaus married longtime a hankering for adventure! their own wine, which they fnally get to taste this friend Charles (Chuck) Noonan on June 9, year as the wine must ferment for several years. She 2012, in Durham at Westminster Presbyterian Susan Siewers Spence’s goal to walk a marathon graciously hosted the Class of ‘73 party at reunion. Church, where she serves as associate pastor for in all 50 states will be accomplished in 2013. She congregational care. will fnish her quest in October 2013 in Hartford, Jarrell LaGrone Bruner and husband Johnny reside Conn. Susan has enjoyed seeing our beautiful in Greenville, S.C. Tey have two daughters, 32 and Debbie Duggan has worked for the past 15 country, 26.2 miles at a time! 28, and two grandchildren, three and one. Jarrell years as a legal assistant at Parker Poe Adams & enjoys every minute of being a grandparent. She Bernstein LLP law frm in Charlotte and cannot recently retired from her special education teaching speak highly enough of the frm for their caring 1972 position in the Greenville County Schools. corporate environment. She has battled cancer Jo Anna Hufstetler Bright had a wonderful four times since 2000, winning the fght each time beginning to 2013. Her fourth grandchild, Ashley, Mary Eaddy and husband Mike Petrakis live through faith, hope and love. Her latest project is was born while Savannah and Caroline visited in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Mary works in public writing her story, along with 11 other women, for a “MiMi” for two weeks. Following their stay, she relations and marketing. Her frst novel,Te Oaks book soon to be published titled, Ordinary Women, returned to Africa for her third mission trip. What Of McCord, was published in 2010 by Bella Rosa Extraordinary Lives. blessings! Books. She is writing a thriller about partners in real estate development during the recent market Te class expresses sympathy to Linda Gay Anne Le Grand is taking a break from the corporate crash. Mike is capital projects manager for the city Henry, on the death of her mother, Marianna world and spending more time in Melbourne, of Myrtle Beach. Gilbert Henry, who passed away on June 11, 2012. Australia, with her brother Homer and her sister-in- law Brenda Lefer Le Grand ‘66. Anne Heen Hite, since she started motherhood Te class expresses sympathy to Tena Magher, on later than most, has a 20-year-old college son, the death of her mother, Ruth Magher (former Susan Byers Manning enjoyed lots of travel in 24-year-old daughter and an engaged 27-year- professor and Dolphin Club coach), who passed 2012, including an Alaskan cruise; a month-long old daughter. She became a Realtor seven years away on February 4. stay in the Cotswolds, England, with husband Bob; ago, when she realized her husband would be a trip to France with oldest daughter Ashley and a retiring eventually and she needed another place Peaches Rankin traveled to Australia and New trip to Disney World with Ashley and her family. to go! When she visits her oldest daughter in Zealand to see her sister. She looks forward to Te highlight of the year was the birth of their Charleston, S.C., she stays with Sharon Pickard seeing everyone at the 40th reunion in 2015. 11th grandchild, Emily, who lives in Huntersville Merritt at her Isle of Palms place. Awhile back, with her parents, so they get to see her frequently. she saw Marsie Sorrells Hubbard and Mary Te class expresses sympathy to Elizabeth Whitner, Susan enjoyed visiting with classmates at the 40th Meares Scott. on the death of her father, William Church Whitner reunion. III, who passed away on January 13. Te class expresses sympathy to Kimberly Rhein Te class expresses sympathy to Cathy Torrence Irish, on the death of her husband, Craig Randall Elizabeth Horton Williams owns an accessories Mills, on the death of her cousin Louise Brumley Irish, who passed away on October 13, 2011. and gift shop in North Wilkesboro. Te shop Miller ’43, who passed away on October 25, 2012. specializes in jewelry and pocketbooks. She has three children: Jamie is a ffth-year teacher, Natalie 1974 Karen Minich Zent and husband Rex welcomed is a senior at UNC Greensboro and Matthew is a their frst grandchild, Nolan Matthew, into the Te class expresses sympathy to Karen Miller, on sophomore at Western Carolina University family on August 7, 2012. Nolan and parents the death of her mother, Louise Brumley Miller Brian and Amber are doing well. Karen and Rex ’43, who passed away on October 25, 2012. QUEENS MAGAZINE

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Start-up Science JEAN SCHELHORN ’75 GUIDES OHIO STATE BREAKTHROUGHS TO COMMERCIAL SUCCESS

ean Schelhorn ’75 graduated with a degree in biochemistry and the ability to jimmy open a locked Jscience building door. She needed to be in the lab a lot, she explains, laughing. “I was being honest to my passion.” Schelhorn actually has many passions. One reason she attended Queens was to play sports, including intercollegiate basketball (in a pre- Title IX era). Today she’s director of commercialization in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Ohio State University in Columbus. “I work with people who have capabilities or ideas, and I help foster their creativity,” she explains of a job that includes mentoring inventors and cultivating inventions. At the vet school, she helped develop a technology for early detection of Jean Schelhorn ’75 visited Ethiopia in 2007, meeting with students at the request of the Ethiopian government. Back at Ohio State’s veterinary school, she works with inventors sepsis in cows, which the university to bring scientifc breakthroughs to the commercial market. She holds a doctorate in has made commercially available. She’s chemistry from Northwestern University. also a technical, commercialization and intellectual strategy consultant as president of Schelhorn, Olinger & going even though the road is tough.” Associates. Schelhorn started out her career At Queens she studied across the as an innovator at Owens Corning sciences and “never felt any barriers.” Science and Technology Center. She Tis launched her fearlessness in trying went on to intellectual property and new things, she says. “If somebody strategic positioning work for R&D immerses me a little tiny bit, I can pick innovator Battelle. it up…I tend to jump in with both Don Caudy, a colleague from feet.” Battelle who collaborates now with After Queens she jumped Schelhorn on the sepsis project, into graduate studies, attending says she has a signifcant talent for Northwestern University for a master developing a working relationship Photo by Scott Cunningham of science degree followed by a with anyone. Plus, she’s able “to step doctorate in chemistry. While there into the chaos and quickly organize a position of strength.” she had the opportunity to organize a way forward.” Beyond team building, Schelhorn’s cross-sciences co-ed intramural team Schelhorn also mentors women greatest strength may be refusing to playing several sports—dubbed the in science and young inventors so they see limits, only doors waiting to be SUMMER 2013 SUMMER Vitamin B’s. Like other endeavors, it too can fnd a way forward. “Jean is opened. “People limit themselves by was a success. She recalls,“We defeated someone who has succeeded in an area how they think about themselves,” she everyone.” that up until recently was considered a observes. “It is not machines that make Playing on and organizing sports man’s world,” Caudy says. “Jean is an things happen, it is people; it is what teams proved critical, she says. Her example of a woman who has succeeded people do to infuence outcomes.” work relies on being able “to work with in science, in business, in technology teams in unique ways and keep them transfer—so she is mentoring from a —Jenn Q. Goddu MFA ’13 33 CLASS NOTES

