Wesleyan College Winter 2015 Magazine

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2015 ANNUAL REPORT

ADMINISTRATION Ruth A. Knox ’75

President of the College Vivia L. Fowler

Provost/Vice President for

Academic Affairs Patricia M. Gibbs

Vice President for Student Affairs C. Stephen Farr

Vice President for Enrollment Services Richard P. Maier

Vice President for Business

and Fiscal Affairs/Treasurer Andrea Williford

Vice President for Institutional Advancement Matthew Martin

Dean of the Faculty WESLEYAN MAGAZINE STAFF Mary Ann Howard, Editor

Director of Communications

mhoward@wesleyancollege.edu Brandi Vorhees, Art Director Cathy Coxey Snow ’71

Alumnae Director csnow@wesleyancollege.edu Mary Kathryn Borland ’04

Associate Director of

Alumnae/Student Affairs mborland@wesleyancollege.edu Millie P. Hudson ’75

Director of Development Julie Jones Director of Advancement Services Jaime F. McQuilkin ‘06 Class Notes Editor CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Lauren Hamblin Beatty ’06 Kim Berry Whitney Davis, Devyn Foti ’13 Beth Galvin ’87 Licia Drinnon Jackson ’74 Sherry Neal ’96 Helen Anne Richards ’80 Debbie Jones Smith ’76 PRINTING Panaprint SPECIAL THANKS Library of Congress, Minnesota Public Radio, Ann Packwood Photography, Raymond Rangel, Doug Scaletta, Vernon Taylor, Scott Thompson, Jr., U.S. National Library of Medicine, Neal Carpenter, Amy Maddox, Roger Idenden, Maryann Bates, plus alumnae and friends for providing photos.

Wesleyan Magazine is published twice a year by the Wesleyan College Office of Communications 4760 Forsyth Road Macon, GA 31210-4462 phone (478) 757-5134 fax (478) 757-5104 Contents may be reprinted with permission of the editor.

The Golden Heart Class of 2019 (first year students) showed plenty of love for Wesleyan during the Georgia Gives Day Color Rush, topping the list for most donors from a singe class. Pirates were the overall winners with a total of 92 donors from all classes, and the College finished 3rd in the state on Georgia Gives Day with a total of 334 participants. Thanks to everyone who donated to this successful Annual Fund event!

from the president Greetings from Wesleyan!

As we anticipate the holiday season (and final exams), we are delighted to bring you the winter issue of the Wesleyan Magazine. In these pages we salute alumnae who across the years have devoted their lives to public service. We think you’ll enjoy reading the stories of women like Leila Anderson from the Class of 1904, who served during World War I as a Red Cross nurse in France; cyber defense expert Lt. Col. Joy Mastrangelo Kaczor ’96, deputy group commander for the 67th Cyberspace Operations Group, who teaches cyber security and defense; and Mary Euyang Shen ’46, who used her journalism talents in service to the U.S. Department of State, including as an early leader in the Voice of America program.

These and all the other extraordinary women we feature are proud to be Wesleyannes – and we are proud of them!

This issue also contains our Annual Report in which we highlight the wonderful alumnae and friends who contributed so generously to the College during the past fiscal year. We appreciate each of you for making Wesleyan College one of your priorities. In this season of thanksgiving, we recognize that our loyal and generous alumnae are among our greatest blessings, and we thank you!

Giving for the current fiscal year received a boost in mid-November with Wesleyan’s participation in Georgia Gives Day, a statewide effort to raise funds for Georgia’s nonprofit organizations.

Wesleyan College placed third for the number of donors who contributed,

and we thank each of you who joined in that effort. We salute the Red Pirates – representing classes from 1957 to 2017 – who made a late surge to win our online Color Rush. Wesleyan College, however, was the big winner, and we are grateful for all your gifts. We are particularly pleased that 52 current students were among the donors, with many of them making their first ever charitable gifts that day. As a matter of fact, the Golden Hearts of 2019, our first year students, had the most donors of any class!

In addition to contributing so generously with financial gifts, our alumnae find all manner of ways to give back to our alma mater. Because we want to expand the avenues for alumnae to become involved, the Alumnae Association is hosting Leadership Day on campus on January 23, 2016. Mark your calendars now and make plans to join us for a fun and informative day. All alumnae are welcome! See page 73 for a tentative schedule of events or visit our website at www.wesleyancollege.edu/ LeadershipDay to learn more. You’ll find current class notes on the website, too.

The pages of this issue show once again that service and loyalty have been and continue to be integral to the Wesleyan experience. How blessed we are to be part of this great institution whose alumnae live out our mission to be “forever first for women’s education – striving for excellence, grounded in faith, and engaged in service to the world.”

Hail, Wesleyan!

Cover: Sara Branham Matthews, Class of 1907, story on page 6 Photographer: Vernon Taylor. Image from the History of Medicine, U.S. National Library of Medicine

Contents Wesleyan Ma ga zi n e W i nt er 2 0 1 5

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A Leader of Leaders Toni Jennings ’71

Dr. Sara Branham Matthews Class of 1907

True, Faithful, and Loyal

Wesleyan Women serve their country

The Voice of America Mary Euyang Shen ’46

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An interview

Internship at the White House

In a place of Leadership Geovette Washington ’89

Living a Full Life

Stephanie Hood Wittry ’08

Another Wesleyan First A family of students

28 Fresh Face 31 Kid’s College 36 Fall Convocation 39 Campus News 42 Alumnae Club News 46 New Board of Managers 49 2015 Investors’ Report Photo: Professor of Biology and Wesleyan College Arboretum Director Jim Ferrari and his field biology class identifying butterflies and other insects in the Arboretum.

Photo by Maryann Bates

A Leader of Leaders TONI JENNINGS ’71

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Photo courtesy of Doug Scaletta

Many people in the state of Florida know Toni Jennings as a leader of leaders.

Her story dates back to 1948 when her father established a family owned and operated construction business, Jack Jennings & Sons, in Orlando, Florida.

That same year, Jack and his wife Margaret also started a family. As his children grew, he stressed to them the qualities of his business ethic - hard work and honesty.

After graduating from Wesleyan cum laude with a major in elementary education, Toni began her career as a fifth grade teacher at Killarney Elementary School in Winter Park, Florida. She spent only two years teaching before joining her father’s business. “I learned on the job with my father as my teacher. I started at the front desk answering the telephone. It was wonderful to learn the principles of business from my father.”

Toni’s entry into politics was purely by accident. She lived in an apartment complex with several young women who worked for Florida legislators.

As a campaign volunteer, she was approached about running for office herself, so she ran for a Florida House seat as a Republican in 1976. In keeping with her background in the construction industry, her first campaign slogan was ‘Build government better, not bigger.’

“Probably the Republican Party had thirty percent of the registered voters back then. I had three opponents.

Everybody that was a Republican was running for office that year! I won in the general election in 1976 and the rest, as they say, is history.”

Her political career included many “firsts.” In 1976, she was the youngest woman ever elected to the Florida House of Representatives, which also made her the youngest woman ever elected to the Florida Legislature. In 1980, she was elected to the Florida Senate, and in 1996 she was elected president of the Florida Senate, making her the first female Republican leader of either house of the Legislature. She is also the only Senate president to have

held two consecutive terms, from 1996 to 2000. In 1998, former Governor Jeb Bush wanted her as his running mate.

“Governor Bush tried to talk me into running with him a couple of times, but it just wasn’t the right time. I was in the Senate and I was scheduled to be Senate president and that was a better thing for me to do. As I later pointed out to Jeb, I was a lot more useful to him as the Senate president when he was governor than I probably would have been as a running mate.”

While Toni was president of the Florida Senate, a proposal to add an exceptional education component to the planned University of Central Florida Teaching Academy was submitted to the Florida Legislature.

The center would provide information, resources, and opportunities for lifelong learning and support for people with exceptional needs and their families. Under Toni’s leadership, the proposal became part of the 2000 budget, and that August the institute was named the Toni Jennings Exceptional Education Institute (TJEEI) in recognition of her efforts. Every academic year the TJEEI funds six University of Central Florida doctoral student fellowships, three education doctoral students and three counselor education doctoral students.

When term limits forced Toni out of the Florida Senate, Bush called her again. “Florida Lieutenant Governor Frank Brogan was leaving his position to become president of Florida Atlantic University. Jeb called me and said, ‘I’ve got a deal for you, will you come now? Don’t say no, think about it, we’ll call you back.’” In 2003, Toni became Florida’s first female lieutenant governor, serving until December 2007. During her tenure, Toni worked on issues including education, healthcare, hurricane preparedness, disaster relief, and business and industry. Governor Bush said he was fortunate to have Toni as his lieutenant governor. “She is a leader.

She has humility. She is smart as all getout. She is principled and tough, but in a way that draws people toward the cause, not away from it.”

Even though she was recognized as Bush’s preference as his successor in 2006, Toni declined to run for governor.

In 2007 she returned to her roots, becoming chairwoman of Jack Jennings & Sons, Inc. She and her brothers Jeff and John continue to maintain the business reputation dedicated to personal service established by their father in 1948. Toni spends much of her time “paying civic rent,” something her father taught each of his children.

She has chaired the Florida Chamber of Commerce and Workforce Florida, Inc., both statewide organizations.

Currently, Toni serves on the boards of two nonprofit organizations, the Nemours Foundation and the Winter Park Health Foundation. She also sits on the boards of three public companies, Brown & Brown, Next Era Energy, and Post Properties.

As for returning to politics, Toni said, “I love politics and I love doing it, but I can’t tell you how much I love not doing it! I hope I did a good job while I was there. I tried really hard, but I leave it to others to do today.”

Toni said Wesleyan prepared her for life in many ways such as teaching her the critical thinking, negotiating, and visioning skills needed in today’s world.

The small classes, she added, afforded the opportunity for students to know the professors and, maybe more importantly, for professors to know the students.

Toni and her roommate Carolyn Berger Krutoy ’71 were part of the first resident advisor program when Wesleyan changed from house mothers in 1970.

“We were the RAs for Jones Hall, which was the junior dorm at the time. We were two seniors taking care of a dorm full of students only one year younger.

It was fun and they paid us for it!” Toni’s advice to students is to “find something meaningful, something you love to do, and something that gives you a sense of purpose and accomplishment. Don’t be afraid to try. Don’t be afraid of failure.

Don’t take no for an answer. Have faith in yourself! Goals and dreams evolve and change over time. That’s the best part of life!”

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Behind the scenes in Washington, D.C. JESSICA SEALE ’10

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When Jessica Seale ’10 was a little girl, she would tell people she wanted to be a bureaucrat when she grew up. Having spent five years in a career that revolves around politics, currently on Capitol Hill, Jessica now says that public service is her primary focus. Preferring to work behind the scenes using politics and policy to effect change, Jessica has no interest in running for office. “I am less interested in power and more interested in problem solving. Problem solving happens through policy changes, and the bulk of those changes take place in the nation’s capital.

If I can play a small role in improving the future of our country, I consider that a worthwhile endeavor.”

Jessica grew up as the only child of Carolyn ReVonda Seale ’96. ReVonda, a non-traditional student, had been introduced to Wesleyan by Sally Bone Fay ’65 and her daughter Susan Fay Flowers ’89. Susan said, “I first met ReVonda when I was in college. She was a friend of my mom’s, and they sang in the choir together. When I met her, she was working three jobs in order to provide for herself and Jessica, as well as taking classes at our local community college. ReVonda wanted to finish her bachelor’s degree, but none of the local programs offered what she was looking for. Mom called Wesleyan’s admission office and explained ReVonda’s situation.

Soon Mom, ReVonda, and eight-year-old Jessica were on their way to Wesleyan to have a look around. The Seales moved to Macon in time for ReVonda to attend fall semester that year.”

Jessica remembers tagging along with ReVonda as she went about her workstudy job in Willet Library. Jessica learned to type and use the Internet while her mother was working. “I helped re-shelve books, made seasonal displays for the front desk, and hung out with (librarians) Tena Roberts ’60 and Betty Shewfelt.”

ReVonda had other part-time jobs while at Wesleyan but still found time to serve on the Council for Judicial Affairs, serve as president of the Off Campus Student League, and play the lead role in STUNT her senior year, helping her class win the STUNT cup.

ReVonda died on May 9, 2000, when Jessica was fifteen years old. “The nontraditional program helped my single

mom become the first in our family to graduate from college. Wesleyan allowed me to attend classes and accompany her to the library. Ultimately, the reason I returned to Wesleyan after her death was because navigating college by yourself is hard, and I knew Wesleyan would help me.”

After graduating from Wesleyan with a degree in political science, Jessica returned home to Panama City and spent the summer working as a fulltime volunteer for Steve Southerland’s congressional campaign. Using a new digital communication strategy that Jessica devised, Southerland won the primary and hired Jessica as a member of his campaign staff. Southerland went on to win a seat in Congress (2011-2015).

“Winning the 2010 Congressional election was a big deal, but because the campaign season is short, I immediately began looking for my next job. While making calls and networking, a friend asked if I’d be interested in doing digital work for a U.S. Senate campaign based in Fort Worth, Texas. I had no intention of moving to Texas but figured I could use the interview experience. A couple of weeks later, I found myself packing my car for the cross-country move to Fort Worth.

I arrived on a Friday night, worked twelve hours on Saturday, and spent Sunday looking for a place to live. I was almost asleep Sunday night when the news broke that Osama bin Laden had been killed. So I was thrown into the deep end from the start. It was exhilarating.”

When her candidate transitioned to a U.S. House race, Jessica left the campaign and joined the digital consulting firm Upstream Communications, working exclusively with campaigns and political action committees. She continued to work with the candidate from Ft. Worth and added several other U.S. House races to her portfolio. By the 2012 election cycle, the digital era was transforming the way political campaigns were run.

Upstream and Jessica’s clients gave her the latitude to experiment aggressively with new technologies and approaches to engage voters. Over time, her portfolio expanded to include several statewide candidates, including Senator John Cornyn, the senior U.S. Senator from Texas since 2002.

In late 2013, Jessica was asked to interview for the digital director position at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee under Chairman Darrell Issa. “I had been following the Committee’s investigations from the start and was flattered just to be asked. Chairman Issa and the Oversight Committee set the bar for innovation and leveraging digital communication to engage Americans on important issues, so when I received the job offer, I knew it was a chance I couldn’t pass up. Once again, I found myself packing my car to move across country. I arrived in D.C. on New Year’s Day, 2014.”

At the beginning of the 114th Congress, the Oversight Committee got a new chairman, and Jessica accepted a job as Digital Director for her former client Senator Cornyn, who became the Senate Majority Whip in January 2015. As part of Cornyn’s communications team, Jessica has a range of duties that include proofing press releases and speeches and working with reporters on technology and internet-related topics. But her primary duties involve online communication (social media), analyzing analytics to understand the feedback, and compiling the broad information for the Senator.

She also maintains his website, serves as primary photographer at notable events, and produces videos.

After losing touch for a few years, Jessica and the Fays recently reconnected.

During Alumnae Weekend 2015 Jessica (fifth reunion), Sally (fiftieth reunion), Susan, and other family members celebrated a magical weekend and stayed together at the 1842 Inn. On reunion Friday, Jessica spoke to Dr. Barbara Donovan’s political science class about her journey to a career in politics.

Jessica tries not to plan her future in too much detail. “When I was a student hoping to work in politics and policy, there was no such thing as a digital director. Tomorrow may bring a new position or opportunity that doesn’t exist today, so I don’t get hung up on the details of what’s next. I hope always to work in a public service-oriented job, whatever form that takes.”

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Sara Branham Matthews The grand lady of microbiology

Among Wesleyan alumnae who have served in the public sector, no name has been more heralded over the years than that of Sara Branham Matthews from the Class of 1907. In 1950, when the Wesleyan Alumnae Association began recognizing individual alumnae for their distinguished achievement, it was no surprise that Sara Branham Matthews was among the alumnae so honored that first year. In 1992, the newly formed Georgia Women of Achievement (GWA) chose from among hundreds of accomplished women in Georgia history to include Sara in its first class of honorees. A newly released video by GWA highlights the contributions of this daughter of Wesleyan whose greatest 6

contribution in a lifetime of scientific achievements was the development of a successful treatment for spinal meningitis.

Born in 1888, a time when higher education for women was rare, Sara Branham was blessed to be part of a family whose members believed strongly in the value of women’s education. When she graduated in 1907, Sara became the third generation in her family to graduate from Wesleyan College. Preceding her were her mother Amanda Stone Branham from the Class of 1885 and her paternal grandmother Elizabeth Flournoy Stone, one of the nine members of Wesleyan’s first graduating class in 1840.

Both of Sara Branham’s grandfathers had served on the faculty of Wesleyan.

Wesleyan Professor George W. W. Stone, her mother’s father, went on to teach applied mathematics at Emory. Her paternal grandfather Walter R. Branham taught history at Wesleyan and fell in love with Elizabeth Flournoy there. In addition, she had aunts, great aunts, and “more cousins than I can name” who attended Wesleyan.

While the Branham family was committed to education, professional opportunities for women, even bright college graduates like Sara Branham, were severely limited in 1907. Teaching was one of the few careers open to women,

and Sara spent the next ten years in the classroom, first in Sparta, then Decatur, and ending as teacher of science and English in Atlanta’s Girls’ High School.

A desire to expand her own education took her to the University of Colorado in Boulder for summer study in 1917. In just a few weeks, however, the combination of Sara’s keen intellect and the dearth of men at the University because of the war led to an invitation to work as a lab assistant and then to teach bacteriology in the medical school. “When I had had about six weeks of bacteriology, they offered me a job to teach it!” she later told the Wesleyan Magazine. While at Colorado she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and continued her studies in biology and chemistry, earning a second

of Health (NIH), where she would remain for the rest of her professional career.

While on a leave of absence from 1932 to 1934, she completed her medical degree at the University of Chicago and served an internship at the Municipal Contagious Disease Hospital in Chicago.

At the NIH Sara was tasked with addressing a recent health menace.

A new strain of microbe was causing a virulent form of meningitis, one that was unresponsive to the serums that previously had been effective.

Sara’s rigorous research and tireless experimentation ultimately led to a successful treatment – a combination of serum and the new drug sulfanilamide.

Sara continued her research over the

was a diplomat of the American Board of Pathology in the field of Clinical Microbiology and of the National Board of Medical Examiners. She was named Woman of the Year by the American Women’s Medical Association in 1959, and in 1974 the genus Branhamella (catarrhalis) was created in her honor.

In spite of her demanding professional life, Sara Branham Matthews found time to be a devoted Wesleyan alumna and supporter, returning for class reunions, serving as alumna trustee from 1936 until 1939, and sharing her expertise as a featured speaker on several occasions.

In 1960, just two years before her death, she traveled from her home in Bethesda, Maryland, to Wesleyan College to deliver

“She killed millions of killers!”

“Georgia-Born Woman Doctor Uncovers Cure for the Dread Germ of Meningitis” - Atlanta Constitution, March 6, 1939

A.B. degree in 1919. Sara’s professional course was set. “When the war was over,” she wrote, “I was too deep in bacteriology to ever get out again.”

From Boulder Sara entered the University of Chicago for graduate study. While pursuing her Ph.D., Sara was appointed to an assistantship in bacteriology. Her research focused on the study of influenza, the disease that had killed perhaps as many in 1918-1919 as the Black Plague had killed in the Middle Ages. She earned her Ph.D. in bacteriology in 1923 and, while completing her first two years of medical school, was also an instructor in the Department of Hygiene and Bacteriology. In 1927 she left Chicago to become an associate in the Medical School of the University of Rochester in New York. After only a few months, she was asked to join the United States Public Health Service in its research institution, then called the “Hygienic Laboratory,” now the National Institutes

course of her career and became a renowned authority on the meningococcus. Her knowledge was described as “encyclopedic,” and she was sought as a consultant nationally and internationally. She had published eighty papers and had contributed to several textbooks at the time of her retirement as Chief of Bacterial Toxins Section, Division of Biologics Standards at the NIH. A bound volume of her collected published works can be found in Wesleyan’s Willet Library.

In addition to the distinguished achievement award from the Wesleyan College Alumnae Association, Sara received a distinguished service award from the University of Chicago Medical School Alumni Association and was presented with an honorary doctor of science from the University of Colorado.

In 1930 and in 1936 she represented the United States at the first and second International Conference for Microbiology in Paris and London. Sara

Image from the History of Medicine, U.S. National Library of Medicine

two lectures under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation and the American Institute of Biological Science.

When interviewed for the Georgia Women of Achievement’s new video about Sara’s life, President Ruth Knox ’75 observed, “One of the things I most admire about Sara Branham Matthews is the manner in which she developed her vocation, her sense of calling. She found what she loved, yes, but that was just the beginning. She worked hard, got an education – and lots of it – and took advantage of every door that was opened to her including that first job teaching bacteriology while the men were at war. When the NIH called her to help solve a medical threat affecting countless lives, she was more than ready to answer. Sara herself once said of her work at the NIH, ‘I think one reason I am so happy in my work is that I like the feeling I am doing something that really needs to be done.’ That is the very definition of calling.”

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Photo by Neal Carpenter

Wesleyan Women who serve their country Fighting cyber terrorists, healing wounded warriors, enforcing the law, studying forensic evidence, setting policy, and serving in the military -- for more than one hundred years, Wesleyan graduates have found ways to serve their country. From Leila Anderson, Class of 1904, a Red Cross nurse for the U.S. Army in World War I, to Veronica Manuel and Keiona Benjamin, who plan on joining the U.S. Air Force following their graduation in May of 2016, public service has been part of the Wesleyan story. Always true, faithful, and loyal, Wesleyan women serve out of a sense of duty, compassion, and responsibility. Following are a few of their stories; as always, we invite you to submit your own.

Leila Anderson, Class of 1904 RED CROSS NURSE IN FRANCE DURING WWI When she completed her studies at Wesleyan, Leila Anderson, Class of 1904, moved to Atlanta and earned her degree in nursing as a member of the first graduating class of the Wesley Monumental School of Nursing (later Emory University School of Nursing). In 1917 she went to New York City for training with the Red Cross where, in their brand new dark blue uniforms, the nurses were often mistaken for New York City policewomen.

After six weeks of training, she traveled with the other members of the Emory University Medical Unit to an American military hospital in Blois. There the nurses were ranked as officers and lived in Army barracks.

In a 1971 visit to Wesleyan, Leila reminisced about her time in wartime France. “The Army took good care of its nurses. They gave us toilets, water was chlorinated – we could hardly swallow it, but we knew it was unpolluted – and stoves to heat up the big barracks. The windows had no glass in them, and it was mighty cold so close to the Blois River. My bed was nearest the window, and one morning I woke up covered with snow.” She recalled working around the clock when the wounded soldiers, many the victims of mustard gas, were brought to the Red Cross uniform, c. 1918. Worn by Leila Anderson, Class of 1904, the only Wesleyan alumna to serve as a Red Cross nurse in France during WWI.

hospital. The memory of one particular evening, the night the Armistice was signed, remained vivid even 53 years later. She had returned to the barracks to sleep after a long evening of night duty. “Bells ringing all over France woke me up. I went out on the street and people were parading, dancing up and down. A hundred convalescents from our floor – they’d been bad-off that morning – spent the night playing leap frog over beds.“ After the war, Leila was sent to Commercy, where she became chief nurse, and went on to serve in occupied Germany in a hospital on the Rhine River. She returned to the U.S. and continued to practice as a nurse until her retirement in 1937.

In 1971, Leila Anderson was honored by the Wesleyan College Alumnae Association with an award for distinguished achievement. The uniform she wore while a Red Cross nurse in France is now part of Wesleyan’s archives and was on display in the “Wesleyan Treasures” exhibit celebrating the 175th anniversary of Wesleyan’s founding.

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Rebecca Navarre ’13 FUTURE U.S. NAVY SUBMARINE OFFICER Munroe Scholar Rebecca Navarre ’13 came to Wesleyan from Clarksville, Tennessee, to earn her degree in applied mathematical science with a concentration in physics and minors in physics and mathematics. At Wesleyan she was a member of the volleyball team, the Student Government Association, the Wesley Foundation, and the Council on Religious Unity. Rebecca believes that her involvement in these extra-curricular activities, combined with her rigorous academic curriculum, helped her learn time management and develop her own style of leadership.

After graduation, Rebecca enrolled in the U.S. Navy’s Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island. The mentally and physically demanding twelve-week course provides a working knowledge of the Navy (afloat and ashore), and prepares candidates to assume the responsibilities of a Naval

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officer. “The Navy has a specific program that recruits people in STEM fields. I joined the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Officer Candidate Program to continue on a path to learn about nuclear engineering.”

Rebecca’s goal is to become a submarine officer and part of an elite group of women who have been allowed to hold this position only since 2010.

Currently she is enrolled in a fifteen-month training program that consists of nuclear power school, prototype training, and the submarine officer basic course where she will master the jobs of driving and operationally managing the ship and its major systems.

Following in the footsteps of her mother, who is retired from the Army, Rebecca is looking forward to serving her country. “As a sailor, I hope to support the Navy, my ship, my sailors, and my peers. I want to do my job well and work toward doing more.”

Monycia Everett Noblin ’05 ARMY RESERVES MEDIC After graduating from Wesleyan in 2005 with a degree in history, Monycia Noblin enlisted in the United States Army, worked her way through basic training, and headed to San Antonio, Texas, for sixteen weeks of advanced individual training to become an Army medic.

Army medics work long days in the field and are often on call even when off duty.

These medical specialists do more than just provide basic medical care; medics are the first line of medical assistance for the Army. Their main duties are focused on emergency treatment in the field, including prepping wounded soldiers for triage and evacuation, administering IVs, taking vital signs, and sterilizing and dressing wounds. One of a medic’s main duties is getting wounded soldiers to safety where they can receive proper

treatment. In order to move the wounded quickly and efficiently, medics are also responsible for maintaining medical vehicles in the field.

During her two deployments to Iraq - one for fifteen months, the other for eleven months - Monycia assisted Army doctors in the hospital, giving shots and medicine, prepping blood samples for the lab, taking vital signs, and managing health records.

Monycia is no longer on active duty but is still a medic in the Army Reserves. She and her family have moved to Huntsville, Alabama, where Monycia is studying biology at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. After earning her second bachelor’s degree, she plans to attend medical school.

Terri Dudek Goodpaster ’85 RETIRED AIR FORCE SURGEON Lt. Col. (Dr.) Teresa ‘Terri’ Dudek Goodpaster ’85 said she might never have realized her dreams of becoming a physician and surgeon without the support she received from Wesleyan’s faculty and senior officers at Robins Air Force Base (RAFB) in Warner Robins, Georgia. Enlisted in the Air Force prior to coming to Wesleyan, Terri served as a medical laboratory technician at RAFB and was able to schedule her military duties on night and weekend shifts, allowing her time to attend Wesleyan as a day student. This biology major came to campus with a goal to attend medical school after graduation.

Terri entered the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, and earned her medical degree in 1989. From there she traveled to Dayton, Ohio, and completed her residency in general surgery at Wright State University.

“In addition to RAFB, I’ve been stationed at several military bases

around the country including Andrews in Maryland, Wright-Patterson in Ohio, Ellsworth in South Dakota, Luke in Arizona, and MacDill in Florida. I also served overseas in Korea and on deployment during Operation Iraqi Freedom. I am proud to have served active duty troops, military families, and retirees as both a medical lab technician and as a general surgeon over the course of my nearly twenty-seven year military career.”

Terri retired from the Air Force in 2007 and today she practices general surgery at Chipola Surgical & Medical Specialties in Marianna, Florida. “I have always been grateful to the staff at Wesleyan for assisting me in completing my undergraduate degree. I remember most fondly Patricia Hardeman, then Lewis, for her support. The feeling of family and caring that makes a small college a wonderful place to receive an education gave me life-long friends that I cherish to this day.”

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Lisa Hyman Ackerman ’98 A CAREER ON CAPITOL HILL Lisa Hyman Ackerman ’98 spent the better part of the last two decades working for two senators, at different times, on Capitol Hill. Immediately after graduating from Wesleyan, Lisa began her career in North Carolina working as a research associate on John Edwards’ Senate campaign.

Following his election, Lisa moved to Washington, D.C., to work as Edwards’ legislative correspondent. In that role, she devised legislative initiatives on workforce development, prepared briefing materials, advised members on votes, and drafted speeches.

Leaving Capitol Hill briefly, Lisa spent five months with the lobbying and public affairs firm PodestaMattoon developing and implementing legislative and grassroots strategies for corporate clients in the businesses of technology, entertainment, banking, homeland security, and health care industries. Missing the excitement of Capitol Hill, she left PodestaMattoon and joined Arkansas Senator Mark Lunsford Pryor’s press office in 2003. There she planned and managed external and internal communication activities to increase the Senator’s online 12

media coverage. Over the course of the next twelve years she served as research director, press secretary, and deputy communications director before becoming Pryor’s communications director. “It was fast-paced and high pressure, but I enjoyed both the policy and politics. Although the process seems to work at a snail’s pace, it is rewarding to see how a policy or regulation translates into positive change.”

Earlier this year, when Pryor lost his re-election campaign, Lisa decided to take a few months off to spend time with her young daughters. She is planning to go back to work this year, but not on Capitol Hill. “The hours are very long and my priorities have shifted. I hope to find a communication position at a nonprofit organization.”

Lisa said that being a communication major with a minor in political science created a solid foundation for her career. She credits Dr. Barbara Donovan, a class field trip to the Carter Center in Atlanta, and an internship in D.C. after her junior year for being the major influences in her decision to pursue a career in government.

Sarah Chervenak ’93 SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT FOR THE FBI During Alumnae Weekend 2008, the Wesleyan College Alumnae Association honored Sarah Chervenak ’93 with the Young Alumna Award “for the love of her country; for her dedication to protecting the people of the United States of America; for her commitment to making our world a safer place to live; and for her efforts to end terrorism.” Sarah was, and still is today, a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

convicted Atlanta Centennial Park bomber Eric Robert Rudolph. In 2001 and 2002 she assisted in the John Walker Lindh, a.k.a. “The American Taliban,” investigation which eventually led Lindh to a 20year sentence in federal prison.

In the aftermath of 9/11/01, Sarah played an integral role in the investigation of the worst terrorist attack ever on American soil. At that time, Sarah’s office was just two miles from the Pentagon.

was time for me to advance within the FBI. In 2010, after working terrorism for more than thirteen years, I was promoted to FBI headquarters where I have spent the past five years developing, building, and improving the FBI’s domestic information sharing capabilities.” In 2015, Sarah and her small team received the Director’s Award for Excellence in Program Management for their accomplishments.

Coming to Wesleyan from Columbus, Georgia, Sarah was on the basketball and tennis teams and was captain of the soccer team. Her soccer jersey was retired in 1993. A history and political science double major with a minor in biology, Sarah earned a juris doctorate degree from Samford University Cumberland School of Law in 1996.

After the attack, Sarah was assigned to the Washington Field Office national security squad that was known as the PENTTBOM squad named to represent the Pentagon and the Twin Towers. The investigation spanned multiple countries and cultures. Sarah found it physically draining.

“The loss of life, which we saw firsthand inside the Pentagon and in salvaged airplane parts, was horrific. Being previously accustomed to crime scenes could not have prepared any of us for what we witnessed after 9/11. On several occasions I felt like my heart would just break seeing the thousands of broken airplane parts and processing the victims’ luggage and personal items.

Perhaps the most chilling part was being one of the first investigators to hear the black box recording as Flight 93 descended and crashed in Pennsylvania.”

Sarah said all of her life experiences, including the four years at Wesleyan, provided an excellent foundation for her journey. Wesleyan, she said,

“It was never my lifetime dream to become a lawyer.

I knew law school would position me well for a strong career, but I craved more excitement. I was friends with a classmate whose father was an FBI agent. This friend believed that I would make an excellent special agent, so he introduced me to his father who, over the course of the next two years, mentored and recruited me into the FBI.” After passing the Alabama bar exam, Sarah trained for four months at the FBI facility in Quantico, Virginia, then continued her training around the world in counterterrorism, international and domestic terrorism, foreign intelligence surveillance, and cyber investigating. Sarah assisted in the 1998 investigation of the U.S. Embassy bombing in Tanzania. In 1999 she was part of the multi-agency search for

is an environment where she was able to flourish and thrive academically, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

“Wesleyan offers students numerous opportunities to develop leadership skills, which is not always the case in larger institutes of higher education.

I believe that leadership is fundamentally rooted in one’s being; it can be improved upon, but it cannot be taught. Good people do not always make good leaders, but leaders (not to be confused with managers) must always be good people. I credit and thank Wesleyan for helping me develop into the woman I am today.”

In 2008, Sarah transferred to the Los Angeles field office with her husband Keith, who retired from the FBI in 2010.

Towards the end of her tour in Los Angeles, her son Mikolas, now five years old, was born.

With a new baby came new responsibilities and shifting priorities. “Keith and I knew that we wanted to return to the D.C. area, and I knew it Wesleyan Magazine Winter 2015

Shannan Zuromski Hinners ’00

SPECIAL OPERATIONS/PERSONNEL RECOVERY SYSTEM PROGRAM OFFICE

Hailing from a family dedicated to serving their country via the United States Air Force, Shannan Zuromski Hinners ’00 would be the first to call herself a military brat. Her father joined the Army in 1968, spent three years in Vietnam, and then transferred to the Air Force where he served for forty years until his retirement.

Shannan’s brother is a staff sergeant at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. After graduating from Wesleyan with a degree in history, Shannan headed to Robins Air Force Base and was hired as a civilian employee. Shannon loves her job, now serving as equipment specialist for the Special Operations/Personnel Recovery 14

System Program Office, and works alongside her husband Hans who is a system engineer for C-17 jets.

Shannan has found her background as a history major to be invaluable as she maintains the parts and technical manuals of historical aircraft that have been flying since the Vietnam War. Shannan credits the higher level history classes she took at Wesleyan for developing the analytical and critical thinking skills that she uses every day in her job.

“I am a GS-11 working for the 411 Supply Chain Management Squadron (SCMS)

which is the Special Operations Forces Personnel Recovery squadron. Special Operations are missions that aren’t seen on the news, involving aircraft that the movies have glorified such as C-130 gunships, Hueys, Pave Hawk, and Black Hawk helicopters. These are aircraft that assist soldiers fighting on the ground and helicopters that pull the wounded from combat zones and from natural disasters.

Our job is to make sure these aircraft are in top condition and fit to bring the men and women of our armed services home to their families. I love what I do.”

Photo courtesy of Raymond Rangel

The Honorable

Judy Day Powell ’78 VOLUNTEER FOR THE STATE OF TEXAS After graduating from Wesleyan with a degree in English and a minor in theater, Judy Powell ’78 earned her graduate degree in communications in 1980 at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, which is also where she met her future husband Steve. The two married and moved to Malden, Missouri, where Judy became editor of the local weekly newspaper and Steve was the newscaster for the radio station. “Steve and I covered lots of events together. We interviewed then-Vice President George H.W. Bush on the campaign trail for Bill Emerson, who was elected to the House from southeast Missouri. We covered football games, beauty pageants, and the Purple Hull Pea Festival!”

The work put Judy in contact with influential people who talked her into running for city council. At the age of twenty-six she was elected and began her long and distinguished career as a volunteer in a variety of government positions. In Malden, Judy served on the finance and purchase committees, the board of public works, and as mayor pro tem. She participated in negotiations between the largest energy provider in Missouri and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. She was the youngest person and only the second woman ever elected to the council. As a charter member of the Child Abuse

Prevention Committee for the county, Judy was elected to the extension council for the University of Missouri.

Steve began a career with Motorola that has lasted more than thirty years, and the couple moved from Missouri to Kentucky, then Mississippi, then Texas. “When we got to Texas, we felt planted, and that’s when our daughter Claire was born. I worked a few years when she was little and then we decided to home school. Claire was nine when I began my career with the State of Texas.”

In 1999 Judy applied to the Governor’s Appointments Office and was appointed by then-Texas Governor George W. Bush.

Ever since, she has served Texas in one capacity or another including on three boards where she represents the interests of the public. Judy is not a professional counselor, but she chaired the Texas state board of examiners for professional counselors for nine years, ensuring the board’s decisions were fair and equitable.

The year she left, she was recognized by the Texas Counselors’ Association with a special achievement award. She served for two years as a director on the board for the Office of Patient Protection, and for three years Judy presided over the American Association of State Counseling boards. She has also served as a precinct chair and election judge in her county for more than fifteen years.

Today Judy is secretary of the board of directors for the Texas Health Services Authority, which is her third appointment to a regulatory agency for the State of Texas.

In addition to her government positions, Judy is a community volunteer and caregiver for her elderly mother. “I serve the community as an election judge/ precinct chair and early election worker and in many capacities at Woodlands United Methodist Church, mostly in music and missions.”

Judy credits Wesleyan for her success.

“I so clearly remember being told there was nothing I couldn’t do. I just always thought I could do a great job at whatever I decided to do.”

Patricia Stillwagon Kessler ’74 19TH WOMAN ACCEPTED FOR UNITED STATES AIR FORCE PILOT TRAINING After graduating from Wesleyan in just three years, Patricia Stillwagon Kessler ’74 moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania, where she met her husband Marc Kessler. Patty accepted a job with the Department of Defense and discovered she could take flying lessons from a military flying club.

Marc suggested she get her instructor’s license so she could teach him to fly.

Patty took to flying in short order. When she got her license, the FAA examiner told her she “flew a nice airplane.” He suggested she join the Air Force Reserve, which had just begun accepting women

pilots. She applied in 1977. When no acceptance letter came, Patty decided to fly to McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey and meet with their unit. She asked permission to fly in by private plane. “They were impressed,” she said.

for three years was a “Reserve bum,” flying with any active duty squadron that needed her. She flew the C-141, a cargo jet, to England, Germany, Greece, Spain, Kenya, Iceland, Greenland, and South America.

Patty was the 19th woman to go through Air Force pilot training. She took a leave of absence from her job and began training at Reese Air Force Base (now closed) in Lubbock, Texas, flying T-37s and T-38s. After graduating, she left her job at the Department of Defense and

Patty spent the last twenty-five years of her career as a pilot for Federal Express, retiring in 2012.

Thanks to Licia Drinnon Jackson ’74 for contributing to this story.

Wesleyan Magazine Winter 2015

DAPHNE RISTAU STELLATO ’99

EVELYN RAWCLIFFE-KIMBRELL ’97

STACY REYNOLDS FOREHAND ’98

Wesleyannes and the GBI During the spring and summer of 1999, The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) had twenty-six positions open for chemists and toxicologists and more than four hundred people applied. Three of those hired were women who earned their degrees in chemistry at Wesleyan between 1997 and 1999.

Daphne, “Samples are submitted as evidence in DUI cases, death cases, and department of corrections monitoring.

The death cases may be under suspicious circumstances or may simply be an unattended death (as opposed to an attended death that takes place in a medical setting such as a hospital or under hospice care). Toxicologists study the samples and issue a report with the results. The medical examiner then determines the cause of death based on not only the toxicology report but also the other tests requested by the medical examiner. Toxicology is but one piece of the puzzle.”

New Hampshire and both work for the New Hampshire State Police Forensic Laboratory, Daphne as a criminalist in the toxicology unit and Rich as a forensic drug chemist.

Daphne Ristau Stellato ’99 intended to enter medical school after leaving Wesleyan, but as graduation neared, she realized that studying medicine was not the right choice for her. When she heard the GBI was hiring graduates with degrees in chemistry, she decided to apply, was hired, and began training as a forensic toxicologist.

