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Piedmont CollegeW. Ray CleerePresident

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Top Stories 1 Students move into new dorm

2 Students go International

3 Wetlands gets planted

College Life 4 Students get a grip

5 Habitat for Humanity

5 Debate team

6 ‘Imagine the Future’

7 Atlanta Boy Choir

Academic News 8 December Graduation

9 Neighborhood Grant Program

10 New Programs

11 Theatre raises the roof

12 Music ensembles

13 Art collaboration

14 Nursing accreditation renewed

Athens16 Drug seminar set for May

17 Religion and the Liberal Arts

18 Athens ‘Lights the Night’

CONTENTSAthletics

19 Fall sports recap

21 Lacrosse coming to PC

21 Dombrowsky named JV baseball coach

22 Winter sports recap

Graduate School23 Graduate programs continue growth

23 First doctoral class begins

Alumni & Friends24 Alumni Spotlight: Lois Barr (’26)

25 Alumni Spotlight: Meredith Henderson (’06)

26 Class Notes

28 Obituaries

Donor Report29 Thanks to donors

31 Financial report

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Students move into New Bedford

Piedmont’s newest residential hall, New Bedford, is complete, and 48 women stu-dents have moved in. Named for the small Massachusetts whaling town, the new build-ing carries a lot of symbolism connecting Piedmont to its New England roots and lib-eral arts ideas.

The new dorm sports a stainless steel whale weathervane atop the cupola, featur-ing symbols of literature, religion, and geog-raphy.

Since the completion of New Bedford, work on a second dorm right next door has begun. The name of the new dorm is Plymouth, and it too will be constructed by Scroggs & Grizzle of Gainesville. Adding the second dorm will increase Piedmont’s resi-dent student capacity to more than 500.

Plymouth will be almost identical to New Bedford with the same color scheme, room layouts, and similar architecture. The

dorm will house 47 students and provide a Resident Director suite.

The weather vane going atop Plymouth is a shallop, a boat that is used to go from an-chored ship to shore. The shallop represents the transitions that students have in college from high school to professional life.

Plymouth will be Piedmont’s connection to New England and the Congregationalists, while New Bedford is Piedmont’s connec-tion to New England and the liberal arts.

Along with the new dorm, more park-ing will be added with 200 additional spaces. This increase will accommodate students liv-ing in the two dorms and visitors for com-mencement and athletic events.

Overlooking the Demorest campus, New Bedford Hall adds room for 48 students. A similar dorm now under construction will add another 47 beds.

New Bedford Hall sports a stainless steel sculpture of a whale created by local artist David Wall to capture part of Piedmont’s New England heritage.

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Two balconies at New Bedford Hall overlook much of the Demorest campus, making an ideal study spot for juniors Sara Gardiner of Maysville and Kate Meents of Lilburn.

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Piedmont College is offering a new ma-jor, called International Studies, to prepare students to live and work in a globally con-nected world.

Dr. Viviane Daigle, Director of Interdis-ciplinary Studies, said this new major will show students the changing globe. Students will have opportunities to travel on the College’s Maymester trips and study abroad in England or China to enhance what they learn in the lo-cal classroom.

“The International Studies major should at-tract students who are interested in learning and understanding more about the world of the fu-ture,” said Daigle. “As the College looks to the fu-ture, we realize students will need to develop a global perspective to be successful citizens of the world.”

International Studies is part of the In-terdisciplinary Studies (IDS) department, which means students can structure their coursework and mix curriculums from dif-ferent departments. IDS currently has com-munity journalism as a major and women’s studies as a minor. Students, however, can

mix majors such as theater and mass com-munications or English and theater to create an independent major.

International Studies, which was ap-proved during the fall semester, is a combina-tion of classes from business, political science, anthropology, mass communications, foreign

language, literature, and history. Some courses in-clude International Rela-tions and Global Issues from political science, Telecommunications and Globalization from mass communications, and up-per level foreign language courses.

Students are required to take 42 hours to com-plete the degree. In doing so, graduates will develop an understanding of the language and culture of

one geographic area of the world, as well as an understanding of the political climate, economics, and history of the region.

The new program opens doors for stu-dents in corporations, federal and state agen-cies, and non-government organizations.

For more information about the pro-gram, contact Viviane Daigle at vdaigle@piedmont.edu.

PC students have the opportunity to study abroad for up to a full semester, or take part in shorter travel-study trips, such as these students who studied art in Japan this past summer. A new International Studies major allows students to focus even more on the language, culture, and economies of other countries.

“As the College looks to the future, we realize students will need to develop a global perspective

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Planting wetlands trees

Some 15 faculty, staff and students gath-ered Jan. 16 and 17 to leave a unique mark on the Demorest campus. Over the two day period they planted some 3,800 trees in the wetlands area of the former Lake Demorest as part of a restoration project.

Volunteers used their dibble planting bars to plant four types of trees: water oak, swamp chestnut oak, cherry bark oak, and persimmon. Everyone worked in pairs and were told to plant randomly so the trees look as natural as possible.

Over time the trees will turn into bot-tomland forest, which is a forest on low, flat ground that drains poorly. Normally, bot-tomland forests occur along streams that occasionally flood. The trees are tolerant of flooding. Before the planting started one-third of the 50 acres of wetlands was already bottomland forest and beaver swamp.

Dr. Carlos Camp, professor of biology and leader of the project, said eventually the college will plant 6,000 trees in the area, and with luck at least 50 percent of the trees will survive.

Cayla Banks, left, uses a dibble stick to dig a hole as Nikki King drops in one of the 6,000 tree seedlings to be planted in the wetlands area of the former Demorest Lake.

Danielle Vidd plants a tree for posterity.

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(Top) Kami Anderson gets some last-minute instructions before going over the edge at Buck’s Pocket State Park in Alabama. The Outdoor Club took a break from backpacking to try rappelling at the 120-foot-drop at the park. The group started out on a 40-foot-drop for training. Club leaders have planned other events for the semester, including horseback riding, two-day hikes, kayaking, and another rappelling trip.

First Ethics Bowl From left, the team of Matt Collins, Korey Jacobs and Colton Peppers quickly works out their response to a question in the first Piedmont Ethics Bowl. Teams of three students each were given a few minutes to consider the ethical implications of a variety of topical and news events and submit their conclusions in two-minute presentations to a panel of judges. The Ethics Bowl was a project of the QEP Team and the School of Business. The winners were the team of Cadman Kiker III, Brandon Callahan and Michael Barry.

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Lending a hand for Habitat for Humanity

Seven members of the Piedmont Rota-ract Club traveled to Cleveland to work on a Habitat for Humanity house. The group helped with finishing parts of the project by doing landscaping, insulation installation in the ceiling and crawl space, cleaning floors and surfaces, and finishing base boards.

In September, the Debate Team compet-ed at the 2009 Western Kentucky University and Ohio State University Forensics Fiesta in Bowling Green, Ky. President Michael Barry and Cadman Kiker advanced to the quarter finals, while Tim Hudson and Dustin Ingram won matches during the tournament.

During this tournament, Piedmont stu-dents debated against Gainesville State Col-lege, the United States Air Force Academy, and the University of Alabama.

The Piedmont Debate team changed to the parliamentary debate format in 2008. This school year is the first year the team has competed in the new format.

During a parliamentary debate, students are given a topic at the tournament and have 15 minutes to research before the debate starts. Previously, when the team did policy debate, the team would research the same topic all year.

In January, the group competed at Gainesville State College, where the team members won awards. Barry received an award for being 12th out of 18 among the best varsity debate speakers. Brandon Calli-han came in third as a debut/novice speaker. Vice President Roman Rogers came in 5th as a debut/novice speaker.

During the tournament, in which they debated teams from Florida State University, University of Tennessee, and Walters State

College, Piedmont’s debate team won four matches. Topics for the matches have includ-

Debate Team competes in Kentucky tourneyed health care, security in the United States, and global warming.

From left, Sasha Ugi, Alyssia Crump, Tom Gagnon of Habitat for Humanity, Janice Moss, Dale Van Cantfort, Joy Ugi, and Tim Suda put their carpentry skills to work helping to build a house in White County.

Michael Barry (left) and Cadman Kiker III show off some of the hardware they brought home from Western Kentucky University and Ohio State University Forensics Fiesta held in Bowling Green, Ky.

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Students compete to ‘Imagine the Future’

Piedmont’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) committee sponsored the second an-nual “Imagining the Future” competition in which students identify a local, national or international need and propose ways to help meet that need.

This year’s competition covered a range of topics from cancer, to science in schools, to homeless children. The winners were se-lected by three judges, including last year’s Demorest winner, Joan Sims; Cornelia May-or Margaret Ballard; and Athens judge and Piedmont adjunct professor Michael Cole-man.

Amanda McGahee and Carmen Fortner from the Demorest campus represented Dr. Gene Pease’s PC 101 class. They proposed holding a fashion show and dance to raise money for cancer research. In November, the

group hosted the fashion show and dance and raised just over $300.

Phillip Ayers and Marissa Gallagos, also from the Demorest campus, proposed a proj-ect to help middle school students improve their science scores. Their plan is to tutor students at the middle schools and have stu-dents come to Piedmont for extra tutoring. They also created kits including beakers, test tubes, goggles, gloves and other materials, along with a CD showing various experi-ments for the students to use.

Jasmin Severino and Nallie Xiong from the Athens campus proposed an activity that will help homeless children in Athens. They hosted a basketball fundraiser and held bake sales that raised $430 to purchase hygiene products and educational material for the Athens homeless shelter.

From left, Jasmin Severino, Nallie Xiong, Amanda McGahee, Carmen Fortner, Marissa Gallagos, and Phillip Ayers were winners in the second ‘Imagining the Future’ competition sponsored by the Quality Enhancement Plan committee.

Piedmont alumni to gather April 16-17Alumni and friends from across north-

east Georgia are invited to two days of golf, baseball, reunions, theatre, music, food and fun in Demorest April 16-17.

Alumni Weekend 2010 begins Friday, April 16, with the Coach Cave Memorial Golf Tournament. Also on Friday, there will be a tour of the Athens Campus with lunch at the Café on Prince and thrift store shopping.

The weekend will include perfor-mances by the Theatre Department of the “The Miss Firecracker Contest” and a student art exhibition. On Saturday, the Letter Club, Torch, Walker School of Business and the School of Education will each hold breakfast meetings.

PC Young Alumni will tour north Georgia vineyards, and the alumni men’s women’s soccer teams will compete at at Walker Fields.

The Alumni Association will gather in the Lakeside Dining Room for an awards luncheon to recognize outstanding grad-uates.

All alumni are welcome to watch softball play a double header against LaGrange. All alumni are invited to attend a social at the president’s home at 4 p.m., and the evening will end with a variety of alumni reunion dinners starting at 6 p.m.

To register, or for more information about times, call 1-800-868-1641; or visit the Piedmont website at www.piedmont.edu/alumniregistration.

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In December, the world-renowned At-lanta Boy Choir traveled to Piedmont Col-lege’s Demorest campus to perform for the college and community. The Boy Choir has scheduled an encore performance in Demor-est on May 15.

The choir, the Atlanta Boy Choir Alumni, and Dr. James Mellichamp on the Sewell Organ, performed a variety of piec-es, including spirituals and Hanukkah and Christmas music.

The Atlanta Boy Choir is comprised of boys ages 5 to 14. Maestro Fletcher Wolfe, Founding Director and Conductor, has led the choir all over the United States and to other countries including Austria, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, France and Spain. The choir has performed in front of presidents, popes, and crowned heads of state since its beginning 52 seasons ago.

The Atlanta Boy Choir and Boy Choir Alumni performed at Piedmont in December and will return for an encore performance May 15.

COLLEGE LIFE

Register now for Cave Golf tourney Get out your clubs and sign up for the Piedmont College Coach Cave Memorial Golf

Tournament at The Orchard Golf and Country Club on Friday, April 16. The annual tournament is named for the late Leon O’Neal Cave, who served as a

coach and athletic director at Piedmont from 1948 to 1983. The entry fee includes greens fee, cart, goody bag and lunch. Each registered golfer also will receive a $20 discount card, ball marker and divot tool, and free putter fitting from Edwin Watts Golf.

Entry fees are $95 per player or $380 per foursome. Hole sponsorships are available for $150. To register for the tournament or for more information, call 706-778-3000 to contact Justin Scali at extension 1530 or Brandy Aycock at extension 1170.

Registration will start at 11 a.m., and lunch at 11:45 a.m. The four-person Lauderdale tournament will begin with a shotgun start at 1 p.m. More information about the tourna-ment and registration is available online at www.piedmont.edu/golf.

