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What the World Needs Now Appalachian Today is published by Inside the Office of Public Affairs in the The tragic events of September 11 and the ensuing global Division of University Advancement FEATURES war against terrorism have changed everyone’s perspective twice annually for alumni, faculty, of the world. America’s courage and moral strength as a staff, and friends of Appalachian world leader have been tested in ways that will surely change State University. It is funded through 2. Marks of Distinction the attitudes and mindset of several generations to come. unrestricted gifts to The Appalachian TIME magazine names Appalachian a While the war on terrorism and the economic downturn Fund. Correspondence should be “College of the Year” while U.S. News and World Report ranks Appalachian have adversely affected state funding resources, I am pleased sent to the Editor, Appalachian No. 3 in the South. to report that the “Campaign for the Second Century” Today, Office of Public Affairs, concluded with resounding success. Campaign support for Appalachian State University, PO Appalachian totaled $83.2 million, exceeding our original goal Box 32100, Boone, NC 28608-2100, 5. Moving Forward of $50 million by more than 66 percent (see page 8). (828) 262-2092. Designed to benefit virtually every facet of the university, this Campus responds to nation’s comprehensive campaign attracted nearly 35,000 individual tragedy with generosity, reflection, donors and clearly demonstrated broad private support of CHANCELLOR and strides for peace. Appalachian and its programs. Chancellor Borkowski holds a copy of TIME , just Francis T. Borkowski days before the news magazine became Nearly half of Appalachian’s faculty, staff, and retirees dominated by less celebratory news. VICE CHANCELLOR FOR contributed more than $3 million to the campaign, UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT 8. Fund-raising Campaign underscoring their strong commitment to Appalachian and its We know from research that most students never fully Siegfried Herrmann mission. About one-third of the campaign total was in the form integrate their value choices with the analytical skills we ask Surpasses Goal Students in all areas of campus benefit EDITOR of “deferred” commitments such as bequests or trusts, them to practice in class. The question that needs addressing from contributions of nearly 35,000 alum- providing additional resources for Appalachian in the future. across all academic disciplines is “How well are we preparing Linda Coutant ’01 MA ni and friends to the “Campaign for the our students to make grounded, knowledgeable and, yet, On behalf of Appalachian’s current and future students, DESIGNER Second Century.” respectful choices and decisions in their careers and lives faculty and staff, let me thank the thousands of individuals— Roslyn Howard ’83 primarily alumni, parents, and friends—who participated in the ahead?” campaign, and especially the hundreds of volunteers who Unfortunately, the Appalachian Family is not as diverse as PHOTOGRAPHER helped ensure the campaign’s success. it needs to be and Appalachian is not the international Mike Rominger ’76 Appalachian continues to earn recognition as one of the institution that it must become, although it stands out among Brooke Mayo DEPARTMENTS best public comprehensive universities in the South, if not the its peers for international accomplishments. We understand Sarah Stacke that Appalachian must become more globally oriented and nation. Certainly, TIME magazine naming Appalachian a EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE 4 . . . On Campus cultivate a learning environment comprised of racially and “College of the Year” in September represents an accolade Barbara Burgin ’71 ’74 ethnically diverse faculty, staff and students if we are to offer for everyone associated with the university (see page 2). We Jay Jackson ’76 ’81 16 . . . College of Arts and students the best education possible. Our objective is envision a premier comprehensive university—second to none Siegfried Herrmann straightforward: to help Appalachian students develop among our peers—and I believe this objective is increasingly Edelma Huntley Sciences competencies to provide the humane leadership our world so within our grasp. Doris Jenkins desperately needs. Clearly we have been drawn closer together as a nation Rainer Goetz ’86 MA 17 . . . College of Business and as a campus community during the past few months (see Pat Reighard ’72 MA page 5). Our attention now seems to focus more on the basic Bob Shaffer 18 . . . College of Education values that really matter in our daily personal lives. Yet, it Marsha Turner ’72 MA never before has been as important for us to both understand Francis T. Borkowski 19 . . . College of Fine and and even celebrate the cultural, ethnic, racial, religious and Chancellor www.appstate.edu Applied Arts historical differences that characterize the people of our own nation and the many peoples of our world. Appalachian State University is committed to equality of 20 . . . School of Music educational opportunity and does not discriminate against applicants, students or employees on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disabling condition or sexual orientation. Appalachian also actively promotes 21 . . . Graduate School diversity among students and employees. 47,000 copies of this public document were printed at a 22 . . . Alumni News and Class Notes cost of $20,441 or 44 cents per copy. Marksmagazine named Appalachian State Uni- chance of returning for their sophomoreof year than stu- Distinction TIME versity a “College of the Year” for its at- dents who don’t participate. They are also more likely to tention to freshmen and programs that ease the transi- graduate. tion from high school to college. The magazine’s Sep- Petschauer says incoming freshmen bring emotions tember 10, 2001, edition praised Appalachian, saying that can affect their academic success. “There’s excite- “the school has worked hard to retain its cozy sense of ment, exasperation, anxiety, anticipation… Their parents community so that every student feels nurtured and have all sorts of hopes and fears. Students are also con- challenged.” cerned if they are academically prepared. These issues Specifically, TIME applauded the university’s orienta- are critical, especially in the first few weeks of college.” tion, residence life activities, academic advising, sum- For TIME’s coverage of Appalachian, reporter mer reading program, honors courses, freshman semi- Megan Rutherford conducted numerous telephone in- nar, freshman learning communities, and others that terviews with students, faculty, staff, and administrators, help students adjust to the new social surroundings and then participated in August’s freshmen orientation. academic expectations of college. In a two-page article, Rutherford included the experi- “Getting off to a good start in college can make the ences of student Sarah Jusiewicz of New Jersey. Now a difference between getting a degree and giving up,” sophomore, Jusiewicz participated in a freshman learn- TIME editors announced in releasing their four “College ing community for students interested in forensic sci- of the Year” selections. ence. The group of eleven enrolled together in freshman “Helping new students survive has, in our judgment, seminar and in chemistry and criminal justice courses. become an essential responsibility of every college,” the Looking back, Jusiewicz says, “The freshman learn- editors wrote. “That task takes on a new urgency this ing community allowed me to feel more confident in my- year, as the children of baby boomers swell the fresh- self. Everybody takes away something different. For me man classes of many universities to record numbers in it was making friends, and for others it might be learning a dorm-busting wave that won’t peak until the end of the better study skills.” decade.” Her mother, Merry Jusiewicz, told TIME she had Other schools featured in the national news maga- concerns about sending Sarah to a university so far zine were Indiana University, William Jewell College, and from home. But her campus visit for parent orientation Seattle Central Community College. reassured her. She told TIME, “I got a real feeling of a Chancellor Francis T. Borkowski says TIME’s honor genuinely caring faculty.” “culminates many years of dedication and hard work by Freshmen at a Glance our faculty and staff in support of student learning and is 1103 average SAT score the latest example of the growing recognition for Ap- palachian and its programs.” 3.55 average high school GPA “TIME didn’t recognize us for anything new. TIME 37% percentage who had visited a foreign country recognized thirty years of work on this campus,” ex- 8,853 number who applied for 2,312 freshman class slots plains Joni Petschauer, director of the university’s fresh- man learning communities in general studies. Appalachian’s attention to freshmen began in the late 1960s with the General College, which provides aca- Appalachian Ranked No. 3 in South demic advising, orientation, and a special class for Appalachian State University received high marks in U.S. News and World Report’s freshmen. The residential learning environment called 2002 America’s Best Colleges Guide. Appalachian was ranked third among public Watauga College followed in 1972. The freshman focus comprehensive universities in the South and twelfth among southern universities with has grown steadily since then. This past fall, nearly master’s degree programs. three-fourths of the freshman class enrolled in one of Appalachian has placed in the top fifteen among southern universities since the rankings Appalachian’s freshman learning communities. first appeared in 1986. U.S. News and World Report examines academic reputation, retention, faculty Campus research supports what faculty and admin- resources, student selectivity, financial resources, graduation rates, and alumni giving. According to the istrators believed early on: Appalachian freshmen who magazine, hundreds of thousands of people buy its best college’s guide each year. Consumers mine the data to participate in programs that ease the transition from find out what college is right for them. high school to college have a 5 to 7 percent better Read TIME’s coverage online at www.time.com/time/2001/coy/master.html Appalachian Today 5 CampusOn “Our children are going to pay for our joyride.” —Attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the environmental cost of pollution- based prosperity, Joan Askew Vail Memorial Lecturer.

“Americans do not have to choose between our national security and freedom. They are mutually re- Campus responds to nation’s tragedy with reflection, generosity, enforceable.” Photo courtesy of Tom Fotta tragedy with reflection, generosity, —Nadine Strossen, American Civil “Erin has not beaten MS but has broken its grip,” says pharmacist Tom Fotta, pictured with and strides for peace. Liberties Union national president, Morrow after their torch carry. Forum Lecture Series. Students Catch Olympic Spirit By Linda Coutant ’01 MA Editor Senior marketing major Erin Morrow carried the Olympic flame in her hometown of “Our society’s Nashville, Tennessee, on its journey to the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. e grieve, but we must go resilience She was one of 7,200 torchbearers chosen to carry the flame. “Won,” spoke Chancellor Francis T. Borkowski at a communi- depends on Each torchbearer is nominated as an example of someone who embodies the Olympic ty gathering in the Holmes Center scientists—not just spirit and has been an inspiration to others. Morrow was diagnosed with multiple sclero- following September 11. Six thou- sis during her freshman year and manages her illness with assistance from Tom Fotta, a sand people attended. chemists or Student Health Services pharmacist. Fotta nominated Morrow, saying she serves as a role model for others in her approach to her illness. With heart-felt words, the chan- biologists, but cellor set a tone for a campus social scientists Internships last summer led to students’ chance to work in Salt Lake City during the stunned by terrorist attacks by say- February games. Senior management major Holly Parker worked as a manager for ing: “We are a people who believe and political McDonald’s, following an internship in human resources at McDonald’s corporate head- love is better than hate, kindness quarters. Nathan Wittkamp, senior marketing major, interned for the U.S. Olympic better than cruelty, giving of our- scientists.” Committee then returned to work during the games. —William H. Hooke, director of the selves better than selfishness, charity American Meteorological Society’s better than greed. Each of us has a Atmospheric Policy Program, on responsibility to uphold those prin- preparing for natural disasters, ciples.” Morgan Lecture Series. Is That My Cell The past six months at Phone Ringing Appalachian State University—like all of America—have seen a mix of “In making a living or Yours? grief, frustration, analysis, and and making a life, More freshmen brought cell phones to renewed spirit. University employees campus last fall than cars. According to a sought words to comfort confused Photo credit: Abby Bullock ’01 you will take the freshman class survey, 64 percent of students, while also desiring solace time and have the incoming freshmen brought cell phones for themselves. to campus, while only 58 percent brought “It was personally challenging,” courage to know vehicles. Ninety-two percent of the incom- Kim Hall, assistant professor of phi- that you have the ing students brought a computer. losophy, says about teaching after The survey, administered during sum- September 11. “But, it was also an power to make a mer orientation by the Office of Student opportunity to get students thinking difference.” Development, also revealed that more about what it means to become —Retiring Dean of Students Barbara than a third of freshmen jumpstarted their thoughtful, engaged members of a Daye, to December 2001 graduates. college careers by earning college credit Photo credit: Brooke Mayo global community—to help them for advanced placement courses in high school. Also, if offered a job paying $40,000 a continued on next page year, almost 64 percent said they would still attend college. 6 Appalachian Today Appalachian Today 7 “Now, being among the living, we simply must move pre-September 11 research into the forward, somehow seek meaning in all of this, and know exiled Afghan royal family piqued the interest of news media. that something inside the deepest recesses of our being Photographer Abby Bullock ’01 becomes more fortified.” had been staying at the university’s Peter Michael Macaluso ’91 of Merrill Lynch High Yield Debt Trading in New York loft on New York’s East 24th Street and heard news of the first World see the connections between the Bowl Project, raising money by sell- University administrators, Trade Center attack just after it classroom and what they see in the ing soup in bowls they crafted by reminded that disasters can happen occurred. “I rushed back into my world.” hand. “We decided that as artists we anytime anywhere, continued ongo- room and grabbed my camera. I felt a Like Hall, faculty across campus should affect change. Art is a thera- ing work to strengthen the campus strong desire to get the shot,” she tied class discussions more closely to peutic medium, and soup is a com- crisis plan. When white powdery later writes. She narrowly escaped current events. They organized forting food,” says senior Ben substances were found inside Belk falling debris in the process. cross-disciplinary forums addressing Carter, a studio art major from Library and the campus post office, Geography graduate Lori Felix world politics and the implications Salem, Virginia. campus officials consulted with fed- Shienvold ’97 MA of ESRI Inc. spent of war. The campus community adopted eral officials, who determined the several days in New York after the materials to be non-threatening. Some students and faculty the widow and three children of a attacks helping produce maps for marched for alternatives to bomb- New York firefighter killed in the Although miles away, the terror- police, firefighters, former Mayor ing Afghanistan. “Give peace a attacks by sending a live Christmas ist attacks directly affected the Rudolph Giuliani, and media outlets. chance,” and “war is not the tree and wreath, letters, packages of Appalachian family. Two business Many within the Appalachian fami- answer,” they urged. gifts, and a videotaped message. “It faculty members each lost a relative ly had friends or relatives deployed for was the Appalachian thing to do,” in the attacks, one in the World the subsequent military action. Emotional wounds caused by ter- says Dean of Students Barbara Daye. Trade Center and one in the rorism stirred an outpouring of gen- Support to the family will continue Pennsylvania plane crash. History Peter Michael Macaluso ’91 of erosity to the American Red Cross throughout the year. instructor Jonathan Billheimer’s Merrill Lynch High Yield Debt and other charities. Student groups Trading in New York remembers lost sponsored blood drives and collect- friends at Cantor Fitzgerald and other ed teddy bears for the children of WTC companies, which were located those killed in the tragedy. Music across the street from his office. “I feel faculty performed a benefit concert. blessed that I knew them: alive, beauti- Art students sponsored the Open ful, genuine, generous, hard-working, humorous, enthusiastic, zestful, family- adoring people,” he writes. “Now, being among the living, we simply must move forward, somehow seek meaning in all of this, and know that something inside the deepest recesses of our being becomes more fortified,” Macaluso continues. Even prior to the attacks, English graduate student Sandy Hartwiger ’96 had been helping build a more peace- ful future—one teenager at a time. For the past five summers, Hartwiger has worked at Seeds of Peace conflict resolution camp, assist-

Photo credit: Bill Sheffield/Watauga Democrat ing Middle Eastern teenagers to learn to live together peacefully by dis- cussing their political differences. The camp’s goals, he says, are to show that “everyone has human rights” and that “respect should be available to any- one.” He plans to return to the Maine camp this summer because he believes so strongly in the camp’s mission. Hartwiger says, as do many people around the world, “Everybody’s sick and tired of violence.” With reporting by Jane Nicholson and Frank Ruggiero

8 Appalachian Today Photo credit: Abby Bullock ’01 Appalachian Today 9 Campaign Milestones July 1994-95 Planning begins for a campaign to mark the university’s centennial July 1, 1996 Official opening of leadership gifts quiet phase September 1996 Received first $1 million gift from Lois Reich Estate October 1996 Received first distinguished professorship, in ethics—named for former N.C. Governor James E. Holshouser Jr. Gifts to “Campaign for the Second Century” March 1997 ASU Trustees and ASU Foundation approved $43.7-$50 million goal Exceed Goal by 66 Percent September 12, 1997 Reached $10 million mark olstered by two major gifts in the final days of the campaign, In the final days of the campaign, two major gift commitments pushed the February 1998 Began the “University Family Campaign” Appalachian State University ended its comprehensive “Campaign campaign total above $80 million. December 11, 1998 Reached $25 million mark for the Second Century” December 31, 2001, with private support Hickory business leader Thomas W. Reese made an estate gift of $2.5 forB the university and its programs totaling $83.2 million. Gifts from alumni, million, in addition to his earlier $500,000 cash commitment, to the Reese June 1999 Received gifts for three new professorships parents, corporations and foundations, and friends of the university exceeded Graphic Arts and Imaging Technology Program. the original $50 million campaign goal by more than 66 percent. August 1999 Began the “Community Campaign” The second major gift was a $1 million commitment from BB&T, “Such overwhelming support for Appalachian and its mission underscores headquartered in Winston-Salem, supporting the William R. Holland Fellows June 14, 2000 Reached $50 million mark with gift the important role of higher education in North Carolina,” said John A. Allison Program in the Walker College of Business. This program supports the from Broyhill family IV, chairman and CEO of BB&T, who headed the campaign from its inception university’s ongoing international business initiative in China. in 1996. “It also affirms the efforts of many individuals working to take one of Approximately one-third of Appalachian’s alumni contributed $27.3 million July 2000 Increased goal to $70 million and Because I’ve had to rely on scholarship money the top comprehensive universities in the country to an even higher level of to the campaign. Appalachian faculty and staff made gifts totaling more than extended campaign through “ service.” $3 million. December 31, 2001 to fund my education, I don’t take my schooling Appalachian received approximately 35,000 gifts during the campaign More than 165 volunteers played a key role in the success of the including 110 gifts of $100,000 or more, and twenty gifts of $1 million or February 2001 Embarked on the “National for granted. I’ve really had to focus on my work, “Campaign for the Second Century.” Volunteer efforts were structured in six more. Deferred gifts, such as bequests and annuities, represented mini campaigns: Major Gifts, Corporate, National Alumni, Parents and Friends, Alumni, Parents and Friends and that’s made my experience here at approximately 40 percent of the campaign total. Campaign” and “Corporate Community, University Family, and Foundation. Key mini campaign leaders The campaign generated more than 350 new endowments, from which Campaign” Appalachian invaluable. I appreciate the help included General Campaign Chairman John A. Allison IV, George G. Beasley investment earnings will fund student scholarships and various university ’58 ’60, Linda M. Combs ’68 ’78, James E. Harrill ’73, Robert L. Turchin Sr. May 2001 Received a $10 million gift I’ve received from others to pursue my programs. These endowments include distinguished professorships in ’01 honorary degree, John M. Brubaker, Larry Nance ’62, Susie B. Beasley, from Mariam Cannon education. mathematics education, science education, ethics, library and information Bobby H. Sharp, the late James Jackson, Brent B. Kincaid, Robert E. Snead Hayes ” studies, and computer science. Gifts to the campaign also have underwritten ’55, Thomas H. McGuire Jr., and Thomas E. Chandler. Lisa Lo Vue of Morganton equipment, books and teaching materials, and other faculty resources not Senior, computer information systems “Virtually every facet of the university will benefit from the overwhelming May 2001 Surpassed the revised goal funded by the state. generosity and support from many individuals and businesses,” said Recipient of the Best Friends Endowed Scholarship for Business of $70 million The public phase of the campaign began in October 1999 with a goal of Chancellor Francis T. Borkowski. $50 million. When the campaign surpassed that goal more than a year early, December 2001 Received $2.5 million gift from Tom Reese “The value of such support from private sources is immeasurable as we Appalachian’s Board of Trustees and the Appalachian State University strive to create the best possible learning environment for Appalachian December 31, 2001 “Campaign for the Second Century” Foundation Board extended the campaign by six months and raised the goal students, and ensure access for all qualified students, especially during a concludes at $83.2 million to $70 million. That target was surpassed last May with receipt of the largest period of shrinking public funding.” private donation in the university’s history, a $10 million endowment gift to Compiled from staff reports May 3, 2002 Campaign Appreciation Event, Holmes the Hayes School of Music by Mariam Cannon Hayes of Concord. Convocation Center, 6 p.m.

