A season, continued...
Volleyball, which was also broken up into two divisions, will put the top four teams in each into their postseason tournament. In what has been a chaotic year for collegiate athletics, to say the least, the opportunities remain for all to participate in their chosen sport and compete for postseason glory. Baseball Field Resurfaced (right): The MHU baseball team is looking forward to playing on a new turf surface on Henderson Field. Construction started on the field the week before Thanksgiving and was completed just in time for MHU players’ return to campus for the spring season. 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 news and photos to alumni@mhu.edu, or Alumni Office, P.O. Box 6792, Mars Hill, N.C. 28754. 1970s
Penny Roberts Weaver ’70 and husband, Tom Weaver, celebrated their 50th anniversary on August 1, 2020 with a small gathering with their children and their families. Tom Weaver is a retired MHU assistant football coach, having served on the Lions coaching staff from 1988 to 1994 and from 2005 to 2018. James Smith ’75 will be retiring after 40 years as basketball coach at Airport High School in West Columbia , S.C. The pinnacle of his career was winning the 3A boys South Carolina basketball championship on March 7, 2020. He plans to spend time with his brand new grandson. Rev. Gerald “Gerry” Hutchinson, Jr. ’76, retired from the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Global Office on August 31, after six and a half years as the chaplaincy & pastoral counseling ministries manager. Prior to that position, he served as a chaplain with the U.S. Navy Reserve for 26 years, completing two mobilizations with marines in Afghanistan and in Djibouti, Africa. During the course of 39 years in vocational ministry, he served churches in Georgia and Virginia, served as a home missionary in Jacksonville, N.C., and served with the Home Mission Board as director of church and community ministries. Hutchinson and his wife, Vicki, reside in Stone Mountain, Ga.
Dr. Roger E. “Eddie” Bennett ’77, has been named a recipient of the 2020 (Georgia) Governor’s Award for the Arts and Humanities. Eddie is currently the executive director of the Georgia Council for the Social Studies. The award is in recognition of a 43year career in social studies education as a teacher and curriculum specialist. Dr. Steven Chicurel-Stein ’77 will be retiring in May 2021 after 30 years of working in higher education, most recently at the University of Central Florida. He plans to devote himself to completing his third book, and presenting workshops, conducting master classes, and engaging in voice research. He also hopes to pursue his loves of music, musical theatre performance, and travel. 1980s
Dr. Kimberly Myers ’83 has completed two books, which will be published in 2021: Breast Cancer Inside Out: Bodies, Biographies, & Beliefs (Peter Lang Oxford) and Graphic Medical Ethics: Clinical Ethics in Comic Form (Penn. State University Press). Myers is a professor of humanities and medicine and a distinguished educator at the Pennsylvania State College of Medicine. Norman McRae ’84 has been named chairman of the board of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, the nation’s largest membership Mars Hill, the Magazine | Spring 2021 25