Golfers will have the chance to win several prizes, including a Hole-In-One prize of a new Buick provided by Hayes, Buick, Pontiac, GMC and Cadillac of Toccoa. Cash prizes will be given out to the top four teams. There will also be prizes for the closest to the pin, longest drive, most accurate drive, putting contest, raffle winners and more!

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Among the 300 graduates at the Decem-ber commencement ceremonies was one who received a special graduation surprise.

Ginny Ferguson Thibeault of Demorest received her diploma for a Bachelor of Arts degree in early childhood education, but that could hardly compare with the graduation present she received two days earlier at Mt. Yonah Elementary School in White County, where she was completing her student teach-ing.

A television news crew from Atlanta’s Channel 11 was in the classroom, suppos-edly doing a story about how local schools were marking the Christmas season. What Ginny did not know was that they were re-ally there to film a special homecoming—her husband, Army Specialist Richie Thibeault of Clarkesville, arriving home in time for her graduation after being wounded twice in Af-ghanistan.

The couple was married on April 5, 2009, just two weeks before Thibeault was deployed to Afghanistan. On August 10 he was wounded by a round from an AK-47, and when he returned to duty the next month, his patrol ran over an “IED” or improvised explosive device. This time Thibeault spent three weeks in the hospital in Germany and then two more weeks in Washington before he was released to come home for the holidays.

During the graduation ceremonies, both Ginny and Richie received a standing ova-tion from the crowd on hand when Pied-mont President Ray Cleere recognized the

contribution and the sacrifices that they both have made. With two Purple Heart medals, he reported back to Ft. Lewis in Washington in January.

Cleere and Piedmont Board Chairman Thomas A. “Gus” Arrendale III presented di-plomas to some 300 graduates who received bachelor’s, master’s and education specialist degrees. The baccalaureate speaker was Dr. Marilyn Ayers-Berrong (’76), professor of education at Piedmont and a coordinator of the college’s off-campus cohort education program. Dr. Berrong was principal at North Habersham Middle School from 1989-93. She joined the faculty at Piedmont in 2000.

Berrong talked about the meaning of ex-cellence and how successful people in every field are unwilling to be satisfied with the status quo. “You have the tools to become a very active and positive change agent in what-ever mission you pursue,” she said.

Spc. Richie Thibeault arrived just in time to see his wife, Ginny, receive her eduction diploma.

Dr. Marilyn Ayers-Berrong delivered the December commencement address.

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Neighborhood Grant program expands

Piedmont’s Neighborhood Grant Pro-gram, which provides financial aid for stu-dents who are at least age 25, has expanded to cover seven new counties.

Counties added to the program are Union, Lumpkin, Hart, Madison, Elbert, Dawson, and Forsyth. The original nine counties are Towns, Rabun, White, Haber-sham, Stephens, Hall, Banks, Franklin, and Jackson.

For the students who qualify, the Neigh-borhood Grant covers 50 percent of the regular tuition. Students may also qualify for other state and federal aid, such as Pell Grants or HOPE scholarships, further reduc-ing their total tuition cost.

The program is currently helping more than 200 students on the Demorest campus, a 40 percent increase since fall 2007. The Neighborhood Grant is only offered on the Demorest campus, and the expanded pro-gram went into effect spring 2010.

Kim Lovell, Director of Financial Aid, said the program was revised to help students

willing to drive an hour to get to the campus. All of the counties or parts of the counties are within the hour commute time. “There were many deserving students who could not benefit from the original program,” said Lovell. “We are growing and meeting the de-mand of the students.”

Admissions Specialist Parks Miller, who works with the Neighborhood Grant stu-dents, said the addition of more counties will widen the opportunities for students and Piedmont.

Many of the students Miller works with did not go to college right after high school, or are students who had their college ca-

Navigator Wins Awards

The staff of The Navigator, the Piedmont College student newspaper, received eight awards at the Georgia College Press Association Better Newspapers Conference in February. The newspaper staff earned one first-place award in General Photography, and Leah Cunningham received first place for Best Column. They earned a second- place award in General Advertising and third-place awards in Improvement, Best Campus Community Service – Sports, and Best Campus Community Service – Editorial. Pictured, from left, are staff members Mary Beth Yeary, Dustin Ingram, Matthew Jackson, advisors Stacy Simon and Dale Van Cantfort, Sadie Blankenship, Michael Barry, and Joy Ugi.

reers interrupted. “When students go back to school, many of them are very focused on their education,” he said.

Brooke Kowalsky of Hollywood is cur-rently receiving the Neighborhood Grant. She’s 27 and a sophomore nursing major. “Without the grant, I would not be able to go to school,” she said. “I can now go back to school and take full-time credit hours.”

Kowalsky decided not to go to college right after high school, but once she started working she realized the importance of a col-lege education. “Education is something I re-spect and desire. I love learning at this age,” she said.

Counties shown in green have been added to the popular Neighborhood Grant Program, which provides tuition grants for students age 25 and above who are working toward their first college degree.

“There were many de-serving students who could not benefit from the original program,” said Lovell. “We are growing and meeting the demand of the students.”

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The music, theatre, art, and business departments at Piedmont are coming togeth-er to offer a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Arts Administration. Students will take courses from the different departments and have a concentration in music, theatre, or art.

“This BFA will set the students up with a strong base in the arts and prepare them for graduate school,” said theatre department chair Bill Gabelhausen.

Each student will have to complete nine required hours in each fine arts department, 21 hours in business courses, 18 hours in their preferred concentration, three intern-ship hours, and a capstone course. Because of the nature of the degree, the departments did not have to change any courses but did add art administration internships.

The internships offered will be mainly internal. Students with an art concentration will manage the Art Gallery; students with a

Agreements help technical college graduates earn PC BA degrees

Piedmont continues to add new articula-tion agreements to help students attending technical schools earn bachelor’s degrees. The agreements allow students who go to se-lect technical schools to transfer some course credits to Piedmont.

Over the past year Piedmont has con-cluded agreements for nursing, education, and criminal justice degrees. The college re-cently added business to this list.

Students from North Georgia Technical College in Clarkesville or Athens Technical College, for example, can transfer classes from the accounting and business adminis-tration technology associates programs.

Business School Dean John Misner says the typical student will finish a bachelor’s degree in two and a half years at Piedmont after completing their associate’s degree. Right now the business program has 250 un-dergraduates with about 50 concentrating in accounting.

“The articulation agreement is providing us with students who have completed a lot of their groundwork courses,” said Misner. “The associate’s programs allow the students to be prepared to get a bachelor’s degree.”

Students who transfer to the Athens or Demorest campus from the technical schools can choose to study accounting or select a concentration in business administration such as management, marketing, general business, or small business.

Students from the technical schools have to meet certain guidelines to be awarded transfer credit. So far, the articulation agree-ments are with North Georgia Technical Col-lege, Athens Technical College, and Griffin Technical College. There are four pending agreements with other colleges.

theatre concentration will help manage the Mainstage Cleere Theater, Black Box The-ater, and Arrendale Amphitheater; and stu-dents with a music concentration will help manage Chapel and Brooks Hall events.

“This degree will give us another level of variety when bringing students to the col-lege,” said music department chair Dr. Wal-lace Hinson. “This can be a major draw for students because it makes them more mar-ketable in the workplace.”

Hinson, Gabelhausen, and art depart-ment chair Chris Kelly all said this degree will give students a different alternative to a performance or teaching degree. Students will be required to take performance classes because it is important for the students to understand all aspects of arts management.

“We are excited to bring the four depart-ments together,” said Kelly. “This is a hands-on degree and a practical degree.”

New BFA in Arts Administration to provide ‘hands on’ arts management experience

Mary Beth Williams works on a graphic arts project with professor Kaitlin Wilson-Bryant. A new BFA program will link the study of art, music, theatre and business.

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The Piedmont College Theatre Depart-ment continues to perform successful and diverse plays in the Swanson Center for Per-forming Arts and Communications. During this academic year, the plays have varied from children’s musicals to Greek tragedies.

The first production in October was “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown,” di-rected by the newest theatre department professor, John Spiegel. The children’s mu-sical is based on the comic strip “Peanuts” by Charles M. Schultz. In this version of the play, Charlie Brown is joined by Sally Brown, Linus, Lucy, Schroeder and Snoopy for songs such as “My Blanket and Me,” “The Kite,” and “The Baseball Game.” Along with the main performances Oct. 1-4, two matinees were also performed for local schools.

Later in the fall semester, Bill Gabelhaus-en directed Euripides’ play “Trojan Women” in the Swanson Center Black Box Theater. The play, written in 415 B.C., is about the fate of the women of Troy at the end of the Trojan War. Gabelhausen’s version of the play included women dressed from wars through the ages.

“Godspell,” a musical written by Stephen Schwartz, was the pick for the first spring per-formance. It is a contemporary musical based on the Gospel according to St. Matthew and includes songs such as “Day by Day,” “Bless the Lord,” and “Beautiful City.” Godspell first opened in 1971 and since then has been performed 2,124 times off-Broadway and 527 times on Broadway.

The final performance of the academic

year will be the “The Miss Firecracker Con-test” to be performed 7:30 p.m. April 15-18;

and 2 p.m., April 19, in the Swanson Cen-ter’s Blackbox Theatre.

The cast of ‘You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown’ included, front, Sky Ross as Schroeder; and back, Katie Sawhill as Lucy, John King as Charlie Brown, Christina Brown as Sally, Moleek Simmons as Linus, and Jennifer Fuller as Snoopy.

Heather Thomas as Rose sings ‘We Beseech Thee’ in ‘Godspell.’

Above, Mat Fried (’09) played Jesus in the PCT production of ‘Godspell,’ a contemporary retelling of the Gospel of St. Matthew, which featured a vibrant cast of students, below.

Music ensembles perform Christmas and classic works

Piedmont’s Chorale, Chamber Singers, Wind Ensemble, and Cantabile performed works from Bach to Billy Joel in a series of fall concerts.

The Chorale presented its 21st Annual Service of Lessons and Carols in early De-cember. The group presented works by Bach, Handel, and Mendelssohn, along with the traditional carols and hymns of the holiday season, during which the audience members were invited to sing. The ensemble was ac-companied by organist Joy Hayner, soloists Andrea Price and Jonathan Pilkington. and the Habersham Central High School Singers conducted by Bobby Ivey

The Chamber Singers, directed by Dr. Wallace Hinson, performed their fall con-cert entitled “The Poet Sings.” The concert included compositions by Kenneth Jennings, Bach, Eric Whitacre, Moses Hogan, and oth-ers. Organist Louise Bass accompanied the Chamber Singers during the performance.

The 25-member Wind Ensemble, di-rected by Ann Alford, performed classic band pieces. The November performance selections included “First Suite in E Flat” by Gustav Holtz, “Amparito Roca” by Jaime Texidor, and Christmas pieces, including “A Christmas Festival” by Leroy Anderson.

The Chamber Singers, pictured here with director of ensembles Dr. Wallace Hinson, will perform at Spivey Hall in Morrow at 3 p.m., Sunday, April 11, accompanied by organist Louise Bass. General admission tickets are $15, available through the Spivey Hall website (www.spiveyhall.org).

Dr. Lauren Ringwall directed the Piedmont Chorale (shown left) during the Christmas season concert, ‘A Service of Lessons and Carols.’

The final Piedmont student group, Can-tabile, performed “It’s About Time,” which director Dr. Wallace Hinson described as pieces that investigate time, such as seasons,

times of day, and literal time. Hinson, along with nine select Piedmont College singers, presented pieces from the Renaissance and contemporary periods.

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Andrea Price wins state voice competition

Piedmont voice professor Andrea Price competed for the National Asso-ciation of Teachers of Singing Artists Award and won at the state level. She was one of two competitors to move on to the southeastern regional com-petition that will take place in Florida later this year.

For the competition, Price per-formed 14 different pieces of music, each in a different language and for-mat. During her 15-minute audition, she was able to choose her first song and the judges chose the rest of the songs she performed.

The Art Department hosted several art shows throughout fall 2009 and the begin-ning of 2010 at the art gallery in downtown Demorest. Georgia College and State Uni-versity Professor Sandra Trujillo displayed 3-D decorative heads and 2-D artworks of mixed media as part of a a solo tour called “Churros Locos,” in which she presents ce-ramic pieces influenced by the Spanish tradi-tion of festival masks. She obtained her B.A. in religious studies from the University of California and M.F.A. in ceramics from the University of Colorado, and is now a profes-sor at Georgia College and State University teaching ceramics and 2D/3D design.

Another show hosted in the art gallery was a very rare type of exhibit. Four ceramic artists, all professors at different universities, came together to do a show called “Collabo-rations.” Scott Meyers is a ceramic professor at the University of Montevello, Rick Hirsch is a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, Kenneth Baskin is an assistant professor of art at McNeese State University, and Virginia Scotchie is head of the ceramics department at the University of South Carolina. Their show, “Collabora-tions” opened October 22 and ran through November 22 at the art gallery.