Total: $83.2 million Numbers in Millions (goal: $50 million) 10 Appalachian Today Appalachian Today 11 “I was especially pleased to receive the Kabatnik scholarship because it helped me purchase my art supplies. And there are lots of them: pencils, paint brushes, acrylic paints, oil paints, Planned Giving Aids Farmers Through Sustainable Development collage materials, glue, erasures, Exacto knives, markers, and different sorts of paper. Materials One family’s early business philosophy of are a major component and expense in this program, and every dollar of support counts.” sustaining and supporting the region’s agricultural Sean Ragsdale of Camp Lejeune and economic development will continue through Freshman, graphic design the College of Arts and Sciences’ Goodnight Family Recipient of the Jaroslav and Jarmelia Kabatnik Memorial Scholarship Sustainable Development Program. A $360,000 commitment from Goodnight Brothers Produce Company and members of the Goodnight family—Jim Goodnight of Boone, Louise The endowment primarily supports the scholarship program, but also may be Goodnight of Charlotte, and Eleene Goodnight and Campaign Highlights used to fund reunions, alumni chapter development, travel programs, husband, Olan, of Mooresville—was made through Homecoming, and awards and recognition initiatives. The Appalachian Alumni a combination of cash, bequests, charitable trusts, University-Wide Programs Association serves more than 75,000 alumni across the United States and in many and charitable annuities. A portion of their gift foreign countries. funds the program’s current operations while an Total Raised: $13.55 million endowment supports ongoing needs. ■ Used in every area of the university, contributions support general scholarships, Libraries The Goodnights were among 208 donors capital projects such as the Appalachian House and Turchin Center for the Visual Total Raised: making planned gifts during the “Campaign for the Arts, new educational opportunities, faculty and staff development, and numerous $2.3 million Second Century.” activities supported by the Appalachian Fund. ■ Books dating to the 1500s and Sustainable development is the internationally other rare materials covering recognized process of meeting the present medieval through Victorian-age Appalachian Fund generation’s needs, whether it is transportation, England were among contributions shelter, food or economics, without compromising Total Raised: $5.6 million from Bill ’56 ’57 and Maureen future generations’ abilities to meet their needs. ■ An annual fund-raising Rhinehart of Long Island, New The gift will primarily support the program’s component formerly called York. Rhinehart, pictured, shows agricultural component, help bring visiting scholars the Appalachian Loyalty books to area high school students to campus, and generate scholarships. One Fund seeks gifts from visiting campus. Jim Goodnight ‘66, right, pictured with Bill Goodnight ‘85, says his family was attracted to the program goal is to stem the economic downturn Appalachian alumni, ■ Eight endowments were created in support of the Appalachian Studies sustainable development program’s environmental focus. experienced in recent years by poultry and tobacco parents, and friends to Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The gifts farmers. Possible farming alternatives include operated,” said Jim Goodnight, president of J.C., Neil and Olan Goodnight, expanded the support many university support the Center for Appalachian Studies, the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection, growing native species of medicinal herbs and Goodnight Brothers Produce Company and business. programs. Appalachian and the Appalachian Cultural Museum, all of which foster education and research reintroducing heirloom varieties of apples. grandson of James Goodnight. The company now Fund gifts support The Goodnight family’s connection to the about the region’s history and culture. is best known for producing country hams. graduation and Students studying sustainable development find university dates back to the 1930s. Most family ■ The Robert G. Fox Sr. Family Reading Room has become students’ most convocation ceremonies, jobs in seed, agriculture, and energy companies, James Goodnight generated a Boone business members attended or earned a degree from Alumni Affairs programs, popular haven for study. It also provides space for educational displays. Fox, who the Peace Corps, Foreign Service, and with non- in 1924 from the practice of truck farming, which Appalachian. Appalachian Today died in January, was the father of three Appalachian alumni: Robert G. Fox Jr. ’71 government organizations overseas. sustained many Watauga County families during –Jane Nicholson ’95 MA of Mint Hill, William H. Fox ’73 of Marietta, Georgia, and Cindy F. Cochrane ’68 magazine, international “To take what we have and use it in the best the Great Depression. County residents would sell Learn more about planned giving by contacting the of Jefferson. programs, undergraduate way possible is something that my father would homegrown vegetables from the back of their Office of Planned Giving at (828) 262-3192 or research, Mountaineer have supported. That’s how all the brothers trucks to make ends meet. His sons, Howard, Joe, [email protected]. Marching Band, College of Arts & Sciences Appalachian Ambassadors, faculty teaching awards, Parents Association programs, and other student, faculty, Total Raised: $8.98 million CAMPAIGN NUMBERS: 20 – gifts at or exceeding $1 million and alumni programs. www.AppalachianFund.appstate.edu ■ The region’s mathematics education is being strengthened by $47.4 million – active gifts – new scholarships created for students a $1 million gift from The Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation of 240 Alumni Endowment Houston, Texas, which funds a distinguished professorship in $35.8 million – deferred gifts (received after donor’s death 34,793 – total donors (18,013 alumni; 6,136 parents; 8,047 friends; 1,620 mathematics education and continuing education programs for through bequests, insurance, and trusts) corporations; and 90 foundations) Total Raised: $3 million area mathematics teachers. This gift was supplemented by ■ Proceeds from the Alumni $334,000 by the Distinguished Professorship Endowment Trust Fund of the State of North Carolina. The Cains contributed a Endowment will allow the Since coming to Appalachian, the theater department has become my home away from Appalachian Alumni Association to total of $2 million during the campaign. “ increase the number and amount of ■ Continued gifts to the Alliance for Teaching Science home. I’m always here. And, I love it. When the director in the department took the time to Alumni Memorial Scholarships it Endowment, created in the early 1990s, have funded purchases awards each year to children of of new equipment to modernize laboratories and classrooms. say “congratulations for receiving the scholarship,” and “thanks for all the hard work you put alumni. More than thirty ■ An eighty- to one hundred-seat screening room will be in here,” I knew someone had been paying attention. That recognition means so much to me. scholarships have been awarded ” constructed in Plemmons Student Union for film presentations. since the scholarship program began in 1988. This year, more than a hundred Andrea Gilkey of Raleigh sons and daughters of Appalachian alumni applied for five available scholarships. continued on page 12 Junior, general theater Recipient of the Susan S. Cole Alpha Psi Omega Endowed Scholarship 12 Appalachian Today Appalachian Today 13 “Appalachian’s Reich College of Education has such a wonderful reputation—it was definitely my first choice for college. It’s given me a great foundation to build a teaching career upon. And, as one of four children from a farming family, funding college has been tight. I wouldn’t Gifts-In-Kind Soften Student Expenses, Provide Opportunities have been able to come to Appalachian without financial assistance. In the “Campaign for the Second Century,” ” 3,226 donors contributed property or equipment Redeana Davis of Lenoir to the university as gifts-in-kind, helping students Senior, elementary education offset expenses and gain academic opportunities. Recipient of the Grace Greene Lilly Scholarship for Education Companies like Ethan Allen, Broyhill, Henredon, and Charleston Forge donated lumber, sandpaper, screws, hinges, tools, and other continued from page 10 center director Karen Hamilton; Brad Adcock ’76, hardware to the College of Fine and Applied Arts’ It will feature both DVD and traditional 16mm formats. John McElwee of vice president government affairs for BC/BS; Chan- Department of Technology to offset woodworking Wilkesboro donated funds for the project, as well as access to his extensive film cellor Francis T. Borkowski; Brad Wilson ’75, senior lab fees. Fees can run as high as $100 to $300 collection. vice president and general counsel for BC/BS; and each semester. “Students would have to pay much David Wood, Walker College’s Freeman Professor of higher costs without gifts-in-kind,” says Associate College of Fine & Applied Arts Insurance. Not pictured: John Roos ’84, also with BC/BS. Wilson and Adcock Professor Bill Hanner, who coordinates the both serve on the UNC Board of Governors. Wilson served as member of the woodworking program. Total Raised: $5.9 million Corporate Campaign Committee for the “Campaign for the Second Century.” Other gifts-in-kind included computer software ■ A $3 million gift from ■ Unrestricted gifts fund classroom visits by business executives, seed money for to the Walker College of Business by Sterling Software and Great Plains, valued at a total of $3.9 Hickory business leader new programs, and faculty/student travel to course-related conferences and school teachers. Building this canoe has been a good million. The software provides students with Thomas W. Reese helps stu- competitions. Many alumni contributed unrestricted gifts. Major donors included A collection of 266 handcrafted, wooden “ opportunities to learn new computer programs, learning process. The donated wood has dents in the Reese Graphic Stanley Tanger, chairman and CEO of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers Inc.; tourist wares dating from the 1920s from Raleigh thus enhancing their employment opportunities. Arts and Imaging Technolo- Merchants Distributors, Inc. through the George Foundation; and Bonnie collector Stephen Compton allows the saved me $3 to $5 a square foot. It gy Program in the Depart- McElveen-Hunter, president of Pace Communications, Inc. and U.S. Ambassador Microsoft donated computer software to the Appalachian Cultural Museum to tell a more doesn’t seem like a lot, but it helps.” ment of Technology. His to Finland. Reich College of Education for students to use in complete story of the region’s early 20th century Patrick Maxey of Winston-Salem gift establishes endowments finding the best ways to implement computers in travel and entrepreneurship. Senior, recreation management with a minor for equipment and program Reich College of Education the classroom. Their ideas are shared with public in technology activities. ■ Students can now conduct blood assays in a Total Raised: $5.54 million new biochemistry lab furnished by a $97,000 gift ■ A major commitment from Beulah C. Campbell, Donors Recognize Student Benefits of International Experiences from Fisher-Hamilton and Nycom Inc. and a professor emerita of elementary education, has Improving and expanding the curriculum’s in- tural differences impact the business environment. enabled the college to initiate a program in China, $20,000 gift from Fisher Scientific. Housed in the created an endowment that promotes use of the ternational focus through private gifts has been a Seventy-three students have participated in the and many other corporations and alumni have Department of Health, Leisure and Exercise university’s 550-piece collection of original children’s Walker College of Business priority during the Holland Fellows Program. Created early in the contributed, too. Significant financial support for Science, the lab supports cross-disciplinary work book illustrations. The collection, housed in the “Campaign for the Second Century.” International campaign, it continues to set the model for current the Holland Fellows and other Walker College with biology, psychology, nutrition, and health university’s Appalachian Cultural Museum, helps experience expands students’ knowledge of global international programs. The foresight and support international study programs has been made by services. Students have examined the effect of exercise on the body’s enzymes foster appreciation of children’s literature and its use in education. business and gives them an awareness of how cul- BB&T, Asian businessman Jensan Jen, and and assisted with faculty research involving muscle biopsies. of Bill Holland and United Dominion Industries ■ Twenty-three new education scholarships were created during the campaign combined contributions from Bud and Zanne Baker and Wachovia Corporation. Walker College of Business through generous contributions by faculty, alumni, and friends. ■ An estate gift from former teacher Lois Reich continues to provide funds for a Burlington Industries has been a major Total Raised: $11.5 million variety of activities, including a significant expansion of scholarship funds. contributor to the college’s initiatives in Mexico. For the past three years, students with an ■ ■ Four Partners in The communication disorders program will be able to offer more scholarships intermediate knowledge of Spanish have spent Excellence Professorships of to future students thanks to an estate commitment by Catherine Perry ’78 of more than four weeks immersed in Mexican $100,000 each have been Raleigh. The communication disorders program gives students real work culture, language, and history. committed with gifts from experience through its on-campus clinic, which aids area residents with speech International studies is a priority across campus. Bud Baker, chairman of and hearing problems. The university’s Office of International Programs Wachovia Corporation, offers Appalachian students foreign study sites on pictured during a class visit; Hayes School of Music five continents for semester and year programs. John Guffey, former Appalachian maintains direct relationships with chairman and CEO of Total Raised: $13.6 million many foreign institutions and is a member of the Coltec Industries, Inc.; ■ Mariam Cannon Hayes Endowment for Musical International Student Exchange Program. Winfield Beroth and Beroth Oil/Four Brothers Stores; and hundreds of citizens Excellence, a $10 million gift from Mariam Cannon across the state honoring retired State Treasurer Harlan E. Boyles. The Hayes of Concord, has funded musical instrument professorships will provide a salary stipend to faculty recipients along with $1,000 upgrades, a new string quartet (see page 20), for enhancing his or her teaching—such as taking a field trip to a business, scholarships, and community outreach. bringing in guest speakers, or purchasing computer software. ■ Scholarship resources have increased with endowments created in the name of I learned an incredible amount about e-commerce, but that information cannot compare in volume ■ Presenting a $100,000 check from BC/BS of North Carolina for support of “ former dean Arthur Unsworth and retired faculty Elmer and Lynn White, and Allen or importance to what I learned about other people and myself. Walker College of Business’ Brantley Risk and Insurance Center are, left to right, ” continued on page 14 Nathaniel Clawson of Boone, senior, accounting 14 Appalachian Today Traveled to China with The William R. Holland Fellows Program for Business Study in Asia Appalachian Today 15 “It’s quite an honor to know that my professors and the Local Government Alumni Association selected me out of all the applicants for the scholarship. The fact that about 40 percent of all town managers in North Carolina are graduates of this program makes me feel confident that I made the right choice in Longtime Benefactor Arnold Rosen Dies Arnold Paul Rosen, a founder of coming here.” An Appalachian Summer Festival and Michael Boaz of Reidsville for more than fifteen years a Senior, political science benefactor of several large projects Recipient of the Matt Winn Williamson Scholarship for Town, City and County Management at Appalachian State University’s school of music, died October 18, 2001, in Boone. He was eighty. continued from page 12 Turchin Center for the Visual Arts In 1983, Rosen and his wife, Kindt. The AppalPIE (Appalachian Partners in Excellence) program continues to Muriel, helped begin An flourish with new donors who pledge scholarship monies to the music school for Total Raised: $3.10 million Appalachian Summer Festival, which AppalPIE scholars. The program nurtures a bonding relationship between the ■ Appalachian’s long-held brings together music, theater, dance, and art throughout each July on donor and the AppalPIE scholar while the student is enrolled at Appalachian. campus. The Broyhill Music Center’s concert hall is named in the ■ A 3,000-square-foot dream of establishing a region- al center for the visual arts Rosens’ honor. They also were instrumental in beginning the AppalPIE recording studio is being fur- comes to fruition in November Scholarships for students in the Mariam Cannon Hayes School of nished with the latest techno- 2002, with the opening of the Music. logical advances in the music Turchin Center for the Visual “With his wife Muriel, Arnold Rosen embraced Appalachian State industry thanks to gifts from Arts. Housed in the West King University as if it was his own alma mater,” said Chancellor Francis T. Robert F. Gilley, Paul and Street building formerly occu- Borkowski. “Appalachian and the arts community will miss Arnold’s Sally Jacobsen, and other pied by the Boone United invaluable contributions of time, wisdom, and energy.” alumni and friends. Methodist Church, the Turchin Center will be the largest facility for the visual arts in Western North Carolina. It will support Appalachian’s teaching mis- Athletics sion through a combination of exhibitions, educational programs, and strong Total Raised: $7.46 million community outreach. The center’s exhibits will focus on contemporary art, ■ Annual support for scholarships through the Yosef Club featuring both national and regional artists. doubled to $700,000, with sixty new endowments An Appalachian Summer Festival created to perpetuate athletic scholarships and programs. Total Raised: $2.67 million ■ Contributions were received in support of a new cross- ■ Attendance at Appalachian Summer Festival, regarded as one of the nation’s An Appalachian country track. Naming opportunities are pending for Kidd leading regional arts festivals, has doubled in recent years to more than 25,000. Brewer Stadium’s playing field, a new baseball stadium, Innovative and high quality and a new athletics center building. Summer Festival programming combined with affordable June 28 - July 27, 2002 ■ An anonymous donor has made a commitment to ticket pricing made possible by partially fund a new natural turf soccer stadium and track- individual and corporate contributions and-field throws events area. The facility will be located have led to the festival’s success. Private west of Kidd Brewer Stadium. donations make up more than 40 Appalachian House Opens for ■ The athletics team in the “National Alumni, Parents and Friends Campaign,” percent of the festival’s annual budget. University Functions The festival prides itself in featuring new part of the “Campaign for the Second Century,” generated nearly $400,000 in art forms and emerging artists. Appalachian House, a new multi-purpose facility that incorporates an gifts and pledges. Bodie Bodenheimer ’51 of Franklin chaired the team. on-campus residence for the university chancellor, opened in mid- January. The 9,400-square-foot facility on Bodenheimer Drive serves as “I was told that I received this scholarship because of the effort I make on and off the court. the focal point for official university functions hosted by the chancellor. As co-captain of the women’s basketball team I work hard to be a leader, and to help my It features a great room, dining area, and commercial kitchen. About three thousand square feet on the second floor serves as the residence teammates and the coaches in any way I can. Off the court I’ve enjoyed learning about the Celebrate the fine art of summer! for Appalachian’s chancellor and family. health care field and helping people with their nutrition.” The North Carolina Symphony Appalachian House was funded through private donations, including Tiffany Cole of Asheboro * Glenn Miller Orchestra a lead gift from the Seby Jones family of Raleigh in memory of wife and Senior, health promotions * Paul Taylor Dance Company mother Christina B. Jones. Other cash and in-kind gifts were contributed Recipient of the Class of 1937 Golden Reunion Endowment Scholarship * Broyhill Chamber Ensemble to the project, which cost $2.2 million including furnishings. * Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra In recent years, more than two thousand people have attended * Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition * Outdoor Fireworks Concert with Diamond Rio… some forty university functions held annually at the chancellor’s former I knew before coming to Appalachian that the university had a good football team, and and much more! residence, including activities for students, faculty, staff, and the “ community. since I’ve been here I’ve gotten used to being part of a winning team. Because I’m from out Call today to arrange a special mountain get-away of state, it would have been too expensive for me to come up here without scholarship package at The Broyhill Inn (800.851.6048) or The original chancellor’s residence at Appalachian was constructed Chetola Resort (800.chetola). in the early 1950s and demolished in 2000 for construction of a new money. I’m very grateful.” student living-learning facility. Wayne Smith of Pembroke Pines, Florida On the Appalachian State University Campus Senior, criminal justice call 800.841.ARTS www.appsummer.org Recipient of the E.G. “Red” and