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Professors Reed and Thompson Reflect on History McColl Students Win with Penguin Case Knight School Outreach Explaining William James Women’s Volleyball Soars CONGRATULATIONS to the 725 members of BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2012-2013 the CLASS OF 2012! Michael Marsicano, Chair Thomas Reddin Sallie Moore Lowrance ’70, Vice Chair M.A. Rogers Elizabeth Rivers Curry ’63, Secretary David Singer On May 35, 2012, Queens celebrated the largest graduating Caroline Sink Howard Bissell Michael Tarwater class in our 155-year history. We are honored to share this special Angeline Massey Clinton EMBA ’01 Brent Trexler time with our brand-new alumni, their friends and family. Kevin Collins Marjorie Knight Crane ’90 Cynthia Haldenby Tyson Jesse Cureton, Jr. EMBA ’02 Ruth Anne Vagt ’69 David C. Darnell F. William Vandiver, Jr. Donna Jones Dean ’73 Manuel L. Zapata Frances DeArmon Evans ’59 Pamela Davies, ex officio Anthony Fox Derek Painter ’92, ex officio, Ophelia Garmon-Brown Alumni Association President Kathryn Taylor Grigg ’87 Saray Smalls ’13, Student Liaison Carson Sloan Henline ’81 to the Board Lyttleton Rich Hollowell ’67 Benjamin P. Jenkins III Sandra Levine Life Trustees Thomas L. Lewis ’97 Cathy Loevner ’71 Irwin “Ike” Belk Bailey Patrick Dorothy McAulay Martin ’59 David Pope Hugh L. McColl Jr., Chairman A. Alex Porter Emeritus Myrta Pulliam ’69 Virginia Gray Vance ’49

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EDITORIAL DIRECTOR CONTRIBUTORS Rebecca Anderson Sara Blakeney 704-337-2485 Rebekah Ahrens Davis ’00 [email protected] Adelaide Anderson Davis ’61 MANAGING EDITOR Dr. Norris Frederick Jenn Q. Goddu Laurie Prince Eleanor Hatcher ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER Jen Johnson Stacey Kammerdiener David Owens-Hill MA ’12 Patrick Lynch PRODUCTION AND Cindy Manshack DISTRIBUTION MANAGER David Owens-Hill MA ’12 Stacey Kammerdiener Laurie Prince Dana Robles PHOTOGRAPHERS Lindsay Kay Tice ’05 Jeff Cravotta Vanessa Willis Chris Edwards Miller Yoho Jamey Price Jon Strayhorn Daniel Sutton PRINTING ON RECYCLED PAPER: The Queens Magazine is printed on a paper which is 10 percent post- consumer waste fiber and 10 percent total recycled fiber. Elemental chlorine-free pulps, acid-free and chlorine-free manufacturing conditions meet and exceed archival standards. Using 10,341 lbs. of paper for this project, here are the benefits of using post-consumer recycled fiber instead of virgin fiber: 26.06 trees preserved for the future 11,069 gal wastewater flow saved 1,225 lbs solid waste not generated 2,412 lbs net greenhouse gases prevented 18,458,685 BTUs energy not consumed SUMME R 2012 1 13 18 12 44 CONTENTS 10 24 RETIRING HISTORY PROFESSORS CHARLIE REED AND BILL THOMPSON SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS ON HISTORY, PERSONALBOTH AND PROFESSIONAL Goddu Interview Jenn Q. by GEN Y AND THE SEARCH FOR SPIRITUALITY Willis By Vanessa Past Past Present Keeping the Faith 3 18

Danielle Phillips ’13 story on Gen Y and faith begins on page 18. holds a Bible. The On the Cover: 27 44

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Rushing the Rapids KAYAKER MICHAL SMOLEN ’15 IS AN OLYMPIC HOPEFUL

ueens student Michal Smolen is of the three days. “It’s quite an honor to me to have that relationship.” Then he not your typical freshman. While train with past Olympians,” he says. adds with a grin, “Having a Starbucks other students might be In the April trials, he placed second on campus was also pretty appealing.” Qspending their free time playing video overall, which secured his spot on the Shawn Bowers Buxton ’01, MFA ’04, games or lounging around the residence US national team competing for the his CORE 112 professor and academic halls, Smolen is likely maneuvering World Cup this summer in Cardiff, advisor, says he was a spirited participant a one-man kayak around a series of Wales. However, he’ll miss the Olympic in last fall’s classes. “In CORE, we really hanging poles while dodging fiery river Games in London because he is in the focus on creating communities, and rapids. final stages of becoming an American Michal was often a big contributor. He He is an Olympic hopeful in the citizen. He’s not deterredh e hopes to made it evident that he was a student sport of the kayak slalom. Originally represent the United States at the 2016 first, and an athlete second.” from Poland, the 19-year-old student Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Smolen, a biochemistry major, comes from a family of accomplished Janeiro. admits that balancing his sport while athletes. His mother was a professional Assistant Director of Admissions completing a college degree is difficult. handball player on the Polish national Leah Beth Parsons helped Smolen “Many athletes I personally know team, and his father, now his coach, was a through the admissions process last year have sacrificed years of school in order member of the Polish national kayaking while he was deciding on which college to spend more time focused on their team. to attend. “Queens was a good fit for him kayaking careers,” he says. “For me, the

Smolen made the USA Canoe/ because he needed a school that was built goal is to treat my athletic and academic 2012 R SUMME Kayak Team last year during the trials held upon relationships,” she says. As Smolen careers as equals, in order to have another n at the US National Whitewater Center explains, “It’s important for me to have career locked in for the future.” in Charlotte. The youngest member of a good relationship with my professors, the team, he won competitions on two since I constantly travel. Queens allows Stacey Kammerdiener

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FILMMAKERNoted SPEAKS If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, by filmmaker Marshall Curry, son of Queens alumna and trustee Beth Rivers Curry ’63, was nominated for a 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Queens hosted a screening of the film and a discussion with Curry in Cinema artwork from If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, the Oscar- November 2011. nominated film by Marshall Curry. BUSINESSWOMAN OF THE VIOLINS OF HOPE YEAR The Violins of Hope were featured Ann Caulkins, publisher of The in a concert in Dana Auditorium Charlotte Observer, was recognized on April 17. The 18 violins were as the 2011 BusinessWoman of the recovered from the Holocaust and Year at an annual luncheon hosted by restored by Israeli master violin-maker Queens on March 7. Caulkins is the Amnon Weinstein. Queens Artist-in- 27th recipient of the award, which was Residence Paul Nitsch was among the established in 1986. performers. The event was hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences. HIGH MARKS FOR STUDENT EXPERIENCE SACS ACCREDITATION In August 2011, the National Survey In January Queens received of Student Engagement (NSSE) reaffirmation of its accreditation by the ranked Queens well above other Southern Association of Colleges and NSSE schools in five benchmark areas Schools. Accreditation is a rigorous that measure student experience. Both process that occurs every 10 years. freshmen and senior students rank Ann Caulkins, 2011 Charlotte their respective schools. Dana Robles BusinessWoman of the Year.

Cornel West THE OFFICE OF DIVERSITY & INCLUSION PRESENTS A LECTURE BY THE PROMINENT TEACHER, AUTHOR AND MEDIA PERSONALITY

peaking to a sold-out crowd in University of Paris. Speaking on the Dana Auditorium on March 26, importance of education, he remarked, Cornel West spoke about race, the “Queens possesses deep, intellectual Sstate of education in the United States traditions, forcing us to raise unsettling and the importance of role models for questions.” Teachers, he noted, should young Americans. The well-known his- “help students find their voice.” torian and social commentator, who is He devoted much time to answer- a Princeton professor, challenged the ing questions from the audience, going audience to uphold the legacy of Mar- late into the evening. The lecture was tin Luther King, Jr., by embracing truth, sponsored by the Office of Diversity & love and justice. Inclusion’s Diversity Lecture & Cul- n West, who has written 19 books tural Series.

QUEENS MAGAZINE and appeared in numerous films and documentaries, including The Matrix, S tacey Kammerdiener has taught at Harvard, Yale and the 4 CAMPUS NEWS

William James PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR NORRIS FREDERICK HAS SPENT YEARS STUDYING THE IDEAS AND INFLUENCE OF WILLIAM JAMES. HERE, HE ANSWERS OUR QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS HISTORIC FIGURE

orris Frederick, James A. Religion; in the past, he has been a dean Q: One of your presentations at the Jones Chair of Philosophy and vice president as well as a recipient annual conference of the American and Religion, has had many of the university’s highest teaching Philosophical Society has the intriguing ironsN in the fire at Queens. He is honor. title, “William James and Serpent- currently director of the Center for What is less known about Frederick Handlers in Those North Carolina Ethics and Religion and chair of is his academic interest in William James Mountains.” What in the world is the the Department of Philosophy and (1842-1910), an original thinker who connection between James and this made major contributions in several bizarre religious sect? fields. James’ ideas inThe Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) shook the A: James had a great love of hiking. In worldview of both academia and the 1891, he visited western North Carolina and hiked Mount Mitchell. He wrote a general public of his era. We asked famous essay about his experience with Frederick to introduce us to this the mountain people, “On a Certain extraordinary historical figure. Blindness in Human Beings,” in which Q: William James taught at Harvard he recounted how he had misjudged and published works in psychology, the Carolina mountaineers. He looked comparative religions, philosophy at them from his New England point and education. It sounds like James of view instead of trying to “get inside” had a hard time making up his mind! their experience. Quoting Robert Lewis Or was he just interested in and Stevenson, he said that “to miss the joy knowledgeable about lots of things? of what people do is to miss everything.” He had a great curiosity about people A: Some of both. He certainly had a and their experiences. hard time making up his mind about a career: he was an artist, and then Q: You’ve also written, “William James, studied medicine, which led to his Talks to Teachers on Psychology, and teaching biology at Harvard, and ‘Healthy-Mindedness.’” How would then later he taught psychology and you explain that to Oprah? philosophy. A: Whoa! Once I got over my fear, I’d Q: As a philosopher, why are you explain the core of his advice to teachers: interested in William James? first, get inside the world of each of your students, and secondly, teach by A: My view is that encouraging students to do something philosophyw hile it under the notion of the good instead of certainly is a dialogue under the notion of the bad. He was an guided by deep and clear innovator of what today is called positive thinking ultimately psychology. is about a way of life, of living a better life Q: Was James himself a good teacher? informed by philosophic A: One of the best. A student wrote dialogue. No philosopher of James, “He was the most inspiring captures this better teacher I ever hadt reating his pupils as than James, who wrote: fellow-students with himself, and giving UM 2012 R SUMME “The whole function of to our crude opinions a weight that philosophy ought to be greatly encouraged us.” His teaching n to find out what definite continues to inspire me. difference it will make to you and me….” La urie Prince From psychology to education, William James (above) influenced academia.

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Volleyball Soars THE WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL TEAM HAS GONE FROM SEVEN WINS IN 2009 TO SECOND PLACE IN THE CONFERENCE

own one point in the biggest all season. Beginning with grueling aimed at helping each player take her game of the season, there was daily practices and high-intensity game to the next level. The team is only one thing that volleyball scrimmages during the dog days of late striving to continue its upward swing to HeadD Coach Lettie Wilkes wanted to summer and culminating with their 23- build a winning reputation in both the tell her team. Taking a time out, she win season, this team was built to go conference and the region. One thing gathered the group of players she was further than any previous squad. remains clear: they will not be satisfied n still getting to know in her first year at Wilkes and Assistant Coach Emily until they reach the top. Queens and stated as fact: “You are not Carrara not only created a cohesive unit going to lose this match.” Her intensity on the court, but they also created the Mi ller Yoho told each player there was no way that feeling of family within the team. This she was wrong. Two points later, the was no small feat, as the 16-player team game was over and the Royals were consisted of young women hailing from advancing to the conference semifinals across the United States. Editor’s Note: The women’s volleyball with the best season in school history. In December after finishing second team begins its season mid-August. It was just one of 32 games in a place in Conference Carolinas, the To follow the team and see the game three-month long season that began team embarked on an off season full of schedule, go to www.queensathletics.com in September 2011, but it captured workouts including 5:30 a.m. weight and select “Volleyball” under “Women’s a determination and grit displayed lifting and individual practice sessions Sports.”

QUEENS MAGAZINE A circle of victory: women’s volleyball players celebrate a 3-0 win at Belmont Abbey College on October 15, 2011. (Left to right) Taylor Riley ’14 (#5), Lindsey Everhart ’13, Jocelyn Kellinger ’14, Keri Kemp ’14 (#1), Brittany Harvey ’12 and Tori Hernandez ’13 (#2).

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Making a Case for The Penguin PRESENTING A BUSINESS CASE ABOUT A LOCAL RESTAURANT, THREE MBA STUDENTS WIN FIRST PLACE IN AN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

great professor and fried pick- Melvin, a communication profes- Koutroumanis gives the McColl lest hat’s what led three sional, says their goal was to write a case students the ultimate compliment. “I McColl School of Business students would enjoy reading. That paid actually asked and received permission studentsA to win an international case off. Dean A. Koutroumanis, assistant from the authors to use this case in my competition. For the second consecutive professor of management at the Univer- Introduction to Entrepreneurship class year, Queens MBA students placed first sity of Tampa’s John H. Sykes College of this semester,” he says. Business school in the Baylor Entrepreneurship Student Business and judge of the competition students will be learning about intellec- Case Writing Competition. The event says, “The case was written in a way that tual property and fried pickles for years n was co-hosted by the United States As- really drew you in, which impressed all to come. sociation for Small Business and Entre- of the judges.” Submissions had to ad- preneurship, the largest independent, dress key business issues like new ven- Jennifer Johnson professional, academic organization in tures, international entrepreneurship the world dedicated to advancing entre- and small business management. The preneurship. Penguin case focuses on the legal impli- Amanda Cash, Christian Melvin cations of going into business, particu- and Miranda Reynolds wrote a busi- larly intellectual property rights. “This ness case about a landmark Charlotte was a very interesting component for me restaurant, The Penguin, famous for its personally,” says Cash. “I have worked in shamefully delicious fried pickles. The intellectual property for 10 years, and I winners credit Professor Cathy Ander- have noticed it’s somewhat overlooked son for introducing the case in a law for its value as a business asset.” and ethics class. “She guided our case More than 25 cases were submit- team to deliver a final case that would ted from schools around the world. The be stimulating and academically rel- winners were honored during the Unit- evant for students today,” says Reynolds. ed States Association of Small Business Melvin adds, “We were interested in the Education Conference in New Orleans case because it is real lifej ust average in January. The first place award carried people starting up a restaurant.” a $2,000 cash prize. UM 2012 R SUMME

MBA students Amanda Cash (left), Christian Melvin (second from left) and Miranda Reynolds (right) celebrate their first place victory with Professor Cathy Anderson (second from right).

