Spring/summer 2012

The Official Magazine of EchoesYoung Harris College Building the Future Capital Campaign Launches

Homecoming 2011 Celebrates A Tradition Reborn Mountain Lions Join Peach Belt Conference ­On the Cover and this Page Young Harris College moves closer to breaking ground on the new $44 million, 125,000-square-foot Rollins Campus Center that will combine an all-new student center, dining hall, banquet facility and 21st-century library into a single, state-of-the-art, three-level building. See story on page 12.

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­Above “Mountain Lion Pride” filled the cool November air at Young Harris College’s new fall Homecoming weekend, and students, alumni and friends from the local community were bursting with purple-and-white spirit in a Saturday morning parade prior to men’s and women’s basketball home openers. See story on page 30.

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Contents Departments 5 From the Valley 22 Forever Young Harris 35 On Campus 44 Mountain Lions Roundup 54 Class Notes

Young Harris College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call (404) 679-4500 for questions about the accreditation of Young Harris College. 2 features

8 Investing in the Future: YHC Launches $55 Million Capital Campaign 16 Family Tradition 27 The Science of Life 30 YHC Celebrates Mountain Lion Pride at Fall Homecoming 44 YHC Accepts Invitation to Join Peach Belt Conference 47 A Winning Match

3 From the president Echoes In the Name of Love Volume 14, Issue 1, SPRING/SUMMER 2012 The Official Magazine of Young Harris College

We speak constantly about the personal touch that defines a Young Harris College President education, so it’s no surprise, and no cliché, when I say “people matter” at YHC. The Cathy Cox close friendships that develop on this campus are legendary, as are the bonds between Vice President for Business/controller Wade Benson faculty and students. But even when our classrooms and walkways are empty—on Vice President for Campus Technology holidays or between semesters—the people and the names that make YHC special are Ken Faneuff very much alive. Vice President for Enrollment Management On a stroll around campus, I see the tricycle tire tracks in the sidewalk where Charlie Clinton Hobbs, ’88 Parks Clegg rode as a toddler, and the bricks on the plaza tell innumerable stories of Senior Vice President FOR loved ones. Appleby Complex commands Finance and Administration David Leopard attention on the plaza, harkening back to Vice President for Academic Affairs a time when 1896 alumnus Scott Appleby and dean of the faculty Dr. Ron Roach was in command of the Board of Trustees Vice President for and made generous gifts to help needy Student Development students. Today, “Maxwell” is a one-word Susan Rogers Vice President for Planning and reference to all things math and science Assessment and Chief of Staff at YHC, and trustee and benefactor Alvis Rosemary Royston, ’89 Maxwell, ’14, was almost a one-man Vice President for Advancement Jay Stroman champion of the College, providing 64 Chair, Board of Trustees years of leadership. Inside Goolsby Center Jerry Nix hang portraits of 1916 alumni Milton and During the Capital Campaign kickoff event, YHC President Cathy Cox unveiled portraits EDITORIAL STAFF Ophelia Goolsby, who translated their love Editor to hang in the College’s new library, to be for YHC into supporting the construction of Denise Cook named for Zell, ‘51, and Shirley Miller, ‘54. this central academic facility. Staff Writer and Editorial Assistant (See full story on page 8.) Krystin Dean The Maxwell and Goolsby hallways are Art Director dotted with names of more people who have loved this College, all of whom made Melissa Mitchell gifts to name classrooms and assure that more students could continue to enjoy many Contributors beloved traditions and experiences. Peggy Cozart, Candice Dyer, Lynne Grady, Kyle Huneycutt, Judy Lunsford, Michael Another name permeates all sectors of campus, from the O. Wayne Rollins Planetarium MacEachern, Ali Neese to the Rollins Wall, and now the Rollins Family, led by Wayne’s granddaughter and YHC Photography trustee Pam Rollins, is making an even greater impact by providing the lead gift for the Dennis Burnett, Peggy Cozart, Krystin Dean, Scott Dean, Jennifer McAfee, Rollins Family soon-to-be-constructed Rollins Campus Center. It will include the College’s first banquet Archives, Philip Sampson, ’84, Greg Wilde hall, named for another generous Methodist, Charles Edwin Suber, who was persuaded Editorial Office to leave an estate gift to YHC by his pastor, Dr. Robert Ozment, ’46. It will also include a Echoes Magazine, Office of Alumni Services P.O. Box 275, Young Harris, Georgia 30582 much-needed larger library and a 21st-century student center. Phone (706) 379-5173 • Fax (706) 379-4572 YHC also needs more classroom and office space, and its classrooms need new Website yhc.edu • Email [email protected] furniture. We have added more residence halls for the students who want to be here, To update your address and to support many of whom rely on scholarship assistance. Young Harris College: YHC recently launched a capital campaign to meet these needs so that a new Call (800) 241-3754, ext. 5173 or generation can experience that same, timeless Young Harris spirit. You can help us (706) 379-5173 or email [email protected] fulfill these needs and bring more names to life for future students who will wander Echoes is published by the Office of Communications and Marketing at Young Harris College. The views this hallowed ground. Consider naming a special place in the new Rollins Center for and opinions presented in this publication are not someone you love or endowing a scholarship to help a student, just as many alumni necessarily those of the editors or the official policies of the College. received help over the years. Copyright 2012 Young Harris College People matter at YHC. The people who came before us cared enough to give so that we could experience that Young Harris spirit, and now, we have to be the people who love YHC enough to keep that spirit alive.

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5 From the Valley Isakson Speaks Young Harris College adds to Graduates Three More Majors United States Senator Johnny In the fall of 2011, Young Harris College earned approval Isakson, R-Ga., addressed the Class of from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools 2012 during Young Harris College’s (SACS) to add bachelor’s degree programs in art and religious Commencement ceremony on May 5. studies, replacing the associate degree programs previously Following his words of inspiration to offered in these subjects. Senator Johnny Isakson the graduates, YHC President Cathy Cox In addition, YHC received accreditation in spring of 2012 awarded Isakson an honorary doctor of to introduce a new bachelor’s degree program in psychology, public service degree in recognition of his leadership and growing the total number of baccalaureate majors offered to accomplishments. 16 in just four short years. Upon entering politics in 1974, he served 17 years in the “We are excited to offer Young Harris College students Georgia Legislature and two years as chairman of the Georgia these three new majors as we continue to build our array Board of Education. In 1999, he was elected to the U.S. of academic offerings, said YHC President Cathy Cox. “Our House of Representatives for the first of three terms before current students have already shown great interest in these being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004. He was re-elected particular areas, and we believe these degree programs will to the Senate in 2010. help position YHC as an attractive option for even more A graduate of the University of prospective students as we continue to grow our enrollment Georgia, Isakson served in the toward 1,200.” Georgia Air National Guard from All three new programs are available beginning in the Fall 1966 to 1972. 2012 semester. Look for full coverage of YHC’s 2012 Commencement in the Fall/ » For a complete list of academic programs offered Winter 2012 issue of Echoes. at Young Harris College, visit yhc.edu/degrees or,

YHC President Cathy Cox presents an from your smart phone, visit m.yhc.edu and honorary degree to Sen. Johnny Isakson. select “Academics.”

See What’s New AT yhc.edu Young Harris College launched a new, updated version of New yhc.edu in May with many enhancements and new features. “Explore YHC” gives prospective students and their families Directions an in-depth look into the college experiences of actual YHC at YHC students and an opportunity to get familiar with campus through a new interactive A new way-finding system was map, and site visitors can installed at Young Harris College in follow College-affiliated February, featuring purple and silver Twitter and Facebook updates signs that identify directly on the homepage. campus buildings Upgrade to the latest and departments. In version of your preferred addition, several large web browser for optimum directories prominently site performance. display a campus map YHC also offers a mobile to assist prospective site at m.yhc.edu for use students and other on smart phones and other campus visitors. devices.

6 Three More Majors Young HarrisCollegeadds Dr. GaryL.Myers student experience.” a goodperspectiveonwhatsmallcollegescandotoenhancethe commitment totheliberalartsandhighereducation,alongwith College President CathyCox.“Hehasanabidinginterest inand experience, personalityandcreative vision,”saidYoung Harris 2012 academicyear, totheclassroom haschosentoreturn fulltime. Studies RonRoach,Ph.D.,whoheldthepositionduring2011- following thenewsthatAssociateProfessor ofCommunication and Canada. appeared innumerous publicationsthroughout theUnitedStates Lifetime PossessionsandWorld Effects, andhispoemshave Mercyhurst CollegeinPennsylvania. aschairmanofEnglish andassistantprofessorserved ofEnglishat freshman Englishanddirector ofcreative writing.Priortothat,he including director ofTheInstitutefortheHumanities,director of innumerousState Universityfacultyin1989andhasserved roles, University ofIowa’s Writers’ Workshop. HejoinedtheMississippi Nebraska andhisM.F.A. inEnglishandcreative writingfrom the B.S. ineducationwithanEnglishmajorfrom theUniversityof creative writingfrom his theUniversityofHouston andearned “Our search committeewasextremely impressed withDr. Myer’s YHC selectedDr. Myersafterconductinganationalsearch, He haspublishedtwoaward-winning booksofpoetry, titled faculty atYoung HarrisCollege. for academicaffairs anddeanofthe has beennamedasthenewvicepresident of EnglishatMississippiStateUniversity, College ofArtsandSciencesprofessor Academic Aff Myers toLead He holdsaPh.D.inEnglishand L.Myers,Ph.D.,deanofthe Gary airs the YHCcampusandsurrounding mountains. unfolds multipletimestoreveal abreathtaking aerialimageof first introduced inthefallof2011.The single-sheet brochure admissions travelbrochure “Dare toExplore More,” whichwas 27th AnnualEducationalAdvertising Awards forits new and “GoldWinner” attheHigherEducationMarketingReport’s “Best inShow” Young Harris Collegewasrecently awarded “BestinShow” Jimmy C.Tallent, ’70 “Hank” Huckaby, ’62 and politics. influence inhighereducation for hercontinuedleadershipand magazine’s “NotableGeorgians” was alsoincludedasoneofthe estate falloutofrecent years. YHC Leaders includes ‘Georgia YHC President CathyCox

’s PowerList and CEO,despitethereal holding company’s president as the$7.2-billionbank of UnitedCommunityBank” Tallent’s “phenomenalgrowth hikes,” wasnotedalongside budget cutsandrisingtuition System ofGeorgia “amid chancellor oftheUniversity leadership asthenew or another.” of allGeorgians inoneway affect thelivesandlivelihood year, namesindividuals“who issue. Thelist,nowinits14th the magazine’s 2012 January Most InfluentialGeorgians” in named to Jimmy C.Tallent, ’70,were “Hank” Huckaby, ’62,and Trustees membersHenry alumni andBoard of Huckaby’s critical Young HarrisCollege Georgia Trend’s “100 7 From the Valley Investingin the Young Harris launches most ambitious fund- raising campaign in the College’s 126-year history to advance new four-year mission

More than a century after being founded on an earnest vision and unwaveringFuture faith, Young Harris College is making history once again as it enters an exciting new era with the launch of the Investing in the Future Capital Campaign this spring. By reaching its goal of $55 million, the campaign will enable the College to complete its historic transformation from a two-year college to a world-class, four-year liberal arts college.

Young Harris College President Cathy Cox

8 with generous supportandleadershipformore thantwodecades.” anything else?’andthenhesystematicallyaddressed theneeds Trustees in1970,heasked‘WhatdoestheCollegeneedmore than said President Cox.“WhenO.Wayne RollinsjoinedtheBoard of and growth ofYoung Harris Collegeformore thanfourdecades,” at theevent. Rollins Family, whowas recognized withaspecialvideotribute Trustees, donors—liketheO.Wayne foundationsandexemplary the kickoff eventwiththehelpofcollegeleaders,Board of years ago.Campaignmomentumcontinuedtobuildprior its goalsincethecampaignbeganquietlyalittlemore thantwo our campaign.” the best-credentialed faculty. Theseare theessentialelementsof to enroll andtoensure thatwecanrecruit, supportandretain endowment toattractandenablethebestbrighteststudents of athrivingcollegecampus.We mustalsobuildtheCollege’s hub grounding andunitingtheintellectualsocialaspects College needsacore facilityforitsacademicandsociallife—a on March 29atAtlanta’s PiedmontDrivingClub.“Young Harris during thecampaign’s “CelebrationofPromise” kickoff event remains tobeaccomplished,”YHCPresident CathyCoxsaid and staff, andbeautiful,sustainablenewfacilities;yetmore student enrollment, increased numberandquality offaculty “The Rollins Family has been an integral part of the history “The RollinsFamilyhasbeenanintegralpartofthehistory To date,theCollegehasraisedmore than$47milliontoward “Transformation isalready evidentoncampuswithrecord rendering oftheRollinsCampusCenter. YHC trusteeZell,‘51,andShirleyMiller, ‘54,examinea Cathy Cox. campaign kickoff event,pictured here withYHCPresident those representing theRollinsFamilyatCollege’s Kreisler, withherhusbandDr. NevinKreisler, were among Wayne RollinsFoundationExecutiveDirector AmyRollins Capital CampaignChairandtrusteePamRollinsO. Randall andPeggyRollinstheirdaughters,YHC an updateoncampaignprogress. Campaign ChairandtrusteePam Rollinsgive YHC President CathyCoxandCapital 9 Capital Campaign O. Wayne Rollins’ granddaughter Pam R. Rollins has been named chair for the campaign. “The Rollins legacy at Young Harris has lived on through Wayne and Grace Rollins’ children and grandchildren. For the past 20 years, their granddaughter Pam Rollins has provided invaluable counsel and leadership as a member of the College’s Board of Trustees and now as the chair of our capital campaign. She has enabled the campaign to springboard to YHC Board of Trustees Chair Jerry Nix, with his wife, record success,” President Cox said. Cheryl, and YHC trustee emeritus Tom Glenn, with his Rollins set the pace for the campaign when she announced wife, Lou, are key leaders in the College’s fundraising a $22 million lead gift from the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation efforts. toward construction of the campus center—to be named the Rollins Campus Center. “It is a great honor to serve as campaign chair during this historic transformation at Young Harris College, and it is a privilege to carry on the legacy of my grandparents, Orville Wayne and Grace Crum Rollins, to help the College continue to succeed and make a difference in the lives of its students,” said Campaign Chair Pam Rollins. “I am pleased to announce a lead gift of $22 million from the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation toward the construction of the new campus center, which will greatly enrich the student experience at Young Harris College, both academically and socially.” In celebrating the campaign launch, the Young Harris College Chamber Choir performed “Exultate Justi In Domino” The audience included University System of Georgia by Andreas Hakenberger, “This Marriage” by Eric Whitacre Chancellor and YHC trustee Hank Huckaby, ‘62, with his and “Ain’t Got Time to Die” by Hal Johnson. wife, Amy, ‘62.

Portraits by Georgia artist Steve Penley of Zell, ‘51, and Shirley Miller, ‘54, that were unveiled at the campaign kickoff event will be prominently displayed in the Zell and Shirley Miller Library inside the new Rollins Campus Center.

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The Young Harris College Chamber Choir performed a variety of musical selections, led by Jeff Bauman, YHC professor of music and director of choral and vocal activities.

President Cox also recognized alumni and friends who have committed to being leaders during Young Harris College’s transformation. “Tonight we want to say a huge thank you to every one of in the you here for the contributions you’ve made to get us to the successful point we have reached in this campaign to date. Investing You have contributed funds to the building of a new campus center, you have given scholarship funds that help every one Campaign Progress moreFuture than of the students you have met tonight, you have made other gifts that will benefit our students for generations to come, and we thank you all.” President Cox continued, “We are especially thankful to the $47 Wilbur and Hilda Glenn Family Foundation. They gave us the ‘seed corn’ to get our capital campaign started and made million tonight’s celebration dinner possible.” The College also unveiled portraits of YHC alumnus and trustee Zell Miller, ’51, and alumna Shirley Miller, ’54, painted Goal $55 million by celebrated Georgia artist Steve Penley, which will hang prominently in the new Zell and Shirley Miller Library. (See related story on page 12.) “We are proud to call the Millers part of our Young Harris College family and pleased to be able to pay tribute to them in this special way. There are no two Young Harris alumni more »  To learn more about the Investing in the Future deserving of this honor,” President Cox said. Capital Campaign at YHC, visit yhc.edu/campaign.

