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Brenau University Non-Profit Org. Office of Institutional Advancement U.S. Postage 500 Washington Street SE Gainesville, GA 30501 PAID Burlington, VT Change Service Requested 05401 #BYNRLHD Permit No. 19 Expanding the Global Portal LOuISE BAuCK’S YuCATAN DIARIES CASABLANCA CONNECTION AfGHAN HOME COOKIN’ LEGEND Of THE LOST ROCKS SUMMER 2007 B R E N A U W I N D O W 1 rtu- many many one one n this this n dicated dicated udes udes e. About About e. that it it that ies. ies. lore and and lore ted totally totally ted e. e. education education gard online online gard learning learning r all stu- all r Ed Schrader, Ph.D. [email protected] Myra and Ed Schrader in China. necessities, Brenau must continue to creatively exp creatively to continue must Brenau necessities, e-learning. of possibilities great the re-emphasize in Brenau programs, online of adapter early an As respects has a head start on developing a robust e- robust a developing on start head a has respects onlin except take can’t you courses even and dents, environment. Harvard’s Web site, for example, says says example, for site, Web Harvard’s environment. comple be can that degrees any offer yet” “not does in study recent most Consortium’s Sloan The online. re institutions education higher of percent 56 that strateg growth of component critical a as education onlin programs masters offer surveyed those of Half incl That e-learning. undergraduate have percent 63 only requiring masters online an has which Harvard, fo availability course online residency, semester’s education deliveryinnovative or abdicate its respon- system can continue to lead in the evolution of this Brenau inattention simple quiescent inaction and through sibility nothing but I have in e-learning. to the global advances in e-leaning future and global educa- optimism for Brenau’s history in the ield and tion because of our groundbreaking because of the palpable determination of our professors, boldly for leadership in alumni and trustees to reach higher education. to access through lives of oppo an thousands change possibilities: to nity exciting and wonderful What i partners as us with aboard Come world. the around trip. the enjoy and – change dynamic ng ng an an rently rently nau’s nau’s create create to the the to uni- ese ese logy from from logy twining twining life in a in life people people mission mission ssing these these ssing interacting interacting , teaching teaching , home. home.

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BRENAu REPORTS RECORD enrollment GOODBYE, ‘Mr. Pam’

It’s not “oficial” yet, but the combined enrollments for Brenau’s of Education repository. Those oficial numbers come into play After 28 years, Bill Ware retires as dean of Brenau’s School of Education Aug. 14. Although in his evening and weekend, online and women’s college programs this for many reasons. For example, higher education organizations emeritus status he will continue teaching some classes and work as an adviser to his successor, he spring exceeded the previous high-water mark of 2,503 students, and accrediting agencies base annual dues on enrollments. Gov- says he looks forward to “more lexibility and less pressure from decision-making. There are things a record set in 1996. But even the oficial numbers – those posted ernment agencies, corporations and nonproits often base levels I want to do in the community, in my church and with my grandchildren.” Plus, his wife “has no each October with the U.S. government’s Integrated Postsecond- of inancial aid on numbers of students at an institution. Their intention of retiring” from her position as director of the highly regarded Gainesville High School ary Education Data System (IPEDS) – light up the eyes of Brenau uniformity and consistency, says Cuttino, eliminates the “fudge theater program, where, Ware says, “I am known as ‘Mr. Pam Ware.’” numbers czar Robert Cuttino, director of institutional research factor” for institutions that might otherwise engage in creating The Alabama native’s education career spans 44 years. “Are we doing as good a job teaching and effectiveness. bookkeeping to show enrollments in any way that suits immedi- kids as we used to do?” he asks relectively. “We’re doing a better job – and we’re doing it with a The 2006 “IPEDS cutoff” in October counted a student ate purposes. whole lot more kids.” Ware presided over Brenau’s teacher education as it grew from a “very small population of 2,407. The “unoficial” spring 2007 census count- Brenau’s growth, however, has been steady from IPEDS program” to what it is now. ed 2,512 at the semester’s peak enrollment. “If we continue at standards for four years, including the 11 percent increase repre- “Brenau is a major player in teacher education in this state – and throughout the South,” he the current rate, next fall we may exceed the 1996 record,” says sented by fall 2006 enrollments over the fall 2005 enrollment of says. “Our teachers don’t have trouble getting jobs; our problem is keeping people from hiring them Cuttino. As of June 1, the university had received applications 2,168 and the more than 16 percent overall growth since the de- before they inish their degrees. But that doesn’t mean we can’t grow and get even stronger. I’m conident we will.” from 3,139 prospective new freshmen and transfer students, an cade low of 2,073 in 2003. The fall numbers also showed a 26.6 11 percent increase over the number of applicants for the 2006 percent increase for the year in women’s college enrollments. fall term. “Although we have had some well-distributed growth What counts, however, are data the university supplies to across the board,” Cuttino says, “when you look at the 846 en- SENIOR’S ‘HOT’ PAINTINGS picked for permanent collection IPEDS in late October – the oficial cut-off for all higher education rollment for the women’s college in October compared with the institutions to post uniform information to the U.S. Department 607 in 2003, it explains a lot.” In one transaction, budding painter competition. One of her inluences Katherine Stadig, WC ’07, made more for the chalk and pastel paintings money selling paintings than some was 19th and 20th Century French % % of the masters with work hanging in impressionist Edgar Degas, whose 2,512 26.6 34.8 846 Brenau University galleries made in a signature works include ballerinas in Brenau’s new ‘high-water’ The single-year WC Gainesville EWC 2006 WC year – or a lifetime, for that matter. motion, but in cool hues of blue and enrollment mark enrollment jump 2006 growth enrollment Stadig “sold” her futuristic series gray. Stadig’s dancers are depicted Kinetic to the university for $2,000, in hotter tones of red and orange the amount she received as this because of another inluence, the year’s President’s Award winner from futurists’ infatuation with machines President Ed Schrader in a student and technology. NEW LEADERS in academic, administrative posts When Brenau students return to campus in the fall, they will meet new deans of education and business, a new registrar and new senior vice president for student affairs and admissions. BRENAu’S virtual classroom expands

BECKY B. CLARK replaces the retiring Bill Ware, SCOTT A. BRIELL in May became senior vice pres- Cathrine Bonds, credit manager at Plaid Enterprises in Norcross, who served Brenau for 28 years, as dean of ident for admissions and student development Ga., spent 35 years building a career and getting two sons the School of Education. The Louisiana native as part of a consolidation of all non-academic through universities before she set out to get her own diploma at served in a similar role at Grand Canyon Univer- student-related activities. The Florida native with the college her sister attended. But there was no way she could sity in Phoenix. She’s also expert in deploying a master’s from Penn State was vice president Becky Clark leave work and make scheduled classes on Brenau’s Gainesville technology systems for academic programs, stu- for enrollment management and marketing. campus through the 24-7 “rush hour” Atlanta area trafic. Starting dent assessment and strategic planning. this fall Bonds and other Brenau accounting students will be able BARBARA D. WILSON became director of stu- to complete all their undergraduate requirements via the internet WILLIAM S. LIGHTfOOT, assistant dean and dent records and registrar in May. The Florida when the bachelor of business administration in accounting management professor at International Universi- State journalism graduate with a master’s from becomes Brenau’s 12th online degree program. ty of Monaco in Monte-Carlo, was named School the University of Louisville was a TV and news- During the spring semester, 644 Brenau students – about 26 of Business and Mass Communications dean, re- paper reporter. She subsequently worked in percent of the student body – took at least one online course. placing William Haney, who returns to full-time administrative, communications and student Currently 240 Brenau students are pursuing degrees online – 113 teaching. North Carolina native Lightfoot previ- relations posts at Gwinnett Technical College undergraduate and 127 graduate. ously worked in engineering and technology de- and Georgia Tech. velopment and marketing. Barbara Wilson

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BRENAu PROfESSOR CHOSEN for university’s irst Fulbright lecturer VIRGIN TERRITORY: Retired UPS exec looks ahead as newest trustee

