Mars Hill: The Magazine of Mars Hill University - Spring 2015

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MAGAZINE STAFF: Editor: Teresa Buckner, Media Relations Coordinator Associate Editor: Mike Thornhill ’88, Director of Communications Contributors: Rick Baker, Sports Information Director Steven Grandy, Assistant Director of Sports Information Dr. Anthony Smith ’92 , Assistant Professor of Physical Education Col. Ron Spearman ’64 R. Wilson Laney ’70 MARS HILL UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION President: Dr. Dan G. Lunsford ’69 Executive Vice President: Dr. John Wells Vice President of Advancement: Bud Christman Vice President of Finance and Facilities Management: Neil Tilley Executive Director of Planning & Auxiliary Services: Dr. Grainger Caudle Special Assistant to the President for Strategic Initiatives: Dr. Joy Kish ’82 Director of Human Resources and Title IX Coordinator: Deana Holland

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Mars Hill [mahrz hil] noun

1. A site in Athens, also known as the Areopagus, where Paul used persuasive reason and logic to preach Christ to the intellectuals of first-century Greece, as detailed in Acts 17:21 of the Bible.

2. A town in the mountains of North Carolina known for the beauty of its surroundings and its welcoming, small-town atmosphere.

3. A university in the town of Mars Hill which strives to provide the best in liberal arts education for its 1300-some students.

4. A concept (esp. for faculty, students, staff, and alumni of Mars Hill University) signifying that place where faith meets reason, to lay a foundation for a life of character and compassion.

Mars Hill, The Magazine of Mars Hill University is published regularly by the Office of Communications. It is distributed, without charge, to alumni, donors, and friends of the university.

Notices of changes of address and class notes should be addressed to the Alumni Office, Mars Hill University, P.O. Box 6792, Mars Hill, NC, 28754. Phone 828/689-1102. Fax 828/6891292. E-mail alumni@mhu.edu.

Letters to the editor and all other correspondence regarding the magazine should be addressed to the Office of Communications, Mars Hill University, P.O. Box 6765, Mars Hill, NC, 28754. Phone 828/689-1304. Fax 828/689-1105. E-mail tbuckner@mhu.edu.

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Copyright 2015. All rights reserved.

Cover, background: Sunrise in Weaverville, NC, credit Mike Thornhill.

Foreground: Dr. Tony Smith in the classroom with physical education students.

In This Issue: Letter from the President............................................ 4 Groundbreaking Held for Ferguson Health Sciences....... 5 Dean Hired for Planned Judge-McRae Nursing Program Scenes from Homecoming 2014.................................... 6 The Shape of Physical Education.................................. 8 Amazing Alumnus Rusty Bradley ’93........................... 10 Soldier, Student, American Hero Amazing Alumnus R. Wilson Laney ’70........................ 12 A Journey from Dreams to Reality Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday.................................. 14

University Holds First Full-Day Celebration

Harley and Betty Jolley............................................. 16

Memories of a Jolley Good Life

The Presidential Lecture and Performance Series........ 19

World Class Events Come to Mars Hill

Lions Athletics, 2014 Fall Sports Highlights................. 20 Making the Switch from Playing to Coaching............... 22 Patrick Anderson ’99 Tackles Coaching in Hagerstown Welcome New Faculty and Staff................................. 24 Faculty/Staff Research and Achievements................... 25 Classnotes................................................................ 25

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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

“...[C]ommitted to character development, to service, and to responsible citizenship in the community, the region, and the world.”

As you’ll see in this issue of Mars Hill: The Magazine, we—you—are fulfilling these words from our mission statement. The Mars Hill community of students, alumni, faculty, and staff is making a huge impact on people and communities here in our home region and around the world.

As this issue goes to print, several students, faculty, and staff have just returned from “alternative” spring break mission and service trips to locations near and far, including a return visit to Terrier Rouge, Haiti, where Mars Hill has been able to be a consistent partner in ministry over the past few years. Others are in the planning stages for U.S. and international mission trips this summer. Still others have made their voices heard on social justice issues that are meaningful to them. Our students also are working with—and in—the local community, volunteering, interning, and working with local agencies and businesses.

You, our alumni, are having tremendous impact on your home communities. For those of you whose home communities are here in western North Carolina, we can put some hard numbers on that impact. A recent study by Economic Modeling Specialists Intl. shows that Mars Hill University adds $84 million to the economy of western North Carolina—almost $61 million of it due to alumni impact. Indeed, in addition to that direct economic impact, the study found that for every dollar spent on educating a student at MHU, North Carolina communities receive $8.40 in benefits as long as that student (who later becomes an alumna/us) remains active in the workforce.

MHU faculty and staff, both past and present, play key roles in shaping Mars Hill’s impact on our world. Many of you had the privilege of studying under professors Betty and Harley Jolley, and are now carrying forward their impact long after their teaching days ended. Head athletic trainer Allen Shelley’s recognition for a national award reflects not only his own good work here on campus with our student athletes, but also the impact the program he leads has on the rest of the region through the MHU alumni athletic trainers now working in high schools, middle schools, clinics, and other community opportunities.

I have said, on several occasions over recent years, that Mars Hill provides our students (and the rest of us, as well) the opportunity to “write their own stories.” It’s clear that a common thread in those stories is that of creating a meaningful impact on the world around us. Let’s follow the examples illustrated in this issue, and go forward to write the next chapters in our own impactful stories.

Dr. Dan Lunsford ’69 President

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Planned Judge-McRae Nursing Program Closer to Reality As Construction Begins on Ferguson Health Sciences Center Groundbreaking took place on March 13, 2015 for the Ferguson Health Sciences Center, home of the planned Judge-McRae School of Nursing.

of Nursing program, pending approval by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and the North Carolina Board of Nursing.

The building will be located on the site of Harris Media Center, at the corner of Highway 213 (Cascade Street) and Dormitory Drive in Mars Hill.

Ferguson Health Sciences Center is named for Jack and Carolyn Ferguson of Candler, NC. The center is the future home of the planned JudgeMcRae School of Nursing, which is named for MHU alumni Norman ’84 and Linda Judge McRae ’86 of Knoxville, TN.

Above: The McRaes and the Fergusons attended the groundbreaking for the new building in March: (l-r) Linda Judge, Caroline and Norman McRae, Carolyn and Jack Ferguson.

An RN to BSN program (registered nurse to bachelor of science in nursing) is expected to begin in May 2015, pending approval by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. Classes for that program will take place at the MHU Asheville Center, on Airport Road.

Ferguson Health Sciences will include classroom and meeting space, as well as state-of-the-art labs which will allow nursing students to practice with nearto-life medical scenarios, using robotic simulators and scripted situations with performance arts students. Taping capabilities in the building will allow recorded interactions, a feature which is designed to enhance student self-assessment and learning.

Below: an Architect’s drawing of the Ferguson Health Sciences Center.

The three-story, 28,731 square foot facility is expected to be completed by the fall 2016, when Mars Hill officials hope to begin a pre-licensure undergraduate Bachelor

Mars Hill University Hires Dean of Planned Nursing School Dr. Cathy Franklin-Griffin has been hired as dean of the planned Judge-McRae School of Nursing at Mars Hill University. She is charged with collaboratively designing and developing the nursing programs at the university.

Franklin-Griffin comes to Mars Hill from WinstonSalem State University, where she served as regional coordinator, interim director, and assistant professor in the WSSU nursing program. She served as member of the Nursing Curriculum Committee for all nursing programs, as nursing representative on the WSSU Academic Standards and Curriculum Committee and as a School of Health Sciences delegate to the Faculty Senate.

“To be the dean for the Judge-McRae School of Nursing at Mars Hill University is particularly special to me due to the university’s Christian roots, its reputation and its location, as well as the caliber of professionalism and expertise found here. This is much more than a job or position to me – it is a mission and a calling to apply education, experience, and passion to benefit the region,” Franklin-Griffin said.

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Scenes from

HOMECOMING 2014

(left) Sophomore Jamel Harbison ran for 290 yards and three touchdowns as Mars Hill defeated Brevard 37-31 on Homecoming, October 11. (top) Presentation of the 2014 alumni of the year: Ann Brookshire Sherer ’62 of Lincoln, NE, and T. Michael Kelly ’82 of Cincinnati, OH. Sherer is a retired bishop of the United Methodist Church, serving most recently as resident bishop of the Nebraska Area from 2004 -2012.

Kelly is the Vice President of Learning and Development at Macy’s Credit and Customer Service Division, and a member of the MHU Board of Trustees.

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Photos: As part of homecoming activities, MHU hosted a groundbreaking for Troy and Pauline Day Hall, the future home of MHU’s business program, bookstore and black box theatre. The ceremony was held in Owen Theatre due to inclement weather.

Second row: The MHU Lions prepare to play under the watchful eye of the field lion; Half-time activities included a show by the MHU Band; and crowning of the 2014 Homecoming Queen and King, Katelyn Wright of Candler, NC, and Shaquille Gatlin of Athens, GA. Third row: More scenes from the homecoming game, including cheers from the MHU cheerleaders.

Save the Date!

