Jack died May 20 at the age of 74 at home in Teachey, N.C., after being hospitalized two months at Duke Medical Center.  Funeral services will be held at 6 p.m. Friday, May 24, at the Thell B. Overman Field at Legion Stadium in Wallace, N.C.  Burial will follow at Rockfish Cemetery.

His coaching career began as a student football assistant at Guilford under head coach Herb Appenzeller.  He had played fullback two seasons for the Quakers, interrupted by two years in the military, and switched to the offensive line upon return.

“You always knew he was going to be a winner,” Herb recalled in an interview with the Star News of Wilmington. “He had the ability to run the right offense and he was just tenacious in all he did.

“I knew he was going to be a great success because he had all the determination to succeed. He also was kind of a mentor for a lot of young players and he also was always true to his principles and beliefs.”

In addition to football, Jack was a letter winner in baseball and basketball at Guilford. He received the Undergraduate Athletic Award in 1961 and was inducted to the Guilford College Athletics Hall of Fame in 1998. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1978.

Jack won 80 percent of his games as a high school football coach at five different schools, compiling an all-time record of 412-96-9.  His public-school football teams made many state playoff appearances, including finals. In 2008, he won a state independent school championship with Harrells Christian Academy. He also coached boys basketball successfully.

He was inducted to the Greater Wilmington Sports Hall of Fame in 2007 and was honored with Appreciation Days by the towns of Tabor City and Wallace and Rose Hill.

The new development would include new traditional apartment units and conversion of some of the four-year old student housing that borders the southeast edge of campus next to Armfield Athletic Center. According to currently available plans, there will be 88 1-, 2- and 3-bedroom traditional apartments and 12 3-bedroom units remaining as student apartments in the entire complex when it is completed. The complex is independently owned and operated. The College leased student housing space for two years ending in 2012.

The Alliance of neighborhood residents has been in continuous contact and negotiation with the developer as the project moved through the city zoning process. The project may be up for approval by the zoning board in June.

“In the eventuality that the development takes place, the College is advocating for the best possible result in regards to the impact on the environment, traffic and safety,” said Jon Varnell, vice president for administration. “The zoning board makes the ultimate decision, but we are adding our voice in the discussion about what’s best for the surrounding community.”

The Alliance summarized four areas of concern in the project concept plan and planned unit development (PUD) conditions set out by the developer:

Hodgin House

The Alliance believes enforceable zoning conditions must include preservation of the historic Hodgin house at 811 Dolley Madison Road, and that its use should be restricted to primary management office space and not as a recreational “clubhouse,” as has been proposed. The Alliance is concerned that the historic structure could not handle the wear and tear of this kind of use.

Traffic and Complex Access Issues

The Alliance is requesting amendments to the driveway entrance identified in the concept plan due to the impact on the natural area and increased traffic hazards caused by the current driveway placement. The Alliance is concerned that there will be an unsafe increase in vehicular traffic on Dolley Madison Road and Foxwood Drive due to the expansion of the development.  There are a number of solutions that may be proposed as an attempt to remedy this concern.

Building Placements

The planned expansion includes four new buildings with 64 1- and 2-bedroom units.  These proposed building locations would not interfere with the line of trees along the property line nearest Guilford and maintain the visual barrier for much of the new development.   The Alliance has suggested relocation of a new building that would avoid the removal and damage to trees on the site and create a “positive, fairly contained” open space between the new apartment buildings. Also, the Alliance requests “positive architectural features” that would be compatible with the existing house and wooded setting as well as interior amenities that would be appealing to long-term tenants.

Environmental/Green space Concerns

The Alliance notes that the environmental impact of this development is of significant concern to the College. Environmental issues should be fully and exhaustively addressed via enforceable zoning conditions, especially in regard to run-off and pollution.  More specifically, the inclusion of a bioretention on-site water treatment measure would address some of the water quality concerns. Finally, the Alliance seeks enforceable zoning conditions that will require placement of canopy trees and specific understory plantings that will provide a sound and visual shield to the surrounding properties and replace trees lost in the construction process.

The students recently completed a test run of a Mobile Market to bring fresh produce to local food deserts as part of the College’s Farmers Market.

“The goal has always been for the on-campus market to fuel support and funding for the Mobile Market,” said Hunger Fellow Helen Mandalinic.

“As a Hunger Fellow, I really try to not only talk to people on campus who have access to these products, but bring awareness to the imbalances in our country, and get people to care and realize how relevant farmers and hunger are to our collective human experience.

“We don’t want to just do service and go home and not think about the issue; we want to create action, because food shouldn’t be a privilege.”