McCament, on the death of her mother, Mary 1976 1978 Webster Sieg ’44, who passed away on November Liz Lee Crowe [email protected] went home Suzanne Brice lives in New Bern and teaches 30, 2012. for Christmas to Myrtle Beach, S.C., to help her high school. She connected with Kathleen mother, Alice, celebrate her 85th birthday. Alice Darden on Facebook and had a great visit with Sarah “Sally” Wyeth McLaughlin recently is engaged to her 96-year-old beau! Liz is excited Ellis Newton Ellis. Her mother, Mabel Brice, joined the board of directors of the Community about a program that she will launch in 2013 to died of pancreatic cancer in 2006. Her ex-husband Assistance Center, a nonproft organization that help college students pay back their student loans. died last spring. Son Chris is married and lives serves people in need in the Sandy Springs and Contact her at her email for more details. in Atlanta. Daughter Katie is in Greenville Dunwoody, Ga., communities. Sally is also a completing a teaching degree. Son Geofrey is in member of the Rotary Club of Sandy Springs and Te class expresses sympathy to Barbara Grant Charleston, S.C., leading kayak tours and outdoor a member of the 2013 Leadership Sandy Springs Northington, on the death of her father, Dr. Gerald education with school groups. class. Sally and husband Charles are delighted with D. Grant, who passed away on February 26. the newest addition to their family, granddaughter Susan McEwen works at her family business Ava McLaughlin. Sally and Charles live in East Linda Cable Shute was commissioned to write in Charlotte. Son Stan lives in Philadelphia and Cobb. a piece for St. Brigid Catholic Church in Johns works for Vanguard as a fnancial analyst. Daughter Creek, Ga., honoring their namesake. “Te Lily Elizabeth lives in London and works as a wine and Carol Troutman Wiggins recently contributed of Erin” was written for voice, harp, fute and champagne buyer for World Duty Free. four original children’s “beatboxing” songs, violin. Son Preston has fnished his six-year stint published in the new Upper Primary Module of in the navy and has returned to Georgia Southern “Whiteboard Music Lessons-Module 4” by Te University, where he will pursue a degree in 1979 Fun Music Company in Daw Park Australia, along computer engineering. Ellen Clark was elected and ordained as an elder with Kevin and Janice Tuck. Tis was planned for at her church, Howard Memorial Presbyterian release internationally in March. Church. One of her duties as elder is co-chair of 1977 the church’s congregational life committee. Te class expresses sympathy to Ollie Diane Huf, 1981 on the death of her mother, Ollie Edwards Huf, Te class expresses sympathy to Caraleigh “Pixie” Tucker Tonissen Hicks, while home for her Colville Hensley, on the death of her sister Jada nephew’s wedding, had a great visit with Susan who passed away on October 26, 2012. Colville Stewart ’81, who passed away on October Westphal Harbert and Diana Bitter Pannier 24, 2012. ’82. Tey spent a few days together at Lake Linda Garrett Kotrick retired from the State of Norman cooking and drinking wine. Susan lives Georgia after 34 years of service. She and husband in Roanoke, Va., and is a grandmother. Diana Kevin live in Milledgeville. Kassie is in the 11th 1980 works with her brother’s successful business in grade at Georgia Military College Prep School. Anne Jones Dantzler had just made the move in the Atlanta area. Tey decided that this will be Kevin, a junior at the University of Georgia, is a June 2011 to downtown Atlanta when husband an annual event for them. Tucker loves living in member of the Redcoat Band. She tries to stay in David was promoted to a position that landed her Minnesota. touch with many alums but would love to connect in New York. Her family settled into an apartment with more. Her parents live in Hilton Head, S.C., in Manhattan. Son James works for Holman & and her sister and family live in Charleston, S.C. Company in Washington, D.C. Son Robert works 1983 for Athena Healthcare. Youngest son Patrick Te class expresses sympathy to Sarah Sieg Avignone, Ellen Patric Spears is stepping into the role of graduated on December 8, 2012, from Georgia on the death of her mother, Mary Webster Sieg ’44, president of her local chapter of PEO International College. Anne would love to see anyone who who passed away on November 30, 2012. (Philanthropic Educational Organization). Husband wants to take a trip to New York. Jim serves as executive vice president of Glenville Ann Goldman Lewis is proud to announce that State College. Son Patrick, who serves in the U.S. Pamela Worth Harris experienced a worthwhile daugher Becca Lewis was initiated into Phi Mu Special Forces, is being awarded the Bronze Medal. adventure by going on a 10-day mission trip in at University of Maine in Orono, Maine. Becca is Son Brooks is graduating from the University of November 2012 to Panama with a dental team a freshman. Older daughter Jess is also a Phi Mu. Richmond School of Law and getting married in from her church. Tey served the Ngobe Indian Ann was able to go to UMO for the initiation. A August. Son Logan will be graduating this year from tribe. While there, they toured the Panama Canal. very special day indeed! West Virginia University. Daughter Lauren, 13, loves She and husband Michael live in Michigan. school, theater and piano. Daughter Elizabeth is a sophomore at the Cathi Wilkinson Litcher’s daughter, a freshman University of Georgia. at High Point University, pledged Tri Sigma sorority and was initiated in March. Martha Te class expresses sympathy to Marianne Sieg Cooke Player’s daughter, a freshman at Wake QUEENS MAGAZINE

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Forest University, pledged Alpha Delta Pi. Cathi works for the army as and Martha had a great time texting back and a civilian. Daughter forth about rush at the respective schools and Rosie is a freshman at relived their Queens rush days. It was fun to see Sewanee. Sons Travis all the comments of other Queens ladies on their and Taylor and their Facebook pages. wives, respectively, are in graduate Judi Walker Swords’ family enjoyed a trip to school at Florida St. Simons, Ga., over Tanksgiving and hanging State University and out with Jennifer Smith. Husband Mark retired beginning an army from teaching and has started a new job with the career at Fort Hood, Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Oldest Texas. son Chance spent another winter in the Great Lakes with his coast guard crew. He and his coast guard wife will be to moving on to a new post this 1987 summer; at the top of their list is Alaska. Elisher Ferrell Beck married high school Paige Orrie Toohey ’87 (second row, center) sent in this photo sweetheart William from the Class of 1987 reunion in April 2012 at Becky Bennett 1984 Beck on May 7, Stowe’s ’87 Charlotte home. Te class expresses sympathy to Mimi Love Guin, 2011, at Villa Serena on the death of her husband, Jim Guin, Jr., who in Conyers, Ga. Te passed away October 1, 2012. couple resides in Atlanta. Suzanne Manzer Muskin in Bethesda, Md. Te gals enjoyed laughter and smiles throughout the Caroline Cotham Hufnes’ husband, Alan, day. It was easy for Katja to drive from her home in 1985 is doing well after a long up and down struggle Delaware to visit while Suzanne was vacationing in Heyward Rogers Barnett walked out on the beach with pancreatitis. Caroline found it wonderful the United States from her home in Switzerland. at sunset on New Year’s Eve 2012 and married to have Copper Allen Comita ’86 so close by sweetheart Jerry Barnett. It was a beautiful and for his surgery. Oldest daughter Morgan, 21, magical evening, and then the freworks started! No, completed her junior year at Tarleton State really! Tere was a huge freworks display over the University. Maddie, 19, fnished her freshman year pier by their hotel! Heyward is thrilled to have a new at Oklahoma State University. Melissa, 13, enjoys family, including two little grandchildren. She and cross country, drama and art. Mark, 10, is a Webelo Jerry are looking for a house near Athens, Ga. scout and plays baseball and the violin. Caroline is teaching frst grade. Charity Kimmel had a productive year in 2012. After fnishing contract work as executive director with Leslie Addington Miller has been remarried NorthEnd Partners in Charlotte, she completed and for four years and has three kids in college and published her frst book, Secret of Day, in September one graduating from high school. She practices 2012.Te editing on her second book was completed nursing at Oncology Specialists of Charlotte, in March. She serves as band booster president at son caring for cancer patients. She still plays tennis Alex’s school, Clover High School. She and husband whenever she can! Bob feel fortunate to have a happy teen in his junior year of high school. 1988 Te class expresses sympathy to Paige Holderfeld 1986 Anderson, on the death of her father, Reggie Stacy Nofsinger lives in Greensboro. She recently Holderfeld, who passed away on December 5, 2012. cut her hair and donated 12 inches to Locks of

Love. Tis was her second donation. Betty Dishman works at Western Carolina 2013 SUMMER On July 28, 2012, roommates Katja Reed University, where she recently moved into a position Lackey ’88 and Suzanne Manzer Muskin Lori Lumbard Smith, Mick and Katie really like as ofce manager of international programs and ’88 reunited in Bethesda, Md., for a day their new home in Huntsville, Ala., and hope to services. Son Aaron is a high school junior. flled with smiles. Suzanne (right) was stay for a long time! Mick “retired” in May 2012 vacationing in the United States from her home in Switzerland. after 28 years of service in the army and now Katja Reed Lackey reunited with roommate

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Kids and the Law ATTORNEY SCOTT TROWBRIDGE ’98 TEACHES OTHERS TO USE COURTS TO HELP

cott Trowbridge ’98 may be best recalled for playing music and cracking jokes. S Dan McBrayer ’98, Trowbridge’s former Wallace Hall roommate, says, “Te frst time I saw him, he was sitting on the steps of Morrison Dining Hall making noise on a sitar.” Although Trowbridge has kept experimenting with music in his of hours—he and McBrayer will soon release a CD—he’s found a career he’s passionate about. He trains government ofcials to navigate the court system on behalf of kids. Working in Washington, D.C., for the American Bar Association’s Center on Children and the Law, Trowbridge provides training and technical assistance for federal, state and tribal governments working with courts on issues of child abuse and neglect. “We get to see all of the great work that people are doing to improve the lives of family and children,” he says. At the ABA he works in the Barriers to Permanency Project that addresses placement of foster children in permanent homes, as well as for a resource center that provides legal assistance with the child welfare system. Scott Trowbridge ’98, shown with his wife, Raj, is an advocate for children at the Growing up in Tennessee, American Bar Association’s Center of Children and the Law in Washington, D.C. Trowbridge was suspended several times and put on probation for trespassing. Yet, he remembers the prompted him to consider law school. with a Bollywood-style performance. adults who worked with him were frank He graduated from the University of In his spare time, Trowbridge plays and tried to help. He says they “made a District Columbia in 2007 and started with McBrayer in Te Fun Damn respectable efort to help me fgure out work at the ABA. Mentalists (McBrayer works at the why I was a troublemaker.” Even as a “If anyone can change the world National Cancer Institute) and in an teen, he could see the heartfelt concern. for these kids, it is Scott,” says Cherie experimental folk rock band, American “Tese people really seem[ed] to care Clark, Charles A. Dana Professor of Sinner. Nevertheless, compassion and steer lives in the right direction.” Psychology. “He brought every class up remains his compass. When asked A psychology and religion double to a higher level with probing questions what is rewarding about being staf major at Queens, Trowbridge joined a and remarkable insights…Honestly, I attorney for the ABA, he says “karma” children’s residential treatment center can’t remember anything that he didn’t and means it. Many people take the after graduating. He then became a fnd or make interesting.” concept lightly, but he feels destined to caseworker and later regional supervisor Trowbridge still remains true to help others. in Tennessee’s adoption system. his creative and comedic side. A fan (While he was back in Tennessee, his of Indian music and culture, he and

QUEENS MAGAZINE sister Kirsten Trowbridge ’02 attended his bride, Rajshree Solanki, surprised Queens.) A judge he worked with guests at their 2011 wedding reception —Jenn Q. Goddu MFA ’13 36 CLASS NOTES

