LynchburgCollege Magazine Fall 2009 Highlight on Faculty

feel an obligation to prove that the tenure rather casually awarded to me almost 30 years ago was not a mistake. That obligation is to stay intel - lectually engaged and excited about learning and doing new things — not just blowing the dust off ancient lecture notes. director of the I can’t imagine any job I could belk observatory B.S., Ouachita Baptist University enjoy more: learning new Ph.D., University of Arkansas things, explaining them to other people, running a state- of-the-art observatory, figuring out how to do all of that bet - ter. And they pay me to do it! What more could I ask for?”

Honors and Awards n Elsie Ervin Bock Award for Excellence in Citizenship, 2008 n Shirley E. Rosser Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2001 Recent publications n “Building a Public Outreach Program from the Ground Up,” Astronomical Society of the Pacific Annual Meeting, 2009 n “Expanding Universes and Shrinking Humans,” Association for Core Texts and Courses, 2007 n “Settling the Solar System — An Innovative Course for Teaching Students about the Solar System” and “A Laboratory Exercise for Demonstrating Relative Stellar Distances,” Cosmos in the Classroom (Astronomical Society of the Pacific), 2007

Campus and Community Service n Faculty Human Rights Advisor: 1995-2003, 2004-present n Faculty Personnel Committee: Chair in 2009-10 n Lynchburg College Belk Observatory Director: 2007-present n Interfaith Outreach Association Board Member, 2009-present n U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad Team Mentor: 2001-2003 Ly Cnchburgollege Magazine Fall 2009 , Vol. 17 , No. 1

IN THIS ISSUE

18 Olympic aspirations Four Hornets are training for the 201 2 games . 21 It’s all Greek to me The Animal House reputation doesn’t always apply . 22 Remembering Boyd Claytor The Claytor Nature Study Center arose from his vision . ON THE COVER Star trails trace paths around the North Star in 24 Dancing with the stars the skies above Belk The Belk Astronomical Observatory opens to the public . Observatory at the Claytor Nature Study Center. 27 Creating new horizons Outdoor adventure builds character and creates leaders . 30 Faculty Forum: The world is watching us Dr. Marek Payerhin explores our not so brave world .

DEPARTMENTS

2 President’s Message 3 Around the Dell 16 Sports Update 32 Class Notes 37 Westover Alumni Society Weekend 42 Commencement Ly Cnchburgollege Magazine President’s Message Editor Shannon Brennan

Production Manager Anne Stoutenburgh Nash ’65

Contributing Writers Mike Carpenter, Carolyn A. Eubank ’67, Betty Cooper McKinney Students achieve and persist with scholarships Class Notes Betty Howell, Shana Johnson ’11

Photography Steve Arnold, Allen Austin, Tom Cassidy ’73, Liz Cook, Sara Hardin ’10, The lc community Kathleen Husted, JupiterImages Corporation, Christopher Peterson, Katharine Stevens, has determined that Andrew Wilds, Warren Wright the College’s most a number of options. At the end of her first Graphic Designers Katharine important mission is semester, she earned close to a 3.0 . During the Stevens to provide access for Christmas holidays, Kaitlin received a letter from Christopher Peterson worthy and needy stu - Dean Julius Sigler ’62 stating that if her academic Digital Photography Coordinator Liz Cook dents . That means our performance continued to be as strong, she Director of Publications Anne S. Nash greatest need is for would qualify for one of the new Achievement ’65 additional student and Persistence Awards. At the end of her fresh - Assistant Vice President for Public Relations Carolyn A. Eubank ’67 scholarships. We have man year, Kaitlin earned a 3.23 qpa and qualified chosen not to launch a for an additional $2,000 a&p scholarship. When ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE formal capital campaign at this time, not because asked what difference this made, she said, “I had we haven’t identified institutional priorities, but planned on transferring to (a state school) but President Kathryn Mitchell Pumphrey ’75, ’88 M.Ed. because of the status of the worldwide economy. the scholarship helped keep me here. … Any bit Alumni Outreach Committee Chair John P. Reilly ’86 Scholarships, however, are just too important to of funding toward my education helps my par - wait on . ents , who are sacrificing to put me through Development Committee Chair Brian M. Parker ’00 We continue to work at optimizing our Lynchburg College and my younger sisters

Student Life Committee Chair resources to keep the price tag for an education through private high school and middle school.” Andrew “Drew” Miller ’00 as low as possible. For the last two years , we have Kaitlin is now a health promotion major and Technology Committee Chair held tuition increases to 3 percent — among the continues to thrive academically. Hannah Howe Besanceney ’96 lowest of private colleges and universities in the Fifty-one students would have satisfied the cri - Traditional Programs Committee Chair commonwealth. Despite this belt-tightening, we teria for an a&p award at the end of the 2007 Wendy E. Bradley ’91 are still enrolling record numbers of students. spring term if the awards had existed at that Connecticut Alumni Club Co-President Why? Because lc is a great place to be. As a new time. Their retention rate was 69 percent. At the Westover Alumni Society President Carolyn Hodges Crosby ’64 student responded during her flight back to Cali - end of the 2007 fall semester, potentially quali - fornia when her father asked why she looked so fied students were notified about the new a&p ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS sad, “I know I’m going back home, but I feel like awards. At the end of the 2008 spring term, fifty

President Kenneth R. Garren I just left my home.” of them qualified for the awards; their retention Lynchburg College has a tradition of making rate was 90 percent. The 2008-09 a&p recipients Vice President and Dean, Academic Affairs Julius Sigler ’62 a difference in students’ lives. Former New York were a diverse group: 29 percent were first gener -

Vice President, Business and Finance Times education editor Loren Pope documented ation college students; 24 percent were minori - Stephen Bright this distinctive outcome in his book Colleges That ties; and 54 percent were males compared to 45

Vice President for Enrollment Management Change Lives. In its continuing search to find new percent of the entire class . Rita Detwiler ways to make a difference, the College has created Some of the College’s strongest supporters Vice President for Development and External Affairs Achievement and Persistence (a&p) Awards. These have been alumni who found something special Denise A. McDonald awards are offered through a combination of spe - here. I invite everyone to join in making a differ - Vice President and Dean for Student Development cial donor funds : the Potter-Sigler Fund, the Rosel ence in students’ lives by adding your financial John Eccles and Elliot Schewel Scholarship, the Tanner-Logan- support to students who will achieve academically Corvin-Kegley-Ramsey Fund, a three-year grant and persist in their education. Prospective stu - Lynchburg College Magazine is published semi-annually from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund , and recent gifts dents and parents are still coming to this beauti - for alumni, parents, and friends by the Office of Public Relations, 434/544-8325 or 800/621-1669. from former trustees Leighton Dodd ’56, ’07 ful campus saying, “I always dreamed that my

Send change of address to: l.h.d. and William “Bill” Wigton ’70 . These college would look like this.” Please help us help Lynchburg College Magazine special awards are designed to accomplish what students come to the campus of their dreams. Lynchburg College 1501 Lakeside Drive the name implies: reward academic achievement Lynchburg, VA 24501-3113 and encourage students to remain at lc . How Best wishes, E-mail: [email protected] does it work? Let us consider an example of the www.lynchburg.edu award in action. Letters to the editor may be sent to [email protected] Kaitlin, who came to lc from Virginia Beach , Kenneth R. Garren, ph.d. Lynchburg College does not discriminate on the basis wasn’t sure about her major at first and explored president of race, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin and complies with the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

2 LC MAGAZINE Fall 2009 Aro un d the Dell Another busy spring and summer have come and gone, and LC continues to shine in academic excellence, community service, the arts, and athletics.

Small college helps a small nation Summer means in curriculum and instruction, conducted a two-week renovate leadership training program with all 120 principals on the island to improve teacher supervision. In July, Hopwood Hall, which turns 100 Dr. Jeri Watts , assistant professor of human devel - this year, was outfitted with a opment and learning, along with colleagues from shiny new copper dome, thanks other institutions, offered a workshop for up to 900 largely to falling copper prices. teachers on teaching reading. Both Hopwood and Carnegie Also this summer, Dr. Gena Barnhill , assistant were built in 1909 and are the professor of special education, provided autism oldest buildings on campus. training to 140 teachers and parents, Dr. James Pat - Shellenberger Field’s makeover ton , adjunct professor in education, continued train - got a makeover. Drainage and turf ing in the area of assessment, and Dr. Steve Nielsen , problems in the two-year-old field associate professor in counselor education, taught a required a complete overhaul, at course in addiction counseling. contractors’ expense, of the play - Service learning remains an important component ing field and parts of the track. of the partnership. For the second summer, two dozen lc students were in St. Lucia for a variety of projects that matched their academic interests in education, nursing, and international relations. The program included preschool screening; mentoring and tutoring adolescents; and learning about govern - lc ’s partnership with St. Lucia continues to grow. This ment and culture. summer, for example, Dr. Roger Jones , associate “We’re really responding to what they have indicat - professor and department chair in educational lead - ed is needed,” said Dr. Ed Polloway , dean of gradu - ership, and Dr. John Walker ’84 M.Ed. , associate ate studies. “What seems unique to me is that a small professor and department chair in the M.Ed. program school is helping a small country meet its needs.”

Business programs earn accreditation The School of Business and Economics (sobe) has been accred - ited by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Pro - grams, a national agency that places primary emphasis on teaching excellence. “This is public recognition of the hard work we’ve done to ensure quality education to our students,” said Dr. Joe Turek , sobe dean. sobe was cited for its impressive facilities in Elliot & Rosel Schewel Hall, outreach to the Lynchburg community and sur - rounding areas, small class size, and emphasis on business ethics. The School was already accredited via the College’s Southern Association of Colleges and Schools ( sacs ) accreditation, but this specialized recognition takes sobe to the next level. The accreditation applies to both undergraduate and graduate business programs. lc currently has approximately 300 under - graduates pursuing business majors and minors and sixty gradu - ate students pursuing m.b.a. ’s.

Fall 2009 LC MAGAZINE 3 Around the Dell

Queena Stovall on display Queena Stovall: Reflections of a Country Life provided Rothermel said. “Her meticulously detailed paint - a rare opportunity to see an entire exhibition dedi - ings are perceptive documentations of the endless, cated to Stovall’s work and attracted record crowds life-sustaining chores of the country farm, the joys of to the Daura Gallery. Thirty-two of her forty-eight family, and the events of her community.” paintings were displayed. The Daura Gallery last held a Stovall exhibition A native of Campbell County (which borders in 1974 during the inauguration of the gallery in the Lynchburg), Stovall is nationally known among folk Dillard Fine Arts Building, named for Stovall’s brother, art circles for her depictions of rural life. In 1949 , at David Hugh Dillard, and his wife, Rosa. age 62 , Stovall was a beginning student in a class Other exhibitions at the Daura were: taught by artist Pierre Daura, who told her to discon - • Earl Hamner, The Waltons, and the Legacy of tinue her lessons so as not to spoil her natural talent Central Virginia, which included original scripts, as a self-taught folk painter. The News & Advance documents, and promotional items from the referred to Stovall as “the Grandma Moses of Vir - television show “The Waltons,” as well as Earl ginia” when she died at 92 in 1980 . Hamner’s Emmy ® Award. Barbara Rothermel , director of the Daura Gallery, • The Barbary Coast: Vintage Travel Photographs of said it was a labor of love to track down Stovall’s Spain and Morocco from early twentieth-century paintings. Three of them came from public collec - travel books, Carpenter’s World Travels: From tions, but the rest are in private hands. A grant from Tangier to Tripoli and Burton Holmes, Trave - the Greater Lynchburg Community Trust helped logues, Volume Four . fund the exhibition. • 20 th Anniversary: The Fall of the Berlin Wall Stovall’s paintings document the details of country Ikonen Einer Grenzanlage/Icons of a Border living, from slaughtering hogs to making apple cider. Installation , reflecting the photographic search Fireside in Virginia, Oil on canvas, “Queena Stovall painted the life and people she knew,” for traces of the Berlin Wall in today’s Berlin. December 1950. Collection of Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York. Museum Purchase.

LC BY THE 55 students who studied abroad this summer in St. Lucia, China, Turkey and Greece, and South Korea | 230 record NUMB3RS

Forgiving Dr. Mengele

As a child imprisoned in But she also described the power of survival and Auschwitz, Eva Mozes Kor forgiveness. On January 27, 1945, when Auschwitz was a victim of medical experi - was liberated by the advancing Soviet army, only mentation performed on twins about 200 children were found alive. In 1978, Kor and by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. her sister located 122 survivors of Mengele’s experi - She shared her story with a ments, and they later founded CANDLES (Children of standing-room-only crowd in Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors). Memorial Ballroom sixty-five When Kor met with a Nazi in the 1990s, she real - years later. ized that she needed to forgive her former tormentors. Kor, now 75, described arriving in Auschwitz in a “I have forgiven the Nazis; I have forgiven everybody; cattle car with her family from Romania. She and her and I have healed myself,” she said. twin, Miriam, age 10, were immediately separated Kor advised her audience to remember three les - from their family and never saw them again. sons: never give up; try to overcome your prejudices; She described nearly dying from one of Mengele’s and forgive. She also noted that genocide didn’t end injections and escaping death by fainting when a at Auschwitz. People continue to allow genocide machine gun was aimed at her. She lived with starva - throughout the world, most notably now in Sudan. tion, lice, rats, and filth. “I thought the whole world Her talk was sponsored by the Holocaust Education was a big concentration camp,” she said in her still Foundation of Central Virginia and the Lynchburg Jew - thick Romanian accent. ish Community Council.

4 LC MAGAZINE Fall 2009 Scores of music and theatre The German “Frankfurter Kammertrio” pre - Recital Series on Piano Performance, which Seven students made up the cast of Eury - sented a chamber music concert featuring honors the retired piano and composition pro - dice , an adaptation of the classic myth of works by Beethoven, Bruch, and Glinka. The fessor who taught at the College for more than Orpheus and Eurydice by American play - clarinetist, cellist, and pianist are all renowned twenty years. Dr. Cynthia Ramsey , assistant wright Sara Ruhl. The play soloists with major orchestras and recipients of professor of music, performed along with fac - turns the myth into a numerous international awards. Also perform - ulty, staff, and students F. Johnson Scott III, modern tale of loss and ing was the lc Piano Trio featuring violinist Noemi Otto, Dana Ballard, Melanie Braxton love told from Eury - Peter DeVall ’09 , cellist Teresa Crist ’11 , and Coleman ’06, Robin Zimmerman, Francis dice’s point of view. pianist Matthew Booth ’11. Longaker ’09, Brittany Montoro ’10, and The lc Choral Union and Chamber Orch - Matthew Booth ’11. estra performed Judas Maccabaeus, an oratorio lc Theatre staged Sweet Smell of by George F. Handel, conducted by Dr. Jong Success, a musical adaptation of the Kim , professor of music and director of choral 1957 film based on the book by John activities and graduate studies in music. Guare. A cast of twenty-four stu - The lc Orchestra and Wind Symphony dents performed in the play, presented “Night at the Movies,” a concert of which is set in New York City in movie music favorites, under the direction of 1952 and follows the rise and Dr. Oeida Hatcher , associate professor of fall of an ambitious press music and director of music education and agent who lusts for success. instrumental studies. Composer Marvin Ham - “Impressionism: Reactions and Innovations lisch wrote the jazz score of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel” was the and Craig Carnelia subject of the second Esther C. Olin Lecture wrote the lyrics.

Sweet Smell of Success number of persons who attended the Beard Center’s Annual Conference on Aging | 604 deposits for the entering freshman class | $32,000 raised for American Cancer Society’s

Congress Master the science of nursing to Campus The Nursing Department in the School of Health Sciences and Two former mem - Human Performance is offering a new master of science in nurs - bers of Congress, ing with emphases in clinical nurse leader and nursing education. Ken Hechler (D- “This is an exciting time for nursing and the College,” said West Virginia, 1959- Dr. Angela Taylor , program director. “As emerging healthcare 77) and Ron Sarasin needs continue to require advanced knowledge in evidence- (R-Connecticut , 1973-79), visited LC to discuss the based practice and technology, the need to prepare nursing lead - role of public service in citizenship. The Congress ers and educators will be essential to meet community needs.” to Campus Program sends bipartisan pairs of for - The program will be interdisciplinary in nature, incorporating mer members of Congress to visit college campus - business courses. Clinical practicum sites will include hospitals, es all over the country for two and a half days of clinics, and nursing facilities in Central Virginia. classes, forums, and informal meetings with col - lege and community members. At 94, Hechler was arrested for protesting mountaintop-removal coal mining this summer.