it takes to run a quality program.” And, Ray added, “It’s quite an At the home on Lake Lanier he shares with his wife, Sharon, Stu Virgin has a perfectly good boat honor for Brenau.” dock. But he bought the vacant lot next door and installed what is now a perfectly empty dock Oil-and natural gas-rich Qatar, unlike some of its Middle just a few dozen yards away from the irst. Why? The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won’t issue East neighbors, plows considerable portions of its wealth into many more permits for such waterfront facilities. By building now, Virgin dramatically increased the becoming a role model for economic and social transformation property’s resale value. in the region, including offering free education for all citizens. That’s the kind of ahead-of-the-curve thinking that got Stuart R. Virgin elected to a term on Sheikha Mozah Nasser Al-Missned, the second wife of the the Brenau University Board of Trustees starting in October. “I’m not really sure what a trustee is monarchy’s Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, herself a 1986 supposed to do,” he says, offering the comment in the same self-deprecating manner he uses university graduate, not only has driven reforms there but also to describe his golf handicap. You know he’s sandbagging you about the golf, and you know he serves as UNESCO’s basic and higher education special envoy to probably already has the trustee thing igured out, too. other nations. Virgin got his “irst real job” with UPS while he was a part-time college student in southern Mathes says in the past the Qatar higher education estab- California. In 1995, 31 years later, he retired as a division manager for “Big Brown” at the ripe lishment has drawn from only a handful of U.S. universities, old age of 51 – having helped the company in early stage implementation of its now ubiquitous, Christening the Mama Mickie in Congo last year; with Max Walker at a Peruvian school in 2004, below. including Georgetown, Texas A&M and Virginia Commonwealth. signature package tracking system. ickie Yamamori Mathes, who appears in photos to be The university wants to hold its programs up to the same He concedes when he and Sharon looked for places to retire, proximity to Brenau was not a factor. “Now that we’ve found cross-channeling “Jackie O” and Rose Sayer, Charlie high standards the National out more about the university,” he says, “it’s really a pretty neat asset.” He says as a trustee he wants to get Brenau more engaged MAllnut’s sidekick in 1951 movie The African Queen, Council for Accreditation of with other neighbors on the lake as well as with Gainesville business and civic leaders. “There are a lot of ways we can help them,” gained the distinction of being the irst professor in Brenau’s Teacher Education applies to he says, “and certainly lots of ways they can help us.” School of Education to have a Congo River ship named after U.S. schools. her. Later this summer the chair of the undergraduate educa- As a lecturer, Mathes says tion department will embark for the State of Qatar where she she will “teach teachers” in will become the irst Brenau professor to serve in a prestigious, English, but she’s already Check-Out extraordinary lives at the Trustee Library coveted Fulbright lectureship. learning Arabic to help her The latter honor Mathes sought vigorously. The irst, chris- with the Muslim students. Novelist and historian Shelby Foote once remarked, “A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.” Indeed, the tening of the Mama Mickie, was a bit of a surprise. And, there will be one other change in her routine: “Instead of Trustee Library is at the heart of Brenau University functioning as a bastion of knowledge illed with books, art, journals, databases, “I always wanted a Fulbright,” says Mathes. The U.S. govern- Christmas this year, I’ll be having Ramadan.” technology, study centers and, of course, ever-helpful librarians. The library not only supports the academic life of our students, ment’s lagship program in international educational exchange is Now about that ship: It’s a boat, really, slightly larger than but also encourages them to live full and meaningful lives by introducing them to the many extraordinary lives lining the shelves. Below is a sampling of several of these non-iction books in our collection about people who have made an indelible contribution to named for the late U.S. Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas. As a Charlie Allnut’s vessel in the movie. It could easily pass for a society and have, without doubt, lived extraordinarily. freshman senator in 1945, Fulbright authored the legislation creat- double-decker houseboat on Lake Lanier. Mathes’ husband, Ben, ing a much-needed vehicle for promoting at the end of World War heads Rivers of the World, a not-for-proit Christian organiza- Infidel, by Ayann Hirsi Ali (Free Press) – Ali’s powerful memoir begins with her childhood in Somalia where she II “mutual understanding between the tion that addresses a plethora of human survived mutilation and an unwanted arranged marriage. As an adult, Ali sought asylum in the Netherlands where people of the United States and the needs in remote, undeveloped river she became an outspoken advocate for human rights and eventually was elected to the Dutch parliament. people of other countries.” basins around the world. In the Congo, Alicia: My Story, by Alicia Appleman-Jurman (Bantam) – As a Jewish teenager in Nazi occupied Poland, Alicia Unfortunately for Mathes, a it uses boats to transport medicines survived life in the Jewish ghetto, the murder of her entire family, imprisonment, typhoid fever, starvation and native of Japan, the program is only to treat for leprosy, tuberculoses and numerous brushes with death. After being liberated in 1945 the teenaged Alicia, sole survivor of her family, available for U.S. citizens. “When I river blindness. When the new boat cared for orphans and assisted in smuggling Jews to Palestine. found out that I was ‘naturalized’ [as a was launched, the local staff thought A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah (Farrar Straus and Giroux) – Beah’s best-selling U.S. citizen] in November, I called my it would be cool to name it after the memoir recounts his childhood in war ravaged Sierra Leone. Beah was recruited as a teenage boy to the national husband irst and the Fulbright ofice director’s wife; the term “Mama,” she army, given an AK-47 and illed with propaganda and cocaine. Eventually Beah was rescued and rehabilitated. He began a new life in the United States where he works with several human rights advocacy groups. next.” She was notiied in March that says, is a term of respect for women she’d been accepted to lecture in the in Congo. Although she and Ben were Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Issacson (Simon & Schuster) – German-born Albert Einstein is heralded next academic year at the University accompanied to the christening by ma- as one of the most groundbreaking theoretical physicists of our age. The winner of the Nobel Prize in physics and Time magazine’s person of the century in 1999, Einstein’s life had enduring impact on science and society. of Qatar’s College of Education. chine gun-wielding bodyguards, “I was This new biography by Walter Issacson, author of the critically acclaimed biography Benjamin Franklin: An really lattered.” “This is really a perfect it,” says American Life, details Einstein’s scientiic discoveries and vividly depicts his personal life. Brenau Provost Helen Ray. In addition Mathes and Ben live in Dawson- (Atlantic Monthly Press) – These diaries contain the to already having a broad internation- ville, Ga. They have two sons – Benjamin, The Diary of Petr Ginz, edited by Chava Pressburger thoughts, poems, and artwork of fourteen-year-old Petr Ginz a Jewish boy living in Prague during the Nazi an actor who lives in California, and al outlook from her travels in more regime. Ginz wrote almost daily until his deportation to the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt where than 30 countries, Mathes has “served Adam, a U. S. Marine Corps oficer who he died at the age of 16. The diary also includes excerpts of Ginz’s periodical “Vedem,” which Ginz wrote as department chair and knows what is on his third combat tour in Iraq. while at Theresienstadt. – Amanda Addison

6BRENAUWindow summer 2007 summer 2007 BRENAUWindow [ ] ALuMNA PROFILE Annuity Contracts: having your GLORIA STARGEL A very unShackelton-like ‘Antarctic Explorer’ cake and eating it, too. here are two things people should know about 82 years old yields about $2,125 annually at the Tcharitable gift annuity (CGR) contracts: One, 8.5 percent rate, of which $578 isn’t taxable. In AS A WRITER, Gloria Cassity they are gifts. Two, they are not investments in the addition, about $13,000 of the initial $25,000 can Stargel, WC ’77, always looks traditional sense. be counted as a charitable deduction, yielding a “for a story that has a little Then again, when these gifts are backed by $2,600 tax savings if the person is in a 20 percent twist to it,” she says, gestur- the full faith, assets and credit of Brenau Univer- tax bracket. ing with her tiny hand like sity, donors can benefit from tax breaks and fixed “But a major benefit is the pure satisfac- she’s jimmying a lock with an income guarantees that they won’t find with other tion of supporting an important institution,” says imaginary screwdriver. Those instruments for supporting their favorite char- Barco. “You can help Brenau while helping your- foundling bits others ignore ity. Principal amounts deposited in the annuities self. You can see your gift going to work making make her stories memorable generate more earnings for the donor than cer- a difference in the lives of others, helping students and, in a word professional tificates of deposit or interest on money market prepare to live extraordinary lives. Every student journalists need to learn, sal-