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IDSTCritical 300A—001 Thought Symposium

athleen Wile intends to teach English to secondary school students, yet during her senior year at Queens she has already been the secretary Kof war under Harry Truman, the prime minister of East Germany before reunification and a structural engineer at NASA. “I have learned that history is much more complicated than people give it credit for, and that the majority of the people who are involved in a situation don’t know what’s going on underneath all of the layers,” she says. Critical Thought Symposium is a new, yearlong course in which students play roles in a complex situation requiring a crucial decision. The simulations are based on Students enrolled in IDST 300A—001 share a light moment historical events or hypothetical situations that illuminate with Condoleezza Rice prior to her October 2011 lecture to real-life issues. According to Professor Norris Frederick, a full house at Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. the coordinator of the symposium, the interdisciplinary course encourages students to think “critically, ethically SAMPLE READING SELECTIONS: and creatively.” Eight professors oversee the course, which meets monthly. The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes Ten students are selected through an application When the Wall Came Down: Reactions to German process. Prior to assuming roles, students meet with Unification, Harold James and Marla Stone, eds. faculty to learn background information on the personalities they will portray. They spend a month Challenger: A Major Malfunction: A True Story of Politics, independently researching their roles prior to the role- Greed, and the Wrong Stuff, Malcolm McConnell. play. “It really makes you think on your feet,” says Kelcey Baker, who is majoring in French and international studies. During the fall semester she portrayed former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In October, she had the opportunity to meet Rice when she visited campus prior to giving a lecture sponsored by The Learning Society. Her role as Rice taught her that leaders have to make difficult decisions with no clearly defined outcomes. “Sometimes you have to make a tough call,” says Baker.

PROFESSORS: ASSIGNMENTS INCLUDE: • Cathy Anderson, Wireman Professor of Business • Research and write a biography of the assigned • Mohammed el-Nawawy, associate professor and character in each case study, summarizing and Knight-Crane Endowed Chair in the Knight School analyzing the person’s role in an actual dilemma of Communication from the past or the present in which there is no • Norris Frederick, James A. Jones Chair of Philosophy clear, correct course of action. and Religion • Assemble a research portfolio compiling historical • Karen Geiger, McColl School of Business professor background of the case scenario event. • Mark Kelso, Chair of the Department of Political • Prepare two pages anticipating the attitudes and Science and International Studies actions of other players in the scenario. • Randy Kincaid, McColl School of Business professor Jenn Q. Goddu • Greg Pillar, Chair of the Department of Environmental

QUEENS MAGAZINE Science • Alexa Royden, assistant professor of political science To learn more, visit www.queens.edu/Critical-Thought-Symposium. 8 CAMPUS NEWS

A Passion for Students PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR CHERIE CLARK WINS THE HUNTER-HAMILTON LOVE OF TEACHING AWARD

hat’s in a name? A lot, if you ask students of Professor Cherie Clark. The Charles A.W Dana Professor of Psychology has worked hard to know each of her students by name, and beyond their names, their stories. Since coming to Queens in August of 1992, that adds up to a lot of students. Twenty years’ worth. In May, she was awarded the Hunter-Hamilton Love of Teaching Award, the highest faculty award given by Queens University of Charlotte and accompanied by a $15,000 gift. Enthusiasm and joy, two hallmarks of Clark’s teaching style, are key qualities the committee looks for in selecting a Hunter Hamilton honoree. Rodney Lee Camren ’03 summed up his anticipation about her classes this way: “Her classes were the ones I would run to, and not because I was late.” Lively discussions of controversial topics and Q&A are some of Clark’s teaching tools, drawing in students from a wide range of majors. “She has a love of learning that is contagious,” wrote Jaclyn Jones ’00. Professor Cherie Clark waves to the crowd as she accepts the Hunter Hamilton Love of Teaching Award at Queens’ undergraduate commencement ceremony. “Students who are not even interested in psychology want to be a part of a Arts and Sciences. “You can tell just by to conduct research,” she wrote in her ‘Dr. Clark class’ just to experience what the way she dresses she’s fun, creative, nomination. the psychology majors are constantly very originalin a good way.” Morton Clark’s generous focus is not bragging about.” has worked with Clark since her early confined to students. Professor of Art Clark has accomplished something days at Queens and says that she’s a Jayne Johnson, chair of the Fine Arts rare in the teaching worlda personal demanding academician. Division, wrote, “Cherie has been connection that inspires. “I continue Her emphasis on research is involved in a wide range of service to nominate Cheri each year,” wrote extraordinary. Unlike undergraduates projectsw orking with the police to Katey Baruth ’98. After graduating from at some larger universities, psychology get junior high students off the streets, Queens, she wanted to pursue higher working with at-risk high school majors at Queens get hands-on education but lacked the confidence students at Olympic High, working experience in research. Lauren because of learning disabilities. “I sent with the aging at Sharon Towers.” Weathers ’11 wrote that research projects her many emails detailing the reasons She’s been on numerous missions trips why I would fail, each to be deflated under Clark’s tutelage made her a more to Guatemala and has facilitated the by Cheri’s honesty, perspective and competitive applicant for doctoral university’s involvement with Room in reassurance,” she wrote. She now holds a programs. With Clark’s guidance, she the Inn. “She is a unifying force for good doctorate in counseling psychology and began conducting research projects as a at Queens,” wrote Johnson, “like none sophomore, something she later learned is engaged in a profession she loves. I have seen in my 21 years of teaching 2012 R SUMME Clothing may be a student’s was an anomaly at the bigger schools. here. She is above all, a passionate first introduction to Clark’s colorful During one conference, students from teacher, a teacher’s teacher, a reluctant personalitys he’s known for wearing a well-known university confided, leader, a friend and advocate to all in n tie-dyed dresses or scarves and for “They had to fight tooth and nail to be need.” dressing up at holidays. “She’s fun,” says acknowledged by their professors and Lynn Morton, dean of the College of had to fight even harder to be allowed Laurie Prince 9 INVESTING IN QUEENS

Love Aspires USING MATCHING FUNDS FROM THE BYRUM CHALLENGE, THE WIDOWER AND FRIENDS OF SHIRLEY TISON WARD ’49 ESTABLISH A PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARSHIP

ust before Christmas of 1945, from leading the 800-member Officers’ is merit based and covers full tuition. He Captain Marion “Moe” Ward Wives Club to hostess for the families of would contribute most of $300,000, and returned from three years of service foreign officers. “Once she had $100 to the Byrum Challenge Fund would match J in World War II as an air force hold a reception for 80 guests, with all of it. He approached Shirley’s closest friends navigator on a B17 bomber. A year and the dietary restrictions of many cultures, to ask for their support, and they gladly a half earlier, he had been shot down and it was perfect,” Moe remembers joined the effort. over Munich and captured, spending with admiration. “She was a versatile Moe and Shirley Ward’s connection nine months as a German prisoner of and talented lady, wasn’t she?” to Queens continues: their daughter war before Germany’s surrender in May In 1966, the couple adopted a five- Tison married Chris Carmack MBA ’03, 1945. When the war finally ended in week-old girl, whom they named Tison. and granddaughter Christina Carmack August, he knew he would be going Soon after, Moe was called to serve graduated in the class of 2011. home. in Vietnam. Shirley and her beloved The new scholarship honors the Moe was ready to start college at the daughter went to live in Charlotte with memory of this extraordinary alumna University of North Carolina at Chapel her family, a separation Moe says she of Queens, ensuring that her legacy of Hill in January. The last thing he wanted bore with courage and grace. leadership and talent will endure for n to do on Christmas night was to go on a When Moe retired from the air generations. blind date, but his friend Eddie insisted. force, they returned home to Charlotte Eddie already had a date, and she would in 1973. Moe led the city’s strategic plan Eleanor Hatcher only go if Eddie could find a guy for her and then worked as head of marketing friend, Shirley Tison. Moe reluctantly for Odell Associates, an architectural agreed, and the foursome went out for firm, while Shirley invested her burgers and a movie. leadership skills in local organizations Byrum Shirley was a freshman at Queens, that included Wing Haven Gardens, where she had quickly established the Mint Museum of Art, the Charlotte Endowed herself as a leader. In the coming years Symphony and Queens. Moe’s job she would become editor of the Blues required travel, and he often took Scholarship student newspaper and serve as vice Shirley with him so they could see the president of student government. She world together. Challenge would be on the Honor Council and the In September 2011, Shirley passed May Court. away. Moe misses her daily, but says, n June 2011, Porter B. Byrum “As soon as we dropped the girls “My gratitude for our life together is so gave a historic gift of $20.9 off,” Moe says, “I told Eddie that I’d just much greater than my grief.” He began million to Queens to support met the girl I was going to marry. I never his quest to make sure Shirley’s legacy was endowed scholarships. As a dated another girl after that night. That’s remembered. Calling Adelaide Anderson I part of that gift, he established called serendipityy ou open a door Davis ’61, associate vice president of a $5 million matching fund to that you didn’t even know was there, and alumni relations at Queens, he told her create the Byrum Endowed you find the prize of a lifetime.” he wanted to establish a scholarship in Scholarship Challenge. Through Moe was true to his wordh e Shirley’s name because she had loved October 2013, or until the fund is and Shirley were married in September Queens, and the school had helped her to expended, new endowed scholarship 1949, just after she graduated. Queens’ grow into the woman she became. commitments of $50,000 or more President Hunter Blakely performed Serendipity struck once again may be matched on a 1:1 basis. the ceremony, and the couple spent Adelaide shared that a new initiative, the To learn more about this 62 joyful years together. Over the next Byrum Endowed Scholarship Challenge, opportunity to double your three decades, Moe’s career with the could enable Moe to double his scholarship legacy, please visit air force took them to 15 new homes investment with a 1:1 match (see sidebar). www.queens.edu/byrum-challenge from Omaha, Nebraska, at Strategic Colonel Ward accepted the challenge Air Command, to Washington, DC, at and set his sights on a Presidential or contact Adelaide Anderson the Pentagon. At each, Shirley’s natural Scholarship, which requires a $600,000 Davis ’61 at 704-337-2329 or QUEENS MAGAZINE leadership brought her responsibility, endowment. The prestigious scholarship [email protected].

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Moe and Shirley Tison Ward ’49 at a party in 1950.

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KNIGHT SCHOOL IMPACTING DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP

Keeping up with changes in media can be daunting Tweet? Like? Post? How do we evaluate content for accuracy and bias? How does a modern citizen interface with the digital age? As part of a $5.75 million grant, the James L. Knight School of Communication at Queens is leading community workshops that teach digital and media literacy. It’s a pioneering step, putting Queens at the forefront of educating the public about technology and citizenship. Here’s a quick look at the impact of the grant so far.

DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP BY THE NUMBERS Competencies for digital and media literacy 

1: ACCESS, COMPREHEND AND SHARE INFORMATION ONLINE

2: ANALYZE MEDIA MESSAGES IN A VARIETY OF FORMS

3: CREATE MEDIA CONTENT USING “NEW-TO-YOU” DIGITAL TOOLS

4: CRITICALLY AND ETHICALLY REFLECT ON YOUR OWN PRACTICES

5: TAKE ACTION AND PARTICIPATE AS A DIGITAL CITIZEN

Social Media Bootcamp For more information: brought together 10 local nonprofit organizations www.queens.edu/Knight / and 10 of Queens’ brightest students

BASICS, BRANDING, AND ANALYTICS: A primer for organizations that frequently “make do” with fewer resources and an opportunity for Queens students to do good in their communities

Community members attended workshops hosted by the Knight †  School of Communication in Spring 2012

See the Knight Volunteer Hours School’s Social logged in the community by students, faculty, and Media in Action: ƒ sta facilitating with Knight School workshops @TheKnightSchool

WORKSHOP TOPICS INCLUDE: Digital media sessions in www.facebook.com/ Facebook, Prezi, Final Cut Pro, GarageBand and online safety KnightSchool COMMUNITY LIBRARY SUPPORT: Knight School instructors QUEENS MAGAZINE assisted local libraries by providing free digital support

12 PAS T PRESENT Retiring history professors Charlie Reed and Bill Thompson share their thoughts on history, both personal and professional

Interview by Jenn Q. Goddu

Bill Thompson Charlie Reed 13 The history department will lose two treasures this year when professors Bill Thompson and Charlie Reed retire.

Thompson came to Queens in 1975; one of his significant contri- butions to the university has been to develop the study abroad program into what is now the John Belk International Program, catapulting Queens to one of the top universities in the country for study abroad programs.

Reed joined Queens in 1991, arriving with a national teaching award. In 2000 he was named North Carolina Professor of the Year. He has taught in both the College of Arts and Sciences and in the McColl School of Business.

The colleagues met recently in Burwell Parlor for a convivial interview discussing their personal history, their teaching his- tory and the importance of history in a liberal arts education.

Did you always Reed Alec McGeachy at Davidson re- intend to study ally turned me on to history. At the time, history? I was raising hell and carrying on, and I didn’t realize how affected by his integrity Thompson as a scholar I was until later. When I got I have always been in- to Oxford, several people knew of him terested in history, but I don’t think I through his doctoral thesis, even though saw it as a career option until I real- he had never published. His determina- ized how much I missed it. After tion to keep up with developments in an- I finished pre-med at Davidson, I cient history impressed me no end. ended up thinking I would probably go to law school. [First,] I worked at Your undergraduate Wachovia Bank and Trust in a man- agerial trainee program. That was years at Davidson just awful. overlapped. Did you know each other? So, I went to graduate school in history, finally. When I finished Thompson [at Vanderbilt], the job market was I knew of Charlie, but horrific. I went to work [writing edi- he didn’t know me. Charlie was a very torials] for The Charlotte Observer. I colorful figure, and to large numbers of was actually offered the job but only if I students, Charlie was a hero. He was ev- was willing to give up all ideas of teach- erything that they wished they could be. ing. I tried very hard to do that, but I just couldn’t. I did finally get a [teaching] job reed That’s very kindly put. My parents at Stetson, and then here. did not agree with that.