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12 The New

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The centerpiece of Young Harris College’s masterHeart plan and the focal point of the Investing in the Future Capital Campaign is the construction of a $44 million, 125,000-square-foot campus center designed to catapult the student experience at Young Harris College into the 21st century. Named for a $22 million lead gift from the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation, the Rollins Campus Center will become the signature facility at Young Harris College—the social and intellectual heart of campus. Located next to the Susan B. Harris Chapel—the College’s oldest structure, this three-and-a-half-story glass, brick and stone building will create a new hub of bustling activity, uniting social and academic aspects of a thriving college campus, while optimizing the surrounding mountain views and maximizing outdoor space with numerous porches for inspiration and renewal. The largest facility ever to be constructed on the YHC campus, the Rollins Campus Center will connect four distinct areas in a single, state-of-the- art structure: a 60,000-square-foot multi-purpose student center, an expanded dining hall boasting a wide variety of food stations, a 350-seat, versatile banquet facility and a 40,000-square-foot modern library—named for Young Harris’ most famous son, Zell Miller, ’51, and his remarkable wife, Shirley, ’54.

The largest, most comprehensive facility in YHC’s history, the Rollins Campus Center will provide the infrastructure for the College to accommodate growing student enrollment, enhance its academic offerings and complete its transformation to a vibrant, premier four-year liberal arts college.

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The Student Center The Grace Rollins The new 60,000-square-foot student Dining Hall center will house student organizations, The 500-plus seating in the activities and services, including the future dining hall will replace Office of Student Development, in a the College’s current 270-seat versatile, loft-like space. For the first time space, but the Grace Rollins name ever, the campus will be able to provide will live on. Food stations with dedicated office and meeting space for nutritious, customized made-to- student media, Student Government order meals, plus grab-and-go Association, religious life, Greek options, will shorten wait times organizations and other clubs. It will also and enhance fellowship. Grace Rollins Dining Hall include multiple lounge areas, informal meeting space, computer workstations and a convenience store. The Academic The Charles E. Suber Banquet Hall Success Center, which provides tutoring, The elegant 350-seat banquet hall will enable the College to host large group academic counseling and disability gatherings, alumni events, guest lectures and workshops. The multi-purpose space services, and the Academic Advising will feature a sound system, retractable screen and portable stage; plus a commercial Center, which offers academic and career catering kitchen will be adjacent to the room. The facility will become the largest in advisement, will also be housed there. Towns County and will be available to the surrounding community for rental.

14 The Zell and Shirley Miller Library Preserving the As the College’s academic programs and enrollment continue to expand, so must its library resources and study space. With 40,000 square feet, the Zell and Shirley Miller Institutions of higher learning are shaped by their Library will more than double the College’s existing physical Young Harris Spirit space for its growing collection of academic resources that aid character, location, people and programs. Since its students in reaching their intellectual potential. In addition to founding, Young Harris College has benefited from a Capital Campaign designated space for permanent and special collections, the highly recognizable combination of these traits. Perhaps design calls for group study rooms, reading carrels, computer that is why so many YHC alumni—and admirers—have stations and a 24-hour study area. sent their sons and daughters to the Enchanted Valley. Beyond that, the Zell and Shirley Miller Library will Over the years, YHC’s emphasis on providing a stand as an enduring legacy of this couple’s contributions to superior liberal arts education has remained constant, Young Harris College, the State of Georgia and the nation. A and the College’s close-knit, residential campus has prominently displayed exhibit will pay tribute to the Millers’ proven to successfully build vital social skills and inspiring story. enhance academic success. While the contours of the campus and curriculum will continue to evolve over the coming decade in order to remain relevant in a modern world, the College’s focus remains steadfast: to educate, inspire and empower. So while its 10-year strategic plan calls for growing the student body to 1,200 and adding top-notch faculty to teach them across more than 20 major fields of study in exceptional, sustainable facilities, YHC’s Board of Trustees and administration are committed to protecting, preserving and enhancing the place that generations of students call home. Young Harris College will continue to be a “walkable” campus with glorious mountain views in every direction, Above and left: a place with intimate classes that afford unexpectedly Zell and Shirley personalized attention, allowing students to bond with Miller Library their professors and develop lifelong friendships with their peers. It will continue to provide the distinctive high-quality education that it is renowned for, adhering to the Methodist tenets of a “warm heart and trained mind.” This is the very nature of Young Harris College, past, present and future. With a nod to the lone circuit- riding minister who founded the College more than a century ago, Young Harris is riding with excitement into the future, well- positioned to ascend to the ranks of the nation’s top liberal arts colleges.

15 Tradition Family Capital Campaign

O. Wayne and Grace C. Rollins By Candice Dyer

The Rollins Wall at Young Harris College borders and showcases the front of campus like a sturdy gem-setting, and students have developed a tradition of “walking” it with impeccable balance for luck before finals. The O. Wayne Rollins Planetarium introduced state-of-the-art technology that reassures young scholars, with breathtaking evidence, that the sky really is the limit. Students eat meals at the Grace Rollins Dining Hall and sleep and forge lifelong friendships in the Rollins Residence Hall. And soon, everyone will converge in the new Rollins Campus Center, a sleek, modern 125,000-square-foot complex housing the books, food and fellowship that power student life and learning.

First-time visitors might assume, after his classmates: “Tonight we launch! out at the courthouse, where the legal glancing at the signage on these buildings, Where shall we anchor? Our success will wrangling fascinated him like a spectator that Orville Wayne Rollins must be one be according to how much effort we are sport. Planning to enroll at Young Harris of the College’s many accomplished and willing to put into it.” College and eventually become a lawyer, loyal alumni. Ironically, he did not attend Rollins recited the speech from his the young farmer-scholar radiated college at Young Harris, or anywhere, photographic memory, which, along with ambition and aspiration. So his stoic for that matter. He was, by all accounts, his work ethic and innate shrewdness, mother, usually not given to tears, broke a “life-long learner,” though, who never had catapulted him to the head of the down and cried a few weeks later when lost his bone-deep convictions about the class; he was what people mean when she told him, while he was recovering power of education. they speak of a “quick study.” He could from appendix surgery in the hospital, He delivered a rousing speech as calculate long columns of numbers in his “Wayne, there’s been a hailstorm. All our valedictorian of the Class of 1930 at head, and when he wasn’t plowing and crops have been completely destroyed.” Ringgold High School, where he exhorted doing homework, Rollins was hanging There would be no money for college,

16 no law degree, because of one night of bad weather. Although he must have felt devastated, Rollins had been brought up on the rags-to-riches stories of Horatio Alger and the faith of the Methodist Church. He strove that much harder, eventually building a business empire of legendary entrepreneurialism and far-reaching philanthropy. Rollins, the brainy country boy who never attended college, ultimately invested millions in higher education, a tradition that continues today with his descendants Capital Campaign through the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation. “When I came to Young Harris College in 2007, it didn’t take long to understand the strong influence of the O. Wayne Rollins Family on our campus, said YHC President Cathy Cox. “YHC would look—and feel—dramatically different without their contributions. If you take a stroll around campus, you will quickly see the evidence of more than four decades of support and leadership, and for that, we are very grateful.” It is a testament to YHC’s transcendent appeal, as well as an object lesson in the power of a dream deferred, that this key benefactor for the College never took a single course here. After that early setback, Rollins sold dairy products door-to- door and shoveled gravel for the county roads. He began dating a woman he met at a church revival, an independent redhead named Grace Crum of Howardsville. After an occasionally tempestuous courtship, they married on Easter Sunday of 1931, in Young Harris—in a ceremony conducted by Wayne’s uncle, Frank Above: Wayne and Grace Rollins through the years Rollins, who was a ministerial student at the College. “Now that was a happy marriage to emulate,” said their Below: Wayne and Grace Rollins with their children and granddaughter, Pam Rollins, who currently chairs YHC’s Board of grandchildren at their 50th wedding anniversary party Trustees Development Committee as well as the College’s Investing in 1981.

17 in the Future Capital Campaign. “My grandparents genuinely in the same company as Ronald Regan, Herbert Hoover, Dwight enjoyed each other’s company. They held hands, and he always Eisenhower, Henry Kissinger, Norman Vincent Peale and Colin referred to her as his ‘sweetheart.’ It was a little unusual for Powell. their generation that she always drove the car, while he gave “I think it was those Horatio Alger stories that put the fire in directions. Maybe the happy memory of their wedding in Young his belly,” said Pam. Harris contributed to his loyalty to the College.” Still, the captain of the industry kept a modestly low profile Lured by job opportunities, the young couple migrated north, and guided these large-scale mergers with small-town values. where Wayne and his brother, John, purchased a radio station “My grandfather operated during a time when deals were in Radford, Va. The business flourished, and they renamed made by handshake and someone’s word actually meant the enterprise Rollins Broadcasting, which became one of the something,” she continued. “If they said it, they meant it, and if first companies to create programming for specific community they meant it, it happened. He never used a calculator—didn’t markets. Soon, the brothers expanded into television, outdoor have to; he added everything up in his head. Plus, he could advertising and cable television markets. talk with anybody at every level. He had a rare gift for making In another gutsy move that made business history, Wayne took something complicated seem accessible and easy to understand the company public in 1961 and three years later purchased for everybody.” the Atlanta-based Orkin Exterminating Company for $62.4 Moreover, both Wayne and Grace believed in giving back. million. The transaction stands as the first recorded leveraged The beneficiaries of their foundation, established in 1967, buyout in U.S. history, setting a precedent for other industries. have included Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health, Camp Rollins moved to Atlanta, and continued to diversify, venturing Sunshine for children with cancer, a United Nations campaign into residential security, lawn care, maid services, landscaping, to fight mosquito bites, and several Georgia churches. Wayne wall-covering distribution and other projects. In time, Rollins established a scholarship fund at YHC, administered by his Inc. became one of North America’s biggest pest-control uncle, and in 1970, he joined the College’s board of trustees. conglomerates, and its founder from Ringgold was named to “First, he was interested in beautification, in updating and the Forbes list of “richest men.” Wayne fittingly received the fixing up the buildings and grounds of the College and making Horatio Alger Award, along with John, making them the only it more attractive to students. So he was behind the Rollins Wall, brothers ever to have both earned the honor and putting them as well as paving the parking lots and installing telephone lines underground,” recalled past board chair Paul Beckham, ’63. “He was also interested in the students themselves, establishing substantial scholarships that still help a large number of them O. Wayne today. He developed and financed the planetarium, which he and Grace believed, accurately, would serve as a recruiting tool as high C. Rollins school students came here on field trips.” In the early 1990s, Young Harris College faced a looming deficit and closed one of its residence halls because of lagging enrollment numbers. “The 1991-1992 academic year was particularly challenging for the College,” said Vice President for Enrollment Management and External Affairs Clint Hobbs, ’88. “Our new president at the time, Dr. Thomas Yow, took the helm of a college that was struggling with enrollment and finances. It appeared that our operating budget would finish in the red; however, literally days before his death, Wayne Rollins wrote a check for nearly $100,000 so that the College could make budget. This is just one example of Wayne and Grace’s abundant generosity and the extent to which they were involved with and cared for Young Harris College. We haven’t been near the red since!” Wayne proudly tended a patch of collards behind his Atlanta mansion right up until his death in 1991 and always remembered his roots. He must have reflected often on his early aspirations, aware that other rural children of limited means

18 Pam R. Rollins stands in front of YHC’s LEED Silver-certified Enotah Hall. were aching to better themselves as he once did. “Despite the fact that he never went to college, or maybe because of that fact, it was very important to him that he help people who otherwise couldn’t afford higher education,” said Pam. “He was a lifelong learner who believed in looking to the future and paying it forward to help the next generation coming up. I think he would be absolutely thrilled with the campus today, especially with its expansion as a four-year institution.” Capital Campaign Pam Rollins grew up in Atlanta, just a few minutes from her grandparents’ house, where she loved to play as a child. “They still had those Depression-era values,” she said. “They gardened and canned and preserved what they grew, always stocking up, just in case. I don’t remember either of them ever sitting still— they always worked at something.” Pam earned a bachelor’s degree in family and community studies at Stephens College and became a civic leader and philanthropist, taking her grandfather’s place on YHC’s Board of Trustees in 1992 and continuing his tradition of straight talk and high-energy initiative. In 2012, during YHC’s Commencement, she became the third member of the Rollins Family to receive the Young Harris College Medallion—the highest honor given by the College— a new 21st-century student center, a larger Grace Rollins Dining for her extraordinary contributions and leadership, after her Hall, a new banquet facility and the state-of-the-art Zell and grandfather in 1984 and her grandmother in 1993. Shirley Miller Library. “Pam is just like her father and grandfather in that you never “Young Harris graduates have an established track record of have to wonder what’s on her mind because she’ll tell you,” said doing well wherever they end up,” Pam explained. “It’s a college YHC Board of Trustees Chair Jerry Nix, with a chuckle. “She that consistently produces outstanding people, but there still loves to laugh and have fun, but when it comes to fundraising aren’t enough people out there who know about it. As part for education, she takes her role very seriously and gets the job of our campaign, we’re approaching the people who know done. She’s a natural leader, just like Wayne.” firsthand what a great institution it is, and then we’re trying to Determined to make certain that future generations of students raise awareness among those who might not know, with the could enjoy those educational experiences that her grandfather hope of recruiting some great students as well as raising funds.” had desired, Pam recently announced a $22 million lead gift She likes to believe, as she works to help transform the from the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation toward YHC’s Investing College, that her grandfather, that valedictorian who was so in the Future Capital Campaign. The funds will support the determined to “launch” in 1930, would be pleased by this construction of the Rollins Campus Center that will be home to “anchor” in the north Georgia mountains.

FoundationalThe second-largest gift that Young Support Harris College has received toward its $55 million Investing in the Future Capital Campaign is a grant of $5 million from Atlanta’s Robert W. Woodruff Foundation. The generous gift is designated to support construction of the $44 million, 125,000-square-foot Rollins Campus Center. (See related story on page 12.) The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation is an independent private foundation with a broad charter to support charitable, scientific and educational activities, including higher education.

19 A of Service A lLegacyife of By Judy Lunsford When the $44-million Rollins Campus CenterDedication opens at Young Harris College in the near future, the third-floor student activities loft will bear the name of Mary Ripley Warren. Designed to house student organizations and leadership offices, the Student Loft will be a tribute to the late Mrs. Warren who served more than a quarter century as a YHC trustee and who gave generously of her leadership, time and gifts to ensure a bright future for the College

and the students it serves. Mary Ripley Warren

“Mary would appreciate having that would buy a kit and then complete it YHC trustee William C. “Bill” Hatcher area named for her,” said her husband with our own touches. We would put in recommended her appointment to the of 57 years. “She would be flattered. She wallpaper. I always added electricity for Board of Trustees in 1985. enjoyed her years of work as a trustee at the lights, and Mary would make rugs “Mary would take on just about Young Harris.” for the rooms. We liked to do projects anything you asked her to do,” recalled A fourth-generation Atlantan, Mrs. together.” Mr. Warren of his wife, his voice strong Warren graduated from Henry Grady An avid and dedicated volunteer and with pride and love. “She took her work High School and attended Agnes Scott advocate, Mrs. Warren was involved with very seriously. Mary was not a person just College. She married her high school many organizations throughout her life. to serve on a board, to have her name on sweetheart, William C. “Billy” Warren III, The Junior League of Atlanta, Piedmont the list or to fill a seat. If anyone thought in 1953 after he completed his studies at Garden Club, Children’s Health Care that, they had the wrong woman. She Emory University. The couple had four Auxiliary, Sheltering Arms Day Care, was smart, and she told you what she sons and became both grandparents and the Frazier Center and Shepherd Spinal thought needed to be done.” great-grandparents. Center Auxiliary were only a few to During her distinguished 24- Mrs. Warren and her husband enjoyed which she gave her time and energy. year tenure as a YHC trustee and traveling and completing projects With a family home on Cumberland two additional years as a trustee together. One of their favorite hobbies Island, she served as chair of the emeritus, Mrs. Warren worked with six was building dollhouses. Cumberland Island Historic Foundation. college presidents and approved the “We completed more than 30 She had a significant role in securing construction, renovation or expansion of dollhouses,” Mr. Warren shared. “We the preservation of the barrier island more than 10 buildings on campus. She and its natural habitats by working with voted for Young Harris to begin awarding the Department of the Interior and the baccalaureate degrees and witnessed the National Park Service. early stages of the College’s successful It was through Mrs. Warren’s activities transformation to a four-year institution. and leadership at Northside United Her leadership was respected and Methodist Church in Atlanta that she valued by her fellow trustees. She became connected to Young Harris served on the Executive, Finance and College. Fellow church member and Membership committees, and was chair

Mary Warren (center) chats with fellow Young Harris College trustees Florrie Funk and Alleen Bratton at a presidential inauguration in 1992.

