Wofford Today Spring 2009

Volume 41, Number 3 Spartanburg, South Carolina Spring 2009

Wofford Today

& 2008 Honor Roll of Contributors

Men•tor

Pronunciation: (men' tôr, -tər); Function: noun Etymology: Latin, from Greek Meantōr; Date: 1616

1. capitalized: a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus’ son Telemachus 2. a: a trusted counselor or guide

b: tutor, coach

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From the Archives An Interim of Wofford stories

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his January, Dean Roberta Hurley Bigger ’81, Baker Maultsby ’92 and I spent four weeks working with nine students to collect and record stories about the college.

Gathering recorded memories from faculty, staff and alumni may not at first glance seem to be within the mission of the archives. After all, archives have traditionally been primarily responsible for keeping paper records. However, a more modern interpretation of the role of the college archives includes preservation of any type of information about the college, no matter the

format. Visitors will find more than books and paper; they’ll also find photographs, audio and video recordings, and the occasional odd artifact. Oral history is simply another way to document what happened at the college, in this case, through the eyes and ears of people who experienced it.

Structured interviews let people tell their stories of life at the college and how they were part of events that happened here.

Too often, one of the laments that I hear after the funeral of a long-time faculty or staff member involves not having recorded that person’s stories about the college.

Bigger felt the same way, and so last spring, she proposed an Interim project to collect some of these stories. Our Interim focused on the history of Wofford from 1970 to 2000. After a week of preliminary work, the students divided into three teams and selected topics for further study.

One group studied the transition in athletics from the old NAIA days, through NCAA Division II, ending with the college’s membership in Division I and the Southern Conference. Another group studied student life, particularly life in the residence halls, from an inter-generational perspective.

A third group studied the move to full residential coeducation at the college in the mid-1970s. All three groups studied the ways in which the college has changed in the past 30 to 40 years.

Each group started by researching its topic in the archives to gain appropriate background knowledge of the subject. This allowed the students to ask intelligent questions of their interviewees. Many of the students came back to the archives to collect copies of photographs to add to their presentations. They met with several alumni and staff members independently to explore their topics, recording the interviews to include in their final projects. The class also conducted several panel interviews, all of which I recorded on a digital audio recorder. The students used material from many of these fullclass interviews in their projects.

Sometimes we interviewed our guests alone, and sometimes they came in groups of two or three. Each method had certain advantages. Individual interviews allowed for more focus on that individual and his or her experiences, but group interviews allowed each guest to interact with others, and the interview became more of

Trustee Emeritus Roger Milliken also returned to campus to speak with the group. a conversation. The trick was to know which strategy to employ.

I’d say our project was a success largely because 20 alumni and faculty members gave us an hour or two of their time. (We are certainly grateful to them all.) The students learned that there’s life after college, and each interviewee got to talk about their experience at Wofford to an eager, interested audience. The students also learned to incorporate stories they heard from interviewers with information they gleaned from archival records, newspapers and other sources. Putting together information from various sources, assessing its value, and creating a coherent account of an event is an essential part of a liberal arts education.

Building on the things we learned in this Interim project, I plan to continue to collect oral history from faculty members, staff members and alumni. The stories that people carry around with them are important to Wofford’s recent history, and they are a worthy part of the archives.

by Phillip Stone ’94

In the background (from left to right): Scott Cochran ’88, director of career services; Debbi Necker Thompson ’88, director of alumni and parents programs; and Dr. Dan Maultsby ’61, retired dean of the college, shared their stories with the Interim.

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In this issue...

Spring 2009

Group returns from Milliken Faculty Development Seminar Abroad............... 7 Students and faculty explore diverse interests during Interim 2009, pp 24-25

DEVELOPMENT UPDATE............. 10 ON CAMPUS: Wofford participates in National Teach-In on global warming............. 12

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STUDENTS: Pre-med student works to build clinic in Malawi............. 16

If you think your name should be included in this list and it is not, there is probably a logical explanation.

Legacy Society; Rast estate makes gift to Wofford Friends of the Library............. 18

We made a mistake.

Although we take great care in compiling our list of donors, there is always the possibility of error. If we omitted your name or if your name is incorrect, we apologize and ask that you contact us.

ATHLETICS: Facilities updates and a photo of a full Benjamin Johnson Arena........ 20-21

You believe you made a gift, but you are not sure. It is sometimes difficult to keep track of contributions. If you believe you made a gift to Wofford, please contact the Development Office and we will check our records. Perhaps you forgot to send in your gift. If so, you may mail it to us now and be recognized in the 2009 Honor Roll of Contributors. If you have any questions, please contact us at Wofford College, Development Office, 429 North Church Street, Spartanburg, SC 29303-3663, (864) 597-4200, defreitaslh@wofford.edu.

Doyle Boggs ’70, senior editor, boggsdw@wofford.edu, 864-597-4182 JoAnn Mitchell Brasington ’89 and Patricia Smith, associate editors Brett Borden, Laura H. Corbin, Janella Lane, Baker Maultsby ’92, Phillip Stone ’94, contributing writers Brent Williamson, sports Mark Olencki ’75, photography Printed by Martin Printing Company, Inc., Easley, SC

The 2008 Honor Roll of Contributors

BOOKSHELF and CONNECTED............. 14

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Please remember that this Honor Roll of Contributors lists gifts received between January 1 and December 31, 2008. If you made a gift before or after those dates, it will not be listed here.

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NEWS: Wofford recognized as best value college and named to service honor roll............... 6

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Message from the president; The 2008 Honor Roll of Contributors............... 4

Campaign reaches $105 million goal............... 8

Wofford Today

Listing of endowed funds............. 23 Interim provides diversity of experiences........ 24-25 For and About Alumni: including photos, notes and profiles concerning alumni........26-47 Gregory Papadopoulos ’59 and the Class of 1959 Reunion.............26 Congratulations Classes of 1968 and 1978, reunion giving winners.............29 Alumni in the News.............33 Q & A with Dr. Hal Atkinson ’94.............37

he Honor Roll is an annual publication of the Development Office of Wofford College. It includes all 2008 donors to the college. For further information about contributing to the college, please contact any of the following staff members: n

Lisa De Freitas ’88 – Director of Annual Giving, 864-597-4191, defreitaslh@wofford.edu

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Smith Patterson ’67 – Director of Gift Planning, 864-597-4196, pattersonds@wofford.edu

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For address changes, contact: Alumni Office, Wofford College 429 North Church Street, Spartanburg, SC 29303-3663 e-mail alumni@wofford.edu call 864-597-4200; fax 864-597-4219 It is the policy of Wofford College to provide equal opportunities and reasonable accommodation to all persons regardless of race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.

Wofford College is committed to quintessential undergraduate education within the context of values-based inquiry. As a learning community, we are united by the unfettered pursuit of knowledge and the creative search for truth.

Wofford weddings.............38 Meet Wofford On Call students callers.............44 Deaths.............47 Spring 2009 • Wofford Today • 3

2008 Honor Roll of Contributors 2008 Annual Fund Results

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he Annual Fund, which includes Unrestricted, Terrier Club and Friends of the Library, is the cornerstone of Wofford’s giving program. The broad base of more than 4,000 donors collectively make a significant impact on the operating budget. The $2.7 million raised in 2008 directly affects the tuition cost for each student. If Wofford is to remain competitive and be an attractive option for the caliber of students currently enrolled, Annual Fund gifts are absolutely vital.

A message from President Benjamin B. Dunlap Y

ou already know that the Annual Fund is a critically important way to support the ongoing operation of the college — a way of directly enhancing the experience of Wofford students in the here and now. And I’m sure you realize that these are times when such gifts are especially Unrestricted Annual Fund.......................................... $1,399,009 welcome and that making an immediate difference is especially satisfying Terrier Club*................................................................ 1,287,855 for the giver. But let me tell you a story you may not have heard.

Friends of the Library....................................................... 25,308 William Light Kinney III was ANNUAL FUND TOTAL............................................. $2,712,172 the son of a Wofford alumnus.

He was scheduled to graduate in * This number does not include the $195,000 in annually funded the Class of ’91, but, tragically, athletic scholarships that the Terrier Club includes in reporting. he died in an accident in the summer of 1989. His parents, who have given generously Annual Fund Giving by Constituent Group through the years in scholarships and other gifts, asked if they could commemorate their United Methodist Church..... $402,431 son with a statue that, though a Businesses.......................... $210,342 Alumni............................ $1,360,450 likeness of him, would represent Foundations........................ $105,079 the aspirations of all Wofford students.

The work that resulted, by the noted sculptor Charles Parks, stands in front of the Sandor Dunlap Teszler Library. It depicts Light as a typical student, with a book-bag over his shoulder, on his way out of the library and into the world. One hand grasps the strap of his bag, while the other is cupped at his side. The inscription at the base of the statue contains a single word: LIGHT, beneath which has been added, “In Honor of All Wofford Students.” Many, not knowing the story behind the sculpture, assume it refers to “enlightenment,” that universal goal of students everywhere.

Since the statue was erected, Bill ’54 and Peggy Kinney have visited the Wofford campus many times. Very quietly through the years, Peggy has created a tradition by visiting the sculpture in order to place a tightly rolled $20 bill in its hand. The gift is there for any student to find, Non-Alumni Parents............ $244,289 transmitted by the statue of her son.

Friends................................$353,614 On a recent visit, as Bill recounts it in a letter, Peggy along with him, Non-Alumni Faculty & Staff... $25,243 their daugher, and two grandchildren went by the statue “to make her Non-Alumni Trustees..............$10,714 usual deposit.” While they were there, Bill continues, “and as we were talking about Charles Parks and the sculpture, a Wofford student, his girlfriend, and her parents stopped on the sidewalk, and I heard him say, ‘I’m going to check. I believe they may have just put the money in Light’s hand.’ He bounded up the steps, saw the note, reached in and retrieved it—scarcely three minutes after we had placed it there—and asked, ‘Are you Light’s family? You must be. Finding money in his hand is a tradition here at Wofford.’” The student, a senior at Wofford, introduced himself and his girlfriend and her parents. He thanked the Kinneys and told them, “‘This is really special, for during my freshman year I found it also. So now I’ve done it twice.’” n February, Jo Ann Brasington ’89, associate editor of Wofford Today, and Mark In his letter, Kinney, an observant journalist, adds that the student Olencki ’75, college photographer, met with 16 groups of faculty and students “was extremely polite and pleasant and made us feel so good. I am decurrently engaged in mentoring relationships. Those relationships range from helping lighted that our children had this experience, students conduct research to advising first-year students to traveling for they have heard us talk about it a lot. And with students to explore other countries and cultures. The mentors I hope they will keep it going long after we are featured are teachers, writers, scholars, coaches, friends, advisors, and gone.” sometimes even co-conspirators. What’s most remarkable, however, Chairman’s Circle.................... $10,000 + Each of us can be part of such a tradition. is the fact that the interviews and photos of the 16 mentors featured Trustee Society............... $5,000 - $9,999 That is what the Annual Fund is for, transmitbarely skim the depth and breadth of the priceless bonds between ting your gift directly to those who benefit students, faculty and staff on Wofford’s campus.

Leadership Society......... $2,500 - $4,999 from it. Such giving catches on. On a recent Gifts to the college’s Unrestricted Annual Fund and endowed President’s Club............. $1,000 - $2,499 occasion, after glancing up at the statue for professorships and chairs help pay the salaries of those mentors. years in hopes of seeing Peggy’s gift, I spotted Those funds reach to the core of the Wofford educational experience Patron Club........................... $500 - $999 a tightly rolled piece of paper in the statue’s and touch every student who has been or ever will be a part of the Loyalty Club.......................... $250 - $499 hand. It wasn’t a bill. It was a message that Wofford community. read in its entirety, “Amy – I love you – Brad.”

Centurion Club...................... $100 - $249 I put it back for Amy to find.

Contributors................................ $1 - $99 Light goes on giving, as can you. The message is a gift of love.

THROUGHOUT THIS ISSUE:

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Annual Gift Clubs

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alumni stats

alumni

Carol E. Whatley ’56 George W. Whitaker, Jr. ’43 John W. Williamson, Jr. ’41 * Wallace M. Wright ’49 John M. Younginer, Jr. ’53

50 Year Club Chairman’s Circle

S. Hart Booth, Jr. ’31 * Donald L. Fowler ’57 Cleveland S. Harley ’50 Charles E. Morgan ’50 Elliott F. Sanders ’54

Patron Club

Trustee Society

James C. Crawford, Jr. ’48 * Fred F. DuBard, Jr. ’57 William B. Evins ’56 J. Stokes Gillespie ’33 * William H. Hambrick ’49 Wade W. Herring ’54 Al M. Lynch, Sr. ’50 Samuel H. Maw, Jr. ’56 Joseph O. Price, Jr. ’55 W. Grady Stewart ’50 Harry P. Williams, Jr. ’42 Billy W. Wood ’50

Leadership Society

Forrest A. Abbott ’43 Thornton W. Crouch ’43 Laurie N. Ervin ’57 Robert A. Hall, Jr. ’51 Boyd L. Hames ’47 Evans P. Holland ’57 Leslie W. Howard, Jr. ’56 M. L. Meadors, Jr. ’55 Mack C. Poole, III ’55 Carlisle L. Rast ’49 * Ted J. Roper ’56 John W. Shuler ’41 Talmage B. Skinner, Jr. ’56 Victor M. Smith ’35 Ralph Eugene Stamm ’54 T. Reginald Thackston ’56

President's Club

Clyde M. Aiken’55 C. Whit Anderson, Jr. ’52 Charles D. Barrett ’55 R. Richard Blocker, Jr. ’55 Thomas N. Brittain ’47 Jimmy L. Brock ’54 W. Dean Cannon, Jr. ’50 * Bob Capes ’56 Charles E. Cauthen, Jr. ’52 Francis P. Champion ’50 Robert L. Chapman, Sr. ’49 Cermette J. Clardy, Jr. ’57 Jesse L. Cooksey ’54 John C. Dunlap ’55 Don P. Ferguson ’57 George D. Fields, Jr. ’52 John Fleming ’51 E. Everett Gasque, Jr. ’51 * V. Wilson Goodlett ’56 Robert H. Griffith ’54 Clyde H. Hamilton ’56 Niles E. Hanna ’50 E. Thomas Hardin ’56 L. Ruple Harley, Sr. ’41 G. Truett Hollis ’49 Robert E. Holman ’53 David N. Johnson ’56 Phil M. Jones ’51 Andrew H. Kang ’57 Robert B. King, Sr. ’39 William L. Kinney, Jr. ’54 Ernest M. Lander, Jr. ’37 Cecil F. Lanford ’55 Chauncey W. Lever, Sr. ’48 Theodore A. Lide ’57 Larry H. McCalla ’43 E. Windell McCrackin ’51 Robert W. McCully ’55 Alfred C. McGinnis, Sr. ’56 D. Laurence McIntosh ’56 Melvin D. Medlock ’54 William S. Minter, Jr. ’42 Ted R. Morton, Jr. ’53 Howard B. Norton ’49 William P. Phillips ’55 * William L. Pope, Sr. ’54 M. Brock Roper ’55 Jack Monroe Smith ’57 Milton A. Smith ’49 B. G. Stephens ’57 Granville L. Sydnor ’55 George E. Tate ’41 John H. Tillotson ’51 Max B. Trout ’52 William M. Tunno ’56 William J. Vines ’55 Ted H. Walter ’56 Charles F. West ’50

* deceased

annual fund gifts.....................................................$1,647,395 average annual fund gift..................................................$537 percentage of participation............................................. 37%

Edward H. Atkins, Jr. ’51 Dennis N. Barbare, Sr. ’53 Robert T. Barham ’53 Robert P. Beckelheimer ’43 Jack M. Becker ’50 R. Cobb Bell ’56 Bill W. Boyd ’48 Tutt S. Bradford ’38 Joe E. Brown, Jr. ’55 Henry C. Bynum ’54 Jackson W. Carroll, Jr. ’53 Robert M. Cecil ’45 Howard T. Chapman, Jr. ’51 Claude Cole, Jr. ’47 Jordan A. Dean ’33 H. Theron Few ’55 William E. Galloway ’56 F. Luther Glenn ’56 Samuel R. Glenn, Jr. ’55 James L. Golden ’56 James R. Gordon, Jr. ’52 C. Wallace Harper ’50 Floyd L. Heckard ’47 Curtis W. Hipp, Sr. ’56 Jacob H. Jennings ’50 Robert D. Jennings ’56 John M. Liston ’54 Virgil W. Marsh ’52 Edward W. Martin ’50 Eugene G. Martin ’37 * George R. Morgan ’50 Max Padgett ’51 W. Keith Parris ’55 H. Robert Reynolds, Jr. ’44 Jack A. Roddy, Jr. ’56 LeGrand A. Rouse, II ’54 Oscar L. Shoenfelt, Jr. ’50 * Fulwood A. Smith ’45 L. Benton Williams ’52 Dan W. Willis ’32 * James G. Wylie, Jr. ’50

Loyalty Club

Ralph E. Bailey ’52 William P. Baskin, III ’57 Charles M. Bauknight ’56 Curtis P. Bell ’55 Cecil G. Bond ’57 Oren L. Brady, Jr. ’41 Ronald P. Brown ’57 Wade T. Buchanan, Jr. ’52 Robert L. Burgess’51 James B. Cantrell ’49 Robert M. Carlisle, Jr. ’52 * Joseph F. Carter, Sr. ’57 Charles F. Cecil ’39 Maurice G. Cox ’57 Joseph K. East ’51 Billy Burton Ezell ’42 Walker H. Ford ’45 Julian H. Foster ’56 J. Sidney Fulmer ’54 Philip O. Garland ’57 Mary Louise Garner ’55 C. Dendy Garrett ’47 W. Murray Gibbons ’55 John A. Gill ’54 * Royce N. Gillespie ’50 Frank D. Goodale, Jr. ’55 Daniel S. Goudelock ’54 Tommy L. Griggs ’54 James R. Harrelson ’55 Clyde C. Harrill ’51 Vernon S. Harwell, Jr. ’53 B. Monroe Hiers ’43 G. B. Hodge ’38 Hubert H. Hodgin ’56 R. Marcus Huff, Jr. ’57 Larry A. Jackson ’47 Charles R. Jamison ’41 John N. Kellett, Jr. ’56 Russell C. King, Jr. ’56 James R. Lambert, Jr. ’51 Warren N. Little ’48 Thomas R. Lybrand ’44 Allen H. Mackenzie ’51 Milton B. Maness ’41 George Maughan’50 Thomas K. McIntyre ’56

Purdy B. McLeod, Jr. ’49 Dick G. McTeer ’47 William B. Moyer’57 Calvin R. Myers ’52 English B. Pearcy ’56 Archie A. Pearson ’38 George T. Perrow, Sr. ’54 Moss H. Perrow, Sr. ’51 J. Paul Poston ’53 William C. Small ’57 Carlisle T. Smith ’31 F. Oscar Smith, Jr. ’54 Russell D. Smith ’49 John M. Sowell ’53 Thomas A. Summers ’56 Rex A. Taylor ’57 W. K. Thompson, Jr. ’43 A. W. Tindall, Jr.’55 Fred L. Tindall ’53 Buford E. Trent ’54 William M. Tucker ’55 William C. Wallace, Sr. ’56 Ben F. Weaver ’55 Charles H. Weaver ’51 H. Lucien Williams ’51 Jake W. Williams ’57 Sam S. Wood, Sr.’36

Centurion Club

James E. Alewine ’50 Harold W. Alley, Jr. ’57 Leo W. Alley ’50 George F. Altman ’54 Howard T. Anthony ’54 Warren G. Ariail, Jr. ’49 Fred L. Arnold ’54 D. Glen Askins, Jr. ’56 William C. Austell ’45 Flynn A. Barbare ’56 Gary D. Barber, Sr. ’54 Charles H. Bates ’56 John G. Beasley ’56 Kenneth W. Bedenbaugh ’40 Dewey H. Bell, Jr. ’48 C. T. Biggerstaff ’55 Charles M. Blackmon ’48 J. William Blanton, Jr. ’47 Neil C. Bonds ’54 James E. Brannon ’49 Vernon H. Bright, Sr. ’52 James M. Brown ’39 Joe K. Brown ’51 R. Howard Bryant ’47 Charles A. Bundy ’51 James T. Burch, Jr. ’39 J. Weyland Burns, Sr. ’57 John C. Burton ’38 James A. Cannon ’50 William J. Cantrell ’54 Herman O. Chesney ’51 D. Vernon Cline ’50 R. Lamar Coleman ’50 Heron S. Collins ’48 William P. Combs ’44 J. T. Cothran ’49 Robert E. Cuttino ’49 Herman E. Davis ’55 Z. E. Dobbins, Jr. ’56 M. R. Dowdeswell, Jr. ’55 William A. DuBose ’56 John L. Eidson ’49 Jack C. Ellison ’57 Paul S. Ellison ’52 Roy J. Ellison, Jr. ’49 Edward S. Ervin, III ’49 Raymond C. Eubanks, Jr. ’56 Hulon Fagan ’50 William E. Fisher, Sr. ’49 John E. Foster ’49 J. Louis Fowke ’48 * James H. Fridy ’52 Henry W. Gibson ’46 James O. Gilliam, Jr. ’57 Thomas M. Godbold, Jr. ’57 Jim Goode ’57 W. David Gravely ’54 James M. Grimes, Jr. ’57 Vernon D. Gwynne ’50 Robert E. Hallman ’49 Robert A. Hammett, Sr. ’52 L. P. Hammond ’55 Joel W. Hand, Jr. ’57 Ernest M. Heape ’47 M. Elton Hendricks ’57 Thomas A. Hipp ’53

BEST of the 1950s

Byron McCane with Adrienne Hamm ’09 and Jason O'Quinn ’09

Dr. Byron McCane, X-treme mentoring “He has challenged me to think critically, write better and work harder in my academic pursuits.”

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dig is a total learning environment. Students learn 24/7 whether they want to or not. It’s the X-games of undergraduate learning,” says Dr. Byron McCane, Albert C. Outler Professor of Religion and chair of the department.

The intensity and value of the experience keeps McCane returning summer after summer to Israel with different groups of Wofford students.

“On the dig, students learn to call me by my first name. Everyone on a dig is on a first-name basis, and so it comes pretty naturally after a few days,” says McCane. “It is not casual or presumptuous; it is a mark of familiarity earned under the hot sun.”

Adrienne Hamm ’09 and Jason O’Quinn ’09 have worked closely with McCane over the past two years. Both went on digs, did SCICU (South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities) independent research projects, and served as teaching assistants for a course that McCane teaches on archaeology. Now O’Quinn is writing a senior honors course with McCane’s guidance.

According to O’Quinn, he and McCane meet weekly to discuss the progress of the project.

McCane has helped him with organization, research and editing.

“I owe a lot of my development as a student to Byron. He has challenged me to think critically, write better and work harder in my academic pursuits. He has also given me the confidence that, I think, it takes to be a good student,” says O’Quinn.

Still, both O’Quinn and Hamm agree that no amount of time spent in class or working outside of class with a professor can compare to the level of learning on a dig.

“Being on a dig involves the physical demands of the work, the intellectual rigor of interpreting the findings, and the emotional stress of being together in close quarters for an extended length of time,” says McCane. “It’s an experience that can’t be duplicated in the traditional learning environment.”

According to Hamm, McCane lightens the emotional load on the students by taking the undergraduates to interesting nearby sights and by sharing his sense of humor.

“Byron is famous for making bad puns during a dig,” says Hamm, who is planning to attend Duke Divinity School in the fall. “One day we bet him that he couldn’t go 24 hours without making a pun… he made it 12.”

Earl F. Hoffmeister ’51 C. Myers Hollis ’56 Marion P. Holt ’49 William T. Hope, Jr. ’46 Kenneth A. Horn ’50 Claude A. Houck, Jr. ’38 Walter H. Huff ’55 Boyce Huffstetler ’53 Billy H. Inman, Jr. ’56 Robert E. James, Sr. ’53 J. Vernon Jeffords ’48 C. Birnie Johnson, Jr. ’53 Frederic G. Jones ’54 Thom C. Jones, Jr. ’53 Oren R. Judy, Jr. ’49 Andrew G. Kavounis ’49 Lamar L. Keisler ’49 Henry G. Kelley, Jr. ’52 J. Whitner Kennedy ’51 Paul S. Kent’55 R. Lee Kernell ’50 William W. Kirkpatrick ’57 Julian H. Lazar ’51 J. Dan Lewis, Jr. ’57 James W. Lineberger, Jr. ’56 George K. Livingston, Jr. ’50

participation percentage............................the class of 1958: 64%

total annual fund gift............................ the class of 1959: $40,577

J. Wofford Locke ’51 Robert S. Loryea,’56 Paul E. Lytle ’56 William P. Mabry ’48 * Jimmy A. Maners ’57 James E. Martin ’57 Reese M. Massey, Jr. ’57 Dennis E. Mathis ’56 John S. McCutcheon ’49 Lunsford C. McFadden ’43 T. Travis Medlock, Sr. ’56 Charles H. Mercer ’40 Bill C. Metcalf ’57 J. Joseph Mitchell, Jr. ’55 Peter R. Moody ’37 * William R. Moody, Sr. ’53 Raynor M. Moore ’51 J. Stephen Morrisett ’57 Max I. Moser, Jr. ’40 Charles C. Neal, Jr. ’38 Kenneth G. Nix, Sr. ’43 J. Rembert Owings ’29 Robert M. Palmer ’51 Joseph C. Pate ’51 Dean A. Patrick ’53 Lyle H. Phifer ’48 Roderick W. Powers ’53 Robert E. Prevatte ’50 Roland W. Rainwater, Jr. ’40 Maloy R. Rash, Jr. ’43 Paul V. Reinartz, Jr.’55

George B. Richardson ’40 J .J. Richardson ’43 W. Ray Ridings ’51 John T. Roper ’51 DuPre’ Sassard ’36 Christopher S. Sharp ’52 Robert K. Shuler ’57 Cecil O. Smith, Jr. ’55 George W. Smith ’53 R. Wright Spears ’33 John M. Stapleton ’53 Wallace F. Starnes ’53 Charles C. Stratford, Jr. ’53 James C. Suber ’53 W. Reed Swann ’56 Eben Taylor, Jr. ’48 * Tarah M. Taylor ’00 Walter N. Taylor ’57 James C. Thrower ’51 Grover C. Tuggle ’47 Robert D. Utsey, Sr. ’43 James L. Walker ’45 James A. Ward ’37 Thomas C. Watson, Jr. ’54 Robert B. Way ’45 Prentice E. Whitlock ’50 Thomas B. Wilkes, Jr. ’57 E. Lewis Williams ’52 Thomas M. Williams, Jr. ’51 Harvey M. Williamson, Sr. ’43 Paul A. Wilson ’50

Warren C. Wofford ’49 Thomas D. Wyatt, Jr. ’54 J. Edwin Zimmerman ’49

Contributors

Benjamin H. Allen ’56 Charles H. Andrews, Jr. ’39 James E. Arledge ’57 James M. Armstrong, Jr. ’53 Robert A. Arthur ’47 E. Glenn Ayers, Jr. ’51 F. Louis Barth ’47 Jimmy T. Beasley ’57 Jesse Bentley ’49 Paul B. Black ’56 Homer E. Bradey ’44 Erman F. Bradley ’51 Ben A. Brown, Jr. ’47 Hugh R. Brown, Jr. ’54 L. H. Buff, Jr. ’55 Melvin E. Carpenter ’55 Henry S. Cecil ’42 Harley H. Christopher, Jr. ’54 Carl D. Clary ’50 Charles H. Coker ’56 William J. Colvin, Jr. ’38 Neil E. Constance ’52 G. W. Farrell Cox ’54 Billy S. Davis ’51 Robert A. Davison ’54 Charles L. Dickson, Jr. ’50

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Wofford news

for more on these stories and the most up-to-date news, check the Web site at www.wofford.edu Hill inspires campus Wofford among during Black History Kiplinger’s top 50 Month activites best value colleges

admission rate (percentage of applicants offered admission), SAT or ACT scores, student/faculty ratio, graduation rates (percenthe Wofford Office of offord is listed age of first-year students Multicultural Affairs among the top earning a bachelor’s degree and Black History Month 50 liberal arts colleges in Committee welcomed Dr. Kiplinger’s Personal Finance within four or five years), total cost (including tuMarc Lamont Hill to the magazine’s “Best Values in campus as the featured Private Colleges,” published ition, mandatory fees, room and board, and estimated speaker of the Black Hisin the February issue. cost for books), cost after tory Month Convocation.

Wofford is listed at need-based aid (total cost As an activist, scholar, number 42 and is one of minus average need-based and cultural critic, Hill is six Southern colleges and aid amount), average debt one of America's leading universities included in hip-hop generation intelthe list. Others, with their at graduation and other lectuals. His work, coverrankings, are Davidson (4), factors. ing topics such as popular Washington and Lee (5), culture, politics, sexuality, Centre (29), Furman (45) Wofford named to education and religion, and Sewanee (49).

President’s Honor has appeared in numerous “We work hard to Roll for service journals, magazines, books make sure every student and anthologies. He has and every dollar counts learning lectured widely and proat Wofford,” says Brand he Corporation for vides commentary for me- Stille ’86, vice president for National and Comdia outlets, which include enrollment. “In this curmunity Service has honored NPR, Washington Post, rent economic climate it’s Wofford with a place on the Essence Magazine and New great to be recognized for President’s Higher EducaYork Times. He discussed the value Wofford protion Community Service the intersections of hip-hop vides. Wofford is a prudent Honor Roll for exemplary culture, race, politics and investment because of the service efforts and service civic engagement. preparation our students Hill also moderated a receive for the job market, to America’s communities.

Wofford is one of 83 colpanel of campus and com- graduate and professional leges and universities to be munity leaders to discuss school. Each and every named on the Honor Roll the topic “What should student is challenged and students be doing to change supported. This balance is with Distinction list, of the 635 institutions recognized. their community and the the key to our success.”

In addition, Wofford has world?”

Kiplinger’s rankings been included in the latest measure academic qualedition of Guide to ServiceBelow, Dr. Marc Lamont ity and affordability. The Learning Colleges & Hill in Leonard Auditorium methodology looks at the Universities (Student Horizons Inc., Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 2009).

“It is always an honor to be included on the President’s Honor Roll, but to be included ‘with distinction’ confirms that Wofford’s commitment to sustained civic engagement and social justice is strong and thriving,” says the Rev. Lyn Pace ’99, associate chaplain and director of service learning.

Launched in 2006, the Community Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement. Honorees for the award were chosen based on a series of selection factors including scope and innovation of service projects, percentage of student participation in service activities, incentives

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Lee Hanning and President Emeritus Joe Lesesne were featured in the Nov. 26 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. The story focused on their post-retirement careers as Wofford football coaches and their unusual salaries. Neither Hanning nor Lesesne receive payment for their work. Read the entire story at www.wofford.edu/newsroom/woffordInTheNewsContent. aspx?id=48360. for service, and the extent to which the school offers academic service-learning courses.

“This award is possible because of the efforts of the entire Wofford campus,” Pace adds. “We were awarded this distinction because of strong service learning programs in foreign languages, psychology, English, biology, computer science and through various Interim projects. The longevity and strength of our Bonner Scholars program and other co-curricular groups were highlighted in the application as well.”

Programs, such as the Math Academy, “reveal new and creative energies in service learning and also met the requirements of the Honor Roll’s special service requirement this year — a focus on service with youth who are at risk or who might be at risk of dropping out of school.”

The college's La U y Tu program, which focuses on working with children from the ARCH Ministries program in Arcadia, S.C., also was highlighted as a mentoring opportunity through Twin Towers service learning program.

Wofford to host second Shared Worlds camp

Dunlap featured in February Reader's Digest

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offord President Creative writing program Benjamin B. Dunto feature ‘Spiderwick lap’s “The Story of a PasChronicles’ author sionate Life,” about the life

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offord will host the second annual Shared Worlds creative writing camp this summer The residential camp runs from July 19 through Aug. 1, and is open to rising eighth-graders through rising 12th-graders. Information and registration materials may be found at sharedworlds.wofford.edu.

Unlike any other creative writing camp, Shared Worlds offers students the chance to work on fiction writing, game design and other creative arts while also developing problem-solving skills and contributing to a team concept. Students also will have the opportunity to work with Holly Black, co-author of the popular “Spiderwick Chronicles.”

of the late Sandor Teszler, has been shared thousands of times across the Internet since he first made the 18-minute presentation at the prestigious TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference in Monterey, Calif., in spring 2007.

Now, many thousands more have been sharing in the remarkable telling of the remarkable story through the publication of an excerpt from the talk published in the February 2009 edition of Reader’s Digest. Dunlap’s telling of the story also is on the worldwide publication’s Web site at www.rd.com (www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-andstories/ben-dunlaps-lectureof-a-lifetime/article114714. html). news briefs by Laura H. Corbin and Brett Borden

Faculty toast their experience in Argentina.

Argentina was selected for the first Milliken Faculty Development Seminars Abroad because of the growing Latin American influence in the United States and because increasing numbers of Wofford students are traveling to that part of the world.

Group returns energized from first Milliken Faculty Development Seminar Abroad

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aculty development takes many forms at Wofford, though one recent experience for 13 faculty and staff members undeniably stands out.

They were part of a twoweek trip during January to Argentina.

Thanks to the generosity of Trustee Emeritus Roger Milliken, the seminar abroad will stand as the first of five such trips planned over the coming years.

“It exceeded all of my expectations,” says Dr. Ana Maria Wiseman, dean of international programs.

Wiseman has worked closely with the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) on creating study abroad experiences for Wofford students, and she partnered with IES to devise a short curriculum for the professors and staff members.

They read books and articles before the trip, and while in Buenos Aires heard lectures from experts on a variety of topics and took part in daily tours. “We had eight lecturers through IES, and they really mapped out a program for us,” Wiseman says. Themes included history, the arts, the environment, and human rights.

The experience included visits to museums, sites of historical importance,

and locales in Argentina’s countryside.

Happenings outside of the IES agenda made an impression, too. Dr. Anne Catlla, who teaches mathematics, recalls a weekly march by mothers of children who went missing during the 1970s and 1980s, when Argentina was ruled by a military dictatorship.

The mothers, Catlla explains, “are still marching, because there are still people who are unaccounted for. They march every Thursday afternoon at 3:30.” She adds, “I hesitate to call that a highlight, but it was definitely the most impactful experience for me.”

Argentina was selected for this first of the Milliken Faculty Development Seminars Abroad because of the growing Latin American influence in the United States and because increasing numbers of Wofford students are traveling to that part of the world.

Nine students, in fact, are in Argentina for the spring semester, and with Interim and study abroad semesters combined, dozens of Wofford students will have studied in Latin America during the 2008-2009 school year.

Professors involved in the January trip believe they’ll put their experiences to use in a number of ways.

There’s Dr. Kim Rostan, assistant professor of English, who has added writing by Argentine authors to her second semester syllabus, and says, “Sometimes in class I find myself able to give richer context for these writings simply by recalling a conversation or a day trip during Interim.”

And there’s Catlla, who would now consider leading a group of students on a travel Interim to Argentina. She says she better understands now the demands of such a trip and “knows what resources are available.” Catlla also has a better appreciation for her students’ experiences abroad – particularly those who work with IES. “When students say they’re going on study abroad, now I know what that’s all about.”

Rostan and Catlla are first-year faculty members at Wofford. They were joined by other young professors, but also by veterans like Dr. Philip N. Racine and Drs. Angela and George Shiflet.

“I loved getting to know fellow faculty and staff in ways that would have never arisen in our work atmosphere,” says Racine. “Experiencing things together brought us all closer to one another.”

Racine’s sentiment was echoed by others.

“There were many highlights, but nothing was more rewarding than

the enhanced collegiality developed in that group,” says Dean David Wood.

While he describes that aspect of the trip as a “byproduct” of the learning that went on in Argentina, Wood knows that collegiality can lead to academic, often cross-disciplinary, innovation – a hallmark of a Wofford education.

Catlla notes that she and Rostan had conversations about co-teaching a course “looking at the intersection of language and math. I wouldn’t have expected the trip to have that sort of impact.”

The faculty travel program was designed with the future of higher education in mind – or, as Dean Wood puts it, as an additional “effort to get students ready to face a complex, inter-connected, globalized environment.”

But the idea is not new.

In fact, Milliken funded similar trips for Wofford professors in the 1960s. In a 1961 “Wofford Today,” the late Dr. Lewis P. Jones ’38 wrote about a “faculty in orbit” trip through Western Europe. A particular focus on their travels was the opportunity to visit European universities.

The Milliken Faculty Development Seminars Abroad will continue next January when professors will travel to China.

by Baker Maultsby ’92

Dr. Anne Catlla (right) and Dr. Kim Rostan (left).

Rostan has added writing by Argentine authors to her second semester syllabus,

alumni (continued) George S. Duffie, Jr. ’57 W. H. Durham’57 A. Eugene Eaddy ’52 Bobby Joe Easler ’52 * J. Sidney Epperson ’54 Carson D. Evans ’40 Earl G. Ezell ’42 Guy F. Fain, Jr. ’49 Herbert C. Floyd, Sr. ’48 James K. Floyd ’39 Lee D. Ford ’55 Thomas J. Ford ’52 Jack E. Foster ’47 Benjamin B. Fowke ’48 Ronald L. Franklin ’53 James S. Gibbs, Jr. ’50 Philip H. Gibson ’55 W. Ervin Grant ’48 Donald B. Greene, Sr. ’50 Edward C. Greer ’47 James R. Griffith, Jr. ’48 Jeff D. Griffith, Jr. ’52 F. Jay Hammond, Jr. ’56 R. Jack Hood ’50 Thomas B. Horton, Jr. ’42 Tony Izzi, Jr. ’53 Ephraim G. Jackson ’43 Edwin R. Johnson ’54 James H. Kelley ’39 Sidney L. Kelly, Jr. ’53 Richard F. Leo ’57 William B. Lever ’51 Maxcy C. Lynn ’50 Joseph K. Maddox, Sr. ’49 Murph R. Mahaffey, Jr. ’48 William G. Major, Jr. ’44 Raymond E. Moore’51 Ray H. Morgan, Sr. ’57 Donald R. O’Dell ’54 Harris H. Parker, Jr. ’47 Harry L. Parker ’54 Harry M. Parsons ’47 R. Clinton Pittman ’52 Marion G. Pratt ’40 Thomas B. Prince ’49 Harold B. Prosser ’50 Clyde H. Robertson, Jr. ’50 L. Fred Robertson, Jr. ’49 P. Stuart Shuford ’52 Thomas G. Slaughter ’49 A. Clifton Smith, Jr. ’38 James A. Smith, Sr. ’52 B. B. Stevens ’56 James D. Stewart ’55 George A. Stone ’48 David Stuart ’57 J. Lee Swofford ’41 William S. Vincent ’46 George Wannamaker, Jr. ’47 Edward N. Washburn, III ’55 Robert M. Watson, Jr. ’57 Howard C. Weast ’55 Clyde O. Wells, Jr. ’48 T. James Westbury, Jr. ’48 Charles D. Williams, Jr. ’46 John O. Wilson, Jr. ’41 James E. Wiseman, Jr. ’56 Willis J. Woodham ’51 D. Boyce Woolbright, Jr. ’43

Loyalty Club

Archie I. Barron Kenneth R. Barton William T. Carpenter, Jr. Bill J. Farrow James L. Griggs Dennis W. Hammack Harry D. Hunter Lawton H. Salley Fred K. Sanders Walton B. Stamper Reddick B. Still, III Bobby C. Usher

Centurion Club

Estil H. Brown Bev O. Cochran, Jr. F. Del Combs Donald L. Elliott Richard A. Fredland Thomas R. Furse, Sr. Joe H. Gooch Robert W. Hart, III William H. Jeffries W. Steve Lowrance Ristine M. Morgan William F. Nettles, III J. William Pendarvis Laurens D. Pitts John C. Smiley, Jr. Harlan E. Wilson, Jr.

Contributors

W. Lorantz Bogan Dale E. Carnes Cliff B. Crosland Carroll E. Emery A. Kent Hall Charles H. Ham, Jr. Royce A. Justice Daniel E. King Dwain K. Rogers, Sr. Bates L. Scoggins, Jr. Mitchell H. Smith, Jr. Frank W. Teaster Wallace S. Watson Marvin W. Weathers, Jr. Wilbur P. Weeks Hugh O. Wilder

1959 Chairman’s Circle

Charles J. Bradshaw, Sr. LaFon C. Dees Jerry Richardson

Leadership Society H. Davis Green, Jr. Marion L. McMillan, Jr. Kenneth C. Porter Olin B. Sansbury, Jr. John K. Williams

President's Club

1958

Martin L. Banks, III Alvis J. Bynum Wendell Christopher Jerry B. Copes Gerald W. Gibson Doane E. James, Jr. Joseph M. Lewis Thomas L. Tiller, Jr.

Chairman’s Circle

Patron Club

Frank C. Stanton, Sr. William H. Whitley, Jr.

Trustee Society

William N. Bradford, Jr. Coty P. Fishburne, Jr. J. Coke Goodwin, Jr. A. V. Huff, Jr. Milton L. McGuirt Don E. Turner

Leadership Society

Loyalty Club

G. Manly Eubank Harold M. McLeod, Jr. W. Bonner Thomason, Sr. John R. Brown C. Warren Derrick, Jr. Ted H. Gaines

President's Club

Larry B. Farmer Richard H. Gettys Roger G. Hagy Robert F. Hall Richard E. Hollis Myles W. Whitlock, Jr. James K. Williams, Jr.

Patron Club

Joseph N. Blanton, Jr. James F. Green Marion P. Hamilton, Jr. William A. Kennedy, Jr. Lee C. Smith, Jr. A. Pierce Stockman, Jr. L. Hugh West, Jr.

Kenneth H. Campbell Thomas J. Gasque Kenneth H. Hefner William H. Hester David O. Johnson John S. Nettles, Jr. Dennis E. Pike C. Allen Senn G. David Smoak, Jr. Walter P. Tiedeman, III Donald E. White

Centurion Club

Doyce W. Ariail, Jr. Marcus C. Bethea, Jr. Charles W. Brockwell, Jr. Joseph W. Davis Donald F. Funderburk T. Spencer Graham Joseph D. Johnson James M. Keesler Marvin H. O’Neal, Jr.

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Wofford exceeds fundraising goal a year early Campaign raises more than $106 million for professorships, scholarships, facilities Campaign chair Jerry Richardson ’59 (center) with vice chairs Hugh Lane and Harold Chandler ’71.

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he college is indebted to its many loyal supporters including the National Campaign Steering Committee which was so capably led by Jerry Richardson ’59, and vice chairs, Hugh Lane and Harold Chandler ’71. The Campaign committee also included: Dow N. Bauknight ’71, Charlotte, N.C. James E. Bostic Jr., Atlanta, Ga. (trustee) Thomas C. Brittain ’75, Myrtle Beach, S.C. J. Harold Chandler ’71, Nashville, Tenn. (vice chair) LaFon C. Dees ’59, Atlanta, Ga. Benjamin B. Dunlap, Spartanburg, S.C. D. Chris Goodall ’79, Columbia, S.C. Van D. Hipp Jr. ’82, Washington, D.C. Ann Cobb Johnson, Spartanburg, S.C. (trustee) Douglas H. Joyce ’79, Nashville, Tenn.

Hugh C. Lane, Charleston, S.C. (vice chair and trustee) Timothy E. Madden ’85, Greenville, S.C. Steven W. Mungo ’81, Irmo, S.C. C. N. Papadopoulos ’54, Houston, Texas* Marion B. Peavey ’65, Spartanburg, S.C. Margaret C. Pope, Columbia, S.C. Russell R. Raines ’93, Spartanburg, S.C. Jerry Richardson ’59, Charlotte, N.C. (chair) Minor M. Shaw, Greenville, S.C. James L. Switzer Jr. ’80, Spartanburg, S.C. Joe E. Taylor ’80, Columbia, S.C. Edward B. Wile ’73, Atlanta, Ga. Ralph H. Womble, Winston-Salem, N.C. J. Neal Workman ’69, Clemson, S.C. John B. Yorke ’76, Charlotte, N.C.* * Deceased 8 • Wofford Today • Spring 2009

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offord College has exceeded its fundraising goal by more than $1 million a year ahead of schedule in the six-year “Campaign for Wofford” – bringing in more than $106 million by the end of 2008.

Launched in October 2002, the Campaign for Wofford, with a goal of raising $105 million, was scheduled to end on Dec. 31, 2009. A year early, the campaign closed Dec. 31, 2008, with $106,110,824 in gifts and pledges, according to Marion Peavey ’65, senior vice president for development and college relations.

“We received lots of loyal support from alumni, parents and friends,” Peavey says.

“Our National Campaign Steering Committee led by Jerry Richardson ’59, Hugh Lane and Harold Chandler ’71and the great volunteer network did an outstanding job.”

Lane, president and CEO of The Bank of South Carolina and a member of the Wofford Board of Trustees, says, “The generosity of Wofford alumni and friends in support of this campaign is overwhelming and quite a tribute to the college. The success of the campaign is an enormous investment in the future of the college and certainly makes the future more secure.”

“To be part of something that you and others can believe in with all your heart and soul is a wonderful gift,” says Wofford President Benjamin B. Dunlap. “To give back to it in turn is both a privilege and an affirmation. There are many of us for which the Wofford capital campaign has meant exactly that.”

Peavey attributes the early success of the campaign to a number of things. “The credibility of Wofford College is the major reason. We are so well-respected by our constituents, and with that loyalty comes support and approval. It’s a stamp of approval for what we do here at Wofford every day – provide an excellent education to outstanding young men and women.”

The Campaign for Wofford included raising funds for a variety of purposes, including the permanent endowment to fund endowed professorships and chairs, endowed scholarships and The Novel Experience program; facility needs, including work at Russell C. King Field and Switzer Stadium, restoration and maintenance of Main Building, renovations of Andrews Field House, residence hall work and other needs; Annual Fund and Terrier Club support; and funds for the enrichment of academic and campus programs.

The campaign has or will fund 142 new scholarships, and 11 new professorships/chairs have or will be created. A total of 10,965 donors contributed gifts or pledges. Of Wofford’s 13,000 living alumni, 6,572 provided gifts. More than 1,660 parents of current or former students gave. The number of gifts and pledges total more than 67,523, with individual donors giving to more than one category.

Peavey notes that 18 donors provided at least $1 million each, with the largest gift of $4.5 million from the Bonner Foundation going toward the college endowment.

While the Campaign for Wofford has ended, needs continue in a variety of areas, and fundraising for those will continue, Peavey stresses. “We have about $160 million in high priority needs, including building our endowment and meeting some pressing facilities needs. Those include funding the completion of The Village senior student apartment complex, completion of the Joe E. Taylor Athletic Center and more funds for the Glendale Shoals Environmental Studies Center. Other facilities needs include renovation of the former Baptist Student Center, work on the maintenance facility, laboratories and the new campus greenhouse. In addition, we are raising funds for additional endowed scholarships and professorships.”

by Laura H. Corbin

The Campaign for Wofford Major Funding Priorities

Permanent Endowment (student & faculty support)

Goal

Total

(as of 12/31/08)

$25,000,000 $30,000,000 $500,000

$9,897,461 $34,735,059 $24,929

Unrestricted Annual Fund $10,000,000 Terrier Club $9,000,000 Friends of the Library

$8,332,335 $7,924,018 $136,039

25 Endowed Faculty Professorships & Chairs Endowed Scholarships Novel Experience Program

Annual Fund Support

Enrichment Funds for Academic & Campus Programs Interim Program, Bonner Scholars Program, Success Initiative, Vocational Discernment & Pre-Ministerial Program, Learning Communities, Creative Writing Concentration

$10,000,000

$16,241,838

$5,000,000

$332,428

Restoration & renovation of Old Main 7,200,000 Endowed maintenance fund for Old Main Renovation of Andrews Field House/offices $1,500,000 Baseball stadium/field project $1,800,000 Residence hall $5,000,000 Other facilities

$5,985,448 $619,125 $1,025,860 $1,368,179 $5,000,000 $11,217,927

Other

New program for business leadership, Conference Center, Alumni College (program funding, endowment and facility support), etc.

Facility Needs

Designation Pending

TOTAL

$105,000,000

$3,270,178

$106,110,824

alumni (continued) P. Gordon Pitts L. Thurman Scott, Jr. William M. Smiley, II Joseph W. Stickle Don O. Tickle, Sr. William B. Tyson, Jr. Leon L. Wagnon, III John H. Waller, Jr. Albert E. Wheless

Contributors

Robert N. Carlisle T. Harold DeWitt James E. Fowler Richard D. Hopper E. Earl Kirkland Ernest W. Prewett, Jr.

1960 Leadership Society Oscar J. Fletcher, Jr. S. Austin Peele William F. Tinder

President's Club

Irvin S. Butler, Jr. C. Joe Carter J. Fisher DeBerry Edward R. Drayton, III David A. Fort Trapier K. Hart Julian C. Josey, Jr. Clyde T. Padgett, Jr. John M. Parham, Jr. T. Carroll Player, Jr. Ebbie L. Shaw, Jr. Hunter R. Stokes, Sr. William F. Stokes, Jr. James A. Stuckey, Jr. Lem E. Wiggins, III John C. Williams, Jr.

Patron Club

Robert O. Berry A. Cecil Bozard, Jr. Marshall W. Breland William A. Gardner, Jr. Joseph H. Gibson John G. Herbert Joe T. Pugh Thomas H. Tatum

Loyalty Club

Mitchell H. Allen Ernest R. Barefield Lem C. Carter Samuel O. Clardy Charles S. Harris William G. Sandifer, Jr. Harold D. Thompson, Sr.

Centurion Club

Larry T. Andrews Charles E. Baxter Victor C. Campbell Tom L. Cassady Jack E. Drawdy, Sr. Roland G. Elmore, Jr. Edwin N. Hall J. Capers Hiott Jimmy W. Hodge M. Hayes Mizell C. Randall Neighbors Max G. Poteat Carol E. Scoggins Allen S. Way Richard C. Weber Marion F. Wright, Jr. *

Contributors

Richard C. Adkins James H. Anderson Jerry P. Campbell C. Dean Cochran Thomas M. Ellison Madge G. Ezell C. Wayne Marsh Marion D. Myers Michael D. Sill

Lewis A. Lynch, Sr. Dan B. Maultsby J. Ramsey Mellette, Jr. Glen R. Melton James R. Owings, Jr.

Patron Club

Barnee C. Baxter C. Randolph Mahaffey, Jr. Marion G. Pittman Richard L. Robinson William E. Sentelle, III Jennings C. Watford Malcolm C. Woods, III

Loyalty Club

Leland E. Burch William S. Derrick James W. Hudgens Ansel L. Huggins, Jr. Donald C. Jones Thomas W. Kelly, Jr. James M. McLeod, Jr. James I. St. John

Centurion Club

George T. Case, Jr. Wilson M. Davis Charles D. DeLorme, Jr. Charles L. Garrett, Jr. John E. Goode Ben W. Goodwin Ben M. Gramling, II Harper D. Hawkins, Jr. John P. Hendrix, Jr. Glynn G. Johnson Charles L. Kellett Walter W. Lanford William J. Lawing Roy C. Moore Douglas M. Shytles Ronald E. Sperlbaum Needham R. Williamson William V. Witherspoon, Jr.

Contributors

Thomas C. Bristow, Jr. Paul S. Lofton, Jr. E. Donald McKinney

1962 Chairman’s Circle Charles H. Drawdy

Trustee Society

Lloyd C. Merritt, Jr.

Leadership Society William W. Kellett, III T. Patrick McAbee O. Eugene Powell, Jr. W. Carl Walsh, Jr.

President's Club

Boyce M. Berry Morton G. Forbes William P. Fowler William H. Greer, Jr. Peden B. McLeod

Patron Club

Harry A. Allen, Jr. W. E. Barnhill, Jr. Ret. James F. Patterson William O. Whetsell, Jr.

Loyalty Club

Hoyt C. Burnett, Jr. W. Carrington Edmunds Marion B. Edwards, III James A. Gibson, Jr. Philip D. Greer A. Preston Irby, Jr. Randall R. Kincaid, Jr. Robert C. Monson C. David Nutting * L. Glenn Orr, Jr.

Centurion Club

1961 Chairman’s Circle Walter C. Guy, Jr.

Trustee Society Anonymous Alec H. Chaplin James N. Kirby

Leadership Society Dwight F. Patterson, Jr.

* deceased

President's Club

J. Cantey Alexander, Jr. J. Roy Bishop, Jr. W. Donald Britt, Sr. Franklin B. Buie Lee C. Culler Cecil T. Durham, Jr. W. Wallace Fridy, Jr. Don J. Greiner Ronald R. Ingle Charles M. Israel

W. Delma Parris R. Michael Pipkin Robert H. Ropp C. Ronald Russell John H. Sitton R. Keith Wiley

Contributors

Joe T. Bradham, Jr. Milton L. Burgess, Jr. Donald R. Freiday W. Stephen Frey Allan D. Graham Charles C. Graham Harold B. Jayroe Robert F. Turner

Timothy P. Jones Charles W. Saunders, Jr. D. Jerry Stallworth, Jr. Timothy T. Tyler

Patron Club

John E. Bagwell, Jr. John D. Lowry, Jr. Ray A. McLees, III J. Alex O’Daniel Louis E. Shepard, Jr.

Loyalty Club

J. Spratt White, IV

D. Mark Adams, III W. Sterling Anderson Robert H. Buchanan, Jr. Michael L. Chewning Alex Gundry J. Ben Lawrence Jim E. Massengale John A. Morrow George S. Nicholson, Jr. Robert E. Poland John A. Stone John T. Varner, III

President's Club

Centurion Club

1963 Trustee Society

Kenneth H. Buffington L. Leon Patterson

Leadership Society Jack G. Alexander Pierce W. Cantey, Jr. Andrew C. English John T. Gramling, II William A. Gray, Jr. Julian W. Osbon James B. Terry, Jr.

Patron Club

Richard F. Curtis Gerald W. King Charles E. Mackey, III Thomas M. West, Jr.

Loyalty Club

Larry E. Dent Crawford E. Foy, Jr. Curtis F. Powell Thomas T. Traywick, Jr. W. B. Umphlett J. Robert Waldrop Melford A. Wilson, Jr.

Centurion Club

J. Gerald Baughcome Preston H. Beattie, Jr. C. Eugene Berry, Jr. Harold K. Broome John P. Callahan J. Robert Cantey Michael J. Copps B. Spencer Culbreth David A. Dees Ernest J. Eaddy, Jr. Roger E. Gibson Thomas C. Hadwin, Jr. J. Larry Harrill Robert L. Huggin, Jr. Gerry F. Inabinet David W. Kay Frederick Parrish M. Steve Rogers Tollie C. Ross, Jr. A. Harper Shull, III C. Trigg Snidow, III Joe R. Younginer

Contributors

Thurman W. Anderson, Jr. Ben F. Byrd, Jr. Phillip S. Lake Henry M. Smith

1964 Chairman’s Circle

Rob E. Gregory, Jr. George Dean Johnson, Jr.

Trustee Society Sam W. Jones, Jr.

