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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 


,  no,i+ 


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 


1 1   '  '.c  CO 


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 

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ALUMNI  NEWS 

THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  NORTH  CAROLINA  AT  GREENSBORO 


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SUMMER  1984 

VOLUME  72,  .NUMBER  4 

CONTENTS 

On  Campus 

ClI 

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 


12 


Faculty  Looks  at  Liberal  Arts 


Newcomers  to  the  Curriculum 

UNC-G  offers  new  programs  for  nurses, 
accountants,  interior  designers,  musicians, 
and  gerontologists. 


13 


14 


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. 


16 


Off  Campus:  Alumni  Everywhere 
Reports  of  Alumni  Chapters 


20 


Gift  for  the  Future 

by  Richard  A.  Kimball 


22 


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 


40 


Fifty  Years  Ago  in  Alumnae  News 


CIV 


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. 


2  /  Alumni  News  Summer  1984 


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. 


Summer  1984  Alumni  News  /  3 


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- 


4  /  Alumni  News  Summer  1? 


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 


Summer  1984  Alumni  News  /  5 


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 


6  /  Alumni  News  Summer  1984 


: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 


Summer  1984  Alumni  News  /  7 


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. 


/  Aluinni  News  Summer  1984 


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. 


Summer  1984  .Alumni  News  /  9 


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. 


10  /  Alumni  News  Summer  1984 


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 


"^W^  ^i^W 


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. 


Summer  1984  Alumni  News  /  11 


1984  ALUMNI  SERVICE  AWARDS 


Ellen  Sheffield  Newbold  '55 

Greensboro,  NC 

For  her  service  to  higher  education, 
and  contributions  to  student  aid. 


'tiar''^ 


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 

Wilmington,  \C 

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. 


12  /  Alumni  News  Summer  1984 


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. 


v'-^-^  -i--  -^ 


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." 


Summer  1984  Alumni  News  /  13 


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." 


Summer  1984  Alumni  News  /  15 


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. 

•^r       tV       1^ 

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. 

tr      ii       t! 

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.  ■ 


Summer  1984  Alumni  Sews    '  21 


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. 


22  /  Alumni  News  Summer  1984 


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. 


Summer  1984  .Alumni  News  /  23 


CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES 


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 


EXCEPT 
REUNION  CLASSES 


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. 


24  /  Alumni  News  Summer  1984 


CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES 


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- 


Summer  1984  Alumni  News     25 


CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES 


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. 


1936 


LAVENDER 
REUNION  1986 


Having  retired,  Elizabeth  Hai^ell  Miller  writes 
that  she  and  her  husband  are  "enjoying  the 
things  we  have  been  planning  for  many  years." 


1937  Commercial 


BLUE 
REUNION  1987 


SYMPATHY  is  extended  to  Jane  Greer  Stout, 

whose  husband  died  in  April. 


1938 


GREEN 
REUNION  1988 


SYMPATHY  is  extended  to  Irene  Rich 
Murphy  and  Pamela  Murphy  '77,  whose 
husband  and  father,  Pete,  died  in  April. 


1939 


RED 

REUNION  1989 


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. 


1940 


LAVENDER 
REUNION  1985 


Emma  Sharpe  Avery  Jeffress  was  installed  as 
regent  of  the  Rachel  Caldwell  Chapter  of  the 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution  in 
Greensboro. 


1941 


BLUE 
REUNION  1986 


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. 


1942 


GREEN 
REUNION  1987 


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." 


1943 


RED 

REUNION  1988 


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. 


1943  Commercial 


RED 
REUNION  1988 


Mazie  Bain  Bullard  was  elected  president  of  the 
Pilot  Club  in  Greensboro  in  May.  She  is  the 
director  of  personnel  at  UNC-G. 


1944 


LAVENDER 
REUNION  1989 


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, 


26  /  Alumni  News  Summer  1984 


CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES 


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. 


Summer  1984  Alumni  News  /  27 


CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES 


1945 


BLUE 
REUNION  1985 


Billie  Witherspoon  was  installed  as  corre- 
sponding secretary  of  the  Greensboro  Pilot 
Club  in  May. 


1946  Commercial 


GREEN 
REUNION  1986 


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. 


1947 


RED 
REUNION  1987 


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. 


1948 


LAVENDER 
REUNION  I98S 


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. 


1949 


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. 


1952 


LAVENDER 
REUNION  1987 


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.' 

„_,  BLUE 

1953  REUNION  1988 

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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CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES 


1954 


GREEN 

REUNION  1989 


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. 


1955 


RED 

REUNION  1985 


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 


RED 

REUNION  1989 


REUNION  REPORT:  It  was  exciting,  arriv- 
ing at  the  Alumni  House  Friday  afternoon, 
May  11.  Rushing  around,  seeing  who  came. 


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CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES 


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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CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES 


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 


GREEN 
REUNION  1987 


Roma  Garner  Mitchell  was  promoted  to  assist- 
ant vice  president  of  Branch  Banking  and  Trust 
Company  in  Wilson. 


1963 


RED 

REUNION  1988 


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 


LAVENDER 
REUNION  1988 


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. 


1969 


BLUE 
REUNION  1989 


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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CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES 


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 


GREEN 
REUNION  1985 


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. 


1975 


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 


LAVENDER 
REUNION  1986 


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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CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES 


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 


BLUE 

REUNION  1987 


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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CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES 


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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CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES 


1983 


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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CLASS   NOTES    ♦    CLASS   NOTES 


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 


Nostalgia,  continued  from  p.  19 

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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(Customer  Service  Representative), 
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Inc.,  3  Barker  Avenue,  White  Plains,  NY 
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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. 


1       I  prestnr  to  the  University  my: 

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whose  name  is 

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FOR 
PEOPLE 
JUST 
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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 

and    found   that    she   had    begun    the   commercial   course   when   the  "",       '^  ti  '< 

Institution's  doors  opened  in   1892.   Unable  to  finance  any  further  •  r  ^ 

education,  she  was  asked  to  serve  as  our  Founder's  personal  secretary.  :i  o' 

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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