20 of the Endowment, Student Affairs and In 2007, Mrs. Warren was presented Trusteeship committees. the College’s highest honor, the Young “She loved being on the Endowment Harris College Medallion, for her many Committee, and she learned a lot,” Mr. years of outstanding service. Warren said. “Before she was appointed “She was very proud of that; it meant to that committee, she didn’t know a lot to her,” Mr. Warren said softly. Capital Campaign much about endowment—she was not Then he added with a chuckle, “She a money person. But she learned. That told me, ‘That was more than you ever Capital Campaign was good for her, and it was good for got from Emory.’” What’s in a Name? the College.” One of her last responsibilities on What she learned on the the YHC Board of Trustees was serving Endowment Committee she put into on the 2008 Presidential Search History.No offense to the Tribute. Bard, but names Legacy. hold a great practice. In 1989, she established Committee that recruited Cathy Cox. measure of significance. For members of the an endowed scholarship in honor of “The presidential search was Young Harris College family, the words “Clegg,” her father, Thomas A. Ripley Sr. The something she enjoyed doing,” said “Maxwell,” “Goolsby” and “Appleby” not only endowed scholarship has financially Mr. Warren. “She said she had done refer to notable persons in YHC’s timeline, but helped dozens of students over the something good for the College in more than that, they conjure up thoughts of past two decades. As part of her helping to recruit Cathy. So she really personal experiences and memories made within estate planning, she designated a liked that. That was probably one of their walls—walls that withstand generations of $1 million gift, which is benefiting the top things she did for the College.” students passing through and stand as an enduring both the endowed scholarship and At the November 2011 meeting of legacy of those for whom they are named. the new Rollins Campus Center. the Young Harris College Board of A variety of naming opportunities inside the Rollins Campus Center are available at levels Mr. Warren, who served 21 years Trustees, a resolution was spread across ranging from $1,000 up to $500,000. If you would on the Board of Trustees of Emory the minutes expressing the Board’s like to boldly partner with Young Harris College in University, would often drive his abiding appreciation of Mary Warren, its new mission as a four-year, liberal arts college, wife to the Young Harris campus for who had passed away on March 29 you are invited to consider one of these naming her board and committee meetings. that year. opportunities. This form of giving is a lasting Serving as trustees of two different Her legacy as a loyal and dedicated way to honor or memorialize a loved one or institutions created a bit of friendly trustee and generous benefactor with leave your own mark on Young Harris College for competition between the couple. an enduring commitment to Young future generations. Opportunities include suites, “I would talk about Emory, and she Harris College’s future will continue collection spaces, study areas, lounges, offices and would talk about Young Harris. Finally to touch the lives of students for conference rooms within the Zell and Shirley Miller we told each other that we didn’t want generations to come. Library; suites, offices, classrooms and lounges in to hear anymore,” he laughed. the student center; and porches, terraces, patios, dining rooms, board rooms, cafés and game rooms throughout other areas of the building. If you prefer to support the campaign’s endowment goal, you may want to consider naming an academic or extracurricular program like the Bonner Leaders service-learning program or YHC’s exclusive Honors Program; a student scholarship, faculty professorship, departmental chair or prestigious lectureship; or a strategic initiative such as a comprehensive sustainability plan. Contact the Office of Advancement at (706) 379-5173 for a copy of the Gift and Naming Opportunities booklet, which includes a complete list of opportunities that will The Young Harris College Board of Trustees presented a resolution to Mary’s husband spark your imagination through very tangible and children in recognition of her dedicated service as a trustee of the College. Pictured ways to support the College while also from left are Susan and Glenn Warren, Lynne and Bill Warren, YHC Board of Trustees providing exceptional opportunities for special Chair Jerry Nix, William C. (Billy) Warren III, YHC President Cathy Cox, and Tommy and recognition. Jenny Warren.

21 Paying It

empty. I realized there was a need to draw recent graduates back to YHC and Forward grow the list of active young alumni,” Young Alumni Council past President Matt said Anderson, who served as president Anderson learns—and leads—by example of the Young Alumni Council for the past By Krystin Dean two years. “This council includes a fun and dedicated group of individuals who Every Young Harris College alumnus starts out as a care about the College and want to serve, all while having a good time.” student—a young mind that comes to the Enchanted Valley Today, young alumni (defined as those to grow, learn and blaze a trail for success. According to who graduated within the last 15 years) make up 25 percent of the College’s Matt Anderson, ’03, it was only after graduation that he overall alumni body. Many of these realized this success depended upon preserving that student graduates have experienced firsthand experience for future alumni. YHC’s four-year transformation. “The new facilities are a huge draw for high school students. I recently “I was able to enjoy my time at toured the Recreation and Fitness YHC because of the generosity and Center, and I would probably triple- actions of the generations that came major now just so I could stay a few before me,” Anderson said. “It’s so extra years,” Anderson said. “If new important to have a ‘pay it forward’ buildings and academic programs mentality when it comes to giving will further the College’s success, back to YHC, and for alumni to guard bring them on. YHC’s culture has the ability for future students to have been built upon solid rock and is the same great experiences we did.” strong enough to withstand any Anderson remembers glancing changing winds.” through the pages of the College’s Anderson first heard about YHC annual President’s Giving Report from a highly persuasive recruiter— as a young alumnus and being his father and YHC trustee Jon surprised to see names of alumni who Anderson, ’65, who still takes every graduated as far back as the 1930s opportunity possible to convince supporting current YHC students. other parents to look at YHC for their “Alumni who have come before children. me have set the example for giving “I think that’s something I inherited to the College in all capacities,” said from my dad. My poor nieces Anderson, who is quick to point out Matt Anderson, ‘03, with his wife Rachael at constantly get to hear about YHC that one of the most precious gifts an YHC Alumni Weekend from their grandfather and their uncle alumnus can give is his or her time. now,” he joked. “I also work with the After attending alumni events and get plugged back in, and he soon learned youth at my church, and I always try to developing instant connections with about the Young Alumni Council. interject how great YHC is.” fellow alumni of all ages, Anderson was “I left YHC in 2003, and when I would As for what makes YHC so motivated to become more active as an come back to campus for Homecoming great, Anderson says it’s the sense alumnus. He began seeking out ways to in July, my decade’s tent was always of community that’s immediately

22 established by placing students in the the second floor of the library into his benefactors and advocates Dr. Harry Hill mountains far away from “big city “day dorm.” He put in countless hours speak during a banquet at an alumni distractions.” to establish successful study habits that event. Inspired by Dr. Hill’s legacy of “From walking the wall before finals, would carry over to his days at Kennesaw giving to YHC, Anderson decided at to Greek cheers on the plaza, to Chapel State University, where he earned a dual the time that he could give $20 each services each Wednesday, Young Harris B.B.A. in accounting and management. month—which he continues to do today. has a strong campus culture,” he During his senior year at KSU, a fellow “My psyche isn’t geared towards explained. “I always find I have similar YHC alumnus, Brantley Barrow, ’74, gave writing checks over $100 at a time, but stories and experiences to talk about with Anderson the opportunity to intern in I can handle having a smaller amount orever Young Harris Young F orever other alumni, no matter when they were the accounting department at Hardin auto-drafted from my bank account every in the valley.” Construction in Atlanta. month. It’s much easier for me to do that As a student, Anderson quickly found “I owe a lot to my internship at Hardin, instead of writing one bigger check at the that, while classes were “tough,” they and the opportunity came about simply end of the year,” he explained. were also guided by professors who loved because of a Young Harris connection,” Anderson recognizes that gifts like his, teaching and cared about the students. he said. “I am forever grateful and hope no matter how big or small, allow the that one day I will be in a position to College to steadily flourish with each help another YHC graduate get his or strong fiscal year. He dedicates his gifts her start.” to the Young Harris Annual Fund to After graduation, Anderson worked support the day-to-day functions of the for certified public accounting firm College, working to ensure that current Carr, Riggs and Ingram for two years students have meaningful experiences before becoming a senior accountant they will one day treasure as alumni. for Guardian Pharmacy in Atlanta. “I have been shown for years about “When I go into business meetings, the importance of giving back and how I am able to talk about my years at to give back,” he said. “Now it is my turn YHC. A strong YHC translates to a to do the same.”

Matt Anderson’s former YHC This was illustrated classmates and friends showed up in force at his wedding in one morning in April October 2011. Far left: Anderson when he was struggling with Weston Rikard, ‘03; Middle, with “spring fever”—a L-R: Robert Kessler, ‘02, Katie condition known to Atcheson and husband Adam plague numerous Atcheson, ‘02, Daniel Brown, ‘02, and wife Sherry Brown, Stephanie YHC students with Davis Cannon, ‘02, and husband recognizable symptoms David Cannon, ‘02, Weston Rikard like a heightened desire to and wife Christy Rikard, and Matt fish, hike and swim. Long, ‘03; Below: Anderson with “I remember getting the Rikards and Cannons. a phone call from a professor before one of my early classes, urging me to shake strong perception by the other off that spring fever and get to his class person,” he said. “It is vital that YHC that started in 10 minutes,” Anderson continue to recruit the top caliber of recalled. “I don’t think any of my friends students that it has become known for, at other colleges had the same access which will in turn provide continued to their professors that I did at Young longevity for the College’s success.” Harris.” Anderson first realized the During his sophomore year, Anderson importance of regular giving after converted one of the study rooms on hearing one of the College’s long-time

23 2011-2012 ANNUAL FUND

ANNUAL FUND Make A Gift Every Year. Make A Difference Every Day. Part of the Investing in the Future Capital Campaign goal of $55 million includes a target of $5 million to be raised in

annual support. PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE The Young Harris Annual Fund turns individual gifts of all sizes into a collective source of support that creates outstanding opportunities for students and faculty and enhances many aspects of campus. Every year, thousands of gifts Join the President’s Circle. from alumni, parents, friends, faculty, staff, students and foundations help shape the Young Harris College experience by making financial contributions that help The President’s Circle is the fund scholarships, support great faculty, underwrite new academic programs and new leadership program of provide the essential annual income for Young Harris College. the Young Harris Annual Fund. Your generosity, $5 or $50,000, will join others to make a combined, President’s Circle members are immediate impact. Whether you provide one library book or an entire stocked alumni and friends who make laboratory, a soccer ball or a summer study abroad trip, a music stand or a music a significant and outstanding scholarship, every gift is an investment in the students at Young Harris College. impact on Young Harris College with an annual gift of $1,000 or more. It’s as easy as giving 10 Beyond the Annual Fund, other yearly funds are available to benefit specific monthly installments of $100 programs such as the Local Scholarship Campaign, which supports scholarships during the College’s fiscal year for local students attending YHC from surrounding and nearby counties, and (which runs July 1 to June 30). Friends of the Arts, which supports programs and activities in the Division of Fine Arts.

Why make a gift each year? Young Harris College counts on annual unrestricted gifts as the very foundation for all other giving. These gifts provide a vital margin of excellence, but they must be renewed each and every year.

Answer the Phone. Make a Connection.

One of the ways Young Harris College keeps in touch with (Front row, L-R) Tara Shiver, ‘12, Brittany Olsen, JeRee Dukes, Kendra alumni is through the annual Phonathon. The College’s second Cowart; (back row, L-R) Victoria Neisler, ‘12, Emalyn Cork, Sarah Phonathon in many years ran a successful six-week campaign Pinson, Luke Fincher, Allie Coker, Audrey Ashworth, Stacy Kammer, in the fall of 2011, beginning in October and wrapping up in Ashley Davenport and Alex Chance had the opportunity to talk with alumni during Phonathon. November. More than 30 current YHC students called alumni during the evenings to update their contact information in the or pledges were received from first-time donors. College’s database, offer updates on campus events and news, “Working the Phonathon was a great experience for me,” and extend an invitation to support the College through an said JeRee Dukes, a junior music major from Lincolnton. “The annual gift. With a goal of $40,000, the Phonathon callers alumni I spoke with made me want to cherish my experiences received 612 pledges from alumni that exceeded that amount. here, and one day I hope to have students call me so I can Students tried to contact more than 8,000 alumni during share my memories of YHC with them!” the six-week program and were very successful in updating Next time you get a call from a YHC student, stay on the addresses and other contact information. In addition, 225 gifts line—they can’t wait to meet you!

24 1.20% only coverabouthalfofthecostsinvolvedineducatingstudents. between theCollege’s operatingbudgetandendowment andtuitionrevenues, which financial aid. Your annualgiftsto Young HarrisCollegehelpprovide anessentialbridge circumstances. More than90percent ofallstudentsannuallyreceive someformof that studentsofthehighestcaliberare abletoattendYHCregardless oftheirfinancial of Development StacieBarrow at(404)365-4871 [email protected]. Y What DoMyGiftollarsto What CanYou MakePossible? Young HarrisCollege’s toppriorityisproviding sufficientfinancialaidtoensure For more information aboutannualgivingopportunities,contactSeniorDirector oung HarrisCollegeActuallyDo? 1.80% 11.9% Federal Grants Work-Study Loans Private Scholarships/Grants State Scholarships/Grants Grants Institutional Scholarships/ $ $ $ 24.70% 4,000 1,500 1,000 $ $ 800 100 $ $ $ 75 50 25 9.2% 51.2% Grants Scholarships/ Institutional provides scholarshipstostudentslikeHaydenVerner, sends sixstudentsontheannualSpiritualLifeRetreat. communication assignments. Speaking, whichhelpsstudentslearntoexcelinwrittenandspoken helps purchase computersoftware fortheCenterWriting and helps supplytheDepartmentofMusicwithinstrumentsandsheet music. helps purchase biologylabequipmentforteachingandstudentresearch. orientation program. be amemberoftheYHCcommunitybyattendingtwo-daysummer helps freshmen discoverprograms, events,servicesandwhatitmeansto ussia. England, ItalyandRussia. sends astudentonstudyabroad/travel seminarcourseto placeslike helps bringqualityguestspeakersandlecturers tocampus. a biologymajorwhoplanstobecomephysicianassistant. scholarships andwork-studyprograms. Other financialaidoptionsincludeloans,grants,external of theYoung HarrisAnnualFundhelpsmakethispossible. students isinstitutionallyfunded,andgenerous support More thanhalfofthefinancialaidprovided toYHC Generous AidforYHCStudents student-life experience. student’s academicand impacts thequalityofa financial aid,whilethe rest student scholarshipsand Harris AnnualFundsupports received through theYoung Nearly halfoftherevenue at Work The AnnualFund Student Development (Instruction andSupport) Academic Experience Work Study Scholarships, Grantsand 34.57% 18.51%

46.93% Work Study Grants and Scholarships, March 9,2013. for Saturday, better, scheduled year’s eventevenbiggerand already underwaytomakenext in NorthCarolina. Plansare Cherokee andClaycounties Union countiesinGeorgia and Gilmer, Pickens,Towns and YHC studentsfrom Fannin, in scholarshipfundstobenefit and raisedmore than$10,000 brought 700gueststocampus great fellowshipandlivemusic fun-filled eveningofgoodfood, dollars forlocalstudents.The in aneffort toraisescholarship Board memberssold85tables Local ScholarshipCampaign. behind theannual the drivingforce Board ofAssociates, Center byYHC’s Recreation andFitness hosted March 10atthe annual BigDance, to headlinethesecond toYoungreturned HarrisCollege The Swingin’Medallions Delivers Big Fun 25

Forever Young Harris Viewpoint Why I Give To Our Alma Mater By Lynne Grady, LPC, ’88 Director of Counseling and Psychological Services I’m probably not the only graduate our prestigious institution, the value of who is nostalgic about the time I spent at our degree increases, as does the ability Young Harris College. I gained so much to procure funds from non-graduates orever Young Harris Young F orever more than an education; I learned how and other foundations, organizations and imperative it is to give back. philanthropists. wealthy receive a college education? Was The term ‘alma mater’ is reason I contribute to Young Harris because I more entitled to the benefits of a college enough; however, if you need further I love this college, and I am grateful for education than our current generation of motivation to give back, please consider the future that I would not have had students? that alumni play a considerable role in otherwise. I learned from inspirational Our financial gift to Young Harris determining the future and continued professors who lavished us with College is our opportunity to share and development of our institution. Our unbridled support and encouragement, propagate our values and dramatically gifts help support scholarships for and I also benefited from the positivity impact society. It is a satisfying investment deserving students who will gain an and intangible school spirit that radiated in people that will extend many invaluable asset: a quality education. from the College community as a lifetimes through Young Harris College’s Our regular, annual contributions not whole—it’s something you take with you empowered graduates. I urge you to make only impact the operating budget that for the rest of your life. I choose to give educational philanthropy a rewarding helps sustain programs and initiatives, something back in the hope that others part of your legacy. Let us harness our but also go to improve the quality of may have the same experience. combined power to benefit others as we education. As we contribute openly to Will someone else pay? Should only the fund the fulfillment of student dreams.