HOMECOMING WEEKEND 2015 October 2-4

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The SHAPE of Physical Education

by Dr. Anthony Smith ’92 Assistant Professor of Physical Education

Over the years physical education has become a somewhat marginalized field due, in part, to its own self-destructive behaviors. Some have too often used physical education classes to play games, to provide a sports-only curriculum, to torture students with punitive laps, crunches or pushups, or worse yet, to babysit.

Fortunately, the field is changing, as physical education grows in importance as a part of the overall education curriculum. This is due to increased understandings about the connections between physical and mental health and learning, as well as the obesity epidemic that has enveloped our country, forcing a “wake up call” for educators everywhere.

Physical education advocates now are calling for increased time in K-12 physical education programs; the promotion of new assessment and accountability protocols; national standards for student learning outcomes; and alignment with public health objectives.

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In response to these factors, today’s physical education major looks very different from the playground games that many Americans may associate with “P.E.” Today’s physical education is an academic study, more commonly associated with the discipline of kinesiology on major college campuses. The major has a proven scienceoriented curriculum with foundations in education and psychology.

As a professor in higher education, I can envision three key components that will help sustain physical education into the future: program assessment and accountability, inclusion of national standards, and a continued research relationship with public health and other domains involved in human performance, wellness, and recreation.

Holding physical educators accountable for their student performance through a variety of assessment procedures is the first step in reducing its marginalization as a viable education programs. For over two decades, researchers at the

University of South Carolina have developed and implemented an assessment and accountability program for physical educators. This program monitors teacher effectiveness and student learning outcomes. It includes video analysis of movement performance in a variety of athletic activities, academic testing of health and wellness components, fitness test scores, and monitoring of physical activity outside of the school setting.

These same ideas and concepts are now included in the Mars Hill physical education curriculum in teacher education and sports science.

grants, suggesting that our national government understands the need for more information on education programs for youth that can lead to healthier, happier adults.

In the HPER department, research has begun that includes programs tied to health, wellness, and developing expertise with a coordinated effort utilizing other departments on campus.

Gone are the days when every physical education teacher was known as “coach”; no longer are physical educators considered the daytime babysitters for education. Today’s health, physical

The very nature of physical education includes a tremendous amount of options for kinesiology the curriculum. Physical educators have n.noun developed a series of grade-level outcomes as 1.

The study of the anatomy, physiology, and mechanics of part of the National Standards which ensure body movement, especially in humans. a well-rounded, holistic approach to teaching 2. The application of the principles of kinesiology to the physical education. Physical education evaluation and treatment of muscular imbalance or teachers are also in a unique position to derangement. educate students through all three domains from dictionary.search.yahoo.com of learning: cognitive (thinking), affective (emotion/feeling), and psychomotor (physical/ education, and recreation major is an academic kinesthetic). program designed for truly professional educators.

Professors in the health, physical education, Mars Hill University is poised to continue to grow and recreation (HPER) department at Mars Hill with the changes associated with the health, include the standards in all of their core classes to physical education, and recreation (HPER) field, ensure that the undergraduate student experience and the university remains committed to the goal provides a comprehensive curriculum within the of graduating physical educators who are ready to domain. meet the needs of this changing world.

The third component to continued support for physical education involves the connection of physical education to public health.

New research is being conducted on the importance of physical activity during various parts of the academic day for young people.

Programs such as CSPAP (comprehensive school physical activity program) are introducing and monitoring techniques that educators outside of physical education can incorporate into the school day to keep students physically active.

It has been proposed that an increase in physical activity can help reduce the incidence of obesity that is so rampant in schools today. As physical education aligns with public health for research, many of these projects are funded by National Institute of Health (NIH)

For her senior project, MHU senior Faith Trammel works as a health and wellness trainer with several members of the faculty and staff, including Gill Bosonetto (pictured).

Above left: Smith and his students in class.

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Amazing Alumnus

Rusty Bradley ’93 Student, Soldier, American Hero

by Col. Ron Spearman ’64

Bradley briefs an Army Ranger during the Battle for Sperwan Ghar.

“Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the Lord. Jeremiah 1:8 (NIV) tttttt A hero is defined as a person noted or admired for nobility, courage, or outstanding achievement. A hero can also be a great warrior. Rusty Bradley, former Army Green Beret and best-selling author, is a man that fits all of these definitions.

After graduation from Mars Hill College in 1993, Rusty enlisted in the U.S. Army. He served with the 25th Infantry Division for three years and with the famed 82nd Airborne Division from 1997-2003.

In 1999, he attended Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, and graduated as a Second Lieutenant. In 2003, he attended and successfully completed the Special Forces Qualification course to become a U.S. Army Special Forces officer.

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Taliban forces, and establish blocking positions to the south. One of those teams, including 60 Afghan Army soldiers operating under its leadership, was commanded by then-Captain Bradley.

As often happens in war, operations did not go as planned. With the Special Forces teams and their Afghan partners watching from the other side of the valley, the main coalition attack ran into stiff resistance and a Taliban counterattack threatened the success of the entire operation. Realizing this, Bradley and his comrades quickly identified Sperwan Ghar, a decisive piece of high ground in the valley, as the key to regaining the initiative and enabling the attack to continue.

The small force of approximately 80 men, led by Bradley’s unit, assaulted the hill and entered into a brutal firefight with close to 1,000 insurgents.

Against all odds, through grit, enthusiasm, discipline, and craft, the extremely outnumbered Special Forces and their Afghan Army allies wrested an impossible victory from a much larger enemy force. The group held its position over nine days of intense fighting, protecting its Canadian allies, and

Rusty Bradley in The Laurel, 1993.

securing a success that paved the way for Afghan Security Forces to establish a presence in the area.

Bradley and journalist Kevin Maurer have chronicled the battle in the book Lions of Kandahar, The Story of A Fight Against All Odds (Random House, 2011). His story has also been shown on the American Heroes Channel from footage Rusty recorded during the operation. The book has sold approximately 100,000 copies and is on reading lists at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Australian Defense Forces, U.S. Special Warfare Training Center and the Citadel I had the opportunity to spend some time with Rusty recently, and I posed the following questions: Why did you choose a life of service to the nation with the US Army?

“I have wanted to be a soldier since I was a little boy. Many in my family had served in the military and I wanted to be a part of that continued tradition. I always wondered if I would have the courage of those Veterans who had gone before me. I knew on September 11, 2001 that I would find out.”

How did your years at Mars Hill prepare you for your challenging and difficult life in the Army?

“My years at MHC were tough. Not only did I play football but I worked two jobs to make ends meet and carried full class loads. Those years prepared me personally and professionally for an unforgiving world. The education I received was exactly what I needed at that time in my life. I always felt properly mentored and instructed by teachers and athletic faculty at Mars Hill.

“I began my academic pursuit as a business major and realized that it was not for me. One of my advisors introduced me to a whole new world of societies, cultures and languages through sociology. That stuck with me and little did I know that that mentorship, in a college in the mountains

States.”

of North Carolina, would have strategic significance for the United

During the battle for Sperwan Ghar you were responsible for lives of US Army Soldiers as well as many Afghanistan Army Soldiers. What leadership principles are most important to you?

“Loyalty/Duty/Respect/ Selfless Service/Honor/ Integrity/Personal Courage (LDRSHIP=Leadership) Of these, courage is the most important. Courage does not mean that you are not scared.

It means you are scared to death but you go anyway.

Few dare to do great things, but he who dares, wins. On the battlefield your leadership boils down to two simple things: the accomplishment of the mission and the welfare of the men. Unfortunately, they are in that order Above: Bradley on patrol and with for a reason.”

In closing, how did your faith in Christ sustain you and your family during your many deployments to Afghanistan?

his special forces unit, photos courtesy of the U.S. Army. Below: Bradley collaborated with reporter Kevin Maurer to write The Lions of Kandahar chronicling the battle for Sperwan Ghar (image from Amazon.com).

“When you truly believe in Jesus Christ you know what will happen when you die, yet it does not change your human fear of death.

I was given the peace to do my job because I already knew the outcome. I was blessed to have a prayer circle of family and friends continued on pg 15

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Amazing Alumnus

R. Wilson Laney ’70 Mars Hill: My Journey from Dreams to Reality

by R. Wilson Laney ’70

As I look back, I think it was the length of the application form that finally drew me to Mars Hill College in 1966.

I shouldn’t have chosen Mars Hill. I loved Sarasota Bay, in my hometown of Sarasaota, FL, and I had already decided that a major in marine biology was for me. So why not the University of Florida, or Florida State?

Aside from my mother’s insistence that I at least look at Mars Hill as an option, Mars Hill, it turned out, had the shortest application form, which at the time was a major factor influencing my affinity for a given school. I firmly believe that subsequent events (and more than likely a mother’s fervent prayers) proved that my application to Mars Hill and my eventual acceptance by the then-college was the right pathway for me, despite my rather narrow selection criterion.

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Today, after 34 years as a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, (and eight years as the organization’s representative for the South Atlantic on fishery councils and commissions), I see the threads that Mars Hill University has woven throughout the fabric of my life. In 1966, it would have been difficult to imagine how a small school in the mountains of North Carolina would help me find my calling as a marine biologist. And it would have been equally difficult to see the influence that MHC biology professor L. M. Outten would have on my life. But those things are true.

