Georgetown College Alumni Magazine | Winter 2012

Insights WINTER 2012

GEORGETOWN COLLEGE ALUMNI MAGAZINE

Agents of Change Provost’s Unusual Fundraising Efforts Enable Afghani Students to Seek a Better Homeland & a More International GC

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COVER STORY

Agents of Change

PUBLISHER Jim Allison

First-year Afghani students Nilofar Haidary and Sabera Daqiq are already making many on campus think with more global responsibility. They hope to leave GC with a great education in four years and return to Afghanistan to effect positive change.

NEWS EDITOR Jim Durham DesignER Laura Hatton ‘01 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Jim Durham, Jenny Elder, Dr. Rosemary Allen, Laura Owsley, Caitlin Knox, Jim Allison

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Photos Paul Atkinson, Lauren Meister, Richard Davis, Wesley Folsom For comments, questions and information, contact: Office of College Relations & Marketing 400 East College Street Georgetown, KY 40324-1696 insights@georgetowncollege.edu 502.863.8174

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Science Boon!

Sense of Community

A 2nd HHMI grant creates meaningful research opportunities for GC students.

Hambrick Village roomies first bonded over a memorable Knight Hall experience.

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Allison Martin Hunt

Finding Common Ground

2013 KY High School Teacher of the Year Lauds Liberal Arts.

Campus ministry’s student leaders appreciate GC’s Christian identity.

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Georgetown College admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin.

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OUR Miss Kentucky!

Milestone 150 Wins

Prepping for Miss America, Jessica Casebolt Treasures Her GC Experience.

Football Coach Bill Cronin Also Took Tigers to No. 1 in Regular Season!

Why GC?

10 A dozen-plus alumni – who are having exciting, fulfilling years – reflect on great Georgetown Experiences.

21 Graduate Education’s Broady Has a Very Meaningful Year

23 Tiger Sports Fall Roundup

25 Softball Coach Thornton on Verge of 300 Wins

26 Classnotes

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Donor Honor Roll

In Memoriam

INSIGHTS • 2

A message from our President In 1991, the trustees elected me as the 23rd president of Georgetown College. I was 39 years old,

and full of vision and hope for how this institution could move forward in preparing students for the frontier. The trustees challenged me to protect the academic freedom of this institution, while finding ways to strengthen the traditional method of learning at Georgetown: small classrooms, overhead projectors, landline connections, and textbooks purchased in the bookstore. Texting, social media, wireless Internet, and even cell phones were not a part of our vocabulary at that time. Now, two decades later, we look to a future where technology will continue its rapid evolution, and in turn, advance the methods of learning we currently apply. For leaders in higher education, it is a very challenging, yet exciting time period.

I have great hope for the future of this fine college: • We have a remarkable story with many chapters. Telling this story would include conversations about Rhodes and Fulbright scholars, the Oxford program, student accomplishments, decades of athletic success, nationallyrecognized faculty who have always built personal relationships with students, new dorms, a focus on civic and community engagement—and many more.

• We have a strong and dedicated board of trustees. They are well aware of our financial and residential housing challenges and are working to create strategies for the future. They have sought expert outside advice, are prepared to listen internally to ideas, and then will make the decisions they feel necessary to move forward. These trustees are men and women who are culturally and ethnically diverse. They are ministers, educators, financial experts, and entrepreneurs. They are alumni and parents of alumni, and are all Christians. Earl Goode, class of ’62, is their chairman. His day job is to serve as the chief of staff for the governor of Indiana, and prior to that, he was the CEO of GTE Informational Services. The vice chair is Bill Houston, CEO of Houston Consulting and the father of two GC alumni. His company advises small businesses in determining strategies for success. Our trustees are fiscally responsible for Georgetown College and will guide the institution forward.

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Dr. William H. Crouch, Jr. President, Georgetown College

• We are restructuring our enrollment recruiting efforts and have already experienced early success. Michelle Lynch is our new V.P. for Enrollment. She brings experience and excitement to our recruiting efforts. What we need from our alumni and friends is a loud and enthusiastic voice about the value of this place. We all need to be positive ambassadors and helpers in the recruitment of a new generation of Georgetown College alumni.

Because of the many challenges ahead and the need for new energy and vision, I have recently announced my retirement: • A college president’s job is never ending, seven days a week. I do have high energy, but 21 years at this pace is long enough. The realization that most of our students were born after I became President has gotten my attention.

• We now have six grandchildren who are six years of age and younger. The closest ones live over seven hours away.

Jan and I need and want to be with them more. We feel now is the time.

• As the college begins a new chapter, we will do the same.

We will continue to invest our lives in young people as we seek God’s guidance in the best way to serve.

One of the most important strategies right now for Georgetown College is to focus attention on how great this institution is, the pride we feel as Tigers, and how blessed we are to “live, learn and believe” in this place. A Presidential Search Committee has been appointed by Chairman Goode.

I urge you to pray for God’s leadership in the committee’s work. I will be president until June 30, 2013. And until that day, I will work as hard as I have in the past. I love Georgetown College and am grateful to have served here for the past 21 years. Go Tigers!

Sincerely,

Biology majors Ashley Fox and Dennis Propp with Dr. Tim Griffith, who teaches the Science Careers Seminar (part of the GCPALS program funded by HHMI) and helps our students in the Seminar find summer research internships.

2nd HHMI Grant Opens Research Experiences to More GC Students Earlier this year, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute selected Georgetown College for a second consecutive grant cycle to receive major funding ($1.1 million) for creating more engaging science classes, making real-world research experiences possible and increasing the diversity of students who study science. Dr. Mark Christensen continues to be the director of Georgetown’s HHMI Program.

GC, which received $1.3 million the first time (2008), was one of only 47 small colleges and universities in the U.S. awarded – and once again, the only Kentucky institution to get HHMI support! Said Provost Rosemary Allen, “This is compelling endorsement of what we do at Georgetown.”

Thus far, the grant has impressively allowed 55 students to do research projects working under leading scientists around the country. Two exemplary “faces” of this past summer’s 19 researchers are junior Biology majors Ashley Fox of Corbin and Dennis Propp of Crestwood. Not only are they committed Christian scholars, they’re also active in campus life.

Ashley Fox worked under Dr. Andrew M. Davidoff, pediatric surgeon and Department Chair of Surgery at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis. She spent almost every day in the lab doing research on glioblastomas (brain tumors). She especially loved volunteering once a week at the Memphis Grizzlies House, a place (similar to a hotel) where outpatients stay a few days while receiving care at St. Jude. She said, “My volunteering consisted of coming up with a theme and then planning activities for the kids

according to that theme.”

Interested in Pediatric Oncology for some time, Ashley is now considering other aspects of medicine. She said, “I have recently been thinking about plastic surgery so that I can help children with cleft lips and burn victims.”

Well known for her extracurricular activities – Dance Marathon (PR chair), the Student Abolitionist Movement (treasurer) and Habitat for Humanity (president), this Parks Scholar is in the Honors Program and tutors in several subjects. She always makes time to volunteer off campus with some career-related organization; this semester she’s interning with Mission Frankfort Clinic in the state capital.

A Chemistry and Psychology double minor, she’ll study the latter this spring at GC’s Oxford University partner, Regent’s Park College.

Dennis Propp worked in the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program under Dr. Derek J. Williams of the prestigious Nashville institution’s School of Medicine. The study was to determine the population-based incidence and etiology of community-acquired pneumonia that caused hospitalizations among children and adults in the U.S. He also got to shadow his mentor on his rounds in Vanderbilt’s Children’s Hospital. Dennis said, “I want to go into pediatrics one day, and working with him has really reinforced that goal. I have found a lot of particular interest on infectious disease, and perhaps doing research again in the future on various harmful bacteria and viruses to people.”

Dennis, who was born in Latvia, is a double minor in German and Chemistry. A Christian Leaders Scholar, he is involved in Lambda Chi Alpha’s food drives and has served as recruitment chair and ritualist. He’s also an Admissions tour guide, part of the Campus Outreach Leadership Team and SHMAC (Student Health Mental Advisory Council) and volunteers with Big Brothers/Big Sisters. • INSIGHTS • 4

COVER STORY Nilofar Haidary and Sabera Daqiq

Agents of Change Afghani Students Seek A Better Homeland & More International GC

I knew from the moment I read the application essays by Sabera and Nilofar that I had to do whatever I could to help them realize their dream of study in America.

The first lines of Sabera’s essay were haunting: “I am Sabera Daqiq— Daqiq in Dari means very precise and to the point. Yes. This is how life has taught me to be…..As an Afghan girl whose life’s merciless, unfavorable and unusual circumstances have gone through several ups and downs, atrocities and miseries, insults and deprivations, violations and discriminations, I am what my name says.” Her story of determination is inspiring—so much accomplished, and she’s only 17.

I was equally struck by Nilofar’s essay: “I am confident that my dedication and passion toward studying and working for womHow You en will lead me to reach my destination….Throughout Can Help my life, I have always known that helping others and A Message from being an effective person to others would be an imporRosemary Allen tant part of my career. My parents raised me with the belief that we must constantly struggle to touch the lives of the people around us, and I believe it with my full heart.” Both of these women are committed to making life better in a country that is at a tipping point.

Even before the tragic news of 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai’s shooting by the Taliban in Pakistan, Sabera and Nilofar had the bravery to risk their lives to pursue an ideal. How could I fail to support that courage?

I have pledged to raise $20,000 per year to help offset the college’s costs in providing these extraordinary women with an education. Fundraising is a task outside my comfort zone—I’m an academic—but I could not pass up this opportunity to make a difference in their lives. They have a mission—and my mission is to make their mission possible.

Thanks to gifts from faculty, alumni, and the Lillian Goldman Trust, we are partway to this year’s goal, but more help is needed. If you would like to help, please go to the Georgetown College website and make a gift directed to the “Afghani Student Fund.”

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By DR. ROSEMARY ALLEN

Nilofar Haidary and Sabera Daqiq are women with a mission - a mission of change for Afghanistan.

Both grew up in war-torn Afghanistan, fearful for their lives. Both spent time in refugee camps. But both also came from families that value and support education, and their mission is to expand the access to education in Afghanistan, particularly for women.

The two women learned about us through our partner, the Foundation for Afghanistan. Georgetown College has supported this mission by promising scholarship support for all four years of their college education.

They’ve earned this support through a lifetime of hard work and dedication.

Sabera was selling plastic bags in a refugee camp when she was four years old and has worked for most of her 17 years to support herself and help her family. Nilofar has worked to support herself and her family while seeking educational opportunity, including a year at the American University of Central Asia.

Both ardent supporters of rights and protection for women, Sabera and Nilofar acknowledge “We have always been different” in a society that has a tradition of limited expectations for women. The difference was increased when both spent a year of high school in America on scholarship. Sabera attended school in Frederick, Maryland (where she won a National History Day competition), and Nilofar studied in Euless, Texas (and raised money for the homeless as part of a project where she gave 100 hours of community service).