A 1988 Young Harris College graduate, Lynne Grady joined the College staff in 1994. She is a licensed professional counselor in the State of Georgia, nationally certified by the National Board of Certified Counselors, and serves as director of counseling and psychological services at YHC. She served as co-chair of the 2011-2012 Purple and White Club, which recognizes Young Harris College faculty and staff who make gifts to the College each year. Grady is past president of the Georgia College Counseling Association and has served on the board of directors for S.A.F.E. (Support in Abusive Family Emergencies, Inc.) for 15 years, including 10 years as president.

Why are alumni gifts The Class Scholarship Challenge important? Some challenges are win-win. Alumni giving is an ongoing In the fall of 2011, the Young Harris College Alumni Association charged vote of support for Young the Class Coordinators with organizing and leading an annual Class Harris College. Foundations Scholarship Challenge. Each alumni class is challenged to raise $1,000 or and college and university more each year for student scholarships. There is power in numbers, and if rankings consider alumni 100 members of a single class give just $10, that class reaches its goal! participation in annual giving More than 90 percent of students receive some form of financial aid, not as an indicator of the strength unlike most alumni who attended YHC—whether it was recently or a few and quality of an institution. more years ago. Contributing to scholarships is a rewarding way to “pay it The amount of annual gifts forward” to the next generation. is not as important as the As of June 15, the Class of 1962 was in the lead, followed by the Class of 1952, percentage of alumni who for the 2011-2012 Challenge. In July, the Class Coordinators begin work on the give. A large percentage shows 2012-2013 Class Challenge. that alumni believe in what the For more information and the latest updates on the Class Scholarship Challenge, contact College offers to its students. your Class Coordinator or the Office of Advancement at (800) 241-3754 or (706) 379-5173.

26 The Science of By Peggy Cozart Life

Upon entering the office of Associate Professor of Biology Linda G. Jones, Ph.D., at F aculty eature Young Harris College, one immediately gets the sense that science is, indeed, in her bones. Specimens large and small fill a display case, and there is a story to go with each one.

Front and center is the horse skull In an academic life that has taken only one of my siblings who didn’t have she collected as a graduate student in her all over the country, from South her as a teacher!” Tennessee. Most she found. Some were Carolina to the California coast and to After graduating from Stetson gifts. There is even the stuffed squirrel many points in between, it is doubtful University in DeLand, Fla., with a B.S. in quietly keeping watch that her brother she could have dreamed up or plotted biology, Dr. Jones earned both her M.A. bagged and stored in the family fridge for the career path that would bring her to in biology and her Ph.D. in pathology years before sending it to the taxidermist. Young Harris College in 2009. at her father’s alma mater, Vanderbilt Dr. Jones grew up in Florida University. in a tight-knit family that put a Early on she had the desire to teach, premium on education. but first she would spend more than two Dr. Linda Jones “My father graduated from decades doing academic research and Vanderbilt with a degree in post-doctoral work, studying everything chemistry and finally wound from lung function in newborn babies to up farming with his dad in cellular structures in plants—all while Florida,” she explained. “My taking teaching assignments on the side. mother was a math/chemistry Though her career led her far from double major, graduating home, she maintains, “My whole family first in her class from is very close,” and, in her words, she has Agnes Scott College. proudly taken on the role of “the crazy She taught math and aunt who has lived all over the U.S., in chemistry in high great places that they often visited.” school, and I was the Dr. Jones was living and working in Missoula, Mont., and had just gone through a painful and unexpected divorce when she saw the hiring notice posted by YHC. “In a move to reinvent my life,” she decided to “see what was going on in the mountains of north Georgia.” She had known of Young Harris and the Georgia mountains since her youth, thanks to relatives who lived in neighboring towns.

“This is one of the most collegial places I’ve been. I’ve never been with a harder working group of people that are truly dedicated to the students.”

27 expanded to address these very view a pair of rare whooping cranes that topics. We hope that this major were wintering in the area. will prepare our students to be Artistic at her core, she has hopes able to successfully compete for of finding a choir to sing with and has jobs or for positions in graduate joined a local writers group. In fact, she programs and face these global is set to have a poetry piece published challenges with knowledge and in the literary quarterly Appalachian expertise. We think this major Heritage distributed by Berea College. will increase the interest in Her poem, “Quilting Through Young Harris as a great place to Generations,” tells the story of the quilts sewn by generations of the women in her family. “As I get to know them and become Of YHC itself, Dr. Jones said, “This aware of their aspirations, I want my is one of the most collegial places I’ve Now, Dr. Jones been. I’ve never been with a harder teaches upper-level students to succeed, and I will do my working group of people that are truly courses ranging best to help them get to where they dedicated to the students.” from Comparative want to be.” She also places a high value on a Anatomy and liberal arts education. “With it comes Developmental a greater understanding of ‘life, the Biology to universe and everything,’ to quote from Parasitology and Animal Physiology, a get an undergraduate degree.” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. course load that allows her to interact Her hopes are high for more research It gives one appreciation for all human with nearly all of the science majors space and equipment acquisitions in endeavor, and makes us—hopefully— on campus. Additionally, she leads order to help establish the reputation more tolerant of others’ views and ways senior students in research projects of Young Harris College as a and seminar classes and teaches the first-class institution to get an occasional adult learning class through undergraduate degree in the the College’s Institute for Continuing sciences. Learning. “I feel like I’m contributing With the move to a four-year program to what YHC is going to look and with science enjoying something like in the next few years,” she of a cultural renaissance, the biology said proudly. program at YHC is in demand and Dr. Jones has settled growing. Additionally, Dr. Jones recently comfortably into her Georgia chaired a committee that put forth a mountain town and the proposal for an environmental science lifestyle that comes with it. “I major which has been accepted by both have not been disappointed at the faculty and the Board of Trustees. all,” she said. Youthful and fit, “Some of the most important and she enjoys outdoor activities controversial issues of the 21st century including hiking, gardening revolve around climate change, and birding—this past winter natural resources and protection of the she had the good luck to environment,” she explained. “Programs in environmental science are now in great demand, especially as the job Dr. Linda Jones assists students market around the world has rapidly with research in the lab.

28 A Scientific Method

Dr. Linda Jones makes one thing clear, “I teach difficult things.” Noting that her biology students often go on to study in advanced programs, she added, “I’ll do whatever I

can to help them learn it.” F aculty eature Her willingness to lead her students into the world of scientific research was demonstrated this past March when Dr. Jones accompanied Young Harris College senior biology majors Kaylin Canup, of Commerce, and Lauren Martin, of Acworth, to the annual meeting of the Georgia Academy of Science at Kennesaw State University, where each presented work. “I am always proud of my students who show an interest in science and are willing to work to learn more. Research is Dr. Linda Jones assists senior Kaylin Canup with always a challenge, often fun like a puzzle and often using lab equipment for her research project. disappointing when problems appear and clear results aren’t to be had,” she said. and makes us better citizens of the world Canup and Martin, both YHC soccer players, have been and universe,” Dr. Jones said. “At least, I planning and implementing their experiments for most of like to think that.” the past two years of their upper-level course work. A consummate researcher with more Canup, who is adding a minor in chemistry to her degree than two decades of lab experience, Dr. and plans to become a physician assistant, examined the Jones conveys the pride of a mother in effects of both lead and mercury on the development of the the successes of her students. “In some nervous system in zebrafish embryos. Both chemicals are known to ways, my students are like my children, have detrimental effects on neural development in humans. Her research which I don’t have,” she explained. “As I found alterations in the timing of the formation of the lateral line—a get to know them and become aware of sensory system in fish—in response to exposure to these neurotoxins. their aspirations, I want my students to Martin, who has been accepted into the Schools of Radiation and succeed, and I will do my best to help Imaging Technologies at Grady Health System in Atlanta, investigated how them get to where they want to be.” light exposure alters the amount of myelin basic protein (MBP) formed during development in zebrafish embryos. A higher incidence of multiple sclerosis has been correlated with Dr. Linda Jones and senior Lauren Martin human populations that live at high latitudes and thus review experiment results in the lab. have decreased exposure to sunlight, and she hoped to establish a link to the onset of MS and exposure to differing levels of light. Though she has repeated this experiment several times, the results are not yet conclusive. Both students credit Dr. Jones’ skillful mentoring as instrumental in their drive to perform research and present their work. “Her experience has guided me through the ins and outs of this project and what we could do. I had never done any other type of research. This is my first big thing. I’m hoping to do more research work, either in MS or radiation,” said Martin. Canup added, “I feel like Dr. Jones goes above and beyond and would not hesitate to help me out. She wants everybody to succeed and get where they want to go.”

29 young harris college celebrates Mountain Lion Pride A Tradition at fall homecoming

Mountain Lion Nation showed its true colors this past November when students, alumni, faculty, staff and fans decked out campus in purple and white for Young Harris College’s new fall Homecoming. An old tradition was reborn as the inaugural event, held Nov. 11-12, 2011, kicked off with a Friday evening pep rally and bonfire on campus, followed by a morning parade, celebratory lunch and men’s and women’s basketball games on Saturday.

The YHC Alumni Association float, boasting an enthusiastic group of former basketball players and cheerleaders, was one of many highlights in the half-hour parade that weaved its way through campus. The sounds of horns, sirens and the YHC fight song performed live by the College’s Wind Ensemble awoke some dreaming students and fired up even more students, alumni, fans and community friends who ventured out in the chilly morning hours to celebrate “Mountain Lion Pride” and welcome the beginning of basketball season. Students and alumni gathered on the plaza in front of Enotah Hall to enjoy a pre-game celebratory lunch of hot dogs and hamburgers with a lively mix of party music before taking over the Recreation and Fitness Center to cheer on the Mountain Lions as both the women’s and men’s basketball teams scored their first victories of the season in the “Valley of Doom.”

30 Former athletes and cheerleaders enjoyed a pre-game reception with Men’s Basketball Head Coach Pete Herrmann to get the inside scoop on the games ahead that day and to learn more about progress made for the revived basketball program’s second year. YHC’s women’s basketball team defeated Reinhardt University 65-50, and the men’s team bested Bryan College 76-61. For students, the weekend was a culmination of week-long contests that included a trivia game, dance, spirit sign competition, car decorating challenge and lip sync battle. The winners of the Homecoming Week contests and the overall champions were announced during halftime of the women’s game. Homecoming Court was presented and the Homecoming 2011 King and Queen were crowned at halftime of the men’s game. Throughout the weekend, school spirit was contagious for both young and old, and the excitement surrounding the establishment of a new tradition was palpable.

» Watch the Homecoming 2011 Highlights video online at yhc.edu/homecoming.

31 young harris college celebrates A Tradition Mountain Lion Pride at fall homecoming

Young Harris College’s pep band, Purple Reign, pumps up the crowd during the women’s and men’s basketball games in the Recreation and Fitness Center arena.

Former YHC basketball players (above) Clarence Denard, ‘53, Bill Lyle, ‘52, Bob Short, ‘51, (right) Ralph Johnson, ‘55, Bob Finch, ‘57, and Jack Lance, ‘57, enjoy a special alumni players reception prior to tip off of the first game.

32 Above: The arena inside the YHC Recreation and Fitness Center (better known 2011 Homecoming as “The Valley of Week Champions Doom”) was packed 1st Place: Student Government Association/ for the women’s and Campus Activities Board men’s basketball 2nd Place: Sigma Beta Sigma (Susan Bs) games. 3rd Place: Alpha Xi/Gamma Psi Right: The Student Government Association/Campus 2011 Homecoming Court Activity Board King: Junior Nathan Hughes team were named of Young Harris, Ga. Homecoming Week Queen: Junior Rebekah Medford Champions. of Powder Springs, Ga.

Court members: Senior Victoria Neisler of Commerce, Ga. Senior Calle Wallace of Hiawassee, Ga. Junior Katheryn Woods of Cleveland, Ga. Sophomore Luke Fincher of Cleveland, Ga. Sophomore Daniel Sowell of Atlanta, Ga. Sophomore Alex Spiegel of Young Harris, Ga. 33 young harris college celebrates A Tradition Mountain Lion Pride at fall homecoming

Save the Date: Homecoming 2012 November 16–17 Fri.–Sat. • Pep rally and bonfire • Parade • Alumni athletes reception LPH • Basketball games AND

Alumni Weekend 2013 April 19–21 Fri.–SUN. • Half Century Club Dinner • Alumni Awards • Class Reunions • Spring arts and athletics events

34 YHC Welcomes New Four-Year Honor Societies On Campus By Ali Neese, ’12 Charter members of the Alpha Sigma Omicron chapter of international Fifteen Young Harris College students were inducted English honor society Sigma Tau Delta include (front row, L-R) senior as charter members of the Omega Tau chapter of the Allie Matulia of Fayetteville, senior Megan Gribble of Hiawassee, international communication studies honor society Lambda senior Amanda Noonan of Smyrna, senior Heidi Sherlock of Warne, N.C., (back row, L-R) junior Donald Bracewell of Alpharetta, senior Pi Eta, established on campus this past academic year. Ivar Lazo of Lawrenceville, junior Kendra Cowart of Murrayville, senior Open to communication studies majors and minors with Mayeli Medina of Dalton, senior Kiara Carchi of Waterbury, Conn., a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 with 60 junior Brett Rogers of Blue Ridge, junior Naomi Hyde of Talking Rock, credit hours completed and a 3.25 GPA for communication junior Emalyn Cork of Marietta, senior Linda Budd of Clarkesville, and studies courses with 12 credit hours completed, the society senior Beth Sharpe of Sylvania. aims to recognize, foster and reward outstanding scholastic achievement while stimulating interest in the communication studies discipline worldwide. “Lambda Pi Eta membership provides national recognition “We are proud to have a chapter of Lambda Pi Eta here of students’ academic achievement in the field and raises the at YHC,” said Jennifer Hallett, Ph.D., assistant professor of bar for all of us involved in the study of communication. communication studies and chair of the communication Invitation for membership is a special accolade, and the studies department. “Our outstanding students can join Department of Communication Studies is incredibly proud of this honor society to show their commitment to the field our members in Omega Tau Chapter,” Dr. Hallett added. as scholars of communication. More importantly, though, Additionally, 14 students were inducted as charter membership in Lambda Pi Eta is a commitment from the field membersSTD of the Alpha Sigma Omicron chapter of the of communication studies to its students.” international English honor society Sigma Tau Delta this past Founded in 1985 and boasting more than 400 active fall. Membership is open to English majors and minors with a chapters today, Lambda Pi Eta is the official communication cumulative GPA of 3.0, at least three semesters of coursework studies honor society of the National Communication completed and a class rank in the highest 35 percent. Association (NCA) and a member of the Association of Since its founding in 1924, the society has aimed to College Honor Societies. confer distinction upon students of the English language and literature in undergraduate, graduate and professional studies and to recognize the accomplishments of professional writers LPH who have contributed to the fields of language and literature. With more than 800 active chapters, the organization fosters literacy and promotes interest in literature and the English language. The Alpha Sigma Omicron chapter of Sigma Tau Delta works in conjunction with the English Majors Organization (EMO) at Young Harris College and is co-advised by Assistant Professor of English Jennifer Gianfalla, Ph.D., and Assistant Professor of English Jennifer Hughes, Ph.D. “We’re happy to have an organization that recognizes the Charter members of the Omega Tau chapter of international hard academic work of our talented majors,” said Dr. Hughes. honor society Lambda Pi Eta include (L-R) President Ali Neese, a “We’re excited that Sigma Tau Delta provides opportunities senior from Marietta, Co-Vice President Kelley Lyness, a senior for its members, such as publication, internships and from Watkinsville, junior Christelle Vereb of Hayesville, N.C., fellowship competitions, and I hope that the society will draw senior Megan Powell of Cleveland, Ga., Co-Vice President Miriam Torres, a senior from Roswell, junior Karen Resendiz Rodriguez together students who are passionate about studying and of Springfield, Mo., Secretary Alexandra Franzini, a senior from creating literature and give them a venue to be celebrated and Snellville, Treasurer Eric Hoppe, a senior from Alpharetta, and to be challenged.” senior Kathleen Layton of White.

