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VOL 83, NO. 2
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
OFFICERS
N. Susan Whittinglon '72, Wilkesboro, President
Anne Hayes Tate '68. Smithfield, Past Presitleiit
Beth McLamb Norris '59, Raleigh, First Vice President
Evon Welch Dean '42C, Greensboro
Second Vice Presideiit
Martha Smith Ferrell '57, Greenville, Recording Secretary
Gaye Barbour Clifton '81, Greensboro, Treasurer
Brenda Meadows Cooper '65, '73 MEd
Executive Secretari/. Director of Aluimn Affairs
TRUSTEES
Clara Bond Bell '47. Windsor
Alice Garrett Brown '65, Greensboro
Carolyn Jordan Clark '43, Lumberton
Sarah Langston Cowan '65. Greensboro
Lisa A. Crisp '88, Winston-Satem
Ada M. Fisher '70, Chicago, IL
Adelaide Fortune Holdemess '34, Greensboro
Alumni House Committee Chair, ex officio
Elizabeth Keever '72, Fayetteville
Communications Council Chair, ex officio
Shirley Brown Koone '56, Union Mills
Mary Andrews Lindsay '68, Granite Falls
Helen Fondren Lingle '41, Osprey, PL
Edith Mewborn Martin '51, Snow Hill
Patricia Harris McNeill '64, Norwood
Zilphia Pool O'Halloran '51, Reedville, VA
Alexander M. Peters '83, Raleigh
Jean Williams Prevost '50, Tryon
Bobbie Haynes Rowland '51, Gastonia
Beam Funderburk Wells '49, Greensboro
Ruth While '43, Asheville
Joyce Gorham Worsley '81, Greensboro
Black Alumni Council Chair, ex officio
COMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL
Elizabeth Keever '72, Fayetteville, Cliair
Andrew Bereznak '81. Liberty
Alice Garrett Brown '65, Greensboro,
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Saralou Debnam Caliri '50, Southern Pines
Elizabeth Hurdle Deisher '68, Bellefontaine, OH
Carolyn Throckmorton Green '70, Greensboro
Charles Hager '80, Greensboro
Phyllis D. Kennel '86, Charlotte
Martha Needels Keravuori '61, Raleigh
Jane McFarland '89, Chapel Hill
Jon Obermeyer '85, Greensboro
Phanalphie Rhue '80, Greensboro
Catharine Brewer Sternbergh '70, Greensboro
Priscilla Swindell '58, Raleigh
Laurie L, White, Greensboro, Facidti/ Representative
Miriam Corn Barkley '74, Greensboro, Editor, Alumui News
Brenda Meadows Cooper '65, Greensboro, Alumni Secretary
Anne Hayes Tate '68, Smithfield, Past President,
.Alumni Association
N. Susan Whittington '72, Wilkesboro, Presuient,
Alumni Associaltou
Betsy Buford '68, Raleigh, Immediate Past Chan;
Connninncatious Council
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Feature Editor: Charles Wheeler '93 MALS
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Photographer: Bob Cavin
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COMING'UP
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February 1
Men's Basketball vs Florida State
7:30 pm, Greensboro Coliseum
February 11
UC/LS: Ben Vereen
8 pm, Aycock Auditorium
February 17
University Wind Ensemble
8:15 pm, Aycock Auditorium
February 18
Colorful Cutouts Children's Program
2 pm, Weatherspoon Art Gallery
February 21
University Symphony Orchestra
8:15 pm, Aycock Auditorium
February 23
University Associates Dinner
6:30 pm, Airport Marriott
February 25
UC/LS: Ballet Bordeaux
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March 2
University Jazz Band & Ensemble
8:15 pm, Aycock Auditorium
March 20
Painter Grace Hartigan Lecture
4 pm, Weatherspoon Art Gallery
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March 30, 31
Spring Opera
8 pm, Aycock Auditorium
April 2
Spring Opera
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INSIDE
The Future Campus
Revised Master Plan Keeps the Best of the Past
Dr. Bardolph
Professor Emeritus Recalls the
"Remarkable Climate" of WC
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The Day
the Money Stopped
A Poem by Betty Magee '57
22
Remembering
Peter Taylor
A Tribute to One of the University's Literary Giants
by Rosemary Yardley '78 fvIA
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24 Class Notes
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Our Future Campus
To look like the Old
The goal of the updated master plan for the devel-
opment of the University is simple and straightforward
— to create a more attractive and livable campus. The
best aesthetic traditions of the past are retained and
extended.
Envisioned is a campus where cars are confined to
the peripheries, and people — walking and riding
bicycles — have all the right of way along a network of
walkways and bicycle lanes criss-crossing the campus.
New buildings resemble old ones; they're red brick
and three to four stories tall. They are placed in ways to
create and frame more lawns, green spaces, and land-
scaped areas.
The key to the plan, the crucial element upon which
all else hinges, is to intercept cars at the edge of campus
and confine them in a series of parking decks. The heart
of the campus is then a car-free zone, a green island
freed of the hub-bub of the city that surrounds it.
Decades ago, the part of Walker Avenue that cut
through campus was closed, tying the campus closer
together, creating more usable space, and making it
safer to walk to class. The updated master plan contin-
ues the practice, calling for more campus street closings:
College Avenue, Forest Avenue, part of Mclver Street,
and hmiting access to North Drive and West Drive.
Once Spring Garden is given a more campus-
friendly face. College Avenue, the corridor through the
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heart of campus, will become an
important walkway, extending from
Foust Building to North Drive.
A New Commons
EUiott Center, the Library, and
Mossman Buildmg currently com-
prise, in planner's terms, a student
support zone, and this zone will be
expanded. The new University
Center, now a proposal seeking
funding, will be located across a
landscaped yard, now Forest Street,
from EUiott Center.
An addition is proposed for the
Library with a west entrance facing
the University Center. Elliott Center
will be renovated and enlarged as a
student services building. The new
structures in this zone — the Univer-
sity Center, Library addition, and
enlarged Elliott Center — will define
a new commons, an open, public
space.
The existing academic core of the
campus — the classroom buildings
facing Spring Garden Street and
College Avenue — wiU expand north
and east with the creation of a
science corridor along Mclver Street
and the construction of a new
buUding for the School of Music at
Mclver and West Market streets.
Additions are proposed for the
Stone Building, home of the School of
Human Environniental Sciences, and
the Bryan Business and Economics
Building to allow room for the two
schools to grow without moving. An
addition is also planned for Mclver
Building along with its complete
renovation. Part of the building
would be razed to open up an
existing courtyard, making it more
accessible.
As part of the Mclver renovation,
the Music Annex, the building imme-
diately behind the present School of
Music building, would be torn down,
enlarging and openmg up the Mclver
courtyard already in place.
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Spring Garden Would Beconne^
The Spring Garden Parkway
Under new guidelines for the
development of the campus, busy
Spring Garden Street would be
dressed up and developed as a
parkway.
The redesign would make the
street through campus safer and
more pedestrian friendly by provid-
ing a safe haven for those crossing it.
More than 15,000 vehicles a day use
Spring Garden to go to and from
downtown, and the new design
allows that number to increase by
channeling the traffic. This solution
appears to satisfy everybody.
The parkway character of the
campus portion of the street would
be achieved by building a land-
scaped island down the middle of
the street, restricting traffic to one
lane in each direction, burying
overhead utihty lines, and planting
large sh-eet trees. Crosswalks for
pedestrians would be distinctive
with different pavement, new signs,
lighting, and signals.
The parkway boulevard is a
change in the University's 1983 plan,
which was to close the campus
stretch of Spring Garden and reroute
traffic to Oakland Avenue. The
Greensboro City Council balked at
the idea, concerned about the
expense of improving Oakland
Avenue to accommodate the heavier
load of traffic.
To accommodate seventy-seven
displaced parking spaces from the
new Spring Garden and spaces lost
to other development, two parking
decks with 1,800 spaces would be
built on Oakland Avenue as needed.
The Baseball Stadium
An on-campus baseball stadium
to seat 900 fans is in the initial stage
of design. It will be located on the
south side of Walker Avenue, west
of Kenilworth Street. In addition to
the stadium, the plan calls for the
further development of this tract
with tennis courts and a multi-
purpose field.
Development here wUl have a
dramatic effect on the pubUc percep-
tion of the University on its western
boundary along Aycock Street. The
baseball stadium, tennis courts, and
the central parking deck all will be
visible to passersby.
To further enliance the quality of
campus life, the plan recommends
construction of small-scale outdoor
recreational facilities. These would
include sand volleyball courts,
basketball goals, and open areas for
activities such as throwing frisbees.
These facilities would be located at
residence halls.
The plan also calls for the
eventual construction of a swimming
pool complex on the north side of the
Student Recreation Center, which is
located on Walker Avenue at Aycock
Street.
Open Spaces
A key to creating a more unified
and cohesive campus is reinforcing
existing open spaces and developing
additional ones. These defined and
contained lawns, quadrangles, and
courtyards act as gathering places,
pedestrian crossroads, and organiz-
ing areas of the campus. Developed
properly, they lend a sense of variety
within the larger framework.
A good example of such a space
is the area bounded by Forney,
Foust, Mclver, and Stone buildings.
The buildings clearly define the
space, which contains several
walkways to other parts of the
campus. The space also has a rich
landscaped character that distin-
guishes it from other spaces on
campus.
The plan notes that building sites
should be locations that frame open
spaces and relate to other buildings,
reinforcing pedestrian circulation
paths and the open space system.
Building size, height, and architec-
tural style can vary among different
campus areas, but buildings should
be consistent in the use of materials
and details that echo or complement
their neighbors.
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Tree Lined Rarkway
RICHARD BARDOLPH
The fall 1994 issue of Aliiiiiiii
News carried an article, "My Way to
History," narrating for Dr. Mclver
the circumstances that had first
brought me to the campus in Sep-
tember 1944. He had, my readers
will remember, stood down from his
pedestal to ask me what it was about
the College that had attracted me to
the campus to begin with and then
persuaded me to stay on for the rest
of my life. On that occasion we had
time to recount the story only up to
the moment of my arrival here, but
we agreed to meet again later in the
summer.
True to his word, as I was taking
one of my midrught rambles on
September 15 — precisely the fiftieth
anniversary of my stepping off the
train at the Southern Railway Station
— he signalled me as I came by the
statue, and we resumed our collo-
quy. This time we agreed that I
should speak only of my Woman's
College days, ending at 1963-64
when the school was transformed
into a wholly different inshtution.
No longer a hberal arts college for
women (with a student population
of 2,400 in 1944), it was converted
into — I was about to say replaced
by — a coeducational multi-purpose
university, with a greatly expanded
diversity of graduate and profes-
sional school components. By 1992
its enrollment had reached 12,000.
I was proud of the University
when I retired in 1980 as the most
senior member of its professoriat,
but I make no secret of my stubborn
belief that the Woman's College
(1932-1963), formerly the North
Carolina College for Women (1918-
1932), was one of North Carolina's
most precious treasures. For nearly
fifty years it had sent out across the
state thousands of North Carolina's
best school teachers, finest young
citizens, best educated homemakers,
most cultivated and expertly trained
professional women, and most
public-spirited residents, nourished
for four years in what I faithfully
believe had been the most demo-
cratic, service-dedicated public
college in the nation.
The academic atmosphere was
further enriched by a remarkable
climate of aesthetic and broadly
civilizing offerings. One thinks of the
nationally famous writing program,
created in those years by writers of
subsequent world repute; the Arts
Forums; the Social Science Forums,
the Concert and Lecture Series; the
splendid School of Music; the
flourishing Student Government
Association; the Religious Emphasis
Week and the University Sermon
program; the distinguished Physical
Education Department modelled on
those of the best women's colleges of
New England. The catalog of
excellences was endless; I wish there
were space to count the ways.
But, above all, it was in the
classrooms and the Library that the
whole enterprise was fostered by a
faculty dedicated to scholarly
excellence and teaching, and a
student constituency who took their
tasks and opporti.mities seriously. Of
course there were exceptions: Idlers
and maverick rebels among the
students who resisted instruction
and professors who declined to share
in the enthusiasms that had made
the campus imique. I stiU hear from
women who were my students forty,
even fifty, years ago. I think it no
exaggeration to say that not a
county, and scarcely a city or town in
North Carolina, has not benefitted
from the presence of the graduates
sent forth by NCCW and WCUNC to
be the tastemakers, the consciences,
the voices of responsibility, and the
humanitarian activists of their
communities.
I confess, too, my regret that
women's colleges have almost
wholly disappeared from the land. I
know, to be sure, that it is no longer
legally permissible for states or cities
to maintain single-sex colleges, and
that nearly all of the finest women's
colleges of former years now enroll
males. My wife, Dorothy, who
subsequently combined a career of
homemaking with twenty years as a
professor at Bennett College and
then ten years as a highly esteemed
holder of public office before her
lamented passing in 1990, was a
graduate of Rockford College in
Illinois when it was one of the
country's finest private colleges for
women (still very much under the
spell of its most widely known
alumna, Jane Addams). Rockford
could comfortably stand comparison
with the Seven Sister Colleges of the
Northeast. Dorothy and I sent our
daughter, Virginia, to Mount
Holyoke in 1964 (in 1994 the only
remaining women's coUege of the
historic ivied septad) for what
proved a splendid education wliich
by my observation on repeated visits
to South Hadley, impressed me as
remarkably similar to what was
available to students in Greensboro
at Woman's College.