Considering her work as a service to society, Stacy said, “My favorite part of my job is working in the lab. I look forward to the days I can spend there instead of doing the other tasks like paperwork and court. I strive to do my best to help the GBI fulfill our mission ‘to provide the highest quality investigative, scientific, and information services and resources to the criminal justice community.’” Stacy commutes an hour every morning and afternoon to the Bureau’s Augusta lab.

As forensic toxicologists, Stacy and Daphne analyze biological samples such as blood, urine, and vitreous, extract the analytes of interest, and analyze and interpret that data. According to

Daphne worked for ten years as a crime lab scientist at the GBI Division of Forensic Sciences where she met her future husband Rich. Today the couple live with their daughter Brigid in

After a couple of years with the GBI, Evelyn decided it was time to return to medical school and was accepted to Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Evelyn left the Bureau in the spring of 2002 and started medical school that summer. She graduated in 2006 and completed her family medicine residency at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in June 2009. Today Evelyn is a doctor of osteopathy in North Carolina, where her husband Ken serves in the Air Force. “I have loved my life, meeting new people, and having the opportunity to pursue so many of my interests. The best thing about a Wesleyan education is that it prepares you for literally everything!”

Studying chemistry at Wesleyan with professors Dr. Glenda Ferguson and Dr. Keith Peterson, Stacy Reynolds Forehand ’98 was fairly certain that after graduation she wanted a career working in a lab.

An internship her senior year with an environmental lab in Macon helped confirm that goal. There she learned to use the instruments she would eventually use in her job as a forensic toxicologist with the GBI.

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Evelyn Rawcliffe-Kimbrell ’97 had always wanted to be in the healthcare profession as either a nurse or a physician. Graduating from Wesleyan in just three years, a young Evelyn entered medical school for a year, but discovered the timing was not right for her. With her solid chemistry foundation, Evelyn applied for a position as a forensic chemist with the GBI and got the job.

Joy Mastrangelo Kaczor ’96 DEPUTY GROUP COMMANDER FOR THE 67TH CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS GROUP During spring semester of her sophomore year at Wesleyan, Joy Mastrangelo married Bill Kaczor, a senior airman stationed at Robins Air Force Base (RAFB) in Warner Robins, Georgia. In the fall of 1995, Bill was assigned to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. Since Joy had completed her coursework at Wesleyan a semester early, she spent the spring of 1996 teaching high school math in Macon and anticipating graduation in May. After earning her degree in mathematics, Joy moved to Japan to be with Bill. In Okinawa, she taught college prep and college courses to students who were in the military. “I loved the dedication and discipline of the military. I was impressed by how a team of military personnel come together to accomplish a mission in order to defend our freedoms. I wanted to be a part of that. I wanted to serve my country and do something bigger than myself.”

role model for young girls and women and enjoy speaking at seminars about STEM and technology-related career fields.”

Joy has been active with Wesleyan outreach and recruitment at local high schools in the D.C. area. She has held thirteen jobs in the Air Force, been married to Bill for twenty-one years, moved nine times, lived in six states and three countries, and is the proud mother of two young children. In 2001, Joy earned her master of science degree in information systems, and in the same year the Wesleyan College Alumnae Association honored her with the Young Alumna Award. In 2011, she earned a master’s degree in strategic intelligence from the National Defense Intelligence College in Washington, D.C. and is currently working toward her Ph.D.

In 1998, Joy applied to Officer Training School at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, and was selected to be a communications officer. Four months later she was commissioned as a first lieutenant. In 2003, Joy served for one year in Korea as the roaming on-scene flight commander for a combat communications squadron, spending time in the field training troops for war. In 2007, she deployed to Qatar for four months, serving as the chief of protocol for the four-star admiral in charge of U.S. Central Command.

There she met the senior military leadership responsible for leading forces in support of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

From 2008 to 2010, Joy was in Hawaii as the computer network operations planner for Special Operations Command, Pacific. “This was my first job working with cyberspace operations and special operations forces. It is a very male-dominated organization and almost everyone was an Army Ranger, Navy Seal, or in Air Force Special Operations.”

Her next assignment was at the Pentagon as a staff officer helping influence cyberspace operations policy. During her last year in the Pentagon, she served as the executive officer to the senior cyberspace operations officer, a three-star general.

Joy was promoted to lieutenant colonel two years early, which is a great achievement and a rare honor. Two summers ago, she helped establish the first-ever Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Cyber Defense Training Academy to teach junior CAP members about cyber security and cyber defense. Since summer 2014, the Academy has trained sixty cadets. Today Joy is the deputy group commander for the 67th Cyberspace Operations Group, working with information so highly classified that it can’t even be shared with her family.

“Wesleyan helped me learn how to be a leader and taught me to be confident and believe in myself. As a student, I was surrounded by strong female role models. I strive to be a good Wesleyan Magazine Winter 2015

Patriot and third generation Wesleyanne MARYAN HARRIS ’39

Based on an interview with Maryan Harris by Mac Fowler in 2000, this article was written by Scott Thompson, Jr. in 2010.

Maryan Harris is a patriot. Who else would stuff her stomach with bananas and several quarts of water to qualify to serve her country? It is in her blood. Maryan descends from Hardy Smith of the Revolution and Andrew Pickens, her 4th great-grandfather and South Carolina militia leader, who was the model for Mel Gibson’s character in The Patriot. She wanted to serve, but admittedly Maryan joined the Women Accepted for Volunteer Service Emergency Service (W.A.V.E.S) just for the adventure of it.

Maryan Harley Smith was born in Laurens County, Georgia, in 1918 and graduated from Wesleyan in 1939. Her mother, Annie Pickens Simons Smith also attended Wesleyan and her grandmother, Mary Pickens Simons, graduated from Wesleyan in 1888. The oldest daughter of Charles Manly Smith, Maryan obtained her master’s degree in social science work from the University of Louisville.

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a wonderful experience. I had never been in the Northeast. North Hampton was a beautiful old town. We marched everywhere we went. They had a wonderful restaurant that was well known for its delicious food.

That’s where we had our meals. We had to march from the college to the restaurant.”

Despite the strenuous requirements of basic training, Smith enjoyed her first days in the WAVES. “We had to keep our rooms in ‘apple pie’ order. I remember mitering the beds. I would bruise my knuckles trying to get the cover tight enough to bounce a dime. They would come around and inspect the room with white gloves. If they found anything wrong, you got a demerit.”

Maryan and her fellow WAVES studied military history and anything pertaining to the Navy and surface craft. Although she was not trained in communication, Maryan was sent to Miami for her tour of duty in communications. Assigned to the 7th Naval District, Maryan had the very interesting duty of coding and decoding messages.

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Maryan Smith was already serving her country as a teacher in Thomasville, Georgia. After the shock of that day began to wane, Maryan made the decision to join the WAVES. She traveled from Greenwood to Columbia to take the entrance examination. “That morning I was a bit under weight, so I ate lots of bananas and drank lots of water to try to raise my weight.” She reached her goal but couldn’t stretch her under regulation height enough to meet the requirements. “But they accepted me anyway when they saw I was healthy.”

“We sent messages to and from the surface ships. The PT boats and destroyer escorts came into Miami to get their supplies. One of Maryan’s most memorable moments of her tour of duty came when she and other WAVES took a ride out to the island to watch the filming of the movie, They Were Expendable. “It was about the PT boats and their mission during the war. Robert Taylor and John Wayne were in the movie.

That was a lot of fun but I didn’t meet them personally.”

It was in the spring of 1943 when Maryan Smith took her physical and written examinations. At the time of her induction on June 5, 1943, Maryan was sent to Smith College in North Hampton, Massachusetts, for four weeks of basic training. “That was

She enjoyed the subtropical life of tall palms and blue water in Miami and Coral Gables, where she roomed with her sister Dorothy “Dottie,” also a Wesleyan graduate, Class of 1944. Life in South Florida, however, was not all fun. She managed to dodge a

hurricane, and ate “too much Spam” Dottie had stocked in case disaster struck.

Still wanting adventures, Lieutenant Junior Grade Maryan asked for a transfer to California. Instead, she was sent to the nation’s capital for the last ten months of her tour of duty.

Before the war, Mayan met John Joseph Harris, Jr., who was stationed at Spence Field in Moultrie, Georgia, a few miles distant from Thomasville. Ironically, Harris was assigned to the 121st Georgia Infantry, which was established in Dublin in 1919 and was composed of many soldiers from Laurens County and around the state of Georgia. While Maryan was stationed in Miami, the couple got to see each other on several occasions before he shipped out to the European Theater in 1944.

Eleven months after the end of the war in Europe, John and Maryan joined hands in marriage. “If I had not met John and wanted to get married, I would have stayed in the service.” Maryan was officially discharged about a month after their marriage.

“When I was in Washington, they declared VJ Day and everyone poured out of the offices and went downtown singing, waving flags, and hugging each other whether you knew them or not. We were all so happy the war was over.” The Harrises moved to Dublin after John’s retirement as a defense analyst. They had one son, John K. Harris.

Maryan Smith Harris went back to serving her community. As a volunteer for the Laurens County Historical Society, and a long time member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and her beloved Christ Episcopal Church, Maryan continued to help others.

Editor’s note: Maryan Harley Smith Harris graduated from Wesleyan College in 1939 with a major in English and a minor in education. In a letter of recommendation Wesleyan Alumnae Secretary Jennie Loyal wrote, “Miss Smith…is serious and purposeful, stately and dignified in appearance, mature in judgment, popular with her classmates and with faculty members… She has a background of culture.” While at Wesleyan, Maryan’s campus involvement included directing plays, singing in the college choir and glee club, serving as president of the dramatic club, and the debator’s council. She received sophomore honors, served as a Junior Marshal, and was a student assistant in the alumnae office all four years. Since her graduation from Wesleyan, Maryan has been an active alumnae volunteer, including serving as class liaison in 1999, at the age of 81. She has also been a loyal supporter of Wesleyan’s annual fund.

She lives in Dublin, Georgia.

Wesleyan Magazine Winter 2015

The women of World War II: Virginia Claudon Allen ’40

“You were required to be brave.”

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Bob Collins April 25, 2008, reprinted with permission Next month, female veterans of World War II will be given a well-deserved honor in Minnesota: a recognition that they did their part. Virginia Allen of Minneapolis would like to see volunteers officially recognized as veterans, too.

The word volunteer doesn’t begin to convey her service, which took her from helping the most seriously injured fliers at a Florida hospital to rallying morale in Burma as “G.I. Jill,” the antidote to the anti-American messages of Toyko Rose.

When the war broke out, she told me recently, she knew she had to do something. “Anyone who was not patriotic was totally ignored and rejected by one and all,” she said. “The more involved you were, the more important you felt because you were doing something for the country.”

Allen, now 89, had graduated from William and Mary and had hoped to move to France, but the war had other ideas and she volunteered at a hospital in Florida.

“The hospital I worked in had the worst possible injured, poor flying guys I’ve ever seen. I was supposed to be a secretary. I was very bad at that. I could sort of type so they kept me there in the physical therapy department in order to be sure that I could handle what I was going to see. I worked with these guys and my job literally was to look at them, chat with them, and maybe they wouldn’t even have a face left. Maybe they were just like a stick for a leg or something. We’d talk about, ‘OK if you aren’t really working out, how are we going to dance?’ It was that type of lingo that went over and I soon became quite comfortable looking at bashed-up people, which is unusual since I’d never seen anything like that.”

Virginia worked as a civilian employee for Army Intelligence, which gave her more information about what was going

on than many of her contemporaries.

And when a young soldier to whom she was engaged was killed in a plane crash in Africa, she decided she wouldn’t get involved with anybody until after the war.

Still, she had a sense of wanting to do more. She headed overseas.

Rose by trying to direct propaganda to Japanese soldiers. “We didn’t give a hoot what they heard. I didn’t want to be responsible for giving them any information at all. We could break down an awful lot of the stuff that she was telling us as just hogwash.”

She and her best friend joined the Red Cross, got on a special train and headed to New York and, she presumed, France.

“When we woke up, we saw cornfields.

We were heading west. After training at a California Marine base, she and her best friend boarded a ship, the destination of which was secret. They ended up in Calcutta. “I had seen the bashed-up GIs, thank God, because I don’t know if I would’ve been able to make it through all that happened in India,” she said.

“Did you listen to her?” I asked.

She ended up in Agra, a desert outpost full of C-46 cargo plane repairmen where she set up a Red Cross club, broadcast as G.I. Jill, and worked to keep morale up. “I took the GIs to see the Taj Mahal, we held dances, and we went to leper colonies.”

“I was over at the hospital one night because a GI sent for me and he asked me if I would write a letter to his parents because he had a rotten cold. I sat down beside him and we talked, and he really looked terrible. The next day he died. It was the first (case of) polio among GIs. Then we had an epidemic,” she said.

To keep morale up, “you simply did not advertise it. We held volleyball games, we dug a golf course out of the ground, horseshoes, anything we could think of.

Nobody knew how to treat polio.”

“You don’t have time to think of your morale, you’re too busy to think about their morale. That’s the thing that saved us. If they were down we had to dream up something. We even had a program called ‘manners.’ These guys requested that over and over again. We did it as an experiment,” she said.

Her G.I. Jill radio program competed for the same audience as Tokyo Rose: the American G.I. Virginia said she never thought about countering Tokyo

“Yes,” she said. “Whenever I had a minute.”

“Did you see her as your competition?”

“We were coming from two different places. And she lied and I didn’t,” she said.

Through the war in China-Burma, Virginia Allen did her job, putting on shows, playing music, teaching manners, writing the last letters home for soldiers. She is one of 16 people to be put in a Library of Congress collection on the China-Burma theater of war considered the “forgotten theater.”

She wants to be sure the volunteers in the war aren’t forgotten, too.

“We are treated like veterans in every way except we have no benefits whatsoever,” she said. “There were a number of people who needed help, who really would’ve liked to have been able to go to a veterans’ hospital for help.

(They treated) us as veterans whenever it looked good, but never really recognized us completely as veterans. We went off to war. There were guys who were enlisted who (had to be) dragged to go off… hated it. We could’ve stayed home and danced with all those people. That was the easy way out.”

“You were required to be brave. There were people who dropped out and went home,” she said. “But most of us didn’t.”

“The women of World War II: Virginia Claudon Allen” from Minnesota Public Radio News. (c) 2008 Minnesota Public Radio. Used with permission. All rights reserved.

Photos: Virginia Allen Collection (AFC/2001/001/33674) Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Now 96 years old, Virginia Claudon Allen ’40 came to Wesleyan College as a first-year student in 1936. After her sophomore year she transferred to the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where she graduated in 1940. She quickly began her career in Army Intelligence and served her country valiantly throughout WWII. Wesleyan Magazine Winter 2015

OF AMERICA M a ry S h e n , c l a s s o f 1 9 4 6

In November of 1944, Mary Euyang ’46 left her home in Chungking, China, headed for America. She traveled by airplane and aboard a troop ship with 5,000 servicemen, finally landing in San Pedro, California, in February of 1945.

Later that month, Mary began her classes at Wesleyan College.

Mary, whose Chinese name Meisung means “born in America,” was born in Chicago while her parents were studying at the University of Illinois. The family returned to China when Mary was an infant. The oldest of four children, she graduated as salutatorian from McTyeire Methodist Missionary High School, in Shanghai (now McTyeire School for Girls), which was founded by Laura Askew Haygood, Wesleyan class of 1864, and attended by the Soong sisters. Five years after Japan invaded China, initiating World War II in the Pacific, Mary and her family crossed from Shanghai to Chungking as refugees. Continuing her education, Mary earned a certificate from Columbia School of Journalism in Chungking. She served on the staff of 22

the school newspaper, The Chungking Reporter, which was one of only three English-language newspapers remaining in China. Having retained her American citizenship, Mary came to Wesleyan as the first recipient of the Madam Chiang Kai-shek scholarship. An English major and journalism minor, she served as a member of the Watchtower staff and of the International Relations Club.

She drew the attention of Rear Admiral Corydon McAlmont Wassell, a celebrated WWII hero whose exploits inspired a Cecil B. DeMille movie starring Gary Cooper. Wassell, whose sister-in-law was a Wesleyan alumna, arranged a meeting with Mary, and the April 8, 1945, Macon Telegraph reported, “The two carried on a long conversation in Chinese, pausing now and then to explain the gist of their talk to the group of Mary’s awe-struck schoolmates.”

Three days after commencement in 1946, Mary was married to David Loh in Wesleyan’s Grand Parlor (now Burden Parlor) by president Dr. N.C. McPherson.

Tragically, David was killed in an

automobile accident in Shanghai just two years later. The same year, Mary’s sister, Gloria Euyang King ’48, graduated from Wesleyan.

After the war, Mary moved to Washington, D.C., and became part of the public relations arm of the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA), tasked with carrying out the Marshall Plan. The Marshall Plan aimed to rebuild war-devastated regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, make wartorn countries prosperous again, and prevent the spread of communism.

Mary’s role was in the creation and distribution of American-style movies, comic strips, armbands, posters, and leaflets. The materials addressed health issues, explained the importance of smallpox vaccinations and preventive measures against plague, tuberculosis, and other diseases, and generally encouraged support of the American Aid program.

Mary’s work with the ECA led, in 1951, to a position as scriptwriter for the

Mary Euyang was married to David Loh in Wesleyan’s Grand Parlor on May 13, 1946. Left to right: Peter Yang, best man; Gloria Euyang ’48, maid of honor and Mary’s sister; Dr. N.C. McPherson, president of the College; Mary Euyang Loh; David Loh

Asian branch of Voice of America (VOA), writing about life in America and Asian economic developments. An arm of the U. S. State Department, the VOA, which first broadcast in 1942, began as a radio news service for people living in closed and war-torn societies. The broadcast was introduced by The Battle Hymn of the Republic and included the pledge: “Today, and every day from now on, we will be with you from America to talk about the war. . . . The news may be good or bad for us – We will always tell you the truth.” Today VOA is the official external broadcast institution of the United States federal government and has grown into a multimedia broadcast service reaching people in forty-two languages on mobile devices and Facebook, through Twitter feeds and call-in programs.

In 1961, Mary became the chief of the Asian Feed Service at VOA. Her responsibilities included selecting programming to send to all Englishspeaking radio stations in Asian Pacific countries and convincing the stations to broadcast the news. She conceived and

established five-day-a-week, half-hour broadcasts to explain the “American story” to radio listeners in Japan, the Philippines, and other Asian countries. Of the seven people in her office, Mary was the only Asian. “We would always send an important speech by the president of the United States and sound bites from other high ranking officials. We also broadcast a few programs, like ‘2,000 Basic English Words.’”

After VOA, Mary became Deputy Director of the Foreign Press Center of the State Department where she worked to facilitate foreign correspondents stationed in New York. “We helped with appointments, accreditation of those assigned here, to enhance their work by arranging and hosting groups of about a dozen to visit the rest of America other than New York. I remember that the theme of my first tour was “Medicine” and began with an overview at the National Institutes of Health, then to Houston on cancer, Salt Lake City on artificial kidney, heart, and limbs, and the Mayo Clinic. I arranged the program, and

the participating journalists paid their own way. There were trips on immigration, one on Long Island.” Mary retired from the State Department in 1985.

The many quality and service awards Mary earned during her stellar career include U.S. Information Agency meritorious service award, 1962, Foremost American Women in Communications, and 2,000 Women of Achievement, both in 1969. The Wesleyan College Alumnae Association honored Mary with the 1972 Award for Distinguished Achievement.

Upon receiving news of the award, Mary responded, “I am so pleased and honored – but also feel inadequate – I have really done no more than the next [woman] to try to stand on my own feet and live a useful, unobtrusive life.”

Mary continues to live in Manhattan and remains engaged with her alma mater.

While she no longer listens to Voice of America, she is still very interested in politics and keeping up with world news.

“If the television is on at my house, it is on a news channel.”

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An interview with White House Intern Dominique Smith ’15

After serving as a Democratic National Committee Hope Institute Fellow in the fall of 2013, Dominique Smith ’15 applied to the White House Internship program for spring semester 2015.

Thousands of students from across the country apply to the program, and Dominique was one of fewer than 150 chosen for 2015. She served in Washington from January through April, returning to Macon in time to graduate with her Golden Heart class in May. WC: What was next after completing the White House Internship application?

DS: After completing the application, there was a long waiting period. In October, I received an email letting me know the scheduled time for my phone interview. I was shocked and excited to hear that I was invited to continue.

WC: How long before you received news of your acceptance?

DS: A couple of months. Once they asked to start my background check, I knew I would probably be accepted.

WC: In which department did you work, and did you stay in the same position for the length of the internship or did you rotate between departments?

DS: I was in The Office of Presidential Correspondence (OPC). I was the IT intern, so I had a chance to work with all the subdepartments within OPC and with other departments throughout the White House.

WC: What kinds of duties did you perform?

DS: President Obama is committed to listening to the American people and answering questions that come to him through the White House website. There is a team within OPC charged with selecting ten letters (10LADs) every day that represent the public’s sentiment. It is a good way for the executive office to keep a pulse on the nation. The letters are included in the President’s daily briefing folder and some receive a personal response from him. Most of the time I didn’t work directly with 10LADs, but I was asked once to help choose the letters because of my knowledge in criminal justice reform. My daily duties included helping to manage the system that sorts the letters. I met with each department within the OPC to work out technical issues and helped figure out ways to make the system more efficient. The idea is to always work smarter.

WC: What skills did you develop?

DS: My technology skills. Because of this internship I now have a strong interest in technology and have decided to pursue my masters in business administration with a focus in business intelligence. Technology has the ability to help so many people, and I discovered that there are many aspects to technology beyond installation.

WC: Were your days mapped out with specific assignments?

DS: I was extremely blessed to have the coolest supervisors in the entire White House.

They gave me full autonomy over my schedule with time and freedom to explore things I wanted to learn. They put me in contact with the right people. They were open and candid and willing to teach me in their areas of expertise.

WC: Were there opportunities for networking/ making contacts with people that you’ll want to stay in touch with professionally?

DS: There were plenty of networking opportunities. Within the internship, there are professional interest groups that conduct weekly meetings that include speakers and field trips. For example, one group focused on domestic policy and another group focused on women’s rights. For each of these groups there would be a speaker like the First Lady’s head speech writer or Tina Tchen, who runs the Council of Women and Girls.

WC: As a political science/pre-law major, did this experience change your thoughts about what you’d like to do in the future?

DS: This experience helped affirm what I want to do in the future. I have no desire to work for the White House or any government agency. I commend the people who work at the White House, but it is definitely a slower process for igniting change. I’d much rather be on the ground working towards change. I learned that we all have things to offer, and I now understand where I want to be in the process.

I want to be a decision maker. I would rather be someone who is invited to the White House than someone who works at the White House.

WC: Are you interested in becoming a politician?

DS: I have no desire to become a politician.

WC: Have you experienced an increased feeling of national pride from working in the White House?

DS: I have an increased pride in our president after working at the White House. After hearing firsthand some things that people say about the head of our country, I am honored to watch a family and administration as a whole continue to show the grace and class our first family has shown.

WC: During your internship, you also took classes at American University?

DS: Yes. I took an LSAT prep class.

WC: Did you plan to attend graduate school as your next step after Wesleyan?

DS: I did not plan on attending grad school right after Wesleyan, but after realizing my interest in information technology, I enrolled in online classes.

WC: Did you meet the President/first family?

DS: I did get a chance to meet the President and First Lady. Unfortunately, I never got inside the Oval Office.

WC: Who is the most inspirational person you met during the internship, and how were you inspired?

DS: There were many people we met during the experience who were extremely candid with us. We got to know these people for who they really are. The most inspirational person I met was First Lady Michelle Obama. She was real and open about her experiences as first lady and as a woman of color. It was as if I were talking to someone I already knew.

WC: How did Wesleyan prepare you for this experience? What leadership roles on Wesleyan’s campus helped you prepare?

DS: The career development center with Kathleen Crownover worked with me until my resumé was perfect. Prior to leaving for this internship, I was the president of Black Student Alliance and worked closely with an array of students, faculty, and staff to discuss potential diversity training at Wesleyan. This experience helped put a lot of things into perspective. Having access to an extremely diverse community and never being afraid to be myself definitely helped with my experience at the White House.

WC: What advice would you give to students about pursuing internships?

DS: When researching and applying for an internship, do not feel defeated because of your grades or your lack of experience. My first year at Wesleyan was not my strongest year academically, and I don’t think anyone, including myself, believed I could accomplish the things that I have up to this point. It is okay to not have everyone rooting for you. Use that as fuel and motivation to strive for whatever it is you want. Be yourself at all times. As long as you’re comfortable with who you are and have a desire to do good, people will see your heart and your intentions. Never feel too proud or ashamed to ask for help. Nothing can be accomplished without vulnerability.

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SENIOR VICE CHANCELLOR AND CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

by Helen Anne Richards ’80

It’s tempting to describe Geovette Washington ’89 using nothing but her resumé. After all, her professional accomplishments have been interesting, challenging, and at the highest levels of public service.

This summer, she was unanimously elected senior vice chancellor and chief legal officer at the University of Pittsburgh, where she will serve as an officer of the university and oversee the attorneys working on Pitt’s behalf. Her appointment is not surprising in light of her previous employment.

She moved to Pitt from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) at the White House where she served as general counsel and senior policy advisor.

Geovette said in a recent interview that in the first few weeks of working at OMB, she would simply stop and savor the experience. It was, after all, the White House. Some afternoons, she said, she would leave the building, stop, and take a look over her shoulder. Seeing the iconic façade never failed to give her a thrill.

“For a kid who grew up in a small town in Georgia,” she said, “and then went to Wesleyan, which is small, working my way to the White House was an awe-inspiring thing that really kept me charged and motivated.”

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“It’s also extremely stressful,” she added. “I think you can’t do it at the right speed for an extended period of time. It was hard, but it was a lot of fun.”

Fortunately, Geovette responds well to challenges. Often during her White House days, she said she would realize that she was the only woman in the room during meetings, and often the only minority in the room. Was she intimidated? Certainly not.

Geovette had prior experience sharing her legal opinions and even more experience taking part in high-level conversations.

During Al Gore’s challenge of election results in 2000, Geovette was a member of the legal team advising the former vice president. The stakes of her legal work could not have been higher, but she said she felt prepared and comfortable in her role.

As tempting as it is to try to describe Geovette with snippets from her resumé, it’s even more tempting to describe her using her educational credentials. She is a 1989 summa cum laude Wesleyan graduate and a 1992 graduate of Duke University School of Law. She also served on the board of trustees at Wesleyan.

Although Geovette performed well at Duke, it was quite different from her Wesleyan experience, and she thought seriously about dropping out of law school. She

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credits Wesleyan Professor Emerita of History Marcile Taylor with convincing her to finish.

Geovette said, “I told Dr. Taylor, ‘I don’t like law school. I don’t like my professors. I think I’m going to quit and go to grad school.’”

She remembers Dr. Taylor saying, “Miss Washington you will do no such thing.

You will go back to school, and you will graduate.”

As Dr. Taylor remembers it, law school was exactly where Geovette belonged. She wrote in a recent email, “I thought that law school provided the best training ground for an ambitious young woman intent upon professional success. A law degree would insure obtaining a desirable entry-level position not only in the legal field, but also in public service and/or business.

She continued, “The grueling, if often boring, study in and of itself fostered traits that were essential for such careers: selfdiscipline, self-confidence, critical thinking, problem solving, articulate communication and, at a deeper level, the necessity for a measure of introspection and ethical inquiry.

Because Geovette arrived at Wesleyan already possessed of these same qualities to a degree astounding for one so young, law school seemed to be an ideal fit for her. “

“Wesleyan created an environment in which I realized it wasn’t difficult to be a woman in a place of leadership.”

Dr. Taylor’s counsel was effective. Geovette returned to law school and graduated ready for legal work and public service.

She already had a location in mind – Washington, D.C. Geovette fell in love with Washington while attending summer programs there during high school and working as an intern in Georgia Senator Sam Nunn’s office. She returned after law school and based her private practice and public service in the city. Until her move to Pittsburgh this summer, she made Washington her home.

Nothing lasts forever, though, and she said she is looking forward to new challenges in a new job and a new city.

In fact, Geovette’s plans for her new job at Pitt might reveal more about her personality than the job descriptions on her resumé or the degrees she’s earned. She has three goals: serving the university community with solid legal advice, increasing the collaboration on her team, and mentoring students.

“One of the things I find most rewarding about being a lawyer is helping people solve problems,” she said. “I am really excited about the opportunity to be a part of this university and to help my many clients figure out how to solve their problems and how to manage risk.”

Her goals, however, reach beyond the legal work. She leads a team of lawyers and staff members she describes as very talented, and she takes their current needs and future growth into consideration in her plans to increase the collaboration in her office.

“I’m really excited about having the opportunity to help them [her team] figure out what challenges them every day,” she said, “And to discover how we can work together in ways that will make them more collaborative and make their jobs more enjoyable.”

Her boss, Chancellor Patrick D. Gallagher, is one reason she is so committed to acting as a mentor to her team members. She and the Chancellor worked together at the Commerce Department, and she is excited about working with him again. Geovette believes that good colleagues are central to a good work environment.

“I figured out I am happiest and most productive when I am working with people that I really like and respect, and who respect me,” she said. “Chancellor Gallagher has always been a joy to work with. He has listened when he needed to and pushed back when he needed to, but has been prepared for me to push back as well. I think that’s the making of a really good team.”

She doesn’t, however, take advice solely from her supervisor. She said, “I may be the boss, but I can always learn from the people around me. I always seek the advice of my colleagues because having input from people who come to the issue fresh is very important for making sure it’s the best work product.”

Geovette gives credit to her professional mentors, starting with Dr. Taylor at Wesleyan, for helping her grow as a person and a lawyer. She said her job opportunities have come from former colleagues who have offered her new challenges. Because of the influence of her mentors, she takes mentoring younger people, especially women, seriously and plans to continue mentoring her staff and students at Pitt.

“This new job gives me the opportunity to mentor young people,” she said. “They are at the beginning of figuring out their lives and what they want to do. Often they have no idea of what is possible, and it’s exciting for me to be able to help.”

That’s one reason she “loved” serving on Wesleyan’s board of trustees. “It gave me the opportunity to talk to young people and to share my experiences with them and help them get experiences that would help transform their lives,” she said.

Tracy Ward Tilley ’89, Geovette’s friend and former Wesleyan suitemate, said those attitudes and goals are vintage Geovette Washington. Tracy said that Geovette’s drive and determination came initially from her parents’ example, as did her desire to make a difference in the world. No matter how heavy her workload was, she always had time for others.

“She’s always had a giving nature and

confidence in herself,” Tracy said. “She knew she could get her work done, even during midterms or exams, so she was happy to help her friends if we needed her.”

She wasn’t a prankster, Tracy said, but she had a wonderful sense of humor. Dr. Taylor may have described her very well when she wrote, “I can still see her strolling into my office with that ready smile and oh-so-quick intelligence.”

Geovette has taken her natural abilities, her parents’ example, her foundation at Wesleyan and her mentors’ assistance to craft a career that many would envy.

Through it all, she has remained humble, engaged, enthusiastic and a supporter of her alma mater.

She said, “Wesleyan created an environment in which I realized it wasn’t difficult to be a woman in a place of leadership.”

Now it’s time for her to share herself and her values with a new generation of students and young lawyers at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Class of 2019 Fresh Face

Seychelle HERCULES Photo by Neal Carpenter

Members of the Hardaway High School Class of 2015 voted Seychelle Hercules “Most Likely To Be Your Boss One Day.” This bright, ambitious young woman from Columbus, Georgia, excelled in high school as a member of the National Honor Society, Beta Club, and president of Model United Nations. She also won numerous awards including Best Delegate in the Security Council Committee at the Columbus State University Model United Nations competition and the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer’s Page One Award for leadership, scholarship, and character. Her service to the community further distinguished her in Columbus.

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Seychelle was born to military parents stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia. When her parents divorced her mother became a single parent to Seychelle and her sisters. They soon discovered Girls, Inc. and the center near their house quickly became the girls’ home away from home. After school and throughout the summer, they enjoyed the Girls, Inc. curriculum. Much like Wesleyan, Girls, Inc. is an educational program designed to help girls grow up

“strong, smart, and bold.” They learned about technology, played sports, performed in musical theater, and even visited Washington, D.C., on two separate occasions. As she got older, Seychelle became a mentor and a role model for the younger girls in the program.

Girls, Inc. is supported by United Way, so when the local executive director asked Seychelle and her mother to speak to community groups about the impact of donations to United Way, they were glad to share their story. In addition to serving as a solicitor and public speaker for United Way, Seychelle was invited to join the Live United Youth Council. This group of high school juniors and seniors learns about needs in their community and conducts campaigns to fund projects designed to meet some of those needs. Seychelle and her cohort raised $6,000 and funded multiple proposals to serve the youth of Columbus.

Not surprisingly, Seychelle is not the only Girls, Inc. alumna to choose Wesleyan in recent years. Senior Katie Jenkins and junior Jessica

McCrory also participated in the program. Seychelle credits both for being wonderful examples to her and for helping her to make the transition to college. Seychelle is already enjoying the traditions of sisterhood and the wide variety of campus events. She is volunteering with the Lane Center and has joined Black Student Alliance and Model United Nations. She is also working with the Wesleyan Word newspaper and looks forward to becoming involved in the equestrian program.

Although she had never ridden a horse before, she knew she wanted to learn, so a strong equestrian program was one of the reasons Seychelle chose Wesleyan. She is currently enrolled in fundamentals of riding and looks forward to helping her stepfather with his horses when she goes home. Seychelle is planning to declare a major in business administration with a minor in communication, and she is grateful for the Corn Scholarship that will make it possible for her to complete her degree without debt.

Photo by Amy Maddox

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Rev. Felecia Pearson Smith ’74 Only three years after graduating from Wesleyan, Felecia Pearson Smith ’74 became the first African-American woman to earn her master’s degree in divinity from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.

Her journey into ministry began with the encouragement and mentoring of three Wesleyan professors, Dr. Jacob Quiambao, Dr. Harry Gilmer, and Dr. Walter Brown.

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oday, Lady Felecia, as she is affectionately called by church congregants, serves as administrative director of the Community Church of God in Atlanta where she leads a myriad of ministries hand-in-hand with her husband and senior pastor Michael Smith. Together they personify the church’s mission of being “a real church for real people.” Their church is a body of believers who are working to improve the spiritual, social, and intellectual fabric of their urban setting.

Charismatic and brilliant, Felecia is a speaker, instructor, scholar, and community servant. In addition to serving her church, Felecia facilitates women’s conferences and preaches on both local and national levels. In 2009, Felecia launched Metamorphosis Ministries, Inc., her ministry for senior pastors’ wives, the heart of her many outreach activities. Created to provide a nurturing environment for senior pastors’ wives, Metamorphosis Ministries helps each participant find her voice and her own unique path.

For several years, Felecia hosted a radio series called “Front Row Conversations,” which she describes as authentic conversations among pastors’ wives and other ministry leaders about emotional and spiritual health. She even hosted one “Front Row Conversation” from the back row conducting an interview with her daughter, Allyson, also a graduate of Emory’s Candler School of Theology. With no holds barred, Allyson humorously described the travails of growing up as a pastor’s child and her ultimate calling to study theology - much like her mom – but with a focus on sexuality and the challenges and needs of young people.

In recognition of her many accomplishments and academic achievements, Felecia was selected as an honorary member of the Golden Key International Honour Society. In 2005, she was honored by Emory University as the first black female graduate from the Candler School of Theology and received the inaugural Felecia Pearson Smith Award. In 2010, Felecia was chosen as a fellow in the Black Women Ministerial Leadership Program at the Interdenominational Theological Center. Honored again for her trailblazing spirit in February 2015, she preached during the service of Word and Table to the Candler School of Theology community.

This fall, she was a leader at the Southern Interstate Ministries Conference in Houston, Texas.

Licensed in 1977, Felecia was ordained in 1985 by the Georgia Ministerial Assembly of the Church of God, Anderson, Indiana, but her calling to the ministry is broader than her local church

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and denomination. In 1995, Felecia was appointed to serve as the president/CEO of the Shenango Valley Urban League, Inc., in Farrell, Pennsylvania. During her tenure she improved the organization both programmatically and fiscally. Her career took a dynamic shift in 1998 when she was appointed director of the Bonner Scholars Program, an endowed scholarship program at Spelman College for students who are involved in community service. Under her leadership, the program was expanded and restructured. Subsequently, in 2004 she was appointed director of the new Bonner Office of Community Service and Student Development, a position she held until 2008.

Of all her accomplishments and accolades, however, she takes the greatest pleasure in her personal relationship with God and her family. In addition to daughter Allyson, a Spelman graduate, Felecia and Michael have a son Allan, who is a graduate of Morehouse College and Georgia Institute of Technology.

Kid’s College, Let’s Book It For seven weeks each summer, Wesleyan College offers girls and boys ages six to fourteen an enrichment program that could transform their lives. Designed to teach and inspire, Kid’s College, which began in 2013, is an academic program created to encourage learning through creativity, imagination, and fun adventures. The day camp operates on a house-based model where each participant becomes part of a caring and supportive group of peers driven to achieve positive goals and bond under a common theme. Each week has a different theme and campers can choose to attend one week or all seven weeks. This year’s themes varied from Full STEAM Ahead, which focused on the merging of science, technology, engineering, art, and math, to East Meets West, which introduced Chinese culture, to Something Beautiful, where campers created something they see as beautiful. Special activities included Wizard Wednesday, which featured counselors dressed in Harry Potter fashion, lip-sync battles, Chinese fan dancing, Bazooka bubble gum day, and a lively dance-off competition.

For the first time, scholarships were provided by the Bibb County School District’s Homeless and Migrant Program for thirty-five children who otherwise would not have been able to attend Kid’s College. The sponsorship provided funds for these children to attend camp for only two of the seven weeks. Wesleyan faculty, staff, alumnae, and students contributed to a scholarship fund so that these same children could attend the last three weeks as well. Dr. Virginia Bowman Wilcox ’90, Kid’s College director and associate professor of education, said, “It was an honor and a privilege to make the telephone calls inviting these children back to camp. I thought the joy in their voices when I made the calls was cool enough, but witnessing these happy, energetic children jumping for joy when Miss Julia (the Wesleyan bus) turned onto their street and watching them rush into the arms of the counselors took things to an entirely different level.”

In addition to scholarship donations, the Wesleyan family contributed their time and talents to help make each child’s experience engaging and special. Counselors collected supplies, gently used clothing, and one item from each child’s Christmas wish list to surprise them on the last day of camp. They dubbed the occasion Christmas in July. Wesleyan hopes to provide this same opportunity for children who need tuition assistance again next year and invites tax-deductible gifts designated for Kid’s College.

During Let’s BOOK It Week, Kid’s College was pleased to welcome local award-winning author Sandra Page Flatau to campus. Writing as Sandra Page, she received the Georgia Writers Association’s 2013 Georgia Author of the Year award in the children’s book category for Pyramid of the Lost World, her adventure novel set in the rainforest of Guatemala. This book, the first title in her Lost Worlds series for young readers, provided the focus for the week’s activities, and each child received a copy of the book to keep. In addition to daily readings by Page, the children learned about Maya culture, made their own headdresses, participated in a Maya ball game, and learned to dance to Maya drums.