Upon their return to their home town of Kabul in Afghanistan, both found ways to use their education and fresh perspectives to serve their country. Nilofar became an activist in the organization Young Women for Change and took a stand in a public protest of the mistreatment of women. Her words in defense of the rights of women were quoted in press publications around the world. Sabera started an Englishlanguage library in Kabul, and a restaurant for women only (who can feel uncomfortable dining alone in public), and a website where Afghani women can sell handicrafts.

These two may be the same age as the typical American high school graduate, but they have already seen and done more than most American teens can imagine. And yet, in spite of everything, they are still simply young women heading off to college, learning time management skills and how to be prepared for the next test.

The biggest adjustment for both young women (ages 17 and 18) is that they are so far from their families. Nilofar talks of the more than 200 people in her extended family who will come together to support each other, part of a family that is more like a single unit than a collection of individuals. “Everyone helps, and no one expects thanks,” said Sabera; “It is like we are all one person. You don’t thank your hand for picking up a glass.”

Sabera credits much of her dedication to education to the support of her family. Her father used to go without medicines in the refugee camp in order to purchase the oil that fueled the lamp that allowed her to continue her studies.

Nilofar’s family risked the disapproval of their community to send their daughter to America for an education.

“American life is like a train,” said Sabera—you can plan to get on at the first stop, proceed peacefully to your destination, and take the trip for granted. “In Afghanistan, life ON THE COVER: Dr. Rosemary Allen, Provost of the College, left, with Sabera Daqiq and Nilofar Haidary. Nilofar, right, quickly got involved by writing for The Georgetonian, while Sabera has been elected to student government and serves as a senator. Both are also active in United Nations of Georgetown.

Photos by Lauren Meister ‘13

Afghanistan

is a roller coaster. We don’t know what comes next.” The uncertainties can be terrifying—but there is hope for a more stable future.

Daily life has changed in Kabul over the last several years, as refugees have returned home and brought with them their experiences from abroad. “The only thing that can make you stronger is your experiences,” said Sabera. “Experience teaches you to understand the hearts and cultures of other people.”

Both Sabera and Nilofar note that opportunities for women have increased in Kabul—“Girls can go to work and to school.” Returning refugees have brought a range of experiences and perspectives, and the culture in the city is more diverse.

“If the changes we have witnessed continue for 20 more years, it will be a very different country,” said Sabera. Both agreed that the biggest obstacle to progress is the lack of access to education—not only for women, but for youth in general. A limited number of university slots are available, and 30,000 applicants a year are turned away—“30,000 losing their hope every year because they miss educational opportunity.” The danger, Sabera suggests, is that these uneducated young people are more susceptible to the control of authoritarian leadership. “That’s how we get more Talibs.”

Both women decry government corruption and are concerned that too many government leaders remain the same, even when regimes change. They agree, “We need educated youth to replace that old leadership.”

These women see themselves as the leaders of the future.

“We have to help too. That’s why we are here,” said Sabera.

“I have to change the world for my children. I cannot wait and hope my children will change it for their children.”

They are grateful for their communities of support—their families in Afghanistan, their host families in the United States, the churches that have welcomed them, “…and the big community of Georgetown College that supports us to do what we are doing.” •

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Knight Hall Community Experience Turns ‘Three Musketeers’ into Stronger BFFs

By CAITLIN KNOX ‘14

ABOVE: Two thumbs up for their new digs, Hambrick Village! Lauren Von Ohlen, left, Kelsey Friedrich, and Keira Lopez are three of many young women who first bonded at Knight Hall over the years.

Photos by Wesley Folsom ‘15

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Georgetown College sophomores Keira Lopez, Lauren Von Ohlen and Kelsey Friedrich wouldn’t be the close friends and roommates they are today in popular, new Hambrick Village were it not for “surviving” Knight Hall together.

Looking back, Lauren remembers the sense of community more than any of the legendary inconveniences of the 52-year-old freshman women’s dormitory.

“Everyone is in the same boat and you just pull together…that makes you closer.”

One of Lauren’s favorite memories from freshman year was the last night before summer break. “We literally had mattresses all over our floor for other girls who were already packed-up to leave the next day,” she recalled.

In fact, Lauren and Kelsey always had an extra mattress in their room “for anyone with roommate issues or drama in their lives,” Lauren said. “It was also available to any girl whose roommate was going home for the weekend and didn’t want to sleep alone.”

Taking on the challenges of Knight Hall together and turning them into fun adventures certainly made this trio tight.

“People call us the ‘Three Amigos’ or ‘The Three Musketeers,’” the three roommates said in unison. They have each other on speed dial. “Everything we do together is an event,” said Lauren. “If they see Kelsey and me, they ask ‘where’s Keira?’ and vice versa.”

Randomly-picked roomies Lauren and Kelsey were in room 151 of Knight.

Keira, who met Lauren during freshman orientation, was at the opposite end of the hall in 123.

The three knew going in that Knight’s lack of air conditioning would be the biggest challenge, but were undaunted. “We knew to come prepared with lots of fans,” said Keira.

Originally from Denver, Kelsey had the hardest time with the Kentucky heat and

humidity. “I was struggling, because in Colorado it’s a very dry heat.”

The three became closer when Lauren and Kelsey soon moved right across the hall from Keira. “I don’t think the three of us would be as good of friends if that hadn’t happened,” Lauren said.

The trio started doing everything together. “We bonded over our skin frying (Sun Tan City’s Free Tanning Week), taking turns driving, and we all shared the addiction of Starbucks,” Kelsey said. They got involved in Ashley Fritsch, top left, a fourth roommate, and Haley Ingram, far right, a senior from Owensboro campus activities like SHMAC (Student Catholic High on a campus visit, joined Kelsey, left, Keira and Lauren in their Hambrick kitchenette.

Healthy Mentality Awareness Club) and GSI (Georgetown Sustainability “I actually have the option to take a bath,” Keira added.

Initiative). They were orientation leaders for this year’s They plan to start cooking soon. “We are going to bake in the freshman class, and Lauren and Kelsey co-host a radio show, commons because they have brand new ovens,” Kelsey said.

“The Fuzz,” Wednesday nights on the campus station (WRVG).

Much like Knight Hall, there is a community aspect that They also found that pranking helped laugh away the they all love. “Everyone’s doors are always open to anyone, struggles of Knight Hall. “I used to prank everyone in the and there is a good group of people that live here,” Keira said. hallway,” Keira admitted. “My roommates and I went up and They haven’t tried the doormat prank in Hambrick, but down each floor and warned it may happen soon. “The games will begin...It will be switched everyone’s all-out war,” Kelsey promised. • doormats.”

That was the first of many pranks that went on in - Kelsey Friedrich, on why a Colorado their hall. Months girl would choose GC for college of planning went into giant pyramids of cups so a neighbor couldn’t open her door, covering an entire wall in Post-It notes and enveloping an entire car with newspapers, with Post-Its blocking the windows.

All three friends are involved in athletics in some form: Keira, an Exercise Science and Psychology double minor (Communications major) from Louisville, is on the varsity tennis team and is an intramurals supervisor; Lauren, an Athletic Training major and Global Scholar from Louisville, is a member of the varsity golf team; Kelsey, a Communications/ Business double major, works in the Athletics Department.

After making the most of their shared Knight Hall experiences, the trio decided to live together in Hambrick Village, or “The Brick of Ham,” as they fondly call the recently dedicated townhouses on Military Street. So far, Kelsey said “it’s good! We lucked out.” When asked what they liked best about their new living quarters so far, the responses varied.

“I can walk around barefoot, it’s the best feeling in the world,” Kelsey said with a sigh.

“I can shower without shower shoes!” Lauren exclaimed.

how I ended up here.

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Owsley Was ‘Meant to Be’ Alumni Relations Director

Director’s Spotlight: Farabee/Pearce Family Throughout my Georgetown experiences, I have met a lot of multi-generational and multi-layered connections with the College. I have a short family line myself, including my sister, niece, and several cousins who attended or graduated from GC. One such group is the Farabee/Pearce family. Sarah Farabee Pearce ’00 and Troy Pearce ’01 are perfect examples of class and courage, always finding hope in times of doubt. And their Georgetown family (both related and acquired) has been a real source of encouragement.

Sarah chose Georgetown to keep the family tradition alive, following in the footsteps of her sister, Melanie Farabee Christmas (‘97), father, Gerald Farabee (‘70), uncle, Darrell Farabee (‘70) and brother-in-law Scott Christmas (‘97). She met her husband, Troy, during her senior year while attending Men’s Bid Day. They’ve been married for 11 years. Sarah told me, “I have so many good memories - Songfest with my Sigma Kappa sorority sisters, representing PHA in Belle of the Blue, and those simple recollections of spending some of the best years living with my best friends. I hope our children continue the tradition.”

Troy is a member of Kappa Alpha and played on the golf team.

He attended dental school at the University of Kentucky. He now has a dental practice in Cincinnati’s Carew Tower. Troy said, “There are so many memories from activities involving KA, the golf team and our spring break trips to Myrtle Beach escorted by Coach Flash Williams, to meeting my wife-to-be on Bid Day. GC and KA molded me into the husband, father, and doctor that I am today. I hope my kids will be able to share Georgetown with us.”

Following in Sarah and Troy’s footsteps will hopefully be a wave of future Tigers – including Hagen (age 9), Catcher (age 5), and two-year-old triplets Campbell, Presley and Macallan. “Our little Presley is nothing short of a miracle, born at 1-lb, 6-oz and enduring 8 surgeries so far,” said Sarah. “Our friends from Georgetown have been so wonderful and a consistent support.”

Sarah and Troy will always be a part of the Georgetown family – and families support each other in the good times and the bad.

Their story is a classic example of what many others have experienced during their years at GC. We are forever connected. I can’t wait to see these future Tigers take this campus by storm!

My Georgetown College journey started long ago when, as a goofy eight-year-old, I got the chance to hang out with my sister and her friends who were living in Flowers Hall. I was the wide-eyed kid Laura Owsley who loved being on campus to visit. I’d say that my coming to Georgetown as a student was ‘meant to be’! A few years later, I remember an impromptu visit to campus with my parents one wintry day as we were headed to a basketball game just down the road. Mrs. Joyce Davis was there to greet me and walk me around campus. Yes, my decision was made. I was going to be a Georgetown Tiger!

The rest, as they say, is history. I loved my days at Georgetown so much that I came back as an employee in 2005! I love being surrounded every day by caring and talented faculty and staff along with bright and compassionate students.

I have also met some amazing alumni over the years who have achieved great success as a result of their Georgetown experience. I love hearing their stories, such as how a professor gave them a push to go for their dreams or how they still get together with their GC buddies 50 years later. The Georgetown experience was, and still is, the best time of my life.

In July 2012, I transitioned into my dream job as Director of Alumni Relations. It has been a whirlwind few months - everything one can imagine, from forming a new Alumni Board to planning Homecoming festivities to hosting alumni events. But I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world. GC is trying to connect with more alumni; we want to hear from you! Maybe you’ve landed a new job, retired from your career, gotten married, had a baby, or moved to a new city. Let us know! We want to brag about our wonderful alumni to prospective students (future Tigers!) but we can’t do it if we don’t know what you’re doing! I encourage you to go to the Georgetown College Online Alumni Community to reconnect with your friends. It’s easy to sign up – go to my.georgetowncollege.edu/ICS/ Alumni/.