Jane Lackey Scholarship for Athletics Appalachian Today 17 COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES COLLEGE OF BUSINESS Grad Helps Emerging Walker College Latino Populations Esteban Echeverria ’01 was among the few News Briefs students selected nationally to participate in the Haley Renee Hayes ’01 was one Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) of eight undergraduate Fellowship Program. The program offers insurance students selected recipients an opportunity to work at the federal nationally to complete a 2001 level. summer internship through the “Part of the fellowship is to experience how National Association of the political system works in the United States,” Professional Surplus Lines says Echeverria. Offices (NAPSLO). Because of The anthropology major from Kinston chose to her outstanding performance, Hayes was work in Washington, D.C., with the National selected for NAPSLO’s J.H. Blades Memorial Council of La Raza (NCLR). Established in 1968, Scholarship; she will spend three weeks in the non-profit organization works to “reduce London this summer for advanced study at Lloyds poverty and discrimination, and improve life of London. opportunities for Hispanic Americans.” Echeverria L.M. “Bud” Baker, chairman of Wachovia assists with a new NCLR activity called Emerging Corporation, was the Fall 2001 speaker for the Latino Communities Harlan E. Boyles Distinguished CEO Lecture Initiative, which Series. focuses on southeastern Student Laura Beth Turner gains field experience at Appalachian Brian Estates in Boone, helping A Walker College alumni reception held at the Latino O.Henry Hotel in Greensboro was sponsored by Students Manage Bowden Investment Fund a resident make crafts. communities. The Dennis Quaintance, CEO of Quaintance-Weaver initiative assists Restaurants and Hotels. This was the first in a student managed investment fund has been named to honor Elbert V. Bowden, an community-based groups series of upcoming alumni receptions. A Appalachian State University faculty member since 1977. Bowden, pictured, serves with strategic planning, board member as the Alfred T. Adams Distinguished Professor of Banking. W. Winfield Beroth ’65 was elected president and Gerontology Jobs Increasing training, and fundraising. Students in an investment management course manage the fund as they learn about CEO of western North Carolina’s Oasis Shriners espite the economic downturn, sustained growth in for 2002. Beroth is vice president of Beroth security analysis and portfolio management. They select stocks for analysis, present Population 65+ in 2020 “Anthropology gives me detailed reports to the class, and decide which securities to purchase. Dthe state’s aging population means promising em- Oil/Four Brothers Stores in Pfafftown. An ardent ployment opportunities for people with training in a better understanding of supporter of Appalachian, he serves on the Financial donations from former students, business associates, and co-workers have gerontology, says Professor Ed Rosenberg. Rosenberg cultural differences and how college’s Business Advisory Council and helped the Elbert V. Bowden Student Managed Investment Fund’s coordinates the annual Beroth Golf Classic, which D directs Appalachian State University’s master’s degree you should address them,” total net assets exceed $50,000. A T E 17.5% in the benefits scholarship and endowment programs. S O and graduate certificate programs in gerontology. F I N state--county range: As the fund grows, earnings will be used to enhance educa- Apri T E Echeverria says of his education. He plans to l 9 Harlan E. BoylesR E S 9.2% to 31.8% Statistics indicate that the number of the nation’s elder- tional opportunities for students. For information, contact Distinguished CEO Lecture T work in North Carolina when his fellowship ends New members of the college’s Business Advisory Red-colored counties have 16 or more ly will almost double to seventy million by the time today’s Series featuring Roger L. in May. Council include J. Cantey Alexander III ’86, city Delbert Goff, [email protected] or (828) 262-6180 or Beth persons age 65 or older per 100 residents. college students reach their career peak. Numbers in North executive for BB&T, Winston-Salem; Paul Alexander, [email protected] or (828) 262-6163. Beahm , president and CEO Percent of Population Age 65+ Carolina are expected to double as well in the next twenty According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Chapman, managing of Coyne Beahm 12% or less to twenty-five years, to more than two million, comprising Hispanics make up 12 percent of the U.S. partner, KPMG, Greensboro, a one 12.1% to 13.0% population, and 33 percent of Hispanic Americans Inc. of 13.1% to 14.4% 21 percent of the state’s population. In comparison, Flori- Charlotte; Marshall A. hundred-person m live in the South. 14.5 to 15.9% da’s elderly population is currently about 18 percent. Croom ’65, vice Three Distinguished Faculty Retire and advertising agency. 16% or more Courtesy of NC Division of Aging – Frank Ruggiero president and arketing Eighty-three of North Caroli- Patricia E. Gaynor, statistics profes- dinator. Led several stu- Ap treasurer, Lowe’s ril 18 na’s one hundred counties will have more than 16 percent of Lew Third Annual Companies, North sor in the Department of dent international study is L. M their population over age sixty-five, Rosenberg says. Economics, twenty-eight years at programs and was hon- ack Alum Wilkesboro; Thomas ni Day Rosenberg says the explosive growth in the older population Pugh Wins Governor’s H. Hudspeth Jr. ’82 Appalachian. Honored as first recip- ored by the university’s Student will affect almost every career, directly or indirectly. He says he ’83, partner, ient of the Walker College of Government Association with Outstanding already gets calls from corporations who have learned of the Award for Excellence Pricewaterhouse- Business Outstanding Teaching Teacher Award, 1998-99. certificate program looking for graduates with gerontology Genevieve D. Pugh ’76 ’80, assistant director of the Coopers, Atlanta; Award in 1996 for dedication to stu- Richard B. Schaffer, business law training. Black Mountain Center, was among fifteen winners of the Paulette Inman, dent learning. In addition to teaching, served as professor in the Department of Rosenberg says the certificate program appeals to those with- Governor’s Award for Excellence for 2001. The award owner of Russia! consultant, researcher and author, including co- Finance, Banking and Insurance, out formal training in gerontology but who work with older recognizes her public service and voluntary contributions to Russia!, Charlotte; authoring a major textbook, Introduction to Time- twenty-five years at Appalachian. and Richard G. clients and seek job advancement. It is also designed to benefit the field of developmental disabilities and other disabling conditions. Series Modeling and Forecasting in Business and Developed first college-wide study Sparks ’76, ’78, current graduate students in such majors as business administra- Pugh earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology and master’s in psychology. Economics. abroad program as director of inter- president and CEO of tion, community counseling, public administration, and family Among her accomplishments, Pugh helped write the N.C. Comprehensive Plan Watauga Medical Barry W. Elledge, economics pro- national business studies, served as and consumer science. for Services/Supports for Persons with Brain Injury. She led Black Mountain Center, Boone. The fessor, thirty-two years at Appalachi- director of education for the northwestern chapter Both graduate programs focus on preparing students for pro- Center’s proposal for a Neurobehavioral Unit for individuals with behavioral needs new chair for the an. Served as assistant and associate of the North Carolina World Trade Association, fessional careers. resulting from acquired brain injury, and she initiated the Annual Brain Injury council is James E. dean, chair of the economics de- instrumental in developing international business Survivor Retreat for individuals in Western North Carolina. The graduate gerontology programs are housed in the De- Harris ’84, senior vice partment, acting director of the minor. His textbook, International Business Law and partment of Sociology and Social Work. Learn more at www.ag- Pugh has held national leadership roles in the American Association on Mental president and CEO of Center for the Study of Private En- Its Environment, now in its fifth edition, is used at ing.appstate.edu Retardation (AAMR). MedCath, Inc., terprise and graduate student coor- major universities on every continent. – Jane Nicholson ’95 MA Charlotte. 18 Appalachian Today Appalachian Today 19 COLLEGE OF EDUCATION COLLEGE OF FINE AND APPLIED ARTS Accreditation Granted by NCATE and State Board Professor Promotes Safe Weight Loss The Reich College of Education has only about half are accredited by NCATE. The State Board requires teacher edu- earned continuing accreditation from the RCOE has been accredited by NCATE cation programs to undergo on-site National Council for Accreditation of since 1954. reviews concurrently with NCATE. As a Teacher Education (NCATE) and from NCATE granted the college continuing result of its review, the board granted a for High School Wrestlers the N.C. State Board of Education. accreditation for five years without any full approval for all programs through the NCATE is recognized by the U.S. weaknesses. NCATE noted the high quali- 2005-06 academic year with no stipulations lan Utter recalls the Department of Education as the accredit- ty of the faculty, the alignment of pro- or concerns. A wrestling matches ing body for colleges and universities that grams with national standards, the assess- “Receiving continuing accreditation he won while a student prepare teachers and other professional ment of candidates, the involvement of without weaknesses from both NCATE and at the University of personnel for elementary and secondary programs with the public schools, and the the State Board is a Pittsburgh. But it’s a match he lost that he schools. college’s progress in addressing major vote of confi- Alan Utter diversity issues in its dence in the Reich recalls most vividly. In There are one thousand teacher prepa- just three hours, Utter forced himself to ration programs in the United States, and curriculum. College of Education and lose ten pounds, mostly water weight, to College Receives Appalachian State make his weight class. The rapid weight University as a loss could have cost him his life. f seven is one o y whole,” says Dean “I was in shock from Exemplaryucation Marksemplar e of Ed iving ex om Charles R. Duke. Colleg s rece eport fr dehydration,” says Utter, Reich niversitie ance R s and u erform associate professor in college 1 I.H.E. P “NCATE the 200 cation. arks in of Edu - standards are Appalachian State University’s m te Board a’s forty N.C. Sta th Carolin Department of Health, Leisure and the des Nor sed on rigorous and ard gra rams ba n Exercise Science. “I started to realize that Management.” It has been distributed to following the deaths of three college tate Bo n prog reditatio recognized in The S educatio nal acc ten thousand high-school wrestling pro- wrestlers in 1997. But wrestlers in high teacher nd natio ement every state. this wasn’t right, but everyone was doing seven state a d involv ce with ates, an it,” he said of the rapid weight loss. grams in the United States. schools are still “doing it the old way,” mplian f gradu he This benefits co uality o hools. T according to Utter. dards, q ublic sc 997 Appalachian Now Utter works to promote safe The video helps meet mandates stan ice to p by the 1 nd serv equired e public with a port is r improv graduates weight loss for wrestlers. requiring each state wrestling association “Most high school wrestlers get their ance re eated to perform Act, cr who might to implement a weight management pro- weight loss information from their coach- chools ement. He and two other researchers teamed cellent S t achiev edu- Ex studen teacher be seeking with the National Wrestling Coaches gram by 2004. es, and many of the coaches graduated ols and aduate is- scho ndergr as cons employ- from wrestling programs before the largest u a and h Association and the National Federation Collegiate wrestling and the National as the Carolin er edu- NCAA-mandated changes were imple- RCOE h in North p teach ment in of State High School Associations to pro- Collegiate Athletics Association imple- rogram tate’s to ort ation p ng the s nce rep other mented,” Utter said. c ed amo erforma duce a video called “Championship mented rule changes preventing the life- tly rank ce the p ten ams sin states Performance and Safe Weight threatening practice of rapid weight loss Implementing weight-loss practices n progr catio because associated with wrestling means changing an. beg they are coming from a a century-old culture, Utter explains. nationally accredited teacher preparation Yale-Read Receives Wrestling is weight classified to ensure program,” he said. competitive equality. Wrestlers believed Outstanding Faculty Award that they could lose weight rapidly before Middle Grades Join Barbara Yale-Read, a faculty member since weigh-ins, then eat and drink after their Nationally recognized teacher Mary Jo Pritchard ’69 ’92 and her students clear dirt for a greenhouse they 1986, has received the Outstanding Faculty competitive weight was recorded. Most are building on the grounds of Parkway School. Award from Appalachian State University’s thought the practice gave them a compet- in PDS Agreements College of Fine and Applied Arts. She is an itive edge. However, with everyone follow- associate professor of art. ing the same practice, there was no edge, Alumnae Win National Teaching Awards Eleven public schools are participating Yale-Read received a $1,000 cash award made Utter said. in a new middle grades Professional USA Today selected science teacher Mary Jo Pritchard ’69 ’92 as possible by contributions to the Appalachian The video promotes healthy, gradual Development School (PDS) agreement a 2001 First Team Teacher of the Year for leading students in an State University Foundation, $500 from the weight loss - one to two pounds a week - with the Reich College of Education. ecology project at Watauga County’s Parkway School. The project college for professional travel or supplies, and a by reducing caloric intake and increasing medallion. includes a pond, nature trail, and greenhouse built by students. The agreement incorporates college- exercise in contrast to the sweat suits, Pritchard returned to campus to share tips with college students on level curriculum changes and strengthens Yale-Read teaches calligraphy, graphic design, saunas, and other forceful dehydration teaching and classroom management. She was joined by Ashe County ties between schools and the university. typography, art history, and introduction to art. methods once practiced. The video pro- Photo credit: Sarah Stacke High School math teacher Carmen Wilson ’88 ’92 (pictured left with “Our ultimate goal is to improve student But more broadly, she teaches students to be vides information on how to assess and Pritchard), the 2001-02 N.C. Teacher of the Year. Pritchard and Wilson advised RCOE students to get to know _ learning in North Carolina not just in problem solvers. Barbara Yale-Read works with a student during record the student’s body composition, their students, keep them motivated by involving them in a variety of activities, and show test scores, but also in social learning and a calligraphy class in the Department of Art. including weight and body fat percent- excitement as a teacher. _ “I believe that it is important to teach students academic development and a way to do that art and design are ways of communicating age, and how to measure hydration. Pre- that is to improve teacher preparation ideas,” Yale-Read writes of her teaching philosophy. “It is also imperative for them to learn to be and post-competition nutrition needs also Judy Sink ’67 MA is among thirty-five teachers receiving a 2001 Disney’s American programs,” says Ken McEwin, coordinator Teacher Award. Winners were selected from 111,000 nominees. The award honors problem solvers, to develop critical thinking skills, and to acquire life-long learning skills. My are addressed. of Appalachian’s middle grades teacher outstanding teachers whose talent, commitment, and creativity have a profound and classes are structured to this end.” –Jane Nicholson’95 MA preparation program. lasting impact on children and society. Sink teaches second grade at Hardin Park School A former student wrote Yale-Read that, “I can honestly say that not a day goes by that I don’t in Watauga County. She was noted for fostering students’ independent and cooperative See a list of participating schools at think of and apply something you have taught me. Everything I have learned from you has been Learn more about health promotion and learning through hands-on experiences. www.appstate.edu/www_docs/news/relea invaluable.” exercise science at ses/info/111601PDS.html www.appstate.edu/www_docs/depart/hles/ 20 Appalachian Today Appalachian Today 21 SCHOOL OF MUSIC GRADUATE SCHOOL Graduate School Students Win Two International Contests Hope Wayne Honored for 3-D Teaching Tool A project developed to help teach North Carolina history to elementary stu- dents won first place at the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation Com- petition held in Michigan. Hope Wayne ’01 MA, who graduated in December with a master’s degree in in- String Quartet dustrial technology, received a $2,500 cash award for her project. Appalachian State University’s Graphic Arts and Imaging Technology Program received $5,000 to Begins Community support its curriculum addressing corru- gated packaging technology. The ICPF competition featured the The Hayes Graduate String Quartet rehearses before performing on first-place winning projects from the An- Appalachian Perspective cable television show. Hear a portion of their performance nual Association of Corrugated Converters Outreach at www.perspective.appstate.edu by clicking on “video clips.” Student Packaging Design Competition Hope Wayne and Assistant Professor Nona Woolbright look over a corrugated cardboard lighthouse held last October. For that competition designed to help teach elementary students about the state’s history. he Hayes School of Music’s new cacy classical music has,” says violist John Adelsman says he finds playing quartet Wayne and fellow students Andrea Milli- time students were asked to “show, tell University, Clemson University, Indiana Tstring quartet has begun performing Bursey. music to be “spiritually gratifying” and gan and Scott Crump won first place hon- and sell” their entry to a panel of industry University, Michigan State, Mohawk Col- around the region as part of the music The quartet also includes second vio- hopes audiences enjoy hearing the music ors in the “open competition category” for judges. lege, Rochester Institute of Technology, their three-dimensional scale model of the school’s community outreach. linist Ethan Adelsman, the quartet’s only as much as he and his peers love playing Other schools participating in the com- and the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Cape Hatteras lighthouse and keeper’s Known as the Hayes Graduate String undergraduate student, and cellist David it. petition were California Polytechnic State –Jane Nicholson ’95 MA quarters produced us- Quartet, the students have played with the Latiff ’01. “It’s unprecedented what she has ing corrugated paper. Western Piedmont Symphony and are The quartet made its television debut done,” Latiff says of Hayes’ financial sup- working with the symphony to perform in this spring on Appalachian Perspective, per- port to the music school. “I’m so thankful The project grew Laurie Lyda Wins Jane Austen Essay Contest the region’s public schools to help pique forming Schubert’s Quartetsatz in C for this opportunity. I get to do such truly out of a special topics children’s interest in music. They also Minor, Borodin’s String Quartet No. 2 in wonderful and exciting things and am class taught by Nona Laurie Lea Lyda ’98 pre- lodging at the Annual General Meeting of JASNA. have performed at a gala celebration hon- D Major, Haydn’s String Quartet in C learning a lot.” Woolbright in the De- pared a senior thesis for her Her essay is published on the organization’s Web oring Mariam Cannon Hayes for her $10 Major, and Scott Joplin’s “The Entertain- Interested in scheduling a perform- partment of Technol- English degree with no idea site JASNA.org. million gift to the music school and at er.” Appalachian Perspective is a cable tele- ance? Contact the quartet’s faculty advisor ogy. It was developed it would later win an inter- More than five hundred people attended the other Appalachian State University func- vision show produced by the university Nancy Bargerstock, at (828)262-3020. as an instructional aid national essay contest. Annual General Meeting of JASNA, held in tions. and distributed statewide. for fourth graders The twenty-five-year-old Seattle, Washington, last fall. It featured a concert studying N.C. history. “The quartet is making a significant from Lincolnton wrote her and dances from Jane Austen’s Regency period as The corrugated de- mark on the area’s orchestral and cham- thesis on Jane Austen’s well as mini conferences with keynote speakers. sign was chosen be- ber music scene,” says Dean William G. Student Receives Liberace Fellowship novel Pride and Prejudice. “It was interesting to see how alive her works cause it is sturdy, easy Harbinson. Francisco Fernández del Castillo Gómez has received a $3,000 fellowship from the Now a graduate student at Appalachian, she are to a lot of people,” said Lyda. “It was really for students to assem- entered it under her advisor’s recommendation to The quartet, along with other music Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts. The fellowships are awarded enlightening and gave a lot of good information.” ble, and its print qual- the Jane Austen Society of North America’s 2001 projects, is made possible because of to outstanding performance majors