Growing up in Miami, Florida, Sandra was the youngest of three sisters. Her father worked for Pan American Airways, which

allowed her family free worldwide travel. Many of the places they visited were not yet commercialized. “It was exciting and sometimes scary. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to travel the world.” A graduate of Florida State University with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history, Sandra taught throughout Florida and Georgia for ten years before enrolling in law school. She worked as a trial lawyer for more than twenty years before sitting down to write her stories.

A trip to Guatemala when she was nine years old set the stage for Sandra to become an author. She met the Maya and was captivated by their culture, their people, and their history.

She remembers how thrilling it was to her and hopes children will experience that thrill through her writing. “Because most children do not have the travel opportunities I had, Kid’s College is the perfect place to share the history and adventures of lost civilizations and to encourage children to learn more about the people of the world.”

Pyramid of the Lost World is locally available at Barnes & Noble and widely available on the Internet. The second book in the series, Island of the Lost World, is set at a Minoan archaeological site on Santorini, an island off the coast of Greece. Sandra is currently researching the third book of the series, which will be set in Ireland. You can follow her on Facebook at Sandra Page’s Lost Worlds or visit her website at www.sandrapage.com.

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Stephanie has always had a passion for horses. She rode her first horse when she was seven years old, as a reward for a good report card. As long as Stephanie kept up her grades, she earned a monthly trail ride. At age eleven, Stephanie received her first horse as a gift from her parents, but it was not until her first year as a Green Knight that she began formal riding lessons and training.

She brought her horse Color, a thoroughbred mare, to board at Wesleyan and quickly immersed herself in the equestrian program. She interned at the barn, took lessons three to four times a week, and rode for the equestrian team all four years of her undergraduate career, serving as co-captain her junior and senior years. Stephanie graduated in 2008 with a major in studio art and minors in psychology, photography, and theatre.

by Lauren Hamblin Beatty ’06 October 11 marked the four-year anniversary of a car accident that could have ended Stephanie Hood Wittry’s ’08 life. At the time, Stephanie was pursuing her master’s degree in special education from West Georgia University. When Stephanie was on her way home from student teaching, a teenager who was distracted while driving crossed the center line and hit Stephanie head on. “The dashboard of my truck collapsed on my lap, which ended up saving my life. It took the firefighters forty-five minutes to cut me out. Just before it happened, I heard a voice telling me there was going to be an accident, but everything would be okay. I remember scanning the sides of the road because I was sure I would see a deer. I truly believe God saved my life.”

When Stephanie woke up in the hospital, she learned her right foot might have to be amputated. Though her life and foot were spared, Stephanie suffered extensive injuries that will affect her for the rest of her life. She spent six months in a hospital bed in her parents’ dining room, and then relearned to walk, slowly progressing from a hospital bed to a wheelchair, then to a walker, and finally to a cane. “When I was released from the hospital, I couldn’t move either leg. In order to get up, I had to transfer to a wheelchair. I spent a year in physical therapy relearning to walk, and it was absolutely excruciating. The only thing that got me through was the thought of riding horses again. In the beginning, my knee wouldn’t bend at all. After a year, I had enough range of motion to sit in a chair almost normally. I could walk with a limp. What I wanted to do was ride my horse again.” During her home recovery, she researched horses and riding programs while she completed her master’s degree.

In the spring of 2012, Stephanie (now using a walker and a cane) and her mother Melody visited Honey Creek Youth Ranch, a therapy riding center where Stephanie had previously volunteered. Using a handicap ramp for mounting assistance, Stephanie was able to ride one of the horses. She was in pain during and after, but the pain was not severe enough to diminish her enthusiasm. The experience buoyed her spirits and encouraged her to find a gentle and quiet show horse. The motherdaughter adventure continued with a trip to the 2012 World Appaloosa Show in Fort Worth, Texas, where Stephanie found Cassie, a Western pleasure mare, who would be her partner in the healing process.

Stephanie and Cassie spent a frustrating year learning each other’s idiosyncrasies and preparing for the next show season. Stephanie began with a few regional classes in 2013 but could not keep her leg on the horse for the entire class.

In August 2013, she decided to participate in the Showmanship World Show, an in-hand class during which the exhibitor leads the horse through a pattern of pivots, stops, and runs and is judged on how well the horse responds to her cues. With two months to train, Stephanie worried because her knee had a tendency to give out unexpectedly.

She was determined to make it through the class without falling and did, earning the title of Reserve World Champion for Novice Non-Pro Showmanship (second place).

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Since her first experience at a World Championship competition, Stephanie has traveled to New Jersey, Florida, Indiana, and South Carolina to compete. She rides four days a week to train and prepare for her show classes. For the 2014 season, she added Western Horsemanship, Hunter Under Saddle, and Hunt Seat Equitation to her repertoire. Since March 2014, Stephanie and Cassie have won High Point Novice Rider for every regional show they have attended, approximately twenty. As of July 2015, Stephanie was leading the nation in points for Novice Western Horsemanship, Novice Hunt Seat Equitation, and Novice Showmanship.

The 2015 World Championships will be Stephanie’s last show as a novice. She has pointed out of her class and will move to the non-pro division. In spite of her significant challenges, Stephanie has embraced a full life and is achieving goals she has held since childhood.

Another Wesleyan First THE FIRST TIME A MOTHER, FATHER, AND DAUGHTER HAVE BEEN ENROLLED AT WESLEYAN AT THE SAME TIME When Ava and Michael Randall made the decision to pursue Executive MBA degrees, their search for the right program led them both to Wesleyan College.

Attracted by the study abroad component, Ava began the program in October 2014 and Michael joined the 2015 cohort. This fall, their daughter Maria became the third member of the Randall family to attend Wesleyan when she enrolled as a first-year student with the Golden Heart Class of 2019. While they hadn’t planned to attend the same institution at the same time, they explained that “Wesleyan offered what each of us needed.”

Born in cities nine hundred miles apart, Michael moved to Macon from Clarksville, Tennessee, when he was two years old, and Ava traveled from her hometown of Miami, Florida, to Macon as a teenager.

The Randalls met on Halloween in 1991 and have been married for eighteen years.

They are the parents of three daughters— Maria, Haggith, and Grace. Recipient of merit and alumnae referral scholarships, Maria comes to Wesleyan with an interest in modern languages and a career goal of teaching English as a second language. She also enjoys playing the violin, reading, and volunteering with the Friends of the Library.

EMBA Program Coordinator Stacie Barrett ’11 had the pleasure of working with

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the family throughout their application process and enrollment. “I learned that their daughter was interested in studying Japanese and business and in traveling abroad and thought that Wesleyan would be a perfect match for her. Once the Randalls enrolled in the EMBA program, they fell in love with Wesleyan and introduced the College as an option for Maria.”

After earning bachelor’s degrees in management and business administration, respectively, Ava and Michael sought out the EMBA program at Wesleyan as an opportunity to enhance their business skills, specifically with career advancement and entrepreneurship in mind. Michael specializes in life insurance as a licensed, independent agent with Lincoln Heritage and also has experience as an outreach manager for Georgia Families. Ava’s background includes selling real estate with Coldwell Banker, and she is currently employed by Belk as a sales associate.

She dreams of using her retail experience and knowledge gained through the EMBA program to open her own business.

Readings in her courses have emphasized finding a niche, and Ava hopes to fill a gap that she has seen during her fifteen years in the retail business. However, like any wise entrepreneur, she is keeping her idea a secret for now.

With her goal of business ownership in mind, Ava is excited to complete her capstone project where she will broaden her insight on the requirements of running a business. Ava and Michael have both enjoyed studying real-world cases. These examples have taught them the dangers of establishing a business without proper guidance and education. Favorite courses have included managerial economics, gender in business management, and global business management.

The Randalls appreciate the global perspective of the Wesleyan EMBA program and are looking forward to study abroad trips in the fall and spring. Ava will travel to Dubai and visit GE Healthcare, Siemens Middle East, and Jumeirah Group to expand her knowledge of the evolution of global business practices.

Michael’s study abroad trip will include stops in Paris, Rome, and Florence and visits to Deloitte, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Visconti. Both are expected to complete their requirements and receive their EMBA degrees in 2016.

When asked how they felt about being enrolled at the same college as their daughter, the Randalls said, “It is beautiful that we can be new additions to the Wesleyan legacy.”

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The World is Knocking…

Wesleyan Women Shall Answer To celebrate the official beginning of the 2015-2016 academic year, Wesleyan College held its Fall Convocation on September 3rd welcoming Superior Court Judge Verda Colvin as the keynote speaker. Judge Colvin is the first African-American woman to be appointed to the Macon Judicial Circuit, which serves Macon-Bibb, Crawford, and Peach counties.

Prior to delivering her prepared remarks for the occasion, Colvin candidly described the nostalgia that she felt as she entered Porter Auditorium with the other members of the platform party. She spoke of discreetly wiping away tears during the processional as she recalled attending similar ceremonies as a student at Sweet Briar College. Only in adulthood has she realized the uniqueness of the education that a women’s college provides, and she praised the students in attendance for choosing Wesleyan. She knows firsthand that a women’s college will elevate their self-esteem, give them the knowledge and tools to become successful in their chosen professions, and prepare them to answer when the world knocks.

Colvin told students that this knock may reveal itself in different ways for every Wesleyanne, but the recurring theme of their experiences will be diversity. “That’s the knock that you must be ready to answer, the knock that continually gets louder and louder each day—the knock begging for you to value and embrace diversity.”

She reinforced this idea by citing the U.S. Census Bureau’s projections that minority groups are collectively expected to become the majority by the year 2050 and the number of people who identify themselves as two or more races will triple.

Judge Colvin noted that Wesleyan women are given the opportunity to embrace diversity from the moment they enroll, as evidenced by more than twenty flags representing our students’ home countries that are presented during Fall Convocation

Colvin warned that failure to be inclusive will place our country at a disadvantage, and she hopes that this generation will strive to be more empathetic than previous generations. She asked our students to use their time at Wesleyan as preparation for the world they will encounter following graduation. “Each Wesleyan woman here today must be willing to combat complacency and stimulate conversations now…we need you.” Judge Colvin believes in the abilities of graduates from women’s colleges, and she is confident that Wesleyan will prepare our students to tackle the issues facing our world today.

“From wherever the knock comes, whether it is a boardroom, operating room, or classroom, Wesleyan Women shall answer.”

each year. “This campus must be a door to the entire world,” she told the students and encouraged them to take advantage of Wesleyan’s diversity every day by attending new club meetings or eating lunch with students from cultures different from their own. Only associating with people of similar backgrounds, she said, will waste tuition dollars and hinder their growth and potential as leaders.

Judge Colvin argued that the ability to embrace diversity is essential to becoming effective teachers, physicians, CEOs, and politicians. Embracing diversity will offer a new perspective for analyzing problems, giving individuals the capacity to look beyond differences to see the value of every human being in our changing world.

Judge Colvin implored our students to seek diversity in all aspects of their lives because “when we collectively strive to be inclusive, we create a world in which all of us can live—a world you deserve.”

At the conclusion of her remarks, members of the senior class spontaneously rose from their seats in an enthusiastic show of appreciation, and all others in the auditorium quickly followed. Members of the Wesleyan community were fortunate to hear this advice from a women’s college graduate who has answered the knock of leadership and service throughout her entire career.

Following graduation from University of Georgia School of Law, Colvin entered private practice and found a love for trial work that she developed further at the Athens-Clarke County Solicitor’s Office. Her vast experience also includes positions as assistant general counsel for Clark-Atlanta University and as an assistant district attorney for Clayton County, Georgia.

She served her community as an assistant United States attorney for the Middle District of Georgia for fifteen years prior to being appointed as a superior court judge in April 2014. She currently volunteers as a Girl Scout troop leader, serves on the executive board of the Boy Scouts of America Ocmulgee District, and works with the children and youth of First Baptist Church in Macon.

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A beautiful thing, indeed

by Beth Galvin ’87 Late last fall, I did something I’d felt led to do. No epiphanies, no “aha!” moments, just a gentle internal nudge to pick up the phone and call the Emory Transplant Center. I asked a coordinator how I could donate a kidney.

More than 100,000 people in this country are waiting for a kidney transplant. For most, the wait for a deceased donor kidney is four to five years. For some, the clock runs out.

As a medical reporter (for FOX 5 Atlanta, WAGA), I’ve witnessed the journey. I’ve talked with people in kidney failure, trying to cobble together a life between dialysis appointments three times a week. I’ve seen them hooked up to machines that filter their blood but leave them drained and exhausted. We’ve talked about the waiting, the not knowing.

It’s a hard journey to see, even harder to live.

Two years ago, I profiled a Chamblee, Georgia, police officer and father of five who decided he wanted to help. He offered his kidney to a stranger through the National Kidney Registry, a non-profit that builds transplant chains. The National Kidney Registry is one of a group of organizations that have found a solution to a common problem that affects about 30% of people who need a kidney: they have a willing donor, but they’re not a compatible match.

The recipient and donor can now join a pool of many other non-compatible pairs around the country. The registry uses a mathematical algorithm to match strangers, building a chain. Each donor agrees to give a kidney to a stranger to ensure that their own loved one receives a kidney in return.

Most of the chains need an “altruistic” donor to start the dominos falling. That’s where I stepped in. I offered my kidney to start a transplant chain, hoping to help as many people as possible. In the end, twelve donors joined “my” chain, allowing six kidney-failure patients to receive a kidney.

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world to land where it may. For the first time in my life, I tried to give without expectation.

It felt -- and still feels -- deeply satisfying. But it was also a way of protecting myself. What if my recipient didn’t want to have contact, or simply wanted to move on without feeling beholden to me? What if I felt disappointed?

I stuck with it because I trusted my surgeon, my transplant team, and the processes. It felt like I was part of something larger than myself. I had doubts. My doctor warned me I would have doubts until the moment the anesthesia set it. “It’s natural,” she said.

“Most people don’t get to choose whether or not to have surgery; they have to have it. You don’t. You’re choosing to do this.”

June 9th, the morning of my surgery, I felt calm but numb. A control freak, I felt compelled to introduce myself and shake hands with everyone in the OR. After that, I remember nothing. My surgeon removed my kidney at about 9am, and by noon it was on a Delta Air Lines flight to Los Angeles.

Later that afternoon, it was at UCLA Medical Center being transplanted into my recipient.

That night, my surgeon visited me on the Emory transplant floor. My kidney, she told me, was already working for my recipient. She and his surgeon had exchanged texts. She read them to me.

“He is a father of two young children...”

“He works fulltime and is a volunteer softball coach.”

married. Four years later, he’d received a donor kidney, but it failed after five years. For the last three years he’d been waiting, waking at 3am several days a week to go to a dialysis clinic before work.

His sister Wendy had volunteered to be his donor. But, because he’d built up antibodies after his first surgery, he was told his body would reject her kidney. So, they joined the National Kidney Registry together, Wendy offering to give her kidney to a stranger so that John would receive one. We were links 1, 2, and 3 in the transplant chain.

John says his life is different now. No more 3am alarm clocks. No more dragging himself through his twelve-year-old daughter’s fastpitch softball practices or his fourteen-yearold son’s baseball games. He has energy now; he can keep up. John can travel again without having to worry about finding a dialysis clinic.

His family took a summer vacation for the first time in years.

My life is different, too. I have to be careful to avoid certain medications, like ibuprofen, that can be hard on my remaining kidney. I used to take them like candy. I haven’t had one since my surgery. My remaining kidney is working overtime. I want to protect it.

I never realized my gift would open the door to so much goodness around me, but that’s what happened. Wesleyan friends reached out, and we reconnected. When I wrote updates on my professional Facebook page, strangers left hundreds of messages cheering me on.

“He’s been on dialysis for two years.”

Then, as she read the final text, I cried for the first time in this journey.

I set out on this journey because I felt becoming a living donor was the right thing to do. I didn’t know it would change me so profoundly.

“He says today you gave him his life back.”

It’s been three months since that night. Last week, I picked up the phone and called my recipient, who had sent me his cell number through UCLA. His name is John. He told me his story. His kidneys began to fail in 2003, when he was in his late twenties and newly-

I am proud of this body I once took for granted, proud it could withstand and even thrive after surgery, proud that a small part of me could give John his life back. What a beautiful thing indeed.

Campus News Legacies at Wesleyan

Eight percent of our 2015-2016 full-time undergraduates are related to Wesleyan alumnae The Wesleyan traditions we hold dear have been passed down from class to class and generation to generation within Wesleyan families for 179 years, and we continue to build upon that rich heritage with our current students. This year, eight percent (8%) of our full-time undergraduates are related to Wesleyan alumnae. Martha (Alex) Middlemas, a junior from Panama City, Florida, has the oldest legacy tie. Her great, great, great, great grandmother Sarah E. Hines wrote the valedictory address in 1851.

Wesleyan offers many outstanding scholarships to attract the best and brightest students to our campus, and this fall we added one more opportunity available only to legacies of Wesleyan alumnae. For the purposes of awarding this scholarship, legacy is defined as a student whose mother, step-mother, grandmother, aunt, or sister is a graduate of Wesleyan.

The Legacy Scholarship will cover one-half of the cost of tuition, and it is renewable for a total of four years of undergraduate study.

To be eligible for this award, a student must be a new first year or transfer student who meets the College’s admission standards.

We must also be able to verify the alumna’s status and her relationship to the student.

Our first two Legacy Scholars are Jordan Gainey of McDonough, Georgia, and Toddrika Williams of Decatur, Georgia.

Jordan is a first year student planning to

major in either business administration or international business. In high school, she was active in Beta Club, student government, cheerleading, drama team, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and the concert, jazz, and marching bands.

Jordan is the sister of Cara Gainey Siebert ’14. Toddrika is a junior transfer student majoring in early childhood education.

At her previous school, she co-founded a commuter student organization and volunteered for a variety of charities, including Mountain Community Food Pantry and Habitat for Humanity. Toddrika is the daughter of Sureka Taylor ’05.

The students pictured above are all Wesleyan legacies who have been awarded premier scholarships. To refer a legacy or any other potential student to Wesleyan, please contact Tracy Tilley at ttilley@wesleyancollege.edu or 478-757-5149.

The Legacy Scholarship is financed by gifts to Wesleyan’s Annual Fund. To make a gift in support of Wesleyan Legacy Scholarships, go to www.wesleyancollege. edu/give. When you give, you help to keep our family tree growing.

A new resident at Bradley House

Gracing the grounds at Bradley House and frolicking on Wesleyan’s campus is the newest addition to the Presidential family. On June 10th, an English cocker spaniel puppy named Gracie came to live with President Ruth Knox ’75, and the two are getting along famously.

“The first few months of having a new puppy are all about training, and I can now say that Gracie has me almost completely trained!”

Known for their happy disposition and their love for outdoor activities, English spaniels, like college presidents, enjoy regular exercise. Most mornings you’ll find Ruth and Gracie taking a walk around campus or on their way to doggie daycare where Gracie plays with some of her four-legged Wesleyan friends.

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Campus News Two ways to support Wesleyan when you shop

AmazonSmile When you shop at Smile.Amazon.com, you get the same selection and pricing that you’ll find on Amazon.com, with the added bonus of being able to support Wesleyan College.

On your first visit to AmazonSmile (smile. amazon.com) you will be prompted to select an organization to support. The AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the price of all eligible purchases to Wesleyan.

Kroger Community Rewards Every time you swipe your Kroger Plus Card, you could be earning cash for Wesleyan.

Each quarter, Kroger makes a gift to Wesleyan based on the combined spending of all the College’s registered supporters. To register your card: • Go to www.kroger.com • Log in to your account or sign up for a new account with your Kroger Plus card.

• At the top of the page, click on “Community” then “Community Rewards”.

• Select Wesleyan College and “Enroll”, or click on “View Your Rewards Details” to confirm that you are enrolled to support Wesleyan.

All supporters must re-enroll in the Community Rewards program for the 2015-2016

Nursing program poised to earn approval for national certification in 2016 Wesleyan’s first cohort of BSN students who graduated in May earned a 92% pass rate on the NCLEX exam, which resulted in our gaining full approval from the Georgia Board of Nursing earlier this summer. On September 23-25, the College hosted the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) for a site visit to review our program and were thrilled, though not surprised, to learn that the team will report to CCNE that they believe our program meets all four standards required for national certification.

According to Provost Vivia Fowler and others who were part of the exit interview, the team was effusive in their praise for our program, expressing great admiration for all that our faculty and staff have done to create and implement it – especially our outstanding nursing faculty.

They appreciated our institutional support and fundraising as well as the support from our health care friends in the community.

The entire accreditation process will conclude in May 2016, but we are certainly pleased with this initial favorable response from the visiting team. And, we are exceedingly proud of the leadership provided by Sirena Fritz and Teresa Kochera – and extend congratulations to them and to everyone involved in the nursing program.

Pierce Chapel is LEED certified to the Silver level

Wesleyan College received LEED certification to the

Silver level for the new construction of Pierce Chapel. The LEED rating system, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), is the foremost program for buildings, homes, and communities that are designed, constructed, maintained and operated for improved environmental and human health performance. Pierce Chapel is Wesleyan’s second LEED-certified green building. Taylor Hall, renovated in 2011, is LEED certified to the Gold level, and according to the USGBC project directory, was the first LEED-certified project in Macon.

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Wesleyan awarded a USA Funds Capacity Grant

Wesleyan College has been awarded a USA Funds Capacity Grant to help reduce student loan defaults and improve college completion. Wesleyan is one of only nineteen schools nationwide and the only school in Georgia to receive the grant.

The financial aid team at Wesleyan establishes early relationships with students to encourage them to borrow and repay their loans wisely. The College’s financial literacy lab is an area where students get access to and assistance with tools like FAFSA on the Web, scholarship searches, and the financial literacy program USA Funds Life Skills®.

Debt Management Counselor Carrie Gonzalez works directly with students to help them make good budgeting and borrowing decisions. “Our office provides financial literacy training to students who aren’t meeting federal standards for satisfactory academic progress. Our emphasis will continue to be on the personal touch with students and their families, helping to ensure that they’re making good financial choices from the time they first visit our campus all the way through repayment.”

Last spring, Mike McCue, systems administrator and computer science teacher at Stratford Academy, donated sixty computers for the children who attend Aunt Maggies Kitchen Table (AMKT) to use at home. He also invited the children to participate in a project with one of his computer classes. In November AMKT partnered with McCue and Stratford in a servicelearning project named #PROGRAMYOURFUTURE. The class used a program called Scratch to teach the children how to build their own individualized computer games. The goal was to help the participants develop the skills necessary to create more programs in the future.

Jill Amos ’87, director for the Lane Center for Service and Leadership, said this project not only built upon the students’ technology foundation and strengthened their understanding of aspects such as design, but also taught them how to work on a project step-by-step and emphasized the importance of completing tasks to reach final goals.

Amos said that #PROGRAMYOURFUTURE was just the first of many partnerships between AMKT and other schools and organizations.

Guangzhou dual degree students arrive on campus On Friday, July 17th, fifty-five dual degree students from Guangzhou University arrived in Macon along with a delegation of six officials from the University and the Women’s Federation of Guangzhou, China. Vice President for Enrollment Services Steve Farr accompanied the students from China to Atlanta (33 hours and 8,400 miles), where they were greeted by Emily Jarvis, director of international student services, and five Wesleyan students serving as summer ambassadors.

At a special presentation, Macon Mayor Reichert issued a proclamation celebrating the close relationship between Wesleyan College and China, women’s education, and the new dual degree program, and declared the month of July Wesleyan College and Guangzhou University Month.

The students spent their first week on campus at orientation before beginning classes the second week. Their first summer semester was an intensive three-week session which combined WISe 101 and WRI 101 to create WISe 201, The First Year Experience for dual-degree students.

Dr. McGhee to release Tapestry

Dr. Michael McGhee, associate professor of music, spent his spring semester 2015 sabbatical producing his first CD of solo organ music, Tapestry.

Recorded in Porter Auditorium, Tapestry features a repertoire that includes compositions by Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Guilmant, and Lemare performed by McGhee. It is also the first professionally released recording of Wesleyan’s historic Aeolian organ.

A native of Dublin, Georgia, Dr. McGhee graduated summa cum laude from Shorter College, completed the master of music degree at the University of Georgia, and earned his doctor of music degree in organ performance and literature from the Indiana University School of Music. He currently serves as Wesleyan’s college organist, chair of the Fine Arts Division, and program director for the music department, and teaches courses in music theory and music history.

The CD’s cover art, a painting by Wesleyan Professor of Art Dr. Libby Bailey, was inspired by two sets of musical pieces featured on Tapestry: Schumann’s Album for the Young and Tchaikovsky’s Album for the Young. These works are originally for piano and have been transcribed for performance on the organ by McGhee.

McGhee will celebrate the release of the CD with a recital February 11, 2016, in Porter Auditorium. Also performing on the recital will be Wesleyan Assistant Professor of Music, Dr. Chenny Gan, piano, and on violin, Georgia College Associate Professor of Music Dr. David Johnson. The recital is free and open to the public.

In February, the recording will be available for download on itunes and Amazon. A CD can be purchased at www.arkivmusic.com.

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Alumnae CONNECTIONS

Save the Date. I AM WESLEYAN: 2016 Alumnae Leadership & Engagement Day. Be all you can be

FOR Wesleyan and join us for a day to celebrate the volunteer in all of us. Mark Saturday, January 23, 2016, on your calendar. Learn more about the College and how you can help shape her future. To register for this free Alumnae Leadership Day please visit: www.wesleyancollege.edu/LeadershipDay. Why? Because YOU ARE WESLEYAN!

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An International Welcome to Wesleyan

Atlanta Club members enjoyed a piano performance by Wesleyan’s Assistant Professor of Music Dr. Chenny Gan ’02 in September.

Alumnae, friends, Wesleyan staff members, and students met for an afternoon of Classical and Jazz Gems at Lenbrook Square followed by a reception to meet the pianist. Many thanks to Jane Mulkey Green ’42 and Elaine Wood Whitehurst ’53 who hosted the event and to Mary Catherine Collins O’Kelley ’72 who coordinated plans. Sally Moffett McKenna ’75, Ruth White Fruit ’54, and Atlanta Club President Jaime McQuilkin ’06 also assisted. In October, the Wesleyan Atlanta Young Alums (WAYA) met at the Painted Pin in Buckhead for a fun night of Bowling in Buckhead. Nita Douglas Miller ’06 and Jaime McQuilkin served as event planners.

Senior Midnight Breakfast & First-Year Fondue

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Golden Isles

In September, Golden Isles alumnae were invited to a Sea Island Social at the home of Trustee Gayle Attaway Findlay ’55. Alumnae hostesses included Mary Tappan Garrison ’46, Heather Poindexter Kennedy ’05, and Jan Shelnutt Whalen ’71. Members of the WCAA Board of Managers were on hand to greet Wesleyan sisters as were Wesleyan staff members Cathy Coxey Snow ’71, Mary Kathryn Borland ’04, Andrea Williford, and Susan Allen.

Macon

Macon alumnae were invited to an Alumnae Mixer held at Just Tap’d in conjunction with the MAC Party held in downtown Macon. The MAC Party is a collaborative event sponsored by the College Hill Alliance, Mercer University, Middle Georgia State University, and Wesleyan College. Since June, the Macon Pioneer Book Club has met at the homes of Beth Sullins Hughes ’75, June Jordan O’Neal ’90, and Jane Price Claxton ’68 for discussions of selected books including Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee.

Alumnae/Student Events & Programs Golden Heart Move-In Day

In August, alumnae from classes 1975 to 2014 volunteered to help new GHs “move-in” to dorm rooms at Wesleyan. Greeting new Wesleyan sisters, carrying suitcases, providing directions, handing out water, and running errands were all in the line of duty for volunteers who received a T-shirt and lunch in Anderson Dining Hall for their hard work. The event introduced first-year students and their families to Wesleyan sisterhood and to the WCAA. To volunteer for Move-In Day 2016, contact alumnae@wesleyancollege.edu.

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New international students and dual-degree students from Guangzhou University in China received “goodie bags” from the Wesleyan Alumnae Association when they arrived on campus. In July, June Jordan O’Neal ’90 hosted a tea for students from Guangzhou in her home with help from alumnae hostesses Jane Price Claxton ’68, Carol Bacon Kelso ’73, Michelle Martin Gowan ’85 and Judy Whitaker ’75. Students were delighted to receive in their mailbox a handwritten “welcome note” from an alumna when they arrived. Alumnae also volunteered to transport students from the airport to campus. Many thanks to Ebony Roberts Ferrell ’02 and Jyoti Danes Coffelt ’05 for picking up some of our new students!

In September, the annual Senior Midnight Breakfast was held in the Manget Dining Room. Green Knights were welcomed back to campus to celebrate the beginning of their senior year at the College. Seniors also learned more about their responsibilities as alumnae and the traditions of Candlelighting and the Senior Class Gift. In October, the Alumnae and Advancement Offices began a new tradition for first-year students. The Offices hosted a First-Year Fondue in the Manget Dining Room where new Golden Hearts received an introductory lesson about philanthropy, learning more about the Institutional Advancement Offices, what the Annual Fund means to Wesleyan, and why it is important for alumnae to give back to the College.

Linking Up

More than 200 alumnae and students “linked up” this year to participate in the Alumnae e-Link Program designed to connect current Wesleyan students with alumnae throughout the country. WCAA Member-at-Large for Student Relations Sherrie Randall ’03 coordinates the program with the Alumnae Office. The e-Link program focuses on linking students with alumnae online for career mentoring and sisterhood purposes.

Interested in being an e-Link? Contact alumnae@wesleyancollege.edu For current news of classmates and friends, check www.facebook.com/ WesleyanCollegeAlummnaeAssociation. Visit wesleyancollege.edu/Alumnae/ AlumnaeEvents to participate in alumnae activities, events, and to volunteer.

Contact the Alumnae Office at 478.757.5172 for more information.

Please enjoy reading online all class notes submitted to the College since our last magazine at www.wesleyancollege.edu.

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Classical and Jazz Gals. Pianist Dr. Chenny Gan ’02 (back row, center) poses with Atlanta Club members and event hostesses Jane Mulkey Green ’42 and Elaine Wood Whitehurst ’53 (front, seated) after her September concert at Lenbrook Square in Atlanta.

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Bowling in Buckhead. Wesleyan Atlanta Young Alums (WAYA) enjoy a night out at the Painted Pin.

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Going Social. Golden Isles alumnae “meet and greet” on Sea Island, GA.

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Movin’ on In. Alumnae volunteers meet for lunch in Anderson Dining Room after helping first-year GH students move into campus dorms.

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Sisters Helping Sisters. On their first day at Wesleyan new students receive “hands on” help from alumnae volunteers.

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Welcome to Macon. Guangzhou University dual degree students get a taste of Southern hospitality at a Tea hosted by June Jordan O’Neal ’90.

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Tradition! GK nursing students at Senior Midnight Breakfast.

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Here’s to Wesleyan! North Carolina Triangle Area club members visit with Alumnae Office staff at Southern Seasons in Raleigh, NC.

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2016 Reunion House Party. 2016 reunion class committees take “time out” from a planning meeting to visit Pierce Chapel during House Party Weekend in October.

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Save the Months: February & March 2016

for PIONEER BOOK CLUB Wesleyan Women are Well-Read.

Pioneer Book Club is a collaborative alumnae event sponsored by the Wesleyan College Alumnae Association that reconnects alumnae to life on campus and to one another through a common reading experience. This year the Alumnae Association invites all alumnae to read Girl in Translation by New York Times best-selling author Jean Kwok. Pioneer Book Club will be celebrated in February/March with alumnae hostesses opening their homes for conversation, refreshments, and a lively book discussion. Girl in Translation was the book selected for Wesleyan’s new dual-degree students to discuss. For more about Pioneer Book Club 2016 and how to host a discussion group visit www.wesleyancollege.edu/alumnae/bookclub.cfm Wesleyan Magazine Winter 2015

Sympathy The Wesleyan College Alumnae Association extends sympathy to: Maryan Harris ’39 of Dublin, GA, on the death of her sister, Dorothy “Dottie” Smith Mahon ’44, on March 30, 2015.

Joan Shapiro Foster ’56 of Vero Beach, FL, on the death of her sister, Margot Newman Shapiro Jackson ’53, on July 3, 2015.

Martha Kinsey Skirven ’61 of Fernandina Beach, FL, on the death of her husband, Rev. James, F. “Jim” Skirven, Jr., on June 18, 2015.

Lynda Jordan Gasses ’71 of Monticello, GA, on the death of her father, Wiley Phillips Jordan, Sr., on May 19, 2015.

Bettye Withers Barnes ’42 of Jacksonville, FL, on the death of her husband, Benjamin Shields Barnes, on August 3, 2015.

Susan Zoucks Thompson ’56 of Savannah, GA, on the death of her sister, Patricia Zoucks Ownbey ’53, on June 30, 2015.

Julia Cobey Gluck ’62 of Alexandria, VA, on the death of her husband, John Milton Gluck, on September 12, 2015.

Mary Bell Dunaway ’72 of Gulf Breeze, FL, on the death of her sister, Kathryn “Kay” Bell Turner ’73, on November 28, 2014.

Ruth Middlebrooks Barnwell ’46 of Atlanta, on the death of her husband, James “Jim” Middleton Barnwell, on October 21, 2015.

Anne Hankinson Lane ’57 of Atlanta, on the death of her sister, Elizabeth “Beth” Hankinson Fitch ’60 on September 17, 2015.

Mary Lindley Rumph ’63 of Marshallville, GA, on the death of her husband, Wilbur C. Rumph, Sr., on October 9, 2015.

Nanette Coco ’73 of Sandy Hook, CT, on the death of her father, Joseph S. Coco, on March 6, 2015.

Betty Hall Dunn ’47 of Atlanta and Derrill Dunn McRae ’71 of Nashville, TN, on the death of Betty’s son and Derrill’s brother, Mark Hall Dunn, on October 26, 2015.

Nancy Doss Holcombe ’58 of Arizona City, AZ, on the death of her husband, Joseph “Ray” Holcombe, on July 6, 2015.

Katherine Kennedy Walden ’63 of Macon, on the death of her sister, Lesley Susan Kennedy Bennett, on July 2, 2015.

Louise Sawyer Whipple ’58 of Staunton, VA, on the death of her husband, Kenneth Edward Whipple, on March 30, 2015.

Carol “Moon” Burt ’64 of St. Simons Island, GA, on the death of her sister, Lavenia Burt Henderson, on August 14, 2015, and her mother, Louise Dunaway Burt, on October 9, 2015.

Becky Watson Bowdre ’49 of Macon, on the death of her husband, John Neville Birch Bowdre, on June 9, 2015.

Mildred “Mimi” Roads Griffith ’49 of Palmetto, GA, on the death of her husband, Dr. James Norman “Jim” Griffith, on May 7, 2015.

Becky Dodd Hollady ’51 of Tallahassee, FL, and Berta Dodd Marbut ’58 of San Antonio, TX, on the death of their sister, Matilda Dodd Trawick ’50, on August 29, 2015.

Jean Mouchet Brannon ’52 of Atlanta, on the death of her husband, L. Travis Brannon, Jr., on December 4, 2014.

Gary Still Suters ’53 of Atlanta, on the death of her husband, Everett T. Suters, on October 13, 2015.

Jeannine Hinson Smith ’54 of Hazelhurst, GA, on the death of her husband, Gerald Smith, on June 6, 2015.

Pat Drew ’56 of Marietta, GA, on the death of her sister, Laura Lee Drew Sillay ’52, on June 5, 2015.

Elaine Wilder Jones ’59 of Macon, on the death of her husband, George Erwin Jones, Jr., on April 16, 2015.

Martha Leggett Reese ’59 of Southport, NC, on the death of her husband, Lt. Col. Kenneth “Ken” Duane Reese (U.S. Army, Ret.), on November 4, 2014.

Evelyn Davidson Allen ’60 of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, on the death of her husband, Percy Dexter Allen, Jr., on April 26, 2015.

Betty Jayne “B.J.” Davis McConnell ’60 of Plantation, FL, on the death of her husband, Alwyn York “A.Y.” McConnell, on June 20, 2015.

Joanne Jordan ’61 of Monticello, GA, on the death of her brother, William H. “Bill” Jordan, Jr., on October 7, 2015.

Gayle Langston Ricklefs ’61 of Augusta, GA, on the death of her husband, Ronald E. Ricklefs, on August 5, 2015.

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Jo An Johnson Chewning ’66 of Lawrenceville, GA, on the death of her mother, Ida M. Johnson, on June 14, 2014, and her aunt, Jean Johnson Givens ’35 (age 101), on June 1, 2015.

Vicki Page Jaus ’68 of Charlotte, NC, on the death of her husband, Harold Henry “Hal” Jaus, on November 1, 2015.

Leila Kight ’68 of Miami, FL, on the death of her husband, John Lane Ballou, on April 28, 2015.

Susan Ewing Maddox ’69 of Macon, on the death of her father, William Thomas “Bill” Ewing, Jr., DDS, on September 2, 2015.

Mary Elaine Harper Barnard Methe ’69 of Gray, GA, and Susie Harper Roberts ’76 of Macon, on the death of their mother, Dr. Alda Alexander Harper ’44, on October 17, 2015.

Gena Roberts Franklin ’71 of Macon, on the death of her father, Jack Eugene Roberts, on October 1, 2015.

Laura Shippey Gafnea ’78 of Rome, GA, on the death of her mother, Ernestine Smith Shippey, on August 30, 2015.

Nancy McDonald Terhorst ’78 of Vacaville, CA, on the death of her mother, Hilda Zachry Harvey, on August 16, 2014.

Jane Durrence Vaughan ‘79 of Decatur, AL, on the death of her sister, Carolyn Durrence Mosley ’59, on March 28, 2013.

Lynne White ’81 of Orlando, FL, on the death of her father, Donald J. White, on December 19, 2014.

Amanda Jacobs ’84 of Spanaway, WA, on the death of her father, Albert Spencer “Bert” Jacobs, on June 10, 2015.

Deborah Puckett ’85 of Warner Robins, GA, on the death of her mother, Elizabeth Reed Puckett ’81, on July 16, 2015.

Dr. Meredith “Gay” Garrett ’87 of Washington, DC, and Ashley Garrett ’90 of Athens, GA, on the death of their father, Dr. Sam F. Garrett, on October 8, 2015.

Brittany Dixon Jones ’96 of Eufala, AL, on the death of her daughter, Johanna Abeni Jones (age 7 months), on June 2, 2015.

Wesleyan Trustee Dr. Robert J. Edenfield and Leith Edenfield Kephart ’14 of Macon, on the death of Rob’s wife and Leith’s mother, Margaret King Edenfield, on November 1, 2015.

In Memoriam

Marriages Congratulations to: Cheryl Anderson ’93 of Savannah, GA, and Ed Ciucevich, who were married on July 28, 2015.

Liz Santos ’05 of San Francisco, CA, and Ethan Davidoff, who were married on July 11, 2015, at Calamigos Ranch in Malibu, CA. Stephanie Dunbar ’06 of Canton, GA, and Nicholas Pounders, who were married on October 10, 2015, in BlueRidge, GA. Wesleyanne Shelly Walden Gable ’06 was in attendance.

Marisa Arnold ’13 of Savannah, GA, and Corey Pierce, Sr., who were married on July 23, 2015, in Savannah, GA.

Ashley Forbes ’15 of Bonaire, GA, and Johnathan Strand, who were married on September 26, 2015, at Pierce Chapel. Fellow nursing graduates Amanda Channey ’15, Cassandra Maloy ’15, and Brittani Tilley ’15 served as bridesmaids.