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Why a student chooses Georgetown College is often answered with “because it just ‘fit’ me” or “everyone was so welcoming and smiling.” Once out in the world, GC alumni generally point to academic excellence, study abroad, involvement in campus and/or Greek life, faculty members who reached out and changed their direction, and the lifelong friendships.

What follows are a baker’s dozen mini-profiles of devoted Georgetown alumni who’ve recently been in the news, or going in new, interesting directions. They’ll tell you Why GC!

Melanie Ladd’s Experience Invaluable to GC Now Melanie Thomas Ladd ’94 is the perfect alumna to speak to prospective students about her alma mater, to rev up fellow alumni in the Lexington area to reconnect with GC and, as part of the search committee, to help the College identify candidates for a successor to President Crouch.

A member of our newly created Alumni Advisory Board, Melanie has taken service to Georgetown College to a level few could without such a unique leadership background. On top of being SGA Speaker of the House one year, and president of Sigma Kappa’s ’92 pledge class, she was a President’s Ambassador – learning how to talk to and represent in front of successful alumni and donors, and help President Crouch reach her fellow students.

Ambassador Melanie’s life would never be the same after speaking at a GC Foundation Board retreat at Johnson & Johnson headquarters in NJ. “Being a PA really prepared me for going out into the business world,” said Melanie, who first took full advantage of her liberal arts education and changed majors from Chemistry (pre-dentistry) to Political Science. She then would decide against law school after college and ran a large transportation and logistics business instead. The company’s biggest client turned out to

Melanie and Jason Ladd, who didn’t really know each other until after graduating in ’94, at the Young Alumni Tent at Homecoming 2012. Jason, a Lambda Chi who graduated summa cum laude in Marketing & Finance, is now a CPA and Controller for Exceptional Living Centers.

be the Federal Reserve Bank and she credits the PA experience for preparing her to “sit down with” its board.

Before Melanie went into the business world full-time, President Crouch recruited her to be his administrative assistant for two years. “Working with Dr. Crouch, I really got to see how a college operates,” said Melanie, whose knowledge should be invaluable during the upcoming presidential search.

Also, as a member of the Alumni Advisory Board, she knows how important their role is in the critical area of recruiting students – as well as representing alums who are passionate about Georgetown. “We realize now that if each one of us recruits one student a year that brings in a lot of

needed money to the college,” she said.

“Besides, we are the best at recruiting… we know what we got from the Georgetown Experience.”

Putting her actions where her mouth and heart are, Melanie was a table host at last spring’s Celebrating Scholars dinner for gifted high school seniors who were considering GC. Then, she was a featured speaker on Move-In Day 2012, telling freshmen (and their parents), “Georgetown College is your blank slate and you will leave a better version of yourself.”

Having sold the company two years ago, Melanie’s having a blast devoting more time to making her alma mater stronger. That includes, as Regional Alumni Coordinator for Fayette County, organizing a couple of events a year in Lexington such as a recent Keeneland tailgate. E-mail her at melanie_ladd@ georgetowncollege.edu if you have a suggestion, or just want to connect.

She also has time now to finish her first novel and perhaps prove professor Todd Coke right nearly 20 years later. (“He said, ‘you need to be an English major’.”)

Melanie isn’t sure she wants to publish this work of Christian fiction.

“This may just be a learning process,” she said. “But, someday I hope to write vocationally.” • INSIGHTS • 10

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Paul Archey, who oversees the World Baseball Classic, spoke at the opening of the MLB Academy in Wuxi, China.

Baseball’s Paul Archey Knows the Global Marketplace As Major League Baseball’s Senior Vice President of International Business Relations, Paul Archey ’85 is overseeing perhaps the biggest global sporting event outside the Olympics and soccer’s World Cup. “What makes those events successful is the name of the country across the chest,” said Paul, who knows the World Baseball Classic holds unique personal interest for American fans. “Here you may see (Cincinnati Reds stars) Joey Votto playing for Canada and Johnny Cueto for the Dominican Republic.”

Expanded from 16 countries to 28, the 2013 Classic has not been a hard sell. “A lot of countries were chomping at the bit to get in,” said Paul, who was at the helm of the first two classics in ’06 and ’09.

The first round sites – Phoenix; Fukuoka, Japan; Taichung, Taiwan; and San Juan, Puerto Rico – are evidence that he still has to do a lot

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of international traveling. Miami and Tokyo are hosts for the second round; San Francisco has the semis and finals.

Georgetown gave Paul Archey an opportunity to play baseball – second base and shortstop – and eventually make an Athletes in Action team that played in such countries as Sweden and Czechoslovakia. “Now, 30 years later, the Czech Republic is competing in the WBC,” he proudly mused.

As for the classroom, Paul said, “Georgetown gave me a liberal arts education that served me well as a foundation to move forward.”

Georgetown is also where this Phi Tau met the Kappa Delta he married, Deena Johnson ‘85. In a Sports Business Daily feature on him two years ago, Archey gave her this praise for being a major influence in his career: “My wife, who encouraged me to take chances and supported me when I did.” What it didn’t say was Deena gave him a copy

of Shoeless Joe – the book from which the movie Field of Dreams was based – when they were engaged in ‘89 and urged him to dream big.

Deena completed her graduate studies at Columbia University (Teachers College), then taught and supervised student teachers in NYC and Australia before becoming a stay-athome mother.

While raising their children, she volunteered extensively at their church, the Darien (CT) schools and community involving fundraising and civic projects. Currently she’s a deacon at Norton Heights Presbyterian.

The Archeys have three children: Jake, a sophomore at Bucknell University and catcher on the baseball team; Megan, a freshman at Wake Forest University, where she plays club field hockey; and Peter, a high school sophomore who plays football and baseball. •

Many Enjoy Sharing in Anita Smith’s Successes Seems like every faculty member who had a part in the GC Experience of Anita Smith ’11 is eager to stay in her loop. The day before she began working with a Louisville accounting firm this October, she visited with 10 former professors (two English, two Spanish, five Business, and lunch with History professor Ellen Emerick).

All are enjoying Anita’s success, which almost seemed guaranteed once the College’s Brian Evans heavily recruited her from the high school where he’d done some football coaching, Louisville’s Pleasure Ridge Park. She felt so wanted here she passed on a full ride to Howard University.

“Georgetown just seemed to ‘fit’ me,” she recalled.

Ernst & Young, where she’s a staff

Proud of her graduate work at Wake Forest, Anita Smith ‘11 met up in the WOW Grille with English professor Kimberly Gift, one of 10 GC professors she visited one day.

auditor now, saw a future star employee during a second summer internship and signed her to a contract two years ago! Not one to waste any time during her college career, Anita did an internship in nonprofit accounting her first summer, then expanded her world by working for Teach for America the summer after graduation.

African American leaders in her hometown recognized her star quality in the fall of her junior year. Anita was invited to be one of three speakers

President’s Pick, Wife Make Most of Second Chance In many ways – especially faith and determination – Doug and Laura (Levy) McDonald came back stronger than ever from a head-on automobile accident in 2008. Both had serious, multiple injuries, but Doug had to relearn to walk, talk and think critically.

A GC groundskeeper at the time of the wreck, Doug worked hard at rehabilitation and gradually earned his degree this Spring in Psychology – winning the department’s top award at Academic Honor’s Day. Now in the University of Kentucky’s Rehabilitation Counseling program and serving as their student government co-president, he looks back on his

After receiving the President’s Honor Award at Commencement 2012 from Dr. Crouch, right, Doug McDonald posed with his wife, Laura, and their daughter, Clarke Elizabeth

Georgetown experience with great appreciation. “Many of my professors went out of their way in giving ideas about what I could do post-graduation that would be meaningful.”

Doug is using his education and second chance at life to work with the brain injury community and be a strong advocate for legislation in support of post-acute cognitive rehabilitation.

at the Who’s Who in Black Louisville Celebration. Bishop Scholar Stella Brown ’10 and successful businessman and former U of L basketball star Junior Bridgeman were the others.

While excelling in the classroom, Anita was quietly active in Ambassadors for Diversity and at the Writing Center. She was also invited to join the honorary society Phi Kappa Phi. Dr. Crouch noticed Anita’s potential, selecting her for his President’s Honor Award at Commencement 2011.

“I was so shocked,” she said. “That was extremely meaningful. It was really nice to know that hard work pays off and that people recognize what you do publicly and privately.”

The president also steered her to his alma mater, which has the No. 1 CPA pass rate in the nation. Wake Forest University climbed aboard her starship and awarded her a full tuition scholarship. A year later, naturally she passed the CPA exam and graduated with distinction. •

Laura ’06 had a great Georgetown campus life experience, playing all intramural sports and running with leadership opportunities such as being president of Sigma Kappa in 2005.

Laura said, “I was fortunate to receive a great education in the classroom, but am most thankful for an out-ofclassroom experience my junior year.”

Laura became hooked on eventplanning after she and best friend Emily (Collins) Green planned a luncheon and scramble to raise funds for GC’s golf team and First Tee Scholars.

Small wonder she’s already director of marketing and training for Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing. Laura even taught event-planning as a Georgetown adjunct before receiving her MS in Integrated Marketing Communications from West Virginia University in May. In November, she started Impressions Marketing and Events. • INSIGHTS • 12

why GC?

Love of Teaching Won Out for Allison Hunt In mid-October, Allison Martin Hunt ‘99, an AP Geography teacher at Louisville’s duPont Manual, was named 2013 Kentucky High School Teacher of the Year – one of the three top prizes awarded by Ashland Inc. and the Kentucky Department of Education.

When she entered Georgetown College, teaching was in the back of her mind, but she was dissuaded by others at the time from pursuing education as a career. Yet, today she says some of her best models of teaching came from here. It is significant to her that professors at Georgetown “are focused on teaching students as opposed to research,” Allison said.

Drs. Zahi Haddad and Keon Chi helped her develop an area studies major integrating Political Science and Business Administration. “Since I had knowledge of economics, government, and history I have been able to teach a wide variety of courses which has not only benefited my INSIGHTS • 13

career, but has benefited my students,” she said the week after winning the Ashland award. “As a result, I think of everything in an interdisciplinary manner.”

She also loved that a small liberal arts college allowed her to be so active. In the two-plus years it took for Allison to graduate (!), she managed a successful Investment Team, was Speaker Pro Tempore with AGS (forerunner to SGA), competed on the Speech and Debate team, and was a member of Phi Mu.

She loved her first job out of college as an investment representative, experiencing success as a beginning broker; but she did not enjoy the sales aspect. She said, “When I sat down and really thought about what I enjoyed and what I felt like I was meant to do I kept coming back to the same thing - teaching.” Fortunately, the same company enabled her to assist another investment representative so she could get her MA in Teaching at the University of Louisville. •

Allison with first-graders Sasha (7), left, and Losha (6) whom she and Toney Hunt adopted from Russia 2 ½ years ago.

Her husband is a senior director of finance for a Louisville engineering firm.

Hearnes Believe in Third Chance Joshua ’05 and Jessica (Forge) ‘04 Hearne serve as missionaries to the homeless, near-homeless, poor and addicted in southern Virginia.