I repeat that I am proud of
UNCG and grateful for the role I was
permitted to play in it. But, while it
is now, after all, only one of at least a
hundred comparable institutions in
America, the Woman's College was
surely one of the dozen finest
women's colleges, whether private
or pubhc, in the nation.
Left to my own impulses, I would
devote all of this essay to what I was
able to say to Dr. Mclver of the ways
in which his planting had flourished,
but I am yielding to the urging of
alumnae and other friends of the
College who were kind enough to
write me about my previous arficle,
as well as to the suggestions of editor
Miriam Barkley, that I select for this
piece those aspects of my conversa-
tions with the Founder that re-
counted the personal recollections
WC alumnae may find particularly
interesting. 1 suppose it may be
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assumed that all but the most recent
graduates are already familiar with
the Woman's College's splendid
reputation, so I defer.
To begin with, I came to the
College when 1 was still in my
twenties and not yet married, as a
lowly assistant professor of history
and political science. 1 began with a
full fifteen-hour load (in European
and American History, and federal
and state government), determined
even if it killed me (and them too, for
that matter) to fire my students'
interest in liistory and government.
I went at it, to paraplirase the Psalm-
ist, like a young nian rejoicing to run
a race. At the end of my first year 1
went home to be married, and
Dorothy and I returned to Greens-
boro to live in one of the four college-
owned houses on Mclver Street,
where the School of Nursing now
stands.
The proximity of our home to the
very center of the campus (at first on
Mclver Street for five years and
thereafter in the 200 block of Tate
Street) attracted drop-in visits by
students (sometimes as lunch guests,
and after 1946 sometimes as
babysitters) — a pleasant habit that
sustained a tradition then as old as
the College itself.
Such comfortably easy relations
between students and faculty
families were an aspect of a larger
network of student-advising re-
sources. Wlien a new freshman class
arrived it was divided into platoons
of about twelve girls, parcelled out to
junior-year students in a big-sister
arrangement to quiet the novice's
aiixieties and explain the intricacies
of the campus life that diverged so
sharply from the high school atmo-
sphere they had so lately left behind.
ParaUeling this effort on a grander
scale was the office of the freshman
class chairman, devoting its fuU time
to guiding the new recruits in
personal, social, and academic
matters. Then, beginning with the
sophomore year, each class had
comfortable access to its own class
chairman, a faculty member who had
been relieved of teaching duties for
three years in order to shepherd
his/her wards until their graduation.
In addition, every member of the
teaching faculty was assigned a
dozen advisees to look after with a
solicitous eye.
The Woman's College was
notable also for its Student Govern-
ment Association which included a
legislative body and a Judicial Board
with real powers to try and to
disciphne offenders who ran afoul of
the rules. SGA was taken seriously in
those days as the functioning agency
of a self-governing democracy.
Another characteristic aspect of a
responsible student community, on a
campus where nearly all of the
students lived in the dormitories,
was the "closed study" system. In
the evening, from 7 to 10 (if 1 recall
correctly) one was expected to be in
her room to study, in an atmosphere
of quiet whose preservation was
everybody's responsibility. Students
were, however, by official permis-
sion, allowed to study in the Library
during closed study hours.
My beginning salary was $2,400
(per annum, that is!). In the 1940s
advances in salary and rank moved
at roughly the speed of a glacier. I
thiak 1 remember that it took eight or
nine years for me to reach the
associate professor's rank and by
that time three children had come to
join us. My older colleagues told me
that in the Depression of the thirties
President Foust, responding to
severe cuts in the school's budget,
took the humane view that across-
the-board salary cuts were better
than eliminating dozens of faculty
positions. The salaries, 1 learned, had
only just been restored to their pre-
Depression levels at the time 1 came
to Greensboro. In many departments
(and in mine more than most, 1
think) promotions had been so long
deferred that preference had in all
conscience to be given to the senior
faculty who had labored so long in
the vineyard. In my own case, hope
deferred had not made my heart
sick, for Dorothy and 1 had the
advantage of living in a college
cottage at a rental so low that I
decline to divulge it because it
amounted for all practical purposes
to a disguised subsidy.
We worked hard and long in
those days. A typical instructor
taught five classes, usually three or
four on Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday, and one or two on Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday. Somehow
the heavier Saturday schedules feU
to the younger faculty. As I remem-
ber, I had an eight o'clock and an
eleven o'clock on TTS for several
years. Student efforts to avoid
Saturday classes were relentlessly
thwarted, and near-perfect class
attendance was as rigorously insisted
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upon that three "over-cuts" could cost
a student an F. Moreover, to keep
students on their toes, mid-term
appraisals produced the dreaded
"unsats" which were sent to parents
of students whose work a professor
considered less than their best.
After five years at the Mclver
Street address, my growing family
immediately fell in love with the
regional accent and patterns of
speech, though 1 had at first some
difficulty in translating the inflec-
tions of some students from the
mountain counties and the coastal
plain. My frequently regretted
propensity for terminal candor
compels me to report that the
am inclined to ascribe less to my
own credentials than to the splendid
reputation of the College and to the
kindness of professional colleagues
both on the campus and at the
University of Illinois, who spoke or
wrote in my behalf for various
perquisites: A Ford Faculty Fellow-
ship at Harvard (1952-53), a
Student efforts to avoid Saturday classes were relentlessly thwarted
(we had 2.5 children by then) moved
to a larger house of our own at 207
Tate Street, where 1 now still live. Both
the Mclver Street and Tate Street
houses had the merit of easy access to
students and faculty colleagues who
would drop in with friendly compan-
ionship not understood by the
University's students of the 1990s.
Because my first year at the
College coincided with the last year of
World War II, young men were in
short supply and therefore endowed
with scarcity value. I tactfully (one
hopes) declined students' invitadons
to be their partner at proms, but
cheerfully accepted requests to join
the Play Likers. Throughout the 1940s
1 was drafted — and somefimes a bit
miscast — in nearly every play that
was staged at Aycock Auditorium, in
roles of (among others) Our Town (I
was Simon Stimpson, the sardonic
and alcohoUc organist and choirmas-
ter); The Skin of our Teeth; Claudia; The
Old Maid; The Barretts of Wimpole
Street; Springtime for Henry (in the role
— would you believe? — written for
Edward Everett Horton);
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (in wliich,
with a pillow stuffed under my tunic,
I was Falstaf'O, Dear Brutus; East Lynn,
and T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral.
I was also induced to sing with choral
groups in Recital Hall. 1 remember
raising my voice in Bach's Magnificat
and Mozart's (or was it Schubert's?)
Regina Coeli, but my other contribu-
tions to the bass section now elude me.
As a newcomer to the South 1
South's most progressive state's
racial mores — still in full force in
the forties and beyond — came as
something of a shock that, I'm afraid,
1 did little to conceal from my
betters. Their doubts about my social
and political orthodoxy were further
inflamed by the fact that I soon
became the Democratic chairman of
my voting precinct, president of the
Greensboro Chapter of Americans
for Democratic Action, and, a bit
later, a card-carrying member of the
NAACP and the ACLU. 1 sensed that
such impeachments were signifi-
cantly mitigated by my identification
with the most conservative of the
various major Lutheran Synods, and
my eventual selection as Vice
President of the Luther Council in
America, a consociation of Lutheran
Synods, whose membership for
several years totalled about ten
million souls. 1 suspect, too, that the
fears raised by my association with a
long list of liberal and humanitarian
groups and agencies were to a
considerable extent quieted by my
equally conspicuous membership,
for nearly twenty-five years, in the
three-million-member Luther
Church-Missouri Synod's 23-man
Commission on Theology and
Church Relations, by whom I was
occasionally assigned the task of
writing the final drafts of position
papers on various theological and
social issues.
The 1950s brought Dorothy and
me a series of fortunate events that I
Fulbright Professorship in Denmark
(1953-54), and a Guggenlieim Fellow-
sliip (1956-57). The first of these, the
Ford, truly was compounded of such
stuff as dreams are made on. Begin-
ning in 1952 the mulfi-biUion dollar
Ford Foundation made avaOable to
selected young faculty persons a full
year's salary to pursue advanced
studies, whether at home or on some
campus, to hone their skills. No less
than four of these were awarded to
Woman's College, three of them in
the History Department alone.
We bought our first car, a used
'49 Plymouth, and went to Cambridge.
Our house there, a grand old place,
whose owner was off to a Fulbright
in Italy, was in Watertown where we
were the neighbors of the Jerome
Weisner family. (A few years later
Jerry would become President
Kennedy's Science Advisor and
President of MIT). 1 attended a full
round of classes at Harvard, took
copious notes to take back to Greens-
boro, and made an arrangement to let
me look after the children on Fridays
while Dorothy attended my classes
and took my notes. On weekends and
vacations we travelled all over the
New England countryside throughout
a glorious year.
Before that school year was over 1
was notified of my appointment as a
Fulbright Professor to lecture on
American Stiidies at two institiitions
of higher learning in Denmark. We
crossed the Atlantic on the Swedish
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American Line's Stockholm to the
dismay of some of its passengers
who averted their gaze while the
three little supercharged Americans,
Uke mice in oxygen, hung over the
rail at an angle that can only be
explained by the temporary suspen-
sion of the laws of gravity. My
responsibilities in Denmark, besides
the classroom duties, included
bariks, with the aid of a Uttle portable
Coleman stove. Though the small fry
occasionally complained that we
were stopping at more cathedrals
and art galleries — and fewer zoos
— than were essential to their
happiness, the tour was, of course, a
roaring delight, muted by the
temporary loss of one of our junior
Gullivers. Virginia, then aged seven.
. . . my twenty Woman's College years were surely
the happiest two decades of my long life . . .
lecture tours under the auspices of
the American Embassy for study
circles (to which the Danes are
passionately devoted) throughout
the kingdom.
In the summer that followed 1
was included in a team of nine
American college professors
appointed by the State Department
to conduct a ten-day Institute for
American Studies in Frankfurt for
the enlightenment of German college
teachers who had, less than a decade
earlier, been liberated from Nazi
constraints. Despite our impassioned
efforts to explain, in the manner of
Toqueville, the interior dynamics of
American Democracy, our students
were far less interested in Marbuiy v.
Madison and Brown v. Board of
Education than they were in the fact
that nine people of such modest and
obscure social origins (which they
had wormed out of us in question
periods) could achieve the exalted
rank of university professor.
In the rest of the summer the
Bardolph clan loaded their belong-
ings on the roof of their Hillman
Minx for a tour of Germany, Sweden,
Norway, Holland, Belgium, and
France, literally living out of suit-
cases, and, as often as not, subsisting
in deference to our dwindling funds
on meals that Dorothy improvised
on rural roadsides or remote river
chose the EngUsh cathedral town of
Ely as the place to come down with
scarlet fever. The local health au-
thorities ordered her detainment at
Ely's isolation hospital and per-
suaded the rest of us to proceed with
our tour since we could not be
permitted in any case to visit the
child until she had fully recovered. A
bit sobered, we resumed our odys-
sey, telephoning every evening for
word of our lost sheep. About ten
days later we were reunited at the
Frankfurt airport to which Ginny
had been flown, unaccompanied, but
plastered with identifying orders
pinned to her jacket.
The episode, incidentally, did
not cost us so much as a penny,
thanks to the National Health Service
which, we discovered, extended its
benevolence not only to all of
Britain's people but to the strangers
within their gates. Such was our
introduction to the NHS, so fervently
maligned in some quarters in
America and so enthusiastically
endorsed by even the most conserva-
tive of Britons. Before we left Lon-
don, a dental emergency requiring
immediate siirgery overtook Dor-
othy on a Sunday morning. Within
an hour she was in hospital,
promptly and competently accom-
modated, again at no cost. Lobbyists
against socialized medicme have
been wasting their time on me ever
since.
Soon thereafter we returned to
America on the Kungshobn, reaching
Greensboro just in time to witness
the havoc of Hurricane Hazel.
Two years after returning to the
campus 1 was granted yet another
year's leave of absence as a
Guggenheim Fellow to write a book
on the social origins of liistoricaUy
distinguished black Americans. It
was published by Rinehart in 1954
and repubUshed shortly thereafter as
a paperback in Random House's
Vintage Books series.
In short, the fifties had accus-
tomed us to repeated unearned
increments, culminating in 1960 in
my selection as head of the History
Department, a post 1 held for nearly
twenty years. The memories of two
decades of working with a remark-
ably gifted and productive team of
departmental colleagues who so
charitably bore my deficiencies and
contrarieties ui the 1960s and 1970s
still sustain me as 1 approach my
eightieth birthday.