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Racking up honors at Model UN lc ’s delegation of twenty students won the Distin - guished Award for Posi - tion Papers and an Honorable Mention Award for the Delegation at the National Model Research pays off United Nations simula - Ashley Schmidt ’10 was one of fifteen stu - tion in New York City. dents in the U.S. named a History Scholar for Emefa Gbedemah ’05 the five-week summer program at the Gilder was chosen as the secretary general for next year’s Model un . Lehrman Institute in New York City. A history “lc has much to celebrate,” said Dr. Sabita Manian , associate professor of interna - major from Jarrettsville, Maryland, Ashley was tional relations. The delegation, which is enrolled in a un politics course taught by Dr. one of approximately 300 students to apply Manian, represented Bangladesh in a simulation that attempts to model the actual for this prestigious program. Another fifty work of the un . Students do extensive research to represent their country faithfully. finalists for the program are invited to a one- “I was really impressed by how we came together,” said Amanda d’Arcy ’11 , one of week program at the institute. Samantha lc ’s two head delegates. Billy Green ’09 , the other head delegate, noted, “A lot of our Bryant ’11 of Lynchburg, Virginia, was freshmen could compete at an international level.” Nearly 4,000 college and universi - accepted to the one-week program. ty students around the world attended the Model un from such countries as Mexico, Ashley’s research focuses on the status of Iraq, Japan, Italy, and Germany. free blacks in Central Virginia during slavery. “This experience drew my attention to the wide variety of cultures, ideas, and opin - She has been awarded a Schewel Faculty-Stu - ions that exist in the world while also providing me with a unique reassurance that this dent Research Fund grant for fall 2009 for diversity can be maintained while still working toward compromise and diplomacy,” two research trips — one to the National said Fallon Page ’10 . Archives in Washington, D.C., and one to the Students discussed topics including global food security, nuclear proliferation, College of William & Mary’s special collec - improving emergency response through humanitarian reform, preventing sexual vio - tions, the Virginia Historical Society, and the lence, and international trade. Library of Virginia. The Gilder Lehrman History Scholars Pro - gram, inaugurated in 2003, is a competitive Relay for Life | 48,000 hours of community service , earning LC a place on the 2008 President’s Higher summer scholarship program in American his - tory for outstanding college sophomores and juniors. The program is designed to reward undergraduates who have demonstrated A semester at Oxford superb research and writing skills in American Annie Stokes ’11 , a history major from Lees - social justice issues. The history and gender history and to provide discussions with emi - burg, Virginia, will study at Oxford University studies faculty are proud of her accomplish - nent scholars. Two LC students were finalists this fall. She is one of seven American students ments and impressed with the hard work and in 2007. accepted through the Institute for Study dedication she has brought to her studies and “For the past three years, we’ve been Abroad at Butler University. work with on-campus groups such as STAND working with our students in history to push “I’m so excited,” Annie said. “I thought it (Students Taking Action Now for Darfur).” them to do more scholarly work, to partici - was out of my league but my academic adviser, Annie said LC was the only school she pate in any and all external opportunities, and Dr. Nikki Sanders , encouraged me to apply.” applied to because she fell in love with the to apply for any and all programs, from basic Annie hopes to study Norman England and campus and its architectural integrity, as well as internships to prestigious summer programs British feminism while at Oxford’s St. Cather - its size and history course offerings. “In the such as this one,” said Dr. Kirt von Daacke , ine’s College. “I am primarily interested in the classroom, I get to put myself out there,” she assistant professor of history. “All that work Middle Ages through the Jacobean period,” she said. “I get a taste of academic life.” has paid off.” said. “I’m more of a Renaissance type of gal.” Annie received a Vanauken Fellowship Award Students in the five-week History Scholars “Annie is a model LC student,” Dr. Sanders to attend Oxford. The award was established in program have come from such prestigious said. “Not only does she excel at her academic 1984 by friends of the late Sheldon Vanauken, institutions as Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Stanford, work — she has excellent analytical and writ - author and LC professor emeritus of history George Washington, and William & Mary . ing skills — but she is a passionate advocate for and English.

6 LC MAGAZINE Fall 2009 Economics major named distinguished senior As the Robert L. Hill Dis - Ensemble and Orchestra and played in the pit orches - tinguished Senior Award tra for Hello Dolly, Oklahoma!, and Amahl and the Young poet takes recipient, Sarah Peters Night Visitors . During spring break, she traveled over - had the honor of carrying seas for the first time through an LC study abroad first place the Class of 2009 banner program trip to Spain and Morocco. Laura Bianca ’09 , an English during commencement. Sarah served as president of the Methodist Student major from Jarrettsville, Mary - An economics major from Fellowship, volunteered with the Park View United land, won first place for origi - Harrisonburg, Virginia, Methodist Church Food Bank and Soup Kitchen, nal poetry at the 2009 Poetry she graduated summa and was secretary for the Intervarsity Christian Fel - Symposium, held at Virginia cum laude and is a mem - lowship. She was the advocacy chair and a team cap - Military Institute. She, Ally ber of Phi Eta Sigma and tain for Relay for Life. Datz ’09 , a communication Phi Kappa Phi honor Her favorite “extracurricular,” however, was serving studies major from Lexington, societies . She received as a pass Leader for economics and tutoring fellow Virginia , and Taelor Skinner numerous academic hon - students for three years. “Teaching has been one of ’10 , an English major from ors, including the Steven my greatest experiences here, ” she said. Ashville, Ohio, were chosen W. Streep Award for Sarah has been accepted into the Ph.D. in eco - to read original poetry at the Excellence in Business, the Robert L. Hill Award for nomics program at George Mason University, which symposium. Students from Excellence in Economics, the Wall Street Journal Stu - she will attend part-time while working full time as nine other area colleges par - dent Achievement Award in Economics and Finance, an economist at the u.s. Minerals Management Serv - ticipated in the event that and the John O. Hayden Service Award. ice, the government agency responsible for offshore included readings and semi - In addition to her economics major, Sarah had leasing and drilling . nars given by Pulitzer Prize minors in mathematics and political science. She Someday she hopes to be “Dr. Sarah” and teach winner Yusef Komunyakaa served as president of the lc Investment Club and economics at a college or university, maybe even her and lyric poet Julia Kasdorf. vice president of the Westover Honors Program. She alma mater. “When I came here I just fell in love with was the principal student clarinetist in both the Wind it,” she said of lc . “I knew it was the right place to be.”

Education Community Service Honor Roll | $126,036 grant from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to offer area teachers specialized training and licensure renewal

A plea from an island nation Shayvonne Moxey-Bonamy ’12 has spent the last eighteen years working as a meteorologist for the Bahamas, one of the 100 countries most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of cli - mate change. Her passion to assist her country has led her to pursue studies in environmental science. Geoff Greene ’05 , a meteorologist colleague in the Bahamas, encouraged Shayvonne to study at LC. After reading the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Second Assessment report, Shayvonne knew her homeland was at serious risk. “Climate change is huge for small island nations,” she said. She asks America and other industrial nations in the world to heed environmental mes - sages. “Try to reduce pollution and be more energy efficient,” she said. “That’s the most important thing.” When she’s not studying, Shayvonne , who played with the Bahamas national volleyball team for twelve years, is an hon - orary coach of LC’s team.

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Rescue riders Two students disappeared from their classes for a week near the end of the spring semester, but most of their professors were sympathetic to their absence. They weren’t exactly playing hookie. Roommates Angela Massino ’11 of Georgetown, Delaware, and Carolyn Walsh ’10 of Wayland, Massachusetts, were participating in an international effort to draw atten - tion to the “Invisible Children,” children abducted in northern Uganda who are forced to become soldiers. “Abducted children never return to school,” Car - olyn noted. “Imagine what all these kids have lost.” She figured missing a week of class was the least she could do to draw attention to their plight. Angela and Carolyn were among a dozen lc students who traveled to Washing - ton, d.c. , for what they thought would be a weekend of awareness-raising in the nation’s capital for the third annual “Rescue Me” advocacy event. Many of the lc students who participated are members of stand , a student-led anti-genocide organization on campus. More than 2,500 other people traveled to Washington for the rescue, which was held simultaneously in 100 cities across the globe and organized by Invisible Chil - dren, a non-profit which seeks to end the abduction of children in northern Ugan - da. The children are forced to fight in Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel group seeking to overthrow the Ugandan government. The children are sub - jected to such atrocities as killing their own family members and being mutilated. The bloody conflict has persisted for twenty-three years , and an estimated 30,000 children have been abducted since it began. The idea behind the event was to find “moguls” in the form of politicians and entertainers who would attract news coverage of their cause. Once a mogul and the media arrived, a city was considered “rescued.” Angela and Carolyn had an opportunity to join a rescue bus to travel to other cities that were not getting rescued. They ended up in Philadelphia, Alexandria, and Baltimore, before heading to Chicago , where they received the attention of the ultimate mogul: Oprah. They sang, they chanted, they danced. Oprah agreed to interview the three founders on her show. Angela was impressed with the power of persistence. “What can one person not do?” she asked.

$140,000 given through Gifts for Gulu Sports Festival for two wells, clothing, and equipment for northern Uganda

Decapitated mountains and energetic students LC’s Alliance for Energy Awareness (AFEA) teamed up with New Horizons and Bonner Leaders to take sixteen students to Wise County, Virginia , to see the destructive results of Mountain Top Removal, which literally blasts the tops off mountains to reach coal. Thirty-three LC students also joined 10,000 others in Washington, D.C. , at Power Shift 2009, the national youth summit on the climate crisis.

8 LC MAGAZINE Fall 2009 Grads face life together Stefan Zedlacher ’09 and Cassie Gregory ’09 graduated with Cassie sporting Stefan’s grandmother’s diamond . Both communication studies majors, they faced graduation without jobs, just as many of their class - mates did. But a bleak employment situation was hardly their first trial. Stefan and Cassie met as freshmen , and for Stefan it was love at first sight. It took him awhile to convince Cassie they should be more than friends, and in April of their freshman year they started dating. In May, Stefan was diagnosed with his second bout of Ewing’s Sarcoma, a very rare, very aggressive cancer of the bone and soft tissue, which he had success - fully fought off in high school. Stefan spent his sophomore year at home in Colorado, but Cassie was steadfast, visiting him when she could and providing moral support from afar. Stefan came back for their junior year determined to play catch-up and graduate in 2009 . He carried heavy academic loads, went to summer school, did an academic internship with lc ’s Office of Public Relations, then went home to Colorado only to discover that the cancer had returned. Last fall, with his senior year just under way, Stefan carried eighteen hours while receiving chemotherapy and radiation treatments in Lynch - burg and still managed to attain a 3.9 grade point average. Cassie, who hails from Richmond, Virginia, and was editor of lc ’s student newspaper The Critograph , was no academic slouch either. They both graduated summa cum laude and are members of The Na - tional Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. At lc ’s annual academic awards banquet, Cassie received the Woody Greenberg Award for Public Relations/ Journalism. Stefan received the Esther Cutler Thomas Outstanding Stu - dent in Speech Communication and the Communication Studies Award for Courage. The courage award could have gone to both of them. Last summer they began talking about marriage, but Stefan’s third round of cancer brought that discussion to a halt. Instead, the couple agreed to do a study abroad program in Rome over winter break and Stefan started scheming with professors Barbara Rother - mel and Dr. Delane Karalow about how to pop the big question. It was to be the first marriage proposal for lc ’s Study Abroad program. At the top of the Spanish Steps in Rome, Stefan asked Cassie if she would take the next step of the rest of her life with him. You already know the answer. Stefan returned to Colorado for the remainder of winter break , and , the first day back home from Rome, he fractured his tibia in six places while skiing. He spent much of the spring semester on crutches and in a cast, car - rying nineteen credit hours, and still managed to keep a smile on his face. Stefan and Cassie know they can face whatever lies ahead. For now, Cassie has returned to lc as an admissions counselor, while Stefan is a pub - lic affairs specialist at Cox Communications in Chesapeake, Virginia. They plan to be married in the Dell in May

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Pedaling for change

Research looks at free blacks Dr. Kirt von Daacke , assistant professor of history, received a $2,000 Mednick Fellowship to work on his forth - coming book, Free - dom Has a Face: Race, Community, and Identity in Jefferson’s Albemarle, 1780-1865 (University of Virginia Press). Dr. von Daacke used the funds for two weeklong research trips to visit archives at the Library of Virginia and the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond. His book focuses on free blacks, race relations, identity, and social hierarchy in rural ante - bellum Virginia. Freedom Has a Face exposes the often wide gap between state legal prescriptions on free blacks and the actual practice concerning their treatment.

Most mornings, Dr. Kevin Peterson, associ - would you feed your family? How would you How West won ate professor of mathematics, rides his bicycle pay your mortgage? sixteen miles each way to work or carpools. “It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the prob - Dr. Ken West , a fac - The bike ride to work only takes about an lems facing our planet, especially when facing ulty member since hour. The bicycle commute home, however, them alone,” Dr. Peterson said. A strong in - 1976, received a can take an hour and a half. terest in “rebuilding local resilience” has in - 2009 Humanitarian No, this is not a math problem; this is a spired him to launch an lc reading group, Award from the Vir - way for Dr. Peterson to reduce his depend - starting with a dozen colleagues who are dis - ginia Center for ence on oil and set an example for others. His cussing The Transition Handbook: From Oil Inclusive Communi - family heats water and meets most electrical Dependency to Local Resilience by Rob Hopkins. ties. He also served as needs with solar energy. The Petersons have a The group consists of faculty, staff, and stu - baccalaureate speak - large garden and a small orchard. They are dents who discuss how lc might revise its cur - er for the Lynchburg College Class of “localvores” — they try to eat food grown rent food and energy practices to ensure the 2009. Dr. West is professor of counseling within 100 miles of their home. They volun - long-term success of the College. For instance, and human development and the director teer at Lynchburg Grows, a local greenhouse lc might decide to grow a portion of its food of LC’s Center for Family Studies, which and community farm that produces fresh, or - or develop its own currency that could be he helped establish in 1998. He is a popu - ganic produce while employing disabled and used at local businesses. (In its early days, lc lar weekly columnist on family issues for disadvantaged citizens. When there is a choice, faculty and students had a working farm that The News & Advance , Lynchburg’s daily they buy goods from locally owned businesses. provided food for the campus.) newspaper. His most recent book is The While some folks may not want to face the Dr. Peterson says a small but vocal group of Shelbys Need Help: A Choose-Your-Own challenges of climate change and the end of people can change the world, pointing to the Solutions Guidebook for Parents (Impact abundant oil, they can increasingly relate to Civil Rights movement. Publisher, 2000). the idea that their job might disappear. How

10 LC MAGAZINE Fall 2009 Getting oxygen to an injured lacrosse player Poetry in motion Assistant professor What’s the quickest way to cut a face mask off a lacrosse player of English Dr. Laura with a catastrophic injury? No one knows for sure. While guide - Long , who writes lines were published for the first time last summer, there has under the name Laura been no research to determine the best method. Longsong, published Dr. Debbie Bradney , associate professor of athletic training, her first book, Imagine and Tom Bowman , assistant professor of athletic training, hope a Door: Poems . Her to come up with a definitive answer. They have received a publisher, Turning $35,390 grant from the National Operating Committee on Stan - Point Books/WordTech, dards for Athletic Equipment ( nocsae ). says, “ Imagine a Door opens a door into a While there has been plenty of research on the best method rich world, depicted in gritty narratives and for removing face masks from football helmets, there’s nothing tender lyrics. Longsong’s skillful evocation comparable for the increasingly popular world of men’s lacrosse. of this world, remembered but as vivid as At the moment, women do not wear helmets, but Dr. Bradney the present, is compelling.” Dr. Long has said she expects that to change. been published in Southern Review, North In the event of a catastrophic injury, such as a spinal cord American Review , and other magazines. injury, a player could stop breathing. The key is to get oxygen to She has had a James Michener Fellowship, the player as quickly as possible without removing the helmet so the face mask Donald Barthelme Fellowship, VCCA resi - has to be cut away to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation. dency Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize nomi - There are approximately six types of helmets on the market and four different nations. Many of her poems are set in tools designed to cut off face masks. Dr. Bradney and Bowman will have other Appalachia, based on her youth in West certified athletic trainers test the tools on subjects next spring. “We’re looking at Virginia and adult years in Virginia; other which tool is best for each different helmet,” Bowman said. poems are set in far west Texas, where she taught for four years.

A fantasy world for youngsters Cowen Smith is just an average boy — he has a messy room, isn’t a great student, and loves his dog. But Cowen is about to discover that he is anything but average. That’s how PublishAmerica describes Sarmandi , a children’s book by Dr. Jeri Hanel Watts , assistant professor of human devel - opment and learning. Sar - mandi, it turns out, is the word for a person who has a special connection with animals. Cowen’s skill is communicating with dogs and horses. Dr. Watts previously published Keepers , her first children’s book, as well as Writing Teachers Become Writers , in which she encourages teachers to do the assignments they give their stu - dents. She is working on her next book, a short novel for students aged 8 to 12, about growing up during integration.

Fall 2009 LC MAGAZINE 11 Around the Dell

Dr. Eric Goff operates a ball launcher used for experiments on soccer balls.

New chaplain begins service

Stephanie McLemore is the new chaplain and director of church relations. An ordained pastor of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), she has How does Beckham bend it? served in Lynchburg as the associate regional minister “Nothing is quite as thrilling as watching superior athletes do the seemingly impossible. for the Christian Church in From Doug Flutie’s Hail Mary pass to Lance Armstrong’s record-breaking climb of Alpe Virginia since 2003. In that d’Huez to David Beckham’s astounding ability to bend a soccer kick, we marvel and won - role she led a regional der, ‘How did they do that?’ Well, (Lynchburg College) physics professor John Eric Goff Women’s Committee, was has the answers.” awarded a national grant to That’s how The Johns Hopkins University Press describes Dr. Goff’s new book, Gold create a regional conference Medal Physics: The Science of Sports , due out in November 2009 . for congregational transfor - Dr. Goff is an associate professor of physics and chair of the Physics Department. He mation , and a state grant to says his book “is pitched at a general audience. Anybody who has a passion for sports and conduct leadership training at least a cursory interest in science will like it. I tackled several sports in the book: foot - seminars for ethnic and ball, cycling, long jump, skating, diving, soccer, discus, and sumo.” minority women in south - Dr. Goff finished the work on his book during the summer of 2008 and has spent the west Virginia. past academic year at the University of Sheffield in England, where he has been working “Stephanie will bring with a British colleague on investigations of air forces on soccer balls. Dr. Goff received a detailed experience to our 2008 Mednick Award from the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges and a community in two key areas: Bridging the Gaps fellowship from the University of Sheffield that paid travel and living church relations and minister - expenses for his first three months abroad. ing to our students, faculty, The Johns Hopkins University Press has offered Dr. Goff a second book deal, this time and staff,” said President Ken focusing on extreme sports. Garren. Prior to her work in Lynchburg, McLemore served as chaplain at Tiffin Universi - ty in Ohio for two years and as pastor and family/youth One in 120 minister in congregations in Denise Scruggs , director of the Beard Center on Aging at Clyde, Ohio , and Hinsdale, Lynchburg College, has become one of 120 persons world - Illinois. She earned her mas - wide authorized to offer Alzheimer’s and dementia training ter of divinity from the Uni - through the National Council of Certified Dementia Practi - versity of Chicago and her tioners. Scruggs has worked personally and professionally bachelor’s degree from Kala - with persons with dementia for more than twenty-five years. mazoo College. She has managed a memory-support unit in a continuing care community and worked with persons diagnosed with dementia in residential and adult day care settings.