in music schools across the country. Lyda said her mentor for the JASNA contest, ity yields an authentic essay contest. Hayes’ gift. The musicians received paid Edelma Huntley, played a key role in her success. The award helps fund Fernández’s graduate studies at Appalachian. He is a master’s look. Existing plastic assistantships to help fund their Lyda submitted a revised version of “To Be Huntley, an English professor and senior associate degree candidate at the Mariam Cannon Hayes School of Music and studies with models of the light- education. Douglas James. Fond of Dancing Was a Certain Step Towards dean of the Cratis D. Williams Graduate School, house are expensive, Falling in Love.” The thesis focused on the sym- “A lot of people don’t know about informs Lyda of upcoming conferences as well as Fernández was born in 1972 in Mexico City where he began his musical career playing difficult to assemble, bolism of dance in Pride and Prejudice, which Lyda directs her independent study project. “She gives quartet music, and we want them to enjoy traditional music from Latin America. In 1991 he entered the National School of Music and less rugged when said is a metaphor for courtship and marriage. invaluable advice,” said Lyda. “She is always will- it as much as we do,” first violinist R.J. (ENM), part of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His teacher was the great Mexican guitarist considering classroom Lyda believes dance, overall, is a metaphor for ing to work with you and look over papers.” Wohlman ’01 says of the off-campus per- Juan Carlos Laguna. That same year Fernández was the top prizewinner in the XVII Guitar Competition of Paracho, use. formances. Mexico in the juvenile category. life and she looks for its meanings in other novels Lyda finishes her master’s degree in English in Wayne gave a pres- she reads. August. She says she may pursue a Ph.D in eigh- “I hope we manage to win a few con- In 1993 Fernández received a grant from the UNAM foundation to study at the University of Laval in Quebec, Canada. entation on the win- Lyda won the graduate-level award in the con- teenth-century British literature. verts over to classical music, that people In 2000 he graduated with honors from the National School of Music in Mexico City with the thesis titled “Factors ning entry at the test, which included over a hundred entries. She who’ve been raised on rock or country Involved in Classical Guitar Tuning.” –James Nix ICPF’s annual student received a $500 cash prize and admission and can realize what drama, power, and intri- briefing during which 22 Appalachian Today Appalachian Today 23 From the President’s Pen Embracing Appalachian’s selected as a Disney’s American Teacher Awards He is a golf equipment salesman with Golf James L. Camp, Jr. YMCA, Franklin, VA. John She is a fourth grade teacher at Cedar Ridge Honoree. She is a second grade teacher at Hardin Charlotte. Stephen Danner, as teacher in McCallum, director of quality management, N.C. Elementary School, Lowgap. J. Bradley Wilson Rich Traditions Park Elementary School, Boone. Connie Warf Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School System, Council on Developmental Disabilities, Raleigh. received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Dear Appalachian Alumni, Cathey, elected to serve as international chaplain after 30 years as an educator. Jack Moore, as Nancy Helms Bartles, principal, A. L. Brown Appalachian State University’s Alumni of Alpha Delta Kappa. She is a kindergarten environmental program specialist, Iredell County High School, Kannapolis. Association. He is general counsel and senior On September 11, our lives changed forever as a result of the teacher at Claxton Elementary School, Asheville. Health Department, Statesville, after 30 years of WEDDINGS: Carol Stilwell and Alan Hoal, Cary, vice president of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of horrific, tragic attack on America. Since that day we have all RETIREMENTS: Trudy Shuford, as eighth grade service. Edward McLelland Jr., as teacher with June 2. NC, Durham. Iredell-Statesville Schools, after 30 years as an experienced an array of feelings. As we worked through those math/algebra I teacher at Southwest Middle RETIREMENTS: Paul Inman, as colonel, U.S. NEW POSITIONS: Ben Long, information technol- educator. Bonnie Hamlin Cook, as supervisor III School, Gastonia, after 35 years as an educator. Army, Kissimmee, FL. John Hewins, as teacher ogy program manager, Office of the Secretary of feelings, we demonstrated that as Americans we are united in family and children’s services-foster care and AWARDS/HONORS: Pat Dunn Worley, and coach with Newton-Conover City School Defense, Falls Church, VA. and we believe in America and what it stands for. We rallied adoptions, Surry County Department of Social This issue includes class nett County Senior appointed to and elected chairperson of System, after 29 years as an educator. He is a WEDDINGS: Sherry Keller and Peter Stewart, Services, Dobson, with over 30 years of service. around our patriotic traditions—flying our flag, wearing our notes received by the Donor Leadership Team. the N.C. Auctioneer Licensing Commission. She is tennis professional at Rock Barn Golf and Country Winston-Salem, June 23. Services Office May 19, 2001, Janice Knight, as math teacher at Reidsville High colors—and gave generously of our time, talents, and financial NEW POSITIONS: Catherine Al- a teacher at Princeton High School, Princeton. Club, Conover. AWARDS/HONORS: Richard Sparks through November 21, 2001. School, Reidsville, after 30 years as an educator. resources. bright Wolfingbarger, president, Surry RETIREMENTS: Donnie Baxter, as personnel Carol Matthews Hutchens, as teacher with AWARDS/HONORS: Jeff Joines, re-elected received the Distinguished Alumni Award County/Retired School Personnel, Mount Airy. director, Randolph County Schools, Asheboro. He Randolph County Schools, Asheboro, after 30 to three-year term on board of directors from Appalachian State University’s Alumni The “Pledge of Allegiance” took on new meaning and tears REUNION: 60th Reunion, returned as athletic director for Randolph County for Blue Ridge EMC, Caldwell District. He is assis- Association. He is president and CEO of Watauga WEDDINGS: Jane Poole and Edsel Greene, Vilas, years as an educator. July 26-27, 2002. Schools. tant judicial division chief with the N.C. Medical Center, Boone. Cynthia Mullen Poe, were shed as we sang the “Star Spangled Banner,” “God Bless Oct. 11. Tony Clark, Matthews, AWARDS/HONORS: Department of Correction, Asheville. Lincoln County Principal of the Year. She is princi- America,” and other patriotic songs. Traditions are so impor- AWARDS/HONORS: Margaret Goode AWARDS/HONORS: Mary Jo Bingham appointed Battalion Commander, U.S. RETIREMENTS: William Bradford IV, as instruc- , assis- pal at Rock Springs Elementary School, Denver. Bishop, Raleigh, received sapphire pin as Pritchard, named one of 17 teachers Army Reserve. NEW POSITIONS: Pamela Howell Scott tant in our lives whether they be those of our country, family a symbol of 55 years of volunteer service with the tor in science department/university transfer, nationwide to one of USA Today’s three teacher tant superintendent for human resources, Wilkes Genevieve Doll Pugh, won Governor’s Award NEW POSITIONS: John Henshaw, Assistant or where we attended school. The five leaders of this great uni- American Red Cross. Central Carolina Community College, Sanford, af- teams. She is an eighth grade science teacher at County Schools, Wilkesboro. Gary Ennis, corpo- for Excellence. She is assistant director of the Secretary of Labor, Occupational Safety and ter 26 years as an educator. He is a research sci- Parkway Elementary, Boone. rate process specialist, Carpenter Company MH Black Mountain Center, Black Mountain. versity left us with some rich traditions, too. REUNION: 50th Reunion, Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, entist at Biolex, Inc., Pittsboro. John Alexander, Reinhart Technical Center, Richmond, VA. Janice NEW POSITIONS: Beth Palmer, archivist/person- July 26-27, 2002. NEW POSITIONS: J. Allen Joines, mayor, Washington, DC. Merle Todd, principal, Parkway Embracing Appalachian’s traditions will be the Alumni as corporate purchasing director at Sonoco Prod- Williams Carty, director of student services, al assistant to Charles Strouse, Trumbull, CT. Winston-Salem. Elementary School, Boone. Richard Hatley, AWARDS/HONORS: Burmah Carpenter, ucts Company, Hartsville, SC, after 36 years of Kannapolis City Schools, Kannapolis. Dean Cole, probation officer II, N.C. Department Council’s focus this year and we ask that you join us. RETIREMENTS: Sharron Royall Atkins, as assistant principal, Hudson Middle School, Gastonia, elected to most excellent Grand service. of Community Corrections, Rutherfordton. Jakie teacher at Davie High School, Mocksville, after 30 Hudson. WEDDINGS: Jonathan Cox and Mariluce Araujo, Appalachian exists to serve students. Therefore, the High Priest of the Grand Chapter of the Royal Arch Highwood, IL, July 7. Steven May and Vivienne Gray, human resource personnel specialist, RETIREMENTS: Wanda Austin Echerd, as media alumni will continue to encourage and support the Mason of N.C. Bill Brown, Gastonia, named sec- Robbins, King, May 5. staffing operations, Guilford County Schools, retary of Appalachian State University’s Alumni coordinator at Alexander Central High School, Greensboro. Elizabeth Phillips Harren, comput- traditions of: RETIREMENTS: Darla Morgan Johnson, as chil- Association. He also serves on the former Ath- Alumni Calendar of Events Taylorsville. Arthur Oates, High Point, as math er teacher, Hudson Middle School, Hudson. and science teacher in Thomasville City Schools, dren’s librarian, manager of audio-visual services ● Providing excellence in education letes Association Board of Directors and is presi- ______RETIREMENTS: Ken Throneburg, as math April 27 Travel Tour Orientation after 30 years as an educator. and branch manager of Reynolda Manor Branch dent of the Yosef Club. Brenda Love teacher, assistant principal, and principal with ● Providing a state-of-the-art learning ______Blevins, as fifth grade teacher at Franklin Library, Forsyth County Public Library System, AWARDS/HONORS: Raymond Hayes, May 4 Alumni Council Meeting Winston-Salem, after 28 years of service. Steve Catawba County Schools, after 30 years as an environment Elementary School, Mount Airy, after 30 years as educator. Boone, awarded the rank of professor an educator. Sharon Choate Benson, as Rankin, as LTC in the U.S. Army Reserves, after ______th ● Providing global educational emeritus at Wingate University. June 14-28 British Isles Travel Tour teacher at Fairplains Elementary School, North 28 years of service. He is an athletic director and REUNION: 25 Reunion, coach at Statesville High School, Statesville. October 26, 2002. opportunities AWARDS/HONORS: Patricia Duckworth ______Wilkesboro, after 30 years as an educator. July 26-27 Black & Gold Reunion Weekend Joseph Cummings, Rick Dell, named NCAA Mid Sykes, Chesapeake, VA, elected modera- Sandra Henderson Tomlinson, as guidance AWARDS/HONORS: AWARDS/HONORS: ● Caring about the welfare of our tor of Presbyterian Women in eastern Virginia. ______counselor at Sherrills Ford Elementary School, Teacher of the Year, Progressive Atlantic Coach of the Year. He is head baseball October 25 Alumni Awards Banquet Sherrills Ford, after 30 years as an educator. Education Program. He is a teacher in Buncombe coach at The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ. students AWARDS/HONORS: Mike Latta, inducted 30th Reunion, County Schools, Asheville. Ken Howey received Christopher May, selected as the Senior ● into Reich College of Education’s Rhodo- ______REUNION: Cultivating the future involvement of October 26 Homecoming October 26, 2002. the Teaching Excellence Regional Award for Reserve Officer, USCG Marine Safety Office. Also dendron Society at Appalachian State University. region three southeast United States from the promoted to Commander USCG Reserve. He is students with the alumni association AWARDS/HONORS: Glenda Simmons completed He is president of Nations Consultants, Inc. , years as an educator. Rosemary Sink Hinkle, as Association of Collegiate Business Schools and executive director of the Cape Fear Council of AWARDS/HONORS: William Watterson requirements to renew professional licenses of ● Raleigh. Carol Ragland Bennett, Kernersville, teacher at Carver High School, Winston-Salem, Programs. He is a computer and office systems Governments, Wilmington. William Wakeman III, Supporting the university with our time, Outstanding Teacher of the Year by the sales, broker, appraiser and real estate law. She Wal-Mart Teacher of the Year. after 31 years as an educator. Maxine Powell instructor at York Technical College, Rock Hill, SC. qualified and attended Zenith Convention with talents and financial resources N.C. English Teachers Association. He is an is the owner of Interiors Unique, Hickory. Jane , as math Weatherman, as teacher at West Yadkin Kimberly Dawkins Berry, appointed to a fourth Fortis Financial Group in London, England. He is RETIREMENTS: Carol Ragland Bennett English teacher at Watauga High School, Boone. , named N.C. Media Coordinator of ● Elementary School, Hamptonville. Lisk Andrews term on the N.C. Study Commission on Aging by president of Wakeman Financial Services, Inc., Increasing the percentage of alumni who teacher at East Forsyth High School, Kernersville. Carolyn Glascoe Woodall, recognized by the Year by the N.C. Association for Educational Piedmont Community College as one of 30 peo- AWARDS/HONORS: Stephen Dixon, state Senator Marc Basnight. She is director of Lakeland, FL. Peggy Campbell Eller, received give to the university, as this is a major 40th Reunion, Communications and Technology. She is the REUNION: Mount Gilead, had his book Elementary the Area Agency on Aging, Piedmont Triad Appalachian State University’s W. H. Plemmons ple who have made a difference in Person and media coordinator at Bonlee School, Bonlee. factor in maintaining and/or improving July 26-27, 2002. School Guide to Character Education published Council of Governments, Greensboro. Sandy Leadership Medallion. She is director of the child Caswell counties. She is a counselor/administra- Donna Fisher has released a new book, our ranking in U.S. News and World Ronnie Byrd, Gastonia, Grier by Character Development Publishing. As a Streeter Martin, named NCHSAA Regional development center at Appalachian, Boone. AWARDS/HONORS: tive assistant at Bethel Hill Charter School, Professional Networking for Dummies. She is the Jr. Middle School Boys MVP award was renamed retired school principal he now serves as an edu- Female Coach of the Year. She is a teacher, Katie Davis, master of theological Report. Roxboro. owner of Donna Fisher Presents, Houston, TX. DEGREES: the Ronnie Byrd MVP award. cational consultant in character education. Mike coach and aquatics director at Providence High AWARDS/HONORS: Alice Williams Darlene Weideman Romine, delivered the com- studies, Chandler School of Theology, Emory ● Displaying school colors whenever and wherever Tilley received President’s Club Award for the School, Charlotte. University. She is co-owner of TeamWorks, RETIREMENTS: Janette Church New, as Brown, commencement speaker at mencement address for May graduates of the Hendricks Automotive Group. He is a sales repre- DEGREES: Jane Tuckwiller Walker, Greensboro, Lawrenceville, GA. Eddy Daniel Jr., doctor of phi- appropriate. Black and gold unite our alumni just as red, teacher with Brevard County Schools, Mel- Alderson-Broaddus College, May 2001. She also College of Fine and Applied Arts at Appalachian. sentative for Honda Cars of Hickory, Hickory. doctor of philosophy in textile products design losophy in curriculum and teaching, UNC- white and blue unite America. bourne, FL, after 41 years as an educator. Eileen received honorary doctorates at the University of She is director of national accounts for Biogen, and marketing, UNC-Greensboro. Greensboro. He is assistant superintendent of Creasy Schafer, as eighth grade reading spe- Charleston and Alderson-Broaddus College. She NEW POSITIONS: Mike Sowder, uniserv director, Inc., Greensboro. Charles Guyer, published a I feel very honored to serve as your president. We have a is president of the Appalachian College Virginia Education Association, Warrenton, VA. NEW POSITIONS: Terry White Hitch, principal, schools at Pulaski County Schools, Pulaski, VA. cialist in Penn Hills School District, Penn Hills, PA, book chapter entitled “Spouse Abuse” in F. challenging year ahead of us and I know that the Appalachian after 30 years as an educator. Wayne Barker, as Association, Berea, KY. Gary Childers, principal, Watauga High School, Kaslow’s, The Handbook of Family Forensic Beaufort Elementary School, Beaufort, SC. NEW POSITIONS: Debra Wilcox, special educa- Boone. , seventh grade associate superintendent at Wilkes County AWARDS/HONORS: Jerry Mayhew, cho- Carol McDowell Sowder Psychology. He is owner of the Charles G. Guyer Joseph McCombs, pastor, Asbury United tion/title 1 supervisor, Johnson County Schools, Alumni Council will meet these challenges for alumni through Schools, Wilkesboro, after 38 years as an educa- sen as Outstanding Sports Scientist by the civics teacher, John J. Wright Middle School, II Clinical Psychology Practice, Elizabeth City. Methodist Church, Gastonia. TN. Robin Carpenter, vice president foreign hard work and dedicated service. Spotsylvania, VA. tor. National Strength and Conditioning Association. NEW POSITIONS: Larry Overbay, human servic- WEDDINGS: Ramona Faggart and George exchange, U.S. Bank, Portland, OR. Sharon Lail He is a professor of exercise science at Truman RETIREMENTS: Reed Hilderbrand, as teacher, es director, Virginia Department of Rehabilitative Barnhardt, Mount Pleasant, May 26. Richardson, principal, Southeastern Middle Julia Adams ’56 AWARDS/HONORS: Betty Spainhour School, Walnut Cove. Mark Stowers, president, State University, Kirksville, MO. Judy Kluttz Sink, coach and athletic director at Garinger High Services, Abingdon, VA. Pat Newman, CEO, AWARDS/HONORS: Barbara Laster Williams, Snellville, GA, member of Gwin- Michigan Biotechnology Institute, Lansing, MI. President, Appalachian Alumni Association School, Charlotte, after 29 years as an educator. Luffman, selected Teacher of the Year. 24 Appalachian Today Appalachian Today 25 Losses in the

Appalachian Family computer geoscientist, Marathon Oil Company, RETIREMENTS: Mike Weaver, as a commander GA. Glenn Little, purchasing director, AT&T assistant superintendent, Mooresville City Oklahoma City, OK. Bowen Latham, vice presi- from the U.S. Navy. He was also awarded the Corporation, McLeansville. Schools, Mooresville. Gwen Barnett Wyatt, This issue includes death notices received by the Peninger, Sparks and Wilson Receive dent-investments, A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., Meritorious Service Medal for 20 years of distin- Sharon Billingsley and Michael design specialist in trend forecasting and design, Donor Advancement Services Office May 19, 2001 WEDDINGS: Burlington. Leigh Jones Yarbrough, senior man- guished service to the U.S. Navy. He is a ROTC Lowe’s Companies, Inc., Wilkesboro. Robert through November 21, 2001. Brinsfield, Shallotte, July 14. Doug Ward and Appalachian’s Distinguished Alumni Award ager-operations planning, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco instructor at Mitchell High School in central Stacy Nichols, Waynesville, Nov. 24. Dawson, director, Iowa Center for Assistive Company, Winston-Salem. Steve Talton, execu- Florida. Technology and Educational Resources, David Williams, faculty associate, office of the BIRTHS: Susan and Brett Eppley, Acworth, GA, a Three graduates have received the 2001 Distinguished Alumni Award from Annie Dougherty Rufty, 98, Boone, Oct. 14, tive director, Horry County Literacy Council, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. Skip Fox, direc- dean of Allen E. Paulson College of Science and REUNION: 20th Reunion, daughter, Catherine “Cate” Jean, July 29. Anthony Appalachian State University’s Alumni Association: Maria Peninger ’83 of daughter of Appalachian’s co-founder, D. D. Conway, SC. Sig Johnson, captain-airline pilot, tor of sales, Lowe’s Motor Speedway, Concord. ’21 Technology, Georgia Southern University, October 26, 2002. and Maria Matthews Luster, Cary, a son, Dougherty. American Airlines, Fort Worth, TX. Vernon Alpharetta, Georgia, Richard G. Sparks ’76 ’78 of Boone, and J. Bradley Wilson Statesboro, GA. Douglas Robinson, vice presi- AWARDS/HONORS: Bob Percival won Instructor Matthew Carlisle, Oct. 22. Bill and Patti Whalen BIRTHS: Murray and Shannon Heavner Wall Essie Goodnight White, 96, Charlotte, Oct. Farrington, executive director, school improve- ’75 of Cary. dent, Safer Schools Portal, Inc., Colfax. Doug of the Year for the Society of Industrial and Office Wright, Murfreesboro, TN, a daughter, Mary ’88, a son, Jonathan Scott, May 28. Donald and 14. ment with Guilford County Schools. ’26 Setzer, assistant vice president, Wachovia Realtors. He is executive vice president of Grace, May 17. Lisa Farrington Cockerham ’86, Clemmons, a The Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes extraordinary career distinction and Kenneth Davis, son, Jack William, Jan. 18. Dawn and Todd Clem Lipscomp, 90, Reidsville, April 20, Operational Services Corporation, Winston- AWARDS/HONORS: Transwestern Percival, Charlotte. Carla Bullard RETIREMENTS: Gerald Bowman, as principal at success and exceptional and sustained community leadership. ’31 retired educator. Salem. Ron Poe, investment representative, passed final exam and is now a Chartered Council, Fayetteville, Cumberland County Mental Shuford Elementary School, Conover, after 29 Crews Jr., Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, a son, Life Underwriter. He is an associate financial plan- Zebulon William, April 16. Jada and Mark White, Peninger is a regional vice president of sales for Avon Prod- Nell Hayes Teeter, 88, Oakboro, June 4, Edward Jones, Denver. Karen Boger Holder, title Health Center Volunteer of the Year. years as an educator. ner at MetLife Financial Services, Charlotte. Greensboro, a daughter, Alexandra Taylor, Aug. retired teacher and librarian. James R. Lentz, I teacher, Hardin Park Elementary School, Boone. NEW POSITIONS: Albert Phipps, senior vice Anita Phillips, MBA in business ucts Inc. She and her team oversee the Southeast region’s ’33 James Harkey, West Lincoln Middle School DEGREES: 10. 