But no less than my beloved
colleagues, the thousand Woman's
College students who passed (and
some who did not pass) through my
classes and who remain forever
young in my memory, still brighten
my days. In short, my twenty
Woman's College years were surely
the happiest two decades of my long
life, and it was a happiness shared —
and much of it generated — by the
indomitably cheerful Dorothy.
Indeed, in the last decade of her
remarkably fruitful life, I was often
(and still am) introduced simply as
Dorothy Bardolph's husband. Tliat, 1
submit, was my richest unearned
increment.
Dr. Bardolph, professor emeritus of history,
invites alumui renders to suggest topics for
future articles.
ALUMNI NEWS • WINTER '95
The Day
the Money Stopped
In Umomm
BY BETTY MAGEE '57
Beth! Magee '57 is a free-lance writer in King of Prussia, PA, filling her empty nest ivith poetnj, music, and good friends.
These verses, she says, were written in gratitude of her education at UNCG.
I was walking across campus
one sunny. Southern morning.
It was spring: I was happy, expectant,
without the famtest sophomoric
cloud floating through my head.
It was 1956: our college in North Carolina
had just integrated without incident.
Greensboro, blossoming with flowers, was
stiU virgin to marches, sit-ins,
fire hoses and snarling dogs.
This was Rosa Parks' year,
and King would go to Birmingham jail.
I just wanted to smell the air —
and get to the post office before class.
Winter brought pain undreamed.
Our Ethics professor, (Warren Ashby, 1 love you),
told us about the New South,
without Wltite-onh/ signs spelling out
our Aryan superiority over slaves.
We believed him, and I praise liim even now.
Then I saw it: a letter from my Dad.
I knew he was a Southern gentleman
who drank bourbon and had one of the
reddest necks below the Mason-Dixon line,
but I was not prepared for this.
"Come home," his letter said. "I will not educate
a communist." Communist. Joe McCarthy
had struck me down as foully as if
he had called me in front of the
Committee on Un-American Activities.
My father read his newspaper,
had a good long think, and concluded
that my college was being run by
communists from the top down.
That was it for me. No more money.
But I had to major in English.
Randall Jarrell was there. Robert Frost
had been summoned. Yeats lost
Maude Gunne, and I was to lose
learning, love and bliss because my father
wanted me to be a good American,
and his world of wl-dte supremacy
was faUing down around liis disillusioned heart.
Now tutored in history (Eugene Pfaff,
your Socratic spirit lives!), I saw Brutus come alive.
On full scholarship... amazing grace, 1
stayed on to see past old wounds.
(May Bush, you advised my dreams
for four fuU years: Athena to tliis
changeling child.)
Now, as I look back, these bearers of light,
are dead: Ashby, Pfaff, Bush, Jarrell. . .
my teachers, my guides. Time passes.
Yet great joy remains: my five
children are all clear-eyed Americans,
with educations garnered in this
crucible of change. 1 loved my father,
but I seldom go back to the New South,
choosing instead to write poetry of remembrance.
(Bless you, Randall Jarrell. Peace.)
ALUMNI NEWS • WINTER '95 11
ON CAMPUS
Project
Homestretch
UNCG Social Work Students
Help the Homeless in Greensboro
TThe UNCG Department of
Social Work and the Greens-
boro Urban Ministry have
teamed up in Project Home-
stretch to help the homeless.
Under the guidance of
an instructor, ten Social Work
students help assess the needs of the
homeless in Greensboro and then
steer them to the appropriate social
service agencies. The students work
out of the headquarters of the Urban
Ministry.
"Social work education is not
sociology," said Dr. Robert
Wineburg, department chair. "It's
not just the world in theory. To be
relevant, you have to be out in the
community.
"For universities to be pertinent
and relevant, they have to pay
attention to their region and their
locale," he said, "without forsaking
the important contributions that
scholars make to their fields nation-
ally and internationally."
The goal of the three-year
project, which is funded by a federal
grant, is to help the homeless find a
permanent place to Uve and a way to
pay for it. Now, Dr. Wineburg said,
communities handle the homeless
problem by giving the homeless
soup and a sandwich, a place to
sleep, and then leave them to fend
for themselves.
Part-Time
Jobs
High School Seniors
Enjoy a Big Payoff
Part-time jobs
for high school
seniors pay off in
the long run.
Dr. Christopher Ruhm, a
labor economist at UNCG, has
found. He cautioned, however, the
experience is not a substitvite for a
college education, where the payoff
is much greater.
However, working up to 20
hours a week in an entry level job
appears to significantly increase a
student's career earning power. "My
explanation is that eniployment as a
student matters a lot more in the
period just before a young person
enters the work force on a full-time
basis," Dr. Ruhm said.
"Working in the senior year of
high school eases the transition into
the workplace," he said. "In some
cases, high school students may
continue their jobs after graduation,
and those economic benefits may
place them ahead of other students.
"Even if they change jobs," he
said, "they have acquired knowl-
edge of their local job market and
are making useful contacts. They
have some sense of the demands of
the workplace, and they've picked
up some marketable work skills and
time management skills. It's not
stretching it to say they may be
developing a work ethic."
Dr. Ruhm's research was based
on data from the National Longitu-
dinal Study of Youth conducted by
the US Department of Labor from
1979-9L He found that six to nine
years after graduating from high
school, seniors who had worked up
to 20 hours a week earned about
22 percent more than seniors who
did not work in high school, and
they were more likely to have fringe
benefits such as medical insurance
and pension plans.
12 ALUMNI NEWS • WINTER '95
ON CAMPUS
Exercise Scientist
Locomotion of
Dr. Don Morgan of UNCG has
received a grant of $346,349 for a
five-year study titled "Physical
Growth and the Aerobic Demand of
Locomotion."
"Our study will examine the
influence of physical growth on the
energy cost of locomotion in young
children," Dr. Morgan said. "We
know that as cliildren age they tend
to become more efficient and use less
energy in locomotion, but we don't
know why that occurs."
With the grant from the National
Institute of Child Health and Human
Development, Dr. Morgan will track
to Study
.^^/i
o^f>
forty-four cliildren of varied ethnic
and social backgrounds from age six
to age ten for five years.
"We want to develop an age-
appropriate data base on normal,
prepubescent children to serve as a
benchmark for establishing realistic
goals for locomotor efficiency in
physically challenged children," Dr.
Morgan said.
In the study, children will be
filmed as they walk and run on a
treadmill and walk on a force plate
that measures their exertion. Their
body fat will be measured and
monitored.
Sl(i Injuries
Sports Psychologist Interviews the Elite
The US Olympic Committee is funding researcin by Dr. Daniel Gould to
identify the psychological factors that hinder recovery from serious injury
among members of the US Ski Team.
A sports psychologist at UNCG, Dr. Gould is interviewing twenty-
nine skiers who in the past three years had injuries which ended their
racing seasons. He also is interviewing coaches and trainers involved
in ski injury treatment.
The goal is to use the findings to develop an injury support
and recovery system for members of the US Ski Team. Unlike
many other sports, injuries isolate skiers. Most races are in
Europe, and an injured skier is sent home to recuperate away
from his teammates.
ALUMNI NEWS • WINTER '95
ON CAMPUS
IN CLASS
Residence Halls Are Spruced Up
Resident students returned this
fall to find that more than
$1.3 million of renovations, repairs,
and maintenance had been done to
campus residence halls over the
summer.
The projects included painting
more than four hundred student
rooms, stairwells, and lobbies; new
student room h.irniture for
Moore /Strong and Reynolds; more
than three hundred new mattresses;
roof repairs; exterior painting; and
extensive floor stripping.
Another $2 miUion has been set
aside to continue the improvements
to the residence halls next summer.
The University is committed to
further improving the quaUty of
campus life for students.
Master's Degree Offered in Leisure Studies
The Department of Leisure Studies
began offering spring semester a IViaster
of Science in Leisure Studies, the only
program of its kind in the Piedmont Triad.
Dr. Stephen Anderson, department
chair, said, "We are targeting the western
side of North Carolina and hope to draw
from as far away as Charlotte and
Hickory. The individuals we expect to
serve in the greatest numbers are men
and women who already have baccalaure-
ate degrees and are employed in parks
and recreation or leisure services."
Master's degrees in recreational
fields often are key factors in career
advancement. Dr. Anderson said that
many public and private agencies
promote only people with master's
degrees.
Learning How
To Ease tlie Sliift
About 200 freshmen this
fall were enrolled in a new
course aimed at helping them
get off to a good start as
students at UNCG.
Called "Principles and
Processes of Student Develop-
ment in Higher Education," the
course covered topics such as
campus culture, time manage-
ment, test taking, cultural
diversity, and personal and
social skills. In addition to
lectures, discussions, assign-
ments, and two exams, there
were class activities. Staff from
the Division of Student Affairs
and Office of Academic Advis-
ing taught the course.
One of the first assign-
ments was a scavenger hunt
that took students to campus
buildings and offices to learn
their way around.
While the course wasn't
required, freshmen were
strongly encouraged to enroll.
'The academic performance of
students in their first semester
is not as good as it ought to
be," said Martha Trigonis,
UNCG's orientation director.
"We want to improve their
performance."
14 ALUMNI NEWS • WINTER '95
FROM THE PRESIDENT
Let's Roll Our Sleeves;
There's Work to Do
SUSAN WHITTINGTON '72
An ambitious farmer stood in the
tender green fields of early spring
when sometlting in the sky com-
pelled him to look upward. The
clouds, high and full, swirled to form
two letters of the alphabet: "GP."
Tliinking tliis some kind of sign, the
farmer ran home to teU liis family.
"It's a command from God," he said,
"telling me to 'Go Preach.' 1 shall
give up the farm and go preach to
the people." The practical wife
pondered. "Are you sure?" she
asked, "What if 'GP' stands for 'Go
Plow'?"
This story serves to report how
the Alumni Association Board of
Tmstees is directing energy now. In
our honest exuberance, we have
placed more emphasis on preacliing
than on plowing. True, we have been
vociferous in letting UNCG alumni
know what we want the Association
Board Action
October 1. 1994
• Passed a motion to convey a letter to ttie
Ctiancellor Searcfi Committee endorsing their
work. A copy will be sent to the Greensboro
News & Record.
• Accepted three recommendations from the
Financial Resources Committee with regard to:
1. Procedures concerning undesignated
bequests and undesignated donations.
2. Disposition of certain Agency Funds
3. Rules and procedures in reterence to
the Agency Funds Account,
• Passed a motion to ask tor more involvement ot
the Alumni Association in the University's
Commencement Exercises.
• Passed a motion to apply as a satellite site
tor a teleconterence sponsored by the National
Association of Female Executives in May 1995
to be. It is important for us to tell
our story over and over again. But
isn't it time we roUed up our sleeves
and began plowing? If you'll pardon
the metaphor, we are going out into
the fields, cultivating our alumni to
find out just what you want.
Sleeve-rolhng began this fall
when we issued a wide-ranging
survey to 550 randomly-selected
alumni — Association members and
non-members alike — from all
classes and with every demograpliic
profile. We asked them why they
have jomed the Association or what
barriers have prevented them from
joining. We asked them what kinds
of benefits and services are attrac-
tive. We asked them of their interest
in local chapters. We gave them a
chance to extol or spout off — we
need to hear it all.
Responses are coming in daily.
We will analyze these responses to
find out how we may shape the
Alumni Association around the
needs and wants of your constitu-
ents. Just watch us as we make
changes to strengthen our appeal to
all alumni.
No longer is it enough to tell
alumni of our dreams and visions —
we must find out what yours are. We
are listening so we can respond.
Join me, won't you? Talk to
alumni and get their thoughts, then
tell us what you hear. Enough
preaching. We have started up the
tractor and have begun the spring
plowing early.
