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r\e met Clara Booth Byrd "13 but once. It was at Chancellor Moran's home last summer when Mrs. Moran held a luncheon for our new-and-soon-to-come-to-campus Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Dr. Elisabeth Zinser. Miss Byrd and 1 were chatting
— although she was doing most of the talking since I was dazzled into near-speechlessness
— when Dr. Zinser approached us for introductions. The Vice Chancellor took Miss Byrd's hand, held it, and kindly remarked that she felt she knew her already since Miss Byrd had been ha\ing breakfast with her for the past week. Miss Byrd and I were both confused until Dr. Zinser explained. During her visit to campus she was staying in the Alumni House; breakfast is ser\ed in the parlor where hangs the portrait of Clara Booth Byrd.
Miss Byrd served Woman's College (now UNC-G) for twenty-five years as Alumnae Secretary. She surely did the work of at least three people — keeping up with alumnae chapters, planning reunions, spearheading the construction and subsequent operation of the Alumni House, handling the Association's correspondence and bookkeeping, as well as managing thousands of office tasks in the pre-computer age. But another of her roles lea\es me awestruck — in addition to all else she was editor of over one hundred issues of Alumnae News.
I suppose it was Miss Byrd, then, who penned these words for the first page of the April 1934 issue:
"Two great obligations rest upon each of us, which no other member of society can discharge — to be, in general, a good member of society, casting the weight of our influence on the side of whatsoever things are true and honest and progressive in a democracy; To be, in particular, a good alumna in relation to our college, doing our part in all the constructive ways that present themselves to us that collectively we may be a force for its continuous upbuilding."
"Up and Down the Avenue" was a feature Miss Byrd ran for many years in the magazine. In it she offered a campus miscellany for her alumnae readers. Here's a sampling from the issue published fifty years ago:
"The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Eugene Ormandy, returned to the college during February for its third annual performance. The orchestra won new encomiums for itself this year, securing an almost unanimous verdict as the best concert of the season."
"The Day students had their annual dinner in South Dining Hall on the evening of March 22. . . . The dining room was attractively decorated for the occasion, and the students who live off campus had a chance to see 'what it is like' to live in the dormitory."
"Senior girls graduating from North Carolina high schools are being invited to come to the college for a week-end visit between now and May 20. The Freshman Class in general will be hostess to these guests, although the invitation to the high school girls is being extended to them by a representative group of students in college from the respective counties. . . . We hope that the alumnae will make it their privilege and responsibility to encourage outstanding girls whom they know to accept this invitation."
"Margaret Spenser '34, of Danville, is May Day chairman this year. She is house president in Gray Dormitory, has been editor on the Carolinian and on Pine Needles, has done outstanding work in Orchesis, and is an honor student."
"Twenty-five states other than North Carolina, and one foreign country, Cuba, have
representatives in the student body this year. . . . Every county in North Carolina, except
four in the western part of the state, has students on the campus. Guilford, the home
county, leads, with an enrollment of 218."
— MCH '74
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ALUMNI NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO
SUMMER 1984
Chinqua-Pcnn Plantation
A Jubilant Reunion Weekend
Facnlty Looks at Liberal Arts
Newcomers to the Curriculum
Dravtghts of Nostalgia from the 1940s
Reports of Alumni Chapters
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Hey, Good Looking
Often called the handsomest building on campus, the Alumni House looks even better now with its new coat of paint. Forty-seven years worth of white paint on the trim work gave away this year to an off-white color — a splendid match with the dogwood blossoms. Inside, the House Committee was at work with a number of improvements. Door curtains, valances, and carpet strips were added to the hyphen- halls on each wing. New carpets were added to the Library and Guest Living Room. In the Virginia Dare Room was placed an antique chest, purchased with funds be- queathed by Mary Alford Hunter '39. Two large sofas in the Virginia Dare Room were rebuilt, and a cof- fee table was purchased for the Library. Overnight guests now sleep comfortably on new bedding. You'll see other improvements and additions on your next visit to the Alumni House. ■
Graduate Fellowships
Adelaide Fortune Holderness '34 has been a strong supporter of her alma mater in the fifty years since she received her undergraduate diploma. Having graduated at a time when the nation's economic woes made a college education quite precious, Adelaide has returned to show her gratefulness to UNC-G time and time again.
This May, in anticipation of the fiftieth reunion celebration of the Class of 1934, the Adelaide Fortune Holderness Fellowships were established to support graduate education in the liberal and fine arts. Three fellowships valued at $5,000 each will be awarded; initially, two will be given in the graduate program in art and one in the School of Music.
The endowed program, a part of the UNC-G Excellence Foundation, continued Adelaide's history of support for the University. The Adelaide Fortune Holderness Fund was established ten years ago; earn- ings from the fund will perpetuate the graduate fellowships beginning this fall.
Adelaide has served UNC-G as president of the Alumni Association and chair of the University Alumni Annual Giving Council. She was a member of the Board of Governors of the UNC system for sixteen years (including years on the Board of
Trustees of the Consolidated University of North Carolina before the system was restructured). In 1975, Adelaide was awarded the honorary Doctor of Laws degree from UNC-G. The Alumni Associa- tion recognized her achievements with an Alumni Service Award in 1967. ■
A detaide Fortune Holderness 'i4
Even with its letters temporarily removed, you'd recognize the Alumni House by its distinctive pediment.
Au Revoir to Retirees
The UNC-G family offered best wishes to six faculty members who are retiring from service this year. They are:
Dr. Helen M. Canady
Professor
Department of Child Development
and Family Relations
twenty-six years of service
Dr. Lois J. Cutter
Assistant Professor Department of Biology twenty-one years of service
Dr. John Kennedy
Vice Chancellor of Graduate Studies
and Professor
Department of Economics
twenty-eight years of service
Dr. Harriet J. Kupferer '43
Professor
Department of Anthropology
twenty-three years of service
Elizabeth Wharton Newland '39
Head Catalog Librarian
Walter Clinton Jackson Library
seventeen years of service
Dr. Donald W. Russell
Professor
Department of Counseling and
Specialized Educational Development
twenty-nine years of service
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THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OFFICERS
Mar> Elizabeth Bantick Sink '44, Winston-Salem
President
Anne Duke Sanders '59, Elizabeth City
Firsi Vice President
Martha Frances Washam '55, Charlotte
Second Vice President
Diana Chatham Calaway '55, Mount Airy
Recording Secretary
Barbara Parrish '48, Greensboro
Executive Secretary- Treasurer
TRUSTEES
Sara Queen Brown '43, Clyde
Barbara Hardy Bunn '77, Raleigh
Jill Cutler '83, Cary
Sadye Dunn Doxic '57, Washington, DC
Mary Lou Howie Gamble '53, Monroe
Patricia Griffin '63, Sandy Ridge
Betty Lou Mitchell Guigou '51, Valdese
Dorothy Shiver Hubbard '52, Wilkesboro
Jon Mark Jackson '84, Greensboro
Rubin Maness '72, Goldsboro
Ann Phillips McCracken '60, Sanford
Betsy Suitt Oakley '69, Greensboro
Lois Bradley Queen '60, Titusville, PL
Susan McCallum Rudisill '70, Hickory
Ruth Lane Webb Smith '47, Atlanta, GA
Betsy Bulluck Slrandberg '48, Rocky Mount
Patty Walker '82, Pfafftown
Edna Earle Richardson Watson '40, Roseboro
Luciie Belhea Whedbee '39, Wilmington
Alumni Annual Giving Council Chair, ex-officio
Bronna Willis '62, Lynchburg, VA
Finance Coinmiltee Chair, ex-officio
THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Patricia A. Griffin '63, Sandy Ridge, Chair
Barbara Davis Berryhill '57, Charlotte
Maura Canoles '80, Greensboro
Helen Morgan Harris '41, Raleigh
Joy Joines '63, Reidsville
Lee W. Kinard, Jr. '74, Greensboro
James M. Lancaster '72, Greensboro
Martha Mitchell '76, High Point
Carol Rogers Needy '52, Charlotte
Ellen Strawbridge Yarborough '55,
Wmston-Salem
Jim Clark '78 MFA, Faculty Representative
Brenda Volpe '86, Student Representative
Lois Brown Haynes '54, Salisbury
President of the Association, ex-officio
Ruth Sevier Foster '53, Lenoir
Immediate Past Chair, ex-officio
Miriam Corn Holland '74, Greensboro
Edilor of .Alumni Publications, ex-officio
Barbara Parrish '48, Greensboro
E.xecutive Secretary- Treasurer, ex-officio
PUBLICATION STAFF
Editor: Miriam C. Holland '74
Editorial Assistant: Joseph Gainer '82 MFA
Photographer: Bob Cavin, Information Services
■n ALUMNI NEWS is published quarterly by n^H the Alumni Association of the University ^9^M of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1000 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro, NC 27412. Alumni contributors to the Annual Giving Fund receive the magazine. Non-alumni may receive the magazine by contributing to the Annual Giving Fund. Second class postage paid at Greensboro, NC. USPS 015220
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Come, Stroll Through Chinqua-Penn Plantation
On an estate managed by UNC-G is a mansion that defies architectural classification and grounds that redefine the beautiful.
A Jubilant Reunion Weekend
Photographs capture the romping, the recollections, and the reflections of Reunion Weekend.
Alumni Service Awards
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Faculty Looks at Liberal Arts
Newcomers to the Curriculum
UNC-G offers new programs for nurses, accountants, interior designers, musicians, and gerontologists.
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The Centenary Project
Draughts of Nostalgia from the 1940s
by Dr. Richard Bardolph The campus lake, the laundry, and the daisy chain have disappeared with time — but not from memory.
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Off Campus: Alumni Everywhere Reports of Alumni Chapters
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Gift for the Future
by Richard A. Kimball
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Spartan Sports
Coach Mike Parker Makes Easy Transition
by Ty Buckner 23
Class Notes
Reunion reports, personal notes, special achievements, marriages, sympathies, and deaths. lA
Alumni Business
by Barbara Parrish '4
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Fifty Years Ago in Alumnae News
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On a springtime visit to Chinqua- Penn Plantation, executive director Doug Merritt '83 swore me to secrecy as he opened back the boughs of larger trees to reveal the last remaining chinquapin bush on the site. The unimpressive shrub with holly-like leaves is the sole sur- vivor of a species of chestnut that once covered the knoll upon which '4fc€ Chinqua-Penn estate was built. In the interest of protecting that smgle, spindly chinquapin bush, its location is kept from the 30,000 annual visitors who enjoy every- thing else about Chinqua-Penn Plantation.
In the 1920s Jefferson and Betsy Penn were so taken with the abun- dant chinquapin bushes on the site that they named their 1200-acre plantation for the shrub, changing the spelling to include their own name. Thriving in the lush northern North Carolina woods near Reids- ville, the chinquapin produced a miniature nut that could be gathered and eaten. But a chestnut blight during the 1930s destroyed most of the chinquapins, and a strong stand was never reestablished despite the Penns' planting efforts.
Today, the most abundant chin- quapins are those fashioned of green metal and laced through the wrought iron gates at the driveway leading to the Chinqua-Penn Plan- tation House. These massive gates of original design, incorporating the "J" and "B" monograms for Jefferson and Betsy Penn, open to a story of special interest to UNC-G alumni.
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Come, Stroll Through
Chinqua-Penn Plantation
Bride-to-be Beatrice Schoellkopf was given a choice of two residences by her future husband, Thomas Jefferson Penn. Would she rather live in his house on the lake shore outside of Buffalo, NY, or among his tobacco fields and dairy farms in Rockingham County, North Carolina? Having grown up in New York State (a member of the prominent family who devel- oped Niagara Falls for electrical power), Betsy chose the latter to avoid the cold, dreary winters she had known all too well. Her deci- sion might also have been swayed by the sweet chinquapin nuts and the cold, fresh milk Jeff offered her from his dairy.
After their marriage, the Penns began elaborate plans for a spacious plantation home which would soon be filled with furniture and curios from around the world. The house was begun in 1923 and would be two years in construction. Meanwhile, the Penns lived in the gate houses to supervise the building of the main house — when they were not off to Europe or in the Orient to buy furnishings. The sprawling mansion was placed on the crest of a knoll and built in a Y-shape; these factors allowed in more natural sunlight and ma.xi- mized the circulation of air. From each window was planned a view of flower gardens designed to comple- ment the decor of the interior.
Architecturally the house defies classification. The Penns followed their own eclectic tastes to construct the house of oak logs (felled on the
site) and native stone (the same vein from which was quarried that for Duke University). Although com- pared to an English country manor, the twenty-seven-room house refuses to be typecast except as a reflection of its owners' person- alities.
The Penns' greatest pleasure was to travel throughout the world in search of furnishings for their home. Consciously avoiding a col- lection from any particular period or style, Betsy and Jeff purchased any chair, chest, or curio that they especially liked regardless of its stylistic relationship to other pieces or to architectural features. Once shipped back to Chinqua-Penn, the objects were placed wherever they might fit, according to the owners' desires.
The effect could have been garish, but, as a modern decorator might say, it works. Consider this sampling from the Main Living Room: the Florentine mantel is sculptured stone of the Renaissance Period upon which rests a sixteenth century Spanish Madonna. One sofa is Adam and upholstered with Beauvais tapestry; another is Chip- pendale covered in silk damask. The bronze statuette of "Crishna and Bull Under Shrub" is from fifteenth century India. The leaded stained glass window panels are German, and the lower walls are covered with pecky cypress from Florida. Exposed beams in the 65-foot vaulted ceiling were hand- painted by a Scandinavian artist; from them hang Chinese temple
lanterns. The entry canopy is set with antique Spanish tiles. This mixture of styles and periods, stone and wood, colors and textures, fabrics and metals creates a worldwide blend of visual delights.
But the decorative never out- balanced the functional design of the house. The Penns made certain that the house would be easy to maintain (albeit, in my estimation, a nightmare to dust). The spacious kitchen contains a built-in double oak-front refrigerator accessible from either of two rooms. Under- ground wiring, an emergency water supply, and a dry chemical fire extinguishing system were installed during construction — features rarely seen at the time. The bedrooms have both solid and
Doug Merritt '83, sporting a Chinqua-Penn T-shirt, indicates the direction of the iron gates from the Clock Tower.
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The oak logs and native stone of the exterior are e\ ident nhen looking up the drive to the Front Entrance of the Chinqua-Penn Planta- tion House (abo\e). H eathering has rendered the stone more colorful in the years since construction.
Furnishings in the Chinese room (left) were duplicated from those admired by the Penns while visiting a friend in Shanghai. This room was a favorite overnight accommoda- tion for the Penns 'frequent guests.
One could stand for hours in the Main Living Room (right) admiring the fine detail in the furnishings and the architecture.
louvered doors for ventilation con- trol. The overall floorplan was designed to fit the Penns' lifestyle.
And what a lifestyle it was. The Penns loved to entertain, and, because they often had overnight guests, the guestrooms were care- fully considered in the planning of the house. From an upstairs hallway down the north leg of the Y are lavish bedrooms which follow a more rigid decorating plan than other rooms in the house. The Chinese Room (with its jade doorknob), the French room, the Empire Room, and the Italian Room are furnished with period pieces. The Front Room, a favored accommodation because of its bay window, overlooks a formal foun- tain, swimming pool, and fuUscale Chinese pagoda.
The most fascinating room in the house is the Mud Room, so called
because the Penns and their guests could enter from a day of horseback riding without fear of spoiling its stone floor. Here hangs a collection of sixteenth and seven- teenth century Spanish spurs and bits, and a wrought iron lighting fixture in which stirrups were incor- porated in the design. A carved Swedish chest was refashioned into a bar and refrigerator — no doubt a welcomed convenience after an equestrian outing.
The Breakfast Room is most charming. Said to be Pompeiian in mood, it overlooks the Rose Garden from which fresh flowers are picked to extend the garden to the indoors. The day of my visit, pink roses were formally arranged in a silver bowl; 1 was told that pink flowers were Mrs. Penn's favorite. The delicately-painted walls were rendered by Italian artist Pompeo
Coccia whom the Penns brought from Rome to do the work.
Professor Coccia also painted the mirrored panels that line the walls and ceilings of the Powder Room. He produced duplicates of the mirror paintings from Marie Antoinette's boudoir.
Throughout the house and grounds, the Chinese influence is stronger than any other. Perhaps this is because Jeff Penn spent more time in the Orient than in any other part of the world. When his father, Frank R. Penn, came to North Carolina's northern Piedmont area from Virginia, he founded a suc- cessful tobacco operation which was later sold to the American Tobacco Company. Jefferson became a stellar executive with the firm and traveled to China to develop their tobacco markets. His love for Oriental art and furnish-
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ings remained strong throughout his life, and the Penns revisited the Far East frequently.
In fact, the oldest article in the house is Chinese. A libation bowl dating to 1 100 BC, the six-inch oval vessel resembles an inverted bronze helmet resting on three tapered legs. The three-thousand-year-old piece was used on ceremonious occasions during the Shang Dynasty.
The libation bowl accepts its place of honor in the Solarium, a hallway filled with objets d'art leading to the Sitting Room and Master Bedroom. From the Solarium, one can exit to the Terrace where the Penns loved dining al fresco.
The Penns' private living quarters are elegant but not uncomfortable. One could easily imagine Mrs. Penn at her sixteenth century Spanish desk in the Sitting Room, one or
more of her nine cocker spaniels on the floor nearby, as she writes to her friends the world over. The Master Bedroom, with its near- square Venetian bed, adjoins a private screened porch that overlooks yet another garden. A dressing room and blue-tiled bathroom complete the private living area.
If I have overwhelmed you with description, then with dismay 1 must skip the Entry Hall (with its Byzantine mosaic of Moses), the Reception Hall (with its replica of King Tut's throne), the Dining Room (with Mrs. Penn's portrait), the Main Stairway (with monogrammed wrought iron rails), the Velvet Room (draped entirely in red velvet), and the Library (o\er- looking the Living Room). And we have yet to discover the handwritten note from George Washington.
But I should take you outside the house to romp the grounds and gardens, to smell the roses and hear the birds, to dip your toes in the swimming pool, to peer beyond the trees into the next state, then to pause reverently at the Penns' burial site.
The thirty-seven acres of the main plantation grounds are as well groomed today as they were when Mrs. Penn was alive. She and Jeff would experiment with plants from all over the world, not only in the formal flower gardens, but in the vegetable garden as well. Mr. Charles Talley, the Penns' horti- culturist since 1929, met me in the greenhouse and told of his success with raising celery. Young plants were set in foot-deep ditches. As they slowly grew, rich dirt was placed around the tender stalks, creating, by fall, earthen mounds a
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H ith its western exposure, the Solarium (left) allows in the afternoon sunlight from the terrace and rose garden.
Although furnished mostly with fifteenth and sixteenth century art, the Solarium holds the oldest object in the house, the libation bowl (below). The Chinese vessel dates from 1100 B.C. Of cast bronze, the libation bowl is a deep inverted helmet shape resting on tripod blade supports.
The greenhouses (right) are maintained today just as they were when the Perms were alive. Plant cuttings were brought here from all over the world.
foot high. By Thanksgiving Day the mature, white celery was ready for harvesting — a much anticipated annual treat for the Penns' holiday guests.
From the Cutting Garden came the roses, peonies, and other fresh flowers used in decorating the house. The Formal Garden, the Rose Garden, the Herb Garden, and the Pagoda Garden show off many of their original plantings. Over 4,000 tulips burst forth in spring. Some of the 1,000 box- woods were transplanted from Mr. Penn's grandparents' homeplace and approach 175 years of age. More than 100 species of trees have been identified on the estate grounds.
The Penns created a showplace to which they invited kith and kin, loving always the merry sounds of
guests throughout the halls and grounds. To friends and neighbors they opened their home for barbe- ques, fundraisers, farm meetings, and community socials, never allowing the museum quality of their possessions to inhibit hospitality. The annual kickoff event for the Reidsville Community Chest was always held at Chinqua- Penn. Noted the Greensboro Daily News in 1966,
Reidsville probably was the only town in the known world to have its annual welfare drive kicked off with not only the best smoked pork, but with caviar and the finest wines and whiskies. Bone- dry ministers attended and smiled indulgently on behalf of the cause. Less arid priests mingled in cordial brotherhood. It was easy to get citizens out to those meetings. Newspaper reporters included.
The Penns even extended their hospitality beyond their deaths. Mr. Penn died in 1946; Mrs. Penn passed away in the house in 1965. As stipulated in the will, the estate was placed in the care of the University of North Carolina "to assure its preservation and avail- ability to the people." The Univer- sity of North Carolina at Greens- boro was given the honorable responsibility of operating the house, gardens, and greenhouses. North Carolina State University began operating 900 acres used in tobacco research and dairy farming. A 4-H camp on the land was built by Mrs. Penn and continues its service.
In the twenty years since Mrs. Penn died, UNC-G has maintained the estate lovingly. Alumnus Doug Merritt became Chinqua-Penn's
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:xecutive director in November 983 and has worked with the leidsville Chamber of Commerce /^isitor Promotion Committee, the >JC Division of Tourism and "ravel, and campus administrators n promoting the plantation in the pirit Mrs. Penn would have smiled ipon.
Doug continued the annual Christmas tradition by decorating lie house with an abundance of oinsettias (grown in the Chinqua- 'enn greenhouses), ornaments, Madonnas, and Christmas reenery. An evening candlelight 3ur and handbell music were pecial features of the holiday. Over 1,000 guests visited the Christmas- edecked mansion during its three- 'eek season last year.
Chinqua-Penn reopens for its igular season on March 1st of each
year to accept visitors of all ages. Most sightseers begin their visits in the Main House, where a guide directs attention to the prominent features on an enjoyable forty-five minute tour. "Our guests come from all over the world to see Chinqua-Penn," tour guide Sara Orren Yount MEd '59 told me while relaxing in the butler's pantry. "On last year's register were listed forty-nine states and twenty-si.x foreign countries. But we also see local people who are on a day's outing and school groups who come to learn about history, decorative art, and horticulture." Doug Merritt reiterated: "Last year attendance was very good — over 32,000 visitors. We expect another successful season this year. We are especially interested in UNC-G alumni visitors because
Chinqua-Penn is our treasure to share with the rest of the world."
Chinqua-Penn Plantation House is located three miles west of Reidsville on Wentworth Road, twenty-seven miles north of the UNC-G campus. Hours are 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Wednesday through Saturday; 1 :30 pm to 4:30 pm Sunday; closed July 4th, Thanks- giving Day, and the third Sunday in December until March 1. UNC-G alumni and their spouses are admit- ted on a discounted fare of $2.00. (On my visit, Mrs. Penn's personal chauffeur. Bob Boyles, was operating the Ticket Office.) Groups of ten persons or more need advance reservations. For more in- formation, call Chinqua-Penn at (919) 349-4576 or write to Doug Merritt, Route 8, Box 682, Reidsville, NC 27320. — MCH '74
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A Jubilant Reunion Weekend
May 11-13, 1984
If you missed it, you missed somethiug special. If you were here, you came away with magic.
After reaching into his files of notes accumulated during thirty-six years at UNC-G, Professor Emeritus of History Dr. Richard Bardolph delivered his favorite lecture to alumni during Reunion H'eekend. In his most charm- ing oratory style, he traced the social and cultural elements in the American experience that fixed our unique national character.
