LynchburgCollege Magazine Spring 2013

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Dr. Ed Polloway National expert, devoted teacher

Dr. Edward Polloway has A tireless advocate for those with special 100 teachers in special education and coun- devoted his career to teaching needs, Dr. Polloway is the recipient of numer- seling. He was also a leader in the establish- ous awards — most recently being named a ment of the Claytor Nature Study Center. the teachers of students with 2013 Fellow of the American Association on Other career highlights include rebuilding intellectual and learning Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. the graduate studies program, writing the disabilities. A nationally He was “toasted” last fall by the Arc of Cen- original proposal for the Westover Honors tral Virginia for his contributions to special Program, securing $20 million in grant funds recognized expert and a highly education. He has served two terms as presi- for LC, and teaching a “zillion” students. Of regarded scholar in the field of dent of the Division on Development Disabili- all his accomplishments, Dr. Polloway says special education, he has also ties of the Council for Exceptional Children teaching Lynchburg College students is what and has held many leadership positions as an he has enjoyed most. pioneered special educational advocate for people with disabilities. “When it comes to creativity and looking to teacher preparation internationally. During his thirty-six years at Lynchburg do more, do better, and do for others, Dr. College, Dr. Polloway has served as dean of Polloway is undoubtedly the champion at He is author of 100 articles in professional graduate studies and vice president for com- Lynchburg College,” said LC president Dr. journals and thirty books, the most recent a munity advancement, and is the first Rosel Kenneth Garren. “His fingerprints continue tenth edition of a special education textbook Schewel Distinguished Professor of Educa- to be found on just about every good project that is used throughout the United States. “I’ve tion and Human Development. at the College.” been able to track my entire career against He was a guiding light in the creation of these books,” he said, referring to the an education instructional program on the is- changes that continuously occur in the field. land of St. Lucia that has trained more than Lynchburg www.lynchburg.edu/spring2013 College Magazine

WEB EXCLUSIVES Spring 2013 Vol. 20, No. 2 VIDEO

ON THE COVER Watch a video on the Hopwood renovation.

Hear Elza Tiner talk about her research.

Get a peek backstage at Love’s Labour’s Lost.

Learn more about Solidarity Sleepers.

Watch a video about Patrick Ferrer ’13 spent student internships. last summer in Alaska studying the collapsing salmon population. R E A D M O R E

Learn more about One Million Bones.

Learn more about SOBE’s ranking.

Learn more about Deborah Grow’s business.

DEPARTMENTS

PHOTO 2 President’s Message Ben Tumolo ’ spent last summer as a “visiting scientist” in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he conducted research on fish populations to determine where the coral reefs were most stressed. Read the full story GALLERIES 3 Around the Dell online at www.lynchburg.edu/spring. Check out photo 10 Faculty & Staff FEATURES galleries of Parents and Family Weekend and 12 Hornet Highlights 14 Interning for success Homecoming. 30 Class Notes Nearly half of LC students find amazing internships. 24 A passion for education Dr. Mary Futrell brings her national expertise to LC.

26 The way we were S C A N M E Student life flourished in the Quonset huts. with your smartphone to check out this issue online! LyCollegenchburg Magazine President’s Message Editor Shannon Brennan

Production Manager Anne Stoutenburgh Nash ’65

Contributing Writers Pamela Carder, Mike Carpenter, Cody Clifton, Angela Deeds ’14, Ryan Killilea ’11, Moments of inspiration Betty Cooper McKinney, Suzanne Ramsey Class Notes Betty Howell During recent Homestead and we, too, were without power. Photographer John McCormick months there have I received word of the campus devastation from Contributing Photography Tom Cassidy ’73, Bob Driskill. He and LC’s Physical Plant director, Patty McGuire, Warren Wright been several events Rob Smith, served as post-storm “incident com- Graphic Designers Katharine Stevens that I have found manders.” When I first arrived on campus that Christopher Peterson truly inspiring and Sunday morning, I was met with a core of staff Web Team Pamela Carder, Tracy Chase, members who were fully engaged in clearing the Katy Rost, David Woody ’00 feel especially priv- campus of the massive debris scattered about. Director of Publications Anne S. Nash ’65 ileged to share That afternoon, LC’s Crisis Management Team Director of College Communications and Marketing (CMT) huddled around a single lamp in my dark- Deborah P. Blanchard with you. The first events fall in ened office on the first floor of Hall Campus Center with an electrical cord that was connected ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE the category of fundrais- ing for the much-needed to a generator outside. There were people sitting President Bryce C. Legg ’81 in that darkened room who were not on the CMT Vice President John P. Reilly ’86 expansion of the Student Center. Last April, advancement officer John but represented their division with courage and Alumni Outreach Committee Chair dedication. Jamar M. Hawkins ’04 Stafford and I met with Dr. John Bower ’57 and Rhonda Johnson, administrative assistant in Advancement Committee Chair requested his consideration of naming the third Hannah Howe Besanceney ’96 floor lobby as the “Dr. John D. Bower ’57 Veter- Residence Life, took care of students on campus, Communications and Marketing Committee Chair assisted by Amanda McGovern, and also raked Jerry Daniello ’93 ans Center and Lounge.” Three weeks later a check for $200,000 arrived. The lounge will be leaves with her daughter Carmen Johnson ’11. Student Engagement Committee Chair Chef Michial Neal sawed downed trees with one Lesley Day Villarose ’02 open to all, but dedicated to post-911 veterans hand and cooked with the other; Dr. Neal Traditions Committee Chair and will house a veterans liaison officer desk to be Wendy E. Bradley ’91 manned Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. Sumerlin welcomed a boatload of students in his Westover Alumni Society President home after their stay at Liberty University ended; Sherwood N. Zimmerman ’64 to 1 p.m. Dr. Bower’s gifts in support of veterans now exceed $950,000 and our Veterans Flag Bear- Health Center Director April Scruggs took in in- ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS ers, headed by Bill Foutz ’54, have raised ternational students while in the midst of her own personal crisis; Drs. George Schuppin and President Kenneth R. Garren $500,000. Dr. Bower and Bill received Outstand- Steve Elam managed the DPT building, which Vice President and Dean, Academic Affairs ing Alumni Awards during Westover Alumni So- Julius Sigler ’62 ciety Weekend. was used as an oasis by the CMT; Dr. Danny Vice President, Business and Finance Bob Driskill, LC’s director of Campus Safety, Cline and Carol Martin reworked the Governor’s Stephen Bright also played an inspirational role that benefited School operations; Curtis Layne ’83 and his Vice President, Enrollment Management grounds crew, plus a number of staff and student Rita Detwiler the fundraising effort. After the dissolution of the volunteers, changed gigantic broken limbs and Vice President, Advancement local volunteer Lynchburg Lifesaving and First Denise A. McDonald Aid Crew, Inc., which had been strongly sup- downed trees into kindling; director of building Vice President and Dean, Student Development ported by LC faculty and staff, $100,000 of their maintenance Boyce Hamlet and his crew did John Eccles funds were directed to naming a second floor more than I could have imagined; and an invisi- Vice President, College Communications ble crew spent considerable hours in dark attics and Marketing Stephen Arnold ’00 MEd room the Lynchburg Lifesaving Crew Conference Room. where the temperature soared well over the 100- degree mark. A few weeks later, my wife, Sheila, Lynchburg College Magazine is published Finally, Andrew McKenna ’99, a former semi-annually for alumni, parents, and friends lacrosse star, made a pledge of $200,000 to name and I were honored to host these inspirational by College Communications and Marketing, folks for lunch at our home. 434.544.8325 or 800.621.1669. the top-level balcony for men’s lacrosse coach Steve Koudelka and the Koudelka family. These examples of dedication to Lynchburg Send change of address to: College demonstrate that we are truly a caring Lynchburg College Magazine On June 29, the College was struck by the Lynchburg College community, of which we can all be proud. 1501 Lakeside Drive “derecho” that incapacitated much of the region. Lynchburg, VA 24501-3113 All power was lost on campus and the strong [email protected] winds destroyed or damaged more than 200 trees. www.lynchburg.edu Mercifully, there were no injuries as there were Letters to the editor may be sent to [email protected] few people on campus. When the storm struck, Lynchburg College does not discriminate on the basis of I was attending the Virginia Foundation of Inde- Kenneth R. Garren, ph.d. race, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or pendent Colleges presidents meeting at The president national or ethnic origin and complies with the require- ments of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

2 LC MAGAziNE Spring 1/02 Photo by WArreN Wright Around the Dell

LC LC reaches STU - $1.45 million for veterans scholarship/center

the College has met a second $250,000 challenge grant issued Veterans Day 2011 by Dr. John D. bower, a 1957 grad- uate whose gifts and challenges have raised $1.45 million for veteran scholar- ships and services at LC. Under the endowed fund established by Dr. bower, two-thirds of the annual income goes toward the Dr. John D. bower Veterans Scholarship, which pro- vides support to eligible veteran students with a 3.0 gPA or higher, with first pref- Student Center campaign more than 130 gifts, also fulfill- erence to those pursuing degrees in sci- ing a requirement of the Par- ence at LC. the remaining third of the gains momentum toward sons Foundation that many annual income will go toward the Dr. donors participate. John D. bower ’57 Veterans Center and $12 million goal On the heels of the College’s Lounge to be located in the expanded The campaign to build a Dr. Garren noted that the success with the Parsons Foun- student center. Dr. bower gave an addi- much-needed expansion to the LC student body has nearly dation challenge, the Cabell tional $200,000 to name the veterans Student Center has gained mo- tripled in size since the Burton Foundation also issued a two- center. mentum since the project was Student Center was built forty- to-one challenge. The founda- A dedicated team of “flag bearer vol- publicly announced at Home- five years ago. The expanded tion will give the College unteers,” comprised primarily of LC coming, October 20, 2012. Student Center will serve as a $200,000 if it raises $400,000. alumni veterans, helped lead the effort With total fundraising passing new “welcome center” for par- Since its founding in 1957, the to match Dr. bower’s challenge grants. $5 million toward the $12 mil- ents and prospective students Cabell Foundation has sup- Dr. bower, a bedford, Virginia native, lion goal, major foundations and will house important pro- ported more than 400 organi- is a retired physician renowned for his pi- have taken note and given their grams relating to leadership, zations statewide with more oneering work with kidney disease and support to the College’s efforts. service, diversity, and wellness. than $72 million in philan- dialysis. “The Student Center expan- Two matching grants have thropic grants. The focus of sion is our top fundraising pri- added a boost to the fundrais- their competitive ority for the College now,” ing effort. In May 2012, the grants program is to President Kenneth R. Garren Mary Morton Parsons Founda- provide support for per- TO HELP SUPPORT THE STUDENT said. “Lynchburg College has tion challenged the College to manent capital projects on CENTER, visit www.lynchburg.edu/giving or strong academic and athletics raise $200,000 to earn a a challenge or match basis to send a check (made payable to Lynchburg programs. Now we must im- $100,000 grant. LC alumni, stimulate broad community College with a memo for the Student Center prove our Student Center to parents, students, and other support. challenge) or pledge to Advancement Office, remain highly competitive in donors heartily accepted the Join us for the ground- Lynchburg College, 1501 Lakeside Drive, Lynchburg, VA 24501. For more information, recruiting, engaging, and re- challenge, raising $775,311 by breaking on April 27. visit www.lynchburg.edu/giving/student-center. taining students.” mid-October. Donors made

Hopwood Hall Auditorium anew

Hopwood Hall Auditorium underwent a $750,000 renovation last summer that has created more versatile space and revealed the beautiful windows that have been hidden for years.

WEB EXCLUSIVE Watch a video about the renovation. www.lynchburg.edu/spring2013

iLLUStrAtioN by JeFF CUrCio; Photo by JohN MCCorMiCk Spring 1/02 LC MAGAziNE 3 Around the Dell

and Economics Dean Joe Turek, “Our partnership with LC’s Office of Student Activities and the ad- dition of co-curricular activities SOBE rises to into our leadership programs gave 22 a real boost to our position in the The School of Business and rankings.” Economics (SOBE) has again been Leadership Excellence magazine recognized by Leadership Excel- was founded in 1984 by manage- lence magazine as one of the best ment gurus Ken Shelton, Stephen leadership development programs R. Covey, Ken Blanchard, and in the nation. The recently an- Charles Garfield to provide a nounced rankings placed SOBE in forum where, according to lead- the number 22 spot in the “Edu- ershipexcel.com, “the foremost cation/Universities/Schools of minds on management and lead- Business and Management” cate- School’s course content to its in- Beyond the classroom, students ership share their breakthrough gory, right behind UC Berkley’s tegration throughout the fabric of gain leadership skills through ac- ideas.” Haas School of Business. The student experience. Leadership tive participation in the Anderson More than a thousand organi- SOBE program’s 2012 ranking principles and skills are developed Leadership Conference, the SOBE zations and institutions were as- jumped seven spots from its across the curriculum through Student Advisory Board, the sessed. number 29 position last year. classes such as “Leadership and Lynchburg Collegiate Entrepre- Leadership development is an the Classics,” “Ethical Dilemmas neurs Organization, and the WEB EXCLUSIVE integral part of the SOBE experi- in Business and Leadership,” and Delta Sigma Pi business fraternity. Learn more about the rankings. ence, from its inclusion in the “Crisis Management.” According to School of Business www.lynchburg.edu/spring2013

Every single day eighteen Community Services, named after when they connected with local or- Iraq veterans commit suicide — more the soldier who sacrificed his life ganizations that understood their than have died in combat in Iraq for Sutherland. capacity for greatness.” commander and Afghanistan combined. Veter- “War is vile,” Sutherland said. He told about one young man calls for ans often feel isolated when they “Yet some things are more vile, and who said he felt like an adult in a return home and some never find that’s why we fight.” He cited acts kindergarten class when he returned veteran their way back. committed under Sharia Law as to college. Students with pants “We have to defeat our epidemic examples. around their ankles were texting support of disconnection,” said Col. David Sutherland was the subject of a during class and laughed at the vet- W. Sutherland, the keynote speaker New York Times article in 2007, de- eran when a slamming door made at LC’s annual Veterans Day service tailing his painful visits to wounded him jump. Sutherland said services and a veteran of wars in Kuwait and soldiers in Iraq. Sutherland served for veterans must be local. Neigh- Iraq. Sutherland came to LC to in Operation Iraqi Freedom, where bors and communities must seek speak thanks to his connection he was the coalition force com- them out to lend a hand. with John Piper ’99 in Washing- mander in Diyala Province from “That’s what we see at Lynchburg ton, D.C. October 2006 to December 2007. College under the leadership of its Sutherland served for twenty- During the Veterans Day service, president,” Sutherland said about nine years in the United States Sutherland cited examples of veter- LC’s efforts to reach out to veterans Army. After retiring, he became the ans he knew who did heroic acts on and to provide scholarships and founding executive director of the the battlefield, but said they were services under the Dr. John D. Staff Sergeant Donnie D. Dixon “challenged during transition to Bower ’57 Veterans Center and Center for Military and Veteran civilian life. Yet, they succeeded Lounge.

4 LC MAGAziNE Spring 1/02 iLLUStrAtioN, thiNkStoCk 70% of Americans are is tomorrow’s tobacco overweight

Michael bryant, the Ceo of Centra, told LC thinks it’s not fair for others to pay for a seniors that health care will change drasti- lifestyle choice that is a burden to both em- cally in coming years because the current ployers and the healthcare system. 10+states system is not sustainable. efforts to improve obesity, bryant said, presents the next have an obesity level the nation’s health also come with ethical great challenge. in 1985, not a single state exceeding 15%. questions. had an obesity level exceeding fifteen per- “is health care a right or a privilege?” cent. Now more than ten states do, mostly in How many in bryant asked. “in the rest of the world, it’s the South, and by 2030 it’s expected that 42 1985? ZERO. more of a right.” percent of Americans will be obese. that far bryant also asked whether it’s fair to sub- exceeds the 20 percent who smoke. Already sidize other people’s bad habits. the talk 70 percent of Americans are overweight. was part of Senior Symposium, which is fo- “America is the heaviest country on the cusing on free will for the academic year. planet by far, with no end in sight,” he said. Centra provides most of the health care in obesity is already increasing the cost of Lynchburg and much of Southside Virginia. health care, not only because of associated bryant took the helm in october 2011 and health problems, but because of the need immediately started discussions about a no- for bigger equipment, bigger rooms, and smoking policy on Centra property and a wider doorways. plan to stop hiring anyone who uses to- bryant showed a short film of a patient bacco products. With adequate warning and who had so much fat in his blood it literally education, bryant said he didn’t get any op- coagulated in a blood sample. When asked position to his plan. what he ate before going to the hospital, he “We now don’t hire anyone at all who’s said a cheeseburger, fries, and milkshake. tested positive for any tobacco product,” When the man had open heart surgery, doc- he said. tors pulled thick strings of fat from his arteries. Smokers and chewers who were grandfa- “is it society’s role to pay for you to live like thered in under the new policy — about that?” bryant asked. twenty percent of Centra’s employees — are one student asked bryant about the cor- provided with free smoking cessation classes. relation between poverty and obesity, while they also have other incentives to quit. every another pointed out that the cheapest, year they continue to use tobacco, their insur- quickest food is not healthy. ance co-pay will double. For example, if their he responded that healthcare providers monthly co-pay is $25, it will double to $50. must have community partners, including the following year it will be $100. the policy churches and schools, to fight obesity and also applies to spouses insured by Centra. get rid of food deserts — areas where no BY 2030, 42% one student told bryant he would quit his healthy food is available to those without job rather than quit smoking. bryant said transportation and the resources to pay for OF AMERICANS that’s free will in action, but added that he healthier choices. WILL BE OBESE

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test to prove their knowledge, but grants send back to their home- they must be 21. Most high school land, 80 percent of it ultimately students are much younger. returns to the U.S. because Mexi- The only place for many of cans are forced to shop in places these young people to find a job like Walmart. “We are invaded in is at transnational call centers in Mexico by Walmart,” Itzel said, Mexico City, which require good noting that small entrepreneurs English-language skills. The young have been run out of business. Mexicans are hired for those low- Itzel is a community organizer paying positions, but they work in Mexico City with The Other such long hours, they don’t have DREAMERs, a group of predomi- a chance to further their education nately young returned migrants – or hope for a way to get better jobs, some who were deported, others Itzel said. who returned voluntarily. The Witness These deportees are also trapped Other DREAMERs get their name between two worlds. “They’re not from the Dream Act, which really Mexicans; they’re gringos,” would allow these young people for Peace Itzel said. “They don’t know where to stay in the United States. they are from.” Unlike some of the students The unemployment rate among she works with, Itzel was born in people age 20–26 is about 26 per- Mexico City and grew up in a Itzel Polo Mendieta, a 22- high school or college work in cent, Itzel said. Those who cannot small rural community in the year-old Mexican activist work- the U.S. get jobs resort to selling drugs to state of Tlaxcala. She encouraged ing to improve the lives of young Most of those deported are be- make a living. She said the war students with Spanish skills to people deported back to Mexico tween fourteen and twenty-nine on drugs is really fought against consider working for Witness for from the United States, spoke at years old, and often they have no the young people, not the drug Peace, and to sign petitions to LC in October. family or social network to help lords, who are often protected by change the strict bureaucratic More than 400,000 Mexicans support them in a country where the institutional corruption in laws about education that make have been deported under the one must have proof of education Mexico. it so difficult for deportees. Obama administration, more than to secure a decent job. Even with “It is very well-known where the The talk was sponsored by LC’s any previous administration, she proof, the Mexican government big cartels are located,” Itzel said. Chaplain’s Office and the Elisha said, and the Mexican bureaucracy will only give students credit for In another irony for Mexicans K. Bennett Lectureship in Per- makes it virtually impossible for one year of high school, she said. who immigrate to the U.S., Itzel sonal Growth and Development. students to get credit for their Alternatively, students can take a noted that of all the money immi-

Carol Cummings Calandra ’84 received Beverley E. Dalton is an owner and mem- LC her bA in accounting from LC. two years ber of the management team of W. C. eng- welcomes later she began working at ernst & young lish Construction Co., a diversified heavy in New york City as a staff auditor and ad- construction provider based in Lynchburg, new board vanced to the roles of controller, area direc- Virginia, that serves the mid-Atlantic region. tor of finance, and director of finance. in She earned her bA at the University of rich- members 2004, she became a partner and national mond, is a resident of Altavista, Virginia, director of field finance for North and and serves as a member of the Altavista The College welcomed South America. While students at LC, she and her husband, town Council. She also serves on the board of Visitors of Vir- three new members to Conrad, worked for Donna Mcgill as residence hall leaders. ginia tech as well as the boards of the Corporation for thomas the Board of Trustees in Now residents of huntington, Connecticut, the couple have a Jefferson’s Poplar Forest and the Virginia historical Society. Dal- October. son and a daughter, enjoy golf, and are New york yankees fans. ton is a trustee emeritus at randolph-Macon College, where, in 1993, she became the first woman to serve as board chair.