Susan Whittington 72
lives in Wilkesboro
LIFE MEMBERS
(through November 1. 1994)
586 Dorothy Hill Brame '81**
825 Linda Gann Martin '80
826 Marguerita Jane Sandrock '72
827 Dorothy Toler Hawkins '38
828 Wanda L Russell '59
829 Jane Taylor Brookshire '67
830 Mary Fisher Nantz '52
831 Shirley Tunstall Veasey '48
832 Josie Chapman Tomlinson '46
833 Janet Kimberly Dale '75
834 Frances Jackson Butler '54
835 Edith Ausley Vann '57
836 Elisabeth H. Stuart '62
837 Janie Pruitt Stephenson '48
838 Carolyn Crouse Register '68
839 Margaret Crow Barham '55
840 Jean Pearson Scott '73
841 Mary Weatherspoon Beard '51
842 Penelope Morton Bender '43
843 Shirley Brown Koone '56
844 Nancy Grey Riley Calvert '63
845 Kathryn Dwight Colona '59
846 Christine Freeze Brown '55
847 Elizabeth Hurdle Deisher '68
848 Elizabeth LeRoy Sanderson '28
849 Linda G Ketner '72
850 Nancy Carol Hoerning Brown '87
851 Patty McDuffie Bibb '55
852 Jane Helms Vance '66
853 Jeanette Grayson Gottlieb '65
854 Dorothy Deal Rogers '47
855 David Spears Alexander '85
856 Judith Owen Hayes '46
857 Helen Fondren Lingle '41
858 C. Weill McLeod '57
859 Jeanne Haxton Harrison '88
860 Merritt Neel Harrison, Jr. '88
861 Sally Weeks Benson '69
862 Lillian James Brannon '47
863 Eloise Bates Price '55
864 Sarah Hamilton Matheson '24
865 Lucille Rook Dickens '42
866 Rodgeryn Rau Flow '52
867 Ophelia Warren Livingston '82
868 Emily Jane Mollis Wilkins '72
869 Ann Flack Boseman '51
870 Jane Kirkman Smith '52
871 Mildred Huffman Pitts '44
872 Laura Abernefhy Townsend Kingsley '33*
873 Allen W, Trelease (Retired Faculty)
874 Marie Shaw Dee '50
875 John S. Polickoski '81
876 Margaret Fordham Wilson '41
877 Josephine Jenkins Bulluck '23*
878 Margaret Kirkman Roy '65
879 Barbara Crepps Ross '64
880 Claudette Taylor Kayler '78
881 Marjorie Belch Wroten '47
882 Jessie Belle Lewis '36
883 Rosa Meredith Humphrey '27*
884 Clara Booth Byrd '13*
885 Barbara E. Parrish '48*
*deceased
**omitted from earlier listing
ALUMNI NEWS • WINTER '95
ASSOCIATION NEWS
Founders Day
The State Normal and Indus-
trial School opened its doors to its
first students in October 1892.
One hundred and two years later,
the University celebrated
Founders Day — as it does every
year — with the placing of a
magnolia wreath at the Mclver
Statue on campus. Doing the
honors in 1994 were the Alumni
Association's Second Vice Presi-
dent, Evon Welch Dean '42C (left),
and Student Government Presi-
dent Errin McComb '95. Interim
Chancellor Debra Stewart made
Founders Day remarks in the
portico of the Library.
^ f
Wiring tlie
Association
On-Line Possibilities Under Study
t's the question of the '90s: Are
you wired?
Do you have access, either
at home or at work, to the
Internet or to a network service
like CompuServe, America Online,
Prodigy, GEnie? If so, would you
have an interest in a specialized
electronic service just for UNCG
Alumni Association members?
Imagine what you could do from
your own computer workstation:
Renew your annual membership,
make a reservation for Reunion,
check to see if Jackson Library has a
book you've been wanting to read,
scan the University's job listings,
read Alumni News on screen, or join
16 ALUMNI NEWS 'WINTER '95
ASSOCIATION NEWS
an alumni discussion group.
Sound farfetched? Not at all.
Several universities across the
country are already on-line with their
alumni.
A subcommittee of the
Association's Communications
Council is at work to find out how we
might offer an electronic service to
members. If you're interested or if
you'd like to join the subcommittee,
send a message via the Internet to
barkleym@iris.uncg.edu or write the
Alumni On-line Subcommittee, c/o
University Publications Office, 208
Mclver Street, UNCG Campus,
Greensboro, NC 27412-5001.
Financial
Resources Committee
More Alumni Support Needed
Gaye Barbour Clifton '81
always had a knack for
number crunching, and now
she's doing it for the Alumni
Association. As Treasurer,
she heads the Financial
Resources Committee and makes
certain the Association meets its
fiduciary responsibilities.
"We're reviewing the
Association's accounhng system from
top to bottom," Gaye said after a
meeting of the Financial Resources
Committee last fall. "We hope to
restructure the bookkeeping proce-
dures and streamline the accounting
operations toward greater effi-
ciency." Policies are being developed
and accounts are being defined in
order to standardize operations.
Ensuring the fiscal health of the
Association is a major goal. How-
ever, more alumni support is needed.
"The emphasis right now is to
increase the number of annual dues-
paying Association members," Gaye
said. "WMle we appreciate the
commitment of our Life Members, we
need the support of our annual
members, too." Annual dues help
sustain the Association's operating
budget.
The Financial Resources Committee has
energized under Gaye's leadership.
Pictured at a recent worl( session are, left
to right, Jody Kinlaw Troxler 72, bankruptcy
attorney; Angela Arnold 77, CPA, KPMG
Peat iVIarwick; (standing) Dr. Stacey Greene
'87, dentist; (seated) Gaye Barbour Clifton
'81, director of development, Rockingham
Community College; and Mike Callahan '71,
'72 MEd, teacher, Guilford County Schools.
Committee members not pictured are Lisa
Crisp '88, assistant vice president,
Wachovia Bank of North Carolina, and Tom
Welch '77, president. Preferred Data
Corporation.
ALUMNI NEWS • WINTER '95 17
ASSOCIATION NEWS
Betty Nance
Smith
Alumna to Perform at Reunion
B Betty Nance Smith '48, a
recognized authority on
Appalachian folk music,
spent years collecting and
performing the ballads of
the North CaroHna and
Tennessee mountains. Her work
recently culminated in an album that
received praise in the national
media. Tlie University honored her
for her work with an Alumni Distin-
guished Service Award at Reunion
last May.
Next May Betty wiU be back on
campus — this time to perform her
folk music to the 1995 reunioners.
Her performance will be Saturday,
May 13, in Cone Ballroom. Watch
for details about reunion weekend in
your mailbox.
Betty, a sociology major at
Woman's College, has lectured
widely on folk music: Emory
University, the University of Chi-
cago, Mars Hill College, Kennesaw
College, and Berea College. In 1982
she received the Bascom Lamar
Lunsford Award for her work. She
organized and directs the
Chatahoochee Folk Music Festival.
1949 Luncheon Honors Martha McNair
ALUMNI NEWS • WINTER '95
Martha Fowler McNair '49 (center) was surprised at a luncheon last August
when her classmates honored her service as Everlasting Class President. The
Class of '49 Professorship, established by the class as their 50th Anniversary
Gift, was enhanced, thanks to the generous contributions of '49ers across the
country. Martha is seen here with classmates Beam Funderburk Wells (left),
who serves on the Alumni Association Board of Trustees, and Marilyn
McCollum Moore, a former Trustee.
Good Reunions Require Planning
Ever wonder why your class reunion runs so smoothly? It's because of all the hard
work done months earlier by dedicated reunion organizers who see to every detail.
Here's a peek into a work session held last October on Founders Day with the
classes ending in Os and 5s. Don't forget: Reunion 1995 is May 12-13.
A
ASSOCIATION NEWS
Friday at Five
If there's a party in Greensboro,
you can be sure there'll be UNCG
alumni around. This year's Friday
at Five gathering at the Depot
downtown, co-sponsored by the
UNCG Alumni Association to benefit
preservation in Greensboro, at-
tracted a good crowd ready to set
off the weekend. There were prizes
galore. Two lucky alumni — Susan
Shope McAbee 76 and Bruce
Mitchell '82 — won UNCG/Seiko
watches.
ALUMNI NEWS • WINTER '95 19
PROFESSOR, PLEASE EXPLAIN...
Ask a question, any question. Want an update
on somettiing you learned bacl< in college?
Want to iiear about new research results? Or
just want to be reminded of something you
forgot since graduation'!' Ask us, and we'll try
to find a UNCG professor to answer it here.
Write:
"Professor, Please Explain ..."
University Publications Office
208 Mclver Street, tJNCG
Greensboro, NO 27412
Donna Wojek Gibbs '84
IVlcLeansville, NC
Asks:
Are teenage pregnancy rates
really dropping?
teens are single mothers.
There are incredible costs associated
with adolescent pregnancy, both in
dollars and in the lives of the mothers
and their children. From 1987 to 1991,
tor North Carolina teen births there was
a 97 percent rise in welfare costs (AFDC,
Medicaid, and food stamps) from
$232,000,000 in 1987 to $457,800,000
in 1991. This does not include personal
costs of limited education, loss of job
opportunities, and the decreased oppor-
tunity to become a financially indepen-
dent, productive member of society.
Almost half of all girls and 70 percent of
all boys who parent a child before age 18
will never receive a high school diploma.
Women who had their first baby as a teen
earn only half the lifetime earnings as
women who wait until age 20 to have their
first child. Sixty percent of teen mar-
riages end in divorce within the first five
years. Ninety percent of teen fathers
abandon the mother and child.
The 97 percent increase in welfare
costs associated with adolescent births
does not include costs of prevention
programs. For every one dollar we spend
on teen pregnancy in North Carolina, only
one cent is spent on prevention. Three
levels of prevention are addressed by a
variety of programs: (1) prevent teens
from becoming sexually active,
(2) prevent teens from becoming preg-
Dr. Hazel N. Brown
Associate Professor
Nursing
Answers:
Yes, overall rates are dropping, but
the birth rates for adolescents age 10-14
are rising. Even though the rates are
dropping, the problem is so mammoth
and has such grave consequences that
the attention is still on solutions to the
problems associated with adolescent
pregnancy.
In 1993 there were 23,040 preg-
nancies resulting in 15,537 live births to
adolescents age 9-19 in North Carolina.
Even though the 1993 birth rates show a
downward trend from 67.0 births per
1,000 adolescents age 15-19 in 1990 to
65.2 per 1,000 in 1993 the rates are still
much higher than the low of 55.1 per
1,000 in 1983, indicating fewer teens are
choosing abortion and are becoming
parents. Seventy-nine percent of those
North Carolina Pregnancy, Abortion, and
Birtii Rates by Age Group
1978-1993
Pregnancy Rate
Abortion Rate
Birth Rate
Year
10-14 15-19
10-14
15-19
10-14
15-1
1978
3.4 97.8
1.8
30.8
1.6
62.6
1979
3.9 97.8
1.9
33.2
1.9
59.7
1980
3.4 95.7
1.8
35.0
1.6
57.5
1981
3.3 91.5
1.7
35.2
1.5
55.3
1982
3.1 92.3
1.7
34.1
1.4
56.9
1983
3.5 93.7
2.2
36.9
1.4
55.1
1984
4.0 95.3
2.4
39.6
1.6
55.1
1985
3.8 95.1
2.3
38.1
1.5
56.5
1986
3.9 94.0
2.3
37.6
1.6
55.8
1987
3.5 96.2
2.0
38.7
1.5
57.0
1988
3.7 100.4
2.0
38.7
1.5
57.0
1989
3.8 100.4
2.0
40.1
1.6
59.6
1990
3.7 105.4
1.8
36.5
1.9
68.1
1991
3.6 101.1
1.7
33.4
1.9
67.0
1992
3.3 98.3
1.6
30.7
1.7
66.8
1993
3.3 96.4
1.3
30.5
2.0
65.2
20 ALUMNI NEWS • WINTER '95
PROFESSOR, PLEASE EXPLAIN...
nant, and (3) prevent or reduce the
negative consequences of teen preg-
nancy. Among successful prevention
strategies are programs and curricula that
teach students to postpone sexual
involvement, provide comprehensive
family life education, teach male respon-
sibility, and offer access to adolescent
health and family planning services.
Significant reductions in adolescent
pregnancy rates have been made in
Guilford County during the past few
years, in 1988 Guilford County had the
highest rate of pregnancy among 10-14
year olds in the five largest counties in
North Carolina. By 1991 we were tied
with Wake County, and by 1992 we were
the lowest among those same five
counties, with a drop from 6.8 per 1,000
to 2.7 per 1,000. Many groups and
agencies are working in Guilford County
to reduce the incidence and conse-
quences of adolescent pregnancies. The
Coalition on Adolescent Pregnancy
Prevention works to examine gaps in
services and needs of the future.
I have been involved with a program
for the past 4 1/2 years called "Delay
Subsequent Pregnancies of Adolescent
Mothers: Dollar-A-Day." Other faculty
previously involved with the program are
Dr. Marilyn Evans and Dr. Margaret Dick.
Currently, Dr. Rebecca Saunders and I
work with staff at the Guilford County
Health Department's Family Planning/
Maternity clinic to conduct meetings each
week with a small group of teen mothers
to try to delay a second pregnancy until
they can complete high school and, one
hopes, some type of further education.
We work toward short-term and long-
term goal setting, building self-esteem,
and staying in school. Each mother
present at weekly meetings and remain-
ing non-pregnant receives seven one
dollar bills — a dollar a day. The value of
the program is in the information they
receive at the sessions; the money only
serves as an incentive to get them to the
meetings. The Greater Triad Chapter of
the March of Dimes funded the program
through 1994; the Kate Reynolds
Charitable Trust will fund it for 1995. The
program costs approximately $700 per
mother per year. In addition to the dollar
a day, the funds are used for food during
the meetings and some educational
materials. There are ten mothers in the
group at a time. To date there have been
fifty-three mothers enrolled and a repeat
pregnancy rate of only 19 percent.
Reported repeat pregnancy rates for
adolescent mothers range from 30 to 50
percent within two years of the first birth.