Commissioned in June by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, they lead – and live within – the intentional Christian community called Grace & Main Fellowship in Danville, VA. It has no building, but spends 100 percent of donations on direct service.

“This is cutting-edge ministry,” said Academy of Preachers founder Dwight Moody, Dean of Chapel when the Hearnes were at Georgetown and now on Joshua’s Third Chance Ministries board. “To move in as resident missionaries to this urban community is striking, noble, innovative.”

But, when Joshua came to Georgetown, he had given up on Jesus

and Christianity – until his professors of Religion and Philosophy (his double major) convinced him to read the Scriptures again. Joshua, who was on a Pastors Christian Leadership scholarship, rediscovered that “love was big enough to change the world.”

He added, “Georgetown College gave me the freedom to explore these questions without providing answers.”

Jessica, a Parks Scholar, was a member of Phi Mu, the Academic Team, the Dean’s Ambassadors and Phi Kappa Phi. In part because they both

Last December, Dave Huffman and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice posed with one of the refugee families at Pleasant Hill Presbyterian near Atlanta. He thought it especially appropriate since these relocated Burmese people came to the U.S. through the auspices of the State Department. Rice, a close cousin of one of Huffman’s team members, visits the church every year around Christmas.

GC Gave Huffman Much of His Humanitarian Spirit For the last decade of his career, Dave Huffman ’80 was Chief Scientist for the division of an Atlanta company

that primarily produced pilot’s cockpit displays for all types of military aircraft.

He was responsible for research and development of new products and technologies. As an engineer with L-3 Communications Display Systems, he knows the excitement of developing futuristic devices like roll-up computer

were in Chorale and Chamber Singers, the couple started dating when he was a sophomore. As a senior, Joshua agreed to serve as Chorale president a second time “if they agreed to call me ‘Caesar’,” he laughed.

The GC Chorale again proved to be important to the couple last spring.

Director John Campbell was uncertain about the group’s annual spring tour itinerary until he heard from Joshua.

“You need to come here,” he implored; his prayer was answered.

Joshua must support himself through fundraising as he does God’s work with Grace & Main. Jessica, who was an Art major (with teacher certification) and History minor, teaches third grade.

A volunteer missionary, Jessica said, “This gives us an opportunity to minister to some of the most marginalized people in this part of Virginia.” She added, “That’s what we are passionate about – building relationships with people indiscriminately.” •

screens that fit in your pocket.

When his wife, Laura, took on a new career as an intellectual property attorney with a major international law firm, Dave decided on early retirement (at age 53) and being a stay-at-homedad for their 15-year-old son, Matthew.

Then, while searching for meaningful ways to volunteer, Dave had a “real God moment” – his pastor in Duluth, GA, showed him he could be truly vital to refugee families relocating to the area from the Chin State of Burma. “(The refugees) trust me completely,” he said with reverent appreciation of his rare situation. He takes great pleasure in driving the Burmese parents to such appointments as teacher conferences or the dentist, while also trying to help them become independent. “I’m seeing everything through new eyes, and it’s fun to explain things that most Americans Continued on page 17 INSIGHTS • 14

why GC?

Professor Emeritus of History Lindsey Apple, left, caught up with his former student, Tim Furnish, in October.

Islamic World Expert Learned to Think for Himself Here A leading scholar on Islam and its many sects, Tim Furnish ’82 has words of wisdom for the majority of us who don’t understand how a large number of Muslims around the world, including violent Jihadists, would hate the United States.

“It’s possible for – and even, sometimes, incumbent upon – Americans in general and Christians in particular to disagree with Muslims without rancor; we don’t have to sacrifice either our Western values or our Christian beliefs in order to be their friends,” said Tim, who recently had several impactful sessions with our Global Scholars and other students.

“Islam truly is a different system, religiously and politically, and we should not be afraid to point that out; but it is a religion and civilization in which there is much good, and many good people – which we should never forget.”

Worth remembering, Tim pointed

out during that campus visit in early October (just after the terrorist attack on the American embassy in Libya): the number of Muslims in the U.S. has doubled since 9/11.

That same fateful year of 2001, he finished a Ph.D. in Islamic History at Ohio State University. Now an Islamic World Consultant to the U.S. Military – as well as an author – Tim was an Arabic linguist in the 101st Airborne Division during the Reagan years.

With an M.A.R. in Church History and Theology from Concordia Seminary, he was commissioned as a (Christian) Army chaplain.

The fascinating path Tim has taken started in college. He wrote, “Georgetown taught me to think for myself within Christian parameters.

Dr. Fred Hood, who was at that time head of the American Studies program, taught me to read and think analytically. I also learned at Georgetown – via fraternity life, student

government, sports, The Georgetonian and even intramurals – how to fit into communities (some with people quite different than I had grown up around in Warsaw, KY)…and just how important such small, close-knit groups are.“ And, active Tim was: Phi Tau fraternity, including president in 1981; SGA Executive Council, 1981-82; The Georgetonian as writer, political editor and co-editor, 1979-82; Varsity Baseball as a freshman and Track (javelin) as a junior.

From Steve May, professor of English as well as his close friend to this day, he said he learned “the value of being both a gentleman and a scholar.”

Always refreshingly outspoken, Tim added, “Although, in my case, perhaps the latter root took more than the former.”

He and the retired Dr. May get together sometimes still “to go watch the Bard at the Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta.” •

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Networking Pays Off with TV Gigs A Communication & Media Studies major and Political Science minor, Hillary Thornton ’12 couldn’t have picked a more fitting first day in the real work world at WYMT-TV – Nov. 5, the day before Election Day. “WKYT’s eastern Kentucky station is a perfect place for me to start my reporting career,” said the former News Director for WRVG, the campus radio station. She anchored its daily newscasts and also worked for Tiger Sports Network. Hillary was also involved in SGA as a Senate member and served Sigma Kappa as Executive Vice President and the VP of Membership; plus she organized the sorority’s Purple Tie Affair fund-raiser for Alzheimer’s last year.

Landing the television job is the result of several smart moves: Hillary

Varied Background Readies Otis for Starting Gate Mandy Smith Otis ’98 helped launch The Race for Education in central Kentucky before being appointed in August to the newly created position of executive director of its offshoot, Starting Gate – a college readiness and reading program designed to engage middle school children.

Prior to landing on her current Education path, this Political Science major (History and Philosophy double minor) put together a wonderfully varied background – including extensive experience writing grants along the way: five years with a software/finance company in Nashville, an MA in International Relations from the University of Kentucky’s Patterson School of Diplomacy and International

During her post-graduate internship at NBC during the Olympics, Hillary Thornton worked with full-timers on the Today Show, Dateline, MSNBC, Rock Center, and Nightly News. Her boss while there, Kaare Numme, is a producer for Sunday Night Football.

jumped at the chance to be a student greeter at a March 2011 reception for Tom Hammond, guest of one of Billy Reed’s “Conversations with Champions,” and she let the famed NBC sports commentator recommend her for a post-graduate internship at the network’s New York headquarters. She won a coveted spot to work 10-12-hour days during NBC’s round-the-clock

coverage of the London Olympics!

“As a young journalist, getting to work in what I see as the Mecca for broadcast news...30 Rock was a once in a lifetime opportunity,” she said.

“And I certainly owe the opportunity to Tom Hammond and the networking I was able to do at GC.” Hillary only got one day off during the Olympiad, but loved every minute.

Even before the Games started, she logged all the scenic shots from London and created graphics. During the Games, she worked in the main feed room and made sure all the correct events were coming in on the right channel; then she clipped the event or interview to send to whichever show was airing it. She also got to edit some highlight packages that were shown.

“The crazy hours, fast pace, and competitiveness are a few of the things that made me fall more in love with the career and realize it is perfect for me,” Hillary said. •

Starting Gate director Mandy Otis, right, looked in on GC intern Allie White, a sophomore Education major from Lawrenceburg, as she worked with Bourbon County Middle sixth-graders Hailey and Thomas.

Commerce, then jobs with state Congressman Ben Chandler and later the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security.

“Because it was small, Georgetown prepared me to wear a lot of hats,” said Mandy, who was an orientation leader, a VP of Standards for Kappa Delta, and a President’s Ambassador.

“Being a P.A. was real exposure to leadership. Dr. Crouch took me to talk to the board of Johnson & Johnson (NJ) about the program…and that broke

down my insecurities,” said the native of Catlettsburg, who moved to Hazard at 15 and graduated from high school there.

One of her years, the Ambassadors went to Italy – “my first time in Europe and that gave me the travel bug.” She claims that Dr. Keon Chi influenced her applying later to the Patterson School.

Mandy and her husband, Jason (owner of Catbird Printing), have been married six years. They have two sons – Isaac, 4, and Landon, 1. • INSIGHTS • 16

why GC?

Andrea Heflin ‘05, sporting her beloved Orange & Black colors, helped close friend Ashley Moore Anderson ’05 coordinate a reception last December for New York area alumni at NFL headquarters in midtown Manhattan.

Making the Right Moves, NFL’s Heflin Shows She’s Got Game

Andrea Heflin ’05 didn’t merely dream of working in football at the highest level, she put herself in great positions – from manager of the GC football team to summer internships with the Cincinnati Bengals. She also did post-graduate internships with the Mid-South Conference headquarters and the NFL Indianapolis Colts.

The latter led to another internship and eventual job with the National Football League.

Today, Heflin is a coordinator in the NFL’s football operations department working primarily with their free High School Player Development program which hosts camps all over the country. Sponsored by the National Guard, HSPD is part character development, part football fundamentals. She’s currently involved with the planning of a national 7-on-7 tournament for high school players who will be on squads representing all 32 NFL teams in July.

Heflin loved football so much when she came to GC that she acted upon some players’ suggestion that she “do the water” for Coach Bill Cronin’s squad. She attended as a fan the 2001 NAIA national title game won by the Tigers, then went as team manager in ‘02 when they were runners-up.

“I did everything the football team did except put on the pads,” recalled Heflin, who worked her way up to filming for the offense. However, she worked most closely with defensive coach Bruce Owens.

She so immersed herself in campus life – such as Phi Mu and sports editor of The Georgetonian – that she was named Ms. Georgetown as a senior. She graduated Phi Kappa Phi and summa cum laude with majors in Communications and Psychology.

Heflin said she originally wanted to be a foreign ambassador, but after a few classes realized her passion was Psychology, not Political Science.

“Dr. (Karyn) McKenzie helped shape my desire to incorporate psychology into what I do with the NFL,” said Heflin, who’s considering getting a doctorate in the field. “I ask myself: How can I present material to the underserved that’s effective, but not offensive?” •

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take as commonplace. Try explaining Halloween to a refugee from Burma!”

For Dave, who has taught elementary Sunday School for years, these humanitarian efforts are likely ingrained. He was raised Southern Baptist by Clark and June Huffman, both GC Class of ’56.

“And, the Christian atmosphere at Georgetown College is instilled. It may lay dormant a while, but you don’t ever INSIGHTS • 17

lose that,” said Dave, who was sports editor of The Georgetonian back then.

Being a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, he said, “helped me learn how to get along with people.”