6 LC MAGAziNE Spring 1/02 iLLUStrAtioN, thiNkStoCk; trUStee PhotoS by JohN MCCorMiCk Theatre An updated version of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost was one of the high- lights of the fall. This sassy comedy was given a contem- porary look by setting it in LC’s Dell, complete with red chairs. Fictional fraternity and sorority members, along with professors, added to the authenticity of the college theme.

WEB EXCLUSIVE Watch a video on Love’s Labour’s Lost. www.lynchburg.edu/spring2013

Geoffrey Kershner, assistant professor of theatre, made his LC debut with this play. Kershner is known locally for his work at Endstation Theatre, which was awarded the Rising Star award by Dominion Power and Virginians for the Arts. Arts Around the Dell Daura Gallery Sir John Tenniel’s illustrations for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Daura Gallery featured The Red Coats the Looking-Glass was guest curated by are Coming! Historic Costume Design by Dr. Richard C. Burke, John Franklin East Other exhibits were Pierre Gibb Zea ’13, a museum studies minor Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Daura: Tools of the Artist, who recreated the red coat worn by who gave a talk on the exhibit. (Above curated by museum studies Samuel Adams in his 1772 portrait by right: Sir John Tenniel, Alice with Collaps- students Maggie Dakin ’12 John Singleton Copley (left). ing Cards, color lithograph, ca. 1920.) and Kelsey Reed ’12; and Social Criticism: The Prints of William Hogarth.

Margaret “Peg” Miller is the great niece of Josephus hop- Music wood, founder of Virginia Christian College, which later be- in the music world, the Lynchburg College came Lynchburg College. A resident of gordonsville, Virginia, Choral Union presented its tenth annual she is a retired professor from the University of Virginia’s Curry performance of Handel’s Messiah, under School of education, is president emerita of the American Asso- the direction of Dr. Jong Kim, professor of music and music graduate studies pro- ciation for higher education, and is editor-in-chief of Change gram director. The LC Orchestra/Wind magazine. Miller received her undergraduate degree from UCLA Symphony presented its annual Winter and did graduate work at Stanford University and the University Concert, under the direction of Dr. Oeida M. Hatcher, dean, School of Communica- of Virginia. During the last fifteen years she has worked, spoken, and written in na- tion and the Arts. tional and international settings on topics including college-level learning and how to evaluate it, change in higher education, and the public responsibilities for higher education. Miller’s writings have appeared in publications such as Change, About Campus, New Literary History, On Campus, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

PhotoS by JohN MCCorMiCk Spring 1/02 LC MAGAziNE 7 Around the Dell

Chinese student sleeps outside for she can no longer assume people are poor be- cause they are lazy. fifteen chilly nights Sleeping out in the cold to raise money for the homeless is only one of April’s missions. She just made her seventh trip to Barren Springs, Virginia, a poor community in the southwestern part of the state that has become a partner with LC’s Bonner Leaders Program. April has done everything from hanging a gate to chasing cows to helping stuff back- packs with food for students who would oth- erwise be hungry on the weekends. “It’s really home,” April said of Barren Springs. “It’s really community. I never felt that before. To have somewhere to belong is a very good feeling.” Despite her sudden immersion into a new culture, April has also excelled academically, being named to the Phi Eta Sigma freshman honor society. The management major is also president of Circle K International, a member DIEYUN “APRIL” SONG ’36 has traveled of the Alpha Sigma Alpha Sorority, and sings WEB EXCLUSIVE much farther than the 7,000 miles from her Learn more about the Solidarity Sleepers in the LC Concert Choir. She hopes to add a native Beijing since coming to LC in fall 2011. www.lynchburg.edu/spring2013 double major in economic crime prevention It’s hard to believe that a student who and a minor in music. ranked shopping among her favorite pastimes two dozen LC students who braved the ele- April learned about LC when she met Rita slept outside half the month of November so ments during Hunger and Homelessness Detwiler, LC’s vice president for enrollment she could begin to understand homelessness. Awareness Week, but one of only two who management, who traveled to China in spring Now she doesn’t even see that effort as partic- chose to sleep out longer. 2011 on a recruitment tour with “Colleges ularly heroic. April readily acknowledges that she came That Change Lives.” When April first arrived “I’m warm,” she said, “not like the real from a privileged household, but thanks to at LC, she was a little worried about her lan- homeless. I’m lucky I have a real house; I have her participation in the Bonner Leaders Pro- guage skills and zeroing on a major. “I’m a real bed. I just can’t imagine the feeling of gram, she has come to know the reasons for happy I have four years here to learn the things ‘now it’s dark, but now I have nowhere to go.’” homelessness. “It gives a deeper understand- I like,” she had said. She’s well on her way. As a Solidarity Sleeper, April was one of ing of the poverty issue,” she said, adding that

Students in “I think it’s a great idea,” said Rob Marina Mona Williams’s ’37. “It’s a really creative way to raise money. One sculpture class It definitely makes an impact because it’s so started the fall visual.” semester making Evelyn Rose Keeney-Ritchie ’37, created a Million human bones jawbone and scapula. “I’m a biomed major so from clay as part I’m thinking about it another way,” she said. Bones of the “One Mil- “It’s an awesome way to observe and learn. I lion Bones” ini- think it’s going to make a huge impact once tiative, a there are tons of them.” fundraising art installation designed to recog- Proceeds from the fundraiser will be donated nize the millions of victims killed or displaced to direct service and advocacy organizations, by ongoing genocides in the Democratic Re- Enough!, Women for Women International, public of the Congo, Sudan, Burma, and So- and the Genocide Intervention Network,

WEB EXCLUSIVE malia. The collaborative installation of one which work to protect and aid displaced vic- Learn more about One Million Bones million “bones” will be displayed on the Na- tims of genocide. www.lynchburg.edu/spring2013 tional Mall in spring 2013.

8 LC MAGAziNE Spring 1/02 PhotoS by JohN MCCorMiCk UP ’TIL DAWN Computer science major named top scholar LC students raised more money BRANDON their smartphones. At LC, for ex- A resident of Appomattox, Vir- for St. Jude Children’s Research GANNICOTT ’34 ample, it would allow students to ginia, Brandon has worked for Hospital than any other college or is the 2012-13 check their financial accounts, the College’s Information Tech- university in the mid-Atlantic re- Sommerville class schedules, or make an ap- nology and Resources staff since gion, which includes Virginia, Mary- Scholar, the pointment at the Writing Center. his freshman year. He got a jump land, and Washington, D.C. Up ’til highest recog- Brandon plans to go to graduate start on the ITR job thanks to his Dawn, the collegiate fundraiser for St. nition given by school to study human computer local connection; his mother, Dr. Jude, was held at LC for the first time the College for interfaces, a discipline dedicated to Priscilla Gannicott, is a professor on November 1. a distinguished improving the human experience of chemistry at LC. “the Lynchburg total so far is academic record. with computers. For the last three years, Bran- $18,500, which is phenomenal for a A computer science major with A Westover Honors Program don’s was a familiar face on the first-time school,” April Warren Mann, a minor in philosophy, Brandon student, Brandon carries a cumu- student-run campus television marketing representative for St. Jude, says he sees technology as a means lative GPA of 3.90 and has been news program, “Eye on LC.” He said in early December. “We couldn’t of improving humanity. That be- on the Dean’s List every semester. served as president his junior year be more proud of the students’ hard lief helped steer him toward his He is a member of the Phi Eta and said he learned a lot about work to raise money and awareness senior thesis, which he describes Sigma freshman honor society video editing, leadership, and get- for the children of St. Jude.” as investigating “the current dys- and The Honor Society of Phi ting volunteers to work on a St. Jude Children’s research hospi- functional state of U.S. patent law.” Kappa Phi for academics, the As- time-consuming project. tal is the only pediatric cancer treat- Brandon believes, perhaps some- sociation of Computing Machin- When he’s not pursuing aca- ment facility that never charges their what counter-intuitively, that in- ery, and the Institute of Electrical demic endeavors, Brandon enjoys patients’ families for care. Up ’til tellectual property law stymies and Electronic Engineers. hanging out with friends, listen- Dawn is a letter campaign in which creativity. He participated in a National ing to underground rap musi- students bring twenty-five or more “When you can freely copy ideas, Science Foundation Research Ex- cians including Atmosphere and addresses of friends and families to it can lead to more innovation,” periences for Undergraduates Aesop Rock, or playing Magic: ask them to support St. Jude. he said. Brandon cites the example program at the University of The Gathering, a deck-building Natanis DeMascio ’13 learned of the fashion industry, where ex- South Carolina in 2011, where his card game. about Up ’til Dawn at an all-greek isting ideas are freely built upon research led to a published paper Four other students were final- conference two years ago and to inspire new designs. He said which he presented at the IEEE ists for the Sommerville Scholar- wanted to get it started at LC. When Bill Gates believes the software SoutheastCon 2012. His mobile ship. They are Abigail Burnette, she was eleven, she had a seven-year- explosion could not have occurred app works on an Android smart- a Westover Honors economics old cousin who developed acute lym- if intellectual property laws had phone platform using GPS tech- major from Chatham, Va.; Bro- phoblastic leukemia (ALL), and while been aggressively enforced. nology to help motorists find gan Franklin, an English major he didn’t go to St. Jude, research His senior project for com- available parking spots. While the from Madison Heights, Va.; there greatly improved his survival puter science is to design and technology cannot pinpoint a Samantha Meiser, a chemistry rate. in 1964, the survival rate was publish an Android application specific parking space, it can tell major from Keysville, Va.; and just 4 percent, she said, but is now at that will allow college students to you where free spots are most Shelly Milks, an exercise physiol- 94 percent. “My mom always instilled access student databases through likely to be, Brandon said. ogy major from Orange, Va. in me that it was the best charity,” Natanis said. Natanis got an executive board of downtown Lynchburg. “i think it’s a great thing to do for greek students created for Up ’til the community.” Dawn and was then invited to the St. Tires Students donned waders and clambered down the Jude Collegiate Leadership Seminar in stream bank at Sandusky Park to collect tires, chairs, bas- Memphis, tennessee, during the sum- ketballs, and other trash from blackwater Creek in support mer. She and Brooke Niblett ’15 and tiles of Citizens for a Clean Lynchburg, led by Nels Erickson were LC’s representatives. they took a ’12, who took them downstream toward College Lake. tour of the hospital, met patients, All 530 members of the Class of 2016 participated in LC’s the group collected fifty bags of trash and fifteen tires. heard speakers, and learned about new annual day of service before the first day of classes. Students worked at other sites, including the Adult Care the history of Danny thomas, the they painted, weeded, picked up trash, prepared meals, Center, the Free Clinic of Central Virginia, his Vision Project, founder of St. Jude. and did a variety of work needed by local nonprofits as a Virginia eye Clinic, Jubilee Center, Lynchburg Covenant Fel- “Actually going to the hospital was way to introduce themselves to their new community. lowship, Lynchburg Daily bread, Stop hunger Now, Camp really awesome,” brooke said, adding “i think it’s fantastic,” said Bess Spencer, a first-year kum ba yah, rebuilding together, Amazement Square, that she had always watched the St. from trumbull, Connecticut, who applied tiles to a giant Park View Mission, Miriam’s house, and Lynchburg Parks & Jude infomercials as a child. mosaic for Amazement Square’s public art work project in recreation.

PhotoS by JohN MCCorMiCk Spring 1/02 LC MAGAziNE 9 Around the Dell

Professor selected to teach in Vietnam

DR. RANDYRIBLER, profes- sor of computer science, is one of nine U.S. scholars se- lected by the Vietnam Edu- cation Foundation to teach in Vietnam as part of its U.S. Faculty Scholar Program. Dr. Ribler taught as a Ful- bright Scholar at Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU-HN) in 2006 and returned to VNU-HN this semester to teach software engineering and artificial intelligence. “We had a mutual desire to continue working together and to expand the relationship be- tween our two institutions,” he said. Dr. Ribler plans to develop his courses with his Vietnamese colleagues so they can be taught jointly in the future, allowing LC and VNU-HN students to work together online. “It’s almost like study abroad without the travel,” he said. Dr. Ribler is teaching at both the undergrad- uate and graduate levels. He said most of the Predicting Olympic performances students speak English well, but he has learned techniques to help those whose language skills How do physicists predict the at the International Sports Engineering are not as strong. winning times of Olympians or the Tour de Conference July 9-13 at the University of VNU-HN has a world-class computer science France? One LC student learned this sum- Massachusetts Lowell Inn and Conference program, Dr. Ribler said, but he brings a differ- mer with Dr. Eric Goff. Brian Ramsey ’36 Center. Featuring presentations by global ent perspective to the classroom. He hopes to worked with Dr. Goff to predict each stage sports science experts, the conference took provide a more student-centered education of the 99th Tour de France, which was made place in the United States for only the sec- compared to the lecture model generally used at up of one prologue and twenty stages and ond time in its sixteen-year history. VNU-HN. covered a distance of 3,497 kilometers. Other speakers included John Brenkus Dr. Ribler said his interest in Vietnam stems Brian and Dr. Goff predicted the time each of ESPN’s “Sport Science;” Bruce Jahnke of from the fact that his wife is Vietnamese. She stage should take. K2 Sports, a designer of outdoor sports and their two ten-year-old daughters traveled to A professor of physics and author of Gold gear; and Wolfram Meyer of the Federa- Vietnam with Dr. Ribler for the spring semester. Medal Physics: The Science of Sports, Dr. tion Internationale de Football Association. Dr. Ribler is chair of LC’s Computer Science Goff also followed the Summer Olympic Topics focused on the ways in which high- Department. He holds a PhD in computer sci- Games in London and provided commen- tech materials, instrumentation, and evalu- ence from Virginia Tech, a master’s in computer tary on his blog, as well as in the media. Dr. ation techniques can improve performance. science from George Mason University, and a Goff was also one of the headline speakers BS in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to joining the

faculty at LC, he completed a two-year postdoc- INTERNATIONAL LITERARY AWARD STAFF RECOGNITIONS toral appointment at the University of Illinois, Dr. Casey Clabough, associate Registrar Jay Webb ’73 BS, ’82 MAd received the Urbana-Champaign. He has also worked exten- professor of English, received the Distinguished Service Award from the Virginia As- first Bangladesh international Lit- sociation of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions sively in the computer industry, primarily in erary Award at Daffodil University Officers (VACRAO) in December for outstanding high-performance computing. in Dhaka in January. Dr. Clabough service to the organization. The Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF), a also gave several lectures and readings from his new novel, Kristen Cooper was named the Virginia Associa- U.S. federal government agency, is in its Confederado: A Novel of the tion of Student Personnel Administrators (VASPA) eleventh year of operations. The U.S. Faculty Americas, at a number of univer- Professional of the Year Award in recognition of Scholar Program promotes educational ex- sities while in Dhaka. Confederados were south- her work in student development. Kristen is direc- erners who left the South for countries in Central tor of residence life. changes related to science, engineering, mathe- and South America after the Civil War. matics, medicine, and technology.