Members of the Class of 1944 returning to celebrate their fortieth reunion had a special honoree in their midst. Their own Marilib Barwick Sink of Winston-Salem is the in- coming president of the Alumni Association. Marilib has two alumnae daughters: Frances Sink '74 and Katherine "hap" Sink '77. Marilib will serve the Alumni Association for two years.
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The most significant moments for lite 1,9}} L.\C-G graduates tool< place in tfie Greensboro Coliseum on Sunday morning. May I}. Chancellor 11 illiam H. Moran (at the podium, below) pre- sided over the 1984 graduation exercises; Dr. Edwin I) ilson, provost at H ake Forest I'niversity. was the Comincnceinent speaker.
A few members of the Class of 1929 were caught in the hallway of Elliott University Center Friday night. May II, following their class meeting. Left to right are Perla Belle Parker Boggs, Margaret league Capps, Kathryn Single- tary .Stephenson, Virginia ian Dalsem Holtz. and Ruth Clinard. Ruth is the President of the class.
Representing the earliest re- intoning classes were Elizabeth Hinton Kittrell '19 of Green- ■ille, i\C, and Mary Green Matthews '14 of Thomasville. Celebrating their sixty-fifth md seventieth reunions respec- ively, the two were honored at he A nnual Meeting of the Alumni Association. Mrs. Kittrell brought a Class of '919 banner.
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Lest members of the Class of 1954 had forgotten their college days, photo albums and newspaper clippings of the time brought back the memories at the class party Friday night. Left to right are Joanne Horn Eaker. Helen Deitz Moore, and Theresa Hard Brown. Forty-six members of the class returned for their thirtieth reunion.
One startling realization for some of the members of the Class of 1974 was that so few of the classmates who returned to campus for their tenth re- union had known each other while in school. Plenty of new- friendships were made during the weekend. Above, three '74s check the "\\ ho's Here ' ' sign- in board for familiar names.
Chancellor William E. Moran congratulated out-going Alumni Association President Lois Brown Haynes of .Salis- bury. A member of the Class of 1954, Lois was celebrating her thirtieth reunion. She will remain active in the Alumni Association by serving on the Long-Range Planning Com- mittee next year.
Members of the Class of 1984 were the subjects of many a roll of film during their special weekend. .Sometimes tearful, but always smiling, new graduates knew this to be a proud moment. The scene above is on the grounds of the Greensboro Coliseum just after the graduation exercises came to a close.
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Paul Tiller '82 and Milton Crotts '82 entertained alumni of the Classes from 1970 to 1984 during the third annual Alumni Mayhem. Unlike last year, the weather cooperated beautifully for Mayhem so that the informal gathering could be held outside in front of the Faculty Center. The reunion classes of 1974 and 1979 hosted the event.
See Reunion Reports in Class Notes, pps. 24-39
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Outstanding Senior Vanessa Mittman '84 of Mt. Airy was hostess for the Class of 1959 during their twenty-fifth re- union festivities. A graduating senior was assigned to each of the reunion classes. Here, Vanessa reviews the Class Presidents ' Book for last minute instructions on coordi- nating the Class Picture.
For years, Margaret Plonk Isley '34 had been telling Alumni Director Barbara Parrish '48 that her class had embroidered a banner back in their college days. But frequent searches of the attic of the Alumni House never brought it forth. This year, Margaret's vivid description of the banner revealed a fifty-year-old secret:
the banner had been stripped of its numerals and trans- formed by the Class of 1938 for their own. ' 'Perseverance ' ' had been changed to "Excelsior. "Sharon Snider of the Alumni Office restored the green velvet banner to its original look in time for the fiftieth reunion of the Class of 1934.
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1984 ALUMNI SERVICE AWARDS
Ellen Sheffield Newbold '55
Greensboro, NC
For her service to higher education, and contributions to student aid.
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As the first woman to chair a board of trustees in the University of North CaroMna system and as a dihgent and longtime supporter of UNC-G's Alumni Scholars Program, Ellen's service to the University has been profound. In 1971 when she was elected by the General Assembly, she became the youngest woman ever named to the Board of Trustees of the Consolidated University of North Carolina. After the University system was restructured, she was assigned to the Board of Trustees of the University at Wilmington. There, her colleagues elected her secretary to the board and its executive committee.
After the governor reappointed her to the Wilmington board in 1979, she was elected chair. With her election, she became the first woman to hold this posi- tion within the UNC system.
In addition to her work as a trustee, Ellen has perennially volunteered with the UNC-G Alumni Scholars Program since 1965. She chaired the alumni sec- tion of the Scholars Committee from 1972 until the selection procedure was restructured. Since that time, she has been the "dean" of the alumni member- ship on the Competitive Scholarships Committee. Although Ellen's tenure has been long, each successive Alumni Association president receives a plea from the University's director of student aid to continue Ellen in service; Ellen has annually accepted the call.
Hilda Wallerstein Fleisher '51
Manchester, ,\H
For her service to her community and state and for her career after rearing her children.
As a volunteer and New Hampshire legislator, Hilda has contributed mean- ingfully to the disadvantaged, the poor, the women, and the children of her city and state; she has undertaken many of her accomplishments after raising four children. In 1961 — four years after moving with her family to Manchester, NH — she was the only woman named to the city's Citizen Advisory Committee on Urban Renewal and Redevelopment. Since then, she has served on the boards of Manchester's United Community Services, Community Action Program, and United Way.
From 1974 to 1979, she was president of Child and Family Services of New Hampshire, a non-profit agency pro- viding social work services related to family and individual problems, un- married parenthood, and adoption. To honor Hilda, the agency initiated the Hilda W. Fleisher Lecture Series.
When her children were older, she became involved in New Hampshire government. In 1976, she was elected to the New Hampshire House of Represen- tatives. She has been a board member of several statewide organizations, including the NH Social Welfare Council and the NH Council of Wodd Affairs. The governor appointed her in 1979 to the New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Women. Meanwhile, Hilda entered the Franklin Pierce Law School and graduated in 1981 .
Marv Boney Sheats '38
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For her service, as "the consummate professional in the field of Christian education, " to college teaching and religious involvement.
Mary's influence as a college teacher and church leader has been considerable. From 1949 until her retirement last spring, she was a faculty member at Agnes Scott College. There, she chaired the department of Bible and religion and was named the college's first Callaway Professor. As a teacher, she gained the reputation for "conveying to students the significance of faith in her own life without interjecting or imposing her beliefs during class discussions, thus free- ing and requiring her students to make their own religious assessments."
She has long been involved in Presbyterian denominational work. She was the only woman named to a twelve- member committee to draw up a new Statement of Faith for the Presbyterian Church USA. She has been a commis- sioner from the Presbytery of Atlanta to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, and she has served as chair of her church's Council on Theology and Culture.
In addition, Mary was the first woman elected to the Board of Trustees of Columbia Theological Seminary. Both Austin College and Presbyterian College have awarded her honorary degrees. Although retired, she continues to fulfill writing, teaching, and speaking commitments.
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Faculty Looks at Liberal Arts
"One of the most worthwhile events of the academic year" were the words faculty member Dr. Mariana Newton, the chair of the University Undergraduate Curric- ulum Committee, used to describe a series of spring faculty forums.
During two afternoons last April, ninety-six faculty members gathered in the new Arts and Science Build- ing for small group discussions. They talked about a central theme of the University's past and an adopted aspiration for its future: the nature of a liberal education and how to give their students that education.
The University reaffirmed last year its allegiance to the liberal arts in its stated goal for undergraduate education. According to the adopted Mission and Goals State- ment, by 1991 UNC-G will "pro- vide the best opportunity in the University of North Carolina system for all undergraduates to secure an education firmly based in the liberal arts."
But what is a liberal education and how are students liberally educated? Is the liberalness of an education measureable? These are the questions the faculty sat down to discuss on those April afternoons as the trees along Spring Garden Street were getting their new leaves. Dr. Newton later prepared and cir- culated a report summarizing the forums.
The faculty identified three accomplishments of a liberal education:
• It exposes students to many facets of human knowledge; students should become especially profi- cient in speaking and writing and in the scientific method of discovery.
• It prepares students for life-long learning and for access to knowledge, existing and new.
• It develops students' critical thinking, imagination, intuition, feeling, judgment, analysis, reason, and reflection. According to the report, the faculty found that identifying the terrain of the liberal education was easier than identifying the paths by which to lead their students across this terrain. Nevertheless, the fac- ulty agreed that a liberal education is not only the responsibility of the College of Arts and Sciences. Every academic area in the University can contribute to the liberal education of students, they maintained.
The faculty warned, however, that a student would not become liberally educated if he simply chose one course from every department, as if he were choosing his meal in the cafeteria. As UNC-G teachers view their curriculum, some courses are more nourishing in a liberal education than others. The faculty strongly favored, for example, interdisciplinary study, such as the
' ' To provide the best opportunity in the University of North Carolina system for all undergraduates to secure an education firmly based in the liberal arts. "
current Western Civilization course. In this course, students relate history to developments in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences from ancient to modern times.
The faculty also agreed that the liberal arts degree should precede or accompany a professional educa- tion. An undergraduate may begin professional study, but the UNC-G faculty recommended that a student begin studying for her profession toward the end of her under- graduate years.
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Among other re\elations the forums revealed the tacultv s con cern about large classes. They agreed that large classes, where students have little opportunity to discuss the subject and where evaluation is made by multiple choice examinations, do not foster a liberal education. In fact, large classes may be counterproductive, the faculty concluded.
They also expressed reservations about the ability to measure a liberal education. According to the released report, some felt that "the degree to which a student is liber- ally educated may not be known, by student or institution, until well after the student has graduated."" Likewise, some felt that a curric- ulum can never guarantee a liberal education; "it can only increase the probability that students would be liberally educated."
While faculty members did not always unanimously agree, they found the forum constructive, because it gave them the oppor- tunity to discuss their common goals. As Dr. Newton and Vice Chancellor Zinser reported, "Some were affirmed in their views, others were awakened, and others may have been excited and/or angered. In any case, the process was strong- Iv endorsed."
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Newcomers to the Curriculum
BSN
,m Outreach
For the past twenty years — while working full-time as a registered nurse and raising two daughters — Hilda Pate has hoped to earn her bachelor of science in nursing degree. This year she saw a UNC-G advertisement for a new program that would allow her to continue her full-time work at Winston-Salem Health Care Plan and to fulfill her twenty-year-old wish.
Hilda is one of twenty-four students admitted to UNC-G's new BSN Outreach Program. Conduct- ed in cooperation with the North- west Area Health Education Center, the off-campus program gives registered nurses like Hilda the chance to finish their junior and senior courses.
"The program is designed so that registered nurses can complete the required coursework on a part-time basis by going to classes one or two days a week over a two-year period," explains Doris Wofford Armenaki '74, an assistant pro- fessor of nursing at UNC-G and coordinator of the new program. "This will allow the working registered nurse who cannot stop work and come to campus on a full- time basis to complete requirements for the BSN degree," she says.
The new students began study this summer by attending classes in Hickory. After completing Nursing 303, a four-credit-hour course taught by UNC-G nursing instruc- tor Patricia Buckley, they took three "challenge exams." If they passed the exams, they were granted senior status at UNC-G.
The senior year is divided into two years of part-time study. Classes this fall will be taught in Wilkesboro.
The nurses who enrolled this year and who complete the program will receive their bachelor's degrees at the May 1986 commencement.
Gerontology Concentration
The number of people over the age of seventy-five will more than double in the next twelve years, according to estimates cited by Virginia Stephens, an associate pro- fessor of social work at the Univer- sity. "This will certainly have an impact on our social institutions and the quality of life," she says.
Last year, a committee chaired by Mrs. Stephens organized a concen- tration in gerontology, the study of aging and the problems of the elder- ly. As a new interdisciplinary con- centration offered this fall through Interdepartmental Studies, it will serve as a second major or a minor for students in social work, sociology, nursing, recreation, or other majors.
Students in this concentration can take courses related to gerontology in economics, health, child develop- ment and family relations, social work, sociology, psychology, and religion. In an introductory course, faculty from several disciplines — psychology, biology, anthropology, sociology, and nutrition — will discuss their perspectives on aging. An interdisciplinary committee has been formed to help students select courses within the new concentration.
"As our population continues to
live longer, there is an increasing need for knowledge about aging," says Mrs. Stephens. "And there are increasing career opportunities in policy, program planning and administration, and direct services to the elderly."
"We also see the gerontology concentration as an outreach to the community, especially to those per- sons in paid positions or volunteers to older people," she says. "Our experience has been that there are a lot of people working in settings that deal with gerontology, but they don't have the gerontological background. We hope to offer some of these courses in the late afternoons and evenings to accom- modate these people."
Interior Design, Master of Science
Over the past two years, the department of housing and interior design has received around fifty re- quests for a program leading to a master of science degree in interior design, says department head Jan G. McArthur. On May 1 1 , the UNC Board of Governors approved the program for UNC-G's School of Home Economics. When it is offered in the spring 1985 semester, it will be the only such program in the state.
The two-year, thirty-six hour pro- gram will offer courses in design and research methods, courses on user needs and environments, and seminars on issues in interior design. It will prepare students in three areas: the redesign of existing environments, either to recycle for new uses or to provide more suitable designs for existing uses;
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the design of existing interiors for resource conservation and solar use; and solutions for adapting materials and furnishings to changing lifestyles and for developing tech- nologies and techniques of energy use.
"The program is committed to improving the quality of life through improvement in the quality of the built environment," says Ms. McArthur. "It anticipates the need for scaling down the standard of consuming in an economy of scarc- ity, especially with regard to natural materials and energy. It also antici- pates the need for adapting to rapidly changing conditions in society, for changing technology, and for changing methods of building."
Students who complete the pro- gram, which leads to a terminal degree in interior design, will be qualified to work for interior design firms, in faculty positions at col- leges and universities, or as interior designers with architectural firms.
Accounting, Master of Science
A person with a master of science degree in accounting can be offered $1,000 to $2,000 more in starting salary than a graduating senior with a bachelor's, according to Dr. Charles Mecimore, head of the department of accounting within the School of Business and Economics. After five years, he says, the salary difference would be greater, and the person with the master of science degree is likely to be promoted more rapidly.
These opportunities make the master of science program alluring to accountants, but for those who already work, having to juggle day- time classes with full-time jobs puts the degree beyond their grasp.
The University — with its new master of science in accounting pro-
gram — comes to their rescue. The new UNC-G degree is a part-time evening program. "A lot of people who are in the accounting profes- sion just can't afford to take a year or two years from the job to get this advanced degree," explained Dr. Mecimore. "But by the same token they need this degree for career advancement. So we hope this evening program-will meet their need."
As a part-time student taking two courses per semester, an accountant can finish the degree in three years. Dr. Mecimore expects that 20 to 30 percent of the students in the new program will be full-time and will be able to finish the degree in three semesters.
The new degree will have three tracks: taxation accounting, managerial accounting, and finan- cial accounting.
He anticipates that thirty to fifty students will enroll in the program this fall. By five years the number may be as high as seventy students.
"There is no program like this in the region," Dr. Mecimore says. "I don't know of another college or university in the area which has a program meeting the need of the part-time student in the evening."
Doctor of Musical Arts
The School of Music is now one of only nine schools in the Southeast to offer the doctor of musical arts degree, and the only school to offer it in the state.
According to Dr. Charles Mclver, who served as acting dean of the school last year, the doctor of musical arts is the terminal degree possessed by over half the faculty in a school of music. This proportion makes the degree appealing to aspiring musicians. Even before the degree was approved by the UNC Board of
Governors, the UNC-G School of Music received letters from thirty- five students interested in such a program. Since the program's approval, "the response has been fantastic," according to Dr. James Sherbon, director of graduate studies in the School of Music. Five or six students will begin studying for the degree this fall. Ned Gardner, who is among the entering DMA students, was granted one of the first $6,000 Alumni Fellowships.
The entering students have passed formidable standards of admission. Each submitted a pre-audition tape before being invited for an inter- view and a live audition, which con- sisted of thirty minutes of a full recital.
Initially, students will concen- trate in performance. In the future, the program may also offer concen- trations in composition and theory.
During their years of study, students will work under a pro- fessor who specializes in their in- strument. They will take courses in music history, theory, and peda- gogy, and they will perform four recitals. When they have finished the required exams, written a disser- tation or document, and delivered a lecture based on that dissertation or document, they will be awarded their DMA degrees. A student com- pleting the program will be prepared to become a professional performer, composer, or teacher in higher education.
"We see this degree as an oppor- tunity to provide much needed leadership in this area, since there is no performance doctorate in North Carolina," says Dr. Mclver. "We see it as an opportunity to take advantage of the performing exper- tise of the School of Music's faculty in providing a service for North Carolinians and for other musicians around the country."
The faculty members are bounti- fully optimistic about the program's future. "I think this is a degree which will eventually be national in scope," Dr. Mclver speculates. "We plan to advertise nationally and we plan to be competitive nationally in recruiting students."
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The Centenary T'roject
Draughts of Nostalgia from the 1940s
by Dr. Richard Bardolph
By way of variety, we propose this time, and at irregular intervals in the future, to decant some of the little draughts of nostalgia from which Old Grads have traditionally been known to take perverse pleasure. The thought of such a series came to me recently as I remembered with a joh that I would, in a matter of weeks, be celebrating the fortieth anniversary of my own arrival on the campus to take up my first (and as it turned out, my only) real job. That sober- ing realization led me to take down from its shelf my copy of the 1943-44 College Catalog. First the book called to mind all those col- leagues' faces which, as Cardinal Newman would say, we have loved long since and lost a while. Then, edging away from those melancholy musings, I began to set down, on both sides of a used envelope, a list of the little things — and some not so little — that had dropped out of the Institution's modes, moods, and mechanisms in the intervening four decades: some of them slipping away almost unnoticed and without design, others deliberately demolished by the wrecking ball of Time.
My method was to sift through the kaleidoscopic memories of my first year here, somewhat in the manner of the stream-of-conscious- ness school where everything reminds one of something else, and then to remark those remembered items that are either no longer with us, or have been so transformed as to turn familiar ground into what seems sometimes almost an alien land. It is unwise, of course, to dwell morbidly upon the insolence of change; but it does no harm to permit ourselves occasionally the
poignant pleasures of remembering how things once were.
The list of these trivia that lies before me is both varied and long enough to provide material for three or four chapters in this series. And alumni are begged to take note that our deeper purpose here is to persuade you to browse through your remembrances of your Woman's College (or North Carolina College for Women, or State Normal College) years, and to help us preserve them for the record that we are building up in the University Archives and Special Collections. The items that follow are arranged in no particular order, and we hope you too will be en- couraged to remember and to write without any compulsion to be logically tidy. One's memory doesn't work that way.
Let us hear from our former students about the daily minutiae of student life in the past. Your written impressions need not be amusing or in any way startling. In fact, quite the contrary. What we are after is the straightforward record of how things were, ordi- narily, and from day to day. Nobody can report this as accurate- ly as you can.
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The victim of a thousand jests, the college laundry was still in full operation in the 1940s. It occupied a somewhat decayed red brick building on the south side of Walker Avenue, directly across from the Walker Avenue entrance of the old Home Economics Building (still in service), when that venerable thoroughfare, arched by a bridge at the midpoint of College Avenue, still flowed unobstructed
through Greensboro. The bridge was destroyed a few years later when the new Jackson Library was built directly athwart the street, forever closing Walker Avenue to traffic for a hundred yards or so; indeed, obliterating the street itself in the expanse between Forest Avenue and a point just west of Mclver Street, amid outcries from local citizens — some of whom have to this day not forgiven us — who lamented the interruption in what had so long served as a major east-west byway through the town.
At the location where now the art department wing of the new Mclver Building extends almost to the street, the laundry, presided over by H. Edgar Sink (who was the brother of the better known J. Moyer Sink, our superintendent of buildings and grounds), and briskly operated by an almost all-black labor force of washers and ir£)ners, it received in its vast tubs all the laundry of the two thousand resi- dent young women, or, at least that portion of it that they were willing to entrust to the vagaries of this moiling wash basin. In addition, not a few faculty members also brought their weekly bundles to be refreshed by Mr. Sink's crew, and a few more fortunate among them (the writer can now safely confess that he was in that number) even had their bundles picked up and returned to their homes by college vehicle. Shirts were done up in first- rate style at five cents per pound.
Students' laundry was picked up and delivered by college truck, plying between dormitories and laundry, packed in grey canvas boats, roughly twenty-four by four- teen and ten inches deep, sturdily bottomed on wooden slats to facili-
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tate sliding them like sleds along the floor. Like all laundries, this one too took its lumps from exasperated patrons, usually in the form of taunts about mixing up individual batches of clothing, stripping off buttons, shredding the more fragile and threadbare garments, and, worst of all, shrinking clothing into unrecognizability, or petrifying them by a too liberal use of starch. I am told by a graduate from the late 1950s that bras were folded and ironed lengthwise, leaving a crisp line from east to west, by which Chapel Hill men could, they said, infallibly recognize the girls from Woman's College.
The once important laundry service for boarding students was, about 1950, moved to a newer structure on the far southern end of the campus near the power plant and the railroad tracks, but was discontinued in August 1975, when that building was converted into the campus postal facility where mail directed to the college was (and still is) originally received and from which it was next moved by small mail truck to dormitories and other campus buildings for the designated addressees.
The laundry eventually left us, unmourned; but in its day it was one of those tremendous trifles that define the terms of living. Our University Archives and Special Collections very much need some authentic memoirs of Old Grads who can share their recollections about this vanished aspect of campus life, before these memories fade away forever. Please, those of you who remember how it was, write us a letter, a paragraph, or a page about this small chapter in the University's social history.
Another triviality that has lodged in the minds of those who were with us in the 1940s is the pond in the north quadrant of the golf course. The nine-hole playing field was rather larger in those days than it is now, after steady encroachments have diminished it through the years. Huge bites were taken out of its edges by the extensive broaden- ing of Aycock Street on the west
The Daisy Chain, a massive rope of hundreds of fresh daisies, was still a thriving tradition in the 1940s. The daisy is the College Flower.
and Market Street on the north; by the deep intrusion of soccer and other fieldsports; and by a cloverleaf road system that facilitates the traffic swirling at the juncture of the two arteries that rim the course. Then came the incursion of new dormitories, as the total enrollment grew from 2400 to near- ly 10,000, and the building of a suc- cessor to the old Infirmary, exchanging a portion of Peabody Park for the former location on Forest Avenue where Elliott Univer- sity Center now stands.
The course still has its nine holes, somewhat foreshortened, and a rivulet still meanders through it under four footbridges. But the pond (the catalogs of the forties actually refer to it as "The Lake") that was once a part of the water- course is no more. It was in its day a picturesque part of the campus landscape, the more so because it floated on its surface a majestic bird which my fond memory recalls as a swan, but which a more sober witness than I, if he or she will come forward, could convince me was a goose, or perhaps only a large duck. At any rate, the big fowl made its placid rounds, in season, and came to be known to students
still familiar with Daniel 4:33 as Nebuchadnezzar, because it was believed that she subsisted on grass. 1 distinctly recall asking a pair of students one day, as 1 stood on the bank, if any of the bird's eggs had ever been found, and getting the faintly embarrassed reply that this was hardly likely since the fowl had no mate. I remember coming away from the conversation with a resolve to propose that Biology 101 be made a required course.