14 Why did history sure there are a lot of differences. [They] appeal to you? share the same curiosity and eagerness. Taken more generally, I think students now are less willing to undertake the Thompson I am fascinated by the types of reading assignments that I would connections from one generation to the have given 30 or 35 years ago. Students next and by all of the complexity in the are why we both love doing what we do, human experience. History isw ithout by the way. We don’t like teaching to an any questiont he very best of all possible empty classroom. ways to try to understand that experience. If one is a historian, one develops a his- What is the torical perspective that influences every- thing you do. relationship between the history Reed That’s extremely well put. [His- department and torians] see things in a very different other departments perspective than people who don’t know much about history. Nowadays, an awful on campus? lot of people don’t know much about his- tory. There is a large-scale cultural amne- Reed Since I taught in the sia that we find in our studentsa nd in CORE program and in other our colleaguesa nd that persists to an parts of Queens, I guess I just even greater degree in the general public. took the department for granted. In a larger school, the depart- Thompson This is one of the great ment is one’s university. The peo- problems of our time, this lack of histori- ple one knows are there, and often cal knowledge and perspective. one knows very few people from outside there. That is far from the What changes have case at Queens. you noted in your Thompson We really have close students? colleagues across the campus. One of the things that I was fortunate to do Reed I can’t identify clearly and dis- with Dick Goode, I think starting in tinctly changes in the students or their the early eighties, was to create an in- perspective; that’s probably because of terdisciplinary humanities course that myopia. eventually became the CORE program. We launched it with an art historian Thompson When you’re talking named Ben Pfingstag and a religion pro- about the best ones 35 years ago and the fessor named Beth Johnson, “team teach- best ones in the last few years, I’m not ing” in the genuine sense of the word. The 15 four of us were in there together all of the One of the healthiest things you can time. That was the most marvelous thing. do is be able to [tell] a student, “You know, Have you been able to do that Charlie, I don’t know.” Once you can say that, you genuine team teaching? have [the] security or confidence that is really important to enjoying life teach- Reed For nine years at Virginia Tech. It ing history. When I first started teaching, was just wonderful. A lot of what I do, I there were lots of times I would be asked stole from someone in another field. something, and my first reaction would be terror. Being a good historian is really a Thompson Let me add that Charlie matter of seasoning. did very important work in improving the CORE Program when he came Reed Most historians don’t ripen young. to Queens. That is one of the ways in which we overlap outside of the histo- Thompson It’s almost a shame isn’t ry departmentin starting and then it, Charlie? You’re just getting really good later in improving this significant when it’s time to go. program. Historians are particu- larly adept in this sort of thing be- What course has cause of their breadth of perspective been your favorite and their emphasis upon context. one to teach at How has your Queens? perspective of Thompson history changed I really have liked most of the things that I have taught. If I came from teaching it? back in another life, I probably would not come back in another profession. I have Reed Not much, I guess. You’re in the taught for about 20 years a course called unenviable position, as a historian, of “Ideas and Values in Conflict” which I knowing a hell of a lot more than your have loved teaching. It was originally students. titled “Voices from Hell,” but the cur- riculum committee made me take that Thompson If I have to prepare some- title off. I have had a sense of accomplish- thing to teach, that is a very different ket- ment from that because [students] seem tle of fish than just reading over material to have enjoyed seeing very momentous or enjoying reading it. I have to engage intellectual and cultural challenges. I [also in an analysis that is much more de- worked for 17 years] on the international manding. It is so vast and so complex experience program; that was an all-ab- that you can’t know it all, but you don’t sorbing endeavor. We developed it very want to appear to be the village doofus. much by the seat of our pants. 16 The chance to read the great social political theorists like Hobbes or Mill or Weber or Aristotle or Plato yields never-ending riches that you can talk about with students. So, the discussion is ready made. The class is just a process of trying to come to terms with what the author is saying, and that process never ends. — Charlie Reed

Reed Bill developed that, he’s too mod- saying, and that process never ends. Most est to say this, into a program unlike any students don’t have a penchant for the ab- other in the country. It sends virtually ev- stract. But a few do, and I am impressed in ery junior abroad for much of May. many cases by their conclusions. I’ve learned a lot from students, particu- Thompson That was Billy Wireman’s larly when reading the older books. vision. Before we had the program, you just did study tours on your own and stu- What does the dents paid for it themselves. Bob Whalen study of history and I had taken a group of students into central Europe and the students came add to a modern back and were talking to Billy a lot about education? it. He said, “You know, we ought to do this for all of our students. Can you set Reed Now, we’ve come full circle. It something up?” depends. The study of history at a big So, I taught two courses for awhile university and the study of history at a and then I cut back to one course. Char- small liberal arts college are different. In lie, do you remember taking me down to a liberal arts college, we’re more inclined a doctor’s office one day when I thought to use history to illumine the present, very I was having a heart attack or a stroke? I often by contrast. I hope that in studying came back and said, “I need to cut back Athenian democracy, [students] come to some.” So, for a period of 10 years I taught have a better idea of American democ- one course each term [while directing the racy. International Exchange Program] and I If you were having this conver- loved it. sation with big university faculty, it The last two courses I developed would be totally different. They’d be were the Nuremberg Trial course and a quite happy to stick to history. It’s Watergate course. I love those two cours- obvious that, very gently, we’ve told es because the material and the personali- you we’re not. Our notion of history ties involved were absolutely fascinating. is much broader than that. We value Reed our historical training enormously, I’ve enjoyed “Social and Politi- but we think that there’s a lot more cal Theory” more than anything else. The to intellectual inquiry than the disci- chance to read the great social political pline of history as it is conventionally n theorists like Hobbes or Mill or Weber defined. or Aristotle or Plato yields never-ending riches that you can talk about with stu- Editor’s Note: This interview was edited for dents. So, the discussion is ready made. space and clarity. The class is just a process of trying to come to terms with what the author is 17 18 Marlene Anderson ’13 reads a Bible on the Queens academic quad. Keeping the Faith In an age of skepticism, strong communities of students sustain Queens’ Presbyterian roots

By Vanessa Willis

ueens has always been a birthplace of ideas, a hub for service and a cradle Qfor religious life. Early generations of Queens women were encouraged to strive “toward fine Christian womanhood.” Today, all students are encouraged to lead noble lives and serve others. Queens’ roots in the Presbyterian Church go all the way back to the school’s birth in 1857. Every president from founder Robert Burwell to Hunter Blakely (1950) was a Presbyterian minister. And every one since has been a Presby- terian layperson, including current leader, President Pamela Davies. Queens also has twice had “Presbyterian” in its name: Presbyterian Female College (1896-1910) and Presbyterian College for Women (1910-1913).

ome may wonder how an institution lieve by their parents. Others come to col- that centers around young people con- lege with little intention of nurturing any Stinues to grow from those roots in a time sort of spiritual life because they’ve had bad when society does not always consider reli- experiences. So our job is to show them all gious life to be important or “cool.” It may that faith can evolve, and you can have faith be surprising, but not much has changed in and act on it with love, free from condem- regard to what drives many students to lead nation.” a life of faith. Mowrey observes that in the last two decades, the main change she has seen is that more students come in declaring A Time for Exploration themselves as “not affiliated to a religion.” The ones who identify a Christian faith tra- iane Mowrey, chaplain at Queens for dition lean more toward a non-denomina- 21 years, is an ordained Presbyterian tional approach. Dminister. She has a gentle, loving presence First-year student Ronnie Compton, and is generous with her wisdom. 19, from Durham, North Carolina, is one “College students are often at a fun, of those students. explorative phase regarding their faith “I grew up in the church and always when they arrive,” Mowrey says. “For a lot considered God and my faith to be the of students, when they get to college they’re foremost thing in my life,” he says. “So I starting to think about what they believe didn’t expect that I would start leading my versus what they have been taught to be- life any differently when I got to college. 19 Some people think this is a time to discov- Together with a student group called dergraduate, I never imagined that I’d be er who they are. But I know who I am in The Well, they lead worship services doing this as a career,” O’Toole says. “My terms of my foundation, so I haven’t been on campus on Thursday mornings and goal was to be a journalist and my dream that challenged socially, like getting lost in shepherd a student-led service on Sunday was to work for TIME magazine. Going to partying and being distracted from the real evenings. The Chapel is also a hub for stu- Guatemala with Queens, learning from Dr. reasons I’m here.” dent religious life groups who have study Mowrey and seeing how service transforms Compton has a 1,000-watt lives all inspired me in ways I can hard- smile and a love for the Lord that is “For a lot of students, when they get to ly describe,” she explains. evident, whether he’s leading the O’Toole has been to Guatemala award-winning Gospel Choir at college they’re starting to think about what four times with Mowrey, who launched Queens or attending Bible study they believe versus what they have been the annual spring break mission trip through Cru, a ministry of Campus more than a decade ago. Before going, Crusade for Christ. taught to believe by their parents.” participants must take a three-credit- Although the Presbyterian heri- hour class taught by Mowrey that tage is embraced at Queens, religious —Chaplain Diane Mowrey covers the history, culture and language beliefs span the spectrum. Queens has of the third-world country. religious life groups for Christians, Kaitlyn Blakey, a senior from Jews and Muslims. Compton says that in this meetings and gather on weekends to travel Keller, Texas, went on the Guatemala trip eclectic environment, he expresses his faith to churches, temples and mosques. this spring. She had previously been on through everyday behavior rather than by Mowrey and O’Toole also lead retreat Queens’ service trips to New Orleans, help- pushing his views on others. weekends for students and have recently ing with Hurricane Katrina relief there. Mowrey and Alice O’Toole ’07, the di- taught a leadership class for religious life “In just a week in Guatemala I wrote rector of outreach and fellowship, collaborate on groups on campus. O’Toole says the faith more than 30 pages in my journal,” she giving students the opportunities they need to journey unfolds for students much in the says, adjusting a colorful woven headband explore their faith. Their work focuses on wor- same way it did for her. she brought back. “It will probably take me ship, education, outreach and fellowship. “When I came to Queens as an un- awhile to process everything that I experi- 20 enced there, but I can say that it raised a lot she’s serving others. So now, in addition to this bad?’ and ‘When will there finally be of questions in me, specifically about what applying to several law schools, she’s ap- peace and resolution?’” Yet she also experi- kind of life I want to live after college.” plying to service organizations, including enced a new level of faith in God’s love for Blakey, 22, was raised in a church- Americorps. She’s considering an invitation the world. “I have a newfound passion to going, Methodist family love others more deeply and says she started feel- and to walk alongside ing a need to question those who are suffering,” her faith when she was she says. “God broke my about 16 years old. When heart in Guatemala...it she came to Queens she has propelled me to live attended chapel services, my faith out in action.” but after she moved off While some stu- campus and her tennis dents go abroad for training amped up, she international service, stopped making time for others express their faith it. through service projects “But my journey on campus. Three or four has also been in my own times each semester, head, questioning what volunteers from across I believe about things campus gather in Belk and how I’ve come to Chapel to make more those conclusions,” she than 2,000 sandwiches explains. “The CORE for Urban Ministries. Program inspired me to Alice O’Toole ’07 (left), the director of outreach and fellowship for The Chapel, and The Chapel also hosts Chaplain Diane Mowrey welcome students to services in Belk Chapel. ask myself what a good Room in the Inn for 10 person is and how I can nights each academic live out those ideals.” to return to Guatemala to teach English. year, providing a safe place to spend the Now she attends a Presbyterian church “I read something in our Guatemala class night for about 60 homeless people. “More near campus a few Sundays each month. that has really stuck with me‘ Somewhere than 200 people from across campus help “I was angst-y and questioned a lot as along the way Christians have stopped in any given year, and it’s just one way that a teenager, and thankfully, since I’ve been in living their faith and started studying it Queens tries to be a good neighbor to the college, my faith has really flourished,” she instead,’” she says. “My faith has become a community,” says Mowrey. says. “Once it became my choice to wor- living faith, not just a belief system.” ship and fellowship in my own way and to Danielle Phillips also went on the trip Fellowship is Key have a personal, individual walk with God, with Blakey and says seeing abject poverty it became a living faith, not just part of a and suffering in Guatemala changed the A lot of the work of The Chapel, O’Toole routine. I’m grateful for the foundation my way she thinks about God’s work in the says, is about “planting seeds.” parents provided, but I’m also enjoying ex- world. The Knoxville, Tennessee, native is During freshman orientation last ploring in my own way.” an elementary education major. “I had big year, there were several religious life events In Guatemala she learned she is questions swimming in my head through- scheduled, including a Saturday night wor- happiest and feels closest to God when out the trip, like, ‘How did God let it get ship service attended by more than 60 peo-