The art department presented a series of drawings and paintings by artist Rondal Rey-noso in the gallery from January 14 through February 14. Reynoso began drawing when he was in college and noticed how the same ethnic groups sat with each other at lunch. Reynoso drew a sketch of his observations that he later called “Societal Portraits.” Now

Reynoso is the head of the Art Department at Louisiana College.

During the month of April, more art ex-hibits will be shown in the gallery. A student exhibition will start at 5:30 p.m. on April 15 and run through April 22. The day after this exhibit, April 23, an exhibition of stu-dent capstone projects will be held starting at 5:30 p.m.

Rick Hirsch, art professor from the Rochester Institute of Technology, works on a ceramic piece for the ‘Collaborations’ show.

Art students and faculty with visiting artists from the ‘Collaborations’ exhibit, including Ted Metz, Virginia Scotchie, Rick Hirsch, Kenneth Baskin, and Scott Meyer.

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Nursing accreditation renewed

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The Georgia Board of Nursing in Macon has continued approval of Piedmont’s Dan-iel School of Nursing through December 31, 2013.

At right, student nurse Daniella Reiswig works with “injured” patients during a disaster drill held at Piedmont in March 2009. The drill, which involved all county emergency agencies is an annual event that features first-year student nurses as “victims,” and senior student nurses as triage nurses.

The School of Nursing offers the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree for students preparing for initial licensure and for Registered Nurses with either an Associate’s degree in nursing or a diploma in nursing who wish to complete the BSN.

Piedmont’s German 102 class recently attended the forum “The European-Ameri-can Agenda,” held in Atlanta on the Georgia Tech campus in January. The students and faculty members, Dr. Stephen Whited and Monica Schulte, met with the German am-bassador, Dr. Klaus Scharioth, along with the German Consul General in Atlanta, Dr. Lutz Goergens. Both welcomed the Pied-mont group and briefly investigated their knowledge of the German language. The French ambassador, Dr. Pierre Viemont, was present as well, and the two ambassadors dis-cussed European-American interactions.

The forum covered a wide range of top-ics, and Scharioth and Goergens said it is necessary for Europe and America to unify and work together on issues, including cli-mate change and energy independence, worldwide nuclear disarmament, economic and financial problems of failing states, Af-ghanistan and Iran, and terrorism. The am-bassadors also noted during the discussion that half of the world’s wealth is in the hands of the United States, Germany and France; however, it is expected that in 30 years, the amount of wealth controlled by these three countries will only be about one third.

In addition, the ambassadors declared

the intention of meeting more often among participating European Union countries this year. Scharioth pointed out that the mean-ing of “world power” is no longer important, and the European Union is not a competi-

tion. All participating members are in the same interest group and looking toward the same goals. The Consul General, Dr. Goer-gens, will speak in the fall at the Demorest campus.

Front from left, Monika Schulte, Jacob Douylliez, Kim Allen, and Nikki King; center: Phillip Ayers, Ambassador Dr. Scharioth, Andy Armson, and Michael Peterson; back: Generalkonsul Dr. Goergens, and Dr. Stephen Whited.

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Use the postage paid envelope in this issue of the Journal or give online at www.piedmont.edu.

SCHOLARSHIPSThe Annual Fund not only helps Piedmont to increase enrollment and

expand academic programs, but also provides scholarships. Piedmont’s policy is to meet 100 percent of demonstrated, unmet financial need through grants, loans, work and/or scholarship programs. The College provides more than $4 million in scholarships each year and more than 95% of students receive some financial assistance. That aid gives Piedmont students who may not otherwise be able to attend the chance to excel. The work-study program was recently expanded to make opportunities for student employment more abundant.

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“Illicit Drugs and Their Impact on the Community” is the topic of a one-day semi-nar to be held May 14 at the Piedmont Col-lege Athens campus.

Sponsored by Piedmont College and the Atlanta Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the conference will run from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The cost for the seminar is $30 and includes lunch at the col-lege, located at 595 Prince Avenue.

Sessions will examine “Prenatal Alcohol

Free alumni e-mail accountsPiedmont College alumni can get a free, permanent e-mail address; show

their Piedmont pride; and keep in touch with the Alumni Office with a new ser-vice offered by the college. Students who graduated in Spring 2008 and after-ward will retain their Piedmont e-mail addresses. Alumni who graduated before that date can now sign up as well. With a permanent Piedmont e-mail address, you won’t have to change e-mail addresses each time you move or change jobs. You can even set up your account to automatically forward your e-mail to any other account that you may have. Your Piedmont e-mail account will include five gigabytes of storage and is administered by Microsoft to guaran-tee secure and reliable service. Visit the Alumni page at www.piedmont.edu for more information.

Dr. Merrill Norton, clinical associate professor at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, presented a lecture on the effect of drugs and the development of the adolescent brain, during the first seminar on illicit drugs held at the Athens campus. The second seminar will be held May 14.

Exposure and Ability, Academic Achieve-ment and School Functioning in Adoles-cence,” “Current Drug Trends,” “Using Social Indicators to Identify Contributing Factors to Substance Abuse Related Social Consequence,” and “Prescription Medicine Abuse and Morbidity Trends.”

For additional information or to regis-ter, contact Mitzi Heck at Piedmont College at 706-433-1759 ext. 8185 or e-mail mheck@piedmont.edu; or visit www.piedmont.edu.

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Religion Conference examines Appalachia

Religion professor Dr. Barbara Brown Taylor has been named one of the nation’s top 10 living pastors, along with Billy Gra-ham and Charles Swindoll. Taylor was sixth on the list when the numbers were released Feb. 3.

The poll was conducted by LifeWay Re-search of Nashville, Tenn., in November by contacting 1,002 protestant pastors nation-wide. The random sample was drawn from a list of all protestant churches where the senior pastors, priests, or ministers were in-terviewed. Interviewees were given the open ended statement: “Name the top three liv-ing Christian preachers that most influence you.”

When Taylor heard she had made the list, she didn’t even know the poll was tak-ing place. The poll surprised her for many reasons, including the fact that she hadn’t been a pastor since 1997 and she was the only woman on the list.

“It’s nice to be on any list with Billy

Religion professor Dr. Barbara Brown Taylor led a symposium at Piedmont Col-lege in Athens to examine the role of reli-gion in Appalachian culture.

The third in a series of annual confer-ences on “Religion and the Liberal Arts,” this year’s symposium was titled “Vanish-ing Appalachia: Keeping Faith on Uneven Ground” and included workshops on Ap-palachian religion and culture, ranging from shaped-note singing to story telling.

Held Feb. 19-20 at the Athens campus and the Classic Center, the symposium at-tracted 125 participants for the two days of talks, demonstrations and book sign-ings.

Taylor, who delivered the keynote ad-dress at the opening banquet, is the But-man Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Piedmont, where she has taught since 1998. An Episcopal priest since 1984, Tay-lor spent 15 years in parish ministry and is the author of numerous books on religion and preaching, including “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith.”

Author and historian Bill J. Leonard, founding Dean of the Divinity School at Wake Forest University, delivered the ple-nary address on the topic of the demise of Appalachia. Leonard is the author of 17 books, including “Appalachian Chris-tianity: Profiles in Regional Pluralism and Baptists in America.” He discussed how changes in population have affected small Appalachian churches and businesses.

Plans are already being made for next year’s symposium. For more information, contact Brandy Aycock at 1-800-868-1641 or e-mail baycock@piedmont.edu.

Graham,” she said. “What I am the happiest about is that Piedmont College made it on the list.”

This isn’t the first time Taylor ended up on a similar list. In 1996, Baylor University in Texas conducted a poll to find the 12 most effective preachers in the English-speaking world. The preachers on the list were invited to the campus to participate in conferences or present sermons.

Taylor is also editing a series of books “Feasting on the Word,” a collection of lec-tionary commentaries. For this project she is working with David L. Bartlett, professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur.

Taylor is the author of 12 books, includ-ing “Leaving Church,” for which she was named the 2006 Author of the Year by the Georgia Writers Association. Her newest book, “An Altar in the World” has just been released by Harper Collins and is included on the New York Times best-seller list.

Taylor named to list of top national pastors

The Shook family of Young Harris, Ga. provided a backdrop of Appalachian music for the seminar, performing at the opening dinner and conducting workshops in shaped-note singing, an early 19th century style of church music that endures in Appalachian regions today.

Barbara Brown Taylor delivered the keynote address about ‘Vanishing Appalachia.’

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Athens students, faculty and staff ‘Light the Night’

Students, faculty, and staff from the Piedmont Athens campus came together and raised money for the Light the Night Walk to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The group raised a little over $1,600 in honor of Emily Cotrell, a Piedmont employee who passed away in 2009 from a blood borne cancer.

With the recent warm weather, it is hard to believe this photo was taken at the Athens campus just three weeks ago when a rare late winter storm dumped four inches of snow on the campus.

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Fall Sports Recap

The Piedmont College Letter Club rec-ognized outstanding athletes for the men’s and women’s fall sports recently at a banquet held at the campus in Demorest.

Men’s SoccerCoach Jimmy Stephens (’95) presented

the team’s Most Valuable Player Award to sophomore goalkeeper Brian Gaid of Mari-etta. Senior forward Jorge Pradilla of Dacu-la earned the Coach’s Award and was also named the Great South Athletic Conference Player of the Year for the second year in a row, as well as earning a spot on the National Soccer Coaches of America’s South Region Team.

Named to the GSAC All-Conference Team with Pradilla were senior Jeremy Stille of Duluth, senior Bryan Prevatte of Buford, and sophomore Nick Weatherby of Grayson. Sidney Smith of Dallas was named the GSAC Freshman of the Year, and Brian Ruelbach of Grayson also was named to the GSAC All-Freshman Team.

Six players were named to the GSAC All-Academic Team. They were Pradilla, Stille, Jake Krieger, Joey Krieger, Josh Mitchem of Snellville, and Joe Banford of Winder.

The soccer men finished with a 9-9-1 re-cord and took second in the GSAC Tourna-ment, falling to Maryville in the finals.

Women’s SoccerCoach Stephen Andrew (’04,M’07) pre-

sented the Player’s MVP award to junior Kaitlyn Induni of Lawrenceville and the

Coach’s Award to freshman Kaitlyn Pannell of Monroe. The Coach’s MVP Award went to sophomore Justine Clay of Buford.

The GSAC All-Conference Team in-cluded Clay and Induni, as well as junior Katie Porter of Buford, senior Casey Love-lady of Oakwood, senior Erin Pippin of Mc-Donough; and junior Nicole Hood of Alto. The GSAC All-Freshmen Team included Macie Rooke of Sugar Hill and Katherine Metz of Suwanee.

The GSAC All-Acadmic Team includes Pippin, Lovelady, Clay, senior Caitlin Hurd of Conyers, junior Sara Lindsley of Law-renceville, and senior Jessica Powell, also of Lawrenceville.

VolleyballIn volleyball, coach Sid Feldman pre-

sented the Lion Award for Courage to fresh-man Shelby Fooshee of Newnan. The Lion Student Athlete Award went to junior Jennifer Granlund of Millbrook, Ala.; and the Most Improved Award went to freshman Hallye Jerkins of Buford.

The GSAC All Conference Team includ-ed junior Kalin DeMarrais of Lawrenceville, senior Tyler Baldonado of Atlanta, and ju-nior Michelle Tesina of Canton. Granlund was named the All-Conference Libero defen-sive specialist.

The GSAC All-Academic Team in-cludes Baldonado; Granlund; senior Nikki Cole of Roswell; sophomore Rachel Powell of Tallahassee, Fla.; and senior Katie Tucker of Ellijay. The GSAC Sportmanship Award went to sophomore Erin Krause of Johns Creek.

All-Conference Defensive SpecialistJennifer Granlund

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Fall Sports continued ...The volleyball team finished with a re-

cord of 24-9 and took second place in the GSAC tournament to Maryville.

Cross CountryCoach Scott Stanley presented the men’s

MVP award to junior Michael Fidero of Lil-burn. The Most Improved Award went to freshman James Maxwell of Lavonia, and the Senior Leadership Award went to sopho-more Matt Collins of Roswell. The men took first place in the GSAC Championships, and Fidero was named to the NCAA All-South team.

For the women, freshman Michelle Sosia of Monroe was named MVP, and fresh-man Leah Cunningham of Clarkesville was named Most Improved. The women finished sixth at the GSAC Championships.

