EchoFALL/WINTERes 2009 On the Cover Clockwise from top: Young Harris College alumnae Beth Yearwood Bernard, ’81, and Trisha Yearwood, ’84, with their mother Gwen Yearwood PHOTOGRAPH MELANIE DUNEA F E AT U R E S 14 A Recipe for Great Memories 18 YHC Alumni Celebrate Homecoming 2009 34 When Words Matter 2 Left: Young Harris College’s newest residence hall, Enotah Hall, was completed over the summer and opened in August to students moving in this fall. Above: Enotah Hall’s third-floor balcony offers possibly the best view of campus and has quickly become a popular student hangout. Contents DEPARTMENTS 5 From the Valley 27 On Campus 36 Mountain Lions Roundup 48 ForeverYoung Harris 55 Class Notes Cert no. SW-COC-002235 Young Harris College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award associate and baccalaureate degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call (404) 679-4500 for questions about the accreditation of Young Harris College. 3 FROMTHEPRESIDENT Echoes VOLUME 11, ISSUE 1, FALL/WINTER 2009 The Official Magazine ofYoung Harris College ASEASONOF PRESIDENT Cathy Cox Success and Gratitude INTERIM PROVOST/ EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Dr. Ron Ingle The holiday season always brings me around to a special sense of thankfulness—for my incredible family and friends, for the truly wonderful experiences I’ve had over the VICE PRESIDENTFOR ADVANCEMENT Jay Stroman course of my life and for so many blessings. This season, with so many positive things happening atYoung Harris College, I am VICE PRESIDENTFOR ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT especially thankful for the bright, selfless, dedicated, fun and very hardworking folks Clinton Hobbs,‘88 who make this College such an amazing place! More than 200 employees and nearly VICE PRESIDENTFOR FINANCE 700 students add their individual imprints to our campus every day. Wade Benson There are students like Brad Rutherford and Clint McNeal who jumped into a VICE PRESIDENTFOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS boat this fall and became our first competitive bass fishing team.They conquered the Dr. Ron Roach giants in the collegiate fishing world in winning their first tournament and qualified VICE PRESIDENTFOR for the national championship next April in Knoxville. STUDENT DEVELOPMENT There are the giants of our theatre—students like Katie Susan Rogers Marlowe, Marvin Hemphill, Jordan Fleming,Tyler Ogburn, VICE PRESIDENTFOR CAMPUS TECHNOLOGY Bekah Medford, Evan McLean, Sarin Rossi, Clair Brooks, Ken Faneuff Nicole Conrad, Monica Phelps,Ashley Ware, Daniel VICE PRESIDENTFOR PLANNINGAND ASSESSMENTAND CHIEFOF STAFF Forkner, JohnnyWilliamson, Cedric Epps and Adam Rosemary Royston ‘89 Higgins—who made Glenn Auditorium come alive in BOARD OF TRUSTEES,CHAIRMAN November for almost 4,500 elementary school students and Jerry Nix another 1,000 adults in Schoolhouse Rock Live! I’m still waking up to “Interplanet Janet” music in my head! EDITORIALSTAFF Our new Bonner Leaders—students Matthew EDITOR Kammerer, Josh Stroud,Amber Allen,Trystan Drummond, Denise Cook Victoria Sink, Jake Davis, MarissaThomas, CaraWeldon Cathy Cox ART DIRECTOR and Ian Calhoun—have embraced the opportunity to learn PRESIDENT Melissa Mitchell about life through service in our community.They are CONTRIBUTORS representingYHC well while mentoringTowns County Rob Campbell, Peggy Cozart, Heather Deyton, students, providing habitable homes for families in need in nearby North Carolina Emily Sane, Mickey Seward, Mary Booth Thomas and serving as great role models for the campus. PHOTOGRAPHY There are our new juniors, like Meg Patterson and Grady Garner, who I don’t see Peggy Cozart, Melanie Dunea, Dana Ensley,‘97, Ben Fink, Saldivia-Jones Photography, nearly often enough nowadays because—they tell me—they are serious students now Greg Langston, Philip Sampson,‘84, Mickey Seward and are working hard toward their academic and professional goals. EDITORIAL OFFICE We are building some unbelievably great buildings on our gorgeous mountain Echoes Magazine, Office of Alumni Services campus. Our new residence hall is a showplace, and our recreation center and P.O. Box 275,Young Harris, Georgia 30582 basketball arena will amaze you next summer. New tennis courts are underway, as is Phone (706) 379-5173 • Fax (706) 379-4572 Web site www.yhc.edu the final design of our Campus Center, with a new library, dining facilities and E-mail [email protected] student center.I hope you will take some time to come visit us and see all of this! More than anything, it is the people here that make this College a place that gets TO UPDATE YOUR ADDRESS AND TO SUPPORT YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE: into your skin and your psyche. It is the friendships that last a lifetime, far beyond Call (800) 241-3754, ext. 5173 or this campus. It is the faculty and staff who genuinely care about our students and pour (706) 379-5173 or email [email protected] out their compassion and intelligence in their efforts to provide the very best liberal Echoes is