89, Salisbury, June 12, retired superintendent of mail, Page Thompson Carver, principal, Ashbrook president and general manager operations, Teacher of the Year, Lincolnton. Kim Ritchie management, Central Michigan University. 170,000 sales representatives who generate more than $1 bil- U.S. Postal Service. High School, Gastonia. Steve Bumgarner, princi- Bernard C. Harris Publishing, Norfolk, VA. Jeffrey AWARDS/HONORS: Susan Graham Mills, Baker, Burke County Teacher of the Year. She is She is a teacher at Goldsboro High School, lion in annual retail sales. In recognition of her leadership and pal, Alexander Central High School, Taylorsville. Brown, business and life coach, GetSynergized. Fayetteville, elected president of the N.C. Mary Moretz Hubbard, 90, Asheville, Oct. 11, a special education teacher at North Liberty Goldsboro. WEDDINGS: Roxanna Wofford and Wade com, Cannon Beach, OR. Donna Parnell Sink, Federation of Republican Women. community involvement, Peninger was named one of Georgia’s retired teacher. NEW POSITIONS: Joseph Mengele Jr., vice ’35 School, Morganton. Tommy Justus, Mars Hill, doctor of 100 Most Powerful and Influential Women in 2000. She serves Gramley, Raleigh, June 2. Ray McKesson and media coordinator, Thomasville High School, president of manufacturing, Clarke American DEGREES: Betty Howard Goodson, 86, Lincolnton, Nov. DEGREES: Deneen Kidd Amos, Ooltewah, TN, ministry, Drew University. Phyllis Rutherford, Marion, July 21. Thomasville. David Smith, teacher, head Checks, Inc., San Antonio, TX. Jeff Almond, vice on the board of advisors for Emory University’s School of Medi- 12, retired teacher. master of arts in education, Cumberland ’36 AWARDS/HONORS: Carolyn Norton wrestling and assistant football coach, Monroe NEW POSITIONS: Andrew Ritter, executive direc- University. Ernie Showfety, MBA, UNCG. He is a president, First Citizens Bank, Granite Falls. cine and for The Partnership Against Domestic Violence, among others. Hazel Crissman McCollum, 85, Pittsboro, Schmalenberger, owner of Norton’s High School, Monroe. Tracy Hicks Royster, judi- tor, N.C. Board of Examiners for Engineers and senior manager at Konica Corporation, Whitsett. Bunnie Brewer, technology/distance learning Aug. 8, retired teacher. Yacht Sales, Inc., Deltaville, VA, was named Best cial district manager, Division of Community facilitator, Chatham County Schools, Siler City. Surveyors, Raleigh. Harry Williams, interim Sparks is president and CEO of Watauga Medical Center in ’37 Patricia Cochran Puckett, Yacht Brokerage on the Chesapeake Bay by NEW POSITIONS: Corrections, Shelby. Carol Ritch Parrish, family Teresa Little Perryman, human resources spe- director of admissions, N.C. Agricultural and Boone. Under his leadership, the medical center has grown to a Edith Rudisill Whisnant, 84, Vale, June 1, computer systems analyst, Lorillard Tobacco Chesapeake Bay Magazine. Davis Babb, award- and consumer science teacher/clothing design, cialist, Kimberly-Clark, Beech Island, SC. Mack Technical State University, Greensboro. Steve 117-bed facility with 100 physicians and more than 850 full-time retired teacher. Martha Furches Mizell, 84, Company, Greensboro. Tony Walters, M series ’38 ed National Association of Athletic Development North Mecklenburg High School, Huntersville. O’Quinn Jr., major, social work officer, second Blalock, data warehouse project leader, Sara Roper, July 29, retired teacher. Kathleen Anderson financial and consulting project manager, Grace staff. It has expanded its facilities to include the Seby B. Jones Directors Fundraiser of the Year. He is associate Jayum Jawan, politics and government profes- infantry division, U.S. Army, Camp Casey, Korea. Lee Hosiery, Winston-Salem. Victoria Reeves Maxwell, 84, Sparta, July 30, retired teacher. Consulting, Inc., Lewisville. Penny Timms athletic director for development at TCU, Fort sor, head of department of social and develop- Keith Rainwater, senior vice president, Bourne, English as second language instructor, Regional Cancer Center, the Sanger Cardiology Clinic, Mallard , 85, Forest City, Sept. Tenoschok, independent founding consultant, Ethel McDade Mayse Worth, TX. ment sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Wachovia Bank, Winston-Salem. Tami Olsen North Georgia Technical College, Clarkesville, Kidney Dialysis Center, and the Paul Broyhill Wellness Center. 6, retired teacher. Southern Living at Home, Kennesaw, GA. Anne Malaysia. ’39 DEGREES: Ray Braswell, Wetumpka, AL, JD, Starr, director, Chris Evert Charities, Boca Raton, GA. Earl Locklear Jr., computer analyst, Carolina Sparks has represented North Carolina on the American College Metcalf Parton, media specialist, Spindale Marthalene Davis, 84, Dobson, Aug. 2, Jones School of Law. WEDDINGS: Timothy Hawn and Amy Craft, FL. Daniel Munoz, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, Biological Supply Company, Burlington. Canter of Healthcare Executives Council of Regents and as a delegate to the National Elementary School, Spindale. Karen Cook Conover, June 30. Martin, executive director, business develop- ’40 retired teacher. Ruby Lee Trivette, 84, Boone, NEW POSITIONS: Tom Jameson, branch manag- Daleville, AL. Felder, assistant principal, Orange Grove ment U.S. and Latin America, Primal Pictures Congress on Medicine/Public Health Initiative. Aug. 4, retired teacher. Joe White, 84, Winston- er, APG Federal Credit Union, Bel Air, MD. BIRTHS: Don and Sue Blume Dischner, WEDDINGS: Leigh Ann Ritchie and Ricky Towell, Elementary School, Charleston, SC. Software, Decatur, GA. Wanda Kiser Huffstetler, Salem, May 20, retired employee of the City of Charles Law, vice president-facility services, Highlands Ranch, CO, a daughter, Abigail Leigh, Kannapolis, June 2. William Gardo and Aresa Wilson practiced law for fifteen years in Lenoir before joining AWARDS/HONORS: Carole Moore workforce development/business education Winston-Salem. Carilion Health System, Roanoke, VA. Charlie July 13. Gilbert, Hendersonville, April 14. McLeod received the Raising Star Award teacher, Gaston County Schools, Forestview High state government as the governor’s general counsel in 1992. He Eva Lois Starnes Evans, 83, Durham, July Atkinson, teaching adjunct, Bennett College, AWARDS/HONORS: Maria Morrow Liza and Harry Thetford, Californa, MD, from the Charlotte Chapter of National BIRTHS: School, Gastonia. W. Patrick Cobb, communica- is now general counsel, senior vice president and corporate 19, retired teacher. Joy Harris Walters, 80, Mass Communications Department, Greensboro. Peninger received the Distinguished a son, Andrew Franklin, March 12. Warren and ’41 Association of Women Business Owners. She is tions representative, AARP SC Chapter, secretary for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. Wil- Shelby, July 5, homemaker and former teacher; sur- E. Dale Bryson, chief executive officer, Blue Alumni Award from Appalachian State Denise Houser Hood, Nashville, TN, a daughter, the owner of New South Waste, Charlotte. David Columbia, SC. Bill Wallace, general manager, vived by husband, Charles Walters ’40. Ridge Community Health Services, Mooresburg, University’s Alumni Association. She is a regional Caroline Amanda, Aug. 28. son is a member of the Meredith College Board of Trustees and McGee passed exam for N.C. Certified Piedmont Distribution Services, Inc., Mauldin, SC. TN. Erskine Smith Jr., assistant town manager, vice president of sales for Avon Products, Inc., Sadie Johnson Blevins, 83, Clemmons, Oct. Plantsman. He is a plant location specialist/com- AWARDS/HONORS: Karen Kornegay, Lisa Brooks Edwards, assistant vice president, the UNC Board of Governors, vice president of the N.C. Railroad Town of Mooresville. Edith Newsome Hinson, Suwanne, GA. Bob Powell received two awards 22, retired teacher. mercial installation salesman at Color serving as vice president of the N.C. Bank of America, Charlotte. Company, and a member of the N.C. Child Advocacy Institute. ’42 office manager, Rock Tenn Company, Inc., from the N.C. Press Association for advertise- Landscapes, Mebane. Ron Matthews, Association of Government Information Officers. Alta Lee Redman, 78, Olin, retired teacher. Marshville. Robert Mayton, assistant principal, ments created for area businesses/attractions BIRTHS: Charles and Robin McMullin Deyo, Statesville, elected as city councilman for She is manager of publications, marketing and Elizabeth Loufelia “Beth Lou” Redman, 79, Albemarle High School, Albemarle. Joe appearing in the Watauga Democrat. He is a Boca Raton, FL, a daughter, Kathryn Isabella, Feb. McLaughlin, Charlotte, received human Fayetteville. David Hamlyn, pastor, Abernethy ’43 Statesville. Beverly Briggs Newsome, selected community relations division, Wake Technical Olin, April 18, retired teacher and librarian at North Norwood, vice president sales and marketing, graphic artist and desktop publisher, ITC, 5. Chris and Sharon Shropshire Simmons, resources certification. She also completed first Memorial United Methodist Church, Rutherford as Boss/Business Associate of the Year of the Community College, Raleigh. Iredell High School. Dorothy Williams Fox, 78, Homescape Companies, Chapel Hill. Appalachian. Gary Atwell, named Rowan County Roebuck, SC, a son, Thomas Dylan, June 9. 1/2 marathon in Las Vegas, NV. College. Robby Carter Hamlin, information sys- Taylorsville, April 25, retired teacher. Hornet’s Nest Chapter of the American Women’s DEGREES: Barry Shepherd, Statesville, educa- Edward and Brenda Hayes Dziadzio, Lexington, DEGREES: Phillip Schundlemire, MS school tems security manager, Aegis Research AWARDS/HONORS: Lisa Devlin Patten, Basketball Coach of the Year. He is a teacher and Business Association. She is principal at Lake tional doctorate, Columbia University. MA, a son, Edward William, April 19. Dorothy and administration, Gardner-Webb University. He is Corporation, Falls Church, VA. Jerry Hobby, Edward J. Gomedela, 79, Newton, retired Real Estate Advisory Committee for Wake coach at Kannapolis Middle School, Kannapolis. Wylie Elementary School, Charlotte. NEW POSITIONS: Joni Grey Loftin, clinical asso- David Jones, Colorado Springs, CO, a son, Ryan athletic director at Hopewell High School, detective, Raleigh Police Department, Raleigh. principal. Elva Spake Abrams, 79, Boiling Technical Community College. She is a real estate Candace Mabry, awarded and attended cham- ’44 DEGREES: Ron Matthews, Statesville, master’s in ciate professor, department of speech-language Nathaniel, July 25. Huntersville. Bill Rhodes, activities supervisor, State Farm Springs, June 13, retired librarian with Cleveland consultant and broker at Fonville Morisey Realty, pions club trip by obtaining over 110% of yearly middle grades education, Appalachian. pathology and audiology, Idaho State University, th Insurance, Bloomington, IL. Kelly York, account- County School System. Raleigh. Larry Chadwell, re-elected to board of quota. She was also selected to board of direc- REUNION: 15 Reunion, NEW POSITIONS: William O’Flaherty, promo- Pocatello, ID. Gregory Alligood, special agent, ing and inventory manager, Sara Lee Intimate directors of Public Petroleum Data Model. He is a NEW POSITIONS: Mark Goodson, corporate tors for Executive Women International October 26, 2002. tions director/afternoon DJ, KLJC Radio, Kansas Margaret Lineberger Rankin, 75, Lincolnton, vice presidential protective division, U.S. Secret Apparel, Kings Mountain. Rick Howell, city man- senior computer geoscientist at Marathon Oil manufacturing assistant, Bradington-Young, LLC, Jacksonville Branch, Ways and Means. She is a AWARDS/HONORS: Kathy Harper Kent, Lenoir, City, MO. Maurice Moore III, sales manager, May 22. Service, Washington, DC. Kurt Matheson, direc- ager, City of Brevard. ’46 Company, Oklahoma City, OK. Mary Beth Cherryville. Danny McMasters, territory sales sales representative at Nextira, Jacksonville, FL. chosen to participate in Susan G. Komen Breast Clear Channel of Charlotte, WKKT-FM, Charlotte. tor of production services, Erwin-Penland Steve Lineberger and Roxanne Magdalene Blankenship Ransdell, 90, Gooley Yates, elected president of board of manager, Woods Equipment Company, Graham. DEGREES: Sandra Miller, Axton, VA, master’s in Cancer Foundation’s National Advocate Mike York, senior vice president-commercial WEDDINGS: Advertising, Greenville. Randy Lambeth, manag- Triplett, Hickory, May 20. and Richard ’47 Glastonbury, CT, July 16, retired librarian. directors for Group Homes of Forsyth, Inc. She is Beth Blankenship Frink, manager, Peoples business administration, Regent University. Reviewers Team. Lynn Price Conchado, loan administrator, First National Bank, Columbia, Ann Burns ing director-foreign exchange, SunTrust Equitable Harper Jr., Winston-Salem, March 17. Homer H. Wagoner, 93, Yadkinville, June 4, vice president small business sales support at Federal, Sunset Beach. Debra Morris, principal, Christopher Bursch, vice achieved Inner Circle status for sales volume. She SC. David Jobson, system specialists, U.S. NEW POSITIONS: Securities, Atlanta, GA. J. Alan Price, dean of retired business owner. Daniel R. “Doc” Wachovia, Winston-Salem. Sig Johnson, West Lincoln High School, Lincolnton. Norman is a realtor at Arvida Realty Services, Saint Pete Bankruptcy Court, Charlotte. Melissa Jones, BIRTHS: Steven and Pam Wallace Sciascia ’85, ’49 president information technology, enrollment management, Cleveland Community Martin, 74, Charlotte, Oct. 15, chairman of the board Severna Park, MD, promoted to rank of captain in Crotts, assistant principal, Watauga High School, UnumProvident Corporation, Chattanooga, TN. Beach, FL. Barbara McGinn Lawrence received postdoctoral fellow, Neuromuscular Disease Harrisburg, a daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, April 20. College, Shelby. Janet Bickett, sales, Carolina of Martin and Harrill Insurance Agency. the U.S. Naval Reserve. Jim Ratchford, elected Boone. David Robinson, vice president of sales for certification as CEcD from the International Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Lizbeth and Richard Schwartz, Philadelphia, PA, Insurance Solutions, Charlotte. Todd Crews, to fourth three-year term on Cherry, Bekaert & WEDDINGS: Nancy Torre and Hal Augustine, St. oncology, GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Economic Development Council. She is an eco- Ontario. Sherrill Suitt Craig, technical help desk a son, Grant Thomas, April 30. David and Marietta Smith, 86, Mars Hill, July 6, retired manager motorcycle dealer administration, Holland, LLP’s executive board. He is a partner at Petersburg, March 3. Park. , manager, supply chain for con- nomic development consultant at Gastonia manager, Syntel, Inc., Cary. William Vickers Jr., Jennifer Baker Jobson, Charlotte, a son, Ryan teacher. June Davis Bleakley, 72, David Felty American Honda Motor Company, Torrance, CA. ’51 Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, LLP, Charlotte. David and Julia DeBerry Turner, verting and specialty papers, International Paper, Development Alliance, Gastonia. David Hamlyn, strategic planning and support manager, William, Aug 29. Mark and Laura Fowler Horton Greensboro, May 18, retired librarian. Nettie Cornell BIRTHS: Lo Carmon, county manager, Edgecombe Charlotte, a son, Devyn John, April 3. Thomas and Englewood, CO. Elaine Williford Greene, chain ordained an elder in Western N.C. Conference of Wachovia Bank Financial Services, Winston- ’95, Millers Creek, a son, Jonah Mark, Sept. 27. Harris, 85, Rutherfordton, May 5, former teacher and NEW POSITIONS: Betsy Roberts Miller, senior County, Tarboro. Kim Mattox, principal, Newton- sales manager, Miller Brewing Company, The United Methodist Church. He is pastor at Salem. Debbie Robertson Reardon, creative David and Leia Welch Hamlyn, Rutherford guidance counselor. Joseph T. Watts, 74, Elkin, May library technician, Robins Air Force Base, GA. Rosa Taylor Lee, Conyers, GA, a daughter, Conover Middle School, Newton-Conover. Madison Christine, Feb. 11. Charlotte. Phillip Ostwalt, partner, KPMG, LLP, Abernethy Memorial United Methodist Church, services director, WGBA NBC 26/WACY UPN 32, College, a son, Luke David, Feb. 20. Jeffrey and 27, retired from Woodman of the World Insurance Lisa Devlin Patten, realtor/broker, Fonville William Rogers, senior accountant, Caldwell Forensics and Litigation Services Group, Atlanta, Rutherford College. Rebecca Freeman Green Bay, WI. Marshall Pitts Jr., mayor, Mary Crout Conner, Candler, twin sons, Rafe Company. Morisey Realty, Raleigh. Larry Chadwell, senior Community College, Hudson. Barry Shepherd, 26 Appalachian Today Appalachian Today 27 Losses in the Honorary Alumni Named Appalachian Family Spartanburg, SC, a son, Cameron David, May 1. Timber Systems, Boone. L. Mark Hardy, manag- tor career center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Olivia Anne, April 9. William and Cynthia Taylor Alfred T. Adams of Boone, and Robert L. and Lillian Turchin of Hound Ears and Ellen and Ken Smith, Charlotte, a daughter, Janie er, Andersen Business Consulting Division, John Nall, sales representative for western NC Veal, Durham, a son, Tristan William, Feb. 21. Joel E. “Joe” Derby, 73, Charlotte, Nov. 8. Lucille, July 2. Christopher and Jamie Edmiston Raleigh. Todd Hayes, consultant II, program and eastern TN, Clark-Powell Associates Inc., Michael and Kay Lynn Shrum Gilbert, Granite Miami Beach, Florida, have been named ’52 Christine Winecoff Caldwell, 70, Concord, Hayes, Archdale, a daughter, Grace Elizabeth, review team, N.C. Division of Social Services, Fletcher. Damon Simmons, art director, Medical Falls, a daughter, Clair Rose, March 13. Denise honorary alumni for their commitment to July 12, retired teacher and owner and operator of March 25. David and Carter Carmichael Morris Raleigh. Gerald Pumphrey, president, University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC. and Sean O’Brien, Charlotte, a son, Ian Spencer, Appalachian State University. Interiors by Christine. Horace R. Prevatte Sr., 78, ’89, Harrisburg, a daughter, Abigail Grace, Oct. 10. Bellingham Technical College, Bellingham, WA. Mike Nunn, vice president, Benchmark, Inc., July 9. Hudson, Nov. 4, retired teacher. and Russ, Oct. 4. Laniel and Terri Clayton Adams’ distinguished banking career John and Kristin Bryant Gragg, Boone, a daugh- WEDDINGS: Blair Robertson and George Mickel, Kannapolis. Kim Tucker Prevette, vice presi- AWARDS/HONORS: Melissa Richter Crawford, Winston-Salem, a son, Clayton Parker, James W. “Walt” Baker, 72, Spencer, Oct. 15, ter, McKenna Nicole, April 5. Jeff and Melissa Morris Plains, NJ, May 12. Bobby McIntyre Jr. dent, Wachovia Bank, Winston-Salem. David Ayers, ten-year award at Wake Forest. spans more than five decades. He joined June 27. Kimberly and Luke Sisk, Cherryville, a ’53 retired educator and coach. Ross Taylor ’89, Charlotte, a daughter, Hayley and Laurie Wilder, Mount Gilead, April 14. Marie Joyce, southeast regional account manager, She is an animal laboratory tech IV at Wake Northwestern Bank in 1942 as a teller and daughter, Peyton Layne, June 30. Manuel and Grace, Aug. 2. Michael and Erica Swenson Altadis USA, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Deidra Carl A. Litaker, 85, Statesville, Aug. 30, retired DePasquale and Craig York, Greensboro, Aug. Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem. Ali worked his way to executive vice president Helen Buchholz Sanders, Abilene, TX, a son, Stacy, Mount Gilead, a daughter, Olivia Christine, Johnston, functional consultant for oracle soft- owner of insurance business The Litaker 11. Martin Jordan received national teaching certifi- ’55 Manuel Jackson IV, June 24. James and Cynthia Jan. 21. Sidney and Lee Mabry Jr., Raleigh, a son, ware, Baytree Associates, Charlotte. Brad Hall, and chairman of the board before the bank Agency, Ltd.; survived by wife, Betty Jo Henderson BIRTHS: Miosa and Adam Rattray, Route de St. cation from the National Board for Professional Whitener Coyle ’86, Kernersville, a son, Jake Joseph Carr, Aug. 28. Scott and Julia Steagall compliance specialist, Bayer Corporation, merged with First Union. He has provided Litaker ’52. Cergue, Switzerland, a son, Alexander Pla, July Teaching Standards in the area of early child- Taylor, March 6. Clayton. , third grade Hash ’89, Raleigh, a son, Matthew Scott, June 5. 19. Kella and Gary McCue, Ladson, SC, a daugh- Kris Long Lineberger hood/generalist. She is a teacher at Greenway countless hours of support and counsel to teacher, Gaston Day School, Gastonia. Ellie Mangum Goodman, 96, West Jefferson, AWARDS/HONORS: Benjamin Mikeal, Keith and Karoleigh Collins Allred ’90, Elon, a ter, Katherine Ariel, May 12. Carol and Scott Melinda Park Elementary School, Charlotte. banking majors at Appalachian. A profes- Chancellor Borkowski, Alfred daughter, Ashleigh Collins, April 3. Ted and Mary Edwards Bowers, sixth grade teacher, Endy ’56 Sept. 25. IABC certified biblical counselor. He is a Dadson, Buena Vista, VA, a son, Evan Scott, Oct. DEGREES: P. Keith Gammons, Greensboro, doc- Adams and his son Austin Adams minister at Bosque Farms Church of Christ, Sifford Whisenant, Huntersville, a daughter, Elementary School, Albemarle. Robert Sneed, sorship of banking within the Walker Col- Virginia Clements Haire, 85, Spindale, Sept. 31. Glenn and Andrea Brown Cook, North tor of philosophy in English, UNC-Greensboro. Peralta, NM. Carmen Kincaid Wilson, named Mary Grace, June 12. Robert and Ruth Sochacki web and intranet designer, Rappahannock lege of Business is named for him. ’65 ’66 at homecoming. 