Tom Askew funds and portions of those earning are tax free. who ever attended Brenau benefited in some way able. Although the latter term Plus donors can deduct a substantial portion of through charitable gifts.” may seem a bit out of place the amount they put into the annuity as a contri- Gift annuities are simple contracts between for a woman who specializes bution and defray some taxes on other assets as- Brenau and the donor. Brenau can issue them in in writing inspirational pieces for publications like Guideposts sociated with the annuity, like capital gains taxes all states, except New York and California. For and Decision, the magazine of the Billy Graham Evangelical on stocks. more information, call the Brenau planned giving Association, Stargel has mastered the art of recycling articles Charitable annuity contracts waned in office at (770) 534-6160. from magazine to magazine to anthologies. She’s had pieces 1956 McMurdo Sound – popularity during the last few years with a de- republished in 35 collections like the highly popular Chicken Capt. Cassity, injured pressed stock market, but have enjoyed resur- Soup for the Soul and God’s Way series. “I’m a better marketer during light preparation/ gence recently as bank interest rates on money Other Opportunities to Help Brenau equipment loading, than I am a writer,” she says. “It takes a lot of detective work market funds and certificates of deposit languish FORE! The Athletic Department will hold its first to find out what publications are interested in and lots of pa- is rendered irst aid by Flight Surgeon. below the five percent level. golf tournament Oct. 1 at Hampton Golf Village tience. And, Lord knows, I’m as stubborn as a bulldog.” Gen McCarty and “This is really an attractive option for in Gainesville. Sponsorship packages are avail- What’s “the little twist” in Gloria Stargel’s personal Col. Crosswell look on. older Americans,” says Jim Barco, Brenau’s vice able for one or more foursomes; individual entry story? There are a couple. First, like a preacher to the pulpit, president for institutional advancement. “Although fees are $150. Athletic Director Gordon Leslie Stargel says she “felt the call” to pursue religious journalism, this is not an investment, gift annuities do provide says proceeds pay for improvements to athletic fa- returning to college after a 27-year absence. But a really big hand a report from an aircraft manufacturer saying its plane steady income for the rest of the donor’s life at a cilities, like a sound system in the gymnasium and twist is that the petite inspirational story writer is a card-car- was incapable of transporting heavy equipment to the South significantly higher rate of return than on CDs. “other things that aren’t in our budget.” For more rying member of the Old Antarctic Explorers Association, Pole; in the other he held a dispatch which said Capt. Cas- Donors can deduct a portion of the gift when they information, contact Gary Bays at the Athletic an international organization with about 1,300 members who sity that very morning landed that very aircraft in Antarctica, make it and not pay taxes on a portion of their Department, (770) 538-4443. have worked on the continent in some capacity. OAE takes its successfully delivering a huge Caterpillar tractor. earnings. Finally, they can reduce potential tax name from the esoteric term used by military and scientific “That bulldozer made everything else possible,” burdens on their heirs when they die.” KOOK’N WITH KITTY: With Breast Cancer types stationed there in the decade following World War II says Stargel. “With it they built the first airstrip. Then they Essentially the donor makes a gift to Bre- Awareness in October, there’s time to get copies when South Pole exploration was a really big thing. The twist brought in more equipment. Nothing was there before my nau to create a CGA. As part of the contract of Kook’n with Kitty, a cookbook featuring reci- is Stargel never set foot on Antarctic ice, even on one of the brother hauled in that bulldozer. Because of that family con- for doing that, Brenau pays the donor at a fixed pes from Brenau alum, for eco-tours that for about $5,000 will let you look for tap-danc- nection, I feel like I’m as much a part of opening up Antarctica rate of return for the rest of the donor’s life. The $20 each. Proceeds benefit ing penguins from the movie Happy Feet. as anyone.” university invests what’s left of the money into the Kitty McKenna Brothers However, as a writer she also follows Rule No. 1, So does the association. When Oscar died in May academic programs. Scholarship fund. Brothers, a “write about what you know.” Her first book was The Healing, 2006, the OAE allowed Stargel to keep a membership be- Based on the age of the investor and recom- ’72 graduate, died from breast an inspirational story re-published in 2000, about her husband cause she had written so lucidly about those early days of mendations of the American Council on Gift An- cancer in 2002. To order, con- Joe’s successfully overcoming what was thought to be incur- Antarctic exploration. “I was quite touched and honored,” nuities, Brenau pays up to 9.8 percent for a two- tact Lee Chavanne in Alumni able cancer. She also wrote about her brother Oscar Cassity, she says. life annuity and 11.3 percent return for a single-life Relations, (770) 534-5307 an Air Force transport pilot who specialized in taking off and Stargel’s not making any plans to travel to the pole. annuity. A $25,000 investment by a person who is or [email protected]. landing under dangerously shaky circumstances. Her favorite But as she says it, you detect some clicking behind her eyes as part of Oscar’s story is about the general who held up in one the writer’s brain looks for another little twist.

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VOLLEYBALL Breakaway Season Courtney Frady Gilmer County High School, Ellijay By Gary Bays Heather Dorough Mill Creek High School, With a competitive, successful recruiting overall defensive play. He signed 10 Hoschton Meredith Hardin Cass High School, new players, including ive JC transfers, cycle for new athletes and a string of Cartersville experienced players returning to rosters, three from Young Harris College, which Rachel Ecke Gainesville State College the Golden Eagle cross-country, soccer won the Junior College National Cham- Samantha McFarlane Brookwood High School, and volleyball teams plan to pick up the pionship last season. Returnees include Snellville pace when fall sports seasons open in sophomore forward Lily Futrell, an all SOCCER conference player last season; Leanne August and September. Kelly Young Young Harris College And, as larger universities— Rowley, a sophomore and last year’s Mandy Ulseth Young Harris College particularly those in the South—feed defensive MVP; senior goalkeeper Jenny Ashley Tittle Young Harris College their fall football habit, Brenau wom- England; and 2005 all-conference selec- Jessica Harrelson Truett-McConnell College en look forward themselves to more tion Teal Orr, who missed most of last Jennifer Rainey Truett-McConell College Lauren Hagin Hiram High School, season with a torn ACL. options for “playing in the dirt” as the Hiram university adds football’s rough-and- “We are in position to be very Lisa Lesnick Socastee High School, tumble kissin’ cousin rugby to the competitive with the top teams in the Myrtle Beach, S.C. lineup of club sports. conference,” says Lochstampfor. Mackenzie Qua Richmond Hill High School, Richmond Hill PLOWING NEW TURF CROSS-COUNTRY: SISTERS Brittani Smith East Coweta High School, During the Golden Tigers’ athletic AND SENIORS Newnan awards banquet this spring, President Athletic Director Gordon Leslie Danielle Teply Apalachee High School, Winder Ed Schrader said that about 30 women says cross country coach Susan McIntyre petitioned him to start a rugby team as completely transformed the Golden Ti- CROSS COUNTRY a club sport, a possible precursor to cer- gers’ distance running program. She be- BriAnne Hammond West Hall High School,

tiication of the sport as a sanctioned gins her second season with the team Rudi Kiefer Oakwood Junior Lily Futrell adds roster depth intercollegiate varsity sport. After all the after a year of solid recruiting. Last year’s Lauren Bone Coral Springs, Fla Audra Cochran Eagles Landing High scholarship athletes from other sports No. 1 runner Maxine Bone, a junior, gets School, Stockbridge were eliminated, there still were enough the extra incentive of sibling rivalry this “They’re ready to show that they are going to be a contender in the confer- Monica Muchen Wheeler High School, left to ield a team. It will be part of a fall as her younger sister, Lauren, joins Marietta broader initiative to add even more ield the team as a freshman. Two seniors, ence. There are high expectations for Crystal Mosley Southern Polytechnic sports, like lacrosse and ield hockey, Rachel Nodine and Katrine Beck, also re- the team.” State University, Marietta Joanna Booth Douglas County High to the Brenau athletic program, which turn. New recruits Monica Muchen from Gary Bays, head basketball coach for Brenau, School, Douglasville Schrader says gains more respect and Wheeler High School in Marietta, Crys- serves as sports information director for the athletic department. Allie Strickland Gillsville High School credibility each season. tal Mosley, transferring from Southern “When our opponents see Brenau Polytechnic State University, and Audra SWIMMING Rudi Kiefer on their schedules, they can no longer Cochran from Stockbridge will make an Katie Carpenter Houston County High School, Warner Robins Departure of three seniors, including Jacqueliine Langford and Laura Baker, left, make room for Rachel Nodine chalk us up as automatic wins,” he says. immediate impact. RECRuITING ROuNDuP and last year’s top runner, junior Maxine Bone. Brenau University welcomes 35 new faces Lindsay Dupree Warner Robins High Case in point: The Golden Tigers School NET GAIN: EXPERIENCE – recruited from high schools and junior soccer team compiled a school record Melissa Bofto Warner-Robins High The Golden Tigers volleyball team should colleges in Georgia and other states – as of 10 wins, including a 5-5 record and School reap some of the beneits of a talented the newest members of the Golden Tigers’ ifth-place inish in the Southern States Laurie Stephens Atlanta for more schedules, full group of sophomores that gained valu- six intercollegiate athletics programs, Sarah Fell Brunswick High School rosters, photographs or other Athletic Conference. That means six col- able experience last year, while compil- including basketball and swimming, which leges in the conference inished below ing the Tigers’ best season since 2002 debuted only a year ago. SOFTBALL information about soccer, Brenau in the standings. with 11 wins. Seven players return. They Shana Brumbelow Carrollton High School cross-country, volleyball or any BASKETBALL Tori Fobb Chipola Community SOCCER: IT’S ABOUT “THE D” are joined by ive new recruits. Sopho- Meg Henson Gainesville High School College, Marianna, Fla Brenau intercollegiate sport, In the off-season soccer Coach more libero Maida Smajic was an all-con- and SCAD Martina Landrum Chipola Community click on http://www.brenau. Mike Lochstampfor cracked into the ference selection a year ago. Siera Dority Clay Chalkville High School, College, Marianna, Fla coveted junior college ranks to increase “The returning players now have Birmingham, Ala. Katie Hulsey Georgia Perimeter edu/athletics/default.cfm. depth on a roster that will have 12 return- the experience of a collegiate season,” Amanda Parker Shiloh High School, College Snellville Missy Herren Georgia Perimeter Morrison David ing players and to improve the team’s says head volleyball coach Loren Hauck. College Lockstampfor with prize JC catch Jennifer Rainey