The Queens University of Charlotte Gospel Choir he Gospel Choir performs once thanks to God for how He blesses us 2007, says she was especially proud be- a month during the weekly cha- daily,” he says. It also creates a connection cause the Queens choir was the small- pel service at Queens, and often for the congregation. “The younger gen- est and the only one performing without travelsT at the invitation of other schools eration can’t always relate to the sermon musical accompaniment. Queens won a and churches. A student-based volunteer at church, but gospel music can be like a $1,000 award and a trophy; Johnson & choir, it is directed this year by Ron- sermon for us. When we sing and express Wales University earned second place nie Compton, a rising sophomore from how we feel, it’s like a divine connection and Johnson C. Smith University placed Durham. Compton, who has been in- between us and God,” he explains. third. volved in choral music both at school The choir also enters competitions. Whitley says the choir has grown and through the church, says it provides Last November, it placed first in the from fewer than ten members to more fellowship and an outreach for students Sounds of Inspiration College Choir than twenty this year. "We believe there at Queens. Competition co-hosted by a Baptist is a ministry in singing and we want to “Gospel music, to me, is a way to church and Charlotte radio station. Van- share the love of Jesus Christ everywhere n express ourselves and our faitha nd essa Whitley, the choir’s advisor since we go," she says. 21 22 Kaitlyn Blakey ‘12 (left) and Danielle Phillips ‘13 (right; also on cover) shared faith and fellowship during the spring missions trip to Guatemala. Both women say the trip was life changing. ple. “We ask students to speak about what an early age.” Yates, a Teaching Fellows happens to faith during college years, and Scholar, says finding a college that offered it’s one of the most moving services of the a robust religious community was vitally Students and year,” Mowrey says. The next morning, important. students carpool to area houses of worship “When I was in high school I read Spirituality: and rejoin for a group breakfast. From their that four out of five college students walk first days at Queens, they are introduced to away from their faith, and I was deter- A Landmark churches in the Charlotte area. mined to be the one who didn’t,” he says, During the fall, freshmen are invited adding that he’s been blessed with a tight UCLA Study to a weekend retreat in Montreat, North group of friends at Queens from a number Carolina. “It’s about creating a sacred of religious traditions. national study by the Higher space for sacred time, and getting together “I am privileged to have friends at Education Research Institute for fellowship away from campus,” Mow- Queens who set the bar high in terms at the University of California, rey says. of the standards they set for themselves,” Los Angeles, confirms that Queens is The semester concludes with the he says. “It’s inspiring and humbling.” A providing key college experiences for Moravian Love Feast in Belk Chapel, a He and Compton became friends at the spiritual growth. Faculty encourage- beautiful Christmas service that has been beginning of last school year through ment, service learning, study abroad shared at Queens since 1973. Students their involvement in Cru. Yates explains and self-reflection were identified as sing hymns while holding beeswax can- the campus ministry offers weekly group significant factors in positively impact- dles and leave the nighttime service still Bible study, prayer and outreach to the ing spirituality in higher education. singing as they walk across Burwell Lawn. campus community. “We have a three R’s The seven-year study examined It’s standing-room-only every year. approach: reaching the lost, reviving pas- how students change during their col- But religious life at Queens goes be- sion and responding to the call of Christ.” lege years as well as the role college yond special events and holidays. It has grown to become one of the largest plays in facilitating spiritual and reli- “Ours is a ministry of presence,” religious groups on campus. gious development. Researchers found, Mowrey says. “Sometimes our best work “We create a sacred space and time “Although religious engagement de- is just being there for someone who is for our peers to come and explore,” Yates going through something that feels too says. “You can’t just dip your toes in the clines somewhat during college, stu- big for them to handle on their own.” water and expect to grow. You have to fall dents’ spiritual qualities grow substan- Mowrey and O’Toole have counseled off the board at times. As you sink, you tially.” homesick students, others whose par- find more and more of God, and more and Queens would get high marks ents are divorcing and supported faculty more of you.” for providing opportunities for self- and staff who have experienced a crisis or Compton says he’s seen peers lose reflection, ranked as one of the most another deep heartache. But Mowrey is their way and get back on track after par- important aspects for promoting spiri- quick to point out that chaplains are not ticipating in Cru and other religious groups tual development. All undergradu- campus ministers. on campus. “Young adults and teenagers ates take four courses that are part of “It’s not my duty to convert anyone,” are hungry to be loved, and they sometimes the university’s CORE program. The she says. “We nurture all faiths and respect look for love in the wrong places,” he says. courses, which begin freshman year them all. Religious life at Queens isn’t “Whenever I get to a mindset where I’m with “Noble Lives” and conclude senior about evangelism; it’s about helping our feeling something missing in my life, I re- year with “Applying Ethics,” establish a community to consider what gives their member that the void is God. That small valuable context for self-examination. lives meaning and how they can grow and voice that’s telling me I’m loved, that it will Another key finding of the study nurture one another,” she says. all be okay that’s Him, and it’s my prayer was the impact of service learning. that more people my age will hear that voice Queens’ motto, “Not to be served, but Finding the Life of Faith in themselves and not drown it out with to serve,” elevates the value of service drugs and alcohol, or what other people tell during the college experience. Sophomore William Yates, 20, grew them about themselves.” The study also found that “expos- up as a preacher’s kid in the Methodist He continues, “I see a lot of believers ing students to diverse people, cul- church in Murphy, North Carolina. He is here at Queens, and I truly believe God tures, and ideas through study abroad” thoughtful and speaks with a gentle but brought me here.” cultivates respect and understanding. clear conviction. A “What Would Jesus Yates says that two years ago, as a first- The study abroad program at Queens, Do?” logo stands out among the bracelets year student, he began praying for the faith ranked among the top in the United he wears. community at Queens to grow. States in student participation, pro- “Growing up, our church was our “Jesus says the harvest is plentiful, but vides such opportunities. second home, really,” he remembers. “We the workers are few, and I prayed that God The study concluded in 2010. were there every Wednesday night and would bring more workers to Queens,” he Detailed findings were published in a every Sunday, and during the days in says. “It was clear the next year that God is book entitled, Cultivating the Spirit: between whenever there was an event at answering those prayers because the faith How College Can Enhance Students’ In- n the church. I am so grateful to my par- community is incredible in strength and ner Lives. n ents for helping me get rooted at such number.” 23 ALUMNI NEWS

REUNION 2012 Reunion 2012 brought nearly 400 alumni to campus, from classes ending in 2 and 7. President Pamela Davies shared the latest news at Queens, from our growing student body to our continuing traditions, and the group enjoyed hard hat tours of the Rogers Science and Health Building, which is scheduled to open in time for the spring semester of 2013. We hope to see you all at your reunion or anytime you can make it to campus for a visit!

Alumni Association Awards were presented by President Davies. Pictured from left to right Dr. Reed Perkins gives a hard hat tour of the are Sarah Porter Boehmler (representing her brother, Trustee Alex Porter), Fran Mathay ’67, Rogers Science and Health building, currently Martha Woods Mallory ’62, Anne LeGrand ’72, Dr. Bill Thompson, President Pamela Davies under construction, to alumni. and Dr. Charles Reed. QUEENS MAGAZINE Achieving the highest class participation in the Queens Fund, more than half of the Class of 1962 returned to Queens to celebrate their 50th reunion on April 20-21. 24 ALUMNI NEWS

Goodbye and Hello AS WILL LEE ’94 DEPARTS, AN OLD FRIEND RETURNS AS DEAN OF ADMISSIONS

rowing up in Beaufort, South Carolina, Will Lee ’94 knew he wanted to attend a small college Gin a growing and dynamic metro area, because in his words, “The city equaled opportunity to me.” He had no idea just how much opportunity Queens would offer him over the next 20 years. In January, the university bid Will farewell as director of the Office of Traditional Undergraduate Admissions. Woody O’Cain and Will Lee ’94 at Lee’s wedding, June 14, 2003, in Asheville, North Carolina. Woody O’Cain was the associate director of admissions when Will was for Leysin American School in Switzer- dean of admissions. In leaving, Will said, admitted in 1990. “It was clear that here land. Ultimately he returned to his roots “Queens is not as much an organization to was a kid with integrity, intelligence and at Queens to lead the undergraduate ad- me as a family, because I grew up there. At a deep sense of caring for others,” he missions program. During a decade in Queens, people make a difference in each says. Woody became both a friend and n that role, he married and had two beau- other’s lives every day.” mentor during Will’s time as a student. tiful daughters. Woody O’Cain served Following graduation, Will joined the as a groomsman in the wedding, and his Eleanor Hatcher, Director of admissions team as a traveling officer. daughters were flower girls. Advancement Communications and Will’s desire to travel led him to a As Will departed to join an educa- Foundation Relations variety of adventures, including a posi- tional consulting firm, Woody returned, tion as the associate dean of admissions this time as associate vice president and

Breaking Ground FROM THE FIRST CO-ED CLASS TO THE INCOMING PRESIDENCY OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, DEREK PAINTER ’92 HAS A LIST OF FIRSTS

f you ask Derek Painter, he will tell Beginning this summer, he will be you he is a pioneer at heart. Begin- a pioneer yet again, serving as the first ning with his decision to come to male president of the Queens Alumni IQueens, Derek was one of 32 men who Association Board. “I am looking for- entered the first co-ed freshman class in ward to serving during a time when the fall of 1988. He was drawn to the there is so much momentum on campus liberal arts college in his hometown as new facilities roll out this year,” he because of academic excellence and for says. the opportunity to do something differ- Derek is employed by BB&T ent. and is a proud father of two girls, During his time at Queens, his Hadleigh (13) and Olivia (7). An avid pioneer days continued. Derek not only tennis player, he spends much of his free UM 2012 R SUMME helped start the fraternity Pi Kappa Phi, time volunteering with Hospice, Junior but he was the first person to initiate at Achievement, Charlotte Latin and his n the Queens chapter (Eta Zeta #1). Today, church’s Upward basketball team. this service-oriented fraternity remains an important aspect of his volunteer work as Sara Blakeney, Executive Director of Derek Painter ’92 he serves on the chapter’s advisory board. Alumni Relations

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Thank you to all of our alumni who submitted class notes! If you would like to contact the Office of Alumni Programs call 704-337-2256 or email [email protected]. 1932 Angel’s Flight Children’s Home. She serves on grandson’s wedding. Life is slower but happy. Their the board of deacons at an Assemblies of God three sons are married, and their four grandsons church, and she celebrated birthday number 87 on live in Richmond. Nina Norris Blake celebrated her 100th birthday December 26, 2011. She congratulates Queens on on January 29. She received a four-year scholarship its growth and achievements! Cora Ann Parks Hudson is at Sharon Towers, to Queens after graduating from high school in a retirement community. Her granddaughter, Charlotte. She first taught school in Surry County Estelle Darrow Rice and husband Nevin enjoy Rebekah Hudson ’07, works at Queens. Cora but then returned to Charlotte. Nina married their mountain home. Age is making both of them Ann’s three sons and spouses, two of whom are Eddie Franklin Blake and taught many years at a little “rusty,” but that is ok. Estelle continues Presbyterian ministers along with one of the wives, Thomasboro School. She retired from teaching in writing poetry and prose, and twice a year, she threw husband Lamont a 90th birthday party. She 1972. She lives at Aldersgate, a United Methodist teaches writing workshops. Life is good. They have hopes the rest of our class is doing well and would retirement community in Charlotte. seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, love to hear from classmates. but none of them live nearby. She would love to hear from classmates. The class expresses sympathy to Mary Lynn 1938 Haigler Jordan on the death of her husband, Weldon Huske Jordan, who passed away on July Frances Sellers Barnard was chosen to be 1948 13, 2011. included in an October 2011 exhibit displayed 65th Reunion - April 19-21, 2013 in the Washington, D.C., convention center. The The class expresses sympathy toMary Katherine exhibit featured stories and pictures of 50 amazing Eleanor Huske Alexander enjoyed being at a Nye Keith on the death of her husband, seniors from across the country. Over the years, 90th birthday party for Cora Ann Parks Hudson’s William Harvey “Bill” Keith, who passed away she has written and published several books. She husband, Lamont. Eleanor and Cora Ann live on January 29. published her last book, Fran’s Pictorial Book, a on the same floor at Sharon Towers retirement “remembrance of her wonderful life,” at age 95. community and both attended a Queens luncheon She plays weekly canasta and Shanghai games and 1950 at Myers Park Country Club to hear President volunteers in her community. Pamela Davies give an update on activities and buildings. They enjoyed seeing Billie Morton Marianne Permenter Hibbard and husband John 1943 Clark and Peggy Phillips Crowder at the will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary luncheon. in December. They plan a summer visit to 70th Reunion - April 19-21, 2013 California to see son John, daughter-in-law Lisa Billie Morton Clark enjoyed her first mission and teenage grandsons Zachary, Alexander and trip in August 2011. She joined New Directions Grant. Daughter Brandwyn is nearby in Ponte 1944 International to Kenya, where she met dedicated Vedra, Fla., and daughter Adrienne is only 80 people who feed children in body, mind and the miles away in Ormond Beach, Fla. Marianne stays Mary Webster Sieg and her husband have Christian faith. One night, they drove dusty busy in DAR, UDC, Phi Mu Alumnae, local Pan- relocated to Plano, Texas, to be near their roads 40 miles to a village and stood for the Hellenic, the Woman’s Club and church. daughters Marianne Sieg McCament ’80 and most moving worship service in Swahili. In Sara Sieg Avignone ’83. December, Billie went on the Queens trip to The class expresses sympathy toMargaret Wilke New York. Plyler on the death of her husband, Robert Avery Plyler, who passed away on February 12. 1946 Ruth Mundy Cochrane and her husband celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary last 1953 Beatrice Potter Baldridge is thankful for much in September in Richmond, Va., at the wedding her life. She lives close to her sons, their families of their youngest grandson. He and his fiancée 60th Reunion - April 19-21, 2013

QUEENS MAGAZINE and her four grandsons. She tutors reading skills honored them by marrying on their wedding privately and volunteers in the same capacity at date. They were back two weeks later for a second 26 ALUMNI PROFILE

A Man of Letters GERALD PALMER RAN THE MAILROOM AT QUEENS FOR ALMOST A DECADE, BECOMING LIKE A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY TO MANY

fter a long and successful ca- the first time. Every day when I would game every night. And he still looks reer working the window at the walk into the post office, Mr. Palmer was forward to the mail. “I love getting the Dilworth post office, Gerald there to greet me with a smile on his face Queens Magazine and looking at the PalmerA received an opportunity in 1974 and a hand full of letters from home. He class notes section to see what is hap- that he just couldn’t pass up. “I got a call knew us by name from the very begin- pening with my friends from Queens,” n from the current postmaster at Queens ning,” she says. he says. who was about to retire and he asked me In 1977, Palmer received what he if I would be interested in the position,” calls the greatest honor of his life: the Patrick Lynch, Assistant Palmer says. “It turned out to be one of graduating seniors dedicated the year- Director of Annual Giving the best decisions I made in my life.” book to him. When he retired in 1983, For the next nine years, Palmer was he was given another distinguished rec- the king of the Queens mailroom. “The ognition when he was named an honor- girls were just wonderful and became ary alumnus. good friends. I loved talking with them After retiring from Queens, Palmer and getting to know them. Those were devoted his time to another passion, some of the happiest years of my life,” he helping those in need. He spent the next recalls. 12 years at a local church pantry help- Nancy Sullivan Burgin ’78 has ex- ing to feed the hungry as part of the or- changed Christmas cards with Palmer ganization we know today as Loaves & every year since graduating from Queens. Fishes. Want to send a letter to Gerald Palmer? From the time she arrived on campus in Today he keeps himself busy at His address is: 1974, they became friends. “Mr. Palmer his retirement community in Roches- was a freshman’s best friend! I remember ter, New York. At age 92, he serves on those first few weeks of college being the residence council, calls bingo each The Village at Park Road so homesick and so far from home for week and says he plays some sort of card 1471 Long Pond Road, Apt. 207 Rochester, NY 14626 UM 2012 R SUMME

Gerald Palmer, longtime Queens postmaster, in the mailroom with a student in 1977.

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Dancing into Her Second Century AT 111 YEARS, ELIZABETH BUNDY WILL ’27 KEEPS LINDSAY KAY TICE ’05 ON HER TOES

ave you ever wondered what music played an important role; she through the annual dance at Sharon it was like to be born at a supported the arts as a member of the Towers until 2010. time when airplanes were opera and symphony guilds. When I graduated from Queens Hnot yet invented and electricity was Elizabeth married later in life in 2005, she called me to let me know a newfound luxury? That’s what it and never had children, and she told that she was very proud of me. I can was like in 1900, the year Elizabeth stories with an emphasis on grandeur. still hear her referring to me as “a Bundy Will ’27, Queens’ oldest living She recounted her experiences as a fine person,” simply because I went alumna, was born. world traveler, having been on many to her alma mater. Her love for her Let’s fast forward to the year overseas trips throughout her life. college is apparent to all who know 2003. While a student at Queens, In the 1930s, a time when people her, including those who dropped in I began my internship at Sharon traveled in unimaginable style on last fall to wish her a happy birthday Towers. Working in social services, luxury liners all over the world, she at her 111th celebration. I met many Queens alumni when boarded the fabulous Queen Mary for As a Queens alumna, I am proud working on social work assessments. a three-month tour to Europe. Such n to call her my own. Then I met Elizabeth. a sense of adventure did not stop as From the beginning, I knew that she aged. When she was in her early this lady was a force to be reckoned eighties, she became an accomplished with a “Steel Magnolia” of sorts. ballroom dancer. She danced her way Lindsay Kay Tice ’05 She was fiercely independent, even though she had recently moved to assisted living. She was about to turn 103, and she was not thrilled about the idea of having to use a walker to maintain her balance. She carried her walker in the air, not a wheel touching the ground. After she found out that the “blonde girl” was a “Queens girl,” I immediately was held in higher regard. She began to share details of her life, of the places she’d been and the things she’d seen. I learned that she was born in Monroe, North Carolina, on October 15, 1900. In 1923, she arrived at Queens to study classical piano under the tutelage of Lindsay K. Tice ’05 and Elizabeth Bundy Will ’27, Queens’ oldest living alumna, have Dr. Ninniss. Throughout her life, built a strong friendship during their time together at Sharon Towers.