Our program has served as a model for
other areas, but there is still a lot of
progress to be made.
ALUMNI NEWS • WINTER '95 21
22 ALUMNI NEWS • WINTER '95
hortly before I moved
from New York to
Greensboro in the mid-
1960s, I was told by a
bookish friend in New
York that Greensboro was
a "literary place."
The glowing descrip-
tion didn't square with
my preconceived image of
a Southern textile city. But
then, I had visited the
place only once and very
briefly at that.
Little did
I know that
I would land in the
middle of what some
would call the "Golden
Era" at the University.
(Only a year earlier it
had changed its name
from Woman's College).
The University's
faculty sounded like a
Who's Who of Southern
Literature: Peter Taylor,
Randall Jarrell, and
Allen Tate. Tate no
longer lived here but
was forever popping in
and out of town to teach
for a semester or give
poetry readings.
And there was also Fred
Chappell and Robert Watson, who
were years younger but had already
established their Uterary reputations.
So had Eleanor Ross Taylor, the
distinguished poet, who was Peter
Taylor's wife.
What grand parties the Taylors
used to throw in that big rambling
house in Fisher Park. It was there
that I met Eudora Welty, who was
suffering from laryngitis and
couldn't speak. And it was there
where Allen Tate, chain-smoking
and wheezing, often held court when
he visited Greensboro.
But none of his famous literary
friends outshined Peter. Gregarious,
witty and enormously charming, he
had that enviable knack of making
each person in a room feel special
and interesting. Eleanor, though of
quieter disposition than her hus-
band, had the same gracious trait.
All of these memories came
rushing back . . . with the sad news
that Peter Taylor had died in
Charlottesville, VA, at age 77.
The Taylors moved to
Charlottesville in the late '60s where
Peter would direct the creative
Poets Elizabeth Hardwick, Carol Johnson
(then a UNCG faculty member), Robert
Lowell with Taylor (center) and Fred
Chappell at the annual campus Arts Forum
in 1964.
writing program at the University of
Virginia. 1 visited their Charlottes-
ville house, too. It had once belonged
to William Faulkner, who, m his hny
handwriting, had outhned the plot
of The Reivers on the wall of the
study. The Taylors carefully did
not repamt the study when they
moved in.
But there were plenty of other
houses that got repainted. Peter
collected houses — often two or
three at a time — the way other
people collect old cars. His second
caUing was real estate.
His first, of course, was writing
gem-like ficHon. As The Neiv York
Times wrote in his long obituary:
"His fiction never had the widest
readership, but liis loyal admirers
sought out and savored his tales of
upper-class citizens in an old and
changing South."
Peter wrote fiction for more than
fifty years, and critics
hailed him as an Ameri-
can Checkov for his
masterly short stories.
One critic called him
America's best-kept
literary secret. Not that
Peter Taylor wanted to
be a secret.
Yet it was not until
he was in his old age
that Peter won a
broader readership and
a slew of prestigious
prizes.
His novel, A Sum-
mons to Mempihis, won
the Pulitzer Prize in
1986, and a collection of
short stories. The Old
Forest, was awarded the
coveted PEN /Faulkner Prize. His
new novel, /;; the Tennessee Cotintn/,
was pubUshed only weeks before his
death and has earned praise from
reviewers.
When I learned of Peter's death
. . . , I tried to remember the happy
times.
And I was grateful that death
delayed its coming until literary
recognition found him first.
Reprinted with permission from the
Greensboro News & Record, November 9,
1994.
Rosemary Yardley 78 MA is a News
& Record cohimnist and a member of the
editorial board of the UNCG Bulletin.
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'30s
'20s
Jean Culbertson Caldwell '25 of
Due West, SC, has been traveling
since retiring, visiting eigtit
countries in Southeast Asia and
Europe twice.
Thettis Smith Hoffner '25 and her
husband, ll<e, of Greensboro
recently celebrated their sixty-
eighth wedding anniversary. They
have two daughters, six grand-
children, and six great-grand-
children.
Peria Belle Parker Stowe '29 of
Greenville, SC, is recuperating
from surgery at Rolling Green
Retirennent Village where she lives.
Sympathy is extended to Edith
Hargrove Young '29x of Greens-
boro in the death of her husband,
Ehrman. Survivors include a
daughter, Alice Young Lunn '71,
'83 MBA, of Greenville.
Mary Brummitt Donavant '33 of
Raleigh advises everyone to keep
active. She continues to play golf
and bridge, walks three miles a
day, and is director of the pre-
school Sunday School department
at her church.
Cecile Richard Archibald '34 of
Winston-Salem retired from
Reader's Digest in 1 992. She had
been with the magazine since June
1934.
Elizabeth Clay '38 lives at the
Methodist Retirement Home in
Durham and is president of the
Members Improvement Corps.
Sympathy is extended to Doris
Fondren '38 of Greensboro; Helen
Fondren Lingie '41 of Nokomis,
FL; Mary Elizabeth Fondren
Whitley '47 of Greensboro; and
Rebecca Fondren Beck '58 of
Greensboro; in the death of their
brother, Dr. Frank B. Fondren, Jr.
of Littleton.
'40s
Helen Wygant Bussey '40
teaches preschool at the Marine
Corps Base in Kanehoe, HI.
Sympathy is extended to Rebecca
Talley Stevenson '40 of Bedford,
VA, whose husband, Robert, died
in February.
Sympathy is extended to Joyce
Safrit Moore '41 of Reidsville,
whose husband, Clifford, died in
June.
Nancy B. Stallcup '41 and her
husband, Harold, attended the
D-Day 50th anniversary ceremo-
nies at Utah and Omaha beaches
in Normandy. Her husband was a
B-17pilotin World War II.
Sympathy is extended to Charlotte
Ratledge Pringle '420 of Holden
Beach in the death of her mother,
Flossie J. Ratledge.
Martha Kirkland Walston '43C is
a member of the state Board of
Medical Examiners and vice
president of the Country Doctor
Museum in Bailey.
Frances Reedy Moore '44 lives in
Wilson.
Sympathy is extended to Camilla
Griffin Herlevich '45 of Wilmington
in the death of her husband, V.W.
Herlevich, in June.
Kay Tolhurst McNamara '45 was
a 1994 recipient of an East
Hartford, CT, Chamber of
Commerce Distinguished Service
Award. A retired teacher, Kay
organized the East Hartford
Women's Club.
Sympathy is extended to Cornelia
Lowe Rankin of Ramseur, whose
husband, Samuel, died October 29,
Nancy Ridenhour Boon '48 of
Stone Mountain, GA, serves on the
board of directors of the Georgia
Dietetic Association and is a past
recipient of the annual Outstanding
Dietitian Award.
Nancy Boyd Fillippeli '49 lives in
Charlotte.
Celeste Orr Prince '49 is married
to Philip Prince, a retired senior
vice president of American Express
Co. who recently was named
acting president of Clemson
University.
'53
'50
Reunion 1995
Sympathy is extended to Bobbie
Phillips Scott '50C of Roanoke
Rapids, whose husband, Edwin,
died in June.
Sympathy is extended to Naomi
Marrus Marks '50 of Greensboro
whose mother, Bertha Stern
Marrus, died in July.
'51
Reunion 1996
Sympathy is extended to Mimi
Temko Stang '51 , '89 MEd of
Greensboro whose husband,
William, died in May.
Reunion 1998
Carolyn Junker Yevell and her
husband, Davis, have moved from
Syracuse, NY, to Springfield, MO.
They maintain a home in Roanoke,
VA, where they plan to retire.
'54
Thelma Thompson Miller lives in
Citrus Heights, CA.
Margaret Crawford ('56 MFA) had
sculpture and other works on
exhibit in April at the Ashe County
Public Library.
'55
Reunion 1995
Sarah Sherrill Furlong has retired
as a travel consultant and is
enjoying traveling with her
husband.
Sympathy is extended to Alice
Joyner Thompson of Charlotte,
whose husband, Samuel, died in
March.
'58
Reunion 1996
Sympathy is extended to Mary Kay
Kirkman Fuller of Greensboro,
whose husband, Evander, died in
May.
'57
Reunion 1997
Ann Almond Fowler has received
a master teacher award from
Davidson County Community
College where she teaches
English.
Sympathy is extended to Sandra
Davis Sloop of Raleigh, whose
husband, "Buck," died in February.
Alumni News • Winter ''
CLASS NOTES
'58
Reunion 1998
Sympathy is extended to Barbara
Norwood Clark '58C of PIttsboro,
whose husband, "Buddy," died in
July.
'59
Reunion 1999
Sue Ormond Singleton is
teaching English in Cambodia for
two years with the Foreign Mission
Board of the Southern Baptist
Convention.
Margaret Martin of Wilmington
sold her business recently and
plans to take a year or two off.
'60
Reunion 1995
Carmen Falls Redding was
presented the 1994 Award for
Excellence in Teaching at
Greensboro Day School where she
teaches fourth grade. The award
included a check for $1 ,000.
Janet Schnable Seaburg has
moved to Vergennes, VT, and is
enjoying life on Lake Champlain.
'61
Reunion 1996
Serena Parks Fisher of Winter
Springs, FL, received a fellowship
for study and travel in Korea.
Serena is the program resource
teacher for the Seminole County
Public Schools Student Museum.
Carol Christopher Weiskittel
reports that she has recently
married and is vice president for
development at Union Memorial
Hospital in Baltimore, MD.
Diana Miller Rainey of Charlotte is
president of the Women's Auxiliary
of the Salvation Army in Charlotte.
Joyce Stephens Harvey and her
husband. Bill, have retired and live
in Gulf Stream, FL.
'62
Reunion 1997
Edith Mayfield Wiggins '62 has
been named interim vice chancellor
for student affairs at UNC-CH. She
was associate vice chancellor for
student affairs.
'63
Reunion 1998
Geni Biddy Jensen of Greensboro
was recently presented a Benefi-
ciary Service Award from the
Health Care Financing Administra-
tion for her work with CIGNA/
Medicare. She has two daughters,
one a graduate of Duke; and the
other, a recent graduate of UNC
Chapel Hill.
'64
Reunion 1999
Frances Puryear Chandler of Mt.
Gilead has worked at the Mont-
gomery County Health Department
for the past ten years.
Betty Baker Reiter of Rock Hill,
SC, teaches in the math depart-
ment at Winthrop University. Last
spring, she taught at Richmond
College in London and with her
husband, who was teaching at
Kingston University in London,
toured Europe and Egypt. They
visited their daughter in Budapest,
where she was spending her junior
year abroad.
Elizabeth Reed lives in New
Orleans.
'65
Reunion 1995
Jane Eagle Hege ('73 MA) was
married last June and is copy desk
chief at the Salisbury Post.
Phyllis K. Shaw of Greensboro,
senior English teacher at Oak
Ridge Military Academy, was
awarded a stipend by the National
Endowment for the Humanities for
study this past summer at Kenyon
College In Ohio.
'66
'68
Reunion 1996
Mary P. Bakutes-Mitchell of Fair
Haven, NJ, has retired after
teaching Spanish to junior high and
high school students for twenty-
eight years.
'67
Reunion 1997
Linda Smith Fields of Greensboro
earned an MEd in art education
last December. Her daughter,
Jessica, graduated from UNCG in
1992, and another daughter, Erica,
entered UNCG as an Alumni
Scholar in August 1993.
Reunion 1998
Sympathy is extended to Jeane
Fisher (MEd) of Greensboro,
whose husband, Thomas
Hildebrandt, died in April.
Christine Isley ('72 MM) is
associate professor of voice and
opera at Middle Tennesse State
University in Murfreesboro.
Pam Mars Malester, deputy
director. Quality Assurance and
Internal Control Office for Civil
Rights, US Department of Health
and Human Services, received
from Secretary Donna Shalala the
1994 Secretary's Distinguished
Volunteer Service Award.
Robert Morgan (MFA), a widely
published award-winning poet who
teaches creative writing at Cornell
University, has written his first
novel. The Hinterlands: A Mountain
Tale in Three Parts.
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CLASS NOUSi
'69
Reunion 1999
Dr. Lucinda Ann Noble (PhD)
retired this past summer after
sixteen years as director of the
Cooperative Extension System at
Cornell University.
71
June Honeycutt of Lexington
owns and operates The Strawberry
Basket, a gift shop, in Lexington.
Dr. R. Jean Overton is executive
director of the Small Business
Center Network of the NC
Community College System.
72
Reunion 1997
Sue W. Cole (77 MBA) is chair of
the Business Advisory Board of the
Joseph M. Bryan School of
Business and Economics at UNCG.
She is executive vice president of
the North Carolina Trust Co.
Lucinda C.
Jennings 73
Martin D. Pratt '82
Cynthia Furr Folds is project
manager with a team at One
Design Center, Inc., in Greensboro
developing interior concepts for a
new restaurant franchise in the
Greensboro market, Kenny Rogers
Roasters.