Players’ MVP Kaitlyn Induni

Coach’s MVP Justine Clay

GSAC Player of the Year Jorge Pradilla

GSAC Cross Country champs include, from left, Matt Collins, Michael Fidero, James Maxwell, Montez Jones, Wesley Milton, and Aaron Saylor.

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Dombrowsky named JV baseball coachBy Lee Robin

Piedmont’s Sports Information Director Richard Dombrowsky (M’05) is moving to a new position within the Athletics Department. Beginning this spring, Piedmont is fielding a full-time junior varsity baseball team, and Dom-browsky is the head coach. According to Ath-letic Director John Dzik, Piedmont has always had a JV team but not on a full-time basis.

“We have reached critical mass in terms of numbers and student athletes who are interest-ed in baseball, and we had to make a decision whether we were going to keep just a varsity pro-gram and eliminate people or if we were going to accommodate additional student-athletes by having a varsity and junior varsity program,” said Dzik.

Dombrowsky, who will continue as associ-ate head coach of the varsity team under coach Jim Peeples, has been at Piedmont for eight years and said he was excited when the position was offered to him. “I’m not saying I’m the perfect man for the job, but I know I’ve been there, and I’m really excited to help these kids out,” he said.

With the full-time JV team, coaches will have the opportunity to observe up-and-coming players. Players will also have the opportunity to hone their skills with in-creased practice and playing time. Dombrowsky said that the team roster will consist of 20-24 players.

Lacrosse team to take field in 2012With lacrosse growing more and more popular in Georgia, Piedmont has decided to add the

spring sport to its athletic offerings. The college will start with a men’s lacrosse team and then add a women’s team later, says Athletic Director John Dzik.

The athletic department currently has 14 teams and Dzik feels adding lacrosse will do a lot for Piedmont. The team will open up potential avenues for recruiting students from Georgia and

schools outside the state. “Because lacrosse is growing at the high

school level in the South, more colleges are adding lacrosse teams,” said Dzik.

The process to start the team has begun with advertising for the head coach, and inter-viewing will begin with the intent to have a coach by the end of spring. The new coach will have an entire year to recruit. There will be no formal team playing in spring 2011.

“In 2012 we will assess where we are as far as athletes and progress,” said Dzik. He said maybe in 2012 the team will play club lacrosse. A realistic goal for the lacrosse team to play intercollegiate matches is spring 2013.

While the head coach recruits for players, some changes are going to take place. First, be-cause soccer and lacrosse will use the soccer field for matches, the college will need a prac-tice field. Second, seating modifications will need to be made in order to keep spectators safe during matches.

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Men’s BasketballThe men’s basketball team posted a 15-

11 record, their best in the seven years that Piedmont has played in the NCAA Division III, and beat Maryville College for the first time during the regular season. But they had their playoff hopes snapped, 69-67, by a buzzer-beater against Lagrange College in the semifinals of the Great South Athletic Con-ference Championships Feb. 26.

The Lions’ three seniors, J.C. Herebia, of Pharr, Texas; Michael Rubio of Cumming; and Sam Coppage of Ringgold were all

named to the GSAC All-Conference Team. Additionally, freshmen Tyler Arnold of Cal-houn and Josh Chapman of Gainesville were each selected to the All-Freshman Team.

Rubio, Tracey Gardner and Josh Hay-more both of Gainesville, Daniel Lampl of Pendergrass, Will Martin of McDonough, Peter Ricks of Alpharetta, and Phillip Sloan of Ringgold were named to the All-Academic Team honoring players of sophomore aca-demic standing or higher who carry a 3.25 cumulative grade point average.

For the second consecutive year Herebia was the Lions’ leading scorer as he deposited 14.1 points per game. He also pulled down a team-best 146 rebounds for a 5.6 average. The All-Conference honor is the second con-secutive for the senior forward.

Rubio also makes his second appearance on the GSAC All-Conference team after av-eraging 13.3 points per game. He was the team leader in three-point field goals with 42

and second on the team in steals with 37. Coppage earned his first All-Conference

honor after a senior year in which he aver-aged 9.8 points after overcoming a knee injury to start the season. The point guard dished out a team-high 79 assists while shoot-ing a league-leading 88 percent from the free throw line (95-107).

At the P-Club Athletic Banquet, Tracey Gardner of Gainesville picked up the Most Valuable Player award, and Mike Chatman of Snellville earned the Coach’s Award. Herebia was named the Teammate of the Year, and he and Rubio were recognized for going over 1,000 points in their PC careers. Lampl earned the team Academic Award.

Women’s BasketballThe Piedmont women posted an even

14-14 season record but were denied in post-season play after dropping a heart-breaker to Maryville College in the GSAC final game. Piedmont was up 56-51 with just 1:36 re-maining when Maryville rallied and ran off six unanswered points for the win.

The third-seeded Lady Lions defeated sixth-seeded Salem College 84-58 to move up to the GSAC Tournament semifinals, where they upset second-seeded LaGrange College 66-61 to advance to the final round against Maryville.

Senior Lisa Jennings of Suwanee and sophomore Sada Wheeler of Lula were named to the All-Conference team. Jennings was third on the team with a season average of 7.9 points per game including a squad-best 41 tri-fectas. In conference play this season the guard averaged 9.8 points per game and connected on 44 percent of her attempts from the floor.

Wheeler, who joined the team over the holiday break, averaged 15 points and 9.8 rebounds per game. Wheeler earned four double-doubles in 15 games played.

Guard Amber Satterfield of McCaysville and forward Laura Simmons of Gainesville were both named to the league’s All-Academ-ic team by carrying at least a 3.25 GPA.

At the P-Club banquet, Satterfield was named the team MVP, and Mandy Beasley of Suwanee earned the Lady Lion Award. Wheeler and Alyssa Jones of Villa Rica shared the Best Offensive Player award, while Shanice Wheeler of Kennesaw was named the Most Valuable Defensive Player.

Winter Sports Recap

MVPTracey Gardner

MVP Amber Satterfield

Most SpiritedCindy Dye

CheerleadingCindy Dye of Rabun Gap earned the

Most Spirited cheerleading award and shared a Most Improved award with Danielle Vidd of Cumming, who also earned the Coach’s Award. Aubrey Tidwell of Lawrenceville was named the Most Valuable Cheerleader, and the team Academic Award went to Kristen Payne of Hoschton. Captains this year were Tidwell and Sarah Simler of Buford.

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Graduate programs continue to grow

From humble beginnings, Piedmont College graduate studies have come a long way. In fall of 1995, there were 35 master’s candidates enrolled at the Demorest Cam-pus. Today, more than 1,500 graduate stu-dents are enrolled at Demorest and Athens and across north Georgia. Piedmont now of-fers not only master’s degrees in education and business, but also education specialist and education doctorate degrees.

“That is impressive growth,” says Antho-ny Cox, newly appointed director of graduate admissions. Cox said there are a number of factors that have led to growth of the gradu-ate program.

“Certainly Piedmont boasts an excep-tionally strong faculty. We strive to offer programs that are practical and convenient, and the faculty and staff make personal con-nections with the students. However, what cannot be overlooked are the students them-selves. When the students say positive things about our graduate programs, the word spreads that Piedmont is an impressive op-tion,” he said.

Octavius Mulligan, assistant principal at Habersham Central High School, started at Piedmont College in 1989 as an under-graduate student. He went on to complete his master’s and education specialist degrees with Piedmont, and is now part of the first education doctorate cohort.

“For me, Piedmont College has been a transformative process that started with my undergraduate work and continues to this day in the Ed.D. program,” Mulligan said. “If it were not for Piedmont, I would not be

who I am today as an educator.”Michelle Estatico, who graduated with

a bachelor’s degree in education from UGA and is now enrolled in the master’s cohort program in Gwinnett County, teaches math at Grayson High school. “Piedmont has been a great experience for me as an educator to grow professionally and personally.” she said. “The program works well with my schedule as a full-time teacher and allows me to not only better myself in the classroom but also expand my knowledge of education as a whole. The professors truly care about their students and their well being. It is nice to go to graduate school at a place where everyone really knows your name. I had such a great master’s degree experience that I plan to pur-sue my specialist degree through Piedmont as well.”

The graduates of the MBA program also offer glowing opinions of their Piedmont ex-perience. Dominique Bennett, Director of Patient Financial Services at Athens Regional Medical Center said, “With the multitude of on-line higher educational opportunities, I wanted to pursue my graduate degree via per-sonal interaction with knowledgeable busi-ness professionals, both students and profes-sors. Piedmont College has a dedicated staff of professional business men and women who teach due to their passion for their areas of expertise. Their passion shows in their in-teraction with students and the quality of the education I received. As a working mother of two children, Piedmont College had a flex-ible class plan that would work within my hectic schedule.”

Octavius Mulligan, assistant principal at Habersham Central High School, talked to the Piedmont Board of Trustees about his experiences as an undergraduate and graduate student at Piedmont.

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Alumni Spotlight: Lois Barr, Class of 1926

Having a President of the United States win a Nobel Peace Prize is nothing new to Piedmont’s oldest alumni, Lois Elizabeth Mongold Barr (’26) of Blairsville. Barr was born in 1906, when President Roosevelt received the honor—and that’s Theodore, not Franklin.

When Barr entered the Piedmont Acad-emy as an eighth grader in 1919, Woodrow Wilson was in the White House, and the 18th and 19th Amendments to the Constitu-tion had just been ratified, ushering in pro-hibition and giving women the right to vote. Habersham County was celebrating its 100th birthday, and the newspaper headlines tout-ed a U.S. Navy aircraft that had just made the first transatlantic flight.

Calvin Coolidge was serving his second term as president when Barr graduated in 1926, and A.A. Milne released a children’s book called Winnie-the-Pooh. In Detroit, Gen-eral Motors produced is first Pontiac.

Members of the Piedmont Alumni Of-fice, Brandy Aycock and Sandi Tatum, re-cently met with Barr to reminisce about her days at Piedmont. You can watch the com-plete interview at www.piedmont.edu/barr.

Q How did you come to attend Piedmont College?

I went to the Piedmont Academy. I was just barely 13. There was a group of young people I knew from Clayton who were going, so at the last minute my family got me ready

to go, too, at the spur of the moment. I was so late registering that I couldn’t get into the dormitory. So they rented a room in a house off-campus, and I had to live in that for a while. I was separated from the group I went with. I eventually moved into the dormitory.

Q Which dorm did you move into?

It was Commons Hall [a former hotel on Central Avenue]. That was mostly college students, but it was fine for me because it had the dining room, and I worked my way through school. All the years I was there, and I was there seven years, I believe there was only one year I was in another dormitory.

Q What were your jobs on cam-pus?

When I started, after classes, we gath-ered in a room in the back of the kitchen where we prepared vegetables, peeled pota-toes and stringed beans. That’s what I did to begin with. Then over the years I set the tables for meals, helped during the time of the meals, and afterward. I don’t think I ever had to do dishes. I remember there was some sort of dishwasher. Not any of us ever had to wash dishes. I escaped that. I don’t mind washing dishes now, but it would have been terrible then. I worked in the dining room for a number of years, and then I graduated to working in the library. I did that during my final years.

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QWhat were the things you did for fun while you were at

Piedmont?We never left campus—hardly ever any-

body went away for weekends. A few did on special occasions. We had programs and things on campus that we did. The societ-ies all had programs at special times. People came to do lectures and presentations. We always had something to go to … in the auditorium on the weekend. That was the time we could have dates and fun time. We would have spe-cial dinners in the dining room. We would go into great detail for that.

We did not have dances. Dancing was not allowed. But the girls did dance after dinner in the audito-rium. Dancing was forbid-den, but I don’t remember anything ever being said about it. Now that’s the great college event. We made great preparations for the programs. Going in all types of weather and gathering shrub-bery out of the woods and fixing the stage. We were kept busy, and we did have classes on Saturday, too.

On Sunday afternoon we could have dates for an hour and a half or two hours to go walking. The main place to go walking

was around that pretty lake. We had to go to church every Sunday and we had vespers at 5 p.m.

QHow did you become a Ger-man major?

The year I was finishing up my high school, I didn’t have a full schedule. I had some time, so I started taking courses at the

college. I could schedule German easily. I took it for four years, and I think

for two of the years I was the only one in the class. I knew my fore-

fathers came from Germany, and it was just an interest. When I graduated there was no need for it. It was not conversational German; [the professor] was more interested in the literature. When I was there most of [the professors] were from

New England.

QWhat’s the big-gest thing you

remember happening at Piedmont?

The most tragic thing happened the first year I was there when the girls’

dormitory burned. It was a big frame build-ing, and the building I should have been in. It had college students in it, and it hosted the Academy students. I got moved from that residence off campus into Commons Hall in-stead of that dormitory where I should have been. It was terrible, it happened at night and I remember being wakened. I was on Commons Hall on the top floor, and the screaming woke us. I went across the hall

to someone else’s room and saw the fire. One of the girls jumped from one of the top windows. It was tragic. Mrs. Spence was the house mother of that dorm.*

QWho was the president when you were there?