Leadership Society Monnie L. Broome Harry S. Bryant Thomas R. Kelly Douglas B. Nash Allen H. Stokes, Jr. H. Pat Worrell *

President's Club

E. C. Burnett, III James J. Cooksey, Sr. Buddy Cubitt Braxton M. Cutchin, III James E. Griffeth

Kinnison with Tate Braswell ’09, Spenser Smith ’09, Jeff Gurganus ’09 and Aimee Caswell ’09

R. Stewart Bauknight Gary M. Byrd Jerry T. Charles Eugene L. Curry J. Vic Funderburk James D. George Phillip M. Graham John B. Johnston Dale A. Losey, Jr. John S. Lupold Paul E. Lyles, Jr. Charles W. McCall, Jr. H. Herbert Mott James A. Neal Jerry L. Phillips P. David Sloan, Jr. Claude W. Smith, Jr. Carroll D. Solesbee Howard S. Waddell, III Walter J. Wallace Samuel D. Watson, Jr. Kenneth L. Wilson

Contributors

J. Carlton Bell Cliff W. Bowers, Jr. Wiley B. Cooper Wade F. Dansby, Jr. William T. Gregory A. Bernard Martin W. Michael Riddle Harvey Tankersley, Jr.

1965 Chairman’s Circle Robert D. Atkins Robert P. Bethea Harold E. Plaster, Jr.

Leadership Society David R. Clark Costa M. Pleicones

President's Club

Archibald W. Black J. A. Bouknight, Jr. William N. Epps, Jr. J. Lindsay Leviner, Jr. Marion B. Peavey

Patron Club

Peter D. Berry Charles H. Eschenbach D. Todd Heldreth C. William Wimberly, Jr. Russell D. Zimmerman, III

Loyalty Club

Sion A. Bell J. Kenneth Davis Robert E. Derrick William E. Dolson Jack W. Lawrence J. Grady Locklear John S. Reid James S. Rogers, III D. Wayne Whetsell Torrey L. Whitman

Centurion Club

B. Phillip Adams, III Ernest R. Allen Tam D. Belding, Jr. * Brodie N. Belliveau, Jr. Charles A. Bethea

BEST of the 1960s

participation percentage............................the class of 1960: 58%

total annual fund gift............................ the class of 1967: $58,165

Dr. Li Qing Kinnison, a constant mentor “We get to know each other so well because we meet together almost every day.”

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three years ago, Dr. Li Qing Kinnison was the only Chinese language professor on campus. She often saw the current class of graduating seniors in the Chinese language program five days a week for their first two years of the program.

To complete the major in Chinese, the students must take eight Chinese language courses, three non-language courses on China or Asia, and study abroad in China for one semester. Kinnison keeps in regular e-mail contact with her students while they’re away and still teaches half of the classes in Chinese studies.

“During our freshman and sophomore years, we even had to come to her office after class to recite the text in Chinese,” says Jeff Gurganus ’09, one of four in Wofford’s second graduating class of Chinese majors.

According to Aimee Caswell ’09, higherlevel students try to speak only Chinese in class or when talking with Kinnison. Also, every semester after the final exam, Kinnison takes the group to a local Chinese restaurant.

The group goes out before sending students abroad as well.

“We usually speak only Chinese and discuss everything from what it was like to be in China to politics,” says Spenser Smith ’09.

Caswell says that Kinnison is constantly sending them online information, such as games or Web sites to keep their Chinese language skills sharp.

Tate Braswell ’09 adds that Kinnison helped him secure an internship in China during his experience abroad and brought in speakers from the college’s Career Services Kinnison teaches students to make Office to share advice for individuals with Chinese dumplings. Chinese language skills.

Each year Kinnison also recruits her students to help plan a Chinese New Year celebration and a Mid-Autumn festival for the Wofford community.

The students all agree that it’s an intense program, both academically and socially.

Kinnison, who let her students do the talking during most of the interview, agrees.

“We get to know each other so well because we meet together almost every day,” she says. “I feel like they are my kids. They’re all wonderful. I will really miss them.”

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DEVELOPMENT UPDATE 2008 Alumni and Development Highlights

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16,624 alumni, parents and friends attended a variety of events (117 in total) both on and off campus. These events include everything from Homecoming, Family Weekend, and the Easter EggStravaganza to continuing education programs, regional gatherings, athletic events and donor appreciation events.

n a year filled with news of international uncertainty, $3,000,000 economic stress, and a declining stock market, supporters Annual Fund Growth of Wofford College heroically came to the aid of our college.

Total giving for 2008 amounted to $13,836,803. In addition, nearly $7 million dollars in new pledges were recorded during $2,500,000 the year.

The Campaign for Wofford, which began in October of 2002, exceeded the dollar goal of $105 million in December, $2,000,000 nearly a year ahead of schedule.

Planned gifts continue to provide an important source of income for Wofford. The college received $2,661,144 from $1,500,000 11 bequests in 2008. In addition, more than $1.2 million in planned gifts were created to provide future support for Wofford. $1,000,000 The 2008 Annual Fund provided almost $2.7 million for operating costs and scholarships for student-athletes. The success of annual giving relies heavily on a cadre of volunteers led $500,000

by National Annual Fund Chair Jim Crawford ’78 and Terrier Club President John Bauknight ’89.

Challenges for the 30th (1978) and 40th (1968) reunions impacted the success of the Annual Fund by providing almost 0 1968 1973 1978 1983 1988 1993 1998 2003 2008 $90,000 in new or increased gifts (more details on page 29).

In addition, the Class of 2008 emerged victorious in the Terrier Top 5 Challenge, which encouraged participation among our youngest graduates.

Wofford on Call (the college’s phone solicitation program) recorded commitments in excess of $734,000 (see page 44 for more information).

Every name listed in this publication plays an important role in sustaining our momentum. Wofford salutes all of its volunteers and donors in 2008, especially the following top donors: n The Estates of Mr. ’31 and Mrs. S. Hart Booth Jr., $1,834,327, designated for the S. Hart Booth, Jr. 1931 and Margaret Booth Endowed Scholarship Fund. n Michael S. Brown ’76, $221,031, given to The Village, the Student Activities Fund, the Raymond J. Brown current scholarship, the Golf Driving Range, the Atlanta Alumni Event, the Annual Fund (both Terrier Club and Unrestricted) and the Mike Brown Summer Internship Fund. n The Central Carolina Community Foundation (directed by Joe E. Taylor Jr. ’80), $254,500, designated to the Joe E. Taylor Athletic Center, the Mike W. Ayers Endowed Scholarship Fund, the Terrier Club and the Unrestricted Annual Fund. n Fullerton Foundation, $200,000 towards the Community of Scholars student research fund.

(Above) Cleveland Harley ’60 (second from right) surrounded by n W. Hayne Hipp, $967,500, directed to the Liberty Fellowship and the President’s family at the dedication of the Cleveland and Curtis Harley Room Discretionary Fund. in the Richardson Physical Activities Building. The event was held preceding the President’s Club Christmas Party in December. The n James Family Foundation, $1,100,000, given to the Student Managed InvestHarleys have been volunteers and supporters at Wofford for more than ment Fund and the R. Michael James Family Professor of Finance.

50 years, establishing the Cleveland S. and Curtis R. Harley n Roger Milliken, $537,103, donated for the Milliken Faculty Development Endowed Scholarship, designed for student-athletes, in 1998 and Seminars Abroad, the Mike W. Ayers Endowed Scholarship Fund, the Dan B. other named funds to benefit Wofford students. Mrs. Harley, who Maultsby Endowed Scholarship Fund, the Unrestricted Annual Fund, the Terrier died in 2007, was a talented portrait and landscape artist who Club, and various other projects. enjoyed using her skills to add a graceful artistic touch to n Reeves Foundation, $250,000, directed to the Reeves Professorship Challenge. the Wofford events with which she was involved throughout the years. n Jerome J. Richardson ’59, $1,221,500, contributed to the Richardson Family Endowed Athletic Scholarship Fund, the Richardson Building Renovations, The (Below, from left to right) Anne and Dr. Benjamin B. Dunlap at Richardson Currently Funded Scholarship, the Phillips Family Endowed Scholartheir annual Christmas gathering for leadership donors with Dexter ship Fund, the Dan B. Maultsby Endowed Scholarship Fund, The Terrier Club Cleveland ’70 and John Russell. and the Unrestricted Annual Fund. n Sanders Brothers Investment Group, $250,000, contributed as the final payment

by Ell and Greg Sanders to create the Eli F. Sanders ’54 Endowed Football Scholarship Fund. n The South Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church, $401,431 designated for the Senior College Scholarship Fund. n The Estate of Mr. Newell R. Whitener, $500,000, bequeathed to establish the Newell R. and Caroline M. Whitener Endowed Scholarship Fund.

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alumni (continued) J. Robert Bradham 1967 Carl W. Brock, Jr. John P. Checkovich Reaves H. Gasque Calvin D. Hughes Paul S. Julienne William C. Keels J. Daulton Keith J. Tom McLellan, Sr. Ron F. Mooneyham G. G. Moore, Jr. Jerry P. Park Robert O. Pickens, III William J. Rivers, II Fred W. Robbins Torrey W. Rogerson W. Allen Simpson, Jr. Henry R. Smith, Jr. Scott Templeton William J. Ward Bruce W. White, Jr. Fred L. Whiting W. Eugene Whitlock Thomas M. Zepp

Contributors

Tom U. Cameron, Jr. James D. Cobb, Jr. James C. Davis F. James DeVine, Jr. William T. Hendrix, Jr. Kenneth L. Loftis Edwin K. Long James J. McAndrew, II Thomas F. McLeod R. Barry Rogers

1966 Trustee Society

L. Barry Foy Albert L. Johnson, III John Land, Jr. Randal M. Robinson

Leadership Society Dennis L. Guthrie Michael P. Kellett

President's Club

William J. Bates Robert B. Bradley Lloyd E. Hayes, Sr. George W. Hudson, Jr. T. Norwood Lide, Jr. Ronald W. Williamson

Patron Club

Tillman J. Abell, Jr. James P. Anderson, Jr. David J. Bishop James W. Childers, III J. Hayne Culler, Sr. Pierce H. Hegler, Jr. James F. Henderson, Jr. G. Tommy Myers, Jr. W. Ray Ridgeway David D. Thorpe

Loyalty Club

James L. Beck, Jr. H. Kenneth Boucher, Jr. Marion C. Chandler, Jr. Richard A. Deahl John G. Fulmer, Jr. Edward D. Gilmer, Jr. J. Pat Henry Robert F. O’Dell G. Alf Ruff, Jr. Douglas N. Tinsley

Centurion Club

Andrew J. Akelaitis Marion W. Beacham, Jr. Philip H. Burrus, III Frank W. Farnum, III Charles A. Hardin Edward M. Hull Weldon R. Johnson Terry W. Lipscomb John O. McDougall James K. Sullivan J. Donald Walker R. Kenneth Williams

Contributors

W. Thomas Divver, Jr. John W. Hinks J. Douglas McLain Wilbur H. Reames, Jr. E. C. Ridgell, Jr. Chip Steele

Chairman’s Circle Stewart H. Johnson

Trustee Society

Frank G. Satterfield, III Sam B. Shackelford, Jr. Robert C. Williams

Leadership Society W. Russell Hughes, III D. Smith Patterson

President's Club

John E. Adams, Jr. John Klaas, II Hubbard W. McDonald, Jr. Richard S. Miller Milton P. Moore James E. Proctor James R. Rountree, Jr. William C. Thomas Joseph B. Traywick, II Bruce H. Truesdale

Patron Club

Joseph R. Cross, Jr. John E. Haas Paul H. Infinger Carleton A. Jones, III E. Michael O’Tuel, III Jan L. Pillar

Loyalty Club

Edward D. Allen Rick L. Carlisle, Jr. Loraine W. Cusaac Bernard F. Gallagher, Jr. Joseph C. Good T. Truman Harris Milton Rhodes Dan W. Rigby, Jr. William M. Smethie, Jr. David E. Tooker Edward C. Watford, Jr.

Centurion Club

W. Marshall Anderson, Jr. Johnny Babb Herbert E. M. Berl William M. Brown Edwin W. Callison, Jr. William C. Cubberley Francis M. Dwight, II William B. Ellis, Jr. Wayne C. Foster Charlie L. Fowler, II David V. Haigler F. Larry Holley, Jr. Eugene G. Johnson, III C. Roland Jones, Jr. A. Palmer Knight William P. Lancaster, Jr. C. Linwood Littlejohn John T. Miller H. Zach Nabers, III James C. Pace, Jr. Ellis H. Parsons, Jr. Lanier B. Phillips Ralph W. Simons, III G. Murrell Smith Rodney M. Stalheim Lawrence C. Stallcup H. T. Stroman, Jr. Thomas M. Sumerel, Jr. Robert L. Tennyson Charles C. Thomas, II Thomas W. Tolbert E. K. Trone, III Whit B. Wallace, Jr. Charles F. Walton, Jr. William C. Ziegler, Jr.

Contributors

John R. Baldwin Dannye O. Bragdon William D. Crawford Thomas B. Ellis Paul G. McCravy R. Sidney Smith Charles K. Williams, Jr.

1968 Chairman’s Circle

John A. Hendrix T. Carter Thomasson, Jr.

Trustee Society

W. Randolph Loftis, Jr. J. Frank Morris Will H. Willimon

Leadership Society W. Dana Haithcock, Jr. Lindly B. Mingledorff

* deceased

President's Club

Mason A. Goldsmith Robert G. Gray Robert F. Martin G. Whit Payne, III George L. Reynolds, Jr. Michael A. Sandifer Charles F. Shepard Donald K. White

Patron Club

Dennis C. Adams J. Larry Atkinson Ronald G. Bruce Neal W. Dickert Robert E. Downey Arthur M. Fowler, Jr. Jeffrey C. Hall F. Ed Kirkley, Jr. William E. Shaughnessy Dantzler E. Smith, Jr. D. Parker Stokes A. Stuart Walker, III

Loyalty Club

Paul M. Bagwell James M. Hines, Jr. Newton I. Howle, Jr. Joseph B. James Todd L. Johnson W. Furman Mauldin, Jr. A. Irwin McIntosh D. Andrew Nivens Louis L. Norcross William M. Ponder, III W. Kenneth Rogers, Jr. James V. Smith Rodger E. Stroup Joseph G. Wright, III

Centurion Club

H. Wilder Aitken J. Rodger Anthony Craig W. Burnette J. Ronnie Clayton Jesse Crimm George W. Dawson John G. Forrester, Jr. H. McCord Fraser James R. Gettys, Jr. David H. Hames James F. Harris Dean S. Hartley, III Harry L. Johnston Algie H. Kennedy, Jr. Dennis R. Lee James L. Mahaffey J. Mark McCall Jack B. McCutcheon, Jr. Gary L. McMahan Max O. Reeves John G. Seabrook, Jr. John B. Stewart, Jr. Robert H. Stillwell, Jr. M. Ray Sullivan David B. Viccellio Glen F. Vick

Contributors

Steve M. Ackerman C. S. Baldwin, III C. Brooks Bannister David M. Bates John E. Clayton E. D. Cornelius John M. Freeman John L. Haverstock Ronald G. Howard J. Everett Spell, II Donald E. Tate John B. Wates, Jr. Dennis W. Williams

1969 Chairman’s Circle Fowler W. Cary, Jr.

Trustee Society

Anonymous Robert C. Deale, III J. Neal Workman

Leadership Society Robert M. Ariail Gene W. Grace Jack L. Kaplan, Jr. Harry Lancaster, Jr. Frank M. Pickens L. Perrin Powell

President's Club Sally C. Barrett Arthur G. Fusco John B. Lunday Rex A. Maynard Richard L. Myers Richard H. Rhodes

Robert D. Wade Stanley B. Watson

Patron Club

John H. Burtnett, III Barry R. Flood Priest C. Fuller James C. Hardin, III R. Bates Kennedy Timothy A. Remaley William F. Truesdale

Loyalty Club

H. Clinton Belk, Jr. Joe E. Bullington, Jr. James W. Clarkson A. Kennedy Dawson Thomas M. Faile J. Gilbert Foster, Jr. Alfred B. Garr Robert R. Glenn, Jr. Samuel E. Harmon, III Keith W. Hoy Arthur A. James, III Foster B. McLane, III Jeffrey A. Merriam James M. Overton C. Garfield Rosengren J. Ronald Ward

Centurion Club

Lawrence N. Bridgers Steve L. Burch Charles L. Compton George H. Corn, Jr. Danny K. Crout H. Tigner Culpepper Thomas G. Cumming M. Johnston Dantzler Virgil A. Dedas David V. Duncan, II E. Stone Felder Eric K. Green Bruce L. Johnson James E. Johnson John S. Kilgo, Jr. Moses Meide, Jr. Jackson Mizell, Jr. John A. Morton William H. Riley, III J. Richard Ruthven Steven S. Shay Thomas R. Simpson, Jr. Henry S. Spann Jack C. Sprott Tom B. Thrailkill, Jr. Norman M. Tisdale Kenneth A. Williams

Contributors

Howard C. Boose W. Terry Chisholm Edward S. Clark, Jr. Thomas W. Coons Marion L. Cooper Leon A. Johnson, Jr. Wayne T. Lineberger Marion P. Ratliff, Jr. Robert M. Richmond Paul R. Skidmore Richard B. Sturkie, Jr. J. Wes Ward, III Thomas E. Young, Jr.

1970 Trustee Society

Edward J. Hamilton, Jr. Frank S. Poe, Jr.

Leadership Society Emerson Bell James W. McCabe Robert S. Randall

President's Club

Charles H. Davidson, IV * Henry F. Floyd W. Steven Johnson Russell B. Lentz, Jr. Dale B. Lowe John F. Miller H. Michael Spivey Paul D. Walker

Patron Club

Doyle W. Boggs John M. Burbage T. Vernon Drew, Jr. Holman C. Gossett, Jr. Wallace M. Jopling, III Sonny B. Lyles James C. Rushton, III M. Hunt Self Edward Warren, III

Loyalty Club

Riddick Ackerman, III Richard M. Blum

Wayne K. Myers Gabriel Rouquie, Jr. W. Bruce Tillotson Thomas A. Whitehead

Centurion Club

C. Frank Adams Craig N. Bauer Ken W. Bedenbaugh, Jr. John A. Brown, Jr. Jerry D. Clement Dexter A. Cleveland Van G. H. Clouse M. Curry Dawkins Thomas J. DeCaro James H. Ellis J. Randolph Foster, Jr. Floyd R. Funderburg Jack C. Graves Thomas V. Heard, III Robert S. Howard Peter B. Howell Peter M. Larsen Victor H. Lipscomb, III Robert W. Page, III James M. Pickens T. Dane Pierce, Jr. James L. Stevens Randolph B. Thomas Lucius F. Wates L. Tom Wright, Jr.

Samantha Hall ’09 and John Moeller

Contributors

Samuel R. Clawson James W. Hastings, Sr. David D. Larson Ben T. Linder Phillip C. Lyman John H. McCall Wayne A. Munch Jesse M. Turner

1971 Chairman’s Circle J. Harold Chandler James M. Johnson F. Kimball Joyner, Jr.

Trustee Society

Hunter C. Quick W. Strat Stavrou, Sr.

Leadership Society Robert A. Barber, Jr. John F. Rhem, Jr. Kenneth E. Smith Marshall T. Walsh

President's Club Dow N. Bauknight L. Foy Fisher, III Gaines M. Foster Albert W. Gray John E. Holler, Jr. Ralph R. McMillan Donald B. Wildman Henry B. Wilkinson

Patron Club

Preston B. Bobo, Jr. John W. Fort Creswell B. Harley Richard B. Lowry Jonathan V. Maxwell Henry T. Medlock, II Lanny W. Moore William L. Murrah, Jr. William T. Parsons Kenneth W. Pearson Donald W. Shuler Connie M. Snipes, Jr.

Loyalty Club

Lawrence R. Chewning, Jr. T. C. Chick Gosnell, III F. Michael Kimbrell Thomas H. Lyles Bobby C. Roberts, Jr. H. Eugene Sewell Charles H. White, Jr.

Centurion Club

George Brandt, III Perry M. Buckner J. Timothy Cash Robert H. Cauthen, Jr. Phillip D. Donnan Leonard O. Gay, Jr. Robert G. Irick James T. Jakes Martin B. Jarvis, Jr. Lawrence F. Kind Thomas J. Leclair Robert H. Mobley, Jr. William E. Reese Peter A. Rowe Robert G. Shorkey William A. Smith, Jr.

Dr. John Moeller, bonding and mentoring over insects “The program was really designed to develop interaction between mentor and student like you would have in graduate school.”

Going

into her final year at Wofford, Samantha Hall ’09 knew she wanted to experience concentrated scientific research. She wasn’t sure whether she wanted to pursue graduate school or look for a job in research, but she knew that she needed a significant undergraduate research experience to be competitive in either.

The Community of Scholars and Dr. John Moeller, associate professor of biology, provided that opportunity.

During the summer with Moeller’s guidance, Hall studied the stridulation (sound-production) patterns of the velvet ant (a common name for the wingless wasp).

“When Dr. Moeller told me about his research with insects, I thought, ‘this is right up my alley,’” says Hall. “I’ve always loved insects. Some are communal, some solitary… they’re fascinating.”

Moeller and Hall spent their days watching the behavior of the ants and using sensitive equipment to record their sounds.

“Community of Scholars provided the perfect opportunity to work with a student and follow up on my research,” says Moeller.

“The program was really designed to develop interaction between mentor and student like you would have in graduate school.”

Moeller is teaching and continuing his research with the velvet ant, specifically how they locate the nests of their hosts. Hall finished her coursework in December and is applying to graduate schools and looking for research assistantships.

“I’ve gotten experience working with other professors and students from other colleges who I’ve collaborated with on the Community of Scholars project,” says Hall. “The program also taught me that there is a lot more in research than I could have possibly thought before. It was a great experience that I know has given me a good step toward a future in research.”

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On Campus news and updates Wofford shows Littlejohn paintings Recent paintings by Justice C. Littlejohn ’03 were on exhibit from Feb. 10 until March 27, 2009, at Wofford’s Martha Cloud Chapman Gallery. After graduating from Wofford, Littlejohn earned a MAT in art education from the University of South Carolina.

He also has studied at Western Carolina University’s summer intensive MFA program with a number of national artists. He has taught in the public schools and his work has been exhibited in galleries in the Columbia, S.C., area, as well as Atlanta, Charleston, Asheville and New Mexico. This was his first return exhibition at Wofford.

Wofford joins National Teach-In on global warming

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r. Cynthia Fowler, assistant professor of sociology, was checking her e-mail last fall when something came in that sparked her interest.

“A professor in Oregon and his staff organized a national teach-in,” she says. “This year the topic was global warming, and I thought it would be appropriate to participate in it since we just launched our environmental studies major and minor this semester.”

The first week of classes coincided with the national teach-in.

“It really allowed us to have an exciting, active, dynamic beginning to our environmental studies program,” says Fowler.

“It really motivated our environmental studies students, because they were able to participate in something really special and instead of easing into the semester they got to jump in feet first.”

Eban Goodstein, a professor of economics at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore., heads the group Focus the Nation.

“They have a Web site, and it served as a great support system for anyone who wanted to participate in the national teachin,” says Fowler. “The Web site provides a menu, basically, of events that you can organize on your campus as part of the national teach-in.

“One of the events was a Webcast called Solutions for the First 100 Days, a movie produced by Goodstein and his 12 • Wofford Today • Spring 2009

staff. In it, he and some other notable people who are leading the fight against global warming recommended ways to fight the problem. The title comes from recommendations they were making for the newly elected president in his first 100 days of office, as well as Congress.”

When she first saw the e-mails from Goodstein’s group, Fowler wasn’t sure how much she could do in terms of setting up something.

“I thought, ‘I want to participate in this National Teach-In, but I might not have a whole lot of time to devote to it,’” she says. “But the Webcast is an easy thing to plan. I had a little time over Christmas break, and I started to explore the Web site and plan some more events.”

Fowler recruited other professors. They planned a round-table discussion and a Campus to Congress video dialogue with Rep. Bob Inglis.

On Feb. 4, Inglis spoke to Wofford students via webcam from Washington.

He was one of many congressmen talking to students from more than 750 schools across the country.

The bottom line is that a lot of Wofford students got a chance to discuss a topic that has piqued their interests.

“I was impressed by how many students asked questions and how thoughtful those questions were. You could tell they had some background knowledge about global warming, the economy, physics and philosophy,” says Fowler

by Brett Borden

Goodchild helps students explore Africa through art

O

ne classroom at a time, Dr. Karen Goodchild, associate professor of art history, is trying to enlighten her students on a subject many of them know little about…Africa. Goodchild teaches an African Art class that is a survey of the arts of sub-Saharan Africa.

“Each time I teach the class, I try not only to discuss art, but also the colonial history of Africa, and current challenges that Africa faces,” says Goodchild. “Two years ago, about half my class chose to read the book ‘Mountains Beyond Mountains’ about Partners in Health founder Paul Farmer, the amazing man who has revolutionized the approach to health care in Haiti and has spread his efforts to Rwanda. After reading it, we heard Farmer speak, then ate lunch with him. Many students said the experience was eye-opening.

Goodchild “Last semester, I mentioned an organization called ‘Nothing but Nets’ in class. For $10 this charity can purchase and install an insect-repellant treated net in a home in Africa and all the children who sleep under it will be protected from deadly malaria. Five students in my class got excited about the project and set themselves the goal of sending 100 nets to Africa. They worked with athletics and other campus organizations to meet this goal.”

“We had tables in the Burwell building and for Family Weekend, and we went around to a lot of classes,” says Summers Pendarvis ’10, one of those students.

Millie Hardison ’10, Paige Forrester ’11, Kathleen Bazaz ’11 and Lindy Bunch ’09 all helped along with Pendarvis.

“Every $10 buys and installs malaria nets,” says Hardison. “Each malaria nets sleeps three to four children and last for up to 10 years. Also, with that money the people receive education and awareness about malaria as well as follow up visits.”

“The insecticide treated nets form a barrier against the mosquitoes and reduces transmission (of malaria) up to 90 percent,” adds Forrester. “Our goal was to raise $1,000, and we came close.”

Another student from the fall semester course, Amelia Wilson ’09, is continuing African research this semester with an Outreach/Independent Study project helping the Okefenokee Heritage Center research a gift of some ancient African terra cottas. She will design an exhibition and produce a catalog for the center.

“When students learn about African culture and customs, they often re-examine their own cultural practices. So when my class considered, for instance, the Sande initiation rituals for a girl’s entry into womanhood, they compared it to the Western experience of the debutante.

“In all my classes and in African art in particular, I always hope that even if students forget some of the factual information we cover, they will remember the big ideas,” says Goodchild. “One person famously defined humans as ‘the only art-making animal,’ and in art we see human commonalities across geography and time.

“Whether we study art made hundreds of years ago or art made by people who live far away in a very different culture, we see that humans always have similar concerns. Art explores peoples’ relation to each other, to God, to nature, to death.

Learning this connectedness across time and geography makes it harder to dismiss anyone as ‘other.’”

Goodchild took her students to the Sandor Teszler Library for the first class of this semester. African Masks and Sculpture from the Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Scanlin Collection on display there. Goodchild’s quest to educate young people on Africa is working, one classroom at a time.

by Brett Borden

Scanlin shows students his collection of masks

alumni (continued) Casper E. Wiggins, Jr. Philip D. Zulick, II

Contributors

J. Mitchell Cox, Jr. John F. Grigsby C. Michael Horton W. Randolph Hursey Pat L. Lichtenberger Butler B. Mullins Elzie L. Tate, III Michael W. Wilson

1972 Chairman’s Circle John B. McLeod * John B. White, Jr.

Trustee Society Gary N. Babcock Frank J. Brunson

Leadership Society Robert A. Brannon Charles E. McGill, II

President's Club

W. Montague Allen D. Singleton Bailey D. Lynn Cobb Charles H. Gray, Jr. Allen S. Guignard James A. Harris John M. Herbert Thomas F. Lytle George S. Tyson, Jr. George H. White

Patron Club

Thomas C. Anderson James G. Bouknight John A. Burkholder Steve R. Cannon C. Lawrence Crenshaw Robert R. Horger William F. James, Jr. Joseph D. Sloan

Loyalty Club

William D. Byars Kenneth W. Lowe Thomas P. Palmer Pepe Perron Charles E. Whitt, Jr. Thomas D. Winfrey

Centurion Club

George S. Bailey W. Edward Biggs John G. Black Thomas E. Bratton Robert A. Brinson Eric R. Byrd Hubert E. Cooke, III Harry J. Crow, Jr. Allen W. Edgerton James L. Gaston, Jr. W. Miles Gentry, Jr. Carl D. Hathcock William T. Hurst Robert E. Jordan, Sr. Russell A. Kelley Ray A. Maultsby C. Brad Sears, Jr. Ernest B. Segars Rick Smith J. Vic Spigener, III T. Keith Wood Donald P. Woodward

Contributors

Maxwell F. Boyle Donald S. Eatmon Arthur H. Holt Dan M. Kaminer W. Richard Keller Eleanore G. Lynn George W. Lynn Steven L. McCalla Dan R. Munn Richard L. Odiorne, Jr. G. Lynn Powell Ernest W. Sumner Wiley R. Taylor, III J. Michael Whitmire

1973 Chairman’s Circle Richard H. Cohn R. Michael James Edward B. Wile

Trustee Society Clay B. Dyar, III E. Bert Knight, III

* deceased

Leadership Society T. Lee Bryant, Jr. Charles W. Jones R. Monty Laffitte, Jr. Barry B. McNeely *

President's Club

John E. Allison, Jr. William H. Davidson, II John T. Guthrie

Patron Club

B. Mike Alexander, Jr. Thomas G. Anderson Leon M. Cook Melton L. Francis Chrys J. Harris Stan B. Littlejohn P. Scott Sperka

Loyalty Club

J. Stephen Alexander Thomas H. Coker, Jr. Robert H. Corley G. Shep Dozier Jack D. Griffeth James H. Hipp C. W. Limehouse, Jr. Steven K. Young

Centurion Club

Charles A. Brooks Michael N. Brown John L. Bruce, Jr. Ralph M. Burns, III M. Edward Chewning, Jr. J. Vassie Cooke, III William L. Dennis Steven C. Fulmer Michael L. Hope K. Graham Lawrence, Jr. Joe N. Long, Jr. Jerry W. Peace Carl V. Pittillo, Jr. B. Sam Powell, III James B. Reid, Jr. Richard F. Rouquie, Jr. David S. Sims Alan H. Verch Jack L. Waters Robert B. Way, Jr. Robert G. Weston

Contributors

Joseph H. Blanton, II David M. Glenn James D. Gover Paul M. Hyman Norman V. Keith, Jr. George J. Leventis Glenn M. Simmons, Jr. Sam F. Wheeler, Jr.

1974 Chairman’s Circle Tom L. Bower, III M. Stewart Mungo David L. Neugent, Jr.

Trustee Society David S. Murphy

Leadership Society Evans T. Barnette C. Ed Coffey Kathleen S. Coffey

President's Club

Jerry L. Calvert James J. Heinz Edward T. Hinson, Jr. Thomas R. McLeod Robert U. Miller James W. Moody, Jr. James C. Rhea, III R. Grant Smith C. Greg Toney Woodrow W. Willard, Jr.

Patron Club

Centurion Club

Larry G. Joyner C. David Williams, III

President's Club

Allen O. Clark, Jr. H. Wade Collins, III Boyd A. Correll J. Riley Grier Maria A. King Edward D. McKinney, Jr. Michael O. Rankin Benjamin Richter R. Ferrell Smith, Jr. C. Townes Walker, III

Patron Club

Paul F. Atkinson O. Kent Cecil, Jr. Troy B. Gamble, Jr. Daryl G. Hawkins Warren R. Hayslip G. Kenneth Johnson J. Mark Taylor Richard H. Whelchel

Contributors

Alan N. Baroody James T. Bland Charles N. Brookshire John N. Dimling, III Michael B. Easler Robert E. Faulkner William B. Harvin, Jr. Ray H. Price W. Lewis White

Loyalty Club

Ben B. Blackmon, Jr. Lee Burdine, Jr. P. Conway Carter, III Joe L. Greenlee, Jr. Barney L. Jones Robert W. Mays Russ A. McCoy, III Lee R. Perry, Jr. David S. Slater John E. Smith, Jr.

1975 Chairman’s Circle Thomas C. Brittain James H. Parr C. Michael Smith

Trustee Society

C. O. Stokes, Jr. J. Richard Williamson

Centurion Club

Paul B. Bell, Jr. Charles B. Burnette, III Peter B. Cagle James H. Grayson Jeff D. Griffith, III Cynthia Smith Holland James H. Medley Richard B. Neches Alan D. Powell P. Rick Satterfield John S. Springs L. Wes Turnage, Jr. Thomas W. Vinegar, Jr. J. Randall Welchel

Leadership Society W. Burr Crittendon, Jr. W. McNeel Keenan, Jr. Chauncey W. Lever, Jr. Daniel B. Morrison, Jr.

President's Club

Henry L. Bethea, III Mark R. Erbe W. Carlisle Hamrick Thomas P. Hutchens William P. Keesley John V. Meyers William H. Mitchell, Jr. David W. Stroup Clifton L. Williams, Jr.

Patron Club

Contributors

Kenneth C. Anthony, Jr. W. Byron Barber, II J. Philip Bell Catherine Sloss Crenshaw D. Greer Falls, III Alliston K. Reid Shelley H. Sperka

Loyalty Club

J. Ford Bowers Coy W. Gibson Daniel A. Jepson Laurens P. Lynn Katie E. McGrath Randal E. Mulkey W. Gairy Nichols, III William P. Price, III John F. Windley

Centurion Club

William D. Bell, III Don L. Francis James C. Joyce, Jr. G. Douglas Lowe Richard M. Lowe J. Louis McCraw John F. Miller Peter C. Murray James M. Powell John R. Regan Phillip K. Sinclair Debra G. Skinner M. Anthony Smith William A. Taylor

Ansel C. Bunch D. Vernon Hyman Kenneth Ray Monroe Charles D. Robison Perrin C. Trotter James K. Weingarten

Contributors

Loyalty Club

1976

S. Wayne Cole Edward G. Hart Wade H. Howle C. Edwin Mason, Jr. George P. Maughan Steve R. Scott John D. Todd, III

Leadership Society

Worth S. Adams, Jr. Arthur K. Black, Jr. Thomas A. Carlisle Frank H. Cormany, Jr. William E. Curtis Sam C. Foster E. O. Gilliland, Jr. Albert L. Jeter Theodore A. Kirk W. Terry Laney Robert S. Pearson F. Terhune Sudderth Thomas E. Walsh, III A. Marc White, III John C. White, Jr. Baxter M. Wynn

Glenn N. Garbis Gary C. Kimsey William S. Thompson Craig B. Williams

Chairman’s Circle

Michael S. Brown John W. Gandy G. Jackson Hughes, Jr.

Alvin R. Bailey, Jr. Carol C. Bobo Carolyn M. Dawkins Cynthia Thompson Fox Marilyn M. Gillespie Phillip K. Gillespie Walter L. Pendergrast Richard A. Steadman, Jr.

1977 Chairman’s Circle Paul K. Switzer, III

Trustee Society

Anonymous Chris G. Boukedes A. Foster Chapman

Kristen Davis ’09, Beth Wallace ’83 and Mychael Johnson ’10

Beth Wallace, mentor, counselor and on-campus mom “We all know she’s going to be truthful but loving with everyone.”

Mychael

Johnson ’10 crossed paths with Beth Wallace ’83, director of health services and associate dean of students, during his first year at Wofford. Like so many 18 year olds, he struggled to find his place at Wofford. Wallace took a special interest in Johnson and gave him the encouragement he needed to get back on track.

“I saw Mychael as a freshman with unlimited potential,” says Wallace. “He brings a perspective we need at Wofford, and he worked hard to stay here and be successful.”

Kristen Davis ’09 met Wallace through orientation staff and other student leadership activities.

“Somewhere in there we became friends,” says Davis. “We text. We have lunch sometimes, and I can always drop by for some girl talk or advice.”

According to Davis, Wallace’s advice is always “wholesome and motherly,” but at the same time on a student’s level.

“Students don’t have to sugar coat it for Dean Wallace,” says Davis. “We all know she’s going to be truthful but loving with everyone.”

Johnson and Davis are just two of the students who find their way to Wallace for listening, advice, counseling and even mothering.

“At this age students are trying to find who they are as individuals, how to manage their emotions. My role is helping them mature, helping them through hard issues,” says Wallace.

Johnson doesn’t stop in to see Wallace quite as much as he did his first few years.

According to Wallace that’s a good thing.

“She’s insightful,” says Johnson. “She’s here to listen. I wouldn’t have made it without her. She’s definitely my mentor.”

Leadership Society Michael D. Canty George C. Todd, Jr.

President's Club

David M. Beacham Clay D. Brittain, III Ziggy Clayton Antonio V. Dillon Richard T. Edwards, II James R. Hackney, Jr. Daniel H. Hayes S. Morgan King, Jr. Walt R. Leonard, Jr. T. Chris Littlejohn John H. Poston James M. Richardson, Jr. Franklin Sanders

Roger A. Atkinson, III Raymond Z. Bateh Frank M. Flowers, Jr. Chief Reginald E. Gosnell William B. James, Jr. John T. Land Walter J. Machowski, Jr. Donald L. Marler Pat B. Marler W. Gary McCraw Dennis M. Tate Scott D. Tilley

Patron Club

S. Pressly Coker, III A. Scott Davidson Randal R. Fowler Barbara A. Gau P. Lane Goolsby William J. Gravlee Walter A. Hardin Charles B. Hembree Michael J. Kane

JoAnn D. Carpenter John H. Ferguson John E. Lane Theodore W. Law, IV Forrest B. Long W. Louie Mullikin, III

Loyalty Club

David N. Anderson

Centurion Club

Moss H. Perrow, Jr. George W. Petty, Jr. Edward M. Smith Steven M. Stroup Judith K. Tolbert Nicholas H. Tuttle John H. Watkins, II Elizabeth B. Weld John S. White

Contributors

James W. Berry, Jr. William M. Comer, Jr. Lynn Hawkins Donald R. Hayes Mark H. Masich David E. Scott Bradley A. Smith R. Michael Starnes David G. White Timothy G. Williams

BEST of the 1970s

Trustee Society

participation percentage............................the class of 1977: 47%

total annual fund gift............................ the class of 1978: $58,834

Ronald H. Wrenn

Loyalty Club

1978 Chairman’s Circle

James C. Crawford, III Rita A. Meeks Wardlaw

Trustee Society

C. Lynwood Bramlett, Jr. Michael H. Brannon David B. Dedmon Jeffrey L. White

Leadership Society Ronald R. Robinson

President's Club Kim S. Clayton Mary K. Hall David W. Jones Terry A. King Richard W. Krapfel Robert B. Steward

Patron Club

John S. Benfield Kenneth A. Brown Donna D. Hawkins Armando G. Llorente F. Bynum Perkins David W. Royster, III David F. Wood

Candy N. Arrington Sally Nan Barber Thomas A. Bolt Derrick J. Brown R. Haynes Cain, III Glen D. Kelley Richard M. Mahon Gregory P. Miles John M. Shingler, III Mark S. Steadman

Centurion Club

David L. Agee Robert L. Allen Edward H. Atkins, III M. Jan Cooley Guy M. Dabbs, III Woody G. Hays Benjamin R. Hines Kevin D. Hutchenson Hank Irick, Jr. Oscar H. Judd A. Douglas Marion H. Andrew Pickens, III C. Sims Propst E. Charles Robinson Leigh D. Soufas H. Bruce Williams

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New releases The Wofford bookshelf Burbage and Evening Post Ventures e at Evening Post Ventures are working closely with the good folks at Joggling Board Press on a series of quality books by local authors that will interest Lowcountry residents as well as the thousands who visit the region each year. We chose Joggling Board because it is a Charlestonbased publisher that produces exceptionally high quality work,” says John M. Burbage ’70, vice president, Evening Post Ventures LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Evening Post Publishing Co. of Charleston, S.C. One of the new Joggling Board books that has attracted comment on the Wofford campus this spring is the non-fiction “Dirty Secrets, Dirty War: The Exile of Robert Cox.” Cox, editor of the Englishlanguage Buenos Aires Herald, did what few others were willing to do: he told the truth about what was happening during the “Dirty War” in Argentina from 19761983, when an estimated 30,000 people “disappeared” during a government-led campaign to root out insurgents. The book also is available in Spanish under the title “En Honor a la Verdad, Memorias del Exilio de Robert Cox.” “We think this book is an important contribution to our understanding of the recent history of South America,” Burbage says.

“However, it also documents a universal truth. Often, the worst terrorist of all is a government that acts without moral restraint or respect for its nation’s basic laws.”

To find out more, visit the Web site www.jogglingboardpress.com.

by Doyle Boggs ’70

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he winner of the college’s 2006 Alumni Distinguished Service Award, Dr. Robert E. Holman ’53, has added to his literary credentials with a second book, “Homeward Bound.” The volume complements his earlier book, “The Black Bag,” with stories about the World War II Navy, Wofford, and the Medical University of South Carolina.

What emerges is a picture of good man who has lived a good life, surrounded by a loving family and interesting friends.

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Neighbors' book explores new possibilities ompared to other forms of writing, poetry might not seem like a research-intensive genre.

But for Jennie Neighbors,

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research was critical. She explored all sorts of ideas about liminality — the concept of “being between one state of being or another one,” as Neighbors explains. It’s a state of transition that fascinates her. “New possibilities are beginning to emerge, but you’re not yet having to make a decision.”

She took about five years to read up on the subject, to take notes, and to consider how she might want to the tackle liminality in poetry. The writing went more quickly: “Once I figured out how I wanted to do it, this was really easy and fun. I felt like I was on a ride — sit down and off we go.”

The project resulted in a book, “Between the Twilight and the Sky,” published by Parlor Press.

Neighbors’ husband, Jim, is a faculty member in the Department of English. Jennie teaches courses at Wofford as well.

by Baker Maultsby ’92 Alumni publish autobiographies Three new autobiographical works (privately published) provide a new insight into the Wofford community.

Alumni and friends of the college will find them readable and interesting.

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eflections of a Faculty Son, 1931-1991,” by Charles Cauthen Jr. ’52, shares memories of three great South Carolina historians who inspired generations of alumni. They were Dr. David Duncan Wallace (Wofford Class of 1894); Dr. Charles Cauthen Sr. ’17 (his father); and Dr. Lewis P. Jones ’38. The book serves as a family scrapbook of pictures and clippings that all Wofford friends will find interesting.

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imilar reflections on a good life can be found in “Counting Today: A Thought-filled Journey “ by Susie Wiley, who was a popular and effective professor of accounting at Wofford from 1986 through 2000. The book combines wellwritten essays and lists of “ideas to ponder” with drawings by Linda Hudgins and photography by William Whitehouse and Kathleen Westfall.

For more information on how to obtain a copy of these books, e-mail boggsdw@wofford.edu.

by Doyle Boggs ’70 Large Animal Rescue ne of the most difficult challenges in veterinary medicine is the safe rescue of a disabled large animal, whether the patient is an expensive thoroughbred horse or an exotic animal in a zoo or wildlife preserve. Not only is the longterm recovery of the animal a paramount concern, but dealing with a large animal that is terrified or in pain carries a risk for the emergency responders.

Rebecca Gimenez ’90 has specialized in improving techniques of large animal rescue for some time. In September 2008, she joined Tomas Gimenez and Kimberly Anne May in editing a new book from Wiley-Blackwell titled “Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue (Illustrated)” to address the need for more information on this topic.

The book is available from the publisher or on the Internet.

by Doyle Boggs ’70

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VISIT: www.bonnersatwofford. blogspot.com

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key part of the Bonner Scholars program is reflection – thoughtful consideration of students’ service and personal development experiences. They engage in discussion, write essays and give presentations.

This year, the Bonners are using the “social media” – in this case, online blogging – to make their reflection more public and interactive.

“We increasingly feel a need to use social media to connect with students,” says Jessalyn Wynn Story, director of community partnerships and coordinator of the Bonner Scholars program. Enhancing individual students’ reflection experience is important, but not the only benefit Story Story sees. She points to outreach possibilities for recruiting future Bonner students and raising awareness The Bonner Scholarship within the Wofford community provides deserving about Bonner activity. students with financial Michael Vaughn ’09 heads access to the Wofford up Bonner Blogspot. He has help education, coupled with from four other students: Rachel the opportunity to serve Himmelstein ’10, Whitney Rogers humanity. The program ’11, Jose Reyes ’12, and Hannah seeks to shape them into Leirmoe ’12. lifelong servant leaders “Everyone has been fairly who are actively engaged self-motivated,” says Vaughn, who as local and global plans to attend law school. “I think citizens. A Wofford people are willing to share their College Bonner Scholar, experiences.” of which there are 60, Vaughn feels that the requirevolunteers at least 10 ments of the Bonner program likely hours each week in the appear intimidating when prospecSpartanburg community tive students read them on paper. during the school year, He hopes the blog gives a realistic and 280 hours over each impression of the day-to-day Bonof at least two summers, ner experience – one that he says is and participates in both manageable and rewarding. meetings, discussions Bonner Scholars perform comand reflections designed munity service in a wide variety of to support his or her settings. Writings for the blog are development as a social based in part on those experiences, change agent. Though but there are few limits on what the beneficiaries of their the students write. Vaughn says the service are varied, all idea is to keep things “conversaBonner Scholars share tional” and to reflect the interests a commitment to civic of normal college students. engagement, community Vaughn has written on topics building, diversity, ranging from his plans to attend international perspective, law school to a confrontational enspiritual exploration and counter with a gas station attendant social justice. who made nasty remarks about Hispanic customers.

Leirmoe has written about a favorite student at the Boys and Girls Club site where she works. One of Himmelstein’s entries discusses her decision to work with hospice care.

Observations like these, Vaughn hopes, will give readers an appreciation for the breadth of the Bonner experience.

“I can’t speak to the others on this, but with recruitment I want to be able to communicate that this is an amazing program and that it can change the way you live your life.”

by Baker Maultsby ’92

alumni (continued)

1982

Contributors

Chairman’s Circle

Paul T. Babb J. Lewis Brown Bethany S. Cecil Thomas K. Cogswell, Jr. S. Marc Collins Jeffrey G. Davis Chesley C. Jackson, Jr. John A. Leazer James B. Lee

1979 Chairman’s Circle D. Chris Goodall

Trustee Society

Robert E. Graham, Jr. George O. Hallman, Jr. Charles C. Lever

Leadership Society

Cynthia Moore Heldrich Douglas H. Joyce Kimbrell K. Kirby

President's Club

Wade E. Ballard John E. Cuttino Edwin K. Lathan, Jr. John M. G. McLeod M. E. McMillan, Jr. Marshall L. Meadors, III James W. Moseley W. Randy Wilson

Patron Club

Gregory W. Batts John W. Culclasure Russell M. Foster Timothy C. Halligan Susanne Atkins Hawkins Barry J. Warthen

Loyalty Club

James A. Bell Clay G. Evans James D. Mandras F. Alex Whaling

Centurion Club

Joseph W. Allen, III James A. Barrett Nancy Twing Bryant Gary L. Burgess Robert T. Cannon Peter A. Cantrell J. Chris Cloyd Gary C. Ferguson, Jr. Steve H. Gravlee Marie C. High Michael A. Johnson Dimitrios G. Nalbantis D. Clinton North, III A. Drake Perrow Philip R. Ramsey Gene R. Riley J. Mark Satterwhite A. Hugh Smith Howard F. Vincent, Jr.

Contributors

Ted H. Clarkson Joseph L. Dunlap H. Carl Floyd, Jr. Randolph S. Hahn Charles A. Harris, III William F. Lachicotte, III R. Kent Smith

1980 Chairman’s Circle Wade P. Keisler James L. Switzer, Jr. Joe E. Taylor, Jr.

Trustee Society Paul S. Atkins

Leadership Society C. Barton Aiken, III Michael C. Bigger Karl H. Cone Ronald M. Fields, Jr. C. Dorn Smith, III Mark W. Thackston Joyce Payne Yette

President's Club

V. Lynn Beaty James P. Gill Paul D. Kountz, Jr. W. Jay Seay, Jr. Michael M. Shull Richard G. Simpson

* deceased

Steve O. Williams Charles K. Yorke

Patron Club

Ted W. Gage, Jr. Roddey B. Gettys R. Scott Heath Curtis B. Johnston Patricia T. Sanders Frank O. Smith, III Michael W. Taylor

Loyalty Club

Timothy H. Burwell Chuck Carr William G. DeLoache Edwin H. Holler Michael D. Senterfeit Kenneth L. Steen Richard L. Walker

Centurion Club

James S. Beskid A. Rick Best W. Hogan Brown Cynthia Skelton Carter R. Mac Chapman Campbell D. Coxe Jimmy R. Greene E. Mitchell Griffith P. Frank Hanes, III M. Cliff Hedgepath, Jr. Lois R. Jaeger James W. Kimmell, Jr. Lee B. Lewis, Jr. Thomas B. Rice, III John D. Richardson Benjamin C. Taylor Bradley D. Troutman Mark W. Vick Dennis S. Whatley

Contributors

Constance S. Courtois Edwin N. Hall, II Ann P. Howard R. Thomas Lowrimore, II Michael A. Reames Howard L. Ruble, Jr. J. Russell Rumford H. Burgess Sprott, III

1981 Chairman’s Circle Steven W. Mungo

Leadership Society Roberta Hurley Bigger

President's Club

Dawn Williams Burks Jeffrey M. Craft Robert M. Heil J. Michael Lackey Susan Morrison Lackey Joseph R. McMillin Carol Brasington Wilson

Patron Club

James L. Bridgeman, Jr. Don P. Ferguson, Jr. Robert B. King, Jr. James C. Meadors

Loyalty Club

George H. Grant Nancy Grace N. Kelly R. Andrew Kelly Rowan J. Langford Stephen K. Ledford Julie Lesesne Henry W. Orvin Frederick W. Scheper, IV Steven C. Underdown G. Patrick Watson

Centurion Club

Dawn W. Brinson Thomas D. Brown Betty F. Garvin W. Michael Holder Timothy E. Hughes Charles A. Norfleet David W. Owens Barbara B. Perkins Hal W. Stevenson H. Dean Thompson, Jr. Thomas R. Tuten, III Jeffrey E. Tyner D. Lynn Wilson

Contributors

Rebecca Cubbage Dukes Walter C. Edwards, Jr. Wyatt B. Pringle, Jr. Donna F. Saba

Van D. Hipp, Jr. Ethan R. Ware

Van M. Perry Timothy S. Rice Carl W. Richardson Helen C. Ware

Centurion Club

Trustee Society

March E. Seabrook

Leadership Society

Anonymous Thomas W. Dorn, II G. Christopher Hammet

President's Club

Robert M. Barrett Wales S. Dixon, III Randolph K. Liggitt M. Bryan Woodward, III

Patron Club

Lee Ann Ivey Greene R. Stephen Hines Kenneth L. Leonhardt Leah D. Leonhardt Phyllis Dyches Smith Carolyn Taylor Webb

Loyalty Club

Ronald S. Carr J. Madison Dye, Jr. Lynne A. Grant George F. Henry, III Timothy A. Matthews Willis Smith, II

Centurion Club

James H. Belcher Len T. Best Sam L. Booke, III Karen Albiez Brooks William T. Brown Mark W. Bruce John C. Cowan, Jr. Paul A. Furtick Charles B. Hames Matthew Iovanna Joyce Fowler Jones A. Jeff Keller, III L. Kendrick Lewis, Jr. G. Robert McKenzie, III T. Scott Prince Mark E. Stanek Sharon Benson Staton Deborah G. Wolff

Contributors

Elaine Fields Bermudez Karen Thomas Callahan Jeffery L. Coffer Charles M. Hammett, Jr. Michael S. Jackson Elizabeth A. Johnson A. Kent Masich Deborah Finger Settle Betsy Chernin Vereb

1983

Novella Fortner Beskid Timothy L. Brady Anne-Marie A. Callcott Lynn H. Carter Mark T. Carter Cecil D. Clark Russell D. Cook Virginia Gibson Fowler David K. Hollis, III R. E. Hussey, Jr. Milton G. Kimpson Mark T. Moore C. Brian Odom Thomas B. Richardson W. Bruce Richmond, II Charles E. Snipes, III A. Pierce Stockman, III Cynthia D. Waters John C. Williams, II

Contributors

Marcus D. Antley, Jr. Kim A. Curry J. Stuart Engle J. Randal Hall Alvin D. Johnson Susan Thorne-Jordan Kathey D. Mays Vanessa W. Ray Susan Gray Vitaris

1984 Trustee Society

Jack C. Borders, Jr.

Leadership Society Michael J. Arakas Katherine N. DuBose David J. Moody, II Jill Clary Moody Stuart L. Smith

President's Club

Nancy E. Barr Philip W. Bonds Daniel J. Fritze Douglas K. Holtzman T. Alan Hutchins J. Stephen Rush Arthur W. Yex

Patron Club

Joseph M. Donald, III Richard T. Goodman William W. Hammill Steven D. Haymond R. Mitchell Newman, Jr. J. Jay Peay J. Cal Watson, Sr.

Loyalty Club

Chairman’s Circle

Christopher L. Cannon W. Scott Gantt

Trustee Society

Charles J. Bradshaw, Jr.

Leadership Society G. Dial DuBose A. Wade Lang Timothy L. Moore

President's Club

Perry D. Boulier W. Edward Butler Jody Z. Caldwell William E. Caldwell, IV E. Bradford Church Michael J. Fisher Herbert C. Grant Neil E. Grayson Kenneth M. Kirkpatrick Linda Thomas Richardson Frank M. Starosto H. Todd Webber

James H. Amick, Jr. Cameron S. Davidson Tony Denny Pete G. Diamaduros James R. Fowler, Jr. Perry H. Gravely J. William Hamilton Peter S. Maurides Lucy B. Quinn D. Scott Steinmeyer Hunter R. Stokes, Jr. Alvin F. Wells

Centurion Club

Patron Club

Contributors

H. Paige Carlton W. Andrew Gowder, Jr. Warren E. Hoy Pamela G. Parnell Randall B. Stewart

Loyalty Club

ch ’09, Austin Fit good and ice Philip Sw rne ’09 bo ly C Blake

J. Clifton Caldwell Anthony D. Cameron David A. Carlisle Robert C. Field Charles A. Houston Jay C. Hughes L. Andrew Koontz Gregory F. Litra F. Darrin McCaskill David A. Menzer Barry Brasington Prince James E. Colbert, Jr. Stephen O. Edwards Susan Cann Griffin Amy Ariail-Knowlton

Dr. Philip Swicegood, mentor and advisor of the James Student Investment Fund “Students need to feel butterflies in their stomachs.

It builds character.”

As faculty

advisor of the James Student Investment Fund, Dr. Philip Swicegood, associate professor of accounting and finance, describes himself as “the ultimate stopgap.”

“I feed them ideas and make sure they don’t do anything stupid,” he says.

According to student portfolio managers and managing partners Austin Fitch ’09 and Blake Clyborne ’09, Swicegood’s role is much more complex.

Swicegood teaches them the finer points of successful investing, guides them in the management of a $100,000 investment portfolio (a gift from Wofford Trustee Mike James ’73), meets with them at least once a week to discuss the fund’s growth, and aids them during monthly reports to James Fund partners and a year-end portfolio performance report to the Wofford Board of Trustees.

Swicegood also helps them keep both losses and gains in perspective — a good thing during the current economic climate and considering both Fitch and Clyborne feel a lot of pressure to make sure the James Fund grows.

“In Dr. Swicegood’s investment class we do simulations trying to be the biggest winner in the stock market during a semester,” says Clyborne. “This is different. This is real money and our goals are long-term.”

Students began investing the fund’s money during October 2008.

“For the first three years we’ll reinvest earnings back into the fund,” says Fitch.