published by the Office of College Relations arts education. and Marketing atYoung Harris College.The views and I am thankful for all of you that make up theYHC family: our faculty, staff, opinions presented in this publication are not necessarily those of the editors or the official policies of the College. administrators, trustees, alumni, faithful friends and, especially, this great group of students who have chosen theYHC experience.You make it all worthwhile! Merry Copyright 2009Young Harris College Christmas—and the happiest of new years to you all! Warmly, Cathy Cox President 1 College Street |Young Harris, Georgia 30582 www.yhc.edu 4 New Campus Minister ANSWERSCALLTOSERVECOLLEGECOMMUNITY On July 1, the Reverend Dr. he identified a calling to minister In 2009, Moore and his family Timothy S. Moore joinedYoung specifically to college students and a moved back to the mountains, this Harris College as campus minister, a college community.Soon after time to north Georgia. His wife, role he is excited about and has been returning to North Carolina, he was Amy,currently serves as pastor of From the Valley working toward for a long time. appointed director of the Wesley Reid’s Chapel United Methodist A native of the southern Foundation United Methodist Church in Hiwassee Dam, N.C. Appalachians, Moore grew up in campus ministry at Western Carolina Moore spends his days, and most Cullowhee, a small college town in University in his hometown. evenings, in the Susan B. Harris western North Carolina less than Ministering as the director of the Chapel and all over campus, meeting two hours fromYoung Harris. Wesley Foundation confirmed for with students, faculty and staff as he He was very active in his Moore his desire to minister to leads and grows the campus ministry hometown United Methodist college students. programs and activities. He is also Church from a young age. He knew he was on the right actively connecting with local “If the doors were open, the track, but felt the call to find an congregations to enhance ministry Moore family was present,”he recalls. opportunity where he could minister opportunities at the College and “As a child, I have no memory of and reach out more comprehensively throughout the local communities. missing a Sunday of church, even to the whole academic community. “Throughout the College’s history, while on vacation. I am sure it Moore began to dream of a time faith has been an important part of happened, but it was incredibly rare.” when he might not only minister on theYoung Harris College story.I am This early dedication and the periphery of a college campus as excited to be part of a vibrant commitment guided Moore’s aWesley Foundation director but to college community where I can discovery of what would be his interact with the entire college work to connect students, the vocational calling in life. He community as the campus minister Church and the College more graduated from Greensboro College for a small United Methodist college. concretely with their faith and each with a degree in religion and While serving at WCU,Moore other,”he said. philosophy,focusing on Christian began his doctoral ethics.After graduation, he married studies at Hood Amy Spivey,a fellow Greensboro Theological Seminary in College graduate. Both decided to Salisbury,N.C. Upon then continue their studies at Duke completing his University,completing master of coursework at Hood, he, divinity degrees and receiving along with his wife and ordination as Elders in the Western their young daughter, North Carolina Annual Conference Laura-Clare, moved to of the United Methodist Church. southeast England to Following their time at Duke, accept a year-long Moore and his wife moved to St. appointment with the Andrews, Scotland, where he British Methodist furthered his postgraduate research Church.While in studies as a Rotary International England, Moore served Scholar at St.Andrews University. as the lead pastor of five After returning to the U.S., Moore churches in the assumed charge of two rural United southwest section of the Methodist congregations in Surry Reading-Silchester County,N.C. Circuit and completed Reverend Dr. Timothy S. Moore Early in his vocational exploration, his doctoral studies. 5 Dr. Nick Bowman is YOUNGHARRISCOLLEGEWELCOMES working to establish a four-year concentration in Media Communication New Faculty in the Division of Humanities Department of Communications Seventeen new full-time DR.JENNIFER HUGHES Studies, having faculty members joinedYoung Assistant Professor of English conducted research, Harris College in August for the authored articles and 2009-2010 academic year. DR.LINDA JONES book chapters and Associate Professor of Biology Dr. Nick Bowman worked professionally in DIANE BAUMAN the subject area. He is Instructor of Mathematics KEVIN MILLER currently finishing his dissertation work at Instructor of Biology Michigan State University on the effects of DR.JAMES BISHOP user demand in video games on mood Assistant Professor of English DR.SARAH PALASCH repair and selective exposure behaviors.