Jenkins. He was there for a long, long time. He was there all the years while I was there and after I left. I never felt close to him, he was away a lot trying to get mon-ey. [Frank E. Jenkins was president from 1910 to 1930.]

QWere there any traditions at Piedmont you remember?

The rivalry between classes was always great. The seniors were supposed to have a banner, and the juniors were always trying to get the banner. There was a great to-do about it. The seniors were trying to protect it, and juniors were trying to get it. There was such great rivalry and activity between the classes.

*Green Hall, which burned on Jan. 21, 1920, stood about where Stewart Hall is today. The fire claimed the life of 15-year-old Florence Weeks. Mrs. Martha Harper Spence was the wife of the Rev. Charles Spence, Piedmont’s first president when it was founded as the J.S. Green Collegiate Institute in 1897. “Mother Spence” lived on the campus until her death in 1934.

Alumni Spotlight: Meredith HendersonAfter Meredith Henderson (B.A. ’06)

bought Verlon’s Florist, now named Blue Willow, two years ago, she created a wreath

that has turned into a nationwide hit. Hen-derson contacted a friend in wholesale distribution and now her wreaths are sold

at Barney’s, T.J. Maxx and small shops nationwide.

The wreaths come in two sizes and during the holidays, clients could pick between seven colors: white, silver, cop-per, green, red, champagne, and laven-der. It takes a couple of hours to hand-make the grapevine and poly-mesh fabric wreaths. During the holidays Henderson and co-worker Jo Whited made about 50 in house.

“I knew I liked them and others liked them too,” said Henderson. “But I didn’t expect them to do as well as they have done.”

Along with wreaths, they made gar-land, mailbox decorations, door baskets, and stocking holders out of the same ma-terials and colors. Henderson hopes to start a spring line in April.

The business partnership between the wholesale distribution company and Blue Willow will allow for more wreaths to be made in bulk. The wreaths have been shown in numerous wholesale markets across the U.S. The company Henderson is working with has a permanent show room in At-lanta and temporary show rooms in other major cities.

Henderson kept the name Verlon’s Flo-rist for a while because it is how the store was known. She wanted to meet and get to know clients before starting the slow transition.

The new name, Blue Willow, is taken from the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Curly Willow plant, which she uses in many of her designs.

Meredith Henderson, right, and co-worker Jo Whited with one of Henderson’s wreaths that are now sold across the country.

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The Rev. Henry V. Langford (’42) of Rich-mond, Va., was a recipient of the 2009 Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church Trailblazer Award in Richmond, Va., for his outstanding contribu-tions to the community.

Dr. Robert Lamb (’52) of Milledgeville is enjoying retirement after 47 years in education. He served as a high school band director, class-room teacher, elementary school principal, cen-tral office administrator and consultant with the Georgia Department of Education. After graduating from Piedmont, he earned master’s, specialist, and doctoral degrees at UGA. He and his wife, Eloise, have been married for 55 years.

Joseph Grist (’54) of Lexington, Va., was named to the Abraham Baldwin Agriculture

ALUMNI & FRIENDS

Congratulations to the following teachers who were named Teacher of the Year for their respective schools or systems. We are sure there must be others we have missed, so if you received a similar award, e-mail David Price at dprice2@piedmont.edu.

Yvonne Ring (’96, EdS’03) of Clayton was selected the Rabun County Teacher of the Year.

Jennifer Hubbard (M’01) of Union Point was named Teacher of the Year at Union Point Elementary School.

Tony McCullers (’00, M’01) of Mon-roe was named Teacher of the Year at North Oconee High School. Tony taught five years at Eastside High School and has taught at NOHS since 2005. He teaches web design and computer programming and is also assistant coach for the NOHS Titan’s baseball team. He was named As-sistant Coach of the Year for the 2009 AA season. Tony is married to Julie Phillips McCullers (’02), who teaches third grade at Malcom Bridge Elementary in Oconee County. They have two children, Cam, 4, and Maeve, 1.

Priscilla Jones (M’02) of Greensboro was named Teacher of the Year at Greens-boro Elementary School.

James Glenn (M’03, EdS’06) of Su-wanee was named the Teacher of the Year for Gwinnett County High Schools. A teacher for 10 years, Glenn teaches ad-vanced placement social studies at Norcross High School.

Elizabeth Royer (M’04) of Hull re-ceived an award from the Georgia Associa-tion of Teacher Educators as one of two Su-pervising Teachers of the Year. She teaches at Alps Road Elementary School in Clarke County.

Nancy Watkins (EdS’04) of Blue Ridge is Teacher of the Year at Blue Ridge Elementary School, where she teachers art, music and drama.

Ron Prescott (M’05) of Jefferson was selected Teacher of the Year at Jackson County Comprehensive High School.

Debbie Pruitt (’05, M’08, EdS’10) of Cleveland received the Teacher of the Year award at Mt. Yonah Elementary School in Sautee, where she has taught kindergarten for six years.

Stephanie Ring (M’08) of Hull has been named the Teacher of the Year for both Commerce Middle School and for the entire Commerce School System.

Tanisha Wright (’08, M’09) of Greens-boro was named Teacher of the Year at Greene County Preschool.

Krista K. Ivester (M’09) of Mt. Airy is the systemwide Teacher of the Year for Habersham County Schools.

Math teacher Joy Watson Miller (M’05) of Winder was named the Westside Middle School and Barrow County Middle Schools Teacher of the Year.

Mindy Blankenship (EdS’05) of Greensboro was named Teacher of the Year at Anita White Carson Middle School in Greene County.

PC Teachers of the year

College Athletics Hall of Fame. Grist played basketball at ABAC from 1947-49 and in his sophomore season helped lead the Stallions to the national tournament in Hutchinson, Kan-sas. Grist would later attend the University of Miami to play basketball, and also played bas-ketball at Piedmont College after serving in the Army. He was inducted into the Piedmont Ath-letic Hall of Fame in 1981.

Gary Stephenson (’69) lives in Toccoa and enjoys attending almost every Piedmont athletic event and the “P” Club events.

John W. “Bill” Williams (’69) of Martin recently published his fourth book, Soul-Con-necting, a collection of 64 poems. It is available through Blackwelder Press.

Johnny Solesbee (’71) of Baldwin, publish-

er of The Northeast Georgian in Cornelia, is re-tiring after 42 years in the newspaper business. Johnny began writing sports stories for The Dai-ly Times in Gainesville while still in high school and later worked as a reporter, editor and pub-lisher at weeklies in Cumming, Gainesville and Winder, and as managing editor of the Gwin-nett Daily News in Lawrenceville. For the past 21 years, he has been publisher of The Northeast Georgian and regional publisher of its affiliate newspapers in Dawsonville, Dahlonega, Cleve-land and Clayton.

Benjamin Hinton (’85) of Gastonia, N.C., celebrated his 19th anniversary as pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church. Hinton previously served as pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in Toccoa for seven years. He also serves on the faculty of the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education.

David Foster (’88) of Cornelia has been named manager of marketing and member ser-vices with Habersham EMC.

Vance Brown (’90) of Rocky Face was re-cently promoted to vice president of innovation and technology at carpet manufacturer Mohawk Industries.

Laura (De-weese) Bell (’99, M’04) and Mark Bell (’01) of Blairs-ville welcomed their first child, Lo-gan Patrick Bell, on May 29, 2009.

Deidre Bo-swell (’02, M’06, EdS’07) of Winter-ville has founded Educreations, a

company which markets Grammar Calendars, kits that she created to aid in the teaching of grammar. The multi-media kits include charts, a CD of grammar songs, DVD demonstrations, and diagnostic software for teachers. For more information visit Deidre’s website at www.edu-creations.org.

Dr. R. Alexander Pyron (’04) of New York was the keynote speaker for the 36th annual meeting of the Kansas Herpetological Society in November 2009. He discussed aspects of his research on common kingsnakes. Dr. Py-ron is one of the nation’s leading authorities on snake systematics, the study of snake clas-sifications and the evolutionary relationships among them. He recently completed a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fel-lowship at Stony Brook University and has been named the Robert F. Griggs assistant professor of biology at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

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B r a n d o n Ridgeway (’05) and his wife, Sarah, of Boulder, Col., wel-comed their first child, Noah Daniel Ridgeway, on Jan. 13, 2010.

Jerry Neace (’06, M’08) was re-

cently elected mayor of Baldwin.

Karen Vaughn-Smith (M’06) of Snellville was re-cently the featured artist for Miyazawa Flutes, Ltd. Karen is a well-known flutist and has per-formed in a number of Piedmont’s out-standing musical

productions. She is piccoloist of the Gainesville Symphony and a private flute teacher. To read the interesting interview, go to www.miyazawa.com and refer to Karen’s name under the art-ists tab.

Allie Baker Phillips (’07) of Royston and William Cory Bohannon of Martin were mar-ried Sept. 12, 2009, at the Tucker Plantation in Colbert.

Will Joseph Begnaud (’08) and Margaret Anne Jones were married Oct. 10 at the Uni-versity of Georgia Chapel in Athens. Will is an assistant manager with Enterprise Holdings, and Margaret teaches seventh grade in Gwin-nett County.

Katie Rivers (’08) of Demorest has started her own natural light, on-location photography business. She takes photos for weddings, en-gagements, babies, maternity, families, senior photos, and much more. Her portfolio and blog are located at www.katieriversphoto.com.

Jennifer Pilgrim (’08, M’09), photo right, married Army Specialist Christopher Cox on October 10, 2009, at the Berry College Chapel in Rome, Georgia. The two met during high school in 2004 when they both served as state and national officers for Future Business Lead-ers of America. Cox has served one year in Af-ghanistan and will be returning later this year. After a honeymoon to Ocho Rios, Jamaica, the couple and their dog, Gracie, now live in Colo-rado Springs, Colo.

Brian Carter (’09) of Demorest is a videog-rapher for Windstream Communications in Cornelia. In addition to videoing and editing shows and events, he also produces and hosts his own show called “Blitz,” which is a sports talk show with interviews and highlights of re-gional high school sports. The show airs at 3

p.m., 8 p.m., and 11:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays on Windstream Chan-nel 4.

Ashley Chima (’09) is a sales coordinator at Citadel Broadcasting in Atlanta, parent com-pany of Kicks 101.5 and True Oldies 106.7. Ash-ley says the best part is she gets to see famous performers at the station when they come to At-lanta, including American Idol finalist Danny Gokey, The Band Perry, and Tyler Dickerson.

Daniela Guevara (’09) (center, above) is a talent director for Lanza Group in Atlanta. The company specializes in Hispanic marketing, public relations and events. She has worked with companies such as Coke and Chick-fil-A. Photo Caption: Daniela working with Coke’s account as Project Manager for Hispanic Mar-keting campaign in Atlanta.

Joni Renae Martin (M’09) of Toccoa and Benjamin Jason Keith of Clarkesville were mar-ried Dec. 19, 2009, at Refuge Baptist Camp in Carnesville. Joni teaches in Jackson County.

Melissa Hoffman (’10) of Lilburn is work-ing as a writer and ad designer for e4 Design in Norcross, which produces trade show events and exhibits.

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James Marvin Madden (’58) of Anderson, S.C., died March 27, 2009. He was 76. Mr. Mad-den was a Korean War veteran, serving with the U.S. Air Force at Clark Field in the Phillipines. He retired in 1993 as Chief Accountant at Uniroyal-Goodrich Tire Co.

James P. Sosebee (’57) of Gainesville, died Sept. 29, 2009. He was 74. Mr. Sosebee served in the U.S. Army. He worked from Milliken Textiles Inc., retiring in 1999 as manager of the New Hol-land Plant. While at Piedmont, Mr. Sosebee was a member of the baseball and basketball teams.

Polly Head Stamey (’52) of Cleveland, died Feb. 7, 2010. She was 82.

1960’sDow T. Baker (’64) of Lavonia, died Sept. 27,

2009. He was 89. Mr. Baker taught in the Frank-lin County schools. He was also an accomplished pianist and taught piano.

George Dennis Payne (’69) of Toccoa, died March 18, 2010. He was 63. Mr. Payne was a math teacher with the Stephens County School System, and had served as a member at large of the Ste-phens County Board of Education. From 1979-81, he was an adjunct professor of mathematics and computer science at Piedmont. Survivors include his sisters and brothers-in-law, Judy and Garvis Kinsey (’71), and Dianne and Wayne Har-low (’78).

1970’sLucille Arrendale Franklin (’78) of Turnerv-

ille, died Jan. 28, 2010. She was 77. Mrs. Arrendale was an RN with Tugalo Home Health Agency.

