Alumni Beacon
Volume 2, Number 39
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
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| Alumni Association | || | Top Stories | || | Special Interest | || | Announcements |
| From Your Alumni Association |
| ~ | Alumni Board Holds Spring Meeting on Campus | |
| ~ | Triangle Group Meets With Adele Wayman in March |
| Top Stories |
| Special Interest |
| ~ | Guilford Awards Multi-year Dining Services Contract to Meriwether Godsey | |
| ~ | Seniors Present Thesis Art Exhibit April 25-May 10 | |
| ~ | Ben Strong Chosen for the Collegiate Basketball Invitational |
| Announcements |
Gatherings and Events
| ~ | Join the Quaker Club for the Annual Spring Fling Golf Tournament April 24 | |
| ~ | Alumni Invited to Retirement Celebration for Mary Broos May 24 |
Personal Notes
| ~ | Memorial Service for Carter and Guy Delafield is April 26 | |
| ~ | We Want Your Class Notes |
| Alumni Board Holds Spring Meeting on Campus |
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The group then attended the year-end CCE banquet, "Night of a Thousand Stars," at the Downtown Marriott. For a list of current board members, please click here. If you would like to serve on the board or nominate someone to serve, please contact Jayne Mardock at jaynemardock@alumni.guilford.edu or e-mail the Office of Alumni Relations at alumni@guilford.edu. |
The Alumni Board had its spring meeting Saturday, April 19, on campus. Thirty-five board and staff members attended and participated in discussions involving early alumni engagement, regional councils, admission, homecoming, nominations, awards, development and communications. | Triangle Group Meets With Adele Wayman in March |
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A Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and surrounding areas) regional chapter is being formed. Please contact Karrie Manson at 336-316-2148 or at kopalesk@guilford.edu for more information. |
On March 19, a group of alumni and friends gathered at the Long View Gallery in downtown Raleigh to view the current work of Adele Wayman in her show entitled "Artists Make Altars." Adele spoke about the evolution of her work and the influence Guilford has had. Alumni shared their Guilford stories.| Hosseini, Russert, Rushdie and Quindlen are 2008-09 Bryan Series Speakers |
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| Jeske, Mortensen, Middleton Receive Bruce. B. Stewart Awards |
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| The Bruce B. Stewart '61 Awards for Teaching Excellence and Community Service was presented to faculty members Jeff Jeske and Eric Mortensen and to staff member Norma Middleton at the spring awards convocation April 9. The cash awards for teaching and advising excellence (faculty) and community service (staff) honor one tenured faculty member, one junior/non-tenured faculty member and one staff member. In addition, the Bruce Stewart Scholarship is presented to first-year students based on financial need and merit.  Jeske, the Charles A. Dana Professor of English, joined the Guilford faculty in 1986. In addition to teaching courses in literature, writing, journalism and film, Jeske is the faculty adviser to The Guilfordian, the college's award-winning student newspaper. He served on the curriculum revision committee that established the college's current curriculum, and edited the college catalog for several years. Jeske has twice won the Excellence in Teaching Award.  Mortensen is an assistant professor of religious studies, focusing on East Asian religion and comparative religion. He has applied for and won grants that funded student and faculty research trips to China and Nepal, and also advises students wishing to study abroad in Asia. He served on the committee that oversaw Guilford's Year of Spirit and Spirituality (2005-06), and was instrumental in the development of the Center for Principled Problem Solving, which opened last fall. He received one of the center's pilot project grants for "Building Bridges," a program to build relationships between faculty and athletics teams. Middleton, who joined the staff in 1973, is the college registrar. In this capacity she interacts with every member of the academic community, coordinating course registration, processing grades, maintaining academic records and certifying students for graduation. The registrar's office also monitors academic policy and communicates these procedures to students, faculty, staff and alumni. The annual awards were funded by a $1 million gift from trustee Bill Soles '81, his sister and alumna Jan Soles '87 Nelson and their father, the late W. Roger Soles. The Soles' gift honors Stewart, who has served his alma mater as chair of the Board of Trustees, provost and director of the Richardson Fellows Program, among other roles. Stewart is head of school of Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. |
| Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards Presented to Fulton, Zavaleta-Jimenez |
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| W. Groome Fulton, Jr. '60 and Irving Zavaleta-Jimenez '08 received this year's Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards at spring awards convocation April 9. The awards, presented by the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation, recognize extraordinary service by one graduating student and one member of the community each year. Fulton is the retired president of Fulton Associates, Inc., a manufacturer's representative firm based in High Point. He also chaired the steering committee that formed the Bank of North Carolina in 1991, and has served as chair of the bank's Board of Directors and Executive Committee since its opening. He has a long record of service both to Guilford and to the wider community. For the last two years he has chaired the Board of Directors for Open Door Ministries, a High Point homeless shelter. During that time the shelter expanded to include the Arthur Cassall House for recovering substance abusers and "Project Homefront," a pilot program of outreach to the chronically homeless. Fulton and wife Ann helped develop Forest Hills Presbyterian Church starting in 1963, and Fulton has remained heavily involved in the church's governance. Most recently he has served as chair of the church's endowment committee, overseeing the disbursal of over $3 million annually. He is also president of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of River Landing at Sandy Ridge, a retirement community operated by Presbyterian Homes, Inc., and a representative to the corporation's Board of Governors. Fulton joined Guilford's Board of Trustees in 1999. He has been a member of the High Point Rotary since 1969. Zavaleta-Jimenez will graduate May 10 with a double-major in French and accounting. A native of Veracruz, Mexico, he emigrated to the United States in 2000 at the age of 14 with his mother and sister, joining other relatives living in Burlington, N.C. At the time, he spoke no English. Much of Zavaleta-Jimenez's community service is directed toward other Latino students, many of whom hope to be the first in their families to attend college. As a Bonner Scholar, Zavaleta-Jimenez has personally completed over 2,500 hours of community service during his four years at Guilford. He was a student coordinator of the college's dedicated site at Glenwood Library, teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) to immigrants from several countries. He was also instrumental in developing a new service site, Project HERE (Hispanic Education Retention Excellence), which offers tutoring and mentoring to area middle- and high school students. Last fall, Zavaleta-Jimenez organized a day-long conference for Latino students in Guilford and Alamance counties called "Soy un Líder" ("I am a Leader"). Geared toward first-generation college applicants, sessions included information on college searches and financial aid opportunities. It brought together 100 students from 13 high schools. Zavaleta-Jimenez is also vice president of the Student Senate, and has been named to the dean's list several times. Last November, the North Carolina Campus Compact gave him its Community Impact Student Award, presented to students who have made innovative, significant contributions to campus-based efforts to address community needs. Fifty select Southern colleges and universities present the Sullivan Awards to students and community members for "excellence of character and service to humanity," as prescribed by the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation. Sullivan was a Virginia-born New York lawyer who was well known for his compassion. Guilford has presented the awards annually since 2002. |
| Guilford Awards Multi-year Dining Services Contract to Meriwether Godsey |
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Guilford has awarded Meriwether Godsey a multi-year contract for dining services, President Kent Chabotar announced in April. Meriwether Godsey is a Lynchburg, Va.-based company with more than 30 years of dining program experience in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
Meriwether Godsey pays an average hourly wage in excess of $11 and about 25% higher than the other bid process finalists, Sodexho and Bon Appetit, proposed to pay. Meriwether Godsey's wages are closer to a living wage, which can be defined as "a minimum hourly wage necessary for a person to achieve some specific standard of living." A living wage varies by family size, composition and region and typically exceeds state/federal minimum wage. |
| Seniors Present Thesis Art Exhibit April 25-May 10 |