10BRENAUWindow summer 2007 summer 2007 BRENAUWindow11 College in Vermont through the program. Last year, in ad- dition to Siddiqi and Khadija Safi, there was only one other Shelter from the Storm IEAW student in Georgia – Anahita Ahmad at Kennesaw State. When Siddiqi and Safi return to Brenau for the fall se- A unique program which brings once-repressed Afghan women to America for mester, they’ll have another Afghan woman with them at Bre- nau – Getty Shans from Kabul. their educations, inds a welcome home for the students at Brenau university. “This really is a two-way learning environment,” says These extraordinary young women will be called up later to help change the Pharr. “It is so wonderful to have them on campus so our other students and faculty can be exposed to women who are liter- world – starting in their own war-torn country 7,300 miles away. ally from the other side of the world whose lives have been totally different from anything we’ve experienced.” The two did not know each other in Kabul, where their families returned shortly after the overthrow of the Taliban. But their stories are remarkably similar. Both their families fled the terror of mujahideen and the constant fighting that has At their Brenau apartment Siddiqi and Safi practice home embroiled the country since 1979. Safi, the shyer of the two, cookin,’ halal style. smiles disarmingly as she talks about her experience. She was by David Morrison 10 when her family, which includes six daughters and two burkas and cover their faces; and, during the Taliban’s seven- sons, fled to Pakistan. She year reign, they were often punished by beatings or death for When her hair started falling out, Shamim Siddiqi wondered whether coming to Georgia for her education was the right move. was old enough to remem- even the most minor infractions. “At home we would not cover Some “defoliation” can be common among students in that stressful first year. But Siddiqi’s problem was more severe: she was ber “bullets flying through our faces,” she says with a cheery smile. “My dad doesn’t like literally starving. the houses” in her Kabul for us to cover our faces.” A native of Afghanistan and a devout Muslim, the 22-year-old freshman and her Brenau classmate, Khadija Safi, who is neighborhood. “Many At Brenau they study business, accounting and infor- 26, subscribe to halal requirements in the Qur’an, which forbids Muslims to consum pork, alcohol and other foods. There’s a strict bombs. Many explosions.” mation technology and have part-time jobs on campus. They Islamic code for preparing meat, poultry and other foods. Halal, which is similar to the Jewish faith’s kosher doctrine means “law- Siddiqi, second oldest walk around campus, heads uncovered, wearing bright-colored ful” or “blessed.” Although Brenau’s home county is known as in a family of five daugh- blouses and smiling and waving to friends and acquaintances. one of the poultry-producing capitals of the world, there are ters and a son, is the more “People are so free here. They wear anything they want,” says not many halal chickens in the region. “We could not eat beef chatty and gregarious of Siddiqi, who concedes she will adopt more modest apparel or lamb because it was not blessed,” Siddiqi says. “I was eating the two. She was only an when she returns home. “In Afghanistan, we wear clothes that only rice, and the rice here is so different.” The hair loss in her infant when her family left make other people happy, not ourselves.” first few weeks on campus was attributable purely to lack of Afghanistan, but she was Just as they prepared to go home for summer vacation, protein in her diet. well aware of how Taliban sporadic violence erupted in Afghanistan. Says Safi, expressing “I really worried about them,” says David Owens, loyalists treated women. sentiments of both, “I am so hoping Americans make the Taliban Brenau’s food service manager. “We really did not know what Khadija Safi is the second in They could not go to school; leave Afghanistan.” we could feed them.” He and Lorene Pharr, director of inter- her family in IEAW program. they were forced to wear national students and global studies, met with Safi and Siddiqi to determine their dietary needs. Since the Afghan students lived together in a university apartment and liked to cook, he BRENAu INTERNATIONAL STuDENTS’ COuNTRIES Of ORIGIN worked through an international food vendor to stock their Brenau registered 47 international pantry and freezer with the right food. students from 23 different countries last The first Afghan women to attend Brenau came to spring. The number of students from each the university through the Rhode Island-based Initiative to country on the map corresponds with the Educate Afghan Women. The brainchild of an American color codes and country names below. university president’s wife, the IEAW seeks to overcome the Taliban’s infamous repression of women by providing program participants four-year scholarships in American colleges and universities so they can return to Afghanistan to help rebuild a more open society. The program also ensures that the women go home each summer to stay in touch with friends and fam- ily. Rather than simply scatter them like disconnected seeds throughout U.S. institutions, IEAW also brings scholarship recipients together several times each year for bonding to help them build a strong, sorority-like support system to nurture Eschewing head and face coverings, Shamim Siddiqi dresses them when they return permanently to their homeland. here to please herself. Safi’s younger sister Zohra, 21, attends Middlebury

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OHAMED GUERRAOUI (MBA, EWC ’01) can’t understand the fuss over that movie: shot on a Hollywood sound studio with a protagonist who is proprietor of Rick’s American Café, a heroine who’s a Swede and a Nazi-collaborating policeman who is so much Ma Londoner that he can’t even fake a French accent, the film has really little to do with Guerraoui’s beloved home town, Casablanca. Still, that eclectic mix in the 1942 movie may well be a metaphor for the Guerraoui animus. The 40-year-old bachelor is an international pharmaceutical industry consultant. Less than a year ago he also opened in Chicago an upscale Moroccan furniture gallery displaying everything from $45 pottery to $10,000 gem-inlaid urns. He lives in a landmark Lakeshore Drive high rise, but he furnished the two-bedroom condo with North Carolina-made American traditional mahogany and cherry appointments. Guerraoui, the oldest of four siblings, grew up in a well-to-do household The Casablanca native near the heart of Casablanca, the North African Atlantic seaport city of 3.6 tells acquaintances that million. For the young Guerraoui, the historic crossroads between five continents provided good schools and pals who helped him gain a head start on high school buying a condo in the English by translating lyrics to songs by Dire Straits, Genesis, Lionel Richie and landmark Lakeshore Stevie Wonder. Drive high-rise that once He completed undergraduate studies – with honors – in mechanical engineering at City College of New York. After rising quickly in General housed Oprah, Tom Electric’s power plant manufacturing hierarchy, he moved to where the money Cruise, Michael Jordan is: pharmaceuticals. He took a job with an Irish drug company’s Georgia-based manufacturing operation on the condition the company would pay for his MBA and Sammy Sosa was “the studies. His new boss in Gainesville at Elan Pharmaceutical Research Corp. second-best decision I ever suggested he consider studying at the local university, Brenau. “I kid you not,” he made. Second to getting says. “I tell people that buying my condo was the second-best decision I ever made – second to getting my MBA at Brenau. I wouldn’t say that were it not for the program my degree at Brenau.” – all the experience and the knowledge I walked away with. It was like developing a whole new part of my brain.” Primarily populated by Sunni Muslims, Morocco in 1777 was the first country to recognize the new United States. The continuous bilateral friendship culminated in the agreement between the two nations that by 2015 will liberate from tariffs all goods and services, including those of Morocco’s booming $25 billion generic pharmaceuticals industry. With American consumers clamoring for cheaper medicines, Guerraoui hopes to turn their eyes east by helping Moroccan companies win federal regulatory approval and by helping companies finance U.S. market expansion. “The Moroccan companies all have very modern facilities,” he asserts. “They can make medicines just as good as any in the United States.” If the pharmaceutical initiative fails, don’t worry. Guerraoui has a nice camel bone, wood and leather bench you can have for just $2,200. Photograph by Dan DryDan by Photograph 1BRENAUWindow summer 2007 The Yucatan Diaries

uiz any of Louise Bauck’s biology students on the flora and fauna of the Yucatan in Mexico and they will be just as apt to answer with some reference to mid-21st Century’s United Federation of Planets as to the heyday of Mayan civilization in the first millennium. An avian veterinarian and associate professor in Brenau’s School of Health and Science, Bauck is noted for spicing up biology classes with liberal references to the 1960s TV show Star Trek and, indeed, she offers prizes at Halloween for students who turn out costumed as alien beings with “best pseudopods, membranes and spicules.”

Bauck’s approach demonstrates that she sees life through her own unique set of lenses – both in her camera and in her evocative, descriptive writing style. For the past two years she’s taken groups of Brenau students to Yucatan, Mexico, in a for-credit course in which they explore the remnants of ancient civilizations and see up close and personal the tropic region’s varied animal and plant life – some, like bee-sized birds to robin-sized wasps, as foreign as if they were Gene Roddenberry creations in the cultish sci-fi TV show.

Bauck, who preserves the waning art of the travel journal, has posted her Yucatan writings on the Brenau Web site following her past two excursions. What follows are excerpts – punctuated by photographs that both she, her students, and Brenau President Ed Schrader took in the region.

Just kidding. However, it DID reach 45 Celsius today, certainly hot enough to encourage you to sprint from shade patch to shade patch. Luckily the students are handling it well. They actually wanted to sunbathe while we were on the gorgeous white-hot white sands of the Gulf of Mexico this morning.

We had just finished a boat trip through the mangrove swamps of Celestun, to view one of the largest flamingo colonies in the world, at least a thousand birds that locals said was a “small” flock. After admiring their fragile but awkward beauty, it was off into the swamp itself, through “rivers” that wind through the mangroves. We were looking for the dwarf kingfisher, the tri-colored egret and the magnificent frigatebird. A very surreal experience, as we felt totally alone in a vast wilderness of mangroves and birds.

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We were lucky to spot one of the world’s smallest birds, the through the forest in an invisible breeze, dipping and weaving Luckily, the recorder was on, and you can hear his white-breasted emerald hummingbird, approximately the size through the lower branches, silent but gaudy. They have a very humming wings quite clearly, as well as several little of a large bumblebee. Very cool! comical croak, which sounds as if they are saying their name annoyed “TSK” sounds! The thrilling part was being An absolute deluge of rain FINALLY brought out the tree through the Darth Vader microphone. A great theme, as the able to spot a beautiful pair of rich red eyebrows, At Chichen Itza, a Yucatan scaled lizard, a bold little mango hummingbird has wings that sound exactly like Luke’s something not even shown in our textbook. frogs. Within minutes of getting soaked I suddenly spotted a creature, let us come close enough to see his rear half, which light saber. The wings make a loud whizzing noise which you long, brown stick-like frog on the ground, heading for the trunk looked like it was covered with bright orange shingles. He can hear long before you spot them. We leave for Uxmal (an of a giant monkey’s ear tree. Of course, I threw myself on it paused to look over his shoulder at us as he slipped into ancient and magnificent abandoned Maya city) on Sunday. and got completely muddy, then triumphantly shouted for the a carved stone on the wall of the temple. A flash of his students to come and see “the famous casque-headed tree frog!” incandescent tail and he disappeared.