Rose Snider ’15 of Macon, and PJ Evans, who were married on June 27, 2015, at Pierce Chapel. WESLEYAN FIRST: Rose was the FIRST alumna married in Pierce Chapel.

Chelsea Wessells ’15 of Macon, and Alex Madden, who were married on June 20, 2015, at Tabernacle Baptist Church. The reception was held on campus in Oval Hall.

Births & Family Additions Congratulations to:

Dr. Shannon Kundey ’01 of Frederick, MD, on the birth of her son, Rojan Lochlan Silius, on June 25, 2015. Congratulations to big brother Aden as well.

Asha Smith Dektor ’03 and Shandor of Palo Alto, CA, on the birth of their son, Joseph Charles, on June 21, 2015. Proud aunt is Jywanya Smith Dillinger ’01.

Alania Avera Harrison ’12 and Greg, of Macon, on the birth of their son, Owen Elliott, on July 12, 2015. “

In Memoriam William C. “W.C.” Wyatt, Jr. July 8, 1932 - September 2, 2015 Assistant Professor of Physical Science

Described by colleagues as a “gentleman of the old south, who loved classical music, flowers, and had a great sense of humor,” WC Waytt served as a special mentor and advisor to many Wesleyan students during his tenure at the College from 1986-1996, even supporting students financially with gifts and loans to complete their educational journeys. He also chaired the Programs and Exhibitions Committee for many years bringing renowned speakers and musicians to campus. After earning a B.S. from Georgia Southern University and a M.Ed. from the University of Georgia, Wyatt taught as a college instructor for more than 40 years including at Wesleyan where he served as an instructor and then as assistant professor of physical science.

James “Don” Williams

November 14, 1935 – March 30, 2015 Associate Professor of Mathematics A professor of mathematics at Wesleyan College for thirteen years, Don Williams received his B.S. degree from (then) Georgia Teacher’s College. He received his M.Ed. in mathematics from University of Georgia. As an avid photographer Williams served also as the resident photographer at Wesleyan where he and his wife, Faye, were well known campus figures. Former student Mary Knight Robinson ’76 remembers Mr. Williams as being “such a good teacher.” Her classmate Debbie Jones Smith ’76 agrees, “Mr. Williams could add columns of numbers in his head! He was an amazing man.”

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Welcome to the Board of Managers Wesleyan College Alumnae Association (WCAA) National Officers for 2015-2018 PRESIDENT-ELECT

Abbie Smoak Lacienski ’01 Statesboro, GA Advanced Degree: M.Ed. in Educational Leadership, Georgia Southern University Occupation: High School Teacher Alumnae Activities: Former Vice-President for Publications and Public Relations, WCAA; Class Reunion Planning Committee; Sisters 4 Sisters; Candlelighter aksgagirl@hotmail.com

VICE PRESIDENT FOR DEVELOPMENT

Jan Lawrence ’80 Oakton, VA

As the new President of the Wesleyan College Alumnae Association (WCAA), I am excited to announce the 2016 Alumnae Leadership and Engagement Day Forum: I AM WESLEYAN to be held at Wesleyan on January 23, 2016. Join with me and other members of the WCAA Board of Managers as we gather to hear from campus leaders about the state of the College and identify ways in which we, as alumnae, can actively engage in the life of the College. This Forum is dedicated to increasing your knowledge about Wesleyan today as well as providing transparency into the governing body of the Alumnae Association. We look forward to seeing you and working together to enhance our leadership skills though service to Wesleyan.

Sincerely,

Melanie Filson Lewis Pirate Class, 1993 (See inside back cover to RSVP for Alumnae Leadership Day)

PRESIDENT

Advanced Degree: (current) work towards M. Div. at Wesley Seminary, Washington, D.C.; work towards a M.A., University of Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, MO (1980-1981); Program Management Professional (PMP) Occupation: Program Manager, Harris Corporation, Critical Networks Alumnae Activities: Loyalty Fund Chair; 1980 Reunion Chair; Society for the Twenty-First Century; Class e-Rep; Class Liaison; Candlelighter jml0309@gmail.com

VICE-PRESIDENT FOR ADMISSION

Sherry Neal ’96 Atlanta, GA

Advanced Degree: J. D., University of Georgia School of Law Occupation: Adoption Attorney and Managing Partner at Neal & Wright LLC Alumnae Activities: Move-in Day Volunteer; Society for the Twenty-First Century; Donor of Distinction; Candlelighter sherry_v_neal@yahoo.com

VICE-PRESIDENT FOR EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT

Jane Price Claxton ’68 Macon, GA

Advanced Degree: M.Ed. Mercer University; Certificate in School Guidance Counseling, Fort Valley State College Occupation: Retired English Teacher and School Guidance Counselor Alumnae Activities: Former Vice-President for Publications and Public Relations, Vice-President for Educational Enrichment and Carnes Lecture Series Chair, WCAA; Loyalty Fund Chair; Center for Creative and Performing Arts Advisory Committee; Inaugural Spirit Showcase Director; Class Reunion Planning Committee; Class e-Rep; Class Liaison; Candlelighter; Alumnae Weekend volunteer; Benson Society; Stanback Society jpclaxton68@bellsouth.net

Melanie Filson Lewis ’93 Fayetteville, GA Occupation: VP, Business Support Manager, Bank of America Alumnae Activities: Former President-Elect and Treasurer, WCAA; Class Liaison; AAR; Atlanta Wesleyan Alumnae Club; Alumnae Christmas Coffee Hostess; Wesleyan First Contact; Reunion Planning Committee; Fiscal Fitness Convocation Speaker; Candlelighter; e-Link; Alumnae Weekend and WWW Volunteer tomandmel@bellsouth.net 46

VICE-PRESIDENT FOR PUBLICATIONS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS

Jaime F. McQuilkin ’06 Atlanta, GA Advanced Degree: Certificate in Design, The Creative Circus Occupation: Designer, Cricket Wireless

Alumnae Activities: Former Secretary, WCAA; President, Atlanta Club; Wesleyan Atlanta Young Alums Planning Committee and Member; Atlanta Club, Member and Hostess; Reunion Attendee; Sisters 4 Sisters; Candlelighter; e-Link; AAR; Alumnae Weekend, Move-In Day, WWW volunteer; Donor of Distinction jfmcquilkin@gmail.com

WCAA Profile: The Wesleyan College Alumnae Association (WCAA) founded in 1859 is the world’s FIRST alumnae association.

All former Wesleyan students who have earned 30 or more semester hours at the College – whether or not they have graduated – are considered members. Today, the Association is governed by a Board of Managers that includes three alumnae trustees who represent the Association on the Wesleyan Board of Trustees. The Association promotes alumnae engagement with the College by providing service and learning opportunities. Through e-communications, social media, and the Wesleyan Magazine, nearly 9,000 alumnae are kept informed of the activities and achievements of Wesleyan College alumnae.

SECRETARY

Catherine O’Kelley Fore ’02 Signal Mountain, TN Occupation: Interior Designer, Owner, The Pink Lantern Interiors, LLC Alumnae Activities: Alumnae Weekend Class Reunion Chair; AAR; Candlelighter; Alumnae Club Luncheon Hostess catherine_fore@hotmail.com

MEMBER-AT-LARGE FOR NOMINATIONS (2013-2016)

TREASURER

Wende Sanderson Meyer von Bremen ’80 Macon, GA Occupation: Realtor, Associate Broker with REMAX Cutting Edge Realty Alumnae Activities: Former Vice President for Publications and Public Relations, WCAA; Class of 1980 Treasurer; Lemonade on the Lawn Hostess; Society for the Twenty-First Century; Candlelighter webemvb@bellsouth.net

Advanced Degree: UGA Sales Leadership Academy 2010 Occupation: Georgia Power Company, Sales Manager for Central Region

MEMBER-AT-LARGE FOR STUDENT RELATIONS (2014-2017)

Lynn Moses ’77 Macon, GA

Alumnae Activities: Class Reunion Co-Chair; Loyalty Fund Liaison; Convocation Speaker; Thousandfold Society; Candlelighter holymose@yahoo.com

ALUMNA TRUSTEE (2013-2017)

Pris Gautier Bornmann ’68 Alexandria, VA

Advanced Degree: M.S., Purdue University; J.D., American University Occupation: Attorney (Retired) Alumnae Activities: Washington, D.C. Metro Area Alumnae Club; Society for the Twenty-First Century; Class Liaison; Vice Chair, Campaign Major Gift Committee, Forever First Campaign; AAR; Career Mentor; Internship Hostess; Candlelighter prisbornmann@gmail.com

ALUMNA TRUSTEE (2014-2018)

Beverly F. Mitchell ’68 Woodstock, GA

Advanced Degree: Ph.D., Florida State University Occupation: Professor and Associate Dean (Retired), Kennesaw State University Alumnae Activities: Atlanta Alumnae Club; Candlelighter; Alumnae Weekend and WWW Volunteer bmitchel@kennesaw.edu

ALUMNA TRUSTEE (2015-2019)

Leesa Akins Flora ’87 Brookhaven, GA

Advanced Degree: J.D, Mercer University, Walter F. George School of Law Occupation: Attorney (Retired) Alumnae Activities: Former Treasurer and Member-atLarge for Alumnae Weekend, WCAA; Former Secretary, Atlanta Alumnae Club leesaflora@gmail.com

Sherrie N. Randall ’03 College Park, GA

Occupation: Contracting Officer/Specialist, Center for Disease Control and Prevention Alumnae Activities: Vice President, Atlanta Alumnae Club, Member; Alumnae Weekend Class Reunion Co-Chair; Alumnae Weekend Volunteer; Wesleyan Atlanta Young Alumnae, Member; Candlelighter; e-Link coordinator snrandall@gmail.com

MEMBER-AT-LARGE FOR ALUMNAE WEEKEND (2015-2018)

Carol Bacon Kelso ’73 Thomasville, GA

Occupation: Caterer and Former Local Cooking Show Host; Community Volunteer Alumnae Activities: Former Member-at-Large for Nominations and Alumnae Weekend Chair, WCAA; Class Reunion Co-Chair; Reunion Committee; Class Liaison; Alumnae Office Volunteer; Candlelighter; Thousandfold Society; Tallahassee Alumnae Club; Wesleyan mother to PK ’06; AAR cbk@rose.net

PAST PRESIDENT

Ashley Garrett ’90 Athens, GA Advanced Degree: M.A., Auburn University Occupation: Internal Communications Manager for Athens Regional Health Services Alumnae Activities: Former President, PresidentElect, Secretary, Vice President for Publications and Public Relations, and Vice President for Educational Enrichment, WCAA; Atlanta Wesleyan Alumnae Club; Loyalty Fund Chair; AAR; Society for the Twenty-First Century; Fiscal Fitness Convocation Speaker; e-Link; Candlelighter; e-Rep; Alumnae Weekend and WWW Volunteer agarrett@armc.org

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2 0 1 5 A N N UA L R E P O R T

Thanks to you Wesleyan College is extremely fortunate to have the support of alumnae and friends who believe in the College’s mission and give generously every year. Our loyal donors appreciate the difference their donations make to Wesleyan and her students.

In an effort to be more concise when recognizing contributors, several of the past giving levels have been reinstated. Further, the new distinctions acknowledge all gifts to the College, including Annual Fund contributions and those for capital projects, scholarships, and other endowment funds. Every donor listed on the following pages has helped Wesleyan College and our students. Thank you for being part of Wesleyan’s success!

PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL $25,000 OR MORE

Carolyn and William H. Anderson II Robert F. Baldwin, Jr. * Bequest Beloco Foundation, Inc. Alexis Xides Bighley ‘67 and John A. Bighley Thomas C. Burke Foundation Jane Johnson Butler ‘65 and G. Marshall Butler Betty Turner Corn ‘47 Mary Lockwood Curry ‘47 * Bequest Margaret K. * and Robert J. Edenfield Fickling Family Foundation, Inc. Arline Atkins Finch ‘56 and Ronald M. Finch, Jr. Georgia Independent College Association, Inc. Georgia United Methodist Commission on Higher Education The Hall-Knox Foundation Mary Ann Pollard Houghland ‘60 Anne and Andrew H. Knox Dorothy M. and Robert E. Knox, Jr. Dorothy A. Knox Ruth A. Knox ‘75 Eleanor Adams Lane ‘58 Linda Harriet Lane Fund of the Community Foundation of Central Georgia, Inc. Dorothy V. and N. Logan Lewis Foundation, Inc. Margaret T. MacCary Margaret T. MacCary Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund MedCen Community Health Foundation at Navicent Health Medical Center, Navicent Health Terry Mock

Elizabeth C. and W. Michael Ogie William I. H. and Lula E. Pitts Foundation James Hyde Porter Charitable Trust Sydney and T. Alfred Sams, Jr. Randolph W. Thrower * Bequest William B. Turner United Student Aid Funds, Inc. Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation, Inc. Frances Wood Wilson Foundation, Inc.

JAMES HYDE PORTER SOCIETY $10,000 - $24,999

Hannah L. Allen ‘80 ARAMARK Corporation Assistance League of Atlanta, Inc. Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation Baldwin Family Fund of the Community Foundation of Central Georgia, Inc. Julia G. and Cecil A. Baldwin, Jr. Candy and Malcolm S. Burgess, Jr. Patricia Stewart Burgess Family Foundation, Inc. John Huland Carmical Foundation, Inc. Kathleen and J. Cannon Carr, Jr. Cherokee Brick and Tile Company Chris R. Sheridan & Co., Inc. Anne Purvis Church ‘51 * Bequest Anne P. Church Charitable Endowment Fund of the East Tennessee Foundation Christian Collins Cornercap Investment Counsel Council of Independent Colleges Laurel Dean Gray Craft ‘46 and T. Fisher Craft Patricia W. Davis Gayle Attaway Findlay ‘55 Joan Shapiro Foster ‘56 John and Mary Franklin Foundation, Inc.

Courtney Knight Gaines ‘51 Courtney Knight Gaines Foundation, Inc. Anne H. and J. Harper Gaston Georgia United Methodist Foundation, Inc. E. J. Grassmann Trust Judy Woodward Gregory ‘63 Sharon and Cal Hays, Jr. Hays Service, LLC John W. Howard Jana Witham Janeway ‘68 John-Wesley Villas, Inc. Susan Pyeatt Kimmey ‘71 and Lansing Kimmey III Knox Foundation Bob Knox, Jr. Fund of The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Richard H. Lowrance Richard Lowrance Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Brenda Witham McGinn ‘70 MCT Wholesale Betty Nunn Mori ‘58 Debbie Stevenson Moses ‘89 Elizabeth H. and George F. Pickett, Jr. Amy V. and Tyler J. Rauls, Jr. Harriett and Kenneth D. Sams Ruth and Marvin R. Schuster Glenn Shaw Ramona and Chris R. Sheridan, Jr. Robby and J. Daniel Speight, Jr. State Bank & Trust Company Suelle M. Swartz ‘67 Charles B. Upshaw, Jr. Susan Woodward Walker ‘70 and Otey Walker III Marsha Witham Whitman ‘72 Bertram H. Witham Bertram and Patricia Witham Foundation Dorothy Smith Yandle ‘55

GEORGE FOSTER PIERCE LEADERSHIP SOCIETY $5,000 - $9,999

Betty Smith Addison ‘51 Elizabeth Mackay Asbury ‘49 Bank of America Foundation Martha Gragg Bates ‘45 George D. Bates, Jr. Family Foundation Bearings and Drives, Inc. Lorinda Lou Beller ‘64 Priscilla Gautier Bornmann ‘68 and John Albert Bornmann, Jr. * Elizabeth Martin Bunte ‘68 Claire Hammond Davis ‘60 * Bequest Margaret M. Decker ‘75 Margaret M. Decker Foundation, Inc. Glennda Kingry Elliott ‘65 and A.V. Elliott Flint Energies Foundation, Inc. Vivia L. and Richard Fowler Gena Roberts Franklin ‘71 and George W. Franklin Carol Broome Fraune ‘69 GEICO GEICO Philanthropic Foundation General Board of Higher Education and Ministry Georgia Power Company Georgia Power Foundation, Inc. Olivia Lopez Hartenstein ‘65 Maria Salter Higgins ‘57 Knight Fund of the Community Foundation of Central Georgia, Inc. Laura V. Knox ‘04 Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation Kathy D. Linford McNair, McLemore, Middlebrooks & Co., LLC Mary Margaret Woodward McNeill ‘60 Sally Eisen Miller ‘65

GIFTS TO WESLEYAN COLLEGE FY2012

CURRENT FUND CURRENT FUND

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Trustees $73,956.55 $5,000.00 $98,066.17 Alumnae Trustees $132,458.53 $36,325.00 $121,764.66 Alumnae $427,167.36 $53,984.00 $72,999.00 Corporations and Board of Visitors $90,277.27 $142,483.00 $9,989.84 Estates, Trusts and Bequests $35,345.66 $0.00 $52,017.00 Faculty, Staff and Students $25,881.96 $2,500.00 $0.00 Foundations $217,339.33 $544,780.63 $470,000.00 Parents and Friends $96,592.00 $60,505.31 $112,284.37 Church $115,977.68 $11,205.51 $0.00 Total $1,214,996.34 $856,783.45 $937,121.04

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Andy H. Nations W. Michael and Elizabeth C. Ogie Fund of the Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Joyce Paris ‘54 Deidra West Smith ‘96 and Taylor W. Smith Marjorie Perkins Squires ‘51 and William H. Squires Synovus Foundation, Inc. Casey Thurman ‘65 W.B. Turner & Sue T. Turner Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Fund Kay B. and Wayne J. West

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The Elam Alexander Trust Patricia W. and Thomas L. Bass R.A. Bowen Trust Lois F. and Robert A. Bowen, Jr. Carol Burt ‘64 Marsha Lynn Christy ‘73 and John D. Christy Jane Price Claxton ‘68 and Joseph E. Claxton Frances Oehmig Collins ‘47 Cox Communications, Inc. Mary Ann K. and Oliver R. Cross III Margaret Duckworth Sewell ‘49 * Bequest Janet Mewbourne Genest ‘65 Geotechnical & Environmental Consultants, Inc. GFGW, Inc. Patricia Gibbs Goddard Foundation Kathleen Hill Goddard ‘77 and Robert C. Goddard III The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Sally and Eugene S. Hatcher, Jr. Betsy K. and Robert F. Hatcher, Jr. Beverly J. and Gilbert Held IBM Corporation Martha V. Johnson ‘74 Pat Rimmer Knox-Hudson ‘58 Melvin I. Kruger Steven L. Kruger Lindsay Lemasters Lewis ‘80 Diane A. Lumpkin ‘63 D T McNeill Foundation Donald T. McNeill, Jr. Ruth McNeill Middle Georgia Chapter of GSCPAs Peggy Likes Miller ‘65 Elizabeth Gibbons Montis ‘66 Doris and Jeffrey S. Muir

Claire Michaels Murray ‘52 Virginia Barber Perkins ‘63 Perkins-Ponder Foundation Bonnie Padgett Ramsbottom ‘93 and William D. Ramsbottom L.E. Schwartz & Son, Inc. South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church Mary Langel Stults ‘81 SunTrust Bank of Middle Georgia SunTrust Foundation Julie St. John Thornton ‘78 United Methodist Higher Education Foundation Marion W. Vickers Geovette E. Washington ‘89 Gail Thompson Webster-Patterson ‘64 Wesleyan Council on Religious Concerns Andrea G. and Lawrence B. Williford Katherine C. Wilson Katherine Corn Wilson Fund of the Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Julia Munroe Woodward ‘34 * Bequest Cynthia D. Wright ‘75

TOTAL WITH ENDOWMENT TOTALS GIFTS-IN-KIND GIFTS-IN-KIND

$21,000.00 $198,022.72 $0.00 $198,022.72 $14,250.00 $304,798.19 $0.00 $304,798.19 $36,872.79 $591,023.15 $48,000.00 $639,023.15 $24,332.56 $267,082.67 $0.00 $267,082.67 $31,812.01 $119,174.67 $0.00 $119,174.67 $0.00 $28,381.96 $22.38 $28,404.34 $158,600.00 $1,390,719.96 $0.00 $1,390,719.96 $99,241.14 $368,622.82 $60,472.85 $429,095.67 $0.00 $127,183.19 $0.00 $127,183.19 $386,108.50 $3,395,009.33 $108,495.23 $3,503,504.56 Wesleyan Magazine Winter 2015

Walter Clifton Family Fund of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Inc. Lois Goldman Cowan ‘45 Lois L. Cowan Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Dorothy Groh Cutler ‘64 and William J. Cutler, Jr. Erin M. Dallas ‘98 Linda Haygood Davis ‘77 Barbara Brown Dean ‘55 Emily Hardman Dickey ‘58 James R. Dillon, Jr. William James Dorminy Foundation, Inc. Betty Hall Dunn ‘47 Mildred Fincher Efland ‘42 and Mack P. Efland, Jr. Clarice Pittman Elder ‘58 and Truett L. Elder Ann Zimmerman Elliott ‘67 Denise D. and James S. Ellis Natalie Puckett Evans ‘02 and Dave Evans C. Steve Farr Amy M. Fletcher ‘06 Evelyn LeRoy Fortson ‘52 and Norman J. Fortson Jean Cain Gaddis ‘61 Carleen Gaulden Gardner ‘50 Martha Kennedy Gay ‘56 Georgia Pine Level Foundation Carol A. Goodloe ‘75 Jane Mulkey Green ‘42 Joan B. and Warren Griffin, Jr. Teresa M. and Benjamin W. Griffith III Griffith Family Charitable Foundation, Inc. Katherine Arnold Hale ‘70 Elizabeth W. Hardin Leota Harley Emily Sawyer Hart ‘56 and Howard R. Hart, Jr. Mary Lane Edwards Hartshorn ‘49 Betty Upchurch Hasty ‘55 Georgia W. and Robert F. Hatcher Sally Anderson Hemingway ‘79 Jane Epps Henry ‘47 Dawn Gochnour Hoffman ‘95 and Christopher Hoffman Susan L. Holloway ‘82 Virginia Ann Daniel Holman ‘75 and Calvin M. Holman Linna and Chris Hoppe Houghland Foundation Millie Parrish Hudson ‘75 and W. Quinn Hudson Ann McDonald Hurt ‘64 Anne Valentin Hutcherson ‘63 Katherine J. and Richard Hutto Judy McConnell Jolly ‘64 Catherine Gibbons Jost ‘70 Suzanne Woodham Juday ‘69 Mary Cordes Kelley ‘39 Elizabeth Rogers Kelly ‘72 Carol Bacon Kelso ‘73 Julia Stillwell Ketcham ‘58 and Ralph L. Ketcham Susan Taylor King ‘63 and Robert E. King Nancy C. Kinzer Kathleen Propps Langford ‘72 Dana Flanders Laster ‘86 and Scott Laster Janet M. Lawrence ‘80 Martha Bell Lewis ‘60 Melanie Filson Lewis ‘93

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Maria Tsong Lian ‘62 Lucille and Joseph W. Little Margaret Strickland Lovein ‘75 Kym Preuss Lukosky ‘90 Nancy Dixon Lutz ‘60 MaconPower Nan G. Maddux ‘75 Barbara Beddingfield Magnan ‘81 Linda Chambers Mahan ‘61 Richard P. Maier Mary Stephens Malone ‘80 Doris V. Manning ‘60 Charlotte Thomas Marshall ‘63 Marjorie Gray Masson ‘51 Margaret M. Mathews ‘73 Carolyn Martin McCrea ‘65 Rita Parker McGarity ‘75 Sally Moffett McKenna ‘75 Laura J. Meadows Elizabeth O’Donnell Menkhaus ‘76 Marybelle Proctor Menzel ‘62 Sidney E. Middlebrooks Polly C. Miller Polly C. Miller Fund of the Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Beverly F. Mitchell ‘68 Margaret Thompson Monahan ‘67 Susan M. and B. Douglas Morton III Ann and James L. Moses Lynn B. Moses ‘77 Julia C. Munroe ‘04 Anne Whipple Murphey ‘48 and ‘49 The National Christian Foundation National Management Resources Corporation Judith Miller Newbern ‘67 Newbern Foundation Harriet Adams Newton ‘51 Huyen Nguyen ‘11 Colleen & Sam Nunn Family Foundation Susan Kirvin Ogburn ‘67 Ermine M. Owenby ‘61 P&G Fund Stephanie E. Parker ‘81 George R. Parkerson, Jr. G. Robert Parkerson III Pamela Henry Pate ‘71 and Barry Pate Lori Reese Patton ‘90 and Macon Patton Charlotte Smith Pfeiffer ‘66 Lynda Brinks Pfeiffer ‘63 Walter A. Pirkle Sharon Smith Pizzo ‘65 and Paul R. Pizzo Mary Jo Fincher Plowden ‘68 and W. Warren Plowden, Jr. Porterfield Memorial United Methodist Church PPC Foundation Jo Bogan Prout ‘66 Mary Belle Gardner Quesenberry ‘43 Stephen A. Reichert Harriet Laslie Reynolds ‘62 and John D. Reynolds III Joanna Looney Reynolds ‘65 Rhonda Roell-Taylor Stephanie Lannie Russ-Barber ‘95 SCANA Energy Macon SCANA Services Inc. Judith Kuhn Schlichter ‘64 and Ralph Schlichter Mary T. Schmich Trudie Parker Sessions ‘65 Claudia Crawford Seyle ‘82 Jeanette Loflin Shackelford ‘61 Nancy Peterson Shaw ‘58

Gifts made between July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015

Mary Euyang Shen ‘46 Lane W. and Tim Sheridan Hope Hahn Shields ‘91 Jane Courtenay Shockley ‘56 Karen Connor Shockley ‘63 Simmons Charitable Trust Fund of the Community Foundation of Central Georgia, Inc. Helen Harwell Smith ‘67 Cathy Coxey Snow ‘71 Mary Ann Bateman Spell ‘68 St. Luke’s United Methodist Church of Orlando, FL Bonnie and Joe Starr Starr Electric Company, Inc. Kathryn Gibbs Steinbruegge ‘45 Loraine Hurdle Stewart Eleanor McDonald Still ‘57 Beverly Jo Flynt Strean ‘60 Mary Beth Brown Swearingen ‘89 Cathy Lee Taylor ‘93 Philip D. Taylor Artemisia Dennis Thevaos ‘52 Catherine Cushing Thierry ‘68 Betty A. Thompson ‘47 Karen Moore Thomson ‘67 Reba Thurmond ‘57 Carole West Turner ‘65 Verah Dorsey Turner ‘88 Caroline Eagerton Upperco ‘53 Deborah C. van der Lande Vulcan Materials Company Susan C. Wainwright Susan Corn Wainwright Fund of the Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation Emily B. Walker Charitable Trust Pat Hammock Wall ‘70 and Joseph A. Wall Geraldine R. Washington Helen Proctor Morris Watson ‘46 Mr. and Mrs. Sam A. Way III Susan C. Wheelis ‘95 Allison McFarland Wilcox ‘80 Almonese C. and Ralph W. Williams Carolyn and Floyd B. Williams Beth Milstead Wilson ‘96 Hilda A. Wright ‘65 Claire A. Yoder Virginia Sumerford York ‘60

FOUNTAIN CLUB $500 - $999 Alumnae listed in the class giving section

AXA Foundation William N. Banks, Jr. Patricia T. Barmeyer Ben S. Barnes, Jr. * William E. Barrow R. Harmon Beauchamp Kelly E. Bledsoe William A. Burns Brad Busbee Robert R. Canida Frankie M. Chandler Trust Chevron Matching Employee Funds Coliseum Health System Coliseum Health System of Macon J. David Deck Alison E. Evans ExxonMobil Foundation Kel-Ann S. Eyler

Thomas P. Ferrell Connie and Carl Flair Lisa and Van Fletcher GiveWell Community Foundation John C. Hagaman Ann and J. Ellsworth Hall III William L. Hammond Jennifer A. and Philip B. Harley Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Harley Laura T. and David Harris Laura and David Harris Gift Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Christy Henry Andrew H. Heyward III David M. Hyun Robert H. Kahn, Jr. Family Foundation W. Moffett Kendrick Margaret R. and James R. King, Jr. Loy and Gloria Knight Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Sam P. Lamback, Jr. Kim M. and Rick Lanford Dennie L. McCrary Merck Partnership for Giving Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Morning Music Club Luther T. Munford Robert J. Murphy, Jr. Colleen and Sam Nunn William W. Oliver, Jr. Beverly K. and Edmund E. Olson Kristina Peavy Quentin R. Pirkle David L. Richardson Warren H. Robinson Deen Day and James R. Sanders, Jr. Sally Plowden Stevenson Fund of the Schwab Charitable Fund Bridges W. Smith, Jr. Lewis Smith, Jr. St. Paul United Methodist Church State Farm Companies Foundation Thomson Reuters Robert M. and Lilias Baldwin Turnell Foundation Union Pacific Corporation The Walt Disney Company Foundation H. Mitchell Watson, Jr. Wesleyan Class of 2004 Ben West, Jr. Catherine Whitaker The Winston-Salem Foundation Barbara S. Woodson Mary Jane M. and Pat M. Woodward William C. Wyatt, Jr. *

1836 CLUB $250 - $499

Alumnae listed in the class giving section Robert H. Ackerman Bobbie C. Appling McAlpin H. Arnold * Cynthia H. and J. Randy Autry Herman D. Baker Bert Maxwell Furniture Company Arnold S. Blum Holly L. Boettger-Tong Veronica W. and William P. Brooks Lynn Carithers Cathy Cox Whitney A. Davis Merry M. and A. Donald Faulk, Jr.

* deceased

James B. Ferrari George D. Harrelson Eugene T. Harrison III Linda G. and David E. Hearin Howell Rusk Dodson Architects Karen E. Huber and Nicholas Steneck Betty S. and William H. Hurdle * Barbara D. Jenkins William R. Jenkins Horace S. Jennings Joy Class of Mulberry Street United Methodist Church Teresa Kochera Kroger Company Foundation Marion H. Liles, Jr. Kathy L. Malone Beverly B. Martin Larrie Del and Joseph G. Martin, Jr. Barbara C. Mathison Margery and Bertram Maxwell III Glenna A. Meyer Mulberry Street United Methodist Church Paul M. Murrell Chris E. Orlie The Potting Shed Mark L. Rowe Thomas T. Shealy B. Robert Shipp Marguerite J. and Elliott H. Sisson, Jr. Jennifer L. and Dana L. Smoak Rosemary and John Spiegel Renee` C. Stavisky Leolene M. Tate Kevin L. Ulshafer Vineville United Methodist Church Brandi Vorhees Carroll A. Walker Lisa L. and G. Mason White Lawrence Williams Jane D. and John F. Willingham Mary Jane M. and Pat M. Woodward Charles H. Yates, Jr.

CONTRIBUTORS Up to $250 Alumnae listed in the class giving section

Theresa Abercrombie Accountabilities of Buford, LLC Albany First United Methodist Church Joann and Carl S. Albritton Joy L. and Larry Albritton Aldersgate United Methodist Church Marie P. and James F. Allen Almand & Co., LLC Alston United Methodist Church Kara K. Alvarez James E. Anderson Anonymous Kristen E. and Dennis L. Applebee, Jr. Appleed Associates, LLC Christopher S. Armstrong Chad Astin Charles E. Atchley, Jr. Libby Bailey S. Carol Baird William E. Baird, Jr. Sarah G. and Wilson G. Barmeyer Daisy C. Barnes Virginia and Tom Barrow Fund of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Inc. Sandra B. Baskin Elizabeth B. Belanger Fund of the Schwab Charitable Fund Adriane H. and Peter J. Beller

Brooke Bennett-Day Mary Berndt Kimberly S. Berry Buster Bickerstaff BIFF LLC Brock Bingaman Faith E. and William S. Birkhead Virginia Blake Martha P. and Robert N. Blalock, Jr. Michael D. Blassingame David A. Bobbitt Susan M. Bond Carolyn and W. A. Bone Elaine Bone Marie and C. Taylor Bone Frances and Thomas T. Bosley Patricia C. Brannon DeGuire and Daniel J. DeGuire Catherine I. Brewer Amanda Briscoe Arthur D. Brook Debra J. Brook and Michael F. Kemp John P. Brown Stan Brown Anna P. Brumby Martha L. and Otis A. Brumby, Jr. Rhiannon Bruner Brunswick First United Methodist Church Christina H. Bryan Joanna Buffington and Dean Brook John M. Burns Cairo First United Methodist Church William B. Caldwell Jack C. Callaway Charles T. Carnish Rejeana and David L. Cassady Lisa and Kelvin Cauley Bettie S. and Hines V. Causey Centennial United Methodist Church of Cairo Isaac Cepeda Graham E. Chappell Sergey Chernokov Buena H. Chilstrom James and Jeannice Clark Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Edgar H. Clayton III Linda M. and Charlie E. Cloaninger Bob T. Cochran, Jr. Nancy S. Cole College Place United Methodist Church Preston M. Collins, Jr. Gail Coogle Jon L. Coogle Charles M. Cook Ann F. and John W. Copeland Charitable Foundation, Inc. Nancy C. and Donald J. Cornett Mary C. and Vincent J. Coughlin, Jr. Tom Craig Kathleen Crownover Lindsey B. Culpepper Peggy and E. Douglas Culverhouse, Jr. Robert M. Danner, Jr. Gerry B. and James S. Davis Meagon Davis Russell Davis Frances and Fernando La Rosa Annette B.H. Deming Anne H. Dennard Jessica M. Denniston Saralyn H. DeSmet Thomas E. Desmond Blake Dickinson Phyllis B. Dietrich Nicole DiMarzio Rhonda Dodge Melanie Doherty

Jane A. Dolan Dominican Sisters Congregation of St. Rose of Lima Carolyn K. and Rayford Dominy Don Jones Construction Co., Inc. Deidra D. Donmoyer Janice H. and Robert S. Donner Laurie B. and James T. Douglas Gladys F. Dumond Christopher B. Duncan Beth Dupree Farokhi Ebenezer United Methodist Church - Nepsey-Warren Educational & Developmental Consultants LLC Walter D. Edwards M. Paul Efland III Carl M. Ellington Eugenia U. Elliott John Ellison, Jr. Emile F. Evans Mariann C. and Freddie W. Evans, Jr. Harold Feightner Glenda K. Ferguson First United Methodist Church of Warner Robins James Fleenor Jason G. Fleming Patricia Fletcher Roger L. Flora Wilhelmina H. Ford Olivia and John Fortson Vi Ann S. and Paul R. Foster The Fox Joint Trust Louise H. and Richard E. Friberg Friendship United Methodist Church of Donalsonville Friendship United Methodist Church of Eastman Friendship United Methodist Church of Thomasville Nola Frink Sirena S. Fritz Nancy J. and William O. Gaffin Samuel Gandy Benjamin M. Garland Michelle T. Garlington Edna and L. E. Garrett Charles F. Gattis, Jr. GE Foundation Richard S. George Harry W. Gilmer Godbold Foundation, Inc. Janice F. Goldblum Carrie and Orlando Gonzalez Leslie Goodman Rhonda Green-Barnes and Edward P. Barnes, Jr. Alexis Gregg Spain and Scott Gregory Wanda M. Griggers Tamara H. and George Gruber Merilyn and Lee Guerry Gay and Maurice Gwinner Zsuzsanna K. Gyorky Susan C. Hagemeyer Sandra H. and Robert D. Hall, Jr. Harper & Whitfield, P.C. Ava Harrelson Toni and Kevin Harrington James W. Hart Carol D. and Neale K. Hauss William A. Hawkins Susan R. Haynes Chyanne Hazlett Carol C. and Allen J. Head III J. Milton Heard IV Randy J. Heaton Martha W. Helgerson

Samuel J. Henderson Elizabeth V. and David W. Herlong Fred W. Hicks III Dickey Hightower Paige Hightower Helen W. and William J. Hinson C. Terry Holland Holly Hollis Quintress L. Hollis Rebecca Hollon Denise W. Holloway Teresa and John C. Hoover, Jr. Janet L. Horne Horse Creek United Methodist Church Mary Ann Howard HTU Mathews Athletic Center Lindsey T. Hubbard Pamela F. Huber Jacqueline T. and Robert T. Hurdle Eva Hutcherson Ingleside Village Pizza, Inc. Charles T. Ingram The Family of Robert Peacock Jackson Emilie Jacumin-Simmons Mr. and Mrs. John W. Jarrell Sallie R. and Marcus K. Jocoy Betsy H. and Ronny R. Jones Gareth Jones Julie A. Jones Pauline Kapiloff Louise S. and Jerome L. Kaplan Mary Dale and Donald M. Kea Mark L. Kelley Janet M. and Gene M. Kelly Janet S. King Frances Y. Knight Robert G. Kopp Kara Kostiuk Jane Laco Betty Sweet Simmons Ladson Lamon Family Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Troy D. Lawson Joseph M. Lee III Lee Street United Methodist Church G. Bryan Leskosky Faye R. and James D. Lester III Janet A. Lewis and Robert Fieldsteel Laura T. Li Martha S. Linkous Linton United Methodist Church Lisa’s Art Studio Frazer B. Lively Danielle Lodge Mallonee Family Foundation, Inc. Lois F. and Bruce R. Marshall Michele T. and Matthew R. Martin Monty T. Martin Robert S. Martin Karen T. and F. Thomas Mason, Jr. Charlotte L. Massie F. Dale Mathews Sally Matson Lisa P. and David C. Mayfield Dan McConaughey J. Paul McCord III Michael C. McGhee Robert D. McLeod Media in Motion LLC Ashley C. and Daniel Miller Joanne S. Miller R. Terrell Mitchell Mitchell United Methodist Church Sharon Mobley Stephanie L. Moody Dotty I. Morgan John H. Morrison, Jr. and Margaret Knox Morrison Fund of the Foundation for the Carolinas

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Peg K. and John H. Morrison, Jr. Toma W. and Arnold P. Mulkey, Jr. Kate Mullin Michael P. Muth Wendy R. Myers Anthony M. Nardotti Nathaniel Macon Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Sue Neumeister NVNOT Acres, LLC Oak Grove United Methodist Church Pat and Daniel H. Ogletree Regina B. Oost and Joseph A. Iskra, Jr. Michael J. Parella Park Avenue United Methodist Church Pledger W. Parker Thomas E. Phillips Jane and C. Clayton Pickett * Charles W. Pitts Lori L. and William A. Pointer Todd J. Powell Carolyn L. and Harold B. Powers Margaret L. Poythress Patrick C. Pritchard Heidi and Stephen Purvis Carole and Harrold Queen Emily W. and Emmet C. Rankin Robert A. Reichert Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc. Catherine C. Reynolds Reynolds American Foundation Barry Rhoades Mary H. Richardson Robert G. Robbins Marsha W. Roberts Melissa Roberts Billy Robinson Laura Robinson Julie B. Rogers Joseph Romeo Henry M. Rosenbaum James D. Rowan Vickie L. Samples Anne Sanders Vineta H. and Robert A. Sanders Alain R. Sappi Beverly H. Schaaf Sidney Schwager Murray M. and Larue G. Sellers Mae S. Sheftall Gay G. Sheldon Jane I. Shirah Ruth K. Shulansky Bertha and William P. Simmons, Jr. Chuck Smith Claire M. and G. Boone Smith III Clark W. Smith Julia A. Smith Teresa P. Smotherman Bolanle and Felix Sogade St. Luke United Methodist Church St. Marys United Methodist Church St. Peters United Methodist Church of Fitzgerald Mary Ann Steinbach Robert L. Stephens III * Charles H. Stone Carter Mac Stout SunTrust Foundation Matching Gift Program Stefanie Swanger W. Dean Terrell Jamie L. Thames Sandra S. Tharpe Lynn and Dale Thaxton James J. Therrell, Jr. Tom L. Theus Dr. Theo G. and Artemisia D. Thevaos Family Fund of the

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Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Cater C. and Bert Thompson Charles H. Thompson Carol and Jerome P. Tift Mary Sue and Ron Tolley Ashley Tomlin R. Parks Towns Carol A. Treible Stella Tsai Brice Tunison Twin City United Methodist Church David J. Ulfik Unum Sara van Geertruyden Timothy R. Walter Deena and M. Todd Walton Ann H. Weldon Susan T. and Stephen M. Welsh Wesleyan Class of 1980 Wesleyan Class of 2002 Wesleyan Class of 2015 Wesleyan College Alumnae Association Wesleyan College Education & History Department Wesleyan College Theatre Department Westtown United Methodist Church Amy Whaley Besangie S. White Whitefield United Methodist Church Ruth G. and Bernard F. Wilbur, Jr. Howard Wilcox Grier Williford Hamilton H. Williford Patricia M. and Joseph W. Wilson, Jr. Jerry A. Wolfe Marisa Wolff Diane Womer Woodland United Methodist Church Arthur G. Wroble Yielding Insurance Agency, Inc. YMCA of Coastal Georgia, Inc. Ying Zhen

MATCHING GIFT COMPANIES

We are grateful for these companies and corporate foundations who matched their employees’ gifts to Wesleyan during this last fiscal year.

