Current Magazine
Guilford College Magazine Spring 2008
It doesn’t take an election year for Guilford College to get involved with concerns in the wider world. From community service during school breaks to serving in the U.S. Congress, Guilford students and alumni always have, and continue to, engage the issues that affect our daily lives.
In this issue of the Guilford College Magazine, you’ll read about some of the many alumni who hold elective office at the local, state and national levels. You’ll read about the work students are doing in and out of the classroom, taking action where they see a need. You’ll meet a few of the thousands of people who take the values they developed in the Guilford community and then apply them to every aspect of public life.
We hope their stories will inspire – and even provoke – you to live your principles as well.
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.
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
Galtelli Design,
design agency
Jo Anne Jennings,
class notes editor
coordinator of alumni events
jjenning@guilford.edu
Julie Knight,
photographer
Leo Derrick,
Eddie Huffman and
Emily Herring Wilson
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
Steve Taylor ’75,
president of the Alumni Board of Directors
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jane Ansell ’63
Gilbert Bailey ’91
Jane Ott ’05 Ballus
Deborah Anne Bateman ’05
Daphne Brown ’82
George Brown ’89
Ann Martorelli ’74 Burton
Kathy Carter ’81
Tom Corcoran ’02
Kelly Dempster ’73
Martha Wellons ’56 Dentiste
Richard Ewell ’95
Edward Gross ’89
Will Hall ’04
Julia Hood ’06
Steve James ’76
D. Brennen Keene ’91
Strupe Lackey ’53
Rosemary Budd ’64 Lentzen
Brian Lowit ’98
Amy Lytle ’95
Jayne Mardock ’85
Marcy Maury ’74
Bob Newton ’58
Howard Page ’77
Jack Register II ’96
Jenny Craigie ’00 Riffe
Daphne Harmon ’85
Shipowitz
Life Members
* Ed Alexander ’50
* Tom Evaul ’51
Esther Hall ’74
* Jace Ralls ’50
David Stanfield ’67
Steve Taylor ’75, president