Suzanne Manzer Muskin’s stepson is studying adult league. Michele is director of student placement Award for Excellence in Faculty Service from business at McGill University in Montreal. Her for Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools. She is working the State University of New York. She stays busy young son, 6, enjoys his school in their village of on her doctorate in educational leadership at UNC mothering two sons, 11 and 2, and two daughters, Concise, Switzerland. Teir home dates back, in Charlotte and is scheduled to graduate in December. 8 and 5, and teaching and writing about poetry, part, to the 1600s and was the postal hotel for Walt Jr. is a rising senior in college, and Alexis is a women writers and global literature. the horseback couriers at one time. Her husband 10th-grader at Harding High School. works with an international foundation assisting Kristian Taylor White has moved back to Athens, countries with their secondary education system. Ann Wilson Brennan had a 2012 to remember. Ga., with her family. She fnds it unbelievable that She has taken a hiatus from her professional career After 30 years of dreaming about it, she completed her “baby” turned 4 at the end of January. She to be a mom and settle into their new life. her frst Ironman triathlon in 13 hours and 34 fnally graduated in May from nursing school with minutes and could be heard shouting, “Best Day her RN. Go visit them if you are ever in Athens! Te class expresses sympathy to Margaret Arthur Ever!” as she made her way through the 2.4-mile Wilson, on the death of her great-aunt Ridley Moody swim, 112-mile bike ride and 26.2-mile run. Williams ’45, who passed away on January 29. 1992 Lisa Bynum, outside of her full-time job and Te class expresses sympathy to Ashley Arthur, hanging out with friends and family, spends most on the death of her great-aunt Ridley Moody 1990 of her time as board member to A Giving Spirit Williams ’45, who passed away on January 29. Sara Jenkins Collins’ career has yo-yoed once Foundation (www.agivingspirit.org), a nonproft again as she has returned to the nonproft sector inspired by Laura Somerville Woodall ’92 and Jennifer Garner enjoys life in London and her in the new role of communications manager at her fght against ALS. Lisa has also found a work at Kingston Grammar School as development Charlotte Works. (Darn that Queens motto.) way to make her love of wine a second career by director. Her travels continue with trips to Greece She is very excited about the career-building becoming a wine consultant for Wine Shop at and a safari this fall with her sister. Jennifer and opportunity and loves the loft space in the old Home (www.wineshopathome.com/lisabynum). Margaret Aswad Young ’90 had an amazing time in Coke plant on Morehead Street, just across from Ask her about an in-home wine tasting! Marrakesh and crossed paths with Caroline Caton the old Pteradactyl. (Aahh, memories!) When she ’91 and Michelle McIntire ’91, who were there at is not working, she is a board member for Hands Paige “Dufy” Lewis lives in Charleston, S.C., and the same time—a small world for sure! On Charlotte. teaches history as an adjunct at various colleges in the Lowcountry. In July 2012, she began a research Tovi Fitch Martin is communications manager Carolyn Cook Maiden’s [email protected] fellowship at the Free Enterprise Foundation. with Crisis Assistance Ministry in Charlotte. husband, Chris, accepted a position with Microsoft Tovi stays busy between her job, 5-year-old at the State Department in Washington, D.C. Adrienne McCormick was promoted to serve daughter Ellen and husband Kevin’s multiple Carolyn, Chris and daughters Sydney and Olivia as SUNY Fredonia’s interim assistant provost for sclerosis. Tey enjoy spending time with Queens planned to move in the spring to Northern special initiatives for the 2012-2013 academic year. friends Stuart Hair and his wife Beth, Jay Virginia. She would love to hear from her Queens In September 2012, she received a Chancellor’s McBride and Staci Benson McBride and their friends and Phi Mu sisters! children. She wishes that she could see more folks who attended Queens with them. It has Te class expresses sympathy to Blair Mauldin been quite a ride, hasn’t it? Stanford, on the death of her aunt Sue Mauldin Smith ’39, who passed away on January 7. Valerie Elder Pearce is a senior attorney at the Council for Children’s Rights in Charlotte. Blair Mauldin Stanford is the chief operating She recently became the frst attorney in North ofcer at the Charlotte Chamber. She will celebrate Carolina to be specially certifed in both child her 20th anniversary with the organization in welfare and delinquency law. She and husband Jim October. She recently took an incredible trip to live in Wesley Chapel with daughter Elizabeth, 14, New Zealand with husband Mike and teenagers and twins Alexandra and Benjamin, 12. Elizabeth Quincy and Jack and looks forward to the next recently completed her frst semester at the Union family travel opportunity. Blair is back at Queens County Early College. working on her executive coaching certifcate. SUMMER 2013 SUMMER

1991 In October 2012, Ann Wilson Brennan 1993 ’91 completed her frst Ironman triathlon Michelle Roseman Aikens and Walt Aikens live Michelle Maples Colindres and family went to in 13 hours and 34 minutes at the Beach in Charlotte. Walt teaches and coaches basketball to Battleship Ironman in Wilmington, N.C. Maryland over the Christmas break to visit her at Harding High School and plays basketball in an brother and his family. Tey had a blast visiting

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Washington, D.C., and the Air and Space the North Carolina Museum in Virginia. Her children keep busy in School of Science their Young Marines unit, especially when it is & Mathematics. In time to march in the Mardi Gras parades (and November 2011, mom chaperones)! Michelle stays busy providing Ericka was elected activities to her veterans in the nursing home. to serve as an at- large representative Mandy Moore Payne and husband Scott recently to the Charlotte- celebrated their ffth anniversary. Tey keep busy Mecklenburg Board with church and community activities and their of Education. She three children’s sporting and band events. Mandy has completed works for Swain County Schools in Bryson City, her frst year as where she teaches reading strategies to students an elected ofcial, at the middle school and high school who are where she served reading one to two years below grade level. She is as chairman of the also site director for the after-school program at nine-person board. Jean Ann Vawter ’98 (right) enjoyed Christmas with her three the middle school. daughters (l. to r.): Lauren Vawter ’12, Courtney Vawter and Katie Te class expresses Vawter. Lauren was captain of the women’s soccer team at Queens. sympathy to 1994 Pamela Grogan, Elizabeth Drachman left journalism after 18 on the death of her father, Robert Davis Grogan Andrew Brownfeld and Heather Connelly years and now does communications work for an Jr., who passed away on January 30. Brownfeld ’98 welcomed their second daughter, implementer of the U.S. Agency for International Kennedy Addison, on January 21. Development, which works to better the lives of Katie Porter Mantooth kpmantooth@yahoo. poor people across the globe. Her husband is an com has moved north...ok...just to Kentucky, but Arabic-language news editor. She has a 6-year-old it is north for this 11-year Alabama resident! She 1998 son. Tey live in Washington, D.C. and husband Dr. Jamie Mantooth work at Murray Heather Connelly Brownfeld and husband State University. Katie is a career counselor, and Andrew Brownfeld ’97 welcomed their second Jamie is director of retention programs.Teir three daughter, Kennedy Addison, on January 21. 1995 children have adjusted well.Tey enjoy the benefts Charlotte Arden Blackburn is in Indonesia, of living in a town awarded the “Friendliest Small Ashley Smith Conk and Aaron, along with where she has been for more than two years. Town in America” and near a national recreational big sister Elizabeth, were thrilled to welcome She went there to teach English. Tis year, she area (Land Between the Lakes). Stay in touch! Alexander Timothy to the family on October will branch out by focusing more on language 8, 2012. Ashley is glad to be home with both enrichment skills and cultural awareness for Emily Burningham Stewart is enjoying her ffth her babies after having to be readmitted to the business professionals, as well as assisting youth to year living in Jersey, Channel Islands, UK. She and hospital with preeclampsia after Alexander’s fully develop their English skills and confdence her husband have recently bought a home and birth. Tankfully, she has recuperated well and is for increased opportunities towards a brighter enjoy walks in the countryside with their children thoroughly enjoying her life as a full-time mom. future. Visit www.charlotteinjogja.blogspot.com. and new puppy. Tey are planning a joint 40th birthday bash at the end of July and cannot wait Jean Ann Vawter resides on Lake Norman. She Katie Hickey Lavalle has been doing well in to party with friends like the old days. received an MSN-FNP in 2000 from the University Connecticut, where she lives with new hubby of South Carolina. She has been an RN since 1979 Herman. Tey eloped in December 2012 in Las and an advanced practice nurse since 2000. Jean Vegas and are very happy to fnally have made it 1997 works as a certifed urology nurse practitioner for ofcial. It only took 10 years. Tey hope to have a Heather Honeycutt Bostic MA ’02 and David Carolina Urology Partners. Daughter Katie is soon party in 2013 to celebrate. Katie cannot wait to see celebrated the frst birthday of son Hank to graduate from Frances Marion and daughter all her QB’s—she misses them! Montgomery in November 2012. Hank is excited Courtney from UNC Charlotte. Daughter Lauren his only child status is changing in July! Heather Christina Vawter ’12 is a recent graduate of Queens’ is celebrating her 13th year at Wells Fargo and McColl School of Business and athlete and captain 1996 recently began working in the corporate risk for the women’s soccer team! Ericka Michelle Ellis-Stewart and husband department. David continues to run Savings Marcus Stewart ’93 reside in Charlotte and have Unlimited, his family-owned and operated two teenage children, Quinten and Sidney. furniture store. 1999 College applications abound as Quinten is a senior at Shaun Brown has been running a popular program QUEENS MAGAZINE