AT&T Foundation AXA Foundation Bank of America Foundation Chevron Matching Employee Funds ExxonMobil Foundation GE Foundation Georgia Power Foundation, Inc. IBM Corporation Merck Partnership for Giving Microsoft Matching Gifts Program P&G Fund Reynolds American Foundation State Farm Companies Foundation SunTrust Foundation Matching Gift Program The Walt Disney Company Foundation Thomson Reuters Union Pacific Corporation Unum

GIFTS IN KIND

Many thanks to alumnae and friends who generously donated in-kind gifts or services to Wesleyan in the last fiscal year.

Hannah L. Allen ‘80 Susan B. and William H. Allen

Gifts made between July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015

William E. Baird, Jr. Marnai L. Boose ‘05 Kathy A. Bradley ‘78 Stan Brown Christian Collins Tom Craig Beth Dupree Farokhi Eugenia U. Elliott Betsy McPherson Farr ‘73 Arline Atkins Finch ‘56 and Ronald M. Finch, Jr. Libby Truitt Furlow ‘55 Chyanne Hazlett Beverly J. and Gilbert Held C. Terry Holland John W. Howard Pamela F. Huber The Family of Robert Peacock Jackson Janet S. King Estate of Frances Smith Kite ‘76 Eleanor Adams Lane ‘58 Kim M. and Rick Lanford Laura T. Li Richard H. Lowrance Sally Moffett McKenna ‘75 Terry Mock Tommie Sue Montgomery Abrahams ‘63 Bonnie Padgett Ramsbottom ‘93 and William D. Ramsbottom Beverly H. Schaaf Claire M. and G. Boone Smith III Stella Tsai Brice Tunison Carolyn and Floyd B. Williams

RECURRING GIFTS

We are ever so grateful for these recurring gift donors who give biweekly, monthly, bimonthly, quarterly, biannually or annually through our website, by credit card or through a direct debit from a bank account.

Amanda M. Allen ‘98 Carla T. Asbell Dennis ‘87 Lauren Hamblin Beaty ‘06 Judy Cline Berlin ‘53 Barbara Summers Blevins ‘93 Chelsea D. Bolton ‘13 Heather Beene Booker ‘99 Kathy A. Bradley ‘78 Cyndey Costello Busbee ‘92 Crystal Rogers Cheyne ‘02 Susan A. Cobleigh ‘68 Heidi Shannon Cook ‘90 Anne M. Cordeiro ‘92 Margaret McCready Cornell ‘60 Kathleen Loski Cummings ‘05 Taylor Bishop Deal ‘12 Pauline Phelps Deck ‘48 Virginia E. W. Dicken ‘03 Jo Duke ‘84 Carrie Walker Dumm ‘99 Natalie Puckett Evans ‘02 Morgan L. Felts ‘07 Mary Jo Porch Floyd ‘61 Cheyenne E. Foster ‘12 Vi Ann S. and Paul R. Foster Rachel A. Fullerton ‘10 Rachel A. Garcia ‘03 Karen D. Garr ‘69 Leigh Lambert Goff ‘78 Michelle Smith Green ‘94 Lucy I. Guy ‘09 Mary Pierpont Riley Hall ‘57 Charlotte Poole Harrell ‘56 Amanda F. Harris ‘90

Peggy Parrish Hasty ‘71 Carrie Allison Herndon ‘97 Dawn Gochnour Hoffman ‘95 Janet Friberg Jarrett ‘78 Parrish Smotherman Jenkins ‘06 Brittany Dixon Jones ‘96 Mary Cordes Kelley ‘39 Andgelia Proctor Kelly ‘68 Patricia Stillwagon Kessler ‘74 Janet L. Keys ‘78 Brandy Morris Kirkwood ‘01 Martha Bell Lewis ‘60 Melanie Filson Lewis ‘93 Maria Tsong Lian ‘62 Helen A. Likins ‘10 Samantha B. Lint ‘12 Kathleen Amidon MacGregor ‘73 Linda Chambers Mahan ‘61 Richelle McClain ‘75 Brenda Witham McGinn ‘70 Erin Zinko McKenna ‘04 Jaime Foxx McQuilkin ‘06 Elizabeth O’Donnell Menkhaus ‘76 Shanita Douglas Miller ‘06 Emily Adams Mowery ‘93 Kathryn Lassiter Murphy ‘08 Sherry V. Neal ‘96 Lori Reese Patton ‘90 Hope McMichael Pendergrass ‘03 Pamela C. Pinkston ‘08 Barbara Johnston Plaxico ‘63 Angel Feightner Poe ‘08 Megan A. Quinn ‘05 Hannah S. Rawcliffe ‘13 Anne Stewart Raymond ‘58 Catherine Bradach Rockoff ‘78 Lindsay Rosenquist Burns ‘06 and William A. Burns Susan Sammons ‘64 Jackie Ward Schontzler ‘53 Yehudi Ben-j Self-Medlin ‘96 Candice Muehlbauer Shockley ‘78 Wendy Newingham Stanley ‘90 Amanda Gluck Steger ‘04 Ruth Powell Storts ‘93 Sidney Ford Tatom ‘51 Georgia Belle Thomas ‘11 Martha Jane Thompson ‘70 Reba Thurmond ‘57 Laney J. Turner ‘09 Verah Dorsey Turner ‘88 Barbara Roe Wallace ‘87 Geovette E. Washington ‘89 Keely L. Whittington ‘96 Alexandra Aldica Willis ‘04 Stephanie Hood Wittry ‘08

BEQUESTS Wesleyan College is grateful for these legacies we received from donors during the past year.

Robert F. Baldwin, Jr. Clio Morris Buice ‘50 Mary Lockwood Curry ‘47 Frances Smith Kite ‘76 Margaret Duckworth Sewell ‘49 Randolph W. Thrower Sue Thompson Turner ‘50 Emily B. Walker

* deceased

Society for the 21st Century

Chartered in 1989, the Society for the Twenty-first Century recognizes alumnae and friends who make estate plans or life-income gifts benefiting Wesleyan College. Through their generous commitments, Society members will sustain and strengthen Wesleyan well into the College’s third century.

May Morgan Ackerman ‘94 and Robert K. Ackerman Betty Smith Addison ‘51 Hannah L. Allen ‘80 Susan B. Allen Debra McGee Ambrose ‘84 Linda G. Anderson ‘71 William H. Anderson II McAlpin H. Arnold * Ruth Wong Arnow ‘56 William E. Baird, Jr. Kathleen Peeples Ballou ‘55 William N. Banks, Jr. Jennifer A. Bass ‘78 Patricia W. and Thomas L. Bass Martha Gragg Bates ‘45 Edwina Hall Beall ‘53 Lorinda Lou Beller ‘64 Alexis Xides Bighley ‘67 Loyd Hall Black, Jr. Regina S. Bland ‘76 Georgann Dessau Blum ‘47 Sylvia Fesco Bond ‘81 Priscilla Gautier Bornmann ‘68 Gloria Boyette ‘60 Kathy A. Bradley ‘78 Jean Mouchet Brannon ‘52 and L. Travis Brannon, Jr. * Beulah Laslie Brinson ‘58 Jane Speir Brook ‘76 Barbara A. Bryant ‘67 Patricia Sterling Brzezinski ‘84 Virginia Perry Buckner ‘33 Margaret and Mark S. Burgessporter Rosalind Allison Burns ‘47 Carol Burt ‘64 Cynthia Costello Busbee ‘92 Carol Hindman Butler ‘78 Helen E. Cannon ‘60 Peggy Carswell ‘49 Willene McGee Castleberry ‘47 Jo An Johnson Chewning ‘66 Susan Lott Clark ‘46 Susan A. Cobleigh ‘68 Nannette Coco ‘73 Frances Oehmig Collins ‘47 Barbara Roland Colwell ‘70 Anne M. Cordeiro ‘92 Betty Turner Corn ‘47 Pamela Davis Corvelli ‘98 Lois Goldman Cowan ‘45 Laurel Dean Gray Craft ‘46 and T. Fisher Craft Peggy Chesnutt Daniel ‘91 Linda Dekle-Frost Mildred Taylor Dennis ‘57 Emily Hardman Dickey ‘58 Margaret Spear Diederich ‘44 Berta Dodd-Marbut ‘58 Mary Nunn Domingos ‘46 Eloise Maxwell Doty ‘68 Margaret Neal Doty ‘53 and Clayton N. Doty * Jo Duke ‘84 Beth Mason Duncan ‘61 Marjorie Potts Durden ‘40 Ann Lee Alley Earnshaw ‘59 Margaret K. * and Robert J. Edenfield Mildred Fincher Efland ‘42 Annetta Zimmerman Elliott ‘67

Glennda Kingry Elliott ‘65 W. Tinsley Ellis Bee Seckinger Epley ‘58 Amanda Marine Evans ‘99 Charlotte Battle Everbach ‘52 Cheryl Grantham Fee ‘68 Arline Atkins Finch ‘56 and Ronald M. Finch, Jr. Gayle Attaway Findlay ‘55 Eleanor Gravely Fleming ‘57 Jane Esther Foley ‘42 * Phyllis F. Forschler Joan Shapiro Foster ‘56 Vivia L. Fowler Gena Roberts Franklin ‘71 Courtney Knight Gaines ‘51 Tina D. Gann ‘94 Ashley Garrett ‘90 Anne H. and J. Harper Gaston Maria Shackelford Gause ‘90 Jackie Herron Gilmer ‘76 and Harry W. Gilmer Caroline Oliver Goff ‘92 Margaret Shoemaker Gordon ‘65 Lisa DiMuro Gosnell ‘82 Jane Mulkey Green ‘42 Judy Woodward Gregory ‘63 Eleanor Laslie Griffin ‘60 Mildred Roads Griffith ‘49 Charlotte Jolly Hale ‘62 Mary Pierpont Riley Hall ‘57 Laura Lowe Harmon ‘72 and Barrie H. Harmon III Robyn Harmon ‘77 Carol Anne Rollins Harrison ‘62 Mary Lane Edwards Hartshorn ‘49 Betty Upchurch Hasty ‘55 Beverly J. and Gilbert Held Pamela Lohr Hendrix ‘88 Cynthia L. Hershey ‘91 Carol Inman Heyward ‘60 and Andrew H. Heyward III Nancy Hill-Bates ‘61 C. Terry Holland Cordelia Dessau Holliday ‘48 Virginia Ann Daniel Holman ‘75 and Calvin M. Holman Anne Scarborough Hughes ‘78 Mollie Elizabeth Hughes ’06 Lucy Cline Huie ‘41 Betty S. and William H. Hurdle * Susann C. Hutchison Jessica L. Jarman ‘99 Janet Friberg Jarrett ‘78 Suzanne McNatt Johnson ‘60 Mildred Hawkins Jones ‘49 * Catherine Gibbons Jost ‘70 Suzanne Woodham Juday ‘69 Carla DuBose Kalec ‘57 Dana Karstensen-Bryan ‘99 Mary Cordes Kelley ‘39 Carol Bacon Kelso ‘73 Julia Stillwell Ketcham ‘58 and Ralph L. Ketcham Medra Lott Keyser ‘58 Leila K. Kight ‘68 Kari Goellner Kitchens ‘91 Dorothy M. and Robert E. Knox, Jr. Ruth A. Knox ‘75 Nancy L. Lamb ‘95

Eleanor Adams Lane ‘58 Kayron McMinn Laska ‘87 and John Laska Janet M. Lawrence ‘80 Betty Kemper Lhotka ‘57 Betty Jordan Lippitt ‘74 Gayle Lloyd ‘62 Betty I-May Lo ‘95 Richard H. Lowrance John F. Loyd Nancy Middleton Lucia ‘65 Diane A. Lumpkin ‘63 Nancy Dixon Lutz ‘60 Margaret T. MacCary Beverly Hinely MacMahon ‘74 Wendy Coffman MacMahon ‘78 Nan G. Maddux ‘75 Patty Shriver Mancuso ‘60 Virginia Mason ‘65 Jeanon M. Massien ‘84 George W. Mathews, Jr. Lucile Adams Mathews ‘66 Elizabeth N. Mathis ‘96 William M. Matthews Michele L. McDuffie ‘99 Rita Parker McGarity ‘75 Sally Moffett McKenna ‘75 Barbara Bird McLendon ‘60 Mary Margaret Woodward McNeill ‘60 Sally Griffie Mehalko ‘67 Wende Sanderson Meyer von Bremen ‘80 Mary Ainsworth Mitchell ‘47 Susan C. Monteith ‘64 Tommie Sue Montgomery-Abrahams ‘63 Elizabeth Gibbons Montis ‘66 Mary Jo Moody ‘64 Caron Griffin Morgan ‘73 Anne McGee Morganstern ‘58 Betty Nunn Mori ‘58 Debbie Stevenson Moses ‘89 Anne Whipple Murphey ‘48 and ‘49 Lee B. Murphey Gail Fulton Murphy ‘68 Claire Michaels Murray ‘52 Sherry V. Neal ‘96 Linda Chance Newiger ‘72 Susan Stankrauff Newman ‘57 Catherine E. Neylans ‘51 Laura Ruth Norris ‘77 Mary Catherine Collins O’Kelley ‘72 Sara Lee Lane Ogilvie ‘56 Vidal E. Olivares ’02 Patricia Davis Oliver ‘66 and William W. Oliver, Jr. Cacia Morris Orser ‘70 Ermine M. Owenby ‘61 Joyce Paris ‘54 Stephanie E. Parker ‘81 Heather Peebles-Bradley ‘90 Julianne McDaniel Perry ‘49 Linda Vogel Pfleger ‘61 Loretta L. Pinkston ‘84 Adelaide Wallace Ponder ‘46 * Mary Belle Gardner Quesenberry ‘43 Harriett Wadsworth Ragland ‘55 * Anne Stewart Raymond ‘58 Harriet Laslie Reynolds ‘62 Shirley Wise Richardson ‘63 Gayle Langston Ricklefs ‘61 Bryndis W. Roberts ‘78

Tena N. Roberts ‘60 John F. Rogers, Jr. Joan Maddox Sammons ‘57 Ann Harrell Saunders ‘53 Kenlyn G. Sawyer ‘86 Joyce Reddick Schafer ‘55 Muffy Gordy Schladensky ‘83 Helene Jones Schwartz ‘45 Trudie Parker Sessions ‘65 Jeanette Loflin Shackelford ‘61 Susan McDonald Sheehan ‘72 Sandra Bell Shipp ‘66 and Robert Shipp Susan Moses Shropshire ‘72 Sally Husted Shuford ‘61 Martha Kinsey Skirven ‘61 Virginia R. Slack ‘73 Amy-Christine Vinson Smith ‘99 Betsy Palmer Smith ‘60 Jean Armstrong Smith ‘52 and Robert H. Smith Joyce Hussey Smith ‘53 Jean Cone Snooks ‘45 * Sarah Turnbull Snow ‘74 and Claude H. Snow, Jr. Marjorie Perkins Squires ‘51 and William H. Squires Kathryn Gibbs Steinbruegge ‘45 Preston Stevens, Jr. Kathryn Stiles Stribling ‘47 Evelyn Sims Stubbs ‘51 * Karlyn Sturmer ‘75 Sylvia Newton Summers ‘64 and Roland S. Summers Mary Jane and Willard E. Summers Martha Bradford Swann ‘47 Melissa Spradley Sweet ‘01 Ann Scott Terry ‘70 Artemisia Dennis Thevaos ‘52 Bernardine Smith Thomas ‘38 Martha Clower Thomas ‘64 Betty A. Thompson ‘47 Mary E. Thompson ‘79 Mary Jane Wood Thornton ‘54 and J. Earl Thornton Casey Thurman ‘65 Mary McCord Tierney ‘46 * Tracy Ward Tilley ‘89 Julie Houston Trieste ‘98 Laura Jones Turner ‘46 Marion W. Vickers Kathryn Smith Vinson ‘99 Charlotte Little Walker ‘49 Marianna Patton Walker ‘79 and Carroll A. Walker Susan Woodward Walker ‘70 Patricia Hammock Wall ‘70 Katherine Stickley Watson ‘60 and H. Mitchell Watson, Jr. Gail Thompson Webster-Patterson ‘64 Susan C. Wheelis ‘95 Howard J. Williams, Jr. Jean Gilbert Witcher ‘66 * Janet Eidson Woods ‘75 Sandra Grist Woods ‘66 Martha Jean Laslie Woodward ‘54 Jane L. Wootton ‘51 Cynthia D. Wright ‘75 Georgiana Hsueh Yang ‘49 Charles H. Yates, Jr.

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Giving Levels PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL $25,000 or more JAMES HYDE PORTER SOCIETY $10,000 - $24,999 GEORGE FOSTER PIERCE LEADERSHIP SOCIETY $5,000 - $9,999 CANDLER CIRCLE $2,500 - $4,999 CATHERINE BREWER BENSON SOCIETY $1,000 - $2,499 THE FOUNTAIN CLUB $500 - $999 1836 CLUB $250 - $499 CONTRIBUTORS Up to $249

Love X5

For the past 20 years, the Love X 5 program has been recognizing our faithful alumnae who have made a gift to Wesleyan for five or more consecutive years. In recognition of their loyalty to Wesleyan, these faithful donors are honored with a ❤ following their names in the Class Giving section. When attending Alumnae Weekend, Love X 5 faithful are also presented with a special pin honoring their continued support of their alma mater.

Stanback Society

Established in 2001, the Stanback Society recognizes alumnae who have given to the Annual Fund for twenty or more consecutive years.

These faithful donors are honored with a following their names in the Class Giving section. The Stanback Society is named in honor of Florence Elizabeth Cawthon Stanback who contributed to the Annual Fund faithfully every year from her graduation in 1925 until her death in 2002.

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Class Giving 1934 Participation: 100.00% Total Annual Fund: $4,985.80 Total All Gifts: $4,985.80 Candler Circle Julia Munroe Woodward * Bequest M❤

1836 Club Charmian Stuart Thomson M❤

1937 Participation: 25.00% Total Annual Fund: $100.00 Total All Gifts: $100.00 Contributors June Hobbs-Spann

1938 Participation: 27.27% Total Annual Fund: $775.00 Total All Gifts: $775.00 Fountain Club Bernardine Smith Thomas M❤ Contributors Dorothy Wink Bolding M❤ Dorothy DuPuis Mackin M❤

1939 Participation: 30.00% Total Annual Fund: $1,350.00 Total All Gifts: $1,350.00 Benson Society Mary Cordes Kelley M❤

Contributors Maryan Smith Harris M❤ Barbara Davis Morgan M

1942 Participation: 22.73% Total Annual Fund: $1,475.00 Total All Gifts: $5,500.00 Benson Society Mildred Fincher Efland M❤

Jane Mulkey Green M❤

Fountain Club Bettye Withers Barnes M❤

1836 Club Margaret Smith Carruth M❤

Jane Hutchinson Thornton M❤

1943 Participation: 14.29% Total Annual Fund: $1,500.00 Total All Gifts: $1,500.00 Benson Society Mary Belle Gardner Quesenberry M❤

Fountain Club Mary Timmerman Geeslin-Warfel M

1944 Participation: 19.23% Total Annual Fund: $285.00 Total All Gifts: $285.00 Contributors Elsie Carmichael Boyd M French Dekle Kelsey M❤

Lynne Rogers Kopp M❤ Dorothy Smith Mahon * Lucia Lindsey Smith * M❤

1945 Participation: 20.00% Total Annual Fund: $7,860.00 Total All Gifts: $7,860.00 Pierce Society Martha Gragg Bates M❤ Benson Society Lois Goldman Cowan M❤ Kathryn Gibbs Steinbruegge M

1836 Club Bettie Hotaling Bland M Contributors Frances Thurman Fitzgerald M❤

Maude Williamson Garner * M❤ Mary Brown Malone Heritage M❤ Virginia Martin Lawrence Winifred Bosch Titterton M❤

1946 Participation: 32.20% Total Annual Fund: $7,947.79 Total All Gifts: $20,450.37 Porter Society Laurel Dean Gray Craft M❤

Benson Society Mary Euyang Shen Helen Proctor Morris Watson M❤

Fountain Club Martha Rumble Pirkle M❤

1836 Club Laura Jones Turner M❤

Contributors Rebekah Yates Anders * Emily Bradford Batts M Susan Lott Clark M❤ Mary Louise Davis Gavigan M Joan Tomlinson Horton M Anne Morrison Killebrew M Joyce Daniel Mann M❤ Jane Kollock McCall M❤

Mary McLendon McManus M❤

Beverly Burgess Meadors M Jacqueline Lamm Souder M❤ Virginia Rushing Trapnell Betty Howell Traver Joy B. Trulock M

1947 Participation: 25.00% Total Annual Fund: $35,325.00 Total All Gifts: $265,939.66 President’s Council Betty Turner Corn M❤

Mary Lockwood Curry * Bequest Candler Circle Frances Oehmig Collins M❤

Benson Society Betty Hall Dunn M❤ Jane Epps Henry M❤

Betty A. Thompson M❤ Fountain Club Martha Bradford Swann M❤

1836 Club Georgann Dessau Blum M Margaret Derby Champlin M❤

Jean Anderson Estes M❤ Geraldine Farrar-Thomas Frances Callaway McCommon Contributors Julia Struby Burke Marilyn Mathews M❤ Mary Ainsworth Mitchell M Jane Stapp Nadon Gloria Thornton Orr M❤ Emily Britton Parker M❤ Eugenia Corley Simmons M❤ Sara E. Smith M❤ Toni Smith Suiter M❤

1948 Participation: 18.03% Total Annual Fund: $1,825.00 Total All Gifts: $2,875.00 Benson Society Doris Poe Anderson M❤ Fountain Club Pauline Phelps Deck M❤

Jane Mobley Dickey

Gifts made between July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015

1836 Club Beverly Reichert Kennon M❤ Contributors Jane Clapp Anderson M Miriam Boland M❤ Jean Cowart Fleming M❤ Betty Tillman Hodges M❤

Cordelia Dessau Holliday M❤ Dorothy Anne Smith Elizabeth Hean Stone M❤

1949 Participation: 31.03% Total Annual Fund: $10,775.00 Total All Gifts: $15,200.66 Pierce Society Elizabeth Mackay Asbury M❤

Candler Circle Margaret Duckworth Sewell * Bequest Benson Society Mary Lane Edwards Hartshorn M❤

Anne Whipple Murphey Fountain Club Jane Chandler Rhodes M❤ Betty Daniel Robinson M❤

1836 Club Emily Hancock Bredeson M❤

Susan Gragg Cash M❤

Mildred Roads Griffith M❤

Francina Brock Kern M❤ Clara Hillis Schenke M❤

Renee’ Rousseau Tillery M❤ Contributors Virginia Cole Barrow * M Betty Jo Watson Bowdre M❤

Patricia Johnson Childs M❤

Janet Kelly Collins M Betty Buntyn Googe M❤ Jane Morgan Hogan M Emmie Carlton Johnson M❤

Ruby Layson M❤

Frances Smith Ramsey M❤ Sara Stewart Rountree M❤ Jerrye Griffeth Short M❤

Libba Cook Smith M❤

Anne Strozier Threadgill M❤

Charlotte Little Walker Julia Weathers Wynne M❤

1950 Participation: 31.75% Total Annual Fund: $3,670.00 Total All Gifts: $4,540.00 Benson Society Carleen Gaulden Gardner Fountain Club Clio Carmichael Morris Buice * Bequest Jean Link Rankin M❤ Ann Messink Ross M❤

1836 Club Mary N. Cobb M❤ Elizabeth Smith Moore M Contributors Myra Jane Holman Bird M❤

Joyce Andrew Bledsoe M Josephine Russell Campbell M❤ Patricia Pope Chilton M❤

Sara Johnston Fowke M❤ Charlotte R. Gaines M❤ Frances Mahone Gavin * Mary Fordham Greenfield M❤ Jeanne Gellerstedt Hicks Louise Cochran Mayfield M❤ Martha Ann Wood Robertson M❤ Dorothy Surrency Rosenbloom M❤ Harriett Middlebrooks Roswurm M Jean Logan Russell M

* deceased

1951 Participation: 22.89% Total Annual Fund: $18,522.00 Total All Gifts: $38,565.40 Porter Society Anne Purvis Church * Bequest Courtney Knight Gaines M❤

Pierce Society Betty Smith Addison M❤

Marjorie Perkins Squires M❤

Benson Society Marjorie Gray Masson M❤

Harriet Adams Newton M❤

Fountain Club Allee Gardiner Hollis M❤ 1836 Club Donna Lloyd Gardner M❤ Peggy Worrell Murphy M❤

Contributors Jane Rand Breunig M❤ Nancy Wyatt Ezzard M❤

Anne McKay Garris M❤ Robin Chesney Hopkins M❤

Joanna Mauldin Johnson M Catherine Elizabeth Neylans Delaine Durden Perkins M Sidney Ford Tatom M❤ Mary Baldwin Woodland M❤

Jane L. Wootton M

1952 Participation: 23.86% Total Annual Fund: $6,470.00 Total All Gifts: $7,470.00 Candler Circle Claire Michaels Murray M❤ Benson Society Artemisia Dennis Thevaos Evelyn LeRoy Fortson M❤

Fountain Club Charlotte Battle Everbach M❤

1836 Club Esther Deal Baker M❤ Margaret Lynch Cordell M❤ Martha Bielmann Hastings M❤ Ann King Standerwick M❤

Contributors Winifred Clements Begin M❤

Margaret Thoroughman Callahan M Marella Mitchell Cassels M❤

Jean Youmans Coleman M❤

Patricia Berry Faust M❤ Ann Pasley Fletcher Beverly Harvey Hartman Virve Paul Martin M❤ Margaret Murphy Persinger M Mary Emma Bailey Rehm M❤ DeRon McCurdy Senna Evelyn Thompson Tharp M❤

Sarah Roughton Wilson M❤

1953 Participation: 29.67% Total Annual Fund: $5,030.00 Total All Gifts: $5,030.00 Benson Society Judy Cline Berlin M❤ Caroline Eagerton Upperco M❤ Fountain Club Mayson Thornton Bissell M❤

1836 Club Joan Jennings Norton M❤

Helen Blackmarr Outler M❤

Contributors Mary Ann Fitzgerald Blackwell M Merrilyn Welch Eastham M❤

Gerry Dixon Eddy M Virginia Polk Finch M❤ Claire Houser-Dodd Betty Smith Jennings Albert L. Martin, Jr. M❤ Betty Lou Barber McClure M❤ Virginia Eidson Robertson M❤

Patricia L. Robins M

Julianne Withers Roland M❤ Ann Harrell Saunders M❤

Jacqueline Ward Schontzler M❤

Madge Hill Sidwell Joan Pritchard Smith M❤

Grace Maxwell Sparrow M❤

Jackie Spradlin Stallings M❤

Gary Still Suters M❤

Frances Bruce Van Horn M❤

Elaine Wood Whitehurst M❤ Joann Wilkes Williams M❤ Kathryn Parsons Willis M❤

1954 Participation: 30.95% Total Annual Fund: $9,490.00 Total All Gifts: $9,740.00 Pierce Society Joyce Paris M❤

Fountain Club Marcia Mallet Ades M❤ Elizabeth Gaunt Bryan M Barbara Walker Coburn M❤ Mary Lowrey Peacock M❤ 1836 Club Varese Chambless M❤ Emily Cook Fawcett M❤ Martha Jean Laslie Woodward M❤

Contributors Natalie Brewton Barfield M❤ Harriett Willis Bevil M❤ Sydney Willis Blackmarr M Athelyn Wade Buttrill M❤ Jeannice Hammond Clark M❤

Dolores English Davidson M❤ Marilyn Bennett Edwards M❤ Natholyn Miller Freeman M Ruth White Fruit M❤

Autumn Cook Ireland M❤ Marjorie McCarty MassenburgM Leah Wallat Odden M❤

Ann Parsons Odum M❤

Agnes Donaldson Porterfield M❤ Virginia Whiteman Robinson M Blaine Ross Shanks M Jeannine Hinson Smith M Joan Cordova Walker M❤

1955 Participation: 38.71% Total Annual Fund: $27,185.00 Total All Gifts: $33,435.00 Porter Society Gayle Attaway Findlay M❤

Dorothy Smith Yandle M❤ Benson Society Barbara Brown Dean Betty Upchurch Hasty M❤ Fountain Club Phyllis Clough Davis M❤ Elizabeth Truitt Furlow M❤ Judith Fuller Johnson M❤ Ann Hunter McCandless M❤

Joyce Reddick Schafer M❤ 1836 Club Jeanie Denton Anderson M Sarah McGee Creech M Harriett Wadsworth Ragland * M❤ Sara Stuart Seaborn M❤

Contributors Joyce Caldwell Bryan M❤

Betty F. Castlen M❤ Anne Howard Caswell Juanita Sexton Dowling-Brandon M❤ Gerda Paul Erickson M❤

Frances Moulthrop Gordon M❤ Ada Morris Lamon M❤ Mary Webb Lockhart M❤

Marie Benedict Marlowe Patricia Beckler McWhorter M❤ Joyce Ann Loudermilk Richards M❤

1956 Participation: 37.50% Total Annual Fund: $39,358.80 Total All Gifts: $114,358.80 President’s Council Arline Atkins Finch M❤

Porter Society Joan Shapiro Foster M❤ Benson Society Martha Kennedy Gay M❤

Emily Sawyer Hart M❤

Jane Courtenay Shockley M❤

Fountain Club Carolyn Sims Brooks M❤

Shirley Swain Register M❤

1836 Club Sarah Ware Arthur M❤ Contributors Lucy Neeley Adams M❤

Ruth Wong Arnow M❤ Frances Cassel Berry M❤ Jean Adams Carswell M Jo Ann Copeland Chapple M❤

Elizabeth Comer Clark Lloyd Young Flanders M❤

Paula Hunt Geiger M❤

Charlotte Poole Harrell Irene I-Ling Mao Hui M❤ Mary Tappan Mabry M❤ Mary Emma Welch McConaughey M❤ Marion Wade Mixon M❤

Lou Ann Taylor Nash M❤

Sara Lee Lane Ogilvie M❤

Isabel Graf Saterbak M❤

Barbara Barnes Sims M Trudy Wilson Topolosky * M❤ Joan Wadsworth West M

1957 Participation: 28.28% Total Annual Fund: $10,770.00 Total All Gifts: $10,770.00 Pierce Society Maria S. Higgins M❤ Benson Society Eleanor McDonald Still M❤

Reba Thurmond M❤

Fountain Club Juliette Adams Hawk M❤

1836 Club Nancy McClellan Flowers M❤ Laura Johnson Fowler M❤

Harriette Wilkes Grimes Mary Pierpont Riley Hall M❤ Carla DuBose Kalec M❤

Joan Maddox Sammons M❤ Contributors Betty Brender Belanger M❤

Norma Ford Cassens-Axx M❤ Gray Rowland Curlee M❤

Rosemary Wood Dodd Martha Sisson Gaston Ruth Chapman Ham M❤ Sally Thorp Heath M❤ Gail Wood Irvin Betty Kemper Lhotka Mary Hodge Malone Martha Payne Mitchell Jean Middlebrooks Morris JoAn Bloodworth Nunnelly M Sandra Deisch Ringdahl M❤

Eleanor Thompson Futch Rosen M❤ Nancy McNamara Score M June Benton Webb Marguerite Malcolm Yarboro M❤

1958 Participation: 38.60% Total Annual Fund: $34,939.88 Total All Gifts: $83,881.88 President’s Council Eleanor Adams Lane M❤

Porter Society Betty Nunn Mori M❤

Wesleyan Star Established in 2014, the Wesleyan Star honors alumnae who have given for two, three or four consecutive years. Recognition of Wesleyan Stars includes a M following their names in the alumnae Class Giving section and special recognition during Alumnae Weekend.

Winner’s Circle

A 2014 addition to our recognition of consecutive year donors includes the Winner’s Circle. These faithful alumnae have supported Wesleyan with gifts for ten to nineteen consecutive years. To recognize this loyalty, Winner’s Circle faithful are honored with a following their names in the alumnae Class Giving section, as well as with special recognition during Alumnae Weekend.

Society for the 21st Century

Because we are forever grateful for those who remember Wesleyan with a planned gift, these alumnae are now recognized in the Class Giving Section.

The names of current Society members will appear in bold typeface and those from whom we have received a legacy gift will appear in italics.