As a participant in Georgetown’s dual degree program, he received a B.S. in Physics from GC and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech. “Tech taught me engineering, but Georgetown gave me

so much of who I am,” said Dave, who reveres the relationships he had with influencing professors like Steve Dyer and Bart Dickinson.

“I’ve had no contact with Georgia Tech professors since college, but 30 years later there are Georgetown teachers who remember me,” said Dave, a proud member of the President’s Club. You may reach him at davehuffman@comcast.net. •

Survivor and Winner, Caldwell Loves to Inspire Noel Caldwell ’02 can’t seem to get enough of his alma mater. A popular campus visitor, the attorney-turnedstate-administrator has spoken to political science classes, chemistry classes and our First Tee Scholars – and just before Election Day, he accompanied his boss, Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, who stressed the importance of voting.

While a criminal prosecutor in Lexington, Noel became friends with Grimes and her husband. She asked him to be her campaign treasurer, and after winning, Grimes asked Noel to be her Director of Business Filings.

“I really enjoy the legislative end, working with the state senators and representatives,” said Noel, whose office registers every new business that comes into Kentucky.

Noel’s real calling, though, is

Noel Caldwell, left, with Dr. Susan Campbell and Matt Dudgeon after her Chemistry & Cancer Class

inspiring everyone to be checked for cancer – for he realizes he’s lucky to have survived testicular cancer that had spread to his liver. He’s passionate about serving on the University of Kentucky’s Markey Cancer Center Advisory Board. Cancer-free for seven years, Noel has talked to schools in Fayette County and never misses a chance to speak to Dr. Susan Campbell’s “Chemistry and Cancer Class” at GC. As a student, Noel took classes from Dr. Keon Chi and vividly remembers 9/11, when the popular Political Science professor “was crying as he

Jonathan Fredrick, left, movie veteran Tom Berenger, and Boyd Holbrook in a scene from “Hatfields & McCoys”

Is Fredrick Hollywood’s Real McCoy? As the besotted, emotive Jefferson McCoy in the History Channel’s “Hatfields & McCoys” earlier this year, Jonathan Fredrick ’01 met a shocking, sudden end – a bullet between the eyes from a long-rifle across the Tug River. He’s hoping that the acclaimed miniseries will be his second big career break.

Three Emmy parties later he’s made some good connections. “Some doors

opened – some meetings, some good relationships, but no new roles,” Fredrick said from Los Angeles.

But, he’s undeterred. “Perseverance will be the biggest part for me,” said Fredrick, who took a chance on a Hollywood internship as a student because of a kind word from GC Theatre professor George McGee. Fredrick briefly played outfield for

explained the dynamics of terrorism… and what was going on that day.” He appreciated Jon Dalager, also an attorney, for making a Civil Rights class “as close to a law school class as he could.”

But, it was GC Football Coach Bill Cronin whose words and lessons gave him the courage to go to law school – and perhaps fight cancer as well. “I can’t say enough about Cronin,” said Noel, who played wide receiver for those Tiger national championship teams of 2000 and ’01, and ’02 NAIA runners-up. “He taught me to be a man…no short-cuts.” • GC’s baseball Tigers, but he really wanted to act – and wasn’t sure he could. He took all of McGee’s classes; and, one day his life changed. “I’d just delivered a monologue from ‘Hamlet’ in class and George came up and said: ‘You should consider doing Shakespeare in the Park’.”

“That was the first validation I’d ever gotten,” recalled Fredrick. “One comment like that (from your professor) can mean the world!”

He’s in a short film he wrote and directed – “Love in Our Time” – costarring Kristen Renton (of TV’s “Sons of Anarchy”). He’s also written his first feature film, a noir thriller, “Bleeding Man.” And, he’s seeking a producer.

The movie is about a mysterious man who emerges from the desert with a bullet in his gut and whispers of stashed drug money, prompting a single father to risk his life for a better future. • INSIGHTS • 18

Students Are Finding Common Ground Here Live. Learn. Believe and Serve!

One of the changes that we made in 2012 was to switch the name of Campus Ministry to Common Ground. Common Ground is a place where students from different backgrounds come together to grow deeper relationships with God and each other. This ministry is led by twelve students who serve on its Leadership Team.

I recently asked members of this Team what role Georgetown College’s Christian identity played in their decision to enroll here. Some saw it as a major draw.

Phillip Davis, a senior Religion and Spanish double-major who just spent a semester studying in Chile, reports, “I wanted to go to a Christian school, but not a Bible College because I wanted to be challenged in my faith. I know that an important part of growth is gaining new perspectives and learning new things. My view on the world is different in a fantastic way, more well-rounded. I see God as much bigger now. What’s led to that has been serving others and the theology I’ve learned; putting faith into practice by meeting people’s needs.

Phillip, a Somerset native, added, “One night for Rooted –[our Tuesday night student-led worship gathering – we went out into the community to serve people. I was with a group

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Samantha Whitlock of the Common Ground Leadership Team got a hug from one of the children at Mission Arlington during one of GC’s alternative spring break trips last March. She’s a junior Education major from Louisville.

that baked cookies and took them to firemen. Others went to a local apartment complex and had a block party with Hispanic residents there.”

Michelle Ballard, a senior Psychology major who aspires to a vocation in pastoral counseling, said, “I chose Georgetown because it is a Christian school, not just because of its academics. I’ve always felt a call to ministry but I didn’t really know what that looked like until I got here.”

A junior from Means, KY, Michelle added, “I’ve learned more about that call through the service-learning project I did with Central Church of God, through serving on the Common Ground Leadership Team and through an internship at the Interfaith Counseling Center. And I’ve learned what it truly means to love God and to love people.”

Unlike his peers, Shawn Marcum did not come to Georgetown College because it is Christian. “My choice was not based on religion. I felt like my relationship with God was strong enough that it didn’t matter to me what the school’s affiliation was. But the ironic thing is that when I got involved in some Religion classes I became aware of how my whole religious background was changing.”

The junior from Louisa, KY, continued, “I started to study the Bible more on my own. I went from taking the spoonfed approach to really digging in deep myself. The College’s affiliation is significant because it has allowed me to take what was given to me and to make it my own, learning how to flesh out my own beliefs rather than just repeating what I’ve heard others teach.” •

Godspeed, OUR Miss Kentucky,

Jessica Casebolt

Fittingly, the 5’11” Jessica Casebolt will sing “Superstar” at Miss America.

The moment in July rising GC sophomore Jessica Casebolt heard her named called as Miss Kentucky 2012, she wondered what she’d be missing about campus life and her Sigma Kappa sorority sisters the next year. It took a minute for her to realize she’d be representing her beloved state and Georgetown in the Miss America Scholarship Pageant in Las Vegas come January.

And, no one could show more pride in her College and her Commonwealth than Jessica.

When ABC (which will broadcast the pageant live Jan. 12) chose Miss Kentucky to likely be one of a handful of candidates featured in a documentary the hour before, she convinced them to film her at a Sigma meeting and a roundtable discussion with professors Barbara Burch (English), Heather Hunnicutt (Music), George McGee (Theatre), and Director of Alumni Relations Laura Owsley.

Jessica is so appreciative and genuine, people bend over backwards to be there for her. The Blue-hot Kentucky Wildcats basketball coach even worked her into his schedule and let her wear his NCAA title ring for filming. That little coup landed her in a recent Wall Street Journal sports feature (“It’s John Calipari’s World”) pictured along with such luminaries as Barrack Obama, Bill Clinton, Jay-Z, Billy Crystal, and others.

And, when ABC’s filming schedule changed, Keeneland had Jessica out to sing the National Anthem a second time in ONE week!

The Political Science major from Pikeville had such a great freshman year, she’s already looking forward to coming back in Fall 2013 and applying for a term at GC’s Oxford University partner, Regent’s Park College. An aspiring broadcast journalist, Jessica was also the intern for (now former) Executive Scholarin-Residence Billy Reed, a renowned sports columnist.

Every chance she gets, Jessica is still all about GC. She was honored that Reed and Georgetown All-American and 1972 USA Olympic basketball captain Kenny Davis asked her to close out the Courage in Munich banquet in August with “The Star-Spangled Banner.” And, she was thrilled to speak at the Sigma’s Purple-Tie Affair banquet this fall. • INSIGHTS • 20

Significant Year for Immigrant Advocate Broady What a year it’s been for Graduate Education professor Christel Broady, Director of ESL (English as a Second Language) at Georgetown College!

In March, the German-born Broady wouldn’t let a broken foot keep her from becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen at a ceremony in Covington. Sadly, she had to relinquish German citizenship that day, but later she recalled feeling “a sense of responsibility to contribute to this country” and “the importance of ‘belonging’ to the country I represent in the classroom.”

In July, the former president of KYTESOL (Kentucky Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) represented the state at TESOL Advocacy Day in Washington D.C. She met with staff of state officials Sen. Mitch McConnell (R), Rep. Ben Chandler (D) and Rep. Geoff Davis (R) and said later she was “well received.”

Then, at GC’s Opening Convocation in September, she shed tears of joy as her name was called as winner of the John Walker Manning Distinguished Mentor and Teacher Award. This was particularly meaningful to Christel because of large input from students – which in her case are already practicing teachers who usually are completing a Masters and choose ESL as area of specialization in a program completely delivered online. “(These teachers) often represent the only lifeline immigrants have to the USA culture,” said Dr. Broady, who has been at Georgetown for the last 10 years. “I am very proud of being part of the process of preparing them for this task, especially as an immigrant myself.”

Broady is currently organizing a Kentucky Advocacy movement and event mirroring the one in Washington, D.C. And, as TESOL international’s immediate past-chair of the world wide section for elementary schools, she has the background and determination to pull it off.

Here’s what she told Kentucky’s leaders this summer and what she’s telling all citizens of the Commonwealth now: “We must take care of our immigrant children and families for a better future for all Kentuckians, especially since minority births nationally are surpassing majority births as of 2012.” And, “Immigrants provide unique skills to our state and can help us to be competitive in a global economy.”

Christel is married to Philippines-born Nick Broady, who works with eXtension as a Content-Developer for professors at U.S. land grant institutions. They met when she was obtaining her doctorate at the University of Nebraska. Their INSIGHTS • 21

Dr. Christel Broady, right, was an emotional winner of the John Walker Manning Distinguished Mentor and Teacher Award. Provost Rosemary Allen, left, considers the recognition very special because “students have a major voice in the selection.”

daughter, Leni, is a pianist attending Lexington’s School for Performing and Creative Arts; she’s bilingual and has dual citizenship (U.S./German). • alumni relations • Continued from page 9

Your alma mater needs you to be engaged for its future now more than ever. You’ve probably seen our theme for the past year or so – “Every Tiger, Every Year.” Truly it does take every student, faculty and staff member, alumnus and friend to make sure that we continue to call this great place our home. With change comes uncertainty; however, one thing remains the same: Georgetown College needs you to be involved – somehow, some way. This could include (but not necessarily be limited to): financial support, mentoring a current student, speaking to a class, praying for the school, or just coming to campus for activities – especially Homecoming. You DO make a difference – and together we will make a difference in the lives of future generations of Georgetonians. Remember, EVERY Tiger, Every Year!