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in Charlotte that is designed at strengthening the mom is very excited about having a Kappa Delta Tracy Reid Huneycutt and husband John community one youth at a time. Te name of the legacy. welcomed their frst child, a boy named Reid program is Brown Athletic Division (BAD). BAD Edward Huneycutt, on October 17, 2012. Reid helps to keep youth ft and active, while helping Anna Arnold Johnson and husband Tim enjoy life weighed 10 pounds, fve ounces and was 22.5 them to reach and achieve higher levels of success in the city of Chicago. Anna has worked for Kraft inches long. Both mom and dad are enjoying their in life. Visit www.brownathleticdivision.org. Foods for eight years and was recently promoted to role as parents. customer development manager for the central area, Arnita Craighead graduated in December 2012 overseeing sales for Kraft’s beverage business unit. from Georgia State University with an MBA in leadership and organizational management and Kara Revel is thrilled to announce her engagement entrepreneurship. She is working to put her new to Kevin Jarzynski, a flm executive with Bad degree to good use, doing well and enjoying life. Robot Productions. Te couple will wed on July 6 in Montecito, Calif. Ting Lan [email protected] is with Louis Dreyfus Commodities but has recently accepted Lorinda Murphy Tompson is a client services the position of Asia manager of the feed desk. representative supervisor, handling business in the After three fun years in Beijing, he, wife Kat and Canadian and Mexican regions for Dimension their two dogs will be moving soon to Singapore. Data in the Ballantyne area of Charlotte. In July Please say hi if you are coming through Singapore. 2012, they were blessed with a healthy baby girl, Addison Grace Tompson, nine pounds, seven Te class expresses sympathy to Robin Conrad ounces. Everyone is doing well! Lane on the death of her son-in-law.

Robin Conrad Lane’s anoxic brain injury 2001 occurred in 2001. She had to retire from her job Shawn Bowers Buxton MFA ’04 and husband Bo at Te Scottish Bank as executive vice president welcomed identical twin boys, Ethan and Zachary, of corporate communications. Her recovery has on December 12, 2012. Shawn teaches English been slow, and her health has thankfully stabilized. composition and CORE at Queens. She has shifted her focus from banker to being a good “Granny” to her four granddaughters, whose Casey Hastings, after 11 years in the Washington, father passed away in March 2012. Robin and D.C., area, purchased a condo in November husband Larry celebrated their 25th wedding 2012 in Old Town Alexandria, Va. She is busy anniversary in June 2012. decorating and getting settled! In March 2013, Christopher Ammon ’02 and wife Kelly she celebrated fve years lobbying and supporting Ammon ’02 celebrated 10 years of Te class expresses sympathy to Laura Stow Sells, international business development for Motorola marriage on October 20, 2012, when they on the death of her father-in-law, L. Melvin Sells, Solutions. She looks forward this year to traveling renewed their vows before friends and family at Eno River State Park in Durham, who passed away on January 9. and spending time with friends and family. N.C.

2000 Rebekah Davis Ahrens and husband Frank welcomed a baby girl, Annabelle Jubilee, on 2002 January 13. Teir little girl had “seen” four Christopher Ammon and wife, Kristen Kelly countries before her birth and is scheduled to Ammon, recently celebrated 10 years of marriage see a few new ones this year. July fnds Rebekah by renewing their vows with friends and family assigned to the U.S. Embassy, Jakarta, as an in attendance. After the celebration, they headed economic ofcer. Frank works as vice president of of to the island of St. Maarten for a second corporate communications for Hyundai Motor honeymoon.

Co. In fall 2012, they visited with Kara Revel 2013 SUMMER in Los Angeles and look forward to many more Jill Brumer is happily living in Houston. When visits. not working at the nonproft Workshop Houston, Shawn Bowers Buxton ’01 and husband teaching inner-city youth sewing or teaching in Cameron Rogers Helms and Trey Helms were Bo welcomed identical twin boys, Ethan the drama department at San Jacinto College, she and Zachary, on December 12, 2012. expecting their second child, a girl, in May. Her is busy enjoying the good life with her new fance!

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Chad Hensen and Natalie Kotowski Hensen Andrea “Dre” Alford Manoni MA ’08 and Aaron Brantly graduated in December 2012 with ’05 were married on July 14, 2012, at St. Peter’s husband RJ were expecting their frst child, a baby a doctorate in political science and international Catholic Church in Charlotte. Te wedding party boy, in April. Tey were very excited about this relations from the University of Georgia. Aaron included Jason Fennemore ’02, Brittany Smith new addition to their family! If Dre was not at and wife Nataliya are currently expecting the birth Lindberg ’05, Colleen Morton Chevalier ’06, the 10-year reunion, just know that Baby Manoni of their second child. Michael Hensen ’06 and Whitney Hensen ’09. most likely had other ideas. Dre works and teaches Te couple honeymooned in Hong Kong and Koh at Winthrop University as a career consultant. Bonnie Davis recently started a position as risk Samui,Tailand.Tey live in the greater Charlotte manager at Carolinas Healthcare System. She area, where Chad works for KPMG LLP in the Candace Cooper Murray MSN ’08 and husband will be fnishing a master of science in nursing in fnancial management group and Natalie teaches Will welcomed their frst child, Mila Joy Murray, in health systems management this summer. at Winthrop University. April 2012. Candace is responsible for community health and global initiatives at the YMCA of Jade Sutter Hall MA ’07 and Curt Hall IV MBA Nicole Kenney Joseph MSOD ’12 completed Greater Charlotte. Her most recent project was ’08 recently moved from Chicago to Greenville, all requirements in December 2012 for a master leading a global service-learning team to Dakar, S.C., where Curt is the new branch manager of of science in organization development from the Senegal, in West Africa. She is the director and the UBS ofce. Tey welcomed their frst child, McColl School of Business. She serves as a board co-founder of the nonproft PeacePassers.org, a daughter named Hannah Virginia, on January member of the McColl School Alumni Association with the mission to collect new and used soccer 23. Tey are enjoying their sweet baby girl and are and works as a learning consultant for Bank of equipment and distribute supplies to communities excited about returning home to the South. America. Now that she has received her degree, around the world. Nicole plans to take some much needed time of Ellen Hutchinson Johnson received her CMA in from academia and looked forward to a celebratory Lindsay Jack Salter went to work for Wells Fargo, July 2010. She worked as a shot room nurse for a vacation in the spring. after graduating from Queens, and is still there. year and a half at Asthma and Allergy Specialists She lives in Charlotte with husband Cameron and in Charlotte. Currently, she works at Box Arthritis Frieda Calk Price MSN ’03, after working in black lab Nala. Tey do not plan to have children. and Rheumatology in research and electronic occupational health for more than 20 years, medical records. She and husband Carter spend switched gears and has a new position, the Annie Kendall Williams and husband Steve their time going to the mountains. executive director of a not-for-proft adult day care welcomed their frst son, Charles Tomas services agency. She and husband Dave became “Charlie,” on January 12. Alison Kendrick traveled to Europe to spend grandparents in 2012. Christmas and New Year’s with Taryn Rimland. Tey had a wonderful time in Italy and Germany, 2004 where they visited Zugspitze, Germany’s highest 2003 Dustin Benedict works for an American-based point. Alison works in marketing at Mood Media Colleen McCarey Albert launched her freelance company in Kabul, advising local organizations and enjoys being featured as a voice talent for on- editing business this year as Te Grammar Babe in improving their marketing, public relations/ hold and in-store advertising. Taryn was rounding and has had the pleasure of editing a novel by media and outreach strategies through a USAID- out her fourth year abroad and looked forward to author Jes Young. She has also been busy fnishing funded initiative to promote civil society as a driver returning in spring to Charlotte. Te Guardian of Fire, book one in her young adult of positive growth in Afghanistan. He enjoys the urban fantasy trilogy (Te Guardian Trilogy). unique challenges associated with this type of work Valarie Ferrell Lockridge lives in Augusta, Ga. and is appreciative of the opportunity to be a part of Her husband is the club house manager at the Jen Scialabba Calhoun and her family enjoy the positive changes happening at this level. Augusta National Golf Club. She works for two living in south Georgia, minus the hot summers. superior court judges, managing their criminal Tey love taking family trips to Disney and case loads. On December 27, 2012, they welcomed cannot wait for the arrival of Baby Calhoun #2 the birth of their frst child, a son, Henry Ferrell in July. Katie, 5, is very excited to be a big sister. Lockridge, nine pounds, 13 ounces. Jen has been teaching drama and English for 10 years. Briana Watkins Savago and husband Patrick live in Charlotte. Briana planned to fnish her nursing Janice Gabriel went back to school and received degree in May at Carolinas College of Health her teaching degree. She is a high school English Sciences. Tey looked forward to the arrival of teacher at Newtown High School in Newtown, their frst baby boy in May. Conn. When she is not in the classroom, she Alison Kendrick ’04 and Taryn Rimland spends most of her free time on the stage and is ’04 at Zugspitze, Germany’s highest Winston Sharpe was recently appointed to the the executive director of a theater in Danbury, point. Alison traveled to Europe to spend boards of Habitat for Humanity of Charlotte Conn. Christmas and New Year’s with Taryn. and the Keep Charlotte Beautiful committee by QUEENS MAGAZINE