It may be appropriate to add here that the log cabin that students of those days will remember as stand- ing on the south end of the golf course, fronting on Walker Avenue, is still there, looking much as it always did, and ser\ing now as office space for the athletics department.
And who among the older alums does not remember the trolley buses that made their way along Spring Garden, discharging their student passengers at the College Avenue entrance, and then, chastened by the loss, soberly rounding the corner at .Aycock Auditorium (only eighteen years old in 1944), and proceeding up Tate Street to what was then the end of that thoroueh-
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fare at Market Street? Market, at that point, was graced by a cluster of fine old white Victorian houses, later razed to make way for an extension of Tate, cut through to Friendly (then called Madison), to give place to big futuristic office structures on the northwest and northeast corners, and to the big new YMCA on the southeast.
After coming to the end of Tate Street, the bus would swing east up Market to "The Square," a term one no longer hears. Though the re- mains of the earlier tracks that had carried the streetcars (which had preceded the buses) were still visible here and there on Tate Street, the trolley buses, while still dependent upon the electric cable over head, were freed from the constraints of rails. As they approached, they would swerve to the granite curb and come to a hissing stop to let you in. You paid your dime (or was it a nickel?), and seven or eight minutes later you got off at Jeffer- son Square to make your way to Meyers', Belks, Ellis-Stone, or Vanstory's, or more elegantly to the Jefferson Roof where Mrs. Winslow spread such a fine table. All of them vanished long ago.
We need very much also to hear what alumnae remember about the daisy chain that came to be so much a part of the commencement scenery for fifty years. Still with us in the 1940s, it quietly dropped out (near the end of the 1950s?), presumably never to be recovered. I remember it as a surprisingly massive rope of flowers, gathered and plaited one wonders how. Dim memories survive of hearing that vehicles — at first horse-drawn — ranged out into the surrounding countryside, which lay only minutes beyond the campus in the early decades, to gather the blooms in enormous quantities and, one hopes, with appropriate legal im- munities. Then . . . what? And how did they manage to survive the heat of those wilting June days? And what became of them? Were any considerable number of them pressed between the leaves of Bibles
and dictionaries and memory books? There must be scores of former students who retain these recollections which, assembled and sorted and collated, can help us piece together this story for the college records.
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Another victim of the scythe of time was the University Sermons series. Established in 1934, it was still in full vigor in the early 1940s, reflecting a greater religious homogeneity of the student body than future student generations would understand after 1960, when a far larger and more variegated — and coeducational — student population swarmed over the campus. The program brought in annually, distributed more or less evenly through the academic year, four "eminent leaders of different faiths" (as the catalog reports), each sponsored by one of the four classes on a Sunday. The prominent clergymen (and an occasional clergywoman), in addition to delivering the Sermon in Aycock Auditorium, would spend three days as guests of the College, when they would address the student body at the regular Tuesday chapel exercises, and give students, indi- vidually and in small groups, in classes and residence hall parlors, the opportunity to discuss matters of religious interest and to become acquainted with these spiritual leaders. Though originally spon- sored by the several classes, the Sermons eventually came under the administration of the Inter-Faith Council. They were last offered in 1960-1961, when the school was entering upon an era of pronounced demographic changes. Some of the prominent clergy participating in 1944 to 1950, for example, were Allen Knight Chalmers of New York City; John R. Cunningham, president of Davidson College; Liston Pope, of Yale Divinity School; Rabbi Julius Mark, of Nashville; James T. Cleland, of Duke University Chapel; and Miss Hyla Stuntz, of Scarritt College. Perhaps some of the alumni who remember such occasions can be
persuaded to write down their recollections for the school's historical records or for inclusion in this Centenary F'roject series.
The campus' postal service has long since shed its more modest ways as befits a ten-thousand- student, multi-purpose university, whose buildings, now farther-flung than of old, have more than doubled both in number and in average size. We have some of the bare facts. We know, for example, that the mail was delivered to students through the dormitories before 1910, and then in that year an individual-lock-box post office was installed in the basement of Main (later called Administration and subsequently Foust). Then, in 1932, the whole postal operation (as well as the bookstore) was moved to Students' Building as part of a general campus reorganization that was precipitated by the Library fire of September 1932. This writer remembers well the Students' Building P.O. to which he repaired twice daily, more in hope than expectation. In those days the postmistress was Betty Brown Jester, class of '31, who had inherited the position in 1933 from Kathleen Pettit Hawkins '23. Two years earlier Betty Brown had taken over the bookstore. She continued in the dual role until 1945, her salary by that time somewhat in- creased from its original $57.25 monthly level.
Students' Building was razed in 1949 — after gracing College Avenue so grandiloquently for only forty-five years — and then the post office and bookstore were moved to the basement of South Spencer, where they remained until 1953, to migrate once more, this time to the new Elliott Hall. The bookstore — greatly expanded — remains in Elliott, but in 1959 a new system of distributing student mail through lock-boxes in the dormitories was initiated. A postal center was also established in the basement of the rear of the Faculty Center (origi- nally built as the Soda Shop, circa 1949) to receive the daily mountains
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of letters, periodicals, newspapers, and pacivages, for distribution to the dormitories and other ad- ministrative units for final dispersion.
These, then, are the bare facts, but they give no hint of the emo- tions and passions that surged through them. We need alumni eyewitness testimony of the place of the campus mail delivery in their daily lives through their campus years, and we beg you to send us your recollections of the postal couriers and their more or less swift completion of their appointed rounds. Anyone?
Perhaps nothing in the College's social and academic history quite so starkly contrasts the latitudinarian campus climate of 1984 with the Calvinistic rigors of 1944 as the rules relating to class attendance at the two ends of that forty-year spectrum. There are today, for all practical purposes, no discernible attendance pressures at all except such by-laws as individual instruc- tors may, but usually do not, pre- scribe. But when the student hand- book for 1944, and for many years thereafter, introduced the section on student conduct with the words "regular attendance is a student obligation," the words meant exact- ly what they said. To begin with, only seniors and second semester juniors (provided they had a B average or better in the preceding semester) were exempt from this Draconian Code. For the rest, students with an average of below C were permitted no unexcused absences. Freshmen in their first semester, however excellent their academic performance, were also placed on an absolute no-cut regimen. Subject to a few excep- tions in designated categories, the general rule was that students with a C average might have one unex- cused absence per course; those with a B average or better could have one cut per credit hour per course (e.g. three unexcused absences in a three-credit-hour course and this normally meant three absences out of forty-eight class sessions per semester). After
An aerial view of the campus taken in tlie mi(l-l940s shows the college lake in the northwest corner of campus property. An outdoor amphitheatre once hugged its shoreline.
that quota was used up, additional unexcused absences ("over-cuts") were penalized as follows: for each single overcut the student lost a full credit hour. This meant in practice that a student who had three over- cuts in a three-credit-hour course lost a full credit hour for each single overcut; a student who had three overcuts in a three-credit-hour course lost all the credit in that course (which was the same as flunking flat), no matter what the quality of her academic achieve- ment in it. She might have an A average in all of the course's ex- aminations, and daily work, and other requirements; she simply earned no academic credit for the course. A student with one or two overcuts received, correspondingly, only two or one credit hour for the three-hour course. Three tardies counted as an overcut. And an absence immediately preceding or following a vacation (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Spring Recess), even in the absence of any other unexcused absences earlier in the term, would cost either a semester hour, or quality points, or future cut privileges. Instructors were required to keep regular attendance records and to report them "at stated inter-
vals." Furthermore, no unexcused absences from the weekly chapel exercises were allowed to anybody.
These rules were, as 1 recall, literally enforced, though occa- sionally defeated by the stratagem of a student's sending in a substitute to sit in her place, in class or in chapel, to the confusion of myopic (or compliant) instructors or chapel attendance checkers. And, of course, there was the occa- sional young contumacious instruc- tor who chose not to see the empty chair upon which his listless gaze might fall.
But there is more. It should be remembered that very few students in the 1940s carried fewer than the prescribed fifteen-credit-hour course load; and that the scheduled classes, except for the most com- pelling reasons to the contrary, had to be divided as nearly equally as possible between a Monday-Wed- nesday-Friday sequence, and a Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday pro- gram, allowing, however, for the fact that there were no Saturday afternoon classes, and that two- hour (or longer) lab sessions tended to fall on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. The Tuesday-Thursday See Nostalgia, p. 39
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Reports of
Alumni
Chapters
Charlotte Choraled
The musically-minded Mecklenburg County Alumni Group hosted a public performance of the Univer- sity Chorale in February. The chorale opened its spring concert tour at the Westminster Presby- terian Church in Charlotte with a performance of choral works by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schumann, and others. The chorale is directed by Dr. Richard Cox of the UNC-G School of Music.
A reception was hosted by area alumni following the performance. The men and women of the chorale, dressed in their black suits and long, black dresses, mingled in the appreciative crowd of two hundred or so. Among the audience were Hattie Deans Reid '23, the earliest graduate present, and Janice Murchison Johnson '52 who, although living in Roanoke, was in Charlotte on a visit when she heard about the University Chorale's per- formance from other '52s.
Dinner for the chorale members prior to their performance was pro- vided in the church fellowship hall by alumni. Charlotte resident Marty Washam '55, the Alumni Associ- ation's second vice president, was on KP duty, along with other active alumni who coordinated the event: Ellen Stone Scott '26, Barbara Davis Berryhill '57, Carol Rogers Needy '52, Chris Velonis Miller '57, Karen Jensen Deal '55, and Elizabeth Martin Shaw '57. Brenda Meadows Cooper '65 came from the UNC-G campus.
TLC was extended after the per- formance when fourteen area alumni opened their homes to chorale members for bed and breakfast. The chorale's spring tour continued the next day with its members full, rested, and happy, thanks to Charlotte alumni. ■
Museum Musing
Alumni representing every decade since the 1920s attended the May 26th gathering of the Wake County Alumni Chapter. The site was the new North Carolina Museum of Art on Blue Ridge Boulevard in Raleigh, where alumni were treated to a guided tour and reception.
The museum moved to its new quarters in April 1983 after endur- ing a cramped, remodeled office building in downtown Raleigh for thirty years. Now its collections, both permanent and changing, have the space and surroundings that enhance their viewing. Old Masters, Egyptian Art, Judaica, Twentieth Century Art, American Art, and other collections hang in their own galleries within the angled walls of the new museum. Of special interest to alumni on their tour was the Jugtown Pottery exhibit in the North Carolina Collection.
New officers for the Wake County Chapter took over their duties at the May meeting. They are: president, Barbara Hardy Bunn '77 (who is also the new District Four Trustee on the Alumni Associ- ation Board); vice president. Jack Pinnix '69 (who had attended his fifteenth reunion two weeks earlier); and secretary-treasurer, Beth Clinkscales McAllister '63. Alumni director Barbara Parrish '48 and associate director Brenda Meadows Cooper '65 were chapter guests. II
Found in Cleveland
Cleveland County alumni gathered in Shelby at the Cleveland County Historical Museum on
Court Square April 28th. Honored guest and speaker for the event was Dr. Richard Bardolph, UNC-G pro- fessor emeritus of history, who spoke on one of his favorite topics, the founding of UNC-G.
The event was a special one because it was the first meeting of the newly-formed Cleveland County Alumni Chapter. Chair Kathleen Crow Thompson '47 and vice chair Fran Armstrong Evans '53 are the "founders" of the chapter; their interest in organizing a local alumni group had been sparked during their visit to the campus for Mclver Conference last fall. Much to their credit, 50 of the 174 alumni currently residing in Cleveland County attended the event. Brenda Meadows Cooper '65 accompanied Dr. Bardolph from the campus. ■
Stargazing
Alumni in the greater Greensboro area turned heads skyward this spring on four trips to the Three- College Observatory with Dr. Steve Danford of the UNC-G Physics Department. A chartered bus received stargazers at the steps of the Alumni House and transported them through space, beyond city lights, to the Alamance County site of the observatory.
A cooperative facility among UNC-G, A&T State University, and Guilford College, the Three-College Observatory is acclaimed as one of the finest in the Southeast. The telescope has the light-gathering power of more than 20,000 times that of the human eye. It weighs 9,000 pounds and has a focal ratio of f/13.5. With a 32-inch reflecting mirror, it has the resolving power to allow a viewer to read a newspaper from a distance of one mile.
Two alumni trips to the observ- atory were clouded out and re- quired rescheduling; all trips were "sold out." If you missed your chance to view the stars and would like to be informed of upcoming
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stargazing excursions, drop a line to the Alumni Office. ■
Capital Colors
Billed as "A Very Special Spring- time Brunch," the May 5th gather- ing of alumni in the greater Wash- ington, DC, area was held at the Fort Myer Officers' Club in Arling- ton, VA. Forty alumni attended the Saturday affair, enjoyed the gourmet brunch, and were treated to a demonstration by color analysts.
Arrangements were handled by Millie Brown Altman '35C of Alex- andria, VA, who has served as president of the Greater Washing- ton Alumni Chapter for the past six years. But at the spring meeting, Millie passed her gavel to the new president, Carol Klose Crouse '63. Other officers for the upcoming year are vice president. Dale Presson Smith '70; secretary, Peggy Lamm Pecore '52; and treasurer, Anne Buie Butler '56. ■
Matisse Pleases
Alumni in the Buncombe County
area had a special chance to celebrate UNC-G's art holdings this spring in Asheville. Local alumni met on May 5th at the Asheville Art Museum to view fifty lithographs and etchings by Henri Matisse, a traveling exhibition from UNC-G's own Weatherspoon Art Gallery.
The Matisse prints were selected from the Weatherspoon's Cone Collection, a splendid holding that includes other major works of art by Picasso, Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh, Braque, Manet, and Renoir. Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore began collecting art in the early years of this century while living in Europe. On a visit to the Paris salon of Gertrude Stein, the Cone sisters were introduced to Henri Matisse and, soon after, began adding his works to their growing collection. In 1949, a part of the collection was bequeathed to the new Weatherspoon Art Gallery
on the campus of the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now UNC-G).
The traveling exhibit of Matisse prints made stops this year to six galleries throughout the state with funding from the North Carolina Museum of Art.
Alumni in Asheville were treated to a gallery reception. From the campus Brenda Meadows Cooper '65 brought Mr. James Tucker, curator of the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, and Dr. Joan Gregory, chair of the UNC-G department of art, who talked informally about the Matisse prints.
Wilsonia Cherry '70, out-going District Twelve representative on the Alumni Board of Trustees, was the coordinator of the event. ■
Bardolph Makes Tracks
The Rowan County Alumni Chapter sponsored "Another History Class with Dr. Bardolph" at the restored Spencer Shops State Historic Site in Salisbury on March 8th. Our beloved Dr. Bardolph, of course, was the speaker; he has been "on the circuit" for the UNC-G Alumni Association to six- teen of the twenty-two State Historic Sites.
In 1896, Southern Railway began constructing Spencer Shops in Rowan County because of its loca- tion as the halfway point between Washington, DC, and Atlanta, GA. By 1938, Spencer Shops was the largest railroad staging and repair facility in the Southern system. Over 2,500 people worked at the site during its heyday, and nearly all of the population of Spencer, East Spencer, and much of nearby Salisbury, was in some way con- nected to the railroad.
The facility was closed in I960 when it was no longer needed by the railroad. In the late 1970s, Southern Railway donated the site to the state, including its massive Back Shop, 37-bay roundhouse, and nine other major buildings. The 57-acre complex is becoming the South's
Matisse: Girl with a Vase of Flowers
largest transportation museum; it is dedicated to those North Caro- linians who have been responsible for developing the state's transpor- tation system.
In 1983, Spencer Shops opened the exhibit "People, Places and Times" in the former Master Mechanic's office storehouse. The exhibit traces the development of transportation and features arti- facts ranging from a prehistoric Indian canoe to a Model AA Ford truck to a Commonwealth Sky- ranger airplane. Restored railroad rolling stock is exhibited on tracks alongside the Master Mechanic's Office.
The number of alumni and their guests who gathered at Spencer Shops with Dr. Bardolph grew so large that the meeting place had to be changed three times to accom- modate the group. Settling in the sanctuary of the Central United Methodist Church, the two hundred "students" enjoyed Dr. Bardolph's charming talk on railroad history. In the audience were Leah Whit- field McFee '50, chair of the Rowan County Alumni Chapter, and Salis- bury resident Lois Brown Haynes '54, out-going president of the Alumni Association. Barbara Parrish "48 and Brenda Meadows Cooper '65, both of the UNC-G Alumni Office, served popcorn and cider. ■
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Pooled Life Income Fund
Gift for the Future
by Richard A. Kimball
Director of Planned Giving
If you studied in the biology department between 1927 and 1962, Dr. Maude Williams may have been one of your instructors. A teacher for thirty-five years at UNC-G, Dr. Williams served under seven of the school's presidents and chancellors. Physiology — the study of the vital functions of tissues, muscles, and organs — was her special area of expertise.
Particularly interested in research — "I always wanted to keep up in my field" — Dr. Williams spent her summers at Duke University where grant monies supported study on nerve and tissue response to polio viruses. While in Durham, her teaching was often in demand in the nursing program at Watts Hospital.
Dr. Williams' knowledge of physiology crossed over into com- munity service after her retirement. For several years beginning in the mid-1960s she was an active volunteer in Greensboro's Cancer Crusade. Dr. Williams believes that
Dr. Maude W'tlliams
"the fight against cancer is going to take research by trained specialists, and that costs money."
Accompanied by her cocker spaniel, Duke, Dr. Williams col- lected funds door-to-door on behalf of cancer research. "1 was surprised at the Crusade banquet one year," she recalled. "My name was listed on the program for having raised several thousand dollars."
Her efforts on behalf of the Cancer Crusade are indicative of her commitment to private support for worthy causes. Her church, the Humane Society, and the University have all benefited from her attitude that personal contributions are "gifts of love."
Recently, Dr. Williams made an additional "gift of love" to UNC-G. She joined other alumni and friends by participating in the University's Pooled Life Income Fund.
In the Pooled Life Income Fund, a donor makes a gift of cash or stock which the University invests
along with gifts from other donors in the plan. With the interest, which last year was approximately 10 per- cent, UNC-G pays an income to the donor for life. In addition, the original donor may designate a beneficiary who will receive a life income from the University follow- ing the donor's death. Upon the death of the last beneficiary, the gift becomes the property of the University.
The Pooled Life Income Fund is a relatively new approach to giving and is offered as a service to UNC-G alumni and friends. The donor qualifies for an immediate charitable income tax deduction, avoids capital gains tax if appreci- ated securities are transferred, and enjoys an increased income for life. However, the primary satisfaction is in knowing that the University and its future students will be the ultimate beneficiaries of the gift. The commitment to excellence — on the part of the donor and the University — is thus perpetuated.
Through the Pooled Life Income Fund, Dr. Williams' concern for students will continue for many years. Other alumni and friends are invited to follow her example.
Richard Kimball came to UyC-G as director of planned giving in February of this year folio wing ten years with Massachu- setts Mutual Life. A native of Burlington. Rick earned a BA in English from VNC- CH. To find out more about the Pooled Life Income Fund, reach Rick through the Development Ofjui, L \C-G, Greensboro, NC 27412. (919)379-5675.
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spartan Sports
Coach Mike Parker Makes Easy Transition
by Ty Buckner
Sports Information Director
Taking the reins of a higlily successful team from a widely respected coach is not an enviable task. But that is the job of Michael Hartley "Mike" Parker, the new head soccer coach at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Parker was named in May to replace Mike Berticelli, who directed the UNC-G soccer team to a 70-9-5 overall record in four years and NCAA Division III national championships in 1982 and 1983. Berticelli resigned to become the head soccer coach at Old Dominion University.
After a month on the job, Parker, 37, is taking it in stride. "Things are holding together nice- ly," he said in his British accent. "I'm looking forward to the season. The transition has been smooth. Everyone has bent over backwards to help me."
A native of Bradford, England, and a former professional soccer player in that country, Parker was ■ selected from nearly 100 applicants to replace the popular Berticelli. That's not too surprising, consider- ing his credentials. In the past eight years, with Parker as head coach. Loch Haven (PA) University soccer teams were 1 II -27-7 overall and have won three NCAA national championships. The Bald Eagles won Division III national titles in 1977 and 1978 and the Division II national crown in 1980. Parker is one of only four coaches to win three or more soccer national cham- pionships in NCAA history.
Now, he has the challenge of in- heriting what has become a tradi- tion of soccer success at UNC-G. And he is optimistic about the Spartan team's chances in his very first season. "Our major goal is, of
course, to win a third national championship," he said. "That is a little scary. You have to have at least three things in your favor to win it," he added. "You have to have a good side [team], you must stay healthy, which you can't really control, and you need a little luck. I may be setting myself up, but I think we can win it for a third time. I think it is a realistic goal."
Most of the players will return from the UNC-G team that finished the 1983 season with a 22-1-1 record. Parker said he expects all the returning players to be back except starting goalkeeper Tim Borer of Orlando, FL, and leading goal-scorer Mike Sweeney of Monson, MA. They have trans- ferred from UNC-G. Among the returnees will be senior midfielder Ed Radwanski, of Neptune, NJ, the team's leading scorer in 1983 and a candidate for the U.S. Olympic soccer team.
Parker said he expects the Spartans to have similar success, but that the team may look slightly different under his direction. "We will still be offensive-minded," he said. "But we will play a little differently. We will be doing some different things. That happens anytime you change coaches."
He said he believes in developing the team into a fundamentally sound unit. "I believe in teaching basic fundamental principles and making those qualities sound," he said.
"I'm big on motivation," he added. "Obviously, when it comes game time you can't teach. The preparation has to come beforehand. But a coach can motivate. I believe in being active on the sidelines."
Soccer Coach Mike Parker
Parker said his first year as the UNC-G head coach will provide a fresh start for the players, as well as himself. "We'll be starting anew," he said. "It will be a chance for a lot of the players to prove them- selves. It's back to square one. The UNC-G program has done well, particularly over the past three years, but I think that's just the base. I see no reason why it should not continue to get better and better."
College Sports Information Directors oj America recently judged UNC-C's I983-I984 Preseason Soccer Guide as best in the nation among Division C schools. Written by Ty Buckner '85 and produced by UNC-G 's Office of Information Ser- vices, the twenty-page book contains team and individual stats as well as player pro- files. Way to go, Ty. —Ed.
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Class notes are based on infsnnaiion received by letter and news clippings. Material received prior to September 15, 1984, will appear in the fall issue. Information received after the deadline will appear in the winter issue.
The Tens
Annie Rebecca Humbert Maske '15 writes from her home in Arkansas Pass, TX, that she regrets missing the reunion last May. "I have a pacemal>:er for my heart and have curtailed some activities. 1 weigh about what 1 did in 1915 and am in reasonably good health. 1 con- tinue to keep a six-room house and have at least four descendants at lunch or supper at least two Sundays a month."
Marriotle Credle Berry '19 has lived at the Grifton Rest Home in Winterville for a year. Her address is Box 534, Winterville 28590-0534.