12 LC MAGAZINE Fall 2009 Former dean becomes a “Chevalier” Master professor Dr. Atul Gupta , professor of management, has been inducted into The Business Strategy Game Hall of Fame as a “Master Professor” while senior Reese Thompson III of Lynch - burg was named a Best-Strategy Invitational Grand Champion. Dr. Gupta’s designation was for outstand - ing achievement in teaching the concepts and Dr. James A. Huston received the French Legion of Honor at Les Invalides in Paris. tools of strategic analysis in a globally com - petitive market. Out of more than 3,600 reg - Dr. James A. Huston , dean of the College istered bsg instructors, Dr. Gupta and 27 (1972 – 84) and professor emeritus of history others have achieved Master Professor status and international relations, received the by having one or more Grand Champion teams in the Best-Strategy French Legion of Honor in Paris and partici - Invitational competition for May of 2009 . pated in ceremonies commemorating the Thompson was the manager of g Company (Green Earth Shoes) in sixty-fifth anniversary of D-Day at the Nor - Industry 15 , competing against 12 teams in most industries. Dr. Gupta’s mandy beaches, led by French President Management 470 class uses the bsg simulation every fall semester. A Nicolas Sarkozy and U.S. President Barack total of 394 teams from around the world competed in the May 2009 Obama. Dr. Huston shook hands of both bsi . There were only 34 Grand Champions. heads of state, as well as Prince Charles, and said both festivities were perfect. “I think it’s a big step toward cementing French-American friendship, which is tradi - tional, and get it back on track,” Dr. Huston said. His wife Anne, professor emerita of education and human development, son Jim Huston; daughter Nita Woodruff ’74; and other family members attended the ceremony . During World War II, Dr. Huston was an infantry battalion operations officer with the 134th Infantry, 35th Division, in action from Normandy across France, up to the Ardennes “Bulge,” and on to the Elbe River in Ger - many. He was awarded the Bronze Star and Oakleaf Cluster during his service. In a letter informing Dr. Huston of the award, Francois Rivasseau of the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., wrote: “This award testifies to the President of the French Republic’s high esteem for your merits and accomplishments. … The French people will Rothermel named to never forget your courage and your devotion to the great cause of freedom.” museum counci l Dr. Huston has written histories of his bat - Barbara Rothermel , director of the Daura Gallery/ talion and his regiment in World War II, a his - Museum Studies Program, was elected to the Council tory of airborne operations, as well as an of the Virginia Association of Museums (vam) for a account of postwar France in reconstruction, three-year term. vam is the largest state museum asso - and has compiled a collection of stories of ciation in the u.s. Her council seat is a newly created the refugees of Normandy in 1944. In addi - position specifically for university and college muse - tion to his responsibilities as dean of the Col - ums. Rothermel is also secretary of the Association of lege, he served as director of the Westover College and University Museums and Galleries. Honors Program and the Lynchburg College Symposium Readings (LCSR) program .

Fall 2009 LC MAGAZINE 13 Around the Dell

Board of Trustees adds new member Awards galore

Suzanne Farmer Flynn ’80 • James A. Huston Award for Excellence in has been named to the Col - Scholarship — Dr. Eric Goff , associate lege’s Board of Trustees. A professor of physics native of Roanoke, Virginia , • Elsie Ervin Bock Award for Excellence in Flynn attended Patrick Henry Citizenship — Dr. Peggy Pittas , assistant High School and was a mem - dean, Lynchburg College Symposium ber of Belmont Christian Readings and Senior Symposium; professor Church (Disciples of Christ). of psychology Eric Goff Peggy Pittas Priscilla Gannicott “I’m excited about all the • Shirley E. Rosser Award for Excellence in changes that are happening Teaching — Dr. Priscilla Gannicott , at Lynchburg College,” said Flynn, adding associate professor of chemistry that she and her husband, Geoffrey Flynn • Thomas C. Allen Award for Excellence in ’79 , have been very impressed by President Academic Advising — Dr. Jim Price , Garren. “We want to help the College as professor of religious studies much as we can.” • Susan Nichols Memorial Award — Curtis After graduating from LC, Flynn went to Layne ’83 , director of campus grounds, and work for MetLife in New York City, where Lynda Ahles , administrative assistant, School she spent seventeen years and became of Health Sciences and Human Performance Jim Price Curtis Layne ’83 Lynda Ahles director of information technology. She • Minnie Johnson Campus Service Support helped develop strategic planning for an Award — Nelia “Nell” Hill , food preparation/ automated technology initiative. catering, Dining Services Flynn left the corporate world to stay at • Lois Daniel Office/Administrative/Technical home with the couple’s two children, Support Award — Sandy Taliaferro , admin - Hillary, 19, and Geoffrey II, 16. She became istrative assistant, Multicultural, Access, and actively involved in volunteer activities in Commuter Student Services Office her children’s schools and the YMCA in • Iva Burford Administrative/Managerial/ Madison, New Jersey, where they lived . In Leadership Award — Shaun Dearden , Nell Hill Sandy Taliaferro Shaun Dearden August 2008, Flynn and her family moved Dining Services Manager for Operations, to San Francisco but kept their home in and Curtis Layne New Jersey.

Former president publishes memoir

Dr. Carey Brewer ’49 , LC memoir chronicles their recollections of an extraordi - admitting African American students within months president from 1964 to 1983, nary life journey together — a journey that took of his arrival. He relaxed the rules governing student has written Full Circle Memo - them from Lynchburg to Washington to Harvard life. The physical plant grew from a handful of build - ries of Lynchburg College and University, back to Washington , and eventually back ings to more than twenty buildings. The student Beyond , published this sum - to Lynchburg. body grew significantly and the faculty more than mer by Warwick House Pub - In the winter of 1963-64, Dr. Brewer became the doubled in size. lishing in Lynchburg. seventh president of Lynchburg College. The campus … Perhaps the greatest legacy left to Lynchburg Below are excerpts from community was laced with excitement as this young , College by Carey Brewer is the attitude embedded the foreword written by Dr. dynamic couple and their children moved into the in his oft-repeated statement that ‘a great college is Julius Sigler ’62 , vice president president’s home on Vernon Street. Dr. Brewer had always in the process of becoming.’ In the approxi - and dean for academic affairs, been an important member of the Kennedy admin - mately twenty-five years since he left the College, Dr. James A. Huston, dean istration and college students still identified with the Lynchburg College has continued to grow and to emeritus of the College, and youthful enthusiasm of the slain president. change — moving ever closer toward becoming the Dr. Thomas C. Tiller ’56 , pro - … During the nineteen years of the Brewer presi - institution envisioned by a 36-year-old neophyte col - fessor emeritus of counselor education. dency, Lynchburg College grew stronger in countless lege president nearly a half century ago.” “Carey and Betty Ann Brewer met at Lynchburg ways. Dr. Brewer prevailed upon the trustees to College and graduated in 1949. The following remove from the College Charter the legal bar to

14 LC MAGAZINE Fall 2009 Teaching for life If you give a man a fish, he eats March 2007 when the College was asked to host a soccer for a day. If you teach him to extravaganza to raise awareness and solicit donations of fish, he eats for a lifetime. That athletic equipment primarily for children in war-torn old saying resonates with Dr. northern Uganda. “Gifts for Gulu” is now an annual Todd Olsen , associate profes - event at the College. sor of health and education and When Rodney Suddith, executive director of Sports an epidemiologist who recently Outreach, told Dr. Olsen that his background was a per - returned from his fourth trip fect fit for his organization’s work in Africa, Dr. Olsen to Africa. His job is to teach could not resist doing more. He traveled to Uganda in others to teach how to live June 2007 and spoke to aids patients. He visited “brutal, healthier lives. nasty” slums in Nairobi, Kenya. Dr. Olsen spent his sabbati - “It truly changes you,” Dr. Olsen said. “You see that cal preparing a basic manual taking a stand is important. Sometimes just your pres - about health and safety for ence is enough to give people hope.” health workers in Uganda and Dr. Olsen took three lc students to Africa in June 2008 Kenya so they can pass this information on to their com - and one of them, Sara Hardin ’10 , a nursing major, munities. He trained 75 people in Gulu and Kampala, returned with him again in May. She took the initiative Uganda, and Nairobi, Kenya, where grinding poverty to find a doctor who was telling women with aids that it and lack of education keep many people in the dark was safe to breast feed for the first six months. She told about the most basic health care. him that isn’t true and then sent him the information to The most basic principles of hygiene, safety, and health back up her words. Sara also helped teach part of the are misunderstood. Children wash their hands in the Community Public Health Curriculum during each same basin of dirty water. People don’t know whether training session. thunder or lightning is a bigger concern. Women with The three-day trainings covered everything from sui - aids think it’s safe to breast feed their children. cide and alcohol consumption (Uganda has the highest “They’re so hungry for information,” Dr. Olsen said. rates of both in the world) to nutrition and child birth. “There are so many myths.” He gained credibility with At the end of the training, they received certificates of his students by proving that he is committed to helping appreciation with the logos of Lynchburg College and them. “I understand the trust, and that’s why I have to Sports Outreach carrying the signatures of LC President go back.” Kenneth R. Garren , Sports Outreach founder Russ The folks Dr. Olsen trained are staff members for Carr, along with those of Suddith and Dr. Olsen. Sports Outreach, a Lynchburg-based organization that Dr. Olsen said he wants to model service not only to uses sports as a tool for its ministry to help some of the his students, but to his two young children. “It makes most neglected people on earth. you feel pretty good,” he said. “I’ve just sort of fallen in Dr. Olsen, who also happens to be lc ’s women’s head love with people there. They’re really terrific people who soccer coach, became involved with Sports Outreach in have had horrific things happen.”

Fall 2009 LC MAGAZINE 15 HEY, SPORTS FANS… attend a Hornet game in your area!

For the latest in Hornet competition and sports scheduling information, check out www.lynchburg.edu/athletics SSppoorrttss UUppddaattee JANUARY TO JUNE 2009

on the Academic Squad, and Flynn and Ashley Meyer ’10 grabbed places on the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Academic All-American list. All - sop and Tolson were named lc ’s top female and male senior athletes at the athletic depart - ment’s season-ending banquet in early May. The spring teams were well represented when the athletic department announced its team grade-point average awards for the 2008- 09 academic year. Men’s tennis had the best Ricky Flynn ’09 grade-point average for a men’s squad with 15 team members or less, while men’s lacrosse and softball earned the top marks for teams with 16 or more student-athletes. The eques - trian team paced the co-ed team category. A banner semester for Hornet athletics “We stress the complete student-athlete here at Lynchburg College — balancing per - by Michael Carpenter, Sports Information Director formance on and off the field,” said Lynch - burg College director of athletics Dr. Jack The 2009 Lynchburg College spring athletic Tyler Tolson ’09 was an honorable mention Toms ’69 . “We like to recognize those teams campaigns were marked by impressive team to the men’s lacrosse All-American team. He that really stand out above the rest and reach and individual performances. Three Hornet also posted a team-best fifty goals this year to an academic level that all teams can strive for.” squads earned Old Dominion Athletic Con - became the College’s top goal scorer of all- time Other notable items from the spring cam - ference ( odac ) titles , and several advanced with 173 tallies in four years at the College. paign included: deep into ncaa Division iii post-season play. An equestrian team member had the best • Head softball coach Dawn Simmons ’97 Five Hornets earned All-American honors, finish in program history as Kelly Gerland ’12 earned her 300 th win as the Hornets and the Hornets captured the odac Men’s was the reserve champion in intermediate fences swept Roanoke in a conference double - Commissioner’s Cup, given to the best overall at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association header. She now has a 320-143-1 record in program in the league. National Championship. just eleven seasons and was voted the All- The men’s indoor track and field team took In addition to post-season success, several State Co-Coach of the Year. home a conference title in the winter , and the Lynchburg College teams had memorable softball and men’s outdoor track and field records. The softball team posted a record of • Left-hander Conner Thompson ’10 squads did the same in the spring. 38-8-1 , while baseball and men’s lacrosse fin - grabbed a first-team spot on the Ameri - Ricky Flynn ’09 had an especially good year, ished 25-14 and 11-5 , respectively. can Baseball Coaches Association ( abca ) earning three All-American honors in track Hornets also received numerous academic All-South Region first-team. Staff-mate and field and one in cross country. He was accolades. Softball player Brittany Allsop ’09 Joe Devlin ’09 was named the odac ’s deservedly voted the odac Men’s Track and earned ESPN The Magazine second-team Aca - Co-Pitcher of the Year. Field Athlete of the Year. Brandon Edwards demic All-American honors and was the con - • Rookie Dylan Hoff ’12 earned the Col - ’09 joined Flynn on the All-American platform ference’s scholar-athlete of the year. Twelve lege Division Men’s Lacrosse Rookie of in the indoor track and field season. members of the field hockey team earned spots the Year All-State honors.

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Bryan Breedlove ’12 Barbie Miles ’09

Tyler Tolson ’09 Consecutive winning seasons by the Hornet • Ryan White ’09 headed the lc golf baseball team. Head coach Percy Abell ’87 squad with first-team All- odac honors 9 has 264 career wins, and the last three and was voted Sportsman of the Year by seasons, LC has a conference record of 41-13 the league’s coaches. Career victories by softball head for a winning percentage of 76 percent. • Jessie Moore ’11 was named to the odac 320 coach Dawn Simmons ’97 , which Women’s Tennis No. 2 singles second-team. includes nine-straight winning seasons All-American titles earned by Ricky Flynn ’09 On the doubles side, the pairing of Eliza - and a122-26 record in ODAC play. 4 this year. beth Eckert ’10 and Krysten Bishop ’10 took home second-team All- odac at No. 1 Career goals by men’s lacrosse Cumulative QPA of second-team doubles. 173 attack-man Tyler Tolson ’09 , 3.99 Academic All-American Brittany the new leader in the category. Allsop ’09. • Three Hornet women’s lacrosse players earned second-team accolades: Deana Combined goals scored by women’s Consecutive ODAC titles won and NCAA Welsch ’09 , attack; Morgan Logue ’11 , 109 lacrosse players Deana Welsch ’09, 3 Division III Tournament appearances by the midfielder; and Katie Reynolds ’10 , Morgan Logue ’11, and Katie softball team. defender. Ollice ’10. • Barbie Miles ’09 earned odac Softball Place earned by the women’s track and field Pitcher of the year . Conference titles won by the men’s outdoor 3 team at both the indoor and outdoor champi - track and field team in the last 20 years. onships. Also, the number of third-place • Softball player Taylor Walker ’11 was 18 finishes by Jennie Pernisi ’11 at the outdoor named the All-State College Division The LC softball team’s longest winning meet (steeplechase, 1,500, and 5,000). Rookie of the Year and second-team 15 streak this spring. All-State. Combined ERA of baseball starters • The Hornet men’s track and field team Consecutive winning seasons by head 2.86 Bryan Breedlove ’12, Conner took nearly a full team to the 2009 Out - 10 coach Steve Koudelka’s men’s lacrosse Thompson ’10, and Joe Devlin door Division iii Championships, with team, including four-straight campaigns ’09 to go with a 16-7 record. seven student-athletes qualifying. with double digit wins. 2 Hornet baseball straight regular season titles.

Fall 2009 LC MAGAZINE 17 by Most days her senior year, Caitlin Flathers ’09 rose at Shannon 4:45 a.m. to swim for an hour or two, run for an hour, Brennan and swim again for one to two hours. She literally ran to classes in between. Caitlin also rode her horse three times a week and learned how to fence, all in preparation for the modern pentathlon, a five-sport event of the Summer Olympics, which will next be held in London in 2012 . Remarkably, Caitlin was one of four people on cam - pus training for the games last year. Three are still here, training daily for a chance to be part of the biggest games on Earth.