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the Charlotte City Council. He is also chairman in Europe, returning to where they spent their was recently promoted to marketing operations of the Great Charlotte Clean-Up subcommittee honeymoon. Tis time the trip will be a little coordinator. She rang in the new year in the British that partners with Keep America Beautiful, by diferent as they take son Noah along. Virgin Islands and hopes that 2013 brings more hosting a local Great Charlotte Clean-Up. Tis travel abroad. Devin assisted with a Mardi Gras clean-up efort is the nation’s largest community Natalie Kotowski Hensen and Chad Hensen ball to raise money for a safe home for domestic improvement program, built on a foundation of ’02 were married on July 14, 2012, at St. Peter’s abuse victims. As chapter advisor for Alpha Delta individual responsibility and civic pride. Catholic Church in Charlotte. Te wedding party Pi, she aided in planning a 5K fundraiser in April included Jason Fennemore ’02, Brittany Smith for Ronald McDonald House. Suzanne Voigt recently moved from Charlotte to Lindberg ’05, Colleen Morton Chevalier ’06, Athens, Ga., where she serves as a career consultant Michael Hensen ’06 and Whitney Hensen ’09. Chris Barlow works at T-Metrics, a small at the University of Georgia’s Career Center. Te couple honeymooned in Hong Kong and Koh computer engineering frm in Charlotte. He and Samui,Tailand.Tey live in the greater Charlotte Perky Boike Barlow ’08 celebrated the birth of Marc Wojnowich works with executives of frms area, where Chad works for KPMG LLP in the their frst child, Silas Christian Barlow, born on spending greater than $200,000/year on freight to fnancial management group and Natalie teaches Tanksgiving Day 2012. fnd methods and opportunities to operate more at Winthrop University. cost efectively. His clients never heard a better Chris Cooke and Shannon Lowe Cooke ’10 excuse why their transportation costs were rising Katelyn Penney McKinney lives in Boise, Idaho, welcomed a son, Jackson Gleen Cooke, on than fuel, but now they have tools in place to hold where she practices securities and exchange September 22, 2012. carriers and their own staf accountable. commission law. She enjoys spending all of her time away from work with daughter Madeline, Heather Krzyzanowski and boyfriend Jason born in November 2011. welcomed a son, James Parker, on June 27, 2012. 2005 Currently, she enjoys being a stay-at-home mom Devon Grenda Carley, Darrell and Preston have Julie Randall and Andrew Batten married on in the new house that she and Jason purchased in recently moved. Tey had a house built in Milton, September 29, 2012, on the Queens campus in Delaware. Ga., and moved in March. Devon thoroughly Burwell Hall. Te wedding party included Linsey enjoys being a stay-at-home mommy to Preston, Logan, Nat Dietrich ’06, Shaun Hogan ’06 and Amanda Banks McGrath and Kyle McGrath who turned one in December 2012. Grace Batten, a current Queens student. ’07 welcomed a daughter, Bennett Carrington McGrath, on December 5, 2012.Tey are enjoying Sarah Donnelly moved in September 2012 Sarah Yeager completed her MBA with a their new adventure as a family of three. to Paris, after spending seven years living and concentration in international business in working in Washington, D.C. So far, she is December 2012 at Samford University. She has Elizabeth Codington McGuire and husband enjoying her time learning French, eating cheese been serving as the new member advisor for the William welcomed their frst child, a baby boy and performing stand-up comedy. Phi Mu chapter at Samford. named John Howell McGuire, on November 26, 2012. Cerena Beltran Hardney MBA ’07 and Adam Hardney ’06 are looking forward to celebrating 2006 Julie Ohlandt Renkas and husband Brock their four-year wedding anniversary this summer Charlotte Patterson Arsenault graduated in welcomed a daughter, Claire Pamela Renkas, on May 2011 from February 20. Harvard Divinity School with a master Erin Crager Woodworth and husband Neal of divinity and, in Woodworth ’07 welcomed a healthy baby boy, early 2012, completed Austin Ewan Woodworth, on September 26, a residency at Emory 2012. Tey moved into a new home, which they University Hospital. built in January 2012. She and husband Leo welcomed their frst child, Lilah Lynn Jolie 2007 Arsenault, in May Christina Anderson lives in Jacksonville, Fla.,

2012. and works as an IT business systems analyst for 2013 SUMMER surgical technologies at Medtronic. She is currently Devin Baranowski pursuing her master’s degree in IT management at Julie Randall ’05 and Andrew Batten ’05 were married on September 29, 2012, on campus. The wedding party included is employed at Oreck Webster University. Christina is actively involved (l. to r.) Grace Batten ’14, Linsey Logan, the bridal couple, Nat Corporation in within the North Florida lacrosse community Dietrich ’06 and Shaun Hogan ’06. Cookeville, Tenn., and and was named the frst head coach for Te Bolles

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School varsity girls’ lacrosse program, which began Triplett on September 1, 2012, in its inaugural season this spring. Johnson City, Tenn. She was joined by several of her friends from her times Christine Corless Bronner, after graduation, at Queens, including her lacrosse moved to Detroit, Mich., to work for Ford Motor teammates and her Kappa Delta Company. She worked for Ford for fve years Sorority sisters. She and her husband as a fnance analyst and met future husband live in southern Maryland, both working Garrett Bronner. She and Garrett were married at NAS Patuxent River. on September 29, 2012, in Charleston, S.C., and recently relocated to Seattle. Karen Yutzy and husband Chris Adkins welcomed a daughter, Lillian Suzanne, Jonathan Campbell and Kristin Lane Campbell in August 2012. Tey have recently Tracey Keitt ’09 and wife Christine live in Santiago, Chile, and celebrated the New Year with ’11 welcomed a daughter, McKenna Ann moved from New Bern to Asheville a visit from Joel “Pants” Tomkinson ’10 and Claire Campbell, on February 26. and are very excited to be back in the Lowrance Tomkinson ’08. Blue Ridge. Karen teaches drama and Denise Lee-Deane Elmore graduated in planned to graduate in May with a September 2012 from Jacksonville University master’s of library science from Appalachian State three stores in the greater Charlotte area. School of Nursing. She moved to Charlotte after University. graduation with her boyfriend and pets. She works Joseph Crawford completed a master of science in as a pediatric RN. nursing/family nurse practitioner in December 2012. 2008 He recently accepted a position with S.C. Hypertension Kyle McGrath and Amanda Banks McGrath Perky Boike Barlow and Chris Barlow ’06 and Nephrology as nurse practitioner/director of clinical ’06 welcomed a daughter, Bennett Carrington, on welcomed a son, Silas Christian Barlow, on research. Joseph is also an adjunct faculty member at December 5, 2012. Tey are enjoying their new November 22, 2012. Trident Technical College in Charleston, S.C. He is adventure as a family of three. currently a 1st lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserves Melanie Campos is pursuing a master of science awaiting fnalization of promotion to captain. Te class expresses sympathy to Ellen Moore, on in environmental studies and a master of public the death of her father, Herman Aubrey Moore administration at the College of Charleston. Paige Jordan works for the Cato Corporation and was III ’78, who passed away on November 7, 2012. Melanie serves as an executive ofcer for the recently promoted to senior assistant buyer of apparel Graduate Student Association and the Master for the newest store, Versona Accessories. She lives in Jenny Jenkins Story and husband Tomas of Environmental Science Student Association Charlotte, enjoying all that the city has to ofer. welcomed a beautiful baby girl named Trinity on (MESSA). She is in her second year on the December 28, 2012. Tanks go to their alumni planning committee for the MESSA 8K for H2O Kathryn Keeton is incredibly grateful for all friends who attended the baby shower and have road race held on James Island, S.C. Melanie her wonderful Queens friends—the old and the visited to meet their little angel! performs with the Charleston Community Band new! She thanks them all for being such amazing and the College of Charleston Flute Ensemble. people. Ashleigh Williams Triplett married Brandon Alyssa Knowles Amanda Mahle is in the fnal stages of completing Cox married Shawn her doctoral dissertation research at the University Cox on May 12, of Maryland, College Park. In fact, hopefully by 2012, on Seabrook the time this is published, she will be preparing Island, S.C. Almost to defend her thesis. Following the completion of all of her bridesmaids her doctorate in biochemistry, she will be starting were fellow Queens medical school this fall at the University of alumnae. In late May Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. 2012, Alyssa and her husband opened Sarah Mercier is a senior paralegal at Maggio + Clothes Mentor, a Kattar, an immigration law frm in Washington, women’s resale clothing D.C. She married Charles Kirby on September store.Tey are currently 30, 2012. Ashleigh Williams Triplett ’07 married Brandon Triplett on signing a lease for a September 1, 2012, in Johnson City, Tenn. She was joined by her second Clothes Mentor Taryn Wolford is an assistant golf professional at Queens lacrosse teammates and Kappa Delta Sorority sisters. in Charlotte and have a public golf course in Charlotte. She specializes as a plans to open at least golf instructor for women and junior golfers of all QUEENS MAGAZINE

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levels.Taryn is enrolled in the PGA PGM Apprentice Her spare time is spent volunteering with North Program, where she is pursuing her PGA certifcation. Carolina Dance Teatre, Te Humane Society of Charlotte and cuddling her dog, Punky. She had a fabulous trip in July 2012 to Utah with Keatin 2009 McKenzie, Whitney Palmer and Ellie Ramm. Sarah Burt lives in Augusta, Ga.,working as project manager at creative agency Wier/Stewart. She sits on Mariel Roberts moved in August 2011 to the AAF Augusta board as communications chair Houston, Texas, and is working in human and is a member of Young Professionals of Augusta. resources for Shell.