The Twenties
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SYMPATHY is extended to Mae Stoudemire Armstrong "28, whose husband died last April; to Vista Battle Locke '28, whose husband died last November; and to Opal Brown Mizelle '28,
whose husband died last vear.
1924
LAVENDER REUNION 1989
REUNION REPORT: The class of 1924 had a happy 60th reunion. We were delighted to have fourteen members, three husbands, a sister and two daughters present, with letters of greetings and regrets from seven members.
We were welcomed most royally with head- quarters in Alumni House, housed in North Spencer and fed delicious meals in Elliott Center. At the Alumni meeting, each member received a beautiful pewter tray with the University Seal. Our president, Ethel Royal Kesler, described our stay thus, "The days of our reunion were most stimulating, and 1 wish all of our classmates could have shared the enthusiasm and joy it brought to all who were present."
We were sorry to learn of the death of Ina Mae Leroy Butler, our treasurer. Evelyn Mendenhall Thompson was asked to fill this office. Sarah Hamilton Matheson served as secretary in the absence of Cleo Mitchell Espy.
The following facts were gleaned from those present:
Ethel Royal Kesler was there with her daughter, Ethel Kesler, celebrating with the class of '49. Ethel has another daughter who works at the Medical College in Charleston, SC. She did library work until after World War II, when she and her husband entered the field of construction and real estate. Mr. Kesler died in 1971. Ethel continues to live in Virginia Beach, where she keeps an interest in real estate. We will be remembering her as she faces eye surgery this summer.
Antoinette (Toni) Leetsch Mock lives in Siesta Key, Sarasota, FL, seven months of the year, where she has bought a condominium v/'ah plenty of room for family and friends to visit her. She issued a warm invitation to all
her classmates. Her daughter, Carolyn Mock Pruyne, had flown down to drive her mother to the reunion and on to Welsley, MA, her home for the summer. We all agreed Toni is still beautiful. She sings in the choir and keeps up her music. She was so happy to be back — as we all were!
Bertha McRorie Dalton lives in Forest City. She has been a widow twenty-five years. She has three wonderful children — two boys and a daughter. All have done well, she was happy to report. Bertha was as peppy as ever.
Edna Bell Sitler was not only present but brought her good-looking husband with her. Howard has the distinction of having accom- panied Edna to her 50th, 55th and 60th reunions. They lived in New York, where Edna did library work for seventeen years before retiring to Edna's ancestral home in Taylors- ville. She and Howard have worked for com- munity development and city beautification through the Woman's Club and the Garden Club and have received several awards — both local, state, and national — for their work. Edna was an active volunteer in Prospectus 111. Lois Barnett Hunter was another fortunate member to have her husband. Jack Hunter, with her. They moved just a year ago, in 1983, to the Presbvlerian Home in High Point. They are very comfortable and happy in this delightful location. Lois has one son, Clyde, Jr., by her first husband and two Hunter step- daughters. Lois has kept busy in community and church work. Still looks young! She served as president of the Women of the Church and has been a circle Bible teacher for ten years. Mary Brannock Blauch is a widow living in Washington, DC. Mary married a professor of education at the College. Dr. Lloyd Blauch later was Commissioner of Higher Education in charge of curriculum studies in five medical areas. Mary received her MA and PhD in chemistry and bio-chemistry. She has a son, who is a lieutenant in the Air Force living near Washington. Mary is very deaf now, but reads lips well. She continues as a volunteer in scien- tific groups relating to blood chemistry. It was good to have her sister with her to help with her hearing.
Martha Hamilton Morgan married Dr. Elford C. Morgan, .'\cademic Dean at Con- verse College, Spartanburg, SC. Having received her MA in history from Columbia University, NY, she taught history at Converse College for a number of years. After her hus- band's death she has taught history at Ashley Hall School in Charleston, SC, for 22 years. She is retiring this June, but hopes to continue to take students to Europe, which she has done for many years. She told us she had taken over 500 students to places all over the world. Mar- tha was the first woman elder in the First Scots Presbyterian Church in Charleston, a teacher in Sunday School, Circle, and active in the Student Higher Education Commission, the SC Historical Society, English Speaking Union and art groups. She has two sons and four grand- children, all living in Spartanburg, SC.
Elizabeth Hunt Adkins is a widow living in Robersonville. She lost her husband in 1972. Elizabeth has had an active life in church and community. She has been church organist and choir director. She teaches a Sundav school
class and works in the Garden Club. She has traveled in the US and in Europe. She brought her copy of Pine Needles for autographing. How we had changed from these pictures! She also led us in singing our class song. She brought greetings from Josephine Robertson Smith.
Beatrice Holbrook was a teacher of languages for twenty-four years at Traphill and Dobson. She got her MA in library science at Peabody. She was a high school librarian in Albemarle and Raleigh, a cataloger at NC State University and NC Museum of Art — alto- gether a librarian for twenty-five years. Beatrice was careful of her diet, for she has diabetes. She lives in her historic home in Traphill, NC.
Sarah Hamilton Matheson taught Bible and Christian Education at Oklahoma Presbyterian College five years. After her husband's death she taught children of missionaries in Korea for two years. Sarah was the first woman elder in her church in Gainesville, FL, where she con- tinues as church visitor. She has been moderator of her Presbytery, and is a past president of the women of the church in the synods of Oklahoma and Florida, and state president of Church Women United. She received the Valiant Woman Award from CWU in 1983 and was honored to receive one of the Alumni Service Awards from her alma mater last year. It was good to be present this year and meet other recipients of this wonder- ful award. We all love our University and remember always that Service is our motto.
We were joined on Saturday by the following:
Maie Sanders still lives in Wilmington. She taught school many years. Maie has served as president of Class Room Teachers of the state (NCEA) and was state president and director of the National Retired Teachers .'Association — has been a board member for six years. She is now a member of the AARP national board of pharmacy. Maie looked so well.
Daisy Stephens .Norton and her husband were with us for lunch. Daisy is a life member' of YWCA. She loves flowers. She tests roses for Jackson and Perkins counties and has received awards for this. They have two sons, Allyn, Jr. and Bill. Daisy has served as state page for the American Legion Auxiliary.
Evelyn Mendenhall Thompson served as a librarian and postmaster at the College for several years. She is a widow now and is not verv well. She has just moved to the Friends Home at Guilford: Fox Hall Apt. 1 106, 925 New Garden Road, Greensboro 27410. Evelyn has one son. She is now our treasurer.
Jewel Sumner Kirkman lives in Greensboro. She is a past president of the Federated Woman's Club, active in Girl Scouts, president of her church women. She has two life memberships and has taught Sunday school for thirty-seven years. Jewel's husband is a retired dentist, now an invalid, but able to be at home. She spends most of her time caring for him.
Blanche Hedgecock Owen taught high school history in Greensboro and High Point for forty-three years. She has a granddaughter at UNC-G now. Blanche's hobby is flowers — especially peonies. She had picked sixty that morning for her church.
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Our president, Ethel Royal Kesler, presented the Executive Secretary with a lovely antique cut-glass bowl vN'ith a note signed by all present at the Alumni House. Barbara Parrish was also given a check from the class to be added to our class account for books for the library. Evelyn will send any other gifts from classmates.
Greetings were received from Addie Rhem Banks Morris, Mary Green Chase, Rena Cole Parks, Cleo Milchell Espy, Sue Mitchell Bailey, Faith Johnson Bunn, Estelle Cocerham Harper, Helen Murchison Tucker.
Reporter: Sarah Hamilton Malheson OTHER NOTES: Daisy Winstead Stephens and her husband, a retired laboratory tech- nician, live in Durham. Their son Allyn is an electrical engineer for General Electric in Wilmington, and son Willie is a marketing chief for an American automobile company in Frankfurt, Germany.
1929
BLUE REUNION 1989
REUNION REPORT: Present for our 55th reunion were Castelloe Bland Denton, Lena Russell Faulkner, Era Linker Funderburk. Carolina May Hall, Marie Rich Rowe, Peria Belle Parker Boggs, Margaret Teague Capps. Virginia Van Dalsen W'oltz, Ruth Phillips, Elizabeth Sneed, Kathryn Singletary Stephen- son, Ruth Clinard and Louise Dannenbaum Falk
Notes from Thelma Brady .Nicholson, Betty Steinhardt Widmer, Mary Edwards Neal were shared. Another from Mattie Query Esleeck with news of herself and Betty Eringhaus Tyson arrived too late for our Friday and Saturday get-togethers.
It was a small but enthusiastic group who shared information about themselves, fellow classmates and the "good old days." We reviewed with pride the activity of the 1929 Student Loan Fund which has grown to $3000.00 and assisted more than 1 1 5 students annually since our class presented it at our 50th reunion.
Shall we have a 60th reunion? Yes, and surely we can match the attendance of the Class of 1924 with its impressive gathering on the rows just in front of us at the Annual Alumni Association meeting in Aycock Auditorium.
Our sincere thanks to the staff of the Alumni Office for all the work they did to make return- ing for commencement and reunions such a pleasant event I Reporter: Ruth Clinard
OTHER NOTES: While attending the reunion, Castelloe Bland Denton reported that her husband died last October in Blowing Rock, where they have a townhouse. ~ Louise Dannenbaum Falk served on a selection com- mittee for a sculpture honoring O. Henry in downtown Greensboro. She also serves on the board of directors of the Weatherspoon Gallery Association this year. ~ Betty Ehringhaus Tyson lives in Norfolk, VA. Her husband died in 1983.
1930
GREEN REUNION 1985
Calls of Fame Marge Burns '46 was eight years old when she was first called by the game. Her father probably did not imagine that the young daughter tagging behind him on the course would even- tually be ranked twice among the nation's ten best golfers. Or that in 1984, she would be named to two sports halls of fame for excelling in the game. During her fifty years in golf, Marge won ten North Carolina women's titles, six Carolinas Cham- pionships, two Mid-Atlantic Ama- teurs, and one Eastern Amateur. She won five Teague Awards, given to North Carolina's outstanding amateur athlete. In June, she was named to the Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame, and in September her name will be added to the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, an honor that only ninety-five athletes can claim.
1933
BLUE REUNION 1988
1931
SYMPATHY is extended to Martha Jo Gorham Hendrix, whose husband died last fall.
Last August, Evelyn Pollard York and her hus- band celebrated their golden wedding anniver- sary at a reception arranged by their children and grandchildren. Evelyn's oldest son. Colonel Guy Pollard York, will live for the next three years in Germany with his wife and daughter, but will leave behind his son, who attends the Air Force Academy under a Presidential and Senatorial appointment. Evelyn's other son, George, works with York International, frequently travels abroad, and is listed in Who 's Who in America and Who 's Who in South and Southwest. Evelyn's hus- band square dances and plays tennis, while she spends most of her spare time working with DAR and UDC.
S^MP.ATHY is extended to Daisy Farr McEwen, whose husband, Benjamin, died in February.
SYMPATHY is extended to Treva Wilkerson
Dodd and Carol Dodd Fleming '72, whose hus- band and father died in May; and to Louise Harris Myers, whose husband, Aubrey, died in April.
1934
GREEN REUNION 1989
REUNION REPORT: We milled around in the Maytime sunshine outside Aycock Auditorium. It might have been seen as a replay of our line- up there fifty years before. But a second glance would have revealed certain startling differ- ences from the procession in 1934. No longer serious and dignified, we were a laughing, disorderly crew all trying to reassure ourselves and one another that we hadn't really changed much at all — or at least not in any important ways. On this occasion we found ourselves, as one classmate observed, diminished in num- bers, greatly diminished in ability to recall our class song, and not at all diminished in weight!
Our egos were inflated when we marched down the aisle to center-front seats reserved especially for us, to applause, to a standing ovation. There were lovely gifts of gold charms from the Alumni Association. And we nearly burst with pride when our president, Margaret Plonk Isley, presented the University a check that has swollen to over $8,000 as our special reunion gift to "the college." This is a begin- ning of The Class of 1934 Educational Endow- ment dedicated to international understanding through academic exchange. It is to become a source of modest grants to undergraduates (rising juniors and/or seniors) who present well-thought-out plans for a summer of study abroad.
On the Friday evening our class enjoyed an elegant dinner in the Ferguson Dining Room at Elliott University Center. Reminiscmg began at once when someone noted that we must be standing on the site of the old "Infirmary." One reunioner had brought the receipts for her tuition, room and board — S337 for the entire senior year. We recalled the Great Ice Storm of '34 when the campus was without power for five days. (Merficully, not without heat, however, for our generation predated the current dependence on electricity.) We relived the bank failures of early 1933. We recalled beloved teachers from the first four years of the '30s decade and longed to be able to tell them what splendid role models they had pro- vided for us. We mar\eled at the creativity of a class production of a musical based on Julius Caesar laced with pop songs of that year. And our one-time class treasurer told of collecting money for the leather jackets of our sophomore year, purchasing a postal money order with the proceeds, filing it in her wallet for safekeeping, and reacting with puzzlement and panic when the supplier in .Asheville in- quired where his payment was. .Ah, but we were naive!
In biology classes we studied Mendel's Law and went out to observe its application in our own li\es. Within the group of 54 reunioners we could count 122 children and 279 erand-
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children. Adelaide Fortune Holderness (even prettier now than in undergraduate days) walked away with the blue ribbon for the census count in grandchildren: twenty-two!
For a class that went out into a cold world suffering the worst economic depression in history, we traveled the glory road in finding and keeping jobs. Our fifty-years-later reunion booklet shared information received from 1 10 of our approximately 250 graduates. Ninety- five of these had had careers as professional women: musicians, dancers, social workers, nurses, business women, secretaries, home economics extension workers, laboratory technicians, public health providers, school principals, and teachers and counselors at all levels. Those who did not pursue careers were all active in community affairs, church, the arts, politics. Ah, .Miss Elliott, weren't you proud of us?
The class of 1934, it seems, has not done badly in living up to its motto: Perseverance. If The Fates deal with us as kindly in the future as they have in the past, we shall return in 1989, still sprightly, still meeting handsomely the requirements of the civilized life.
Reporter: Mary Elizabeth Keister OTHER NOTES: Adelaide Fortune Holder- ness established an endowed program this year that will provide fellowships for UNC-G graduate students. Initially, two $3,000 Adelaide Fortune Holderness Fellowships will be awarded to art students, and a third, to a music student.
1935 Commercial
RED REUNION 1985
May Lallimore Adams is a volunteer for Lifeline, a personal emergency response pro- gram provided as a community service to the elderly and disabled in Greensboro. ~, Works donated to the Weatherspoon Art Gallery by Anne W ortham Cone and her husband, the late Benjamin Cone, Sr., were displayed at the gallery this spring.
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Having retired, Elizabeth Hai^ell Miller writes that she and her husband are "enjoying the things we have been planning for many years."
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SYMPATHY is extended to Jane Greer Stout,
whose husband died in April.
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SYMPATHY is extended to Irene Rich Murphy and Pamela Murphy '77, whose husband and father, Pete, died in April.
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After attending the reunion, Helen Bumgamer Bell reported from North Wilkesboro: "We had a great 45th reunion. Everyone is getting
younger." Z Grace Mildred Howell writes that her husband, David, is now retired but active as the school board president. Their daughter, Grace Stoddard Walker '64, teaches biology and bio-chemistry at Bucks County College and Temple University. Their son Edwin plays jazz trombone in Florida. Son David is a labor relations writer and intern with an arbitrator. Son Jim is the assistant news director for a radio station in Wilmington, DE. Although Alma Ormond Husketh retired from the classroom in 1980, she hasn't retired from teaching. She is helping a Cambodian refugee family with their English. Recently, she described to a newspaper reporter her enthusi- asm for this English class: "My husband says I enjoy this class so much that I get up with a smile every day." ~ As head catalog librarian since 1972, Elizabeth Wharton Newland has been responsible for the UNC-G library's largest department. This spring, after seventeen years at the University, she retired. ~ Caroline Lewis Williams was elected presi- dent of Phi Beta Kappa Association of Chatta- nooga, TN.
SYMPATHY is extended to Mary Rachael Barnes Miller, whose husband died in December.
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Emma Sharpe Avery Jeffress was installed as regent of the Rachel Caldwell Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Greensboro.
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Lib Booker was installed as the first vice pres- ident of the Pilot Club in Greensboro last spring. ~ Now that they have both retired, Bobbie Clegg Minton and her husband plan to travel.
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Dorothy Louise Everett writes: "I moved back to North Carolina after having been in exile in that foreign land of Baton Rouge, LA, for thirty years." She has two daughters. One teaches computer science and geometry at a Baton Rouge magnet school and math at Louisiana State University. The other teaches fourth grade in Utah.
The Greensboro Daily News described Stilsic Stirewalt Reynolds' home as "one of the most beautifully landscaped yards in Guilford County, maybe in all of North Carolina . . . a wonderland of cascading waterfalls, pools, and cozy buildings." She and her husband, US Middle District Bankruptcy Coun Judge Rufus Reynolds, put up a sign inviting visitors to tour the backyard during the spring.
In March, Ruby Lee Dixon Sides and Ethel Boyd Fincher met at Ernestine Smith Napoli's house in Jackson Springs. According to Ruby Lee, the three former residents of Shaw- Residence Hall had "a marvelous day reminiscing."
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This spring Harriet Kupferer retired from teaching at UNC-G. She was the head of the department of anthropology from 1973 until 1979, when she returned to teaching and research full-time.
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Mazie Bain Bullard was elected president of the Pilot Club in Greensboro in May. She is the director of personnel at UNC-G.
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REUNION REPORT: Our fortieth was a moment of prime time starring capable, coping, dynamic, adorable us. About ninety members of the Class of '44 gathered to thank God by celebrating. On arrival we were pinned with images of our former selves, our senior annual pictures. These long-haired, dreamy- eyed girls greeted each other from the bosoms of our present selves.
Class meeting had to get underway Friday night. May 1 1, because there was so little time and so much to be said. President Billie L'pchurch Miller, as ever, expressed the warmth of our class' bond in her welcome. Some such as Doris McRoberts Piercy and Buffy Clay Garlichs had come from the west coast. Others such as Toni Lupton Hires had overcome physical obstacles to be present. Billie thanked Jamie Fowler Sykes and Janice Hooke Moore for their work as hostesses. After explaining the requirements of posing for our reunion picture Saturday — "Do not stand on more than one step at a time" — she let the indi- vidual sharing begin.
A total of four hours, Friday night and Saturday afternoon, was filled with rich autobiography. We let it all hang out! Identities socially included singles, singles again, wives, wives of retirees, widows, divorcees, re- marrieds. Some of us have retired after pro- fessional careers; some are still going strong. We have a certified braiUist, sculptors, operator of a Cape Hatteras motel, commercial pilot, town councilwoman, producer of Plays for Living (therapeutic), travel agent, state church leader — as well as teachers, librarians, social workers, and computer specialists. We also have the president of the Alumni Association, 1984-86, Marilib Barwick Sink.
Several members gave the encouraging news of victory over cancer.
We are mothers of children into such varied occupations as circus clown, commercial fisher- man, archivist, and architect, as well as teachers, lawyers, and doctors. Some of our children are still in search of their true calling; some are coping with handicaps. Some have died. We are grandmothers of many — all brilliant and beautiful.
There was a feeling that Miss Vera Largent, our late Class Chairman, was present in spirit, beaming that our college education had led to such a development of gifts.
At the Saturday meeting, Eugenia Cox Pratt,
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wearing her third lavender outfit in honor ol class colors, presented one of her ceramic sculptures on behalf of our class. Brenda Cooper of the Alumni staff said the beautiful model of lavender irises and shells will grace the Virginia Dare Room.
Doris McRoberts Piercy, co-class Treasurer, accepted an offering of $100 taken at the meetings to fill our empty coffers. A collec- tion and pledges were also taken to build a fund for our gift to the University on our fiftieth. Checks for the gift fund may be made to UNC-G Alumni Association and marked Class of '44 Fund.
Reporter: Nancy Kirby West
OTHER NOTES: Margaret Johnson Bryan
has worked for the past eighteen years at First Federal Savings and Loan in Burlington, while her husband is a full-time golfer. Two of their sons work for E. F. Hutton, one in Winston- Salem and the other in San Francisco. Their third son is an optometrist in Zebulon. One daughter is a senior underwriter in Burlington, and the other is working toward a physical therapy degree at East Carolina University.
Three of the five children are married, giving Margaret three grandchildren. '" Betty Johnson Cheek is a member of the executive committee of the UNC-G E.xcellence Foundation.
Toni Lupton Hires writes: "According to reliable opinions, the class of '44 is not sur- passed in any desirable category. First, what other class had Vera Largent as aegis? We were part of a Golden Age'and appreciate the goal of excellence. Our fortieth reunion was sparkle, and we thumbed our collective nose at time." Toni's husband Bob is a physicist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Their daughter Maria, who has a PhD in archaeology from Tulane, is the mother of two children. Their daughter Kaila is a practicing artist and college student. Kee, a retarded son, lives at Annandale Village in Georgia. ^ Frieda Soger Lane, a New York City resident, is executive director of Plays for Living. She is continuing her study of voice.
Lib Jordan Laney and her husband traveled to England with the Department of Cultural Resources tour to commemorate the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Roanoke Voyages. After the tour she visited her sister.
who is hvmg in Europe tor si,x months, and then journeyed to Salzburg to visit a friend. "All of our five children have finished school and all are working," she writes. "That is why Mother can now travel!" Last summer she visited Soviet Union Museums and libraries. When home in Spring Hope, NC, Lib is direc- tor of the Pettigrew Regional Library.
Along with her garden club and choir activities, Corneille Caraway Sinealh is busy as a member of the Wrightsville Beach board of aldermen. She has four children and four grandchildren. '\ Zell Craven Weisner is the vice president and corporate secretary of Engineered Castings of Greensboro. She and her husband, Billy — whom she calls "that special fellow" she married in June 1948 — have one child, Celia, and two "super grand- children," Amanda and John.
Daisy Lawrence Wiggins of Wilson and Betty Snider Wilkins of Goldsboro both attended the reunion. ~ Since 1981, Lucy Taylor Yntema has lived near Boston, MA, where she is taking a psychology course at a community college and awaiting warm weather so she can plav golf She now has si.x grand- children — tour bovs and two girls.
Class of 1934. Row 1 (left to right): Alma Sharpe Garlow, Evelyn Avers McNairy, Helen Whitener Zink, Kathleen Beasley McClelland, Mary Dudley Culberlson, Mary Moser Mann, Mary Alexander Tucker, Mary Smith Wiegmann, Ruth Long Nordstrom, Mary Corpening Norwood, Susan Gregory Hamner. Row 2: Caroline Trenholm Rouse, Lucile Ward Mosback, Julia Watson Maulden, Mary Elizabeth Keister, Margaret Plonk Isley, Louise Nash Dorset!, May Bland Winstead, (skip over) Johanna Lichtenfels Abrahams. Row 3: Ernestine Sherwin Spillman, Mary Bandy Bruton, Anzonetta Fisher Edwards, Louise Martin Hobbs, Irene Bivens McNeill, Mary Neal Brown Spencer, Louise McLaughlin
Edwards, Frances Bodenheimer Long, Sarah E. Roger, Morie Murray Howard, Rosalind Paul Blackwell. Row 4: Louise Olive Flowers, Clarice Fowler Jones, Thelma Harrelson Sutton, Isabel Brawley Cashion, Mar- tha Gibson V\'eir, Asenath Cooke, Sarah Burton Clegg Graves, (down a step) Adelaide Fortune Holderness, (up) Margaret Winder Dusen- bury, (down) Elizabeth Sockwell Scott. Row 5: Rebecca Hoskins, Louise Horner, Claudia Moore Read, Martha Sample Williams, Priscilla Mullen Gowen, Florence Stalcup Sherrill, Mary Nading McGehee, Lib Wills Whittington, Inez Pitts McNabb.