There was a gastronomic highlight as well. The coconut sherbet (¨sorbete¨) that they serve here is like a coconut flavored gelato, It was so heavy it could hardly fly, and I was very nearly able to capture it. This giant wasp had lovely rust-colored wings and is to die for. I have the students dragging their binoculars around and long feathery looking yellow antennae, most un-wasp everywhere we go, and we have several budding ornithologists like. It sounded much like a bumble bee (a relative, of course), in the group. had the typical narrow waist of a wasp, and was close to four We have no power and no AC, but we do have a satellite inches long. internet connection that works if the stars are all in alignment The very long legs of this tree frog are extremely flexible, Last night we took the students on a night march through and there was simply no way of holding onto it for very long. for a few moments each day. We have found sleeping in a Scary moment yesterday. An assassin bug tried to bite the the forest. Luckily it was quite cooperative for its photos. I had to hold hammock quite a challenge, comfortable but very different. director of the reserve, and then I found another one right a blanket over me and the precious camera while squatting at I got up this morning and was sitting on a chair in my little outside the student cabanas. These are large hemipteran bugs, We know there are jaguar, puma and tayra, a large mustelid frog level. Most undignified! cabana when I distinctly felt myself swaying. Just like when black and red, that carry a very serious trypanosome illness that looks like a wolverine, but hunts in a pack. We had two you have been on a boat for a long time I guess. The hammock called Chaggas’ Disease, an emerging disease here that is even guides with us, so there was no danger. And, it was a great The rain gradually tailed off in time for our arrival at does take some getting used to. I probably have tried about 132 spreading into the southern United States. It has been so dry chance to see the stars again without the light of a nearby desolate Uxmal, said to be the most beautiful (and one of different ways to position myself. None of them quite right. here that we do not have to worry about mosquitoes much, so city. Awesome. the largest) ancient Maya sites in the Yucatan. Set amongst malaria and Dengue fever can be crossed off our list. One of the students did get “Montezuma’s revenge” and was some small hills, giving lovely views wherever you hike, the “pyramid” at Uxmal is enormous and has rounded edges really quite ill. She was in her hammock for almost two days Needless to say, we are using enough DEET and other noxious – very different. Uxmal is very isolated, so it is not overrun straight. I (of course) had the only other medical problem. chemicals to kill and repel a wide variety of winged devils with tourists and vendors. Tons of great wildlife, including whenever we travel in a group. Unfortunately it is way too hot dozens of enormous spiny-tailed iguanas, a nesting Yucatan to wear much protective clothing. Quite difficult for eight females to stand still and not talk woodpecker, and the groove-billed ani. We saw many nesting cave swallows at Uxmal, where they literally fill Yesterday my less-than-protective clothing caused me to or scrunch their boots for even five minutes! But we did it, the sky like a cloud of helpful swooping bees. The students’ meet a delightful bird on my early morning solo expedition and we were suddenly rewarded with a loud series of sounds list of “crossed off” birds in their textbook is growing into the forest. I was recording calls and songs of the coming from the forest RIGHT beside us. It sounded like longer and longer! tropical birds, trying to sort out the myriad honks, chatters, a medicine ball being rolled over crumpled-up newspaper. Because of the dry season, there were lots of dried leaves on I was able to go on a hike at 6:30 this morning to try and spot squeaks and whistles. the forest floor, and these were eventually able to lead us to Although the sun did not shine, we still managed to get the beautiful mot mots emerging from their nesting tunnels in two creatures nosing around furtively. In the beams of our sunburns there, and today is hot and sunny. Tomorrow to a nearby cliff. flashlights they looked exactly like GIANT RATS! It turned the reefs south of Cancun, after a swim in the fresh water out that they are an indigenous type of armadillo, but I must “cenotes,” limestone caves with very clear water. Mot mots look like a cross between a parrot and a crow, with say, their long, naked tails and hunched backs gave them an a long racquet-shaped tail and lovely electric-blue coloring. Read more of Bauck’s journals at http://[email protected]. extremely rat-like appearance. No jaguars unfortunately. When they fly, they look like iridescent blue paper blowing edu/yucatan.

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hat’s the difference between of England, and did not get back to kidney stones and “The the Americas for almost four years. WDare Stones?” Depending He found no trace of those he’d left on whose they are, kidney stones could behind – setting off a conundrum that have more historical value. baffled historians, inspired legends, Brenau’s history Professor created a multi-million-dollar tourist Jim Southerland, chuckles, but says industry, and – for a time – made, then it’s not a totally fair statement. Over sullied, the reputation of a tiny, private the past three decades Southerland women’s college in Gainesville, Ga., by default became the university’s 560 miles away. scholarly voice on the significance of the unique trove of quartz, soapstone Haywood Pearce, Jr. with Emory colleagues James G. and other indigenous southeastern Lester, left, and Ben W. Gibson put the stone under rocks. If nothing else, the stones are the microscope. relics of one of the biggest hoaxes ever president of Brenau, where his father that, in the seven decades since their was president. The inscription on the discovery, have attached a certain stone read “Ananias Dare & Virginia Brenau’s Pet Rocks historical significance of their own. went hence unto heaven 1591,” and a If they’re what they purport to be, message to notify John White of that With focus on the 400th anniversary of however, they would literally cause the news bore the initials of the author of chronicles of the American colonies the carved writing, EWD, presumably America’s irst permanent English settlement, to be rewritten. With authentication those of Eleanor Dare. interest revived in Brenau’s unique trove of of the stones, Southerland elaborates, Although Emory’s historians “The Lost Colony wouldn’t be lost weren’t interested, Pearce and his hand-carved rocks that could hold key clues anymore because we would know father certainly were. Perhaps they to solving one of the Americas’ greatest what happened to it.” concluded that, if this chuck of rock “The Lost Colony,” of course, indeed marked the graves of America’s mysteries – what happened to ‘The Lost refers to the 117 men, women and “first white child” and her father, it children that Sir Walter Raleigh Colony’ of Roanoke. For many, however, the might well be the thing to put their recruited in the late 1580s to establish college on the map. They wound up Eleanor Dare Stones remain merely a map to a permanent settlement in the area paying the California man $1,000 for now known as Virginia and North the treasure. one of the better-played historical hoaxes of Carolina, the territory granted to him Anyone who has used tiller, all time. Even in infamy, the 2,000 pounds of by the British queen, Elizabeth I. The plow or trowel in Appalachian dirt complement included John White, will swear the region grows rocks. But rocks that have been in Brenau’s possession whom Raleigh had appointed governor, Virginia Dare nothing plows better than cold cash. for seven decades hold an even better story White’s pregnant daughter, Eleanor, From a woodcut in “North Carolina Illustrated” To make a long story short, over the and his son-in-law, Ananias Dare. A in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 1857. next four years, similar rocks popped of the nation’s curiosity about her past. Raleigh-appointed sea captain, eager up all over the place, mostly found to get on with his primary business Exaltation and Depression by four people. Pearce and his father of piracy, put the colonists ashore, not In November 1937 as America clawed over the years acquired close to 50 on the Chesapeake Bay Coast that its way out of The Great Depression, of the huge stones, all with similar Raleigh had specified, but on the 18- a California man showed up at inscriptions unearthed as far south as square-mile Roanoke Island between the history department of Emory the banks of the Chattahoochee River North Carolina’s Outer Banks barrier University in Atlanta with a most near Atlanta. Although the Pearces’ islands and the mainland. The next peculiar object – a 21-pound chunk of fervent explorations and money never month Eleanor Dare gave birth to rough veined quartz with some foreign- turned up graves or any other evidence a daughter, Virginia, who was the looking words chiseled into its surface. to authenticate the stones, a team of first “English” child born in the The man said he found the rock in Smithsonian Institution-commissioned New World. Because there was no a North Carolina swamp, about 80 historians – headed by the venerable time for planting crops, Gov. White miles from Roanoke Island, while he Samuel Eliot Morison of Harvard returned to England for supplies, got was driving through on vacation. The – traveled to Gainesville and, in a his ship commandeered by the British strange stone caught the attention of preliminary report, assigned some government’s preparations for the one of the professors, Dr. Haywood validity to what had then come to be imminent Spanish Armada invasion Pearce Jr., who also served as vice known as “The Dare Stones.”

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are underground. And they’re protected Debbie Thompson, campus traditions Kathy Amos, a professional by “a Jedi.” They are in a basement director, plan to dust the stones off and storyteller who is the university’s boiler room, the only facility capable of put them on exhibit by fall semester. tradition keeper, points out that Brenau’s housing 45 rocks that weigh from 20 to But brace yourselves: the story resident ghost, named Agnes, didn’t 40 pounds each. The “Jedi” caretaker is is about to take a new direction. Part show up on campus until after the Dare Jediah Carling, maintenance specialist. of the Eleanor Dare legend is that she stones did. One stone is on view at the Northeast gave birth to another daughter, Agnes, But let the chills along your spine Georgia History Center adjacent to the fathered by an American Indian “king” settle. We’ll save that shaggy rock story 13.625 inches 13.625 campus. Two – including that first one from North Carolina or Georgia where for another day. – are in the special collections section of the tribes believed spirits of the dead the Trustee Library. Southerland and took up residence in sacred stones.