Lauren Steele Kauer graduated with her master’s Caitlin Bower Russell married Jonathan Adam in physician assistant studies in December 2012 Russell on January 19 in Charlotte. Te reception from Wingate University. She was granted her was held at Queens in Morrison Hall. Caitlin board certifcation in January and has joined graduated in 2009 with a degree in elementary Barron & Homesley Orthopedic Specialists as education and is pursuing a master of education their new orthopedic surgery PA. in literacy at Queens. She teaches fourth grade in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Jonathan Tracey Keitt and wife Christine were excited to graduated in 2009 from Appalachian State welcome their frst addition to the Keitt family University and works for the Boy Scouts as a in March. Tey have passed their year and a half district executive in the Mecklenburg County mark living in Santiago, Chile, and absolutely love Council. Shannon Lowe Cooke ’10 and Chris their life, minus missing close loved ones. Tey Cooke ’06 welcomed their frst son, had the adventurous experience of having Joel Emily Valasco is in her frst year of law school Jackson Glenn Cooke, on September “Pants” Tomkinson ’10 and Claire Lowrance at Capital University Law School in Columbus, 22, 2012. Tomkinson ’08 visit to celebrate the new year. Ohio. She is employed with a fnancial planner Roaming around the beautiful outdoors of Chile in Columbus and plans on continuing to work with them, priceless. in wealth management and estate planning after Sarah Crawford has started a master of arts in graduating from law school. She and fance Nick English literature at McNeese State University Joan Kleinmann started working in July 2012 for will be getting married this summer! and is engaged to Joel Ferdon ’12. Presbyterian Hospital. Son Elijah turned one year old on January 30. Chelsea Vestal and Michael Banducci married on Mary Floyd works as the clinical care coordinator April 28. Tey live in Raleigh. and RN supervisor for Peak Resources Nursing & Katie Lyle is in her fourth year of a doctorate Rehabilitation Center. program at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass. She has fnished all coursework and is 2010 Jonathan Hennika presented “Changing Chinese currently preparing for her doctoral exam, after Alan Brittman lives in Charlotte, working for Students Immigration Patterns” at the Southeast which she will hopefully begin work on her Bank of America as a personal banker. He enjoys Conference of the Association of Asian Studies dissertation proposal. Katie’s interests for the avidly fshing on his boat in Hilton Head, S.C. annual meeting in January in Wilmington. Te dissertation lie in dictatorship literature of 20th following month, he presented a paper titled, century Latin America and the Latin American Pablo Carvajal has been deployed abroad since “Southern Populism, Race and North Carolina Avant Garde. August 2012 in support of Operation Enduring Politics,” at the annual Graduate History Freedom as part of the 371 CBRN Company from Conference at North Carolina State University. Molly Rose Nass joined Te CSI Companies in Greenwood, S.C. Tey will return in July to the Jonathan continues to work towards a master of July 2012 as an administrator in their healthcare United States. He plans to return to Washington, art in Southern history at Winthrop University. IT division. D.C., where he had been doing internships, to look for employment. He looks forward to visiting Brooke Jeter and Michael Mazhari ’11 married Stephanie Phipps fnished her service with the campus, attending alumni activities and supporting on April 26.Tey are so glad they met during their Peace Corps as a health volunteer in Nicaragua the university and Greek life on campus. time at Queens!

and now works as the assistant director of 2013 SUMMER programs and development for the World Afairs Shannon Lowe Cooke and Chris Cooke ’06 are Patience Musochera is elated to have recently Council of Charlotte. excited to announce the birth of their frst son, accepted an ofer at Presbyterian Cancer Center Jackson Glenn Cooke, on September 22, 2012. in uptown Charlotte and will continue her Elisabeth Podair works in marketing at He is a perfect little man and the sunshine that nursing journey there. She hopes Blair College of Charlotte-based agency Spark Strategic Ideas. brightens their day. Health Sciences will have a nurse practitioner or

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physician’s assistant program by fall 2013 as her Amanda Martin is a graduate assistant at Corps. Te MLC primarily assists the large Somali goal is to become an advanced practice RN or a PA Mercyhurst University. She is the assistant coach refugee student population in reaching academic in the next two years while staying true to being for the Mercyhurst Lakers women’s lacrosse team success and realizing career and college goals. Jessie a Royal. and is pursuing a master’s degree in organizational is thoroughly enjoying time with her students and leadership with a concentration in nonprofts. exploring Maine’s natural beauty. Marianne Boglovits Oberklein married Daniel F. Oberklein on October 17, 2012, in Jeferson. Michael Mazhari and Brooke Jeter ’10 married Jamie Isabelle reports that fnding a job was not Tey are moving to Greenville to pursue new job in April. Michael has joined a wealth management easy for her, especially in her feld of choice. After opportunities. team at Merrill Lynch in uptown Charlotte, and months of looking, another Queens graduate told Brooke works for Bank of America. her about an opportunity to sell insurance. After Cecilia Tchangoue obtained her master’s degree passing the North Carolina state exam in property in international management from Audencia Rebecca Morris works as an English teacher and casualty, Jamie is a direct sales specialist for Nantes School of Management in France. She at Sun Valley High School in Monroe. She has Allstate. is a sales manager in an international company started her second year of teaching and hopes to that sells accessories and equipment for all Apple pursue a master’s in library science in 2014. Jamie Kreber works at SouthPark Animal devices. She is happy and thankful for all the Hospital as a veterinary assistant. She plans to go things she has today, and she wishes the best to all Eliza Newbury-Palma attends the Edward Via back to school to obtain her veterinary technician of her Queens fellows. May 2013 be a great year College of Osteopathic Medicine in Spartanburg, license. She has fallen in love with her job and for all of us—Let’s Go Royals! S.C., after spending a year in Grand Rapids, Mich. cannot imagine doing anything else!

Amanda Valbert graduated in December 2012 Jessica Underwood has worked since graduation Brittany Philip became the manager of marketing with her master’s in industrial organizational as an RN in the Neuro-Surgical ICU at CMC- while also maintaining her role as the manager of psychology from Argosy University, Atlanta. Main. She currently works in the post-anesthesia customer relations at Atlantic Trading, LLC. Amanda registered to take the Professional in care unit at Gaston Memorial Hospital. She is Human Resources exam to obtain her certifcation also a paramedic for Lincoln County EMS. Some Tarik Sloussi is pursuing a master of arts in and passed her exam at the end of January. She of her hobbies include traveling, snowboarding, community counseling at Argosy University, works at Sports Connection as the director of hiking, mountain biking and wildlife photography. Atlanta. He is also working full time as a virtual CJV North and is looking for both additional learning lab facilitator at Riverwood High School. roles in her feld within the company and other After completing his graduate studies, Tarik plans opportunities in her feld externally. 2012 on working in the private sector as a licensed Daniel Bailey is playing professional basketball professional counselor. in Germany. He reports that it has been a great 2011 experience so far, and he is having the time of his life. Katie Walsh graduated in December 2012 Josephine Bloch, along with getting recently from Charlotte School of Law. She works as engaged, has pioneered an ambitious drama program Scott Buys was promoted to senior vice president an extern with the family court administrator at Accadis International School in Bad Homburg, at Bank of America. He is currently managing in Mecklenburg County and looks forward to Germany (near Frankfurt). Since August 2012, product analytics for home loans. passing the bar and fnding a job. she has been working with a variety of age groups, kindergarten through seventh grade, and thoroughly Amelia Farmer lives in Charlotte and recently enjoys sharing her passion and knowledge with the began a full-time job as a marketing coordinator GRADUATE next generation of young actors. Together with her in audience development at SportsBusiness Journal. enthusiastic students, they have put on several small PROGRAMS but outstanding productions and planned on tackling Michael Fleming works with Push America, which a spring musical. is located in Charlotte. He will be helping plan the Robert Lorentz MBA ’83 has retired but is 2013 Journey of Hope South route. At the end of currently providing start-up capital for small Kristin Lane Campbell and Jonathan Campbell May, Michael planned to fy out to join the team in companies. ’07 welcomed a daughter, McKenna Ann Long Beach, Calif., and travel across the country to Campbell, on February 26. Washington, D.C. Te Journey of Hope is a cross- Jane Neumeyer Bardwell MBA ’84 is an iOS country cycling trip that helps raise awareness and app developer whose software, CUE YOU, was Ely Friedman is excited to meet all the alumni on funds for people with disabilities. named a fnalist for Technology Product of the the new Facebook page for Queens Alumni Club Year through TechColumbus, a partnership of Charlotte: www.facebook.com/groups/qacoc/. Jessie Hunt moved in September 2012 to Lewiston- among the State of Ohio’s Department of Ely was excited for the new year and is happy to Auburn, Maine, to work for a contracted year as a Development, Battelle Memorial Institute and help all alumni in Charlotte! member of AmeriCorps’ Multilingual Leadership Te Ohio State University Technology Research QUEENS MAGAZINE