A PEN TA THLETE

Caitlin couldn’t pull out a gun on campus for the air pistol portion of the modern pentathlon, so she sat in class with her right arm extended, holding a textbook to strengthen her arm. If motivation is what it takes to make it to the Olym - pics, Caitlin should be in good shape. She completed her English major at lc in only three years and graduat - ed magna cum laude. Somehow, she also found time to

18 LC MAGAZINE Fall 2009 be assistant hall director for three residence halls: ing is fascinating. She traveled to other nearby schools “When I first McWane, Shackelford, and Freer. for fencing classes. decided to Caitlin hails from Culpeper, Virginia, where she was The upside of all this effort is that it requires about try this, homeschooled with four siblings. She spent the 2008-09 3,200 calories a day. “I eat what I want,” she said with I thought winter break training in Denver , where Olympic officials a smile. people would “saw something they liked,” she says. laugh at me, “When I first decided to try this, I thought people but at LC, would laugh at me, but at lc , the only thing I heard was , HURDLING AHEAD ‘We believe in you,’ and there’s nothing more motiva - the only thing tional than your own cheering section.” Ashley Palmer , a 2005 graduate of Lynchburg College, I heard was , After graduation, Caitlin headed back to Colorado to holds the U.S. record in the women’s double decathlon ‘We believe train in hopes of getting her swimming and running and two years ago ranked third in the world in that gru - in you,’ and times down adequately to qualify for moving into the eling competition, which requires completing every sin - there’s Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. gle track and field event in two days. nothing more She decided to tackle the pentathlon a year ago while “I’m the only (American) female who has ever done motivational watching the Olympic Games in Beijing. “It’s the only the double decathlon,” she says modestly near the end than your sport specifically created for the Olympics,” she said. of a conversation about another impressive fact: Ashley own cheering “It’s supposed to represent the complete athlete.” is training for the 2012 Olympics in the 400 hurdles. section.” She also said the Olympics helped her answer the ques - “I have a really high pain tolerance,” she said. “I am a tion of what comes next. “I didn’t know what I wanted workout-aholic.” Caitlin to do with the rest of my life,” she said. Ashley is currently working on her master’s in science A co-captain of the lc riding team, Caitlin has been education, specifically environmental education , at lc . Flathers ’09 on horseback since age 4, and the equestrian event is the As an undergraduate, she was an education major and a one she feels most comfortable with. But, she says, fenc - three-time All-American in three events: long jump, 400

Fall 2009 LC MAGAZINE 19 hurdles, and the heptathlon ( 100 hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200 , long jump, javelin, and the 800 ). While Ashley’s coach is in Iowa, she has plenty of sup - port at lc , starting with her fiancé, Doug Thomasey, who is an instructor in mathematics and also a 2005 lc grad. “I have a personal goal to score over 7,000 ,” Doug Ashley and Doug met at lc and moved to Gainesville, said, noting that his best score to date is 6,749 . The Florida, where Doug earned his master’s in mathematics decathlon, a killer event, includes 100 meters, long from the University of Florida, while Ashley helped jump, shot put, high jump, and 400 meters on day one, coach track and cross country, in addition to teaching and 110 meter hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin, and third grade. 1,500 meters on day two. To illustrate how daunting the They both kept competing in their respective sports task is, each individual is striving for an Olympic point and became friends with some Olympic athletes, includ - count between 8,200 and 8,300 points. Qualifying for Kyle helps ing Bryan Clay, who won gold in the decathlon in Bei - the trials requires 7,600 . jing. “I actually talked to Bryan right after he won the three rising Doug figures he might actually have a better chance gold medal,” Ashley said. sophomores in the double decathlon, which requires running about Doug was offered a teaching position at lc last fall so on the track sixteen miles in two days, not to mention lots of jumping the pair came back and decided to start training for the team who are and throwing. Doug, who has completed just two Olympics. “We’re young once,” said the 25 -year-old decathletes decathlons, is currently ranked 34 th in the world. Not Ashley. “We know what we have to do to get to where by competing that many people, only 192 men, have ever done a double. we need to be.” So when he’s not teaching math, Doug can often be with them. Ashley got hooked on track and field early on. “The seen training on his own, or with Ashley and Kyle Steiner. “It’s my event reason I came here was to run, essentially,” she said. The so I can’t sit coaches helped her become an All-American. “ lc was out and watch always my backbone for running.” them,” he said. The College also helped her find her career choice, TEN EVENTS ARE ENOUGH “That would which remains teaching. She finds it a little “mind-bog - Kyle Steiner , an lc assistant track coach and graduate gling” to be back at lc , but it’s like coming home, she be torture.” student working on his master’s degree in science educa - said. “I love it here.” tion, doesn’t say he’s training for the Olympics. He’s just hoping to make it to the Olympic trials in the decathlon. “My times are too slow,” he says, even though he has a MAKE MINE A DOUBLE personal record of 7,200 . Kyle came to lc in fall 2008 to help coach the men’s Doug Thomasey ’05 , a two-time All-American in the track and field teams. A recent graduate of the University decathlon, plans to prepare for the 2012 Olympic trials of Wisconsin Stevens Point, Kyle has been doing decath - in the decathlon, or maybe the double decathlon. His lons for six years. “They say it takes eight to nine years to father, who won the decathlon six consecutive years in peak,” he said. “I’m getting better at all the events. I just New Jersey and even qualified to run the 400 hurdles in enjoy doing it, so I keep doing it.” the Olympics, is nudging him a bit. Neither of them has His best events are high jump (his record is 6 feet 10 figured out who has the better score as a decathlete , inches), the 400 , and the 110 hurdles. He hates the 100 because the scoring has changed since his dad competed. and the long jump and isn’t crazy about the shot put either. Kyle helps three rising sophomores on the track team who are decathletes by competing with them. “It’s my event so I can’t sit out and watch them,” he said. “That would be torture.” While Kyle came from a much larger track and field program, he is amazed with what lc Athletic Director Jack Toms ’69 has done. “It’s a very, very impressive program for such a small school. Coach Toms is just so dedicated.” So, it would appear, is Kyle.

20 LC MAGAZINE Fall 2009 It’s all Greek by B. J. Keefer-Abell ’86, ’90 M.Ed. Director of Student Activities and to me Leadership Programs

ometimes it’s difficult to erase the images that Animal House Student Activities by assisting with freshman move-in; hosting Dellfest and Old School have left in the minds of faculty, staff, students, during Welcome Week; and sponsoring Lynchburg Late Night pro - and even parents. However , lc ’s Greek community works grams throughout the year. Shard to combat the negative stereotypes about college frater - Two chapters, Phi Delta Theta and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority nities and sororities. Inc. (aka ), were recognized this spring by their national headquar ters First, most campuses celebrate Greek Week with social events and for outstanding contributions to their organization. The Omicron competitions. Lynchburg College celebrated Greek Week 2009 with Sigma Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. was named Under - service to campus and community. Trees in the Dell were wrapped graduate Chapter of the Year in the Mid-Atlantic Region, while the with ribbons that represented all the non-profit organizations that Virginia Theta Chapter of Phi Delta Theta was named the Chapter our chapters help. Greeks assisted the facilities and grounds crews in of the Year at Lynchburg College for the first time. aka member planting more than fifty trees around campus and cleaning up the Sheena Posey ’09 was named Undergraduate of the Year for the gardens. They collected more than 500 pounds of food for the Lynch - region. Additionally, Ashley Payne ’10 received the region’s creative burg Area Food Bank and ended the week putting together thirty-five writing award. The Virginia Theta chapter of Phi Delta Theta was care packages for troops overseas. Additionally, Greeks contribute recognized for recruiting the largest new member class in more than more than 9, 000 hours of community service annually through lc ’s ten years. Phi Delta Theta also received numerous campus awards SERVE office. including Outstanding New Member of Greek Life, Daniel Toney Currently, eleven campus national Greek organizations are repre - ’10 ; Outstanding New Member Education Program, Justin Klein ’10 sented by the Interfraternity Council (Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Phi and Rob Schultze ’11 ; five of the Top Ten Scholars in Fraternities, Epsilon, and Sigma Nu), Panhellenic Council (Alpha Chi Omega, Leland Hertig ’10, Matt Wargo ’11, Joe Sancio ’10, Greg Young ’10, Kappa Delta, Alpha Sigma Alpha , and Sigma Sigma Sigma) , and the and Frankie Longaker ’09 . National Pan-Hellenic Council (Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., Contrary to popular opinion, Greek life on the lc campus is about Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.) . much more than beer, parties, and mayhem! They serve in many leadership roles on campus and aid the Office of

Fall 2009 LC MAGAZINE 21 The man behind the gift by Betty C. McKinney

A Bedford County native, Boyd was deter - Editor’s Note: Boyd Claytor left a mined to save his land from encroaching devel - A. Boyd Claytor III, opment that has cost the county thousands of generous benefactor and legacy that will touch acres of farmland. “We decided the farm was member of the Lynchburg lives for generations to too pretty to chop up and build houses on,” College Board of Trustees , he once said. “She (Virginia) loved the farm in died on May 23, 2009. come. Through his vision, commitment, and generosity, he changed the face of Lynch - a way only a city girl could appreciate it.” The burg College forever and made it unique late Mrs. Claytor had moved to the area from among small private colleges. the suburbs of Detroit and fallen in love with By donating his 470 -acre Cloverlea Farm to the farm that was her home for forty years. the College, Boyd not only preserved the land The land is now managed by Lynchburg Col - that he and his late wife, Virginia, treasured, but lege for environmental conservation and he also provided literally hundreds of oppor tu - restoration through agreements with the Vir - nities for students of all ages to study environ - ginia Outdoors Foundation and the usda ’s mental science at the Claytor Nature Study Natural Resources Conservation Service. Center, which lc has developed on the land. “Ten years, fifty years, one hundred years — “Boyd’s gift is creating unparalleled educa - it’s going to be here forever. This is exactly tional opportunities, as well as preserving for what we wanted to happen,” Boyd stated. all time a place of majestic beauty,” said lc “From the beginning I was intrigued and President Kenneth R. Garren. Boyd was pre - impressed by this unique individual,” said Dr. sented an Honorary Alumni Award in 2004 in Ed Polloway, dean of graduate studies and vice recognition of his exceptional interest, generos - president for community advancement, as he ity, and commitment to Lynchburg College. recalled the initial meetings between Boyd

22 LC MAGAZINE Fall 2009 and lc representatives. “I have been involved Boyd Claytor iii Education and Research said Gardner Simpkins, longtime friend and in many fascinating projects in my thirty-three Facility, the Belk Astronomical Observatory, former facilities manager at the Claytor Center. years at Lynchburg College and have worked the Virginia Claytor Memorial Gardens, the He recalls the time in 1972 when apco announc - with many wonderful people; however, there Husted Educational Pavilion, and the Ramsey- ed its intention to build a 765,000 -volt power is no warmer or more visionary individual Freer Herbarium. line through Cloverlea farm. One tower would whom I have had the honor of getting to “We all loved him,” Greg said. “His warmth have been in front of Boyd’s house with a sec - know than Boyd Claytor. radiated, and we experienced his generosity ond one in the field near the entrance road. “We can talk at length about the critical firsthand. We were fortunate that he allowed “We were told that we could fight over the importance of sustainability, but who among us to get to know him.” price of the land, but we could do nothing to us will ever make a statement such as Boyd stop the line,” Gardner said. “But Boyd led has. He has enriched my life by demonstrating the fight, and apco moved the line.” how important vision and commitment are Gardner also remembers the events surround - and how special it is when they are accompa - “His warmth ing Boyd’s decision to donate his land to lc . nied by warmth and friendship.” “Boyd was a University of Virginia ( u.va .) As director of the Claytor Nature Study Cen - radiated, and we graduate, so he talked for a long time about ter, Dr. Greg Eaton had the opportunity to donating the farm to the university. We met know Boyd on a business and personal level. “He experienced his with many different people (from u.va. ), but was very businesslike, engaged, and focused,” generosity firsthand. when the first draft of the proposal was sent, Greg said. “He was interested in every report I it included a clause allowing the university presented but was particularly interested in the We were fortunate to sell the property within ten to fifteen years. day-to-day running of the Center. He wanted Boyd never talked to them again. When he to know what we were mowing, how we were that he allowed began meeting with Lynchburg College, he mowing, where we were cutting hay or clear - liked everyone he met, and they came to terms ing woods. He was still farm manager, just as us to get to easily,” he said. he had been for fifty years. know him.” Boyd was a “kind, selfless, patient, and “When business was concluded, Boyd en joy- understanding person,” according to his wife ed reminiscing about how things used to be at Sakina, who opened Sakina’s spa and dress the farm when he and Virginia were young,” shop in Lynchburg seventeen years ago. “He Greg recalled. “A wistful smile would transform A highly successful businessman, Boyd began was an amazing man, a wonderful stepdad, his face, and his eyes would begin to twinkle. his career by helping his uncle mix flavorings and my mentor. Since I am a business owner I saw two separate aspects of the man — the in his basement, an enterprise that became myself, being married to him was like having businessman and the warm, caring person. the Bedford-based Southern Flavoring Co. He my own in-house consultant. He had so much “His office was in the farmhouse, and it was owned and operated that company, along with business experience that I could talk to him as if he were coming to work,” Greg explained. Holiday Co. and their subsidiary corporations, about all of my issues and concerns, and he “He arrived around 10 a.m., read The Wall until he retired. Boyd was a founding director would always have good advice. No matter Street Journal , worked on the computer, of Liberty Bank of Bedford and Giftco Inc. how bad a situation was, he could turn it into checked his investments, talked on the phone of Chicago. a positive. In my whole life, I have never run to business people, fixed lunch, and took a nap But no matter how successful he became or into anyone who could do that like Boyd. It when he wanted to. He also walked around the how much he traveled, Boyd always stayed was a gift,” she added. property and visited the Memorial Gardens.” close to his Bedford County roots and the Sakina is now in the process of getting When new projects were under way, Center land he loved. “He lived his life in Bedford,” Boyd’s memoirs published, a task he asked her staff members would drive Boyd around the said Peter Viemeister, author, businessman, to complete after his death. “I made a promise, property on an atv so he could see the changes. and recently retired member of the lc Board and I will keep it,” she said. “He wrote every - “He really enjoyed those jaunts,” Greg said, of Trustees. “We would meet at the Bedford thing out in long hand, so the first step is to “particularly when they included places he used Post Office and talk about the world,” he have his notes transcribed. When that is com - to go when he lived on the property.” recalled. “In fact, we met and talked on the plete, I will work with an editor and publisher. Although he was known as a very private day before Boyd died. I am so glad I can do this for him. I miss him person, Boyd was always the genial host when - “We were the Bedford Boys,” Peter said, every day. There’s not another like him.” ever anyone visited the Center. “He would grab referring to his and Boyd’s service on the Boyd will be missed by family, friends, and the walking stick that he kept by the door to Board of Trustees’ Budget and Finance Com - colleagues who remember him with great his office and go out and speak to visitors, say - mittee. “Boyd enjoyed serving on the Board, respect and affection. But they can take com - ing, ‘I’m so glad you came.’ Boyd loved this and his one great strength was going right to fort from the fact that his vision lives on — a land, and he was very pleased with what lc the heart of a matter. He was direct, probing, dream realized. was doing with it,” Greg said. and raised valid questions.” In the eleven years since the creation of the “I never heard anything but praise for Boyd Claytor Center, the College has added the A. from anyone who dealt with him personally,”

Fall 2009 LC MAGAZINE 23 24 LC MAGAZINE Fall 2009 Grace Sydnor ’39 was one of the visitors to the Belk Astronomical Observa - tory during Westover Alumni Weekend. She was just weeks away from her ninety-fourth birthday, but that didn’t keep her from climbing the four-foot ladder required to peer through the big scope. “She looked through that eyepiece and saw the rings of Saturn for the first time in her life,” said Dr. Neal Sumerlin, director of the observatory. When people get a glimpse of the heavens from LC’s new observatory, they often say, “This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen,” Dr. Sumerlin said.

Tess Evans ’12 was no exception. When her astronomy class first visited the observatory last fall, she was shocked that she and her classmates were allowed to open the dome and move the big telescope into position. “We felt like we were at the Kennedy Space Center or something,” said Tess, a history major from Charlottesville, Virginia. Looking into the eyepiece of the scope, Tess saw Saturn and its rings, the Pleiades, and minute details on the moon’s surface. “I would never have that type of opportunity any - where else,” she said. Dr. Sumerlin thinks it’s pretty cool, too. “I know how in - credibly fortunate I am to have the chance to do this,” he said. “I’m grateful for the trust that Lynchburg College had in me to let me run with my idea .” Dr. Sumerlin started “running” in 2002 when he suggested that the College’s Claytor Nature Study Center in Bedford County would be the perfect spot for an observatory. His modest vision for nighttime viewing of the celestial sphere soon took off , and funds were secured for a 960 -square-foot complex housing a 20 -inch Ritchey-Chrétien telescope, an optical design also used in the Hubble Space Telescope. Dr. Sumerlin donated the primary telescope in honor of his great-grandmother, Margaret G. L. Gilbert, who first sparked his interest in the field by letting him stay up to watch the Perseid meteor shower when he was four years old. He has a sci-fi memory of the event. In his imagination, he saw tumbling boulders on fire. A vivid imagination is what makes astronomy so appealing to most people. “They come in thinking astronomy is cool , and all I have to do is make sure they leave feeling the same way,” Dr. Sumerlin said. It seems to be working. “I’m an accounting major and sport management minor, but I’ve always had an interest in the stars,” said Marc Gouze ’11

Fall 2009 LC MAGAZINE 25 Visitors look through the big scope and astronomical binoculars.

Mike Overacker, a local astronomer who was crucial to opening the observatory, preps a Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope for viewing. C of Pequannock, New Jersey. “You don’t know In addition to the big scope, the observa - thing about the observatory. The setting itself what you can learn from outer space.” tory has six 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain tele - is an astronomer ’s dream — situated in the Marc and Tess were two of the students scopes and an observation deck for using midst of acres of grassland ringed with moun - who elected to travel to the observatory at 3 astronomical binoculars and solar telescopes. tains, it makes ambient light (which destroys a.m. one Saturday for a chance to see Saturn, The $450,000 project is part of the College’s an observer ’s night vision) a vague memory. as did Ally Datz ’09 of Lexington, Virginia ,a plan to transform the Claytor Nature Study It is wonderfully equipped for both outreach communication studies major and recent Center into a comprehensive environmental and education. The community should be president of the Student Government Associ - education facility. The observatory was very grateful to Neal Sumerlin for his vision ation . “I’ve always been fascinated by astron - named after former North Carolina state sen - and determination in bringing the observa - omy,” she said. “In elementary school, my ator Irwin Belk of Charlotte for his contribu - tory into existence. ” favorite projects ever were making the solar tions to the project. “There are a lot of people Bringing the observatory to life was just system models out of little Styrofoam balls.” who contributed money, advice, and help. A part of the process. There’s still much to do. Dr. Sumerlin capitalizes on that enthusiasm lot of them want to stay anonymous, but they Remote access to the main scope from cam - when teaching his two general astronomy know who they are, and I thank them,” Dr. pus will likely fall to Dr. Sumerlin’s successor, courses. “This is for people who are going to Sumerlin said. as will research capability. Dr. Sumerlin, how - take one science course. It’s primarily for peo - Getting the observatory running has not ever, will get started this summer on installing ple who don’t like science.” been without challenges. “I’m like every other a spectroscope, which splits up the light and Tess was one of them. “I was terrified. I’m geek on the planet,” Dr. Sumerlin said. “I allows students to calculate the redshift to terrible at math and science. It turned out to didn’t consult the user’s manual.” He relied determine the movement of astronomical be one of my favorite classes here, ” she said of heavily on the expertise of local amateur as - objects. While on sabbatical in 2010 , he stellar astronomy. She will take solar system tronomers to help him get the bugs out. Mike will learn how to use a ccd camera to do astronomy in the fall. Overacker and Katherine Hix, founding astrophotography. The observatory is not the only cool part of members of the Star City (Roanoke) Astro - He also uses his personal time to enjoy the the classes. During labs, they conduct such nomical Network, were his biggest allies. “I’m heavens. In July, Dr. Sumerlin and his wife exercises as calculating the age of the universe. really fortunate to have those two,” he said. Jane celebrated their thirty-fifth wedding an - “It’s a completely different type of history than For her part, Hix says the fortune belongs niversary by taking a cruise from Tahiti to I’ve ever thought of,” she said. “It’s logical. It to the community at large. “I could say that view a total eclipse of the sun “way out in the just all makes sense.” Lynchburg College is fortunate to have an ob - middle of the ocean.” Taking the classroom experience out to servatory with a main instrument rivaled in All these experiences keep Dr. Sumerlin’s the observatory reinforces the learning aperture only by vmi ’s 20 -inch telescope and enthusiasm for astronomy bubbling to the process. The state-of-the-art telescope allows next by the University of Virginia observato - surface. “He’s one of the best teachers I’ve ever people to see images that are “between Hub - ries — nothing else in southwest Virginia had,” Tess said. “You could tell he was so pas - ble photographs, which spoil people, and compares to the Gilbert Telescope. However, sionate about it and he wanted to share it the naked eye or a small backyard telescope,” I’m not sure that the Gilbert scope, although with us. I would tell anyone to take this class. Dr. Sumerlin said. it is the crowning gem, is the most important Stay an extra semester at lc just to take it.”