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Billie Witherspoon was installed as corre- sponding secretary of the Greensboro Pilot Club in May.
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REUNION REPORT: We had a real treat at the La Fontana on Saturday night. Jackie Rooker Mathews got back from Europe Friday evening and was out on the campus to join the group Saturday.
We are concentrating our interest on 1986, which will be our 40th reunion. At the present time, we are not planning to have a reunion in 1985, but hope the "girls" will make their plans for 1986.
Reporter: Fuzzie Thompson Reavis SYMP.ATHV IS extended to Louise Elliott Davis, whose husband. Colonel John N. Davis, Sr., US .Army Retired, died on March 22, 1983.
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Doris Smith Feltrup and her husband, who retired in May, moved to the Seattle, WA, area. "We are enjoying the beauty and serenity of the lakes and mountains," she writes, "and also being near our son, who is an attorney in Seattle."
SYMPATHY is extended to Mildred Laughlin Royals, whose son Guy '76 died in May; and to .■Mice Womble Thomason, w hose son Walter died in .April.
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Lois Newman Schauer and her husband recent- ly retired and moved to Thompson Falls, MT. ~ Nominated by the Central North Carolina section of the American Chemical Society, Helen McNaull Stone received the 1984 .American Chemical Society's Southeast Regional Award in High School Chemistry Teaching. Last fall, Helen was recognized as the state's top science teacher and was presented with the first Governor's Business Awards in Mathematics and Science Educa- tion. She teaches at Smith High School in Greensboro.
Nancy Hope Willis received the NC Distinguished Service Award for 1983, but she was unable to attend the May 14 presentation luncheon; she and her husband, John, were taking a two-week vacation in Italy. While in Rome, Nancy spoke to the Roma Capitioliauni Lions Club.
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REUNION REPORT: We wish each and every one of you '49ers could have been back on campus for our 35th reunion. For those sixty who came, it was an "awesome" weekend. (That's the new "in" word to replace our 1949 "great," "wonderful," etc.) The lingo may have been a little different and the campus
much larger, but the warmth, the excitement, the anticipation were the same.
We met and visited with each other at the Alumni House, glad that our '49 annual pictures and appropriate names in LARGE letters were on our name tags. We tried to outdo Michael Jackson by wearing a white glove to identify '49ers. But it took only a few minutes and a few words for the years to fall away.
Some went to Curry Auditorium to hear Dr. Bardolph give his class lecture on "Your Ancestors Are Showing" (He's just as smooth as ever); others went to "Reality Therapy." Then came dinner together in Elliott Center and our class meeting. Martha Fowler McNair brought us greetings from Dr. Virginia Gangstad, who couldn't be there. But in her own inimitable way she challenged us: "May the lamp of learning continue to guide and light your pathway; but if it flashes an occasional laser beam, keep pace!" Incidentally, her address is 1701 N. Third Street, Monroe, Louisiana 71201 .
The Reunion Committee, composed of Jane Davis Lambert, chairman, Janle Brooks Grantham. Betsy Umstead, Joy Culbreth Morrison and Meegie Cloninger Stout, reminisced and reminded us of our innocence as each gave her monologue on how life had been at "W.C." — "For a nickel, you could purchase a coke (the carbonated kind in a green bottle), a pack of chewing gum, a candy bar, stamps for a letter and two post cards, or the local afternoon newspaper. . . . We knew nothing of Jacuzzis, hot tubs or condominiums . . . but we did know about weekends in Chapel Hill and at State and the Boar and Castle. . . . Back then Wake Forest was north of Raleigh and most Yankees were north of that . . ." And on and on they went — Johnny Carson would have been green with envy with their lines.
But the program didn't stop there. Each '49er told how she had used her college major and cited her outstanding project in the last two years. What a wealth of talent, knowledge, service, and just plain hard work these '49ers have contributed through the years. .And each grandmother tried to outdo the last one. The fun went on — back to the dorm and room- hopping, just like ole times.
Saturday there was a panel discussion on where UNC-G is going, the Annual Meeting, the picture taking, the Reunion Brunch, and then came the good-byes. So much was crammed into so few hours. And the memories flooded back. We missed you who weren't there. Please, please try to make it back for the 40th. You, too, will think it "an awesome weekend."
Reporter: Surah Denny Williamson OTHER NOTES: Rachel McCormick Brooks writes from Jacksonville, FL, "Seeing old friends from thirty-five years ago, catching up on the highlights of those years, and making plans for future meetings was a real pleasure." ~ Pat Haines Copley was recently installed as the first vice president and president-elect of the NC Federation of Music Clubs. Z Evonne Sanders Garrett lives in Charleston, SC, where her daughter graduated from college this year. Her son was married in May.
The UNC-Chapel Hill Alumni Association honored Barbara Byrd Fordham with a Distinguished Service Medal this year. As wife of the University's chancellor, she was cited for her "unspoken impact on the community." Z Joy Culbreth Morrison is in charge of the Greensboro committee for the Triad Symphony Auction, a fundraising event by the Greensboro and Winston-Salem symphony guilds. The auction w ill be televised in August by Channel 8 in High Point.
Betty W inecoff Phillips and her husband. Wade, live in Greensboro. Their daughter Libby is associated with a Texas mission program. Daughter Kathy and her husband live near Manchester, England. "It's a good thing we like to travel." writes Betty. ~ Betsy Umstead is teacher education chairman in the physical education department at UNC-G. She and other faculty work with the public schools and teach physical education in an effort to become more active in promoting schools and to do more action-oriented research to improve teaching.
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Last May Viola Batts Rus wrote from Levit- town, NY, that she was an expecting grand- mother. Their oldest son, Todd, a court officer in Queens Criminal Court (NYC), became a father in July. Viola's daughter Kristina is a librarian, and her son Tom is a law student at Columbia University. Her husband. Vlad — foreign languages chairman at Great Neck South Senior High School — was an interpreter at the International Games for the Disabled this summer.
SYMPATHY is extended to Carol Rogers Needy, whose mother died in .April; and to Emily Williams Scott, whose husband died in May.'
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Peaches, an impressionistic still life by Warren Brandt (MFA), was included in a show at the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art in May.
Pattie Leach Dawson sends classmates an update on her life since college: she is living in Raleigh, where husband R. Grady Dawson, Jr., a Duke graduate, is a civil engineer with the NC Department of Transportation. Pattie taught in North Carolina schools nine years before her marriage in 1962; she continued teaching in Raleigh and Wake County for many more years. Retired now, she is involved in many community activities, especially as a volunteer making weekly visits to elderly citizens through the Wake County Council on .Aging. She is also taking classes in bridge, weaving, quilting, and physical fitness. The Dawsons have no children. They are members of Edenton Street United Methodist Church.
Ruthie Sevier Foster visited Greensboro last May for a benefit roast honoring her brother. SYMPATHY is extended to Jessie Allen Poole (MEd). Margaret Poole Creegan '69. and Amelia Poole '74, whose husband and father died in March.
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REUNION REPORT: Two dynamic features were a part of each of us who attended our thirtieth class reunion: First was our faith in God and second was our faith in ourselves. Our faith in God saw us through rearing our children, facing death of family and friends, and dealing with the world in which we live. Our faith in ourselves was emphasized by suc- cessful careers and advanced education. Two of us are working on PhD degrees and some have already achieved these degrees. Since our generation was programmed to be wives and mothers, it was the greatest experience to hear that we are not sitting in rocking chairs and rearing grandchildren. We are still contributing greatly to our various worlds.
We missed you who were not there. You missed soaking up lots of love and happiness we shared with each other.
Everyone at our reunion was asked to write a short autobiography of her life since 1954. They follow:
Nancy Benson: "After teaching history and French in Massachusetts for a number of years and living in France and Spain for seven years, I joined the Peace Corps in 1979 and taught English for two years in the Ivory Coast in West Africa. For the last year and a half I have been working in another West African country, Mali, for the American Friends Service Committee. Our small development program helps poor rural women form cooperatives to set up income-producing activities, such as cloth dyeing, soap-making, goat and vegetable raising. I was on home leave for reunion, retur- ning to Mali in June for the remaining year and a half of my contract. It's been an exciting and enriching life, but I hope to come back to the US afterwards and find a job based here." Phyllis Franklin Bierstedt: "I have been married for 29.5 years and am the mother of three wonderful daughters — a specialist, a transportation engineer, and a nurse. I am a child-life therapist at Alfred 1. Dupont ln,sti- tute. Love Hows at these reunions and my cup needs to be refilled and is refilled at these get- togethers."
Theresa Ward Brown: "I married Milion thirty years ago in August. This year I finished thirty years of teaching, twenty-five in home economics, and the last five in occupational exploration in seventh grade. I have now taught many children of my former students and these often call me 'Grandma.' Since I have no children of my own, this is most gratifying. 1 have had the pleasure of having several finish at UNC-G."
Mickey Picket! Burk: "After graduation and six months in Charlotte working for two in- ternists, 1 went to Washington, DC, with my cousin, Emmy, to work for Senator Kerr Scott. After his death in 1958, 1 worked for Senator Albert Gore until 1962. During our years on Capitol Hill, Emmy and 1 traveled to the Caribbean, Mexico, and Europe. In 1960, 1 married a Washingtonian, Bob Burk, who is a lawyer. We moved to Chew Chase and started a family in 1962. Our daughter Sandy just graduated from Duke Universitv.
Familiar Names
Thousands of North Carolina fourth graders see the names Parramore and Scher on the spines of their social studies te.xt; UNC-G can claim them both. Barbara Mitchell Parramore '54 and Linda Scher '67 are co-authors of The People of North Carolina. copyrighted in May 1983 and adopted by the state for fourth grade social studies. Barbara, a teacher of cur- riculum and instruction at NC State University, wrote earlier editions of the same text. For this edition, Linda — a free-lance writer and curriculum developer — wrote the teacher's manual and the last chapter, "How North Carolina Is a Part of the World." Linda is a former textbook editor for Ginn and has had contracts with Houghton-Miflin and other publishers.
Daughter Elaine is a junior at the Universitv of South Carolina, and our son Rob is an eleventh grader. I did not work during the child-rearing years, but for the past several years have worked part-time for a group of psychotherapists. I play tennis, golf, and was on a recreation department soccer team last year."
Frances Harris Casey: "I have been married to Bill for twenty-seven years and have three children. Andrew is a junior at State studying forestry. Sarah graduated from UNC-CH, works as a corporate accountant, and is married. Ellen graduated from UNC-CH, worked for Duke Power, and will marry this August before entering Barton School of Theology. 1 returned to teaching in 1978 and now teach academically gifted students in three Wilkes County schools."
Dail Claridge: "I am a foreign service officer based in Rome, Italy, serving as a Regional Library Consultant for US Southern European Libraries. After being in the Foreign Service for twenty-one years and living in India, .Argen- tina, Panama, and Italy, I will transfer in November to Washington, DC, to become Chief, Foreign National Personnel."
Janel Cook: "I am training director of Coastal Girl Scout Council in Goldsboro." Martha Moore Cowan: "1 live in Rock Hill, SC, and left New Orleans, missing the fair opening, to attend this reunion. It was worth it! What a bunch! I am currently doing volunteer work after teaching sixth grade and working in computers and recreation. ,V1y son is a jet pilot instructor in the ,Air Force after working as a medical technologist, and my daughter is a music major who wants to go to law school. In the last few years I have traveled to England and Scotland and to France and Switzerland with UNC-G."
Rose Farah Dceb: "I have been living in Connecticut for the last t«enty-se\en years, but a part of my heart will always be in North
Carolina. Both of my children have completed college. My daughter is married and my musician son plays in a band and is a high school band director. Jack and I are enjoying this new stage of our lives. We travel when we can and enjoy the freedom of being able to make last minute decisions. I continue to enjoy teaching math and am especially enjoying this opportunity to be with classmates and hear all these great stories!"
Grace Blackmore Deely: "I am a physical therapist and department director at a non- profit out-patient clinic in Rockville, MD. I have two children, Barbara and Brian, both in college. I teach junior high church school classes with my husband. My whole family enjoys tennis, sailing, and skiing. We went to England last year to find Blackmore family roots in Lorna Doone County in Devonshire. We hope to move to Beaufort in three years." Julia Page Doliey: "I have been married for thirty years in August and have three daughters and one grandchild. I received my master's in education and EdS in special education. I have taught preschool deaf, learning disabled, and now have a self-contained emotionally handi- capped class at the junior high level."
Frances Brown Dorward: "I have been married for thirty years and am the mother of three children. I taught fifteen years, but now am a homemaker so I can travel with my husband."
Ashley Holland Dozier: "I am married to Graham Dozier and have three children. Lane graduated from UNC-CH and works for ESC in Raleigh. Ann graduated from Salem College, married, and works in Winston- Salem. Sally is a rising junior at Meredith College. Graham and 1 are having a grand time together in our empty nest. It's more fun than ever before. 1 am involved in a city-w ide, non- denominational, inter-age, and inter-racial Bible study. As part of the leadership, I am using the teacher training I received at Woman's College, and I'm learning how to teach adults. It's been great, and I've grown a lot. I also have had a mar\elous trip to Europe which I shared with two of my daughters."
Tish Robinson Dukes: "I have three children — a daughter who is a recreational therapist, a married son who is a chemical engineer at Dow Chemical in Midland. MI, and a son who is a junior at Clemson. I teach English as a second language on a volunteer basis. This was the first time 1 had been back to Woman's College since graduation. I had a great time renewing friendships."
Joan Horn Eaker: "I li\e in Forest City and work in the dental offices with my husband. We have three children and a new grandson. Our daughter graduated from UNC-G, and the two sons, from UNC-CH. The younger son is attending dental school."
Merle Cates Frazier: "1 am looking forward to retiring in one more year after teaching second and third grades in Greensboro for thirty years. This summer I plan to go on a European tour with a First Baptist Church group. .Andy and I celebrated our thirtieth wedding anni\ersary in June. Our three children are on their own now, and tuo are
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married. 1 really enjoyed seeing eseryone at our thirtielh reunion."
Frances AUred Garvcy: "1 attended UNC-G in 1950-.'; 1, transferred to St. Mary's in Raleigh, and graduated from Mary Baldwin College with a BA in history. I have lived for forty years in Winston-Salem and work as a medical social worker. 1 am now completing twelve hours post-graduate courses in gerontology."
Margie Preisinger Haines: "I have been mar- ried to Ben. a Greensboro lawyer, for twenty- seven years. We have ten children, si.x girls and four boys, and one grandchild. 1 am operating a part-time catering service. I loved being at our thirtieth class reunion."
Lois Brown Haynes: "I have been married for twenty-seven years and have two children. I am a testing coordinator for Salisbury City Schools, and 1 am active in the UNC-G Alumni Association. 1 am the chairman of the Salisbury Housing Authority, and I am active in my church."
Gertie Byers Hoplers: "I teach English at Harford Community College and have three wonderful adult daughters. The oldest, named Rebecca after my WC roommate, is a poet going back to graduate school. The middle one is a St. John's graduate with an all-woman con- struction crew. The youngest just graduated from Johns Hopkins and is going into the Peace Corps."
Kay Kipka Jones: "I have been married to Charlie for thirty years and have reared three daughters. I received an MS degree in microbiology from Old Dominion University in 1978. Finally, after asking God for twenty- six years to bring me home, we finally moved back to Mooresville. 1 am working the second shift as a medical technologist at Lowrance Hospital. 1 work hard and love being back home every day."
Anne Umslead Maultsby: "I married Jack in 1953. My children are John. Jr., Timothy Reade, Laurie Elizabeth, and Amy Louise, who will enter UNC-G this fall. I own the Farm House Restaurant in Chapel Hill, for which I work and make pies. I volunteer with the church, PTA, thrift shop, and soup kitchen."
Sally Lamons McCullough: "I lived in Seattle. WA. and for four years in Charlotte. While in Seattle. I was YWCA Physical Educa- tion and Recreation Director. I married in 1961 and have two children. Mark, who is a student at NC School of the Arts, and Leigh, who is a high school sophomore. I was a realtor for ten years in Charlotte and have recently retired. Presently. I am writing a mystery novel."
Helen DIetz Moore: "1 have been happily married to Bob for thirty years and have two grown children — a daughter, who has a BSN. is married, and has a new baby girl; a son who has a BS in education and is working with Pied- mont Airlines in Baltimore. MD. 1 have taught kindergarten, and worked as a secretary for Country Day School in Asheville for five years and for the county schools two years. I have been active in the choir and Sunday school at Trinity Church for sixteen years. I came to the reunion because Phyllis Franklin Bierstedt asked me to come and room with her!"
Miriam Bright .Nance: "1 have been married for twenty-seven years and have two daughters;
one is married with no children. I am active in 4-H club work and Friendship Force Trips."
Becky Lane Reed: "In 1980 I graduated from law school and am a practicing lawyer. 1 am a member and vice president of the Stafford County, VA, Board of Supervisors. I am the vice president of the Council on Domestic Violence, which operates a shelter for battered women and their children. I reared three children."
Nancy Jean Hill Snow: i teach in the department of speech communication at NC State University. My husband and I have two children — Melinda, 19, a freshman at UNC-CH, and Katherine, 16, a tenth grader at Broughton High School in Raleigh."
Belly Ann Jarvis Vance: "In 1972 I resumed a career with the Extension Service, which had been interrupted by fifteen years of child rear- ing, homemaking, and volunteering. By 1974 my husband answered the call of adventure to work as an engineer for the government of Samoa. Life in Pago Pago was a tropical paradise but schooling for our children was in- adequate, so we cut short our Samoan sojourn. I resumed my home economist job. But by 1978, my husband, Dave, signed on with the Arabian American Oil Company, and we left to spend five years in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. We lived in a company community, which was an international one.
"Living in the Middle East gave us an oppor- tunity to do more traveling than 1 had ever dreamed of. 1 found myself using my school girl French, sleeping on a houseboat in Kashmir, and riding a camel in Egypt. Sometimes 1 was in places where 1 wondered, 'What is a home economics major from UNC-G doing in a place like this?' The travel was grand and the opportunity to live in two cultures so totally different from our own was rare. 1 am grateful to view these cultures with an educated eye and with the understanding to be accepting rather than judgmental. It's a great life if you don't weaken. December we moved back to Gaston County intending to cool the tar on our heels for a while."
Emmy Pickell Velis: "I have been living in Miami for the past five years, where I am an official of Manufacturers Hanover Inter- national Banking Corporation. Prior to that. 1 lived in San Salvador, El Salvador, for eighteen years until I lost my husband in 1979. While in El Salvador, I worked eight years for the Peace Corps program in that country. I have two daughters — Anita, who graduated from UNC-G in 1983, and Virginia, age 15. Both live with me in Miami."
Jean Church Walker: "After Phil graduated from law school we went overseas with Esso to Nassau and Panama. Later, we lived in New Jersey and then decided to come back to North Carolina. We ended up in Rutherford County, Phil's home, and have been remodeling his grandfather's house for eighteen years! One daughter graduated from Meredith and has a master's from ECU. She is teaching and living at home. I have been teaching second grade the past twenty-two years."
Reporler: Kay Kipka Jones OTHER NOTES: Maud Galewood's paintings were displayed in a spring exhibit at Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art in Greensboro;
her work will be included in another exhibit there next fall.
Annis Troul McCabe has been commis- sioned to sculpture an altar piece for the new chapel at Randolph Macon Women's College. She and her husband recently traveled to Egypt, where Annis gained inspiration for her work. They live on a farm near Lynchburg, VA. C Mildred Fuller McGowan and her husband, James, live in Faison, NC. Her husband and two sons, James and Michael, raise watermelons, cucumbers, corn, and soy- beans. Mildred and James also are parents of a seventeen-year-old daughter, Jennie.
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Mary Jane Auslin Graham teaches home economics at Watauga High School in Boone. ~ Vira Kivell, an associate professor in child development and family relations at UNC-G, wrote an article on grandparenting for the Greensboro News and Record last spring.
1956
LAVENDER REUNION 1986
Belly Felmel Lewis was elected president of the Triad NC Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, an education honor society. Recently, she became the first woman in the chapter to be awarded a Service Key, the society's highest honor. Betty is a guidance counselor at Kiser Junior High School.
1957
BLUE REUNION 1987
Grela Jones Johnson, who lives in Burlington, has a two-year-old grandchild. SYMPATHY is extended to Palsy Coble Freeman, whose son died in a car accident last April.
1958
GREEN REUNION 1988
After thirty-six years with the federal govern- ment, Reva Ingram Fortune retired in January. She lives in Greensboro. H Meda Grigg Howell is the corresponding secretary for the NC Alpha Delta Kappa Sorority, an inter- national honorary organization for outstanding educators. Meda is a guidance counselor at Jackson Junior High School in Greensboro. Joyce Owen King was named the Outstand- ing Math Teacher in the northern Piedmont region of North Carolina; she chairs the math department at Greensboro's Page High School, where she has taught for twenty-one years. " Rascha Sklut Kriegsman was elected to the board of directors of the Weatherspoon GaUery Association this year. ~ Margaret Tillett Williams' son Mark is a UNC-G student. Margaret lives in Virginia Beach, VA.
1959
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REUNION REPORT: It was exciting, arriv- ing at the Alumni House Friday afternoon, May 11. Rushing around, seeing who came.
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Picking up Ireebies. buying alumni ico-shiiis, cups, cross-stitch graphs ol campus scenes. Shopping at the Bookstore, finding our gym suits of olden days available for 50« a piece!!!! Checking into the second floor Gotten, seeing other classmates, relaxing a bit before going over to Elliott for the Friday night buffet. Tas- ty, fun, and thrilling to have a meal once again with class friends. Some brought husbands; we laughed when we read somewhere "not to eat the table decorations."
We ambled on over to the Soda Shop (now the Faculty Center) for our informal class par- ty. Greensboro '59ers hosted us grandly: Terry Garrison Lashley, Mary Coleman Transou, Eugenia Hickerson MacRae, and others treated us to delectable fresh fruits and veggies with dip, wine, crackers, and scrumptious homemade cheeses brought by Betty Motley Sartin from her farm. "Coleman" pinch-hitted for Everlasting Class President Peggy Duncan Jeens, who could not come. We were called to order Just long enough to hear thumbnail sket- ches of then and now from everyone, and to listen to a recording of our beloved Junior Show — brought by Terry Lashley. How sweet it was to recognize Brenda Register Ham's voice, and other familiars.
Ironi the "thumbnails" and from other times during the reunion, we heard the follow- ing: IVlot's husband David and son Dave have surrogate cows! ! ! Mot leaches in Danville and within the last year won recognition for being an outstanding teacher.