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and Development. CUE YOU is a cutting edge York Times and featured scheduling and life support app that stands to on CPCC TV’s local change the lives of 55,000,000 Americans with entrepreneur “Great early dementia, traumatic brain injury, mental Ideas” program. She illness and developmental disability. Visit www. published her frst book, cue-you.com. How Your Disorganization is Stealing Your Time, Karen Hartsell MAT ’96 retired from teaching Your Attention, and Your and has published her frst novel, Illusion, A Health. Republic Lost, under her maiden name, Karen Alexander. She has accomplished a longtime goal. Matthew Favreau She attended Queens to start a new career, and MBA ’03 has been now, she is starting another! awarded the Chartered EMBA 2000 classmates and McColl School of Business faculty Alternative Investment gathered to celebrate the life of beloved friend David Little EMBA ’00. The funeral was held in Charlotte on February 25. Pictured Laura Rice Sutherland MBA ’97 was promoted Analyst Charter, the only from the EMBA Class of 2000 (l. to r.): Chip Wood; Debi Moore to senior director, sales/customer management professional designation Slate; Lori Bunce Giang; Michael Giang; Carol Knight Bondy; at NuVal LLC. Te NuVal® Nutritional Scoring exclusively for alternative John Reeves, Bill Berry, McColl School faculty member; Scott System scores food on a scale of 1-100; the higher investment practitioners. Schloeder; Stephen Kingsley; Michelle Camero Skipper; Dalya Kutchei; Carolyn Main Hewett and Brenda Leigh Suits. the number, the more nutritious the product. Dr. Attending but not pictured: Karen Geiger, McColl School faculty David Katz, founding director of the Yale Prevention Elizabeth Adams Dowling member, and EMBA Class of 2000 members Teresa Annette Research Center, worked with a dozen of the leading PMBA ’04 is the president Robertson, Niles Curry and Sam Smith. minds in medicine and nutrition to develop the of Sweet Marketing algorithm that powers the scores. Te scores are Solutions, a boutique displayed on price tags on supermarket shelves. marketing consulting frm based in Westchester Carol Locher Ransone EMBA ’08 and family County, N.Y. Teir approach is based on an had an exciting 2012. In May 2012, Carol’s Patrick Halloran EMBA ’98, his wife and understanding of each client’s marketing goals, daughters both graduated: Catherine with an daughter reside in the Columbus suburb of so they can design efective solutions tailored MBA from Columbia University and Emily with Dublin, Ohio. He is managing the international to needs, budget and schedule. Clients, big and a degree in psychology from UNC Chapel Hill. In logistics network for Cardinal Health, a Fortune small, rely on SMS for marketing solutions that fall 2012, Carol advanced to candidacy in Antioch 20 company. Patrick divides his time between successfully communicate their vision.Te website University’s doctorate in leadership and change. Asia and the United States and enjoys almost is sweetmarketingsolutions.net. Te focus of her dissertation is the importance of every minute of it but misses his former EMBA relationship in virtual work environments. classmates still in the warmer climate of Charlotte. Bill Garcia EMBA ’08 has recently been hired by Te Norman Group as a senior project manager in Laurie Soenen MA ’08 and husband Scott James Dever EMBA ’00 recently joined forces the management consulting division of an overall welcomed a son, Hayes Davis Soenen, on July 5, with former fnance industry leaders to start consulting practice that also includes IT and 2012. a new capital management company, Edens project management consulting. In his spare time, Capital Management. He is the chief operating Bill provides strategic guidance on governance, Kilby Watson MA ’08 joined Goodwill Industries ofcer and managing director and is responsible operational and fscal matters related to the of the Southern Piedmont in June 2011 as their for the overall frm management and strategic foundation of the Latin American Chamber of volunteer coordinator and developed the agency’s development, due diligence, frm-wide risk Commerce of Charlotte. new Champions for Good volunteer program. management and oversight of all investment Due to the program’s success, her leadership and processes and strategies. He has more than 13 Curt Hall IV MBA ’08 and Jade Sutter Hall the partnerships established, she was promoted years of investment management experience, ’04, MA ’07 recently moved from Chicago to to manager of community engagement. In her which includes portfolio management, client Greenville, S.C., where Curt is the new branch current role, she continues to spearhead the service, equity strategy implementation, trading manager of the UBS ofce. Tey welcomed their volunteer program and leads outreach eforts to and business management. frst child, a daughter named Hannah Virginia, on help advance Goodwill’s mission. January 23. Tey are enjoying their sweet baby girl

Angie Mattson’s MA ’02 business, Your and are excited about returning home to the South. Ed Coambs PMBA ’09 had an exciting year 2013 SUMMER Organized Guide, Inc., shows business owners helping wife Ann open her own dental ofce, how to streamline their workfow and reduce stress Joseph W. Norman MBA ’08 and Amy Norman Imagine Dentistry. It took loads of time, energy, by using Te Five Essential Business Systems™. welcomed a daughter, Elizabeth Reynolds, on planning, prayer, advisors and fun. Fortunately She has been a guest on NPR/WFAE’s “Charlotte November 30, 2012.Tey live in Charlotte. Joseph with great support from the community, the Talks with Mike Collins,” interviewed in Te New is an attorney with K&L Gates, LLP in Charlotte. practice is up and running, and now Ed and

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Ann are proud business owners. Ed is just a year C. David Ellard’s MFA ’11 short story, “Battle Nathan Foster EMBA ’12 completed his frst half away from completing his second master’s degree, of Fort Bowyer Remix,” was published in War marathon in January, the Walt Disney World half towards becoming a marriage and family therapist. Stories, an anthology of fction by veteran writers marathon, and is preparing to complete his second that includes pictures of military life. It is edited half marathon later this year. Joshua Donaldson PMBA ’09 piloted an AH- by Sally Shore and Sally Drumm, published by 64D Apache gunship for the frst time on January MilSpeak Books and available from SmashWords. David Owens-Hill MA ’12, in August 2012, 8 as part of advanced fight training for the North along with his nine-pound terrier named Winston, Carolina Army National Guard. Joshua looked Leora Itzhaki MSA ’11 is excited to say that moved to San Francisco to accept a position at the forward to graduating in June, after 19 months of she is now an assistant principal in Charlotte- Asian Art Museum, the largest museum of its kind training, and returning home to North Carolina. Mecklenburg Schools and loving it, after all the in the Western Hemisphere. Tough he misses hard work getting her MSA! his East Coast friends, he could not be enjoying Clay Lewis PMBA ’09 works with Bank of the weather, the people and the adventure more. America, where he was promoted to stafng He does report that folks out in Cali do not executive, accountable for vendor management understand proper Southern cooking. and labor strategy. He served as chair of the sixth annual Billy O. Wireman Memorial Tournament. Andrea Stevenson PMBA ’11 left Community School of the Arts in November 2012 to become Rosalyn Allison-Jacobs MSOD ’11 has joined executive director of Te Lee Institute, a nonproft La Piana Consulting as a senior consultant. It consultancy that provides facilitation, strategic is based in Emeryville, Calif., and specializes in planning, leadership training and civic engagement strategic restructuring, business strategy and a services for the social sector. unique approach to planning called “real-time strategic planning” for the nonproft, public and Steadman Sugg EMBA ’12 and wife Elizabeth philanthropic sectors. welcomed a son, Robert Brooks Sugg, on September 23, 2012. Steadman accepted the Guilherme Batista EMBA ’11, since graduating position of supplier relationship management in May 2011, got married, quit his job in Charlotte, executive within Duke Energy. In July 2012, Ed Coambs MBA ’09 (holding found a new job in Chicago and subsequently son Blaine) and his wife, Ann, rode with the moved to Chicago with new wife Gabrielle! Tey McColl School bike team at the 24 Hours are overwhelmed but in a good way. Guilherme of Booty event in Myers Park. The annual is director of business information and knowledge event raises funds for cancer research. In Memory sharing for Easter Seals, Inc., a nonproft that Catherine “Kitty”Wilson Cloud ’35, 1/8/2013. provides products, services and advocacy for Keith Campbell EMBA ’12 was selected to lead Frances Hunsucker Gibson ’36, 9/15/2012. disabled individuals of all ages. GE Aviation Systems’ largest Cincinnati-area Clara Belle White ’36, 2/24/2013. volunteer activity involving the Mid-Western Children’s Home (MCH) located in Pleasant Louise Morris ’37, 12/4/2012. Plain, Ohio. GE volunteers provide year-around Vara Virginia “VV”Taylor Callahan ’38, 2/28/2013. activities for children and staf at MCH and last Carmalt Hartman Brown ’39, 12/14/2012. year provided a $25,000 donation for discretionary spending. Keith attributes his involvement in Olivia Gillespie Farthing ’39, 1/2/2013. MCH to Professor Karen Geiger’s relentless call Annie McLendon Nunn ’39, 10/18/2012. for community support and leadership. Sue Mauldin Smith ’39, 1/7/2013.

Christopher Haddad’s PMBA ’12 business Eleanor Burris Stowe ’39, 2/2/2013. Flip’N Chicken, which he owns with Samar Mary Smith Wilson ’39, 2/9/2013. Haddad, celebrated its two-year anniversary on Marie Tise Bollinger ’40, 10/30/3012. December 28, 2012. Te restaurant, located in Carmel Commons Shopping Center on Pineville- Ellen Hardee Okey ’40, 10/19/2012. Matthews Road, has quickly become Charlotte’s Dorothy Summerville Chaplin ’43, 12/17/2012. favorite wing spot. Flip’N Chicken was voted Ceil Sypher Jonas ’43, 12/12/2012. “BEST WINGS” in Creative Loafng’s Best Guilherme Batista EMBA ’11 and wife Of Charlotte 2012 edition. You can like Flip’N Louise Brumley Miller ’43, 10/25/2012. Gabrielle in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Chicken on Facebook or follow Flip’N Chicken following their wedding October 12, 2012. Virginia Anne Buckner Singletary ’43, 1/8/2013. on twitter @fipnchicken. QUEENS MAGAZINE Betty Spaugh Watson ’43, 11/5/2012.