A food desert is an area where the residents have no nearby grocery stores, and instead often have an abundance of convenience stores and fast food restaurants. Thus, it can be hard for residents in food deserts to maintain a healthy diet. The Mobile Market aims to combat this problem.

Getting the Mobile Market started wasn’t without challenges. Getting people to come to the on-campus market, bringing in new vendors, increasing the number of volunteers, planning with sites to host the Mobile Market, and funding all provided challenges for getting the Mobile Market up and running, according to Helen.

“However, all of these challenges have really served as part of our experiential learning and we are finding solutions to these problems,” Helen said.

“Success isn’t a linear process, sometimes there are hiccups, but that is what makes the Market so vital for student learning: They can get real life skills while still being allowed make mistakes.”

Meeting those challenges was greatly helped by having willing volunteers to work with.

“As the founder of this project, working last summer trying to make things happen alone was hard,” said Helen.

“Katie Maloney had joined me in the fall semester, as well as (Hunger Fellow) Chelsey Wilson, and we set the groundwork to be able to utilize volunteers. This spring semester we got our volunteers, and we have the best of the best on this campus.

“Seeing these students come, be excited and engaged has been awesome. Watching our group make friends at the community we partnered has been great.”

The volunteers not only made friends with each other, but with those they were helping.

“During our mobile market pilot we had a man regularly come by to just talk with us,” Helen said. “It was great to see volunteers helping this man speak English and learn the words for what we had at our market, then watching the man teach our group Arabic words for the items was a really cool moment.”

With the pilot run done, Helen feels that the Mobile Market will be ready for next year.

“The three weeks the Mobile Market ran was our pilot to get us out there, learn, and be able to make changes and growth over the summer,” said Helen. “We did just that, so I would say it has been 100 percent successful.

“In the end if we build community and relationships where we go, or are able to just bring food to one person, the project is a success. It’s not about making money — all our Mobile Market prices are suggested, but negotiable.

“So even if people just come to practice English, or practice using American money, and don’t end up buying anything at all, that is valuable.”

The Hunger Fellows work in collaboration with the Bonner Center and are open to more partnerships in the community, as well as with vendors for both the on-campus market and the Mobile Market.

Story by David Pferdekamper ’12

Their son, Phillip Shore, has left more than $1.7 million to the Marvin H. and Pansy D. Shore Scholarship Fund, an existing endowment to support students seeking Quaker higher education at Guilford.

Phil, a retired Earlham College librarian, died Jan. 18 in Richmond, Ind. He was 80.

“It was a scholarship that made it possible for his father to attend college,” said Tom Hamm, executor of Phil’s will, a former colleague at Earlham and a close friend. “Since his parents made him what he was, he felt that he was repaying a debt.”

Student support is one of the key elements of the College’s Advancing Excellence campaign. The campaign has raised $54.1 million, including $13.5 million for scholarships.

“Quaker values are at the core of our identity at Guilford College,” said President Kent Chabotar. “Phil’s generosity helps ensure that a Guilford education, a learning experience infused with Quaker values, is accessible to future generations.”

After graduating from Earlham in 1954, Phil did alternative service in Central America and Mexico with the American Friends Service Committee and then earned a Master of Library Science degree at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. After one year on the staff of the library at Cornell University, Phil returned to Earlham as cataloguer and associate library director in 1959.

While on the Earlham faculty, Phil led off-campus study programs and was central in the creation of the college’s Wilderness Program in the early 1970s. He was among a group of faculty who spent the summer of 1962 studying in Japan under a Ford Foundation grant, laying the foundations for the college’s program in Japanese Studies.

Following his retirement in 1996, he continued to read widely and voraciously, and indulged his interest in travel by participating in several Elderhostels. He adamantly refused, however, to allow a computer into his home.

He gave generously of his time to organizations in the Richmond area, particularly Civic Theater and Habitat for Humanity. A lifelong Quaker, Phil was an active member of West Richmond Friends Meeting.

“Phil was an embodiment of George Fox’s advice to the first Quakers: ‘Let your life preach,’” said Max Carter, director of Friends Center and interim chair of religious studies at Guilford.

“Phil’s life ‘preached’ in his deep commitment to his students and his work, his passion for peace and justice, and his simplicity. He was a model Friend, and I was privileged to have known him both at Earlham and during his frequent visits back home in Carolina.”

Melanie Lee-Brown

Faculty members Melanie Lee-Brown and Michael Bruno were elected to positions on the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Academy of Science.

Melanie, associate professor of biology and director of undergraduate research, was elected managing editor of the Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science.