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The Post Mortem Everything was good. Pearce Jr. and investigative reporting journals. a subtitle proclaiming it to be “the final published articles and made speeches. That day it published an article chapter in the 400-year-old mystery.” Scores of newspaper and magazine that systematically razed Brenau’s Interest revived again this articles trumpeted the Brenau house of historical stones. The writer, spring as Jamestown, Va., prepared to th artifacts. There was even talk that says Southerland, “all but accused celebrate the 400 anniversary of the Brenau’s pet rocks come in many sizes and shapes, but other than the Elizabethan inscriptions, ‘are about what you’d expect to ind in Georgia and the Carolinas,’ Hollywood mogul Cecil B. DeMille Haywood Pearce Jr. of faking the first English colony to gain purchase says geologist Ed Schrader. was interested in making a movie. stones himself.” in the American soil. Fueled in part Another Brenau professor penned a Although there was talk of libel by something of an Internet scavenger play about “The Lost Colony” that action against The Post and its New hunt, one item for which was a rubbing IF YOUR CURIOSITY PORTAL IS STILL OPEN featured the Dare stones, Pearce Jr. York writer, World War II seemed from a Dare stone, dozens of people as Sir Walter Raleigh and, as the to put an end to the saga. The Dare from around the country began Check out these Lost Colony/Dare stone resources: baby Virginia Dare, Gainesville City stones mysteriously disappeared from contacting various Brenau officials. Schools’ current Special Assistant to visibility on campus. One New Jersey teenager wrote Brenau’s top entertainment rival in the early Dare stone days was the outdoor pageant that has been a the Superintendent Shirley Whittaker. Periodically in the past decades naively that his family descended from tourist attraction on North Carolina’s Outer Banks for decades. http://www.thelostcolony.org/ “I’m sure the Dare stones were interest in the stones comes back to the Dares. He wanted to visit Brenau around someplace,” says Whittaker, life from time to time. You can see en route to Disney World in Florida. A Witness for Eleanor Dare, by Robert W. White. This 1991 tome that was to be the inal word in proving the who as a preschooler had been cast a slightly corpulent, more hirsute A South Carolina museum asked to historic authenticity of Brenau’s “pet rocks’ is out of print. But you can still ind copies online. because she took dance and elocution Southerland on grainy Internet borrow a few of the rocks for a special lessons from the play’s author. “But broadcasts of a 1977 Leonard Nimoy exhibit about myths and legends. A http://www.angelire.com/ego/iammagi/DARE_INDEX.htm. This “true believer” Web site I don’t remember them. I was too In Search of… TV program in which more passionate true believer, Kyle R. provides a glimpse of the “secret mausoleum” where most stones remain stacked – plus a busy being impressed by the first real the Brenau professor proclaims that all Shultz, a 16-year-old Pennsylvanian view of a younger, um, fuller, Dr. Jim Southerland in a link to the grainy 1977 In Search Of… Indians I’d ever seen” – Cherokee but that first stone probably are fakes. who says he’s penning a novel about the TV clip. tribesmen imported from North In another interview 10 years later he Roanoke Colony, initially demanded to Carolina by the Pearces to lend the backed off, saying he was “perhaps a know why such important artifacts The small North Carolina publisher Press 53 just released a new edition of Marjorie Hudson’s play more realism. little generous” and there’s a “50-50 “are kept from the public.” He wrote Searching for Virginia Dare. Hudson, who researched some of her book at Brenau, draws no All that came to an end on April chance” the first stone is a fake, too. that, “If my sources are correct, these inal conclusions on the stones’ authenticity, but she doesn’t handle them with kid gloves, 26, 1941. The Saturday Evening Post, In 1991 historian Robert W. White stones are concealed in an 18th Century either. The book will be a Fall 2007 selection of the BookWomen Traveling Book Club. despite its Norman Rockwell covers, published A Witness for Eleanor Dare, a mausoleum on the campus.” was one of the leading muckraking book debunking all the debunking and Technically, Brenau’s pet rocks

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Sharing Extraordinary Lives – Reunion weekend, May Day, Commencement The ubiquitous picture-editing program PhotoShop “has made me look great,” the photographer jocularly assured his laughter, as more than 500 Brenau graduates, spouses and family members poured onto the Gainesville campus for the subjects, trying to put them at ease for the “formal” portraits for their milestone class reunion. “We don’t care about annual spring rites of May Day, reunion weekend and, ultimately, commencement. You can’t come home again until you you!” says one of his subjects, a new inductee into Brenau’s “Golden Girls” coterie of those who graduated at least 50 leave. But 1947 alumnae Mary Phillips Hyde put it, “I haven’t been back on campus in years and years, but in my heart, years ago. “Use the lens that eliminates the wrinkles.” There were wrinkles aplenty, the kind stemming from smiles and I never really left.”

Newest members of the Golden Girls attending their 50-year reunion, seated Above, the junior class skit. Right, Mallory Young, Silver Belles 25th reunion attendees, sitting, l-r, Jo Ann Ginn Gjertsen, l-r are Marilyn Burnett Garner, Kathryne Voight Reynolds, Mona Hoffman White, Danielle Thomas, Yasmine Lockett and Ivy Hines Paige Hawkins Martin, Gay Hobgood Hammond; standing, Lee Anne Nancy Rayburn Davis; standing, Madge Martin Harper, Joanna Baber Wilson, Romberg White, B.J. Richardson Wiliams, Ava Arp, Lynn Fink, Laura Page Lott Prewitt, Kathleen Martin Boatwright, Nancy Trainer, Sarah Allen Cooper, Spencer Jester, Sue Ellen Marsh Lampros, Candy Corley Fleming Marion Holley Milner, Carolyn Brandt Oates, Beverly Roberson Roberts

Left, Mary Phillips Hyde, class of ’47 Above, two-year-old Drew, son of Regina Russell Above, 1985 grads Dana Fowler Miller and 35th anniversary celebrants Paula Nivens Hardy, Terry Terhune Glover, Marshall, WC ’98, abandons keeping up with mom Allison Tarpley Burnette and Daisy Goodnight Waldrep for a quick nap on dad Demarcus’s shoulder

Class of ’07 members Leah Clesson AKA sisters donate and dedicate cancer garden Judy Davis Fontenot, Julie O’Neill Chatneuff and Tiffany Jarczyk, WC ’08, of Loganville, Ga., shows off her Climbing the “crow’s nest,” clockwise from top, Tri Graduation is “hugging time” for WC students and and Laura Jarrett fountain to honor survivor Melissa Currin Heard ’92 Julie McEver Kirksey represent the class of ’67 scholarship certiicate from earlier awards convocation Deltas Emily Slough, Lawrenceville, Sally Geer, Albany; faculty. Above center, plaiting the Maypole ribbons. Maggie Murphy, St. Simons; and Claire Ary, Albany