10 LC MAGAziNE Spring 1/02 rANDy ribLer Photo by PAtty MCgUire; iLLUStrAtioN by kAthAriNe SteVeNS (SoUrCe iMAgeS, thiNkStoCk) to Panama with the Army, Mysteries in where they lived for a year and had their first daughter, medieval texts Peggey. In 1971, Bill was sent to DR. ELZATINER, pro- Vietnam, and Dawn came fessor of English and home to Lynchburg to live Latin, is an avid re- with her mother and grand- searcher who may have mother. Once again, her uncovered the key to a services were called upon at centuries-old mystery. LC, this time in the dean of Her research into me- students’ office. dieval biblical texts has When Bill returned from brought her to proposi- Vietnam, he received orders tions never suggested by other scholars. to go to Fort Lee in Peters- Her research on the tradition of the fall burg, and Dawn left Lynch- of the angels in medieval Latin texts has burg for the second and last led her to the discovery of precise language time. After a year there, they parallels between Vincent of Beauvais’ came home for good. Bill Speculum Historiale, a thirteenth-century pursued his master’s in guid- world chronicle, and a fifteenth-century ance and counseling and play, Liber Apologeticus by Thomas Dawn went to work in finan- Chaundler, suggesting that Chaundler cial aid and the English De- copied from a version of the chronicle in partment. adapting the prose legend to dramatic Dawn worked under the monologue. A lifetime at LC administrations of presidents In addition, Dr. Tiner has developed a Dr. Carey Brewer and Dr. hypothesis that the drawings accompany- George Rainsford, and has ing that play suggest it could have been nice things to say about all staged at New College, Oxford, because the presidents she has of the similarities between the drawings known. and the actual architecture, particularly It’s hard to imagine Lynch- switchboard in Hundley “I’ve always felt what a the carved oak screens in the antechapel burg College without Dawn Hall, at a time when she lit- privilege it is to be here and at New College. Arnold Cloyd ’76 or Dawn erally had to patch each call see how things evolve and Dr. Tiner will be a visiting scholar in without LC. “The College is through by hand. change,” she said. summer 2013 at the Pontifical Institute of so much woven into my life,” A year before she gradu- After living on campus at Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, where she she said. ated from LC with a degree one point, Dawn never will continue her work on the fall of the When she retired at the in biology, Dawn met the moved farther than Faculty angels. She is preparing an article for the end of October, Dawn had young man who would be- Drive. Her daughters, Vincent of Beauvais Newsletter, by invita- worked at LC for more than come her husband, Bill Peggey and Betsy, graduated tion, on the correlation between Thomas forty-six years — most re- Cloyd ’85 M.Ed. Bill lived from LC, and Betsy’s hus- Chaundler’s play and the Speculum Histo- cently in the critical role of in Carnegie Hall for eleven band, Brian Hudson, works riale. While in Toronto, she will prepare executive assistant to presi- years with his parents be- at the College. Dawn hopes an article for the journal Clio based on dents Dr. Kenneth Garren cause his mother was direc- to spend more time with her her study of the legend in Latin texts. and Dr. Charles Warren. tor of LC’s food service. six grandchildren, two of Her paper on Thomas Chaundler will go Dawn is an alumna to Dawn ended up landing whom live in Roanoke, to the journal, Early Theatre, but she boot, but her connection secretarial jobs at her alma while four are in Lynchburg. plans to do follow-up work, possibly with even predates her college mater, as well as working in “The College has been Dr. Pamela King, University of Bristol, days. Dawn’s mother, Rachel the news bureau. Bill invited such a part of my life; it’s who is interested in compiling a collec- Arnold, started working in her to a dance at Virginia hard to put into words what tion of papers on Chaundler. 1956 as a secretary to the Military Institute a year after I’m going to miss,” she said. dean of students while their first meeting, and the When asked what she won’t Dawn was in high school. courting began. In 1969 they miss, she replied with a WEB EXCLUSIVE Listen to Dr. Tiner discuss her work. Dawn took advantage of married in Snidow Chapel. hearty laugh, “I can’t tell you www.lynchburg.edu/spring2013 that connection to land a Soon after they were married, that.” summer job working the however, Bill was deployed

PhotoS by JohN MCCorMiCk Spring 1/02 LC MAGAziNE 11 Women’s soccer duo is dynamite

There are many reasons that this year’s women’s soccer team tied a school record with twenty-one wins, but the consistent play of forwards Angela Bosco ’15 (right) and Dessi Dupuy ’15 took this team to new heights. Dessi and Angela finished first and second respectively in points in the ODAC, and the way they feed off each other on the pitch pro- vides Lynchburg with a dynamic duo of speed and strength that isn’t matched in the confer- ence, region, or nation. “Playing with Angela is great,” Dessi said. “We both look for each other because we know one of us will be able to get a scoring opportunity, even if we have to play it back and forth for a while.” Dessi is a local standout who grew up in Lynchburg, while Angela is from Huntingdon, New York. “Angela is an amazing forward and has a true talent for taking defenders on,” Dessi added. “These past few years we have really gotten to know each other and it has helped our chemistry on the field.” The styles differ as well, as the Lynchburg native used her quickness to get behind de- fenders for the majority of her twenty-seven goals this season. Angela fed off that, using her speed, footwork, and strength to drive straight to the net for her twenty-two scores. The duo scored more goals than half the teams in the conference. Dessi was named first-team All-ODAC and second-team all-region, in addition to earning a d8soccer.com second-team All-American award. Angela was honored as second-team All-ODAC and third-team all-region. This tandem could get even better as the years go on — a scary proposition for future opponents.

12 LC MAGAziNE Spring 1/02 Milks leads field hockey to Elite Eight WEB CASTS One of the best careers in Lynchburg College history came to a close this November, as Shelly Milks ’34 played in her last game on Watch the Hornets’ home games the Hornet field hockey team, which once LIVE at athletics.lynchburg.edu/ again reached the Elite Eight. information/webcasts Awards, titles, and recognition piled up for the senior midfielder as her playing days wound down. The LC field hockey team was a With the regional title under their belt, the dominate force in the Old Dominion Athletic Hornets headed to Terra-Haute, Indiana, for Conference (ODAC) and in the region, as well the national meet. LC finished twenty-sixth at as a consistent threat to compete for the NCAA the race, which was held at one of the most Division III national title. difficult courses in the nation. Despite the dif- Shelly came to Lynchburg in fall 2009, ficulty, four runners registered their fastest teaming up with older sister Signey ’10 (a times of the year, two setting career bests. three-time All-ODAC competitor herself) for Cody was one of those two; he was named an one season. Shelly and a strong class of fellow All-American for his twenty-third place finish. seniors have done some very impressive things Along with the team success, head mentor since entering as freshmen. In her career, her Doug Thomasey ’26 was named both ODAC team has not lost to another ODAC school in and South/Southeast Region Coach of the the regular season or conference tournament Year for the third season in a row. play, a streak of thirty-eight consecutive wins. The Hornets won two NCAA championship tournament games in 2012 and were a play More milestones away from reaching the Final Four. Thanks to field hockey, women’s soccer, and Shelley’s awards are too numerous to list, men’s cross country, LC was the top-ranked but some highlights include: Division III Virginia school for the fall semes- • NFHCA First-Team All-American in 2011 ter, finishing seventeenth in the nation in the and 2012; second-teamer in 2010 Learfield Sports Director’s Cup Standings. • ODAC Player of the Year in 2010, 2011, Women’s soccer standout Rachel Sadowski and 2012 ’35 earned first-team All-American honors • ODAC/Farm Bureau Scholar-Athlete of from the NSCAA and second-team A-A acco- the Year in 2011 and 2012 lades from D3soccer.com. The junior defender • First-Team All-ODAC, All-State, and also excels in the classroom, taking home first- All-Region in 2010, 2011, and 2012 team NSCAA Scholar-Athlete All-American • All-State and All-Region Player of the and second-team CoSIDA Academic All-Amer- Year in 2011 ican honors. • 2011-12 LC Female Athlete of the Year The LC volleyball team enjoyed one of its best seasons in recent memory, posting the most wins — twenty-four — in program his- Men’s cross country wins regionals tory. LC upset top-seeded Randolph-Macon The men’s cross country team continued to College in the ODAC Tournament semifinals, dominate both the conference and the region and suffered a narrow loss in the conference in 2012. In a meet hosted in Penn Laird, Vir- title game. ginia, the Hornets won their fifth-straight Kiley Trennepohl ’34 paced the Hornet ODAC title in commanding fashion, as the sec- women’s cross country this fall, capturing All- ond-place team was twenty-nine points be- South/Southeast Region honors and seventh hind them. All five runners placed in the top overall at the ODAC Championships to earn a twelve, with junior Cody Stanton taking spot on the all-conference first-team. home the individual title. Michael Releford ’35 anchored one of the LC then went to the South/Southeast Re- best defenses in Division III men’s soccer this gion meet held in Georgia and returned with year. The junior keeper was named the ODAC its third-straight title. Just as in the ODAC meet, Player of the Year and was honored on the there was no challenger close to Lynchburg in All-South Atlantic Region first-team. the final scoring totals. The Hornets won by thirty-eight points this time, with all five rePorteD by SPortS iNForMAtioN DireCtor Mike CArPeNter, AND grADUAte ASSiStANtS ryAN kiLLiLeA members of the team being named all-region, ’11 AND CoDy CLiFtoN with four finishing in the top ten.

Photo by JohN MCCorMiCk SpringFall 1/011/02 LC MAGAziNE 13 Interning for

By Shannon Brennan

14 LC MAGAziNE Spring 1/02 WAterCoLor AND obJeCtS, thiNkStoCk hether monitoring salmon for example, turned a post-graduation summer W populations in Alaska, working internship with the minor league Boise Hawks with an Australian football baseball team into a full-time communications team, or helping reduce biological weapons, job. “It’s important to take a chance,” she said. lc students are finding internships that build “I didn’t know if I wanted to be this far from resumes and inspire careers, or that may even home, but it’s worked out great. lead them in an entirely different direction. “It helps you decide if it’s something you’re In 2011, more than 45 percent of lc students passionate about,” said Courtney, who interned did a credit-bearing internship. Students are with the Lynchburg Hillcats her junior year realizing how crucial it is to get real-world as a communication studies major and found experience before they graduate. her calling. Many lc alumni can testify to the impor- Brian Wilcox ’12, also a communication tance of internships. Davis Mikaels ’92, who studies major, believes an internship helped works in television production in Los Angeles, him secure a freelance position, which led is unequivocal about the importance of his him to a job offer before he graduated. “It internship with mtv. was good to have some real-life work to “I wouldn’t have my career now if it hadn’t show outside the classroom,” he said. been for an internship,” Davis said. “I got my During the spring of his junior year, Brian start at mtv Networks in 1992 and have been used his graphic design skills at Cutaway “I wouldn’t have my career in the tv/film business ever since — either in Clothing, which he parlayed into freelance now if it hadn’t been for an front of or behind the camera. It was the in- work at Blue Ocean Ideas, a branding agency ternship that got me in the door.” based in Maryland. Brandon now works internship. I got my start at A communications studies major, Davis there as a visual storyteller. “I do a little bit MTV Networks in $&&% and said the lc Student Affairs Office provided of everything but primarily video and ani- have been in the TV/film the contact at mtv. mation,” he said. business ever since — either in Obtaining the internship was just part of Many faculty understand the importance his success, however. “I worked harder and of internships, sometimes because they did front of or behind the camera. put more hours in than any other intern,” them when they were students. Dr. David It was the internship that got Davis said. “After three months I got hired Perault, associate professor of environmental me in the door.” and worked there for eight years straight.” sciences, encouraged Patrick Ferrer ’13 to Davis is a freelance producer and director follow in his footsteps and do an internship — Davis Mikaels ’92 for television and film. He finished a stint with Alaska Fish and Game through the with Goodbye Pictures a few months ago as Student Conservation Association (read supervising producer for the first and second more about Pat on page 5). season of Bravo’s “Million Dollar Decorator.” Currently there are six majors that require He is now working on a new show for the an internship for graduation: sport manage- Oprah Winfrey Network. ment, health promotion, athletic training, “Any business is all about contacts, and it’s exercise physiology, and the newer economic about nourishing business relationships and crime prevention and human resources majors. keeping your contacts at your fingertips at The leadership minor also requires a credit- all times,” he said. “I really owe it all to lc bearing internship. (professors). They taught me that.” “I would like to see something experiential More recent graduates are also finding built into every single major,” said Beverly Reid, those lessons hold true. Courtney Garner ’12, director of career development.

retro tV, thiNkStoCk Spring 1/02 LC MAGAziNE 15 Scott Robert, assistant director of career Alumni connections development, said all credit-bearing internships Local alumni connections have helped stu- for the job search have to be approved through his office, but dents in the School of Business and Econom- he also encourages students to do internships ics. Tulane Patterson ’91 mba, president of without credit. The point is to get experience. Generation Solutions of Lynchburg, has had from Phil McDonough ’85, “I call myself the Wizard of Oz behind the three interns in recent years and hired Rola managing director, Capital Growth Advisors curtain,” Robert said. “We give them options Elhallak ’11 full time after her internship. and they go out and make the contacts.” Patterson said the lc connection has been • Be sure your resume is typo-free. Reid noted that her office doesn’t set up beneficial to the students and his business. individual internships because the students “We believe as a company we should give • Have someone else proof it. need to find the right match themselves. back,” he said. “It’s so hard to get a job with- “When you hand the students a site, they out experience.” At the same time, he noted, • Do not rely on spell check — ever. don’t own it,” she said. “The students have all been able to bring value The downturn in the economy has increased to the table.” • Show maturity on your resume; don’t interest in internships, Reid said. “I would Generation Solutions provides services that include video games as an interest. say this senior class is more gung-ho about allow the elderly to stay in their own homes. • Distinguish yourself from the pack anything related to the job search,” she said, In addition to interns, Patterson has welcomed with leadership, an internship, or job noting that there is also more demand for business class projects and hosted nursing stu- experience. resume workshops. dents who do rounds with his home health Reid started teaching an advanced career nurses. • Purge social network sites of inappro- development class for business majors last Rola, a native of Lebanon, moved to priate content; better yet, don’t post it year, and the seven-week, one-credit course Lynchburg with her husband when he secured to begin with. is back by popular demand. a job here. When Rola entered lc, she thought Reid noted the importance of being open she would major in French but realized her • After submitting your resume, follow to a variety of experiences, even if they don’t job opportunities would be limited, so she up with phone calls. seem to match a course of study. “Young people tried business administration. She obtained are changing jobs every one to three years,” an internship with Generation Solutions in • Do your homework and ask targeted she said. “The average worker now makes human resources and was able to help put questions should you get an interview. nine to eleven career changes.” new procedures in place to streamline data. Another critical piece for students graduat- She said her lc professors prepared her well ing is networking. “We’re trying to foster alumni for the task. mentoring and more networking between our “They gave the tools — the thinking and students and alumni,” Reid said. strategy,” she said, adding that Generation Students know how crucial connections are. Solutions also taught her a lot. Many of the students profiled landed their Rola is now business manager for the medical internships because of personal connections. equipment division. She does payroll, taxes, and processes everything for the billing de- partment. “I love it,” she said. “It’s great.”

16 LC MAGAziNE Spring 1/02 Trying to save salmon

atrick “Pat” Ferrer ’13 worked Pat and two other interns caught and meas- P twelve-hour days for two and a half ured 15,000 fish, sixty at a time between 6 a.m. months in Alaska last summer and 6 p.m. Then they had to get up four times studying the collapsing salmon population. during the night to see if more fish had entered “The state of the Alaskan-Pacific fishery is the traps. dire,” he said. “The Alaskan government Pat’s other project was at Whiskey Lake. needs to be more involved in conservation.” For the ciaa, his job was to catch and tag pike, Pat believes the government wants the which are an invasive, non-native species tourist dollars that fishermen bring so it has preying on salmon. The effort is aimed at allowed overfishing. While Pat was in Alaska, determining whether pike are spreading from a state of emergency was declared on king lake to lake. Alaska Fish and Game also had salmon in two rivers. him kill about 200 pike. An environmental studies major from Pat said the data so far do not show the Charlotte, North Carolina, Pat did an intern- pike moving readily from lake to lake. ship with Alaska Fish and Game and worked “There is hope to turn it around,” he said. for the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association Pat found lc through Colleges That Change (ciaa), earning nine academic credit hours. Lives and initially wanted to major in history More importantly, the internships helped and minor in environmental studies. An in- him confirm what he wants to do post-grad- troduction to an environmental studies class uation. “I definitely want to go into the field with Dr. Brooke Haiar convinced him to swap of fisheries work,” he said. the two. He said that made a better fit with Pat was in the Matanuska-Susitna River his passion for fishing, hunting, and hiking. Valley with a view of Mt. McKinley from his tent. He worked on a tributary of the Susitna River, trapping smolt (baby salmon bound for the sea) to check their weight and length before releasing them on their journey.

WAterCoLor AND SALMoN, thiNkStoCk Spring 1/02 LC MAGAziNE 17 tephanie Fedrigo ’13 has spent the last S three summers working for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the U.S. Department of Defense’s agency for countering weapons of mass destruction. For Stephanie, the most important lesson A world with fewer weapons has been that the world is full of different approaches to problem-solving. “I learned there’s more than one way to do something,” she said. “Being willing to bend is the greatest lesson I’ve learned.” A biology major from Arlington, Virginia, Stephanie spent most of her time working for the section that battles bio-weapons and biohazard risks. This past summer, she worked with the Middle East team covering Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The team is tasked with sampling poisons, eliminating bio-weapons, and determining how to respond should there be an outbreak of anthrax or other biological agents. Another lesson Stephanie learned was that when dealing with different cultures, you have to be patient and understanding: “learning to listen more than you speak.” During the past summer, Stephanie sat in on several U.S. State Department meetings and attended a large microbiology conference in San Francisco. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency is located at Fort Belvoir, about twenty minutes from Washington, D.C. Her father used to work for the agency so she decided to pursue internships there. Now she’s hopeful she might land a full-time job after graduation. “If the opportunity presents itself, I’m going to jump at it,” she said. Stephanie came to lc to play softball, which she did for two years. She has a minor in sports medicine and is a member of the lc Emergency Medical Services. She also enjoys community service with her sorority, Alpha Chi Omega.

18 LC MAGAziNE Spring 1/02 WAterCoLor AND gAS MASk, thiNkStoCk; Photo oF StePhANie FeDrigo by JohN MCCorMiCk Summer with the Sioux

fter spending three weeks at the Many believe that this formula keeps the A Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation Lakota stuck and is a continuation of centuries in South Dakota, Pat Ohrem ’13 of government practice to strip the Native learned some hard lessons about the modern Americans of their culture. Pat learned, for plight of Native Americans. A sociology major example, that we carved Mount Rushmore with an emphasis on cultural studies, Pat earned on the Lakota’s most historic sacred spot. six academic credits along with lessons for a “You see a lot of dependency and a lot of lifetime. hatred toward white people,” he said. “It’s a “It was definitely an eye-opening experience,” culture of broken people.” he said. “I learned about a people and culture But Pat also found some joy. “The kids were that we have forgotten about.” just amazing,” he said. After working on con- The 300 people in the community he struction projects in the morning, Pat spent the worked in were living in third-world conditions. afternoons with about forty children ranging About 10,000 people live on the Lakota reser- in age from four to fourteen in what he termed vation, which is the size of Pat’s native Con- “organized chaos.” necticut. The unemployment rate is 90 to 95 A lacrosse player for lc, Pat took his and percent and the teenage suicide rate is 7 percent his brother’s old lacrosse gear to teach the kids higher than the national rate, he said. That the game. He left them equipped to continue statistic became a chilling reality for Pat when their new sport. he learned during Thanksgiving break that Pat learned about this opportunity from a one of the 12-year-old boys he worked with family friend, Bryan Nurnberger, president had killed himself. and founder of Simply Smiles, a nonprofit “It was definitely an Life is hard on the reservation with summer “dedicated to providing bright futures for temperatures above 100 during the day and impoverished children.” eye-opening experience,” lows down to 50 at night. The wind is fierce, Pat said Nurnberger has worked in La Plant he said. “I learned about and in the winter, chill factors of 30 below are for four years and is slowly gaining the respect common. The land is barren desert. “They’ve of the people, who realize he truly wants to help, a people and culture gotten the worst part of America,” Pat said. and nothing more. While Pat said he doesn’t Pat spent his time trying to reinforce struc- have the patience to do such work full time, that we have forgotten tures for people to escape the brutal climate. he does want to engage in meaningful work. about.” He helped re-roof the community center in “It gave me a perspective on life,” he said. La Plant and put a skirt around a trailer to tamper the winter winds, which suck the propane heat out. The U.S. government delivers trailers to the people, but they are apt to warp and leak and provide scant protection, Pat said. The people get weekly government checks, just enough to provide them with money for unhealthy food and addictions. “The government just sends in their support from afar,” Pat said, “like a parent who never wants to see their kids.”