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Mary Webster Sieg ’44, 11/30/2012. 2012-2013 Alumni Association Ridley Williams ’45, 1/29/2013. Board of Directors

Dorothy “Dot” McCoy Critz ’46, 2/8/2013. Executive Committee: Virginia Tarlton Harris ’46, 9/8/2012. Derek Painter ’92, President Dee Gafney Malone ’71, Secretary Mary Jane Nisbet Phillips ’46, 1/8/2013. Bonnie Currie Gilbert ’63, Reunion Chair

Lorraine Goodman Wallace ’46, 8/24/2012. Judy Berry Fouche ’65, Reunion Chair-Elect Sherry Dunn Borgsdorf ’97, Clubs & Admissions Chair Nancy Stitt Hillis ’47, 12/18/2012. Jennifer Lawrence Grennan ’93, Clubs & Admissions Chair-Elect

Martha Scarborough McGeachy ’47, 1/30/2013. John Horton ’03, Annual Giving Chair Dorothy Kirk Reeves ’47, 8/28/2012. Fernando Ycaza ’05, Annual Giving Chair-Elect

Jeanne Throckmorton Stanley ’47, 10/21/2012. Members-At-Large:

Katherine Loy Gwynn ’48, 12/14/2012. Kristen Kelly Ammon ’02 Erin Pitts ’98 Jean Taylor Blaylock ’60 Gail Ness Richardson ’69 Geneva Applewhite Stanley ’48, 1/30/2013. Ercel Carter ’97 Lynn Fricks Rogers ’60

Marion Fant Williams ’48, 1/6/2013. Nancy Dorrier ’66 Stephanie Hilleson Safrit ’86 Betty Lawing Ferris ’50, 12/26/2012. Evelyn Christopher Fooshe ’57 Michael Spisso ’01 Betty Cobb Gurnell ’69 Ray Warga ’08

Barbara Hoke McAllister Dooley ’51, 1/18/2013. Elaine Hallman Henderson ’75 Connie Weber ’92 Jo Webb Goode ’51, 3/8/2013. Christine Wink MacKay ’84 Jo DeWitt Wilson ’59 Staci Benson McBride ’92 Cindy Vanderford Wolfe ’88 Caroline Davis Collins Smith ’51, 1/16/2013. Mary Nethercutt ’83 Kevin Yearick ’98 Patricia Skelton Liphardt ’53, 11/16/2012. Alice O’Toole ’07 Bryan Seaford ’07, Ex Ofcio – Ginger Burch Owen ’65 McColl School Alumni Board Chair Virginia Long Herrin ’54, 12/21/2012.

Eleanor Tillinghast Myers ’54, 2/27/2013. Advisory Board: Rose Martin Nail ’54, 11/26/2012. Christopher Ammon ’02 Claudette Brown Hall ’65 John Lincoln Grass ’57, 2/17/2013. Ann Hinson ’72 Mary Stenhouse Myers ’59, 11/25/2012. Susan McConnell ’83 Mille Douglass Epps ’60, 12/30/2012. Carolyn Cromartie Holt ’62, 10/27/2012. 2012-2013 McColl School Alumni Association Board of Directors Judy Jones Allison ’63, 9/25/2012.

Pamela Wenham Carraway ’63, 9/8/2012. Executive Committee: Betty Conlee Marquette ’64, 1/27/2013. Bryan Seaford, PMBA ’07, Chair Paul Carmichael, EMBA ’08, Vice Chair Fran Paterson ’67, 10/25/2012. Casey Zaitz, MSOD ’09, Secretary

Pat Ruffin Hazelton ’70, 10/18/2012. Jennifer Lovett, PMBA ’08, Treasurer J Dewar, EMBA ’11, chair, Alumni Connections Committee Herman Aubrey Moore, III ’78, 11/7/2012. Eric Lovell, EMBA ’09, chair, Career Services Committee

Donna Rae Stark ’81, 2/13/2013. John Luebke, EMBA ’07, chair, Events Committee Jada Colville Stewart ’81, 10/12/2012. Jon Elliott, EMBA ’07, chair, Fundraising Committee Margaret Jane Willoughby, PMBA ’08, chair, Marketing & Branding Committee

Juanita “Nita” Bowen Hunley ’83, 11/4/2012. Rex Backes, PMBA ’02, chair, Nominating Committee

Ethel Henderson McMillan ’88, 3/21/13. Members-At-Large:

Ricky Coley ’89, 9/12/2012. Keith Campbell, EMBA ’12 Dawn Newsome, PMBA ’07 Mans McLeod, Jr., MBA ’91, 12/15/2012. Madelon Capozziello, MSEC/MSOD Student John Ponder, EMBA ’10

Ed Coambs, PMBA ’09 Jill Pritchard, PMBA Student 2013 SUMMER

David Little, EMBA ’00, 2/13/2013. Matt Favreau, PMBA ’03 Mark Spaulding, PMBA ’05

Kelly Osleger ’04, 3/5/2013. Nathan Foster, EMBA ’12 Sarah Stewart, PMBA ’08 Ric Hinson, PMBA ’05 Dianne Tomas, PMBA ’95 Lauren Feudale ’11, 2/10/2013. Nicole Joseph, MSOD Student Tom Walker, EMBA ’08 Ruth Magher, former professor and Dolphin Clay Lewis, PMBA ’09 Reyn Wheeler, EMBA ’95 Club coach, 2/4/2013. Franz Lorio, PMBA ’02 Bob Woods, EMBA ’01 Mark Munson, EMBA ’06 47 P ARTING THOUGHT

Te Queens You Know THE CAMPUS HAS CHANGED SINCE CATHY ANDERSON BEGAN TEACHING IN 1984, BUT NOT THE SOUL

By Cathy Anderson

Cathy Anderson arrived in January of 1984 to teach law and ethics in the relatively new evening undergraduate and MBA programs. Te young lawyer met Bob Finley, also on the faculty, and the two became close friends. In 1998, they married. Over the decades, they’ve seen many noteworthy changes, including the addition of male students, athletic teams, graduate programs and naming a business school “McColl.” Only a handful of students who’ve graduated with an MBA have escaped Bob’s classes. Cathy shares her perspective on Queens’ evolution over the years.

ver the last few months, several though, the people were the reason to is the frst time I’ve realized I’m smart, alums who’ve driven past come to Queens. For Bob, having taught that I can do this.” She soon had the campus or read news of the at large state schools, the opportunity confdence to move to a better job. Omajor building projects have said to us, to work closely with faculty in history, One of our current students is a “Wow, I hardly recognize the place!” English, art, and other disciplines was young woman from Saudi Arabia who, True, a gleaming, light-flled a draw and also included the occasional at frst, admitted being reluctant to science building is now bustling with “income redistribution probability approach professors with questions. students. And, after a sneak peek at seminar” (i.e., poker game). For me, “Tat’s not done in our culture,” she the new Levine Center and its multiple fnding myself in a classroom full of said. But she stretched herself and gyms, all we can say is you have to come people who wanted to learn taught me accepted the open invitation to stop by visit. My favorite part is that fooring for a lot. any professor’s ofce with questions. the conference room was made from the We now have more students from Before the end of her frst semester she old Oven’s basketball court. Te past in more countries, more students working not only set the grade curve for my law the future. in or interested in more diverse jobs and class but also made a top mark in Bob’s But hearing from alums who were we have more faculty—both new faces introductory fnance course—a rare worried that the Queens they knew and faces familiar to lots of alums. Te feat as any MBA alum can attest. And might be changing or disappearing gave more things have changed, the more the she now greets professors with a bright us pause. We remember the frst days we exciting parts of Queens—the students, smile and a hug. stepped on campus to interview for jobs. the faculty and the staf—have stayed Tat’s the kind of Queens that Te best way to describe that campus? the same. attracted both Bob and me here—and Well, not much grass was growing, the I remember, in one of my frst has kept us here. A place where students, foor tiles were cracked and the ofce classes at Queens, an adult student who as well as faculty and staf, invest in furniture was musty. came up after class holding one of the each other, where close interaction and Te Georgian brick buildings were few “A” exams. She had tears in her eyes. encouragement are the norm. beautiful, but, frankly, the campus wasn’t “I’m leaving a bad marriage, and I have Some things only get better with QUEENS MAGAZINE dressed to impress. From the very start, a boss who insults me all the time. Tis time.

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ara Turston uses her phone to enter her vote in an experiment of “fash philanthropy” at the May 3 commencement ceremony for graduate and adult undergraduate students. A surprise Tannouncement by keynote speaker Eric Newton of Knight Foundation kicked of the event; he explained that the graduates themselves would determine the recipient of a $50,000 gift from the foundation. Large screens displayed videos of the three charities under consideration. Students voted and monitors fashed the results: Communities in Schools. After delivering the check, Newton surprised the other organizations with checks of $25,000 each. Te excitement underscored Knight Foundation’s commitment to increase community knowledge and use of digital media. Nonprofit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Queens Magazine Charlotte, NC Permit #769 1900 Selwyn Avenue Charlotte, NC 28274

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Jim and Mary Anne Rogers in the Discovery Courtyard outside Rogers Hall.