35 It’s a Hand Up, Not a Hand Out YHC Takes Alternative Spring Break Trip to Heifer International Ranch By Ali Neese, ’12

YHC students and staff spend a night in Heifer International’s Global Village, which simulates life in a developing community. Pictured from left are YHC Director of Campus Activities Rouseline Emmanuel, Ada Huang, Mary Calderon, YHC Campus Minister Rev. Dr. Tim Moore, Paige Jenkins, and Nadia Dean.

strives to end poverty and hunger in a sustainable fashion, believing that giving families a hand-up, not just a hand-out, empowers them to turn lives of hunger and poverty into self-reliance and hope. “The program combines interactive learning sessions that bring awareness of the great needs in the world with opportunities to give the gift of time and hard work,” said Campus Minister and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Rev. Dr. Tim Moore. “The service activities offered by Heifer International not only allowed participants to give back, but also served as great educational Ten Young Harris College students, tools and allowed us to connect what we faculty and staff members traveled believe with what we do.” to Little Rock, Ark., March 4-9, to The YHC group joined nearly 50 participate in an alternative spring students from colleges and universities break trip facilitated by YHC’s S.E.R.V.E. across the United States including (Service, Education, Responsibility, Voice Berry College, Florida State University, and Engagement) initiative. The group the College of Saint Rose and teamed up with Heifer International, Pennsylvania College of Technology. a global nonprofit organization that

Above: YHC student Mary Calderon helps take care of the goats at Heifer Ranch.

Left: YHC students Brian Walker, Shannon Weaver, Tanner Pettit and Andrea Simmonds

Right: YHC student Tanner Pettit (right) helps another student at Heifer Ranch build a fire in the Global Village.

36 As part of the interactive learning program, the group spent 24 hours in Heifer Ranch’s Global Village living in one of seven Third World representative sites. The exercise allowed students to learn about living conditions in Third On Campus World countries, as well as how to cope with available resources. “I was so excited to come back and share my experience with friends and family,” said freshman Andrea Simmonds, of Suches. “My life has been greatly enriched through this experience and has caused me to develop a deeper respect and love for people.” YHC students and staff gather with members of the Heifer Ranch staff. Left: YHC student Tanner Pettit learns how to use the foot pump on a well. In addition to learning about Heifer’s model for developing programs to end Below: Heifer Ranch’s Global Village features poverty and hunger through sustainable seven Third World representative sites, including a means, students also met regularly for slum, pictured here. team-building and problem-solving exercises. The group also spent time completing service projects on Heifer Ranch, carrying out tasks like feeding animals, tending the garden and assisting with other general maintenance. “Not only were students able to hear real facts about poverty and hunger, but they also experienced firsthand what some individuals have to go through on a daily basis to survive,” said Director of Campus Activities Rouseline Emmanuel. “I don’t think our students will ever forget their experience at Heifer Ranch, and will think twice about food waste in particular.”

The mission of global nonprofit organization Heifer International is to work with communities to end hunger and poverty and care for the earth. Heifer Ranch offers experiential, hands-on, interactive learning programs, complete with gardens and animals, including water buffalo, camels, pigs, goats and more.

37 A London Eye YHC’s 2012 Woodward Scholar Experiences History in the Making By Kyle Huneycutt

the British healthcare system firsthand. This is a neat view “I am gaining life experiences through of the London Eye studying abroad in England that I would and Big Ben from not get anywhere else,” said Maxwell. London Bridge. We “Instead of learning through a textbook, Earlier this year, junior took a double decker I am seeing for myself the profession I biology major Mary Beth bus tour around the have always dreamed of doing.” Maxwell, of Carrollton, was whole city and got to After graduation, Maxwell hopes to awarded the Beverly Barrow see and visit all the Woodward, ’53, Endowed major attractions. Scholarship, giving her the Toured Church in Harlaxton village, summer of a lifetime through located just down the street from the college. a six-week study abroad program. Built in the 1100s, there is so much history Maxwell was able to explore her growing in this church. interest in healthcare systems while immersing herself in British history and culture. Established by Len and Beverly Woodward of Rome, Ga., the scholarship is granted annually to one YHC student for an opportunity to study abroad in My classmates Kristen Ohmberger, England. Brittany Scheffield and I are standing In addition to learning about the inside the Tower of London in front of similarities and differences in British and Tower Bridge. We had a wonderful view American healthcare systems, Maxwell of London! visited several hospitals and observed

In front of Harlaxton College. I am learning so much and having a wonderful time studying, traveling and being part of the history here in England. The people are all so nice and welcoming.

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On the bluebell garden walk at Harlaxton College. The bluebells are so pretty and smell wonderful. They only bloom at a certain time of year and don’t last long. People from all over England come to see these flowers. pursue a career as a pediatrician. She is considering attending graduate school to study public health prior to enrolling Brittany, Kristen and I had a wonderful time in medical school because of her interest touring Westminster Abbey, where we also got to in using her medical skills to assist those listen to a priest speak. The ceilings, archways living in Third World countries. and stained-glass windows are magnificent. “Learning about the British healthcare system is very important to me as an of Christian Athletes, Aspiring Medical aspiring medical student,” Maxwell Professionals (AMP), Student Conduct said. “I hope to travel and help people Council and the Media Advisory Board, around the world with my degree, so it’s among other activities. important to be able to work in many Maxwell began her six-week journey different types of on May 11, enrolling in Harlaxton systems.” We toured the College, where she attended college-led Maxwell traveled Tower of London, excursions to cities throughout England to Liberia last orphanage and such as London, York and Cambridge, and it was awesome to see all of the leading Bible summer for a cobble and stone used to make the as well as a weekend trip to Paris. Her mission trip with school for time in England comes just as London tower. This picture was taken where children. She is her local church, the guards stand, and I actually got is celebrating the Queen’s Diamond assisting at an also involved Jubilee and preparing for the 2012 to see the changing of the guard right in YHC’s after I took it. Summer Olympics—a once-in-a-lifetime religious life experience. program, and has “I am excited to be able to venture held many leadership roles on campus, out and learn about different types of including Inter-Religious Council junior cultures,” Maxwell said. “I feel so blessed representative, Student Government and very honored to have received such Association treasurer and junior a wonderful scholarship, and there are representative, resident assistant and no words to express my gratitude and residence hall council vice president. She thanks to the Woodwards and everyone is also involved in Fellowship who made this possible.”

The city of London getting ready for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee taking place in Harlaxton sunset over early June. This is a huge celebration, because the archway here. I feel it marks 60 years of Queen Elizabeth II’s so blessed to get to see this reign. It is absolutely spectacular being here wonderful view every in England while history is taking place. night.

39 Students Selected for Georgia All College Band and All College Chorus

Fifteen Young Harris College students were selected to perform in the 2012 Georgia All College Band and Georgia All College Chorus, comprised of student musicians representing colleges and universities throughout the state. The students performed during the Georgia Music Educators Association’s (GMEA) Annual In Service Conference held in Savannah, Jan. 25-28. Students selected for the All College Band include music education majors Rachel Bettis, flute, a freshman from Dawsonville, Natasha Harkins, clarinet, a freshman from Dawsonville, Adham Hamilton, bassoon, a freshman from Powder Springs, Chris Simms, alto saxophone, a senior from Cumming, Sally Petty, horn, a sophomore from Cumming, Jeff Stewart, trombone, a sophomore from Young Harris, and (Front row, L–R) Sophomore Megan Davis of Blairsville, freshman Ali Patrick Young, tuba, a freshman from Dawsonville. McCollough of Augusta, freshman Caroline Dern of Ellijay, freshman Students selected for the All College Chorus include Judith Lyle of Clarksville, (back row, left to right) sophomore Will sophomore music education major Megan Davis of Blairsville, Skelton of Hayesville, N.C., sophomore Brian Walker of Powder Springs, freshman Ben Sims of Hiram, and senior Jake Wentzek of freshman musical theatre and English major Caroline Dern of Blairsville Ellijay, freshman music major Dakota Kellerman of Cartersville, freshman music major Judith Lyle of Clarksville, freshman religious studies major Ali McCollough of Augusta, freshman All College Band students were selected based on a recorded musical theatre major Ben Sims of Hiram, sophomore music audition piece ranked by instrument-specific professors from major Brian Walker of Powder Springs, and senior music Georgia colleges and universities. Students were selected education major Jake Wentzek of Blairsville. to participate in the All College Chorus through director recommendation based on vocal ability, musical experience and intended field of study. “In previous years, college band directors nominated students to be members of the All College Band, but this year every student’s admission to the group was based solely on an audition,” said YHC Senior Instructor of Music and Director of Bands Mary Land, who also currently serves as president of GMEA. “I am thrilled that seven YHC students earned membership into this elite ensemble. Our students worked hard to prepare for this amazing opportunity to perform with accomplished student musicians from every college and university in the state.” “I was elated when I found out I made the All College Band and was selected as second chair for flute, and I was so excited about our program this year,” said Bettis. “We played Ecstatic (L–R) Freshman Rachel Bettis of Dawsonville, Senior Instructor of Waters, one of my favorite pieces that I had made it a goal to Music and Director of Bands Mary Land, sophomore Sally Petty of perform one day. We also played Lux Aurumque by my favorite Cumming, freshman Adham Hamilton of Powder Springs, Georgia modern composer, Eric Whitacre, which was an extremely All College Band Conductor Gary Green, senior Chris Simms of Cumming, freshman Natasha Harkins of Dawsonville, sophomore Jeff memorable experience.” Stewart of Young Harris, and freshman Patrick Young of Dawsonville

40 High Demand for Village Apartments Prompts Expansion

By Kyle Huneycutt On Campus

Phase II of The Village, Young Harris praise from our students—especially College’s new residential apartment in the amenities provided in each community for upperclassmen, is on apartment and the ability to have a schedule to open in August for the single-occupancy bedroom.” beginning of the Fall 2012 semester, Construction on Phase II began in when enrollment is expected to break fall of 2011 shortly after the opening records for the sixth year in a row—this of Phase I. Both phases have been time surpassing 1,000 students. designed and constructed to LEED Silver The completion of Phase I added to standards, and with the completion of campus eight three-story townhomes, Phase II, The Village will be positioned each containing four private-bedroom to become the third LEED-certified washer and dryer, and residents can apartments that give 148 students the facility on YHC’s campus. also enjoy areas designated for grilling, opportunity to enjoy an independent “I know a lot of students are going abundant green space and majestic views living experience right in the middle to want to live in The Village since we of the mountains. of campus. Phase II will add five more get private bedrooms and huge porches “The mountains make YHC special. It’s houses, which will add another 100 with great views,” said Aaron O’Tuel, a nice to be able to look out my bedroom beds just in time as demand for this sophomore business and public policy window and be reminded of why I came residential option is growing. major from Hartwell. “I was afraid they to Young Harris,” said Jessie Ryals, a “We had a large number of students would run out of space for next year, but junior music major from Blairsville. “The choose The Village as their top housing since they are building more, I’m not Village provides us with so many great preference at Housing Selection in April, worried.” opportunities—a means of learning and students that lived in The Village In addition to private bedrooms, The how to live independently and an this past year selected it again,” said Village apartments have a living room, opportunity to be a part of a beautiful Director of Residence Life Stuart Miller. kitchen and front and back porches. community that was designed perfectly “Overall, The Village received high Each apartment is equipped with a for this area.”

Summer School for the summer to work or to meet to ensure that students have the greatest other obligations,” said Associate Vice opportunity to enroll in a course that Gets Web Savvy President for Academic Affairs Keith will benefit their individual endeavors. DeFoor, Ph.D. “These students are able “Summer Session can benefit students to return home but at the same time in several ways,” said Dr. DeFoor. Following a highly positive response earn credit at YHC. The great majority “Taking a course at YHC during the of last year’s pilot program for online of them had a positive experience last summer has the potential to raise your summer courses, Young Harris College year, indicating that they would choose GPA, unlike taking a course elsewhere will offer 10 online courses during to take another online course at YHC in and transferring it back to YHC—which this year’s Summer Session, including the future.” only gives more credit hours. Also, many Elementary Statistics, Communication This summer’s online courses were students benefit from being able to focus Theory and American History. selected based on a review of past their efforts on only one or two courses “The online courses are a great student enrollment in YHC’s Summer over several weeks.” solution for students who do not live Session, as well as a review of summer in the area and must return home courses transferred from other schools

41 Serving, Leading, Transforming Lives By Kyle Huneycutt

At Young Harris College, there are many ways for students to step up and be leaders for their fellow classmates and serve the community. For Bekah Herum and Jake Davis, the Bonner Leaders Program has given both of them the opportunity to serve others, and through the process, discover themselves.