Eugenia Hickerson MacRae's husband and son will soon be sailing their boat to Bermuda and back. Eugenia will fly to meet them there. Margaret Martin lives on a houseboat at Figure Eight Island in Wilmington and has started her own marketing/sales promotion business. Belly Rowe Penny now lives in Garner but misses her Rocky Mount farm; Ann Lee Barnhardt Robbins still lives and teaches in Rocky Mount.
Scotlie Alexander Fischer is a banker in Forest, VA. Virginia Bass Bradsher still has sewing projects to complete. She lives in Greensboro, as do Evelyn Cabe Timblin, .lacqueline McMahon Poer, Diane Carpenter Peebles, and Joanne Kiser Caldwell, .loanno taught Diane's daughter and is an excellent teacher, says Diane. Coleman has sons who play football well enough to win scholarships; she works for Social Services in Greensboro. Diane Peebles uses her art skills by working at two part-time jobs, one of them in drafting.
Brenda Register Ham reHnishes and sells antiques in Raleigh; her foriner "roomie" Margarel Myers Blair married a "stork" (her words) and lives in Columbia, SC. .Nancy Ephland Oliver lives in nearby Rock Hill; her daughter danced this year in "The Nutcracker Suite"; husband Bill was also in it.
Adele Graham Vaculik lives in Ann Arbor, Ml, and adores her adopted Korean daughter. Linda Inman McLesler lives in Rockingham and leads exercise classes, with an emphasis on good nutrition. Mary Dale Shue Johnson has just returned to teaching home economics and loves it. Sarah Westmoreland Burgess is a housewife in Goldsboro.
Dorothy Moore Jackson came all the way from Princeton Junction, NJ, and is busy rear- ing kids. Mary Jane Phillips Dickerson came from Jericho Center, VT. She teaches English in a college there and has recently been on sabbatical. Denny Shea Backus came all the way from Woods Hole, MA, and loves the New England life, as does Mary Jane.
Faye Baines Rouse edits a newsletter/ bulletin in Durham, and is married to a newspaper editor. Mary Lea Aldridge Hamilton also married a newspaperman, and she helps him put out the paper in Toccoa, GA.
Class of 1959. Row 1 (left to right): Sarah Westmoreland Burgess, Mary Shue Johnson, Marilyn Lineberger McRee, Linda Inman McLester, Diane Carpenter Peebles, Joanne Kiser Caldwell, Ann Lee Barnhardt Robbins, Mary Wolfe Sutton. Row 2: Betty Motley Sartin, Ann Lou Jamerson, Ginny Bass Bradsher, Mary Jane Phillips Dickerson, Adele Graham Vaculik, Sally Brown Fryar, (down a step) Nancy Carrier Davis, Mary Lea Aldridge Hamilton. Row 3: Terry Weaver, Charlotte
"Scottie" Alexander Fischer, Betty Rowe Penny, Denise Shea Backus, Dorothy Moore Jackson, Margaret Myers Blair, Faye Baines Rouse. Row 4: Pat Leonard Myers, Marietta Harris Stebor, Evelyn Cabe Timblin, Jackie McMahon Poer, Dellene Lyerly Gudger, Brenda Register Ham. Row 5: Emily Jordan Dbion, Millie Pitts Hancock, Nancy Ephland Oliver, Pat Allan Kemp, Margie Park Lucas, Mary Louise Coleman Transou.
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She was visiting her daughter, who is now a student at UNC-G.
Sally Brown Fnar came from McLeansville, which is not too far from Greensboro. Millie Pills Hancock has her own medical clinic known as Hancock Medical Associates PA in Hickory. Thanks go to Millie for her after- reunion mailing to those of us who came. J. P. Wolfe Sutton came from Fayetteville and is still lovely as ever. Emily Jordan Dixon came from Hendersonville and brought love from "roomie" Evelyn Fisher Hart, who could not attend. Marilyn Lineberger McRee came from Maiden and looked terrific. .Nancy Carrier Davis came all the way from .^pple Valley, CA. Terry Weaver came all the way from across town; she still lives in Greensboro, and holds down the fort for us by working in Elliott Center. Classmates were proud of Terry's presentation at the mass meeting Saturday morning.
Ann Lou Jamerson came from Chapel Hill. Pat Leonard Myers came from Lexington, sporting a great blond look, and bringing her lovely daughter. Margie Park Lucas and Pat Allan Kemp came together from Raleigh. Dellene Lyerly Gudger came from Salisbury, sporting ye ole gym suit. Rat Day Beanie, and THE beautiful red class jacket . . . and on her arm was her handsome new husband. She says that love is even better the second time around. Others bringing their hubbies during the weekend were Diane Peebles, Marietla Harris Stebor, Jacqueline McMahon Poer, and Denny Shea Backus.
.At our Friday night party, it was a sheer delight to have Miss "C" drop in for a few minutes and hear her tell of Dean Taylor and other faculty favorites. She told about renova- tions on campus and urged us to see new buildings and additions while we were in Greensboro. A few of us took the bus tour through campus and were impressed with the new Business and Economics Center, Arts and Sciences Building, Taylor Building, Carmichael Building, new dorms, new library wing, religious centers, and other additions and im- provements. It was also good to see that many things have not changed!
It was good to hear that the UNC-G soccer team holds the national championship title, but odd to see most of the golf course (immediately beyond the tennis courts) changed into soccer fields. It was fun riding around campus on the little electric carts, chauffeured by spiffy cordial senior men who were ready and waiting to assist us with information and our luggage.
It was appropriate to have our class picture taken in front of the Soda Shop on Saturday. This was a place where so many of us spent so much time! Later in the day, a good two- people band strummed and sang there, enter- taining those of us who lingered. It was as if we hated for good times to end ... a feeling we all experienced many times here at Woman's College. C'est la vie, til our next reunion.
Classmates were asked at the formal Satur- day class meeting to begin thinking of ways to raise money to buy our class gift, which tradi- tionally should be presented at out 30th reunion. Letters to all '59ers will be sent seek- ing suggestions for this project. Letters will be
mailed soon from the .Alumni office to all classmates urging them to PL.AN EARLY TO COME TO OUR NEXT, 30th REUNION. Those of you who missed this one, we sorely missed YOU! Many of you had big conflicts, such as your sons and daughters graduating from college, etc. But plan for the next one! Let's make is a big 30th!
Reporlers: Faye Baines Rouse and Marv Jane Phillips Dickerson OTHER NOTES: After working full-time for seven years, Denise Shea Backus now works part-time at the New Alchemy Institute, a non- profit research and education institute explor- ing renewable energy based solutions for food, energy, and shelter. From April to October, she and her husband, an oceanographer, can usually be found in their garden in Woods Hole, MA. Their last of five children started to college this year.
Last spring, Carolyn Harris exhibited her oils, vvatercolors, and drawings at the Wyckoff Gallery in Wyckoff, NJ. C Diana Reed Jackson is a candidate for ordination in the Presbyterian Church USA through San Francisco Theological Seminary. Living in Orlando, FL, with her husband and two children, Diana is director of Christian educa- tion for the Daytona Cluster of Churches and a member of the General Assembly Council on Women's Concerns.
.\dele Graham Vaculik completed her BFA degree in textiles at Eastern Michigan Univer- sity and is now working on her master's. She serves in the Marine Corps Reserves and chairs the Families for International .Adoption and ■Assistance in Ann .Arbor. Ml, where she lives. Adele and her husband, Peter, have adopted two Korean children, ages 4 and 7.
1960
LAVENDER REUNION 1985
Greensboro's Altrusa Club presented Jane Harris Armfield the 1984 Community Arts Award. In introducing her, the awards com- mittee chairperson prefaced the long list of Jane's accomplishments by saying that they were so extensive "it's amazing that she isn't 200 years old." Jane was re-elected secretary of the Weatherspoon Gallery Association this year. Z Dean Dull (MEd) has retired as principal of Southwest Guilford High School. ~ Leiia Evans Tale lives in Lovettsville, V.A. Her son Steven is a freshman at UNC-CH. Z Rachel Brell Harley is completing her second year as president of AAUP at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanta. She is on the music faculty there and teaches in the women's studies program. In June, she enjoyed a first reunion with .Nancy Canning Helms, her freshman roommate from Shaw Residence Hall, and with Bess Dimos 'i7C and Xylda Bland Cofer '57C, both former hallmates. They reunioned on .Xylda's boat on Lake Hart- well in South Carolina.
1961
BLUE REUNION 1986
Anne Elise Berry has moved to Flagstaff, AZ. 71 Last spring, Jane Smith Pallerson was a
panelist in a Guilford College symposium on
the news media. Z Emily Herring Wilson's
husband, Edwin, was the commencement speaker at the 92nd annual exercises of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for nearly 2000 students who received degrees.
1962
GREEN REUNION 1987
Jann Graham Glann and her husband, Dr. Frank Glann, co-authored a full-length "historical drama with music," which was pro- duced for the Quesquicemennial celebration in Huron, OH. Jann was the co-director, musical director, and choreographer for the show, which was produced again this summer. Both Jann's sons — ages 3 and 10 — were cast members.
Libby Giles Leonard was one of the pro- prietors of the Toad-in-the-Hole, a gift shop that sells stuffed toys and other handiwork made by Greensboro Garden Club members. The shop was opened in the building that was once the butler's quarters to the Ireland Mansion, a renovated Greensboro home opened to the public this spring.
1962 Commercial
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Roma Garner Mitchell was promoted to assist- ant vice president of Branch Banking and Trust Company in Wilson.
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Kay Bryan Edwards was elected as trustee of Elon College. II This spring, Ridley Smith
spoke on "The Restoration of Hope Planta- tion" and "Blue and White Ceramics at Hope Plantation" at the Greensboro Council of Garden Clubs. T Jean Fullerton W hite com- pleted work for the certificate of advanced study from William and Mary College last May.
1964
LAVENDER REUNION 1989
Betty Ward Cone wrote Cause for Applause for the Greensboro Junior League Follies. Described by a newspaper reporter as a "zany salute to Greensboro," the show raised a hefty $210,000 for the organization. ~ Linda Elkins Harris was presented the 1984 NC Crime and Justice Award as the Outstanding Criminal Justice System Volunteer. Over the years, she has raised enough money for 2700 delinquent youth to attend Camp Willow Run, where she is the executive director.
At the reunion, Curry Anne Kirk Walker reported that she has been a medical technologist since 1965 and now works at the VA Hospital in Columbia. SC. Her son Chris is eighteen years old. In January 1983, she traveled on a medical mission to Haiti with the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina. She is now serving on the Depanment of World Mission for the diocese. Z Grace Stoddard Walker teaches biology and bio-chemistry at Bucks County College, P.A, and Temple Universitv.
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1965
BLUE REUNION 1985
Rebecca Hobgood Felton completed her PhD in child development and family relations at UNC-G last year. She is a research instructor at Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem. "7 Marj Lineberger Matthews of the Duke University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies was presented a resolu- tion and certificate of recognition at Durham's YWCA recently. ZZ Susette Mottsman Panitz and her husband have moved to St. Charles, MD. She is a media specialist at General Smallwood Middle School in Charles County, MD.
1966
GREEN REUNION 1986
Edith Bowman Briles (MEd), director of media services for Randolph County Schools, chairs the Library Media Day Committee of the NC Association of School Librarians. The associ- ation recently received the 1984 Grolier National Library Week Grant for a project Edith's committee recently undertook. Z Debra Johnson Creech, who lives in Newport News, VA, received her MA in humanities from Old Dominion University and plans to return to teaching high school art this fall. ~ Sandra Hopper Forman directed Babes in Arms for UNC-G's summer repertory season.
1967
Living in Pittsburgh, PA, Barbara Decker
Bayon and her husband, Barry, are parents. Their first child, Andrew, was born April 3, 1984. Z Linda Calhoun married Dan Higgins last September and lives in Roanoke, VA, were she teaches high school home economics. n The Lost Traveller's Dream, the newest novel by Kelly Cherry (MFA), was released in April by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Susan Leemon Dowtin was the general chair- man of the Greensboro Junior League Follies I staged in May. The show, written by Betty I Ward Cone '64 and titled Cause for Applause, ! raised $210,000, an amount substantially sur- I passing the league's goal. Z Lena Swofford [ Gordon teaches in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg j Schools. After serving nine years as Mecklen- I burg County Assistant District Attorney, her I husband joined a Charlotte law firm. "" When j Emily Balchin Huntley (MFA) toured Italy last year, she met the fabric artists Gio Pozzi and Franco Valentini. This spring she displayed their wall hangings at her Greensboro gallery, the Garden Studio Art Gallery. ' ' Clyda i Hopper King married Fred Hutton in March; I she works for Guilford County Schools, and he, for Arthur Fulmer Company.
1968
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Anne Dickson Fogleman and her husband welcomed their third child, son Paul, last October. Paul joins Hal, 1 1 , and Dickson, 9. D Dawn Donahue Little is the mother of three boys and the store manager for Southern
Eternal Educator
"I'm better able to teach right now and would be of more value to my students than I have ever been in my life because I have done more reading and research," says Mary Riser '31. So, at the age of seventy-three, Mary is studying at Lenoir-Rhyne College and seeking teacher certification to re- enter the profession she left nearly thirty-two years ago. Mary began teaching in 1931 and has taught in Greensboro, Pennsylvania, New York, and the Panama Canal Zone. She left the profession in 1952, when she worked on her dissertation at UNC-CH, traveled to Peru, and became certified as a nurse's assistant. But teaching was never far from her heart. "I love children and what else would 1 do," she says. "I'm an educator."
Business Supply in Sanford. .As if that's not enough, she is also secretary for the Cub Scout Pack and the chairperson and co-founder of Handcrafters. Z Rebecca Reeder Raphael married Rudy Ware in April. Living in Hickory, Rebecca designs stained glass art and Rudy coordinates the extended day school program at Hickory High School.
In the January/February issue of G Triad magazine, Judy Newton Scurry's husband. Bill, was featured as one of the people to know in the Triad. Judy and her husband live in Winston-Salem. Z As an independent living specialist with the Guilford County Depart- ment of Social Services, Connie Poulter Weadon has helped the visually handicapped for fifteen years. ". This April Kay Shearin became a trust counsel and assistant vice presi- dent for E. F. Hutton Trust Company in Wil- mington, DE.
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REUNION REPORT: The fifteenth reunion activities for the Class of '69 began on Friday evening. May 1 1 with a get-reacquainled party featuring refreshments, the '69 Yearbook, and the Junior Show record. Fourteen class- members attended the function in the Benbow Room of Elliott Center. Among those present were Helen Brock Louis, Sarah Horton Stewart, Linda-Margaret Hunt, Jack Pinnix, Randi Bryant Strutton, Linda Jackson. Patsy Mask Hill, Sandy Schneider ,\llen. Pat Kurisko, Patsy Clappse Holder, Susan Lisk Piccione, Daphne Britt Young, Sherry Beane Russell, and Margaret Hamlet Bingham. Helen Brock Louis, class president, announced a class meeting for 10:15 a.m. on Saturday, May 12, 1984. Fifteen members attended the meeting and then proceeded to Aycock Auditorium for the Annual Meeting of the Alumni Associ- ation. Other members either present at the class meeting, at the .Aycock assembly, for the class
picture, or for lunch were Pam Allison, Leslie Rumple Pritchard, Kaye Mellon Hollifield, Eleanor Hill Goette, Chris Waggoner Hudnell, Marty Barber Ensign, Dede Dewey Feldman, Janice Wilson Henson, Nancy Ann Brooks, Liz Benbow, Carol Wally Asbury, and Shirley Ferguson Harageones.
A major topic of discussion at the class meeting was the interest in actively promoting attendance at the 20th or 25th reunion. In order to have special reunion activities at these two events and to begin collecting funds for a gift to the University at the 50th reunion, the class members present approved the motion to pur- sue obtaining permission to allow class members to designate a certain amount of their Alumni Giving to the Class of 1969 treasury. Additionally, Linda Jackson accepted the posi- tion of Reunion Chairman for the 20th reunion. Anyone with suggestions for the col- lection fund idea or the 20th reunion is urged to contact Helen Brock Louis (collection fund) or Linda Jackson (reunion). Class members are strongly urged to return to UNC-G for the 20th reunion in 1989.
Reporter: Margaret Hamlet Bingham
OTHER NOTES: Pamela Allison received her doctorate in physical education from UNC-G in May. She will begin her second year of teaching in the UNC-G physical education department this fall. Z Having received her CPA license, Nancy Brooks is the finance director of Southwestern NC Planning and Economic De\elopment Commission. Z Becky Thompson Davis earned her PhD in child development and family relations at UNC-G last year. She is the director of social and behavioral services at Evergreens in Greensboro. Z Linda Jackson is treasurer of Alpic Library Company.
Helen Brock Louis lives in Santa Ana, CA, and works part-time as a representative for Learner's World, a distributor of educational materials for pre-schoolers and elementary school children. She is also a full-time mother to Theresa. 7, and Katherine, 3. Her husband started his own property management company in March. Z In addition to serving a second term as president of the YWCA in Bristol, VA, Carolyn Loftin Noble volunteers in numerous other clubs and committees. She is treasurer of the Bristol Music Club, board member of the Christian Women's Club, board member of the Virginia Federation of Music Clubs, and parliamentarian of the Lowry Hills Gardeners Garden Club. "I plan to take it a little easier next year," she writes.
Jack Pinnix, a member of a Raleigh law firm, was elected chair of the NC Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Associ- ation. Z Susan Lisk Piccione is a busy "pro- fessional volunteer" and mother of three children, ages 4, 6, and 9; she li\es in Dothan, .AL. ' " Last December, Shirley Watson Sanders completed her MEd degree in math at UNC-G, where she is now a lecturer in the math department. Z Sarah Horton Stewart is the mother of three daughters — Emily, 6, Kimberly, 3, and Deborah, 9 months. "Needless to say, that is the extent of my activi- ties." Nevertheless, she is also the co-chair of the Infant Car Seat Loaner Program in Greens-
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boro. Z As a concept facilitator lor a video production house, Randi Bryant Strutlon pro- duces and directs video productions.
1972
LAVENDER REUNION 1987
1970
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For his many accomplishments and contribu- tions to the Greensboro Public Schools, Mack Baker (MEd) received a North Carolina Science Teacher Award for 1983. He has been Direc- tor of Science Education for the Greensboro Public Schools for nine years. I_ Catherine Clemmer Barbour and her husband, David '71, gave birth to a son in February. Living in Chesterfield, VA, Catherine works for IBM, and David, for the State of Virginia. ~ Virginia Budny (MFA) served on a commit- tee that selected a sculpture honoring O. Henry in downtown Greensboro.
Sheri DeLong has a new name and address. She is Sheri DeLong-Sigler, a captain in the Army, and she lives in Hattiesburg, MS. D Clifford Lowery (MEd) has been promoted to dean of students at UNC-G as part of a reorganization within the division of student affairs at the University. Some of his respon- sibilities include Elliott University Center, Aycock Auditorium, marshals, and Student Development Advisory Board. C Bruce Martin is the new training director in the ordi- nary agency department of Pilot Life Insurance, l" Linda Wilson McDougle (MEd) was awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship by the Crescent Rotary Club. She is the principal of Dudley High School in Greensboro and was recently appointed to the NC standby Selec- tive Service Board.
1971
Capt. Rachel Diane Garden and Lt. Col. Donald Wilt Shive were married on February 25. She is an organizational effectiveness con- sultant in the US Army and her husband is a systems coordinator in the US Army at the Pentagon. The Shives live in Falls Church, VA. ~ Mary Glendenning Elam was among twenty-two members of the American Society of Interior Designers throughout North Carolina who transformed the bare Pinehurst Castle in Pinehurst, The castle was open to the public in early April to raise funds for the O'Neal Learning Center for children with learning disabilities. Z Daniel Garrett co- designed the Child's Place, a room in the restored Ireland House in Greensboro.
A sculpture by Mary Ringelberg Mintich (MFA) was unveiled last spring at Salisbury's ■Waterworks Gallery, where it was installed. Z Mary Gordon and Virginia Nelson Sills received their MEd degrees from UNC-G last December. Mary's field is the education of the deaf. Virginia studied guidance and counsel- ing. Z Edith Hambright is a family psychotherapist working with alcohol and drug clients at a mental health center south of Atlanta, GA. Z Robert Maynard (MEd) com- pleted his doctoral degree in curriculum and teaching at UNC-G last year. SYMPATHY is extended to June McLaurin Jeffers (MEd), whose son died in March.
Jim Lancaster has been promoted to assistant dean of students at UNC-G. Z Cara Caldwell Lenfestey and her husband have three children — Rob, 6, Beth, 4, and Sara, 2 — and they are expecting a fourth this fall. .^ NC A&T presented Velma James Simmons (MSBA) this year's Achievement Award. She is a ta.x plan- ning manager for R. J. Reynolds, owner of her own tax service, and a part-time teacher at Forsyth Technical Institute. Z Lynne Byrd Tyler married Lieutenant Colonel Robert Spivey in April and lives in Zweibruchen, Germany, where her husband is stationed with the Air Force.
1973
BLUE REUNION 1988
Skip Bailey works at Greensboro's Bulk Mail Center. Z Kathryn Johnson married Greg Stephens last April. She is an obstetrician/ gynecologist, and her husband works for Town and Country Ford. . Teresa Kuniz McVickers is president of Universal Travel, which opened a new office in Greensboro this spring. n Elliot Motlow owns a plumbing business in Lexington. According to a recent Lexington Dispatch article on him and his business, he hopes to fish for a living someday. Z Nona Pryor, who works at Randleman High School, serves on the Library Media Day Committee of the NC Association of School Librarians. Stan Swofford (MA), a Greensboro News and Record reporter, won first-place for news writing in the annual Landmark Awards.
1974
GREEN REUNION 1989
While being a mother to two children, Elaine Russos Anlyan (MEd) operates a business from her kitchen table in Raleigh. Several years ago she hand painted a picture frame for a shower gift and was asked to make more for sale. Today, she sells them through her business. Personality Plus/Goosho, to gift shops as far away as Bermuda. Z Kathryn Edmonds married Dr. Thomas Duntemann, a Navy lieutenant, in March. Kathryn is a lieutenant commander in the Navy Nursing Corp.
Patsy Elaine Edwards married James Carlyle Rudolph in March in Jonesborough, TN, where they make their home. Z Marianne Buie Gingher (MFA) led a series of fiction workshops for the Greensboro Writers Club this summer. Z Brenda Burgin Gonzales was recently elected president of the Greensboro Dietetic Association. She is the director of dietary services at Charter Hills Hospital. Z William Ivey was awarded his MBA degree at the University of Delaware last winter.
Pfeiffer College presented Lee Kinard, the news co-anchor for Greensboro's Channel 2, its Distinguished Alumni Award. The award recognizes community service and career suc- cess. Lee attended Pfeiffer when it was a junior college. In May, Lee was awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship by the Crescent Rotary Club for his community service. Z Claudia
Geraghty LeDuc works for the Department of Public Education Controller's Office in Raleigh and does talent work on the side. She recently completed a supporting role in Reuben, Reuben, a film which received an Oscar nomination for best screenplay. Claudia lives with her husband and their three cats. She attended the class reunion in May.