29, retired nurse. Wilkesboro, a son, Aidan Riley, Aug. 6. Michael Shelley Smith, MSN, UNC-Greensboro, and ’57 , Raleigh, a daughter, Emma Ruth, April Electric Cooperative, Fredericksburg, VA. Kristi N.C. Teacher of the Year. She is a math teacher at Patterson and Alisia Dale Phillips, Braselton, GA, a daugh- graduated from Wake Forest University Baptist The Turchins have been invaluable members of Odell Boyte, 68, Blythewood, SC, Sept. 6, 16. and , Candler, Lee Snuggs, education consultant for early child- Ashe County High School, West Jefferson. Brent Anita Wrightenberry Orr ter, Bailey Marie, June 16. Thomas and Cathy Medical Center’s Nurse Anethesia Program. She retired senior vice president with Farm Credit hood and public service technologies, N.C. the university community for almost two decades. The ’58 Charles Alexander Jr., named to local board of a son, Dillon Thomas, March 24. Scott and Lisa Raynor McDonald, Roanoke Rapids, a son, Tyler is a certified registered nurse anesthetist at Wake Bank and independent real estate appraiser. Community College System, Raleigh. Jeffrey directors for First Citizens Bank in Sanford. He is Griffith Cook ’89, Clyde, a daughter, Ivy Grace, Robert, Nov. 15. Nathan and Anita Gentry Forest University Baptist Medical Center, couple provided the lead gift to establish the Turchin Holman, vice president and project manager, Henry F. Allred Jr., 71, Ramseur, Oct. 23, principal of B. T. Bullock Elementary School, Oct. 13. Crawley, Morganton, a son, Keegan Scott, June Winston-Salem. Mary Thomas Edens, Salisbury, Center for the Visual Arts. They have enriched the Bollinger Corp., Granite Falls. , retired teacher. Sanford. Bobby Nelson Jr., Drexel, named AWARDS/HONORS: Stan Latta, appointed 20. Ed and Pam New Vest, Lexington, a daugh- Gregory Millsaps doctor of education in educational leadership, region’s cultural climate through their involvement ’59 English, geography and rhetoric teacher, Master’s Technician in the General Electric by president of the board of directors to ter, Sarah Grace, Aug. 12. Jimmy and Krista UNC-Greensboro. Jennifer Luper, master’s in Charles B. “Bud” Gerringer, 67, Spindale, Covenant Classical School, Concord. Brian with An Appalachian Summer Festival. They have Appliance Division Hall of Fame. serve on supervisory committee for Coastal Robinson Epley, Hays, a son, Chance Reid, June instructional technology, Appalachian. She is a Aug. 15, owner of B&G Siding and Windows. Phillips, principal, Carthage Elementary School, been active with the Appalachian State University ’60 DEGREES: Jeff Jones, doctorate in geography, Federal Credit Union. He was also appointed by 23. Clark and Michelle William Lawrence, teacher at Lincolnton High School, Lincolnton. Carthage. , graduate gemolo- Frank H. Lewis, 62, Arden, May 27, supervisor University of Kentucky. He is a senior researcher the town council to serve on Cary Parks, Matthews, a daughter, Morgan Elizabeth, Aug. 1. Heidi Abell Secker Michael Giang, Cramerton, master’s in business Foundation, the “Campaign for the Second Century” gist, Donald Haack Diamonds, Charlotte. ’61 of student teachers, Appalachian. at the University of Kentucky, Center for Recreation and Cultural Resources Advisory Lynn and Tony King, Charlotte, a son, Alexander administration, McColl School of Business, Robert and Lillian Turchin and a variety of fundraising projects. Elizabeth Ann Johnson, 63, Asheboro, June Prevention Research, Lexington, KY. Dawn Board. He is an executive administrator at IBM James, Aug. 25. David and Angela Walker WEDDINGS: Darin Hirschy and Tammy Davis, Queens College. Lewis Rierson, MBA, McColl School of Business, Corporation, Research Triangle Park. Rising Sun, MD, Feb. 2. Gentry Coleman and ’62 4, retired teacher. Keith C. Carpenter, 84, Andrea Boykin, Apex, a son, Adam Joseph, Aug. 3. Dale NEW POSITIONS: William Otten, research ana- and Brook Womble ’92, Belhaven, June 30. Hallyburton Goulding, Raleigh, a son, Nicholas Queens College. She is operations manager at , completed licensing for N.C. real Martha Lawson, Cerro Gordo, March 10. Deidra Lincolnton, June 18, retired educator. Earl S. Owens, Pierce Fox and Lisa Rhodes Littler, Clayton, a daughter, lyst and special projects coordinator for senior Chris Murphy and Stacey Malcolm, St. Lucia, Wirt, April 4. Subbappa and Michele Ribeiro, Lewis Trailer Sales and Leasing, Charlotte. Mara estate broker. She is a real estate broker associ- Johnston and Eddie Dickens, Blowing Rock, Aug 64, Cramerton, Nov. 7, retired teacher and principal. Ellen Faye, April 5. William and Molly Vernon deputy commissioner, N.C. Department of May 12. Robin Brown and Brian Boswell, New Brunswick, NJ, a son, Abhijat Narayan, April Hageman Martin, Sarasota, FL, MBA, University ate at Hagaman Realty, Boone. 18. Stephanie Kepley and Alejandro Rodriguez, Thomas L. Blackburn Jr., 62, Marion, Sept. 20, Charlotte Mock Feichter ’90, Raleigh, a son, Wilson Douglas, Insurance, Raleigh. Darin Mock, investment con- Charlotte, March 31. 3. Andy and Angela Baxley Teague, North school/business development representative for of Sarasota. Carbone, national board certified teacher. She is June 22. Clint and Amy Wilburn Hubbard, El Paso, TX, Jan. 21. Rebecca Sumrall and Mike sultant, Wachovia Investments, Raleigh. Linda BIRTHS: Keith and Lori McGill Swanson, Wilkesboro, a son, Trenton Grant, March 4. Trey Pepsi-Cola Company. NEW POSITIONS: Russell Fletcher, senior man- a teacher at Western Rockingham Middle School, Richmond, VA, a son, Robert Clinton III, June 6. Sides, Salisbury, June 16. Tammy Cooke and Hedrick Mecimore, senior director, King Westfield, NJ, a daughter, Carlee McGill, April 3. and Amy Rozzell Behrendt, Florence, KY, a son, ager-entertainment marketing, The Coca-Cola Madison. Elaine Fore McGee, received national Mark and Kathryn Paul Hardy, Raleigh, a son, Barry Dowell, Mount Airy, June 23. James H. Van Pelt, 67, Gastonia, Sept. 13. Pharmaceuticals, Bristol, TN. Kevin Yoder, cus- Eric and Teri Saunders Sauer, Kernersville, a Conner Jackson, Dec. 22. David and Stephanie Company, Atlanta, GA. Ken Smith, president, boards for professional teaching certification. She John Garrett, July 26. Bobby and Melanie Davis BIRTHS: Andrew and Michelle Crow-Dolby, Robert P. Falls, 81, Gastonia, July 6, retired tomer solutions manager, AstraZeneca son, Evan, Dec. 20. Greg and Ginger Patterson Balkind Maynard, Winston-Salem, a daughter, ’63 Banister Homes, Inc., Charlotte. Charles Kellum is a special education teacher at Palmetto Whaley ’99, Morganton, a son, Christopher Fredericksburg, VA, a son, Mitchell Bennett, June assistant superintendent of Gaston County Schools. Pharmaceuticals, L. P., Wilmington, DE. Joe Owens, Winston-Salem, a daughter, Tori Robin, Allison Brooke, May 11. Jimmy and Jori O’Neill Jr., graphics manager, Pharmalabel, Greensboro. Elementary School, Williamston, SC. Ashleigh Wayne, Sept. 4. Jill and Terry Simpson, Durham, 9. Peter and Sarah Lindley Piera, Riva, MD, twin Paul O. Lentz, 66, Concord, July 11, retired assistant Perry, police officer/sergeant, Raleigh Police May 1. John and Beth Washburn Levin ’93, Watts, Harrisburg, twin sons, Mitchell Reid and Erica Swenson Stacy, owner/operator, Majooli Black, named Rockdale County Elementary a son, Nathaniel Franklin, May 18. Rick and Vivian daughters, Katherine Grace and Christina Lindley, superintendent of Cabarrus County Schools. Department, Raleigh. Scott Emerson, con- Apex, a daughter, Hannah Olivia, March 29. Eden Adam Benjamin, April 3. Angela and Paul Creative Services, Mount Gilead. H. Lee Mabry School teacher of the month in May. She is a spe- Small Schneider, Greensboro, a son, Landon June 11. Scott and Bethany Gunn Meyers, troller/manager finance and administration, and David Ng, Raleigh, a daughter, Erin Grace, McDowell, Jacksonville, FL, a daughter, Sarah Carolyn Reavis Kelly, 60, Statesville, July 7. Jr., senior vice president, State Employee’s Credit cial education teacher at Hightower Trail Anthony, June 3. Jeffrey and Marissa Echerd Willow Springs, a son, Wesley Scott, Feb. 24. Lisa Graylyn International Conference Center of Wake March 8. Timothy and Caroline Lanford Nicole, June 12. Jerry N. Fox, 60, Mooresville, Nov. 17, retired Union, Raleigh. Cynthia Patrum Godfrey, corpo- Elementary School, Conyers, GA. Austin, Greensboro, a daughter, Katherine, Sept. and Michael Gibbs, Reidsville, a son, William ’64 Forest University, Winston-Salem. Martin Reese, Draughon, Dobson, a daughter, Piper Shae, Feb. REUNION: 10th Reunion, principal. rate communications, Godfrey Lumber Company, DEGREES: Ronald Rimmer Jr., MBA, Babcock 21. Virginia and Lewis Robbins, Charlotte, a “Gene” Eugene, May 25. Jimmy and Wendy regional controller, Media General Publishing 12. Laura and William Blackwell, Winston- October 26, 2002. Inc., Statesville. Melissa Clark, N.C. operations Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest daughter, Gillian Hannelore, May 17. Kim and Wilson Miller ’91, Lexington, a daughter, Cassie Ron A. Blackmon, 58, Matthews, Aug. 27, Division, Granite Falls. Stephanie Barbour Salem, a son, Davis Lehman, Aug. 11. Gregory manager, J. Crew, Asheville. Tim Kerley, vice University. He is director of business computing Scott Plueddemann, Raleigh, a son, Tyler Jacob, Brianna, Aug. 23, 2000. Melissa and Damon AWARDS/HONORS: Angela Lowder Thompson, ’65 owner of AAC Insurance Group. Robert L. Kurak, compensation analyst, SAS Institute, Cary. and Daphne Gilliam Daniels, Marion, a son, president, Wachovia Bank, N. A., Statesville. at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem. March 7. Kern and Andrea Hanna Stevenson, Simmons, Mount Pleasant, SC, a daughter, Anna named special education department head. She Henry, 73, Clemmons, Aug. 14, retired teacher and Gary Robinson, worldwide segment marketing Weston Gregory, July 19. Richard and Elizabeth Darrin McMurry, choirmaster/head of music Manhattan, MT, a son, J. Kolter, Aug. 8. Amy and Elisabeth, April 27. Monte and Jennie is a special education teacher at Ragsdale High coach. Sheila Sullivan Willard, 57, Thomasville, Aug. NEW POSITIONS: Michael Gorenflo, managing manager, IBM ThinkPad Brand, Research Barbee Shronce, Granite Falls, a daughter, Anna department, Christ School, Arden. Timothy Jeff Lewis, Jamestown, a daughter, Deanna Lineberger Lovelace, Hickory, a son, Riley School, Jamestown. Jay Millson, chair at New 2, retired teacher; survived by husband, Gilbert attorney, Gorenflo Law Firm, PLLC, West End. Triangle Park. Tedman Myers, partner-certified Elizabeth, Aug. 31. Scott and Martha Roberson Lovelace, owner, Grace Christian Preschool, Leigh, Sept. 7. Alexander, Feb. 25. Melissa and John Dunlow, Medical Executives Institute, American “Kent” Willard ’63. Joe S. Rowe Jr., 58, Charlotte, Scott Dadson, city manager, City of Buena Vista, public accountant, Myers & Myers CPAs, PLLC, Ajax, Raleigh, a son, Parker James, Sept. 24. Rutherfordton. Bobby Nelson Jr., customer serv- Oxford, twins; a daughter, Gabrielle Leigh; a son, Association of Medical Society Executives. He is July 12, retired teacher and coach. VA. Steve Stang, senior manager, Larson Allen- AWARDS/HONORS: Don Cornwell, elected Lexington. Robert Whitley Jr., partner/attorney, Michael and Amy Sutton Turner, Denver, a ice manager, General Electric Appliances, John Marshall II, July 14. Ryan and Leslie Cook deputy CEO at AACE, Jacksonville, FL. David Rolanda Baker Digh, 57, Gastonia, May 20, Cherry Bekaert LLP, Raleigh. Glenn Cook, con- to the American College Personnel Whitley, Jenkins and Riddle, New Bern. Janis daughter, Chandler Rae, April 17. Joanna and Charlotte. David Lockee, customer satisfaction Smith ’91, Marion, a daughter, Eavan Corinne, Peete, graduated from Leadership Grand Strand retired teacher; survived by husband, Ronnie troller, Blue Ridge Designs, Boone. Tony Phillips, Associations Commission VI Directorate. He is the Cearley Harless, media coordinator, Wilkesboro Robert Jones III, Savannah, GA, a son, Samuel ’66 manager, Gulf States Paper Corporation, Sept. 22. Jennifer and Vincent Amico, Charlotte, sponsored by the Grand Strand Chamber of Digh ’66. public relations director, Bulloch County Board of assistant director at Emory University’s Career Elementary School, Wilkesboro. Rodney Crane, Robert, July 13. Jeffrey and Susan Matkins Conover. Jennifer Howe, major, serving as plans a daughter, Mary Isabella, July 20. Keith and Rana Commerce. He is planner at the City of Myrtle Education, Statesboro, GA. Chris Craven, cardio- Center, Atlanta, GA. Rick Evans, board certified director of information technology, Brand ID, King, Mooresville, a son, Bryant Lawson, Nov. 1. Glenn M. Thatcher, 63, Pine Knoll Shores, and operations officer for force protection, U.S. Matheson Robertson, Concord, a son, Garrett Beach, SC. vascular imaging specialist, DuPont in obstetrics and gynecology. He is a physician Costa Mesa, CA. Denise Rachels, communica- Ronnie and Andrea Blizard Sellers, Charlotte, a retired department chair and professor from Army, Fort Stewart, GA. Michael Lopes, director Westin, Aug. 23. Kevin and Kelly O’Brien White, DEGREES: Kanoot Midkiff, master of music in ’67 Pharmaceuticals, Smyrna, GA. Amy Warlick and department chairman of obstetrics and gyne- tions director, South Carolina Bar, Columbia, SC. daughter, Maggie McNeil, Oct. 18. Jeff and Cathy Kean University. of management recruitment, Roadhouse Grill, High Point, a son, Brenner Harold, Oct. 24. Lisa church music, New Orleans Baptist Theological Hartley, counselor, Southwest Guilford High cology at Kernodle Clinic, Burlington. Kerry Mark Miller, president, Mortgage Resource Culler Jones, Hickory, a son, Brady Justin, June Inc., Pompano Beach, FL. David Kirby, associate and James Hanks, Fuquay Varina, a son, Vincent Seminary. He is an academic adviser at New Buford L. Burke, 55, Greensboro, June 22, co- School, High Point. Samuel Misenheimer, exec- Teeter, president of the Mooresville Civitan Club. Group, Inc., Marietta, GA. Hugo Murillo, assistant 29. Charles and Jenifer Robertson Lewis, professor of music, Brevard College, Brevard. James, April 5. Jennie and John Maultsby, Orleans Theological Seminary, New Orleans, LA. owner of Coastal Apparel; survived by wife, utive director of infrastructure, City of Concord. He is the president of K&D, Inc., Mooresville. art director, Encore EXPRES, Winston-Salem. Rocky Mount, a son, Ben Williamson, May 8. ’69 Tierza Watts, academic advisor, First Year Rockingham, a daughter, Bailey Layne, Oct. 25. Angie Brown Choplin, EdS in school administra- Kathleen Hillin Burke ’69. John A. Williamson, 53, Michael Boles, sales manager, Ferguson DEGREES: Julie Reynolds McMurry, master’s in Laura O’Neal Williams, accounting assistant, Colleen and Kurt Wessler, Charlotte, a daughter, College, N.C. State University, Raleigh. Nicholas and Robin Smith Broumas, Taylors, tion, Appalachian. She is director of the excep- Pinehurst, May 28, sales representative with Met Life Enterprises, Winston-Salem. Kimberly Hunt, vice business administration, Gardner-Webb Winston-Carlyle & Company, Inc., Charlotte. Gianna, Aug. 23. Melanie and Forrest Smith, SC, a daughter, Rachel Nichole, Jan. 14. Mitchell tional children program at the Stokes County Insurance Company. WEDDINGS: David West and Candace Bryant, president, CCB*Salem Group, Greensboro. Craig University. She is purchasing manager with the Jennifer Dean Chase, clinical data management Wilmington, a son, Forrest Chandler, July 23. Gibsonville, June 9. and , chief of staff, Greensboro Police and Kelly Dale Cashion ’92, Charlotte, a son, team lead, Prologue Research International, Board of Education, Danbury. Grant Lashley, Cheryl Spencer Sheppard, 52, Virginia Barina Smith Dean Hartley City of Shelby. Susan Faircloth, State College, Jimmy and Michele Bradshaw Farr, Lenoir, a Caleb William, July 10. Denise and Jeffrey Columbus, OH. doctor of medicine, Saba University School of Beach, VA, May 2, language arts teacher in Blackwelder ’89, Youngsville, July 28. Michael Department, Greensboro. John Holbrook, area PA, PhD in educational administration, American daughter, Amanda Michele, April 28. Steve and ’70 McPherson, Winston-Salem, a son, Nathan Medicine. He is a resident in general surgery at Virginia Beach City School System. Smith and Gena Watson, Whittier, May 19. Todd sales manager, Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Indian Leadership Program, Pennsylvania State WEDDINGS: Crystal Poplin and Toby Landers, Chase Holcombe Byan, Raleigh, a daughter, Alexander, Oct. 8. Michael and Leslie East Carolina University, Greenville. Lori Bunce Smith and Angel Gallimore, Denton, Aug. 28. Raleigh. Matt Weatherman, senior field repre- University. Metro-Manila, Philippines, July 21. Dawn Perdue Sutton Caroline, April 14. Robert and Becky sentative/national sales, Harmony Exchange Holshouser Wright ’91, Salisbury, a daughter, Giang, Cramerton, master’s in business adminis- BIRTHS: Derek and Pamela Stout Brown, NEW POSITIONS: Don Cornwell, assistant direc- 28 Appalachian Today Appalachian Today 29 Losses in the

Appalachian Family a daughter, Morgan Linn, Aug. 24. Joe and school and science, Appalachian. She is a and Tamara Miles Ogier ’92, Villa Rica, GA, iden- producer for The Playhouse of Wilson, Wilson. Margaret Lander Pardue, Burlington, a son, teacher at Piedmont Middle School, Monroe. tical twin daughters, Riley Elena and Olivia NEW POSITIONS: Blake Dye, instructor, Jerry C. Eller, 51, Mount Airy, Aug. 18, chair- Felder Named Outstanding Greek Alumna Joseph Alexander, June 5. Lynn and Craig Wendy Edwards, master’s in middle school and Danielle, March 16. Jeff and Jill Rogers Samz, Hazardous Materials Advisory Council, man of computer science division at Surry ’71 Glasheen Jr., Raleigh, a daughter, Hannah Ruth, science, Appalachian. She is a teacher at Asheville, a daughter, Paige Eileen Samz, April 12. Washington, DC. Michael Waters, assistant Karen Cook Felder ’80 of Mount Pleasant, South Community College. June 18. Candace and Andrew Hart, Springfield, Piedmont Middle School, Monroe. John Worley, Gary and Janelle Waldrop Suddath, Stanley, a director, information management and technolo- Carolina, received the Outstanding Greek Alumni Award Albert L. Epley, 67, Valdese, Sept. 2, retired VA, a son, Kyle David, Sept. 2. Jackie and Robin master’s of school administration, Appalachian. son, Dylan McCabe, April 26. Brandon and Toni gy, Cigna HealthCare, Franklin, TN. Richard tration, McColl School of Business, Queens from Appalachian State University’s Alumni Association. employee of Drexel-Heritage Furnishings and Winebarger Neely, Chattanooga, TN, a son, He is principal at North Wilkes High School, Hays. Davis Ray, Summerfield, a daughter, Samantha Cimino, senior manager-state and local tax, ’72 College. Kevin Beale, Erwin, JD, Campbell The award honors her community work and service to faculty at Western Piedmont Community College. Jaxon Chase, May 31. David and Lynn Anderson Oliver Helsabeck, master of divinity, Duke Gail, Aug. 9. John and Heather Heim Skeen ’92, KPMG, LLP, Charlotte. Kristin Bell Pabst, senior University School of Law. He also passed the N.C. Clary, Cornelius, a daughter, Addison Nell, March University. He is pastor at Center UMC, Charlotte, twin girls, Alexandra McGuire and financial analyst of research and development, the university since graduation. Donna Ann Halstead, 49, Blowing Rock, July Bar Exam. Brock Womble, doctorate in educa- 6. Kenneth and Monica Graybeal Kesterson, Yadkinville. Susan Harris Helsabeck, master of Delaney Buchanan, Jan. 16. C. D. and Angelia GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park. 17, self-employed computer consultant. Larry tional leadership, East Carolina University. He is Assistant principal of Orange Grove Elementary ’73 Conover, a son, Robert Carlyle, Sept. 24. Tory and arts in Christian education, Pfeiffer University. She Trivette Wright ’95, a son, Maxwell Noah, April Damon Brown, teacher/assistant football and G. Pettit, 49, Greer, SC, Oct. 15, account director for principal at Lake Mattamuskett High School, Swan School in Charleston, Felder was active with Chi Omega Chris Rule, Summerfield, a daughter, Amy Kay, is a weekday child care consultant at The 21. Patty and Kenny Richardson, Greensboro, a wrestling coach, North Henderson High School, Standard Register Company. Quarter. Dec. 18. David and Mary Blythe Robertson Children’s Home, Inc., Winston-Salem. Tony daughter, Emily Claire, Aug. 3. Travis and Renee Hendersonville. Pamela Josey Pope, integration Sorority while a student. She is a member of the university’s Greek Alumni Council. Rhonda W. Dunlap, 87, Hamlet, July 17, retired NEW POSITIONS: Pamela Hurley Crouch, direc- Chipman, Monroe, a son, Caleb David, July 9. Mancuso, Raleigh, master’s of statistics, N.C. Byers Gentry, Elkin, a daughter, Hannah Faith, and strategic planning, Volaris/Durocom, Hickory. She is a past president of the Junior League of Charleston, participated in the ’74 educator. Ellen Greear Hurst, 49, Banner Elk, tor of rehabilitation/conference coordinator for Daniel and Angie Brown Choplin, Lewisville, a State University. July 10. Eric and Deborah Gass Tucker, Jocinda Benjamin, promotion and marketing Charleston Chamber of Commerce program Leadership Charleston in 2000, and Oct. 22, teacher with Watauga County School System; The Speech Team, Inc., HCR Manor Care, son, Harrison Ty, July 12. Sean and Sheryl Durham, a daughter, Rachel Brooke, May 20. NEW POSITIONS: Mario Montero, senior associ- manager, Infinity Broadcasting WPEG Power 98, has been active with the Low Country Girl Scouts. survived by husband Mark Hurst ’74. George E. Dunedin, FL. Thad Ward, product marketing engi- Warren Barnes ’91, Columbus AFB, MS, a ate in IS department handling trade processing, Matthew and Lisa Masso Chansky, Princeton, Charlotte. Brice Ackerman, manager, Andersen, “Ned” Tonkin, 54, Asheboro, May 30, director of spe- neer, Acterna, Salem, VA. Neal Brislin, vice pres- daughter, Josephine Olivia, Sept. 19. Dave and NJ, a daughter, Emma June, April 5. Jonathan UBS/Paine Webber, Weehawken, NJ. Amy Charlotte. Melanie Muse Moore, billing/benefits Hughes and Gant Hewett ’97, Clemmons, Oct. 6. NEW POSITIONS: Jennifer Christian, donor cial services at Randolph Community College; sur- ident, Wachovia Securities, Charlotte. Marsha Sarah Murdock Kitts, Woodruff, SC, a son, and Laurie Cox Bostian ’94, Hickory, a son, Shiflet Singleton, assistant director of develop- coordinator, Pisgah Physical Therapy, Sammi Wooten and Brian Sigmon, Conover, services marketing supervisor, American Red vived by wife, Elizabeth Sparrow Tonkin ’72. De Stiles, corporate IT specialist/web master, Ralph Daniel Lee, Oct. 25. Steven and Laurie Shorter Judge Edward, Jan. 10. David and Deborah ment, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth Hendersonville. Todd Pittman, director of opera- March 25. Betsy Watts and Chris Coleman ’93, Cross, Beaverton, OR. Christine German Lois Presley Guiton, 84, Whiteville, Oct. 22, retired Whitehead Associates, Inc., Charlotte. Lisa Isom Chamblee ’94, Greensboro, a son, Tilden James, Bergin Jones, Gainesville, GA, a son, Matthew University, Richmond, VA. Andy Browning, tech- tions, Winston-Salem Cardiology, Winston-Salem. Charlotte, June 2. Donna Carlton and Keith Myers, math instructor, Randolph Community teacher. Hugh “Wayne” Tucker, 56, Gastonia, Oct. Gorenflo, sales and marketing assistant director, July 5. Jason and Sandra Anderson Eaton ’93, Andre, July 24. John and Amy Miller Worley ’91, nology director, Carbonhouse, Inc., Charlotte. Nathaniel Simpson, financial representative, Harris, Raleigh, July 14. John Cushing and Leigh College, Asheboro. Shawn Dillon Miller, direc- 10, employee of Internal Revenue Service; survived by Accelerated Technology Laboratories, West End. High Point, a son, Kyle Stewart, June 3. Robert Wilkesboro, a son, Jonathan Daniel, July 6. Sam Eric Holloway, actor, recently completed pro- NorthWestern Mutual Financial Network, Watkins, Apex, April 7. Taylor Adams and Traci tor, gift planning development, Appalachian, wife, Caren Hobbs Tucker ’73. Elizabeth Martinez Tempia, grant projects coor- and Kristen Welborn Parson, Wilkesboro, a son, and Shelly Roper Henderson, Bostic, a daugh- duction for the Discovery Channel’s FBI Files, Columbia, SC. Meredith Oehler Jones, staff Willard, Mount Pleasant, SC, May 19. Boone. Robert Barthle III, senior coldfusion Anja Sexton Murdock, 51, Wilkesboro, Oct. 9, dinator, Partnership for Health, Hendersonville. Grayson Robert, April 23. Amy and Marc Hickory. Melanie Cornelison Perron, education ter, Brooklyn Gail, April 28. Laura and Robin writer and website manager, The State Port Pilot BIRTHS: Stephanie and Jack Yurachek II, developer, U.S. Postal Service-contracting for JLS co-owner of Hadley’s Restaurant; survived by Amy Capps Rice, director of instruction/assis- Ingwersen, Findlay, OH, a son, Spencer Allen, director, Community Theatre of Greensboro, Sharpe, Charlotte, a son, Waightstill Andrew, Feb. Newspaper, Southport. Jason Aydelott, curricu- ’75 Huntersville, a son, John Cole, March 18. Carson Technical Staffing, Fairfax, VA. Bruce Cumbo Jr., husband, Wayne Murdock ’76. tant principal, Mary Potter Intermediate School, June 30. Brian and Tanya Flowers Reid ’93, Greensboro. W. Dana Pierce, senior field under- 27. Leslie and Chris Eldridge, Pickens, SC, a lum designer, America Online, Herndon, VA. and Julie Olson Vermillion ’95, Stoneville, a son, investment officer, Yadkin Valley Bank, Oxford. Penny Johnson Evans, K-1 teacher, Granite Falls, a son, Corey Neel, April 5. Heather writer/team leader, Zenith Insurance Company, daughter, Maggie Ellesse, Oct. 17. Kimberly and Philip Elmore, operations/housekeeping super- Marilyn Denise Doby, 48, Charlotte, July 23, Grayson Alexander, June 25. Wendy and Mark Yadkinville. Brandon Wright, associate dean for Sparta Elementary School, Sparta. Beth Metcalf and Eric Hawkins, Charlotte, a son, Finn Hunter, Charlotte. Kathleen Pinkston Capshaw, graph- Jon Marx, Cary, a son, Jonathon “Cooper”, May visor, Fairfield Inn NE, Charlotte. Rebecca sales representative for MCI Corporation. Tucker, Pilot Mountain, a daughter, Avery external relations, Norman Adrian Wiggins ’76 Bell, costume supervisor, Triad Stage, Aug. 3. Mandy and Robert Carmer, High Point, a ics and advertising director, Gallahans Home 26. Brian and Lisa Westcott Hollins, Colfax, a Reagan, town clerk/personnel officer, Town of Wayne S. York, 54, Ellenboro, Sept. 23, retired educa- Frances, Sept. 1. Allen and Jennifer Zofnas School of Law, Campbell University, Buies Creek. Greensboro. Dawn Morris Forward, social stud- son, Jacob Andrew, Sept. 23. Dale and Sherri Furnishings, Fredericksburg, VA. John Skeen, daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, July 16. Hall and Amy Knightdale, Knightdale. William Purcell, business tor and beef cattle farmer. R. Kent Skeen, 50, White, King, a daughter, Alyssa Sierra, July 3. Shannon Caldwell Dean, software quality ies department chairperson, Polk County High Glasscoe Setzer, Thomasville, a son, Alexander insurance broker dealer, Federated Investors, Plyler Sumner, Beaufort, SC, a daughter, Lillian affairs director of marketing and public relations, Reidsville, Sept. 14, retired marketing executive for Emily and Kevin Rothrock, Vilas, a son, Ethan assurance and documentation manager, Systech School, Columbus. Tracy Proffitt, physical edu- Jacob, May 16. Chris and Tabatha Farmer Charlotte. Luann Rogers Bryan, director of com- Elizabeth, June 1. Appalachian, Boone. Shay Winebarger, assis- Unisys Corporation. Robert A. Hewitt, 50, Conover, Montgomery, May 9. Richard and Angela Retail Systems, Raleigh. Brook Patterson, serv- cation teacher, Gamewell Middle School, Lenoir. Brantley ’90, Winston-Salem, a son, Blake munications, Durham CVB, Durham. Travis AWARDS/HONORS: Pamela Josey Pope, tant attorney general, Tennessee Attorney Aug. 27, employee of Corning Cable. Grace Groves Williams Crews, Thomasville, a son, Jacob ice bureau director, Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Mac Mahaffee, promotions writer/producer, Christian, Sept. 20. Katherine and Dennis Gentry, senior district executive, Old Hickory Claremont, selected as chairman of General and Reporter’s Office, Nashville, TN. Windley, 75, Lumberton, retired educator. Norman, Aug. 17. Jody and Beth Brafford Conference, Thomasville. David Weatherman, WKYC-TV, Cleveland, OH. Lisa Canupp Guy, Covington, Alpharetta, GA, a daughter, Mary Council Boy Scouts of America, Winston-Salem. Hickory Metro Business Expo. She was also Ginger Bowling Salmon, sales Mooring, Henderson, a daughter, Margaret airport planner/planning consultant, Talbert and Barbara Eanes Lockwood, 61, Charlotte, senior accountant international division, Internet Elizabeth, Oct. 13. Scott and Christa Knight William Boston, deputy sheriff, Catawba County, appointed to E-Government Council for the City of representative/interior designer, Knoll Textiles, “Maggie” Ann, Aug. 14. Nicole and Charles Bright Engineering and Planning Consultants, Sept. 26, employee of Charlotte Mecklenburg Services Corporation, Fort Mill, SC. Thomas Dettman, Riverside, CA, a son, Ryan Gene, July Newton. Maury Kennedy, training and develop- Hickory. Dustin Allred, completed RAIN, a 165- Charlotte. Amanda Sims Mancuso, human ’77 Purdie, Greensboro, a son, Michael Charles, April Charlotte. Luther Snyder III, associate, Heidrick School System. Needham, owner, Thomas Needham Insurance 27. Timothy and Carrie Robinson Powers, ment director, Oakwood Homes, Greensboro. mile bike ride across Indiana in one day. He is resources director for worldwide operations, 26. Travis and Sonya Little Calef, New Hope, and Struggles Executive Search Firm, Cary. Dani Agency, Greensboro. Steve Wilks, secondary Omaha, NE, a son, Timothy Lew “Trey”, June 6. Chip Taylor Jr., general manager, Blowing Rock product coordinator TV/video at Thomson SCYNEXIS Chemistry and Automation, Inc., Robert T. “Bobby” Pence Jr., 48, Gastonia, MN, a daughter, Sophia Tegan, June 4. Donna Saunders, assistant vice president, BB&T Bank, football coach, Appalachian, Boone. James Scott and Angie Smith Buettner, Huntersville, a Stage Company, Blowing Rock. Dana Snider Multimedia, Indianapolis, IN. Ray Baynard Jr., Research Triangle Park. Shane Wagner, ’78 Oct. 14, teacher and coach. Carlton and Keith Harris, Zebulon, July 14. Forest City. Kevin Hoeing, general manager, Lingle, director of information technology, John son, Daniel Owen, July 21. Corey and Beth Evans, accounting/administrative assistant, awarded Financial Executive of the Year distinc- land/home operations manager, Oakwood Susan Efird Christy, 44, Concord, July 25, Douglas and Wendy Eades Foley ’96, Charlotte, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc., Winston-Salem. Q. Hammons Hotels, Springfield, MO. Jeff Jackson Efird, Denver, CO, a son, Dylan WBFJ-FM 89.3, Winston-Salem. Jonathan Hipps, tion by the AOC and Institute of Management Homes, Greensboro. Cynthia Knox Pruitt, pro- staff accountant at Gerald Dry, CPA. a daughter, Claudia Rowan, April 9. Thomas and Pamela Allen, branch manager, CitiFinancial, ’80 Brandon, general manager/partner, Kilwin’s Ice Jackson, Aug. 24. Jeff and Kimberly Eagle assistant district attorney, 20th Prosecutorial Accountants. He is treasurer, controller and sec- fessional development and recruiting administra- Wendy Welborn Dawson ’89, Wilkesboro, a son, Oak Grove, OR. Meredith Winebarger, assistant Terry VanMorgan, 43, Silver Spring, MD, May Cream Chocolate and Fudge Shoppe, Howard ’91, Woodstock, GA, a son, Jeffrey Criss, District, Richmond County District Attorney’s retary at Flynt Amtex, Inc., Burlington. Katrina tor, Womble Carlyle Sandridge and Rice, PLLC, Garrett Alexander, March 21. Krista and Chuck director of reunions, Fuqua School of Business, ’81 1. Wilmington. Richard Toler, realtor, Coldwell May 23. Office, Rockingham. Melinda Arndt, conference Simmons, accquired her broker’s license. She is Winston-Salem. Gloria Bartholomew Horton, Banker Sea Coast Realty, Wilmington. Todd Layman, Atlanta, GA, a son, Henry McCall, Aug. 9. Duke University, Durham. Jeremy Willard, unit AWARDS/HONORS: William Whiteside, services manager, Washington Duke Inn & Golf a realtor at Elite Real Estate Properties, Roswell, sixth grade language arts/social studies teacher, James D. Sullivan, 46, Charlotte, July 9, com- Web and Kristine Freiburger Mitchell, manager, Farm Bureau Insurance, Winston- Smith, first level officer, Wachovia Bank, Winston- N.C. Law Enforcement Torch Run for Club, Durham. James Reaves, vice president, GA. Melanie Talbert Younts, Teacher of the Bunn Middle School, Bunn. James Jones, senior ’82 puter software quality assurance analyst. Statesville, a daughter, Ellie Margaret, Feb. 5. Salem. C. Hunter Widener, assistant vice presi- Salem. Joseph Woods, director of sales, Desa Special Olympics Award. He is criminal justice BB&T Bank, Winston-Salem. Allen Crumley, vice Year for Welcome Elementary School. She is a vice president/commercial banking manager, Michael J. Holt, 46, Durham, May 21. Meredith and Michael Hershey, Stoney Creek, a dent and private financial advisor, asset and International, Gibsonville. Douglas Addis, vice partnership program director for Yancey County president, Pool Management Group, Inc., Roswell, kindergarten teacher at Welcome Elementary SouthTrust Bank, San Antonio, TX. Jim Stuckey, president-marketing finance support, Bank of son, Mason Brim, July 4. wealth management division, Wachovia Bank, ’83 Government, Burnsville. Yonna Hamrick Acuff, GA. Angela McClung Soares, second grade School, Lexington. Pamela Gaddy Brice, third financial analyst, Harsco Track Technologies, Charlotte. David Parker, assistant director of America, Charlotte. Paul Kielwasser, assistant AWARDS/HONORS: Sean Patrick, com- Kay Reid Fulkerson, 52, Boone, Sept. 24, recognized as a Teacher of Excellence by ESL teacher, Whitney Elementary School, Las place in environmental reporting from the 2001 Columbia, SC. Katherine Dean, promotion coor- intramural sports, N.C. State University, Dunn. principal/assistant A. D. /health and physical edu- pleted one year advanced education in director of Child and Family Services. Ricky E. Exceptional Children’s Division of N.C. Vegas, NV. Sandi Smith, director of study Washington Newspaper Publishers Association. dinator, Lyric Street Records, Nashville, TN. Danielle Huey Hamer, senior reimbursement ’85 cation chair, Saint Frederick High School, Monroe, general dentistry with the U.S. Navy. He is a den- Yates, 39, Hickory, May 20, employee of NC Department of Public Instruction for Cleveland abroad programs, University of Virginia, She is a writer for Enterprise Newspapers, Michael Hershey, national sales manager, The consultant, Lash Group Healthcare Consultants, LA. tist in the U.S. Navy, Sasebo, Japan. Department of Corrections; survived by wife, Angela County Schools. She is an exceptional children’s Charlottesville, VA. Kenneth Gibbs III, managing Seattle, WA. Dwight Mathis, Rotarian of the Year. Murphy Group, Greensboro. Jonathan Kay, Charlotte. Shirley Bennett Thompson, vice Nancy Bartenstein and Barkley Bailey Yates ’91. WEDDINGS: teacher at Springmore Elementary School, partner, Blue Adobe Grille, Mesa, AZ. He is a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch, CPA, Harvell and Company, Morehead City. DEGREES: Jesse Pratt, master’s in school admin- president/chief nursing officer, Saint Joseph’s Pierce, Wilmington, DE, April 6. Denise Demetra Sumner Bouyoucas, customer Ann Griffin Clawson, 36, Apex, Aug. 15; sur- Shelby. William Boston, awarded the advanced WEDDINGS: Mario Montero and Karen Schmitt, Charlotte. istration, Appalachian. He is an assistant principal Hospital, Parkersburg, WV. Tara Worley, senior Preswood and Jeffrey Brandon, Boone, May account manager, US LEC, Palm Beach Gardens, ’87 vived by husband, Charles Clawson ’87. law enforcement certificate. He is a deputy sheriff Pine Brook, NJ, Sept. 22. David Kennedy and DEGREES: Richard Cimino, Charlotte, MBA, at Southeast Middle School, Kernersville. Chris marketing research analyst, ANC Rental 19. Scott Brown and Kristi Wagner, Statesville, in Catawba County, Newton. Susan Shoemaker Karen Haas, Kirtland Hills, OH, May 19. Andy Wake Forest University. Sherry Dayton Bell, MA FL. Haverland, MBA, Elon University. He also passed Corporation, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Michael Walter D. Austen, 39, Cary, May 22. April 14. Latham Jenkins and Megan Ross, Parker, High Point, reappointed to board of direc- Browning and Kristin Miller, Charlotte, Oct. 13. in communication disorders, Appalachian. She is WEDDINGS: Shannon Fleshood and Chris Chartered Financial Analyst Level I. He is a secu- Rheiner, director, Center for Career Services, ’89 Jackson, WY, Sept. 22. Todd Peeler and Paula tors for Childwatch. Michelle Ray Hunt, obtained Joy Flippin and Robert Watson ’90, Winston- the exceptional children’s program Myers, Greensboro, Oct. 13. Pamela Josey and rities analyst at Jefferson Pilot Financial, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA. Sean Andrew G. Bradford, 31, Charlotte, May 24, Thompson, Shelby, June 13. Laura Robinson national board certification in the area of special Salem, July 7. Kate Robinson and Alex Golden, director/speech-language pathologist for Mitchell John Pope, Claremont, Nov. 3. D. Cranford Knott Greensboro. Amy Broyhill Lowman, master’s in Patrick, dental officer, U.S. Navy, Sasebo, Japan. ’93 employee of Innovative Driver Services and Robert Hodge, Mount Ulla, May 5. Mark needs. She is an exceptional children teacher at New York, NY, Oct. 12. Mark Bodford and Misty County Schools, Bakersville. Rachel Gaillard and Sarah Owen, Asheboro, May 26. Robert business administration, Campbell University. Cynthia Gutierrez, public and media relations Corporation. Dena Chaney Gillette, 60, Mooresville, Townsend and Jennifer Lanza, Brooklyn, NY, Northview Middle School, Hickory. Will Berrier, Winston-Salem, May 5. Kristi Holden and Smook, doctor of psychology, Harvard Chernault and Tiffany Altman, High Point, May 5. She is planning project manager at IBM, specialist, Miami Children’s Hospital, Miami, FL. June 2. Paul Kielwasser and Amie Bates, Robinson, employee of third quarter for ninth Research Triangle Park. Matthew Holcombe, July 15, teacher in Iredell-Statesville Schools. David Triplett, Lenoir, July 4. Kevin Hummer and University. She is a clinician/postdoctoral fellow- Kimberly Brantley and William Wendell, Cary, WEDDINGS: Kristin Laciano and Jeffrey Monroe, LA, June 29. Judicial Circuit of Florida. He is a juvenile proba- MBA, UNCG. He is a programmer/analyst at Unifi, Susan Hoard Carpenter, 28, Charlotte, July Linda Herbert, Wilbraham, MA, July 28. Kenneth ship at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Feb. 10. Piper Pilkington and Vernon Collins Goldscher, Kent Island, MD, April 28. Matthew Ashley and Jeffrey Slane, Mount tion officer with the Florida Department of Juvenile Inc., Greensboro. Andrew Arnold, Bristol, TN, 28, administrator of Carmel Family Physicians. BIRTHS: Gibbs III and May Chang, Las Vegas, NV, April 11. Thomas Beaman Jr., MA in historical archaeolo- ’98, Boone, Sept. 15. Kimberly Younger and Thomas and Kimberly Holloway, Greensboro, ’94 Justice, Orlando, FL. master of arts in education, Cumberland Pleasant, SC, a son, Evan Hastings, June 29. BIRTHS: Bob and Mary McCumby Baltimore, gy, East Carolina University. He is an assistant Richard Thomas Jr., Gibsonville, June 2. Joseph April 27. Robin Campbell and Mark Paine, Hubert L. Cox, 67, Granite Falls, May 2. University. ’96 Andrew and Alison DeForest Wise, Smyrna, GA, DEGREES: Cindy Edwards, master’s in middle Richmond, VA, a son, Jack Martin, April 29. Chris archaeologist for N.C. State Historic Sites and Page and Kelly Gunn, Reidsville, May 5. Allison Candler, July 28. 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Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM. Decatur, GA, May 20. Shannon Marman and I.D. Number/SS # (Provision of Social Security number is voluntary and will only be used as a personal identifier for record keeping purposes.) NEW POSITIONS: Chris Hughes, project devel- Kenneth Burke, Charlotte, June 9. Joshua opment scientist, Magellan Laboratories, Williams and Kelly Mathis, Sanibel, FL, Jan. 13. Current Name: Last First Middle/Maiden Research Triangle Park. Julie Geyer, clinical Christina Hillis and Warren McDonald, Charlotte, If you prefer to be called by your middle name rather than your first, give your full name above and research associate II, PPD, Inc., Research Sept. 29. underline your middle name. Bryan and , Rusmisell, Charlotte, July 28. Jennifer Black and Triangle Park. Mathew Chetnik, associate direc- BIRTHS: Amy Borkowski Edwards tor of residence life, Salem State College, Salem, Raleigh, a daughter, Rachel Anne, May 14. Mark Title: Ms., Mrs., Mr., Dr., etc. Class Year Christopher Lanier, Wichita, KS, May 19. Lynn Pearson and Brian King ’94, Atlanta, GA, May MA. Wilbur Pierce, assistant vice president, Bank and Heather Holland Milligan, Charlotte, a son, of America, Charlotte. Richard Armstrong Jr., Mark Brandon Jr., May 16. Victor and Tara Spouse: Last First Middle/Maiden 19. Karen Brooks and Daniel Smith, Phoenix, AZ, June 1. Donald Whelan and Francis Ashworth, principal, Newton-Conover High School, Newton. Jackson McCallum, Salisbury, a daughter, Patrick Brooks, certified financial planner, BB&T, Olivia Spencer, June 19. Kris and Deana Sain Home Address: Street or Route Monroe, April 21. Marsha Flowers and Steven White, Arden, March 10. Doyle Chambers and Florence, SC. Judy Smith Gordon, literacy Palmer, Kannapolis, a daughter, Rachel assessment/retention coordinator, Isothermal Elizabeth-Kathryn, March 15. Russell and City State ZIP Laura Higgins, Fletcher, June 23. Amanda Wood and Korey Klier, Durham, Oct. 27. Community College, Spindale. Christi Byrd Stephanie Moss Bridges, Morganton, a daugh- Llewellyn, microbiologist, USDA, Gastonia. Kellie ter, Sydney Renee, June 29. Chris and Dawn Home Phone (area code) Home Fax (area code) BIRTHS: Tracy and Richard Burleson, Elkin, a Floyd, regional computer trainer, B. Braun Jones Carr ’95, Gastonia, a son, Carson Jack, AHO Rugby Alumni Association Formed son, Cameron Reynolds, July 7. David and Medical, Charlotte. She was also honored as top Aug. 10. Jeffrey and Lori Osborne Mills, Home E-mail Address Shawn Dillon Miller, Boone, a daughter, Emma Coinciding with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Appalachian State University distributor relations representative in the Waynesville, a daughter, Reilly Nicole, April 12. Lake, Aug. 26. Michelle and Jeff Durand, Rugby Football Club, former rugby players Kent Beard ’83, Bruce Grant ’84, Rob Southeast. Russell Yelton, president, Sharp Hugh and Lara Charmak Feinberg ’92, Business Information: Business or School Employed by Danville, VA, a daughter, Jessica Lauren, May 17. Solutions Computer Services, Inc., Arden. John Waynesville, a son, Jared Michael, May 16. Alden Bernot ’81 and Jeff McGalliard ’84 have formed the AHO Rugby Alumni Katy and Mike Richey, Starkville, MS, a son, Brown III, education director and assistant exec- and Laura Jump Sutton, Lenoir, a son, Jackson Association. The not-for-profit association serves as an avenue for alumni and Street or Route Calvin Thomas, July 10. Callum and Ashleigh utive director, The Green Room, Hickory. Robert Wyatt, June 1. Lyndy and Matthew Davison, Moody Brown, Burlington, a daughter, Grayson friends to support students as they strive to play at the highest levels of collegiate Robertson, news director, Mountain Television Elizabethton, TN, a son, Adam Justin, May 17. City State ZIP “Gracie” Andrews, Aug. 24. Brian and Angela rugby. In 2001, the club won the ASU Student Organization of the Year Award and Network, Boone. John Waldrup, plant manager, Jessica and Michael Ellington, Raleigh, a son, Loggins Martin, Sophia, twins; a son, Ethan Topsider Building Systems, Clemmons. Joe Matthew Boyce, June 11. Jonathan and Sally obtained the services of Will Maddox as the club’s new head coach. For more Business Phone (area code) Business Fax (area code) Samuel, a daughter, Gabrielle Elise, Aug. 3. Burroughs, graphic design professor, Kings Gilbert Blackwell ’94, Eden, a son, Noah Gilbert, information, visit www.ahorugby.com/ Richard and Jennifer Trapp Robinson ’94, College, Charlotte. Brian Williams, director of Aug. 6. Marie and Dana Vaughn, Holly Springs, a Business E-mail Address Matthews, a son, Austin Daniel, July 29. David ager, Greenbrier Valley Theatre, Lewisburg, WV. Boggs ’99, Kernersville, March 3. Karla technology and internet services, office of the daughter, Maia Rose, Feb. 27. and Tamara Schwane Coble ’94, Marietta, GA, John Walden III, naval officer, U.S. Navy, Cranford and Eric McPherson ’96, Asheboro, president, UNC, Chapel Hill. Matthew Wray, th Position/Occupation a son, Benjamin David, July 31. Melody and REUNION: 5 Reunion, Sanford. Jennifer Simerson Jackson, April 7. Layla Martin and Stephen Lowman, Eric sales director, Carolina Panthers, Charlotte. Kelly , Huntersville, a son, Connor Reid, May October 26, 2002. buyer/analyst, Diebold, Inc., Lexington. Jamie Hickory, May 5. Suzanne Collins and Keith Morrison Olmstead, center director of education, Sylvan If your spouse is an Appalachian alumnus, please fill in the information below. 