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Candler Circle Pat Rimmer Knox-Hudson M❤ Benson Society Emily Hardman Dickey M❤

Clarice Pittman Elder M❤

Julia Stillwell Ketcham M❤

Nancy Peterson Shaw M❤

Fountain Club Margaret Moody Iwamoto M❤ Anne McGee Morganstern M❤

Paula Pritchard Todd 1836 Club Mary Rose Ackerman M Beulah Laslie Brinson M❤ Joyce Reynolds Davidson Temple Wilson Ellis M❤

Patricia Haddle Keck M Lorena Campbell Piper M❤ Anne Stewart Raymond M❤ Contributors Luleen Sandefur Anderson M❤ Mary Cooper Braun M❤ Joan Walters Cole M Elizabeth Cauthen Hofmann M❤ Nancy Doss Holcombe M❤ Nancy Cook Hollingsworth M❤ Medra Lott Keyser M❤

Sarah Rebekah Duncan Kinsey M❤ Joy Jenkins Meyers M❤ Martha Carter Middlemas-Bryant M❤ Mary Reese Myers Jensene Godwin Payne M❤ Joan Nachbaur Rathbun M❤ Jane Howard Reinmuth M❤ Delia Bridwell Reynolds M❤

Martha Sue Davis Reynolds M Amy Weston Roth M Marian Baum Russell M❤

Stella Girardeau Russell M❤ Nancy McCook Spence M❤ Ann Hallman Stafford M Virginia Talbot M Nina Sheppard Terrell M❤

June Mays Turner M Zoe Moore Turner M❤

Louise Sawyer Whipple M❤ Doris Stone Wilder

1959 Participation: 31.40% Total Annual Fund: $4,950.00 Total All Gifts: $5,050.00 Benson Society Harriett Johnson Bell M❤

Fountain Club Anne Swetnam Barton M Manita Bond Dean M❤

Mary Terrell Mitchell M 1836 Club Lee Brenaman Holmes M❤ Jane Powers Weldon M❤

Contributors Margie Hendrix Barden M Carolyn Wade Barry M❤

Elizabeth Blalock Butler M❤

Marcia Adams Cashin M❤

Ann Lee Alley Earnshaw M❤

Helen Poole Fontsere’ M❤ Charlotte Getz Gerken M❤ Janace Fender Griffin M❤ Catherine Murphree Hartley M❤ Patricia Moy Ierley M❤

Carmen Moore Jackson M❤ Kathryn Wilder Jones M❤ Carmella Christopher Kelsey M Wilma Gardner Kinslow M❤ Louise Banks Peavy M Carol King Pope M❤

Sylvia Anderson Powell M❤

Catherine Vinson Pullen M Martha Leggett Reese Carolyn Bolick Siegrist M❤ Sarah J. Wittstruck M

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1960 Participation: 38.89% Total Annual Fund: $23,676.00 Total All Gifts: $80,446.00 President’s Council Mary Ann Pollard Houghland M❤ Pierce Society Claire Hammond Davis * Bequest Mary Margaret Woodward McNeill M❤ Benson Society Nancy Reeder Akins M Martha Bell Lewis M❤

Nancy Dixon Lutz M❤ Doris V. Manning M❤

Beverly Jo Flynt Strean Virginia Sumerford York M❤

Fountain Club Margaret Welborn Adams Dale Odum Barrow M❤ Louise Williams Chapin M Eleanor Laslie Griffin M Carol Inman Heyward M Barbara Bird McLendon M Jacqueline Davis Richardson M❤ Betsy Palmer Smith M❤

Barbara Betts Tuck M❤ Kate Stickley Watson M Carol Sibley Wideman M❤

1836 Club Gloria Boyette M❤

Helen E. Cannon M Ann Lavender Faulk M❤

Dee Bray Joiner * Carol Clay LaPides Patricia Shriver Mancuso M❤

Meredith Young Rogers M❤ Contributors Kay Carroll Barnes M❤ Sylvia Wyllys Boone Gwyndolyn Brown Chesnut Anne Stuckey Clarke M❤

Nancy Leeger Cloutier Juliet Singletary Coleman Margaret McCready Cornell M❤

Louise Somers Davidson M❤

Mary Moore English M❤ Anne Holderfield Ficken M Marcilla Jacobs Heath M Lydia Jordan Hickam M❤ Lynn Lightfoot Hutcheson M Paula Talbert Johnson M❤ Suzanne McNatt Johnson M Julie Adams Lewis M Victoria Wilson Logue M❤ Sheila Nichols McNeill M❤

Emily Childres Mims Emily Richardson Tena N. Roberts M❤

Drayton Shull Rogers Florence Cooke Sackett Giulia LaCagnina Saucier M Nan Millwood Solomon M❤ Neva King Thompson M Richie Stiles Whitaker M Molly Mallory Wilkes M❤ Mary Amerson Willingham Burt M❤

1961 Participation: 38.00% Total Annual Fund: $11,020.00 Total All Gifts: $11,120.00 Benson Society Jean Cain Gaddis M❤ Linda Chambers Mahan M❤ Ermine M. Owenby, Jr. M❤ Jeanette Loflin Shackelford M❤ Fountain Club Jane Baker Chaffin M❤ Peggy Pearson Jerles Suzanne Jones Kahn M❤ Janice Boland Smith M❤

1836 Club Mary Jo Porch Floyd M❤

Ernestine Cole Fulmer M❤

Gifts made between July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015

Jo Anne Miller Gaede M Andrea Morris Gruhl M❤ Nancy Bowden Wiley M❤

Contributors Priscilla Leedham Blake M❤

Judith Warnock Burns M❤ Juliana Hardeman Caldwell Betty Claire Manning Clark M❤ Ann Frost Copeland M❤ Janice McCord Doe M❤

Jean Edwards Dukes M❤ Martha Evans Green Betty Bevis Hand Kay Watkins Hanson M❤ Nancy Huff Hatch M Norma Mullings Hunt M❤ Jane Stallings Knight M❤ Virginia Poole Lee M❤ Sandra Combs Lewis M❤

Jacquelyn Smith Lineberger M❤ Bebe Blalock Littles M❤

Flo Bloodworth Mellard Linda Vogel Pfleger M❤ Gayle Langston Ricklefs M❤ Sheila Leto Scott M❤

Martha Kinsey Skirven M❤

Linda Lee Belford Turek M❤ Cora Ann Ware Wells M❤ Margaret McKinney Youngblood M❤

1962 Participation: 33.75% Total Annual Fund: $6,435.00 Total All Gifts: $7,235.00 Benson Society Maria Tsong Lian M Marybelle Proctor Menzel M❤

Harriet Laslie Reynolds M❤

Fountain Club Frances Parker McCrary M❤

LaTrelle Blackburn Oliver M❤ 1836 Club Jane Flemister Batten M❤

Ellen Weldon Dukes M❤

Carol Anne Rollins Harrison M❤ Dorothy Hendrix Hope M❤ Rhoda Morrison Joyner M❤ Contributors Marianne Hogsed Baumgartner Eleanor Hagins Bradwell M❤ Iris Carroll Edwards M❤ Charlotte Jolly Hale M❤ Dorothy Rhoden Hicks M❤ Sherry Staples Hubbard M Nancy Glover Kennedy M Rachel Eppehimer Livezey M❤ Ellen Cone Lynn M❤ Ann Yarbrough Mallard Sue Summerhill O’Kelley M❤

Sonya Shipman Otte M❤

Susan von Unwerth Overman M❤ Elizabeth Daves Ream M❤ Sarah Calhoun Savage M❤

Harriet Holland Schmitt M❤

Ruth Dunagan Wood M

1963 Participation: 34.86% Total Annual Fund: $30,135.54 Total All Gifts: $40,135.54 Porter Society Judy Woodward Gregory M❤ Candler Circle Diane A. Lumpkin M Virginia Barber Perkins M❤

Benson Society Nancy Johnson Ballard M Sylvia Maxwell Brown M❤

Anne Valentin Hutcherson Susan Taylor King M❤

Charlotte Thomas Marshall M❤ Lynda Brinks Pfeiffer M❤

Karen Connor Shockley M❤

Fountain Club Margaret Craig Bryant M❤ Fabia Trice Rogers M

Ann Ewing Shumaker M❤

Joyce Brandon Starr M 1836 Club Barbara Johnston Plaxico M❤ Rebecca Bullard Powers M❤ Renate Butler Ryan M❤ Sally Irwin Williams M Contributors Ann Lyn Lightner Allen M Sylvia Hutchinson Bell M Cecilia McDaniel Brock M❤ Beverley B. Butler M❤ Helen Gnann Byars Marian Carter Clark M❤

Elizabeth Wingfield Dick M Donna Smith Harbour M Brenda Hawthorne Heckmann M Linda Quinn Hickman M❤

Mary Goss Hughes M Myra Hicks Korb M Tommie Sue Montgomery-Abrahams M❤ Marion Simmons Perkins Eva Turpin Persons M Shirley Wise Richardson M❤

RoxAnna Arrington Sway Sue Ann Savage Truitt M❤ Rebecca Ward Umphrey M❤ Linda J. Withrow M

1964 Participation: 57.03% Total Annual Fund: $19,496.00 Total All Gifts: $26,046.00 Pierce Society Lorinda Lou Beller M❤

Candler Circle Carol Burt M❤

Gail Thompson Webster-Patterson M❤

Benson Society Dorothy Groh Cutler M❤

Ann McDonald Hurt M❤

Judy McConnell Jolly M❤ Judith Kuhn Schlichter M❤ Fountain Club Patricia Jaeger Williams M❤ Suzanne Gosnell Joye M❤

Linda Eaker Hall M❤ Martha Simmons Woodall M❤ 1836 Club Glenda Barrett Bull M❤

Gayle Pierce Casale Madelaine Mackoul Cosgrove M❤

Nancy Van Aken Marti M❤

Susan Sammons M❤ Elizabeth S. Sims M❤

Martha Clower Thomas M❤ Contributors Barbara Abercrombie M❤

Agnes D. Albright M❤ Emelyn Arnold M❤

Brenda Lee Barclay M❤ Betty Jane Owens Betts M❤ Brenda Jones Bradford M❤ Peggy Pierce Chandler M❤

Joy Cochran M Mary Helen Pope Daniel M❤ Gena Sewell Davidson M❤

Jane Brockinton Earhart M❤

Elizabeth Hartley Filliat M❤ Crystal Hunter Flathman M❤

Rosalyn Moye Forsyth M❤ Mary Russell George M❤ Willanna Anderson Gibbs M❤

Elaine Kaloostian Hall M❤

Ann Lichtenwalter Hernandez M Jane Curry Hinson M❤

Beth Bramblett Hirzel M❤ Gail Smith Hoff M Virginia Mitchell Hutcheson M Susan Lillyman Hyland M❤

Rebecca Johnson Ingram M❤ Emma Jo Jones Ivey M❤ Diana P. Jeffreys M❤

Mary Helen Johnson M❤

* deceased

Paula McWhorter Judd M❤ Glenda Neill Kipp M❤ Betty Sue Williams Levins M Robin Hickman MacCurdy M❤

Virginia Bowen Maier M❤ Frances Strickland Masse M❤ Susan C. Monteith M❤

Andrea R. Moody M❤ Mary Jo Moody M❤

Amy Meyer Orr-Stokes M❤ Carolyn McDonald Parham M Margaret Freeman Patterson M Suzanne Whidden Pennington M❤ Sandra McElroy Preston M❤ Janice Rich Rentz Mary Helen Hall Ringe M❤

Frances Varner Roberts Lucy Guggenheimer Ross M❤ Margaret Mannheim Sease M❤ Lynne Godwin Sikes Harriette James Simmons M❤ Frances White Skoglund M❤ Eileen Mullings Smith M❤ Sally Hutchinson Vermillion M❤ Nancy Filer Waite M❤ Ann Johnson Wild M❤

Linda Maria Willson M❤

Pamela Watkins Young M❤

1965 Participation: 36.49% Total Annual Fund: $40,184.20 Total All Gifts: $105,009.20 President’s Council Jane Johnson Butler M❤ Pierce Society Glennda Kingry Elliott M❤ Olivia Lopez Hartenstein M❤ Sally Eisen Miller M Casey Thurman M❤ Candler Circle Janet Mewbourne Genest M❤

Peggy Likes Miller M❤ Benson Society Carolyn Martin McCrea M❤

Sharon Smith Pizzo M Joanna Looney Reynolds M Trudie Parker Sessions M❤

Carole West Turner Hilda A. Wright M❤

Fountain Club Elizabeth Fuller Barnes Zea M Mary Jane McCarren Brantley M Gloria Dollar Knight M❤ Virginia Mason M❤ Kathryne Meeks Sanders M❤ Jean Webb Tippins M❤

1836 Club Ruth Ellen Philpot Compton M Sally Bone Fay M❤ Margaret Shoemaker Gordon M❤ Silvia Gonzalez Kenneweg M❤ Nancy Middleton Lucia Rosa Young McNairy Mildred E. Neville Margaret Parr-Recard M Lynn Ramsey Stowers M❤ Contributors Sandra Williamson Almy M Jane Chambers Bostwick M Dorothy MacDowell Bowers Sharon Harp Campbell M Judith Joseph Chalhub M Dale Keyser Farran Elizabeth Harman Godbold M❤ Beverly Cross Hall Dianne Dempsey Holman M Leila Watson James M Dottie Kea Johnson Lynda J. Jones M Susan Leonard Janice Parks Mahoney M Nedra Martin Malone M Brenda Freeman Manucy M❤ Susan Cobb Middlebrooks M❤

Sylvia Southard Odom Linda Segler Reynolds M Suzanne Letson Scarbrough M Katherine Champion Smelley M❤

Julia Stancil Stepp M Diane Estrumse Taylor Gail Whittle M❤

Karen Witschi Wight Carol Banks Wilburn M❤

1966 Participation: 22.49% Total Annual Fund: $11,515.00 Total All Gifts: $11,765.00 Candler Circle Elizabeth Gibbons Montis M❤ Benson Society Charlotte Smith Pfeiffer M❤

Jo Bogan Prout M❤ Fountain Club Jo An Johnson Chewning M❤ Virginia Harshbarger Lamback M❤ Patricia Davis Oliver M❤ 1836 Club Beth Childs Brooks M❤

Sandra Lumpkin Bryan Maxine Maddox Dornemann M Catharine Burns Liles M❤

Lucile Adams Mathews M❤

Sandra Bell Shipp M❤

Bonnie Smith Slovis M❤ Dona D. Vaughn M Contributors Joann Roark Arneson M❤

Elizabeth Girlinghouse Bernard M❤ Kathryn Stripling Byer M Marguerite Hall Carter M❤ Mary Thrift Chambers M❤ Barbara Clinton Abbie Howard Dillard M❤ Carol Adams Garland M❤

Suzanne Smith Giddings M Marsha McDonald Godsey Barbara Brubaker Hightower M❤ Dale Pierson Hill M Pamela Easmann Holmes M❤

Darlene Hassler Jackson Virginia Goulding Johnson M❤ Martha McGough Lang Joy Lewis Martin Becky Gleaton Mynatt M❤ Evelyn Fooshe’ Ogden Nancy Rowland Rehberg M❤ Marcel Dworet Rosenbaum M❤ Cathy Bloor Servais M❤ Betty Westmoreland Shuster M❤

Sandra Grist Woods M

1967 Participation: 20.50% Total Annual Fund: $49,673.17 Total All Gifts: $79,673.17 President’s Council Alexis Xides Bighley M❤

Porter Society Suelle M. Swartz M❤

Benson Society Kathleen DeBerry Brungard M Annetta Zimmerman Elliott M Margaret Thompson Monahan M❤ Judith Miller Newbern M❤ Susan Kirvin Ogburn M❤ Helen Harwell Smith M❤ Karen Moore Thomson M❤ Fountain Club Susan Rau Middlebrooks M❤

Harriett Willcoxon Palmer Marilyn A. Vickers M❤ Janie Hudson Williams M❤ Jean Widney Wynn M❤ 1836 Club Elizabeth Veldhuis Green Anne Hilger Manley M❤

Sally Griffie Mehalko M❤

Kasey Carneal Phillips M❤ Contributors

Judith Ragland Armstrong M❤ Sally Farren Benoy M❤

Susan Cooke Bickelhaupt M Flo Williams Douglas M❤ Judy Warren Edwards Charlotte Babcock Ellis Cynthia Wilson Hauth M Gloria L. Kennedy M❤ Helen Neal Kleiber M❤ Elizabeth Heard Mallonee M❤ Kathleen A. Neal Kay Williams New M❤

Anne Telford Parr M❤ Jane Manley Wheeless M Nancy Condes Whitsett M

1968 Participation: 37.22% Total Annual Fund: $33,610.00 Total All Gifts: $40,110.00 Porter Society Jana Witham Janeway M❤ Pierce Society Priscilla Gautier Bornmann M❤

Elizabeth Martin Bunte M❤

Candler Circle Jane Price Claxton M❤

Benson Society Laura Sullivan Barkley M❤

Beverly F. Mitchell M❤

Mary Jo Fincher Plowden M❤

Mary Ann Bateman Spell M Catherine Cushing Thierry M❤ Fountain Club Charlotte Knox Canida M❤ Barbara Batson Ferrell M❤ Andgelia Proctor Kelly M❤ Gail Fulton Murphy M Babs Richardson Pirkle M❤ Lila Teasley Porterfield M Sally Plowden Stevenson M Allyn Ballou Veatch M❤

1836 Club Helen Jackson Burgin M❤

Patty Pearce Cardin M❤ Susan A. Cobleigh M❤ Mary Ann Ward Dudley M❤

Cheryl Grantham Fee M❤ Vicki Page Jaus M❤

Leila K. Kight M❤ Ellen Beard Martin M❤ Geranne Hutchinson Mills M❤

Suzanne Sebring Moncrieff Virginia Hiers Roebuck M❤ Jo Slover Smith M❤ Contributors Kay Hafner Agnew Jane Kappel Ashley Kathryn Pate Atkinson Miriam Adams Atkinson M Rebecca Mathews Beal Eve L. Birmingham M❤ Beth Rogero Bowen M❤ Jan McEachern Carter M Lynn Hays Davis M❤ Eloise Maxwell Doty M Nancy McMeen Freeman M Robin Hood Geisler M❤ Susan Swain Goger M❤ Susan Burr Harris M❤ Lynda Ogburn Hathorn Kristina Cross Hawkins Katherine Dickert Huffstetler M Katherine Wilson Johnson M❤ Virginia Crapps Johnson M❤ Laura Byington Ludman M Cheryl Maund Page M❤ Ruth Anne Gray Randolph M❤ Barkley M. Russell M Carolyn Sayers Russell Martha Pafford Schindhelm M Virginia Larson Schneider M❤ Susan Jones Shulman M❤ Marsha Fernald Sichveland M❤ Judy Floyd Smith Sally Duskin Speckels M

Miriam Tucker Taylor M Nancy Lowe Taylor M❤ Mary Abbott Waite M❤ Diane G. Walker M Ginger Sanders White M❤ Lash Lawton Woodcock M❤ Elizabeth Reith Wyman Judy Weaver Yielding M

1969 Participation: 22.49% Total Annual Fund: $11,707.00 Total All Gifts: $11,757.00 Pierce Society Carol Broome Fraune M Benson Society Suzanne Woodham Juday M❤ Fountain Club Alice Peninger Beasley M❤

Karen D. Garr M❤ Ann Kinnick Keane M❤

1836 Club Sharon Malone Boyd M❤ Lou Ellen Semler Boyes M❤ Mary Beth Taylor Keys M❤

Angela Fulton Kirby M Sally Kohlbacher Oliver M Diana Hall Richardson M❤ Melissa Lane Thomas M Contributors Emily Vardaman Adams M Ann Brown Austin M❤

Dell Hitchcock Bailey M Sandra Eversole Bowman M Ann Reaves Burr M❤ Lucinda Samford Cannon M Dale Parker Craig M❤ Susan Isaacs Dodson M Tricia Pace Fordham M❤

Judith Haisten Gattis M❤

Linda Smith Gregg M Pat Ondo Hurley M❤

Lane Carr Johnson M Betty Hood Lydick M❤ Susan Ewing Maddox M❤

Linda Harper Mattern Susan Lutters Northcutt Gwynn Johnson Polidoro Gloria Garrett Seymour M❤ Ann Beard Shahid M Diane Harrison Smith M Sally Cox Spencer M Dorothy Smith Stewart M Barbara Marble Tagg M Gena Ware Wilson M Nan Pelle Wuller M

1970 Participation: 37.66% Total Annual Fund: $31,253.44 Total All Gifts: $37,753.44 Porter Society Brenda Witham McGinn M❤ Susan Woodward Walker M❤ Benson Society Katherine Arnold Hale M❤ Catherine Gibbons Jost M❤

Patricia Hammock Wall M❤ Fountain Club Suzanne Harris McAliley M❤ May Powell Parks M❤

Ann Scott Terry M Martha J. Thompson M❤ 1836 Club Jan Bull Burgess M❤ Barbara Roland Colwell M Karen Murphy Freeney Jane Ward Gault M Susan Reynolds Gregory Yvonne Dykes Hartig Linda Ennis Johnson M❤ Sally Shingler Kurrie M❤

Carol Crow Lineberger Lynn Lamberton Long Patricia Holcomb Moore Anne Harden Murphy M

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Sally Dietler Murrell M B. J. Molpus Posey M Cassandra M. Poulos Patricia L. Voyles M❤ Contributors Carol Balkcom Barton Mary Ella Gibson Bernard M❤ Patricia Grogan Borders M❤ Judy Oldham Boulay Chris vonLehe Burns M Janet Jones Cagle Kathryn Nettles Clark M❤ Emily Chase Cook M Jan Drury Cox M❤

Anne Braendle Craft Jenny Kopp Curl M Ellen Fling Danner M Glenda Thomas Ellington Margaret Lane Evans Sally Myhand Flannagan Neal M❤ Peggy Persons Fox M❤ Leslie Rumble Frazer-Villers Carolyn Wills Garrard M Kate Goldman Gholston M Lana Tygart Griner M❤ Arlyn Mathews Hawley M Wanda Saltmarsh Hopkins M❤ Charlene Payne Kammerer M Colleen Smith Katsuki M❤ Pamela Buchanan Kent Shirley L. McFadden M Theresa Edwards Millsap M Paula Mansfield Murphy Anne Herndon Oswald M Holly Cunningham Parker Diane Dennington Robertson M Judith Parker Schuler M Patsy Lockhart Schutte M

1971 Participation: 32.58% Total Annual Fund: $26,566.50 Total All Gifts: $30,306.34 Porter Society Susan Pyeatt Kimmey M❤ Pierce Society Gena Roberts Franklin M❤

Benson Society Pamela Henry Pate M❤

Cathy Coxey Snow M❤

Fountain Club Toni L. Jennings Helen Ferguson Zachry M❤

1836 Club Peggy Parrish Hasty M❤ Juanita Gullahorn Rothschild M Kirsten Johansen Welch Contributors Virginia Williamson Almand Cathy Henson Anderson Linda G. Anderson M❤

Shari Richardson Arrington M❤ Rebecca Curtis Basset M❤ Janice Moody Cayton M❤ Marjorie Bowen Graham M❤ Glenda Harkins M Denise Kelly Hart M❤

Deborah Smith Kelly Carolyn Berger Krutoy M❤ Rebecca Edenfield Lingerfelt M❤ Harriett E. Mayo M❤ Derrill Dunn McRae M❤ Kathryn Warren Powell M❤

Carol Rogers Smith M Ellen Traylor Terrell M Martha Yates Thomas Ellen Cobleigh Tomter M Jan Shelnutt Whalen M❤

1972 Participation: 36.76% Total Annual Fund: $10,585.00 Total All Gifts: $16,085.00 Porter Society

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Marsha Witham Whitman M❤ Benson Society Elizabeth Rogers Kelly M❤

Kathleen Propps Langford M Fountain Club Mary Catherine Collins O’Kelley M❤ 1836 Club Kasse Andrews-Weller M Eileen Moffitt Batchelor M Rebecca Jones Brock M❤ Nancy Jackson Osmundsen M❤ Lynn Golson Priester M❤

Contributors Deborah Wedgworth Altman M Joyce Rice Ellison M❤ Jane Farmer Fastje Marianne Graeme Fortuna M❤ Deborah Dye Gigliotti M❤ Susan Mann Kimbrell M Linda Chance Newiger M❤

Sherryl Senna Pollard M❤ Pamela Huston Rosenburg M❤

Linda Mills Sankey Susan McDonald Sheehan M❤ Dianne Searcy Smoot M❤ Janie Shirah Stump M Eileen Vickery Thurmond M❤ Susan Wyllys Wallace Jane R. White M

1973 Participation: 44.44% Total Annual Fund: $9,114.00 Total All Gifts: $9,783.00 Candler Circle Marsha Lynn Christy M❤ Benson Society Carol Bacon Kelso M❤ Margaret M. Mathews M❤ Fountain Club Mary Graham Ponder Foster M❤ Janice A. Mays M❤

Caron Griffin Morgan M 1836 Club Nannette Coco M Kathleen Amidon MacGregor M❤ Contributors Carroll Ricketson Bolton M❤ Deborah Monds Davis M Hale Coble Edwards M❤ Debra Henderson Hoobler M❤

Connie Burkhalter Hood Miriam McElheney Jordan M❤ Lisa T. Kuhn M❤ Elizabeth Lilly M Hazel Mims Mathis M Sara V. McGinnis Katharine Johns Olson M❤ Anne Thornton Reynolds M❤

Patricia H. Ryan M Betty Cook Shull M Virginia R. Slack Jill Gerber Smith M Rebecca Read Sullivan Marsha Brown Thomas M Susan Paul Tyler M Linda Brown Walker M❤

1974 Participation: 19.51% Total Annual Fund: $4,985.00 Total All Gifts: $4,985.00 Candler Circle Martha V. Johnson M❤ 1836 Club Gail Murphy Oden M❤ Margaret Andrews Willis M❤

Contributors Rebecca Watson Dempsey M❤ Laura Hunt Edenfield M❤

Karen Faught Grice Licia Drinnon Jackson M Constance Crauswell Kemph M Patricia Stillwagon Kessler M

Gifts made between July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015

Marian Elliott Lewis M Kathleen Russell Leysath M❤ Beverly Hinely MacMahon M Jessica Hughes Pitts M❤ Debra D. Stockton M Cristina Farkas Williams M Mary Ellen Sheehan Wroble M❤

1975 Participation: 57.61% Total Annual Fund: $64,823.00 Total All Gifts: $85,823.00 President’s Council Ruth A. Knox M❤

Pierce Society Margaret M. Decker Candler Circle Cynthia D. Wright M❤ Benson Society Carolyn Bowman Biggs M❤ Susie Black M❤ Carol A. Goodloe M❤

Virginia Ann Daniel Holman M Millie Parrish Hudson M❤ Margaret Strickland Lovein M Nan G. Maddux M❤ Rita Parker McGarity M❤ Sally Moffett McKenna M❤

Fountain Club Susan Lovette Fischer Dobbyn M Lisa Sherman Hammond M❤

Bonnie Hunter Hunt M❤ Nan Dixon Souma M❤ Judith L. Whitaker M❤ 1836 Club Nancy Wallin Caldwell Beth Sullins Hughes M❤

Karlyn Sturmer M Sandra Davis Townley M❤

Contributors Kay Hickman Beasley M❤ Jean Bargeron Bender M❤ Marina Showalter Chancery Christine Dittmar Cushman Catherine Edgeworth Deans Elizabeth Cariker Guenther Debbie Newby Halicks Yoko Kawarabayashi Hatta Catherine L. Hinman M Linda Taunton Hopkins Barbara Tjia Huang M❤ Harriet Crenshaw Johnson Sister Mary Joseph (Ruth Powers) Eileen Baldau Kimes Mary Coble Kirkley M Elizabeth Brownie Davis Kocher Maggie Harris Lee Mary R. Linger Sherrie J. Love-Drake Richelle McClain M Gloria McIntosh McDonald M❤

Betty Snooks Moses M Helen Dunwody Reichert Kathryn Latta Rivers Deborah Bell Roberds M❤ Douglas Ponder Suto M Barbara A. Swicord Betsy Wakeford Thompson M❤ Sara O’Neal Veatch Marie Harden Westmoreland Jacalyn Street Wilson Janet Eidson Woods M❤

1976 Participation: 31.91% Total Annual Fund: $8,315.00 Total All Gifts: $8,865.00 Benson Society Elizabeth O’Donnell Menkhaus M❤ Fountain Club Virginia Pritchard Ashby M❤

Julie V. Castle Patricia A. Henry M❤

Cynthia H. McMullen M❤

Carrie Anne Parks-Kirby M❤

Debbie Jones Smith M❤ 1836 Club Regina S. Bland M❤ Janet Fletcher Bridges Carolyn Field Hall Eugenia Lee Posey-Marcos M Mary Knight Robinson M❤ Contributors Robyn Sullins Bish M❤

Jane Speir Brook M❤ Melissa Worley Callahan M Barbee A. Dyer Jackie Herron Gilmer M❤ Melinda Poole Gray M Janice Cromer Holbrook M LuAnn Weeks Holden M Dorothy Claytor Jackson Marsha L. Jackson M❤ Frances Smith Kite * Bequest Jane Gardner Preston M Laura M. Sapp Lisa Oldham Sassaman Henrietta Craddock Schoonover M Luelle Parkinson Stubbs Kathleen Walsh Teresa A. Wheeler Nancy Williamson Witek M

1977 Participation: 11.76% Total Annual Fund: $7,435.00 Total All Gifts: $7,435.00 Candler Circle Kathi Hill Goddard M❤

Benson Society Lucia Chapman Carr Linda Haygood Davis M Lynn B. Moses M❤ Fountain Club Beth Holliman Boswell M❤

Contributors Faye A. Burner M❤ Victoria Buxton Cork Berylanne Miner Crutchley Karen Hicks Cummings M❤

Lauren Drinnon Leskosky M❤

1978 Participation: 26.85% Total Annual Fund: $9,805.00 Total All Gifts: $9,805.00 Candler Circle Julie St. John Thornton M❤ Fountain Club Kathy A. Bradley M❤

Laura Shippey Gafnea M Leigh Lambert Goff M❤ Janet Friberg Jarrett M❤

Darla Grinstead McKenzie M Laurinda Murphy Norris M❤ Bryndis W. Roberts M❤ 1836 Club Carol Hindman Butler M Janet L. Keys M❤

Patricia L. Tate M❤ Contributors Janet Rumler Brooks M❤

Anne Shirah Dykes Jeri L. Ellis M❤ Katherine Harvin Gibbs M Virginia Stein Hubbard M❤ Anne Scarborough Hughes M❤

Wendy Coffman MacMahon M Mary McMillan Mancin M❤

Janet Ort M Laura E. Perdue M❤ Catherine Bradach Rockoff M❤

Candice Muehlbauer Shockley M❤ Janet Williams Sills M❤ Rieko Oda Takenaka Dawn Sapp Taylor M Nancy McDonald Terhorst Jacquelyn Veatch Walker M

* deceased

Elizabeth Spivey Wheeler

1979 Participation: 16.30% Total Annual Fund: $3,035.00 Total All Gifts: $3,035.00 Benson Society Sally Anderson Hemingway M❤ 1836 Club Nadine Cheek M❤ Anita E. Marchman M Rebecca Tuten McClain M Marianna Patton Walker M❤

Contributors Jacqueline Webb Bullard M❤ Gail Bacon Ford M❤ Lynne Anthoine Hueglin M❤

Denise Sarver Jewell M❤

Nora Kay Appling King M Theresa L. McKenna M❤ Jeanne Norton Rollberg Catherine Haye Sauter M Jane Durrence Grubb Vaughan M❤ Helen LuAlice Waite M

1980 Participation: 39.81% Total Annual Fund: $22,095.00 Total All Gifts: $22,095.00 Porter Society Hannah L. Allen M❤

Candler Circle Lindsay Lemasters Lewis M❤ Benson Society Janet M. Lawrence M❤

Mary Stephens Malone M❤ Allison McFarland Wilcox M❤ Fountain Club Melinda S. Fraiser M❤ Carol Radke Willard 1836 Club Lisa Martin Darden Susan Shuler Dombrowski M Contributors Lucy Anne Fisackerly Adams Anne Armstrong Marcia Bronson M❤ Aida Bales Chappell M Deena Harrell Cherry M❤ Sandra Davis Cook M Lynn K. Daley M Crystal Bell Davidian M Lisa Bruner Evans Jody Childs Faulkner Jeanne Myers Haslam Shannon Lindsey Hudson M Elaine Wilkes Huffman Donna A. Jackson M❤ Susan Robertson Jaeger Mary L. Johnson Janet Leininger Paula Flannery Lytle Gena Odom Masciello M Carey Cannon McPhail Wende Sanderson Meyer von Bremen M❤ Sally P. Morris Jill I. Myers M Linda Carey Nardotti Laura N. Osoinach Elizabeth Haslam Resch Helen Anne Richards M❤ Kelly Russell M Wanda Maynard Schroeder M❤ Susan Snider M❤ Barbara Georgia Ward Katherine E. Weekes M❤

Diana Jones Williams Robin Winn Wilson M

1981 Participation: 23.94% Total Annual Fund: $6,560.00 Total All Gifts: $6,660.00 Candler Circle

Mary Langel Stults M❤ Benson Society Barbara Beddingfield Magnan M❤ Stephanie E. Parker M❤

Fountain Club Janet Hicks Tweed M 1836 Club Leslie Eberhardt Highsmith Contributors Cynthia L. Cobb M❤

Nanette Shaw Coleman Colleen Brown Gupton Dana Daniel Heard Hilda Cook Hilliard Wendy Jo Mann McAllister Mary Thompson Monfort M❤ Nancy Sinnott Parker Lisa Moorer Stafford Lynne M. White Monique Martin Whorton Donna L. Woods M

1982 Participation: 16.46% Total Annual Fund: $4,200.00 Total All Gifts: $4,200.00 Benson Society Susan L. Holloway M❤ Claudia Crawford Seyle Fountain Club Jennifer Houser Chapin M Suzanne Lorraine Colter M❤

1836 Club Mong-Zang Lin Chang M❤ Lisa DiMuro Gosnell M❤

Contributors Shari Ginster Abney Susan Dempsey Susan Murphree Ebersbach Karen A. Martin M Jennifer Willis Payne M Rebecca Moore Robbins Mary Ellen Skowronek Sutphin M❤

1983 Participation: 20.00% Total Annual Fund: $1,462.00 Total All Gifts: $1,462.00 Fountain Club Ellen Futral Hanson M❤ 1836 Club Peggy Jones Hall M❤ Contributors Cynthia E. Bell-Lee M❤

Laura Alexander Boone M Mary Ann Aiken Fitzgerald M❤ Motomi Kawamura M Anne Elizabeth Koon M Wadra Garner McCullough M❤ Catherine Cross McDonald M❤ Mary Lisa Boyer Millican M❤

1984 Participation: 20.83% Total Annual Fund: $901.00 Total All Gifts: $901.00 1836 Club Loretta L. Pinkston M❤

Contributors Debra McGee Ambrose M Connie J. Averett M Patricia Sterling Brzezinski M❤

Jo Duke M❤

Carol A. Hamrick M Amanda S. Jacobs M Jeanon M. Massien M Becky L. Nelson Thelma Wilson Sexton M

1985 Participation: 28.57% Total Annual Fund: $2,640.00 Total All Gifts: $2,640.00 Fountain Club Rhonda L. Barcus M❤

Teresa Dudek Goodpaster M❤ Elizabeth Powell Key Contributors Lori Alcorn Campbell M❤

Lisa Ahl Duncan M❤

Sheila Belknap Feightner M❤ Michelle Martin Gowan Holly T. Heath M❤

Julie Bowman Kimbrell Ellen Hogle McLemore Sara King Pilger M❤

Stephanie Van Pelt Bern Wallace Laura Hefner Wanamaker Charlotte NeSmith Watson Ann Raines Williamson

1986 Participation: 21.28% Total Annual Fund: $3,565.00 Total All Gifts: $3,565.00 Benson Society Dana Flanders Laster M❤ Fountain Club Janie Chien Golden M Tara Baker Ramsey M❤ Contributors Tammy Mullis Hawkins Celia Hughes Hohnadel Judy Forward Lear Jenny Carswell Stafford Dana Grinstead Tanner M❤

Willett Pearson Waller Merri Hart White

1987 Participation: 9.09% Total Annual Fund: $1,135.00 Total All Gifts: $1,735.00 Fountain Club Carla T. Asbell Dennis M❤ Barbara Roe Wallace M❤ 1836 Club Laura Giles Amos Contributors Leesa Akins Flora M❤ Margaret McKnight Karrh M Lynn Lasseter Prater Lisa D. Shiveler M❤

1988 Participation: 17.74% Total Annual Fund: $4,970.00 Total All Gifts: $4,970.00 Candler Circle Joan Finney Hatcher M Benson Society Verah Dorsey Turner M❤

1836 Club Beth A. Herndon M❤ Rita Mitchell Higgins Lorie Patterson Lanier M Contributors Michele Arduengo Linda Gay Eubanks M❤

Ana N. Fernandez Renee Melton Soeltz M Kathryn Lawrence Spada M Rosalind Evans Weiss M❤

1989 Participation: 15.38% Total Annual Fund: $13,162.00 Total All Gifts: $17,162.00 Porter Society Debbie Stevenson Moses M❤

Candler Circle Geovette E. Washington M❤ Benson Society Mary Beth Brown Swearingen M❤ Fountain Club Tracy Ward Tilley M❤ Contributors Denise Cheek Brown M Kristin N. Claus M❤

Susan Fay Flowers M Cynthia Buchanan Lynch M❤ Tanya R. Wade M Penny Whitley Windham

1990 Participation: 43.02% Total Annual Fund: $8,082.24 Total All Gifts: $8,592.24 Benson Society Helma Wood Clark M❤ Kym Preuss Lukosky M Lori Reese Patton M❤ Fountain Club Natalie Azerraf Gates Amanda F. Harris M 1836 Club Hayley Burch Goldhagen M Pamela R. Sailors M Marla Leonard Stracner Contributors Tammy Sapp Bailey Deborah Hackett Brown M Melissa Adkins Brown M Michelle Vitoria Cato M Jennifer L. Collier Heidi Shannon Cook M Amy McDaniel DeLambo Maria Bejacmar Didier Alice Armitage Fendley Lisa Foster-Morrow M Stephanie Glaser Fowler Sarah Moseley Gardner Ashley Garrett M❤ Tara Joyner Haussler M Theresa Castruccio Hurst M Holly Nichols Jarrell M Terri D. Jones Alis K. Jones Yvette Ramirez Krayer Michelle Carter Messa Kathryn Reumann Mullen M Karene Harron Nebel M❤ June Jordan O’Neal Jill Blackburn Peavy Kelley Smith Powell M Rebecca F. Sage M Wendy Newingham Stanley M❤ Virginia Bowman Wilcox M Angela Kerr Wittmann M

1991 Participation: 32.00% Total Annual Fund: $4,246.00 Total All Gifts: $4,246.00 Benson Society Hope Hahn Shields M❤ Fountain Club Kari Goellner Kitchens M❤ Sheila Taylor Southerland M 1836 Club Cynthia Price Hayes Michelle Toole Westbrook M❤ Contributors Lara Blanchett Carlton M❤ Elizenda M. Ceballos M❤ Katherine S. Compain M❤ Shannon Hurley Ellard Beverly O’Connor Fitzpatrick Teresa Morris Futral M❤ Anna Anderson Hagler Trina L. Hammonds M Cynthia L. Hershey M❤ Beth A. Kargel M❤

Kathy Wagner Marcum Christie Reed Marsh Robyn Miller Schopp M❤ Valecia Patrice Stewart Jamaree Pugh Stokes M Stacey Stanton Walker M Jeanmarie Desmond White Teresa Morgan Wyrick Kristin Van Brero Yashko M

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1992 Participation: 14.13% Total Annual Fund: $2,155.00 Total All Gifts: $2,305.00 Fountain Club Cynthia Costello Busbee M Leslie Avera Noble M 1836 Club Kelley R. Southerland M❤ Contributors Tracy Boyd Awbrey Anne Marie Cordeiro M Beth Riddle Everett Katie S. Garrett M Stephanie G. Harvey Adra Diane Mayhue Johnson M Jennifer A. Johnson M❤

Lianne Navran Kagunda M❤ Charlotte Gray Vasquez M Mary Marcia McMahan Winfrey M❤

1993 Participation: 22.67% Total Annual Fund: $9,495.00 Total All Gifts: $9,495.00 Candler Circle Bonnie Padgett Ramsbottom M Benson Society Barbara Summers Blevins M Melanie Filson Lewis M❤

Cathy Lee Taylor M Fountain Club Jill Kosobucki Moore M Ruth Powell Storts M❤

1836 Club Nyssa Horton Hattaway Alison Charney Hussey M❤ Emily Adams Mowery M Contributors Mary K. Atwood Carrie Melissa Bell M Eileen Gray Booth M Paige Getty Hallie Suber Prince M Cindy Hunnicutt Sams M Leigh Copeland Sayers M Lisa Theiling Stamey

1994 Participation: 23.94% Total Annual Fund: $2,090.00 Total All Gifts: $4,090.00 Benson Society May Morgan Ackerman M❤ Fountain Club Michelle Smith Green M 1836 Club Dora Ward Curry M Melissa Campbell Davis M Contributors Cara Carroll Baity M❤ Jill Hauver Celeste M Elizabeth Bockmiller Ceranowski Michelle Holland Conner M Melissa McKenzie Crowder M❤

Sheila A. Davis Janelle Reynolds Fleming M Tina D. Gann M❤ Jane Carver Kimbrel M❤ Valerie S. Knopik M Nicole H. Licata M Alexis F. Long M Wendy N. Nembhard Melanie Rahn M

1995 Participation: 54.93% Total Annual Fund: $6,510.00 Total All Gifts: $6,510.00 Benson Society Dawn Gochnour Hoffman M Stephanie Lannie Russ-Barber Susan C. Wheelis M❤

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Jennifer Blythe Buchanan M 1836 Club Rebecca Calhoon Haskey M❤ Betty I-May Lo Valerie Lines Sands M Contributors Jennifer Aiello M Catherine H. Atchley M❤ Merry Alicia Barton M❤ Jennifer L. Boere Kim DeMars Marcia T. Fears Keena Hammond Truly A. Hardemon Erinne Guice Hatchett M Sally Hensley Sheree Hollis Beverly D. Howard Roohi Ismail-Khan Mindy Lewis Laborde Nancy L. Lamb M Kea Hoover Mitchell M Margaret Grace Morrison Lori J. Morton Jennifer Shermer Pack M Samantha Ebanks Ramirez Barbara J. Robinson-Gallay Diana Snow Sabo Susan Horton Secord Stacy Bray Shires Tekla M. Slider Stacey Johnson Stone Erika L. Stribling Elizabeth Banowsky Swain M April S. Tucker Tina M. Valdes M❤ Jennifer Watkins Sarah Bradshaw Young

1996 Participation: 34.62% Total Annual Fund: $8,235.00 Total All Gifts: $8,235.00 Pierce Society Deidra West Smith M Benson Society Beth Milstead Wilson M❤ Fountain Club Patrenice Guthrie Thomas M❤ 1836 Club Lisa Hullender Filkins Sherry V. Neal M❤

Contributors Valerie Huron Brewer Sharon Brim Chappelle M❤

Terri Bagwell Cheatham Laura Weems Deitrick Misty Rodriguez Gatland Heather Goodwin Grahek Elizabeth Leaman Hague Katherine Worley Hammes M❤ Michelle McCluney Horgan M Brittany Dixon Jones Heather Preuss Kent Stephanie Miller Kitelynn M Kristin Conley Lamble M❤ Shirley Hendrick Lanford Aimee Morris Lashley M❤

Elizabeth N. Mathis Laura A. Meyer M Melissa English Moore Jena Frazier Passut Yehudi Ben-j Self-Medlin M❤ Peggy Likins Templeman M❤ Keely L. Whittington

1997 Participation: 21.43% Total Annual Fund: $1,455.00 Total All Gifts: $1,455.00 1836 Club Carrie A. Herndon M❤ Teresa A. Lawson M❤ Contributors Monica Hilley Crawford

Gifts made between July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015

Rachel Viets Fortuna M Evelyn Leatherman Griffin Julie Howell Helter Stephanie Pate Lewis M❤ Mary Mitchell McKinnon M❤ Beth Hitt Rogers Kendra Biggs Therrell M Lisa A. Waterman M Maris A. Williams M