WAterCoLor AND DreAM CAtCher, thiNkStoCk; Photo oF PAt ohreM by JohN MCCorMiCk Spring 1/02 LC MAGAziNE 19 An internship down under

he Perth Demons took a while to T warm up to Sarah Koehn ’13 as an athletic trainer, but before her Australian football internship was over, they wanted her to stay. “I kind of surprised them the first two weeks I was there,” Sarah said. “I found that apparently I have a hidden talent for massage. The boys started to seek me out to give them massages because I have a way of getting out the knots.” Sarah was able to put her athletic training skills to good use for six weeks in Perth, thanks A native of Parkton, Maryland, Sarah to an internship arranged by Dr. Patricia loved Australia so much she wants to go Aronson, professor of athletic training, and back. Whether she was petting kangaroos, an lc experiential learning grant (elg). “The snorkeling along the Great Barrier Reef, or elg helped a lot,” Sarah said. “Without it, I learning to throw boomerangs, she found probably wouldn’t have been able to go.” a “cruisy” (cool) culture that made her feel She also earned six credit hours so she could at home. graduate in December. The athletic trainer she Sarah said she had two lc Hall of Fame worked with in Perth may even come to her soccer-playing uncles — Jed Duggan ’79 and graduation ceremony when she walks in May. Mike Duggan ’77 — who got her interested “lc’s athletic training program helped me so in the College. Like many students drawn to much because of all of the experiential learning athletic training, Sarah was frequently injured they promote,” Sarah said. in high school playing sports. She channeled In addition to winning over the Perth players, that experience into becoming an emergency who ranged in age from eighteen to thirty-three, medical technician in Maryland, and she also Sarah had to learn a whole new game. Australian works with physical therapists when at home. football, called “footy,” is difficult to explain, “Athletic training combines my geekiness she said. “It’s closest to rugby, but footy is a with my jock side,” she said. “I love sports, I bit more civil. It’s kind of like soccer and rugby love learning, and I love helping people out.” melded together.” As an athletic trainer, she had to wear white so officials and players would know when she was on the field. Unlike American football, play does not stop with an injury. Sarah said she almost got run over once while attending to a footy player. Sarah worked with footy players in the after- noon, but spent her mornings with Sports Medicine Australia, which allowed her to travel to high schools and a variety of sporting events to work with doctors, physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, and sports trainers.

20 LC MAGAziNE Spring 1/02 WAterCoLor, kANgAroo AND FootbALL, thiNkStoCk; Photo oF SArAh koehN by JohN MCCorMiCk Working with the Houston Astros

native of Houston, Texas, Paige hosts about forty summer interns. Paige A Gadsby ’14 spent last summer doing said she suggested mandatory mentor and an internship with the Astros learn- shadowing programs. ing some important work skills. An Enrollment Student Ambassador and “I went in without any office experience, so Westover Honors student, Paige is also a I learned about office etiquette and profession- lacrosse player, who said the sport brought alism,” Paige said. “Networking was another her to lc. She hopes to do another internship big thing.” next summer with a U.S. Olympics affiliate. Paige worked in the fundraising department, but also got to spend time in community affairs, media, and marketing. She worked forty to fifty hours a week and earned six academic credits, half of the requirement of her sport management major. Paige said she was impressed with programs that were put on especially for interns focusing on baseball operations, resumes, interview skills, cover letters, and professionalism. She was also pleased that they asked the interns to make suggestions for improving the program, which

Promoting the Capitals

hockey fan since childhood, Cassie A sport management major, Cassie earned A Phillips ’13, spent last summer intern- six credits for her internship. The summer after ing with the Washington Capitals her junior year, she earned three other intern- in the team’s promotions department. Cassie ship hours with Adidas as an assistant to the lives in Ashburn, Virginia, and was able to Adidas Golf Virginia sales representative. Travel- commute to her internship in Arlington. ing to different golf course pro shops in Northern Cassie was tasked with researching what Virginia, Cassie sold products, took refill orders, other National Hockey League teams were organized new displays, and did inventory. doing for promotions, particularly via social Cassie has a minor in public relations/jour- media. She worked many events for the Kids nalism and is spending her senior year as copy Club, including movie night, free skates, and desk chief for The Critograph, the student the prospect camp. newspaper. “I also got to go on a lot of appearances with A pitcher for lc’s softball team, Cassie said Slapshot (the team mascot),” Cassie said. She she has always loved sports so her major and helped create a skit on anti-bullying performed the internship were a perfect fit. She was offered by the mascot in a variety of venues. Cassie a chance to work for the Washington Capitals also created a Pinterest page for Club Scarlet, during winter break and she hopes that will the first women’s hockey fan club. lead to a job offer. “If I could get started with the Caps, I would love that,” she said.

WAterCoLor, thiNkStoCk; Photo oF hoCkey StiCk by JohN MCCorMiCk Spring 1/02 LC MAGAziNE 21 Public relations in his future

ichael Wims ’13 had a mini-crisis Mhis sophomore year. During his first sport management class, the instructor told students that if they didn’t want to work long hours for low wages, leave now. Mike was the only one who got up and left. Mike called his mom to get her input about what his skills were, apart from basketball. (Mike was recruited to play at lc and is in his fourth year on the team.) She reminded him that he is people-oriented and good at talking. Now a communications major with an empha- sis in public relations, Mike said a summer internship convinced him that his change of majors was a good one. Mike worked for sra (Society of Research Administrators) International, a small firm in Falls Church, Virginia, which serves research administrators around the world in universities, hospitals, nonprofits, the government, and for-profit companies. “I learned a lot,” Mike said. “Proofreading is key in everything. If you make a mistake there, there’s no coming back.” Mike said he found out about the internship from Dr. Jimmy Roux, associate professor of communication studies, and was interviewed by an lc alumna, Jennifer Gauvin ’06. “I lucked out and got the internship,” he said, noting that faculty help and the alumni connection were critical. A resident of Manassas, Virginia, Mike had an easy commute to his internship, where he did social media and wrote press releases. He said he would highly recommend sra Inter- national to other students wanting a summer internship. “If you don’t have one, you’re def- initely at a disadvantage,” he said.

22 LC MAGAziNE Spring 1/02 WAterCoLor AND MiCroPhoNe, thiNkStoCk; Photo oF MiChAeL WiMS by JohN MCCorMiCk “Sticking” with Patrick Dougherty

ennifer Watlington ’13 spent three weeks Dougherty told Jennifer that he got the Jlast summer working with internationally inspiration for his stick structures from child- known “stick” artist Patrick Dougherty, hood, when children use sticks as horses, who, in the last thirty years, has built 230 twined guns, batons, and brooms. “Everybody can sapling sculptures around the world. relate to a stick,” Jennifer said. “He’s so great to work for,” Jennifer said. Dougherty finishes each one of his works in “He’s so patient and he tells such great stories.” three weeks. Most of them are large, outdoor Jennifer was one of two full-time interns pieces, although he does some for interior who helped Dougherty build a castle-like spaces. He relies heavily on volunteers. About structure, dubbed “Room by Room,” at the twenty other volunteers worked part time on Springfield (Massachusetts) Museum. “My the Springfield sculpture, including museum hands were on every piece of this project,” staff. Jennifer said Dougherty treats all his vol- she said. “It took hard work and dedication, unteers well. For every sculpture Dougherty but it was well worth it.” Jennifer helped with constructs, he buys a new pair of gloves. At the everything from digging three- to four-foot end, he has every volunteer sign the gloves, holes for the anchoring sticks to stripping which he hangs on the walls of his home in and weaving cherry, maple, and oak saplings. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She even built scaffolding and climbed up on the structure to make adjustments and remove strings that hold the piece together until it’s finished. “It’s beautiful,” Jennifer said of their finished piece. “Just to walk in there is really cool.” A resident of Lynchburg who transferred to lc from Central Virginia Community College, Jennifer, 27, is a graphic design major with a minor in studio art. She stumbled on the in- ternship with Dougherty online, and was thrilled to be selected. Traveling to Massa- chusetts also opened a new world for her, as she had never been that far from home. Because the internship was unpaid, Jennifer said she was grateful for an lc-Cares stipend, funded by faculty and staff, which made the trip possible. Richard Pumphrey, professor of art, recommended her for the stipend.

Jennifer Watlington ’13 (right) with Patrick Dougherty.

WAterCoLor AND StiCkS, thiNkStoCk Spring 1/02 LC MAGAziNE 23 A passion for education by Suzanne Ramsey | Photo by John McCormick

When the Library of Virginia named Dr. Mary Ann, but three foster daughters, Futrell one of its “Virginia Women in History” in expected nothing less than academic 2007, the Lynchburg native and education policy excellence from her children. “Even though she didn’t have a high school professor at e George Washington University diploma ... my mother checked our grades; she made sure the home- became part of an impressive sorority that spans work was done; she would come centuries. to the school and visit,” Mary said. “e teachers knew they could Among others, she joined the Bermuda to Zimbabwe, on behalf call her. If we misbehaved in school, likes of Opossunoquonuske, a sev- of the World Confederation of by the time we got home she knew enteenth-century Native American Organizations of the Teaching what we had done.” chief; Camilla Ella Williams, a Profession, UNESCO, and Educa- Years later, while in her mid-for- groundbreaking African-American tion International. ties and president of the NEA, Mary opera singer; and Sheila Crump She’s also a financial supporter said she took her mother to task. Johnson, philanthropist and co- of Lynchburg College, where she “I told her I thought she was too founder of Black Entertainment has served on the Board of Trustees hard on me,” Mary said. “I figured Television. since 1991. At LC, she provides stu- I was president of the NEA, I could It’s easy to understand why dent scholarships through the tell her what I wanted.” Mary, the first African-American Futrell Scholarship for Future Although she didn’t respond president of the National Educa- Teachers Fund, and she recently that evening, the next morning, tional Association (NEA), was se- gave generously to the Student Mary said her mother wanted to lected. It’s likely the same reason Center renovation and expansion talk to her. “I said, ‘OK, I know I’m she’s been honored by many other project. in trouble,’” Mary recalled with a groups, including the United Na- Scholarships and student centers laugh. “She said, ‘A mother knows tions, the National Science Foun- are important causes for Mary. her children.’ She said, ‘I knew dation, and Ladies Home Journal, Without both, she wouldn’t have what you could do, but I knew which twice named her one of the gone to college. I really had to press you and stay “100 Top Women in America.” Mary grew up in the Diamond on you to get it done, and if I It’s simple, really: she has an un- Hill area of Lynchburg, the daugh- didn’t push you, you would have deniable passion for education. ter of a maid and of a father who just accepted the average, and I Over the past fifty years, Mary died when she was four years old. didn’t want you to accept the aver- has taught at the secondary and Mary’s mother had been forced to age. I wanted you to excel and be college levels. She has advocated drop out of school in the sixth the best.’” for her profession as an officer of grade to take care of younger sib- At Lynchburg’s Dunbar High the NEA and other groups. She has lings after her parents died, but she School, Mary was one of the best written dozens — perhaps hun- didn’t want the same fate to befall students, finishing in the top 10 dreds — of articles, book chapters, her children. percent of her class and scoring book reviews, papers, and reports. Mary’s mother, who not only higher on standardized tests than She has traveled the world, from raised Mary and her older sister, the class salutatorian. Because of

24 LC MAGAziNE Spring 1/02 her good grades, Mary said she qualified for an annual scholarship given by her high school, but was told she wouldn’t get it. “One of my teachers came and talked to me, and he said the reason they wouldn’t give me the scholarship was ‘because you probably won’t finish school because your family is so poor and no one in your family has even gone to school before.’” Mary said her teachers kept encouraging her to apply to college anyway, which she did, just to “make them stop pushing me.” She was ac- cepted at Virginia State but recalls thinking, “I don’t have any money. I’m not going to school.” On the night she graduated from Dunbar she had a surprise: her teachers had collected $1,500 to send her to college. “I got on the bus and went to Virginia State, and that’s how it all started,” she said. “And I made a promise that if I went I would do the best that I could and I would try my best to graduate.” In addition to the money her teachers had raised, Mary also had a “student forgiveness loan,” which she describes as a loan given to education majors and paid back — or forgiven — for each year you taught school after grad- uation. For spending money, she worked as a secre- tary at Virginia State’s student center. She remembers Foster Hall as “one of the most popular places on campus” and added, “It was a big student center, and it’s still there. ey had all kinds of activities and places where you could go and study. “You had places where you could socialize and places where you had different group ac- tivities. … It was the kind of place where stu- dents really felt they could come together, and they could get support, academically … and in becoming engaged in campus activities, so- cializing, and things of that nature.” Mary would like to see the same kind of atmosphere and breadth of opportunities at LC’s new Student Center. “I think it’s impor- tant that we have the support we need to up- grade the Student Center so it has a greater capacity to serve the needs of the students here,” she said. “I’m very impressed with how much the stu- dents are involved, not only on campus but in the community and in professional organiza- tions. You’ve got to provide support for that and let them know that what they’re doing is important, so that’s why I think it’s important to give back to the Student Center.”

Spring 1/02 LC MAGAziNE 25 The way we were

Stories by Betty McKinney

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Captions: 1. Quonset huts were the center of student life for more than two decades. 2. The student mailboxes moved to Burton Student Center in 1968. 3. The student lounge was a favorite place to relax, eat, and play cards. 4. The bookstore was originally located in the largest of four Quonset huts. 5. The student lounge was a home away from home for day students.

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26 LC MAGAziNE Spring 1/02 PhotoS CoUrteSy oF DeAN JULiUS SigLer ’62 F or more than two decades, student ended there, and friends met regularly to chat life at Lynchburg College centered around or play cards. “A game of bridge would start four Quonset huts that housed laboratories, at seven in the morning when the lounge classrooms, the lc post office, library, faculty opened and continue until eleven at night offices, the student lounge, and snack bar. when it closed,” said Dr. Clifton Potter ’62, Although the Quonsets were often hot in lc marshal and professor of history. “Many What’s a Quonset hut? the summer and cold in the winter, for many were the times I ate my lunch with one hand lc students of the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s, they and played bridge with the other.” A Quonset hut is a lightweight were a home away from home. Dr. Tom The cards were never cold. When players prefabricated structure made Tiller ’56, professor emeritus of education had to go to class, they would tap other stu- of corrugated galvanized steel and human development and former dean dents to play their cards until they could return of students, remembers that during the ’50s, to the table. Bridge wasn’t the only game played, with a semicircular cross women day students would often retire to an as Hearts and Crazy Eights also had passion- section. In 1941 the United area in one of the huts to lie down and take ate fans. “The lounge didn’t have a television States Navy needed an all- a break between classes. set,” Rawley said. “The students who didn’t purpose, lightweight building The Quonsets were located in the area play cards mostly sat around and talked. Yes, that could be shipped any- surrounding the present psychology build- we actually socialized,” he laughed. ing, constructed on the original foundation There was a long-running tradition that where and assembled without of the largest Quonset. Three were built in after athletic events, the Hornets invited visit- skilled labor. The design was 1946 with a fourth added in 1948. ing teams to the lounge to enjoy food and based on the Nissen hut de- veloped by the British during “When class was over, everyone made a mad dash for the snack bar,” World War I. The name comes Rawley Milstead ’+, said. “We ran out the back door of Hopwood from the first manufacture site, and straight down the path to the Quonset huts. The Lord be with Quonset Point, at the Davisville you if you got in front of anyone coming out of that back door.” Naval Construction Battalion Center in Rhode Island.

The student lounge and snack bar were fellowship before they boarded the bus to favorite spots, particularly for day students. return home. There is still debate about the official name The snack bar was manned by Geraldine of the student lounge, but whether it was the Hubbard Morris and Minnie Johnson, who Hornet’s Nest or the Beehive, it was THE served up great food. Minnie worked with to move the hundreds of volumes to the new place to meet friends, eat a meal or snack, quiet efficiency, but Geraldine was small and library. “For one entire summer, library workers and play cards. A real hornet’s nest hung on lively, and the students loved them both. measured and labeled books to get ready for the back wall of the snack bar, and the linoleum Geraldine’s culinary creations were legend – the move,” said Dr. Tiller, “and they worked floor, Formica tables, and vinyl chairs were especially her grilled cheese and chili sand- in that metal building with no air-conditioning.” always a welcoming sight. wiches. And the prices were great. “For a The student post office and bookstore were Rawley Milstead ’69, head of mail services quarter, you could get a grilled cheese sand- in the main Quonset on the same level as the at lc, remembers the popularity of the snack wich, a small bag of chips, and a small Coke,” student lounge and snack bar. The student bar and lounge. “When class was over, every- said Dr. Dorothy Bundy Potter ’64. “A Moon mailboxes in the College’s present post of- one made a mad dash for the snack bar,” he Pie was five cents extra.” fice are the same boxes that were used in the recalled. “We ran out the back door of Hop- Biology classrooms and labs were located Quonsets, and they are expected to survive wood and straight down the path to the in the basement of the main Quonset along the Student Center Renovation. Quonset huts. The Lord be with you if you with art classrooms. The library was in a sep- The Quonset huts served the College until got in front of anyone coming out of that arate building connected by a breezeway to the Burton Student Center was completed in back door.” faculty offices. The library moved from the 1968, and although they have faded from the The lounge also doubled as the commuters’ Quonsets in 1954 when Knight Memorial scene, the very mention of them evokes cher- lounge where day students could pass time Library (later known as the Knight-Capron ished memories among those who were lucky waiting for the next class to begin. It was a Library) was completed. In early fall, the enough to spend time there. very social place. Many a romance began and College declared a work day for all students

LeFt Photo CoUrteSy Dr. brooke hAiAr; Photo AboVe, JohN MCCorMiCk Spring 1/02 LC MAGAziNE 27 Faces of the past

Geraldine Hubbard Morris world.” Minnie died November 17, 2010. t’s been a long, long time, and a lot has After eight years at the cafeteria, Geraldine “I happened,” said Geraldine as she recalled left for a job with the City of Lynchburg. “I the days when she worked in the Beehive snack worked as a companion sitter for Social Services bar. “I loved working there. I loved the students, in the day and as a cleaner in the Police De- and they all loved my grilled cheese and chili partment at night,” she explained. As a com- Editor’s Note: sandwiches. Those were the days. We had panion, Geraldine excelled. “I loved the people Three women of different some times.” I took care of,” she said. “They felt good with Geraldine came to work in the snack bar in me because they knew I would take good care backgrounds, abilities, 1958 and stayed there until the Quonset huts of them. They’ve all gone home now.” and talents had one were demolished in the mid-’70s. “I was work- Geraldine ran a tight ship at the Police Department. “Those boys had to walk the thing in common: ing in the Beehive the day John F. Kennedy was shot,” she recalled. “My heart was so heavy.” line,” she joked. “I’d come in and the place They loved working at Geraldine’s good friend Minnie Johnson would be all torn up, so I told them they had Lynchburg College and joined her in the Beehive, and they were quite to straighten up and keep things in better a team. As different as day and night, Geraldine shape. I always talked trash with them.” gave it their very best. and Minnie worked so well together that they Geraldine retired from the city in 1998 after They were beloved and made lunchtime something to look forward twenty years. to. The food was delicious, and the atmosphere Now at seventy-six, Geraldine is enjoying are still remembered. they created was friendly and welcoming. well-deserved leisure. “I’ve worked hard all “Minnie and I were tight,” Geraldine said. “I my life,” she said, “and now I’m taking it easy.” got her to come to Lynchburg College, and As she settles into her large, comfy recliner we worked hard in that Beehive.” chair, she flips on the television to her favorite When the snack bar closed, Geraldine and show. “I love my judges,” she said, “especially Minnie went to work in dining services at Judge Judy. She really tells them what’s what.” Westover Hall. “I did a lot of baking then, Geraldine has two grown children, son Mike especially bread, pies, and cakes,” Geraldine and daughter Alice. Mike lives with her and has said. She left lc after eleven years and became apparently inherited her cooking gene. “Mike head cook in the former Central Fidelity Bank does all the cooking,” she said. “He’s my right- Building cafeteria. “Minnie stayed on after I hand man.” Geraldine also has a granddaughter left,” Geraldine said. “But we kept on being who is serving with the U.S. Army, and a great- friends. We were friends until she left this granddaughter who she describes as a “catbird.”