“I have always desired to serve others,” share the same desire to serve in their said Herum. “The Bonner Leaders community.” Program has allowed me to do so, Junior history major Jake Davis, of strengthening my leadership skills, as Dalton, has also had the opportunity to well as enabling me to assist the needs of work at the Hinton Rural Life Center. our surrounding community.” Both Davis and Herum have helped low- Herum is a sophomore business and income families by assisting with house public policy major from Blairsville. She repair, and the experience has had a is also a member of Phi Theta Kappa profound impact on both of them. and Sigma Delta Chi. As a second-year “Working with a specific family at the Bonner this past year, Herum has had Hinton Center has made me aware of the opportunity to participate in many how many people are living in poverty activities and events on campus and in and that a lot of people do not realize the community. that it’s happening all around us,” Davis “My main site has been the Hinton said. “Helping repair their home and Rural Life Center,” she said. “For the seeing how grateful they were for the past two years, I have expanded my help truly changed my opinion of people knowledge about Appalachian culture in general and my worldview.” and this has allowed me to meet so As a third-year Bonner Leader, Davis many special families and others who has had the privilege of volunteering for additional service projects, Bekah Herum assists in the office at Hinton including working as activities Rural Life Center. director for the Towns County Family Connection program and ultimately, through this service, I have a mentor/tutor for the Towns been able to learn a tremendous amount County Schools 21st Century about myself,” said Davis. “I have Afterschool Program at Towns enhanced my skills in time management, County Elementary. He also patience, active listening and serves as head coach for the communication, among others, and all Towns County youth wrestling of these skills have allowed me to excel, program. not only as a leader on campus, but also “Through the Bonner Leaders as a student inside the classroom.” program, I have had the superb At YHC, Davis is involved in the opportunity to serve others, but student ambassadors program, serves on the Bonner Leadership Council and Bekah Herum cheers on the Mountain Lions as the

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Jake Davis

“This journey has taught me numerous things about myself and my passion to help and inspire others, both on and off campus.” Unsurprisingly, Herum and Davis have big plans following graduation. After YHC, Davis plans to attend law school and possibly become a public defender, working for those who cannot afford legal assistance. Herum, although not completely sure of what her future has in store, is confident that she will be serving. College mascot, Luke, during basketball “I am going to go wherever God season. leads me. I have a passion for working Herum is also actively engaged in the with kids and serving others by being a community and on campus. Through good leader,” Herum said. “I trust that her work at the Towns County Schools God will lead me in a direction that 21st Century Afterschool Program, she encompasses these characteristics, and I has helped fifth-grade students learn to can’t wait to find out where that is.” excel in the classroom and in life and has The YHC campus community and the led many fun activities for the students local-area students with whom Herum Bonner Leaders at Young Harris to enjoy. Like Davis, being a Bonner and Davis interact continually benefit College are a select group of students Leader has helped Herum on the road to from the examples they set, showing who represent the College through self-discovery. that being a servant and a leader is often outreach work, relationship-building “The Bonner Leaders Program has a singular role, and many are sure to and shared experiences in learning undoubtedly challenged me to organize follow in their footsteps. and leadership at non-profit agencies my time wisely, grow as a leader “I am looking forward to leaving a throughout the local community. The and expand my knowledge of the positive legacy for the Bonner Leaders program is sponsored by The Bonner surrounding communities,” she said. Program in the future,” Davis Foundation, which engages students said. “I am so grateful for the at approximately 80 colleges and wonderful opportunity to have universities nationwide in outreach that become a Bonner Leader, and I strengthens their communities, builds hope that after I graduate, the mutually beneficial partnerships and Bonner Leaders at YHC will develops personal, vocational and continue to help serve others professional strengths for learning and while learning about themselves leadership. The program strives to as well.” transform the lives of its members, their campuses and communities and the Jake Davis tutors and mentors world through community engagement elementary students in the and leadership. Towns County Schools 21st Century Afterschool Program.

43 Young Harris College Accepts Invitation to Join Peach Belt Conference As of July 1, Young Harris College is officially the 14th member of the Peach Belt Conference. The PBC board invited YHC to join the league earlier this year, following a unanimous vote on Jan. 9. The invitation follows the College’s acceptance into year-one candidacy in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II last summer.

“We took an in-depth look at Young “Young Harris is a perfect fit for our Harris through the application process conference,” said PBC Commissioner and came away impressed by the David R. Brunk. “The commitment they dedication of President Cox and her have made to provide a quality academic staff to making Young Harris a premier and athletic experience for their NCAA Division II athletics program,” student-athletes will enable them to be Alabama said PBC Board Chair Dr. Kendall competitive in our league immediately.” University of Montevallo Blanchard of Georgia Southwestern State YHC becomes the first new member University. “The vision they have and of the Peach Belt since Flagler College Florida the groundwork that has been laid are and the University of Montevallo joined Flagler College outstanding. It is with pleasure that we in 2009. North Georgia College & State Georgia invite Young Harris to the Peach Belt University and Georgia Southwestern Armstrong Atlantic State University family.” State University both joined the PBC in Augusta State University Although YHC will only be in year two 2006 while making the transition from Clayton State University of its NCAA candidacy during the 2012- the National Association of Intercollegiate Columbus State University 2013 season, the Mountain Lions will be Athletics (NAIA). Young Harris joins Georgia College & State University immediately eligible for all regular-season Flagler as the only private colleges in the Georgia Southwestern State University championships without automatic bids Peach Belt. YHC’s 1886 founding date North Georgia College & State University to NCAA tournaments, and all other makes it the third-oldest institution in Young Harris College PBC awards, including all-conference the Peach Belt behind Lander University and all-academic honors for its student- (1872) and North Georgia (1873). North Carolina athletes. YHC will become eligible for “We are very excited that the Peach University of North Carolina at Pembroke participation in PBC championships Belt wants Young Harris College to be South Carolina which award automatic bids once it is a a part of this prestigious Division II Francis Marion University full-fledged member of Division II. conference,” said YHC President Cathy Lander University University of South Carolina—Aiken Peach Belt Conference Commissioner David Brunk presents the conference banner to the Young Harris College student-athletes, coaches and administrators.

44 yhcathletics.com Cox. “The Mountain Lions look forward to competing against some of the best student- athletes in Division II athletics.” In 2010, President Cox brought in

Director of Athletics Randy Dunn, who R oundup transitioned North Georgia from NAIA Basketball Season to NCAA Division II and Peach Belt Brings great success for mountain lions Conference membership prior to arriving at YHC. Under Dunn’s leadership, Young The 2011-2012 season ended on a Adams (20.5), of Stone Mountain, Harris College also reinstated its men’s high note for both the Young Harris sophomore Vince Martin (16.8), of basketball program and established a College men’s and Marietta, junior Malcolm women’s intercollegiate basketball program women’s basketball Jackson (14.4), of Atlanta, in 2010 and announced the addition of teams. sophomore Steve Viterbo men’s and women’s lacrosse and competitive The women’s team (12.0), of Melbourne, cheerleading for 2012-2013. finished their season Australia, and sophomore Currently, the Mountain Lions field men’s on a 10-game win Bryson Robertson (11.5), and women’s basketball, baseball, softball, streak as they went of Elberton. Adams also men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and 23-3, an 11-game became the College’s women’s golf, men’s and women’s soccer improvement over first 1,000-point scorer and men’s and women’s tennis, all of which last year’s 11-13 in the modern era this are PBC Championship sports. record. season—he currently “We are extremely honored to be given Young Harris was has scored 1,097 points the opportunity to join the Peach Belt led by sophomore in his two seasons with Conference, which is comprised of such Ladondra Johnson, the Mountain Lions— an elite group of institutions,” said Dunn. of Athens, as she and was named to the “Not only will this provide our student- averaged 17.2 points Georgia Basketball athletes with the opportunity to compete at and 8.2 rebounds Coaches Association’s the highest levels of NCAA DII, it will also for the Mountain NCAA Division II All- give our institution regional and national Lions, who had seven State first team. Martin different players on was named to the second exposure.” Ladondra Johnson Founded in 1991, the Peach Belt roster that averaged at team, while teammates Conference is home to 30 NCAA Division least five points a game. Sophomore Jackson, Robertson and Viterbo were II National Championships, including Lauren Smith, of Colbert, nearly honorable mention selections. the 2011 women’s basketball title won by averaged in double figures as she “This has been a remarkable Clayton State University. The addition of scored 9.8 points a game while season,” said Young Harris College brings the number dishing out 150 assists. Men’s Basketball of member institutions to its highest in the “It was gratifying to see the success Head Coach Pete conference’s 21-year history. of our young ladies,” said Women’s Herrmann, who was Basketball Head Coach Brenda Paul. also honored as coach “Their effort in preparing for the of the year by the season and their continued effort Association. “This and intensity in each game showed team has set the bar maturity beyond their years.” for the future with the The men’s team completed their number of wins and season with a six-game win streak losses.” as they finished at 22-4, which was The Mountain a 17-game improvement over last Lions, who are gearing season’s 5-21 mark. up for candidacy year The Mountain Lions, who also two of their move to reeled off a 12-game win streak NCAA Division II, will midway through the season, had play in the Peach Belt five players who averaged double Conference this fall. Frank Adams figures per game—sophomore Frank 45 Young Harris College Spring Sports Recap

Young Harris College athletics wrapped up a successful spring sports season as they completed candidacy year one of the NCAA Division II process and made preparations to join the Peach Belt Conference in July. Paige Sexton

Baseball The Mountain Lions finished the season with a 36-14 Tennis record, eight games better than a year ago. YHC counted wins The Mountain Lions showed impressive over then-ranked No. 2 Francis Marion, No. 4 Columbus gains after not recording a win last season. The State and No. 10 Florida Southern. Nine players finished women’s team enjoyed an eight-match winning with batting averages over .300, led streak and finished the season 14-4. Freshman by sophomore David Atwood’s .370 Charlotte Dawson, of Odessa, Texas, went 25-1 mark and junior Zack Bricknell at in singles and 22-2 in doubles while freshman .364. Bricknell, of Woodstock, led Jane Plevako, of Astana, Kazakhstan, went 20-3 the team with 57 RBI while Atwood, in singles and 23-2 in doubles to lead the way. of Waynesville, N.C., had 56 and The men’s team finished 7-9, with sophomore Charlotte Dawson sophomore Jack Morrow, of Carneys Martin Harach, of Salta, Point, N.J., tallied 53. Bricknell paced Argentina, as the top singles player the Mountain Lions with 12 home at 14-8, while junior Tom Gibaud, runs, while Morrow was next with of Bournemouth, England, recorded 11, and sophomore Adam Moore, of David Atwood a 12-7 mark. Harach also won 11 Kennesaw, contributed nine more. Moore, doubles matches followed by junior junior Josh Rudnik, of Lawrenceville, and sophomores Tyler Keon Gottenbos, of Eindhoven, Isbell, of Toccoa, and Oliver Pratt, of Dacula, led Young Harris Netherlands, and sophomore with five victories each on the mound, while sophomore Gabriel Oliveria, of Cotia, Brazil, Taylor Topping, of Virginia Beach, Va., and freshman Cody Martin Harach with 10 each. Beck, of Lexington, N.C., each registered four. Golf Softball The men’s and women’s golf teams each Young Harris College completed the year with a 26- recorded five top-five finishes this season 21 record, an improvement of five-and-a-half games over out of nine tournaments. Junior Matthew last season. Freshman Sydnee Weaver, of Sylvania, led the Peeler (78.8 scoring average), of Zebulon, Mountain Lions with a .381 batting average, senior Chase Hankla (77.1), of Valdosta, and making her one of four players to finish over junior Cameron Medina (78.9), of Bremen, .300, along with junior Kayla Jones (.353), each earned of Covington, senior Emily Wilson (.336), of all-tournament Snellville, and freshman Paige Sexton (.315), of accolades during Canton. Wilson led the team with six homers and the season for the Chase Hankla 33 RBI. Senior Jennifer Watford, of Cedartown, men’s team, while senior drove in 23 runs while junior Jen Spradling, of Courtney Moore (81.9), of Powder Boynton Beach, Fla., and Jones each connected Springs, sophomore Rachel Mason Sydnee Weaver on three home runs. Junior Victoria Sink, of (85.1), of Ringgold, and junior Hoschton, was the top pitcher, winning 12 games and saving Kelsey McEntyre (84.8), of Hiram, four others with a 2.07 ERA. She struck out 112 batters while Kelsey McEntyre did the same for the women’s squad. walking just 17. Sophomore Katie-Jo Gentry, of Calhoun, added seven wins and had 86 strikeouts and sophomore Lisa Wilson, of Coconut Creek, Fla., contributed six wins.

46 yhcathletics.com A Winning Match By Ali Neese, ’12 R oundup From the moment you meet them, it is evident that Young Harris College men’s and women’s soccer goalies Wezly Barnard and Kelsey Cunningham have something special— both on and off the field.

“Kelsey and Wezly are positive role According to Men’s Soccer Head Southern drawl. “When Kelsey asked models on campus,” said YHC Director Coach Mark McKeever, that long history if I would help train her, it only took a of Athletics Randy Dunn. “They both in the sport has paid off. couple of sessions for us to realize we have wonderful personalities, always “Wezly is among the best I have every liked each other.” greet others with a smile and earn worked with from the professional level The talented duo bonded quickly the respect of their fellow classmates to the development league and collegiate through their common interests. Now through their focus and commitment levels,” he said. “He also brings great both serve as captains of their respective to doing their best at whatever they are diversity to our campus. He has a great teams and challenge each other to do involved in.” personality and gets a lot of respect from their best, while understanding the Long before arriving at YHC, soccer his peers and presents himself in a very other’s goals. Charlotte Dawson was a driving force in both of their lives. professional manner.” “We’re both chasing a dream, and we Cunningham, a senior communication Shortly after meeting through mutual know we aren’t going to hold each other studies major from Cumming, began friends on campus, Cunningham back,” said Cunningham. “As goalies playing soccer at age nine as a way to enlisted the help of the dapper foreigner we can understand what the other one make friends. “I moved around a lot as in training for an upcoming tryout—and is going through. When he’s out there a kid, so I wanted to get involved in a sparks immediately began flying as the playing, I know what he’s thinking, and sport to have some kind of consistency Enchanted Valley worked its faithful when I’m out there, he knows what’s in my life,” she explained. “It was a magic. going through my mind.” good way to be competitive and to make “Being goalkeepers, we had a lot in The power couple also has served friends regardless of where I lived.” common straight away,” said Barnard, together as co-presidents of the Student- Women’s Soccer Head Coach Kathy whose distinctive South African English Athlete Advisory Council during the Brown clearly remembers her first is a striking contrast to Cunningham’s 2011-2012 academic year and as cadets impression of the standout athlete. “When I recruited Kelsey, I knew she was special, and it had nothing to do with her talent on the field. It was Wezly Barnard and Kelsey actually halftime, and I watched how Cunningham at one of she interacted with her teammates. their favorite Young Harris She was talking, motivating, spots, Cupid Falls encouraging and giving them that extra push that they needed at that time,” Brown recalled. “It was that moment when I knew we had to have her at YHC.” Barnard, a junior business and Chase Hankla public policy major who came to YHC from Boksburg, South Africa, also began playing at a young age. “I have been playing soccer since I was seven years old. My family had been involved in the sport, and they got me interested,” he reflected. “My dad was also a goalkeeper so it runs in the family.”