1998 Participation: 19.44% Total Annual Fund: $2,120.00 Total All Gifts: $2,120.00 Benson Society Erin M. Dallas M❤ 1836 Club Amanda M. Allen M❤ Contributors Amity G. Bibler Carrie Felguth Boyer Amy Armstrong Carmichael M Jennifer Allen Edwards Brandy M. Hayes M❤ Lisa Bridges Hines Carmen Kypriandes Garcia M❤ Mandy L. Satterfield M Laura Facey Sullivan M Melinda Caspers Thompson Bianca Venuto Towler M Julie Houston Trieste M

1999 Participation: 22.67% Total Annual Fund: $1,496.67 Total All Gifts: $1,496.67 Fountain Club Kathryn Smith Vinson M❤ Contributors Maleia Barry M❤ Heather Beene Booker M Tracie Porter Carmichael M Amanda Avery Renee Cooper M Amy E. Daniels M Carrie Walker Dumm M Odona S. Ezell-Whiddon M Jessica L. Jarman M Yvonne Wiggins Jones M Dana Karstensen-Bryan Mary King Mathis M Michele L. McDuffie M Sarah Marshall Neal Shayna Jordan Pierce M Amy-Christine Vinson Smith M Mary Lynn Johnson Truelove M

2000 Participation: 38.37% Total Annual Fund: $2,015.00 Total All Gifts: $2,015.00 1836 Club Lisa A. Sloben M❤ Contributors Lindsay C. Abernethy M❤ Lareine Danforth Archer Kelly Pharis Baete Julie M. Bailey-Wegner Natalie Burdette Benson Carley M. Carden Mandi Foster Davis Michele Pittman Gellis Amanda Driggers Grau M❤ Margaret Guiberteau Robyn A. Harris Catherine R. Hawkins Caroline Talavera Jacobson Melissa Lockert Lain Shannon McWaters Lyvers Sarah E. Mannle LauraLee Williams McCranie Melissa Graham Meeks M❤ Lisa Wentz Newman Tiffany T. Noell Julissa A. Noyola Rhonda Pierce

Liz McQuilton Rodgers Katie Sadler-Stephenson Leslie Reeves Saltares Jessica D. Salter M Amy R. Stone M Amber M. Velasquez Joya T. Walker M Belinda Buck Wells Cally R. Whiddon M❤ Erin E. Young Sheila E. Williams

2001 Participation: 11.25% Total Annual Fund: $1,670.00 Total All Gifts: $1,670.00 Fountain Club Brandy Morris Kirkwood M❤ 1836 Club Melissa Bowen Brown M❤ Abbie Smoak Lacienski M❤ Contributors Jessica South Bell Jywanya Smith Dillinger M Stephanie L. Dunda M❤ Sophia N. Hall Julia Tolley Harris Andrea Morgan Mendez Tonya Parker Outley

2002 Participation: 19.79% Total Annual Fund: $2,525.00 Total All Gifts: $3,120.00 Benson Society Natalie Puckett Evans M Fountain Club Crystal Rogers Cheyne M Contributors Elsa George Antony Megan Beene Sarah E. Chandler Erin McGavin Dalton Ebony Roberts Ferrell M Erica Herrmann Fluet M Catherine O’Kelley Fore M Chenny Q. Gan M❤ Lorry I. Izula Mpindu M Christina S. Johnson M Jody Swink Miles M❤ Vidal E. Olivares M Patricia Deal Perry M April L. Prince M Priscilla A. Sumerlin Kathryn E. Taylor M Beth A. Williford

2003 Participation: 14.77% Total Annual Fund: $1,158.00 Total All Gifts: $1,158.00 1836 Club Rachel A. Garcia M❤ Contributors Danielle Wiggins Becker M Bonne Boyd Bedingfield M Abbie Brannon Covenah M❤ Virginia E. W. Dicken M Jennifer M. Duello Emily Neal Duke M❤ Tennille Everett-Battle Katharyn E. Hart LaKeisha D. Lowe M Hope McMichael Pendergrass M❤ Sherrie N. Randall M Kathryn Murray Yancey

2004 Participation: 18.58% Total Annual Fund: $2,820.00 Total All Gifts: $10,070.00 Pierce Society Laura V. Knox M Benson Society Julia C. Munroe M

* deceased

Fountain Club Alexandra Aldica Willis M❤ Contributors Jessica F. Bennett Sawyer Bethel Mary Kathryn Borland M Juliana S. Cabrales M Katherine D. Crozier-Theis M❤ Sydney D. Elkin Adriana Forero Jodi Miller Hardee M Devin M. Harris Jennifer C. Howard Kelly L. Jones Emily Dukes LeVan M Amanda Wood Marsh M Erin Zinko McKenna M Sarah L. Shearouse M Mercedes A. Shuler Jessica N. Spurlock M Amanda Gluck Steger M

2005 Participation: 21.74% Total Annual Fund: $2,420.00 Total All Gifts: $2,420.00 Fountain Club Megan A. Quinn M 1836 Club Christine Saunders Forsythe Kristina B. Mendoza Ashling Thurmond Osborne M❤ Contributors Shayla Howard Barron Marnai L. Boose Courtenay Staples Bunn M❤ Lauren Warner Childers Jyoti Danes Coffelt Carolyn Gregory Colyar Kathleen Loski Cummings Erika I. Danner Zenda D. A. Davis M Katie Riggs Freeman Elizabeth Roberts Ingram Heather Poindexter Kennedy Karen L. Kitchens M❤ Lynne Davis Martin Tara M. McAloon Ashley Wheelus McKenna Jessica K. Prince M Recha R. Reid Heather Hughes Walter Kourtney L. Williams Christina Aiken Young M

2006 Participation: 19.67% Total Annual Fund: $4,466.00 Total All Gifts: $4,946.00 Benson Society Amy M. Fletcher M❤ Fountain Club Lindsay Rosenquist Burns Parrish Smotherman Jenkins M❤ Jaime Foxx McQuilkin M 1836 Club Rosemary Harrington Courville M❤ Danielle C. Sawtell M Melanie Reed Williams M❤ Contributors Lauren Hamblin Beaty M❤ Suzzi N. Biller M❤ Cynthia M. Dsauza M Shelly Walden Gable Allyssa M. Green M Mollie Elizabeth Hughes M❤ Brittany Joiner-Lucas Jenna Miller Jones M❤ Amy Moore Martin M Amber Shorthouse McClain Shanita Douglas Miller Christine A. Morana Anna Kelso Pettis Shannon L. Rupp

Petrona N. Salmon Amy E. Smith M❤ Anna Katherine Wherren M

2007 Participation: 10.00% Total Annual Fund: $1,285.00 Total All Gifts: $1,285.00 Fountain Club Dawn Peyton Nash M❤ Contributors Huei-Yu Chen Morgan L. Felts M Cindy M. Fountain Melinda J. Goggans Azekah T. Griffiths M Angela O’Neal Wright M❤

2008 Participation: 18.31% Total Annual Fund: $1,820.00 Total All Gifts: $1,820.00 Fountain Club Carla Ruiz-Ney M 1836 Club Jan Giles Tedders M❤ Stephanie Hood Wittry M Contributors Shih-Yu S. Chen M❤ Catherine E. Dermody M❤ Jessica E. Dermody M❤ Pragna Halder M Hillary M. Jarrett M Kathryn Lassiter Murphy M Pamela C. Pinkston M Angel Feightner Poe M Missy L. Poole M Thuy T. Vo M❤

2009 Participation: 10.34% Total Annual Fund: $1,310.00 Total All Gifts: $1,310.00 1836 Club Lucy I. Guy M Katherine F. Kennedy M Kathy Reese McCollum M❤ Laney J. Turner M Contributors Sylvia C. Abney Pranita Mishra Rudo R. Mudiwa Caroline C. Smith M❤ Ashley L. Success

2010 Participation: 13.54% Total Annual Fund: $1,190.00 Total All Gifts: $1,190.00 1836 Club Rachel A. Fullerton M Helen A. Likins M Contributors Lauren K. Elser Freda Gaines M❤ Silvia Gheorghita Melissa L. Haley Sarah A. Kaplan M❤ Mechelle L. McMullen Sarah A. Ownbey Ankit Pokhrel Kelly M. Scott M Brittney R. Snell Selina C. Snider

2011 Participation: 20.00% Total Annual Fund: $1,805.00 Total All Gifts: $1,805.00 Benson Society Huyen Nguyen Contributors Stacie R. Barrett M Danise L. Bennett M

Shirley E. Blunk M Amber D. Campbell Kellie R. Cauley M Amy Kathleen Clenney M Jaleesa L. Fuller Sarah A. Hudson M Anh Le Jessica Layne Malone Kelly L. Page M Florence D. Priester Tikeren Martin Quinn Sudha Regmi Sadichha Sitaula Priyata Thapa Georgia Belle Thomas M

2012 Participation: 18.42% Total Annual Fund: $2,401.00 Total All Gifts: $2,401.00 Fountain Club Susan Yandle Middleton M 1836 Club Taylor Bishop Deal M Elizabeth W. Herlong Debra Carter Williams Contributors Kelly C. Coquerel Hannah G. Doan M Mary Katherine Dunn Cheyenne E. Foster M Suzzanne R. Griffiths M Marta D. Kurshumova M Samantha B. Lint M Meghan E. Meyer von Bremen Anna J. Plue Chelsea D. Robinson Patricia B. A. Velasco M

2013 Participation: 15.38% Total Annual Fund: $700.00 Total All Gifts: $700.00 Contributors Brittany L. Appelboom M Kendal C. Binion M Chelsea D. Bolton M Catherine Branham Aditi Dey Devyn W. Foti Ashley N. Jackson Francesca K. Landsman Marisa Arnold Pierce M Hannah S. Rawcliffe M Callie H. Rollins Sheila M. Walton

2014 Participation: 15.38% Total Annual Fund: $385.00 Total All Gifts: $385.00 Contributors Ashlee G. Day Jennifer L. Eadie Megan E. Franken Amanda M. Holliday Brittainee R. Lee Paula O. Lockhart Crystal D. Osburn Rachel A. Regan Cara S. Siebert Aaron M. South Esirioghene T. Tasker Mary Eleanor Tilk

2015 Total Annual Fund: $616.00 Total All Gifts: $616.00 Contributors Melissa A. Abraham Ekaterina R. Chernokova-Zaynullina M Christina R. Mayfield Lauren E. Mitchell Rebecca A. Parker

TOP TEN LISTS FOR CLASS GIVING 2015 - 2016 PARTICIPATION 1934 100.00% 1975 57.61% 1964 57.03% 1995 54.93% 1973 44.44% 1990 43.02% 1980 39.81% 1960 38.89% 1955 38.71% 1958 38.60%

GIFTS TO ALL FUNDS

1947 $265,939.66 1956 $114,358.80 1965 $105,009.20 1975 $85,823.00 1958 $83,881.88 1960 $80,446.00 1967 $79,673.17 1963 $40,135.54 1968 $40,110.00 1951 $38,565.40

GIFTS TO ANNUAL FUND 1975 $64,823.00 1967 $49,673.17 1965 $40,184.20 1956 $39,358.80 1947 $35,325.00 1958 $34,939.88 1968 $33,610.00 1970 $31,253.44 1963 $30,135.54 1955 $27,185.00

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Gifts in honor of Barbara Abercrombie 1964 Carol “Moon” Burt 1964 Lindsay C. Abernethy 2000 Heather Poindexter Kennedy 2005 Elizabeth Jane Allen Susan B. and William H. Allen Hannah L. Allen 1980 Susan Woodward Walker 1970 and Otey Walker III Susan B. Allen Carol “Moon” Burt 1964 Julie A. Jones Mary Catherine Collins O’Kelley 1972 Casey Thurman 1965 Susan Woodward Walker 1970 and Otey Walker III Andrea G. Williford

Julie A. Jones Jaime Foxx McQuilkin 2006 Andrea Williford John Albert Bornmann, Jr. * Alexis Xides Bighley 1967 Pris Gautier Bornmann 1968 Eve L. Birmingham 1968 Betsy Martin Bunte 1968 Sherry V. Neal 1996 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Susan Woodward Walker 1970 and Otey Walker III Beth Rogero Bowen 1968 Betsy Martin Bunte 1968 Gloria Boyette 1960 Susan B. Allen Cathy Coxey Snow 1971

Fletcher C. Anderson LuAnn Weeks Holden 1976

Russell C. Bradford Martha Bradford Swann 1947

Jane Kappel Ashley 1968 Betsy Martin Bunte 1968

Kathy A. Bradley 1978 Susan B. Allen Abbie Smoak Lacienski 2001

Jackie Turner Bailey 1962 Carol “Moon” Burt 1964 Dorothy Groh Cutler 1964

Susan Brewer Jody Swink Miles 2002

Brenda Lee Barclay 1964 Carol “Moon” Burt 1964

Beulah Laslie Brinson 1958 Harriet Laslie Reynolds 1962

Natalie Brewton Barfield 1954 Jane Howard Reinmuth 1958

Ellen L. Broach 2000 Susan B. Allen Cathy Coxey Snow 1971

Bettye Withers Barnes 1942 Julianne Withers Roland 1953 Kathleen DeBerry Baskin Kathy DeBerry Brungard 1967 Patricia W. and Thomas L. Bass Jackie Herron Gilmer 1976 Thomas L. Bass Jerome P. Tift Carrie Melissa Bell 1993 Kristin Conley Lamble 1996 Cynthia E. Bell-Lee 1983 Peggy Jones Hall 1983 Wadra Garner McCullough 1983 Kimberly S. Berry Julie A. Jones Andrea G. Williford Alexis Xides Bighley 1967 Susan Pyeatt Kimmey 1971 Ruth A. Knox 1975 Martha Bird Charlotte Babcock Ellis 1967 Eleanor and Bruce J. Bishop Cynthia D. Wright 1975 Emma Leah Booker Heather Beene Booker 1999

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Jane Speir Brook 1976 and Arthur D. Brook Debra J. Brook and Family Laurie Brook Douglas Carolyn Sims Brooks 1956 Arline Atkins Finch 1956 Denise Cheek Brown 1989 Jeanette Loflin Shackelford 1961 Tracy Ward Tilley 1989 Patricia Sterling Brzezinski 1984 Jo Duke 1984 Glenda Barrett Bull 1964 Dorothy Groh Cutler 1964 Helen Domingos Bull Jan Bull Burgess 1970 Sue Sherrill Burdette 1974 Natalie Burdette Benson 2000 Jan Bull Burgess 1970 Suzanne Harris McAliley 1970 Jan Bull Burgess 1970 and Hugh Burgess Sally Shingler Kurrie 1970

Gifts made between July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015

Mary Helen Pope Daniel 1964 Carol “Moon” Burt 1964

Louise Dunaway Burt Carol “Moon” Burt 1964

Mary Davis Courtenay Staples Bunn 2005

Gayle Pierce Casale 1964 Susan B. Allen Cathy Coxey Snow 1971

Whitney A. Davis Julie A. Jones Andrea G. Williford

Marcia Adams Cashin 1959 Artemisia Dennis Thevaos 1952 and Theo Thevaos

Mary Beth Irwin De Brueys 1971 Cathy Henson Anderson 1971

Jill Hauver Celeste 1994 Elizabeth Bockmiller Ceranowski 1994 Nadine Cheek 1979 Jackie Webb Bullard 1979 Deidra D. Donmoyer Andrea Morgan Mendez 2001 Jeanette Loflin Shackelford 1961 Patsy Johnson Childs 1949 Beth Childs Brooks 1966 Jody Childs Faulkner 1980 Helma Wood Clark 1990 Debbie Stevenson Moses 1989 Jane Price Claxton 1968 Joseph E. Claxton

Jane Speir Brook 1976 Debra J. Brook and Family Joanna Buffington and Dean Brook

Mary Kathryn Borland 2004 Abbie Brannon Covenah 2003

Carol “Moon” Burt 1964 Brenda Lee Barclay 1964 Dorothy Groh Cutler 1964 Emma Jo Jones Ivey 1964 Nancy Van Aken Marti 1964 Mary Helen Hall Ringe 1964 Sally Hutchinson Vermillion 1964 Linda Maria Willson 1964

Susan A. Cobleigh 1968 Betsy Martin Bunte 1968 Frances Oehmig Collins 1947 Preston M. Collins, Jr. Mary Catherine Collins O’Kelley 1972 Betty Turner Corn 1947 Emily Dukes LeVan 2004 Mary Ainsworth Mitchell 1947 Betty Turner Corn 1947 and Lovick P. Corn * Polly C. Miller Susan Corn Wainwright

Leila Elizabeth Dasher 1969 Dale Parker Craig 1969 Auburn A. Davidson 2017 Tara Joyner Haussler 1990

Joseph C. Dektor Jywanya Smith Dillinger 2001 Jywanya Smith Dillinger 2001 Vidal E. Olivares 2002 Jane A. Dolan Katharyn E. Hart 2003 Julia C. Drake 2009 Kelly L. Page 2011 Mary Ann Ward Dudley 1968 Elizabeth N. Mathis 1996 Betty Hall Dunn 1947 Pam Henry Pate 1971 Ann Lee Alley Earnshaw 1959 Martha Bielmann Hastings 1952 Merrilyn Welch Eastham 1953 Joyce Ann Loudermilk Richards 1955 Margaret K.* and Robert J. Edenfield Susan B. and William H. Allen Robert J. Edenfield Margaret K. Edenfield * Hale Coble Edwards 1973 Carol Bacon Kelso 1973 Paige Hawkersmith Edwards 1981 Mary Langel Stults 1981

Rosemary Harrington Courville 2006 Toni Harrington Jaime Foxx McQuilkin 2006

Mildred Fincher Efland 1942 Mack Paul Efland III Christopher Efland Orlie

Abbie Brannon Covenah 2003 Patricia C. Brannon DeGuire

C. Edward Eikner Nancy C. Cornett

Ashley Stavran Cryder 2006 Mary Kathryn Borland 2004

Clarice Pittman Elder 1958 Betty Nunn Mori 1958

Kennedy Lee Cryder Mary Kathryn Borland 2004

Glennda Kingry Elliott 1965 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Susan Woodward Walker 1970 and Otey Walker III

Dorothy Groh Cutler 1964 Glenda Barrett Bull 1964 Carol “Moon” Burt 1964 Tovah Dale-Schiller Stefanie A. Bethel 2004

Charisma Enam 2011 Michael J. Parella Lena Bean Enfinger 1967 Cynthia Wilson Hauth 1967

* deceased

Natalie Puckett Evans 2002 Dave Evans

Caroline Oliver Goff 1992 Hope Hahn Shields 1991

Denise W. Holloway Carol Bacon Kelso 1973

C. Steve Farr Alexis Xides Bighley 1967

Alice Childs Golson 1945 Joyce Rice Ellison 1972 Jody Childs Faulkner 1980 Ruth Golson McMichael Lynn Golson Priester 1972

Harrison G. Holson Sheila Nichols McNeill 1960

Sheila Belknap Feightner 1985 Harold Feightner Angel Feightner Poe 2008 Arline Atkins Finch 1956 Linda G. Anderson 1971 Gayle Attaway Findlay 1955 Ann H. Weldon Wesleyan College Alumnae Association Carolyn Dickson Fitzgerald 1967 Cynthia Wilson Hauth 1967 James Fleenor Ruth A. Knox 1975 Jason G. Fleming Janelle Reynolds Fleming 1994 Amy M. Fletcher 2006 Lisa and Van Fletcher Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Roger L. Flora Leesa Akins Flora 1987 Ian Michael Fontsere’ Charlotte Poole Harrell 1956 Evelyn LeRoy Fortson 1952 Olivia and John Fortson Mary Graham Ponder Foster 1973 Carol Bacon Kelso 1973 Devyn W. Foti 2013 Julie A. Jones Andrea G. Williford Vivia L. Fowler Alexis Xides Bighley 1967 Nathaniel Macon Chapter DAR Susan Woodward Walker 1970 and Otey Walker III Gena Roberts Franklin 1971 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Susan Woodward Walker 1970 and Otey Walker III Rachel A. Fullerton 2010 Katie Dunn 2012 Libby Truitt Furlow 1955 Betty Upchurch Hasty 1955 Karen D. Garr 1969 Pam Henry Pate 1971 Ashley Garrett 1990 Jaime Foxx McQuilkin 2006 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Judy Haisten Gattis 1969 Ann Kinnick Keane 1969 Janet Mewbourne Genest 1965 Susan B. Allen Carol “Moon” Burt 1964 Wesleyan Class of 1965 Marsha McDonald Godsey 1966 Jo An Johnson Chewning 1966

Jane Mulkey Green 1942 Mildred Fincher Efland 1942 and Mack P. Efland, Jr. Toma W. and Arnold P. Mulkey, Jr. Elaine Wood Whitehurst 1953 Judy Woodward Gregory 1963 Susan Woodward Walker 1970 and Otey Walker III Eleanor Laslie Griffin 1960 Harriet Laslie Reynolds 1962 Lucy I. Guy 2009 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971

Mary Ann Pollard Houghland 1960 Susan B. Allen Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Mary Ann Howard Julie A. Jones Andrea G. Williford Patricia and Danny Howell Julie Howell Helter 1997 Millie Parrish Hudson 1975 Susan B. Allen Nan G. Maddux 1975 Susan Woodward Walker 1970 and Otey Walker III Andrea G. Williford

Jo Ann Johnson Hahn Hope Hahn Shields 1991

Anne Scarborough Hughes 1978 Mollie Elizabeth Hughes 2006 Jaime Foxx McQuilkin 2006

Linda Eaker Hall 1964 Carol “Moon” Burt 1964

James Wright Hughes Mollie Elizabeth Hughes 2006

Rhonda Helton Hambright 1982 Casey Thurman 1965

Mollie Elizabeth Hughes 2006 Anne Scarborough Hughes 1978 Jaime Foxx McQuilkin 2006

Keena Hammond 1995 Catherine H. Atchley 1995 Ellen Futral Hanson 1983 Kay Watkins Hanson 1961 and Family Marie R. Harrell Deena Harrell Cherry 1980 Rosanne James Harrell 1967 Saralyn H. DeSmet Alaina Avera Harrison 2012, Greg Harrison and Owen Harrison Devyn W. Foti 2013 Joanna Trask Harrison 1967 Kathleen A. Neal 1967 Katharyn E. Hart 2003 Jane A. Dolan David Hawk Juliette Adams Hawk 1957 Susan Hawk Juliette Adams Hawk 1957 Sally Thorp Heath 1957 Holly T. Heath 1985 Helen Freeman Henry 1959 Mary Terrell Mitchell 1959 Jane Epps Henry 1947 Pam Henry Pate 1971 Betsy W. Herlong 2012 David W. Herlong Jane Morgan Hogan 1949 Joyce Rice Ellison 1972 C. Terry Holland Michelle T. Garlington

Betty Smith Jennings 1953 Harriet Shirley Jennings and Horace S. Jennings Katherine Wilson Johnson 1968 Betsy Martin Bunte 1968 Dora Lou Matteson Jones 1946 * Sara van Geertruyden Dwight C. Jones Emily Hancock Bredeson 1949 Jenna Miller Jones 2006 Jaime Foxx McQuilkin 2006 Julie A. Jones Carol “Moon” Burt 1964 Andrea G. Williford Suzanne Spence Joyce 1966 Jo An Johnson Chewning 1966 Mary Cordes Kelley 1939 Barbara Davis Morgan 1939 Carol Bacon Kelso 1973 Susan B. Allen Medra Lott Keyser 1958 Nina Sheppard Terrell 1958 Anne Morrison Killebrew 1946 Karen Faught Grice 1974

Norma Mullings Hunt 1961 Sandra Combs Lewis 1961

Susan Mann Kimbrell 1972 Eileen Moffitt Batchelor 1972

Betty S. Hurdle Gini Harshbarger Lamback 1966

Susan Pyeatt Kimmey 1971 Gena Roberts Franklin 1971 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971

Betty S. and William H. Hurdle * Claudia Crawford Seyle 1982 and David Seyle William H. Hurdle * Lindsay C. Abernethy 2000 Natalie Puckett Evans 2002 Christy Henry Abbie Smoak Lacienski 2001 Elsie Beall Huston Pamela Huston Rosenburg 1972 Emma Jo Jones Ivey 1964 Carol “Moon” Burt 1964 Catharine Burns Liles 1966 Kate Swann Ivey Martha Bradford Swann 1947 Linda Jarrard Lisa Ahl Duncan 1985 Janet Friberg Jarrett 1978 Louise H. and Richard E. Friberg Hillary M. Jarrett 2008 Vicki Page Jaus 1968 and Harold “Hal” Jaus Betsy Martin Bunte 1968 Jennifer Y. Jenkins 2003 William R. Jenkins Parrish Smotherman Jenkins 2006 Mary Kathryn Borland 2004 Jaime Foxx McQuilkin 2006

Bob King Beth A. Williford 2002 Patricia Pollard Kinnett Susan B. Allen Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Dorothy Meadows Knox and Robert E. Knox, Jr. David E. Hearin Ruth A. Knox 1975 Susan B. Allen Carol “Moon” Burt 1964 Lynn Carithers Nancy S. Cole A. Donald Faulk, Jr. Vivia L. Fowler Gena Roberts Franklin 1971 Andrea Morris Gruhl 1961 Denise W. Holloway Virginia Ann Daniel Holman 1975 Carol Bacon Kelso 1973 Andrew H. Knox Pat Rimmer Knox-Hudson 1958 Larrie Del and Joseph G. Martin, Jr. LaTrelle Blackburn Oliver 1962 Joyce Paris 1954 Stephen A. Reichert Claudia Crawford Seyle 1982 and David Seyle Lisa L. and G. Mason White Janet Eidson Woods 1975 Anita Korosec Christine A. Morana 2006

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Leslie Thomson Kravet 1991 Hope Hahn Shields 1991

Ellen Beard Martin 1968 Betsy Martin Bunte 1968

Joyce Miles Jody Swink Miles 2002

Susan Pyeatt Kimmey 1971 Ruth A. Knox 1975

Elizabeth Dillard Kuipers 1992 Abbie Howard Dillard 1966

Molly M. Martin Beverly B. Martin

Paul F. Miller, Jr. Daniel Miller

Rose Pietrogallo Teresa A. Lawson 1997

Abbie Smoak Lacienski 2001 Jennifer L. and Dana L. Smoak

Monty T. Martin Carol “Moon” Burt 1964 Julie A. Jones Andrea G. Williford

Shanita Douglas Miller 2006 Mary Kathryn Borland 2004 Jaime Foxx McQuilkin 2006

James C. Pippin * Artemisia Dennis Thevaos 1952 and Theo Thevaos Mary Jo Fincher Plowden 1968 W. Warren Plowden, Jr.

Christina R. Mayfield 2015 Lisa P. and David C. Mayfield

Beverly F. Mitchell 1968 Susan B. Allen Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Casey Thurman 1965 Susan Woodward Walker 1970 and Otey Walker III

Olivia Eugenia Mayfield Louise Cochran Mayfield 1950

Lisa and John T. Mitchell, Jr. Mary Terrell Mitchell 1959

Jane Kollock McCall 1946 Joyce Rice Ellison 1972

Mary Terrell Mitchell 1959 Kea Hoover Mitchell 1995

Sharon Leslie-Bruce Christine Saunders Forsythe 2005

Frances Callaway McCommon 1947 Pam Henry Pate 1971 Claire M. and G. Boone Smith III

Mary Thompson Monfort 1981 Ellen Futral Hanson 1983

Jeannie Futch Lewis 1977 Eleanor Thompson Futch Rosen 1957

Kate McCormick Mary Ann Fitzgerald Blackwell 1953

Martha Bell Lewis 1960 Gloria Boyette 1960

Rita Parker McGarity 1975 Nan G. Maddux 1975 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971

Eleanor Adams Lane 1958 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Shirley Hendrick Lanford 1996 Laudis H. Lanford Megan E. Layne 2016 Jessica Layne Malone 2011 Martha and Cliff Leonard Marla Leonard Stracner 1990 Lauren Drinnon Leskosky 1977 Licia Drinnon Jackson 1974

Melanie Filson Lewis 1993 Alison Charney Hussey 1993 Tracy Ward Tilley 1989

Shirley Haile McGee 1964 Lucy Guggenheimer Ross 1964

Ihsuan Li Anh Le 2011

Ashley Wheelus McKenna 2005 Sally Moffett McKenna 1975

Elizabeth Lilly 1973 Carol Bacon Kelso 1973

Erin Zinko McKenna 2004 Sally Moffett McKenna 1975

Yvonne Grant Lindsey 1959 Shannon Lindsey Hudson 1980

Sally Moffett McKenna 1975 Mary Catherine Collins O’Kelley 1972

Debbie Hall Loftiss 1971 Gena Roberts Franklin 1971

Martha Weaver McKenzie 1944 * and Emmet “Doonie” McKenzie * Susan Corn Wainwright

Alexis F. Long 1994 Elizabeth Bockmiller Ceranowski 1994 Richard H. Lowrance Susan B. Allen Elizabeth Wilson Lowry 1955 * Betty Upchurch Hasty 1955 Diane A. Lumpkin 1963 Alexis Xides Bighley 1967 Betty Hood Lydick 1969 Ruth White Fruit 1954 Margaret Thrower MacCary Susan B. Allen Susan Woodward Walker 1970 and Otey Walker III

Mary Margaret Woodward McNeill 1960 Susan B. Allen Kay Carroll Barnes 1960 Gloria Boyette 1960 Louise Williams Chapin 1960 Judy Woodward Gregory 1963 Tena N. Roberts 1960 Betsy Palmer Smith 1960 Susan Woodward Walker 1970 and Otey Walker III Kate Stickley Watson 1960 Ginger Sumerford York 1960 Derrill Dunn McRae 1971 Pam Henry Pate 1971 Mary Standifer Meadors 1945 Virginia Martin Lawrence 1945

Kathleen Amidon MacGregor 1973 Carol Bacon Kelso 1973

Andrea Morgan Mendez 2001 Abbie Smoak Lacienski 2001

Dorothy DuPuis Mackin 1938 Mitzi, John, Helen, Bob Jane, Ann and Lawrence Williams

Glenna A. Meyer Alison E. Evans

Keshika Nadesha Marambe 2018 J. Milton Heard IV Marietta First United Methodist Church Bianca Venuto Towler 1998

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Ginny Mason 1965 Kathy Arnold Hale 1970

Alex Middlemas Martha Carter Middlemas-Bryant 1958 Jody Swink Miles 2002 Natalie Puckett Evans 2002

Gifts made between July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015

Mary Jo Moody 1964 Susan B. Allen Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 April Moore Amy Moore Martin 2006 Caron Griffin Morgan 1973 Carol Bacon Kelso 1973 Betty Nunn Mori 1958 Betty Smith Jennings 1953 Mary Morris Teresa Morris Futral 1991 Margaret Grace Morrison 1995 Teresa Morris Futral 1991 Debbie Stevenson Moses 1989 Ann and James L. Moses Jan Gay Munn 1953 Merrilyn Welch Eastham 1953 Claire Michaels Murray 1952 Artemisia Dennis Thevaos 1952 and Theo Thevaos Virginia Caldwell Musser 1983 Juliana Hardeman Caldwell 1961 Camilla Cotton Myhand 1946 and Curtis Myhand Mary Terrell Mitchell 1959

Sherryl Senna Pollard 1972 DeRon McCurdy Senna 1952 Elizabeth Reed Pucket 1981 * Beth A. Kargel 1991 Amy V. Rauls Susan Pyeatt Kimmey 1971 Anne Thornton Reynolds 1973 Carol Bacon Kelso 1973 Mary Lou Ridge Jody Swink Miles 2002 Mary Helen Hall Ringe 1964 Carol “Moon” Burt 1964 Chelsea Robbins Lisa DiMuro Gosnell 1982 Bryndis W. Roberts 1978 William R. Jenkins Beth Hitt Rogers 1997 Stephanie Pate Lewis 1997 Julianne Withers Roland 1953 Bettye Withers Barnes 1942 Sylvia L. Ross 1992 Nadine Cheek 1979 Carolyn Field Hall 1976 Jamie Runyon Jody Swink Miles 2002 Stephanie Lannie Russ-Barber 1995 Susan C. Wheelis 1995 Danielle C. Sawtell 2006 Stephanie Hood Wittry 2008 Joyce Reddick Schafer 1955 Betty Upchurch Hasty 1955 Claire Amy Schultz 2006 Jaime Foxx McQuilkin 2006

Mary Catherine Collins O’Kelley 1972 Frances Oehmig Collins 1947

Jeanette Loflin Shackelford 1961 Denise Cheek Brown 1989

Martha McCorkle Osoinach 1954 Laura N. Osoinach 1980

Judith Lewis Shackleford Susan B. Allen

Mrs. Cevin Owens Jody Swink Miles 2002

Swechhya Shrestha 2013 Michael J. Parella

Pam Henry Pate 1971 Karen D. Garr 1969

Harriette James Simmons 1964 Carol “Moon” Burt 1964

Lora Tolley Peppard 1998 Julia Tolley Harris 2001

Sissy S. Sims 1964 Carol “Moon” Burt 1964

Anna Kelso Pettis 2006 Carol Bacon Kelso 1973

The Sissies Leslie Avera Noble 1992

Lynda Brinks Pfeiffer 1963 Alexis Xides Bighley 1967

Frances White Skoglund 1964 Dorothy Groh Cutler 1964

* deceased

Cate Smead The Towlers

Martha Yates Thomas 1971 Linda G. Anderson 1971

Wesleyan Class of 1957 Juliette Adams Hawk 1957

Betsy Palmer Smith 1960 Nancy Reeder Akins 1960 Louise Williams Chapin 1960 Dee Bray Joiner 1960 * Kate Stickley Watson 1960

Melissa Lane Thomas 1969 Pam Henry Pate 1971

Carolyn Eunice Partin Smith 1932 Jackie Smith Lineberger 1961

Casey Thurman 1965 Susan B. Allen Carol “Moon” Burt 1964 Nola Frink Rosa Young McNairy 1965 Janet Ort 1978 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971

Wesleyan Class of 1960 Green Knights Juliet Singletary Coleman 1960 Carol Inman Heyward 1960 Lydia Jordan Hickam 1960 Mary Margaret Woodward McNeill 1960

Debbie Jones Smith 1976 Julie A. Jones Susan Woodward Walker 1970 and Otey Walker III Andrea G. Williford Helen Harwell Smith 1967 Marilyn A. Vickers 1967 Karin Fulford Smithson 1992 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Jennifer L. and Dana L. Smoak Abbie Smoak Lacienski 2001 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Susan B. Allen Linda G. Anderson 1971 Carol “Moon” Burt 1964 Mary Ann Howard Julie A. Jones Jaime Foxx McQuilkin 2006 Pam Henry Pate 1971 Casey Thurman 1965 Frances Bruce Van Horn 1953 Susan Woodward Walker 1970 and Otey Walker III Andrea G. Williford Maria Kristina Stanley 2006 Jaime Foxx McQuilkin 2006 Loutricia Carter Stephens 1964 Dorothy Groh Cutler 1964 Nancy Christian Stokes 1966 Elsie Carmichael Boyd 1944 Ruth Powell Storts 1993 Melanie Filson Lewis 1993 Leslie Bradford Sullivan Martha Bradford Swann 1947 Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Swann III Martha Bradford Swann 1947 Mr. and Mrs. F. Bradford Swann Martha Bradford Swann 1947

Karen Moore Thomson 1967 Carol “Moon” Burt 1964

Reba Thurmond 1957 Joan Maddox Sammons 1957

Wesleyan Class of 1961 Ermine M. Owenby 1961 Wesleyan Class of 1963 Judy Woodward Gregory 1963 Donna Smith Harbour 1963

William F. Toole 1949 Artemisia Dennis Thevaos 1952 and Theo Thevaos

Wesleyan Class of 1964 Green Knights Susan C. Monteith 1964 Andrea R. Moody 1964 Sissy S. Sims 1964

Mary Eva Mitchell and Craig Tredway Mary Terrell Mitchell 1959

Wesleyan Class of 1965 Glennda Kingry Elliott 1965 Beverly Cross Hall 1965

Amy Starrett Turner 2001 Stephanie L. Dunda 2001

Wesleyan Tri K Class of 1965 Beverly Cross Hall 1965

Angela Weddington Varisco 2001 Abbie Smoak Lacienski 2001

Wesleyan Class of 1968 Susan Swain Goger 1968 Vicki Page Jaus 1968 Jo Slover Smith 1968

Sally Hutchinson Vermillion 1964 Carol “Moon” Burt 1964 Brandi Vorhees Julie A. Jones Andrea G. Williford Linda Brown Walker 1973 Carol Bacon Kelso 1973 Pam Henry Pate 1971 Stacey Stanton Walker 1991 Hope Hahn Shields 1991 Susan Woodward Walker 1970 Susan B. and William H. Allen Judy Woodward Gregory 1963 Susan Pyeatt Kimmey 1971 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Pat Hammock Wall 1970 Julia G. Baldwin Heather Hughes Walter 2005 Jaime Foxx McQuilkin 2006 Jody Swink Miles 2002

Wesleyan Class of 1970 Jenny Kopp Curl 1970 Wesleyan Class of 1972 Green Knights Elizabeth Rogers Kelly 1972 Wesleyan Class of 1976 Eugenia Posey-Marcos 1976 Jane Gardner Preston 1976

Wesleyan College Theresa Castruccio Hurst 1990 Donna L. Woods 1981 Wesleyan College Physical Plant Susan B. Allen Wesleyan Sisters/My Wesleyan Girls Melanie Filson Lewis 1993 Keely L. Whittington 1996 Norman Benjamin West, Jr. Patrenice Guthrie Thomas 1996 Susan C. Wheelis 1995 Stephanie Lannie Russ-Barber 1995 Anna Katherine Amacker Wherren 2006 Jaime Foxx McQuilkin 2006 Anna Katherine Amacker Wherren 2006 and Dan Wherren Jaime Foxx McQuilkin 2006 Nell G. Williams Kay Williams New 1967 Andrea G. Williford Susan B. Allen Carol “Moon” Burt 1964 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Susan Woodward Walker 1970 and Otey Walker III Grier Williford Lawrence B. Williford Linda Maria Willson 1964 Carol “Moon” Burt 1964 Patricia M. Wilson Jaime Foxx McQuilkin 2006 Bertram H. Witham Brenda Witham McGinn 1970

Wesleyan Class of 1985 Julie Bowman Kimbrell 1985 Ellen Hogle McLemore 1985

Marla P. Wood 1983 Susan B. Allen Cathy Coxey Snow 1971

Wesleyan Class of 1991 Golden Hearts Cynthia L. Hershey 1991

Lash Lawton Woodcock 1968 Carroll A. Walker

Wesleyan Class of 1992 Green Knights Anne M. Cordeiro 1992 Wesleyan Class of 1999 Golden Hearts Tracie Porter Carmichael 1999 Michele L. McDuffie 1999

Mary Gene Baldwin Woodland 1951 Artemisia Dennis Thevaos 1952 and Theo Thevaos Naaman J. Woodland, Jr. * Artemisia Dennis Thevaos 1952

Martha Bradford Swann 1947 Frances Callaway McCommon 1947

Heather Hughes Walter 2005 and Nora Kathleen Walter 2033 Rosemary Harrington Courville 2006

Mabel Swink Jody Swink Miles 2002

Carol Hopkins Ward Tracy Ward Tilley 1989

Wesleyan Class of 2000 Equestrian Team Kelly Pharis Baete 2000

Fern Tallent Jody Swink Miles 2002

Virginia Broome Waterer 1942 * and John Anthony Waterer Bettye Withers Barnes 1942