Michael, assistant professor of chemistry, was elected to a five-year term as co-director of the Collegiate Academy, the organization’s undergraduate student division. He will serve with Assistant Professor of Biology Michele Malotky, who is senior director of the Collegiate Academy.

Michael Bruno

Melanie has served on the academy’s Board of Directors since 2006. She has held previous positions as chair of the Strategic Planning Committee (2006-09), vice-president (2009-10), president-elect (2010-11) and president (2011-12). She has been a faculty member at Guilford for 11 years.

Although Michael has served on several academy committees, the co-directorship is his first position on the Board of Directors. Michael has been at Guilford for two years.

Melanie and Michael were elected to their new posts at the academy’s 110th annual meeting April 5-6 at UNC-Pembroke.

Martin Eakes

Martin Eakes, a Guilford trustee, has received the 2013 Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award from The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

Martin is co-founder and CEO of Self-Help, a cluster of five national nonprofits that provide consumer financial services, technical support and advocacy for those left out of the economic mainstream.

Between the organization’s founding in 1980 and 2012, Self-Help invested more than $6 billion in loan financing to low-income, minority, female and rural borrowers.

A native of North Carolina, Martin holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an M.P.P. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. In addition to being a Guilford trustee, he serves on the Board of Advisors for the Center for Principled Problem Solving.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is a coalition of more than 200 social justice organizations. There were two winners of the 2013 Humphrey Award: Barbara Arnwine, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, also received the honor at a dinner in Washington on May 2.

Among those recognized with awards were 18 people who were “firsts” as African Americans or Africans in their administrative, teaching or student roles at the College:

• Kenneth Chandler ’76, former staff member in Advancement and Alumni Relations, first black in alumni, second black in advancement
• Danny Gatling, senior director of philanthropy, first black in this position
• Doug Gilmer, retired dining services manager, first black manager
• Parker Hurley, LGBTQQA coordinator, first black coordinator
• Adrienne Israel, vice president and academic dean, professor of history, first black female tenured professor and first black tenured history professor
• Barbara Lawrence, assistant professor of justice & policy studies, first black tenured professor
• Vance Ricks ’92, associate professor of philosophy, first black alumnus to become a tenured professor
• Karen Tinsley, chair and associate professor of psychology, first black tenured professor in psychology
• James Shields ’00, director of the Bonner Center, first Black director
• James McCorkle ’66, first African American student
• James McMillan, professor of art emeritus, first tenured professor at Guilford
• Karen Hayes ’78, associate professor of psychology, first alumna to become a tenured professor
• Irene Harrington, retired assistant dean for career & community learning, director of career development & internships, assistant director of career development
• Edwins Gwako, associate professor of sociology and anthropology
• Carolyn Beard Whitlow, Dana professor of English, former faculty clerk
• Jimmy Williams, former admission staff member
• Washington Rakama, early student of color from Kenya
• Ayub Watakila ’65, early student of color from Kenya (deceased)

Fourteen students were recognized:

• James McMillan Art Award: Karla McDonald ’14, Gloria Taylor-Williams ’14, Adam Watkins ’13
• Doug Gilmer Award: Glenn Paige ’13, Joyce Medina Allard ’14
• Nettie Coad Award (named for a community activist): Bea Franklin ’13, Andre Thompson ’12
• Psychology Award: Olivia Holmes ’13, Kenneshia Washington ’13
• M.L. Carr Leadership Award: Travis Tracy ’13, Brittany Atwater ’13, Alex Smith ’14, E’leyna Garcia ’14
• African American Studies Award: Rena Davis ’14
• Due to an oversight, a 15th student, Shammia McQuaig ’13, was not recognized at the banquet. Mia is the first Africana student to win the Biennial Outdoor Sculpture Competition. Her sculpture “Positivity Wave” will be installed near Hege-Cox Hall by Commencement.

In addition to the awards, the banquet included keynote remarks by Hector McEachern, College trustee and chair of the Quaker Life and Diversity Committee.

Alumni Excellence Awards

Alumni Excellence Awards, which recognize alumni who have contributed outstanding service as humanitarians and professionals in their chosen field, were given to Willa Minnette Coleman ’73 and to five siblings from the same family: W. Conrad Parker ’62, Elwood G. Parker ’64. G. Edgar Parker ’69, John G. Parker ’72 and Elizabeth Parker Haskins ’76.

Minnette is an actress, writer and singer raised in Atlanta, Ga., at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. At Guilford, she majored in drama and was a participant in the College’s Honors Program.

In April 2004, she returned to the College to present her one-woman show Hand-Me-Downs in which she explored how her journey to become an actor paralleled the Civil Rights Movement.