The Myers Park neighborhood and Queens have grown since this 1927 photograph, but memories shared by Mrs. Will and generations of QUEENS MAGAZINE Queens’ alumni are timeless.

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1958 55th Reunion - April 19-21, 2013

Susan Sharpe Houg has lived in Scott Valley, Calif., for 21 years, dividing her time between church and community, songwriting/singing and visiting San Francisco. After attending the Glen Workshops in 2008 and 2011 in Santa Fe, N.M., she ramped up her songwriting and performing and has done yard concerts and home venues annually. A CD is planned, and she hopes Queens choirs will look at her work!

Mary Moore Mason-Redfern [email protected] recently received two major media awards for her work as the London-based editor/editorial director of Essentially America. She was named the TravMedia Journalist of the Year at the ONE Travel Conference, and she won the best consumer travel article written about the United States at the U.S. Travel Association convention. Her contact details are Mary Moore Mason, 55 Hereford Road, London, W2 5BB, UK, tel: 011- 44-20-7243-6954.

Sophia Leventis Trakas’ granddaugther, Anna Trakas, has just transferred to Queens. This Anne-Lynn Stahl Teal ’68 and husband Steve ride their Goldwing 1800 on the Tail will make three generations, including Sophia’s of the Dragon, an 11-mile stretch of mountain road with 318 curves that runs between daughter, Maria Trakas Barry ’92. Tennessee and North Carolina.

Louise Cannon Whitley and husband Jim moved to Park Pointe Village in Rock Hill, S.C. Until Doris Parsons-Nesbit has not been well this their farm in Virginia sells, they will be back 1954 year. Starting in July 2011, she first had double and forth to both properties. Last July, their first pneumonia, causing a heart attack and then the grandaughter was married and they welcomed Betty Lipe Davis and granddaughters went on smallest stent in her heart, operating at 70 percent. their 13th grandchild, bringing the family to a a recent trip to Paris, which included time with Next, she had a stroke and then an MRI report that total of 22. Makes for a fun time when they are friends made when Betty and Bill lived there. Last she has Parkinson’s disease. She went into her third all together! fall, Betty visited brother and sister-in-law Joseph rehab in Waxhaw, N.C., and then headed back to and Carmie Lipe in Charlotte. While there, they Florida to live with her sister in Miami. spent time on the Queens campus and attended 1960 The Learning Society event downtown featuring Dr. Condoleezza Rice. Betty is extremely proud to 1956 Flo Denny Durway enjoys visits with Tina Jones be a Queens alumna! Hensley and Jane Agsten Long. Last fall, the Ramona Price Keels had a bittersweet year. In Durways and the Hensleys were in Williamsburg, Joan Farabow McMurray, a retired professor April 2011, she and husband Charles sold their Va. In December, Tina and Flo had lunch at Flo’s of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río home in Cary, N.C., and returned to Union house for Lillian McCulloch Taylor ’49. Flo and Piedras, is leading the “good life” in Guaynabo, County, N.C., the place of their births. For eight Dan spent three weeks on a cruise from Santiago, UM 2012 R SUMME Puerto Rico. She and husband George anticipate a months, they enjoyed their home together (9909 Chile, around Cape Horn, to the Falklands, move to the United States in the near future, perhaps Potters Road, Wesley Chapel, NC 28104), which Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Rio. Flo delights to Davidson, N.C. The past year, they traveled to adjoins her farm where their oldest son and his in five grandchildren; four live nearby. conferences in the Caribbean and to special places family live. Sadly, Charles passed away on and people in the United States. This year includes a November 24, 2011. Ramona continues Ann Barkley Grey and husband Sandy moved on possible trip to Germany and France. living there. October 25, 2011, to a continuing-care facility called

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River Landing at Sandy Ridge. The address is 1575 live the rest of the year in a boating retirement from Tarbert to Campbelltown, where they left for John Knox Dr., Apt. P12, Colfax, NC, 27235. Any community, Fairfield Harbor, in New Bern, N.C. American soil in 1732. alumnae in the area are invited to stop by for a visit. Upon 50 years since graduation, she can rightfully thank Queens for giving her the foundation upon Madeline Sonneborn Scharfenstein has lived Lynn Fricks Rogers was reunited for the first which her life was built! in Charlotte with husband Ted for the last seven time in over 50 years with her freshman “roomie” years. They are taking care of Madeline’s 91-year- from Morrison dorm, Penny Moffett Robson. old mom. Madeline discovered an interest in Penny and husband John, who live in Cambridge, 1963 jewelry design and construction and has started a England, made a Charlotte stopover Labor Day small business to that end. She enjoys gardening 50th Reunion - April 19-21, 2013 weekend 2011. Thanks to the efforts of Adelaide and reading. She looks forward to the new Queens Anderson Davis ’61, arrangements were made sorority and fraternity houses and loves to see for Lynn and Sara Bee Craig Johnson ’57, also a Queens grow! 1964 resident of Morrison, to enjoy lunch and a tour of the Queens campus. Betsy Fuehrer Scherer retired in April 2011 after The class expresses sympathy toKathryn Oehler 45 years in education: 20 as an elementary teacher, Sellers on the death of her husband, Sidney L. 15 as a college administrator and 10 as an adjunct Sellers, III, who passed away on December 9, 2011. 1962 English professor at DeVry University. She and husband Ray, a retired minister, celebrated with Janet Porter Stange and Leila Bennett The class expresses sympathy to Margaret Blevins a European river cruise. Betsy and Ray sing in a Doughton ’60 met last May at on the death of her husband, John S. Shippee, who the wonderful home (Overhill passed away on December 27, 2011. Farm) of Elizabeth Robertson Causey ’64 in Lincolnton, The class expresses sympathy to Susann Finklea N.C. They enjoyed lunch and Ervin on the death of her husband, Jacob Barron catching up. There was lots of Ervin, who passed away on December 27, 2011. reminiscing about Queens.

Marcia Brinkley Frith and her husband celebrated their 45th anniversary with a trip last fall to the Holy Land and Greece. It changed her life to know 1966 she was standing on streets where Jesus walked, to look over the valley where David defeated Katherine “Kaki” Reed Goliath, to walk the streets of Ephesus and to be Harmon and husband Larry on the Sea of Galilee. She encourages all to go. live in Thomsville, Ga., and Lake Keowee, S.C. Since both children, Linda Goodman Heilig has enjoyed her children grandchildren and parents live in and grandchildren this past year, as always. She South Carolina, it makes for a lot and her husband went on a mission trip last March of traveling. Both Kaki and Larry to Miami with the Lutheran campus ministry of are retired. her church. It was tiring and rejuvenating at the same time. She enjoys subbing in a preschool with Carol Cole McCrory enjoys children ages 2 to 4 and actually celebrated her retirement in the North birthday this year with the preschoolers. Carolina mountains and gets together often with Elizabeth Martha Woods Mallory reports that our 50th Eve ’67. reunion was a special time, with many returning to visit with classmates and to see the amazing things Joanna Allred McKethan happening at Queens. We missed all who were not and husband Sandy recently able to attend but hope we can stay in touch via returned from a trip to Scotland, email, phone and future reunions. Thanks again to where she did background work the great committee who made the reunion such for her next book which is set in a success! Scotland and the United States. Her e-books, Lady in White Mary Moore Mason-Redfern ’58 received the TravMedia 2012 Journalist of the Year Award, recognizing a journalist Virginia Bopp Springer and hubby Al spend and A Holiday Folly, are for sale who has made a significant contribution in encouraged travel. winters on their sailboat Double Bells in the from Red Rose Publishing. They The award was conferred at the ONE Travel Conference in

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community chorale and cook with a gourmet club. They Florida Panhandle. Her sturdy Queens 25th have a wonderful new grandson. Daughter Sarah have three grandchildren, ages 5, 6 and 8. reunion tote bag has accompanied her thousands of Barr lives in Richmond. They love to travel and just miles and survived all kinds of situations and weather. did the Baltics since St. Petersburg, Russia, was on Leslie Moore Teague and husband of 45 their “bucket list!” Elizabeth plays golf and is years, Barry, enjoy golf and time at North on the executive board of the Garden Club Litchfield Beach, S.C. Son Brad, a project of Virginia. manager for an IT firm, is married and lives in North Arlington, Va. Daughter Elizabeth Lynn Woodward Lindberg retired in lives in Charlotte with husband Chris and September 2011 and keeps busy with seven their three children. Elizabeth has an interior grandchildren (two in Baton Rouge, La., design firm, EMC Design, and a shop, Stilo, on two in Gulfport, Miss. and three in Kenner, Providence Road at The Villa Shops. La.), household projects and traveling. Last October, she and husband Lyle celebrated Judy Wood was elected president of the their 43rd anniversary with a week in League of Women Voters in Tarrant Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. The County, Texas, where she resides. Judy highlight was ziplining in the rain forest. In did her graduate work at Texas Christian December, Lynn went to Punta Gorda, Fla., University and has co-authored Fort for her aunt’s 90th birthday. Worth’s Huge Deal: Unwinding Westside’s Judy Barry Maynard and husband Twisted Legend. She is active in a variety of Fletcher ended 2011 with the birth of arts and civic organizations. their first grandchild. Bliss Maynard is the daughter of son Fletcher III and his wife, Mary Elizabeth, who live in Durham, 1968 N.C., and are on staff of “Cru” (Campus 45th Reunion - April 19-21, 2013 Crusade for Christ), assigned to Duke. Judy and Fletcher retired in Memphis, Parker Norman Call has enjoyed traveling Tenn., where she gets to see Margaret this year with fellow classmates Cindy Day Craddock, Barbara Billings Kilner Baker, Debbie Butler Bryan, Gassaway, Sheppie Turley Quinn, Ellen Myrtle Emerson-Heery, Penny Birdsall Robinson Rolfes, Emily Woodside and Hofmann, Sheppie Turley Quinn many others regularly. and Leigh Barnett Walker on trips to England, Cape Cod and New York. Judy Payette is still alive and well in England, Katie Nutter McCallum ’00 welcomed son Michael Everyone looks just as good as they did where she teaches for the Department of Kenneth on June 1, 2011. in 1968! Parker hopes everyone will mark Defense Schools. She has been at Lakenheath April 2013 on their calendars and come to Middle School for 15 years and may retire one our 45th reunion. day.

Jean Dobson Farris and husband Bill have seven Ellen Seastrunk Dozier and husband of 45 Sidney Walker Pease lives in Atlanta with her grandchildren: three girls and four boys ranging in years, Robert, reside in Columbia, S.C. Robert husband of 44 years, Norman. She is the web editor, social media manager and blogger for Vacation is slowly retiring from his real estate appraisal age from 2 to 11. Five live just south of Nashville, Express. She loves writing about (and occasionally company. Ellen is “bionic” with an implanted and two live in Lexington, Ky. They are all within traveling to) Mexico, the Caribbean and Costa spinal cord stimulator that enables her to enjoy a short half-day drive. Jean is completing her third Rica. Son Jay and family are in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. five grandchildren at their lake house. Robert Jr. year as president of a private foundation that Son Josh and his wife are in Atlanta. Sidney enjoys moved to Atlanta as executive vice president of the awards grants to programs and services for elderly reconnecting with Queens friends at the annual Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta. Daughter men and women in middle Tennessee. Pawleys Island, S.C., getaway. Ann is a physical therapist and has completed The class expresses sympathy to Susan Dixon three Ironman events. Nancy Day Rodger and husband Don moved Goldsmith on the death of her sister Ann Dixon

just before Christmas 2011 from their condo 2012 R SUMME Mary Wain Ingram Ellison and husband Boyd Demonet ’66, who passed away on December 21, in Palm Coast, Fla., to Grand Haven, Fla., retired eight years ago. He enjoys flying and his 2011. a golfing community. Their new address is 44 work with Angel Flight Southeast. She enjoys Osprey Circle, Palm Coast, FL 32137. plein air painting, but recently has concentrated Elizabeth Barr Johnson has enjoyed attending more on figures and portraits.They divide their Queens events at Mary McMillan Horton’s ’69 Jane Bohde Strickland retired in 2002 from time between Macon, Ga., and a home on the home in Richmond, Va. She and husband Sam George Jenkins High School and now tutors,

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The Chick Palace LESLIE DAVIS GUCCIONE ’69 DRAWS ON HER QUEENS YEARS TO WRITE A TOP-SELLING EBOOK

hen The Chick Palace When she arrived at Queens To date, she’s had 30 books published; launched in January as in the fall of 1965, Leslie immersed recognition has included starred part of Barnes & Noble’s herself in art and writing. Although reviews and best sellers. W“NOOK First” e-reader promotion, she majored in art, her love for writing As a Northerner coming to a it quickly went to the number one was never far away. She participated small women’s college in the South, spot, selling 30,000 copies in the first in the national literary fraternity, Leslie believes her experience at two weeks. The book’s success was Sigma Upsilon, and contributed to Queens shaped who she is and not a complete surprise to author Signet, the Queens literary journal. In impacted her success. She gained Leslie Davis Guccione ’69; in fact, it Vienna, she completed a study abroad confidence and formed lifelong confirmed her belief that “women on program. Her memories of Queens friendships that remain a large part of the far side of 50 are a demographic to during those days are vivid, especially her life. She remembers that years ago, be reckoned with.” those that portray a bygone formality. her Boston-bred husband, Joe, was Leslie, who is an adjunct faculty “We had to change our clothes when amazed by all the Southerners who member in Seton Hill University’s leaving the studio before going to eat came into his life, thanks to Queens. MFA program for writing popular in the dining hall, because no pants “It’s stayed that way since my arrival n fiction, says the time had come to were allowed on the front part of in front of Watkins in 1965.” campus,” she recalls. write a work for women her age. “By the time I hit my mid-fifties, deep Upon her graduation from into my writing career, it was time Queens, she took a job in Wilmington, Sara Blakeney, Executive Director of to write a comedy from the heart for Delaware, as a copywriter at an Alumni Relations women my age, the audience I most advertising agency. It jumpstarted identified with,” she says. “I created her career, creating deadlines and two friends facing all that mid-life a demand for words and ideas. throws our way and looked no farther Leaving the advertising world, she than my four QC years for that concentrated on writing novels for abiding relationship.” adult, middle grade and teen readers.

Leslie Davis Guiccone’s ’69 top-selling ebook, The Chick Palace (above left), follows the midlife friendship of two former college

QUEENS MAGAZINE roommates. Guiccone (above right) lives in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and is the author of 30 books.