Wesleyan Class of 2001 Red Pirates Jessica South Bell 2001

Hilda A. Wright 1965 Susan B. Allen Beverly F. Mitchell 1968 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Casey Thurman 1965

Helen Proctor Morris Watson 1946 Libba Cook Smith 1949

Wesleyan Class of 2003 Kathryn Murray Yancey 2003

Chin Yao Betty I-May Lo 1995

Mary Towers Weese 1966 Jo An Johnson Chewning 1966

Wesleyan Class of 2006 Purple Knights Jaime Foxx McQuilkin 2006

Ginger Sumerford York 1960 and Guy York Susan B. Allen Cathy Coxey Snow 1971

Laura Shull Tarman 2003 Bonne Boyd Bedingfield 2003 Philip D. Taylor Karen L. Kitchens 2005 Stephanie E. Taylor Diane Estrumse Taylor 1965 Ann Scott Terry 1970 Jan Bull Burgess 1970

Wesleyan Class of 1952 Pat Murphy Persinger 1952

Wesleyan Class of 2010 Purple Knights Sarah A. Ownbey 2010

Martha Jean Laslie Woodward 1954 Harriet Laslie Reynolds 1962

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Gifts in Memory of Hazel G. Redfearn Adams Juliette Adams Hawk 1957 Nicholas Adams Lucy Anne Fisackerly Adams 1980 Sharon Stubbs Adams 1968 Nancy Rowland Rehberg 1966 Amelia A. Alderman 1975 Carolyn Bowman Biggs 1975 Nan Edwards Allen 1946 Richard Allen Nellie and Willis I. Allen Hannah L. Allen 1980 Percy Dexter Allen, Jr. Susan B. Allen Glenda Jo Giles Amos 1957 Joann and Carl S. Albritton Joy L. and Larry Albritton Brick, Donna, Bruce and Daisy C. Barnes Carolyn and W. A. Bone Elaine Bone Marie and C. Taylor Bone Sylvia Maxwell Brown 1963 Bob T. Cochran, Jr. Peggy and E. Douglas Culverhouse, Jr. and Baylee Don Jones Construction Co., Inc. Eloise Maxwell Doty 1968 and Bill Doty Vivia L. Fowler Carol Groover Eugenia and Samuel J. Henderson Mr. and Mrs. John W. Jarrell Betsy H. and Ronny R. Jones Eleanor Adams Lane 1958 Pat and Daniel H. Ogletree Gay G. Sheldon Debbie Jones Smith 1976 Lynn and Dale Thaxton Tom L. Theus R. Parks Towns Deena and M. Todd Walton Bessie Dean Andrews Kasse Andrews-Weller 1972 Betty M. and Sandy W. Andrews Margaret Andrews Willis 1974

Joseph Coco Carol Bacon Kelso 1973 Linda Brown Walker 1973

Carol Blazer Sandra B. Baskin

Annie Hyer Coleman 1886 Betty Smith Addison 1951

Ruth Blitch Julia C. Munroe 2004

Lula Johnson Comer Betsy Comer Clark 1956

John Albert Bornmann, Jr. Susan B. Allen Eve L. Birmingham 1968 Glennda Kingry Elliott 1965 Susan Pyeatt Kimmey 1971 Ruth A. Knox 1975 Sherry V. Neal 1996 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Wesleyan College Alumnae Association

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Cook Autumn Cook Ireland 1954

Susan Lowe Borucki 1971 Harriett E. Mayo 1971 John Bostwick III Jane Chambers Bostwick 1965 Margaret Wilson Boswell 1964 Pam Watkins Young 1964 John B. Bowdre Mary Lane Edwards Hartshorn 1949 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971

Cecil G. Brown, Jr. Ann Brown Austin 1969

Marguerite Farrar Deas Gerry Farrar-Thomas 1947

Grace Lewis Brown Susan B. Allen Edward W. Burke, Jr. Julia Struby Burke 1947 Carren Brantley Burnell Mary Jane McCarren Brantley 1965 Mary Jean Campbell 1963 Karen Connor Shockley 1963

Helene Andrews Arrington 1945 RoxAnna Arrington Sway 1963

Sara and Peyton Champion Katherine Champion Smelley 1965

Betty Gragg Austin 1942 Susan Gragg Cash 1949

Charles Davenport Champlin Ruth A. Knox 1975

Adrienne Thompson Bailey 1952 Robin Chesney Hopkins 1951

Lucia Domingos Chapman 1948 Betty Jo Watson Bowdre 1949 Lucia Chapman Carr 1977

Vivian Majors Bird 1930 Barbara Bird McLendon 1960

Claire Hammond Davis 1960 Kathy D. Linford

Katrina Goellner Dean 1993 Kari Goellner Kitchens 1991 Robyn Miller Schopp 1991

Dorothy Spearman Chambers 1928 Jane Chambers Bostwick 1965

Eleanor and Morris Beller Lorinda Lou Beller 1964

James Walter Wright Daniel Betty Daniel Robinson 1949

Caroline Hopkins Brown 1952 John P. Brown

McAlpin H. Arnold Susan B. Allen

Virginia Callaway Beckmann 1949 Frances Callaway McCommon 1947

Dorothy McSherry Cushing Cathy Cushing Thierry 1968 and George F. Thierry Judy Weaver Yielding 1968

Karen Davis 1970 Patsy Lockhart Schutte 1970

Harriet Moore Cauthorn 1971 Janice Moody Cayton 1971

Mary Launius Beauchamp 1949 Richard Harmon Beauchamp

Carole A. Cushing 1964 and Dorothy Cushing Judy Weaver Yielding 1968

Irene Neal Brewer 1935 Catherine I. Brewer

Katherine Hall Arnold 1937 Kathy Arnold Hale 1970

James Stanford Barfield Cathy Coxey Snow 1971

Estelle Lee Cromley 1912 Linda Harper Mattern 1969

Colleen Sharp Davis 1924 James S. Davis

Eugene O. Cashin Artemisia Dennis Thevaos 1952 and Theo Thevaos

Sara and Hobart Ballou Allyn Ballou Veatch 1968

Mary Barber Cox 1952 Ruth A. Knox 1975

Frances and F. Don Bradford Martha Bradford Swann 1947

Dorothy Herndon Arnold 1945 McAlpin H. Arnold *

Geneva Davidson Baird 1944 S. Carol Baird

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Elizabeth Gill Blalock 1929 Betty Blalock Butler 1959 Bebe Blalock Littles 1961

Debbie Jackson Chasteen 1980 Jeanne Myers Haslam 1980 Gayle Clark 1968 Virginia Goulding Johnson 1966 Kirbi Clark Lindsey T. Hubbard Cecil Douglas Clawson Tracy Ward Tilley 1989 and Wright Tilley Elizabeth Stephenson Clayton 1926 Edgar H. Clayton III Mary Gray Munroe Cobey 1934 Mary Margaret Woodward McNeill 1960

Gifts made between July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015

Lynn Branton Delong 1973 Marsha Lynn Christy 1973 Miriam McElheney Jordan 1973 Janice A. Mays 1973 Becky Read Sullivan 1973 Linda Brown Walker 1973 Maria Demopoulos and Harry Filipou Dennis Artemisia Dennis Thevaos 1952 and Theo Thevaos Nicole Keller Derrick 1994 Jill Hauver Celeste 1994 Mary H. Dillard Ashley Crosby Miller Clayton N. Doty Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Karen Brewton du Sapin 1964 Mary Russell George 1964 Jessica Plapinger DuVall 1968 Susan Swain Goger 1968 Linda Ennis Johnson 1970 B.J. Molpus Posey 1970 Elizabeth Pittman Dux 1970 Judy Oldham Boulay 1970 Patsy Lockhart Schutte 1970 Mary Lane and Harry Stillwell Edwards Mary Lane Edwards Hartshorn 1949

Dorothy Launius Ewing Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Gwynn Fain Hart Carol Bacon Kelso 1973 Betty Anderson Farkas 1942 Cristina Farkas Williams 1974 Charles Farr Vivia L. Fowler Catherine W. and Sumner T. Farren Sally Farren Benoy 1967 Annie Dortch Pitman Fincher Mildred Fincher Efland 1942 Cuyler W. Findlay Wesleyan College Alumnae Association Judith Lang Fischer 1967 Cynthia Wilson Hauth 1967 Annie Lou Lovett Fletcher Lisa and Van Fletcher Rob Fortuna Marianne Graeme Fortuna 1972 Hazel Mims Mathis 1973 Betty Clower Fowler 1968 Martha Clower Thomas 1964 David Earle Fulton Autumn Cook Ireland 1954 Archibald Gall Linda Carey Nardotti 1980 Jeanne Marie Farrar Gardner 1953 Gerry Farrar-Thomas 1947 Frances Mahone Gavin 1950 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Ruth Dunkin Gellerstedt 1920 Jeanne Gellerstedt Hicks 1950 Kathrine King Gering 1970 Arlyn Mathews Hawley 1970 Lynn Lamberton Long 1970 Anne Herndon Oswald 1970 Cassandra M. Poulos 1970 George W. Gignilliat, Jr. Marybelle Proctor Menzel 1962 Jane Powers Weldon 1959 Eugenia Toole Glover 1949 and Mortimer W. Glover III Artemisia Dennis Thevaos 1952 and Theo Thevaos Carol Anne Golden 1967 Cynthia Wilson Hauth 1967 Anne Koon 1983 Thomas F. Gossett Helen Poole Fontsere’ 1959 Carole Jones Graham 1965 Janice Parks Mahoney 1965 Mary Laslie Grodner 1955 Beulah Laslie Brinson 1958 Harriet Laslie Reynolds 1962 Martha Jean Laslie Woodward 1954 Louis K. and Ruth J. Groh Dorothy Groh Cutler 1964 Sarah Beverly Gunter Gulley 1967 Flo Williams Douglas 1967

Ann Walker Elliott 1953 Barbara Walker Coburn 1954

Mae Eason Hall 1946 Diana Hall Richardson 1969

Donald C. Eubanks Susan B. and William H. Allen

Alice Ann Hamilton 1953 Ann Harrell Saunders 1953

Sylvia Crum Evans 1954 Barbara Walker Coburn 1954 Ruth White Fruit 1954 Joyce Paris 1954 Martha Jean Laslie Woodward 1954

Roslyn Atkinson Harden 1949 Francina Brock Kern 1949 Marilyn and James Harris Amanda F. Harris 1990

* deceased

Frances Cobb Hart 1951 James W. Hart Hilda Harvey Kathy A. Bradley 1978 Nancy McDonald Terhorst 1978 Mary Pate Hatfield 1948 and Russell W. Hatfield William C. Wyatt, Jr. * Judy Hay Emily Hancock Bredeson 1949 Petrona Garrard Humber Hean 1912 Liz Hean Stone 1948 Marie Eads Burch Hendrix Dorothy Hendrix Hope 1962 Mary Louise Kollock Henry 1943 Beverly Burgess Meadors 1946 and Mort Meadors Esther Kim Herr 1922 David M. Hyun Herbert C. Herrington 1945 Hannah L. Allen 1980 Margaret Frances Quarles Hinely 1958 Martha Payne Mitchell 1957 Martha Newsome Hines 1887 Betty Sweet Simmons Ladson, William P. Simmons, Jr., and Charles S. Simmons Essa Churchwell Holland Sonya Shipman Otte 1962 Nancy Williams Holliman 1954 Beth Holliman Boswell 1977 and Glenn C. Boswell, Jr. Stephanie Harmon Holt Hazel Mims Mathis 1973 Sandra M. Holton Deena Harrell Cherry 1980 Sharon Ann Evans Holton 1991 Nyssa Horton Hattaway 1993 Michelle Leukhardt Holton 1993 Lamar E. and Charles Monty Hood, Jr. Robin Hood Geisler 1968 Virginia Fruit Hood Betty Hood Lydick 1969 Elizabeth Wade Howard 1953 Carolyn Wade Barry 1959 Jean Tatum Hudson Janie Hudson Williams 1967 Linda Marie Hughes 1984 Celia Hughes Hohnadel 1986 Frances Perry Garrard Humber 1892 Liz Hean Stone 1948 Robert E. Hunter, Jr. Trudy Wilson Topolosky 1956 * William H. Hurdle Hannah L. Allen 1980 Susan B. Allen Carolyn and William H. Anderson II Cynthia H. and J. Randy Autry Julia G. and Cecil A. Baldwin, Jr. Patricia W. and Thomas L. Bass Lauren Hamblin Beaty 2006 Kimberly S. Berry Alexis Xides Bighley 1967 Martha and David Brumbeloe Kayla M. Butler 2014 Betty Claire Manning Clark 1961 Linda M. and Charlie E. Cloaninger Gail Coogle Jon L. Coogle Abbie Brannon Covenah 2003 Taylor Bishop Deal 2012 Anne H. Dennard Carolyn Kennedy and Rayford Dominy Anne Shirah Dykes 1978 Margaret K.* and Robert J. Edenfield Glennda Kingry Elliott 1965

Kel-Ann S. and James Eyler Gayle Attaway Findlay 1955 Catherine O’Kelley Fore 2002 Cheyenne E. Foster 2012 Vivia L. Fowler Gena Roberts Franklin 1971 and George W. Franklin Edna and L. E. Garrett Georgia United Methodist Commission on Higher Education Allyssa M. Green 2006 Judy Woodward Gregory 1963 Wanda Morris Griggers Tamara Hurdle Gruber Merilyn and Lee Guerry Betsy W. Herlong 2012 Teresa and John C. Hoover, Jr. Anne Scarborough Hughes 1978 and Jay Hughes Mollie Elizabeth Hughes 2006 Jacqueline T. and Robert T. Hurdle Parrish Smotherman Jenkins 2006 Katherine Wilson Johnson 1968 Joy Sunday School Class of Mulberry Street United Methodist Church Mary Dale and Donald M. Kea Janet M. and Gene M. Kelly Susan Pyeatt Kimmey 1971 Ruth A. Knox 1975 Betty Sweet Simmons Ladson Eleanor Adams Lane 1958 Kim M. and Laudis H. Lanford The Jim Lester Family Margaret Strickland Lovein 1975 Amanda Wood Marsh 2004 Karen T. and F. Thomas Mason, Jr. Harriett E. Mayo 1971 Robert D. McLeod Jaime Foxx McQuilkin 2006 Susan Rau Middlebrooks 1967 and Sidney E. Middlebrooks Jody Swink Miles 2002 Betty Nunn Mori 1958 Debbie Stevenson Moses 1989 Elizabeth C. and W. Michael Ogie Mary Catherine Collins O’Kelley 1972 Patty Davis Oliver 1966 and William W. Oliver, Jr. Jill Blackburn Peavy 1990 Florence D. Priester 2011 Recha R. Reid 2005 Mary H. Richardson Rivoli Garden Club Tena N. Roberts 1960 Vineta H. and Robert A. Sanders Danielle C. Sawtell 2006 Kelly M. Scott 2010 Jane I. Shirah Lisa D. Shiveler 1987 Karen Connor Shockley 1963 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Mary Snyder St. Luke United Methodist Church Loraine Hurdle Stewart Carter Mac Stout Janie and Robert Stump Leolene M. and Ben Tate Cater C. and Bert Thompson Carol A. Treible Susan Woodward Walker 1970 and Otey Walker III Heather Hughes Walter 2005 Wesleyan Class of 1980 Wesleyan Class of 2002 Purple Knights Wesleyan Class of 2004 Green Knights Wesleyan College Alumnae Association Wesleyan College Education Department Alexandra Aldica Willis 2004 Jerry A. Wolfe Charles H. Yates, Jr. Sara Farrar Hurt Gerry Farrar-Thomas 1947 Dennis Jackson Cathy Coxey Snow 1971

Margaret MacKenzie Jennings 1970 Pat Holcomb Moore 1970

Pamela Holcomb Losey 1968 Pat Holcomb Moore 1970

Frankie Howse Johnson Martha V. Johnson 1974

Ina Word Lott Medra Lott Keyser 1958

Ida M. Johnson Marsha McDonald Godsey 1966

Dorothy Lovette Susie Lovette Fischer Dobbyn 1975

Jean Roberts Johnson 1923 Laura Johnson Fowler 1957

Marjorie A. Lowrance Frances and Fernando La Rosa

Lynda Lutes Johnson 1972 Jane Farmer Fastje 1972 Susan Mann Kimbrell 1972

H. Hearn Lumpkin Sandra Lumpkin Bryan 1966

Charles Jefferson Jones Emily Hancock Bredeson 1949 Dora Lou Matteson Jones 1946 Dora Ward Curry 1994 Laura Robinson Johanna Abeni Jones Lisa Hullender Filkins 1996 Brittany Dixon Jones 1996 Lucy Mierzejewski Kaufman 1975 Pat Almond Kay Hickman Beasley 1975 Martha P. Blalock Christina H. Bryan Debbie Burrell Rhonda Dodge Cindy Fetch Janet L. Horne Peggy Lanier Sally Matson Sharon Mobley Peggy Perry Lucy Snyder Janie Wyatt Helen Youngblood Kendrick 1951 W. Moffett Kendrick Martha DeLay Kennedy 1925 Martha Kennedy Gay 1956 Mildred Shirah Kight 1936 Leila K. Kight 1968 Marjorie Savage Kirkpatrick 1937 Sue Ann Savage Truitt 1963 Frances Smith Kite 1976 Susan B. Allen Virginia Pritchard Ashby 1976 Margaret Evans Knox 1937 Peg K. and John H. Morrison, Jr. Joy Johnson Kopp 1951 Robert G. Kopp Gladys Brizendine Lang 1944 Emily Bradford Batts 1946 Frances Thurman Fitzgerald 1945 Ann Draughon Lary 1953 Joan Jennings Norton 1953 Annie Berry and Joseph Taylor Laslie Harriet Laslie Reynolds 1962 Carol Jean Latta 1970 Kathi Latta Rivers 1975 Janet Kelley Lawrence Kathy Lawrence Spada 1988 Mary Darlington Lawter 1965 Wesleyan Class of 1965 Elizabeth Yost Lea 1954 Frances Yost Knight Coleman T. Lewis Juliet Singletary Coleman 1960 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Joan Laslie Livingston 1952 Beulah Laslie Brinson 1958 Harriet Laslie Reynolds 1962 Martha Jean Laslie Woodward 1954 Deborah Van Horn Long Danielle Lodge

Gwendolyn McEachern Lynn Marsha Lynn Christy 1973 Shirley Hall Maddox 1969 Alice Peninger Beasley 1969 Dale Parker Craig 1969 Susan Perry Maddox 1975 Susan Ewing Maddox 1969 Pauline Davidson Mansfield 1949 Paula Mansfield Murphy 1970 Marguerite Gibbs Manship 1947 Kathy Gibbs Steinbruegge 1945 Barbara F. Marble Barbara Marble Tagg 1969 Helen C. and Roe Martin Nedra Martin Malone 1965 Suzanne Spradling Martin 1967 Robert S. Martin Elizabeth Hall Mason 1934 Ginny Mason 1965 Carl M. Mathison, Jr. Barbara Coxey Mathison Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Eleanor Best Mauldin 1960 Emily Richardson 1960 Jean Logan Russell 1950 Beverly Jo Flynt Strean 1960 Dorothy Jane Wilson McArthur 1946 and William R. McArthur Artemisia Dennis Thevaos 1952 and Theo Thevaos Alwyn York McConnell, Jr. Patty Shriver Mancuso 1960 Mary Lillian Robinson McDaniel Amy Moore Martin 2006 Sybil McDonald Carolyn McDonald Parham 1964 Sarah Thornton and Jefferson Dewitt McGee Anne McGee Morganstern 1958 Norman P. McLean LuAnn Weeks Holden 1976 Lois Reynolds McSorley 1950 Sara Johnston Fowke 1950 Mary Ann Roach Meadows 1946 Dorothy M. and Robert E. Knox, Jr. Stephanie M. Mercer 2005 Virginia E. W. Dicken 2003 Megan A. Quinn 2005 Shannon L. Rupp 2006 Christina Aiken Young 2005 Darlene Debault Mettler Cindy M. Fountain 2007 Matthew R. Martin Cindy Hunnicutt Sams 1993 Peggy Likins Templeman 1996 Frances Horner Middlebrooks 1927 Jean Middlebrooks Morris 1957 Lynden Wall Mignerey 1966 Libby Girlinghouse Bernard 1966 Kimberly M. Miller 2001 Lareine Danforth Archer 2000

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Myrtice T. Mitchell Natholyn Miller Freeman 1954 Rossie White Moffett Sally Moffett McKenna 1975 Victor A. Monfort Ellen Futral Hanson 1983 Ruth Elizabeth Robinson Moody Kathy A. Bradley 1978 Cleon E. Moore Betty Smith Moore 1950 Flora Alice and Paul Moore Karen Moore Thomson Carolyn McCall Morgan 1972 Glennda Kingry Elliott 1965 Jane Kollock McCall 1946 Lynn Golson Priester 1972

Adelaide Wallace Ponder 1946 and William Graham Ponder Kathleen Amidon MacGregor 1973

Margaret Long Morrison 1936 Margaret Grace Morrison 1995

Kay Mitchell Potaczala Sandra Lumpkin Bryan 1966 Diane A. Lumpkin 1963 Debbie Jones Smith 1976 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Wesleyan College Alumnae Association

Carolyn Durrence Mosley 1959 Jane Durrence Grubb Vaughan 1979

Gladys Moss Powers 1929 Jane Powers Weldon 1959

Starret and Stuart Mullis Alexis Gregg

Clifton Wight Quinly 1946 Helen Wight Hinson

Eunice Ann Christine Munck 1938 Janet M. Lawrence 1980

Randolph-Macon Woman’s College Marisa Wolff

Keith Murray Artemisia Dennis Thevaos 1952 and Theo Thevaos

Mary Alice Jackson Rice 1956 Jo Ann Copeland Chapple 1956 Marion Wade Mixon 1956

Vera and Paul Nachbaur Joan Nachbaur Rathbun 1958

Margaret Hunter Richards 1940 Helen Anne Richards 1980

Marie Butler Neel 1959 Harriett Johnson Bell 1959

Alice Burrowes Ritter 1942 Ruth A. Knox 1975 Murray McCowen and L. George Sellers

Elizabeth Cannon Nunn 1926 Betty Smith Jennings 1953 Marguerite Copes O’Riorden 1964 Ann Lichtenwalter Hernandez 1964 Pauline Ondo Pat Ondo Hurley 1969 Eddie Power Ort III Madge Hill Sidwell 1953 Sarah Jones Pafford 1934 Martha Pafford Schindhelm 1968 Julia Pattillo Parker Judy Parker Schuler 1970 Mary McCowen Parkerson 1948 George R. Parkerson, Jr. Rachel Montgomery Parr Margaret Parr-Recard 1965 Glenn F. Paul Susan Paul Tyler 1973 Louise Carroll Pharr 1920 Carroll Ricketson Bolton 1973 Bill Phillips Julia C. Munroe 2004 Judith Roe Phillips 1961 Thomas E. Phillips Valerie Voyles Phillips 1975 Chrissy Dittmar Cushman 1975 Manson Columbus Pierce, Jr. Rhonda Pierce 2000 Allene Hall Pippin 1950 Artemisia Dennis Thevaos 1952 and Theo Thevaos Adelaide Wallace Ponder 1946 Susan B. Allen Susan Lott Clark 1946 Laura Hunt Edenfield 1974

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Hale Coble Edwards 1973 Mary Graham Ponder Foster 1973 Mary Louise Davis Gavigan 1946 Catherine Gibbons Jost 1970 and Victor Jost Carol Bacon Kelso 1973 Ruth A. Knox 1975 Elizabeth Lilly 1973 Petal Gibbons Montis 1966 Caron Griffin Morgan 1973 Anne Thornton Reynolds 1973 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Linda Brown Walker 1973

Barbara Handley Roberts Susan B. and William H. Allen Kathy A. Bradley 1978 Glennda Kingry Elliott 1965 Anne Scarborough Hughes 1978 Susan Pyeatt Kimmey 1971 Ruth A. Knox 1975 Mary Catherine Collins O’Kelley 1972 Tena N. Roberts 1960 Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Frances Bruce Van Horn 1953 Roy Heyward Roberts Bryndis W. Roberts 1978 Marian Watson Rogero 1945 Beth Rogero Bowen 1968 Edna Roach Rogers 1947 Margaret Derby Champlin 1947 Katherine Rebecca Rogers 1960 Catherine Murphree Hartley 1959 Becky Rosado-Paul Wesleyan Class of 1999 Golden Hearts Kathleen Keck Ross 1959 Harriett Johnson Bell 1959 Richard T. Ross Ann Messink Ross 1950 Billie Jones Rowe 1951 Margie Gray Masson 1951 Frederick A. Saltmarsh Wanda Saltmarsh Hopkins 1970 Sally Fambrough Sanders 1955 James R. Sanders, Jr. Susan Joyce Scenna 1976 Cynthia H. McMullen 1976 Mary Ellen Findlay Schmich 1945 Mary T. Schmich

Gifts made between July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015

Virginia and James Semler Lou Ellen Semler Boyes 1969 Jane Anne Mallet Settle 1947 Lane Carr Johnson 1969 Margaret Duckworth Sewell 1949 Aimee Morris Lashley 1996 Sylvia Tabor Shealy 1958 Betty Nunn Mori 1958 Thomas T. Shealy Richard P. Sheridan Dale Parker Craig 1969 Trudie Parker Sessions 1965 Aubrey E. Sikes, Jr. Wesleyan Class of 1964 Green Knights Laura Lee Drew Sillay 1952 Marella Mitchell Cassels 1952 Margaret Lynch Cordell 1952 Betty Sweet Simmons Libby Bailey James W. Simmons III Wesleyan Class of 1964 Tia Marie Gray Simmons 2000 Lareine Danforth Archer 2000 Mildred Gower Sims 1927 Carolyn Sims Brooks 1956 Mary Skene William C. Wyatt, Jr. James F. Skirven, Jr. Jean Cain Gaddis 1961 Jeanette Loflin Shackelford 1961 Anne Hyer Smith 1942 Betty Smith Addison 1951 Frances Knott Smith 1932 Barbara Smith Woodson Frances Ware Smith 1936 Sue Smith Giddings 1966 Gerald Smith Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Karen Felice Smith 1967 Cynthia Wilson Hauth 1967 Lucia Lindsey Smith 1944 Ruth A. Knox 1975 May DeLacy Jessup Smith Wesleyan Class of 1999 Golden Hearts Amy-Christine Vinson Smith 1999 Jean Cone Snooks 1945 Susan B. Allen Martha Evans Green 1961 Ruth A. Knox 1975 Betty Snooks Moses 1975 Nancy Peterson Shaw 1958 Amelia Snell Stancil Julia Stancil Stepp 1965 Mary Smith Starr 1944 Margaret Smith Carruth 1942 Isaac Stavisky Renee` Coxey Stavisky and Annabella Coxey Stavisky Phyllis Moore Steele 1949 Mary Lane Edwards Hartshorn 1949 Jane Morgan Hogan 1949 Robert Luther Stephens III Kel-Ann S. and Jim Eyler Wilhelmina H. Ford Jessie H. Stewart Valecia Patrice Stewart 1991

Thelma Fraser Strickland 1977 and Earl Strickland Ellen Strickland Clann Eva Heath Sullins 1947 Beth Sullins Hughes 1975 Suelle McKellar Swartz 1933 Suelle M. Swartz 1967 Alice Smith Taylor Kel-Ann S. and Jim Eyler Laurence Channing Thomas Patrenice Guthrie Thomas 1996 Mary Jo Thompson 1947 Frances Callaway McCommon 1947 and Family Cathy Coxey Snow 1971 Mr. and Mrs. Sam A. Way III Richard Thornton Julie St. John Thornton 1978 Margaret Munroe Thrower 1935 Laura T. and David Harris Mary Margaret Woodward McNeill 1960 Mary Jane M. and Pat M. Woodward Randolph W. Thrower Patty Davis Oliver 1966 and William W. Oliver, Jr. Mary Jane M. and Pat M. Woodward Margaret Munroe Thrower 1935 and Randolph W. Thrower Fred W. Hicks III Mary McCord Tierney 1946 Susan B. Allen Blaine Tillman Blaine Ross Shanks 1954 Bertha Lee Battery Toole Artemisia Dennis Thevaos 1952 and Theo Thevaos Trudy Wilson Topolosky 1956 Carolyn Sims Brooks 1956 Jo Ann Copeland Chapple 1956 Arline Atkins Finch 1956 Paula Hunt Geiger 1956 Joy Lawless Tripp 1946 and William H. Tripp Jane Laco and Irene Marsh William H. Tripp Susan B. Allen Adriane H. and Peter J. Beller Anna P. Brumby Martha L. Brumby Buena H. Chilstrom Thomas E. Desmond Nancy J. and William O. Gaffin Janice F. Goldblum Spain and Scott Gregory Zsuzsanna K. Gyorky Harper & Whitfield, P.C. Carol D. and Neale K. Hauss Mary Himelstein Bruce R. Marshall Charlotte L. Massie Carolyn L. and Harold B. Powers Emily W. Rankin Catherine C. Reynolds Ruth K. Shulansky Bernard F. Wilbur, Jr. Kathryn Bell Turner 1973 Buster Bickerstaff Marsha Lynn Christy 1973 Miriam McElheney Jordan 1973 Carol Bacon Kelso 1973 Janice A. Mays 1973 Becky Read Sullivan 1973 Marsha Brown Thomas 1973 Linda Brown Walker 1973 Mary Spencer Uhl 1947 Julia Weathers Wynne 1949

* deceased

Urban Von Ulshafer Kevin L. Ulshafer Patricia Jones Vanderpool 1971 Glenda Harkins 1971 Jan Shelnutt Whalen 1971 Emily Whitaker Vickers 1942 Jane Speir Brook 1976 and Arthur D. Brook Marilyn A. Vickers 1967 Leon J. Villard Sherrie J. Love-Drake 1975 Fannie Belle Vinson 1892 Catherine Vinson Pullen 1959 Lula Calhoun Vinson 1932 Catherine Vinson Pullen 1959 William R. Wallin, Jr. Nancy Wallin Caldwell 1975 Elizabeth Elyea Ward 1948 Charlotte Little Walker 1949 Virginia Broome Waterer 1942 Bettye Withers Barnes 1942 Ruth A. Knox 1975 Cristina Farkas Williams 1974 Hunter J. Welch Kirsten Johansen Welch 1971 Wesleyan Conservatory Renee’ Rousseau Tillery 1949 Barbara Tucker Westbrook Michelle Toole Westbrook 1991 Kenneth E. Whipple Sarah Rebecca Duncan Kinsey 1958 Donald J. White Lynne M. White 1981 Linda Warnock White 1958 Judy Warnock Burns 1961 Sarah Hague White 1975 Barbee A. Dyer 1976 Mary Jenkins Winders 1935 Martha Winders Helgerson Rebecca Tevepaugh Winecoff Tracy Ward Tilley 1989 Betty Stewart Wingfield 1938 Bitsy Wingfield Dick 1963 Jean Gilbert Witcher 1966 Babs Richardson Pirkle 1968 Sandra Bell Shipp 1966 Naaman J. Woodland, Jr. Claire Michaels Murray 1952 Julia Munroe Woodward 1934 Glennda Kingry Elliott 1965 Betty Bevis Hand 1961 Mary Margaret Woodward McNeill 1960 Susan Woodward Walker 1970 and Otey Walker III Corawayne Weller Wright Cynthia D. Wright 1975 Shirley Barnes Wright 1953 Howell Rusk Dodson Architects Sue Neumeister Madge Hill Sidwell 1953 Gary Still Suters 1953 Carolina’s SunTrust Team Wang Wen Yan Chenny Q. Gan 2002 Mary Jean Yates Fred W. Hicks III Ruth Kasey Yost 1928 Frances Yost Knight Tsoo Yi Zia 1933 Janie Chien Golden 1986

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Hannah L. Allen ‘80 Julia G. Baldwin Alexis Xides Bighley ‘67 Priscilla Gautier Bornmann ‘68 Candy Burgess Jane Johnson Butler ‘65 J. Cannon Carr, Jr. Kenneth H. Carter, Jr. Betty Turner Corn ‘47 Robert J. Edenfield Glennda Kingry Elliott ‘65 William A. Fickling III Gayle Attaway Findlay ‘55 Amy M. Fletcher ‘06 Leesa Akins Flora ‘87 Gena Roberts Franklin ‘71 Judy Woodward Gregory ‘63 Robert F. Hatcher, Jr. J. Cal Hays, Jr. Susan Pyeatt Kimmey ‘71 James R. King, Jr. Ruth A. Knox ‘75 Margaret T. MacCary Michael McCord Dennie L. McCrary Brenda Witham McGinn ‘70 Beverly F. Mitchell ‘68 Betty Nunn Mori ‘58 Debbie Stevenson Moses ‘89 Andrew H. Nations Elizabeth C. Ogie Lynda Brinks Pfeiffer ‘63 Elizabeth H. Pickett Amy V. Rauls Bryndis W. Roberts ‘78 T. Alfred Sams, Jr. Ninfa M. Saunders Marvin R. Schuster Dan Speight Susan Woodward Walker ‘70 B. Michael Watson Kay B. West Jennifer Stiles Williams ‘93 EMERITUS TRUSTEES William H. Anderson II Thomas L. Bass Cathy Cox Andrew H. Heyward III Gene A. Hoots L. Bevel Jones III Robert E. Knox, Jr. George W. Mathews, Jr. William M. Matthews Sam Nunn William W. Oliver, Jr.

BOARD OF MANAGERS

Pris Gautier Bornmann ’68 Jane Price Claxton ’68 Leesa Akins Flora ‘87 Catherine O’Kelley Fore ‘02 Ashley Garrett ’90 Carol Bacon Kelso ’73 Abbie Smoak Lacienski ’01 Jan Lawrence ’80 Melanie Filson Lewis ’93 Jaime F. McQuilkin ’06 Wende Sanderson Meyer von Bremen ‘80 Beverly F. Mitchell ’68 Lynn Moses ’77 Sherry V. Neal ‘96 Sherrie N. Randall ‘03

INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT

Susan B. Allen Senior Development Officer Kimberly S. Casebeer Director of Foundation Relations and Donor Stewardship Mary Kathryn Borland ‘04 Associate Director of Alumnae/ Student Affairs Whitney Davis Director of Annual Giving Devyn W. Foti ‘13 Development Media Coordinator and Administrator Millie Parrish Hudson ’75 Director of Development Julie A. Jones Director of Advancement Services Monty Martin Advancement Services Specialist Deborah Jones Smith ’76 Director of Special Projects Cathy Coxey Snow ’71 Director of Alumnae Affairs Andrea Williford Vice President of Institutional Advancement

The recognition extended to those listed in this publication is one small way to thank the many contributors to Wesleyan College between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015.

An asterisk indicates a donor deceased prior to publication. Italicized names in the class giving section indicate the alumna gave to Wesleyan via a planned gift and the names of current alumna members of the Society for the 21st Century appear in boldface.

Although every attempt was made to ensure accuracy, it is possible that errors may have occurred. We apologize for any inconvenience such errors may cause.

We encourage you to call any corrections to our attention by notifying Julie Jones, director of advancement services, at jjones@wesleyancollege.edu or 478-7575130. Thank you.

Please note that publication of the names of contributors is strictly for the purpose of grateful acknowledgement by Wesleyan College; no other use of these lists is authorized.

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WHY I GIVE.

By Sherry Neal ’96

Wesleyan gave so much to me that I want to give back. Not only did I attend Wesleyan on scholarship, which motivates me to give, but also I benefited immensely from the strong liberal arts education I received and the connections I made with my fellow students and with alumnae. Though my career has nothing to do with my biology major or philosophy minor, every day in my adoption law practice I use the critical thinking skills I gained from my Wesleyan professors. I love keeping up with my 1996 Green Knight sisters through Facebook and during Alumnae Weekend, and I treasure the memories of my summer as an intern and “surrogate daughter” to 1968 Green Knight Pris Bornmann in Washington, D.C. I want future generations of young women to have these same opportunities. My daughter Latha, who is nine, says she wants to attend Wesleyan (go Green

Because I am a Wesleyan woman, I accept the responsibilities of alumnaehood by contributing to the strength and prosperity of my alma mater by: • contributing with a monthly debited account, or • making a one-time gift

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Knights 2028!), and I want Wesleyan to be here for her, even stronger and more financially secure than when I attended.

I watched my mother’s alma mater, Tift College, close after she and other alumnae fought to keep it open. I saw the loss that the closing caused for my mother and her Tift sisters, as well as for our community in Forsyth. I have watched over the years as other women’s colleges have become co-ed or closed their doors. I want Wesleyan to remain the “oldest and the best” and be “forever first for women.” If every alumna gives even a little, Wesleyan will remain strong and vibrant. Giving monthly is so easy, and by dividing your annual contribution into monthly payments, you may be able to give a larger annual gift. If you set up a bank or credit card draft, there’s never a need to remember to write a check. I love seeing the little reminder each month on my credit card bill of how much I love Wesleyan.

Wesleyan invites you to join Sherry as a Donor of Distinction by making a recurring gift to Wesleyan College.

Visit www.wesleyancollege.edu/giving or call Whitney Davis at 478-757-5170.

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LEADERSHIP SPEAKERS Be all that you can be FOR Wesleyan.

Join us for a day to celebrate the volunteer in all of us. Learn more about the College and how you can help shape her future.

Alumnae Leadership Day 2016 Schedule of Events

FRIDAY, JANUARY 22 (OPTIONAL) 3:30pm Campus Tour 5:00pm Wine and Cheese Reception 6:30pm Dinner On Your Own

SATURDAY, JANUARY 23 8:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast 9-9:30am Welcome 9:30-10:30am

Wesleyan Today

10:45am Morning Break 11-11:45am Leading the Way

Guest Speakers: Glenna Dod Meyer and

Lori Reese Patton ’90

Lori Reese Patton ’90

Lori serves as Chief Learning Officer for the law firm Womble Carlyle in Charlotte, North Carolina, which employs 550 lawyers in fourteen offices across the United States.

Her role focuses on group and individual development by coaching lawyers in leadership and management skills. In concert with the Gallup organization and using Gallup’s “Seven Demands of Leadership,” Lori coaches Leadership Womble where participants commit 150-200 hours of time for interactive course sessions, team building, constituency feedback, and coaching. Lori is a 1993 graduate of Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University.

12:15pm Lunch & Listen: Student Panel Discussion 1:15-2:30pm

Leadership Workshops & Breakout Groups

Choose your area of interest: Admissions Alumnae Clubs & Activities Development From Here to Career

2:30pm Afternoon Break 2:45-3:30pm

Wrap Up & Sign Up!

3:30pm Campus Tour (Optional) 3:30-8:30pm

Pioneer Fest. Drop in for food and fun in the Arboretum

(Optional)

The Wesleyan College Alumnae Association would like to thank its Board of Managers and the generous contributions from alumnae who have underwritten the cost of 2016 Leadership Day. Register Online: www.wesleyancollege.edu/LeadershipDay

Dr. Glenna Dod Meyer

Dr. Glenna Dod Meyer joined the Wesleyan College faculty in 1983. A graduate of Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Southern Mississippi, her international teaching appointments include Sofia University, Bulgaria, and Peking University, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China. She is a former Fulbright professor to Eastern Europe and a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar to Southeast Asia.

Dr. Meyer has conducted staff development workshops for East Texas State University, the University of Southern Mississippi, as well as seminars for Leadership Macon for many years.

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