And, please let me know how I can assist you. It could be as simple as trying to locate a former roommate or helping you secure a transcript. And any time you want to ‘come home’ for a campus visit, l would love to help organize your trip. I would also be honored to coordinate an official visit with one of the friendly folks in our Office of Admissions to show your son/daughter/grandson/granddaughter around campus. Call me at 502-863-8007 or email laura_owsley@ georgetowncollege.edu. •

Bill Cronin

150 Wins and Counting

Coach Bill Cronin, right, with Communication and Media Studies professor Kenny Sibal ‘04, honorary coach for a GC game this fall. Sibal played on the Tigers’ 2000 and 2001 NAIA championship teams.

Gatorade baths are usually postseason moments, which might have been why Sept.

29’s sideline dousing caught Georgetown College football coach Bill Cronin off guard.

“I usually have better footwork than that,” Cronin joked about being able to get out of the way. “I was sort of caught by surprise. It was definitely cold.”

The then-No. 3 Tigers defeated Bethel University, 63-21, at Toyota Stadium on iHigh Field, for 150 wins for Cronin and several of his staff.

GC football has been one of the most consistent programs over the past 15 years under Cronin’s leadership. Assistants Bruce Owens ‘86, Craig Mullins ‘91 and Steve Hill ‘94 have been here all 15-plus seasons, while Marty Park ’99 started as a player then became a coach for the past 12.

“A lot of people are involved in this,” Cronin said. “The coaches have been terrific and stood by me. We don’t have this record without all the players that have come through this program; too many for me to even attempt to name.”

This mark has him averaging just more than nine wins a season - higher than coaching greats such as Steve Spurrier, 194 wins in 22 seasons; Bobby Bowden, 377 wins in 44; Bear Bryant, 323 in 38; and Lou Holtz, 249 in 33. The first three averaged just more than eight a season while Holtz finished with an average of 7.5. Even NAIA legend Kevin Donley, who hired Cronin as an assistant for the Tigers in the ‘80s, averages just more than seven wins a year for 257 victories in 33 years.

“Georgetown has been great for me and

BY THE NUMBERS Cronin, among active coaches, is 5th on the win list. Donley is 1st, followed by two coaches with 30+ years on the sidelines: Hank Biesiot (256 in 36) and Larry Wilcox (232 in 33). Carroll College’s Mike Van Diest has 160 wins in 13 seasons and may be the only coach to win 150 faster than Cronin. On the all-time coaching win list, Cronin is 32nd. At GC, the veteran coach was 88-15 at home, 63-19 on the road and 4-2 at neutral sites.

my family,” Cronin said. “We have enjoyed living and working in a community where people genuinely care about one another; being able to win, as much as we have, is just a bonus.”

The formation of a powerhouse is a strong foundation, a concept not lost on Cronin. In 1997, he hired Mullins, Hill and Owens. All have been honored in the coaching realm but have chosen to stay right where they are.

“Being here, being a part of this, means more than being a head coach,” Mullins said. “Georgetown is in my blood.

Dedication, trust and cohesion are what drive this program.”

Mullins, Hill and Owens all played for Georgetown. Cronin continued looking for assistants among his players, hiring Marty Park and Clyde McConnaughhay. Brian Landis and Shan Housekeeper also returned to the Orange & Black, where as players they helped to win national championships.

“We have a lot of pride in the program,” Housekeeper said. “Only a handful of us didn’t play here before coaching here. We have been on the other side of being players.

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VOLLEYBALL

FOOTBALL Football won a third-straight MSC East championship (18th overall) and had a second-straight undefeated season (9th overall). The Tigers claimed the No. 1 spot for the first time since 2002. GC lost the opening round of playoffs in a heartbreaking 45-44 game to MSC West champion Bethel University.

MSC All-Conference honorees are: Gabe Patten, Wes Smith, Chris Gohman, Randy Doss, Neal Pawsat, Melvin Posey, Doug Key, Josh Downing and DaVon Pitts.

Honorable mentions were Rob Madon, Logan Osborne, Patrick Dougherty, Alex Kreimer, D.J. Lemons, Brock Messina, Winston Hines and Brandon Lawson.

Coach Cronin was named MSC East Coach of the Year. Adam Campbell, Alex Connelly, Jacob Conner, Jack Coorts, Cory Cronin, Dougherty, Gohman, Hines, Kreimer, Madon, Pawsat, Joe Peak, David Robason, Michael Sherrard, Zach Sowder and Aaron Wilson were MSC Academic All-Conference.

Bursting back on the national scene, Tigers finished the regular season No. 11 with a 31-3 and 15-0 record. Nick Griffin earned MSC Coach of the Year.

Rachel Eubanks was MSC Player of the Year. Eubanks, Ally Wilbourn and Caraline Maher earned First-Team All-Conference. Rebekah Moore, Corri Muha and Lindsey Martindale were honorable mentions. Moore, Eubanks, Wilbourn, Stephanie Gurren and Mariah Tesarz were Academic All-Conference. The Tigers defeated Xavier in the Opening Round of the National Tournament to punch their ticket to Sioux City, IA for the completion of the tournament. Poolplay is Nov. 27-29. Top two teams from each of the six pools move to a single elimination tournament Nov. 30-Dec. 1.

BASEBALL TENNIS Tennis hosted an ITA regional meet, which brought multiple teams to the Georgetown area for the three-day event. Rain caused some scheduling changes, but the event went well and teams requested the Tigers host again.

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Baseball had two players receive preseason All-American status.

Pitchers Tyler Arthur and Chad Richie, who finished the 2012 season as second-team AllAmericans, are tabbed as top hurlers this year. The Tigers open in February in Daytona, FL.

C R O SS C O U N T R Y

MEN’S BASKETBALL Men’s basketball is preseason No. 3. The annual Central Bank Jim Reid Classic was Nov. 23-24 with No. 22 Martin Methodist, and highly regarded Life and UC Clermont. Vic Moses has returned from a redshirt season, averaging 22 points (hitting at about 74 percent!) with eight rebounds per game. Garel Craig, Allan Thomas and Russ Middleton round out the returners, while Monty Wilson, Mychal Parker and DJ Townsend highlight some of the newcomers.

Men’s and women’s teams had an up and down season.

The women started off slow but exploded late, finishing 3rd in the conference meet. Tayler Godar led the way, helping the Tigers to a perfect score and victory at the Kentucky State University meet. The men also won that meet, but had injuries and illnesses slow them down this season.

Still, two Tigers finished with times inside the Top 5 alltime finishes for Georgetown. Cole Cisneros’ 26:45.8 and Brandon Pulliam’s 26:09 have them at 5th and 2nd respectively. Godar and Cisneros were named Second-Team AllConference. Finnja Ramcke, Mary Kate Dowdy, Marissa Hale, Rachel Ditto, Peyton Anderson, Kyle Wiedemer, Sam Heaton, Chris Bartlett, Brad Cundiff and Jimmy Lacy were named to the Academic All-Conference team.

WOMEN’S SOCCER Anna Ayers, Caitlin Williams, Sam Amend, Bea Cameron, Alex Harbowy and Alessandra Jansen made the women’s soccer all-conference honorable mention team. Tigers finished 4th in a loaded league and advanced to semifinals before losing to Lindsey Wilson. Williams, Megan Melanson, Lauren Brooks, Lucy Davis and Morgan Zimmer made Academic All-Conference.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Women’s basketball is preseason No. 6, putting them just outside of the team’s most recent highest ranking of No. 5 in January of 2005. The Tigers finished the 2011-12 season No. 11 and in the Fab Four at the NAIA tournament. They kicked the season off with the 19th Annual Habitat Classic, bringing in No. 2 Shawnee State and future Great Midwest Athletic Conference foe Trevecca Nazarene.

MEN’S SOCCER Men’s soccer battled youth and injuries yet again and a bounce here or there could have changed the season’s overall outlook.

The team never let up against several national powerhouses, but came up short in the campaign to make the playoffs.

Kiefer Chafin was named to the Academic All-Conference team.

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300 Wins Will Be Nice, But Thornton’s All About The Players

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“Frustrating,” said Georgetown College alum and softball coach Thomas Thornton with a hearty laugh about sitting on win number 299.

The native Scott Countian needed just one victory in the Mid-South Conference tournament this past spring to notch 300 in 10 seasons. Not that 299 wins is not just as impressive, but “it’s not 300.”

“As a coach, I’d like to think I don’t sit around and think about the wins, but I do keep track,” Thornton said. “However, 299 or two wins, it’s always been about the players and the talent we have. Without my players, the number means nothing.”

Thornton enters his 13th season in the dugout with the Tigers, 11th as head coach this spring, and looking for that elusive 300th win. Some memorable wins have come along the way, including the unofficial first one in the fall of 2000. The Tigers traveled to Evansville, IN, and played Middle Tennessee State (an NCAA Division I program). GC won, and after the game, Thornton’s senior centerfielder asked how he liked his first win.

Of course, the 2008 Mid-South Conference Tournament championship run is a day he will never forget. GC needed three wins back-to-back-to-back in order to win the title and clinch the school’s first appearance in the national tournament.

Thornton, who earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Georgetown College, was born to coach; he just never thought it would be softball. The football gridiron is where he planned to be.

Early on, that is what he did, but in the

offseasons he coached softball. After a stint as assistant softball coach at Scott County High School, the veteran coach ran into his longtime friend Mark Montgomery, GC’s head coach at the time.

“Mark and I got to talking and just thought it was a good fit for both of us,” Thornton said.

At the time Thornton was finishing up his graduate work from GC, and it meant a lot to him to be able to come back and give to the school that had given him and his family so much. Two of his aunts taught classes here, and his sister, mother and numerous cousins attended Georgetown.

“Growing up, Georgetown College was all I knew,” Thornton said. “I love this school and always have. It has been an honor to be able to come back and work here.”

Ever humble, he also knows his program would not be where it is without the help of his assistants. Almost from the get-go, Bryan Johnson and Jamie Cunliffe have been by his side, volunteering their time. In 2010, former player Britni Buchignani also returned to volunteer.

“Bryan and Jamie have been so dedicated and I can’t describe how much they mean to me and this program,” Thornton said.

“Obviously none of them do it for the pay, because there is none, but they do it because they love the team, the players and this program.

“Then, Britni is just another reminder that we are doing things right here. To see my players want to continue to be around softball and give back to the sport, that means more to me than anything.” •

GC classnotes 1947

Dr. Betty Jean Chatham retired after nearly 60 years as pianist and organist at Shelbyville (KY) First Baptist Church on Oct. 28, 2012. Her distinguished career began as organist at First Baptist in 1953. She created and conducted children’s and youth choirs and started both a nondenominational and interracial choir (Life Savers) of high school students in Shelby County.

As a student at Georgetown College, she founded and conducted the BSU Choir. During her professional career, she taught at both Georgetown and Kentucky Southern, and was artist-in-residence at both Georgetown and St. Catharine Colleges. She has performed across the USA and in 18 countries for the Foreign Mission Board, the Southern Baptist Convention, and the U.S. Air Force chaplaincy.