Phillip G. Hodge (’71) of Cleveland, died Jan. 5, 2010. He was 61.

1980sDouglas S. King (’85) of Atlanta, died Dec.

30, 2009. He was 48.Ethel Ledford Drown (’85) of Richland

Hills, Texas, died Dec. 23, 2007. She was 59. Mrs. Drown was a commissioned bank examiner with the Texas State Department of Banking. She was a member of the Torch of Piedmont. Survivors include her husband Richard M. Drown (’85).

1990sEmma Jean Pagels (’93) of Toccoa, died Nov.

16, 2009. She was 68. Mrs. Pagels was a retired sec-ond grade teacher in the Stephens County schools, a member of Stephens County FFA Alumni, and a former director of Special Olympics.

2000sDaniel R. Leuthner (M’05) of Nicholson,

died Oct. 16, 2009. He was 33. Mr. Leuthner was a special education, social studies, and math teacher at East Jackson Middle School, where he was also the cross country and track coach, and electric vehicle sponsor. He was an avid mountain biker and hiker. Survivors include his wife Leslie Stone Leuthner (M’04).

1930sJacob “Jack” Cohen (’37) of Van Nuys, Calif.,

died Nov. 23, 2009. He was 94. Mr. Cohen was a WW II Army combat veteran who fought at the Battle of the Bulge. He had a long and success-ful business career, was an avid tennis player, and loved politics and public affairs.

1940sLottie Lou Golden Adams (’49) of Cornelia,

died Feb. 7, 2010. She was 95. Mrs. Adams taught at North Habersham and Habersham Central high schools for a total of 41 years.

Juanita Snelling Boyd (attended 1948-49) of Elberton, died Nov. 21, 2008. While at Piedmont. Mrs. Boyd was a member of the women’s basket-ball and softball teams.

Fred M. Huff (’48) of Eastanollee, died Nov. 9, 2009. He was 82. Mr. Huff’s entire teaching and coaching career from 1948-1994 was at Ste-phens County High School. He was a promoter of county music throughout Northeast Georgia and hosted special events country shows on WNEG.

Mildred Farmer Lloyd (’48) of Bishop, died June 1, 2007. She was 91.

Ruby Lott Lockerman (’42) of Columbus, died May 3, 2009. She was 90. Mrs. Lockerman was a retired elementary school teacher and prici-pal, having lived in 11 states and Puerto Rico. While at Piedmont, she was a reporter and editor for the student newspaper, The Piedmont Owl. In 1993 Mrs. Lockerman established the Dana-Carter Scholarship in memory of PC President Malcolm Boyd Dana (1939-44) and Professor of French, Earl Kendall Carter.

Deane Mathis Puckett (’42) of Gainesville, died Jan. 16, 2010. She was 96. Mrs. Puckett was retired from the Gainesville City Schools.

Kathryn Moye Sharpe (’42) of Charleston, S.C., died Oct. 5, 2009. She was 86. Mrs. Sharpe began her professional career as a high school teacher and guidance counselor. She was a pro-fessor at Charleston Southern University, where she founded the Sociology Department. After ob-taining her Ph.D., Dr. Sharpe became a licensed

psychologist, specializing in marriage and family therapy. Survivors include her husband William H. Sharpe (’41), whom she met on a tennis court at Piedmont. The Sharpes were married for 63 years.

Richard “R.H.” Thomas (’46) of Law-renceville, died Oct. 9, 2010. He was 85. A WW II veteran, Mr. Thomas served in Africa, Italy, and France as a medical technician in the 36th Gener-al Hospital. He taught high school chemistry and math before becoming a State Farm agent, serving Lawrenceville for 43 years. Mr. Thomas helped or-ganize the Gwinnett County Basketball Officials Association and was an avid Atlanta Braves fan.

1950sMaisie Bryant Beacham (’50) of Demorest,

died Feb. 9, 2010. She was 85. Mrs. Beacham taught third grade in Franklin and Habersham counties for 41 years. Survivors include her daughters Terri Beacham Wood (’83) and Kay Beacham.

Eugene H. Harden (’50) of Gainesville, died March 5, 2010. He was 83. Mr. Harden served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1945-46 and re-tired from the Georgia Dept. of Transportation in 1992. While at Piedmont, he was a member of the baseball team. Survivors include his brother Herman “Chic” Harden (’61).

Martha Bellamy Rumsey (’52) of Clayton, died Feb. 21, 2010. She was 78. Mrs. Rumsey was teacher and media specialist for 32 years and re-tired from the Rabun County School System. Sur-vivors include her husband Ray Rumsey (’54) and daughter-in-law Donna Rumsey (’89).

Faye Wise Dalton (’57) of Hollingsworth, died Nov. 8, 2009. She was 95. Mrs. Dalton taught in White and Habersham counties, and re-tired after 34 years at Baldwin Elementary School in Banks County. She was inducted into the Hab-ersham Assoc. of Educators Retired Teachers Hall of Fame and in 2000 received the Georgia Retired Educators Association Leadership Award.

Jonnie Emmett Dalton (’58) of Homer, died Jan. 19, 2010. She was 91. Mrs. Dalton taught in the Banks County School System for over 30 years. Survivors include her grandchildren Cran-ley (’89) and Joy Ward (’89).

Hugh L. Doss (’51) of Largo, Fla., died Feb. 7, 2010. He was 79. Mr. Doss was an Army veteran of the Korean War and was the owner of Doss Construction Company.

Jack B. Holcomb (’51) of Gainesville, died Jan. 8, 2010. He was 85. Mr. Holcomb served in the U.S. Navy from 1941-46 in both the Atlantic and Pacific Theaters, and achieved the rank of Quarter Master. He was decorated four times with two bronze stars. Mr. Holcomb began his long ca-reer in education in the early years of Truett-Mc-Connell College in Cleveland, where he served as coach of the first men’s and women’s basketball teams.

Former Piedmont Trustee W. Loy Johnson (’50) of Jackson, Miss., died Feb. 16, 2010. He was 81. While at Piedmont, he was vice president of his class and a member of the The Piedmont Owl newspaper staff. Mr. Johnson had a long and distinguished career with Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation. In 1993 he returned to Piedmont to serve as assistant to the president, and his wife, Dr. Imogene T. Johnson (’50) served as a consul-tant to the Education Department. In 1994 the Johnsons received the Alumni Service Award, and in 2004 they established the Imogene T. Johnson Graduate Reading Scholarship. Johnson Resi-dence Hall on the Demorest campus is named in their honor. Mr. Johnson served as a trustee from 1995-2001 and in 2003 he was awarded an Hon-orary Doctor of Business Administration.

OBITUARIES

Anonymous DonorB. Evans Acree (’50)W. Richard Acree (’48)Mr. Sidney A. AdairPhillip & Cynthia AdcockJohn J. Ahnen (’02)William & Onnalee AhrensMr. and Mrs. Phillip L.

AlbertsonJimmy R. Alewine (’60)Gaynell Allen (M’03)M. Clifton Amos (’67)Delores Bonnie Anderson (’72)Mrs. Leesa P. AndersonStephen E. Andrew (’04, M’07)Dr. Donna G. AndrewsEstate of Russell C. ArcherEdward D. Ariail (’80)James Armstrong (’44)Mr. Gus ArrendaleBob Ash (’43)Estate of Caroline AshleyBrandy B. AycockCoach Doc Ayers (’49)Ms. Eleanor BaaderJ. Philip, Jr. (’69) &

Margaret BallardMr. William R. BannisterMr. Soleyman BarinMr. Charles W. Barr IIJames F. Beall, III (Ed.S’07)Mr. Christopher G. BeasleyMontine & Tom BeasleyMr. and Mrs. Timothy T.

BeasleyMs. Amy J. BellMrs. Jane D. BellMr. and Mrs. Jerry H. BennettRonald G. Bennett (’85, M’99)Donald L. & Anne A. BentleyDr. Marilyn A. Berrong (’76)Estate of Edwin H. BinghamMr. Mack BirdJames & Billie Black

Lisa L. Black (M’01, Ed.S.’07)Bruce (’52) & Lora Lancaster

Blasingame (’51)Dr. J. Thomas BowenDr. Richard J. BowerMrs. Ann Stripling Boyd (’40)Janice Farmer BoydPat & Del Bradshaw (’74)David R. Brady (’77)Elsie Burrell Brady (’52)Mr. & Mrs. Lewis A. BrannonDr. Ellen C. BriggsRay & Pauline BrockMr. and Mrs. John J. BroderickStan (’68) & Pamela D.

Brookshire (’68)Dr. Louie A. Brown (’61)Vance Brown (’90)Mr. and Mrs. Earl M. BryantMrs. Jennifer BuchananAndrew W. Buice (’99)Mrs. Jamila BurgessMr. and Mrs. Richard A.

BurgessT. Mark Burns (’74)Richard J. Burrell (’51)Estate of M. Reynolds BushDonna Z. Bye (’69)Mrs. Nancy L. ByersMr. Lee CadyTim (’80) & Janie CagleC. Lyndol Cain (’53)Ms. Barbara N. CampHelen CannonJames D. Cantrell (’60)Jonathan W., Sr. (’81) &

Martha Kelly Cantrell (’80) Jack M. Carey (’54)Ed & Nancy A. Carmack (’88)Mrs. Cynthia M. CarpenterNettie Ben Wilmot Cash (’47)Mr. Brian CateMr. and Mrs. Thomas L.

Chambers

Dr. R. Windy CharlesChris CheekS. N. Charles Cho, M.D. (’57)Timothy & Brenda ClancyRay & Ashley CleereCharles (’46) & Florence “Jill”

H. Clement (’46)Bill & Beth CochranElaina Craven Cochran (’08)Ms. Joan S. CochranDianne (’69) & Lewis

Cody (’67)M. J. CoferRobin L. Coile (’82)Ms. Linda M. ColeyDavid & Lea CollinsRaymond E. Collins, Sr. (’58)Rob & Maya CollinsRev. Dr. Jack & Mrs. Nancy

CookMr. Brian CornettRobert (’53) & Eloise W.

Corry (’52)Bill Corry (’51)Tom Cosby (’59)Mr. and Mrs. Michael K.

Crandall

Jim & Cheryl CryselRobert T. Cutting, M.D.Ms. Kathryn D’AntignacJunior & Kay DavidDr. Viviane L. DaigleTrigg L. Dalrymple (’64)Loretta W. Dalton (’86)William T. Dalton (’39)Randy & Terri DanielWanda DarbyEric & Linda DaviesDrew (’96, M’04) & Molly

Knight Davis (’04)Annie Rose Allen Davis (’51)C. W. (’47) & Margie DavisMr. Harrison N. DavisJewel S. DavisJohn & Candy DavisJudy & Wilfred DavisSteve & Pam DavisDr. Prachuab Dechawan (’70)Mrs. Graham H. DellingerRichard K. DeMore (’72)Ms. Patricia DiakDr. Sandra B. DicksonAnderson Dilworth (’53)Rosemary W. Dodd (’69)

Gifts to Piedmont College reached just over $1.6 mil-lion in the past year. On the following pages are listed the names of donors who made contributions during the fiscal year of July 2008 to June 2009. Because we value every donor and appreciate every gift, the following list is not divided into categories based on dollar amounts. You may be listed in one of the four following categories: Alumni and Friends, Organizations and Foundations, Honoraria and Memorials, and Churches.

Although the lists have been carefully compiled and the names formatted according to the donors’ requests, if your name has been inadvertently omitted or incorrectly listed, please call the Office of Institutional Advancement at 1-800-868-1641 so that we may correct the information for the future.

To all who contributed over the 2008-09 fiscal year, the students, faculty and staff of Piedmont College thank you for joining us in this 113-year effort to bring high-quality higher education to the students of northeast Georgia.