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1940s 1950s 1980s Barbara Mitchell Disque Dorothy Hosea Pearce, WC ’41, of Maurine Wallace Abney, WC ’58, of Susannah Gordon White, WC ’81, of Stanwood, Wash., enjoys painting. She Birmingham, Ala., has been an interior Jackson, Tenn., is a school teacher. A VISIONARY TRADITIONALIST was recently featured in an article in her designer for forty years and still enjoys Her husband, John, is a pastor of 1932 - 2007 local newspaper, The Stanwood/Camano her business. She is very thankful for the First Presbyterian, and they have four News. She says that her days at Brenau interior design training she received from children. Gordon, 20, is a junior in gave her a wonderful foundation for an Brenau. She will have a room on the college; Andrew, 18, is a high school appreciation and love for the arts. cover of an upcoming magazine and has senior; and Kathelene and Forrest, 12, “She was a person who was never timid about speaking her mind, but whose counsel been published many times. are in sixth grade. Contact Susan at stemmed from a firm grasp on issues that affected the university and the world.” Barbara Betts Kluberg, WC ’42, of [email protected]. – Dr. Ed Schrader, President of Brenau University Avon Park, Fla., and sister Nancy Betts Carol Potts, WC ‘58, of Huntsville, Ala., Nunnallee, WC ’44, recently had a visit received a Golden Circle Pin from Tri Sherra Sowards Gillespie, WC ’82, from Margaret Garner Reisler, WC ’45, of Delta Fraternity. of Knoxville, Tenn., has been named hose who knew Barbara Mitchell was appointed to the university’s board of Melbourne, Fla. They had a good time the vice president, good life and trustees, which she served until her death, talking about Brenau memories. 1960s customer relations director for Disque regarded her as both a Emily Murphy Thompson, WC ’66, of Citizens National Bank. Ttraditionalist and a risk-taking and three years after she helped establish Mildred Roads Grifith, A ’45, McDonough, Ga., is retiring from 20 visionary. When she died at her home in a new bank in Atlanta, later acquired recently sold her home and moved to years of teaching ifth grade and 11 years Christine Alexander fitzgerald, WC ‘84, Atlanta May 4, six months shy of her 75th by Region’s Bank, where she served as a retirement facility. as an ESOL teacher. Emily is the proud of High Point, N.C., has been elected birthday, she was preparing against advice chairman until her 1996 retirement. grandmother of four grandchildren. E- Southwest Guilford Elementary Teacher of friends and family to make yet another of Disque was one of 16 women over four mail her at [email protected]. of the Year. She teaches fourth grade. her near-legendary excursions abroad – to generations in her family to attend Brenau. the tempestuous Middle East, to Israel, one She and other family members left a distinct Neile Rives Weis, A ’67, of Sea Island, Tracy Armstrong faucette, A ’85, of of more than 50 countries that stamped her imprimatur on many facets of Brenau life. Ga., and husband Robert are enjoying Rutherfordton, N.C., and husband Frank passport. At the same time, she drove her One of the more visible is Lockett-Mitchell retirement. She rides hunt seat on her have two daughters, Tyndall, 9, and contemporaries from the women’s college in Parlour in Yonah Hall, where her father Irish thoroughbred every day. They Jordan, 6. She is a limited partner the 1950s to prepare for next year’s reunion once courted her mother. She and her late grow scuppernongs and make wine at with the inancial irm Edward Jones. their farm in Sparta, Ga., and visit three She may be reached at Tracy.Faucette@ weekend so the class of ’53 would have a husband, Ken, a CPA, also donated a lecture th grandchildren in Toronto. Classmates edwardjones.com grand turnout for its 55 anniversary. hall in Burd Center that bears their name, may contact her at [email protected]. Ironically, she technically did not and they helped provide for the future of the Paula Speros Van Sickle, WC ’85, graduate that year, having elected to leave university with establishment of charitable 1970s of Alpharetta, Ga., would like to hear school early to marry and remainder trusts and other Liz Hammond Carter, A ’77, of from anyone who attended Brenau start a family. But that direct financial contributions. Charlottesville, Va., stays busy after from 1981-1985. E-mail her at didn’t bother Barbara. “She Following that lead, on her completing her house renovation with [email protected]. was the one who kept us all death her family suggested in Margaret Garner Reisler, WC ’45, of husband Andrew. They have three together,” says Madeline lieu of sending flowers friends Melbourne, Fla., recently presented a children: Hattie, 13, who spent the winter Betsy Wirtz Sutherland, WC ’87, Mabry Lippman (WC ’53) contribute to her church or solo performance to a packed house term at school in Switzerland, Keene of Greensboro, N.C., was recently of Bethany Beach, Del., Brenau University. for the Brevard County Museum of Arts Carter, 11, and Oleg Carter, 11. promoted to senior vice president of Disque’s roommate at the She is survived by two and Science. She still credits her voice M/A/R/C Research. She has been with the instructors at Brenau for her success. Robin Smith Dudley, WC ’78, irm for 18 years. Delta Delta Delta house daughters, Tricia Sanders of Thomson, Ga. was a 2008 Teacher in the early 1950s. Disque Heindel (WC ’78) of Atlanta frances Sides Prunty, WC ’46, of of the Year Finalist. Keena Redding Hunt, WC ’89, of would return to Brenau and Lynda Sanders Edmunds Wilmington, N.C., and her husband Fayetteville, Ga., was a featured soloist to collect a diploma more of Brentwood, Tenn., and Robert celebrated their 60th wedding Elizabeth Dudley Holmes, WC ’70, in “An Evening of Magniicent Opera and than 30 years later in 1986 son, Jimmy Sanders, also anniversary on Sept. 3. of Columbus, Ga., was recently inducted Oratorio” presented by the Southern – three years after she from Atlanta. into the Columbus State University Crescent Chorale in March in Morrow, Ga. Helen finger Thrasher, WC ’41, of College of Education Hall of Fame. Decatur, Ga., lives in Claremont Oaks. She is director of CSU’s Center for 1990s All ive of her children live within an Quality Teaching Learning. 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curriculum and instructional design. Susan Smiley-Height, WC ’91, of Tonya Evans Chatman, WC ’99, of Jill Hastings Goforth, EWC ‘01, of Christa Roebuck Schillinger, WC ’02, Cliff Smith, EWC ’04, of Gainesville, Ga., He was accepted to begin a Ph.D. Reddick, Fla., has been named assistant Cartersville, Ga., announces the birth of Gainesville, Ga., is the principal of New of Temple, Ga., is a stay-at-home mom has been accepted into the University of program in that ield in June. city editor/ community news at The Star- her daughter Annie Katherine Chatman Holland Elementary School. with son Zachary Schillinger, born Southern California where he will begin Banner, a New York Times afiliate daily on Feb. 14. She weighed 7 pounds and April 21, 2005. work on his MFA in acting this fall. Girls reined by … early exposure to newspaper in Ocala, Fla. 9 ounces. Nikki Hull Smith, WC ’01, of St. Simons cake! The clan of happy Brenau offspring Island, Ga., married Conrad Smith on Paula Sikes Lindner, WC ’03, of Mary Ellen Smith, WC ‘04, of Kalamazoo, below is gaining valuable knowledge Melony Avant Are, EWC ‘92, of July 22, 2006, at lovely Lane Chapel on Atlanta is the assistant arts director Mich., is the properties artist for the of birthday party etiquette, socially St. George, S.C., recently joined Liberty St. Simons Island. Holly Broadwell Peck, at the Quinlan Arts Gallery. Kalamazoo Civic Theatre. She is a acceptable cake portions and girl power. Business Associates LLC as a certiied WC ’01, and Allyson Shivley Reynolds, company member of The New Vic meeting planner. WC ’03, were bridesmaids. Many Brenau Christina Owens, WC ’03, of San Theatre, the only year-round professional Delta Delta Delta sisters attendaed. Francisco, Calif., completed her MFA theater house around Kalamazoo. Ken Dietrich, EWC ’92, of Toccoa, Ga., in performance with the American is running his own computer consulting Conservatory Theatre in May. Kristina Sutton, WC ’04, of Leesburg, business. He is working towards his Ga., recently booked a commercial for doctorate in biblical studies. Robyn Lee Hawes, WC ’99, of North Amanda Patterson, WC ’03, of Athens, Chicago Town Pizza, which will air in Augusta, S.C., married Timothy Jae Ferrell Ga., graduated from the University of both the United States and Britain. Michelle Clem Harvin, WC ’92, of on April 14, at Rose Hill Estate in Aiken. Georgia School of Law in May. Marietta, Ga., and husband Trey They honeymooned in Punta Cana, Camie Dart, WC ’05, of Long Island City, announce the birth of Milly Gentry Harvin Dominican Republic. Annie Banford, WC ’04, of Winder, N.Y., started her law school career at on April 22. She weighed 8 pounds, 1 Ga., is a third-year student at Stetson Thomas Cooley Law School and has ounce, and was 20 inches long. They are Scott Parker, EWC ’99, of Bogart, Ga., Nikki is an interior designer with Pierce Law School in Florida. She is currently transferred to the New York School of From left to right: Miss Margaret (Sue thrilled to have a Brenau legacy! recently joined Countrywide Home Loans and Parker Interiors, and Conrad is an student body president at the law Law in New York City where she enjoys Perry Mueller, WC ’90), Miss Barbara as a home loan consultant. investment broker with Bull and school. learning and living in the big city. Helen, (Ashley Copses-Moye, WC ’92), Lesley Lowman, WC ’95, of Loganville, Bear Investments. Miss Georgia (Kendall Anderson Nelson, Ga., is working for the State of Georgia 2000s Andrea Gervais, WC ’04, of Abby Gilder, WC ‘05, of Glenwood, Ga., WC ’90), Miss Caroline (Anna Crandall as a Nurse Surveyor. Victoria Welsh Alisa Stone, WC ’01, of Panama City Nashville, Tenn., is in her second is the new owner of Fancy Dancer, Plyler, WC ’92), Miss Kate (Liz Wright Diamond, Beach, Fla., is the broker and owner of semester at Vanderbilt School of Law the dance studio in which she grew Ward WC ’92), and Miss Mary Katherine Mary Lina Hastings Pardue, WC ’95, WC ’00, of Stone Real Estate Group, LLC and can and is going to be working up dancing. – big sister to Margaret. of Gainesville, Ga., and husband Erik Hillsboro, Ore., be reached at www.TheBeachPeach.com. internationally during the summer. welcomed a baby girl, Anna McKinley announces Alisa is known as “The Georgia Peach Alicia Jones, WC ’05, of Flowery Branch, Elizabeth Traba fitzpatrick, A ’ 90, of Coral Pardue, Dec. 26. the birth who sells the beach.” Shavonda Lewis, WC ’04, of Flowery Ga., transferred jobs to work at DMC/ Gables, Fla., and her husband Jonathon of her son Branch, Ga., is working at Brenau Atlanta Journal Constitution as an have two children, Jack, 5, and Lucy, 2. Arlynn Bryson McDaniel, WC ’95, Samuel Jacob Niki Randles Redstrom, WC ’02, of University Ofice of Admissions as an advertising coordinator/scriptwriter for Contact her at [email protected]. of Cape Coral, Fl. would like to announce Diamond. on Sugar Hill, Ga., and husband Mark admissions representative. AJC Jobs TV and Homeinder TV. the birth of her irst child, Hannah Grace, June 7, 2006. are proud to announce the birth of Jodi Greco Morrill, WC ’90, of Austin, born on Dec. 17. Arlynn is a licensed their daughter Sarah Ashley Redstrom. Briana Dennis Long, WC ’04, and Chandra Owenby Hopkins, WC ’05, and Texas, and her husband Mike have three interior designer in the state of Florida Suzanne Kirkman Krause, WC ’00, She was born Feb. 14. She weighed husband Jason Long announce the arrival Boone J. Hopkins, EWC ’04, completed children, Sarah, 18, Micheal, 10, and and works for a custom home builder in of Elberton, Ga., and husband Jeff 7pounds. and 30 ounces. of their son, Nathan Dow, on Dec. 7. their MFAs in theatre pedagogy with Hope, 7. Sarah is a freshman in college. Bonita Springs. E-mail her at proudly announce the arrival of twins emphases in dramaturgy and directing/ [email protected] on March 19. Harrison David Krause Melanie McCorkle, WC ’04, of acting, respectively in May and have Andrea Gammeter Mundt, A ’90, of was 4 pounds, 11 ounces and 19 inches Fayetteville, Ark., graduated from the already accepted teaching assistantships Marietta, Ga., is a realtor with Century long, and Addison Marie Krause was 6 University of Arkansas, Little Rock, in from the University of Kansas to begin 21. She is married to Samuel and has pounds. 12 ounces and 20 inches long. May and will be returning to Georgia to pursuing Ph.D.s in theater this fall. three children: Christina, 3, Annaliese, take the bar in the fall. 5, and Levi who was born on Dec. 27. Morgan LaPier Prince, WC ‘00, Erin McKown, WC ’05, of Ringgold, She may be contacted at andreamundt@ of Acworth, Ga., married Bryan Rebecca uggla Salmon franco, WC ’04, Ga., who is the current Miss Northwest century21.com. Douglas Prince on Jan. 6, in Rome, of Buford, Ga., graduated from the Georgia, was recently crowned Miss Ga. Rachel Doud Sanders, WC ’98, University of Georgia School of Law in Georgia American Queen at the Christy Horton Dodd, EWC ‘91 and ‘03, was a bridesmaid. The newlyweds Pelin Odagacioglu Sakalsiz, WC ’02, May and has been awarded a fellowship Academy of Medicine in Atlanta. of Hartwell, Ga., and husband Chuck honeymooned in Costa Rica. Morgan of Ankara, Turkey, got married on Nov. to work in the area of immigration law She also won best interview. announce the birth of their son, William works as an occupational therapist for 4, 2006. She teaches English at for the next two years. Charles Dodd, on Jan. 6. They also have Cobb County Schools and Bryan is an Bilkent University. a son, Robert Miles, who is 3. engineer for Georgia Power.