Mars Hill first entered my life through my mother, Mable, who attended Mars Hill when it was a junior college and went on to earn a nursing degree at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine. I was born in Rutherford College, North Carolina, in the summer of 1948, not too far down the mountain from Mars

R. Wilson Laney, in The Laurel, 1970

Hill. My father, Reid (the “R.” of my signature) moved our family around in North Carolina, South Carolina and finally, Florida, as he worked his way up the J.C. Penney corporate ladder.

I was ten when we finally settled in Sarasota, Florida, for an extended period. My Sunday School teacher at First Baptist Church in Sarasota was Cullen Foreman, who introduced my father and me to saltwater fishing in Sarasota Bay. It was Cullen’s influence, along with the local influence of marine biologist Dr. Eugenie Clark (the Lady with a Spear) and my Sarasota High School marine biology teacher, Bob Harrington, and international explorer/scientist Jacques Cousteau, which solidified my resolve (my calling, I later decided) to become a marine biologist.

As mentioned, I came to Mars hill College in the fall of 1966. My attendance and ultimate graduation from Mars Hill, and the friendships and relationships I formed there, changed my life in profound and positive ways that made my marine biological dreams a reality, reinforced and solidified the spiritual foundation that my parents had laid for me, and continue to bless me and my family to the present day. Although all of the faculty at Mars Hill contributed to my academic and spiritual formation, the major influence, and indeed the one individual to whom I owe the greatest debt of gratitude, was my faculty advisor, Dr. L. M. Outten.

Dr. Outten arrived at Mars Hill and began teaching biology there in 1946, two years before I was born.

The 1964 Laurel was dedicated to him, and the text therein gives a perfect description of him: “Since joining the Mars Hill College faculty in 1946 he has endeared himself to hundreds of students by his quiet devotion to the noble art of teaching and his exemplary conduct as a Christian gentleman.

The staff of the 1964 Laurel and the Senior Class are proud to dedicate this yearbook to him.” I can say it no better: Dr. Outten was the essence of “… quiet devotion to the noble art of teaching….” and a “…Christian gentleman...” who endeared himself to me as well as to all of those “hundreds” if not

thousands who preceded me. Not only did he model excellence in the classroom, but also in the community and through his participation in Mars Hill Baptist Church, where I believe he served as a deacon and taught Sunday School. He not only “talked the talk,” he “walked the walk” and that served to reinforce the Christian lifestyle and principles my parents had strived to impart.

Dr. Outten’s mentorship, as well as the direct interest and involvement he took in my academic career, led to opportunities which I had imagined only in my dreams, but which he made a reality for me. I don’t remember him discussing it in detail with me, but somehow thanks to him I wound up at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in the summer of 1969, the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Undergraduate Research Participant award. There, I studied sunfishes under Dr. F. Eugene Hester. The exposure to Dr. Hester and NCSU led me to apply there for graduate continued ...

Dr. L.M. Outten joined the faculty of Mars Hill College in 1946 and taught in the Biology Department until his retirement in 1987. He studied at Cornell University under the renowned ichthyologist Dr. E. C. Raney, and while at Mars Hill, published numerous papers on stream fishes. He was selected by the Association of Southeastern Biologists as their Meritorious Teacher in 1975. His legacy lives on through his students, and his collections of amphibians, reptiles, and fishes which reside in the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh.

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University Holds First-Ever Full-Day Observance for

Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday For the first time in its history, Mars Hill University canceled classes on Monday January 19th to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King.

Led by the MHU Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, the university held a day-long series of programs and activities including a prayer breakfast; a community engagement project; a unity march; a candlelight vigil; lectures, museum tours, food and music; and a documentary feature film about King’s life and work.

According to Tom Destino, chair of the university’s Intercultural Committee, the day’s activities spoke directly to several core values of the MHU strategic plan, namely, respect for diversity, ethical citizenship, a culture of service, and free and open intellectual inquiry.

“We honor Dr. King because of the timeless values he taught us through his example—values like courage, truth, justice, compassion, humility, dignity, and service. In this day of celebration at MHU, we commemorate Dr. King by creating an atmosphere of vibrant sister and brotherhood on campus, and embrace the unity of all peoples in love and truth,” Destino said.

Barber Headlines Speakers for

Black History Month Rev. Dr. William Barber, president of the North Carolina conference of NAACP, encouraged western North Carolinians to join a nonviolent revolution of compassion and social justice, when he spoke at Mars Hill University February 4.

In addition to his role in the state NAACP, Barber is a member of the National NAACP Board and chair of the NAACP’s Legislative Political Action Committee.

He has been a noted leader in civil rights and social justice issues in North Carolina, including the Moral Monday protest movement, the Forward Together movement and the HKonJ (Historic Thousands on Jones Street) People’s Assembly.

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February to celebrate Black History Month. Other events included a lecture by community activist and civil rights leader Dr. Zan Wesley Holmes, Jr., sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, and a Crossroads lecture and workshop for local ministers given by speaker and writer Melvin Bray, which was sponsored by the MHU Chaplain’s office.

Rusty Bradley, continued...

About the Author:

who prayed for me constantly while I was deployed.

When I was about 27, I prayed for a strong wife who could deal with the challenges of Army life. God hears your prayers because he answered mine and gave me my wife. Everything is according to His plan and in His time.”

Ron Spearman graduated from Mars Hill College, Class of 1964, the college’s first four year class. He enlisted in the US Army after graduation and was commissioned a 2nd LT of Artillery in 1965. His assignments include command and staff positions with air defense artillery and aviation units in Okinawa, Vietnam, Germany, twice in South Korea and numerous postings throughout the United States. Ron retired from the Army in 1993 as a Colonel after more than 28 years. He and his wife, Anne (Mize), Class of 1965, live in Tiger, Georgia.

They have two adult children, Shannon Simpson and LTC Darren Spearman, a physician in the Army, and three grandchildren.

Major Rusty Bradley deployed to Afghanistan eight times, most recently in 2012. After 21 years in the Army, he was medically retired in 2013. Rusty and his family live in the Fayetteville, NC area. We wish God’s continued blessings upon Rusty and his family.

R. Wilson Laney, continued... school, along with applications to Duke University and the University of Miami. This time the length of the application form was NOT a criterion.

The best graduate school offer I received came back from NCSU, which guaranteed me a research assistantship, and ultimately awarded me a NSF Graduate Traineeship which paid for the first four years of my graduate education. Those four years ultimately led to M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Zoology with minors in Marine Science, and a now 34-year (and counting) career with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), as Senior Biologist for Fisheries and Ecological Services.

None of those events or my career would have transpired had it not been for Dr. Outten’s actions on my behalf and the training he provided at Mars Hill.

Thanks to Dr. Outten, I have been and still am living my dream career at the Fish and Wildlife Service, serving as a representative on several Management Boards of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC), and the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, and annually coordinating and participating in a cooperative winter tagging cruise off the coasts of North Carolina and Virginia, tagging Atlantic sturgeon and striped bass, along with other skate and shark species, and gathering data on many other species managed by the ASMFC.

Mars Hill has continued to exert positive influences on my life as well through other family members and long-term friendships, like my sister Patricia ‘72, brother-in-law James Sykes ‘72 and long-time friend Ben Cochran ‘69, with whom I also attended NCSU. In Raleigh, Ben and I attended Forest Hills Baptist Church together, met our wives there in the singles class, have lived on the same street for decades, and have traveled together on mission trips and vacations to multiple continents.

R. Wilson Laney ’70 Dr. Outten passed away over 25 years ago, but his legacy lives on through me and his many other students who admired and learned from him. My biggest regret is that I never told Dr. Outten what a difference he made in my life and how much I owe him for helping to make my dreams a reality.

I am pleased to honor his legacy through these words, and I hope to do more for him and Mars Hill in the future.

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Harley and Betty Jolley

Memories of a Jolley Good Life

by Teresa Buckner

At 94, Dr. Harley Jolley remains sharp and witty, a deep well of seemingly unfaded memories. Born in 1920, Jolley’s memories include a treasure trove of history from a life that has not only studied, but lived many of the most significant historic events of the 20th century.

Jolley’s stories included his boyhood during the Great Depression in Caldwell County, NC; his stint in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the late 30s; his service in the army air corps; and the terrible day on December 7, 1941, when he survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Harley Jolley taught history at Mars Hill College from 1949 through 1991. His wife, Betty Jolley, came to the college in 1949 as an assistant librarian, but she quickly began teaching humanities and history courses. For over four decades, they formed the backbone of the history department of Mars Hill College, and they were integral to the life of both the college and the town of Mars Hill.

“Of course, I was there when the Japanese visited us with bombs,” Jolley said recently. Around 7 am on December 7, Jolley and his bunkmate were awakened by the booming sounds of bombs dropping. Both Jolley and his friend initially thought it was the U.S. Navy on practice maneuvers.

Dr. Jolley was known as a fascinating teacher, not only because his lectures were passionate and animated, but also because his retelling of the historic events of the 20th century often blended with stories from his own life.

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“Well, it was the navy,” he said, “but it wasn’t our navy; it was the Japanese. And we could see them flying over, with torpedos coming in the windows of the barracks.”

Jolley still carries a piece of shrapnel he picked up during the attack, as well as the memories of several friends who didn’t make it.

In early 1942, Jolley was transferred to Arizona, and later to France, where he served for the rest of the war, some 200 miles from the front lines.