“Eventually we’d like to fund a scholarship or internship experiences for Wofford students.”

Swicegood proposed the fund to the Board of Trustees because he feels that students learn best by doing. The students also learn by watching Swicegood and his commitment to their education.

“When I was an undergrad, I would have loved to have this opportunity,” says Swicegood, who says economic education when he was in college dealt mainly in theoretical concepts. “When students invest real money, they feel real pressure. Students need to feel butterflies in their stomachs. It builds character.”

Julie Davis Layne Elsie B. McDowell Joe K. Richardson William Schwartz J. Mitchell Stovall Sherry Morrow Wood

1985 Chairman’s Circle Janna M. Trammell Michael D. Trammell

Trustee Society

Timothy E. Madden

Leadership Society Wendy H. Arakas

Michael D. Carrouth Gray T. Culbreath

President's Club

Diane N. Chandler David P. Lanier Mary Ann McCrackin D. Todd Morgan Wilson H. Oldhouser, III Gilbert E. Parker, Jr. Alex O. Powers I. Duffie Stone, III Thomas H. Westbrook

Patron Club

Ricardo Morales, III

Loyalty Club

David S. Carter

BEST of the 1980s

Charles C. Martin, Jr. John P. Meadors

Janet L. Nixon

participation percentage............................the class of 1987: 33%

total annual fund gift............................ the class of 1980: $35,908

Stacey F. Day Robert W. Derrick Bobby E. O’Bryant, Jr. James A. Ovenden Lee S. Sessoms

1986

Centurion Club

M. Victoria Tatum

Marcia P. Eaton Betsy M. English Lee Ann Myers Foltz Patrick M. Hurley Stephen P. Johnson Paul E. Neil, III Elizabeth Melton Pressley Ernest B. Stadler D. C. Suessmith, Jr.

Contributors

Ashley Phillips Case Lori W. Dowdell Stewart E. Ellison Kristen C. Graham Allyson Way Hank Heidi F. Kerns Catherine Bitler Murry William S. Reiber Phoebe Richardson Seals

Chairman’s Circle Teresa Roof Sims

Trustee Society Leadership Society Demitra A. Watson

President's Club

Michael B. Burrell Michael E. Chandler A. Lynn Clary Todd W. Cline A. Glenn Greene, III Evans P. Holland, Jr. Deanna Kanellos Palmer John E. Palmer Gary L. Patterson Brand R. Stille

Patron Club

James C. Brice, III LuAnne Vaughan Gatlin C. Lee Page, III Brett P. Schulman Donna Payne Smith

Spring 2009 • Wofford Today • 15

Bandara returns to Malawi on a mission Pre-med student builds medical clinic for African village

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students

hanks to the courage and tenacity of Wofford pre-med senior and chemistry major Achini Bandara ’09, remote villagers in the African country of Malawi will have much-improved access to health care.

Bandara raised more than $11,000 to go toward construction of a new clinic in an area where she’d worked as a volunteer during the summer of 2007. She was struck by how primitive health facilities were there and had been thinking of ways to aid construction of a proper clinic.

But, she thought, “I’m starting back to school. I can’t help. It’s over there, I’m over here, you know.”

Then came word from a friend in Malawi who told Bandara that the mud building health workers were using had collapsed. “I figured, ‘OK, I’m going to have to do something,’” she says. “So I began fundraising last April.”

Bandara considered sending the proBandara ceeds to her contacts back in Malawi, but as her fundraising efforts picked up, the weight of responsibility to contributors made her decide she needed to take a more hands-on role. “I was trying to be as transparent and as honest as possible with the donors. They were like, ‘OK, Achini, we trust you. We’re giving you $12,000.’”

She was able to place the funds under the accounting of her family’s church in Lexington, S.C. And the Anglican Church in Africa and the Christian Health Association lent support to the operation of the clinic.

Still, Bandara felt that oversight of the project was “sketchy,” so she decided to spend the four weeks of Interim 2009 looking after things on the ground in Malawi. She asked Dr. Ron Robinson, Perkins-Prothro Chaplain and professor of religion, to serve as her Interim sponsor. It wasn’t the first time the two had talked about Bandara’s goals of service to humankind.

“During her first year, she came to me with big ideas about projects she could do to help people in highneed situations,” Robinson says. “I think we looked at a number of possibilities. She found a place where she could go and serve and learn; she found a lot of need, and creatively found ways to meet that need.”

Upon arriving in Malawi in January, she was glad to find that construction was in progress, but substantial work was left to be done. Bandara traveled around the area to purchase supplies, arranged warehouse space, and dealt with the government to ensure tax exemption for key materials.

Keep in mind: This is a young woman – a college student – running the show in a part of the world where women aren’t typically authority figures.

“My being a woman, and my being younger than them and telling people what to do might not have come across as the best thing, from their perspective,” she says. “But it’s what I had to do.”

Construction was not quite complete by the time Bandara returned to Wofford, but she’s excited about the future of the clinic. The new building will include several upgrades crucial to the health of patients. She’s particularly excited that there will be a maternity ward, “which is a huge deal because child mortality is one of the biggest problems in Malawi.”

Amazed by Bandara’s work, Robinson says, “This is one of those projects that will live on long after Achini has left Wofford. I wish I could have given her a grade higher than ‘honors’.”

Bandara says the clinic is the only location for people in the area to receive professional care and modern medicine. Patients are charged a fee – but that’s a flexible concept.

“Some people say, ‘Oh, I know I owe you money, but I don’t have cash….but can I pay you in corn? I have a chicken,’” she notes.

“We take that to the market and sell it off.”

Bandara grew up in Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe before moving to the United States and is passionate about making things better for people in developing parts of the world. She plans to go into medical research after graduation and has every intention of making a return trip to Malawi in the near future.

Knowing that she wouldn’t see the facility open made leaving in January difficult. “It was so hard for me to realize I wouldn’t see babies being born there, people coming in at the beginning. So I will definitely be going back next year.”

To contribute, send donation to: World Harvest International Church Attn: Malawi Project PO Box 325, Lexington, S.C. 29072.

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Students in D.C. for inauguration excitement

Several students attended inaugural balls for President Barack Obama.

Above, left to right are: Larone Washington ’07, Keisha Dyer ’07, Regina Fuller ’10 and Lianne Moore ’07. They attended the South Carolina State Society’s Inaugural Ball in Washington, D.C. Left, at another ball are Kinli Bare ’08 and Matt Abee ’10.

Wofford named to ONE top 10

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omas Moreno ’11 wants to give away the secrets to the success of ONE at Wofford, which was named recently as one of the top 10 colleges in the national ONE Campus Challenge to raise awareness of extreme global poverty and preventable disease. There’s a bigger prize at stake than the on-campus concert by the band Vampire Weekend the winning school will receive, he says.

“We think it’s important to help other activists around the country so they can participate and work to help this cause, too,” says Moreno about the Wofford group’s new blog on which members will follow step-by-step the progress of their upcoming programs. “It’s very important that we set this up to have a bigger impact than just our campus.” The blog can be found at http://oneatwofford. blogspot.com.

Moreno, a native of Modesto, Calif., and the dozens of students involved in ONE at Wofford were informed recently of their achievement as the #9 ONE campus in the Campus Challenge. The college is in the company of the University of Southern California, the University of California-Davis, Baylor University, the University of Florida and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Work continues to progress on the medical clinic in Malawi.

alumni (continued) Loyalty Club

Michael R. Bell James D. Bramlett, Jr. Spyros A. Koutsioukis Steven T. McCarter Jane A. Ovenden Robin Johnson Petty Richard W. Ridlehuber Leslie Hintz Smith E. Hood Temple

Centurion Club

Mark R. Calhoun R. Donald Cannon, Jr. Alan H. Carter R. Gerald Chambers, Jr. Joseph S. Eaton, IV Donald S. Grant, Jr. D. Walter Hiott Danny M. Holcombe Ivory J. Hugee Angela Burnett Kelly Tracy McKenzie Koontz Sandra A. Martin Susan F. Motter David M. Renwick John A. Ross, II Joseph G. Wirtz, Jr. Jerry M. Wyatt Lesley H. Yun

Contributors

Angela Bichard Benjock Lisa A. Beregi Anna Free Brown Valerie L. Cote’ Heidi Mierke Emerson Jill Simpson Evans Mark L. Herring Jeffrey R. Holt Eric D. Jarrett Robert M. Joseph Jan W. Keith Elizabeth T. Nix Joseph H. Pope M. Scott Smith J. Dean Tobias Rhonda Watt Tobias Melissa E. Vess David B. White

1987 Trustee Society

Fred D. Gibbs Maureen Ward Shealy

Leadership Society James R. Ciesla Mark G. Lewitt Van F. Patterson John M. Younginer, III

President's Club

Dennis R. Adams Pablo DeFreitas Sammy G. Diamaduros Deborah C. Oldhouser William C. Sawyer W. Collier Slade

Patron Club

William H. Basden W. Carlton Gay, III Thomas P. Giudice S. Clay Keim W. David Kelly, III David S. Mullis, Jr. T. Chris Waidner David W. Ward Kimberly C. Ward

Loyalty Club

G. Bryan Adams, III Christopher B. Benfield Steven L. Brock James L. Evatt, Jr. Stephen T. Grabow Carl A. Hall J. Stephen Mabrey Dawn H. Merrell Kevin P. Michaels Timothy E. Powers Eric D. Sullivan Valerie B. Sullivan Rose McEwan Van Metre Lloyd E. White

Centurion Club

Andrew W. Batten David E. Brannock Chase M. Christopher Michael C. Edwards, Jr. D. Alton Fanning, Jr. Martha P. Field Daniel L. Fogle Lloyd E. Hayes, Jr.

Patron Club

Alicia Williams Hugee Stephen L. Majure Al J. Mossburg, II Gregory S. Plemmons Catherine C. Wisham

Timothy P. Finch John H. Gerken, IV Brian S. Hammond Susan Blackwell Propst Jeffrey T. Reeves Michael R. Sullivan

Contributors

Loyalty Club

Richard C. Cheney, Jr. Tracy Harrell Dunn John B. McNamara J. David Morris Reynette B. Rhodes Wayne A. Rice Margaret Floyd Smith

1988 Leadership Society William S. Brown, V Patrick L. Cont Patrick C. Fant, III David C. Luke John W. McAlhany, Jr. John L. Watson, IV

President's Club

W. Scott Cochran Lisa H. DeFreitas Peter P. Graser Jameica B. Hill Harold M. McLeod, III Beth Traynham Rivers W. Lee Roper, II Deborah N. Thompson Luke J. Wilburn, III Thomas M. Willingham, III James C. Wilson

Patron Club

David M. Atchley Joanna Fulda Giudice Clayton B. Griffin Lisa Fortier Leedom Jeffrey L. Robinson Eugene S. Taylor, III

Loyalty Club

Lisa Morrison Benfield Donald H. Brown, II Michael J. Carter Michelle Ramsey Howard Laura Thomson McCarty Stefan J. Tolan

Centurion Club

Christopher W. Alexander Jimmy R. Asbell, Jr. Peter F. Asmer, Jr. Walter H. Barefoot Bo Barton, Jr. Michael A. Fowler C. Lane Glaze W. Fred Hubbard, Jr. Brian L. Hurd Karen Wetzel Skiff D. Drew Vermillion Michael W. Waddell

Contributors

Laine E. Doggett Rachel Donald Erwin John B. Geib Margaret S. Howie J. Mark Johnson Karen H. McNamara Robert H. Pope Michael R. Schaffer

1989 Chairman’s Circle

John E. Bauknight, IV Cynthia E. Kolb

Trustee Society

James W. Shealy, Jr.

Leadership Society John R. Hickman, III Kimberly C. Hickman Stanley E. Porter Harold J. Willson, Jr.

President's Club

Britt S. Becknell JoAnn M. Brasington William M. Brasington, Jr. Mark O. Bundy W. Nettles Green Jason L. Hill Nelson B. Huggins Amy Barwick Lesesne Frank W. Lesesne Corry W. Oakes, III Charles F. Turner, Jr. J. Greg Whitaker

Jason M. Dimsdale William F. Greene Tanya Bordeaux Hamm Amy Wood Hawkins Joseph C. Hawkins Calhoun L. Kennedy, Jr. Edward K. Medlock James L. Merrell Brian J. Michel M. Bates Redwine Brooke S. Sessoms Julie Anderson Washburn

Centurion Club

Lynn Fulton-Archer J. Robert Couch, Jr. M. Ron Cox, Jr. Kerry J. Davidson James A. Goodson, III Kathryn Malone Lemon D. Lee Lester, Jr. Laurie Turner Lynch Joel S. Martin Christopher H. Myers Sanjay V. Patel Michael L. Pierce Faye Martin Shaughnessy Steven D. Wimberley

Contributors

B. Allen Bullard, Jr. George A. Koutsioukis Alex C. Kreager Philip R. Merry, Jr. Cynthia J. Pitts Scott T. Stevens Verner F. Tate, Jr. Lynn R. Wise

1990 Chairman’s Circle Chris P. Carpenter Nick S. Wildrick

Trustee Society Scott W. Cashion Michael L. Dosher Scott R. Gregory

Leadership Society Jony M. Bolinger Stephen E. Byas G. Murrell Smith, Jr.

President's Club

W. Mark Bobo James A. Ham, Jr. P. Kip Hooker, Jr. R. Ben King, Jr. R. Kevin Martin Roy F. Thompson, Jr.

Patron Club

Shawna S. Collins Arthur R. Dodd, Jr. Steven J. Hammes T. Mikell Leland, Jr. F. Douglas Oliver Richard B. Reinhardt, Jr. T. Lyn Walsh

Loyalty Club

Andy Beeson H. Stan Gibbons Rebecca Durak Gimenez Katrina Huggins Grier Amy M. Henry J. Scott Keim Heidi Carson Solomon J. Scott Stowe Lucy S. Woodhouse

Centurion Club

Jake Alvarez, IV Rebecca T. Blake P. Mark Dempsey D. Kevin German Anthony A. Gilliam David G. Grant Richard M. Green R. Warren Hammond Timothy A. Holck James E. Hulse S. Brent Lynch Susan Christos McKenney Tyrone C. Page Charles F. Reid Laura M. Sippel Jennifer V. Smith

Contributors

Teri Baker Bagwell Scott D. Bourassa Michelle Gamble Burgess Laura J. Edge Angela S. Eubanks Caroline Priester Geib Donna Bailey Gilmore David R. Groce Lauren M. Johnson Lyn S. Joyce Reginald Joyce, III David A. Lanning David F. Vick L. Anthony Wise, Jr.

1991 President's Club

Jerod O. Hubbard Celeste L. Huggins D. Trent Lancaster Elizabeth O. McAbee Jonathan W. Norwood Bryan D. Rivers Nicholas G. Skenteris Patricia Maurides Skenteris

Patron Club

Jae Collins Beasley Thomas J. Beggs, IV David P. Boyce, Jr. Scott R. Cayouette Paul J. Chambers, IV Ben D. Curran Susan Allen Davis S. Sterling Laney, III Thomas L. Moses

Loyalty Club

Jack S. Bryant Lillian E. Gonzalez T. Scott Griffin Jay Hampton Laura Worrell Hutto Scott W. Hutto Timothy E. Kane W. Chadwick McLain W. Vick Meetze Gina Green Rogers Sean R. Rogers Lawton H. Salley, Jr. Todd W. Smyth

Mike Curtis with Will Cunningham ’09 and Justina Oliva ’09

Centurion Club

Camille L. Bethea R. Chris Brooker D. David Byrd Chris C. Daniel Joseph K. Davidson Gregory K. Davis Geoffrey S. DeLong John P. Haly, Jr. James C. Harper, III Toni D. Hogan Denise Kennedy Hubbard Kelly Lauder Laycock P. Nelson Lindsay Leslee Houck Page Mia Hartley Phillips W. T. Rawl Stephen A. Shaughnessy Melissa L. Shook Will E. Smith, II Clara Mayhew Stokes

Contributors

LuAnn M. Aycock Katherine Kuehn Cothran Charles C. Cummings Miriam Smoak Henry Kimberly Rast Kochamba Benjamin W. McCormick Mark A. Mezger Joel P. Moore Leanne B. Sheffield Dawn Horton Stribble Emily M. Vick

1992 Leadership Society Margaret Green Young

President's Club

Nicholle Palmieri Chunn Charles C. Dixon, III Brian W. Douglass James S. Fulmer, Jr. Blanding U. Jones Monique McDowell Jay Traywick Mark E. Ward

Patron Club

Michael L. Chewning, Jr. Kelly Harvey-Jones W. Kent Jones

R. Michael Pace Martin L. Stark Robert F. VandeWeghe, Jr.

Mike Curtis, editor and mentor

Loyalty Club

“… this guy knows what he’s doing, and he doesn’t pull any punches.”

Mary Morton Bell D. Will Edwards, Jr. Lauri Walsh Moore Martin A. Moore Heather M. Onstott Jennifer Randolph Purdy Tradd Rosebrock Paul R. Walter James L. Welch

Centurion Club

Melissa F. Alvarez Thomas W. Black L. Briley Brisendine, Jr. William D. Britt, Jr. Davie Burgdorf Judson K. Crihfield John B. Critchfield Scott A. Cunningham Shannon M. Cunningham T. Jerome Hall Aimee Pearson Heard Alex Thomas Holck Courtney J. Holt Heather Stallworth Lindsay Zachary B. Maddox Margaret G. McIntyre Jessica Nordin Payne Garrett D. Steck Stuart R. Thomas F. Todd Thomson

Contributors

Amanda Price Alford Sheryl McClerklin Booker Stephen C. Brockman, Jr. Jeffrey J. Galan Amy Goehring Gurley Karen Sinclair Halt J. Paul Jones Tammy H. Mosier Pat Patterson, III Heather Townes Reedy Karen Rush Sherrill Holly Fulghum Tisdale Scott D. Waisanen F. William White, III Lawrence O. Williamson

Mike

Curtis spends hours with student short stories in one hand and a red pen in the other. The effort, which isn’t unlike his work as fiction editor of The Atlantic Monthly, resonates with his creative writing students at Wofford.

“I’m trying to find my voice and tone,” says Justina Oliva ’09, who has taken several classes with Curtis. “His comments — and the paper is covered with them — help me think more critically. His comments in class also have helped me take review a lot better.”

Now in his third year at Wofford, Curtis has been impressed with the quality of writing he sees at Wofford. During Interim, Curtis co-taught a short story writing class with his wife, novelist Betsy Cox. They share the John C. Cobb Endowed Chair in Humanities.

“I was amazed,” says Curtis. “The quality of work was the highest I’ve seen here. Either we made remarkable progress or we had an ambitious group of wonderful writers.”

Oliva and William Cunningham ’09 both took the course, and Cunningham is working independently with Cox and Curtis to turn his short story into a novel.

“I signed up for my first creative writing class with Professor Curtis because it fit my schedule. I didn’t know who he was, and I wasn’t too excited about having to read a style book,” says Cunningham. “I quickly found out that this guy knows what he’s doing, and he doesn’t pull any punches.”

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he Legacy Society was created by the Wofford College Board of Trustees to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the signing of Benjamin Wofford’s will and the subsequent founding of the college. It recognizes those individuals who have made the ultimate expression of their faith in the college by remembering Wofford in their estate plans. The society is comprised of individuals who have provided for the future of the college through planned gifts such as charitable bequests, life income plans, gift annuities, pooled income fund contributions, and life insurance designations. By confirming to the college the establishment of such plans, the following individuals are recognized as members of The Legacy Society.

Anonymous Maryann & Forrest Abbott Mason M. Barrett Kenneth & Peggy Barton Dr. Erin Bentrim-Tapio Peter D. Berry Dr. & Mrs. Robert P. Bethea Cecil & Pamela Bond Marshall W. Breland William P. Brickle Ken & Martha Ann Campbell Jule K. & DeArmond Canaday Dr. William M. Cannon John Robert Capes Alec H. Chaplin Cermette & Anne Maner Clardy Sally & Jerry Cogan Mrs. William H. Cogswell, III Jesse C. Crimm Dr. & Mrs. Don C. Dodson Morrill B. Donnald Mr. & Mrs. Fred F. DuBard, Jr. J. Madison Dye Mark R. Erbe Edward S. Ervin III Bill Evins Billy Ezell Don P. Ferguson, Sr. Dr. Donald L. Fowler Ted Gaines Gene W. Grace, DDS Marie Gregory Rob Gregory Don & Dixie Griffin James R. & Kay H. Gross Allen S. Guignard Bob & Sara Gunter

James R. Hackney, Jr. Cathy & Ed Y. Hall Boyd & Anne Hames M. P. “Red” Hamilton Joe W. Hamrick Floyd & Rebecca B. Heckard Richard E. Hollis Peter & Zelda Howell Dr. William F. James, Jr. Robert D. Jennings Dr. William Webb Johnston Dr. Ann J. Kelly Jim & Shirley Kirby Paul D. Kountz, Jr. Mark H. Lee John & Pam Linton Armando G. Llorente J. Grady Locklear Freda & Al Lynch Larry & Rachel McCalla Mr. & Mrs. Harold McLeod, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Dan B. Maultsby William S. & Beverly Minter Milton P. Moore Charles E. Morgan Dr. & Mrs. Ted R. Morton, Jr. Jeff D. Moss M. Stewart Mungo Steven W. Mungo David L. Neugent Harry & Bobbie Nix Heather M. Onstott Mr. Joseph H. Owens Betty Patterson Liz & Dwight Patterson Ann & Pepe Perron Dixie & Bobby Pinson

John H. & Anne R. Pitts Dr. Harold E. Plaster, Jr. Charles & Mary Sue Poole Mr. & Mrs. L. Perrin Powell The Hon. O. Eugene Powell Jr. Gretchen K. Price Ann R. Price Joe O. Price, Jr. Russell R. Raines Charles W. Saunders, Jr. March E. Seabrook John & Anne Shuler Mrs. Katrina Silverstein Russell D. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Stallworth Willie G. Stevens Mary L. Stevenson Grady & Sybil Stewart Mr.and Mrs. James Stuckey, Jr. Carol & George Tate Thomas L. & Lucy Scales Tiller Mr. & Mrs. G. Cameron Todd, Sr. Gregory Lee & Eleanor Breazeale Troutman Esther H. Verstegen Marshall T. Walsh W. Carl Walsh, MD Theodore W. Walter Charles Raymond West Thomas J., Jr. & Kathryn G. Westbury D. Wayne Whetsell, MD Henry B. Wilkinson Betsy & Harry Williams Patsy & Will Willimon Dennis M. & Annemarie Wiseman Carl & Angela Young

Charitable IRA Rollover Extended!

Donate up to $100,000 to Wofford College from your IRA without incurring income tax on the withdrawal

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he Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 extends the provision of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 allowing individuals over age 70.5 to make charitable transfers up to $100,000 without incurring taxable income on those distributions. The extension is retroactive, applying to both the 2008 and 2009 tax years.

The following limitations and restrictions apply: • The individual for whose benefit the plan is maintained must have attained the age of 70.5 or older by the date of the contribution.

• Qualified charitable distributions may not exceed $100,000 in any taxable year (2008 and 2009).

• Qualified distributions must be made on the donor’s behalf directly to Wofford College by the plan trustee/administrator.

• Qualified distributions may be excluded from the donor’s gross taxable income; however, no charitable contribution deduction is available for federal income tax purposes.

• Distributions may be counted toward the donor’s annual Minimum Required Distribution.

• Gifts from retirement accounts other than traditional IRA or ROTH IRA accounts are not eligible.

• Distributions are not subject to the “ceilings” on contribution deductions (50 percent of adjusted gross income for cash, 30 percent of AGI for long-term capital gains property).

If you were considering contributing your IRA account to Wofford through your estate plan, or if the taxability of excessive IRA withdrawals has been a hindrance, this is the year to make an outright gift by taking advantage of this unique opportunity.

For additional information, contact: Smith Patterson ’67, director of gift planning, 864-597-4196, pattersonds@wofford.edu.

18 • Wofford Today • Spring 2009

Rast leaves $50,000 estate gift to Wofford’s Friends of the Library

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arlisle Rast ’49 often shared the story of standing on the porch of Main Building with Dean Philip Covington and looking across the lawn to the library (then housed in the Daniel Building). Covington pointed through the oaks and shadows and said, “If students only realized that building holds everything we can teach you in class.”

The memory made a lasting impression on Rast, who went on to earn an M.A. in history from the University of Chicago, teach high school English and social studies, and marry a librarian.

His wife, Peggy Craig Rast (who died in 1998) served as librarian of the Ryerson Library at the Art Institute of Chicago.

“Carlisle and Peggy shared a lifelong love of books, travel and the arts,” says Smith Patterson ’67, director of gift planning.

“Until his death, Carlisle was a consistent and generous Carlisle Rast, a resident of San Francisco, donor to The Friends of the Calif., at the time of his death, was the Library at Wofford.” son of the Rev. Dr. John Marvin Rast, a Because of his gifts to the Methodist minister and recipient from library, Rast received regular Wofford of a Doctor of Divinity degree notes of thanks from Dean of in 1940. Dr. Rast had been an assistant the Library Oakley Coburn. professor at Wofford from 1924-1929, Although Rast and Coburn served as the editor of the S.C. Methodist never met, those notes and Advocate, and as president of Lander the occasional telephone conUniversity. versation became the basis of a long-distance friendship.

“We moved from Mr. Rast and Mr. Coburn to Carlisle and Oakley,” says Coburn, who exchanged homemade, often quirky, Christmas cards with Rast each year. “He had an endearing, self-deprecating humor.”

In June 2008 upon Rast’s death, the Wofford Friends of the Library received an unrestricted gift of $50,000 from his estate. Coburn says the college is still deciding how to best use the funds in a way that most benefits the library while honoring the life and interests of Peggy and Carlisle Rast.

“Carlisle followed with much interest the growth of the college, and he was especially aware of the financial needs of the library,” says Patterson. “He viewed the library as the heart of the college, but he was deeply concerned that it would not receive the financial support he believed it deserved. Hopefully Carlisle’s legacy of support will serve as an example for others to follow as they consider how to remember Wofford College in their estate plans.”

by Jo Ann Mitchell Brasington ’89

2008 Estate Gifts S. Hart Booth Margaret B. Booth J. Stokes Gillespie Richard B. Harwell John B. McLeod Barry B. McNeely Lillian C. Mooneyham Dorothy F. Morrow William P. Phillips R. Stafford Rivers Newell R. Whitener

alumni (cont.)

1993

Trustee Society

Chairman’s Circle

Kingsland W. Bland

Russell R. Raines John D. Scott, Jr.

Trustee Society Ben D. Waldrop

Leadership Society Mary Hughes Cherry Aaron C. Ellett

President's Club

Todd B. Avant Robert P. Bethea, Jr. Steven A. Flack David D. Grier Judson L. Heldreth Tracy Broad Heldreth Elizabeth Jeter Hrubala R. Matthew Mosley William R. Plaster Bruce D. Switzer Marianne Marye Traywick

Patron Club

Michael K. Black Jules Savko Bryant Reed M. Chewning Jason N. Collins Taylor Free Foy Darren C. Foy Jay E. Harris Shannon T. Lewis W. Bradley Painter Christopher E. Story Mark L. Wagnon Tripp Whitener Thomas L. Willcox, Jr. Mark E. Wilson

Loyalty Club

David A. Armstrong Noel A. Brownlee CeCe Cubitt Coleman James W. Hudson S. Andrew Joines David W. King Brad J. McAbee Darby Hiller McElderry H. Tom McElderry, Jr. Todd O. Messick Kurt A. Niemeyer Wendie Yancey Ruffner Pamela Garner Sloss Chad S. Stamper Tara H. Stamper

Centurion Club

James A. Brown Jr. Walt N. Busbee John E. Cook James T. Cox, III John C. Drake Robert Gage, III B. Ronald Gilmer, II Amy Hendrix Jarrett Jennifer Higdon Lucas Samantha K. Maddox Shane S. McAbee Pamela W. McGinnis Michelle Carey Parks Mark C. Payne Tracey Pulliam Rogers Michael M. Shetterly Russell P. Singletary Cynthia Smith Turnipseed Justine Sokol Waldrop Donna E. Weathersbee L. Davis Weddle, Jr. Gregory H. Williams

Contributors

Caroline G. Brown Melinda Gemmill Bullard Julie C. Burchfield David R. Carithers Melissa Duncan Higgs Ashley G. Huntley Wendell K. Jones Harold A. Lawson Katherine Sheffield Mabry Donald M. Phillips, Jr. Heidi Avera Putnam Catherine B. Templeton Jed P. Welmaker Leigh Anne S. Wills J. Hunt Wofford Christine Greene Young

1994 Chairman’s Circle Anonymous

Charles J. Carter, Jr. John H. Killian, Jr. J. Grig Sawyer R. Phillip Stone, II

Rachael Bowman Bradbury Richard A. Burgess, Jr. Karen Geddings Canup Kenneth C. Craven, Jr. Daniel H. Cude Kimberly M. Johnson C. R. Jones, III R. Matthew Jones Robert E. Jordan, Jr. Kristen H. King Will B. King, Jr. Nancy V. Kulick Brandie Yancey Lorenz Brian H. Marchant Scott F. McMahan Colby M. Murphy Sean E. Murphy Jessica Willis Otoya Patrick L. Ridinger Reuellyn Pletcher Thomas Ann Silverberg Williamson

Loyalty Club

Contributors

Jeffrey J. Forte

Leadership Society President's Club

Todd R. Barrett Mark A. Ferguson Crystal A. Garner Les J. Lilienthal, Jr. Virginia Pitts Lilienthal Nicholas A. Papadea E. Leslie Perry, III Ben G. Team, III Alicia N. Truesdail

Patron Club

Lori Waldrop Barwick A. M. Brabham, IV Tanya Green Greenlee Marie Bryan Hannon Elizabeth Neal Hedgepath Douglas C. Kleiner Judith F. Kop-English Amy Overstreet Maxwell E. Tee Parham, III Teresa M. Post Deborah L. Quarles Cynthia Owens West

Centurion Club

Missy M. Coulter William N. Coulter Elliott F. Epps Catherine Williams Free Frank W. Golson, III J. Craig Hall Kimberly M. Martin John R. McGinnis Kristie Wierks McMahan Ben T. Rigby Christopher T. Smith Melanie Ward Stanley Catherine Bailey Vice Hubert E. Yarborough, IV

Suzannah Kennedy Bagwell Natalie Burson Banks Daniel S. Codman, III Angie H. Galan Edward M. Parler, III Brian M. Rawlinson Emily S. Rawlinson Chris J. Thornburg

1996 Chairman’s Circle Anonymous Justin A. Converse J. Patrick Prothro

Trustee Society

Bailey B. Bartee Ryan L. Beasley Dorothy Acee Thomas

Leadership Society Joanna Marks Avant Herbert J. Fleming, Jr. Ashley C. Harris

President's Club

LeAnne Oliver Flack Mitchell M. Flannery Perry Vandiver Henson Contributors Thomas M. Henson, Jr. Allyson Hyatt Arrington Meredith Moore Housman Thomas J. Canero Christine Mozoski Hinshaw Walter R. Long Stanley G. Walsh, Jr. Krista E. Hughes Andrew P. Young B. Francis Lavelle, Jr. Katina Holloman Lett Patron Club Amy E. Mezger Ashley C. Brooks Jennifer Allen Miller Brandon E. Brown Edward A. Porubsky Christi Owen Brown Matthew M. Putnam Sally Sue Garris Brown R. Robert Sutherland, III Charles J. Hupfer, Jr. Jeffrey M. Venables Nicole Simmons Hupfer Jason H. Womick C. Lee Mason, II Curt L. Nichols, Jr. Janelle Harris Thomas 1995 Troy A. Yarborough

Chairman’s Circle Anna H. Converse

Trustee Society Robert D. Dodson Grant D. Warren Karen W. Warren

Leadership Society Phillip F. Petros

President's Club

C. Todd Arnold Genie P. Becknell A. Lance Crick Andrew C. English, III Bates N. Felder Brian D. Porzio Anne Thompson Ward

Patron Club

Cynthia Littlefield Black Christy Shearer Nichols Seth C. Reynolds Brian F. Taylor

Loyalty Club

Caroline W. Cullinan W. Christopher Daves Lucy Green Davis Jon L. Greenlee Tiffany Morris Hampton Olen G. Haynes, Jr. Andrew W. Hedgepath LeyAnna Shirley Messick Angela S. Parham Thomas S. Post, III

Centurion Club

Gregory D. Bethard

Loyalty Club

Shelley E. Hill Andrew H. Lanier, IV Jenni Brickhouse Mauran Julia Pigg Schmidler Danielle Miller Stoddard Robert T. Usry Susan Harris Worley

Centurion Club

Jason M. Ardito Heather Heaton Barker Margaret Watson Barrett John C. Bradbury Kim Carter Dulgeroglu Leigh J. Hawn Jason L. Hawn C. Brian Humphries Marvin H. O’Neal, III Emily A. Plumb Courtney Stevens Plyler Benjamin E. Ratterree Jeffrey D. Reichard Joseph W. Reiney Jennifer Neal Rhyne Tamela Levitt Seymour Mary Catherine C.l Smith Julie Gentry Stephens B. Todd Tillirson Louise Maynard Todd Paul V. White, III Carl A. Young

Contributors

Michael W. Bassett Melanie Thompson Davis David L. Davy D. Carlton Gibson

Megan C. Huff Lisa Gregory James Mary Beth Knight Kai D. Nitsche Lauren S. Price Lisa Cline Riley Heath T. Sellers Roy M. Smith, Jr. Angela Shaw-Thornburg Kevin B. Walker Kenneth W. Winter

1997 Trustee Society

Jeannette Pruett McCoy Matt C. McCoy

President's Club

Marc M. Combs Bryan D. Lake James M. Scott Megan Palmateer Walsh

Patron Club

A. Bryan Brooks Elizabeth Hubbard Jeffords Fred I. Jones, Jr. Mary Moore Keever Wesley R. Keever Leah Robertson Maybry Katrina K. Reynolds

Loyalty Club

Taiwanna N. Billups Chris M. Davis J. Richard Harper Nell Geary Hinchey James W. Plaster Jennifer F. Shealy Jennifer Snead Williams Christopher C. Woodard

Centurion Club

Philip T. Bailey Allison Marsh Behr Marie L. Espiritu Paul O. Habisreutinger Mary Frances G. Jowers Sally Gray M. Malambri Amanda G. Morin Marion M. Moses Carter B. Noland, Jr. Kelly Walker Noland Amanda Walton O’Neal Meg Junkin Reichard Kathleen Draffin Thompson Charlotte G. Tramel Delton A. Vereen Christine D. Williams

Contributors

William J. Bailey, III R. Christopher Barrett Heather Randolph Carter Shelley Haddock Dempsey Frank D. Guerrero, Jr. Tiffany Sumwalt Guerrero Katherine Harding Johnson Robert R. Martin, III Stephanie Hyman Martin Colin M. McLean Amy J. Parks Craig H. Parks Michelle West Parnell Leigh A. Poole Kristen Richardson-Frick Jennifer Graham Rodgers Jennifer Hammond Rogers Ellen Burriss Smith Thomas W. Smith Michael A. Turner

1998 Trustee Society

Robert Harris ’09, Shay Ellison ’09 and Angela Shiflet.

Dr. Angela Shiflet, connector and mentor “We’re learning together…”

Connecting

students to research opportunities, internships, contests, conferences, even other mentors — when it comes to placing her students in the path of opportunities, Dr. Angela Shiflet, chair and Larry Hearn McCalla Professor of Computer Science, knows which buttons to click.

A year ago she helped Robert Harris ’09 find, apply for and earn an international research experience. He spent the summer at the University of Austria in Vienna doing work in theoretical quantum chemistry with a mentor from Iowa State University.

“Because of the internship, Robert was able to show graduate schools that he’s capable of doing that highest level of research,” says Shiflet. “He also was able to give references from both Wofford and a big research university. That makes a huge difference.”

Harris was not only accepted to the graduate schools to which he applied, he was asked to apply for fellowships as a first-year student.

Shiflet sees networking with other computer scientists across the country as part of her job. It keeps her in the loop about research opportunities, but it also gives her personal contacts she can call on behalf of her students. To really recommend students, however, she needs to have first-hand experiences with them.

This spring, Shiflet and Shay Ellison ’09 are doing an independent study with supercomputers.

“We’re learning together about programming on the TeraGrid — a grid of high performance computers all over the country,” says Shiflet.

The research to be continued this summer, conducted through the University of Illinois, and funded by the Shodor Foundation and the National Science Foundation, will help document and support the cause of undergraduate research and computational science education across the county.

R. W. Turbeville, Jr.

Leadership Society Austin L. Bruce Bryan R. Shick Ingrid Geer Shick

President's Club

Richard B. Brewer Susan Redden Cole Michael E. Edens

Patron Club

Elaine Fincher Barnhill Kyle Gering Buckley Mallory J. Edwards G. William Gramling Luke H. Maybry Adrianne P. Ochoa Chris G. Ollinger Claire Culp Ollinger Stacey Ward Yarborough

BEST of the 1990s

participation percentage............................the class of 1993: 37%

total annual fund gift............................ the class of 1993: $19,620

Spring 2009 • Wofford Today • 19

ATHLETICS student-athletes Quick Hits Fall Academic AllConference Teams The Southern Conference announced in January its Academic All-Conference teams for the 2008 fall season.

Wofford had the most individuals selected with 44. To be eligible, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.2 cumulative GPA entering the fall season and must have competed in at least half of their team’s competitions during the recently concluded fall campaign. Wofford’s football team led the conference in honorees with 17. The Terriers also boasted honorees from women’s soccer (6), women’s cross country (4), men’s soccer (9), men’s cross country (3) and volleyball (5).

Wofford Ranks well in Graduation Rate Wofford athletics teams posted impressive graduation numbers in the latest report by the NCAA. The Graduation Success Rate measures numbers of players who earned a four-year degree within a six-year window. The GSR accounts for transfers, both in and out, which is how it differs from the federal graduation rate.

The most recent report included the freshman class of 2001. Eight teams at Wofford posted perfect scores of 100, including women’s cross country/track, women’s golf, men’s golf, women’s golf, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, men’s tennis, women’s tennis and volleyball. The football team had a score of 97, which was the highest in NCAA Division I among scholarship football programs. Close behind Wofford was Colgate at 96 and Furman at 95.

20 • Wofford Today • Spring 2009

Ralph Polson Elected NSCAA Vice President Wofford men’s soccer coach Ralph Polson has been elected vice-president of conventions and awards for the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). He will serve a threeyear term. He just finished a one-year term as secretary of the NSCAA. Polson just completed his first full season with the Terriers.

Joe E. Taylor Athletic Center nears completion

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Football 101 is back On May 1, Coach Mike Ayers and his coaching staff will once again offer a Football 101 clinic for ladies. Sponsored by the Terrier Club, the Wofford Alumni Office and Pet Dairy, the halfday event gives women an inside look at Wofford athletics. Visit athletics.wofford.edu for more information or to register.

Football Schedule Head football coach Mike Ayers has released the 2009 Football schedule.

Sept. 5..............................at South Florida Sept. 12............... Charleston Southern (H) Sept. 19............. at University of Wisconsin Sept. 26.............................at Chattanooga Oct. 3....................... Georgia Southern (H) Oct. 10...............................................open Oct. 17.....................Appalachian State (H) Oct. 24........................ at Western Carolina Oct. 31......................................... Elon (H) Nov. 7.................................. at The Citadel Nov. 14.................................. Samford (H) Nov. 21..................................... at Furman

rchitects and builders project that the Joe E. Taylor Athletic Center will be ready for Wofford coaches and student-athletes to occupy the space on June 1.

The center will feature a 7,000-square-foot weight room with new, customized equipment. All 18 sports will be able to use 12 Olympic lifting stations, 12 power lifting stations, six power runners, six glute/hamstring machines, 12 Texas power bars and 12 Werksan Olympic lifting sets. There will be two dumb bell sets that will range from five to 130 pounds in addition to 12 sets of plates from 2.5 pounds to 45 pounds. A set of advanced plyometric boxes will compliment a 5x20 meter Mondo track surface for speed training.

The center will house offices for men’s and women’s soccer, baseball, men’s and women’s golf, volleyball, men’s and women’s tennis and cross country/track and field. A conference room and several work areas will give the coaching staff needed space.

FAB 15 Former Athletes Best The Wofford Terrier Club is kicking off the 2009 athletic scholarship fundraising drive with the “FAB 15” contest. The contest will track the annual giving of athletic alumni in each of the varsity teams that the college sponsors.

The “FAB 15” ranks each team by the participation of former student-athletes. It’s not about total dollars; it’s about all players over the generations of Wofford Athletics making an annual gift to support today’s student-athletes.

Former student-athletes can participate by logging on to athletics.wofford.edu.

Then CLICK the FAB 15 button to make a gift. Gifts of at least $50 or more must be designated for the Terrier Club to count in the “FAB 15” competition. Put “FAB 15” in the comments section.

Nate Woody, coaching future mentors “Most teachers say the kids have a different attitude on days when their mentor is coming.”

Austin

Terriers play Davidson to sell-out crowd; Dahlman led Wofford with 18 points O

n Feb. 12, the Benjamin Johnson Arena was packed to the rafters as the men’s basketball team hosted Davidson in a Southern Conference match-up.

The crowd of 3,500 was only the second sell-out at Benjamin Johnson Arena and the first since hosting South Carolina on Nov. 28, 2001. There have been 11 total games where recorded attendance was more than 3,000 — the most recent of these was 3,469 vs. Furman on Feb. 22, 2003.

The Terriers opened strong and had an 11-2 lead at the 15:40 mark after a three-pointer from Kevin Giltner ’12. Davidson then went on an 8-0 run to make it 11-10.

The Terriers had the lead at the half, but in the end Stephen Curry, the nation’s leading scorer, had 39 points to lead the Wildcats to victory. The Terriers were led by Noah Dahlman ’11 with 18 points and Terry Martin ’11 with 11 points, while Tim Johnson ’10 pulled down seven rebounds.

Atkins honored with Southern Conference Distinguished Service Award T

wenty years of student-athletes on Wofford’s football team can thank Robert D. Atkins ’65 for their education.

Since 1989, Atkins has funded a full tuition, room and board scholarship for a football player who also excels in the classroom and college community. A football letterman at Wofford, Atkins has helped lead the Terrier Club’s efforts to secure fully endowed or annually funded scholarship commitments for Wofford student-athletes.

In addition to leading by example, Atkins also has served as a member of the Wofford President’s Advisory Board and will serve as president of the Terrier Club Drive in 2010-2011.

For his dedication and commitment to scholarship support for student-athletes, the Southern Conference will him with a 2009 Distinguished Service Award at the spring meeting of the Southern Conference in May. “For years, Robby’s commitment to funding scholarships for our student-athletes has inspired others to do the same,” says Wofford Director of Athletics Richard Johnson. “He is one of our most loyal supporters, and his vision has made a huge difference in our overall athletic program.”

Atkins Atkins founded Atkins Machinery Inc. in 1983.

He served as president and CEO until turning the company over to his son, Greg. Atkins also passed along his commitment to Wofford’s studentathletes to Greg, who now carries on his father’s legacy of service on the Terrier Club Board of Directors.

Palmer ’10 eats lunch and goes to recess every Friday with a student at Pine Street Elementary School.

They “hang out” after school when the student needs him. Palmer even takes time on the weekends to watch his young man participate in youth-league sports. Palmer, a student-athlete on Wofford’s football team, takes his job as a mentor seriously. He’s worked with the same young man for the past three years.

“I had a mentor when I was little,” says Palmer. “He practically helped raise me, and we still have a really strong relationship.

Mentoring is a pretty good use of my time, and besides, I always wanted a little brother.”

Palmer is one of 21 Wofford football student-athletes who participated this year in a mentoring program led by Defensive Coordinator and Assistant Coach Nate Woody ’84. Woody started the program four years ago after a conversation with Tricia Pressley, a guidance counselor at Jesse Boyd Elementary School, where Woody’s son was in third grade.

“Some of our guys help with reading and math, but they really are there to spend time with kids who need that extra attention, who might not be getting it elsewhere,” says Woody. “Most teachers say the kids have a different attitude on days when their mentor is coming. They really look forward to it.”

Brad Miller ’10 mentors two boys.

“One just needs someone to keep him focused,” says Miller. “I help him with homework. The other is a new kid at school. I go out to recess with him to make sure he’s incorporated into games.”

Hunt Marion ’11 spends a lot of time reading and talking with his student, although they also enjoy playing basketball together.

“We’ve become friends,” says Marion. “I love helping someone grow and mature.”

Jordan Ingman ’11 has learned that sometimes mentors have to be tough.

“Sometimes I have to let my young man know that he’s made a bad choice,” says Ingman, who uses the lessons he’s learned on the football field to guide his student. “I love football so much because it’s like life. I use stories from football to help him get through tough times.”

Between classes, labs, practice and play during the season and off-season workouts, Woody says that the Wofford football players who commit to mentoring must be good at managing their time.

“These guys really, really want to do this,” says Woody. “They don’t have a lot of down time, so giving some to help someone else says a lot about their character.”

A few of the student-athletes on the Terrier football team who volunteer in the community as mentors. Left to right are Hunt Marion ’11, Jordan Ingman ’11, Brad Miller ’11 and Nate Woody ’84 Spring 2009 • Wofford Today • 21

alumni (continued) Loyalty Club

David G. Johnson Scot H. Jones W. Lee Mediamolle II Nathanial C. Miller Mark P. Sullivan Mayleng Streett Watson Melanie Dillingham Watson J. Brian Williams William P. Willimon

Centurion Club

Daphne Rhyne Cousineau T. Stewart Ketchin Cecilia Hibbard Knight Mark S. Knight William D. MacDonald Will F. Malambri, III J. Stuart Moore Manoj Pariyadath J. Andrew Sevic Jeanne O’Brien Tuerk Amy E. Vaughan Amanda P. Voyles Brian A. Weatherby Suzanne H. White Amanda Burgess Wren Michael B. Wren

Contributors

K. Dale Anson Emily Ghent Bailey Mary Jacque Carroll Elizabeth M. Clark Shawn C. Elms C. Bowen Horger, II E. Eugene Hughes Matthew A. Lockhart Julia Hopper Milne I. B. Parnell, III Jason M. Rogers Amy Greenwood Smith Kyle R. Smith Susan Curlovic Werner David M. Wilcox Dawn King Wilcox

1999 Monier Abusaft ’11 and Samie Clowney ’01

Samie Clowney, a mentor in leadership “I want to model his path.”

Monier

Abusaft ’11 glimpses his future in Director of Multicultural Affairs Samie Clowney ’01.

“I’m a religion major and may want an M.Div. like Samie. He’s younger than most leaders on campus and has a good mind to pick. I want to model his path,” says Abusaft.

The respect is mutual.

Clowney and Abusaft met during first-year summer orientation activities.

Abusaft registered for Clowney’s simulated society leadership course.

“He was a go-getter even then,” says Clowney. “He knew the rule book and led his team to finish first.”

Still, like many first-year students, Abusaft experienced a rocky start.

“One of his professors called me during Monier’s first semester on campus and said, ‘I’ve got this bright guy in class, but he’s struggling academically. I want you to be aware,’” says Clowney.

Clowney picked up the phone and called Abusaft to come by to talk. They bonded immediately.

“I consider Samie my mentor because he helped me get a strong start at Wofford,” says Abusaft. “He’s patient with me, and he bombards me with opportunities to get involved on campus.”

Recently Clowney and Abusaft worked together to develop social program for Black Greek Life on campus. Clowney advises Abusaft’s fraternity, Kappa Alpha Psi, and Clowney encouraged Abusaft to serve as a panelist at the Black Leadership Conference.

“Monier did a great job representing Wofford at the table with students from Furman, Presbyterian, Davidson and Washington & Lee,” says Clowney. “He’s excited about what’s happening on campus and has made a commitment to the campus socially and intellectually. I’m amazed by his maturity.”

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Trustee Society Clay D. Bartee

President's Club

Ashley M. Bullington Eric L. Cole Britton T. Foy Amie Audet Gregory Harriet Willimon Putman M. Huntley Smith S. Palmer Williams Larry D. Windham Jr. Sarah Lyles Windham

Patron Club

Catherine P. Gramling Travis M. Lookabill Brian M. Nash P. Lynwood Pace, Jr. Rebecca Raulerson Parrish Bentley D. Price Ben H. Reynolds, III Andrea Travis Wilcox Mark W. Wilcox

Loyalty Club

Anthony J. Leigh Sarah L. McKune Janet McKittrick Meko Allyson Varn Monferdini James M. Parrish, Jr. Penn Page Williams E. Brent Williams Ashley Grubbs Wimberly Mark P. Wimberly Stuart W. Yothers

Centurion Club

Charles R. Bullington Charles W. Clementson Travis W. Crocker J. Trevor Ellison C. Gordon Farley Amanda Floyd Gilman Nikki Perrin Ketchin Meredith A. Knox Gregory M. Koch Kathryn Y. Koch Sarah J. Kuszaj Emily A. Long Erin Williams Maughon Gary L. Nesmith Karla L. Otroszko Kristine McGraw Pariyadath Church C. Powers Benjamin M. Renfrow Kelly Cannon Ridinger

Allison Hope Weems Amanda Jopling Wells C. Matthew Wells Lisa N. Yebuah C. Erik Young

Contributors

Timothy A. Carter Keith B. Clark Sarah H. Cross Joshua W. Hayes J. Mac Horton III Jacob Y. Neal Shanna A. Walker J. McIntyre Ward Joseph T. Werner

2000 Leadership Society Macaulay White Smith

President's Club

Marion E. Cobb Ricardo J. Hagood, Jr. Bradley S. Talbert

Patron Club

Katherine R. Annas J. Adam Brannon Kelan J. Brown Remsen B. Parrish Mark A. Peper Kevin J. Sill

Loyalty Club

Heather G. Brumbach William K. Brumbach, III English Chapman Flack Jonathan B. Flack Heather Sulier Griffith David C. Hicks Stefanie Weisman Plexico James T. Rambo, Jr. Colby G. Rankin Gregory M. Rhoads David R. Swank Jonathan B. Williams

Centurion Club

H. Grady Adkins, III Jamie Johnson Boyd Pascal S. Boyd, III Sara Longfellow Carson Diana Duncan Clemow Brooks M. Crenshaw W. Scott Farrell Nicholas Gilman Elliott W. Goldsmith Walter L. Gray Brannon T. Greene J. Aaron Hipp Jennifer Chapple Jacobson Penny Koger-Thomas R. Montague Laffitte, III Shelley E. Lane Ross B. Plyler Katherine T. Rangel Thomas E. Woods, II

Contributors

Martha A. Brewington Thomas C. Byrd Brian G. Clark Ann Bull Clarke David B. Crum R. McClintock Hammond Scott J. Neely William D.F. Rhem J. Dean Ridings Cassandra S. Sinclair Russell G. Swift Robbie B. Swofford

2001 President's Club

Sam Clowney Stephen M. Creech, Jr. Rosemary G. DeAntonio R. Ayden Meyer Elizabeth Wilkes Rabb Jeremy S. Scott

Patron Club

Heather Hill Kochamba Philip W. Shields Hilary Ward Sill Leah Bryan Wilkins

Loyalty Club

Jenna Sheheen Bridgers W. Allen Bridgers Jason H. Burr Mark C. Lynn L. Darby Plexico, III Courtney Howard Rambo Laura Sams Wansley

Centurion Club

E. Guy Ballenger A. Mattison Bogan Brad L. Brendle Mark A. Brown Amy Ledford DiLiegro Steven D. Epps Jennifer L. Etters Emily W. Goldsmith Erin V. Hudson Joshua J. Hudson Howard R. Kinard Christopher B. Mamele R. Garnett B. McCallum Andrew H. Molinaro John B. Nichols Justin P. Powell Edward R. Richardson

Contributors

D. Brian Anderson Jennifer T. Bridges Adam B. Buckner Kellie Nakatsu Buckner Allen O. Clark, III Kasey Roberts Dillard Jacquelyn Starks Gayle Frampton W. Henderson, III Gary Joe Jennings, Jr. Lindsey Carlberg Livingston Anna E. Martin William V. McPherson, III Claire E. Myers Helen R. Roper Benjamin H. Ross Andrew T. Smith, Jr.

2002 President's Club

Benjamin J. Foster Elizabeth Tyson Gibson Michael P. Gibson Brett T. Myers Eric M. Nash Erin Caudill Nash April Williams Payne

Patron Club

A. Preston Brittain Charles R. Dixon Beth Hawley Dixon T. David Hoyle C. Bailey King, Jr. Kenzie Brunson Newton Ryan W. Newton Julie Stanley Stowe

Loyalty Club

C. Bennett Gore John B. Johnston Lisa C. McMillan Lucas McMillan Kristofer M. Neely J. David Wansley, Jr.

Centurion Club

Thomas C. Anderson, Jr. Chase T. Bannister Marianna Page Cartin Susan Muller Chase Blair Wetmore Clementson Amy Imfeld Coles John A. Dobson William W. Garland Allyson A. Gibson Kimberly D. Grande Lindsay E. Hazle Rebekah M. Hutto William J. Hutto T. Ryan Langley LT. Michael H. Malone Hannah K. Metts Anthony C. Prestipino, Jr. John E. Rogers, II Chantal N.C. Speas Tanner J. Spry Elizabeth D. Stephenson T. D. Williams, IV

Contributors

Brooke Joye Anthony Jaime L. Belford Margaret Medlin Brabham Clare Stokes Cook Roberto J. d’Erizans Jen Evanko Echemendia Michael P. Echemendia April Mitchell Flowers Michael W. Hall Rachel Courtright Hammond Derrick C. Ledford Albert S. Porth, Jr. Jennifer Blackledge Porth J. Garnett Ramsbottom, III William H. Rhodes Catherine Baker Swift Bryan K. Wates

2003 President's Club

F. J. Daniel Felder J. Michael Montgomery Heather Rogers-Regenthal Jane Lee Scott Richard C. Webb

Patron Club

Nicholas E. Haughey Justin L. Hunte Jesse A. Smith

Loyalty Club

Marcelle E. Brown Currie Gossett Carnegie Prosser D. Carnegie, II Courtney Bartie Hicks Mary Madison B. Langway Kelly Day Miner Jennifer Jackson Swank Lauren Joyner Vicars Janna L. Webb

Centurion Club

Sally B. Armstrong William H. F. Bowen Marchant S. Chase Samuel R. Fisher, Jr. Nathan P. Fuqua Alison Caviness Gibson Sallie Cheek Harrell Tracy A. Howard Kyle M. James Carolyn E. Laffitte W. McIver Leppard T. Happel Scurry Jaclyn Eargle Sease Karen Hembree Spry M. Rebecca Terry Erica Paige Woodward

Contributors

Ryan C. Allen L. Lee Berry Kelly Moore Bowers Owen F. Brice, Jr. Mary Holland Brumbach Sara J. Burton Molly Bushong Carr Cornelius L. Cromer Anna C. Epps Mark R. Farthing Megan E. Finkbine Katherine Gantt Gettys Chad N. Johnston K. Gordon Lay, Jr. Jennifer L. Lister Amanda Nave Marvelle Meghan C. McGowan Lauren J. McWilliams W. Reece McWilliams, III Amanda O. Odom Christopher L. Rightmyer Kristen L. Starnes Faith A. Stewart Christopher S. Strickland Kristin Burn Swiler Pierrine Todd Thomas William L. Thomas Heidi K. Trump Tyler Schachte Whitaker

2004 Trustee Society John P. Moore

Leadership Society Matthew H. Nelson

Patron Club

Steven C. Blanton, Jr. John W. Hackney Elizabeth F. Rhem Carleise E. Scotten

Loyalty Club

B. Shawan Gillians Ann B. Johnson Ainsley Robinson Johnston James N. Miner Craig A. Thomas

Centurion Club

Deena J. Bateh Fred A. Byers, II Steven H. Casey Lauren R. Dempsey Hugh H. DuBose, III Shane H. Fast Jean Cecil Frick Leah Edwards Garland J. McClain Goodwin Matthew R. Howsare Patrick S. Kay Gerald A. Kiehl Sunny Minkowich Leppard

Named Funds Scholarship Funds Scholarships make a Wofford education possible for many deserving students. Current scholarships are awarded directly from a gift, whereas endowed scholarships are awarded from the earnings of an invested gift. A fully endowed scholarship requires $750,000. To endow a partial scholarship, a commitment of $50,000 is required.