Robie McFarland is the director of residen- tial life at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY. Z Amelia Poole earned her master's in biology at UNC-G last December. She is an analytical biologist for Lorillard Research Center in Greensboro. Z Kim Bald Riley and her husband Rick, who live in San Antonio, TX, have a one-year-old daughter, Avery. D Carol Graham Streng, her husband, and her two- year-old daughter, Allison, live at 868 Firethorn Court, Tucker, GA 30084. After working for Rich's-Division of Federated Department Stores in .'Atlanta for nine years, Carol is now a full-time mother and homemaker.
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RED REUNION 1985
Mary Beth Alspaugh married Frank Sheldon Sutherland-Hall in April and lives in Arlington, TX. Z Three members of the class of 1975 earned graduate degrees at UNC-G last December. Margaret Bourdeaux Arbuckle completed her PhD in child development and family relations; Wayne Black earned his MPA; and Katherine Highfill received her MEd in counseling and works at Farr .Associ- ates in Greensboro.
David Bass (MFA) was a member of a com- mittee that selected a sculpture honoring O. Henry in downtown Greensboro. Z Cindy Helms Chadderton recently took a new job with Oakwood Homes Corporation in which she develops and coordinates the internal and external communications programs. Z Janis Nunnally Conner is the new chief of speech pathology at Central Carolina HospitaL
Bill Mangum painted a watercolor portrait of Sam Snead, who was the 1984 Greater Greensboro Open's honorary professional. The portrait was presented to Snead during the tournament. Z Carleen Sims was elected presi- dent of the Recreation and Welfare Association at the Naval Electronic Systems Command.
1976
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Pamela Martin Allen and Sylvia Sharon Ray
earned their MEd degrees at UNC-G last year. Pamela concentrated on educational adminis- tration and teaches English at Reidsville Senior High. Sylvia specialized in elementary educa- tion. Z Harriet Cherry Barber completed her MFA in art at UNC-G last December. Z Evelyn Brown married Dr. Evan Keith Fram in April. Both work at Duke Medical Center. Evelyn is an employee relations representative and her husband is a resident in the department of radiology.
Two landscapes by Keith Buckner and art- work by Joe Whisnant (MFA) were included in the NC Artists Exhibition at the NC
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Museum of Art this spring. Carolync Carter Burgman (MLS) serves on the Library Media Day Committee of the NC Association of School Librarians. ^ i In his new bool< Sports and Pastimes of the Middle Ages, John Marshall Carter (MA) describes the once- popular activities of blowing mort, catching eels, and baiting bear. He was recently appointed to the history faculty at East Carolina University, where he will teach medieval and world history.
Jan Marlin Delter was named the director of Piedmont Craftsmen in Winston-Salem. D Duanne Hoffler (MEd) teaches clothing construction, design and merchandising at NC A&T. [ ■ Jean Hunt-Thorpe and her husband, William, announce: "We have a son! Soon to be a future Tarheel!" Andrew Taylor Thorpe was born in April and lives with his mother and father in Costa Mesa, CA.
Leianne Ruth, manager of a Wendy's, married Irvin Hudgins in April. Irvin works for Micro Computer Systems. □ Lucy Spencer (MFA), an art teacher in the Greensboro elementary schools, recently traveled through the Arizona deserts, the landscape that has in- spired many of her paintings. Her paintings of the sea were displayed at Greensboro's More- head Galleries in May.
1977
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Nancy Baker and Mary McLaurin earned their MEd degrees at UNC-G last December. Nancy specialized in elementary education, and Mary studied child development and family relations. C Paul and Colleen Whitt Bell '78 have a new addition to their Pennington, NJ, home. Kaley Palmer Bell was born on May i\. 'Z John Blackard earned his master's in English. n Since last November, Maxine Abercrombie Claar (MEd) has served as the science demonstration teacher for Alamance County schools.
Helen Baitzell De Rochi (MLS) serves on the Library Media Day Committee of the NC Association of School Librarians. C This summer, Rebecca Fagg coordinated Greens- boro's Fun Fourth Festival. D Cecil Price received the master of theology degree from Dallas Theological Seminary this spring. He is the administrative assistant at McKinney Memorial Bible Church in Fort Worth, TX.
Diane Morse Shank was on a panel spon- sored by UNC-G's Career Planning and Place- ment Center on liberal arts and business jobs. She is sales manager with AT&T communica- tions. C Jack Slratton's works on the human figure were shown at the Greensboro Artists' League opening show in early April.
As part of her work towards a master's degree in health administration at UNC-CH, Karen Tager organized a Health Fair at Chapel Hill's University Mall. She secured more than 2(X) volunteers to participate in the fair. Before entering graduate school in August of 1983, Karen was a staff nurse at Duke Medical Center and North Carolina Memorial Hospital at Chapel Hill. C Mary While Tarillion and her husband, Michael, operate a jewelry designing business in Charlotte.
The Exotic and the Lofty
Since entering the foreign service of the United States Information Agency in 1963, Dail Claridge '54 has claimed some exotic addresses: Bombay, India; Panama and Central America; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and, most recently, Rome, Italy. In her current assign- ment, she is responsible for making available books and periodicals that will help foreign audiences learn about United States people, history, and cuhure. For fulfilling that responsi- bility, she was presented the Meritori- ous Honor Award for "outstanding service" in 1983. Beginning this fall, Dail's address will be less e.xotic but her job will be just as lofty. Stationed in Washington, DC, as chief of the Foreign Service National Personnel Staff, she will "ensure equitable, fair and just working conditions for all foreign national employees."
1978
Ivan Battle performed on the violin in a spring recital benefiting a scholarship fund for students of the Greensboro Music Academy, where Ivan is director. l1 Louise Ann Brazee received her MBA in marketing from the University of Georgia in June. She works for Scovill Apparel Fasteners Division. 'Z Jim Clark (MFA) led a series of non-fiction workshops for the Greensboro Writers Club this summer. □ Roger Dallon (MPA) and his wife, Frances Aycock Dallon '70, moved to Korea, where Roger has a new job as the exec- utive director of the United Service Organi- zation.
Spiders on Drugs — Gil Frey's multi-media production involving dancers, slides, and an artist on stage weaving a spider web — was presented in March at UNC-G, where Gil teaches. II Both Bryan) Hudson and Frank Hughes completed their MBA degrees at UNC-G last December. Frank works as a financial consultant for Carolina Power and
Light. Rhonda Lerner Kogut recently moved to Mobile, AL, where her husband is a research associate at the University of South Alabama's department of microbiology. ' Nancy Mclllwain is a systems officer in the money management systems division of Mellon Bank's technology products department in Denver.
Ann Paden Morris and her husband, David, have a new daughter, Courtney, born in May. They live in Marion. Z' Mike Renn (MEd) was named the Administrator of the Year by the Greensboro Public Schools. He is principal at Lindley Elementary School. T. As a learning disabilities resource teacher at Mount Zion Elementary School, Ken Schommer (MEd) teaches math by using chisanbop, an Oriental technique of finger calculation. Z Ora Strickland (PhD) received a $30,000 three-year grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to "pursue a professionally broadening self- designed plan of study." She is the acting doc- toral program director and an associate pro- fessor at the School of Nursing of the Univer- sity of Maryland-Baltimore.
Evelyn Walser completed her master's in clinical psychology at UNC-G last year. _i Steve Williams was appointed assistant vice president for Southern National Bank of North Carolina.
MARRIAGES: Deborah Brown to Richard Newsome in May; they live in Winston-Salem, where Deborah teaches chemistry at the Forsyth Memorial Hospital Laboratory and Richard owns Newsome Roofing Company. r Rebecca Childers to James Brown in March; Rebecca is a nurse in the Watauga County Hospital emergency room, and James manages a Dominos. ~ Mary Sue Clayton to Joseph Nance in March; they live in Bryan, TX, where she is a resource management specialist with the Texas Agricultural Exten- sion Service and he is an attorney. Z Terry Lee Harper to Mary Elliott in May; settling in Greensboro, he works for Carolina Motor Club and his wife, for Sears.
Lora-Lynn Johns to Raymond Joseph Chuffo in March; living in Winston-Salem, she works at Tri-City Building Components as assistant office manager, and he works for LHC. ~ Marilyn Kash to Delvin Coy Idol in March; living in Kernersville, Marilyn works for R. J. Reynolds. I^ Kay Mackie to James Adams in March; they both work for Reynolds Tobacco Company.
Patrice Morel to John Motsinger in March; Patrice is working toward her master's in counseling at UNC-G, and John is a staff attorney for United Guaranty Corporation in Greensboro. Z Lucette Neal and Simon Pilkes in March; they own Towne East Management Company in New York City, i: Catherine Grant Weinmiller to Jeffrey Silver in March; Catherine is a graduate student at New York University and manager of .Maestro Restaurant; her husband is a musical theater composer and a Hunter College student.
1979
RED
REUNION 1989
While attending the class reunion, Brenda Alexis Byers reported that she completed the
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Juris Doctorate degree from the UNC Law School last August. She now works as a law clerk in Charlotte.
Si.\ members of the class of 1979 earned graduate degrees at UNC-G last December. William Conner, Roger Smitii, and Laverne Totlen Vance completed their MBA degrees; Ray Haupt and Jarmlla Santos satisfied requirements for MEd degrees. Karen McFarland Canine earned her PhD in English.
Deborah Parr Cranford works in securities and revenue bonds as an administrator for United Guaranty Residential Insurance Com- pany. In addition, she is the vice president of the Greensboro Jaycettes. ~ Julee Fortune is a new secretary at UNC-G 's Academic Com- puter Center. ~ Patricia Geadelmann (EdD) was promoted to professor and named assist- ant vice president for academic affairs at the University of Northern Iowa. C O. K. Hogan (MBA) recently joined Cannon Mills as assist- ant vice president in financial planning and cost control. He and his wife, Lucy, live with their two sons in Asheboro.
Terni' Shoffner Howard is an administrative assistant for the operations and marketing departments of United Guaranty Residential Insurance Company. ~ Thomas Johnson was sworn in as an attorney-at-law in April and joined a Greensboro law firm. G Holly Eisen Martin (MEd) and her husband, Larry, have a new son, Dane Warren, who was born in March. The Martin family lives in Elizabeth- town. lZ Community Theatre of Greensboro's executive director Keith Martin directed The Ml/sic Man this spring.
Melinda Moncure graduated with a master's in music from Northern Illinois University in De Kalb, IL, this May. ^ Ron Paul (MFA) is a member of the New Performing Dance Company. " Dale Stine graduated from Julliard School of Music in June. He per- formed his senior recital at the Paul Recital Hall of the Lincoln Center and appeared at the Spoleto Festival in May. "T Bynum Tutlle (MEd) is the new manager of the Life and Employee Benefits Department of the Insurance Center of North Carolina.
MARRIAGES: Carol Chapman (MSHE) to Marc Stephens in April; they live in Memphis, TN, where Carol works for Methodist Hospital and Marc is a demist. ~ Rene Cole to Brett Cosby in April; Rene manages a dress shop near Oakland, CA, and Brett is a professional musician. Z Thelma Jones to Carl Hayes in April; Thelma works for Murdoch Center and Carl, for IBM.
Gary McPherson to Marilyn Wilson in May; Gary works for Falk Fibers and Fabrics and his wife, for Energy Development Association. T. John Phillips to Gayle Allred in April; he owns the John Phillips Studios of Dance, and she works for United Guaranty Credit Insur- ance. "^ Joan Sanderson to John Charles Melnick in March; living in Smithfield, she is a counselor at Johnston Technical College and he is a Campbell University student. C Anna Helen Strickland to Brian Wesley St. Clair in April; living in Union Mills, she is the program coordinator for Rutherford Vocational Workshop and he works for Ovation Instruments.
Extraterrestrial Teacher
One spring afternoon the first and second graders of Laughlin Elemen- tary School gazed into the clouds and saw their teacher, Dee McDaniel Morgan '82, leap from a small plane and float into the playground. In addi- tion to teaching at Laughhn, Dee in- structs adults how to sky-dive, an activity into which she enthusiastically jumped seven years ago. Her descent into the Laughlin schoolyard during Fun Day, the school's day of fun and games, was Dee's 1,050th jump, a number that increases each weekend when she and her husband strap on their parachutes and bound from planes. "It's a real rush of adrenalin," Dee says about the hobby that has given her students another reason to look up to her.
1980
LAVENDER REUNION 1985
Several members of the class of 1980 earned graduate degrees at UNC-G last December. Norman Anderson (MA), Robin Jarrett (MA), and Leonard Martin (MA) completed their PhD degrees in psychology. Brian Gray fin- ished his master's in music. Gina Porcelli Ciregson earned her MEd degree in food nutri- tion. Leslie Linder completed a master's in economics and works as a financial analyst for Analog Devices in Greensboro. Guerry Stirling received her MBA and is a marketing specialist lor Package Products Company. Henry SIrader was awarded the certificate of ad- vanced study in elementary education.
Norman Anderson (MA) received a prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Research Fellowship for his study of the behavioral and physiological reasons for high blood pressure among blacks. Among the 200 applicants for the fellowships, Norman's was ranked first. He is a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development at Duke University Medical Center.
Teaching inside a room with signs saying "This room is full of insects" and "No Bug Spray Allowed," Linda Peery Anderson and her first grade students are studying the impor- tance of insects and nature. Her innovative teaching methods have earned Linda a North Carolina Science Teacher's Association Award for 1983. ^ Peter Berry's work was included in the NC Artists E.xhibition at the NC Museum of Art last spring.
Duane Creech (MFA), his wife, their daughter, and their dog Run-To live near Whitsett. His sculptures are on display at Weatherspoon and at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. ' , Marilyn Burwell Forsler was named the Woman of the Year by the Greensboro Chapter of the American Business Women's Association. She is a senior ta,\ accountant with Cone Mills and co-partner
with her husband in the Jae-Mar Brass Shop. ~ Brian Gray took the lead part in the Com- munity Theatre of Greensboro production of The Music Man.
James Gresham works as controller for Southern Food Service. ~ Sheila Baker Hale was elected vice president and treasurer of Ragan-Thornton Mills. Z Harry Johnson received the MD degree from Bowman Gray School of Medicine this spring. Ne.xt year he will train in surgery at NC Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. ~ Joella Marie Chambers Killian (MA) is completing the PhD program in entomology at NC State University and has accepted a position as assistant professor of biology at Mary Washington College in Fred- ericksburg, VA. While at State, she received outstanding teaching assistant awards from both Gamma Sigma Delta and the Graduate Student Association. In January, she won the "Outstanding Student Paper" of the Southeastern region of the Entomological Society of America.
David Massey received the MD degree from Bowman Gray School of Medicine in May and is training in family medicine at Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, VA. ~ Brad Spencer was among the twenty-five national applicants chosen to compete in the James Wilbur Johnston Sculpture Competition at the Corcoran School of Art. In March, his sculptures and drawings were displayed at Morehead Galleries in Greensboro. ~ Ron Stephens is the director of sales for the Greensboro Marriott.
MARRIAGES: Carl Alcon to Sonya Power in April; Carl is an accounting coordinator with AT&T, and his wife is a staff technologist at NC Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. □ Terrie Dillender to Brian Franklin Hart in March; they live in Winston-Salem, where Terrie is a nurse for Forsyth County Health Department, and her husband works for Calloway Johnson Moore. Z Steven Coins to Janice Hall in April; Steven works for Fram Corporation. Z Janice Harper to Glenn Watson in May; Glenn works for Piedmont Airlines in Baltimore, MD.
John Manly to Jody Todd in May; John works for Sears, and Jody is a PhD candidate at the University of Rochester. Z Wanda Marshall to John Peterson in March; Wanda works at the Veterans .Administration Medical Center, and John, at Shands Teaching Hospital and University of Florida Medical School. Z Susan Nicholson to Dave Davis in March; Dave works for Richmond County Parks and Recreation. Z Julia Rhodes to Alan Myrick '78, who both work at the UNC-G library, in April, r Linda Sink to Jerry Hyder in April; Linda works for Duke Power and Jerry is the minister of youth at Mud Creek Baptist Church.
Davesene Wiggins Spellman (EdD) to Ranaldo Lawson in March; both working at NC Central University, she is an associate pro- fessor and chairman of the department of business education, and he is an assistant pro- fessor of history and director of_student teaching for the social sciences. Z Terry Louise Stafford to Stephen Atkinson in April; they live in Greensboro, where she teaches; Stephen is a quality control technician for
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Miller Brewing Company. Z. Charles Tysinger (MEd) to Gloria Dickens in April; he teaches at Gaston Junior High School and she heads the commercial art and advertising design department at Halifax Community College. n Kammie Lynn Veeder to Christopher Blanton in March; living in Charlotte, she works for NC National Bank, and her hus- band, for La Pointe Honda. ~ Cynthia Walker to Stephen Church in March; Cynthia works for GE/lntersil, and Stephen, for ITT.
1981
BLUE REUNION 1986
Cheryl Aine completed her PhD in psychology at UNC-G last December, and is a fellow in neuropsychology at Bowman Gray School of Medicine. Z] Charles Barnette earned his MFA at UNC-G last year. Dorothy Reichard Blanchard (MBA) is mortgage officer of Wachovia Mortgage Company in Winston- Salem, r Gwen Felty Huffman (MBA) is a vice president at Wachovia Bank and Trust in Winston-Salem.
Mary Alice Kurr is a dance instructor in a new program called Star Attractions for Greensboro's Parks and Recreation Depart- ment. She teaches the performing arts to children who li\e in lower income housing pro- jects. John Pope displayed his artwork at the Framin' Place in Greensboro this summer. In the fall he will enter Boston University to work on his MFA degree. T Bill Rankin was chosen for the James Wilbur Johnston Sculpture Competition at the Corcoran School of Art last June. Z Caria Vance Schiffel works for the Orange County Health Department.
Harold Small (MBA) was recently pro- moted to executive director for Charter Hills Hospital in Greensboro and Charter Mandala Hospital in Winston-Salem.
Mildred Thomas completed her MEd at UNC-G last December. ~ Joan Chumley Zubl will be the acting head of the drama depart- ment at Guilford College ne.xt fall. She will direct Dracula.
MARRIAGES: Annette Gay Bischer to Jack Doggett in March; she works for Aetna Insur- ance, and he, for Continental Airlines. G Sherri Detweiler to John Purcell in May; they live in Spokane, WA, where she is a nurse and he is an electrical engineer. " Carol Imus and Dean Goad in May; Carol works for Pied- mont Office Suppliers, and Dean, for Morflex Chemical Company. "' Lyn Irving (MBA) to Everett Berry in February; Lyn is principal auditor for R. J. Reynolds, and her husband is vice president of Berry Water Gardens in Kernersville, where they live.
Kim Phillips to Cheryl Sealy in April; Kim is a territory sales manager for Milliken and Company. James Purdy to Eleanor McAdams, a student at UNC-G School of Nursing, in May; James is a minister at Saint Paul United Methodist Church in Greensboro. n Susan Task to Artie Israel in April; Susan vvorks for Green, Goren, Howard, CPAs, and Artie, for Wilshire Boulevard Temple, where hey were married. Lee Anna Clark
Williams to Captain John Robert Bryant in March; she is a nutritionist and he is stationed It Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. " Nancv
Wind In Their Sails
Their voyage soutids like one Walt Di,sney may have imagined for a tnovie. In June, Julie Tripp Middlelon
"69, her husband, and their three sons climbed aboard their sailboat, the Southerly, and began a fifteen-month Mediterranean voyage. They will cruise along the coasts of Spain, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Turkey before returning to their Greensboro home in August 1985. Docking at ports as they meander across the Mediterranean, their trip will not only be a nautical vacation, but an e.xpedition into Eurpoean history and culture, especially for the four-, eight-, and ten-year-old Middle- ton sons. "We want this to be a trip they remember and learn from," Julie told a newspaper reporter before set- ting sail.
Jo Wilson to Perry Rogers in April; they live in Columbia, SC, where he works for GAB Business Services.
1982
GREEN REUNION 1987
Elizabeth Hopkins Barge completed her MEd degree in food and nutrition at UNC-G last December. Z: Works by Mary Carlelte Beam (MFA), Richard Fennel! (MFA), and Robert Graham were included in the NC .Artists Exhibition at the NC Museum of Art this spring. "^ Harvey Cline is an industrial engineer technician at the Drexel-Heritage Furnishings upholstery plant in High Point. Richard F'ennell (.MFA) conducted a water- color workshop for the Greensboro Artists' League this June.
Tamer Dee.se Gwyn is a sales representative in the household goods division of Lemz Transfer and Storage Company. ~ Named by Gillespie Brothers Company of Carnesville, GA, Donald Hilburn is the manager of its new office in Greensboro. Z Chip Johnson con- ducted two sessions of acting classes this summer. . As a new assistant superintendent with the Hickory school system, Duane Kirkman (EdD) is responsible for curriculum and instruction.
"Illiteracy in Mississippi and the Integration
of Time in the Fiction of William Faulkner" was the topic of John Lamiman's (MA) paper which he presented at the annual meeting of Philological Association of the Carolinas. His paper argues that the illiteracy and oral nature of Mississippi were the most important sources of the strange lime schemes in Faulkner's novels. John has been an English instructor at Guilford College and literature teacher at New Garden Friends School since 1980. ; . Chelita Neal graduated from the Air Force medical administrative specialist course and serves at the George Air Force Base Hospital in California.
The Greensboro Business and Professional Women's Club named Robin Remsburg (MSN) their "Young Careerist" in March. She teaches in UNC-G's School of Nursing. :' Kay Johnson Rouse works in the Greensboro office of Carolina Securities Corporation as a regis- tered representative for the member firm of the New York Stock Exchange. Z Marjorie Scheer performed a dance prepared for her by Lee Conner, artist in residence at Duke University. The dance is a poetic, choreographed look at personal crisis. Marjorie has been resident artist at Davidson Community College since last fall. Her program was presented at the Lexington Civic Center in March. ' On March 23, Beth Zeller Zint and her husband, Jimmy, welcomed a new son, James Allen Zint, Jr.
MARRIAGES: Amy Alberty and Russell Walton in .May; Russell works for Worth Chemical Corporation. Z Janet Bullock to Louis Chaney in May; Janet teaches in Guilford County, and Louis works for Causey Aviation. 'Z Jennifer Cline to Eric Van Hester in May; living in Marietta, GA, she is director of data processing for a local company, while her husband is a production manager for Kayser-Roth Hosiery. " Sandra Jo Craven to Donald Lee Harris in .April; she works for Earl's Contract Trenching, and he is a musician with Newground.
Alan Thomas Edens to Claudia Ann Karweck in .April; they live in Wilmington, where he works for a CP.A firm. Z Barbara Harrison to Roger Beeson, a UNC-G student, in May; Barbara manages Ham's Restaurant in Greensboro. ~ Jeff Maness to Paula .Apple in April; Jeff is the assistant manager at Biscuitville, and Paula works at Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro. Z Mary Kaye Moore to John Nesbit in .April; she is the creative services coordinator for WGGT-TV in Greens- boro, and John is the associate producer for the Good Mornine Show on Greensboro's WFMY-TV.
Angle Morrow and .Artie Macon in April. - Lorraine Murdock (MBA) to Robert Taylor in May; Lorraine works for .AT&T Tech- nologies, and her husband, for .AT&T Information Systems. Z Richard .Nailling to Janet Schoff in April; living in Atlanta, GA, Richard is a television program sales executive for MCA-TV and Janet is a television sales executive for John Blair and Company. _ Robert Smith (MP.A) to Catherine Ma.xwell in May; Robert works for United Way of Greater Greensboro. Z Kim Siranieri to Dan Martin in May; Kim works for Hafele .America Company while Dan is employed by .AT&T Technologies.