When he returned to the U.S. following the war, he quickly made use of the G.I. bill, and went to Appalachian State Teacher’s College, where he intended to major in math. But that all changed when he took his first history class.

“I met the most amazing professor I’ve ever had in my life,” he said. “His name was Duggins, fresh out of the navy. He couldn’t say a full sentence without profanity, but oh boy, could he give a lesson.”

According to Jolley, Duggins came to class thoroughly prepared. Armed only with chalk, he would give a thoroughly engrossing lesson. It was a technique that both Jolleys (Betty was also Duggins’ student), would deliberately emulate during their careers.

It was at Appalachian State that Harley met Betty Cornette, a music major. “I had friends who knew her and pointed her toward me. And it worked,” he said, simply.

“It worked,” through 57 years of marriage, through grad school (a Ph.D. for him and an M.A. for her), through two children, Ben (MHC class of ‘73) and Stuart (MHC class of ’86), through dual careers at Mars Hill College, through retirements, and through grandchildren, until Betty Jolley’s death in 2007.

The Jolleys were married on Christmas Eve, 1949, because, as Jolley says, “tis the season to be Jolley!”

Known for their larger-than-life personalities and high classroom standards, the Jolleys each displayed a distinctive style in the classroom.

“I think all of us know that really good teachers have passion for their subjects and love it,” said John Hardin ‘86, who is now a history teacher himself at Mountain Heritage High School in Burnsville, NC. “Dr. Jolley was definitely like that.”

Harley Jolley had a unassailable presence in the classroom that commanded students’ respect, Hardin said. “The words ‘distinguished southern gentleman’ and ‘scholar’ come to my mind when I think of Dr. Jolley,” Hardin said. “He always had

an extremely professional way about him in the classroom. All the students respected him, so behavior was just never ever an issue. He knew what he was talking about and everybody knew it.”

While Hardin came to Mars Hill intending to major in history, he briefly considered business as a better path. Then, he took one of Dr. Jolley’s classes.

“I loved it, every minute of it, and it became clear to me that I was a history major,” Hardin said.

Betty Jolley, or “Mama Jolley,” as many students called her, was known as a difficult but caring professor. Ricky Cooper ’84, now a social studies teacher at Cane River Middle School in Burnsville, had several classes under Betty Jolley, and remembers her most for her heart for students.

Top: A young Harley and Betty Jolley play with their young son, Ben; Center: The Jolley family in 1965: Ben, Betty, Harley and Stuart.

Below: The history professors pose for the Laurel in 1986.

“Mrs. Jolley came across as very stern in class, but we knew she had a heart of gold,” he said.

She had high expectations for her students, Cooper said. “She worked us hard, lots of essays, presentations and group work. But, that hard work in her classes prepared continued...

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me for my teaching career.”

Mrs. Jolley’s concern for her students was displayed in Cooper’s own life when he went to her one day to tell her he would have to drop out of college due to financial problems.

“No you are not!” she said. “Come with me!” Mrs. Jolley took Cooper to the financial aid office and helped him get work study and loans to stay in school.

Dr. Jolley received offers to go to other universities, he inevitably chose to turn them down.

“This was a good place for my boys to grow up,” he said. “The love and support of the people in this community kept us here, and our kids were adopted by those people.”

In addition to his teaching career, Dr. Jolley spent 25 years (19581984) as a seasonal ranger with the interpretive division of the U.S. “Had it not been for Mrs. Jolley Park Service, on the Blue Ridge I would have had to drop out of Parkway. Jolley researched and school, because I had no idea wrote about the history of the how I was going to come up with Parkway extensively. Over the money for tuition and books,” he years, he authored eleven books said. and publications, most of which According to Dr. Jolley, Betty catalog the history, landscaping, loved traveling, and she loved to and details of the world’s longest plan trips which would introduce and thinnest national park. His The Jolleys in 1990 her students to locations around book, The Blue Ridge Parkway, is the world. Many people in Mars a volume which continues to be a Hill remember when Betty Jolley favorite among both scholars and casual readers. and a group of Mars Hill students got stuck in China He also authored one book is about the Civilian temporarily during the upheaval of the Tiananmen Conservation Corps, titled, That Magnificent Army of Square massacre of 1989.

Youth and Peace.

“I remember when she got off the plane in He has been given numerous interviews as an Asheville, she got down on her knees and kissed the expert on the Parkway, and he appeared in The ground,” Harley Jolley said. “That was one happy History Channel’s series “The 1930s,” discussing his woman.” experiences in the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Jolley clearly misses his wife, and speaks of her great respect and affection. In a short conversation, he will describe her excellent teaching skills, her loving nature, and her sharp intellect.

Betty Jolley was outspoken about her Christian faith and its place in her life. That faith formed the foundation of her love for family, friends and students. When she passed away in 2007, Harley chose to honor her with a short but poignant epitaph on her tombstone: “Joyous Christian, Master Teacher.”

Harley poured his gift for teaching and his love for history into an adult Bible class at Mars Hill Baptist church for over 40 years.

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In 2008, Jolley was presented with the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. The award is bestowed by the Office of the Governor of North Carolina, and is the highest civilian honor in the state. In addition to his long service in the Park Service, Jolley’s service as historical commissioner for the parkway and as a member of the historical markers commission were among the considerations for the award.

Today, Jolley lives with Stuart’s family in Mars Hill, in the same home that he shared with Betty. He reads voraciously, thanks to the Mars Hill library, and he keeps up with high school sports in Yancey County, where Stuart is an elementary school principal.

Jolley reflects on his lifetime of memories by saying that it’s all been part of a very good life. “The Lord’s taken care of me,” he said. “I’ve been blessed.”

World Class Events Come to Campus for The Presidential Lecture and Performance Series

Mars Hill University hosted two world class events this fall as part of the Presidential Lecture and Performance Series.

Former ambassador Edward W. “Skip” Gnehm, Jr. was the speaker on September 18 for a program called “The Middle East Cauldron.” The program touched on numerous interlocking historical, cultural and religious tensions throughout the region that have led to the brutality and violence the area is experiencing.

“The Middle East today is a seething cauldron—a kaleidoscope of disorder, instability, and turmoil.

From North Africa and the fractured state of Libya, to Egypt under military authority, to Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, one finds a collapse of political systems in some cases to such an extent that it even threatens the existence of the regimes themselves,” he said.

As a former ambassador to Jordan, Australia and Kuwait, Gnehm is an expert on the Middle East region, both from academic and personal standpoints. He had a long and distinguished career with the Foreign Service and served under seven presidents, attaining the rank of career minister.

On October 23, the university hosted an exciting and inspiring performance by the United States Army Field Band and Soldier’s Chorus.

The Concert Band is an elite 65-member instrumental ensemble, which was founded in 1946. The Soldiers’ Chorus, founded in 1957, is the

vocal complement of the Field Band.

Both ensembles have performed throughout the nation and abroad for audiences totaling more than 100 million.

Top: The Army Field Band and Soldier’s Chorus The Concert Band perform in Moore Auditorium in October. Above: Edward “skip” Gnehm talks with students in a has participated political science classroom prior to his lecture. in numerous presidential inaugural parades and supported many diplomatic missions overseas.

The Presidential Lecture and Performance Series complements Mars Hill University’s emphasis on the liberal arts by bringing distinguished and knowledgeable individuals to lecture on a wide range of topics and to provide high quality performances in the cultural arts.

Coming up in Spring 2015...

The Ethics of Suffering: Re-Introducing Love into (Medical) Decision-Making A lecture by

Dr. Ray Barfield April 27, 2015 Moore Auditorium Dr. Barfield is a pediatric oncologist on the faculties of both Duke Medical School and Duke Divinity School.

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LION ATHLETICS:

2014 Fall Sports HIGHLIGHTS

by Rick Baker

Football Dimitri Holmes set the South Atlantic Conference record for career receiving yards (4,231) and career receptions (267).

D2Football.com All-American; SAC Offensive Player of the Year Four players earned Don Hansen All-Region honors as well Jamel Harbison as BSN All-Super Region; two earned DAKTRONICS All-Region accolades Jamel Harbison’s 290 yards against Brevard on 10/11 were best by a MHU running back since 2011

Volleyball Mary Kate Griffin named second team All-SAC, Rebecca Butler to All-Freshman team

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Men’s Soccer Finished in second place in the South Atlantic Conference Alex Mullen earned AllRegion and All-Conference.

He also earned the SAC ScholarAthlete award

Alex Mullen

Cross Country Men win their 18th straight South Atlantic Conference title as well as the Southeast Regional meet, finish in 27th at NCAA national meet Jessica Viscusi named SAC Scholar-Athlete. She qualified for her second straight NCAA national meet and finished 88th Both teams earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors. Six runners (Derek Gibson, Nathan Jones, Brandon Beard, Garrett Farrimond, Gil Gilreath and Viscusi) earned individual All-Academic honors

Women’s Swimming Freshman Abby Harty set multiple school records and earned AllConference honors. She was named the Swimmer of the Week five times Third place team finish at the Sewanee Invitational Oct. 31-Nov.1

Men’s Swimming Seven new school records: 100 Breaststroke, 200 Breaststroke, 200 freestyle, 500 Freestyle, 1000 Freestyle, 1650 Freestyle and 800 Freestyle Relay Four student-athletes named All-Conference; three Academic All-Conference

Men’s Basketball Finished with double-digit wins (11-17) for the first time 2010-11 and the 11 wins are the most since 2008-09 Isaiah Cuthbertson earned honorable mention All-SAC honors. His layup with 0.3 seconds remaining gave MHU a 74-73 victory at Queens on Feb. 14 Patrick Monroe set a school record with nine 3-pointers at Carson-Newman on Nov. 25 Isaiah Cuthbertson

Women’s Basketball Qualified for the SAC Tournament for the first time since 2010-11 Camille Glymph set the school record and tied the SAC single-game record with 45 points in an 88-42 victory over Brevard on Feb. 26.