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Mark Avery, OL ’06, of Port Saint Lucie, DICK LEET pinpoints exactly when she recalls. “Some of them Fla., completed his degree after building he acquired the rare volumes, some were in my field and dated his career as a golf professional for dating to the 17th Century, that he back to the early 1800s.” more than 20 years. He is a proud recently donated to the Trustee Library. That passion for Brenau alum! He can’t recall who drove him to the books and reading is one farm in rural Missouri. But there the they shared in their six Carla fortner Brewer, WC ’06, of Grundy, U.S. Navy vet, having just returned to decades together, along with Va., is in her second semester at undergraduate studies after World War those of collecting paint- Appalachian School of Law. II service, spent his last 40 bucks at an ings that cover the walls estate sale buying a carload of books on from floor to vaulted ceiling Tiffany Currid, WC ’06, of Niceville, every subject imaginable – from medi- in their lake-side home in in memory of cal texts to novels to preachy religious Gainesville and for getting Fla., is an agent support specialist for the regional vice president of Midland tomes warning of involved with arts, education National Life. Lavinia Hilliard floyd, WC ’25 Mary Virginia Watson Smith, WC ’43 “The Punishment and community wherever of Statesboro, Ga., died on of Merritt Island, Fla., died on April 16. of Sin in Hell,” pub- they happened to be. Khristina Danchetz followell, EWC ’06, of Dec. 6, 2005. Anna Singer Stark, WC ’43 lished in 1610. He The Leets proved Dawsonville, Ga. is the vice president of Louise Haralson Holder WC ’28 of Lumpkin, Ga., died on July 7, 2006. knows for certain the point recently when operations at Dahlonega-Lumpkin County of Lagrange, Ga., died on Goldie Moore Shaw, WC ’44 that acquisition they created an irrevocable cause there are always costs that are Chamber of Commerce. March 18, 2005. of Gaston, N.C., died on April 13. occurred just before trust designed to create a Brenau sci- not in the budget and do not fit in the Rachel Peterson Roller, WC ’30 Jane Millard Baker, WC ’47 he met Phyllis Combs, a home econom- ences professorship with a $1 million budget,” he says. Ohio State fund- Laura Stewart Jenkins, WC ’06, of East of Coral Gables, Fla., died on Feb. 25. of Phoenix, Ariz., died on Dec. 14, 2005. ics major at Northwest Missouri State endowment “when we both graduate,” raisers, he recalls, “had to beg for Point, Ga., got married in May 2006 to Carolyn Moore Harris, WC ’32 Shirley McDonald Brandon, WC ’47 University, who 58 years ago this past as Dick put it euphemistically. They money from the legislature. There was Brad Jenkins. She is a registered nurse at of Lewisburg, W.Va., died on March 1. of Springield, Tenn., died on Feb. 26. Flag Day became his wife. topped the gift recently when Leet told never enough.” Atlanta Medical Center. Allene Braselton Laird, WC ’34 Helen Bagwell Roper, WC ’47 “I thought it was a little odd,” fellow Brenau trustees that they would Neither Dick nor Phyllis has any of Sun City, Ariz., died March 29. of Gainesville, Ga., died on Nov. 10. says Phyllis, who recalls her first en- put up $350,000 as a matching chal- historic or family ties to Brenau. Both Brooke North, WC ’06, of Atlanta, is a Mary Louise Johns Olson, WC ’34 Barbara Mitchell Disque, WC ’53 counter with Leet and the eclectic col- lenge fund to create a $700,000 cash are Missouri natives who patiently substitute teacher. She is working on a of Columbia, S.C., died on Feb. 9. of Atlanta, Ga., died on May 4. lection of leather-bound titles stacked pool to pay expenses for the universi- instruct in the local pronunciation: it’s teaching certiication for middle school Gertrude Ellison Carter, WC ’35 Nancy Remick Smith, WC ’56 in his dining room. But she was also ty’s upcoming capital campaign. And, Miz-ur-uh. After OSU, Leet joined social studies. of Camden, Ark., died on March 21. of Wake Forest, N.C., died on Feb. 27. enamored of this chemistry major who among other things, they’ve been part- the research team for Standard Oil of Sara Bruce Strother, WC ’38 Ann Hagerty Morrison, WC ’67 “just liked books.” ing with some of those precious books, Indiana, now Amoco. He spent half a Patricia Phillips, EWC ’06, of of Catherine, Ala., died on Feb. 18. of Jefferson, La., died on March 14. “I was just as excited as he was,” donating them to the Trustee Library’s decade studying lubricants then was Dawsonville, Ga., is a third grade teacher Margery Phillips Dews, WC ’40 Carmen Stansberry Perlino, WC ’68 rare book collection. hand-picked for the executive track. at New Holland Elementary. She can be of Atlanta, Ga., died on April 23. of Decatur, Ga., died on Aug. 18, 2001. “They’re stepping up Twenty-three jobs later in virtually reached at [email protected]. Mary Elizabeth Harris Sutton, WC ’40 Josephine McKenzie Harkey, WC ’69 in a big way in the early days every division, he retired in 1991 as of Monroe, La., died on Feb. 22. of Charlotte, N.C., died on March 3. making commitments to the vice chairman. The Leets bought their Sherry Highield Smith, EWC ’06, of Geraldine Graham Skardon, WC ’41 Wendelyn Jewel Washington, WC ’83 success of the campaign and Lake Lanier house in the 1980s, plan- Braselton, Ga. is a loan oficer at UIM. of Waltersboro, S.C., died on Feb 26. of Smyrna, Ga., died on March 19. the future of the university,” ning when they retired to move close E-mail her at [email protected]. Rosalyn Sheram Wood, WC ’42 Andera Marie Deltufo, WC ’88 says Brenau President Ed to their three grown children, Rick, of Nashville, Tenn., died on May 9. of Santa Barbara, Calif., died on May 1. Schrader. “If there needs to Alan and Dana. While “visiting in our Derrick Ledbetter, EWC ’07, of Sarah Brown, WC ’43 Thomas A. Lopez, EWC ’95 be a definition of ‘leadership,’ own home,” Phyllis says, they read in Gainesville, Ga., has accepted a position of Cobbtown, Ga., died on Feb. 21. of Venice, Fla., died on Oct. 12, 2002. this is it.” the local paper that Brenau was raising in the Young Company of Cincinnati Beverly Clark Hamrick, WC ’43 Leet knows about money to preserve its art collection. Shakespeare, where he will play of Shelby, N.C., died on Nov. 21. raising money. After gradu- The item caught them right at their multiple roles in their season for the ating from his Maryville, sweet spot. Dick called to see if they coming year in the Ohio city. Mo., hometown university, could help, and he was soon recruited Leet earned a Ph.D. from as a member of the board of trustees. Jennifer Trippe, WC ’07, of Commerce, Ohio State. He subsequently Leet concedes he’d be pleased if Ga., will be serving as lighting designer chaired major capital cam- the trust funded a chemistry profes- and master electrician for the second paigns for both universities. sorship. But that’s not a requirement. year in a row at Highlands Playhouse in “When you are planning the “Who knows what changes will occur Highlands, N.C. kind of capital campaign in science teaching,” he says. “We want Leet shares rare books Brenau is, you need to have it to go to whatever science is befitting with Provost Helen Ray. some front-end money be- at the time.” – David Morrison

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