Julia Bree Nile (MA) is president
and CEO of Family Service, Inc., of
High Point, and serves as president
of the NC Victim Assistance
Network.
Susan Whittlngton of Wilkesboro,
president of the UNCG Alumni
Association, has been appointed
by Gov. Jim Hunt to the board of
trustees of Wilkes Community
College.
Ed WInslow of Thomasville has
received a master teacher award
from Davidson County Community
College where he teaches
business.
Marriage
Patsy Brison and Don Meldrum.
4-30-94
73
Reunion 1998
Nancy Moore Aley of Lexington
was named Outstanding Elemen-
tary Math Teacher of Davidson
County. She teaches sixth grade at
North Davidson Middle School.
Dr. Barbara Reynolds Todd (75
MEd, '84 PhD) of Yadkinville is a
principal with the Wilkes County
School System.
William C. Crawford (MA),
director of clinical services for the
Rockingham County Council on
Aging, Inc., was named Social
Worker of the Year by the NC
Chapter of the National Association
of Social Workers. He is a visiting
lecturer in the Department of Social
Work at UNCG.
Sympathy is extended to Kathryn
Whitley Carroll of Pleasant
Garden and her husband, Patrick,
in the death of their daughter,
Ashley Diane Carroll.
Susan L. Craven of Ellerbee has
joined the staff of Hamlet Hospital
and Hamlet Internal Medicine.
Dr. Karen F. Gerrlnger ('80 MEd,
'87 EdD) has been named director
of the Principal Fellows Program
for The University of North
Carolina. She had been executive
director of personnel for the
Guilford County Schools.
Lucinda 0. Jennings has been
promoted to an associate with the
firm of Hayes, Seay, Mattern &
Mattern, Inc., an architectural and
engineering company with
headquarters in Roanoke, VA.
Lucinda is an interior designer.
Dianne L. McKenna (MEd) of
Greensboro is instructional
supervisor of federal programs in
the Stokes County School System.
David Shelton (MEd) of
Wilkesboro is vice president for
store operations for Lowe's
Companies, Inc. He was featured
speaker for a celebration at Berea
College, Berea, KY, this past
spring.
Christine E. Taylor now lives in
Waynesboro, VA.
74
Reunion 1999
P. Irene Townsend of Greensboro
is photo finishing instructor and lab
manager at Randolph Community
College in Asheboro.
75
Reunion 1995
Dr. Susan Tucker Hatcher (MA)
sen/ed as a reader this summer for
College Board advanced place-
ment examinations in history. She
is a member of the history faculty
at UNCG.
Marriage
Ginger Gibson and David P.
Calhoun. 6-12-94
77
Reunion 1997
Theron Kearns Bell serves on the
Board of Commissioners of
Robbins, chairs the Robbins Area
Library Committee, is a member of
the State Library Commission, and
received the Outstanding Citizen
Award from the local chapter of the
Woodmen of the World.
Jeremiah Miller (79 MFA) had an
exhibition, "Solitary Places," of his
landscape paintings in the Main
Gallery of Theatre Art Galleries,
Inc., in High Point from August
through mid-October.
Wayne R. Tuggle is principal of
Dalton L. McMichael High School
in Rockingham County.
78
Reunion 1998
Teresa Sink (MEd) of Welcome
has been presented a master
teacher award from Davidson
County Community College where
she teaches mathematics.
79
Reunion 1999
Marcus Kearns of Hickory owns a
recording studio. Perfect Pitch, in
Statesville. He composes and
performs; the Western Piedmont
Symphony performed one of his
compositions this past summer.
Renee Littleton Neal is a social
worker for Cooperative Christian
Ministry in Hickory.
Dr. Richard L. Thompson (EdD)
is interim associate vice president
for academic affairs for The
University of North Carolina
System. He is a former adjunct
associate professor at UNCG.
Marriages
Karen Chandler
Frazier '87
Michael H. Gray and Karen
Pettinelli. 8-27-94
Dondi Mack Kellam and Rebecca
S. Brown. 6-4-94
Alumni News • Winter '95
CLASS NOTES
'80
Ruth Ellen Thomas and Johnnie
M. Ellis. 6-11-94
Reunion 1995
Maura Canoles DelVecchio is
responsible for new product
development for Levolor at its
headquarters in Greensboro.
Dr. Carl S. Herman (EdD) is the
new principal of Clinton High
School. He was director of testing/
grants for Alamance County
Schools.
Dr. Donna Jennings of Tallahas-
see, PL, is a sexuality educator,
counselor, therapist, and author of
two children's books about
sexuality.
Sympathy is extended to Shirley
Southworth Johnson of
Burlington, whose husband,
Darrell, died in April.
Brent H. Kasey has received the
master of divinity degree, with
languages, from Southeastern
Baptist Theological Seminary. He
is pastor of North Warrenton
Baptist Church in Warrenton.
Karen McNeil-Miller of Greens-
boro received a doctorate in
general administrative leadership
from Vanderbilt University in June.
She is a senior program associate
with the Center for Creative
Leadership.
Kimberly Clark Phillips ('83 MS)
of Winston-Salem is program
coordinator at the Department of
Public Health at Bowman Gray
School of Medicine. She is working
on a doctoral degree at UNC
Chapel Hill and recently received a
$4,000 research grant from the
Oncology Nursing Poundation.
Joyce Richman (MEd) is a career
counselor and author of Roads,
Routes, and Ruts: A Guidebook for
Career Success, which was
published this spring.
Marriages
Sue Ellen Hilton and Michael D.
Brown. 5-14-94
Denise Ann Godwin and Alan G.
Whittington. 4-23-94
'81
Reunion 1996
Joanne Goldwater ('86 MEd) is
director of residence life at St.
Mary's College of Maryland. She
has just finished a term as
president of the Mid-Atlantic
Association of College and
University Housing Officers and is
an elected representative to
Association of College and
University Officers - International.
Sympathy is extended to Betty
Curtis Gossett ('93 BSN) of High
Point, whose husband, Roy, died in
April.
Jonathan Ray of Conover, a
drama teacher with the Charlotte-
Mecklenburg School System, was
presented the Creative Drama
Award at the annual convention of
the American Alliance for Theatre
and Youth held in August in
Tempe, AZ.
Carlan R. Shreve teaches English
and is director of student activities
at Stanton College Preparatory
School in Jacksonville, PL. Stanton
is a public magnet school recog-
nized by the US Department of
Education as a national model
school.
Marriage
Vickie Lynn Speer and Gary W.
Barts. 4-23-94.
'82
Reunion 1997
Karen L. Ayers of Boone is an
assistant branch manager with
Pirst Union National Bank.
Anthony Flinchum of Greensboro
is a CPA and director of the sales
and use tax group with Dixon,
Odom & Company in High Point.
Joe K. Pickett
Jacksonville, Florida
Class of 1972 MBA
Chairman of the hoard and chief
executive officer, BancBoston
Mortgage Corporation
President of Mortgage Bankers
Joe Piclcett is tlie current president of tlie Mortgage
BanJcers Association of America, tlie nationaJ organization of
representatives of more tlian 3,000 companies in tlie real
estate finance industry.
Before liis installation as president in October, lie had
served a year as president-elect and had been chair of the
MBA executive committee and a member of the association's
board of governors.
Joe began his career in commercial and mortgage
banking in 1969 with Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. and had
assignments in Winston-Salem, Charlotte, and Dallas, Texas.
As head of BancBoston Mortgage Corp., a subsidiary of First
National Bank of Boston, he oversees an organization with
thirty branch offices and a nationwide wholesale operation.
The mortgage company services loans totaling $32 billion in
forty-nine states.
Mary Kaye Moore Nesbit and her
husband. John, have sold the
Island Hoppers Dive Shop in
Greensboro and moved to Santa
Ana, CA. The buyers were
Benjamin Covington '86 and
Alyson Haines Covington '86 of
Winston-Salem.
Martin D. Pratt has been named
retail branch manager with Pirst
Citizens Bank in Greensboro,
serving as a vice president at the
main office.
Robin Elaine Remsburg received
her PhD in nursing from the
University of Maryland in May. She
is research coordinator for the
Department of Obstretics and
Gynecology at the Johns Hopkins
Bayview Medical Center in
Baltimore.
Tina R. Singleton of Roselle, IL, is
in West Africa for two years with
the Peace Corps.
Marriages
Lori Page Champion and John D.
Roberts. 9-10-94
Tell Us Your News • See page 25
Alumni News • Winter '95 27
CLASS mm
Margaret Batterham Waters
Class of 1918
Seymour, Tennessee
In Her Nineties, She's Still Writing
"... / demanded of the conductor at the steps, 7s this our
car?
The man grinned impishly, 'It depends upon where you
are going.'
"To Greensboro!' amazed tliat he didn't knoiv."
Margaret Batterham Waters, who is 97 years old,
concludes her memoir of growing up in Asheville at the
turn of the century with boarding the train for the State
Normal School, now The University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. She remembers the trip this way:
"The train chuffed along. The wheels beating out a
chorus of remembrances. At a certain point near Black
Mountain, the Craggy five peaks dominated the horizon.
I leaned at the window to gaze on that endeared moun-
tain and transported myself in fancy to its serene crest.
Fading away hazily, into the blue beneath its ramparts,
were those lesser ridges that held the innocence, the
radiancy of a hometown to which the spirit would
forever be mobilized, in those upland meadows of
childhood."
The published work. Those Upland Meadows, is
available in the gift shop at Biltmore Estates.
The daughter of English immigrants, Mrs. Waters
grew up in a household with an air and table of distinctly
British flavor. Thomas Wolfe, whom she called Tommy,
was a childhood acquaintance. As a teenager, Margaret
compiled a weekly column of Asheville society news for
the Charlotte Observer.
Margaret, who lives near Gatlinburg, Tennessee, says
Hill Top Records of California has expressed interest in
her work after reviewing a copy of her rhymed verse,
Wayfarer on Mother Earth.
Pandora Frank Metz and Ronnie
C. Hamilton, Jr. 6-5-94
Art Perper and Sharon Kinyoun.
5-29-94
Kathryn Lynn Trainor and John
S. Davis. 5-14-94
Velinda White Brown and Walton
G. Stowman '83. 6-4-94.
'83
Reunion 1998
Sandra Clark Macomson is
executive director of Berne Village,
a retirement community in New
Bern.
Dr. Marian Wilson is an assistant
professor of music at Cornell
College in Mount Vernon, lA.
Marriage
Joseph Kenneth Newbold and
Amy J. McDowell. 6-4-94
'84
Reunion 1999
Kelly Beshara Fulbright of Vale is
branch manager of Kelly Tempo-
rary Services in Hickory and
Morganton.
Robert Funk (MFA) of Birming-
ham, AL, is an assistant professor
in the department of theatre and
dance at the University of Alabama
at Birmingham.
Dr. Warren Hollar (EdD) is
principal of Bethlehem Elementary
School in Alexander County and
was recently named Principal of
the Year.
Dr. Susan Stinson (EdD) is head
of the Department of Dance at
UNCG and spoke in June at a
conference on dance in Australia.
Marriages
Janice Faye Carter and Charles J.
Neff III. 5-28-94
Perri Hall Shelton Clinard and
Thomas L. May Jr. 5-7-94
Bruce R. Doss and Susan B.
Morris. 7-6-94
'85
Reunion 1995
Kim Tracanna teaches physical
education at Lakeside Elementary
School in Orange Park, PL, where
she is Teacher of the Year.
Marriages
Jan Couch and Patrick A.
Valentino. 6-4-94.
Wanda Mitchell and Terrence K.
Neal. 6-4-94
Davis H. Swaim, Jr. and Sherry
Ann Garber. 3-26-94
'86
Reunion 1996
Sympathy is extended to Charles
Bauserman III '83 and Mary Lane
Hancock Bauserman in the death
of their infant son, John Astor
Bauserman, in May. Survivors
include a grandmother, Madeline
Ann Hollingsworth Bauserman
'56.
Susan Dosier of Birmingham, AL,
has been named foods editor of
Southern Living magazine.
Eric Hause is director of marketing
and public relations for Ttie Lost
Co/ony outdoor drama in Manteo.
Marriages
Terri Michelle Buchanan and
Frederick M. Smith. 6-18-94
Jesse A. Briggs II and Dawn M.
Babcock. 5-8-94
Janice Virginia Ivey and Jerry H.
Dudley. 6-4-94
Dawn M. Lawson and Glenn
Morrison. 7-23-94
Kay Mitchell Lynch and Darwin E.
Bowman. 5-7-94
Charles Robert Robinson and
Mary Anne Parrish. 4-16-94
Alumni News • Winter '95
a ASS NOTES
'87
Reunion 1997
Adrienne Butts is director of health
care services for Interim
HealthCare-Morris Group, Inc. in
Wilson.
Tim Ford (MFA) teaches painting
part-time at Appalachian State
University. His paintings were
exhibited this summer at the Wilkes
Art Gallery.