Following is a list of scholarship funds to which gifts were made in 2008. This is not a comprehensive list of all funds at Wofford.

If you would like a complete listing of all scholarship funds & their descriptions, please contact Susan Gray, director of donor relations, at 864-597-4204 or graysd@wofford.edu.

John Pope Abney Memorial George Cotton Smith Adams Alumni David Mark Anderson Frank J. & Jeanette R. Anderson Robert D. Atkins 1965 Football Mike W. Ayers Athletic Babcock Bailey Foundation Bank of America Barham-Meyers Charles D. & Sally C. Barrett Legacy Lori Waldrop Barwick W. E. Bass, Jr. 1964 BB&T Ryan L. Beasley Joseph B. Bethea Robert P. Bethea Bilanchone-Conway Paula I. Binovec 1985 Memorial Bank of America Bonner S. Hart Booth, Jr. & Margaret Bishop Booth Tom & Shirley Bower William H. Brabham 1971 Memorial James A. Brakefield Memorial Dr. C. Lynwood Bramlett, Jr. Family Thomas C. Brittain 1975 Athletic Thomas N. Brittain Raymond J. Brown Capt. Thomas N. Brown, Jr. & Col. Sara M. Brown Frank & JoAnn Brunson Bryan-Hannon Albert Bryan Bullington, Sr. 1933 Mem. Athletic E.C. Burnett, Jr. 1939 & Lucy B. Burnett Carpenter Dr. Donald A. Castillo, Jr. Caudle Professor & Mrs. Charles E. Cauthen William P. Cavin 1945 Cecil Family Delores Wilson Chandler J. Harold Chandler 1971 Class of 1939 Class of 1940 Class of 1942 Class of 1947 Class of 1950 Class of 1951 Class of 1952 Class of 1954 Class of 1955 Class of 1958 Class of 1960 Class of 1961 Class of 1966 Class of 1967 Class of 1971 Class of 1979 Class of 1980 Class of 1981 Class of 1982 Class of 1983 Class of 1989 Class of 1994 Class of 2007 W. Scott Cogswell 1968 Richard Harris Cohn Football Colonial Life and Accident Computational Science Fund James C. Crawford, Jr. Creative Writing Stephen M. Creech, Jr. 2001

W. J. Bryan Crenshaw 1943 Nell P. & Francis E. Cronenberg Adam Cross 1862 Thornton W. 1943 & Arlene Webster Crouch Daniel/Switzer Family Athletic Charles H. Davidson, IV 1970 F. A. Dean 1927 Football Floride Smith Dean David B. Dedmon, DMD Harry Donald Dobbs Robert Daniel Dodson 1995 Charles H. Drawdy, Sr. 1962 Duke Power Wallace Duncan DuPre 1909 Michael Edens Eugene F. Alexander Memorial Shirley Nordan Ellis Laurie N. & Jennie D. Ervin William B. Evins, Jr. 1956 & Syble R. Evins Barbara Ferguson Memorial H. J. Fleming, Jr. Fortson Family Philip F. Foster, Jr. 1982 John Cary ’20, Lilage Castles & James R. Fowler, Sr. ’52 J. Robert Freeman Golf Fund Sam A. George, Jr. 1958 Georgia-Witan Jimmy & Marsha Gibbs Melvin I. Gibbs, Jr. 1943 Memorial J. Stokes Gillespie 1933 Charles H. Gray 1972 Professor Harold Green Robert E. Gregory, Jr. Family James R. & Kay H. Gross for Theatre Arts R. Bailey & Margaret W. Gross Dr. & Mrs. James G. Halford, Jr. 1945 Dr. Edward B. Hamer 1947 E. Jack & Gloria V. Hamilton Memorial Niles E. 1950 & Ann L. Hanna W.D. “Dick” Hardy Memorial Cleveland S. & Curtis R. Harley John W. Harrington Jimmy A. & Brenda G. Harris Chemistry Hellenic Heritage G. Ross Hennigar, III 1975 H. Moody Henry 1927 John Q. Hill 1947 Memorial Herman N. Hipp Marvin L. Holloway 1933 Charles E. Holmes 1970 Memorial Bobby & Jean Ivey Family JeaNed James M. Johnson Dr. A. Richard Johnston 1932 Lewis P. Jones 1938 Ted E. & Mary Elizabeth S. Jones Douglas Henry Joyce 1979 Kappa Sigma Wade P. Keisler John G. Kelly William Light Kinney, III 1991 F. Jenkins Knight 1924 & Richard W. Knight Mem. Paul 1922 & Katherine Knox Lancaster Family George N. & Mary Edna Smith League Walter H. Lehner Memorial Golf Dr. W. Raymond Leonard Joab M., Jr. & Ruth O. Lesesne Lesesne Foreign Study Nabor Dekalb Lesesne Dr. J. Grady Locklear 1965 Dr. James C. Loftin Dean Frank 1941 & Madeline Logan Longleaf Lowcountry David C. Luke 1988 James Foster Lupo Madden Family George C. Marshall Dr. Dan B. Maultsby William H. May & Bernice W. May W. Hastings McAlister E. Windell & Johann M. McCrackin Elizabeth Boden & Larry Thomas McGehee Harold M. 1928 & Carolyn B. McLeod John B. McLeod Walton J. McLeod, Jr. 1926 Meadors Family Medlock Family Dr. Melvin D. ‘54 & Joanne V. Medlock Merritt Family C. B. & Lillian Mooneyham Moore Family Moore Memorial Betty & Charles E. Morgan Morris Family

Daniel B. Morrison, Jr. Dorothy F. & Paul Morrow Samuel R. Moyer 1951 Gail Ware Nesbitt William F. Nettles, Jr. 1928 David L. Neugent, Jr. Curtis Lynn Nichols, Jr. 1996 Harry A. Nix, Jr. 1973 Dr. C. C. Norton Gus & Maria Papadopoulos John, Jr. 1960 & Stephanie Parham Vera Davis Parsons Memorial William & Alethea Pate Dwight F. Patterson, Sr. 1929 Lewis Wardlaw Perrin, Jr. Phillips Family Frank M. Pickens Piedmont Natural Gas Plexico Frank S. Poe, Jr. Family Charles Polk Stanley E. Porter & Dr. Jennifer Parker Porter O. Eugene & Mary Lou Powell Roy S. Powell & Elizabeth P. Powell Presidential Foreign Study Presidential International James Patrick Prothro John M. Rampey 1958 Memorial C. F. “Frog” Reames 1926 Dr. William C. Reid 1955 Myrtle Ezell Reynolds Rhem Family Richardson Family Athletic Arthur B. Rivers Claudia & Kenneth Robinette Joel E. Robertson 1941 Robison-Oates Rotary Club of Spartanburg David L. Rush ‘87 Memorial Dr. Conrad W. Sanders, Jr. 1961 Eli F. Sanders Football Denise Satterfield SCANA/SCE&G SCICU Scott Family SC Student Loan Corporation Richard W. Scudder 1957 Memorial D. L. Scurry James E. Seegars, Jr. Walt Sessoms 1956 Teresa Sims Talmage B. Skinner, Jr. ‘56 & Beverly K. Skinner Herman H. & Louise M. Smith J M Smith Foundation Victor M. ’35 & James V. Smith ’68 Academic-Athletic Conley T. & Adelaide W. Snidow Snyder-DuPre Soccer Lettermen’s Southern Guards 2000 Sonoco Products Company Spartan Mills Spartanburg County Foundation Spigner Chris & Robbie Staubes Success Initiative Algernon Sydney Sullivan Mary Mildred Sullivan Switzer Family Athletic Switzer Family George & Carol Tate T. Reginald Thackston 1956 Harold D. 1960 & Catherine H. Thompson William Richardson & Connie Jackson Timmons Traywick United Methodist Church UPS Wachovia Bank T. Emmet Walsh 1941 Theodore H. Walter & Sons Grantham & Karen Wheeler Warren Albert T. Watson 1943 John A. 1941 & Lillian A. White Junie White Mary B. White Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Newell R. & Caroline M. Whitener Ruth Winn Wickware Wile Family Harry P. Williams, Jr. John Wiley & Rowena Eaddy Williams David G. Williamson, Jr. 1950 John W. & Inez S. Williamson Ana Maria & Dennis M. Wiseman Worrell Family John Bundy Yorke Memorial John M. Younginer, Jr. 1953

Endowed Professorships Wofford’s greatest asset is the academic program.

Endowed professorships provide the foundation for Wofford’s rigorous academic program.

Following is a list of endowed professorship funds to which gifts were made in 2008.

Chapman Family Endowed Chair Mungo Endowed Professorship R. Michael James Family Endowed Professorship Reeves Professorship Challenge Reeves Second Professorship Challenge

Program Funds Listed below are named program funds to which gifts were made in 2008.

Annual Fund Challenge Fund Art Department Fund Art Restoration Fund Mike Ayers Fund Biology Fund Mike Brown Summer Internship Martha Chapman Art Gallery Fund Chemistry Fund Dr. Lawrence H. Chewning, Jr. English Dept. Award Kenneth D. Coates Endowed Book Fund Computer Science Award Fund Philip S. Covington Faculty Development Fund Creative Writing Program Fund Education Department Fund English Department Fund First Down Program Foreign Language Department Fund Foreign Travel Program Dr. Walter E. Hudgins Endowment Fund Stewart & Ann Cobb Johnson Fund Albert R. Jones Endowed Fund Kappa Alpha Fraternity Award Fund W. Ray Leonard Award Liberty Fellowship Fund Math Department Fund W. J. McLeod Award Fund Men’s Basketball Fund Marion L. McMillan, Jr. Family Endowed Fund William J. McLeod Award Fund Milliken Faculty Travel Fund Multicultural Fund Music Department Fund Novel Experience Fund Jennings K. Owens, Jr. Family Fund Pep/Jazz Band Fund Psychology Department Fund Quest Program Fund Muffet & Olin Sansbury Lecture Series Fund Sculpture Fund Senior Class Gift Fund Student Activities Fund Student Managed Investment Fund Student Research-Community of Scholars Fund Success Initiative Program Fund Terrier Club Alumni Dance Terrier Club Golf Tournament Tyson Family Fund Vietnam Fund Thomas Daniel Whetsell Memorial William P. Willimon Fund Wofford Theatre Fund

Naming Opportunities The following are the minimum gift levels required to create named endowed funds. These include:

Faculty chair.................................................$1,500,000 Professorship...............................................$1,000,000 Lecture Series.................................................$100,000 Full Tuition Scholarship...................................$750,000 Partial Scholarship............................................$50,000 Library Book Fund.............................................$25,000 There are also some naming opportunities still available in campus facilities that are being constructed or renovated. For additional information on naming opportunities, contact Ed Story or Marion Peavey at 864-597-4200.

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INTERIM 2009... fieldwork in environmental archaeology... jane austen in text

some of the on-campus projects during Interim 2009

Dr. Ted Monroe brings The Wild West to a new g T

o most Wofford students, “Bonanza” is a steak house, Clint Eastwood is the guy in “Gran Torino,” and the Cowboys are a football team in Dallas.

That is why Ted Monroe taught The Wild West, an Interim course designed to bring Western fact and fiction to a generation that, unlike the many generations before it, didn’t grow up playing Cowboys and Indians.

“The students wrote an essay that pertained to one of five events, and the other part was to get away from the

history and get into fiction,” says Monroe. “They wrote a short story that’s Western based. We brought two Western fiction writers to campus.”

The two writers were Cameron Judd and Johnny Boggs. The five events were Custer’s Last Stand, the Massacre at Wounded Knee, the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the Lincoln County War, and the Northfield Minnesota Raid.

Sometimes Western fact and fiction are mixed together, a tricky proposition in this age where fans expect plausibility, at the very least, in their entertainment.

“Most Western writers, at least the ones I know, strive to be as believable as possible,” says Judd, who is a three-time national finalist in the Spur Awards competition of Western Writers of America. “They write about the kinds of things that could have happened, whether they happened or not. I’d say there is more concern about that today than there was, say…50-60 years ago.

“I’m from the same county as Davy Crockett. There are gaps where we don’t really know what he was doing during certain periods of his

life. That’s where you’re free to fictionalize and speculate as to what he might have been doing.

But even then, you try to keep him tied to the type of activities that we know he did during his life, to keep it plausible.”

In order to compete with other genres in the future, Boggs says, the Western is going to have to redefine itself. If future Western fiction writers borrow from other genres, it’s only fair. In fact, it would be returning the favor. Most other genres are loaded with story elements first found in Westerns.

“Westerns were horse operas,” says Boggs.

“Now you have space operas. You can see Western elements in just about everything else. I asked some of the students here what their favorite films are. Someone mentioned “Gladiator.”

That is a film loaded with old Western elements such as revenge. I consider “No Country for Old Men” a Western. It has Western elements in it. It even takes place in the West.

“The future of the genre depends on guys like us reaching out to the younger generation

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and film... playing and understanding chess... medical botany... living green...

generation of students who didn’t grow up with it and really don’t have a clue what it was about. We have a generation that grew up on science fiction. They know more about outer space than they know about their own recent history.”

Sounds good, but how do you reach an audience that prefers laser battles to gunfights?

“Somehow you have to make it relevant to today’s young reader,” said Boggs. “The stories have to be something they can relate to. I think you could remake the old TV show “The Rifleman” today because of the single parent theme.

Westerns were really the only shows back then that dared use a single parent.”

Judd was influenced by shows such as “Bonanza,” “Gunsmoke,” “High Chaparal,” and “Daniel Boone.” He says that movies like “Tombstone” (which centered on the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral) have made historical accuracy much more important for the new generation.

“I never set out to do straight pure history fictionalized into a novel,” he says. “If I do take liberties with the story, I try to do so without

damaging the historical integrity. I prefer the term ‘historically plausible’ over ‘historically accurate,’ though, because the latter simply means you are repeating history and not being creative.”

The Western is still alive. The success of movies such as “Tombstone” and shows like HBO’s “Deadwood” prove that. It may not dominate the landscape of television or the movies any more, but it’s still fertile territory for those who want to explore it in writing.

“To my surprise, I found one student in this class who said he played cowboys and Indians,” says Judd. “I have kids that are the same age as these students, and I know that Westerns are not much a part of their experience.”

“Westerns in the past were more escapism and it didn’t matter how historically accurate they So you have to pay attention to history and to detail. The Western is alive, but we have to keep were,” adds Boggs. “Readers today know a lot more. They want history and they want facts and it alive.”

by Brett Borden they want everything to be empirically correct.

Monroe brought Western writers Johnny Boggs (above) and Cameron Judd to campus to talk with students.

hi on the road... surrealistic space.. pulp theatre... demonstrating science...

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About For & Alumni

Keeping inTouch 1944

Dr. E. M. Rozier and his wife, Miriam, live in Dillon, S.C. Rozier practiced dentistry in Dillon for 53 years until his retirement two years ago.

1949

E. O. Smith and his wife, Audrey, live in Winston-Salem, N.C. Smith served as class chair for 20 years.

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Joel Hand and his wife, Beulah, live in Bamberg, S.C. Hand wrote to us that he is “enjoying retirement, life, travel and grandchildren (9). Not necessarily in that order!”

Cody Robinson and his wife, Sarah, were profiled in the Jan. 22 edition of The Transylvania Times. The couple has been married for 51 years and live in Brevard, N.C. We had a nice note from Dr. Jack Smith who lives in Columbia, S.C., with his wife, Sara. Smith practiced neurosurgery for 31 years, retiring in 2000. He now enjoys an on-going education in food preparation and pairing wines and cheeses. Smith also enjoys getting together with classmates for the annual Wofford golf shootout at Musgrove Mill.

1959

50th Reunion, Commencement 2009 Class Chair, William N. Bradford Jr. Roger Inman, a former wholesale oil representative, is retired and lives in Statesboro, Ga., with his wife, Annie.

1960

Reunion, Commencement 2010 Class Chair, S. Austin Peele James A. Stuckey Jr. is presbytery attorney for Charleston-Atlantic Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. He lives in Charleston, S.C.

1961

Reunion, Homecoming 2011 Class Chair, Richard L. Robinson Dr. Dan Maultsby, dean emeritus, has assumed chairmanship of the Spartanburg Regional Hospital System Board of Trustees. Appointed by the Spartanburg County Council, members of the board provide oversight and set policy for the health care system. Maultsby and his wife, Kit, live in Spartanburg.

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Reunion, Homecoming 2012 Class Chair, Boyce M. Berry It was nice to hear from Dr. Harold B. Jayroe, who lives in Columbia, S.C., with his wife, Nell. He wrote to us that

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Dr. R. Lee Kernell and his wife, Judy, recently took a roundtrip cruise between Murmansk, Russia, and the North Pole. They traveled aboard a 75,000horsepower icebreaker equipped with two nuclear reactors. At the Pole, the 98 passengers and the 50-person crew debarked for a cookout on the ice. Avid travelers, the Kernells have visited all seven continents and all 50 states. The couple lives in Norfolk, Va.

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he Class of 1959 will hold its 50th Reunion during Commencement Weekend, May 16-17. Throughout the weekend, the members will be honored with special seating at all commencement activities, and on Sunday, May 17, the members of the class will lead the commencement processional dressed in full regalia.

On Saturday, May 16, the class will hold its reunion at 6:15 p.m. in the Harley Room in the Richardson Physical Activities Building on Wofford’s campus.

Serving as reunion chairmen for the event are: Bill Bradford ’59, Alvis Bynum ’59, Charlie Brockwell ’59, Cody Fishburne ’59, Tom Gasque ’59, Joe Lewis ’59, Marion McMillan ’59, Ernest Ray Ouzts ’59 and Tom Tiller ’59.

For more information, visit alumni.wofford.edu or contact Elizabeth Fields, assistant director of alumni and parents programs, at 864-597-4187 or e-mail fieldsem@wofford.edu.

Celebrating a reunion before the Class of 1959’s official 50-year reunion at Commencement were (left to right): Randy Mahaffey ’61, Io Papadopoulos, Gregory Papadopoulos ’59, Tom Tiller ’59 and Tom Gasque ’59.

The Papadopoulos Family: from Greece to Wofford

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n early February, Greg Papadopoulos ’59 gave a short talk to students, faculty and alumni in the building named in memory of his father.

A businessman living in Kavala, Greece, Neofytos D. Papadopoulos sent two sons to Wofford, Greg and his older brother, Gus ’54. After graduation, Greg went home to Greece to be near family and go into business. Gus, meanwhile, became a successful physician and businessman in Houston, Texas, and a longtime member of the Wofford Board of Trustees.

Greg Papadopoulos talked about the challenges of coming to America for college and about good times at Wofford: late-night meals at Simple Simon’s, going on tour with the Glee Club, trips to Myrtle Beach, where he and friends would “sing and dance all night.” Above all, he stressed that his professors — for whom “to get a ‘B’, whew, was something you really had to work for” — taught values of hard work and responsibility.

“The Wofford experience never leaves you,” he said.

Papadopoulos’ visit was bittersweet. He was greeted warmly by old friends and by students in attendance. But it was his first visit to Wofford since the sudden death of his brother in 2007. “(Gus) never forgot Wofford,” he told his audience.

Senior Vice President Marion Peavey ’65 recalls that Gus Papadopoulos in 2002 urged fellow trustees to undertake the largest fundraising campaign in the college’s history. He also made the first major gift.

“Following thunderous applause, and thanks to Gus’ initial gift for the campaign, the effort was launched on that sunny autumn day in 2002, and the rest is history,” Peavey says.

Gus and Greg Papadopoulos contributed to the construction of the building named in their father’s honor.

Class of ’59 Reunion In that place, in scholarships, and in Schedule of Events the stories connected to both Greg and 5/16 Baccalaureate Service Gus, the Papadopoulos legacy lives on at Wofford.

5 p.m.

5/16

50th Class Reunion 6:15 p.m.

5/17

Commencement 9:30 a.m.

5/17

Lunch, 11:30 a.m.

by Baker Maultsby ’92

Dr. Deno Trakas (left), who is writing a book about Greek immigrants in the Spartanburg community, and President Emeritus Joe Lesesne visit with Io and Greg Papadopoulos ’59.

alumni (continued) Chelsea Grimsley Oswald 2006 Jeremy C. Oswald Patricia A. Pruitt Rachel M. Sheridan

Contributors

Shannon G. Ardaiolo S. Elliott Bates M. Caroline Brewer S. Vance Burgess W. Edward Cannon, III Melissa M. Chandler L. Grant Close, III Lucy L. Coble J. Matthew Ferguson Lisa Marie A. Ferguson Blair B. Hamilton Erin L. Hantske McLane Linton Harrington Jane McCullough Hixson Karla Parris Jennings Bryan P. Kelley Lindsay R. Lyman Jason M. Mengel Rebecca Chapman Parker Mary S. Patterson Adam H. Perrow Jennifer M. Rook Ashley Thomas Seawell Jonathan D. Starks Ryan C. Steele Hitesh G. Tolani Elizabeth B. Toussaint

2005 President's Club M. Timmons Hipp Adam G. Regenthal

Patron Club

Cowles Gilchrist Whitley Joshua S. Whitley

Loyalty Club

Emily Sandifer Boyd Joseph W. Boyd, Jr. Elizabeth A. Gowan Leah E. Harris P. Carter Pearson Matthew A. Turbeville Ryan M. Waller

Centurion Club

Andre’ B. Caldwell Katherine P. Coleman Alan R. Eisenman Diane Slider Farley James A. Freland Bobby W. Gibbs J. Anderson Halligan Andrew H. Harrison Kayce A. Hughes Margaret V. Meyer Tim Mittmann Caroline M. Schultz Amanda R. Stephenson D. Shiel Wood, Jr.

Contributors

Thad B. Ball Mary Catherine Benson Anderson J. Bradbury Katherine E. Campbell Sarah McLean Cannon L. Marshall Coleman Samuel W. Daniels Ellen K. Diebold G. Jalandan J. Foxworth Jason T. Green Ashley A. Hambright Katherine O’Daniel Haney H. Robert Hixson, Jr. A. Trevor Hray, III Kelly A. McElhiney Elizabeth Saine Nimmich Mitchell L. Nimmich Erin F. Powell Daniel D. Ray Janet E. Rhodes Brian K. Rice M. Ryan Switzer Michael A. Thompson Jordan S. Thrasher

Loyalty Club

Nichole L. Buchanan Rhea D. DeJesus Elizabeth Q. Frazier Alexander O. Schaefer Christopher P. Shugart

Centurion Club

Brad D. Anderson Christopher W. Barlow N. Melia Brannon Margaret M. Bruton Helen Barron Dowbak Johnathan N. Dowbak Kelsey C. Duggan Laura J. Green Brooks L. Harper Andrew L. Hewitt Lacey D. Hilliard Natalie R. Hussey Sophie W. Lane Ashley E. Mamele Caroline Labban Mittmann Zachary P. Pittman Rachel A. Smithson

Contributors

Margaret D. Beacham Mallory E. Bramlett William A. Burris Jesse R. Cole Richard L. Cox Brianne Clever Culbreath Adam R. Dox Sarah W. Evans Kiri N. Ferguson Meghan M. Gasmovic Ellen M. Gilchrist Sarah Gowan Hinton Hadley E. Green Tara K. Hartness Erin L. Higgenbotham Zach D. Hinton Benjamin I. Johnson Katherine J. Langley Gabrielle N. Linder Duncan G. Martin Andrew B. Nevins Callie Bagwell Owens Meredith A. Parnell Meredith L. Pierce Nelson C. Poe, III H. Matthew Reynolds Julius R. Richardson, II Hallie M. Sessoms K. Meritt Smith Megan E. Snaider Allison P. Thomas Suzanne D. Webb Saiward N. Whitener David R. Williams Jayne A. Wilmot

2007 Loyalty Club

Margaret A. Morrison Bernadette M. Sikes Derek J. Tiller

Centurion Club

Erin C. Bailey Erin T. Coy Michael L. Crocker Jennifer Almond Dillenger Brian L. Fast Molly E. France Alex A. Fridzon Ruah Leslie Powell Haselden John P. Linton Jr. Emma S. Litzenburg Jeffrey P. Muthig M. Clark Roberts Jr. Adam F. Sheehan Joshua T. Thompson Dakota V. Willimon

Contributors

Christopher S. Atkinson Martin D. Bauer Lauren J. Bayne Matthew S. Beavin Jessica S. Connett Erica R. Cosh Keisha L. Dyer Shelley L. Edge Matthew D. Giles

Shana K. Glenn Michael C. Greene William T. Halligan Brucie M. Hendricks M. Elizabeth Holler J. Hollis Inabinet Stephanie E. Johnson Thomas E. Kay Mary Pat Kenyon Christy J. Kirchner Hunter L. Miller James L. Morgan Susanna J. Paul Wilson E. Peden Lance D. Player D. Page Roberts Jr. Kelsey L. Roth Katherine E. Ruthsatz John H. Schoonover Sharon L. Slider Meredith M. Smith Elizabeth J. Snyder Laura K. Studstill Charles M. Vartanian L. Terrance Ware Jennifer K. Weurding Cameron L. Widman

2008 Centurion Club

S. Reed Blair Christopher R. Collins Matthew J. Flood Stephanie L. Fontenot Benjamin S. Friday Alex C. Galloway Leah M. Gaylord Taylor L. Hucks Kelly L. Jones Edgar H. Lawton, IV Samuel M. Little Jr. S. Nathan Madigan, Jr. Laura E. Murray Ravi A. Patel Justin C. Pinckney Mark L. Reynolds Mackie Steadman Andrew J. Stubbs Laura Lynn W. Stubbs Joseph R. Taylor David S. White

Contributors

Dustin P. Abele Martha F. Albergotti Dunklin P. Anthony Benjamin D. Austin Georgeanna L. Awkerman Lauren E. Bailey Kathryn J. Bair Layton B. Baker Kinli M. Bare Nicole Beck Kara E. Bennewitz John Andrew Bishop Lauren M. Bosshardt Bertila I. D. Boyd R. Brown Bradford Timothy B. Bradford, Jr. Leanne C. Brinson Mary Beth Broadwater Kelly M. Broderick Joseph J. Businich Crystal M. Burnette Richard S. P. Cahi Leigh Anne Campbell Zachary E. Chillag Katharine L. Claussen Caitlin L. Clifford Anna C. Collins Emily M. Collins William E. Conner J. Tyler Cook Judson M. Craft Tyler P. Crahan L. King Cutter Matthew T. Davis Jason A. DeKoster Morgan E. Dempsey Emilie G. DeTreville Amanda B. Doody Robyn D. DuRant Megan M. Early Amanda J. Elton Rachel Hyatt Engle Laine P. Evans Patricia Jordan Fast

Maurice S. Faulk Kate A. Ferguson Natalie S. Ferrara C. Andre Fields James T. Fogartie Brian E. Ford Emily C. Fort Elizabeth L. Fortson Zlatin T. Gamishev D. Presley Garrett John C. Gault Corey M. Gibson Mallory E. Gilbert Ashley L. Glasgow Sarah E. Goolsby Kishan Govind Mary Helen Green Justin A. Greene Brooke Greer Kevin P. Gregory Henri W. Gresset Geoffrey R. Griffin Marghretta A. Hagood Anne O. Harbison Ashley Brown-Harris Daniel K. Harris Stephen P. Harris Alice M. Harvey J. Creighton Hayes Brooksie E. Heath Elizabeth Heinz Daniel S. Henderson Ryan G. Hill Christopher S. Hines Sean J. Hinton Sarah M. Hite Evan M. Hobbs Michael D. Hobbs Adriane L. Hodges Ryan L. Hoover Emily Ann Hummel Walter K. Hunt, IV G. Fielder Huntley Katie E. Isbell Alexa D. Janulis A. Gibert Kennedy, IV Amanda W. Kilbourne Connor D. Kilkenny Shane E. Kirkley Patrick D. Knott Yumi Kobayashi Andrew G. Kuhn Michael R. Lance, Jr. Michael D. Langley Maxwell M. LaPrade Dayvia A. Laws Misha Lee Thomas W. Lenz, III Jason A. Leventis Wade H. Lindsey, III Traci A. Lynch Richard E. Marsh, III Patrick S. McCain James T. McClain Mary-Catherine McClain Sarah M. McClure Corey P. McKenna Allison E. Merrill Ross T. Miller Rebecca Siegert Morgan Brittaney B. Mosman Patrick W. Mugan Nathan M. Muller Phillip G. Mullinnix Leigh A. Newman Jamie L. Newton Jennie L. Nichols C. Campbell Oates Kristina T. Parise Mary Patton Parks Jeffrey A. Parrish Taylor A. Peace McKenzie A. Perry Thomas E. Player, III Ann S. Pope Amanda L. Prillaman J. Wesley Queen, III Elizabeth A. Reynolds Steven A. Richards Jonathan C. Richardson James M. Robinson Christopher K. Rollins Mollie M. Roper Ashley P. Sanders Lauren Satterfield James B. Sauter Megan C. Senn

Tim Brown surrounded by some of the students he admires (left to right): Brandon Grigg ’09, Patrick Sellars ’10, Tramaine Brown ’10, Vanessa Lauber ’09 and Kemper Wray ’09.

Tim Brown, eclectic mentor “Students mentor me as much as I mentor them.”

“Advisor,”

“basement-floor bass of the Wofford Singers,” “tremendous listener,” “spirited jokester,” “artist,” “encourager,” “intellectually curious,” “academically well-rounded,” “fly fisherman,” “vegetarian,” “friend.”

Students who come to Tim Brown either formally or informally for mentoring and advisement describe him in just about every way except by his official college title.

That’s because as cataloguing librarian, Brown could stay hidden among the tomes of the Sandor Teszler Library. Instead, he finds ways to connect to students across the campus. He serves as an advisor for first-year students, takes his lunch hour to audit a class each semester, sings with the Wofford choral groups, attends college events, and even fields questions at the library’s reference desk because he loves spending time with students.

“With these students,” Brown says, looking around at the five students who joined him over IZZE sparkling sodas in the Acorn Café but describing the dozen of students whom he admires and respects, “one thing leads to another. Talk of research leads to discussion of a band someone heard in a pub and that leads to a short story someone read.”

“He’s able to draw out the best in people,” says Vanessa Lauber ’09, who was one of Brown’s first-year advisees.

Tramaine Brown ’10, who works with Brown on the Administrative Court, agrees.

“He’s refreshing because he realizes that things are not always black and white, and that realization is advantageous to students.”

All of the students around the table have Tim Brown stories to share… how he makes working in the library fun, how he can change his pitch in a split second, how he listened after the death of a friend.

Brown, however, is quick to point out that their roles are often reversed.

“Students mentor me as much as I mentor them,” says Brown. “These students have flipped me upside-down in the most positive of ways.”

Sarah B. Shelley Jessica E. Shirley Dawson S. Smith Dennis R. Smith, III Jordan P. Smith Joshua A. Smith Kimberly R. Smith Alyson M. Soward W. Parker Spires Lash Springs Whitney G.K. Steelman Matthew S. Sumner Simons Swanson Daniel J. Tavani Tiffany R. Tonismae

BEST of the 2000s

participation percentage............................the class of 2008: 75%

total annual fund gift.............................. the class of 2002: $8,970

Laurie E. Traywick Justin M. Treece Courtney E. Tuz Molly D. Vannier Kyle L. Walker Kyle L. Walker Matthew C. Watts Elizabeth L. Weiskittel Wendelyn L. West Mary B. Wheeler Porter G. Whitesides Christine Wilkes Bradley H. Williams T. Keith Williams Caren L. Wilmot Ashleigh R. Wilson Claudia Winkler

Leland T. Wood Monica M. Wooten Ryan C. Young

Current Students Loyalty Club

Jennifer L. Finley ’11 J. Alex Joyner ’11 Susan R. Mims ’09 Bradley J. Nocek ’12

Centurion Club

Ryon L. Hamilton ’09

Contributors

N. Achini Bandara ’09 Leena W. Dbouk ’11 Robert L. DeLuria, Jr. ’12 S. Mack Estes ’12 Brianna N. Grant ’12 Amy C. Green ’11 Lizzie E. Lambert ’12 Alex V. Lash ’11 Caroline A. Reid ’12 Alli M. Sheehan ’10 Allison K. Tolbert ’12 Chris D. Tommie ’09 Mariel D. Willenberg ’09

Spring 2009 • Wofford Today • 27

he and his wife have seven children and nine grandchildren, so they are busy entertaining and visiting. A retired educator, Jayroe is enjoying his hobbies of gardening, reading, woodworking, and playing the acoustic guitar.

1963

Reunion, Homecoming 2013 Class Chair, Andrew C. English The Rev. Thurman Anderson and his wife, Joanne, live on a farm in Glenn Springs, S.C. Their home was listed on the Glenn Springs Christmas Tour of Historic Homes in December. Anderson, who is retired, wrote that he and his wife are blessed that their daughter, Cheri, and son, Scott Anderson ’91, live in Spartanburg, allowing them to have close contact with their grandchildren.

Congratulations to Leon Patterson, chairman and chief executive officer of Palmetto Bancshares Inc., who was elected chairman of the ABA Stonier National Graduate School of Banking. The school is the pre-eminent executive management school for the financial services industry. Patterson lives in Greenville, S.C., with his wife, Barbara and serves on Wofford's Board of Trustees.

A. Harper Shull wrote to us that he retired as principal statistician at Westinghouse Savannah River Co. Shull and his wife, Ann, live in Columbia, S.C., near their children and grandchildren.

Wofford to host Upstate Chautauqua tour

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Event scheduled for June 20-23

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harlie Gray ’72 has been a busy man lately, planning two ambitious continuing education projects for alumni and friends of the college. The first involves a Chautauqua experience. “Next to baseball, it is probably as All-American as anything I can think of,” says Gray. “It goes all the way back to the mid-19th century, when the first event was held in Chautauqua, N.Y. “On the city square, a large tent was set up, and families in the city brought out their picnic meals, and then they’d hear music or some other type of entertainment, leading up to the program itself at 7 o’clock. The programs were built around a theme, usually first-person depictions of famous Americans or events in American history.”

Gray explains that the custom quickly spread to other towns and cities along the expanding American railroad system.

The college is partnering with Greenville, S.C., and Asheville, N.C., to host this year’s Upstate Chautauqua tour. This past year was the 10th time Greenville hosted a summer program.

“Our event this June 20-23 is titled ‘America in Crisis.’ Each of the people portrayed (in the cartoon above) faced a desperate situation and guided the country through it. The ones that we will feature in Spartanburg are Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Washington and Rosa Parks. The first night, in keeping with the overall theme of Chautauqua, we’re hoping to host a community-wide cookout here at Wofford,” says Gray.

Orbiting Seminar XI is going to Charleston

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he second project also involves historical subjects. The South Carolina Orbiting Seminar, now in its 11th year, is going to the historic downtown area of Charleston, Nov. 5-6.

“The challenge almost anywhere in South Carolina, but especially in Charleston, is how to limit yourself and pick out highlights over a two-day period,” Gray says. “We’ll start on the peninsula between the Ashley and Cooper rivers. Then we have a few very interesting places ‘north of Broad’ that we’ll visit.

I think the seminar itinerary will be very special in that it’s going to include quite a few private homes open to us through a partnership with the Historic Charleston Foundation.”

What makes the trip even more interesting is the timing — just before the Wofford-Citadel Weekend.

For more information about either of these special opportunities, call Gray at 864-597-4186, or e-mail him at graych@wofford.edu.

by Brett Borden

28 • Wofford Today • Spring 2009

Reunion, Homecoming 2014 Class Chair, Charles Saunders Jr. Cliff Bowers and his wife, Mary, live in Augusta, Ga. Bowers is principal research and development engineer for Covidien, a global provider of health care products.

Greenwood Realtor Ben Lawrence was honored in the fall by the Greenwood Association of Realtors for achieving Realtor Emeritus status after 40 years of continuous membership in the association. Lawrence is broker/ owner of The Lawrence Co., and focuses primarily on commercial development and sales. He lives with his wife, Becky, in Ninety Six, S.C.

1965

Reunion, Homecoming 2015 Phil Adams lives in Charlotte, N.C., with his wife, Peggy. Adams retired as an instructor from Central Piedmont Community College and now volunteers with his church, Boy Scouts and Lions Clubs. He also plans to spend time with his family and two grandsons, golf and go fishing.

1967

with his wife, Linda, enjoys spending time with their three grandchildren.

Dick Unger is a partner in the Charleston office of the Charlotte law firm of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein. Unger lives in Edisto Island, S.C., with his wife, Katherine.

1969

40th Reunion, Homecoming 2009 Class Chair, Richard L. Myers

1970

Reunion, Homecoming 2010 Class Chair, Arthur W. Rich Dr. Thomas DeCaro and his wife, Martha, live in Montgomery, Ala. DeCaro specializes in emergency medicine.

1971

Reunion, Homecoming 2011 Class Chair, Kenneth E. Smith Bowens Island Restaurant, owned by Robert Barber, was profiled in the Nov. 12, 2008, edition of The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C. The restaurant, founded in 1946 by Barber’s grandmother, was destroyed by fire in 2006. The restaurant currently operates using a temporary structure while plans to rebuild are under way. Barber was honored two years ago with the prestigious James Beard Foundation Award when the restaurant was honored as an American Classic. Barber lives in Charleston, S.C., with his wife, LaNelle.

We had a nice note from Jonathan Maxwell, who lives in Greensboro, N.C., with his wife, Carolina. Maxwell visited England last year. As a former English major he enjoyed walking the Wainwright coast-to-coast hiking trail across northern part of the country. Highlights of the walk were the Lake District and a visit to Wordsworth’s grave in Grasmere.

1972

Reunion, Homecoming 2012 Class Chair, Allen S. Guignard Our condolences go to Dr. Eric Byrd. His wife, Lynne, passed away on Oct. 31, 2008. The couple had been married for 36 years. Byrd lives in Sumter, S.C., where he is a physician with Tuomey Industrial Medicine & Wellness.

1973

Reunion, Homecoming 2013 Class Chair, E. George McCoin Jr. The City of Spartanburg and the Spartanburg Regional Museum of History have honored Attorney James Cheek as one of the 2009 “Community Weavers.”

This award recognizes “those who have woven the tapestry of the community with their spirit, vision and leadership.” The announcement was made Feb. 19, during a Black History Month program held at the Chapman Cultural Center, “Frederick Douglass: In the Shadow of Slavery.”

Reunion, Homecoming 2017 Class Chair, Hubbard McDonald Jr. Retired attorney Joseph Cross lives in Cross, S.C., with his wife, Mary. Cross wrote to us that he enjoyed participating in Orbiting Seminar X that took place last fall.

1974 Rick Waters and his wife, Reunion, Homecoming 2014 Debbie, live in Lewes, Del. Class Chair, Jerry L. Calvert Waters recently retired as a sales Robin Todd has been named representative from Bristol Meythe first executive director for ers Squibb. the Laurens County Community Foundation. The foundation is an 1968 umbrella charity for the benefit of Reunion, Homecoming 2018 any non-profit entity in Laurens Class Chair, Ronald G. Bruce County. Todd and his wife, ElizaIt was nice to hear from Dr. Jim beth, live in Laurens, S.C. Mahaffey living in Arlington, Va. Dr. Baxter Wynn, minister Mahaffey is pastor at the United of pastoral care and community Methodist Church in Arlington, relations at First Baptist Church, writes an e-mail column, and Greenville, was guest columnist in

the Feb. 4 edition of the Greenville News. Wynn and his wife, Paula, live in Greenville, S.C.

1975

Reunion, Homecoming 2015 Class Chair, John O. Moore Coy Gibson, principal of West McDowell (NC) Junior High School, was named Wachovia Principal of the Year for McDowell County in a program sponsored by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and the Wachovia Corp. Regional winners will be announced in February 2009 and the state winner will be announced in April 2009. Gibson lives in Marion, N.C., with his wife, Jaimee.

George Morgan and his wife, Marianne, live in Concord, N.C. Morgan is a senior account executive for R. R. Donnelly & Co. Morgan was honored during the Printing Industries of America/ Printing Industry of the Carolinas Inc., Christmas celebration. Morgan is a PICA Foundation trustee and a member of the PIA Ben Franklin Honor Society.

It was nice to hear from Eric Senn living in Irmo, S.C., with his wife, Cynthia. Senn is associated with Shell Oil, U.S., as a metal working specialist.

The Spartanburg Herald Journal profiled Chris Wood in the Meet Your Realtor feature on Feb. 1, 2009. Wood is a Realtor for RE/ MAX Realty Associates. He lives with his wife, Lynn, in Boiling Springs, S.C.

1976

Reunion, Homecoming 2016 Class Chair, John W. Gandy Bill Bannen competed in the S. C. Half Ironman Triathlon in September 2008. Living in Greenville, S.C., Bannen is senior information technician for Nutra Manufacturing.

Edgar Rowe and his wife, Sharon, live in Hartsville, S.C. Rowe, a mental health counselor for the S.C. Department of Mental Health, recently was selected to serve on the board of Universalist Herald, the nation’s longest running liberal religious periodical.

Fletcher Walch lives in High Point, N.C., with his wife, Resa.

Walch is business development manager for Apexical Inc. based in Spartanburg.

1977

Reunion, Homecoming 2017 Class Chair, C. Stan Sewell Jr. It was nice to hear from Roger Atkinson, who lives in Leawood, Kan., with his wife, Gail. Atkinson is senior pricing actuary for Swiss Re. He also edits and writes for “Jam,” a Kansas City-based jazz magazine. Atkinson says he enjoys following the Terrier football team on the Internet.

American Specialty Health named William Comer Jr. as chief financial officer and executive vice president in October 2008.

American Specialty Health provides specialty benefit programs to health plans, insurance carriers, employer groups, and trust funds nationwide. Comer and his wife, Nancy, live in San Diego, Calif.

Dr. Frank Flowers lives in Laguna Beach, Calif. Flowers is chief of family medicine and the urgent care department at Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center.

Dr. Walt Leonard and his daughter, Leanna Leonard ’06, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in October 2008. Leonard and his wife, Deborah, live in Spartanburg.

parents Chairman’s Circle

Dr. ’65 & Mrs. Robert P. Bethea Mr. ’74 & Mrs. Tom L. Bower, III Mr. ’59 & Mrs. Charles J. Bradshaw Mr. & Mrs. Dan C. Breeden, Jr. Mr. ’75 & Mrs. Thomas C. Brittain Mr. ’76 & Mrs. Michael S. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Jerry A. Cogan, Jr. Mr. ’78 & Mrs. James C. Crawford, III Mr. & Mrs. Joe A. Edens, Jr. Mr. ’76 & Mrs. John W. Gandy Mr. & Mrs. Martin L. Garcia Mr. ’79 & Mrs. D. Chris Goodall Mr. ’64 & Mrs. Rob E. Gregory, Jr. Mr. ’68 & Mrs. John A. Hendrix Mr. & Mrs. H. Neel Hipp, Jr. Mrs. Jane F. Hipp Mr. ’73 & Mrs. R. Michael James Mr. ’71 & Mrs. James M. Johnson Mr. ’67 & Mrs. Stewart H. Johnson Mr. ’80 & Mrs. Wade P. Keisler Mr. ’74 & Mrs. M. Stewart Mungo Mr. ’81 & Mrs. Steven W. Mungo Dr. ’65 & Mrs. Harold E. Plaster, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Mark H. Prothro Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth R. Robinette Mr. & Mrs. John D. Scott Mrs. Harriet A. Sessoms Mr. & Mrs. Bryan L. Smith Mr. ’80 & Mrs. James L. Switzer, Jr. Mrs. Toccoa W. Switzer Mr. ’85 & Mrs.’85 Michael Trammell Mr. ’72 & Mrs. John B. White, Jr. Mr. ’58 & Mrs. William H. Whitley, Jr.

Trustee Society

Mr. & Mrs. Vic C. Bailey, III Mr. & Mrs. John M. Blackman Dr. ’84 & Mrs. Jack C. Borders, Jr. Mr. ’72 & Mrs. Frank J. Brunson Mr. ’77 & Mrs. A. Foster Chapman Mrs. W. H. Cogswell, III Mr. James C. Crawford, Jr. ’48 * Mr. & Mrs. Barry Davis Dr. Clay B. Dyar, III ’73 Mr. ’66 & Mrs. L. Barry Foy Mr. & Mrs. Mark M. Gambill Mr. & Mrs. Roger Habisreutinger Mr. William H. Hambrick ’49 Dr. C. Leigh Hutchinson Dr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Kana Mr. ’61 & Mrs. James N. Kirby Dr. ’73 & Mrs. E. Bert Knight, III Mr. & Mrs. Hugh C. Lane, Jr. Mr. ’50 & Mrs. Al M. Lynch, Sr. Mr. ’58 & Mrs. Harold M. McLeod, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. W. S. Montgomery, Jr. Mr. ’68 & Mrs. J. Frank Morris Mr. & Mrs. T. S. Post, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. J. Edwin Reeves, Jr. Mr. ’66 & Mrs. Randal M. Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin T. Rook Rev. & Mrs. James P. Rush Dr. ’82 & Mrs. March E. Seabrook The Hon. & Mrs. Cameron Simmons Dr. ’71 & Mrs. W. Strat Stavrou, Sr. Mr. ’75 & Mrs. C. O. Stokes, Jr. Dr. J. Earle Sullivan Drs. Philip & Harriet Van Hale Mr. & Mrs. Benny E. Waldrop Mr. G. A. Rusty Wells Dr. Robert C. Williams ’67 Bishop ’68 & Mrs. Will H. Willimon Mr. & Mrs. Peter A. Wilson Dr. & Mrs. David S. Wood

Leadership Society

Mr. ’84 & Mrs. ’85 Michael J. Arakas Mr. ’69 & Mrs. Robert M. Ariail Mrs. Pat L. Atchley Mr. ’64 & Mrs. Harry S. Bryant Mr. & Mrs. A. B. Bullington, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. Carlisle Mrs. Barbara K. Cobb Dr. ’58 & Mrs. C. Warren Derrick, Jr. Mr. ’83 & Mrs. ’84 G. Dial DuBose Mr. & Mrs. Winston Evans Mr. ’59 & Mrs. H. Davis Green, Jr. Mr. ’66 & Mrs. Dennis L. Guthrie Mr. & Mrs. John C. Hamilton Mr. ’57 & Mrs. Evans P. Holland The Hon. ’73 & Mrs. Charles Jones Mr. ’76 & Mrs. Larry G. Joyner Dr. ’62 & Mrs. William W. Kellett, III Dr. ’73 & Mrs. R. Monty Laffitte, Jr. Mr. ’75 & Mrs. Chauncey Lever, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Ivan A. Marcotte Mr. & Mrs. Joe M. Mayhew Mr. ’62 & Mrs. T. Patrick McAbee Mr. ’72 & Mrs. Charles E. McGill, II Bishop M. L. Meadors, Jr. ’55 Dr. ’75 & Mrs. Daniel B. Morrison, Jr.

parents stats annual fund gifts.................................................. $623,622 average annual fund gift............................................ $605 Mr. ’67 & Mrs. D. Smith Patterson Mr. ’61 & Mrs. D. F. Patterson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Pratt Mr. ’71 & Mrs. John F. Rhem, Jr. Dr. ’56 & Mrs. Ted J. Roper Dr. ’56 & Mrs. Talmage B. Skinner, Jr. Dr. ’80 & Mrs. C. Dorn Smith, III Dr. ’71 & Mrs. Kenneth E. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Edwin H. Story Mr. ’77 & Mrs. George C. Todd, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. James C. Walker Mr. ’71 & Mrs. Marshall T. Walsh Dr. ’62 & Mrs. W. Carl Walsh, Jr. Mr. ’63 & Mrs. J. Spratt White, IV Dr. ’64 & Mrs. H. Pat Worrell *

President’s Club

Mr. ’79 & Mrs. Wade E. Ballard Dr. ’55 & Mrs. ’69 Charles D. Barrett Mr. & Mrs. Ted R. Bartee Mr. ’66 & Mrs. William J. Bates Mr. & Mrs. Edward Bauer Mr. & Mrs. Larry R. Bennett Dr. ’62 & Mrs. Boyce M. Berry Rev. ’55 & Mrs. Richard Blocker, Jr. Mr. Gary Blount Mrs. Shirley P. Bower Dr. Patricia K. Boyer ’77 Mr. & Mrs. O. Leonard Brewington Mr. & Mrs. J. Ron Brinson Mrs. Pat S. Brock Mr. & Mrs. Terry L. Byrd Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Byrne Mr. ’74 & Mrs. Jerry L. Calvert Dr. ’60 & Mrs. C. Joe Carter Mr. ’76 & Mrs. Allen O. Clark, Jr. Mr. ’77 & Mrs. ’78 Ziggy Clayton Dr. & Mrs. Leland G. Close, Jr. Mr. James D. Cobb Mr. & Mrs. Oakley H. Coburn Dr. ’76 & Mrs. H. Wade Collins, III Dr. & Mrs. John M. Corella Dr. ’81 & Mrs. Jeffrey M. Craft Mr. ’64 & Mrs. Buddy Cubitt Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. DaSilva Mr. & Mrs. Todd Davis Mr. ’83 & Mrs. Pete G. Diamaduros Mr. & Mrs. Tom Dolinak Mr. & Mrs. Frank H. Domonousky Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Donnelly Mr. & Mrs. James W. Douglas, Sr. Mr. ’60 & Mrs. Edward R. Drayton, III Mr. & Mrs. James M. Dunbar Dr. & Mrs. Robert B. Dunmire, III Mr. ’63 & Mrs. Andrew C. English Mr. ’65 & Mrs. William N. Epps, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David Fenner Mr. ’57 & Mrs. Don P. Ferguson Dr. ’52 & Mrs. George D. Fields, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Norman J. Fortson Mr. ’83 & Mrs. James R. Fowler, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey K. Giguere Mr. & Mrs. J. Lyles Glenn, IV Mr. ’68 & Mrs. Mason A. Goldsmith Mr. ’63 & Mrs. John T. Gramling, II Mr. ’72 & Mrs. Charles H. Gray, Jr. Rev. ’64 & Mrs. James E. Griffeth Mr. James R. Hackney, Jr. ’77 The Hon. ’56 & Mrs. Clyde Hamilton Mr. ’56 & Mrs. E. Thomas Hardin Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hardison Dr. & Mrs. James I. Harrison, III Mr. & Mrs. M. Todd Hass Dr. Daniel H. Hayes Dr. ’66 & Mrs. Lloyd E. Hayes, Sr. Mr. ’81 & Mrs. Robert M. Heil Mr. ’74 & Mrs. James J. Heinz Mr. & Mrs. R. Michael Hembree Mr. Jack B. Hobson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Hogan Rev. ’71 & Mrs. John E. Holler, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William W. Hoy, Jr. Dr. ’75 & Mrs. Thomas P. Hutchens Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Ivey, Sr. Mrs. Marion A. Jennings Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Johnson Dr. & Mrs. Charles D. Kay Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Keasler, Jr. The Hon. William P. Keesley ’75 Mr. ’77 & Mrs. ’76 S. Morgan King, Jr. Mr. ’54 & Mrs. William L. Kinney, Jr. Dr. ’80 & Mrs. Paul D. Kountz, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. George E. Labban Dr. ’77 & Mrs. Walt R. Leonard, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. W. Ray Leonard Dr. ’48 & Mrs. Chauncey Lever, Sr. Dr. & Mrs. Usah Lilavivat Mr. ’77 & Mrs. T. Chris Littlejohn Mr. & Mrs. Richard T. Lynch Mrs. Georgia C. Martin Dr. ’61 & Mrs. Dan B. Maultsby Mr. ’69 & Mrs. Rex A. Maynard

Dr. ’43 & Mrs. Larry H. McCalla Mr. ’51 & Mrs. E. Windell McCrackin Mr. ’55 & Mrs. Robert W. McCully Ms. Marcella McInnis Mr. ’56 & Mrs. D. Laurence McIntosh Mr. & Mrs. Bill McKenna Mr. ’62 & Mrs. Peden B. McLeod Dr. & Mrs. John R. McNair, Jr. Dr. ’61 & Mrs. J. Ramsey Mellette, Jr. Mr. ’61 & Mrs. Glen R. Melton COL ’75 & Mrs. John V. Meyers Dr. & Mrs. F. Patrick Miller Mr. ’70 & Mrs. John F. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Leslie H. Miller Mr. & Mrs. M. Burgess Mills, Jr. Mr. ’42 & Mrs. William S. Minter, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Ted R. Monroe Mr. ’74 & Mrs. James W. Moody, Jr. Mr. ’67 & Mrs. Milton P. Moore Dr. & Mrs. Willard H. Nettles Dr. & Mrs. Michael W. Nimmich Mr. & Mrs. K. Wayne Nix Dr. ’60 & Mrs. Clyde T. Padgett, Jr. Dr. ’60 & Mrs. John M. Parham Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Gary T. Pope Mr. ’54 & Mrs. William L. Pope, Sr. Mr. ’77 & Mrs. John H. Poston Dr. ’67 & Mrs. James E. Proctor Dr. Richard E. Rankin, Jr. Mr. ’74 & Mrs. James C. Rhea, III Mr. ’69 & Mrs. Richard H. Rhodes Mr. & Mrs. Jon Richardson Mr. & Mrs. R. Lee Robinson Mr. & Mrs. H. William Rogers Mr. ’84 & Mrs. J. Stephen Rush Mr. ’77 & Mrs. Franklin Sanders Dr. & Mrs. James E. Seegars, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Ed Shelley Mr. & Mrs. Russell O. Slayton Mr. ’49 & Mrs. Milton A. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Milton A. Smith, Jr. Mr. H. Michael Spivey ’70

Mr. ’64 & Mrs. D. Jerry Stallworth, Jr. Dr. ’60 & Mrs. Hunter R. Stokes, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Strom, Jr. Dr. ’75 & Mrs. David W. Stroup Mr. ’60 & Mrs. James A. Stuckey, Jr. Dr. ’51 & Mrs. John H. Tillotson Jody ’67 & Donna Traywick Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Tritt Drs. George ’72 & Anne Tyson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. C. Lee Walls, Jr. Dr. ’56 & Mrs. Ted H. Walter Dr. & Mrs. Jock R. Wheeler Dr. ’72 & Mrs. George H. White Mr. Myles W. Whitlock, Jr. ’58 Mr. & Mrs. Clem C. Wilkes, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Michael Wilkes Mr. ’74 & Mrs. Woodrow Willard, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. H. Chris Williams Mr. ’60 & Mrs. John C. Williams, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Willimon Mr. W. Charles Witzleben Dr. ’53 & Mrs. John M. Younginer, Jr.