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Richard Dombrowsky (M’05)Janet Donston (’65)Joyce Garrett Dooley (’71)David & Susan DrevlowMr. and Mrs. David W. DukeSteve & Anne DukeMr. & Mrs. Paul DuncanGerald H. Dunn (’65)Ronald Durrance familyShawn Durrance familyMr. John DzikMr. Michael R. EastmanC. J. (’07) & Carla Herron

Edenfield (’04, M’10)Mr. Frank EdgeAdam (’00) & Kelly Church

Edwards (’97, M’02)Elliot Eggleston (’56)Carol Ann Epperson (’63)Lee (’01) & Laura Green

Evans (’00)Charles W. Fagan (’57)Pete (’93) & Nancy B. Farmer

(’96)Aubrey M. Finch (’51)Maria Fisk, MSN, RNRobert H. Floyd, Sr. (’51)Dr. Laura Rogers FortsonDavid C. Foster (’88)John C. (’69) & Bobbie

Carpenter FosterTeresa FosterGuy M. Fouts (’66)Robert & Pauline FowlerFred M. Free (’50)Mrs. Carol E. FreytagLauren A. Fritsch (’05, M’07)Mr. and Mrs. James FryeMr. and Mrs. William H. GaikDavid & Jenni GaileyMs. Donna D. GaileyRosa GaileyMark & Sarah GardnerMr. Marvin B. Gardner, Jr.Evelyn West King (’61) and Brenda Hinkle

DONOR REPORT Alumni and Friends

President Ray and Ashley Cleere

Jimmy A. Garner (’77)Mr. Bobby GastleyRobert H. Geis (’69)Patricia Hensley Givens (’60)Ms. Jean S. GleasonMrs. Nancy C. GleasonMadeline Wilmot

Goodlett (’45) Mr. and Mrs. John A. GrafDr. & Mrs. W. Vance

Grant, Jr. (’43)Casey & Clara GranthamDavid Greene & Jane McFerrinDr. Paul GreeneMr. Mack H. Guest IIIRev. Dr. Robert Haldane, Jr.Paul E. Haley (’99)Ben & Marcia HallLisa HallfordMarcia N. HallfordEloise R. HancockEstate of Anna W. HannumMs. Beverly HansMs. Linda W. HansenMr. Lewis HarperChip HarrisMr. & Mrs. Bruce HarveyDr. & Mrs. Phillip A. HaynerEstate of Florence W. HaynesMr. D W HazenHandley Heard & June HeardLois A. HeilmannFew Hembree (’70)Ms. Frances S. HemphillBonnie Manning Henderson

(’52)Edgar M. Henderson (’37)Mrs. Jane E. HeusonMrs. Judy M. HibbardJane G. Higdon (’70)Max HillMr. and Mrs. Ray C. HinkleDr. C. Wallace & Mrs. Jennifer

P. Hinson (’95)Tim & Jerilyn HitchJim HobanMr. James C. Hobbs IIIDr. Lisa G. HodgensMs. Bess D. HodkinsonMr. L. R. HolbrookMichelle A. Holland (’09)George (’58) & Rena West

Holt (’58)Mr. Cliff HoodMarion & Louise HudsonFred M. Huff (’48)Lloyd (’50) & Helen Cannon

Hunter (’51)William & Mary HusseyWilma Hutcheson-WilliamsMr. Steve HyserTinsley H. Irvin (’54)Jeff & Sherrie JenkinsMichael H. Jensen (’07, M’08)Ben W. Jernigan, Jr., DMDMrs. Barbara H. JohnsonDouglas M. Johnson (’66)Mr. Kenneth S. JohnsonMr. Richard L. JohnsonMrs. Susan D. JohnstonMr. Lance G. JonesMs. MariAnne JonesDr. & Mrs. Walter N. KalafMrs. Martha KaulbachHelen D. Keilbach (’35)Russell Keiser

Mr. Chris KellyJeff F. Kelly (’02)Bill & Stacia KennedyMr. Donald R. KeoughMrs. Janice KeslerDr. Madge H. KiblerEvelyn West King (’61)Mr. Ralph W. KingMr. Drew KirbyMr. Daniel J. KnauerJohn KnightRoland & Charlotte KnightRev. Dr. & Mrs. Peter N. KnostMs. Linda E. KobelKoester familyMs. Carol E. KokeshMr. & Mrs. John KollockJustin (M’08) & Tonya Fowler

Koonz (’08)Mr. Keith KoonzJohn (’58) & Rosa Maria Valdes

Kuiken (’59) Susan Spaeth Kyle (’95)Roy L. LackeyKathryn Jordan Lancaster (’48)Timothy & Suzanne

Elder (Ed.S’03)Peggy Oliver Lattanzi (’52)Dolford & Martha LaysonJasper S. & Delene W. LeeRobert & Tina LeeMr. Gary D. LemmonsRichard L. Lester, III (’70)Bobby Lewallen (’56)Bruce Lewallen (’68)Jerry R. Lewallen (’81)Daryl E. Lewis (’77)Marjorie Fields Lewis (’39)Ms. Joanne P. LipseyMr. and Mrs. Randy LongMr. Paul T. LordBetty Griswold Los (’56)Sarah Cisson Loudermilk (’48)Betty Payne Love (’53)Kim Carver Lovell (’92)Robert LowerMarcia & Bill LoydEdna Stanley Lybrand (’44)Paul & Joan LyleMr. J. Tristan LynnDr. Timothy F. LytleMrs. Natt MaddoxKevin MaguireShirley & Jay MaguireMrs. Patricia H. MappMr. Ethan MartinBilly C. Massey (’61)Justin M. Mathews (04, M’07)William P. Matthews (’69)Margaret MattisMr. Stephen D. MayeuxCarolyn McCagueDon and Lori McEachinDon McElweeJ. Stanley McFarlin (’74)Dr. Gary R. McGillivaryJD McGuirt (’97)Mark & Becky McIntyreMr. Tyler M. McKayMr. and Mrs. Woodrow

McKay, Jr.Arnold (’65) & Shirley Jordan

Meeks (’72)Dr. James F. MellichampJan & Laura Anne MelnickJohn L. Merritt (’62)

Emily Berryman Michaud (’42)Houston & Beverly MiersGlenn & Patricia MillerLewis R. Miller (’63)Mrs. Linda S. MillerMrs. Nancy S. MillerW. Parks (M’00) & Cathy D.

MillerSusan MillsBeverly & Ira MitlinLaurance R. MitlinMarjorie MitlinCheryle MollycheckMr. and Mrs. Grant E.

MontgomeryDr. K. Michael MoodyDr. Kara Keel Moody (’94)Steve & Thomasa MoonAnne & Elton MooneyMr. Ferrell MorganHon. Handsel G.

Morgan, Sr. (’42)Mr. J. S. Morgan, Sr.Carol & Joe Morgan

Pamela Dodd Motes (’78)Reid (’59) & Deloris Newberry

Mullins (’58)Dr. Keith R. NelmsMr. Gregory R. NewTom NewmanAudrey & Darrell OdumMr. and Mrs. Gregory K.

OdumMs. Renee OrlovskyMr. William B. OrlovskyMs. Shirley A. OwenDr. A. Melton Palmer, Jr.Dr. Joe L. PalmerMr. Charles A. ParkerRev. W. Alton Parris (’47)Faye Ayers Payne (’54)Patty A. Payne (’02)Mrs. Wanda J. PayneGene Pease, Ed.D.Mrs. Patricia K. PeckMr. Robert A. PeredaRobert Perry (’54)Mr. William P. PerryNancy Carey Peters (’53)Brown (’43) & Selina Patterson

Pinkston (’42)Joseph M. Piper (’95)Dr. William E. Piper

William Roy PipesJoseph I. Pitts, Ph.D. (’68)Linda G. Pitts (’90)John PollockWilliam PollockRex G. Poole (’60)Wayne PophamHenry & Montine PowellMr. Phil J. PrescottDr. Andrea M. PriceBernice W. PriceJ. Byron Puckett (’93)Thomas & Paige QueenFrank Quiles (’97)John Raney (’97)Mr. and Mrs. Daniel G. RayMeredith A. Ray (’07)Sara Garthright Ray (’44)Mr. and Mrs. Verlin ReeceFrances ReedTommie ReedRuby Allen Reid (’58)Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. ReevesMrs. Patricia G. Reynolds

Dr. & Mrs. Louis A. RiccardiMs. Barbara A. RiceMr. Thomas A. RicheyMignon J. Ridings (’52)Mr. Cesar RiveraMr. Ernesto L. Rivera, Sr.Mr. Kenneth E. RoachLucille RobertsonRev. Michael S. & Dr. Emily K.

RobertsonMr. Robert P. RoddewigBarry & Linda RoderyHillard & Robbie RoderySidney, Jr. (’61) & Suzanne

Swaim Roland (’61)Mr. and Mrs. Timothy M.

RolandSharon Roller (’97)Allison Ashurst Ross (’96)Mrs. Marilyn RothschildMary Jane Oliver Rowley (’53)Mr. William M. RussRussell SeaboltDavid (’56) & Edra RussiCharles W. Sanderlin (’58)Dr. & Mrs. F. Stuart SandersRev. James Sanders (’48)William P. Sands (’56)

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Joe B. Sartain, Jr. (’54)Mr. and Mrs. Earl SatterfieldJohn & Cheryl SatterfieldJustin (M’06) & Katie Wood

Scali (’06, M’07)Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. SchliefRoy & Nancy SchmidtMr. Harry SchwartzDr. LeRoy C. SchwarzkopfDr. Linda ScottWayne & Ginger SeelbachCharles K. Sewell (’54)Kenneth L. Sewell (’59)Mr. and Mrs. George SextonMrs. Maggie ShaneRandy Sharian (’76)Juanita Fields Shaternick (’44)Patricia S. Sherrer, Ph.D.Mike and Diane SheltonJames F. Sievers (’63)Bradley G. Simmons (’87)Stacy F. SimonMr. Blaine H. SimonsAlison U. Singer (’93, M’06)

Dr. Ralph B. Singer, Jr.Dock C. Sisk (’72)Mrs. Constance SlaterMr. Fred SlaterRandy Smith (’89)Ms. Linda N. SmithMarcia SmithSusan Smith-PatrickMrs. Dorothy M. SosebeeMr. and Mrs. Gilbert J. SpencerMs. Betty R. StammM. J. Stansell (’58)Grady (’53) & Ann Hawkins

Starnes (’53)Chris & Suzanne SteinLarry & Vickie SteinJune Cannon StephensGary (’69) & Mary Stephens

Stephenson (’68)Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A.

StoneMrs. Betty Taylor Stovall (’82)H. Calvin & Nancy H. StovallSydney StuckyWilliam (’61) & Rudene Alley

Studdard (’61)Ms. Emily Sharon SummersDean & Kay SwansonMr. Stephen Syfan

Alumni baseball players returned for a reunion matchup against the current varsity team to prove that they have not lost a step on the diamond.

Acree Oil CompanyAdams Ellard & Frankum PCAlliance for African

American MusicAnsley Communications

Group, Inc.Ariail Tire Inc.AT&T FoundationBaker’s Heavy Equipment

Repair Service, Inc.Bank of America

Endowment FundC&H Mechanical & Plumbing

CompanyCadence Bank, N.A.Camp-Younts FoundationCarolina Burglar &

Fire Alarm Co.

Charles Black Construction Company

Chartwells/Compass Group - USA Division

Cochran’s JewelryCody Road WorkshopsCommunity Bank & TrustCooltemper U.S.A.Cornelia Fieldale Employees

Recycling FundCurrahee Trailers, Inc.D & L Leasing, LLPD’s Food Store, Inc.Dairy Queen/Grimsley

Enterprises, Inc.Darden Restaurants

Foundation Matching Gift Program

Businesses and FoundationsDarlene Rogers Cleaning

ServiceDebbie S. Mollycheck

Attorney at LawDebra’s Magic MirrorDeloitte Foundation Matching

Gifts ProgramDelta Airlines Foundation

Matching Grants to Education Program

DMD Design Group, LLCDuke Energy Foundation

Matching Grants ProgramElder Financial Services, Inc.Fly & Form, Inc.Fred C. and Katherine B.

Andersen FoundationFuller E. Callaway Trust

George F. & Sybil H. Fuller Foundation

Georgia Foundation for Independent Colleges

Grant-Reeves VFW Post 7720Habersham Broadcasting Co.,

Inc.Habersham County Board of

EducationHabersham Electric

Membership CorporationHabersham HardwareHarry Webster Walker II

Charitable TrustHaynes Mailing ServiceHelen S. McPheeters TrustHickory Hill LandscapingHolcomb’s Office Supply &

Christian ProductsHunter Funeral HomeIBM Corporation Matching

Grants ProgramJohnny’s NY Style Pizza & SubsJohnson & Johnson Family of

Companies Matching Gifts Program

Kelly & Hardin, Inc.Latex Construction CompanyLettie Pate Whitehead

Foundation, Inc.McAllister Tree Service, LLCMidway Electric, Inc.Milliken & Company Matching

Gifts ProgramNelson Rivera Jr. Agency Inc.Nordson Corporation

Matching Gifts ProgramNorth Habersham Middle

School PTSOParagon Service

Technologies, Inc.Phillip Adcock, D.M.DPritchett Tire of Baldwin LLCRiverchase Company

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Roman TileRussell A. Seabolt, D.M.D.S and B Farms LLCScroggs & Grizzel

Contracting, Inc.Specialty Clinics of Georgia. -

OrthopaedicsStandard Chemical, Inc.State Farm Companies

Foundation Matching Gift Program

SunTrust BankSunTrust Directed Funds:

Greene-Sawtell FoundationSunTrust Directed Funds:

Woolford Charitable Trust Fund

The Coca-Cola Foundation Matching Gifts Program

The Hobbs Foundation Corp.The Jim Cox, Jr. FoundationThe Milton V. Brown

FoundationThe Robertson TrustThomas A. and Lucile M.

