Guilford College Magazine-About the Magazine
Guilford College Magazine is published by the Office of Communications and Marketing to inform alumni and friends of college news and activities. In addition to Communications and Marketing staff, planning for each issue of the magazine involves Office of Advancement staff, faculty and other staff of the college, students, alumni and friends. The Outreach and Communications Committee of the Alumni Association Board of Directors participates in planning and critique sessions.
Guilford College was chartered by the Religious Society of Friends in 1834 and opened as the coeducational New Garden Boarding School in 1837. It became a college in 1888 and today is a four-year liberal arts institution accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Guilford’s mission is to provide a transformative, practical and excellent liberal arts education that produces critical thinkers in an inclusive, diverse environment, guided by Quaker testimonies of community, equality, integrity, peace and simplicity and emphasizing the creative problem solving skills, experience, enthusiasm and international perspectives necessary to promote positive change in the world. The college’s core values are community, diversity, equality, excellence, integrity, justice and stewardship.
Story Ideas
Readers are welcome to submit story ideas to the editor. Ideas should be interesting to a broad range of alumni and friends of the college.
Letters to the Editor
We welcome letters to the editor on topics relevant to the college that are important to readers.
When you submit a letter for publication, please sign (unless you are using e-mail) and include your address and daytime telephone number. Please print your name as you wish it to appear. If you are an alumnus/a of Guilford, please indicate your year of graduation.
Letters should typically address a single idea and not exceed 150 words. We reserve the right to edit for brevity, grammar and clarity.
Contact Information
Send story ideas and letters by e-mail to Sara Butner at butnerse@guilford.edu, fax to 336-316-2939 or mail to Guilford College Magazine, Office of Communications and Marketing, Guilford College, 5800 West Friendly Avenue, Greensboro, NC 27410.
Send class notes to Jo Anne Jennings at jjenning@guilford.edu, fax to 336-316-2958 or mail to Class Notes Editor, Alumni House, Guilford College, 5800 West Friendly Avenue, Greensboro, NC 27410
Magazine Staff
Ty Buckner,
senior director of communications and marketing
rbuckner@guilford.edu
Michael V. Crouch,
associate director of communications and marketing—design
mcrouch@guilford.edu
Sara E. Butner,
associate director of communications and marketing—editorial
butnerse@guilford.edu
Aimee White,
assistant director of communications and marketing—marketing
awhite@guilford.edu
Suzanne Sullivan,
assistant director of communications and marketing—outreach
Galtelli Design,
design agency
Jo Anne Jennings,
class notes editor
coordinator of alumni events
jjenning@guilford.edu
Julie Knight,
photographer
Josh Cohen '08,
Ellen Dockham
Eddie Huffman
Melissa Starr '96
contributing writers
College and Alumni Leadership
Kent Chabotar,
president and professor of political science
Joe Bryan Jr. ’60,
chair of the Board of Trustees
Mike Poston,
vice president for advancement and executive director of development
Jerry Harrelson ’72,
director of alumni relations
Ann Martorelli Burton ’74,
president of the Alumni Board of Directors
Alumni Association Board of Directors
Lynn Zahurak Ahlers '81
Bradley Anderson '77
Gilbert Bailey '91
Cynthia Ann Briggs '94
George Brown '89
Ann Martorelli Burton '74
Judith Tindall Collins '62
Carol Leuzinger Cothern '88
Katherine Helms Cummings '83
Margaret McLaren Dawson '63
Larry Q. Draughn '07
Tanya Ward Feagins '71
Edward Gross '89
Anna King Jackson '65
Valerie Johnson '72
D. Brennen Keene '91
Felicia Kornegay '07
Rosemary Budd Lentzen '64
Brian Lowit '98
Amy Lytle '95
Jayne Mardock '85
Marcy Maury '74
Alan R. Myers '91
James M. Rawlins '50
Jenny Craigie Riffe '00
Lora Diane Robbins '07
Charles M. Scott '66
Edith Lebrato Shepherd '71
Thurston Spaulding Jr. '85
Randy Uzzell '76
Heea Vazirani-Fales '59
Life Members
Ed Alexander '50*
Tom Evaul '51*
Esther Hall '74
Robert A. Newton '58*
Jace Ralls '50*
David Stanfield '67
Steve Taylor '75
* Emeritus Members