Patron Club

Mr. & Mrs. Chester A. Abee Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Acker Dr. ’72 & Mrs. Thomas C. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Frank Angelo Mr. ’75 & Mrs. Kenneth Anthony, Jr. Mr. Edward H. Atkins, Jr. ’51 Dr. ’75 & Mrs. W. Byron Barber, II Mr. & Mrs. Bryan W. Beacham Mr. ’75 & Mrs. J. Philip Bell Dr. ’70 & Mrs. Doyle W. Boggs Mr. Walter M. Brice, III Mr. ’74 & Mrs. Ansel C. Bunch Mr. ’70 & Mrs. John M. Burbage Mr. & Mrs. William K. Burton Mr. & Mrs. James D. Burwell Mr. & Mrs. H. Ed Byas, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Mike Cantrell Mr. & Mrs. W. Howard Carr Mrs. Betsy L. Chambers

Mr. ’66 & Mrs. James W. Childers, III Mr. & Mrs. Samuel A. Clowney Mr. & Mrs. Clem Collins Mr. ’67 & Mrs. Joseph R. Cross, Jr. Mr. ’66 & Mrs. J. Hayne Culler, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Frank Dineen Mr. & Mrs. Wallace D. DuPre, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Lannie S. Edwards Mr. & Mrs. E. Lambert Farmer Mr. ’81 & Mrs. Don P. Ferguson, Jr. Dr. ’77 & Mrs. John H. Ferguson Mr. ’79 & Mrs. Russell M. Foster Ms. Gale C. Galloway Mr. & Mrs. Terry N. Garner Dr. ’60 & Mrs. Joseph H. Gibson Dr. ’58 & Mrs. James F. Green Mr. & Mrs. William U. Gunn Mr. ’79 & Mrs. Timothy C. Halligan Dr. ’84 & Mrs. William W. Hammill Dr. ’50 & Mrs. C. Wallace Harper Mr. & Mrs. James C. Harper, Jr. Dr. ’73 & Mrs. Chrys J. Harris Mr. & Mrs. George Hearn Mr. ’80 & Mrs. R. Scott Heath Mr. ’65 & Mrs. D. Todd Heldreth Mr. & Mrs. James A. Herlong, Sr. Mr. ’72 & Mrs. Robert R. Horger Mr. & Mrs. William M. Hunter, Jr. Mr. ’74 & Mrs. D. Vernon Hyman Mr. Paul H. Infinger ’67 Mr. & Mrs. David Jeffcoat, Jr. Mr. ’50 & Mrs. Jacob H. Jennings Mr. ’56 & Mrs. Robert D. Jennings Mr. & Mrs. Robert Johnston Mr. & Mrs. Henry W. Jones, Jr. Mr. ’70 & Mrs. Wallace M. Jopling, III Dr. ’63 & Mrs. Gerald W. King Mr. & Mrs. Roger L. Knight Mr. & Mrs. Kim S. Kroker Mr. ’82 & Mrs. ’82 Kenneth Leonhardt Dr. ’54 & Mrs. John M. Liston Mr. ’71 & Mrs. Richard B. Lowry Mr. & Mrs. Dale F. Mamele

Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Mancill Mr. & Mrs. Joel J. McAbee Mr. & Mrs. Philip W. McCrory Mr. & Mrs. Stan L. McDaniel, Jr. Mr. ’81 & Mrs. James C. Meadors Mr. ’77 & Mrs. W. Louie Mullikin, III Mr. ’66 & Mrs. G. Tommy Myers, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. C. L. Nichols, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Norcia Mr. ’67 & Mrs. E. Michael O’Tuel, III Mr. & Mrs. Donald A. Owen Mr. & Mrs. James E. Pittman Mr. L. Richard Plunkett Mr. & Mrs. William W. Rankin, Jr. Dr. ’75 & Mrs. Alliston K. Reid Dr. & Mrs. Michael C. Roberts Mr. ’78 & Mrs. David W. Royster, III Mrs. Elizabeth M. Rudisill Dr. Patricia T. Sanders ’80 Mr. ’68 & Mrs. William Shaughnessy Dr. ’72 & Mrs. Joseph D. Sloan Dr. & Mrs. Farren H. Smith Mr. Fulwood A. Smith ’45 Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth P. Sommerkamp Mr. ’73 & Mrs. ’75 P. Scott Sperka Mr. ’58 & Mrs. Pierce Stockman, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Strickland Mr. & Mrs. D. William Tetrick, Jr. Mr. ’66 & Mrs. David D. Thorpe Mr. ’74 & Mrs. Perrin C. Trotter Mr. & Mrs. Peter W. Tuz Mr. & Mrs. Kent P. Vannier Mr. & Mrs. Marshall P. Washburn Dr. & Mrs. M. C. Watson, Sr. Dr. & Mrs. Carl Wetzig Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. White Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Will Mr. & Mrs. J. Cross Williams, Jr. Dr. ’65 & Mrs. William Wimberly, Jr. Mr. ’78 & Mrs. David F. Wood Mrs. Betty M. Yex

MEETING the reunion challenge

RESULTS

new or

increased gifts + match +

renewed gifts =

total reunion gift

1968:

$22,795 + $22,795

+

$12,575

=

$58,165

1978:

$22,140 + $22,140

+

$15,554

=

$58,834

Thank you to Jim Crawford ’78 and an anonymous donor from the Class of 1968 who provided the matching funds for these challenges. Thanks also to the members of the Class of 1968 and 1978 for meeting the challenge.

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parents (continued) Loyalty Club

Dr. ’70 & Mrs. Riddick Ackerman, III Mr. & Mrs. Samuel F. Albergotti Mr. ’67 & Mrs. Edward D. Allen Mr. & Mrs. Gregg Allen Dr. ’60 & Mrs. Mitchell H. Allen Mr. & Mrs. David L. Amsden Dr. & Mrs. S. Pickens Anderson Mr. ’64 & Mrs. W. Sterling Anderson Mr. Paul A. Audet Mr. & Mrs. William T. Badgett Dr. & Mrs. William Barber Mr. & Mrs. Robert Barr Mr. ’77 & Mrs. Raymond Z. Bateh Mr. & Mrs. David C. Battles Mr. & Mrs. E. T. Benson Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Bishop Mr. & Mrs. W. R. Blackledge Mr. ’66 & Mrs. Kenneth Boucher, Jr. Mr. ’84 & Mrs. Perry D. Boulier Dr. & Mrs. Steve Boyce Dr. & Mrs. A. McKay Brabham, III Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Brandt Mr. & Mrs. Colin C. Brown, II Mr. & Mrs. Frederick A. Brown * Mrs. Mary Lou Brown Mr. & Mrs. David F. Bruenner Mr. & Mrs. John C. Bruton, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Fred A. Byers Mr. & Mrs. R. Grant Calhoun Mr. & Mrs. Charles Cannon Mr. & Mrs. Prosser D. Carnegie Mr. ’57 & Mrs. Joseph F. Carter, Sr. Dr. ’60 & Mrs. Lem C. Carter Mr. ’76 & Mrs. P. Conway Carter, III Dr. & Mrs. Rocco D. Cassone Dr. ’71 & Mrs. Lawrence Chewning, Jr. Mr. ’64 & Mrs. Michael L. Chewning Mr. & Mrs. William A. Collins Mr. & Mrs. C. M. Cornelius Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Creech Mr. & Mrs. E. Howell Crosby Mr. ’67 & Mrs. Loraine W. Cusaac Mr. & Mrs. M. J. Davenport, Sr. Mr. ’65 & Mrs. J. Kenneth Davis Mr. & Mrs. James W. Davis Dr. & Mrs. Wajdi Dbouk Mr. ’80& Mrs. William G. DeLoache Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Derderian Mr. ’61 & Mrs. William S. Derrick Mr. & Mrs. Alfred H. Diller Mr. & Mrs. Rob Donaldson Mr. & Mrs. Lance Drummond Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon K. Early, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. David Erdman Mr. & Mrs. Tom Fenig Ms. Kimberley Finney Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Fischer Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Fitch Dr. & Mrs. James Fogartie Mr. ’56 & Mrs. Julian H. Foster Dr. ’63 & Mrs. Crawford E. Foy, Jr. Dr. ’54 & Mrs. J. Sidney Fulmer Mr. & Mrs. Jon L. Garing Dr. & Mrs. Mark S. Gaylord Mr. John A. Gill ’54 * Mr. & Mrs. Franklin Goldwire Mr. ’77 & Mrs. Reginald E. Gosnell Ms. Ellen E. Gould Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Green Mr. ’76 & Mrs. Joe L. Greenlee, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. J. Tom Grier Mr. ’67 & Mrs. T. Truman Harris Mr. ’66 & Mrs. J. Pat Henry Mr. ’68 & Mrs. James M. Hines, Jr. Mr. ’73 & Mrs. James H. Hipp Dr. ’80 & Mrs. Edwin H. Holler Mr. & Mrs. R. J. Howell, Sr. Mr. ’68 & Mrs. Newton I. Howle, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Bill Huff Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Hufford Ms. Elizabeth Hurd Mr. & Mrs. Paul Illig Mr. & Mrs. Gary Ingman Mrs. Elizabeth Iovanna Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Jakobe Mr. ’69 & Mrs. Arthur A. James, III Dr. ’77 & Mrs. William B. James, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James L. Jones Dr. & Mrs. James T. Kandl Mr. ’78 & Mrs. Glen D. Kelley Ms. Rosemary Kenyon Mr. ’56 & Mrs. Russell C. King, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Norris L. Laffitte Mr. ’51 & Mrs. James R. Lambert, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Joe A. Lang Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Lawrence Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Lenz, II Ms. Julie Lesesne ’81 Mr. & Mrs. Walter N. Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Mark D. Line Mr. ’75 & Mrs. Laurens P. Lynn Mr. & Mrs. Earl Macaulay Drs. Walter ’77 & Sarah Machowski

Mr. & Mrs. David E. Buxton Mr. & Mrs. William Cain, Jr. Mrs. Susan Marus Mr. & Mrs. Frank D. Callcott Mr. ’77 & Mrs. W. Gary McCraw Dr. ’60 & Mrs. Victor C. Campbell Dr. & Mrs. W. R. McWilliams, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Camunas Dr. & Mrs. James C. Mills, III Dr. ’63 & Mrs. J. Robert Cantey Dr. & Mrs. Albert D. Mims Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Carstarphen, III Mr. & Mrs. Bradley W. Moorhouse Dr. Alan D. Chalmers Mr. ’75 & Mrs. Randal E. Mulkey The Hon. & Mrs. Robert F. Chapman Mr. Edward Niam Mr. & Mrs. Mark D. Chappell Mr. ’75 & Mrs. W. Gairy Nichols, III Mr. & Mrs. Scott Chasteen Mr. & Mrs. Gary Nocek Mr. & Mrs. Michael C. Cheek Mr. & Mrs. J. Mark Noordsy Mr. ’51 & Mrs. Herman O. Chesney Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Nordin Mr. & Mrs. Jerry D. Christian Dr. & Mrs. Steve J. Novack Mr. & Mrs. A. Chris Claussen, III Dr. Robert F. O’Dell ’66 Mrs. Susan Clementson Dr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Parks, III Mr. ’79 & Mrs. J. Chris Cloyd Mr. & Mrs. William A. Parsley Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Coker, Jr. Mr. ’54 & Mrs. George T. Perrow, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. J. Walker Coleman, Jr. Mr. Moss H. Perrow, Sr. ’51 Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Conner Dr. ’76 & Mrs. Lee R. Perry, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Randall N. Conway Mr. ’59 & Mrs. Dennis E. Pike Mrs. Winifred S. Corn Mr. ’68 & Mrs. William M. Ponder, III Mr. & Mrs. Leslie A. Cotter, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy S. Poole Mr. ’80 & Mrs. Campbell D. Coxe Ms. Kay Poston Mr. & Mrs. T. C. Coxe, III Mr. & Mrs. George W. Price, III Mr. & Mrs. Daniel L. Coy Mr. ’75 & Mrs. William P. Price, III Mr. & Mrs. Pat Craig Dr. & Mrs. Douglas A. Rayner Dr. & Mrs. Hal H. Crosswell, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Randy Reynolds Mr. ’69 & Mrs. Thomas G. Cumming Mr. ’67 & Mrs. Dan W. Rigby, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John R. Cummings Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Ritter Dr. Caroline A. Cunningham Mr. ’68 & Mrs. Kenneth Rogers, Jr. Rev. ’64 & Mrs. Eugene L. Curry Rev. & Mrs. Lawrence Roseboro Ms. Barbara S. Dalton Dr. ’58 & Mrs. Lawton H. Salley Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Daniels Dr. ’60 & Mrs. William G. Sandifer, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Phillip C. Davis Mr. ’80 & Mrs. Michael D. Senterfeit Mr. & Mrs. Steven Davitte Mr. & Mrs. W. E. Singletary, Sr. Mr. ’70 & Mrs. M. Curry Dawkins Mr. Jack Smith, Jr. Mrs. Annemarie F. DeFronzo Dr. & Mrs. Dirk A. Sterley Dr. & Mrs. John Dengler Dr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Stewart, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. L. J. Derrick Dr. ’64 & Mrs. John A. Stone Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Diebold Mr. & Mrs. Dudley F. Strange Mr. & Mrs. Bruce W. Digby Dr. ’68 & Mrs. Rodger E. Stroup Dr. & Mrs. J. Patrick Dilworth Mr. & Mrs. John M. Swails, Sr. Ms. Elizabeth L. Donald Dr. & Mrs. Raymond L. Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Christopher G. Donohue Mr. ’60 & Mrs. Harold Thompson, Sr. Mr. J. Walter Drake Dr. ’59 & Mrs. Walter P. Tiedeman, III Mr. Jack E. Drawdy, Sr. ’60 Mr. & Mrs. Samuel H. Tolbert Ms. Laura Duggan COL & Mrs. John Vanderbleek Mr. & Mrs. Dan Durbin Dr. & Mrs. Ben F. Varn, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Eastman Prof. ’64 & Mrs. John T. Varner, III Mr. & Mrs. Bud Eberhardt Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Voyles Mr. & Mrs. D. Mason Ellerbe Dr. ’71 & Mrs. Charles H. White, Jr. Mr. ’58 & Mrs. Donald L. Elliott Mr. Donald E. White ’59 Dr. & Mrs. John O. Fairey Dr. Melford A. Wilson, Jr. ’63 Mr. & Mrs. Frank Fatti Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Zweier Mr. & Mrs. Mitch Ferguson Mr. & Mrs. William B. Ferguson Centurion Club Dr. & Mrs. Lee K. Finklea, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Bryan C. Able Mr. & Mrs. C. Michael Fitzhenry Mr. & Mrs. J. Marshall Acee, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. J. Brad Fontenot Mr. & Mrs. David R. Albright Ms. Donna G. Foster Mr. & Mrs. Fenn M. Allen Mr. C. F. Fowler Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth G. Anderson Dr. & Mrs. Wesley C. Fowler, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Mark P. Fox Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Andrew Dr. & Mrs. H. Gordon France, Jr. Ms. Judith A. Antley Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Frick Dr. & Mrs. L. Neal Atkinson Mr. & Mrs. Gary E. Gabrich Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Auten Mr. & Mrs. David H. Gantt Mr. Christopher Baker Mr. & Mrs. Mike M. Georgion Mr. & Mrs. James R. Baker Mr. & Mrs. Foster E. Gibson, III Mr. & Mrs. Nimal Bandara Mr. & Mrs. Miles Gibson Rev. ’54 & Mrs. Gary D. Barber, Sr. Rev. ’57 & Mrs. James O. Gilliam, Jr. Ms. Marilyn W. Barmore Dr. & Mrs. Gerald A. Ginocchio Mr. & Mrs. Kevin M. Barth MSG & Mrs. James Gipson, Jr. Mr. Tom Bartholomy Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Glasgow, III Mr. Oliver C. Bateman Mrs. Breese C. Glennon Dr. & Mrs. Larry L. Bauer Ms. Julia Golonka Mr. ’60 & Mrs. Charles E. Baxter Mr. & Mrs. F. W. Golson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Todd Beeler Dr. & Mrs. Robert Goodbar Mr. ’76 & Mrs. Paul B. Bell, Jr. Mr. ’57 & Mrs. Jim Goode Dr. & Mrs. Paul R. Benson, Jr. Mr. ’61 & Mrs. John E. Goode Mr. & Mrs. Vance J. Bettis Mr. Bob Gorrell Mrs. Barbara J. Black Mr. & Mrs. T. C. Gosnell, Jr. Mrs. Joyce G. Blackwell Mr. & Mrs. Andrew D. Gowan Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Blount Mr. ’64 & Mrs. Phillip M. Graham Mr. & Mrs. Dann J. Blumenthal Mr. ’54 & Mrs. W. David Gravely Mr. & Mrs. Ronnie Bowden Mr. & Mrs. Anthony H. Green Mr. & Mrs. John N. Boyle, III Mr. & Mrs. Mark Greene Mr. & Mrs. Billy S. Bradley Mr. & Mrs. Ronald C. Grey Mr. & Mrs. E. Thomas Branch Dr. & Mrs. Tommy B. Griffin Mr. ’72 & Mrs. Thomas E. Bratton Mr. & Mrs. James A. Grimsley, III Mr. & Mrs. Steve Breitenstein Mr. ’60 & Mrs. Edwin N. Hall Mr. ’69 & Mrs. Lawrence N. Bridgers Mr. & Mrs. John E. Hallen Rev. ’62 & Mrs. W. Donald Britt, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. W. F. Halligan Rev. ’70 & Mrs. John A. Brown, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. J. Patrick Haly, Sr. Mr. ’67 & Mrs. William M. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Ladison Hamm Mr. & Mrs. R. E. Browne, III Rev. & Mrs. C. J. Hammet, Sr. Dr. ’73 & Mrs. John L. Bruce, Jr. Mr. ’52 & Mrs. Robert Hammett, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. William K. Brumbach, Jr. Mr. ’57 & Mrs. Joel W. Hand, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Fred M. Brune Mr. & Mrs. Terry M. Harrelson Mr. & Mrs. Jon Buchan Mr. ’68 & Mrs. James F. Harris The Hon. ’71 & Mrs. Perry Buckner Mr. & Mrs. Roger D. Harris Dr. & Mrs. Charles G. Bumgardner Mr. & Mrs. Cecil W. Harrison Mr. & Mrs. George W. Burdette Mr. & Mrs. Donald L. Harty Mrs. Lori A. Burdin Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Hayes Mr. ’57 & Mrs. J. Weyland Burns, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Haynes

30 • Wofford Today • Spring 2009

Ron Robinson ’78 and Will Prosser ’09

Chaplain Ron Robinson, intentional mentor “I raise questions and serve as a guide on their journey.”

Perkins-Prothro

Chaplain and Professor of Religion Ron Robinson ’78 remembers meeting Will Prosser ’09 during Prosser’s first weekend on campus. Robinson attended first-year orientation with Prosser, and later, Prosser attended Robinson’s worship service.

“We casually talked when I saw him on campus, and I kept an eye out for him as I do with other students,” says Robinson.

Prosser came to Wofford undecided about his future but was leaning toward medical school. Then he traveled with Robinson to the Mexican-U.S. border on an alternate spring break. By then, Prosser was beginning to feel a different call.

“Will is in the Emerging Leaders Initiative (ELI), a program that assists students in discerning their call to ministry,” says Robinson. “He’s now a Bauknight Family Preministerial Scholar.”

Both the Bauknight Scholarship and ELI contain a mentorship component. Robinson helps students discover their desire and capacity for the ministry by arranging conversations with divinity schools, conducting a strengths assessment of each individual, and advising independent studies or internships that help students explore opportunities in the ministry.

“Basically, I raise questions and serve as a guide on their journey,” says Robinson.

Robinson takes his role as a mentor seriously. A few years ago he attended a faith and business-based national conference on mentoring.

“One of the things I discovered was that students need different mentors for different aspects of their lives,” says Robinson.

Prosser, who looks to several members of the faculty and staff as mentors, serves as a perfect example.

“One of the things that often gets missed in a mentoring relationship is the reciprocal trust,” says Prosser. “Ron and my other mentors know that I’m not going to let the casualness of our relationship or our friendship get in the way. I’m going to work hard and do what I’m supposed to do.”

Dr. ’57 & Mrs. M. Elton Hendricks Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Hewes Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth S. Higgenbotham Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Hill Mr. & Mrs. Wayne F. Hill, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. J. Dan Hinton Dr. & Mrs. Harold L. Hintz

Dr. ’60 & Mrs. J. Capers Hiott Dr. Sally A. Hitchmough Mr. & Mrs. ’76 Robert M. Holland Mr. ’67 & Mrs. F. Larry Holley, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Charles T. Hood Mr. & Mrs. Steve Hope Mr. & Mrs. Byron Hornaday

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry A. Houck Mr. & Mrs. Robert Howe Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Hoyle Mr. & Mrs. J. Dwight Hudson Mr. ’65 & Mrs. Calvin D. Hughes Ms. Lora W. Hulse Mr. & Mrs. W. S. Hummers, III

Wofford graduates who are Liberty Fellows: John Bauknight ’89 Fred Gibbs ’87 Gary Hill ’86 Wendell Jones ’93 Tim Madden ’85 David Moody ’84 Doug Smith ’80

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Leanna lives in New York, N.Y., where she works in the Oscar de la Renta showroom.

Congratulations to Stan Sewell, who has accepted the position of chief operating officer for Nauman Hobbs, a material handling equipment and services supplier. The firm is located in Phoenix, Ariz. Sewell’s wife and daughter will remain in Charlotte, N.C., through the end of the school year and will join him in July.

Ed Smith and his wife, Kim, live in Atlanta, Ga. Smith is business development director, Southeast region, for CSG Systems, a business software and service solutions company.

1978

Homecoming 2018 Oscar Judd is product support manager for the packaging machinery manufacturing firm, Hayssen Sandiacre. Judd lives with his family in Lyman, S.C.

1979

30th Reunion, Homecoming 2009 Class Chair, Wade E. Ballard Living in Greenville, S.C., Kenneth L. Page is an account manager for the office furniture supply company Alfred Williams & Co.

1980

Reunion, Homecoming 2010 Class Chair, Paul Kountz Jr. Living in Hartsville, S.C., Dr. Mac Chapman is a physician with Novant Medical Group. Chapman and his wife, Pamela, have four children, Andrew, Thomas, John and Meredith.

Dr. Paul Kountz and his wife, Judi, live in Greenville, S.C. Kountz is a partner in the radiology practice Upstate Carolina Radiology, P.A. Their daughter, Kristin Kountz, is a Wofford student and member of the class of 2009.

1981

Reunion, Homecoming 2011 Class Chair, G. Patrick Watson Rosalie Wessels King lives in Guyton, Ga., with her husband, Wayne, and sons,

Adam and Eric. King is director of sales for Hawthorn Suites in Savannah, Ga. Mike Lackey and his wife, Susan Morrison Lackey, have moved to Greenville, S.C. Mike is a financial planner with BB&T Bank, and Susan is eastern regional sales manager for Felli Housewares.

1982

Reunion, Homecoming 2012 Class Chair, Madison Dye Jr. Louis Smith, his wife, Carter live in Spartanburg, S.C., where Smith is owner of Smithworks Fine Jewelry, which celebrated its 20th anniversary on Dec. 10, 2008. The couple has two children, Ben and Kathleen.

1983

Reunion, Homecoming 2013 Class Chair, W. Scott Gantt Our apologies to Lt. Col. (Ret.) Ellis D. Colvin for incorrectly stating his title as lieutenant commander in the winter issue of Wofford Today.

W. Scott Gantt, president of Benefit Controls of the Carolinas Inc., was named one of the top 25 power insurance brokers in the nation by Risk and Insurance magazine in 2008. Gantt lives in Charlotte, N.C., with his wife, Pamela, and their three children, Kaitlyn, Hannah and Nathan.

Living in Simpsonville, S.C., with his wife, Debbie, William Peay is plant manager for Jostens at their Laurens facility.

The Rev. William (Buddy) Phillips and his wife, Gail, live in Chapin, S.C. Phillips is senior pastor for Union United Methodist Church.

1984

Reunion, Homecoming 2014 Class Chair, Kenneth Kirkpatrick David Hanna lives in Spartanburg, where he is a sales consultant for Vic Bailey Ford Lincoln Mercury.

Living in Taylors, S.C, Meg Hunt is self-employed as a communications specialist.

Program Overview

Liberty Fellowship is a leadership program that seeks to inspire outstanding leadership in South Carolina, empowering the state — and its future leaders — to realize their full potential. Liberty Fellowship fosters values-based leadership in South Carolina by exposing rising young leaders to diverse perspectives, critical thinking, intellectual and personal development activities, and interdependent support.

As partners in this endeavor, Hayne Hipp, Wofford College and The Aspen Institute seek to retain and develop South Carolina’s next generations of enlightened leaders, and to nurture a lifelong commitment to integrity, enterprise and principled leadership in South Carolina.

The selection process

Liberty Fellowship is at once a highly selective and democratic program. Nomination is the only way to become a candidate; one cannot apply to the Fellowship. Nominees must be South Carolina residents who intend to make a difference in the state’s future. Every year, a class of 20 fellows is selected from already successful, young business, non-profit and government leaders. Their participation is without cost to themselves. Each class is a true mosaic of individuals between the ages of 25 and 45, all with great capacity for intellectual and personal development. Nominations are accepted through March 31 annually. For more information, go to www.libertyfellowshipsc.org.

1985

Reunion, Homecoming 2015 Class Chair, Timothy Madden Col. Fred Johnson works for the U.S. Department of Defense. Johnson lives in Carlisle, Pa., with his wife, Dr. Laura Johnson, and their daughter, Madelyn.

Barry Langrehr lives in Boiling Springs, S.C., with his wife, Anna, and children, Abigail and Jaxson. Langrehr is a counselor for the S. C. Vocational Rehabilitation Department.

The S. C. Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers has elected Tim Madden as its president.

Madden is a partner in Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP. He also serves as chairman of the S. C. Education Lottery Commission. Madden lives in Greenville, S.C., with his wife, Cami.

1986

Reunion, Homecoming 2016 Class Chair, Brand Stille Living in Lawrenceville, Ga., Bill Dohn is a home loan officer for Countrywide Bank. Dohn, and his wife, Carrie, have three children, Philip (9), Shannon (15), and Kristyn (17).

James Logan and his wife, Cindy, live in Greenwood, S.C., with their son, James (10). Logan is senior vice president of institutional capital for TIC Properties LLC., a leading full-service commercial real estate firm headquartered in Greenville, S.C. Marvin Quick and his wife, Diana, live in Schertz, Texas, with their son, Brandon. Quick is employed with Lockheed Martin as a software tester.

1987

Reunion, Homecoming 2017 Congratulations to Dr. Tracy Harrell Dunn on her appointment to interim assistant dean for the School of Business and Economics at Benedict College in Columbia, S.C. She also will continue as assistant professor of marketing. Dunn lives in West Columbia, S.C., with her husband, Carl, and daughter, Moneta.

John Allen and Greg Leekley ’89 are co-founders of Open Finance, a financial service and technology firm located in

Charlotte, N.C. Leekley serves as chief executive officer, and Allen is executive vice president.

Loretta Johnson lives in Charlotte, N.C., and is a budget specialist for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. In this role she assists in the financial management of construction capital projects.

Promoted to the rank of colonel this past summer, Col. Kevin Philip Michaels moved his family to Madison, Ala. Michaels is currently the chief medical officer/deputy commander for clinical services at Fox Army Health Center, Redstone Arsenal. He and his wife, Nora, have three children, Samuel, Benjamin and Anna.

Lt. Col. Collier Slade and his wife, Teka, live in Bel Air, Md. Slade is military deputy, command and control directorate, at the U.S. Army Communications, Electronics, Research and Development Center.

1988

Reunion, Homecoming 2018 Class Chair, C. Lane Glaze Blair Glenn is regional line of business manager for SunTrust Mortgage in South Florida. Glenn lives in Pompano Beach, Fla., with his wife, Sheila, and children, Sara and William.

1989

20th Reunion, Homecoming 2009 Class Chair, Michael R. Sullivan Living in Columbia, S.C., John Davis is director of IT operations at AgFirst Farm Credit Bank. Davis recently was honored as one of “Computerworld” magazine’s Top 100 IT Leaders for 2009.

He and his wife, Sara, have three children, Chloe, John and Cecily.

Tanya Bordeaux Hamm and her husband, Benjy, live in Louisville, Ky., with their children, Jacob, Callie, and Emily. Hamm stays busy keeping the household running and volunteering at the children’s schools.

Ruth Parris is an accountant with the certified public accounting firm of Kesler, Queen & Masters. Parris and her husband, Dalon, live in Gaffney, S.C., with their daughter, Margaret.

1990

Reunion, Homecoming 2010 Class Chair, Scott W. Cashion Dr. Shawna Collins and her husband, Jason Collins ’93, live in Nashotah, Wis., with their children Duncan (7) and Hannah (9). Shawna is a dentist with Family and Cosmetic Dentistry. Jason is owner of Coastal Construction Group.

Foster Orthodontics, owned by Dr. Lang Foster, opened in Anderson, S.C., on Dec. 17, 2008. Foster served as a Navy general dentist and most recently worked at Waugh and Allen Associates in Athens, Ga. He lives in Anderson with his wife, Gretchen, and children, Caroline, Rodman, and Lang.

Jennifer Claggett Metts has joined the environmental consulting firm Kestrel Horizons LLC as communications manager. Metts lives in Charleston, S.C., with her husband, Christopher, and two children.

First South Bank announced in January 2008 the promotion of Tim Pless to chief operating officer. He also will continue to perform the duties of chief information officer. Pless has worked at First South since 2005. He lives with his wife, Pamela, and son, Ashton, in Boiling Springs, S.C.

1991

Reunion, Homecoming 2011 Class Chair, Leslee Houck Page Susan Allen Davis and her husband, Chuck, announce the birth of their son, William James Mitchell Davis, June 10, 2008. The family lives in Asheville, N.C.

1992

Reunion, Homecoming 2012 Class Chair, Nikki Palmeri Chunn Jessica Nordin Payne and her husband, Mark Christopher Payne ’93, announce the birth of their son, Anderson Nordin Payne, Oct. 4, 2008. He joins big brothers Grant (1) and Jess (3). The family lives in Greenville, S.C. Paul C. White and his partner, Kevin, are pleased to announce the addition of Cameron Alexander Mills White, born Dec. 11, 2008, to their family. Paul is an

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“goodnews” for Barber

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on Barber ’86 of “goodnews don&cheryl,” the awardwinning and Emmy nominated “family friendly” weekly talk and entertainment TV program, was quoted on the Movie poster for “New In Town.” The “don&cheryl” quote also appears in the movie’s promotional ads in newspaper, radio, television and electronic media.

Visit www.YouTube.com/ watch?v=jXHua3Mz810 to see their live interview with stars from the movie.

People in the Atlanta metro area can find “goodnews don&cheryl” on AIB weekly, Thursdays at 11 a.m. The duo also had more than 700,000 actual views of “goodnews don&cheryl” segments online in the few months since the program launched online content.

Gibson honored as family physician of the year

dedication of the Carolina Health Clinic in Limon, Honduras. Other buildings and a satellite clinic have been added since that time and other needed services are provided by teams such that dig freshwater wells, repair schools and churches and provide medical care.

Gibson has completed 35 mission trips to Honduras.

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he Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), the nation’s #1 rehabilitauring the 60th tion hospital, announced Annual Scienthat M. Jude Reyes ’77 tific Assembly of the South (above) is the new chairman Carolina Academy of Fam- of the hospital’s board of ily Physicians (SCAFP) in directors.

November, Dr. Henry W. Reyes has been a Gibson ’46 of Barnwell, member of the RIC board S.C., was honored as the since February 2002.

2008-2009 SCAFP Family He has served on several Physician of the Year. The board committees, includaward honors an outstand- ing finance and budget, ing family physician who compensation, membership provides patients with and the executive commitcompassionate and compre- tee. The 15-member board hensive care, and serves as elected Reyes as chair-elect a role model professionally in November 2007. and personally to his or her Reyes is co-chairman community, other health and one of the founders professionals, residents and of Reyes Holdings L.L.C., medical students. a privately held holding Gibson volunteers both company for a variety of locally and internationally. businesses in the food In 1987, Gibson made and beverage distribution his first medical mission industry. Forbes magazine trip to Honduras and the ranks Reyes Holdings as the Island of Utila. Other trips 26th largest privately held followed and he began company in the United acting on his dream for the States, and Crain’s Chicago Barnwell community to Business lists the company build a clinic in Honduras. as the largest privately held In June 1995, the Carolina company in the Chicago Honduras Health Founda- area. Reyes serves on the tion was formed to provide board of directors for the free medical, dental and NorthShore University optometric services to the HealthSystem, Pathways underserved citizens of Foundation, the Shedd Honduras. Gibson’s dream Aquarium and the Chilcame true in 1997 with the dren’s Hospital Foundation

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of Washington, D.C. He is a trustee for Northwestern University and The Field Museum.

Waring now playing for Baltimore

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ormer Terrier baseball player Brandon Waring ’08 was traded in the offseason to Baltimore as part of a deal with the Cincinnati Reds. Waring spent the 2008 season with the Class A Dayton Dragons.

Waring, a seventh-round pick in 2007, was a third baseman with Dayton and batted .270 with 20 homers and 71 RBIs. His 20 home runs led the team. In 2007, Waring had arguably the best season in Wofford history, when he batted .401 with a school-record 27 home runs and 74 runs batted in. He ranks third on the all-time homers list despite leaving after his junior season. The team won the 2007 Southern Conference Championship.

Nix serves as master of ceremonies at Walter Camp banquet

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offord was well represented in New Haven, Conn., at the Jan. 17 Walter Camp Football Foundation All-America awards dinner. Each member of the All-America team had his alma mater’s pennant below his name at the head table. There was also a Wofford pennant on display for Wendi Nix ’96. An ESPN anchor and reporter, Nix became the first female to serve as the master of ceremonies at the Walter Camp banquet. Above, Nix is pictured with former Wofford Sports Information Director Mark Cohen, now at Texas Christian University. Cohen was at the event with TCU All-America defensive end Jerry Hughes. Walter Camp is the oldest and most prestigious All-America team in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

For the next two years, West will lead the WEF, a not-for-profit technical and educational organization with 35,000 individual n February, Anthony members and 81 affiliated Leigh ’99 joined the staff member associations of Huntingdon College in representing an additional Montgomery, Ala., as vice 50,000 water quality propresident for external affessionals throughout the fairs. He will be responsible world. for marketing, communications, legislative affairs, Griffeth honored alumni advancement, and development efforts for the with Thomason United Methodist college Award founded in 1854. ack D. Griffeth ’73 Leigh served as deputy (bottom right, at a treasurer for the state of Wofford baskeball game) Alabama until his appoint- was honored recently by his ment. colleagues in the Green“Don’t worry,” writes ville Bar Association. An Leigh, “President West has attorney with Collins & already assured me I can Lacy, P.C., in Greenville, still love Wofford!”

S.C., Griffeth received

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the organization’s Tommy Thomason Award.

The award is named in honor of Thomason, who was a respected Greenville uring a ceremony on attorney. The recipient Oct. 21, the Water reflects qualities for which Environment Federation Thomason was regarded: (WEF) “gavel of leadership” integrity, compassion and was passed from President sensitivity to all people, Adam Zabinski to incompositive diplomacy to ing president Rebecca West minimize conflict, dedica’86, director of technical tion to the improvement of services for the Spartanburg community, and his overall Sanitary Sewer District in love for the practice of law Spartanburg. and pursuit of the practice

West leads Water Environment Federation

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On air and on-line with O'Neal Compton

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’Neal Compton ’80 (above) enjoyed his intense radio program preceding the presidential election.

Those shows are archived on his political affairs blog at www.onealcompton.com. Compton continues to have lots of possibilities for future projects. He says “an extension of the Hog Radio” is a good possibility, and The Whole Hog Blues Club opened Jan. 20. as a service to the people.

In addition to Greenville’s legal community, Wofford College knows well Griffeth’s professionalism and dedication. He specializes in higher education law.

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Mr. ’77 & Mrs. Moss H. Perrow, Jr. Mr. ’70 & Mrs. James M. Pickens Mr. & Mrs. W. S. Hummers, III Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Player, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. W. Kenneth Hunt, III Mr. & Mrs. Brian Pletcher Mr. & Mrs. George B. Hyatt Mr. & Mrs. Charles Posterick Mr. ’71 & Mrs. Robert G. Irick Mr. ’60 & Mrs. Max G. Poteat Mr. & Mrs. Bob Irvin Mr. & Mrs. Norman F. Pulliam Mr. Charlie Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Ready Dr. ’67 & Mrs. Eugene G. Johnson, III Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Redfern,III Mr. ’79 & Mrs. Michael A. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Rick Reed Dr. ’64 & Mrs. John B. Johnston Ms. Debra Jo Regan Mr. ’67 & Mrs. C. Roland Jones, Jr. Mrs. Louise H. Reid Mr. & Mrs. James A. Jones, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Tom Reynolds Mr. & Mrs. James M. Jordan, Sr. Dr. J .J. Richardson ’43 Mr. ’72 & Mrs. Robert E. Jordan, Sr. Dr. & Mrs. R. W. Richardson, III Mr. ’65 & Mrs. William C. Keels Dr. & Mrs. Fred R. Robertson, III Mr. ’49 & Mrs. Lamar L. Keisler Ms. Linda Romero-Smith Dr. ’52 & Mrs. Henry G. Kelley, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. John M. Ross Mrs. Sarah H. Kemm Mr. ’63 & Mrs. Tollie C. Ross, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. A. Gilbert Kennedy, III Mr. & Mrs. W. Fred Sams Mr. & Mrs.Calhoun L. Kennedy,Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Don Sasso Mr. & Mrs. J. Whitner Kennedy, Jr. Rev. & Mrs. John L. Satterwhite Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Kerr Dr. & Mrs. Jay Schecter Ms. Frances S. Key Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Schoonover Mr. ’69 & Mrs. John S. Kilgo, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Norbert Schuermann Dr. & Mrs. Milton Kimpson Ms. Virginia H. Scott Mr. ’71 & Mrs. Lawrence F. Kind Mr. ’72 & Mrs. C. Brad Sears, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. King, Jr. Mr. ’72 & Mrs. Ernest B. Segars Hon. & Mrs. John W. Kittredge Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Sellars Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth B. Knox, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. T. Terrell Sessums Mr. & Mrs. Marion A. Knox, Jr. Rev. & Mrs. William M. Shand, III Dr. & Mrs. Lucius Laffitte, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. R. N. Shealy, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Lambert Mr. & Mrs. James E. Shearer Mr. & Mrs. Michael Lance, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Don Smart Dr. & Mrs. Mack A. Land Dr. ’64 & Mrs. Claude W. Smith, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Fleetwood Lane Dr. ’67 & Mrs. G. Murrell Smith Mr. & Mrs. Steve Lash Mr. & Mrs. Jack Smith Mr. & Mrs. Brian F.D. Lavelle Mr. & Mrs. O. Stanley Smith, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Philip K. Leahy Mr. & Mrs. Philip J. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Doug Leirmoe Mr. & Mrs. Von P. Snelgrove Dr. & Mrs. Steven J. Lenes Drs. Joe & Jill Spencer Mr. & Mrs. Andrew P. Leventis Dr. ’53 & Mrs. John M. Stapleton Mr. & Mrs. Paul Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Starks Mrs. Lisa Ligouri Mr. & Mrs. A. F. Steinkruger, II Mr. & Mrs. Chuck Lindemenn Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Stephenson Mr. & Mrs. David G. Lindsay Mr. & Mrs. Kerry Stinman Mr. & Mrs. Hugh C. Lister Mr. & Mrs. C. Darrell Stout Ms. Suzy Little Mr. & Mrs. Pinckney Straughn Mr. & Mrs. F. J. Lombardi, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Strawn Mr. & Mrs. James L. Low Dr. Cynthia A. Suarez Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Low Mr. & Mrs. Abraham Switzer Mr. ’75 & Mrs. Richard M. Lowe Mr. & Mrs. David H. Takesuye Dr. ’64 & Mrs. John S. Lupold Ms. F. Marianna M. Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Shawn J. Lyons Mr. & Mrs. John J. Tecklenburg Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Mackey Dr. ’67 & Mrs. Charles C. Thomas, II Mr. & Mrs. James A. Macomson Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Scott N. Madigan, Sr. Dr. ’51 & Mrs. James C. Thrower Dr. & Mrs. Gregory R. Malcolm Mr. & Mrs. W. R. Tilley Mr. & Mrs. Alex Marion Mr. & Mrs. J. D. Todd, Jr. Ms. Judy B. Martin Mr. & Mrs. Jerry E. Todd Rev. ’57 & Mrs. Reese M. Massey, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Tolleson, Jr. Mr. Ray A. Maultsby ’72 Mr. & Mrs. Tom A. Triplitt Mr. & Mrs. John H. McAbee Dr. L. Wes Turnage, Jr. ’76 Dr. & Mrs. John W. McAlhany, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Samuel H. Turner, III Mr. & Mrs. Joe W. McCarter Mr. & Mrs. James Tyrie Mr. & Mrs. William McChesney Mr. & Mrs. Alan B. Vereen Mr. & Mrs. J. Franklin McClain COL & Mrs. John E. Vigna Mr. & Mrs. Dee McCraw Dr. ’64 & Mrs. Howard S. Waddell, III Mr. ’68 & Mrs. Jack McCutcheon, Jr. Rev. ’59 & Mrs. Leon L. Wagnon, III Dr. Michael A. McGinnis Dr. & Mrs. John B. Walker, III Ms. Pamela M. McGreevy Mr. ’67 & Mrs. Whit B. Wallace, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Dean McKinney Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Waller Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Medeiros The Hon. ’59 & Mrs. John Waller, Jr. Dr. ’56 & Mrs. T. Travis Medlock, Sr. Rev. ’67 & Mrs. Charles F. Walton, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John C. Mellette Mr. & Mrs. J. David Wansley Mr. & Mrs. Brian J. Mickleberry Mr. & Mrs. James H. Ward, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Brian Miller Mr. & Mrs. W. Byrd Warlick Ms. Judy N. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Scott Wasserman Mr. & Mrs. Joe Molfenter Dr. ’70 & Mrs. Lucius F. Wates Mr. & Mrs. Charles Moore Mr. & Mrs. Terry W. Watt Mr. & Mrs. James Mosman Mr. Allen S. Way ’60 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Moss, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. J. Fred Weathers Mr. & Mrs. Mickey Mugan Mr. & Mrs. James P. White Mr. & Mrs. Carl Mullen Mr. & Mrs. James White Mr. & Mrs. F. T. Murray, III Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. White Mr. ’64 & Mrs. James A. Neal Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. White Mr. & Mrs. Chris J. Newton Mr. & Mrs. Doug Whitehead Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Nix, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Avery Wilkerson Mr. & Mrs. Stephen L. Noel Mr. & Mrs. Bruce T. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Oates, Sr. Mr. ’52 & Mrs. E. Lewis Williams Mr. & Mrs. Dan O’Connell, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Herbert P. Williams Dr. & Mrs. Peter P. O’Kelly Mr. & Mrs. J. Allen Williams Mr. & Mrs. Ed Oliva Rev. ’61 & Mrs. Needham Williamson Mr. & Mrs. Varner Olmsted Mr. Barry Wilmoth Mr. ’59 & Mrs. Marvin H. O’Neal, Jr. Ms. Michelle Wilmoth Dr. & Mrs. Dale Padgett Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Wise Mr. & Mrs. George H. Page Ms. Karen H. Witzleben Mr. ’70 & Mrs. Robert W. Page, III Dr. & Mrs. Paul A. Wood, Jr. Mrs. Ouida Page-Valdez Dr. ’72 & Mrs. T. Keith Wood Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Parrish Dr. & Mrs. Robb Woods Mr. & Mrs. Marshal R. Parsons Mr. & Mrs. Warren Woody Mr. & Mrs. Alex Partagas Mr. ’60 * & Mrs. Marion F. Wright, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Amrutlal R. Patel Dr. & Mrs. Y. Cheung Yee Mr. & Mrs. G.B. Peaseley, VI Mr. & Mrs. Roger C. Young Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Peden Mr. & Mrs. Rick Ziegler Mr. ’79 & Mrs. A. Drake Perrow Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Zolman

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Dr. & Mrs. Robert K. Ackerman Mr. Souflane Afkinich Mr. & Mrs. Ellis R. Allen Mr. & Mrs. T. Eugene Allen, III Rev. ’63 & Mrs. T. W. Anderson, Jr. Mr. ’83 & Mrs. Marcus D. Antley, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Edward D. Ariail Mr. & Mrs. Pherris Ashbee Mrs. Barbara E. Atwater Ms. Susan S. Audet Mr. & Mrs. Fred M. Auld, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Tomie R. Aust Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Baker Mrs. Alice L. Ballard Dr. ’68 & Mrs. C. Brooks Bannister Mr. & Mrs. Ronnie Barger Mr. & Mrs. H. G. Barnhill, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Ricky E. Basinger Mr. & Mrs. John P. Batten Mr. & Mrs. W. S. Becknell Mrs. Alice S. Bell Mr. & Mrs. Chipley Bennett Mr. & Mrs. L. Marty Bergen Mr. & Mrs. J. Robert Bergmann Mr. & Mrs. Arlen Bethay Mr. & Mrs. Wiley Blackburn Mrs. Ann H. Blanton Ms. Gloria Rene Blue Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Boeing Mr. & Mrs. David A. Boison Mr. & Mrs. Jack C. Borders, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Marcel Boudet Mrs. Ella R. Bouknight Dr. & Mrs. William R. Bouknight, III Mr. ’64 & Mrs. Cliff W. Bowers, Jr. Ms. Susan B. Boyd Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Boykin Mr. & Mrs. G. Jeff Bramlett Dr. & Mrs. Emora T. Brannan Ms. Len S. Brinkley Ms. Youko Brooks Mrs. Jane M. Brown Dr. & Mrs. James C. Bruce Mrs. Candice L. Bryan Dr. ’55 & Mrs. L. H. Buff, Jr. Ms. Linda G. Bunch Hon. & Mrs. O. D. Burgdorf Mr. & Mrs. David E. Burgess Mr. & Mrs. Jon A. Buring Mrs. Betsy W. Burton Rev. & Mrs. F. Bundy Bynum, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James W. Byrd Mr. & Mrs. Stephen F. Cameron Mr. & Mrs. Billy Campbell Mrs. Mary Hampton Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Scott B. Carr Mr. & Mrs. Farooq Chaudhary Mrs. Nancy P. Christopher Mr. & Mrs. Edward R. Clair Rev. ’79 & Mrs. Ted H. Clarkson Mr. & Mrs. W. G. Cochran, Jr. Mrs. Anita M. Colbert Mr. & Mrs. Spiro I. Conits Mr. & Mrs. Brad Connett Mr. & Mrs. David B. Cook Rev. ’64 & Mrs. Wiley B. Cooper Mr. & Mrs. Johnny Ray Crawford Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Crawley Mr. & Mrs. Ladson G. Cubbage Ms. Lynn C. Cureton Mr. & Mrs. Douglas R. Curry Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Dahlman Mr. & Mrs. Walter R. Davis, Jr. Mrs. Mary W. DeAntonio Mr. & Mrs. Louis DeJesus Mr. & Mrs. Douglas D. DeKoster Mr. & Mrs. Robert DeLuria Mr. ’59 & Mrs. T. Harold DeWitt Dr. & Mrs. Rudolph F. Dolezal Dr. & Mrs. John Dombroski Mr. & Mrs. Brian Dowell Mrs. Jo A. Drinkhahn Mr. & Mrs. Leroy Dunn, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Mike Duren Mr. & Mrs. R. G. Dusenbury, Sr. Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Dwyer Mr. & Mrs. Elwood R. Eason Mr. & Mrs. Robert Eaves Dr. ’60 & Mrs. Thomsd M. Ellison Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Fields Rev. ’48 & Mrs. Herbert C. Floyd, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Fogle Dr. & Mrs. R. Bruce Ford Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Foust Mr. & Mrs. Peter L. Fuge Judge & Mrs. William G. Fuqua Dr. & Mrs. Claude Galphin Mr. & Mrs. John D. Gamble Mrs. Jean Gasparato Mr. & Mrs. Mike Gault Mr. & Mrs. Mark G. Gauthier, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Walter W. Gayle, III Mr. & Mrs. G. W. Gering, III Mr. & Mrs. Colin R. Gibb Mr. ’73 & Mrs. David M. Glenn

Mr. & Mrs. Marshall L. Goldstein Mr. & Mrs. Martin Gonzalez Mr. & Mrs. John P. Goree, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. W. O. Gosnell Mr. ’62 & Mrs. Charles C. Graham Mr. & Mrs. Ronald W. Graham Mr. & Mrs. Brook Grant Mr. & Mrs. L. E. Green, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. A. Glenn Greene, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Frederic Gresset Mr. & Mrs. R. Gerald Griffin Mrs. Claudia B. Griffin-Brown The Hon. ’52 & Mrs. Jeff Griffith, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Grigg Drs. Mark & Judy Gustafson Mr. ’58 & Mrs. A. Kent Hall Mr. & Mrs. Frank D. Hall Mr. & Mrs. P. M. Hamilton, Jr. Mr. ’56 & Mrs. F. Jay Hammond, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Merideth W. Hanley Mr. & Mrs. Herman H. Hanser, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Steven K. Harbison

Mrs. Jerry B. Hardigree Dr. & Mrs. John A. Harrill Mrs. Carol J. Harris Mrs. Caroline P. Harris Mr. * & Mrs. Donald N. Harris Mrs. Edna Harris Ms. Ann W. Haskell Mr. ’70 & Mrs. James Hastings, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. William F. Hauserman Mr. & Mrs. Charles C. Heatherly, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. F. W. Henderson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Theodore M. Hendricks Mr. & Mrs. S. Joseph B. Hill, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Hite, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John Hodges Ms. Tabitha Holloway Mr. Ken W. Horne Rev. & Mrs. Samuel W. Huxford Mr. & Mrs. Marion F. Inabinet, III Mr. & Mrs. Larry R. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. Paul Jacobs

Dr. Begoña Caballero-Garcia, mentoring around the world

Mr. & Mrs. Johnny W. Jeffcoat Mr. & Mrs. Dean K. Johnson Mr. Leon A. Johnson, Jr. ’69 Drs. M. Kenneth & Deborah Johnson Mr. Walter H. Johnson, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Griffith G. Jones Mr. & Mrs. John D. Jones Mr. & Mrs. W. Lewis Jones Dr. & Mrs. W. F. Junkin, III Mr. & Mrs. Ronald W. Keen Ms. Verdistine Kemp Mr. & Mrs. Arthur J. Kepes Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Kerl Mr. & Mrs. Ed Kilbourne Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Kmonicek Mrs. Libby A. Knudson Mr. & Mrs. Kalvin Koenig Mr. & Mrs. Martin E. LaPrade Mr. & Mrs. Daylon W. Laws Mr. & Mrs. Fontaine B. Lawson

Begoña Caballero-Garcia and Nancy Rucker ’09

“I love traveling and experiencing the world with my students.”

Students

and faculty experience a special kind of bonding while bird watching by canoe at 6 a.m. The experience was optional for students and faculty on the Interim to Peru in January, but Dr. Begoña Caballero-Garcia and Nancy Rucker ’09 wouldn’t have missed it for the world.

“I was lucky to have passionate and enthusiastic professors like Dr. Caballero-Garcia and Dr. Nancy Mandlove on the Interim,” says Rucker. “They weren’t just professors from nine to five. They wanted to eat dinner with us, hike with us, even look for poisonous frogs with us.”

Rucker caught Caballero-Garcia, assistant professor of foreign languages, on video screaming as she flew down a canopy zip line in Peru. The memory still makes both Rucker and Caballero-Garcia laugh.

Caballero-Garcia appreciates the opportunity that Interim affords faculty to develop close mentoring relationships with students.

“I took a group of students to Spain last year. We got to know each other so well. I love traveling and experiencing the world with my students,” she says.

Caballero-Garcia taught at Kalamazoo College, Western Michigan University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill before coming to Wofford.

“Here I see my students outside of class — at the gym or in karate,” says CaballeroGarcia. “I wanted to be at a liberal arts college because I love teaching.”

This spring, Caballero-Garcia is helping Rucker complete her senior capstone project for her international studies for business – Spanish major.

“Because I knew she was from Spain and because we got along so well during Interim, I knew I could go to her for help,” says Rucker. “She’s not my official advisor, but she was willing to help me anyway.”

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Shannon Willis Scruggs ’97 (with the hat) in her role as Patsy Cline; (without the hat) in her role as non-profit executive.

With Scruggs is fellow actor Kathy Hartzog.

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uring college, Shannon Willis Scruggs ’97 spent two summers as an intern at a large law firm. Although she enjoyed the experience and learned a lot, she decided she didn’t want to become an attorney.

After graduation, she went on to earn her MBA at the University of South Carolina. Then she answered an ad in the newspaper for a program associate position at the South Carolina Bar Foundation, the charitable arm of the South Carolina Bar. In 2004, Scruggs was promoted to executive director, becoming the youngest person to hold her position within the national bar foundation arena.

“For a while, when I first came into the position, I was the new kid on the block, but our national program is so very rich in resources, support and sharing,” says Scruggs. “I have 49 other mentors to whom I can look for help.”

As executive director, Scruggs’ job involves giving talks, writing, helping grantees become more efficient and effective, and raising funds for Bar Foundation grants.

“Fundraising was an easier job a few years ago,” says Scruggs, “but we’re still making grants that provide civil legal services to low-income citizens, fellowships and law-related educational opportunities for students.”

At the Bar Foundation’s highest funding capacity, grantee organizations reached 8,500 low-income citizens and 4,500 students.

“Through our grantees, we absolutely make a difference,” says Scruggs who gets excited describing foundation funded programs, such as one that helps employ lowincome fathers so they can support their children and reengage in family.

Scruggs also fills a leadership role as secretary of the board for the National Association of IOLTA (Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts), serves on the advisory board of City Year Columbia, and was named Council on Aging of the Midlands’ United Way Volunteer of the Year. She has earned awards from the National Conference on Bar Foundations, the South Carolina Public Relations Society of America, and Leadership Columbia Alumni Association.

Because of her many accomplishments, Scruggs was named one of the top 20 emerging leaders under 40 by The State newspaper in 2008 and was selected to be a part of the 2008 Leadership South Carolina class.

“Shannon is a dynamic, intelligent and creative leader. (She) is the youngest person to hold (her) position and enjoys a great reputation among her peers in other states,” says Cal Watson ’84, attorney and past president of the S.C. Bar Foundation.

Scruggs also makes time to volunteer with the Town Theatre, the nation’s oldest continually operating community theatre. This year, as the Town celebrates its 90th birthday, Scruggs celebrates the 26 years that she’s worked with the theatre.

“I started at 8 years old in a production of ‘Annie,’” says Scruggs. “The passion has never left me. I love to perform.”

Scruggs is most famous for her portrayal of Patsy Cline in the two-woman show, “Always Patsy Cline.” She’s now directing “The Buddy Holly Story” and is planning to once again direct Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” this summer.

“My stage career helps me in my day job as well,” says Scruggs. “It’s not unusual for me to speak in front of others and try to convince them to support a particular cause. That’s what I do as an actor.”

Balancing career, theatre and civic activities with family time can be a challenge.

“It gets tougher as the years go by,” says Scruggs. “I don’t always get it right, but I do try. It’s all about timing and balance.”

Scruggs and her husband, Thomas, have four children, Megan (11), Drew (9), Michael (5) and Kendall (2). The family is also active in the life of Spring Valley Baptist Church.

by Jo Ann Mitchell Brasington ’89

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attorney with the South Carolina Jay Langford and his wife, Department of Social Services. Laura, announce the birth of The family lives in Moncks Cor- their son, James D. Langford III, ner, S.C. Nov. 20, 2008. The family lives in Landrum, S.C. Langford is a survey manager for BP Barber.