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 Seven art students will display their capstone projects in "hypoTHESIS," the Senior Thesis Art Exhibition, which will be on display April 25-May 10 in the Founders Hall Gallery. An opening reception will take place Friday, April 25, from 7-9 p.m."hypoTHESIS" includes the works of Amanda Marie Armbrust (B.F.A., drawing), Mairon Greenough Chamberlin (B.A., photography), Tim Grau (B.F.A., printmaking), Emily Kate Johnson (B.A., painting), Kay Kelly (B.F.A, drawing), Brett Randall McDonough (B.A., ceramics) and Arianna Pelullo (B.F.A., painting). The exhibition was made possible in part by support from the Barbara Fry English Memorial Fund. Established by JACK ENGLISH '76 to perpetuate the memory of his late wife, an artist who died in 2005 after a battle with cancer, the fund supports the programs of the Department of Art. Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public. Gallery hours vary; for more information call 336-316-2301. *Artwork by Emily Kate Johnson |
| Ben Strong Chosen for the Collegiate Basketball Invitational
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 Ben Strong '08 was selected to participate in the Collegiate Basketball Invitational. Only 64 college seniors from the NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and the NAIA levels are selected for this event. The CBI will be held April 24-26 in Wadsworth, Ohio, and includes the NABC Tip-Off Banquet and Awards Reception. Eight teams of eight players each will play three games in two days at Wadsworth High School. An all-star team will be chosen from the participants, and the all-star game will be televised on ESPNU. In 2007, 18 of the 20 all-stars were offered professional contracts. Strong also earned a spot on the State Farm Division III First Team All-America squad, announced by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), and was a D3hoops.com First Team-All American for the second straight season. He is Guilford's fourth two-time men's basketball All-American and the Quakers' first two-time, first-team honoree since WORLD B. FREE '76. (Guilford's BOB KAUFFMAN '68 and DAVID SMITH '72 also received multiple men's basketball All-America honors.) Strong also captured his second consecutive D3hoops.com South Region Player of the Year and NABC South District Player of the Year honors last month. |
| Join the Quaker Club for the Annual Spring Fling Golf Tournament April 24 |
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RSVP to Brooks Haworth at 336-316-2170 or bhaworth@guilford.edu. |
Join the Quaker Club for its | Alumni Invited to Retirement Celebration for Mary Broos May 24 |
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In conjunction with the celebration of Mary's career, Guilford desires to establish an endowed fund honoring Mary as a testament to her hard work and dedication to the college and the field of athletic training. This endowment is to be a comprehensive fund that will create scholarships for students pursuing a degree in sports medicine and provide programmatic support for sports medicine and athletic training within the intercollegiate athletics program. The goal for the fund is a commitment of $50,000 to be reached by Dec. 31, 2008. Should the goal not be met, donations will be placed in a restricted (not endowed) fund for athletic training. For more information click here or contact Karrie Manson at 336-316-2148 or kopalesk@guilford.edu. |
The Department of Athletics and the Office of Alumni Relations cordially invite alumni and friends to a celebration in honor of Mary Broos for 30 years of service Saturday, May 24, from 3-5 p.m. Heavy hors d'oeuvres will be served as we celebrate Mary's career. Friends are invited to continue the celebration at | Memorial Service for Carter and Guy Delafield is April 26 |
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| A memorial service for Professor Emeritus Carter Rossell Delafield and her husband, Guy, is scheduled Saturday, April 26, at 11:30 a.m. in the Moon Room of Dana Auditorium. A reception at the Alumni House will follow the service. Carter Delafield died Feb. 6 of complications of colon cancer at UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill. She was 87. She was an associate professor of English at Guilford from 1966-87 and earned the Teaching Excellence Award in 1985. Guy Delafield, known as "Rip," died Feb. 14 at Brookshire Rehab and Nursing Facility in Hillsborough. He was 87 and was married to Carter for 65 years. Memorial donations may be made to the general scholarship fund at Guilford. |
| We Want Your Class Notes
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| Class notes that are submitted through GuilfordConnections.com can be viewed by clicking here. You can also submit your own class note by clicking on the link at the top of the class notes page that reads "Submit/Edit Class Note." You may also submit class notes by clicking here. We, as well as your classmates, look forward to hearing about what is going on in your life, so submit your note today! Haven't signed up for Guilford Connections? Then please join our community at GuilfordConnections.com. |