47 for the YHC Police Department. While some may worry that all this time spent together could lead to too much of a good thing, Cunningham and Barnard insist that is not the case. “Soccer is our first love and our passion, and having it in common strengthens our relationship,” said Cunningham. chase those dreams. Barnard maintains that their “Attending YHC has relationship has also helped him in his prepared me well for the transition to American culture. “I still future, and my classes miss my family, but being with Kelsey are giving me a good has helped with that,” he said. “We’re foundation to enter the proud of each other and enjoy working real world. Engaging in together. I sometimes think Kelsey a small community has knows me better than I do. We can helped me work well with people and form easily turn a frustrating situation into a Wezly Barnard in soccer action good laugh.” good relationships that While Cunningham and Barnard are will benefit me in the quite possibly each other’s biggest fans, sound, making saves that most female future,” said Barnard. they are by far not their only fans. goalkeepers simply cannot make. She “Being captain of the soccer team has “Kelsey is one of the most talented and has played a huge part in our program challenged me to represent myself well well-rounded female maintaining a winning record all the way on and off the field and kept me focused soccer players to through our transition to NCAA.” on achieving my goals.” ever play at YHC. Cunningham’s other half is also Bernard will move closer to achieving She commands leaving his mark on the Mountain Lions. one of his goals when he enters his final respect both on and “Wezly was the College’s first student off the field from to be named to the Capitol One NCAA both her peers and Division II Academic All-America Men’s the entire athletic Soccer Third Team and was named department,” said YHC’s Male Student Athlete of the Year Brown. “Athletically, for 2011 and 2012,” said McKeever. Kelsey is strong “This is a true reflection of the work and technically he puts forth and the high standards he has set for himself. He is a great role model for younger students on campus who have ambitions to be in roles that require huge responsibility.” Both Cunningham and Barnard hope to carry what they have learned through soccer into their future. Cunningham wants to combine her knowledge and love of media communication and sports into her career, and Barnard anticipates pursuing a career in sports marketing. They each feel that their time at YHC has prepared them to

Kelsey Cunningham protecting the goal 48 yhcathletics.com season with the Mountain Lions at each other and said ‘What in the fall. will we do without her?’ I know “Wezly is a great leader, and she will find great success in the R oundup I’m very thankful to have had the future, and I’m thankful that Young Harris College pleasure of coaching him for the I had an opportunity to get to names 2012 past three years,” said McKeever. know her as a part of my life.” “He is a major part of what we Cunningham is confident Athletes of the Year are trying to achieve as first- about the road ahead. year members in the Peach Belt “I feel extremely prepared and In April, men’s soccer Conference. I hope his influence ready to continue on my path goalkeeper Wezly and ability will lead us to reach outside of Young Harris,” she Barnard, a junior from our potential as a team in the said. “The College has prepared Boksburg, South Africa, fall.” me in so many ways and has and women’s golfer Brown is already missing given me more than I could ever Courtney Moore, a Cunningham, who finished have asked for. I not only grew senior from Powder up her last season with the academically, I grew as a person.” Springs, were honored Mountain Lions in 2011 and Of course, one of her greatest as the 2012 Male will complete her degree in memories of YHC will be the and Female Athletes December. “match” off the soccer field. “The program will not be the “I loved Young Harris before of the Year at the same without Kelsey,” Brown we met, but the best part for Young Harris College Young Harris College President said. “She is very funny! I can’t me now is that I get to share my Department of Cathy Cox (center) with Courtney tell you how many times my experiences here with Wezly.” Athletics annual Moore and Wezly Barnard assistant coach and I have looked Athletics Banquet. Barnard earned the award for the second consecutive year. He started 16 of the 17 matches he played for the Mountain Lions last fall. Barnard allowed just 24 goals in 1,527 minutes this season for a 1.41 goals against average, recording three shutouts for Young Harris. He tallied 77 saves for the Mountain Lions as he put together a .762 save percentage. Barnard, who also served as co- president of the College’s Student-Athlete Advisory Council this past year, was named to the Capital One NCAA Division II Academic All-America® Men’s Soccer Third Team in 2011 and has a 3.92 cumulative grade point average as a business and public policy major. Moore led the Mountain Lions to five top- five finishes as a team and personally earned all-tournament honors at three events—Georgia Mountain Trophy, Chick-fil-A Collegiate Invitational and North Georgia Spring Invitational. She recorded three top-five and five top-10 finishes for the Mountain Lions during the season. She was the top Young Harris golfer with a 81.9 stroke average in nine events and amassed a .776 winning percentage (309-89 record) in head-to- head competition. Moore, who has been chair of the College’s Honor Council, has a 3.64 cumulative grade point average as a biology major with a chemistry minor. 49 A Celebration for Bob and G ay le Nichols More than 300 Young Harris College alumni and friends gathered on Saturday, April 28, to honor longtime, beloved YHC faculty and staff members Dr. Bob and Gayle Nichols and to dedicate the College’s new $1.8 million, state-of- the-art, 12-court tennis complex in their honor.

Left: Gayle and Bob Nichols unveil the new tennis complex sign that bears their names.

Friends and tennis colleagues congratulate Gayle and Bob Nichols.

50 yhcathletics.com R oundup Many YHC alumni, tennis players and tennis campers know Dr. Bob Nichols and his wife, Gayle Nichols, as an integral part of their Young Harris College experience. Bob taught math, coached men’s and women’s tennis and served as director of academic advising, while Gayle served as the senior college counselor. They hosted their summer tennis camp at YHC for 14 years and retired in 2009 after more than 30 years of distinguished service to YHC. The day began with a courtside lunch at the Bob and Gayle Nichols Tennis Complex, followed by a dedication ceremony at which the new sign bearing the Nichols’ names was unveiled.

Above and left: Dr. Bob Nichols poses with the current Young Harris College women’s and men’s tennis teams.

Above: Guests enjoy an afternoon at Young Harris College’s new Bob and Gayle Nichols Tennis Complex.

Below: Dr. Bob and Gayle Nichols were honored with a special dinner at YHC’s Recreation and Fitness Center.

51 Left: YHC President Cathy Cox, Dr. Bob Nichols, Gayle Nichols and Marlan Wilbanks, ‘81

Right: Marlan Wilbanks, ‘81, serves as master of ceremonies during the evening celebration.

Former YHC students, YHC tennis team alumni and past summer tennis campers arrived in force to honor a couple that has had a tremendous impact on their YHC experiences and their lives. Following the ceremony, the College’s men’s and women’s tennis team gave a demonstration of the Caption new courts, then others were able to try out the courts firsthand during a round robin tournament. Former tennis camp instructors and campers The celebration culminated Saturday returned to celebrate the occasion. evening with a reception and dinner in the Recreation and Fitness Center. Master of Ceremonies and YHC tennis team alumnus Marlan Wilbanks, ’81, “roasted” Bob, Gayle and family before inviting YHC trustee emeritus Thomas K. “Tom” Glenn III and other guest speakers, to the stage to express their personal appreciation

Above: YHC trustee emeritus Tom Glenn and gratitude to the Nichols for their speaks to guests during a special dinner contributions to the College and their three celebration for Dr. Bob and Gayle Nichols. decades of dedicated service. Dr. Clay Dotson, former YHC president and academic dean emeritus, congratulates Dr. Bob Nichols.

Bob and Gayle Nichols Tennis Complex Naming O pportunities

Tennis Pavilion (3)...... $30,000 Individual Court (12) ...... $15,000 Stadium Seating (4 sections) ...... $15,000 Individually Named Seat (160 chairs) . . . . $500 Tennis Center Coaching Office (4) . . . . .$10,000 Endowed Tennis Scholarship ...... (a minimum of) $15,000

For more information about these naming opportunities or to support the Nichols’ endowed scholarship fund at Young Harris College, contact Vice President for Advancement Jay Stroman at (706) 379-5173 or Director of Athletics Randy Dunn at (706) 379-5296.

52 yhcathletics.com Mountain Lions Add

Lacrosse and Competitive Cheerleading R oundup

Young Harris College is currently berths. She was named to the all- recruiting for its inaugural men’s and conference first team three times and women’s lacrosse teams and its first-ever was tabbed as an all-region honoree competitive cheerleading squad, both set and a first-team All-American. to premiere in 2012-2013. “Katie has a tremendous passion “As we continue our four-year and commitment to building a first- transformation at Young Harris College, class program, and her ability to we are pleased to expand our athletics around the country.” recruit quality student-athletes will offerings,” YHC President Cathy Cox The men’s and women’s lacrosse be of tremendous benefit as she grows said. programs will begin play in the spring of the program at YHC,” Dunn said. In February, Chase Carter joined the 2013. According to the latest Department of Athletics as competitive Kirk Rogers was hired in January participation survey by cheerleading head as men’s lacrosse head coach. He also U.S. Lacrosse, the sport’s coach and is charged comes to Young Harris from Shorter governing body, the number with starting YHC’s University, where he spent the past of NCAA lacrosse programs intercollegiate co- two seasons as an assistant coach for grew from 428 to 608 from ed competitive the Hawks’ men’s lacrosse program. He 2000 to 2010, and the cheerleading program played collegiately at NCAA Division growth shows few signs of that will begin this fall. II Lees-McRae College, where he led slowing. In 2011, 38 new He joins the Mountain the program to its first-ever postseason varsity programs began play, Lions from Shorter victory and only appearance in the final and another 26 are set to Kirk Rogers University, where he four of its conference tournament. Prior come on board in 2012. Chase Carter spent the past two to coaching at Shorter, Rogers spent a Data from the National seasons as an assistant year in the United Kingdom serving as a Federation of State High coach and led the Cheer Hawks to local development officer for the English School Associations shows a runner-up finish at the 2011 NCA Lacrosse Association and head coach at that lacrosse has the fastest National Championship by a narrow .04 the University of Bath. percentage growth rates in margin. Previously, he cheered for five “Kirk’s enthusiasm for the sport and the last five years in both years at North Carolina State University, commitment to develop a total student- boys’ and girls’ sports. once placing second in the Division I-A athlete will be a perfect fit for YHC,” said Georgia, which currently Dunn. has 75 high schools that Large Coed division at NCA Nationals Katie Ilott while also placing third twice and fourth In May, Katie Ilott was selected to have lacrosse teams, is one twice. join Young Harris College as women’s of 21 states with governing “Competitive cheerleading will lacrosse head coach after working as associations that sanction/recognize high provide an opportunity to promote an assistant coach with the Mercyhurst school lacrosse. our college to broader audiences in University women’s lacrosse program “Lacrosse has been the fastest growing new venues and will create a more for the past two years, where she saw sport in the U.S. for the past five years,” enthusiastic and spirited collegiate the Lakers advance to their first-ever Dunn explained, “and YHC wants to environment,” Director of Athletics appearance in the Pennsylvania State be a leader in providing academic and Randy Dunn explained. “Chase has the Athletic Conference title match this past athletic opportunities for student- knowledge, experience and passion to season. Prior to Mercyhurst, she played athletes that want to compete at the build a first-class program that will give four years of lacrosse with Limestone collegiate level.” our current students and prospective College, where she helped the Saints student-athletes the opportunity to to four straight Conference Carolinas’ regular-season championships, three compete at the collegiate level against » Visit yhcathletics.com for more other top colleges and universities consecutive tournament championships and three NCAA Division II tournament information about both of these new athletic programs.

53 Class Notes Share your news with other Young Harris College alumni and friends. Colonel (retired) Alvin Send achievements, announcements and photos to: Young Harris College Class Notes B. Lee, ’82, was recently P.O. Box 275 Young Harris, GA 30582 • [email protected] • yhc.edu/alumni selected as a new member of the Federal Government’s ACHIEVEMENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS Sam A. Macfie, ’78, produced a documentary Senior Executive Service (SES), which is comprised 1930s titled Playing It Down, about African-American caddies and the 1961 integration of Macon’s of men and women charged Eunice Erwin Brown, ’36, moved to municipal golf course, that was screened at the with leading the continuing Montgomery, Ala., in 2009 and lives with her Rome (Georgia) International Film Festival in transformation of government. He daughter, Charlene Cotton. She keeps up with September 2011. serves as Regional Business Director YHC news and enjoys hearing from classmates for the Mississippi Valley Division, and friends. Jimmy Tallent, ’70, president and CEO of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and 1950s United Community Banks, Inc., headquartered the Mississippi River Commission. Sylvia McCoy Hutchinson, ’58, professor in Blairsville, was named to the Atlanta Members of the SES serve in the key emerita of reading education at the University Business Chronicle’s “Who’s Who” list of the positions just below the top Presidential of Georgia, served as speaker at UGA’s Fall top 100 business and government leaders appointees and are the major link 2011 Graduate Commencement ceremony. guiding metro Atlanta’s financial sector. United between these appointees and the rest Hutchinson earned her bachelor’s and master’s Community Bank is the third-largest bank of the Federal work force. Prior to this degrees, both in elementary education, holding company in Georgia and has banking appointment, Lee served in leadership and a Ph.D. in reading education at the offices in Georgia, Tennessee and North positions in the Corps’ civil works and university. After teaching at Southwest Texas Carolina. He also serves as a member of the military programs, including Executive State University for three years, Hutchinson YHC Board of Trustees. Director of the Civil Works Directorate returned to UGA as an assistant professor at Corps headquarters, Commander in 1978, where she remained until her 1980s of the New Orleans and Charleston retirement in 2002. Hutchinson continues Christopher Douglas Chambers, ’83, retired districts and Deputy Commander of to serve the university, working with the 20 from the U.S. Army on March 8, 2012. He is the Afghanistan Engineering District. Emeriti Scholars who mentor students in married and currently working at Fort Knox, He is a distinguished military graduate the Coca-Cola Foundation’s First Generation Ky., as a federal employee for the Department of Georgia Southern University and Scholarship program on campus. In of the Army. He is organizing the 30th reunion holds a master’s degree in engineering addition, she serves on boards of a variety of for the Class of 1983 next spring. management from St. Martin’s organizations, including the UGA Graduate University. He also served as a fellow Development program, the Education and Chris Lintner, ’88, has been promoted to in the Secretary of Defense Corporate Law Consortium, the Athens Tutorial Program Manager of SAP ERP Functional Systems Fellows Program. His military awards and Georgia Voyager magazine. for Aflac. Out of the 40,200 companies that include the Legion of Merit, the Bronze run SAP, Aflac is in the Fortune 125. Aflac Star Medal, the Meritorious Service 1960s is headquartered in Columbus, Ga., and has Medal, the Army Commendation Medal William “Tom” Daugherty, ’68, retired on office locations worldwide. and the Army Achievement Medal. He May 31, 2010, after 40 years as a Baptist is a recipient of the 2009 Society of minister. Robin Thomas Volker, ’80, was ordained as American Military Engineers’ Wheeler a Unity minister on April 14, 2012, at Unity Award and the U.S. Army Engineer Sig J. Van Raan, Ph.D., ’65, recently finished Spiritual Center in Delaware County, Ohio. As Regiment’s Silver de Fleury medal and a 40-year career as a clinical and community leader of Delaware’s thriving Unity Spiritual earned the Parachutist’s Badge. mental health psychologist and has embarked (cont. on page 55) on a new career as a researcher and writer. He is currently working on a novel about his parents’ involvement in the Dutch resistance during the Nazi occupation of World War II. He and his wife have made New York 2012-2013 YHC Alumni Association Board City their winter residence, having lived in Cambridge, Mass., for the past 12 years, and Rufus Brown, ’60 Jared Downs, ’96 Jan Biggers Keith, ’69 spend their summers at Martha’s Vineyard with President Savannah, Ga. Atlanta, Ga. Gainesville, Ga. their growing family of children, grandchildren Tommy Drake, ‘82 Charlotte Sparks McCloskey, ‘64 and their assorted spouses. Life is good. Rob Murray, ’75 Winter Park, Fla. Big Canoe, Ga. President-Elect Young Harris, Ga. Ramona Fricks, ’71 Paula Mitchell McClung, ‘61 1970s Rome, Ga. Winston, Ga. Bobby Bolton, ’76 Brantley Barrow, ’74, was named to the Ellenwood, Ga. Oscar Garrison, ’90 Linda Lee Boleyn Saye, ’61 Hoschton, Ga. Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “Who’s Who in Sally Boyd, ‘60 Commercial Real Estate” list for 2012, his Gainesville, Ga. Candler Ginn, ’77 Joe Stanley, ‘57 Cartersville, Ga. Mullins, S.C. third consecutive appearance on the annual Carol Chastain, ’84 list. He serves as chairman of Atlanta-based Young Harris, Ga. Ron Hinson, ‘76 Peggy Pleasants Thrasher, ‘59 Atlanta, Ga. Tiger, Ga. Hardin Construction Company and also serves Steve Davenport, ‘85 as chair of the YHC Board of Trustees Finance Newnan, Ga. Sylvia McCoy Hutchinson, ’58 Michele Turner, ’95 Athens, Ga. Athens, Ga. Committee. Phil DeMore, ‘63 Clarkesville, Ga. Ceil Jarrett, ’75 Todd Turner, ’81 Berkeley Lake, Ga. Hiawassee, Ga. Brian Johnson, ’94 54 Atlanta, Ga. »  acebook at facebook.com/youngharriscollege. them onFacebookatfacebook.com/youngharriscollege. Send [email protected] orpost asset management firm based in New asset managementfirmbasedin New Roberts &Co.(www.kkr.com), aglobal and DigitalMediaatKohlberg Kravis promoted toVice President ofMarketing Bridges,’92,wasrecently Bryan standard recipes. 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in downtownDenver. Brighton (AdamsCountyoffice) and lives defender fortheStateofColoradoin October 2011asadeputystatepublic Exam inJuly, passedand beganworkin engagement.” HetooktheColoradoBar “graduate studentaward forcommunity of theschool”award, the andearned award, a“livingofthemission earned named tothedean’s adean list,earned work contractsbygraduation.Hewas making himoneofeightstudentswith in September2010,pendingBarresults, with theColoradoStatePublicDefender class sizewas178.)Hesignedacontract a classrankof31out141.(Starting Thomas SchoolofLawinMay2011with ’99, graduatedfrom theUniversityofSt. Charles Edward“Roscoe”HeatonII, 2008 whilewiththeAlbanyHerald. won anationalaward forsportswritingin sections foritscirculation category. Healso as oneofthecountry’s top10special preseason football sectionwasrecognized ever nationalaward. TheIndex-Journal’s thedailynewspaperitsfirst- he earned Index-Journal inGreenwood, S.C.,where Scott Chancey, ’90, issports editor forthe neighborhood of Manhattan. He andhispartnerliveintheTriBeCa invited tojointheboard ofdirectors. asalayleader,serves andwasrecently teaching adultHebrew literacyclasses, Beit SimchatTorah, where hevolunteers member ofhissynagogue,Congregation to prevent bullying, andisanactive profit organization thateducatesstudents Leadership CounselofGLSEN,anon- York. ontheNational Healsoserves