1993 Mark Loomis lives in Myrtle Reunion, Homecoming 2013 Beach, S.C., with his wife, Sherri, Class Chair, Sarah Copeland and children, Connor (3) and Sawicki Living in Sumter, S.C., Bland Sydney (6). Loomis is a sales Cooper is an agronomist working executive with Exit Grand Strand for the PGA Tour as part of its Properties.

Living in Gainesville, Vt., J.P. competitions staff. Cooper and his wife, Elisabeth, have three Raflo is regional vice president of children, Thomas, William and Sentinel Investments. Raflo and his wife, Amy, have three children, Sumter.

Toula Economos Hubbard and Delaney, Josephine and Luke.

Hubert Yarborough, his wife, her husband, Hal, announce the birth of their daughter, Zoe Emma Lee, and their daughter, Caroline Hubbard, Nov. 13, 2008. She joins (6), are proud to announce the big brother Christopher (8). The newest addition to their family, Josephine (Josie) Yarborough. Josie family lives in Columbia, S.C. Molly Hughes Cherry, a is 21 months old and was adopted partner in the law firm of Nexsen from Dong Guan, China. The famPruet, has been named to the board ily lives in Greenville, S.C. of directors of the S. C. Women Lawyers Association. She also is 1995 listed in “Best Lawyers in America” Reunion, Homecoming 2015 for employment and labor law Class Chair, Brandie Yancey Lorenz Living in Cobleskill, N.Y., Matt and was recognized in a “Law & Politics” publication survey as a Allen is the men’s head basketball South Carolina “Super Lawyer” coach at the State University of in the same area. Cherry lives in New York at Cobleskill. Allen Mount Pleasant, S.C., with her and his wife, Ramona, have two children, Mylo and Bryce. husband, Dawson.

Brandon McKillop is selfDr. Brad Painter and his wife, Lauren, announce the birth of their employed in real estate and investson, Sam Painter, Sept. 19, 2008. ments. McKillop lives in Boiling He joins big brother Jack (3). The Springs, S.C., with his wife, Lora, and children, Lilli and Bennett. family lives in Columbia, S.C. Wallace Patrick and his wife, A solo exhibition of selected works in various media by Russ Lindsay Harrell Patrick ’99, live Singletary was held at the Atlanta- in Spartanburg with their children, Fulton Library Gallery during Caroline and Jack. Lindsay joined December 2008. Singletary, who the real estate firm Coldwell lives in Atlanta, Ga., is director Banker Caine, in November. of strategic research and audience Wallace is account manager for analysis for Turner Broadcasting. Systemtec Inc. Roman Stout was named 2008 Sterling Award winner as the New 1996 York Mets minor league baseball Reunion, Homecoming 2016 executive of the year at baseball’s Class Chair, Curt L. Nichols Jr. winter meetings in Las Vegas.

Paige Mulkey Cizon and her Stout is vice president and general husband, Aaron, announce the manager of the Kingsport Mets, a birth of their son, Eliot Paige minor league affiliate of the New Cizon, Nov. 8, 2008. The family York Mets. Stout and his wife, lives in Greenville, S.C. Marla Dunn Stout ’94, and their Kirk Griffin and his wife, Suson, Turner, live in Kingsport, zanne, announce the birth of their Tenn. Marla is a head case manager son, Ryan Kirk Griffin Jr., Nov. 4, for HealthSouth.

2008. He joins big sister Mary (3).

A partner in the law firm Casste- The family lives in Sumter, S.C. vens Hanner Gunter Riopel & Living in Jamaica Plain, Mass., Wofford, Hunt Wofford has been Dr. Nicole Redmond is an associnamed to Business North Carolina ate physician and clinical fellow at Magazine’s 2009 Legal Elite. He Brigham and Women’s Hospital. lives in Charlotte, N.C., with Julie Pigg Schmidler and her his wife, Rebecca, and children, husband, Ray, announce the birth Samuel and Cate. of their daughter, Katarina Olivia Schmidler, Aug. 22, 2008. The 1994 family lives in Huntington Beach, Reunion, Homecoming 2014 Calif. Julie works as a consultant for Class Chair, Alicia Nunamaker an apparel company and her husTruesdail band owns Raymond Ari Design, Sara Pittman Balthazor and a graphic design business. her husband, Richard, announce Dr. Kevin Walker and his wife, the birth of their daughter, Hazel Shanna, live in Nashville, Tenn., McKinley Balthazor, Dec. 4, with their daughter, Corrie. Walker 2008. The family lives in Colorado is a clinical fellow in pain manageSprings, Colo. Sara works as an IP ment at Vanderbilt University.

Analyst for tw telecom.

Todd Burroughs recently was 1997 promoted to major and is serving Reunion, Homecoming 2017 as a maneuver planner for the Class Chair, Beth Mangham 2nd Brigade Combat Team in the Guerrero 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Allison Marsh Behr and her Bragg, N.C. husband, Chris, announce the Living in Graniteville, S.C., birth of their daughter, Abigail Keith Chandler is attorney and Harper Behr, Nov. 18, 2008. The counselor at law with Chandler family lives in Indian Trail, N.C. Law Firm P.A. Ryan Breckenridge and his Living in Alexandria, Va., wife, Mary, announce the birth Trey Jarrard works for the U.S. of their son, Robert Breckenridge, Secret Service. Jarrard recently April 3, 2008. The family lives in was re-assigned to the presidential Mount Pleasant, S.C. protective division.

Shannon Parker Fyfe and her Judith Kop and her husband, husband, David, announce the Brian English, live in Greenville, birth of their son, Wade Corbin S.C. Kop is vice president/risk Fyfe, Aug. 27, 2008. He joins advisor for Wachovia Bank. big sister Molly (2). Shannon is

a business analyst for PricewaterhouseCoopers. The family lives in Tampa, Fla. Susan Sanders Harvell and her husband, Stan Harvell ’99, announce the birth of their son, Andrew Michael Harvell, Dec. 3, 2008. Susan is heritage club director for Regions Bank and Stan is a financial advisor for KPMG Foundation. The family lives in Greenville, S.C. Living in Greenville, S.C., Randy Helmly is in attorney.

Helmly and his wife, Prentice, have one son, William (1).

Mary Frances Gibson Jowers and her husband, Jerry, announce the birth of their daughter, Catherine Emma Jowers, Oct. 9, 2008.

The family lives in Columbia, S.C. Maj. Bryan D. Lake and his wife, Stephanie, announce the birth of their daughter, Kensley Savannah Lake, May 23, 2008.

Kensley visited Wofford for the first time at Homecoming 2008.

The Lake family plans to move to Fort Leavenworth, Kan., during the summer of 2009, prior to their anticipated reassignment to Fort Bragg, N.C., in the summer of 2010.

James Plaster and his wife, Elizabeth, announce the birth of their son, Michael Walton Plaster, Oct. 16, 2008. The family lives in Asheville, N.C. Katrina Kuhns Reynolds and her husband, Ben Reynolds ’99, announce the birth of their son, Braden Huck Reynolds, Dec. 5, 2008. He joins big brother Hilton (4). The family lives in Durham, N.C. Kathleen Draffin Thompson and her husband, Brad, announce the birth of their son, John Stephen Thompson, Oct. 20, 2008. He joins big brother Ford (2), and big sister Elizabeth (5). The family lives in Danville, Calif.

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Reunion, Homecoming 2018 Class Chair, Casey B. Moore Ellen Seabolt Cochran and her husband, Chip, announce the birth of their son, Andrew Spence Cochran, Nov. 3, 2008. The family lives in Augusta, Ga. The Spartanburg HeraldJournal profiled Mallory Edwards, the owner of the paper shredding company Secure Shred LLC on Jan. 10, 2009. Edwards; his wife, Millan; two sons, Jackson and Hayes; and daughter, Teresa Elaine, live in Spartanburg.

Renee Cline Lane and her husband, Miles Lane ’99, announce the birth of their son, Elliott Allen Lane, Oct. 25, 2008. The family lives in Boiling Springs, S.C. Lee Ann Reynolds Perry, her husband, Jay, and step-son, Wakefield, live in Morganton, N.C. Perry teaches English at Maiden High School.

Jacqueline M. Temple and her husband, Dr. Kent Harris, live in Pittsburgh, Pa. Temple is a graphic designer for Pipitone Group.

Ginn White and his wife, Katie, announce the birth of their daughter, Lydia Caroline White, June 2, 2008. She joins big brother Garrett (3). The family lives in Bel Air, Md. White is project manager for the U. S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine.

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10th Reunion, Homecoming 2009 Class Chair, Zackery O. Atkinson Ashley Goode Culp is a special education teacher with the Kershaw County School District.

parents (continued) Mr. & Mrs. Edgar H. Lawton, III Mr. & Mrs. Keith G. Lay, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Leahy Mr. & Mrs. M. Keith Ledford Mr. & Mrs. Cecil G. Lester, Jr. Mrs. Demetra Leventis Mr. & Mrs. Otto E. Liipfert, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Philip C. Linder Mr. & Mrs. William Livingston Mr. & Mrs. Lee W. Logan Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Lott Mr. & Mrs. Terry Lovelace Mr. & Mrs. Tommy B. Lynch Mr. ’72 & Mrs. ’72 George Lynn Mr. ’60 & Mrs. C. Wayne Marsh Mr. & Mrs. John L. Martin Mr. Carl L. Mason Ms. Kathey D. Mays ’83 Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Mays, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Tim H. McClimon Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. McGuire, Sr. Mr. Franklin R. McIntyre, III Mr. & Mrs. Sam D. McMillan Mr. Jerry W. Merrell Dr. & Mrs. T. Mark Meyer Dr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Miller Mr. & Mrs. John Mitchell Ms. Pamela Moreno Mr. & Mrs. Hatim A. Motiwala Mr. ’71 & Mrs. Butler B. Mullins Mr. & Mrs. Peter Neill Mr. & Mrs. Bobby D. Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Ralph W. Norman Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. O’Connor Mr. & Mrs. Frank G. Oliver Mr. & Mrs. James Orr Mr. & Mrs. Phillip L. Owen Ms. Gail Palmer

Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Parades Mr. & Mrs. Don Patel Mr. & Mrs. James D. Patterson Dr. & Mrs. W. J. Pendergrast Mr. & Mrs. Thang Pham Dr. & Mrs. William H. Phillipps Mr. & Mrs. Terry C. Plumb Mr. & Mrs. Alvin R. Pollard Mr. & Mrs. Wayne D. Poole Mr. & Mrs. Arlie O. Pritchard Mrs. Tommie D. Quarles Mr. & Mrs. John W. Rabb Ms. Bonnie N. Ramsey Ms. Jennifer C. Rankin Mr. & Mrs. Ray D. Raymer, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Carl W. Richardson Mr. & Mrs. J. E. Richardson Rev. & Mrs. B. Maurice Ritchie Mr. & Mrs. Willard A. Rowell Mr. ’80 & Mrs. Howard L. Ruble, Jr. Rev. & Mrs. John T. Rush Mr. & Mrs. Craig Sahms Mr. & Mrs. James W. Sauter Mr. & Mrs. Douglas S. Schultz Mrs. Joanna Setzler Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Sheridan Mr. & Mrs. Larry E. Shogren Mr. ’52 & Mrs. P. Stuart Shuford Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey E. Silliman Ms. Jan B. Simpson Dr. & Mrs. Larry L. Simpson Ms. Mary R. Simpson Mr. & Mrs. Donald D. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Park B. Smith, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Philip M. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Raymond C. Smith Ms. Cynthia Sniezak Rev. & Mrs. P. L. Stackhouse Mr. & Mrs. George Starnes Mr. ’76 & Mrs. Richard Steadman, Jr.

Mr. Richard W. Stephens Dr. & Mrs. Harry C. Stille Mr. & Mrs. Joseph S. Stowe Ms. Pat P. Swofford Mr. ’64 & Mrs. Harvey Tankersley, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Frank Tavani Mr. & Mrs. Abby Tayebi Ms. Janie Taylor Mr. & Mrs. John F. Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Clifton Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Patrick D. Thompson Dr. & Mrs. Wendell H. Tiller Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Tillotson Dr. & Mrs. Charles A. Trant, Jr. Ms. Eustolia R. Tria Mr. & Mrs. C. Cecil Turner, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. C. F. Turner, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Martin C. Vartanian Mr. ’69 & Mrs. J. Wes Ward, III Mrs. Sue Hope Ware Ms. Kay H. Waters Mr. & Mrs. Walt Watford Mr. & Mrs. C. Randall Watts Mr. & Mrs. James T. Webber Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Weisman Dr. ’73 & Mrs. Sam F. Wheeler, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David H. White Mr. & Mrs. Tim White Mr. & Mrs. Warren E. White Mr. ’74 & Mrs. W. Lewis White Mr. & Mrs. T. Manly Whitener, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William L. Whitesides,III Mr. ’72 & Mrs. J. Michael Whitmire Mr. & Mrs. Wayne W. Whitmire, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Peter B. Whitney Mr. & Mrs. John S. Wigginton, Jr. Mr. ’68 & Mrs. Dennis W. Williams Mrs. Patricia K. Williams Mrs. Diana C. Wilson Ms. Marialice Wilson

Prashant Patel ’09, Christine Dinkins and Kristen Knarr ’09 Mr. & Mrs. Mario Winkler Dr. ’56 & Mrs. James E. Wiseman, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Witt, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Wood Mr. ’51 & Mrs. Willis J. Woodham Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. York Mr. ’69 & Mrs. Thomas E. Young, Jr.

friends Chairman’s Circle

Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. William Barnet, III Mr. Mike Bijeau Mrs. Margaret B. Booth * Mr. Hugh M. Chapman * Mr. & Mrs. Jimmy I. Gibbs Mr. & Mrs. Stan Halliday, III Dr. Karl G. Heider Mr. & Mrs. W. Hayne Hipp Mrs. Elizabeth K. Holloway Mr. & Mrs. W. Brian Huntley Mrs. Helena Papadopoulos Johnson Mr. Roger Milliken Lillian C. Mooneyham * Mrs. Maria V. Papadopoulos Mr. & Mrs. D. Grant Peacock Mr. & Mrs. Edward P. Perrin Ms. Donna C. Plexico COL R. Stafford Rivers * Dr. & Mrs. Francis Robicsek Mr. & Mrs. John H. Robison Mr. Ell F. Sanders Mr. Greg Sanders Mrs. Harriet A. Sessoms Mr. & Mrs. Darwin H. Simpson Ms. Toccoa B. Switzer Mrs. Jean F. Sydnor Mr. Newell R. Whitener *

Trustee Society

Mr. & Mrs. Vic C. Bailey, III Mr. & Mrs. Stanley W. Baker Mrs. Anne Brady Moore Carlson Ms. Anne M. Ebersbach Dr. & Mrs. John S. Featherston Mr. & Mrs. Caleb C. Fort Ms. Katherine Corn Foster Mrs. Annie Laurie K. George Mr. Harry H. Gibson, Jr. Mrs. Joan Gibson Ms. Nina Rodale Houghton Dr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Kana Mr. Richard N. League Mr. E. Lewis Miller, Jr. Ms. Dorothy A. Norton Ms. Sue Priester Mrs. Minor M. Shaw Mr. & Mrs. R. Scott Thomas Dr. Joella Utley Mr. & Mrs. Junie L. White Mr. & Mrs. John W. Williamson, III

Leadership Society

Dr. & Mrs. James E. Bostic, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. T. Alex Evins Mrs. Elaine T. Freeman Mr. J.R. Freeman, III

Mr. & Mrs. Trip Hamilton Mr. David Riggins Rev. & Mrs. George E. Strait

President’s Club

Mr. & Mrs. G. Ashley Allen Mr. James G. Amick, Jr. Mrs. Vivian B. Anderson Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Gregory J. Atkins Mrs. Emily F. Bailey Mr. & Mrs. W. Don Bain, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John P. Barber Mrs. Mason M. Barrett Ms. Helen Bell Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Blake Mr. & Mrs. Randolph W. Cabell Ms. Cherry Canaday Drs. Douglas H. & Carol Carlisle Mr. & Mrs. Douglas M. Cecil Mrs. Martha C. Chapman Mr. & Mrs. Kevin T. Chunn Mr. J. Gilliam Conrad Mrs. Betty C. Crenshaw Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Cromer Mr. & Mrs. James G. Crouch, Jr. Mrs. Mary Alice C. Davidson Mr. & Mrs. Philip Dobbs Mr. & Mrs. Andrew J. Falatok Mr. & Mrs. C. Russell Farmer Mrs. Nora H. Featherston Mr. & Mrs. P.D. Flatz Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Fletcher Mr. & Mrs. John W. Fowler Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth G. Garner Dr. & Mrs. Dan D. Gilbert Mr. & Mrs. Walter M. Glenn Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas E. Gregory Mrs. Cynthia C. Grier Dr. & Mrs. Robert J. Haas Mrs. Marjorie G. Halford Mrs. Frances H. Hardy Mr. William W. Hatfield Mrs. Eaddy Williams Hayes Dr. & Mrs. David A. Holt Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Hrubala Mrs. Marion A. Jennings Mrs. Denny F. Jones Mrs. Jean J. Jones Dr. & Mrs. John E. Keith, Jr. Ms. Dorothy F. King Mr. & Mrs. John M. Kohler, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Ronald J. Kuzma Ms. Mamie H. Lancaster Mrs. Sarah S. Lander * Mr. & Mrs. Paul D. Lansberry Mr. & Mrs. Keith E. Laws Mr. & Mrs. William J. Lowndes, III

Mr. Mike Menard Ms. Carlene L. Miller Mr. & Mrs. David C. Mitchell Mr. Haskell M. Monroe Mrs. Marian M. Moorhead Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Morrison Dr. Robert M. Panoff Mr. & Mrs. Lester A. Paul Mrs. Mary Ann R. Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Robert V. Pinson Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Porter Dr. & Mrs. William F. Price Mr. & Mrs. C. Garrett Putman Mrs. Eileen N. Rampey Dr. Richard E. Rankin, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Jon Richardson Mr. & Mrs. Jon Richardson Mr. & Mrs. Robert V. Royall Mr. & Mrs. D. Paul Rudisill, Jr. Mrs. Alice H. Sanders Mr. Sterling S. Sharpe Mrs. Caroline Reames Tolbert Mr. & Mrs. William N. Turrentine, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John T. Wardlaw Mrs. Lalage Warrington Mr. & Mrs. Billy Webster Mrs. Harriet W. Williamson Mr. Larry Winn Mr. Emerson Wolfe Ms. Martha Huggin Yarborough Mr. Robert R. Young Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Zimmerli

Patron Club

Mr. & Mrs. David Adamson Mrs. Charlotte J. Berry Mr. & Mrs. Kenny R. Bishop Mr. & Mrs. Jack M. Blasius Dr. & Mrs. James E. Brown, IV Dr. & Mrs. Scott Bryant Rev. Jeanette Cooper Dicks Dr. Richard B.Harwell * Mr. & Mrs. Matt Hastings Mr. & Mrs. Greg G. Heinz Ms. Patricia R. Hemmer Ms. Kristin M. Higueros Mr. & Mrs. John A. Hodge Mr. & Mrs. David J. Kochamba Mr. & Mrs. David W. Kudravetz Mr. & Mrs. H. L. Lancaster, Jr. Mrs. Frances LaRoche Mr. & Mrs. Joab M. Lesesne, III Mrs. Larry T. McGehee Ms. Cassandra E. Baker McLeod Ms. Peggie P. Najim Mr. & Mrs. K. E. Neely, III Drs. Chris & Cecile Nowatka Mr. & Mrs. Jackson C. Payne

Mr. Charles Porcher Mr. & Mrs. Henry A. Ramella Ms. Ida T. Ramsey Mr. Tim Satterfield Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Siegel Ms. Virginia B. Sims Mr. & Mrs. Brian E. Whalen Ms. Ann White

Loyalty Club

Ms. Kathleen Abizaid Ms. Margaret P. Anderson Mr. Furman Babb Mr. Bob Ball Mr. & Mrs. R. Jeff Barham Mr. & Mrs. Brian A. Barker Mr. & Mrs. Patrick L. Baryenbruch Ms. Helen B. Black Mr. Nick C. Black, III Mr. & Mrs. Steven Brown Mrs. Martha B. Carlisle Mr. & Mrs. J. Pat Cecil Ms. Barbara L. Ciconte Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Davidson, V Dr. & Mrs. Eric C. Drumm Ms. Graham S. Dukes Mr. & Mrs. Randy Dunlap Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Futrell LTC Paul E. Grubb Dr. & Mrs. Daniel H. Hank Mr. & Mrs. Tom E. Hannah Mr. & Mrs. Jay R. Harding Mr. & Mrs. Peter A. Heegaard, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Granville A. Hicks Mr. & Mrs. Emory Holroyd Dr. & Mrs. David G. Ike Dr. Henry J. Janiec Mr. William K. Joyner Ms. Helen Jureidini Mr. & Mrs. Dave Katt Dr. Wood N. Lay Mr. & Mrs. W. Allen Lundy Mr. Zerno E. Martin, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. David Mathews Mr. & Mrs. William S. McAninch Ms. Susan S. McCrackin Ms. Carole L. Miller Mr. D. Byrd Miller, III Mr. Jim Miller Mr. & Mrs. James L. Nelson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William H. Penland Mrs. Miriam L. Pettigrew Mr. & Mrs. Jack Porter Mr. & Mrs. E. L. Sandy Sanders Dr. & Mrs.Julius S. Scott, Jr. Mr. Mike Shackelford Mr. & Mrs. Derek A. Smith Mr. James C. Van Meter

Christine Dinkins, mentor and sounding board “I enjoy debating ideas and getting to know my students intellectually, but I also like getting to know them as people.”

Christine

Dinkins believes that sharing doggy play dates with students and being Facebook friends enriches the teaching and learning experience.

And, according to her students, she’s right.

“Dr. Dinkins treats us more like colleagues than students, and that gives us confidence,” says Kristen Knarr ’09. “I can come to her office for an emergency meeting on a big philosophy paper or because I’m frustrated with work or friends.”

Dinkins, associate professor of philosophy, likes serving as a sounding board for her students.

“I enjoy debating ideas and getting to know my students intellectually,” says Dinkins, “but I also like getting to know them as people.”

Prashant Patel ’09 thrives on the intellectual freedom he says he has at Wofford and in Dinkins’ classes.

“Dr. Dinkins and I often debate issues of legal philosophy. When I took philosophy of law, we would often discuss the consequences of certain punishments for certain crimes. We also discussed whether or not differing motives for a crime should change the sanction put upon a criminal,” says Patel, who has been accepted to five law schools across the county and is now trying to decide which offer he’ll accept.

“We also occasionally discuss politics. We have a quite a few differing opinions on the matter,” says Patel.

Dinkins, who taught at the University of Illinois before joining the faculty at Wofford, chose Wofford because she wanted the opportunity to experience close, mentoring relationships with students. She thinks the environment at Wofford encourages those relationships.

“We’re hiring a sixth faculty member in philosophy,” explains Dinkins. “Both Kristen and Prashant were included in the interviews, presentations and decisionmaking process. That wouldn’t necessarily happen at a large university, and it’s a definite benefit of the Wofford experience.”

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Q & A with Dr. Hal Atkinson Dr. Hal Atkinson ’94 has been making headlines with his thoughts and plans to strengthen geriatrics education in medical centers. He recently received a $2 million grant over the next four years from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to implement those plans. Brett Borden, with Wofford Today, caught up with Atkinson to find out more about his career and research.

WT: HA:

Is sheer numbers the greatest challenge, the ratio of doctors to geriatric patients, or are there other things that concern you?

I think the ratio of patients to primary care physicians is a major concern.

If you look at the national average of just geriatricians, for every 10,000 people over the age of 75 there are less than four geriatricians. That’s just looking at Why did you and the Wake Forgeriatric care. That’s a major problem…the sheer number that we have currently and est School of Medicine apply for the then you look at the projected increase in population of people older than 65 from 13 Reynolds Foundation grant? percent to 20 percent in the next 20 years, you can see that the challenge will be even The purpose is to take some of the greater. I think it’s even deeper than that, though. It also involves physician training in things that we’re doing in the geriatrics geriatrics. One of the things that has been an issue is that geriatrics, paradoxically, is center and bring them into the medical school cura young field. Geriatrics is actually a field that has come into vogue in the last 25-30 riculum and into the curriculum for the residents who years. Geriatrics education has not been at the forefront of what a lot of physicians have are in a variety of different specialties, either in prigone through in their training. So programs like this Donald W. Reynolds grant that mary care disciplines or even some specialty disciplines we’ve been given are really there to help reform the way that education is done in mediof internal medicine and emergency medicine. cal schools and in training programs so that we actually do prepare the physicians that The specifics of how we’re doing that are pretty we put out there to be able to deal with all of these issues. Older people are complex, detailed, but the idea is that we’ll begin to develop and you have to have a strong background to deal with a person who is on 12 differsome faculty outside of our group who will integrate ent medicines and has 10 different problems and comes in with some memory loss and geriatrics teaching relevant to their specialties and to falls. You have to have a background to be able to intervene effectively in a case like their work. This will help the medical students and the that. residents within the primary care programs. They’re Atkinson introducing telemedicine consultation so that they What do you think are some breakthroughs in improving the quality of can actually interact with older people in continuing life for older people — not necessarily health issues, but quality of life as care retirement communities in rural areas. Now they’ll learn how to do telemedicine a whole? technology while at the same time learning something about geriatric medicine.

From a medical standpoint, there is continued research going on and We’re also linking up our students and residents with senior services in our county there’s been more of a recognition that older people actually do need to here in North Carolina. Students will be doing some interesting things like going along be included in clinical research studies. In the past, older people have been excluded beto see the spectrum of services available to senior citizens in Meals on Wheels. They’ll cause they had too many medical problems and it wasn’t as “clean” to study how older actually get to see some older adult volunteers who are healthy who are delivering Meals people reacted to certain medicines. I think the fact that we are including older people on Wheels to those who are more frail, to get a bigger picture of the process of health in trials of medicines and of therapies is a very important thing. In terms of overall and aging. health, I think lifestyle interventions are going to be important. Understanding that just because you’re 75 or 80 years old, that’s not an excuse not to go to the gym or do some How did you get interested in this particular field? physical activity or maintain a healthy diet. I think those are the kinds of public health messages that we are going to be working to get out. Of course, diseases that cause a substantial burden on older people, such as Alzheimer’s Disease, there is research that When I was at Wofford, I would go back home to Sumter, S.C., during is being done to try to discover ways to slow the process of Alzheimer’s down, as well as the summers and serve as an orderly. I got a lot of experience working other cognitive problems as people get older. Outside of medicine, it’s hard for me to with older people, and I was particularly drawn to them because I realized that older people have a lot of needs, and I enjoy interacting with them, and I just recognized that think about breakthroughs in those areas, but I think from the standpoint of the health care system there will continue to be other reforms that will help to improve access to older people need a lot of care and need people to get into that field. It was something care for older people, but I think we’re going to have a struggle before that happens.

I enjoyed doing. When I got to medical school at MUSC in Charleston, I confirmed those leanings through my rotations, and found out also that geriatrics is a very intellectually stimulating field because older people have so many different health-related Dr. Kara Bopp leads a very interesting neuroscience program here at problems to balance that no case is the same. That’s why I got interested in geriatrics Wofford. Dr. Bopp and her students are gathering a lot of data from difand I came to Wake Forest as a resident who was interested because the school had an ferent subsections of the senior population, so this is something that’s very timely as far established geriatrics fellowship program. After I did my internal medicine residence as our own campus is concerned. training I actually trained in geriatrics and have been on faculty ever since. What I’ve reOne of our focuses here at Wake Forest is on maintaining healthy indealized is that we train a few geriatricians each year, but the population of older people is pendence in older people. I see many people who are very frail and have expanding rapidly, and I don’t think we’re going to be able to train enough geriatricians a lot of needs just in terms of their daily functions, but our research interests are in how to take care of all the older people in our population, but what we can do is make sure we can maintain function in older people and prevent disability. Our goal in geriatrics that all doctors who deal with adult medicine have some basic understanding of geriatis to avoid disability as much as possible. Some of the types of research that we’re doing ric medicine. If you’re a surgeon, you need to know something about which medicines are physical exercise interventions where we’re actually bringing in people that are over not to prescribe for a patient who may have a higher propensity for adverse events from the age of 75 and are enrolling them into a physical exercise program in determinthose medicines. That is one of the things that most drives my work is to try to educate ing how much can we stave off disability with that type of an intervention. We’re also physicians who deal with adult medicine is how to take care of older people. looking at studies on diabetes control. We recently had a study on alternative medicines such as ginkgo biloba for memory dysfunction. We found that it doesn’t seem to What differences do you see between the people of the “Greatest Genprovide much benefit, but we’re doing that kind of important work to see how we can eration” and “Baby Boomers” as you prepare to deal more with Baby prevent declines in cognitive function and physical function. When it comes down to Boomers in the near future? it, that is what is important to older people. It’s important to everyone that we live as long as we can, but we want to have as much disability-free life in both the cognitive That’s a great question. I think the Baby Boomers, who will be turning and physical domains as we can so that the quality of life will be at its greatest.

65 very soon, are going to be a more vocal population. They’re going to be more technologically savvy than the older generation. They’re going to have a lot of information that they have gathered from the Internet, some of which will be accurate Can you give one piece of advice for a Wofford senior who is getting and some which won’t. But I think by and large the Baby Boomer population is going ready to head to medical school? to change how we care for older people because right now many of the Baby Boomers Keep your mind open to the possibilities. Don’t hone in on what type are dealing with parents that are in their 80s and 90s and they are dealing with those of practice you want to do until you’ve really had a chance to experience same issues firsthand as children of elderly patients. They’ll be able to plan for their own them all. From my perspective, spend some time with the elderly. You might find that aging. I think they’re going to bring a lot of good background with them to the table in you can join the most satisfied group of physicians if you join geriatrics medicine. If terms of knowing geriatric issues. One of the problems that we face now in North Caroyou look at physician satisfaction surveys, geriatricians are at the top of the list. Even lina and really around the country is not only the lack of geriatricians but the lack of though we don’t make as much money as the brain surgeons, if you look at job satisfacprimary care physicians that are able to take on the older population. I think the Baby tion, geriatricians are at the top and that’s because of the people who we interact with.

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friends (continued) Ashley and her husband, Kevin, live in Camden, S.C. Mac Horton lives in Belton, S.C., with his wife, Lindsay.

Horton is store manager and coowner of Saluda Quick Stop.

Roy Jacques and his wife, Angie, announce the birth of their son, Cole Jacques, Dec. 17, 2008. He joins twin brothers, Colin and Cooper (1). The family lives in Charleston, S.C. Dr. Benjamin McIntyre, a surgeon at the University of Virginia, is a fellow in plastic and reconstructive surgery.

Benjamin and his wife, Sherry, live in Charlottesville, Va., with their children, Mary Katherine and Calvin.

Jacob Neal and his wife, Kelley, announce the birth of their daughter, Caroline Joy Neal, Aug. 26, 2008. She joins big brother Jackson (2). The family lives in Knoxville, Tenn.

Neal is a design engineer with USEC Inc. Elizabeth Wells-White and her husband, Terenthial White ’01, live in Buford, Ga., with their children, Morgan, Tyler and Treylen. “Peaches” is a portfolio analyst with Nationwide Insurance Co. and Terenthial is a financial analyst for Advance America.

2000

Reunion, Homecoming 2010 Class Chair, Andy Hoefer Jr. Will Brumbach and his wife, Heather Gallagher Brumbach, recently moved to Columbia, S.C. Will is practicing labor and employment law with Littler Mendelson P.C. Heather has earned her certification as a yoga instructor and is now working in that field after eight years in the medical sales industry.

Brian Clark and his wife, Erika, announce the birth of their daughter, Stella Mary Clark, Dec. 14, 2008. The family lives in Columbia, S.C. Dr. Kyle Hadden and his wife, Dr. Alison Ulrich Hadden, have moved to Coventry, Ct. Kyle has accepted a position of assistant professor at the University of Connecticut. Alison has plans to join a dental practice near Hartford.

Aaron Price and his wife, Shelley Hrinsin Price, announce the birth of their son, Logan Christopher Price, Aug. 5, 2008. He joins big sister Alexa Whitney (2). The family lives in Villa Rica, Ga. Jimmy Rambo and his wife, Courtney Howard Rambo ’01, announce the birth of their son, McKay Woodhurst Rambo, Oct. 3, 2008. He joins big brother John (1). The family lives in Greenwood, S.C. Lt. Kevin Sill and his wife, Hillary Ward Sill ’01, live in Spartanburg. Hillary was profiled as a Spartanburg Young Professional by the Spartanburg Herald Journal in December.

She works as a classified account executive for the Spartanburg Herald Journal.

Brad Talbert and his wife, Jennifer, announce the birth of their son, Anderson Phillips, Aug. 15, 2008. The family lives in Hilton Head Island, S.C. Talbert joined Hilton Head Regional Healthcare in June 2008 as vice president of development.

2001

Reunion, Homecoming 2011 Class Chair, Jenna S. Bridges Caroline Tootle Hayden and her husband, Sean Hayden ’02,

Mr. & Mrs. Milan W. Walker Mr. & Mrs. Drew Watson Ms. Margaret W. Waugh Mr. & Mrs. Jack H. West Mr. & Mrs. Andy Westbrook, III Mr. Edmund M. Wiener Mr. & Mrs. Timothy G. Worley Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Wynn, III

Centurion Club

Ms. Rosemarie Aguilar Mrs. Sarah Dixon Ariail Mrs. Annie Laurie B. Atkinson Mrs. Margaret F. Atwater Mrs. Mary S. Bailey Mrs. Bessie R. Ball Mr. & Mrs. Christopher M. Behr Mrs. Hazel H. Belk Ms. Dagmar A. Binovec Mr. & Mrs. Randy Blackwell Mr. W. A. Blackwood, Jr. Mr. Glen B. Boggs, II Mr. & Mrs. M. Mac Boggs Mr. & Mrs. Charles C. Boone Mr. & Mrs. Allen H. Boozer Mr. & Mrs. Frank M. Bostick Mr. & Mrs. Paul K. Bowen Mr. & Mrs. Bill Bradley Mr. John R. Brigden Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Bryden Ms. Kathleen P. Burger Mr. & Mrs. Joseph T. Burkhardt Ms. Betsy B. Burrell Ms. Linda Burrell Mr. & Mrs. H. B. Burroughs, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William H. Burton, III Dr. & Mrs. H. Fred Butehorn, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Christopher D. Byrd Mr. W. L. Carpenter Mr. & Mrs. James P. Carroll, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John Carwile Mr. & Mrs. Robert Castellano Mrs. Gage Hipp Caulder Mr. & Mrs. John S. Coates Mr. W. A. Coleman, II Dr. John A. Colwell Dr. J. Warner Cribb Ms. Diane H. Davidson Dr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Davis Dr. & Mrs. W. Mac Davis Mr. & Mrs. Peter D. Dorn Dr. & Mrs. John F. Dunbar, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Edwin E. Elam, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Frank R. Ellerbe, Jr. Ms. Linda M. Emmel Dr. Robert T. Estes Mr. & Mrs. John P. Evans Mr. & Mrs. Charles Ferguson Dr. Nicholas F. Fleming Mr. Thomas E. Foster Mr. Richard G. Frank Mr. & Mrs. George A. Funkhouser Dr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Fussell Ms. Betty R. Gardner Mr. & Mrs. David H. Geisler Mr. & Mrs. John F. Glenn Mr. & Mrs. Thomas N. Glenn Mrs. Betty W. Grant Mrs. Anne T. Greene Mr. & Mrs. W. L. Griffin, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. G. K. Gudger Ms. Lauren N. Hackett Dr. & Mrs. James G. Hall Dr. & Mrs. Paul Hardin, III Dr. Kenneth W. Harl Mr. John Harrison Ms. Ansie C. Hatchette Mr. & Mrs. J. Howard Henderson Ms. Happy Henry Mr. & Mrs. D. Mark Hilliard Ms. Suzanne Hofford Mrs. Louise R. Horde Mr. & Mrs. Dan Hunt Mr. & Mrs. Milton L. Ivey Mr. & Mrs. Harold W. Jacobs Mr. & Mrs. Henry D. Jacobs, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth James Mr. Dagney S. Jochem Ms. Anna Johnson Ms. Rebecca C. Jordan Ms. Louise King Mr. & Mrs. John W. Kmet Mr. & Mrs. F. Delano Knight Mrs. Dorothy W. Knight Ms. Marian K. Knight Mr. & Mrs. B. Scott Lee Mr. & Mrs. Mark W. Lehner Mrs. Beth T. Lipscomb Mr. & Mrs. B. R. Littlejohn, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Manning N. Lomax Mrs. Martha H. Lybrand Mr. & Mrs. Nathaniel F. Magruder Mr. & Mrs. Heath J. Maughon Mr. William C. Mayrose Mr. Thomas McAllister Mr. H. Jack McCall, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Danny McCraw

Mrs. Gail D. McCullough Mr. Sydney F. McDaniel, III Ms. Elizabeth H. McGehee Ms. Anne B. McKelvey Mrs. Caroline S. McLain Ms. Day H. McLaughlin Mr. & Mrs. H. Steve McManus Mr. Timothy R. McTaggart Mr. Peter J. Michel Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Dan Mongeon Dr. & Mrs. Mark D. Monson Mr. John Montgomery Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Moscatelli Mrs. Kate H. Murphy Mr. Jim Myers VADM. & Mrs. David C. Nichols, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. W. Harold Nixon Ms. Anne B. Oakman Mr. John Olds Mr. & Mrs. H. Lynn Parker Mr. & Mrs. Jack Parson Dr. Rubina J. Patel Dr. & Mrs. Harold D. Patterson Dr. John A. Patterson Mr. & Mrs. John L. Paul Mr. & Mrs. Ronald D. Paxton Mr. John B. Pearce Mr. & Mrs. Guyon L. Phillips Mr. George M. Plyler Mr. Dwight W. Polk COL Harold B. Powell (Ret.) Mr. Harry Price Mrs. Elizabeth B. Ray Mr. & Mrs. Donald Reich Mr. Harold B. Risher Mr. & Mrs. Larry Rivers Mr. & Mrs. W. Wallace Robertson Mr. & Mrs. Lee Rose Ms. Doris Russell Mr. & Mrs. G.R. Russell Dr. William E. Russell Mr. & Mrs. David B. Savage Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Schellhardt Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Schumpert Ms. Virginia H. Scott Ms. Marilyn F. Scruggs Mr. Raymond A. Shingler Mr. & Mrs. G. William Snyder Ms. Muriel N. Stacpoole Mr. & Mrs. Mark Stepp Dr. & Mrs. Bill Stewart Rev. Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. Stillwell Ms. Barbara T. Stone Mr. & Mrs. Marshall C. Stone, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Storey Mr. John F. Suhre Ms. Doris M. Swenson Mr. Mark Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Jack M. Telle Mr. & Mrs. John F. Thieman Mr. Thomas J. Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Trahern Rev. & Mrs. Clay H. Turner Mr. M. Noel Turner Mr. & Mrs. Odell W. Vaughn Mr. & Mrs. Ruud Veltman Mr. & Mrs. Gregory H. Wade Mr. & Mrs. Willard G. Wade Mrs. Martha A. Waltrip Mr. William L. Want Mr. & Mrs. Hal G. Warlick, Jr. Mr. Richard Wasserstrom Ms. Marie W. Watts Mr. Frederick Welch Mr. & Mrs. James C. Welch Ms. Claire Wells Ms. Nancy L. Wells Dr. Larry B. White Ms. Virginia M. Wiggins Ms. Brenda I. Wilson Dr. Jan B. Yost Mr. & Mrs. Charlie Zaglin

Contributors

Ms. Mary Cribb Adams Mrs. Arleen K. Allen Mr. & Mrs. C. M. Allen Mr. & Mrs. Ed L. Allen Mr. & Mrs. Melvin L. Allen Ms. Frances G. Applegarth Mr. & Mrs. C. A. Arrington, Jr. Mrs. Anne F. Austell Mr. & Mrs. Barry L. Baker Ms. Carol J. Bald Mr. & Mrs. Jack D. L. Ballance Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Barnet Ms. Billie Magoon Barnett Mr. Frank N. Bassett Ms. Hope L. Batten Mr. & Mrs. Marion Beasley Mrs. Robert C. Bilger Mr. & Mrs. John V. Blalock Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Blexrud Mr. & Mrs. William L. Bowman Mr. & Mrs. C. Reginald Brasington Ms. Jean Brewster

Mr. & Mrs. John P. Britton Mr. & Mrs. William Broadwell Mr. & Mrs. Smith E. Brody Mrs. Frances B. Brooke Mr. & Mrs. Carl W. Brown, Jr. Ms. Elizabeth A. Brown Mr. Richard C. Brown Rev. & Mrs. Everett P. Bunck Mr. & Mrs. James V. Burchfield Mrs. C.H. Butler, Jr. Mr. J. W. Cabaniss Ms. Nell Callahan Campbell Mr. & Mrs. William P. Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Alasdair K. Carmichael Mr. & Mrs. Jack W. Chandler Mr. & Mrs. Jesse F. Charles Mr. & Mrs. N.Q. Cline, Jr. Rev. & Mrs. David A. Clyburn, Jr. MG William J. Collins, Jr.(Ret.) Dr. & Mrs. Richard L. Conn Mr. & Mrs. Jack Cribb Mrs. Jane P. Crowder Dr. & Mrs. Wayne A. Culp Ms. Evelyn V. Cuthbert Mr. & Mrs. Edward H. Daniell Mr. Henry B. Davenport, III Mr. & Mrs. J. Thomas Davis Mr. & Mrs. John A. DeJong Mr. Nicky Demetrious Mr. & Mrs. R. Ray Dennis Mr. & Mrs. Henry B. Douglas Dr. & Mrs. James L. Duncan, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Sean P. Dyer Mr. & Mrs. N. Baxter Earle Ms. Martha H. Ellis Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Elmer Dr. & Mrs. William C. Elston Ms. Candace A. Engel Ms. Rebecca A. Epting Mr. & Mrs. William C. Ervin, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. John S. Evans Ms. Jenny Everett Mr. & Mrs. Odell W. Ezell Mr. & Mrs. Jack D. Ferguson Mr. L. Wayne Ferguson Mrs. Nancy S. Floyd Mr. & Mrs. Eddie Fogler Mr. & Mrs. William W. Ford, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Baird C. Foster, Jr. Ms. Louise W. Foster Mrs. Pat B. Fowler Mr. Wilton B. Fowler, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Irwin H. From Mr. & Mrs. Vern E. Gabany Mr. & Mrs. William A. Gardner Mr. & Mrs. Norman L. Gasswint Mr. & Mrs. Clark Gaston, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John R. Ghere Ms. Elizabeth R. Giles Mrs. Ann W. Gill Ms. Joan C. Gilson Mr. John E. Grady Ms. Clara R. Grimm Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Gross Mr. & Mrs. Jason A. Gwardiak Mr. & Mrs. Eddie Hailey Mrs. Carolyn K. Hall Mr. & Mrs. Jack Hamilton Mr. Allen W. Hammerbeck Ms. Ann G. Hammond Mr. & Mrs. Ralph E. Hansmann Mr. James H. Harris Ms. Carol M. Henderson Ms. Nancy W. Hendrick Mr. & Mrs. George E. Hendricks, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. E. Guy Hendrix, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Henkle Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Herndon, Sr. Ms. Judith J. Herr Mrs. Janie B. Hicks Ms. Gail T. Higdon Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Hines, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. G. M. Holbrook, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John M. Holmes Ms. Betty L. Holt Ms. Elizabeth Holt Ms. Mary-Nelson Hoornstra Mr. Josh J. Hudson Ms. Jean W. Hughes Mr. & Mrs. Allen S. Jackson Mr. Henry Jacobson Dr. & Mrs. M.K. Jain Ms. Dorothy F. Jenkins Mr. & Mrs. James O. Jennings Mr. R. Kinard Johnson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Charles Jones Ms. Edith S. Jones Mr. & Mrs. Horace B. Jones Dr. David Kaser Mrs. Jean Keely Mr. & Mrs. Robert Keely Mr. & Mrs. Darryl M. Kirshy Ms. Daphne P. Knight Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Kofalt Ms. Rebecca Laffitte Mr. & Mrs. John C. Lang

Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Larson Dr. & Mrs. J. Ernest Lathem Mr. & Mrs. Ronald L. Layne Ms. Sharon M. Lee Ms. Cristine M. Levenduski Mr. Wallace K. Lightsey Ms. Mary Lindsay Mr. & Mrs. Kevin J. Logue Ms. Gertrude G. Long Ms. Glenna R. Luca Ms. Doris L. Lundquist Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Lyles Ms. Carolyn J. Lynn Ms. Evelyn Marron Mr. & Mrs. Rafe Mauran Mr. & Mrs. W. Bruce McAnally Ms. Betty J. McClure Mr. & Mrs. James P. McComas Ms. Joyce K. McCuen Ms. Jeanne McCutcheon Mr. & Mrs. Ronnie McElroy Mr. & Mrs. Kirk McKeown Mr. & Mrs. Morris M. McKinney Ms. Betty P. McLellan Dr. & Mrs. Arthur G. Meakin Mr. Dean J. & Dr. Julie H. Milne Mrs. Ida C. Mintz * Ms. Joanne Montague Mr. & Mrs. Larry G. Moore Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Moore, II Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Morris Ms. Carolyn L. Mulligan Ms. Ruth Anne Myers Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Nash, Jr. LTC George N. Nennstiel, (Ret.) Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Neuviller, Sr. Mr. Jack W. Newton Mrs. Cornelia B. Nichols Mr. & Mrs. Walter A. Novak Ms. Lucy M. Oliver Mr. & Mrs. John W. Orr. Jr. Ms. Eileen D. Patten Dr. Robert H. Paynter Mr. & Mrs. Bryan Peeler Mr. & Mrs. Dwight M. Pemberton Mrs. Carolyn D. Pennell Mr. Craig M. Phillips Ms. Mary Lynn Pond Mr. & Mrs. Edward M. Pool Ms. Mary M. Pope Mr. & Mrs. Arlie O. Pritchard Mr. & Mrs. Alex Rankin Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Rawl Mr. & Mrs. Garry Regan Mr. & Mrs. Rudolph Reitmeier Dr. & Mrs. Edmund Rhett, Jr. Mrs. Anne W. Richards Ms. Anne G. Riddle Rev. & Mrs. Graham H. Rights

Mr. John H. Rogers Ms. Margaret D. Roldan Ms. Renee B. Romberger Dr. & Mrs. Ronald H. Romine Mr. & Mrs. Seamus A. Rooney Ms. Marjorie L. Scruggs Ms. Rosa C. Shand Mr. Bill E. Shelley Mr. & Mrs. Carlton Simons Ms. Peggy Simpson Ms. Shelly Sinclair Ms. Clara R. Smith Ms. Sara S. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Snipes, Sr. Ms. Mary Mac Southerland Dr. George M. Speed Mr. & Mrs. Emil E. Spieth Ms. Charlyn H. Staubes Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Strawsburg Mr. & Mrs. Ernie G. Stringer Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Sulli Ms. Hazel L. Talton Mr. & Mrs. John B. Taylor Mrs. Julia H. Taylor Mrs. Nell M. Taylor Mr. Douglas Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Thompson Mrs. Helen R. Tisdale Ms. Kathleen Egan Tomai Mr. & Mrs. Mark C. Tomaski Mr. & Mrs. Bertram A. Udovin Dr. & Mrs. Harry E. Varney Ms. Ida G. Vaughn Mrs. Helen Veverka Mr. Richard A. Vollmer Mrs. Aline T. Wagner Ms. S. Virginia Wagstaff Ms. Linda G. Walker Ms. Margaret M. Ward Mr. Carl Watner Mrs. Frankie T. Watson Mr. P. Dennis Way Mr. Leslie H. Wexler Mr. & Mrs. Paul Wexler Mr. & Mrs. Barry L. White Ms. Nancy B. Whittemore Ms. Reba P. Wilburn Ms. Angela Willes Ms. Betty W. Williams Mr. Ray R. Williams, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Bruce D. Woodfin Ms. Brenda W. Wray Mr. & Mrs. L. Winston Wright Ms. Rhita B. Wrightson Mr. Dahyun Yi Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Yingling Ms. Elizabeth H. Young Mr. & Mrs. Raphael J. Zimak Ms. Myrtle H. Zimmerman

trustees Chairman’s Circle

Mr. Thomas C. Brittain ‘75 Mr. Michael S. Brown ‘76 Mr. J. Harold Chandler ‘71 Mr. Jimmy I. Gibbs Mr. R. Michael James ‘73 Mrs. Ann Cobb Johnson Mr. James M. Johnson ‘71 Mr. M. Stewart Mungo ‘74 Mr. D. Grant Peacock Mr. J. Patrick Prothro ‘96 Mr. Jerry Richardson ‘59 Mr. C. Michael Smith ‘75 Mr. Joe E. Taylor, Jr. ‘80 Mr. John B. White, Jr. ‘72 Mr. Edward B. Wile ‘73

Dr. James E. Bostic, Jr. Mr. Douglas H. Joyce ‘79 Bishop M. L. Meadors, Jr. ‘55

President’s Club

Mr. William R. Cobb Mr. Albert W. Gray ‘71 Mrs. Laura J. Hoy Dr. Jan Love Mr. Julian W. Osbon ‘63

Patron Club

Dr. B. Mike Alexander, Jr. ‘73 Rev. J. Jeannette Cooper

Trustee Society

Mrs. Paula B. Baker Mr. Fred D. Gibbs ‘87 Mr. Hugh C. Lane, Jr. Mr. L. Leon Patterson ‘63 Mr. J. Edwin Reeves, Jr. Dr. Joella Utley

Leadership Society

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Wofford Weddings 1993

Beth Byars ’04 and Trevor Hray ’05

2003 Amy Wood ’99 with Janet McKittrick Meko ’99, Natalie Alford Temples ’99, and Hilary Wayne ’99.

Lots of Wofford friends joined Patricia Jordan ’08 and Brian Fast ’07 for their wedding.

2004

Mary Legare Hughes married Dawson L. Cherry, April 12, Elizabeth Ann Byars married Alexander Trevor Hray 2008. The couple resides in Mount Pleasant, S.C. She is III ’05, Dec. 28, 2008. They live in Columbia, S.C. She an attorney with Nexsen Pruet in Charleston. is a staff attorney for the South Carolina Legislative Council. He is an ensign in the U.S. Navy and is a second year medical student at the University of South 1994 Carolina School of Medicine.

Brian Allen West married Kimberly Ann Jones, Nov. 9, Katherine Elizabeth Sellars married Kyle Harris 2008. The couple lives in Greenville, S.C. Johnson, Dec. 27, 2008. The couple resides in Columbia, S.C. She has completed her B.S. in nursing 1997 from the Medical University of South Carolina and is a Katherine Anne Silliman married Joseph King Coffey, trauma ICU nurse at the Medical University of South Dec. 30, 2008. They live in Manning, S.C. She had Carolina. She will begin CRNA school for a master’s in been associated with Associates in Internal Medicine in nursing anesthesia at the University of South Carolina Charleston prior to her wedding. He is an attorney with in January 2009. He is associated with Midlands Coffey, Chandler & Kent, PA, in Manning.

Orthopaedics in Columbia.

Dr. Erin Rebecca Strong married James Ryan 1998 Causey, Nov. 22, 2008. They reside in Austin, Texas.

Leah Wynne Augustine married Ivan H. Phillips, Feb. 24, She practices dentistry in Bastrop. He is a territory 2008. They live in Cartersville, Ga. She is co-president of manager for Michelin North America, and a tirst Delos Rugs in Calhoun. lieutenant in the Army Reserve.

Krista Michelle Martin married Shane Christopher Parrish, Oct. 4, 2008. The couple lives in Boiling Springs, 2005 S.C. She is associated with Great American Paper Inc. James Alvin Barmore Jr. married Kathryn Grace in Inman. He is employed by Sodfather Landscaping in Calder, Nov. 15, 2008. They live in Spartanburg, Spartanburg.

S.C. He is associated with Johnson Development Chalon Alaine Viosca married Jean Paul “JP” LaFleur, Associates. She works for SKIRT! Magazine in May 3, 2008. The couple lives in Metairie, La. She is Greenville. a sales manager for Harrah’s New Orleans Hotel and Brandi Elizabeth Burkett married Michael Brandon Casino, and he is a commercial project manager for HTE Dixon, Jan. 31, 2009. The couple resides in Columbia, Electric.

S.C. She is a pharmaceutical representative for Sepracor, and he is a chain accounts manager for 1999 Beverage South.

Amy Shelton Hooper married Marshal Comstock White, Nov. 1, 2008. They live in Dallas, Texas. She is associated 2006 with GMR Marketing, and he with American Capital.

Callie Elizabeth Bagwell married Christopher Owens, Amy Annette Wood married Justin H. Bolli, Dec. 20, Dec. 27, 2008. The couple lives in Woodruff, S.C. She 2008 in Greenville, S.C. The couple currently lives in is a programmer analyst for MetLife. He is associated Atlanta, Ga., but plans to move to Greenville. She with P&I Construction in Boiling Springs. taught first grade at Pelham Road Elementary School in David Reynolds Williams married Virginia Anne Greenville for four years. He plays professional golf.

Watson, Dec. 20, 2008. They live in Columbia, S.C. He completed his J.D. at the University of South Carolina 2002 this past May and will practice law with Williams and Andrew Preston Brittain married Elizabeth Anne Dunbar, Williams P.A. in Orangeburg. She anticipates receiving her J.D. degree from the University of South Carolina Nov. 22, 2008. The couple resides in Myrtle Beach, S.C. this May and will practice with Turner, Padget Graham He is associated with Hearn, Brittain & Martin Law firm. & Laney P.A. in Columbia.

She is associated with Knotting Hill Interiors.

Kristina Marie Autry married Edward Wilson Kinard, Sept. 20, 2008. They live in Bloomingdale, Ga. She is associated with Fred Williams Home Builders in Savannah, Ga., and he is associated with Sailer Stone and Stucco in Bluffton, S.C. Molly Sue Bushong married Jonathan Carr, Oct. 25, 2008. The couple lives in Charleston, S.C. She is a thirdyear student at the Medical University of South Carolina School of Pharmacy.

Nicole Lee Cribb married Daniel Larson Spell, Nov. 15, 2008. The couple resides in Whitsett, N.C. She is a planning analyst with High Point Regional Health System.

He is a police officer with the city of Burlington, N.C. Janna Leigh Webb married Torrence “Torey” White, Jan. 3, 2009. They live in Cordova, Tenn. She is a health care representative for Pfizer and received her M.B.A. from Wake Forest University in 2008.

2007

Brian Lanning Fast married Patricia Louise Jordan ’08, Dec. 27, 2008. The couple lives in Charleston, S.C. He is associated with First Citizens Bank as a relationship manager. She is a first-year student at the Medical University of South Carolina School of Dental Medicine.

2008

Derek Michael Swindall married Kelly Elizabeth Connor, Nov. 22, 2008. The couple lives in Chapin, S.C. He attends the University of South Carolina School of Law. She is associated with Realty and Marketing Services in Columbia.

Wofford’s Wedding Policy Leonard Auditorium and Mickel Chapel in Main Building are now available to you for your wedding, and it is also possible to arrange to have your wedding reception on the campus. The couple to be married must have an official connection to the college, such as student, graduate, parent, or member of the faculty and staff. A South Carolina marriage license is required. Complete wedding policies, including available venues and their rental costs, may be obtained by e-mailing weddingdirector@wofford.edu.

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live in Nashville, Tenn., with their son, Luke. Caroline is a marketing manager for the law firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz.