Moye TrustThomas B. Musser TrustTucker Investigations, Inc.US Auto, Inc.Virginia DeNubila Living TrustVulcan Materials CompanyWilliam H. Guild Charitable

TrustWillis, Vanek, Ball &

Fischer, P.A.WOW! Discount Promotions

& Apparel, LLC

Carolyn Jane TadlockDebra K. Taylor (’96, M’97)Dr. Edward C. TaylorMr. Todd TaylorLynn B. Tench (’78)Mr. James S. ThackerMr. Kenny ThompsonMike & Betsy ThompsonDr. and Mrs. Robert E.

ThompsonRandall O. Tucker (’79)Doris & Archie TurnerVickie Webb Turner (’95, M’01)Mrs. Shirley E. UlrichDr. Dale & Mrs. Tara

Van CantfortMs. Donna Van LearDr. Cynthia L. VanceLinda Fisher Vandergriff (’71)Karen J. Vaughn-Smith (M’06)Mr. Alfred VorherrMr. John A. VorherrJane P. Voyles (Ed.S’04)Mr. Robert WaddellTerry WadeMark & Dawn WaldropEstelle Parker Wall (’54)

Alumni and FriendsMs. Ruthann B. WaltonStanley P. Warkala, Ph.D.Len (’59) & Shelby Parks

Warner (’59)Mrs. Virginia WebbWilma Leach Webb (’49)Dr. James B. WelshNancy M. West (’50)Mr. and Mrs. Rodney M. WhiteEric White (’73)Max E. White, Ph.D.Larry and Evie WhitfieldScott Whitlock (’84)Stanley (’98) & Marisa S.

Whittington (’96, M’98, Ed.S’03)

Mrs. Barbara WigginsEarl & Frances WigginsElizabeth WigginsCheryl L. Williams (Ed.S’07)Cindy Williams (’04)Mrs. Pamela M. WilliamsVan Owens Williams (’51)Antoinette Willsea, MSN, RNWesley & Celeste Durham

Wilson (’53)

Andrea L. Witt (Ed.S’07)Lawton & Linda

Wofford (’99, M’01)Estate of Wallace Roy WoodGreg & Denise Woodward

Mrs. Patricia J. WoodwardMr. Benjamin R. WynneRichard (’93) & Shannon

Dillinger York (’98)

David (’62) & Rosemary Jones Zimmerman (’63)

Alumni basketball players put on a show for the younger fellows during a reunion match in October.

Alumni got together to tour a north Georgia vinyard during last year’s Alumni Weekend activities. A similar tour is scheduled for this year’s annual get-together.

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IN MEMORY OF

Mildred Gambrell Adair Sidney A. Adair

Mike Adcock Jasper S. & Delene W. Lee

James A. Ash (’43) Bob Ash (’43)

Charles & Mildred Barr Charles W. Barr II

Martha H. Bartlett (’04) David Greene & Jane McFerrin

Coach O’Neal Cave Guy M. Fouts (’66)

Trent G. Chima Jasper S. & Delene W. Lee

Gail Criminger Patricia S. Sherrer, Ph.D.

Louise Kidder Davis Brandy B. Aycock Dr. Barbara N. Camp Jim & Cheryl Crysel Harrison N. Davis Ronald Durrance family Shawn Durrance family Jean S. Gleason Ross & Nancy Gleason D.W. Hazen Cliff Hood Susan D. Johnston Jay & Shirley Maguire Frederick & Helen Stone Stanley P. Warkala, Ph.D. Larry & Pamela Williams

James Roy Farmer (’36) Janice Farmer Boyd

W. Vance Grant, Sr. & Myrtle Haynes Grant (’42) Dr. & Mrs. W. Vance Grant, Jr. (’43)

Carol Stevens Hancock (’35) Robert T. Cutting, M.D. Lisa Hallford Marcia N. Hallford Brannon Hancock & Jennifer Holst Eloise R. Hancock Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Hancock & Nathan Paige H. Harvey Frances S. Hemphill Barbara H. Johnson Dolford & Martha Layson Gregory R. New Rev. James Sanders (’48) James S. Thacker Ruthann B. Walton Elizabeth Wiggins

Harold S. King (’61) George (’58) & Rena West Holt (’58) Evelyn West King (’61)

Atos D. “Joe” Lattanzi (’51) Peggy Oliver Lattanzi (’52)

Carroll T. Love (’36) Edna Stanley Lybrand (’44)

Angela M. Luzar (’01) John J. Ahnen (’02)

Myra E. McFarlin (’48) Nettie Ben Wilmot Cash (’47)

Honoraria and Memorials

Assets 2009 2008

Cash and cash equivalents $ 2,741,012 $ 5,253,995 Accounts receivable (net of allowance for bad debts) 2,417,401 1,211,384 Unconditional promises to give (net of allowance

for uncollectibles) - 29,636 Unrestricted investments 12,473,132 6,223,997 Permanently restricted investments 9,769,755 8,644,918 Temporarily restricted investments 32,494,839 43,761,841 Collections 170,778 170,778 Property and equipment (net of depreciation) 57,690,802 56,192,640 Other assets 796,210 267,483

Total Assets $ 118,553,929 $ 121,756,672

LiabilitiesAccounts payable $ 1,146,923 $ 740,536 Deferred tuition revenue 2,547,080 2,458,687 Student deposits 50,663 89,699 Long-term debt 17,988,400 18,888,400 Annuity payment liabilities 621,222 1,534,144

Total Liabilities 22,354,288 23,711,466

Net Assets Unrestricted

Available for operations 14,557,727 9,882,431 Net investment in plant 39,167,850 36,435,977

Temporarily restricted Annuity fund 226,490 201,140 Special purpose contributions 257,709 698,162 Trust fund 679,542 2,735,502 Endowment 31,540,568 39,447,076

Permanently restricted Endowment 2,015,188 2,013,188 Trust fund 7,754,567 6,631,730

Total Net Assets 96,199,641 98,045,206

Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 118,553,929 $121,756,672

Total Endowment: $44,571,119 (as of 2/28/10)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of this statement.These fi nancial statements are a condensed presentation of the annual audit by Amos & Company, Certifi ed Public Accountants.

Statement of Financial PositionJune 30, 2009

With Comparative Amounts for 2008

Madeline Wilmot Goodlett (’45)

Alfred A. Michaud (’42) Emily Berryman Michaud (’42)

J. Robert “Bob” Murphy (’48) Beverly Hans

John Henry “Hank” Patrick Susan Smith-Patrick

Ewell W. Payne (’54) Betty Payne Love (’53) Faye Ayers Payne (’53)

Ronald J. “Ronnie” Perona (’05) Richard Dombrowsky (M’05) Justin (M’06) & Katie Wood Scali (’06, M’07)

Jesse W. Ray (’43) Sara Garthright Ray (’44)

Willie Yates Reynolds (’31) Ann Stripling Boyd (’40)

Betty Curry Sanders (’48) Rev. James Sanders (’48)

DeWitt E. Sosebee, Sr. (’54) Dorothy M. Sosebee

Miriam Goodwin Thacker Jane D. Bell Graham H. Dellinger Lisa Hallford Marcia N. Hallford Hickory Hill Landscaping Bess D. Hodkinson Mr. & Mrs. John Kollock Mrs. Natt Maddox Patricia K. Peck

Harry W. Walker II Edward D. Ariail (’80) Martha Kelly Cantrell (’80)

Elizabeth P. Walter Stan (’68) & Pamela D. Brookshire (’68) Helen Cannon Lee C. (’01) & Laura Green Evans (’00) MariAnne Jones Mr. & Mrs. Grant E. Montgomery June Cannon Stephens Dean & Kay Swanson

Donald P. Whipple (’65) Janet Donston (’65)

Wendell W. White (’77) Eric White (’73)

Wallace Roy Wood (’51) Robert (’53) & Eloise W. Corry (’52)

IN HONOR OF

Coach O’Neal Cave James D. Cantrell (’60)

Drs. Ray & Ashley Cleere Lois A. Heilmann Nancy Carey Peters (’53)

Dr. David L. Greene Randy Sharian (’76)

Sue McEntire Roach Elaina Craven Cochran (’08)

Donald G. Ryder (’61) Ben W. Jernigan, Jr., DMD Martha Kelly Cantrell (’80)

Dr. Barbara Brown Taylor Kenneth S. Johnson

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Statement of ActivitiesFor the year ended June 30, 2009With Comparative Totals for 2008

Temporarily Permanently Totals Unrestricted Restricted Restricted 2009 2008Public support, revenues and reclassifi cations

Gross tuition and fees $ 26,464,271 $ - $ - $ 26,464,271 $ 20,888,723

Contributions 482,308 536,781 609,366 1,628,455 4,042,372Investment income (operations) - - - - 2,522,931 Interest and dividends 420,994 968,187 - 1,389,181 1,772,959 Sales and services of auxiliary enterprises 2,542,159 - - 2,542,159 2,577,355 Other sources 21,021 11,696 - 32,717 1,067 Net asset restriction changes (38,113,994) 37,598,523 515,471 - -

Total public support, revenuesand reclassifi cations (8,183,241) 39,115,187 1,124,837 32,056,783 31,805,407

Operating expense Educational and general

Instruction 12,271,291 - - 12,271,291 11,752,065 Academic support 2,312,618 - - 2,312,618 2,208,244 Student services 3,022,971 - - 3,022,971 3,007,431 Institutional support 4,473,774 - - 4,473,774 3,944,660 Operation and maintenance of plant 2,141,310 - - 2,141,310 2,681,754 Scholarships 1,291,067 - - 1,291,067 1,306,607

Auxiliary enterprises 1,597,782 - - 1,597,782 1,430,024

Total operating expense 27,110,813 - - 27,110,813 26,330,785

Changes in net assets from operating activities (35,294,054) 39,115,187 1,124,837 4,945,970 5,474,622

Non-operating income (expenses) Gain (loss) on sale of fi xed assets (571) - - (571) 3,299 Other income 529,263 - - 529,263 - Investment income (loss) 14,493 (1,562,905) - (1,548,412) 2,435,536 Net appreciation (loss) in fair value of investments 27,910 (6,509,885) - (6,481,975) (7,915,042)Payment to life income benefi ciaries (52,450) (150,312) - (202,762) (258,650)Actuarial change in annuity obligations - 912,922 - 912,922 79,121

Total non-operating income (expenses) 518,645 (7,310,180) - (6,791,535) (5,655,736)

Changes in net assets (34,775,409) 31,805,007 1,124,837 (1,845,565) (181,114)

Net assets beginning of period 88,500,986 899,302 8,644,918 98,045,206 98,226,320

Net assets at end of period $ 53,725,577 $ 32,704,309 $ 9,769,755 $ 96,199,641 $ 98,045,206

ChurchesArbor Grove

Congregational Church Jackson, Michigan

Central Congregational Church La Mesa, California

Central Congregational Church Ladies Benevolent Society Derry, New Hampshire

Congregational Church of the Messiah Los Angeles, California

Evangelical Congregational Church McKeesport, Pennsylvania

First Congregational Church Toulon, Illinois

First Congregational Church Peterson, Iowa

First Congregational Church Women’s Union Falmouth, Massachusetts

First Congregational Church of Royal Oak Women’s Fellowship Royal Oak, Michigan

First Congregational Church of Wayne Wayne, Michigan

First Congregational United Church of Christ Ocala, Florida

Liberty Congregational Church Dewy Rose, Georgia

Michigan Conference of Congregational Christian Churches, Inc. Livonia, Michigan

National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Oak Creek, Wisconsin

North Shore Congregational Church Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Old South Church in Boston Boston, Massachusetts

Peachtree Presbyterian Church Atlanta, Georgia

Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims Brooklyn, New York

Plymouth Congregational Church Lansing, Michigan

Plymouth Congregational Church Wichita, Kansas

Preston City Congregational Church Preston, Connecticut

Rockwood First Congregational Church Rockwood, Michigan

South Hills Congregational Church Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Southeast Conference United Church of Christ Atlanta, Georgia

Southeastern Michigan Association of Congregational Churches Clarkston, Michigan

Union Congregational Church of Weymouth & Braintree Braintree, Massachusetts

United Church of Christ Local Church Ministries Cleveland, Ohio Lyndol Cain (’53), Celeste Wilson (’53), Wesley Wilson and Trudy Cain got together at last year’s P-Club

Breakfast.

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