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Class Notes Class Notes A Tribute to Congressman Edgar “Ed” Jenkins, ’51 1933–2012 U.S. Congressman and attorney Edgar Lanier “Ed” Jenkins, ’51, of Jasper, will always be remembered for the influential role he played in many pivotal events in America’s political history and his outstanding legacy of leadership and dedication to public service. The distinguished Young Harris College alumnus and trustee emeritus died Jan. 1, 2012. Ed Jenkins, ‘51

Born in 1933 in Towns County, He earned a reputation in Congress as Jenkins was employed by the Federal a negotiator, working behind the scenes Bureau of Investigation prior to to effect compromises on major pieces of serving in the U.S. Coast Guard from legislation, and the Almanac of American 1952 to 1955. He attended Young Politics described him as “one of the Harris College from 1949 to 1951 smartest operators on Capitol Hill.” and completed his college studies In honor of his service to the people on the G.I. Bill, graduating from the of north Georgia, 23,000 acres of the University of Georgia School of Law Chattahoochee National Forest were in 1959. He was admitted to the State designated the Ed Jenkins National Bar of Georgia that same year and, Recreation Area. in 1962, became an Assistant U. S. Acknowledging his commitment Attorney for the Northern District to public education for all Georgians, of Georgia and then entered private Jenkins accepted an appointment to the law practice in Jasper in 1965. He University System of Georgia’s Board of was also a staff member and longtime Regents by his former YHC classmate and confidante of Congressman Phil friend, then-Governor Zell Miller, ’51. He YHC President Cathy Cox presents a resolution Landrum, also of Jasper. from the YHC Board of Trustees honoring Ed also served as a founding board member Jenkins was elected to the United Jenkins, ‘51, to his wife, Jo Jenkins, and daughter of Pickens Technical Institute. States House of Representatives in Amy Dotson, ‘88. Jenkins joined the Young Harris 1976 and served with distinction for College Board of Trustees in 1988 and 16 years, in a coveted post on the influential Ways and Means was voted a trustee emeritus in 1999. In 1990, he received Committee. His leadership on behalf of the textile, apparel the Young Harris College Medallion, the College’s highest and poultry industries, focusing on global fair trade, was a honor, then delivered the Commencement address in 1992. legislative highlight of his career, along with numerous tax He was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award for Lifetime revisions that reduced capital gains and inheritance taxes and Career Achievement in 2011 by the YHC Alumni Association. insured equity for all taxpayers. His vigilance on behalf of small He established three endowed scholarships at YHC to assist business owners repeatedly earned him the National Federation deserving students: the Ed Jenkins Scholarship, the Amy of Independent Business “Guardian of Small Business” award. Jenkins Scholarship and the Pickens County Scholarship. He authored comprehensive soil and water conservation laws On April 13, 2012, during the spring meeting of the Young and wilderness protection statutes for the Chattahoochee Harris College Board of Trustees, the board unanimously National Forest. passed a resolution honoring Jenkins for his service and He was the sole non-chair appointed to the Joint Committee dedication as a loyal alumnus, a member of the Board of that investigated the Iran-Contra Affair, which involved the Trustees and a generous, enthusiastic supporter of the College. unlawful sale of missiles to Iran, and he trekked around The resolution was presented to his wife, Jo Jenkins, and Pakistan and Afghanistan on trade missions with Texas daughter Amy Dotson, ’88. Congressman Charlie Wilson.

56 Feb. 20,2012 Alton R.Harris,’37 Nov. 11,2011 Dr. Morrill.Hall,’37 May 12,2012 Betty J.Goode,’58 April 18,2012 Martha Giles,’40 July 5,2011 David G.Floyd,’81 Nov. 4,2011 Frances A.Brown, ’57 March 26,2012 trustee Former Richard B.Bell Feb. 23,2012 , ’78 Laura Barnes Jan. 12,2012 Andrew C.Bain , ’93 mother, Dr. BethWiles. Mary toBlairsvillepracticewithher to return School ofMedicineand,inthree years,hopes residency University’s position atEmory medicine has beenacceptedintoaninternal of OsteopathicMedicineinSuwannee,Ga.She from Georgia Campus­ osteopathic medicinedegree inMay2011 Elizabeth Wiles, ’97,received thedoctorof eBook formatforKindleandNook. booksellers likeAmazon.comaswellin format inanybookstores ormajoronline world. Itwillbeavailableintraditionalbook they navigatetheirwaythrough achanging and followsthelivesofseveralteenagersas place inasmallGeorgia townin thelate1980s thattakes Shall ee,acoming-of-agestory be publishedinfallof2012titledYoung Men Scott Thompson,’93,hasanewnovelsetto training inWisconsin inthefallof2012. by ThingstoComeMission(TCM)andbegin candidates have beenacceptedasmissionary have fourchildren ages5,8,11and13.They Michelle FullerKilgo,’92,andherhusband 1990s (cont.) —Philadelphia College —Philadelphia College Feb. 9,2012 Markus Ledergerber,’83 Sept. 24,2011 James H.Lawrence III,’93 March 8,2012 Rev. W. JackLamb,’40 Dec. 10,2011 Katherine Knight,’56 Oct. 21,2011 Jack Kendrick,’59 Jan. 1,2012 Hon. EdgarL.Jenkins,’51 Aug. 19,2011 John D.HuttonJr., ’93 Sept. 25,2011 Dr. LoyG.HicksJr., ’43 Dec. 5,2011 Retired longtimefacultymember Hedden,’49 Henry Harris College. human enrichmentandcommitmenttoYoung Gray andDr. fortheirpassionof PaulArnold express hisgratitudetoKelliFell,Dr. Nathan time atYHCforhissuccessandwouldliketo duringhis Ga. Hecredits lessonslearned events atAugustaStateUniversity, inAugusta, coordinator ofalumnirelations andspecial Drew Dixon,’09,wasrecently namedthe involved. Board ofEducationtogetmore students offerings andworkwiththeCherokee County hopes toenhancethecenter’s classandevents with othercommunityorganizations. Healso and revenue aswellincrease partnerships new role, heplanstoincrease membership membership meetinginAugust2011.Inhis in Canton,Ga.,duringthecenter’s annual the Cherokee ArtsCenterBoard ofDirectors T .J. Cochran,’01,waselectedpresident of »  acebook at facebook.com/youngharriscollege. them onFacebookatfacebook.com/youngharriscollege. Send [email protected] IN MEMORIAM 2000s Nov. 13,2011 Katherine AnnePaulk,’96 Nov. 22,2011 Friend ofYHC H.D ParisSr. Feb. 15,2012 John W. Nix,’60 March 1,2012 Susan A.Muse,’69 Nov. 23,2011 Martha B.oorhead,’42 Feb. 23,2012 Rev. J.B.McNeilIII,’49 Oct. 31,2011 Leonard F Jan. 20,2012 staffFormer member Dr. William C.Majure May 7,2012 Isaac O.Maddox,’60 . McConnellJr., ’40 science inbusinessandpublicpolicy. from YHConDec.9,2011,with abachelorof Major LeagueBaseballteamaftergraduating Ohio, workingfortheClevelandIndians Carlos Ocampo,’11,iscurrently inCleveland, beautiful children, McKenzieandLandon. ’02, reside inDouglasville,Ga.,withtheirtwo in thecompany. Jasonandhiswife,Megan, tophonors years where heconsistentlyearned worked foraregional broker-dealer forseven Financial Freedom Club.Nortonpreviously advisor andnamedtotheprestigious LPL recognized byLPLFinancialasatopfinancial Villa 2012,hewas Rica,Ga.InFebruary Norton Financial,Inc.,inhistoricdowntown practiceunderthename financial advisory July 2011andoperateshisinvestment independent broker-dealer LPLFinancialin Jason K.Norton,’02,joinednational Evelyn C.Y Oct. 4,2011 Lila S.Y Jan. 30,2012 Nora DonalineWitherspoon, ’44 Nov. 16,2011 Rogers H.Weaver Jr., ’61 Nov. 30,2011 Dr. JesseH.Warwick Jr. , ’48 Nov. 4,2011 Harold C.Sosebee,’53 April 30,2012 James A.Smithson,’53 Oct. 25,2011 Peggy Skeen,’70 Jan. 17,2012 Virginia Goldwire Shelley,’36 Nov. 16,2011 Frances L.Roberts,’50 Sept. 20,2011 oumans, ’38 oung, ’40 57

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ENGAGEMENTS, MARRIAGES, BIRTHS Parker Beard with son Brodie, 1; and Teisha Jason K. Norton, ’02, and Megan L. Norton, & ANNIVERSARIES Cooper-Drake with daughters Breanna, 4, and ’02, are proud to announce the birth of birthday girl Holly, 1, on Feb. 19, 2012. their son, Landon Jay Norton, on Sept. 1, 1950s 2011, at 4:25 p.m. He weighed 7 pounds, 6 Randy Arnold, ’59, and Margaret Ferrell 2000s ounces and was 21 1/2 inches long. Big sister Arnold, ’59, celebrated their 50th wedding Ashley Gaetano, ’06, McKenzie is so proud of her little brother. The anniversary on Dec. 23, 2011. and her husband, family resides in Douglasville, Ga. Joshua, are excited to 1990s announce the birth Charles Byron Rafford Jr., ’03, and his wife, Teresa Fitzpatrick Appling, ’95, and of their first son, Autumn, celebrated the birth of their first Michael Appling Jr., announce the birth of Cameron Joseph, on child, Charles Byron “Tripp” Rafford III, on their first son, Michael Samuel Appling III, Sept. 23, 2011. He Jan. 11, 2012. He weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce born on Aug. 19, 2011, in Athens, Ga. He weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces and was 18 and was 20 1/2 inches long. weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces and was 20 1/2 1/2 inches long. They currently reside at U.S. inches long. Army Post Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. Laura Shelnutt, ’05, accepted a marriage proposal from her YHC sweetheart, Franklin Sheba Anderson Brown, ’99, and her Matthew “Scout” Kennedy, on Oct. 14, 2011. The were married husband Silas Brown, along with their Holland, ’06, married on June 9, 2012, at Big Canoe in the north daughter, Seylah, announce the birth of their Lauren Wells on Oct. Georgia mountains. second child, Samuel Lincoln Brown, on 7, 2011, at Perimeter April 25, 2011. Samuel was born at Union Church Chapel in Kirk Shook, ’05, and Miriam McMillan,’02, General Hospital in Blairsville, Ga., and Johns Creek, Ga. They were married on June 11, 2011, at Rabun Gap weighed 8 pounds, 11 ounces. reside in Orlando, Fla. Presbyterian Church in Rabun Gap, Ga. They currently reside in Winterville, Ga. Sarah Siebert Sellars, ’94, and Barrett Bridget Larsen, ’00, Sellars, ’94, would like to announce the and Ryan Leverette, Ryan Whitelaw, ’01, and Lindsay Gilbert birth of their second baby boy, Graham ’04, announce the Whitelaw, ’01, were blessed with the birth Barrett, on Oct. 18, 2011. He was welcomed birth of their daughter, of their beautiful daughter, Rachael Evelyn, home by big brother Clayton. Juliet Eliana Leverette, on Sept. 11, 2011. on Oct. 7, 2011. She weighed 7 pounds, She weighed 6 pounds, 7 ounces and was 19 3 ounces and was 20 inches long. Rachael Three Young Harris College inches long. The family resides in Athens, Ga. was welcomed into the family by big brother Class of 1997 alumnae and David. their children enjoy a very happy “First Birthday Party,” complete with swimming. Pictured from left to right are » Show us your family and friends! Send your engagement, Eria Vali with sons Landyn, wedding and baby photos to [email protected]. 4, and Gavin, 6; Jeannie

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58 It’s where I met my husband in Let’s Face It! the summer of 1986. Today is our Young Harris College is buzzing on Facebook with great conversations between alumni, 25th Valentine’s Day together; faculty, staff, students and friends. Here’s a little of what was overheard recently… our first was at YHC. On Valentine’s Day, we asked what do you LOVE about YHC? Susan Duttweiler Campbell, ’88 Join the conversation at facebook.com/youngharriscollege and share your thoughts!

The lifelong friendships with the Everything…Truly an experience of a lifetime which changed my greatest folks and all the great life forever. Wonderful memories of special people who were truly memories that have always bonded concerned about me as an individual and making a definite and us since the mid-70s! Still making positive mark in this world. My mark may be small but the impact was many new great YHC friends that I tremendous on me as a human being. God bless YHC. didn’t get to know back then. How Betty Robbins, ’69 awesome is that? I love the willingness of Patty Garrett-Smith, ’77 our professors to go out of their way and help their I agree with Melanie, it is Did we get a good an awesome feeling. Like students succeed! The feeling I still get education there? Of the feeling of returning to Kyle Huneycutt, ’13 driving into the valley. course! But what it left a loving home or spending Melanie Martin, ’96 us with after graduation time with an old dear friend. is much more fabulous memories about a time which Suzanne F. Taylor, ’81 many of us remember as one of the best times of our lives. And every time we meet someone new and find out that they went to YHC, there is an immediate bond, Tuesday Traditions Trivia no matter how old they are or when they graduated, was a huge hit… because nobody except those of us who were lucky enough to experience YHC can understand the magic Back in the day, most students got that is there. to campus by taking the bus (often Pam Jensen Jones, ’75 sending luggage by rail). In the late 1950s, students had to meet one specific requirement to be eligible to keep an automobile on campus – what was it? What is taking place in this snapshot— I couldn’t afford a bus, we and, if you know what’s going on, do you Well, in ’58, one had to have any special memories to share? be a sophomore to have hitched a ride back and forth a car on campus. to Statham. Usually in the Wayne Troutman, ’62 backseat of a ’40 Ford Coupe. Bill Lyle, ’52

My buddy Max and I rode the Trailways bus from our home in Miami to Atlanta, then switched buses to one that looked just like Alumni Weekend… This is the tradition this one. After a curvy ride it let us off right SIGN DAY!!! Susan of decorating the in front of the old admin building where we Bs and Phi Delts dorms before Phi Chi were greeted by Dr. Andrus. Our first time Sign Day! Go Sigs! hang signs all over kicks Sigs [censored] at YHC. This was September 1963. Paul Durfield, ’91 Appleby Center, in football. Rik DeVoe, ’65 the fountain, the Rob Murray, ’75 wall to cheer on the (According to the 1958-1959 YHC Catalog, students with Sig-Phi Chi football an average grade of C in all subjects were eligible to keep Sign Day!!! Brings back memories of the Sigs game. automobiles on campus. The following conditions also had to be kicking the [censored] out of Phi Chi in the met: vehicle registered with Dean’s Office; evidence of insurance Marsha Begin annual football game. and driver’s license; approval by parent or guardian in writing; Lewis, ’77 Clayte Sheppard, ’91 and prescribed travel voucher provided by dormitory head with approval on it before leaving campus on each trip.) 59 Office of Alumni Services NONPROFIT org. P.O. Box 275 U.S. Postage Young Harris, GA 30582 Paid PPCO

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