Sean is in graduate school at Vanderbilt University.

Morgan Pyles Page and her husband, Mike, announce the birth of their son, Jack Michael Page, Oct. 30, 2008. The family lives in Easley, S.C. Mary Voitier Pesses and her husband, Josh, announce the birth of their daughter, Margaret Elise Pesses, Oct. 22, 2008. The family lives in New York, N.Y. Allison Land Stevens and her husband, Craig, announce the birth of their son, Avery Land Stevens, Nov. 12, 2008. The family lives in Sumter, S.C.

2002

Reunion, Homecoming 2012 Class Chair, Yorke Gerrald Gale Dr. Rush-Baker Caldwell has his own orthodontist practice in Greenville, S.C. Caldwell and his wife, Mary, have one son, Watson (1).

Katherine Williams Holmes is a controller for Gateway Supply Co. Inc. She lives in Columbia, S.C., with her husband, Brian.

Sara Berntson Keeley and her husband, Charles, live in Acworth, Ga. Sara is a registered nurse at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

Living in Daytona Beach, Fla., Dr. Justin O’Keefe is a veterinarian at Ravenwood Veterinary Clinic. He focuses on small animal medicine, orthopedic surgery and dermatology.

Justin’s wife, Stacy, is an interior designer.

Living in Arden, N.C., Brooks Segars is an attorney with the law firm of Weimer and Jobe.

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Reunion, Homecoming 2013 Class Chair, Tracy A. Howard Living in Florence, S.C., Mason Ballenger is a physical therapist associated with Carolinas Hospital System.

Anna Thompson Brink and her husband, Jeff, announce the birth of their son, Dylan Martin Brink, Nov. 24, 2008. The family lives in Irmo, S.C. Trisha Stanley Davis and her husband, Andrew Davis, live in Columbia, S.C., with their daughter, Kendall. Trisha is director of finance for Trimed Services LLC and Andrew is an accountant at Elliott Davis.

Living in Spartanburg, Dr. Erin Edwards is a dentist with Leslie Jacobs General Dentistry.

Dr. Katherine Gantt Gettys is a resident physician at Carolinas Medical Center. She lives in Charlotte, N.C., with her husband, Keith.

Michael Montgomery has joined Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte LLC as an associate.

Previously he clerked for the Honorable Costa M. Pleicones ’65, associate justice of the S. C. Supreme Court. Montgomery and his wife, Beth, live in Cayce, S.C. Living in Chapel Hill, N.C., Edward Moseley is a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Moseley traveled to the north and south islands of New Zealand during the winter and conducted research on United Nations World Heritage sites.

faculty & staff Chairman’s Circle

Dr. & Mrs. Benjamin B. Dunlap

Trustee Society

Dr. James R. Gross (Ret) Dr. & Mrs. Joab M. Lesesne, Jr. (Ret) Dr. Angela B. Shiflet Dr. George W. Shiflet Mrs. Karen W. Warren ‘95 Dr. Ana Maria Wiseman Dr. Dennis M. Wiseman Dr. David S. Wood

Leadership Society

Mrs. Roberta Hurley Bigger ‘81 Dr. James A. Keller Mr. A. Wade Lang ‘83 Mrs. Terri L. Lewitt Mr. D. Smith Patterson ‘67 Ms. Linda Powers Dr. Ronald R. Robinson ‘78 Dr. Talmage B. Skinner, Jr. (Ret) Mr. Edwin H. Story Mr. Michael K. Young

President’s Club

Coach Mike Ayers Dr. Charles D. Barrett (Ret) Dr. Ross H. Bayard (Ret) Mr. David M. Beacham ‘77 Mrs. Lynda H. Bennett Ms. Jo Ann Mitchell Brasington ’89 Dr. John M. Bullard (Ret) Mr. Sam Clowney ‘01 Mr. Oakley H. Coburn Mr. W. Scott Cochran ‘88 Mr. Jerome R. Cogdell (Ret) Mrs. Lisa Harrison DeFreitas ‘88 Mrs. Kerry M. Ferguson Dr. Mark A. Ferguson ‘94 Dr. Vivian B. Fisher (Ret) Mr. Charles H. Gray, Jr. ‘72 Mrs. Susan D. Gray Mr. Hudson S. Green Mr. Lee Hanning Mr. Thomas M. Henson, Jr. ‘96 Dr. Jameica Byers Hill ‘88 Mr. Richard A. Johnson Dr. Charles D. Kay Mr. Robert L. Keasler, Jr. Dr. Boyce M. Lawton, III Dr. W. Ray Leonard (Ret) Dr. Dan B. Maultsby ‘61 (Ret) Dr. Larry T. McGehee *(Ret) Mrs. Joanne V. Medlock (Ret) Dr. Ted R. Monroe Mrs. Lathrop H. Mosley Mr. Eric M. Nash ‘02 Mr. Marion B. Peavey ‘65 Mr. Ralph D. Polson Dr. James E. Proctor ‘67 Ms. Lucy B. Quinn ‘83 Mrs. Elizabeth Wilkes Rabb ‘01 Dr. Philip N. Racine Mr. Thomas L. Rocks Dr. James E. Seegars, Jr. (Ret) Dr. B. G. Stephens ‘57 (Ret) Mr. Brand R. Stille ‘86 Mrs. Debbi Necker Thompson ‘88 Dr. David M. Whisnant Dr. Carol Brasington Wilson ‘81

Ms. Tammy L. Cooper Mr. Edgar I. Farmer, Jr. Ms. Lillian E. Gonzalez ‘91 Mr. Joe L. Greenlee, Jr. ‘76 (Ret) Mrs. Marilyn R. Huskey Mr. Calhoun L. Kennedy, Jr. ‘89 Dr. John C. Lefebvre Mr. Mark D. Line Mrs. Jenni Brickhouse Mauran ‘96 Mr. W. Gary McCraw ‘77 Ms. Liza Miller Mr. Kristofer M. Neely ‘02 Dr. Dan W. Olds (Ret) Mrs. Juanita B. Pesaro Mrs. Janice M. Poole Mr. Rod A. Ray Dr. Douglas A. Rayner Mrs. Mary R. Smith (Ret) Dr. David A. Sykes Ms. Ellen L. Tillett Dr. Deno P. Trakas Dr. Ben F. Varn, Jr. (Ret) Ms. Lisa E. West

Centurion Club

Anonymous Dr. Caleb A. Arrington Mrs. Joyce A. Arthur Dr. Stefanie H. Baker Mr. B. Terrell Ball Dr. Camille L. Bethea ‘91 Mrs. Joyce G. Blackwell Mrs. Ruth R. Brannon (Ret) Mr. Timothy E. Brown Dr. Alan D. Chalmers Ms. Cathy A. Conner Dr. Caroline A. Cunningham Dr. William E. DeMars Mrs. Jennifer Almond Dillenger ‘07 Dr. John Farrenkopf Mrs. Elizabeth M. Fields Dr. Shawn M. Forbes Mrs. P. Diane Fuller (Ret) Mr. Nathan P. Fuqua ‘03 Mrs. Amanda Floyd Gilman ‘99 Dr. Gerald A. Ginocchio Dr. Ellen S. Goldey Mrs. Dorothy B. Halligan (Ret) Prof. W. W. Halligan, Jr. (Ret) Mr. Corey J. Helle Dr. Stacey R. Hettes Dr. Sally A. Hitchmough Mr. Todd J. Interdonato Mr. Kyle M. James ‘03 Dr. Robert C. Jeffrey Ms. Kelly L. Jones ‘08 Ms. Sandra J. Watkins Mr. Bruce H. Lackey Mrs. Millicent B. Lann Mr. Terry J. Lantz

Mr. Victor H. Lipscomb, III ‘70 Mrs. Esther Martin Dr. Daniel B. Mathewson Dr. Byron R. McCane Mrs. Agnes P. McCraw (Ret) Mr. Christopher H. Myers ‘89 Ms. Angie Ridgeway Mrs. Christi L. Sellars Dr. Cynthia A. Suarez Ms. F. Marianna M. Taylor Mr. Kaiser Thomas, Jr. (Ret) Ms. Kay S. Vipperman Mrs. Doris B. Wade Dr. John M. Ware Mrs. Lisa M. Ware Mrs. Janice M. Wilkins Ms. Traci P. Wilson Mr. D. Shiel Wood, Jr. ‘05

Contributors

Mr. Martin E. Aigner Dr. Jhon C. Akers Ms. Colleen M. Ballance Mr. Bryan S. Blackwell Ms. Martha A. Brewington ‘00 Mr. Allen O. Clark, III ‘01 Mrs. Susan M. Cummings Ms. Beverly J. Doster Mr. Edward D. Geth Dr. Karen H. Goodchild COL J. Randal Hall ‘83 Dr. Christina F. Jeffrey Mr. J. Paul Jones ‘92 Mrs. Amy B. Kiah Mr. Andrew L. Kiah Ms. Amanda W. Kilbourne ‘08 Dr. Kirsten A. Krick-Aigner Mr. M. Keith Ledford Mr. Brian J. Lemere Mrs. Elsie B. McDowell ‘84 (Ret) Mrs. Brenda B. McGuire Dr. Stephen A. Michelman Dr. Robert E. Moss Mr. Phillip G. Mullinnix ‘08 Ms. Claire E. Myers ‘01 Ms. Elizabeth J. Neely Dr. John W. Pilley (Ret) Mr. Thomas E. Player, III ‘08 Mrs. Ruth K. Rainer Mr. Brian M. Rawlinson ‘95 Dr. Tracy J. Revels Ms. Lauren Satterfield ‘08 Ms. Kimberly R. Smith ‘08 Mrs. Pat Smith Mrs. Andrea Stehman Saunders Dr. Matt A. Stephenson (Ret) Dr. Thomas V. Thoroughman (Ret) Mr. Steven E. Traylor Dr. Clayton J. Whisnant Mr. D. Brent Williamson Mr. Jason H. Womick ‘94

Nick Mills ’10, Christi Sellars and Natalie Lynch ’10.

Christi Sellars, mentor, life coach and vocal instructor “I enjoy helping them find outlets for all of their gifts.”

Natalie

Lynch ’10 and Nick Mills ’10 came to Wofford because of its biology program and reputation for graduate success in medical school. They didn’t come to sing, although both took private vocal lessons while in high school.

Once at Wofford, however, singing became an outlet for their stress, and Christi Sellars became a mentor, guide and life coach, as well as vocal instructor.

“I call her Mama Sellars. I can come talk with her about anything,” says Mills, who rooms with Sellars’ son, Patrick ’10. (Sellars’ daughter, Katherine Sellars Johnson, graduated in 2004.).

Both Lynch and Mills have been featured soloists in concerts. They both sing with Wofford’s choral groups, and even perform for area churches and civic groups as members of the Goldtones and Wofford Men. “Both are talented performers, but they have so many other strengths as well,” says Sellars, “I enjoy helping them find outlets for all of their gifts.”

In the fall, when Natalie and Nick were looking for Interims, both looked to Sellars.

She co-advised Nick’s independent Interim doing ski patrol and rescue with the University of Colorado Medical Hospital and co-taught Lynch’s “Let Me Entertain You” Interim.

“I’ve learned a lot from Professor Sellars — a lot about confidence and organization,” says Lynch, who immediately put her lessons to work helping a friend plan a wedding.

“Natalie and Nick are both smart as whips,” says Sellars. “They realize how lucky they are to be in college where they definitely make the most of the Wofford experience.

There are so many intangibles in the ‘why Wofford?’ equation, but the faculty-student relationships are definitely one of them.”

south carolina independent colleges & universities (scicu)

Patron Club

Mr. Frank J. Anderson (Ret) Dr. Doyle W. Boggs ‘70 Mr. David A. Browning Mrs. Karen Y. Cannon Mrs. Reed Martin Chewning ‘93 Ms. Elizabeth Barks Cox Mr. C. Michael Curtis Mrs. Donna D. Hawkins ‘78 (Ret) Ms. Jenny B. Johnson Prof. John E. Lane ‘77 Mr. Thomas D. Leahy, Jr. Mr. Randolph Mahaffey, Jr. ‘61 (Ret) Dr. Cecile M. Nowatka Rev. P. Lynwood Pace, Jr. ‘99 Dr. Steve C. Perry Dr. Alliston K. Reid ‘75 Dr. Richard L. Robinson ‘61 (Ret) Dr. Joseph D. Sloan ‘72 Mr. P. Scott Sperka ‘73 Mrs. Shelley H. Sperka ‘75 Dr. R. Phillip Stone, II ‘94 Mrs. Jessalyn W. Story Dr. T. Chris Waidner ‘87

Loyalty Club

Dr. Curtis P. Bell (Ret) Mrs. Tamara M. Burgess Mr. Jason H. Burr ‘01 Mrs. Beth Y. Clardy

SCICU (South Carolina Independent Colleges & Universities) is a charitable organization whose purpose is to seek contributions for privately supported member colleges in the state. Founded in 1955, SCICU annual solicits corporations, business firms, foundations and individual donors.

Allston, Lynette L. Ames, David W. Aramark Arkwright Foundation AT&T AT&T Matching Gifts Program Atlantic Coast Life Insurance Co. Bank of America Bank of South Carolina, The Barnet Foundation Trust, The Barnett, Michael J. Barton, Jr. Henry E. Bellsouth Corporation Belser, Mary Rainey Brenan, Michael R. Burnette, M. Malissa Byrd Family Trust

Campbell Consulting Group, The Coker, Joan Sasser Colliers Keenan Inc. Cook, Russell D. CountyBank Foundation Dargan Foundation Diamond Hill Plywood Company Dickson Foundation, The Dubard III, Fred F. Eastman Chemical Company Educational Aid Elliot Davis, LLC Epting, James B. Every Foundation, Philip L. Van First Citizens Fisher, Sara B. Fleming, Elizabeth A. Griffin, Walter R. Griffith, John V. Hartness International Charitable Fund Hartsville Oil Mill Horn, Randall C. Hunter, Jr., Jairy C. Jackson Family Donor Advised Fund Johnson, J. Thomas Jolley Foundation Jones, William H. Kohler Company Landrith, J. Wayne and Tonya P.

Lane, Jr., Hugh C. LeFever, Michael G. Lesene, Jr., Joab M. Lomax, John F. Maddrey Foundation Malloy Foundation, The Mayo, Jr., Earl L. McNair Law Firm Foundation Moore Foundation, B.C. Nationwide Foundation NBSC Norfolk Southern Foundation Phifer/Johnson Foundation Post & Courier Foundation Ramsey, John C. Robinson, Ann Ruble, Randall T. Sauer Company, C.F. Sealevel Systems Incorporated Shaw, Minor M. Shealy, III, Walter D. Shi, David E. Smith Development Company Smith Foundation, A.O. Southeastern Freight Lines, Inc. Spinks, L.S. Spittal, David J. SunTrust Bank Teague, Charles P.

Timken Company Tisdale, Henry N. Torrence, Andrew E. and Brenda S. UCI Medical Affiliates of SC, Inc. Vulcan Materials Company Wachovia Foundation, The Wells, Jerry Zais, Mitchell M.

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organizations Chairman’s Circle

Abney Foundation Autobell Car Wash, Inc. B. C. Moore Foundation Bailey Foundation Barnet Foundation Trust Beloco Foundation, Inc. Benefit Controls of the Carolinas C. N. & Maria Papadopoulos Fdn Canal Charitable Foundation Cannon Roofing, LLC Carolina Cemetary Park, Inc. CCM Advisers, LLC Central Carolina Community Fdn Continental American Ins. Co. Dees Family Foundation ExxonMobil Corporation Foundation for the Carolinas Fullerton Foundation, Inc. Gibbs Charitable Foundation Grant Peacock Family Fdn Hayne Hipp Foundation Hearn Brittain & Martin, P.A. Herman N. Hipp First Fdn Inman-Riverdale Foundation James Family Foundation James M. & Sallie Johnson Fdn John & Mary Franklin Fdn Kinney Foundation Leon Levine Foundation Lettie Pate Whitehead Fdn Mark Anderson Foundation McMillan Smith & Partners Milliken & Company Perkins-Prothro Foundation Phifer Johnson Foundation Reeves Foundation, Inc. S C Dept. Highways & Pub. Trans.

S. C. Conf. United Meth. Church Sanders Bro. Investment Group SCANA Corporation SCICU Spartanburg County Foundation Thomson Toccoa W. Switzer Foundation Total Product Destruction United Meth. Higher Ed Fdn Waccamaw Community Foundation Wachovia Corporation Wachovia Foundation Wickware Foundation

Trustee Society

Alec H. Chaplin Company Alfred Moore Foundation AMCAR Management of Texas Anonymous Arkwright Foundation Banc Cap. & Fin. Services Bank of America Charitable Fdn Blue Cross Blue Shield of SC Comm. Fdn of Chattahoochee Valley Comm. Fdn of Greenville, Inc. CWS Insurance Agency, Inc. David Williamson, Jr. Fdn. Deluxe Liquors Duke Energy Foundation Harley Holdings, LLC Harrison White Smith & Coggins Harry H. Gibson Family Fdn JM Smith Foundation Joe & Joella Utley Fdn Law Offices of Robert Dodson McGuireWoods, LLP Merrill Lynch & Company Pate Fund Perrin Foundation Priester Foundation Rose & Walter Montgomery Fdn Ruth B. Caudle Sch. Fund S. C. United Methodist Fdn Saybrook Investments, LLC SEI Giving Fund Sumter Medical Consultants Transales, Inc. Verizon Communications Vic Bailey Ford Inc W.D. Robinson Electric Co. Winston-Salem Foundation

Leadership Society

A&A Innovations LLC Atchison Transportation Camp-Younts Foundation D. L. Scurry Foundation D. P. Riggins & Associates Edith & James Bostic Fdn Evans & M.J. Holland Fdn Global Impact KC3, Inc. Leigh Fibers, Inc. Palmetto Bank-Laurens Portsmouth Community Fdn Sanofi-Aventis Smith Development Company State Farm Companies Sturm & Cont, P.A. Trehel Corporation UBS PaineWebber, Georgia

United Parcel Service, America Wateree Dreams Foundation Workman Holdings

President’s Club

AL-W.Fla. United Meth. Fdn Albany International Corp.

AT&T- Columbia Bain Foundation Bank of America BB&T BB&T-Winston Salem Blake P. Garrett, Sr. Fdn Blue Ridge Log Cabins, LLC Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Budweiser of Spartanburg C.J. Compton Plumbing Inc Capital Group Companies Carl S. Swisher Foundation Carolina Kidney & Endocrine Center Carter Consultancy Center For Scholarship Admin.

Chevron Humankind MG Program CIGNA Corporation Cohn Construction, LLC Compcontech, Inc. Cornerstone Agency Crabby Mike’s Calabash Seafood Cumberland Community Fdn Daniel-Mickel Foundation Dark Corner Films, Inc Dunbar Construction Company Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Fountain Inn Presby. Church Gala Affairs Gosnell Menard & Brooks CPA’s Hickman’s Prescription Druggists Home Depot International Bus. Machines J. Wm. & Eliz. Robinson Fdn John Poston & Company, Inc. Johnson & Johnson Kitchens Firm, P.A. Law Offices of Jim Brown Lentz Cabinets & Associates Liberty Mutual Marietta Community Foundation Mass Mutual Financial Group Medical Legal Consultants, Va Michael B. Burrell, AAL Mills Bee Lane Memorial Fdn Morgan Keegan & Company Morgan Stanley MG Program NAID Nix Development Norfolk Southern Foundation NPD Inc. O H Rankin Foundation Olde South Restoration, Inc. Palmetto Endodontics, PA Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein Peery-Cauthen Foundation Penny Leonard Investments LP Piedmont Salt Terminal Printpack, Inc. Procter & Gamble, Inc. Reader’s Digest Association Richter Foundation, Inc. Romill Fdn. / Roger Milliken Rotary Club of Spartanburg Saluda Family Medicine, PA SC Christian Foundation SLI/ARJ INC. Sonoco Products Company Southeast Endodontics, PC Southern Conference Sydnors & Associates Tindall Corporation UBS Matching Gift Program United Way of C. & NE Conn.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment Wachovia Bank of S.C.,Spart.

William Barnet & Son, Inc. Willimon Farrier Service Witzleben & Associates Zimmerli Foundation, Inc.

Patron Club

365 Properties, LLC AAA Supply, Inc. ALM Investments, LLC AT&T Berry Brothers Enterprise Charleston Rest. & Cos. Dentistry Community Fdn of S. Alabama Community Fdn of W.Georgia Community Fdn of Western NC Dodd Development, LLC Epps, Nelson & Epps Fluor Corporation General Electric Company GlaxoSmithKline Home Depot PAC Lanny W. Moore Ins. Agency Lennox International, Inc. Medforum MetLife, Inc. Michael O’Tuel Farms

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National Christian Fdn Pfizer, Inc Progress Energy, Inc. S&S Sports, Inc. Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte State Farm Insurance Co. Tenet Healthcare Corporation The Peper Law Firm, PA Van Dyk Health Care, Inc. URS Corporation, Washington White’s Pine Street Exxon Wofford College Glee Club

Loyalty Club

Acxiom Corporation Amaysing Consultant, Inc. AT&T Beef O’ Bradys Butler Automotive Carroll Financial Associates Coca-Cola Foundation Comm. Fdn of Sarasota County Derrick Associates Furman Babb Painting, Inc. Gamewell Family Pharmacy Grand Strand Dentistry Griffin Gear, Inc. Howle Law Firm Indian Tuff Tank, Greensboro J. Fritz O’Connor Law Firm James M. Dye & Associates Lock Stone LLC Lubrizol Corporation Microsoft Corporation Network For Good Out Of The Box, LLC Piedmont Video Productions R.E.J.E.M. Properties

R.H. Donnelley Corporation Raymond James Charitable End. Schwab Charitable Fund Tennant Foundation Time Warner, Inc. Tulles of the Trade Wade’s

Centurion Club

Agplus Allen S. Way, LLC Aon Corporation AssureSouth,Inc. Blackwood Associates Inc Bryter Knitting, Inc. Carson Chiropractic LLC Carstarphen Family Fdn Cleveland Agency Coca Cola Bottling Company Cochran Law Firm, P.A. Cooley Transport, Inc. Cousineau Chiropractic Center Covington, Patrick, Hagins, Stern & Lewis Crescent High School D.W. Owens Real Estate Con. Engineered Construction Co. Euro Auto Festival Fenn Allen & Sons, Inc. Freedom Hospitality Corp Gaston International, Inc. Gramling Brothers Greenwood Veterinary Hospital H General Contractors, LLC Illinois Tool Works Fdn J. M. Huber Corporation J. M. Solesbee Construction John F. McNeill, AAL

John Parham Company Law Office-John Kirkland Fort Law Office- Mark R. Calhoun Longshore Media Dev. Group Malesardi Quackenbush Swift & Co. Martim Enterprises, Inc. McCracken Junior High PTSO McElrath Trailers McLellan & Company Muroc Contracting & Development Nationwide Mutual Ins. Co. Newell Rubbermaid Nick Lomax & Associates Northwestern Mutual People Lease, Inc. Regions Bank Reynolds Investment Mgmt RSN Promotional Inc Sagent Society Schering-Plough Corporation Sealed Air Corporation Smart & Harris Summit Sales Group Susan K. Irvin, AAL Unified Manufacturing Practices Upstate ITS VF Foundation Viccellio Construction, Inc. Wando Distributors, Inc. WDBJ Hometown Help Fund Williams Companies Wofford Student Body Woodside Energy USA, Inc.

Contributors

Altrusa International, Inc. Call Me For Disney Travel Center Lodging, Inc.

Citigroup Clarke Johnson Peterson & McLean ConocoPhillips Correll Insurance Group Custom Stitch, Inc. E Innovations, Inc. F. Hugh Atkins Real Estate First Christian Church First Tennessee MG Program Food Lion, LLC Gary Hester Interiors George M. Hill & Sons, Inc. GivingExpress Program Granco, Inc. HammerSmith Humanities Council Indian Tree Farm Jeffcoat Insurance Agency MeadWestvaco Corporation Medical & Dental Management Mitch Cox Properites Palmetto Hematology Oncology Piedmont Club Potpourri Garden Club Quills Antiques Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. Southern House Furniture Spartanburg Art Museum Summit Select Insurance Threadgill Law Firm, P.C. Trinity United Meth. Seniors Village Prop. & Appraisal Svcs Washington Mutual, Inc. Wednesday Study Club Wells Fargo & Company Womans Club of Bon Air

matching gifts Acxiom Corporation Nancy Barr ‘84

Kenneth & Crystal ‘94 Garner Jack & Cynthia ‘94 West

Albany International Corp.

General Electric Company

Aon Corporation

GlaxoSmithKline

AT&T

Global Impact

Bailey Foundation

Griffin Gear, Inc.

C. Greg Toney ‘74

Forrest Whaling ‘79

E. O. Gilliland Haskell M. Monroe James G. Wylie, Jr. ‘50 James L. Switzer, Jr. ‘80 Toccoa W. Switzer

Bank of America

Dennis Adams ‘68 Mallory Bramlett ‘06 William Kirk Burton Jerry B. Copes ‘59 Cameron Davidson ‘83 Amy Gurley ‘92 Milton Ivey Ivan Marcotte Richter Meyer ‘01 Kenneth W. Pearson ‘71 Carol E. Whatley ‘56 Tripp ’93 & Wesley Whitener John Windley ‘75 Loyless Wright, Jr. ‘70

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. John R. Brown ‘58

Capital Group Companies, Inc. Charles Porcher Brian Whalen

Carroll Financial Associates Dennis Adams ‘68

CCM Advisers, LLC Fowler W. Cary ‘69

Chevron

Ralph E. Stamm ‘54

CIGNA Corporation Richard S. Miller ‘67

Citigroup

Ann B. Clarke ‘00

Coca-Cola Foundation Heidi Carlson Solomon ‘90

ConocoPhillips

Archie I. Barron ‘58

Duke Energy Foundation Thomas N. Glenn Paul E. Lytle ‘56 C. David Nutting ‘62 William E. Sentelle, III ‘61 Billy W. Wood ‘50

ExxonMobil Corporation W. Robert Blackledge F. Kimball Joyner, Jr. ‘71

First Tennessee Jason Ardito ‘96

Fluor Corporation

Lester Paul

Carolyn T. Webb ‘82 Bryan Shick ‘98 Park B.Smith, Jr. Ed Wile ‘73

Randall B. Stewart ‘83

Home Depot

James D. Bramlett, Jr. ‘86 Leonard B. Brisendine, Jr. ‘92 Mark O. Bundy ‘89

Illinois Tool Works Foundation J. A. Macomson

International Bus. Machines C. E. Baxter ‘60 R. W. Cabell C. D. Cochran ‘60 James E. Martin ‘57 Jaclyn E. Sease ‘03

J. M. Huber Corporation Bruce W. Digby

Johnson & Johnson

Charles G. Putman Roy F. Thompson, Jr. ‘90 Lennox International, Inc. Kevin & Nikki ‘92 Chunn

Lubrizol Corporation Christian G. Ollinger ‘98

Mass Mutual Financial Group Steven Dolinak

MeadWestvaco Corporation Philip R. Ramsey ‘79

Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc. Elizabeth J. Hrubala ‘93 David L. Neugent, Jr. ‘74 George W. Price, III Richard G. Simpson ‘80 James L. Switzer, Jr. ‘80

MetLife, Inc.

Callie E. Bagwell ‘06 Laura J. Green ‘06 Joseph R. McMillan ‘81 Virgil W. Marsh ‘52

Microsoft Corporation Katherine E. McGrath ‘75

Millikent & Company G. Ashley Allen John M. Blackman Richard B. Brewer ‘98 Owen L. Brewington J. Harold Chandler ‘71 Leland Close Jerry Cogan, Jr. Michael Todd Davis Anne Ebersbachw Larry B. Farmer ‘58 Lottie L. Flack ‘96

Mike M. Georgion Royce N. Gillespie ‘50 Amie A. Gregory ‘99 Roger Hagy ‘58 Michael & Beth ‘93 Hrubala Thomas P. McAbee James W. McCabe ‘70 Roger Milliken Robert E. Morrison Douglas B. Nash Marion G. Pittman ‘61 Willie R. Ridgeway ‘66 Harold B. Risher George Alf Ruff, Jr. ‘66 Marshall C. Stone, Jr. Don E. Turner ‘59 Delton A. Vereen ‘97 Marshall P. Washburn

Mills Bee Lane Memorial Fdn. Hugh C. Lane, Jr.

Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. D. Mark Hilliard

Sealed Air Corporation Paul A. Audet

Sonoco Products Company Edward R. Drayton ‘60

State Farm Companies Rich C. Cheney, Jr. ‘87 Steven R. Flack ‘93 Nick Gregory Curtis W. Hipp, Sr. ‘56 Doane E. James ‘59 Glen Melton ‘61 Gary L. Patterson ‘86

Tenet Healthcare Corporation Hank D. Irick ‘78 Brad Talbert ‘00

Tennant Foundation

Morgan Stanley

J. Larry Atkinson ‘68

Nationwide Mutual Ins. Co.

Brian W. Douglass ‘92

Andrew P. Young ‘96 Timothy E. Kane ‘91

Norfolk Southern Foundation Joseph B. Traywick, III ‘92 John K. Williams ‘59

Northwestern Mutual Jon Garing

Perkins-Prothro Foundation James Patrick Prothro ‘96 Mark and Dianne Prothro

Pfizer, Inc

Thomson

Time Warner, Inc. Nancy J. Battles David Mullis ‘87

Trehel Corporation J. Neal Workman ‘69

United Parcel Service W. Scott Cochran ‘88 John Thieman Timothy Worley

Verizon Communications, Inc.

David Adamson David G. Grant ‘90 Shannon T. Lewis ‘93 Paul V. White, III ‘96

Dennis R. Adams Charles E. Morgan ‘50

Printpack, Inc.

Wachovia Corporation

Mike Hembree George L. Reynolds, Jr. ‘68

Procter & Gamble, Inc. Richard Lynch

Progress Energy, Inc. James E. Bostic, Jr.

R.H. Donnelley Corporation David W. King ‘93

Reader’s Digest Association, Inc., The Alicia C. Truesdail ‘94

Regions Bank

Timothy E. Powers ‘87

Regions Morgan Keagan Trust David C. Luke ‘88

Sanofi-Aventis

Mrs. Xiomara Lever

SCANA Corporation James D. Burwell

Schering-Plough Corporation Kathleen Burger

VF Foundation Stan Gibbons ‘90

Brian & Heather ‘96 Barker David C. Battles Kingsland W. Bland ‘94 Ansel Bunch ‘74 Edward Hamilton ‘70 James Hulse ‘90 Harold M. McLeod, III ‘88 M. F. Sanders ‘77 Teresa R. Sims ‘86 Margaret F. Smith ‘87 Joseph S. Stowe ‘90 Mark P. Sullivan George Tate ‘41 Elizabeth B. Weld ‘77

Washington Div. of URS Corp.

David V. Hyman ‘74

WDBJ Hometown Help Fund Marshall R. Sullivan ‘68

Wells Fargo & Company J. Robert Bergmann

Williams Companies

Rozier Lamar Coleman ‘50

Capt. Sarah Clapper Reddeg is chief budget officer for the medical research and material command at Fort Detrick. Reddeg and her husband, Lt. Daniel Reddeg, live in Frederick, Md., with their son, Hunter.

T. Happel Scurry has joined Hood Law Firm LLC as an associate. Scurry lives in Charleston, S.C. Lauren Joyner Vicars and her husband, Wes, announce the birth of their son, Wesley Allan Vicars Jr., Dec. 19, 2008. The family lives in Mount Pleasant, S.C. Congratulations to Janna Webb, who completed her masters in business administration from Wake Forest University in December.

Webb lives in Charlotte, N.C., and is a health care representative for Pfizer Inc.

2004

Reunion, Homecoming 2014 Class Chair, Fred A. Byers Living in North Charleston, S.C., Elliott Bates is special events manager for the Historic Charleston Foundation.

Katherine Haltiwanger is council membership director for the Republican Governors Association. She lives in Columbia, S.C. Courtney Parades owns a Charleston, S.C., event planning company, Fini Events. She lives in Charleston, S. C. Living and working in Summerville, S.C., Rachel Sheridan wrote us that in August 2008, she opened her own business, KenChelle Photography. According to her letter, the business honors the memory of her late fiancé, Brandon Kenyon Thompson and eight other Charleston firefighters who died in the line of duty on June 18, 2007.

2005

Reunion, Homecoming 2014 Class Chair, Ryan M. Walker Living in Houston, Texas, Katie Laser works at Memorial Hermann Hospital as a registered nurse.

Meredith Mayak is a services and solutions executive for Xerox.

She lives in Irving, Texas.

2006

Reunion, Homecoming 2016 Class Chair, Hadley Green Sgt. James Bailey and his wife, Erin, live in Fayetteville, N.C., with their daughter, Alexandrea. Bailey is a battalion chaplain assistant.

Gaby Dibo and his wife, Katie Hutchens Dibo, live in Greenville, S.C. Katie is a programmer/analyst for Metlife and Gaby is an account executive for United Parcel Service of America Inc. Natalie Hussey lives in Washington, D.C., and is the restaurant manager of Jaleo, a restaurant owned by Think Food Group.

2007

Reunion, Homecoming 2017 Class Chair, Hunter L. Miller Living in Greenville, S.C., Kelly Barr is an auditor for PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Margaret Riis Jones lives in Winston Salem, N.C. and is an account executive for DavidsonRoth.

2008

Reunion, Homecoming 2018 Class Chair, S. Nathan Madigan Jr. Living in Spartanburg, Will Conner has joined the staff of Total Storage Services. Conner’s responsibilities will be focused on the company’s sales and customer service departments.

Stephen Harris and his wife, Ashley Brown-Harris, live in Odenton, Md. Stephen is attending Wesley Theological Seminary and Ashley is an analyst for the U. S. Department of Defense and is enrolled in graduate school at Johns Hopkins University.

To Our Readers

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n these difficult econ omic times, Woffor d seeks to be an especially good steward of th e dollars that come to us fro m our students and their families as well as th ose alumni and frien ds who have always suppor ted us. When we fin d ways to reduce expenses without greatly affec tin g the services we render to the Wofford comm un ity, we will take those steps .

For a year or so, W offord Today has be en completely accessibl e on-line at www.wo ffo rd. edu/woffordtoday.

We feel, therefore, th at we should discontinue our long-standing pr actice of mailing the printed magazine to addres se s outside the United States. Th is will mean a savin gs of several dollars per co py for Wofford— as m uch as $1,000 per issue.

If there are any spec ial circumstances aff ecting individuals, please let us know about th em , an we will try to be ac d commodating. As alw ays, the editors welcome yo ur comments abou t all aspects of Wofford Today.

Kammann meets Wofford students in Oaxaca, Mexico F

our Wofford students visited southern Mexico during January, and while the city of Oaxaca is home to colorful markets, exquisite handicrafts, indigenous creatures, and comfortable hotels in converted, colonial mansions, it also has another side…and that is why these students were there.

“It is very impoverished,” says Dr. Laura Barbas Rhoden, who sent 23 students to eight different countries for her Interim project “Community of Service.” “Oaxaca has a history of uneven land distribution and has a lot of disenfranchised people. The students’ impetus for going there was to find a place to do service in a multi-cultural or cross cultural context.”

The four students were Lauren Barter ’12, Chad Davis ’10, Sarah At one of the colorful markets in Oaxaca (left to right): Kacki Kammann, Hager ’11 and Catherine Raymer Lauren Barter ’12, Catherine Raymer ’11, Sarah Hager ’11 ’10. They met Kacki Kammann ’01 once they arrived. Kammann, herself and Chad Davis ’11. a former student of Barbas Rhoden’s, is on site in Oaxaca working for an organization called indigenous language, I taught the children how to say Pro World. certain English words pertaining to water sanitation. It “We knew that she was down there, and when was such a sad place with massive poverty and health the students expressed an interest in going to Mexico, issues. Many of the women in this village of 100 people I encouraged them to look at organizations such as had cancer and couldn’t be treated because of the lack of Kacki’s,” says Barbas Rhoden. “The students made finances. Manos de Vida brought in donated medicine to contact, and Kacki made things happen. take care of the children and nutrient supplements for the “The students didn’t just get their hands dirty. infants.”

They got their hands, their faces, and everything dirty.”

It’s a world they might not have gotten to see if not Three of the students worked in medical clinics. for the hard work put forth by Kammann.

Two of them, Barter and Raymer, accompanied medi“Kacki is an intrepid soul,” says Barbas Rhoden. “She cal personnel to do a community health survey. They is a very petite, vivacious, energetic person. And adventurwalked through the communities with nurses, helping ous, as it turns out. I could tell when I taught her that she with a mobile vaccination clinic. had a flexibility and a personality that was predisposed to “The clinic was in a small pueblo called Vicente work with different people and make them feel comfortGuerrero that was built on Oaxaca’s old dump,” says able with her. She’s not judgmental, and I think that bodes Raymer. “It was about 45 minutes by bus from Oaxaca well for people who want to do the types of things she’s city. We sat in on consultations and took notes for doing. the doctors and nurses, as well as helped conduct an “She’s interested in listening to the concerns of the annual community census. My favorite part was the community and then trying to navigate within those census, because we got to get out into the community structures. From what my students told me about their and talk to residents and really see how they lived. time in Oaxaca, that’s exactly what she did to help them “Talking to the people who worked in the clinic connect with the local people. Sarah, especially, didn’t on a daily basis was really interesting. Most of them have the language background of the other students, and wanted to learn English words from us and ask quesKacki was instrumental in helping her navigate her experitions about the United States, the economic troubles ence there. I think it was a growing experience for all of here, and our new president. I also wanted their them, and Kacki was really helpful.” opinions on those topics as well, so it was an interest“My experience in Oaxaca was unlike any other exing exchange. Lauren and I still keep in touch with a perience I have had in a developing country,” says Hager. couple of people from the clinic by e-mail.”

“The work Manos de Vida did was purely voluntary. It It was all new to the students, but old hat for was strange to be in such a beautiful place yet realize the Barbas Rhoden. people around you have nothing but hope to live for. It “It was part of a very hands-on approach by the definitely left me wanting to learn more.”

Mexican government in preventative health care,” she Raymer echoes those sentiments. says. “The students saw that aspect of health care pro“Overall it was a great experience,” she says. “I think I vision in developing countries. It dispelled some of the got a real taste of what I would like to do after college and stereotypes they had, while confirming others.” medical school. That was inspiring and motivating.”

by Brett Borden Hager worked separately from Barter and Raymer.

“I worked for a non-profit called Manos de Vida.

They focused primarily on health care issues. As a part of my job, I went with some nurses to an extremely impoverished indigenous village three hours from Oaxaca. It was an overnight trip.

“There, the nurses talked to the women about properly caring for their children and keeping their house clean. Since I spoke neither Spanish nor their Spring 2009 • Wofford Today • 41

At Myers Park Country Club on Feb. 19, more than 240 Charlotte area people enjoyed getting together to talk Wofford. Above, from left to right are Meredith Wilkes ’06, Brien Grande ’04, Margaret Meyer ’05, and Meg Morrison ’07.

Wofford alumni traveled to Innsbruck, Golden Roof, Munich, Oberammergau, Salzburg and the Christmas Markets.

Visit alumni.wofford.edu for more information about these and other upcoming events.

May 9.......................................................... Wofford Day at Carowinds May 16-17....................................... Class of 1959 50th Class Reunion June 17 - 24......................... Travel to ALASKA, accepting reservations July 17 - 24.........................................Travel to Island of New England

More than 350 alumni, friends, parents and students attended the Columbia alumni event at the Spring Valley Country Club on Jan. 29. Among them were Brittani Minnieweather ’11 and her mom Sharon Minnieweather.

Aug. 27................................................Pickin & Shuckin, Spartanburg Sept. 5...............................Wofford vs. South Florida event, Tampa, FL Oct. 2-4........................................................... Homecoming Weekend Oct. 16 - 25........................ Travel to GREECE, accepting reservations Oct. 30-Nov. 1............................................................ Family Weekend Nov. 7..................................Wofford vs. The Citadel event, Charleston Nov. 21.......................................Wofford vs. Furman event, Greenville Dece. 2-5..........................................................Bookstore Holiday Sale Dec. 7 - 15......................................Danube Christmas Markets Cruise

Alice and Charles ’39 Cecil enjoyed talking with President Benjamin B. Dunlap during the Thermal Belt Alumni event on Feb. 26 at Persimmons Bistro in Landrum.

42 • Wofford Today • Spring 2009

memorials Dr. Fred T. Adams

Mr. ’65 & Mrs. William J. Rivers, II

Clyde W. Allen, Jr. ‘60 Mrs. Arlene K. Allen

Harry A. Allen, Sr. ‘29

Dr. ‘62 & Mrs. Harry A. Allen, Jr.

David Mark Anderson ‘78

Mr. ’43 & Mrs. Forrest A. Abbott Mr. Thomas E. Adams Ms. Carolyn C. Alexander Ms. Karen S. Anders Mr. ’73 & Mrs. Thomas G. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Glenn T. Austin, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Barge Mr. ’53 & Mrs. Robert T. Barham Mr. & Mrs. John V. Blalock Mr. ’77 & Mrs. David M. Beacham Mr. & Mrs. C. Marvin Bettis Mr. Mendal A. Bouknight, Jr. Ms. Margaret S. Bruce Mr. & Mrs. William H. Burton, III The John Carwile Family Mr. & Mrs. James M. Caswell, III Ms. Elizabeth T. Chadwick Ms. Ann O. Chapman Ms. Rose T. Chewning Mr. ‘78 & Mrs. James C. Crawford, III Mr. & Mrs. W. Harry Durham Mrs. Frances S. Dye Mr. & Mrs. Andrew J. Falatok Mrs. Elizabeth R. Giles CAPT David H. Grundies, Ret. Mr. James R. Hackney, Jr. ‘77 Dr. ’47 & Mrs. Boyd L. Hames Mrs. Clara G. Hance Mrs. Mynelle Grove Harris Mrs. Laurie B. Harris Mrs. Caroline L. Hays Mr. & Mrs. E. Guy Hendrix, Sr. Mr. Leon James Hendrix, Jr. Mr. John R. Hile ‘71 Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Hilsman Mrs. Harold P. Hope Mr. William R. Housholder Mr. & Mrs. Allen S. Jackson Mrs. Alice M. Jeffries Mrs. Marion A. Jennings Mr. & Mrs. Hugh C. Lane, Jr. Mrs. Beth T. Lipscomb Mr. Armando G. Llorente ‘78 Mr. Wilton D. Looney Mrs. Margaret H. Madden Ms. Nancy R. Mansfield Mark Anderson Foundation Ms. Catherine A. May Mr. & Mrs. Donald H. McDaniel Ms. Elsie S. McGill Ms. Mary Ainsworth Mitchell Mr. Clyde A. Murchison, III ‘75 Mr. & Mrs. James Navran Mrs. Jane R. Orahood Mr. ‘65 & Mrs. Marion B. Peavey Dr. & Mrs. W. G. Quarles, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Eric D. Ranney Dr. Walton H. Reeves Ms. Eleanor C. Richardson Mr. & Mrs. Douglas S. Schultz Mr. & Mrs. David T. Shufflebarger Mr. G.C. Smith Ms. Mary Mac Southerland Mr. Marshall C. Stone, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William W. Stover, III Mrs. Toccoa W. Switzer Mrs. Theo E. Taylor Ms. Olive M. Toy Mr. ’80 & Mrs. Bradley D. Troutman Mr. ‘81 & Mrs. Thomas R. Tuten, III Mrs. Kathryn A. Watts Dr. Bruce W. White, Jr. ‘65 Dr. Wain L. White ‘68 Mr. ’73 & Mrs. Edward B. Wile Dr. & Mrs. T.D. Wilkins, III Mr. & Mrs. E.T. Young

Mr. John C. Anderson ‘39

Mr. ’50 & Mrs. W. Grady Stewart

Mr. Clyde M. Ariail ‘50

Mr. ‘49 & Mrs. Warren G. Ariail, Jr.

Mr. William S. Ariail ‘47

Mr. and Mrs. Warren G. Ariail, Jr. Mr. ‘92 & Mrs. Charles C. Dixon, III

Mrs. Sarah Dixon Ariail

Mr. Charles Bynum Atwater ‘38 Margaret F. Atwater

Mr. William W. Barham ‘57

Mr. ’53 & Mrs. Robert T. Barham

Dr. James S. Barrett ‘55

Dr.* & Mrs. Larry T. McGehee

Mr. J. Pat Batten ‘80 Ms. Hope L. Batten

Mr. Harry C. Belk ‘43 Mrs. Hazel Holland Belk

Prof. Thomas A. Bell ‘38 Mrs. Helen C. Bell

Mr. Nicholas C. Black, Jr. ‘39 Ms. Helen B. Black Mrs. Helen Jureidini Mr. Paul Jureidini Lt. Col. George N. Nennstiel, Ret. Ms. Ida Taylor Ramsey Mr. William Taylor Ramsey Ms. Aline T. Wagner

Mr. John K. Bonnell

Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Larson

Ms. Mary Bowie

Rev.’56 & Mrs. Talmage Skinner, Jr.

Mr. Robert Eugene Brannon Mrs. Ruth R. Brannon

Mr. Bernard E. Brooks

Rev. Jeannette Cooper Dicks

Ms. Freda Brooks Mrs. Robert C. Bilger

Mr. Benjamin Allen Buddin ‘37 Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence N. Bridgers

Ms. Betty Moore Bullard

Dr.’55 & Mrs. ’69 Charles D. Barrett Rev.’56 & Mrs. Talmage Skinner, Jr. Dr.* & Mrs. Larry T. McGehee

Mr. E.C. Burnett, Jr. ’39 Mr. & Mrs. Paul K. Bowen

Mr. Jack Burnett ‘50

Mr. ’50 & Mrs. Charles F. West

Mr. John J. Burnett, Jr. ‘50 Mr. ’50 & Mrs. Charles F. West

Mrs. Lucy B. Burnett

Mr. & Mrs. Paul K. Bowen

Miss Dorothy Butler

Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Herndon, Sr.

Mr. W. Dean Cannon, Jr. ‘50 Mr. & Mrs. B. B. Stevens

Mr. Robert M. Carlisle, Jr. ‘52 Mrs. Martha B. Carlisle Dr. ’52 & Mrs. Charles E. Cauthen Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Strawsburg

LTC & Mrs. Fowler W. Cary Mr. Fowler W. Cary, Jr. ‘69

Mr. Harold L. Charvis ‘54

Mr. ’53 & Mrs. Robert T. Barham

Dr. Lawrence H. Chewning, Jr. Dr. H.Dean Thompson, Jr. ‘81

Mr. Edward W. Clay ‘37

Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Brown

Mr. Douglas Edison Cobb Mr. & Mrs. Dale F. Mamele

Mr. W. Scott Cogswell ‘68 Ms. Sarah H. Hastings

Mr. Robert B. Conrad Mr. J Gilliam Conrad

Mr. David F. Conway Ms. Rosemarie Aguilar

Mr. Francis E. Cronenberg Mr. Frank Bassett

Mr. J. Russell Cross, Sr. Mr. Joseph R. Cross, Jr. ‘67

Mrs. Louise Daniel

Mr. & Mrs. Jack Hamilton Mr. & Mrs. Bruce W. McAnally Mr. & Mrs. James P. McComas Mr. & Mrs. Bryan Peeler

MAJ GEN Charles H. “Sandy” Davidson, IV ‘70 Ms. Kathleen Abizaid Dr. ’68 & Mrs. C. Brooks Bannister Mr. ’77 & Mrs. David M. Beacham Mr. Emerson Bell ‘70 Dr. Doyle W. Boggs 70 Mr. John R. Bridgen Mrs. Frances B. Brooke Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Bryden

Rev. & Mrs. Everett Bunck & Family Ms. Barbara L. Ciconte & Friends MG William J. Collins, Jr. Ret. Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Davidson, V Ms. Diane H. Davidson Mr. Richard G. Frank Mr. John E. Grady The Hatfield Family Mr. Thomas Heard, III ‘70 Ms. Judith J. Herr Ms. Elizabeth G. Higdon George M. Hill & Sons, Inc. Mr. ’82 & Mrs. Van D. Hipp, Jr. Ms. Jean W. Hughes Ms. Jeanne G. Jacob Hon. Charles W. Jones ‘73 Mr. & Mrs. John W. Kmet Longshore Media Development Grp. Ms. Doris L. Lundquist Ms. Betty J. McClure Mr. & Mrs. Ronnie McElroy Mr. John F. McNeill Mr. Timothy R. McTaggart Mr. & Mrs. Dan Mongeon Mr. & Mrs. Larry G. Moore Mr. ’72 & Mrs. Dan R. Munn Mr. & Mrs. James L. Nelson, Jr. VADM & Mrs. David C. Nichols, Jr. Ret. Mrs. Lucy M. Oliver The Piedmont Club Ms. Mary M. Pope Mr. & Mrs. Garry Regan Dr. ’59 & Mrs.* Olin B. Sansbury, Jr. Mr. ‘75 & Mrs. C. Michael Smith Mr. & Mrs. Edwin H. Story Mr. John F. Suhre Mr. Jim Sweet Mrs. Jean F. Sydnor Ms. Susie Virginia Wagstaff Mr. & Mrs. Marshall P. Washburn Ms. Nancy L. Wells Ms. Leslie H. Wexler Mr. ’72 & Mrs. John B. White, Jr. Mr. ’74 & Mrs. Lewis W. White Mr. & Mrs. Chuck Williams Woman’s Club of Bon Air Dr. & Mrs. David S. Wood Yingling/Butler Families

Mr. Jason Todd Derrick ‘96

Mr. ’93 & Mrs. Shane S. McAbee

Mr. Charles C. Dixon, Jr. ‘60

Mr. ‘92 & Mrs. Charles C. Dixon, III

Mr. Wade Donahue

Hon. H. Bruce Williams ‘78

Mr. Marion Miller Dowling ‘42

Mrs. Ann G. Hammond Faith Herbert LeBlanc Mr. ’43 & Mrs. D. Boyce Woolbright, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Henry E. Duke Mr. Emerson Duke

Mr. Clarence E. Dukes ‘65 Ms. Graham S. Dukes

Mrs. Syble Roberts Evins

Left to right: Carrie Schultz ’05, Erin Hantske ’04, Rebecca Chapman Parker ’04 and Bonnie Allen ’05 at the 2008 YAP tailgate during Homecoming Weekend.

Young Alumni Participants Joanna Marks Avant ‘96 Elaine Fincher Barnhill ‘98 Todd R. Barrett ‘94 Deena J. Bateh ‘04 Steven C. Blanton, Jr. ‘04 Jenna Sheheen Bridgers ‘01 W. Allen Bridgers ‘01 A. Preston Brittain ‘02 Brandon E. Brown ‘96 Kelan J. Brown ‘00 Sally Sue Garris Brown ‘96 Austin L. Bruce ‘98 Margaret M. Bruton ‘06 Nichole L. Buchanan ‘06 Steven H. Casey ‘04 Marion E. Cobb ‘00 Katherine P. Coleman ‘05 Erin T. Coy ‘07 Michael L. Crocker ‘07 Jennifer Almond Dillenger ‘07 Charles R. Dixon ‘02 Beth Hawley Dixon ‘02 Helen Barron Dowbak ‘06 Johnathan N. Dowbak ‘06 Kelsey C. Duggan ‘06 Alan R. Eisenman ‘05 Diane Slider Farley ‘05 Brian L. Fast ‘07 Mark A. Ferguson ‘94 Elizabeth Q. Frazier ‘06 Jean Cecil Frick ‘04 Crystal A. Garner ‘94 Elizabeth Tyson Gibson ‘02 Michael P. Gibson ‘02 C. Bennett Gore ‘02 Amie Audet Gregory ‘99 Heather Sulier Griffith ‘00 John W. Hackney ‘04 J. Anderson Halligan ‘05 Brooks L. Harper ‘06 Ashley C. Harris ‘96 Andrew H. Harrison ‘05 Leslie Powell Haselden ‘07 Brooksie E. Heath ‘08 Perry Vandiver Henson ‘96 Thomas M. Henson, Jr. ‘96 Courtney Bartie Hicks ‘03 David C. Hicks ‘00

Mr. & Mrs. N.Q. Cline, Jr. Cochran Law Firm Covington, Patrick, Hagins, Stern, Lewis Mr. & Mrs. John A. DeJong Mr. & Mrs. John Evans Mr. & Mrs. Clark Gaston Dr. ’56 & Mrs. V. Wilson Goodlett Dr. & Mrs. G. K. Gudger Mrs. Carolyn Hall Gary Hester Interiors The Ruth Holliday Family Mr. & Mrs. Horace B. Jones Dr. & Mrs. Ernest Lathem Medical & Dental Management Dennis, Joy & Linkin Harris Dr. & Mrs. Arthur G. Meakin Mr. Michael Harris Ms. Peggie P. Najim Mr. Robert J. Harris ‘09 Mr. & Mrs. William H. Penland Mr. & Mrs. Roger Dean Harris Anne & Dayton Riddle Dr. ’56 & Mrs. Ted J. Roper Mr. J. Stokes Gillespie ‘33 Mr. ’88 & Mrs. W. Lee Roper, II Ms. Carol Johnson Bald Rev.’56 & Mrs. Talmage B. Skinner, Jr. Ms. Billie M. Barnett Mr. & Mrs. Mark Stepp Mr. & Mrs. Allen H. Boozer Mr. & Mrs. Ray R. Williams, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Steven Brown Mr. & Mrs. Ruud Veltman Mr. & Mrs. Robert Castellano

Mr. Dale Fields ‘53

Mr. ’53 & Mrs. Robert T. Barham

Mr. Philip F. Foster, Jr. ‘82 The Beloco Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Jane P. Crowder Mrs. Elaine T. Freeman

Mr. James Russell Fowler ‘83 Mrs. Barbara J. Black

Mr. E.E. “Bubba” Gasque, Jr. ‘51

Mrs. Henry B. Douglas Mr. & Mrs. Eric C. Drumm Ms. Rebecca A. Epting Ms. Joan C. Gilson Mr. & Mrs. Ralph E. Hansmann Mr. & Mrs. Emory Holroyd Ms. Dorothy F. Jenkins Ms. Daphne P. Knight Mr. & Mrs. John Lang Ms. Gertrude G. Long Mr. & Mrs. Kevin J. Logue Ms. Evelyn Marron Melesardi, Quackenbush, Swift & Co.

Membership requirements have changed to include all young alumni donors who make a gift to the Unrestricted Annual Fund. The benefits, including the YAP tailgate at Homecoming and special recognition in the Honor Roll, remain the same – so make your pledge or gift today to qualify.