26 LC MAGAZINE Fall 2009 g tin ns eaw ren zo n i na en C br on nn r a sH Hoby

if you Haven’t eaten peanut butter spagHetti around a Campfire, you probably Haven’t been on a new Horizons outing. New Horizons is Lynchburg College’s outdoor adventure program that gives students a chance to do everything from caving and canoeing to rock climbing and scuba diving. But mostly, it’s about developing leadership skills. “We all have to be leaders for the program to run effectively,” said Jackie Malay ’09 (Liverpool, N.Y.), a biomedical science major who started with New Horizons as a freshman and was one of nineteen student staff members last year. Jackie was the challenge course coordinator, a huge job requiring planning for as few as ten and as many as 300 participants who escape from their indoor worlds for some time in the woods to form bonds, develop trust, and exhibit leadership skills.

Fall 2009 LC MAGAZINE 27 Commonly referred to as a “ropes course,” LC’s chal - New Horizons teaches students to trust their own judg - lenge course, tucked in the trees off Lakeside Drive, is one ment and practice risk management by figuring out how of Lynchburg’s hidden gems. LC has hosted numerous col - and when it’s safe to get in a river, climb a tree, or spend a lege and high school groups , as well as community and night in the woods. Students learn the imperative of business groups. The demand for the challenge course is preparation, from planning nutritional and functional rising exponentially, as is participation from the LC com - meals to paying attention to weather forecasts. munity. New Horizons coordinator Paul Stern is the driv - Kevin Hollister ’09 (Manakin Sabot, Va.), a communi - ing force. “He’s really done wonders for the program,” cation studies major with law school aspirations, found a Jackie said. niche in New Horizons his freshman year after getting cut Stern, a certifiable outdoor enthusiast, has worked in a from the baseball team. He knew he wanted to stay physi - variety of recreational positions including raft guide, chal - cally active but had no idea how many leadership skills he lenge course facilitator, at-risk youth counselor, paddle would gain as a staff member of New Horizons. “It’s a instructor, sport clubs coordinator, lifeguard/CPR instruc - résumé-builder,” he said, but , more importantly , his self- tor, outdoor program manager, youth camp coordinator, confidence grew as Stern’s confidence in him grew. “He and assistant PADI scuba instructor. He and his wife are wouldn’t put you in the lead if he didn’t believe in you.” enthusiastic cavers and scuba divers. Kevin took his job seriously. He realized it would be a While his job lets him do the things he loves, what he nightmare to lose five students in the woods or risk rock or loves most about it is seeing students find a niche and tree climbing without securing ropes properly. “The school excel in leadership. “We are a great resource for a student is trusting me with fifty kids’ lives,” he said. who may or may not fit in somewhere else,” he said. Stern The leadership skills learned in New Horizons have had has learned that outward appearance is totally irrelevant, a other spinoffs on campus. Jackie took her lessons from the lesson that is still lost on many. “I’ve got kids with nose woods, particularly those about Leave No Trace, and rings and purple hair.” brought them back to campus to start the Alliance for

tHe CHallenges and rewards of working in tHe natural world also allow people to explore tHeir interest in seeing “and smelling and touCHing tHe essenCe of tHe eartH …

28 LC MAGAZINE Fall 2009 Energy Awareness (AFEA), a student organization that has tinue the connection throughout the year with more out - worked with the administration to lessen LC’s carbon foot - door adventures and by taking an eco-composition class print. “‘Use your own energy ’ is something I like to harp with English instructor Max Guggenheimer ’98 M.Ed. to on,” Jackie said, noting that hiking and biking are great satisfy their freshman English requirement. ways to do that. Almost uniformly, students in ABOVE say a trip to Aqua Another component of the New Horizons experience is Cave is their favorite experience. They have to dive under a new outdoor recreation minor, which provides students water to get in the cave and enter a whole new world. with the leadership, technical, and facilitation skills “Kids allude to it as their baptism,” Stern said. required to lead others into the back country. The curricu - Alissa Crill ’11 (Lynchburg, Va.), a 26-year-old Access lum includes classroom-based courses such as outdoor student (students age 25 and older) who transferred to LC recreational leadership and the philosophy of outdoor in January, is a new staff member of New Horizons and is experiential education with technical field-based courses looking forward to introducing freshmen to LC through such as backpacking and vertical rope work. the ABOVE program. For her, New Horizons was a quick Some recent graduates have already been able to gain way to get involved in campus life and to become healthier. employment in an otherwise tough job market thanks to “It’s made my experience more fulfilling,” she said their outdoor skills, Stern said. They’ve landed jobs and right after a sea kayaking trip to the coast. internships in outdoor recreation. “There’s always something to do.” The challenges and rewards of working in the natural Alissa, a history major and outdoor recre - world also allow people to explore their “interest in seeing ation minor, has her sights set on becoming and smelling and touching the essence of the Earth,” a teacher and knows her outdoor experi - Stern said. It gives students a chance to disconnect from ences will also improve her mentoring skills cell phones, Blackberries , and laptops and just be human. and provide a chance to do recreational work Stern has also developed ABOVE (Above and Beyond during the summers. Orientation Values Experiences), a program offered to She encourages students to check out New Hori - incoming freshmen. They arrive on campus a few days zons and says students don’t have to be jocks to enjoy early for a variety of outdoor adventures that let them get themselves. “I’m probably one of the clumsiest people to know other people and make friends before their first you’ll ever meet,” she said. semester gets under way. Part of a “living and learning community,” they are in the same residence hall and con -

Spring 2009 LC MAGAZINE 29 Faculty Forum

The world is

by Dr. Marek Payerhin in Eastern Europe and the implosion of the Soviet Associate Professor of Political Science Bloc. Western experts of “Kremlinology” lost all job security, and my colleague’s new book on the future eware of dragons, I told myself when I was of Soviet foreign policy became an instant fossil. asked to comment on the status and out - On the other hand, since that June in 1989 we look for the world. Of course, this year, full have heard many equally compelling predictions Bas it is of important anniversaries, may be that now a worldwide triumph of democracy is a good time to take stock of the past and to ponder inevitable. Here again, however, life trumps forecasts. the prospects. Just when the Poles were voting democracy in, the Still, I should know better than to try to predict Chinese regime violently crushed the mass pro-democ - the future. After all, when I was leaving my native racy movement of Tiananmen Square. While most Poland in 1987 , every self-respecting political scientist newly independent countries adopted a form of just knew that Communism would last for genera - democracy, some quickly degenerated into oppres - tions, perhaps forever. And yet, within two years sive dictatorships. In a flight of fancy, Turkmenistan’s Polish workers forced the Communist regime to ruler took on the official title of the Father of All accept partly free elections. They started a remarkable Turkmen, renamed calendar months after his family process that soon led to the collapse of Communism members, and banned lip-synching, but there was

30 LC MAGAZINE Fall 2009 nothing farcical about the brutal repression supported by the spread of its naval bases resolve this and other regional challenges (e.g., of his opponents. The Burmese military regime from Burma to Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Iran) will help determine the future global continues to crack down on any whiff of Pakistan. Meanwhile, the anarchy off the balance of power. opposition, even from Buddhist monks. coast of Somalia is likely to continue as long Another anniversary points out one more The North Koreans couldn’t tell democracy as the global network of Somali businessmen oddity to address: the u.s. policy toward Cuba. from a full bowl of rice since either one of succeeds in moving around ransom money Since Fidel Castro’s bearded guerrilleros rode them is likely to be a mere apparition. And earned for them by the impoverished fishermen into Havana in 1959 , the United States has in Iran you can freely elect any candidate hired to be pirates. In the Arctic, as the polar been trying to unseat him. It also launched provided he or she has been pre-screened and ice cap melts, a chance for access to underwater a most unsuccessful economic embargo and pre-approved by the ruling religious clerics. resources reignites old nationalisms. Russian prohibited its own citizens from visiting Cuba. While democracy remains attractive to many, mini-subs boldly rushed to the ocean bottom During these several decades, we found ways many more have yet to taste it. and planted a titanium national flag at the to cooperate with some very bloody dictators, Much of what the world will be like in the “real” North Pole, claiming the vast sea floor including Saddam Hussein, but Cuba remained second decade of the twenty-first century will areas for future exploitation and starting a blacklisted. President Obama has a historic depend on the actions of the United States. “scramble for the Arctic.” Canada is already chance to normalize relations with America’s The world is watching with much anticipation planning a deep-water port to control the close neighbor. watching us

since, as two European diplomats told an lc expected traffic through the newly ice-free The collapse of the American auto industry audience last fall, most would “love to be able Northwest Passage; Greenland is clamoring reminded me of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, to love America again.” In their subtle ways, for independence; and the u.s. is preparing the environmental disaster in 1989 that result - the speakers hinted at the amount of public to stake its own claim to the Arctic. In the ed ultimately from the rush to quench the relations cleanup that President Obama has to meantime, a new race begins in Antarctica oil thirst of consumers. Sadly, that lesson did undertake. From the disastrous legacy of Abu whose status as the last no-man’s land is being little to trim America’s appetite for gas guzzlers, Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and “water board - challenged by new territorial claims. and the automakers were happy to oblige until ing,” to u.s. opposition to the Internation al On terra firma, Asia offers a variety of no w — “Detroitosaurus Wrecks,” a British Criminal Court and the environmental Kyoto challenges. With its multitude of people and weekly declared wryly. I suddenly remem - Protocol, opportunities and challenges abound . rapidly expanding economic prowes s — as bered a Christmas tree farm in Michigan Add to this the newly assertive policies of well as the growth of religious extremism and where the owner, a retired gm worker, walked China and Russia, the Arab-Israeli conflict, military ambition s — Asia already provides up to my Honda and spat with disdain, u.s. recession, the renewed threat of nuclear much content for the intelligence briefings “Them Japs can’t even make trunks big proliferation, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Cuba, that land on the president’s desk (and his enough for a Christmas tree.” Now that his not to mention the worldwide economic crisis nightstand). To be sure, America’s military former employer’s suv -and-Hummer-pro - that originated in America and has nearly spending dwarfs all its rivals: at some $607 ducing binge ended up with a hangover in sunk even such affluent countries as Iceland. billion per year, the u.s. spends more than bank ruptcy court, the “huge is beautiful” Certainly, Obama’s plate will be full for years the next fourteen countries combined. Yet, ethos is definitely out, at least for a while. to come, and some newly emerging dangers the rise of China and, increasingly, India will Consumers may just settle for vehicles that are close by. shape u.s. foreign policy as the countries efficiently deliver them from point a to point Several of them are lurking i n — the oceans. compete for resources, jobs, economic influence, b without climbing Mt. Everest on the way From an environmental point of view, those and the world leadership mantle. Knocking or outshin ing the Joneses. And it is consumer enormous reservoirs absorb extraordinary at the door is also North Korea’s Kim Jong Il, choice s — rather than new technologies or amounts of co 2, helping us deny the severity who reminds me of the Japanese soldiers dis - availability of oil reserve s — that are likely to of the fossil fuel-burning crisis. We are now covered on some Pacific islands decades after determine the immediate prospects of our realizing that this also contributes to the wwii . They continued to hide and defend civilization. alarming acidification of the oceans that may their outposts in the jungle because nobody Shakespeare reminds us that “past is prologue.” be impossible to remedy. Politically, the oceans told them the war was over. Kim’s Stalinist Our future is rooted in the pas t — the closest will likely be the arena of the next major regime remains unreformed, belligerent, and I could get to a crystal ball. confrontation. In the Indian Ocean, uneasy clearly determined to shake its nuclear saber India is eying China’s growing influence, so that we don’t ignore it. Which country helps

Fall 2009 LC MAGAZINE 31 Alumni Association Alumni News Board of Directors

PRESIDENT & LC TRUSTEE Kathryn Mitchell Pumphrey ’75, ’88 M.Ed., Lynchburg, Va. A world of opportunities exists on campus ALUMNI OUTREACH COMMITTEE CHAIR John P. Reilly ’86 , Midlothian, Va. Lynchburg College and from etiquette dinners to small group DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE CHAIR students want you, as dis cussions, opportunities for our alumni to Brian M. Parker ’00, St. Louis, Mo. alumni, to know they participate in programs with students abound.

STUDENT LIFE COMMITTEE CHAIR would love to see more of In addition, those professors you remember so Andrew S. “Drew” Miller ’00, Salisbury, N.C. you. The Alumni Associa - fondly may invite you back to speak to their tion , the Classes of 2008 students. Given today’s economic turbulence, TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE CHAIR Hannah Howe Besanceney ’96, South Pasadena, Calif. and 2009 , and the Career introducing students to role models and helping and Academic Services them create mentoring and advisory relation - TRADITIONAL PROGRAMS COMMITTEE CHAIR Center have been partner - ships are more important than ever. These efforts Wendy E. Bradley ’91, Woodstock Valley, Conn. Connecticut Alumni Club Co-President ing to connect students demonstrate what our alma mater stands fo r— and alumni more effectively. a community of supportive people working WESTOVER ALUMNI SOCIETY PRESIDENT You can become involved in numerous ways together for the mutual success of all. Carolyn Hodges Crosby ’64, Orlando, Fla. in the lives of current students. The return of I personally invite you to attend one or MEMBERS-AT-LARGE alumni to campus is a measure of the College’s more of these events, and to contact Career Deidre Q. “Dee” Bryant ’95, Richmond, Va. strength and has real implications for its growing Development and discuss internship and job Theodore V. “Ted” Chase ’87, Trumbull, Conn. Nathan A. “Nate” Colarusso ’03, Glen Allen, Va. national reputation. You can personally make opportunities for current lc students. Bring D. Scot Currie ’82, Ashburn, Va. a difference by expanding the network, sharing your high school-age students to campus for Gerald J. “Jerry” Daniello ’93, South Orange, N.J. advice, or interviewing students to give them a tour and open house. These are powerfully Tracy K. Epps ’01, Manassas, Va. Patricia A. Featherstun ’61, Martinsville, Va. an important competitive advantage after they effective ways for the lc community to collabo - Charles S. “Chuck” Hrushka ’78, Marietta, Ga. graduate. The Lynchburg College name will rate and connect. J. Mark “Journey” Johnson ’78, ’80 M.Ed., start to become synonymous with not only I join the seniors in the Class of 2010 and Brentwood, Tenn. Robert P. “Bobby” Kelland ’77, Richmond, Va. student success, but also with young alumni faculty and staff in inviting you to strike up a Cyrus A. Krohn ’93, Issaquah, Wash. success, fueled by effective mentoring by more conversation with current students. You will Bryce C. Legg ’81, Hunt Valley, Md. experienced alumni. enjoy the experience and get to know some of Andrew M. Orlando ’85, Falls Church, Va.; Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area Alumni Club Northern Virginia President The College’s reputation is stronger than the amazing young people who are continuing Kirk Perrow III ’66, Washington, D.C. ever. Our students compete favorably alongside the proud lc tradition you helped create. Sarah J. Phillips ’02, Richmond, Va. those from Ivy League institutions, are gaining To learn more about what you can do to help Randi Alper Pupkin ’84, Baltimore, Md. Elizabeth “Betsy” Carter Smith ’67, Silver Spring, Md. reputations as top-notch researchers in subjects students, contact the Office of Alumni Programs Karen McKay Tong ’01, Baltimore, Md. from history to economics, and are representing and share your interests with Betty Howell, Lesley Day Villarose ’02, Plymouth Meeting, Pa. an increasingly diverse set of backgrounds. We, Tom Cassidy ’ 73 , Matt Brandon, or Ally Datz ’ 09 Sherwood N. Zimmerman ’64, Forest, Va. as lc alumni, should stand proudly and applaud at [email protected], 800/621-1669 , or WESTOVER ALUMNI SOCIETY these amazing young people. 434/544-8293 . FIRST VICE PRESIDENT (NON-VOTING) If you have been looking for ways to become Melvin “Bucky” Reynolds ’61, Monterey, Va. more involved, the time is right to offer lc WESTOVER ALUMNI SOCIETY students your help. The Class of 2010 has already Dr. Kathryn Mitchell Pumphrey ’ 75 , ’ 88 m.ed. SECOND VICE PRESIDENT (NON-VOTING) begun working closely with the alumni and career President, LC Alumni Association Sherwood Zimmerman ’64, Forest, Va. development teams to craft an exciting set of Member, LC Board of Trustees events for their final college year. From speed networking to job and internship interviewing, LC Alumni on the Internet Want to attend an event at LC? Reconnect with classmates, teammates, Log on to the College website at www.lynchburg.edu , and click on the Calendar of Events. roommates, and friends We hope to see you there! www .lynchburgalumni.org www .facebook.com (Lynchburg Alumni & Friends group) We want to hear from you and we want to see you, too! When you send photos for www .linkedin.com Class Notes, please submit them in at least 200 dpi resolution so we can share them with (Lynchburg Alumni & Friends group) your classmates. Lower resolution images usually cannot be printed in the magazine. www .plaxo.com

32 LC MAGAZINE Fall 2009 40 s Douglas “Doug” Drysdale ’45 has been named to Stay the Lynchburg College Board of Trustees. After studying at LC, Doug received his B.A. in economics from the University of Virginia, served in the army for three years, in touch! and returned to U.Va. to earn his law degree. He is retired from Caplin & Drysdale law firm, which has Bret Moon and sister Sherri Moon Johnson (right) joined Let us know when you move, change your offices in Washington, D.C., and New York City. He their mother, June Moon ’67 M.Ed. , widow of Coach phone number (or area code!), change jobs, resides in Charlottesville, Va. Aubrey Moon ’56 , at the Alumni and Friends Luncheon in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., in June. or have other major changes in your life.

