The Guilford College Alumni Association presented its annual awards to three alumni and one long-time faculty member as part of Reunion Weekend, held May 21-22. Alumni Excellence Award The Alumni Excellence Award, which recognizes alumni who have contributed outstanding service as humanitarians and professionals in their chosen field, was given to Carole F. Hunter ’63 [...]More
May. 25, 2011
The Moral Foundations of Capitalism: Understanding the Theory, Practice, and Ethics of Capitalism and Free Market Economies Guilford College Program funded by the BB&T Foundation In June 2009, Guilford College announced a $500,000 grant from the BB&T Foundation paid out over 10 years. The grant will fund a number of programs related to understanding the [...]More
May. 18, 2011
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will perform Friday, June 10, at 8 p.m. in Dana Auditorium as part of the 50th anniversary of Eastern Music Festival. Marsalis, who attended EMF as a student and returned as a visiting artist, is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator and Artistic Director of Jazz [...]More
May. 13, 2011
New subscriptions for the 2011-12 Bryan Series are on sale at a cost of $175 for a five-event package. Next season’s programs feature former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (Oct. 4), legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp (Oct. 27), CNN senior medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta (Nov. 29), award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns (March 27) and journalist and author [...]More
May. 13, 2011
More than 500 students graduated as part of the Class of 2011, whose commencement exercises were held Saturday, May 7, on the lawn of King Hall. Invited speaker Susanna Paisley ’91, director of development for the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) in England, recalled her own graduation from Guilford 20 years ago. Paisley’s [...]More
May. 7, 2011
Excellence is a college core value. Excellence means we are committed to setting high standards of academic rigor in courses and creating high expectations for achievement by everyone. Standards, rigor, expectations, achievement, everyone. This is what it says. This is what our core value says. There is no conflict between excellence and the Quaker testimony [...]More
May. 7, 2011
No score and four-ish years ago we came to Guilford with wonder, fear and hope. All of those things we brought in with us have shaped our time at Guilford. Some of us wondered if the cafeteria food would destroy us (well, all of us wondered that), but we all survived. Some of us feared [...]More
May. 7, 2011
Good Morning faculty, staff, family, friends and my fellow Class of 2011 graduates. I am honored to be here this morning speaking on behalf of my fellow graduates. As I was preparing this message, so many thoughts about my time here at Guilford ran through my mind. I remembered that first info session where I [...]More
May. 7, 2011
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