Karen Chandler Frazier of
Winston-Salem is accounting
manager with Krispy Kreme
Doughnut Corp. A CPA, she
previously worked as an audit
manager with Price Waterhouse in
Winston-Salem.
Carolyn Jean Cates (MA) of
Greensboro is one of the three
women this summer who launched a
new magazine, GW — The
Magazine for the Guilford County
Woman.
Marriages
Margaret Brantley Cleek and
Glenn B. Hubbard. 5-21-94
Misty Jumpe Coble and Joseph W.
Henzler. 5-21-94
Timothy E. Groome (MED) and
Jean Marie Clapp. 5-7-94
Kelly Suzanne Lineberry and
Lonnie Dale Campbell. 4-23-94
Wanda Jean Williams and Oliver L.
Flowers. 5-21-94
Reunion 1998
Soledad Aguilo is a Sister of Mercy
at the Sacred Heart Convent in
Belmont and teaches art at UNC
Charlotte and Central Piedmont
Community College. Her drawings
were chosen for an exhibit at the
Spoleto Crafts Show this past spring
in Charleston, SC.
Amanda Taylor Durant of Raleigh
is pursing an MFA in painting at
East Carolina University. She
received a first place in printmaking
In ECU'S 1994 Rebel Art Competi-
tion.
Dr. Daniel Fredericks (PhD) is
associate dean for general
education at Saint Francis College
in Loretto, PA.
Sister Joanne Kuhlmann (MBA)
is quality review coordinator for
Good Shepherd Home Health and
Hospice Agency in Haysville.
Dr. Gail Laubscher Summer
(EdD) teaches at Lenoir-Rhyne
College and is included in Who's
Who Among America's Teachers
1994.
Marriages
Wendy Sherrel Blackwell and
Scott F. Green. 6-4-94
Devera Blair Cathey and Peter
C. Stocker. 7-27-94
Sheri Lynn Byrd and Scruggs A.
Colvan. 7-23-94
Diane A. Daniel (MM) and John
David Cash. 6-5-94
Kim Ann Grant and Bruce A.
Lamb. 7-2-94
James Wilson Hall and Elizabeth
Anne Wright. 5-21-94
Yolanda Francine Foster and
Garrett Dwight Bolden. 5-16-94
Shelia Annette McNeil and
Michael B. Davis. 4-9-94
Amy Louise Maultsby ('88x) and
Roderick C. Anderson. 5-1-94
Cynthia Lynn Smith and Brian
Alan Holbrook. 5-28-94
Vicky Renee Spaulding and
Mitchell W. Stamey. 6-25-94
Amy Elizabeth Tew and Elliott W.
Pegram. 7-6-94
'89
Reunion 1999
Diane Widener Kimel (MSN) is
program coordinator of the
Comprehensive Cancer Center at
Gaston Memorial Hospital.
Dr. Virginia Adams
Greenville, NC
Class of 1985
PhD, Child Development and
Family Relations
UNCW Dean of Nursing
Dr. Adams is the new dean of the School of Nursing at
The University of North Carohna at Wilmington. She had
been interim dean of the School of Nursing at East Tennessee
State University in Johnson City.
When she assumed her duties in July, Dr. Adams said,
"We've traditionally been based in hospitals, but hospitals
are downsizing, and they won't have as many jobs. We have
to prepare students to work in communities. My focus will
be getting students into community sites such as school
health. My passion is school health."
She said nursing students also need to be prepared for
jobs in prisons, home health care agencies, and workplaces.
A native of Durham, Dr. Adams joined the faculty at
East Tennessee State in 1988 and was chair of the family and
community nursing department before becoming interim
dean. She is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves.
Anne Lewis Gundlach has her
own State Farm Insurance Agency
on West Wendover Avenue in
Greensboro.
Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class
Matthew H. Picard recently
received the Navy Achievement
Medal for superior performance of
duty while serving as an adminis-
trative supervisor with the per-
sonnel support detachment in
Rota, Spain, where he is currently
stationed.
Tell Us Your News • See page 25
Ruth Morris Moose (MLS) of
Albemarle was awarded this past
summer a writing fellowship to the
McDowell Colony in Peterborough,
NH. She is the author of two books
of short stories, The Wreath
Ribbon Quilt and Other Stories and
Dreaming in Color. Her stories
have received three PEN Awards.
Ruth is reference librarian at
Pfeiffer College where she also
teaches children's literature.
Elizabeth Sutherland Ward ('89
MBA) is associate vice chancellor
for finance in the Division of Health
Affairs at UNC Chapel Hill.
Alumni News • Winter ''
CLASS NOTES
Marriages
John McGregor Bencini (MBA)
and Leslie Carolyn Nagel. 6-11-94
Angela Lynn Chestnut (MM) and
David G. Moore. 5-14-94
Martha Vance Odom and James
N. McCollum.
Joyce Ann Johnson and
Richmond L. Griner II. 6-4-94
Gina LeAnn Parker and Dayne C.
Weathers. 6-25-94
Matthew H. Picard and Jennifer
Marie Metcalf. 4-23-94
Zaneta Annette Roseboro and
Curtis Brian Ponton. 6-1 1-94
Leigh Ann Shepherd and Richard
A. Stewart. 6-18-94
Theresa Renee Tate and Robert
G.Wilson Jr. 9-10-94
Tammy Lee Yates and Dennis J.
Campany. 5-7-94
'90
Reunion 1995
Raymond P. Covington (MEd) is
vice president for institutional
advancement at Greensboro
College. He is president of the
Burlington Rotary Club, and a
board member of the Burlington
chapter of the American Red
Cross.
Francis Haber ('90 MLS) received
a master's degree in history from
Wake Forest University in May.
Marriages
Linda Gayle Beasley and Brian
Keith Lawrence. 5-14-94
Michelle Kaye Bristow and
Ronald Lee Pierce, Jr. 5-21-94
Teresa Ann Brown and Brian E.
Holcomb. 9-17-94
Mary Kathryn Drapelick and
Charles A. Long. 6-4-94
Nina Ann Dudash and Robert
Todd Smith. 6-11-94
Timothy Lewis Durham and
Tammy Lynn Morris. 6-10-94.
Dawn Marie Gunther and Anthony
B. Fincher. 7-16-94
Julia Ann Hiatt and Christopher
W. Goff. 5-21-94
Sharon Louise Hoenig and Daniel
Jay Cunane. 4-9-94
Susan Ashley Inman and Jeffrey
Todd Johnson. 4-30-94
James Todd Jones and Jama
Allison Ross. 5-7-94
Amy Marie Kranz and Carl J.
Pritchett. 4-9-94
Tamara M. Lawson and Mark
Budai. 5-18-94
Sharon Lynn McDermott (MSBE)
and Robert Alan Kurtz. 6-19-90
Tim B. Reid and Rebecca S.
Reynolds. 5-14-94.
Jennifer Ann Elizabeth Salch and
Lonnie B. Martin. 9-17-94
Anne Leslie Scott and Charles M.
Alexander. 6-18-94
Tammy Lynn Shores and Andrew
L Routh. 6-18-94
Christopher K. Smith and Carol
Dawn Summers. 6-4-94
Margaret Jeanne Tilley (MBA)
and Jeffrey S. McKinny. 7-9-94
Mary Catherine Tucker (MEd) and
Todd O. Carter. 7-7-94
Shelia Vaden (MSN) and Robert
Anderson. 5-24-94
Chandee Varnam and Danny K.
Champion. 8-13-94
Heather Louise Ward and Todd F.
Montgomery. 7-23-94
'91
Reunion 1996
Bryan Hall of Greensboro is
winner of the 1 994 North Carolina
Young Entreprenuer. His company.
Graphic Printing Services, has forty
employees and is located in the
Piedmont Triad Centre in western
Guilford County.
Charles Huffman (MS) is a visiting
assistant professor of psychology
at Emory & Henry College in
Emory, VA. He is a candidate for
the PhD degree in psychology at
UNCG.
Dr. Magnoria Lunsford (PhD)
received an outstanding teaching
award and a check for $2,500 at
North Carolina Central University.
Kim Angel Pryor is coordinator of
the Rockingham County Tourism
Development Authority.
Stacy Richardson Taylor and her
husband, Lt. A. Chancier Taylor IV,
are the parents of a son, Shane
Christopher Taylor, born March 4.
They live in Honolulu.
Marriages
Lisa Michelle Bianchi and James
F. Hodges. 5-14-94.
Bruce S. Boeko and Lindsay
Allison Gresham. 7-16-94
Danny M. Brown Jr. and Jennifer
Carol Joyce. 5-14-94
Mary Charles Choate and Lance
J. Wooldridge. 5-18-94
Michelle Marie Crick and
Jonathan R. Bostian. 9-17-94
Amy Lynn Gresham and Robert
F. Fisher. 4-9-94
Crystal Lynn Hocevar and Cory
R. Freeman. 4-9-94
Leslie Suzette Gilmer and Craig
D.Womeldorf. 5-21-94
Jennie Marie Hartness and Kevin
J. Long. 5-7-94
Kimberly Dawn Hoots and Alan J.
Bartnik. 5-21-94
Christi Renee Johnson and Mark
A. Coomes. 6-11-94
Matthew S. Johnson and
Annemarie Beery. 4-16-94
Roberta (Robin) Anne McKenzie
and John W. Barlow. 6-4-94
Meredith Leigh Miller and Paul M.
Teague. 5-15- 94
Lori Ann Rigsbee and Kenji A.
Stark. 4-30-94
Jennifer Ann Swing and Joe R.
Davis II '92. 6-12-94
Debra Kaye Trogdon and Mark S.
Turner. 8-27-94
Julie Allison Walters and Roy K.
Parker. 4-2-94
Michael L. Waters and Angela A.
Walters. 6-4-94
Wendy Lee Wicker and Charles
D.Phillips. 6-11-94
'92
Reunion 1997
Cathy Rosenberg is operations
officer of Wachovia Operational
Services Corporation in Winston-
Salem, and works as a banking
services analyst.
Steve White and a partner began
shooting a "musical monster
movie" this past summer in Chapel
Hill.
Marriages
Amy Elizabeth Adkins and
Douglas B. Phillips. 9-17-94
Katherine Elizabeth Boyce and
Gary S. Davis. 4-16-94
Margaret Elizabeth Caldwell and
John Renwick. 6-18-94
Lisa Renee Tally and Bhan K.
Collins. 6-11-74
Melody Deanne Comer and
Donald C. Hamlet 4-16-94
Melanie Dawn Crissman and
David L. Eaton. 4-23-94
Alumni News • Winter '95
CLASS NOm
Kristen Candice Culler and
Robert T. Barnhill. 7-9-94
Susan Lynn Crouse and Jonathan
M. Steele^ 6-19-94
Bobby L. Davis and Kelly Annette
Oakley. 5-21-94
Amy Katherine Harrington and
Chadnck H. Jordan. 6-1 1 -94
Carolyn Lynn Hutchens (MSN)
and Dr. Chad T. Couch. 4-16-94
Robert M. Davis and Andrea
Leigh Nicks. 7-30-94
Carroll Anne-Glenn Johnson and
Kevin A. Cooper. 6-25-94
Patricia Beth Little and Randall B.
Richardson. 5-14-94
Cindy Ann Hege and Darren W.
Sullivan. 4-19-94
Kelly Dawn Hensley and Jeffrey
D. Cummings 6-4-94
Heather Leigh Holley and Rodney
C. Hall. 6-4-94
Jonathan P. Gagnon and Tricia B.
Coltrane. 6-2-94
Melanie Kaye Lawrence and
Michael R. Jackson. 6-4-94
Kimberly Angela Cornell and
William J. Kennedy. 9-9-94.
Christine Sue Manges (MEd) and
Bnan L. Mohl. 9-3-94
Terry S. Odom (MBA) and Tiffany
Dawn Whisnant. 5-31-94
Meredith Brooke Parrish and
Christopher D. Sparrow. 3-19-94
Kelly Catherine Roberts and Paul
Thomas Brown '93. 3-19-94
Robbie Alyson Rhodes and
Larken D. Murphy. 4-30-94
Margaret Christina Sandin (MEd)
and James S. Churchill. 6-4-94
Suzanne Renee Self and John E.
Benton Jr. 3-26-94
Lisa Renee Tally and Brian K.
Collins. 6-11-94
Suzanne Renee Trollinger and
Chad A. Sharkey. 6-25-94
Roy W. Ware Jr. and Yvette
Dianne Ring. 7-16-94
Tamara Lynne Wertz and Brian T
Wilson. 5-28-94
'93
Reunion 1998
Laura Bond Abernethy (MSN) is
an instructor of nursing at Wilkes
Community College.
Brenda L. Dawson now lives in
Gretna. VA.
Chad Gaines performed at Fiesta
Texas musical entertainment
theme park in San Antonio in the
1994 season.
Navy Hospitalman Siddhartha
Routh recently completed Field
Medical Service School at Camp
Lejeune.
Laura Elizabeth Smith is an intern
at the Juilliard School in New York
City.