All members of the Chatham family are distinguished alumni of Georgetown College. Besides Dr. Betty Jean, they include late husband Dr. Don Chatham ’48; son Dr. Donn Chatham ’71; and daughters Sarah Chatham Farabee ’73 and Martha Chatham Pryor ’79.

1969

Amadeus Vincent Leano proudly announces a new granddaughter, Athena Rose, born June 15, 2012.

Amadeus is presently a computer programmer with Wellpoint/Anthem and is actively involved in the family’s church, Deer Park Baptist, in Louisville. “I extend well wishes to all my friends from Georgetown,” he writes.

Keep us up to date on what’s new in your life!

Full listing of Classnotes is on our website:

www.georgetowncollege.edu/alumni

1982

Karen Faye (Story) Cole and family now reside in Glen Allen, VA. Karen continues to work as a school counselor at Louisa County High School in Mineral, VA.

1992

Anthony Carney has relocated to Louisville, KY. He writes, “After living in Thailand for most of the last 20 years, owning my own consulting firm and traveling the world, I’ve returned to my Kentucky roots and have settled back down in Louisville.

I am now very happily working as a Financial Advisor with Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC. I love being able to help my clients prepare for retirement, know that they are on a right financial track, save for their children’s educations and set up their estates. It’s so rewarding! And being back in my hometown just makes it all the better.”

2001

Dana (Reichard) and Tommy Martin are proud to announce the birth of a boy, Logan Thomas Martin, born April 16, 2012, in Cincinnati, OH.

2008

John Hendricks is the newest member of the Clark County Bar Association. He earned his law degree from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 2011.

1976

2009

be the Volunteer Director of Operations for the Committee on Arrangements for the 2012 Republican National Convention, Republican National Committee. It will be great to be part of this historic event. I just came off the campaign trail having worked for Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich.

Life is good in Tampa with my husband and my black Labrador.”

from Charlotte School of Law in May, 2012. She and her husband, Adam Schott ‘07, a former Georgetown Tiger, now reside in the Lexington area. Brittany writes, “Many thanks to the professors at Georgetown College for preparing me to excel at the next educational and professional level!”•

Debra Lynn Rouse-Cox wrote in June, “I am honored to

Brittany (Napper) Schott graduated with honors

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Donor Honor Roll

Expressing our gratitude for all those who have given to Georgetown College

$10,000 or more AIKCU Allen Architectural Metals Brookhollow Baptist Church Calvary Baptist Church Charles E. Schell Foundation Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Eula Mae & John Baugh Foundation Harshaw Trane Howard Hughes Medical Institute Jenzabar, Inc. Kentucky Baptist Foundation Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust Margaret Voorhies Haggin Trust National Christian Foundation Kentucky Neace Lukens Holding Company

Mr. Robert L. Hook Allan E. Inglis, MD Mr. & Mrs. R. C. Johnson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David A. Jones, Sr. Mr. Ben D. Mallin, Jr. Mr. Russell C. McCandless Dr. & Mrs. Wally O. Montgomery Mr. William M. Rosson Marilyn Nell Sparks* Mr. Joseph E. Sparks Dr. Don A. Stevens Mrs. Sheila J. Wells Mrs. Carlos Wells Mr. John A. Williams Mr. Robert N. Wilson

Pheasant Hill Foundation Toyota Motor Mfg. KY, Inc. V. V. Cooke Foundation Virginia Baptist Foundation Inc. Dr. & Mrs. James W. Anderson Mr. John M. Ballbach Mr. & Mrs. James L. Barlow Mr. & Mrs. Larry M. Carlton Mr. & Mrs. Norman T. Daniels, Jr. Dr. Robert L. Doty Mr. & Mrs. Franklin Ensor, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Randy D. Fields Mr. & Mrs. Earl A. Goode Mr. Michael T. Haas Mr. Frank Harshaw Mr. Carl A. Henlein

$5,000-$9,999 Citizens Community Foundation Inc. Fifth Third Bank FLW Outdoors Harrodsburg Baptist Church Healthcare Performance Partners Journey A Community of Grace, Inc. Kentucky Baptist Convention Ruth H. Million Estate The Dallas Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Alan Akridge

Mr. William E. Blackburn Mrs. Pearl Chiu Mrs. J. Nicole Bivens Collinson Dr. & Mrs. Lanny R. Copeland Dr. & Mrs. William H. Crouch, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Bartlett G. Dickinson Mr. & Mrs. Bill Dixon, Jr. Dr. John M. Farmer Mr. & Mrs. Randall L. Fox Mr. & Mrs. Rollie D. Graves

Drs. James L. & Ruth B. Heizer Mrs. Anna M. Hensley Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Hieb Mr. & Mrs. David R. Jacobs Dr. & Mrs. David C. Jones Mr. & Mrs. Jim Moak Mr. & Mrs. A. Irvin Overall Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Penn, Jr. Mrs. Maedell Remington Mrs. Linda Schneider Rhea

Mr. W. Todd Skaggs Dr. Larry R. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Stump Mrs. Carolyn N. Sweazy Mr. & Mrs. David Travis Mr. & Mrs. Kristofer D. Vanzant Mr. Cy Waddle Dr. & Mrs. Ron Waldridge Mr. & Mrs. John R. Ward

$2,500-$4,999 American Baptist Home Mission Society Anchor Baptist Church Broadway Baptist Church Dallas Baptist University Foundation for the Advancement of Christianity Georgetown Baptist Church Georgetown Tennis Association, Ltd. James Motor Company Mercer University Missouri Baptist University Toyota Tsusho of America Mr. James E. Acra INSIGHTS • 27

Mr. & Mrs. J. William Barnett Mr. & Mrs. Nolan M. Bean Mr. & Mrs. Donald L. Blakeman Mr. & Mrs. Alfred R. Blevins Ms. Candace Brunk Mrs. Betty Jean Chatham Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Cohen Governor Martha L. Collins & Dr. Bill L. Collins Dr. & Mrs. Paul R. Corts Mr. Clay Parker Davis Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Dowling, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Michael W. Eden

Dr. & Mrs. Gene Enlow Dr. Jerry W. Fields Dr. & Mrs. Horace T. Hambrick Dr. Peter J. LaRue Miss Linda J. Long Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Rardin Mr. James W. Shepherd, Jr. Dr. Robert W. Thompson II Mr. & Mrs. Laurel W. True Mr. Guthrie L. Zaring

$1,000-$2,499 American Inst. For Foreign Study AYERBALL INC. Baird Government Solutions Baptist Foundation of Illinois Consolidated Baptist Church Eagle Construction Elkhorn Association WMU Enterprise Rent-A-Car Equestrian Events, Inc. Estate of Mary C. Johnson Faith Baptist Church Farmers National Bank Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Florida Lakes Surgical PLLC Green’s Toyota Highland Baptist Church Living Faith Baptist Fellowship National Diversity Solutions Nicklies Foundation, Inc. Omni Custom Meats Pharmacy Class of 2007 PNC Foundation Matching Gift Program Sivells Baptist Camp St. Matthews Baptist Church The National Sales Group, LLC United Bank Mr. & Mrs. David C. Adkisson Dr. & Mrs. Barry Allen Mr. Jim Allison Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Anderson Dr. Glenn D. Armstrong Mr. & Mrs. Michael W. Ayers Mr. & Mrs. Jason A. Baird Mr. Tucker Ballinger Mr. James R. Bannister Mr. John K. Barnett Dr. & Mrs. Gregory S. Barr M. Brian Bauer, MD Dr. Jack Birdwhistell Mrs. Kay Blevins Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Boren Mr. Kent A. Boswell Dr. & Mrs. David Bowman Mr. Norman L. Brown

Drs. John & Luannette Butler Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Calhoun Mr. Darryl R. Callahan Mr. & Mrs. Mike Cappock Mr. & Mrs. Jack Carrington II Mrs. Susan A. Carrington Ms. Melody Chaney Mr. & Mrs. James L. Cloar, Jr. Dr. John T. Coke & Dr. Rosemary A. Allen Dr. & Mrs. Raymond L. Cravens Dr. Jessica D. Cunningham & Mr. Michael Cunningham Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Davis Mrs. Julia A. Dean Dr. & Mrs. John R. Deen Dr. Jonathan W. Dickinson & Dr. Jenna Ross Dr. John E. Downing Mrs. Darlene Drake Mrs. Erin Lynn Druen Mrs. Connie Eggert Mrs. Charlotte Ann Elder Mr. & Mrs. John D. Elliott Mr. & Mrs. David Fannin Mr. & Mrs. Randy D. Fields Mr. & Mrs. Scott B. Fitzpatrick Ms. Virginia Fox Mrs. Lynn P. Freeman Mr. Douglas Freeman Rev. Richard Gaines Drs. Sidney T. & Jeannie Gambill Mr. & Mrs. Hoot Gibson Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Gibson Dr. Susan Goodin Mrs. Ann Greene Mr. Tom Grissom Dr. Gordon P. Guthrie Mr. & Mrs. Henry N. Hall Mr. & Mrs. James E. Hargrove Mr. & Mrs. Weldon Harris Dr. & Mrs. William H. Harvey Mr. & Mrs. Reza Hashampour Mr. & Mrs. Henry H. Hays

Ms. Leigh Anne Hiatt Mr. & Mrs. Grover C. Hibberd, Jr. Samuel S. Hill, Jr., Ph.D. Mr. Jesse Reid Hodgson Mr. & Mrs. William V. Holden Rev. & Mrs. Kenneth D. Holden Mr. David C. Huffman Ms. Phyllis J. Hughes Mr. Eric M. Jaegers Mr. & Mrs. I. Grundy Janes, Jr. Mr. John O. Jeffries Mrs. Mary L. Jenkins Mr. Billy W. Johnson Mrs. Jeanne Kaenzig Evans Mr. & Mrs. Jason R. Keller Mrs. Marilyn A. Kenley Mr. & Mrs. Dale A. Kenley Mrs. Laura G. Knapp Mr. & Mrs. David L. Knox Mr. James S. Koeppe & Dr. Gretchen Lohman Mr. & Mrs. Jason R. Ladd Mrs. Frances W. Lester Dr. & Mrs. James B. Lewis Dr. & Mrs. Dwight E. Lindsay Mr. Roy K. Lowdenback & Dr. Rachel S. Lowdenback Mrs. Charlene Lucas Helen Betsy Lusby* Mr. George Lusby Mrs. Vicky L. Mann Mr. Thomas A. McAllister Mr. & Mrs. C. James McCormick Dr. David C. McMurtry Dr. & Mrs. Charles W. Midkiff Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Miller Mr. & Mrs. John Milward Mr. Steve Monroe Mr. & Mrs. Doug Morrow, Jr. Mr. John C. Moss Mr. Jeffrey W. Nally, SPHR & Mr. Robert W. Johnson Ms. Virginia Neely Mr. & Mrs. James H. Newberry, Jr.

