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Friday, July 29, 2011

Greensboro College Alumni PrideNotes, July 2011

Attention: Any alumni who have positive memories or stories about their time at GC that they would like to share with us and other alumni are invited to submit them through the PrideNotes submission page on the Greensboro College website. Stories will be added to posts on this blog and also may be included in the monthly PrideLines e-mail newsletter or our alumni magazine, Points of Pride. Thank you in advance for your submissions!


Cities are in North Carolina except where indicated.


General Announcements

John Fred "Freddy" Johnson Jr. 1977, Greensboro, was among the 2011 inductees into the Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame announced by the Greensboro Sports Commission on June 23, 2011. They will formally be inducted at a banquet on Sept. 19, 2011. After graduation from GC, Johnson built a career at Greensboro Day School as the athletic director and head boys' basketball coach. He held these positions for 33 years. Johnson was also inducted into the Greensboro College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009.

Jason B. Shoffner 2000, Cary, joined the SAS Institute in Cary, NC on July 18, 2011. Shoffner is the Application Developer 4 in the Management Information Systems, Enterprise Intelligence Team.

Maurio R. Hines 2008, Durham, received his MM degree from East Carolina University in May, 2011.

Robert Bickerstaff, Director of the Royce Reynolds Family Student Life Center at Greensboro College, resigned from his position with the college, effective at the end of July. Bickerstaff will be moving to Florida to pursue his Master's Degree and coach women's lacrosse at St. Leo University.

Dr. Cheryl L. Brown, Greensboro, has been appointed to a three-year term as the director of the International Studies program at Greensboro College. Dr. Brown is currently a professor of sociology at GC.

Ms. Cathy Vail, the current Proctor Hall Building Secretary at Greensboro College, has accepted an offer to become the new Executive Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at GC. Vail will start this new position on Sept. 1, 2011.

Dr. John W. Woell, Greensboro, has resigned from his faculty position with Greensboro College. Woell was a Professor of Philosophy and Religion and director of The George Center for Honors Studies. He was also the chair of the Department of Religion at GC. He has accepted an administrative position in the honors college of University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Please join us in wishing him well in the future!


Deaths

Gale Kendrick Nash 1962, Monroe, died May 7, 2011. (obituary)

William O. Cordes, Greensboro, died July 3, 2011. Cordes was active on the Greensboro College Board of Visitors, on GC's Business Advisory Board, and on the TWAC board at GC. (obituary)


Sympathy Extended To

Julia Abels Sypher 1973, Greensboro, in the death of her mother-in-law in July, 2011.

Bonnie Douda Cordes, current Board of Visitors member, in the death of her husband, William O. Cordes. (William Cordes obituary)

Stella Hennis, Greensboro, in the death of her daughter, Amy Hennis on July 13, 2011. Stella
currently works at Greensboro College as the Coordinator of Student Programs in Student Activities. (Amy Hennis' obituary)

Mary Rucker, who oversees the Library and Hill Hall in the Environmental Services Department, in the death of her mother-in-law in July, 2011.


Births/Adoptions

Congratulations to Kris Brunnemer Cooke 1968 and David A. Cooke of Greensboro on the birth of their grandchild, Max Randolph Cooke. He was born to their son, Allen Cooke, and his wife, Abbey Cooke, on May 22, 2011. (photo courtesy of Kris Brunnemer Cooke.)


Friday, July 1, 2011

Greensboro College Alumni PrideNotes, June 2011

Attention: Any alumni who have positive memories or stories about their time at GC that they would like to share with us and other alumni are invited to submit them through the PrideNotes submission page on the Greensboro College website. Stories will be added to posts on this blog and also may be included in the monthly PrideLines e-mail newsletter or our alumni magazine, Points of Pride. Thank you in advance for your submissions!


Cities are in North Carolina except where indicated.


General Announcements

Virginia Roosa Van Tine 1970, Georgetown, DE, is currently the soprano section leader and soloist for the Southern Delaware Choral Society.

Kimberly White Money 1998, Winston Salem, has recently been named as the assistant principal at Davis-Townsend Elementary School in Davidson County. Read more about Money's new opportunity here.

Francois Theriault 2008, Quebec, Canada, started a business in Oct. 2010 called Surmesur, which sells men's clothing and fabric. It has recently won the Bourse Jeune Enterprise award and the Public Choice award. Theriault is in the process of opening another store in Quebec City and plans to open two more, one in Montreal and one in Toronto, within the next few months.

Dr. Richard Mayes, Jefferson-Pilot Professor of Biology at Greensboro College, was recently appointed as the new Associate Dean of the Faculty. Dr. Mayes has been with the college for over thirty-six years and will officially occupy this new post starting Aug. 17, 2011.

Terri McNaughton, Executive Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs/Dean of the Faculty, has tendered her resignation from Greensboro College effective Sept. 1, 2011. Join us in wishing her the best as she pursues other interests.

Sheila Nayar, Associate Professor of English & Communication Studies at Greensboro College, was recently awarded the 2011 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology. Her book, Cinematically Speaking: The Orality-Literacy Paradigm for Visual Narrative, was published by Hampton Press in 2010.

Josh Aylor was recently named as the new Network/Systems Administrator at Greensboro College. He recieved both his B.S. in Computer Information Systems and his B.A. in Sociology from Concord University. Aylor comes to us from the position of Lead Network Administrator/Associate Director of Networking at Barnard College of Columbia University.


Deaths

Dr. Earline Heath King 1934, Winston Salem, died June 27, 2011. King was a 1991 Alumni Excellence Award recipient and received a degree of Doctor of Fine Arts as conferred by the GC Trustee board in 2003. (obituary)

Elizabeth Lodge James 1936, died Sept. 26, 2010.

Ruth Hiatt Anderson 1940 died Sept. 11, 2009.

Mary Green Bacon 1940, Hillsborough, died May 30, 2010.

Evelyn Weeks Hopkins 1941, Elizabeth City, died Sept. 23, 2010.

Margaret Koontz Rice 1941, Summerville, died March 28, 2011.

Margaret Ross Huffstetler 1943, Burlington, died Jan. 15, 2011. (obituary)

Ann Watson Basnight 1949, from Virginia Beach, VA, died June 13, 2011. (obituary)

Elsie W. Jordan 1949, Winton, died May 29, 2011 after an extensive battle with illness. (obituary)

Patricia Massey Blackburn 1954, Colfax, died Nov. 13, 2010.

Sylvia Diehl Morton 1954, died Feb. 15, 2010.

Mary Ann Fortner Wright 1962 of South Sutton, NH, died on Nov. 27, 2009 from Leukemia.

Kelly Whalen Gallenstein 1981 of Riverview, FL died on May 17, 2011 from cancer. (obituary)

Former GC golf coach James "Jim" H. Locke Sr., Southport, died June 30, 2011. Locke had previously been inducted into not only the Greensboro College Hall of Fame, but also the USA South Athletic Conference Hall of Fame. (obituary)


Marriages

Stacy Jarvis Bloch 1999 of Belle Mead, NJ, married Jeremy Bloch on the island of Aruba on May 29, 2011.


Births/Adoptions

Leah Redmond 2002 and Rev. Jamie C. Eubanks 2001 of Youngsville, welcomed their first child, Kayla, on June 2, 2011.