Glymph earned first team All-SAC honors Team did volunteer work at Mars Hill Elementary in the fall

Camille Glymph

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ANDERSON MAKES THE SWITCH FROM PLAYING TO COACHING WITH THE HAGERSTOWN SUNS

by Steven Grandy Assistant Director of Sports Information

For Mars Hill alum Patrick Anderson ’99, returning to an area he considers a second home as a coach has been nothing short of a dream. Anderson is in his first year as manager of the Class A Hagerstown Suns. MHU’s Steven Grandy had the chance to talk with Anderson when he and his club were in town for a three-game series with the Asheville Tourists recently.

“I used to come to McCormick Field as a kid and then as a college student-athlete to watch games,” said Anderson from the Suns dugout. “Being able to come back here as a manager, I’m really fortunate.

It’s one of those surreal moments.”

Anderson’s time at Mars Hill developed a mentality that he’s carried with him long after his playing days as a Lion ended. In 1995, Anderson earned All-SAC second team honors as a catcher.

“Being a Division II baseball player breeds a blue collartype of person. You’ve got to earn a lot more things. I went to Brevard two years before transferring to Mars Hill. Playing under Rick Baker was outstanding; he was a catcher as I was. He and Joe Dodd were great mentors. I learned a lot at that level and try to keep those experiences here in regards to being a bluecollar guy and working hard.”

Following his playing days at Henderson Field, Anderson moved on to the independent Frontier League with the Zanesville Greys in 1995 and 1996 and the Chillicothe Paints in 1997. In 181 games, Anderson batted .287 with 63 hits, three home runs and 29 RBI. Anderson’s journey from the playing field to the coach’s box is a long, winding road.

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“I played three years of professional baseball in the independent leagues,” explained Anderson.

“I was able to get into coaching a bit during the independent league years. A coach I had with an independent league team took a job at Gannon (Pa.). I’d work with them during the spring before the independent league season started and I’d go off and play.”

“At the tail end of my playing career I spend three years at Hofstra as an assistant. While at Hofstra, a few scouts with the Kansas City Royals noticed me and asked if I would be interested in coaching in the professional ranks. I started as a hitting coach with their rookie league team in Florida and spent nine years with the organization. It worked out where there was a job opening at Hofstra for the head coaching position and I spent three seasons there. I enjoyed the college ranks but I was really wanted to head back to professional baseball.”

As a coach, Anderson found the transition of playing to coaching to be a tough task, but said it was a learn-as-you-go experience where he discovered that players are most successful when they are coached in a way that suits their personalities.

Last year, Anderson had a dream season. In his first year with the Washington Nationals organization, Anderson led the Rookie League Gulf Coast Nationals to a 44-9 record and the Gulf Coast League crown while setting the record for winning percentage (.845) among domestic-based, shortseason or rookie league teams. In recognition for

Mars Hill Team to Host National Road Cycling Championships in Asheville his efforts, Anderson was named the Gulf Coast League Manager of the Year.

“It was funny that every lineup that we put up found a way to win. We’d change up the lineup to deal with the grind of playing in Florida during the day in the summer. They got used to winning; they were fundamentally sound in catching and throwing the baseball. It was a fun team to be around. ” The majority of the Hagerstown roster are 18to 23-year-olds, which is the same age bracket that Anderson coached at Hofstra. According to Anderson, he has the same mentality dealing with his Hagerstown players as he did with the Hofstra student-athletes, the main difference being that his current players aren’t going to class. At this writing, Hagerstown had an overall record of 85-50.

Anderson, like many minor league coaches, has aspirations of making it to the major leagues. While the big leagues are a goal, reaching the majors isn’t the definition of success for him.

“Everyone has a dream of getting to the big leagues, but I’ve really enjoyed seeing players develop and get better. I’ll let the chips fall where they may. The biggest thing for me is getting to see guys I coached get an opportunity in the big leagues.”

After a long time away from Mars Hill, Anderson returned to campus on Monday as part of a travel day for his team. While some of the buildings have changed, the welcoming atmosphere of the campus hasn’t changed, according to Anderson.

“It was a handful of things that stood out. The cafeteria was new when I was there and I thought that was really a big thing. The new baseball field looks awesome; I’m so excited for them. It was great to see some familiar faces and tell the baseball team my story. I like to be able to give back to something that gave me so much.”

Mars Hill’s cycling team has crisscrossed the country the past few years, bringing home several national championships. For the next couple of years, they’re hoping staying close to home will allow them to be even better rested to hoist some championship hardware.

The USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships will be held in and around Asheville this year and next, on the same roads our team uses for its training routes. For 2016, the collegiate national championships in the cyclocross discipline also will be held in Asheville (at Biltmore Estate). Mars Hill Cycling Coach Hugh Moran worked with the Asheville Bicycle Racing Club and the Asheville Buncombe Regional Sports Commission to put together the proposal that convinced USA Cycling to bring road nationals to the area. Moran and the team are “thrilled to help host collegiate road nationals, something we’ve dreamed about for years,” he says. “We’re going to help make this an awesome experience for collegiate racers, both on and off the bike.”

Leading into road nationals, which are May 8-10, Mars Hill Cycling has been putting together a strong season, across all disciplines. At track nationals, the team grabbed the bronze medal in the team omnium, along with seven top ten finishes in individual events; mountain bike nationals, Mars Hill brought home five top tens and one podium finish; cyclocross nationals saw Mars Hill Cycling Team Members: (l-r) Hunter the team post Resek, Paige Shook, Alex Christofalos a couple of individual top ten finishes and a podium spot in the team relay.

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Welcome New Faculty and Staff Craig Baker , Temporary Facilities Grounds Jacquelyn Blankinship , Asheville Center Coordinator/ Admissions Counselor, Rhodes College, BA, Psychology; Appalachian State University, BM, Music Theory

Rodney Caldwell , Visiting Associate Professor of Music & Director of Choral Studies, University of Arizona, DMA, Conducting

Stephen Childers , Part Time Security Officer, Haywood Community College, AAS, Business

Monica Cody , Telemarketer John Covington III , Admissions Counselor Marlene Gile , Administrative Assistant to the Dean of Nursing, Denison University, BA, English Literature

Ryan Hefti , Assistant Professor of Chemistry/Physics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, PhD, Nanoscale Science

Andrew Hoots , Chaplain Resident, Campbell University Divinity School, M Div, Religion

E. Susan Kellogg , Frankhauser Professor of Business, The Union Institute, PhD, Business

Judy Metcalf , Facilities: Custodian James Neill , Facilities: Electrician Donna Parsons , Assistant Professor of Business, Saint Mary’s University, PhD, Management

Ann Peiffer , Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology,

Anna Riddle , General Accounting Associate, University of North Carolina at Asheville, BS, Accounting

Travis Riner , Telemarketer, Mars Hill University, BS, Physical Education

Joel Rogers , Assistant Professor Of Musical Theatre, University of Memphis, MFA, Directing

Richard Schwein , Director of Safety and Security

Personnel, US Naval Postgraduate School, MA, National Security

David Scott , Facilities: Carpenter Kinta Serve , Assistant Professor of Biology, Idaho State University, PhD, Biology

Stacey Sparks , Director of Foundations Engagement/ Prospect Research, University of Central Florida, MPA, Public Administration

Steven Stritt , Assistant Professor of Social Work,

University of California, Berkley, PhD, Social Welfare

Jonathan Strother , Assistant Athletic Trainer,

University of NC - Pembroke, MA, Physical Education

Nathan Waldrop , Facilities: Plumber Dana Wilson, Assistant Professor of Health ,Physical Education & Recreation, Walden University, PhD, Public Health/Com Health Ed

Adam Zulak , Admissions Counselor, Mars Hill University, BA, Sociology

University of Connecticut, PhD, Psychological and Behavioral Neuroscience

MARS HILL UNIVERSITY HIRES NEW DIRECTOR OF SAFETY AND SECURITY Richard (Rick) D. Schwein Jr. has joined the staff of Mars Hill University as Director of the Department of Safety and Security and as a member of the criminal justice faculty.

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and was detailed to the CIA Counterterrorism Center at Langley, Virginia as the Deputy Director for Law Enforcement.

In 2012, Schwein was selected by then-Director Robert Mueller as Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the FBI Birmingham Division. Schwein retired from government service in December 2014 and returned to western North Carolina.

According to President Dan Lunsford, Schwein’s impressive credentials make him the perfect fit for an increased emphasis on safety and security at Mars Hill University.

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PUBLICATIONS...HONORS...ACHIEVEMENTS...PRESENTATIONS... PUBLICATIONS...HONORS...ACHIEVEMENTS...PRESENTATIONS...PUBLICATIONS......