28 LC MAGAziNE Spring 1/01 CUrreNt Photo oF gerALDiNe hUbbArD MorriS by JohN MCCorMiCk “She’s just like me.” concern, her wonderful sense of humor, her “I knew Minnie for nearly forty years, and we A longtime member of Mt. Carmel Baptist good advice, and most especially, her boundlesswere good friends. We had a love of cooking Church, Geraldine loves her pastor and church energy,” recalled Jan Sigler ’65, assistant directorin common, so we had lots to talk about.” family. “We have the sweetest pastor,” she said. of the annual fund for parentsprograms. As a supervisor, Minnie was respected. “Every- “Johnny Ford is a real pastor and takes good Iva was a master at juggling activities. Active one loved her,” Olivia said. “She was the care of all of us.” in her community, she was a leader in College sweetest, most wonderful person.” While she has had her share of good times Hill Baptist Church where she taught Sunday After Minnie retired in 1991, she started a and bad, Geraldine has kept her sense of humor school and served in numerous capacities. She catering business specializing in wedding cakes. and her wonderful laugh, which rings through- was a longtime member of the Keep Lynchburg“Minnie made our daughter’s wedding cake,” out her home. “I’ll never change,” she said. Beautiful Commission and the Lynchburg recalled Dawn Cloyd ’65, retired executive “I’ll always be Geraldine.” area chapter of the American Association of assistant to the president. “It was beautiful — University Women, working tirelessly for years butter cream frosting in a basket weave design. on the annual book sale. Minnie was perfection personified.” Minnie She also served as a notary retained deep roots at the College. “She called public, helping anyone in from time to time to find out what was going the community who needed on in the kitchen and who was doing what,” her. Olivia said. Iva was an enthusiastic Minnie and Lawrence had three sons and a lc alum, taking leadership daughter and were active members of Pleasant roles in the Lynchburg Valley Baptist Church. They had more than College Women’s Club and their share of heartbreak with the tragic deaths helping raise money for of their daughter and grandchildren in 1977. scholarships and awards, In 2004, the College named a campus service one of which was named support award in honor of Minnie to recognize for her. She supported the her long service, her dedication to the College, College’s Center for History and to affirm the respect in which she was held and Culture of Central Vir- by faculty, staff, and students. The Minnie ginia through her oral his- Johnson Campus Service Award recognizes a tory and her portrayal of staff member in a campus service support Iva Campbell Burford ’71 Annie Oakley in a Center presentation. She position who has demonstrated exemplary va Campbell Burford started her lc career was the 1993 recipient of the T. Gibson performance of responsibilities, support of Iin the bookstore and is remembered by Hobbs Award, the highest honor given to students, and teamwork. “Minnie was honored many as the “lc bookstore lady.” She worked alumni of Lynchburg College, recognizing and really pleased about the award,” Olivia there during the ’60s and ’70s, first in the service to church, community, and alma recalled. “She always tried to come to the Quonset huts and later in Burton. She became mater. In 2004, the Iva Burford Administra- dinner when the awards would be presented.” a supervisor of mail services in 1973, a position tive/Managerial/Leadership Award was named In her calm, quiet way, Minnie Johnson left she held until she retired in 1986. Iva created in her honor. a lasting mark on lc’s history. her own title, “lc Postmistress,” which stuck Iva died in 2005 but is still remembered by not only while she was at the College, but also generations of lc alums. “She has been called long after she left. ‘the absolute model of the best outcome of a Meanwhile, Iva was working toward her liberal arts education,’” said Jan Sigler. “In degree in biology, as one of lc’s first non-tra- quantity and quality of active service and ditional-age students, and raising five sons with ‘giving back’ to the College and the greater her husband, Merton. She finished her degree community, Iva Burford gave her all.” in 1971 and was elected to Who’s Who in Amer- Minnie Louise Johnson ican Colleges and Universities, Cardinal Key, and Iota Beta Gamma. hen Minnie Johnson came to lc, she Known locally as an inspirational speaker, Wcame to stay, working thirty-five years Iva was a poet and author of Now the Song, in dining services and becoming catering and a book published on her ninetieth birthday. dining supervisor. “Minnie was always talking The book relates the story of her childhood about Lynchburg College,” husband Lawrence in the Miller Home for Girls. recalled. “She really loved it.” “Whenever Iva is mentioned, all who knew Olivia Downey, dining services office her think of her smile, her friendship, her manager, remembers Minnie with fondness.

Spring 1/01 LC MAGAziNE 29 Alumni Association Alumni News Board of Directors Get involved

It is a pleasure to serve commitment and participation of our alumni. PRESIDENT as president of the Lynchburg The goal is to create a stronger network of Bryce C. Legg ’81, Hunt Valley, Md. College Alumni Association. alumni to support and promote the College VICE PRESIDENT My years on the board have while building personal and professional con- John P. Reilly ’86, Midlothian, Va. been filled with wonderful tacts. We also hope to continue to build and activities and new associations. strengthen our network of lc Alumni Clubs. ALUMNI OUTREACH COMMITTEE CHAIR The experience has served to There are so many opportunities for involve- Jamar M. Hawkins ’04, Woodbridge, Va. deepen my connection with ment. I encourage you to attend the next alumni ADVANCEMENT COMMITTEE CHAIR the College. event in your area, or perhaps even help to Hannah Howe Besanceney ’96, Winter Park, Fla. During this time, I have reaffirmed a profound create a new event or activity. Come back to appreciation of the positive impact the College Westover Alumni Society Weekend (April 26-28) STUDENT ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE CHAIR has played in virtually every part of my life. I or Homecoming (October 18-20). Visit the Lesley Day Villarose ’02, Eden, N.C. remember arriving at lc in late summer 1977 … Alumni Association on Facebook to learn COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING COMMITTEE CHAIR well, let’s just say … a bit clueless! During the what other alumni and students are doing. Gerald J. “Jerry” Daniello ’93, South Orange, N.J. next four years my college experiences, in and Offer to come and speak to a class about your out of the classroom, helped my goals and ambi- professional experience. Mentor a current student TRADITIONS COMMITTEE CHAIR tions to come into better focus. lc prepared me or recent graduate. Share information about Wendy E. Bradley ’91, Woodstock Valley, Conn. for a challenging and rewarding profession, a internship opportunities within your business

WESTOVER ALUMNI SOCIETY PRESIDENT great family and community life, and scores of or organization. If you want to get involved, Sherwood N. Zimmerman ’64, Forest, Va. valued friendships. My liberal arts education email the College at [email protected] or enabled me to solve problems more effectively contact me directly. MEMBERS-AT-LARGE while helping others achieve their goals in life. I encourage you to take the first step in Christopher D. “Chris” Barclay ’89, North Wales, Pa. This, in turn, instilled in me a sense of loyalty strengthening your personal connection with John M. “Johnny” Black ’08, Baltimore, Md. and a desire to give back to the institution Lynchburg College this year. You will be glad Emily G. Brown ’02, Arlington, Va. David J. Capps ’77, Lynchburg, Va. that has provided so many positive aspects to you did. And … go Hornets! Melissa MacGregor Centanni ’81, Glen Ridge, N.J. my life. If you are an alum, I trust you feel Nathan A. “Nate” Colarusso ’03, Glen Allen, Va. the same way. Laura Miller Crank ’79, Midlothian, Va. During the alumni awards gala last fall, I Kathryn M. Daniel ’12, Orange, Va. announced that one of the Alumni Association’s Lori Evans Ermi ’85, Laytonsville, Md. primary goals during my tenure as president Bryce C. Legg ’81 Tracy K. Epps ’01, Manassas, Va. would be to help broaden and deepen the Mark B. Flynn Sr. ’77, ’82 M.Ed., New Church, Va. President, LC Alumni Association Paul E. Goldenbaum ’66, San Antonio, Tex. J. Mark “Journey” Johnson ’78, ’80 M.Ed., Brentwood, Tenn. Opening Fall 2014! Robert P. “Bobby” Kelland ’77, Richmond, Va. Brian M. Parker ’00, St. Louis, Mo. Lynchburg College Randi Alper Pupkin ’84, Baltimore, Md. announces the David A. Rosser ’90, Waxhaw, N.C. Elizabeth Carter “Betsy” Smith ’67, Lynchburg, Va. Helen Hebb Stidham ’66, Manassas, Va. STUDENT CENTER Expansion LC Alumni on Campaign the Internet Reconnect with classmates, 434.544.8665 or teammates, roommates, and friends 800.621.1669 or www.connect.lynchburg.edu/give facebook for additional information Lynchburg College Alumni & Friends (group) Watch for more information about the following events: Lynchburg Alumni Association (page) linkedin (Lynchburg Alumni & Friends group) Saturday, April 27 Fall 2014 Groundbreaking Dedication

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Joy Fowler Flowers ’57, ’68 MEd has been honored by the Alpha Sigma Pi Service Sorority by the establishment of the “Alpha Sigma Pi Service Sorority Award honoring Joy Flowers Fund” as a means of perpetuating the names, values, and virtues of this service sorority which was active at LC from 1968 to 1985. Joy served as advisor and mentor to Alpha Sigma Pi Service Sorority for the majority of Raymond Oliver ’48 with wife, Frances, recently celebrated its existence. She retired from LC as the director of sixty years of marriage. They were married Aug. 16, 1952. the career development center after having served the College from 1965 to 2000. She lives in Madison 40s heights, Va. Raymond Oliver ’48 and wife Frances were honored 60s on August 4, 2012 with a celebration luncheon given by their children on the occasion of their 60th wedding Classes of ’63 and ’68 in Reunion anniversary. their son, William “Bill” Oliver ’78, was April 26-28, 2013 Bernard Reams Jr. ’65 (left) with Antonin Scalia, associate master of ceremonies and showed slides through the justice of the United States Supreme Court, who was the visiting jurist at the 2012 St. Mary’s University Institute on years. other alumni friends who participated were Dawn Arnold Cloyd ’65, executive assistant to World Legal Problems in Innsbruck, Austria. Susan Lord Oliver ’75, John “Jack” Johnson ’46, President kenneth garren, retired on oct. 31, 2012 who was best man at the wedding, George Williams from Lynchburg College after forty-six years of service. Jr. ’46 and G. David Shreeves ’47, both groomsmen, She and her husband William “Bill” ’74 MEd live and John Knibb Jr. ’48 and Ann Burton Mitchell ’48. in Lynchburg. See story on page 11. raymond is minister emeritus at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) hampton, Va. the celebration was Bernard “Barney” Reams Jr. ’65 has published his held at the Chesapeake retirement Community in latest book, Health Care Reform: A Legislative History Newport News, Va., where they live. of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. he continues to be director of the St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, texas, institute on World Legal Problems in innsbruck, Austria. barney lives in San Antonio.

James “Jim” Wilson ’66 appears in several scenes of Mini reunion of 1965 classmates who met for lunch in Steven Spielberg’s movie, Fredericksburg, Va. in May. Pictured are Betsy Ellmore Self, Lincoln. he was hired for two Doris DeWitt Deady, Donna Rainwater, Diane Jackson weeks to appear in nine dif- Hart, Dolly Dawson Tolson, Carol Edwards, and Nancy ferent scenes, from telegraph McDaniel Lanier. operator to Democratic con- gressman. he also appears in Mary Pat Kennedy Spencer ’68 retired from full-time the recent National geographic television documen- ministry on Jan. 27, 2013 from First Christian Church Relaxing during golf trip to Litchfield Beach, S.C. in October tary, Killing Lincoln, as the barber to assassin John (Disciples of Christ) in birmingham, Ala., where 2012. Pictured are Dale ’57 and Peggy Miller Almond ’61, Wilkes booth, and he played a member of Lincoln’s she lives with her husband and co-pastor edd. Ken ’60 and Nancy Chiles Burnett ’59, and John ’59 cabinet in an earlier National geographic television and Susan Moore. documentary, Lincoln, American Mastermind. Jim Joan Fitzgerald Foster ’69, ’70 and his wife, Rebecca “Becky” Carter ’68, live in MAT, ’85 MEd was honored in North garden, Va. September at the Academy of 50s Women gala in Lynchburg, Va., H. Benjamin “Ben” Bohren Jr. ’68 retired from as a recipient of an award given active ministry after forty-six years and was honored Classes of ’53 and ’58 in Reunion by the yWCA of Central Virginia with a celebration in october in San ramon, Calif. April 26-28, 2013 to women who have made an his ministries included churches in Virginia, kentucky, extraordinary contribution to the and southern California. Most recently he served David Derby ’55 has published a book on the Church Central Virginia community. Joan was selected eight years as regional minister of the Christian and ministry titled, Thank God and Take Courage. because of her contributions in the area of govern- Church (Disciples of Christ) of Northern California the book focuses on the events in ministry for which ment/law. She is the director of community relations, and Nevada. one of his many accomplishments was there can be no preparation and the need for faith Presbyterian homes and Family Services, Lynchburg establishing fifteen new churches, including korean, and the church in today’s world. David is a retired City Council member, and former Lynchburg mayor. hispanic, Samoan, Mongolian, and Chinese congre- Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) minister. he She and her husband, Robert ’69, live in Lynchburg. lives in Clay, N.y. gations. ben lives in Palm Springs, Calif.

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70s Classes of ’73 and ’78 in Reunion October 18-20, 2013

Kaye Speakes Edwards ’70 was honored in Septem- ber at the Academy of Women gala in Lynchburg, Va., as a recipient of an award given by the yWCA of Central Virginia to women who have made an extraordinary contribution to the Central Virginia community. kaye was selected because of her con- tributions in the area of health and human services. Nina Vest Salmon ’93 MEd, LC English assistant professor, Paula Converse ’72, athletic director, Charles River School She is the retired director of Family and Children’s with Bishop Edwin Gulick Jr. ’70 at the General Convention in Dover, Mass., with a fourth-grade field hockey goalie who Ministries, Disciples home Missions, Christian Church of the Episcopal Church in Indianapolis, Ind. in July 2012. was freezing at the game in November, so Paula shared her (Disciples of Christ). She and her husband, David ’70, Nina is a lay deputy in the House of Deputies and the LC sweatshirt! live in Lynchburg. chair of the deputation from the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia. Bishop Gulick serves in the House of Bishops. William “Bill” Fraker ’70 has published a book of poetry, Nostalgia Resides in the Marrow, and has dedicated the book to a former LC professor of eng- lish, the late Mervyn Williamson ’48. bill lives in richmond, Va.

Edward “Ed” McCann ’70 retired in early 2012 as executive director of the Lynchburg redevelopment and housing Authority and received the Lynchburg Neighborhood Development Foundation’s Partnership Award in october. this annual award recognizes people and organizations that provide affordable housing and improve neighborhoods. ed and his wife, Melissa Baumgardner ’70, ’89, ’80 MEd, live in Lynchburg.

Linda Swartzel Morrison ’71 retired in November 2012 from UrS Corporation after thirty-five years of service. Linda and her husband, Robert Jr. “Bob” ’70, also known as “Moose” have relocated to the beach in South Carolina. their new address is 820 Arbor Lane, North Myrtle beach, SC 29582. they say retirement is better than expected.

Gary Phillips ’71 delivered the Senior Symposium lecture on Sept. 24, 2012 at Lynchburg College, “representing the irreparable: the Shoah, the bible, Mini reunion of LC grads at wedding of the son of Eric ’76 and Sharon Kneuss ’74 in May in Washington, D.C. Pictured and the Art of Samuel bak.” gary is dean of the are Jim Napier ’76, Kathy O’Hara Napier ’75, Dick Murray ’76, Sally Dix Murray ’76, Sharon Roper Kneussl college and professor of religious studies at Wabash ’74, Eric Kneussl ’76, Sarah Murray Kelly ’03, Patrick Kelly ’02 and Caroline Murray ’10. College in Crawfordsville, ind., where he and his wife, Alice Reintzel ’71, live.

Ronald “Ron” Davidson ’73 was a recipient of the Family Values Award in october 2012 in Lynchburg, Va. this award is sponsored by the buena Vista stake of the Church of the Latter-day Saints, which has Homecoming congregations in Lynchburg. it is given to those who promote faith in god, advocate for children, pass 2012 n photo gallery laws to protect families, and operate programs to strengthen families. Winners are chosen from nominations made by area church, civic, and business see more of the weekend at leaders. ron is the founder, president, and chief operating officer of gleaning for the World, a www.lynchburg.edu/spring2013 Concord, Va.-based humanitarian organization that provides relief worldwide. he lives in Lynchburg.

32 LC MAGAziNE Spring 5346 Ronald Paxton Jr. ’74 has published his debut novel, richard h. thornton Award for excellence, established Winter Songs. the book captures the lives of John in 1974 to recognize alumni who have made signif- “Cowboy” howard and his family as they struggle icant contributions to their fields of expertise. As an Stay to save their ranch while overcoming a series of artist, he creates various types of sculpture, including hostile acts from outside forces. ronald lives in busts, woodcarvings, and pieces in a variety of media. Charleston, S.C. and is currently working on his the majority of his work is by commission and his in touch! next novel. sculptures have won awards in nationally juried exhibitions. richard’s art is far-reaching and recog- Let us know when you move, change your Richard “Dick” Pumphrey ’74 nized by a variety of media outlets including NPR, phone number (or area code!), change jobs, received the Distinguished Alumni USA Today, and the Washington Times. richard and Award at homecoming 2012 in or have other major changes in your life. his wife, LC trustee, Kathryn Mitchell Pumphrey recognition of his outstanding ’75, ’88 MEd, live in Lynchburg. professional contributions and OFFICE OF ALUMNI RELATIONS STAFF personal achievements. richard Paula Goddard Gucker ’76 is the assistant county Matt Brandon graduated from LC in 1974 with administrator for community planning, development, Ben Mayhew ’91, ’02 MBA a degree in studio art, then went and public works for the county of greenville, S.C. Betty Howell on to earn his master’s of fine arts from the University New responsibilities include planning and animal Ally Datz Davis ’09 of georgia in 1977 with a specialty in sculpture. in care services. Paula and her husband, Charles 1981, richard returned to LC to teach, where he has “Chuck” Gucker ’78, live in taylors, S.C. 434.544.8293, 800.621.1669 served as chair for the Art Department for thirteen Fax: 434.544.8653 years and primarily teaches classes in sculpture and Email: [email protected] design. in recognition of his scholarly contributions Class Notes email: [email protected] to the study of art, richard was awarded the James A. 80s www.lynchburg.edu/alumni huston Award for excellence in Scholarship in 1996. in 2008, he was the first faculty member to receive Classes of ’83 and ’88 in Reunion OFFICE OF PARENTS PROGRAMS recognition in both academic advising and in teach- October 18-20, 2013 Jan Cocke Sigler ’65, Coordinator ing. he was awarded the thomas C. Allen Award for 434.544.8660, 800.621.1669 excellence in Academic Advising because of his ability Betty Schaefer ’80 was honored at the Academy Fax: 434.544.8569 to coach and guide students through a variety of of Women gala in September in Lynchburg, Va., Email: [email protected] college experiences, both academically and socially. as a recipient of an award given by the yWCA of www.lynchburg.edu/parents he received the Shirley e. rosser Award for excel- Central Virginia to women who have made an lence in teaching in 2008, the College’s highest extraordinary contribution to the Central Virginia teaching honor, presented in recognition of personal community. betty was selected because of her NEWS FOR CLASS NOTES and inspirational teaching, consistency of course contributions in the area of ministry/outreach. www.lynchburg.edu/classnotes preparation, current study in one’s field, and encour- She is the program coordinator for teAM (timber- agement given to students to be active and lifelong lake emergency Assistance Ministry), and she lives learners. in 2012, richard was presented the College’s in Lynchburg.