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supervises University of South Florida interns hard places. She is really blessed, and she does not support. Each month, she will be adding material and participates in church work. Husband want to miss anything! to touringbackroads.com, so please check it out. of 43 years Gene, the retired city manager of Lakeland, Fla., has a real estate broker’s office. Mary Beth Burry Donati lives in McComb, Erwin Heeseman Williams works at Wells Fargo She has three children: Swane, 40, Michael, 38, Miss., with husband of 40 years, Vic. They have Securities and co-owns a booth at BLACKLION and Gina, 37, and six grandchildren, ages 3-11. three sons, Vic III, Tim and Tyler, and two Dilworth in Charlotte. She volunteers with They enjoy their river house near Homasassa grandchildren. Youngest son Tyler received his the Friends of the Library at Queens. She is a Springs, Fla. Wings of Gold this year and became a navy member of the Royal Society advisory committee aviator now stationed in Japan. Mary Beth and encourages all to become involved with a Anne-Lynn Stahl Teal is now retired and loves it, works as a registered nurse with the McComb minimum donation of $1500. Husband Donnie is but Steve still works as a real estate appraiser. Their school district. doing well after having his right knee replaced last great pastime is riding their Honda Goldwing October. Son Donnie Jr. began a job with Rollover alone or with other members from their chapter. Elizabeth Gay lives in Charlottesville,Va. Systems, Inc. “Life is always better on two wheels.” She would She is still demonstrating for universal peace love to hear from anyone living in the greater and animal and human rights. She may retire Cincinnati area. this year and bring to a close her 25-year-old 1972 psychotherapy practice. Her daughter, 20, The class expresses sympathy to Kathy Fristoe recently completed a service trip to Honduras to The class expresses sympathy to Sherry Tronco on the deaths of her mother, Ruth Conner build a school for orphans. McGeachy Beasley on the death of her father, Fristoe, who passed away on December 31, 2011, Robert Hayward McGeachy, who passed away on and her father, John William Fristoe, who passed Luna Lambert Levinson has retired as director January 25. away on December 5, 2011. She feels much of the Education Resources Information Center gratitude for her Queens connection and the kind at the U.S. Department of Education. She and and comforting words that have come from her husband Dan, inspector general of the U.S. 1973 Queens family. Department of Health and Human Services, have moved to an apartment in Chevy Chase, Md. 40th Reunion - April 19-21, 2013 Leigh Barnett Walker volunteers with the Daughter Claire is a territory manager for St. Jude Harford County Public Library, where she tutors Medical. Daughter Hannah is a student at the kindergartners as a Partner in Reading. Leigh University of Maryland School of Law. 1974 practices yoga, knits with a local Knit Wits group and sings in her church choir. Leigh traveled last Sallie Moore Lowrance enjoys her role as “GaGa” The class expresses sympathy to Linda Barnett September to Boston and to Provincetown, Mass., with nine grandchildren under the age of 9. Four on the death of her daughter, Sidney Elizabeth with Queens friends Parker Norman Call, Myrtle of the grands live in Beijing, China, three live in Owens, who passed away on January 14. Emerson-Heery and Sheppie Turley Quinn. Nashville, Tenn., and two are in Charlotte. Sallie They had a great time being together! keeps busy with Queens and the Charlotte- Marie Storer Corne is thrilled to be a Mecklenburg Community Foundation, tutoring grandmother. Daughter Betsy gave birth to Lila in a second-grade classroom, and also as the wife in November 2011. Marie still works but is able to 1970 of a pastor. Last fall, Sallie and husband Fred stay with Lila on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. visited Beijing and Japan. Son James received his MBA from Penn State Charley Carlock cherishes the simple, rich and works in Charlottesville, Va., developing a “meetings” she has with people, whether that be Carolyn Sakowski traveled in October 2011 all business plan for a nonprofit agency. her spouse, close friends and family or chance over western North Carolina to promote the third encounters in her day-to-day life or in her travels. edition of Touring The Western North Carolina Laura Tomlin Jamison left the real estate business She reports that life is good and also a struggle at Backroads. She was able to see several old Queens last year as there were too many short sales and times, but she knows that we grow through the friends along the way. She thanks all for their foreclosures that went nowhere. She did some

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volunteer work for the Mecklenburg County Marilu Hickey Novy thought the 2011 renuion Ann Phillips and spouse Heather finally moved Democratic Party and hopes to do more this was wonderful and that it was so great to realize into their new Florida home. They have done a year with the Democratic National Convention that we are all still the family we were so few years lot of work on the house. The next big project coming to Charlotte. Her oldest daughter, who ago. She is still going to the dogs. She is heading to is the yard. Both Ann and Heather work with works at Bank of America, is pursuing her MBA Florida with Hanna, the Portuguese Water Dog, the same Hospice organization. They report that at the McColl School. for the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship; every weekend feels like a vacation. Ann still she qualified three different ways to get there. cannot believe that they went swimming in the pool on Christmas Eve. The welcome mat is out! 1976 Elizabeth Pearce and husband Richard Lasota are looking for a warmer home in the Delray- Nancy Philpy accepted the gracious invitation of The class extends sympathy to Leslie Allsopp Boynton Beach, Fla., areaa ny alums there? Martha Mitchell Aiken and husband Joey to meet on the death of her father, Richard Allsopp, on They enjoyed New Year’s Eve dinner with Moira in November 2011 at their western North Carolina August 19, 2011, and the death of her mother, Gomez Madonia and Betsy Kiser Strauss mountain home and joined Suzie Griffin Bowman, Sally Henley Allsopp, on September 20, 2011. ’75 and husbands Peter and Bill, respectively. Sharlene Manley Kaney, Amy Thomasson Little, Richard retired early, in February 2011, and loves Amy Shinn Reaves and Anjay Ashe Williamson. The class expresses sympathy to Suzie Griffin it. Elizabeth thanks Kathy Haley Herman and Several husbands came. They had a fabulous Bowman on the death of her father, Robert Ashley Michelle Manire for all their work on the 35th weekend of food, fun and story sharing and agreed it Griffin, who passed away on May 31, 2011. reunion in April 2011. was a highlight of their year.

Linda Cable Shute was commissioned to write Precious in the Sight of the Lord, based on Psalm 116:15, for the retirement of their church music director. In late February, son Preston finished his six-year contract as fire control on the USS Curtis Wilbur, Yokosuka, Japan. Preston plans to help take care of his dad before returning to Georgia Southern University to earn a degree in software architecture.

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Nancy Sullivan Burgin divides her time between Columbus, Ga., and her beach home. She is busy with daughter Sarah. Sister Meg Sullivan Clark has retired. Sister Elizabeth Sullivan ’85 works as a physical therapist at Egleston Children’s Hospital and enjoys life with Margot, 2. At the Fabulous Five Fest, Nancy rubbed in the fact that she was going to Boz Scaggs without the other four. Queens thanks Nancy for hosting an alumni party at her home in Columbus.

Carla Jeffords Vitez’s youngest daughter, Celeste, surprised her by applying in fall 2011 to Queens. Carla volunteers with a Charlotte public school garden. Husband Larry opened a public sailing and rowing center at Lake Norman, N.C., www.nccsailrow.org. In December, she visited Susan Ellsworth Wiggs and her parents in Fayetteville, N.C. Carla was a frequent guest in the Megan Barrick ’02 and Parnell Taylor married on May 14, 2011, at St. Patrick’s Cathedral Ellsworths’ home during her Queens years. in Charlotte. They returned to Queens to have their wedding photos taken, including this

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in elementary school. Besides expertly managing Carolina Teaching Fellow at North Carolina State her entire family, she keeps trim by walking and with the goal of becoming a high school math coaching volleyball. teacher.

Trish Vail Hobson is the associate executive 1980 director of community development at the Men’s Shelter of Charlotte. She and husband Ross are Sally Wyeth McLaughlin is the 2011-2012 busy raising two teenagers, Ross and Helen, along with alpha dog Chipper and new puppy Snoops. president of the Rotary Club of Sandy Springs, Ga., (sandyspringsrotary.org) and practices law at Raymond S. Martin, P.C., with offices in Sandy Ashley Whitsitt Hollingsworth and husband Springs. She and husband Charles have two Wire Craig keep busy running their company, Fox Terriers and live in East Cobb, Ga. Hollingsworth Roofing. While son Whit is navigating the challenges of adulthood, being on his own and working in Cleveland, Tenn., daughter 1983 Kane is trying to figure it all out at Chapel Hill, 30th Reunion - April 19-21, 2013 N.C. Kane and Alecia, Meg Stanley Johnson’s daughter, meet as often as their schedules will 1984 allow to have lunch and catch up at Carolina. Heather Connelly Brownfield ’98 with Karen Bengston Hughes and family live in The class expresses sympathy toRowena Gregg daughter Brooklyn Elizabeth Brownfield, Kernersville, N.C. Son Art is in seventh grade. the first child of Heather and Andrew Gibbons on the death of her father, Thomas She enjoys keeping in touch with Nellie Brownfield ’97, born June 13, 2011. Alexander Gregg, who passed away on January 18. Henderson Davant, Molly Waldrup Johnson, Jane Hughes Redding is an attorney in private Nancy Swecker Swan ’89 and so many more on practice in Asheboro, N.C., with husband Scott. Facebook. She and others are planning a trip to Daughter Cynthia is a sophomore at Wofford Switzerland to see Suzanne Manzer Muskin in College in Spartanburg, S.C., where she is her new “very old” home. having as great an experience in college as Jane did. Cynthia recently traveled to Ireland and Meg Stanley Johnson works in the music therapy hopes to do her junior year abroad in London. program at Queens. Meg and husband Doug have Jane serves as chairperson of her local school three children. Daughter Alecia is at Chapel Hill, board. N.C., and daughter Lainey is soon to be off to college. Son Blaine is in high school and busy with

1986 year-round swimming.

Lori Lumbard Smith works as a tour guide at Kelly Billingsley Jones and Wade live in Bentonville, the United States Military Academy at West Ark., and own Basils Restaurant in Rogers, Ark. Point, N.Y. Her husband prepares to retire after (Check out Basils on Facebook.) Kelly would love 28 years in the army. Oldest son Travis spent for her Queens friends to come see the newly- a year as a Fulbright Fellow in Russia and got opened Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art married last January. Son Taylor is a lieutenant in Bentonville. Kelly enjoyed vacationing last July at in the army and got married last June. Daughter Folly Beach, S.C., with Kathy King Briggs ’89. Kelly Rosie is a high school senior. Daughter Katie is (under Kelly Billingsley Jones) loves hearing from in eighth grade. Lucy Steele, daughter of Whitney her college friends on Facebook. Kimball Coe ’06 and husband Matt, recently celebrated her first birthday. Katja Reed Lackey lives in Dover, Del., and is 1988 a mother, wife and working artist and educator. Amy Church McMurray is busy raising two boys 25th Reunion - April 19-21, 2013 She and Queens roommate Suzanne Manzer with husband Scott. Mac and Miller are heavy UM 2012 R SUMME Muskin (visiting from Geneva, Switzerland) had into sports and scouting and doing all that they Sara Lee Hinnant works on accepting the limits an afternoon together in Philadelphia. They had not can to help Mom with new puppy Duke. of multiple chronic illnesses and discovering the next third of her life. Son David, his wife and five seen each other in 20 years! Suzanne was visiting children, Tim, Erika, Jade, Amber and Phoenix, the United States with her husband and two boys, Suzanne Manzer Muskin and her family moved live in Cherokee, N.C. David is on his second looking at colleges and visiting with family and old in November 2010 to Switzerland from Morocco. mission in Iraq. Daughter Mary Jo is a North friends. Last July, she came to visit colleges with oldest

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Halftime in the Locker Room A GIFT TO THE LEVINE CENTER FROM FORMER BASKETBALL CAPTAIN T.J. LEWIS ’97 AND HIS WIFE, CHARMAIN PUGH LEWIS ’98, PUTS MID-GAME STRATEGY IN SLEEK QUARTERS

basketball scholarship recalls. “Queens offers a personal brought T.J. Lewis ’97 connection that is extraordinary.” to Queens, where he After several successful years captainedA the first men’s team in Bank of America’s commercial in university history to make lending and consumer real estate the NCAA tournament. Just divisions, McColl asked T.J. to 16 years later, he and his wife join Queens’ Board of Trustees. Charmain Pugh Lewis ’98 have That’s where he was first able made a major gift to name the to express his strong support of Lewis Men’s Basketball Locker athletic programs at Queens. Room in the Levine Center for Wellness and Recreation. T.J. “My experience playing credits his Queens education as a basketball at Queens had a huge major factor in his successful career impact on my life. To this day, the in financial services, and now he memories of making the NCAA and Charmain want to help ensure tournament give me chills. It that other students have the same was a great ride,” he says. He transformational experiences at and Charmain are happy they Queens as they did. are able to contribute to the next generation of athletics at “Queens builds leaders,” Queens. T.J. asserts, explaining that in an environment where leadership is “When I joined the board, encouraged, students can create I was outspoken about the their own experiences. Both of university’s need for a new the Lewises rose to the challenge athletic facility that would during their Queens years serve every student. The Levine Charmain started a student Center will impact everything fashion show, and T.J. secured from admissions to student life. I summer internships at Bank of know firsthand what the Levine America that ultimately led to Center will do for Queens, and Charmain and I want to give his first job after graduation. n After 13 years with the bank, he back to what we believe in.” took a job three years ago with Urban Lending Solutions as an Eleanor Hatcher, Director of executive in corporate diversity Advancement Communications and business development. and Foundation Relations T.J. also credits former President Billy Wireman with helping students get connected to leaders in the community. Wireman introduced T.J. to Top: T.J. Lewis ’97, Charmain Hugh McColl Jr., who was the Pugh Lewis ’98 and their chairman and CEO of Bank of children at home. America when T.J. graduated, Bottom: T.J. Lewis ’97 in 1996, and also chair of Queens’ Board just before being named captain of Trustees. “When I crossed of the Royals men’s basketball team. QUEENS MAGAZINE the stage and shook his hand, he said ‘Welcome aboard,’” T.J. 36 CLASS NOTES son Saul and had a get together with Becky 1990 Jason Buckner has been working in the healthcare Bennett Stowe ’87, Molly Waldrup Johnson, IT field and raising his three children, Nicole, 14, Jodie Henderson Coulson ’89, Lori Wiseman Jacob, 13, and Joshua, 7. Jason is the Indiana business Sara Jenkins Collins is public relations and events Hallman ’89, and Julie Thomas Walton ’91. She manager for HealthBridge. manager at the CFIDS Association of America brought youngest son Hillel, 5 at the time, to the (the job that pays) and is proud to have helped the party. Suzanne has had frequent contact with Marcus Sims will change practices to East Atlanta organization weather a year-long communications other Queens friends, meeting up with Katja Cardiology in 2012. Marcus received his U.S. Soccer crisis in 2011. She will serve one more year as chair Reed Lackey in Washington, D.C., and seeing old National D License and is an assistant coach with the of the board of Hands On Charlotte (the job that friends last summer at Nancy Swecker Swan’s ’89 South Dekalb YMCA Jaguars U11/12 team, ranked does not pay). Sara and her two cats live in south home in Charlotte. She thinks that it is wonderful #17 in the state. Son Marcus James has had three Charlotte. to keep those friendships and reconnect with old consecutive undefeated seasons, making his dad proud. friends. The Sims family added a new addition, Myles, who Kristen Hiller Metz lives in Jacksonville, Fla., celebrated his first birthday on Thanksgiving Day 2011. with her husband and son. She and Gordon Kasey Seay Wilson and husband Roy are testing celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary this the waters of the empty nest. Twin daughters year with a fabulous trip to Alaska. The three of Caroline and Courtney are off at school but 1996 them enjoyed a helicopter ride to a glacier, dog close to home at Valdosta State University. sledding and whale sightings. Kristen wishes Kasey travels and sells pharmaceuticals for Julie Martin Dean left Queens in December 2011 everyone a wonderful 2012! Depomed. to expand her private voice studio with Community School of the Arts in Charlotte in the Plaza- Midwood neighborhood. She enjoys a full schedule of private students and works with group classes of 1992 kids and a karaoke class for adults.