CLASSES OF ’50 AND ’55 OFFICE OF ALUMNI PROGRAMS IN REUNION Matt Brandon , Associate Vice President 50 APRIL 23 –25, 2010 s for Development and Alumni Relations Tom Cassidy ’73 , Director Ally Datz ’09, Assistant Director, Alumni Programs Betty Howell , Administrative Assistant 434/544-8293, 800/621-1669 Fax: 434/544-8653 E-mail: [email protected] Class Notes e-mail: [email protected] www.lynchburg.edu/alumni.xml Class of 1969 luncheon in Aldie, Va., in June was hosted by www.lynchburgalumni.org Tucker Withers ’69 , LC trustee, and his wife Mary Ann Withers (second and third from left), at their home at the OFFICE OF PARENTS PROGRAMS One of the winning teams at the Shellenberger Golf Tour - Little River Inn, which they own. Jan Cocke Sigler ’65 , Coordinator nament in May included Larry Mays , Claude Mays ’64 , Roger Roberts ’69, ’71 M.Ed . retired in June as deputy Hap Mays ’55 , and Harold Massie ’73 . Sadly, Hap died 434/544-8660, 800/621-1669 superintendent of Lynchburg (Va.) City Schools after four weeks later. Fax: 434/544-8569 more than thirty years with the division. He and his E-mail: [email protected] Edward Wooldridge Jr. ’53 received the Reidar F. wife, Joann “Jody” Bennington ’76 M.Ed. , live in www.lynchburg.edu/parents.xml Sognnaes Award for Excellence presented by the Forest, Va. Odontology Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences at its annual meeting in Denver, NEWS FOR CLASS NOTES Colo., in February. He lives in Gulfport, Fla. CLASSES OF ’74 AND ’79 www.lynchburg.edu/x1680.xml IN REUNION 70 OCTOBER 2 –4, 2009 CLASSES OF ’60 AND ’65 s IN REUNION APRIL 23 –25, 2010 CLASS OF ’69 IN REUNION 60 s OCTOBER 2 –4, 2009 William “Bill” Cochran ’60 was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame at its annual induction cer emony in April. Bill is a Virginia Press Association awards recipient and a veteran outdoors editor for the Roanoke Times. He lives in Catawba, Va. Franklin “Frank” Hall ’61 retired in April from the Vir ginia House of Delegates after thirty-four sessions and was immediately appointed to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission by Gov. Tim Kaine. Frank, who is also an attorney, lives in Midlothian, Va. Kathrine Switzer ’68 , a guest speaker at the Shellen - berger Field re-dedication in April 2007, was featured in the July/August 2009 issue of Women’s Running magazine. Kathrine was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon. Annual Sigma Mu Sigma LC Alumni golf outing was held in June in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Gene Frantz ’71, ’76 M.Ed. , Jim White ’73 , Don Mason ’73 , Mike Macleod ’72 , Steve Crank ’73, ’74 M.B.A. , LC trustee, Marc Jordan ’69 , Chuck Doremus ’73, ’74 M.B.A. , and Art Iannucci ’72 participated.

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Bobbi Farmer Johnson ’81, ’93 M.Ed. was named superintendent for Culpeper County (Va.) Public Schools effective July 1. Bobbi formerly served as assistant superintendent for Bedford County (Va.) Pub lic Schools. She was recognized in summer 2009 by Cheryl Ayers ’01 M.B.A. , director of the Lynchburg College Center for Economic Education, for her out - standing support of economic education. She is living in Lynchburg, Va., during her transition. Laurie Shelton Moran ’81 was recently elected vice Laurie Cassidy ’02 , Larry Younger ’73 , and Jim Napier Jack Hobbs ’78 , executive vice president of corporate sales chair of the National Association of Workforce Boards ’75 attended Music for Massey, a fundraiser for the Massey at Univision Radio, Dallas, Texas, (right) was on campus in at its quarterly meeting in Washington, D.C., where she Cancer Center at VCU, in Richmond in June. Jim organizes April to speak about his career in the entertainment business. met former president Bill Clinton, the keynote speaker. the annual event. Pictured on left are Henry Grattan’78 from WSET TV-13 Laurie is president of the Danville Pittsylvania County in Lynchburg, and Dr. Joe Freeman, professor emeritus of Chamber of Commerce and lives in Gretna, Va. E. “Stuart” Kitchen Jr. ’70 was honored last year as political sci ence. the first recipient of the Stuart Kitchen D.A.R.E. Lifetime Lori Bradley Capri ’83 received her master’s in health Achievement award in honor of his dedication to the administration from Western Connecticut State Uni - versity in May. In addition, she has a master of science D.A.R.E. program in Virginia. Stuart retired as sheriff CLASSES OF ’84 AND ’89 of Sussex County after twenty-five years of service IN REUNION in community counseling and will attend the University and currently teaches history at Tidewater Academy OCTOBER 2 –4, 2009 of Hartford this fall to pursue her doctor of psychology 80 (Psy.D.). Lorie currently works with incarcerated in Wakefield, Va., where he also lives. s women in a residential community release program Richard Morris ’71 , ’77 M.Ed. has been named minor that provides intensive substance abuse and mental league baseball field manager for the Coastal Kingfish health counseling. She lives in Danbury, Conn. (Continental Baseball League), which is based in Texas. He and his wife, Heidi Carwile ’69 , live in Lynchburg, Va. Richard “Rick” Mullen ’83 M.B.A. was promoted to senior vice president/chief lending officer at Coastal Catherine Ennis ’75 was named the 2010 Alliance Federal Credit Union in Raleigh, N.C., where he lives. Scholar by the American Alliance for Health, Physical He will be responsible for overseeing all of Coastal’s Education, Recreation and Dance. Catherine is a lending activities. profes sor of kinesiology in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina Eleni Zuras Tsigas ’85 was named executive director Greensboro. She was inducted into the LC Sports Hall in January of the Preeclampsia Foundation, the national of Fame in 1992 for her accomplishments in field hockey D. Scott Currie ’82 (front row, second from left), Alumni patient advocacy organization serving those affected by and lacrosse. Catherine lives in Greensboro, N.C. Board member, joins alumni friends and family at their preeclampsia and other hypertensive disorders of eighth annual golf weekend in Myrtle Beach, S.C. pregnancy. Eleni, a survivor and longtime volunteer leader, brings strong professional strategic communica - tions and management experience to the organization. She lives in Melbourne, Fla.

OCTOBER 2 – 4, 2009 Homecoming 2009 Classes of 1969, ’74, ’79, ’84, ’89, ’94, ’99, and 2004 in Reunion

APRIL 23 – 25, 2010 Westover Alumni Society Charmaine “Desi” Hall Justis ’86, ’95 M.Ed. visited with Geoffrey Greene ’05 while on vacation in Nassau, Weekend Classes of 1950, ’55, ’60, and ’65 in Reunion Bahamas. He gave her a great tour of the island. Muriel Mickles ’87, ’96 M.Ed. was named 2009 For more information, contact the Office of Alumni Programs Out standing Alumnus by Central Virginia Community 434/544-8293 • 800/621-1669 • Fax 434/544-8653 College (CVCC) in Lynchburg and gave the school’s commencement address in May. She is currently dean [email protected] • www.lynchburgalumni.org of humanities and social sciences and an associate pro fessor at CVCC. Muriel lives in Lynchburg.

34 LC MAGAZINE Fall 2009 Sara Ellington Behnke ’91 is the co-author of the recently released book, The Must-Have Mom Manual, Plan Now! which can be found at your favorite bookstore. The book offers information and advice on children from birth to school. This follows her first book, The Mommy THE LYNCHBURG COLLEGE ALUMNI Chronicles in 2005. Sara lives in Charlotte, N.C. TRAVEL PROGRAM INVITES YOU TO Brent Sheahan ’91 accepted the position in January of EXPLORE general manager at Bent Tree Golf Club in Sunbury, Ohio. Brent has been in the golf business for twenty- one years and also works for Eagle Golf Corporation Richmond area Alumni choir members joined Dr. Harvey which runs approximately ninety facilities around the Huiner, professor emeritus of music, and his wife, Marjorie United States. Brent lives in Westerville, Ohio. ’89, ’89 M.Ed. , at dinner in Richmond in March. Argentina Veronica Millner Soles ’94 was the 2008 employee of the year for her service area at the Methodist Home Anne Illig Chamberlin ’88 , a second-grade teacher at for Children in Raleigh, N.C., where she serves as the Paul Munro Elementary School, was named Lynchburg director of staff recruitment. She was also selected as a (Va.) City Schools Teacher of the Year in May. Anne has presenter for the Child and Family Services Association been teaching in the city schools for twenty-one years, of North Carolina at its annual conference in April in including sixteen at Paul Munro. She lives in Lynchburg. Asheville, N.C. Veronica lives in Cary, N.C. Andrew Mosby ’89 has joined the firm of MKM Floyd Williams ’94 retired as president and chief Partners where he will serve as a senior sales trader executive officer of Farmers Bank of Appomattox at the firm’s new office in Corte Madera, Cal. MKM (Va.) on December 30, 2008. Floyd joined the bank Partners is an institutional equity trading and research in 1982 as assistant vice president and loan officer. firm. Andrew and his wife, Shelley Ludwick ’89 , live He remains a member of the Board of Directors. in Corte Madera. Floyd lives in Appomattox.

CLASSES OF ’94 AND ’99 IN REUNION 90 s OCTOBER 2 –4, 2009 with Dr. Dan Messerschmidt and Andrew S. Miller ’ 00 January 8-16, 2010 Eric Smith, Sarah Balfour Smith ’95 , and daughter, Finlay, joined the Atlanta Alumni Club Gathering at JCT Bar and Restaurant in February. Enjoy an educational and exciting excursion to Argentina with longtime LC faculty member Dan Messerschmidt and alumnus Andrew Miller ‘00. From the cultural kalei - Dr. Dan Lang, dean of the School of Communication and doscope of Buenos Aires to the breath - the Arts and professor of political science, welcomed Dr. taking vineyards and majestic mountains Robb Eldridge ’90 , associate professor of Japanese political and diplomatic history at Osaka University’s Graduate School of Mendoza, you will walk, talk, dine, and of International Public Policy in Osaka, Japan, at a luncheon dance with Argentina’s amazing people. in his honor. Robb was on campus to deliver the Ida Wise East Complete details will be e-mailed and Memorial Lecture. posted online for your convenience. Megan Schell Schnurr ’90 is a Realtor with Ward Wight Sotheby’s International Realty in Sea Girt, N.J., where For pricing and reservation information, she also lives. please contact the Office of Alumni Norma Smoot White ’90, ’94 M.Ed. was honored in November as the 2008 Clinical Counselors Alliance Programs at [email protected] Division Member of the Year by the Virginia Counselors or 800-621-1669. Association. Norma is the executive director of Couples and Kids, Central Virginia’s Counseling Center for Families. Jim Bower ’97 and Cheryl Jacobus Bower ’96 and their She and her husband, John ’64 , live in Forest, Va. children visited with Dana Wilkins ’96 (right) in Burton Student Center in June.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Attention Parents! Scott Shepherd ’00 , assistant vice president of sales and marketing with the Washington Redskins, Parents & poses with Emily Fleckenstein ’10 , who worked with him as an intern Family Weekend during the summer. September 18 –20, 2009 Make hotel reservations now!

Commencement Jennifer Schwarzenbek ’99 became the head coach Baccalaureate • May 14, 5 p.m. for the girl’s field hockey program at Summit High Commencement • May 15, 10 a.m. School in Summit, N.J., in 2008. Jennifer is also an ele mentary school teacher for Summit Public Schools. Make hotel reservations now! She lives in Westfield, N.J. For more information, contact the Office of Parents Programs CLASS OF 2004 434/544-8660 • 800/621-1669 IN REUNION OCTOBER 2 –4, 2009 [email protected] 00 s www.lynchburg.edu/parents.xml The Charlotte Alumni Club Gathering in February was Virginia “Ginna” Cary ’00 received her bachelor of organized by Jonathon M. Woog ’02, ’04, M.Ed. , science in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania in Charlotte Alumni Club co-president, (left). May. Ginna is a registered nurse in the emergency department at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, He works at Homestead Hills Retirement Facility Jason Campbell ’97, ’98 M.B.A. has been awarded where she also lives. in Winston-Salem, N.C. The McCalls reside in the professional designation of chief fire officer (CFO) Greensboro, N.C. Benjamin Summers ’00 M.B.A. by the Commission of Professional Credentialing and is has been re-elected to a second Mary Rush Bailey ’03 M.Ed. has written her first novel, one of only 579 CFOs worldwide. Jason has been a three-year term on the Board of Vhan Zeely and the Time Prevaricators, in which a young member of the Lynchburg Fire Department for ten Directors of the Archery Trade girl is forced into time travel and the adventure of her years and is president of the Lynchburg Fire Fighters Association (ATA) where he will life. Mary is a high school English teacher and was Association. He also serves as a gubernatorial appointee remain a champion of archery recently inducted into Delta Kappa Gamma, a society by Gov. Tim Kaine to the State Emergency Medical manufacturers, sportsmen, and of key women educators. She lives in Rustburg, Va. Services Advisory Board. Jason lives in Lynchburg, Va. wildlife conservation. He is the Diana Hodge s-Batzka ’03 was ordained into the Tamika Jones ’98 was licensed as an attorney in the director of operations for T.R.U. Ball and AXCEL Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) ministry at Riverside Commonwealth of Virginia on April 24. Tamika Archery Products which are manufactured by S&S Avenue Christian Church (DoC) of Jacksonville in Jack - attended law school at The Catholic University of Machine in Madison Heights, Va. He lives in Forest, Va. sonville, Fla. on May 16. She is currently a pastoral resident America, Columbus School of Law, in Washington, Fiona Vick ’00 has earned the at First Christian Church (DoC) in Montgomery, Ala. D.C., where she specialized in communications law. dis tinction of certified consultant Ashley Farmer Dalton ’03 received her M.B.A. in May Tamika received a certificate from the Communica - by the Association for Applied from the McComb’s School of Business at the University tions Law Institute as well as her juris doctorate in Sport Psychology (AASP), the of Texas at Austin. She and her husband, Douglas “Allen” May 2008. She lives in Alexandria, Va. professional organization of sport ’02 , live in Austin. Amy Edwards ’99 was inducted into the Varina High and exercise psychology. She is Denver Davis ’05 received a master of arts degree in School Athletic Wall of Fame on January 10. While the assistant director of mental American history from George Mason University in Fair - attending Varina, Amy earned numerous All-District training for Hank Haney Interna - fax , Va., on May 16. He lives in Burke, Va. and All-Region awards in track and field. Amy lives in tional Junior Golf Academy in Hilton Head Island, S.C. Richmond, Va. She lives in Bluffton, S.C. Emily Schoenfelder ’05 received her M.B.A. from The George Washington University in May. She lives James “Barrett” Lucy ’99 is an attorney with the Jessica Delk McCall ’01 received her Ph.D. in Educa - in Washington, D.C. law firm of Gentry, Locke, Rakes & Moore, LLP in tional Leadership and Cultural Foundations from the Roanoke, Va. where he was elevated to partner in University of North Carolina at Greensboro in May. Jennifer “Jenny” Steel ’05 received her master of arts January. Barrett has been practicing law since 2002. She is a professor in the Communication Studies in teaching in August from the College of New Jersey in He and his wife, Melissa Thompson ’99, ’01 M.Ed. , program at UNCG. Her husband, Joshua “Josh” Ewing, N.J. She is currently teaching social studies and live in Forest, Va. McCall ’02, received his doctorate of physical therapy in works with several high school theatre departments as December 2008 from Elon University in Elon, N.C. a technical advisor. Jenny lives in Hamilton, N.J.