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The Babcock & Wilcox Company recently donated $4,000 to create a Central Virginia Community College scholarship in honor of Nathaniel Xavier Marshall ’83, a veteran employee, community leader, and LC trustee. The Babcock and Wilcox Scholarship will be awarded to a deserving CVCC student to help pay for first-year tuition, fees, and textbooks. Pictured are Virginia Community College System (VCCS) Chancellor Glenn DuBois (right), Nat Marshall (center) and VCCS board member Stephen Gannon (left).

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Keith Tyree ’80 discovered that acting was in his Richard “Ricky” Cash ’88, ’92 blood at an early age. he appeared in Steven Spielberg’s MEd received the Sports hall of movie, Lincoln, and had roles in The Lost Colony, an Fame Special Citation at home- outdoor drama in Manteo, N.C. he just finished coming 2012. this award was acting a principal role in a movie filmed in giles established to recognize and County (Va.) which is set for release in 2013. keith honor individuals who have lives in Monroe, Va. substantially enhanced the ath- letic program at Lynchburg Jerry Conner ’81 was inducted into the Appomattox College. ricky has been described as the hardest Scholastic hall of Fame in october 2012. Jerry was working employee at the College. his work ethic is a member of the LC golf team that finished fifth in often recognized during staff meetings and campus the NCAA Division iii in 1979 and fourth in 1980. events. ricky’s work with the athletic department he lives in Forest, Va. began when he was a student on LC’s track and Robert Harding Jr. ’84 was inducted into the field team. he served as the team captain and won Appomattox Scholastic hall of Fame in october multiple old Dominion Athletic Conference (oDAC) 2012. robert was a four-year letterman in indoor titles in the shot put and discus. After graduation, and outdoor track. he was inducted into the LC ricky was hired as a graduate assistant in the cross Sports hall of Fame in 2004. he and his wife, county/track and field programs. he became the Cynthia Lewis ’85, live in Forest, Va. first ever assistant coach to Dr. Jack toms ’69 and was instrumental in building the track and field An option for giving Eric Schwartz ’84 led a team of 900 U.S. troops program into the powerhouse that it is today. in 2003 on an armored strike to capture baghdad, Most recently, ricky began working with the athletic Contact George Grzenda 71, 73 iraq. this assault led to a Pulitzer Prize-winning MEd, department in media services. he works with all the book by David Zucchino, Thunder Run. this story coaches in some capacity with their media needs. Director, Hornet Club of Schwartz and his men is a compelling portrayal at 434.544.8497, 800.621.1669, the athletic department relies on ricky to move of soldiers in combat and is filled with stories of equipment, prep the courts, fields, and track, and courage, heroism, and fear. the book is being made be on-call for in-game needs. ricky and his wife into a movie to be released in 2013. eric will be Jane live in Forest, Va. played by gerard butler. eric and his wife, Nancy Williamson ’84, live in Carlisle, Pa. IMPORTANT 2013 DATES Charles “Chuck” Neely ’85 was unanimously 90s approved as a proctor in admiralty by the Maritime Law Association of the United States (MLA) during Classes of ’93 and ’98 in Reunion Attention Parents! its spring 2012 meeting. the designation “proctor October 18-20, 2013 in admiralty” applies to lawyers entitled to handle maritime litigation and is used by the MLA to des- B. “Joel” Burch ’90 MAd has Commencement ignate the most distinguished class of membership been named general manager for practicing maritime attorneys. Chuck is an of the Lynchburg, Va. facility Baccalaureate • May 17, 5 p.m. attorney with Palmer biezup & henderson, LLP, in of babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Commencement • May 18, 10 a.m. Philadelphia, Pa., where he lives. operations group, inc. the Lynchburg facility provides a Make hotel reservations now! Janice May Marston ’86 MEd was honored in complete range of nuclear September at the Academy of Women gala in components and services, Lynchburg, Va., as a recipient of an award given by including the manufacture of nuclear reactor com- the yWCA of Central Virginia to women who have Parents ponents for U.S. Navy submarines and aircraft carriers A made an extraordinary contribution to the Central and other nuclear and non-nuclear research and Virginia community. Janice was selected because of design components. this latest role follows a history Family Weekend her contributions in the area of leadership. Janice of progressive leadership and promotion within the retired in December 2007 as director of instruction September 20–22, 2013 company since 1984. Joel lives in Lynchburg. Make hotel reservations now! and personnel/assistant superintendent for Appo- mattox County Public Schools. She holds a part- Andrew “Andy” Brusman ’92 was joined on June 1, time position at the University of Virginia Curry 2012, by Stephen “Steve” Sellery Jr. ’92 along School of education as professional development with another associate, to form SAe Advisory consortia director. She lives in Appomattox, Va. group, a firm providing merchant banking, advisory For more information, contact services, and sports marketing/event management Clare Wilkerson Terry ’87 was honored in Septem- the Office of Parents Programs in the sports, entertainment, and lifestyle sectors. ber at the Academy of Women gala in Lynchburg, 434.544.8660 • 800.621.1669 With offices in Charleston, S.C. and greenville, Va., as a recipient of an award given by the yWCA S.C., SAe Advisory group has combined leader- [email protected] of Central Virginia to women who have made an ship experience encompassing more than seventy- www.lynchburg.edu/parents extraordinary contribution to the Central Virginia five years. Steve currently resides in greenville and community. Clare was selected because of her vol- Andy lives in Charleston. unteer contributions. She lives in Lynchburg.

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June 20 or 21, 2013 (details tba) Lynchburg College

ordially invites you and a guest to Cjoin President Kenneth R. Garren and Sheila J. Garren at an Alumni and Friends event in London, England on the evening of June 20 or 21, 2013 (details tba). President Kenneth R. Garren and Sheila J. Garren (holding banner) led an LC Alumni and Friends “Baltic Treasures Cruise” in August 2012 to Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, and Finland. The photo was taken on 8/17/12 aboard the Marina sailing to St. Petersburg, Russia. See the ad on page 37 for the 2013 European Tapestry cruise. Contact tom Cassidy ’73, director of advance- ment special events and initiatives, at [email protected] if you will be in David Rogers ’93 earned a doctor of education have made contributions to society so outstanding London those two days. degree from the University of Massachusetts boston that they have brought distinction to themselves in June 2012. his dissertation was titled “College and their alma mater. his passion for numbers and Access Programs and the Formation of Social Capital: people led him to major in finance and minor in Understanding the impact of Upward bound on education with a bachelor’s degree earned in 2000. the College Decision Process.” David is manager of After graduation, ira earned his master’s degree in alumni-student engagement at the harvard School management information systems from bowie of Public health in boston, where he lives. State University in Maryland. in 2002, he moved to northern Virginia and served as an accounts William “Mark” Church ’00 MEd was chosen in manager for a community site comprised of more December 2012 by unanimous vote as the new Franklin County (Va.) Schools superintendent. he than 850 townhomes and apartments. in 2004, had been serving as interim superintendent since ira became an associate examiner with the U.S. July 2012. Mark lives in Moneta, Va. Farm Credit Administration. he traveled the country visiting farms and evaluating loan certifications, and became a Certified information Systems Auditor, and was certified in risk & information Systems 00s Controls. he also earned the information Systems Analyst Certificate. he earned the title of a Com- Classes of ’03 and ’08 in Reunion missioned bank examiner in December of 2007, October 18-20, 2013 and is certified to examine, audit, and monitor institutions with more than $1 billion in assets. in Ira Marshall ’00 received the 2008, ira received his minister’s license from the M. Carey brewer Alumni Award greater Mount Calvary holy Church in Washington, at homecoming 2012. this D.C. his church congregation has a membership of award was established to honor approximately 7,500 and he serves with the Sick Dr. Carey brewer ’49 for his dis- and Shut-in Ministry, Pastors Aid Ministry, Minister’s tinguished career as seventh Alliance Ministry, and the educational and Leadership president of the College from Development Ministry. ira is in the process of finish- February 1964 through July ing up his last year in his doctorate program. he lives 1983. the award recognizes young alumni who in Suitland, Md.

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The Thin Path By Chard deNiord

The quiet I keep on the thin path to the beach is the hardest. The sound of our talk below and the waves unrolling against the shore of broken stones is an oracle, my future now of loving you. I am caught beneath the tilt of maples and cry of difference between ten thousand things: leaf and stone, rail and wave, me you. I feel old in this descent; naming blossoms along the trail: hyacinth, lilac and roses. Addicted to words by Shannon Brennan I feel a table has been righted in my heart, and I am ready now to place a vase hard deNiord ’86 has carried poetry aide at the Connecticut Mental Center, a Yale at its center with a single flower. Cwith him always. It started bombarding affiliate. He had become an evaluating clinician his head as a child, but it wasn’t until his junior and had seventy patients when he left five year in high school that he wrote a poem. He years later to wrestle with all those poems in From “Asleep in the Fire” (Concludes the film Beautiful Ohio starring William hurt, rita Wilson, and Julianna shared it with a teacher who encouraged him his head. Marguilies, 2007) to continue. Chard’s poetry portfolio gained him entry “I write whenever I can,” said Chard, who to the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop at has published four volumes of poetry and a the University of Iowa, where he earned his book of interviews with some of his favorite MFA in poetry in 1985. His wife, Liz Hawkes, poets. “I’m writing because I need to. It’s a and their two children had willingly pulled kind of artistic addiction.” up roots to allow Chard to follow his passion. Award, Providence College’s highest teaching Chard returned to his alma mater in October They returned to New England where honor. to give the Geraldine Lyon Owen talk spon- Chard taught at private schools for twelve In 2002, Chard co-founded the New Eng- sored by the English Department to honor years while publishing his poems. Asleep in land College MFA program in poetry, partly creative writing, literature, scholarship, and the Fire was his first volume, published in to see if a program dedicated solely to poetry teaching. “It’s good to be home,” he told his 1990 by the University of Alabama Press. It could survive. More than 100 alumni later, audience. was followed by Sharp Golden Thorn by Marsh the program is still going strong. Chard’s path to a life of poetry took many Hawk Press in 2003 and Night Mowing in Now a mentor to many young poets, Chard twists and turns. Growing up in Lynchburg 2005 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. initially found guidance in the songwriters of with a physician father, he assumed medicine The Double Truth (U. Pittsburgh, 2011) was the 1960s, like Bob Dylan, but he also fell would be his profession, too. He discovered, named one of the ten best books of poetry of sway to Robert Frost, Shakespeare, and biblical however, that statistics and organic chemistry 2011 by the Boston Globe. psalms. “Later on, I became increasingly in- were not his thing. Professors Jim Price and Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs fluenced by Emily Dickinson,” he said. Joe Nelson introduced him to religious studies, (Marick Press, 2012), his book of interviews Inspiration comes to Chard from unex- which became his major. with senior poets, is his most recent publication, pected places, often while walking or driving. After graduating from lc, he earned a master’s and he has begun compiling a new manuscript. His topics cover the loss of a beloved dog, the of divinity from Yale University. Before pursu- In 1998, Chard started teaching at Providence meanderings of a river, and the nature of ing ordination in the Episcopal Church’ how- College, where he is a professor of English. longtime love. Most poems are sparked with ever, he followed wise advice to first get a job. In April 2012, he was named the tenth recipi- a single phrase or line. “A line is a little bit He started working as an inpatient psychiatric ent of the Joseph R. Accinno Faculty Teaching like a wire,” he said.

36 LC MAGAziNE Spring 5346 Photo: JohN MCCorMiCk Lisbon • oporto • La Coruña bilbao • bordeaux • London

Mark Nichols ’00 received the Karen O’Connor Shollenberger ’01 received the June 12 20,2013 M. Carey brewer Alumni Award Sports hall of Fame Award at homecoming 2012. - at homecoming 2012. this this award was established to recognize and honor award was established to honor outstanding athletes and teams for their athletic Dr. Carey brewer ’49 for his dis- performance, leadership, and team contributions tinguished career as seventh while students at LC. She is the all-time leading European president of the College from women’s soccer scorer for the College and the old February 1964 through July Dominion Athletic Conference (oDAC) with 79 goals. 1983. the award recognizes young alumni who She helped lead the women’s soccer team to its have made contributions to society so outstanding first oDAC Championship in 1997 and first NCAA Tapestry that they have brought distinction to themselves Women’s Soccer tournament. For two seasons, 1998 and their alma mater. Mark graduated from LC in and 1999, karen served as captain, leading the team 2000 with a double major in psychology and special to its second oDAC Championship in 1999 and its LUxURY CRUISE education. he joined Sigma Phi epsilon, served as third appearance in NCAA Championships. During the president of the Student Activities board, and her final year with the team, karen was named to was a member of Psi Chi, and kappa Delta Pi. he the 1st team All-oDAC, 1st team All-State, and • Join President Kenneth R. and Sheila Garren volunteered for a variety of organizations, including 1st team All-South. She was recognized on campus aboard Oceania Cruises’ Nautica. habitat for humanity, the Special olympics, and the with the LC Senior Athlete Award. karen lives in red Cross. this foundation of civic and leadership easton, Pa. • Seven nights’ accommodations and most activism continued while he obtained his master’s Kristen Kowit Solmose ’01, degree in education in assistive technology at george meals on this scenic adventure ’03 MBA received the Sports Mason University. Mark was the recipient of the gMU hall of Fame Award at home- graduate School of education program award. he is • 2-for-1 cruise fares with free airfare and coming 2012. this award was the lead digital rights manager for the Virginia $1,000 savings per stateroom established to recognize and Accessible instructional Materials Center, a part of honor outstanding athletes and the helen A. kellar institute for human disAbilities • Discount fares still available–call GoNext teams for their athletic perform- at george Mason University. Mark volunteers for for information ance, leadership, and team “every Citizen has opportunities,” a nonprofit that contributions while students at LC. kristen played provides a work environment designed to evaluate, women’s soccer from 1997-2000 and helped lead train, and place adults with disabilities in supported the team to its first oDAC Championship and first GoNext: 800.842.9023 or 952.918.8950 employment. he is a founding member of the appearance in the NCAA Women’s Soccer Champi- www.gonext.com greater Loudoun Civitan Club and participates in onships. kristen was a four-time 1st team All-oDAC, a variety of charity events to support research for a two-time oDAC and State Player of the year www.lynchburg.edu/alumnitravel cystic fibrosis, breast cancer, and diabetes. he was (1999, 2000), and was a two-time All-American. 800.621.1669, 434.544.8293 recently honored by the Virginia Society for tech- When kristen was recognized with the All-American [email protected] nology education (VSte) as leader of the year. Mark title in 2000, she was the first athlete in Lynchburg is a special education supervisor for assistive tech- College history to have received the recognition twice. nology and digital individual programs with Loudoun the women’s soccer team appeared in the NCAA County Public Schools (LCPS). he and his wife, tournament every year that kristen played. LC recog- Deborah “Debbie” Tisdale ’00, live in hamilton, Va. nized her with the LC Female Athlete of the year Melissa Rowley Mullins ’01, ’04 MEd was named Award and the LC Senior Athlete of the year Award. director of leasing for University Student housing, After graduating, she returned to LC in the graduate LLC on the campus of West Chester (Pa.) University, Studies Program as an assistant coach for women’s a non-profit organization and subsidiary of the WCU soccer and helped lead the team to its fifth oDAC Foundation. Melissa is responsible for all leasing Championship. She played semi-professionally in operations for three suite-style residence halls, eleven New Jersey for three years. kristen and her husband, garden-style apartments, and new construction Levi ’02, live in ocean, N.J. initiatives, totaling more than 2,100 bed spaces. Melissa and her husband, Jacob “Jay” Mullins ’04, live in West Chester, Pa. Visit www.lynchburg.edu/alumnitravel Alumni Travel 2014 for more details on our 2014 cruise after March 15, 2013.

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Michelle Ghoston ’05 MEd successfully defended her dissertation at Virginia tech in November 2012, “Non-Academic Factors that Predict Persistence of Non-traditional Students Attending Community College in the Commonwealth of Virginia.” Michelle accepted a teaching position in counselor education at gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash.

Jason Johnson ’05 was elected, in a special election, to fill the vacant District two seat on the bedford County (Va.) School board. District two encompasses the Moneta/Smith Mountain Lake area of southern bedford County. After graduating from LC in 2005, Jason went on to receive his MA in political science from Virginia tech in 2009. Jason lives in Moneta, Va.

Damien Murtagh ’05 MEd is a program director with the blue ridge Autism and Achievement Center (brAAC.) he designs the educational programs for students who are placed there, either by parents or school divisions. the brAAC is a nonprofit, non- sectarian center that provides education and services for children and families affected by autism and unique learning challenges, such as learning disabili- ties. Damien and his wife, Melissa McKeown ’01 reside in Forest, Va.