Lacey D. Hilliard ‘06 Sean J. Hinton ‘08 M. Timmons Hipp ‘05 Kayce A. Hughes ‘05 Justin L. Hunte ‘03 Natalie R. Hussey ‘06 Elizabeth Hubbard Jeffords ‘97 Ainsley Robinson Johnston ‘04 John B. Johnston ‘02 Kelly L. Jones ‘08 Gerald A. Kiehl ‘04 CAPT Bryan D. Lake ‘97 Sophie W. Lane ‘06 Edgar H. Lawton, IV ‘08 John P. Linton Jr. ‘07 Samuel M. Little Jr. ‘08 Emma S. Litzenburg ‘07 Walter R. Long ‘96 Ashley E. Mamele ‘06 Leah Robertson Maybry ‘97 Luke H. Maybry ‘98 Sarah L. McKune ‘99 Janet McKittrick Meko ‘99 Margaret V. Meyer ‘05 R. Ayden Meyer ‘01 James N. Miner ‘04 Allyson Varn Monferdini ‘99 Jeffrey P. Muthig ‘07 Brett T. Myers ‘02 Chris G. Ollinger ‘98 Claire Culp Ollinger ‘98 Nicholas A. Papadea ‘94 James M. Parrish, Jr. ‘99 Ravi A. Patel ‘08 J. Patrick Prothro ‘96 Harriet Willimon Putman ‘99

Courtney Howard Rambo ‘01 James T. Rambo, Jr. ‘00 Colby G. Rankin ‘00 Ben H. Reynolds, III ‘99 M. Clark Roberts Jr. ‘07 Alexander O. Schaefer ‘06 Caroline M. Schultz ‘05 Carleise E. Scotten ‘04 Philip W. Shields ‘01 Hilary Ward Sill ‘01 Kevin J. Sill ‘00 M. Huntley Smith ‘99 Macaulay White Smith ‘00 Amanda R. Stephenson ‘05 Julie Stanley Stowe ‘02 Bradley S. Talbert ‘00 Dorothy Acee Thomas ‘96 Janelle Harris Thomas ‘96 Joshua T. Thompson ‘07 Alicia N. Truesdail ‘94 Matthew A. Turbeville ‘05 R. W. Turbeville, Jr. ‘98 Megan Palmateer Walsh ‘97 Stanley G. Walsh, Jr. ‘96 Anne Thompson Ward ‘95 Richard C. Webb ‘03 Leah Bryan Wilkins ‘01 Penn Page Williams ‘99 E. Brent Williams ‘99 S. Palmer Williams ‘99 Dakota V. Willimon ‘07 Ashley Grubbs Wimberly ‘99 Mark P. Wimberly ‘99 Stuart W. Yothers ‘99

Mr. & Mrs. Joe W. McCarter Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Nash, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Neuviller, Sr. Mr. ‘70 & Mrs. Robert W. Page, III Ms. Eileen D. Patten Mr. ’95 & Mrs. ’94 Thomas Post, III Mr. & Mrs. Donald Reich Mr.& Mrs. Rudolph Reitmeier Mr. John H. Rogers Mr. & Mrs. Seamus A. Rooney Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Sulli Ms. Doris M. Swenson Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A.Thompson Ms. Kathleen E. Tomai Van Dyk Health Care, Inc. Ms. A.S. (Nancy) Whittemore, Jr.

Mr. Walter C. Guy, Jr. ‘61

Dr. James Allen Goldey

Dr. * & Mrs. Larry T. McGehee Dr. & Mrs. Ted R. Monroe

Mrs. Primrose Nettles Green Dr. Laurie N. Ervin ‘57

Mr. Daniel Luther Guy 1901

Mr. Walter Carlisle Guy, Sr. ‘27 Mr. Walter C. Guy, Jr. ‘61

Dr. James G. Halford, Jr. ‘45 Mr. & Mrs. Christopher D. Byrd Mr. & Mrs. D. Mark Hilliard Mr. & Mrs. Jack M. Telle

COL Wade Hampton, Ret. ‘52

Dr. ’52 & Mrs. Charles Cauthen, Jr.

Mr. W.D. Dick Hardy

Mrs. Hazel H. Belk Mrs. Frances H. Hardy Mr. & Mrs. William Snyder Mr. Herbert Lucien Williams ‘51

Dr. E.B. Harner, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher D. Byrd

Mrs. Emma D. Harrington Mr. Joe Crane Ms. Clara Hart

Mr. & Mrs. George Hendricks, Jr.

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memorials (continued)

Dr. J. Grady Locklear ‘65

Ms. Gail T. Higdon Mr. Richard Hussey, Jr. ‘83 Mr. & Mrs. James O. Jennings Ms. Joyce K. McCuen Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Rawl Mr. Daniel J. Sheridan Rev.’56 & Mrs. Talmage Skinner, Jr. Dr. Douglas Thomas Mr. Thomas J. Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Betram A. Udovin

Dr. J. Grady Locklear ‘65

Mr. John K. Hendricks, Jr. ‘84

Wofford On Call

W

offord On Call keeps alumni, parents and friends connected to the students on Wofford’s campus. In addition to asking for support for the college, student callers love to pass along news of college events and activities. They love sharing their Wofford experiences, but they also love hearing Wofford stories from the people on the other end of the line. To make sure that the Wofford On Call experience is a good one for everyone, the Office of Annual Giving sends evaluations to people who received calls from Wofford On Call students. Below are samples of some of the responses Wofford received.

About Jenny Afkinich ’10:

“Good representative of Wofford.” – Linda

About Achini Bandara ’09: “Very classy just as expected from a Wofford student.” – Wallace

“Delightful young person, and we wish her all the best in the future – an excellent ambassador for Wofford!” – Paula “Achini was very pleasant and not pushy. Very sweet to talk with! In our difficult financial times, it was nice she understood that we could not give as much as we would like. She made it okay to only give a small amount.” – Lisa

About Kallie Collins ’12:

“My caller (Kallie Collins) was very pleasant and provided helpful information regarding prospective students (my son James was recently accepted to Wofford).” – John

About Kelsey Rice ’09:

“She sounded as though she were smiling during our conversation.”

– Celeste “Wofford students are the reason I invest in the college. Keep up the good work.”

– David

Mrs. Barbara E. Atwater Mr. & Mrs. James P. Carroll, Jr. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Compton Crescent High School Faculty & Staff Mr. & Mrs. Ladson Cubbage Duke Univ. Pastoral Services Ms. Jennifer L. Finley Friends of Artie Hendricks Mr. & Mrs. William A. Gardner Ms. Nancy W. Hendrick

Mr. Clifford D. Hendrix

Mr. & Mrs. William L. Bowman Mr. ’89 & Mrs. ’89 Bill Brasington, Jr. Dr.* & Mrs. Larry T. McGehee

Jazz Hinson

Dr. & Mrs. Ted R. Monroe

Mr. Francis M. Hipp Dr. Doyle W. Boggs ’70

Mr. Herbert Hucks ‘34

Mr. James Huntington Wofford ‘93

Mrs. Sara Hucks

Mr. James Huntington Wofford ‘93

Mr. & Mrs. Dan Hunt

Mr. & Mrs. W. Lewis Jones Dr. * & Mrs. Larry T. McGehee Mr. John Patterson Mr. & Mrs. Howe Nagle Dr. & Mrs. Dan W. Olds Dr. & Mrs. David M. Whisnant Ms. Angela Willes Ms. Brenda I. Wilson

Mrs. Nancy Garrison James Mr. R. Michael James ‘73

Mr. Booker T. Johnson

Ms. Kimberly M. Johnson ‘95

Mr. Albert R. Jones ‘57 Ms. Jean J. Jones

Dr. Lewis P. Jones ‘38

Mr. Hubert Hodgin ‘56 Mr. Terry W. Lipscomb ‘66 Mr. ’61 & Mrs. Dwight Patterson, Jr. Mr. ’65 & Mrs. William J. Rivers, II

Ms. Barbara Joslin

Dr. J. Grady Locklear ‘65

Ms. Ruth Joy

Dr. Camille L. Bethea ‘91

Mr. Jack Kelly

Mr. ‘64 & Mrs. Thomas R. Kelly

Mr. Ralph L. Kelly

About Kristian Roof ’11:

“Very charming and fun to chat with!” – Angela

Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Herndon, Sr.

Dr. James P. Kilgo ‘63 Mr. Frederick Parrish ‘63

Mr. William L. Kinney, III ‘91

2008 Results:

Number of pledges......................................................................................... 2,479 Total raised through Wofford On Call..................................................... $734,591 Callers of the Semesters......... Fall: Emily Johnson ’10 & Spring: Sarah Burns ’10

Prize Donors:

Bangkok Thai Cuisine California Dreaming • Hair It Is Krispy Kreme • Wade’s Restaurant Moe’s Southwest Grill • Oops! Company Papa’s Breakfast Nook Marriott Spartanburg at Renaissance Park Custom Cleaners

Ms. Elizabeth A. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Henry B. Burroughs, Jr.

Mrs. Odell Koon

Mr. Fowler W. Cary, Jr. ‘69

Mr. Mitchell Kyllonen

Rev.’56 & Mrs. Talmage Skinner, Jr.

Mr. Daniel S. Lewis ‘62 Dr. Joseph M. Lewis ‘59

Mrs. Hazel Littlejohn Ms. Carolyn L. Mulligan Ms. Hazel L. Talton

Mr. Richard Locklear

Mr. & Mrs. John P. Britton

Dr. James K. Lovelace ‘70 Dr. Rubina J. Patel

Mr. James P. Lybrand ‘36 Mrs. Martha H. Lybrand

Mr. William G. Lynn, Jr. ‘65 Mr. Laurens D. Pitts ‘58

Mr. P.W. McAlister

Mr. ’77 & Mrs. David M. Beacham

Ms. Rebecca B. McCutchen

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Mr. English McCutcheon Dr. Larry T. McGehee

Mr. & Mrs. Ed L. Allen Mrs. Mason Barrett Ms. Lauren J. Bayne ‘07 Mr. ’77 & Mrs. David M. Beacham Mr. Steven C. Clanton, Jr. ‘04 Ms. Jean Brewster Mrs. Holly B. Broadwell Mrs. Ashley Brown-Harris ‘08 Mr. & Mrs. Fred A. Byers Mr. ’04 & Mrs. Fred A. Byers, II Rev. Thomas C. Byrd ‘00 Mr. ’72 & Mrs. Steven R. Cannon Mr. & Mrs. John S. Coates Rev. Marion E. Cobb ‘02 CPT ’02 & Mrs. ’02 Charles R. Dixon Mr. ’02 & Mrs. ’02 Michael Echemendia Mrs. Jill S. Evans ‘86 Ms. Jenny Everett First Christian Church Mr. & Mrs. William W. Ford, Jr. Ms. Leah M. Gaylor ‘08 Dr. & Mrs. Mark S. Gaylord Ms. Allyson A. Gibson ‘02 Mr. & Mrs. Foster E. Gibson, III Mrs. Anne T. Greene Dr. & Mrs. James R. Gross Mr. & Mrs. Roger Habisreutinger Mr. ’52 & Mrs. Robert Hammett, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Peter A. Heegaard, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. G.M. Holbrook, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David A. Holt Ms. Elizabeth Holt Mr. Matthew R. Howsare ‘04 Mr. Josh J. Hudson Mr. ’02 & Mrs. ’02 William J. Hutto Rev. & Mrs. Samuel W. Huxford Dr. & Mrs. M.K. Jain Mr. ’01 & Mrs. ’04 Jody Jennings Mrs. Mary Frances Jowers ‘97 Mr. ’76 & Mrs. Larry G. Joyner Mr. ’56 & Mrs. Russell C. King, Jr. Mr. ’54 & Mrs. William L. Kinney, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Hugh C. Lane, Jr. Ms. Cristine M. Levenduski Dr. & Mrs. Joab M. Lesesne, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. David Matthews Ms. Jeanne McCutcheon Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. McGuire Mr. & Mrs. Samuel D. McMillan Mr. Andrew H. Molinaro ‘91 Dr. ’75 & Mrs. Daniel B. Morrison, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. Moss Ms. Ruth Anne Myers Dr. & Mrs. Dan W. Olds Mr. & Mrs. Jack Parson & Family Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Paynter Mrs. Carolyn D. Pennell Mrs. William P. Phillips Mr. ’69 & Mrs. L. Perrin Powell Mr. & Mrs. Lee Rose Dr. Olin B. Sansbury ‘59 Mr. & Mrs. Bill E. Shelley Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey E. Silliman Ms. Peggy Simpson Rev.’56 & Mrs. Talmage Skinner, Jr. Ms. Clara R. Smith Mr. ’75 & Mrs. C. Michael Smith Mrs. Patricia A. Smith Dr. & Mrs. Ravenel Smith Ms. Sara S. Smith Spartanburg Art Museum Dr. & Mrs. George M. Speed Dr. ’57 & Mrs. B.G. Stephens Mr. & Mrs. Edwin H. Story Mrs. Jean F. Sydnor Dr. ’56 & Mrs. T. Reginald Thackston Dr. ’51 & Mrs. John H. Tillotson Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Trahern Rev. & Mrs. Clay H. Turner Mr. James C. Van Meter Wednesday Study Club Mrs. Cowles Whitley ‘05 Mr. Josh Whitley ‘05 Mr. & Mrs. Winston L. Wright Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Wynn, III

Mr. Dave McKenna

Mr. ’54 & Mrs. William L. Kinney, Jr.

Rev. E. Donald McKinney

Dr. ’76 & Mrs. Edward McKinney, Jr.

Mr. Bobby G. McLellan ‘53 Ms. Betty P. McLellan

Ms. Betty McLeod

Dr. J. Grady Locklear ‘65

Mr. John Bowman McLeod Mr. & Mrs. John P. Britton

Mr. John Guyton McLeod, Jr. Ms. Cassandra Baker McLeod

Ms. Mary Deloise Martin Mr. Eugene G. Martin

Mr. Furman W. Massingale ‘70 Mr. P. David Walker ‘70

Dr. Charles “Chuck” R. May, III Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Herndon, Sr.

Mr. Sam Moyer

Mr. & Mrs. William W. Kirkpatrick

Mr. & Mrs. James Wright Nash Mr. Emerson Duke

Mr. Tom Oakman ‘57 Ms. Anne B. Oakman

Dr. Jennings K. Owens, Jr. ‘37 Mr. & Mrs. Eddie Hailey

Mr. Phillip L. Pace, Sr.

Dr. * & Mrs. Larry T. McGehee Rev.’56 & Mrs. Talmage Skinner, Jr.

Mrs. Miriam Durham Pate

Mr. ’53 & Mrs. Robert T. Barham

Mr. Robert J. Pettigrew ‘55 Mrs. Miriam L. Pettigrew

Mr. William P. Phillips ‘55

Dr. & Mrs. Robert K. Ackerman Mr. & Mrs. Melvin L. Allen Ms. Frances G. Applegarth Mr. & Mrs. Marion Beasley Mr. & Mrs. Walter M. Brice, III Mr. & Mrs. Smith E. Brody Mr. & Mrs. Carl W. Brown Mr. & Mrs. David E. Burgess Hon. & Mrs. O.D. Burgdorf Mr. William H. Burton Mr. ’72 & Mrs. Steven R. Cannon Mrs. Ashley Phillips Case Ms. Martha H. Ellis Dr. Laurie N. Ervin ‘57 Hon. ’56 & Mrs. Ray C. Eubanks, Jr. Dr. William B. Evins ‘56 Mr. & Mrs. Baird C. Foster, Jr. The Betty Reeves Gardner Family Dr. Charles L. “Buddy” Garrett ‘61 Mr. & Mrs. David H. Geisler Mrs. Ann W. Gill Mr ’80 & Mrs. James P. Gill Mr & Mrs. Whitner L. Griffin, Jr. Mr. ’56 & Mrs. Jay Hammond Mr. Jerry Jolley Mr. R. Kinard Johnson, Jr. Mrs. Jean Keely Mr. ’56 & Mrs. Russell C. King, Jr. Mr. ’54 & Mrs. William L. Kinney, Jr. Mr. ’56 & Mrs. Sam H. Maw, Jr. Dr. * & Mrs. Larry T. McGehee Mr. & Mrs. Morris McKinney Mr. & Mrs. H. Steve McManus Mrs. Mary Ann R. Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Guyton Phillips Mr. ’59 & Mrs. Jerry Richardson Mr. & Mrs. Jon Richardson Dr. & Mrs. Harold Ellis Shaw, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Shumpert Rev.’56 & Mrs. Talmage Skinner, Jr. Rev. ’56 & Mrs. Thomas A. Summers Mr. & Mrs. John B. Taylor Mr. ’77 & Mrs. George C. Todd, Jr. Mr. ’67 & Mrs. Joseph B. Traywick Ms. Ida G. Vaughn & Family Mrs. Luke J. Wilburn, Jr. Mr. Hugh O’ Wilder ‘58

Mr. Curtis Ransom Plyler ‘29 Mr. George M. Plyler

Dr. John G. Ramsbottom ‘40

Dr. ’40 & Mrs. George B. Richardson

Mr. Thomas Brantly Reeves

Mr. ‘65 & Mrs. William J. Rivers, II

Rev. Toy Fennel Reid 1916

Mr. ’73 & Mrs. James B. Reid, Jr.

Mr. George Robbins

Rev.’56 & Mrs. Talmage Skinner, Jr.

Mr. Landon W. Roberts, Jr. ‘77 Mr. Joel B. Adams, Jr.

Mr. Eldred Robinson Ms. Rebecca Laffitte

Mr. Richard G. Rogers ‘55 Mr. W. Keith Parris ‘55

Ms. Maureen Romfh Mr. Robert DeLuria, Jr.

Mr. LeGrand A. Rouse, Sr. ‘30 Mr. LeGrand A. Rouse, II ‘54

Mr. James Ruben, Jr. ‘62

Mr. ’69 & Mrs. Charles L. Compton Mr. ’61 & Mrs. Dwight Patterson, Jr.

Mrs. Muffet Sansbury

F. Hugh Atkins Real Estate Mr. & Mrs. Fred M. Auld, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Barnet Mr. ’77 & Mrs. David M. Beacham Dr. James D. Bearden, III Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Blackwell Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Blexrud Mr. & Mrs. C. Reginald Brasington Mr. Jonathan E. Buchan Mr. & Mrs. Joseph T. Burkhardt Mrs. C. H. Butler Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Bryden Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Campbell Mr. William P. Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Alasdair K. Carmichael Mr. & Mrs. W.L. Carpenter Mr. & Mrs. Randall N. Conway Mrs. Mary Alice Davidson Mr. & Mrs. J. Thomas Davis Dr. & Mrs. W. Mac Davis Mr. Nicky Demetrious Dr. & Mrs. Benjamin B. Dunlap Mr. & Mrs. William C. Ervin, Sr. Ms. Elaine T. Freeman Mr. & Mrs. Norman L. Gasswint Mr. & Mrs. John R. Ghere Mr. ’63 & Mrs. John T. Gramling, II Mr. ’61 & Mrs. Ben M. Gramling, II Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Gross Mr. & Mrs. Roger A. Habisreutinger Mrs. Helen Hines Ms. Suzanne Hofford The Humanities Council SC Mr. & Mrs. Harold W. Jacobs Mr. & Mrs. Henry D. Jacobs, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth James Mr. Brown W. Johnson Mr. ’54 & Mrs. Bill Kinney, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Darryl Kirshy Mr. ’65 & Mrs. Jack W. Lawrence Ms. Sharon M. Lee Mr. Wallace K. Lightsey Ms. Mary Lindsay Ms. Carolyn J. Lynn Mr. Zerno E. Martin, Jr. Mr. ’56 & Mrs. Samuel H. Maw Mr. & Mrs. William C. Mayrose Mr. H. Jack McCall, Jr. Dr. * & Mrs. Larry T. McGehee Ms. Day H. McLaughlin Ms. Joanne Montague Mr. & Mrs. Walter A. Novak J. Fritz O’Connor Law Firm Mr. & Mrs. John W. Orr Mr. ’61 & Mrs. Dwight Patterson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Ronald D. Paxton Mr. & Mrs. Dwight M. Pemberton Mr. & Mrs. Craig M. Phillips Ms. Mary Lynn Pond Mr. & Mrs. Raymond A. Shingler Rev.’56 & Mrs. Talmage Skinner, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Emil E. Spieth Mr. & Mrs. Edwin H. Story Mr. & Mrs. Ernie G. Stringer Ms. Julia H. “Jill” Taylor Dr. & Mrs. Harry E. Varney Mr. William L. Want Dr. ’57 & Mrs. Robert M. Watson Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Wexler Mr. ’60 & Mrs. John Williams, Jr. Ms. Brenda Weaver Wray Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Wynn, III Dr. Janice B. Yost Mr. & Mrs. Raphael J. Zimak

Mr. Christopher Staubes ‘66

Mr. & Mrs. C.M. Allen Mr. & Mrs. Barry L. Baker Mr. J.W. Cabaniss Ms. Nell K. Callahan Dr. John A. Colwell Mr. Joseph R. Cross, Jr. ‘67 Mr. & Mrs. Edward H. Daniell Mr. John R. Foster, Jr. ‘70 Mr. ’62 & Mrs. Charles C. Graham Ms. Louise King Mr. & Mrs. Hugh C. Lane, Jr. Ms. Cassandra Baker McLeod Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Moore, II Mr. & Mrs. John L. Paul The Potpourri Garden Club Mr. & Mrs. Alex Rankin Dr. & Mrs. Edmund Rhett, Jr. Mr ’66 & Mrs. Randal M. Robinson Ms. Charlyn Hancock Staubes Mr. & Mrs. Carlton Simons Mr. ’92 & Mrs. Garrett D. Steck Mr. James A. Stuckey, Jr. ‘60 Mr. & Mrs. Edwin H. Story Dr. M. Victoria Tatum ‘86 Dr. ’58 & Mrs. W. Bonner Thomason Mrs. Helen R. Tisdale Mrs. Margaret M. Ward Mr. Richard Wasserstrom

Mr. Ryan R. Staubes Mr. & Mrs. C.M. Allen

Dr. Richard A. Steadman ‘51

Dr. ’78 & Mrs. Terry A. King Dr. ’53 & Mrs. John M. Younginer, Jr.

Ms. Gwen Stephens

Mr. ’72 & Mrs. Steven R. Cannon

Dr. Henry Otto Stone ‘59 Ms. Barbara T. Stone

Mr. Edward B. “Ned” Sydnor ‘55

Ms. Mary Cribb Adams Altrusa International Mr. ’77 & Mrs. David M. Beacham Mr. Emerson Bell Ms. Martha A. Brewington ‘00 Mr. James V. Burchfield Dr. Warner Cribb Dr. ’55 & Mrs. ’69 Charles D. Barrett Co-Workers of Bruce Sydnor Mr. & Mrs. Jack Cribb Mr. & Mrs. James V. Curchfield Mr. & Mrs. Douglas R. Curry Custom Stitch Mr. Henry B. Davenport, III Mrs. Mary Alice Davidson Mr. & Mrs. Edwin E. Elam, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John S. Evans Mrs. Pat B. Fowler Mr. & Mrs. Roy M. Fowler Mr. & Mrs. Wilton B. Fowler, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. George A. Funkhouser Mr. & Mrs. Walter M. Glenn Ms. Clara R. Grimm Mr. & Mrs. Frank D. Hall Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Henkle Ms. Janie B. Hicks Ms. Mary-Nelson Hoornstra Hon. Charles W. Jones ‘73 Mr. & Mrs. Charles Jones Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Kofalt Mr. ’51 & Mrs. William B. Lever Dr. Janice Love Mr. & Mrs. Nathaniel F. Magruder Mr. Clarence Satterwhite, Jr. ‘70 Dr. ’61 & Mrs. Dan B. Maultsby Dr. * & Mrs. Larry T. McGehee Mr. Emerson Bell ‘70 Ms. Anne B. McKelvey Mr. Haskell M. Monroe, Jr. Ms. Ivery F. Scott Dr. & Mrs. Dan W. Olds Ms. Kimberly M. Johnson ‘95 Mr. ’65 & Mrs. Marion B. Peavey Mr. Andrew C. Shields ‘01 Mr. & Mrs. Robert V. Pinson Mr. ’01 & Mrs. Philip W. Shields Mr. ’69 & Mrs. L. Perrin Powell Dr. ‘55 & Mrs. Mack C. Poole, III Mrs. M. Helen Sullivan Smith Rev.’56 & Mrs. Talmage Skinner, Jr. RSN Promotionals Ms. Margaret D. Roldan Mr. Harold Smithyman Mr. & Mrs. G.R. Russell Mr. & Mrs. William W. Kirkpatrick Rev.’56 & Mrs. Talmage Skinner, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Stephenson Mr. Conley T. Snidow, Jr. J.M. Solesbee Construction Dr. ’64 & Mrs. Louis E. Shepard Dr. ’57 & Mrs. B.G. Stephens Mr. & Mrs. Edwin H. Story Mr. Henry Nelson Snyder, Jr. Dr. Granville L. Sydnor ‘55 Mr. & Mrs. David W. Kudravetz Dr. M. Victoria Tatum Mr. Hugh McCrea Snyder 1911 Dr. & Mrs. Thomas V. Thoroughman Mr. & Mrs. David W. Kudravetz Mrs. Helen Veverka Ms. Linda G. Walker Mr. Thomas Nelson Snyder Mr. & Mrs. Billy Watson Mr. & Mrs. David W. Kudravetz Mr. & Mrs. James C. Welch Rev. William C. Stackhouse ‘40 Mr. David G. White ‘77 Dr. & Mrs. David S. Wood Dr. Laurie N. Ervin ‘57 Charlie & Charlotte Zaglin

Dr. Eben Taylor, Jr. ‘48 Dr. Jan Love

Kaley Almond ’09 and Amanda Kilbourne ’08

Amanda Kilbourne ’08, Wofford On Call mentor “… I’ve learned to find common ground with people.”

Calling

a complete stranger can be scary. For a first-time student caller for Wofford On Call, picking up the phone to ask for financial support for the college is often a nerve-wracking experience.

“Beginning callers definitely learn from watching more experienced callers,” says Amanda Kilbourne ’08, director of the Wofford On Call program.

Before Kilbourne joined the staff as director, she spent four years as a student caller and supervisor. Students like Kaley Almond ’09 watched her chat with Wofford alumni and field questions from less-experienced callers with the ease of someone much older. Now Almond is serving as student supervisor for Wofford On Call and replaying the lessons she learned from Kilbourne.

“From Amanda I’ve learned to be more organized and creative,” says Almond. “By watching her deal with both students and alumni, I’ve learned to find common ground with people. That definitely improves communication.”

According to Kilbourne, students who work in the Wofford On Call program, help themselves while they help the college.

“When they graduate, our Wofford On Call students can honestly say that they’ve had experience in sales and communications. I think they also leave with more confidence and the ability to overcome their fears,” says Kilbourne.

Mr. Leon “Sandy” Taylor ‘58 Mr. & Mrs. Dave Katt

Mr. Edward W. Teal, Sr. ‘51

Dr. ’52 & Mrs. Charles E. Cauthen, Jr.

Mrs. Martha A. Waltrip

Dr. & Mrs. Ted R. Monroe

Mr. Claude Warr

Mr. Daniel W. Willis ‘32

Dr. J. Grady Locklear ‘65

Mr. George I. Whetsell, III ‘89

Mr. & Mrs. Jesse F. Charles The Correll Insurance Group

Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Larson

Mr. ’88 & Mrs. Thomas Willingham, III Ms. Louise Stewart Winslow Mr. ’67 & Mrs. Stewart H. Johnson

Mr. Horace C. Turner, Jr.

Mr. ’65 & Mrs. Torrey L. Whitman

Mr. Robert J. Thiede

Rev.’56 & Mrs. Talmage B. Skinner, Jr.

Dr. Duncan W. Tyson, Sr.

Mr. ’02 & Mrs. ’02 Michael Gibson

Mr. Nat G. Walker

Mr. Cleveland S. Harley ‘50

Mr. Terry D. Waltrip ‘36

Ms. Helen Bryman Whitman Mr. Guy W. Wilkes, Jr. ‘42

Mrs. Mary Zepp

Mr. Reaves H. Gasque ‘65

Mr. ’42 & Mrs. Harry P. Williams, Jr.

Rev. John Williams ‘50 Rev. H.R. Reynolds ‘44

LeRoy J. Willinghurst

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honorariums

Mr. J. Donald Walker ‘66

Wofford Admissions Office

Ms. Geetha Nadiminti

Rev. Lisa N. Yebuah ‘99

Class of 1978

Mr. ’78 & Mrs. Robert L. Allen

Class of 2006

Ms. Mallory E. Bramlett ‘06 Ms. Suzanne D. Webb ‘06 Ms. Jayne A. Wilmot ‘06

Class of 2008

Mr. Nathan Madigan, Jr. ‘08

Coach Mike Ayers

Mr. Stacey F. Day ‘85 Dr. Laurie N. Ervin ‘57

Mr. Wade Ballard ’79 Mr. Jack Griffeth ‘73

Mrs. Helen J. Barham

Mr. & Mrs. R. Jeffords Barham

Mr. Robert T. Barham ‘53

Mr. & Mrs. R. Jeffords Barham

Mr. ’53 & Mrs. Robert T. Barham Mr. & Mrs. R. Jeffords Barham

Mr. Frank N. Bassett Mr. John Harrison Mr. Dahyun Yi

Mr. John Philip Bell

Mr. ‘75 & Mrs. J. Philip Bell

Dr. Vic Bilanchone

Molly McGinnis ’09, Lindsey Richardson ’09 and Dave Pittman ’94.

David Pittman, mentor by example “His precise and organized methods of conducting research are qualities I will remember even after I leave Wofford.”

Molly

McGinnis ’09 and Lindsey Richardson ’09 learned a lot about Dr. David Pittman ’94 by working with him as Community of Scholars fellows during the summer. As they examined the effect of benzodiazepines (anti-anxiety drugs) on the consumption patterns of a variety of taste solutions by rats, they also watched Pittman conduct his own summer research. McGinnis and Richardson studied Pittman’s work habits, organizational skills, commitment to the research and enthusiasm.

“Dr. Pittman has taught me valuable research skills that will help me in graduate school and beyond,” says Richardson. “His precise and organized methods of conducting research are qualities I will remember even after I leave Wofford. He has been a great mentor and wonderful professor.”

Because of their summer research experience, both Richardson and McGinnis asked Pittman, associate professor of psychology, to supervise their senior thesis research, a continuation of the Community of Scholars project.

“They took what they learned this summer and built on it during the fall,” says Pittman. “The goal is for their work to culminate in an article published in a scholarly journal with McGinnis and Richardson as co-authors.”

In addition to his teaching and research load, Pittman writes grants to organizations such as the National Science Foundation, to gain funds to help his students continue their research.

“Dr. Pittman definitely goes the extra mile to help his research assistants,” says McGinnis. “He is very student-oriented and genuinely wants us to do well in school. He is helpful in answering any questions about graduate school or after graduation experiences.

He is an invaluable asset to Wofford in regards to his ongoing research and his willingness to help students.”

Ms. Leigh D. Soufas ‘78

Mr. Thomas C. Brittain ‘75

The Hon. ’78 & Mrs. Bruce Williams

Mr. Eric Brown

Mr. ’08 & Mrs. ’08 Stephen P. Harris

Mr. & Mrs. Julius R. Brown

Mr. ’08 & Mrs. ’08 Stephen P. Harris

Mr. Michael S. Brown ‘76

Mr. & Mrs. Samuel F. Albergotti Mr. Matt R. Carlisle ‘08 Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. Carlisle

Dr. Charles Joseph Carter

Mrs. Heather Randolph Carter ‘97

Mr. Henry Wornom Gresset ‘08 Mr. & Mrs. Frederic H. Gresset

Dr. Susan C. Griswold Mr. Peter P. Graser ‘88

Dr. James R. Gross Leigh D. Soufas ‘78

Mrs. Marjorie G. Halford Mr. & Mrs. Jack M. Telle

Coach Lee C. Hanning

Mr. & Mrs. John F. Glenn Mr. & Mrs. Thomas N. Glenn

Mr. Brad Hallam Mr. John Harrison Mr. Dahyun Yi

Mr. & Mrs. Rick Harris

Mr. ’08 & Mrs. ‘08 Stephen P. Harris

Ms. Robin Harris

Mr. ’08 & Mrs. ’08 Stephen P. Harris

Mr. John Patrick Henry ‘66 Ms. Amy Marette Henry ‘90

Dr. David A. Lanning ‘90 Mr. Jack D. Griffeth ‘73

Mr. John B. Nichols ‘01 Mrs. Cornelia B. Nichols

Ms. April Moorhouse

Mr. & Mrs. Jason A. Gwardiak

Mr. Matthew A. Norcia ‘09 Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Norcia

Mr. ’65 & Mrs. Marion Peavey

Dr. ’48 & Mrs. Chauncey W. Lever, Sr.

Dr. Frank M. Pickens ‘69 HammerSmith Ms. Maureen Romfh Mr. & Mrs. Robert Deluria

Mr. Marshall Brock Roper, Sr. ‘55 Dr. Mack C. Poole, III ‘55

Dr. ’82 & Mrs. March E. Seabrook Mr. P. Dennis Way

Dr. Angela B. Shiflet Ms. Kathleen P. Burger

Rev.’56 & Mrs. Talmage Skinner, Jr.

Dr. ’77 & Mrs. William B. James, Jr.

Rev. & Mrs. Frank M. Bostick Mr. ’72 & Mrs. Charles H. Gray Mrs. Marjorie G. Halford Dr. ’61 & Mrs. Paul S. Lofton, Jr. Dr.* & Mrs. Larry T. McGehee Mrs. Anne W. Richards Mrs. Caroline Reames Tolbert Rev. ’56 & Mrs. William J. Vines Dr. ’56 & Mrs. Theodore H. Walter Mr. & Mrs. Warren E. White

Kappa Sigma Fraternity

Mr. Frank C. Stanton, Sr. ‘58

Mr. James A Knight, Jr. ‘42

Mr. W. Grady Stewart ‘50

Mr. Lawrence F. Kind ‘71

Dr. Phillip Stone, II ‘94

Mr. William L. Kinney, Jr. ‘54

Ms. Kristin Elizabeth Strickland ‘11

Mr. Thomas P. Hray

Mr. Alexander Hray, III ‘05

Mr. Walter K. Hunt, IV ‘08 Mr. & Mrs. Walter K. Hunt, III

Rev. Robert J. James Mr. R. Michael James ‘73

Mr. William Dwyer James MAJ Bryan Todd Tillirson ‘96 Mrs. Marian K. Knight

Mrs. Samantha Maddox ‘93

Ms. Nell M. Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Herndon, Sr.

Mr. & Mrs. Bob Kuhn

Ms. Claire Wells

CWS Insurance Agency

Mr. Matthew Ryan Switzer ‘05 Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Waller

Ms. Margaret M. Strom

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Strom, Jr.

Dr. Donald A. Castillo, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Larson

Rev. ’50 & Mrs. Carl Clary

The Sagent Society

Dean Oakley H. Coburn

Dr. ’48 & Mrs. Chauncey W. Lever, Sr.

Ms. Emily M. Collins ‘08

Dr. ’48 & Mrs. Chauncey W. Lever, Sr.

Ms. Edith S. Jones Ms. Glenna R. Luca Ms. Gayle G. Magruder Mr. ‘60 & Mrs. Harold D. Thompson, Sr. Ms. Helen Ann Veverka Ms. Rhita B. Wrightson Ms. Myrtle H. Zimmerman

Mr. Chauncey Chapman Lever

Dr. ’48 & Mrs. Chauncey W. Lever, Sr.

Mrs. Catherine H. Thompson

Ms. Caroline R. Cotter

CPT ’02 & Mrs. ’02 Charles Dixon

Dr. ’48 & Mrs. Chauncey W. Lever, Sr.

Mr. Matthew E. Drinkhahn ‘99

Dr. ’48 & Mrs. Chauncey W. Lever, Sr.

Dr. Linton R. Dunson

Dr. ’48 & Mrs. Chauncey W. Lever, Sr.

Mr. Paul A. Furtick ‘82

Mrs. David Gordon Russell & Family Mr. & Mrs. M. Mac Boggs

Dr. & Mrs. H. Wade Collins, III Mr. & Mrs. Leslie A. Cotter, Jr. Mrs. Clare Stokes Cook ‘02 Ms. Jo A. Drinkhahn

Prof. John E. Lane ‘77 Mr. Charles Cauthen Lever, Jr.

Dr. ’79 & Mrs. Charles Lever, Sr.

Mr. ’75 & Mrs. Chauncey Lever, Jr. Rev. Rachel B. Lever

Mr. Zachary Cauthen Lever ‘05

Mrs. Jean F. Sydnor

Ms. Glenna R. Luca Mr. & Mrs. Nathaniel F. Magruder Mrs. Rhita B. Wrightson Ms. Myrtle H. Zimmerman

Mr. ’60 & Mrs. Harold Thompson, Sr. Mr. ‘81 & Mrs. R. Andrew Kelly Edward ‘59, Gloria & Earl Kirkland

Dr. Harold Dean Thompson, Jr. ‘81

MAJ Carl A. Young ‘96 Dr. ’61 & Mrs. Dan B. Maultsby

Mr. ’57 & Mrs. J. Daniel Lewis, Jr. Dr. ’48 & Mrs. Chauncey W. Lever, Sr.

Mr. & Mrs. Cameron Ferguson Mr. & Mrs. Charles Ferguson

Mr. John G. Felder, Jr. ‘90

Ms. Jennifer L. Lister ‘03

Mr. & Mrs. Marc Allen White

Dr. George S. Fields, Jr. ‘52

Ms. Kathryn J. Lister ‘06

Mr. Grayson Whitney

Dr. Vivian B. Fisher

Mr. Thomas McAllister

Mr. Edward B. Wile ‘73

Mr. James Thomas Fogartie ‘08

Dr. Byron R. McCane

Mr. Harry P. Williams, Jr. ‘42

Ms. Renee B. Romberger

Mrs. Elaine Fields Bermudez ‘82 Dr. ’61 & Mrs. Dan B. Maultsby Dr. & Mrs. James Fogartie

Dr. Walker H. Ford ‘45

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick L. Baryenbruch

Mr. & Mrs. Hugh C. Lister Mr. & Mrs. Hugh C. Lister Mr. Rex A. Maynard ‘69

Mr. ’89 & Mrs. ’89 Bill Brasington, Jr. Ceil, Ron & Stephanie Kuzma

Dr.* & Mrs. Larry T. McGehee

Mr. Philip F. Foster, Sr.

Dr. & Mrs. David A. Holt

Rev. ’48 & Mrs. J. Louis Fowke

Rev.’56 & Mrs. Talmage B. Skinner, Jr.

Mrs. P. Diane Fuller

Dr. ’76 & Mrs. Edward D. McKinney, Jr.

Mrs. Mary Frances Galphin ‘13

Mrs. Clare Stokes Cook ‘02

Mr. Sam A. George, Jr. ‘58

Ms. Shelly Sinclair

Rev. ’50 & Mrs. James Gibbs, Jr.

Dr. & Mrs. Ivan A. Marcotte

Mr. Corey Miles Gibson ‘08

Mr. John S. Benfield ‘78 Rev. Jeanette Cooper Dicks

Mrs. Elaine T. Freeman

Dr. ’48 & Mrs. Chauncey W. Lever, Sr. Mrs. Tanya Bordeaux Hamm ‘89 Mrs. Virginia Galphin

Mrs. Annie Laurie K. George

Dr. ’48 & Mrs. Chauncey Lever, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Miles Gibson

Dr. Ellen S. Goldey

Mr. ’89 & Mrs. ’89 Bill Brasington, Jr. Ceil, Ron & Stephanie Kuzma

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Mr. Perry H. Gravely ‘83

Dr. W. Scott Morrow

Mr. W. David Gravely ‘54

Ms. Elizabeth McGehee

Rev. E. Donald McKinney

Dr. ’02 & Mrs. ’02 S. Lucas McMillan Mr. Marion L. McMillan, Jr. ‘59 Ms. Anson Rebecca Marcotte ‘12 Dr. Dan B. Maultsby ‘61 Mr. ’05 & Mrs. ’06 Tim Mittman Ms. Sarah W. Evans ‘06

Dr. Peter A. Moore ‘69

Dr. ’48 & Mrs. Chauncey W. Lever, Sr. Ms. Sarah W. Evans ‘06

Mr. R. Michael James ‘73

CWS Insurance Agency Mr. Ferris K. Joyner, Jr. ‘71 Mr. James Alexander Joyner ‘11 Mr. William K. Joyner Ms. Lauren Joyner Vicars ‘03 Mr. H. Lucien Williams ‘51

Mr. R. Kenneth Williams ‘66 Mr. & Mrs. Larry Rivers

Dr. ’75 & Mrs. J. Richard Williamson Mr. P. Dennis Way

Kate, Emily & Logan Williamson Mrs. Ann Silverberg Williamson ‘95

Dr. Carol Wilson ‘81 Mr. Hitesh G. Tolani ‘04

Dr. David S. Wood

Dr. ’77 & Mrs. Walter R. Leonard, Jr.

Mr. Wallace M. Wright ‘49 Mr. & Mrs. J. David Wansley

Coach Michael K. Young

Mr. ’92 & Mrs. James S. Fulmer, Jr.

Deaths

County Medical Society and the Spartanburg Day School. Among his awards and recognitions were the Spartanburg Kiwanis Citizen of the Year, the Neville Holcombe Award of the Spartanburg 1932 Chamber of Commerce, and the Order of Daniel Willard Willis, Nov. 28, 2008, the Palmetto. In 2003, Wofford conferred Spartanburg. Mr. Willis, 97 years old at a Doctor of Science degree. the time of his death, was a retired partner in the Correll-Willis-Smith Insurance Agency. He won numerous professional 1941 Marvin Henry Byrd, Nov. 15, 2008, honors, including Agent of the Year for the Carolinas’ Association of Mutual In- Greenwood, S.C. Remembered on the surance Agents. He was a member of the Greenwood Index-Journal editorial page First Presbyterian Church of Spartanburg as “a first-rate pharmacist and a first-rate and was active with the United Way and human being,” Mr. Byrd was the former other local charities. He was an officer in owner and manager of the Cambridge the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in both Pharmacy until he sold the business and retired. However, he kept busy by World War II and Korea. volunteering at the United Ministries Free Clinic. He was a member of the St. 1933 Mark United Methodist Church and the Fred Chewning, Dec. 3, 2008, Man- American Legion. He was an officer in the ning, S.C. At the time of his death, the U.S. Navy during World War II. beloved “Mr. Fred” was the oldest living alumnus of Wofford College (104 years of age). He was a lifelong member of Man- 1942 Earl Geer Ezell, Feb. 14, 2009, ning United Methodist Church, helping out with some of the custodial work and Spartanburg, S.C. Mr. Ezell owned and serving coffee every Sunday morning for operated a professional appraisal and years. He also was a member of the Ameri- real estate company in Spartanburg from can Legion, the V.F.W., the Huguenot 1977 through 2007. A member of Omega Society and the Masons. Mr. Chewning Tau Rho, the honorary fraternity of the graduated from high school in 1920 and National Association of Realtors, he was worked for years to save up enough money a leader in several national professional to attend Wofford. As a captain in General associations, winning numerous awards MacArthur’s headquarters signal unit at over the years. He was also a past district the end of World War II, he actually governor of the Civitan Club and a lay witnessed the Japanese surrender on the leader in the First Baptist Church of deck of the battleship Missouri. He then Spartanburg began a teaching career that continued 1943 until he retired.

Earl Dean Hope, Feb. 22, 2009, Spartanburg, S.C. Mr. Hope was a retired 1936 Paul Wilson Littlejohn, Dec. 11, 2008, vice president with Wachovia Bank. He Albany, Ga. Before retiring, Mr. Littlejohn was a charter member and past president was an insurance marketing executive who of the Breakfast Optimist Club. He was worked in several Southern states over the a member of Bethel United Methodist course of his career. While living in Florida, Church. He was a U.S. Army Air Force he was instrumental in founding a non- veteran of World War II. denominational church, Mission by the Sea. In the Albany area, he was a member of Gillionville Baptist Church.

1937

Eugene Gray Martin, Jan. 1, 2009, Greenville, S.C. Mr. Martin was a retired supervisor with the U.S. Postal Service. He was a member of the Kiwanis Club and the Trinity United Methodist Church.

Lt. Col. Peter Jack Newton Sr., Dec. 19, 2008, McColl, S.C. During World War II, Mr. Newton was one of the officers assigned to organize the Fort Benning OCS program, and later served in the European theater. He earned the Combat Infantryman’s Badge and the Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals. After the war, he was a farmer in the Boykin area until he retired. Mr. Newton was a lifelong member of the Boykin United Methodist Church and served on the McColl High School board of trustees.

1938

1945

George Galphin Jr., Dec. 20, 2008, Ninety Six, S.C. Mr. Galphin attended Wofford prior to serving with the U.S. Army in World War II. For 30 years prior to retirement, he was an administrator for Greenwood County. He was a member of the Lions Club, the American Legion and the First Baptist Church of Ninety Six.

1946

Dr. Beauchamp Falls Greene Jr., Feb. 21, 2009, Bamberg, S.C. For 56 years, Dr. Greene practiced optometry in Bamberg, S.C. He was active in Trinity United Methodist Church and served multiple terms on the Bamberg City Council. As an officer the U.S. Army in Italy during World War II, he received the Bronze Star, the Combat Infantry Badge and the Purple Heart as well as Italian decorations.

1947

James Hammett Brockman, Feb. 20, 2009, Spartanburg, S.C. Mr. Brockman was a science teacher, principal and administrator in Spartanburg County School District 7. He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church, where he was a deacon and Sunday School teacher. He was also a member of the Spartanburg Civitan Club. A U.S. Army veteran of World War II, he served as a medic in the European Theater.

Howard Bobo Carlisle III, Dec. 25, 2008, Spartanburg, S.C. An Air Force veteran of World War II and the Korean War, Mr. Carlisle did undergraduate work at Wofford before completing his bachelor’s degree in textile management at N.C. State. Having served a term as president of the Printing Industry of the Carolinas Association, he was a prominent Spartanburg business and civic leader. He was a deacon at the First Presbyterian Church of Spartanburg.

Dr. Gameel Byron (G.B.) Hodge, Feb. 23, 2009, Spartanburg, S.C. Spartanburg County’s first board-certified surgeon, Dr. Hodge practiced general, thoracic and cardiovascular surgery in the community for more than 50 years (1948-2000), serving more than 65,000 patients. He was also a visionary community leader, and it was largely through his efforts that the University of South Carolina Upstate was established in 1967. For many years, Dr. Hodge provided important leadership to that institution as chair of the Spartanburg County Commission for Higher Education, and he took great pride in Upstate’s 17,000 graduates, including more than 3,600 registered nurses. The G.B. Hodge Center at Upstate was named in his name, and he received an honorary doctoral degree from the University of South Carolina.

Dr. Hodge was an active participant in the alumni programs of his “three colleges and universities”— Wofford, Vanderbilt and Duke. He also was a leader at the Episcopal 1949 Church of the Advent, the Spartanburg Jack Anderson Robinette, Feb. 4, Area Chamber of Commerce, the United 2009, Hummelstown, Pa. For more than Way of the Piedmont, the Spartanburg 30 years, Mr. Robinette was a well-known

animal nutritionist, owning and operating his own consulting company in Hershey, Pa. He also was the historian for the Robinette Family Association and a member of the Unitarian Church of Harrisonburg.

Mr. Robinette was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War era.

Dr. Allen Ridley Slone, Nov. 27, 2008, Hartsville, S.C. Dr. Slone served in World War II as a Navy Corpsman attached to the Marines. After completing medical school and operating a private practice from 1956 to 1964, he became the corporate medical director for Sonoco Products Co. for 22 years, retiring in 1986.

He was active in professional associations, and was a lay leader at St. Luke United Methodist Church.

1950

W. Dean Cannon Jr., Nov. 28, 2008, Spartanburg, S.C. A native of Spartanburg, Mr. Cannon played football at Wofford and earned an Army commission through ROTC. After serving in the Korean War, he obtained a law degree and eventually became president of the California League of Savings Institutions. After he retired to Spartanburg, he became a member of the Second Presbyterian Church and was an avid supporter of Terrier athletics and the college in general. In 2006, he created the W. Dean Cannon Jr. Endowed Scholarship Fund using proceeds of a retirement IRA and the college’s Pooled Income Fund. The total value of this scholarship fund now exceeds $1.5 million.

Oscar Leroy Shoenfelt Jr., Jan. 25, 2009, Montreat, N.C. Mr. Shoenfelt was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. During his professional career, he was associated with the Equitable Life Assurance Association. He was a member of the Carthage, N.C., Presbyterian Church.

1951

Dr. William Everett Edwards, Jan. 24, 2009, Spartanburg, S.C. Dr. Edwards practiced dentistry in Spartanburg for 28 years until his retirement. He was a member of the Spartanburg County Health Planning Commission from 1979-1986 and was active in professional organizations. He was a past president of the Sertoma Club of Spartanburg and served as a deacon at Morningside Baptist Church.

He was a U.S. Air Force veteran.

W.L. “Willie” Varner, Jan. 20, 2009, Woodruff, S.C. One of South Carolina’s legendary football coaches and a member of the Wofford College Athletics Hall of Fame, Mr. Varner was a high school coach and administrator for 50 years in Spartanburg County School District 4.

During 43 seasons as a head football coach at Woodruff High School, he compiled a 383-132-10 record and won 10 state championships. He was the national high school Coach of the Year in 1983 and was inducted into the National High School Sports Hall of Fame in 1994. Mr. Varner also served on the Woodruff City Council and was a member of the Emma Gray Memorial United Methodist Church.

1952

Ralph Donald Cannon Sr., Feb. 5, 1009, Spartanburg, S.C. Mr. Cannon was a retired teacher, coach and athletics director with Spartanburg County School District 6. A U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War era, he continued his military career in the South Carolina National Guard, with service culminating as the commanding general of the 228th Signal Brigade. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Spartanburg.

Robert Marsden Carlisle Jr., Nov. 18, 2008, Winston-Salem, N.C. After serving as an Army aviator in the Korean War, Mr. Carlisle was engaged in the private practice of law in Spartanburg and Winston-Salem. After he retired, he taught with the Cannon Financial Institute of Athens, Ga. A member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, he was active as a volunteer with the North Carolina School of the Arts. The family suggested memorials to the Robert M. Carlisle Memorial Scholarship Trust, which is administered

by the Spartanburg County Foundation for Wofford students.

Bobby Joe Easler, Feb. 6, 2009, Spartanburg, S.C. Mr. Easler was a retired manager with General Motors Acceptance Corp. He was a U.S. Army officer during the Korean War, earning the Bronze Star Medal. He was a member of Fernwood Baptist Church.

1955

Arthur Boyd Outz III, Dec. 15, 2008, Lavonia, Ga. Mr. Outz was a teacher, coach and administrator at several public schools in Georgia, retiring as the superintendent of Franklin County Schools in 1997. He was active in the Lavonia Masonic Lodge, #241 and the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church.

1956

Lawton Rutledge “L.R.” Connor, Dec. 19, 2008, Eutawville, S.C. Mr. Connor taught and served as an administrator at Holly Hill Academy and the Orangeburg Preparatory School. In 1977, he received the Freedom Foundation Scholarship Award. He also served as president of the Lions Club in Holly Hill.

Francis Luther Glenn, Feb. 14, 2009, Irmo, S.C. An outstanding high school and Terrier football player, Mr. Glenn served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. After graduation from Wofford, he began a career in parks and recreation, retiring from an administrative position at the University of South Carolina. He was a member of Our Lady of the Hills Catholic Church and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

1960

Rhett Evans Splawn, Feb. 18, 2009, Jonesville, S.C. For 35 years, Mr. Splawn was a supervisor with Spartan Mills. He also was involved in the retail grocery business. He was a very active member of the Jonesville United Methodist Church.

Marion Fuller Wright, Jan. 17, 2009, Clio, S.C. Known affectionately as “the music man of Clio,” Mr. Wright died suddenly at his home. A U.S. Army veteran and a retired farmer, he was known for live vocal performances, CDs, and volunteer work as a promoter for the arts. He was also a choir member and lay leader at Clio’s Trinity United Methodist Church, and was a former member and chair of the Marlboro County Council.

1963

Dr. Charles Andrew Tuggle Jr., Jan. 17, 2009, Savannah, Ga. Dr. Tuggle died from injuries he suffered in an automobile accident. A resident of Savannah since 1965, Dr. Tuggle was engaged in the practice of psychotherapy, and he was especially known for his Moon River Group seminars. Since his Wofford days, he had entertained audiences as a gifted musician on piano, drums and trumpet.

1964

Dr. Henry Patterson (“Pat”) Worrell, Jan. 14, 2009, Marion, S.C. Dr. Worrell died after a long battle with cancer. Dr. Worrell practiced dentistry in the U.S. Navy and then began a private practice in Marion in 1970. He was active in the First United Methodist Church of Marion.

He was particularly interested in wildlife and wetlands conversation and served on a number of civic and charitable boards.

He also served on the board of Wofford’s National Alumni Association. In 2006, Dr. Worrell joined his wife, Hallett, his daughter, Laura Worrell Hutto ’91, his son, Reed Worrell ’95, and his son-inlaw, Scott W. Hutto ’91, to establish the Worrell Family Endowed Scholarship Fund at Wofford.

1967

William Thomas Miller Jr., Feb. 8, 2009, Camden, S.C. Mr. Miller was associated with Miller Lumber Co. of Camden, the Lyttleton Street United Methodist Church, and the Camden Rotary Club.

He was a U.S. Army veteran who served in Vietnam.

1968

Jesse Melvin “Bo” Bridgers, Jan. 26, 2009, Ridgeland, S.C. At the time of his death, Mr. Bridgers was serving as agency manager for the Jasper County Farm Bureau, where he had worked since 1982. He was a charter member of the Coosawhatchie River Club and was active in St. Paul United Methodist Church. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1960 through 1964.

1971

Dennis Michael “Standing Bear” Compos, Dec. 16, 2008, Spartanburg, S.C. A former Spartanburg County auditor and a proud Oglala Lakota Sioux, Mr. Compos served 20 years in the U.S. Air Force, retiring as a senior master sergeant.

He was a commander of Spartanburg VFW Post 9539. He began his career in County Government in Spartanburg in 1972. After retiring, he did graduate work in American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota. A particular interest was the Crazy House Memorial in South Dakota, which had been founded by his grandfather, Chief Henry Standing Bear.

1973

Joseph Clopton Farthing Jr., Dec. 15, 2008, Clemmons, N.C. Mr. Farthing was employed as a senior systems analyst at RJR Tobacco for 31 years before retiring.

John Frank Hardaway, Jan. 21, 2009, Columbia, S.C. Mr. Hardaway was engaged in the private practice of both criminal and civil law, specializing in worker’s compensation and Social Security disability issues. He was a member of the House of Delegates for the South Carolina Bar and gave dedicated support to the South Carolina Death Penalty Advocacy Center. He served as a scoutmaster of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Troup 14, and was active in a number of organizations related to wildlife and conservation.

1974

David Randolph Hensley, Nov. 24, 2008, Waynesboro, Ga. Mr. Hensley was a teacher in the Burke County and Monroe County school systems. He was a member of First Baptist Church, Waynesboro.

Greg Kirkland Leevy, Jan. 6, 2009, Greenville, S.C. One of the student pioneers of the Wofford Theatre Workshop, Mr. Leevy at the time of his death was living in Greenville, where he was director of the alumni and diversity affairs office at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. Known to his friends as “Bougie,” he was much respected in his native Columbia as a member of a prominent family, as a businessman, and as a leader in the city’s theater community where he directed notable productions of “The Full Monty,” “A Raisin in the Sun,” and “the White Problem,” an original play about the first African-American faculty member at the University of South Carolina.

1996

Jason Todd Derrick, Dec. 31, 2008, Charleston, S.C. Mr. Derrick, a former co-captain of the Wofford baseball team, was an attorney in Charleston and a member of the local and state bar associations.

The family has suggested memorials to the Terrier Club.

Friends

Millard Fuller, Feb. 3, 2008, Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Fuller, the entrepreneur who gave millions of dollars to found the Christian house-building charity Habitat for Humanity and later the Fuller Center, received an honorary doctorate from Wofford in 2002. President Jimmy Carter called him, “one of the most extraordinary people I have ever known. He used his remarkable gifts as an entrepreneur for the benefit of millions of needy people around the world by providing them with decent housing.”

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