September 2013

Cities are in North Carolina except where indicated.  

As part of our 175th Celebration, we're highlighting alumni.  Profiles will be added throughout the year.  Check it out!

Homecoming weekend: October 23rd - 26th, featuring a cluster reunion for the classes from 2000-2009.  To see what's scheduled, click the link.  To sign up for the tailgate dinner on back campus, or to purchase tickets to the football game, click here.

 If you drive by GC in the afternoons, you may see the marching band rehearsing on the front lawn. 

Or you might see our new signs.   Engage, Celebrate, 175 years - Greensboro College. General

Cindy Coleman Shockley 1971, Blacksburg, VA, has retired after teaching English for 30 1/2 years in middle and high school.

Kevin M. Green 1978, Greensboro, was recently elected to be the 2015 president of the Greensboro Realtors Association.  He is a realtor with Prudential Yost & Little Realty and was also president of GRA in 2007.  To read a little more about Kevin, click here.

Diane Swan Pohanka 1984, Alexandria, VA, was one of three who arranged and executed the plan for 25 Wounded Warriors and their families to receive a weeks vacation at Bethany Beach, Delaware.  25 homeowners offered their homes, local stores and restaurants also gave generously to these families.  Diane's mother, Jo Adair Bertken Swan 1977, is very proud of her daughter.

Bradley C. Curtis 2006, Greensboro, is an EC teacher with Guilford County Schools.

Wesley W. Gullett 2008, Greensboro, has been named the new Sports Information Director for Greensboro College.  Gullett first joined the office as a student worker in 2004 and has been the Assistant Sports Information Director for seven years.  To read more about this announcement click here.

Christian M. Palopoli MA 2009, Manassas, VA, is a High School Spanish Teacher for Prince William County Schools.

Meredith A. Kelly 2013, Snow Camp, has been named an interim admissions counselor at Greensboro College.  Meredith graduated this past May with a BS in exercise and sport studies and was the 2013 Harold H. Hutson Award recipient.  She will hold this position until beginning a doctoral studies program at Elon University in January 2014.

Chelsea D. Kiger 2013, Greensboro, has joined the GC Admissions staff as an Admissions Counselor.

Deaths

Elizabeth Benson Johnson 1944 on July 26, 2013.          OBITUARY

Josephine Pinnell House 1949 on September 4, 2013      OBITUARY

Mary Matthews Suping 1950 on August 27, 2013.          OBITUARY

Eunice B. "Pat" Floyd 1951 on September 18, 2013.       OBITUARY

Linda Sloan Mundy 1957 on June 26, 2013.                   OBITUARY

Julia Bowers Enderle 1971 on September 6, 2013.          OBITUARY

Ty V. Walters 2011 on September 27, 2013.                     OBITUARY

Sympathy Extended to

Joy Little Floyd 1953, in the passing of her husband, Rev. Roger W. Floyd on August 2, 2013.