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.)