6. and ’97, Apex, a AWARDS/HONORS: Jeffrey Krepps, Plantation, Hutchens, first level officer, Wachovia Simmons, West Jefferson, June 30. Susan David Denise Salvini Stovall Learning Center, Raleigh. Benjamin Robinson, FL, won PhD level student paper competition of Operational Services Corporation, Winston- Carawan and Todd Buchanan ’00, Winston- son, Cameron Thomas, March 5. Robert and intensive family therapist, Family Resources, Inc., ’94, Raleigh, a daugh- the Florida Association of Marriage and Family Salem. Jonathan Parks, e-government coordi- Salem, March 10. Brandon Hilton and Heather I.D. Number/SS # (Provision of Social Security number is voluntary and will only be used as a personal identifier for Crystal Gonneville Allis Charleston, SC. Paul Donohoe, president, Quest record keeping purposes.) ter, Emily Rae, May 7. Laura and , Therapy. Jason Ortiz completed all require- nator, Wake County Government, Raleigh. Jayna Smith, Winston-Salem, May 19. Mary McKinney Please check the boxes for which Brian Misiak Companies, Inc., Winston-Salem. Christine Charlotte, a son, Christopher Roman, June 21. ments to become a certified financial planner. He Byrd Patterson, learning disabilities teacher, The and Jody Prevette, Boone, June 2. Patricia Puett you would like more information. Hollis Tran, researcher/data analyst, Council for Current Name: Last First Middle/Maid Ken and , Todd, a daughter, Mairin is a financial planner at American Express Piedmont School, High Point. Christy Watson and Brian Dement, Burlington, June 23. Miki Beth Jacquot Children, Inc., Charlotte. Warren Cook, director If you prefer to be called by your middle name rather than your first, give your full name above and Financial Advisors, Greensboro. Strickland, volunteer coordinator for the Y.E.S. Bingham and Andrew Osherow ’98, Charlotte, ■ underline your middle name. Hollister, June 16. NC Regional Alumni Chapters of student activities/start center, York Technical program, Haven House, Raleigh. Gretchen June 2. Jonathan Duncan and Emily Shouse, AWARDS/HONORS: Sarah White DEGREES: Allison Simon, graduated from ■ College, Rock Hill, SC. 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He is a ■ Greek Alumni Scholarship Fund assistant vice president, First Citizens Bank, charge accountant, Dixon Odom, PLLC, Salisbury. and Panna Sharma, Atlanta, GA, April 28. Melissa chosen as finalist for teacher of the year at Lanier lawyer at McGuire Woods LLP, Charlotte. Raleigh. Suzanne Atkins Stickle, fourth grade Jason Cope, application developer, Geographic Roark and Paul Miller, Apex, Oct. 20. ■ Alumni Association Endowment Position/Occupation Middle School, Buford, GA. David Budd II, elect- Kimberley Williams, Greensboro, juris doctor, teacher, M. C. Riley Elementary School, Bluffton, Technologies Group, Goldsboro. Melissa ed to the executive council of the Young Lawyers Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law. BIRTHS: Sean and Julie Miller Towson ’96, HELP KEEP CLASS NOTES TIMELY BY REPORTING YOUR NEWS WITHIN SC. Steven Mann, manufacturing manager, Robbin Parlier, case manager, youth clarification Division of the State Bar of Georgia. 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James Mitchell III, Jamestown, March 17. Kati Mooresville, Feb. 10. Shannon Howard and University. He is a guidance counselor at Chester Rehabilitation Therapies, Greensboro. Stephani She is a doctoral student in nutrition at UNCG, Golnik and Jay Turner, Apex, Oct. 20. Kondra George Henry, Norwood, March 17. Elizabeth Complete this form online by Park Elementary School, Chester, SC. Erik DeWid, president/owner/pharmaceutical Greensboro. Joseph Plummer, admitted to N.C. Stowe and Kelvin Rattley ’97, Charlotte, June Stewart and J. Michael Snypes, Charlotte, April clicking “Information Update” at Brady, PhD, Vanderbilt University. He is a post- recruiter, Tidewater Consulting, Wilmington. Alan State Bar. He is an associate at Plummer, Belo & 23. Amanda Teskey and Roger Hipp, Jefferson, 28. Melissa Ferger and Christopher Daniel, doctoral research fellow at Los Alamos National Porch, resident stage manager/company man- Russell, P. A., Concord. Adrienne Newton Ray, www.alumni.appstate.edu April 14. Marlena Negri and Charles Compton, Raleigh, May 12. Niki Lankford and Andrew 32 Appalachian Today Appalachian Today 33 Center, Taylors, SC. Jeffrey Reynolds, naval avi- Carmen Beddingfield Armour, Hendersonville, munication disorders, Appalachian. Janalyn Haas ’94, Newton, June 2. Caroline Baker and Leamon and Jonathan Allie, Mooresville, March Weekend Excursion ator, received his wings June 2001, U.S. Navy, a son, Keegan Maze, July 30. David and Beth Worley, Waynesville, MPA, Western Carolina John Bradshaw, Greensboro, Aug. 25. 10. Kristi Morris and Brett Pindell, Charlotte, Aug. Norfolk, VA. Peter Abernethy, advertising project Hall Welch ’99, Mount Airy, a son, Luke, Aug. 16. University. Summer Vassey McMurry, master’s Katherine Strawn and Steven Green, 11. Gwendolyn Leonhardt and Joshua Hartsoe manager, Journal Communications, Franklin, TN. Phillip and Beth Sander Packer ’95, of science in communication disorders, Western Randleman, May 19. Amy Todd and David ’99, Lincolnton, March 24. Alisun Osteen and Jacob Ward, national account representative, Hendersonville, a daughter, Claire Marie, May 25. Carolina University. She is a speech-language Paine, Troy, May 25. Sidney Motsinger and Joseph Gallira, Highlands, June 30. Angela Wyatt Becomes Full-Time Career Global Knowledge, Cary. Emily Westbrook, client Joshua and Renoo Walker Sams, Asheville, a pathologist at The Laurels Skilled Nursing and Patrick Hicks ’00, High Point, April 28. Jamie and Scott Robinson ’92, Moravian Falls, July 14. registered health educator in the State of NC. She case manager, Lincoln Financial Advisors, son, Walker Allen, June 30. Michael and Andrea Rehabilitation Center, Hendersonville. Kathryn Peeler and Stacey Bentley, Lincolnton, June 2. Laura Copeland and Michael Stanziale ’01, These musicians love their career choice. is a health promotion specialist at Charlotte. Tim Sheets, group manager server Shell Philbeck, Kings Mountain, a daughter, Sowers Kapentanakis, High Point, MLIS, UNCG. Amy Jones and Scott Glenn ’97, Asheville, May Chapel Hill, Aug. 18. Lisa Hohing and Zackery “This is the best way to make a living,” says political science major Danny PARTNERSNational Health Plans of N.C., Winston- storage software marketing, Compaq Computer Madison Leanne, June 19. Lene’ Alley-Goetz, NEW POSITIONS: Michael McKenzie, graduate 19. John Bradshaw and Caroline Baker, Hinson, Matthews, June 30. Tennille Brown and Salem. Kimberly McGuire Eggers, passed N.C. Donovan ’00, bass player for the rock band Weekend Excursion. “Our job varies Corporation, Houston, TX. Jay Konstantaras, Dallas, TX, a daughter, Alexandria Grace, May 8. assistant teaching in exercise science depart- Charlotte, Aug. 25. Erik Stubblefield and Lorin Todd Baker, Taylorsville, April 7. Katherine Love Bar Exam. She is an attorney at Legal Services of every day and I can be totally creative.” lead computer repair technician, Stryke Jeffrey and Jennifer Heffron Huffman, Icard, a ment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. David Kirby, Greensboro, July 14. Leslie Turner and and Matthew Alspaugh, Kernersville, Aug. 11. the Blue Ridge, Boone. April Varner, accepted a Computers, Inc., Boone. son, Orry Patrick, Feb. 9. Kramar, GIS technician, Anderson and Joel Sandock, Charlotte, Sept. 29. Sean Joseph Gibbons and Amanda Hastings, Weekend Excursion is an energetic, up-and-coming band with songs appear- position on the board of directors of HOPE, Inc. WEDDINGS: Jennifer White and Douglas Terry Keyes received Associates, Inc., Blacksburg, VA. William Brewer, McGinnis and Heather Houglan, Granite Falls, Charlotte, Aug. 25. Kelley Horne and Bradley She is a social worker at Hospice and Palliative AWARDS/HONORS: ing on the hit television shows MTV’s Real World and Dawson’s Creek. They have Blaszczak ’99, Apex, June 30. Sandy Spicer series 7 and series 63 finance licenses. He probation/parole officer II, N.C. Department of June 23. James Thomas and Alexandra Albrecht ’99, Charlotte, June 23. Ryan Weaver Care, Winston-Salem. Stacy Eggers IV, passed opened concerts for Melissa Ethridge, and Amy Norman, State Road, June 9. Jody is a registered investment representative at CSFB Correction, Yanceyville. Lori Mitchell Wilsher, Skoglund, Asheville, Sept. 22. Kelly Cooper and and Christopher Lovern, Hickory, July 28. N.C. Bar Exam. He is an attorney at Eggers, McIntosh and Matthew Cecil ’99, Springfield, Direct, Charlotte. Jaime Wallace, completed per- second grade teacher, Department of Defense Robert Hatchell, Starkville, MS, July 14. Erin Matthew Starnes and Angel Townsend, Hickory, Edwin McCain, and Sister Hazel. Eggers and Eggers, Boone. John Flynn II, com- MO, April 28. Jena Folger and Barry Blackburn, formance based licensure for teaching. He is an Dependent Schools, Wuerzburg Elementary Jacaruso and Brian Leventhal ’00, Concord, June 16. Katherine Cliver and Scott Foster, pleted Microsoft certified solution developer cer- The band includes two other Ap- Elkin, Oct. 20. Cassidy Williams and Larry Hales elementary teacher in Gaston County Schools, School, Wuerzburg, Germany. Julie Skeen, oper- June 23. Mandy Adams and Gregory Jenkins, Greenville, SC, June 30. Heather Myers and tification. He is a technical instructor at New palachian State University alumni— Jr., Autryville, May 19. Benjamin Ridley and Bessemer City. Jamison Carson, passed all ations manager, Morgan Stanley, Greensboro. Wendell, July 14. Emily VanDusen and Edward Jason Wilkes, Huntersville, Sept. 15. Bradley Horizons Computer Learning Center, Taylors, SC. Grace Rice, Conover, Aug. 25. Daniel Rowland parts of the Certified Public Accountant Sidney Motsinger Hicks, associate chemist, Piacentino Jr. ’00, Atlanta, GA, May 12. Emily Warfield and Christy Newsome, Charlotte, Aug. guitarist Chris Groch ’99 and drum- , graduate of Young DEGREES: John O’Brien Jr. and Jennifer Haire, Gulfport, MS, March 10. Marty Examination. He is employed in the tax division at Banner Pharmacaps, High Point. Ashley Smith, Vaughan and Anthony Leonard, Huntersville, 18. Lidjea Sparks and Seth Andrews, Sparta, mer Cas Edmunds ’00—plus former Executives Institute, UNC-CH. He is vice president Jones III and Jill Blalock, Angier, Aug 4. Penni PricewaterhouseCoopers, Charlotte. Ehren associate director for residence life, Wingate April 21. Michael Ackerman and Kimberly Aug. 4. Summer Scruggs and Shawn Elliott ’96, student Jeff Foxworth on rhythm gui- of sales at Vilcom, Chapel Hill. Lauren Harris, Camp and Tim Pierson, Greensboro, May 26. Meister, selected as a N.C. Governor’s Public University, Wingate. Kevin Mosteller, auditor I, Kettrey, Charleston, SC, July 5. Tiffany Discher Banner Elk, May 19. Heather Frazier and Jason tar and vocalist Sam Fisher. The band master’s in education, Harvard University. She is Gina Helms and Gregory Armstrong, Management Fellow. He is employed with the N.C. First Charter, Charlotte. Kimberly Dayberry and Joseph Butterfield, San Diego, CA, June 23. Eudy, Conover, July 7. an editor at McDougall-Littell Publishers, Boston, Weekend Excursion from left to right: Jeff Foxworth, Cas played together while in school, man- Statesville, July 14. Christopher Stanley and Department of Transportation, Raleigh. James Lawson, teacher, Chase Middle School, Forest Joan Sarrell and Joseph Kelly, Raleigh, June 16. BIRTHS: William Sparks and Sara Petricka, Edmunds, Danny Donovan, Chris Groch, Sam Fisher MA. Joseph Plummer, Concord, juris doctor, City. Owen Daniels, visiting lecturer, department BIRTHS: Michael and Angela Duncan Meeks, Asheville, a daughter, Madelyn Paige, July 10. aging to release three CDs amid their Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, Campbell of recreation and leisure studies, UNC-Chapel Hill. Lenoir, a son, Duncan MacKenzie, Aug. 2. John , studies. Now the band tours colleges and clubs from Florida to Pennsylvania, University. Leigh Caldwell, master of business AWARDS/HONORS: Ashley Goad Jennifer Atwater, tax accountant, PPD, Inc., and Kimberly Salter Macmurphy, Mount Winston-Salem, received Appalachian playing up to twenty dates a month. administration, Wingate University. She is an Wilmington. Tara Matthews Ervin, senior tax Pleasant, SC, a daughter, Catherine Riley, April 20. assistant athletic trainer at Wingate University, State University’s W. H. Plemmons Leadership “We spent weekends in school playing around Boone and developing our tal- consultant, Davidson, Holland, Whitesell & AWARDS/HONORS: Jonathan Fulcher, Medallion. Wingate. Heather Prince, Kernersville, master of Company, PLLC, Hickory. Maria Poindexter, ent,” explains Groch. “This life is great,” Foxworth says. “It’s what we want to do, serves on board of directors for Onslow NEW POSITIONS: Lindsay Pope, financial servic- social work, University of South Carolina. speech-language pathologist, Lexington City County Crime Stoppers. He is president of es sales representative, First Citizens Bank, make it our career.” NEW POSITIONS: Maria Zale Yezak, area coor- Schools, Lexington. Joseph Basinger, project LIDS4KIDS, Jacksonville. D. Anne Kindley, Cornelius. Micah Henry, reporter/photographer, dinator, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. consultant, KBA Computer Services, City of Weekend Excursion performed the first awarded First Year Teacher of the Year. She is a The Taylorsville Times, Taylorsville. Georgia Wilson, area coordinator, James Charlotte. Maggie Laws, marketing coordinator, concert ever held in the Holmes Center. The seventh grade English teacher at Piedmont Bradley Adams, consultant, Madison University Office of Residence Life, Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill. Michael Middle School, Monroe. Arthur Andersen, Atlanta, GA. August 2001 show was part of the Harrisonburg, VA. Rebecca Hawk Larson, proj- Ackerman, product solutions specialist, DEGREES: Adam Neal, Burlington, MS in account- Brandon Eller, assistant media university’s First Night, a welcome-back ect manager, Epley Marketing Services, North Sawgrass Systems, Inc., Mount Pleasant, SC. Erin ing, Appalachian. Nawaf AL-Rudaini, MBA, buyer/planner, Leslie Advertising Keep Informed With Liberty, IA. Kristi Bright, analytical chemist, NSI Degnan, special education teacher, Loganville event for students. College of William and Mary. Agency, Greenville, SC. Jason Solutions, Inc., Youngsville. AnnMarvin Wright Middle School, Loganville, GA. Stan Dura, assis- date news “We were so excited being the first NEW POSITIONS: Patrick Hicks, chemical pro- Hardin, chemistry and physical sci- campus Griffiths, marketing assistant, Fairway Outdoor tant professor, Zayed University, Dubai, United APP the latest to Alumni Council Officers: (left to right) Bill Brown ’55, secretary; Jill duction operator, Piedmont Chemical Industries, ence teacher, Watauga High School, ted with tter sent band to play there,” Edmunds said. Advertising, Greensboro. Kristin Bullock, GIS Arab Emirates. Michael McCullough, account y connec ic newsle Sparks ’91, career services committee chair; Julia Adams ’56, president; High Point. David Cornwell, production coordi- Boone. Nicole Pierce Adams, social Sta electron ne and programmer, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte. executive, Edelman Public Relations Worldwide, Pdate, an . A headli Although he lives a rocker’s life, June Hege ’65, 21 in 21st committee chair; Jeannine Collins ’79, vice nator, Monroe Fresh Retail Plant, Tyson Foods, worker/case manager, Occupations with AP embers at Brian Dockery, programs assistant, International Atlanta, GA. Stacey Thornberry, assistant pro- n Family m uick look Donovan says he definitely uses his Monroe. Shelly Venable, juvenile community Solutions, Alpharetta, GA. palachia ader a q House, Duke University, Durham. Kristy-Ann president; Don Haynes ’70, scholarship committee chair; Vaughn Hayes fessor of library science, Birmingham-Southern Ap ive the re link to service/restitution coordinator, Surry/Stokes WEDDINGS: Lara Craddock and Jeff ntence g ith a hot political science education: “I certainly Hamilton, physical education teacher, Easton ’68, past president; and Paul Callanan ’74, admissions committee chair. College, Birmingham, AL. Sunday Roberts lead se sports w Friends of Youth, King. Adam Neal, staff account- Craven, Morrisville, Oct. 27. Amie Pratt ents and at do—every morning as I read the Elementary School, Winston-Salem. Shannon Not pictured, John Rogers ’69, awards committee chair. Joyce, probation/parole officer, Stokes County, news, ev Subscribe ant, Gilliam Coble & Moser, LLP, Burlington. and James Banta, Asheboro, June 16. details. u. Reedy Bullock, associate professor of English Danbury. more state.ed newspaper.” Meredith Faulkenberry, admissions representa- Tammy Lindsey and Jon Collins, Durham, ni.app teaching composition and developmental writing, Kristy Bare, Winterville, May 5. Julie Keenum and Barlow, decorated with the Army Achievement WEDDINGS: Jennifer Carter and Brian w.alum –Linda Coutant tive, Miller-Motte Technical College, Charleston, May 19. April Lewis and Timothy Moore ww Delaware County Community College, Media, PA. Charles Ammons ’00, Charlottesville, VA, June Medal. He is a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, Bohannon, Wake Forest, June 2. Joanna SC. N. Lee Medlin, tax associate, Greer & Walker, ’00, Archdale, Aug. 18. Rebecca Markusen Sally Choate Friedman, marketing and admis- 30. Jennifer Halstead and Adam Furr ’99, South Korea. Pontrelli and Benjamin Daniels, Charlotte, April sions assistant, graduate programs in McIntire LLP, Charlotte. Krista Shannon, and Brian Gattoni, Herndon, VA, July 21. Concord, July 7. Audrey Hodges and Timothy DEGREES: Brandon Frye, master’s in student 21. Brittany McClintock and Mike Dudley, School of Commerce, University of Virginia, probation/parole officer, Division of Community Jennifer Lowe and Christopher Cody, Simpson, Mount Airy, June 16. Julia Cope and development, Appalachian. He is assistant direc- Rancho Cordova, CA, May 19. Jenny Bem and Charlottesville, VA. Danielle Bauman, produc- Corrections, Lexington. Andrew Rosenbalm, Canton, July 14. Elizabeth Cespedes and Aaron Richard Hoffart ’96, Asheville, May 19. Kristin tor of Greek Life at the University of Georgia, Ryan Johnson ’98, Charlotte, Oct. 13. Janet tion manager, FOX 26, Wilmington. Chad industrial draftsman, Kewaunee Scientific Dawson ’99, Durham, June 30. Amy Green and Lee and Jason Moon, Edwards, CO, May 11. Athens, GA. Jennifer Holway Hunter, master’s of Kingsbury and Kenneth Sumner, Greensboro, , director of institutional services, Mid- Corporation, Statesville. Marty Norris, math Caison Jones ’00, Ellerbe, July 14. Betsy Miller Hawley Penny McMahan and Jon Cable, Gastonia, June science in audiology, UNC-CH. She is an audiolo- April 21. Amy Hild and Edward Reynolds III, Continent Conference, Elmhurst, IL. teacher, Ashe County High School, West and Andy Rosenbalm ’00, Statesville, June 2. Angela 2. Holly Williams and Stephen Goforth, Marion, gist at Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham. Winston-Salem, Sept. 1. Melanie Spicer and , administrative assistant in cor- Jefferson. Natalie Johnston, third grade teacher, Adam Jolly and Kristen Hartis, Taylorsville, July Patterson Long July 21. Shelly Roseborough and Lee Ashley Smith, Wingate, master’s in education, Charles Shell, Granite Falls, June 16. Brandy porate marketing, First Union National Bank, East Broad Elementary School, Savannah, GA. 21. Sherri Wesley and Stephen Davis ’00, Edmondson ’93, Raleigh, June 23. Leigh Pitts University of Southern Mississippi. Owen Carroll and Robert Frye, Conover, July 7. Charlotte. Matthew Rumfelt, agent, N.C. Farm Lucy Parker, benefits counselor, South Carolina Boone, May 13. Nicole Pierce and Bradley and Matt Smith, Boone, June 16. Jessica Smith Daniels, Chapel Hill, master of science recreation Jennifer Thornton and Ryan Davenport ’00, Bureau Insurance, Winston-Salem. Renoo Retirement Systems, Columbia, SC. Kim Squire, Adams, Alpharetta, GA, June 16. and Erik Hauge ’96, Raleigh, July 7. Teresa Reid administration, UNC-Chapel Hill. Margie Graham, May 5. Shelly Mullinix and Christopher Walker Sams, guidance counselor, Enka Middle eighth grade teacher/volleyball coach, Elkins and Brandon Lackey, Taylorsville, June 23. Lockman, MA speech language pathology, Carter, Melbourne, FL, June 9. Kimberly Piercy School, Candler. , director of market- Pointe Middle School, Roswell, GA. Cassie Bair Heather Schoening and Jimmy McCracken Jr., University of Tennessee Knoxville. She is a and Kevin Dickson, Raleigh, May 19. Travis Olivia Sherrill and Bryan Homesley, ing and membership for the America Society of Sanford, June 2. Jessica Hedgepeth and speech language pathologist with Gaston County Varner and Joy Hubbard, High Point, July 21. WEDDINGS: Echocardiography, Raleigh. , social April Varner Michael Harvey, Amarillo, TX, March 17. Schools. Melinda Lynch Morrow, associate in Dana Hamby and Ryan Haley ’00, Franklin, July Lincolnton, March 3. Susan Hensley and Shawn worker, Hospice and Palliative Care Center, Smith, Chapel Hill, July 14. Angela Revels and BIRTHS: Darren and Natasha Schreiber Cutler, nursing, A-B Tech Community College. She is a 14. Deborah White and Aaron Wilkins, Winston- Winston-Salem. Kelvin Byrd, tax administrator, Goose Creek, SC, a son, Hadden, July 2. Richard staff RN at Mission St. Joseph’s Hospital Salem, June 16. Farrah Burke and Chad Hillis, Jason Crisp, Dallas, May 19. Patricia Ladd and Watauga County, Boone. John Flynn II, technical , Harmony, May 5. and Daphne Miller Stender, Charlotte, a daugh- Cardiovascular Progressive Care Unit, Asheville. Charlotte, Sept. 1. Pamela Beam and Norris Justin Overman N. Lee instructor, New Horizions Computer Learning ter, Mackenzie Elizabeth, March 30. Gabriel and Maria Poindexter, Winston-Salem, MA in com- Howell, Shelby, June 30. Beth Thomas and John Medlin and Tracy Kilby, Wingate, Aug. 4. Kellie

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