Dr. Rick Cary, professor of art Title: The Effects of Stimulus Type in Aesthetic Preference Research: A Meta-Analysis.” Proceedings of the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics Biennial Congress, published: August 2014 Dr. Matthew Milnes, assistant professor of biology Title: “Advances in conservation endocrinology: The application of molecular approaches to the conservation of endangered species.”General and Comparative Endocrinology, vol 203, pgs 29-34, published March 2014 Dr. Marc Mullinax, professor of religion and philosophy Title: “Harry Emerson Fosdick: Adventurous Religion” in Jeffrey A. Wilcox, Terrence N. Tice & Catherine L. Kelsey, eds., Schleiermacher’s Influences on American Thought and Religious Life, 1835-1920, New York: Pickwick Publications (Princeton Theological Monograph Series), 2014.

Published October 23, 2014.

Dr. Scott Pearson, professor of biology Title: “Logging legacies affect insect pollinator communities in Southern Appalachian forests.”

Southeastern Naturalist, 13(2), 2014.

Title: “Effects of landscape composition and configuration on migrating songbirds: inference from an individual-based model.” Ecological Applications, 24(2), 2014.

Dr. Andrea Rockel, assistant professor of biology Title: “Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides Promote Microbial Mutagenesis and Pathoadaptation in Chronic Infections.” Journal: PLOS Pathogens, published April 2014.

Dr. Jessica Van Cleave, assistant professor of education Title: “Pursuing Responsibility: Writing and Citing Subjects in Qualitative Research”, Qualitative Inquiry, published by Sage, published June, 2014 (online Feb, 2014)

Front: Andrew Rockel, Jessica Van Cleave, Scott Pearson, Back: Marc Mullinax, Rick Cary, Matthew Milnes

Title: “Rewriting the Common Core State Standards for Tomorrow’s Literacies”, English Journal, published by the National Council of Teachers of English, published November, 2014.

Shelley Receives National Award Mars Hill University’s head athletic trainer will receive a national award for his work with MHU’s student athletes and his volunteer efforts outside the institution. Allen Shelley is one of just 36 people selected for the Athletic Trainer Service Award by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association. Shelley joined the Mars Hill staff in 1994, and says he’s proud of the work he and his staff do, mostly behind the scenes. “We work Allen Shelley for the health and safety of our student-athletes, not for the money or for a pat on the back.” And he’s proud of the difference Mars Hill’s athletic training academic program has made in the local community. Twenty years ago, only the colleges in western North Carolina had certified athletic trainers on staff. Today many area high schools, middle schools, and clinics have training staff. Shelley says, “Many of our graduates have had the opportunity to stay in the area while working in the field.”

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Class Notes Mars Hill, the Magazine of Mars Hill University welcomes your personal snapshots when you send in news of weddings, babies, accomplishments, etc.

Send your photos to: alumni@mhu.edu, or Alumni Office, P.O. Box 6792, Mars Hill, NC, 28754

1940s Phillip “Tip” Eames ’47 was presented with the Order of the Long Leaf Pine for his life-long contributions to New Hanover County, NC. The award, presented in April 2014, is the most prestigious civilian award presented by the governor of NC. Rev. Dave Ward ’48 (National Alumni Board member) celebrated 50 years as a staff member at First Baptist Church in Knoxville, TN, in April 2014. In that time, he has served as minister of education, associate pastor, minister to senior adults and minister of pastoral care. To honor his service, the church renamed its education building the Dave Ward Education Building.

1950s Phillip “Keith” Price ’52 has received the Duke Energy Citizenship Award. Price has volunteered over 36,000 hours to organizations in and near Rutherfordton, NC. Robert “Bob” Lester Chapman ’54 retired from First Presbyterian Church in Martinsville, VA, as the Adult Music Director in August 2013.

Beverly Claire England Williams ’57 has written a book, By Faith and By Love, about Martin and Mabel England. The book explores the family history and values that affected the couple in their work as missionaries to Burma, in the field of education at Mars Hill College, and in advocating for racial justice during the mid-20th century.

1960s Terry Devowell Childers ’68 retired from First Baptist Church of Marion NC, as the associate pastor for music and administration for over 21 years.

Donald Wayne Staples ’69 recently completed his 36th year with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). He also serves on the Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation Board for Waterworks and Wastewater Works Operators

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and Onsite Sewage System Professionals. This past September, he received the A.H. Paessler Award for Environmental Stewardship. Staples lives in Chesterfield County, VA with his wife, Mercedes. They have three children and six grandchildren.

1970s Cathy Elizabeth Bowen Purvis ’70 was bestowed with the Order of the Long Leaf Pine at her retirement in September 2014. She was the founding Executive Director of Children’s Advocacy Centers of NC and served on several boards addressing violence against children, including the National Children’s Alliance, of which she was president. Prior to that, she worked for family services in Guilford County for 20 years. She and her husband, Al Purvis (‘71) live in High Point, NC. They have two daughters, two sons-in-law, and four grandchildren.

Fred Spitzhoff ’73 and Myra Hamrick Spitzhoff (attended MHC for two years and transferred)have been married 41 years, and have retired to Myrtle Beach, SC. Edgar Mangan Newton ’74 retired from Mount Laurel School district as a performing arts specialist after 31 years. He will continue as organist/choirmaster of Trinity Episcopal Church in Rocky Hill, NJ, and as a professional bagpiper.

Beverly Elizabeth Snowden ’74 is the author of an award-winning feature story that has earned her employer, Hickory Public Schools (NC), the Award of Excellence for Distinguished Achievement from the National School Public Relations Association.

Marilyn “Que” Tucker ’74 has been named the interim commissioner for the NC High School Athletic Association. Tucker, who has been the deputy commissioner since 2005, will fill the interim position through May 31, 2016.

Sheila Hawkins Showers ’77 and Carlos Showers ’79 welcomed new grandchildren Adonis Griffin on January 27, 2013 and Ivanna Griffin on February 8, 2014. Carlos was also re-elected to the Black Mountain Board of Aldermen. He is the first African-American to be elected to consecutive terms on the Board. Sheila retired from the Asheville City School System after 25 years of teaching in 2013.

1980s Dr. James Douthit ’83 has been named the Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs for Nazareth College in Rochester, NY. Prior to this appointment, he was chair of the Nazareth College Department of Music for nine years.

Tebin McDowell ’84 has been named the new market president over Cleveland County, NC, for Alliance Bank & Trust Community Bank.

William “Bill” Murdock ’84 was awarded the Mother Teresa Global Peace and Leadership Prize for his work as co-founder and executive director of Eblen Chairities and the Eblen Center for Social Enterprise, based in Asheville, NC. James “Todd” Boycher ’85 has announced that he will retire from the Roxboro Police Department (NC) as Chief of Police on April 1, 2015. Boycher has served nearly 30 years in law enforcement, and he has held his currently position since 2009.

Matthew Miller ’86 has been appointed as the new Chief Policy Officer at Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization representing post-9/11 veterans and their families.

Dr. Carol Hensley Bennett ’88 has accepted position as assistant professor of Elementary Education at Brigham Young University in Laie, Hawaii.

Carl “Lamar” Chastain ’88 received a Master of Arts degree in Theological Studies from Liberty University in December 2014.

1990s Rev. Eleanor “Lea” Pardue Slaton ’90 completed her Doctor of Ministry degree in May 2014 at Drew University.

She currently serves as pastor of Wilson’s Mills Christian Church in Clayton, NC. Sheryl Williams Wilson ’91 has joined the Pat Allen Realty Group in Highlands, NC. Wilson spent most of her career in accounting and auditing. She launched her real estate career in 2012.

Lisa Elaine Gahagan Gosnell ’92 has been named 2014-15 Principal of the Year in Madison County Schools, NC. Gosnel is currently serving in her second year as principal of Madison Middle School.

Kerry Donald Heafner ’92 has been named Horticulture Extension Agent for Ouachita Parish by the Louisiana State University Agriculture Center in Baton Rouge, LA. Douglas Neil Searcy ’92 was announced as the 12th president at Barton College in January, 2015. Barton College is located in Wilson, NC. Amy Reed Saaweachter ’94 has accepted a new position with Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC as a Clinical Education Consultant.

Amanda Frazier Hobbs ’97 has accepted a position as Regional Accountability Coordinator with the NC Department of Public Instruction. During the past ten years, she has served as an assistant principal, principal and director with Pender County Schools, NC. Matthew “Matt” Queen ’97 was installed as the L.R. Scarborough Chair of Evangelism at Southwestern

Baptist Theological Seminary. Queen is an assistant professor of evangelism at the seminary and the eighth professor to hold the distinguished position.

Patrick Hanson Spence ’98 and his wife, Erin, had a son, Zane Robert Spence, on November 1, 2014. Zane is the grandson of MHU adjunct music faculty member, Gary Spence.

Tammy Todd Albrecht ’99 has been promoted to director of operations at Wilsonart manufacturing facility in Zane Robert Spence Fletcher, NC. Albrecht has been employed at Wilsonart for 34 years, working in manufacturing, human resources/ training and development and as global project manager.

Cindy Maxwell Jamison ’99 has been named assistant principal at North Buncombe Elementary School in Weaverville, NC. Previously, she served as assistant principal at Fairview Elementary, Candler Elementary and Hominy Valley Elementary, all in Buncombe County.