Austin Jones ’10 spent the summer of 2012 as a U.S. park ranger at Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area in Nichole Johnson Hannon ’07, ’09 MEd is the Wyoming and Montana. head coach for the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) women’s lacrosse team. Under her leadership, SCAD won the National Women’s Johnathan “Johnny” Harris team captain in 2001 and 2002, leading his team Lacrosse League (NWLL) Championship and she ’02 received the Sports hall of to winning seasons. in 2002, blair received the Senior was selected as the conference’s 2012 “Coach of Fame Award at homecoming Male Athlete of the year award. he is employed as the year.” Nichole and her husband, Bradley 2012. this award was estab- operations manager at tilton Fitness in galloway, “Brad” ’09, live in Savannah, ga. lished to recognize and honor N.J., and lives in Absecon, N.J. Sterling Wilder ’08 MEd was a recipient of the outstanding athletes and teams Amanda Rhodes Ensor ’02 was named the 2012- Family Values Award in october 2012 in Lynchburg, for their athletic performance, 2013 teacher of the year for Queen Anne’s County, Va. this award is sponsored by the buena Vista leadership, and team contribu- Md. Amanda is a fourth-grade teacher at Church stake of the Church of the Latter-day Saints, which tions while students at LC. throughout his four hill elementary in Centreville, Md., and has been has congregations in Lynchburg. it is given to those years, Johnny participated in both indoor and out- teaching in Queen Anne’s County for nine years. who promote faith in god, advocate for children, door track and field. he was the first LC athlete to She and her husband, Luke ’02, who is also a teacher pass laws to protect families, and operate programs be named an All-American during all four of his in Queen Anne’s County, live in Chester, Md. to strengthen families. Winners are chosen from years at LC. Johnny set numerous old Dominion nominations made by area church, civic, and busi- Athletic Conference (oDAC) and meet records in Joseph “Joe” Lopez ’03 was recently featured in ness leaders. Sterling is the executive director of the sprints and was recognized during his senior Men’s Health Magazine for losing 100 pounds in the Jubilee Family Development Center, which helps year as the oDAC Athlete of the year. he lives in two years and keeping it off for seven years. Joe is economically disadvantaged youth by offering richmond, Va. a teacher/coach at Pope John XXiii high School in programs to help them attain self-sufficiency. he Sparta, N.J., and lives in Morristown, N.J. Blair Hayden ’02 received the lives in Lynchburg. Sports hall of Fame Award at Stefanie Huffer ’04 graduated from the Heather Morris ’09, ’11 MEd is the director of stu- homecoming 2012. this award Charleston School of Law in May 2012, passed the dent activities at Washington College in Chestertown, was established to recognize July 2012 South Carolina bar exam, and was sworn Md. She lives in gambrills, Md. and honor outstanding athletes in on November 13 as an attorney. She lives in Mt. and teams for their athletic per- Pleasant, S.C. Crystal Payne ’09 MEd was admitted to the doctoral formance, leadership, and team program at georgia State University in Atlanta in contributions while students at Amy Boyles ’05 completed her master of social the fall of 2012. She was granted a fellowship that LC. blair ranks first in LC baseball history with the work at the University of Maryland at baltimore in comes with full tuition and a $30,000 stipend in most strikeouts at 257. in addition to his records on July 2012. She recently moved to Dillon, Mont., early childhood education. Prior to her acceptance, campus, blair’s high number of strikeouts remains where she works as a therapist with the yellow- she had been working as an early intervention the third highest in the old Dominion Athletic stone boys & girls ranch. specialist at the Nationwide Children’s hospital in Conference (oDAC). he served as the baseball Columbus, ohio since 2009.

38 LC MAGAziNE Spring 5346 Honorary Alumni Award Winners

in 1985 the Alumni Association established the to the creation of the “employee handbook.” Prior to coming to LC, he was a research fellow at Honorary Alumni Award. This distinction is given emma worked under President Charles Warren in the institute of Medieval Canon Law in the School to non-alumni for their exceptional interest, 1994 on the Professional training task Force and on of Law at the University of California, berkeley. in dedication, and service to the College. the Alumni house Lounge Committee. She served 1980, he found his way to LC’s Department of history. on a variety of additional committees, including the recognized for his careful and impeccable teaching, Emma Hensley is the first point Staff Advisory Committee from 2007-2012, which his colleagues have celebrated both through a of contact for the majority of she also chaired from 2009-2011. Many on campus variety of distinguished awards. From 1996-1999, families who call or visit LC. admire emma’s dedication to the College, and she Phil served as chair of the history department and She greets visitors and makes has received recognition and awards from a variety as the John Mills turner Jr. Distinguished Chair of them feel welcome and works of campus groups. emma lives in Lynchburg, Va. the humanities. in addition, he has dedicated count- to accommodate even the most less hours of service to numerous committees and demanding of requests. emma Dr. Phillip Stump has distin- advised the istoria Club, an academic organization began her career at LC thirty-one guished himself at LC as a pro- for students interested in the pursuit of historical years ago, in December of 1981. She has worked in fessor, academic advisor, history knowledge and exploration. As a professor, he the music department, the business office, and in chair, and scholar. he graduated instilled the need to read carefully and critically, to the Dean of Students office in housing. in 1986, from the University of California think clearly, and to expand the scope of thinking emma found a place to call “home” and settled (UCLA) Los Angeles in 1967 with beyond the confines of one discipline. After thirty- into the Admissions office. For more than twenty- a bachelor of arts and earned his one years of service to the College, Phil retired in five years, she has been critical to the climbing PhD from UCLA in 1978, after May 2012. he lives in Lynchburg. enrollment numbers. in 1986, she also contributed advanced study at tubingen University in germany.

Sports Hall of Fame Team Awards

Teams are recognized as “teams of The 1971–72 men’s soccer team (assistant coach), Douglas “holly” terry Waddell ’82 who was named distinction” based on athletic perform- was named a Sports hall of Fame hollender ’75, Pierce “kim” kilmartin to both the All-State and All-regional ance and achievement as evidenced team of Distinction at homecoming ’73, knit kounavudhi ’75, 76 Med, teams. Debbie robinette ’82 and by exceptional accomplishments at 2012. Coached by the legendary bill robert “bob” Mann, Walter “Walt” bonita rowland roberts ’82 were or above the conference level. Shellenberger, the 1971 men’s soccer McClellan ’73, edward “eddie” chosen for the All-State and All- team held a 14-3-1 record and won McMichael ’75, Douglas “Doug” regional teams respectively. in the the Dixie Conference Championship. Melroy ’72, Steven “Steve” Miller National tournament, the team’s LC hosted the University of Virginia ’72, karl Mossberg ’73, Coach bill opening game resulted in its first in the ViSA State Championship in Shellenberger, ronald “ron” Shipley loss to east Stroudsburg University one of the most exciting games in ’72, eric Wagner ’72 (co-captain), 0-2, but it came back to defeat the the College’s history. the team played James “Jim” White ’73, and gary University of redlands 2-0. in the 127 minutes until John Chewning Williams ’73. final game, the team lost to the ’72 headed in a corner kick in sudden College of Mount St. Joseph 0-2. death to defeat the Wahoos 1-0. The 1981–82 LC women’s volley- the team included: Coach Jacqueline More than 5,000 spectators viewed ball team, under the leadership “Jackie” Asbury, Christine “Chris” the game and the campus and of Coach Jackie Asbury, was unde- Van bourgondien barbee ’83, Paula community erupted in celebration. feated in the division games of regular Downs-benge ’85, karen Davidson the team included: Carl bangerter season (13-0), first in the Association heier ’83, Patricia “Patty” bohmert ’73, Jonathan “Jon” bethard ’73, for intercollegiate Athletics for kaufman ’82, kristen o’brien, Lisa gregory burton ’73, ’79 Med, Craig Women–Southern region, and went Delk Petrillo, bonita rowland roberts Campbell ’72 (co-captain), Frank on to California to compete in the ’82, Deborah “Debbie” robinette Candrea ’73, John Chewning ’72, National tournament ranked seventh ’82, Annet Schlosser ’84, and theresa Charles “Chuck” Collings ’73, Mark in the nation. they finished with a “terry” kunz Waddell ’82. Dillman ’75, richard Fain ’74, 24-3 overall record, their best season george grzenda ’71, ’73 Med ever. outstanding seniors included

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Erin Barry ’08 to John “Johnny” Black ’08 on College June 2, 2012 in baltimore, Md. the wedding party 10s included Alyson Lilley ’07, ryan Cranston ’08, kyle Mcguire ’08, Ashley Waldron ’08, and Stephen Weis Jeremy Batterson ’10 completed his U.S. Navy ’08. the couple honeymooned in barbados and basic training at recruit training Command, great resides in baltimore. Lakes, ill. in February 2012. Alison “Ali” Mayhew ’09, ’11 MA to Daniel Tuck David Hadwin ’12 created an iPhone app called ’09 on Nov. 17, 2012 in the Langhorne Memorial “SnapMenu” which is a worldwide comprehensive Chapel on the campus of Virginia episcopal School. picture menu for restaurants. the photos are true-to- Ali is employed as a general studies program director life and not altered. David lives in Waynesboro, Va. and teacher at Miller-Mott technical College. Daniel is employed as a senior veteran’s service represen- tative for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Marriages roanoke, Va. the couple is planning a spring honey- moon in the United kingdom. the couple resides Kirk Perrow III ’66 to D. “Dean” Pugh ’66 on in bedford, Va. Sept. 27, 2012 in Washington, D.C., where the Kristin Bell ’10 to Jeffrey Moniz on May 27, 2012 couple also lives. at St. Mary’s by the Sea in Point Pleasant, N.J. with David Rogers ’93 to Daniel Ferrell on october 20, a reception in Spring Lake, N.J. the couple resides 2012 at the harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge, in Maple grove, Minn. Mass., on the harvard University Campus. David is Cassandra “Cassie” Sexton ’10 to Michael riggs the manager of alumni-student engagement at the on october 9, 2012 at robert Carr Chapel, Fort harvard School of Public health in boston, Mass. Worth, texas. the wedding party included katherine where the couple also lives. “katie” grawl ’10, rachel Lawson ’10, and theresa Kevin Ashford ’03 to helen Longes on August 18, Mckenzie ’10. the couple lives in Fort Worth. 2012 in a beautiful outdoor ceremony on the edge of Dartmoor in southwest england. the couple resides in Aldershot, hampshire, england. New Arrivals Delaney Fendo ’04 to Craig Wermuth ’05 on June 30, 2012 at the guilford yacht Club in guil- to Kathryn “Kate” Oliver ’95 and husband Jay ford, Conn. Dr. Jimmy roux, associate professor of Dahya, a son, Aran, born July 6, 2012. he joins big Newborn ultra soft white dot full communication studies at Lynchburg College, per- brother kieran. the family lives in Milford, Conn. zip romper with finger protectors. formed the ceremony. the wedding party included Red embroidery says “Lynchburg Alaina kelly barone ’05, Nicole Schmertz ’03, kerry to E. “Ashley” Borden Williams ’96 and husband Baby Little Hornet.” Stalknecht gaylor ’04, David kelly ’06, and trevor Michael, a son, Cullen Noel, born on July 3, 2012. White ’04. the couple resides in raleigh, N.C. the family resides in Denver, Colo. Item # 29594 Retail price...... $20.95 Gaylon “Andy” Ryan II ’07 to Gabrielle “Gaby” to Tomomi Ikezaki Takamori ’00 and husband, Niccolls ’09 on July 7, 2012 in Pinehurst, N.C. Daiji, twin daughters, Miyabi and kozue born on the wedding party included heather Morris ’09, Dec. 20, 2012. the family lives in Sunnyvale, Calif. Infant ultra soft white dot romper ’11 Med, maid of honor; Jessie-Lee Williams Nichols to Kristen Kowit Solmose ’01, ’03 MBA and hus- with snaps. Red embroidery says ’09; Megan kempel irwin ’09; Joshua “Josh” owen band Levi ’02, twins, Logan Julius, a son, and Cori “Lynchburg Baby Little Hornet.” ’07, best man; robert “rob” ridgeway ’08; Samuel James, a daughter, born on February 9, 2012. the “Sam” kelbaugh ’08; and Samuel “Sam” Lackey ’05. Item# 7508 for 0-3months family lives in ocean, N.J. Item# 31848 for 3-6months the couple lives in el Paso, texas. Item# 31848 for 6-9months Retail Price...... $20.95

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40 LC MAGAziNE Spring 5346 Kristin Bell ’10 to Jeffrey Moniz Cassandra “Cassie” Sexton ’10 to Michael Riggs

John “Johnny” Black ’08 to Erin Barry ’08 Delaney Fendo ’04 to Craig Wermuth ’05 Daniel Tuck ’09 to Alison “Ali” Mayhew ’09, ’11 MA

Gaylon “Andy” Ryan II ’07 to Gabrielle “Gaby” Niccolls ’09 Helen Longes to Kevin Ashford ’03

Spring 5346 LC MAGAziNE 41 alumni profile

Watching her garden grow by Angela Deeds

eborah Grow ’92 has created a fan- exhilarating. It has all been an amazing process Dtastical world in her English Garden book of growth and discovery. It seems my life has series Honeysuckle Cottage. The five-volume come full circle and I am putting all the pieces set, published last year, features stories and of my life together in this project.” songs to entertain and educate children. The author is currently working on her Deborah combined her love of music and next set in the series that continues the ad- theatre to create an interactive way for chil- ventures in The English Garden. A new dren to learn the English language. character, a little girl named Rhonda, will Deborah graduated with degrees in music join Ruff. She plans to publish more books and theatre and went on to perform in pro- in the series and ultimately wants to develop fessional opera, musicals, commercials, and a television show drawing on the series. corporate films in New York. She credits the Deborah believes the books have the potential faculty at lc with helping to launch her career. to help both native English speakers and While living in New York, Deborah married children who want to learn English as a sec- and had three children. It was then she began ond language. Her vision is to help children a new adventure — creating stories and songs “i love building the image around the world with her products. for young learners. In 2001, the family moved in my head and then see it Her family life keeps her just as busy as her to her husband’s home country of Japan where come to life as a real product work life. She has three children, ages 18, 14, Deborah continued developing materials that and 12. Her oldest son, Mashu, will attend would serve young learners both there and in i can hold in my hand.” Tenri University and will play rugby there. America. Her daughter, Maya, is on the Judo team at In 2008, Deborah opened the English loving boy, Ruff, on his adventures exploring her junior high school. Her youngest son, Garden, a music and English school outside the world around him. Deborah wrote the Sanshiro, is involved with lots of sports, but of Tokyo; she also began teaching part-time books and music and is the voice you hear on especially loves judo. He was the national at the National University of Japan at Tsukuba. the accompanying CD. The musical arrange- champion for sixth-graders last May. To learn more about running a business in a ments employ a variety of authentic instruments Deborah says she draws inspiration for her foreign country, she entered a mini-MBA from all genres of music and have been praised characters from her experiences as a mother program and started her own publishing for their quality. and teacher, and that by creating these books company, English Garden Books. This venture “I love building the image in my head and and stories, she has connected all the aspects has resulted in books that both entertain and then see it come to life as a real product I can of her life. teach reading and English to children at all hold in my hand,” Deborah said. “Writing the

developmental levels. material and then working with the arrangers R E A D M O R E Her first set of books in the English Garden on my songs, recording in the studio, and about Deborah and The English Garden at www.englishgarden.co series, Honeysuckle Cottage, follows a rugby- designing the final products are thrilling and

42 LC MAGAziNE Spring 5346 PhotoS: JohN MCCorMiCk to Benjamin “Ben” Angle ’02and wife Stephanie, to Amanda “Mandy” McDermott Tenent ’03 to Mary Carson Watts Worley ’07,and husband a son, Samuel William, born on June 19, 2012. and D. Whitfield “Whit” ’04,a daughter, Michelle gavin, a son, george Silas, born on Aug. 10, 2012. he joins big brother, Christian, 2. the family lives thomas, born on Feb. 10, 2012. the family lives in the family lives in Natural bridge Station, Va. in Alexandria, Va. Memphis, tenn. to Elizabeth Sacks ’08 and Joseph young, a son, to Rhonda Wilson Ellis ’02and husband Mickey, to Christine O’Rourke Witte ’04 and husband Connor Andrew, born on September 12, 2012. the a son, Langston Asher, born April 24, 2012. he Scott, triplet girls, Collins Meghan, elle rose and family lives in Fredericksburg, Va. joins big brother Carter and big sister Carmen. Lillie Marie, born on April 21, 2012. elleand Lillie to Kathryn Crowder Yarzebinski ’08 MBA the family lives in Moneta, Va. are identical twins and Collins is fraternal. the family and husband Ryan ’10 MEd,a son, John “Jack” lives in Charlotte, N.C. to Holly Paugh Honeycutt ’02 and husband Alexander, born on July 6, 2012. he joins igb sister kevin, a son, blake edward, born on July 3, 2012. to Elizabeth Faulconer Dunkel ’05and husband Madeline, 2. kathryn is director of the annual fund he joins big brother brayden, 3. the family resides rhett, a son, Asher Michael, born on Jan. 6, 2012. at LC and the family lives in Lynchburg. in Morgantown, W.Va. the family lives in goode, Va. to Bethany Joy Arbaugh Bernard ’09and husband to Lisa Pescatore Kaplan ’03 and husband ross, to Jessica Craft Schlosberg ’05, ’07 MBA and ryan, a son, hayden Parke, born on June 16, 2012. a daughter, Madison Alaina, born on June 24, 2012. husband David ’02,a son, ryan James, born on the family resides in elverson, Pa. the family lives in South huntington, N.y. July 16, 2012. the family lives in Mount Wolf, Pa. to Shannon Bailey Fisher ’09 MEdand husband ben, a son, Jacob benjamin, born Nov. 2, 2012. the to Hollie BeCraft Palmisano ’03, ’07 MEd and to David Sheaffer ’06, ’08 MBAand wife, Carly family lives in Forest, Va. husband Anthony ’04,a daughter, brooklyn kate, Eccles ’11 MAa daughter, Adalyn Marlena, born on born on May 6, 2012. She joins big brother Maddox october 8, 2012. the family lives in Lynchburg, Va. to Bridget “Amanda” Pillow Winks ’10and hus- David. the family lives in Forest, Va. band Forrest ’11,a daughter, reagan Nicole, born on october 18, 2012. the family lives in Lynchburg, Va. Save the Date! Homecoming 2013 Homecoming Hotel Room Reservations October Make your “Lynchburg College” 18-20, 2013 reservation for October 18, 19 NOW! Many rooms sell out before April.