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F. Nicholas “Nick” Sollog III ’06 has completed the Mini MBA through the Robins School of Business Executive Gifts To LC Education program at the University of Richmond (Va.). This non-credit program has an intensive fourteen-week Through Your Will format designed for high potential managers and pro - fessionals and provides a solid foundation in current Many types of outright bequests business theory and practices. Nick is the assistant can be given, including: director of the student calling program in the Office of Annual Giving at the University of Richmond. He lives w Specific Bequest This is the most popular in Richmond. type of charitable bequest. You simply leave a specific dollar amount (e.g., $ 25,000). Caroline Cubbage ’07 has graduated magna cum laude from Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., with a w Percentage Bequest You direct that a certain master of arts in athletic administration. She is the new percentage of your estate goes to LC (e.g., 20 head softball coach at Concordia University-Nebraska. percent). Regardless of the size of your estate at death (after payment of debts, expenses , Noel Balderson ’08 was interviewed for an article and taxes), you’ll know that a portion of your on camp nursing, “Special Needs Require Special estate will benefit the College. Skills,” that appeared in the February 2009 edition of ADVANCE for Nurses. Noel is a nurse at Children’s w Residual Bequest You specify that after all Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Va. She other specific bequests, taxes , and expenses lives in Chesapeake. have been paid, LC receives all or a portion of Kathleen “Katie” Gardner ’08 has always been a fan what remains — the residue. of the Golden Age of Hollywood. In January, she gave w Contingent Bequest LC is named the contin - a lecture at the Bedford (Va.) Welcome Center, “Holly - gent or next beneficiary if the primary benefici - wood Goes to War: Screen Queens and the War ary (spouse, child, or friend) predeceases you. Effort” about Hollywood and World War II. Katie lives Sample bequest language: “I give ______in Bedford, Va. (dollar amount, percentage amount, or descrip - tion of the asset) to Lynchburg College, Lynch - burg, Virginia , to be used for the general Marriages purposes of the College.” Heather Brown ’00 to Tim Martin on Feb. 28, 2009, If you wish to designate a specific use for the be - at the Fort Early Building in Lynchburg (Va.). The new quest, please contact Gene Frantz ’71, ’76 M.Ed. , family, which includes Tim’s daughter, Christian, resides in Forest, Va. vice president for planned giving , at 434 /544-8294 Amanda Werth ’09 graduated 100 years after her great- or 80 0/ 621 -1669 prior to finalizing your plans to dis - Carrie Webster ’02 to Erwan LeCrom on Nov. 7, grandmother Edna Stutzman Johnson Fair, class of 1910, cuss any designations you may be considering. This 2008 in Pawley’s Island, S.C. Carrie is a professor at attended LC. Edna followed Dr. and Mrs. Josephus Hopwood will help us make sure your wishes can be fulfilled. Virginia Commonwealth University and assistant director to Virginia Christian College, now Lynchburg College, from of the Center for Sport Leadership at VCU. The couple Milligan College in Johnson City, Tenn., to become one of resides in Richmond, Va. the College’s first students.

LC trustee Tucker Withers’69 is shown with son Calder ’09 and Brad Danker ’09 with his father and LC trustee Richard at Commencement 2009.

Seeing the joy that comes to a disabled child’s face as he sits astride a horse has given Jessica Woodworth ’09 an idea about a future career. A special education major, Jessica decided to look for a practicum experience outside of student teaching. She found “Astride with Pride,” which just happens to be run by LC alum Stormie Shelton- Hazen ’93 in nearby Bedford County.

38 LC MAGAZINE Fall 2009 Megan Jonas ’03 to Paul Lupo WLCedding Album

Carrie Webster ’02 to Erwan LeCrom Devon Prybeck ’03 to David Childress ’03

Lohryn Nelson ’08 to Jonathan Post

Carla Burnette ’06 to Timothy Wenzel Melanie Chidester ’07 to Christopher Askey

Heather Brown ’00 to Tim Martin

Marissa Montuori ’05 to Joel Coon Jessica Huntley ’04 to Nathan Ludwig

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The Atlanta Alumni Club Gathering was held at Seasons 52 Restaurant in February.

Megan Jonas ’03 to Paul Lupo on Oct. 24, 2008 in Bay Head, N.J. Allison Auerbach Luker ’03 was matron of honor and Carrie Cotman Donahue ’03 was a brides - maid. The couple honeymooned in St. Lucia and cur rently lives in Neptune, N.J. Devon Prybeck ’03 to David Childress ’03 on Oct. 18, 2008 in New Brunswick, N.J. Devon works in commercial real estate and property management, LC Alumni and family members attend the LC vs. Stevens University men’s lacrosse game in Owings Mills, Md., in March. while Dave works in business development and sales. The couple resides in Cary, N.C. Jessica Huntley ’04 to Nathan Ludwig on July 4, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nev. Erin Frick ’06 served as a bridesmaid. The couple resides in Bourbon, Ind. Marissa Montuori ’05 to Joel Coon on May 2, 2009 in Radford, Va. Gift Caternor ’05 was a member of the bridal party. The couple honeymooned in Florida and resides in Danville, Va. Carla Burnette ’06 to Timothy Wenzel on Aug. 26, 2006 at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Manchester, Md. A reception followed at the Sheraton-North in Towson, Md. Included in the wedding party were maids of honor, Ashley Burnette ’00, and Lindsay Burnette ’04, sisters of the bride, and Amanda Harris ’06, her college roommate. The couple honeymooned in Riviera Maya, Mexico, and currently resides in Upperco, Md. Melanie Chidester ’07 to Christopher Askey on June 7, 2008 in Tyson’s Corner, Va. Included in the wedding Alumni and friends gathered at a luncheon in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., in June. party were Jessica Cullen ’07, Christina DiLiddo ’07, Kelly Bradley Enman ’07, Kelly Vornadore ’07, Erin Mahoney ’07, Sarah Bish ’07, Lauren Askey ’08, and Jana Thoma Chidester ’04. Melanie is a marketing analyst for BGE HOME while attending Loyola College in Maryland to obtain her M.B.A. The couple honey - mooned in Riviera Maya, Mexico, and currently resides in Baltimore, Md. Lohryn Nelson ’08 to Jonathan Post on Aug. 30, 2008 at Elkhardt Baptist Church in Richmond, Va. Casey Grey Miller ’08 served as maid of honor. The couple resides in Blacksburg, Va.

New Arrivals Alumni volunteers who spoke about their careers to a student gathering in April are (back row) Alumni Board Marc and Beth Halley, Parents Council members and parents members Ted Chase ’87 , Kathryn Mitchell Pumphrey To Arthur “Art” Criss ’83 and wife Wanda, a daughter, of Marc ’09 , continued their annual spring participation by ’75, ’88 M.Ed. , Alumni Association president and LC trustee, Brooke Elaina, born Feb. 27, 2009. The family resides calling LC accepted students on behalf of the Washington, John Reilly ’86 , Wendy Bradley ’91 , Drew Miller ’00 in Terre Haute, Ind. D.C., Metropolitan Area Alumni Club. and Cheryl Risinger Diuguid ’73 , (center) who talked about her international business career.

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To Jennifer Flatley Bauman ’87 and husband Christian, a son, James Joseph, born Feb. 18, 2009. He joins big Send in the clown by Carolyn Austin Eubank ’67 sisters Mimi, 8, Sarah, 6, and Kate, 4. The family resides in Houston, Texas. If you think clowns have no place in the To Evarista “Eva” Speckhart Mothershed ’89 and corporate world, think again. Meet husband Robb, a son, Carson Andrew, born Dec. 3, Ted Kraje ’08 M.B.A. , an areva 2008. He joins big sister Elyssa, 3. The family resides information systems team manager, in Winston-Salem, N.C. aka Teddy Spaghetti the Clown. To Brent Sheahan ’91 and wife Megan, a son, Tyler Ted, who honed his juggling skills Theodore, born Jan. 16, 2009. He joins big sisters during childhood, landed the White Hannah, 5, and Abby, 2. The family resides in West - Face Clown role in a Lynchburg Fine erville, Ohio. Arts Center summer production of To Kevin Cunningham ’92 and wife Elizabeth, a son, “Barnum” following his freshman Ben Michael, born Dec. 10, 2008. He joins big sis - undergraduate year and has been ters Carrie, 10, and Jamie, 7. The family resides in clowning ever since. A popular enter - Waldwick, N.J. tainer at children’s birthday parties To David Berdow ’95 and wife Liz, a daughter, Samantha and other events, he says, “You’d be Elizabeth, born Dec. 15, 2008. David and Liz were surprised at the professional benefit s—every show is different so I have to think on married in the Bahamas on April 18, 2007. The family resides in Narberth, Pa. my feet constantly; time management is a must to fit clowning into work and family schedules; public speaking is a no-brainer; and, if you think you ever had a difficult customer, children always give immediate and honest feedback. These skills have made me a better engineer and manager.” Fortunately, Ted doesn’t rely entirely on his clown alter ego for career success. There’s also his newly -minted Lynchburg College m.b.a. After participating in areva ’s Leadership Center program in which an m.b.a. was highly recommended, he enrolled in lc ’s program, saying it stood out because of its excellent reputation and long-term relationship with areva . He has high praise for the program and its faculty, particularly Dr. Sally Selden, who teaches Organizational Management, and Dr. Atul Gupta, who teaches International Business and Strategy, the capstone course. “Dr. Selden is a genius in her field. Her insights on management, organizational analysis, interpreting personality styles, and The Peninsula Alumni Club luncheon was held in Smithfield, Va., in March. overall leadership have significantly changed the way I interface with people. Not only did Dr. Gupta teach the intricacies of the stock market, his opinions during class discussions about current events were enlightening, thought-provoking, and taught me more about economics than any textbook.” Dr. Gupta says of his former student, “Ted is a representative of today’s best and brightest professional minds. He is exceptionally knowledgeable about many areas of business and eager to help his peers and see them succeed.” Ted excelled in the program, earning the Outstanding Graduate Business Student Award and induction into Sigma Beta Delta National Business Honor Society. An engineer by training, he says, “There’s a reason why becoming a corporate vp without an m.b.a. is so rare. With my degree, I can have an intelligent conversation with an Richmond Alumni Club alumni and parent volunteers called accountant, read and understand a 10k report, and understand the value of market - accepted students in the Class of 2013 in March to encourage them to enroll at LC. ing/legal/information systems and how they can affect everything I do. As a side benefit, I greatly appreciate other students’ life lessons.” He especially valued the personal interaction with faculty, saying students often arrived early for class to talk informally with professor s—quite different from his undergraduate experience at a large Virginia public university where he did not meet personally with a professor until his senior year. Ted aspires to become the chief information officer of a corporation and leave a legacy of transforming information systems from a cost to an added value. He’s well on his way, having recently appeared on the Blue Ridge Business Journal list of “Top 20 Under 40 ” professionals.

Central Virginia Alumni Club volunteers participated for the first time in the Lynchburg College Relay for Life in April in Wake Field House.

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A career volunteer? by Shannon Brennan

Shortly after spending four and a half months in Ecuador, Nick Ward ’07 dropped by Lynchburg College to see some of his former professors and share stories about planting mahogany in the Amazon and tagging seabirds The South Hampton Roads Alumni Club luncheon was held in the Galapagos. in Norfolk, Va., in March. Had he been an environmental science major, that might not have been a surprise, but Nick was a communication studies major, who, like many college students, graduated with no concrete plans. Nick landed a job as recruitment manager for City Year in Washington, d.c. A member of AmeriCorps, City Year gives young people opportunities to serve as tutors, mentors, and role models in eighteen u.s. locations Alumni and one student attended a luncheon in Wrightsville and Johannesburg, South Africa. Beach, N.C., in June. The work inspired Nick to volun - teer in the evenings as a fifth-grade To Tracey Grau Dixon ’95 and husband Daniel, a son, tutor in the For Love of Children Daniel Weston Dixon Jr., born Jan. 17, 2009. The family (floc ) program. He also recruited resides in Lynchburg, Va. other organizations and politicians To Mary Wright Reeves ’96 and husband Shane, a to contribute time and money to daughter, Kaitlyn Marie, born Oct. 19, 2008. She joins local school projects, including painting murals and building benches in the d.c. big sister Alannah Elizabeth, 3. The family resides in school system. Owego, N.Y. While a student, Nick’s volunteer work, which included a Habitat for Humanity To Jill Scott Colburn ’97 and husband Chris, a daughter, project and fundraising for a soup kitchen, had planted a seed. But the volunteer Molly Scott, born Dec. 18, 2008. She joins big sister bug bit much harder after his City Year experience. Lucy, 3. The family resides in Lakewood, N.Y. Nick began searching the Internet for some international experience, and through To Shannon McGinnis Graves ’97 , and husband, the Global Volunteer Network, he found Jatun Sacha (Big Forest), an environmental Matthew ’99 M.Ed. , a son, Rylan Patrick, born Oct. 13, nonprofit. Nick had to pay to get himself to Ecuador, but his daily needs were taken 2008. He joins big brothers Jackson, 7, and Keagan, 3, care of by the organization. along with big sister Gabriella, 5. The family resides in Nick taught English and sustainable farming techniques, including composting Ellicott City, Md. and planting mahogany, to Quecha-speaking Ecuadorians in the Ecuadorian Amazon . To Megan Herward Delosky ’98 and husband He and other volunteers did five-mile hikes to reach some villages, while others Andrew, a son, Alex James, born Aug. 7, 2008. The were accessible only by canoe. family resides in Stone Mountain, Ga. Half his time was spent in the Galapagos, growing coffee, tagging petrels, and To Renee Costa Gage ’98 and husband Sam, a son, fighting invasive species with a machete. “It’s still a precious place,” Nick said of Knox Michael, born Feb. 15, 2009. He joins big brothers Brady, 4, and Mac, 2. The family resides in the Galapagos. The Spanish he studied at lc came in handy. Brunswick, Maine. Both experiences were broadening in varying ways. “I met a lot of fascinating people from around the world,” he said. He also became tolerant of creepy crawlers. To Max Guggenheimer ’98 M.Ed. and wife Jessica Baldwin, a son, Declan Wesley-Maximus Guggenheimer, “Before, I was really scared of spiders, but by the end, I could let a tarantula crawl on March 18, 2009. Jessica is the director of learning on my arm,” he said. resources in Academic Advising at Lynchburg College. This summer Nick waited tables at a restaurant in Ocean City, Maryland, while The family lives in Big Island, Va. filling out his Peace Corps application. His Ecuador experience whetted his appetite To Justin Lorenzo ’98 and wife Lorensianna “Lore” for more international experience. He hopes to go back to South America and has Fitzgerald ’97, ’99 M.Ed. , a daughter, Serena Jane, this advice for everyone: “Do volunteer work. You can find out who you are.” born May 2, 2008. The family resides in Newton, N.J.

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The voice of NASA by Betty McKinney

Development Center. “She learned the basics of broadcast journalism as a reporter for ‘Eye on lc ,’ the video news magazine we were then producing, and later became the anchor of that show. She was also an editor for The Critograph . She has a great work ethic and a terrific personality. I’ve had many students in my twenty-six years at lc , and Kimberly stands out as one of the best and most memorable.” “When I think back to Kim as a student, I can still picture in my mind exactly where she sat in my classes,” recalled Dr. Jorgensen- Earp, associate professor of communication studies. “She was always a dynamic young woman, eager and energetic, and she absorbed information so readily that her desire to learn was clear from the beginning. I knew that she would have a successful career, although I did not know at the time exactly where she would ‘land.’ For those of us who knew Kim as a student, it is particularly gratifying to see Kimberly is pictured with Chariot in the rock yard at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas. how she is using every day what she learned at lc and how very happy she is in her life and work.” Kimberly Land ’96 is the voice of nasa and will allow crews to spend up to three days living loves every minute of it. As public affairs, and working away from their lunar base. outreach, and education manager for nasa ’s Kimberly began her career in public affairs Exploration Technology Develop ment Pro - with nasa in 1998 . “I was on the bottom tier gram ( etdp ), she keeps the public up to date then,” she said, “but now I’m on the front on the agency’s technological advances. end of changing the future. I sit at the same Based at the Langley Research Center in table with geniuses!” Hampton, Virginia, Kimberly is now focus - When she started college, Kimberly thought ing on the moon. she wanted to be a computer science major, “Living long term on the moon is the but found it wasn’t for her. “I needed to talk to first stepping stone for a trip to Mars and people, so I changed to communication studies and fell in love with it,” she said. “Even now, even farther into our solar system,” Kimberly Kimberly drives Chariot, one of NASA’s concept lunar rovers. said, adding that a renewed vision for space I use so much of what I learned at lc in my exploration has prompted nasa to develop a job. And, I was able to go right into a field Kimberly returned to campus in March to sustained human presence on the moon. that was relevant to my major. speak to lc ’s Public Relations Student Society Using the Constellation Program, a new “lc professors are not just professors,” she of America chapter. “I always love to come human spaceflight architecture, nasa hopes said. “They’re family, and they genuinely back to campus,” she said. “I feel like I’m to establish a lunar outpost with safe, self- care about you. Woody Greenberg was my coming home.” sustaining living quarters where astronauts can second dad, and we still stay in touch. He “It was wonderful to have Kim return to live for three to six month s — even a year. was interested, completely supportive, and share her particular path to a position that Research is promising for technology that always boosting his students’ careers. she clearly loves,” Dr. Jorgensen-Earp said. will allow the astronauts to “live off the land” “Cheryl Jorgensen-Earp had a huge impact “During a time when finding the right career by pulling water and oxygen from the soil. on me,” she continued. “She always encour - can be challenging, it was good for our students With this technology, greenhouses may be aged me to do better while convincing me to see Kim’s knowledge, creativity, and drive possible along with expanding habitats. that I could.” and to understand how those traits can help Teams of scientists and engineers from many Dr. Greenberg and Dr. Jorgensen-Earp them achieve a fulfilling professional life.” etdp projects are developing several lunar share Kimberly’s enthusiasm about her lc As for Kimberly, she’s still looking ahead. rover concepts that are being tested for long- days. “Kimberly Land is an alum we can be “At nasa , we are vitally interested in finding range excursions on the moon. The primary proud to call our own,” said Dr. Greenberg, young people to fill our shoes,” she said. “We’re mode of transportation for astronauts, rovers executive director of the Donovan Media looking for the next generation of explorers.”