2000s Kelli Ann Herndon Calcutt ’00 and her husband Rodney, welcomed a son, Grant Calcutt, on December 28, 2014.

Tyler “TJ” Farmer ’00 and his wife, Julia, welcomed their first child, Caroline McMahan Farmer, on September 27, 2014. The Farmers reside in Gill, MA, where T.J. is the associate dean of students at Northfield Mount Hermon School.

Tessa Shelton Sellers ’00 was sworn in as District Court Judge for the 30th Judicial District of NC in June 2014.

Chrystal “Chrissy” Parker ’01 married Jack Corson in October 2014. Chrissy is a kindergarten teacher at Marion Elementary School in Marion, NC. Bradford Dunn ’01 married Bethany Lauren Abernethy on September 6, 2014. Brad is a sergeant with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, NC. Daniel “Danny” Peck ’01 married Kimberly Lynn Kroll on October 25, 2014. Danny is the senior UI Software Engineer for Analyte Health of Chicago, IL. The couple lives in Asheville, NC. Jennifer Hoyle Powell ’02 and her husband, Paul, welcomed their first baby, Madalyn Grace Powell, on September 30, 2014.

James Robert “Robbie” Atkinson ’03 has been named Corporate Treasurer

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Lost and Found...30 Years Later

and Manager of Investor Relations for NN, Inc., a manufacturing company in Johnson City, TN. Josh Boatwright ’05 and Joyce Lorenz Boatwright ’09, welcomed their first baby, Jude Boatwright, on December 19, 2014. The Boatwrights live in Altamonte Springs, FL. Bethany Leatherwood Wyatt ’05 has been named a social worker in the foster care unit of Madison County (NC) Department of Social Services in December 2014.

Dawn Proffitt ’07 has been named the Yancey County Schools Teacher of the Year for 2014-15. Proffitt is a teacher at East Yancey Middle School in Burnsville, NC. Andrew Chilton ’08 Lives in Bakersville, CA, where he teaches AP literature and a medical English class at Stockdale High School. He is also the varsity wrestling coach.

Ginger Staten ’08 married Marcus Keller on October 18, 2014. The couple lives in Johnson City, TN. Courtney Evans Wright ’09 and her husband Patrick, welcomed their first baby, Grayson Edward Wright, on December 3, 2014.

Grayson Edward Wright

2010s Ava Lyne Lewis ’11 married Jake Graham on September 13, 2014. The couple lives in Fairmont, NC. Benjamin “Ben” Hunt ’12 married Suzanne Alexander Young on September 27, 2014.

Laura Rice ’13 has received the National Recreation and Park Association Certified Park and Recreation Professional designation. She is employed at Henderson County Parks and Recreation Department as a program supervisor.

Leanne Rector James ’14 married Robert Steven James on October 11, 2014.

Dr. Keith James Leggett ’80/Trustee has been promoted to Senior Vice President & Senior Economist for the American Bankers Association in Washington, DC. C. Robert Jones, retired faculty is the author of a book of children’s stories titled Lanky Tales, Vol. 1, The Bird Man & Other Stories. The book is planned to be the first in a four-volumn series featuring stories about Lanky Lonagan, a character from Jones musical, A Belonging Place.

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John Goin ’81 had only had his Mars Hill College class ring for about six weeks when he lost it. Little did he know the ring would show up over 30 years later through another Mars Hill alum.

Goin’s parents, T. Dewey and Betty Houston Goin, both 1950 Mars Hill alums, purchased the ring for him as a gift during his senior year at Mars Hill College.

One night during a date at Annabelle’s Restaurant in the Asheville mall, Goin took off his ring and laid it on the table.

“My date and I were talking and my ring kept clinking on my tea glass every time I picked it up. So I took it off until after the meal,” he said.

Soon after walking out of the restaurant, Goin realized his mistake and ran back inside, but the table had been cleaned. Despite help from the manager, no one in the restaurant would admit to having the ring.

For over 30 years, Goin believed he would never see his ring again.

Then, in September 2014, Karen Hedrick in the MHU Advancement Office received a call from MHU alumna Sam English of Weaverville, NC. Her father, Bobby Gene Boll had passed away and while going through his effects, she had found a Mars Hill College ring with the name John H. Goin inscribed inside.

Sam was familiar with Mars Hill, not just from her own experience, but also because her husband, Terry ’89, and daughter, Casey ’07, were alumni.

Sam said her father had a gift for finding things that other people might miss. “He was always finding coins, rings, and other things, and he collected them,” she said.

While cleaning out a garage full of her father’s things, she found the ring inside a box of “trinkets.” After the call from English, MHU Director of Alumni Relations Jaime McKee found Goin on facebook and sent him a message. At Homecoming 2014, the ring was returned to its rightful owner.

At a February Alumni event in Jacksonville, FL, Kitty Ulmer ’37 (97 years young!) and Brian Danforth ’06 were the oldest and youngest alums to attend.

To learn about alumni events in your area, go to the “Mars Hill Alumni” facebook page, or sign up for the MHU Advancement Newsletter, Inside MHU, by going to the signup form on the alumni section of the MHU website: http://www.mhu.edu/alumni.

In Memoriam 1930s

Gertrude Hannon Thompson Ayers ’30 , Inman, SC, June 27, 2014 June Ramsey Baker ’32 , Santa Barbara, CA, July 18, 2014 Beryl Stoker Brown ’37 , Erwin, TN, October 4, 2014 Harry Harkey ’37 , Lenoir City, TN, January 6, 2014 Brawdus “B.V.” Hill ’38 , Asheville, NC, September 14, 2014 Veronica Tuten Horton ’38 , St Simons Island, GA, July 27, 2014 Edward Robinson, Jr. ’38 , Cockeysville, MD, June 29, 2013 Ruth Blazer Aker ’39 , Knoxville, TN, July 18, 2013 Robert “Bob” Garrison, Jr. ’39 , Raleigh, NC, August 25, 2014 Herbert Peek, Sr ’39 , Charlotte, NC, September 5, 2014

1940s

Elizabeth Messick Firesheets ’43 , Jamestown, NC, January 29, 2015 Hettie Christine “Chris” Flint ’43 , Greenville, SC, January 26, 2015 Mary Navy Jackson ’43 , McKee, KY, December 10, 2013 David “Dave” McAdams, Sr. ’43 , Raleigh, NC, July 2, 2014 Dorothea “Jeanne” McCain Rawding ’43 , Clemmons, NC, October 16, 2014 Jodie Farthing Reese Dugger ’43 , Burnsville, NC, October 4, 2014 Joyce Howell Fuller ’44 , Gaffney, SC, April 21, 2014 Mildred Cherry Holden ’44 , Supply, NC, July 26, 2014 John McDaniel, Jr. ’44 , Durham, NC, July 7, 2014 Julia Fleming Pugh ’44 , Raleigh, NC, February 8, 2012 Pauline “Polly” Bell Roberson ’44 , Greenville, NC, January 29, 2015 Pauline Lytle Salzman ’44 , Temple, TX, September 17, 2010

Marjorie Crews Crawford ’40 , Atlantic Beach, FL, February 12, 2014

Mary Rice White ’44 , Marion, NC, June 4, 2014

Judge George Culpepper, III ’40 , Macon, GA, November 29, 2014

Edna Johnson Bryan ’45 , Winston Salem, NC, October 8, 2014

Virginia Terry Johnson ’40 , Maryville, TN, October 8, 2014 Mary Lou Moore Jordan ’40 , Fairmont, NC, August 14, 2013 Lila Nanney Hamilton ’41 , Rock Hill, SC, July 9, 2014 Robert Holt ’41 , Fuquay-Varina, NC, October 8, 2014 Lilia Diaz Montero ’41 , Wingate, NC, October 27, 2014 Mildred Tucker Wentz Hill ’41 , Concord, NC, November 30, 2014 Barbara “Eloise” Mills Davis Cannon ’42 , Waynesboro, VA, September 26, 2010

Alice Cook Zikewich ’44 , Lake Orion, MI, May 9, 2014

Bettye Crouch Davis ’45 , Black Mountain, NC, June 9, 2014 Sarah “Kathleen” Day Hoyle ’45 , Charlotte, NC, January 22, 2015 Dr. Mary Lawton Myers ’45 , Fairmont, WV, August 8, 2014 Ruth Tilson Peterson ’45 , Winston Salem, NC, July 6, 2014 Mary Middleton Willis ’45 , Fuquay Varina, NC, September 29, 2014 Hesta McCollum Bailey ’46 , Athens, TN, June 24, 2014

Mary Grace Caudle DeReamer ’42 , Badin, NC, January 27, 2014

Emilyn Malpass Gause ’46 , Sheridan, WY, October 21, 2013

Wilma Mason Durham ’42 , Raleigh, NC, January 21, 2015

Sarah Cain Gibson ’46 , Carolina Beach, NC, June 29, 2014

Sarah Yates Goare ’42 , Connelly Springs, NC, August 11, 2014

Mary Pugh Miller ’46 , New Bern, NC, July 18, 2014

Ernest Morris ’42 , Charlotte, NC, January 14, 2015

Jacqueline “Jackie” Rogers Scott ’46 , Fair Bluff, NC, January 12, 2015

Bernard Smith, Jr. ’42 , Asheville, NC, November 23, 2014 Sylvia Courson Brady ’43 , Elizabethtown, NC, April 2, 2013