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Understanding many faiths by Pamela Carder

Sinclair’s The Jungle and Herman Melville’s they became involved with further academic Billy Budd. studies. David was made an adjunct lecturer Following seminary, David ministered for at a seminary and taught Greek and Hebrew two years as associate pastor at Heritage United to aspiring Christian pastors. He also served Methodist Church in Lynchburg. David said in social projects, including New Ark Mission, the best part of the job was “being with families a shelter for the destitute of Bangalore. in moments of happiness, times of sadness and While David grew up in a Christian nation, uncertainty, weddings, funerals, graduations, he found that learning to value other cultural babies being born. But I most enjoyed teach- belief systems is vital to surviving and thriving ing.” He taught his congregants about differ- in a new country. “I grew up in a private all- ent religions to broaden their perspectives. boys Episcopal school in Richmond, received David and his wife, Ruda, currently live in a great education, went to lc in Lynchburg, central Thailand, where David teaches English and then seminary. But now in Thailand I to 900 students in a government-run public am not around Christians or the church school. The students are generally low-income much, and it forces me to think differently and come from villages as much as an hour and come out of my comfort zone. It is not away from the school. At times, there are not that I blindly accept everything, but I see avid A. Nickels ’01 says that living enough desks in the classroom to accommodate the devout faith in the people I interact Doversees for four years in two very dif- the kids, and there is no fixed curriculum. with daily.” ferent countries, India and Thailand, changed To keep the students motivated, he makes He is finishing work on his PhD with the him at the core. his classes fun, focusing on music, food, South Asian Institute of Advanced Christian After graduating from lc with a double and movies. Studies. His research focuses on the Gospel major in philosophy and political science, “What I teach is relevant to them. Now they of John, specifically on the use of the term David attended Asbury Theological Seminary can have a conversation with a foreigner and “Jews” in that gospel, and on the meaning because of his interest in the Christian faith, say ‘What type of Thai food do you like?’ of religion, ethnicity, and interpretation. an interest which began in his senior year. When I teach, I try to be positive, and try to He also continues with the tradition of the As a student, David says he was particularly encourage my students to be confident while lcsr program he began at lc, and is currently influenced by the Lynchburg College Sympo- speaking English.” reading Moby Dick. sium Readings (lcsr) and discussions required Before moving to Thailand, David and in Senior Symposium. Favorites were Upton Ruda lived for three years in India, where

44 LC MAGAziNE Spring 1/02 In Memoriam APRIL 26–28, 2013

Catherine Motley Overbey ’34, oct. 28, 2012 Catherine Crews Parker ’34, Dec. 19, 2012 Westover Alumni Society Francis “Hugo” Spencer ’36, Dec. 16, 2012 H. Shepard Moon ’37, Dec. 29, 2012 Weekend Classes of 1953, ’58, ’63 and ’68 David Goode ’39, July 1, 2012 will celebrate their class reunions on campus Harry “Hill” Sandidge ’39, June 20, 2012 A. “Kendall” Sydnor ’39, Aug. 4, 2012 Helen Huff ’40, Dec. 29, 2012 Frank McVeigh Jr. ’40, Aug. 7, 2012 MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1963 Nan Duiguid Flippin ’41, Dec. 1, 2012 (pictured here at Westover Alumni Society Weekend 2008) Helen Owens Whately ’41, June 28, 2012 invite all alumni through the Classes Phyllis Oppleman Gay ’43, Sept. 16, 2012 of 1972 to join them April 26-28! Ruby Wright Scott ’43, oct. 18, 2012 Virginia Stone Snavely ’43, July 15, 2012 James Riggs ’45, Sept. 6, 2012 Annette DeHart “Dee” Fralin ’46, Dec. 18, 2012 Edsel “Ed” Pugh ’46, June 12, 2012 Cornelia Bassett Boyd ’49, Dec. 12, 2012 David “Dave” Campbell ’49, Nov. 27, 2012 For more information, contact the Office of Alumni Relations • Cecil Cress ’49, Nov. 22, 2012 434.544.8293 800.621.1669 Ray Sonner ’49, Aug. 10, 2012 www.lynchburg.edu/alumni Braxton Dawson ’50, Dec. 31, 2012 Edward Carleton Moseley ’50, July 18, 2012 F. “Brent” Sandidge ’50, Sept. 8, 2012 OPEN TO ALL ALUMNI, PARENTS, AND FRIENDS Robert “Bob” Smith ’50, Nov. 27, 2012 Maria Wirta Hall ’51, Nov. 2, 2012 Thomas “Tom” Hughes ’51, July 12, 2012 Attention Kitty Pearson Turner ’51, June 17, 2012 Dan Huffman ’52, Nov. 19, 2012 LC Golfers! John Krebs ’52, June 18, 2012 C. “Raeford” Minix ’52, Dec. 9, 2012 Maynard Wood ’52, oct. 22, 2012 SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2013 SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 2013 William Wood ’55, Sept. 13, 2012 Frazier R. Sizemore Jr. Greg Holland ’89 William “Bill” Kessler ’57, July 21, 2012 Scholarship Golf Scholarship Golf Tournament Tournament Clayton Jones ’58, Sept. 30, 2012 Hat Creek Golf Course Chesapeake Bay Golf Club Donald “Don” Warner ’59, oct. 8, 2012 Brookneal, Va. Rising Sun, Maryland Richard “Dick” West ’59, July 29, 2012 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2013 Evelyn Arrington Squires ’60, Dec. 23, 2012 SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 (HOMECOMING WEEKEND) Alice Woolfolk Dooley-Boyd ’61, July 7, 2012 William H. Shellenberger Scholarship Golf John P. Seamster ’92 Sandra Miller Gardner ’62, Nov. 14, 2012 Tournament Memorial Golf Ronald “Ron” Cox ’63, Dec. 28, 2012 London Downs Golf Course Tournament Gene “Tom” Vincent Jr. ’63, July 5, 2012 Forest, Virginia London Downs Golf Course William “Bill” Harman ’65, Nov. 18, 2012 Forest, Virginia Janie Ragland Young ’65, Nov. 26, 2012 John “Jack” Wood Jr. ‘66, Sept. 1, 2012 Howard “Winston” Woodford Sr. ’67 MEd, Aug. 26, 2012 Jeanette Etchison Grimes ’68, Dec. 2, 2012 Office of Alumni Relations FOR MORE INFORMATION 434.544.8293 • 800.621.1669 John “David” Cothran ’69, July 31, 2012 [email protected] Maurice Everette ’69 MEd, oct. 12, 2012

Spring 1/02 LC MAGAziNE 45 Class Notes

We Remember Larry Lawhorne ’69, ’73 MAT, July 10, 2012 Katherine Robertson Turner ’70 MEd, Dec. 24, 2012 Allen Thomas Dippel Jr., 35, died on August Delois “Ann” Otey, 66, Daniel Davis ’71 MEd, Dec. 5, 2012 18, 2012 after a brave fight with leukemia. died october 20, 2012. Maxley “Max” Drumheller ’73 MEd, oct. 24, 2012 Allen served as a chef in the LC Dining hall Ann retired in 2011 from Thomas “Ted” Hicks III ’73, June 20, 2012 from 2004 to 2012 and will be remembered LC’s Dining Services after Donna Zappasodi ’73, May 12, 2012 for being willing to go the extra mile to serve nearly forty years of service. the students, faculty, and staff of the College. Many from the campus Jon Storm ’74, ’75 MEd, June 25, 2012 When Allen was diagnosed with leukemia, an community will remember Margaret Cash Campbell ’75, oct. 21, 2012 outpouring of campus care and support helped with great fondness the Joyce Webb Bergman ’76 MEd, Dec. 18, 2012 sustain him during the many challenges of his wide grin and warm hugs of Ann, who loved Patricia Sweeney Boyd ’76 MEd, July 17, 2012 illness. he was loved by all but most especially every person who came through the door of Zachary “Paul” Kramer ’76, July 1, 2012 by his wife kassia Mayo, an Access student at the burton Student Center. Ralph Slusher ’76 MEd, oct. 29, 2012 LC, and his 13-year-old daughter, Viola. Leon “Chuck” Shull, 74, Dennis Spady ’76, Aug. 31, 2012 Sally Glass Hargis, 64, of goode, Virginia, died Deborah “Debbie” Conner Ottavio ’76, died September 30, 2012 August 16, 2012. Chuck Sept. 20, 2012 in Lynchburg following a began his forty-three year Duane Dankanich ’79 MEd, oct. 15, 2012 courageous eight-year battle teaching career at LC in Patsy Phillips Brown ’82 MEd, oct. 7, 2012 with cancer. Sally was an 1969 and served as chair of Gordon Ragland Jr. ’84 MAd, Aug. 28, 2012 administrative assistant in the Sociology Department Terrell “Terry” Tucker ’84, Aug. 5, 2012 the Psychology Department from 1996 to 2005. As one and School of Sciences at colleague noted, “Chuck was the first person Elizabeth “Beth” Mahler ’85 MEd, June 19, 2012 LC for thirty years. She was the “go to” person i met at the College and he herded me around Barbara Guthridge Wilder ’86 MEd, Sept. 18, 2012 for students and faculty and had received nu- my first year. he was in his office six or seven Sarah Greenhalgh ’87, July 9, 2012 merous professional awards related to her work. days a week whether he needed to be there or Jeffrey “Jeff” Trent ’88, July 22, 2012 throughout her many health struggles Sally not. he loved his students and devoted his pro- Drew O’Leary ’91, Nov. 9, 2012 maintained an indomitable spirit and a generous fessional life to LC. he was a great friend and heart. As a colleague she was completely pro- colleague and we already miss him greatly.” Louis Fischer III ’92 MEd, oct. 15, 2012 fessional and absolutely dependable. She was Chuck served his country in the Air Force during Toni-Marie Verrone Hals ’93, Nov. 17, 2012 also friend and “mother confessor” to genera- the Vietnam War. he is survived by his wife of tions of students, faculty, and staff colleagues forty-nine years, Ann Casavant Shull. See tribute alike. Sally was the wife of Len hargis for forty- on page 48. In Sympathy four years. She is also survived by her son, Neal hargis, her daughter, Shelley Woodruff, and Bonnie Sue Stinnett, 50, Elsie Wright Buford ’42, sister, oct. 18, 2012 two grandchildren. of Monroe, Virginia, died George Loving Jr. ’45, brother, July 26, 2012 November 9, 2012. bonnie John K. Henne, 88, of worked at the Lynchburg Ruth Maddox Riggs ’45, husband, Sept. 6, 2012 titusville, Pennsylvania, died College bookstore from Garland Gay Sr. ’46, wife, Dec. 17, 2012 November 7, 2012 at his 1993 to 2011 and then Ellis Maxey ’48, wife, Dec. 25, 2012 home in Lynchburg, Virginia, became assistant manager Ann Fox Pugh ’48, husband, June 12, 2012 where he had been living at Schewels Furniture Co. J. “Bartell” Abbitt ’49, sister, July 5, 2012 with his lifelong friend, LC in Amherst. She graduated from Parry McClure professor todd olsen and high School. bonnie was a loving and kind Faye Stump Campbell ’49, husband, Nov. 27, 2012 his family. in 2007, John person, always willing to help anyone. Nancy Scott Goode ’49, husband, July 1, 2012 was awarded an honorary doctor of education R. “Kyle” Willis Jr. ’49, wife, Aug. 6, 2012 from LC in recognition of his generous and Richard “Dick” Price West ’59, age 79, of Dabney Loving Sr. ’50, brother, July 26, 2012 loyal support of LC athletic programs and his Winston-Salem, N.C., died July 29, 2012. A Robert “Bob” West Sr. ’50, brother, July 29, 2012 commitment to the education and enrichment native of Lynchburg, Virginia, he served in the Gerry Burdette Murphy ’52, husband, oct. 12, 2012 of young people. John earned a sociology degree U.S. Navy from 1952 to 1956, graduated from from haverford College in 1947 and a second Lynchburg College in 1959, and taught physics Raymond “Ray” Phillips ’53, wife, July 5, 2012 degree (teaching) from edinboro University. he at LC from 1961 to 1963. he worked for more Nancy Loving Rice ’53, ’71 MEd, brother, taught seventh- and eighth-grade english and than twenty years as a physicist and was an July 26, 2012 served as varsity golf coach in the titusville Public accomplished pianist. he also liked to camp, Marian Saunders Kessler ’54, husband, Schools for seventeen years. John was a bene- fish, and canoe. before moving to Winston- July 21, 2012 factor to more than sixty charities. Salem, Dick lived in the encinitas, California George “Bill” Cress ’56, brother, Nov. 22, 2012 area for more than twenty years. Margaret “Peggy” Taylor Wood ’56, husband, Sept. 13, 2012

46 LC MAGAziNE Spring 1/02 Nancy Padgett Holder ’57, son, Nov. 9, 2012 Marvin Jefferson Jr. ’79, father, Sept. 12, 2012 Beverly MacKay Johnson ’58, husband, Patricia “Pat” Kinney Doyle ’80 MEd, husband, Sept. 4, 2012 Aug. 6, 2012 Grace Loving Mahanes ’61, brother, July 26, 2012 James “Rick” Eberhardt ’80, father, Nov. 21, 2012 Virginia “Ginny” Oliver McCraw ’61, daughter, C. “Irvin” Reynolds Jr. ’80, father, Nov. 20, 2012 Nov. 23, 2012 Ann Dooley Hicks ’81, mother, July 7, 2012 Wayne “Pete” McCraw ’61, daughter, Nov. 23, 2012 Misty McCane Hostetter ’83, father, oct. 29, 2012 Bruce Hundley ’62, mother, July 28, 2012 Elizabeth “Missy” Wranek Celli ’84, mother, W.D. Campbell ’64, ’68 MEd, mother, oct. 21, 2012 Nov. 23, 2012 Ann Tomlinson Hale ’64, husband, Nov. 12, 2012 John Goode ’84, father, July 1, 2012 Merrie Childrey Ligon ’64, husband, Nov. 24, 2011 Caryl Cress Ramsey ’86, father, Nov. 22, 2012 A. “Kendall” Sydnor Jr. ’64, father, Aug. 4, 2012 April Phipps Scruggs ’86, husband, Aug. 15, 2012 We are $5 million Pattie Lacey Hope ’65, husband, Aug. 10, 2012 Winnifred “Winnie” Clair Schenkel ’87 MEd, towards our goal David “Dave” Roberson ’65, ’71 MEd, wife, husband, oct. 29, 2012 of $12 million. June 14, 2012 Shannon Turner ’87, ’87 MBA, brother, Dolly Dawson Tolson ’65, brother, Dec. 31, 2012 Nov. 28, 2012 We need your help John Campbell ’66, mother, oct. 21, 2012 Melissa Rogers Ford ’88, husband, Sept. 3, 2012 to renovate the Gail Cocke Ferguson ’67, husband, Nov. 24, 2012 Suzanne “Susie” Jones Peniche ’88 MEd, father, Student Center. Mason Alvis ’68, mother, June 21, 2012 Sept. 30, 2012 Michael “Mike” Hawfield ’68, daughter, Rhonda Fox Allbeck ’89, mother, Aug. 18, 2012 Give today! June 5, 2012 Troy Cash ’89, father, July 15, 2012 Betty Reynolds Akers ’69 MEd, daughter, Sandra Cheatham Maranto ’89, father, July 11, 2012 oct. 16, 2012 www.lynchburg.edu/giving Guy “Len” Hargis ’70, wife, Sept. 30, 2012 Robert “Keith” Stagner ’90, sister, Nov. 18, 2012 Harvey Ernest Jr. ’71, mother, June 13, 2012 Trevor Stansbury ’90, son, June 22, 2012 Mark Pugh ’71, father, June 12, 2012 Lee Verrone ’90, sister, Nov. 17, 2012 Candace Theurer Lawhorne ’72, ’76 MEd, John “Woody” Wood ’90, mother, Nov. 11, 2012 husband, July 10, 2012 R. “Wayne” Perdue Jr. ’91, father, Nov. 1, 2012 Michael “Mike” Marron Sr. ’72, father, Barbara Woundy Bunch ’92, father, Sept. 16, 2012 June 13, 2012; mother, June 28, 2012 Christian Church Glenn Leftwich ’92, mother, Dec. 29, 2012 Leif Aagaard Jr. ’73, ’82 MBA, mother, (Disciples of Christ) June 28, 2012 Michele Verrone Manning ’92, sister, Nov. 17, 2012 Nancy Spangler Slusher ’73, husband, oct. 29, 2012 Leah Heffner Waters ’92, father, July 25, 2012 General Assembly Fleet “Ann” Pugh Fangman ’74, father, Michael “Mike” Mong ’93, mother, Dec. 19, 2012 Lynchburg College Luncheon Teresa Millner ’94, father, Aug. 3, 2012 June 12, 2012 for LC friends, family, alumni, Tracy Millner ’94, father, Aug. 3, 2012 Garland Gay Jr. ’74, mother, Dec. 17, 2012 students, faculty, and staff Randee Perkey Humphrey ’74, mother, July 4, 2012 Angela Tucker ’94, father, Sept. 30, 2012 Karen Cronk Terry ’74, sister, July 16, 2011; mother, Mary Banker Floyd ’95, mother, Sept. 5, 2012 March 17, 2012 Eileen Fitzgerald Jenkins ’96, brother, Feb. 12, 2011 Tuesday, July 16, 11:30 a.m. June Albert ’75, mother, June 24, 2012 Shelley Hargis Woodruff ’96, mother, Fred Behnke ’75, father, April 12, 2012 Sept. 30, 2012 Maggianos at Pointe Orlando, Vincent “Vince” Kenefake ’75, brother, Joanie Wilson Shull ’98, father, Dec. 5, 2012 1901 International Drive #2400 Orlando, Florida June 22, 2012 Stephen Stadtherr ’98 MBA, mother, oct. 20, 2012 Antoinette “Toni” Sobleskie-Ballagh ’75, husband, Jennifer Harlow Owji ’99, father, Nov. 11, 2012 May 16, 2012 Robert “Rob” Quel ’99 MEd, wife, Sept. 30, 2012 Linda “Lyn” McEnany Somerville ’75, husband, Liam Dawson ’01, father, Jan. 9, 2012 July 6, 2012 Pamela “Pam” Jones ’01, mother, oct. 1, 2012 Mary “Beth” Eberhardt Huntington ’76, father, Tickets are available online at Nov. 21, 2012 Daphne Monroe-Wade ’03, mother, Sept. 27, 2012 disciples.org or by contacting Jessica Frye ’08, daughter, oct. 13, 2012 Christie Rapp at [email protected] Sherry Marron Padavich ’76, father, or 434.544.8348. June 13, 2012; mother, June 28, 2012 Luke Tolbert ’08, brother, oct. 13, 2012 For more information, go to M. David “Dave” Howard ’77, ’82 MEd, mother, Shauna Manias Saunders ’10, father, www.lynchburg.edu/assembly Sept. 18, 2012 Aug. 25, 2012 Charles “Chip” Perkey ’77, mother, July 4, 2012 Erin Gilhuly Compton ’12, father, Sept. 21, 2012

Spring 1/02 LC MAGAziNE 47 He embodied what is best about Lynchburg College.

Remembering Chuck Shull by Jim Stratton ’87

In hindsight, i’m surprised He embodied what is best about Chuck understood anything I said in Lynchburg College. that phone call. It’s a place where young people can find It was 1987, and I was a new lc grad. I their way and question the things they was facing a small, personal crisis–which thought they knew. A place where profes- seemed pretty big at the time–and I’d called sors–at least most I had–value students Chuck to talk. He listened to me rant, and and teaching as much as their next pub- when I paused to come up for air, he filled lished article. the empty space: “Come over for dinner,” Chuck did research, of course, but it’s he said. “Stay the weekend if you want.” not what drove him. Instead, the social So I did, taking advantage of his soft worker in him focused on helping the spot for students. He and his wife cooked people around him. In 1996, he was named for me, made up the guestroom, and, over teacher of the year. In 2001, he received the course of a couple days, assured me the Outstanding Service Award from the better times were ahead. Coalition for hiv Awareness and Prevention For those of you who knew Chuck Shull, of Central Virginia. none of this is especially startling. It was During my time at lc, Chuck was one Chuck being Chuck. A former student of the leading campus voices for hiv edu- needed some help, so he calmly stepped cation. Remember, this was just a few years in, offering his time, his home and his after the virus first made news in the U.S., seemingly endless well of compassion. and these were not easy discussions; but When I learned of Chuck’s death, I Chuck knew the potential impact on his remembered that weekend and all the other students, so he insisted on having them. times over the years he’d offered to help me. Those lectures, like his others, were low He co-signed my first car loan. He helped key, straightforward and funny. me apply to graduate schools. He provided I suspect Chuck’s droll–slightly dark– career advice. Over time, he came to occupy sense of humor would have gotten him an unusual place in my life–part friend, fired from a corporate job. But it was well part mentor, part father figure. suited for academia. Almost everything During his years at lc, he served that about him was, right down to the silver same role to hundreds of students. They’d beard and gravity-defying hair. He was file into Carnegie to sort through course the college professor from Central Cast- schedules, personal problems and life ing, but to me and many others he was after lc. His unspoken price of admis- much more. sion: Be thoughtful. Be kind. Take your Jim Stratton lives with his wife and two children in Orlando, work–but not yourself–seriously. Florida, where Jim is a senior reporter at The Orlando Sentinel.

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