44 LC MAGAZINE Fall 2009 OPEN TO ALL ALUMNI, PARENTS, AND FRIENDS Attention LC Golfers!

MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2009 Richmond Alumni Club Golf Tournament Stonehenge Golf and Country Club Richmond, Virginia

SATURDAY, MAY 29, 2010 (TENTATIVE DATE) The Research Triangle Alumni Club luncheon was held in Durham, N.C., in June. Shellenberger Scholarship Golf Tournament To Rae Barnes Gerula ’99 and husband Bob, a daughter, To Christopher “Chris” Vail ’03 and wife Andrea, a son, London Downs Golf Course Hailey Marie, born March 8, 2009. Rae is a physical Connor Coleman, born Dec. 17, 2008. The family Forest, Virginia therapist assistant and athletic trainer at an outpatient resides in Chesapeake, Va. orthopedic clinic in Commack, N.Y. The family lives in SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 2010 Massapequa Park, N.Y. (TENTATIVE DATE) In Sympathy Greg Holland ’89 To Lauren McCloskey Hopple ’99 and husband Todd, Scholarship Golf a son, Rowan Edward, born June 18, 2009. The family resides in Baltimore, Md. A. Kendall Sydnor ’39 , brother, March 19, 2009 Tournament Chesapeake Bay Golf Club at Rising Sun To Elizabeth “Betsy” Cloyd Hudson ’99 and husband Rochet Sydnor Blair ’44 , brother, March 19, 2009 Rising Sun, Maryland Brian, a daughter, Katherine “Katie” Michelle, born April George Bernard ’49 , wife, Jan. 28, 2009 7, 2009. She joins big sisters Maggie, 8, Rachel, 6, and William “Bill” Sydnor ’51 , brother, March 19, 2009 Abigail, 4. The family resides in Lynchburg, Va. Lois Redford Mays ’55 , husband, June 20, 2009 To Cheryl Hodges Bratten ’00 and husband Tom, a Kathleen “Kathy” Davis Swihart ’55 , husband, FOR MORE INFORMATION son, Aiden Thomas, born May 27, 2009. He joins big Jan. 18, 2009 Office of Alumni Programs sister Chloe, 3. The family resides in Alexandria, Va. Joan Randle Bowes ’56 , husband, Feb. 26, 2009 434/544-8293 • 800/621-1669 [email protected] To D. “Scott” Shepherd ’00 and wife Emily, a daughter, David Justis ’56 , wife, May 11, 2008 Leah Virginia, born March 27, 2009. The family resides Thomas “Tom” Tiller Jr. ’56 , mother, May 11, 2009 in Ashburn, Va. Carolyn Craig Terrell ’57 , husband, March 10, 2009 To Lori Furletti Silverthorne ’00 and husband Eric, a Nancy Carpenter Bondurant ’58 , husband, son, Lucas Charles, born May 7, 2009. The family Dec. 9, 2008 resides in Hanover, Md. Norma Burks Smith ’58 , husband, April 9, 2009 George Buchanan Jr. ’59 , wife, Feb. 5, 2008 To Julie Hamilton Allender ’01 and husband Chris, a daughter, Brianna Kaylee, born Jan. 5, 2009. She joins big Robert “Buddy” Leffers Jr. ’59 , mother, April 10, 2009 brother Kaden, 3. The family resides in Oceanside, Calif. Anne Lantz Clair ’60 , husband, Jan. 23, 2009 Bernice “Beezy” Morris Franke ’62 , husband, To Robyn Keefer Balassone ’01 and husband Paul, a July 5, 2009 son, Reid Patrick, born Nov. 11, 2008. He joins big sis ter Savannah, 2. The family resides in York, Pa. D. “Gaye” Carwile Harris ’63 , husband, May 13, 2009 Macon Sydnor Gibson ’64 , father, March 19, 2009 To Erin Baldwin Childs ’01 and husband Raymond, a Brenda Tiller Higgins ’64 , mother, May 11, 2009 daughter, Morgan Lynn, born Nov. 30, 2008. The family resides in Boston, Mass. Claude Mays ’64 , brother, June 20, 2009 Elizabeth “Betsy” Sulanke Cartwright ’65 , father, Melanie Kahler ’01 has adopted her son, Charlie, who Jan. 15, 2009 was born on March 10, 2009. Melanie is a teacher at Barbara Dawson Kurtz ’66, ’75 M.Ed., ’81 Ed.S. , Avon Grove Charter School in West Grove, Pa. She mother, May 26, 2009 lives in Newark, Del. Gail Furgurson Stilwell ’66 , mother, Feb. 11, 2009 To Holly Paugh Honeycutt ’02 and husband Kevin, a Nancy Kent Young ’66 M.Ed. , mother, Feb. 13, 2009 son, Brayden Scott, born Dec. 9, 2008. The family Lourine Mays Massie ’67, ’74 M.Ed. , brother, resides in Morgantown, W.Va. June 20, 2009 A new option for giving To Kara Watts Trent ’02 and husband Bobby, twins, a Ned Hiller ’68 , mother, Feb. 3, 2009 girl, Carter Dianne, and a boy, Cameron Alexander, C. “Wayne” Prince ’68 , mother, March 13, 2009 Contact George Grzenda ’71, ’73 M.Ed., born March 17, 2009. They join big brother Jaden, 4. Director, Hornet Club Mark Yudowitch ’68, ’74 M.Ed., ’82 Ed.S. , father, The family resides in Lynchburg, Va. at 434/544-8497, 800/621-1669, May 30, 2009 or e-mail [email protected]

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We Remember

Dr. James Edwin Carico , 72, Lynchburg College trustee was a member of Memorial Christian Church (Disciples longtime biology professor and Dr. Walter R. “Topper” Franke of Christ) in Lynchburg. Her daughter, Christine H. first dean of the School of Sciences ’64 died July 5, 2009. He was 67. Powell, is a 1985 graduate of LC. at Lynchburg College, died March He had served as an overseer 24, 2009. He joined the faculty in and trustee for the College since Frederick H. Lawson Sr. , 78, former member of the 1964 and taught part time as 1984 with only a brief hiatus. A LC Board of Overseers and Board of Trustees, died recently as December 2008. retired minister with the Christian March 19, 2009. A Korean War veteran, Fred attended Jim was known internationally Church (Disciples of Christ), LC briefly before going into the garment business. He for his research on spiders, authoring numerous articles, Topper had been an untiring advocate for and supporter was owner and president of the Appomattox Garment discovering and naming new species, and traveling of the College for more than forty years. He followed Company and Courtland Manufacturing. A resident of extensively in pursuit of his research. He created LC’s both his grandfather and mother to LC, where he Appomattox, he was a member of Memorial United environmental science program and was instrumental graduated in 1964. From 1966 to 1968 he served as Methodist Church. He returned to LC in 1985 to serve in the acquisition of the Claytor Nature Study Center a mission bush pilot for the Christian Church in Zaire. on the Board of Overseers and was later elected to property, continuing his involvement there during the He earned his bachelor of divinity in 1971 and doctor the Board of Trustees, from which he retired in 1991. construction phase of the education and research facility. of ministry in 1973 from Texas Christian University and He was an active supporter of LC, particularly its Jim continued to teach environmental science labs served pastorates in Texas and Virginia. In recognition sports programs. His son, Fred Lawson Jr., is a 1988 after his retirement and served as mentor to students of his service to church, community, and alma mater, graduate of the College. and faculty alike. Jim had many interests in addition to Topper received the Alumni Association’s T. Gibson spiders, often being referred to as a “Renaissance man.” Hobbs Memorial Award in 1987. A resident of Salem, Thomas “Tom” Byron Surber , 81, former director He loved music and had a strong interest in genealogy, Va., Topper served as national chair of the Campaign of food services, died August 8, 2009. Tom worked at photography, and woodworking. He also enjoyed hiking for Lynchburg College in 1991 and stepped in as interim LC from 1966 until his retirement in 1990. He proudly and riding a motorcycle in his beloved Virginia mountains. vice president of external affairs during the campaign, served his country in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Most of all, Jim was a family man, cherishing his wife Nelle which raised $25 million for the College. Topper also He was a member of Ivy House Gang in Clifton Forge, Va. ’70 M.Ed. of nearly fifty years, his sons Edwin ’92 and served on the Centennial Hall Committee and as James ’94, and his three granddaughters co- chair of Phase II of the Centennial Campaign. He As the LC Magazine was going to also helped galvanize fundraising efforts for the renovation press, the College learned of the Brenda Rice Farmer , 55, benefits of Shellenberger, Moon, and Fox fields. In 2006, Topper death on September 7 of beloved specialist for nearly ten years, died was named Outstanding Volunteer Fund Raiser by the former soccer coach Willam H. August 19, 2009. Brenda was a Virginia Chapter of the Association of Fundraising “Bill” Shellenberger , at age 88. consummate human resources Professionals. He is survived by his wife Bernice “Beezy ” Once dubbed “the winningest professional who was responsive ’62; two daughters, Kathryn “Katie” Franke Faussemagne coach ever in college soccer” by to everyone in the LC community. ’95, and Krystin Mann; and three grandchildren. Sports Illustrated, he led his teams She worked hard and without to 31 consecutive winning seasons (1956 to 1987) and complaint, even as she was battling Katherine MacKenzie Holmes , 82, former secretary was the recipient of soccer’s three top national awards, cancer. Brenda was a faithful member of First Baptist in the Biology Department at Lynchburg College, died the first coach in America to be so honored. He was Church of Altavista and a member of the Staunton March 3, 2009. She worked at LC from 1969 to 1991. inducted into eight halls of fame and named Coach of River Woman’s Club. In addition to her parents, Garland Before coming to LC, she had been the secretary to the Year 28 times. Lynchburg College named Shellen - and Betty Rice of Altavista, she is survived by a son, the chair of the Physics Department at Massachusetts berger Field in his honor, and former students established John E. Farmer Jr., and his wife, Julie of Chapel Hill, Institute of Technology (MIT) and consequently knew the William H. Shellenberger Scholarship Fund. Look for N.C., a daughter, Ashley L. Dalton ’03, and her hus - many of the nation’s leading physicists. Although assigned more about his remarkable life and career in the spring band, Allen ’02, of Austin, Texas, and a sister, Rob bie to biology, she was the de facto secretary and den 2010 issue. L. Rice of Altavista. mother for the entire Hobbs Hall faculty. Katherine

William File III ’69 , father, March 15, 2009 James “Jim” Napier ’75 , mother, Feb. 25, 2009 Fred Lawson Jr. ’88 , father, March 19, 2009 Nelle Arp Carico ’70 M.Ed. , husband, March 24, 2009 Kathryn “Kathy” O’Hara Napier ’75 , father, Phillip Bayliss ’89 , mother, Feb. 1, 2009 Anne Royster Gunther ’70 , brother, March 6, 2009 March 10, 2009 Geoffrey “Geoff” Forker ’89 , mother, June 20, 2009 Wendy Hiller Currier ’71 , mother, Feb. 3, 2009 Katherine Bernard Furr ’77 , mother, Jan. 28, 2009 Lee “Lee Pat” Bowen Kelleher ’89 , mother, Martin “Marty” Waltemyer ’71, ’88 M.B.A. , wife, Betty “Jayne” Houston Geris ’77 , father, April 30, 2009 May 20, 2009 May 4, 2009 Diane Mudry Sprinkle ’77 , father, Feb. 5, 2009 Robert Lipscomb Jr. ’89 , father, March 4, 2009 Cynthia “Cindy” Barner Albright ’73 , father, Clayton “Clay” Boyd ’78 , mother, March 13, 2009 Joseph “Joe” Milbauer ’90 , mother, May 22, 2009 Oct. 14, 2008 Robert Hiller ’79 , mother, Feb. 3, 2009 Jeffrey “Jeff” Scruggs ’91 , brother, May 28, 2009 Bruce Barner ’73 , father, Oct. 14, 2008 Elizabeth “Liz” Brooks Farnsworth ’80, ’84 M.Ed. , Prescott Terrell Jr. ’91 , father, March 10, 2009 Everett “Sonny” Roberts ’73 , mother, July 1, 2008 father, April 10, 2009 Donna Griffith Wolf ’91 , father, March 2, 2009 Jay Webb ’73, ’82 M.Ad. , mother, May 2, 2009 Margaret Wikle Deeds ’83 , husband, Feb. 4, 2009 Edwin “Lenn” Carico ’92 , father, March 24, 2009 Deborah “Debbie” Combs-Jones ’74 , father, Kathleen “Kathy” Terrell Tharp ’84 , father, Stephen “Steve” Rush ’92 , mother, Feb. 1, 2009 Jan. 23, 2009 March 10, 2009 Sarah Clair Vaughn ’92 , father, Jan. 23, 2009 Julie Houston Fry ’74 , father, April 30, 2009 Barbara Bowles ’86 , brother, March 19, 2009 William “Bill” Bradshaw III ’93 , father, April 11, 2009 Charles “Chip” Goldstein ’74 , mother, Jan. 8, 2009 Russell Houston ’86 , father, April 30, 2009 James “Kipp” Carico ’94 , father, March 24, 2009

46 LC MAGAZINE Fall 2009 Kathryn “Katie” Franke Faussemagne ’95 , Boyd “Dick” Combs ’50 , Jan. 23, 2009 father, July 5, 2009 Charles Anglin ’51 , March 14, 2009 Julia Westgate Lown ’95 , father, Jan. 25, 2009 A. Milton Arrington ’51 , May 9, 2009 Michael Bremer ’96, ’01 M.Ed. , mother, April 20, 2009 Jessie Thomas Lokrantz ’51 , Feb. 20, 2009 Nannette Seals Haga ’97 M.Ed. , father, March 24, 2009 Prescott “Pres” Terrell ’51 , March 10, 2009 De k Kristie Seals McDaniel ’00 , father, March 24, 2009 c Patricia David French ’53 , Feb. 1, 2009 the Megan “Meg” Harris ’01 , father, May 13, 2009 Ted Campbell ’55 , Sept. 7, 2008 Ashley Farmer Dalton ’03 , mother, August 19, 2009 S. Leonard “Hap” Mays ’55 , June 20, 2009 Megan Jonas Lupo ’03 , father, April 13, 2009 R. David “Dave” Smith ’61 , April 9, 2009 Kimberly “Kym” Crank Rau ’04 , son, March 1, 2009 June Keesee Gillispie ’62 , March 12, 2009 Halls Willie “Will” Tolbert II ’08, father , June 28, 2009 Earl Haga ’63 , Feb. 14, 2009 Walter “Topper” Franke Jr. ’64 , July 5, 2009 In Memoriam Kim Thornhill Spencer ’65 , April 12, 2009 Ronald Coltrane ’67 , June 12, 2009 Ernest “Ernie” Seals II ’67, ’69 M.Ed. , William File Jr. ’34 , March 15, 2009 March 24, 2009 Lavelon Sydnor Sr. ’34 , March 19, 2009 James “Jim” Tiffany Jr. ’67 , May 27, 2009 Margaret Cook Tucker ’34 , Jan. 15, 2009 Sandra Yates Kollmann ’68 , May 23, 2009 Louise Early Adkinson ’35 , May 23, 2009 Marion Beard Proehl ’68 , May 14, 2009 Robert “Bob” Sulanke ’35 , Jan. 15, 2009 Nancy Gills ’70 , March 29, 2009 Edith Evans Trice ’36 , April 8, 2009 Harvey Hackett III ’71 , March 19, 2009 Sarah Foster Furgurson ’43 , Feb. 11, 2009 Robert “Bob” Thompson ’73 M.Ed. , Feb. 25, 2009 Geraldine “Gerry” Fox Haymes ’46 , Feb. 2, 2009 William “Bill” Kimball ’76 , June 3, 2009 Floyd Mason ’47 , Jan. 8, 2008 Dianne Bailey Caldwell ’78 , June 20, 2009 William “W.G.” Bradshaw Jr. ’49 , April 11, 2009 Lisa Clark Pettijohn ’82 , Feb. 9, 2009 Russell “Jack” Dufford Jr. ’49 , April 27, 2009 Lynn Hatcher McGary ’85 M.Ed. , Jan. 19, 2009 Robert “Bob” Hirsch ’49 , March 20, 2009 David Rattner ’89 , Jan. 30, 2009 Jamie Jones Ports ’49 , Feb. 9, 2009 Cathy Dalton Eppes ’94 , March 5, 2009

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Fall 2009 LC MAGAZINE 47 Virginia Alumni, Parents, Friends … Show your Hornet Pride! Homecoming OCTOBER 2 –4 2009 Welcome Class of 2009 ! Join the Classes of 1969, ’74, ’79, ’84, ’89, ’94, ’99, and 2004 as they The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles celebrate their Class Reunions. has created a Virginia LC license plate — your cost is $25 per year. WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS www.dmv.state.va.us • Alumni Awards Presentations • Music and Dancing Friday and • Alumni and Faculty Reception Saturday nights Friday afternoon • Class Reunion 2010 Workshop Sun - • Hornet Zone Refreshment Garden day morning for Classes of 1955, ’60, • Alumni and Varsity Athletic events ’65, ’70, ’75, ’80, ’85, ’90, ’95, ’00, • Class Reunion Welcome Home and 2005 Send us your Reception e-mail address! E-mail [email protected] to receive special promotional messages for alumni activities

Details available now! www.lynchburgalumni.org

News for Class Notes Have you changed jobs, received a promotion, had an addition to your family? Share the news through the Lynchburg College Magazine . Send news updates to Betty Howell, Office of Alumni Programs, Lynchburg College, 1501 Lakeside Drive, Lynchburg, Va. 24501 -3113 , FAX 434 /544 -8653 , e-mail [email protected], or visit www.lynchburg.edu/x1680.xml

Name ______Class Year ______Maiden Name ______Spouse’s Name ______Class Year ______Address ______City/State/Zip ______Telephone (Home) ______(Work) ______FAX ______E-mail (home) ______E-mail (work) ______Job Title ______Employer ______Employment Address ______News ______

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Lynchburg College student athletes know the thrill of victory … and the lessons learned from a battle lost. The challenges of a tough match are the foundation for perseverance and leadership on the field, in the classroom, and in life. Give Back.

The Hornet Club supports LC’s proud tradition of athletic achievement by providing unrestricted funds for:

n equipment to keep athletes safe and competitive;

n updated facilities;

n quality programming to attract and retain the best and brightest student athletes.

Show your Hornet pride and become a Hornet Club member by making a gift today in support of student athletes who succeed athletically, academically, and personally!

For more information or to become a Hornet Club member, visit www.lynchburg.edu/hornetclub

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