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Beckey Miles Addinglon (MSBE) is a business education teacher for Guilford County Schools. ~ Chandra Godette (MA) is a school psychologist in Wilson. ' Marland Griffith (MEd) teaches at Rockingham Community College. Z This spring Marlis Lane moved to Houston, TX, where he works for Dun & Bradstreet. ~ Tricia McLean (MFA) directed two plays. A Marriage Proposal and Love Is Belter Than The Next Best Thing, for the Stokes County .Arts Council this spring.
Pat Cochran Mobley (MSN) teaches nursing in Winston-Salem. Z Jody Bennett Pearce (MEd), the director of administration with WNC Corporation, was elected president of the Salem Academy Alumnae Association. Z John Powell (PhD) is the author of several chapters of the recently published book Adoption for Troubled Children: Prevention and Repair of Adoptive Failures Through Residential Treatment. He is the executive director of Episcopal Child Care Services of North Carolina, which is located in Charlotte.
Terra Prymuszewski (MEd) practices per- sonal counseling and career development in Elon College. Z "Rolls" and Karen Johnston Roller! live in Waltham, ,MA. Rolls is assistant technical director for Tufts Arena Theatre at Tufts University, and Karen is a data entry operator. Z Julia Teachey Sharpe (MLS) is a librarian for Mt. Airy Public Library. Z Junko Yamaguchi (EdD) is an associate professor at Tsuda College in Tokyo, Japan.
MARRIAGES: Paige Allen to Robert Russell in April; living in Winston-Salem, Paige works for Newmarket Grille, and Robert, for Baker Concrete Construction Company. Z Beverly Lynn Bogert to Michael Welch in April; living in Conover, she is a nurse and her husband works for Broyhill Industries. Z Deborah Lynn Caulder to Russell Dean Cook in April; she works for Rockingham County Depart- ment of Social Services, and he manages Three Guys. Z Lisa Lee Chronister to Paul Ramsour in .May; they live in Nashville, TN, where Paul works for Marriott Hotel. Z Tammy Renee Cole to Donnie Smith in April; they live in Greensboro, where she works for NC National Bank; Donnie works for Associated Posters in Winston-Salem.
Joan Duncan to Billy Carroll in March; living in Newton, Joan works for the recrea- tion department, and Billy, for Swink Heating and Air Conditioning. Z Robin Kay Feather to Walter Leach in April; they live in Mountam Home, ID, where Walter is a combat rescue helicopter pilot at the Mountain Home Air Force Base. T Catherine Gaddy to Warren Thompson in May; Catherine works for Mont- gomery County Department of Social Services, and Warren, for Cambridge Corporation. Z Margaret Ann Goode to Billy Joe Logan in May; they live in Spartanburg, SC, where she works for Reeves, and he, for Greer Drug Company.
Susan Alice Harris (MEd) to Kenneth Lee Smith in April; she works for the Smithfield School System, and he is a purchasing agent for Commercial Plastics and Supply Company
in Raleigh. Z John Hawkins to Jeri Waddell in March; John is a to.xicologist for Roche Biomedical Laboratories and a master's can- didate in chemistry at UNC-G, where Jeri is also a student. Z Leigh Ann Highfill to Edward Hatfield in March; making their home in Winston-Salem, she is a recreational therapist in pediatrics at NC Baptist Hospital, and her husband is plant manager for Elico Ice Corporation.
Debra Kelly (MEd) to David Doss in April; she works for Davidson County schools and he, for the City of Winston-Salem. Z Lynn Lovette to Shawn Sazama, the president of .American Nursery & Landscaping Company, in May; they live in Whispering Pines. Z Leslie Michalak to UNC-G student Craig Sabin in March; Leslie works for Moses Cone Hospital. Z Lori Neal to Robert Phillips in May; Lori is a nurse in pediatrics at Durham County General Hospital, and Robert is a salesman at Trico Electric Supply. Z Elizabeth Nicks to Roger Nursey in May; Elizabeth is working on her master's at UNC-G, while Roger works at Hewlett Packard Company.
Denise Suzan Peeler to Bradford Gray in April; making their home in Charlotte, she is a management trainee for Datasouth Computer Corporation, and her husband is an artist. Z Alison Pittman to Lieutenant Gregory Frederick in March; until her marriage, Alison worked for Rocky Mount City Schools, but now lives in Warner Robins, GA, with her hus- band, an Air Force navigator. Z Lisa Rabil to Stanhope Johnson '84 in May. Z Shannon Sechrist to Johnny Moore in May; settling in ■Mt. Gilead, Shannon teaches at Piedmont School, and Johnny works for the Cambridge Corporation. Z Annette Thomason and Robert Burchette in May; Annette attends Greensboro College while Robert works for Triad Vending.
Sherry Upton to Alan Henderson in May; they live in Jacksonville, where Alan is a sales engineer for Federal Pacific Electric. Z Lynn White and Esker Tatum in December; Esker works for North Princeton Developmental Center while he and Lynn live in Levittown, PA. ~ Anne W'illson to Rick Bruning in April; Rick owns Universal Printing and Publishing, where Anne works.
1984
LAVENDER REUNION 1989
As a communications specialist in the corporate public relations department at Cone Mills, Mary Belh Ferrell edits The Texlorian, the monthly employee newspaper.
Deaths
FACULTY
Dr. Roscoe Allen died on March 30. A pro- fessor in the School of Business, he received degrees from Concord College, University of Tennessee, and Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Allen came to UNC-G in 1956 and served for ten years as the head of the commercial
department. In 1967 he became director of the computer center. He returned to full-time teaching in 1982 in the department of business and distributive education.
Velma Louise Whitlock, a retired associate professor of business education, died on April 26. A graduate of Oregon State College and University of Tennessee, she joined the UNC-G faculty in 1944 and taught for thirty-three years. She served as secretary of the Faculty Council for seventeen years and coordinated student teaching in the department of business and distributive education. Mrs. Whitlock was a former president of Delta Pi Epsilon, a business education society.
ALUMNI
According to correspondence received at the Alumni Office, Minna Littman 'II has died. For thirty-four years, Minna worked as a reporter and editor for The Standard Times of New Bedford, MA. In writing her "Hats Off" column, she interviewed many famous New Bedford visitors, including writer James Thurber and actress Genrude Lawrence. When not writing, she was an enthusiastic gardener.
Iris Holt McEwen '14, recipient of a 1969 Alumni Service .Award, died on April 15. Iris was the president of Student Government her senior year, the Everlasting Class President, and a former member of the Alumni Board of Trustees. A Burlington resident, she was named the Alamance County Woman of the Year in 1962. The library is named in her honor at Elon College, where she served as a trustee for many years and where she was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters in 1970. She was a former president and trustee emeritus of the Elon Home for Children, and she was the founder of the Iris McEwen Sunday school class for young people at her Burlington church.
The Alumni Office was notified that Lessie Richardson '19 died on January 25. She was a retired school teacher.
Wilyjon "Billy" Medlock Kennan '20, who carried on successful careers as a homemaker and as a promoter of scientific nutrition, died on May 8 in Salisbury, MD. With master's degrees from Columbia University, she was an advocate and an innovator in nutrition as a teacher, hospital dietician, and researcher. A loyal UNC-G alumna, "Billy" chaired the Class of 1920 Fund Committee, which established a valuable loan fund for students with emergency needs.
Margaret Hunter Rives '21, a Guilford County resident and former schoolteacher, died on April 16. Among her survivors are her daughter, Carolyn Stout Carlson '44, her daughter-in-law, Amelia Cloninger Stout ' 49, and her sisters, Zelian Hunter Helms '22 and Elizabeth Hunter Ellis '24.
Nancy Wright Stames ,'24 died on September 18, 1983. She was a librarian.
Mary Polk Gordon '26 died on May 3. As a television instructor on WUNC-TV for eleven years, Mary became known to school children for making mathematics simple on her morn- ing program. Before teaching on television, she taught in elementary and junior high schools. She is the mother-in-law of Gloria Paschal
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Gordon '58 and sister of Claudia Polk Barrow
'41, who survive her.
Marjorie Hood '26, Circulation Librarian Emeritus who served the University for fifty years, died on June 17. As head circulation librarian from 1936 until retiring in 1970, Marjorie devised the circulation system used in Jackson Library for many years, and she trained generations of students to work at the circulation desk and in the stacks. In 1950, she planned and supervised the moving of the con- tents of the old library to the new Jackson Library without loss of a day of library service. She was the author of several articles on cir- culation problems of college libraries. After retiring, she continued to work at the library in the University archives. Not limiting her work to the campus, she served as treasurer and corresponding secretary to the NC Library Association, and she directed the Easter Seal drive in Greensboro. In 1982, Marjorie was presented the Alumni Service Award.
The Alumni Office received word that Sarah Elizabeth Brawley McMurray '26 has died.
The Alumni Office was notified that Audrey Brenegar Pool '26 died on March 4. She was a native of Davie County and an artist.
The Alumni Office received notice that Cammie Worlhington Snipes '26 died on March 2.
Thelma Tolar Shaw '27, a Siler City resident, died on July 26, 1983. When she retired in 1972, she had taught in Chatham and Alamance counties' elementary schools for thirty-si.x years.
Mildred Walters Blanton '29 died at her home in Burlington on April 25. She was retired from Carolina Biological.
The Alumni Office received notice that Emma Cole Waggle '34 has died.
Adeline Tillett McDowell '34C has died, according to correspondence received at the Alumni Office.
Lucile Scarborough Richardson '37 died on March 15.
Katherine Causey '38, a Guilford County native, died in Greensboro on April 22. Among her survivors are her sisters Margaret Causey Stafford '29, Rebecca Causey Carter '32, Delia Causey Higgins '35, Martha Causey Morton '48, and Mildred Causey Hall '48.
The Alumni Office was notified that Jane Highsmith Lindsey '39 has died.
Dorothy Elkins Senecal '39 died on April 19. A Greensboro resident, she was the librarian at B'Nai Shalom Synagogue Day School and a retired school teacher. Her daughter, Susan Senecal Turner '81 (MLS), is among her survivors.
According to correspondence received at the Alumni Office, Bernice Clein Shapiro '40 died on March 2.
The Alumni Office was notified that Mary Baxley Campbell '44 has died.
Billie Sherwood King '46C died on March 27. She served as secretary to the Burlington Industries president and chairman of the board for thirteen years and was an active volunteer with the American Red Cross, Mobile Meals, and Moses Cone Hospital Auxiliary.
Iva Marie Lennon '49 died on April 20. A Columbus County native, she taught in the New York City Schools for some thirty years.
For her service to students, she received several commendations, including being named Teacher of the Year.
The Alumni Office was notified that Marilyn Preisinger Vann '49 died in Atlanta in 1982.
According to word received at the Alumni Office, Anne Raiford Wolfe '49 died in June 1983. Anne was an active volunteer in politics; she was a member of the Fairfa.x County, VA, Democratic Committee and a delegate to the Virginia Democratic Convention.
Ishmael Bunn '52 (MEd) died on September 17, 1982.
Nancy Louise Raper '57 (MEd) died on June 14. She was a teacher at Lexington High School and Pembroke University and a retired associate professor of English at Pfeiffer College.
Ike Kearney '62 (MEd) died April 26. He was the director of vocational education for David- son County Schools.
Guy "Eddie" Royals '76 was found dead on May 5 at High Rock Lake near Southmont, where he was sailing. He was an executive with his family's business, Laughlin Hosiery Mills in Randleman.
Robert Williams '80 died on May 24.
Call for Poetry
LINC-G alumni arc invited to submit original poems to be considered for publication in the Fall/84 issue of Alumni Xcws.
Submission requirements:
♦ Material must be previously unpublished.
♦ Submit in typed, double- spaced format.
♦ Fifty line limit on length.
♦ Author's full name, class year, address and brief biographical statement must be included.
♦ No limit on the number of works submitted.
Send to:
Alumni .Yens Alumni House UXC-G Campus Greensboro, XC 27412 Deadline: September 10. 1984
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classes with ninety-minute meetings are an abomination of later years. In normal circumstances, one was expected to have three to six hours scheduled on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings, though (God made us good, but we have sought out many inventions) it was possible to box things up in such a way as to make a no-Saturday- morning-class-schedule an alter- native solution. But one's defense for such machinations had better be very convincing. For no sooner had registration day ended, but the Registrar's Office went through all the registration cards, pulled out the unbalanced, summoned the transgressor, and then and there adjusted her schedule to comply with the code.
Almost nobody, except the most senior professors, escaped Saturday classes. This writer, a young assist- ant professor at the time, had an eight o'clock and an eleven o'clock TTS class, year after year, for at least a decade. The mounting, if comparatively silent, rebellion against Saturday classes finally, many years later, produced a Monday-through-Friday academic
program for all, but until the change came attendance was as relentlessly insisted upon for eleven on Saturday as it was at, say ten on Wednesdays. Let it be recalled that it was in that context that the attendance code we have described was enforced.
But somehow — perhaps because of this no-nonsense stance on the part of the College — a bracing academic atmosphere and high standards of scholastic performance were maintained. That it was in fact, by 1940, one of the most dis- tinguished — surely one of the twelve foremost — women's col- leges in America is attested by the fact that it already had by then a Phi Beta Kappa chapter. And this, even though, especially in the fall and spring months, the buses for Chapel Hill and State College were lined up at noon on Saturday to carry the young women almost directly from the classroom to fraternization with the young wise men of the east.
Your memories may be sent to Dr. Bardotph in care of the Alumni Office, Alumni House, UNC-G Campus. Greensboro, NC 27412.
Summer 1984 Alumni News / 39
Alumni Business
by Barbara Parrish '48 Director of Alumni Affairs
YOUR CHANCE. Between now and August 29 the members of the Nomi- nating Committee will be accepting sug- gestions of candidates for the Alumni Association's 1985 election. The officers to be elected are a president-elect, a recording secretary, and five trustees.
Two candidates for president-elect will be presented on the ballot. After serving as president-elect for a year, the person elected will serve the following two years as president of the Association. Two can- didates for recording secretar> will be presented as well.
Five trustees will be elected from ten candidates. Two of these nominees will live outside North Carolina. Eight will be selected from four designated districts in the state: (1) Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow, Pamlico, Pitt, Wayne, and Wilson counties; (2) Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson, and Sampson counties; (3) Forsyth, Stokes, Surry, and Yadkin counties; (4) Ale.xander, Catawba, David- son, Davie, Iredell, and Rowan counties
Marty W'asham "55 is second vice prcsi dent and chair of the Nominating Com mittee. Suggestions mav be sent to he (3837 Annlin Ave., Charlotte) or to thi following alumni who have been invited to serve on the Nominating Committee: Barbara Ayers Best '72, 19ol Tiffany Dr., Greenville; Ann Burke Braxton '57, 17 Wheaton Cr., Greensboro; Susan Jones Casper '63, PO Bo\ S52, Svvansboro: Ann Griffin Gate '52, Box 339-E, Rt. 8. .Asheboro; Palsv Leathcr\Miod Cook '60,
16 Happy Hill Dr., Waynesville; Jean Howard Cooke '48, 12-D Greenside Ct., Durham; Nan Turner Corriher '43, 197 Beverly Dr., NE, Concord.
Joanne Fisher Davis '59, 105 Hill Top Rd., Black Mountain; Cora Leigh Scott Edge '40, Box 88, Moyock; Carole Whedbee Ellis '66, 3817 Sweetbriar, Wilmington; Frances Armstrong Evans '53, 816 Parkwood Rd., Shelby; Carolyn Cause Galloway '76, Box 123-A, Rt. 1, Winnabow; Edna Gibson '41, Box 148, Gibson; Rebecca Williams Gilliam '37, 182 Victoria St., Elkin; Glenda Humphries Herman '61, 707 Richmond St., Raleigh; Ann Williamson Hutchins "64, Box 86-A, Rt. 2, Forest City; Dons Hutchinson '39, 2812 Northampton Dr., Greensboro.
Betty Godfrey Johnson '76, 408 Lafayette Dr., Sanford; Randy L. Joyner "75, Box 394, Rt. 2, Wilkesboro; Dee Best Land '66, 1621 Nottingham Dr., Gastonia; David M. Mabe '76, Box 66, Rt. 1, Walnut Cove; Jean Adams Mabrv '47, 1449 Capri Rd., Winston-Salem; Peggy Edmondson Mamo '54, 102 Whispering Pines Dr., Rocky Mount; Nancy McCall "50, 1505 Clovercrest Dr., Reidsville; Sara Halsey McMillan '67, Box 133, Rt. 1, Piney Creek; Rachael Robinson Ricks '42, PO Box 125, Little- ton; Berta Tunstall Riley '62, 605 Burke Tr., Thomasville; Jane Weston Roberts "74, Box 251, Rt. 1, High Point.
Martha Lockhart Rogers '35, 1005 E. Main St., .Albemarle; Becky Wall Sasser '71,9 Roger Dr., Salisbury; Lenna Rose Severs '58, 1508 Berwick Rd., Winston- Salem; Evangeline Taylor '77, 14-B Sharon Hgts. Apts., Chapel Hill; Virginia McLester Thompson '60, 2229 West- haven Dr., Fayetteville; Caroline McBride Travis '44, 1417 Beechvvood Rd., States- ville; Virginia Key Trueblood '51, Box 894, Rt. 2, Robbins; Beth Purgason Whicker '65, 1347 10th St., Dr., NW, Hickory; and Frances Bennett Williams '69, 1408 Knollv\ood Dr., Wilson. ■
THK NEXT RELMONS. Next year Class Reunions w ill begin on Friday, .Mav 10, and continue on the Saturday follow- ing. The 92nd Annual Meeting of the ,-\limini .Association will take place on Saturday morning, the 1 1th; the Univer- sity's 93rd Coinmencement will take place on Sundav morning, the 12th. That will be Mother's Dav \\ eekcnd so begin plan- ning earlv so that both events mav be accommodated.
.-Xlumni whose classes end hi 5 and 10 will be having planned reunions, but all alumni of the University will be invited lo the '85 COMEBACK. ■
THK NEXT AWARDS. Between now and November 30 nominations for the Alumni Association's 1985 Service Awards may be sent to the Awards Com- mittee in care of the Alumni Office at the University. The Awards recognize and honor outstanding volunteer service in one's community, notable achievement in one's profession, and/or significant con- tributions of service to the University. Presentation of the Awards will be made during the Association's .Annual Meeting next May. ■
ALMOST DONE. The Alumni Associa- tion's first .Alumni Directory is scheduled for release in September.
All telephone contact has been com- pleted by Harris Publishing Company, publishers of the Director) . The purpose of the telephone contact was to verify the information which the alumni provided on the Directory questionnaires and the information currently held on the alumni records. At the same time the telephone representativ es of the publishing company invited alumni to purchase personal copies of the Directory.
If all goes as planned, distribution of the Directory will begin in September. If you have not received your copy by October 15, or if you are interested in ordering a copv and hav e not heard from the publisher, vou mav contact the com-
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ELECTION RESULTS. In balloting which ended on April 16, Anne Duke Sanders '59 of Elizabeth City was elected First Vice President. She is succeeding Cathy Stewart Vaughn '49 in the position. In designated Trustee positions, Betsy Bulluck Strandberg '48 of Rocky Mount will represent District One, succeeding
Cora Lee Warren Gold '53; Barbara Hardy Bunn '77 of Raleigh will represent District Four, succeeding Alma Ormond Husketh '39. Ann Phillips McCracken '60 of Sanford was elected to represent District Five, succeeding Grace Evelyn Loving Gibson '40. Sara Queen Brown '43 of Clyde is representing District Twelve, succeeding Wilsonia Cherry '70. Bootsie Webb Smith '47 of Atlanta was elected an out-of-state representative to fill the position which Pat Shore '58 has held for three years?
Jon Mark Jackson '84 of Greensboro was elected by the Senior Class as its
representative to the Alumni Board for a three-year term. As Jon Mark becomes a member of the Board, Mark Newton '81 completes his term as his class' representative. ■
NOW PRESIDENT. After a year of service as President-Elect of the Alumni Association, Marilib Barwick Sink '44 of Winston-Salem has begun a two-year term as President of the Association. She succeeds Lois Brown Haynes '54 in the position. ■
The University ot North Carolina at Greensboro has established a tradition of academic excellence. For over ninety years we have sought to recruit and graduate individuals of strong academic abilities who have gone forth and contributed to our campus and community, our state and nation. As a University rich in tradition yet eager to face tomorrow's challenges, we invite you to join us in our search for outstanding students. You may have a child, grandchild, or friend that you would he proud to recommend for admission to your alma mater. Please take a moment to help us find someone else just like you.
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If you ha\e e\ er attended the Annual Meeting of the Alumni Associa- tion, held each year during Reunion/Commencement Weekend, then you may have heard the rap-rap-rapping of the gavel as the President calls the meeting to order — repeatedly. It has never been easy, I am told, to gain the attention of an auditorium full of reunioning alumni who just will not be hushed from their gleeful catching up on bygone years. But sooner or later the meeting begins, and the gavel is put aside until it is next called to service at the summer meeting of the Alumni Association Board of Trustees.
The Association's gavel is an unassuming mallet of the usual descrip- tion, but attached to its head is a plate engraved with these words: "Made of wood used in White House when burned by British in 1814. Given by Fodie Buie Kenyon." Alumni Director Barbara Parrish '48, who amazes me with her capacity to recall every charming tidbit about the Alumni Association past and present, had no story to tell, to my shock, when I asked her about the gavel. 1 checked Fodie Buie Kenyon's record J § m S
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She served Dr. Mclver for five years before she moved to Washington, DC, to work in the Department of Justice. I found no mention, however, of the gavel.
Alumni Association President Lois Brown Haynes '54 used the gavel for her last time this year and then passed it on to Marilib Barw ick Sink '44, who will use it for two years.
Fifty years ago the gavel was passed from Josie Doub Bennett '06 to the new president of the Alumni Association, Octavia Jordan Perry '16. Octasia's dreamy, soft-focus picture was printed on the first page of the July 1934 issue of Alumnae News with a personal message: "As alumnae, let us, all together, place in the center of our thinking about our College our individual responsibility to it and for it. Let us express our loyalty in active service to it. Remembering that the right type of student is fundamental, let us make it our responsibility to see to it that high school girls who in our judgment are college material know about our College and what it has to offer to the young women of North Carolina. Let us see to it that their mothers know about it. Let us do this now. And let us keep our own selves acquainted with this College in all possible ways, so that we may indeed be outposts for it, wherever we mav be." ' — MCH '74
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If you have e\'er attendi] tion, held each year dii you may have heard the| calls the meeting to ordt told, to gain the attentiol who just will not be husl years. But sooner or latej until it is next called to Association Board of Tr The Association's gaJ tion, but attached to its htj of wood used in White by Fodie Buie Kenyon. amazes me with her capd Alumni Association past when I asked her about tl] and found that she he Institution's doors opei^ education, she was askec She served Dr. Mclver DC, to work in the Depaij of the gavel.
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