David O. Oladele-Bankole, MD Ms. Ruby E. Orr Dr. & Mrs. William H. Owens Ms. Laura L. Owsley Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Palmer Vada Dixon Phillips* Mr. G. Kent Price Mr. Mitch Price Mr. & Mrs. James Ratcliffe Dr. Rogers W. Redding Rev. & Mrs. Alan B. Redditt Mr. & Mrs. William J. Roby Paul Robert Rowe* Mr. & Mrs. Erik P. Sandefer Mrs. Leigh N. Schroeder Mr. William A. Scott Ms. Kay E Scott Mr. & Mrs. Mike Shelton Ms. Carolyn L. Spears Mr. & Mrs. Lance E. Springs Mr. Dustin L. Stacy & Dr. Christina L. Stacy Carroll D. Stevens & Libby F. Stevens Mr. & Mrs. Fred Stickle Mr. & Mrs. Albert S. Suffoletta Mrs. Rhoda E. Tallant Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Terrell Mr. & Mrs. William P. Thurman, Jr. Dr. Ernest M. Tucker Mrs. Ann Colbert Wade Mr. Dudley Webb Dr. & Mrs. Raymond Wechman, Jr. David M. Wheeler, MD Dr. & Mrs. Wallace A. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Justin L. Willingham Mrs. Jill R. Wilson Ms. Anne Wright Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Judge Wilson Mr. Edward M. Wimmer Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Winstead Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Yates

$500-$999 Aggie Sale Sport Shop E A Partners, PLC Elkhorn Baptist Association First Baptist Church Hunter Douglas Metals Jones Grimes Long Snider, Inc. Kentucky Eagle, Inc. Lakes Funeral Home Network For Good Palmer Engineering RUMPKE Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC Scott Archery Manufacturing Service First Logistics Inc. State Farm Insurance Todd Tiller Insurance, Inc. Vanguard Charitable

Endowment Program Mr. Mike Ashley Mr. & Mrs. Gregory D. Back

Mr. Stephen R. Banks Dr. & Mrs. R. Jake Bell Mr. David D. Bibb, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Barry Birdwhistell Dr. Jack E. Brown Dr. & Mrs. Lloyd M. L. Browning Mr. Robert C. Campbell III Dr. Neville W. Carmical Mrs. Judith M. Carson Dr. Michael Clark &

Mrs. Tracey D. Clark Mr. & Mrs. John C. Cochenour Dr. Thomas E. Cooper Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Cornett Mrs. Elizabeth A. Davidson Dr. Bridger Anne DeName Dr. Molly W. Dunkum Mr. & Mrs. Ronald R. Dunn Dr. William E. Ellis Mr. & Mrs. Larry J. Ensor

Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Ficke Mr. Thomas G. Folsom II Mr. & Mrs. Randall Q. Francis Mr. & Mrs. C. Richard Fuller Mr. Michael T. Gabhart Mr. David W. Gaddie Mr. & Mrs. Chris J. Gohman Mr. Lucas M. Gravitt Ms. Trinna S. Graziani Mr. & Mrs. Chester Greynolds Mr. John M. Harris Mr. & Mrs. Chester B. Hawkins Ms. Janet S. Heiden Dr. Angela L. Hogan Drs. Steve M. & June Hyndman Ms. Kathy L. Jones Mr. & Mrs. Ronald L. Kelley Ms. Karen K. King Dr. Sheila D. Klopfer Mr. James T. Knapp

Mr. Larry Lawrence Mr. & Mrs. Tom Lewis Mr. & Mrs. William T. Lunceford Mr. Jordon A. Maloni Mr. & Mrs. J. Terry Maurer Mrs. Robin Carol McClure Mr. & Mrs. Greg Meyer Dr. Lori Beth Miller Dr. Dixie L. Mills Miss Robin L. Murphey Dr. & Mrs. Warren O. Nash Mr. Royce W. Neubauer Mr. Garry Olson Mr. Duke Owens Rose Adelia Owens* Mr. & Mrs. E. Gerald Parker, Jr. Dr. Allan M. Parrent Bill D. Parsons* Dr. Joseph H. Patterson Mr. Paul D. Pelphrey

Mr. Eldon F. Phillips Mr. Blake A. Reichenbach Ms. Marcia M. Ridings Mr. & Mrs. John Shine Mr. Howard Smalley Mr. C. Donald Smith Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Smith Mr. Adam N. Speaks Mr. Edward J. Stanko &

Dr. Shelley B. Stanko Dr. & Mrs. William P. Stevens Mr. H. K. Thames Ms. Lisa A. Thornton Mr. & Mrs. J. Guthrie True Dr. Robert J. Wasson Charles Britton Wells* Dr. Robert T. Wesley Rev. & Mrs. Henry M. White Mr. John A. Wilson

* Deceased

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Stevens Takes the Lead on Important GC Projects Having successful alumni financially support their alma mater to honor faculty members who have touched and inspired them is a testament to the academic environment and caring professors who consistently enrich the lives of Georgetown College students.

One alumnus who credits his career success to the educational foundation he received as an undergraduate at Georgetown College is Dr. Don A. Stevens ’78, now an Oncologist practicing in Louisville and Shelbyville, KY, who also leads the Norton Blood Cancer Program. For ten years, he served as Medical Director of the Norton Cancer Institute.

Having already established an endowed scholarship in the name of his parents, Don and Katherine Stevens, Dr. Stevens is now the lead donor for the recently initiated effort to secure funding for renovating and naming the Dr. John Blackburn General Chemistry Lab. “I can state unequivocally that Dr. Blackburn was the

best professor I ever had,” said Dr. Stevens recently. “He is an amazing teacher.” Dr. Blackburn provided leadership for Georgetown’s chemistry department through his time as professor and as department chair that resulted this past year in American Chemistry Society approval.

To learn more about how you can contribute to either the Hambrick Society or the Blackburn General Chemistry Lab renovation, or honor other professors who have impacted your life and career, please contact: Roy Lowdenback ’05 Associate Vice President and Chief Development Officer Phone 502-863-8044 Email roy_lowdenback@georgetowncollege.edu

Hambrick Village Dedicated, But YOU Can Still Get Involved

TOP LEFT: President Bill Crouch, right, at the Homecoming dedication of the new 84-bed, townhouse-style, residence complex on Military Street with the beloved members of the GC family for whom it is named – Horace and Maribeth Hambrick. Dr. Hambrick was a member of the faculty for 46 years, 26 of them as History department chair. He also was elected first chairman of the college faculty. Maribeth served as a trustee, president of the Women’s Association and the Alumni Association. ABOVE: Friend of the College Larry Carlton, left, who donated the money to have the name of his parents – Dick and Mary Carlton, right – on the Hambrick community room, got to share this special moment with his wife, Wendy, and their daughter, Destyn. LEFT: Randy ‘60 and Virginia (Isbell) Fox ‘58, posed by the Hambrick apartment named for them along with grand-daughter Natalie Hymer, a senior Economics and Spanish double major from Louisville.

A President’s Ambassador, Natalie spoke at the dedication.

Randy, a current trustee, was first elected in ’73 and has served as board chair several times.

Thanks for your continued support. To make a secure online gift anytime using your credit card, go to www.georgetowncollege.edu/giving

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I naM emoriam 1934 Chester A. Insko 6/28/12 • Chapel Hill, NC

1938 Leland Bland 8/21/12 • Bagdad, KY James A. Stevens 7/9/12 • Sarasota, FL

1939 Dorothy F. Rudy née Green 9/18/12 • Noblesville, IN

1946 James M. Collier 9/3/12 • Elizabethtown, KY

1947 Yvonne Shipman née Hubbard 6/27/12 • Clarksville, IN

1948 Joseph Benedict 6/3/12 • Atlanta, GA James W. Ray 6/19/12 • Louisville, KY

1949 Edna M. Knight née Marks 9/10/12 • Harrodsburg, KY

Bryant A. Bloss 9/30/12 • Newburgh, IN

M. G. Howell 10/31/12 • Henderson, KY

R. E. Pittman 5/19/12 • Lexington, KY

1955

Harold G. Hurst 5/20/12 • Lexington, KY

Dwayne A. Ruth 10/17/12 • Georgetown, KY

Jo A. McCaslin née Robertson 8/26/12 • Princeton, KY

Shirley Jeffares née Clifton 8/24/12 • Lexington, KY

Raymond O. Sommers 8/23/12 • Louisville, KY

Helen S. Kirtley 6/4/12 • Johnson City, TN

Ruthe B. Sphar 7/24/12 • Winchester, KY

Adelaide McManus 5/22/12 • Fort Thomas, KY

Linda F. Williamson 7/17/12 • Sadieville, KY

1961 David W. Mullen 5/26/12 • Moneta, VA

1962 Ronald C. Burkhart 7/12/12 • Daphne, AL

1963 Barbara L. Jacobs née Dugan 6/6/12 • Lexington, KY Thomas W. Westerfield 9/11/12 • Crofton, KY

1966 Phyllis T. Cooksey née Tandy 7/31/12 • Louisville, KY

1968 George A. Luttrell 7/3/12 • Liberty, KY

1969 Jullienne G. Keightley née Gist 9/11/12 • Louisville, KY

Walter R. Shettler 9/28/12 • Erlanger, KY

1972

1950

David M. McMurtry 5/18/12 • Lexington, KY

Carroll P. Callender 7/5/12 • Owensboro, KY

1974

Robert D. Thompson 5/23/12 • Burgin, KY

Richard D. Edwards 6/24/12 • Brooklyn, NY

1951

1979

Hannible E. Foley 5/31/12 • Mount Washington, KY

Gregg M. Macmann 6/8/12 • New Lebanon, OH

1953

1981

Rolfe W. Dorsey 5/21/12 • Louisville, KY

William C. Hanshaw 10/29/12 • Olive Hill, KY

Doris C. Kemper née Smith 7/12/12 • Owenton, KY

2009

John T. Thompson 6/7/12 • Nicholasville, KY

Allen L. McCowan 6/7/12 • Lavington, NSW

1954

Friends of GC

C. F. Dykins 7/24/12 • Plainfield, IN

Virginia W. Cotton 7/1/12 • Cincinnati, OH

Note: The word née after a married woman’s name is followed by her maiden name.

Jim Collier, Former GC Trustee and Philanthropist, Passes Away Jim Collier, attorney, scholar, philanthropist, and former Georgetown College trustee, passed away September 3, 2012. Born in Crab Orchard, KY, Mr. Collier was a World War II veteran. He earned undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Kentucky and completed masters and doctoral degrees at Rutgers University. He taught at Georgetown before serving on the law school faculties of Baylor and Mercer universities.

Mr. Collier began practicing law in Elizabethtown in 1957. He became a partner in Collier, Arnett, Quick, and Coleman, a law firm dating back to the 1890s.

Mr. Collier was the son of the late James Melvin Collier, Sr. and Lula Jones Collier. His mother was a housemother at Georgetown for a number of years.

In 1985, Mr. Collier established a scholarship in memory of his father for students from the Crab Orchard area.

Collier Hall, a men’s dormitory in Georgetown’s Mills Residence Park was named in memory of Mr. Collier’s mother. Through the years, Mr. Collier continued to provide funds for scholarships and convocation ceremonies, including the Collier Lecture Series, at Georgetown College.

Mr. Collier was a leader in the college’s Decade of Progress Capital Campaign in the 1970s. He was named GC’s Philanthropist of the Year in 1997.

Jim Collier’s three children, Dr. James Collier, III, Sarah Pitney, and Susan Collier are all GC graduates.

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