Connie Weber cweber@kaycasto. Kelly Hamilton Hogan and husband Frank com practices law in Charleston, welcomed their fourth son on March 24, 2011. W. Va., representing employers in Theodore “Teddy” Hogan joined big brothers discrimination and other personnel Ryan, 8, Hunter, 6, and Hank, 3. Last June, they related suits. If not in the courtroom, all visited Charlotte, where they got to meet she is coaching soccer for Jack, 13, mommy’s college roommates Stephanie Tripp Amelia, 10, or Sam, 5, or in the yoga Augier and Kristy Jolly Liles and explore the studio. Husband Erik Engle aquired Queens campus. It looks better than ever! his SSAC certification and coaches middle school soccer. West Virginia is a great place to visitlet Connie 1998 know if you come. 15th Reunion - April 19-21, 2013

1993 The class expresses sympathy to Perry Blickenstaff on the death of her father, Wayne Blickenstaff, who 20th Reunion - April 19-21, 2013 passed away on December 23, 2011.

Heather Connelly Brownfield and husband 1994 Andrew Brownfield ’97 welcomed their first child, Brooklyn Elizabeth, on June 13, 2011. Shelley Britt Belk and husband Gary celebrated 17 years. Son Zach is 15. Lauren Thomas Flores enjoys her work as a Twins Marleigh and Mae are 12. They director of development at The Westminster have been blessed to welcome two Schools in Atlanta. One of her favorite moments new children through the miracle of each day is carpooling to the school with her adoption, Janis, 15, and Eddie, 8. They

oldest son, Sam, who is in pre-1st. Lauren, Dean, 2012 R SUMME moved six years ago to Mount Airy, Sam and Thomas enjoyed ringing in the New Year Md., when Hyatt transferred Shelley with Dr. Diane Mowrey and Zoe! Sarah Terry Argabrite ’06 and Dan Argabrite as director of food and beverage ’03 were married on September 17, 2011, at a and catering sales. Gary works for small vineyard in Graham, North Carolina. The class expresses sympathy to Mary Collier Hammer and Nail Construction. McElroy on the death of her mother, Mary McElroy, who passed away on September 25, 2011. 37 CLASS NOTES

Erin Pitts began working in December 2011 at 29, 2011. Sometime this summer, they will also year in the investment industry. She lives in the Georgetown University as director of medical and complete the adoption of another son, bringing SouthPark area of Charlotte. dental alumni programs. their household total to four children. They live in China, where they are teaching. Cara Riley lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., 2002 and works as a departmental supervisor for The Kevin Yearick and Sarah Hehman Yearick ’01 Legend Group, a full-service retirement plans spent Memorial Day weekend 2011 in Vermont Kelly McGraw Anderson and husband Brandon company. She was recently awarded the 2011 for Henry Okoth’s wedding, catching up with celebrated their first wedding anniversary on October Gold Team Award for her participation and Gabe Neville and Wayne Smith. Kevin picked up 2, 2011, and then welcomed their precious baby boy involvement with Walk MS, an annual event she 10 pounds, lost 15 and gained five back, making Tyler into the world on November 10, 2011. They supports since being diagnosed in 2009. In April, his New Year’s resolution a wash. Kevin and Sarah live in the Raleigh, N.C., area. she took a weeklong trip to Paris. celebrated 12 years of marital bliss in December 2011. Sarah remarked, “I can’t believe how happy I Erica Brady Angert and Jack Angert live in Baton Laura Buck Sharpe, after more than 10 years in am” (however, her fingers were apparently crossed). Rouge, La. Jack works as an actuarial analyst at the event industry, has made a career change and the Louisiana Department of Insurance and is joined the Arts & Science Council of Charlotte working on earning his certification asAssociate as the marketing manager for power2give.org. She 2000 of the Society of Actuaries. Erica is a stay-at-home lives in Charlotte with her husband, cat and dog. mom to their two boys, Kent, 4, and Dean, 2. They Rebekah Davis Ahrens is serving the final year of have an ever-expanding vegetable garden, learning Rebecca Sorgius Staege and her family welcomed her tour as a foreign service officer in Seoul, Korea. more and more about growing their own food. David TianXiang Staege, adopted November She will return at the end of 2012 to Washington, D.C., to study Indonesian. In Maribel Bastidas-McGonagle works for the summer 2013, she will take up her Cincinnati Area Chapter of the American Red onward assignment as an economics Cross. After graduation, Maribel was a chief editor officer at the embassy in Jakarta, for La NoticiaTh e Spanish-Language Newspaper Indonesia. Husband Frank works and then led Duke Energy’s Hispanic outreach as the director of global PR for efforts. In 2008, she moved to Ohio after marrying Hyundai Motor in Seoul. Kyle McGonagle. Their daughter Isabella is 18 months old. Maribel has great memories of her Cameron “Cammie” Rogers Helms time at Queens as an international student. and husband Trey announce the birth of their son, Worth McClendel Jill Brumer has moved back to Houston, Texas, Helms IV, on December 2, 2011, at and is the style shop coordinator for the nonprofit 12:37pm. Workshop Houston, where she teaches sewing, drawing and screenprinting to underpriviledged Katie Nutter McCallum and youth. She also works as an adjunct professor of Sean welcomed new son, Michael drama at San Jacinto College. Kenneth, on June 1, 2011. Older sister Josephine is ecstatic over her Melissa Moxley Conlogue lives in Charlotte. She baby brother! is a stay-at-home mom to three beautiful children: Taylor, 7, Noah, 4, and Leah, 1. It has been a tough Betsy Hinko Rhodes and husband year, but friends and family have been great, especially Nick welcomed their daughter, those wonderful Queens girls who have been there Vivian Frances, into the world for every eventful moment over the past 10 years. on November 22, 2011, at 9pm, weighing seven pounds, seven Roxanne Reynolds Crawford lives in Matthews, ounces and measuring 20.5 inches N.C., with husband Scott and daughter Charlie. She long. Everyone is doing well. enjoyed traveling quite a bit this past year to Atlanta; Port St. Joe, Fla.; Mobile, Ala.; and Las Vegas. She Tina-Marie Venus recently received and Scott will be trying for baby number two this the Accredited Asset Management year, so keep your fingers crossed for them! Specialist SM designation after months of preparation. She recently Chad Hensen lives in Charlotte and works for Catrina Crisp ’01, MD, Fellow and Instructor at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, OH displays her 2011 celebrated her sixth anniversary as KPMG LLP. He recently transferred to the

QUEENS MAGAZINE Royals Hall of Fame collage. operations manager with Gaskin Financial Management Group at KPMG, which Asset Management and her 11th is within the Management Consulting Practice. 38 CLASS NOTES

Chad is engaged to Natalie Kotowski ’05. They Juwaun Seegars and plan to get married this summer and will reside in Kristin Waite Seegars ’05 the greater Charlotte area. welcomed their daughter Rylan Fay Seegars, born Rebecca Majoros lives next to the Mouse September 13, 2011. in Anaheim, Calif. She recently started her own business, The Sophisticated Santa, which specializes in custom and designer holiday 2006 stockings and decorations.

Dr. Eileene Shake has been appointed the new Sarah Terry Argabrite and director of the South Carolina Center for Nursing Dan Argabrite ’03 were Leadership. married on September 17, 2011, at a small vineyard Megan Barrick Taylor and Parnell were married in Graham, N.C. Several on May 14, 2011, at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Queens alumni attended, Charlotte. The wedding party included Lindsay crying tears of joy, square Good friends Butter Willison Birkas ’72, Jane Godwin Thomas ’03 and Becca Grottoli Patch ’84. Parnell dancing and celebrating. Merritt ’72 and Mollie Hunt Holmes ’72 together for a proposed in the Queens gazebo, and wedding During their honeymoon mini-reunion during Christmas in Greensboro, N.C. With photos were taken on campus. They honeymooned in Charleston, S.C., they them in spirit were classmates and friends Susan “Flash” in the Mediterranean. They enjoy traveling, their Hudson D’Zmura ’72 and Edie Showalter Fagan ’72. toured the USS Yorktown Golden Retriever puppies and home improvement and ate lots of southern projects around their Plaza-Midwood home in food. They live in Charlotte Charlotte. with two rescued cats, Charlie and Cheezburger and enjoy watching niece 2003 Louise grow. 10th Reunion - April 19-21, 2013 Whitney Kimball Coe enjoys her work with the 2004 Center for Rural Strategies in Knoxville, Tenn., as a Emily Candler married William Herman on program associate and April 16, 2011, in Bermuda. She moved to Fort coordinator for the National Lauderdale, Fla. She completed a three-week Rural Assembly. She and volunteer program, breeding lions in South Africa, Matt find their greatest and continues to travel often. enjoyment, however, as the captive audience of 1-year- Betty Lipe Davis ’54 took her granddaughters to Paris Cori Lindstedt Hankinson has taken a break as old daughter Lucy Steele. to see the city and visit friends made when Betty and her a school counselor in order to stay home and raise husband Bill lived there. son Cooper, 1. She enjoys her photography and Vanessa Faura would hopes to see her business grow through Livin and like the world to know Claire Brenneman Ruth graduated in May Lovin Photography. She and Phil celebrated their that before Queens, she was surviving. During from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary five-year anniversary in March. and after her experience at Queens, she began with a Master of Arts in Christian Counseling. She living! Words will never be enough to express took the marriage and family therapist licensing Kimberly Lauer, after working in Washington, her infinite gratitude for this institution that exam on February 6. Her husband, a Davidson D.C., nonprofits for over six years, started has transformed her life forever. This spring, she alumnus, graduated in May from Duke Divinity law school at the University of the District of began pursuing an MBA at the McColl School of School. They are excited about what is in store! Columbia School of Law. The program focuses Business (her second graduate program). on public interest law and clinical practice in Christa Soderstrom moved during winter 2011 conjunction with class learning. She expects to Jennifer Churchill Honaker and husband Matt UM 2012 R SUMME graduate in May 2014. live in Pineville, N.C., with their two dogs, to her hometown of Boston. Prior to the move, Danny and Lucy. Jennifer is the athletic director she worked as the operations manager for the Taryn Rimland lives and works in Italy for USA for the Town of Pineville Parks and Recreation Avon Walk for Breast Cancer Charlotte, helping Girl Scouts Overseas. She just extended her Department. Matt is a captain with the Charlotte to raise more than $4 million in support of breast assignment for one year, meaning she will remain Fire Department. cancer philanthropic needs. She is now the special in Europe until April 2013. events coordinator for Big Brothers Big Sisters of

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Massachusetts Bay, one of the largest adult-to-child Currently, she is under care to be ordained in the The class expresses sympathy to Melanie Watkins mentoring organizations in the nation. Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Greene on the death of her husband, Matthew Timothy Greene, who passed away on December Erin Crager Woodworth and Neal Woodworth Jackie Groff Dargavel met husband Ian, a Lees- 3, 2011. ’07 are building their first home together in McRae College graduate, during her senior year. The Olathe, Kan. Erin works for Fred Pryor Seminars two were introduced through teammates when both Jenny Wood Heimbigner happily married as a contract administrator. colleges’ teams advanced to the conference finals. Joel Heimbigner ’07 on October 1, 2011. They They married in 2010 in Charlotte, and their first child, continue to live in the South End area of Charlotte Margaret Wylie works full time at AT&T, where a baby girl, was due in February. Ian is a director of with their dog, Hudson. coaching for Charlotte United Futbol Club, and Jackie she manages inventory for locations in Charlotte. was employed with New Market Waste. Margaret has also been student teaching at Amanda Leggett is completing her fourth year Matthews Elementary and completed a bachelor’s of doctoral studies at Penn State University. She Susan Dutch, after a few nomadic years spent degree in elementary education in May 2012 from is working on her dissertation on depression and exploring New Zealand, Australia and England, Belmont Abbey College. anxiety in older adults and taught a spring course on followed by a brief stay stateside, is now in Asan City, adult development and aging to 75 undergraduate South Korea, teaching English as a foreign language. students. She enjoys quick trips to New York City, She is participating in the Sketchbook Project, a where she catches a play or visits a museum, and loves 2008 collective of international artists submitting work for rooting for Penn State sports teams. 5th Reunion - April 19-21, 2013 a traveling gallery, which can be viewed this summer in various locations in the United States and abroad. Sairy Sanchez Abarca worked 2010 for the University of North

Carolina at Charlotte as a teaching Emily Durham works at Stanly assistant, completed her thesis and Regional Medical Center as a graduated in May with a master’s registered nurse in Albemarle, degree in architecture. She intends N.C., and lives in Concord. She to begin the intern development plans to go back to school to program at an architecture firm further her career in nursing but in preparation for the Architect has not decided what she would Registration Examination. Sairy is like to do yet. She is engaged to excited about the 2012 wedding of be married November 10. her sister Sianneth Sanchez ’07 to Jason Nark. Melanie Mosberg graduated in May with a master’s in social Danielle Adamczyk, “Danielle Libba Layfield Eleazer ’68 (left) and Carla Jeffords Vitez ’78 with work from the University of Soul,” is a singer, songwriter and former Queens Professor of Biology Jack Fehon at Barringer Academic South Carolina. musician with an incredible array Center-Science. Libba recruited Dr. Fehon and Carla as science fair of skill. She is classically trained judges. Carla enjoyed visiting with “Captain Jack” and reminiscing on the piano and also plays the about adventures at Pawleys Island, S.C., aboard the Twilldu, when Arielya Taylor works in Charlotte they sometimes abandoned scientific research to go fishing. guitar. Her diverse vocal range for Carolinas HealthCare System leads to a dynamic on-stage as a registered nurse. performance. She is working on her debut project in the Charlotte Amanda Valbert is a director of area. You can find her at: www. the youth volleyball program, DanielleSoul.com and www. Carolina Juniors Volleyball, at facebook.com/DanielleSoulMusic, Sports Connection. She works or follow her on Twitter: @ part time at Carolina Courts, Danielle_Soul. and, through networking, she acquired an assistant varsity Laura Brekke recently returned volleyball coach position at from a year at the University of Charlotte Country Day High Cambridge, where she studied School, leading her team to theology at Wesley House and a record-setting season of served as assistant chaplain at 23-11. Amanda is halfway Trinity Hall. She graduated in finished with completing a May with a master in divinity President of Sandy Springs, Georgia, Rotary Club Sally Wyeth master’s degree in industrial McLaughlin ’80 with American Legion Riders on Veterans Day 2011.