Marriages
Perry W. Auton and Christine
Mane Holmes. 6-18-94
Leah Doris Beck and Mark K
Baker. 6-18-94
Kristen Marie Bergen and John E.
Wertz, Jr. 7-23-94
Tracy Wright Bowman and
Samuel T. Miller. 4-2-94
Christa Tiffany Brown and
Rodney S. Shoaf. 5-28-94
Christie Elizabeth Chappell and
William J. Vandervelde. 4-30-94
Leslie Shay Church and Charles
Mark Hall. 6-18-94
Corinne Lynn Coffey and Peter
M. Williamson. 5-23-94
Bradley N. Dellinger and Betty S
Nifong. 4-9-94
Timothy R. Dixon and Suzanna
Marie Rumley. 5-1-94
Craig Hoffman
Louisville, Kentucky
Class of 1981
BA, speech communication and
political science
His Story Wins an Emmy
A reporter for television station WAVE in Louisville,
Craig won an Emmy Award this past spring from the
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences tor his
story about a deputy sheriff killed in the line of duty.
Craig is a native of Statesville, and after graduating from
UNCG, began his broadcasting career as an announcer for a
radio station in his hometown. He worked as a reporter for
TV stations in New Bern, Chattanooga, and Charlotte before
joining the Louisville station. He has been with the NBC
affiliate for four vears.
Excellence is the criteria for earning an Emmv, and each
entry is judged on its ou'n merit. Craig received his award at
a ceremony in Cincinnati.
Karen Lorene Goodwin and
David M. Eberenz Jr. 7-9-94
Susan Grigsby (MA) and David A.
Mynatt. 6-11-94
Debra Michelle Hemric and
Joseph S. Robertson. 4-30-94
Tonya Lavette Jenkins and
Steven D. Greene. 7-9-94
Dennis Lee Medlin and Shannon
Nicole Gotten. 6-25-94
Amanda Grace Owen and Daniel
S. Sloan. 9-17-94
Mark Alexander Porter and Lori
Shannon Norwood. 6-4-94
Paula Renee Presley and Michael
V. Hill. 6-18-94
Joann McDowell and Marc A.
Keeter. 6-18-94
Kathy Lynn McKay and Robert E.
Peele, Jr. 5-22-94
Kelly Lynette Medley and Michael
L. Kremkau. 7-16-94
Linda Hanna Miller and William S.
Hester. 6-14-94
Dacia Laine Murphy (MA) and
M. Matthew Price 92. 4-2-94
Dana Denise Neal and Robert A.
Whitney IV. 4-30-94
Elizabeth Gwyn Hile and Jerry D.
Needham. 7-16-94
Sonya Marie Reese and Dana C.
Pelleties '92. 10-15-94
Tell Us Your News • See page 25
Alumni News • Winter '''5 31
CLASS NOTES
Heather Dawn Medley and Kevin
A. Brandenburg. 6-11-94
Mark Alexander Porter and Lori
Shannon Nora/ood. 6-4-94
Elizabeth Brooks Leverton and
Mark Edwin l\/lessicl<. 5-29-94
Ashley Nicole Sumner and Eric
Neal Peacock '92. 5-22-94
Letitia Kier Powell and William T. Amy Lynn McBride and Jeffrey S.
Walton. 6-1 1 -94 Ferree. 5-28-94
Crystal Bost Sell and Cfiristopher
L. Jarrell. 5-14-94
Stephanie Ashley Somers and
William T. Oliver. 6-18-94
Sandra Joetie Thomas (MBA) and
James P. Springle. 5-21-94
Stephanie Dawn Staudinger and
Jofin W. Leone Jr.
Teresa Lynn Steele and Matthew
Wade Reece '92. 4-21-94
Patricia Dawn Vickers and
Cfiristopfier Lee Farmer. 6-18-94
Angela Erika Ward and Donald E.
McDuffie Jr. 6-25-94
Mark Ernest Watkins and Miclielle
Ann Hoyt. 6-11-94
'94
Reunion 1999
Elizabeth Goodling Gibbons is
teacfiing dance at East Strouds-
burg University in Stroudsburg, PA.
Shannon Malone is doing
graduate study in acting at the
American Conservatory Theatre in
San Francisco.
Sympathy is extended to John R.
Peer Jr. of Crown Point, IN, and
Katherine Poer Clendenin VSx of
Greensboro in the death of their
father, John Richardson Poer of
Greenville, SC.
Marriages
Sarah Allison Maxwell and
Matthew T. Collins. 6-18-94
Melinda Marie Conner and Lonnie
C. Lemons. 5-28-94
Ronald Spencer Hawkins and
Pamela Elizabeth Jackson. 6-4-94
Deaths
Leia Wade Phillips '20 died
September 13 at the Methodist
Home in Charlotte. She was the
wife of Charles W. Phillips, who
was director of public relations at
Woman's College and later served
six terms in the North Carolina
General Assembly.
Lois Wilson Ritch '20 of Charlotte
died May 5. Active in the suffrag-
ette movement, she led a student
march through Greensboro's main
streets demonstrating for women's
right to vote.
Bessie Mae McFadden '21 of
Jamestown died July 2 at the
Presbyterian Home. She was a
school teacher in the Guilford
County school system for 17 years
and later sen/ed as a supervisor in
the administrative office for 22
years.
Beulah M. Brake '23 of Rocky
Mount died May 6. She was a
retired public school teacher.
Edna Elaine Bell Sitler '24 of
Taylorsville died April 22. She
taught school in North Carolina and
later became a librarian in the New
York City public library system until
her retirement in 1966.
Mary Bailey Farrington '25 of
High Point died July 13. She was a
phmary school teacher in the
Thomasville City Schools.
Annie Willis Jonas '25 of
Charlotte died April 26 at Wesley
Nursing Center. She taught for
many years in the Lincoln and
Gaston counties public schools.
Elizabeth Rollins Wallace '26 of
Durham died July 30. The
daughter of the late Edward Tyler
Rollins, one of the founders of the
Durham Herald Co., she had a
life-long devotion to the family's
newspapers and served as book
page editor in her younger years.
S. Virginia Wilson '26 of Raleigh
died June 4. A home economics
teacher in the Durham County
schools and later at Salem
Academy, she was the first
chairperson of the Home Econom-
ics Alumni Association at UNCG
and a two-term member of the
UNCG Home Economics (now
Human Environmental Sciences)
Foundation.
Marjorie Cartland Colmer Clyde
'27 ('56 MEd) of Greensboro died
July 18. She was a first and
second grade school teacher until
her retirement in 1970.
Evelyn Williams Cox '29x of
Ramseur died August 25. A public
school teacher for 40 years, she
was the mother of Beverly Cox
Stout '62 and Emily Cox Johnson
'63.
Louise Lentz Deal '30 of North
Wilkesboro died August 20. She
was a retired school teacher in the
Wilkes County School System.
Alice G. Slaughter Hunter '30 of
Kenly died in August 1992.
Davetta Levine Steed '30x of
Raleigh died June 11. She was
former executive director of the
North Carolina League of Munici-
palities and the first woman in the
nation to serve as a full-time
League director.
Jennie Satterfield Fonville '32x of
Reidsville died August 9 at
Greensboro Health Care Center.
She was employed by the
Employment Secuhty Commission
in Reidsville until her retirement.
Dorothy Watkins Horner '32C of
Durham died June 27. She was a
clothing salesperson in Greensboro
and Durham.
Elizabeth Wills Whitttngton '34 of
Greensboro died August 15. She
was the sister of Anna Wills '35.
Gloria Milton Pemberton '35 of
Greensboro died July 20. She
taught school in Cumberland
County and later worked as a
secretary for Phillip-Morns in New
York City. She also taught college
in Montreal, Canada.
Maxine Farlow Crowell '36C of
Greensboro died May 10. She was
the mother of Linda Crowell '79
and Martha Crowell Gill '79.
Mary Louise Jeffress McLean
'36C of Greensboro died July 15.
The daughter of Edwin B. Jeffress,
co-founder of the Greensboro Daily
News, she served as corporate
secretary with the Greensboro
News Company until 1965 and
manager of the circulation
department for many years. She
was the sister of Rebecca Jeffress
Barney '36.
Jean Abbitt Harriss '37 of Durham
died June 28.
Frances Benson Causey '34x of
Greensboro died April 10.
Alice Murdoch Brown '39 of
Winston-Salem died June 5. A
past president of the Junior League
of Winston-Salem, she served on
the scholarship committee of the
Kate Smith Reynolds and Aubrey
Lee Brooks foundations.
Doris Esther Hutchinson '39 of
Greensboro died July 8 at Triad
Methodist Home in Winston-Salem.
She was active in the Greensboro
public school system and other
areas of education throughout the
state. She was the aunt of F.
Chris Hutchinson '89.
Patsy Jones Buffington '40 of
Fairfield, CT, died May 18. She
served for more than 30 years on
the Altar Guild of St. Paul's
Episcopal Church in Fairfield.
Survivors include a sister, Frances
Jones Ernst '35 of Wilmington.
Elicia Caroon Johnston '40 of
North Wilkesboro died Aug. 15.
Ruth Fretz Murphy '40 of Largo,
FL, died July 7.
Alumni News • Winter '95
CLASS mm\
Miriam Smith Wyrick '40C of
Greensboro died May 21, She was
the mother of Christopher D.
Wyrick 78 of Durham.
Rachel Gilchrist Norton 41 (67
MEd) of Brown Summit died
August 17. She was a retired
guidance counselor with the
Guilford County School System.
Ruth Yoffe Myers '43 of Boca
Raton, FL. died July 16 at Hospice
By the Sea in Boca Raton. A son,
Charles N. Myers, is a student at
UNCG.
Helen Blanche Davis Ramsey '43
of Laurinburg died October 18,
1993. She was the sister of
Martha Davis Newman '45.
Frances Cathey Benkwitt '44 of
South Dennis, MA, died June 5.
Ora Grace Beasley Warren '44 of
Newton Grove died February 12.
She was a retired public school
teacher and the sister-in-law of
Faye West Warren '41 of Clinton.
Caroline Bell Abbe III '46 of
Edenton died October 26, 1 993.
Faela Robinson Backer '48 of
Greensboro died September 16.
She was a volunteer with Green
Hill Center for North Carolina Art,
Temple Emanuel Sisterhood, and
the National Council of Jewish
Women.
Frances Bowles Stockton '50 of
Winston-Salem died Apnl 27. She
was instrumental in creating the
Winston-Salem Children's Theater.
Robert D. Ayers '51 of Pleasant
Garden died August 25. He served
as principal, teacher, and coach in
Guilford and Randolph public
schools for 43 years. He was the
husband of Glenn Crowder Ayers
'64.
Catherine Grill "Kitty" Baker '51
of Valdese died June 22.
Annie Pearl Kornegay '53 of
Greensboro died September 6.
Marilyn Jewell Blanton Price '57
of Gastonia died recently. She was
a former school teacher.
Mary Lou Moore Davis '60 of
Winston-Salem died June 22. She
was employed by Aladdin Travel
Service.
Mildred Erwin Jackson '60 of
Wilmington died December 31 ,
1993.
Barbara Breithaupt Bair '68 of
Greensboro died May 14. She was
an emeritus faculty member of the
UNCG School of Music where she
was chair of the Music Education
Division.
Cynthia Clark '68 of Princeton, NJ,
died December 8, 1993. She was
a piano teacher in Toronto and
later in Princeton where she also
was involved in city planning.
Carolyn Osteen Hardin '71
('74 MSBE) of Greensboro died
July 17. She was a former
president of the North Carolina
Association of Educators and
taught business at Forbush High
School and Surry Community
College.
Karen Lynn Canada '78 of
Winston-Salem died April 22, She
was a certified emergency nurse at
North Carolina Baptist Hospital and
a member of the National Flight
Nurses Association.
Frank Clements '78 of Graham
died recently. He was principal of
Alexander Wilson Elementary
School.
Neal Franklin Earls '80 of
Ravenel, SC, died December 10,
1993. He was a physical education
teacher at Ashley River Elementary
School and an assistant professor
of education at the University of
South Carolina.
John Lewis Parish '84 of
Greensboro died July 21. He was
a computer technician with the U.S.
Postal Service and Old Dominion
Trucking Company. He was retired
from the High Point National Guard
after 21 years.
William Mark Falkenberry '85 of
Charlotte died July 16. He was
senior manager of the Price-
Waterhouse office in Charlotte.
Position Announcement
Editor of Alumni Publications
The UNCG Alumni Association seeks a full-time
editor to be responsible for publications that
promote the interests of the Association.
In addition to the designated official publication
(currently the magazine. Alumni News), the editor
will also have responsibility for brochures, flyers,
newsletters, invitations, and other printed materials.
Applications will be accepted through March 15,
1995. The editor will begin work on July 1, 1995.
Inquiries and letters of nomination may be made to
Editor Search Committee
UNCG Alumni Association
Alumni House, UNCG Campus
Greensboro, NC 27412-5001
(910) 334-5696
Tell Us Your News • See page 25
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