Myrtle Davis Orr ’46 , Anderson, SC, October 20, 2014

Beatrice Magee Candler ’47 , Candler, NC, September 25, 2013 Charles Chappell, Jr. ’47 , Beaufort, NC, May 6, 2007

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In Memoriam

Joseph Daniels, Sr. ’47 , Conway, SC, November 24, 2014

Sarah Clark Hyde ’52 , Andrews, NC, February 23, 2014

Lila “Colleen” Painter Dellinger ’47 , Hickory, NC, May 16, 2010

Doris Shirley Pruett ’52 , Mooresville, NC, August 22, 2014

Calvin Francis ’47 , Leesville, SC, December 26, 2010

Alice “Carolyn” Redding Spencer ’52 , Gastonia, NC, October 2, 2014

Linda Coulter Guin ’47 , Charlotte, NC, November 4, 2014 John “J.T.” Holland ’47 , West Columbia, SC, January 15, 2015

Paul Berry ’53 , Blowing Rock, NC, October 16, 2014

Richard Moore ’47 , Charlotte, NC, October 26, 2014

Leon Conner ’53 , Cleveland, TN, September 6, 2014

Howard Alley ’48 , Roswell, GA, April 3, 2013

Dorris Browder Luther ’53 , Goose Creek, SC, December 19, 2012

Talmage “T.D.” Flack, Jr. ’48 , Winston Salem, NC, December 28, 2014

Bill Bocook ’54 , Los Altos, CA, June 6, 2014

Jack Fleming, Sr. ’48 , Eden, NC, November 18, 2014

Mae Johnson Dula ’54 , Durham, NC, November 17, 2014

Walter Morphis ’48 , Statesville, NC, December 13, 2012

Dr. William Ferguson ’54 , Clemmons, NC, October 3, 2014

Dr. George Brown ’49 , Waynesville, NC, July 19, 2014 Phillip Dixon, Sr. ’49 , High Point, NC, August 11, 2014 Nan Ponder ’49 , Lagrange, GA, June 27, 2014 Glenna “Marie” Sluder Stanfield ’49 , Asheville, NC, March 3, 2011

Marjorie “Colleen” Pate Horton ’54 , Kershaw, SC, December 18, 2014 Doris Miller Huneycutt ’54 , Pittsboro, NC, June 3, 2010 William Lovorn, Jr. ’54 , Mebane, NC, April 11, 2013

Billy Tevepaugh ’49 , Atlantic Beach, FL, October 13, 2014

Dr. Calvin Metcalf ’54 , Jefferson City, TN, September 10, 2014

Betty Ferrell Youngs Curtis ’49 , Durham, NC, July 17, 2014

Barbara Priddy Porter ’54 , Mayodan, NC, June 15, 2014

1950s Irvin Adcock ’50 , Oxford, NC, December 23, 2014 Irvin Franklin “Frank” Barger ’50 , Sumter, SC, April 19, 2014 Melba “Jean” Baker Barnes ’50 , Woodstock, GA, February 3, 2014 Helen Hoyle Bridges ’50 , Palm Harbor, FL, December 15, 2013

William “Bill” Moore ’54 , Pickens, SC, July 10, 2014 Gena Fant Rabon ’54 , Camden, SC, July 31, 2014 Rev. Harold Smith, Sr. ’54 , Huntersville, NC, April 12, 2014 George Thomas ’54 , Asheville, NC, October 29, 2014 Iris Jo Cundiff Harley ’55 , Columbia, SC, January 9, 2015 Ida Hawkins ’55 , Charlottesville, VA, December 9, 2013 Shelton Hinson ’55 , Lufkin, TX, February 7, 2013

Katherine Sites Stamps ’50 , Richmond, KY, January 17, 2015

Robert Morrow ’55 , Thomasville, NC, August 4, 2014

Bennie “Vernell” Abernethy Stevens ’50 , Snow Hill, NC, December 21, 2014

Mary Rowan McCoy ’56 , Hickory, NC, October 7, 2014

Robert “Bob” Cashion ’51 , Cornelius, NC, October 13, 2014

Robert Smith ’57 , Sumter, SC, November 15, 2014

David Early ’51 , Sanford, NC, July 2, 2013 Richard “Dick” Riddle ’51 , Winston Salem, NC, July 29, 2014 Edward “Glen” Holt ’52 , Watkinsville, GA, January 7, 2015 Joseph “Joe” Hucks ’52 , Myrtle Beach, SC, November 27, 2014

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Dorothy Preslar Bell ’53 , Cullowhee, NC, January 27, 2015

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Boyd Falls ’56 , Charlotte, NC, June 17, 2014 John Enscore ’57 , Durham, NC, January 26, 2015 Gaither “G.E” Briggs, Jr. ’58 , Mars Hill, NC, June 15, 2014 John Honeycutt, Sr. ’58 , Blacksburg, VA, November 24, 2013 Virginia Armstrong Musselwhite ’58 , Miami Shores, FL, September 28, 2013 John Pierczynski ’58 , Gastonia, NC, January 24, 2013 Bettie Herbert Sykes ’58 , Wilmington, NC, January 30, 2015

Henry Upchurch ’58 , Moncure, NC, March 13, 2014

Joseph Jordan ’77 , Lakeland, FL, August 12, 2012

David Roberts, Jr. ’59 , Grimesland, NC, June 3, 2014

Carole Maffie Fisher ’78 , Acworth, GA, December 1, 2014

Bertha Cochran Wheeler ’59 , Brandon, FL, December 12, 2013

1960s James Benton, Jr. ’60 , Laurinburg, NC, October 26, 2014 Elizabeth “Anne” Moore Henderson ’60 , St. Petersburg, FL, September 27, 2014 Frank Puett ’60 , Asheville, NC, January 14, 2015 Billy “Rex” Stephens ’60 , Wilmington, NC, September 22, 2014 Frederick “Fred” Ziglar ’60 , Winston Salem, NC, February 23, 2014 Donna Holbrook ’62 , Riverdale, GA, January 7, 2013 William Knight, Jr. ’62 , Greensboro, NC, August 2, 2014 Edna Price Smith ’62 , Franklinton, NC, July 15, 2014 Shannon Waldo Hughes Clark ’65 , Asheville, NC, September 24, 2014 Danny Cooper ’66 , Salisbury, NC, August 31, 2014 Phyllis Gores Honeycutt ’66 , Greeneville, TN, September 28, 2014

1980s Ann “Cookie” Erwin Barnes ’80 , Pisgah Forest, NC, June 9, 2014 Minda Allen Brooks ’80 , Wilmington, NC, June 9, 2014 1st Sgt Rodric Dalton ’80 , Christiansburg, VA, July 8, 2014 Harriet McCarr Davis ’84 , Overland Park, KS, August 11, 2014 Gregory McElrath ’89 , Asheville, NC, November 26, 2014

1990s David Sprinkle ’93 , Asheville, NC, August 13, 2014 Carl Frady, Jr. ’95 , Asheville, NC, January 11, 2015 Jonathan Kremkau ’98 , Grimesland, NC, May 26, 2014

Faculty/Staff/Trustees Donald “Don” Anderson, Retired Faculty , Mars Hill, NC, November 6, 2014

David Crisp ’67 , Asheville, NC, October 15, 2014

Elizabeth Gahagan Baker ’81/Former Trustee , Marshall, NC, September 1, 2014

Russell “Jay” Flippin, Jr. ’68 , Morehead, KY, October 16, 2014

Winona Bierbaum, Retired Faculty , Mars Hill, NC, February 27, 2015

Barney Douglas “Doug” Smith ’69 , Charleston, SC, December 8, 2014

Ida “Lucille” Sawyer Harris ’44/Former Faculty , Winston Salem, NC, August 2, 2014

1970s JoAnn Pace Bryson ’70 , Brevard, NC, August 16, 2014 David Rollins, Sr. ’70 , Germantown, TN, September 18, 2014 Donald Stevens ’70 , Garner, NC, October 13, 2014 Richard Beaver ’71 , Richmond, VA, December 26, 2014 Gaither Bumgardner ’71 , Fort Lawn, SC, July 24, 2014 Nancy Morrow Caldwell ’71 , Campobello, SC, July 21, 2014 Richard “Rick” Bacon ’74 , Lumberton, NC, August 7, 2014 H. Gardner Cody ’74 , Marshall, NC, September 19, 2014 Patricia McBrayer ’74 , Huntersville, NC, December 31, 2014 Jerry Perryman ’74 , Knoxville, TN, June 23, 2014 Michael “Mike” Kinney ’76 , Cleveland, TN, October 19, 2011

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PO Box 370 Mars Hill, NC, 28754

“Qualla Arts and Crafts: Tradition and Innovation� an exhibition at the

Rural Heritage Museum Mars Hill University March 13 - May 29, 2015

Rivercane baskets (left) and carvings by artist Davy Arch (above)

The Rural Heritage Museum is open daily except Mondays from 11-5 p.m. and by appointment. It is located on Rt. 213, in Montague Hall, on the campus of Mars Hill University. Admission is free. For more information or for group tours, please call (828) 689-1400, or visit the website: www.mhu.edu/museum.