She is grants administrator for The New World Foundation and manages the partnership between New World and the K.I.D.S. in Distress Situations Foundation. She has been a teacher actress for The Creative Arts Team at New York University and is a member of the esteemed Harlem Writer’s Guild.

Her first novel is The Blacksmith’s Daughter, and her second is No Death by Unknown Hands. She and her husband, Robert Lewis Roach, have two children, Dominique and Giselle, and reside in New York City.

In addition to their Alumni Awards, the Parkers received the Old North State Award from the N.C. Governor’s Office at the April 26 ceremony. Collectively, the siblings have been teachers or administrators in high schools and colleges for 181 academic years. All five participated in intercollegiate athletics, and they all earned graduate degrees after finishing at Guilford.

• Conrad Parker is a retired high school educator who coached football, basketball and softball in North Carolina and Virginia for nearly 40 years. He was a games official and was inducted to a regional softball hall of fame.
• Elwood Parker is in his 45th year teaching mathematics at Guilford. In addition to teaching, he has been a leader in several fundraising campaigns. For 30 summers he worked in summer recreation and day camp programs.
• Edgar Parker taught mathematics at James Madison University for 28 years and now teaches at Guilford. He has a productive research career in differential equations and with inquiry-based learning pedagogy.
• John Parker is a retired public school teacher and administrator who was superintendent of Roanoke Rapids Schools and director of instruction in Northampton County. He once worked with Teach for America.
• Elizabeth Parker Haskins was a curriculum specialist for public and parochial schools in Chicago, with an emphasis on diversity and antiracism initiatives. Now retired, her last positions focused on curricular and instructional administration.

Charles C. Hendricks Distinguished Service Award

The Hendricks Service Award was presented to B. Randy Doss ’82. Randy is the director of Admission and Enrollment at Greensboro Day School, a position he has held since December 2012. He was chief enrollment officer at Guilford (2000-12) and Greensboro College (1985-99).

During his higher education career, he served in senior management positions with responsibility for admission, financial aid, registration, academic advising, campus life, academic support services and intercollegiate athletics.

A native of Greensboro, Randy earned a bachelor’s degree in history and management, received a Charles Dana Scholarship, and was a dean’s list student and baseball team captain. He earned an MBA at UNCG and lives in Greensboro with his wife, Susan, and their daughter, Caroline.

Young Alumni Achievement Award

The Young Alumni Achievement Award was presented to David Heggie, who graduated from Apex High School in Apex, N.C., and earned a history degree at Guilford. He was a four-year football player at Guilford and served as a residential advisor in Milner Hall for three years.

A Nereus English award winner, David serves the Greensboro community through membership and volunteerism with the Summit Rotary, the Board of Managers for the Greensboro Children’s Museum and Greensboro Greenway Race Committee.

In 2008, David became the first African-American executive director of the Bryan Family YMCA, a branch of the YMCA of Greensboro. He sits on the Guilford College Alumni Board and the Quaker Club Board. He and his wife, Thayle Jackson ’97 Heggie, who is assistant director of Admission at Guilford, live in Greensboro.

Student Awards

Grace Bennett Sullivan, who received the E. Garness Purdom Alumni Award, was raised in the coastal redwoods of Ben Lomond, Cal. She is active in the Quaker Leadership Scholars Program (QLSP) and is studying religious studies and mathematics.

She wants to attain a higher degree in education, but is unclear as to what she wants to do in the field. She is actively exploring other options, including an internship with the Office of Campus Life.

David Michael Cason ’14, recipient of the Clyde A. Milner Academic Excellence Award, grew up in Clemmons, N.C. and attended West Forsyth High School. At Guilford, he earned all-region honors in cross country and has been conference champion in the 3000m steeplechase in outdoor track.

He is a resident adviser majoring in biology and health science with a minor in chemistry. After graduation, he hopes to attend medical school.

David (9:15.34) broke his own ODAC and school record in the 3,000 meter steeplechase by 3.34 seconds, finishing eighth. The only Division III competitor in the race, his time stands 22nd nationally. The junior also holds the best time in the ODAC, 8.23 seconds ahead of the second-best time run by teammate Chad Norton ’14.  

Chad (14:56.89) finished sixth in the 5,000-meter run, .96 seconds outside the top five, in the third-fastest time in school history. Andris Goncarovs ’14 (15:15.69) finished 10th in the race and recorded the ninth-best time in school history, good for 10th place in the race.

Josh Farrar ’13 (51.26 seconds) finished 14th in the 400-meter dash with his fourth-best time of the season.

The Quakers return to the track for one last regular season meet Monday, May 13, in Chester, Pa., at the Swat Final Qualifying Meet hosted by Swarthmore College and taking place on the campus of Widener University.