QUEENS MAGAZINE from the Candler School of and organizational psychology Theology at Emory University. at Argosy University. 40 ALUMNI PROFILE

From Queens to Cambridge ALTHOUGH FIVE DECADES SEPARATE THEM, LINDSAY COLLINS ’11 AND PENNY MOFFETT ROBSON ’60 DISCOVER THEY HAVE MUCH IN COMMON

lass of 2011 Valedictorian Lindsay Collins is a graduate student at Oxford University. CShe keeps in touch with friends and faculty from Queens via Skype and Facebook. When she discovered that Penny Moffett Robson ’60 was living in nearby Cambridge, she connected with her and later spent a weekend at her home. “It was an amazing feeling to know that I wasn’t too far from a fellow Queens grad and a pleasant surprise to find out we were both ADPis from Beta Iota Chapter at Queens,” she says. “It was a very special experience that I won’t forget.” Lindsay majored in history and English literature at Queens and is working on her dissertation on Fried- rich Schmitt, a German soldier during WWII who immigrated to the United States and became a civil rights activ- ist for African Americans, youth and immigrants. Her dissertation focuses Lindsay Collins ’11 and Penny Moffett Robson ’60 meet in Cambridge, England, Penny’s on his life during the Third Reich and home. Lindsay is a graduate student at Oxford University. why he eventually resigned from the SS. After majoring in music at Queens, “Queens taught me the inherent val- “We become better people,” she ex- Penny went to Cambridge to continue ue of education,” she says. “It’s more plains. Then she adds, “[It is] a privilege n her studies. She plays several instru- than a future job or making your par- none of us should take for granted.” ments and especially loves the organ. ents happy.” She says it provides the Lindsay says her experiences at foundation of knowledge and in the Vanessa Willis Queens inspired her to dream bigger. process, changes those who receive it.

ALUMNI AND FAMILIES ARE INVITED BACK TO CAMPUS FOR THE SECOND ANNUAL ROYALS ALUMNI GAMES

All events will take place during the weekend UM 2012 R SUMME including a Royals Club Golf Tournament and the Royals Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.

It’s an event not to miss! Mark your calendars now to join us! More information at www.queens.edu.

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GRADUATE Rick Warner MAT ’94 has recently been McColl School leadership skills as first mate and promoted to director of instructional technology dinghy captain, and she is very involved with the PROGRAMS for the Fort Mill school district. He is grateful McColl School. to Queens for preparing him for this leadership opportunity as he continues his career in Mary Wilken EMBA ’02 launched a new Luis Cadilla PMBA ’94, vice president and education. property, facility and association management finance manager with Bank of America in firm, Home Management LLC, in summer 2009. Charlotte, has been appointed financial lead of Dalya Kutchei EMBA ’00, CCP and Ronnie It now has a staff of six and continues to grow. clearXchange LLC, a joint venture of Bank of Kahn eloped while sailing a 37-foot vessel around Her youngest child just turned 9. She has also America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo that the British Virgin Islands and happily celebrate become a grandmother of two beautiful girls. is the first bank-owned solution of its kind. The their 10th wedding anniversary in 2012. Captain joint venture will enable their customers to move Kahn has since sailed in races across the English Carol Ransone EMBA ’08 is in her second money more conveniently and safely using a Channel and in European countries, as well as in year of a doctorate program in Leadership and mobile number or email address. the Mid-Atlantic and Caribbean. Dalya uses her Change through Antioch University.

Cammie Rogers Helms ’00, a son, Worth Emily Dunlap Smith ’41, 10/9/2011. Marriages McClendel Helms, IV, 12/2/2011. Clarina Bookout Ashcraft ’42, 12/10/2011. Scott Trowbridge ’98 to Rajshree Solanki, Katie Nutter McCallum ’00, a son, Michael 9/17/2011. Kenneth McCallum, 6/1/2011. Nelle Bookout Norman ’42, 10/5/2011.

Megan Barrick Taylor ’02 to Parnell Taylor, Betsy Hinko Rhodes ’00, a daughter, Vivian Annette Hicks Dickie ’44, 1/21/2012. 5/14/2011. Frances Rhodes, 11/22/2011.

Andrea Alford Manoni ’03 to R. J. Manoni, Joanna Houchins ’45, 10/8/2011. Juwaun Seegars ’04 and Kristin Waite Seegars 10/2/2011. ’05, a daughter, Rylan Fay Seegars, 9/13/2011. Peggy Miller Morrison ’47, 8/16/2011.

Emily Candler ’04 to William Herman, Casey Zaitz MSOD ’09, a son, Wyatt Thomas Winifred Goff James ’48, 10/13/2011. 4/16/2011. Zaitz, 1/13/2012.

Rashaun Warren ’04 to Jennifer Paradis, Mary Katherine Nye Keith ’48, 1/31/2012. Kelly McGraw Anderson ’11, a son, Tyler 9/24/2011. Anderson, 11/10/2011. Anne Wilkes Hoxie ’49, 2/14/2012.

Sarah Terry Argabrite ’06 to Dan Argabrite ’03, Laura Beth Ellis MSOD ’11, a daughter, Anna 9/17/2011. Virginia Allen Miller ’49, 8/29/2011. Claire Ellis, 7/21/2011.

Jenny Wood Heimbigner ’08 to Joel Betty Byerly Bowers ’51, 11/30/2011. Heimbigner ’07, 10/1/2011. In Memory Ruth Graham Cross ’51, 12/12/2011. Nella Sharpe Holden ’29, 12/12/2011. Rosalyn Harden ’52, 12/30/2011.

Births & Adoptions Hatsy Thompson Haddock ’34, 11/4/2011. Mary Burch Middleton ’54, 11/19/2011. Kelly Hamilton Hogan ’96, a son, Theodore “Teddy” Hogan, 3/24/2011. Hanna Richardson Kitchin ’34, 10/9/2011. Amanda Adams Addington ’55, 1/10/2012.

Rebecca Sorgius Staege ’98, a son, David Martha Hardin Laws ’38, 11/14/2011. Bobbie Minogue Hill ’56, 10/8/2011. TianXiang Staege, 11/29/2011.

Martha Rayburn Coates ’39, 1/1/2012. Travis Bobb ’00 and Nicole Van Every Bobb Jane Blythe Ives ’56, 2/24/2012. ’02, a son, Brayden Scott Bobb, 3/7/2011. Helen Hipp Rhinehart ’40, 12/11/2011. John Ayers ’57, 7/26/2011.

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Sherman Kirshner ’57, 6/4/2011. 2012-2013 Alumni Association Board of Directors Mary Jane Suttle Howard ’58, 12/16/2011. Executive Committee: Phyllis Crews Long ’60, 11/26/2011. Derek Painter ’92, President Dee Gaffney Malone ’71, Secretary Mary Jac Vaughan Chambers ’61, 4/16/2012. Judy Berry Fouche ’65, Reunion Chair-Elect Bonnie Currie Gilbert ’63, Reunion Chair Lane Rockett Baugh ’62, 10/16/2011. Sherry Dunn Borgsdorf ’97, Chapters & Admissions Chair Jennifer Lawrence Grennan ’93, Chapters & Admissions Chair-Elect Emily Maguire Cooper ’64, 12/18/2011. Fernando Ycaza ’05, Annual Giving Chair-Elect John Horton ’03, Annual Giving Chair Sherry Wells Winstead ’64, 9/13/2011. Members-At-Large:

Ann Dixon Demonet ’66, 12/21/2011. Kristen Kelly Ammon ’02 Erin Pitts ’98 Jean Taylor Blaylock ’60 Gail Ness Richardson ’69 Ercel Carter ’97 Lynn Fricks Rogers ’60 Kay Stuart Tucker ’66, 11/17/2011. Nancy Dorrier ’66 Stephanie Hilleson Safrit ’86 Evelyn Christopher Fooshe ’57 Micheal Spisso ’01 Betty Mayo Hudson ’68, 2/17/2012. Betty Cobb Gurnell ’69 Ray Warga ’08 Elaine Hallman Henderson ’75 Connie Weber ’92 Garland Bagnal Shaffner ’74, 10/30/2011. Christine Wink MacKay ’84 Jo DeWitt Wilson ’59 Staci Beson McBride ’92 Cindy Vanderford Wolfe ’88 Marie-Paule Dossin Stone ’78, 11/15/2011. Mary Nethercutt ’83 Kevin Yearick ’98 Alice O’Toole ’07 Bryan Seaford, PMBA ’07, Ex Officio Kathy Olmstead Forbes ’79, 2/27/2012. Ginger Burch Owen ’65 McColl School Alumni Board President Advisory Board: Margaret Knight ’80, 8/22/2011. Christopher Ammon ’02 Claudette Brown Hall ’65 Erin Ryan Sizer ’83, 2/21/2012. Ann Hinson ’72 Susan McConnell ’83 Susan Finch Caskey ’88, 11/27/2011.

Jennifer Kiffor ’10, 11/10/2011. 2012-2013 McColl School Alumni Association Board of Directors

Executive Committee: Bryan Seaford, PMBA ’07, Chair Paul Carmichael, EMBA ’08 Vice Chair, Alumni Connections Committee Chair Casey Zaitz, MSOD ’09 Secretary Jennifer Lovett, PMBA ’08 Treasurer Jon Elliott, EMBA ’07 Fundraising Committee Chair Sarah Stewart, PMBA ’08 Events Committee Chair Let your classmates know Margaret Jane Willoughby, PMBA ’08 Marketing & Branding Committee Chair what’s new! Submissions Eric Lovell, EMBA ’09 Career Services Committee Chair are due July 31, 2012, for the winter 2012 issue. To submit Members-At-Large: your class note, go to: www.queens.edu/class-notes Keith Campbell, EMBA ’12 John Luebke, EMBA ’07 Madelon Capozziello Mark Munson, EMBA ’06 or scan our QR code. Ed Coambs, PMBA ’09 Dawn Newsome, PMBA ’07

J Dewar, EMBA ’11 John Ponder, EMBA ’10 2012 R SUMME Thank you to all of our alumni who Matt Favreau, PMBA ’03 Jill Pritchard submitted class notes! If you would Nathan Foster, EMBA ’12 Mark Spaulding, PMBA ’05 like to contact the Office of Alumni Ric Hinson, PMBA ’05 Dianne Thomas, PMBA ’95 Programs call 704-337-2256 or email Nicole Joseph Tom Walker, EMBA ’08 [email protected]. Clay Lewis, PMBA ’09 Reyn Wheeler, EMBA ’95 Franz Lorio, PMBA ’02 Bob Woods, EMBA ’01

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The Gift of Wanderlust HOW AMERICA THE BORING BECAME AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL TO A FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER

welve years ago, I walked across the graduation Eventually I joined the Foreign Service of the US stage on a dewy spring morning at Queens. I had Department of State and was dispatched to South Korea, a job lined up in Hong Kong and as I accepted the “Hermit Kingdom,” where I now work as a Foreign myT diploma from Dr. Wireman, all I could think about Service Officer. was boarding that plane and the adventures in store. Sure, Somewhere along the way my perspective began to America was great, but she was so, oh, old hat? change. I don’t know when it happened, but somehow, as I longed for exotic shores and I found them: Hong time has marched on, “old hat” began to seem pretty great. Kong, Japan, New Zealand and France. Life was grand. I America has now become the place I long to live. darted here and there on vacations to Thailand, Cambodia, Every day I see Americans who flee abroad to find Shanghai and Beijing. I was in Hong Kong when the twin themselves, hunt adventure and exchange their American towers were struck on 9/11. I voted in two presidential identities for global ones. It’s an important process: elections from abroad by absentee ballot. I learned pushing yourself beyond familiarity, learning to look at Japanese, French, Arabic and Korean. I was honing my yourself and your cultural identity from the outside in. skills as a global citizen. But there is an intrinsic value to one’s nationality that I Living abroad was a high from which I dreaded underestimated in my younger days. coming down. The summer I returned home from my first I have lived in cultures where homogeneity is the key long stint in Asia, memories of tuk-tuks and Star ferries to success, where crimes that involve domestic abuse or melted away, replaced by what seemed like unending sexual assault are under-reported or swept under the table, commutes from American suburbs and ubiquitous fast- where women executives are a rarity, if they exist at all. I food restaurants. It felt like the very antithesis of the get a thrill these days when I walk to the airport line that exotic lifestyle I so craved. says “American Citizens” and see every type of feature, skin and race. In Japan or Korea or China, such diversity does not yet exist. America is lambasted from outside and within every day. It’s in every news reporth ow she’s falling behind here, breaking down there. She is criticized and attacked by those who fundamentally differ with what our nation stands for, or simply by our own citizens who are unhappy with the government, the economy, education or a million other things. Twelve years as a global citizen have given me a n different perspective.

B y Rebekah Davis Ahrens ’00

Rebekah Davis Ahrens ’00 and her husband, Frank, live on Youngsan military base in Seoul, South Korea, with their 65-pound Labrador. Her favorite activity? “Walking our dog in Namsan Park in central Seoul where he is adored and photographed by all Koreans who are unaccustomed to seeing anything larger than a toy poodle.” QUEENS MAGAZINE

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THE GIFT OF A QUEENS EDUCATION ENABLED THESE STUDENTS TO…

“Grow academically and personally, “Pursue my dream of teaching. I love sharing “Learn every day—from internships, classes, knowing that my professors were knowledge with students, and watching that athletics, and lifelong friendships.” 100% supportive of me.” light bulb go off when they really get it.”

Paige Fisher ‘12 has been accepted Justin Long ’12 will teach high school Khalif Guiden, Dec. ’12 will join to graduate school in math at New math in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Wells Fargo’s management training York University this fall. This summer School system this fall. program in St. Louis this summer. she will study biostatistics at the This spring, he served as a Queens University of South Florida. admissions counselor.

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